SABBATH

GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

IN THE MORNING By DOROTHY E. WALTER

I will see you in the morning, When the sun has touched the hill; I will see you at the waking Of the song-filled whippoorwill. I will see you in the morning, Just beside the dawn-splashed sea; I will sing until the daybreak, Though the darkness cover me. I will see you in the morning, Just beyond the twilight crest; And my heart shall burst with music, For I know God's way is best. I will see you in the morning, When the sky is burnished gold; When the spring of every longing Gushes forth with joy untold. I will see you in the morning; Brief the night between shall be; When the glow of endless dawning Ushers in Eternity.

VOL. 132, NO. 52 DECEMBER 29, 1955

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To be employed is to be happy.—Gray. COVER In the Morning GENERAL ARTICLES Page 3 * * Our Need of Witnessing Power—How a Preacher Was Converted—On the Religious He conquers who endures.—Persius. Front—Wonder of Wonders—Dead Sea Scroll Fragments and the Book of Daniel EDITORIALS Page 8 * * The Secret of a Happy New Year—The Miraculous Cures at Lourdes—Help for Today; When you doubt, abstain.—Selected. Trust for Tomorrow TO YOUR HEALTH Page 11 * * The Art of Relaxation Never do anything, concerning the recti- OUR HOMES Page 12 tude of which you have a doubt.—Pliny. The Seventh-day Adventist and His Church—A Week of Prayer Letter * * FOR ADVENTIST YOUTH, JUNIORS, AND CHILDREN Page 14 Lazy Ideals—Procrastination—Mrs. E. G. White—The Witch of Endor There is no substitute for thorough going,. ardent, and sincere earnestness.—Dickens. MISSION STORY OF THE WEEK Page 16 A South Seas Chief Accepts the Advent Message * * SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 18 The envious man grows lean at the success Rebuke and Triumph of Zion of his neighbour.—Horace. NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD Page 19 Self-supporting Workers Meet at Takoma Park—Faithfulness in Sabbath School Work in * * South America—Missionaries Visit Portland, Maine—Hospital Celebrates Fifty Years of We should often be ashamed of our very Service—Baptism in Liberia—Solusi Field School of Evangelism—Trophy Presented to Walla Walla Paper—The Call of a Forgotten People—Dedication of Marion, Indiana, best actions, if the world only saw the Church—In Brief—In Remembrance—Notices—Hurricane Relief Fund motives which caused them.—La Rochefou- cauld. POETRY Security, p. 4; A Prayer for Faith, p. 11; Teach Us to Know, p. 13 * * Rashness is the characteristic of ardent youth, and prudence that of mellowed age. —Cicero. * * When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for FRANCIS DAVID NICHOL, Editor letting it alone.—Walter Scott. FREDERICK LEE, Associate Editor R. R. FIGUHR, Consulting Editor * * KENNETH H. WOOD, JR., Assistant Editor J. L. MCELHANY, Contributing Editor PROMISE KLOSS SHERMAN, Editorial Secretary Reason is the glory of human nature, and SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above the beasts, in this lower world. C. H. WATSON, W. H. BRANSON, W. R. BEACH, D. E. REBOK, C. L. TORREY, L. K. DICKSON, A. L. HAM, W. B. Ocus, A. V. OLSON, H. L. RUDY, E. D. DICK, PRESIDENTS OF ALL DIVISIONS —Watts.

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2 REVIEW AND HERALD Our Need of Witnessing Power

By LOUIS K. DICKSON

Christ's promise of power to His make any difference where we live purpose of our Lord, light would be disciples was to enable them to wit- or under what circumstances we shed upon all that sit in darkness and ness. The power that God has prom- struggle; it will not matter what our in the region and shadow of death." ised to His church in this hour is numbers, or the indifference or ig- —Thoughts From the Mount of given to help finish His work. norance of people so far as spiritual Blessing, p. 68. The latter-rain power will be given truth is concerned. "If I am lifted up Never was it so clear as now that only to those who are being used by in your life," Christ said, "I will draw it will take the whole church to com- this power, now at their disposal, to all men unto me." plete the whole task. There needs win souls to Christ. God does not "Arise, shine," is God's great com- now to be a new awakening to the place a premium upon complacency mand in this dark hour. We must fact that every true Christian is a and unfaithfulness by giving the full- burst the bands of our too "precise soulsaver. We read: "Every soul that ness of His Spirit to those who are indoor service" for the Master and accepts Jesus as his personal Saviour, doing less than their best in His work let our light shine forth. Every one will pant for the privilege of serving with the facilities He has already be- must hear and know and decide now. God, and will eagerly seize the oppor- stowed. tunity to signalize his gratitude by de- Facts such as these should cause us Light to Extend to Every Soul voting his abilities to God's service. all to ponder well our consecration to "But not one is made to suffer the He will long to show his love for the service of Christ. They should wrath of God until the truth has been Jesus and for His purchased posses- cause us to form some very definite brought home to his mind and con- sion. He will covet toil, hardship, conclusions as to what our life's pro- science, and has been rejected. . . sacrifice. He will think it a privilege gram must be. Everyone is to have sufficient light to to deny self, lift the cross, and follow Before we pray for the power of the make his decision intelligently."—The in Christ's footsteps, thus showing his Holy Spirit to fall upon us, let us Great Controversy, p. 605. loyalty and love. His holy and benefi- consider our sacrificial service for Again we read: "As the rays of the cent works will testify to his conver- Christ in the light of Him who is sun penetrate to the remotest corners sion, and will give to the world the our great example. of the globe, so God designs that the evidence that he is not a spurious light of the Gospel shall extend to . . . Are We Ready for the Power? Christian."—Testimonies to every soul upon the earth. If the Ministers, p. 394. All of our leaders should consider church of Christ were fulfilling the If there is no hunger and thirst whether their endeavors are as selfless in my heart for seeking and finding and sacrificial as they ought to be. the lost, I must examine my conse- Our ministry should seek to discover cration to Christ and my acceptance their true motivating aims. Our laity of Him. If you do not find such a need to measure what they are ren- craving in your soul, be afraid, and dering in service to God in relation- fear for the welfare of your own soul. ship to what they now render to self. Many are strangers to this experience We need, all of us, to look at what and should look again at the reality God has asked us to do for Him that of their conversion. we have thus far never attempted to do, before we presume to call upon A More Perfect Consecration Him for the gift of His Spirit. A great revival is called for within Has not God already given us in- the ranks of the believers of our struments that are rusting at our faith. There are so many today within sides? It is time for us to take up that the church who are perfectly willing which He has put into our hands for to accept all the church can give the finishing of the work and with them—all the blessings God has made all our lives and all our strength go possible through His great sacrifice forward, praying that He will cover —but who are so indifferent to any- us with His power for the quick com- thing that God asks them to do for pletion of the task. others' salvation. And how shall it be accomplished? The accomplishment of the great Jesus said, "I, if I be lifted up from task for God that we now face calls the earth, will draw all men unto for flaming love and unprecedented me." That touches the problem at its power made possible through a more very heart. The drawing of "all men" perfect consecration. May not those is what is baffling the church today. flames that rested upon the heads of Jesus is pointing out that there is the disciples at Pentecost when the no limit to the possibilities of the Holy Spirit was given be symbolic? expansive work one can accomplish if May not those flaming tongues of fire Christ is truly lifted up and seen in have been symbols of flaming tongues his life. The results, then, are in God's FREDERICK SHIELDS, ARTIST in their mouths as witnesses for God? hands. Our part is to be entirely As a result of Philip's witness to the Ethiopian Oh, do we not need to seek God yielded. We must give ourselves to eunuch, this honest soul was converted and baptized. Such a witness by individual believers is needed now until we are aflame with evangelistic the missionary task. Then it will not as never before in the history of the church. zeal? DECEMBER 29, 1955 3 The Removal of Sin-8 preacher to visit him he said Yes, but only a Seventh-day Adventist preacher." "Very well, I will be there right How a Preacher Was Converted after dinner." I went down to the jail, and By Carlyle B. Haynes through the bars of his cell I talked with this man. He did not, as so many prisoners do, deny his guilt. We have been engaged in looking force. The fact that they came at all He freely admitted that he had com- into the possibility of the complete shocked me deeply. mitted the murder. His request to me removal of sin from the lives of Chris- My immediate and indignant re- was not that I should intercede for tians. As I have shaped these articles ply in the depths of my soul was, him and ask the pardon of the Gov- it has occurred to me that a deeply "Why, I am a preacher! I know God's ernment. What he wanted to know impressive experience that changed truth. I preach God's truth. .I win was whether he could be saved and my life may be of help and encour- people to God's truth, and bring them how. He was quite resigned to his agement to you. into the church. What a shocking death, and wanted to meet that death It took place about fifteen years thing it is that such questions should as a Christian. He did not know how after I began my ministry. I am not be raised about me and my standing to become a Christian. now certain what led up to it so far with God!" I was appalled to discover that I as well-defined developments are con- had little to offer this man. If he had cerned. But I shall never forget the A Shocking Experience asked me to tell him when the 1260 experience itself. It etched itself upon Not soon will I forget how deeply years began, I would have had no my consciousness, and its results have moved I was. And I was more deeply difficulty. I was sure I could have been enduring. moved and shocked, I recall, by dis- convinced him that the seventh day I had been preaching for fifteen covering that I possessed no certainty is the Sabbath. I know that I could years, and God had not withheld His whether I was saved, whether I was have shown him that he ought to pay blessing. I had given myself wholly to converted, whether my sins were for- tithe. evangelism, the preaching of this mes- given. I could not recall any occasion It was none of these things, how- sage of truth to the public in tent when such matters as these had been ever, that he wanted to know. He and hall efforts, in theaters, and in settled. wanted to know, and he desperately every place where people could be in- A deeply moving experience that needed to know, how he could come duced to congregate and listen. preceded this a little while no doubt to Christ for the saving of his soul. I had learned something of adver- prepared me for this upheaval of And I was shocked to discover that tising, of public speaking, of singing, thought. I was holding large meetings I scarcely knew how to tell him. It of conducting a campaign of evange- in Jacksonville, and was filling the was borne in on me with tremendous lism. I was quite gratified at what I largest hall there with crowds who force that the mere knowledge of the considered success. Many people were were listening intently to the doc- truth did not save—that not even the convinced, embraced the truth, and trinal presentation of this message. practice of the truth saved. For the came into the church. I became ac- One morning I received a telephone first time I began to realize that customed to gathering and speaking call, and the conversation ran about something more was needed to save to large companies of people in many as follows: this man and to save any man than cities, principally in the East. They "Are you a Seventh-day Adventist knowing the truth—he needed to listened with respect, many with con- minister?" know Jesus Christ. viction. I came to think quite well of "I am." The interviews I had during the my abilities, and considered I was "Would you be willing to come remaining days of this man's life doing fairly well, and I took no little down to the jail and talk with one shook me to the very soul. It was a satisfaction in that thought. of the prisoners?" withering and humiliating experi- If it had been asked whether I "Certainly, but what about, and ence. During the days of that week could preach convincingly on such who are you?" the questions clamored for an an- subjects as man's nature and destiny, "I am the sheriff of this county." swer—Are you saved? Are your sins the Sabbath, the sanctuary, and other "Who is the prisoner, and why does forgiven? If you should die now, testing truths, my answer would have he want to see me?" could you die with the assurance of been that I could. "He is a convicted murderer and salvation? Indeed, are you fit for On such rare occasions as I thought is to be executed a week from today. heaven? about my own personal relationship He tells me that he was brought up I had a bad time of it. It seemed with God it was with assurance that a Seventh-day Adventist. When I so outrageous that a preacher who everything between us was all right. asked him whether he wanted a had been calling on others to be Ashamed as I am to admit it, nev- saved for years should have to answer ertheless it is true that I knew little of such questions. And yet, I could not personal religion, far more about doc- obtain rest until they were answered. trine. Hard questions did not bother Security I thank God they were answered, are me. I could readily repeat texts that answered now, and I know where I threw light upon them. I could pul- By ESTHER KALDAHL GUYOT stand with God. verize objections on the Sabbath and At the end of that week I stood by other points of our faith. To hold inviolate a small child's trust the side of that condemned murderer As we would do for those of greater age; There came an occasion when I To listen to the 'words he has to speak as he stood on the scaffold waiting to was sharply confronted with the ques- As we would lend our ears to hear a sage; be plunged into eternity. I was thor- tions: Are you saved? Are you con- To let him know the confidence he shows oughly ashamed and humiliated that verted? Are your sins forgiven? Is ev- In us will never be misplaced, betrayed; I had been unable to give him more erything right between you and God? Is not this helping build his trust in God, help. He was calm and collected and These questions came with startling And fitting him to meet life unafraid? seemed to feel a sense of assurance, 4 REVIEW AND HERALD but my own heart was in great tu- put off, while I was to put on the mult, not especially about him, but Lord Jesus Christ. about myself. The one great subject of the Bible, I came then to understand that which I knew little about, was the knowledge is not enough, that obe- subject of salvation. I had not [These news items are taken from Religious News dience is not enough, that diligence preached on that subject—but on Service. We do not necessarily concur in statements made in these items. We publish them simply to give is not enough, that service is not many others. I had, on numerous oc- our readers a picture of current religious develop- enough. These do not constitute sal- casions, been troubled about my sins. ments.l vation. They are the result, the effect, Preacher as I was I could scarcely the consequence, of salvation, not its be called an overcomer. I became im- Ohio Catholics Warned Against cause. patient, cross, irritable. I was ambi- Sunday Shopping I came to understand the gospel tious, conceited, exacting. Not that I Msgr. Harry J. Ansbury, dean of the Day- in a clearer way than ever before, not wanted to be—I was just naturally ton Deanery, asked Roman Catholic pastors merely "the truth," but the gospel, that way. Salvation was what I needed. in Dayton, Ohio, to warn their parishioners the everlasting gospel. That is some- And so I came to Jesus, years after against the habit of Sunday shopping. Some thing more than education, reforma- getting into the ministry, and as any priests have already delivered, and others are tion, improvement, development, other lost sinner, took Him as my planning to give, sermons on the observance of the Lord's day. Although a few large growth. It is the crucifixion of the old Saviour, confessed my sins to Him, stores have long catered to the Sunday trade, man and the creation of an entirely and cast myself upon His mercy, and a number of others, both independent and new man. by faith received His forgiveness and chain, have entered the competition and it My religious experience up to that entered into His grace. He has walked is feared the trend will continue. time had been based on the old man. with me since then in loving fellow- I had been trying to reform the old ship and union. I know Him now as Protestants Spend Billion Annually life, cultivate my natural abilities, de- my Saviour, as well as my Teacher, for Welfare Services velop my inherent powers, exercise my Guide, and my coming King. I all the energies of the flesh, in order offer Him to you as such, the loving Protestant churches in the United States to accomplish the work of God. I Saviour of your soul. I urge you to spend more than $1,000,000,000 annually to came to understand that all this was know Him as such during the remain- provide health and welfare services for 11,000,000 persons, according to a study made the work of the flesh, and must be der of your life on earth. public in Cleveland, Ohio. The study was presented to the first National Conference on the Churches and Social Welfare. It was prepared by Dr. William J. Villaume, ex- ecutive director of the department of social Wonder of Wonders welfare, National Council of Churches. The conference was sponsored by the National By C. E. Moseley, Jr. Council. Dr. Villaume's report disclosed that nearly 500,000 doctors, nurses, case workers, and others carry on welfare work in nearly [Highlights of a devotional talk given at the 3,000 church-related agencies and institu- Autumn Council.—EDITORS.] unusually cheerful face, but the color- tions. ful tint on the cheek and lips was Every warmhearted Christian cher- new, as were also the heavy jewels in First Christian University in ishes the hope of successfully entering the ears and suspended from the neck. Formosa Opened the kingdom of God. This is the This young woman was now teach- Lord's plan for all of us. He has ing in a small college, after earning Tunghai University, the first Christian in- plainly indicated the way to the king- an advanced degree from an Eastern stitution of higher learning in Formosa, dom, and has cautioned us of the university. Besides, she was soon to opened its doors to a freshman class of 155 dangers that might hinder us. be married to the young chaplain at men and 45 women. Situated near Taichung, the university was made possible by ini- The way to the kingdom we Chris- the college, who had convinced her tial grants from the United Board for Chris- tians know, but because of the pe- that since all churches have much in tian Colleges in China in New York. In an- culiar nature of certain dangers along common she had not been remiss in nouncing the opening, the board said the new the way, comes this timely warning: leaving the Adventist Church to join university was established in response to ur- "There shall arise false Christs, and his! To her the future was perfectly gent appeals from churches and individuals false prophets, and shall shew great wonderful! in Formosa. It has been planned as a perma- signs and wonders; insomuch that, if The wonder of wonders is how this nent rather than a refugee institution, the it were possible, they shall deceive once-promising student teacher, ideal board said, and ultimately will draw its chief the very elect" (Matt. 24:24). Christian young woman that she was, support from religious and civic groups in Formosa. Among the greatest dangers are de- and daughter of an active worker, ceptions—deceptions arising from the could become so sadly beguiled with teachings of false prophets and con- the deception of the world. Mexico's Minister of Education cealed in certain signs and wonders. The dangers of deception confront Issues Proreligion Ruling These deceptions are all about us, old and young alike. And concerning Minister of Education Jose Angel Cenice- and often they appear in the most the worst of these deceptions, the fol- ros ruled in Mexico City that Article Three unsuspecting places. lowing needs constantly to be set be- of the Mexican Constitution is not directed At a junction, passengers were fore us. against religion. The article, adopted during changing trains. From among them Addressing the Galatians, Paul ob- the anticlerical period of the late 1920's, approached a young person with a serves that "the flesh lusteth against proclaims that state education "must com- familiar face. Presently she extended bat prejudice and superstition." Mr. Cen- the Spirit, and the Spirit against the iceros said the words "prejudice and super- her hand in greeting. Then I remem- flesh: and these are contrary the one stition" must never be interpreted to mean bered; this was Miss , a former to the other: so that ye cannot do the "religion." Roman Catholics, as well as other pupil whom I had taught only a few things that ye would" (Gal. 5:17) believers in Mexico, have long agitated years before. But how she had Certain cravings of the human heart against Article Three and sought its repeal. changed! The eyes sparkled from the that are contrary to the will of the DECEMBER 29, 1955 5 Spirit of God must surely have striven abroad. This is no trivial matter, to working of His spirit."—Christ's Ob- in the heart of this young woman; be passed off with a jest. The subject ject Lessons, p. 400. and the resultant decision wrecked of dress demands serious reflection These sins represent the various her faith. How could it have been and much prayer."—Counsels on areas of life in which deceptive evil otherwise? For, indeed; "Man is doing Health, p. 600. may degrade the soul. As signs and the greatest injury and injustice to But what captive is there who en- wonders among Christians these sins his own soul when he thinks and acts joys his captivity, yet enjoys praying "each excels the other" in the fields contrary to the will of God."—Steps for deliverance therefrom? Rather he of operation. The wonder of wonders to Christ (Army and Navy ed.), p. covets greater pleasures and satisfac- is that the "elect" of God should be 46. Contrary thinking and acting tions for self. ensnared by them. when God's will is involved is but Our Lord has cautioned, "Thou Thank God, it is not necessary to one deceptive wonder. shalt not covet" (Ex. 20:17). Yet who be deceived by these, nor is deception Look at another. This young doubts that "the greatest sin which possible for God's "elect" as long as woman had to choose between the now exists in the church is covetous- they are linked with the Saviour. For convincing and persuasive opinions ness. God frowns upon His professed "when the enemy shall come in like a of the young minister and the Lord's people for their selfishness."—Testi- flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift claims upon her heart. She faced the monies, vol. 1, p. 194. "There is noth- up a standard against him" (Isa. 59: question that Elijah asked the an- ing more offensive to God than this 19). By this divine power He "ha.th cients on Mount Carmel: "How long narrow, self-caring spirit. He cannot given unto us all things that pertain halt ye between two opinions? if the work with any who manifest these unto life and godliness" (2 Peter Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, attributes. They are insensible to the 1:3). then follow him" (1 Kings 18:21). And she failed her God! What tragic deception! "The sin that is most nearly hopeless and incurable is pride of opinion, self-conceit."—Testimo- nies, vol. 7, pp. 199, 200. "There is nothing so offensive to God or so dangerous to the human soul as pride and self-sufficiency."—Christ's Object Lessons, p. 154. This deceptive won- der has other companions, which are Dead Sea Scroll Fragments equally dangerous. Step by step this once-chosen child of God had been lured by the ways and the Book of Daniel of a "false prophet," who became her suitor. Enviously she contrasted her By Siegfried H. Horn feelings of insecurity with his stout opinions and promises of a secure fu- ture, and she fell an easy prey to her The publication of the Dead various caves west of the Dead Sea, captor. "Who is able to stand before Sea scrolls, which Prof. A. L. Sukenik which are temporarily housed in the envy?" "The spirit that dwelleth in bought in 1947 for the Hebrew Archaeological Museum at Jerusalem. us lusteth to envy." (Prov. 27:4; University at Jerusalem, had hardly Excluded are the scrolls already James 4:5.) come from the press (See REVIEW published. AND HERALD, Sept. 1, 1955), when It is well known that the first great Changed for the Worse another important publication made discovery was made in 1947 by Robbed of her allegiance and faith its appearance. This book entitled Bedouins who removed the best- in the Saviour and blinded by the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert, I preserved scrolls from the cave and allurements of a false sense of se- —Qumran Cave I presents the of- sold them to Dr. Sukenik and the curity, the captive seeks dubious ficial report of the excavations of Metropolitan of the St. Mark's Mon- pleasures under a new master. Gone the first manuscript cave by Prof. R. astery in Jerusalem. In the spring of is the innocence of life, the genuine- de Vaux and three collaborators, and 1948 the find became known, but ness and beauty of the Christian the publication of 971 manuscript because the Jewish-Arab war was countenance. Then appeared the fragments found in that cave, edited raging at that time scholars could not rouge and lipstick, the cheap orna- by D. Barthelemy and J. T. Milik. explore the cave until 1949, when it ments of the ear, the neck, the wrist, This work is the first of nine pro- was found and systematically ex- and all the rest. And the wanton jected volumes in which the sensa- cavated by G. Lankester Harding of heart becomes drunken with the tional manuscript discoveries made the Antiquities Department of Jor- wine of the ways of sin. "Know ye in recent years in the Judean desert dan, and R. de Vaux of the French not, that to whom ye yield yourselves are being published by the Oxford School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. servants to obey, his servants ye are?" University Press. They will eventu- During their three weeks' work (Rom. 6:16). ally present (1) official reports of the hundreds of pottery fragments, great "Fashion is deteriorating the in- explorations of the various caves quantities of linen, and several tellect and eating out the spirituality from which the scrolls were recovered; hundred manuscript fragments were of our people. Obedience to fashion (2) reports of the excavations of the recovered from the cave. is pervading our Seventh-day Advent- ruined site Khirbet Qumran, which The fragments of pottery found ist churches and is doing more than was the center of the Jewish sect of the during the excavations have been any other power to separate our peo- Essenes, the original owners of many fitted together, showing that they ple from God."—Testimonies, vol. 4, of the scrolls; and (3) a scientific came from large jars with saucerlike p. 647. "Our words, our actions, and publication of those thousands of lids, which had served as containers our dress are daily, living preachers, manuscript fragments discovered by for the manuscripts. Some of these gathering with Christ, or scattering Bedouins and archeologists in the restored jars can now be seen in the 6 REVIEW AND HERALD Museum of the Oriental Institute of small pieces, some containing not book, or even a chapter, is represented. the University of Chicago, the Walters more than a few letters. It is there- But even fragments can tell a story. Art Gallery in Baltimore, the British fore not surprising that the fragments The sections of text represented can Museum in London, the Louvre in illustrated on four plates have not be compared with the Masoretic text Paris, and other places. been identified. In fact, it is remark- used in printed Hebrew Bibles, and able that the editors have been able if these sections are identical, or Wrappings for the Scrolls to piece together so many fragments almost identical with the Masoretic The linen cloth discovered in the and identify their contents, and their text, the valid conclusion can be cave had served as wrappings for the patient and painstaking work deserves drawn that the whole manuscript scrolls. It is of a fabric that in appear- the highest praise. They naturally possessed the same identity. If, on ance is the same as the linen cloth encountered the greatest difficulties the other hand, the extant text woven now in Arab villages of in deciphering and translating the samples show great differences from Palestine. Some of the linen from the non-Biblical works, of which some are the known Hebrew text, it must be cave has been subjected to a test new and of unknown contents. Among assumed that the manuscript in its known as the Carbon 14 method, by these non-Biblical Jewish books are former complete state also differed which ancient organic material is found the apocryphal Book of Noah, much from our Bible text. dated. The date obtained by the the Apocalypse of Lamech, the Tes- A careful comparison of these Nuclear Institute of the University of tament of Levi, the Sayings of Moses, fragments shows that they represent Chicago is A.D. 33 with a margin of and a Book of Mysteries. a text that was very closely related to our Hebrew Bible. No important error on either side up to two hundred Fragments of Biblical Books years, which gives us a' range for the variations can be found anywhere, manufacture of the linen wrappings The readers of THE REVIEW AND and those that are noticeable are from 168 B.c. to A.D. 233. Thus HERALD are naturally most interested mainly due to a different orthography another proof has been provided to in the fragments of Biblical books or to scribal peculiarities. The date the scrolls at the approximate and the results obtained from their example of the three fragments of time of the beginning of the Christian study. There are 261 fragments Daniel published by Barthelemy Era. coming from the following eleven will serve as an illustration. The volume under discussion de- Old Testament books: all five books scribes the results of the excavation of the Pentateuch, Judges, Samuel, The Daniel Fragments of the first cave, and presents a Psalms, Isaiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel, The three Daniel fragments con- detailed scientific treatise on the of which Deuteronomy and Daniel tain parts of the following twenty- pottery and linen discovered in the are represented by two and Psalms two verses of chapters 1-3 (chs. 1:10- cave, as well as a study of ancient by three manuscripts. Forty-two more 17; 2:2-6; 3:22-30). A comparison weaving—subjects that are mainly of of the published fragments belong to between the Hebrew text preserved interest to experts in these fields, for commentaries of the books Micah, on these fragments and that of the which reason they can be left un- Zephaniah, and Psalms. Masoretic text shows sixteen variants, discussed in an article written for Most manuscripts are written in none of which, however, affects the general information. the Hebrew square script, which the meaning of the passages in any way. The largest part of the volume is Jews took over from the Aramaeans These sixteen differences can be devoted to the publication of the after the Exile, and which has re- classified under four headings: numerous manuscript fragments, of mained in use to the present day. 1. Spelling variants. There are nine which all but seven are illustrated on The fragments of Leviticus and spelling variants, each affecting one thirty large plates. Many of the Numbers, however, are written in letter. Two of the orthographic vari- smaller fragments have been fitted pre-exilic Hebrew characters, gener- ances seem to be spelling mistakes, together, resulting in greater pieces ally known under the name "Phoeni- but the other seven words involved of manuscripts. The total number of cian script." The various means of are variously spelled also in different the individual fragments with which dating these manuscripts, employed parts of the Masoretic text. the editors began their work of by the archeologist, nuclear scientist, deciphering and assembling small and paleographer, have established 2. Additions. There are four addi- fragments into larger pieces is not the fact that the scrolls found in tions noticeable. Once the conjunc- ascertainable from the publication. Cave I were deposited there before tion "and" is added, once the particle The completed work now shows 971 the end of the Jewish war, A.D. 70. "that" is placed before an "if," and pieces of manuscripts, of which many two words contain vowel letters that Hence, the manuscripts written in are not found in the Masoretic text. consist of several fragments put the square script can be dated in the together. last two pre-Christian centuries and 3. Omissions. In one word a vowel All preserved writing can clearly the first century of the Christian Era. letter present in the Masoretic text be read, thanks to the good photo- However, there is an uncertainty con- is not found in the fragments. graphs made with the help of cerning the date of the fragments 4. Different vowel endings are found infrared rays, which bring to light written in the pre-exilic script. They twice, which seem to be scribal errors. texts so faded that the naked eye have been dated by scholars from the The differences listed show the can hardly see anything. Hence, the fifth to the second century B.C. How- reader that they are so insignificant texts can be read much easier with ever, they may be merely archaic that they would not be noticeable in the help of the reproductions than copies of older manuscripts, and a translation. This is a strong proof from the originals, as this writer therefore do not need to be earlier that the book of Daniel is now in the knows from experience, having than those written in the square script, same form as it was at least in the examined many of the original frag- although there is a possibility that time of Christ, when the manuscripts ments in the Archaeological Museum they are much older. Whatever their recently discovered were already in at Jerusalem. age, it is of interest to have samples existence. There are some large fragments in of Bible manuscripts in the script It is furthermore of interest that this publication, covering almost used by the original Bible writers. the extant section of chapter 2 of the complete columns, but the majority As already stated, all documents are Daniel Dead Sea fragments covers the of the documents consist of very fragments, and no complete Bible (Continued on page 23) DECEMBER 29, 1955 7 bled conscience can create. True, a man may seek to The Secret of a Happy New Year relieve the tension by deadening his conscience with A most common, phrase at the turn of the year is drink and thus creating for himself an artificial brand this: "A Happy New Near!" Generally it is woven of happiness. But the very ring of drunken laughter into the salutation: "A ,Merry Christmas and a Happy proves beyond doubt that it is not the genuine thing New Year!" We are not concerned with Christmas, Relief from a troubled conscience comes not from pour- and besides, it is past. But we are interested in the ing liquor down one's throat, but from pouring out new year. We all face, it, whether we will or no, for one's soul in contrition before God and receiving in the next 366 days; How we approach the new year return Heaven's forgiveness, which brings calm and determines in no small degree what kind of year it quiet to the heart and tunes it to the joyous carols of will be for us. And how we live through these 366 days the angels. • may determine our destiny for eternity. No one knows real happiness who is apprehensive Certainly it is right to plan for a happy new year of the future. Apprehension creates its own tensions, and to wish the same for others. Happiness is not to real and terrible, that stretch the chords of the heart be viewed as the enemy of holiness. Those who would to the point where they give forth only a high-pitched, confuse piety with a long face are doing Heaven a plaintive note when plucked by the fingers of time. disservice, to say nothing of cheating themselves out Some seek to relieve apprehension with sedatives; but of much wholesome enjoyment of living. Those who sleeping pills, though they may produce heavy breath- go through the pearly gates will not be dour of coun- ing, do not create lighthearted laughter. tenance, grim of expression, or cheerless in mood. Apprehension of the future can be genuinely re- Joyous laughter and even a keen sense of humor were lieved, not by falling into a drug-induced sleep, but not vices acquired from the eating of the forbidden by awakening to the glorious fact that the future is fruit, rather, they were gifts to man at creation, in in the hands of God, who seeks also to take our hand order that he might enjoy to the full the life that and guide us through the unknown days that lie ahead. God has given unto him. With that view of God in our souls, we fear not, though the night may be dark and the way unknown, for we Wrong View of Happiness are confident that with our hand in God's we can walk safely through the darkness into the light we are cer- The trouble lies in the fact that the devil has de- tain awaits us at the end of the journey. luded most people into a wrong conception of the na- ture of happiness and of how to acquire it. There are Promised Peace of Heaven many who mistakenly think that somebody owes them Christ promised His disciples, not that they would happiness. If misfortune strikes them, they feel that an acquire wealth or fame or security against danger, but unkind fate has cheated them out of the joy of living rather that they would suffer persecution and death. that rightly should have been theirs. Such persons Paradoxically He promised them also that they would generally confuse happiness with material possessions. be free of apprehension concerning the future: "Peace They feel that if they have more physical comforts, I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as they will be more happy; that if their bank account the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart is larger, more cheer will be theirs. be troubled, neither let it be afraid" (John 14:27). To If we view happiness in this way, we are of all men all men He offered the invitation: "Come unto me, most miserable, for who can be sure that he will always all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will have a good bank account or that no chilling blasts give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of of adversity will ever strike him? me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall The facts are that happiness is not something that find rest unto your souls" (Matt. 11:28, 29). can be measured in dollars or cents or in terms of You cannot be happy if life seems meaningless, with material gadgets. Happiness is a dividend received on death as the final, frustrating conclusion to pointless an investment we make in certain kinds of thoughts living. If life is to signify something for us, we must and deeds; it is an affair of the inner being. It is, first, have firmly fixed in our minds that God lives, that He a state of mind and heart and spirit. But this state is omnipotent, that He guides the stars. But we must reflects a certain viewpoint on life and a certain pro- also believe that we are a definite, significant, and gram of living. very important part in His whole plan for the universe. To be specific, happiness is a certain state of mind We have taken a long step upward when we think and heart and spirit in relationship to God. This can of our God as compassionate, and thus willing to hold be shown quickly and effectively by a few negative our hand and guide us through the darkness to a illustrations. better world. But we come to the summit of spiritual Troubled Conscience Debars Happiness satisfaction when we conceive of our God as covisider- ing us truly important in His vast plans. That con- No one can have happiness who has a troubled con- ception provides a new and invigorating view of life. science. The Good Book tells us that the wicked flee It gives a tingling to the soul, a spring to the step, when no man pursueth, and that the wicked are like and unalloyed happiness to the heart. Even death no the troubled sea when it cannot rest. No man can longer appalls us. We do not minimize its dread char- know happiness who is under the tension that a trou- acter, but we refuse to believe that it signifies finality 8 REVIEW AND HERALD to our days. We see ourselves as important in the plans Catholics who consider him a saintly person."—No- of God, not for a few years of this temporal life, but vember 22, p. 14. for an eternity that lies beyond the resurrection. Another case in point is Lourdes, France, a shrine near the Spanish border where many sick reportedly Right Relation to Fellow Man have found healing for nearly a century. Ruth Cran- Yes, happiness is to be discovered first of all in a ston, a Protestant writer, recently spent a year at Lourdes, certain attitude and relationship to our God. But hap- studying the famous Catholic shrine and its cures. piness also is a dividend we receive from a certain She wrote about the shrine in the November McCall's relationship we bear to our fellow man. If our thoughts Magazine, but her book The Miracle of Lourdes, con- are wholly on ourselves, happiness is impossible. A her- densed in the December Reader's Digest, gives a mit is not happy. How could he possibly be, having fuller picture. only himself to think about, or even to look at. The Good Book declares that "it is more blessed to give Much Talk of Miracles than to receive" (Acts 20:35). Here is one of those The Roman Church accepts the miraculous cures, paradoxes of Scripture whose truth is evident to any- indeed, directs the work of the healing shrine, the one who has practiced the heavenly art of giving rather bishop elevating the Host above each of the sick than receiving. Even when we do no more than speak ones who gather in the square for healing. Every day, kind words to others, we find that we as well as they it seems, there is a holy procession while the sick wait are made happy. The more we seek to solve the trou- in line to wash in the waters of the spring. Eminent bles of others, the more we find a solution to our own. physicians, such as Alexis Carrel, Nobel prize winner, The climax to this whole heavenly business of seek- have declared that the cures are genuine. The church ing to help others is reached when we seek to help does not pronounce upon the validity of each claim them toward the kingdom, when we pour out our for healing, but "in nearly a century of the shrine's lives in a diligent, unremitting endeavor to save them. existence, 51 cases have been pronounced miraculous To bring to them the joy of the Lord is to provide cures by the Church."—Reader's Digest, December, for ourselves a happiness of which the world knows 1955, p. 182. nothing. These reports of Catholic miracles appear at a time Yes, we wish for all our readers a happy new year— when Protestants are reporting similar manifestations. in the setting of what we have here written. Oral Roberts, thirty-seven-year-old faith healer, claims F. D. N. hundreds of healings. Other faith healers are springing up in tents and tabernacles all over America. It is not only an age of scientific wonders and miracles, it has also become a time for the manifestation of miracles The Miraculous Cures at Lourdes in the realm of the supernatural. What explanation can we offer for these phenomena? Adventists are not surprised by the numerous reports First of all, we must recognize honestly that certain appearing in the public press about miracles in the miracles have taken place, but this should not lead Catholic Church (see 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12). The us to wrong conclusions regarding the human agents mood of supernaturalism in Rome received a fresh in the healing work or the organizations they represent. impetus five years ago with the alleged appearance Miracles are not necessarily marks of the true church. of the virgin Mary to Pope Pius the Twelfth in the This we know, for God and Satan both have power Vatican gardens. "Frederico Cardinal Tedeschini told to perform miracles. Jannes and Jambres performed a crowd at Fatima that Pope Pius XII had seen the miracles in the presence of King Pharaoh, imitating `life of the sun under the hand of the Virgin Mary' the miraculous manifestations of God through the rod and that the sun 'had transmitted mute but eloquent of Moses. Every day in the spiritualists' seances the messages to the vicar of Christ.' This occurred four impersonating, by evil spirits, of departed friends and times during the 1950 Holy Year."—New York Times, relatives takes place. Christ Himself seems to have Nov. 22, 1955, p. 14. appeared in the secret chambers, but it is an emissary And now, in the year 1955, Pope Pius XII has of hell imitating Christ. confirmed personally a vision of Christ that came to him at the height of his grave illness last December. Warnings Against Wrong Conclusions The first account of it was given by the Milan picture magazine Oggi. We have this word of warning from the messenger In the Pope's sufferings he felt that he must die. of the Lord: "Let none cherish the idea that special Then "he saw beside his bed the gentle figure of Jesus." providences or miraculous manifestations are to be the "But," said the magazine report, "Jesus had not come proof of the genuineness of their work or of the ideas to take him away but to comfort him and we believe they advocate."—Thoughts From the Mount of Bless- to give him certainty that his hour had not yet come. ing, pp. 209, 210. "Obedience," Mrs. E. G. White de- The Holy Father is most sure to have seen Jesus. It clares, "is the test of discipleship." "When persons will was no dream. At that moment he was wide awake speak lightly of the Word of God, and set their im- and lucid!' "—Ibid. pressions, feelings, and exercises above the divine stand- The latest word on this report is to the effect that ard, we may know that they have no, light in them."— "the night before the Pope had a vision of Christ dur- Ibid., p. 210. ing his illness . . . , he heard a voice saying distinctly, God's servant declared plainly that "papists, who `There will be a vision.' At dawn next day Pope Pius boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, XII 'saw the Lord close to him, silent, in all his will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power eloquent majesty.' "—Washington Post, Nov. 28, 1955, [spiritualism]; and Protestants, having cast away the p. 10. (Italics supplied.) shield of truth, will also be deluded."—The Great The New York Times reports that reliable sources Controversy, p. 588. imply that "the Vatican had a secret file of miraculous If Satan and the fallen angels can impersonate hu- happenings attributed to Pope Pius XII by Roman man beings, posing as the spirits of the dead, why DECEMBER 29, 1955 9 cannot Satan himself impersonate Christ? This we know he will do before the end on a grand scale. Help for Today; Trust for And it will not be a dream, but an actual manifesta- tion visible to mortal eyes (see The Great Controversy, Tomorrow pp. 624, 625). The Master warned against false christs. He declared that men would say, " 'Lc), he is in the Another year has almost come to its close. It has wilderness,' " " To, he is in the inner rooms.' " "Do been filled with both disappointments and victories. not believe it," Christ commands (Matt. 24:26, R.S.V.). The mountains, which at times seemed to appear before With this warning echoing in our conscience, how us, often proved to be only. molehills. What looked like can we believe that Christ has appeared in the "inner an impassable Jordan opened before us as we came to the rooms" to any man, however lofty his station? water's edge. Maybe we did feel the rush of the tide, which caused us to tremble, yet God proved His promise: Intervention of Supernatural Being "When thou passest . . . through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee" (Isa. 43:2). The Oxford English Dictionary defines a miracle There have been times when sickness has troubled as "a marvellous event occurring within human ex- some; financial perplexities have brought anxiety to perience, which cannot have been brought about by others. Multiplied duties, which at times seemed so human power or by the operation of any natural formidable, have been performed one by one. Sum- agency, and must therefore be ascribed to the special ming it all up, the worst thing that has happened to intervention of the Deity or of some supernatural most of us has been worry. Our uncontrollable imagi- being; chiefly, an act (e.g. of healing) exhibiting nations have brought us more anxious moments than control over the laws of nature, and serving as evidence the real problems when we faced them with courage that the agent is either divine or is specially favoured and prayer. We can say, "God has been good to us." by God." (Italics supplied.) Now as we face the new year we may begin to Not only the deity but "some supernatural being" think of what it will bring to us. There are so many may be the cause of a miracle. But miracles should things that must be done, so many duties to perform, not necessarily serve as "evidence that the agent is so many decisions to be made, so many rivers to cross. either divine or is specially favoured by God." As we So we say, "How can we encompass so much?" near the close of time Satan will work "with lying The answer is: "We cannot do it in a day, and we wonders."—The Great Controversy, p. 612. There will do not need to. We have 366 days, and God has prom- be wonders all right, but they will be lying wonders. ised, 'As thy days, so shall thy strength be' " (Deut. A lie is an untruth, a false witness. So these wonders 33:25). bear false witness to Christ. Many of these manifestations will be inexplicable and beyond human explanation. God Knows Our Needs But why should this concern us? Satan has power to God only promises strength for the day. Why should work in a way that is beyond the ken of man. This He do more? If He gave us a sum total of strength supernatural being has a control over material forces for a whole year perhaps, or a month, or a week, that is larger than we think. Listen to these stirring we might squander our assets on some unworthy project words: and be left helpless for the rest of the time. God "Evil angels are upon our track every moment. We broke up time into days, for He wanted man to have expect a readiness on the part of bad men to act as frequent contact with Him to receive the physical vigor Satan suggests; but while our minds are unguarded and spiritual strength needed for life's duties. God against his invisible agents, they assume new ground knows the portion needed for each day. and work marvels and miracles in our sight. Are we Of this we read: "We need to trust in Jesus daily, prepared to resist them by the word of God, the only hourly. He has promised that as our day is, our strength weapon we can use successfully? shall be. By His grace we may bear all the burdens "Some will be tempted to receive these wonders of the present and perform its duties, but many are as from God. The sick will be healed before us. Miracles weighed down by their anticipation of future troubles. will be performed in our sight. Are we prepared for They are constantly seeking to bring tomorrow's bur- the trial which awaits us when the lying wonders of dens into today. Thus a large share of all their trials Satan shall be more fully exhibited? Will not many are imaginary. For these Jesus has made no provision. souls be ensnared and taken? By departing from the He promises grace only for the day. He bids us not plain precepts and commandments of God, and giving to burden ourselves with the cares and troubles of to- heed to fables, the minds of many are preparing to morrow; for 'sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.' receive these lying wonders."—Testimonies, vol. 1, p. "The habit of brooding over anticipated evils is un- 302. wise and unchristian. In thus doing we fail to enjoy Rome and other church movements will profit much the blessings and to improve the opportunities of the and gain prestige by these reports of miracles. A gul- present. The Lord requires us to perform the duties lible public will accept the testimony, first, of the of today and to endure its trials. We are today to watch miracles themselves; second, of scientists who have no that we offend not in word' or deed. We must today way of disproving but tend to accept the miracles; praise and honor God."—Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 200. third, as evidence that Rome and the Protestant churches It is for this that God gives us strength. So today are especially favored of God, and that those who re- is taken care of. Go forth each morning therefore with sist this evidence are deluded unbelievers. Think of confidence, for God, we are told, is "a very present help." these words: "A day of great intellectual darkness has But what about tomorrow? Trust is the answer to been shown to be favorable to the success of the that question. papacy. It will yet be demonstrated that a day of great We read: "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and intellectual light is equally favorable for its success." lean not unto thine own understanding" (Prov. 3:5). —The Great Controversy, pp. 572, 573. The time is "Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord Jehovah hastening on for the fulfillment in rapid sequence of is everlasting strength" (Isa. 26:4). those events so vividly described by John the revelator So let us take as our motto for the new year: "Help in the last book of the Bible. D. A. D. for today; trust for tomorrow." F. L. JO REVIEW AND HERALD ence of almost any degree of fatigue a certain amount of muscular tense- ness, or tension, occurs. Fatigue can be relieved only through rest and CONDUCTED EY GENERA( CON rr .cF DOC:C Dtt. DEPAPTMED relaxation. During rest and relaxation the body becomes revitalized, the metabo- lism is lowered, the blood pressure falls, the pulse rate slows down, breathing is slower though usually The Art of Relaxation deeper, body temperature falls, a con- veniently measurable phenomenon By Marilyn J. Christian, R.N. that reflects lower metabolism and de- crease in tone of the skeletal muscles. To be able to relax is a highly "Come ye yourselves apart . . . , and between the normal weariness of valuable and important tool in the rest a while" (Mark 6:31). This ad- overexertion—physiological fatigue art of healthful living. Many people monition was given by the Great about which we are fundamentally unfortunately have never really Physician long ago at a time when concerned at this time—and patho- learned to relax, and because of this the disciples were so busy they had logical fatigue of physical and psychic ignorance they suffer from such con- no time to eat. Have you ever been disease. There is a certain vagueness ditions as chronic fatigue and nervous so busy that you did not have time to in the word, but the feeling of fatigue instability. eat? Of course you have. All of us is unmistakable. A very narrow mar- have at one time or another. But what gin separates fatigue from disease. In Ways to Relax about this day-after-day hurry, hurry, fact, fatigue is a symptom of many A successful pattern of living al- rush, rush, way of life? Are you guilty diseases, infections, and, more com- ternates between activity and relaxa- of not finding time to "rest a while"? monly, psychosomatic ailments. tion. The art of relaxation can be Are you so busy you do not find time cultivated in many ways. For some to eat? Not just physical food, but Beware of Extreme Fatigue people a fifteen- to twenty-minute spiritual food as well? Early symptoms of fatigue are ir- nap after lunch or when a period of We are a nation of go-getters, of ritability, restlessness, jumpy nerves, mild fatigue occurs will make them people on the move, always in a hurry lack of attention shown to details, feel in the peak of condition. Others to go nowhere fast! Look around you et cetera. Fatigue often makes itself prefer to spend a ten-minute interval sometime and notice the habits we felt in an unmistakable lethargy of reading from their favorite book tend to cultivate. We run three body and an agonizing paralysis of while sitting in an easy chair with blocks to the bus stop and wait five the will. their feet propped up on the foot- minutes for the bus to arrive! In Physiological changes in the pres- stool. Simply lying flat on the floor, order to meet a committee appoint- ence of fatigue can manifest them- muscles limp, mind at ease, after put- ment we run to the car, press our selves in all systems of the body. In ting in a couple of hours at hard foot on the accelerator, break the extreme fatigue the alimentary sys- work, will make the renewal of one's speed limits, come to a jolting stop at tem is almost always affected and loss tasks easier and more successful. the stop signs only to watch the car of appetite is common. In the pres- The Sabbath is a day of rest and we thought was holding up traffic a a very important part of the health few moments before, pull up to the program, but this day does not make curb about thirty seconds before we up for the periodic rests needed every arrive! A Prayer for Faith day. Mother, shopping in town, steps Rest and change are vital to mental on the escalator. Does she ride calmly By MARY E. HYATT efficiency. "Those who are engaged up to the next floor? No, that is far in constant mental labor, whether in too slow. Instead she walks on up the Give me, dear Lord, for just one hour, study or preaching, need rest and A faith to sense Thy keeping power; moving escalator, arriving on the Bid every doubt and fear depart, change. The earnest student is con- next floor at least five seconds sooner! Let Thy sweet peace dwell in my heart— stantly taxing the brain, too often We have been brought up on the That heaven-born peace sent from above, while neglecting physical exercise, philosophy of the bee and the beaver: A priceless gift from the heart of love. and as a result the bodily powers are Keep busy, keep moving. Is this what And may the sick, the poor, the sad, enfeebled, and mental effort is re- God intended? Must we run from Share in that peace and be made glad. stricted. Thus the student fails of ac- early morning until late at night? Of complishing the very work that he course not. Another hour of faith, I pray, might have done had he labored Over and over again in the Scrip- Give me the added strength to say, "Thy will be done, dear Lord, not mine; wisely."—Counsels on Health, pp. tures we are admonished to rest. Jesus Make me a humble child of Thine"; 563, 564. says, "Come unto me, . . . and I will And may that faith so childlike be A balance of work, relaxation, and give you rest" (Matt. 11:28). We That I must trust alone in Thee recreation is to be sought. Take time must not only rest from physical To give me grace and strength and light to rest awhile from your study, from work but from mental work as well. To walk by faith and not by sight. your housework, from your typing, Our bodies were not made to work from your music practice. Find time twenty-four hours a day without rest. So hour by hour, and day by day, to do something different. It has How does one recognize fatigue be- Teach me to walk in Thine own way; been proved that you gain in effi- May love to God and love to man fore it becomes detrimental to the Be in my waking thoughts and plans. ciency, that you have clearer thoughts, body? Fatigue is like a cloak of many And help me, Lord, to daily be that you are much happier, if you colors. Fatigue occurs for a great va- A living sacrifice for Thee; only take time to relax. Why don't riety of reasons and appears in many Then may I be among that throng you try it? "Come ye yourselves apart guises. We must, however, distinguish Who sing at last the victors' song. . . . , and rest a while." DECEMBER , 29, 1955 113 NOW TO KEEP THEM HAPPY AND HEAVENLY

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comes a part of yourself."—Ibid., p. The Seventh-day Adventist 547. Our attitude toward our fellow church members is important also. and His Church Although we will not find any church a group of perfect beings all ready for translation, we will find in every By Mae Carberry Bradley church a fine group of people striving for that necessary perfection. Some may miss perfection a long way. Some Jesus "as his custom was, . . . went even eating candy and throwing paper wads. may seem to us entirely unfit for into the synagogue on the sabbath church membership. However, if they day" (Luke 4:16). "The moral taste of the worshipers in God's holy sanctuary must be ele- are still striving to gain the victory, The true Seventh-day Adventist our responsibility is not to push them loves his church. He has a habit of vated, refined, sanctified. This matter has been sadly neglected. Its impor- farther down, but to do all we can church attendance that does not de- to lift them up. pend on inclination or weather. His tance has been overlooked, and as Sabbath plans always include attend- the result disorder and irreverence We shudder with horror when we ance at Sabbath school and church, have become prevalent, and God has hear of cruel cannibalism, but do we and he attends as many other meetings been dishonored. When the leaders read often the description given in of the church as possible. He is never in the church, ministers and people, Education, page 235, and see how among those who are missed from the fathers and mothers, have not had cruel criticism is, compared to this church week after week until Satan elevated views of this matter, what horrible practice? We may think we presents other attractions and the well- could be expected of the inexperi- know all about a person, and so are meaning church member drifts with enced children? They are too often capable of judging him. Remember, the world. Indifference to church at- found in groups, away from the par- "The heart is deceitful above all tendance is a dangerous symptom. ents, who should have charge of them. things, and desperately wicked: who Abraham commanded his house- Notwithstanding they are in the pres- can know it?" (Jer. 17:9). It may hold after him, and so must we. Chil- ence of God, and His eye is looking be the smudge in our own life that dren can develop the habit of church upon them; they are light and tri- makes our brother's life seem so dark. attendance or, if allowed to do so, fling; they whisper and laugh, are If we can get a true vision of the life they can learn to seek excuses for careless, irreverent, and inattentive." and love of Jesus, we will be able to being absent. Usually they are follow- —Child Guidance, p. 542. Please read love our brethren enough to view ing parents' example. Sometimes they the entire chapter. their imperfections in the same way are merely revealing parents' lack of "God is dishonored by the loose we would like them to view ours. discipline. way in which parents manage their Chances are good that we have as "It is a serious mistake to neglect children while at church."—Ibid., p. many faults as our brother. the public worship of God. The priv- 544. The true Seventh-day Adventist ileges of divine service should not be "Practice reverence until it be- represents his church on Sabbath af- lightly regarded."— ternoon, when he is The Ministry of at leisure, as well as Healing, p. 511. on Sabbath morn- It is a beautiful ing, when he attends sight to see the en- church services. Je- tire family seated to- sus said, "It is law- gether in the house ful to do well on the of God, reverently Sabbath days." This listening as the min- gives us a responsi- ister breaks the bility to decide for bread, of life. For- ourselves, to some tunate and prosper- extent, but we have ous is the church further guidance in that has its pews the Bible and the filled with such fam- writings of Ellen G. ilies. White to help us A sad sight seen choose suitable pas- in many of our times for this sacred churches is one or day. We can make more back pews the Sabbath a de- filled with neglected light and still up- children whispering, hold the standards of our church. playing, chewing ROBERTS gum, and sometimes It is a beautiful sight to see the entire family together in the house of God. Our appearance 12 REVIEW AND HERALD represents our loyalty to our church Teach Us to Know time to time, and various local ex- also. The followers of Jesus will not penses, such as church and church be conspicuous because of outward By MARGARET LOCKE school expense. These very likely will adornment. They will not be careless Teach us to know how frail we are— make up a second tithe. With our in regard to neatness, cleanliness, or How weak in thought, in word, in deed; hearts filled with the love of God and economy. Their clothing will be be- Teach us to look to Thee for strength of our fellow men we will delight to coming but modest. It may be in fash- In every pressing time of need. give. In return, the great heart of ion but not extreme. The hair will be Teach us to know that Thou art God, God is so filled with love for us that clean and neatly arranged. We do not Mighty in power—omnipotent; He will delight to shower us with have to follow any particular style Teach us to put our trust in Thee, blessings, "that there shall not be arrangement or cut, but we should Follow Thy ways, and be content. room enough to receive it." not try to keep up with the latest ex- We are but creatures of the dust, If in our giving we put possibly tremes that are followed by the world Yet for our sakes the Son of God two tenths into the bank of heaven, about us. In all respects the dress Left all the joys of Paradise can we draw out necessary funds should be healthful. And Calvary's rugged pathway trod. when a time of crisis comes? I believe "There is no need to make the May we more fully comprehend that we can, for we have hundreds of dress question the main point of your Salvation's cost—teach us to know promises to that effect. "Our heavenly religion. There is something richer to Just how to do Thy blessed will While on life's journey here below. Father has a thousand ways to pro- talk of. Talk of Christ; and when the vide for us of which we know noth- heart is converted, everything that is ing."—The Ministry of Healing, p. out of harmony with the Word of 481. God will drop off."—Child Guidance, praying about and worth working for. The Lord wants His people to be pp. 428, 429. Our purses or billfolds should join comfortable and happy, yet we are This is wonderful instruction. In- the church when we do. Treasurers always to keep in mind the fact that stead of looking at our neighbor to sometimes reveal the fact that not all Jesus will soon return. We will not criticize his attire, let us look in our members of the church pay tithe. A want to live in luxury while the work own mirror, and if we see things that few people think they cannot afford of God languishes. The way we should be dropped off, ask the Sav- to tithe, but it is much more true spend even our eight or nine tenths iour to cleanse our own hearts. that they cannot afford not to. is telling the world whether we really The Science of Cooking Surely every Seventh-day Advent- believe that the Lord is coming. Re- ist believes God's Word, and all must membering that we will take none Seventh-day Adventists represent have read Malachi 3:8-11. For those of this world's goods with us when the church in their food habits also. who believe these precious words it we leave this earth, we will purchase "Grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables is a wonderful privilege to accept the only those things that will help us constitute the diet chosen for us by promise and give God His rightful physically, mentally, or spiritually to our Creator."—Ibid., p. 380. share of what is entrusted to us. prepare for heaven. We will have no We will be as careful to have bal- Our offerings are for us to decide. desire to pile up fortunes here, for anced meals as we are to leave off These we are to give to God. The this world is not our home. We are undesirable foods. We will not desire tithe is not ours to begin with. There Seventh-day Adventists. We expect secondhand foods or those that stimu- are the Sabbath school mission offer- our Lord to come soon to take us to late unduly. ings, special campaign offerings from heaven to live with Him. Perhaps we do not realize what is the most desirable art to cultivate. "The science of cooking is not a small matter. . . . This art should be re- garded as the most valuable of all the arts, because it is so closely connected with life. . . . Often health reform is made health deform by the unpalat- able preparation of food."—Ibid., p. A Week of Prayer Letter 372. More and more we sense that good From the State of Missouri comes a jubi- much to continue in signal school if possible. bread is a necessity to health, and lant letter written by a praying mother who This is the field in which he is most inter- that to have it we must whenever is rejoicing over the conversion of her son. ested. But he will keep the Sabbath come possible make our own from flour "About two months ago," she says, "I re- what may. that is ground fresh at the mill. Skill- quested the Parents' Fellowship of Prayer to "I am sure that you will all pray for my ful bread baking need not be a lost pray for my son Donald, who after his gradu- boy and take courage from this experience. art. If you are not near a good Sev- ation from academy joined the Army. At I am so thankful for a God who hears and that time he was bitterly opposed. to the answers prayer. Pray now that God's will enth-day Adventist bakery, try it. You message and told me he was through with may be done about the new work to which can bake good bread. everything having the name Seventh-day Ad- he may be assigned." "There is religion in good cooking, ventist. Naturally I was heartbroken over This mother's letter was written during and I question the religion of that this, and in my grief I turned to God. Now the recent Week of Prayer. At that time class who are too ignorant and too I am happy to tell you God has changed many discouraged, wandering sons and careless to learn to cook."—Ibid., p. things. In answer to our united prayers Don- daughters were presented to our merciful 374. ald has completely altered his thinking and God by their praying parents. Now the an- Some of our churches conduct has asked his officers for Sabbath privileges. swers are beginning to come in. For this we cooking classes. Some of our church He is determined to do 'right under all cir- thank the Lord. Continue to pray, especially cumstances. on Friday evenings at worship time. When members are excellent cooks and are "However, he faces a real problem. He has you have had evidence that your prayers willing to help others less experi- been told that it is impossible to have his re- have been answered, sit down and write out enced. We have excellent books on quest granted where he is, unless he is your experience. Mail it to the Parents' Fel- the subject too. Anything so impor- transferred. He is now in signal school study- lowship of Prayer, Review and Herald, Ta- tant to a family's health is worth ing radio communications. He desires so koma Park, Washington 12, D.C. DECEMBER 29, 1955 13 ing boards whose standards are hardly those of the angels. But to get by ev- ery temptation of a clever enemy and safely into the kingdom is a goal far different—a goal that the get-by folks will never reach. Everything the church will let me do! Why not? Lazy Ideals It's all right, friend, provided God will let you. But never forget that God legislates in many areas where By Marjorie Lewis Lloyd the church cannot. The church has standards it believes are God's standards. That's why it teaches Let's throw on the screen a few pic- had taught her certain standards. them. But the church has no secret tures of people I have met. Some of Others in the church did not live up police. And neither does God, but them you know. And I think this to them. Were they God's standards? He knows. might be the best way to explain what Were they the standards of the I mean by lazy ideals. church? Or were they just my stand- Higher Than We Think This first one—a very successful ards? Wouldn't it be too bad, friend, to man whose name appeared in Who's She asked, and found there are only come up to the day when time has Who in America. But he wrote to his a very few things for which a Sev- ended and find that God's standards son taking the medical course, "Study enth-day Adventist may be disfellow- are higher than you thought? God hard enough to get by." shiped. A number of things that I has angels with super-accurate, high- Jim—Jim has a tape recorder. He had encouraged her to give up, and fidelity "recording" equipment. likes to record sermons and music for that she had given up, were not on These "microphones" are sensitive shut-ins. A good work—more people that list. She could do them and stay enough to pick up even our thoughts. ought to be doing it. But one thing in the church. She summed it all up And not one of us, when the rec- about Jim, he's not too particular by saying, "I decided to do every- ord is played back, will say "before about the quality of his recording. thing the church would let me do." the angel, that it was an error" (Eccl. Maybe the microphone is too far Safe enough—it seemed to Gladys. 5:6). away. Maybe the tape has been copied What Kind of People? "Higher than the highest human till it only faintly resembles the orig- thought can reach is God's ideal for inal. But folks won't care—they'll like Enough of pictures. I think you His children. Godliness—godlikeness it anyway. And a lot of folks do like know what I mean. We haven't been —is the goal to be reached."—Edu- it. But Jim wonders why his musician looking at lazy people. These are some cation, p. 18. friends seem a little hesitant lately, of the hardest-working people I Look about you any day at the re- when he asks them to record. know. But we've been looking at peo- sults of lazy ideals. Contrast them Oh, and this one is a church mem- ple with lazy ideals, lazy standards. with the lives of those content only ber. Not too careful about some "Good enough"—"Get by"—"Ev- to reach for God's standard. "By their things. But she knows that God is a erything the church will let me do!" fruits ye shall know them." God of love. And she says, "I don't It was Paul who said, "I have think God will send me to hell be- learned, in whatsoever state I am, cause I do this." therewith to be content" (Phil. 4:11). This one, a professional man. He Procrastination Good counsel, in its intended place. has definite ideas about religion. He Beware of procrastination. Do not put off But Paul never meant those words to thinks religion makes people perfec- the work of forsaking your sins, and seeking be taken as a sleeping pill. He said tionists. And he thinks perfectionists purity of heart through Jesus. Here is where in the same letter, "I press toward are perpetually unhappy because they thousands upon thousands have erred, to the mark for the prize of the high do not reach their ideal. His rem- their eternal loss. I will not here dwell upon calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. edy for unhappiness—no religion. the shortness and uncertainty of life; but 3:14). Another one of your friends. She's there is a terrible danger—a danger not suf- It's a good thing not to be too con- been cooking for twenty-five years. A ficiently understood—in delaying to yield to tent, too happy with things as they good cook too. But she can't be both- the pleading voice of God's Holy Spirit, in are, too well adjusted to life as we choosing to live in sin; for such this delay find it. We need to be discontented ered with serving it attractively. What really is. Sin, however small it may be difference does the dish make? Why esteemed, can be indulged in only at the peril at times. We need to be unhappy fuss with the salad? Just get the food of infinite loss. What we do not overcome, with the progress we have made. We on the table. It will taste just as good. will overcome us, and work out our destruc- need to be maladjusted enough to One more picture. This is Gladys, tion.—Steps to Christ, pp. 32, 33. make a few changes. we'll call her. The minute she And it wouldn't hurt to memorize stepped off the train I knew that some- these words from the servant of the thing was wrong. She didn't dress the Lord: same, didn't look the same. I hoped Good is a good word. So is enough. "Those who receive the seal of the she would tell me the reason. And But combine the two into good enough living God, and are protected in the eventually she did. and you have a dangerous and habit- time of trouble, must reflect the im- She recounted the changes she had forming spiritual sedative. And right age of Jesus fully."—Early Writings, made as we studied together, how as now, with the judgment going on, p. 71. she came into the church she had de- is no time to be under the influence The judgment is going on. The termined to be all for God. Then I of a sedative. shaking time is upon us. Those with had gone. She had looked about in Get by. We may get by our own lazy ideals will surely fall through the church. She had wondered. I sleepy ideals; we may get by examin- the sieve. Will you? 14 REVIEW AND HERALD fore them, leading them to the city, What Mrs. White wrote is a de- they were safe."—Page 14. scription of conversations that she This vision that came to young had with the angel while in vision, or Ellen was but the first of many that of a scene that she saw. These writings came to her from time to time during we call the Spirit of prophecy. In- her long life. cluded are the Testimonies for the Maybe you have read somewhere Church, of which there are nine vol- that in 1846 she married James White, umes. Mrs. White also, wrote the Con- Mrs. E. G. White who later became president of the flict of the Ages Series, which in- General Conference of Seventh-day cludes Patriarchs and Prophets, Ellen Harmon was a teen-age girl Adventists. Four sons were born to Prophets and Kings, The Desire of who lived in Portland, Maine. God them. Mrs. White was a good mother Ages, The Acts of the Apostles, and called her when she was seventeen to to her boys. Any junior reading these . The Great Controversy. Her book be His messenger. No person since lines would have been proud to be- Early Writings, describing her early the time of John and Paul has been long to her family. When she traveled Christian experience and views, is a called to do anything more vital to she never forgot her sons, but wrote to thrilling little volume. The Desire of the welfare of God's church. them nearly every day. Until the time Ages is one of her most 'beautiful Ellen was converted at the age of of her husband's death, in 1881, she books. The Great Controversy-is per- eleven years. When she was twelve walked by his side as a faithful wife. haps the most thrilling. years old she was baptized and joined After seventy years of continuous serv- You are not too young, to become the Methodist Church. When she was ice she died in 1915. acquainted with some of these won- thirteen years old she heard William Perhaps you would like to know derful books. Ask Mother and Dad Miller deliver his lectures about the how she received her visions. The about them and start reading. A spe- second coming of Christ, in Portland, answer is: In much the same way cial book called Messages to Young Maine. "I then felt that I was not as the Bible prophets received light People has been written for the youth. holy," she said, "not ready to see from heaven. God caused the message This is just for you. Start reading on Jesus. And when the invitation was to be sent by an angel. The prophet page 1 and follow through carefully. given for church-members and sin- received the message while he was You will particularly enjoy this if ners to come forward for prayers, I in the midst of a vision or a dream. you are in your middle teens. God embraced the first opportunity, for Then he wrote it out and sent it to bless you now, juniors. And here is a I knew that I must have a great work the church. Please read Revelation final word: " 'Believe in the Lord done for me to fit me for heaven."— 1:1-3. Scenes depicting important your God, and you will be established; Early Writings, p. 11. truths also represented the divine believe his prophets, and you will Then one day as she was praying, will. In these scenes angels might or succeed' " (2 Chron. 20:20, R.S.V.). she writes: "The blessing of God might not appear. D. A. D. came upon me like the gentle dew. . . . Inexpressible love for Jesus filled my soul. . . . Everything looked glori- Learning that one of these women lived at ous and new, as if smiling and prais- a place called Endor, the king disguised ing God. I was then willing to confess himself and, with two friends, went to visit Jesus everywhere."—Ibid., p. 12. her. The witch was afraid they might be spies In December, 1844, a unique ex- who would betray her, but Saul promised perience came to her. Here are her solemnly that no harm would come to her if words: "At this time I visited one of The Witch of Endor she would only do as he said. our Advent sisters, and in the morn- "Whom shall I bring up unto thee':'" asked By Arthur S. Maxwell ing we bowed around the family the woman. altar. It was not an exciting occasion, One reason why Saul stopped searching "Bring me up Samuel," he said. and there were but five of us present, for David was that the Philistines were in- Of course she could do no such thing. God all women. While I was praying, the vading the land again. would 'not have let a wicked woman disturb power of God came upon me as I This time they came in great force, and his sleeping prophet: r The figure she said had never felt it before. I was wrapped when Saul saw them he was afraid "and his she saw was not SamOel, but an evil spirit heart greatly trembled." that looked like Samuel. in a vision of God's glory, and seemed He needed advice, but did not know where As for Saul, he did not see Samuel. He to be rising higher and higher from to go to get it. At other times when he was just believed what the woman told him. the earth, and was shown something in trouble he had gone to Samuel, but now Then, thinking he was talking to Samuel, he of the travels of the Advent people Samuel was dead. said, "I am sore distressed; for the Philis- to the holy city."—Ibid., p. 13. He would like to have asked the high tines make war against me, and God is de- This vision is recorded in the book priest, but he was dead too. So were all the parted from me, and answereth me no more, Early Writings, pages 13-20. It was a priests. He had ordered Doeg to kill them. neither by prophets, nor by dreams: there- Only Abiathar was left, and he was with fore I have called thee, that thou mayest kindly message that Jesus wanted the David. make known unto me what I shall do." Adventists to receive to encourage Saul had never felt so lonely and helpless If Saul thought he was going to get some them along life's pathway. She looked before. He prayed to God, but God would not good advice or some encouraging word, he and "saw a straight and narrow path, answer him. was mistaken. The voice that spoke to him, cast up high above the world. On As the Philistines drew nearer he became claiming to be the voice of Samuel, had this path the Advent people were desperate. At last he decided to go to a witch nothing but evil tidings. Israel, it said, would traveling to the city, which was at and ask her to help him. It was the worst be defeated in the battle with the Philistines the farther end of the path. They had thing he could have done. and Saul and his sons would be killed. a bright light set up behind them at In those days a woman who claimed to be Saul came away from the witch of Endor the beginning of the path. . . This able to talk with the dead was called a completely discouraged. He had got no help witch, and because this claim was false God at all. And now he had no heart to fight light shone all along the path, and had said that such people should not be al- the Philistines and no strength to plan the gave light for their feet so that they lowed to live in the land. While Samuel was war against them. Without hope and with- might not stumble. If they kept their alive Saul had tried to get rid of them, but out God he could but await the doom he eyes fixed on Jesus, who was just be- still a few were left. knew was near. DECEMBER 29, 1955 15 A South Seas Chief Accepts the Advent Message

By H. A. DICKINS

The frail canoe in which Chief Batas sailed along the coast and up the river of his island home in the South Seas.

0 YOU mean to tell me the water, and they had to give all the built a small house for the teacher Seven Days now have a teacher money they earned to the mission. down by the shore. There were peo- D in the village of Sia? Is it true They did have good ships, so maybe ple singing, and as I came nearer I that Joses, that old rascal, has an that was where the money went. saw quite a lot of people sitting on Adventist right in his own house? Later in the day as he sat in the the grass and a Mussau missionary Whatever has gone wrong with the shade of a large mango tree and was teaching them an English hymn. world?" Chief Batas asked these ques- smoked his long newspaper cigarette, I stood behind a tree and watched, tions as he sat with his brother Kas he tried to think of a reason for the and as it got darker I went closer on the bamboo veranda of his house strange custom the Seven Days have of and I heard him preaching in pidgin on the island of New Hanover, north- going to church on Saturday. All the English from the Bible. east of New Guinea. other people around his island went "It seems to be the same Bible our All day he had been planting sweet to church on Sunday. Away back in teacher uses but he made it very potatoes in his garden back in the his old heathen days each day had clear. He was talking about Jesus hills and as -he had worked he had been the same, but then the mis- coming back again and how we must thought of the strange stories that sionaries came and taught them to go get ready to meet Him. He read texts had been reaching his ears of the to church on Sunday. Now these from the Bible which he said proved activities of the Adventists on his is- Seven Days said we should go to what he was saying. If it is true, then land. church on Saturday. What difference why have we not been told before? Up till now there had been only did it make anyway? After they had prayed the teacher two missions—to the north and west As the sun began to go down over told them that he would hold wor- the people were chiefly a Protestant the mountains Batas tied a basket of ship in the morning and would teach group, while along the south coast sweet potatoes to each end of his dig- school for the children. He would they were Catholic. When he had ging stick, and lifting the load to teach them English so that they made the long trip by canoe into the his broad brown shoulder, set off down would be able to read the Bible for town of Kavieng he had at times met the trail to his village, determined themselves." Adventist boys from the islands of to find out the truth about these rest "Did you have a talk with the Mussau and Emirau. They were clean days. teacher?" asked Batas earnestly. and friendly but they did not smoke, Thus it was that when his brother "No. Last night I slept at the house chew betel nut, or swear. At the Kas came to him in the evening with of Beleti. He told me the people are wharf there, he had seen the mission the news that the Adventists had going to try the Seven Days. They ship Malalangi, and one evening placed a teacher in a village not far want to know what the Bible says, sailing across the harbor he had heard from his own, he was both concerned for if Christ is coming back again the boat's crew singing in worship, and perplexed. soon, then they had better do some- and the music had sounded better "How do you know the Seven Days thing about it. Our teacher has than any he had heard in his own have come to Sia?" he questioned taught us to keep the Ten Command- church. anxiously. ments and the fourth one tells about The European medical assistant at "I was away around the coast fish- keeping the seventh day holy. That the native hospital on the other side ing on the reef near Enag, when is how this people get their name of the island was an Adventist too. about midday yesterday I saw the `Seven Days.' They keep this seventh He was a kind man who didn't smoke, Malalangi drop anchor off the coast day instead of Sunday." and he didn't swear at the natives at Sia. When I had finished fishing Thus Batas, the chief, and his like some of the other masters did. I paddled for a couple of hours and brother talked on into the night, each It must be a strange lotu (religion), came to the village late in the after- with strange stirrings in his heart. he thought, for Simi had told him noon. After taking the canoe up the A couple of weeks later Batas had that Seven Days did not eat meat or river I started to go up the hill to the occasion to take his wife to the gov- fish, they were not allowed to drink village, but I found that Joses had ernment native hospital at Taskul. 16 REVIEW AND HERALD

Here he met friends from various church and another Protestant group. "Where is Batas?" we asked. He was parts of the island and it was not "But where is your Seven Day in his garden, so while a young boy long before the conversation turned teacher?" the patrol officer asked. went off to bring him down we sat to the Seven Days. Sakius was there "We haven't one, but my family on the floor of his leaf house. and he told how the missionary had and I are Seven Days." In a little while Kas came in to come to his village and had shown It was a puzzled officer that left talk with us. "Why did you come to- them from the Bible that the Sab- that village at the end of the day. day?" he asked. We told him we had bath is the true day of rest and that Two days later was Saturday and heard that Batas wanted a teacher Sunday is a day made by man. He in the morning Batas called his family in his village, and as we were near had also shown them from the Bible together and said that they would we thought we would come and see why they should not eat pig and shell- not work that day as he was going to if it was true. When he still seemed fish. be a Seven Day, and as Seven Days unconvinced we asked him what the "But why are they not allowed to did not work on Saturday neither trouble was. drink water?" asked Batas. would any of his family work. "It is this way," he said. "This "That is not true," answered Sa- News of these goings on in Nusa- morning Batas called all the people kius. "Why, the teacher says that we bong soon reached the ears of Maika, of this village together and talked should drink six cups of water a day! the Adventist teacher at Sia. He to them about the Seven Day mis- Fancy anyone wanting to drink that wasted no time in going to see Batas sion. Then he told them he was call- much water, anyway!" at Nusabong. Yes, he wanted to be a ing for an Adventist teacher to come There was so much that Batas Seven Day, and he wanted a Seven to his village. This made some of the wanted to know. Why did Sakius now Day teacher to come and live in his people cross, so he said that they not smoke and chew betel nut? Why village and teach them the Bible. could choose for themselves, but as had they left the village of their fa- It was about this time that John for him and his family they were go- thers and shifted to another place? Martin, the district director of the ing to be Seven Days. With that, he Why did everyone have to build area, and I were visiting these newly dismissed us and went to his garden." houses up on posts? Sakius did not opened missions along the north coast It was an equally surprised Batas know all the answers but he did the of New Hanover. It was my work to that greeted us on his return in haste best he could to enlighten this help get the schools properly estab- from his garden. He felt that surely searcher after truth. It was a differ- lished and it was a real thrill to see God had something to do with bring- ent Batas that returned to Nusabong all these new people singing the Ad- ing us there that very day. He said a few days later. vent hymns and doing their best to he wanted a teacher badly to show At the end of the month a police get the stains of betel nut juice out them the right way to live and to, boy came with the message that the of their mouths. Our last call was at teach them what the Bible says. government officer would be making Sia, where Maika met us with great "If we give you a teacher, where a patrol through the area and would joy. His village was growing nicely will he live?" be inspecting the village and holding and he was proud of the progress "He can have my house to live in,. court on a certain date. Much prepa- that had been made. His great bur- and I will go and live in my brother's. ration was made and in due course den was that we should go to Nusa- house until we can build him a new along came the patrol with its police bong and see the chief, Batas, who one." and carriers from the local villages. said he was an Adventist and who It is the custom that at each village was calling for a teacher. "But what about food—what will the patrol gets carriers to take the A few hours later found us sailing he eat?" I shall never forget the . baggage to the next village. That was into a beautiful harbor on the south- strange look on his face as he said,. why many of the people from the vil- east side of New Hanover. Carefully "I have called for the teacher, so it lage of Sia were at Nusabong on that feeling our way through the coral is my business to look after him. We. day. When the officer lined up all reefs, we dropped anchor just off the will plant new gardens for him, but the people, he asked Batas, the chief, village and went ashore in the dinghy. he will eat out of my garden until what was the religion of the people The people were surprised when we his are ready." of his village. shook hands with them all. It was "What about a church?" "There are two lotus in this vil- something new for them to shake "Sure, we will build a church too,, lage," he replied—"the Seven Days" hands with Europeans. (Continued on page 24)

When Chief Batas heard the crew of the mission ship Malalangi An Adventist and a non-Adventist house as they appear side by singing, he was much impressed and sought to learn more about them. side in the village of Nusabong, New Hanover Island, South Seas. DECEMBER 29, 1955 17' left in the desolated land were sore pressed to avoid the scandal of being lV I 4.1 4. leir husbandless, and wantonly sought any _ man for respectability's sake (Isa. 4:

Ey Thir. RY W LOWS 1). Even polygamy did not bother ATtoc'eli• Scc, Tory, Gr r1Lro Con!, ScbEcth Schco; Voporf,,•ot these unconscionable daughters of Zion. How like the attitude of too many people toward the social re- FOR SABBATH, JANUARY 14, 1956 spectability of religion today! "How often, in our own day, is the love of pleasure disguised by a 'form of godliness'! A religion that permits Rebuke and Triumph of Zion men, while observing the rights of worship, to devote themselves to self- ish or sensual gratification, is as pleas- [This Lesson Help is a running comment on the lesson presented in the Sabbath School Quarterly and ("chains," verse 19), bracelets, veils, ing to the multitudes now as in the should be read in connection with it.] fantastic headdresses, perfumery, days of Israel."—Patriarchs and The conditions referred to in the rings, nose rings, extensive wardrobes, Prophets, p. 317. Jesus battled with a first twelve verses of Isaiah 3 had come hand mirrors, handbags, well-curled church that He likened to a barren about by the time of the invasions of locks—it is a nauseating picture of fig tree, because "instead of the graces Sennacherib (705-681 B.c.), though feminine sophistication that should be of the Spirit, there were manifested not wholly because of them. read with the comments in The SDA pride, formalism, vainglory, selfish- By this time God was about to re- Bible Commentary on Isa. 3:16-23. ness, oppression."—The Great Con- move from Jerusalem and Judah (i.e., Such women dominated the scene, troversy, p. 316. from His professed people) "the stay but they became pitiable objects when and the staff" (verse 1), probably the cruel Assyrians came: "This is "The Branch of the Lord" meaning "bread and water," in a time your judgment, that instead of sweet In Isaiah 4:2-6 the prophet pro- of famine following invasion. The ex- spices there shall be rottenness, and ceeds to a picture of God's holy pression, however, when read in con- instead of a girdle a rope, and instead church in the last days, delivered by text, seems to show that the really of well-set hair baldness, and instead the "beautiful and glorious" "branch able men of the land were to be re- of a stomacher a girdling of sackcloth, of the Lord" (Isa. 4:2). moved (later, many towns were sub- and branding instead of beauty. Thy "In that day" is the day of Israel's dued, and more than two hundred men shall fall by the sword, and thy judgment, but we must remember that thousand captives were taken by Sen- mighty in the war. And her gates shall the prophet often fused the events of nacherib in 701 B.c., and the number lament and mourn, and she shall be the present with those of the fore- slain and captured by the Assyrians desolate and sit upon the ground!"— told future, which is the case here, during Isaiah's life must have been George Adam Smith's paraphrase, where "verses 2-6 present a picture of enormous). When, a century later, The Book of Isaiah, vol. 1, p. 30. The Christ, 'the branch' (see on Isa. 11:1), Nebuchadnezzar took Hebrew cap- Hebrew word rendered "burning" or as Redeemer and Deliverer. . . . Orig- tives, he took the royal family, princes, "branding" in verse 24 should be inally this prediction was to have been officers, craftsmen, and "the mighty "shame," and, was fulfilled since the fulfilled to literal Israel, but owing to of the land" (2 Kings 24:14, 15). Assyrians often shaved and stripped their failure as a nation it will be ful- Only "the poorest sort" remained. their captives. filled, in principle, to spiritual Israel It was to be so after Sennacherib's Some Modern Applications (see pp. 25-38), at the second coming first campaign, and the weak men left of Christ."—The SDA Bible Commen- in the ruined land, to make matters "Whatsoever things were written tary on Isa. 4:2. worse, were under the influence of the aforetime were written for our learn- "In one of the most beautiful and kind of women described in Isaiah ing" (Rom. 15:4). When women go comforting passages of Isaiah's proph- 3:16-24. "Nowhere else in the Bible is wrong, the nation is lost, as Israel and ecy, reference is made to the pillar of there so detailed a denunciation of Judah were. In Christ, womanhood is cloud and of fire to represent God's degenerate womanhood as here. The elevated, and known for its "chaste care for His people in the great final women of Isaiah's time are pictured conversation ("behavior," 1 Peter 3: struggle with the powers of evil: The exactly as they were—vain, haughty, 2, R.S.V.]," its godly fear, and "the Lord will create upon every dwelling- high-minded, proud, interested in imperishable jewel of a gentle and place of Mount Zion, and upon her themselves rather than in the Lord quiet spirit, which in God's sight is assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the needs of those about them." very precious" (verse 4, R.S.V.). and the shining of a flaming fire by —The SDA Bible Commentary on True adornment and power are not night; for above all the glory shall be Isa. 3:16. external and ostentatious in either a covering. And there shall be a taber- These Hebrew women had become Christian men or women. They pro- nacle for a shadow in the daytime paganized in ways we ought to note, ceed from the inner calm of a soul from the heat, and for a place of because of this comment: "The proph- reposing in Jesus, from a life lived at refuge, and for a covert from storm ecy of Isaiah 3 was presented before the foot of the cross. and from rain.' "—Patriarchs and me as applying to these last days, and "Why can't I learn, Lord, Prophets, p. 283. the reproofs are given to the daugh- That power is within, Before we lay claim to any of these ters of Zion who have thought only Why can't I see, Lord, promises, let us be careful to of appearance and display."—Testi- The waste of my sin?" note one qualifying word—WHEN. monies, vol. 1, p. 270. Haughtiness, —From Spiritual Hilltops, "When the Lord shall have washed holding the head high, ogling eyes, copyright 1932 by Ralph S. away the filth of the daughters of mincing steps ("tripping nicely," mar- Cushman Used by permis- Zion" (Isa. 4:4). There must be gin), ankle bells, gold-banded hair sion of Abingdon Press. cleansing before the remnant can be- nets, ("cauls," verse 18), cres- come "beautiful and glorious" like cent pendants, elaborate earrings The unregenerate Hebrew women their Lord (verse 2). 18 REVIEW AND HERALD '54, the "wheel chair" doctor who is Self-supporting Workers Meet interning at the Washington Sanitar- ium, brought to the delegation prac- tical spiritual help and counsel for at Takoma Park everyday Christian living. Carl Sundin, associate secretary of the Medical Department of the Gen- By Wesley Amundsen, Secretary eral Conference, delivered a sermon Association of Self-supporting Institutions on "Check Points for Christian Liv- ing" at the regular preaching hour "This is the best meeting we have Takoma Park, operated by Dr. H. E. Sabbath morning at the Takoma ever had!" So exclaimed scores of Andren and his staff. It was a wonder- Park church. The Sabbath afternoon enthusiastic delegates who had come ful evening of fellowship. meeting was highlighted by the pres- to attend the eighth annual conven- R. R. Figuhr, president of the Gen- entation of a cross section of experi- tion of the Association of Seventh- eral Conference, was the guest of ences from a variety of self-support- day Adventist Self-supporting Institu- honor and told the delegates how the ing member institutions. tions. General Conference looks upon the At the time of this report there On Thursday afternoon, October work of the ASI. Dr. M. C. Horning, were 135 members. During the con- 27, the delegates were called to order of the Feather River Sanitarium, Par- vention 24 new ones were voted in, in a general assembly by the associ- adise, California, brought to our at- and a few that had ceased to function ation president, Dr. L. A. Senseman. tention some of the latest informa- or had changed hands were discon- From then on, the program moved tion relative to the true value of the tinued, thus bringing the total at the along rapidly with reports, talks, nonflesh diet. close of the convention to 154. and panel discussions. Workshops Part of the business of the conven- Owing to the fact that some insti- were also conducted, in which dele- tion was the election of officers for tutions had not yet sent in their re- gates and visitors participated, dis- the ensuing two years. The following ports for 1954, the secretary's report cussing the items in which they were were chosen: L. A. Senseman, M.D., was incomplete. Of the 135 members, particularly interested. These included '37, president; M. C. Horning, M.D., 103 reported the following: employ- health foods, Christian education, '43, vice-president; Wesley Amund- ees, 1,912; payroll, $3,502,295.25; tithe treatment rooms, nursing and con- sen, General Conference, secretary- and offerings sent to the conference valescent homes, and hospital and treasurer. Seven men were elected to offices, $267,797.72; the value of char- nursing home administrative respon- serve with an equal number appointed ity work done, $141,252.59; the value sibility. by the General Conference on the of real estate belonging to these in- On Thursday evening 168 persons ASI Executive Committee. stitutions, $5,712,165.70. There were were present at the fellowship din- Spiritual exercises were not omit- 109 persons baptized as a direct result ner, which was served at the Cedar- ted. On Friday morning at the devo- of contacts made, and 825 persons in- croft Sanitarium, seven miles from tional period Dr. Glenn Reynolds, terested in the message. The denominational yearbook for 1955 lists twenty hospitals and sani- tariums in North America under de- nominational control, having a bed capacity of 2,595. The ASI members operate 32 sanitariums and hospitals, with a bed capacity of 1,432. Added to this are the 2,179 beds of the con- valescent, nursing, and rest homes, thus making a total of 3,611 beds for patient care in private Seventh-day Adventist institutions that are mem- bers of this association. These privately owned and oper- ated Seventh-day Adventist medical institutions are filling a vital place in the communities where they function. Graduates from the College of Med- ical Evangelists, as well as those from many of our nursing schools, are meeting the challenge of the times and are establishing self-supporting medical institutions in strategic places, where they not only care for the physical and mental needs of thousands but also hold up the light Left to right: Wesley Amundsen, W. B. Ochs, L. A. Senseman; M.D., and R. R. Figuhr at the fellowship dinner given during the meeting of the Association of Self-supporting Institutions in Takoma Park. of truth. • DECEMBER 29, 1955 19 siders herself the happiest of all mor- Faithfulness in Sabbath School tals. One Friday afternoon one of our brother's customers came to get his Work in South America jeep. It was one of those models used for hire—a sort of long-distance taxi By Mario Rasi service. The chauffeur, not an Advent- ist, had made arrangements with a cus- Sabbath School Secretary, South American Division tomer for a long journey on the fol- lowing afternoon, the Sabbath day, but before starting out he realized that Stimulating experiences have come To his great joy and surprise, the to us in different parts of our divi- boys took several cactus leaves out of he had not brought the spare tire with sion that illustrate the faithfulness of their knapsack. Line upon line, writ- him from our brother's shop. Never- ten with a needle from the plant, were theless, the cab driver did not have our Sabbath schools in this great con- the courage to go and ask for it, be- tinent of opportunity. the questions and verses from the cause he knew that our brother would Our zealous layworker, Victor Mes- Sabbath school lesson. The cactus tanza, had been traveling afoot sev- plant "paper" kept the lessons safe not attend to this matter on the Sab- in the heavy rains of that region. bath. He waited, therefore, until mid- eral hours from Bambamarca, in the night (thinking that the Adventists Inca Union, to visit our branch Sab- Here we observe the ingenuity of bath schools, when, through the mist, the boys and their fervent desire to compute time as Sundaykeepers do, his ear caught the strains of Isaac study the Sabbath school lesson every from midnight to midnight). Then day. Overcoming the disadvantages of he ventured forth to ask for the spare Watts's beautiful hymn, "Lord, in the tire to fulfill his contracted journey. morning Thou shalt hear my voice rains and distances which impede the ascending high." When he could see mail service, these consecrated youth The chauffeur came to the door of clearly he recognized two boys as the found a way to read and study. the shop and awakened our faithful possessors of the melodious voices. We have a church caretaker in brother with these words, which he The layman made inquiry as to where Paranaiba, Piaui, Brazil, who is well repeated several times: "Elias, Elias, they had learned that hymn. known as a faithful Sabbath observer. the rooster is already crowing, the "Our father is an Adventist," they When he came into the truth three clock has struck twelve, and I think said, "and he has taught us this pre- years ago he was very poor, and his you can now give me my tire because cious hymn." "What's more," they wife's health was in bad condition; he the Sabbath has ended." continued, "we are taking a break in barely earned enough to maintain a In Rio Novo, Maroiion, Brazil, it is our trip to rest here today in observ- livelihood. Now he has a good paint- the custom to fish by means of wire- ance of the holy Sabbath and to study shop alongside the church, where he enclosed fishponds placed in certain the Sabbath school lesson." employs three people to take care of zones along the shore where the tide, "But where did you get your Quar- all the work. He is financially well when high, completely covers them. terly?" asked Brother Mestanza. situated, and his wife is well and con- When the tide is low the water covers a little more than a foot and a half of the sandy beach. The cages are fourteen feet square and have an easy entrance for the fish, but a very diffi- cult exit. Fish in the Net We have a faithful family there who were strongly tried by the Lord. The father is now an elder of the church, but when the trial took place they had known the gospel of sal- vation only a short time. During two long months no fish had entered this brother's cage, al- though fourteen other fishermen of the village had prospered. This Ad- ventist family had nothing in the house to eat, and their debts in the nearby city of Parnaiba had mounted to 20,000 cruzeiros (about $270). When it seemed almost impossible to hold out any longer, our brother found a fish in his trap that weighed more than 220 pounds. There was great happiness in this family at the prospect of selling this fish and pay- Missionaries Visit Portland, Maine ing their debts. Before taking the prize from the wire enclosure, they When the Norwegian ship Taurus docked Roger Coon, who were returning to their at Portland, Maine, for three days to load work in Accra, Gold Coast, Africa. knelt on the shore and gave thanks flour for West Africa, it carried a dozen mis- The children of the Portland church school to God. Friday morning they found sionary families who had boarded the ship will long remember this wonderful oppor- three fish of the same size as the first at New York. Among the missionaries were tunity to bid farewell to our missionaries. one. They returned to give thanks two Seventh-day Adventists, Elder and Mrs. PAUL WHITLOW for this wonderful blessing. 20 REVIEW AND HERALD At sunset that Friday, six more fish entered the trap pond, but our faith- ful believers did not put forth any effort to take them out, because the Sabbath had already begun. The other fishermen offered to do the work for our friends, since they them- selves were not interested in observ- ing this as a day of rest. In spite of the threats of the other fishermen, the family remained true and did not give them permission to take the fish out. Once the Sabbath had ended, the family got ready for work, and in- stead of finding six, they found twen- ty-two large fish! Besides that, they found a large quantity of small fish weighing a total of 440 pounds. It seemed almost unbelievable that they had before them some 4,800 pounds of fish. They worked all night by lantern light. But the most extraor- The Walla Walla Sanitarium and Hospital, Walla Walla, Washington. dinary thing of all was that there was not a single fish in the other Hospital Celebrates Fifty the Walla Walla College campus. fourteen cages. Here the Walla Walla Sanitarium was This family is now in good finan- Years of Service operated until 1931, when the Walla cial circumstances, they have their By Mrs. William Lay Walla General Hospital was purchased own home, and they donated nearly for $75,000. In the new location 35,- one half of the cost of a new chapel The Walla Walla General Hospital 000 patients have been served. erected at this place. Their faithful- is this year celebrating fifty years of In the field of personal evangelism ness resulted in the winning of an- service given to the medical and spir- the hospital has made a worth-while other fisher family to Christ. itual needs of the people of the Walla contribution. The hospital staff of Chapel With a Significant Title Walla valley. In this anniversary year, one hundred, from L. E. (Jack) a modernization and expansion pro- Hubbs, hospital administrator, and "Sabbath School Chapel" is what gram of the physical plant has be- Mrs. Amelia Cross, director of nurses, people can read in front of an in- gun, and an increased emphasis is throughout every department of the teresting yet simple edifice that a being given to the soul-winning pro- institution, are all Seventh-day Ad- pharmacist, Brother Teonesto Mi- gram. ventists. A spirit of devotion 'to de- randa, constructed without help of Recognized by the hospital associa- nominational principles and a con- the church organization in the dis- tion as a first-class hospital, the pres- cern for the mental and spiritual as trict of Mantena, Espirito Santo, ent building with fifty-three beds is well as the physical health of the pa- Brazil. being enlarged. The modernization tients, are evident. Graduate and stu- Since he wins souls chiefly by means program will, when completed, pro- dent nurses pray with patients at of the Sabbath school, he did not vide two new surgeries, a new lab- the close of day; Administrator Hubbs put the title Adventist Church, or oratory, a doctors' lounge, an out- spends an hour and a half a day Adventist Chapel on this building patient X-ray room, a urology room, visiting patients and opening the way that he had donated to the cause of and a work- and storeroom. for Chaplain C. C. Rouse. God, but Sabbath School Chapel. The two-story-and-basement wing A soul-winning program begun six What do you think of that? Possibly to be added will provide a new ob- and a half years ago has been carried this is the only meeting place that stetrical department; 3 new wards, on under various chaplains, among bears this unusual name. bringing the institution to a 75-bed them C. L. Vories, J. A. Ward, and The people met in this place of hospital; a new dining room seating E. L. Jolliffe. Last winter, in the divine worship, along with a number 60; a chapel seating 175, with a ramp chapel of the nurses' home, C. C. of children, who had increased in for wheel chairs and an outside en- Rouse conducted Sunday evening numbers, making Brother Miranda trance to be used for evangelistic evangelistic meetings with as many as think about the need for a primary meetings. It is anticipated that a hos- one hundred in attendance. Forty school. To build another center he pital church may eventually be or- baptisms resulted from this series of needed more land. He was presented ganized. meetings, in which the chaplain was with the opportunity to buy the land Early historical records in this area assisted by Mrs. Teresa Potter and alongside the little chapel, and in reveal that in 1903 Dr. I. A. Dunlap Mrs. Cleve Hixson, Bible instructors. order not to lose this opportunity, he opened a private sanitarium. One With the coming of summertime, sold his only mule, which he had year later the conference-operated the evangelistic program was moved used as a means of transportation. sanitarium in Spokane, Washington, to a drive-in chapel five miles south Having bought the necessary lot, he burned. In the fall of 1905 the Upper of Walla Walla. There meetings were is now awaiting the help of the Es- Columbia Conference rented the sec- conducted Friday, Saturday, and Sun- pirito Santo Conference to build a ond and third floors of the boys' dor- day evenings. Bible films, a message primary school there. mitory at Walla Walla College, Col- by the chaplain, story-hour tapes pre- Teonesto Miranda, with a great lege Place, Washington, and opened pared by Walla Walla College the- missionary spirit and much love for the first conference medical institu- ology students, and to climax the the work of God, has won forty-five tion in the Walla Walla area. series, the visit of the Voice of Proph- persons to the truth during the past In 1906 the College Place public ecy group, brought an attendance of three years. school was purchased and moved to over four hundred cars. DECEMBER 29, 1955 21' Baptism in Liberia deacons. The baptized members and Bible class members fill the church. By T. W. Cantrell When visitors come on Sabbath afternoon some youth sit in the back Sabbath, October 22, was a high rooms of the church where they can- day at our Konola school in Liberia, not see the speaker. Other visitors West Africa. This date not only sit on the floor in the vestibule, and marked the close of a stirring week still others listen from the steps out- of prayer conducted by the president side. The church officers are now dis- of the Liberian Mission, C. D. Henri, tressed at the urgency for greater but also a day in which we witnessed seating capacity. Already plans are un- the baptism of twenty-one precious der way to build another church in souls. The faculty of the school is a suburb farther out of the city. justly proud that seventeen of this Among the new converts was a number are students of our school. woman prominent in another church. Many of these young people have She has already closed her newspaper taken their stand for God's truth in salesroom on Sabbath. Others have spite of the protests of parents, rela- given their employers notice that they tives, and friends. The home situa- will stop work at the end of the tion with the majority of these young month because Sabbath privileges converts is such that, they will be Trophy Presented to were not granted. tempted and sorely tried because of Walla Walla Paper Daily during the campaign the their faith. Some parents have openly workers gathered for devotion. This threatened to put their children out P. W. Christian, president of Walla Walla was followed by studies on personal of their homes. College, on behalf of the Adventist Collegiate work and visitation. After earnest During the last school year a stu- Press Association, presented the award for prayer, they went off by twos to visit dent of about nine years of age excellence in journalism to the editor of the Collegian in chapel on October 24. the homes and pray with the peo- learned that there are certain foods ple. A prayer circle had been formed that are unclean and should not be Bill Moore, editor for the school year 1955-56, accepted the trophy, a silver loving before our meetings began, so this eaten. When he went home from cup, for last year's editor, David Grauman, large list gave us names to visit from school his mother fixed the family who had guided the Collegian in its march the first. meal as usual and he noticed that toward the top. Our African brethren did most of the food contained that which he had The ACPA award is a floating trophy. the speaking. N. S. Edwards and Don learned was unclean. He told his Each year it is passed on to the college paper Siedel assisted in answering questions• mother that he could not eat the following the highest journalistic standards. and in showing filmstrips. We are food because it was unclean. His La Sierra's Criterion was the first college looking forward to another cam- mother responded by saying, "What paper to receive the award, in June of 1954. paign. kind of nonsense is this? I sent you Papers are judged according to the ACPA to school to learn 'books,' not all this check list given editors at the beginning of silly stuff." The little fellow then each year. This list takes into consideration took his Bible and showed his par- such features as subject matter, page layout, The Call of a Forgotten ents where the food that had been pictures, journalistic style in writing, editorial People prepared is called unclean. content, editing, and news coverage. Today both the mother and the The only requirement to make a college By Carl Sundin father of this little boy are baptized paper eligible for judging for the award is that a copy of each issue of the paper be Located in the southeast corner of and are following all of God's com- mailed upon publication to the ACPA, Gen- mandments just because he witnessed Utah and the northeast corner of eral Conference Bureau of Public Relations. Arizona is the majestically beautiful for the truth in his home. M. CAROL HETZELL Pray for our work in Liberia. country of Monument Valley, with its towering stone formations, high mesas, and vast open spaces, almost untouched by civilization. Hidden Solusi Field School campaign. We held four Sabbath aft- away in this hot desert country is the of Evangelism ernoon meetings, the last one at- tragedy of a forgotten people—the tended by 535 people, and many de- great Navaho Indian tribe. By W. W. Christensen cisions were secured. Our first denominational work for The August-September vacation pe- Seventy per cent of our converts these native Americans was begun riod is much anticipated by min- were people that had had some con- ten years ago in Holbrook, Arizona. isterial students and the staff at old tact with church schools, Sabbath At that time Elder and Mrs. Marvin Solusi school in South Africa. For schools, or Seventh-day Adventist rela- Walter, sponsored by the Arizona 1955 a school of evangelism was con- tives. On the third Sabbath after- Conference and the Pacific Union ducted in the Bulawayo area, where noon 238 non-Adventists signed a Conference, established a boarding ten thousand Africans live: The larg- decision card promising to obey all school for the children of the Navahos. est attendance at our meetings was God's commandments. On the fourth Five years ago the Walters moved just over six hundred, in spite of the Sabbath afternoon, 112 signed a prom- into Monument Valley to extend the attraction of beer and dancing else- ise to join the remnant church. Pas- work for these people in response to where. tor Nkiwane is very busy organizing the urgent request of Harry Goulding, The union tent was erected along- these people into Bible classes. a local rancher and trader, who had side the African church. For the These classes meet at various times lived among these people for many first week the average attendance was on the Sabbath, between seven in the years. He had pleaded for some over five hundred. Some were present morning and five in the afternoon, church to supply medical help and every night of the twenty-six in the and are conducted by able elders and educational facilities for these people. 22 REVIEW AND HERALD This man donated the use of seven lady of mercy as a result of her selfless of their vacation in working at the acres of land, on which our mission, service. Elder and Mrs. Walter and clinic. A guest house has been built clinic, and school have been built. their family are doing a splendid and to provide comfortable, modern fa- The mission is located on the side of much-appreciated work among these cilities for physicians and dentists who the canyon within what is known as people. are willing to assist in this way. the Great Stone Gate, which has been Day School Started This is a real missionary experience, used by the Indians since time im- where, seventy miles from the nearest memorial as a passageway to the Two years ago a day school was shopping center, one encounters traditional Navaho worship grounds started, with Mrs. Vesta Muth in superstition, poverty, ignorance, and on Navaho Mountain. charge. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Segoria medical and spiritual need equal to A series of providences began the have now joined the mission—she to that in any mission land. The call is work for these peo-ple. Additional take Mrs. Muth's place in teaching the for many of our missionary-minded providences have mace it possible for school, and he to assist Elder Walter dentists and physicians to spend time the work to continue. The clinic was in the work of the mission. in this needy place each year in begun in a small, two-room stone The call for services in the clinic helping to provide medical and den- building. This and other buildings, has increased rapidly, making it tal care for these people. including two dwelling units and a necessary to enlarge the clinic build- To schedule a visit, contact either school, were built by Elder and Mrs. ing. The new facilities will include Marvin Walter, SDA Mission and Walter with the aid of a blind Indian, two examining rooms, a medical Clinic, Kaye/1m, Arizona, or the largely from donations made by well- laboratory, an emergency room, two Medical Department Extension wishers who had heard of the work dental chairs, a dental laboratory, Office, 1720 Brooklyn Avenue, Los being done for the Navahos. ample storage space, and a commo- Angeles 33. You will enjoy visiting Mrs. Walter, a registered nurse, is dious, attractive waiting room. The this land of surpassing beauty with constantly called upon to provide waiting room will be used for classes its scores of scenic wonders. in re- medical services, and is frequently in hygiene, baby care, and home- sponding to this call you will help confronted with cases she is unable to making. relieve the needs of a tragically for- care for. These she must transport The great need at the present time gotten people. more than one hundred miles to the is for the services of qualified physi- nearest hospital. Mrs. Walter, "the cians and dentists. A number have lady with the jeep," has become a occasionally devoted up to two weeks Dead Sea Scroll Fragments (Continued from page 7) passage in which the transition occurs from Hebrew to Aramaic (verse 4). At that point a space is left between the last Hebrew and the first Aramaic word to make the change in language quite noticeable. It is also noteworthy that the apocryphal song of the three friends of Daniel in the fiery furnace, found in the Septuagint text after chapter 3:23, is not found in the Dead Sea scroll fragments. Hence, they agree in this matter completely with the Masoretic text. With this publication nearly all the material discovered in the first cave is available to scholars. Only one scroll is awaiting publication. This scroll, with the now-famous Isaiah scroll, the Habakkuk Commentary, and the "Manual of Discipline" scroll have recently been acquired by the state of Israel. The three name scrolls were published by the Amer- Dedication of Marion, Indiana, Church ican Schools of Oriental Research in 1950 and 1951. The fourth scroll had Our faithful people of the Marion, Indi- four hundred had crowded into the new not been unrolled when it was sold ana, church have just accomplished a project edifice. One hundred and twenty-five chil- to Israel, but a way has now been worthy of sincere praise. In one year and six dren had their own service in the youth's found to open it without damaging months this little church of eighty-five mem- chapel during this hour. the brittle document. Dr. N. Avigad, bers has built a beautiful stone church with Arthur Kiesz, Indiana Conference presi- of the Hebrew University, has been a seating capacity of 250, and dedicated it to dent, gave the dedicatory sermon at two- assigned the task of unrolling and the Lord free of debt. The estimated value of thirty. Four hundred were in attendance. deciphering the scroll. The scholarly the building is sixty-five thousand dollars. The mayor of the city of Marion gave a fine September 24 the beautiful edifice was dedi- address. world is eagerly waiting to see what cated to the Lord. Present for the dedicatory At four o'clock 0. F. Locke, pastor secrets it will reveal. services were three former pastors—O. B. of the Indianapolis North Side church, gave For years to come the subject of Hall, P. T. Jackson, and Charles Edwards. a stirring message preceding the baptism the Dead Sea scrolls will continue to Charles Edwards gave a stirring message of fourteen new believers by the pastor. be of interest to the Bible reader and at the eleven o'clock service, when more than WAYNE L. MASSENGILL the Biblical historian. :DECEMBER 29, 1955 23 Old Mill in Westminster, Massachusetts, Maryland, Charles County, by J. A. , A South Seas Chief featured Tom Studley of the Faith for Brown, pastor of the Patuxent, Maryland, (Continued from page 17) Today Quartet, and Dr. Margaret Palmer church. This represents new work in a of the speech department of Atlantic dark county. Union College. and will try to do all that he wants • W. H. Johnson, a returned missionary us to." • Edwin Krick, son of R. K. Krick, from the Congo Mission in Africa, has Before leaving we called all the South Lancaster pastor, has been chosen accepted a call to become pastor of the people together (eighteen in Batas' as president of the Atlantic Union College Buckhannon-Elkins district in the West chapter of the American Temperance Virginia Conference. family, brothers included) and held Society. worship with them, telling them of • Evangelistic services have been con- the soon return of Jesus and how we Canadian Union ducted this fall in two churches in must get ready to meet Him. With • Twenty-three students are enrolled in Takoma Park, headquarters city of the promises to come and see them again the theology course at Canadian Union General Conference. They were con- we sailed away to Mussau to try to ducted by Leslie R. Mansell, Takoma College this year. Park church, and Howard Metcalfe, find a teacher to answer the call. • G. S. Remick, pastor of the Hamilton, Sligo church. Three weeks later, when Brother Ontario, church, conducted the Week of Martin returned with Eke, the new Prayer at Oshawa Missionary College, • E. E. Cleveland, of the Ministerial November 20 to 25. As a result many Association of the General Conference, teacher, what a difference there was was a guest speaker recently at a three- in the village! A new house for the important decisions were made and a number have joined the baptismal class. day ministerial council of the Ohio Con- teacher was well on its way to com- ference in Mount Vernon. It was directed pletion and Batas' section of the vil- • The young people of the church in by M. E. Loewen, president. lage was clean and inviting. The pigs Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, have launched had been banished to another part, an evangelistic effort under the name Lake Union Youth for Truth at the Aberdeen Hall, the smell of stale tobacco was miss- in a rural community thirty miles east • James Segar, Battle Creek Academy ing, and the wharf was lined with of Saskatoon. Under the direction of Dr. senior, was named city-wide winner in a smiling people in clean calicos. Gladys Barry, the MV Society has been contest entitled "Voice of Democracy," Several months later, when I next well organized and formed into commit- sponsored by the National Association of visited Nusabong, a great change had tees to care for the needs of the effort. Radio and Television Broadcasters, the Radio-Electronics-Television Manufactur- taken place. The village had been • Thirty-five young people have joined ers Association, and the local Cham- divided into two sections; the part the Pathfinder Club at Lacombe, Alberta. ber of Commerce. State Senator Creigh- which had held to its old ways was Malcolm Fisher, dean of men at Cana- ton R. Coleman conferred the award to still as dirty, smelly, and uninviting dian Union College, is the sponsor. Mr. Segar over radio station WELL as ever, with the pigs running here • Two church groups in Ontario will Saturday night, November 12. and there. On the other side of the move into their new church buildings • On Sunday evening, November 20, pig fence a line of airy houses up soon—the Niagara Falls church under K. M. McComas completed a two-week off the ground had been built, a nice the leadership of G. E. Andersen, and decision effort in the Brookfield, Illinois, new church had been erected on a the Sault Ste. Marie church under the church. The church members in the area, small elevation, and in the school leadership of T. A. Davis. as well as personnel from the music de- were seventeen pupils of all ages from Central Union partment of Broadview Academy, assisted small children to married men. The with the services. As a result sixteen Sabbath school had grown to thirty, • There have been 1,026 additions to expressed their desire for baptism. and Batas was exceedingly happy for the Central Union church membership • A new church of 16 members was the decision he had made to serve by baptism and profession of faith for organized at Shelbyville, Indiana, on the first three quarters of 1955. This Sabbath, October 29. Arthur Kiesz and the Lord, irrespective of what people brings the membership to over 22,000. might think of him. J. B. Frank were present from the con- • Dale Chaffee has been voted a minis- ference office. 0. F. Locke and E. J. terial internship in the Kansas Confer- Wilson, district pastors, assisted with the ence. He will take the place of W. K. Dale, service. who has requested the conference to re- lease him for further study to complete North Pacific Union his Master's degree. • Dedication services of the new church • Early on the morning of November 10, building at Klamath Falls, Oregon, fire broke out in the attic of the boys' valued at $100,000, took place on October dormitory at Enterprise Academy, Enter- 22, with Lloyd E. Biggs, president of the Atlantic Union prise, Kansas. The top floor was com- Oregon Conference, presenting the dedi- • J. D. Woodin, treasurer of the South- pletely destroyed and some damage by catory sermon. The building seats 350. ern New England Conference, and Mrs. fire and water was done to other floors. The present membership of the church is Woodin were called to California to The boys set up sleeping quarters in the 162. Other ministers present for the attend the funeral of Mrs. Woodin's par- gymnasium until further arrangements special service included Preston Smith, ents who were killed in an automobile ac- could be made. present pastor, Paul Alderson, Raymond cident en route home from visiting the • Seven persons were baptized in the Anderson, and D. M. Maclvor. Woodins. San Luis Valley district in Colorado as • At the end of a short evangelistic • The congregation in Herkimer, New the result of revival meetings held during campaign, 27 persons were added to the York, now have their own church build- September and October. church by baptism at Enumclaw, Wash- ing, having purchased one formerly ington. Elden K. Walter held services owned by the Russian Orthodox Church. Columbia Union seven nights each week for three weeks, • Under the direction of their teacher, • A total of 140 students in the academy plus meetings on the last two Sabbath Henry Feyerabend, the students at Brook- and church school have been enrolled at afternoons—a total of 24 meetings. The side Junior Academy in Taunton, Massa- Mount Aetna Academy, near Hagerstown, interest was excellent in this town of Maryland, this year. Several new teachers only 2,000 population, the opening night chusetts, have opened a health foods attendance being 250. Offerings during store. have been added to the staff. the campaign reached an unprecedented • The New England Sanitarium alum- • A branch Sabbath school was organ- total of $730, an average of 30 cents per ni banquet, held on December 12 at the ized on Sabbath, October 22, in Waldorf, person per night. 24 REVIEW AND HERALD school he served in many capacities, finally as princi- Pacific Union district pastor, recently held a series of pal and business manager. Then he became secre- evangelistic meetings in the city of tary-treasurer of the Peruvian Mission. After that he • The Bible instructor for the Torrance, was called to be secretary-treasurer of the Inca Union Mesquite. Mission. From 1940 to 1942 he served as secretary- California, church has a unique way of treasurer of the East Brazil Union Mission. He was teaching healthful diet. Mrs. Marjorie • The work of literature evangelists in then asked to connect with the Treasury Department the Texico Conference has certainly been of the General Conference, which position he held Siple, aided by church members, ar- until the time of his death. Left to mourn are his ranges a health luncheon at her home blessed of God this year. As of November wife, daughter, and 3 brothers. 28, the colporteur forces reached a grand once a week. Non-Adventist attendance DINIUS.-Carl Luis Dinius, born Sept.' 17, 1885, ranges from 15 to 26. Following the total of more than $100,000 in deliveries in Wittenberg, Germany; died in California, Oct. for the year. 20, 1955. As a young man he accepted his Saviour, luncheon a Bible study is given. and remained faithful. When 24 years of age he came to America and assisted in evangelistic work in • The Reno, Nevada, church has organ- • In Oklahoma the literature work New Jersey. He entered the Clinton Theological under the leadership of L. G. Whitten, Seminary and earned his scholarships year after year ized a Four-A group: "Adventists Alerted in the colporteur work. He was united in marriage for Advance Action." The members of secretary of the publishing department, with Frieda L. Reinmuth. They went to Baltimore, is growing rapidly. A vast expansion Md., upon his graduation, where he was pastor of the the group will do various types of work German church. The following year he accepted a both within the church for members who program in this department is under way. call to Mexico. During his 20 years of service in may be sick or in need, and also among Mexico he was secretary-treasurer and superintend- • L. C. Evans, president of the South- ent, respectively, of two of the larger missions. He those whom they hope to reach with the leaves to mourn his wife, a daughter, 1 grandson, western Union Conference, reports that 2 brothers, and 2 sisters. message. Lawrence E. C. Joers, M.D., lately of the BORG.-Lee R. Borg, born Oct. 1; 1898, at Clin- • Members of the Ogden church dis- United States Navy, has been invited by tonville, Wis.; died at St. George, Utah, Oct. 26, the Southwestern Union Conference Com- 1955. As a young man he attended the Hazel Acad- cussed the question of how long to con- emy and the Hinsdale Sanitarium, where he com- tinue sending literature to people who mittee to be medical secretary for the pleted the nurses' course hi 1921. In 1932 he gradu- were known to destroy it. Unknown to union. Dr. Joers has established residence ated from the College of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons. Left to mourn are 2 children, 3 sisters, them, present that day were two people at Ardmore, Oklahoma, where he will be and 4 brothers. to whom the Signs had been sent. Later associated with Ethel M. Walker, M.D., COTTON-Clarence Hubert Cotton, born Sept. one of them sent this message: "Don't in the practice of medicine and surgery. 24, 1869, in LeRoy, Minn.; died in Santa Ana, Calif., give up too soon. We destroyed all the They will later be joined by other Oct. 30, 1955. He accepted present truth in 1936, and Signs for several months but, in the Adventist doctors. remained faithful. process of destroying one, we chanced to DYER.-George H. Dyer, born in 1875 in Monroe, Oreg.; died near Napa, Calif., Oct. 29, 1955. Mourn- see an article that caught our attention. ing ieir loss are his daughter, a stepdaughter, and . . . We are now very much interested in 7 grandchildren. your church." LARSEN-Dr. and Mrs. Marven Orville Larsen, 4t yjtVjt4 te.11 daughter Karen lean, aged 4, and son Marven "k t!. All 'II( WHICH LI IY Hi LOAD ICY. I/ 13 Dean, aged P/2. Marven Orville Larson, born July Southern Union 29, 1917, at Santa Ana, Calif.; died Oct. 21, 1955, while making a flight to a church appointment. • Herman C. Ray, pastor of the Walker Dorothy Summers Larsen, born Feb. 15, 1919, in Los ROTH-John H. Roth, born Feb. 4, 1886, in Angeles, Calif.; died Oct. 21, 1955. They were Memorial Sanitarium church in the Eureka, S.D.; died at Glendale, Calif., Aug. 13, 1955. united in marriage in 1939, and to this union 6 Florida Conference, reports $1,035 for the In 1909 he was united in marriage with Lydia children were born: Darryl, Dennis, Cheryl, Penny, Schwandt. Elder Roth was a minister for the de- and the 2 deceased children. In 1949 Marven gradu- 1955 Week of Sacrifice offering. This has nomination for 41 years, having obtained his prepara- ated from the College of Medical Evangelists. truly demonstrated a spirit of sacrifice on tion for the ministry in our own schools. His service as an overseas worker covered 71/4 years, during which BARTON.-Sadie E. Macpherson Barton, born the part of this church group. time he was president of the Buenos Aires and the Aug. 11, 1874, in Nova Scotia; died Nov. 15, 1955. North Argentina conferences. After returning to the She was married to Samuel Barton, who preceded • C. R. Spangler, who has been working homeland he served for 5 years as home missionary her in death. Left to mourn are 2 sisters. secretary of the Canadian Union, 2 terms as presi- for the past two years as a field represent- dent of the South Dakota Conference, and 10 years HUENERGARDT.-J. F. Huenergardt, born Dec. ative of the Southern Union Bible School, as president of the Kansas Conference. Elder Roth 25, 1875• died at Encino, Calif., Nov. 11, 1955. is survived by his wife and 4 children: Arthur H., Brother iluenergardt attended Union College, and has accepted a call to the Alabama- who is president of the Inter-American Division; in 1897 went as a pioneer worker to Hungary, where Mississippi Conference as pastor of the Viola Claunch, of Glendale, Calif.; Albert Victor, he remained for 20 years. In 1919 he came to New of La Crescenta, Calif.; and Genevieve Cornell, of York to labor for Hungarians, and in 1921 he joined Natchez, Mississippi, district. Fullerton, Calif. Also surviving are 6 grandchildren, the faculty of Broadview Seminary. From 1925 to 2 brothers, and a sister. 1929 he was secretary of the Foreign Department • A. D. Burch, pastor of the Kress of the General Conference, and then was asked to CONARD.-Claude Conard, born Aug. 29, 1878, take charge of our work in Yugoslavia. In 1935 he Memorial church of Winter Park, Florida, in Vancouver, Wash.; died at Paradise, Calif., Nov. returned to the United States and became pastor of reports 33 have been baptized in that 13, 1955. Our brother completed his schooling at the German church in Lodi, Calif. He became pastor Walla Walla College in 1900, and that same year of the German church in Los Angeles in 1938, which church this year. He also reports that became a bookkeeper in the Bible House in College position he held until 1949. From 1921 until shortly oak pews, pulpit furniture, and plastic Place, Wash., where he had resided with his parents before his death he was associate editor of our since 1892, the year the college was built. In 1903 German papers. The bereaved are his companion of tile floor covering, and other improve- he and Gertrude Fowler were united in marriage. In more than 55 years; 3 sons: Dr. Charles W., Dr. Al- ments have been added to the church the earlier years of his work Brother Conard served fred G.,. and Otto; 1 daughter: Mrs. Ellen Hicks; 6 as principal of the Bozeman (Mont.) Junior College, grandchldren; 1 brother; and 1 sister. building recently. secretary-treasurer of the California Conference, sec- retary-treasurer and auditor of the Pacific Union PULIS.-Susie Augusta Pulis, born in 1876 in • P. S. Young, pastor of the Paducah Conference, teacher in Pacific Union College, South- Hancock, N.Y.; died in Hudson, N.Y., Oct. 30, 1955. western junior College, and Emmanuel Missionary She completed her nurses' training at the Attleboro district in the Kentucky-Tennessee Con- College. In 1924 Brother Conard joined the General (Mass.) Sanitarium. Fifty-two years were devoted to ference, reports 17 baptized this year. Conference Treasury Department. His work as as- service as nurse, supervisor, instructor, and public sistant treasurer and auditor required that he travel - health service in denominational and public or- Church improvements have been made to many countries visiting denominational institu- ganizations and institutions. Her twin sister, Addie, at the Mayfield and Murray churches, tions. For many years he was General Conference survives. statistical secretary. In all he spent 26 years of service and also a church building program is at the General Conference headquarters, making DAVENPORT.-Julia May Stepanek Davenport, planned for Paducah in 1956. more than 50 years of denominational service. He is born July 23, 1886, in Defiance, Iowa; died at Ar- survived by his wife, 2 daughters, and 1 sister. lington, Calif., Oct. 26, 1955. Southwestern Union HOLDEN.-William Burroughs Holden, born Jan. DAVIS.-Sarah P. Sanborn Davis, born Dec. 14, 19, 1873, in West Valley, N.Y.; died in Portland, 1867, in South Carver, Mass.; died in Los Angeles, Oreg., Nov. 1, 1955. He received his education in Calif., Oct. 26, 1955. Mourning their loss are 2 sons, • I. M. Evans, president of the Arkansas- Battle Creek College, the University of Michigan, and 5 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, and 2 sis- Louisiana Conference, reports that on Rush Medical College, graduating from the medical ters. course in 1879. In 1896 he was united in marriage Sabbath, November 19, 16 persons united with Worthie Harris, who preceded him in death in GRAY.-Samuel Seburn Gray, born May 3, 1872, with the Texarkana, Arkansas, church. 1921. In 1922 he married Faye Beggs. He was bap- at Sedalia, Mo.• died at Sanitarium, Calif., Aug. 28, tized at the age of 12, and remained a faithful mem- 1955. In 1898 'he accented present truth, and re- Four of these were children who took ber. Fifty-two years ago he pioneered the medical mained faithful. In 1908 he was united in marriage their stand as a result of the Week of work at the Portland Sanitarium and Hospital in with Edna Bellows. Surviving are his widow, a son, Oregon, and his assistance to this institution has con- a daughter, 2 grandsons, an 1 brother. Prayer, and the other 12 were fruits of tinued since that time. Mourning their loss are his the recent revival held in De Queen, daughter, Margaret, wife of Dr. E. E. Rippey, 3 ERNTSON.-Harry Orvalle Emtson, born Aug. grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren. 28, 1896, in McKee, Oreg.; died Nov. 13, 1955. In Arkansas, by Reuben Schneider, union 1923 he was married to Ida Bizzini. and the next evangelist. CUMMINS.-James Fleming Cummins, born Jan. year he attended Walla Walla College. Mourning 7, 1910, at Dalesville, Ind.; died in Takoma Park, their loss are his wife, 3 daughters, and his mother. Md., Oct. 26, 1955. At the age of 15 he was bap- • Twenty-five believers in the Mesquite, tized, and remained faithful. His college education HOOVER.-Jessie Evelyn Nordyke Hoover, born Texas, area have made request to organ- was received at Emmanuel Missionary College. In Oct. 16, 1875, at Kankakee, Ill.; died in Los Angeles, 1931 he was united in marriage with Violet Maxine Calif., Oct. 9, 1955. Sixty years ago she was married ize and join the sisterhood of churches Williams, and they went to the Peruvian Mission to Wilie B. Hoover. She accepted her Saviour in her in the Texas Conference. Henry Barron, Training School, Lima, Peru, that same year. At this youth, and remained faithful. Surviving are her hus- DECEMBER 29, 1955 25 band, a son, a granddaughter, a grandson, and 1 Mrs. Guy Butler, Rt. 4, Box 281-H, Kannapolis, T. F. Lashua 10.00 brother. N.C., thanks those who have sent literature, and La Sierra, Calif., Dorcas Society 25.00 1 requests the following for use in 3 reading racks: A friend 20.00 I HOWARD.-Edna D. Howard, born March 27, Life and Health, These Times, Listen, Liberty, J. F. Lowe 1.00 1879, in Vandalia, Iowa; died in Elko, Nev., Oct. Little Friend, small books. A friend 100.00 -' 29, 1955. From her early youth she has been a Mrs. Virginia J. Plaza, Bonbon, Magallon, Occ. Chris C. Madsen 200.00 church member. She is survived by a son, a daughter, Negros, P.I., requests a supply of new and used A friend 25.00 3 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren. tracts, Signs, Reviews, Instructors, Life and Health, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Meister 10.00 Guides, Liberty, These Times, Little Friends, Work- Mildred W. Meister 5.00 PETERSON.-Andrew Hilding Peterson, born ers, and Sabbath school materials for senior, junior, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Mooney 25.00 July 9, 1885, in Sweden; died at Sanitarium, Calif., primary, kindergarten, and cradle roll. Mrs. Donald H. Moon 20.00 Oct. 12, 1955. In 1919 he accepted present truth, Miss Ruth Harriott, 42 McCatty St., Montego Mr. and Mrs. Archie R. Morley 5.00 remaining faithful to the end. In 1921 he was united Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Melendy 5.00 in marriage with Martina Johnson. He is survived Bay P.O., Jamaica, B.W.I., desires all types of missionary literature. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Noell 5.00 by his wife, a son, 4 grandchildren, and a brother. H. H. Oedekoven 10.00 Sadie P. Oickle 50.00 SOLHEIM.-Lorine Solheim, born Oct. 13, 1878, Requests for Prayer Bloomington, Ill., Dorcas Society 25.00 in Sonfjord, Norway; died Oct. 16, 1955. She accepted Mrs. Bertha E. Parmentier 25.00 the truth in Oslo, Norway, as a young girl, continu- A sister in Canada desires prayer for a member of Kristi and Julie Peterson 10.00 ing her fellowship by joining the Brooklyn Danish- her family who is seriously ill. Frances Poller 25.00 Norwegian church after her arrival in America in Anna Praytor 2.00 1923. G. Remboldt 10.00 Earl K. Pippeon 10.00 SKINNER.-Charles A. Skinner, born Dec. 2, Elizabeth J. Roberts 15.00 1876, in Earlville, Ill.; died in Boulder, Colo., Hurricane Relief Fund Mrs. Pearl Sanborn 10.00 Sept. 24, 1955. After graduation from Battle Creek Mr. and Mrs. Oscar W. Scheerle 25.00 College he took nurses' training at the Nebraska A friend 250.00 Sanitarium in College View, Nebr. In 1900 he was The General Conference acknowl- Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sneed 50.00 married to Maude E. Pitts. Our brother remained edges with grateful thanks the fol- Judson Spencer 10.00 at the Nebraska Sanitarium as an instructor for 21 Soren Thompson 25.00 years. The Skinners joined the Boulder (Colorado) lowing contributions received De- Zelda J. Thornton 5.00 Sanitarium staff in 1919, where Brother Skinner A friend 5.00 served for about 30 years as an instructor and as cember 2 to 8 inclusive for the Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Wallace 100.00 manager of the men's hydrotherapy. Survivors are Hurricane Relief fund: Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Woodruff 100.00 his wife; 2 sons: Dr. Kenneth L., of Santa Fe, N. Mrs. L. M. Wells, Sr. 1.00 Mex., and Dale H., of Chicago; 6 grandchildren, and Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Wood 11.00 2 great-grandchildren. B. L. Anderson $ 30.00 Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Anderson 10.00 Matthew Zuvicich 10.00 A friend 25.00 Ruth Blackman 25.00 MODRELL.-John James Modrell, born Nov. 27, Albertus Brandt 10.00 1872, in Mulvane, Kans.; died at Angels Camp, Mr. and Mrs. Oren 0. Applegate 25.00 Elder and Mrs. E. E. Beddoe 50.00 Edna W. Bryner 20.00 Calif., Nov. 4, 1955. In 1895 he was married to Allie K. I. Dodd 10.00 May Irons. Recently he accepted present truth. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Blakely 50.00 Warren R. Campbell 20.00 Rock Springs, Wyo., Dorcas Society 7.00 Mourning their loss are his widow, 2 daughters, 4 C. V. Harlan 25.00 sons, 20 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Nola Clarke 10.00 Ray Chandenon 10.00 Mrs. Lucy Jeder .. 5.00 A friend 20.00 Bertha Johnson & Ethel Williams 20.00 PROVINCE.-Anna Province, born July 1, 1887, Mr. and Mrs. Warren H. Darick 5.00 Mrs. Gussie Johnson 10.00 at Johnstown, Pa.: died at Madison, Tenn., Oct. 21, Mr. and Mrs. George C. Davis 50.00 Otto A. Kruger 21.00 1955. She attended Battle Creek College, and in 1906 Paul and May Driver 50.00 A friend 55.00 was united in marriage with Howard E. Province. C. A. McGhee 20.00 They spent time in the sale of religious literature• Elder and Mrs. B. 0. Engen 35.00 Katie Farney 2.00 Sophia Gooss 5.00 and also labored in our denominational institu- Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Ochs 100.00 tions, connecting with Madison College in 1932. Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Ferris 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Foth 25.00 Mrs. Leora K. Pellymounter 25.00 Those who mourn are her husband, 2 sons, 3 daugh- Tillie C. Peterson 5.00 ters, and 2 sisters. Green Lake Dorcas, Seattle, Wash. 100.00 A friend 5.00 Elder and Mrs. L. A. Reynolds 25.00 Ernest Hanson 10.00 Ross I. Rick 50.00 MOTE.-Margaret Caroline Mote, born Nov. 28, Hazel F. Coeur-Barron 75.00 1884, at Garfield, Ind.; died at Redlands, Calif., Mrs. Fanny Hardy 25.00 Grace Harvey 5.00 Mrs. Edna Bryner 20.00 Sept. 6, 1955. In 1900 she joined Otis Paul Mote in G. R. Burkard marriage, and he preceded her in death. In 1918 Edward D. Harrison 5.00 3.00 A friend 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Cameron 10.00 the Motes accepted present truth. Four of their chil- Mrs. Estelle Fisher dren have served a total of nearly 50 years in mis- A sister 5.00 5.00 Frank Lampert 25.00 Melvin Flugstad 3.00 sion service. Sister Mote is survived by four sons: Fred Mrs. Hans Jenny A., Roy M., Grant, Lee; 2 daughters: Hazel Schell Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lincoln 10.00 1.00 S. J. Lorenz 10.00 W. L. Latham 10.00 and Leota Marler; 8 grandchildren, 4 great-grand- Louise J. Lee children, and 1 brother. Mr. and Mrs. Erling Lund 10.00 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. David Miller 3.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Oakley 25.00 Appleton City, Mo., S.D.A. WILLIAMS.-Spencer Thomas Williams. born A friend 10.00 Church 11.50 June 25 1876, in Quincy, Mass.; died at Melrose, Mrs. Lydia Martin 15.00 J. D. Replogle 100.00 Mass., filly 5, 1955. He was a graduate of Andover Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Moon 25.00 Thorwald S. Steen 10.00 Academy. Then he attended Harvard Medical School, Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Morgensen 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Simpson 10.00 and graduated from Boston Institute of Osteopathy. H. C. and Annie Olmstead 12.00 Gust Tischendorf 10.00 In 1915 he married Dr. Anna Weaver. He accented Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Oxberger 10.00 J. E. Vest 1.50 his Saviour about two years ago. He is survived by Mr. and Mrs. P. I. Phillips 20.00 Lettie F. White 10.00 his wife, 2 daughters, and 2 grandchildren. Frank Price 10.00 Mrs. Minnie Zeidler 10.00 William Quinn 10.00 Thomas G. Aved 2,00 JOHNSTON.-Sallie Hawes Johnston, born Aug. E. Rockwell 15.00 A friend 10.00 20, 1860, in Jeffersontown, Ky.; died near Hickory, Fedalma Ragon 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Urban E. Cooper 5.00 N.C., Oct. 23, 1955. Sister Johnston graduated from Mrs. B. Schneider 100.00 Mr. and Mrs. John Culver 20.00 the Battle Creek Sanitarium School of Nursing in Dr. and Mrs. J. J. Short 25.00 Czechoslovak S.D.A. Church, Chicago 111.50 1891. She was united in marriage with Marshall H. Fanny M. Spillman 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Edwards, Sr. 5.00 Johnston. In 1896 they moved to North Carolina as Eda M. Steele 50.00 R. D. Kinney 10.00 self-supporting missionaries, and in 1910 opened the R. A. Thompson 5.00 Elder and Mrs. W. D. 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DECEMBER 29, 1955 31 Death of G. E. Nord did opportunity we have to save the The Power of the Press lambs of the flock and to train them G. E. Nord, for many years associ- for the cause of God. In a recent letter B. E. Hurst, pub- ated with our work in Northern Eu- Arizona ranked highest among the lishing department secretary of the rope, and later in the foreign work conferences for the per cent of chil- British West Indies Union, cites an in North America, died at Hinsdale, dren enrolled for each 100 church experience that demonstrates anew the Illinois, December 15. Elder Nord was members in the conference-23 per evangelistic power of the printed page. a faithful and loyal worker who ef- cent! Nevada-Utah was next with He writes: ficiently laid the foundations of our 21-8/10 per cent, followed closely by "While in Nassau attending an in- present strong work in the Scandina- Chesapeake, 20-4/10 per cent. South- stitute I was told the interesting ac- vian countries of Europe. A sketch of ern California, with 17-8/10 per cent, count of how the work started there. his life will appear later. and Florida, with 16-9/10 per cent, A colporteur arrived from the United J. I. ROBISON were fourth and fifth, respectively. States and sold a man a copy of the Knowing that the large over-all to- book Bible Readings. Through the Congress for Servicemen tal represents sacrifice on the part of influence of this one book the work our parents, I am sure that God is started. Now there are nearly one of Europe pleased. Let us pray for this army thousand members in the Bahamas as A congress for SDA servicemen and of potential saints and for their hard- a result of one man's effort and one dependents will be held at the USA- working, consecrated teachers! book." REUR Religious Retreat House, Al- G. M. MATHEWS Thus the work in beautiful Nassau pine Inn, Berchtesgaden, Germany, was begun by a literature evangelist. January 26 to 30. All who are inter- Broadcast for Japanese This experience provides current sup- ested in this meeting should get in port for the following inspired state- touch with Harold E. Kurtz, Frank- in Denver Area ment: "I have been shown that the furt, Sub Area, APO 757, P.M. New press is powerful for good or evil. This Word has reached the Radio-TV agency can reach and influence the York, N.Y. Department of a Japanese radio broad- G. W. CHAMBERS public mind as no other means can." cast in Denver, Colorado, with George —Life Sketches, p. 214. S. Aso as speaker. Started in June as Hurricane Relief Fund an experiment, it has rapidly gained GEORGE A. HUSE friends and has proved to be a power- The Hurricane Relief Fund as of ful influence in giving the gospel to December 15 amounted to $9,180.74. the Japanese of the Denver area. Over 100,000 Believers The names of those whose contribu- Donations from listeners—over $1,- in the Belgian Congo tions were received December 2 to 8 200 since the program began, coming appear on page 26 of this issue. Con- from Buddhists as well as Christians— A letter received from R. M. Rein- tributors for the week of December have proved to be a vote of confidence. hard, secretary-treasurer of the Congo 9 to 15 will be listed in next week's Among the many Japanese listeners Union Mission in the heart of Africa, issue. are two Buddhist priests who listen to tells of the wonderful progress God's The needs of the hurricane sufferers the program regularly. The treasurer work is making there. As of September are still very great, and it is hoped of a Buddhist church, a stanch adher- 30, 1955, there were 108,592 Sabbath- that many more will contribute to ent to Buddhism, only recently pur- keepers in this union. These are di- this fund. Make checks payable to: chased a radio so that he could hear vided into 45,280 baptized church General Conference of Seventh-day the program. He reported to Elder members, 17,670 in baptismal classes, Adventists. The address is 6840 East- Aso: "So much has been said in our 45,642 in hearers' classes. Nearly 65,- ern Ave., NW., Washington 12, D.C. church about the program that I could 000 of this number are in one local no longer resist getting a radio set so mission. Enrollment in Elementary we could hear it." In this union mission, persons in- Elder Aso states: "A majority of the terested in the Seventh-day Adventist and Intermediate Schools Japanese are learning the claims of faith, and who are keeping Sabbath, Opening reports from the elemen- Christ for the first time. . . . They join a hearers' class for a period of tary and intermediate schools of the must not be left alone in darkness. time, then later graduate to the bap- North American Division reveal a This is truly an hour of decision for tismal class before being accepted into total enrollment of 37,691! This rep- many of them whose average age is church membership. resents an increase of 1,713 over last sixty to sixty-five. I reaffirm there is Baptisms for the first nine months year. For the past five years the annual no better medium than radio for of 1955 were 6,855. All through this gains have been around 1,700—a total reaching these dying Japanese pio- vast area of central Africa thousands increase of 8,408 for the period! neers!" of fine people are turning to the Sev- This large and steady gain places The prayers of all God's people are enth-day Adventist faith. The biggest a heavy strain upon our churches and requested for this and every radio and problem is to instruct them properly conferences to provide personnel and TV broadcast. "Multitudes are in the and take care of the large number of facilities, but we rejoice over these valley of decision." persons who want to be one with us. healthy growing pains. What a splen- JAMES E. CHASE H. W. KLASER