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The shiny, varnished buds are swelling large In spring excitement on the poplar tree, By LOIS M. PARKER Arousing from the spell of cold and winter night To put forth longing hands of green to see And feel the joyous warmth, the humming air Awakening from the dead to victory.

Encased in cold, defiant selfishness My spirit slept, nor felt the warm wind blow, Until the Sun of Righteousness, my Lord, Put forth His love, around my heart to glow, To melt the shell, to wake me to the Light, That I in Him might live, and give, and grow.

With whispered thanks, the leaves sing on the limb. Like them, I lift my hands in praise to Him. Mg Mg Mg EM=Mg MgMgQ8==gg EW,gMgMg Mg&S=MWMg VOL. 126, NO. 16 APRIL 21, 1949 ¶ RELIGIOUS liberty is an "absolute right" which must be pro- In This tected everywhere in the world, Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Issue Oxnam, of New York, told the United States of America con- FRONT PAGE - - Spring Song of Praise ference of member churches of the World Council of Churches EDITORIAL - - - - - - Page 3 meeting in Evanston, Illinois. "Religious liberty is an absolute Our Expanding Foreign Mission Program—Answers to right," said Bishop Oxnam. "It derives from the fact that man Prayer in World Crises—The Tithing System—What the is a son of God. The State does not bestow this right. A bill of Crime Figures Teach Us rights is but confirmatory of existing rights. The denial of reli- gious liberty anywhere is the concern of men everywhere. Reli- GENERAL ARTICLES - - Page 8 gious liberty is essential to the proclamation and extension Beautifying the Truth—When Official Work Ends, New of Christianity." Blessings Begin—Confession—I Believe the Threefold Message—The Law of God—A Dangerous Course—Do ¶ DIsmicr JUDGE E. T. HENSLEY, in a written judgment in You Seek to Appease Your Conscience?—Jehovah's Gra- Santa Fe, New Mexico, barred 143 Roman Catholic nuns, ciousness—Adventist Youth Speak for Themselves brothers, and priests from public school teaching posts in New Mexico. His ruling also prohibited the holding of tax-supported THE ADVENTIST HOME CIRCLE - - - Page 14 school classes in buildings owned by the Roman Catholic The Safety of Our Children—Parents' Fellowship of Prayer Church. The written judgment supplemented an oral decision from the bench on October 7, in which Judge Hensley ruled REPORTS FROM ALL LANDS - - - - Page 16 that "there is no separation of Church and State" in some Colporteurs Imprisoned—Faithful in Spite of Hardships— New Mexico public schools, thus violating the State and Visiting the South American Missions—Far Eastern Divi- national constitutions. Other declaratory judgments in the sion Council—Details of a Tragic Death—General Con- ruling specifically prohibited the following: free State bus , ference and Overseas Spot News—North American Spot transportation for students in parochial schools; purchase from News—Church Calendar public funds of textbooks for, parochial schools and purchase of POETRY books especially for Catholic schools; teaching of sectarian How Do You Do Your Work? p. 3; Entreaty, p. 6; My doctrine in any tax-supported school; holding of public school Needs, p. 8; Are All the Children In? p. 14 classes in rooms where religious or sectarian symbols are dis- played; payment by the State of persons teaching sectarian Copyright, 1949, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. doctrines. ITEMS OF INTEREST 50, YEARS AGO

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¶ THE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION of Atlantic City ¶ THE following is a portion of a write-up concerning the has severed all connections with its parent body, the Young Health Reformer: "Those wishing this journal will please Women's Christian Association of the United States of America.. inclose One Dollar, at the risk of the Publishers, in a note stat- A resolution adopted by the membership said the national ing their name, the name of their post-office, county and body and some of the local associations "have departed from State, safely enveloped, and addressed, HEALTH REFORMER, the original purposes and program of the. YWCA." "We have Battle Creek, Mich., and they will in return receive the monthly felt for a period of years," the resolution stated, "that the visits of a Health and Household Journal that reveres God, national organization and those connected therewith have been honors the Bible, and leads in the path of health, purity and getting further and further away from the primary purpose happiness in this life, which are necessary to a good hope of the of associating young women in personal loyalty to Jesus Christ life which is to come." as Saviour and Lord and seem to have embraced even other 1899 anti-Christian elements." WILLIAM COVERT reports, that two hundred acres of land ¶ THREE employees of a District of Columbia children's in- in Wood County, Wisconsin, was the first contribution to the stitution have declined to take chest X-ray examinations on the Wisconsin Academy of Industry (now Bethel Academy). Then ground that the examinations are contrary to their religious came a gift of five hundred dollars' worth of lumber, and convictions. The District school board requires all teachers, next, a draft calling for five hundred dollars in cash. He including workers in child-care institutions, to take the chest writes: "It is expected that a summer school will begin upon tests before the organizations are licensed. The Washington the grounds, April 19. The plan is first to erect the barns, and, Christian Science Committee on Publication said that Chris- during the first term, occupy one of them with the kitchen and tian Scientists did submit to physical examinations imposed dining work, and the other with the school. The school this by military regulations rather than violate the law, but that summer is designed for young men only...- We hope to have the position taken by the women at the child-care institution the buildings up and furnished, ready to open up fully for is that religious freedom guarantees are being violated. work next autumn." ¶ DELEGATES to the annual meeting in San Francisco of the 1924 National Catholic Family Life Conference heard that there is ¶ AT the recent constituency meeting of the Review and a pressing need in the United States for protection of the "moral Herald, held in Chicago, Illinois, the following young men health and safety" of the family by the state. The Reverend were ordained to the gospel ministry: J. W. Mace, the manager Edgar Schmiedeler, director of the family life bureau of the of the Review and Herald-book department; E. E. Franklin, National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington, D.C., said the field missionary secretary of the Lake Union Conference; the state was "much more careful about protecting the physical P. G. Herwick; and W. H. Bergherm. An editorial note says: health of its individuals and families than it has been about "In the case of Brother Mace and Brother Franklin it demon- protecting their moral health and safety." Father Schmiedeler strates that the book work, instead of being a hindrance to the suggested the need for "suppression of indecent literature and development of young men for the ministry, proves a fitness the proper regulation of theaters and other places of amuse- for this calling. Indeed, this has been demonstrated in many ment." other instances through the years." 2 REVIEW AND HERALD F,, '

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sionaries and money to other lands until our work is Our Expanding Foreign Mission done. Indeed, the Lord cannot come until this gospel is Program preached as a witness to all nations. It is with equity and faith that the General Conference ONE time Dr. Hu King-eng, a Chinese lady phy- at the annual Autumn Council plans the distribution of sician, was a student in a Christian college in Amer- our mission gifts to every part of the world field. Our mis- A ica. There she won many girl students to Christ. sion directors with their committees supervise the break- The mother of one of these girls said, "Little did I think, down of mission budgets and lay plans for various enter- when I was giving money for the work in China, that a prises after much prayer and study. Often at great Chinese girl would come to this country and be the means sacrifice and inconvenience these missionaries travel to of leading my daughter to Christ." and from the various stations. They suffer hardships, fre- Few parents in the homeland have children who were quently because they do not have enough money to pro- brought to a saving knowledge of Christ through the vide proper facilities for the work. The native workers are instrumentality of mission converts. But all who have ever not shirkers, but they endure great hardships for Christ. supported foreign mission work have been blessed of God The Advent Movement is pressing forward in other in other ways. Adventist churches located in our home lands with increasing success, and will soon reach earth's bases know something of the reflex blessings returning last frontier. But there is much to be done before the close to them from the icy mission fields of the frigid north of probation rings down the curtain on our mission ex- and the sweltering jungles of the tropics. Wherever souls ploits. "Fifty-four political and geographic divisions or are won to Christ by our missionaries, on distant islands island groups are still without the message of Christ's or inland plateaus, there we share in their labors. soon coming. More than eighty million people in these Is it too much to say that our Christian experience is as unentered countries have never heard of the third angel's broad as our vision of the world's great need and as deep message. Of the total 282 such divisions, we have entered as the sacrifice we make to relieve that need? We know 228. The leading countries that Seventh-day Adventists that missions pay. We need not go abroad and witness have not as yet entered are in the two continents, Asia first-hand the degrading habits and practices of non- and Africa. In Asia these larger countries, still unentered, Christian people, in order to become interested in their are Afghanistan, Bhutan, and Saudi Arabia. In Africa we salvation. Christ has bidden us, "Go ... , and make Chris- have French Equatorial Africa, including Gabon; the tians of all nations." Matt. 28:19, margin. We have our Middle Congo; Ubangi-Shari; French and Spanish marching orders, and we cannot halt the flow of mis- Guinea; Libya; and the British, French, and Italian Somaliland." There must be no letup in our work until the third angel's message reaches the eighty millions in these un- How Do You Do Your Work? entered countries such as Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, the Middle Congo, and Libya. If we keep our vision of a By ADLAI A. ESTER world task clear, continue to send our best sons and daughters as missionaries to foreign lands, and increase Two singers sang a song one day; Each sang the song in his chosen way. the per capita gifts to missions, we shall soon witness the triumph of the Advent cause. The first man sang with fantastic airs, His manner such as a braggart bears. Worldly Men Support God's Work He proudly sang in dramatic style; He couldn't weep, and he wouldn't smile. As the dollars keep flowing into the mission treasury, He didn't look at the crowd at all; And he seemed to act like our town was small. we keep the channels of blessing open to all lands. But He sang the song in a pompous way; the task committed to the remnant church is a huge one. He sang for a certain price, they say. More is required of us than merely our gifts. We are to He sang the song, but each note was slurred; approach the men of the world and invite them to give We couldn't discern a single word. of their means to support Adventist missions. When we The next man sang in a simple style, have sacrificed to the limit God can move upon the hearts With a kindly look and a pleasant smile, of worldly men to support His advancing work. This has And he seemed to look right in our eyes, been the history of the church down through the cen- And we longed to shout, "Give him the prize." For he sang the song so our hearts were stirred, turies. When Israel left Egypt they brought with them a And we felt deep meaning in every word. vast store of wealth in the form of the jewels and precious He sang his song from his heart, I know, metals provided by the Egyptians. Of this wealth the And our tears of gladness began to flow. people built a sanctuary for the Lord. Oh, he sang the song with a wondrous zeal, And it moved our hearts with a strange appeal. When Nehemiah sought financial help from King Artaxerxes for the rebuilding of Jerusalem, God moved Those singers had sung the selfsame song, upon the monarch to provide large sums of money and But one had power to move the throng. material for the project. Anciently God brought great And I learned right then some lessons grand: First, you like a man you can understand. wealth of land and supplies into the possession of the Next, it's surely a truer and nobler art children of Israel as they entered the land of Canaan. The To do what you do with a humble heart. purpose of God was summed up in the command, "Arise Third, you'll lift the world a great deal higher and thresh, 0 daughter of Zion: for I will make thine If you sing your song with your soul on fire. Last, I saw it's not what you do on earth, horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou But the way you do it that proves your worth! shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate APRIL 21, 1949 3 their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the "In the last extremity, before this work shall close, thousands Lord of the whole earth." Micah 4:13. will be cheerfully laid upon the altar. Men and women will There is an abundance of money in the world, and we feel it is a blessed privilege to share in the work of preparing are duty bound to awaken an interest in the minds of souls to stand in the great day of God, and they will give hun- those who possess it in the one grand enterprise that will dreds as readily as dollars are given now. If the love of Christ were burning in the hearts of His professed people, we would stand the test of the judgment. We are to go boldly to the see the same spirit manifested today. Did they but realize men of the world and invite them to share their wealth how near is the end of all work for the salvation of souls, they with God. The Ingathering work has demonstrated the would sacrifice their possessions as freely as did the members practicability and reliability of this plan. For more than of the early church."—Counsels on Stewardship, pp. 40, 41. forty years our earnesthearted people have sallied forth as brave soldiers in the territory held by the enemy. Since Has not the hour struck for the fulfillment of this 1908 over $45,000,000 has been raised for missions in this prophecy given us by the messenger of the Lord so long ago? Surely the time is ripe way. • now for the church to rise and We cherish the story of Jasper Wayne and the small finish its great world mission task. beginnings of the Ingathering program. It was forty-seven D. A. D. years ago in Sac City, Iowa, that this consecrated layman began this work. From the first it resulted in great good for the work at home as well as abroad. He ordered fifty Answers to Prayer in World Crises copies of the Signs of the Times, received the bundle of literature at the post office, and after unwrapping the HE call of the General Conference for Advent be- package, distributed the Signs to the people standing in lievers to make Sabbath, May 14, a day of prayer to the lobby, with the statement that "the money received TGod to guide and overrule His cause in these critical would go to the cause of foreign missions." Jasper Wayne times will meet a glad response. Many thousands of hearts received four dollars for missions as the result of that first will surely say with the psalmist, "I was glad when they Ingathering canvass. And fifty of his neighbors received said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." copies of our excellent missionary paper. Who of us does not realize that there is increasing ten- sion in all the world? And everywhere this tension touches Development of the Plan the work of God. The winning of souls to Christ and His Later he received, by mistake, another fifty copies of the saving truth must go on to the finish, whatever world Signs'. With these he collected twenty-six dollars for mis- conditions may be. The prophecy shows plainly that the sions. He then ordered four hundred copies of the Signs, closing gospel message will be carried forward amid times which he distributed over a year's time, gathering in of "distress of nations, with perplexity." The work of God about one hundred dollars for missions as the fruit of his will be attended by perplexities. work. Then the burden to interest others in this plan of The Living God Over All raising money for missions was laid upon his heart. He approached the president of the Nebraska Conference That reassuring statement of the Spirit of prophecy has about it, and was accorded the privilege of speaking to helped to stay our minds upon God in many a time of our people at a camp meeting being held at the time. perplexity. It grows more precious now. Interest in the project was evinced from the beginning, "The world is not without a ruler. The program of coming although there were some who were indifferent. events is in the hands of the Lord. The Majesty of heaven has After an interview with Mrs. E. G. White at this camp the destiny of nations, as well as the concerns of His church, in meeting in Omaha, Brother Wayne was encouraged to His own charge."—Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 753. further promote his scheme for Ingathering, and before It is written large in all Bible history. Never since Adam long the General Conference committee adopted and set left Paradise has the Lord failed to carry His cause in operation the Ingathering work. through every crisis. See it early in the history of great nations. When the time came for Israel to leave bondage An Ever-expanding Mission Work in Egypt, the Red Sea blocked the way out. But He "made Thousands of our people in North America and abroad the depths of the sea a way." His hand overruling to have been blessed as they have participated in the pro- preserve His cause was seen in the days of Assyria and gram of solicitation. It will be the same this year, and Babylon, Medo-Persia and Rome. And now prophecy puts even larger numbers will enter the field. Contacting into the mouth of the people called to lift up God's holy friends, neighbors, and relatives in person and by letter, law in the last days this prayer: "Awake, awake, put on they will seek to win the lost to Christ and to present the strength, 0 arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient program of world evangelism and relief undertaken by days." Isa. 51:9. the remnant people. What great blessing will come to hundreds of thousands of people not of our faith as they They Prayed Their Way Through are approached on behalf of Christ! How many souls will In all these crises of ancient days the believers were no be saved! How many thousands of dollars will be gath- mere spectators of the deliverances by God's hand. They ered in for the cause we love! were strugglers in it all. They prayed their way through. While time remains we will carry on an ever-expanding Here is one picture of it in the times of Judah, beset by mission program in all the world. This work requires a forces beyond Judah's wisdom and power to meet: budget totaling many millions of dollars annually. This "Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the must be raised by the sacrifice of our faithful people and Lord [as we are preparing to do Sabbath, May 14]." "Our God the gifts of our friends. The Adventist Church is one [they cried], . . . we have no might against this great company brotherhood the world around. We operate as a world- that cometh against .us; neither know we what to do: but our wide movement under the leadership of Christ and the eyes are upon Thee. And all Judah stood before the Lord, with delegated officers of the church. With added strength each their little ones, their wives, and their children." 2 Chron. 20:4, passing day we press toward the glorious climax of mission 12, 13. endeavor. It is time that all covenanted with God to work The Lord cared for His cause. I am glad it says the and sacrifice as never before. 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"Let your men keep their One prophetic picture of the latter days shows the horses," he told Lee; "they will need them for the spring message of God being preached in stormy times. It is in plowing." Revelation 7. It shows angels at the four corners of the God Answers Prayer Today! ► earth restraining the winds of universal strife in order Our brethren disavowed any assumption that their that the preaching of the message of salvation be not seasons of prayer alone stood for the Lord's blessed inter- altogether hindered. The voice of an angel in command vention. Nevertheless, they felt that God had surely an- over them cries to them to hold, hold "till we have sealed swered prayer. So we may be assured that He answers the servants of our God in their foreheads." prayer today. Let us pray that God may overrule even In the margin of Revelation 7, in my Bible, I have in- present hindrances to the hastening on of the work. Our scribed this word from the Spirit of prophecy: early brethren loved to sing that hymn about sailing the "Let us cry to God that the angels may hold the four winds way through unruffled seas to the kingdom. I think they until missionaries shall be sent to all parts of the world, and put the greatest stress, however, upon the stanza: shall proclaim the warning against disobeying the law of Jehovah."—Ibid., p. 718. "But should the surges rise, And rest delay to come, This is part of our prayer for May 14. And as we pray Blest be the sorrow, kind the storm, we shall do it with repentance for lack of quick faithful- Which drives us nearer home." ness in years past. W. A. S. As the time came in 1844 for the rise of this Advent Movement of Revelation 14, there began an opening of lands and of the hearts of peoples for the gospel message. Heart-to-Heart Talks New impetus was given to the missionary movement among Protestants. The late Arthur T. Pierson wrote of The Tithing System early days of nineteenth-century missions: "As the little band advanced, on every hand the walls of HROUGH the long centuries God has given light to Jericho fell, and the iron gates opened of their own accord. His people as they were able to bear it. When on . . . Within five years, from 1853 to 1858, new facilities were Tearth Christ said to His disciples, "I have yet many given to the entrance and occupation of seven different coun- things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. tries, together embracing half the world's population."—Mod- Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth; is come, He will ern Mission Century, p. 25. guide you into all truth." John 16:12, 13. The gospel truths now believed by Seventh-day Adventists did not Opening and Closing Doors Come to them all at once. Little by little, as they prayer, Ere many years we were out in the midst of the whiten- fully studied the Word of God, these truths were de, ing harvest. All the time the counsels of the Spirit of veloped. This is true as relates to the Bible plan for the prophecy were urging to haste and greater haste. Then at support of the gospel ministry. the turn of this century came the word: At first the church employed a plan which they called "We have no time to lose. The end is near. The passage Systematic Benevolence. The members gave or pledged from place to place to spread the truth will soon be hedged with a certain amount to be paid monthly or quarterly. This dangers on the right hand and on the left, Everything will principle was adopted at a general meeting held at Battle be placed to obstruct the way of the Lord's messengers, so that Creek, Michigan, June 3-6, 1859. This action was the they will not be able to do that which it is possible for them to outcome of Bible studies conducted previously with a do now. We must look our work fairly in the face, and advance little group by J. N. Andrews. The subject was given as fast as possible in aggressive warfare."—Testimonies, vol. 6, special study by the General Conference Committee. At p. 22. the General Conference session held at Battle Creek, Oc- We have seen this taking place. Before our eyes area tober 2-13, 1878, it was submitted to that body of dele- after area where we have thousands of believers has gates, who appointed a special committee of five "to pre- passed beyond our reach in a measure. There is a tension pare a work on the proper system of raising means for the in the world that is severing close contacts. We must support of the gospel.' This committee was composed of pray for special blessings on the labors of believers— James White, D. M. Canright, S. N. Haskell, J. N. An- thousands of them—who are unable to keep contact as drews, and Uriah Smith. This resulted in the publication aforetime with their brethren in other lands. And well of a seventy-two-page pamphlet entitled Systematic Be- may we plead for reopening of doors that are but slightly nevolence; or The Bible Plan of Supporting the Ministry. ajar. We have a copy of this booklet before us, and from it we Answer to Prayer in Wartime shall quote liberally. We believe our readers will be inter- ested in reading the way in which our pioneers presented Here is a story of answered prayer from the days of the this question. The plan of taking pledges had not proved Civil War in America. It was in the year 1865, after the satisfactory, and in many instances had been much less war had gone on and on with no signs of peace. Our than a tithe of the income. The tithing system as taught General Conference appointed four days of intercession in the Bible, and as now practiced by the church, was and prayer (with partial fasting) and humiliation of soul strongly advocated by the special committee, for the ending of strife between North and South. The first days dated from Wednesday, March 1, to Sabbath, The Bible Teaching March 4, and thereafter the second Sabbath in each month. James White wrote that they had never realized "Ever since the fall of man it has been necessary that there should be men devoted wholly to the service of God. It appears "such drawing of the Spirit to the very throne of heaven that from the very beginning the Lord taught His people to as during these days of humiliation and prayer." It had devote one-tenth to the support of His ministers. In the patri- a "most blessed influence upon the church." archal age this was an established rule. This is evident from They must have met also on April 8, according to the the conduct of Abraham toward Melchisedec. Thus we read: APRIL 21, 1949 5 Tor this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high He did blow upon what they had, and scattered it, and with- God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the held the dews from watering their grain, and kept their fields !kings, and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth from bearing, because they did not devote their substance to }part of all.' Heb. 7:1, 2. God had just blessed Abraham, not His cause, as He required. Read another passage:— only in recovering Lot, but in taking a great booty. The very " 'Ye are cursed with a curse; for ye have robbed me, even first thing Abraham did was to give the Lord's priest a tithe of this whole nation. Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, everything. See Gen. 14. that there may be meat in Mine house, and prove Me now "Jacob acted in like manner. He solemnly vowed to give the herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the Lord one-tenth of all He should bless him with. 'And Jacob windows of Heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there vowed a vow, saying, If. God will be with me, and will keep me shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the then shall the Lord be my God; and this stone, which I have time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.' Mal. 3:9-11. Here set for a pillar, shall be God's house; and of all that Thou the Lord distinctly states that He will bless their crops if they shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto Thee.' Gen. will pay their tithes. 28:20-22. "Paul states the same doctrine in the New Testament: 'Now "Other passages might be given confirming the fact that the He that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread tithing principle dates back as far as the institution of the for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the ministry. In the time of Moses, when everything was more fruits of your righteousness.' 2 Cor. 9:10. No doctrine is more definitely regulated by law, this system was very plainly en- reasonable than that the great God will bless those who fear forced. Thus the Lord says: 'And all the tithe of the land, and honor Him; and that His prospering hand will be with- whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is held from those who do not."—Ibid., pp. 27-29. the Lord's; it is holy unto the Lord.' And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under Why We Can Give the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.' Lev. 27:30, 32. We are next told in this early publication why Seventh- All the tithe of, the land, whether it grew from that which was day Adventists can well afford to give. sown, as wheat, corn, and potatoes, or that which the tree brought forth, as apples, pears, and peaches was to be given to "Seventh-day Adventists Save many Thousands of Dollars the Lord. So also a tithe of the herd that is, of the cattle, and Every Year, which Others Waste. Let us suppose a case. Here of the flock, was to be the Lord's. One-tenth of all that they is a family who used to pay from ten to fifteen dollars per year raised or made in any manner was to be given for the support for tobacco. They pay nothing, for this now. They used to pay of the priests. If a farmer raised one hundred bushels of wheat, as much more for tea and coffee. All this they save now. They ten of these were the Lord's. If he raised ten sheep, one was used to go to circuses, dances, shows, donation parties, and the Lord's; or ten oxen, one was the Lord's. If he made ten many other places of amusement, all of which cost time and dollars, one was the Lord's. One-tenth of all his income from money. They attend none of these places now. Here they save every source was required. a large amount. They used to wear jewelry and other costly articles. They wear none of these now. They lay out nothing Tithing System Not Abolished now for novels„ story papers, and the like. They take but little interest in the general holidays of the country. They dress "But was not this system abolished in the gospel dispensa- plainly, and live plainly. They stay at home, and work, work, tion? It was not. And why should it be? Does it cost less to sup- work, six days in the week, twelve months in the year. If they port God's servants now than it did then? Why should not men attend one camp-meeting in the year they think they have made give as much now as they did then? Some professed Christians a great sacrifice of time. What is the consequence? Just what seem to go on the principle that the greater light and blessings we might expect. Our people are improving financially faster they enjoy, the less they are to give for them. But we do not than any other class of people of the same ability and means. so read the Scriptures. Listen to the language of the Saviour: We fear that this is simply making a gain of godliness."—Page `Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay 32. tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith; these Are Seventh-day Adventists living up to the standards ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.' enunciated by our pioneers? We know many are; we fear Matt. 23:23. These Pharisees were very particular to give one- some are not. How is it with you who read these words? tenth of everything. Jesus did not condemn this, and set it Do you attend dances, shows, theaters, and the movies? aside. No, indeed. They had neglected judgment, mercy, and Do you drink tea and coffee? Do you wear jewelry? Do faith, while they were very particular about their tithing. To you read novels? the newspaper comics? If you spend time them Jesus said, 'These ought ye to have done, and not to or money in these harmful and evil practices, may the leave the other undone.' "—Systematic Benevolence, pp. 12-15. Lord awaken you to your great danger. In dedicating our lives and property to God we may confidently expect His blessing and protection. This is plainly taught in the Bible. "It is plainly stated and many times repeated in the Bible, Entreaty that where men give nothing to the Lord they take their prop- erty into their own hands and from under the protection of By CAROL HETZELL God. They cannot ask God's blessing upon it; for if the Lord The tears of man must wash Thy throne, 0 God, blesses their wheat, they keep it all for themselves; if He blesses Poured forth from myriad anguished hearts on sod their cattle, they keep them all for themselves; if He blesses Already wetted with the crimson flow them with health, they use it in serving themselves. God will Of mortal woe. not be a partner in such selfishness. But if we strictly honor the Lord by giving Him the first-fruits of all that He bestows The peace the angels sang in Judah's fields Has long since fled before the sword Mars wields, upon us, then we can ask in faith for the blessing of God upon And endless rubble turns fair vistas foul. the remainder, and receive it. No fact is more plainly stated in O God, what now? the Bible than this. Let us read a few passages:— " 'Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye Can flashing steel restore the verdure lost, have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye Or might of atom e'er repay the cost clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages Of maddened minds that grope in vain for light earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.' Ye looked 'Mid blackest night? for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it With empty hands we turn our eyes to Thee— home I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because Spent, helpless, facing eternity. of Mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto' his O Great Creator, stem the bitter tide. house.' Haggai 1:6, 9. Here the Lord very distinctly states that With us abide. 6 REVIEW AND HERALD In this solemn hour of God's judgment we need to have give these figures is hardly profitable. Standing alone, they a daily, living Christian experience. We need to seek and tell only a sorry tale that should challenge the police force cherish an hourly consciousness of divine acceptance and in every community. But when these figures are laid along- the leading of the Holy Spirit. In this divine fellowship side some theories and some texts of Scripture, they take we shall find a joy and satisfaction which the world and on a great deal more meaning. all its allurements and pleasures can never give. When the Advent Movement began, in the middle of Is the payment of tithes a test of our Christianity? We the nineteenth century, there was also beginning a great received today a letter from a Presbyterian clergyman, move in America under the leadership, for example, of one who occupies a prominent position in the councils of such an educator as Horace Mann, to make education his church. He writes: "I have always admired and won- universal. Mann boldly predicted that if all the youth dered at the liberality of your denomination. The rest of were educated, we would remove much of the crime and us 'believe' in giving the tenth to the Lord, but you prac- much of the sorrowful state of the masses of people. A like tice it. The liberality of your people is a striking evidence movement was operating in Europe; where the saying be- of their genuine Christianity. I always feel a little thrill came current that every school opened is a jail closed. of pleasure and pride when I see the statistics which reveal From that day to this, schools have been opened at a this distinguishing characteristic." rapidly increasing rate. Here in America every child not The estimate of this clergyman is borne out by Bible only has the opportunity, but is required by law, to teaching. Upon those who are faithful in rendering God attend school for a certain number of years. The average His own, the divine blessing is pronounced. Conversely, amount of schooling of the citizenry has increased steadily. those who fail to do this are counted robbers. (Mal. 3:9- There was a day, within the memory of many of us, when 11.) May every reader be numbered among the faithful. a college-educated person was rather the exception in a F. M. W. community. That is no longer the case. But education has not eliminated crime; nor has it checked crime. The cynic might even say that education has aided crime, because the criminal is more skillful as What the Crime Figures Teach Us a result of the training of his mind. HE Federal Bureau of Investigation, known gener- Where the educational pioneers of a century ago made ally as the FBI, not only captures criminals; it keeps their great mistake was in confusing the mind and the Tfigures also. Once a year it sends out a comprehensive heart, and in thinking that a love of learning gives men a set of tables giving the rate of crime in various parts of love of God. the country and in cities of different sizes. The figures Liberal Religion Exposed make enlightening, even if depressing, reading. For ex- It is in this area of education that we find most glaringly ample, here are some of the figures released concerning revealed the basic weakness and fallacy of the whole lib- crime in 1948: eral idea of religion. Liberal religion believes that man "1. A serious crime occurred every 18.7 seconds in 1948. has great and endless possibilities of improvement, phys- "2. An estimated 1,686,670 major crimes of felonious homi- ically, socially, morally, and spiritually, right within him- cide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny and self, and that he needs only an improved opportunity and auto theft occurred last year, a 1.3 per cent increase over 1947. environment in order to progress. Now, what could better Crime in rural areas was up 4.3 per cent over 1947 and the rise in urban areas amounted to 0.3 per cent. aid man, the embyro angel according to liberals, than "3. Felonious killings averaged 36 a day, and there were better educational opportunities? That is why education 2,672 miscellaneous larcenies, 1,032 burglaries, 463 automobile has been viewed as one of the saviors of the race. At least thefts, 255 aggravated assaults or rapes and 150 robberies dur- it was viewed that way in former decades, and even today ing each 24 hours of 1948. there are some who would thus describe education, though "4. Long-term crime trend data, based on reports from 373 the number of such persons is greatly reduced cities with populations in excess of 25,000, indicated that only There is another interesting set of figures that should negligent manslaughter and auto thefts have declined to points be laid alongside the crime figures. Every year we receive below the prewar average of 1938-1941. Aggravated assaults and the statistics on church membership in the United States. rapes in the larger communities reached peaks in 1948 of 68.7 Those figures steadily rise. Out of every hundred people per cent and 49.9 per cent respectively over the 1938-1941 in the country today there are a larger number who claim average. Other crimes committed in 1948 which still exceed membership in some church than was true in former this prewar level are: burglary, 16.7 per cent; murder, 14.1 per cent and robbery 8.9 per cent. Larceny, while declining decades. Now, anyone who loves God, feels encouraged during the war years, is on the increase and in 1948 was 4.6 at the thought that there are more church members in per cent in excess of the prewar averages." the country. But when he sees these figures alongside the appalling crime figures, he naturally asks himself whether And here are figures compiled by the FBI from the mere church membership necessarily stands for much. He voluminous fingerprint record that they have: is likely also to raise the question as to whether many of "1. More persons were arrested and fingerprinted in 1948 these people who claim church membership ever attend (759,698) than in any other year on record. The predominant church to come under the influence of Christian preach- age among arrested persons was 21. ing. "2. More than 41 per cent (312,264) of the arrest records examined in 1948 represent arrests for major violations. Per- The Key Question sons charged with murder, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny Yes, there is one more question that naturally comes to and auto thefts numbered 212,823 constituting 28 per cent of mind: How much of the preaching seeks to bring to the the total arrest records examined. hearers a realization of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, "3. Of the total number of persons arrested, 58 per cent of the great moral standard that God has for all men, and (440,872) had records of prior arrests." of the need of a new heart and mind in order to do those things that are pleasing in the sight of God and that Figures and Scripture Texts serve to make a man a better citizen? Well-turned phrases A second look at these figures reveals, among other in a sermon are not sufficient, in themselves, to turn men things, that there was a felonious killing, generally de- away from evil. Beautiful oratory does not necessarily scribed in everyday language as a murder, every forty beautify the inner recesses of a sinful soul. There must be minutes during 1948. Other major crimes were in propor- a presentation of the beauty of holiness, there must be tion, as an analysis of the figures reveals. Now, simply to (Continued on page 12) APRIL 21, 1949 7 GENERAL ARTICL

beautiful. We are to "beautify the truth by holiness of My Needs character." By JOSIE HORNING And there is no better way. There is no other way that A little work that I must do, is half so effective. There is greater power in the beauty A room to rest in when I'm through, of a holy life than in all our methods. People will listen, A window looking toward the hills and follow, when they can see that a man lives what he Where palms or pines hold equal thrills, preaches. A seinion becomes truly beautiful to its hearers A table spread with simple food, A friend to share my every mood, when they realize that the preacher found it on his knees. An easy chair where I may read His words—and yours and mine—take on real beauty A few good books my mind to feed, when those who listen know that they are not the expres- A desk where I may sit and write, sion of a theory, but of a life. Let us never forget that we A bed to sleep in, comes the night, A rug whereon to kneel and pray are, in a very definite sense, preachers. In thankfulness for my good day— We want so much to have our friends, neighbors, and God is so good to hear and heed loved ones join with us in our journey heavenward. We He has given me my every need. long to have our message become their message. But how hard it is for them to choose our way if they cannot see Beautifying the Truth in us the power of the Christ to transform lives. And how easy it will be when they can see the image of the Master By Marjorie Lewis Lloyd reflected in us. We are told in Early Writings, page 71, that "those who T IS only good business to beautify that which we wish receive the seal of the living God, and are protected in to sell. Any real-estate man will tell you that money the time of trouble, must reflect the image of Jesus fully." I spent in beautifying grounds and buildings is well And when such a transformation has taken place in you spent. Now because the gospel must be "sold" even though and in me, those about us will find the truth not only it is free, it is only logical that we should spare no effort beautiful but irresistible. to make it as beautiful and attractive as possible. Just how can this be done? A multitude of possible answers When Official Work Ends, New awaits us. First of all, it is of utmost importance that we use Blessings Begin words which will make the truth most attractive as it is By A. V. Cole spoken, and as it goes forth on the printed page. The messenger of the Lord wrote: NE of the saddest experiences of my Christian life "I know not how to speak or trace with pen the large sub- was many years ago, when, on account of failing ject of the atoning sacrifice. I know not how to present subjects O health, the union conference committee voted that in the living power in which they stand before me. I tremble it would be best for me to retire from official work in for fear lest I shall belittle the great plan of salvation by cheap order to take better care of myself, and if possible, words."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. 167. lengthen the span of life a little. With this in view my wife and I moved to Florida Making the Worship Hour Beautiful and purchased a little home in the suburbs of Jackson- It is important, too, that we have neat, attractive places ville. I was lonesome and not very happy after spending of worship. That is according to God's will. And not too more than fifty years in our organized work, which had much thought can be given to making the hour of worship become almost as life itself to me. After a few weeks I beautiful. A quiet, well-planned service, with a spirit of suggested to my wife that we visit some of our neighbors, reverence pervading all, will have a great drawing power. telling them that our visit was in the interest of home Then there is advertising. Cheap, carelessly written, Bible study. After a few minutes' talk on Bible lines we poorly printed advertising is not representative of the sold to one young married woman Bible Readings for the truth of God. But advertising of a high character can do Home Circle, and followed it up with weekly Bible studies very much to uplift the truth in the eyes of those we and much earnest prayer. As a result, both she and her would win. And there are pictures. If chosen wisely, they mother accepted the truth. To another neighbor we may be a means of making the truth attractive. Radio sold The Great Controversy. She also accepted the truth. has taken its place as one of our greatest soul-winning agencies. And what a power a well-planned half hour can Fruitful Personal Work be in making our message beautiful. As my health began to improve we branched out into And we would not forget music. How many are the other parts of the city, doing the same kind of work, souls that have been won to Christ because their hearts coupled with much prayer and the literature ministry. were touched by the beauty and the message of a song. The Lord wonderfully blessed in bringing many precious souls into the light of present truth. Some of these people Holiness of Character now hold positions in the organized work; and many of It is ever so important that we use every means at our their children are in our schools, academies, and colleges, disposal to make the truth beautiful to others, but our preparing themselves to have a definite part in giving the lives will tell most. "We are debtors to God to use every last warning message to the world before Jesus comes. advantage He has entrusted to us to beautify the truth by In thinking this over I call to mind ten different heads holiness of character, and to send the messages of warning, of families, besides nine of their children, who are now and of comfort, of hope and love, to those who are in the baptized members of the church and are either engaged darkness of error and sin."—Ibid., p. 31. Here, then, is in the work or preparing themselves for a part in it. the answer. Here is the way to make our message truly You can imagine the joy it brings to my heart in these 8 REVIEW AND HERALD declining years of life to receive cheering letters from I Believe the Threefold Message these dear "spiritual children" in Christ, who are rejoic- ing in the truth and are endeavoring to have a humble (Concluded) part in taking it to others. Third John, verse 4, is the By D. E. Rebok deep expression of my heart: "I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.- ERSONALLY, I believe in the grand themes of the Bible as the truth of God, and would give due and What God Can Do For Us P• proper emphasis to each and all of them as "profitable To God we give all the glory, for this shows what He for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in is able to do for us. When official work ends, new blessings righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, may begin. throughly furnished unto all good works." 2 Tim. 3:16, 17. We have a wonderful Saviour who is able to do above Personally, I believe that devout, sincere, earnest, and all that we ask or think. I must confess that I get a little honest men like William Miller were adhering to safe homesick at times to see Him face to face, and thank Him and reasonable rules in interpreting the Scriptures when anew for His wonderful love, and for His precious they laid down for themselves as guiding principles in promise: "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing their Bible study the following: precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, " '1. Every word must have its proper bearing on the subject bringing his sheaves with him." Ps. 126:6. presented in the Bible. Proof, Matt. 5:18. May this experience cheer the hearts of the older work- " '2. All Scripture is necessary, and may be understood by ers, and especially of those who are engaged in the a diligent application and study. Proof, 2 Tim. 3:15-17. literature ministry, is my sincere wish. " '3. Nothing revealed in Scripture can or will be hid from those who ask in faith, not wavering. Proof, Deut. 29:29; Matt. 10:26, 27; 1 Cor. 2:10; Phil. 3:15; Isa. 45:11; Matt. 21:22; John 14:13, 14; 15:7; James 1:5, 6; 1 John 5:13-15. " '4. To understand doctrine, bring all the Scriptures to- The Way of Salvation gether on the subject you wish to know; then let every word have its proper influence; and, if you can form your theory Confession without a contradiction, you cannot be in error. Proof, Isa. By M. V. Campbell 28:7-29; 35:8; Prov. 19:27; Luke 24:27, 44, 45; Rom. 16:26; James 5:19; 2 Pet. 1:19, 20. HE WHO covers up his sins shall never prosper; he who " '5. Scripture must be its own expositor, since it is a rule confesses and forsakes them is forgiven." Prov. 28:13, Moffatt. It is of itself. If I depend on a teacher to expound to me, and he a natural tendency for man to try to cover his sins. Nothing em- should guess at its meaning, or desire to have it so on account barrasses him more than to have his failures and misdeeds brought of his sectarian creed, or to be thought wise, then his guessing, to light. But to obtain God's forgiveness, one must acknowledge the Proof, sin that has been committed, laying it bare in all its ugliness. desire, creed, or wisdom, is my rule, and not the Bible. King David was a friend of God's. The Lord loved him not because Ps. 19:7-11; 119:97-105; Matt. 23:8-10; 1 Cor. 2:12-16; Eze. of his transgressions but because of his sincere confession of and 34:18, 19; Luke 11:52; Matt. 2:7, 8. sorrow for his sins and his anxiety to overcome them. He did not try to excuse his errors, or to put them in a good light. Said he, Concerning Visions and Figures "I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me." " '6. God has revealed things to come, by visions, in figures Ps. 51:3. In his readiness to admit his sin David was unlike other and parables; and in this way the same things are oftentimes men. It is customary to give a very plausible excuse for every wrong revealed again and again, by different visions, or in different deed, or, if possible, to lay the blame at another's door. Adam, the father of all, blamed Eve for his fall, and Eve charged it to the figures and parables. If you wish to understand them, you must serpent. Anyone who examines the confessions made by men and combine them all in one. Proof, Ps. 89:19; Hos. 12:10; Hab. women portrayed in the Bible is surprised by the number of times 2:2; Acts 2:17; 1 Cor. 10:6; Heb. 9:9, 24; Ps. 78:2; Matt. 13:13, confession is made of other people's sins rather than of their own. 34; Gen. 41:1-32; Dan. 2d, 7th, & 8th; Acts 10:9-16. It is easy to notice the sins of others and to tell God about them, " '7. Visions are always mentioned as such. 2 Cor. 12:1. but it is difficult to recognize our own evil acts, and still harder " '8. Figures always have a figurative meaning, and are used to confess them. It is therefore all the more refreshing to notice the much in prophecy to represent future things, times and events candor with which David acknowledged his transgressions. —such as mountains, meaning governments; Dan. 2:35, 44; In addition to confessing our sins to God, we are directed, "Confess your faults one to another." James 5:16. So often we injure another beasts, meaning kingdoms; Dan. 7:8, 17; waters, meaning peo- by word or deed. In all such cases, as well as when we offend God, ple; Rev. 17:1, 15; day, meaning year, &c. Eze. 4:6. acknowledgment must be made in deep humility, for "the Lord is "'9. Parables are used as comparisons to illustrate subjects, nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be and must be explained in the same way as figures, by the sub- of a contrite spirit." Ps. 34:18. ject and Bible. Mark 4:13. True confession comes as a result of sorrow for sin. Acknowledg- " '10. Figures sometimes have two or more different significa- ment of sin without sorrow is not confession. Says David, "I will tions, as day is used in a figurative sense to represent three declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin." Ps. 38:18. God different periods of time, namely, first, indefinite; Eccl. 7:14; never fails to hear a heartfelt confession made in sorrow; and hear- ing, He at once forgives. "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and second, definite, a day for a year; Eze. 4:6; and third, a day for just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteous- a thousand years. 2 Pet. 3:8. The right construction will ness." 1 John 1:9. Once true confession is made, we should no longer harmonize with the Bible and make good sense; other con- grieve over our sins. They are freely forgiven, and we are fully structions will not. released. " '11..If a word makes good sense as it stands, and does no We must accept this promised forgiveness by faith. David did so violence to the simple laws of nature, it is to be understood and rejoiced in the pardon he received. "I acknowledged my sin literally; if not, figuratively. Rev. 12:1, 2; 17:3-7. unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess " '12. To learn the meaning of a figure, trace the word my transgressions unto the Lord; and Thou forgavest the iniquity through your Bible, and when you find it explained, substitute of my sin." Ps. 32:5. the explanation for the word used; and, if it make good sense, When a person confesses a fault against us we must forgive just as readily as we wish God to forgive us. "If ye forgive not men you need not look further; if not, look again. their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matt. 6:15. God's willingness to forgive again and again as He Linking History With Prophecy hears the continued confessions from His people is illustrated by " '13. To know whether we have the true historical event for His injunction to us: "If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke the fulfillment of a prophecy: If you find every word of the him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, prophecy (after the figures are understood) is literally fulfilled, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him." Luke 17:3, 4. God does not then you may know that your history is the true event; but here ask us to do more than He does Himself. We weary Him daily if one word lacks a fulfillment, then you must look for an- with our sins, but confession with repentance brings forgiveness. other event, or wait its future development; for God takes care APRIL 21, 1949 9 that history and prophecy shall agree, so that the true believing Then are added these words of encouragement and cau- children of God may never be ashamed. Ps. 22:5; Isa. 45:17-19; tion: 1 Pet. 2:6; Rev. 17:17; Acts 3:18. "When God's people are at ease, and satisfied with their " '14. The most important rule of all is, that you must have present enlightenment, we may be sure that He will not favor faith. It must be a faith that requires a sacrifice, and, if tried, them. It is His will that they should be ever moving forward, would give up the dearest object on earth, the world and all to receive the increased and ever-increasing light which is its desires character, living, occupation, friends, home, com- shining for them."—Ibid., pp. 708, 709. forts and worldly honors. If any of these should hinder our believing any part of God's word, it would show our faith to Personally, I believe that we have the truth and that be vain. Nor can we ever believe so long as one of these motives God revealed it clearly to the faithful pioneers, but I also lies lurking in our hearts. We must believe that God will never believe that you and I today cannot rest in their under- forfeit His word; and we can have confidence that He who takes standing of it. Rather, each of us must dig it out for notice of the sparrow's fall and numbers the hairs of our head, himself and know for a surety, not because James White will guard the translation of His own word, and throw a barrier or Joseph Bates said it was so, but because we have around it, and prevent those who sincerely trust in God, and searched it out for ourselves and God has revealed it to us, put implicit confidence in His word, from erring far from the and because we have prayed our way through the mar- truth.'"—JAMES WHITE (1875), Sketches of the Christian Life velous system of truths and have found them to be so. and Public Labors of William Miller, pp. 48-51. In such a course rests the future safety and surety of the Although we might not word such a statement as this in Advent Movement. the same way today, we can in general approve William In these days of perplexity and uncertainty, when the Miller's outline of principles for Bible study. world seems so bewildered and confused, we Seventh-day Adventists owe it to our neighbors everywhere to share Pioneers Divinely Guided with them the truth, which is at once an anchor to our Personally, I believe that it was God who led our pio- souls, a balm to our troubled hearts, and a ray of hope neers in the Sabbath Conferences, which were held in to pierce the dark, forbidding clouds now covering the 1848, when in a series of five momentous seasons of earnest sky in all directions. We must ever remember that "our prayer and Bible study great lines of truth were gradually evidence to non-professors that we have the truth of God unfolded before them, and they in turn went out to pro- will be given in a life of strict self-denial. . . . Let us each claim those truths to a skeptical, unbelieving world. When resolve to do our best, that the light of our good works they began their study "hardly two agreed," for each may shine forth to the world." strenuously pressed the views held by the church in which he had received his earliest impressions. They studied and searched and prayed, and God opened their minds and hearts to understand the truth of His Word. Con- The Law of God cerning the results of those conferences, Ellen G. White wrote: By H. B. Taylor "When the power of God testifies as to what is truth, that truth is to stand forever as the truth. . . . Men will arise with interpretations of Scripture which are to them truth, but which N USING the term "the law of God," I have in mind are not truth. The truth for this time God has given us as the the Ten Commandments, the moral law, recorded in foundation for our faith. He Himself has taught us what is I Exodus 20:1-17. I find that these different terms are truth. . . . And while the Scriptures are God's word, and are to frequently used interchangeably by Bible students of be respected, the application of them, if such application moves various denominations, and they have long ago recognized one pillar from the foundation that God has sustained these a distinction between the ten-commandment law, and fifty years, is a great mistake. He who makes such an applica- those laws written in a book by Moses. The Bible recog- tion knows not the wonderful demonstration of the Holy Spirit nizes the same marked distinction, as, for instance, in that gave power and force to the past messages that have come God."—Counsels to Writers and Editors, pp. Exodus 24:12; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 31:24-26; to the people of and Daniel 9:10, 11. 31, 32. When God came down upon Sinai He prefaced the Foundations of the Message giving of the Ten Commandments by saying, "God spake Personally, I believe that the truths known to us as all these words." The ten-commandment law is a law the pillars, the foundations, the three angels' messages— of God's making. He spoke these words audibly within concerning which there is a woe pronounced upon "him the hearing of His people. God has many ways of speaking who shall move a block or stir a pin of these messages"— to men: by His Spirit in visions and dreams, by angels have been made clear to Seventh-day Adventists, that and prophets, by providences and conscience, and, on this they have made us a people and will keep us a people. solemn occasion, by His voice. But God never spoke at Today I can declare, with those early leaders who had any time as He spoke the Ten Commandments. avorked and studied and prayed their way through to unity, that "our position looks very clear; we know we Eternal Principles of the Law have the truth," and "it seems that those who come into "The law given from Sinai is the moral law by pre-eminence. the whole truth now will stand," for "we have the truth, The principles which it embodies are of permanent obligation. we know it." It is a brief summary of the whole compass of our duty to Somehow paragraphs like these give us, as second- and God and man. It is a law of supreme excellence,—'holy, just, and good' (Romans 7:12). God's own character is expressed third-generation Adventists, a feeling of security and con- in it; it bears witness to His unity, spirituality, holiness, sov- fidence. ereignty, mercy, and equity; truth and righteousness are "Precious light has come, appropriate for this time. It is visible in every precept. . — These ten precepts, accordingly, Bible truth, showing the perils that are right upon us. This are distinguished from the judicial and ceremonial statutes, light should lead us to a diligent study of the Scriptures, and subsequently given."—The Pulpit Commentary, vol. 7, "The a most critical examination of the positions which we hold. Book of Exodus," chap. 20, p. 189. God would have all the bearings and positions of truth thor- oughly and perseveringly searched, with prayer and fasting. The Ten Commandments alone were spoken by the Believers are not to rest in suppositions and ill-defined ideas of voice of God from Sinai. They were uttered amid scenes what constitutes truth. Their faith must be firmly founded of awful grandeur and awesome terror. They alone were upon the word of God."—Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 707, 708. written by God's own finger upon tables of stone. The 10 REVIEW AND HERALD tables of stone, and they only, were placed in the ark of Sinai and wrote them, with His own finger, upon tables the covenant. (Ex. 25:21.) In whatever manner God of stone. speaks to us we ought to hear and obey, but when we "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the consider the dreadful power, the overwhelming splendor, prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily and the infinite particularity with which God transmitted I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle these Ten Commandments to men, these things in them- shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whoso- selves should cause us to give all the more earnest heed ever therefore shall break one of these least comandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the to these divine injunctions. kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For Law in Existence Before Sinai I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed This law of God was in effect before it was given by the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no God to His people at Horeb. There is a prevailing idea case enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matt. 5:17-20. among some that there was no law between creation and Christ and the Law Sinai, but that idea is not sustained in the Bible. We find that some three hundred years before that time Abraham Christ came not to destroy the law, as He made, clear in kept God's commandments and laws. "Because that Abra- the preceding statement. He came to fulfill the law. The ham obeyed My voice, and kept My charge, My com- prophet Isaiah prophesied that He would "magnify the mandments, My statutes, and My laws." Gen. 26:5. Three law, and make it honourable." Isa. 42:21. Christ's life months before the Israelites reached Sinai, God inquired, was a living demonstration of the principle of the law. "How long refuse ye to keep My commandments and My His life was the most beautiful life of which we have any laws?" Ex. 16:28. conception, and in this beautiful life the holy principles Whether or not the law of God was in written form of the law were produced in living form. Jesus empha- prior to that time is not so important; but definitely the sized the importance of righteousness coming from the law of God was in existence, and it is understood to have heart in love toward God and men. been in effect ever since creation, for otherwise, how could This moral law could not be abrogated; therefore sin have been from the beginning? What is sin? "Whoso- Christ came to meet conditions as man must meet them, ever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin to magnify the divine principles in the law through flaw- is the transgression of the law." 1 John 3:4. "Where no less obedience, and then to yield Himself up to be cru- law is, there is no transgression." Rom. 4:15. "By the law cified as the sinner's substitute. Jesus Christ and the im- is the knowledge of sin. Rom. 3:20. Thus the law of God mutability of the law stand together. Christ kept the law was operative from the beginning. Not only that, but the Himself and taught men to keep it. (Matt. 19:16; John apostle Paul makes it crystal clear that the principle of 15:10.) He is our Example, and we should follow in His the moral law operates in human experience and cannot steps, walking as He walked. (1 John 2:6.) "Blessed are be changed. (Rom. 2:12-16.) The heathen who are stran- they that do His commandments." Rev. 22:14. Let us gers to the law in its positive and written form, have it follow Him because we love Him, and He will give us life impressed on their moral nature, which witnesses within eternal. them for righteousness and against iniquity. Sin had made such inroads upon the moral nature that God uttered the Ten Commandments from Sinai and gave A Dangerous Course them in written form after the Israelites had come out of By Clyde Rosser Egypt. The Ten Commandments are the law of love. They ROTHER T. was once an active member of the represent the best that a loving Creator could give to the church, but for some unknown reason he drifted crowning work of His creation. They serve as a barrier B away, promising to return when the fulfillment of against sin. They are a rule of life touching and directing some particular prophecy indicates that the end is right man in all his relationship between God and man, and on us. But is that a safe course to follow? between man and man. On one occasion a lawyer asked It may be that in the days of Noah some said, "When Christ, "Master, which is the great commandment in the I see clouds in the sky, or when the rain begins to fall, law?" Christ replied, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God I'll come running into the ark." But that would have been -with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy impossible. Probation was closed for them a whole week mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the before the first drop of rain fell. And can we be sure that second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as the event for which Brother T. is watching will come thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law before the close of probation? And if it does, will he hear and the prophets." Matt. 22:36-40. of it in time? Jesus, by these words, shows that only he who truly Even if the event does come before the close of the loves God can really keep the first four commandments; world's probation, it is not safe to put off repentance and, likewise, only he who lovts his neighbor can keep until that time. Each individual's probation ends at his the last six commandments. Love that gladly flows from death. Long ago I read an autobiography of Joseph Bates. the heart in the fruits of obedience is, as the apostle Paul One thing I remember was how he was impressed by a expresses it in Romans 13:10, "the fulfilling of the law." poem that he read, which contained the words: "Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 Death." It is not given Transcript of God's Character us to know the hour of our death; but we do know that The Ten Commandments are a transcript of God's God has not promised anyone a second chance in some charaCter. God is righteousness. (1 Cor. 1:30.) The com- future life. "It is appointed unto men once to die; but mandments are righteousness. (Ps. 119:172.) God is per- after this the judgment." Heb. 9:27. fect. (Matt. 5:48.) The law is perfect. (Ps. 19:7.) Jesus is the truth. (John 14:6.) The law is the truth. (Ps. 119:142.) Why Stay Outside the Fold? God never changes. (James 1:17.) God's law is unchange- Furthermore, the longer we put off the day of salvation, able. (Ps. 111:8.) God is holy. (Isa. 6:3.) The law is holy. the less desire we shall have to return to God. Felix sought (Rom. 7:12.) God, in His infinite wisdom, felt that the Ten a "convenient season," but that time never came. Commandments were so important that He did not en- And why does our poor brother wish to stay outside the trust men to write them; so He came down upon Mount fold of Christ until the last moment before the storm of APRIL 21, 1949 11 wrath breaks? Has he so little love for the Good Shepherd that he , finds no joy in remaining with His flock? And if the presence of Christ by His Spirit and the fellowship of a few believers afford him no joy in this life, what satis- OLD TESTAMENT WORDS faction can he find in the actual, visible presence of his Lord and-the fellowship of the unnumbered thousands of the saved in the life to come? Worldly pleasures, wealth, and honor are fleeting. And Jehovah's Graciousness the one who says, "I will get all I can out of the joys of By R. E. Loasby this world, and when I see the storm coming I will flee THE Hebrew word chanon occurs in the Old Testament for refuge to Christ," will be disappointed; for, if he were more than seventy times. It is a very lovely word, with the mean- taken into the ark of safety and sheltered from the storm, ings "to be gracious," "to yearn toward," "to long for," "to be in- then when the storm is over, he would want to return to clined toward," and "to be in favor of." The noun• from the root, the worldly pleasures that he had before. He would be chen, is found in the Scriptures nearly seventy times. Both words are pictures of God's attitude toward His needy people. The basic simply trying to carry with him a sinful nature into the meaning of the root is always that of kindness, mercy, favor, some- everlasting kingdom, and that is something no one can do. thing in exchange for nothing, beauty, elegance, grace. All these But the one who truly loves his Lord is not putting off wonderful meanings are to be remembered when we read of the the day of his salvation until some startling event takes grace and favor of God in the Old Testament. Proverbs 11:16 is a charming verse to suggest one aspect of God's place. To him "the reproach of Christ" and "affliction view of us: "A woman of grace [chen] retaineth honour." Then with the people of God" are to be chosen rather "than the comes the antithesis: "Tyrannical men retain wealth." This is the treasures in Egypt" and "the pleasures of sin for a season." only verse in Proverbs in which men are contrasted with women; and Heb. 11:25, 26. With the psalmist he says, "At Thy right the contrariety is between the unfoldment of upright, sweet gentle- hand there are"—not "there shall be" at some future ness, and immoral force. A woman of gracious bearing, lovely man- ners—gentle, patient, and kind in all her dealings—reaps and retains time, but "there are," now—"pleasures for evermore." a wealth of esteem from the entire circle of her acquaintances. There Ps. 16:11. is nothing more beautiful than the true graciousness of a godly woman. All the delicacy, refinement, exquisiteness of dealings, that such a person manifests is indicative of the lovely, merciful benevo- lence that God stands prepared to manifest toward us. Do You Seek to Appease Your When one is in need of sympathetic, tender gentleness, he should remember Proverbs 3:34: "He gives grace [chen] to the afflicted Conscience? ones." The word needy, afflicted, comes from the root anah, "to be afflicted," "be depressed," "to be humbled," "to be bowed down." By Milton Murray A person so distressed and hurt God will deal with most compas- sionately and gently. F YOU eat one another, I don't see why we mayn't eat Believers need to pray for the fulfillment today of the promise of you." So reasoned the would-be-vegetarian Benjamin Zechariah 12:10: "I will pour upon the house of David, and upon I Franklin as the fumes of fried cod met his former the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace [chen] and of supplications." Here is the pledge that the Spirit will produce in craving for fish. In narrating the incident in- his Auto- believers, the sweet character, the mildness of conduct, the patience biography, he says: in pleadings, that God manifests in dealing with His erring ones. "In my first voyage from Boston . . . our people set about Certainly, grace here means the effects produced in the believer by catching cod, and hauled up a great many. Hitherto I had stuck God's loving-kindness, which makes the recipient pleasing to God. to my resolution of not eating animal food, and on this oc- We would do well to meditate on all the uses of chen in God's Word. casion I considered the taking of every fish as a kind of un- provoked murder, since none of them could do us any injury. All this seemed very reasonable. But I had formerly been a greater lover of fish, and, when this came hot out of the fry- What the Crime Figures Teach Us ing-pan, it smelt admirably well. I balanc'd some time between (Continued from page 7) principle and inclination, till I recollected that when the fish were opened, I saw smaller fish taken out of their stomachs; vigor in preaching, there must be sharp arrows from the then thought I, 'If you eat one another, I don't see why we Lord, and the sword of the Spirit. mayn't eat you.' So I din'd upon cod very heartily. . . . So We believe that the fearful crime figures today cast a convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it questioning shadow over the glowing church-membership enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has, a figures in the country. They also cast a shadow over some mind to do." of the preaching. We cannot believe that it is the business Side-stepping Life's Issues of the preacher to spend his time delivering sermons on social legislation, on shorter working hours for laboring As reasonable creatures, we are thankful to our Creator men and more food for all families in the country. It is for the powers of reason with which He has endowed us. not that we think that such matters are unimportant. We should appreciate the opportunity to make choices Indeed they are importa1t and are an illustration of prac- between right and wrong. Let us be truly grateful by not tical Christianity, the outworking of true religion. But using our reasoning power as a fabricator of excuses. it is the business of the preacher to bring to men true God's norms are set before us in His Ten Command- religion by bringing them back to God, and then truly ments, the Holy Bible, and the great book of nature. He converted men will put true religion into operation in the wants His children to obey Him intelligently and with matter of food and working hours and a thousand other true love. Let us beware of side-stepping the issues of things. The Bible declares that ancient Sodom had "ful- everyday life with reason lest we side-step eternal life. ness of bread, and abundance of idleness." Evidently there Do not let others set your standards by saying, "It's the was no lack of food, and there must have been a very custom"; "everybody does it"; "the church elder's wife short working week. But-along with the fullness of bread goes." These reasonable excuses are often used by those was fullness of iniquity. The people were short on work who seek to justify any and every thing they wish to do. and short on righteousness. And God destroyed them with God's judgments are not based on the actions of codfish fire. —or men—but on His commands. Thank Him that you All this has a very real meaning for Seventh-day Ad- are a truly reasonable creature, and show that gratitude ventists. We find no satisfaction in rising crime figures. by obeying his Word to the letter, not by using a codfish Far from it. But we do find a new confidence in our to appease your conscience. hearts concerning the understanding of the Scriptures 12 REVIEW AND HERALD that we have had all through the years. Those Scriptures, Wisconsin Conference when he was but twenty, and we believe, teach that the world is not getting better, George I. Butler was only thirty-seven when he became that it lies in wickedness, and that in the very last of the president of the General Conference. The foundations last days wickedness will abound on every side. We have of this movement were laid by these youthful pioneers. not been mistaken in our preaching. Under their enthusiastic leadership the work prospered in spite of the scoffing and indifferent world. Mightier Preaching Needed Now these pioneers have fallen, and God has called in But it is not sufficient for us simply to feel a new sense no uncertain tones for the young men and young women of assurance and confidence in the accuracy of our pro- of today to step forward and fill the ranks. In 1902 Mrs. phetic preaching through our century of history. No E. G. White wrote in the Instructor, "As the faithful, toil- movement has ever advanced simply on the mood of satis- worn standard-bearers are offering up their lives for the faction with what has happened in the past. The lawless- truth's sake, who among the youth will come forward to ness of today should stir the Advent ministry to greater take their placer Will our young men accept the holy preaching than ever before, to mightier preaching that trust at the hand of their fathers?" will shake the souls of men and cause them to cry out, Adventist youth are responding to this call. Since the What must we do to be saved? With all the refinements first North American Youth's Congress, held in San and enlargements of our plans that have rightly been Francisco in September of 1947, there has been a new made through the century, there is still no substitute for light in the eyes and a new melody in the hearts of great preaching. God has designed that through the fool- Adventist young people. The spirit and objectives of this ishness of preaching men should be saved. We need more great congress have combined to inspire and encourage and better preachers in the Advent Movement. We say our young people the world around. Since the San Fran- this with no thought of criticism or minimizing of the cisco meeting there have been approximately forty good preaching that is done. We are thinking of it, similar youth's congresses held on a union-wide scale in rather, in terms of the greatness of the tragedy of our various parts of the world. world today. We cannot be content simply to give to men the facts Inspiration at Salzburg Congress of prophecy, for example, the evidence that certain events It was a great privilege to be present recently at the took place at a certain time in fulfillment of a certain great Salzburg, Austria, Youth's Congress, where many of prophecy. That is good as far as it goes. But it takes more our German-speaking young people from all of Austria than information to change a man's heart, and to bring and Switzerland were assembled. Here some four or five him in penitence to God. After all, we are not preachers hundred young people who have not had the privilege of history, not even in the setting of prophecy. All that of a similar gathering since before the war came together is good and important, but it is not enough in itself. We to experience Christian fellowship anew. must be preachers who apply the facts of history and the These Adventist youth were a happy and colorful lot fulfillment of prophecy in such a way as to make the God indeed. Young men and young women from Vienna, from of heaven stand out as the one and only important figure Salzburg, from Tirol, the Bavarian Alps, and the hills for this world and for our individual lives. It is our busi- and valleys of Switzerland came seeking spiritual help. ness to reconcile men to God, to bring them to fellowship At the Sabbath morning service the Spirit of God came with Him here, that they may be ready to rejoice at His very close to us and one hundred and forty young men coming, rather than to flee from His presence. and women came forward to join the baptismal class and As we read of mounting crime figures, let us see in these give their hearts to the Lord Jesus. figures something more than merely a proof that we have been correct in what we have taught concerning lawless- With Our Youth in Czechoslovakia and Poland ness in the world. Let us see in them a great challenge to I later had the privilege of visiting our young people our own hearts to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ with in Czechoslovakia. There I found a similar evangelistic a rising power to meet the rising crime figures, so that zeal on the part of our youth. More than half of our one through us may be fulfilled the scripture that where sin hundred and five churches in Czechoslovakia have evan- abounds grace does much more abound. Ours is the holy gelistic services which are being conducted by the young business of being merchants of the grace of God. It is for people today. We held some gatherings which filled the us today to offer our heavenly wares more effectively, more auditoriums to overflowing. Many young people had to persuasively, than ever before. F. D. N. stand for hours at a time to participate in the services. I shall never forget the Sunday morning when, with a few of the workers in Czechoslovakia, I trudged up a ESPECIALLY FOR YOU i H 5,000-foot mountain, on top of which was the Czechoslo- vakian-Polish frontier. There we found two thousand Ad- ventist youth gathered for a great reunion and congress. One group had brought a large brass band, made up of Adventist Youth Speak for our own young people. Every church in Poland was repre- Themselves sented. They carried colorful banners. Choral groups By E. W. Dunbar and choirs were there from many churches. What a won- derful occasion it was, and how happy these young people T WAS largely young people who discerned the times were for the privilege of reunion with their fellow youth and caught the vision in the early days of this last-day from other lands! There had been such a meeting twelve I message. We could almost say that this Advent Move- years before, and at that time there were about two hun- ment was a young people's movement in its beginnings. dred in attendance. Then two years later another such James White was only twenty-two when he led out in meeting was held with four hundred in attendance. This the early work. Joshua V. Himes and J. N. Andrews began was the last meeting of its kind until this great occasion. their ministry at an early age. One of the last pioneers The presence of this large body of young people, to die, J. N. Loughborough, began preaching when he coupled with the fact that many of those present were not was only twenty, and Uriah Smith, one-time editor of the church members but interested friends and neighbors, REVIEW, began at the same early age. S. N. Haskell, an- testified to the ardent zeal of Adventist youth even in other of our honored leaders, became president of the troublous times. APRIL 21, 1949 13 THE ADVENTIST HOME CIRCLE

Conducted by Promise Kloss Sherman my children, I kept helplessly wringing my hands and, The Safety of Our Children almost choking, over and over again I cried, "My babies; By Truma Elizabeth Rhodes my babies!" I awoke in an agony, my body wet with perspiration LAY asleep and dreamed. In my dream it was early and shaking convulsively. I sat up in bed, wondering spring. The sun was shining brightly this particular where I was. Was it true? Had it really happened? I I morning as I made the beds, washed the dishes, and hastened to the children's room. There in bed lay my swept the floors of that humble little cottage near the little son peacefully sleeping. I put my arms around him river. There was much I meant to do that day. The house and sobbed heartbrokenly. I thanked my heavenly Father must be spick-and-span, for we were expecting company. that it was just a dream, that it was not true, and my So when Sonny and Sister, aged twelve and seven, asked children were sleeping soundly, contented; and I was my permission to play in a near-by creek, I consented. It confident that God would keep and protect them through was something that I had never before given them per- the night. How grateful I was that my children were mission to do, but this morning I gave a sigh of relief safe! to be rid of them, because their absence gave me more The Downward Current time to prepare for my soon-coming friends. But were my children really safe? It was as if a voice I must work fast, for I wanted everything to be in per- had asked me that question point-blank, out of the still- fect order for my guests. I had always been especially ness of the night. I pondered the question. Did the dream anxious that they be comfortable, and relax, free from all have some significant meaning? I lay awake, tossing and bother and the cares of everyday toil. turning, and came to the conclusion that the dream did Later in the day, shortly after my guests had arrived, it have a significance, for Sister White tells us that "we are began to rain, but I was so engrossed in their conversation living in an unfortunate age for children. A heavy cur- and their welfare that I hardly noticed. I do remember rent is setting downward to perdition, and more than once seeing the grass and the little yellow jonquils childhood's experience and strength is needed to press glistening in the rain as I passed the open doorway, but against this current, and not be borne down by it." I was too busy even to notice that the rain was more than —Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 397. just an April shower, which soon after became a down- Yes, those swirling, angry waters could be sin; and I, pour. so engrossed in the things of this world, might permit Where Are the Children? my children to dabble in a little creek of sin until it In the afternoon the rain ceased, and my friends and I would become a vast ocean, taking my children from my decided to take a walk down by the river. Everything in sight. nature was fresh and beautiful after the rain, as we I shuddered as I thought of that dream and how like walked, arm in arm, across the lawn. But we were totally unprepared for what we saw at the river's edge. The river wasn't calm now, as it had been in the early morning. It was a mass of swirling, angry, muddy water. It was not until then that I thought of my children and recalled that "Ow "Pi the etteeditea Tot 7 they had not come home for their lunch. Being so By ELIZABETH ROSSER anxious for my company's comfort, I had not thought to tell the children when they left at what time they should Are all the children in? The night is falling, return. I had expected them back in a short while, and And storm clouds gather in the threatening west; The lowing cattle seek a friendly shelter; surely by the time our guests had arrived, but now it was The bird hies to' her nest: midafternoon, and they still had not returned. The thunder crashes; wilder grows the tempest, I looked in the direction of the little creek which And darkness settles o'er the fearful din; flowed into the river, where my children had gone to play, Come, shut the door, and gather round the hearth. but there was no land in sight. As far as my eyes could stone: see was water—only one vast ocean of mad, rushing, Are all the children in? water. I began to wring my hands in despair. As I stood staring in the direction my children had gone earlier in Are all the children in? The night is falling the day, I strained my eyes to see whether there might When gilded sin doth walk about the streets. not be some possible way of escape, but before my "At last, it biteth like a serpent," frozen, terrified being was only water—slushing, churn- Poisoned are stolen sweets. Oh, mothers, guard the feet of inexperience, ing, unmerciful water. It was then that I realized, with Too prone to wander in the paths of sin! broken heart, that my children would never come home Oh, shut the door of love against temptation! again. Are all the children in? "Why Did I Neglect Them?" Dizzy and faint, I sank to the ground while my two Are all the children in? The night is falling, friends were unable to hold me up. Suffocating and The night of death is hastening on apace; The Lord is calling, "Enter thou thy chamber, smothering, I kept wringing my hands and crying aloud And tarry there a space." in agony, "Oh, why did I neglect them? Why didn't I And when He comes, the King in all His glory, think of my children before? Now it is too late—too late!" Who died the shameful death our hearts to win, It was as if someone were tearing my heart out, and I Oh, may the gates of heaven shut about us, kept straining my eyes to see my children coming home With all the children in! to safety, but all I could see was that vast ocean of brown, ugly, muddy water. Self-condemned for my negligence of 14 REVIEW AND HERALD that muddy, raging water, is sin—first calm and subtle, in the morning with a prayer on their lips, and ended the until it has us moving slowly but surely downstream, and day by gathering together to place themselves in His then faster and swifter until we are helpless and every- care." where we look is sin. God forbid that this nightmare "If we can make more parents feel their obligations should ever be so. I determined by the grace of Christ to their children, we feel that Juvenile Delinquency will that my children would not be neglected. It is my one steadily decrease."—Ohio State Journal, Jan. 14, 1948. all-important duty to present my children to the Lord Yes, parents, the times in which we are living demand when we are called to give an account of our heritage. a tremendous effort on our part as fathers and mothers. Yes, it is more than a duty; it is a wonderful privilege. Child training demands the impost of every God-fearing Christian. Are our children safe? When we see shocking Redeeming the Time crimes being committed every day, and the wickedness I confessed to my Lord that it was true that of late I that prevails about us, knowing that the greatest percent- had been too much concerned with things of little im- age is by teen-age boys and girls, we do well to ponder the portance. I felt I had neglected my children, and that lines in the little poem by Elizabeth Rosser that appears God had given me this warning to awaken me to the in this department. realization of where such neglect could lead. I thanked Him that it was, not too late, and then began planning how I could redeem the time. First, I must confess my neglect to my children, and Parents' Fellowship of Prayer then I must set about training my children in the way "I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and they should go, so as to have God's assurance that when I will save thy children." Isa. 49:25. they are old, they "will not depart from it." Prov. 22:6. A mother from Pennsylvania describes the Parents' I must diligently teach God's words to my children. Fellowship of Prayer as "a splendid plan that meets an The Lord states, "Thou shalt teach them diligently unto urgent need." Another, writing from Arkansas, is thankful thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest that now we can all "meet at the throne of grace at a set in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and time each week to pray for our loved ones. There is strength in unity," she continues "and though I have been when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." Deut. praying for my unconverted family for years, I believe this 6:7. is the move that will help us see the answer to our "The Bible should be the child's first text-book. From this prayers." book, parents are to give wise instruction. The word of God Strength in Unity is to be made the rule of the life. From it the children are to At vesper time every Friday evening parents, teachers, learn that God is their Father; and from the beautiful lessons and others interested in youth are urged to gather in of His word they are to gain a knowledge of His character. family groups and pray for our children and youth. This Through the inculcation of its principles, they are to learn to provides a set time for all to unite in prayer. What a vast do justice and judgment."—Counsels to Teachers, pp. 108, 109. prayer meeting this would make if we could all come together in one large meeting! Thousands would be present What consolation to know that God is our co-worker to unite in the spirit and purpose of the world-wide fellow- in the great responsibility of child training. James tells ship. But we need not feel that God's presence graces only us, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, . . . large assemblies of His people. "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it and it shall be given him." James 1:5. Because child train- shall be done for them of My Father which is in heaven. ing is such a high calling of God, do you wonder that we For where two or three are gathered together in My name, should study? Why shouldn't we? We study for every there am I in the midst of them." Matt. 18:19, 20. Thus other profession. Here are some quotations from the spoke Jesus. He is with you, then, praying fathers, mothers, and teachers, in your family prayer circle. Keep your Spirit of prophecy that are worthy our careful attention: children lifted up before God and be systematic in record- "The labor due your child during its early years will admit of ing answers to your prayers. Then share your experience no neglect. There is no time in its life when the rule should with us. Let us know that you have joined the fellowship, be forgotten, Line upon line, precept upon precept, here a and send along your most interesting prayer experiences. A mother from Virginia writes, "I have a daughter and little, and there a little. Deny your children anything rather son-in-law for whom I am praying. I dreamed one night than the instruction which, if faithfully followed, will make that I had reached the gates of heaven with that vast them good and useful members of society, and will prepare company of the saved ones, but I looked for my child and them for citizenship in the kingdom of heaven."—Ibid., p. 129. she was not there, so I turned back to this dark world to seek her. Then I awakened. It made a powerful impression Employment for Hands and Minds upon my mind. I determined to seek her more earnestly now, that I might never experience the agony of that "Instead of sending her children from her that she may not dream." be annoyed by their noise or troubled by their little wants, let God Will Hear Our Prayer the mother plan amusement or light work to employ the active God wants to see all our children saved. He wants to hands and minds. By entering into their feelings, and directing see our homes happy, cheerful places, but to accomplish their amusements and employments, the mother will gain the this, we have a work to do. "It cost prayers and tears, and confidence of her children."—Ibid., p. 115. patient, oft-repeated instruction. We are sometimes put "Fathers and mothers should look upon their children as to our wit's end to know what to do; but we can take the younger members of the Lord's family, committed to them to children to God in our prayers, pleading that they may educate for heaven."—The Desire of Ages, p. 515. be kept from evil, praying, 'Now, Lord, do Thy work; "Too much importance can not be placed upon the early soften and subdue the hearts of our children,' and He will hear us. He hearkens to the prayers of the weeping, care- training of children. The lessons learned, the habits formed, worn mothers. When Christ was on earth, the burdened during the years of infancy and childhood, have more to do mothers brought their children to Him; they thought that with the formation of the character and the direction of the if He would lay His hands upon them, they would have life than have all the instruction and training of after years." better courage to bring them up as they ought to go. —Ministry of Healing, p. 380. The Saviour knew why these mothers came to Him with their little ones, and He rebuked the disciples, who would Mr. J. Edgar Hoover says in the magazine Listen, vol- have kept them away, saying, "Suffer the little children to ume 1, number 1, "At the end of the last war, age seven- come unto Me, and forbid them not; for of such is the teen led all the other age groups in arrests for serious kingdom of God.' Jesus loves the little ones, and He is watching to see how parents are doing their work."— crimes." He continues, "Our nation is sadly in need of Fundamentals of Christian Education, pp. 160, 161. a rebirth of the simple life—a return to the days when God was a part of each household, when families arose APRIL 21, 1949 15 ( ;en e 1-.11 Conference StorieS ,From Jfhl REPORTS FROM ALL LA Far-flung Overse;Is Reports. MiSSion Fields,

are Bible stories." But the chief of police insisted that the Colporteurs Imprisoned storybooks were commercial and were in competition By C.. S. Longacre with other storybooks sold in the stores. Associate Secretary, Religious Liberty Department, The city attorney said, "I will release your colporteurs General Conference from jail on condition that you promise to bring them back to court for trial a week from now, and in the mean- N FEBRUARY 23 two of our experienced colpor- time I will examine these books carefully to discover teurs were arrested by the police in a city not far whether or not they are commercial. Call me up in about 0 from Washington, D. C., and put in jail for selling three days from now, and I will tell you whether or not our magazines and books without a license. A local the colporteurs will have to stand trial. If I discover that ordinance enacted a year ago by the city council required all these books are religious, I will nol-pros the case and a tax of a hundred dollars to obtain a license to sell any dismiss it with apologies. If we decide that the men have kind of literature, whether commercial or religious. to pay the tax, you are helping the cit.); meet its operating In calling upon the police headquarters of that city, we expenses." found the chief of police adamant. He refused to release At the appointed time I called the city attorney, and the men unless we paid fifty dollars on a bond for their he quickly answered, "I have decided to nol-pros the release, because they were bound over for court trial, or case. I am confident that, if I should prosecute the case he demanded that they pay a hundred dollars for the under our ordinance, I could win before our State license fee. We claimed that they had no right to imprison supreme court, but I am also sure I would lose the case them in view of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the before the Supreme Court of the United States, where United States governing the sale of religious literature. you said the case would be terminated on appeal, if we We then asked to see the ordinance under which they decided to prosecute. I don't want to increase the burden were being prosecuted. The chief of police said we would of the taxpayer, so I have decided to dismiss the case, have to obtain it from the city attorney. with my apologies." We saw the city attorney and asked to see the ordi- nance. It was read to us, and we informed the city On to Kaikan-3 attorney that the ordinance made no distinction between commercial and religious literature, and that the Su- Faithful in Spite of Hardships preme Court of the United States expressly stated in its latest decisions that no municipalities had any right By C. J. Ritchie under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the [Joining missionary G. E. Carter in Georgetown, British Guiana, C. J. Ritchie begins a journey by plane, boat, and trail to our mission stations among the Federal Constitution to require a permit, or license, or Davis Indians of Mount Roraima where he investigates the claims of govern- to levy any tax as a prerequisite to the right to sell ment officials that our health teachings had reduced the natives to a condition of serious malnutrition, Elder Ritchie, former Caribbean Union president, de- religious literature. termines to prove or disprove these claims, and at the same time bring spiritual help to these isolated tribespeople. After completing their first visit at the The city attorney at once said, "You are right if the Roraima Indian Mission Station, where they found no evidence of malnutrition, literature you are selling through your colporteurs is they now proceed on their adventuresome way.] religious literature instead of commercial." He said he HE next morning we were battling the rapids on was afraid the police erred in arresting our colporteurs our way to the second mission station, perhaps fifty and putting them in jail. "Let us go over to the police miles up the river. Although we had started at three station and examine the literature, whether it is religious in the morning, it was late Friday evening before we or commercial." arrived at Waramadong. Here Sister A. A. Carscallen Dispute About Nature of Books taught school in solitude for several years. Motor trouble had delayed us, and it was dark before we could land. He picked up Our Times magazine and examined it, But our loving people left their little huts to welcome and said, "That is religious." He examined the Life and us and help us with our baggage. It was evident that just Health magazine. Then he asked the question, "Is not this a commercial magazine?" I answered, "No. It is visiting and greeting them did not suffice to meet their also religious, because it deals with proper living and health. Christ healed all manner of sickness and disease. He endeavored to reach the souls of men by ministering to their bodies, and that is exactly the object of our work through this magazine." At once he said, "Yes, I know of the splendid medical work you are doing through your Washington Sanitarium in Takoma Park. I will be compelled to declare that Life and Health mag- azine is a religious journal." Next he looked at The Desire of Ages, The Great Controversy, and Patriarchs and Prophets; and then he said, "These are all religious books, but how about these small storybooks for children? These seem to be com- mercial books and have nothing to do with the Bible." I said, "Let me see one of those books." I opened it to the contents and the index in the front of the book and said, "Look here in this index. Here is a text from the Bible for each of these stories. These moral stories are These Natives of the Mount Roraima Mission, British Guiana, Are Faithful in all based on an explanation of a certain Bible text and Supporting the Church With Their Gifts of Love 16 REVIEW AND HERALD from. There are many Indians there. If the church will give my wife and my family a little help and care while I am away, I will go far back into Venezuela and tell others of this message." But how about the malnutrition? Our believers seemed much healthier and happier than the heathen Indians around them. We wondered. No one seemed to be ill at this station. A Long and Dangerous Journey Our boat was now headed for our main station, Paruima. It was positively thrilling to see our Indians take that large dugout over the rapids. But we could not tarry long at Paruima at this time. We were on our way to Kaikan, so early one morning we found ourselves on a very steep and difficult trail. Several mountain ranges, dense forests, and rapidly flowing rivers had to be crossed; but we had confidence in our Indian companions. They know God's great out-of-doors in a way that we poor city dwellers can never know it. Up and up went the trail. Giant monarchs of the forest lay across the path, and what a task it was, tired and exhausted as we were, to Elder and Mrs. W. A. Cott, Former Missionaries to the Davis Indians, Were climb over a ten-foot trunk with its network of broken Frequently Called Upon to Render Medical Aid in the Interior Jungles of British Guiana and tangled branches. Why not go around, do you ask? That would mean cutting the brush for a hundred or heartfelt needs. They would not go to sleep or permit us two hundred feet, and then missing the almost imper- to retire till we had given them a brief message and in- ceptible trail. vited God's blessing upon them. "Go back to your huts Many a time Brother Carter and I paused on a steep now, and tomorrow we shall spend the whole Sabbath slope, wondering whether we should go on. Our hearts day with you," we counseled. Then they reluctantly pounded like marine engines; our heads seemed as retired. though they would burst; our feet were sorer than they Our alarm clock the next morning proved to be the had ever been in all our lives. But we prayed for strength roaring and fighting of wild animals. We thought that and pressed forward. tigers must be in the region, but we learned that baboons One night we were camped on the edge of a forest. The also roar and fight like feline animals. What a wonderful deep, mysterious silence of no man's land was broken by sight met our gaze as we walked out into the clearing an crackling twigs. A large animal drew nearer and nearer. hour before Sabbath school time! Down several trails Brother Carter wished that the arrangements of the young and old, in little groups, began coming in. Ten, hammocks could be changed, for he was nearest the in- twenty, thirty, forty, seventy people gathered in the sistent, prowling beast. I told him it was just too late to chapel. They looked so clean and bright and happy that change. But the "angel of the Lord encampeth round Sabbath morning. They had bundles on their heads and about them that fear Him," and no harm befell us. under their arms. No, they were not breaking the Sab- After covering twenty-five miles a day by starting early bath. They were coming into His courts with their and keeping at it, about noon on the third day we ar- tithes and offerings. Cassava cakes, yams, tomatoes, and rived at the Wenamu River. Though a poor uphill man, beans they brought as their love gifts to the Lord. And I discovered I could roll down a slope faster than the what a noticeable difference between church members Indians. And so I was in the lead as we neared the river. and those still in heathen darkness! There some kind soul had erected a little, thatched shed, supported by a central pole. To sit in that shade and Inspiring Sabbath School Program lean against that pole became my immediate objective, The Sabbath school program was inspiring, well but the others were on my heels. I was just getting com- planned, and well executed. The superintendent made fortably seated when someone walked in, and in con- an earnest appeal that all share in making the gospel, sternation shouted, "Brother Ritchie! Didn't you see it which they had learned to love, available to those who or feel it? My, that was a narrow escape!" Those follow- know it not. And they freely brought in such as they had ing me had apparently disturbed a snake, and it had —two cakes from this one, three from that. A little basket dashed across the little shed. I was in its path. It slithered gathered up the few coins some had to give. How well the up my side, and I moved my arms just then, and it reviewer had mastered her lesson, and what accurate quickly fell off. Our boys failed to find it in the tall answers she required! Then came lesson time. This was grass. One of our teachers had almost died from snake different A teacher stood before the men, and another be- bite two years ago. fore the women. A question was asked, and the answer was read from the Scripture portion or lesson book. Then Enthusiastic Welcoming Party all repeated the answer together. And thus the drill went About a mile down the river, at Kaikan, our believers on. The lesson taught one Sabbath becomes the review had heard us approaching, and soon two or three boats of the following Sabbath. came to meet us. In the old thatched pavilion, where they Here, too, were presented the same earnest testimonies. held their services, we visited with Chief Francisco and Chief Donald said, "I am glad that Jesus is coming his followers, but first we asked that all the believers be soon. I want to be ready to meet Him." The church called in for a meeting. leader responded with, "I thank God for this message. "Francisco," I said, "I'm so glad to meet you=so glad Glad you are here to teach us more of it." At this station to know that you have accepted the truth and that you a young Missionary Volunteer leader came up and shared are leading your people to accept it." Seven years ago his burden with us. "I want to take this message to other Francisco was a drunkard and perhaps the worst character tribes 'way up the Caroni River, where most of us came in the tribe. "Yes," he said, "I love this truth." "Francisco, APRIL 2 1 , 1 9 4 9 17 do you know why I have come here? I have come not only to reach Paruima for the Sabbath, but to send food on to worship with you and teach you more of God's Word its way. A little dry crust of cassava bread several months but to tell you that we are faced with a serious problem. old, dipped in water, was all poor Brother Matthews had The government men say that our teachings are making for food. Milk was needed and needed immediately. our people sick. Are any of your people sick?" (To be continued) "Yes," he replied, "many are sick. Two days ago we buried one sister. Brother Matthews, our Sabbath school superintendent, is very sick in that hut. Another sister is Visiting the South American sick over there, and two or three are sick in my hut." Missions "What is the trouble, Francisco?" The old man was perplexed. (Concluded) I continued, "The government tells us they will stop By A. V. Olson our work unless we change our teachings. When you Vice President, General Conference stopped eating the pig and skin fish, did you try to catch more good fish and deer? One government man told me HE doctors and nurses in our medical institutions that you are not hunting as you should, and you are all are doing a noble work. The last few years the getting sick because you do not have enough good fish. Tdivision staff and the leaders out in the fields have He also told me that you people are staying in church all worked hard to increase the number of these institutions. day and not planting your fields as you should. Is that A beautiful new sanitarium, located on the mountainside true, Francisco? We do not want the teachings of the just above the city of Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil, has opened Bible to be misunderstood and brought into disrepute, its doors under the supervision of Dr. C. C. Schneider, do we, Francisco?" who has spent many years of fruitful service in Brazil. Since the close of the war our brethren in Lima, Peru, Cause Enough for Sickness have acquired the former German embassy and trans- He talked it over with his people. They could not or formed it into a sanitarium. Here Dr. C. R. Potts and his did not explain the causes of their sickness to us at once. assistants are doing a wonderful medical missionary work. All he said was, "The government officers told me all this Over on the other side of the continent, in the city of themselves some months ago. I told them Francisco is a Belem, near the mouth of the Amazon, land has been Christian, and he and his people were going to do what bought and plans laid for establishing a modest sani- God's Book says. We will not eat the pig, the crow, and tarium. The land is paid for. A considerable sum is also the skin fish." in hand toward the erection of the proposed buildings. "How about 'it, Francisco? Seven years ago Brother More money is needed, however, to complete the project. Brooks brought the truth to you here in Kaikan. For the In order to make it possible for the brethren of the North first five years, as you followed our teachings, were your Brazil Union to go forward with this important under- people sick?" taking, the council voted to assign to it the Thirteenth "No, no, no! We were never healthier." Sabbath Overflow of the last quarter of 1949, this having "Then what happened last year?" already been voted to South America by the General Con- He paused, thought, and talked things over with some ference. It is hoped that the offering will be a large one, so of his men. Then he said, "Last year the rains did not that the needed funds will be provided. come. Our food became very short. Just at that time At the Halliwell Home some of my people living way down the river came to me. They were without any food. So I took half of what I had Together with R. R. Figuhr, the division president, it and gave it to them. [This was a new company he and was my happy privilege to spend a week in the home of his people had started four days' journey down the river. Brother and Sister Halliwell. These intrepid workers have We did not know we had any believers there. spent many years in faithful and fruitful service on the "A year ago we had plenty of bananas and cassava. Amazon. This year my first planting dried up, and I had to plant While we were in Belem, where the headquarters of the again. Did you not see my fields on, your way down? We North Brazil Union are located and where the annual are working. We do not sing all the time. As for fish, my meeting of the union committee was held, Brother and river has the best fish in all British Guiana. They come Sister Halliwell took us for a trip on their mission launch. from everywhere to fish here. We have plenty of good fish. We need no little fish to be thrown into our river. Just the drought, the drought, that is all. No cassava for bread; no bananas to eat till the new crops come' in, in about two months! We have told the officers that we are Seventh-day Adventists, and we will not change." Last Day at the Mission We visited with, and prayed "for, the sick. We jotted down their symptoms, and tried in every way we could to see whether we could get faithful Brother Matthews to a plane landing. It was impossible. The hills were too steep, the rivers too full of rapids. He would die before going very far. We spent the whole afternoon and eve- ning helping and teaching. We arranged for four carriers to go back with us. We would load them with food from a near-by station at Paruima, and we would quickly send medicines from the government dispensary. We would also send up a few cases of milk by plane as soon as we got back to Georgetown. Each time a crop came in they must save some of the beans for planting. They promised. Typical of the Newer Churches in South America Is the Beautiful The next morning we needed to hurry back, not only • Templo Adventistb at Montevideo, Uruguay 18 REVIEW AND HERALD of them, up among the mountain peaks of the high Andes, letting their light shine out over the hills and the valleys. In the afternoon I spoke in our Indian training school a few miles from Juliaca, and in the evening to the church and the sanitarium family in town. Dr. D. P. Duffle is in charge of this institution. It was a real inspiration to meet him and his associates. They are a united band of faithful and enthusiastic missionaries. I would like to mention by name all the leaders and workers that I met in South America, and tell of the good work each one is doing, but that is not possible in this short article. I am glad to say that in the division, in the unions, in the local fields, and in the institutions we have experienced, devoted, and aggressive leaders. Associated In Arequipa, Second Largest City in Peru, Is This Im- with them are groups of fine, loyal workers whose primary pressive Adventist Church Built About Four Years Ago burden and purpose is to win souls for the kingdom When the people living along the Amazon see or hear of God. the Luzeiro chugging up or down the river, they flock South America is not an easy field. It has its problems to the banks for medical care, and often for spiritual help. and perplexities. But it is a field rich in promise for the At the present time we have a small fleet of six or seven future. It will yield a bountiful harvest for the heavenly of these missionary launches on the Amazon and its tribu- garner. taries. At first when the people saw one of them coming they fled into the jungle, but today they regard the work- Far Eastern Division Council ers on our boats as angels of mercy. At Belem we were joined by Dr. T. R. Flaiz, of the Gen- By V. T. Armstrong eral Conference. On our way from Belem to Lima, Peru, President, Far Eastern Division we stopped off at Mangos, Brazil, and Iquitos, Peru, to visit our mission stations and to preach to our churches. HE division council and the precouncil meetings In both these cities, situated on the banks of the biggest held at headquarters in Singapore, February 6-21, river in the world, we have a church, each with its own Twere undoubtedly the best division council meet- commodious chapel. It was a pleasure to meet our work- ings we have ever held in this field. The attendance was ers and members in these far-off lands and to witness a little larger than in former years. The union presidents their earnestness and zeal in the Master's service. At and treasurers were present and all elective members of Iquitos, where Brother and Sister Stahl lived and toiled the division committee. The publishing house managers, for a number of years, J. D. Replogle and A. A. Manrique chief editors, publishing field secretaries, and the union took us on their mission launch for two days of travel and home missionary secretaries came for the publishing and labor on one of the tributaries of the Amazon. We slept home missionary council, and were invited to remain for and ate with the brethren on their boat. This trip gave us the division council which followed. L. K. Dickson, W. A. a good opportunity to become acquainted with their Butler, and D. Lois Burnett, from the General Confer- method of labor as well as with the conditions under ence; and C. A. Striven, president of the North Pacific which they must live and work. These workers are true Union, gave excellent help. R. C. Hill, manager of the missionaries, and God is blessing their efforts. Signs of the Times Publishing House in Shanghai, was Lima is a beautiful and rapidly growing city on the also present for most of the meetings. shores of the broad Pacific Ocean. Though situated within A New Sense of Responsibility twelve degrees of the equator, it has a moderate climate The program opened each day with a devotional hour because of the cooling breezes from the Humboldt Cur- followed by group prayer bands. Each afternoon business rent. Here the annual meeting of the Inca Union com- was laid aside for a Bible study, conducted by Elder mittee was held. It was followed by a very beneficial Dickson. The evening meetings were given over to reports ministerial institute at the union training school, a new from the various union leaders and departmental secre- institution located about twenty-five miles from the city in taries. Those from the fields were inspiring. The opportu- a fertile and charming little valley. This institute, as the nities in every field and the results of persevering labor in others which I had already attended in various parts of 1948 brought to all in attendance a new sense of our South America, was under the able direction of Walter responsibilities and the need of greater devotion. Schubert, secretary of the ministerial association of the division. Through the Bible correspondence lessons we seem to have found a way to reach the Moslems in our field. Sev- Among the Inca Indians eral have been baptized, and many more are studying the The last week end of my stay in South America was message in secret. The Moslems in Singapore have been spent among the Inca Indians on what is often called the greatly exercised over the influence of the message upon "roof of the world." It was here that Brother Stahl, "the their people. apostle to the Indians," and his wife attracted the atten- The literature sales for 1948 amounted to $590,572.22 tion of people from both near and far by the outstanding (U.S.), which is several times larger than for any previous work they were able to accomplish under the blessing year. Last year three hundred evangelistic meetings were of God. It was my privilege to enter the house in which held. Baptisms passed the six thousand mark, which is they had lived many years, and to preach to a large audi- far in excess of 1947 and considerably above any prewar ence in the church on their old mission station. When at year. The staff of missionaries is greater in numbers today the close of the Sabbath morning service I asked for all than ever before, and when those now under appointment who had been baptized by Brother Stahl to please show arrive, the total families and single missionaries will be their hands I looked down on a regular forest of arms and well over one hundred. hands in that big stone church. It was a thrilling sight. All Surely the meeting just closed marks a new day in the these years these humble Indian brethren and sisters have Far Eastern Division, and the workers are setting their been kept by the power of God. There they are, thousands stakes for larger results in 1949. APRIL 21, 1949 19 Details of a Tragic Death NORTH AMERICAN By E. D. Dick Secretary, General Conference SPOT NEW S LETTER from R. R. Figuhr, dated March 21, re- ceived in the secretarial office of the General Con- From Our Special Correspondents A ference, contains the following details with regard to the death of E. N. Lugenbeal, former president of the Atlantic Union Inca Union Mission: • DR. LYSLE WILLIAMS, graduate of the College of Medical Doubtless you have heard the details of the sad death of Evangelists, has located in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Brother Lugenbeal. On the tenth of March he arrived from • J. B. CHRISPENS baptized 4 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the highlands. The following morning, Friday, he spent work- recently, and 12 more are preparing to be baptized in May. ing in the office until the middle of the day. After he arrived home his children urged him to take them to the beach for • IN 1946 the 20th Century Bible School of the Northern a little swim before dinner, for this is the time the sun shines New England Conference had an average weekly mail of 174. in Lima, and the people of that city improve every opportu- For the past month the weekly average has been nearly 800. nity to be in the sun before the clouds again cover the city, some- On a recent Sabbath one of their students was baptized, two times for weeks and months. So Brother Lugenbeal took his others kept their first Sabbath, and another attended her first family down to spend a few minutes at the beach with the in- Sabbath meeting. Mrs. R. W. Moore has charge of the school. tention of returning a little later and continuing his work Friday afternoon in the office. • ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD Betty Parrett is an active member of the "Unknowingly they went to a beach that is very dangerous. Concord, New Hampshire, missionary society. She has taken 4 No signs warning the people were up, and Brother Lugenbeal Bible courses, and is giving Bible studies to 3 of her girl friends. did not know of the peril. As he stepped into the margin of the water a great wave came up and struck him, evidently Canadian Union throwing him to the bottom and injuring him. A strong under- • THE Canadian Watchman Press has just installed a Cater- tow then carried him out, but not too far. When he came up pillar Diesel power-generating plant with a capacity of 75 he was still swimming, but he took only six or eight strokes, kilowatts. This plant is capable of generating sufficient power and then began to float on his face. This led the brethren to for all the needs of the publishing house. think he was injured when the wave struck him. There were a number of good swimmers around, and two or three of them • CANADIAN UNION COLLEGE church iS making a strong drive went right out and brought him to shore. He was in the water to put the finishing touches on the auditorium which the only about fifteen minutes. Some doctors were there, and they Alberta Conference built on the college campus last summer. began working on him. Our doctor was immediately notified, This includes the insulating, heating, plumbing, balcony, rest and soon he arrived with an oxygen tank. However, all efforts rooms, and the Dorcas and Sabbath school rooms. were in vain, in spite of the fact that they worked over him two or three hours. • THE Canadian Signs of the Times continues to exert its "Brother Lugenbeal lies buried in the cemetery between influence in soul winning. 0. B. Gerhart, in Paris Junction, Callao and Lima, where a number of our other mission workers Ontario, writes of a young couple who were primarily inter- are at rest. Among them is Ennis Moore, another leader in the ested in the message through the Signs. The wife has already Inca Union. Personally, I feel keenly the loss of- Brother been baptized, together with several friends. Lugenbeal. He and I have worked closely together for the last twenty years, and I have always found him a loyal friend and Central Union faithful worker and Adventist. I feel confident that he will come forth in the first resurrection to life everlasting." • THE College View, Nebraska, church has launched a cam- paign for needed building improvements at an estimated cost of $100,000. These improvements will include a new building to house the Sabbath school departments and church offices, larger platform facilities, and enlarged entrances. • A SERIES of evangelistic meetings is being held in the Great Bend, Kansas, church by L. J. Ehrhardt, district pastor, assisted by Byron A. Blecha. The attendance to date has been very From Our Special Correspondents encouraging. Australasian Inter-Union AFTER the North American Missionary Volunteer council which was held in Lincoln, Nebraska, under the direction of • AT commencement time last year, Avondale College had its the General Conference Missionary Volunteer secretaries, a largest graduation class-53 young people. Nearly all plan to youth's rally was conducted in the Union College auditorium enter denominational work. W. E. Nelson, of the General Con- on Sabbath, March 26. The auditorium was filled to capacity, ference, gave the baccalaureate address. and an inspiring program was presented. • THE new college year opened February 23, with an enroll- Lake Union ment of 390 in the college, 65 in the central school, and 118 in the primary school. • AT the end of the first week of their two-week Ingathering campaign, the Prattville, Michigan, church had a thrilling • WE are looking forward to the arrival in Australia of J. C. report. With a membership of only 39 they had raised $1,523.54. Craven, who is coming from England, via America, to take Twelve children in the church had brought in from $16 to $44 over the management of the Signs Publishing Company to fill each. This meant a double Minute Man goal for the church. the vacancy caused by the transfer of T. A. Mitchell to evan- gelistic work in Queensland. Elder Mitchell reports: "We have • J. 0. IVERSEN, of the Iowa Conference, has been called to just closed the books for the year 1948, and find it has been take up the duties in the Missionary Volunteer and educa- another peak year—actually a record of records! Last year, tional departments of the Illinois Conference. He will succeed 1947, was an all-time high, but for 1948 we exceeded the F. F. Bush, who has recently moved to the West Pennsylvania previous year by thousands of pounds- worth of truth-filled Conference. literature that has gone out into the homes of the people. • A FINE report of lay -evangelism in Indiana comes from It is a glorious privilege to be connected with such work." H. E. McClure, home missionary secretary of the conference. 20 REVIEW AND HERALD

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On February 27 he visited the final meeting of a series which Kentucky-Tennessee Conference. The basement of the church, has been held for a number of weeks by Bernard Miller, elder which was completed and is now serving as a meeting place, of the Converse church. As a result of the work of Brother was dedicated at the same time.. Miller and his associates, 4 persons have already been baptized. • NOT only is the Alabama-Mississippi Conference a Minute Northern Union Man conference in the Ingathering, but now every district in the conference has that distinction. The total amount raised • DYRE DYRESEN, who is the Bible teacher at Maplewood is $48,500, an average of $19.73 per member. Academy, Hutchinson, Minnesota, reports that a baptismal class had been conducted there since the fall Week of Prayer. Southwestern Union • At the close of the recent spring Week of Prayer, which was • THE Texico Conference has made plans to build a separate conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hardinge, of Union College, Book and Bible House building, which will be adjacent to the 22 young people were baptized and united with the church. present conference office. A special offering was received on • E. A. ROBERTSON, the educational secretary of the union April 2 in all the churches of the Texico Conference, to assist conference, reports that in this union there are 1,453 of our in financing this project. children and youth enrolled in our denominational schools this • THE Ardmore Sanitarium and Hospital, Ardmore, Okla- year. Of this number 675 are enrolled in our 41 elementary and homa, is a member of the Association of Self-Supporting Insti- intermediate schools, and 466 in our four academies; the tutions. The year 1948 was a successful year of operation for remaining 312 are college students, 12 of whom are attending this institution. The gain for the year was $11,939. At the the College of Medical Evangelists. present time the institution is well filled, and the work of the sanitarium is greatly appreciated in the area which it serves. North Pacific Union • THE Texico Conference workers enjoyed a very successful • Fowl. candidates, 2 young men and their wives, were bap- workers' meeting during the week of March 6 to 12. J. E. tized March 5 at Pocatello, Idaho, by Clarence C. Kott. Edwards, of the General Conference Home Missionary De- • A RAPIDLY expanding company in Ashton is looking forward partment, was present, and his services were greatly appre- to joining the sisterhood of churches in Idaho. At present ciated. the attendance is 18. A Dorcas Society of 8 members has been working diligently. A "Share Your Faith" program is under way in this Mormon town. CHURCH CALENDAR • "CHRIST THE GIFT AND THE GIVER" was the theme of the spring week of consecration at Walla Walla College, March April 2-May 14 Ingathering Campaign Sept. 24 13th Sabbath (Inter-America) 26 through April 2. Frank H. Yost, of the Religious Liberty May 7 Medical Missionary Day Oct. 1 Colporteur Rally Day Department of the General Conference, was the speaker. June 18 Sabbath School Rally Day Oct. 8 Voice of Prophecy. Offering June 25 13th Sabbath Oct. 15-22 Message Magaztne Cam. (Southern Africa) Oct. 29 Temperance Offering • SEVENTEEN premedical students have received letters of July 16 Midsummer Offering Nov. 5-26 Review Campaign acceptance from the College of Medical Evangelists. These July 23 Educational Day Nov. 12-19 Week of Prayer July 23 Elementary Schools Offering Nov. 19 Week of Sacrifice Offering students begin their medical course next autumn. Aug. 13 College of Medical Nov. 24 Thanksgiving Day Evangelists Offering Dec. 31 13th Sabbath Sept. 3-10 Missions Extension Cam. (South America) Pacific Union Sept. 10 Missions Extension Offering Nom.—Unless otherwise indicated the first Sabbath of each month is Home • "I HAVE fought against this truth for 30 years, but now I Missionary Day, and on the second Sabbath a missions offering is scheduled. give myself to the Lord, and I am going to be baptized." The speaker was one of a group baptized in the Visalia, California, church recently. In this district, headed by V. J. Maloney, 13 others have united with the various churches since January 1. • CARL BECKER, formerly pastor of one of the Lodi, California, churches, was elected president of the Arizona Conference at the recent constituency meeting. At the same time M. E. Hagen, 4»io->s›GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS «<-xt-«<- formerly of Idaho, was elected secretary-treasurer; and R. L. EDITOR FRANCIS D. NICHOL Hubbs, principal of the Arizona Academy was elected educa- ASSOCIATE EDITORS tional superintendent and Missionary Volunteer secretary. FREDERICK LEE J. L. MCELHANY W. A. SPICER F. M. Wmcox G. E. Smith becomes principal of the Arizona Academy. ASSISTANT EDITOR: D. A. DELAFIELD SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS • THE new church at Garden Grove, California, was opened C. H. WATSON, E. D. Dicx, W. E. NELSON, L. K. DICKSON, J. J. NETHERY, Sabbath morning, March 5. The following Sabbath morning W. B. OCHS, A. V. OLSON, PRESIDENTS OF ALL DIVISIONS the new church in Hemet was opened; and in the afternoon SPOT NEWS SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS GENERAL CONFERENCE: ROGER ALTMAN; OVERSEAS: AUSTRALASIA: S. V. STRAT- the new Zion church at Perris had its opening service. H. H. FORD; CHINA: N. F. BREWER; FAR EASTERN: C. P. SORENSEN; NORTHERN EU- ROPE: A. K.ARLMAN1 INTER-AMERICA: MISS EFFIE A. JAMES; SOUTH AMERICA: Hicks, president of the Southeastern California Conference, SANTIAGO SCHMIDT; SOUTHERN AFRICA: F. G. CLIFFORD; SOUTHERN ASIA: E. M. was the speaker at each of the services. MPIFFN; SOUTHERN EUROPE: MARIUS FRIDLIN; BRITISH UNION: J. A. MCMILLAN; MIDDLE EAST UNION: G. ARTHUR KEOUGH Southern Union NORTH AMERICAN UNIONS: ATLANTIC: MISS LAURA M. DROWN; CANADIAN: MISS ETHEL R. HOWARD; CENTRAL: MISS MARTHA HELEN HUFFINES; COLUMBIA: • WARREN ADAMS; LAKE: MRS. MILDRED WADE; NORTHERN: A. R. SMOUSE; NORTH THE South Atlantic Conference has set aside the month PACIFIC: MRS. IONE MORGAN; PACIFIC: MISS OPAL STONE; SOUTHERN: MISS of April as "Square Up With God Month," during which time MILDRED JOHNSON; SOUTHWESTERN: J. C. KOZEL special efforts are to be made to encourage all members to pay EDITORIAL SECRETARY PROMISE KLOsS SHERMAN up any back tithe and keep up to date in their obligation CIRCULATION MANAGER R. J. CHRISTIAN to God. All communications relating to the Editorial Department and all manuscripts submitted for publication should be addressed to Editor, Review and Herald, • WORK has begun on enlarging the tabernacle at Southern Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. Missionary College, to accommodate the increasing attendance Countries Where Extra at Georgia-Cumberland camp meetings. It is planned to have United States Canada Postage Is Required One Year $3.75 $3.90 $4.25 the new addition completed by camp meeting time this year, Six Months 2.10 2.25 2.35 with a new public-address system installed. Make all post office money orders payable at the Washington, D.C., post office (not Takoma Park). Address all business communications and make all drafts ¶ THE organization of the Elizabethtown, Kentucky, church and express money orders payable to REVIEW AND HERALD, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. In changing address, do not fail to give both the old and on March 19 planted a light in another dark county of the new address. APRIL 21, 1949 23 "EWS A D NOTE

Recent Mission- MISS MARJORIE JOHNSON, Of Au- parts of the world our Sabbath school membership is very ary Departures burn Academy, Washington, re- much below our church membership. This is not as it sponding to a call to South Africa, should be, for the Sabbath school is often spoken of as the to serve as director of the girls' school at the Lower church at study. Any church member who is not a regular Gwelo Mission, sailed from New York for Cape Town, active member of the Sabbath school should seriously con- March 30, on the S.S. Robin Locksley. sider becoming one as soon as possible, for his own good Mr. Julius Korgan, of Plainview Academy, South and that of the church. W. E. NELSON. Dakota, sailed from New York March 30, with Mrs. Kor- gan and their small son, James, on the S.S. Robin Locks- ley, for Cape Town, South Africa. Brother Korgan will Bookwork H. G. MOULDS, publishing depart- connect with one of the mission schools in Rhodesia. in Australasia ment secretary of the Australasian Two nurses sailed from New York for Southampton, Inter-Union, recently sent to us the England, April 2, on the S.S. Queen Mary, en route to following encouraging information: South Africa. They were Miss Paula Lamnek, of Takoma "Last year was a very good one in this field. The order Park, who is to connect with the Songa Mission Hospital, value of £130,496 was the highest, on record, and the de- in the Belgian Congo, and Miss Julia Hoel, who is return- livery value of £95,750 was the largest in the history of ing from furlough to the Ngoma Mission Hospital in our work in this field. Throughout the year we were able Ruanda-Urundi. E. D. DICK. to operate on a satisfactory ratio in respect to medical and religious books. They were 38 per cent and 62 per cent respectively. We have moved off more strongly this year Public Effort FROM personal letters we learn of than we did last year, and expect that there is the possi- the opening of an evangelistic ef- bility before us of another excellent year. Our plan is for in West China fort in Kunming, famed "Burma another record. It is not, that we want to put up records road" city of Southwest China. The effort is being con- for the sake of putting up records, but we are reaching ducted in a large city auditorium by Milton Lee, China out because of the need of the masses and our desire to Division evangelist. The first night 1,500 were in at- use these days of prosperity to the greatest advantage." tendance, with 1,000 listening to the vital truths of the D. A. McAnAms. gospel on following nights. The attention is excellent, and the people show a great interest in these religious Review Cente- REVIEW AND HERALD Centenary meetings. All classes are in attendance. The ticket method services were held at the Sligo is being used, and this helps to gather in a selected group. nary Celebration church in Takoma Park, Washing- Assisting Elder Lee are C. S. Cooper and K. L. Keng be- ton, D.C., on April 9 and 10. The occasion was one long sides a number of young Chinese evangelists, six of whom to be remembered. There was a very large attendance at are sons of Chinese workers. There is great hope of a all the services. Denominational leaders from the General goodly harvest of souls in that distant city. Conference, union and local conferences were present, besides representatives from the three sister publishing houses and publishing secretaries of unions. Sabbath after- Importance of THROUGHOUT the Seventh-day Ad- noon a symposium was conducted in which the story of Sabbath Schools ventist denomination the Sabbath the beginnings of the publishing work was rehearsed and school is a very important factor in lessons from the past discussed. In the evening a specially two particulars: First, it furnishes an opportunity for prepared moving picture in kodachrome entitled "A daily systematic study of the Holy Scriptures. If an indi- Century of Progress" was shown. On Sunday evening vidual will conscientiously study the Sabbath school les- the Honorable George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of son over the period of a lifetime, he will obtain a good State for Public Affairs, gave an address on world affairs. knowledge of the Word of God, which, the Apostle Paul Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday were set apart as open said, would make one "wise unto salvation." Second, the house days at the Review and Herald publishing plant. Sabbath school fosters systematic giving to our world mis- Many groups were escorted through the institution. A sion program. special exhibit of early Advent literature, which was During the year 1948 the total contributions by the on display in the assembly room, attracted much atten- Sabbath schools in North America were $3,631,429.37, tion. A report of these centenary services will be presented and by overseas divisions for the last quarter of 1947 and in a later issue of the REVIEW. the first three quarters of 1948, $1,074,971.27, making a grand total for our mission work of $4,706,400.64. For many years the thirteenth sabbath overflow has Florida Youth "YOUTH on the March for God" been a wonderful blessing to our mission work. During was the appropriate slogan of the the last quarter of 1947 and the first three quarters of Congress Florida Youth's Congress held in 1948 the thirteenth sabbath overflow was as follows: the Orlando Civic Auditorium March 11 and 12. High- Fourth quarter of 1947 $40,084.08 lighted by music, testimonies, and stories of Inter-Amer- First quarter of 1948 40,159.88 ican Seventh-day Adventist youth, the meetings provided Second quarter of 1948 31,304.11 a tremendous "Share Your Faith" impetus under the Third quarter of 1948 38,291.61 chairmanship of Lee Carter, Missionary Volunteer Sec- The full report of our overseas overflow for the last retary of the Florida Conference. The various sessions quarter of 1948 has not been received, but in the North were packed full of action and included mission stories, American Division alone it amounted to $42,243.58 the trophy hour, Master Comrade investiture, temperance The only regret we have, as we view the wonderful ac- oratorical contest finals, and a special marimba musicale complishment of the Sabbath school, is that in some on Saturday night. E. W. DUNBAR.