WARBURTON, VICTORIA,

AUSTR ALASIAN OCTOBER 23, 1967.

Volume 71 Number 43

Be Sure to Read:

"Through Knives, Screams, and the Cruel Sea to the AND ADVENT WORLD SURVEY Kingdom of God" J. P. L. GRAY, Page 6. Saved by a Dream

By NAOMI ROFAYAKE

[This is a story of a girl from the Eastern Highlands, Naomi Rofayake. I have known Naomi from the days when she was a child in the Kainantu area, and can vouch for the character of the girl, and know of her great desire to become someone for God. The Eastern Highlands form a very interesting part of the Trust Territory of New Guinea. These highlands, as well as possessing the prosperous centre of administration and business, Goroka, also include some of the few ex-cannibal areas of the Territory—the Fore district, and the Karimui, where the people ate their dead instead of burying them. There are still people back in the mountains of the Eastern Highlands who live as stone-age savages, and I refer to the Kukukukus. So when you read the story of this girl from the mountains you may truly appreciate the great desire deep down in her heart to become a nurse in service to her people.—R. Tindall.]

WHEN I WAS a little girl my You leave me behind? Please wait for mother passed away without knowing me." But He said, "You are not about the coming of Christ. I had no ready." one to stay with. About that time In the same week that I had that NAOMI ROFAYAKE my father went down to Port Moresby dream, I asked Rofayake if I could join live in a dormitory for the girls. That to work in the rubber plantations, the baptismal class, but he said, "No," dormitory is very small with only four leaving me to go from home to home for I was not yet ready for that. I did rooms, each one measuring about six- for my food and shelter. When my not tell him about the dream that I teen feet by sixteen feet. In 1965 dad returned after two and a half saw, but kept on asking him for three there were fifteen girls in each room; years, he came to take care of me. weeks after that until at last he allowed in 1966 we had eighteen girls, and In 1957, two friends from my vil- me to join, and eventually I was bap- now this year we have more than lage, Rofayake and Sarikaha, came tized. I am glad that I have found twenty. You can see we are far too home from Kainantu for their fur- the truth, and appreciate the way that crowded. Our beds are much too close lough. They were the only Seventh- the Lord has helped me with my together; so close that we do not have day Adventists in that village at the school work. 1 completed my primary enough room to sit down properly or time, and they took me as their daugh- schooling, arid now I am in high enough room to put our suitcases; so ter. At the end of 1957 we all went school in Form 2A. My aim is to be a crowded that we do not know what to to Kainantu, and it was there that I nurse and help others. do. We are in great need of a new started school in 1958. Just before I Today in my village there are about dormitory. was baptized, I had a dream one night eight men and six women including We have been told that this year the that Jesus came and led the good peo- myself who are Adventists: I am very Missions Extension Offering in No- ple up toward heaven. I was a mile happy, too, because my father is now vember is going to be used to build us away behind those people, so I called an Adventist. a new dormitory. This will be a won- out to Jesus, and said, "I wanted to When I came here to Kabiufa in derful blessing to us all. Thank you come with You to heaven, so why did 1965 to do seventh grade, I came to so much for helping us.

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POONA, INDIA: Over in the Southern Asia Division IOWA, U.S.A.: They had quite a camp meeting in the literature evangelists are tremendously happy in that, Iowa recently when $26,000 was given and pledged to for the first time in the history of that division, a colpor- evangelism in the Iowa Conference for the coming year. teur—sorry, literature evangelist—has sold more than However, most of the campers will probably remember Rs. 25,000 worth of books for the year. And for good the camp for its turbulent weather. Almost every night measure, when one did it, someone else also broke the there were storm warnings, and a couple of times camp- barrier. For statistical purposes only, we record that one ers had to leave their tents and trailers and take shelter rupee equals thirteen cents Australian. in the basement of the main building. No damage or injury was reported during the encampment, although some tents were blown away (some finished up in the trees) before the camp actually started. WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A.: At present there are 2,500 Adventist young men in the U.S. armed forces. About 550 are in Vietnam, where eleven have been KANSAS, U.S.A.: A Seventh-day Adventist institution killed in action. Another 500 are in Europe and Korea. has been named "Employer of the Year" by the Kansas City Association for Retarded Children. The award is made to the employer who has done most in hiring and NEW YORK, U.S.A.: A "paperback" published with- training retarded children in his factory or establishment. out fanfare and without a suggestive cover is selling at The Shawnee Mission Hospital and Health Centre em- the rate of about 25,000 copies A DAY! The new hit ploys three such children in its food services department is the American Bible Society's "Good News for Modern as paid employees. The Shawnee Mission Hospital is Man," a translation of the New Testament. one of nearly 200 employers in Kansas City who are in- volved in the training and employing of retarded young people. PAKISTAN: Shoemaker Bhag lives in a small village in West Punjab, Pakistan. As a loyal Adventist he pays ILLINOIS, U.S.A.: Notice carefully the gentleman in his tithe regularly and takes care over even the smallest the accompanying picture. He is Alexander Ruffin, a amounts. With God's blessing his tithe has increased Negro who has been a full-time literature evangelist for month by month. Although shoe-making is not a very nineteen years. He sells between $75 and $100 (U.S.) lucrative business, the tithe now amounts to almost fifty worth of literature a week, and has regular customers on rupees a month. You could not persuade Brother Bhag whom he has called for eighteen years. Mr. Ruffin that you can out-give God. works in all kinds of weather, and nothing keeps him >4. from his regular rounds. All in all, this makes him look pretty much the same as any one of a hundred literature MICHIGAN, U.S.A.: Mr. Lelord Kordel is a dietitian evangelists you may have heard of before. But Mr. of some standing in the United States who advocates, for Ruffin has one distinguishing feature that surely makes health, strength, vitality, and youthful zest—meat, and him absolutely unique. He can't talk, for he is afflicted more meat, especially "organ meats" such as liver and with palsy. A colporteur who can't talk! And some kidney. Mr. Kordel denounced vegetarianism as a people don't even go on the Appeal for Missions if it "vicious fad," and listed all the ills and ailments which looks like rain! would come as a result of its practice. His writings in the local paper came to the attention of seventy-six-year old Mrs. Cora West, a practising vegetarian who is a member of the Burlington Adventist church. She is one of those upon whom the years have taken little toll, and she cares for her own home and that of her ninety-four- year-old brother, does heavy Dorcas work, holds four church offices, sews for herself, her children, grand- children and great-grandchildren and neighbours, works in her large garden and cans or freezes its produce, and is playground supervisor at the local public school. All without eating liver and such. Mrs. West and her daugh- ter saw a righteous shade of red when they read the pro- nouncements of the dietitian, and the upshot of her in- dignation was that the local newspaper ran twelve articles by Mrs. West and her daughter entitled "Facts About Vegetarianism," which were splendidly researched and thoroughly documented. It was generally conceded that she had made her point. Bravo, Sister West! Alexander Ruffin canvasses one of his customers. AND ADVENT WORLD SURVEY 23/10/67 [31 News From All Over

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INDONESIA: Although Moslems are the hardest peo- NORTH DAKOTA, U.S.A.: Brother A. G. Andrews is a ple to win to Christianity, the president of the West "character," and we use the term in the kindest sense. Indonesia Union, Pastor W. L. Wilcox, reports that in his Because he was the only Adventist living in his town of field in 1966 a total of 1,273 former Moslems were bap- Walhalla, someone referred to him as an "isolated mem- _ tized into the remnant church. This was more than ber." His reply was characteristic: "I am not an isolated double the number for 1965. This 1,273 makes up only member; I am a complete church." It was a fact, too. 30 per cent of the total baptisms for this notoriously dif- Although there is no church located in the town now, it ficult field, the total being 4,289. Of this number, is listed as a church in the Grand Forks District and has almost 2,500 were from the island of Java. its own Ingathering goal. Its goal for 1967: $236.78. Brother Andrews is the only active Adventist in the town, )4. although his church books contain three names, his own, ENGLAND: A West Indian Seventh-day Adventist liv- one who is in a nursing home, and one who has moved ing in England, Brother James Joseph, has recently been away. He is the treasurer of his church, and sends his awarded the British Empire Medal by Her Majesty the offerings in to the conference just as the regular churches Queen. One night, about 9.30, our brother was lying ill do, and he (or rather, his church) takes part in all the in bed when he heard shouting to the effect that his campaigns of the church. On a recent Appeal for Mis- neighbour's house was on fire. He pulled on a dressing sions campaign he visited a lady, told his story, and re- gown and rushed outside to hear that a baby was trap- ceived in notes $310 of which $300 was tithe. And she ped in the front room of the blazing house. Regardless wasn't even a member of his (or any other Adventist) of the danger, and in spite of the failure of others to church. rescue the child, Brother Joseph entered the burning house and, hearing the baby cry, groped his way through the smoke and flames and was able to take the little one SYDNEY (Australia): The remarkable progress of the to safety. Then hearing that there was another child in Radio-TV Department in the Greater Sydney Conference the house, he made two attempts to perform a second was revealed in the secretary's report at the recent camp rescue, but was driven back by the flames. The Com- meeting held earlier this month. During the 1965-66 missioner of Police brought the matter to the attention of period, there were 7,799 applications for Bible courses Her Majesty, who expressed her personal congratulations (an increase of nearly 1,500 over the previous period) to Brother Joseph by letter and later awarded him the and 138 baptisms (an increase of forty). Sponsorship British Empire Medal for his gallantry. offerings to the radio ministry have shown a 73 per cent increase to reach $19,652 in the biennium, in spite of the fact that there were heavy commitments for the It Is KENTUCKY, U.S.A.: Colin M. Morris, president of the Written programme on the part of many members. United Church of Zambia, Central Africa, says the church )4- in the United States is too rich and fat, and needs to suffer before it can "truly become the instrument God MILWAUKEE (Wisconsin, U.S.A.): A hall of religion wants it to be." Morris, a British Methodist missionary, has been opened in the public museum in this city. It claims the younger churches of Africa and Asia can teach the older, more established churches of Britain and the has nineteen exhibit cases which cover the beginnings of United States at least three lessons—obedience, disciple- religion through to the various concepts of an afterlife. ship, and suffering. He believes missionary work in Officials are seeking $10,000 (U.S.) to finance the operat- L Africa is set back "not for weeks, but for years" by re- ing of the project. ports of racial discrimination in the United States and Britain. SEOUL, Korea: Recently, the mayor of Seoul presented to Dr. George Rue the city's golden key, the highest CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.: Mrs. Emma Reece of Los An- award the city can bestow. Dr. Rue is the founder of the geles recently celebrated her ninety-fifth birthday. She Seoul Sanitarium, and, with his wife, has given thirty- has read her Bible through at least sixteen times, also all two years of service to our medical work in that country. the volumes of the "Testimonies," and all the volumes of During the Korean War, Dr. Rue did surgery in an un- the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, besides heated barn in Pusan. So primitive were conditions that reading many of the Spirit of Prophecy books more than only draped bed sheets separated the operating theatre once. Every morning she studies for an hour before she from the patients' beds. During World War II and twice awakens her daughter, with whom she lives. She helps during the Korean War, Dr. Rue saw all his hospital with the housework and rarely misses Sabbath school or equipment taken or destroyed, and each time started in church. She has been a Sabbath school member for immediately to gather in again the necessary items to run sixty-five years. Last year she made scrapbooks for In- his hospital. The presentation of the golden key was vestment and made $57 for missions, which is not an made in the presence of 700 civil, religious, and admin- achievement every ninety-five-year-old could mention. istrative leaders. [4] 23/10/67 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD editorial Gleanings from ONE STEP WORSE THAN NOAH'S DAY the "Record"

The Sydney "Sunday Telegraph" of September 10, 1967, has quoted an American FIFTY YEARS AGO psychologist, Dr. Albert Ellis, as saying in an address to the American Psychological "The World War," by Pastor A. G. Association, "All of us should jazz up our humdrum lives with extra-marital affairs." Daniells, has sold faster than any other The learned doctor quite blandly went on to remark that "the healthy adulterer book ever published by the denomination. could carry on an affair without destroying his marriage or family relationship." Nearly half a million copies were sold in To those conservative Christians who have recognized the marriage union as being the short space of six weeks. one of the two legacies of the Edenic state, the concepts put forward by this man can- not but cause some consternation. While his way-out ideas will today cause an outcry, tomorrow they will be tolerated, and the next day accepted. And the day after that Progress of the Sanitarium Health (so fast do things move in these modern times) a man will be (and again we quote Food Company in October, 1917, shows Ellis) "suspected as being biologically or psychologically abnormal" if he refuses to the gross turnover was £4,500 more than participate in such a programme. the previous year. November 1, 1917, a The marriage union and the family unit are the most important single factors in sanitarium shop was opened in George holding together an already crumbling society. All around us we are confronted by Street, Sydney, after closing the Hunter commonplace evidences that the structure of society is far from what it was a genera- Street premises which had been occupied tion ago. We see an increasing divorce rate, a liberalizing of the grounds for divorce, for thirteen years. New premises were and a complacent acceptance of the ideal that "if the marriage doesn't work out, we located in Melbourne. Brother L. A. can always finish it." We know of the tremendous upsurge in such horrors as homo- Butler organized a better health food sexuality, drug-addiction, trial "marriages," and orgiastic behaviour among young work in Adelaide, while Brother and Sis- people. But bad as these things are, the most frightening thing is to have a man of ter Otto increased food sales in Perth. repute and standing in the community—as one assumes the American psychologist to be The health food shops were also thriving —speaking up on behalf of such an immoral concept, and rationalizing adultery as a in New Zealand during 1917 under the physic for ailing marriages. care of Brethren W. A. Wilton, Cambie, It is idle to suggest that these sentiments are the ravings of a fevered brain. It is and Grubb. The treatment room at the impossible to calculate the damage that such a man can do to the fragile fabric of head office in Sydney was conducted by society by his supposedly informed and considered opinions. It is sickening to con- Brother Roy Thompson, who has given template the effects of his publicized speech upon the plastic and receptive minds of two thousand treatments in the year. young people, who avidly seize upon such a pronouncement as being from the lips of an oracle who has investigated all the pros and cons of the situation, and has come up with such a smooth deduction. The young are not equipped with the experiential The number of Missionary Volunteer knowledge of life to the point where they can calculate the heartbreaks and the miseries societies within the Australasian Division inherent in the programme Dr. Ellis suggests. All they see is the apparently modern in 1917 was 129, with a total membership solution to difficulties in the marriage situation, difficulties which they must expect of 3,384, who in 1917 gave offerings to to arise when they make their tongue-in-cheek promises at the altar, and difficulties foreign missions amounting to £1,963. which it is said can be smoothed out by the simple expedient of extra-marital philan- dering. This, then, is the beginning of the end for society as we know it; it is the era TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of decay and debility for the family, the community, the nation, and for civilization itself when this happens. AGO To those of us who have been reading the prophecies which point up events in the Pastors R. A. Thrift and E. B. Rudge last days, the ideas put forth by this man should not come as a surprise. The Master conducted services to open the annual warned us: "As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son session of the South New South Wales of man. They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until Conference in October, 1942. Pastors H. the day that Noah entered into the ark." Luke 17: 26, 27. Moreover, Paul, writing to Perry, E. A. Boehm, and L. Maxwell Timothy, prophesied of men such as Dr. Ellis: "But evil men and seducers," he wrote, made the annual mission appeal, which "shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." 2 Timothy 3: 13. resulted in an offering of £804. At this In "Patriarchs and Prophets," pages 92-96, there is a brief but poignant description session Pastor G. G. Stewart presented of the antediluvian world, part of which reads: "Neither the marriage relation nor the the president's annual report, while rights of property were respected. Whoever coveted the wives or possessions of his Brother E. A. Turner reported on the neighbour, took them by force.... book work. Following the session, Pastor "As sin became general, it appeared less and less sinful, and they finally declared Stewart was appointed to pastor the A.M. that the divine law was no longer in force; that it was contrary to the character of God College church, and Pastor Thrift was to punish transgression; and they denied that His judgments were to be visited upon elected to fill the vacancy thus created by the earth." the departure of Pastor Stewart. Is not this a description of these days? Here we have a man, in Dr. Albert Ellis, openly advocating that the commandment which forbids adultery should be set aside, Pastor E. J. Johanson, president in not, mark you, to flout moral principles, BUT TO KEEP MARRIAGES TOGETHER! South New Zealand during 1942, reports Is not this what happened in Noah's day? Notice again: "As sin became general, it in the "Australasian Record" of 2/11/42 appeared less and less sinful, and they finally declared that the divine law was not in of the strong evangelistic campaigns con- force." ducted there. Among the workers at the This is what the diabolical utterance of this American psychologist is virtually pro- time were Brethren A. W. Macaulay in claiming. May God forgive him for the evil that his vile suggestion has engendered in Invercargill, George Weslake in Dunedin, the hearts of young people. May God forgive him, because it is doubtful whether the J. A. Mitchell in Oamaru, W. A. Stewart children of such blasted marriages or the illegitimate issue of such adulterous unions in Greymouth, S. H. Wood in Westport, will be able to. May God forgive him, for it is equally doubtful whether good and J. T. Howse in Nelson. Those engaged in faithful wives who protest in vain at such immorality will be able to overlook such service for the Lord in Christchurch were scandalous behaviour. Pastors W. J. Smith and G. L. Sterling "As sin became general, it appeared less and less sinful." Hear that, 0 members of and Miss N. G. Knowles, while Brethren 4 the church of God! For by its very familiarity, one day it may appear so to even you H. B. Christian and S. M. Uttley con- —unless you guard the avenues of your souls. ducted a mission in Timaru. AND ADVENT WORLD SURVEY 23/10/67 [5] IS IT WORTH IT? D. SCHLUNTZ, Dietitian, Australasian Division

• I DIDN'T WANT to be in the office at all. I wanted to be out working in the yard planting those daffodil bulbs a friend had given me. The brown bulbs—good plump ones—looked healthy, and I was sure I would have beautiful golden flowers some day—if I ever got them planted, that is. Or maybe I wanted to go for a long walk. Prime Minister Holt was urging us to get more exercise. Certainly sitting on a chair in the office even with the sun streaming in the window was not good enough. The sun streaming in the window only of how it works—if we work it. It is one despoils, mutilates, and slays alike the tantalized my love for the great out-of- of nature's remedies given to us long ago. innocent and the guilty. It defies all law doors, and I longed to be out in it. Just How much is it worth? and authority. It ruthlessly assails the then the telephone interrupted my reverie. Suggest Something most sacred inheritance of every man, "I have a rare disease of the kidney, It was the voice of a young man. I woman, and child—the inalienable right and the doctor has put me on a very thought it sounded a bit blurry, but that of life, liberty, and happiness. restricted diet," came the voice, with a probably was imagination. It sounded "Many who would not be guilty of plac- deep Australian accent. "Can you help very sincere anyway. But it was such a ing on their table wine or liquor of any me? In a magazine I find advertised a strange request. "I wonder if you have kind will load their table with food which bread mix that is low in phenylalanine. —what vitamin or capsule could I take? creates such a thirst for strong drink My doctor says this would be very help- —or would you tell me a diet that would that to resist the temptation is almost ful, but it comes from London. Do you help me. By Monday morning I've just impossible. Wrong habits of eating and know where we could get it?" about had it. I can't think straight, and drinking destroy the health and prepare I was happy then that I was in the I'm beginning to feel tired and half sick the way for drunkenness."—"Ministry of office; happy that the Sanitarium Health much of the time. Could you suggest Healing," page 334. Food centres had such a fine reputation something I could buy at your Health Are you willing to pay the price? Is it in the community that the Dietetic Asso- Shop?" worth it? ciation had entrusted them and them "How long have you been feeling this alone with the sale of this special bread I spent the first decade and a half of way?" my working life teaching young people mix. True, it would not bring in a "About six weeks. Well no, I guess it large revenue, out would be beneficial to how to keep well—the next decade teach- started about six weeks ago, but it's only ing people how to get well. I discovered the unfortunate few. After all, this is of late that I'm feeling so down. Don't our business. I was glad to be a part of then that the most priceless temporal your foods give one that needed pick up? possession of any man or woman is such an organization. I feel if I could get the right foods I'd be Two days later that same deep voice health. It is indeed a priceless treasure all right. It's terribly important to me never fully appreciated until it is lost. was on the phone again. "My wife tells right now. If I can get this business Sickness is the most expensive "luxury" me to ask you if you have some recipes started, well, I'll be all right. I've got to known to man. that I might be able to use. I forgot to keep going now. Everything is at stake." It costs more in money tell you that I have diabetes also." "Are you working too hard?" and loss of time and inconvenience to Diabetes and a rare kidney disease! "Well, perhaps so, but it's only until I ourselves and to our friends and in Now would I count my blessings! And get started. I'm holding down my job human suffering, than anything else. he was still on the job—working. It while trying to start my own business on Be Well seemed that all I had done that morning the side. It's just until I get started. was answer the telephone. Dial-a-dieti- God wants you to be well. "Beloved, I Monday mornings are the worst. Don't wish above all things that thou mayest tian was like having a hot line to the you have a real nourishing food or some- sick and ailing. prosper and be in health, even as thy thing to offset that hangover feeling?" soul prospereth." 3 John 2. The prin- Weight Problem I gave a little chuckle. ciple of healthful living is a part of the "Do you have a diet to keep down my "I know it sounds funny but —." gospel committed by the Saviour to the weight? Since starting this job I have Suddenly I knew how desperate he was. apostolic church. It is part of sanctifica- put on five pounds. I don't want to get "How long have you been frequenting tion. "The very God of peace sanctify fat, and I don't want to be hungry all the hotels over the week-ends?" you wholly; and I pray God your whole the time. What can I do?" "Only the last six weeks. I hate the spirit and soul and body be preserved L I remembered the statement made by stuff. I never drank before, but now I blameless unto the coming of our Lord Dr. J. Mayer in "Postgraduate Medicine": feel I have to. By Monday I'm—I'm—" Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth "A sedentary person," he said, "will be "But why? why must you drink?" you, who also will do it." 1 Thess. 5: 23, exposed to the danger of overweight to a Learning the Tricks 24. God is to perform this miracle of much greater extent than will a person "I'm starting up a real estate business. grace, for each one of us is to be sancti- who makes a practice of daily or, at least, I'm learning the tricks. I work hard all fied. But God can sanctify us only as we frequent physical exercise. I am con- the week and then over the week-end I work with Him. Can we have a clean, vinced that inactivity is the most import- take the 'know-how' men for a drink. pure heart and mind in an unclean or ant factor explaining the frequency of We go to the best hotels. Over the drinks polluted body? `creeping' overweight in modern Western we talk. Their tongues are loose, and How much will it cost? Is it worth it? societies. . . . The regulation of food in- I'm learning a lot. But it's the after- Instead of looking upon the observance take was not designed to the highly effect on me. Don't you have something of the laws of health as a matter of sac- mechanized sedentary conditions of mod- to offset this?" rifice or self-denial, we should regard ern life, just as animals were not created What a price! Most certainly I did them as they really are—an untold bless- to be caged. Adapting to these condi- have the cure, but would he accept it? I ing. If we could measure the blessing of tions without developing obesity means suppose I will never know. Perhaps, freedom from sickness, if we could mea- a either that the individual will have to though, someday he will call and thank sure the blessing of freedom from pain, step up his activity or that he will be me. It has happened before. mildly or acutely hungry all his life." The liquor traffic is the most heartless if we could measure the blessing of longer Exercise is not a new subject to an thief and outlaw in the world. It is not life, or increased efficiency, and of the Adventist reader. Our literature is full amenable to God or man. It robs, (Concluded on page 11) [6] 23/10/67 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD "SOCIAL TO SAVE" or . . . Through Knives, Screams, and the Cruel Sea to the Kingdom of God JOHN P. L. GRAY

"NO, YOU CANNOT HAVE LAND HERE," persisted the villagers. Poor Taniela Bola knew not where to turn. He had recently been appointed by the mission to this island of Kadavu, but to the majority of the inhabitants his was an unwelcome presence—they practised a different religion. Taniela sorrowfully waited and prayed, "Because our minister said there were Four days later, the father was desper- trying every possible means to overcome only two sheep." ate. "Bola, if God saves her life, I will the prejudice. Eventually, through one "Let's see, then," grinned Bola. He let her be an Adventist." man's influence, the villagers yielded suf- fetched his Bible—something he had By now, reports on the Fiji radio, miles ficiently to lease land a few hundred longed to do for months—and opened it away, were sending out the appeal: "If yards away, separated from their village for five minutes. Then he resumed the anyone finds this missing girl, report to by a thick barrier of bush. games without further comment. the nearest police station immediately." "You stay there, and we shall remain The young people who were present No food, no water—drifting, drifting. here," they advised him. "You may visit soon began to realize that Taniela Bola The hot sun beat down upon the still our locality if there is anything else you had the true answers to the Bible ques- form of an unconscious girl, scorchingly, want, but you certainly may not enter tions. relentlessly, dehydrating her, sapping her this village for gospel preaching. We Asking Questions life—a girl with a blanket and a Bible. shall visit your compound if we need Very gradually, more village young folk One week was gone. The barge drifted anything, and we shall not bring our re- came to the socials—soon all the young closer to the turbulent knife-edge of a ligion to you. Keep your religion to people in the village were attending. coral reef. With animal fury, a wave yourself, and we'll keep ours to our- They were coming to the socials, to Bola bore down upon the sleeping girl on a selves." the outcast preacher, and asking Bible tiny raft. The boat tumbled over and This was the ultimatum that dismayed questions. over. our dear brother. His only purpose of Among those whose interest grew was Blanket and Bible sank to the bottom. coming to this island, was, of course, to Tale. Tale awoke as she was tipped into the preach the gospel, in harmony with his "You had better not be a Seventh-day water. Very weak, in a shocked daze, the Lord's commission. He was an evangel- Adventist," her father scolded, fearing girl grabbed the punt. She was walking ist. What else could he do? that she was dangerously interested. waist-deep. She pulled her punt slowly Soon he started a campaign of persecu- to shore. Three Months tion, thinking that this would dissuade Three days later, on an island far from For the first three months, Bola built her. Bitterly, the girl sobbed out to Tale's home, some fishing boys peered up his house and cleared his compound. Taniela's wife, "I shall run away to the curiously at something dark on the sea- Then he said to the one Adventist fam- jungle." bed. They dived down, and brought it to ily in the district, who worked at the "If you tell us the place where you the surface. "Unwrap it," said the first sawmill: "Let's have a social evening and plan to hide, I shall bring you food," said boy, as his friend took the blanket and see if that can attract anyone." the kindly shepherdess. hastily pulled the edges open. "It is a The first night, two young people came Tale planned her escape from home. Bible inside!" he gasped. The Bible was through the trees to take a peek. Before But it was not to the jungle she set out. undamaged. long, they were participating in the fun. Instead, she scribbled a note to her angry Together Again Bola continued his little socials nightly. father: "Father, you keep on complaining Tale was discovered further along the Quite a number of young folk were soon to me about the religion. I can't stand beach. She, her Bible, and her blan- attending. They were cautious, but they you complaining all the time. I am leav- ket were together again. The message enjoyed the outdoor games. Naturally ing you so that you will not have to com- hastily went out that the missing girl they informed others. plain to me about it any more. I love was safe. In no time, her father was Now Taniela had his audience. But he you very much, but now I am going and on his way to fetch her. Would he keep had to be careful. He introduced a maybe I will die without seeing you his promise? "question and answer" game, with boys again. But if I do, I want you and Tale feared and Bola wondered. Bola competing against girls. In this game, Mother to learn the truth, so that we can stood at the front door, wondering what he inserted about four Bible questions. live together again in heaven." lay ahead. Presently, he observed a mid- One question was: "How many sheep She weighted the note under a plate dle-aged man and a girl pushing through went into Noah's ark?" and dodged past the huts down to the the trees. "Two," shouted a boy. sandy shore. Looking in every direction "Tale, oh Tale!" he smiled, his heart "Two," broke in another. she saw the coast was clear. There was throbbing with relief. Mrs. Bola was by Still another youth called, "Seven." a barge about ten feet by five, close to his side as the man and the girl reached Bola looked at the young man and the beach. With a nervous glance be- the house. smiled. "Yes, seven!" hind, she heaved it into the shallow "I promised God," the father an- A few days later, one of the youth water, and rolled on to it. A blanket and nounced. "Now, Bola, you take her. And asked his minister in the village: "Please her precious Bible were all she had. Lay- I have two others—a younger teenage Reverend, how many sheep went into the ing them on the end of the barge, she brother and sister—have them, too. And, ark?" stood up, and guided the raft with a long Bola, perhaps later my wife and I may "Two," replied the clergyman. Now pole until it was deep water. gradually follow into your church." Then she prayed, "0 God, if You want the boy was curious. Knives and Screams me to be a Lotu ni ka Vitu [Church of Returning to the next social, this boy "I, too, want to be a Seventh-day Ad- confronted Pastor Bola with the possibil- the Seven Day] girl, then please guide ventist," announced another youth who ity: "Do you think you might have made me to a Seventh-day place." was attending Bola's socials in the bush a mistake about the sheep in Noah's Exhaustion clearing. ark?" Tale then lay down in the burning "You're not going to," screamed others "Why?" responded Bola, seeing that his sun. The days passed. She collapsed in the village. "We'll kill you before you bait was effective. into exhaustion. ever do!" AND ADVENT WORLD SURVEY 23/10/67 [7] They dragged him into a grass hut. With beastly delight they kicked him, WHAT'S GOOD ABOUT LIFE? punching him until he fell to the floor. "This is the end for you, my boy," SEVERAL MORE readers have responded to our question, "What's Good snarled one assailant, brandishing a knife. About Life?" and we print excerpts from several more letters. More will appear The doomed Bese noticed others bearing upon him with an axe and spear. In next week. • terror, his eyes searched the room. He The knowledge of a loving and forgiv- our Righteousness." Huge mountains of espied that the door was ajar. With the ing Saviour; the wonderful Book which cloud on the summer horizon climaxing speed of desperation, he rolled and threw is "a lamp unto my feet and a light unto in the lightning of the summer storm. himself against it, sprang to his feet, and my path"; Christian fellowship. The The music of rain on an iron roof; my ran, ran, ran, into the night. love and affection of dear ones close to daughter's cat and its kitten; the pat- "What's that?" said Bola. "It is four me; the love and respect won from chil- terns of joy in vases of flowers. Soft a.m." dren when one is endeavouring with light entering my bedroom from outside "A knock on the door," answered his God's help to teach them the Christian when I turn out the light at night. A . sleepy-voiced wife. "Sounds as if some- way in Sabbath school. To achieve some- Beethoven symphony in full hi-fidelity body's in a hurry." thing worth while, especially when one (with the volume turned up a little). Bese staggered through as Bola let him has had only negative and discouraging Building a house or a shed or a fence; in. He is still living with Bola. opposition. Young animals at play; the writing an essay or a piece of poetry— twinkling little legs of toddlers; beautiful anything creative. My family, especially In Turmoil and inspiring music. Moonlight on the when a little one climbs on my knee and • And yet another young lady was in a water, particularly on a vigorous, rolling gives me a hug; a loving wife. Working turmoil—another interested youth who surf, turning it all to magical silver. in the rain, followed by a hot bath and a .5v was attending Bola's social programmes. Glorious sunsets with their breath-taking hot meal. Climbing between fresh, crisp Her longing, too, was to follow Jesus. colours. And last but not least, beauti- sheets after a hard day's work. "Stop! Stop!" Then there was a ful and expressive words such as: Love, B. G. BRYAN, scream. Bola heard it. He also heard peace, tranquillity, harmony, fragrance. Kingsgrove, N.S.W. the voice of the furious man, who was MRS. J. E. LANDON, What's good about life? Life itself. her father. He was yelling, "I'll kill you Cremorne, N.S.W. Fresh every morning from the hand of —kill you!" the Creator, with love. Cob-webs, dew- With muscular force, the burly parent The prime factor that I know there is a loving heavenly Father; a Son who sacri- bespangled in the rose and gold dawn; rl struck his daughter with clenched fist, the trill of bird songs from tall trees; knocking her backwards to the ground, ficed all for me; and a Comforter who the love and closeness of happy family rolling her face to the mud. She strug- calms my fears and soothes my sorrows; living. The light, lacey loveliness of gled to rise, but in an instant he jumped the knowledge and appreciation of the England's spring trees. Snow—and a onto her head—up and down. Then he "wonderful land of books," and, what is myriad diamonds shimmering in the sun. waited. The trembling girl raised her more important, a church that publishes Alpine villages at night when all is black- head. He sprang on to her head again, such delightful and colourful volumes of ness but for the tiny lights, which from forcing her face into the mud. In despair sacred truth, combined with health and a distance look like jewels encircling the and agony, she succeeded in raising her other principles, to inspire me to live a Christian life; the ingenious telephone that throat of night. Home—after a long head to scream. absence. Home—and the gay and light- Taniela Bola was digging in his cassava connects me to my friends and is a blessing ▪ hearted wit and repartee of young people patch when he was arrested by the in times of emergency. The warm sunshine laughing and teasing together. Home— scream. The voice he recognized. Cast- that floods through the window onto the on Sabbath, when all the family, with ing aside his spade, our brother dashed bed in winter when I take an after-lunch friends, gather to relax and enjoy the like lightning toward the trees. Coming nap; the mountains shrouded in blue haze day. Home—in springtime, where the out into the village clearing, he halted; that I can see from my hillside home; the heavenly pink peach blossom makes a in amazement he gaped at the horrible cheery and welcome voices of the ladies lovely arching canopy above, with carpet scene. The village minister was standing who bring the "meals-on-wheels," whether it be raining or humid; Suzie, the minia- to match underfoot. Home—with cats • by watching as the father tortured his sleeping in front of a fire on a cold night. child. Lurching forward, Bola seized the ture Corgi from next door who pays me father, in order to restrain him. The frequent visits; strength from day to day as Home-coming at the end of the day. minister seized Bola, to stop him re- I complete my household tasks. The re- Music while I work; music of the masters with its magic of sound and atmosphere; straining the father. cordings of thrilling and uplifting music making music. New-mown grass; autumn "I can match you both!" cried Bola, that exhilarate me when I am tired; the leaves on the lawn; warm sunshine; gen- panting for breath. Then, to the girl he people who put themselves out for me— tle rain at night; stars shining in the yelled, "Run to my place. Run! Run!" drives, visits, help with impossible chores. In fact, I could go on for ever thanking velvety black of the sky; trees bursting She did. God for the innumerable good things in into bud; flowers opening. School holi- Bola to the Rescue life! days; our garden when jacaranda and t, The next day, she realized that she MISS JEAN LE FRANC,* oleander bloom together. Clean sea air needed her clothes. She walked down Townsville, Queensland. and white sands. Children's laughter. the path from Bola's compound. Lying *Another arthritis "shut-in."—Ed. Attractively dressed and groomed people, in wait was her father. He attacked her The sky is a never-failing fountain of old and young. And much, much more. with ferocity. Bola came to her rescue. joy, especially at sunrise and sunset; This incident was later repeated. Again and to know that beyond the sky, over ADELE, N.S.W. she was rescued. us and above us is the banner, "Christ (Recently returned from the U.K.) In seriousness, Bola faced her. "You had better stay here, Kini. Our Dorcas Welfare supply will furnish you with "Oh, let me take her," cried the dis- The latest report was that all of the clothes." traught father. It appeared that his young people of this nearby village are She stayed in Pastor Bola's home as a attitude had changed. now with Taniela Bola, this genial man member of his family. One year slipped "All right then," consented our friend. of God. Seven of them have recently by. "But if you persecute her, she will surely gone for a three-month visit to New One day, Kini's father came to the return here." Zealand to earn money so that they open door. Now in tears, he pleaded for can build a little Seventh-day Adventist b her to return. The father's reply stunned Taniela. church on the "outcast property" of "No," said Bola. "She is afraid to re- "Pastor, I may follow her into the church Brother Bola's compound. turn to your house." slowly—later!" Our God can do wonderful things. [8] 23/10/67 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD THE TREASL

"DEAR LORD,

Recently the division treasurer, Br duty through the territories covered by Missions. He saw some thrilling things, spirits and encouraged him to believe tf in the preaching of the gospel in the isle But he also saw some things that sad- dened him. He saw some things that made him think that were it not for dedicated men in lonely mission posts, the message of the three angels might never go to the remotest outposts of this division unless the very stones were to cry out. He saw mission budgets strained to the utmost to provide the essentials for a fast-growing constituency; he saw mis- sion budgets over-spent (enough to curdle the blood of any treasurer) because those administering the funds had not been able to refuse certain calls because of their very urgency. He had no word of criticism for these men, only deep con- cern. They were labouring under diffi- culties; yet not a word of complaint was forthcoming. One Dug-out Canoe Brother Howse recalls very vividly the day he and his party visited the new -4 half-school at Kikori (See "Record" 14/8/67, article "Half a New Central School for the Gulf") where Brother Don Menkens is carrying on a vigorous pro- gramme. Funds ran out before the school could be finished, so the headmaster and his staff are ignoring the inconveniences and carrying on without so much as a murmur of complaint. In the course of conversation, the divi- sion treasurer asked what transport the school had to get to the hospital three miles away and to the nearby village there for supplies. Brother Menken pointed to a heavy dug-out canoe lying at anchor in the river. It was their en- tire fleet. How was it propelled? Muscle power. In that current? How long does it take to get the three miles each way? Oh, about half a day. No outboard motor? No, no outboard motor. You see, the funds —. But the treasurer went away thoughtful. The Wide Blue Yonder • Then came the day not long after when he was aboard the "Malcolm Abbott," as spick a little aircraft as ever spanned the New Guinea skies. And he fell to talking with Pastor Colin Winch, the pilot of the plane, as they skimmed the saw-toothed mountains and poked about in the clouds looking for a hole in them so that they could come in to land (Top) Pastor Colin Winch at the controls of the "Andrew Stewart"—which will soon have added safety in the form of oxygen tanks. (Middle) Brother and Sister Milton MacFarlane (extreme left) on a lonely mission airstrip. with their "welcoming committee"—mainly their students—waiting to meet the visitors. (Bottom) Just to pass the time (and probably to Brother MacFarlane watches as one of his students reads an address of welcome as Brother E. S. give confidence to his passenger) Pastor Howse and his party set foot on Mussau. (Photos by E. S. Howse.) AND ADVENT WORLD SURVEY 23/10/67 [9]

ago, the entire island accepted the mes- $200. Now add that up: $5,000 exactly. sage of a soon-coming Saviour, and, to a So the treasurer thought as the little I'S DILEMMA man, they are loyal Adventists. And vessel rolled and pitched in the swelling Brother MacFarlane, who is the head- sea. And as he sat there musing he master of the school and not their minis- prayed: "Lord, I need $5,000. I don't ter, really, circles the island once a know where we can get it, but please send month encouraging them and preaching it to me. And please, Lord, soon!" to them, and doing all the extra-mural The visit over, Brother Howse returned DEED $5,000!" work that is not actually on the mission- to his office in Wahroonga. He had been ary-teacher's schedule, but which they all living with his $5,000 problem for perhaps PARR do anyway. But if only he could produce a fortnight or more now, and it became more food! Then he could have more an obsession with him. He had to find W. Howse, made an extensive tour of students. He knows that already Mussau $5,000 soon, for lives—eternal lives—might al Sea and the Bismarck-Solomons Union has sent over one hundred missionary depend on it. .that gladdened his heart and lifted his couples to the mainland of New Guinea. One of the first letters he opened on his return to Sydney carried the informa- hand of the Lord is wonderfully leading If he could feed more, he could educate more, and then there would be more mis- tion that a bequest had come to the Aus- Is. sionaries from Mussau. But how? HOW? tralasian Division for use in any type of Winch mentioned that things were going You can cultivate only so much by hand work the division chose. There were no splendidly that day. No complications; and carry a full study programme. Now strings attached, as there sometimes can no awkward moments; the treasurer be. And the amount? $2,019. Not could settle back and enjoy the flight. $5,000, but the treasurer was on his way. "Not like a couple of days ago, for in- His faith received a fillip that caused him I stance." to lift up his voice in thanks to a hea- "Why, what happened a couple of days venly Father who hears even before we ago?" cry. "Oh, nothing much, except that I was But he still needed nearly $3,000, and caught in a storm and radioed to ask that was a sizable sum. Now, where whether I could go up to 16,000 feet to But he need not have worried. get above it. 'Have you got oxygen on "The $3,000 Question" board?' the base wanted to know. Well, A couple of days later, a retired worker no, I hadn't. The Cessna didn't have rang the division and asked to speak to that as standard equipment and so it had the treasurer. "I would like to ask you not been budgeted for. Besides, there a $3,000 question," the voice said. "It's was always something else." this: Could you use $3,000 for any special But the base was not happy about let- work right now?" ting anyone go over 12,000 feet without Could he! The treasurer, even though oxygen, and said so. Eventually it gave he is a treasurer, is really only human in, and up Pastor Winch went to his after all, and already he knew his pray- 16,000 feet, and nothing untoward hap- ers were being answered. The voice on pened; no euphoria, which is that most the end of the wire indicated that a gen- happy feeling that is the symptom of tleman and his wife who had intended oxygen starvation and which lures the to leave an amount of $3,000 for specific unwitting victim to throw caution out projects after their deaths, had revised the window. It did not happen—but it their thinking to the point where they could have. Brother and Sister Don Menken and family wished to give the money immediately Pastor Winch did not even use the op- whose front line post is soon to be just so much so that they could see the results of their portunity to put a request to the trea- nearer to civilization by the acquisition of an aluminium boat with an outboard motor. giving. They would be open to sugges- surer because, well, there was always tion as to what the money could be used something else. But Brother Howse was a tractor, that would be the answer. But for. concerned. Good men are scarce; good no, he did not ask. He knew the budget The treasurer sat back in his chair pilots are even scarcer; and good Advent- was already strained to breaking point. after the caller had said his good-byes ist missionary pilots of the calibre of But Brother Howse, on his visit to the and hung up. He had asked the Lord for Pastors Winch and Barnard are scarcer tiny island, asked a few questions and $5,000 for the fulfilment of great needs. still. Something should be done. But made his own deductions. And his de- He had been asking the Great Treasurer what? ductions were similar to those of the above to guide $5,000 to his hand, and ti The School at Mussau missionary: if only they had a tractor! here it was with $19 to spare! Need you A little later, the treasurer was at But where would a tractor come from? be told that he raised his silent prayer of Mussau. There, Brother Milton MacFar- Tractors cost $3,000, and the mission bud- thanks to the One whose is the earth and lane is running the central school with get was far from carrying that kind of the fullness thereof? an enthusiasm that has to be seen to be surplus. More likely it was over-spent He lost no time in getting off a letter believed. One hundred and twenty stu- that much. Thus the treasurer mused as to the anonymous benefactors (via the 1.4 dents he has, all of whom are vigorous he rocked and bucked the thirteen hours retired worker), suggesting the plans he eaters, and he has to feed the lot of on the tiny mission ship that bore him had for their approval in the spending of them. So, on a terrain that looks as if off Mussau to the mainland of New the $3,000. Their letter of approval and it would hardly grow enough to feed as Guinea. And as he sat and mused he did the bank cheque (they are still anony- many sparrows, Brother MacFarlane, some figuring. mous) have now arrived, and about the with commendable resourcefulness, has "Lord, I need —" time you read this some of the treasurer's made the little island's plateau bear and There was a tractor for Mussau plans will have been implemented and bear again vegetables and grains that are ($3,000), and an aluminium river boat the others will be in the process of same. just enough to keep his students happy with an outboard motor for Kikori in the Those who have had a part in giving to and healthy. He is running on so fine a Gulf where they have half a central these important projects will never know margin that he cannot take one more school (that would be $1,600), and two on this side of the kingdom of heaven the student because he could not feed even portable oxygen units for use in the great good they have done. But one day, one more! Cessnas that ply the skyways above the hands will grip theirs in a gesture of Now Mussau is an island of Seventh- mountains which sometimes reach to thanks that will reward them beyond day Adventists. Thirty or forty years 12,000 feet or more. That would be twice their wildest dreams. [10] 23/10/67 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD Greensborough (Vic.) Runs Its FIRST VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

A. C. REID Greensborough Vacation Bible School opened on September 4, 1967, at Green- hill's Progress Association Hall, which is situated in ideal surroundings. The at- tendance on the first day was approxi- mately one hundred. The team of dedi- cated teachers and helpers knew exactly what to do. Armed with games, hobbies, stories, and much enthusiasm, they stood ready to let the children come in, and come in they did. We had attendances of between 100 and 120 each day. Now was seen the success of door knocking, faithfully carried out by church members, to add that personal touch to the printed invitations letter-boxed the p previous week. Also the wisdom of thor- ough preparation was made manifest, for more children turned up than were an- ticipated, but the supply of prepared plaster moulds and other materials nec- essary for the variety of craftwork used, was adequate. Horses' heads, wall plaques, dainty statuettes, and other A crafts were avidly pounced upon by as- piring young artists. These had been pre- pared by church members weeks before, and together with traced outlines of ani- mals and flowers painted on pieces of Pastor E. I. Totenhofer baptizing Mr. and Mrs. Reg Barkmeyer and daughter, Bambi, on the stage of the Civic Hall, Colac. The Hall was beautifully decorated for this special occasion. Seven glass backed with coloured paper, they candidates, the first fruits of the Colac campaign, were baptized. provided fascinating hobbies for the juniors. The weather never dampened the • AFTER MANY DAYS . . . ardour of these children, for they rolled EDWIN I. TOTENHOFER, Pastor, Colac Church, Victoria up each day more keen than the day be- THE BAPTISM of Mr. and Mrs. Reg Barkmeyer and daughter Bambi in fore. Bright-eyed juniors and shy-eyed Colac (Victoria) on August 27 is an ill ustration of the Scriptural truth that one "kinders" all joined in singing the lively sows, another waters, and still another reaps, so that all may rejoice together in choruses; and the stories and lessons, illustrated by the flannel board, held the increase given by God. them spellbound. Mrs. Barkmeyer had grown up under and Mrs. Barkmeyer attended the meet- the influence of Adventist doctrines, but ings and received Bible studies for a Bush Setting when she moved out from the family short time. We at Greensborough felt very fortun- circle and commenced nursing training, Return to Victoria ate in obtaining such a fine hall situated she lost all interest in the teachings of Work needs made it advisable for the in a lovely bush setting. A fine play- the church. Later, when she married a family to return to Victoria, where a ground with swings, slides, etc., was at- non-Adventist in Bendigo, her break with short time was spent in Euroa, and then tached to the hall, and you can be sure the church was so complete that it Ballarat, until a decision was reached as that this kept the "kinders" happy. You seemed that the seeds of truth sown in to where opportunities for permanent can also be sure the mothers and fathers her heart by Christian parents had failed employment were best. Seeds of truth heard all about it. to germinate. that had been planted in their lives were At last the happy, busy week drew to a However, one day Mr. and Mrs. Bark- watered by Pastor C. Murchison in Euroa close. With hobbies all proudly dis- meyer were watching television, and as and Pastor D. Martin in Ballarat. played, the children dressed up in their they turned the dial, were brought in Early this year Mr. and Mrs. Bark- best, and, accompanied by their parents, contact with Faith for Today They were meyer decided to settle in Colac. They turncd up for the concert on Saturday impressed by what they saw. When Pas- attended the evangelistic meetings con- night. Proud parents heard their children 0 tor G. Vandeman's programme It Is ducted here during recent months, and say their pieces and sing their songs, and Written appeared on the local station, it has been my privilege to study the a very successful evening ended with the they became keen viewers. Seeds of truth Scriptures with them in their home. The film "Cry of New Guinea" presented to a were being sown in the heart of Mr. climax to the days and months and years us by Brother T. Harrington. Barkmeyer, and the seeds that had been of sowing and watering came when Mr. Favourable comments were heard all planted years before and lay dormant in and Mrs. Barkmeyer and their eldest around us as the children performed re- the heart of his wife were now being daughter Bambi were baptized into markably well. Many wanted a repeat, watered through the television ministry. Christ and His church on the stage of so we decided to run a Bible story hour At this time, the Barkmeyer family, the Civic Hall in Colac. for the next four Saturday mornings. which now included three girls and two It is a joy to the Colac members to For this period our kindergarten to boys, moved to Bundaberg (Queensland), have this lovely family join the church junior sections of the Sabbath school will where they lived for three months. An group. Undoubtedly it will also be a joy meet in this hall. evangelistic effort was being conducted in to those who have had a part in their We are confident that quite a number this centre by Pastor David Lawson. Fur- Christian growth. For he that sows and will come; some have indicated their in- ther seeds of truth were sown when Mr. he that reaps can rejoice together. tention to come to Sabbath school, and AND ADVENT WORLD SURVEY 23/10/67 [11]

one has promised to come to our Path- series after the same style would be with finder Club; and we feel more will come the theme, "I choose not to over-eat," or when we extend an invitation at the close something similar. I am sure it would be of the series. rushed by many bulging church members. Concert Isn't this temperance, too? We were even more sure of God's pres- Yours sincerely, ence when the offering was taken up at "Pudden." the concert to defray the expense of hir- (Name and address supplied.) ing the hall. We received the exact amount required for hiring the hall to run the Vacation Bible School for the Sir: concert, plus the extra four weeks. In a recent edition of the "Record," I Sister A. Hale's dedicated leadership, was a little disturbed to notice that com- ability, and industry contributed largely parisons were being made between the to the success of this venture. She was LETTERS rate of progress in North Queensland and faithfully supported by a team of equally that of Tasmania and South New Zea- dedicated teachers and helpers. TO THE EDITOR land and, if my memory serves me cor- Greensborough church has good reason rectly, South New South Wales. Now my to believe that much has been accom- question is, Is this building up of some plished in goodwill relationship in this Sir: people, at the expense of other equally area, and we feel this Vacation Bible In reading a recent article in the loyal but struggling people, entirely war- School has put our church on the map. "Record" relative to the opening of the ranted? I don't know the president of In fact, one of our church members has first Seventh-day Adventist church in North Queensland personally, so I have received an invitation by one of the Noumea, and in which the names of no immediate axe to grind in making my mothers present to visit her, so impressed some of our workers in that field are observations. Anyway, I am dealing with was this lady with what we have done mentioned together with the history of principles not personalities at the mo- for the children. the early days there, I regretted that no ment. We are deeply convinced, too, that souls mention was made of Miss C. Guiot, who I spent nine years in Tasmania and I will eventually be won to Christ from this spent over twenty years in that field and know so many of the reasons that make I our first Vacation Bible School. was largely responsible for developing in- the figures of progress seem small. terests in that French territory in the Transfers out of the conference to the beginning. mainland conferences, climatic condi- The first contact she made was in 1926 tions, strong parochial attitudes, and "JOIN THE ADVENTISTS" with Pastor G. F. Jones and his wife. other factors combine to influence the We will just mention Billy Sunday, Pastor Jones left the field in 1927, leaving rate of growth in membership. This is whom the Lord picked from a baseball Miss Guiot as the only worker. She not calculated to limit the power of the team there on South Michigan Street in served alone until the war of 1939-45 Holy Spirit, but these factors contribute Chicago. Two of the best Bible instruc- compelled her, at the direction of the to the response the Holy Spirit receives tors I have ever had were converted by division committee, to return to Australia to His appeals. Billy Sunday. When one of them took in 1942. In 1948 she again returned to Both the Tasmanian and South New her stand in his meetings to become a Noumea, remaining there until 1950 when Zealand people, I should imagine, are of • Christian, she went to him and said: she retired. She is now living at Cooran- the conservative English and Scottish "Mr. Sunday, what church should I join? bong. I want to follow the Bible." stock, whose roots are deep and strong in During her service she visited much the traditions of their fathers and not He replied, "Oh, they are all based on of the field. Poum on the west coast, the the Bible." easily transplanted. You will recall, too, islands of Mouac and Neba, also Arama that the British Union can boast only She said, "Well, I know; but I want to and Houilau on New Caledonia's east follow the one that —" about nine thousand members (many of coast. She visited these areas annually these being Jamaicans) out of a popula- "Well," he answered, "they all Go and left church members in each. She • and study them and they'll show you." tion of about fifty to sixty millions. Even also visited the Loyalty Islands, on two some of their ministers are moving out "No," she said, "you brought me to of which we had believers. Jesus, and I know you know. Mr. Sun- to share our warmth and progress, so When Miss Guiot retired from the Britain has her problems, too. day, please tell me the one you think field, we had fifty-two Sabbath school I know that dynamic leadership has a comes nearest to the Bible teachings." members, including children, and several definite bearing on a conference pro- "Well," he said, "if you want to follow baptized church members. I personally gramme; but that is not to say that the the Bible just as it is written, go and visited the field in the 1930s and with conferences under discussion have not join the Seventh-day Adventists." Miss Guiot met some of our members at had that kind of leadership over the And she did. She became a wonderful that time. Bible instructor. These two Billy Sunday years. Tasmania has had men like F. G. converts became Bible instructors and When World War II came to the field, Rampton, E. E. Roenfelt, W. M. R. helped me to win many, many hundreds some members drifted, as there was no Scragg, D. Sibley, W. E. Battye, and L. A. of people—in fact, about two thousand— worker from 1942 to 1948, but several re- Butler, to name a few. mained loyal. From these, some are now to the truth.—From "Feed My Sheep," by However, I feel that there is a most engaged in our regular work. H. M. S. Richards, page 400. heartening trend in our organization as It is most encouraging to note more a whole, which will bring blessing to recent progress, which is in part due to every conference and mission field—and the sowing years when Miss Guiot served IS IT WORTH IT? that is the trend of greater evangelism. for so long alone. I thought that this (Concluded from page .5) This spirit of evangelism seems to have information may be helpful to your many begun with the General Conference presi- feeling of vigorous health and of ade- readers. Yours in service, quacy to meet the tasks before us, dent himself, and is moving right down if we W. G. Turner (Cooranbong). could measure these blessings, then we the ranks. I feel this could be the be- can measure the height, depth, and ginning of many of the things which we breadth of the gospel of good health. It Sir: have expected and for which we have Ii is a part of God's message of love for The inclusion of articles in the recent prayed for so long. This will, I believe, His church. "Record" reporting 5-Day Plans made be the solution to the slow statistics in all What would the world give for a mes- very interesting reading. An unusual fields, and make the penetration of the sage like that! Will you, with me, share thought occurred to me, however, as I gospel wider and deeper than ever before. it with them for free? I know you will. read them. I thought how popular a "Minister" (T.C.U.C.). [12] 23/10/67 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD The Church Elder and His Preaching W. A. TOWNEND, President, North Queensland Conference

ACTION IS PACKED into our text: "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them." Acts 8: 5. What Is Preaching? Did you know: Whitefleld had a squint; established, by the human emotions. Bishop Quayle answers: "Preaching is Henry Martyn had warts on his face; People are influenced in their actions, not so much the art of making a sermon Christmas Evans was minus an eye; not by reason so much as by 'feelings.'" and delivering it, as the art of making a Peter Mackenzie did not have "pulpit More than three million copies of the preacher and delivering that!" language." A church officer asked book where you read that, have been sold in the hard-cover edition alone. The Joseph Parker adds: "The most im- Peter Mackenzie to "clothe your words." portant part about the sermon is the His reply: "Why, bless you, man, they're quotation is from Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich," page 186. person behind it." out before I can clap a shirt on 'em." In his best-seller, "Confessions of an Adver- You will find that trainers of preachers Spurgeon, by some people called "the tising Man," David Ogilvy lists as the prince of preachers," saw preaching this go along with Hill's idea of emotional first of his eleven commandments for power. For instance, John Wood in "The way: "Some are dead, you must rouse success in advertising, "What you say is Preacher's Work-shop," page 23, reminds them; some are troubled, you must com- more important than how you say it." us that "preaching must not only con- fort them; others are burdened, you must vince the mind, it must kindle the heart." point them to the Burden-bearer. Still Selling is closely tied in with advertising, more are puzzled, you must enlighten and "selling" is part of good preaching. G. Campbell Morgan, one of England's and guide them; still others are careless On second thoughts, why don't I share greatest in the pulpit, puts the idea this and indifferent, you must warn and woo with you a few of Ogilvy's sentences that way: "Given the preacher with a message them." have in them more than one tip for a from the whole Bible, seeing its bearing on life at any point, I cannot personally When you look at the context of Acts preacher. understand that man not being swept 8: 5, you may be led to coin with me this "Rigidity and salesmanship do not sometimes right out of himself by the definition of preaching: Preaching is a combine." Page 45. fire and the force and the fervour of his presentation of Bible truth that will ex- "It pays to take immense pains in pre- work." pand the mind, warm the emotions, and paring the plans you present to clients." move the will towards God and godly liv- Research tells us that seven powerful Page 86. ing. negative emotions are: "In the end, clients are grateful to ad- The emotion of fear, Expand the Mind vertising agents who tell them the truth." The emotion of jealousy, Philip preached, "and the people with Page 87. The emotion of hatred, one accord gave heed unto those things "I still die a thousand deaths before The emotion of revenge, which [he] spake." Verse 6. Their every presentation." Page 88. The emotion of greed, minds had been fed. Feeding produces "A good advertisement is one which The emotion of superstition, an expansion of the receptacle. We are sells the product without drawing atten- The emotion of anger. informed: "There is nothing more cal- tion to itself." Page 112. On the other hand, researchers list culated to strengthen the intellect than these seven powerful positive emotions: the study of the Scriptures. No other "Fine writing is a distinct disadvan- The emotion of desire, book is so potent to elevate the thoughts, tage. So is unique literary style. They to give vigour to the faculties, as the take attention away from the subject." The emotion of faith, broad, ennobling truths of the Bible."-- Page 139. The emotion of love, "Steps to Christ," page 190. The emotion of sex, "As in all areas of advertising, sub- The emotion of enthusiasm, For his farewell sermon a certain stance is more important than form." The emotion of romance, modern German preacher entered the Page 143. The emotion of hope. pulpit, held up his Bible—just the two Ogilvy says he once asked Sir Hugh Surely these lists found in Hill's book covers of it, not a thing in between—and Rigby, surgeon to King George V, "What said in a piercing voice, "This, gentlemen, (pages 201, 202), provide food for preach- makes a great surgeon?" Sir Hugh re- is what I bequeath to my successor." ers' minds. plied, "There isn't much to choose be- Elders and preachers all, I make a plea tween surgeons in manual dexterity. Move the Will for Bible reading. Read whole chapters, What distinguishes the great surgeon is It is revealed that "when they be- read whole books. Then dig. Use a con- that he knows more than other surgeons." lieved Philip preaching the things con- cordance, keep a good study Bible at cerning the kingdom of God, and the hand such as "Naves." Never give up When you have the knowledge, the in- name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, digging. You will never exhaust the formation—do go for clarity. both men and women." First their minds mine. Dig until you yourself become ex- In India a newcomer, preaching had been expanded, then their emotions • hausted! through a translator, commenced his ser- had been warmed, and, glorious history, Fill your mind with the Bible. Fill mon with, "Faith is both abstract and their wills were moved. "My preaching your mind with Bible facts. Fill your concrete." The interpreter promptly told is a failure if it can charm but not mind with Bible illustrations, and illus- the people, "So far the minister hasn't change," confessed Robert Chalmers. trations about Bible truths. Be filled to said anything, but when he has, I'll let Here is both the challenge and the goal the point of overflowing. Then you are you know." of Christian preaching—the moving of well on the road to being a good the human will in favour of God and His preacher. Warm the Emotions will. 111 Don't worry too much, church elder, "And there was great joy in that city." It is not what people say about your about your delivery of the sermon. Amass Verse 8. sermons that matters so much, but information—Biblical information. This Listen, fellow preacher: "The world is rather, what they do after they have wins. ruled, and the destiny of civilization is heard you speak for God. Action! AND ADVENT WORLD SURVEY 23/10/61 [13] Pointers for Preachers Preaching for Results. Australasians in Africa 1. Prepare exhaustively. "Do your ut- most to show yourself true to God, a R. R. FRAME, Associate Secretary, General Conference workman with no reason to be ashamed, accurate in delivering the Message of When visiting in Africa recently it was my privilege to meet with some fellow Truth." 1 Timothy 2: 15, "The Twentieth Australians, and also Pastor and Mrs. F. G. Clifford, who gave such outstanding Century New Testament." service to the Australasian Division during the years 1954-62. 2. Think in straight lines. "I will keep strictly to the highway, turning neither Arriving at Durban, Natal, on a Friday to the right nor to the left." Deuter- afternoon, I was met by Pastor and Mrs. onomy 2: 23, "The Berkeley Version in Clifford, and we drove eighty miles south Modern English." to their home at Uvongo Beach. We 3. Know where you are going, and why. travelled through interesting country, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, be- combining seascapes and mountain scen- cause He hath anointed Me to preach the ery, and soon we were at the comfortable gospel to the poor; He hath sent Me to home of my hosts. heal the broken-hearted, to preach de- For me it was a most pleasant and in- liverance to the captives, and recovering spiring week-end. We experienced the of sight to the blind, to set at liberty joys of Christian fellowship, and as can them that are bruised, to preach the ac- be imagined, much of the conversation ceptable year of the Lord." Luke 4: 18, covered the work in Australasia. Pastor 19. and Mrs. Clifford have named their home 4. Develop love as well as logic. "Sup- "Wahroonga," an indication of the strong posing I could speak in ecstasy with the ties existing between the Cliffords and languages of all the different races of their former field of labour. men and even with those of the different Sabbath morning we met with the orders of angels, all my words would be church at Windsor-on-Sea, just a few as empty of meaning as beaten brass or miles from Uvongo Beach. Here a num- ber of retired workers attend, including clanging cymbals, if I did not possess R. R. FRAME the gift of love." 1 Corinthians 13: 1, 2, Pastor and Mrs. A. W. Staples, well "The New Testament Letters," Para- known to many Australians. Pastor Clif- phrased by J. W. C. Wand. ford is enjoying reasonably good health and takes part in many church activities, Pastor Raymond Kent is preaching the 5. Sit where they sit. "And I sat where including workers' meetings. Sister Clif- Word. Pastor Cook took me to visit with they sat, and remained there astonished ford keeps very well and is the same his fellow evangelist who opened his among them seven days." Ezekiel 3: 15. gracious lady we knew in Australia. present campaign in April. After five 6. Preach to needs, for needs are points months of preaching, Pastor Kent is of contact. "For as I made my way here Johannesburg holding an audience of eight hundred and looked at your shrines I noticed one In Johannesburg it was my pleasure to people. More than seventy are already altar on which were inscribed the words, associate briefly with Pastor A. E. Cook, attending church and a goodly harvest 4 TO GOD THE UNKNOWN. It is this the Ministerial Association Secretary for should result. Since taking up work in God whom you are worshipping in ignor- the Trans-Africa Division. Pastor Cook's the Trans-Africa Division, Pastors Cook ance that I am here to proclaim to you!" headquarters are in Salisbury, Rhodesia, and Kent have led evangelistic teams Acts 17: 23, J. B. Phillips. and he was in Johannesburg to conduct a that have been responsible for more than Balance Field School in Evangelism. He is one thousand baptisms. May God con- All who know and love the Spirit of preaching in an area where 700,000 Afri- tinue to bless their efforts. Prophecy know that it presents and pro- cans are located, and at the opening East Africa motes balance. There is no fanaticism meeting seven thousand were in atten- in it. There is no formalism in it. There dance. The campaign will continue for During a stop-over at Nairobi, oppor- is always balance. three months, and Pastor Cook has tunity was taken to renew acquaintance In our closing quotations from Sister twenty national ministers associated with with Miss Gillian Bichard, formerly of White we sense a balance of outlook and him. the Trans-Tasman Union. Gillian gives outreach for preachers. "What human Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, is efficient service in the East Africa Union power can do divine power is not sum- in close proximity to Johannesburg where Mission office, and is very happy in her moned to do. God does not dispense with work. man's aid."—"Desire of Ages," page 535. I spent three weeks in Ethiopia, and "We cannot depend upon form or ex- here I found Miss Jennifer Hunkin, a ternal machinery. What we need is the TO THE FRONT LINE Sydney Sanitarium graduate who is sta- quickening influence of the Holy Spirit The following missionaries left the tioned at the hospital at Gimbie. This of God."—"Testimonies to Ministers," home shores for the mission fields during hospital is located in a rugged situation page 512. the month of September. An asterisk (*) some three hundred miles west of Addis "When divine power is combined with beside the name indicates that the mis- Ababa. Dr. Lloyd Zachary, the hospital human effort, the work will spread like sionary is returning from furlough. director, reports that Jennifer's work is fire in the stubble."—"Review and much appreciated. Mr. B. Liversidge to Wewak, New Herald," December 15, 1885. Bad weather prevented me from calling May we, preachers of present truth to Guinea. Mr. and Mrs. R. Tenorio to Madang, on the David Symes, also stationed in saints and to sinners, accept the call of Ethiopia. those words from Sister White which New Guinea. These are just some of the Australa- focus "divine power" and "human aid." Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Chapman* and sians scattered throughout the great con- IMP And as we preach, let us purpose to three children to Karachi, West Pakistan. tinent of Africa. We can all be justly feed the mind, warm the emotions, move Dr. and Mrs. R. Standish and three proud of them as they do much to ex- the will, not forgetting that home Bible children to Penang, Malaysia. tend the kingdom. studies should also touch the total man Mr. and Mrs. T. Andrews* and three so that he may think, feel, do the truth, children to Suva, Fiji. I join each of the above in extending I as he receives information, inspiration, Christian greetings to friends and fellow motivation. workers in Australasia. [14] 23/10/67 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD LIFE SKETCH OF PASTOR Cookery Nook - - - Hilda Marshman W. D. SMITH W. G. TURNER CREAM OF POTATO SOUP Our late Pastor William Douglas Smith was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on I have just been thinking that when the Creator made our earth, He July 22, 1889, and was in his seventy- planted here the same fruits that are in heaven. Isn't it wonderful! So ninth year at the time of his death. come, skip along and serve the salad given below, and let us all train our Reared in a Roman Catholic family, and appetites to fit them to partake of the heavenly banquet. The Lord of rather delicate health as a young man, requires it. he became interested in the book, "Man Use 8 oz. measuring cup, and level spoon measurements with the set the Masterpiece," sold by an Adventist of standardized plastic measuring spoons. colporteur. 1 pint rich milk 12 oz. (1 pint) sliced potatoes As the result of reading this work he 1 small onion 2 tablespoons cornflour visited the Papanui Sanitarium near teaspoons salt I 11 cups water Christchurch, New Zealand, for a brief 1 tablespoon super margarine Chopped parsley series of treatments. Brother G. A. Place potatoes, sli,ied onion, and water in saucepan. Cook gently until Brandstater was director of this centre. potatoes are very soft and broken. Beat with rotary egg beater until per- Here was Pastor Smith's first meeting fectly smooth, or rub through a sieve. Stir in margarine and hot milk. with Miss Louisa Brandstater, the direc- When nearly boiling, stir in cornflour blended in a little cold water; cook tor's niece. Subsequent to his visit to and stir three minutes. Season with salt. Serve hot with a sprinkling of Papanui, and prior to becoming an Ad- ventist, Brother Smith went to our col- chopped parsley, and toast croutons. Makes one quart. ••• lege at Longburn, remaining there for two years. Here he accepted the doctrines of BANANA SALAD the Adventist Church. Miss Brandstater was also a student, and an attachment 11 cups sliced bananas 1 cup cottage cheese was formed between these two young 1 cup diced fresh pineapple 12 strawberries or cherries people. They were later married in Lettuce Lemon cream dressing Christchurch in 1918. For a time Brother Run cold water over the sliced bananas to prevent discoloration, drain Smith engaged in ministerial work around well. Combine with the diced pineapple, and nest in lettuce on salad Palmerston North. He was then called plates. to the New Hebrides where, with his wife, Roll cottage cheese into 8 balls, and place 2 balls on each plate. Garn- he laboured for some years. It was my ish the salads with strawberries or cherries; top with lemon cream dressing privilege, while visiting this group of is- (i cup fresh cream, whipped; 2 tablespoons honey or sugar, 3 tablespoons lands, to meet the family at Malua Bay lemon juice). Serves four. on the famous island of Malekula, the home of the notorious Big Nambus natives. From the New Hebrides, the Smith • family were called to Tasmania for three years, then to Pitcairn Island for a term, and to Norfolk Island for three years. Life Sketch of Pastor Manovaki Returning to New South Wales for a W. R. FERGUSON. President. Western Solomon Islands Mission while, they were next called to Lord Howe Island for three years, then back On the afternoon of August 10, 1967, to Tasmania, and finally to North New South Wales, where they continued until Pastor Manovaki, the old Solomon Is- lands missionary to Mussau and Manus, their retirement, near Swansea, there passed to his rest. His children and wife contributing to the building up of the were with him at the time. His daugh- present Swansea church. ter, Mary Cornelius, the wife of the as- In 1960 Pastor and Mrs. Smith came to sistant president of the New Ireland Cooranbong to occupy a unit at Kress- Mission, arrived only a very short time vine. Through failing health they en- before he died. When she came to his tered the Charles Harrison Home in 1964, bedside she said, "Papa, me come." The and here he quietly passed to his rest on old warrior opened his eyes, tears welled Sunday, September 17, 1967. out, and a few moments later he died. Surviving Pastor Smith are his widow, The local people said, "Him, he waitim two sons, and five grandchildren. Our daughter, that's all." late brother rendered faithful service for No doubt many folk in New Zealand God both in the home field and in the and Australia will remember Pastor islands of the South Pacific. He now Manovaki; all may be assured that he was sleeps to await the call of the Lord whom ready when the Lord called him. For he loved and very consistently followed. over thirty years this servant of the Lord worked faithfully for his Master. His PASTOR MANOVAKI last term of service was spent as presi- "How great was the gift of God to man, dent of the North Bismarck Mission. He coming back, when a form of influenza and how like our God to make it! With was one of the pioneers in this area, and struck him down. He never rose again. a liberality that can never be exceeded he eventually became the leader of the This man is the third Solomon Islands He gave, that He might save the rebel- mission. Many folk in Manus and Mus- ordained minister to lay down his work lious sons of men and bring them to see His purpose and discern His love. Will sau will mourn the loss of their spiritual until the coming of the Lord. The words leader. you, by your gifts and offerings, show of Daniel 12: 13 could well be placed over that you think nothing too good for Him A few months ago Pastor Manovaki his little grave at Dovele, Vellalavella, who 'gave His only-begotten Son'?"— had a slight stroke. He seemed to be "For thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot Ellen G. White, "Review and Herald," getting over it. The use of his arm was at the end of the days." 15th May, 1900.

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SMITH. Harold Marcus Simpson Smith fell VACANCY asleep in Jesus in his fifty-ninth year at Inver- cargill on September 10, 1967. In 1964 he at- HAND OR MACHINE COMPOSITOR tended an evangelistic crusade conducted by Pastor Allan Lindsay, and signified his faith in The Signs Publishing Company has an urgent the everlasting gospel of our Lord Jesus by his need for a Hand or Machine Compositor. This baptism. He was active to the very last, when ° ° 0 o 0 0 he died of a stroke. To the members of his is an opportunity for a compositor to dedicate family we extend our love and sympathy. his talents to the service of God in the pleasant Ritchie Way. working conditions offered by the company. A • GOOBANKO. Mary Goobanko of Brisbane, residence is available for rental at a very rea- Queensland, after many years of suffering, went WEDDINGS to her final rest cn August 14, 1967, aged eighty- sonable rate. seven years. Cheerful and courageous to the Further details:— end, she bore her suffering with Christian forti- MANAGER, BAKKER-DY SON. In the early afternoon of tude. She had loved and served her Lord even September 17, 1967, at the Hughesdale church, unto her death, and she died in the sure and Signs Publishing Company, Warburton, Victoria. Victoria, Frederik Bakker and Helen May glorious Advent hope. After services in the Dyson exchanged marriage vows. Fred and Slavic Seventh-day Adventist church and at the Helen are from well-known Adventist families graveside, we laid her to rest in the Toowong WEDDING ALBUMS. For a full coverage in the Clayton and Dandenong areas of Vic- cemetery to await the call of the Life-giver at of your wedding including a press album of toria. Friends and relatives gathered for a well- the time of the resurrection of the just. 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The bride's years sir.ce then he resided in the Bay of Is- parents are Brother and Sister Keith Curnuck of lands area, in Pukekohe and in Auckland. As a Busselton, West Australia, and the bridegroom result of the city mission conducted in 1962 by is the son of Brother and Sister Robart Robart- Pastor A. V. Bambury, studies were conducted son of Nangeenan, West Australia. There was in the Holt home by the writer, and eventually a very large gathering of friends and relatives Brother Holt and his wife became members of from many parts of the West who came to wish the Remuera church. Our late brother died AUSTRALASIAN RECORD the radiant bride and her proud husband the September 13, 1967, and is survived by Sister best that life can hold for them. Holt, and also by four children from his former and Advent World Survey H. W. Hammond. marriage. The service was conducted from the Seventh-day Adventist church in Papakura, and Official Organ of the ROGAN-McKIERNA N. The tastefully decor- interment was at the cemetery at Pukekohe. ated Kempsey church, New South Wales, pre- We look forward to the day of the Lord's re- AUSTRALASIAN DIVISION OF SEVENTH- sented a delightful setting for the marriage on turn, when we will again meet those whom to- Sunday, September 3, 1967, of Colin John day we mourn. L. P. Tolhurst. DAY ADVENTISTS Rogan, son of Brother and Sister E. Rogan, and Editor - - R. H. PARR Janece Faye McKiernan, eldest daughter of Brother and Sister Reg McKiernan. Colin and ACCOUNTANT/SECRETARY (F.A.S.A., Associate Editor - F. T. MABERLY Janece are high school teachers at present A.C.I.S.) seeks position with Adventist firm. Office Secretary - ELIZABETH GILES teaching at Narrabri, New South Wales. A Would consider acting for several small busi- large company of friends wished them much nesses. F. E. 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Howse South Wales, on Tuesday, December 5, 1967, at Assistant Secretary - - J. K. Irvine his daughter, Mrs. Convay, and her husband, 2.15 p.m. we extend our deepest Christian sympathy in Assistant Treasurer - A. H. Forbes their sad loss. E. J. Landa. RETIRED WORKERS' ASSOCIATION Auditor - - - L. J. Stace The half-yearly gathering of retired workers Associate Auditor - - R. L. Parkinson MENZ. After a short illness Brother Nor- will take place at the Social Hall, Wahroonga, Departmental Secretaries man Stanley Menz passed away on August 31, at 6 p.m., Monday, November 6, 1967. A cordial Education and Religious 1967. Brother Menz was born in 1904 and lived welcome awaits all retired workers, students Liberty - - - - E. E. White most of his life in the Wagga Wagga district, and Sanitarium nurses. Please bring a plate of Health Food - - - where he was highly respected by all who came savouries or cakes. J. W. Kent (president), Lay Activities and Sabbath W. L. 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Christian Henson, 332 Willoughby Rd., Narremburn, FORSEY. On Thursday, September 7, 1967, N.S.W. 2065. Phone 435 556. Doris May Forsey passed suddenly to her rest ADVERTISERS PLEASE NOTE! All adver- while shopping in Christchurch. Sister Forsey HOLIDAY FLATS AND COTTAGES, ac- tisements should be sent to the editor at 148 was a loving wife and mother, and she is greatly commodate six. Extra clean, comfortable. Wall Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, N.S.W., and all missed by her husband, her sister, Mrs. Mc- to wall carpet, hot and cold water, all electric, cheques should include 4 cents bank charge . a. Cassrey, and her daughters, Mrs. Skilling and sewered. All cutlery, crockery, cooking uten- Mrs. Longstaff, and the grandchildren. A large sils, bedding, and blankets provided, but no Advertisements approved by the editor will be company of friends and relatives gathered at linen. City water. Approximately 155 miles inserted at the following rates: 4 the Canterbury crematorium to pay their last north of Sydney, excellent road. Beautiful respects to our dear sister, and as we committed ocean beach, 26 miles long, white sparkling First 25 words $2 her to the care of our loving heavenly Father it sand, river close by. Enjoy a quiet relaxing Each additional 5 words...... 10 cents I was so good to read again the wonderful prom- holiday with every comfort. Good winter and ises of Scripture and assure those who mourned summer climate. Write for brochure to Ted Remittance and recommendation from local of the glorious hope of the resurrection. Davis, "Hibiscus Flats," Bennett St., Hawk's pastor or conference officer must accompany Frank G. Pearce. Nest, via Tea Gardens, N.S.W. 2324 copy. [16] 23/10/67 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD Broken Hill Film • Witness A. J. GILBETT Pastor, Broken Hill - Word has just come through that the very popular maintenance Show time in Broken Hill opened Fri- engineer of the Avondale College, Brother Charles Hunt, passed day, September 15, 1967, and lasted until Sunday afternoon. As this time ap- away suddenly in the Sanitarium at Wahroonga following a proached, Brother M. Hanbury, our new stroke. Our sympathies go out to Sister Hunt and her family local P.R. man, said, "Can't we give a at this difficult time. witness for our church at the show?" Yes, why not try "One in 20,000," the Pastor George Conley, formerly of the Greater Sydney Confer- famous tobacco-lung-cancer film. ence, is now labouring in India. At a recent mission he ran in The problems of getting a suitable tent A Poona, thirty-five families requested Bible studies in their and a projector were finally solved. Even homes, and these are proceeding. a dust storm did not hinder the erection of our tent on Thursday. - From Pastor W. A. Townend, president of the North Queensland By Friday we were ready to go. The Conference, comes the heartening news that, on Sunday, Sep- first public address call attracted seven tember 24, fifty-three people were baptized into the remnant young boys (of course the people hadn't church in the city of Mackay, making a total of eighty-three for really started coming yet). So as this the year—SO FAR. This indicates (and Pastor Townend stresses audience was better than none we had a ti this) that there are still further baptisms planned. trial run. Then we waited till about the time the day shift ended at the mines. It - Don't ask us how it happened, but it happened. If you read the was then that the public really started "Gleanings from the Record" in the issue of September 25, you coming in the gates. might have noticed under the "Twenty-five Years Ago" heading From then until the end of the show a list of nine ladies who graduated from the sanitarium for that at 6 p.m. on Sunday, we hardly needed year, along with the names of three (at that time) young men to call the public on our public address system. During the peak periods our who also graduated—J. L. Simpson, R. G. Cooper and L. T. seating was always filled to capacity. Giblett. We apologize to all—both ladies and gentlemen— As soon as a session was finished the concerned; these names should have appeared under the head- projectionist would rewind the film and ing "Fifty Years Ago." Hands up all those who noticed our thread it up for the next session. This mistake! Six penn'orth of boiled lollies goes to Mrs. A. M. took about as long as it took to get the Fraser of Wahroonga who was first in (per medium of her hus- old audience out and a new one in. band who shares the boiled lollies) to draw our attention (tact- Altogether we gave forty-eight screen- fully) to the error. (And thanks to all you other folk who men- ings of the film "One in 20,000" at the tioned it, too.) Silver City Show, with a total attendance of 2,150. >(--- The Avondale College faculty will miss Dr. E. A. Magnusson and When we saw that the general show his family for about eight months as from the end of October. attendance was down on previous years, The Italian government has granted a scholarship for scientific we wondered if more would like to see it, research to Dr. Magnusson, who will work in Rome until June, so we approached the public high school and the Catholic boys' and girls' high 1968. We congratulate Brother Magnusson on achieving this schools. Yes, the head master and prin- distinction. cipals in each case were very keen to have it. 4 A correspondent has inquired from us concerning the composi- But would the children come? Yes, t tion of the Sanitarium Health Food's "Betta" peanut butter. they just piled in; the ones who saw it at Apparently, as indicated by the dietitian Martin Pretorius in his the show did the advertising for us, and advertising, some peanut butters contain hydrogenated oils another 1,850 viewers from the high (mixed in with the product to keep it smooth and to prevent schools added to the above figure makes the separation of the oils) which may possess certain unhealth- a total of 4,000 viewing the film "One in ful properties. Brother W. L. Kilroy, the general manager of 20,000." the Sanitarium Health Food Company, assures us that the Sani- Besides this, the high school head mas- ter offered us the assembly hall for our tarium product has no such hydrogenated oil (or any other use on the following day during the four additive) in its composition. Scripture periods. During these periods we screened the film "Time Pulls the )€ Travelling interstate? Don't know where the churches are? Trigger" to an aggregate audience of Not sure where the Coral Sea Union Mission is? Then a very about 1,200 pupils. This film was also • useful little booklet, just published, is for you. It is called the shown to the 500 Catholic boys and girls i • "Australasian Division DIRECTORY, 1967" and is priced at a at their schools. mere thirty cents. Now advertising is something that we just A number from the show have given yr do not do in this column, but we were so enthusiastic about this us their names indicating they would like thirty-six-pager that we just had to mention it. Obtainable from the help of the 5-Day Plan to assist them combat the smoking habit. We hope to your Book and Bible House, of course. Psssst! Price may be go. be able to plan for this shortly. ing up soon, but please don't say where you heard that . We trust that this witness in our city will result in the bodies and minds of >(..- "Finally, brethren . . .": "Don't itch for something you want; many being cleared from the "slow, in- scratch for it." sidious, but most malignant poison" that tobacco is, so that the Spirit of God can lead them into the light of further truth.