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By Ernest Lloyd

HE Old Latin word for baggage was impedimenta. Caesar's baggage caravans often proved to be just what the Eng- lish derivative implies—impediments or ob- stacles. The Roman army could not advance beyond its slow-moving load of supplies. Ex- perienced tourists also know the importance of traveling light, of eliminating the superfluous. Too many of us are burdened with the care of things. We should beware of accumulating things. Jesus said, "A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posses- seth." He lived the life of a poor man, and was cheerfully content with the simplest of life's furnishings. The rank and file of His disciples Those who fly high in life must be, free of excess baggage—use- down through the centuries have testified most less burdens that weigh one down. effectively for Him when they, like Him, were content with the modest comfort of simple things and rejected as both needless and dangerous the accessories of ease and luxury. We need to shake off the useless burdens, the material burdens, and the mental burdens. Worry is one of these—a wretched and entirely useless piece of baggage. Grudges, covetousness, the desire for display, and other foolishly held pieces of baggage impede our spiritual progress. The apostle Paul urges us to "lay aside every weight." He knew that the successful racer must be free from baggage. As the runner in the foot race submits himself willingly and cheerfully to the rules of the trainer and denies himself many indulgences, so the Christian is exhorted to lay aside everything that would be a hin- drance in running the greatest of all races.

Vol. 141 No. 33 Science and the Bible-1

In a study of the natural world— Is REASON Alon a Safe aide

By Frank Lewis Marsh Professor of Science and Religion, Andrews University

"r. 0 COPYRIGHT g 1953 BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD HERBERT RUDEEN, ARTIST

O AID man in his quest for truth God has pro- personal God. Such philosophy of life springs from a vided two great sources of information—the Holy failure to understan the true heights and depths of Scriptures and the book of nature. For the Sev- human nature. Scien e, a purely human invention, can- enth-day Adventist, and for all others who will accept not understand man because man is a person, and sci- the gift, God has in these last days also provided the ence is equipped to handle only the impersonal. Only Spirit of Prophecy to serve as an inspired modern com- the pseudo scientist the exponent of scientism, a word mentary on the Scriptures. For convenience let us refer we here choose to u e in the sense of false science—in- to the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy as special revela- sists that there is no hing spiritual and that values and tion, and to the book of nature as natural revelation. religion are only ill sions. Men's differing attitudes toward these two sources of In our day we als meet those who sincerely believe truth in our day divide them into several groups. Some that though the Scriptures are of value they are only for are of the opinion that the book of nature, that is, the spiritual and moral uidance, and that scriptural asser- natural world, constitutes the whole of reality. Such tions with respect to n atural science are not inspired and men automatically belong in the pigeonhole labeled may therefore be ign red, or should be checked by ob- "atheists." They profess to believe that man, through servation and experi nentation before acceptance. His- the use of his senses of hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, torically, the Englis monk Roger Bacon, A.D. 1214?- and touching, is capable of discovering all facts, and 1294, is the first man credited with such a doctrine. Be- with his supposedly autonomous mind, able to cor- cause of this belief e was held under suspicion by his relate and interpret these facts correctly. To these men fellow monks and *as finally imprisoned for fifteen there is no such 'thing as the realm of the supernatural. years. In English-speaking countries probably the two foremost and voluble examples of this materialistic philosophy are Why Scientists Disca rded the Bible the English biologist Julian Huxley and the American During the Midd e Ages theologians of the Catho- paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson. lic Church and teac ers in the universities—the school- Men of this philosophy worship exclusively at the men or scholastics, a they are known—taught that the shrine of natural science. Tragically, their opinions— Bible asserts the eart is flat and has four corners, that that the scientific method is the only reliable way of the sun moves round the earth, that after Creation week arriving at all kinds of truth, that the physical is the the nonliving eleme is of the earth continued spon- only kind of reality we can really come to know, that taneously to produc living plants and animals, that real knowledge is restricted to information relating to expectant mothers arked their unborn infants with mechanical behavior, that men and all their works are figures of things obs rved, that variation among living steadily advancing, and that eventually science, by itself, things could not occu because reproduction was so fixed will bring them to perfection—have become the sub- as to be like the mint ng of coins, and many like notions. stance of the intellectual atmosphere of our scientific All Christians of the Middle Ages were obliged to be- age. lieve, or at least to retend to believe, these things or More and more this vague haze of undiscriminating suffer excommunicati •n. opinion within which all questions tend to be raised As a result of the nvestigations of astronomers, navi- and answered has come to color the whole way of life of gators, naturalists, a d geneticists the erroneous inter- all who do not accept the Bible as the revealed will of a pretations given to c rtain Bible texts dealing with nat-

2 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 ural science became obvious. The truth of the state- God has given us two revelations, one in nature and one ment that "the book of nature and the written word shed in the Bible and that they cannot contradict each other. light upon each other" was demonstrated (Education, This is certainly correct; but when one subconsciously p. 128). A careful study of the Scriptures in order to identifies with natural revelation his own interpreta- distinguish the literal from the figurative; to distin- tions of nature and then denounces theologians who are guish between statements of apparent (but not actual) unwilling to mold Biblical revelation into conformity fact on the one hand, and actual Biblical teaching on with his interpretation of nature, he is guilty of serious the other; to discover Biblical assertions that had been error. After all, special revelation supersedes natural overlooked (see, for instance, Gen. 2:1, 2, which refutes revelation, for it is only by means of special revelation the idea that the Bible teaches spontaneous generation, that we can interpret aright the world about us." and Gen. 31:10-12, which refutes the notion that the Because of the deteriorating effects of thousands of Bible teaches prenatal influence of the sight-transfer years of sin upon the mind of man as well as on nature type); to observe that the fixation of the characteristics itself, the student of natural science today cannot arrive of living things was at the higher level of the "kind" in- at right conclusions with respect to all problems of the stead of at the individual level—all of this reveals that natural world through a process of reason alone. He is no disharmony exists between the Bible and demon- dependent upon the Guidebook that God has given strable science. him with respect to all matters on which this Book Scientists who, too often, have not been students of provides information. Beyond this he is free to arrive at the Bible naturally concluded that the early theologians conclusions on the basis of his observation of natural must have been correct in their declaration that the phenomena. This is true of a large majority of the prob- Bible taught such things as a flat earth and a geocentric lems of natural science. solar system, and likewise concluded that when science At Creation, God endowed man with a mind capable disproved these teachings it had shown the Bible to be of reasoning, and most certainly intended that he use it. inaccurate on these points of natural science. Actually However, man was not to employ his mind in a process all they had done was to prove the interpretations of of rationalization which would lead to conclusions in the schoolmen wrong on these points. opposition to God's special revelation, since reason It is important to bear in mind that when rightly alone could not always lead to truth. It would have understood the Bible makes no statement whatever failed Father Adam completely in a study of the age of about the shape of our earth or the relative motions of material things. Fruit-bearing trees, great water ani- the celestial bodies in our solar system. On the other mals, and a smoothed landscape covered everywhere hand, such a study makes evident that the creation of with a layer of fertile soil, and he himself had apparent living forms ceased with Creation week, that the color age only. Reason alone failed Mother Eve tragically and markings in Laban's flocks resulted from Mendelian when she relied on her own judgment instead of on heredity, that the fixity described in Genesis is at a higher God's clear word. It failed the antediluvians of Noah's level than that of the individual, and so on. day when they placed their confidence in the testimony Thus, in our day, the issue of whether special revela- of their senses instead of in God's revelation through tion or natural revelation shall take precedence largely Noah. It fails the geneticist today when he concludes, focuses on three Biblical teachings: (1) special creation, on the best of scientific evidence, that Christ must have (2) a universal Noachian Flood, and (3) a duration of had an earthly father. approximately 6,000 years since Creation week. A The faith of the Christian scientist in the inspiration of fourth most important Biblical teaching, one which cer- the entire Bible leads him to heed its clear declarations tainly enters the natural realm, is that of the virgin on points of natural science. He sincerely appreciates birth of Christ. To the Christian student of natural the beneficence of the great Creator in furnishing him science the Bible teachings about origins, about modi- with a handbook to guide him in dealing with those fications in the earth's crust, about the age of the earth, very points of natural science in which his own deteri- and about the virgin birth of Christ are settled facts. He orated state and that of all nature would lead him to will construct his entire philosophy of natural science in inaccurate conclusions. Today special revelation must harmony with the first three of these basic revelations. take precedence over natural revelation. When faced with the rational deductions of the human mind, Christ Why Reason Alone Is Not a Safe Guide promptly and vigorously replied, "It is written." With The man who chooses to rely on reason alone in his the same forthrightness and vigilance the modern Chris- study of the natural world forgets that "sin . . . darkens tian scientist will meet the temptation to worship the our minds and dims our perceptions" (The Ministry of testimony of his senses and the rationalizations of his Healing, p. 464). He forgets that "to man's unaided rea- mind. son, nature's teaching cannot but be contradictory and "We are dependent on the Bible for a knowledge of disappointing. Only in the light of revelation can it be the early history of our world, of the creation of man, read aright. 'Through faith we understand' " (Educa- and of his fall. Remove the word of 'God, and what can tion, p.' 134). Why? Because "all nature is confused. we expect than to be left to fables and conjectures, and . . . The curse of God is upon all creation. Every year it to that enfeebling of the intellect which is the sure re- makes itself more decidedly felt."—The SDA Bible sult of entertaining error."—Medical Ministry, p. 89. Commentary, Ellen G. White Comments, on Gen. 3:17, 18, p. 1085. In his book The 'Genesis Flood, page 458, Henry M. HERBERT RUDEEN, ARTIST Norris observes: "It has often been maintained that

COPYRIGHT 0 1953 BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD universe was cut short by the entrance of sin into this world. Again sor- r w filled the heart of the Creator as is children disobeyed Him and brought the sentence of death upon themselves and their descendants. That sin causes suffering is evident from the history of the human race from that time to this. After sin's entrance God's people were constantly in trouble and affliction, yet they did not suffer alone. We read in Isaiah 63: 9 that in all their (Israel's) affliction He was afflicted. The same is true today. Jesus com- pred Himself to the good shepherd who constantly watches over, cares foi-, and guides and guards his sheep. A shepherd suffers along with his sheep, and Jesus feels our sufferings and afflictions now. The climax of God's suffering came when Jesus was here upon earth, having taken our nature. Of this experience we read in Hebrews 2:14-18: "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy hint that had the power of death, that is, the devil. . Wherefore in all th ngs it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren. . . . For in that he hiMself bath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." Throughout his book the prophet Isiaha reflects clear insight into the sufferings of Christ, but chapter 53 especially brings this truth into sharp focus. If God is to suffer with us and for us, He must become one with us. This is exactly what He did, for "he Lilt irk ..0H.rs1 HT 0 1963 E.1' THE kLVIE A HERALL 1-10040 SANC04.-A.RTIST

By Preston Smith Pastor, Longview, Washington

HE sacrifice and sufferings of have endured unutterable anguish to wa numbered with the transgressors" Jesus, which will be the theme save men. (Is . 53:12). Tof study and song throughout These sufferings were not limited In taking a human body Jesus was eternity, ought to occupy more of our to the 33 years during which Jesus born to die, like every descendant of thoughts now as we prepare to join was here upon earth. It began with Adam. What a sacrifice! Jesus ex- the redeemed host. the entrance of sin in heaven. What changed His throne for the stable and A fuller understanding of God's suf- sorrow must have gripped divine the life of a carpenter and itinerant fering will deepen our gratitude, in- hearts as the rebellion deepened, and preacher. He exchanged His right- crease our love and devotion and in- not only Lucifer but a vast host of the eous reputation to be classed as a crim- spire us to greater and more willing heavenly throng took part in the in- inal, an enemy of Jewish religion, and service. "Christ also suffered for us" surrection. a traitor to the government of Rome. (1 Peter 2:21). God knows what it is After the creation of this earth and He exchanged His divine prerogatives to suffer, for both Father and Son our first parents, the joy of the loyal for a body subject to weariness, hun.

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4 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 ger, pain, and death. He exchanged any cost to Himself, "Christ's agony sense of sin, bringing the Father's His perfect home and harmonious sur- did not cease, but His depression and wrath upon Him as man's substitute, roundings for the inconveniences of a discouragement left Him. . .. He came that made the cup He drank so bitter, humble home in Nazareth and the forth calm and serene. A heavenly and broke the heart of the Son of misunderstanding of family and peace rested upon His bloodstained God."—Ibid., p. 753. friends, and later the quarreling of face. He had borne that which no hu- Not only did Jesus suffer for our His companions. Since He was num- man being could ever bear; for He sins but the Father suffered, as well. bered with the transgressors, He bore had tasted the sufferings of death for "God was in Christ reconciling the their guilt and condemnation, and was every man."—Ibid., p. 694. world unto himself" (2 Cor. 5:19). As also falsely accused as a traitor against He Suffered Divine Wrath earthly parents, we suffer with our God's government. children when they are ill or injured "He is despised and rejected of Jesus suffered the wrath of God or in trouble. So the Father suffered. men" (Isa. 53:3). In His deep love against sin—yours and mine. He, the It was He who placed the load of sin and desire for the salvation of men, innocent, suffered the guilt and con- upon Jesus. Jesus volunteered to come to this demnation of all sinners. This suffer- Jesus was treated as an outcast from earth to save them. His burden for ing we will never know if we are faith- society. Even His disciples lost faith in lost souls led Him to agonize long ful. He bore not only our griefs Him in that most trying hour. He was hours in prayer, and to demonstrate but our sorrows also. Sorrow is mental alone, utterly alone, forsaken by men God's love in word and deed by heal- pain over loss or disappointment. One and God. He was alone that we might ing body and soul. of the greatest disappointments to the never be alone or friendless, but eter- sinner will be his exclusion from the nally enjoy God's companionship. He Was Rejected Holy City. Picture an unsaved person at the close of the millennium gazing He took our place, our guilt, and How was He treated? He was un- our punishment, that we might share loved. The people of His home upon the New Jerusalem and realiz- ing that he could have been there if His throne, His home, and His right- church tried to destroy Him after He eousness. Wonderful Lord! He en- preached His first sermon among only he had responded to the Spirit of God, but now he is forever excluded. dured the wrath of God that we them. He was unwanted. As He stood might enjoy His eternal favor. He on trial before Pilate the multitude But an even greater loss will be complete, final, and eternal separa- tasted eternal death for us that we chose Barabbas, a criminal, instead might have eternal life. He was sep- of the pure and holy Redeemer. He tion from God, brought about by the second death, in the lake of fire. Jesus arated from the Father for our sin, was uncared for. In prophetic words that we might enjoy His companion- the Saviour foretold His own mis- endured this separation from the Fa- ther as He hung upon the cross. All ship forever and be completely re- treatment by those whom He loved stored to His favor and presence. and whom He came to save. "I gave through Christ's earthly life He had had the assurance of the Father's pres- "With his stripes we are healed" (Isa. my back to the smiters, and my cheeks 53:5). to them that plucked off the hair: I ence, but as He hung upon the cross hid not my face from shame and spit- He was paying our penalty for sin, What gratitude and thanksgiving and the Father withdrew His pres- should well up in our hearts for what ting" (Isa. 50:6). 'What contempt was the Father and the Son have suffered heaped upon Him! He was spit upon, ence from Jesus. The Saviour cried out in anguish, "My God, my God, for us! What love should spring forth beaten, and crowned with thorns, yet in word and deed in return for this patiently endured it all. why hast thou forsaken me?" Why did He submit to this inhu- "The withdrawal of the divine indescribable love. What devotion countenance from the Saviour in this should characterize our lives in the man treatment? The prophet replies light of their sufferings on our behalf. in Isaiah 53:4—"Surely he hath borne hour of supreme anguish pierced His heart with a sorrow that can never be No sacrifice on our part is too great our griefs, and carried our sorrows." to make. To carry another's burden is to un- fully understood by man. So great was derstand fully its weight. Jesus bore His agony that His physical pain was Let us surrender our lives anew to our griefs and sorrows and under- hardly felt. . . . He feared that sin the Saviour and wholeheartedly live stands them fully. Since Jesus was suf- was so offensive to God that Their for Him, that we may soon meet Him fering in the sinner's place, He felt separation was to be eternal. Christ face to face and thank Him and the dreadful anguish of the wrath of felt the anguish which the sinner will our heavenly Father for their great God that the lost sinner will feel as he feel when mercy shall no longer sacrifice and sufferings, for our re- stands alone before the judgment plead for the guilty race. It was the demption. bar of God. "The conflict [in Geth- semane] was terrible. Its measure was the guilt of His nation, of His accus- ers and betrayer, the guilt of a world lying in wickedness. The sins of men weighed heavily upon Christ, and the sense of God's wrath against sin was crushing out His life."—The Desire of Ages, p. 687. Children Drawn Closer to God "Again the Son of God was seized "Several years ago I asked prayer for my children, who were attending public with superhuman agony, and fainting school and beginning to stray, to have a closer walk with the Lord and not to and exhausted, He staggered back to leave the church. The Lord opened the way for them to attend church school and the place of His former struggle. His academy. Also He worked on the three girls' hearts, and they have been drawn suffering was even greater than before. closer to Him and are walking with Him more closely. I want to thank everyone As the agony of soul came upon Him, in the Prayer Circle for all the petitions they sent up for us."—Mrs. G., of Wyoming. `His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the This column is dedicated to the encouragement of prayer for others at the sunset hour each Friday evening. Because of the large number of requests received and the complexities of the problems presented, it is impos- ground.' "—Ibid., p. 689. sible for us to answer each letter personally, but all requests will be acknowledged and will be kept on file in After the decision to save man at our office. Portions of letters, especially those that tell of answers to prayer, will be published as space permits. REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 5 The destiny of the church

de ends upon HARRY ANDERSON, ARTIST

HROUGH the long ages of By Melvin E. Mathers pate in Ingathering, for instance, or church history controversial Associate Pastor, Mount Vernon, Ohio to support a building program or a Tfigures have arisen claiming to church school, or some other phase of have wisdom to know what the church God's work that may be distasteful to ought to do. They claimed to have Jesus accurately outlines the con- them, contentment with their luke- messages from God, and some of them ditions of the church in our day. "I warm condition is distrubed. Rather —the prophets, the apostles, and the know thy works," He says. To be ben- than acknowledge the need for more Reformers—have had stirring mes- efited by His counsel we must believe zeal or self-sacrificing love, they cast sages. The True Witness to the La- what He tells us about ourselves. He about for excuses, or rationalize that odiceans—Christ—has provided our declares that we are "neither cold nor the need is not a real one, or find generation with a message stating hot," and states, further, that He is fa It with the leader of the program clearly and unmistakably the need of not satisfied with this condition. "I or the methods used. this hour. Everyone who owns a Bi- would thou wert cold or hot." any times the lukewarm Chris- ble can read it for himself. It is re- A person who is cold knows that he ti n will reveal his negative attitude corded in Revelation 3:14-22. This, is cold, and is likely to bestir himself by opposing any progressive program Seventh-day Adventists understand as to add fuel to the fire to remedy the su gested to the church. Action applicable to God's people in the last situation. Likewise, a person who is w uld require him to leave his easy period of the church's history. hot feels the heat. But one who is ch ir. "It will cost too much," he says, To this people has been committed lukewarm feels comfortable. He is re- or "You can't get people to do it," or the task of preparing the way for the laxed and satisfied, and will probably (4 e've never done it that way, and second coming of Jesus. For the per- keep on sitting in his easy chair. It is w ve always gotten along all right formance of this challenging assign- so comfortable there that he doesn't be ore." He is always ready to get ment a special preparation is neces- wish to be disturbed. al ng on past achievements. But sary, and the True Witness sends to Je us has a disturbing message for His church a special message, which, How Lukewarmness Is Manifested th man in the easy chair: "So then if followed, will prepare the church Some professed Christians are so be ause thou art lukewarm, and for the greatest religious and histori- comfortable with their armchair nether cold nor hot, I will spew thee cal event of all time—the second com- Christian experience that they do not outof my mouth." ing of Jesus. wish to move. When asked to partici- od in mercy sends message after 6 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 message of rebuke to awaken us from solves the gold. Another 26 per cent we can be helped to sense our need our deathly slumber, but we refuse of the gold is reclaimed by this proc- for healing. How would we ever ac- to be aroused. We may choose to ess. cept the pardoning grace of Christ think that these messages apply only "The fiery trial" mentioned in 1 and His white robe, unless we feel to others, or rationalize that the pas- Peter 4:12 has the purpose of separat- our need for forgiveness? Our eyes tor is picking on us, or that he has ing the pure gold of a Christlike char- must be anointed with the Holy Spirit been prejudiced by what others have acter from impure, sinful materials. if we are to be healed of our luke- said about us. But because of our "The Lord permits trials in order warm condition. spiritually blind condition we are un- that we may be cleansed from earth- The destiny of God's church de- aware of any personal need, and do liness, from selfishness, from harsh, pends upon its acceptance or rejec- not realize that we are trying to pro- unchristlike traits of character. He tion of the testimony of the True tect our guilty feelings from uncom- suffers the deep waters of affliction to Witness. If accepted, it will prepare fortable exposure. The Laodicean is go over our souls in order that we the church for the work it is yet to deceived by his own heart to believe may know Him and Jesus Christ do. "When those who profess to serve his condition to be better than that whom He has sent, in order that we God follow Christ's example, practic- of his needy brother. His mental at- may have deep heart longings to be ing the principles of the law in their titude is like that of the Pharisee who cleansed from defilement, and may daily life; when every act bears wit- said, "I am glad I am not as other come forth from the trial purer, ho- ness that they love God supremely men are" (see Luke 18:11). lier, happier."—Christ's Object Les- and their neighbor as themselves, It is no more possible for God to sons, p. 175. then will the church have power to help us until we recognize our need The True Witness also counsels us move the world."—Ibid., p. 340. of help, than it is for a physician to to buy "white raiment" that we may Mrs. White "saw that the testimony help us unless we realize our need of be clothed. One can never get into of the True Witness has not been half the help he can provide. heaven by his own merits. Righteous- heeded. The solemn testimony upon In His message to us the Great ness is not demonstrated so much by which the destiny of the church hangs Physician offers counsel that, if fol- deeds of mercy as it is by attitudes has been lightly esteemed, if not en- lowed, will cure our sinful condition. and motives. But when the soul is tirely disregarded. This testimony The problem of the Laodicean is clothed in the white raiment of must work deep repentance; all who cherished sin. It has been cherished Christ's pure righteousness the shame truly receive it will obey it and be for so long that the conscience is of our nakedness will not appear. purified."—Early Writings, p. 270. seared by a rationalized rejection of We are further counseled, "Anoint "This gospel of the kingdom shall the message of the True Witness. Nev- thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou be preached in all the world for a ertheless, Jesus offers help to all who mayest see." This is the cure for blind- witness unto all nations; and then will accept it. This counsel will cause ness to sin. The Holy Spirit has been shall the end come" (Matt. 24:14). a great sifting among God's people. given to us to correct this condition. God is seeking to make His professed ".I asked the meaning of the shaking I One of the stated functions of His followers effective, loving Christians. had seen," wrote the Lord's messen- office is to "reprove the world of sin" Will you not yield yourself to His re- ger to the remnant church, "and was (John 16:8). With this generous gift fining process? shown that it would be caused by the straight testimony called forth by the counsel of the True Witness to the Laodiceans. This will have its effect upon the heart of the receiver, and 74 Petted 204ddeeid will lead him to exalt the standard and pour forth the straight truth. By Jolene Zackrison Some will not bear this straight testimony. They will rise up against it, and this is what will cause a shaking CAN'T get it clean!" complained How many of us are so busy scrap- among God's people."—Early Writ- Ed, as he stood in the doorway ing away at the surface specks of diet, ings, p. 270. I with soaking tennis shoes and a dress, and amusement in our lives that defeated face. "I've scrubbed all morn- we fail to notice the deeply ingrained Gold, White Raiment, and Eyesalve ing, and the dirt on that windshield pits and mars of our unconverted The first counsel the True Witness just won't come off." hearts? No matter how hard or how offers is to "buy of me gold tried in We had just returned from a fatigu- earnestly we endeavor to perfect our the fire, that thou mayest be rich." ing cross-country trip, and my hus- surface behavior, we can never be The condition described in the previ- band was trying to find our shiny blue crystal-clear windows until the glass of ous verse is poverty, and the remedy car under the thick garment of brown the unconverted heart is replaced by for spiritual poverty is the refined mud and road tar it had acquired. He the glass of a new heart. gold God offers to sell. had discovered however, that despite Christ offers us this new heart, and In the Homestake Gold Mine in all his rubbing, scraping, and polish- when the chipped and scarred glass South Dakota, one ton of gold ore is ing, the stubborn windshield would of the soul is replaced by a new one needed to produce four tenths of an not give up its dirty appearance. the surface dirt will also be taken ounce of pure gold worth about $14. Ed went back out to tackle the away. Then the undistorted image of In the refining process, the ore is first windshield once more, and this time Christ can be seen through us. crushed by huge rollers and then is he discovered the problem. The spots beaten by steel balls until it is the he had been scrubbing so vigorously size of minute grains of sand. Mer- were not dirt at all, but tiny pits and cury is then added to remove the gold chips etched in the glass by a desert from the other material. About 70 sandstorm. Since no amount of surface per cent of the gold is reclaimed by work could remove the imperfec- this separating process. The rest goes tions, our only solution was to pur- through a cyanide process that dis- chase a new windshield. REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 7 effective for some, who mustered up the necessary courage (if that's what was needed) to "walk the last mile." Z/Ift/c;euie,?-4, wh en Butt there were others who remained to ted to the spots they'd apparently co e to love. Perhaps a kind of tem- r po ary paralysis had set in. you' e ventually, though, all of the "hold- ou s," by dint of some superhuman ef- The Reluctant Guests fo t, got inside. I wonder how the youn g sp akers felt about it. They had to run th gantlet of the reluctant ones, and co;Idn't help hearing the leaders' urg- HEN you've been invited to in s. In some cases, speakers were someone's house, do you ever already overburdened with appoint- getW all ready to go, walk or ride the ments; they agreed to talk to the young necessary distance, start up the front people only because there was a real steps, and then balk? This is a faintly need. When a speaker is tired and ridiculous mental picture, I'm sure, but harassed, in my opinion, he'd be jus- let's carry it a little farther. Suppose attend the meeting. They attended the tified in announcing firmly, "This talk you sit down on the steps, or lounge meeting. No problem. They seemed was thrust upon me. Far be it from me against the side of the house, all the normal, happy, lively, untrammeled. to thrust it upon you. Meeting dis- while casting furtive glances at the In almost every case, however, I m'ssed." But the speakers don't and door, hoping your host or hostess won't found it necessary to wade through a w n't do this. They'll keep on trying. discover you. But the inevitable hap- fairly significant minority of "reluc- veryone wants to find excuses for pens; your host comes to the door. tant guests." I can't think of a better in xcusable conduct by saying, "Oh, Tactfully overlooking the eccentricity term, since they had received the same w 11, they're young." I'd suggest you of your conduct, he greets you warmly, invitation as everyone else; they'd put reject this feeble rationale, and hold urging you to come in. You tell him, themselves together with the obvious yo rself to a pretty high standard of at this point, that you'll come in "after purpose of attending the meeting; co duct. Your standard would include a while" or perhaps you aren't even they'd gotten their feet to carry them th idea of marching into a meeting that definite. Perhaps you just murmur as far as the stairs, or within 20 with no obvious reluctance, be the vaguely, leaving him to draw his own feet of the entrance. And that's where pr spect bright or bleak. conclusions, which should be rather they succumbed to a vast reluctance. If I'm fortunate enough to see the interesting under the circumstances! Several times those in charge of the N w Jerusalem, I certainly want to go Let's assume that a rather large group meetings actually came outside to ten- ri ht on through the gate as rapidly of people have been invited, and they der a special invitation. This proved as possible. Don't you? all arrive, greeting you as you cling stubbornly to your perch on the steps or against the wall. Finally, long after everyone else has gone in you trudge slowly up the steps, push open the door, then dart into the room, looking ard! wildly for a chair. When you've found S50 Re it, you crouch just on the edge, poised for instant flight. By D. A. De afield I said this imaginary situation was Associate Secretary, Ellen G. White Estate ridiculous. If it occurred socially, I'm sure it would indicate some kind of . N THE REVIEW AND HERALD Of C rist. A woman who was standing emotional instability that would have April 14, 1868, James White of- n ar her said: "That is the way the to be dealt with, and without delay. I fered $50 reward to anyone who Millerites talk. I mean to have a jolly But this situation is occurring in a could produce evidence that the Ad- good time before I become a long- slightly different way, in many places. How do I know? Because I've seen it! ventists, or the Millerites as they were fa ed Christian. The Millerites are the Recently I've had the opportunity to called in 1844, wore white linen as- m st deluded set on earth. On the day be at a number of gatherings, such as cension robes in which to greet and th y were expecting Christ to come, camp meetings, weekend meetings, and meet their coming Lord. This the ene- co panies in different places put on the like. On all these occasions, special mies of the truth had claimed, their ascension robes, and went into meetings were arranged for young though nothing of the kind occurred. gr veyards, and upon the tops of people, usually two a day, sometimes J. N. Loughborough and M. E. Cor- uses and high hills." only one. A great deal of effort was nell, James White and Mrs. White, Mrs. White was interested in what expended to secure speakers, special were forced to contend with these s woman said and she inquired music, Bible and hymn quizzes, reports from projects, and the like. Young falsehoods that had been circulated ether she had ever seen any of the people were invited to attend. Actually, concerning the Adventists. prsonst that she described dressed in invited isn't a strong-enough verb. They In 1847 James and Ellen White as ension robes. The woman replied: were urged to attend, since the only made a passage by steamboat from "No, I did not see them myself, but a purpose of all these far-reaching and Portland, Maine, to Boston, Massa- fr end who saw them told me. And complicated arrangements was to ben- chusetts. Mrs. White spent much of the fact is so well understood every- efit them. her time in the ladies' cabin witness- w ere that I believe it as much as I attend this kind of meeting when- ing among the women for Christ, her t ough I saw it myself." ever possible. I want to hear what's be- Lord. One day as she was describing Then another woman spoke up and ing said; I want to see how you feel the fearful storm they had encoun- d fended the woman who stated that about what's being said. I found that tered during a boat trip between s e believed the Millerites wore robes. the majority of young people managed T is woman said, "It is of no use to the walk to the auditorium, they got Portland and Boston a little before up the stairs without incident (if stairs that, Sister White said earnestly that d ny that the Millerites did put on existed) and even cleared the final it was important for Christians to be ascension robes, for they did do it in hurdle—the door—with both purpose prepared for the close of probation, towns all around where I live." and composure. They had planned to either at death or at the coming of Once again Mrs. White asked 8 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 houses and trees, waiting to be taken ascension robes. Those who can pro- up from this world to heaven, were duce such proofs are requested to for- widely told in those days. But not one ward them immediately to the writer proof has ever been offered in sup- at Greenville, Montcalm County, port of these falsehoods. Michigan, and receive fifty dollars by Because of this fact, James White the return of the mail.—Signed: confidently offered a $50 reward "to JAMES WHITE." any person who would present un- The $50 has never been collected— questionable proofs of the truthful- nor will it ever be collected. Doubtless, KREIGH COLLINS, ARTIST ness of these statements that believers however, these falsehoods, and others Mrs. White spent much of her time in the in the Second Advent of Christ, on about Mrs. White will be repeated ladies' cabin witnessing among the women the day of expectation, did put on until the Lord comes. for Christ.

whether this woman saw these people who had on the ascension robes. To this she replied, "No, I did not see them, as they were not in my immedi- ate neighborhood. But it was com- monly reported, and generally believed, that they did make white linen ascension robes and put them on." Jesus' Little Lamb By this time the women had become By Louise Meyer quite divided. Mrs. White was standing almost alone in defense of the ARY, did you have a nice time Millerites. One woman declared posi- in Sabbath school this morn- tively: "I believe what my friends M ing?" asked mother. have told me about those fanatical "Yes, I did, Mother, and they remem- Millerites, as if I saw it myself." bered my birthday. We sang a song about a little lamb. Would you like to hear me Mrs. White in her practical, quiet sing it?" asked Mary. way asked these women whether they "I would love to hear you sing it, would please give the names of some Mary," said mother. of the persons who had figured in this Mother listened as Mary sang: fanatical movement. Certainly if the "Mary is Jesus' little lamb, putting on of the ascension robes was • so common, the women would be able And she's had a birthday. H. ARMSTRONG kupek Is I am happy, yes I am, "Why did we sing I am 'Jesus' little lamb'?" to provide the names of some who That Jesus' little lamb has had a asked Mary. wore them. To this the first woman birthday." replied: "Certainly I can give you —KATHRYN D. MYERS names. There were the twin Harmon he leads them to places where there is girls in Portland. My friends told me Then Mary said, "Mother, I liked that green grass to eat. And he watches over song, but I don't know what it means to them all the time because he knows that that they saw their robes, and saw be Jesus' little lamb. When we were rid- sometimes wild animals come out and them going out to the graveyard with ing along in the country the other day I try to hurt them. them on. Since the time has passed, saw some little lambs, but I'm not one of "In the Bible we are told that Jesus is they have become infidels." those. Why did we sing I am Jesus' little our Good Shepherd. This means that Well, you can imagine how Sister lamb?" Jesus cares for us just as a shepherd cares White. must have felt, since she was Mother said, "Mary, let me tell you for his sheep. Just as the shepherd takes one of the "Harmon girls." But she what it means. Someone has to take care his sheep and lambs to places where said nothing. However, a schoolmate of sheep and lambs. And the man who there is water to drink, so Jesus sends the of Sister White's, who had never been cares for them is called a shepherd. A rain down to us so we will have water shepherd loves his sheep and lambs so to drink. Just as the shepherd leads his an Adventist, happened to be in that much that he does everything he can for sheep and lambs to places where there is cabin and she watched the proceed- them. He takes them to places where green grass to eat, so Jesus sends the sun- ings with interest, and finally, with a there is good, fresh water to drink. And shine and rain so we will have food to smile, she could restrain herself no eat. And just as the shepherd watches longer. Pointing to Sister White, she H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS over his sheep and lambs to keep them broke out in a laugh and said, "This from getting hurt, so Jesus sends angels is one of those twin Harmon girls. I to watch over us when we are playing have known them always, and know and when we are sleeping and when we are walking and when we are riding. The that this report of their making and angels watch over us all the time. So, wearing ascension robes is all a lie. I you see, because Jesus cares for us as the never was a Millerite, and I do not shepherd cares for his sheep and lambs, believe that anything of the kind ever we are Jesus' little lambs." took place." "So then, Mother, I'm not an animal After this statement there was a real like the ones I saw in the country the calm. Then Mrs. White stated that other day, but I'm called a lamb because all the stories about ascension robes Jesus cares for me and watches over me," were probably as destitute of truth as said Mary. the one this woman had recited con- "That's right," mother replied. "Well," said Mary, "I'll always try to cerning the twin Harmon girls. remember that I'm called Jesus' little The idle tales of ascension robes lamb because He loves me even more and of Adventists going out into the than a shepherd loves his sheep and graveyards to watch, or to the tops of lambs." REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 9 CONDUCTED BY PROMISE JOY SHER

Many children suffer lifelong injury because they started to school too early.

SCHOOL ENTRANCE

HE Spirit of Prophecy does others require a whole year longer! not set a definite minimum Note also that formal schooling may Tage in chronological years for be given at the beginning of child- entrance into formal schooling (first hood only "if the physical constitu- grade), but sets forth first the ideal, tion is good." Elsewhere we are in- then the very earliest period in a structed, "Even when the child is old child's life when formal intellectual enough to attend school, his health training should begin. should be regarded as of greater im- Note the ideal: "For the first eight portance than a knowledge of or ten years of a child's life the field or books." garden is the best schoolroom, the The teaching of the Spirit of Proph- mother the best teacher, nature the ecy is clear: Forcing children into for- best lesson book."' mal schooling before they are ready is Because of circumstances or State likely to cause permanent damage! Of the four million children who enter the compulsory school attendance laws, As we will see, this instruction is sup- firs grade in American schools each year, at parents may not be privileged to keep ported by scientific research. lea t 850,000 will fail, and must repeat the their children out of school until they But this does not mean that the gra e. Immaturity appears to be one cause. reach eight or ten years of age. It years prior to formal entrance into should be noted here that the Spirit school should be wasted. Actually they scr be her boy's great unhappiness and of Prophecy does not advocate the may well be more influential for the str nge periods of sickness. breaking of compulsory school attend- child's whole life than all succeeding he doctors replied, "Your letter ance laws. (See Testimonies, vol. 6, instruction! During these preschool pr sents an almost classic picture of p. 199.) If the ideal is not possible, the years parents, especially mothers, have a little boy who just isn't ready for . very earliest age at which formal priceless opportunities of stimulating first grade. This is not surprising, schooling should begin is set forth and directing the physical, intellec- sin e he is still only six. And, as you as follows: tual, emotional, social, and spiritual kn w we find that the average boy is development of their children. Full no ready for first grade until he is Minimum School Entrance Age information concerning the impor- ful y seven." "During the first six or seven years tance of these years and the training ' Physically, mentally, emotionally, of a child's life, special attention to be given are presented in Educa- an socially he was simply not ready should be given to its physical train- tional Leaflet number 50, "Your Pre- for school. The Creator, who gave us ing, rather than the intellect. After school Child." ou children, fixed the rate of matura- this period, if the physical constitu- It is the considered view of the Gen- tio of each phase of their wonderful tion is good, the education of both eral Conference Department of Edu- bo ies and minds so that each phase should receive attention. Infancy ex- cation that parents should be more wo Id mature at the time most pro- tends to the age of six or seven years. interested in providing an effective pit ous for its development. Whenever Up to this period children should be preschool educational program for we tinker with God's timetable we left, like little lambs, to roam around their children than starting them into ca se serious problems. If we help a the house and in the yards, in the formal schooling before they are ba y chick out of its shell, we weaken buoyancy of their spirits, skipping and ready. For example, one parent wrote it, f ten permanently. If we pry open jumping, free from care and trou- to the Gesell Institute of Child Care a r sebud, we mar or destory it. If we ble."' and Development as follows: fore a child into experiences for Note that under no circumstances "DEAR DOCTORS: Could you possi- wh ch he is not ready, not sufficiently should formal schooling begin until bly help me? My problem is my son, ma ured, we are also tampering with after the age of "infancy," which "ex- age six and in first grade. Ever since Go 's timetable for him." tends to the age of six or seven years." we moved here last winter he has been f the four million children who Some children pass from infancy into absolutely miserable about going to ender the first grade in American childhood at about age six, while school."' This mother went on to de- schools each year, at least 850,000 will 10 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964

fail, and must repeat the grade. Many school a few months too early!" " and if the eyes are not sufficiently ma- thousands more will be passed along Physicians and psychologists are tured the results may be not only great to the second grade, although their agreed that children of the same mental strain and nervousness to the teachers, their parents, and they them- chronological age differ widely in the child but permanent injury to the selves know that they will not be able rate and order of their physical devel- eyes themselves! to do good work in that grade. In a opment. Since at these early ages a "Tests reveal that not more than 5 study of the effect of early school en- few months is a fairly large per cent per cent of children have eye troubles trance on the scholastic achievement of their total life span, a period of when they enter school. Dr. Wilbur J. of elementary school children in the even one month may make a great dif- Cohen, of the U.S. Public Health Serv- Austin, Texas, public schools, Low- ference. This difference decreases pro- ice, found that fifteen thousand pupils ell B. Carter writes: "The lack of ma- portionally with each succeeding year. in the Washington, D.C., schools turity of most underage pupils is the Therefore "pediatricians, psychia- showed an increase of 600 per cent major cause of the failure of the pu- in myopia (nearsightedness) between pils to meet normal academic require- the first and fifth grades in school. ments throughout the elementary Other investigations reveal increases school period.... The chronologically By G. M. Mathews in nearsightedness among school chil- older child appears to have the ad- Associate Secretary dren up to 1,600 per cent!" 16 vantage in academic achievement GC Educational Department of underage children, Jen- over the younger child when given kins, Shacter, and Bauer write: "His the same school experiences. . . . Ac- large muscles are much better devel- cording to the data used in this study, oped than those that control the fin- 87% of the underage children do not trists, and psychologists are saying that gers and the hands, so that he should equal the scholastic achievement of visual tasks as complex as those pre- still be encouraged in those activities normal children."' In a similar study sented by reading from a book cannot which strengthen the large muscles of of pupils in the Oak Ridge, Tennes- be imposed on children until the neu- arms, legs and trunk. He is not yet see elementary schools, Inez B. King rological system is ready to support ready for such activities as writing. found that a large portion of the such activity. The price of early pres- Painting with a large brush on a large younger pupils fell far below grade- sure in the learning situation can be surface is desirable; holding and ma- level standards, and that many had to mounting tension, emotional instabil- nipulating a pencil and trying to repeat the grade.' ity, and unfavorable attitude toward make small letters might produce an learning which might affect the entire undesirable strain. . . . The hand and The low achiever or failure is a school life of children." 11 prime candidate for a later "dropout." eye do not yet work with complete In a brochure entitled "School Fail- Danger of Permanent Injury coordination. . . . The eyeball is still ures and Dropouts," Edith G. Neisser growing in size. It will not be fully de- "Premature entrance to kindergar- veloped for several years." " writes: "The original failure to master ten, and consequent premature expo- One of the tools for learning, such as Ellen G. White warns of permanent sure to the curriculum of the first brain damage as a result of premature reading, in the early grades may ulti- grade which emphasizes reading and mately result in utter discouragement schooling in these words: "The brain, close eye and hand work, can result in the most delicate of all the physical in high school. Three times as many eye strain and other physical as well as poor readers as good ones drop out. organs, and that from which the nerv- mental discomfort. Children brought ous energy of the whole system is de- Unless the content of each grade is into school early are called upon to conquered as it is presented, the rived, suffers the greatest injury. By use what they do not yet possess. This being forced into premature or exces- `empty spaces' in skill and knowledge could be called cruelty without too just are not made up. Eventually an sive activity, and this under unhealth- great an exaggeration." " ful conditions, it is enfeebled, and academic impasse is arrived at and the "For many generations it has been only way out seems to be to depart often the evil results are perma- assumed that when a child is six years nent." " from the scene." old he should be sent to school and be expected to learn to read. Now Em- Even Bright Children 1 Ellen G. White, Education (Mountain View, mett Albert Betts, professor of psy- California: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1903), Encounter Difficulties p. 208. (Italics supplied.) chology and director of the reading 2 Child Guidance (Nashville, Tennessee: Southern Publishingb Association, 1954), p. 300. "Many parents believe that a very clinic of Temple University, finds, 3 , Education, p. 208. 4 Los Angeles Times, Sept. 20, 1956. bright child will do well in school re- after extensive research, that 80 per Ibid. cent of all six-year-old children are G. M. Mathews, "Is Your Six-Year-Old Ready gardless of his chronological age even for School?" Review & Herald, Aug. 22, 1957, pp. if he is younger than the other chil- not visually mature enough at six to 12, 13. 7 Lowell B. Carter, "The Effect of Early School dren in his class. Scientific investiga- read. This noted authority further Entrance on the Scholastic Achievement of Elemen- states that the same condition applies tary School Children in the Austin Public Schools," tions have shown clearly, however, The J o of Educational Research, L (October, that this is not true, because the phys- to 18 per cent of all nine-year-olds." " 1956) 91-103.carnal Inez B. King, "Effect of Age of Entrance Into ical and emotional maturation of a "Reading authorities have found Grade I Upon Achievement in Elementary School," -year-old experi- The Elementary School Journal, LV, No. 6 (Febru- child is tied quite closely to his chron- that the average 61/2 ary, 1955), 331-336. ological age. In the Montclair, New ences little or no difficulty in learning Edith G. Neisser "School Failures and Drop- outs," Public Affairs Pamphlet No. 316 (New York: Jersey, study involving 500 children to read. Many of the reading prob- Public Affairs Committee, Inc., 1963), p. 4. 1° See G. M. Mathews, "Proper School Entrance it was found that the very bright chil- lems we hear of are caused by pressure Age," Review & Herald, July 19, 1962, p. 5. put on children to learn to read be- 11 William D. Sheldon, Should the Very Young Be dren who were started to school too Taught to Read?" NEA Journal, November, 1963, early met with varying difficulties fore they are ready, before they have pp. 20-23. 12 H. M. Gelles and M. C. Coulson, "At What from the junior high school period on. the physical and mental equipment Age Is a Child Ready for School?" The School Ex- for a meaningful and successful ecutive, August, 1959, pp. 29-31. Fifty per cent of these intellectually 11 Richard A. Bergin, "Your Child Must See Well superior children made only 'C' start." 14 to Grow Well," Visual Digest Magazine, Fall, 1949. 4 Gelles and Coulson, Mc. cit. grades. They were seldom asked to be Forcing the eyes to focus on fairly 13 Mathews, "Is Your Six-Year-Old Ready for small print and holding this focus School?" Review & Herald, Aug. 22, 1957, pp. 12, 13. leaders by the children in the class. 10 G. B. Jenkins, and others, These Are Your Chil- What a price these children and their while the eyes move along the printed dren (Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1949), p. 20. parents paid for starting them to lines is a complicated, difficult task, 17 White, Education, pp. 207, 208.

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cause we do not fin in the Bible the explicit words or Forging Another Prophetic Link thoughts that Mrs. hite presents, why hasten to the conclusion that her wo s are uninspired? Who would have Three years ago Pope John XXIII drew up plans for imagined that Jerem ah's words about Rachael's weeping the Secretariat for the Promotion of Christian Unity for her children—a omment on a tragic incident of the and commissioned Cardinal Bea to translate the blue- Babylonian captivity had a further depth of meaning in print into reality. The cardinal's noteworthy success in regard to Herod's sl ughter of the innocents? But an in- building a bridge of communication and understanding spired New Testame t writer set forth that further mean- between the Catholic Church and non-Roman Christen- ing. And is that not t ue of much that the New Testament dom is well known. Machinery for building a similar writers presented? A ain, who would have imagined that bridge between the Vatican and the non-Christian world the doctrine of the r surrection resided in the Old Testa- is now being assembled, with Cardinal Marella, a sixty- ment declaration "I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and nine-year-old Italian prelate fifteen years younger than Jacob." Even the wi est of the Jewish doctors of the law Cardinal Bea, in charge of operations. Recently Pope did not see that hi den truth. But Christ made plain Paul VI announced the creation of a Vatican Secretariat that the doctrine of the resurrection was most certainly for non-Christians, a complementary move that seems hidden there. destined to produce results of more than ordinary inter- Why might not t e same be true as to Mrs. White's est to students of Bible prophecy. The new secretariat writings? If we acce t the prime premise that Mrs. White will explore areas of cooperation with Judaism, Islam, had the gift of the S irit of prophecy—and without such Buddhism, and other religions of the world. The un- acceptance all our d "scussion is profitless—then is it not announced aim of both secretariats, we suppose, is to reasonable to believ that she gives us, not extrascriptural break down barriers between the various religions and teachings, but rathe teachings hidden in the Scriptures? to unite the world in obedience to, or at least coopera- May not the troubl be simply with the dimness of our tion with, Rome. Apparently the Vatican intends to spiritual understan ing? enter into dialog with non-Christians as well as Chris- tians. A Specific Situation John, in vision, foresaw a time when all the world Let us take the v ry specific situation that seems gen- would "wonder" after the Roman power, and when erally to prompt th question before us. Some observe the religions of the world would lend their coercive that the Bible perm is meat eating but that Mrs. White influence to a program directed by Rome. He relates urges abstinence fr m it. Therefore, they believe that seeing three "unclean spirits" emerge from the dragon, at best Mrs. White's counsel is extrascriptural and hence the beast, and the false prophet—from the non-Chris- not binding on us. But the Bible also permits slavery tian religions of earth, from the Roman power itself, —and atheists keeps, reminded of that fact. Nor do the and from the non-Catholic religions of Christendom, apostles raise their Voices calling on masters to free their respectively—with the concerted purpose of persuading slaves, or rallying slaves to revolt. And atheists keep us the political powers of earth to unite with Rome in reminded of that also. But what of Mrs. White? From solving all international problems on the basis of the almost the beginni g of her public life she thundered Roman formula of a universal church guiding the po- against what she de lared was the sin of slavery. Inciden- litical powers of earth into a new Pax Romana. tally, even as she b gan to speak out there were almost The ecumenical bridges being built at the behest half of the clergy in the United States who declared that of the present Pope and his farsighted predecessor give slavery was a part o the divine plan and wholly justified promise of paving the way for the fulfillment of this by Scripture. prophecy. Only a few years ago it was somewhat dif- Now was Mrs. W ite extrascriptural, and thus simply ficult to visualize how cooperation among the Catholic, offering us counsel t at was "good," or otherwise, depend- Protestant, and non-Christian faiths could ever be ing on our persona mood in the matter? None of us achieved. But the current generally favorable reaction would say so today We would vigorously declare that to overtures from the Vatican on the part of religious in denouncing slave y she was setting forth the original and political leaders alike suggests that a basis for the plan of God as pic ured in the story of Eden, and also understanding and concerted action envisioned by John pointing us forward to the ideal in the earth made new. the revelator may be closer than we think. We will Because God per its something, it does not follow watch developments in the religious arena with increas- that that is the idea . Take, for example, the Mosaic per- ing interest. mission for divorce. Christ declared that such permission R. F. C. was given because o the "hardness" of the hearts of the Israelites. But He i mediately added that this was con- trary to the origin 1 plan of God for man. (See Mark The Editor's Mailbag 10:2-9.) Christ's wo ds apply to all the permissives of Scripture that seem so strangely different from the origi- Good members in the church sometimes ask: When nal Edenic picture, or the ultimate picture of Eden re- Mrs. White presents certain counsel that is beyond what stored. Our dim vi ion, our unheavenly heritage, and is clearly revealed in the Bible are we not justified in con- other factors explain the permissives. But these permis- sidering it simply as good counsel, such as anyone might sives do not warrant our concluding that Mrs. White give, and not as inspired instruction that is binding on does not offer us i spired instruction because, forsooth, our lives? she lifts our eyes ab ve the permissives to the ideal. And We believe that this question is built on a fallacy. Be- should that not uni uely be the mark of a prophet who 12 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 seeks to prepare us for the better world so soon to come? of five who wrote that impatient, sadistic teachers are And in that better world, even as was true in original driving teen-agers out of school instead of taking the Eden, there will be no flesh eaters. "They shall not hurt trouble to persuade them to learn. But some of the argu- nor destroy in all my holy mountain" (Isa. 11:9). ments with which Mr. Irving buttresses his position seem There is nothing extrascriptural in the advocacy of to have sufficient validity to be worth testing. He con- vegetarianism. That was the diet set down in Eden and tends, for example, that if a student drops out of school will be the diet in Eden restored. And no permissives and tries to get a job in today's highly competitive world, of Scripture change that fact. Remember that the per- he may see the importance of education and may obtain missives permit not only flesh but also strong drink, easy sufficient motivation to go back and finish school before divorce, plural marriages—to mention some of the more he becomes incongruously older than his classmates. startling. And these permissives reveal, not the standards Mr. Irving also makes the point that keeping potential of a gross God—as atheists charge—but the long-suffering dropouts in school seldom brings them up to par. "We and patience of a holy God. They certainly do not offer could keep low-ability students in school till they die of to us any permanent standard for life or any justification old age and still not make them competitive in highly for living below the level of the light that has been re- skilled jobs. Instead of trying to force learning upon vealed to us. those who cannot learn, we should exploit the fact that Ever and anon God's prophets seek to lift us to higher even in this technological age there are still a great levels, to help us to set our "affection on things above" many unskilled and semiskilled jobs to be done—jobs (Col. 3:2). And in doing that they do not depart from that can be done well, and contentedly, by people who all that Moses and the prophets wrote. They simply can't manage to graduate from high school. What strikes build for us steps of divine principles that would lead a high-school graduate as dull and hardly worth doing at us above the sad level of permissives to the high level of all, let alone doing well, may offer satisfying challenge to the heavenly country. F. D. N. a boy who's accustomed to think in terms of things rather than ideas. The same applies to girls." Mr. Irving offers several helpful suggestions (which we Dropouts—and Personal cannot list here, for lack of space) for salvaging dropouts, but he has harsh words for "all the clamour to give the shirker special treatment." Instead of creating a Responsibility sense of responsibility in the delinquent, "it [special A Canadian high school teacher recently offered a treatment] teaches ninety-eight per cent of them only one revolutionary prescription for dealing with school drop- thing: that the squeaking wheel gets the grease. It sug- outs. He suggested that they be permitted to drop out— gests to the laggard's knotted-up little intellect that to until they prize education and are ready to study hard get somewhere he need not be productive, competent, enough to obtain it. Writing in Macleans Magazine of reliable or upright; he need only be a first-class" loafer July 4, Hugh J. Irving, a Camrose, Alberta, high school or laggard. teacher, stated crisply: "I claim that the time has arrived A Serious Problem for placing the responsibility for dropouts where it be- longs; not on the teacher, but squarely on the dropout With educators and social workers we recognize that himself. To convince the incorrigibly lazy student that school dropouts confront society with a serious and com- he's wrong we must drop the consequences of his irre- plex problem. We sympathize with parents whose chil- sponsibility in his own lap. He must go. Some dropouts dren disappoint them by leaving school prematurely. And should drop out." we feel a keen interest in youth who find the educa- Mr. Irving rightly noted that some students of neces- tional process odious. But we think that neither dropouts sity leave school because of conditions within their fami- nor anyone else should blame others for their deficiencies lies that require an additional wage earner; he also ac- and lack of achievement. The Bible teaches personal knowledged that some students simply do not have the responsibility. It teaches that man is not to be controlled mental ability to absorb classroom learning above the by circumstances; he is to control circumstances. He is most elementary levels. But he had stinging words for not to go whimpering through life because he does not "those students who can learn but, for a variety of unap- get a "square deal." He is not to excuse his failures on pealing reasons, refuse to try." "They are known in the ground that his father, mother, teacher, or anyone educational jargon of 'underachievers, " wrote Mr. Ir- else treated him shabbily or unfairly. ving, but "I prefer shorter, sharper terms, like laggard The Bible does not endorse mechanistic determinism or shirker." —the philosophy that encourages man to believe that "Boys like these are widely represented as victims of he is in the grip of forces too powerful for him to change. malignant forces that somehow conspire to rob them of While it is true that everyone is influenced by his physi- their educational birthright. Their defenders have been cal ancestry and his environment, it also is true that by prompt to blame teachers for not putting needed time exercising the power of choice and seeking divine aid to and effort into penetrating their impervious skulls— strengthen the will one can largely determine the shape referring to time and effort as though these commodities of his life. Great changes can be wrought. Harmful exist in limitless quantities within the school. Well, they social patterns can be broken. Evil habits can be over- don't. There are limits to what even a good teacher can come. Soul-damaging environments can be left behind. do and do well. He and his school must direct their School dropouts who have an adequate endowment of resources to the areas where they'll do the most good for IQ need to recognize this. So also do the members of the the most students. He cannot squander ten times the ef- older generation who are not achieving their objectives. fort and time needed by the majority in order to squeeze An old song gaily trills, "The world owes me a living." a few extra tatters of knowledge into the unreceptive, un- But the statement is false. The world owes no one any- retentive and often antagonistic mind of the laggard." thing, except opportunity. If one will seize opportunities —upon occasion, even creating them—if he will discipline Arguments Worth Testing himself, and work untiringly, he can reach surprisingly We suspect that some people will accuse Mr. Irving high goals. But can anyone force a person to be a suc- of being heartless and disinterested in young people. cess if he is determined not to succeed, if he is not will- Certainly he will be the target of parents like a mother ing to pay the price of success? K. H. W.

REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 13 we et out to meet the chief. The tradi- A Thrilling Story tion 1 Fijian custom when making a request is to present a whale's tooth. If the of Divine Providence chief accepts this tabua one's request is in Fiji— granted; if it is returned, the request is refused. We waited breathlessly throughout the speeches and incantations for the chief's answer. It was a relief to hear his cordial Dangerous Journey spee h of acceptance, and his request that we all again the next morning. In the By John P. L. Gray mor ing he informed us that we might pres nt our message in his large meeting- hous , rather than outside our bure as we had planned. He also asked our prayers HASE them! Drown them!" The escape from the island is impossible." for n ailment he was suffering, and later maniac at the mast slashed the air It seemed almost by accident that our info med us that he felt the prayer had C violently as his craft raced to inter- destination, like a floating raft, appeared been answered. cept our vessel. The situation was grim, above the waves. Darkness descended W walked for almost an hour along a and the boys were afraid. Should we turn upon us as we entered the shallow water. flat ath, winding and tree flanked, to the back? If we continued on our course, As we were wading ashore we saw a othe two villages. The six-inch-deep soil would we ever return? The question was curious crowd of children waiting in the shoo with an empty thud, betraying the soon to be answered. moonlight to greet us. The boys loaded pres nce of hollow coral reef immedi- The drama began a few months ago on our equipment on their backs—a gaso- ately underneath. I wondered how the a tiny, low-lying tropical island, invisible line motor for electricity, drums of fuel, mass ve trees could grow in only six until one is almost upon it. It is hidden projectors, blackboard, pulpit, and boxes inch s of soil. They probably go down to by the swells of a vast ocean. Viwa, two —16 heavy items in all. fresh water somewhere under the reef. and a half miles long and a quarter mile Semele and his family had moved from Som of the islanders were quite wide, nestles in isolated seclusion 70 their bure to another, leaving it well pre- friendly, and others reflected a cool hos- miles northwest of the main Fijian is- pared for the mission team. After a snack tility toward us. lands. The blue Pacific roars onto the outer reef, and behind the warm lagoon a dazzling-white beach quietly rises to the fringing coconut palms and grass- thatched bures. In this tiny world Leone, a lone Fijian Adventist boy, lived for several months, and in casual moments recounted his faith to Semele, brother and assistant of the chief. We met him later in Lautoka —a tall, fuzzy-haired gentleman. He knocked on my door and asked to be baptized. Brother Esava Tausere, our Fi- jian assistant, translated his request into English. After some discussion we decided to visit his island and conduct a two-week evangelistic program, at the close of which Semele would be baptized. Semele went home to seek the chief's permission, and promised to return when that permission was granted. We waited for several months. Aware of the prevailing hostility toward any new religion on the island, the chief was unwilling to approve the request—or to deny it. Meanwhile, we were ready to go—Brethren Esava, Leone, Rupeni, and myself, and a bright young woman, Lewa, to be our cook. Praying for divine guidance, we were impressed to wait no longer. Our hired fishing boat set sail on Burma Bible Seminar); Graduates the long journey. About halfway to Viwa our Fijian In March, 1964, the second class of students completed their training at the boatman pointed out three distant, de- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Seminary in Myaun mya, Burma. Six different racial serted islands. "We never visit those is- groups are represented. This two-year program consists of two seven-month periods lands," he said. "That is the place of dev- of intensive classroom work and two four-month periods of field work during which ils, who live in a cave. If anyone goes full-scale evangelistic campaigns are conducted. Twenty-six have now completed the there, makes a noise, tramples the flow- course. The ministerial force in the Burma Union has been greatly strengthened by ers, or shouts, the devils rise to action this training program. W. W. Christensen (seated, center), who first came to Burma in 1930, is director of this institution. and create a storm. The sea surrounding W. L. MURRILL, President the island gets rough at times, and Burma Union 14 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 As our first meeting began, the chief Taiwan Missionary College Baptism arrived and made a speech. "I am glad these visitors are here," he told his peo- Shortly after the opening of the fall term I led out in the Week of Prayer services ple. "I want you to be pleased too, and to at Taiwan Missionary College. A large number of the students who enter the college come every night. Although we are of a are not members of the church. How happy we were when nearly every non-Adventist different religion, these people are here student stood for Christ and joined a baptismal class at the close of the Week of to help us understand the Word of God. Prayer. They brought me a tabua and a Bible, Mrs. Thelma Smith, a missionary of many years' experience in China, and John which shows that they respect Fijian cus- Lu, a fine young national worker, gave steady leadership to the baptismal class tom and preach the Word of God. These program. next two weeks will bring blessing to Sabbath, May 9, the first 24 of the students with two others from a nearby church our island." joined the remnant church. Pictured with the group from left to right are D. E. Wright, Cross-legged on the floor, the audience John Lu, G. E. Volsch, Mrs. Thelma Smith, and on the far right Richard Liu, who sat in rapt attention. The subject of the assisted D. E. Wright with the baptizing. We appreciate your prayers for God's work in signs of Christ's return appealed to them China. G. E. VOLSCH, Business Manager as they listened to it for the first time in Taiwan Missionary College their lives. But at the conclusion of the meeting a Fijian Protestant minister who lived on the island handed us a note warning us not to preach again. As we were preparing to retire for the night a group of about a dozen people came, requesting that we teach them choruses. It was already eleven o'clock, and four of them would have to walk for a full hour to reach home. The next day the Protestant minister called to see us. "You received my letter last night?" he asked. "We do not want any other organization here. Although the chief has granted you permission to preach, half of the people do not want you here. Because the chief gave you permission, they did not hurt you. You are lucky that you approached the chief and presented the whale's tooth and Bi- ble. Otherwise they would have chased you off the island the next morning. You are not invited to come here. You are not welcome." After a lengthy discussion, this man Sabbath Schools on the 32, and South Katanga with 22; and so it departed and went to call on the chief. goes. The South African Union is re- He presented the chief with a letter March Around the World questing materials to open 400 branch that bore several signatures. The chief Sabbath schools. By G. R. Nash, Secretary "This is one of the greatest soul-win- opened it, read two lines, crumpled the GC Sabbath School Department letter between his hands, and tossed it ning undertakings in the history of this aside before the astonished gaze of the Thrilling reports of progress come to division. I have no doubt that it will add minister. "I have given them permis- us from all parts of the world field. To- multiplied thousands to our baptismal sion," he said, "and I am happy for them day word came from Robert H. Pierson, classes. I do not know just how we will to be here. You are a minister; talk with president of the Trans-Africa Division, be able to keep up with it all, but thank them yourself." telling of keen interest in the branch Sab- God for problems like that." At five o'clock that evening a messen- bath school program. "J. B. Cooks, our The following report recently reached ger informed us that our foes were de- division Sabbath school secretary," he our office from R. S. Fernando, Sabbath manding a council meeting that very eve- wrote, "reports that as the result of the school secretary of the Ceylon Union: ning. But the chief assured us "You will itinerary you and he recently made "We are now in the midst of a cam- never hear from my mouth the command throughout Trans-Africa, our fields have paign to treble our Sabbath school mem- to stop these meetings or to leave this is- set as their goal the organization of bership. According to the goal recom- land. Others may drive you away, but I 17,000 branch Sabbath schools during mended it is supposed to be two and a never will." 1964. This is wonderful news indeed. half times the church membership, but That evening as the meeting began the "Already inspiring reports are coming we have increased this to four times the chief was present again, and the audience in. In the North Nyasa Field the African church membership. The first thousand was singing, "Scatter sunshine every- leaders have set as their objective four new members have been added in nine where." Suddenly the building was branch Sabbath schools for each Sabbath months. The branch Sabbath school idea thrown into darkness. Outside someone school class. They accepted this enlarged is catching on. Only a short time ago we raised a thundering call, "Come out! goal because they had almost reached the had only eight. Now we have 24." Come out!" goal you brethren suggested for them We have heard much about the great Two people in the audience hastily during your visit. You can see that they wave of Sabbath school evangelism in rose to their feet and ran through the have doubled your goal, and are already Inter-America. Under date of May 15, door. Then the chief's own son, a Protes- well on the way to reaching theirs. C. L. Powers, president of the Inter- tant minister and owner of the voice, "In the troubled Central Kivu Field American Division, writes: burst into the public meetinghouse, in the Congo Union the leaders coura- "During my recent trip through the swinging a large cane knife and shouting geously set their goal for 1,830 branch Caribbean Union it was my pleasure to to all of the people to get out. Menac- Sabbath schools. Despite recent disturb- visit 14 beautiful islands. I found our ingly, he swung the massive knife at ances there, they report more than 700 work well established, with a positive one and all, as if to hurry them. Then he already functioning. soul-winning program everywhere. Many slashed at the chair upon which I had "Some of our older stations that have of our workers were eager to tell me of been seated. Fiercely raving, he rushed to made a particularly good beginning are the thrilling results of the branch Sab- the pulpit and other objects, and sent Ikizu School in Tanganyika, with 17 bath school program. This new ap- them smashing through the air. branches already operating, Mombera in proach is changing the picture in the en- (Concluded next week) Nyasaland with 58, North Congo with tire division. We are grateful to the Lord REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 15 chef, Laiboni, had returned. He asked w at had brought us to his village. n a polite way we replied, "The Word of God has stayed on the mountains of Pa e these 60 years. It has done great things there, and we want you to have the go pel blessing also." "Why are you •so late in coming?" as ed the chief. "Many Masai are dead an some of us are old. Where have you be n all these years?" e asked forgiveness for the delay, and ex s lained that there was a time for every- thi g. They agreed, and said they would see whether we meant what we said. After Servicemen's Retreat in Korea tw 4 hours they permitted us to resume ou sleep. A retreat for Seventh-day Adventist servicemen was held May 8 to 10 at the Eighth e were called for a drink of milk Army Retreat Center in Seoul, Korea. Thirty servicemen and a group of missionaries ab ut eight o'clock the next morning. were in attendance. Clark Smith, associate director of the National Service Organization, In keeping with their custom, we pre- was in attendence for the entire time. se ted the chief with a gift, and gave a The retreat coincided with the MV secretaries' council of the Far Eastern Division. sp cial piece of cloth to the grandmother, Charles Martin, division secretary; J. H. Lantry of the Southeast Asia Union; G. J. who thanked us, saying, "Your God bless Bertocchini of the South China Island Mission; E. R. Chinnock, of the Japan Union yo Mission; and Ralph Watts, Jr., of the Korean Union Mission, assisted. t the Ruvu River crossing two days ✓ RALPH C. WORKMAN, Chaplain late I met the assistant counselor, a yo ng man with only six years of educa- tio i. asked whether we might bring the gospel to his country. He was pleased for His blessing, and only eternity will greased and rubbed with red ochre, their an( said that his people had already reveal the results." long braided hair plastered with clay, and col ected money for a school and wanted Pastor Sergio Moctezuma, Sabbath their long gleaming spears in hand as Ch istian teachers. He stressed the Masai school secretary of the Mexican Union, they drove the cattle into the corral for pe plc's great need for Christianity and wrote last November: the night. In the deepening twilight I for education. "During June we held the second de- could see the Pare Mountains in the dis- fter several other good contacts I partmental council for the Mexican tance, and recalled the bitter enmity that wa convinced that this is the time to take Union, in Mexico City. As soon as the had existed for centuries between the the gospel to the Masai country. Already, council ended we began a series of Sab- Wapare and Wamasai. I prayed silently ho ever, "birds are spoiling the crops," bath school councils that took us from that God would bring about a reconcilia- as they say here. Pray that we may find the Federal District to Veracruz, Mina- tion between us, that we might live to- th men and the money for this needy titian, and Tecpatan in the Chiapas gether in heaven. We were shown a place mi sionary project. Mountains. to sleep after taking milk together with "Great surprises awaited us every- the Morani. where. The goals the departmental secre- We were suddenly awakened about taries set during their council seemed too nine o'clock by a spear-carrying Morani "If Thy Hand low to the members. They raised their who ordered us to put on our shoes and sights to unprecedented, fantastic heights. follow him. I did not know what this 0 fend Thee . . ▪ " For example, Brother Soto Valle, depart- young man wanted until we saw that the mental secretary of the Southeast Mission, y A. H. Brandt, President had set a goal of 5,000 new branch Sab- Central Kenya Field bath schools during the next three years, Laiboni, the Masai ruler (right) with J. A. Kisaka. dronikas Irungu, a young Kenyan but at the Minatitlan congress our mem- wh went to seek work at Arusha in bers raised the goal to 12,000. Our laity Ta ganyika, was nominally a Christian are eager to finish the work in this part of an prided himself in the thought that the world." he was following the Lord in all things. Similar inspiring reports have reached hen Tanganyika became independ- us from the Philippines and many other en in 1961, Adronikas had good work parts of the world. Suffice it to say, our an the prospect of a happy future. Sabbath school work is on the march, However, he felt he should return to his and God is wonderfully blessing every- homeland, Kenya, and went to his em- where. Let us give, and work, and pray ployer. Soon the matter was settled, and as never before. This is the day of God's Ad onikas prepared for the journey. power. II n the very last day of work, however, to ptation came his way. He borrowed his master's car for an errand of his own. This Is Our Opportunity It was not long, though, before the By J. A. Kisaka, Departmental Secretary ow er missed both Adronikas and the North East Tanganyika Mission car and soon Adronikas found himself be ind bars, where he was to remain for tw. years. When independence came, a As Caleb and Joshua brought a good lar number of prisoners were given report after spying out the land, so I have am esty, and Adronikas soon found him- a good story to tell after a visit to Masai sel on his way home to Kenya. But peace land. of eart had gone. Bitter regret and self- My guide, Msovu, and I arrived at the reproach haunted him, and often he chief's village just as darkness was falling wo Id gaze at the offending left hand that on March 11 of this year, and we were ha started the car. What could he do to graciously invited to spend the night, ma e everything right with God? though the chief was not at home. We ne day as he was reading the Gospel watched the young Morani, their bodies of ark, Adronikas found a text that he

16 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 MV secretary, L. C. Caviness, the camps ries of cooperative efforts by Caversham will cost in the neighborhood of $5,000, churches. Representatives of each reli- and are well worth the price. "You gious body will serve on the editorial should see the look on the faces of these board of the paper. youngsters when we tell them they can eat all they want," he said. "There is NORTH CONWAY, N.H.—Protestant, one stipulation—they must eat every- Catholic, and Jewish clergymen from the thing they take on their plate." United States and Canada were told here From the time of reveille at 7:00 each that almost 100 per cent of youth taste morning until taps at 9:30 each night, the alcohol before graduation from high camper's day is filled with nature study, school. crafts, swimming, archery, boating, camp- MONTREAL, QUEBEC—Three women fire stories, and worship periods. Some of were ordained here to the ministry of the these boys and girls learn to pray for the United Church of Canada, bringing to first time while at camp. Their physical 55 the number who have achieved full well-being has been well cared for by Drs. equality with men in the denomination. R. W. Spalding and C. J. Koudele and their wives. NEW YORK—Membership in Lu- Conference buses run the length and theran churches in North America totaled breadth of Michigan to pick the boys and 8,870,721 at the end of 1963, an increase girls up and take them home again. They of 135,987, or 1.6 per cent, over the pre- are carefully selected by local welfare of- vious year, according to a new statistical ficials without regard to race or creed. In report issued here by the National Lu- order to help as many youngsters as pos- theran Council. Lutherans are surpassed sible, new names are being selected each in members only by Baptists and Meth- year. odists. One mother told of finding her boy at midnight with his fully packed suitcase ATHENS—The Holy Synod of the Or- in bed with him. The bus would not be thodox Church in Greece announced that by to pick him up until three o'clock the it had ruled against appointment of dele- following afternoon! Opportunity camp gate-observers to the Second Vatican Coun- has meant a once-in-a-lifetime opportu- cil's third session. Adronikas Irungu nity to hundreds of Michigan boys and girls. HAMBURG, GERMANY—An estimated 80,000 church bells -were seized during felt had been written especially for him. World War II in Germany and occupied "If thy hand offend thee, cut it off." His countries by the Nazis for armament pur- left hand, so he felt, had betrayed him. poses, according to the German Church So he picked up a sharp panga from Bell Archive. The archive organization, the floor, placed his arm on the window set up after the war to trace the lost bells, ledge, and with misdirected zeal cut off said 77 per cent of the seized bells were the hand with one stroke. A little later melted down to manufacture war equip- his relatives found him on the floor in a ment. Most of the bells which escaped pool of blood and brought him to the scrapping have been identified by archive hospital. Examination proved him ac- LONDON—An interreligiously pro- investigators and returned to their par- tually sane, and after treatment he was duced newspaper, The Caversham Bridge, ishes. sent home. is scheduled to begin publication in Octo- Months later he met some Seventh-day ber, sponsored by Anglican, Baptist, Meth- VATICAN CITY—Vatican Radio, in Adventists, and through the companion- odist, and Roman Catholic churches in an official commentary on the new Secre- ship and interest of workers and laymen the Caversham section of Reading. Be- tariat for Non-Christians, made a strong he found a new joy in the Lord. He is lieved to be the first such undertaking of appeal to the world's religions to unite now baptized and, crippled as he is, does its kind, the venture is the latest of a se- against the growth of atheism, what he can to tell his neighbors of his new happiness in the Lord.

Michigan Conference Opportunity Camp By Don Hawley, Departmental Secretary

The little boy dragged his battered suitcase deep into the woods and hid in the thick foliage. Although well con- cealed, he was eventually found and placed reluctantly on the departing bus. He had just experienced the most wonderful week of his life, and he wanted to remain at camp permanently. Some 400 underprivileged children like him will be able to attend camp this year because of a program carried on jointly by the Mis- sionary Volunteer and home missionary departments of the Michigan Conference. Three such opportunity camps will be held this year, two at the church's newly developed Scott Lake Camp near Kala- mazoo, and the other at Clear Lake in the Upper Peninsula. With his nature stories Marvin Walter held spellbound the underprivileged boys and According to the camp director and girls at Opportunity Camp.

REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 17 GENEVA---Representatives of religious and other voluntary relief agencies met here to coordinate their efforts on behalf of about 65,000 Tibetan refugees in In- dia, Nepal, and Europe. BONN, GERMANY—The Statistical Bu- reau of the West German Federal Repub- lic disclosed here that 51.5 per cent of all West Germans are Protestants and 44.1 per cent, Roman Catholics. WATSONVILLE, CALIF.—A Roman Catholic Paulist priest preached here at two Protestant Episcopal services before capacity congregations. Roman Catholic clergy and laymen were represented at both Episcopalian services. PITTSBURGH, PA.—Protestant influence in America's big cities has been in a "steep decline" for 50 years and the trend must be halted, Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, $20,000 for Evangelism in Alabama-Mississippi a Lutheran leader, said here. On Sabbath, May 23, members of the Ala ama-Mississippi Conference expressed BISMARCK, N. DAK.—North Dakota their loyalty and devotion by a sacrificial offe ing for evangelism. Two weeks later, voters, by a margin of almost 2 to 1, on the opening Sabbath of camp meeting, a pastor and church officer from each rejected a proposal to permit betting on congregation presented a check to the conferee e president, W. 0. Coe (left), and the horse and dog races under the pari-mutuel treasurer, A. J. Hess (right), representing the o ering of their church for this project. system. When all the reports were in, a total of $22,5 9 was announced—well over the goal MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.—The Rever- of $20,000. end A. Herbert Mjorud will be released Halle G. Crowson, pastor of the Mobile, Alabama, church, was selected by the from his post as an evangelist for the conference committee as conference evangelist. Elder Crowson, who has served as a American Lutheran Church at the end of pastor-evangelist in the conference for more than 13 years, will now devote full time the year because he allegedly promoted to building up the smaller churches and to entering new territory. "speaking in tongues." A goal of 400 new members has been set by the 19 pastors of the conference for the current year. The present membership of the conference is slightly more than 4,100, and the workers are pressing to reach 5,000 as uickly as possible. Launch Maranatha Plies W. D. AMPLER, Departmental Secretary the Mamore River Alabama-Mississippi Conference By Richard M. Gates, Pastor Bolivia Mission eat and less to live for. The Maranatha, vine any doubter that launch work the name of which reminds us that Jesus pay . The final results will be revealed "We heard you were coming. There are is coming again, plies its way slowly up onl in heaven. sick people here, and we've been waiting and down the hundreds of miles of river, The plan to base a small plane in for several days." This welcome greeted offering hope and help to these forgot- Tri Udad, capital of this vast jungle area, Bolivia's well-known medical launch ten people. is g ing forward rapidly. The difficulties upon its arrival in a new area along the Recently my family and I spent 15 days are great, but doors are opening wide. Mamore River recently. When the big on the launch with the Marker family. By iver, land, and air the message is go- white launch hove to at the little village Brother and Sister Marker are both regis- ing and growing in force. of Camiaco, a large crowd was waiting. tered nurses from Argentina. Brother oday, tomorrow, and next week the The eastern half of Bolivia is low-lying Marker built the launch with his own lau ch will sail up and down the Ma- jungle, hot and humid, and its principal hands years ago, and with his good wife morle on its mission of preaching and river flowing clown to the Amazon is the has now completed more than ten years healing, preparing the river people of Mamore. Thousands of humble people of faithful service in the jungles of Bo- Bolivia for a better world forever free live and die along its banks with little to livia. The days were so busy as to con- from sickness—and medical launches.

D . and Mrs. A. Ragnar Stadin, of Glendale, California, left New York City on Pine 14, for Ethiopia, with a stopover of t,V,i o weeks in Sweden. Dr. Stadin has accepted an appointment to serve as a relief octor in the Empress Zauditu Memo- rial ospital, in Addis Ababa. El er and Mrs. J. A. Birkenstock and four children sailed from Montreal, Que- bec, n the S.S. Empress of England, July 9, fo England, en route to Africa. They are r turning to the Trans-Africa Division after a furlough and leave of absence. Brot er Birkenstock will be division radio- The Bolivian medical launch Maranatha and the Marker family ply the Mamore River, TV nd church development secretary. with a group of Yura Indians on board for a short ride. E. W. DUNBAR 18 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 • Two new companies have been or- OF MEN ganized in the Maritime Conference by the district leader, Glendon Corkum. The e(lig' AND EVENTS new company at Yarmouth on the southern tip of Nova Scotia is holding Sabbath services in a rented hall. The group at Annapolis Royal meet in the home of " Atlantic Union College is expecting Azor Milner until a building can be se- ▪ cured. Atlantic Union the largest freshman class and the largest total enrollment in its history. South Lan- Reported by ▪ Seven new believers were baptized at Mrs. Emma Kirk caster Academy also expects its enrollment Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, by Desmond to break all previous records. Tinkler, president of the Maritime Con- ference. The candidates were converts of ▪ George W. Timpson and James A. John Yuros and Glendon Corkum, minis- Edgecombe were ordained at the North- Canadian Union terial interns. eastern Conference camp meeting. Elder Reported by Timpson is pastor of the Mt. Zion church Evelyn M. Bowles O' Elbert Nielsen, who has served in in New Haven, Connecticut, and Elder teaching, plant development, and farm Edgecombe of the Fifth Avenue church in administration, and who has earned the Mt. Vernon, New York. r"" Alfred Lennox, who has served for distinction of having the longest record several years as assistant publishing sec- of service in the history of Canadian "'"' Under the leadership of L. H. Davis retary of the Ontario-Quebec Conference, Union College, recently accepted a call to the Northeastern Conference MV depart- recently accepted a call to the Manitoba- Spicer Memorial College in India. Mr. ment held its first Pathfinder Camporee Saskatchewan Conference. He replaces Nielsen first came to the college as a stu- the first weekend in June, at Camp Vic- Lyle Bergey, who has been chosen admin- dent and a non-Adventist in 1936. tory Lake, Hyde Park, New York. Nine istrator of the new Sunnyside Nursing clubs, with 164 members, attended. Elder Home in Saskatoon. "" Nineteen were baptized Sabbath, June Davis was director, and Eva Strother, as- 20, at the first baptismal service to be held sociate director. ▪ Albert Grabo, a literature evangelist in the new Westminster church in British of the Alberta Conference, recently ac- Columbia. H. E. Reimche officiated. A lot for a new church in Hudson, cepted a call to the Maritime Conference Massachusetts has been purchased, with as publishing department secretary. 'r During the month of June, 89 bap- sufficient land for the development of a tisms were recorded for the British Colum- school, playground, and parking facilities. 11' The new church building at Niagara bia Conference, making a total of 159 K. W. Hutchins, associate pastor Russell Falls, Ontario, was dedicated on Sabbath, thus far this year. Aldridge, Dr. Robert Rittenhouse, and June 13. Distinguished guests from the Wilford Gray were among those taking community included Mayor Franklin "" Eight clubs with 211 members partici- part in a brief sign-raising ceremony. Miller. Officers of the union and local pated in the Pathfinder Camporee at conferences participated in the program. Camp Kopje on Okanagan Lake in Brit- ▪ J. Melvyn Clemons, assistant professor J. W. Bothe, president of the Canadian ish Columbia, June 26-28. of religion at Atlantic Union College, is Union Conference, gave the dedicatory on study leave this summer, touring message. ""` A baptismal service was held at the Europe with the Andrews University Mission du St. Laurent in Quebec City on group. s' C. G. Samograd baptized eight from June 13, when two persons took their the Paris, Brantford, and Simcoe churches stand for the truth. E. Morosoli of Quebec Mrs. Rochelle P. Kilgore, professor- in Ontario on Sabbath, June 13. emeritus of English at Atlantic Union City officiated. This was the first baptism to be held in the Quebec City church. The College, is spending six weeks in Europe ► J. C. Reynolds, pastor in Halifax, Nova this summer, visiting England and sev- Scotia, baptized nine new believers on French and English congregations met together for this service. eral countries on the Continent. Sabbath, June 20.

Fourth Year in Her Second Columbia Union Century Reported by Don A. Roth On May 25 Mrs. Ella H. Ross, a charter member of the Saco, Maine, church, and the oldest church member in the Northern • Members of the Chesapeake Confer- New England Conference, celebrated her ence gave and pledged $22,000 for evan- 104th birthday. Sister Ross became a gelism during the recent camp meeting. Seventh-day Adventist many years ago, "I" John H. Wright, recently of the Vienna and met each Sabbath with a Sister Davis Junior Academy in Virginia, was named of Saco, the only other believer in the principal of Mount Aetna Academy at vicinity. Since the Saco church was or- Hagerstown, Maryland. ganized she has taken an active part in all church projects. — During the first six months of 1964, "Grammie" Ross studies her Bible ministers of the Chesapeake Conference daily, and in her spare moments knits have baptized 225 persons. baby bootees and tiny matching mittens in pastel colors, which she sells as a — Eighty persons took their stand for means of income for her offerings. She baptism during the Chesapeake camp estimates that she has made and sold more meeting. Twenty-nine were baptized the than 1,000 pairs in the past 20 years. She last Sabbath of the meeting. watches with interest the career of the boy for whom she knit the first pair, feeling "" Stanley Steiner has been appointed that she started his feet in the right direc- new pastor of the Mount Vernon, Ohio, tion. He is now studying for the ministry. church. He was formerly pastor of the Sister Ross is a "living epistle" and an Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, church. inspiration to all who know her. • F. W. Gifford, recently from the Aus- NORMA J. LUMB, Press Secretary tralasian Division, has been appointed Saco Church pastor of the Athens, Ohio, district.

REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 19 M. Wesley Shultz, recently of Walla Leon Cox, James Thomas, William eier Hall, the new undergraduate Walla, Washington, has been appointed DeShay, Alfred Winston, Samuel Darby, me 's residence at Andrews University, is principal of the Blue Mountain Academy. and E. U. Carter. got g up rapidly and should be ready for He replaces Charles Dart, who accepted a occ pancy at the opening of the fall call to be pastor of the Keene, Texas, sch ol term. This Class A building, of church. reinforced concrete and fireproof construc- tio , when complete will cost approxi- Lester Halverson of Blue Mountain Lake Union Reported by ma ely $1 million and will house 432 men. Academy has been appointed assistant Mrs. Mildred Wade Th.s is less than $3,000 per student bed treasurer of the Pennsylvania Conference. 4air as ompared with the national average of A. B. Butler, president of the New four to six thousand dollars. Jersey Conference, announced recently M. L. Rice, who served as president of that a Harris Pine Mills plant will be the Lake Union Conference for a number he new Peoria, Illinois, church was erected at the new Tranquility property of years, recently visited the new office de icated June 20, with three former pas- of Garden State Academy. building for the first time. Although he tor present: 0. W. Bacheller, W. D. has lived in the community since his re- Br see, and W. P. Ortner. W. A. Nelson, The biennial constituency meeting of tirement in 1957, poor health prevents pre ident of the conference, and Theodore the Allegheny Conference was held during him from being very active. A friend of Ca cich, from the General Conference, camp meeting. W. L. Cheatham and W. A. the family, Stanley Hill, brought him in participated. Thompson were re-elected to their posts as his car, and W. F. Miller, secretary-treas- president and secretary-treasurer, respec- urer of the union, welcomed him at the he work of the Church Development tively. The new conference committee for door. In his wheel chair he was given a Ser ice in the Michigan Conference has the Allegheny Conference includes: W. L. guided tour personally conducted by Gor- ex anded rapidly, and Don Copsey has Cheatham, W. A. Thompson, Luther don Engen, public relations secretary of rec ntly accepted an invitation to join Palmer, Walter Starks, Aaron Brogden, the union. W.1J. Hubert, who is secretary of the department. Before his recent service as a district leader in Michigan, he served as pastor in South Dakota and as head of the Potomac Conference Dedicates New Junior Academy Bible department of our junior college in Noi-thern Brazil. C. H. Lauda, president of the Potomac Conference (center), congratulates E. L. Malcolm, district superintendent of the Potomac Conference headquarters church, on the completion and dedication of the new C. F. Richards Junior Academy. The building has three large classrooms, a kitchen, and combination auditorium-gymnasium. North Pacific The church school serves the young people of Staunton and Waynesboro. Union Assisting in the dedication services were Neal C. Wilson, president of the Columbia Reported by Union Conference (right), and Roy Eckert, local church elder (second left). Mrs. lone Morgan J. N. MORGAN, Departmental Secretary Potomac Conference n June 27, first Sabbath of the Mon- tan camp meeting, Ernest Schaak, a faithful colporteur, teacher, MV and educa- tio al secretary, and church pastor, was ord fined to the gospel ministry. Wesley Am ndsen of the General Conference; C. Scriven, president of the union; and A. . Gordon, president of the Montana Co ference, participated in the service. uburn City, Federal Way, and Au- bur Academy church members sponsored a j int Vacation Bible School in Auburn, Wa hington, which was attended by more thari 250 children. As a result of an invitation by the pastor, W. Risley, several no -Adventist children are regularly at- ten ing Sabbath school. pper Columbia Conference officers par icipated in the dedication of the Cash- mer , Washington, church on June 6. R. C. Remboldt, conference president, gav the dedicatory address. Others taking par included W. E. Wasenmiller, confer- enc treasurer; Reo Clyde, a former pastor; evangelists Herman Bauman, Lorie Pur ey, and Don Reiber; and Don L. Bauer, present pastor. The annual loggers' and fishermen's meeting of the camps for southeastern Alaika was held at Gildersleeve, July 24 to 26. G. A. Scriven, union president, and H. L. Rudy, president of the Oregon Con ference, were the guest speakers. Gil- ders leeve is a floating village on Red Bay at he north end of Prince of Wales Isla d. J. Bruce Ashton joins the Walla Walla College music faculty this fall as an instructor in piano.

20 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 dise, California, church was held June 13, with many visitors present. An early morning worship service was held in the old church, then the members and visitors marched across the church property to their new house of worship.

11" According to A. R. Reiswig, associate secretary of the union publishing department, 130 students are colporteuring in the Pacific Union Conference this summer, the largest group ever to be in the field at one time. ▪ Manson Metcalf, pastor of the Tor- rance, California, church, has accepted a call to the Manhattan church in New York City. Ellsworth Reile, MV secretary of the Southern California Conference since 1959, has accepted a call to become the MV secretary of the Southern Union Con- ference. Joan Farquharson, a 1964 graduate of Pacific Union College, will join the staff of San Gabriel Academy this fall as the secretarial science teacher.

Southern Union Servicemen Share Their Faith Reported by Mrs. Cora Kindgren The Seventh-day Adventist serviceman often proves to be a foreign missionary sent out at the expense of the Government, loyally serving both his country and his church. It is not only the foreign field that benefits, however, but often the home- J. F. Hamrick of the Ft. Lauderdale, land as well. Florida, church accepted the invitation of For example, Joseph McKenna, an Adventist sailor in training, shared a copy of the conference committee to become pas- the centennial issue of the REVIEW with his shipmate, Grantland Rice, an Episco- tor of the Forest Lake Academy church. palian. Attracted by what he read and by the witnessing of Seaman Recruit McKenna, Former Forest Lake pastor H. V. Hender- Seaman Recruit Rice visited Adventist services at the Great Lakes Naval Training shot has joined the staff of the Georgia- Center on Sabbath. Re joined the baptismal class, but was not able to finish before Cumberland Conference as stewardship he was graduated from training and sent on to new duties. secretary. Speaking at the St. Helena Sanitarium church in California recently, where I had ▪ Bert Benson of Tallahassee, Florida, served as associate pastor before entering military service, I told the story of McKenna's has accepted a call from the Greater New witnessing. At the conclusion of the service a smiling young man came up and intro- York Conference. duced himself to me. He said, "You will not remember me, but I am a theology student at Pacific Union College. When you first met me I was an Episcopalian seaman "" Don Yost of Newbury Park Academy at Great Lakes. My name is Grantland Rice." in California joins the faculty of Southern NORMAN GOODWIN, Chaplain Missionary College. United States Navy '1' Terry McComb will serve as assistant pastor of the Louisville, Kentucky, congregation, assisting J. A. Crews. secretary to Ann Samograd, classroom su- " James King and Smuts Van Rooyan, Pacific Union pervisor. Joining John Knipschild in the of Southern Missionary College's 1964 education department is Paris Eisenhuth Reported by graduating class, are serving in Paducah, Mrs. Margaret Follett from Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Kentucky, and Bradford, Tennessee, respectively. Lanier Watson, another 1964 Wilbur F. Woodhams, pastor of the ministerial graduate, is the new dean of Watsonville church, and R. L. Vaughan, = Two new faculty members have arrived boys at Highland Academy, replacing publishing secretary of the Central Cali- D. R. Keele, who is now teaching in on the La Sierra College campus. Robert fornia Conference, were ordained to the Osmunson, who was serving as youth gospel ministry June 27, the first Sabbath Carolina. leader of the Ohio Conference, will teach of the camp meeting. Assisting D. E. Ven- ▪ C. F. Graves has joined the staff of the in the division of religion and direct the den, conference president, in the ordina- Kentucky-Tennessee Conference, to ad- student recruitment program. Roscoe tion service were F. D. Nichol and R. R. vise members concerning wills and lega- Swan, formerly principal of the ten-grade Bietz. cies. He replaces L. F. Cunningham, who school in Corpus Christi, Texas, has as- has retired. sumed the responsibilities of credit man- Two pastors have recently joined the ager, succeeding Don Pierson who left to ministerial force in the Southern Califor- "1" Don Holland, Kentucky-Tennessee teach business administration at the Ad- nia Conference. Coming from Sheboygan, MV secretary, presided at an Investiture ventist college of West Africa located in Wisconsin, to serve on the pastoral staff service at the Cave Springs Home School. Nigeria. of the Long Beach church is S. B. Olney. Seven of the workers at the school are Wayne P. Thurber, most recently princi- already Master Guides. They assisted in Three new secretaries have joined the pal of Golden Gate Academy, is the new the ceremony at which 16 children were office staff in the Southern California Con- youth pastor of the city church in Glen- invested in the various classes. ference. Marlene Mays, from Sacramento, dale, California. is working in the accounting office. Bar- Five were ordained to the ministry at bara Bennett of Rochester, New York, is •"' The formal opening of the new Para- the Kentucky-Tennessee camp meeting: REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 21

Wm. J. Henson of the Covington church; which will be ready for the coming school and Mrs. Brooks Findley, opened June Merle B. Landis of Woodbury, Tennessee; year: elementary schools at Elgin, Min- 15.1 The home is located near the campus Joe Reams of Dyersburg, Tennessee; eral Wells, and Paris, Texas, and the of outhwestern Union College at Keene, Grant Gunter of Lawrenceburg, Tennes- Jefferson, Texas, academy gymnasium Te as. Elder Findley is the administrator see; and Robert Laue of Madison Hos- building. an Mrs. Findley, R.N., heads the nurs- pital. This is the largest number ever to in staff. be ordained at one time in the Southern "" Groundbreaking for the new $100,000 Union Conference. church at Beaumont, Texas, took place on August 1. This was a fitting climax to NOTICES The Kingstree, South Carolina, church an intensive evangelistic campaign by the Correction was dedicated recently. This little group Barron-Turner-Dill team. with a total membership of nine, has com- A news note we received and published on the • 0. R. McLean, pastor of the Spring- bac page of the REVIEW for July 2 mentioned pletely renovated and redecorated their Bla the Gregory as being in charge of the food church building inside and out, furnished dale, Arkansas, district, has accepted an sery ce at the recent Central Union Conference invitation to teach Bible at Ozark Acad- Bibl camp for youth. We are informed that Miss new pews, pulpit furniture, carpets, Gre ory assisted in the preparation of the food, but draperies, and a new piano. They paid emy. Wayne Longhofer, a graduate of that Mrs. Lula Masters was in charge. off their indebtedness and presented Union College, has been asked to be dean their church to the Lord as a new place of men at Ozark. of worship. — Dr. Harold Frank has accepted an in- The union office staff and the con- vitation to be associated with Dr. Herbert stituency are happy to welcome E. S. Reile Westphal at the Menard Hospital in as the new secretary of the MV depart- Menard, Texas. Dr. Frank is completing ment. He succeeds Desmond Cummings, his internship at the Robert B. Green Edu ational Day and Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and will El mentary School Offering August 15 who recently became president of Lite attire Evangelists Rally Day September 5 Georgia-Cumberland Conference. be taking up his duties at Menard in Chu ch Missionary Offering September 5 September. Miss ons Extension Day and Offering September IR Revi i wi and Herald Campaign Sept. 12-Oct. 10 1 MV Pathfinder Day September 19 '1' Dr. Ralph R. Starks, Jr., and family Thir eenth Sabbath Offering Southwestern Union have just arrived at Rusk, Texas. He has ( ar East) September 26 Nei borhood Evangelism October 3 Reported by completed his medical training at Loma Chu tech Missionary Offering October 3 H. W. Klaser Linda University and will be associated Voic of Prophecy Offering October 10 Sabb School Visitors' Day October 10 with Dr. Floyd Brigham. Mrs. Starks is Community Relations Day October 17 a graduate of the Loma Linda University Tem erance Day October 24 1." In order to keep up with the increased School of Dietetics. Both Dr. and Mrs. Chu ch Missionary Offering November 7 church membership and the need for pro- Week of Prayer November 7-14 Starks are from Fort Worth. Weel of Sacrifice Offering November 14 viding a Christian education for the chil- Inga hering Campaign Nov. 21-Jan. 2 Inga hering December 5 dren, the Texas Conference has the fol- - " Fireside Manor, a 72-bed privately Chu ch Missionary Offering December 5 lowing new facilities under construction owned nursing home operated by Elder Thirteenthi Sabbath Offering ( orthern Europe) December 19

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In 1849 a company of Sabbathkeeping Adventists whos background was the Millerite movement began to p blish a paper called The Present Truth. In 1850 they also published five issues of Tire Advent Review. In ovember, 1850, these two papers merged under the ame, Second Advent Review and Sabbath Her- ald, now titled simply REVIEW AND HERALD. Its edito ial objective remains unchanged—topreach "the everl sting gospel" in the context of the Sabbath, the Seco d Advent, and other truths distinctive of the Adve t Movement. • Edito : Francis David Nichol Assoc ate Editors: Raymond F. Cottrell Kenneth H. Wood, Jr. Cons ltint Editors: R. R. Figuhr, M. V. Campbell Theo. Carcich, W. E. Murray F. L. Peterson, R. S. Watts Edito ial Secretaries: Promise Joy Sherman Idamae Melendy Speci I Contributors: Frederick Lee, W. It. Beach, C. L. Torrey, Presidents of all Overseas Divisions Circu ation Manager: R. G. Campbell • Ad ress all editorial correspondence to: Editor, Revie and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 20012. Address correspondence concerning sub- scrip ons to: Manager, Periodical Department, at the s me address. Porter Officials Administer City and State • Hospital Organizations Subsc iPtions: United States, $6.95 (slightly higher in Canthe sda)• other countries, $7.95. When changing add ess, give both old and new address; allow 30 to Officials of Porter Memorial Sanitarium and Hospital in Denver have won the con- 60 ays for change. When writing about your sub- fidence of city and State hospital organizations. Mrs. Mollie Herbel (left), executive scri] tion or changing your address, please enclose address label from your copy or from the housekeeper, is the recording secretary of the Denver chapter of the National Association wra per in which it comes. of Medical Housekeepers; Vincent Agnetta (second left), personnel director, is • president of the Colorado Hospital Personnel Society; Olof T. Moline (second right), TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS: Manuscripts should be administrator, is vice-president of Colorado Blue Cross and past president of the typed, double spaced, with adequate margins. Use Denver Hospital Council; Norman Prusia, controller, is treasurer of the Colorado- only one side of paper. Unsolicited manuscripts cannot be acknowledged or returned unless stamped, Wyoming chapter of the American Association of Hospital Accountants. This is self-addressed envelope is sent with them. The REVIEW good community relations, and a fine example of additional service that our workers does of pay for unsolicited material. Copies of mantis ripts sent to other journals cannot be used. Lay can give when called upon. memb rs should identify themselves by giving the .iame f the church they attend and the name of their A. W. VANDEMAN, Assistant Director of Development pastor or local elder.

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REVIEW AND HERALD, August 13, 1964 23 in ess than 30 days. The Japanese trans- lati n of The Desire of Ages was put in the hands of our colporteurs only last yea , and already the presses are running a t ird edition and having a hard time to kee up with the demand. During the su mer vacation months the regular fore of 118 colporteurs is augmented by Adventist to Represent soon Joan wants to establish a small nurs- mo e than 100 student colporteurs, and ing clinic, a place where people can come all ndications point to a record-breaking Australia in Contest for injections, medicines, vitamins, and year. F. R. MILLARD On Tuesday night, July 21, the Aus- first aid. At the same time we hope to offer tralian Broadcasting Commission con- them some instruction in health and hy- giene. Please remember to 'pray for the ducted the Australian finals of the Inter- Brjnch Sabbath Schools national Bible Contest. Six state winners peace of Jerusalem.' " were competing for the honor of repre- E. W. DUNBAR Lead the Way senting Australia at the worldwide finals Although we have no organized work to be conducted in Jerusalem in Sep- at resent in Saudi Arabia, we are happy tember. "Thank You" From to eport that lay believers located there Of the six state finalists three are Ad- the Lumbee Indians hav formed a branch Sabbath school, ventists—Brother Graham Mitchell, Mrs. wit 12 Arabian boys and girls. More- B. V. Cook, and Pastor A. Peterson. When The Lumbee Indians, who will receive a portion of the Thirteenth Sabbath Of- ove , the parents of the children are at- the final results were announced Brother tending a regular Sabbath school con- Mitchell was declared the Australian win- fering overflow from last quarter, are deeply grateful for the interest their ducted by faithful members who invite ner, and Sister Cook took second place. their friends and neighbors to join them. Brother Mitchell is an accountant serv- Christian brothers and sisters around the WM. J. HARRIS ing at the head office of the Sanitarium world have shown them. Recently they Health Food Company at Wahroonga. sent the following short letter to the As he proceeds to Israel in September Carolina Conference office, asking that it he carries with him the best wishes of be made known to our Sabbath school Adventist Military Chaplains the Adventists of the Australasian Divi- members around the world: Honored sion. J. K. IRVINE "DEAR FELLOW BELIEVERS, The Lumbee Indians of the Lake A letter from Chaplain (Major General) Waccamaw church wish to thank each Cha les E. Brown, Jr., U.S. Army Chief one who helped to make possible a of haplains, informs us that Chaplain Thrilling News From Thailand large Thirteenth Sabbath Offering (Ca min) Joseph T. Powell, now sta- Word from Thailand reveals that a overflow last quarter." tion d at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, has recent public evangelistic campaign on They hope to have a thriving church rece ved a reserve promotion on active the island of Phuket resulted in 31 bap- school this fall. dut to major. The work that Chaplain tisms, with more to come. Mrs. R. D. DENTON PoWell is doing at Fort Bragg is much Double-header sessions were held for Church Missionary Secretary appreciated. a number of weeks. Pastor Gumjorn Sri- From the same letter we learn that ratprapas led out as evangelist and in- Cha;Main (First Lieutenant) Ralph C. structor while Pastor John Harris served Japan Colporteurs Wor kman, now stationed in Korea, has as the over-all manager and associate evan- Setting New Records beer promoted to captain. Elder Work- gelist and instructor. man our youngest Army chaplain, is Our church has labored for more than Latest reports from the Far Eastern mak ing excellent progress. 40 years among the 30 million inhabitants Division show Japan leading all other TI ese ordained Seventh-day Adventist of Thailand and has managed to win only unions in literature delivered by the col- ministers not only assist our young men in a mere handful of 900 souls from this porteurs for the first five months of 1964. service, but their exemplary lives are a stronghold of Buddhism. Considering past Winston Clark, the union president, real credit to our church. Pray for these performance, the results on Phuket island writes that the first edition of 10,000 copies bret iren as they carry on their work. indicate the definite leading of the Holy of their new book for children sold out J. R. NELSON Spirit in reaching the hearts of the Thai people. J. R. SPANGLER

Progress in secretary of the World Council's Faith and Order Department, which conducted Old Jerusalem the tudy. From 1925 to the present, he note there were 37 organic unions, of Elder and Mrs. Richard Fenn recently whit only 12 were across confessional left the Potomac Conference for pastoral lines The present trend, he said, indicates evangelism in the Jordan Section of old "an ncreasing willingness of the churches Jerusalem. In a letter just received he The following news items are taken from Religious to face the deepest differences in doctrine states: News Service, and do not necessarily express the and Church order." "Our people continue to meet inside viewpoint of the Review editors. the old city, in very crowded conditions. H NG KONG—New pressures on Our services go on while bells of an old [More Religious World News on page 17.) Chri tians by the regime in Red China Latin or Greek church nearby chime vig- are imed at prevention of adult baptism orously and a Moslem muezzin chants the GENEVA—Current church union ne- and the eradication of the last vestiges of Islamic call to prayer. Joan has started gotiations throughout the world now Sun ay school throughout the country. Jerusalem's first children's Sabbath school. number 38 and involve 102 churches in One law requires a clergyman to guaran- Even though the little ones do not under- 30 countries on five continents, a World tee hat the adult he baptizes will not stand every word, they watch the pictures Council of Churches survey revealed. Of com it an offense against the state, for- and the flannel board with unblinking the total, 26 proposals cross confessional ever. A second measure is designed to eyes. lines, while 12 are for mergers within con- guarantee that Chinese children will "Up above us and all around the little fessional boundaries. This trend toward have no religious training until they courtyard where the Sabbath school meets, interconfessional mergers is a reversal of reach} the age of 18. Its effect, refugees other children and their families are earlier practices, according to the Rev- said, was to close down church instruction, watching and listening, too. Sometime erend Meredith B. Handspicker, assistant since parents are fearful of the law.