Review...24, 1974

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

"Behold, he cometh With clouds; and evozy eye shall see him." - mvelAtion 1:7 Editor's Viewpoint Christ's Advent Is Near "It has long seemed to me clear beyond any shadow assignment clearly, and moves ahead to fulfill it. It of doubt that what is still called Western Civilization spends the major portion of its funds on evangelism, is in an advanced stage of decomposition, and that an- and economizes in every way possible to achieve other Dark Age will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has quickly its goal of world evangelization. not already begun." Seventh-day Adventists have been expecting the Statements such as this appeared for decades in ser- Lord for a long time. And with good reason. The last of mons of Seventh-day Adventist ministers. They ap- the prophetic time periods of the Bible ended in 1844. peared so often, in fact, that a generation or so ago Why has He not come? Because the church is not Adventists were characterized as calamity howlers. ready (see Christ's Object Lessons, p. 69) and because But today the mood has changed. Many non-Advent- the gospel commission has not been fulfilled. ("There ist ministers and spokesmen for evangelical churches is a day that God hath appointed for the close of this declare bluntly that they are disillusioned with man's world's history: 'This gospel of the kingdom shall be efforts to improve the world, and that the only hope of preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; mankind is the return of Christ. and then shall the end come.' "—Fundamentals of The statement with which we began this editorial Christian Education, p. 335. Emphasis by Mrs. White.) was made by Malcolm Muggeridge during his address That the coming of Christ has been delayed cannot at the recent International Congress on World Evangeli- be denied. But let us not forget that the cause of the zation, held in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mr. Muggeridge delay rests with us, not with God. We have not taken is a British journalist and broadcaster who at one time the everlasting gospel of Revelation 14 to the entire edited the humor magazine Punch. The congress was world. We have not reflected the image of Jesus fully. attended by some 4,000 representatives of evangelical Both of these failures demand attention. churches from about 150 countries. But we must not become obsessed with the delay in In his address, entitled "Living Through an Apoca- the Advent. Though we should repent of our failings, lypse," Mr. Muggeridge declared that "the early Chris- we should emphasize not the delay but the nearness of tians had the inestimable advantage of believing that the Advent. This was the emphasis of the apostles and the world would shortly come to an end,—a belief that, of the early church (see 1 Cor. 7:29, 30; Rom. 13:12; as Dr. Johnson said of a man about to be hanged, won- Rev. 1:3; 22:6, 7). derfully concentrates the mind. . . . Ellen G. White likewise proclaimed the nearness of "Think of the advantages the early Christians de- the Advent. As early as 1851 she wrote: "I saw that the rived from their conviction that the Last Days would time for Jesus to be in the most holy place was nearly soon be upon them! For one thing, they were spared finished and that time can last but a very little longer." the illusory hopes in revolution and counter-revolu- —Early Writings, p. 58. tion, in insurrections and liberations and conspiracies, which then, as now, abounded. With thoughts of an Were They Mistaken? imminent Apocalypse, who today would bother his Were the Bible writers mistaken in emphasizing the head unduly about such alluring future developments nearness of the Advent? Was Mrs. White mistaken? as supersonic flight, computerized literature, birth No. In God's plan mankind is ever to live and work pills for tiny tots, or transplant surgery with a view to with the expectation that the end is near. In defending changing our spare parts as they wear out and so keep- her position, Mrs. White wrote in 1883: "The angels of ing us on the road indefinitely like vintage cars? What God in their messages to men represent time as very a blissful relief for the early Christians to turn aside short. Thus it has always been presented to me. It is from the capers of an Emperor Nero and the turgid true that time has continued longer than we expected rhetoric of his critics and joyously await the promised in the early days of this message. Our Saviour did not Second Coming of their Lord and Saviour!" appear as soon as we hoped. But has the word of the Are world conditions worse today than in the days Lord failed? Never! It should be remembered that the of the apostles? In some ways, Yes. But the question promises and threatenings of God are alike conditional." is relatively unimportant. Of greater importance is that —Selected Messages, book 1, p. 67. Christians today believe in the soon return of Christ as She then explained that two conditions for Christ's deeply as did the apostles. For this belief enables both return had not been met—"The message must be pro- the individual and the church to make better judg- claimed with a loud voice, that all the inhabitants of ments and see current events in better perspective. earth might receive the warning" (ibid., p. 68), and The Christian who expects his Lord to return soon "The people of God must purify their souls through remains calm when his godless peers despair over world obedience to the truth, and be prepared to stand with- crises. He devotes his time and energies to projects of out fault before Him at His coming."—Ibid. ultimate rather than temporary worth. He has little dif- So let the message go forth with great urgency and ficulty establishing priorities. Convinced that time is volume, "Jesus is coming soon; get ready!" At the short, he seeks to become like Jesus in character (1 same time let every church member do his part to John 3:2, 3). He shares his faith (Matt. 24:44-46). He hasten Christ's coming by purifying his soul and telling' studies God's Word and seeks an infilling of His Spirit others what they must do to be ready for this great (chap. 25:1-13). He endeavors to do all the good he can event. Mr. Muggeridge and other earnest Christians with both his time and money (verses 31-46). may not know why Christ has not yet come. We do. A church that expects Christ to come soon sees its K. H. W.

2 (1158) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 as they watched Him ascend up into heaven: outline of Mrs. White's historical focus. "This same Jesus, which is taken up from The Homemakers' Exchange (p. 16) occu- you into heaven, shall so come in like man- pies two pages this month. Since we re- Review ner as ye have seen him go into heaven" ceived an unusually large response to the (Acts 1:11). question concerning films in public theaters, In looking forward to our Lord's return we felt that our readers would appreciate we are reminded that He came the first time the extra space devoted to it. While the sub- as our Saviour and example; that through ject may be considered a minor question by His strength we can live overcoming, vic- some, it is not minor if it causes confusion and should lead even one person astray. Advent Review & Sabbath Herald torious lives; that we have a happy respon- 724th Year of Continuous Publication sibility to share this wonderful news with As Christians who believe Christ is re- others. "He who gives his testimony to all turning soon, we should be diligent, not only

Editor: this, says, 'Certainly so! I am coming soon!' to use our time wisely but to guard the ave- KENNETH H. WOOD So be it. Come, Lord Jesus!" (Rev. 22:20, nues to our soul. Paul admonishes us in Ro- Associate Editors: T. E. V.). mans 14:12, 13, "Every one of us shall give DON F. NEUFELD, HERBERT E. DOUGLASS Gil G. Fernandez, chairman of the reli- account of himself to God. Let us not there- Editorial and Administrative Secretary: CORINNE WILKINSON gion department of Philippine Union College, fore judge one another any more: but judge Editorial Assistant: wrote "The Drama of History as Viewed by this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock JOCELYN FAY Ellen G. White" (p. 4). Elder Fernandez or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Editorial Secretaries: Perhaps by reading the various opinions ex- AILEEN ANDRES, PAT HILL, IDAMAE MELENDY states the problem confronting contemporary Art Director: ELFRED LEE persons this way: "As confused tan looks pressed many will be impressed anew with Designer: G. W. BUSCH at the intricate network of historical causa- their responsibility for the use of their time Editors, Monthly Editions: tion in . . . the earth, he sees nothing but a and the influence their actions have on oth- RAY D. VINE, English FERNANDO CHAIJ, Spanish—North America chaotic conglomeration of apparently mean- ers. GASTON CLOUZET, Spanish—South America ingless and unconnected events. To his Bible Credits: Texts credited to T.E.V. are C. R. TAYLOR, Spanish—Inter-America puzzled mind history has no rhyme or rea- from the Today's English Version of the Consulting Editors: son, for it is only . . . an enormous jigsaw New Testament. Copyright (2) American Bi- ROBERT H. PIERSON, W. R. BEACH, W. DUNCAN EVA, W. J. HACKETT, with a number of missing parts." Ellen ble Society, 1966, 1971. C. D. HENRI, M. S. NIGRI, NEAL C. WILSON White's philosophy of history, which was Art and Photo Credits: Cover, pp. 4, 5, Special Contributors: divinely inspired, can give meaning to this Concerned Communications; p. 12, Skip C. 0. FRANZ, K. H. EMMERSON, R. R. FIGUHR, FREDERICK LEE, R. R. FRAME, P. H. ELDRIDGE, apparently meaningless array of events. Our Baker; all other photos, courtesy of the re- B. L. ARCHBOLD, ALF LOHNE, E. W. readers will want to study Elder Fernandez' spective authors. PEDERSEN, R. A. WILCOX, R. S. LOWRY, M. L MILLS, C. L. POWERS Corresponding Editors, World Divisions: Afro-Mideast, R. W. TAYLOR; Australasian, ROBERT H. PARR; Euro-Africa, E. E. WHITE, associate E. KOEHLER; Far Eastern, D. A. ROTH; MARCEL ABEL; Northern Letters Inter-American, Europe-West Africa, PAUL SUNDQUIST; South American, H. J. PEVERINI; Southern Asia, A. J. JOHANSON; Trans-Africa, (Letters submitted for publication in this column cannot that we cease to transgress knowingly any of DESMOND B. HILLS be acknowledged or returned. All must carry the writer's name and address. Short letters (less than 250 words) will God's requirements."—Review and Herald, Circulation Manager: be given preference. All will be edited to meet space and lit- March 16, 1886. EDMUND M. PETERSON erary requirements. The views presented do not necessar- Field Representative: ily represent those of the editors or of the denomination.) This is the active side of genuine faith JOEL HASS that makes it a living faith. "Christ im-

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VOL. 151 NO. 43 R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1159) 3 The Drama of History as Viewed by Ellen G.White

By GIL G. FERNANDEZ

ELLEN G. WHITE'S philosophy sound and fury signifying nothing, of history is based primarily on an enormous jigsaw with a number the concept of the great controversy of missing parts, a blind alley that between the two antagonistic leads nowhere. As he watches the forces in the universe—the forces drama of "this sorry scheme of of good under the leadership of things," he discerns no acts or Christ and the forces of evil under scenes, much less a plot. As he re- the leadership of Satan. This basic flects on the odyssey of man's life idea, by and large, is the funda- in history and ponders the de- mental unifying concept that she pravity of human nature and the employs in her historical writings. tragedy in the historical process, The long and tortuous story of the he reaches the conclusion as S. conflict between these two oppos- Parkes Cadman did, that "our ing forces runs as a golden thread planet is being used as the lunatic through her corpus of writings and asylum of the solar system." 2 underlies the entire historical proc- Since to the bewildered man in the ess. She writes: street the paradoxes and the irrec- "The student should learn to oncilables of history are a mystery view the word as a whole, and to with the inception of sin and nar- wrapped up in an enigma, he says see the relation of its parts. He rates the story of the struggle be- with Napoleon that "history is a should gain a knowledge of its tween the two rival forces up to fable agreed on," or with Voltaire grand central theme, of God's the development of the United that "history is after all a pack of original purpose for the world, of Hebrew Monarchy in the last years tricks we play on the dead." 3 the rise of the great controversy, of the Davidic reign; Prophets and It is not entirely man's fault, of and of the work of redemption. He Kings continues the account from course, groping as he does un- should understand the nature of the the golden age of Hebrew history, aided in the darkness, when he two principles that are contending which reached its peak during the develops a rather pessimistic out- for supremacy, and should learn Solomonic administration, and de- look, for there certainly is much to trace their working through the lineates the conflict up to post- confusion in present-day events. It records of history and prophecy, to exilic times; The Desire of Ages must be admitted that in his en- the great consummation. He should depicts the spiritual warfare as its counter with the bewildering facts see how this controversy enters into greatest intensity as seen in the In- of human experience even the man every phase of human experience; carnation, public ministry, cruci- who believes in God finds difficulty how in every act of life he him- fixion, and ascension of Jesus in reconciling an evil world with a self reveals the one or the other of Christ; The Acts of the Apostles good God. If Christ is the Lord of the two antagonistic motives; and graphically relates the rivalry be- history why do men seem to shape how, whether he will or not, he is tween the emissaries of light and the events of history? darkness from the pentecostal out- even now deciding upon which A Biblical Question side of the controversy he will be pouring of dynamic spiritual power found." 1 on the early Christian church to the The question is not a new one While the above counsel is given close of the first century of the at all, for certain Bible writers with the student of history or the Christian Era; and The Great Con- had struggled with the same prob- professional historian who studies troversy winds up the story with a lem of the terrific tension between history for history's sake in mind, panoramic survey of the conflict the known and the unknown. the same principle also applies to through the centuries from the de- Habakkuk dragged his doubts out the man in the street who observes struction of Jerusalem to the res- into the clear light of day when he the events of the contemporary toration of the lost dominion in the asked the question: "0 Lord, how scene through the mass media. earth made new. long shall I cry, and thou wilt not This framework of history based As confused man looks at the hear! even cry out unto thee of on the great controversy story is intricate network of historical violence, and thou wilt not save! beautifully portrayed in Sister causation in this little spinning Why dost thou shew me iniquity, White's five-volume Conflict of ball, which he calls the Earth, he and cause me to behold grievance? the Ages Series: sees nothing but a chaotic con- for spoiling and violence are before Patriarchs and Prophets begins glomeration of apparently meaning- me: and there are that raise up less and unconnected events. To strife and contention. Therefore Gil G. Fernandez is chairman of his puzzled mind history has no the law is slacked, and judgment the religion department of Philip- rhyme or reason, for it is only a doth never go forth: for the wicked pine Union College. welter of events that is full of doth compass about the righteous;

4 (1160) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 therefore wrong judgment pro- of a partial solution to the perplex- Every man and nation is involved ceedeth" (Hab. 1:2-4). ing question. in this terrific debacle, a universal David wrestled with the problem The picture, fortunately, is not as warfare in which there are no non- when he "saw the prosperity of the hopeless and as dark as the be- combatants. As J. B. Philips put it: wicked" who had "more than heart wildered man in the street has "We may not realize it at all, but could wish" (Ps. 73:3, 7). painted it to be. History is not we are right plumb in the middle Job voiced the same intellectual utterly incoherent and lawless but of a vast drama, a tremendous bat- difficulty when he said, "Where- orderly and intelligible. A deeper tle between light and darkness. The fore do the wicked live, become penetration below the surface of whole core and essence of the old, yea, are mighty in power? . . the entire historical phenomena re- Christian Faith, which many of us Their bull gendereth, and faileth veals that there is a grand design, hold so lightly, is that Light Him- not. . . . They spend their days in an underlying schema, a definite self visited our darkness, scaled wealth" (Job 21:7-13). pattern that is characterized by down to fit the human scene. . . After penetrative thought Job an overarching theme. Man should Today, and every day that we live discerned the end of the wicked learn to deduce not the details of in the here-and-now, we are part of (see verses 17-21). David found the history, but its outline or skeleton the vast Experiment, the age-long answer to his problem when he plot, and should endeavor to see Battle whose stage and testing "went into the sanctuary of God" through history in its totality. ground is the planet which we call (Ps. 73:17). In like manner Habak- "When happenings appear to be the Earth." 6 kuk found the solution to his enigma confusing and misdirected, it is be- If "history is a battlefield of when he climbed the watchtower of cause we are too close to the cross purposes, of schemes and faith; for, though he saw the minutiae of events to discern the counterschemes, of disruptive as world in ruins about him, he was larger design." 5 well as harmonious tendencies," as soon brought back to a firm belief Man has to stand back and view Shinn expressed it, then it must in the providences of God. the landscape as a whole. He follow that the current trend of should, however, not be satisfied events, the possibilities and dan- Discovering the Plot in merely entertaining the idea that gers of the future and the ultimate There is tension in the concept history has a plot, but that he must meaning of history can be under- of the lordship of Christ and the endeavor to discover what that stood only in the framework of the role of men in history. As men definite plot is. It is in the solution great cosmic struggle between the ponder the whys and wherefores of this problem where Sister two opposing forces in the uni- of history, Sister White herself White's philosophy, or more cor- verse. admits that there is an obscuring rectly, theology, of history is par- This is not a new doctrine, for as veil in their understanding.4 Only ticularly helpful, for she aids puz- early as the fifth century of the when we stand in eternity will we zled man through the jungle of his- Christian Era, St. Augustine of fully see all things clearly. But even torical happenings and gives the in- Hippo already expounded it in his in this life we may have a glimpse quiring mind an interpretation of De civitate Dei. He said that "in the story seen as a whole. the torrential stream of human his- What unifying concept, then, did tory, two currents meet and mix: Sister White employ in her histor- the current of evil which flows from ical writings? As has already been Adam and that of good which mentioned, a careful investigation comes from God." 7 of the body of writings which came But it was Sister White who, in a from her prolific pen shows that more pre-eminent degree probably, her philosophy of history is based employed the concept of the great primarily on the concept of the controversy between. Christ and great controversy between the Satan as the main motif of the forces of good and evil, a contro- drama of which history consists. ❑

versy whose cynosure is Christ, REFERENCES the church (first, old Israel after the 4 Education, p. 190, Quoted in George Arthur Buttrick, Christ and History flesh, then later new Israel after the (New York: Abingdon Press, 1963), p. 34. spirit), and the Christian. This is the 3 Roger Lincoln Shinn, Christianity and the Problem of History (St. Louis, Missouri: The Bethany Press, 1964), main framework around which his- P. 6. tory has developed and will yet con- 4 Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 467. Ellen G. White's books portray his- George Edgar Shankel, God and Man in History (Nash- tory in the light of the great con- tinue to develop until the final con- ville, Tennessee: Southern Publishing Association, 1967), troversy between Christ and Satan. p. 193. summation of the human drama, B. Phillips, New Testament Christianity (New York: and every significant historical Macmillan, 1956), p. 19. Saint Augustine, The City of God (Garden City, New event is viewed in relation to it. York: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1958), p. 523.

REM, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1161) 5 goodness, but because of our re- lationship with Jesus Christ. It does not follow that there need be no How to Be Good effort on our part or that there is not a work for us to do. It takes a great deal of effort and hard work to keep our friendship with Jesus Without Really Trying Christ in focus. What is your relationship to Jesus Christ? Do you enjoy merely a cas- ual acquaintance punctuated by By RICHARD M. JEWETT fluctuation? Do you think of Him as a very important Person whom you may admire only from a dis- tance? Or do you need Him as your best Friend, and realize it every time you try to be good without Him? Any friendship not carefully cul- tivated will suffer. Any friend with whom you do not communicate regularly should not be expected THE FAMOUS EVANGELIST honor God. In telling me his story, to understand why without explana- Billy Sunday used to say: "Merely Bill said that every time he at- tion. Bill discovered that regular going into a church doesn't any- tempted to go through a day with- prayer and Bible study were abso- more make you a Christian than out falling it would turn out to be a lutely essential in maintaining a going into a garage makes you an day filled with frustration and prob- dynamic friendship with Christ. automobile." True religion is not lems, and sooner or later he always characterized by church attendance slipped into his old habit. Success Through Surrender or how much offering one may con- Then during his senior year at the As long as Bill kept his relation- tribute over a period of time; true academy he became acquainted ship with Christ right he didn't have religion is characterized rather by with the book Steps to Christ, in to worry about his mouth going the dynamic relationship one has its new form, called Real Happi- wrong. You can't be good by your- with Jesus Christ. ness Is. He had read the book be- self, no matter how hard you try; Too many well-meaning Chris- fore, but this time the thought came you can only be what you are—a tians are fighting and losing battles to him that "being good" was not sinner. "Without me ye can do that God never meant for them to basically his job. nothing" (John 15:5). face alone. Our success in over- Christ's Control Try to think of it this way. An coming temptation is not based on apple growing on an apple tree how hard we try to be good, but He came to understand that his doesn't have to "try hard" to grow on how complete our surrender is job was to turn everything over to up to be a good apple. As long as to Jesus Christ. "The surrender of Christ. Bill began every day by say- that apple is connected to that tree all our powers to God greatly sim- ing in a short sincere conversa- it will grow and become as good as plifies the problem of life. It weak- tional prayer, "I choose to let Thee, that tree is good. Likewise, as long ens and cuts short a thousand strug- Christ, control my life for this as a Christian is connected with gles with the passions of the natural day." And then Bill stopped worry- Christ, the Vine, his spiritual heart."—Messages to Young Peo- ing about cursing; in fact, after a growth toward goodness will be ple, p. 30. while he didn't even think about assured. Our success is in direct Bill was the typical example of it anymore. proportion to the degree to which the "try harder" method of over- He was faithfully praying temp- we surrender unconditionally the coming evil. His problem was us- tation away as problems arose each control of our lives to Christ. "So ing bad language. It was his custom day; he did study his Bible, and he utterly was Christ emptied of self under stress to use words definitely spent considerable time reviewing that He made no plans for Himself. inappropriate for a Christian young the principles of salvation in Steps He accepted God's plans for Him, man to use. Because he considered to Christ. But he didn't worry about and day by day the Father unfolded himself to be a Christian, he wanted his struggle with cursing; in fact, as His plans. So should we depend to overcome this habit. he told me later, he didn't even upon God, that our lives may be Somewhere along the line he had think about it until a week later. the simple outworking of His will." heard that if he wanted to go to Then one day he happened to stop —The Desire of Ages, p. 208. heaven he had to be good. He knew and think, and to the best of his If we would spend more time in that Christ was good; in fact, Christ recollection he could not remem- surrender, we would spend less time was perfect. So he logically figured ber one single instance during that in defeat. "Every failure on the that he had better try to be good week when his tongue had slipped part of the children of God is due to if he wanted to enjoy the pleasure and he had used some evil word their lack of faith."—Patriarchs of Christ's company. that had come so easily. and Prophets, p. 657. On several occasions he made a Before this time it was impossi- If every failure on our part is firm decision that on some particu- ble for Bill to go through even one due to our lack of faith, then our lar day he would utter no profanity day without cursing; and now be- concern must be to find faith in- and use no words that would dis- cause he had taken Christ as his stead of lamely trying to do better. helper a whole week had passed Then, when we know faith through Richard M. Jewett is a pastor in with victory over this besetting sin. personal experience, all "these Rochester, New York. We are not saved because of our things" will be added to us. ❑

6 (1162) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 Christian Influence By CLAYTON HESS

"AND THE CHILD Samuel test is how we get along with those in developing a good habit to re- grew on, and was in favour both who are making no effort to get place the bad one. Once we have with the Lord, and also with men" along with us. We must love every gained the victory we improve our (1 Sam. 2:26). "Jesus increased in sinner but hate the sin in his life. influence on others and rejoice in wisdom and stature, and in favour Only when Christ is in our lives, the results. Our habits tell others with God and man" (Luke 2:52). No our hearts, our minds, will we be what we really are. When they are doubt there were others who were able to influence others to accept good our habits can be our strongest in favor with both God and men Jesus as their Saviour. We must be offense in influencing others to seek but these two are specifically men- able to say with Paul, "I live, yet Christ. Our habits preach the silent tioned. not I but Christ liveth in me" (Gal. sermon that often is more effective As Christians, our first respon- 2:20). than the oral discourse. sibility is to God, and by fulfilling How does Christ live in me? How we talk and what we say this responsibility we become There are many ways. I will men- also has much to do with our in- qualified to fill our second respon- tion two—habits and words. Habits fluence on others. "Let your speech sibility, which is to men. are, in reality, the things we do be alway with grace, seasoned with The influence we exert in the usually without thinking. Each of salt" (Col. 4:6). "A moment's home, school, place of employ- us influences others more than we petulance, a single gruff answer, a ment, on the street, at church, realize by the things we do by lack of Christian politeness and should be one that lifts up Jesus. habit. The silent prayer before eat- courtesy in some small matter, How we act and react to the situa- ing in a public place, the patience may result in the loss of both tions and conditions involving other displayed when things are going friends and influence."— Co1por- people will influence them for good badly, the kind word to someone teur Ministry, p. 73. or bad, for trust or distrust, for in distress, the helping hand to the Abraham Lincoln wrote in a mes- Christ or Satan. poor and needy are all evidences of sage to Congress, 1862: "In times "God has invested man with an developed habits through Christian like the present men should utter influence that makes it impossible endeavor. nothing for which they would not for him to live to himself. Indi- Some habits are formed by con- willingly be responsible for through vidually we are connected with our trolled effort; others develop of time and eternity." And James tells fellow men, a part of God's great themselves. To develop a good us, "If any man offend not in word, whole, and we stand under mutual habit, a Christian habit, takes effort, the same is a perfect man, and able obligations."—Christ's Object Les- controlled effort. To acquire it we also to bridle the whole body" sons, p. 339. need help, the kind of help only (James 3:2). Christian love is one of the main Jesus can give us. keys in unlocking the hearts of oth- How do we break a bad habit? Holy Spirit Helps Us Grow ers. "By this shall all men know One way is to replace it with a good We need the Holy Spirit. He is that ye are my disciples, if ye have habit. Here again there must be available for the asking, and He love one to another" (John 13:35). much prayer, fervent prayer, a will use our influence, water the This does not mean that such love drawing out after God for assistance seed sown, and help to bring about is to be manifested only toward the harvest. other Christians; it is to be directed Be enthusiastic about your Christ toward all men. without being explosive; be helpful "Especially should those who to others without forcing your re- have tasted the love of Christ de- ligion on them; be kind and con- velop their social powers, for in My Prayer siderate without compromising with this way they may win souls to the evil in any way; be Christlike with- Saviour."—Messages to Young By LENA T. LEGROW out deviation, and you will spread People, p. 405. Our skill in Chris- the Christian influence wherever tian relations with others is not de- When clouds of sorrow come my way, you go. We could not separate our termined on how well we get along Lord, help me close to Thee to stay. lives from those of others, even if with our pet dog, or with those who Through ways I cannot understand we wanted to. We live with others, are loving and kind. The genuine Help me, dear Lord, and hold my hand. we eat with others, we work with others, we smile with others, we Thy helping hand I fain would clasp, cry with others, we influence oth- Clayton Hess is now retired and liv- But lacking faith might lose my grasp. ers every step of our way. And if I only have the strength to stand our habits and words are properly ing in Rome, Georgia, where from If I am held by Thy dear hand. 1968-1973 he was executive director controlled, and if our motivations of Junior Achievement. Previously This is the prayer, dear Lord, I pray are right and Jesus indeed lives in he was director of public relations That in whatever comes my way us, we too will grow in Christian for the California Highway Patrol I'll know no harm will come to me stature and in favor with God and in Sacramento for 20 years. When Thy dear hand is holding me. man. ❑

R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1163) 7 schools, but not just any schools; he wanted a reformation to sweep Adventist through the existing schools. In his sermon he used strong, graphic language. The existing schools, he said, were full of "mad and un- Education: natural foolishness and yet not as good as the foolishness of the mad, because the mad speak their non- sense with love and pleasure. But these schools ululate their foolish- Bulwark and Bugle ness unhappily, like the night owls. May they either sink into the abyss or be changed into Christian schools!" By B. B. BEACH Thus, it is to hold back the tide of secularization that Adventist schools have been established. Christian Recession. All this change in the direction of increasing secularization is trying to squeeze Christianity—with considerable POSSIBLY THE MOST obvious Ellen G. White gave this pointed ad- success—into the secular mold. One statement one could make at our vice: "Parents, if you wish to save obvious effect is the worldwide present day in history is that men, your children, separate them from emptying of churches. Few people their institutions, and environment the world."—Review and Herald, go to church. The debate aroused are in the throes of transformation Sept. 19, 1854, p. 46. Three years by secular humanism "has created and revolution; indeed, things are later James White asked: "Shall we a massive sense of uncertainty changing. come out of Babylon, and leave our among religious believers" (D. L. It is easier to understand how it children behind?"—Ibid., Aug. 20, EDWARDS, Religion and Change, is possible for such tremendous 1857, p. 125. p. 38). Millions, especially among changes to take place at the present We must be grateful to the the intellectuals and the de-Chris- time, when one realizes that fully pioneers of Adventism for their tianized masses in the industrial one quarter of the human beings wholehearted response to the lead- cities, have become alienated from that have ever survived infancy ing of God's Spirit in the matter of Christianity and have joined the are living today, and when one real- Christian education. They were re- growing majority of church drop- izes that approximately 90 per cent formers, and church reformers have outs. Many have swelled the ranks of all scientists that have ever often been educational reformers: of the adepts of such quasi-reli- lived are living today. think of Elisha, Wycliffe, and gions as Marxism, Maoism, ma- Secularization. The many trans- Ellen G. White; think of Martin terialism, Marcusism, or evolution- formations in the twentieth century Luther. Luther was vitally inter- ism, or sex, sport, drug culture, have made our time the secular age, ested in Christian education. In revolution, or futurism. in a way apparently without parallel 1530 he prepared a sermon entitled: SDA Schools—Agencies of Com- in history. The current process of "That Children Should Be Kept at munication. We have been dealing secularization appears to be novel School." He says regarding this with the inroads of secularism and in at least two ways: (1) it is tied to sermon, that it kept growing in size the need for the bulwark of Ad- the belief that the world is "coming as he was writing it and risked be- ventist education. Related to the of age," (2) it takes it for granted coming a book because the theme problem of secularization, we have that the world is becoming one— was "so rich and full." Luther the question of changing thought and must become one—to avoid the wanted the young of Germany in forms employed in the world today. crack of doom through some kind In fact, the central problem of of atomic holocaust or other sui- evangelism today is how to com- cidal cataclysm. municate truth—unchanging truth— Educational Reform. Well into in a changing world that is making the nineteenth century, Europe use of changed philosophic thought could be called, at least formally, the second mile forms. In this connection, Advent- a Christian continent. It can no By GLADYS WELLS ist education plays not only the longer be called this today. It was role of a bulwark but of a bugle, precisely at the time that the rising of an agency of communication, tide of secularization was beginning If you would be like Jesus helping the students to know and to lick at the flanges of the young And walk the second mile, understand the thought forms of Seventh-day Adventist Church that Then "be ye also perfect" this generation, so that our youth the program of Adventist education And walk it with a smile. To walk it in resentment can herald the "good news" and was launched; this was more than communicate the Advent message a century ago. Already in 1854 Is not the Master's way. A holier-than-thou stride and faith "to all the world in this Is worse than none. So pray generation." Here we have once B. B. Beach, Ph.D., is secretary of To walk in true compassion, again a raison d'etre of Adventist the Northern Europe-West Africa In love and joy—yes, smile! education. Division. He also directs the educa- Thrilled to spread His spirit, Changed Thought Forms: Ration- tion, temperance, public affairs, Let's smile the second mile. ality Goes. The reason we do not and religious liberty departments of understand many young people the division. today, and they do not understand

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us, is that they do not think in the Jesus from the Biblical content. of coping with technology, the same framework. Modern man has Adventist Education Points Up- peace deficit, the cancer of infla- made a choice. Man has not given ward. Christian education has the tion, and the blight of ecological up rationalism (revolt against God), tremendous opportunity of provid- pollution. SDA education must cer- but rationality. As a result, a great ing a unified answer to the whole of tainly come to grips with these and change has taken place: truth as life and regarding the whole of many other problems. But future- truth is gone for the modern mind, man. Adventist schools must call oriented Adventist education looks and synthesis with its relativism upon modern men to renounce their to survival within the dimension reigns supreme. Religious faith is a rationalism—their unilateral dec- of eternity. The womb-to-tomb matter of a nonreasonable leap of laration of independence from God, concept of education is a much too faith. that is their hopeless rebellion— puny view of education. Education What Counts Is Jesus. Sometimes and challenge modern men on the that does not prepare its students we hear our young people say: basis of the Scriptures, the signs for admission to the "school of the "What matters is not proving or of the times, and self-authenticat- hereafter" is a truncated education. disproving doctrines; what counts is ing faith in Jesus Christ, to recover Jean Guitton, the French writer having Jesus." We are here in dan- their rationality and meaning as and philosopher, recently made the ger of adopting the modern mind: children of God. remarkable statement: "The world playing down Biblical doctrine and Far from participating in the cur- seems to be preparing for a great teachings and taking a "Jesus leap" rent race after newness, which unknown event." To the Seventh- into a nonrational and contentless makes of immediate change a fetish, day Adventist this great event is experience of faith. This is acting Adventist education will operate not unknown. It is the decisive, not very differently from the mod- in a climate of renewal and revival climactic time of change for which ern mystic or the new theology, for survival. Most educationists creation groans and Christian edu- which separates an encounter with think of "survival skills" in terms cation is making ready. ❑

When You're Young By MIRIAM WOOD Too Much Confidence IT'S POSSIBLE to have too much confidence in another hu- that he will be wrong, or that you will be, but it simply man being. That may seem to you to be a controversial means that each person has to interpret certain phases of statement, one that can't be defended effectively. But as Christian living for himself." you think it over with all its ramifications, you just may "I think I can agree with you on that point," Fred an- change your mind. Fred changed his, though at first . . . nounced after a few moments' careful thought, "but I but let me tell you how I happened to be thinking along really didn't have that kind of thing in mind. I was speaking these lines. in terms of gross sins, such as immorality, or dishonesty, or Fred, a young friend of mine, had been telling me how Sabbath-breaking. If I found that Pastor was in- much he admired his church pastor. After extolling so many volved in something like that, it would throw me for such virtues and capabilities that I came to the conclusion this a loop I'd never recover." man must sure be of uncommon clay indeed, Fred de- Of course, I'd been pretty sure this was what he was re- clared forcibly, "If Pastor should ever do anything ferring to. But when he brought the concept right out into wrong, I'd completely lose my faith in the church and in the open, I felt an even more urgent need to present the God!" other side of the picture. I was appalled, a word not too strong for my feelings. "Fred, everyone is human. Each Christian is a human be- "But, Fred," I began, "Pastor has to be human ing, with 'inherited and cultivated tendencies toward evil,' just like everyone else, and II as Mrs. White says. We are all subject to temptations and "No, he's SUPERHUMAN!" interrupted Fred. weaknesses. On the one side, God is lifting us up. On the Obviously this was a delicate matter that called for a deli- other side, Satan is tearing us down. Mrs. White warns us cate touch. not to judge by the outside, for God's view of the heart may "I have no reason to doubt that what you say is true," I be very different. In other words, someone we admire may told him, "but don't you think you're placing an exceed- be harboring dangerous thoughts of evil even while the ingly heavy burden on his shoulders?" façade remains perfect. Fred was perplexed. "This doesn't mean that we shouldn't admire others. This "In what way?" he inquired. is a good and healthy thing to do. But our only safe course "Well, first of all, you're attempting to make him respon- is to realize that Christ alone is perfect. He is the only One sible for your salvation, or for your failure to be saved. we can take as our ultimate example, our ultimate ideal. You're setting him as the perfect model, the exemplar of He did not fail; that has been settled." everything that's exactly as it should be. All of which means Fred was silent for a few moments. "I begin to see your that if ever Pastor should disagree with your spiritual point," he said. "I'm on slightly dangerous ground when I interpretations in any way, or should take a course of re- take a human being as my example, right?" ligious action that differs from your opinion of what should "Right!" be done, you've painted yourself into a corner right at that As Fred started to leave, one last thought occurred to me. moment." "That doesn't mean that you have to look at everyone Silently, Fred thought it over. with suspicion," I chuckled. "Some people are just what "But I've never disagreed with his philosophies or his they seem. Certainly there's no value in going to the other actions," he demurred. extreme and distrusting the whole human race." I pounced. "No way," replied Fred cheerfully. "I'm a positive "That doesn't mean you never will. And it doesn't mean thinker, you know."

R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1165) 9 Scholarship must be reinforced by character; learning must be sub- ordinated to spirit; mind must be servant to soul. Men must seek not VITAL merely the body of truth, the bare facts that may be classified and tab- ulated, but truth that applies to life and conduct and that contributes to the development of perfection of character. They must recognize that INGREDIENT the Bible is God's Book and study to discover God's will and bring their lives into harmony with His By HERBERT D. GOEWEY Spirit and life. It is Godlikeness that more than anything else enables us to think God's thoughts after Him, to see as He sees. In his tastes, views, pref- erences, choice of things, likes and dislikes and pursuits, Satan is di- rectly opposed to God. There is no MEN DIFFER from one another is a requirement for one to cor- relish for what God loves or ap- in what they see. One man has no rectly interpret divine truth and to proves, but a delight in those things eye for symmetry of form, another make it plain to others. Both teach- that God despises. His outlook on cannot distinguish beauty of color- ers and students must diligently life changed when his character ing. One will see more in a square cultivate Christlike characters. "Be changed. It is character that en- mile than another will discover ambitious, for the Master's glory, ables men rightly to discern the while exploring a continent. For one to cultivate every grace of charac- meaning of life. "A character a single blossom contains more mar- ter. "—Christ's Object Lessons, formed according to the divine vels than his neighbor finds in the p. 332. likeness is the only treasure that we whole biological world. Some men can take from this world to the see no beauty in a landscape, no Learning of the Schools Insufficient next."—Ibid., p. 332. Without it grandeur in the ocean, no glory in a Many students and teachers man stands before God as a lamp sunset; to others these sights bring bring to their work their intellects without oil. a thrill of delight and a profound alone. Not a few Bible students We recognize the value of schol- sense of awe. rely upon grammar, vocabulary, arship in religion as in other There is a like diversity in men's concordance, and commentary for branches of learning. Careful study outlook upon life. There are eyes the interpretation of the Bible's and mental acumen with thorough that see in life only a dull and weari- messages. They enter upon their training are matters of no trifling some necessity, but to other eyes task equipped with the learning of importance. Yet the Bible does not every day of life brings its fresh the schools and consider that suffi- yield its treasure to the demands of inspiration and delight. cient for the discovery of what the scholarship alone. Many less schol- How shall we account for this Bible contains. On the other hand, arly and unlearned men have diversity in what different men see? there are those who recognize the brought forth from the Bible treas- Clearly it is not the result of dif- fact that in themselves they are not ures of spiritual truth far richer ference in their physical eyes; nor adequate for interpreting or ex- than have been discovered by the is it wholly in the mental acuity. pounding divine truth. profoundest students. Why? Be- Often the brightest minds fail to discover things that reveal them- selves instantly to minds of duller mold. If, then, the physical and mental organs are insufficient to solve this riddle, we must look "Man's advantages for obtaining a knowledge deeper than these; we must take into account the moral structure of of the truth, however great these may be, the man. In a word, character must will prove of no benefit to him unless the be recognized as a significant fac- tor in how and what a man sees; it heart is open to receive the truth, and colors the whole of his life. Hu- there is a conscientious surrender of every mility, for example, recognizes its own need. habit and practice that is opposed to its If this be true of the literal see- ing, the seeing that has to do with principles. To those who thus yield them- the outward life, how much more selves to God, having an honest desire to true it is of the seeing that deals with the perception of truth. The know and to do His will, the truth is revealed possession of a Christlike character as the power of God for their salvation."-- The Desire of Ages, pp. 455, 456. Herbert D. Goewey is a free-lance writer living in Springfield, Massa- chusetts.

10 (1166) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 cause they have brought to their study a devout spirit and a Christ- like character that ever reaches up- Bombo's House ward toward the divine. With a By KOFI NKANSAH as told to Ella Ruth Elkins prayer on their lips and a purpose in their hearts they seek "first the kingdom of God, and his righteous- BOMBO, the African contractor three hurried back to look the house ness" (Matt. 6:33). whom Apau had hired to build his over. And when Bombo looked up and It is imperative that we bring to house, patted the fat bundle of money saw who had come, there were spe- our study all the learning possible. in his shirt pocket. It was $2,000— cial smiles for the charming young "God requires the training of the enough to build a fine house for Apau, daughter. mental faculties. He designs that his wife, and his lovely daughter. This That night after Apau's daughter had His servants shall possess more in- was the first time Bombo had had gone to bed, Apau told his wife how telligence and clearer discernment this much money all at once, and in- he'd like to give the house to their than the worldling, and He is dis- stead of planning on what he should daughter and husband when she got pleased with those who are too buy first for the house, he began married, and what could be more careless or too indolent to become thinking of all the things part of that appropriate, since her husband-to-be money would buy for himself! was Bombo, the contractor? efficient, well-informed workers. "— "I don't need to buy those extra- So when Bombo handed the keys Ibid., p. 333. The wise man says, strong boards for the floor and the over to Apau several days later, great "Fools despise wisdom and in- roof beams. Lightweight boards will was the young contractor's surprise struction" (Prov. 1:7). do," he said to himself. "And on when Apau handed them back to second thought, I won't need to dig Bombo saying, "Bombo, I know you Vantage Ground a deep foundation and pour cement. have no house of your own, and that I can just lay heavy boards on the bot- you wish very much to marry my Is there a danger that we shall tom and build over that. No need to daughter. So in appreciation for the be too scholarly in our approach to waste all this money for a cement fine and fast work you have done in God? Never! "If placed under the foundation upon which to set the building this beautiful house for me, I control of His Spirit, the more house. And the windows. Ah yes! want you to have those keys to the thoroughly the intellect is culti- They don't need all that careful work house. The house is for you and your vated, the more effectively it can about them to keep out the wind and new wife, a present from me." be used in the service of God. The rain. There just isn't that much wind Bombo was astonished! "For me?" uneducated man who is consecrated and rain in this part of the country. A surge of fright and surprise rushed to God and who longs to bless oth- Why! Just think how long our an- through his body. "But I—" cestors lived in grass and mud huts!" Apau pressed the keys into Bombo's ers can be, and is, used by the Lord And so the building began. The hand. "Go ahead, Bombo. I mean in His service. But those who, with workmen grumbled about the "poor what I say. I want you and my daugh- the same spirit of consecration, foundation and roof beams." The thin ter to have this house as a gift." have had the benefit of a thorough walls went up and the flimsy roof. Bombo finally came to his senses. education, can do a much more ex- By and by all the wallboards were up, With blurry eyes he looked at the tensive work for Christ. They stand and the shingles on the roof were all keys in his hand. At last he was able on vantage ground. "—Ibid. on. That's when the men began paint- to find his voice and he stammered, Let us carry the thought a step ing inside and out. "Oh, thank you! Thank you!" Several days later Apau came walk- One rainy day after Bombo and his further. It is the Christlike charac- ing over to the new house. He was all wife had lived in the house for a while, ter that places the educated man smiles as he stepped up to one of the Bombo began to feel ill. He kicked off on vantage ground and not his edu- painters. "Where is Bombo?" his shoes and crawled into bed, pulled cation. Unless there is a genuine The painter pointed over to the out- the covers over him, and laid down to aspiration toward that which is side door where Bombo was fitting a rest, thinking a little sleep would make highest in character and life, the ef- copper-colored doorknob. him feel better. In no time he was fort of teacher and scholar will not "Good morning, Bombo! I re- lulled to sleep by the sound of the yield its richest fruit. turned early from my trip and thought steady beat of the rain upon the roof- The destructive nature of zeal I'd come over to see how my house top. was getting along. What a beautiful After a bit a strong wind came up. without knowledge is well known. house you've made." The house shook and groaned as if in The danger is that the man of schol- Apau stepped through the door- agony. The wind whipped rain arship will become self-sufficient, way and smiled as he felt the fresh through the cracks around the win- that he will give to intellect the smooth paint, all dried and shining dows, and the roof leaked rain onto supreme place that belongs only to on the walls of the front room. Then the bed. Bombo frowned, shifted his character. A man must enthrone he stepped into the next room, which feet over to a dry spot, and pulled his Christ in his heart, then welcome was to be a bedroom, and pulled open blanket up tight about his head to cut learning. Let his boasting be in the closet door. His smile became out the sound of the storm. A sudden broader. He walked into the kitchen cracking sound and a roar of wind as God, not in science or language, or and smiled some more when he saw loud as a locomotive charging over the in anything else that is merely hu- the new cupboards. house startled him, and he leaped man. So shall he enrich many souls "Why not give this house to our from his bed just in time to meet the as he enriches his own. daughter when she gets married? Oh, roof as it came crashing down on top "It is only by revealing in our life wouldn't that be a wonderful gift for of him. His character that we can co-op- her new husband?" The neighbors quickly pulled away erate with Him. And the wider the Bombo stepped up quietly behind the twisted mass of broken roof sphere of our influence, the more Apau and said, "I'm glad you like the boards. It was easy. There were no good we may do."—Ibid., p. 340. house, Apau." Bombo had not heard heavy timbers to fight. But it was too If by our example we aid others what Apau had just said to himself. late for Bombo. He lay limp and life- "Oh, oh yes! I do like it very less where he had fallen as he in the development of good prin- much!" said Apau as if he had been jumped from his bed. They buried him ciples, we give power to do good. startled by Bombo's presence. in the village cemetery the next day. In their turn they exert the same Apau hurriedly left to tell his wife But they did not bury the Biblical influence upon others, and they and daughter of the progress on the truth that "whatsoever a man soweth, upon still others. 0 new house. They were excited, and all that shall he also reap." That still lives.

R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1167) 11 Cheese and Cheese products

By MERVYN G. HARDINGE

THE COAGULANT USED for 2. Semihard: decomposition. The older the (a) Ripened by bacteria: Brick cheese, the greater the degree of the clotting of milk in cheese-mak- (b) Ripened by a Penicillium mold: Roque- ing has long been the enzyme fort decomposition and the sharper the rennet, extracted from finely ground 3. Soft: flavor.2 The products developed stomachs of suckling calves. Of (a) Ripened by bacteria: Limburger during the aging kill most of the (b) Ripened by a Penicillium mold: Ca- pathogenic bacteria. The possible late, however, because of a short- membert age of calf rennet, pepsin obtained effects on human health of these from the stomachs of swine is also Only a few cheeses are sold fresh products is not known at the pres- being used. Pepsin is an enzyme or unripened. These are soft cheeses ent time. that begins the digestion of protein. such as cottage cheese, cream Process Cheese cheese, pot cheese, fresh Neuf- Like rennet, it clots milk and so can Natural cheeses are processed to be used to extend the supply of chatel, and fresh Ricotta. The main coagulant used in fresh cheese is a provide many popular cheese pro- rennet. ducts.3 Process cheese is made by In reply to inquiries, one cheese- lactic starter. Rennet may, how- ever, be added. Since pepsin is be- grinding one or more varieties of manufacturing company recently cheese and heating and stirring the stated that they do not use swine ing used as an extender of rennet, it is likely that a mixture may be ground product into a homogenous pepsin in the cheeses they make, mass together with an emulsifying but that they buy a large amount of used by some producers. It is estimated that 80 per cent agent. To produce a desirable flavor, cheese from other manufacturers sharp, fully cured cheeses are used. for the production of process of the cheese consumed in the United States is Cheddar cheese, Defects such as gassiness, imper- cheese. The cheeses that they buy fect texture, faulty rind, and cer- and blend into process cheese, may frequently called American cheese.2 tain flavor defects are acceptable indeed, they say, contain swine This may be made either from raw or from pasteurized milk.3 If the for process cheese, since evidence pepsin. of these defects is minimized or One prominent cheese-manu- milk is not pasteurized the cheese obliterated in the processing. facturing company replied that they must then be cured at least 60 days Process blended cheese is made could give no assurance that any at a temperature of not less than 35 the same as process cheese, but of their cheddar, longhorn, or proc- degrees F., the usual range being some unripened cheese may be essed commercial cheeses are free between 40 and 50 degrees and the used and the emulsifier omitted. of swine pepsin. Another by-passed usual ripening time from three to Fruits, vegetables, or meats are the question and said simply that six months, and sometimes as long their only cheeses that do not con- as a year. sometimes added. Process cheese food is also made tain rennet are the unripened kinds During the curing of cheese, vari- like process cheese except that cer- —Neufchatel and cream cheese. ous types of bacteria and molds tain dairy products (cream, milk, Still another company said that they work on the proteins, fats, and whey, or albumin) may be added. At are using microbial rennet on a trial carbohydrates of the curd through least 51 per cent of the weight of basis. So, there is no way of know- the processes of fermentation and ing which cheese contains swine pepsin and which does not, except by asking the manufacturer. Perhaps a brief review of cheeses and their manufacture is in order. There are hundreds of named cheeses, but actually only about 20 distinct types. Most cheeses are ripened by aging. The following are examples of hard and soft cured cheeses': 1. Hard: (a) Ripened by bacteria, without eyes (holes): Cheddar (b) Ripened by bacteria, with eyes (holes): Swiss

Mervyn G. Hardinge, M.D., Dr. P.H., Ph.D., is editor of Life and Health and dean of the School of Public Health, Loma Linda Uni- versity, Loma Linda, California.

12 (1168) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 We do not yet have the full explanation for warnings against eating cheese, but neither did we have full scientific reasons for not using tobacco until more than a century after the warning against its use was given. Yet those who heeded the counsel without waiting for the reasons to be made clear benefited greatly.

the finished product must be cereal grains that are not properly the German, there was consider- cheese. stored to prevent dampness. In able concern among the German Process cheese spread is made countries where storage facilities leaders, who felt that many of their the same as process cheese food are poor, evidence connects the large variety of cheeses were whole- except that it has more water and use of moldy grains with the de- some. To a letter of inquiry, W. C. less fat. velopment of liver diseases.8 Liver White wrote Elder Conradi on Many types of organisms are at cancer represents a large propor- March 27, 1906: work in our environment. Modern tion of all cancers in the male African "In answer to your letter of research has found that some of the Bantu. It is known that moldy corn March 7, I will say that I have products of these organisms are is an important staple of the native given faithful study to the ques- beneficial to man; some are highly diet, and it is suspected that the aflo- tions you raised. Mother has read toxic, and some are carcinogenic toxin produced by the mold may your letter, and in harmony with (cancer producing). The blue and contribute to the frequency of this her instructions, I suggest the fol- green molds on citrus fruit and on malignancy. lowing for Ministry of Healing. . . . some other foods are produced by While the bacteria and molds "On page 302, second para- species of Penicillium and Asper- used in the aging of cheese have graph, last two lines:—`Strong gillus.2 Penicillium, a blue mold, not been scientifically incriminated cheese is still more objectionable.' gives us the antibiotic penicillin as contributors of toxic or carcino- "This leaves off the sentence, 'It used extensively in the treatment of genic metabolites, as eaten in the is wholly unfit for food,' and gives infections. However, products of cheese, research in the area of the `cheese' a qualifying adjective. If many of the molds are deadly. risk of eating mold-contaminated `strong' is not the term you use to Patulin, an antibiotic produced by foods continues. designate the ordinary cheese of commerce which is old and full of several species of Penicillium and Cheese Hypertension Aspergillus, was discovered in poison, please designate by the 1941. It drew immediate interest as A few years ago a "cheese hyper- proper term." a possible effective treatment for tension" syndrome was reported in In response to this advice, the the common cold. However, ani- medical journals. Severe hyper- statement in The Ministry of Heal- mal experiments showed it to be not tension episodes, some with fatal ing, German edition, reads, only toxic but carcinogenic. Patulin consequences, occurred in certain "Strong, sharp cheese should not is present in rotting apples and has patients after they had eaten rip- be eaten." been found in commercial sweet ened cheese at a time when they We still await precise scientific apple cider (apple juice).4 were using a mood-elevating drug reasons for this pointed instruction. Moldy sweet potatoes contain (monoamine oxidase inhibitor type). We do not yet have the full explana- powerful substances capable of Even as little as 20 grams (2/3 ounce) tion, but neither did we have full killing cattle in a few days of feed- of cheese could bring on an at- scientific reasons for not using to- ing.5 The principal effects seem to tack.9 The culpable substance was bacco until more than a century be an involvement of the lungs found to be tyramine, formed in after the warning against its use known as lung edema or sweet- Cheddar and other common cured was given. Yet those who heeded potato poisoning. The liver may also cheeses during the aging period. the counsel without waiting for the be involved. An analysis of several such reasons to be made clear benefited Moldy grains have long been cheeses found them to contain suf- greatly. So it may be again. ❑ known to be toxic. Strains of Asper- ficient tyramine to affect the heart gillus flavus produce a substance and raise the blood pressure when REFERENCES known as "aflotoxin," which, eaten in amounts commonly con- Cheese Varieties and Descriptions. Agriculture Hand- book No. 54 (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1953). when given at suitable levels, is sumed at a meal.'° G. Borgstrom, Principles of Food Science, vol. 2 (New The question of the fitness of York: The Macmillan Co., 1968), p. 117. lethal to all animal species thus far Cheese Foods, Cheese Spreads, and Related Foods. Code studied.6 When fed to rats at levels cheese or its products for human of Federal Regulations, Title 21—Food and Drugs, part 19, sec. 19500-19790, (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, re- not acutely toxic, aflotoxin-contam- consumption is a matter for indi- vised 1968). vidual decision. The inspired coun- ". P. M. Scott, W. F. Miles, P. Toft, and J. G. Dube, "Oc- inated peanut meal produced liver currence of Patulin in Apple Juice," J. Agr. Food Chem. cancer in a large proportion of the sel that "cheese should never be 20:450, 1972. B. J. Wilson, "Toxicity of Mold-damaged Sweet Po- animals after six months of feeding. introduced into the stomach" given tatoes," Nutr. Rev. 31:73, 1973. as early as 1868 '1 came to the G. N. Wogan, "Aflotoxin Risks and Control Measures," Young animals were more suscepti- Fed. Proc. 27 (3):932, 1968. ble than old, and males more than church not long after the warning "Contaminated Peanut Meal," Nutr. Rev. 20:174, 1962. M. C. Latham, "Nutritional Studies in Tanzania (Tan- females. One hundred thousand tur- against the use of tobacco. A later ganyika)," World Rev. Nutr. Dietet. 7:68, 69, 1967. testimony labeled cheese "wholly D. Horwitz, W. Lovenberg, K. Engelman, and A. key poults died in England when Sjoerdsma, "Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitors, Tyramine, and 12 they were given a ration containing unfit for food." Cheese," J.A.M.A. 188:1108, 1964. 10 M. E. Jarvik, L. S. Goodman, and A. Gilman, Eds. In 10 per cent mold-contaminated pea- When the book The Ministry of The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1970), p. 185. nut meal. 7 Healing, in which this statement Ellen G. White, Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 68. Aspergillus molds are common in appears, was being translated into 12 , The Ministry of Healing, p. 302.

R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1169) 13 From the Editors

Since the area of science and religion had been my The Adventist Witness table mate's special interest, I was interested to hear him pay special tribute to the pioneer work of Advent- I was eating breakfast in the ballroom of an inn at ists in this area. He frankly declared George McCready which I was attending meetings. At my table were four Price to be the George Washington of creationism and others, a man and his wife, another man and his daugh- expressed his appreciation for the continued work Ad- ter. We exchanged names, but not identity. After a few ventists are doing. minutes of general discussion about the meetings the I was happy that my fellow Adventists had been bold man who was there with his daughter spoke. to witness for their faith to this educator in a large pub- "You know," he said, "Seventh-day Adventists are lic museum, that they had not allowed any feeling of in- interesting people to meet. Have you ever met any of feriority to intimidate them. them?" I had not identified myself as a Seventh-day Ad- No Inferiority Complex ventist. Immediately I was all ears to hear what he had I believe that the days of inferiority complex are to say about my church. long past if, indeed, they ever legitimately existed. No "They are deeply committed Christians," he con- matter in what circle they may be found, Seventh-day tinued. "They really live their religion." Adventists should proudly witness to their religion. I made no comment. I wanted to hear what else he Sometimes church members are afraid to take their had to say uninfluenced by the knowledge that a Sev- non-Adventist friends to Adventist services lest, in enth-day Adventist was listening in. speaking of his religion, the minister might say some- "You go to their homes," he said, "and they don't thing that would offend the guest. They hope he will serve you any coffee. (The waitress had just been to preach a completely neutral sermon, one that could be the table serving coffee.) And they don't serve any preached in almost any Christian church. meat. They are not like many Christians I know who, What is the effect of such a neutral witness? The even though they don't drink, feel that they have to guest gets the impression that there is no real differ- keep liquor in their homes for their friends who drink. ence between Adventists and other religions; that they And Adventists are so friendly." have nothing to offer but what he can get in his own or By now I felt that the time had come to identify my- neighborhood church. self. I told him that he had given me an idea for an edi- Contrast this with pulpit preaching in which the Ad- torial, that I was a Seventh-day Adventist and an asso- ventist ring comes through clearly and the uniqueness ciate editor of the church's general paper. of the Adventist witness is distinctly detected. Couple Completely unembarrassed (he had no need to be this with enthusiasm on the part of the pastor for his embarrassed, for he had said only good things about religion and a thrill that floods his soul that he has found Adventists), he continued his enthusiastic evaluation of Jesus Christ and has discovered the special emphasis Adventists. I asked him how he had come to know Jesus wishes him to proclaim currently. Then ponder about Adventists. He told me that from a news item in the effect on the non-Adventist of such a witness in his local daily he had noticed that Adventists were in- contrast with the former. terested in the subject of the relationship between the Isn't it true that when we attend services in other Bible and science. Since he had recently become inter- churches we expect to hear messages distinctive of the ested in this area, he immediately called the Seventh- day Adventist pastor in his city, who cordially invited him to visit his home. The pastor made available to him Adventist books in the area of creationism. He also EVERY REVIEW FOR FOUR GENERATIONS introduced him to one of the elders of the church who also was interested in this area and with whom he had I imagine our family has a record that might be hard tt) later established close friendship. duplicate. Four generations of our family have had every A number of questions entered my mind. Suppose to ,number of the Review that has been published. be sociable I had permitted the waitress to pour me a I heard my grandfather. Benjamin F. Leech, say his cup of coffee? Blushing deeply, at least within, I would name was on the list and he received a copy of the first have refused to reveal my identity and would have felt Review and Herald that was ever printed. deeply chastened. After my grandmother passed away in 4902 he lived in Suppose the pastor had brushed off his inquirer with our home. As long as he lived my parents kept the Re•- quick telephone help, and suppose the elder had been view coming in his name- When he died; it then came in of the unsociable type and had limited his contact to a My father's name, Joseph I. Leech. brief perfunctory call? And before my parents were gone, it was coming to As it was, because of their zeal for the church, the ... our home to Elder and Mrs. Herman A. Fish. Since my pastor and the elder had won the admiration of my husband's passing in 1961 I have made my home with my .daughter and her huSband, Dr. and Mrs. I. Wesley table mate. Their dedication to their religion had deeply Rhodes, and of course they were already taking the. impressed him. Review. And it wasn't as though all he had gotten from his I am now past 90 years of age and I enjoy and appiv- contacts with them was that Adventists don't eat meat (-late the Review more than ever. I usually read it from and don't drink coffee. This was an incidental point that cover to cover. How I wish It came to every Adventist came up because we were eating together. However, home and was being read diligently. It certainly Is a the important point was that he had been invited to an must in these times, IVA L. FISH Adventist home and thus had noted their dietary pe- culiarities, and furthermore, that he had found no Lake Oswego. Oregon compromise.

14 (1170) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 particular confession to which the church we are at- causing offense or because of a feeling of inferiority tending belongs? In fact, we may be disappointed if we than by an occasional overenthusiastic or misjudged find merely a neutral witness. witness. Thus, while there should be tact, there should be no Flee, therefore, inferiority complex. The special Sev- inferiority complex on the part of Adventists in wit- enth-day Adventist witness is the age-old gospel, but in nessing for their faith no matter before what group it a relevant setting of eschatology. We are now in the is done. One never knows what the end effect will be wind-up period of earth's history, actually a crisis pe- of an enthusiastic witness. It seems to us that far more riod. A recognition of this should color all our witness. mistakes are made in declining to witness for fear of This is no time for neutral preaching. D. F. N.

and suburban homes. Add to this laws pro- Would it be possible to organize the Path- Letters hibiting work opportunities, and a picture is finders into small crews that could be on clearly painted of many boys and girls with call to church members to go out and rake Continued from page 3 little outlet for this natural energy. yards, weed gardens, wash windows, pre- Youth leaders rack their brains for suit- pare fruit for canning, eradicate dandelions, writer says in one of the concluding para- able activities that have incentive, purpose, gather nuts, and bind up tree prunings? graphs, "With all these suggestions for hap- promotion for unselfishness, and an outlet Could they advertise themselves with fliers piness for the divorced person, there can for physical energy. Walkathons and bikea- and conduct neighborhood car washes? be no guarantee against loneliness." thons fill the bill: logical because all aspects A crew could swoop into a neighborhood After reading and rereading this article are positive; spiritual because of the mis- where the street sweepers don't go (our town I had an urge, which has not left me, to write sionary aspect of a cause; beneficial because has many!) and in a few minutes have the a little of my own experience. There was a everyone gains, even Uncle Henry and gutters free of trash, while others were time when I was left entirely alone—my Aunt Susie—if they believe in the project. If soliciting donations from appreciative resi- children were grown and had left home. they don't (now I'd like to play Ann Landers) dents. Sometimes the very walls would seem to they should be mature enough to say, No, The children would learn a lot about peo- cry out "You're alone; you're alone!" I kindly and firmly. Let them rely on their ple and be witnessing. And making the world flung myself to my knees and begged God to characters and personalities to win friends a better place. And gaining good publicity help me. And He did as I sought to know and Jimmy and Mary. for the church. And learning to work and do Him better. He helped me to get to the As longtime workers with youth we are a good job. place where I felt •in my heart that I would appalled that a letter such as referred to It would take much supervision and or- rather be alone with Him than to be with above is ever selected for the REVIEW. While ganization and involvement. It would require human loved ones without Him. it is nicely written, we felt it has such a continuous effort, and probably wouldn't For many years I have pursued the Bible negative, cynical flavor that it surely is not bring in as much cash as bikeathons. But Year, and one year, a long time ago, as I representative of a large percentage of the growth of the children in knowing they read Isaiah 54:5, "Thy Maker is thine hus- SDA's. Maybe we are too close to the prob- had earned the money directly would be im- band," I took this literally for myself. I lem or perhaps this "generation gap" is a measurable. have looked to Him for all that a good hus- real thing, after all. MYRNA STEPHENSON FARLEY band would provide in the way of love and MRS. FORREST MONTGOMERY Fresno, California companionship, and the necessities of life. Portland, Oregon He has never failed me, and I have a happier I go along with the correspondent who in life now, after my "three score and ten," his letter (August 1) asks "What are we ► Note the explanation at the head of the than ever before, even though I am still Letters column. Some letters are published teaching our children and youth about the "alone." When I open the door of my home, to awaken discussion and encourage dignity of labor?" when we encourage them instead of feeling alone, I am grateful that examination of practices and views. to raise money by asking people to give God is here, and often I get down on my them so much a mile to ride a bicycle, or knees right then and thank Him. Truly "to Three cheers to C. W. Mitchell of Simi walk? know Him is to love Him." Valley, California, for his letter appearing in I can remember when the young people We have a wonderful Father who means the August 1 REVIEW asking for reasons would sell homemade whole-wheat bread, what He says in His many promises (Num. supporting bikeathons and walkathons. I'm health cookies, Bedtime Stories, or maga- 23:19). I think often of this quotation from afraid I can't help him because I want to zines to raise money for their different group Testimonies to Ministers, page 111, "It is know what they are too. or personal needs. This method not only impossible for any mind to comprehend For several weeks I've been thinking provided money but helped other people. I all the richness and greatness of even one about writing in about the same thing, but still believe this method is worthy and needs promise of God." So, with this thought in was reluctant to bring up the subject. to be promoted by our youth leaders. mind, I have discovered a few promises that If the same reasons supporting bikeathons GLADYS M. SPENCER are helpful to me. I have memorized them were applied to greater lengths we could Lower Lake, California and use them over and over again, and never have campathons, hikeathons, swimathons, exhaust their beauty and strength. even tennisathons and bowlathons. We'd There Ought to Be a Law NAME WITHHELD be getting money for our club by doing something enjoyable we wanted to do any- On page 4 of the August 15 issue of the way. But why should we expect people to REVIEW I read, "Repeatedly emphasized Bikeathons and Walkathons contribute to a good cause because we are also was the need for more Biblical preach- Re C. W. Mitchell's question on reasons enjoying ourselves? What we are doing is ing in the Adventist pulpit." I would say, for bikeathons and walkathons (August 1). not important to our sponsors. They may Amen and Amen, to that. At first, it seemed to me a silly game with no just as well donate without our efforts. Recently I took a non-Adventist couple to real reason. Then I observed the fantastic Money is exchanged without goods or serv- hear an Adventist sermon. I telephoned the sense of accomplishment the participants ices rendered. The participants aren't doing minister and told him we were coming. The experienced. anything that needs to be done. sermon was such as one might hear in any So many times we as adults, either through It may be said that a child will learn re- church. The wife commented that it was a passing of time or different circumstances, sponsibility because he realizes that the good sermon, only she had heard it twice totally forget the physical exuberance of contribution will get larger the farther he before. This was the first time she had ever boys and girls. Today, our society has de- rides. True. But I wonder if Jimmy hasn't been in an Adventist church. I was mortified. pleted almost all forms of necessary manual sometimes ridden farther than the sensible This is not the first time I have heard an labor for our children. There is no wood to limits of his endurance because he wanted Adventist minister taking his sermons from cut, there are no animals to tend or mis- to do as well as, or better than, Tommy. A books of sermons. There ought to be a law. cellaneous chores to do. Whether we are in form of competition. HERBERT E. REED favor of this or not, it is a fact in most urban Could the workathon be established? Midland, Michigan R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1171) 15 Homemakers' Exchange

My son wants to know why he should not go to with reality—which can very often tend to be dull, when compared to the stories. How good movies occasionally. His friends tell him that can a child appreciate the symmetry of an theater audiences• are well behaved and keep to oak leaf after cartoons? or the antics of a rabbit after Bewitched? themselves so that no harm can come from associa- MRS. HOWARD SCOGGINS tions. I have a hard time explaining to him that it is Mobile, Alabama wrong to go to the theater to see a natural wildlife ► Use your son's logical question to help him develop some criteria and standards for film, when the same film is shown in our schools. choosing not only good movies but also books, television programs, music, religious What should I tell him? beliefs, friends, clothes, or anything in life that requires choices. Emphasize that none of these things are necessarily innately evil, but need to be chosen with great care so a person is honest both to himself and to ► Movies and theatergoing were never a guard the inmates of his encampment problem in our home. Our family rule was against mingling with the heathen and wit- God. Emphasize the danger of indiscriminate that if a film was really worth seeing it would nessing their idolatrous practices, for he choice that comes when a person does not "come to us." In other words, if the film knew that familiarity with evil would in- have personal standards and just "follows was something we should see it would be sensibly corrupt the principles." the crowd." shown in our schools or at an Adventist so- I can testify that Satan is far more clever You might suggest some criteria that cial function. Our two daughters are now than we can possibly imagine, and without would be useful to him, but let your son ages 19 and 21; one a student at Southern God's help no one can hope to gain the mas- work out his own solution without too much Missionary College and the other a recent tery over him. We should make every effort parental insistence. Undoubtedly, your son graduate. to stay away from places where we know will make mistakes in some of his choices, MRS. WILLIAM ALFORD there will be temptation. but give him the opportunity to learn from Whitesburg, Georgia HARRIETT MUSK those mistakes. Kingman, Arizona RICHARD C. OSBORN ► Our school administrators should be Takoma Park, Maryland careful in choosing films to be shown. ► Your son will benefit far more from be- Showing too many of even good films can ing shown how to analyze this question than ► The devil is crafty; he knows that at- give the impression that entertainment is a from being handed a yes-or-no answer. Ma- tending a theater to see an "innocent" desirable form of recreation. turing involves learning to tell the difference movie makes it much easier to see another, Those who go to a theater, even to see a between look-alikes. Right and wrong seldom and another. If an explanation alone does not nature film, form a habit that makes it easier present themselves as white and black, but suffice, perhaps you could suggest some to rationalize going to a fictitious show or as shades of gray. stimulating activity as an alternative. Let immoral movie. When your son was too young to dis- him get a used boat, a pair of skiis, an instru- MRS. HAROLD WORKMAN tinguish a plugged-in iron from an unplugged ment, a challenging job, or take a short trip. Lakeview, Oregon iron, you didn't let him touch the iron at all. A little time or money might wisely be spent When he was old enough to tell the differ- Because a worthwhile movie is shown at to get him absorbed in something worth- ► ence, you taught him to use the iron safely. while rather than in worldly pleasures. church school does not give the go sign to Seeing a nature film in a theater may look attend local movie houses. VIVIAN PREWITT the same as seeing it on campus, but it's not Sparta, Michigan Any objectionable place has some good. the same. Drawing the line firmly outside The local tavern has water equally as pure the theater door is protection against the I think the real issue is one of building as that found at church. By picking out the habit of moviegoing. ► good points of a place, a Christian could psychological barriers. In the Garden of Your son will need to know how to dis- Eden God placed several psychological find himself in every demoralizing establish- tinguish marching from dancing, peace- ment the world has to offer. walls around Eve by telling her (1) not to making from compromise, novels from leave her husband's side, (2) not to go near ROBERT C. BOTELER Bible biography. Soon he may need to Jacksonville, Florida the tree, and (3) not to touch the fruit. If she choose between two prospective brides, and hadn't broken down these barriers she When my brothers and I were small, my what will he do if they're both dressed in would never have eaten the fruit. ► pink? parents took us to theaters to see travel and Similarly, if we build and maintain psy- MRS. WILLIAM OLIPHANT animal pictures, thus opening the door to our chological barriers against theater attend- Paw Paw, Michigan attending such places. It wasn't long until ance we will never rationalize ourselves into I had developed a taste for dissociation attending a seemingly harmless show that ► I think your son can enjoy something from reality such as moving pictures pro- much more exciting, much more enlivening, may subtly—perhaps through our mental vide, as well as a good deal of self-confi- than a wildlife film, no matter where it's role-playing—make sin seem a little less hor- dence in my discrimination. I can testify shown. I'm not saying that movies should rible and Christ seem a little less attractive. that once inside the theater it is easy to ra- be banned because they move, but, perhaps, I think this is why the Lord has told us in tionalize, staying not only for the "good" because the viewer doesn't move. Why not such positive, absolute terms, "The only feature but for the next feature, as well. plan something adventurous out in nature safe course is to shun the theater" (Testi- Contrasting material is usually paired with a itself. Have your son invite his friends and monies, vol. 4, p. 653). "good" film, and the influence of the in- let his senses experience the "real thing." DENNIS PETTIBONE trigue, selfishness, greed, lust, envy, and all Movies (whether classified as "good" or Riverside, California other emotions portrayed has a subtle if not "bad") are not "where the action is." outright shocking influence upon the ob- MRS. NANCY TROYER ► It seems to me that if we begin early to server. Because of these influences in my Berrien Springs, Michigan guide our children's interests in good, whole- life I spent years giving little attention to some recreation, read often to them, talk to them of God and heaven, and be involved spiritual matters, which I now sadly regret. ► I believe and teach my children that the On page 141 of Patriarchs and Prophets wrong with this sort of thing, whether it be with them, they will develop a natural dis- is something all Adventist young people and in the theater or at home on TV, or in like for cheap entertainment. parents should read and think about: "Abra- books, is the artificial excitement that is As for the same film that is shown in ham sought by every means in his power to built up and tends to create discontentment theaters being shown at our schools, we go

16 (1172) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 with our children, and, since the profit helps ► Usually the viewing of films is not for God's help. No one can answer this ques- a good cause, we feel right in doing so. But educational reasons, but simply for a pas- tion for him. many times we come home and point out the time. There are better things that a person There are several things he should con- good and bad in what we saw. These often could do. Remind your son that time is short sider. The Christian is held accountable for develop into wonderful family discussions until Jesus returns for His people, and that the way he spends his time. Perhaps the con- resulting in our children's saying they he should not be found wasting his time in tent of a film is good, and maybe the people would just as soon be spending their time at such places. where it is shown are well behaved. But home with us, As we read and study God's Most important, don't force your opin- what else could he be doing with his time? Word and Ellen White's counsel we seem ions on your son, but suggest to him that he RON BISHOP to lose interest in the artificial. should contemplate the problem and make WANETT CARBAUGH his own decision. After all, he is probably ► In reaching a conclusion, may I suggest National City, California coming to the age where he is making more that with Bible in hand, we commune with and more spiritual, moral, and social deci- the Lord and be honest with ourselves and sions for himself. our motives. It may be that deciding on the ► I am a teen-ager and have often been bothered by this question. I dismissed the DANNY PAYAN basis of what is right for me may not be "bad atmosphere reason" long ago, because sufficient. Like Paul, we should not be a the same people who go to movies also ride ► When the committee for choosing school "stumbling block" to any brother along the buses and eat in restaurants. films approves Fiddler on the Roof and The way. Inn of the Sixth Happiness I naturally con- KEVIN KIBBLE I found Romans 14:14-18 helped me the clude that they approve going to see good most in my decision not to attend movies. I movies in public theaters, as well. ► I suggest that you tell your son to look at think Paul was trying to impress us that we Maybe the committee for choosing such his conscience and his relationship with God. have an obligation to our weaker Christian films should be replaced with new members Ask him to do some research on the subject brothers and sisters. If I go to movies and and rules. This would probably help keep and make up his own mind. someone sees me entering, maybe he won't young people from stumbling away from It may be that showing movies even at our remember what movie I went to see, but just schools is a waste of time and money. We God. the fact that I went. How does he know I would be better off if we had some activity CRI S BALICTAR choose only the good ones, especially when out in the open air. many young people don't really choose If your son wishes to learn about nature ► I also am a young person who finds the "good" movies? It's easier for me to say, I issue of movie-going very confusing. It it might be better for him to do some reading don't go to movies at all, than to try to ex- seems to me that if we can slibw a film in and go some weekend on a hike in nature. plain to my friends why I won't go to see a our academies that has passed the preview Better yet, accompany him. certain good one with "only a few bad committee, it shouldn't be wrong to see it in RHONDA BOYD spots." a theater. I see no harm in going to the theater to It's a hard decision to make, but remem- ► The way I have always resolved such see a nature film or maybe a good musical ber, there are a lot of other worthwhile problems in my mind is, Do I as a person once in a while, but when you make a habit things to do, and your decision on movies get something out of it? Was it worth the of going to the movies every weekend or won't make or break your friendships or $2.50 and the two or three hours spent on every time you need to be entertained, I can popularity. As long as you really believe in it? Could I have found something better to see the harm it may bring. It can prevent a your choice, people will respect you for hav- do during that time? and Would I like Jesus person from enjoying other activities that ing enough backbone to stick to your de- to come with me if He were here? are more stimulating, mentally and phys- cisions. You cannot make up the young person's ically. JENELL ELI mind for him but you can tell him your views I think that you should allow your son to Redlands, California and hopefully he will consider the issues make up his own mind, but let him know carefully and come to a good decision. your feelings on the subject. Why not wait to see the good wildlife ► LINDA NIELSEN SUSAN CRAIG movie in our own recreation hall or school? The devil is eager to see our young people It is my belief that the entire question of ► I have been a member of the church for ► get started going to questionable places of several years and honestly do not see any- the wholesomeness of any activity is based amusement. Parents should not cooperate thing wrong with some movies. However, on this: "Am I strengthening my tie with with him M his aims. they must be chosen carefully and viewed in God and helping others to find Him?" The picture may be good, but this is not moderation. Your son must find his answer through all one sees at a theater. There are previews Some say that the atmosphere found at the open-minded study of the Bible and prayer. of other movies that in many cases are ob- theater is bad, although I have never en- Through the study of the Scriptures, and jectionable. countered this problem. with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, he will When I first became a Christian the reason The film preview committee has approved be able to find his solution. given me for not attending the theater was such films as Tora, Tora, Tora, and Fiddler I think recreation should be re-creation. the influence I exerted on someone weaker on the Roof and personally I don't believe NANCY-ANN HARRIS than I, who might say, "Well, I see she that Christian young people should see films goes to the theater, so can I." We should such as these. NEXT QUESTION live so that it is safe for others to follow our LORI ALMSKOG example. I live in an area where winters are long. GRACE WICH ► I suggest that in deciding how to answer Since my family is large and lively, providing Calistoga, California this question on theater attendance, one Sabbath activities for the children becomes a should ask himself questions such as these: problem. Ellen White counsels that we should A number of students from the senior What does the Bible say? not confine ourselves within four walls on Bible class at Glendale Academy, Glendale, What would Jesus do? Sabbath, but take the children out into na- California, responded to our question. Be- Where is God on the list of priorities? ture. Most of our Sabbaths are windy and low are some of their answers. Will it benefit or aid the one who at- stormy, and the children tire of stories and tends to become more Christlike? Bible games after a while. I would be inter- ► I can understand the conflict your son How will it affect a fellow believer whose ested in learning of activities that others have feels on the matter of theater attendance. faith is weaker? found acceptable for Sabbath and that inter- Recently a film preview committee ap- Should we consider the five senses as gates est their children. proved such films as The Inn of the Sixth to our mind and soul? If so, what should we Send answers to Homemakers' Exchange, Re- Happiness and Tora, Tora, Tora, which I allow through the gates? feel are inappropriate for our schools. It view and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. Would another type of recreation be more 20012. Letters must not exceed 300 words in length. seems to me that the committee has not ful- conducive to Christian growth? Include complete return address. Three dollars will filled its duties and may have given the im- JOHN S. GASPAR be paid for each answer published. pression that theater attendance is ap- Questions for discussion in the Homemakers' proved of. ► Your son will have to look into the Scrip- Exchange are welcome and should be directed to ROBERT GOULMASSKEN tures and draw his own conclusions with the address given above. R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1173) 17 Newsfront

A concert in the spacious Copernicus University concert hall in Torun was a high light of the New England Youth Ensemble's tour.

ensemble is based, fairly shook with the reverberations of the shouts of glee New England Youth Ensemble and excitement that arose. But ahead was our first test. In tele- Forges Friendship in Poland phoning our acceptance, I explained that as a Seventh-day Adventist group By VIRGINIA-GENE RITTENHOUSE we could not present concerts from Friday evening sundown until Saturday evening sundown unless they were "DZIEKUJE, dziekuje bardzo," friendship might be forged. The record sacred concerts in churches. Mrs. Mor- they called out, thrusting the last bou- of the success of the program in Ro- gan's voice dropped on the other end quets of flowers into our arms. mania was impressive indeed. of the line. "Dziekuje, dziekuje, do widzenia!" "Why don't you apply for your New "This is serious," she said. "You we called back as the great doors swung England Youth Ensemble to go to Ro- just have to play at any time or place closed. mania this coming summer?" urged one as requested by the Romanian Govern- Moments later our Czechoslovakian of my colleagues. "You might get ac- ment. And as for the church concerts, jetliner roared down the runway and cepted!" It was an exciting thought this is just not possible because the lifted into the darkness. For a brief but fraught with many questions. How churches in Romania are not that open span, the lights of the city of Warsaw would we ever be considered among so or available." It seemed we had reached twinkled below us. Then suddenly we many well-known groups who would an impasse. were enshrouded by the dark curtains be certain to apply? But nearly three weeks later the of night as our plane turned toward From the modest beginnings of the phone rang early one morning and an Prague, New York, and home. ensemble six years ago in my living elated voice on the other end gave me I glanced down at the flowers in my room with only five of my little pupils the news that the agreement between lap. The red and white carnations were to the present group of 27 young teen- Ambassadors for Friendship and the from our own dear church folks in War- agers who performed last summer in Polish Consulate in New York had just saw with whom, just a few short hours Iceland, England, and at the famous been signed inviting the program to be before, we had joined hands and sung music center of Fontainebleau, France, initiated in Poland for the very first "God be with you till we meet again." was surely already far beyond anything time. The colorful daisies were from our two we could have envisioned. Would it "This makes it possible for you to interpreter-guides, both young profes- not be presumptuous to expect more? go," said Mrs. Morgan excitedly, "be- sors from the University of Gdansk, The First Step cause the churches are open in Poland. who had devoted themselves to our You can give your sacred concerts as well-being and the success of our tour Finally, however, at the urging of you wish. What's more, you will be the for three weeks. What deep sentiments friends, I sat down one morning and pioneers of our program. Everything were enfolded in these blossoms! wrote a brief letter to the New York will depend on you!" There was no As our plane droned on into the office of Ambassadors for Friendship. question now in our minds that God night, I reflected on how this wonder- To my surprise, an immediate reply wanted us in Poland, and preparations ful dream had begun. It was back in came requesting a tape for considera- were begun in earnest. September, I recalled, that someone tion by the Musical Advisory Board. A I called New York about the menu placed in my hands an article from the tape! We had no professional tape at and Sabbath schedule: "Could we Reader's Digest regarding the splendid that time—only a cassette recording of please have vegetarian food, and also achievements of the Ambassadors for our concert at Fontainebleau. I sent it may we be sure to have every Saturday Friendship program. Harry Morgan, a in. A short time later I received a letter entirely free from travel in order to former Reader's Digest editor, and his from Mrs. Morgan, executive secretary spend the day at our churches?" I was wife, Cappy, were sending young for Ambassadors for Friendship, stat- assured that though these were unus- American musical organizations to the ing that from 4,200 applicants from all ual requests, every effort would be Eastern European socialist countries over the United States our ensemble made to make all this possible. in the hope that through the great in- had been one of the groups selected to Now preparations became feverish. ternational language of music links of go to Romania for the summer of 1974. We had representative travel and con- I took the word to the ensemble mem- cert uniforms to design and sew, end- Virginia-Gene Rittenhouse, D.M.A., is bers and their parents at the very next less forms, visas, and passports to fill on the music department faculty of At- rehearsal, and the staid old tapestry- out, instruments to crate, farewell con- lantic Union College, South Lancaster, covered walls of Thayer Conservatory certs to present, and intense rehearsals Massachusetts. at Atlantic Union College, where our to hold night and day. Two young

18 (1174) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 violinists from Washington, D.C., and then turned and asked the searching the Taylor Family String Quartette question, "Are these young people from Andrews University—all young Christians?" to which I, of course, gave people who had begun their musical a strong affirmative answer. studies under my direction—flew in to "Good, very good," he replied, and spend the final week with us to enhance suddenly it was all arranged. We were the string section. to play the following evening at six And so in the early sunrise of July 12, o'clock. with the final excitement of loading What an experience! Four thousand and packing completed, the young mem- people crowded into that magnificent bers of the ensemble and their parents cathedral. As we concluded our post- paused for a short service of dedica- lude, instead of filing out, at least tion to the twofold mission that lay 2,000 people stood as though transfixed ahead—Ambassadors for Friendship next to the altar railing. With great apol- and Ambassadors for Christ. ogies the priest explained that we would We were greeted at the Warsaw air- have to cease playing, for the people port with flowers—the first of many would never leave unless we did, and the cathedral had to close. The author (holding parcel) and her such tributes from the hospitable and husband (center) visited a woman who warmhearted Polish people. The next night we were invited to an- had given them her treasured flag of Our first two days in Warsaw intro- other beautiful cathedral. It was here Poland, which she had embroidered dur- duced us to the unbelievable destruc- that a dear little woman quietly slipped ing the days of the Nazi occupation. tion and suffering of Poland during into our hands a small package that we World War II, and the incredible cour- found to be a priceless gift—her most age of its people in rebuilding that end- treasured possession. It was a hand- less mass of rubble and destruction into embroidered flag of Poland which she the beautiful living cities of today. had made secretly during the terrible Leaving Warsaw after an inspiring days of Nazi occupation, under pain visit and concert at the birthplace of of death. Later we found her simple Frederic Chopin, Poland's greatest little cottage and had a wonderful fel- composer, we headed north towards lowship with her. Gdansk. After explaining to our two Now the secular concerts began. We wonderful guides, Marian and Bogdon, had the thrill of playing to capacity the mission that we hoped to accom- audiences—in the elegant centuries- plish, they threw themselves with de- old Town Hall in Gdansk, the amphi- votion into our cause. theater on the Baltic Sea in Sopot, the spacious concert hall of Copernicus Saturday evening after sundown they The youth ensemble laid a wreath at suddenly hustled me off with them to University in Torun, the eighteenth- the foot of the monument to those who interview the bishop to arrange for us to century palace in Lubostron, and one died in the concentration camp at Stutt- perform the following day at the great of the greatest concert halls in all of hof, then sang "Faith of Our Fathers." cathedral at Oliwa, the third largest Europe, the newly built Paderewski cathedral in all of Europe. I could not Memorial Auditorium in Bydgoszcz. believe that this would be possible— Here the representative from the Polish Our Sabbaths, as promised, were especially since it was the great festival Radio heard us rehearsing and re- special days of fellowship with our own weekend for the celebration of the quested to be allowed to record our con- Adventist people. We played sacred founding of the People's Republic of cert to be played on the air on August concerts in our churches in Warsaw, Poland. But finally we were ushered 15. Gdansk, and Bydgoszcz. What a privi- into the bishop's office at the cathedral, In all, we played 17 concerts in 21 lege not only to be able to talk with our and while they talked excitedly in Pol- days. Everywhere the tremendous re- wonderful Polish people but also to the ish I sat praying. The bishop listened, sponse from the people overwhelmed us. young people from Czechoslovakia, members from the German Demo- cratic Republic, and a brother from Romania. Our guides stayed with us so that we could communicate, and told us afterward how deeply moved they were to see the warm fellowship that we seemed to have, just like one family. Readers of the REVIEW will rejoice as we did that our people in Poland en- joy religious freedom. They hold their services freely, they are publishing lit- erature, including the Signs of the Times, and the children are allowed free time from school for religious edu- cation and Sabbath worship. The days passed all too quickly, and we found ourselves back for the final two days in Warsaw. The first evening was indeed a high light. Our Adventist leaders had arranged a concert for us in one of the beautiful Lutheran ca- thedrals. To the concert came repre- sentatives from the American Embassy, Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, who had just flown in from Romania to hear us for the first time in person, and representa- tives from the Polish Tourist Associa- tion. How we prayed that our playing and witness that night would be espe- One of the New England Youth Ensemble's outdoor concerts was performed in the shell at the cially blessed! Baltic seacoast resort city of Sopot. In all, the group played 17 concerts in three weeks. Pastor Z. Lyko, Polish Union secre-

R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1175) 19 tary, gave a speech of tribute in which One last farewell reception, and we in the northeastern section of Trinidad he clearly identified us as a Seventh-day found ourselves filled with emotions met to pray together. Not only did they Adventist group while at the same time once more at the airport. As the musical feel the need of a closer walk with God paying great honor to the Lutheran director shook my hand in farewell, he themselves but they also shared a bur- leaders and distinguished guests who said, "You must return to Poland. I am den for the other youth in the church. were present. When the concert ended already recommending this, not only Little did Carlos Duncan, Leanord we were overwhelmed with tributes. because of your superb performances McKenna, Bunny Kramberg, and Flor- Mr. and Mrs. Morgan rushed forward, and not only because you have in many ency Scobie dream of the power that took my hands, and exclaimed with instances completely changed the con- would be set in motion by their prayer tears that they had never heard such a cept of the Polish people about young group. performance. How bountifully, I America but most of all because you The influence of the prayer band thought quietly, had our prayers been have in a unique way brought together made an impact on the church, and answered. the people of all faiths, and this, I feel, other young people joined in the de- But the greatest thrill was yet to has been your greatest achievement." votional service each Sabbath morning. come. We were invited to a reception As our plane touched down once The spirit of unity and dedication soon arranged by the Polish Union president, more on American soil, our feelings reached the congregation as a spirit of S. Dabrowski, and his associates at were summed up in the great words of revival and reformation took hold of the our union headquarters. Although all the apostle Paul, "Now unto him that church. through our tour our guides had done is able to do exceeding abundantly The youth felt a strong urge to reach well in arranging vegetarian food for us, above all that we ask or think, . . . unto the vast number of young people in never did real Adventist cooking taste him be glory." ❑ their community who had not yet found quite so delicious! Christ. They immediately laid plans for It was then that we learned from a series of lay crusades, which God Elder Dabrowski that the Minister for TRINIDAD greatly blessed. Religious Affairs for Poland had tele- The number of praying youth had phoned him to say that of all the groups Crusades by Young People now grown to more than 50. What an performing under the auspices of the Win 200 New Members inspiration it was to see these young Ambassadors for Friendship, the group people converging from various points having the greatest impact on the peo- Early one July Sabbath morning, of the area for the quiet hour of prayer! ple of Poland was the New England four young people from the Sangre The powerful arms of faith began to Youth Ensemble. Grande Seventh-day Adventist church work wonders for the youth. They saw

Sacrifice—Missionaries', the Pioneers', and Ours

"Where is your husband?" I asked the missionary's the idea that the more material things we have, the happier wife. and the more secure we will be. However, events are be- "He's on a walk-about," she replied. ginning to prove that this is an illusion, for material things Displaying my ignorance, I asked, "What's a walk- can vanish overnight. We must take care not to miss the about?" greatest joy of all—giving ourselves and our means to bless "He is visiting the neighboring villages on foot. That is others. We should give of our means until it hurts, so that the only means of transportation available to visit many of we can alleviate the hurts of others. the villages hidden in the bush." When thinking about sacrifices one cannot help being "How long will he be gone?" I asked. reminded of the sacrifices of the pioneers of this message. "It varies," she replied. "Sometimes only for a few days, Speaking about the hardships while visiting a few scattered sometimes longer. At times there are floods and the river members in New England, James White said that "it was rises, and then his coming home is delayed." necessary for us to be on the road much of the time. For Mrs. Bietz and I spent several happy hours in that village want of means, we took the cheapest, private conveyance, in the highlands of New Guinea. Before our departure we second-class cars, and lower-deck passage on steamers. had a brief season of prayer, and then we took off in the . When on second-class cars, we were usually enveloped mission airplane. in tobacco smoke. This I could endure, but Mrs. White After circling the village, we headed back to mission would frequently faint.... We lay down on the hard floor, headquarters in Rabaul. Looking out of the window, we dry-goods boxes, or sacks of grain, with carpet-bags for saw in the center of the crowd the faithful, smiling mis- pillows, without covering, only overcoats and shawls. If sionary's wife waving good-by along with the rest. suffering from the winter's cold, we would walk the deck As we settled back into our seats I noticed the tears in to keep warm. If suffering the heat of summer, we would my wife's eyes. I didn't ask why—I knew the answer! We go up on the upper deck to secure the cool night air. This both had the same thoughts. We were thinking about the was fatiguing to Mrs. White, especially so with an infant sacrifice these missionaries were willing to make and in her arms. This manner of life was by no means one of about the joy of service we saw in the face of the young our choosing. God called us in our poverty, and led us woman. In our hearts we felt a bit conscience-stricken be- through the furnace of affliction to give us an experience cause our sacrifice throughout the years was rather mea- which should be of great worth to us, and an example to ger, comparatively speaking. Oh, yes, we had given the others who should afterward join us in labor."—Rise and suggested Sabbath school offerings, and more, from week Progress of Seventh-day Adventists, p. 133. to week. We had given weeks' salaries for the Annual Week One could repeat many similar experiences of the pio- of Sacrifice Offerings; but really, was this a sacrifice? neers of the gospel. Certainly, in comparison, few of us These young missionaries were giving more than money. have sacrificed much. There are those, I'm sure, who They were giving their lives to advance the gospel in the could give much more than the suggested week's salary highlands of New Guinea. Usually after we have given a on Sabbath, November 9. We hope that some will be im- week's salary we have not surrendered anything but dol- pressed by the Spirit of the Lord to do so. Each should give lars. Sacrifice? Do we really know what it means? Or should "as God hath prospered him." we ask the young missionaries in New Guinea and others Last year the Annual Week of Sacrifice Offering for the who are way out there in the hinterlands, far from parents world field amounted to $1,651,646. Surely this year we and loved ones, bringing the gospel to those who are still should have as our objective at least $2 million. in darkness? R. R. Bietz, Director In our twentieth-century culture we are obsessed with Christian Leadership Seminar

20 (1176) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 the walls of opposition crumble before BRAZIL as all union and some local conference the power of prayer. administrators. During one of their crusades in the Expanded Work Discussed Several physicians taught first-aid Manzanilla district, the parents of a by Medical Missionaries classes and talked about the medical young man became bitterly opposed to missionary work that is being done his attendance at the crusade. The Sixty-five medical missionary work- through the launches and rolling clinics. prayer group decided on a day of prayer ers—the launch directors, airplane Eleven launches, four planes, which and fasting for Joseph, but the adver- pilots, and rolling clinic directors re- support the launch work, and eight sary attempted to disturb the prayer sponsible for the development of the rolling clinics travel over the high meeting through the loud blaring of a Seventh-day Adventist welfare program plateau in Peru and Bolivia, the dry juke box. Suddenly the machine broke in the South American Division—met in lands of northeastern Brazil, and the down, and the meeting went on in Brasilia, capital of Brazil, from May almost impenetrable jungle of the peace. This event so impressed Joseph's 28 to June 1. Amazonian area. In all of these places parents that they not only stopped op- William Wagner, of the General Con- the initials ASA (Adventist Social As- posing their son, but they encouraged ference Health Department, was the sistance) are recognized and respected him to be baptized. honored guest. R. A. Wilcox, South by the people. After his baptism, Joseph attended American Division president; Enoch The governments in the countries Caribbean Union College and is now at Oliveira, secretary; and Clarence Laue, where these services are rendered ap- West Indies College, where he is pre- treasurer, attended the meeting, as well preciate the work done by the Seventh- paring to become a minister. But Joseph is only one of many brought to Christ as a direct result of the prayer group's involvement in cru- sades. More than 200 have been bap- tized so far. An interesting note about the prayer group is that six new homes have been established by members who married. Some have moved away from the dis- trict and started the same type of move- ment in other places. One member of the group, a trained schoolteacher, is presently engaged in a crusade in the Aripo district in the east- ern section of Trinidad. Almost all the villagers are present every night to hear the preaching of the Word. A branch Sabbath school has been organized. God truly has blessed the praying youth of Sangre Grande. The prayer band still functions. No wonder the servant of the Lord, in writing about young people, said, "With such an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the whole world."—Education, p. 271. T. T. BILLINGY Departmental Secretary Caribbean Union Conference KENYA BLACKSMITH BECOMES LITERATURE EVANGELIST One day, as Hiram Kariuki went about his work as a blacksmith in Kenya, a MEXICO visitor came carrying a big brief case. Mr. Kariuki wondered what this friendly man wanted. After a short and to-the-point introduction, he showed Mr. Kariuki Three Local Fields the book For a Better Africa. Accorded Conference Status "Many doors, before closed, are now open for the people of Africa," said the literature evangelist, whose name was Joseph Guto. The Central, South, and Southeast How true this is, Mr. Kariuki thought. Mexican missions in the Mexican Un- Mr. Guto continued, "Why is Africa changing so quickly? What does freedom ion Mission have been granted con- really mean? These questions are answered in this book." The vivid description ference status, effective January 1, of the book stirred the interest of the blacksmith. He was sure that it would an- 1975. swer his many questions, so he bought it. Finally evening came, and Mr. Kariuki This action, taken by the Inter- American Division mid-year committee found himself enjoying page after page of his new book. He noted that all he read in Miami, Florida, June 26 and 27, was agreed with the Bible. based on the reports of survey com- After reading the book, Mr. Kariuki wasn't the same. He had a new outlook mittees, which examined very carefully on life. He had found his Saviour, Jesus Christ. In 1971 he sealed his decision to the finances, staffing, church buildings, follow Jesus by being baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He wanted and many other aspects of the maturity to share his newfound faith with others, so he began a branch Sabbath school. of these fields. They join the 11 other Three persons have been baptized as a result. local fields in the Inter-American Divi- Mr. Kariuki still wasn't satisfied. How could he continue with his work as a sion that are now recognized as largely blacksmith when thousands were dying every day without finding Jesus? He re- self-supporting and contributors to the membered that it was a book sold to him by a literature evangelist that changed growth of the work in less developed areas of the division territory. his life. Today Mr. Kariuki himself is a literature evangelist, bringing the printed R. R. DRACHENBERG page into the homes of Kenya. D. R. L. ASTLEFORD Assistant Treasurer and Auditor Publishing Secretary Inter-American Division East African Union

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day Adventist Church and have confi- dence in it. Church officials hear time after time: "Seventh-day Adventist services are reliable." In 1973, 301,093 patients received attention through the above-mentioned channels. Adventist workers perform first-aid services, but their main interest is to teach the people ways to prevent dis- ease through proper counseling and instruction in health, hygiene, and nu- trition. On the basis of the results obtained through this kind of work, it was rec- ommended at the meeting to expand the various forms of welfare work when- ever missionaries can be found who South America's launch, plane, and rolling clinic personnel gathered recently in Brasilia. are willing to go to these difficult places and preach the message of health and salvation. DANIEL NESTARES Health Secretary South American Division

DENMARK Treasurers Talk Money at Division-wide Council

CREATIVE IDEAS FOR CHILD TRAINING More than 60 treasurers, accountants, and auditors from ten countries of the Compiled by Ruth McLin and Jeanne Larson. Northern Europe-West Africa Division met at Kikhavn Youth Camp in Den- Two mothers, their children now grown, have fulfilled mark, May 6 to 9, to share experiences their desire to provide encouragement and help and straighten out question marks re- to other parents by preparing this book. lated to the many-faceted work of They show how family after family church, mission, and institutional have put divine principles of child training into finance. Forty-eight items on an agenda span- practice in everyday home living. Every one of the ning financial policies, budgets, account- eighteen chapters is filled with "how we did it" material. ing procedures, insurance, and auditing, It's impossible to read far without saying, gave but scant opportunity for the par- "If they could do it, so can I." CREATIVE IDEAS FOR ticipants to admire the pleasant Danish countryside just a stone's throw from CHILD TRAINING holds a lifetime of value for all the sea. parents. Paper $2.50 The council was arranged by the division treasury department. R. Un- nersten, treasurer, chaired the meeting. He was assisted by D. R. Pierson, assistant treasurer, and L. J. Harju, auditor. R. M. Reinhard, assistant treasurer of the General Conference, gave val- uable help in the workshop periods dealing with problems that seem to So Easy to Quote but Sometimes be encountered globally. Hard to Put Into Practice! The triple challenge of the motto, "Economy, Loyalty, Spirituality," Order from your local permeated both instructional and de- Adventist Book Center or votional periods, and helped the treas- ABC Mailing Service, urers sense anew the sacred trust of P.O. Box 31776, Omaha, handling funds dedicated to the finish- Nebraska 68131. ing of God's work on earth. Please add 30 cents for FINN H. OPSAHL postage for the first book, and 15 cents for Secretary-Treasurer each additional book. East Norway Conference Add State sales tax where necessary. WASHINGTON, D.C. SDA Broadcasts Continue rh to Bring About Baptisms Last year almost 2 million people re- quested lessons from the church's 140 Bible correspondence schools, accord- ing to information just compiled. Leading in this activity was the North American Division with 510,000 re-

22 (1178) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 quests, 421,000 of them from the Voice ary technician, opened the media to the of Prophecy. Southern Asia received denomination for the first time in sev- 415,000 requests and the Far Eastern eral years. And in the Philippines sta- Division went over the quarter million tion DXCR at Mountain View College mark. proved itself a soul winner in its first These Bible schools graded a total of weeks of operation. 6,151,586 lessons from their students. Approximately 750 full-time workers Radio and television broadcasts con- provide the broadcasts and follow-up tinue to provide the major source of services that produce these results. these enrollments. The denomination In addition, virtually every Seventh-day released programs on 3,190 stations Adventist plays a role in supporting during 1973, and in any one week the these programs through prayer, service, message reached out more than 5,000 or financial support. times. WALTER R. L. SCRAGG All this activity resulted in at least Communication Secretary 19,735 people who claimed broadcasts General Conference and Bible correspondence schools as a At a workshop in Bogenhofen, Austria, in June, M. Virtic and V. Subert, Bi- major factor in their baptism. ble correspondence school directors During the year the Voice of Proph- from Yugoslavia, learn about layout. ecy completed the printing of its New Life, Nutrition and Health courses. Faith for Today explored new ground kinds. Australasia reached a new high for the denomination with the release of in the number of broadcasts per week. television spots featuring the Bible's Its three-minute television series, Crisis, Answer and Living for Real courses. It brought strong response in several Is Written achieved a new dimension markets. when George Hermans used its sets and The Afro-Mideast Division added a scripts for a, French look-alike broad- new language to Adventist broadcasts cast, 11 Est Ecrit. with the addition of programs in Turkish. In Europe contined use of AWR New lessons have aided these releases broadcasts brought many results and from AWR. benefits to the denomination. One In Europe a large number of Russian Bible correspondence school leaders C. spin-off of the broadcasts and the pro- i'migres have joined the church in Bel- Christoforides, of Greece, and E. PeJJi- duction studios now operating in gium as a result of AWR broadcasts. In cer, of the Arabic Bible correspondence Europe has been the development of the Far Eastern Division broadcasts in school in Paris, France, listen to an audio cassette ministries of various Thai, with the help of a student mission- idea presented by J. Boureau, of France.

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R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1179) 23 FLORIDA Committee Plans Advance Dateline Washington of Spanish Publications A Monthly Roundup of Happenings at General Conference Headquarters

The members of the Spanish Publi- By F. C. WEBSTER cations Coordinating Committee met for their biennial meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, from July 8 to 10. This spective boards of the General Con- committee is made up of representatives ference Insurance Service, Columbia from the General Conference, the South Union College, Columbia Union American Division, the Inter-Ameri- HHES, Hadley Memorial Hospital, the can Division, the Pacific Press Publish- Review and Herald Publishing Asso- ing Association, the Buenos Aires Pub- ciation, and the Washington Adventist lishing House, and the United Bible Hospital. Societies. The committee voted to make Ad- RECENT ADDITIONS TO THE GEN- ventist Spanish publications more effec- ERAL CONFERENCE STAFF WERE: tive by the following means: a special Elder and Mrs. Robert Olson, of Pa- edition of The Ministry of Healing for cific Union College. Elder Olson is a church members and use by colpor- new associate secretary in the Ellen G. teurs; an annual on liberty and con- White Estate, and Mrs. Olson is work- science to be distributed to government ing in the General Conference Secre- authorities; new textbooks for teach- At a recent reception, B. N. Gokhale, retired tariat; Dr. Betty Stirling, of Loma ing Bible in our schools; a wider distri- high court judge from Maharashtra, India, Linda University, director of Institu- smiles at a comment by A. V. Pinkney. tional Research for the Board of bution of The Great Controversy; co- ordination of materials produced by the Higher Education; DeWitt S. Williams, former missionary in the Trans-Africa Sabbath school and lay activities de- RECEPTION FOR JUDGE GOKHALE. partments; assignment of specific Division, assistant secretary of the On September 10 a reception was Communication Department; H. D. Ellen G. White books to each of the two held in the executive dining room atop Burbank, of the Texas Conference, publishing houses mentioned above, and the General Conference North Build- manager of Seventh-day Adventist closer cooperation between Adventist ing for Judge B. N. Gokhale, of India. Welfare Service (SAWS). Book Centers and local interdenomina- For many years Judge Gokhale has tional Bible societies. been associated with the International MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON. The During the course of the meetings, Temperance Association in India and General Hospital Council and the D. A. McAdams of the General Con- has been closely involved with the Broadcasting and Film Commission, ference Publishing Department pointed General Conference temperance ac- two church related organizations, re- out that the rate of the growth of the tivities. A. V. Pinkney, associate sec- cently met in Washington and used work in Spanish-speaking countries retary of the GC Temperance Depart- the General Conference committee makes it certain that soon this will be ment, served as master of ceremonies. room facilities. the largest linguistic group in the Also several important committees ANNUAL COUNCIL. A rather sizable church's world organization. met recently in Washington which part of the General Conference staff L. A. RAMIREZ brought together some of the church's Publishing Secretary was absent from headquarters during researchers and theologians for the Inter-American Division the early days of this month attending purpose of studying matters that are the Annual Council, which this year of particular concern to the church. was held on the campus of Loma One was a committee on divorce and ILLINOIS Linda University. Immediately prior to remarriage, others were subcommit- the Annual Council a retreat of study tees studying carefully the important $11.1 Million Addition and prayer was held at the Pine truths of righteousness by faith. Springs Ranch, a campsite of the Dedicated in Hinsdale Southeastern California Conference, MISSION PROJECT. On Monday, Sep- to which the president of the General tember 9, the General Conference Completion of an $11.1 million addi- Conference invited some of his close Ladies' Auxiliary conducted an interna- tion to Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospi- counselors and the world division tional smorgasbord during the noon tal, Hinsdale, Illinois, was marked July presidents. hour, featuring nourishing and tasty 21 by formal dedication ceremonies at Also preceding the Annual Council cuisine from different geographical the hospital. Guest speaker for the a meeting of the home and overseas areas of the earth. event was Richard L. Terrell, of De- officers and the officers and union The returns from the smorgasbord troit, a former Hinsdale resident and presidents was held on the Loma amounted to $730 and were a benefit civic leader who is now executive vice- Linda University campus. endeavor in providing cows for our president for General Motors. Approxi- Korean College near Seoul, which is CONSOLIDATED COMPUTER SERV- mately 600 persons attended the pro- seeking to expand its dairy industry, ICE FOR WASHINGTON AREA. A gram. in turn making Christian education consolidated computer service center With the expansion, the capacity of available to more Korean youth. the hospital is increased from 360 to has been approved for installation in 440 beds. One of the main features of December of this year in the Takoma RECENT VISITORS TO THE GENERAL the construction program is a new five- Park area to serve the denomina- CONFERENCE WERE: Salvador Mira- level south wing, containing two pa- tional institutions and organizations flores, editor of the Philippine Pub- tient-care floors and three floors for in this vicinity. This new computer lishing Association, visiting church administrative and therapeutic serv- center will replace four separate com- operated institutions while in the ices. puters currently in operation. A new United States for a few weeks; Jul- Local residents and firms contributed nonprofit corporation will be estab- ian C. Gant, physician from Madison, nearly $1.5 million toward the two- lished to provide computer services Tennessee, in Washington on busi- year building program. The new south on an equal basis to all the users of ness; Pansa Tampabolon, from Indo- wing probably will be opened to patients the center. A separate board of man- nesia, also on business in Washing- early in September, according to Wil- agement will be comprised of repre- ton; Mrs. Richard Pierce, of Minnesota; liam H. Wilson, administrator. sentatives from each of the charter Mrs. Sauser, of Redlands, California; R. L. PELTON users. Participation in the new com- Blanch Sauser, of Nebraska; Dr. and Associate Health Secretary puter center has been approved by Mrs. William Taylor, Jr., on their way General Conference the General Conference and the re- to Bulawayo, Rhodesia.

24 (1180) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 The Promise of Power By DeWITT S. OSGOOD

Pastor Osgood clearly and concisely presents the Biblical teachings about the Holy Spirit, the least understood member of the Godhead. In ad- dition, he presents practical advice on how you can receive the power the Spirit offers—power to overcome sin, power to overcome discourage- ment, power to have a living Christian experience, power to tell others of Christ. $1.95

DOVE OF And Other Signposts of the Spirit GoLD By LESLIE HARDINGE Dove of Gold approaches the vast subject of the Holy Spirit by viewing the Spirit's functions through illustrations He Himself has selected as vehicles for the revelation of His character and work. In both the Old and the New Testament several carefully chosen and highly suggestive symbols—including manna, salt, oil, and dew—picture His activities. Dr. Hardinge outlines eighteen symbols, covering every aspect of the Holy Spirit's ministry. $2.95 Preparing for the By DeWITT S. OSGOOD LATTER RAIN

Author Osgood continues his probing study of the work of the Holy Spirit, begun in his book The Promise of Power, in this carefully prepared book. He answers many questions about the latter rain and outlines the steps leading up to this exciting last-day event, predicted by Scripture. included are forty-nine Ellen G. White quotations on the Holy Spirit's ministry, never previously released. $2.95

Available at your Adventist Book Center; or write ABC Mailing Service, Box 59, Nashville, Tennessee 37202, enclosing 25 cents for the first book, and 10 cents for each additional book. Tax where applicable. ► New staff members at Union Col- North American lege, Lincoln, Nebraska, include c James D. McClelland, art teacher, and Atlantic Union Mrs. L. Aleene Schaeffer, assistant NEw46-0 professor of education. Mr. Schaeffer is employed at the college power plant. ► Recently the members of the Hunt- ington, New York, church dedicated a ► Two young men were ordained at restored 50-year-old church building to the Colorado camp meeting—Rex FROM THE WORLD DIVISIONS the Lord. Because the extensive reno- Richard Bell, pastor of the Fruita- vation was carried out by the members, Palisade district, and Daniel Warren the actual cash outlay was much less Goddard, an associate pastor of the Inter-American than if contractors had done the work. Denver South church. All of the churches in Bermuda con- ► Three Colorado optometrists, all In a residential area of Monterrey, ducted Vacation Bible Schools this sum- ► ► mer, according to A. C. Mote, com- Seventh-day Adventists, were honored Nuevo Leone, Mexico, is being built by the Colorado Optometric Associa- the new Proyecto Cumbres church. Af- munication secretary of the Bermuda Mission. tion for distinguished service to their ter an evangelistic crusade in that city communities and profession. Howard a church of 200 members was formed, ► E. F. Keslake, former chaplain of Engeberg, of Durango, and R. Lincoln and it became necessary to construct a Parkview Memorial Hospital in Bruns- Underwood, of Cortez, were presented place to worship. The new church will wick, Maine, who recently retired, has the 1974 Distinguished Community have a seating capacity for 350 persons. been appointed temperance and health Service Award. A special tribute award education secretary of the Northern was given to Mrs. Robert C. Gates, in ► Pedro Lopez is the first centurion in the East Puerto Rico Conference this New England Conference. memory of her husband, a Colorado Springs optometrist who was killed in year. He has won 158 church members ► Rolfe Mitchell, of Manchester, New so far. The second centurion, Wilfredo Hampshire, is moving to the Burling- an airplane crash in April. Vazquez, has already baptized 107 ton, Vermont, district. Kenneth Bur- CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent persons, largely as a result of a tent rill, of the Dixfield, Maine, district, will crusade in Rio Grande. Three other replace Elder Mitchell in Manchester. pastors have already won more than Columbia Union 50 new members. ► A gift of $20.000 was recently re- ceived by Geer Memorial Hospital in ► The Ohio Historical Society has ► Felicito Moreno, a literature evan- Canaan, Connecticut, from Howard C. erected a historical marker at Lovett's gelist in the Panama Conference since Selleck, of New Haven, Connecticut. Grove, where Ellen G. White received attending a colporteur institute in Costa Mr. Selleck had previously given $10,- a vision that resulted in her writing Rica last year, has won 18 persons to 000 toward construction of the present The Great Controversy, where James Christ during the first six months of facility. EMMA KIRK, Correspondent and Ellen White held tent meetings in this year. 1860, and where the first Adventist church in Ohio was located. ► As a result of the tent crusade held Canadian Union by Stephen Purcell in Queen's Park, ► Thirty unsighted youth from Mary- Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, 232 persons land, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West ► Thirty-two persons have been bap- Virginia attended camp in Huttonsville, joined the remnant church. tized as the result of a Field School of L. MARCEL ABEL, Correspondent West Virginia, which was cosponsored Evangelism conducted under the direc- by the Christian Record Braille Founda- tion and sponsorship of Andrews Uni- tion and the Mountain View Confer- versity in Corner Brook, Newfound- ence. Southern Asia land. Verne Snow was the evangelist. ► The Joint Commission on Accredita- ► "Alive Unto God" was the theme ► A four-week series of evangelistic tion of Hospitals recently awarded a of the Sri Lanka camp meeting held in meetings in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, two-year accreditation to Hadley Me- Lakpahana, August 7-10. The special by Lawton Lowe, Canadian Union morial Hospital, Washington, D.C. camp meeting offering, voted to go to Conference Ministerial secretary, re- the Hendala church, amounted to Rs. sulted in 28 baptisms, increasing the ► Campus Crusaders Against Drug 4,200 (US$420). An ordination service church membership to 56. Abuse who worked in the Ohio Confer- and the baptism of 17 persons were ence finished the summer with sales ► New carpeting has been installed totaling more than $22,000. camp meeting high lights. throughout the women's dormitory at Canadian Union College, Lacombe, Seventy Ohio elementary-school ► Diplomas were presented June 22 ► to 11 graduates of the two-year theol- Alberta, as well as in the lobby of the educators attended a two-day workshop ogy course at the Kottarakara SDA men's residence. The new home eco- held by the School Management In- High School's seminary in Panaveli. nomics facility is now in use. stitution of Worthington, Ohio. The following day, seminary students ► A new two-teacher school opened ► Phyllis Bell, of Richmond, Virginia, and church members assembled to in St. Catharines, Ontario, in Septem- is the new principal-teacher of Modern watch D. S. David lay the foundation ber. Miracle School in Newtonville, New stone for a new church-classroom Jersey. ► A spiritual retreat was held August building. When completed, this new R. BEELER, Correspondent building will replace a temporary 25 to 30 at the Alberta Conference CHARLES thatched shed. camp near Bowden for Canadian Union and local conference presidents, treas- Lake Union ► Although the recent war in Bangla- urers, and departmental secretaries. desh brought destruction to human THEDA KUESTER, Correspondent ► The Christian Heritage Team, stu- lives and property, it has also made the dents working at Indiana Academy for people think more seriously about their Central Union the summer, sang in concert at a Ko- lives. Both Christians and Hindus be- komo shopping mall in July, then gave came interested in Seventh-day Advent- ► B. Weidling, under appointment to a concert at the Kokomo church. ism. In one place, where a crusade was Rwanda, Africa, where he will be head held in a Baptist church, 300 to 400 of the Bible department of Gitwe Col- ► Donald Copsey has been appointed people attended every night. Eleven of lege, was ordained August 31. Although medical secretary of the Lake Union them have now been baptized, and 30 Elder Weidling is a district pastor in the Conference, in addition to his work as Bibles were given to those completing Kansas Conference, the service was secretary of the stewardship and A.S.I. the course. held in the Central church in Kansas departments. A. J. JOHANSON, Correspondent City, Missouri. ► A computer programmed to provide

26 (1182) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 individual information on the possibility Northern Union service, was begun by a group of Ad- of a heart attack was the main feature ventist laymen headed by Floyd 0. Johnson. It had ten in its first four- of the SDA booth at the Berrien County ► More than 100 medical personnel Youth Fair, Berrien Springs, Michigan. and their families were in attendance month class on the 18-acre plot. The More than 9,000 brochures were given at the annual Northern Union medical class, led by Jay Amundson, chose out. retreat conducted at Minnesota's "Christ Is the Vine" as its motto and "Working in His Vineyard" as its aim. The Layman of the Year award was North Star Camp. ► Ten of the 25 students enrolled in the presented to Mrs. Arthur Weaver of ► Danny Lofton, of Fairbault, Min- class, which begins this month, are non- Plymouth, Michigan, at the Michigan nesota, is serving as manager of a dis- Adventists. Chief instructor is Jacob camp meeting. She and her husband trict-owned-and-operated health food Mittleider. are active in the health education work store. The Fairbault and Owatonna in the Detroit area. churches are utilizing this plan to create ► Nineteen of Hawaii's 20 churches a better public image in the community. held a Vacation Bible School during ► Michigan Conference literature the past summer. Attendance totaled evangelists lead the North American Di- ► Oswald H. Rausch has been elected more than 1,200, with 850 from non- vision in total sales. They had delivered secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota Adventist homes. From two churches, more than half a million dollars worth Conference, replacing Richard W. Wil- 45 were enrolled in branch Sabbath of books up to the end of August—an mot, who has moved to the same posi- schools, and 30 are attending another increase of $123,000 over last year. tion in the Idaho Conference. Sabbath school. ► Five pastors, Edward Avinger, ► Elder and Mrs. Lester Fowler, SHIRLEY BURTON, Correspondent Vern Joyner, Herman Davis, David formerly of Colorado, have transferred Jones, and Morris Wren, were ordained to the South Dakota Conference to Southern Union at the Lake Region camp meeting on serve in full-time evangelism. Their July 6. first campaign is scheduled for the ► Ten members of the Memphis, Ten- mile-high city of Custer, South Dakota. nessee, Raleigh church have qualified ► A new group of 50 believers meets in the Chapel Rock area of Westside In- L. H. NETTEBURG, Correspondent for American Red Cross disaster-aid dianapolis, Indiana. This group is the work. Mrs. Katherine Hartley, assistant result of a three-week evangelistic se- Pacific Union secretary of the West Tennessee Wel- ries held in Indianapolis by Don fare Federation, arranged for the Houghton of the Cicero district. Union Religious Liberty course in disaster relief. GORDON ENGEN, Correspondent Department Reconstructed ► Reports from church communica- tion secretaries in the Alabama-Mis- John V. Stevens has accepted the in- sissippi Conference indicate 400 per North Pacific Union vitation of the Pacific Union Confer- cent more newspaper coverage of Ad- ence to head the union's restructured ventist activities for the first half of ► Students from the La Grande, Ore- religious-liberty and industrial-rela- gon, church school recently held Voice 1974 than for the same months of tions department. 1973. of Youth meetings, and as a result Under the new plan, all conference seven young people were baptized. The religious-liberty education will be im- ► The biennial Southern Union Med- young evangelists used materials ac- plemented from the union office. ical-Dental Congress, September 13 quired from the conference MV de- Called to associate with Elder Stev- and 14, drew 1,200 persons. Special partment. ens, who has served as Arizona Con- guest speakers included Robert H. Pier- son, General Conference president, and ► The Brewster, Washington, church ference president the past six years, was dedicated on August 10. Participat- is Claude Morgan, who has directed Herbert E. Douglass, Review and Her- ing in the service were E. R. Walde, church-state affairs in Central Califor- ald associate editor. nia. Gery P. Friesen will continue as union president, and the incoming ► The turning over of a five-year-old Upper Columbia Conference president, the capital representative and pastor of 55-bed hospital in Jellico, Tennessee, to Richard Fearing. the Sacramento Central church. Attor- the Southern Adventist Health and ney Morgan will live in Sacramento, Hospital System has led to the organi- ► A new congregation, the South Park and Elder Stevens in Southern Cali- church, recently began meeting in the zation of a new company and a church fornia. school in the area. southwestern part of Portland, Ore- Elder Stevens will serve the three gon. Organization of the church re- smaller conferences, as well as head- ► The Louisville, Kentucky, and sulted from the Adventures in Faith ing the California team, while Attorney Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, program in Oregon. Morgan will be "watchdogging" in churches were prominent among many Sacramento. Elder Friesen has for churches in the Kentucky-Tennessee ► Kenneth Ellstrom, formerly comp- troller of Portland Adventist Hospital, more than a year been visiting legisla- Conference that sponsored booths in has been elected secretary-treasurer of tors and educating them regarding Sev- State and multi-State fairs. In Louis- the Alaska Mission. He replaces Burt enth-day Adventist principles and ville 120 workers manned the booth. Pooley, who accepted a call to be secre- beliefs. CREE SANDEFUR, President Approximately 2,000 persons applied for a Bible correspondence course and tary-treasurer of the Montana Confer- Arizona Governor Jack Williams ence. ► more than 300 registered for Five- and Phoenix City Councilman Calvin Day Plans to Stop Smoking. Goode headed the guest list at an open ► Two Adventists in the Northwest, OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent Mrs. Francis Harper, of Camas, Wash- house for the Arizona Conference of- ington, and Mae Nichols, of Springfield, fice and the Adventist Book Center in Oregon, recently observed their one late September. The 16,100-square- Southwestern Union hundredth birthdays. foot Spanish-style structure houses ten offices, a chapel, storage and work ► A new colonial-style Community ► Participating in the recent dedica- areas, and a kitchen-lounge. Separated Services center has been dedicated at tion service of the Willapa Harbor by a breezeway is the nearly 4,000- Guymon, Oklahoma. The mayor of church near Raymond, Washington, square-foot Adventist Book Center Guymon, the president of the chamber were E. R. Walde, president of the with walk-in freezer and stockroom. of commerce, and the civil defense di- North Pacific Union Conference; James In the center of the office portion is an rector were present, along with Mrs. Chase, president of the Washington atrium. Vera Wolfe, Oklahoma Conference Conference; and John Milton, pastor. Community Services director. ► The first graduation of the Food for ► The Camas, Washington, church Everyone Training Center in Hollister, ► Mary Burton, who received her in the Oregon Conference has changed California, was held the first weekend in Master's degree in organ performance its name to Riverside church. October. The center, which seeks to from Andrews University this summer, CECIL COFFEY, Correspondent prepare laymen for specialized mission has been called to join the music de-

R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1183) 27 partment staff at Southwestern Union Andrews University ment will soon obtain a Coulter counter College, Keene, Texas. at one eighth of its original $8,000 cost for use in bacterial-research studies I* Twenty-four persons united with ► A unique preaching ministry begun more than 65 years ago by prominent being conducted by Dr. George Javor, the church during the recent "Way to associate professor of chemistry. Live" Crusade in Little Rock, Arkan- Chicago businessmen—after church leaders decided religious work was too sas, by the Johnson-Daniel evangelistic ► Swiss bell ringer John Aitken, who team. difficult in the heart of Chicago—is the will be graduated with a Master of Di- subject of a new book by Steven P. vinity degree from the SDA Theological IP. The annual Arkansas-Louisiana Vitrano, professor of preaching and Conference retreat for pastors was Seminary in December, financed part of director of field education at the Sev- his way through the Seminary by giving held August 11-15 at Camp Yorktown enth-day Adventist Theological Sem- Bay. programs for clubs and civic groups inary. An Hour of Good News: The in southwestern and south-central Chicago Sunday Evening Club describes 11► On September 23 the Texas Ad- Michigan. Aitken has accepted a pas- ventist Book Center held its grand the nonsectarian "club" founded in torate in Butte, Montana. opening of the new book and health 1907 to bring to Chicago's Orchestra OPAL YOUNG, Communication Officer center at 509 South Texas Boulevard Hall the most prominent preachers in in Weslaco. the English-speaking world every Sunday evening from October to May. Loma Linda University P. The annual convention for South- Since 1922 most of the meetings western Union Conference teachers have been broadcast by one or another 10. The largest class in the School of was held at Southwestern Union Col- of Chicago's radio stations, and the of Medicine history received their Doc- lege, Keene, Texas, September 8-11. programs have been telecast since 1956 tor of Medicine degrees on Sunday, Po By September 10, 162 students had by WTTW, channel 11, and on radio September 29. Guest speaker for the enrolled at Sandia View Academy, station WCFL. conferring of degrees program was Corrales, New Mexico. This repre- 10. The National Science Foundation Robert H. Pierson, president of the sents approximately a 50 per cent in- has awarded the Andrews University General Conference. crease over the enrollment at this time biology department a matching grant 110 Loma Linda University neurosur- last year. of $2,800 toward the purchase of en- geon George M. Austin made a special 110 The Pine Bluff, Arkansas, church vironmental measurement equipment scientific presentation at the Seventh rededicated its sanctuary on Septem- for use in the ecology laboratory. The Annual Salzburg Conference on Cere- ber 7, following major renovation. NSF has also given the AU chemistry bral Vascular Disease in September in B. Page Haskell, secretary-treasurer department an $1,800 matching grant Salzburg, Austria. Dr. Austin's presen- of the Arkansas-Louisiana Confer- toward purchase of an infrared spec- tation was on research conducted at ence, was guest speaker and baptized trometer for use in organic chemistry the university on "Changes in Gray three persons. and qualitative organic analysis classes. Matter Blood Flow in Dementia." J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent In addition, the chemistry depart- JERRE IVERSEN, Communication Officer

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28 (1184) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 A Faith to Share

We are overwhelmed by the simplicity of God's "Righteousness by Faith" special issue. If plan. Such a rich and perfect gift is hard to you've read it, you know what we mean, and comprehend. But we want to accept it, and we you're ready to spread this marvelous news. want to pass it on. This issue is now available for use in your To help us comprehend, twelve prominent home for missionary work with friends and Adventist authors, editors, and scholars relatives. Order today through your local Ad- have joined forces to produce an important and ventist Book Center. 25 cents each for 1 to 19 timely edition of the Review and Herald—the copies, postpaid. Quantity prices are available. Pass on to those you love the overwhelming joy of God's love. Bulletin Board

W. A. Marshall, lay activities and Sab- (Wash. St. U '69) and son, left Chicago, Health Personnel bath school secretary, Alabama-Mississippi August 1, 1974. • Conference, formerly pastor, Mobile, Ala- Barbara Jean McDonald (LLU '50), re- Needs bama. turning as instructor, school of nursing, K. M. Mathews, director of trust services Bella Vista Hospital, Mayagiiez, Puerto NORTH AMERICA and religious liberty secretary, Alabama- Rico, left Los Angeles, August 17, 1974. Onesimo Mejia (AUC '62), returning as Computr. progrm. Nurses, LVN Mississippi Conference, formerly pastor, Cooks Nurses, med.-surg. Montgomery, Alabama. president, Central Chile Conference, San- Coordntr., Schl. Nurses, psych. Joyce Morse, elementary supervisor, ed- tiago, Chile; Tomasita (Romero) MO's and of X-ray Nurse, pub. health ucation department, Central California three children, left New York, August 8, Diet., ther. Nursing serv., Conference, from Central Union. 1974. asst. dirs. Electrician Larry A. Roth (AU '67), to serve as dis- In- & out-patient Orderlies Hilbert Nembhard, pastor, Berean church, superv. Pharmacists Los Angeles, California, from Northeastern trict pastor, SDA Mission Guam-Micronesia, Inhal. thers. Phys. thers. Conference. Majuro, Marshall Islands; Mary Joanne staff, Pioneer Valley Acad- (Byrd) Roth (PUC) and two children, of In-serv. dir. Psych., child Robert Peeke, Nurse aides Psychol., child emy, New Braintree, Massachusetts, from Vancouver, Washington, left Portland, Ore- Nurse, cent. serv. Ref rig. engr. Auburn Adventist Academy, Auburn, Wash- gon, August 9, 1974. asst. superv. Stationary engr. ington. Olavi J. Rouhe (LLU '34) to serve as Nurses, CCU Systems analyst T. D. Pitman, pastor, Muscle Shoals, Ala- medical director, Songa Hospital, Kamina, Write or call Health Personnel Placement Service, bama, from Bolivia. Zaire; and Alline L. (Jewell) Rouhe (Glen- General Conference of SDA, 6840 Eastern Avenue G. H. Rainey, associate pastor, University dale Sch. Nurs.), of Ceres, California, left NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. Telephone: (202) church, Loma Linda, California, from Lake New York, July 31, 1974. 723-0800, Ext. 349. Region Conference. Barbara H. Thurlow (CUC '56), of Nash- food service director, ville, Tennessee, to serve as nursing instruc- Because of immigration requirements, this notice applies only Chauncey Robbins, to permanent residents of the United States and Canada. Bass Memorial Academy, Lumberton, Mis- tor, Antillian College School of Nursing, sissippi, from Oregon. Mayagilez, Puerto Rico, left Washington, John J. Robertson, pastor, La Sierra D.C., August 5, 1974. church, Riverside, California, from Atlantic Harald H. K. Zinner, (Simon Fraser To New Posts Union College. U '71), to serve as teacher, Maxwell Pre- paratory School, Nairobi, Kenya, and Gisela Worker transfers within union conferences are not listed Margaret Sackett, Illinois Conference ele- here. Such transfers, when brought to our attention, may mentary school supervisor, from Riverside, (Schulenburg) Zinner (WWC '70), of Surrey, be found in News Notes. California. British Columbia, Canada, left Toronto, Chloe Balkins, staff, Bass Memorial Acad- R. L. Scott, assistant personnel director, August 4, 1974. emy, Lumberton, Mississippi, from Campion Porter Memorial Hospital, Denver, Colo- NATIONALS RETURNING Academy, Loveland, Colorado. rado, formerly personnel director, Kettering Peter Bragg, pastor, Birmingham Roebuck, Medical Center, Kettering, Ohio. Christopher Olaseinde Adeoye to serve as Alabama, from Richmond, Virginia. Vernon L. Small, chief executive officer, Ob-Gyn specialist, Adventist Hospital, M, E. Cruz, assistant pastor, Meridian, Battle Creek Sanitarium Hospital, Battle Ile-Ife, Nigeria; Olayimica Adetoun Adeoye, Mississippi, from Southern Missionary Col- Creek, Michigan, formerly administrator, and two children left New York City, August lege. Saigon Adventist Hospital, South Vietnam. 26, 1974. Dianne Dunn, staff, Bass Memorial Acad- L. A. Stout, health and stewardship sec- Cleo Joseph Quashie, to serve as dean of emy, from Columbia Union College. retary, Alabama-Mississippi Conference, men, Caribbean Union College, Port of Roy Dunn, staff, Bass Memorial Academy, formerly principal, Bass Memorial Academy, Spain, Trinidad; Ruth Helen Quashie and two from Maryland. Lumberton, Mississippi. children, left Miami, Florida, August 20, K. J. Epperson, principal, Bass Memorial Wolfgang Struntz, director of guidance 1974; son to follow September 1, 1974. Academy, formerly dean of boys, Campion and counseling, Union College, Lincoln, Ne- Thomas E. Renguul to serve as assistant Academy, Loveland, Colorado. braska, from Newfoundland. principal and teacher, Palau Mission Acad- Clifford Ingersoll, staff, Bass Memorial FROM HOME BASE TO FRONT LINE emy, Koror, Palau, left San Francisco, Academy, from military service. California, September 1, 1974. Oliver L. Jacques, public relations director, Venus Ee-Siriporn (LLU '70), of Loma Kettering Medical Center and College of Linda, California, to serve as biology ADVENTIST VOLUNTEER SERVICE Medical Arts, Kettering, Ohio, from same teacher, Antillian College, Mayagiiez, Puerto CORPS, SUSTENTATION OVERSEAS position, Loma Linda University. Rico, left Miami, Florida, July 30, 1974. SERVICE, RELIEF/SPECIAL SERVICE Sam James, staff, Bass Memorial Acad- 0. Ronald Follett (PUC '65), of Keene, Mildred Berggren (AVSC), to serve as emy, from Harbart Hills Academy, Tennes- Texas, to serve as teacher, Matandani Train- English primary-school teacher, Nicaragua see. ing School, Blantyre, Malawi, left New Adventist Hospital, La Trinidad, Esteli, left Earl Kirchberg, staff, Pioneer Valley Orleans, August 5, 1974. His wife and Miami, Florida, August 20, 1974. Academy, New Braintree, Massachusetts, a daughter are to follow later. Robert Frank Bouchard (AU '74) (AVSC), recent graduate of Andrews University. Dennis S. Gibbs (PUC '68), to serve as of Berrien Springs, Michigan, to serve as Don Krause, associate secretary of edu- elementary teacher, Far Eastern Academy, teacher, South China Adventist College, cation, Southern California Conference, Singapore; Linda Lou (Smith) Gibbs (PUC) Taiwan, left New York City, August 28, formerly treasurer, Walla Walla Valley and two daughters, of Livermore, Califor- 1974. Academy, College Place, Washington. nia, left San Francisco, August 4, 1974. Barry Leland Casey (PUC '74), to serve in Pennie Angela Lister, staff, Union College, Dorothy M. Kuester (LLU '59), returning ministerial, MV and Vacation Bible School Lincoln, Nebraska, formerly associate dean as director, school of nursing, Taiwan Ad- work, Welsh Mission, Cardiff, Wales, of of women, Oakwood College, Huntsville, ventist Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, left Los San Jose, California, left San Francisco, Alabama. Angeles, California, August 7, 1974. California, June 13, 1974. Don Long, youth pastor, Glendale City Robert E. Lemon (CUC '72), to serve as Irvin A. Friesen (Univ. of Colorado '41) church, Glendale, California, from Oregon. accountant, Zaire Union, Lubumbashi, (SOS), of Monument Valley, Utah, to serve Grant Macaulay, associate secretary, ed- Zaire; Sherry Lynn (Wiebold) Lemon (WWC as pharmacist, Saigon Adventist Hospital, ucation department, Central California Con- '66) and daughter, of Hackettstown, New Vietnam, and Eldine A. (Hahn) Friesen left ference, from Loma Linda University. Jersey, left Washington, D.C., July 30, 1974. Los Angeles, California, July 1, 1974. Larry Macomber, assistant manager, Robert Lee McChesney (AU '66), returning Richard Harold Lukens (LLU '73) and Nebraska Adventist Book Center, from the as teacher, Solusi College, Bulawayo, Rho- Lorna Jean (Turner) Lukens (LLU '72), to Western Canada Adventist Book Center. desia; Marja-Leena (Raunio) McChesney serve as relief physicians, Yuka Hospital,

30 (1186) R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 Zambia, Africa, of Loma Linda, California, MOREL, Marion Poey—b. June 12, 1905; d. left Los Angeles, California, August 21, April 22, 1974, Glendale, Calif. She accompanied Deaths her husband, Dr. Morel, as a missionary to Cen- 1974. tral Africa, where they spent 12 years in the Bel- BLUNDEN, Herold M.—b. May 2, 1885, Colac, gian Congo. From 1946 she accompanied her Lynne E. Thornberry (UC) (R/SS), to Victoria, Australia; d. July 25, 1974, Deer Park, serve as music teacher, Tai Po Sam Yuk husband on several three-month appointments Calif. He was educated at Avondale College, as relief surgeon in SDA hospitals in India, Pakis- Middle School, Hong Kong, of Lincoln, Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia. In tan, the Philippines, Bangkok, and Hong Kong. Nebraska, left New York City, September 1907 he married Nellie Mountain, at which time Survivors are her husband, Dr. Elton L. Morel; 1, 1974. he was publishing secretary of South Australia. son, Dr. Elton S. Morel; daughter, Eloine M. In 1908 he became a teacher at Darling Range Westerhout; and six grandchildren. STUDENT MISSIONARIES School, West Australia. In 1910 he became pub- lishing secretary for the New South Wales STEWART, Conference. He became manager of the circula- Robert Edgar—b. July 16, 1889, Co- David Anthony Candogan (AU), of Ber- lumbus Junction, Iowa; d. July 6, 1974, Berrien rien Springs, Michigan, to serve as teacher, tion department of the Signs magazine, Warbur- ton, Victoria, in 1912. Two years later he became Springs, Mich. He canvassed and attended Oak Tanzania General Field, Morogoro, Tan- publishing secretary of the China Union Mission. Park Academy, Nevada, Iowa. in 1913 he married zania, left Toronto, Canada, July 29, 1974. There he pioneered the training of the first Lottie Lippincotte Ervin, and immediately they went to the Philippines, where he labored in Donald Walter Clayville (SMC), of Esta- Chinese colporteurs. In 1916 he became super- intendent of the Hupeh Mission, North China, literature ministry, the Sabbath school depart- cada, Oregon, to serve as teacher, English and the following year became superintendent of ment, and the publishing work. He set up the first Language School, Seoul, Korea, left Los the North China Union. In 1919 he was appointed press Adventists had in the Philippines (a hand press from Union College); also he held the first Angeles, August 13, 1974. lay activities secretary for the Australian Division. Two years later he became secretary of the Pa- colporteur rally there. For a short time they Sharon Marie Davis (UC), of Richardton, cific Island Union Mission. In 1923 he became served in Mexico City. In 1924 they went to Cuba, North Dakota, to serve as elementary school president of the North New Zealand Conference. and later served a short time on the Isle of Pines. Three years later he was appointed publishing In 1931 he was called to be president of the At- teacher, SDA Mission, Majuro, Marshall lantic Colombia Mission. From 1935 to 1939 he Islands, left San Francisco, August 11, 1974. secretary of the Pacific Union Conference. In 1930 he became chaplain of the Glendale Sani- pastored churches In El Paso and Abilene, Texas. Robert Shawn Griffin (SMC), of Takoma tarium and Hospital. In 1937 he became the first For two years they were at Collegedale, Ten- manager of the Voice of Prophecy as well as asso- nessee, and from 1942 to 1971 he was on the staff Park, Maryland, to serve as teacher, English of Madison College, Madison, Tennessee, where Language School, Seoul, Korea, left Los ciate speaker. The year following he was called to be president of the Antillian Union Mission, he served as pastor, chaplain, and Bible teacher. Angeles, August 17, 1974. which position he held until 1941, when he be- While serving there he and his wife received Mary Beth Harrold (AUC), of Stoneham, came secretary of the General Conference Pub- their B.S. degrees. Survivors include his wife; five children, Evelyn Murray, Alvin J., Ervin B., Massachusetts, to serve as teacher, English lishing Department. In 1947 he was appointed field secretary of the General Conference. He Violet Lang, Velma Mixon; and a number of Language School, Seoul, Korea, left Boston, became pastor of three churches in Northern grandchildren. Massachusetts, August 11, 1974. California in 1951. in 1956 he was appointed field Sue J. Hildebrand (AU), of Munising, secretary of Northern California. He retired in 1963. Survivors include his wife and a daughter, Michigan, to serve as teacher, North Mina- Dr. Dulcie Anderson. hasa Mission, Menado, Indonesia, left Coming Chicago, Illinois, July 29, 1974. CAMPBELL, Lou—b. Oct. 29, 1892; d. June 3, 1974, Forest City, Fla. From 1918 to 1922 she was Temperance Offering October 26 Jerry Lee Holt (SMC), of Fort Lauderdale, Church Lay Activities Offering November 2 employed at New England Memorial Hospital. Week of Prayer November 2-9 Florida, to serve as teacher, English Lan- From 1923 to 1951 she worked at Washington Annual Week of Sacrifice Offering November 9 guage School, Seoul, Korea, left San Fran- Adventist Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland. Ingathering Crusade November 16-January 4, 1975 cisco, August 14, 1974. Ingathering Emphasis December 7 EFFENBERG, Emmy Heil—b. May 10, 1900, Church Lay Activities Offering December 7 Robert William Knutson (AU), of Colum- Muenchen-Gladbach, Germany; d. July 9, 1974, Stewardship Day December 14 bus, Wisconsin, to serve as Bible teacher, Lodi, Calif. She married Elder J. H. Effenberg in Kellogg-Mookerjee High School, Jalirpar, 1925 and they immediately went as missionaries Bangladesh, left Chicago, August 11, 1974. to West China. She was secretary-treasurer of the East Szechwan Mission for six years and held the r Gerald Paul Marvin (SMC), of Orlando, same position for two years in Northwest China Florida, to serve as teacher, Korean Union Union. For a time she was matron of the Shanghai Change of Address Mission, Seoul, Korea, left Los Angeles, Sanitarium. For 24 years they labored in China with only a six-month furlough. They returned to August 16, 1974. the United States in 1948. Survivors include her It you're moving, please John Nenin McDowell (AUC), of St. husband; a son, John, Jr.; two daughters, Agnes let us know six weeks before changing your John's, Newfoundland, Canada, to serve as Dorosh and Irmie Mies; and two brothers, Wil- helm and Fritz Heil. address. Place magazine teacher, Palau Mission Academy, Koror, address label here, print your new address below. Palau, Western Caroline Islands, left Van- EMMERSON, Anna Belle—b. Oct. 4, 1889, S. If you have a question Dak.; d. July 14, 1974, San Diego, Calif. She couver, British Columbia, August 12, 1974. about your subscription, served with her husband, Elder E. H. Emmerson, place your magazine ad- 0. R. Merolle (AUC), of Lincolndale, who was a pastor, college Bible teacher, and dress label here and clip ERE New York, to serve as teacher, Korean Un- chaplain. Survivors are a son, Dr. J. Harvey Em- this form to your letter. ion Mission, Seoul, Korea, left Boston, merson; a daughter, Ruth Davis; two grand- H daughters; and a sister.

Massachusetts, August 11, 1974. mail to: Review and Her- BEL Esther May Simanton (WWC), of College ald Publishing Associa- FULLER, Frank—b. June 6, 1898, Clonie, N.Y.; tion, 6856 Eastern Avenue, Place, Washington, to serve as teacher, d. Aug. 7, 1974, Granada Hills, Calif. He was a NW., Washington, D.C. graduate of Union Springs Academy and Atlantic Musoma, Tanzania, left Calgary, Alberta, 20012. Canada, August 19, 1974. Union College. He was an intern minister in western New York, and taught church school in to subscribe, check one

Claudia Beth Story (WWC), of College ATTACH LA Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, of the following boxes Place, Washington, to serve as teacher, and California. Survivors include his wife, Letha; and mail this form with Karachi Hospital, Pakistan, left Detroit, son, Jack; daughter, L. Jeannine Serena; six your payment to your Michigan, August 26, 1974. grandchildren; and a brother, Charles. Book and Bible House. ❑ Pauline A. Sutton (UC), of Lincoln, Ne- ❑ new subscription re- HABIG, Muriel R.—b. Aug. 19, 1902, Hummels- new my present sub- braska, to serve as teacher, West Irian town, Pa.; d. Dec. 3, 1973, Hershey, Pa. She scription. Mission, Irian Barat, Indonesia, left New graduated from nurse's training at Washington ❑ one year ❑ perpetual. Sanitarium and Hospital, Takoma Park, Md. For York City, September 1, 1974. many years she served as a literature evangelist Denise R. Sylvester (WWC), of College in the Pennsylvania Conference. Survivors in- subscription rates: Place, Washington, to serve as elementary clude her husband, Harry; daughter, Edris; and a school teacher, Inca Union College, Nana, brother, Ira F. Rhan. ❑ 1 year $12.95 ❑ perpetual $10.50 ❑ Payment enclosed ❑ Bill me later. Peru, left Portland, Oregon, August 23, 1974. HARDY, Harry George—b. 1904, Croscombe, Frankie M. Viramontes (LLU), of River- Somerset, England; d. Aug. 24, 1974, Glendale, side, California, to serve as teacher, Koror Calif. He was a literature evangelist in England name (please print) Seventh-day Adventist Elementary School, from 1930 to 1950. After coming to the United States he became a cook at Glendale Adventist West Caroline Islands, left Los Angeles, Hospital. Then he was custodian for the Southern California, August 24, 1974. California Conference office. Survivors are his address John J. Weir (WWC), of College Place, wife, Sybil; two sons, Dr. Cyril and Elder Gerald; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; Washington, to serve as teacher, Anderson two brothers in England, Charles and William; city state zip code School, Gwelo, Rhodesia, left Vancouver, and two sisters, Verna Hellier and Myrtle Will- British Columbia, Canada, August 26, 1974. mott. t. J

R&H, OCTOBER 24, 1974 (1187) 31 the back page Monthly Digest of the REVIEW The Review and Herald Publishing Associa- tion has announced that beginning with the January, 1975, issue, the Monthly Digest of the REVIEW AND HERALD will be published in Wash- SAWS Continues Aid to Honduras ington, D.C., rather than at the Stanborough Newspapers and officials in Honduras have Press in England. The magazine will continue praised the Seventh-day Adventist disaster re- to be edited by the staff of the weekly, and lief work for operating in an organized and will be promoted by the periodical department efficient way during the chaotic first days after in Washington. Hurricane Fifi swept over Honduras. At the The Monthly Digest, now in its fourth year, time the hurricane struck, the Honduras Mis- is designed for readers who prefer a monthly sion had 325 bales of clothing on hand in San magazine to a weekly. Containing 24 pages in Pedro Sula. Coupons were given out to disaster two colors, it features a selection of the articles victims and by presenting these at SAWS head- that appear during the same month in the quarters the people received clothing, food, weekly edition. The Digest is priced at $4.25 and medicines. More than 60,000 pieces of per year and may be ordered in the regular way clothing were distributed on the spot. through the church lay activities secretary or the The impact of a recent Salim Japas crusade Adventist Book Center. Subscriptions ordered was still being felt in San Pedro Sula when the now will begin with the January issue. hurricane struck only two nights after the evan- gelist had left, so it was natural for the people to call the Seventh-day Adventist relief work Large SS Offerings in Pacific Union "Operation Japas." The large air tent where the Sabbath school offerings in the Pacific Un- meetings were held was torn in two and badly ion Conference at the end of eight months show damaged by the high winds, but city officials a gain of more than $358,000: almost a 20 per were eager for the meetings to begin again to cent increase over the corresponding eight boost the morale of the people. The tent was months of last year. If this trend continues for repaired and the meetings resumed on the night the remainder of the year, the Pacific Union will of September 28 with Carlos Aeschlimann, reach more than $3.5 million in Sabbath school Central American Union president, as the offerings, reports C. C. Kott, union Sabbath speaker. At this meeting 74 persons expressed school secretary. FERNON RETZER their desire to prepare for baptism. Although so far as is known, no Seventh- day Adventists have lost their lives, many have Offering for Temperance, October 26 lost their homes and all their possessions. At least one school and three churches were swept Since the days of Joseph Bates, pioneer Ad- away. Robert H. Pierson, General Conference ventist minister and writer, an unbroken em- president, has sent a special message of en- phasis on Christian temperance has been an couragement to Seventh-day Adventist church important part of this Sabbathkeeping church. members in Honduras. A. H. RIFFEL Today it is more important than ever to share with the inhabitants of all lands the mes- sage of temperance. We urge all our believers $11,000 Weekly Sales Achieved to contribute generously to the Temperance Offering that will be received in our churches Max Van Dyck, publishing secretary of the on Sabbath, October 26. Provide the means North New Zealand Conference, has cabled necessary to tell others of the temperance the General Conference: "Barry Tasker, $11,- way. ROBERT H. PIERSON 000 sold and delivered in one week." This is truly a great achievement, an illustration of the power that God imparts to men like Barry, who ACPRAD Plans to Meet Annually was recently called from the farm to help de- liver Heaven's call to the homes of New Zea- A group of Adventist college and university land. public relations directors met informally during During the month of August more than $408,- the recent meeting of the American College 000 worth of literature was delivered in the Public Relations Association held in Atlanta, Columbia Union Conference. Lewis Norwood Georgia. The group, Adventist College Public of the Chesapeake Conference and his partner Relations Recruitment Alumni Development delivered more than $11,000 worth of books in Association (ACPRAD), plans to meet annually six and one-half days of canvassing. The to exchange information, study trends, and im- greater share of their deliveries were Bible prove skills. Readings for the Home and the large Spirit of Chairman of the group is Victor H. Cooper, Prophecy books. All together, 308 copies of of the General Conference Department of Com- these large full-message volumes were placed munication. D. G. Prior, of Andrews Univer- in the homes of the people. J. N. HUNT sity, serves as secretary. VICTOR H. COOPER

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