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Adventist Heritage, Spring 1991 Alf At At if At At iit Alf At At At At Mt Ir Alf Alf At At qe, 3.0 •Mi • la 3 At t ift , 30..• At. At . Ili -41* Contributors C. WARREN BECKER has devoted his life to educating students from all over the world. He was first professor of music at Pacific Union College from 1945-1959, and since 1959 has taught at Andrews University, where he is now emeritus professor of music. Dr. Becker has received numerous honors in his musical career, including the Outstanding Educator in America award. OLIVINE BOHNER teaches English as a Second Language at La Sierra University. Holding an M. A. in English from Michigan State University, she has had wide teaching experience both in the United States and abroad. As a free-lance writer she has authored two books and numerous articles and radioscripts. Her music interests go back to her college days in choral singing—and beyond. DOROTHY MINCHIN-COMM is currently Professor of English at La Sierra University and editor of ADVENTIST HERITAGE. She is now preparing her tenth book manuscript and has written extensively for church papers. Long years of overseas experience have given her an interest in biography and mission problems. ROBERT E. EDWARDS has recently retired from forty-three years of service with the Voice of Prophecy. For twenty-four of those years he was first tenor with the King's Heralds. He graduated from Emmanuel Missionary College (now Andrews University) with a major in theology and a minor in music. WAYNE HOOPER is well known as music director for the Voice of Prophecy and baritone in the King's Heralds Quartet. He received his education at Gem State Academy and Southern California Junior College (now La Sierra University). As composer, music engraver and arranger, he has many publications to his credit. In 1980 he retired from thirty-five years in radio ministry. One of the greatest challenges of his life came after that, when he served as executive secretary to the Hymnal Committee. HELEN FOREMAN-LITTLE is currently copy editor for the Alumni Journal for the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. She has taught at Walla Walla College, Union College, and is professor emeritus at La Sierra University where she has taught for 26 years. PATRICIA SILVER holds her M.A. degree in music education from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville. At present she is Associate Professor of Music at Southern College, Tennessee, and band director. She has multiple music connections. She is the daughter of Harold E. Mitzelfelt (college teacher of music and bandsman); granddaughter of Walter E. Straw (a musician before he became a missionary educator); and sister of the founder of the Mitzelfelt Chorale. EDWARD E. WHITE is a multi-talented musician, scientist, educator, administrator and ordained minister whose home is in Berkshire, England. Dr. White authored Singing with Understanding in 1968, a commentary companion to the 1941 Church Hymnal. In 1988 he co-authored the Companion to the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal with Wayne Hooper. Adventist Spring, 1991 Volume 14 Number 1 clleff ISSN 0360-389X The Editor's Stump 3 EDITORS 4 Dorothy Minchin-Comm "Such as Handle the Harp and Organ": La Sierra University Some Organs and Their Masters in the Seventh-day Adventist ASSOCIATE EDITORS Church Ronald D. Graybill C. Warren Becker La Sierra University Gary Land The Making of the Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985) 12 Andrews University Wayne Hooper Strike Up the Band 18 ISSUE EDITOR Dorothy Minchin-Comm Patricia Silver MANAGING EDITOR Sing Along with Uncle Henry: The Story of Henry de Fluiter James R. Nix (1872-1970), Pioneer Gospel Song Leader 26 Loma Linda University Dorothy Minchin-Comm ASSISTANT MANAGING A Trio of Portraits: 34 EDITOR I. Oliver Seth Beltz,by Helen Little Shirley M. Chipman H. Joseph Harker, by Edward E. White Loma Linda University LII. Perry Beach, by Dorothy Minchin-Comm MANAGING BOARD Singing As I Go... 42 Dorothy Minchin-Comm Robert E. Edwards Steve Daily Ronald D. Graybill Rendezvous: The Music of Shawhrook 47 Fritz Guy Olivine Bohner Frederick Hoyt John R. Jones James R. Nix ADVENTIST HERITAGE is published by La Sierra University and the Stuart Tyner Department of Archives and Special Collections of Lorna Linda University, Kenneth L. Vine Loma Linda, CA 92350. Bulk postage rates paid at Loma Linda, CA. Copyright 1991 by La Sierra University, Riverside, California, 92515-8247. Subscription rates: $12 for three issues (additional postage outside U.S.) EDITORIAL BOARD Available back issues are sold at $5.00 each. James R. Nix, Secretary Subscription orders, change of address notices, editorial correspondence and Shirley M. Chipman manuscripts should be sent to: Adventist Heritage, Loma Linda University, Loma Ronald D. Graybill Linda, CA 92350. Gary Land ADVENTIST HERITAGE invites manuscripts. Each will be considered, but no Dorothy Minchin-Comm responsibility will be assumed for unsolicited materials. ADVENTIST HERITAGE is indexed in the S.D.A. Periodical Index, and is available from University Microfilms International. All pictures and illustrations used in this issue are courtesy of Loma Linda University Heritage Room or the Adventist Heritage collection unless designated otherwise. THE I— PITO Kis 5TLI M P As we consider the role of music in the church, In this issue of it is inevitable that one issue of ADVENTIST ADVENTIST HERITAGE should be devoted to it. HERITAGE, we cel- Music finds root in the deepest reaches of our ebrate music in sev- souls. It springs from our attempt to express what eral ways. Dr. War- we feel strongly. It antedates written language and ren Becker and Pat is a medium of communication between God and Silverrecord, in part, his people. It keeps alive our spiritual aspira- the history of instru- tions—cheering, comforting, refining, and elevat- mental music among ing us. Music is also a unique and separate depart- us. We pay tribute to ment of our lives. Interestingly, a man who stam- the work of singers, mers and stutters most painfully in his everyday particularly thosell speech is able to sing a song flawlessly. connected with the.. Dorothy M. Comm Naturally, Christians hold strong opinions about Voice of Prophecy music, opinions which are often diametrically radio broadcast. We review the preparation of our opposed and fiercely defended. One thoughtful current church hymnal. Then we honor three mu- writer has summed up the power of music well: 2.1 sicians who have left us: Oliver Beltz, Joseph "Music is demanded by Christian thought because Harker and Perry Beach. And finally, we inaugu- it is the creation of God. rate a new column entitled "Rendezvous." Here, in Into everything moulded by His creative hands, "The Music of Shawbrook," Olivine Bohner re- music has passed from God's fingertips. calls the mystical blend of nature, faith and gospel I know of nothing which is so much the creation of song which evolved in the mind of a sensitive God as music 44 Ifi;- 1101 c hi MARIN 1141 1 Of c.onrse, this single issue of ADVENTIST Man does no create it; he only finds it out. HERITAGE has not said the last word on music in Man does not create truth; the church. In our next issue, for instance, look for He only finds it out and brings it into his life . Ron Graybill's article, "A Hymn of Joy: Enthusi- as a purifying power. s. asm and Celebration in early Adventist Hymnody." God creates truth. 1;11! I Man does not create electricity. :! We shall not exhaust this theme very soon, for He merely discovers it and uses it: music is one of the brightest components Now music is as much the creation of of our entire worship experience. God as truth or electricity. "There were all the people of the God has put music everywhere... land, rejoicing and blowing trumpets, The very core and center of God's also the singers with instruments of mu- being is a sweet song of infinite love." sic, and those who led in praise.: (2 Chron. --cited in Cynthia P. Maus, Christ and 23:13, NKJV) the Fine Arts [New York, 1938], p. 20. 2 SPRING, 1991 Dear Editor: of May fell on a Sunday I was very inter- in 1921 and 1927 as well ested in ADVENTIST as in 1932. Since Elder HERITAGE (Summer Harlan started school in 1990). The cover shows the fall of 1920, that very a classroom in the well could be him in the Takoma Park church picture, but in 1921, not school. On page 36, in 1922. the same picture, I am Having been the boy seated next to wrong once, we didn't ld want to be wrong again, the bottom on the Left Hera hand side. I showed the d so we called Takoma an iew Park to ask the school picture to my wife with- v Re out comment and she : itself if it had records or pointed me out also. I rtesy photographs of the started school there in Cou classrooms in the 1920s. 1920 and graduated in Administrative Assis- 1928. The date you have assigned to the picture should tant Jackie Lonto said they didn't have the records we be May 13, 1922 instead of 1932. This picture was wanted, but she confirmed Mr. Harlan's account of the taken in the old church school at 8 Columbia Ave. It history of the school. Even as we were on the phone, was not named John Nevins Andrews School. The into the school office in Takoma Park walked Juanita school moved from 8 Columbia Ave. to 117 Elm in the Hodde, a retired General Conference worker who had fall of 1938 and the school was then named John Nevins been a classmate of Nevins Harlan all through elemen- Andrews School.
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