HERALD GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

Left: Exterior view of the New Gallery Theatre which will be converted into an evangelistic center in London. Above: This spacious building accommodates a large crowd in its luxurious interior.

AN EVANGELISTIC CENTER FOR LONDON

By D. E. REBOK

LEN G. WHITE carried a heavy burden for the the best part of the story is that the interests are growing, IL evangelization of the great cities—London, New and scores of fine people are still studying the message, waiting York, Philadelphia, and many others. She saw mil- to be garnered into the fold of safety. lions of people crowding into the cities, and then putting God Now is the time to make greater plans and to attempt • .4 out of their thoughts and lives. greater things for the Advent Movement in that city. At this Again and again she called upon our people to meet the point the General Conference Committee entered the picture challenge of these great centers and do a work for them and agreed to provide the money with which to purchase the commensurate to their size and the complexity of the task. building in London known as The New Gallery Cinema. This She has appealed for representative facilities, something that is a good building in the very heart of London, amid such would command the attention and respect of the people who famous names as Piccadilly, Trafalgar, and Regent Street. live in those congested and often godless cities. It requires In fact, every day 250,000 people pass the front entrance of something out of the ordinary to cause city people to stop, this building. London's very best people attend places of look, and listen. amusement nearby. They are accustomed to attending func- For many years we have been tapping away with small tions of various kinds in that center. tools, as it were, and the impact on those millions has been The contract has been signed, the General Conference almost negligible, and the results have been very meager has appropriated the money, and workers will soon begin to indeed. At last the opportune time came for London, and remodel and redecorate that place once dedicated to frivolity, George Vandeman, with his team of associates in labor, so that it can become a house of prayer and worship and the moved in, and by means of his big-theater evangelism broke preaching of the third angel's message. through to the hearts of London's good people. From Septem- Let us stop right here and now to thank God that a ber, 1952, to June, 1953, he and his helpers kept working whole series of circumstances and providences have all worked away, and the last report showed about two hundred baptisms together to fulfill the fondest wish of God's faithful messenger and accessions to the churches in and around London. But so many years ago. VOL. 130, NO. 34 AUGUST 20, 1953

Vol. 130, No. 34 August 20, 1953 I Contents he Religious World

FRONT PAGE - - An Evangelistic Center for London [These news items are taken from Religious News Service. We do not nece, sarily concur in statements made in these items. We publish them simply lb give GENERAL ARTICLES Page 3 our readers a picture of current religious developments.] Facing the Problem of Selfishness--The Incomparable Word— Let Us Get Our Facts Straight—Help Your Child Overcome OP. 18,000 Protestant Missionaries Served Overseas in 1952 Fear—Insect Messengers—The Friendly Touch—Is the Sabbath Nearly half of the 18,000 Protestant missionaries serving Moral?—God's Holy Law—Afraid of the Dark—"Abide in the Ship" overseas in 1952 were stationed in Africa, Latin America, and the West Indies, it was reported in New York by the Mis- EDITORIALS Page 11 sionary Research Library. The next largest number, nearly one third of the total, were in East Asia, India, Pakistan, and Church Union Now—Vague Views on Advent—Rainless Days in Ceylon, the report said. The library is a joint agency of Texas—O.H.M.S.—Modern Healing Cults Union Theological Seminary and the National Council of NEWS FROM THE WORLD FIELD - - - Page 15 Churches Division of Foreign Missions. Extending Our Foreign Mission Work—National Leadership in the South Pacific—The Bechuanaland Mission Field—Gold Coast Workers' Meeting—Flight Over the Amazon Jungle— I* Substitute "Total Abstinence" for "Temperance" Dedication of Milwaukee German Church—The New Nutrition Research Laboratory—Lending Library at Manila Sanitarium— A conference of young Methodists urged the denomination Baptism in Port of Spain, Trinidad—Hundreds of Youth Ready to use the words "total abstinence" exclusively, not "temper- for Mission Service ance," in its antialcohol campaign. A resolution adopted at a study and worship session of young adults of the Indiana and THE CALL TO ADVANCE Page 20 Lexington conferences of the Methodist Church declared: The Needs of Southern Asia—Golden Opportunities—Sabbath "The brewing industry now professes agreement with the School Teachers' Workshops—Share Your Faith the Outpost Church in seeking 'temperance' as a pattern for modern liv- Way—The Formation of a Temperance Army—Neighborhood ing." Therefore, the resolution continued, the church should Evangelism—Something for Us to Be Doing, NOW—Medical "say what it means—total abstinence." Cadet Camp at Grand Ledge—Auxiliary Colporteurs—Church and State Relations in the Philippines—Radio Fruitage in Australasia—Brief Current News—Obituaries—Notices--Camp Meeting Schedule, 1953—Church Calendar for 1953 10. Premeal Prayer Cards Now in Railway Diners POETRY The movement to place premeal prayer cards on dining tables of hotels and restaurants has spread to the diners of Life's Upward Way, p. 3 the Northern Pacific Railway. W. F. Paar, superintendent of N.P. dining cars, said that small cards with Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish prayers to be recited before meals are being placed on all tables in the railway's diners. "So many favorable comments have been received from our patrons since we started ya the practice two months ago, that we are continuing ,the HER A L D custom," Mr. Paar said. "In fact, many people are so pleased EVI E W with the cards that they tuck them in purses or pockets and FRANCIS D. NICHOL, Editor take them home." FREDERICK LEE, Associate Editor W. H. BRANSON, Consulting Editor D. A. DELAFIELD, Associate Editor J. L. MCELHANY, Contributing Editor PROMISE KLOSS SHERMAN, Editorial Secretary 10. 50,000 Scouts Fulfill Pledge to Worship SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS C. H. WATSON, D. E. REBOK, C. L. TORREY, L. K. DICKSON, R. R. FIGUHR, W. B. OCHs, A. V. OLSON, H. L. RUDY, E. D. DICK, PRESIDENTS OF ALL Some 50,000 Boy Scouts assembled in Santa Ana, California, DIVISIONS for their National Jamboree took a day off from the conven- BRIEF CURRENT NEWS CORRESPONDENTS tional business and fun of the annual gathering to fulfill the GENERAL CONFERENCE: MISS THELMA WELLMAN; OVERSEAS: AUSTRALASIA: E. J. pledge to worship, each in his own faith, enunciated in JOHANSON; MIDDLE EAST: A. R. MAZAT; FAR EASTERN: C. P. SORENSEN; NORTHERN EUROPE: E. B. RUDGE; INTER-AMERICA: A. H. ROTH; SOUTH Scouting's 12th law. Separate worship services for Scouts of AMERICA: L. H. OLSON; SOUTHERN AFRICA: F. G. CLIFFORD; SOUTHERN ASIA: each of the major religions and various denominations were J. F. ASHLOCK; SOUTHERN EUROPE: MARIUS FRIDLIN held during the day, which was climaxed by an evening mass NORTH AMERICAN UNIONS: ATLANTIC: MISS LAURA M. DROWN; CANADIAN: MRS. EVELYN M. BOWLES; CENTRAL: MRS. CLARA ANDERSON; COLUMBIA: WARREN convocation in a mammoth natural amphitheatre at the foot ADAMS; LAKE: MRs. MILDRED WADE; NORTHERN: L. H. NETTEBURG; NORTH of a nearby hill. "My Duty to God" was the theme of the con- PACIFIC: MRS. IONE MORGAN; PACIFIC: MISS OPAL STONE; SOUTHERN: MISS CLARA CRAWFORD; SOUTHWESTERN: H. C. KEPHART vocation, which was featured by music, drama, and the simul- CIRCULATION MANAGER R J. CHRISTIAN taneous lighting of 50,000 candles held by the Scouts at- tending. All communications relating to the Editorial Department and all manuscripts submitted for publication should be addressed to Editor, Review and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. 10. Contributions to Religion Reach All-Time High United States Countries Where Extra and Canada Postage Is Required Americans last year contributed $1,296,000,000, an all-time One Year $4.75 $5.25 record, to religious organizations, the Department of Com- Six Months 2.50 2.75 Make all post office money orders payable at the Washington, D.C., post office merce reported. The church contributions were $90,000,000 (not Takoma Park). Address all business communications and make all drafts more than in 1951, a gain of almost 71/a per cent. Social wel- and express money orders payable to REVIEW AND HERALD, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. In changing address, do not fail to give both the old and fare agencies, including those sending relief abroad, received new address. $735,000,000 in 1952, the department estimated, an increase of $43,000,000 over 1951. Expenditures by philanthropic foun- Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Thursday by the Review dations and private contributions to museums and libraries and Herald Publishing Association, at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., U.S.A. were $117,000,000. Total contributions to religious and wel- Entered as second-class matter August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. One Year, $4.75. Vol. 130, No. 34. fare activities were $2,148,000,000, an increase of 91/2 per cent Copyright, 1953, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. over the previous record of $1,963,000,000 in 1951. 2 REVIEW AND HERALD Facing the Problem of Selfishness

By HAROLD SHRYOCK, M.D.

The number one problem that human his natural trait of selfishness follows a movement that his father made. Sud- beings face is that of selfishness. Selfish- course of his own choosing without proper denly the stubborn endgate gave way, and ness seems to be inherent in every per- regard for the rights of others. He be- pinched the father's finger. At this he sonality. Primary concern with one's own comes an egotist. He may accomplish angrily ordered his son to go to the house interests begins in infancy and continues many of the things he sets out to do and stop hindering his work. This man's into adulthood. This tendency is con- simply because of his intense devotion to trait of egotism prevented him from ad- trary to Christian principles. If one wishes his personal interests. In doing so, how- mitting that he was clumsy. So he pro- to be in harmony with the teachings of ever, he injures the feelings of those who jected the blame for the mishap onto the Christ, he must find an adequate solu- would otherwise be his loyal friends. He innocent six-year-old. tion to this problem. But in order to leaves destruction in his wake like a bull Shifting the Blame in Married Life overcome selfishness, one must understand in a china shop. He may arrive at his the usual manifestations of this unfor- destination, but he has done so at the This same tendency to shift the blame tunate trait. expense of good personal relations. is frequently manifested in married life. A child thinks of the world as revolv- The egotist does not willfully antag- A husband who is selfish may blame his ing around himself. At mealtime he onize others. He simply possesses an over- wife for delaying him so long at home thinks of his own hunger. He is vigorous whelming desire to carry out his own that he missed the bus. Or he may criti- in protest when his desires are thwarted. purposes, regardless of consequences. His cize his wife for not reminding him of He does not like to conform to the wishes philosophy becomes distorted to the ex- an appointment that he forgot. Or he of others. From this beginning of total tent that he really believes that his course may cover up his failure to .buy gasoline self-centeredness the child must learn to of action is correct. And so he makes no for the car by contending that his wife make his own interests secondary if he effort to consider the feelings of those had used the car so much that the last is going to develop a personality that will around him. tank of gas had not lasted as long as usual. enable him to be well received. The give- In order to maintain a semblance of Another trick that the selfish egotist and-take between brothers and sisters in peace with himself as he elbows his way plays, to the injury of others, is to blame the same family helps a child to subordi- through life, the egotist resorts to some an innocent third party. For example, nate his personal interests. The early very peculiar ways of reasoning. One of Mary Jones appealed to her husband- at principles of democracy that he must these consists of his unwillingness to ac- breakfast time for money to buy a new learn in order to get along with his cept the blame for his own inadequacies. spring suit. But it seemed that Mary men- schoolmates are a further help. An egotist of my acquaintance was at- tioned this matter at just the wrong time. The trait of self-interest is so deeply in- tempting to repair the steel endgate of George was preoccupied with his plans grained that it carries over, in spite of his pickup truck. His six-year-old son was for the day's business. Furthermore, Mary one's best efforts, into adulthood. Whose standing by, deeply interested in every asked for more money than was available face do you see when looking at the pic- at the moment. So George simply told ture of a group of which you are a mem- Mary they could not afford the suit. Mary, ber? Whose home do you think about being a selfish person who was not will- when the fire alarm sounds? Whose taxes ing to forgo her personal interests and come to mind when you read in the news- Life's Upward Way desires, was miffed because her husband paper that the brackets for income taxes was unable to fulfill her request. But be- are to be changed? A person thinks of ev- By ROBERT HARE cause there was not sufficient time to talk ery factor of life in terms of its relation- the thing through and because she recog- ship to himself. His concern for himself 0 Master, let Thy kindly hand nized that her request was actually be- Inspire life's purpose and command, yond the limits of their present finances, reminds one of a tiny magnet, which at- Its every impulse, calm and free, tracts the needle of a compass so that Bound in sweet service, Lord, to Thee, she stifled her feelings as best she could. the compass always points to the magnet. Thy heavenly dictates glad to own Breakfast over, George hurried off to As mandates from the glory throne. work. Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself Just as Mary's feelings of injured pride Mark Twain remarked, "Good breed- Like dreamland visions, whisper still and disappointment were tumbling over ing consists in concealing how much we The admonitions of Thy will; and over in her mind, Junior walked into think of ourselves and how little we think Bid each endeavor of my mind the kitchen from the back yard. It was of the other person." But if this were our Thy consecration ever find, muddy outside, and there was no door Till love's eternity shall bring mat at the kitchen door. Junior was only ultimate goal—concealing our selfishness The glory song that angels sing. —life would be a mere act in which the a youngster, and could hardly be held players hide their real motives in order Renew life's object day by day responsible for tracking mud into the to produce a desired effect. Pretending to While passing on life's changing way, house. But this was just the excuse that be unselfish when one is actually self- Uncharmed by tinsel or acclaim; Mary seemed to crave for unloading her centered is not the right answer. The Help me to glorify Thy name. pent-up dissatisfaction over the lack of Christian code provides for sincere un- Be this my joy till evermore funds to purchase a new suit. So Junior selfishness as one of the goals of charac- Love gains the ever deathless shore. received the blame, innocently, for the ter development. "If ye fulfil the royal disappointment his mother had sustained. Dear Master, Lord of life and peace, law according to the scripture, Thou shalt This tendency to transfer aggravations love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well" 0 never let Thy promptings cease Lest shadows falling on the way, and resentments to an innocent third (James 2:8). Footsteps unguarded, might betray; party is further illustrated by the husband .The person who reaches adulthood Chide with Thy warning voice until who "takes it out" on his wife when he without having gained the victory over Life Thy great purpose shall fulfill. returns from a strenuous day at the office. AUGUST 20, 1953 3 But with insight into the way human "We then that are strong ought to bear Am I endangering my own success in life beings react, husband and wife can rec- the infirmities of the weak, and not to by being so egotistical that I do not give ognize the significarice of such an un- please ourselves" (Rom. 15:1). "Look not due consideration to the interests of explained outburst, and can brush the every man on his own things, but every others?" If the answers are Yes, there is incident aside without taking offense. man also on the things of others" (Phil. a definite need of a personal reappraisal, The selfish egotist is very intolerant of 2:4). and an incorporation, into the life, of others, and often fails to express appreci- Each person needs to examine himself those truly Christian principles by which ation for favors. He seems to consider that as he asks the questions: "Am I selfish? the welfare of other individuals receives he is the only one who has good judg- Am I putting my personal interests ahead a higher priority than one's own interests ment and that all mistakes are made by of the welfare of those in my own family? and preferences. other people. He is therefore ready to criticize in order to make it appear that he is free from blame. A great deal of The Bible on Trial-4 the gossip that strains human relation- ships has such a background. The uncon- scious motive behind gossip is to depre- ciate the victim of the gossip to the place The Incomparable Word where he no longer holds social prestige or recognition among friends. By.W. L. Emmerson When you happen to be the victim of unkind gossip, your natural reaction is to retaliate in kind. But retaliation only One of the arguments that used to be to that of the traditions of the nations intensifies the problem, and makes it leveled against the Bible by the profes- around. appear that the accusations must be true. sors of comparative religions was that Dr. Rendle Short answers the question The proper cure for gossip is to manifest there is not much difference between the shortly and plainly: "If the author was Christian tolerance. The ice of cruel gos- Bible and the holy books of other faiths. a man who spake from God, as he was sip and sharp criticism soon melts under Consequently, if these books are human moved by the Holy Ghost, all becomes the warmth of kindly forbearance and a compositions, the Bible can be placed in plain." sincere interest in the welfare of fellow no other category. If their inspiration That indeed is the only explanation. men. rises no higher than that of human In the first chapter of Genesis we have Reaction of the Egotist thoughts, the inspiration of the Bible is an account of the origin of all things that no more divine. can stand up to the test of the very latest Another typical reaction of the egotist In this conclusion the experts in com- findings of modern science, as some of the is to propose a logical reason for what he parative religions have been proved as greatest exponents of the latter have testi- does. He may explain his failure to pay unwise and hasty as those who presumed fied. We have there a doctrine of God his full quota of income tax by reason- to question the trustworthiness of the that is infinitely sublime by comparison ing that the Government is wasting a Bible with regard to its, history, geography, with the crude polytheism of the Bab- great deal of money, and he does not wish chronology, and science. For whereas the ylonian and other creation stories. to have his money spent so carelessly. But holy books with which attempts have been How could' Moses have produced so an egotist is not fundamentally dishonest. made to compare it betray on every page incomparable an account but by inspira- He is simply possessed with an exag- their human origin, the more carefully tion of God? gerated idea of his own importance, and the Bible is investigated, the more con- The same explanation is the only one resorts to many ruses as means of defend- vinced one must become that it is a book ing his delusion. that can adequately show the difference from heaven. between the polytheistic Babylonian de- The wife who is selfish and egotistical luge tablets and the Bible account of the may go to considerable effort, when din- Take the creation story in the early ner is late, to explain that her activities chapters of Genesis. The discovery of the Flood. of the afternoon were of such importance Babylonian, Assyrian, and Sumerian cre- When we go on to study the wonderful that she had to remain at the club or at ation tablets at once suggested to the en- laws that Moses communicated to Israel the neighbor's until such a late hour that emies of the Bible that the Biblical ac- as they tarried at Sinai on the way to their preparation of supper was delayed. count of creation was not given to Moses future home, we are again utterly unable A self-assertive person hates to admit by inspiration but was simply taken by to accept the argument that they derive his own incompetency. The various tricks him, or whoever wrote Genesis, from from the kind of minds that conceived of reasoning to which he resorts are sub- earlier traditions that had come into his the Code of Hammurabi or the legal conscious means of bolstering his Self- possession. codes of ancient Egypt. The alleged re- esteem. If he happens to fail in some More careful investigatiou, however, semblance disappears as soon as they are enterprise, and if his incompetency is so far from substantiating this argument, has subjected to a careful examination. obvious that he cannot talk himself out thrown into striking relief the essential Right at the beginning of the Bible, of the situation, he may even take re- difference between the Bible and Bab- therefore, we have abundant evidence of course to illness as an excuse for not be- ylonian accounts. the hand of God withdrawing His people ing able to fulfill his promises and expec- "An impassable gulf separates biblical from their polytheistic surroundings, and tations. cosmogony from Babylonian," declared teaching them, by His Word, the way The logical remedy for selfishness and Dr. A. H. Sayce, "for while the latter is of righteousness and truth. egotism is the development of an inter- grossly polytheistic, the former knows After the establishment of Israel in the est in the welfare of other persons. This only the One Omnipotent God." Promised Land, the book of the law, or is difficult for a person who is fundamen- That being so, we are immediately con- the Torah, was added to by the prophets tally selfish, for it requires him to spend fronted with the vital question as to how and by pious kings like David and Sol- his efforts not as he chooses bin as is best Moses, the future leader of a tiny tribe omon. Surrounded as Israel was by for others. of people who had migrated into Egypt heathen nations, and in constant contact In the family, submerging self in the from the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, could with them, it would have been impos- general interest of the other members is have written an account of the origin of sible, without divine intervention, for the surest -way to peace and harmony. the earth and of men so infinitely superior these writings to be uninfluenced by 4 REVIEW AND HERALD heathen beliefs and practices: The fact the writers and guided the church in be the most sublime philosophy," asserted that they constitute a pure stream amid gathering the books that had been so Sir Isaac Newton. the miasma of the surrounding heathen- written. "It's light," wrote John Henry Cardi- ism, is a powerful evidence of divine in- nal Newman, "is like the body of heaven Perfection of Bible Teaching spiration in their production and preser- in its clearness; its vastness, like the bosom vation. Then there is the incomparable per- of the sea." When we come to the New Testament fection of the teachings of the Bible. But though the Bible plumbs the we are confronted with a similar problem The Scriptures provide the most satis- depths of the profoundest philosophical of explaining the sublimity of its teach- fying answers to all the fundamental ques- and theological inquiry, it also concerns ings and the vast gulf between them and tions that confront the mind of man. itself with the everyday life of men and the philosophies of the surrounding From time immemorial men have asked: women in a way that no other book does. Greco-Roman world. "Who is God?" "Whence came the world John A. Patten in John Smith's Book Dr. C. E. M. Joad, who until recent and man?" "What is the meaning of life?" says: years has been one of the foremost anti- "Is there anything beyond death?" Phi- "The Bible is as broad as humanity: Christian intellectuals in Britain, has at losophy and science have tried to answer nothing human is alien to it. It deals last, out of sheer honesty, had to confess these questions, but they carry little con- with life as a whole and in detail. The that there is no other explanation than viction. The Bible speaks with authority, Bible has explored all the mysteries of that the Bible and the church are of and satisfies the mind and heart of man our nature and sounded the profoundest supernatural origin. He says in the clos- as no other book can. needs of the soul. It lights the path of every man who will follow its leading. ing chapters of his latest book The Re- It provides the cure for what Stanley It is balm for all wounds, encouragement covery of Belief: Jones, of India, has called "the three amid all difficulties. It confronts every "It seems to me impossible to explain great oppressions"—sin, suffering, and man with his sin and shows him the way the history of Christianity, unless it is of death. of salvation." supernatural origin and has had divine "We account the Scriptures of God to (To be concluded) backing. . . . How . . . , it might be asked, could such a handful of unlettered and discouraged men have made the im- pact they did upon the Roman world, unless they were convinced of the truth Let Us Get Our Facts Straight of what they proclaimed, more particu- larly of the truth of the Resurrection, and By H. 0. Olson unless they received continuous assistance from God as mediated by the Holy Ghost?"—Pages 243, 244. Two other fundamental facts stand out Misinformation and misunderstanding children back and told them and their when the Scriptures are compared with are the cause of much of the trouble mother that it was an anarchist and not religious writings contemporary with Is- between nations and within nations, an Adventist who had assassinated the rael and the early church. First, there is between denominations and within President. After correcting their misin- the perfect unity of Bible teaching from churches, in society and in the home. formation I was permitted to describe the beginning to end. Despite the fact that Goethe said that misunderstanding and book. the Scriptures were written over a period inattention create more uneasiness in the When the International Branch of the of a millennium and a half by shepherds, world than deception and artifice, or, at Pacific Press was under construction in farmers, fishermen, priests, tax gatherers, least, their consequences are more uni- Brookfield, Illinois, one man informed soldiers, kings, and statesmen, this collec- versal. me that the denomination erecting that tion of literature on all manner of sub- Paul said, "For now we see through a publishing house was called the Seven- jects blends into one harmonious whole. glass, darkly; . . . now I know in part" day Church because they worked seven There is one system of doctrine, one rule (1 Cor. 13:12). Thomas Edison is sup- days a week and never had a rest day. of faith, and running from Genesis to posed to have said that we do not know I endeavored to correct his misunder- Revelation there is one dominant theme, one millionth part of one per cent of standing, but he was certain that he was the redemptive activity of God. Each and anything. Our knowledge being so mea- right. every part is essential to the whole and ger, it is evident that our conclusions can- In one city where I was visiting our is related to every other. No portion may not always be correct. churches, a church member came early be removed without impairing the rest When Job's friends, because of misun- one morning to my room in the YMCA The famous dictum of Augustine says, derstanding, reproved him in the midst and informed me that his conscience "The New Testament is enfolded in the of his suffering, he finally replied, "I de- urged him to tell me a matter that he Old and the Old Testament is unfolded sire to reason with God. . . . 0 that ye would have much preferred not to di- in the New." would altogether hold your peace!" (Job vulge. It hurt him terribly, he said, to have Could such a result be reproduced by 13:3-5). It is evident that he had found to reveal something against his friend, the bringing together any other set of writings God to be more reasonable than men, be- pastor of his church, but duty demanded from different ages, however carefully cause God understood him fully. He it. This minister had after the Sabbath they were selected? therefore concludes, "Behold, my witness services invited him and some others to is in heaven, and my record is on high" dinner, and before dinner they saw the Bible Writers Divinely Guided (Job 16:19). pastor's wife go into a store and buy The writer of the epistle to the He- I remember one morning years ago of cream. brews argues that "every house," by its presenting the book The Great Contro- A few days later I was invited to this evident plan and purpose, must have versy to a mother with a number of chil- minister's home for dinner. During my been "builded by some man," and then dren surrounding her. In reply to her visit I told these good people what had goes on to draw the conclusion that the question as to who published the book, I been reported to me. It was all easily world by its very organization testifies answered, "The Seventh-day Adventists." explained. They, had moved into an that its builder "is God." In like manner When she heard this she told all the apartment without a basement or any the plan of Scripture can be explained children to hurry into the house, because cool place for perishable food, and had in no other way than that an activity the Adventists were the ones who had not at the time obtained a refrigerator. more than human guided the pens of shot President McKinley. I called the The manager of the store next to them AUGUST 20, 1953 5 knew this and invited them to place milk, cream, and butter in his large re- Help Your Child Overcome Fear frigerator. They accepted this generous offer, so the minister's wife went to get It Takes Love arid Gentle Guidance—and Also the cream she had purchased on Friday. Why did not the one who reported the a Few Shrewd Tactics incident to me follow the injunction of Christ to go directly to the one whom he thought had sinned? I was led to ques- If you are inclined to think your child never materialize, and he discards them. tion whether he was as solicitous for the a scaredy-cat when he complains of ter- So through all the phases of learning, good reputation of the minister and his rifying shadows on the wall, or refuses to new fears replace old ones. family as he feigned to be. go near his new puppy, or won't play For instance, in one study of 136 chil- Another Embarrassing Misunderstanding in the back-yard pool with the boy next dren, 12% below the age of 1 year in- door, put yourself in his position for just dicated fear of lights, shadows and reflec- In one country, at a conference ses- a moment. tions, but none between 4 and 5 showed sion, I was appointed chairman of the Suppose that you were just putting a any such fears. On the other hand, none nominating committee. We invited those tentative toe into a dangerous world you below 5 years feared ridicule or failure, who had counsel or suggestions for our were helpless to understand, much less but 22% of those above age 5 did. committee to come to the room where control. Suppose a dozen times a day you our meetings were held. Our work was were confronted with a brand-new situa- The Sense of Security finished, and the report presented to the tion, which demanded an untried bit of A man's personality is, in one respect, conference session, where it was acted ability. Suppose a good many of your a deep well which must be filled with the upon favorably. However, soon a few ventures met with failure. And with all knowledge that he as a person is com- men beckoned me out and urged that I that, suppose you had a_small, weak body, petent and that he is secure in his re- call another meeting of the nominating unpredictable in its obedience to your lations with other people. Otherwise his committee to reconsider the name of one commands. life can't be rich and satisfying. minister who had been elected as a mem- Courage to face the world—a courage ber of the executive committee. There More than likely, you would be scared, too. he will eventually have to find within were valid reasons, they said, why he himself or not at all—is drawn from that should not serve. Never underrate the bogeyman—no matter what form he assumes. On the con- well every day of his life. Without the A meeting was called at once, at which knowledge that he has love and has abil- these men appeared to give their reasons trary, if you want to give your child courage to face this anxious age, study his ity, no one could find his way through life why he ought to be asked to resign and without fear. someone else be elected in his place. The particular bogeymen, learn where they main reason given was that he did not come from, what they mean in his little So the child, just testing his ownership observe the Sabbath properly. The con- mind, and how to support him in coping of those two precious commodities, knows ference treasurer presented a receipt that with them. fear. Do people love him? Does he meas- this minister had received from the An infant knows little to be frightened ure up? printer who had printed the announce- about and fears practically nothing. A Your answer—given day after day in ments for his public meetings. This was sudden noise at a time when he is tense, a dozen different ways—is "Yes, you are dated on a Sabbath, so no further evi- quick removal of the dence was needed, these brethren support that is holding thought, to disqualify this brother as a him up and other such member of the executive committee of happenings bring short- the conference. lived fear. There are Before any decision was made, I asked few instinctive fears, that this minister be called, that we might however; almost all are ascertain definitely when this payment learned. had been made. He was informed of the But the more a child evidence presented against him, where- learns about everything, upon he laid before us the facts. He had the more he has to fear paid the bill on a Wednesday, but the and the less faith he manager was away, and the assistant has in his strength to could not write receipts, but merely meet danger. When he placed the money with needed informa- gains imagination, for tion in the safe. On his return the man- example, he will dream ager had written out the receipt and up wild and unlikely mailed it on the Sabbath. It was inter- dangers. When he re- esting to watch the facial expressions of alizes that mother cud- the accusers. These witnesses could have dles baby brother as saved themselves embarrassment if they well as him, he experi- had followed the counsel of Jesus to go ences his first dread of first to the one who they thought had losing her love. When offended. it dawns on him that Many similar experiences come to my his still feeble perform. mind, but those related are sufficient to ance is constantly com- emphasize the importance of obtaining pared with that of adequate and accurate information before others, he learns to fear drawing a conclusion, before judging any- failure.

one, and of first going to the party di- At the same time, for- WING GALLOWAY rectly concerned before a report is given tunately, he is learning A good bedtime routine helps to put the child into such a relaxing sleep to others. that some of his fears that when he wakes up he won't be afraid. 6 REVIEW AND HERALD

loved. Yes, you measure up in every way." So the first antidote for fear is con- whatever it is he fears, do it. But re- Fortunately, most of the time he be- fidence gained by contagion from a poised member he's no Einstein. Long-winded lieves you, but there are those other parent. Here are some other techniques: scientific explanations of the solar system times when he needs- reassurance. Then 1. Brushing aside his fear and forcing won't erase fear of the night. you must be ready to give him something him to face it. This is the least helpful 3. Letting him slowly gain experience extra. way to conquer fear, but it has been in the feared situation and thus acquire Take the feeling of inadequacy which known to work. the ability to cope with it. For instance, is bound to crop up in a young child 2. Convincing him there is no danger. a shy child is not always so much afraid just learning to do a thousand things, If you really can remove the mystery from of strangers as he is untrained in the social from dealing with the bully at school to playing baseball. To combat that fear, your long-range program should be one of gentle guidance. Don't push him into learning difficult skills until he is ready. Help him conquer A Story for the Children one field of activity at a time and give him plenty of praise. When the inevita- BY ARTHUR W. SPALDING ble failures come, explain to him that as he matures, he too will be able, say, to run as fast as the big boy next door. Wake-up Stories-18 Another thing that gives a child con- fidence in his own ability to manage his Insect Messengers life is the making of decisions. Let him "What else is pollen good for, Miss when she flies away, she carries it to the choose whether to take his bath before Marian?" next flower, which is of the same kind. And or after supper, or whether to wear the "Bee bread, for one thing," she answered. there some pollen rubs off from her coat gloves or the mittens. They are small "Look at the bees, so busy in the sweet on the stigma of that flower, which is in matters, but the act of choosing bolsters clover growing here on the sides of the road. the reception parlor just beyond the pollen. the child's confidence in himself. Do you know what they're doing?" And then, of course, the flower gets to work Now, about that feeling of rejection. "Yes," answered Phyllis. "They're gather- and makes its baby seeds." You know you love him, and most of the ing honey from the flowers." "You said, 'bee bread,' a long time ago," time he knows it, too. But occasionally "Not honey," said Hal, whose father kept complained Eleanor, who liked to stick to the point. when things go badly, he needs special bees. "Flowers don't grow honey. They have nectar, and the bees gather that and make "Pardon me, Eleanor. We are a long time reassurance. honey out of it." coming to it, there are so many other things To prevent such occurrences or get "That's right," said their teacher. "It's on the way. Now I'll tell you. The bee not through them when they happen, try to somewhat like our making maple syrup. The only carries the pollen to another flower devote a little time to him exclusively maple trees have sap, but they don't have but also packs some of it in little baskets every day. Be as impersonal as you can syrup; we gather the sap and boil it down she carries on her hind legs, and keeps it. in all the unpleasant things you have to to make maple syrup." When she reaches the hive, she mixes some of do to and for him. Never, of course, use "Well, I don't see what this has to do with the pollen with honey, and that makes bee your love as a bribe for good behavior. pollen," said Eleanor, who had asked the bread." first question. "What does she do with it?" And don't forget food—the great com- "Oh, she gives it to the nurse bees in the forter. Little children are so close to the "No; but I'll tell you," said Miss Marian. "You see, the flowers that the bees and hive, and they go and feed it to the little primitive that to many of them food bees that have hatched out of the eggs the stands for love and being cared for. A other insects visit are not like the flowers of the oak and such trees. Those trees don't queen bee has laid. They are only baby bees, piece of candy or a cookie can do wonders have nectar, or not much; and so they but the bee bread makes them grow in a in helping him take an unfavorable de- depend on the wind to carry their pollen hurry. And that's why this mixture of pollen and honey is called bee bread. The cision. away to other tree flowers. But some trees, bees themselves sometimes eat it too." especially fruit trees, have blossoms, and Conquering the Bogeymen "Well," said Jimmy, who had kept very many lowly herbs have blossoms. The quiet for him, walking along, listening, and Feelings of inadequacy and rejection pretty colored petals of these flowers are switching a stick over the flowers and weeds the houses in which the flower family live, may be behind many of your child's lesser by the roadside. "Well, that's int'rusting. and they keep their door open, inviting bees fears. But the fact remains that symp- But that isn't this yellow stuff the oak tree and butterflies and other insects to come toms such as fear of darkness and animals gives." must be dealt with, too. and carry their pollen away to fertilize the next flowers." "No, Jimmy, it isn't. The pollen the bees First, look at some ways to handle them carry is heavier, more sticky. And while "Thatth very thweet of the beeth, ithn't there's a good deal of it, there's not so much in general and then look at ways to com- it, Mith Marian?" That was Dolly speaking. of it as of the wind-borne pollen, which bat specific fears. "Oh, the beeth get the thweet," said Sam, seems blown about wastefully. But we have Your role is to let the child draw on who liked to mimic Dolly. just started out on the investigation of our your superior strength for courage to "Yes, but the pollen," insisted Eleanor. tackle his problems. That means you must Father's house. There are those ahead of "Well, you see the bees have to pay for us who have found out more than we know. be a pretty brave person yourself—or give the nectar they get," went on Miss Marian. But we shall learn. And maybe some of you a . - good imitation of one. "So the flower offers its nectar in its dining will be the discoverers of why God gives His training in bravery should begin room, away downstairs in the house, but His life so abundantly in the pollen of the when as a toddler he falls and bumps it puts its pollen right at the front door. trees." his head. Don't swoop on him, sc. earn- Of course there are thousands of different "Maybe," said Sallie, "so some little trees, ing sympathy. That will only convince arrangements of the flower houses, but this like me, won't be missed." him he should be scared. A pat and a is the general rule. " 'Out of the mouth of babes," said Miss smile will be enough. "Now, when a bee calls at a flower house Marian to herself. Then aloud: "Perhaps, and asks for nectar, she is ushered in through Sallie. That could be the lesson for us in the Later on, when he falls out of a tree, the front door, where the pollen is; and abundant pollen. God poured out all heaven you will be tested again. Walk, don't run, while she is lapping up the nectar with for us in the gift of His Son, Jesus—enough to him if you can possibly restrain your- her long tongue, down in the dining room, for all, and more than enough, to make sure self. some pollen rubs off on her furry coat. And no one will be missed." AUGUST 20, 1953 7 skills demanded in meeting them. Give make it clear that you lack belief. "That SICKNESS.—Deformities, insanity and ill- him practice and he will lose his fear. is just pretend," you say. "It's fun to pre- ness are all dreaded. The best you can This kind of procedure is the most effec- tend, but it's silly to be afraid of things do is to explain that such things happen tive. that aren't real, isn't it?" relatively rarely, that people are learn- Now, some of the specific fears and a FARAWAY THINGS.—Newspaper, radio ing better how to prevent and cure the word on how to deal with them. and television accounts of murders and ailments, and that none of these things NIGHT FEARS.—Behind a child's being kidnapings and fires can affect a young- are likely to happen to him. frightened at night may be one or more ster very deeply. If you can make him DEATH.—The child will be very prac- larger fears. Most common are fear of realize that these things happen rarely, tical in his questions. What he wants to separation from his parents, fear of not and usually far away from him and his know is why the puppy doesn't run' any awaking, fear of school the next day. home, he will soon lose any deep fear. more, what happened to his bark and A good bedtime routine will not only Stress the protection of the police and whether he'll mind being buried. Let him solve most of those fears but will put the fire departments and how they watch over examine the dead body if he wants, and child into such a relaxing sleep that he his safety during the night.... don't show your repugnance. won't wake up and be afraid. Your, explanation, of course, depends First rule is to make the bedtime ritual on your belief, but by all means start quiet and unexciting. A gentle story, one early. The worst thing that can happen that is so easily understood he won't have Minute is for the child to get his first inkling to strain, a quiet talk . . . put the child about death from a person in the throes in a restful frame of mind. In your talk Meditations of bereavement. with him before he drops off to sleep, By Harry M. Tippett These are, of course, only samplings stress his goodness during the day just from the long list of things a child finds to past and pleasant things that will happen be afraid of, but the underlying technique tomorrow. Tuck him in gently, and make The Friendly Touch in dealing with all fears is similar. Here sure he understands you are always avail- is a summary of what you need to do able during the night. "A man that bath friends must sheen him- to give your child courage: For an older child who remains afraid self friendly" (Prov. 18:24). Show an example of bravery. of the dark, a flashlight is wonderful. A man working on a building job near my Remove the mystery. With it he can always drive the awesome office saw a happy young couple strolling Teach him how to avoid or prevent shadows away and prove there is no along the sidewalk hand in hand. He paused trouble. bogeyman. in his labor, and made some pleasant jest Give him something definite to do about their apparent fondness for each other. when he is afraid. Pleasant Pictures Are Important The young woman smiled at him and asked, Assure him that the trouble is not ANIMALS AND OBJECTS.—If your child "Don't you and your wife ever hold hands?" The laborer sobered up immediately, wiped very likely to happen to him, or if is afraid of a dog, begin by showing him the perspiration from his brow with his it is happening, that it won't last. pleasant pictures of dogs. Make up or sleeve, and replied, "Nope, me and my wife —Used by permission of Changing read him happy stories about them. Then ain't held hands for years." Times, the Kiplinger Magazine. when he seems ready, let him pat a gen- What a pathetic confession, yet how truly tle dog. But don't force contact if the it voices the situation in hundreds of thou- child is reluctant. sands of homes. Indifference and hostility BODILY HARM.—You want your child to have erased the glow of contentment from In all who have been chosen to accom- have a healthy respect for things that many a hearthside. If there were more gentle plish a work for God the human element might hurt him, but you don't, of course, touches of tenderness and affection, more is seen. Yet they have not been men of want him howling over having his hair little gestures of confidence and understand- stereotyped habits and character, who cut or fingernails cleaned. You have to ing between husband and wife, brother and sister, parent and child, what bitter sorrows were satisfied to remain in that condition. teach him to be afraid of really dangerous would be assuaged, what anguish and despair They earnestly desired to obtain wisdom things like cars. But you also want to might be averted, what burdens lightened. from God, and to learn to work for Him. teach him not to fear, and to endure with One instance of happy home fellowship came Says the apostle, "If any of you lack wis- courage, the pain that goes with minor to my attention when the parents and chil- dom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all injuries. dren in a large family all clasped hands men liberally, and upbraideth not; and Emphasize in your talks with him that around the table when the blessing was be- it shall be given him." But God will you know what to do to cure his hurt, ing asked. not impart to men divine light, while that it won't last long, and that his body A woman pressing her way through the they are content to remain in darkness. won't be permanently damaged. Be hon- mob one day touched only the hem of In order to receive God's help, man est at the doctor's or dentist's. Tell him Jesus' garment, but it was the touch of rever- must realize his weakness and deficiency; it will hurt but "not for very long" or ence and worship and faith, and the Saviour he must apply his own mind to the great whatever encouraging report you can recognizing it as such said, "Who touched me?" There is a language in the touch that change to be wrought in himself; he honestly give. goes beyond the significance of the fairest must be aroused to earnest and persever- ing prayer and effort. Wrong habits and -Importance of Example words. It can speak courage to the disheart- ened, sympathy for the grief stricken, confi- customs must be shaken off; and it is STORMS.—Children like noises when deuce to those misunderstood. Let it then be only by determined endeavor to correct they are fun noises like firecrackers, so gentle, chaste, pure, and kind for the healing these errors, and to conform to right prin- they can be made to tolerate thunder and of the wounds of the world. ciples, that the victory can be gained. lightning. Main thing here is to be calm Jesus realized the wonderful power of com- Many never attain to the position that yourself. Your example is all-important. panionship when He sent the seventy out on they might occupy, because they wait for Then, get him into some activity like their mission two by two. In heaven's arithme- God to do for them that which He has helping to get the clothes off the line. Try tic, if one can chase a thousand, two may put given them power to do for themselves. to explain the phenomenon ("the clouds ten thousand to flight. We have only to think of illustrious friendships like that of Ruth All who are fitted for usefulness must be bump each other") without being scien- and Naomi, of David and Jonathan, of trained by the severest mental and moral tific. Luther and Melanchthon to be reminded of discipline; and God will assist them by IMAGINARY FEARS.—With supernatural the remarkable potency of a happy union of uniting divine power with human effort. and imaginary creatures, your line is to human hearts. —Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 248. 8 REVIEW AND HERALD The Sabbath commandment is at the heart of all that which bespeaks morality. To call the Sabbath nonmoral is to miss the whole nature upon which morality is based. Morality is dependent upon rela- Is the Sabbath Moral? tionships between God and man. Moral behavior toward man is dependent upon moral and loving relationships with God. By Arthur L. Bietz The Sabbath signifies the relationship be- tween God and man, and from this re- lationship all other moral obligation Question ship between the Creator and the created. springs. The Sabbath is the pledge of a loving re- I have non-Adventist friends who are A God of Moral Character sincere Christians. They tell me that nine lationship between God and man. Upon Of the Ten Commandments are moral this commandment the morality of all God is a God of moral character and requirements, but that the Sabbath com- other commandments hinges. a God of fellowship. In the Sabbath we mandment is not moral in its nature but Human beings cannot be considered of have a pledge of the fact that God wants ceremonial. How can I answer this ques- ultimate value unless they are consid- a correct relationship with His children. tion to their satisfaction' ered in their relationship to their Creator. He wants man's companionship and love. If God is moral, then men who are cre- It is from this fact that love and com- Answer ated in His image must be careful to panionship between men becomes a real- Whenever a person makes a statement, maintain moral relationships among ity. There is, then, no commandment it is well to counter with another ques- themselves. If the first four command- among the ten so significantly moral as tion that will make it necessary for him ments, the Sabbath commandment espe- the Sabbath commandment. Of no other to clarify his own terms. Jesus was con- cially, are ignored, then there can be no commandment is it stated that Jesus is stantly asking questions. In this way He true criteria by which to view man aright. Lord except the Sabbath. In this com- made the other person examine his own When men forget God they forget one mandment His Lordship finds its true thinking. If we were wise enough to ask another. When men do not consider one meaning. Here God reveals His heart of the right questions, we would often be another in the light of the Divine rela- fellowship and love from which all moral- able to help the other person to arrive tionship, they sense no primary obliga- ity flows into the hearts and lives of His at a correct solution. tion to one another. earthly children. What does a person mean when he speaks of moral requirements? What is a moral requirement? How does one dis- Great Doctrines of Our Faith-8 tinguish that which is moral from that which is not moral? Moral requirements exist in relation- God's Holy Law ships between morally responsible .be- ings. The last six of the Ten Command- ments have to do with moral duties of By Harry W. Lowe man to man. Moral duties must be ful- filled if happy relationships are to exist between moral beings. Human beings Christian leaders are showing a deep "The law of God is as sacred as Him- cannot live together in peace and secu- concern over the lawlessness of this age, self. It is a revelation of His will, a rity if they dishonor parents, lie, steal, and not a few have attributed part of transcript of His character, the expression kill, commit adultery, and covet one an- the blame to the unbalanced stress by of divine love and wisdom."—Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 52. other's possessions. To be moral, men many Christian churches on the words, cannot do those things that will destroy "We are not under the law." Robert C. This lawless age presents a disconcert- harmony between them. That is moral McQuilkin, of Columbia Bible College, ing picture of crime of every' kind—per- which tends toward the welfare of, and told of a former missionary pioneer in sonal, social, international, and interra- happy relationship between, moral be- Africa whb, said he felt like writing to ev- cial. Every type of crime that afflicts the ings. ery Bible c011ege' in America "to send world today is a violation of God's com- them no more missionaries who made a mandments, which control every relation Moral Relationship With God boast of being ,'under grace,' and having between God and man. "There is power The first four commandments have to nothing to do with the law." of life and death in them. They either do with the moral relationships between The giant preachers of yesteryear would quicken the sin and kill the sinner, or a personal, moral God and moral beings have none of such unbalanced teaching. quicken the sinner and kill the sin."— whom He has created. Exclusive loyalty For instance, Dwight L. Moody persuaded H. E. GOVAN, Ten Imperishable Words, to the true God, refusing to worship ma- G. Campbell Morgan to publish a series p. 15. terial forms, unwillingness to dishonor of sermons entitled "The Ten Command- We merit criticism when we preach the the name of the true God, are all nec- ments," which carried a dedication to the necessity of obedience to the law without essary to a moral relationship with God. great American preacher "who so per- presenting the supremacy of divine grace. The .Sabbath commandment, however, fectly understood and so graciously re- If "the law was our schoolmaster to bring is the most significantly moral of all com- vealed in life and service the truth that us unto Christ" (Gal. 3:24), we must al- mandments in that it is the only one that with God LAW is the expression of ways preach Christ when we uphold the reveals both the identity of God, who LOVE." That is good Adventist teach- law. The law of God is perfect, sure, is the Creator, and the nature of man, ing. right, pure, holy,' just, and good (see who is a moral being created in the Ps. 19:7, 8; Rom. 7:12), which seven- "The law given upon Sinai was the fold standard is beyond man's unaided image of God. Since that is moral which enunciation of the principle of love, a has to do with successful relationships, revelation to earth of the law of heaven." ability to reach. Nor is there power in the the Sabbath is most significantly moral —Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, abstract terms of law to save us; but in its nature. It signifies a loving relation- p. 74. "what the law could not do, in that it AUGUST 20, 1953 9 wag weak through the flesh, ,God send- It is true that no one part of God's t t Abiin_ the Ship" ing his own son . . . condemned sin in law is more important than any other, may' - the flesh: that the righteousness of the but the Sabbath is an important part, By Allen Walker law might be fulfilled in us, who walk since it alone of the commandments keeps . . . after the Spirit" (Rom. 8:3, 4). Such men conscious that God is their Creator. There are times when it is necessary for is the picture of a man saved by grace, Thereby men are saved from the delu- God to make a choice of men to carry to enabled to obey God's holy law because sion of animal ancestry—and deprived completion an unfinished work. In every he is no longer under its condemnation. of excuse for animal morality—as well instance those chosen are in harmony This holy "law of God is the stand- as from agnosticism, atheism, materialism, with God and the movement He is lead- ard by which the characters and the lives and every form of modernism which re- ing. No innovations, no faultfindings, no of men will be tested in the judgment." moves God's personal presence from the deviations, are introduced by the chosen —The Great Controversy, p. 482. The individual. The Sabbath is thus a sign successors. approaching judgment of the world has of allegiance to God, and as such is the The Lord saw fit that Moses should lay called into prominence a people "which great object of satanic attack in these down his life before Israel crossed over keep the commandments of God, and last days. (See The Great Controversy, into Canaan. A successor was chosen in have the testimony of Jesus Christ" (Rev. p. 54.) the person of Joshua. To him the Lord 12:17). Pre-eminently, we should be We need to remember that observance said, "Now therefore arise, go over this known as a people saved by grace, and of one part of the holy law of God does Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto thereby enabled to live a grace-filled, not justify neglect of some other part the land which I do give to them, even obedient life before God and men. Thus (James 2:10). A man saved by the grace to the children of Israel" (Joshua 1:2). we do not make void God's law, we of Christ lives a life 'perfectly governed Then the Lord added, "As I was with establish it. by every word of God. Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee" (verse 5). So Joshua took up where Moses left off, and led the people over Jordan. He made no Questions for Mothers-3 attempt to separate himself or any of those whom he was leading from the movement itself. Afraid of the Dark God raised up Elijah for a great work of reformation. Before this work was By Archa 0. Dart finished, Elijah was translated to heaven. Again it pleased the Lord to choose a successor, and Elisha "took the mantle Question or "fear." So far as she is concerned you of Elijah that fell from him" (2 Kings are merely playing a happy little game 2:14). This mantle of responsibility did My five-year-old daughter seems to have for the fun of playing. You ,might try not fall upon someone who proved to be an abnormal fear of the dark. The other hide the thimble. She closes her eyes in disagreement with Elijah and the work night something happened to the cur- while you hide the thimble. She finds it, he was doing. Speaking of a man whose rent, and the lights went out. It was only then while your eyes are closed she hides work was a type of the work of God in a matter of a few minutes, but I thought it. Play this in the light for several days the earth today, the Lord said, "The she would go into a spasm before they until it becomes a very interesting little hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foun- came back on. She cannot go to sleep game to her. Then begin to vary it. Hide dations of this house; his hands shall also without a light. If she happens to wake different objects. All this time she is as- finish it" (Zech. 4:9). The name Zerub- up during the night, and finds it is dark, sociating pleasure with the finding of the babel means "seed of Babylon." The Lord she is frightened beyond words. What can object. Let her feel that she is challenging called him out of Babylon "to restore and I do to get her over this terrible fear, you to find harder and more difficult ways to build Jerusalem." There were those or will she outgrow it in time? I try to of playing the game. But be sure that she who tried to intrude and take the work reason with her, I have tried shaming her, is happy with each step of the way. out of his hands. But the Lord inter- and I have even threatened to punish vened saying, "His hands shall also finish her, but nothing has worked so far. Her First Real Fun it." This work was finished "in troublous Now blindfold her, and let her find times." Answer the object without seeing it. Of course, The three angels' messages are com- Normal fears of childhood which stem the thimble should be found very quickly parable to that work today. We know from a feeling of helplessness and un- at first. This will be her first real fun this work will be finished "in troublous certainty are outgrown as the child de- "in the dark." She cannot see, but is hav- times." We know also that according to velops confidence in himself and learns ing pleasure. Then challenge her to find the divine pattern of succession in the that he may trust in God. Abnormal fear, the thimble with the lights out. Never past that the "hands" of those who have such as your daughter appears to have, allow her to become frightened at any harmoniously succeeded the pioneers is caused by an emotional disturbance, time with the lights out. Be ready to turn "shall also finish it." In this connection and will continue for life or until her them on instantly if she begins to be the words of Paul to those on the ship emotional problem has been solved. Pun- uncertain. After she has become accus- during the storm, "Except these abide ishing her, shaming her, or trying to rea- tomed to a little time without the lights, in the ship, ye cannot be saved" (Acts son with her will only add to her con- begin to lengthen the time by hiding it 27:31), are not out of place. fusion. No good can come from these in more difficult places. By and by you methods, and much harm might be done. can hide it in the next room, and finally Find out what her problem is if possible. upstairs or down in the basement. By The success of the gospel message does Darkness is associated 'in her mind with this time, of course, the battle is won; not depend upon learned speeches, elo- something very unpleasant, therefore she there is no more fear of the dark. It may quent testimonies, or deep arguments. It must be re-educated by giving her very take several weeks or even months to work depends upon the simplicity of the mes- pleasant experiences in the dark. up to this goal, but it will pay. Associate sage and its adaptation to the souls that Play little games with her. Do not men- joy and happiness with the dark, and she are hungering for the bread of life.-- tion the purpose or use the words "dark" will overcome her emotional fear. Christ's Object Lessons, p. 231. 10 REVIEW AND HERALD

EDITORIALS

of unity of both spirit and mind. How is it possible for Church Union Now such unity to be achieved unless one seeks to know the The union of all Protestant churches is a twentieth- mind of God and is willing to follow it? And how shall century objective that has received great impetus in one learn His will unless he seeks it in His Word? recent years. The Amsterdam meeting in 1948, when Nevertheless, the idea of a united church is being pressed the World Council of Churches was organized, and the not along the lines of Biblical truth but in the thought Cleveland, Ohio, meeting in 1950, when the National of unity for unity's sake alone. Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States The writer states that the ecumenical movement will of America was set up, climaxed the efforts of half a bring to fruition the objectives of the Reformation. He century. Even so, there are many leaders in the ecumeni- declares that sectarianism is wholly alien to the true cal movement who are riot satisfied with anything less spirit of Protestantism. Concerning this he says: than the dissolution of denominations and the establish- "The radical and inspiring intention of the great Reformers ment of one united Christian world church. was to release the hidden and submerged Church of Christ's A book by Charles Clayton Morrison, former editor people from the apostasy into which it had been led captive of The Christian Century, entitled The Unfinished by a sacerdotal hierarchy which had usurped the functions of Ref orrnation, sets forth this idea in the clearest, most the true church. Despite the heroic efforts of the Reformers to complete their work, they were compelled to leave to us unequivocal explanation of the objectives of church an Unfinished Reformation. The denominational system is tb• union published to date. Protestant counterpart of the Roman hierarchy. The ecumeni- Bringing the Hidden Church Into View cal movement in our time is engaged in releasing the same Church of Christ's people from a • Protestant apostasy into Dr. Morrison is not one to hesitate before expediency which it has been led by the evil spirit of sectarianism."— in order to say what he believes. He denounces "the Ibid., p. 221. apostate denominational system." He declares that the denominations have "sinfully usurped" the organs and Denominational Walls Crumble functions of the true church of Christ. The 'writer is optimistic of eventually obtaining the He states: goals he has outlined in his book. We are seeing, he says, "The true church exists in the mind of Christ, and . . . a great ecumenical awakening in our time, such as would Christ recognizes none of our denominations as his church, not have been believed obtainable at the opening of the but embraces all who acknowledge his divine Lordship and present century. There have been fifteen mergers of whom he has received into fellowship with himself. various denominations since 1906. Presently discussions "The ecumenical movement, in its most fundamental and essential genius, is the dedicated endeavor of Christ's people, for other such mergers of churches are now taking place: under his leadership, to bring this now hidden church into Negotiation for union of nine denominations comprising visible, potent and empirical realization as one body, con- a total membership of seventeen million Christians has sisting of all Christ's people, which church alone can claim been undertaken. The Federal Council of Churches of him as its living head."—The Unfinished Reformation, p. 219. Christ organized in 1908 has now been succeeded by the It is the author's thought that the church should seek National Council of Churches of Christ in the United unity, alone on the common belief all have in Christ as States. It has absorbed eight different interchurch the world's Redeemer. It is not necessary to find complete agencies, which had carried on their work independent theological unity before making visible the one true of the Federal Council of Churches. This great church church of Christ. There will be room in such a church council claims to speak for the great majority of the for diversities of theological belief and variety in forms Protestant Christians in the United States. Of this prog- of worship, he believes. Dr. Morrison states: ress toward church union the writer says: "As the true church emerges from its long eclipse behind "This means that creedal formulations must be abandoned our man-made churches, our denominational walls must crum- as constitutional standards, and that the truth of the Christian ble. They are already in the process of crumbling. Strong faith shall be entrusted to the fellowship of Christ's people. It forces both inside and outside the denominations are making means that the interpretation of the Bible, and the Bible itself, breaches in the walls that separate Christians from one an- shall be given their true place, which is not in the constitution other. Our differences are falling into the background. Our of the church where Christ alone is sovereign, but in its fellow- unities are coming to the fore."—Ibid., p. 25. ship, that Christ may be all and in p. 222. Thus it is the writer's idea that all who name the A Dangerous Idea name Christian can be united in one great universal ,These are brave words from one who is promoting church, no matter what they believe in regard to the church union as much as any man today. However, there teachings or the standards of Christianity. The great are less courageous souls in this same movement who idea is to present to the world the form of a united would declare that Mr. Morrison is running far ahead Christian church, though inwardly the members of that of the movement. Nevertheless, the sentiment for a church may have varied ideas as to its doctrines. united Christian church on any basis is growing. There It is indeed difficult to follow such reasoning. How are many church leaders of the larger denominations and such an accomodation could possibly be the fulfillment great groups of the laity also who have little regard for of Christ's prayer that the church should be one is some- the theological differences that set them apart one from thing beyond comprehension. In Christ's -prayer for another. They see more urgency for bringing all Chris- unity He said, "Sanctify them through thy word: thy tians into one fold in this time of crisis than in seeking word is truth." Surely sanctification has in it the idea unanimity on points of doctrine. The idea of establish- AUGUST 20, 1953 11 ing a united Christian front in order that Christians so vaguely of the Advent. In general, they no longer might wield a greater power in the world is a dangerous believe in creation. To them the first chapter of Genesis one. Unless that unity is to be used as a spiritual in- is but a myth, or at best an allegory, certainly not a fluence alone, the church would repeat the evil history description of a literal event that suddenly set on its of the Dark Ages when the united church of that time way this earth of ours finished and perfect. imposed its will upon rulers and people alike. As churchmen gradually came under the spell of the No one in the ecumenical movement today, of course, modern scientific age, with its dazzling discoveries and has such an end in mind. But it is very possible that if its plausible theories, they first sought to harmonize a forced merger of all the larger Protestant churches the story of creation with the theory of evolution. But takes place, the resulting institution may turn out to be the two could not be harmonized. That is why the something different from the true church of Christ. It creation story was finally rationalized away into the may become another apostate church that feels it has realm of myth. the divine right to dictate to the world as to both re- The discarding of Genesis was inevitable when church- ligious and political matters in order to establish what men once accepted the premises on which science builds it will falsely think is the kingdom of God. That such its theories. Miracles have no place in science, and an eventuality will come to pass in the last days is what creation is a miracle. The creation record presents sud- Bible prophecy declares. den acts that transform the world, but science has no What this means to Seventh-day Adventists will be place for such. All changes must come slowly and be presented in another editorial. F. L. explainable in terms of the natural processes that have been in operation since the fathers fell asleep. For the slow changes of endless ages are the scientific substitute The Antidote for Apostasy-2 for miracles. But when they abandoned creation churchmen also Vague Views on Advent abandoned the truth so basic to the Genesis record, that this world of ours was originally perfect. In its place Last, week we stated that one of the remarkable de- they substituted the idea of a slowly evolving earth, whose velopments in religious circles today is the attention varied forms of life made their way upward from the being given to the doctrine of the Second Advent. We primeval ooze, until finally man appeared. But though noted, however, that churchmen are quite silent as to man stood thus at the top of the evolutionary scale, the time when the Advent may be expected. We offered evolutionists confessed that he carried in his body the certain reasons for this silence. We wish now to examine inherited traits of his animal ancestors that must slowly the strange fact that- churchmen are distressingly vague be bred out of him through further long ages. as to the nature and effects of the Advent. Why is this? Churchmen insisted that evolution did not eliminate The answer was suggested by the evidence presented God. They declared that evolution was God's way of last week. Let us explore the matter more fully, for it making the world. But what they did not realize was has very great significance. this, that in changing their idea of the origin of our Men can find little hope in the vague idea that the earth they were changing also their idea of God. Second Advent means simply a blazing climax to earth's history. If the Second Advent is to have true significance The Bible Picture of God .for us, it should do something more than simply set The Bible presents a picture of God as not only pos- the world afire. Is that the ultimate and irretrievable sessing great power but also as exercising it to bring fate of our world? Is it to hurtle forever through space, forth instantly a perfect world and perfect people upon a burned-out shell, to remind the universe of the failure it. The Bible also presents God as a being very real, of a plan of God, who had created it to be inhabited? very personal, and in very immediate paternal relation- Or if there is something beyond this, what is it that ship to man, that indeed man was made in His likeness follows the fire? .and image. We read that God came down to the garden And what of the righteous living and righteous dead in the cool of the evening to commune with man. at the Second Advent? The very idea of the ascension to But according to the evolution theory, even when it is heaven of living men has heretofore provoked only viewed as God's way of making the world, we must ridicule from most churchmen whenever Adventists have picture God as requiring endless ages to produce man preached it. Nor have modern religionists been any and endless more ages to lift him fully above his animal less critical of the idea of a literal resurrection. All this inheritance. As already noted, such a God must be involves the miraculous, and that has been quite ruled viewed, not as the master, but as the servant of so-called out by modern churchmen. natural laws. It is this very conception of God and of the origin The Advent and Creation of our earth that creates for churchmen their dilemma The only way the Advent can be rightly understood, and confusion as they confront the crisis in the world so far as its ultimate effects are concerned, is against the and hesitantly begin to speak of the Second Advent of background of the original creation of our earth. At Christ. This will be evident as we proceed, creation the purpose of God for our earth and all upon In our discussion of the Second Advent in these it was revealed. The Bible declares that the ultimate of columns last month, we explained that the two ideas the Second Advent is a second creation. Thus we cannot on which the modern hope of an earthly heaven was hope to understand the real purpose of the Advent raised were: first, the idea of the inevitable progress of unless we understand creation, for the one is the sequel the world, and second, the idea of the perfectibility of to the other. After the consuming fire there is to be a man. Now it was Darwin's evolution theory, brought new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteous- forth in mid-nineteenth century, that seemed to provide ness. And it is this brilliant new world, inhabited by scientific proof for these two ideas. Indeed it was only righteous beings, that becomes the proof to the universe when these ideas seemed verified by science that church- that God's plans and purposes know no defeat. men began to readjust their thinking on Genesis. But it is this very fact that the Second Advent can But today these notions of inevitable progress and truly be understood only against the background of man's possible perfectibility stand so starkly exposed creation that best explains why most churchmen speak as incredible that churchmen are left with no foundation 12 REVIEW AND HERALD

on which to rest a hope for the future except as they earthly heaven tie together. There can be no debate on turn to the Second Advent. But the theologians who this point. And it 4s because churchmen are hopelessly have begun to speak of the Advent still believe in evolu-v blinded by the allegedly scientific evidence for evolution, don and the scientific conception of nature that rules and against miracles, that they are able at best to speak out the miraculous. The most charitable thing that can but vaguely about the Second Advent. Here is the be said about such churchmen is that they have not dilemma of present-day religionists. fully thought through the implications of the Second Advent doctrine. It is still too new to them. Indeed, the The Evil Heart of Man very vagueness with which they speak of the Advent And that dilemma is heightened by a closely related reveals clearly that they have no true understanding of it. factor. The human heart is by nature in rebellion against We would stress the fact that the Second Advent and God. Sinful man does not like to retain God in his creation tie together, evolution and the idea of an memory. As scientific premises increasingly narrowed down the field of the supernatural and explained every- thing in terms of natural laws, God became less and less • necessary in explanation of anything. And besides, had not science discovered that ours is a very tiny world in a very vast universe? How unreasonable, then, to think of a very personal God being directly related to us or Events of Our Time concerned with our affairs. Perhaps there is a God, but He means little or nothing to us in particular. He is unnecessary to our plans or to our destiny. Thus it was easy for man to lose the central idea of the Rainless Days in Texas personality of God in the vastness of interstellar space, Thirty-six months of drought in west Texas and adjoining States with the ultimate result that God became nothing more has brought economic hardship and physical distress to the South- than an impersonal force. Indeed, to that very attitude west. The devastating dust storms of the thirties, which gave birth of mind a majority of scientific men ultimately came. to the Texas and Oklahoma dust bowls, were bad, but this is worse. Nor did many of the Protestant clergy stand out strongly "From Laredo to the Gulf, a 250-mile stretch, the 'mighty' Rio against this trend that was taking from God His person- Grande was dried up. For the 50th day this year heat in Texas ality, in fact evaporating Him. As already noted, too soared above 100°. Cattle, skin stretched bone-tight for lack of many churchmen came to a conception of God that re- feed, sold for 6c to 14c a pound against 50c a year ago. Only half moved Him far from the world, tied His hands with of the cotton crop would be realized. The $3 million tomato crop may be a total loss.... The drought had spread to 10 other states, the laws of nature, and threw man largely on his own as far north as Colorado and Missouri and as far east as Tennessee." resources in the remaking of this world. F. D. N. "President Eisenhower declared part of the region a disaster area." (To be continued) —Life, July 6, 1953, p. 11. In places hardest struck by the drought, water is rationed, crops have burned up, and the people take a grim, anxious view of the whole tragedy. Thirty-six months is a long time to be without rain. O.H.M.S. Water seems very precious when the soil is baked and cracked by the sun, the river beds dried up, and the pastures burned to a crisp. In our travels we went into a government office. Lying Parched lips in Texas are praying for rain. Twenty-five per cent on a desk was a large envelope with the letters O.H.M.S. below the average rainfall is not enough to quench the thirst of printed on the upper left-hand corner. Those who have millions of people, vast herds of livestock, and thousands of square lived or worked within the British realm know the miles of dusty dry soil. significance of those letters. They mean "On His Majesty's Where there is no water, there is no food; so hunger becomes Service." Those who have official connection with the the doleful twin of thirst. Texans have petitioned the United States government of the realm are entitled to use these letters Government for long-term loans to provide feed for their cattle. on the stationery of their office. The people are eating. There is water enough for all to drink, but west Texas is having a taste of dry, bad, feverish weather, with As we looked at that envelope it occurred to us that much inconvenience and hardship. By the time this issue of the those letters, or what they stand for, should be stamped REVIEW goes to press, the much-desired rain may have come to on the life and activity of every Christian. How true it is end the drought. that every one of us is or should be "On His Majesty's The prophet Joel saw the day coming not too far distant when Service." the whole earth will be afflicted by a nearly scorching sun. "Alas His Majesty Jesus made a very interesting and impor- for the day!" he sighed, "for the day of the Lord is at hand, and tant statement regarding His work in this world: "As as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come" (Joel 1:15). "The long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world" seed shrivels under the clods, the storehouses are desolate; the (John 9:5). We are told that "in Him was life; and the granaries are ruined because the grain has failed. How the beasts life was the light of men" (John 1:4). It was the life of groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them. . . . Even the wild beasts cry to thee because the water Jesus, what- He was, the way He lived, what He did, brooks are dried up, and fire has devoured the pastures of the what He taught, that was the light of man. wilderness" (verses 17-20, R.S.V.). "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill Worse still will be the famine and the thirst for God. Said the cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it prophet Amos, "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before' men, thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord: and they that they may see your good works [the kind of life you live], shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, and glorify your Father which is in heaven" (Matt. 5:14-16). they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall We can be the light of the world only as we reflect the not find it" (Amos 8:11-13). We may prepare for the spiritual famine by filling the storehouses light from the source of all light, from Jesus. "He asks of the soul with the Word of God. When physical distress comes us to be absolutely and completely for Him in this world we will be wholly dependent upon the mercy of God, but His as He is for us in the presence of God."—Acts of the promise is sure. The Christian shall "dwell with the devouring Apostles, p. 566. We are here in this world to live His fire. . . . Bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure" (La. life so completely that the world shall be lighted with 33:14-16). There is absolutely no condition that is hopeless when His life. Yes! He expects us to be "On His Majesty's God is with His trusting, obedient children. Service" as long as we are in this world. j. L. M.

AUGUST 20, 1953 13 processes of restoration found in nature. This is healing Modern Healing Cults just as much as instantaneous and miraculous mending To a certain class of people miracles have always been of the body. God more often heals this way than by an a sign of true religion. Particularly has the healing of abrupt and sudden speeding up of natural processes by the sick been accepted as certain evidence that God is divine intervention. This is fundamentally the way present to bless the afflicted ones. Numerous healing God restores the sick to health. cults in our day have capitalized upon this credulous There is also in nature a law of cause and effect that aspect of man's nature to secure a following. And there works in every human being. Sickness itself is an effect. are many thousands of sincere Christian people who God wants the sick to reason from cause to effect, so follow these healing cults with complete confidence, that they will abandon those habits that brought on certain that God is with the faith healers. Some Seventh- disease. The devotees of vice and immorality will at day Adventists are raising questions about these strange times abandon their wrong practices when they see how movements in Christendom. Is the Lord's power re- terrible are the consequences of sin. And when they vealed through these healing cults? Are the sick actually become conscious that their bodies are the temple of the healed at their meetings? Should we attend these gather- Holy Ghost, they frequently are induced to abandon ings where the healer places his hand upon the head of forever every form of vice. the sick, and in the name of Christ, prays for healing? As the result of the work of these zealous preachers, Satan's Work in "Healing" it appears that actual cases of cancer, heart disease, Satan has the power to afflict the bodies of men and paralysis, blindness, deafness, and other diseases are ef- women, and when he desires, relieve them of their dis- fectually healed. tresses. Many of the sick are the victims of satanic in- What actually happens when such prayers are offered fluences; some are actually devil possessed. In our day for the sick only God knows. We would not mock the as in Christ's day there is a deplorable state of affairs in sick who suffer so, or depreciate their faith; nor would human life and experience. Frequently Satan relin- we pass judgment upon the work of the faith healers, quishes his control temporarily upon the bodies and or unkindly denounce the healing cults. We will do far minds of his victims and works through the instru- more good to present the truth concerning the healing mentality of faith healers—so-called—who are credited of the sick, and urge our people to relate themselves with great feats of healing power. to these phenomena in the religious world about us Listen to the following as we have it from the pen according to the light that God has given us in His Word of God's inspired messenger: and the Spirit of prophecy. We need also to present the "As the curtain was lifted and I was shown the corruption facts concerning the conditions under which God will of this age, my heart sickened, my spirit nearly fainted within undertake the restoration of the sick. me. . . . Evil angels are upon our track every moment. We First of all, let there be no doubt about God's ability expect a readiness on the part of bad men to act as Satan to heal the most malignant cases of disease. This He suggests; but while our minds are unguarded against his invis- does at times in a miraculous manner in answer to the ible agents, they assume new ground and work marvels and prayers of "the elders of the church." This we must miracles in our sight. Are we prepared to resist them by the believe, or we limit the power of God (see James 5:14-18). word of God, the only weapon we can use successfully? Second, when God heals the sick He must have their "Some will be tempted to receive these wonders as from God. The sick will be healed before us. Miracles will be per- decision to live a clean life. We are told: formed in our sight. Are we prepared for the trial which awaits "It is labor lost to teach people to look to God as the healer us when the lying wonders of Satan shall be more fully exhib- of their infirmities, unless they are taught also to lay aside ited?"—Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 302. unhealthful practises. In order to receive His blessing in answer to prayer, they must cease to. do evil and learn to do well. Associated with many healing cults is a supernatural Their surroundings must be sanitary, their habits of life cor- influence that leads its devotees into the grip of an rect. They must live in harmony with the law of God, both evil power. The curious and the gullible will flock to natural and spiritual."—The Ministry of Healing, pp. 227, 228. meetings where supernatural manifestations occur and "Go and Sin No More" where the sick are actually prostrated by the healer's touch. In the name of Christ the faith healers work with God's word to those who would be healed of physical Satan himself to accomplish signs and wonders. Actually disease is the same- as His command to those whose this is a form of Spiritualism. We have been told that hearts have been cleansed of sin: "Go, and sin no more." "through Spiritualism, Satan appears as a benefactor of God will not be invoked in prayer for the healing of the race, healing the diseases of the people."—The Great tobacco-smeared, liquor-soaked, vice-defiled sick folks to Controversy, p. 589. The time will come when he will whom no word of warning concerning these defiling appear "to the children of men as a great physician who practices has been spoken. He will not heal these peo- can heal all their maladies."—Ibid. And while he de- ple, and thus lengthen the years of their .indulgence ceives poor suffering humanity, he is bringing disease and in sin. Genuine healings are associated with true reforma- disaster upon the cities and villages of the world. tion of life—not only from the grosser but from the All of which should lead Seventh-day Adventists to milder forms of physical sin. The mind and will must take a positive position against the healing cults and to consent to a clean life if God is to heal the sick. Even restrain any impulse to attend their meetings. We may then we may not know what God will do. avail ourselves of the precious promise of James 5 when Third, not all who seek healing are healed, not even and if serious disease fastens its hold upon us. The all of those who sincerely reform their habits of life and ministers of the Adventist Church are prepared to take exercise faith in God's promises. Paul prayed that God to God in prayer the cases of all who truly have cleared would remove the thorn in his flesh on three different the King's highway of sin and are prepared to live occasions, but God did not see fit to do this. Thus faith wholly for God. (Please read carefully Ministry of Heal- does not always bring healing for the sick. It does, ing, pages 225-233.) The Great Physician still lives to however, always bring pardon for sin and grace to endure heal His people, and we still expect many miraculous affliction. healings to take place, but the health-giving power of Frequently the sick for whom prayer is offered are Heaven is exhibited only under circumstances in healed as the consequence of the slow but certain harmony with the Divine Word. D. A. D. 14 REVIEW AND HERALD News From the World Field

step of obedient faith in setting out to Extending Our Foreign Mission Work comply with the command, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel." But By R. R. Figuhr, Vice-President that grave has not become the high-water General Conference mark of Seventh-day Adventist mission endeavor. The tide has rolled on into many other lands, and has reached many millions of people. Now other missionary The words "Missions Extension" have foreign missionaries, we as a people had graves scattered over the face of the earth a strong appeal to Seventh-day Adventists much more faith than we had resources. from the high mountain plateaus to jun- and strike a responsive chord in hearts Our funds were pitifully meager in those gle valleys, yea, even in the trackless seas, around the world. Our people cherish days, measured by our financial yardstick indicate further progress as we have stead- every indication that our worldwide pro- of today. Faith was the greatest resource ily moved forward with this message. gram of foreign missions is taking ad- they had. As by faith the worthies of He- vance strides. We love to have a part in brews 11 launched out upon great proj- The Tide Is Rolling On the extending of mission activity ever ects for God, so did our small group of Today the tide is still rolling on. The farther out into all the world. This is the believers set out on their great task of en- secret of the success of this program is reason for the strong appeal of the Mis- compassing the world with this message. found under God in the hearts of our sions Extension Offering each year. Faith, sacrifice, and devotion were the church members. They love the work of It was in a very humble way that our motivating words, and the results have the Lord. When calls come, when needy Adventist forefathers launched this de- been astounding. projects are presented, they respond. They nomination on its world program of mis- The grave of our devoted missionary gladly send their sons and daughters afar sions. When that first handful of believers pioneer who led our first band of mission- to be missionaries. They give of their waved farewell to our pioneer band of aries into a foreign land marks our first means for missions as they do to no other cause. One is persuaded that the un- feigned faith that dwelt first in the pio- neers of this message lives on in their sons and daughters of today. This is as it should be. Not less faith, not less devo- tion, not less sacrifice, should be seen among God's people as the end ap- proaches, but ever more. We must have the faith of our spiritual forefathers. The day hastens on when the words "It is finished" shall sound over this old earth, and the mission program so hum- bly but courageously launched nearly fourscore years ago shall have been fin- ished. Every nation, kindred, tongue, and people will have been reached. There will be no further need for offerings. The last- offering will have been received. All for- eign mission endeavor will have come to an end. The church's divinely assigned task will have been finished. Today the last great sign, the preaching of the gospel to all the world, has not yet been fulfilled. So again this year we have the Missions Extension Offering to help us fulfill the prophecy. The date is Sep- tember 12. It is to aid in carrying still National Leadership in the South Pacific farther the glad news of the near ap- proach of the Redeemer. This offering Our photograph shows a group of our sion; and Salau, •president of the Eastern has in the past been a strong factor in national presidents in the Bismarck-Solomons Papuan Mission. establishing medical units, schools, and and Coral Sea Union missions. From left to These national presidents have faithfully publishing houses. These all mean so right they are: Pastors Rogapitu, Sasa Rore, served as workers for many years, and have much in carrying on our world program. Kata Ragoso, and Manovaki. (Pastor Salau proved themselves worthy of the responsi- was missing when picture was taken.) Roga- bilities of leadership now entrusted to their Without the medical work many doors pitu is president of the New Ireland Mission; care. Let us pray that God will give them that today stand open would still be Sasa Rore, president and treasurer of the wisdom for their important work in these closed. As one has so aptly put it, many Malaita Mission; Kata Ragoso, president of large island fields. a closed door has been opened to the mis- the Western Solomons Mission; Manovaki, F. A. MOTE, President, sionary at the point of the doctor's lancet. president and treasurer of the Manus Mis- Australasian Inter-Union Conference. The Master Himself has set the example AUGUST 20, 1953 15 of effective missionary work by so admi- rably combining the art of healing with that of preaching. Schools Follow the Missionary Schools follow in the wake of the mis- sionary. As he enters new lands and terri- tories, schools must be opened and na- tional workers trained if the work is to be firmly established. Literature, that potent evangelistic and stabilizing instrument, cannot be over- looked. In many lands we have printing presses running, turning out literature in about two hundred. languages. The con- stant call is for more literature. The Missions Extension Offering is de- voted to building up these three phases of our work. As one travels about, he sees medical work, schools, and printing plants that have been established and equipped through this offering. What a marvelous work they are accomplishing! With our ever-expanding program, the need for larger assistance is evident. We therefore hope that the September 12 Missions Ex- Gold Coast Workers' Meeting tension Offering will prove a real help in further extending our foreign mission One of the high lights of the workers' cussion of better evangelistic and teaching work. institute held at Bekwai, Gold Coast, West methods. A. J. Mustard addressed the work- Africa, was the ordination of four young ers in the opening meeting, taking as a theme men to the gospel ministry. Three African for his sermon the words of Christ, "Come ministers were ordained: E. B. Akyiano, . . . , and rest a while." It was a privilege The Bechuanaland A. A. Agyei and S. K. Essel. The fourth to have J. 0. Gibson, president of the West Mission Field worker, A. M. Moyer, is a missionary from African Union, and D. V. Cowin, the edu- the United States. cational secretary, with us. These brethren By M. M. Webster, President E. B. Akyiano is doing pioneering work in gave valuable help. the Northern Territories among a popula- On Sunday night the meetings were Have you ever thought what it would tion largely made up of Mohammedans and brought to a fitting conclusion by a con- be like to attend a Sabbath school way off pagans. A. A. Agyei and S. K. Essel are secration service conducted by D. V. Cowin. Several workers and members took the op- in the bush in Bechuanaland, South laboring in the south near the coast, where, under God's blessing, each has experienced portunity of coming to the platform and Africa, where there are few facilities for good success in strengthening the church. testifying to a renewed consecration to God's church services of any kind? Most of the A. M. Moyer is assistant principal of our work. Before the service closed the whole Sabbath schools meet in little huts, and seminary in the Gold Coast, to which post congregation signified its desire to reconse- many times in the home of a faithful he was appointed in 1948. crate lives and talents to finishing the work member. Perhaps the one who gives the Apart from the Sabbath meetings, two full of God. P. H. STEARMAN, missions reading is just a nervous little days were given for Bible study and dis- President, Gold Coast Mission. girl who hardly knows what she is read- ing, but she reads on, hoping that, by some word she is able to say, the work of the Sabbath school will be promoted. Lord as his little Sabbath school. He is Let us now go deep into the bush and Let me take you to several of these Sab- doing ,all this with no help except the visit the bushmen's Sabbath school. There bath schools. At one place, in the north small hands of the faithful children who in the heart of an ordinary bushman God of this protectorate, a man by the name are still standing by him. For two years awakened the desire for truth. He had a of C. D. Mguni and his wife are living. he has been fighting the Lord's battles. dream that he should go to a certain place They both accepted the truth a few years He brings his little group to be baptized in Johannesburg, which is a very long ago through the Voice of Prophecy. He every year. Would your faith stand the journey from where he lives, and there was living with his father in the same test if you were placed in Brother Mguni's find the true church of God. He went, and village, and because the father belongs to position? finally found the people to whom he was some other mission society, he told his sent, but he was still not satisfied. He son that he could not continue living Special Providences went back home and had another dream. there. In spite of the prejudice, the angel- of This time he was told to go to a certain Brother Mguni was conducting a Sab- God enter the homes, and by dreams and man named William Moyo, who would bath school in this village, and many chil- visions the people are directed to join the show him the truth. He had to walk 150 dren were coming, but the people were church. One girl dreamed she saw three miles to reach this man, but he walked prejudiced, and opposed him in his work. companies, representing the different so- this distance, and found the man with the They would stand in the paths leading to cieties of the area where she lived. Around truth. He did not know how to read, but his home to chase away the children who the Seventh-day Adventist group shone a with a little help from one of his friends tried to attend the Sabbath school. But he bright light, and she was admonished to he began to learn, and has since taught did not become discouraged. He moved join that group. Then a strong light shone himself. out of his father's village, chose a place upon her, and these words were flashed Because he was a bushman he was a fore himself, and there built his home. He before her: "Remember the sabbath day, slave to the tribe among whom he lives also gathered the grass, intending to build to keep it holy." So we see that the work and was used as their cattle herdsman. a little place that he can dedicate to the is being built up by these providences. He was also excused from tax. After he 16 REVIEW A.ND HERALD had received the truth he told the people River emptying into the Amazon—the consin Conference; J. B. Penner, editor that he was not herding cattle any more, dark waters of the former maintaining of the German Signs of the Times, and for he had a message to preach. They took a distinct separation from the latter for the writer joined Brother Roth- in con- his cattle from him and imprisoned his a number of miles. I was impressed by ducting the dedicatory service. Two dedi- wife, but all this did not shake him. He the many hills in this region. Losing alti- catory sermons, one in German and one was also told by the district commissioner tude, we swooped over the city of Mangos in English, were given by H. L. Rudy. that he now had to begin paying tax be- and soon landed at the airport, to be met The c..nference president offered the ded- cause he was a preacher. by Pastors Walter and Claudimir. The icatory prayer, and the congregation His wife is now with him, having been flight took a little more than four hours joined Elder Penner in the act of dedica- released from prison, and every year he —an unforgettable experience because it tion. and his little flock walk 150 miles each was a panoramic picture of my jungle Mrs. Marie De Smith, of the Sheboygan way to camp meeting. It would do your parish. church, and Ernest Runge, a student of heart good to see this poorly clad bush- Emmanuel Missionary College, sang sev- man taking out of his ragged pocket his eral beautiful solos. Others contributed camp meeting offering and tithe that he Dedication of Milwaukee greatly to the feast of good things over had gathered from his people. He makes German Church the weekend, and particularly the dedica- beautiful baskets, and God provides for tion service. On Sabbath the attendance him and those he is endeavoring to teach By H. L. Rudy, Vice-President was up to capacity throughout the entire the Word of the Lord. day. Here in Bechuanaland our greatest General Conference need is for small houses of worship, where, A series of evangelistic meetings will be The German church members in, Mil- held in this building by the pastor and through the Sabbath school and weekly waukee, Wisconsin, are now comfortably worship, personal evangelism can be car- his associates this fall. The church and housed in their own building. About a the conference are looking forward to a ried 46n effectively. Pray that God will year ago the congregation bought what help us to realize these needs soon. large increase in the membership of the was known as the Concordia Lutheran Milwaukee German church. church building. This was a solidly con- structed edifice with two auditoriums Flight Over the Amazon (one on the second and one on the first Jungle floor) and a well-equipped basement. An It is well that we learn the lesson of immense amount of free labor, plus about quietness. It is the secret of power. It will By R. F. Correia eight thousand dollars for building ma- save us from outbursts of temper, and terials and supplies, went into the reno- from saying the rash and hasty words I arrived at Belem airport just as the vation and modernization of this church which one hour afterward we should be early morning sun was breaking over home. sorry for having said. . . . It will enable the steaming jungle. There I was met by The main auditorium is on the top us to be cheerful and patient amid the Pastor Walkerio and our two Argentine floor, with a seating capacity of about cares and vexations of life.—J. R. Miller. nurses who were to accompany me on 250. The auditorium my flight to Mangos, over a thousand on the first floor miles up the Amazon River in the very serves as a classroom heart of this vast jungleland. and is suitable for Before us was our airplane, Cruzeiro many kinds of serv- do Sul ("Cross of the South"), whose ices. A well-equipped aluminum body scintillated in the tropi- kitchen in the base- cal sunlight. Entering the ship, we pre- ment, with adjacent pared ourselves for the trip. recreation hall pro- As we took to the air I sat at the vides excellent facili- window gazing at the passing scene be- ties for the social ac- low. Stretched out beneath in an unfor- tivities of the church. gettable panorama was the world's largest A large vacant area jungle--a veritable inferno verde ("green on the corner of the hell"). As we were flying along at six church lot has been thousand feet, as far as the eye could developed into a see, the green pattern of the extensive lovely park to add matted floresta dominated the view, beauty to the well- broken only by the giant serpentine blue situated property. of the mighty Amazon River. The weekend of There below was one of the last fron- June 12 and 13 be- tiers of the world, as yet largely uncon- came historic in the quered and undiscovered by modern life of the church. man. Inhabited by snakes and savages, Under the direction a good part of the Amazon jungle is still of Daniel F. Roth, awaiting the message of the Master. My the district pastor, a heart hung heavy as I pondered the strug- series of special serv- gles and sacrifices yet to be made to carry ices was planned, the cross of Christ to the inner recesses of culminating in the this mighty mata. dedication of the As we neared Mangos rough weather building on Sabbath tossed our plane about like a feather in afternoon, June 13, a brisk breeze. The high waters of the 1953. Henry Uhl, as- rainy season enlarged the inland lakes sistant district pas- and flooded the banks of the river. Ap- tor; H. J. Capman, , proaching Mangos, we saw the Negro president of the Wis- The Milwaukee, Wisconsin, German church. AUGUST 20, 1953 17 Meat, fish, eggs, milk, and cheese have diet is a great stimulus. The Lord always The New Nutrition been largely depended upon to supply has something better than that which He Research Laboratory this protein until substitutes are found. would have us discard. It might prove a hardship nutritionally to By Harry W. Miller, M.D., Director Until the very recent past Seventh-day discard them entirely, without proper sub- Adventist diet reform has had little op- The new Nutrition Research Labora- stitutes. These can be found through care- portunity for food research. However, tory at La Sierra, California, is about to ful scientific research and experimenta- since the inception of the International be opened to definite research work. Al- tion. Surely the time has arrived to address Nutrition Research Foundation two years ready a well-qualified group of technical ourselves seriously to this important work. ago, some progress has been made. The experts on nutrition have been placed on Every kind of food should be put to first reward based upon research was the the consultive staff of the laboratory. the test in the laboratory. Questions an- acceptance of soya milk (trade name Soy- These include W. D. Leech, Ph.D.; Miss swered should be: Does it promote blood alac) by the American Medical Associa- Lydia Sonnenberg, M.A.; Mervyn Har- building, bone development, good growth, tion's Council on Foods and Nutrition as dinge, M.D., Ph.D.; U. D. Register, Ph.D.; fertility, and well-being? Do we find meeting the requirements for nourishing R. F. Chinnock, M.D.; Virgil L. Koenig, causes for scurvy, rickets, liver damage, the new born through its nursing period. Ph.D.; Ola K. Gant, Ph.D.; Miss Dorothea anemia, or other deficiencies? If these are In order that this recognition might be Van Gundy, B.S.; George T. Chapman; brought to the test of science, we can gained, extensive feeding experiments and A. A. Cree. Directly in charge of the know and not speculate, in regard to such were needed, comparing vegetable milk analytical laboratory will be W. D. Leech, questions. Methods are now available to and animal milk in feeding tests. When Ph.D., assisted by Robert Macomber; in prove food values nutritionally. all the data was submitted to this most charge of the dietary and cookery depart- We can always be, sure that thorough authoritative body on nutrition science, ment will be Miss Dorothea Van Gundy, scientific research will support and not they issued accreditation to Soyalac as well versed and trained in nutrition. contradict Inspiration. To research work- being a safe and wholesome infant food Research in nutrition is fundamental ers it is of the greatest encouragement to similar in nutritional results to that of as a guide to a healthy life. Fortunately embark upon problems that Inspiration animal milk. This perhaps is the first the time has arrived when every theory of has foretold would be accomplished. The time that a vegetable substitute for an nutrition can be put to the test. Labora- assurance that the Lord will give wisdom animal milk has been put to the test chem- tory methods are now available to prove to those who study to find suitable sub- ically, biologically, and clinically. Cer- or to disprove the truth of assertions and stitutes for meat, eggs, and milk in the tainly no test as between a vegetable diet assumptions regarding foods. It is impor- tant that we scrutinize the food that is to become the building material on which to grow and maintain life. Seeking the Most Healthful Food Experience only is not sufficient proof of the truth of what constitutes nutri- tional values. We are to go as far as pos- sible in investigating what are the facts. just such investigation and assurance of help in finding the truth is promised in the following quotations: "He who in the building of the taber- nacle gave skill and understanding in all manner of cunning work, will give skill and understanding to His people in the combining of natural food products, thus showing them how to secure a healthful diet.. . "Until we can teach them how to pre- pare health reform foods that are palat- able, nourishing, and yet inexpensive, we are not at liberty to present the most ad- vanced propositions regarding health re- form diet. Let the diet reform be pro- gressive. Let the people be taught how to prepare food without the use of milk or butter. Tell them that the time will soon come when there will be no safety in using eggs, milk, cream, or butter, because disease in animals is increasing in propor- tion to the increase of wickedness among Lending Library at Manila Sanitarium men. . . . God will give His people abil- ity and tact to prepare wholesome food Here is a picture of a nurse lending a circulating library are from our brethren without these things."—Testimonies, vol. copy of The Great Controversy to one of in the United States. It is kind of our people 7, pp. 132-135. our patients at Manila Sanitarium and in America to have sent these good books From the preceding it is perfectly clear Hospital. The nurse works out of the chap- to our patients here in the Philippines. that some foods now used must be dis- lain's office. Every morning she goes with We are keeping in contact with twenty- six persons whose interests have been aroused carded from the diet, that through re- her books and lends them to interested patients. My record shows that about 60 in the hospital while they were here as search substitutes will be found for them, per cent of our inpatients are borrowing patients. A goodly number of other names and that food plants in many places will these books every day. This is quite signifi- have been sent to the mission headquarters be built for providing the same. cant, because most of our patients are for follow-up work by our field workers. One of the most essential items of diet Catholics. E. A. DE LEON, Chaplain, is protein in proper quantity and quality. Most of the books we have in this patients' Manila Sanitarium and Hospital. 18 REVIEW AND HERALD and an animal diet could be more difficult to prove than to replace mother's milk for the newborn infant. And yet today literally hundreds of babies are thriving on a vegetable milk, starting from birth. Another major triumph was achieved about a year ago (1952) when we pre- sented before the Federal Security Agency (Food and Drug Administration) an ap- peal requesting the substitution of soya milk for cow's milk in the manufacture of margarine, so as to have a 100 per cent vegetable spread to replace cow's butter. Extensive experimental data was again presented and on May 15, 1952, the Fed- eral Security Agency ruled favorably on the appeal, so that today the Federal Stat- utes on Definition of Identity for Mar- garine Manufacture recognizes and per- mits soya milk substitution for animal Evangelistic group who worked with Pastor Nembhard in the Prophetic Crusade at Port of Spain, Trinidad. milk in the making of margarine. This effort resulted in the baptism of 102 souls on May 3. There have been several other impor- tant rulings that were needed and have Baptism in Port of Spain, Associated with the writer in the cru- been made, placing soya milk among the sade were four ministerial graduates of favored list alongside animal milk, such Trinidad the Caribbean Training College—Edison as in the matter of allocation of tin for Pascall, Roy Hoyte, Erskine Bovell, and containers, grants for export licenses, etc. By H. Edison Nembhard George Brown. In addition to these young Now that vegetable milk has been granted On May 3 many hundreds of our be- men were Sister Iris Wiltshire, Bible in- these credentials, the United Nations as lievers and their friends of the city of structor; W. W. Thomson, secretary of the well as some overseas governments are en- Port of Spain, Trinidad, and the sur- Book and Bible House of the conference; deavoring to extend the use of soya milk rounding districts gathered on the banks and M. E. Nebblett, who recently came as a replacement for cow's milk, since of the beautiful Maracas River to witness from the United States. animal milk is not sufficiently available. the baptism of 102 people. Many outstanding experiences of the Without research, facts could not be pre- This unforgettable event was the result miraculous transforming power of God sented and incredulity would have re- of a city-wide prophetic crusade launched were witnessed. One aged woman—prom- sulted. Today almost all government by the writer on January 18 in one of inent in another denomination—who agencies require data on standards, for- the quiet, residential sections of the city. walked a long distance to attend the meet- mula, nutritional yields, et cetera, all of These stirring meetings were held in a ings each night accepted the message and which require research on foods pur- large canvas auditorium. was baptized. chased. A young widow, after many weeks of The field before the research labora- earnest prayer, was successful in obtain- tory is a large one. Foremost it shall be ing Sabbath privileges, although she is a the purpose of this laboratory to put to secretary in one of the big business firms the test the food products that are now Hundreds of Youth Ready for in the city. There is nothing impossible produced and being marketed as replace- Mission Service with God. ments for meat, milk, eggs, butter, and By L. A. Skinner An old gentleman who is now seventy- cheese. Further, it will serve as a source six years old rode his bicycle a distance of of information on particular questions re- Sabbath afternoon during the Pan-Ameri- five miles every night to attend the meet- lating to the analysis, preparation, and can Youth Congress in San Francisco an ings. He is now a full-fledged member re- nutrition values of these foods. appeal was made for young people to de- joicing in the message. dare themselves willing to accept an appoint- The International Nutrition Research ment to foreign mission service. This appeal A mother and her four daughters who Foundation will become known as a scien- came at the close of the dramatic story live four miles from the city came regu- tific nutritional center that keeps fully of Dr. G. Hoehn and his emergency flight larly to the meetings, and at the close the abreast of the present-day trends in nutri- from Africa to the United States. As the entire family was baptized. tional research and advance, and will be cards were handed to the hundreds of young In spite of conservatism and the barriers able to recommend various processes avail- people who stood, 578 filled in their names of Catholicism, many prominent citizens, able for assaying, analyzing, and experi- and volunteered for service. high-ranking professional men, and mem- menting in order to develop facts con- These valiant youth will swell the ranks bers of the legislative council listened with cerning foods and their preparation. of foreign mission reserves, out of which will come definite appointments in the rapt attention to the unfolding of the One of the services that the Foundation future. Among these were doctors, dentists, prophecies. We have high hopes of seeing hopes to render will be that in behalf of graduate nurses, ministers, teachers, secre- some of these, like Nicodemus and Joseph foreign countries who desire information taries, students, and many other well-quali- of Arimathea, cast in their lot with us concerning the use of indigenous food fied persons. One graduate nurse wrote on before the end. On the closing night, products, and to define their nutritive her card, "I am willing to go to the hardest, after four months of preaching, there was values and their place in the human neediest, most remote place in the world." as large a crowd as on the opening night. dietary. Also we desire to find out how A teacher and secretary wrote on her card, As we continue the good work for to combine and process indigenous edibles "Most anxious to go as soon as possible." Christ we are encouraged as we constantly This is the spirit of Missionary Volunteers. into readily digestible and palatable It is easy to recognize the spirit of our meditate on the words of the psalmist: foods. As a result of better-balanced and pioneer workers in this spontaneous response. "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bear- more palatable dietaries at home and Before a year passes some of these very young ing precious seed, shall doubtless come abroad, we hope to create favor in behalf people will be on their way to the mission again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves of the science of nutrition. fields. with him." AUGUST 20, 1953 19 The Call to Advance The General Conference Staff Tell of Plans and Progress

to teach people to read is being demon- The Needs of Southern Asia strated today by Dr. Frank Laubach and his literacy team. This man, working un- By Erwin E. Roenfelt, Associate Secretary der the auspices of the World Literacy General Conference and Christian Literature Committee of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Christian Council of the United States, has become world renowned be- Southern Asia undoubtedly constitutes vision becomes the more perplexing as cause of his work in many lands and in al- the greatest challenge that faces the Ad- one considers the condition of the peo- most a hundred languages. By means of ventist people today. Within the con- ple. First of all, there is their extreme pictorial charts, and using techniques that fines of this division, which is comprised poverty. This is appalling and heart rend- he has developed, he has already opened of India, Pakistan, Burma, Ceylon, Af- ing. It is claimed that possibly 85 per a new world to multitudes in many lands. ghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet, are cent of the more than three hundred mil- It is his claim, and this he demonstrates, crowded about five hundred million peo- lion people of India have never known that by means of his methods an il- ple, more than three times the popula- what it feels like to have a full stomach. literate person can be taught to read tion of the United States. To carry the They are engaged in a constant struggle simple words in a day, and a book writ- message of Christ to these multiplied mil- to obtain sufficient food to save them- ten in simple language in two or three lions is a stupendous and staggering task, selves from absolute starvation. weeks. He himself has prepared several and how to accomplish it is a problem Unnumbered multitudes have no home books, one the story of Christ, in simple of tremendous proportions. or shelter of any kind. Their miserable language. According to his slogan, each In that field we have today 142 over- existence is eked out on the sidewalks of one who is taught to read is to teach an- seas workers-109 married and 33 single. the large cities and towns. At night these other, and to win him to Christ. This figure includes workers of every kind sidewalks are littered with sleeping hu- In my mind there is no doubt that —evangelists, pastors, teachers, doctors, man beings—men, women, and children the work Dr. Laubach is doing is in the nurses, office workers, et cetera. This lying there with nothing covering their providence of God. Multitudes are be- means that there is approximately one emaciated and naked bodies save a few ing prepared to become acquainted with overseas worker for every three and one- filthy rags or a wretched bit of bagging the everlasting gospel through the printed half million of the population. In addi- or burlap. Whole families are there, hud- page. In response to the invitation of the tion to these, we have a force of national dled together. Children are there. Moth- government of India, Dr. Laubach and workers, but their number is pitifully ers with their babies are there. Old men his team of helpers spent the last year small when considered in relation to the and old women are there. Babies are born in that country. Hundreds of literacy cen- teeming population among which they and children grow up on the sidewalks. ters were established in many parts of are scattered. There people live, there they get sick, and the country. Everywhere the people are Clearly, one of the crying needs of this there they die. eager to learn to read. Seventh-day Ad- great mission division is a vastly increased ventists, with their emphasis on Chris- number of workers, especially well-trained Illiteracy of the People tian literature, should capitalize on this nationals. Merely to answer the calls that Another factor that has a bearing on program. are coming to us just now requires many the great task of making known the mes- more workers than we have in the field sage of God to the multitudes of Southern To make people literate and then not at present. Asia is the illiteracy of the people. In to furnish them with literature that they Increasing the number of national India alone there are more than 250,- can read, serves no good purpose. The workers means the establishment of more 000,000 persons over five years of age who urgent need is for simple Christian liter- schools and colleges in which childreri cannot read and write, who are steeped ature that can be placed in the hands and young people are given a Christian in ignorance and superstition, who suffer of the new literates. Something unique education and are trained for service. It from sickness and disease, and who are and unprecedented will have to be done calls also for more overseas workers, not the victims of exploitation. to meet this need. First of all, writers will to serve as administrators and depart- We understand that the loud cry of have to be found with the ability to mental leaders, but to work side by side the angel of Revelation 18, through which present the message in the most simple with the national workers as counselors God's work on earth is to be finished, is language, and then literature will have and helpers, demonstrating to them how to be brought about-largely through the to be produced in quantities far exceed- to engage in effective and fruitful soul- work of our publishing houses. But of ing anything that we have done in the winning service. All of this involves an ex- what use is it to publish literature for past. Books, papers, and tracts in multi- penditure of vastly larger sums of money dissemination among illiterate people? plied millions of copies will have to flow than have been available up to the pres- For books, papers, and tracts to be of any from our publishing houses, and this liter- ent. How to provide the men and the value to them, they must first be taught ature will have to be made available to financial means with which to prosecute to read. What, therefore, is needed in the people at a price that, in their ex- and to finish the gigantic task that re- such lands as India is a great literacy pro- treme poverty, they are able to pay. mains to be done in Southern Asia is the gram and an army of literacy workers, These are a few of the aspects of the question that challenges the church of trained and qualified in literacy methods challenge of Southern Asia. How to make God today. and techniques, who can quickly teach known the message to the vast popula- The problem of carrying God's mes- people, even old people, to read. tions of that division and to finish the sage to all the people of this great di- That something can be done quickly work in that field is a problem that stag- 20 REVIEW AND HERALD gers human thought and imagination. But The Department of Education con- • we need not be afraid of it, for God is siders the Home and School Association greater than India. He is greater than a school for parents. Here, with some of Southern Asia. He is greater than the the best talent available in our ranks, Sabbath School world. He is greater than this problem very helpful material is brought to Department or any other that His church might face. parents: ways to help the child in school; He has declared that "he will finish the how to discipline; the part poetry plays work, and cut it short in righteousness," in the life of the' child; the importance and He will do it through His chosen of music, and the different ways in which Sabbath School Teach- and appointed agency—His church. the child can participate in it; the gift ers' Workshops of speech, and the essential part the parents play in developing this gift; help- In response to the plea, "Teach us ing the child to achieve emotional how to make those interesting song il- security; and many other vital topics. lustrations, memory verse booklets, and Department of This material is provided in the rela- attention devices," which always follows tively new thirty-two-page magazine. The our institute work, we have been experi- i---.Education Adventist Home and School, published menting this summer with a series of especially for the leaders of Home and Sabbath school teachers' workshops. School Associations and Parent Study The individual requirement of materi- Golden Opportunities Groups. It is issued every three months als was calculated for about ten different during the school year, and in addition one-and-one-half-hour workshop classes. As parents in Adventist homes, we are to the program for each month, the These classes were organized for certain most fortunate. We are not confused by leader will find many valuable sugges- definite accomplishments, as follows: the modern philosophies and changing tions: how to vary the meetings, how to Class No. 1. To make memory verse trends in child training, for we have the increase attendance, ways of meeting booklets and cradle roll teaching devices. never-changing truths of the Bible and financial needs, projects for both home Class No. 2. To make kindergarten the testimony of Jesus upon which to and school, and many other ideas chal- song illustrations—hearts and "family" base our way of life. How wonderful to lenging to both parents and teachers. folders. have the instruction and counsel from Even though this little periodical is Class No. 3. To learn the art of flocking the Lord to guide us in dealing with our entering its third year of publication, it and to make flocked ducks and chickens children. is to be regretted that many Home and for the "family" folders. "If you have children, you have a work School leaders have never yet had a copy. Class No. 4. To learn to use the panto- to do ... in the formation of their charac- Each leader should ask his conference graph, so that simple pictures can be ters."—The Adventist Home, p. 191. educational superintendent how he may enlarged for kindergarten work, and so "Never, never neglect your children." secure his copy. Many conferences order that, with practice, the Sabbath School —Ibid.,-p. 192. the magazines in bulk, at a cheaper rate; Worker cartoons can be enlarged for "The father and the mother should and the method of distribution varies in senior class teaching. work together."—Ibid., p. 190. different conferences. Class No. 5. To make primary and "The Lord has decreed that the family Isolated members not privileged to at- junior attention devices—crosses, ladders, shall be the greatest of all educational trees, an illustration of last-day decep- agencies."—Counsels tend parents' meetings may also enjoy to Parents, Teach- tions, and invisible writing. ers, and Students, p. 107. this magazine by ordering it from the "Parents should study the best and Southern Publishing Association, Box 59, Class No. 6. To make with saltpeter the most successful manner of winning the Nashville 2, Tennessee. Price, $1.00 a year. attention device known as "the hand- love and confidence of their children, that Parents, if you want ideas on hoW to writing on the wall." they may lead them in the right path." explore nature with your child; if you Class No. 7. To make with red and —The Adventist Home, p. 190. need a guide for telling the wonderful green ink and red cellophane paper the What a privilege it is to be able to story of how babies are born; if you device that illustrates the blotting out study, constantly to increase our knowl- seek ways of opening to your child the of sin. edge, of child training. As the teacher world of beauty in art, music, poetry, Class Nos. 8 and 9. To make paper each• year refreshes her knowledge and books; if you would welcome a guide for flower decorations. learns how to become more efficient with solving childhood problems, and a better Class No. 10. More pantograph draw- her pupils, so we as parents are inspired understanding of your growing children, ing. by further study and discussion of the read the books selected this year for The conference Sabbath school secre- ways to guide our children according to parents and sponsored by the Home and taries bought their supplies according the divine plan. School Associations. If there is no such to the number of delegates they expected; There is no regular school in North association in your church, form one im- then the number of delegates was divided America where all our parents can attend mediately and take advantage of all the by the number of workshop class periods classes in child training under experi- good things that are prepared for you. available, and the groups rotated from enced teachers. True, those living in our The program materials for 1953-54 will class to class, so that by the time the college communities do at times have include such topics as: how parents and workshop was over, everyone had been the opportunity to join a class that teachers work together for the good of in all of the classes. partially meets parents' needs. But most the child, human relations in the home At Enterprise, Kansas, E. E. Hagen, parents must look elsewhere for addi- and how they affect the child, widening conference Sabbath school secretary, tional help to meet the problems that the family horizon with books, helping brought together about forty-five teachers confront them, to learn better ways of your child to appreciate art, There will from all over the conference for eight building pleasing personalities and shap- also be included another wonderful pro- and a half days. The Teachers' Training ing noble characters. gram on nature study and more challeng- Course was taught for thirteen two-hour That is why every church needs either ing programs of interest and inspiration periods, and forty-three completed the a Home and School Association or a to eager parents. course and passed the examination, their Parent Study Group, where all these ARABELLA MOORE WILLIAMS, names being sent in for diplomas. Miss matters so important to parents can be Assistant Secretary for Meyer gave nine periods of instruction, studied and discussed. Parent and Home Education. and there were twelve workshop classes. AUGUST 20, 1953 21 At Columbus, Wisconsin, Vernon Flory, moving throng, or even in halls or The unsealed orders for God's MV conference Sabbath school secretary, churches."—Ibid., p. 193. invasion army on outpost evangelism are gathered seventy-five teachers for about Since the Pan-American Youth Con- taken from the book Evangelism, pages three days. There was time for only six gress, reports are coming in from far and 46 and 47: periods of instruction and the first five near telling of official delegates and others "There must be a wider reaching forth workshop classes, so the classes had fifteen who have gone back to their home to work for those . . . who are afar off. teachers in each group. churches fired with a new zeal to win souls . . . The field of labor is to be extended. At Cicero, Indiana, D. E. Caslow gath- for Christ. We have just received a let- . . . The most unpromising fields, must ered one hundred teachers, and we met ter from the Oregon Conference. The receive earnest, determined labor. . . Men and women in the highways and for about three days in the large camp Missionary Volunteer secretary writes, meeting auditorium. The unlimited space byways are to be reached. . . . Such a "One delegate has already set up a little work as this is to be done in our cities and the supply of tables made the five tabernacle in a small outpost and has and villages, in the highways and hedges. large groups of twenty or more teachers been on the telephone long distance re- . . Our Saviour's work was to . . . lift very easy to handle. And again we had questing an outline for twelve youth ser- up the standard of truth in new local- six periods of instruction and five work- mons to be given by her group." ities. . . . The light is given me that shop classes. L. E. Biggs, the president of the Oregon we . . . should look for places in out-of- At Reynoldswood, Illinois, C. R. Conference, said, "What our young peo- the-way districts. . . . The seeds of truth French had brought in about seventy ple need is that commitment service that are to be sown in uncultivated centers." teachers. The situation was delightful, your congress put on. I hope that all God bless Christian young men and and we were together four and a half young people in Oregon will get the women in any part of the world who days. So there were eleven periods of inspiration of that hour." courageously enlist their service and tal- instruction and seven workshop classes, One of the greatest needs of the Ad- ents for God in this mighty Share Your with ten teachers to a group. ventist Church and a perishing world at Faith outpost movement. You have never seen happier teachers! the present time is the enthusiastic and E. W. DUNBAR, Secretary. They spent on the average eight hours stimulating ministry of young people to a day in study and work, and went home labor for other youth. • with their arms full of devices that would "I long to see them [the youth] help- delight the children, their heads full of ing one another to reach a higher plane Temperance ideas, and a determination to work for of Christian experience."—Messages to the children and young people as they Young People, p. 15. Department never had before. ERIC B. HARE, "Young men and women, God calls Associate Secretary. upon you to work, work for Him. . . . You can reach a class whom the minister cannot affect."—Testimonies, vol. I, p. The Formation of a • 513. Temperance Army Outpost evangelism is reaching those Missionary Volunteer afar off—going to the highways and by- We have received this counsel regard- Department ways, new localities, out-of-the-way dis- ing alcoholic beverages: tricts, uncultivated centers, among the "Soon we shall see the result of this mountains and valleys. It is doing what terrible evil as we do not see it now. Who Jesus did when "he went a little farther." will put forth a determined effort to stay Share Your Faith the The big move is from the heavily popu- the work of destruction? As yet the con- lated districts into the suburban areas. test has hardly begun. Let an army be Outpost Way Hundreds of housing projects are spring- formed to stop the sale of the drugged ing up everywhere. First, use literature, liquors that are making men mad. Let the Repeatedly the Lord's messenger has danger from the liquor traffic be made emphasized the urgency and importance then sign up interested persons for cot- plain, and a public sentiment be created of rugged missionary work by young peo- tage meetings. that shall demand its prohibition. Let the ple. It is a basic experience in the life On the northwest side (an outpost) of drink-maddened men be given an op- of every young, growing Christian. one of our large cities a young man went portunity to escape from their thralldom. into a private home to share his faith. The Let the voice of the nation demand of its "It is because this work is neglected congregation first outgrew the house, a lawmakers that a stop be put to this in- that so many young disciples never ad- famous traffic."—Temperance, p. 209. vance beyond the mere alphabet of Chris- store building, and then a larger building tian experience. . . . The restless energy near the present location. It all began We had prohibition of alcoholic liquors that is so often a source of danger to the with a friendly visit to a home in the for a few years, but it was an attempt to young, might be directed into channels suburbs. protect the nation by legislation alone. through which it would flow out in God's MV army invaded the edge of The agencies of temperance education streams of blessing. Self would be for- one of the larger cities. An empty store laid down their arms. They had accom- gotten in earnest work to do others good." building was renovated and made ready plished their purpose. America was now —The Desire of Ages, p. 640. for the small effort. Eight young people dry. Utopia was beginning, and all was In the conduct of gospel meetings in were baptized. This was all because Mis- well with the world. cottages or elsewhere the messenger of sionary Volunteers put the SYF spot- But the liquor men were not idle. God throws out the challenge for us to light on the need. They at once began an intensely active "reach people where they are." In every community outpost in Amer- campaign of education, and repeal in "There are families who will never be ica there are young people who do not time was achieved. Their misrepresenta- reached by the truths, of God's word un- know Christ, and probably never will un- tion has so blackened the prohibition era less the stewards of His grace enter their less you do something about it. that most people beli&e it the worst homes and point them to the higher way." "Why me?" you ask. "Why not the epoch in our history. —Gospel Workers, p. 187. preacher or the evangelist? Isn't it his A change is coming. Alcohol interests "The presentation of Christ in the fam- job?" have had complete liberty, and are going ily, by the fireside, and in small gather- ings in private houses, is often more suc- No, not altogether. There is a place to horrible extremes to induce even little cessful in winning souls to Jesus than are only you can fill. The best missionary to children to become users of alcoholic bev- sermons delivered in the open air, to the some youth is someone else his own age. erages. A tide of resentment is rising. 22 REVIEW AND HERALD Thinking people are rebelling against sionary work. They should visit every • this present atnation. family_ in the neighborhood and know Now let us take advantage of the in their spiritual condition."—Ibid., p. 296. Medical coming tide of antialcohol feeling and re- During the month of May I spent some sentment, and help educate the new gen- days on the island of Guadeloupe, a Department eration. The American Temperance Soci- .French possession in the Inter-American ety is forming an army of temperance Division. The island is small and has a workers. These men are chosen from our population of about 270,000. The religion ministerial graduates and from among of the people is Roman Catholic. This Something for Us to Be qualified men in our churches. they have been all of their lives. The Doing—NOW These men are trained as representa- larger number of these people are seek- tives of the American Temperance Soci- ing for truth. That fact impressed itself The truce signing in Korea may well ety, and a well-prepared prospectus is very vividly upon my mind during the take people off their guard so far as put into their hands, and an exclusive time that I was on this island. There are preparedness is concerned. At one time territory is given them. They offer a serv- about twenty Seventh-day Adventist there was an anxiety in America not only ice to the community of two visual edu- churches on the island, with about twelve for defense preparation but for civilian cation films, and a year's subscription to hundred baptized believers. emergencies, but very little is heard of Listen to every high school student. While I was on the island a lay preach- the possibility of need for Red Cross After showing the films in the high ers' institute was held in the city of First Aid training, blood bank effort, school assembly, they approach the grow- Pointe-a-Pitre. There were thirty-eight lay home nursing, et cetera. ing groups of the concerned in the com- preachers in attendance as delegates from During the height of the threat of war munity, asking them to sustain the serv- the churches on this island. These lay about two years ago, Adventists were ice to the high school students. This in- preachers were instructed in practical lay giving a good account of themselves in cludes a year's subscription to our official preaching. On Sabbath afternoon they these matters, and it is appropriate that journal Listen to each student. were sent out two by two in the neigh- they should. But are we doing as much Our plan is to develop an army of borhood around the church. That was a as we should now? The present apparent temperance workers who will cover the new experience for them. Like the sev- quiet is but a lull before the storm. The thousands of high schools annually in enty appointed by the Lord and sent huge stocks of A-bombs being prepared the United States and Canada. We will forth into every city and place where He on both sides of the Atlantic are not thus be fulfilling the injunction of the Himself would go, so these went forth without sinister purpose. One day the prophets: "Is not this the fast that I have to every home in the neighborhood. earth will doubtless rock under their chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, After one hour these thirty-eight dele- impact, and millions of mangled and to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the gates returned with joy to recount their maimed and burned human beings will oppressed go free, and that ye break ev- experiences. In most of the homes visited look for succor and relief. Will we be ery yoke?" (Isa. 58:6). they had prayer. The people received the prepared to do the part in which we The greatest yoke upon America is the literature gladly, for they are seeking for have professed proficiency? What about tribute it is paying to the liquor and truth. A large number who were visited, your home, your church, your conference tobacco manufacturers. We trust that in enrolled in the Voice of Prophecy Bible —are your members prepared to join every conference several volunteers will Course. They were also invited to attend intelligent, trained rescue squads to en- communicate with the publishing depart- the Sunday night meeting, which was to gage in lifesaving ministry? ment secretary, and help cover the great be held for the public. On Sunday night From the Coral Sea Union Mission in field of high school students. at 7 P.M. they began to come. By seven- the South Seas comes this most challeng- This is fulfilling Moses' command to thirty the church, which seats about five ing report of the manner in which our "proclaim liberty throughout all the land hundred, was packed, and still they came. local native church membership is pre- unto all the inhabitants thereof" (Lev. The aisles were filled with chairs, but paring to meet disease or emergency. 25:10). HENRY F. BROWN, all could not be accommodated. Many We quote from H. W. Nolan's letter of Associate Secretary. had to remain outside. As they listened July 2: to the message on the coming of the "Our Health Week program proved a Lord their hearts were touched. When great success. Actually you would note a call was made to give their hearts to on our church calendar that merely Home Missionary God, the response was overwhelming. 'Health Day' was listed. In cooperation Truly, the harvest is ripe on this island. with the MV and education departments Department Hundreds of souls are ready to be gath- we decided to hold a week of meetings ered into the fold. Many of these people and classes. In every meeting throughout will be brought into the message through the week the health factor was high- our lay members on that island. lighted. Study outlines were prepared for Neighborhood Evan- Some of our lay members, as they go all church services, and programs were gelism from house to house month by month provided for the MV meetings. and bring the message to the people who "Every day during the school week a "Only a moment of time, as it were, are seeking for light, are having remark- whole period was given over to the pro- yet remains."—Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 14. able success in bringing people into the motion of health principles. The subjects There is so little time and so much to do. message. There are those who have followed were cleanliness, prevention of How applicable are the _words of Jesus brought in ten, others twelve, others four- disease, a balanced diet, common diseases to Judas on the night of the betrayal teen. Yes, some of them have brought as in the villages, and simple treatments. when Christ said to him, "That thou many as twenty-two people into the mes- This might appear to be a rather heavy doest, do quickly." We must be about sage in one year. schedule, however, there was a reason our Father's business, for there is so lit- Around our churches and in our neigh- why so many subjects were touched upon. tle time left in which to finish the work borhoods there are souls seeking for "Each program began with the Health that God has given us to do. truth. It is for us, as members of the Week chorus. On all occasions the Health We have received our marching orders: church, to go forth and bring the message Week slogan, 'Every Student a Medical "Wherever a church is established, all the of salvation to them. Missionary,' was repeated in unison. A members should engage actively in mis- T. L. OSWALD, Secretary. rough health-check blank was prepared AUGUST 20, 1953 23 in pidgin English as well as in simple widespread influence and benefit of the • English. The purpose of each lesson was medical cadet training. Everett N. Dick, clearly stated at the beginning of each the national commander of the Medical period. A daily proverb illustrated each Cadet Corps, on the first Sabbath of the Publishing lesson. There was also a Spirit of proph- encampment gave us a thrilling report Department ecy excerpt bearing on each day's lesson. of his trip to Japan, Korea, Formosa, and Each period concluded with a project the Philippines, in all of which places he in which as many as possible participated. conducted medical cadet training camps. "A number of classes in St. John First When Dr. Dick explained to military Auxiliary Colporteurs Aid have already begun. There is gen- officials of the Japanese Government what eral enthusiasm on the part of the natives we were doing, they encouraged him to Seventh-day Adventists sincerely • be- participating in these classes. Many of the get our young men in Japan together and lieve that God has entrusted them with natives are finding the theoretical part give them this training. It was the same His last message to a perishing world. This of the classwork rather difficult, but the in Korea. It was enthusiastically received great fact is the motivating urge that instructors are optimistic. We hope to in Formosa, and an excellent training has sent forth our missionaries to the arrange for one of our own doctors to camp was held in the Philippines. ends of the earth. It begets a sacrificial visit the field to conduct the examina- Countries in South America are call- spirit in• the heart of every true believer tions. We have great hopes for the future ing for the creation of the Medical Cadet in the message; it energizes every evan- of St. John Ambulance Glasswork. Training Corps in their lands in the gelistic worker in the cause; it keeps our "A short course in hydrotherapy has hope that our young men who are cit- printing presses revolving, producing the been developed in simple English on izens of these countries may be given the pages of message literature in scores and lines similar to the courses in home nurs- same status in relation to national mili- scores of languages; and it keeps our ing put out by the General Conference. tary training or the draft that they have colporteurs calling from door to door These will be mainly practical and will been given in the United States. Medical in almost every country of the world. carry a certificate. A number of these cadet training as given by Seventh-day Truly we are "allowed of God to be put courses are planned, both in home nurs- Adventists, and as recognized by the in trust with the gospel, even so we speak; ing and in hydrotherapy." United States military authorities, is not as pleasing men, but God, which The appreciation of these island spreading around the world and creating trieth our hearts" (1 Thess. 2:4). people for the health phases of our Chris- friends for us everywhere. This conviction of a Heaven-appointed tian instruction and their active partici- One hundred and seven, have registered task must surely grow stronger as we pation training for possible emergen- at the camp and are taking the training. become increasingly conscious of the ful- cies should remind us that in our greater Between forty and fifty of them have al- fillment of God's Word concerning the potential danger there is perhaps some- ready been given their 1-A-0 classifica- time in which we now live and the short- thing for us to be doing—NOW. tions and thus are definitely heading for ness of time in which to complete our T. R. FLAIZ, M.D., Secretary. military service. Five or six have received task. As every sincere Adventist is con- their notices for early induction. Conse- vinced of the trusteeship of the message, so today every sincere Adventist must • quently there is an air of seriousness and of downright earnestness prevailing be convinced of the nearness of our throughout the camp. These men are here Lord's return and of the urgency of doing War Service for business. They put effort and energy quickly what must be done before He Commission into their training activities, and out of comes. this important training they are getting "We are standing upon the threshold the last possible benefit that is obtain- of great and solemn events. Prophecies able. My own impression is that it is a are fulfilling. Strange, eventful history is r camp characterized by greater seriousness being recorded in the books of heaven. Medical Cadet Camp at Grand Ledge of purpose and devotion to training than Everything in our world is in agitation. any of the many camps I have attended . . . Only a moment of time, as it were, remains."—Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 14. This report is being written while I heretofore. yet am in attendance at the annual National The program of activities of the camp is "God's people must take warning and discern the signs of the times. The signs Medical Cadet Cainp at Grand Ledge, a very strenuous one. It takes quite a of Christ's coming are too plain to be Michigan. This is the fifth day of the two- staff of cadet officers to give instruction. doubted, and in view of these things week encampment. The cadet officers this year hive been everyone who professes the truth should Cadets are here from all parts of the carefully selected by the national com- be a living preacher."—Ibid., vol. 1, p. United States, from the Atlantic to the mander, Everett N. Dick. They consist 260. Pacific, and from the Canadian border to of Maj. Walter A. Howe, of the South- "Hundreds of men and women now the Gulf of Mexico. In addition to these western Union, as executive officer; Maj. idle could do acceptable service. By there are visitors from Latin America. Clark Smith, of the Pacific Union Confer- carrying the truth into the homes of their The War Service Commission secretary of ence, as finance officer; Capt. C. Roy friends and neighbors, they could do a the Inter-American Division is present, Smith, Sr., of Broadview Academy, as first- great work for the Master. God is no re- David Baasch; Dario Garcia, War Serv- aid instructor; First Lt. Claris F. Way, of specter of persons. He will use humble, ice Commission secretary of the South Mount Ellis Academy, Montana, in devoted Christians, even if they have American Division; Jose T. Rodriquez, charge of plans and training; First Lt. not received so thorough an education Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Lawrence K. Stevens, of Forest Lake Acad- as some others. Let such ones engage in service for Him by doing house-to-house West Cuba Conference; Juan Rodriguez, emy, Florida, in charge of physical train- work."—Ibid., vol. 7, p. 21. Missionary Volunteer secretary of the ing; Second Lt. John F. Knipschild, of Puerto Rico Conference; Pedro Roque, Hawaii, as chaplain; Second Lt. Kenneth God today is fulfilling His word of Missionary Volunteer secretary of the East L. Christensen, of Platte Valley Academy, promise and power and is blessing with Cuba Conference; J. F. Knipschild, Jr., Nebraska, as security officer; Second Lt. soul-saving success the humble and de- War Service Commission secretary of the Clifford L. Jaqua, of Plainview Academy, voted service of many thousands of col- Hawaiian Mission. South Dakota, as adjutant, besides a num- porteurs who are carrying the printed One of the outstanding impressions I ber of noncommissioned officers. page into the homes of the people. More have received at the encampment is the CARLYLE B. HAYNES, Secretary. and more of our faithful church members 24 REVIEW AND HERALD

should enjoy the blessing of this devoted ligious instruction shall be maintained in • service. Even if at the present time the the public schools as now authorized by way is not clear for you to give full law." Radio TV time to this ministry of literature, you This statement appears to be in conflict can enjoy its thrills and blessings by with the statement cited above. It should Department engaging in house-to-house work with be noted, however, that this statement our literature in your spare time. Many provides for optional religious instruc- of our church members in Northern tion, and does not make it mandatory. Radio Fruitage in . Europe are finding real joy as they give Sections 927 and 928 of the Administra- part time as auxiliary colporteurs and tive Code stipulates that no teacher or Australasia thus have a definite place in God's great other person engaged in any public school program for finishing His work. No sign in earth or heaven so impres- may teach or criticize the doctrines of any sively announces the soon coming of our May the Lord impress many more con- church, religious sect, or denomination. secrated hearts among His people to give Lord as the onward progress of the third Nor are they permitted to influence pu- angel's message throughout the world. Him devoted service with the printed pils for or against any religious sect. page, because of the shortness of the Nearly a million men and women of all However, it does make it permissible for races, believers in this glorious truth, live time and the challenge of our unfinished a priest or minister of any church estab- task. G. D. KING, happily and courageously in the positive lished in a town where there is a public certainty that the long-looked-for event Secretary, Publishing Department, school to teach, or to designate some per- Northern European Division. is "even at the doors." son to teach, religion for one-half hour However, teeming millions are yet un- three times a week in the school building aware of the hope that is within us. The -• to those public school pupils whose par- task before us is tremendous. Yet we can ents or guardians express in writing to rejoice in the knowledge that God has Religious Liberty the school principal their desire for such not only entrusted us with a great re- religious instruction. sponsibility but also provided the op- Department Pressure is now being brought upon portunity and the means by which we these public offidals to require the teach- can successfully carry out the great com- ing of religion in all the public schools mission of our Saviour. Church and State Rela- of the Philippines. It is not, as stated To emphasize what we mean, we would by some of the opponents of the pro- like to ask L. C. Naden, radio secretary tions in the Philippines posed program, merely an effort to teach for the Australasian Division, to describe religion in public schools, but "an at- For some months a controversy has been what radio is doing in that vast area of tempt to parochialize the public schools" the Lord's vineyard: going on in the republic of the Philip- of the Philippines. pines regarding religious instruction in "It is not by chance that our radio the public schools of that country. It has Cases were cited in which the children work here in Australia has kept pace with found expression in the form of vehement of parents, including the child of a Sev- developments in other parts of the world speeches, newspaper editorials and ar- enth-day Adventist mother, were literally field, and we are greatly encouraged by ticles, large display advertisements, as forced by the local priest to attend his what God is doing through the witness well as broadsides, pamphlets, billboard class in whiCh he taught the doctrines and of the Voice of Prophecy and its associ- posters, radio broadcasts, and congres- religion •of the Catholic Church. ated Bible correspondence school. Latest sional hearings. The fight has been carried into con- survey figures give us an estimated con- It has been led by the Catholic Action gress, both on the floor and into com- gregation of 250,000 tuned regularly to party, which first published a full-page mittee hearings. Thousands of copies of our weekly broadcast in the principal advertisement in connection with a pas- a speech made by Senator Abada, who cities of Australia. And a house-to-house toral letter of the Catholic hierarchy in voiced his objections to the activities of canvass by our members in numerous dis- the Philippines, which was signed by all the Catholic hierarchy, along with many tricts reveals a high percentage of listeners the bishops (Filipinos and aliens), urging other protests, are being circulated to our program. Our mail has spiraled that they should fight as Filipino citizens throughout the country. The Catholics from seventy letters a week to more than for what they claimed as their right to claim that since the great majority (they a thousand. During the first quarter of have religious instruction in the public claim between 81 and 91 per cent of the this year we enrolled 2,503 new stu- schools. The Masons and others retali- inhabitants of the Philippines) are mem- dents—over a thousand more than the ated by claiming that the requirement of bers of their church, special consideration corresponding period last year. During religious instruction in the public school should be given them by the government. this quarter 255 students graduated, as was in violation of the constitutional And so the controversy continues un- against last year's 135. At the moment 'we guarantees of the republic of the Philip- abated. No one knows what the outcome have 5,179 active students in our school,. pines, which in Article VI, section 23, will • be. History reveals that religious as against 2,941 this time last year. Arid paragraph 3, reads: despotism invariably begins through the best of all, we are happy to report at "No public money or property shall influence and pressure of religious or- least 78 souls accepting the message, in ever be appropriated, applied, or used ganizations or combinations. It further co'inparison with 32 for the first quarter directly or indirectly, for the use of any reveals striking- examples of the abuse of of 1952. sect, church, denomination, sectarian in- power when presumptuous and arrogant "Good news has reached us from South stitution, or system of religion, or for the ecclesiastical combinations dictate the re- Australia since our last report. Following use, benefit, or support of any priest, ligion of the state and compel people the example of Greater Sydney and Vic- preacher, minister, or other religious under duress of civil law to conform to toria, South Australia has now appointed teacher or dignitary as such, except when a team of workers to follow up radio in- such priest, preacher, minister, or digni- the rules and episcopal mandates of the tary is assigned to the armed forces or church. We have been told that "to pro- terests in the city of Adelaide. This must to any penal institution, orphanage, or tect liberty of conscience is the duty of bring good results." leprosarium." the state, and this is the limit of its Let us pray often for Pastor Naden It should, however, be pointed out authority in matters of religion."—The and his earnest associates as they keep that Article XIV, section 5, of the con- Great Controversy, p. 201. the message flying beneath the Southern stitution stipulates that "optional re- ALVIN W. JOHNSON, Secretary. Cross. ELMER WALDE, Secretary. AUGUST20, 1953 25 • Direct relief amounting to a cash value of more than $11,000 has been given to 200 families in the flood-stricken Sioux City area of Iowa. Funds from Dorcas Societies and from individuals through- Brief Current News out the Northern Union Conference have helped to make possible this work by the Sioux City Dorcas Society. Pacific Union OVERSEAS • Miss Alfrida Larson, Bible instructor • R. 0. Stone, new principal of the in the Ohio Conference for 19 years, has Middle East Division Arizona Academy, Phoenix, has assumed accepted a call to the Northern California his new responsibilities. He was formerly • The year 1953 promises to be a ban- Conference. the principal of Cedar Lake Academy in ner one in soul winning for the Middle • R. T. Hudson, pastor of the Glenville Michigan. East Division. On a recent Sabbath 76 Seventh-day Adventist church of Cleve- precious souls were born into the family • The district camp meeting for the land, Ohio, began a tent effort Sunday, northern section of the Northern Cali- of God in the Egypt Mission, the largest July 12. It will continue for eight weeks. number to be baptized on one day in fornia Conference was held July 8-12 in The tent was crowded to its capacity, and a redwood grove near Fortuna. Attend- the history of our work in this part of the many were forced to stand on the out- world. ance on Sabbath was approximately 1,200, side. The two choirs, junior and senior, and was very good throughout the period • More than 50 colporteurs are zealously comprising 60 voices, are doing their of encampment. spreading the printed page throughout share to help make the effort a success. this newly created division. This is by far Mrs. Dorothy Hudson, wife of the pas- • Ansel Bristol, of Michigan, has taken the largest group of canvassers this field tor, is director of the junior choir, and up the responsibilities of pastoring the has ever known. Mrs. Tracillia Oglesby is director of the church at Fullerton, California. • The Voice of Prophecy radio broad- senior choir. • Miss Ernestine Gill is the new direc: tor of nursing at the Paradise Valley casts in Arabic are now heard through- Lake Union out the Middle East countries every Fri- Sanitarium School of Nursing. day evening. • At the halfway mark of the year the Southern Union • The new division headquarters and Lake Union colporteurs have delivered five modest dwellings for missionary fam- books to the value of $238,105. More souls • R. W. Numbers, former president of ilies are now completed and ready for are being reported baptized this year the British West Indies Union of the occupancy at the new compound near than ever before. For June 109 students Inter-American Division, has accepted a Beirut. reported 7,535 hours, $20,198.00 in orders, call to the Georgia-Cumberland Confer- and $12,324.05 in deliveries. The above ence as pastor of the Chattanooga, Ten- NORTH AMERICA totals represent a gain of $27,467 for the nessee, district. first six months of this year. Atlantic Union • H. D. Singleton, president of the • The past school year has proved in South Atlantic Conference, reports as fol- • Dr. Alfred C. Hanscom, C.M.E. grad- many ways to be the best Illinois has lows on the spring efforts: E. E. Cleve- uate, is interning at the Maine General ever enjoyed. As a result 46 were gradu- land, Southern Union evangelist, bap- Hospital in Portland. ated from the eighth grade, and 38 pupils tized 64 in a tent effort at Miami, Florida. • Robert F. Gloor is working with Doc- were baptized during the year. E. C. Ward, South Atlantic evangelist, tors M. W. Westermeyer and R. A. Bet- • J. 0. Iversen, MV secretary of the Il- conducted a third series of meetings in tie at Bath, Maine, on the C.M.E. pre- linois Conference, reports that this spring Macon, Georgia, and from these meetings ceptorship plan. has been the largest investiture season 25 have been baptized. J. P. Winston bap- in many years. In connection with the tized 36 as a result of his meetings in Fitz- • A. R. Friedrich, pastor of the Portu- M. Barker has bap- guese district of Southern New England, various school programs 323 were in- gerald, Georgia. H. reports the baptism of five in New Bed- vested. tized 22 so far from his effort in Apopka, ford on June 20, by J. F. Knipschild, Jr. Florida. These evangelists are deeply This makes a total of 13 baptized during North Pacific Union grateful for the splendid assistance of their co-workers. the first six months of the year. • E. G. Fresk, who has served as evange- Canadian Union list and district leader in different parts Southwestern Union of the Montana Conference during the • Sixteen were baptized in the new past eleven years, recently accepted an • Sunday night, July 19, R. C. Barron church at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, on the invitation to labor in the Idaho Confer- and his assistant, Jack Christenson, week end of June 13, and two were added ence. This past year he has been confer- opened an evangelistic effort in the on profession of faith. ence evangelist, cooperating with the church at Midland, Texas. The first meet- General Conference plan for Survival ing was well attended, with approximately • Miss Victoria Tkachuk, of Beauvallon, 50 non-Adventists being present. Alberta, has recently accepted a call to Through Faith rallies. He held 56 of connect with the Manitoba-Saskatchewan these rallies, covering 215 communities, • Dedicatory services for the Muskogee, Conference office as secretary to W. Ber- with good results. Oklahoma, church took place on Sabbath, gey, publishing secretary, and to assist in • The Alaska Mission headquarters and July 11. The history of the Muskogee the Book and Bible House. the Alaska Book and Bible House, which church dates back to 1898, when a Sab- has been at Juneau for many years, moved bath school of 17 members was organized. • On Sabbath, June 6, a third baptism Provision has been made also for the in connection with the recent Hamilton August 1 to Anchorage, Alaska. Anchor- age has grown to a population of over church school, which had an enrollment effort was conducted by C. A. Reeves. of 19 last year. Ten candidates were received into the 50,000, and is known as the air hub of Hamilton church. Two others who had North America. From this center it is • A baptism took place in the Ouachita been won to the truth by the radio work felt that the work in Alaska can be better River, conducted by W. J. Lighthall, at were baptized by P. 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ORD R NOW FROM YOUR BOOK & BIBLE HOUSE JI2t • HOLMES.-Claude E. Holmes, born May 17, VENTLING.-Earl Vending, born Oct. 28, 1884, 1881, at Fayette, Iowa; died June 10, 1953, in in Akron, Mo.; died May 10, 1953. He did colporteur Largo, Fla. While attending Union College in work in the Midwest for several years. He is sur- 1901, he received a call from the Review and vived by his wife, Rose Peterson Vending, a son, Herald Publishing Association in Battle Creek, Mich., a daughter, 5 grandchildren, 4 sisters, and 3 brothers. Obituaries to serve in the printing department. He accepted the call and remained there until 1919. He was for a time associate editor of the Liberty mag_azine. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Helen Taylor Holmes;. one daughter, Mrs. W. W. Williamson; NOTICES OSTOICH.-Milan Ostoich, born in 'Jugoslavia in and 2 sisters. 1873; died in Los Angeles, Calif.., June 12, 1953. Requests for Prayer He was the first Serbian ordained Seventh-day BLACK.-Kathleen Maynard Black, born in Plym- Adventist minister in the world. In 1901 he was outh, Devonshire, England, July 17, 1874; died in A sister requests prayer for the healing of her married to Rachel Yovanchich, who died in 1943. Wilmington, N. C., May 9, 1953. She accepted the sister of an incurable disease, and also for the He with his wife went to Canada in 1903, where third angel's message at the age of 20. After coming healing and conversion of her husband. Elder Ostoich was leader of a Nazarene church in to America site worked at the Review and Herald Publishing Association for two years. In 1898 she A colporteur who has met a serious accident re- Saskatchewan. He found a tract on the Sabbath, quests prayer to the Lord for complete restoration. was convinced of the truth, and led 22 fellow married Walter L. Black. Together they labored Nazarenes to become Seventh-day Adventists with in the ministry in Arizona and Old Mexico for Prayer is requested for a young mother who has him, and a church was organized near Rouleau, several years, both for the English- and Spanish- suffered a complete nervous collapse, and for another Sask. He pioneered the work among the Serbian and speaking people, and they were the first to begin sister who is suffering an acute and apparently in- Croatian people in Saskatchewan, and was ordained the Spanish work in the United States. Later they curable ailment. to the ministry in 1911, laboring for many years worked solely for the English-speaking people of in the United States. He made 2 missionary trips Oregon, Idaho, and California, respectively. She Literature Wanted to Jugoslavia. He is survived by 3 daughters: leaves to mourn her husband, W. L. Black; her Mildred, educational supervisor of the Northern Cali- daughter, Paulina Black; and her son, Dr. Paul A, L. Black. Mrs. Edith Kerst, 1161/2 No. Glenwood Ave., fornia Conference; Dorothy, wife of S. G. White, Dalton, Ga., wishes copies of Life and Health, Listen, Victoria, B.C., and Mrs. Violet Dunak, of Los These Times, and Our Little Friend for missionary Angeles; and 3 sons, Dr. DaWson, Dr. Nathan, and DINSBIER.-Eleanor Elizabeth Dinsbier, born in work. Dr. John, all of Los Angeles. Shanghai, China., Oct. 30, 1938; died at,-Mount Vernon, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1952. She was tfie elder Miss Mary C. Noble, 173 Cromwell Road, London KITE.-Cyrus Reuben Kite, born in Auburn, child of 'Ralph Dinsbier and Anna Percy Dinsbier, S.W. 5, England, desires colored pictures like those Nebr., Aug. 3, 1872; died in Lincoln, Nebr., April T issionaries to China, and with them was interned which come on calendars or Picture Rolls, for mak- 25, 1953. He made preparation for his lifework laly the Japanese in the Philippine Islands early in ing jigsaw puzzles for Investment and other mission- at Union College. In 1898 he married Nellie the war, and liberated from the Bilibid Prison by ary purposes. Elizabeth Hill, who died in 1944. He began his General MacArthur. She was living with her grand- ministry at the age of 26 in Cortland, Nebr. and parents, Mr. and Mrs. David W. Percy, in order Mrs. Fred C. Hughes, Box 761, Gold Hill, N.C., was ordained to the ministry 51 years ago during to attend the academy. She is survived by her can use copies of the Signs, Our Times, Life and a camp meeting held at Lincoln, Nebr. From 1899 mother and a younger brother, Fredrick, living in Health, Youth's Instructor, Our Little Friend, Mes- to 1908 he served the Nebraska Conference as Mis- Westfield, N.Y. sage Magazine, and Listen for reading racks. sionary Volunteer, educational, Sabbath school secre- I. H. Newkirk, 1701 Hydes Ferry Rd., Nashville tary, and pastor of the College View church. In DART.-Clifford James Dart, born in Illinois, May 1, 1872; died May 17, 1953. In his youth he 8, Tenn., would like a continuing supply of Signs, 1909 he was called to the Colorado Conference. These Times, Little Friends, Instructors, Life and During his 13 years there he served 5 years as gave his heart to God, was baptized, and became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Health, tracts, and other denominational literature, president, then as chaplain of the Boulder Sani- for the tourist trade who stop at his fruit market. tarium, Bible teacher, and principal of Campion Elder Dart spent many years in his Master's service in various departments of the organized work, labor- Academy. He married Nellie Newville in 1946, who J. H. Monsegue, 65 Broadway, San Fernando, survives him; also his son, William; and 2 daughters, ing in Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Trinidad, B.W.I., desires continued large supplies of Mrs. Moneta Anderson and Mrs. Bonnie Smith. from 1916 to 1943 labored in Oklahoma, making his Seventh-day Adventist literature for the literature home in Oklahoma City during those years. He is distributing bands, who are beginning to see results survived by a son, a daughter, a foster son, 6 grand- from the hundreds of pieces of literature already WILHELM.--Charles Arthur Wilhelm, born in children, 9 great-grandchildren, a brother, and a Brooklyn, N.Y., June 22, 1894; died at Orlando, sister. given out. Fla., Jan. 14, 1953. He had an extensive musical H. Murray, Speyside, Tobago, B.W.I., is in need education, was an accomplished violinist, and for MILLER.-Joseph Sherman Miller, born at of used literature for missionary work, such as many years musical director of the New Haven Topeka, Kans. Sept. 9, 1864; died June 9, 1953. Youth's Instructor, Signs, and Review and Herald. Institute of Music in Malden, Mass. In 1913 he He sacrificed much for the cause of God, and was married to Mabel Louise Wilson. In 1921 he helped many young people attend our schools. He and his wife were baptized in Boston, Mass. His is survived by a son, a daughter, several grand- wire died ifi 1931,, In 1933 he moved to Orlando, children, and a sister. Fla., where his 3 sons' attended Forest Lake Academy. Camp Meeting Schedule, 1953 In 1934 he was married to Annie Floy Westerman..;, SPARKS.-Linnie Sparks, born in 1871; died Atlantic Union Together they prayed that the Lord would give May 27, 1953, at Fenton, Mich. She leaves a son, him strength to labor in His vineyard. They both a daughter, and 2 grandchildren. Greater New York entered the colporteur ministry, and from that day Eagle Lake Park Aug. 28-Sept. 6 he was healed of a heart ailment, which never HEDMAN.-Esther 0. Redman, born May 18, returned during his lifetime. He began to hold 1896, in Varmland, Sweden; diedJune 15, 1953, Canadian Union meetings in Union Park, Fla., as a result of which in Battle Creek, Mich. She was a daughter of one several were baptized. Later he served as song of the first Adventist families in Sweden. She and Ontario-Quebec leader and Bible instrructor for an effort conducted her husband came to Battle Creek from Sweden Oshawa, Ontario Aug. 21-30 by L. C. Evans. He did ministerial work in the in 1928. She is survived by her husband, 2 daughters, Georgia-Cumberland and Greater New York con- a granddaughter, and 2 sisters. Columbia Union ferences, where he did much radio work, serving also for a time as home missionary secretary in the West Pennsylvania KELM.-Katie Kelm, born May 4, 1896, at Somerset Aug. 13-23 Florida Conference. He is mourned by his wife; Milton, S. Dak.; died June 1, 1953 at Lodi, Calif. 3 sons, Dr. John A. and Dr. Richard J., of Jackson- West Virginia She leaves to mourn: her husband; her daughter, Parkersburg Aug. 13-23 ville, Fla. and Robert C. Wilhelm, of New York; Erma Retzer, wife of H. C. Retzer; 3 grandchildren; 5 grandchildren; a brother, George, of New York; and 3 sisters. and 2 sisters, Mrs. John Blohme, of New York, and Lake Union Mrs. Alexander Machin, of Orlando, Fla. CURRIER.-John B. Currier, born in Ontario, Lake Region Canada, May 4, 1868; died Jan. 6, 1953, at San Cassopolis, Michigan Aug. 19-29 HIATT.-Harvey M. Hiatt, born Aug. 6, 1869, Andreas, Calif. He accepted the truth in 1901. In Wisconsin near Ames, Iowa; died June 17, 1953, in Min- 1908 he moved to Orlando, Fla., where he had Portage Aug. 13-22 nesota. He married Edith Cornforth in 1903. He charge of building the main building of the Florida began his work as a colporteur in Arkansas. From Sanitarium, and also our church in Orlando. He is Northern Union 1903 to 1906 he taught church schools in the Kansas survived by 7 children, 13 grandchildren, 11 great- Iowa Conference, at which time he introduced the first grandchildren, and a sister. eighth-grade diplomas used in the denomination. Nevada Aug. 14-22 In 1907 he was elected the first secretary of edu- McCUMSEY.-Carry Oliver McCumsey, born in Pacific Union cation of the Kansas Conference. He organized and Arkansas, Aug. 15, 1871; was a member of the built church schools all over that State. In 1913 Ditman St. church in Los Angeles, Calif., at the Arizona he was elected educational secretary of the Minne- time of her death. She is survived by 3 sons, a Prescott Aug. 14-22 sota Conference, serving in this capacity for 22 daughter, 7 grandchildren, •and 1 great-grandchild. years. He was ordained to the gospel ministry in 1915. After retiring from educational work, he RUPERT.-Adam Alexander Rupert, born at • served as pastor-evangelist in the Anoka-Minneapo- Lewistown, Pa., Sept. 9, 1883; died in Alameda, lis area, carrying on this work even after his Calif., June 4, 1953. In 1916 he accepted the riles- formal retirement. He was a diligent student, build- age and left farming to go to Sheyenne River ing up a library of more than 2,000 fine books. He Academy for a Christian education. After completing Church Calendar for 1953 is survived by his wife, Edith, of Anoka, Minn.; work at Union College he did ministerial work in his son, Dr. Theo. M. Hiatt, of Los Angeles; his North Dakota, and was then called to Shelton daughter, Mrs. Augusta Dickinson, R.N., of Loma Academy, where he taught for 4 years. In 1926 he Linda; and 2 grandchildren. taught in Redlands, Calif., then for 11years he Aug. 29 Riverside San. Offering (colored Churches) taught at Lodi Academy. He gave up 'teaching Sept. 5 Neighborhood Evangelism APPLEGATE.-Leroy Emmons Applegate, born because of deafness. •He leaves his wife, a daughter, Sept. 12 Missions Extension Offering July 13, 1907, at Cape May Court House, N.J.; and 4 sons. Sept. 26 Sabbath School Rally Day died June 24 1953, in Washington, D.C. He was Sept. 26 13th Sabbath Offering (Southern Africa) a graduate of Mount Vernon Academy, where he GEHLY.-Elmer E. Gehly, born in Pennsylvania, Oct. 3 Colporteur Rally was employed after his graduation as an instructor in 1872; died June 10, 193. He went to Loma Oct. 10 Voice of Prophecy Offering in' printing, and subsequently as foreman of the Linda around 1909 to work on the building of the Oct. 17-24 These Times Campaign shop. In 1929 he was married to Glenna Maude school buildings. Later he went to Oakland, where Oct. 17-24 Message Campaign Gentry. In 1940 he connected with the Washington he worked as a carpenter. Oct. 31 Temperance Offering Missionary College Press, where he was employed Nov. 7 Witnessing Laymen and Home Visitation Day for several years. He is survived by his wife; 2 JENSEN.-Andreas Peter Jensen, born July 20, Nov. 7-28 Review and Herald Campaign daughters, Mrs. Glenna Jacquelyn Snider and 1875, at Tondem, Germany; died July 10, 1953, in Nov. 14-21 Week of Prayer and SAtrifice Suzanne; a granddaughter; his parents, Mr. and Los Angeles, Calif. He united with the church in Nov. 21 Week of Sacrifice Offering Mrs. John Ira Applegate; and his sister, Mrs. Edna 1912 and remained true to this persuasion. He leaves Nov. 26 Thanksgiving Day Sutter. to mourn his wife, Lily, his son, and 2 grandchildren. Dec. 26 13th Sab. Off. (Australasian Inter-Union) - 28 REVIEW AND HERALD New Songbook for issiomary volunteers

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Largest Baptism in Egypt 35,568,843, or 1.5 per cent of the popula- Recent Missionary Departures tion of the world. "This is the Lord's do- A letter just received from Neal C. ing; it is marvellous in our eyes." Miss Dorothea Ruf, of the Hinsdale Wilson, president of the Nile Union Mis- We realize that among the countries Sanitarium, daughter of Elder and Mrs. sion, contains these two paragraphs de- that have been entered there are millions, G. F. Ruf, of the Dominican Mission in scribing progress in that field: yes, hundreds of millions, of persons yet Inter-America, left Miami, July 22, for "On June 13 we had simultaneous bap- to be warned. However, the framework Lima, Peru. She, goes to serve as super- tisms throughout Egypt, when this rite has been built, organizations have been visor of nurses at the Juliaca Clinic in was administered to 76. This does not established, and in many instances na- Peru. sound like a large number, but it is by tionals in the various countries are Elder and Mrs. J. C. Mattingly, of far the largest number ever baptized on trained and are carrying heavy administra- Knox, Indiana, and their children, Keith a single day in the history of our work tive responsibilities. We also have radio, and Virginia Kaye, sailed from New York,_ in the Middle East. This brings our total television, air travel, and all the advan- July 22, on the S.S. African Crescent en baptized thus far in 1953 to more than tages of modern inventions, which we feel route to Cape Town, Son"th Africa. Elder 150. We are beginning to reap a very under God are necessary to bring about Mattingly is to engage in evangelistic rich harvest from the seed that has been the great consummation. But more im- work in Ruanda-Urundi in the Belgian sown through our Voice Of Prophecy work portant is the consecration of every mem- Congo. here in this field. About 30 have been ber to the finishing of the work, an Miss Florance Sackett, of Pacific Union baptized now as a direct result of this infilling of the Holy Spirit, an impelling College, sailed July 23 from New York work, which began in Egypt two years urgency to do something for that rela- on the S.S. Uruguay, bound for Monte- ago." tive, that friend, that neighbor. If we video, Uruguay, where she will join the could but have such a determination, secretarial staff of the South American the doubling of our membership would Division office. Japanese Voice of Prophecy be of small concern. Is it not time that Miss Gladys M. Hurd, of the St. He- Program in Bilibid we avail ourselves of all these assets for lena Sanitarium, sailed July 24 from New the finishing of our work? York on the S.S. Flying Eagle. Miss Hurd W. 0. Baldwin, educational secretary H. W. KLASER. has already given two terms of service of the Far Eastern Division, has just re- Statistical Secretary. in India, and goes this time to connect turned home, and he relates that Miss with the Dar el Salaam Hospital in Bagh- Ethel Young, who is connected with the dad, Iraq. educational department of the Far East, Educational Work in the Dr. Joelle E. Rentfro, returning from had the radio station make a recording South India Union furlough to resume her work at the Surat of our Japanese Voice of Prophecy pro- Mission Hospital in India, left New York, gram, and took it to Manila. With this A letter just received from 0. S. July 28, on the S.S. Hoegh Clipper. Matthews, educational and Missionary record and a portable phonograph she Elder and Mrs. E. L. Sorensen and went out to visit the Seventh-day Advent- Volunteer secretary of the South India their two sons, Leslie and Michael, left ist prisoners in Bilibid—former war crim- Union, gives a clear picture of the type New York, July 28, for Bombay, Tndia. of educational work carried on in the inals. Tears streamed down their cheeks They are returning after furlough to con- as they listened to the King's Heralds as mission fields. tinue in pastor-evangelistic work. they sang in beautiful Japanese, "Lift Brother Matthews reveals that in his Up the Trumpet." "They must be Japa- field there are 35 primary schools and 4 Miss Ella Mae Stoneburner, returning nese!" they exclaimed. They wanted to secondary schools, with combined enroll- after furlough, sailed from New York, for listen to the program again and again. ments of nearly 1,600 boys and girls. July 28, on the S.S. Hoegh Clipper Some of the Japanese prisoners now Concerning one of the high schools, Bombay, India. She is a supervisor at the Giffard Mission Hospital, Nuzvid, India. are going back to Japan, one by one, car- Kottarakara, he states that the enrollment rying a story that they have learned by is the largest ever, 168. The teachers and Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Mansell, of Healds- being in prison. This August we are students are active in the Lord's work. burg, California, sailed July 29 from-New celebrating the anniversary of our first Every Sunday afternoon a preaching band York on the S.S. Moore McKite for Belem, year of broadcasting the Voice of Proph- holds meetings in the public square. One Brazil. Mr. Mansell is returning to the ecy program in Japan, from which we branch Sabbath school is already under land of his birth, where his parents were are already reaping results. way, and others are planned. Every Sab- missionaries for many years, to serve as PAUL WICKMAN. bath afternoon groups of young people evangelist in the Central Amazon Mis- visit the homes in nearby communities, sion. doing missionary work—sharing their Mr. and Mrs. Colin G. Fisher and Two Billion Four Hundred faith in various ways. their son, John Scott, of Bloomington, Million Souls The school has an extensive industrial Indiana, left San Francisco, July 30, on program, which probably will make it the S.S. Ferndale, responding to a call Of the estimated 2,400,000,000 popu- self-supporting. There are 15 acres of to connect with the music department of 'lation on the earth, Seventh-day Advent- good paddy land, several acre's of tapioca, the Philippine Union College in Manila. ists have entered and are carrying on extensive cashew plantations, and a school Miss Miriam Moore, of St. Helena, Cal- work in countries representing a popula- vegetable garden. There are weaving and ifornia, left New York, July 30, en route tion of 2,364,431,157, or 98.5 per cent of canning, and a school press is doing work to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she will the population of the world. This leaves both in English and in the vernacular. serve as a supervisor at the Zauditu Me- 33 countries, with a population of only KELD J. REYNOLDS. morial Hospital. D. E. REaOK.