Review and Herald for 1947

»)»»»)» GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS (ccaccccac The Challenge of Brotherhood By D. G. ROSE Relief Representative in Europe ORE than nine thousand Adventists of many nationalities have been for- cibly transplanted or have fled before political and religious persecu- M tion in Europe.- Thousands have fled on foot for hundreds of miles, pulling small wagons filled with things they were able to save from their homes. Others were crowded into cattle cars. All left behind them a bitter trail of woe. Many more than the nine thousand started out, but exhaustion, cold, and starvation greatly reduced their numbers. Day and night, without food and without rest, they fled. Pitiful and shocking were the scenes. A large part of the babies starved to death. People of every age succumbed. Husbands had to bury their own wives, and wives their own husbands. The experiences defy description, yet the fate awaiting them in their exile was little better. They were thrust under the cold, forbidding ruins of the destroyed cities of Germany, or into large, overcrowded, wooden barracks, a family to a room. They received only the rations of the average German, which is not enough to sustain life; and, added to this fact, they had no possibility of getting any supplementary food, for they had no friends or relatives in the country. One Adventist mother was sent to a ruined city with her four small children. They ate all the food they had, and the mother gathered the children around the bare table and prayed for help. The cruel winter added to their misery. They had no money except four hundred marks tithe, and the mother's conscience would not permit her to use that. The family rose from their knees. The mother told the children good-by and went out to try to trade her coat for food. The conference president learned that the family had arrived and were in need of help, so he took some food and a woman's coat from the relief shipments and went to visit the family. The children invited him in and told him their mother was out trying to barter for food. The little boy gleefully spread the food out on the table, and when the mother came in that evening, carrying a handbag of vegetables which she had exchanged for her coat, she was greatly astonished to see the food on the table and asked the children, "What does this mean?" The little boy replied, "Mother, it is the answer to your prayer this morning." Your sacrifice saved the lives of these children and of this mother. Thou- sands of such refugees were saved from starvation because you shared with them what you had. Food conditions have, however, deteriorated, and the condition 'of these refugees for the coming winter is desperate. Whether or not they will starve to death is dependent on you. They belong to the world-wide Adventist brotherhood. Are you willing to get along with less in order that they may live? .:2 VOL. 124, NO. 34 AUGUST 21, 1947 Scriptures are sold in Japan by the Bible Society for 81/2 yen In This Issue but in secondhand bookstores they tiring as much as 20 yen. FRONT COVER A UNIQUE situation in modern Jewish history has been The Challenge of Brotherhood brought to light with the disclosure that a colony of Chris- _ tian converts to Judaism exists in Sannicandro, a small town EDITORIAL - - - Page 3 in North Apulia, Italy. The colony started 17 years ago when Are You Limiting God?—Christian Education, Part Three Donato Manduzio, a cobbler, who had served in World War I, —Circling the British Isles—Is Conversion Enough? began an intensive study of religious books. As a result, he GENERAL ARTICLES - - - - - - Page 7 became convinced that Judaism was the "only true religion." No Justification by Law—Prevention and Cure of Dis- Manduzio won some of his friends to his beliefs, and soon a ease—Beware of the "Busher—Repentance—Three Rival group of eight men in Sannicandro began to call themselves Sabbaths—Ten Minutes With Your Bible—Our Part in Jews. Salvation—New Testament Words ¶ THE Council of Ministers in Budapest has accepted a bill THE ADVENTIST HOME CIRCLE - Page 13 prepared by the Ministry of Religions to abolish differences in Keep the Home Fires Burning status between "accepted" and "tolerated" religions in Hun- REPORTS FROM ALL LANDS - - - Page 15 gary. The measure will entitle all churches to proportionate From the Heart of Germany—Gold Coast Conventions— shares of subsidies which previously had been extended only "True Sabbathkeepers' Class"—The Bangkok, Siam, Mis- 'to accepted churches. Tolerated, or free churches, like the Bap- sion Clinic—Nordic Medical Convention—First Battle Cal- tist, Adventist, and others, are unlikely to apply for the grants. endar Change, Victory!—British Union Lay Preachers' It is expected, however, that the bill will strengthen the spir- itual positions of the free churches. Council—The New York Camp Meeting—North Dakota Russian Camp Meeting—General Conference Spot News— ¶ QUAKERS are expressing a growing desire to return to rural North American Spot News—Camp Meetings for 1947— living and rural vocations, it was brought out at the 1947 Church Calendar Young Friends Conference held at Earlham College in Rich- POETRY mond, Incliana. More than 500 young Quakers, from all parts My Lord, p. 12 of the United States and from India, England, Canada, Mex- ico Cuba, Jamaica, Norway, Finland, and France, heard speak- ers attribute the growth of Quaker ideals to the environment found in rural homes. "The modern city," one speaker de- ITEMS OF INTEREST clared, "is a crime against society and anyone who continues T to live in the city is participating in the de-humanization of [The Review subscribes to Religious News Service, the well-known interde- human beings." nominational .news gathering organization. Many of the items below are taken directly from this service.] ¶ THE Rev. John Buckman Walthour, who has assumed his' duties as new dean of the Cathedral of St Philip in Atlanta, Georgia, called for a union of the world's denominations as a necessary basis for permanent peace. The Episcopal clergy- man, chaplain of the United States Military Academy at West Point for the past six years, said: "I live for the day when the 1872 Episcopal Church will sponsor a bazaar in a Baptist Church, ¶ IN announcing the coming conference and camp meeting, at which a Jewish auctioneer will sell goods for the benefit the Michigan Conference committee suggests that the follow- of a Roman Catholic orphanage." "The greatest reason for ing things be left at home: "1. All home cares and perplexing church unity," Dean Walthour said, "is that churches can't affairs; everything that would harass the mind and distract work successfully for peace without it." it' from' the worship of God. Throw these all off, and come to give yourselves wholly up to the object of the meeting. 2. ¶ AGREEMENT has been reached for establishment of diplomatic All roots of bitterness, personal jealousies and bickerings, relations between Canada and the Holy See, according to in- and church trials generally, if you have any such on hand. We formed Vatican quarters. It is expected that the first Canadian have been happily free from them thus far. Let us keep so. representative will be the Hon. Jean Desy, K.C., at present Let union prevail. Let love reign supreme." serving as Canadian ambassador to Brazil. The question of Canadian representation at the Vatican has been under discus- 1897 sion since early in 1946. ¶ E. L. STEWART, 0. E. Jones, and L. V. Finster send the fol- MOST thoroughly Christianized spot on earth, according to lowing concerning their work at Grand Island, Nebraska: "We Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Union Theological pitched the tent in this city June 10, with good attendance • Isla n ds VanDusexutal_d_-and--iaterest-frozn-the--first-As-so a local church congregation in Toronto that a century ago, question, all the ministers united and spoke in their respective natives in the Fijis were cruel, savage cannibals. "Now the churches against Sabbath desecration. Some spoke openly islands are 99 per cent Christian," he said, "and are free from against us, but the Lord turned their efforts in favor of the the influence of the movies, radio, liquor, and prostitution." truth. Fifteen have taken a stand for the Sabbath, and others ¶ MORE than 5,600 churches and other ecclesiastical buildings are interested. We have seen continual manifestations of God's were-elestroyeel-orbadly damaged in- Ffance-between--1939 -and- power tipon the hearts of the people." 1945, according to a recently completed survey. This figure 1922 compares with 4,000 churches destroyed during World War I. ¶ A Goon word comes from our Indian work in South America. ¶ ACCORDING to the newspaper Y omiuri, in Tokyo, 600,000 E. H. Wilcox writes from the Lake Titicaca Mission: "We are Bibles donated by the American Bible Society have been sold as busy as we can be these days, making adobes for the new out and an additional 1,000,000 copies have been ordered from normal school. The prospects are good for between the United States. Orders for Bibles are being received daily, eight hundred and one thousand new baptized members this the paper said, from schools, factories, and government offices. year." 2 REVIEW AND HERALD Are You Limiting God? falsehood. She deceived her own husband. And she taught Jacob, her beloved son, to lie. Jacob got the bless- T IS recorded concerning the children of Israel that ing by this method, but with what added pain and mis- "they turned back and tempted God, and limited the ery.

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