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Weekly News and Inspiration for Seventh-day Adventists August 27, 1987

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China God for Us 13 flagship hospitals." I say they I would like to clarify a few Re "God of All Our Needs" (July have it backward. Sell the big hos- ambiguities in the published ver- 9). pitals and build more small sanitar- sion of my article "China" (July 23). I am a divorced woman who is iums in rural locations, using hy- While a few individuals may lonely and many times troubled drotherapy, massage therapy, and wish to reestablish a formal church over my circumstances. I have natural remedies and teaching organization in China, the General found that God is truly interested in proper vegetarian diet. Conference of Seventh-day Advent- all aspects of my life. Many times JEFFREY GRIMALDI ists does not have such a plan, since when tempted to give up, I have felt Princeton, Florida such organization is not permitted His wooing and His attempts to by the government. The Adventist draw me close to Him. It is a very Church has no identity, organiza- difficult thing for me to reject His Seein g tion, institutions, or departmental overtures; God knows me well I give thanks for the teachings of work in China, but we do have local enough to reach me in just the right the Master Artist and the host of church leaders. In some places they way. Many times He leads me to preachers who help us see ("Water- have built or rebuilt chapels. something in a book or magazine color Painting," July 16). Would Even before the Cultural Revolu- that speaks to me and is just what I that the unique colors of our Ad- tion in the 1960s and 1970s, need to hear. He makes me feel very ventist ways reflect the Divine Pat- many intellectuals and managerial special. What relationship could be tern purely and clearly so that the workers were sent to the country- better than that! Praise the Lord! He world can see Jesus through us and side to be educated, "to learn from is my best friend. I just can't find the have opportunity to admire the rare the peasants." Young people were right words to say how much God beauty of the gospel too. encouraged by Chairman Mao and means to me. the Gang of Four to leave home to JANET SANFORD ELIZABETH SAGER carry out their revolution every- Columbus, Wisconsin Portland, Tennessee where. In spite of great difficulties, many The school of thought that if God The Bomb of our members are keeping the is our friend He cannot be our Sabbath and are witnessing wher- disciplinarian and judge is to play I am happy we realize that "noth- ever they are. At least two factories one attribute of God against His ing in the Bible teaches that a lim- close down on Sabbath, and soon other attributes and could result in ited nuclear war can't occur" ("The there will be a third one. These being a subtle blow to His Bright Side of the Bomb," June 25), members bear witness to the world, sovereignty. The unspeakable thrill but it's a pity that the only lesson we like Daniel and his friends in the of being a friend of God is not in the draw is "to place [our] hopes and past. fact that He is not our judge and dreams elsewhere than in this car- I invite ADVENTIST REVIEW readers disciplinarian, but that He is! nal, transient world." Maybe our everywhere to join with the leaders church should take a more "pro- of the General Conference in peti- R. W. O'FFILL phetic" and aggressive attitude tioning God to reveal Himself to the Longwood, Florida against nuclear war, denouncing teeming millions of China. those politicians who clearly put their trust only in the strength of SAMUEL YOUNG retaliation. Unless we give up hu- Washington, D. C. AHS Choices man reasoning and accept Jesus' One way the Adventist Health teaching ("Do not resist an evil per- System ("AHS Faces Difficult son. If someone strikes you on the right cheek, turn to him the other Applause Choices," July 2) could reduce their expenses would be for all adminis- also" [Matt. 5:39, NIV]), some day a I applaud "Ellen White Speaks to trators and other personnel to lower nuclear war will break out. a New Generation" (July 16). The their salaries to the same as minis- ROBERTO VACCA author states that Ellen White "con- ters. Firenze, Italy tinually points me to Jesus, the fo- PETER TADEJ cus of my faith." Could it be that Letters should not exceed 250 words Tacoma, Washington and should carry the writer's name, ad- those who question her validity do dress, and telephone number. All will be not wish to live a Christ-centered edited to meet space and literary require- life, as she so well exemplified it? The study done for our health- ments, but the author's meaning will not care system recommended that we be changed. Views expressed in the letters ROGER D. BROWN "sell smaller, rural hospitals" and do not necessarily represent those of the Brooks, Kentucky "increase the system's focus on its editors or denomination.

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PART I meal or rent payment is coming from. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and tensions rise— just note the unrest in so many countries. And if we're tempted to think that the rich must have millions, think HE FACES OF again. Are we not they, with our T houses, clean water, microwave ov- ens, and air conditioning? GRINDING POVERTY Again we ask, What should the Christian community do to help the world's poor, even those next door? ineteen illegal Mexican None of these constitute isolated ■ Should we follow a modified aliens started out on a trip to cases of people wanting to come to "liberation theology" that would the United States —but only the United States or Canada without give everyone guns to force equal None survived. Eighteen suf- passports or work permits. I think of living conditions, forcibly taking focated during an oven-hot boxcar the Vietnamese, Haitians, and Cu- from the rich and giving to the poor? ride to Dallas. bans who arrived en masse at our Scripture wouldn't warrant such Stories of this tragedy stirred the shores in recent years to gain polit- forcible action. nation's emotions earlier this sum- ical, economic, or religious free- ■ Should we collect enough food mer. Yet the story, the real story, to dom. We welcomed them with cau- to feed all the hungry? That would be told is of the grinding poverty tious, yet open arms, feeding and be helpful, but impossible. Such ac- that prompted them to flee their clothing them and finding them tion, though, would not change the hometowns in search of those elu- jobs. underlying conditions leading to sive dollars. But what of the rest, those who poverty. It would, as has happened Five of the men came from a sin- still eke out a meager existence in to many on welfare, only create de- gle mountain village in northern poverty-stricken villages? Those too pendence. In most cases it would Mexico, El Saucito, where 10 years poor to hire a "coyote," too ill to aggravate local economies by flood- of drought have been taking their work, or too broken in spirit? What ing them with so much food that toll, shriveling up work opportuni- of the wives and children of the 18 local farmers would be driven out of ties and plunging families deeper who died in the boxcar? Who will business. into poverty than even they thought silence the hunger pangs of the fa- ■ Should we support active, long- possible. therless children, now that their term community development And where the drought hasn't source of support is gone, forever. projects around the world, orga- cast its ugly shadow, the plummet- Surely the Christian community nized by such agencies as CARE, ing value of the peso and the yearly must ask, Do we not hold some re- World Vision, Save the Children, doubling of commodity prices have sponsibility before God to help and Adventist Development and taken their toll on family income hurting fellow human beings? Or is Relief Agency? Yes. and structure and on self-esteem. it "Out of sight, out of mind; I'll care ■ Should we support short-term Day laborers command little more only for those whom I can see"? In feeding and medical aid? Yes. than 1,000 pesos per day—less than answer, the words of Paul ring clear: ■ Should we, in view of the mil- 75 cents U.S. And families live apart "[The rich] are to do good, to be rich lions who struggle to make a living for months on end as they seek in good deeds, liberal and generous, every day, encourage simpler life- work—even work across the border thus laying up for themselves a good styles for ourselves so we will have in the United States —the land of foundation for the future" (1 Tim. the time or resources to help? golden opportunity to many. 6:18, 19, RSV). Definitely. "Coyotes" know the paths and ■And should we await the sec- Behind the Tension lead the adventuresome and desper- ond coming of Jesus, when all in- ate across the U.S. border on a To understand the poor, we must justices will be righted, all oppres- treacherous trail that some never recognize the vast chasm that we sion compensated, and all hurts survive to retrace—like the 18 box- have created between the world's comforted? Certainly. But looking car victims, or the three who died rich and poor —both people and to the future should never relieve us several days later of heat stroke countries. Mexico has its wealthy. of our sense of responsibility for while crossing the barren desert And the United States has its rap- helping now, only strengthen it. sands, or the many who have idly expanding list of millionaires. PART II: September 10 drowned crossing the swollen Rio They exist among millions who do MYRON WIDMER Grande. not even know where their next

4 (964) ADVENTIST REVIEW. AUGUST 27. 1987 kept two Black Muslims from their Friday service. Such a ruling ad- vises church members that what the government allows it may also deny when it chooses. Among other religion-related ac- tions, the Supreme Court refused to review the constitutionality of dip- lomatic ties between the United States and the Vatican, a setback for UPREME COURT? church-state separation in the eyes S of Seventh-day Adventists. The jus- tices also let stand without review s the United States Supreme stitution for a religious purpose. an Oregon law prohibiting teachers Court completed its 1986- Many Adventists would probably from wearing religious garb in pub- 1987 term, church-state see this as church-state separation lic classrooms, a reaffirmation of the separation came out a big gone to seed. Why should an expla- famed wall of separation. When two winner, according to a July 6 Reli- nation of the earth's origin that has ministers asked the Court to review gious News Service report by corre- as much or more scientific evidence the legality of their being fired by spondent Stan Hastey. Among the for it as evolution be banned simply their congregations, the justices re- >, Court's decisions: because the Bible teaches it? jected their plea, thereby upholding • Churches and their organiza- • States may not deny unemploy- the right of churches to employ tions may discriminate in favor of ment benefits to employees fired for whom they will, another plus for their own members when filling po- refusing to work on Sabbath. This Adventists. sitions, even in jobs considered sec- 8-1 vote came in a case concerning In accepting dozens of cases con- ular. In other words, the state may Paula Hobbie, of Florida, who lost cerning religious issues, the Su- not tell a church whom to hire, even her job after becoming an Adventist. preme Court continued a recent • though the Civil Rights Act bans re- Church members everywhere can trend. And this trend will carry over ligious bias in employment. This rejoice that they will not be forced to into the term beginning in October, exemption strengthens the separa- choose between obedience to God when the matter of a moment of si- tion of church and state, leaving Ad- and poverty in such cases. lence for meditation or prayer in ventists free to hire only their own • An airport may not ban the dis- public school classrooms comes up members in their schools, for exam- tribution of religious literature in- again in the form of laws with more ple. For this unanimous Court de- side its terminal, the Court ruled neutral language. unanimously. A representative of The Seventh-day Adventist un- Jews for Jesus had been arrested in derstanding of prophecy calls for a Los Angeles for defying such a ban. union of church and state in the Adventists will appreciate this free- United States just before the Second dom to share their literature at air- Advent (see Rev. 13:11-17). Do We look ports, should they choose. these recent Court decisions mean • Another unanimous decision that that day is yet far in the future? held that Jews qualify as a racial mi- Not at all. Many observers look for • to a court more nority and therefore come under an the composition of the Supreme old law against racial discrimina- Court to change momentarily from a supreme than tion. A synagogue had appealed to majority of justices who favor strict the 1870 law in bringing suit against separation to a majority who favor the U.S.'s. vandals for defacing their house of legislating religion into American worship with swastikas and anti- life. Such a new Court could reverse Semitic graffiti. Small churches present trends quite dramatically. cision we can be thankful. such as ours can be glad for a gov- Whether this happens very soon • By a 7-2 vote the Court struck ernment that still respects the rights or a little further down the road, we down a 1981 Louisiana law requir- of minorities. may rejoice that it is not man's but ing the teaching of creation science • In the only major case resulting God's court to which we will ulti- in public schools whenever evolu- in curtailment of religious freedom, mately have to answer. It is in ses- tion was taught. Justice William J. a 5-4 ruling declared that prison of- sion right now, and it is supreme. Brennan, Jr., declared that the law ficials may forbid inmates to attend violated the First Amendment by religious services if security de- EUGENE F. DURAND using a government-supported in- mands it. A New Jersey prison had

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to set aside Sabbath, September 12, to focus attention on Groundbreaking Set for New the historic document and its contribution to religious freedom. General Conference Complex "To Seventh-day Adventists, the Constitution has both historic and prophetic significance. We have a eneral Conference leaders are inviting members, special prophetic message for our people and the world. Gpastors, and administrators in the metropolitan Let us take advantage of this opportunity to incorporate Washington, D.C., area as well as leaders from the these thoughts into our sermons," Bradford says. General Conference's world divisions to attend groundbreaking ceremonies for the Adventist Church's Native Americans Organize Company. Thirty- new headquarters complex. The ceremony will be held two years of personal witnessing by Adventist lay at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, September 1, at Route 29 and members on the Colville Indian reservation have Randolph Road in Silver Spring, Maryland. resulted in the recent formation of a native American A number of municipal leaders from Montgomery company in Inchelium, Washington. The company is County, Maryland, are also expected to attend the the first of its kind in eastern Washington, reports Ed program. Schwisow, North Pacific Union Conference spokesper- son.

WORLD CHURCH Health Races Introduce Oregon Church. The Oregon Conference and Hood River area churches Mail Response at AWR-Europe Is on the Rise. recently sponsored three health races to acquaint The mail at Adventist World Radio-Europe totaled non-Adventist runners with the Adventist Church and 1,514 pieces for the first three months of 1987, which its health message. represents a 249 percent increase over the same period The races were held at Gladstone campground, Big last year, reports Greg Hodgson, AWR-Europe general Lake Youth Camp, and in Hood River. More than 500 manager. runners participated in the three races, reports the North Pacific Union Conference. Aid station attendants French Leader Dies Suddenly. Jean Lavanchy, were dressed as Bible characters, and runners were president of the Franco-Belgian Union Conference, invited to a postrace vegetarian meal. died suddenly following a heart attack, reports G. Ralph Thompson, General Conference secretary. Separate Accidents Claim Two Lives. A tractor- trailer accident claimed the life of Roy Dunn, Carolina Cross-cultural Seminar Reaches Minorities. Conference education director, on July 20 when he Sixty pastors and lay mem- stopped along a highway to fix a flat tire on the van he bers from 11 tribal groups was driving. recently gathered in Banga, Dunn and his family were en route to Fletcher, North South Cotabato, to attend the Carolina, from Charlotte to attend a board meeting at South Philippine Union's Parkridge Hospital. He was pronounced dead on arrival first training seminar at Cherokee County Hospital in Gaffney, South Caro- designed for cultural minor- lina. Dunn joined the Carolina Conference in 1982 as ity groups. principal of Fletcher Academy. He became education Among the 60 delegates director in 1985. were seven former ministers Air Force colonel Leonard Johnson, a lay member at from other religious groups, Emmanuel SDA Church, Brinklow, Maryland, died on like this former Baptist pas- August 1 when his private plane crashed during a tor (right) who was recently thunderstorm in Kokomo, Indiana. Johnson was en baptized and joined the route to his parents' home in Elkhart, Indiana. Adventist Church. The sem- Johnson received his medical degree from Howard inar focused on local church leadership and lay University School of Medicine. preaching, says P. M. Diaz, union president. After joining the United States Air Force, he became the first Black physician to become certified in the specialty of aerospace medicine through residency NORTH AMERICA training. He last served as surgeon general of the Electronic Security Command at Kelly Air Force Base Bradford Calls for Constitutional Focus. In in San Antonio, Texas. commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution, North American Division Winner Whips Up a New Format. The Winner, president Charles E. Bradford is asking all NAD pastors the Adventist Church's drug-education magazine for 6 (966) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 elementary school-age children, has a new look these stations in Massachusetts and Texas use the television days• The content has been updated to follow the program. guidelines of several govern- ment and private drug-edu- AU Tunes Up New Masters Program. The cation organizations, says National Association of Schools of Music recently Barbara Wetherell, editor. granted approval to the degree of Master of Music in Now The Winner fits the Conducting offered at Andrews University, reports C. curriculum for national Warren Becker, Music Department chairman. organizations such as the Andrews is now the only Seventh-day Adventist United States Department of educational institution to offer a master's degree in Education, National Insti- conducting, according to Zvonimir Hacko, coordinator tute on Drug Abuse, and of the conducting program. National Federation of Par- ents for Drug-free Youth. ALSO IIV THE NEWS

New Nursing Home Opens in Maryland. The Soviet Christians Launch Newspaper. A group of Shady Grove Adventist Nursing Center in Rockville, Soviet Christians headed by Russian Orthodox activist Maryland, held its grand opening ceremonies last Alexander Ogorodnikov recently launched a new month. The center offers residents a variety of health- unofficial Christian magazine at a Moscow news care programs, says Donna Gordon, nursing center conference on July 31. administrator. Articles in the 200-page publication give accounts of One hundred and twenty residents will receive religious activists in prison and are signed by their comprehensive health care, while 30 will get assistance authors. Soviet observers in the United States say the with their daily activities. An adult day-care program magazine will provide a significant test of the future of will also provide recreational, therapeutic, and social Premier Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of liberalization, activities. reports Religious News Service.

Faith for Today Links Up With Vibrant Life. Negro Spirituals: Singing Between the Lines. Faith for Today and Vibrant Life recently formed a Folk singer Odeta (left) special relationship. Vibrant Life, the Adventist health sings a Negro spiritual in journal aimed at the young adult market, will now be a recent concert in Chi- offered as a fund-raising incentive on Christian Life- cago. style Magazine (CLM). According to Religious The relationship was formed so that CLM could News Service, the veteran replace their quarterly journal, Lifestyle magazine, vocalist notes that such which had become too costly. CLM host Dan Matthews songs were often not just will write a special column with a spiritual emphasis as simple songs with bibli- part of three pages devoted to the broadcast in each cal themes, but coded issue. Vibrant Life also will be promoted weekly on the messages telling of the broadcast. pending escapes through Within the next year, the union should generate the Underground Rail- between 9,000 and 12,000 new subscriptions, carrying road. the Adventist health message to thousands of new homes, says Tom Kapusta, assistant to the marketing vice president at Review and Herald Publishing Associ- CHURCH CALENDAR ation. Aug. 29 Church Budget Offering Power to Cope Increases Broadcast Outlets. Sept. 4 Jewish Outreach Retreat begins at Camp With the recent addition of UA Columbia Cablevision Berkshire, in Wingdale, New York. in New Rochelle, the Power to Cope, a television Sept. 5 Lay Evangelists' Day ministry sponsored by the Greater New York Confer- Sept. 12 Mission Extension Offering ence, is now shown on seven cable television stations in Sept. 12 Constitution Bicentennial Emphasis the metropolitan New York City area. Sept. 12 Adventist Review, Guide, and Insight The program consists of interviews with people that Emphasis have successfully dealt with physical suffering, says Sept. 13 Young Writer's Fest, begins at Columbia Betty Cooney, conference communication director. Union College (CUC), Takoma Park, Mary- In addition to the seven New York stations, 16 land. The conference is cosponsored by hospitals around the United States and three cable Listen magazine and CUC. ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 (967) 7 THE CHRISTLIKE LIFE

those six blind men. Could our eyes be opened, would we find that we have been partly right—and also in the wrong? The Perfectionist Among Seventh-day Adventists are many we might term "perfec- tionists"—people whose good is never good enough, whose best is always lacking, whose God perpet- ually waits for them to measure up. Perfection is a biblical teaching; perfectionism is not. "Perfection- ism," writes David Seamands, "is a counterfeit for Christian perfection. . . . [It] is the most disturbing emo- tional problem among evangelical Christians. It walks into my office more often than any other single Christian hang-up." Perfectionism is not a new spiri- tual problem. Itinerant preacher THE ADVENTIST John Wesley recorded it. Martin Lu- ther experienced it. And, says Sea- mands, one ancient minister even ET +THANT wrote a book about it— The Spiri- tual Treatment of Sufferers From Blind people examining a large subject are Nerves and Scruples. bound to see it differently. Often Christian perfectionists do not recognize their problem. They BY ANN CUNNINGHAM BURKE creature, each man touched but a think they are simply trying to small part of it. please God, to live right by His The matter of their perspective es- grace. But agonize and strive as they tablished, the men began to describe may, they are never quite ready. the elephant. It is like a rope, "They seem to carry their religion as claimed one, grasping the tail. Not a man carries a headache. He does at all, asserted another, feeling the not want to get rid of his head, but animal's broad side; it is like a wall. at the same time it is very uncom- Still another "saw" it as a fan. An fortable to have it." 2 argument ensued, followed by the I have spoken with some who poet's punch line: Each man was have had this experience. (Indeed, I partly right—and all were in the have shared their struggles.) They ix blind men of wrong. say things such as "I was always S Have you ever heard of Seventh- trying, always trying" or "I never Hindustan, according day Adventists disagreeing about had any rest day and night." Anxi- some very large subject? ety, self-depreciation, and guilt to a poem in my child- Righteousness is a subject so wide plague these people. Even the cross and high that our reaching hands condemns them. One man de- hood reader, went to touch but a little at a time. Yet its scribed his bout with perfectionism: discussion easily becomes an argu- "[Jesus would] show me His nail- "see" an elephant. It ment, and we may find ourselves pierced hands . . . and say, 'Well, with varying viewpoints on such why aren't you a better Chris- was, of course, very questions as these: What is perfec- tian?' " 3 tion? What is grace? Should we em- Seeing the bent of the mind of a large, so in reaching phasize justification or sanctifica- perfectionist, is one surprised that tion? this person brings to Spirit of Proph- out to examine the Sometimes we differ as sharply as ecy counsels a lens that magnifies

8 (968) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27. 1987 detail to create a list of rules? The "the Christian life is a life of war- more he or she reads, the longer the fare, [and] we must watch and pray list, until desperate and heavy- and toil" 7 —a thought that the anx- laden with the perceived testimony, ious Christian can place alongside the person may throw it out com- the assurance that watchfulness ighteous- pletely—and perhaps the church, as "will come naturally when the soul well. Small wonder. "You get the is kept by the power of God through ness is a subject feeling that someone has died, . . . faith," 8 and that "God will accept and that someone is you." 4 everyone that comes to Him trusting wholly in the merits of a crucified so wide and The Casual Christian Saviour." 9 The average person, lacking such It is unfortunate that, because of high that our a naturally introspective tempere- our temperaments, overconscien- d ment, probably cannot understand tious believers often single out reaching hands the perfectionist's anguish. And it is strong statements probably in- certain the casual Christian cannot. tended for careless Christians. They touch but a That person must be told to examine whip themselves with these state- himself or herself, to search every ments, while careless church mem- little at a time. motive. The casual Christian does bers find false security in those no not readily intuit that entering at the doubt meant to comfort the over- strait gate requires agonizing, or that sensitive. Perhaps it would be ap- Christian principles may put one propriate for us to ask each day, out of sync with the world. Perhaps "Lord, show me myself—and then goal-oriented, highly social, or easy- show me my Saviour." The revela- going, this person just doesn't give tion often must come in that order. JP religion that much thought. JP The casual Christian, like the anx- Perspective and Definition ious perfectionist, has a big prob- What, then, of our varied under- lem—self. But God approaches each standings of righteousness? What differently; not every patient needs about our views of justification and the same remedy. sanctification, perfection and /In Paul, who found himself in a state grace? of wretchedness, emphasized justi- Behold the Adventist elephant. matter of righteousness, we can all fication by faith, while James talked We have read the counsel, each agree on one thing: "Both our title to about works. Ellen White in one through the eye of personal experi- heaven and our fitness for it are place urged, "Turn the eye away ence and temperament. We have found in the righteousness of from self," 5 and in another, "By a seen things differently. And we Christ." 12 close scrutiny of [our] daily life un- have all been right—and wrong. We may press close about Him, der all circumstances [we] would We have been right when we com- and in so doing, find ourselves know [our] own motives." 6 Do Paul forted the fearful and uncertain; nearer to one another than we and James teach opposing views? wrong when we failed to warn the thought. ❑ Does Ellen White? Or do they ad- careless. We have been right when REFERENCES dress people with opposite needs? we insisted that overcoming is pos- David A. Seamands, Healing for Damaged sible; wrong when we made "the Emotions (Wheaton, Ill.: SP Publications, Inc., Opposite Needs 1981), pp. 78, 79. way to heaven seem very diffi- 2 Hannah Whitall Smith, The God of All Comfort (Chicago: Moody Press, 1956), P. 7. The anxious Christian must in- cult." 10 Regarding righteousness Seamands, p. 84. deed get his or her eye off self. Only by faith, perhaps Jesus would say to Quoted in Kenneth L. Woodward with Monroe Anderson and Karen Springen, "Is Fundamental- grace can relieve the fear underlying us, "You view the matter from one ism Addictive?" Newsweek, Aug. 5, 1985, p. 63. perfectionism. Turning from his point; another, just as devoted to 5 Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 201. 6 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 512. own readiness (or lack of it), the God, views the same question from Selected Messages, book 1, p 182. anxious Christian must rest upon another point . . . ; and how foolish 8 Ibid., p. 353. 9 Ibid., p. 354. that grace. Only in this way can he it is to get into contention over these Ibid., p. 182. find peace. things, when there is really nothing ' 1 Ibid., p. 183. 12 The Desire of Ages, p. 300. The casual Christian, on the other to contend about." 11 hand, must pause in the flurry of If we are wiser than the men of work or pleasure, rouse from relax- Hindustan, we will concede that Ann Cunningham Burke is a free- ation, and look inward. This person where perspective differs, defini- lance writer from Yucaipa, Cali- needs to confront the concept that tion differs. Yet in the very large fornia. ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 (969) 9 ROSS REPORT

it, for the convention was not con- sidered a legislative body mandated to write specific laws. 3. Even as the delegates labored RAINING ON in Philadelphia, the Confederation Congress in New York got a signif- icant hold on slavery by enacting THE CONSTITUTION one of the most important statutes in American history, the Northwest Ordinance. Among other things, BY GARY M. ROSS this act outlawed slavery north of the Ohio River, west of the Appala- xcept when giving their writ- 2. While we acknowledge exten- chians, and south of the Great ten opinions, United States uating circumstances at the time of Lakes. Supreme Court justices are the Philadelphia Convention, we Moving from the territories to the Eseldom heard from. Hence ought not to concede without elab- United States proper, one finds their rare public speeches attract at- oration, as Marshall does, that the slavery was more acceptable than tention. Thurgood Marshall's recent Constitution was a "product of its enslavement (that is, the mainte- talk before a group of lawyers in Ha- time." For example, the best minds nance and exchange of slaves versus waii illustrates this point. saw slavery as a dying institution. the selling of free Negroes into ser- Declaring the Constitution of (We know that the emerging tech- vitude) — a subtle distinction of Mc- 1787 "defective from the start," nology of the cotton industry post- Donald's that Marshall misses when Marshall noted its exclusion of poned its "impending death.") stating that " 'We, the people,' no women, poor Whites, and espe- Also, a prohibition of slavery writ- longer enslave, but the credit does cially Blacks from "the people" ten into the Constitution would not belong to the framers." who could vote and hold office. have doomed its ratification in 4. To say, as did one of the Phil- Only after "several amendments, a 1788 . adelphia compromises, that Ne- civil war, and momentous social groes counted as three fifths of a per- transformation," he argued, did the son for purposes of representation system of constitutional govern- and taxation, odious as it was, con- ment emerge that Americans hold ferred a modicum of personhood as fundamental today. upon them and challenged the view No one can refute this humbling Tie that they were nothing more than observation. Appallingly, slavery exchangeable property. Moreover, and the slave trade characterized Constitution the framers set the tax on imported eighteenth-century American life. slaves so surprisingly low as to in- Condemnation of them in the Dec- remains a dicate that slaves did not represent laration of Independence was de- commodities in the ordinary sense. leted; and, without using the words wondrous But here, of course, we refer more to themselves, the Constitution af- consequences and implications firmed them as ingredients of the than we do to conscious intentions Philadelphia compromises. The document. on the part of the framers. Founding Fathers practiced slave- After Justice Marshall spoke, holding as they talked about USA Today rebuked him for having equality. In authenticating the American "rained on the U.S. Constitution's The following observations experiment, the framers drew upon bicentennial parade." But if he should be kept in mind when as- historical models, especially the an- dampened things, he surely spoke sessing Marshall's critique. cient Greek and Roman republics, the truth, failing simply to tell all of 1. The Constitution remains a that had condoned slavery. Scholar it. The Constitution is a living doc- wondrous document. Among the Forrest McDonald emphasizes still ument that time has improved. All .many accolades heard during the another reality: "The words equal things considered, at Philadelphia present bicentennial summer, one and equality, as used in the eigh- it was already an unprecedented pointed out that when Marshall teenth century, did not necessarily achievement. himself decried school segregation imply a conflict with the institution in the 1950s and coaxed the Warren of slavery." Finally, few people— Gary M. Ross is an associate direc- Supreme Court to end it, he based even among those who despised tor of the Public Affairs and Reli- his argument largely upon the slavery—expected that the Phila- gious Liberty Department of the Constitution. delphia Convention would outlaw General Conference.

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STANDARDS: READERS RESPONSE Eight Adventists express their views.

ho Is Teaching Standards?" asked the June 4, 1987, ADVENTIST REVIEW article by Richard WDuerksen. The article, which considered the complex, often-confusing issue of Seventh-day Ad- ventist lifestyle standards, invited readers to express their own views on SDA standards—what they are, how we should relate to them, and how they should be taught and/or enforced, particularly in the Adventist school environment. To date we have received more than 100 letters addressing this topic. Often impassioned, the letters together reflect a broad spectrum of member opinion. "[We need to] clean up our act as a church and get back to the old standards," says a young mother from Kansas, while an Oregon woman writes, "Why teach Adventism? Why not just teach the love of Jesus and how to deal with the inner man, not the outward man?" On the one hand, a Tennessee reader asks, "Why aren't standards men- tioned in our churches? I can't remember the last time I heard rings, pins, and paint mentioned"; on the other hand, a Washington, D.C., man observes, "Organized religion has a horrible habit of suffocating followers with layers of artificial virtue." The eight reader comments on the following pages also reflect this diversity. While you may not agree with every opinion, we hope their remarks will stim- ulate your own thought and study. "We need a forum," says one educator. Here is one. Think of it as the be- ginning and not the end of discussion. STANDARDS:

READERS' RESPONSE

Learning Values Pastoral Problems Wrong Question Overcome Evil With Good Teaching values—integ- Schools need to uphold Instead of asking, "What Our schools should empha- rity, loyalty, right priori- true standards as well as criteria should a young per- size excellence in academ- ties—is the most vital part possible, regardless of the son use in making deci- ics and sports as well as re- of education. Students influence on enrollment. sions about SDA stan- sponsibility and discipline must understand underly- I'm convinced that one of dards?" we should be in the workplace. I disagree ing principles before they the primary reasons stan- asking, "How can we help a that "one drunk student can learn standards. We dards in our local churches young person who is mak- can do more to harm the need to teach simplicity are so low is that young ing a decision know Jesus?" reputation of a school than rather than "no jewelry," men entering the ministry If a person has not accepted a whole class of failing for example. But we have from our colleges, together Christ's sacrifice and com- math students." Here, our majored in minors so long it with their wives, are not mitted himself or herself to people want quality aca- will be difficult to change. convinced of the impor- a relationship with Him, demics in a supportive, Make punishments for tance of these standards. I that person has no basis on positive environment. infractions of vital stan- have seen this for many which to choose an SDA As a youth pastor in a dards fit the crime. It makes years, especially in dress. lifestyle over any other 650-member church, I face little sense to expel a stu- Conference leadership lifestyle. the reality that fewer than dent for drinking. He has failed to bring up such Without Jesus the SDA one fourth of our eligible should be taken to the city matters at workers' meet- lifestyle is little more than a students attend Adventist morgue to see the results of ings and to press for con- set of guidelines for a academies. More and more drinking. sensus and a reasonable de- longer, healthier life. Is of the responsibility for I see a trend toward ma- gree of conformity on the this really the basis on spiritual and social growth terialism and self-seeking. part of ministers and their which we, as young people, is falling to the local con- Schools should stress re- families. Without such an should choose? A longer gregation. sponsibility to others, com- example, our schools can- life without Jesus is a longer Our emphasis here is not munity, and society. Basic not succeed in convincing life of meaninglessness. heavy on "standards." values are falling while the our youth. The situation When today's young peo- With 90 percent of our church quibbles over rings has become a vicious circle; ple accept Christ's sacrifice youth attending movies, and movies. We are busier effort must be put out at and bring Him into their and the majority wearing guarding our toothbrushes both ends of the line. lives, the question of stan- some kind of jewelry, we than our silver. Students need to ask dards will resolve itself. We try to "overcome evil with Home and school have themselves, "Is what I pro- will then have the greatest good" by asking them to not adequately prepared pose to do in harmony with and most balanced teacher draw the line somewhere, youth to make moral deci- the wholehearted commit- of standards, Jesus, to guide rather than telling them sions. All movies are not ment of my life to Jesus us. where to draw it. We dis- bad; students should learn Christ?" and "Even if I am Instead of worrying about cuss how a Christian how to choose the good not ready for such commit- how "to teach Adventism chooses what to wear or rather than categorically ment, will such conduct to our youth," our educa- what movies to see. They condemning the theater make it easier or more dif- tional institutions should don't need standards and watching anything at ficult for my friends to teach Jesus. They should preached; rather, they need home. It makes no sense make and maintain such a concentrate on making a positive, accurate, appeal- and young people know it. commitment themselves?" Jesus and His sacrifice rel- ing picture of God so they We want students led to After all, the very existence evant to us. After all, it is can establish a relationship fall in love with a caring of a Seventh-day Adventist not the SDA lifestyle but with Him. They need to God who sees them as school is not primarily for Jesus Christ who is the so- know that the local church unique, important individ- teaching information and lution to the problems fac- values, wants, and needs uals in His service. Nothing developing skills but for the ing us as young people them; we need to involve changes behavior more preparation of its students today. them. If Christ accepts us as than being in love. for Christian life and ser- MICHELLE NEWMAN we are, don't we owe the ELLA RYDZEWSKI vice. College freshman same to each other? Editorial secretary PAUL FELT Laurel, Maryland DUFF GORLE Clarksville, Maryland Retired minister Youth pastor Franklin, Georgia Wenatchee, Washington STANDARDS:

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Sacrifice A New Standard Patience as They Search We Need a Forum We have all the counsel we I am not sure teaching "Ad- During my 66 years (22 as a For years we have judged need ifwe are willing to fol- ventism" is a worthwhile women's dean), I have students nonspiritual if • low it. Living for Jesus is a goal. Better, how about changed my mind about they attended a theater or sacrifice, and most are not teaching Christianity—no what I consider central and wore a specific piece of jew- willing to walk in His foot- one else is. Why not make peripheral. I found I didn't elry. Yet we adults show steps. As a Bible instructor our "standard" "Thou shalt have very good reasons for movies on our campuses for many years, my greatest love . . . " and then spend not doing some things and wear "acceptable" jew- joy was seeing people sur- time explaining what that when I listened to "my elry. Students see the in- • render to Jesus, making means? When we begin to girls." I reminded myself consistency. Why not teach changes in their lives to understand love and mea- that the God who will judge them how to choose appro- please Him no matter what sure our behavior by that them will also judge me. priate dress and entertain- the cost. standard, things like colas, Regarding school rules I ment and quit trying to When these people came dances, and drugs will care would say, "I'm not saying judge the rightness or to church for the first time for themselves. But the it's wrong for you to do this, wrongness of specifics? and witnessed jewelry, church and its institutions but it is against our policy. Our church should be lowcut dresses, unneces- will have to practice what All I ask is that you conform full of love and acceptance, sary cosmetics, and hilari- they preach. If you expect while a student here, as you not a place of continual ous laughter, my defensive people to believe you love agreed to do when this censure and rejection. I explanation was, "The de- them, you have to mean it! school accepted you." think some Sunday-going vout SDAs love Jesus Christ Schools have always An SDA psychiatrist told Christians enjoy religion and follow Him," or "We been trendsetters. I think it college deans that teen age much more than we do, per- have many visitors in our is certainly justifiable to is a time for youth to exper- haps because we focus church services." How sad promote a new "standard" iment and discover values. more on behavior than on that professed Adventists in the school. The newest He urged us to allow them relationships. do not care that they might and most unique thing we to make decisions —even I am concerned about the be stumbling blocks. can bring to Christianity is mistakes—in unimportant picture of God we are giving The solution is centered Christ! Somehow He al- things, or some of them youth. Instead of emphasiz- in the home with the par- ways gets left out! would make more serious ing service and love, we ents, in the church with the Arbitrary regulations are mistakes later on. H.M.S. seem to focus on dress, jew- members, and in the acad- another story. The framer of Richards suggested I let the elry, movies, or other be- emies with the faculties. It the regulations has power girls know what I believed, havior we think is "wrong." focuses on each individ- to load the outcome of their but that I not hold them to I shudder to think how ual's love for the Example. acceptance. If the school my standards. He said, "If many young people I may If the heart is right, every- has a good reason to ex- they can grow a little, that's have turned off to the thing else will be right, and clude jewelry from campus, fine. If your relationship church by my attitude. We we'll all be an inspiration it should. But if the reasons with them is good, in years teachers sometimes get so one to another. degenerate to ad hominum to come they will remember hung up on enforcing rules Only the shaking time attacks on the student's what you stood for." I that we forget to talk to stu- will take care of the prob- sense of morality, that's would tell adults working dents about Christ. lem completely. Those quite another matter. with youth to remember, I wish there were a forum coming in to take the empty We cannot afford to be "God isn't finished with me for church leaders and places will find a caring, anything less than caring, yet" and to be patient as youth to discuss this topic. loving group who love consistent, reasonable, tol- they search. I don't think we fully grasp Jesus enough to obey His erant, forgiving followers of MRS. MELBA OLMSTEAD the widespread frustration standards and who have Christ. Anything less is Retired women's dean youth—our future lead- found the narrow way to nothing at all. Loma Linda, California ers—feel as they view the primitive godliness. A. E. DUNHAM, JR. arbitrary standards we im- LAURIE C. DIXON Dentist pose upon them. Retired Bible instructor Clarinda, Iowa MYRON L. WHITING ti Dry Fork, Virginia Associate education director Pleasant Hill, California I flit 11 LIFESTYLE

morning, she checks to see that all is well. I do the same for her. The same door left open at night calls for an- other check. A telephone arrange- ment could serve the same purpose. Frequent drop-in visits "for no special reason" do a lot to lift spir- its. Telephone calls punctuate long days alone with reminders of friendship and caring. These little attentions help a senior who's alone to remember that the community and church still recognize her or him. Visiting neighbors and friends has almost become a lost art. Too bad. Maybe it's time we revived it. ,E_4 Transportation. Many seniors de- ° pend on family, neighbors, friends, and public transportation to get around. Just to be told that Jane, four houses down, goes to the grocery OLD AGE AND store on Thursday afternoons and "you're always welcome to ride along" is most helpful. Knowing GRAY HAIR . that the Smiths will come by to take her or him to church augments a . . . and how seniors and younger members senior's sense of Sabbath blessing. can work together to make the best of it Irregular trips, such as medical appointments, are more difficult to BY SARA EATON get her to the grocery store, the doc- manage; this is where a good Samar- tor, and church. She lives alone. itan can really help out. A last- This woman typifies a significant minute invitation to go shopping at group of senior church members— the mall can change "I don't feel so male and female, married and sin- good" into a bright "Oh, that sounds gle —who live on their own. Their great! When will you be by?" situation poses numerous difficul- Household repairs. How do you ties, yet for a variety of understand- fix a leaky faucet? What do you do able reasons they choose to main- when one end of the shower curtain tain their own residence. Let's look rod comes loose? Seniors continu- he's between 75 at some of the problems they face. ally face these and hundreds of S Loneliness. This can be depress- other minor maintenance problems. and 90 years of age. A ing—even for couples. Entire days The repair problem is twofold—cost may pass without contact with an- and availability. chronic health prob- other person. But fear visits fre- My neighborhood had a most sat- quently, and countless "what-ifs" isfactory solution to this problem— lem limits her physi- loom large, especially at night. for a while. A retired man, skilled in "What if I suddenly become ill?" nearly every kind of home repair, cal activity. She has "What if I fall and break my hip?" made himself available on call, "What if an intruder breaks in?" charging only a modest fee for his given up driving—it's "What if . . . ?" services. But illness and death Feeling alone is part of the price robbed us of his help, and no one not safe anymore— of living alone. But creating an ar- has yet filled his shoes. rangement with a nearby neighbor Fellow Seniors . . . and depends on public can at least partially dissolve atten- dant fears. My next-door friend and Church members can do much to transportation and the I have a plan that has erased at least help seniors with the problems they part of our "what-if" list. If I haven't experience in these and other areas kindness of friends to opened my garage door by mid- of their lives. For instance, the large

14 (974) ADVENTIST REVIEW. AUGUST 27. 1987 4 church to which I belong has a well- son to adopt the crippling habit of organized program for meeting dwelling on personal needs, feel- many of its seniors' needs. But, fel- ings, and wishes. Selfishness is a ti low seniors, we need to look at the constant pitfall for those of us who reverse side of the picture. What is live alone, responsible only for our our responsibility? Will we sit back own care. We need to set up guard- and be cheerful receivers only? rails. A paraphrase of John F. Ken- Every day we should pray for oth- nedy's directive may help to answer ers, talking with God about their the question: Ask not what your needs, problems, and our hopes for * church can do for you; ask what you them. I have found that audibly can do for your church. thanking God for specific blessings We need to remember that you, I, that have come my way in the past • all of us, are the church. Its failure is 24 hours helps me combat anxiety. ours. If the church is not caring, it is Keeping mentally, physically, because we have not been caring and spiritually active is vital. It's as people. God never mandated any of important to a senior as it is to a FOUR BY FIVE us to lie down and "play dead" just youngster to keep television view- because we've reached the late af- ing under strict control. If eyesight For Your permits, reading provides excellent 1 mental stimulation and diversion, Information and there is a wealth of good liter- ■ ature available. Handicrafts and Today a 65-year-old man can other creative projects offer another on average look forward to 15 od never helpful avenue of activity. Some more years of life; a woman, 19 people find pleasant diversion in more years. mandated any crossword and other puzzles. ■ If present trends continue, the Don't forget to exercise regu- number of people over 65 will dou- of us to lie larly—walk, bicycle, or swim, for ble to about 60 million by the year example—to whatever extent your 2020. down and play physical condition allows. Using ■ Women, who generally live every opportunity to do something longer than men, are more likely to dead just for someone else helps to ease lone- be poor and alone in old age. liness. And cultivating the habit of ■ About 80 percent of the elderly cheerfulness keeps the mind out of will never have to go to a nursing because we've the gutter of self-pity. home. Whatever else interests you, Bible ■ Fewer than 5 percent of people reached the late study and prayer should head the 65 or older live in nursing homes. list. Reading the Bible is good, but it ■ afternoon of lacks the stimulus of deeper study. Of the nearly 30 million Ameri- Find a project, passage, biblical au- cans 65 or older, 3.5 million live life. thor, or theme that intrigues you below the poverty line. Another 8 and dig into it. Even if you don't million are considered "economi- complete your project, the mental cally vulnerable," with income less uplift that comes from the process than twice the poverty level. ternoon of life. We may not be will make it well worth your effort. ■ Of males 65 and older, 13.8 per- needed in the office or shop any- And now here is a promise se- cent live alone. Nearly three times more, but if we have a measure of niors would do well to remember: as many women in that age health, God has something for us to "Even to your old age and gray hairs group-38.8 percent—live by do. I am he, I am he who will sustain themselves. I like this passage from the you. ■ According to current predic- Psalms: "[The righteous] will still I have made you and I will carry tions, the human body, unencum- bear fruit in old age, they will stay you; bered by disease, should last fresh and green" (Ps. 92:14, NIV). I I will sustain you and I will rescue about 115 years. especially like the "fresh and you" (Isa. 46:4, NIV). ❑ green" part. Source: Washington Post/Health, Apr. 14, 1987. One of the most destructive Sara Eaton is a senior citizen writ- things that can happen is for a per- ing under a pseudonym.

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ADVENTIST SCRAPBOOK

THE TRAGIC STORY OF MOSES HULL

BY JAMES R. NIX

Moses Hull of many Adventists today later said he was debating not with fidelity and Spiritualism. have heard of Moses Hull, Jamiesen but "with some demon Elder Hull seemed to rally. In the the man who recommended professing to be the spirit of Mr. Review and Herald he wrote a brief that his church adopt the Downing, speaking through W. F. account and apology regarding his N debate. He said, "There was . . . an name Seventh-day Adventist. Jamiesen." One account has it that He was born in Ohio in 1836, and while they were debating, Elder influence over the audience, and at age 15 became a member of the Hull heard a spirit voice. I am now satisfied over myself, United Brethren Church. The fol- A few days later he met with sev- such as I had never before wit- lowing year he joined the first-day eral Adventists in J. N. Loughbor- nessed." Adventists, preaching for them ough's home in Battle Creek, Mich- During the summer of 1863 Hull while still in his teens. igan. Ellen Whi4e received the first went to New York State to do public In the spring of 1857 Hull ac- of her messages for Moses Hull in a evangelism with J. N. Loughbor- cepted the Sabbath message and vision at that meeting. God was us- ough. But in September of that year preached his first Adventist sermon he preached his last sermon as an that same year in Greenville, Illi- Adventist. nois. Soon he and his family moved For the remainder of his life to Iowa, where he preached in tents Moses Hull was a spiritualist. By the and halls. He was ordained in early 1870s he had left his wife and Crane's Grove, Illinois, in 1858. llen White not only advocated "free love" but A popular evangelist, Moses Hull E practiced it. The last 35 years of his often attracted crowds of several life he lived in a common-law mar- hundred to a thousand to his meet- warned him riage with a spiritualist medium, ings. He especially excelled in de- Mattie E. Sawyer. bating. In 1862 Hull participated in against Hull edited several journals and a seven-day debate with another wrote numerous books and pam- minister on the question of the im- befriending phlets for the spiritualists. It is said mortality of the soul. In most of his that he was the first spiritualist who debates he came out the winner. spiritualists. tried to use the Bible to prove the validity of spiritualism. Adventists Dabating With Spiritualists would find his arguments blasphe- On several occasions Hull de- mous in tone. In 1902 he became the bated with spiritualists. More than ing every possible means to save El- first president of the Morris Pratt once Ellen White appealed to him to der Hull, since He not only gave him Institute, a school established to look away from self and to the Lord. a message based on a vision but al- train spiritualist mediums. She warned him against befriending lowed him to witness the giving of Moses Hull died in 1907 in San spiritualists. (See Testimonies, vol. that vision. Jose, California. His death certifi- 1, pp. 426-442.) Moses Hull knew exactly what he cate indicates the cause as suicide. In October of 1862 Hull accepted was getting into when he began de- a challenge to debate a spiritualist bating with spiritualists. He had Sponsored by the Heritage Room, Loma Linda Uni- by the name of W. F. Jamiesen. Hull written a tract in 1862 entitled In- versity Libraries

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Youth Accept Challenge of Unentered Villages Indonesians train to win friends, souls n a very hot day in Cannibal tucked away in remote jungle val- Valley, east Indonesia, our pi- leys. These primitive animist tribes Olot parked the mission plane at live much the same as they have for the Wamena Airport so a small centuries, their tools and weapons group of us could hike to a nearby representative of the Stone Age. village. Tribal wars are common. Sixteen As we reached the village we men had been killed only three days heard the mournful sound of before our visit. Lack of personal hy- Two villagers singe a pig, then scrape women weeping. In the center of the giene also takes a heavy toll. Most the skin, to prepare it for roasting. town men were busy piling up villages have never had a visit from brush and split logs for a huge fire. a medical professional. "What is your objective in joining The villagers, knowing that one of Irian has 830 villages and 117 this class?" He, along with 19 other their old men would die soon, had towns. Of these almost 1,000 com- youths, had enrolled in a six-week saved an old pig for his funeral feast, munities, the Seventh-day Advent- training program at Universitas but the pig had died first! ist Church has entered less than Klabat. The dead pig must not enter the 100. Planting a Church "My companion and I will start new work in Burrias Island. As we help the community, we will make friends with the people. Bible stud- ies will follow. By God's grace, be- fore we return to college next year, we will plant a church on that unen- tered island." The training program covers a wide variety of topics: Bible study, personal and public evangelism, first aid, gardening, carpentry, per- sonal hygiene, and sanitation. Two weeks are spent in a public crusade. This class had been divided into four teams to assist an evangelist. They spent part of their day in class- Adventists have entered less than 100 of the nearly 1,000 Irian Jaya communities. work and the rest helping with the meetings. world of the dead alone, so they Pastor Hans Kalalo, president of One group was constructing pews killed four young pigs. While the the Irian Jaya Mission, and his com- for the local church, using their men prepared for the feast, the mittee have made plans to enter 20 newly developed carpentry skills. women were weeping for the souls new territories this year. Pastor- These 20 youths are currently of the dead pigs. pilot Dan Thompson will help working in unentered islands and transport workers into remote vil- villages of the north Celebes Sea. Remote Jungle Valleys lages with a plane furnished by the Forty additional youths are working In this land of Irian Jaya, in West Quiet Hour radio program. in remote jungle villages of Irian Papua New Guinea, 1.5 million peo- The union mission has estab- Jaya. ple inhabit hundreds of villages lished two training centers: one at We need thousands more to join the Mount Klabat College in Ma- the 60 youths who have left their By J. H. Zachary, secretary, Minis- nado and the other at the academy homes and moved into villages terial Association, Far Eastern in Irian Jaya. As I visited one of where languages and cultures are Division. these centers, I asked a young man, strange to them.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 (977) 17 at the new location, built the two- Redone Sutherland House story house, which served as his residence from 1902 to 1904. Perched on "White's Bluff," over- Holds Grand Opening looking Lemon Creek, it is the only remaining structural link to the university's early history. 1902 home becomes monument to pioneer. Sutherland is known within the Adventist Church for his leadership and creative initiative in educa- estoration finally completed, Members of the Sutherland fam- tional and health issues. He became Rthe Sutherland House, located ily, local government officials, the the first president of Walla Walla on the campus of Andrews Univer- architect, the interior decorator, and College in Washington state, served sity, was dedicated in a series of community members participated as president of Battle Creek College ceremonies the weekend of June 13. in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the in Michigan, and as founder/presi- According to Elsie Buck, head of freshly painted home on June 12. dent of Madison College in Tennes- the Sutherland House Restoration George Knight, professor of church see. He achieved prominence in Committee, volunteers, donors, and history at Andrews, spoke on developing self-supporting institu- skilled workmen refurbished the "Edward Alexander Sutherland: A tions, becoming a founder and first 85-year-old house at a cost of Man With a Mission." president of Adventist-Laymen's approximately $150,000. "It is On Sabbath, Fred G. Thomas, Services and Industries (ASI). important for a campus like ours to undersecretary of the General Con- Over the years, the Sutherland have a historical monument as a ference, addressed the church on House has served not only as the reminder of the great legacy of a the topic "How Is Your World president's residence, but also for pioneer in the educational outreach Vision?" The afternoon featured the campus infirmary and student of the Seventh-day Adventist tours of the Sutherland House, the housing. It will contain a museum Church," said Buck. Adventist Heritage Center, and the and library in tribute to its original Ellen G. White Research Center. owner. The second story will By Candace Jorgensen, public infor- After Battle Creek College trans- accommodate the 21-year-old Insti- mation officer at Andrews Univer- ferred to Berrien Springs in 1901, tute of World Mission. Currently sity. Edward Sutherland, first president located in the Seminary Building, the institute prepares missionaries to serve outside the United States. Restoration of the Sutherland House began in July 1986 when Maranatha volunteers gave two weeks of initial labor, followed by more volunteer help from students, faculty, alumni, and the commu- nity. The total cost was thus reduced by approximately $25,000 from the initial estimate of $167,- 000. Funds for the restoration project have come from individuals, cor- porations, and organizations such as ASI, the Retired Seventh-day Adventist Workers of North America, and the Laymen's Foun- dation. The Restoration Committee is soliciting further gifts for fin- ishing work on the house. The architectural firm of Crum- lish/Sporleder and Associates, Inc., of South Bend, Indiana, planned the restoration work. David Wilber has worked as on-site supervisor of the lilt 11111111111 project. 18 (988) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 Several members of the Bambara tribe, along with three ADRA representatives, stand in front of the Doni village auditorium. Evangelism Center Built for $2.50 e sub-Saharan republic of a water-conserving dam, a massive tra crop of dry season vegetables Mali, in the Africa-Indian barrier made from a small mountain their stored-up-water will ensure. Ocean Division, has what must of rocks and clay laboriously hauled The first function of this new Doni surely be the world's lowest-cost to the spot by the sweating tribes- lake will be to baptize several mem- evangelistic center. All the materi- men. During the rainy season a dry bers from the congregation of the als for its construction cost $2.50. creek bed behind the dam will turn little straw tabernacle. The small rectangular chapel, into a lake of more than 330,000 cu- The apostle Paul wrote contemp- made of wooden poles and plaited bic yards (250,000 cubic meters) of tuously of straw as a foundation ma- 1- straw, stands in the center of the life-giving water. terial (1 Cor. 3:12, 13), but he would village of Doni, 60 miles (100 kilo- Another kind of "rain" has been no doubt agree that the tiny chapel meters) northwest of the capital falling on the hearts of these for- between Bamako and Timbuktu, as • city, Bamako. The man who built it, merly animistic people. It promises it yields its quota for Harvest 90, is Diarra Diarra, is the first Adventist a much earlier harvest than that ex- anchored to the "solid Rock." convert from the Bambara tribe. Each evening 60 villagers gather in this limited space to study the Bible by lamplight. These people live in a famine- Before You Move! ' haunted land. For seven years, hav- Please let us know at least eight 2. Fill in new address ing a full stomach has been for them weeks before changing your address. a rare experience. They also hunger 1. Attach an address label from a recent • for a secure future for their children issue or print your name and address Name (please print) and for a better spiritual perception exactly as it appears on the label. than their animist beliefs allow. Address Helped by Adventist Develop- Name (please print) City State Zip ment and Relief Agency, these vil- lagers have just completed building Address ADVENTIST By Jack Mahon, Africa-Indian City State Zip REVIEW Ocean Division communication P.O. Box 1119, Hagerstown, MD 21741 director. ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 (979) 19 BULLETIN BOARD

Isaac Don Evans (Special Service), to serve as teacher, Seventh-day Adventist English Language Literature To New Posts Institutes, Seoul, Korea, of San Jose, California, left June 21. Requests Eric R. Gustaysen (Senior Dental Clerkship), to Student Missionaries serve as dental assistant, Yaounde Dental Clinic, Jamie Clinton Edwards III (AUC) of Harrisville, Yaounde, Cameroon, and Diane Laverne (Wehtje) Philippines New Hampshire, to serve as worker, ADRA project, Gustaysen, of Loma Linda, California, left June 18. Lemuel Bucog, Bliss Project, Lumponid, Midsa- Calbayog City, Philippines, left July 1. Mark William Hagensicker (Special Service), to lip, Zamboanga del Sur Philippines: Bible with Lisa Danelle Palmieri (PUC), of Loma Linda, serve as manager, Management Information Sys- HMS Richards Study guides, Signs of the Times, California, to serve as teacher, Japan English tems, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga, New Adventist Review, Spirit of Prophecy books, Guide, Language Schools, Osaka, Japan, left June 16. South Wales, Australia, Arlene Jeanette (Blecha) Primary Treasure, Little Friend. Gina Marie Vyskicil (WWC), of Ferndale, Wash- Hagensicker, and one child, of Moberly, Missouri, Theddy Cuasito, Buloron SDA Church, Midsalip, ington, to serve as teacher, Seventh-day Adventist arrived in Sydney, Australia, December 6, 1986. Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines: Bibles with con- English Language Institute, Seoul, Korea, left June Frank Graham Heppel (SOS), to serve as music cordance, Signs of the Times, Adventist Review, 21. teacher, Philippine Union College, Manila, Philip- Listen magazine, Vibrant Life, picture rolls, Little pines, and Hazel Murial (Barclay) Heppel, of Friend, Primary Treasure, sermon outlines. Armstrong, British Columbia, left June 23. Anik Omandam, Lumponid SDA Church, Lum- Regular Missionary Service Kwang Suhn Lee (Senior Dental Clerkship), to ponid, Midsalip, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines: Kenneth Edwin Caviness, to serve as physics serve as dentist, Seoul Adventist Hospital, Seoul, Spirit of Prophecy books, Bibles, Adventist Review, teacher, Adventist University of Central Africa, Korea, Soon Ok Lee, and one child, of Loma Linda, Signs of the Times, Listen magazine, Vibrant Life, Gisenyi, Rwanda, and Claryce Joyce (Sarr) Cavi- California, left June 16. sermon outlines. ness, of Methuen, Massachusetts, left June 1. Robert Elsworth Littlejohn (Special Service), to Dionisio Masabot, Don Mariano SDA Church, James Richard Conran, returning to serve as serve as physician, Seventh-day Adventist Health Don Mariano Marcos, Zamboanga del Sur, Philip- ADRA director, Rwanda Union Mission, Kigali, Centre, Blantyre, Malawi, and Nan (Woolsey) pines: Bibles, Spirit of Prophecy books, Signs of the Rwanda, and Eve M. (Bugbee) Conran, left May 31. Littlejohn, of Sequim, Washington, left June 16. Times, Adventist Review, Liberty, Guide, Vibrant Roy Anthony Castelbuono, returning to serve as Harris Walter Mainster (Special Service), to Life, sermon outlines. director, Japan English Language Schools, Osaka, serve as physician, Mwami Adventist Hospital, Isabelo Sabuero, Jr., Golictop SDA Church, Japan, Audrey Charlotte (Green) Castelbuono, and Chipata, Zambia, and Phoebe Ann (Stone) Main- Golictop, Midsalip, Zamboanga del Sur, Philip- three children left June 1. ster, of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, left May 22. Mark Thomas McKaig (Special Service), to serve pines: Spirit of Prophecy books, Bibles, Signs of the Saleem Assad Farag, to serve as health/temper- as English/mathematics teacher, Escuela Adven- Times, sermon outlines, Liberty, Adventist Review, ance director, Eastern Africa Division, Harare, children's magazines. Zimbabwe, and Violet Grace (Anderson) Farag, of tista, Roatan, Honduras, of San Diego, California, began serving June 17. Edmundo F. Subade, do West Visayan Mission, Bakersfield, Caifornia, left May 20. Rhodes L. Rigsby (Medical Elective Service), to P.O. Box 241, Iloilo City 5901, Philippines: Bible Charles Delmar Johnson, returning to serve as serve as medical assistant, Mwami Adventist Hos- with concordance, church hymnals, songbooks, physician/surgeon, Youngberg Adventist Hospital, pital, Chipata, Zambia, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, left Vibrant Life, Signs of the Times, picture rolls. Singapore, and Thelma Margaret (Burbank) John- December 25, 1986. son, of Deer Park, California, left May 19. Robert Gordon Peck, returning to serve as Sierra Leone president, Rwanda Union Mission, Kigali, Rwanda, E. J. Heisler, Masanga Leprosy Hospital, P.O. Box left May 27, and Alice Marie (Clayton) Peck, left 48, Magburaka, Sierra Leone, West Africa: evange- Obituaries May 26. listic literature, Signs of the Times, Insight, Vibrant Heath Rowsell, returning to serve as surgeon/vice Life, Guide, Primary Treasure, small books, tracts. ANDERSON, Ann Brinson—b. Sept. 10, 1910, president for medical affairs, Penang Adventist Southport, N.C.; d. May 16, 1987, Silver Spring, Md. Hospital, Penang, Malaysia, and Reba Carolyn She worked with her husband in the literature Tanzania (Bassham) Rowsell left June 28. ministry as student leader and secretary. Survivors Pastor R. W. Taylor, Tanzania Union of SDA, P.O. Philip Steinweg, returning to serve as physics include her husband, George, Sr.; one son, George, Box 1121, Arusha, Tanzania, East Africa: Spirit of teacher, Ecuador Adventist Academy, Santo Jr.; one daughter, Beverly Crabbe; one brother, Prophecy books, devotional and doctrinal books, Domingo de los Colorados, Pichincha, Ecuador, left Calvin Brinson; one sister, Viola Hicks; and three Adventist Review, Signs of the Times, children's May 27. Lonnita Marlene (Lindbeck) Steinweg, and grandchildren. Sabbath school papers, Picture Rolls. two daughters, left June 9 to join her husband. COUNSELL, Isaac V.—b. Dec. 30, 1893, Brown- ville, Iowa; d. June 14, 1987, Takoma Park, Md. He served the church as accountant, pastor, and Bible Kenya teacher for nearly 48 years, including eight years of Nelson Onchomba Nyatara, Seventh-day Advent- Volunteer Service mission service in Burma and India. After retire- ist Church, P.O. Box 3658, Nakuru, Kenya, East Thomas Harrison Blincoe (SOS), to serve as ment he continued distributing thousands of book- Africa: Adventist Review, Signs of the Times, Adult teacher, SDA Theological Seminary, Far East, lets each year. Sabbath School lesson quarterly, Vibrant Life, Manila, Philippines, and Helen Ruby (Ham) Blin- DETAMORE, Bessie Evalena—b. Dec. 24, 1886, magazines, books. coe, of San Marcos, California, left June 2. Washington County, Kans.; d. May 28, 1987, Walter Miller Bolinger (SOS), to serve as assis- Dunlap, Tenn. She worked for more than 40 years in tant engineer, Adventist World Radio-Asia, Agat, the Minnesota, Oregon, Upper Columbia, and Newfoundland Guam, and Willeta Beatrice (Raley) Bolinger, of Indiana conferences, and at the Malaysian Union SDA Church in Newfoundland and Labrador, 106 Keene, Texas, left June 11. Mission. Later she worked at the Voice of Prophecy Freshwater Road, St. John's, Newfoundland A1C Emile Augustus Brodeur (SOS), to serve as acting and Faith for Today. Survivors include one daugh- 2N8: Signs of the Times, Vibrant Life, Listen, publishing director, South China Island Union ter, Avis Senecal; one sister, Hazel Rudy; seven Ingathering magazines. Mission, Hong Kong and Singapore, Far Eastern grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and nine Division, and Helen G. (Knowles) Brodeur, of Avon great-great-grandchildren. Park, Florida, left June 7. FLORY, Harold—b. Oct. 9, 1912, Lemoore, Calif.; Nigeria Isaac Walt Chin (Senior Dental Clerkship), to d. May 14, 1987, Anguilla, British West Indies. He Onatunde A. Olusesan, Adventist Seminary of serve as dentist, Taiwan Adventist Hospital, Taipei, pastored for 34 years in Oklahoma and California, West Africa, P.M.B. 21244, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, Taiwan, of Loma Linda, California, left June 12. retiring in 1977. Survivors include his wife, West Africa: Tracts, magazines, Spirit of Prophecy Robert Erwin Cossentine (Special Service), to Dorothy; two children, Patricia Boice and Ken; two books, visual aids and equipment, Bibles, hymnals, serve as physician, Mwami Adventist Hospital, sisters, Grace Skadsheim and Ruth Gearing; two sermon outlines, cassette tapes, picture rolls. Chipata, Zambia, and Ethlyn Roberta (Feldkamp) grandchildren, Randy Harrison and Sheri Weber; Isaac K. Sarfo, Adventist Seminary of West Cossentine, of Loma Linda, California, left May 12. and one great-granddaughter. Africa, P.M.B. 21244, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, West Debra Ann Engel (Special Service), to serve as GALBRETH, William Ernest—b. Dec. 14, 1917, Africa: Bibles, picture rolls, religious magazines; teacher, Seventh-day Adventist English Language Los Angeles, Calif.; d. June 6, 1987, San Jose, Calif. Sabbath school materials, health evangelistic mate- Institutes, Seoul, Korea, of Inglewood, California, He pastored in the Southeastern and Central rials, Spirit of Prophecy books. left June 14. California conferences for 35 years. Survivors

20 (980) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 include his wife, Margaret; one daughter, Mary; and LANGE, Oliver William-b. Aug. 26, 1904; d. Adventist Medical Center and later Portland two granddaughters, Staci and Jetaun. May 19, 1987, Asheville, N.C. He served in the Adventist Medical Center, where he remained 14 GARDNER, Martha M.-b. June 7, 1907, Sas- Southern Asia Division for 43 years. After retire- years. Survivors include his wife, Toni; one son, katchewan, Canada; d. May 23, 1987, National City, ment, he returned as an SOS worker for two more Alexander Paul; and one stepson, David Cotton. Calif. She taught elementary school for 36 years in years. Survivors include his wife, Sylvia; four SCHULTZ, Herman A.-b. July 18, 1899, New- California, Nevada, Utah, Canada, Pennsylvania, daughters, LoRita Erickson, Marcella Manley, Vir- dorf, , Saskatchewan, Canada; d. Feb. 10,1987, Walla and Ohio. She and her husband spent three years in ginia Erickson, and Marjorie Bankhead; 14 grand- Walla, Wash. His pastoring began in Idaho and Africa. Survivors include six brothers and three children; and 9 great-grandchildren. continued in various churches in Washington, sisters. OSS, Mae Carskadon-b. May 9, 1900, Wilcox, Montana, and Alberta, Canada. For three and HARDIN, James R.-b. Aug. 31, 1928, Tempe, Nebr.; d. June 11, 1987, Spokane, Wash. After one-half years during the Depression he sold books Ariz.; d. May 26, 1987, Angwin, Calif. His ministry receiving her nurse's training, she and her husband in central Washington. After his retirement in 1961 began as literature evangelist-pastor in the South- went to India, where she conducted a dispensary he continued doing pastoral work. He was preceded ern California Conference, where he helped orga- and was in charge of the girls' school. Survivors in death by his first wife, Gertrude, in 1965, and his nize several churches. He became Sabbath school include her husband, Melvin; two sons, Paul son, Orville, in 1985. Survivors include his wife, director for the Southern California Conference, but Melvin and Donald Ole; six grandchildren; 12 Beatrice; one daughter, Margaret Moothart; two returned to pastoral work in Arizona for five years. great-grandchildren; and one brother, Clay Carska- sisters, Mary Samuelson and Lydia Flath; two He was appointed Sabbath school and personal don. brothers, Albert and Carl; four stepdaughters; one ministries director for the Pacific Union Confer- PALMER, Geraldine Young-b. Feb. 28, 1896, stepson; 8 grandchildren; and 7 great-grandchil- ence. In 1985 he became president of the Nevada- Pontiac, Ill.; d. June 1, 1987, Grass Valley, Calif. She dren. 0 Utah Conference, where he served until the time of served with her husband at Battle Creek and SMITH, Rittie Jane-b. 1897, Bluff City, Tenn.; d. his death. Survivors include his wife, Ellen; two Indiana academies, and in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She Apr. 18, 1987, Fletcher, N.C. She managed the daughters, Dorothy Valcarcel and Sheryl Johnson; was garden editor for Life and Health magazine. Fletcher Academy cafeteria for nearly 20 years two grandchildren; four sisters; and one brother. After her husband's death she earned a master's before serving as manager of housekeeping, and HOVLAND, Cecil Lee-b. Dec. 2, 1908, Eldon, degree in library science, and from 1964 to 1970 she later as kichen manager, at the Fletcher Sanitarium Mo.; d. Apr. 28,1987, Battle Creek, Mich. He helped was a research librarian at Loma Linda University. and Hospital. She retired in 1972. Survivors organize the Narcotics Education Service of the Survivors include one son, Charles; and one sister, include her son, Ernest F.; one brother, Tom Hicks; church and was instrumental in developing educa- Marjorie Evens. A son, Clayton, preceded her in one granddaughter; and two grandsons. tional programs for substance abuse in high schools death. WELLS, Francis Brock-b. Feb. 16, 1916, Val- and churches. Until his retirement he was informa- PLATONOV, Paul N.-b. Feb. 17, 1911, Harbin, leyfield, Quebec, Canada; d. June 15, 1987, Loma tion coordinator at Battle Creek Adventist Hospital. Manchuria, China; d. May 25, 1987, Portland, Oreg. Linda, Calif. He ministered in Michigan, Africa, and Survivors include his wife, Ardythe; four children, He studied nursing at the Shanghai Sanitarium Canada as a youth director, and as a pastor in Jeanie Stivers, Sherrie Schachterle, Donald, and until the Japanese invasion of China. For two years southern California. Survivors include his wife, Jim; two sisters; four granddaughters, Carrie, he worked in the Philippines before coming to the Florence (Joyce); and one daughter, Elizabeth Amber, Cindy, and Kellie; and one grandson, Kyle. United States in 1951. He worked at Glendale Floyd. Why Every Kid Shou ave His Own Guide Please don't ask brothers or fo junk s and another for sisters or second cousins to arliteens. When all the kids share the same copy of Guide. have a maga tine, junior and Kids get so involved in Guide's earliteen teac •ers can new activities that they would Turning the "Key in the Lo over the "home ork" just as soon Then there is the Key questions in share a Lock series, which let the lesson popsicle as explore church beliefs i study, and share their tinued story. At the en use them as magazine. chapter, they answer questions a springboard for dis ssion. about what they lear ed. Once a Guide involves its readers Chasing "Guide Dog" kid fills in the blanks, more than ever. And moral The Guide Dog feature is one what considerations aside, the one reason every kid wants his own can thing an involved reader doesn't Guide. Guide Dog gives a clue to the next want to do is share. a Bible message hidden some- kid do? where in the magazine. As soon as they get that clue, kids glee- "Apply It" in Sabbath School fully flip through the pages Guide's new Apply It section trying to be the first to find the can spark enthusiasm in an secret message. It's sad to miss apathetic Sabbath school class. the action because you have to Apply It includes one creative wait for a hand-me-down Guide. lesson study custom-designed Guide

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the tip of each arm help a starfish to feel. Some oyster harvesters, upset that the starfish eat so many shelled TARFISH creatures, once decided to solve the S problem by killing starfish. They caught as many of them as they UNIQUE CREATURES BY BONNIE MOYERS could, hauling them in with their great nets. Once they had them on ow would you like to have look alike. Some were made very board ship, they tore the starfish five or more arms and no tiny, while others measure 15 into pieces, then threw them back legs? How would you like to inches or more across. Some have have a disk (instead of a short arms and are shaped like a overboard. They went home, sure H they had killed enough starfish so head) in the center of your body, pentagon (five-sided shape). Oth- with your mouth being in the mid- ers, called sun stars, have so many they wouldn't have trouble with dle of the underside of the disk? arms that they resemble the sun them for a long time to come. What if your stomach was big and with its rays extending from it. But What these seamen didn't know floppy, and you had to turn it inside the more common starfish is shaped was that starfish can grow new arms out in order to eat? And would you like a five-pointed star. when the old ones are broken off, feel deprived if all you could see Starfish are in the same family as and that even if a starfish is cut in were light and shadow, and your brittle stars, sea cucumbers, sea lil- two, the pieces will regenerate into small colored eyespots were at the ies, and sea urchins. new animals. They were very dis- tip of each arm? The starfish crawls by using its appointed when they returned The truth is, you wouldn't think many tiny tube feet. Each foot some months later to find that in- any of these things were strange if has a suction disk at the end of it stead of fewer starfish, they had you were a starfish. that can grip hard surfaces. These double or triple the number to con- God didn't create all starfish to feet and a tiny sensitive tentacle at tend with!

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REFLECTIONS A PLACE, A WORK FOR YOU congregation may be the poor- wonderful works in behalf of His can fill the same place in the work, Aest in the land. It may be with- children. but there is a place and a work for out the attraction of any outward These exercises drive back the all. show; but if the members possess power of Satan. They expel the In ancient times, Abraham, Isaac, the principles of the character of. spirit of murmuring and complaint, Jacob, Moses with his meekness and Christ, they will have His joy in and the tempter loses ground. They wisdom, and Joshua with his varied their souls. Angels will unite with cultivate those attributes of charac- capabilities, were all enlisted in them in their worship. . . . ter which will fit the dwellers on God's service. The music of Miriam, The Lord desires us to make men- earth for the heavenly mansions. the courage and piety of Deborah, tion of His goodness and tell of His Such a testimony will have an in- the filial affection of Ruth, the obe- fluence upon others. No more effec- power. He is honored by the expres- dience and faithfulness of Samuel, tive means can be employed for sion of praise and thanksgiving. He the stern fidelity of Elijah, the soft- says, "Whoso offereth praise glori- ening, subduing influence of fieth me" (Ps. 50:23). The people of Elisha—all were needed. So now all Israel, as they journeyed through upon whom God's blessing has been the wilderness, praised God in sa- bestowed are to respond by actual cred song. The commandments and ur efficiency service; every gift is to be employed promises of the Lord were set to mu- for the advancement of His kingdom sic, and all along the journey these in the Lord's and the glory of His name. . . . were sung by the pilgrim travelers. Through the grace of Christ we And in Canaan as they met at their service would be may accomplish everything that sacred feasts God's wonderful God requires. All the riches of heaven are to be revealed through works were to be recounted, and greatly increased God's people. "Herein is my Father grateful thanksgiving was to be of- fered to His name. God desired that by recounting glorified," Christ says, "that ye bear the whole life of His people should much fruit; so shall ye be my disci- be a life of praise. Thus His way was His goodness. ples" (John 15:8). to be made "known upon earth," God claims the whole earth as His vineyard. Though now in the hands His "saving health among all na- of the usurper, it belongs to God. By tions" (Ps. 67:2). . . . winning souls to Christ. redemption no less than by creation The Lord desires us to appreciate We are to praise God by tangible it is His. For the world Christ's sac- the great plan of redemption. . . . He service, by doing all in our power to rifice was made. "God so loved the longs to see gratitude welling up in advance the glory of His name. . . . world, that he gave his only begot- our hearts because our names are Christ's commission, "Go ye into written in the Lamb's book of life, all the world, and preach the gospel ten Son" (John 3:16). It is through because we may cast all our care to every creature," is spoken to ev- that one gift that every other is im- upon Him who cares for us. . . . ery one of His followers (Mark parted to men. Daily the whole world receives blessing from God. Far more than we do, we need to 16:15). All who are ordained unto Every drop of rain, every ray of light speak of the precious chapters in the life of Christ are ordained to shed on our unthankful race, every our experience. After a special out- work for the salvation of their fellow pouring of the Holy Spirit, our joy in men. Their hearts will throb in uni- leaf and flower and fruit, testifies to God's long forbearance and His the Lord and our efficiency in His son with the heart of Christ. The service would be greatly increased same longing for souls that He has great love. by recounting His goodness and His felt will be manifest in them. Not all Selected from Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 298-302. BY ELLEN G. WHITE ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 27, 1987 (983) 23 COMPASSION

Even in the world's largest Adventist Hospital Adventist hospitals reach the world by touching lives. And every year, Florida Hospital gives one-to-one compassion to the 174,000* lives that come to us for help. Compassion is more than caring for patients and charting their progress. It's knowing their fears and feeling their pain. Even in the world's largest Adventist hospital.

FLORIDA HOSPITAL ORLANDO, FLORIDA * Based on inpatient, outpatient and Emergency Department figures.