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"The heavens declare the glory of God :!;7. And earth is singing His praises abroad!: • That some seem dumb to His wonders is ki I thrill with delight, By day or by night, At each glorious sight. While viewing the skies or searching earth's so I find ev'rywhere, as onward I plod, The fingerprints of ourwonderful_Go. 7"' 0 listen. Their marv'lous message is heard Around the wide world, and, without a word, They're telling His story. To doubt is absurd. The stars are glowing, The seeds are growing,- The earth is showing In colorful beauty, exquisite design A craftsmanship that's truly divine. This myst'ry of life moves this heart of mine! Editor's Viewpoint

sins, but a certain fearful looking for of judgment and F.Y.I. 3 fiery indignation."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. 97. (Italics supplied.) We pointed out last week that in the pre-1888 period of The Palmdale statement endeavored to set forth this the church some Adventists trusted in their own works same concept. And it quoted Mrs. White's comment: for salvation, as had Charles Wesley and many Chris- "Many commit the error of trying to define minutely the tians in other denominations. Thus the message of jus- fine points of distinction between justification and sanc- tification by faith, presented by Elders Waggoner and tification. . . . Why try to be more minute than is Jones at the 1888 General Conference, brought relief to Inspiration on the vital question of righteousness by conscientious souls who were laboring to be "saved." faith?"—The SDA Bible Commentary, Ellen G. White The message led them to place their trust in Christ, not in Comments, on Rom. 3:24-28, p. 1072. self . The Good News Is Past and Present But contrary to the impression that some may have, the message in no way taught that justification is the We think it is important to understand that the gospel entire gospel or that justification eliminates the need (good news) is not merely an announcement of. what for sanctification. Ellen G. White, writing of John Christ has done in the past to save a lost world, it is an (Charles's brother) Wesley's experience, makes it clear announcement of what Christ wants to do, and is able to that God's grace is as verily revealed in sanctification as do, in the present. It is not merely an announcement of in justification: "Now he had found Him; and he found Bethlehem and Calvary, it is an announcement of a living that the grace which he had toiled to win by prayers and Saviour, a Saviour who is able to save to the uttermost fasts, by almsdeeds and self-abnegation, was a gift, ,(Heb. 7:25), a Saviour who can save not merely from the `without money, and without price.' . . . penalty of sin but from the power of sin (Titus 2:11-14), a "He continued his strict and self-denying life, not now Saviour who not only forgives but cleanses from sin (1 as the ground, but the result of faith; not the root, but the John 1:9), a Saviour who is able to keep us from yielding fruit of holiness. The grace of God in Christ is the to temptation (Jude 24), a Saviour who ministers on our foundation of the Christian's hope, and that grace will be behalf in the heavenly sanctuary (Heb. 8:1, 2). manifested in obedience. Wesley's life was devoted to The Palmdale statement noted that it is generally held the preaching of the great truths which he had re- that when the apostle Paul used the term righteousness by ceived—justification through faith in the atoning blood of faith (or similar expression) he usually meant justifica- Christ, and the renewing power of the Holy Spirit upon tion by faith. In using the term justification he was the heart, bringing forth fruit in a life conformed to the illustrating the various aspects of the plan of salvation by example of Christ."—The Great Controversy, p. 256. using a term appropriate to a court of law. God is the The great truth that salvation is a gift of God's grace ruler and judge. The sinner has broken His law and is changed the Wesleys' entire approach to religion. It hailed into court. The penalty for transgression is death. turned their eyes toward Christ, and away from self. It But the Ruler offers to let the righteous life of His own led them to look to divine power rather than to human Son stand in place of the sinner if he repents of his evil power. But it in no way made them less careful about deeds. The lawbreaker accepts the offer, and is freed to a their attempt to imitate Jesus. They continued to feel the life of obedience. need for "the renewing power of the Holy Spirit upon the Obviously, no metaphor or symbol is adequate to heart, bringing forth fruit in a life conformed to the picture clearly all the wonderful provisions of salvation. example of Christ." Paul's forensic, judicial metaphor provided important This emphasis on a "genuine faith which works by understandings of how God deals with the sin problem, love and purifies the soul" (Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 705) is but obviously justification is not the only word that may presented throughout the Scriptures. The apostle Paul be used to describe the salvation process. The Bible uses preached justification by faith, but he also boldly con- many symbols to help us understand the mysteries of fronted his hearers with the claims of Jesus Christ on the God's grace. In John 3 Jesus said to Nicodemus, "Ye life. The third angel's message, when presented properly, must be born again" (verse 7). He did not say, "You likewise sets forth the beautiful and abundant grace of must be justified." In John 15 Jesus said, "Abide in me" Christ but does not neglect God's law or minimize the (verse 4). In Romans 6 Paul likened the salvation experi- importance of obedience. The Advent message presents ence to crucifixion and resurrection. In Ephesians 5 he justification by faith as the ground of the sinner's hope, likened it to the husband-wife relationship. In Luke 15 but it declares that both justification and sanctification Jesus used a figure of speech involving a family, particu- are essential. Both are by grace through faith. larly a father-son relationship. And in Matthew 13 He Referring to the 1888 message, Mrs. White wrote sev- borrowed agricultural imagery—a farmer sowing seed, eral years later: "Neglect this great salvation, . . . despise some of which took root and produced a good harvest. this glorious offer of justification through the blood of From all of this it seems clear that God is more Christ, and sanctification through the cleansing power of interested in the glorious message of salvation than He is the Holy Spirit, and there remaineth no more sacrifice for Continued on page 15

2 (1170) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 This Week

The scene on our cover was associate director and as editor of and Eve delighted in the world poetry we can still be moved to photographed by Elvin Benton, GO magazine. created for them. "On every leaf praise. who is religious liberty director Elder Esteb remained at the of the forest or stone of the Each year the REVIEW publishes for the Columbia Union Confer- General Conference until his re- mountains, in every shining star, a directory of the telex numbers ence, Takoma Park, Maryland. tirement in 1970. Although offi- in earth and air and sky, God's for Adventist institutions around Mr. Benton, a lawyer by profes- cially retired he spends many name was written. . . . They the world. Because telex is an sion, is an avid amateur photog- hours giving Bible studies in his [Adam and Eve] were ever dis- efficient. economical means of rapher and graciously offered to hometown of Warsaw, Virginia, covering some attraction that communication, we publish this let the REVIEW use his prize shots. where he is also helping to organ- filled their hearts with deeper love revised and updated list (p. 30) to Adlai Albert Esteb, author of ize a church. and called forth fresh expressions help readers who might need to the poem on the cover, has had Although many of our readers of gratitude."—Patriarchs and contact someone at one of these many of his poems published in may never photograph the "fin- Prophets, p. 51. institutions rapidly. the REVIEW, including a series gerprints of God" or write a poem Although marred by sin, there Art and Photo Credits: Cover, about victorious living. Elder capturing God's fingerprints in is still evidence everywhere on Elvin Benton; pp. 4, 5, Gert Esteb was a missionary to China words, having an awareness of the earth of God's creative Busch; pp. 7, 8, Review pictures; from 1924 until 1936. In 1950 he the exquisite beauty of much of power. There are many things still p. 18, Skip Baker; all other joined the General Conference this earth is an important part of to delight us. photos, courtesy of the respective Lay Activities Department as an worshiping God. In Eden Adam If we are never moved to write authors. Letters (Letters submitted for publication in this plore the tendency of some to go to write my story in a way that messages are inspired counsel, column cannot be acknowledged or re- turned. All must carry the writer's name to the extreme of criticizing and could be helpful to someone else then as well as today, there should and address. Short letters (less than 250 condemning our leaders and set- found suddenly in such a situation be no hesitation in applying the words) will be given preference. All will be edited to meet space and literary require- ting up "offshoot" movements. or to friends who do not know same scientific principle to all. ments. The views presented do not neces- But what a pity that some of us— how to react. People seem to want ELAINE G. NELSON sarily represent those of the editors or of the denomination.] too many of us—by our laxness to take sides, to justify, or to place Fresno, California and carelessness toward the high blame, all of which are most un- Extra Love and Care and holy standards of our mes- helpful in such problems. ► We stand with Mrs. White's "Teaching Children to Love sage, are actually encouraging Although there is still hurt when statements regarding the evils of Church" (Sept. 23) was most some conscientious souls to go to I remember, and divided times masturbation. Truth can afford timely. In 20 years of association such extremes. with the children, or misunder- to wait for vindication. with the kindergarten and/or pri- J. 0. WILSON standings because of lack of com- mary departments, I have ob- Gentry, Arkansas munication, God has led beauti- Interracial Marriage served that the most unruly chil- fully in my life since my marriage Sponsor a Child I feel compelled to take excep- dren need only a little extra love of 25 years ended. I have been tion to the letter on interracial and care. These little people are I think there are many Sev- married for more than two years marriage (Sept. 16). Birds aren't well worth the effort. enth-day Adventist families who to a wonderful man who makes people, nor are animals people. JOANNA MEDOE would be interested in sponsoring me feel very desirable, needed, The Bible says God made man in Baton Rouge, Louisiana a needy child or family if they and loved. And he has blessed the His own image. Adam and Eve were aware of the need and knew lives of our children. I could have were the beginning of all races. Required Reading how to go about it. I sponsor a had years of loneliness and recrim- How the races became different Would that Dr. Colin Standish's Filipino girl through a non-Ad- ination like others I have known. in color and appearance we do not message, "The Avenues of the ventist organization that is doing While no marriage is perfect, know. We are all brothers, ac- Mind" (Sept. 9), were required a wonderful worldwide work. I many imperfect marriages last cording to Acts 17:26: "And hath daily reading for every Adventist would like to see the Seventh-day and improve, especially when made of one blood all nations of educator, especially English Adventists organize a similar God is the center, with each part- men." teachers. child-care program. ner cooperating to make home a DOROTHY WELLNER The result? The literature taught RUTH ANNE WASSON little heaven on earth. Seattle, Washington in our schools would be of such a Westminster, Maryland NAME WITHHELD quality as to prepare the students We Adventists, without a for God's service now and a place Divorce Problems Apply Same Principle doubt, have our eyes directed in heaven. Thank you for "The 'I' in Di- After careful scrutiny of the heavenward. Though we are in GLADYS RARUKA vorce" (Aug. 12). I feel that this concluding editorial, "Dealing the world, we are not of the Armstrong, British Columbia subject has been too long over- With 'Facts' " (Sept. 2), I noticed world. However, because we are looked. that although scientific evidence in the world we are not immune Are We the Cause? I am one of the many Adventist was given supporting Ellen G. to cultural conditioning. As a re- Surely the response of REVIEW divorce statistics of the last dec- White's statements on drugs, sult of acculturation we assimi- readers to our General Confer- ade. I believe divorce has become there was an omission of any simi- late the customs, the mores, and ence president's reproof so kindly a disease that can no longer be ig- lar corroboration for her warnings the opinions of the society that given and to his earnest appeal nored by us as a denomination. regarding masturbation. we grow up in. The things we for loyalty and faithfulness to our Only those who have been in- Should we not expect an ex- assimilate thus are often not in denominational Christian stand- volved can know the hurt, heart- planation? Or do we conclude that serious conflict with our religious ards ("Do You Measure Up?" ache, rejection, and complete the lack of scientific verification beliefs. July 8) must be, "Amen, we are hopelessness felt at times. The renders her numerous statements We Adventists, being wary of with you." trauma can be great. on the subject fanatical and ridicu- the things of this world, tend to be With Elder Pierson, we de- I have often wished I knew how lous? If we believe all of her health Continued on page 15

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R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1171) 3 upon rising in the morning and before retiring at night. What a pity it is for anyone not to learn the wonderful Faith to March blessing of true meditation and prayer with the One who said: "I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world," "I have overcome the world," and "All power Around Jericho is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matt. 28:20, 18; John 16:33). What a difference would be seen in the committee meeting, the sickroom, and the Sabbath "If Joshua wants those walls knocked school room, if before entering these places to do battle with the enemy we would withdraw alone to meditate down, he is going about it in a most and pray. Joshua received his battle plans, but they were brief— and very simple. "You shall march round the city with unscientific way." all your fighting men, making the circuit of it once, for six days running. . . . On the seventh day you shall march round the city seven times and the priests shall blow their trumpets" (Joshua 6:3-5, N.E.B.). What would it have been like to hear Joshua giving these battle plans? By MARSHALL GROSBOLL Join me in my thinking, if you will, as to what it might have been like for me if I had been there. Listen to my THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS OF 1400 B.C. quiet thoughts: had come to the borders of Canaan. Only Jericho lay in Questioning Joshua's Strategy their immediate path for advancement, but Jericho was a fortified city surrounded by "massive walls of solid "What is the purpose of this march Joshua is talking stone" that seemed to defy conquest (Patriarchs and about? He said God told him the walls would fall down— Prophets, p. 491). of course he does not mean literally, but the problem is How to get by this obstacle was the question of the to figure out what He does mean. Maybe Dr. Shap- day. Should Jericho be left and the children of Israel be hamel, who received his degree in theology while we satisfied with the rest of Canaan? Had not God already were wandering 40 years in the wilderness, could tell me. abundantly blessed them? Why should they expect He seems to be able to explain the true meaning and more? No, that would reflect a lack of faith. God is not principles behind the Spirit of Prophecy as given through merely a God of yesterday, to open up the Jordan River, Moses and now, evidently, through Joshua, also." He is a God of today, also—in solving the problem of To my dismay I find that Dr. Shaphamel had fallen vic- Jericho. "He is well pleased when they [His people] tim to the epidemic illness that took so many lives at make the very highest demands upon Him, that they may Baal-peor. That was after Balaam's trickery in enticing glorify His name. They may expect large things if they the church into fellowship with the world and the world's have faith in His promises."—The Desire of Ages, p. 668. practices at Midian (see Numbers 22 to 25). Stealth was the most logical plan of warfare. Spies had "Surely there is somebody to explain what Joshua already been sent to search out Jericho's weak points means. God gave us minds, and He expects us to use and to ascertain the amount of provisions they had laid away. A direct assault would be futile, but with God's blessing, and if they had enough patience, they might be able to starve the people and finally break into the wall at its weakest point. From a human standpoint there did not appear to be any weak spots in the wall, but with the sure leading of God they would be directed to the right site. The church's leader, Joshua, knew wherein lay his strength and only hope of success. "First of all he sought an assurance of divine guidance, and it was granted him. Withdrawing from the encampment to meditate and to pray," he received his battle plans (Pa- triarchs and Prophets, p. 487). What a lesson for us today! In our battles against sin and illness; in our warfare against the great enemy for- tress of games and competition that is impeding the ad- vancement of so many young people; in our constant conflict with the desires of self for high titles, money, and worldly recognition; should we not first of all withdraw to be alone with God to meditate and pray for divine guidance and strength? It is so easy for prayer to become a 15-second ritual

Marshall Grosboll is a pastor in Reading, Pennsylvania. 4 (1172) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 them to His name's honor and glory. This marching shaking time so that only those remain who have a true around Jericho is most assuredly not the intelligent thing and independent faith? to do, and it is bound to bring disgrace upon the church. The conquest of Jericho depended on exact and ex- We have been working for 40 years in the wilderness to plicit obedience. The destiny of Israel depended upon build up our PR, and just one disgraceful performance following the solemn testimony of Joshua. This testi- like this could ruin everything we have gained. mony was heeded, and the blessing followed. "My counsel is that we should go out and do our very In comparison, how is our situation today? Mrs. White best first, and then we can expect God to make up the says: "I saw that the testimony of the True Witness has rest. From my studies while in the wilderness it was not been half heeded. The solemn testimony upon which scientifically proved that the vibration of marching feet the destiny of the church hangs has been lightly will not significantly weaken any of the modern city esteemed, if not entirely disregarded. This testimony walls. Possibly back in Abraham's time it would have must work deep repentance; all who truly receive it will worked, but in this day of science they are building the obey it and be purified." walls much stronger. "Some will not bear this straight testimony. They will "Why don't we use the great talent we have in camp? rise up against it, and this is what will cause a shaking Is Joshua going to pass by all our talents? I have been among God's people."—Early Writings, p. 270. preparing for 40 years for God's service, so that I might Why will some people not bear the straight testimony? help in the great entering of Canaan. Moses told us we Why will they rise up against it? Because the testimony are to be missionary warriors, and I have spent long of God leads in ways that look totally impossible and years learning the most scientific methods of warfare. unreasonable at first. God hasn't changed in the last My specialty is battering rams for knocking down walls. 3,375 years since Jericho, and this is the reason that "all If Joshua wants those walls knocked down, he is surely these things . . . are written for our admonition, upon going about it in a most unscientific way, and I'm afraid it whom the ends of the world are come" (1 Cor. 10:11). will never work in this day and age." The counsels on dress, on education, on medical work, This might have been the response to Joshua's com- on country living—how impossible they seem! How con- mand, but it was not. All the people with sentiments like trary to human nature and reasoning. Is there one who these had been shaken out of the church at Baal-peor, has not been tempted to say that these were written for and only those with simple, childlike faith were left. another time, another place, or that they cannot be un- Modern Jerichos derstood? But we have time now to demonstrate our faith in The Seventh-day Adventist Church has its Jerichos God—to study what He has told us, and to obey. to encounter before entering Canaan, and we have been "Though apparent impossibilities obstruct their way, given abundant counsel as to the ways in which we are to by His grace they [God's followers] are to go forward. work. What is our response to these counsels? Do we Instead of deploring difficulties, they are called upon to have "the simplicity of true faith" to take God at His surmount them. They are to despair of nothing, and to word? (Selected Messages, book 1, p. 224). Or are there hope for everything. . . . Christ designs that . . . heaven's those who agree with God only as far as God does not plan of government . . shall be represented in His conflict with their reasoning and knowledge? If so, could church on earth. Thus in His people He is glorified."— it be that we also will have to go through a Baal-peor The Desire of Ages, pp. 679, 680. Now is the time to obey. We do not have to have an- other Baal-peor shaking-period as we did in Joshua's time, but like Nineveh of old, we can avert the judgment of God. Joshua prayed for God's guidance—but may we who are in the camp be praying not only that God will guide us but that we will have faith to follow. May our indi- vidual prayer be: "0 Father, give me a faith simple enough to accept Your way, and strong enough that should Your way be through the flooding Jordan I would go. And then should You ask me to march around a modern Jericho that is lying between me and Canaan—however unconquerable it may appear—may I obey Your command. And even though, to human eyes, nothing should happen the first or the second or even the sixth time I obey Your leading— and even though people should laugh at me for obeying You—may I continue the circuit You have given me to follow, trusting You for the final results. "And then, Father, as You pour out Your Spirit in the finishing of this work, may I humbly realize that it was not my marching that tumbled the strongholds of Satan, but it was the power of the Holy Spirit working in re- sponse to our childlike faith. "In Christ's name, who conquered all, Amen." ❑ R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1173) 5 Role of Israel in Bible Prophecy— Second article in a series of five Israel's Failure to Fulfill God's Purpose

Old Testament promises of restoration anticipated the Jews' return from Babylonian exile.

By JERRY GLADSON

ANY DISCUSSION OF HUMANITY'S relationship 13; Eze. 16). Small statues of the Canaanite goddess of to God inevitably involves the question of His sovereignty fertility, Astarte, were to be found in many an Israelite in relationship to man's free moral choice. As sovereign, home. Parents named their children after Baal, with God is ruler, or absolute Lord, over all creation. But God seemingly no idea of abandoning Yahweh (1 Chron. 12:5; has given human beings the power of choice—they are 14:7, etc.). In the eighth century B.c., some Israelites— free to serve or reject God (Joshua 24:15, 22, 27). Na- perhaps even a majority—were calling Yahweh "Baal," tions, composed as they are of people, also have the right and worshiping Him according to the popular rituals of to serve God or to reject Him—with similar conse- Baal (Hosea 2:13, 16, 17). "They did not mean to turn quences. What is the relationship, in Scripture and in away from Yahweh, the God of the Exodus and the Sinai history, between God's purpose for Israel as a people and Covenant," writes Bernard Anderson. Instead, to their freedom of choice? "Yahweh they would look in times of military crisis; and When Adam used his free choice to go contrary to to Baal they would turn for success in agriculture. Thus God's will, the Creator lovingly set in motion a plan of they would serve Yahweh and Baal side by side." Ob- salvation (Gen. 3:15). The first 11 chapters of Genesis tell viously, this was a "fundamental violation of the cov- us how God reached out to embrace sinners and how the enant." 3 rebellious race repeatedly spurned His love. Finally, He Thus, instead of a dedicated people, a "kingdom of selected one man—Abraham—intending through him and priests," a "holy nation," Israel became a "people laden his seed to bless all nations (Gen. 12:1-3).1 God first with iniquity" (Isa. 1:4). Though various individuals re- entered into a covenant with Abraham (Gen. 15:1-21), mained true to God (Samuel, Elijah, Elisha, Daniel, et and subsequently renewed this covenant with his de- cetera), the nation as a whole fell short of its high destiny scendants (Gen. 26:1-5; 28:13-20; 48:15, 16). Following (cf. Amos 3:1, 2; Eze. 16:2, 3; 23:1-49). the Exodus from Egypt, He formally entered into a cov- As a result it became impossible for God to use unbe- enant with the whole nation of Israel (Ex. 19:1-8; 24:1-11). lieving Israel as a means by which to witness to the nations Under the terms of this agreement Israel was to be a about them. How would this impasse affect God's cov- "kingdom of priests, and a holy nation," with the ulti- enant with Israel? In the ancient world a covenant was a mate purpose of announcing to all the world the saving bilateral relationship in which responsibilities rested upon love of God (Ex. 19:5, 6; Isa. 60:1-14).2 both parties .4 Even the so-called suzerainty covenant, in Ancient Israel fell short of this high calling on almost which a superior bound an inferior under stringent obli- every level of life. This is true in the record of their history gations, involved at least some reciprocal action on the from Joshua to Nehemiah, on the level of national policy. part of the superior.5 The various kings, with few exceptions, turned a deaf ear The Conditional Nature of God's Promises to the prophets and increasingly involved the chosen people in the practices of the nations around them (2 A careful reading of the Old Testament shows that Kings 17:7-21; 2 Chron. 36:15, 16). Nor was the situation God's covenant with Israel was based upon conditions: much better among Israel's religious leaders. Several pas- "Now therefore, if you will obey my voice . . . , you shall sages highlight moral irresponsibility among the priests be my own possession among all peoples" (Ex. 19:5, (1 Sam. 2:12-16; Hosea 4:4, 5) and the popular prophets R.S.V.; cf. also 1 Kings 9:1-9; 2 Chron. 7:11-22). State- (Micah 3:5-7; Eze. 13). The nation seemed bent on self- ments about the covenant are sometimes accompanied destruction, and its course rapidly took it toward the point by threats, or "cursings," upon those who break it, thus of no return. implying that the covenant could be shattered by man's The Old Testament discloses that, to a great extent, infidelity (Deut. 27:15-26; 28:15-68; cf. also Lev. 26:14- compromise with pagan religious elements infiltrated the 39). Speaking for the Lord, the prophet Jeremiah warned: common activities of the people. Popular religion, in- "If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom stead of being an unadulterated commitment to God, was that I will build and plant it, and if it does evil in my sight, a mixture (or syncretism) of Canaanite practice with the not listening to my voice, then I will repent of the good worship of the true God (cf. Judges 2:11-13; Hosea 4:12, which I had intended to do to it" (Jer. 18:9, 10, R.S.V.). Obviously this statement applies to ancient Israel as well Jerry Gladson is an assistant professor of theology at as to other nations. Southern Missionary College, Collegedale, Tennessee. On His part, God promised never to break the covenant

6 (1174) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 or to rescind His promises, often without stating the con- send them into captivity, there to learn lessons of obedi- ditions He at other times explicitly attached (Ps. 89:34-37; ence (Jer. 25:5-7; 29:18, 19; 30:11-14; 46:28; Eze. 20:25- Jer. 31:35-37; 2 Sam. 7:1-17, etc.)—as for instance the 38; Micah 4:10-12). The northern kingdom, Israel, was restatement of 2 Samuel 7:12 in 1 Kings 2:2-4 (cf. also Ps. conquered by Assyria in 723/22 B.C., and the southern 132:11, 12). Psalm 89, another restatement and elaboration kingdom, Judah, faced captivity in 587/86 B.c., when of 2 Samuel 7, contains no obvious conditions. On the Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem. Unfortunately, other hand, Jeremiah's prophecy (chapter 31) occurs in the ten northern tribes never returned from exile but were the context of a new covenant that lies beyond Israel's largely assimilated into Gentile populations. historical failure that precipitated the Babylonian exile, and that envisions a truly converted and reconstituted Promises of Restoration Fulfilled nation (compare the application of this prophecy to the Judah, on the other hand, did have a second chance. church in Hebrews 8:8-12). What appears in the book of God continued to hold out to her the hope of a return Jonah to be an unconditional threat (chap. 3:4) proves (Jer. 31:10-14; Isa. 43:1-13). The return would include, in the end to have been conditional (verse 10). among other things, a rebuilding of Jerusalem and the D. J. McCarthy observes: "All covenants, all contracts, Temple (Micah 4:1-4; Isa. 60:10-14), a new covenant have their conditions. They must be defined somehow or (Jer. 31:31-34), the coming of the Messiah (Micah 5:2-6), other. These definitions are their conditions or stipulations a new life (Zeph. 3:9-20), and a witness to the nations which may often be assumed, things which are simply so (Zech. 8:20-23). God's plan had not changed. But in order well known in a culture that they need not be stated for God's purposes to be fulfilled, Israel had to break with explicitly." 6 Accordingly, Old Testament covenant her sinful past. There would be a renewed relationship declarations to which no conditions are appended are with God in which His will would be planted directly into nevertheless subject to the very same conditions that are Israel's heart (Jer. 31:31-34).7 explicit elsewhere. All of the Old Testament predictions looking forward Even as the Lord instituted the covenant by His loving to a restoration of the Jews were given in anticipation of free choice (Ex. 20:2), He also had the prerogative of an- their return from Babylonian captivity in the sixth and nulling it should Israel prove unfaithful. In view of the re- fifth centuries B.c. (cf. Isa. 10:24-34; 61:4-10; Jer. 16:14- peated apostasy of Israel's people, kings, and religious 16; Eze. 34:11-15, et cetera). Even so, the fulfillment of leaders, what was God to do? He purposed that Israel God's promises still hinged upon Israel's fidelity. "This would respond to His love and, in turn, extend that love to shall come to pass, if you will diligently obey the voice of the world. Instead, the people who were to be the medium the Lord your God" (Zech. 6:15). of His love became so corrupt that their witness was com- Israel's subsequent history did not measure up to these promised almost beyond remedy. That is why the proph- expectations. Apostasy, it is true, took more subtle forms ets, in announcing God's judgment upon His chosen peo- (exclusivism, multiplication of legal minutiae, compro- ple, sometimes prefaced their call to repentance with the mise with Hellenism, et cetera), but the defection was word "perhaps"—perhaps it is not too late, perhaps the nonetheless as real as before. Ultimately, Israel failed Lord will still have mercy (Amos 5:15; Zeph. 2:3). God. When the nation as a whole turned away from the God did not want to punish His people (Hosea 11:8, 9), Messiah, it became evident that as a national entity it but their unfaithfulness left Him no other choice than to could no longer function as a medium of God's love to the whole world. The nation made its final choice and thereby forfeited its covenant role and the covenant promises. The human race stands before God in desperate need of redemption. God longs to forgive, to cleanse, to restore (John 3:16; 1 Tim. 2:4). But He cannot save those who reject His salvation, either initially or subsequent to their acceptance of it. Scripture does not teach an irrevocable salvation (Heb. 3:6, 14; 6:4-6; 10:36-39; Col. 1:21-23; 1 Cor. 10:13), whether of a nation or of an individual. Man as a nation or as an individual must continue to respond in loving surrender (Matt. 24:13). This Israel did not do. Accordingly, God had no other choice but to carry out His purpose through others, and so brought into exist- ence the Christian church as "spiritual Israel" for the ful- fillment of His purposes (Rom. 2:28, 29; 9:6-8; Matt. 21: 33-45). ❑

REFERENCES I The Hebrew here (verse 3) can be rendered either "all nations will be blessed," or "all nations will bless themselves.' It was God's purpose that the Jews returning from Babylonian captiv- Perhaps the most detailed statement of God's plan for Israel is recorded in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 27, 28. ity would fulfill the divine purpose in their election to be God's Bernard W. Anderson, Understanding the Old Testament (2d ed., 1966), pp. 106, 107. Ander- missionary people to the world. Old Testament prophecies dealing with son's entire discussion of the problem of syncretism may be read with profit (pp. 98-126); cf. also the return of Israel need to be understood in the light of what would Hans W. Wolff, Hosea, trans. by Gary Stansell (1974), pp. 49, 50. ° Walther Eichrost, Theology of the Old Testament, trans. by J. A. Baker (1961). 1, 37 (cf. the have been the Jews' history if the returnees had, at long last, ac- covenants in Gen. 21,23-28, 29; Joshua 9:1-11; 1 Sam. 11:1-4). cepted God's plan. As it was, only a handful returned, and while 5 G. H. Mendenhall, "Covenant," in Interpreters Dictionary of the Bible, ed. by G. A. Buttrick they gave up their idolatry, they fell far short of fulfilling God's (1962), I, 716 (cf. Eve. 17:13; Job 41:4). 6 D. J. McCarthy, Old Testament Covenant: A Survey of Current Opinions (1972), p.3. (Italics plan. It remained for God's New Testament church to snatch the torch supplied). from unwilling Jews and to carry the gospel of salvation to the world. Gerhard von Rad, Old Testament Theology, trans. by D. M. G. Stalker (1965), II, 213.

R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1175) 7 ence officials involved do not increase our Ingathering "Do Not Increase goal this year." This happened a number of years ago when I was young and fairly new in the ministry. I was lay activities Our Ingathering Goal" secretary of a local conference in North America, and had the privilege of working with a wise, experienced, and kindly conference president. Without bothering to open the rest of my mail I hurried to his office with the petition. He read it carefully and then commented, "These are signatures of people you and I know real well, aren't they, Warren?" I agreed and added, "They are dedicated Adventists who have always been loyal to God's work. They have often been on the top of the list in per capita giving and in raising Ingathering funds." "Yes," he said, "and you and I have often been guests in their homes and eaten at their tables, always full of deliciously prepared, home-grown fruits and vege- tables." Then he laid the pages of signatures down and for a time looked out the window thoughtfully. "Warren," he finally said, "let's have prayer together about this." He offered an earnest prayer asking God for wisdom, understanding, patience, and love for these dear people, who were members of one of the largest churches in the conference. I followed with a short sup- plication. A Change of Plans Upon rising from his knees, my president said, "War- ren, I know you have a preaching appointment for this coming Sabbath, but do you think you can change that? I will change my plans, and we will go to this church this coming Sabbath." Of course I changed my plans. It was always a priv- ilege to travel, visit, and join in a church service with this earnest man of God. I called the pastor of the church, who said enthusiastically he would be delighted for us to come, though he was evidently perplexed by our offer to visit his church on such short notice. We learned later that he knew nothing about the petition. I'll never forget the stirring, deeply spiritual sermon The pastor was puzzled by our my conference president preached that Sabbath. Though it was a dry, hot summer day—this was in the days before request to visit his church churches were air-conditioned—his words seemed to come from heaven itself like a refreshing spring rain. He read many Bible texts from Isaiah and Revelation de- on such short notice. scribing the rewards of the righteous. He pictured heaven and the new earth until the entire congregation was fervently saying, "Amen!" He complimented the members on their love and ded- ication to God's work. He cheered their hearts with reviews of what some of their own children were doing in God's work because they had set an example in giving By WARREN N. WITTENBERG and sending their boys and girls off to our schools. One was president of one of our colleges, several were min- IT WAS THE FATTEST ENVELOPE IN MY mail isters' wives, doctors, and nurses. One was a conference that morning. Curious, I opened it first. There I found a treasurer and another an evangelist. very formal, legal-looking document with several pages The president then read from one or two recent issues of signatures. What could this be, I anxiously thought? of the REVIEW, which he said he eagerly read each Quickly opening the folds, I carefully read the lead para- week. He read of the new areas and new languages we graph: "We the undersigned members of the were entering with the gospel. He read of the sacrifices church urgently request that you and the other confer- some of their own children and others were making to bring the three angels' messages to wild, uneducated, Warren N. Wittenberg is a pastor, now retired, living in sometimes dirty, cannibalistic peoples in the jungles and Orlando, Florida. cities of faraway places. He made us all proud to be Sev-

8 (1176) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 enth-day Adventists. Then he asked -me to come and Almost as a burst of thunder the congregation re- stand beside him. sponded, "No, no, no!" Then people began to spring to "Elder Wittenberg, you received something special in their feet and, with tears in their eyes, say, "Elder Wit- the mail this week, didn't you?" "Yes," I said, and then tenberg, scratch my name off that petition. I'll do more began to unfold the petition. "No," he said, "don't do than last year." This continued for a long time, and I that before I ask these dear people a question." Reading began to scratch names. Finally I said, "Shall I just Matthew 24:14, he continued: "You have given liberally tear up this whole petition?" "Yes, yes," the congrega- of your time, your talents, your children, your money, tion said loudly. Finally, the head elder stood up and and solicited untiringly for Ingathering. Possibly you acknowledged that he too had signed the petition. Weep- have done all you can to send the gospel to 'all the ing between words, he apologized. Then he thanked the world for a witness unto all nations' so the end can conference president and me, and their pastor, for the come. Maybe we should be satisfied with what we new vision of the value of heaven and the privilege of have done in the past and just say we will hold on to the making greater and greater sacrifices to hasten the com- work we have started and not try to enter any more ing of our blessed Christ and the end of sin, sorrow, pain, countries or tribes or languages with the gospel. The and death. more areas we reach out into, and the higher inflation Needless to say, it was the greatest Ingathering year rises, the higher the cost will be. Should we be satisfied that church had experienced. They set the pace for the with last year's Ingathering goal?" whole conference. ❑

For theYounger Set

the car. The directions in the trees in the Youngs' nursery A Garden for David paper said to go to the end of just waiting for someone to the road and turn into the take them home and watch to be a dwarf tree, so it can vineyard. So they did, and them grow. By VIRGINIA HANSEN grow only so big. It can be finally they came to a sign David ran from one to grown inside the house. By that read, "Sei-ju-en Nur- another. DAVID LIKED to dig in proper watering, feeding, sery." Later they learned "Oh, see, Mommy, the the vegetable garden. He and pruning, it will remain that it meant "Nursery in a little tree growing in the planted the tiny seeds and small." Quiet Place." flowerpot! Could I have this watched the little plants David's eyes grew big and At the nursery they met one?" come slowly through the he shouted, "Mommy, it's Herman Young and his wife, Mother looked it over soil and grow every day. just what we need, isn't it? Yasue. The little Japanese carefully, then she looked at Carefully he watered and It can grow inside where it's lady couldn't speak English, David and smiled. kept the weeds out. The sun warm and dry, and we can but she smiled in such a "David," she said as she gave warmth, and the vege- have a garden all year, can't friendly way that it didn't gave him a little hug, "you tables grew. After the sum- we!" matter. The Youngs had have been a good little gar- mer harvest was past, he "Well, David, we'll have trained in Japan to be bonsai dener all summer long. I missed his garden. to visit this man and his artists. Their teachers were think you can take care of "Mommy," David said, wife," mother said. experts who took,care of the this little tree, too. Yes, you "I wish I could have a garden So mother and David put Japanese emperor's bonsai may have the bonsai tree all year long. It was so much their coats and gloves and trees. you have chosen, and we'll fun. Too bad winter has to caps on, and hurried out to There were many bonsai watch it grow together." come." "Yes, David, we miss the summer sunshine, don't we? It would be nice if you could have a garden all year long. You really enjoyed working in the garden, didn't you? Guess there isn't much we can do in this kind of weather, is there?" Later on David grinned as he ran to mother with the morning newspaper. "See what I found in the paper!" There on the garden page was a picture of a man and his Japanese wife. He was holding a bonsai plant. Mother read the description under the picture. "It's a bonsai plant," she said. "A what?" asked David. "A bonsai plant, David. A small tree. It has been trained

R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1177) 9 who follow our example will meet a similar fate.' " If only he could trap us into criticism, then the cross and its com- At the Cross passion would be of no use to us. Christ knew that "by dwelling upon the faults of oth- ers, we are changed into the same image. But by beholding All persons meet at the cross. Jesus, . . . we become changed into His image."—The Ministry of Healing, p. 492. Therefore in complete com- All had a part in putting Christ there. passion for His church He countered Satan's strategy with His own urgent invitation, "It would be well for us to spend a thoughtful hour each day in contemplation of the life of Christ. We should take it point by point, and let the imagination grasp each scene, especially the closing ones. . . . If we would be saved at last, we must learn the lesson of penitence and humiliation at the foot of the cross. . . . Beholding the beauty of His character, we shall be `changed into the same image from glory to glory.' 2 Cor. 3:18. "—The Desire of Ages. p. 83. Christ understands the vital importance of the cross. He knows that "the angels . . even . . . are not secure ex- cept by looking to the sufferings of the Son of God. It is By NORMAN R. GULLEY through the efficacy of the cross that the angels of heaven are guarded from apostasy."—ELLEN G. WHITE, in Signs of the Times, December 30, 1889. They see that "HE THOUGHT HE WAS THE MESSIAH—the apostasy, criticism, brings death to the innocent. They Deliverer. Just look at Him now, dying!" one jeered. marvel at the innocent willing to die. What compassion! "He performed miracles, why doesn't He free Him- If unfallen angels need to behold the cross no wonder self?" another shouted. "He saved others; himself he fallen men should daily contemplate Calvary! cannot save" (Matt. 27:42), laughed a third devil-pos- As I look at the cross I know that it was I who nailed sessed mocker. "King of the Jews? Hah! Just look at Him there. My sins drove Him to that tree. I am the critic Him!" who broke His heart. I am the unthankful, unfeeling one Jesus Christ, heaven's greatest gift, hung on the cross for whom He asked forgiveness. As I look at that cross I with hellish men bent on harassing and humiliating Him. cannot but cry out not only "0 wretched man that I am" "He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will but also "Worthy is the Lamb." In the full light of His have him: for he said, I am the Son of God" (verse 43). compassion I am cut down to size. "Nothing in my hand With utter unconcern for the tortured Jesus they gath- I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling." That's all I can do. ered in upon Him for the kill. And their words were For Calvary shows me my utter unworthiness. It was my aimed to pierce Him to the very depths, as with complete need that put Him there. abandonment they derided and demeaned Him with devil- In such complete helplessness, what right have I to ish delight. Christ hung there with heavy, breaking heart. criticize someone else? "There can be no spirit of criti- "Oh, why can't they understand! I am dying that they cism or self-exhaltation on the part of those who walk in might live!" the shadow of Calvary's cross."—Thoughts From the Live? They were out for the kill. But Jesus, with un- Mount of Blessing, p. 128. At the cross I not only see my yielding pity and unshakable love, whispered, "Father, nothingness, but I see the value of my fellow human be- forgive them" (Luke 23:34). ings, for it was for them that Jesus died. That cross ex- Here at the cross criticism and compassion met head poses the utter horror of criticism—it kills others. But it on. It was Satan, the archcritic, who drove men to crucify reveals the absolute wonder of compassion—it dies for Jesus. The creature was bent on murdering his Creator. others. Here is exposed the length to which criticism will go. But All persons meet at the cross. All had a part in putting Jesus willingly allowed Himself to be nailed to that tree. Christ there. Without it none could be saved from eternal Without His consent no being could have forced His death. Only through the cross can any lift up his head, hand. He, the Creator, decided to die for and by the be free, and go forth toward eternity with courage and creatures He had made. Here is revealed the length to hope. Any differences among individuals—dispositions, which compassion will go! talents, or whatever—are nothing compared with the Centuries later, Satan called his committee of demons common humanity they share, that helpless, doomed to plan strategy against our church. The record is found humanity, if it were not for the Cross. in Testimonies to Ministers, pages ,"--72-475. The devil sug- Only at the cross can we remember our common hu- gested. " 'We must cause distraction and division. We manity and forget the rest. Only at the cross do we find that must destroy their anxiety for their own souls, and lead all humanity has far more in common than any puny dif- them to criticize, to judge, and to accuse and condemn ferences. Only at the cross can criticism die and compas- one another, and to cherish selfishness and enmity. For sion be born, for "He who beholds the Saviour's match- these sins, God banished us from His presence; and all less love will be elevated in thought, purified in heart, transformed in character. He will go forth to be a light to Norman R. Gulley, Ph.D., is dean of the seminary at Phil- the world, to reflect in some degree this mysterious ippine Union College, Caloocan City, Philippines. love."—The Desire of Ages, p. 661. ❑

10 (1178) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 Speaking Out

Masons liked geometric Many of our Presidents, Signs, Symbols, figures and the all-seeing eye, beginning with Washington, and why these figures appear were Masons. As for the and Ancient Nonsense on our dollar? It has nothing dollar bill, , if you read the to do with Babylon or Nim- Latin motto, it concerns [One measure of a church's strength is ity. He gets into the state of rod, except as one insists building a new order of the degree of freedom its members have to speak out—to express minority points of mind in which idolatrous that the reappearance of a things, a new nation. If one view. The editors often disagree with the worship must have origi- opinions expressed in Speaking Out, but familiar symbol has to be still feels the pyramid and they publish them to stimulate thought, nated. In pagan worship, with sinister knowledge and eye are "bad" symbols, produce constructive discussion, and to al- first they make objects repre- intent. low readers to test their validity.] then it seems he should shred senting something. Then the The Masons were men of up any dollar bills coming idolater ends up worshiping the eighteenth century, the his way. SOME people, said the the representation in place age of enlightenment, mostly We might mention other apostle Paul, are credulous, of the represented. It is easy deists and, in the spirit of the symbols. I like cats and at eager to be duped, quick to then to see how to some the age, were full of wonder at this moment have a silver run after some new sensa- symbol can have "real" the divine architecture, the Persian, but I would have no tion, and have itching ears consequence in itself, in- construction and mathe- trouble liking a black cat. (see 2 Tim. 4:3, 4 in different stead of merely carrying a matics of the universe, lately Yet think of the stupidity versions). Of course, the message. A hex, a charm, made plain to educated peo- and cruelty that cost untold apostle's statement couldn't holy water, or the bread and ple. We owe them a debt of thousands of such animals apply to us, or could it? wine undergoing transub- gratitude if we value our their lives or worse because So-called new light seems stantiation—these are by liberties. In the eighteenth they were seen as a satanic to go in cycles, though when many believed to have an century, if you were locked symbol! In the 1920's, Fin- times are especially trou- efficacy to harm or help. in a deadly battle against an land and Latvia used the bled the familiar myths sur- Therefore, some believe, oppressive church and king, swastika, a very old design, face more often. So we hear symbols are to be avoided. you'd probably try to sur- as the insignia for their air of flying saucers, magic Others wear them about the vive by some secrecy too. forces. It didn't mean the mountains, escaped nuns, neck as charms. They naturally developed Finns or Letts were evil, a Jewish world conspiracy, In our church in America, symbol and ritual like any but certainly they ceased two Babylons, British Israel. to use this particular em- We even hear of the main blem when another group tunnel of the Great Pyramid in the 1930's gave it wider being used as a predictor and unpleasant publicity. of the future. Usually in- Symbols are abstractions, and the list is Finally, I have good reac- volved are symbols, to which endless. They have no reality in themselves, tions to the symbol of the some have attached dark, three-pointed star. I don't hidden meanings. For exam- but are clusters of connotations. know where it came from. ple, some see sinister aspects Did it represent devil wor- to the reverse side of the ship in Babylon or a rain god U.S. dollar bill—or the letter in Polynesia? Until perhaps S and the numeral 6. Before some feel uneasy about the fraternity or youth organi- my transmission goes out, to I comment further on these, cross symbol in our church zation. American Masons me it represents a fine auto- let me make a point. architecture. But, of course, may be more "social" today, mobile. Symbols are abstractions, the cross is not a talisman or but the ones in Europe It seems a shame to put and the list is endless. They the private property of any fought for individual free- off limits art forms that may communicate by sounds, pic- denomination. Adventists dom and separation of at some time or place have tures, letters, badges, ges- in other parts of the world church and state up through served as a prop or symbol tures, and ceremonies. They accept the cross as a re- to this century. Most stories for paganism. A sunrise is have no reality in them- minder of the sacrifice of our against them come from the still a beautiful evidence of selves, but are clusters of Redeemer and see nothing propaganda of their special God's care for us, even if the connotations, good or bad unseemly about it. (Euro- foes, the Catholic Church. sun was worshiped in Egypt according to the time and peans are sometimes sur- In the 1890's, during the or ancient Britain. A decora- place of a particular culture. prised to learn that we per- fight to break the political tive sun symbol does not In themselves they are neu- mit another symbol—our power of the church in put you on devil's ground tral. The sounds of a lan- national flag—in our France, church spokesmen unless you feel he has a right guage—words—are S ym- churches.) declared the enemy to be to pre-empt that vital item bols , too, and nothing more. But to get back to the "the Masons, the Protes- of God's creation. The sun Someone making the sounds dollar bill: so the numeral 6 tants, and the Jews." It is can remind you of the Sun of of Armenian or Arabic at me looks like a snake! How does no accident that Hitler also Righteousness if you wish. will convey little of value, one do sums without using it? outlawed Masons. What object, creature, or for I do not share his concept Or the letter S. My type- I am not advocating that symbol has not been used at of what those symbol-sounds writer tends to skip its M. we join the Masons.. We some time or place in super- stand for. Is there some significance need to stay out of societies stitious worship or juju? Undue concern for the I'm missing? The backside that distract us from our Concluded next week symbol as carrying a burden of the dollar bill has a pyra- main responsibilities and di- WALTER C. UTT, Ph.D. of some good or evil may mid and eye. Sinister, they vide our loyalties. But we Chairman lead a person over an invisi- say. Obviously this is sym- can still be grateful for the History Department ble line beyond which he bolism borrowed from the Masons' struggles for lib- Pacific Union College confuses symbol with real- Masons. Do you know why erty. Angwin, California

R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1179) 11 The Adventist Advent Truth

Because of their misunderstanding of the manner of Christ's coming, earth's inhabitants fall easy prey to Satan's cunning counterfeit.

By W. H. MATTISON

AS A CHURCH WE HAVE BEEN PREACHING Recently I fell into conversation with a Parsee priest in about the second coming of Jesus for more than one and Poona on the second coming of Jesus. After listening for a quarter centuries. Recently we have found certain a few minutes the priest said, "Oh, we believe something religious organizations strongly emphasizing the coming similar. We believe that a man who was born in Iran of Jesus. Does this mean that our message has now will in 1980 rule the world and bring peace and prosper- begun to have its effect and that many have accepted the ity—a new age to the world." Advent truth we have been preaching for so long? Not The "isms" of the world, such as Communism, necessarily. Humanism, and Socialism, also have the goal of a world As conditions in the world worsen, people of all re- Utopia, albeit different from the Christian expectation. ligions have begun to wonder whether ahead lies some The danger is that the widespread acceptance of such kind of cataclysmic event that will change the world. expectations will prepare earth's inhabitants to accept In almost all religons there are teachings regarding the the deception of Satan when he makes it appear that end of the world, and, remarkably, some of these are Christ has come (cf. Rev. 13:13, 14; 2 Thess. 2:3, 4, 8; startingly similar to the Advent truth. Others are dis- Rev. 16:13, 14): similar. "As the crowning act in the great drama of deception, Among most Hindu people the idea prevails that we Satan himself will personate Christ. The church has long are now living in the age of what they call Kaliyug, or professed to look to the Saviour's advent as the con- bad age. At the close of Kaliyug they expect Sathyug, the summation of her hopes. Now the great deceiver will true or good age. According to their teachings, the ap- make it appear that Christ has come. In different parts pearing of the Tenth Avtar (incarnation) of God will of the earth, Satan will manifest himself among men as a usher in this age. Nine incarnations are already supposed majestic being of dazzling brightness, resembling the to have occurred. description of the Son of God given by John in the There was a time when, in India, the name of Jesus Revelation. Revelation 1:13-15. The glory that surrounds was hated. However, after Mahatma Gandhi popularized him is unsurpassed by anything that mortal eyes have the name of Jesus, today it is highly honored. If the yet beheld. The shout of triumph rings out upon the air: tenth incarnation should be Jesus, no Hindu would `Christ has come! Christ has come!' The people pros- object. When the God they are looking for appears in trate themselves in adoration before him, while he lifts human flesh in this tenth incarnation, they expect him to up his hands and pronounces a blessing upon them, as set the world right and thus usher in the good age. Christ blessed His disciples when He was upon the earth. Belief in the return of Jesus is written into the creeds His voice is soft and subdued, yet full of melody. In of most Christian bodies. For example, the creed of the gentle, compassionate tones he presents some of the Evangelical Free Churches (1848) reads as follows: same gracious, heavenly truths which the Saviour "We expect from heaven our Saviour Jesus Christ, who uttered; he heals the diseases of the people, and then, will change our body of humiliation and make it conform in his assumed character of Christ, he claims to have to his own body of glory; and we believe that, in that day, changed the Sabbath to Sunday, and commands all to the dead who are in Christ, coming out from their tombs hallow the day which he has blessed. He declares that at his voice, and the faithful then living on the earth, all those who persist in keeping holy the seventh day are transformed through his power, will be taken up together blaspheming his name by refusing to listen to his angels into the clouds to meet him, and thus we shall always sent to them with light and truth. This is the strong, al- be with the Savior." most overmastering delusion. Like the Samaritans who were deceived by Simon Magus, the multitudes, from the Widespread Expectancy least to the greatest, give heed to these sorceries, saying: Also among the Moslems there exists an expectation. This is 'the great power of God.' Acts 8:10."—The According to one of the great scribes of Islam, whose Great Controversy, pp. 624, 625. writings are accepted as what the Prophet Mohammed Are there any defenses against this deception? Yes— taught, Jesus will come to Mecca and with Mohammed A correct understanding of the manner of Christ's com- preach Islam to the world. Thus a great age of World ing as revealed in the Bible. Adventists must give to Islamic Brotherhood will be ushered in and the troubles their preaching of the Second Advent a ring that will of the world will be righted. arrest attention, awaken, and draw people to the Jesus of the Bible, away from the false christs of our present W. H. Mattison is president of the Northern Union in age. Adventist preachers and writers must not get so New Delhi, India. carried away with the wonder of the Advent that they

12 (1180) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 fail to point out the distinctiveness of Jesus' coming as deceived and will exalt him to the place of God, and deify taught in the Bible in contrast to what is taught about the him. But Omnipotence will interpose, and to the apostate Advent by other Christians. churches that unite in the exaltation of Satan, the sen- Adventists agree with other Christians that the coming tence will go forth, "Therefore shall her plagues come in of Jesus is the hope of the world, that when Jesus comes one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall all sickness will be healed and all trouble ended. But the be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God distinctiveness of the Adventist message lies in the Ad- who judgeth her." ' "—Testimonies to Ministers, p. 62. ventist understanding of how these things are going to be Think of the importance of the Adventist witness! This brought about. Their outline of future events leading up church is the only one that has fitted all the pieces of Bi- to that climactic event contrasts sharply with the outline ble prophecy together correctly. Its responsibility, there- presented by other Christians. Because of their mis- fore, is staggering. understanding of future events, these Christians will The question we need to ask ourselves is, how many, become an easy prey to the deceptions of the coming because of our weak witness to the Advent truth or antichrist as revealed in the following quotation: because of our worldly mindedness, will be swept to " 'Fallen angels upon earth form confederations with destruction? "Except those who are kept by the power evil men. In this age antichrist will appear as the true of God, through faith in His word, the whole world will Christ, and then the law of God will be fully made void be swept into the ranks of this delusion."—The Great in the nations of our world. Rebellion against God's holy Controversy, p. 562. law will be fully ripe. But the true leader of all this re- Let us awake to this tremendous task and not become bellion is Satan clothed as an angel of light. Men will be careless in heralding the truth everywhere. ❑

Bible Questions Answered By DON F. NEUFELD

I have a question regarding must not use the writings of 1976). Now would you please the Israelites laws regulating the use of Isaiah 66:23. Ellen White as evidence. explain the verse about these unideal practices. The Should this text be used as When the Scripture teach- "strong drink" (Deut. following are cases in point: proof of Sabbathkeeping in ings regarding the Sabbath 14:26). 1. Polygamy eternity? (See editorial are taken in their entirety, This one is more difficult. 2. Easy divorce "What's Wrong With the the presumptive evidence is Many have struggled over 3. Slavery Proof-Text Method?" Mar. strong that the Sabbath will this text. It reads, "And Referring to the Mosaic 11, 1976.) I have had diffi- be observed in the new thou shalt bestow that law concerning divorce, culty with Bible students of earth. The perpetuity of the money for whatsoever thy Jesus said, "Moses because other denominations when law of God would argue soul lusteth after, for oxen, of the hardness of your I use this text as such proof. strongly in favor of such a or for sheep, or for wine, or hearts suffered you to put They bring up Zechariah 14 view. But with a non-Ad- for strong drink, or for what- away your wives: but from and say that the Feast of Tab- ventist one should probably soever thy soul desireth: the beginning it was not so" ernacles is declared to be a leave it at that point. and thou shalt eat there be- (Matt. 19:8). part of what will be observed The non-Adventist could fore the Lord thy God, and The same explanation, in eternity. They reason that also bring up the next verse thou shalt rejoice, thou, and hardness of heart, could ac- if we let Colossians 2:16, 17 in the Isaiah passage (verse thine household." count for the tolerance also cancel out the text in Zech- 24) and inquire why, if verse The context is speaking of polygamy, slavery, and ariah, we must let it cancel 23 is to be literally fulfilled, about what may be done the use of alcoholic bever- out the Isaiah text also. verse 24 should not be. And with the second tithe. Under ages. As is pointed out in the we would be hard put to ex- certain circumstances it may In later periods God ut- editorial referred to in the plain how, after new earth be converted into cash; tered warnings regarding the question one must use as conditions have been intro- taken to the place "the Lord use of strong drink (Prov. proof texts only those texts duced, there would be the thy God shall choose" 20:1; 23:29-31). The New that genuinely prove the ex- possibility of going "forth" (verse 25), where the cash Testament affirms that pressed propositions or an- to view the carcases of the may be used to purchase "drunkards" will not enter swer the questions raised. transgressors. The wicked ingredients for a feast "be- the kingdom of God (1 Cor. In order for a text to be a will all be destroyed before fore the Lord." Among the 6:10). And while, even by valid proof, it must be in- the new earth is created. ingredients mentioned are New Testament times, slav- terpreted in its context. If It is best to view this en- wine and strong drink. Did ery was not openly con- when properly interpreted in tire passage, as the Seventh- God permit their use in an- demned, principles were laid context, the Scripture sup- day Adventist Bible Com- cient times? Apparently. down that led to slavery's mentary suggests, as ultimate overthrow. ports the proposition, it is a The only satisfactory ex- belonging in the conditional Thus the Christian should valid proof. planation I have found for category, with later inspired no more appeal to Deute- Isaiah 66:23 is not a good this seeming divine permis- writers telling what features ronomy 14:26 for sanction proof text for Sabbathkeep- sion to use wine and strong apply to the future, now that to drink alcoholic beverages ing in eternity when one is drink is the following: Rec- God is working out His pur- than he would appeal to studying with non-Advent- ognizing the Israelites' up- poses, not through the Jews, other Old Testament scrip- ists. On the basis of what bringing in a culture far from tures for sanction to practice Ellen White has said, Sev- but through the Christian ideal, God did not demand polygamy or to hold fellow enth-day Adventists believe church. that immediately they reach human beings in slavery. that Isaiah 66:23 has such an I appreciated your answer the ideal on every point. For application. But when study- to the question regarding a time He tolerated certain [Send questions for this columu to ing with non-Adventists one Deuteronomy 12:15 (Mar. 4, practices, in fact, even gave the Editor, REVIEW AND HERALD.]

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order at the proper time. "The Lord is in his holy How Great Is Your temple" (Hab. 2:20). God is still in the control room, managing the affairs of earth, some appearances to the God? contrary, perhaps, notwithstanding. So "let all the earth [including you, Habakkuk] keep silence before him." In Fifty years ago we lived in a comfortable little universe the third chapter of his book the prophet acknowledges about 6,000 light-years across, from one side to the other. the greatness and goodness of God and waits patiently All of the really important discoveries about the universe for God to work things out in His own good time. that could be made had been made, or so we thought. When, like Habakkuk, we come to see God and our- Today, according to Dr. Allen Sandage, of the Hale selves in perspective and to appreciate His amazing Observatories, the known universe is at least 32 trillion patience, we begin to wonder why He pays any attention light-years in diameter. In other words, 1.5 octillion whatever to us. We wonder why He gave His own Son to universes the size of the one we knew 50 years ago would be our Saviour. "When I look at thy heavens," the fit inside the one we know today. (That would be the psalmist wrote, "the work of thy fingers, the moon and figure 15 followed by 26 zeros.) Our Father's vast domain the stars which thou has established; what is man that is at least that many times larger than we thought it was, thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou or we might say that God is that much greater than we dost care for him?" (Ps. 8:3, 4, R.S.V.). realized. Our concept of God grows in proportion to our Danger of Making God Like Ourselves understanding of the vastness and complexity of His creative power. In the beginning God created man in His own image, Half a century ago we thought of the stars as placid including at least the intellectual and moral faculties. But furnaces peacefully producing light and heat. We knew when sin darkened these faculties we lost sight of the nothing about atomic energy or stellar thermodynamics, greatness and goodness of God and began making God nothing about such exotic objects as quasars, pulsars, or over into our image. The Greek deities who supposedly black holes. In fact, most of what we now know about inhabited Mount Olympus, for instance, were merely the universe has come to light within the past few dec- deified human beings motivated by every human lust and ades. According to the late Dr. George, Gamow, an passion. Even within the Christian tradition we tend to astrophysicist of note, "The universe is not only stranger think of God as being more or less like ourselves. Per- than you think, it is stranger than you can think." We haps He would say to us today, as He did to those who may be reasonably confident that our present concept of misunderstood Him in the long ago, "You thought I was celestial mechanics, of how God orders the universe one like yourself" (Ps. 50:21, R.S.V.), whereas as a about us, falls far short of ultimate reality. "Lo, matter of fact, "as the heavens are higher than the earth, these"—the things we see and the things we think we so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts know—"are but the outskirts of his [God's] ways; and than your thoughts" (Isa. 55:9, R.S.V.). how small a whisper do we hear of him!" (Job 26:14, However much we think we know about the physical R. S. V .). universe about us or about the measure of truth we think It is excellent prophylaxis for the human spirit to we understand fully, we shall do well to remember that meditate upon the greatness and goodness of our heav- we are still finite, erring human beings, and not God. By enly Father, and conversely to realize what small specks faith we can trust Him, and believe that eventually all of cosmic dust we really are in God's great universe. A things will work together for good if we persevere in the glimpse of the greatness of God gives us perspective to pathway of His appointment. see ourselves as we really are. It is when we wait thus in Thus it was with Job in his affliction. When all was said quietness before Him that the silence of our souls makes and done, God directed Job's attention to the myriad His voice more distinct. (Read The Desire of Ages, p. evidences in the natural world of His greatness and 363.) goodness. For the first time Job saw God, and thus Habakkuk learned this lesson one day when, perhaps himself, in perspective, and it was this new vision of His five years before Nebuchadnezzar invaded the land of greatness and goodness that opened the door of deliv- Judah, he lamented the evil rampant in Israel and chided erance for Job from his afflictions (see Job 42:2, 6, God for not doing something about it. In reply God R. S. V.). assured Habakkuk that He would indeed do something Yes, God dwells in "the high and holy place," but, about it—He would send the Chaldeans. But that would fortunately for us, "also with him who is of a contrite be an even greater evil, the prophet protested, quite and humble spirit" (Isa. 57:15, R.S.V.). He who takes unworthy of a good God. Thinking he had an airtight care of the vast starry universe also cares about us, and argument, he challenged God to debate the matter. there is no limit to what He can do for, and with, us when But, fortunately for Habakkuk, God was "big" we are wholly committed to Him. He has a thousand enough to explain patiently that the person who aspires ways for coping with situations that appear from our to live in a right relationship to God must do so in faith limited, finite perspective to be impossible (The Desire of that God knows what is best and that He will set affairs in Ages, p. 330). It is an appreciation of His greatness and 14 (1182) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 goodness that enables us to see Him as He is and to see was poured out they received the benefits of this re- ourselves as we are. When we do, He can—and will— freshing. work in us and for us. What we are saying is that we agree 100 per cent with "As the marsh-hen secretly builds on the watery sod, the Palmdale statement where it quoted Ellen White: Behold I will build me a nest on the greatness of God: "Our ministers must cease to dwell upon their peculiar I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies ideas with the feeling, 'You must see this point as I do, or In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh you cannot be saved.' Away with this egotism."— book 1, p. 178. We must avoid the and the skies: Selected Messages, By so many roots as the marsh-grass sends in the sod syndrome that demands uniformity in the way the gospel I will heartily lay me a-hold on the greatness of God." is presented. We must avoid the feeling that our choice of -SIDNEY LANIER language in presenting the gospel is the only acceptable R. F. C. choice. We must not be hung up on shibboleths—even one as beautiful as "righteousness by faith." We must not insist that unless others use the legal language of "justification by faith" they are not preaching the gospel, or at least are failing to do justice to the subject of Continued from page 2 F.Y.I. righteousness by faith. Now, was the message of Waggoner and Jones merely in specialized terminologies. No doubt multitudes will an echo of the message of justification by faith presented share the joys of heaven who never once heard the word three and a half centuries earlier by Martin Luther? In justification, but they opened their heart to God's Word our view it contained all of Luther's message—salvation and accepted Jesus, and by cooperating with the Holy is by grace through faith, not by works of merit on the Spirit they developed a character fit for the sinless soci- part of the sinner—but it contained more. We shall note ety of heaven. They received the early-rain experience the distinctives in our next editorial. K. H. W. (another useful figure of speech), and when the latter rain To be concluded November 18

Letters continued from page 3 moralistic in our thinking. If we Satisfied Guest Writes to me than anything in the world. Heaven on Earth . . . I can only testify that . . it then encounter an opinion ex- It was with great delight I read I would like to share something pressed commonly in our culture worked." dear to my heart: God's most pre- Molly Rankin's article speculat- She may be the rare exception_ that seems proper and not seri- ing on what would happen if Jesus cious blessing is given to those How many children, now grown, ously at variance with our mor- came to visit her house (Oct. 7). who have married in His truth. have left the church because of alistic views, then to us that opin- I'll tell you what would happen. There is great joy that comes in rigid, inflexible rules? ion may be correct. In fact, such He would say, "I would like to believing His truth and studying an opinion may be seen, in our T. C. NELSON, JR., M.D. His Word together. It is a touch of live here for a long time. This is Fresno, California way of thinking, as part of as near to heaven as I have been heaven on earth. When trials "God's plan." What this means since I left there. Love and un- come (as they do), instead of be- is that deeply ingrained patterns selfishness are the rule here." Ellen White Articles ing upset with each other, kneel of thinking that result from accul- How can I be sure? Because I appreciate the publication of and thank God for His love and turation have been superimposed I have, been a house guest of Ellen White articles. Although for your love for each other. on our view of what is right or Molly's—in New Guinea. written many years ago, they are HELEN TREGO wrong in God's sight. MIRIAM WOOD as relevant today as when first Frazer, Pennsylvania I submit, therefore, that cul- Silver Spring, Maryland written. As a church we put a tural conditioning (apart from great emphasis on the writings of Counting Blessings inspiration) can lead one to be- Sugar Counsel Mrs. White, and I believe that the Thank you, Walter R. L. lieve that racial intermarriage is REVIEW today is greatly en- I was sorry to see that the ar- Scragg, for another inimitable "moral transgression." hanced when her by-line appears BYRON E. CONNER ticle "Diet and Spiritual Health" classic: "Especially for [a lady] (Sept. 23) made no mention re- on a regular basis. Men" (Sept. 2). San Bernardino, California LARRY C. COTTAM garding sugar abuse. FLORENZA BRINGLE Phoenix, Arizona Eugene, Oregon The author of the letter on in- Ellen White says that "sugar, when largely used, is more in- ► It is our policy to publish terracial marriage seems to im- Ellen White manuscripts newly CB Witnessing ply that there is something wrong jurious than meat" (Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 370). Perhaps it is time released by the White Estate, as Is there an organization such as with such marriages because the well as to republish her articles two groups are different. But we added this counsel to our list Adventist World Radio in the from time to time. where is the difference? of actively pursued health-reform United States, particularly in goals. central California, which is Doesn't God look at the heart? Becoming Color Blind And if a black Christian marries LOREN SUTHERLAND beamed for CB (Citizens Band) a red Christian where is the moral Paradise, California Re: "Answer to Anonymous" operators? issue involved? (Aug. 19). Since CB operates on a two-way An Exception? It annoys me to see a black man It seems to me that "becoming conversational basis, it would with a white woman when so Re: "My Life With a 'Legalis- color blind" is one of the most have a tremendous potential for many black households and tic' Mother" (Sept. 9). beautiful and effective ways of ex- Christ-centered conversations black women are in dire need of, Bobbie Jane Van Dolson's pressing God's love to all human- and witnessing with an unknown or are desirous of having, strong story concludes that, in spite of ity. That you could project this number of listeners who could black men; but I don't consider it the "rigid and seemingly iron- message so forthrightly and con- themselves join the conversation a sin when I see them together. handed method of my upbringing, vincingly warmed my heart. and ask questions. LUCILLE WILLIAMS lit] resulted in the Lord's and His VERNON H. 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Family Living

The Relevance of Family Worship in Modern Living

The home is Satan's special place of attack. He knows he can do more harm to our spiritual and emotional lives here than anywhere else.

Isn't this just as Satan would have it? We become so By PAUL CLARK weighed down with "the cares of this life, and so that day (will) come upon you unawares" (Luke 21:34). The FROM BOTH A SPIRITUAL AND sociological point Bible tells us that "your adversary the devil, as a roaring of view there is nothing more essential to the happiness, lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour" unity, and crisis preparation of our Christian homes than (1 Peter 5:8). Ellen White emphasized that the home is group family worship. Ideally this worship should take Satan's special place of attack. He knows he can do more place twice a day. harm to our spiritual and emotional lives here than any- God is preparing a people to pass through a "time of where else. This is true because relationships within the trouble, such as never was since there was a nation" family circle play the greatest role in determining the hap- (Dan. 12:1). We are to meet the Saviour face to face with piness and sense of well-being of each member. Someone characters fit to be saved—"the only treasure that we can you know and love very much can hurt you considerably take from this world to the next" (Christ's Object Les- more through dissatisfaction or rejection than others with sons, page 332). We need constantly to review the impor- whom you have fewer affectional ties. tant truths of our faith and daily "grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" (2 Peter Witness of a Christian Home Is Lost 3:18) as we prepare for the rapidly approaching end of It is certain then that Satan, with his supernatural bril- this world. We need to do this as a family group so as to liance, is aware of these sensitive family relationships. ensure that all members are moving forward together in He applies his skill to destroy the home circle and the this crucial preparation. No one is to be left out. spiritual and emotional well-being of its members; the The coming together of family members twice a day Christian witness that a stable home should give to the to study God's Word and ponder the magnitude of salva- community is lost. tion provides group interaction of the highest quality. For It is a sobering thought that actually we can be used as want of high quality family group interaction the modern agents of the devil to cause the destruction of the very family is breaking down, and society is becoming increas- ones we love most, regardless of how unwitting this action ingly disorganized. Nearly all of us are caught up in the may be. hurly-burly, rush-rush, go-here-go-there of today's urban If we daily yield ourselves to be servants of God as we syndrome. We have less and less time for each other and relate to one another, the consequences of a Spirit-led life even less time for God. will be manifest: "love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentle- 18 (1186) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 Ness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against tain us through the entire day and to use us as God's wit- such there is no law" (Gal. 5:22, 23). On the other hand nesses to our associates, starting with the closest members if we from time to time yield ourselves to be servants of of our family circle. Satan and forget the support each member of our family What a travesty when meaningful and helpful group needs from the other, the reflection of our devilish master interaction becomes more a phenomenon to be experi- will be manifested: "adultery, fornication, uncleanness, enced outside the home than within! Are we becoming lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, strangers to our own family members, spending more time emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, with friends outside the home than with those within? murders, drunkenness, revellings . . they which do such Let us take time as we begin and end each day to things shall not inherit the kingdom of God" (Gal. 5: strengthen the bonds of our family circle, seeking our 19-21). "Counsellor" (Isa. 9:6) in carrying out all our plans for We must often throughout each day think about which that day. Nothing is more effective than these visits with supernatural force we are submitting to. Our prayer God on a daily group basis to strengthen both the affec- should always be, "lead us not into temptation, but deliver tional and spiritual bonds of the family. us from evil." The spiritual bond is the strongest family tie, and it can God is more willing to bestow the abiding presence of successfully hold a family together even when other the Holy Spirit and the righteous fruitage thereof than par- bonds weaken. Furthermore, we may be assured that as ents are to give good gifts to their children (see Luke we get right with God and one another spiritually, our 11:13), if we ask for this by faith. We should ask each interpersonal relations with all other persons will also morning for an abundant supply of the Holy Spirit to sus- develop a higher quality. ❑

WhenYoUreYoung By MIRIAM WOOD

'Howard Hughes] took to richest men in the world, Is Money Enough? refusing to shake hands with then think of it this way: Was people and covering his he really rich, after all, in hands with the ubiquitous the things that count? No. HAVE YOU EVER found Well, he had. And "existed" sheets of Kleenex when he He was a pauper. yourself thinking that if you is the right word. had to hold a glass or open a Last year in Africa when I had all the money you'd want Mr. Hughes had been a door. . . . He considered air visited briefly in "David —more than you could use brilliant, overpowering suc- conditioners deadly germ Livingstone country" and in several lifetimes—your cess in the world of aviation machines and he even sus- remembered the enormous problems would be solved and finance. His holdings pected clothes as germ contribution this man made and you'd live in a state of were so vast that probably collectors; he is said to have —leaving his actual, physical perpetual bliss? Probably his heirs will spend the next taken to sitting naked in heart in Africa—I felt a every young person who is decade or so fighting fiercely darkened, sweltering hotel lump in my throat. David on a tight family or personal among themselves for a rooms, surrounded by Livingstone was a rich man, budget entertains such "piece of the pie." One crinkled Kleenex and cov- fabulously wealthy, though alluring thoughts from time actress has come forward to ered only with a few sheets he had little money. He was to time. Certainly people announce that she was mar- [of Kleenex]. . . For . . . nine rich because the entire need enough money to live ried to him for a number of years and four months only a focus of his life was turned in a fair degree of comfort. years, though no one else handful of his doctors and in the direction of others. They need money so that seems to have heard about secretaries and the immigra- Missionaries today are they can help others and the marriage. tion officials, bellhops and wealthy, though they may be share. But it's a mistake to If money could enable a go-fern ever saw him." living in the plainest possi- think that money alone will person to live in absolute This bizarre man reserved ble style. They are wealthy solve everything. comfort and free of the whole floors of the most ex- where it counts. And you Having myself thought slightest annoyance or dis- pensive hotels in the world, yourself are rich if you have occasionally that I'd like to comfort or worry, Mr. so as to keep a "buffer zone" dedicated your life to Christ be Mrs. Croesus, I was un- Hughes should have had an between himself and the pub- and His service. If your life derstandably intrigued when idyllic existence. But it lic, never considering how is an outpouring channel of I read of the strange life led didn't work out that way. As this wasted money could the blessings that have come for years by the "mystery he grew older, he became have helped those less for- your way, you can never be man" of the U.S.A.—How- literally obsessed with a de- tunate. His thoughts were poor, no matter what your ard Hughes. A billionaire, he sire for absolute privacy. He turned only on himself. The bank account says. had become so reclusive that was sure that his life was natural result of this exist- In Christ's Object Les- his existence couldn't even threatened by germs every- ence was that when he was sons, page 259, Ellen White be proved during his last where. His health was very buried at a sunrise service, sums it up: "To live for self years, and when he died poor, partly as a result of "there were only sixteen is to perish. Covetousness, aboard a private plane, the an airplane crash in his mourners and no tears." the desire of benefit for self's hospital to which his body younger days. He lived on One cannot help feeling a sake, cuts the soul off from was taken in Houston, strange diets of candy and pang of regret and sadness life. It is the spirit of Satan to Texas, insisted upon very cake and little else. for this unfortunate man. If get, to draw to self. It is the careful identification and Newsweek magazine of the adjective "unfortunate" spirit of Christ to give, to verification. Many wondered April 19, 1976, describes his strikes you as a strange de- sacrifice self for the good of whether he ever had existed. last years in this way: "He scription for one of the others."

R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1187) 19 Newsfront

ICPA Congress Shows "Something Better" By FRANCIS A. SOPER

A young drug user was personal resources, skills, asked, "Why do you use values, and purpose so that drugs?" He replied, "Why persons are largely immune to not?" Asked again, "How the false dependencies of could someone convince you chemicals." to stop?" He said, "Show me Other principles of preven- something better." tion were described by Ernest P. Noble, director of the Na- POSITIVE alternatives to tional Institute on Alcohol false dependencies was the Abuse and Alcoholism in the theme of the Second World United States. Congress of the International Louis Manucco-Jenkins, of Commission for the Preven- the United Nations in New tion of Alcoholism (ICPA), York, described the interna- The value of religion in providing positive alternatives for false held August 23 to 27 at the tional dimensions of drug dependencies was discussed at the ICPA congress by representatives of Acapulco Princess Hotel in problems. The ICPA is a non- several religions. One of the speakers was His Excellency Abdullah E. Mexico. The four-day meet- governmental member organ- Al-Muffarij, Minister of Justice and Islamic Affairs in Kuwait. ing attracted 350 delegates ization of the UN. from 35 countries. New evidence was pre- million readers, averaged wait, representing the Islamic Major delegations came sented to the congress linking three reports a day and put the point of view; and A. V. from the Middle Eastern certain birth defects to the use same stories on its syndicate Pinkney, of the General Con- countries of Saudi Arabia, of alcohol by the mother. L. of 24 papers in other areas of ference Temperance Depart- Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, and A. Senseman, of the Glendale Mexico. Major coverage was ment, representing the Ju- Egypt. Especially of note Adventist Hospital, Califor- given by the large tabloid daeo-Christian point of view. were His Excellency Abdul- nia, said that "damage to the newspaper La Prenza and all The ICPA has been set up lah E. Al-Muffarij, Minister fetus by alcoholism has been Acapulco papers. Releases as a nonpolitical, nonsectarian of Justice and Islamic Affairs, one of the more common rec- were sent out on international organization to sponsor pro- Kuwait; and Sheikh Abdullah ognizable causes of mental wires from Mexico City. grams and research to deal Al-Ansari, of Qatar. These deficiency." Corroborating Radio reports were released with alcohol and drug prob- Moslem countries also contri- this evidence, F. M. Badr, of regularly out of Mexico City, lems on a worldwide basis. buted financially in sponsor- the University of Kuwait, and twice daily the national Seventh-day Adventists are ing the congress. showed that adverse genetic television network featured active members of the com- Setting the keynote for the effects also result from alco- the congress. mission and cooperate closely congress, Allen Cohen, of hol use by the father. Concepts and attitudes of in sponsoring seminars and Kennedy University, Califor- Indian speakers from Can- religion to positive alterna- other educational programs to nia, called the concept of ada and Arizona described al- tives for false dependencies prevent alcohol and drug positive alternatives to false cohol's impact on Indian cul- were outlined by Justice Tek problems. dependencies a "significant tures as disastrous. Chand, of the Punjab High Organizer of the Second breakthrough." Press coverage of the con- Court in India, representing World Congress was Ernest A specific alternative he gress was extensive. Excel- the Hindu and Buddhist point H. J. Steed, ICPA executive suggested was "service to sior, the largest newspaper in of view; His Excellency Ab- director. New president for others," calling it "one of the Mexico, with more than a dullah E. Al-Muffarij of Ku- next year is Justice Tek most often ignored positive alternatives." He said, "There are few feelings as good as helping another human being in need. If we offered potential substance abusers more opportunities to be of service, instead of treating them as patients, we might be far ahead." Dr. Cohen referred to pri- mary prevention as "the most exciting domain of positive alternatives, reaching people before they are involved in serious experimentation." This involves the "building of Dr. Essie Lee, of Hunter College, New York, addressed the congress. Seated beside her are (left to right) Francis A. Soper is editor of Justice Tek Chand, India, the new ICPA president; E. H. J. Steed, executive director of the ICPA and direc- Listen magazine. tor of the General Conference Temperance Department; and Johannes Virolainen, Finland, ICPA vice-president. 20 (1188) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 Chand of India. Vice-presi- Resolutions of the Second dents come from Finland, World Congress focused on Bulgaria, the United States, new educational efforts to and Kuwait. make attractive and practical A Nigerian government "a positive and constructive psychiatrist said, commenting life-style without dependence on the spirit of cooperation on addictive drugs and alco- and harmony that was evident hol." throughout the congress, "I These efforts include the have attended many world development of specific meas- conferences, but if all could ures to abolish alcoholic be like this one we could have beverage advertising, increase world peace." media information on the Delegates heard a wide hazards of alcohol, as well as array of authoritative lectures to encourage all persons "to provided in their own lan- explore service to others as a guages through running trans- powerful positive alternative lation. to false dependencies." U.S. Marines Relocate Desmond Doss Monument By JOE BROWN

[On May 5, exactly 31 years after U.S. the Medal of Honor for saving Army medic Desmond T. Doss attended wounded soldiers on an Okinawa hillside and the lives of 75 soldiers during earned a Medal of Honor, the monument World War II. erected in Okinawa in his memory was moved to the grounds of the Seventh-day Adventist Through the years the area church and religious center in Nakagusuku, Okinawa. The author, a marine sergeant, is around the monument de- a correspondent for the Okinawa Marine, veloped and expanded into from which this article is reprinted with per- what is now Urasoe City. The mission.] monument became engulfed by progress and was at the far THE Desmond T. Doss end of a shopping-center park- monument, erected in honor ing lot and a few feet off a of an Army medic who re- heavily traveled highway. It ceived the Medal of Honor was unprotected and out of after the battle of Okinawa, place. The Desmond Doss monument, erected in Okinawa in honor of the Con- has been moved to a new site, Commander Hill first gressional Medal of Honor recipient, was recently moved by Marines thanks to a Navy doctor and learned of the Doss monu- to another site because the former site had fallen into disrepair. a group of Futenma Marines. ment through Dr. Wendell and For more than 25 years, the other members of the Sev- monument, dedicated to Pri- enth-day Adventist Church, May 5, 1945. Ironically it was MEXICO vate First Class Desmond T. and they set out to get permits a Saturday—the Sabbath for Doss, a Seventh-day Advent- and equipment necessary to Doss—and another long day Adventists Graduate ist Army medic with the Sev- relocate it. The landowner of in the battle for Okinawa. From Medical School enty-seventh Infantry Divi- the site where the monument The Seventy-seventh Army sion, stood along a roadside had stood all these years was counterattacked while Early this summer 14 Sev- in the town of Urasoe. agreed to its removal, and the launching their own attack on enth-day Adventist students Its new site is in the com- local government provided a small hill, and they sustained from the United States and pounds of the Seventh-day the proper permits. a large number of casualties, Canada completed medical Adventist church and religious Of the 16 million American which forced them back. Doss training and received their center in Nakagusuku. Ac- men in uniform during World and 75 wounded soldiers were diplomas from the Universi- cording to Commander (Dr.) War II, only 431 distinguished stranded on the hill, sur- dad Autonoma of Guadala- George E. Hill, flight surgeon themselves with the kind of rounded by the enemy and be- jara, Mexico's second largest for Marine Aircraft Group valor that earns the Medal of ing riddled with gunfire. With university. 36 (MAG-36), and Dr. Ken- Honor. PFC Doss was one of no regard for his own safety, Most of the Adventist neth L. Wendell, of the Ad- those men. He entered the Doss attended the wounded, graduates have been engaged ventist Medical Center, it military as a conscientious ob- lowering them one by one to in other professions and oc- became necessary to relocate jector, owing to his religious safety in rope litters. He re- cupations—two are ordained the Doss monument to pre- beliefs, and never killed an mained on the hill until all the ministers, two are medical serve its integrity and condi- enemy soldier or bore arms men were rescued and was the technologists, one is a phys- tion. against them. He did, how- last American soldier to leave ical therapist, three are teach- When first erected, the mon- ever, risk his life to save the the hillside. ers, one is an accountant, two ument stood in a field along- lives of others. Doss is alive today and lives are emergency-room spe- side a small country road near Doss had faced death many in Georgia—still a conscien- cialists, and one is an anes- the spot where Doss earned times before the morning of tious objector. thesiologist. R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1189) 21 Newsfront continued

a breakthrough in their area, tarium. It was emphasized re- where Adventists are little peatedly during the weekend known. that the conditioning sani- CAROLINE BLACKWOOD tarium should be situated-in a Press Secretary rural environment conducive Huddersfield Church to using all of the natural rem- edies described in The Min- istry of Healing. CALIFORNIA Repeated references were 400 Study Blueprint made to inspired counsel that emphasized the need for of Medical Evangelism schools with a balanced More than 400 persons, work-study program. A representing a wide range of school of this type should be professional schools and adjacent to the conditioning trades, met almost spontan- sanitarium in order to train eously at Loma Linda, Cali- paramedical missionaries and fornia, in September to ex- Bible instructors in the art of press their interest in medical evangelism. Students could staff city centers and Fourteen Seventh-day Adventists recently completed medical training, expediting God's work in His receiving their diplomas from the University of Guadalajara, Mexico. way. Without any official an- work with interested persons nouncement or promotional when they return to the cities. brochure, many persons paid A variety of endeavors in the This year's graduating class The General Conference their own way to Loma Linda large cities should be used to also included eight Latin has assigned a chaplain to from many States and from refer interested persons to American Adventists. In ad- guide the spiritual life of the other countries, including the rural conditioning sani- dition to the group graduating American students and their Canada, Norway, and Africa. tarium. These city centers in June, a group will graduate families. B. L. Roberts held The meeting was originally should include vegetarian res- in January. Seventh-day Ad- this position for a number of scheduled to be only a meet- taurants, health-food stores, ventist graduates total 35 or years, but since his transfer ing of the board of trustees of and dedicated workers. 40 a year. to Central America, Wil- the Hewitt Research Founda- Reports and Studies There are various reasons liam E. Baxter, a worker for tion. HRF is an independent, why American students many years in Inter-America, endowed research and man- At the Loma Linda meet- choose to study medicine in has taken his place. agement-consulting center, ing, reports were made by Guadalajara. A few of the ULYSSES N. DIAZ organized primarily to help those who are currently ex- students, though United Paradise, California Seventh-day Adventist perimenting with conditioning States residents, speak Span- Church institutions and organ- centers, restaurants and bal- ish as their native tongue. izations and to do studies re- anced work-study Christian Others were unable to gain ENGLAND lated to them. schools. Scientific studies entrance to the overcrowded One item on the agenda was were presented that suggest medical schools in the States Huddersfield Church a plan to develop a model for that heart-related and other or are over the age limit ap- Reports Good Year medical evangelism that em- diseases previously consid- plied in some schools in the ploys all the counsel outlined ered irrevocable may be re- States. Church members in Hud- in the Spirit of Prophecy and versed through simple diet In recent years the course dersfield, England, dedicated to apply it in the context of and exercise. in Guadalajara has been their church on January 3, current research and prac- World-renowned non-Ad- strengthened by the American and their pastor, W. South- tices. ventists are obtaining revolu- Visiting Professor Program. cott, has baptized 12 new Family physicians, re- tionary results with simple Each semester 50 to 100 members so far this year. searchers, ministers, adminis- remedies. Public-school ed- teachers from medical schools The church, a century-old trators, educators, and church ucators are experimenting in the United States and Can- Anglican school, was com- members from various voca- with balanced work-study ada visit Guadalajara to give pletely renovated, and today tions shared their views on programs. In southern Cali- lectures in English. Another is valued at $200,000. The what the inspired blueprint fornia alone two public school beneficial innovation is the ar- renovation, done mostly by should include and sought to districts, with more than rangement with United States members, is valued at ap- find out what others are doing 35,000 high school students, hospitals whereby American proximately $20,000, and to try to follow that blueprint. are using the half-day study, students may have six weeks since it included the installa- Three specific areas of work half-day work program with of clinical experience there tion of a baptistry, it enables were studied as they relate to initial success. each semester. the members for the first time one another: (1) sanitariums, This meeting had no au- Most of the Adventist med- in the 30-year history of the (2) balanced work-study pro- thority to make administrative ical students are sponsored church to conduct baptisms grams, and (3) vegetarian res- decisions, but it demonstrated by conference organizations on their own church property. taurants. how urgent and widespread is and, upon graduating, return Huddersfield members have The sanitarium was consid- the conviction among many to practice in their home other reasons for rejoicing. ered as a preventive-medicine disciplines that the time has field. However, after spend- They collected their highest or health-education facility come to find ways to imple- ing four years in Mexico the Ingathering total, in just two best described in current ment God's plan. students have gotten a taste weeks' time, and their pastor terms as a health-conditioning G. A. AUFDERHAR of mission life, and quite a holds regular discussions with center. Another term used President few eventually go into mis- some 20 ministers of other frequently in the discussion Inter-America Health sion service. churches, which they consider was a conditioning sani- Services 22 (1190) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 INDIA Bible Seminary Opens in Roorkee The Northern Union in India opened a Bible seminary at Roorkee High School on July 16 to train ministers for village evangelism. B. M. Shad is in charge of the seminary. The principal of the -high school and his staff also lend their support to help train the 12 students initially enrolled in this new school. Classes are being taught in Hindi. With the challenge of reach- ing the hundreds of millions in North India, there is an Twelve students enrolled in the first classes to be taught at the new Bible Seminary, Roorkee High School. increasing demand for many more village evangelists. The Northern Union has the larg- also includes provision of competition, duplication, and other items, and the restor- est population of any union in medical personnel where waste, Adventist services ation of community services. the world-350 million people available, counseling, and have always sought to co- Every church congregation within its boundaries. The morale-building services. operate with all other relief ought to have a disaster-relief problem of workers has be- Representatives of the agencies in the field, such as organization, a plan, and re- come increasingly acute, since North American Division the Red Cross. sources ready for immediate large numbers are beginning to Community Services and the In the United States, Fed- and effective ministry to those accept the Adventist message Federal Disaster Assistance eral government assistance to suddenly in need. One of the and are being baptized. Administration signed the disaster has been committed most important early steps is For instance, in one North document on Thursday, Sep- to the Federal Disaster As- for church leaders to make Indian village more than 100 tember 23. Signers were sistance Administration under personal contact with govern- were baptized, and in another Thomas P. Dunne, adminis- the Disaster Relief Act of ment and voluntary-agency village more than 200. In each trator of the FDAA, and Neal 1974, voted by the Congress leaders in the community, who instance this represents the C. Wilson, vice-president of and enacted into law. This act have disaster-relief responsi- acceptance of Adventism by the General Conference for provides that following a bility. This has now been the entire village, with many the North American Division. major disaster the President, done on a national level. other village people preparing Before the signing, Mr. Dunne and by delegation the adminis- Copies of the signed agree- to be baptized. There are expressed his strong personal trator of the Federal Disaster ment are available from the scores of villages now calling convictions on the important Assistance Administration, General Conference Lay for Adventist ministers. role of church voluntary serv- may ,utilize relief organiza- Activities Department. W. H. MATTISON ice agencies, such as the Ad- tions, such as that of the C. E. GUENTHER President ventist Community Services, Seventh-day Adventist Director Northern Union in disaster-relief service. Church, in the distribution of S.D.A. Community Seventh-day Adventist medicine, food, supplies, and Services Community Services has been WASHINGTON, D.C. involved in major disaster- relief work since the time of Church and U.S. the Kansas flood in 1951. This Government Sign year Adventist workers were involved in disaster relief Relief Agreement after the eastern Idaho flood An agreement has been and the Colorado flood. Hurri- entered into by the Seventh- canes, tornadoes, fires, air- day Adventist Community plane and train accidents, Services for cooperative explosions, droughts and disaster-relief service with the famines, landslides, earth- United States Federal Disaster quakes, civil strife, war, Assistance Administration. and other events have pro- This agreement provides for vided calls and opportunities full exchange of information for service. as to needs, resources, and The role of the Adventist operating procedures, and Community Services in these specifically mentions the re- crises has been a cooperative ceiving, processing, and dis- one. The primary object is to tribution of clothing, bedding, help people by reducing suffer- Neal C. Wilson (left), North American Division president, and Thomas P. household supplies, and food ing and providing encourage- Dunne (right), of the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, by the. Adventist agency. It ment and hope. To avoid signed an agreement to assure cooperative disaster-relief services. R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 (1191) 23 "c"71,11:i!.:•437e

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COLOMBIA ized. A baptismal class is functioning with an average Ibague Crusade attendance of 600 persons. Wins 807 to Church The evangelistic team was composed of five pastors, two Baptismal services were Bible workers, and 16 senior held every Sabbath during the theology students from Co- Ibague, Colombia, evangelis- lombia-Venezuela Union Col- tic campaign. On the closing lege. Jose Osorio, Ministerial Sabbath, June 5, the final bap- Association secretary of the tism brought to 807 the num- Colombia-Venezuela Union, ber baptized as a result of the served as the evangelist and meetings. A new church is director of the campaign, and now under construction, Arthur Gonzalez served as which will have a seating ca- the associate evangelist. pacity of 700, and two new The preparatory phase of churches have been organ- the crusade began four months prior to the meetings. After the spiritual preparation of the churches, the members CARIBBEAN SEA were organized into units and A Seventh-day Adventist medical team was flown to Cotabato City to received material to start work assist in relief work for the victims of an earthquake in that city. immediately as missionary mailmen for The Bible Speaks course. With the theme "Lay PHILIPPINES tively, of the Central Visayan Evangelism in Action," lay- Mission, in the Central Philip- SDA Team Aids PACIFIC men visited interested per- pine Union, turned over used OCEAN clothing worth 3,000 pesos sons and ex-Adventists, gave Quake Victims Bible studies, conducted (US$411) and 1,000 pesos small evangelistic crusades, An Adventist medical team, (US$137) cash to the office of assisted in baptismal classes, headed by Manuel J. Tornilla, the Cebu governor, Eddi and responded when they saw Jr., medical director of Miller Gullas, for earthquake relief. other ways they could help. Sanitarium and Hospital and D. M. NIERE This phase ended with the health director of the Central Communication Director graduation, on February 15, Philippine Union Mission, Central Philippine Union Cebu City, was flown on Au- Mission of 1,150 students who had gust 22 to Cotabato City to as- completed the Bible course. sist in the relief work for vic- On February 16 a Five-Day tims of an earthquake in that Plan to Stop Smoking was city. initiated, with 3,500 persons They brought with them attending each night. Although five bales of clothing supplied two sessions were organized, by SAWS in Cebu City. These it was impossible to accom- were turned over to the Cen- modate all who desired to at- tral Mindanao Command, tend. Daniel Gonzalez, a Ven- Philippine Army, for distribu- ezuelan surgeon who has had tion. much experience in group The Adventist team was therapy, collaborated in the transferred to barrio Pinan- program. At the close of the saran, a part of Upi, a coastal Five-Day Plan 2,450 persons town of Cotabato, about a had given up the tobacco two-hour ride from Cotabato habit. City. Many of the injured per- The following day evangel- sons they treated there ,had istic meetings began with an open wounds that had become attendance of approximately infected and gangrenous, mak- 1,800 persons in two sessions. ing treatment difficult. The After the presentation of the group treated 500 patients in first theme the attendance in- the few days they were in the creased and remained at an barrio. Of the more than average of 3,000 each night. 3,000 in the barrio, 73 died and A few days before launching more than 200 were missing the crusade, team members GC PRESIDENT VISITS IOWA CHURCH SITE after the earthquake 'and re- visited the newspaper offices sulting 25-foot tidal waves. Members of the Philadelphia church, Des Moines, Iowa, and radio and television sta- While the medical team was are realizing their dream of building a new church home. Re- tions. As a result, reporters working in the South Philip- cently Robert H. Pierson, General Conference president covered the meetings, and the pines, V. F. Bocala, Ben (second right), visited the site. George Murray, Jr., right, pas- free publicity that they gave Moralde, and Samuel Paulino, tor, and his father, left, are doing most of the construction. brought the programs to the president, lay activities direc- Pictured with them is E. F. Carter, Central States Conference attention of almost everyone tor, and treasurer, respec- stewardship director. E. F. CARTER in the area. JOSE OSORIO 26 (1194) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 Enrich Preschool& World With Bible Stor

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• The publishing work is Massachusetts, were baptized Prophets and Kings, The De- Far Eastern making encouraging progress recently in the South Lancas- sire of Ages, The Acts of the in all the fields of the South ter church by Arnold Swan- Apostles, The Great Contro- • Siegfried H. Horn was a American Division (Argen- son. Another 13 students were versy, and Bible Readings so guest lecturer at the Seventh- tina, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, baptized by Warren Zork in far this year. The total for the day Adventist Theological Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, and the Atlantic Union College same period of time last year Seminary (Far East) in Man- Bolivia), although in some church. was 1,100 sets. ila, Philippines, from Sep- countries economic problems • John Fowler, ministerial tember 9 to 16. A specialist in are making sales more diffi- Canadian Union secretary for the Central archeology and former dean cult. • After a short retirement in Union Conference, and the of the SDA Theological Semi- • The 100 literature evangel- Heritage Singers II began a nary in Berrien Springs, Mi- Oregon, Elder and Mrs. Carl ists in the Rio Minas Confer- Wessman have returned to Prophecy Seminar in the chigan, he taught a two-unit ence (East Brazil Union) de- Denver South Seventh-day course in Biblical archeology. Canada, where Elder Wess- livered books valued at man will be assisting in the Adventist church, September • The Seventh-day Adventist approximately US$360,000 trust-services department of 25. A double session was Theological Seminary (Far from January through July. the British Columbia Confer- conducted to accommodate East) in Manila, Philippines, One day Sebastiao Marques, ence. the large crowd of approxi- conducted an extension visiting an industry, sold liter- mately 2,000 who attended the school in Japan during Au- ature valued at $8,000. His • Norman Manweiler re- opening meeting. Dr. Rubin gust. One hundred and sev- sales up to June totaled cently assumed leadership of Widmer is the pastor. enty workers throughout the $80,000. the McBride district in British Columbia, a new district Japan Union Mission attended Columbia Union this largest school conducted created to lighten the load of by the Far East Seminary. North American the Prince George district • The Martin Barr Elemen- The local director and trans- pastor. tary School, in the Bell lator was M. Inada, union Atlantic Union • As a result of an It Is Writ- Branch church, Bowie, Mary- director of education. ten Bible Seminar six land, operates an amateur • Faculty members and stu- • Four hundred lay congress members have joined the radio station. Jeffrey Appel delegates gathered recently at dents at Atlantic Union Col- Penticton, British Columbia, and Mike Stubbs are the North Sulawesi Academy in lege are uniting with local church. school's first students to re- Indonesia to hear reports church members for an evan- ceive their novice licenses. gelistic crusade in the Leom- • Mrs. Richard Paul, a from various missions and in- • At the close of a summer inster and Sterling, Massa- member of the Grandview, struction in Spirit-filled wit- series of meetings by Lyle chusetts, area—their fourth British Columbia, church, nessing presented by Russell conducted three Vacation Albrecht, Potomac Confer- Bates, of the General Confer- such crusade. Crusade plans ence evangelist, in Winches- were laid by William Fagal, Bible School programs this ence Lay Activities Depart- summer. One at Little Fort, ter, Virginia, four persons ment, and M. T. Bascom, of district pastor, and Marion E. were baptized. Kidder, of the college. for the third consecutive year, the Far Eastern Division. A has resulted in a thriving high point of the congress was Operation Saturation, the • Youth from Lynchburg, first stage, began in Au- company of believers. A Charlottesville, Waynesboro, a report of the work among company is being formed in the tree dwellers in an isolated gust, and the follow-up pro- and Roanoke, Virginia, and gram will continue through Celista, where the second one Washington, D.C., took part area of the central Celebes. was held. In Celista the An- The first of these people to be June, 1977. The previous ef- in a series of day camps of- fort in Framingham resulted glican church invited Mrs. fered by the staff of Blue converted attended the lay Paul to conduct their Vacation congress. Approximately 250 in 16 baptisms, and those in Ridge Youth Camp, with Rick Lowell and Gardner, 35. Bible School, and she worked Marshall as program director. persons have been baptized in the VBS for her own there since the work began in • Betty Taylor has been church at Grandview. • The Allegheny West inner- March of 1975. elected president of the newly city medical van served this formed Nashua Valley summer in Dayton, Cleve- • "Guiding Our Children for chapter of the Association of Central Union land, and Cincinnati, Ohio. a Better Tomorrow" was the Seventh-day Adventist theme of the guidance semi- Nurses (ASDAN), which • By the close of 1976, • Two couples from Lancas- nar held at the Jackson serves central Massachusetts. 35,000 emergency patients ter, Pennsylvania, church re- Sevrens Chapel of Philippine Among other activities, will have been treated at the cently observed their fiftieth Union College, in Manila, ASDAN is a clearing house Shawnee Mission Medical wedding anniversaries. They August 28 and 29. The semi- for job opportunities in de- Center in the Kansas City are George and Anna Ritten- nar was attended by parents nominational work, encour- area. This will be the largest house, married May 8, 1926; and young people from sev- ages young people to enter number of admissions in any and Christian and Marion eral churches. the nursing profession, and hospital in the area. Denlinger, married January 5, 1926. seeks to advance the standard • Seventy Duo 16 projectors of SDA nurses and nursing. are being used by literature South American • Eliezer Barreiro, pastor, evangelists in placing the Lake Union Bible Reference Library in has begun evangelistic meet- • The Community Services • From January through thousands of homes in the ings in the Central Brooklyn center in Milton, Wisconsin, July, 1976, South American Central Union Conference. Spanish-speaking church. recently sent 60 cartons of Division literature evangelists These projectors, under clothing to the SAWS Eastern sold and delivered books and • Twelve young people from God's blessing, have placed depot in New York City. magazines valued at $4 mil- the Browning Elementary 1,880 sets of the large books, lion. School in South Lancaster, Patriarchs and Prophets, • The Battle Creek Taberna-

28 (1196) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 cle in Michigan recently cific Union Conference has publishing director of the marked its fiftieth anniver- Northern Union relocated in the Westlake Vil- Southwestern Union Confer- sary. It was dedicated in 1926, • On September 25 a newly lage area of Thousand Oaks, ence. when John Knox was the pas- organized church was opened California. The new structure tor. includes a home for Home • Sales to date by literature in Stanley, North Dakota, evangelists in the Southwest- • Ray Smith, of Indianapo- where two years ago there Health Education Service on the first level. ern Union show an 85 per cent lis, Indiana, received the an- were only two Seventh-day gain over sales in the same nual Community Services Adventists. period of 1975. Southern Union Award from the Glendale • A new church was organ- church. He has been active in • W. B. Robinson, new ized on the north side of Des • Nosoca Pines Ranch, the union auditor, replaces Lloyd various societies for the pre- Moines, Iowa, on September Carolina Conference camp, in vention of cancer. Strickland, who has accepted 25 with nearly 100 members. Liberty Hill, South Carolina, a call to the General Confer- • As a result of a crusade in • In Clitherall, Minnesota, as was dedicated October 2. The ence. the Spanish East Chicago, In- a result of the work of a lay- dedicatory service for the diana, church, the member- 180-acre facility, with front- man, Ralph Woods, a new Loma Linda University ship has grown from 17 to 102. church school was organized age on Lake Wateree, was conducted in the newly com- • Members of the Spring- and a new church will be or- • A series of lectures tracing ganized in December. pleted gymnasium and coin- field, Illinois, church partici- cided with the Southern the history of the health mes- pated in a community-wide • The first baptism in Brook- Union Academy Bible Con- sage and the Seventh-day Ad- open house in September, ings, South Dakota, as a result ference. ventist Church is being of- when all the area churches of Ralph Ringer's evangelistic fered in conjunction with the were invited to open their meetings took place October • The Southern Society of University church's midweek doors to the public on a speci- 6. A new church will be or- Adventist Attorneys for Reli- prayer services. The series fied day. Seventeen Prot- ganized soon in Brookings. gious Liberty held its annual began with mid-nineteenth- estant, Catholic, and Jewish meeting October 8 to 10 at No- century medicine in America churches participated in the • Some 70 evangelistic cam- soca Pines Ranch in South and will end with the Loma event. paigns are planned in Iowa Carolina. Principal speaker at Linda medical school. during the next 12 months, the retreat was Warren Johns, according to D. E. Holland, • Loma Linda University's North Pacific Union chief counsel for the General conference president. Conference. occupational-therapy services • A new church has been home-care team made a pre- • Dale Brusett began an formally organized in Ste- • The Oakwood College of- sentation at the annual con- evangelistic series in the St. vensville, Montana. fice of career planning and ference of the American Oc- Paul, Minnesota, Civic Center placement sponsored its first cupational Therapy • More than 600 employees on October 16. National Career Explorations Association in San Francisco, of the Oregon State Depart- Fair on October 13. More than October 12. The presentation ment of Transportation re- • The South Dakota Confer- ence reports more than 200 20 industries and organiza- included an overview of pro- cently were screened for po- tions from different sections gram development of the two tential physical problems by baptisms during the first nine months of the year. of the country took part in the mobile units owned by the the Oregon Conference health fair. University, therapy in the van. During one recent 14- home, special services such as Pacific Union week period more than 7,000 Southwestern Union driver education, and student persons were screened, ac- • The 20 members of Ari- involvement in the develop- cording to Frank Baker, con- • The Adventist retirement zona's newest company, in El ment of a procedure manual. ference health director. center in the northeastern Mirage, held a Vacation Bible section of Oklahoma City is • A series of flip charts is • Following the General School that attracted 83 growing. The four units al- being produced by the School Conference-recommended youngsters, 76 of them from ready built on the 90-acre plot of Health for use in the train- Bicentennial beautification non-Adventist homes. The ing of maternal/child-health plans, the Butte, Montana, company itself is the out- are full, and it is hoped that the central structure will be aides in the country of Tan- church has completely beau- growth of a weekly Story erected soon. zania, as an adjunct to a pro- tified both the interior and ex- Hour begun by members of gram begun two years ago. terior of the sanctuary. "I'm the Glendale church. • Two hundred and thirty- Since 1974, the School of five persons were baptized in amazed at the community • Facts of Faith, a new radio Health has had a contract with the Southwest Region Con- people who have noticed the broadcast begun by R. Hope the United States Department ference this summer in seven changes taking place," said Robertson, has expanded of State's Agency for Inter- tent meetings and several John Aitken, district pastor. from two stations in Los An- national Development to pro- church crusades. 0. A. Jack- He feels the renovation is a geles to five in the State. vide a public-health physician natural prelude to evangelistic son, conference secretary, to assist the government of services. • Supporting the outreach of conducted a series in Cle- Tanzania in developing com- • A new witnessing program George Aso and San Fran- burne, Texas, in which 49 prehensive maternal/child- has been launched in the cisco Japanese members, persons were baptized or re- health services. The flip southeastern section of the Hironobu Mivajima has baptized. D. J. Williams, charts, 22" by 28" in size, will Upper Columbia Conference. opened dental offices in the union Ministerial Association be developed on 30 or more A three-day seminar, directed city and is participating in a secretary, held a crusade in a topics. Each chart will have a by 0. L. McLean, conference health series for the commu- tent in Dallas, Texas, with photograph, a line drawing, or lay activities director, taught nity. approximately 40 baptisms. a diagram, accompanied by a laymen how to "carry the • Bringing the office family • Charles Williams, formerly key phrase or sentence in Word of God to every man's all under one roof with ade- Texas Conference publishing Swahili to reinforce the pic- door." quate working area, the Pa- director, is the new associate ture.

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ico, and Vernell 0. (Evans) Kauf- Telex Directory holtz (LLU '68) and two children Review left Nogales, Arizona, Septem- Organization or Institution Number Answer Back ber 6, 1976. •mi.M I I I _.f4 lb& Alabama-Mississippi Conference 59-3465 SDA AM MGY Wilhelm (Bill) Kuerzinger, Jr., Arizona Conference 66-7435 ARIZCONF PHX to serve as dental laboratory tech- Atlantic Union Conference 14-6390 Australasian Division 790-22064 ADSDA nician, Seventh-day Adventist Carolina Conference 57-2420 SDA C CHA Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, and Rita Advent Review & Sabbath Herald Central California Conference 34-6312 CENCALCON SNJ 126th Year of Continuous Publication Euro-Africa Division 845-33840 33840 EAD CH L. (Marsh) Kuerzinger of Loma Far Eastern Division 786-21997 FEDEX RS 21997 EDITOR Linda, California, left Los An- Florida Conference 56-4497 SDA F ORL Kenneth H. Wood General Conference 89-580 GEN CONF WSH geles, California, September 17, ITT 440186 ASSOCIATE EDITORS (within USA and Canada) RCA 248343 1976. Raymond F. Cottrell, Don F Neufeld (from overseas) WUI 64242 Milton D. McHenry (PUC '72), ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR Georgia-Cumberland Conference 54-2597 GA C CONF CLHN to serve as chief maintenance and Eugene F Durand Hamburg Publishing House 841-215661 215661 DVGB 101-634176 ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Hawaiian Mission HIMISDA 634176 industrial education teacher, Bo- Corinne Russ Home Health Education Service livia Training School, Cocha- (Pacific Union) 34-6315 HHES SNJ EDITORIAL ‘SSIST.ANTS (Southern Union) 54-2262 HHES DECR bamba, Bolivia, and Carol J. Aileen Andres. Jocelyn Fay Indiana Conference 27-428 INDCONFSDA IND Insurance and Risk Management Service (Clifford) McHenry (PUC '70) and EDITORIAL SECRETARIES (Maryland) 89-8419 IICTPMD TAPK Annette Bradley, Pat Hill one child of Angwin, California, (California) 67-6437 GCINS RVSD left San Francisco, California, ART Inter-American Division 51-9306 GEN CONF CGBL Designer. G W. Busch Japan Union Mission 781-3823586 3823586SDAJPN J September 7, 1976. Kentucky-Tennessee Conference 55-4446 SDA KT MADN Sylvia B. Nosworthy (AU '68), CONSULTING EDITORS Lake Union Conference 72-9437 LUCONFSDA BRNP Robert H. Pierson, W. Duncan Eva. Michigan Conference 22-9436 MICHCONSDA LSG returning to serve as teacher, W. J. Hackett. C D. Henri. Alf Lohne, Northeastern Conference 12-5252 NECONFSDA NYK Korean Union College, Seoul, M. S. Nigri, G. Ralph Thompson, Northern California Conference 33-7681 NOCALCONF PLHL Francis W. Wernick, Neal C. Wilson Northern Europe-West Africa Division 851-262284 MON REF G Korea, left San Francisco, Cali- North Pacific Union Conference 36-0286 NPUCONFSDA PTL SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS Oregon Conference 36-0142 ORECONFSDA PTL fornia, August 17, 1976. C. 0. Franz. K H Emmerson, R. R Pacific Press Publishing Association Mary P. Nygaard (Maryland Figuhr. B. L. Archbold, W T Clark. (California) 34-8326 PPPA MNTV R. R. Frame. R. S. Lowry, Edwin U. '75), to serve as director of (Canada) 06-981245 PAC PRESS 0S11 Ludescher, M L. Mills. Enoch Oliveira, Pacific Union Conference 67-7018 PACUNCONF GLND nursing service, Karachi Hospital, W. R. L. Scragg. C. D. Watson Radio-TV-Film Center (Breath of Life, Karachi, Pakistan, of Takoma EDITORS, SPANISH EDITIONS Faith for Today, It Is Written) 65-9245 SDACOMCTR NBRY 89-8475 Inter-America. Wanda Sample Review and Herald Publishing Association' R&H WASH WSH Park, Maryland, left Washing- 46-7036 North America. Fernando Chaij South African Union Conference 46-736 BFN 54-2810 ton, D.C., September 9, 1976. South America. Gaston Clouzet South Atlantic Conference SDA SA ATL South Central Conference 55-4463 SDA SC NAS Siegfried J. Schwantes (Johns CORRESPONDENTS, South-East Africa Union 988-316 ADVENTIST BTYRE Hopkins U. '63), returning to WORLD DIVISIONS Southeastern California Conference 67-6435 SECALCONF RVSD Southern California Conference 67-7019 SOCALCONF GLND serve as chairman, Bible depart- Afro-Mideast, Charles D. Watson; Southern Missionary College Press 55-8403 COLPRESS CLGE Australasian, Robert H. Parr, M.G. ment, Seminaire Adventiste, Southern Publishing Association 55-4333 SPA NAS Townend; Euro-Africa, E. E. White; Southern Union (Africa) 960-43-0431 43-0431 SR Collonges-sous-Saleve, France, Far Eastern. V. L. Bretsch, Jane Allen; Southern Union Conference (USA) 54-2821 SDA SU DECR Inter-American, Tulio R. Haylock; left New York City September 6, Trans-Africa Division 987-4127 TADEX RH4127 Northern Europe-West Africa, Paul Voice of Prophecy 67-3677 VOP GLND Maria (Dias) Schwantes left Sundquist. South American. Arthur S. 1976. Wisconsin Conference 26-5439 WISCONFSDA MDS Valle; Southern Asia, A. M. Peterson; Zaire Union 968-276 ADVENT LSH 1 New York City September 22, Trans-Africa, Perry A. Parks 1976. CORRESPONDENTS, Gordon D. Shigley (PUC '69), NORTH AMERICA (Standish) Ford (PUC '69), left returning to serve as teacher, UNIONS South China Union College, Kow- Atlantic, Geraldine I. Grout; Canadian. To New Posts Eagle Pass, Texas, September 1, A. N. How; Central, Clara Anderson; 1976. loon, Hong Kong, and Barbara Columbia. — ; Luke. mere Wallack; Worker transfers within union conferences L. (Hover) Shigley and two chil- North Pacific. Cecil Coffey; Northern. Thomas E. Gibson (LLU '62), are not listed here. Such transfers, when Halle Crowson; Pacific, Shirley Burton; dren left San Francisco, Cali- brought to our attention, may be found in returning to serve as physician, Southern. Oscar L. Heinrich: South- fornia, September 1, 1976. western. W. R. May News Notes. Far Eastern Island Mission Clinic, Agana, Guam, and E. Dolores UNIVERSITIES FROM HOME BASE (Davis) Gibson (LLU '59) and two Andrews, Opal Young: Loma Linda, TO FRONT LINE Richard Weismeyer children, left Los Angeles, Cali- Coming CIRCULATION John W. Ash III (AU '67), re- fornia, August 17, 1976. Manager. Edmund M. Peterson turning to serve as teacher, Tai- Robert C. Goransson (AU '58), November SUBSCRIPTIONS wan Adventist Academy, Ping- to serve as pastor, Bella Vista US$15.95. Single copy 45 cents. Address 6 Annual Week of Sacrifice Offering all correspondence concerning subscrip- tung, Taiwan, and Connie M. Hospital church, Mayaguez, 13 to tions to the Manager, Periodical De- (Hartzell) Ash (AU '67) and two Puerto Rico, and Mary K. (Scott) Jan. 1 Ingathering crusade partment, Review and Herald Publishing Association, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., boys left San Francisco, Califor- Goransson and three children of December Washington, D.C. 20012. U.S.A. nia, August 31, 1976. Union Springs, New York, left 4 Ingathering emphasis 4 Church Lay Activities Offering Monthly editions in English and Spanish Jean-Jacques Bouit (AU '70), Baltimore, Maryland, August 22, 11 Stewardship Day and a quarterly edition in Braille are returning to serve as president, 1976. 25 Thirteenth Sabbath Offering available. For information write to the (South American Division) Manager, Periodical Department. Ivory Coast Mission, Abidjan, Robert Jon Green (AU '65), re- TO CONTRIBUTORS Ivory Coast, West Africa, left Los turning to serve as teacher, Beirut 1977 Send news stories and pictures, articles, Angeles, California, August 31, Overseas School, Nicosia, Cy- and letters to the editor. Unsolicited January manuscripts are welcome, but will be 1976. Mildred 0. (Tordal) Bouit prus, and Eppy H. (Hasso) Green accepted without remuneration and and three children left Oslo, Nor- and two children left New York Soul-winning commitment will be returned only if accompanied by Church Lay Activities Offering a stamped, self-addressed envelope. way, September 5, 1976. City September 5, 1976. 8-15 Liberty magazine campaign 15 Religious Liberty Offering An index is published in the last Review Robert E. Ford (PUC '69), re- Leland L. Kaufholtz (LLU '68), 22 Medical Missionary Day of June and December. The Review is turning to serve as principal, Ad- returning to serve as farm man- indexed also in the Seventh-day February Adventist Periodical Index. ventist Vocational College, Coro- ager/agricultural consultant, Co- 5 Bible evangelism zal Town, Belize, and Venessa legio del Pacifico, Sonora, Mex- 12 Faith for Today Offering

30 (1198) R&H, NOVEMBER 4, 1976 lisioundlos Stories of Gots Leading al They have all the questions...

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The brand-new YOUTH LEADERS' HANDBOOK, OF COURSE I'M SCARED! by Dorothy which replaces the MV Aitken HANDBOOK, should be Europe was not the easiest place to live at your finger tips. Print- immediately after World War II. The ed in loose-leaf form, eventful life of an American mother with it's three-hole punched two small children and a husband active in for ease of reference. the reconstruction of war-scarred areas is The YOUTH LEADERS' HANDBOOK has three recalled by Dorothy Aitken. "Of course major sections: scared!'' she often said. But that didn't I. Senior Youth Leadership includes the new keep her from her mission. $3.95 Youth Council, MV Taskforce, Student Mission- ary Program, Youth Upreach and Outreach, HERETIC AT LARGE by Wilma Ross Campus Ministry, and information on training Westphal courses. One missionary to Colombia—Wilma Ross II. Junior Youth Leadership gives information on the Pathfinder Club, JMVSociety, MV camping, Westphal writes of another who Voice of Junior Youth, the newly revised pre-JMV pioneered there—E. Max Trummer. During and MV Classes, and many other useful items of several decades Trummer and his wife, information for junior leaders. Norma, traveled the highlands of . Ill. MV Honors includes all the new honors Colombia, mostly by mule. The Adventist voted and revisions and updating of most MV message was passed on to the people Honors. There is a special section on the new throughout the country. as the TrumMers Master Awards. worked at their mission. $3.50 THE ANSWER BOOK FOR YOUTH LEADERS. $5.95 Order from your local Adventist Book Center or ABC Mailing Service, P.O. Box 31776, Omaha, Order from your local Adventist Book Center or II I Nzbirmasukma 641 4301. PiPleaseadd a a gge.r cent or a ABC Mailing Service, P.O. Box 31776, Omaha, cents Add sales tax Nebraska 68131. Please add 5 per cent or a where applicable. minimum charge of 40 cents for mailing. Add sales tax where applicable.

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1977 Budget document presented to the ciate director, General Con- Enrollment boom at Oak- delegates to the Annual ference Lay Activities Depart- wood: Enrollment at Oak- Sets Record Council provides a much ment, in addition to his wood College, Huntsville, The 1977 General Confer- more detailed analysis of present position as executive Alabama, has reached an all- ence budget voted at the 1976 funds received and disbursed secretary and manager of time high of 1,137, 122 more Annual Council, October 13 than had ever been presented SAWS; Paul W. Nelson, as- than the past year. The sharp to 20, soared to a total of $85,- before at an Annual Council sociate director, General increase has put pressure on 066,800. The highest amount meeting. Conference Stewardship De- most of the college's facili- ever, this figure represents a partment; C. B. Hirsch, exec- ties, which have not kept pace 7.59 per cent increase over the utive secretary, North Ameri- with the steadily growing en- budget for the current year. Annual Council can Division Board of rollment: According to Mer- This budget expresses confi- Fills Vacancies Education K-12. vyn Warren, college dean, dence in the dedication and Claude E. Steen, Jr., health there were approximately 100 loyalty of Seventh-day Ad- Filling vacant positions in director, Afro-Mideast Divi- students for whom beds had ventists around the world, the General Conference and sion; W. H. Wilson, health to be ordered because they inasmuch as most of this several divisions, the Annual director, Inter-American Di- were unavailable in the dormi- amount is yet to be given in Council voted on October 19 vision; Mario Veloso, youth tories. A classroom, a recre- tithes and offerings. and 21 to approve the follow- and temperance director, ation room and lounge, a util- A new system of book- ing recommendations from South American Division; and ity area, and two former keeping known as "modified the Committee on Nomina- Vernon W. Foster, health and faculty homes have been con- fund accounting," used this tions: temperance director, Trans- verted into sleeping quarters year for the first time, will Frank L. Jones, assistant Africa Division. for students. keep separate records for the treasurer, General Confer- Died: M. G. Champion, 75, tithe, Ingathering funds, and ence; David D. Dennis, audi- overseas worker for 36 years other nontithe funds from the tor, General Conference; IAD Colporteurs in the Southern Asia Division, time they are received to the Leon F. Sanders, associate on October 8 in Fort Bragg, time they are distributed to auditor, General Conference. Set New Record California. the world field. The 39-page Howard D. Burbank, asso- For the first time Inter- American Division literature evangelists have passed the $1 r million mark in deliveries in one month. For July the divi- sion publishing department reports $1,020,616, a 24 per cent increase over the same period last year. It is also expected that one local field will pass the $1 mil- lion mark for the year. By June the East Puerto Rico Conference had reached a total of $500,133. As a result of a strong re- cruitment campaign there were 5,020 literature evangel- ists operating in August. L. A. RAMIREZ

In Brief FORMER OVERSEAS WORKER TURNS 103 New position: Paul Schmidt, Calvin Osborn, left, pastor of the Arlington church in Southwestern Union Confer- Riverside, California, says happy birthday on behalf of local ence youth and temperance church members to Lewis V. Finster on his 103rd birthday, director, formerly Colorado October 12. Conference youth and tem- Elder Finster's 40 years of denominational service took him perance director. to various places in the Far Eastern and Inter-American divi- School growth in Brazil: On sions. Born in Hartley, Iowa, he graduated from Union Col- October 17 the cornerstone lege in 1897. He served as a colporteur and minister before was placed for the new going to the Philippine Islands as the church's first overseas campus of the Adventist missionary there in 1908. At that time there were no Advent- Agro-Industrial Institute, 45 ists on the islands; today there are more than 175,000. miles from Manaus in the Elder Finster attributes his longevity to healthful living, North Brazil Union. To a which he has practiced throughout his life. Although he does large degree this school was not drive an automobile anymore, he works in his garden made possible through the most days, gets around to do his business, and attends generous offerings of Sabbath church. He performed his last baptism at the age of 91. school members around the S. A. YAKUSH world in September of 1974.

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