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NOVEMBER 22, 1973

RevfrADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD + GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

Psalm 92:1

Editor's Viewpoint "America's New Religion"

On page 7 of this REVIEW appears an article entitled avidly introduce our young to the saving knowledge of adult "Sports: A New Idol." The article is reprinted by permis- life: brutality, aggressive competition, profit-greed, male sion from Eternity magazine (September, 1973). We selected chauvinism, and the discipline of dull conformity to the it as typical of numerous articles that have appeared in re- status quo." He described football as a wedding of violence ligious journals recently, expressing concern about the place and lucre and called it brutality-for-gain. He said that the and influence of professional sports in the life of America. game reduces people to commodities by the fact that the (And this concern is not confined to the United States. Many players are bought and sold like chattel in keeping with countries of the world, on all continents, are plagued with their gladiatorial prowess, and that 'sheer brutality is the an obsessive interest in sports.) essence of football.' He declared that the purpose of big- In this editorial we shall offer a brief survey of current time football is not merely to tyrannize the opposing team opinion on sports as a religion, then add a few comments by brute force, but to inflict as much injury as possible. With from an Adventist perspective. other writers Mr. Bianchi labeled football 'the nation's civil On April 5, 1972, the Christian Century devoted an entire religion.' " issue to the sports question. The guest editorial in that issue Admittedly, these views are harsh. But they are widely selected professional football as typical of organized sports, shared. Books that express similar thoughts include: Sport: then promptly labeled it "America's New Religion." In com- a Philosophical Inquiry, by the distinguished Yale scholar, paring pro football with religion, the editorial pointed out Paul Weiss; Lombardi: Winning Is the Only Thing, by Jerry that just as religion has monasteries, so football has its se- Kramer; The Athletic Revolution, by Jack Scott; and Out cluded areas where training takes place; as religion has of Their League, by David Meggysey. novices, so football has rookies; as religion has veterans, known as ordained clergy, so football has veterans. Questions Should Be Asked Football coaches correspond to the religious hierarchy; An editorial in Christianity Today (August 11, 1972) both demand total commitment from their converts, includ- pointed out that Americans spend more than $100 billion ing abstinence from alcoholic drinks. Professional football annually on leisure. Not all of this goes for sports—either has its uniforms, as do some religions, and it has a weekly personal or professional—but a great deal of it does. Said ritual of emotional and violent confrontation with opposing the editorial: "Sports and recreation of all kinds . . . raise teams, which in religion corresponds to the continual war- particular questions for the Christian, who has stewardship fare against sin. obligations. Can we find Biblical guidelines to justify our And then, said the editorial, "There are hundreds of thou- vast leisure-time outlay? Why have we so long avoided the sands of devout followers who witness and participate in scrutiny the new pattern demands in view of the acute physi- these rituals by invoking traditional and hallowed chants. cal and spiritual needs in so many parts of the world? Un- It is not unusual for these pilgrims to travel hundreds of derdeveloped countries must wonder how a supposedly miles to witness a game, sometimes braving the bitter cold Christian nation can put so much money into play. Surely with the zeal and ardor of ancient martyrs.... such a staggering sum demands more open debate." "More important than the external trappings is the philos- The editorial continued: "How does sport measure up to ophy (dare I say `theology'?) of pro football. Instead of salva- God's requirements? How can it affect our relationship tion and redemption, the goal is now collective victory: for with Him? It is easy enough to make a case for sport from a Vince Lombardi has taught us all that 'winning isn't every- human perspective, but to do so in terms of divine demands thing: it's the only thing.' George Allen, coach of the Wash- is something else."— Ibid. ington Redskins, has even enunciated the new religion's eschatology: 'The future is now.'" Indeed. Where, for example, is there even a hint in the Harry Edwards, writing in Intellectual Digest, expressed Bible that God approves of sports? "Evangelicals who love virtually identical views. He stated: "American sport has all sports like to appeal to the numerous allusions to athletics the trappings of formal religion—temples, saints, ritual, true in the New Testament. [But] close examination reveals that believers." "Sport manifests every characteristic of a formal, none of these bestows any kind of divine blessing upon thriving religious movement. It has its gods (superstar ath- sport. Paul very likely used references to runners and games letes), its saints (those high-status sports figures who have because they aided communication with Greeks. In his ad- passed to the great beyond—Lombardi, Rockne, Gipp, dress on Mars Hill he used the Athenians' altar to the un- Thorpe), its scribes (the hundreds of sports reporters and known god in a similar way. sportscasters whose object is to disseminate the 'word' of "Sport was not part of the Hebrew tradition. It was even- sports deeds and glories), its houses of worship (the Astro- tually introduced as part of the influence from the Greek dome and other facilities that rival anything ever con- lower classes. Roman leaders used sports to pacify people structed to house traditional worship services). And sport and keep them in line."—Ibid. has one other feature that traditional religion has long since We think there is a difference between games played for lost in American society—massive throngs of highly vocal, exercise or innocent fun, and commercialized sports. Hu- maniacal 'true believers' in the creeds and values relating man beings need to use their muscles (if their work is sed- to sport and its contribution to the maintenance of the entary), and they need to use their minds (if their work is 'American way of life.' " physical). Balance is important. Families may benefit by Writing in Christianity and Crisis, Eugene Bianchi charged playing games together. Church groups or institutional that by watching football Americans contribute to their own groups may be blessed by playing together. People cannot dehumanization and reinforce in themselves the worst always be reined up emotionally or intellectually without values of our culture. He said that through pro football "we suffering adverse effects. To page 9

2 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 understatement to say it was a long and bit- year. For a while after World War I it was ter winter. celebrated on the same day as Armistice But by March there were houses, a wide Day—it was called Remembrance Day. Review street, four small cannon in a small fort, and Finally, in 1957, the second Monday in Oc- because of death during the winter, there tober was settled on, and by annual procla- were only half of them still surviving. In mation that is Thanksgiving Day. April the Mayflower sailed away. Thanksgiving had never received the Friendly Indians helped with the planting, attention in Canada that it did in the United F and during the summer the pilgrims ten- States until about that time. Schools re- derly and anxiously watched over their mained open and business continued pretty Advent Review & Sabbath Herald crops, for well they knew that their winter much as usual. However, in recent years it 123d Year of Continuous Publication survival depended on their fall harvest. has become a national holiday. Families

Editor: When October came there was a bountiful travel great distances to be home, the tradi- KENNETH H. WOOD harvest, and Governor William Bradford de- tional Thanksgiving dinner as known in U.S. Associate Editors: clared a three-day festival to which the In- homes has become an accepted part of the DON F. NEUFELD, HERBERT E. DOUGLASS dians were invited. celebration, and churchgoers are reminded Editorial and Administrative Secretary: Some consider this to be the first Thanks- to be thankful. CORINNE WILKINSON giving, and no doubt the participants were Our cover this week coincides with the offi- Editorial Secretaries: truly thankful people. However, according to ROSEMARY BRADLEY, JOCELYN FAY, cial celebration of Thanksgiving Day in the IDAMAE MELENDY one writer, "There is no record of any spe- United States. But should not the Christian's cial religious service during this week of spirit of gratitude permeate the whole of his Layout Artist, G. W. BUSCH feasting." Some would consider the thanks- life? Why should he wait for a dramatic es- Editors, Monthly Editions: giving services of 1623 to be the real fore- cape from accident, a crippling illness in RAY D. VINE, English FERNANDO CHAI), Spanish—North America runner of our present tradition involving re- some other family, or the customarily loaded GASTON CLOUZET, Spanish—South America ligious services, as well as festal dining. table on November 22? The psalmist said, C. R. TAYLOR, Spanish—Inter-America The crops of the 1621 harvest were indeed "It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Consulting Editors: good, but soon another ship arrived with Lord." And it is. ROBERT H. PIERSON, W. R. BEACH, THEODORE CARCICH, W. I. HACKETT, nothing 'except passengers. And when the In our November 8 issue (p. 21) we reported C. D. HENRI, M. S. NIGRI, NEAL C. WILSON ship left Plymouth it took with it a glowing the official opening of the SDA camp in Al- Special Contributors: report of the new colony and its bounty. So berta, Canada. This camp has facilities for C. 0. FRANZ, K. H. EMMERSON, R. R. FIGUHR, FREDERICK LEE, M. E. LIND, R. R. FRAME, P. H. with the arrival of summer came the arrival large gatherings, including camp meetings, ELDRIDGE, B. L. ARCHBOLD, W. DUNCAN EVA, of two more ships, again carrying nothing which, it is planned, will be henceforth held R. A. WILCOX, R. S. LOWRY, M. L. MILLS, C. L. POWERS but passengers. No provisions. And tragi- there instead of at Canadian Union College, where they have been held for many years. Corresponding Editors, World Divisions: cally, some of the people who arrived did Afro-Mideast, R. W. TAYLOR; Australasian, not build on the foundation of friendly rela- This past summer was the first time the ROBERT H. PARR; Euro-Africa, E. E. WHITE, facilities were used for this purpose. The at- associate E. KOEHLER; Far Eastern, D. A. ROTH; tions with the Indians. The situation became Inter-American, MARCEL ABEL; Northern such that the settlers felt they could not ask tendance was excellent for the nine-day ses- Europe-West Africa, PAUL SUNDQUIST; South sion, July 6-14 (incorrectly given in our re- American, H. J, PEVERINI; Southern Asia, for more land from the Indians. The harvest A. J. JOHANSON; Trans-Africa, that fall was skimpy, and the pilgrims had port as July 6-8). DESMOND B. HILLS neither the bounty nor the inclination to Our report failed to mention the site of the Circulation Manager: camp. It is about 12 miles west of Bowden, a EDMUND M. PETERSON celebrate. Field Representative: Their bleak winter proved that their fru- town 60 miles north of Calgary on No. 2 high- JOEL HASS gality of celebration had not been in vain. way. The beautiful campsite is on the banks of the Little Red Deer River, SUBSCRIPTIONS: United States and Canada, When spring warmed the earth that year $9.95. For each subscription ordered in the United they were all more inclined toward grati- Photo Credits: p. 7, A. Devaney, Inc.; pp. 16-20, J. States or Canada to go to foreign countries, add Byron Logan. $2,00 postage. Address all correspondence tude, and by April the planting had been concerning subscriptions to the Manager, done. But the hopes of abundance vanished Periodical Department. by late May when a drought struck and TO CONTRIBUTORS: Send news stories and pictures, articles, and letters to the editor. lasted into July. Finally, in desperation, a Letters Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome but will be day of fasting and prayer was announced. accepted without remuneration and will be returned only if accompanied by a stamped, For hours the settlers prayed. A Letter From Home self-addressed envelope. In the morning the welcome sound of rain We treasure the REVIEW as a letter from A monthly edition of the Review is printed by the rekindled hope as it revived what plants Stanborough Press, Ltd., Alma Park, Grantham, home, and are sure it contributes much to Lincs., England. A monthly edition also is printed were still alive. Shortly after this Captain the unity of our SDA Church everywhere. in Spanish and a quarterly edition in Braille. For Miles Standish returned from a short voyage information write to the Manager, Periodical FRANK E. MECKLING Department. with food and news. He had sighted a vessel College Place, Washington An index is published in the last Review of that he was quite sure would be landing. June and December. The Review is indexed also So with that good news the colonists de- in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index. Kindergarten or Home + clared July 30 as a day of public prayer and The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald is thanksgiving. It is this particular celebra- Re "Kindergarten and Adventist Educa- published every Thursday by the Review and Herald Publishing Association, 6856 Eastern tion of prayer in a declared civil setting that tion: a Dialogue" [Sept. 20]: Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. probably is the root of the present Thanks- Having been a church school teacher for Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. Copyright © 1973, by the Review and Herald giving Day in the United States. It was both three years before "retiring" at 25 years of Publishing Association. a religious and social celebration, and it age to become a mother, I feel strongly on was the "first time in the history of America the point of waiting till a child is at least that the Governor appointed a day for eight to start school. I also feel strongly that thanksgiving. All former observances of spe- a lot of us have misunderstood what Mrs. cial days had been appointed by the church." White's basic ideas involved. —ROBERT H. SCHAUFFLER (ed.), Thanksgiving, On page 79 in Counsels to Parents, Teach- This Week p. 6. ers, and Students she says: "Parents should And what about the neighbors to the north be the only teachers of their children until Those who have spent a winter in Massa- —the Canadians? Their celebration of they have reached eight or ten years of age." chusetts can appreciate the warmth of a Thanksgiving dates back possibly even to Agreement—a mother should keep her child home, an abundant supply of food in the 1609, when the first settlers arrived to form home, and with the help of such courses as cupboard, and the security of warm fabrics the Hudson Bay Colony. Their celebration, provided by the Home Study Institute and a when they do venture out into the white and however, has been more sporadic than that couple of hours a day (versus all day in the frosty world. When the pilgrims of 1620 of the United States. classroom) teach her child to read, write, landed at Plymouth Rock on December 21 The first actual national Thanksgiving and some mathematics. This is great! there was a wintry blast—nothing more. In Day was proclaimed for November 6, 1879. Yet the idea seems to be that at age eight view of the intensity of the situation, it is an From then on the date varied from year to Continued on page 10

VOL. 150 NO. 47 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 3 BUT---IS IT

HE HAD ALWAYS wanted a top light that barometer's message was quality barometer, and he had saved relevant—and how! enough money to buy one. Now he had They were swingers, this family. the day off from work and with happy They were in the "in" group. They be- anticipation he got into his car and longed to the now generation, having drove into the city of Boston from the the time of their lives. In fact, just small town some miles away. He knew about the last time of their lives. just where to go for he had many times God had had just about enough of looked at the expensively beautiful in- the situation in Sodom. Voltaire said struments for sale in this famous store. of Napoleon that "God was bored with He made his purchase and with the him." In the case of Sodom, I think box containing the barometer prop- God may have been sickened and dis- erly adjusted for local conditions by gusted. At any rate He sent a message the clerk who had sold it to him, he that the cesspool, that was Sodom, was drove back home, some forty-five min- going to be destroyed, sterilized, and utes outside of the city. sanitized. The message was to Lot, and Once in the house he eagerly un- he duly delivered the message to his wrapped his prize ready to hang it on family. the wall of his den, where he had al- "And Lot went out, and spake unto ready prepared a hook on the wall for his sons in law, which married his it. As he removed the last of the wrap- daughters, and said, Up, get you out of pings he looked at the dial and incre- this place; for the Lord will destroy dulity and disgust filled his mind. He this city. But he seemed as one that had bought a "lemon," for the pointer mocked unto his sons in law" (Gen. pointed to the word hurricane and 19:14). everyone knew that hurricanes never The rest is history. Today Sodom came to New England. and Gomorrah are memories. The Resignedly the disappointed man sons-in-law regarded God's message as put the barometer back in its wrap- irrelevant but it was nevertheless com- pings, went out to his car, and drove pletely true. back to the city, where he was cheer- fully given another barometer. Trust Your Instruments On the way back home our hero ran Not long ago a friend of mine was into heavy rain and high winds. When reminiscing about his training as a he got to his home street his house had fighter pilot in the United States Air blown away and New England was in Force. He said that one of the things the grip of its first deadly tropical hur- that was dinned into the student pilots' ricane. The year was 1938. This true ears again and again was, "Always story was carried by the news media trust your instruments." My friend as one of the lighter sides of the multi- said, "We used to listen, bored and million dollar tragedy that made head- smiling to ourselves. We could fly 'by line news all over the United States. the seat of our pants,' and that was Relevant? In the mind of the man enough to know," who had spent his hard-earned sav- And then one day he was ordered to ings, that idiotic barometer's message ferry a fighter from the northern part was completely irrelevant. Was the of the United States to the South. On message true? Oh yes, and with a ven- the way he ran into an immense thun- geance. The dictionary definition of derstorm, so big that he could not fly the word relevant is, "Applying to the over or around it. He said that for case in hand. . . Pertinent." In this about thirty minutes he was in that storm with visibility zero. "I remem- bered my instruction to trust my in- R. E. Finney, Jr., is a teacher at Southeast struments. The time came during that Asia Union College, Singapore. eternity of blind flying that I was sure

4 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 HIEHEVANT • By R. E. FINNEY, JR.

I was flying upside down, but the in- During the days of the slavery of hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, struments said I was right side up and Israel in Egypt, Pharaoh had a brush Love your enemies, bless them that so I kept on. Finally, drenched with with relevance. Moses obeyed God curse you, do good to them that hate sweat, I broke out of the storm. My and risked his life to go to the court you, and pray for them which despite- plane was right side up, pointed in the and tell the king what God had said. fully use you, and persecute you" right direction. I never forgot how that The reply was caustic. "And Pharaoh (verses 38-44). instruction to trust my instruments said, Who is the Lord, that I should It is not hard to imagine what the paid off!" obey his voice to let Israel go? I know Jews, under Roman domination, must The point that we need to keep in not the Lord, neither will I let Israel have thought of this! Were they sup- mind is that our idea of what is rele- go" (Ex. 5:2). posed to give ground to these swine- vant and what really is relevant may No, Pharaoh did not know God; but eating, bloodthirsty, domineering, be two distinctly different things. he was about to get acquainted, and licentious, idol-worshiping Romans? What we think is relevant may not be when he did he found out who was the NEVER! relevant at all in the mind of God. real King of the universe. And then Jesus turned on them, the One of the first relevant messages Centuries passed during which king- "spiritual" leaders of Israel, and while that God had for this world but which doms rose and fell and then a young His words were uttered in love and was considered by the majority to be itinerant preacher called Jesus of sorrow they must have stung and irrelevant was that which God com- Nazareth began to startle multitudes burned like a whiplash. missioned Noah to deliver. Noah did with His preaching. His messages "But woe unto you, scribes and what God told him to do. He built a could hardly seem more irrelevant to Pharisees, hypocrites! . . . For ye de- huge ship on dry land in a time when His hearers. In His famed sermon, vour widows' houses, and for a pre- rain had never been known, and he He shocked most and enraged many. tence make long prayer; therefore ye preached that the world was going to What did He say? shall receive the greater damnation" be destroyed by water. This must have "Blessed are the poor in spirit. . . . (chap. 23:13, 14). This was the first of met with hilarity on the part of light- Blessed are they that mourn. . . . nine times during this address that minded people and pity from those Blessed are the meek. . . . Blessed are Jesus pronounced woe on the spiritual who were more mature. the pure in heart" (Matt. 5:3-8). leaders of the nation—those who liked Probably this could be considered as What outrageous nonsense! The last to be thought of as the righteously one of the greatest evangelistic flops thing on earth that most of the Jews elite of the people. More was yet to in history. It must have seemed dis- of that day wanted was to be poor in come. "Ye fools and blind . . ." This couraging to Noah as year after year spirit, mournful, and meek. The priest was repeated three times, and then to he preached to an indifferent or deri- who offered his long prayers on the climax the confrontation: "Ye ser- sive people. His apparent lack of suc- street corners after making sure that a pents, ye generation of vipers, how cess is measured by the fact that he crowd was near by to hear him? can ye escape the damnation of hell?" did not succeed in getting one single Not he! (verse 33). person outside his family to enter the Meek? Who wanted to be meek? One This was relevance with a vengeance; ark. The record reads, "Few, that is, hundred wanted to be masterful to but it had a purpose. It might be called eight souls were saved by water" (1 Pe- one who even thought about such a a shock treatment to cure spiritual ter 3:20). subject. And so it must have seemed illness. The loving Lord did not say Relevance Not Settled by Majority as the wondering multitude listened these things because He wanted to. to the opening phrases of this great He not only did not like to hurt peo- But relevance is not settled by a sermon. But worse was to come. ple but it also aroused the final indig- majority. The Flood came as Noah had "Ye have heard that it hath been nation of the ruling class and it was prophesied that it would. "In the six said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth the death of Him. But it brought sal- hundredth year of Noah's life, in the for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye vation to many who were there to second month, the seventeenth day of resist not evil: but whosoever shall hear it. the month, the same day were all the smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to Listen to the record. "And the word fountains of the great deep broken up, him the other also. And if any man of God increased; and the number of and the windows of heaven were will sue thee at the law, and take the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem opened. . . . And all flesh died that away thy coat, let him have thy cloke greatly; and a great company of the moved upon the earth, both of fowl, also. And whosoever shall compel thee priests were obedient to the faith" and of cattle, and of beast, and of every to go a mile, go with him twain.... Ye (Acts 6:7). Too often we forget that the creeping thing that creepeth upon the have heard that it hath been said, gospel was not defeated at the cross earth, and every man" (Gen. 7:11-21). Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and but its victory began there.

R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 5 Go back to Matthew's record of the ejecting the bodies of its two occu- all over the road and crashing into one gospel and find that great prophetic pants in the process. The car landed another." chapter on the second coming of Christ in one of the lanes of the high-speed Maybe this is a parable of our times. and the end of the world. Out of date, road. Civilization—if that is what it should old fashioned, irrelevant? Yes, all of The horrified witness was con- be called—is racing toward destruc- this in the eyes of the modern indif- nected with law enforcement in the tion, oblivious to a great degree of the ferent multitude—but true neverthe- State and doubly conscious of highway danger signals that the Bible has less. As the world careens on in its safety because of this. Carefully and made so abundant and clear. One day orbit with its re-entry mechanisms quickly he guided his car off the road soon the end of the road will come out of control, headed for disaster, we and as far out as possible. Then he and then the crash—for many people need to heed the infallible word of jumped out of the car and ran back up the ultimate tragedy. prophecy. To read and heed may the shoulder of the freeway as fast as If you have a Bible in your posses- mean the difference between eternal he could, waving his arms at the on- sion take a look at it. It is the most life and eternal death to you. coming cars to stop. relevant book in your library, no mat- An acquaintance was driving north "None of them paid the least atten- ter how many books you have. The on one of California's freeways when tion to me, so far as I could tell. They danger signals and the message of ahead he saw a small sedan careen just barreled on until they were in the salvation that it contains are both out of control and flip end-over-end, danger area and then began skidding clear and relevant. ❑

God's Little Boy

By DEMIA KNAPP WILSON

MANY YEARS AGO there lived a the Lord to work in the tabernacle to walk and talk, Hannah kept her priest, named Eli, who had charge of as soon as he was old enough! promise. She took him to the taber- the tabernacle. Eli was a good man but When Eli saw this woman kneeling nacle and gave him to Eli, the priest. for one thing—he didn't make his two there, whispering and crying, he Dressed in a little linen robe that big boys mind. They did not behave thought she was acting strangely. He looked like the one Eli wore, Samuel in the sanctuary. God was displeased said to her, "Woman, have you been helped Eli in the tabernacle. And Eli with them and with Eli for not punish- drinking wine?" loved Samuel, and all the people that ing his boys. "Nay, sir," she replied, "I do not came to the temple loved Samuel, and There was a woman, named Han- drink wine. I am sad because I have no the Lord loved Samuel. nah, who came to the tabernacle with children and I have been praying for Every year Samuel was happy when her husband every year to offer sacri- a baby." his mother and father came to the fices. Hannah loved little boys and Eli said, "God is going to answer tabernacle to visit with him. Han- girls, but she had none of her own. your prayer." nah would bring a nice little coat that This year she decided to pray to God Hannah was happy now. She had she had made for him. In the mean- as earnestly as she could, hoping that faith in God. God heard her prayer time the Lord had given Hannah other God would give her a baby. The tears and gave her a beautiful baby boy. She little boys and girls at home, but Sam- were rolling down her face. She even named him Samuel. She loved him uel stayed at the temple. promised that if the Lord would give with all her heart. One night Samuel was lying on his her a baby boy she would give him to When the baby was old enough little bed, when he heard someone calling his name. Samuel answered, "Here am I," and he jumped up quickly and ran to Eli, thinking that perhaps Eli wanted him. But Eli said, "I didn't call, go lie down again." Again the Lord called Samuel, and again Samuel ran to Eli. "Perhaps the Lord is calling you," said Eli. "If He calls again say, 'Speak Lord, for Your servant is listening.' " A little while later God called again, and Samuel answered as Eli had told him to do. Then God talked to Samuel and told him many things. He said He was displeased with Eli for not making his boys behave in the tabernacle, and that He would have to do something about it. In the morning Eli wanted to know what God had told Samuel. Samuel didn't want to tell him the sad news. "Don't hide it from me," Eli begged, so Samuel told him all. Not long after that Eli's sons were killed in war, and when a messenger came to tell Eli that his two boys were dead, he fell down dead. But Samuel grew to be a good man, and God was pleased with him, and he became one of the judges of Israel.

6 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 By JOHN P. WILLIAMS, JR. And yet this is the very essence of idolatry by whatever its name: invest- A NEW IDOLATRY is surfacing in ing undue significance, even reverence American society today. More wide- and adoration, in temporal objects or spread than the occult, fully as emo- pursuits. tional as a Pentecostal prayer meeting, Surely there is nothing ultimately the burgeoning movement makes no satisfying about a tennis match or claims on the supernatural but does about a game that is played by throw- offer superstars aplenty. ing and kicking and carrying a pig- The new religion is sports, and its skin bag filled with air. But football, creed—in the words of an esteemed tennis, and other games of comparable football coach—is, "Winning is not the earthiness continue, as Harry Edwards most important thing; it's the only observes, to be the focal point for thing!" "massive throngs of highly vocal, Every year more than 10 million maniacal 'true believers' in the creeds people pay their way into stadiums and values relating to sport...." around the country to watch professional football. In addition, the sport A Startling Wish draws weekend television audiences All this affects the way we live, the conservatively estimated at 30 million. way we think, sometimes even the way Major league baseball annually at- we worship in the Christian church. tracts nearly 30 million fans to its ball Not long ago, for example, I heard parks; pro basketball lures 8 million about a church where they juggled patrons. And added millions attend their Sunday morning worship sched- thousands of other assorted sports ule so that their youth group could get events ranging from college football, away in time to make the afternoon pro basketball and hockey to professional football game in a nearby city. auto racing, golf, bowling and wres- Another congregation was recently tling. No small shakes, this sports busi- startled when at the conclusion of an ness, whether you measure it in money infant baptism, the pastor extended spent, hours invested or interest gen- his hand to the proud father with the erated. wish that the baby boy might grow to be a fine football player "like his The Thrill of Victory daddy was." The sentiment may have and the Agony of Defeat been thoroughly sincere, but it had But even more importantly, behind little to do with raising a son in the the statistics there lies a profound nurture and admonition of his heav- commitment to sports as a way of life enly Father. that characterizes multitudes of spec- Even Christians, I fear, have been tators and thousands of athletes alike. absorbing a set of values fostered by The "thrill of victory and the agony of our pride in tangible achievements. defeat" (as they say on a popular TV We scarcely perceive the conflict be- series) becomes the ultimate experi- tween the excessive veneration of ence for many of this number. Writing sports and the unconditional devotion in the physical education journal to the living God. Quest, Ellen Gerber conveys just such We are no longer surprised by the a view of sports, perhaps unwittingly, problem conveyed to me by a pastor when she likens the exchange between in a small community where athletics tennis adversaries to Martin Buber's are top-dog. He lamented, "Everything conception of the I-Thou dialogue: comes second to sports—church activi- "I summon the totality of my powers ties, youth outings, family life. If there in the deepest recesses of my being. I is practice or a game, we work know that your presence is there. I around it." send the ball across—the ball that is If all this sounds farfetched, try now part of me because it too has stood holding Thanksgiving services oppo- in relation to my effective power—and site this year's annual Turkey Day pro you step forth to meet the ball that is football game. The Christian commu- part of our mutual relation. And in the SPORTS: nity frequently comes off second best act of my sending the ball across I in direct competition with the "sports affirm your presence. And in the act of of the age." meeting it and returning it, you affirm The treachery of idolatries is that my presence. We stand in mutual re- they can evangelize so subtly. Few A NE people deliberately set out to devote lation to each other." Think of it. A scuffed, empty tennis their lives to sports. They just get ball evoking such profound meaning. caught up in the frenzy and ecstasy until one day they discover they love their god-of-the-game more than any- Dr. Williams is assistant professor of thing else in life. sociology at Marion College, Marion, Yet the No-god-but-God dictum Indiana. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the that so startled the world through the Reprinted by permission from Eternity Magazine, role of intercollegiate athletics in copyright 1973, The Evangelical Foundation, 1716 Ten Commandments and the ministry higher education. Spruce St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19103. of Jesus still holds. The God of Abra-

R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 7 ham, Isaac, and the rest of us has never joyed as part of the balanced life, construction in order to express our relinquished His claim to absolute sports can be invigorating, stimulat- deep affection for competitive sports. priority. And societies like ours which ing, a recreation of health and energy The politicians are right when they have lost touch with this anchor drift both for the participant, and to a lesser call for a reordering of our national aimlessly in quest of substitute deities degree, the spectator. Treated as ends priorities. But the place to begin is to provide meaning. in themselves, sports degenerate into with the radical concerns of life and There is nothing wrong with enjoy- self-consuming preoccupations which death, ultimate devotion and the defi- ing sports. But we need to remind our- rob God of the love, service, and wor- nition of the sacred. We must decide selves that humans can enjoy a lot of ship that are rightfully His. whether we truly desire to place our things it would be wrong to worship. In short, the whole system of sport- confidence in the mortal gods of the The error in idolatry is that we take as-idol carries with it a self-defeating playing field, or whether we seek a essentially good things and exaggerate promise, for when people seek ulti- revitalized faith in the "King of ages, them until they consume us with their mate meaning from a thoroughly tem- immortal, invisible, the only God . ." demands. poral pursuit, they find disillusion- (1 Tim. 1:17, R.S.V.). If this be the year to call our conti- The God, Money ment. The children of Israel found that out with their golden calves. nent to Christ, then why not begin by That is what Jesus said about an- Americans are going to find it out with exorcising the false gods which com- other popular god, money. He did not their golden boys of the gridiron. pete, however subtly, with the one condemn man's desire for some sort of It seems that societies struggle to true God. And why not begin with our- economic exchange system. He merely incarnate their over-arching faith in selves, the painfully short-sighted mor- pointed out that when a useful means physical objects. The ancient empires tals who have answered the call and becomes an exalted end in itself, we built their pyramids and their tem- have entered into fellowship with the have it all wrong. Money can be used ples, their highways and their house- God we know in Jesus Christ. We need to the glory of God and the welfare of hold gods. It may be symbolic that our not forsake full-bodied adventure in people, or it can be misused to ignore nation, along with the rest of Western order to serve Him. We need only love God and manipulate His children. civilization, has turned its attention Him far better than all the other gods The same is true with sports. En- from cathedral building to stadium and games that vie for our devotion. El When You're Young By MIRIAM WOOD

The Letter and the Tennis Court one was waiting on the sidelines. "Let's finish reading this nice long letter," I urged. I WONDER WHY old proverbs and adages have such an "Don't you think we had better take possession of the annoying way of proving themselves true. It's rather easy court while it's available?" my more prudent partner sug- to assume that sayings have more or less grown up along gested. with the human race, and that once or twice they may "Oh, a few minutes won't make any difference," I pre- have been appropriate but they're probably vastly over- dicted blandly, as my eyes kept traveling down the pages. rated. Every time I come to this conclusion, I seem to be Never was justice more swift. Almost as the words left my projected into a totally humbling experience. Let me tell lips, a car pulled up alongside ours, and two joyously de- you about the tennis court and the letter. termined people leaped out and sprinted for the vacant On a recent vacation, having decided to familiarize myself court. I watched them aghast, the letter still clutched in my with the rudiments of tennis, and having found that dozens hand. of other people at the vacation site had the same idea, and There was a moment of silence in the car. My tennis part- that the three tennis courts were in constant use, we had ner isn't the kind to make an "I told you so" remark, for learned in very short order that we had better arrive early which I was profoundly grateful. Just a wee bit grimly, in the morning if we didn't plan to spend hours waiting in however, he suggested that we take up our positions on the line. (Surprisingly enough, the "one hour limit for singles" bench outside the court with all due speed, lest we find was observed faithfully by most people, though there was ourselves even further behind the time schedule. no one in sight to enforce it.) Well, I had plenty of time in the broiling sunlight to read This particular morning, though, had a bit of a complica- the letter (a dozen or so times over, if I'd cared to) and I tion built into it. The previous day a letter had arrived at the had plenty of time for meditation. Apparently all the play- post office with postage due; by the time we'd received the ers had barely started when we arrived, for we sat for notice, the post office was closed. So as my partner and I nearly an hour. leaped into the car for the short drive to the tennis courts, I The incident in itself isn't important, of course. But as I suggested that it "wouldn't really take any longer to go by sat there, mopping my streaming forehead from time to way of the post office"—blithely ignoring the fact that the time, I wondered if the Christian life is sometimes lived post office was in the opposite direction. My partner de- that way. People think they have all the time in the world. murred mildly, reminding me about the crowded condi- They don't need to live up to the light they've been given; tions of the courts. But I brushed aside his objections. they don't need to practice the principles of positive Chris- There was bound to be one court free, I reasoned. tian living they've been fortunate enough to learn. We got the letter. And it turned out to be a very fat, very Especially can this be true when one is young. Look at all delightful missive from someone I loved, and whose letters those long, long years ahead when there'll be more than are always a treat. Ripping it open, I scanned the first few enough time to start doing, or stop doing, whatever is lines, ascertained the fact that there was no emergency in- called for. volved, jumped back into the car, and headed for the tennis If this is how you've been patterning your life, remember courts. the letter and the tennis court. The time for Christian com- Luck was with me. There was one vacant court, and no mitment—total commitment—is now.

8 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 From the Editors

Contrasting Voices Proclaim the Advent-6 voord is correct when he says that the whole issue of the secret rapture rests on his interpretation of what consti- No Prophetic Destiny for tutes the "church." But Walvoord is wrong when he attempts to distinguish (1) between the responsibilities given by God Modern Israel to the Jewish nation prior to the cross and those given to the For some weeks now we have been discussing the amaz- Christian church and (2) between the "church" that will be ing awakening of interest throughout the world in the re- raptured and all other Christians before and after the turn of Jesus. We have discovered, however, that the most rapture. vocal voices proclaiming His soon return do so for reasons The awesome, Matterhorn truth of the New Testament is that Seventh-day Adventists cannot support. One of the chief that there is no spiritual distinction between the men of signs to most everyone now proclaiming an imminent return faith in the Old Testament and the men of faith of the New. of Jesus is the recent establishment of the state of Israel. "So you see that it is men of faith who are the sons of For Seventh-day Adventists, the political state of Israel has Abraham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would no connection with last-day prophecies. justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand Chief among the reasons why the modern state of Israel to Abraham, saying, 'In thee shall all the nations be blessed.' has no prophetic significance is that after the Jews rejected So then, those who are men of faith are blessed with Abra- Jesus as the Messiah God gave to the Christian church the ham who had faith ... for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of special privileges, responsibilities, and prerogatives once God, through faith. And if you are Christ's, then you are assigned to the ancient Jews. No longer were the Jews to Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise" (Gal. 3: be His special people with a prophetic destiny. 7-9, 26, 29, R.S.V.). This simple fact the pretribulationists (the proponents of The earliest Christians were Jews. Being Christians they the secret rapture theory) have either overlooked or rejected were founders of an organization that had one primary ob- because they ignore the Biblical principle of conditional jective—to proclaim that their Lord Jesus was their Saviour prophecy. Jonah had to learn this lesson under difficult cir- not only from the penalty of sin but from its power as well. cumstances; Moses made this principle clear in Deuteron- This postcross message was essentially no different from omy 28; Samuel emphasized it in 1 Samuel 2:30, 31; and what clear-eyed prophets had been saying before Calvary. Jeremiah conveyed this message in chapter 18:7-10. The Men of genuine faith are saved from the power and penalty principle of conditional prophecy, simply stated, recognizes of sin—whether they lived before or after the cross. But after that "the promises and threatenings of God are alike condi- the cross the message became clearer and man's rebellion tional" (Selected Messages, book 1, p. 67). Ignoring this funda- less excusable. mental principle of Biblical exegesis, a distorted picture of No place is found in the New Testament for the Dispensa- promises and predictions results. tionalist distinction between the "church" (with its distinc- Let it be said clearly: As soon as the secret rapture pro- tive and specific time period in the plan of salvation and its ponents concede that the Christian church, composed of heavenly rewards) and "Israel" (with its two time periods both Jew and Gentile, was given the same commission once as God's special people separated by the "church's" dis- given to the Jewish people to proclaim the good news of pensation and its future earthly inheritance). salvation through Jesus the Messiah, and that nevermore as In regard to Walvoord's attempt to distinguish between a people would the Jews be a special evangelistic instru- the "raptured" saints and those who are alive at the dra- ment in the plan of salvation, the pretribulation position matic, glorious, visible return of Jesus, we can only say that would disintegrate. the New Testament nowhere recognizes the emergence of John Walvoord, recognized as one of the leading expo- an elite class of Christians who will be snatched to heaven nents of the secret rapture position, said: "The doctrine of prior to the great tribulation that, in pretribulation lan- the church has been rightly considered by theologians of all guage, precedes by seven years the visible return of Jesus in points of view as being an integral and important aspect of judgment against those who would try to destroy the po- theology as a whole. Systems of theology can often be char- litical state of Israel. acterized by their ecclesiology. The premillennial system of Next week we will discuss what the special privilege was interpretation has especially relied upon a proper under- that the Jewish nation did not fulfill and in what respect it standing of the doctrine of the church as a body distinct was assigned to the Christian church. H. E. D. from Israel and from saints in general. What is essential To be continued to premillennialism becomes an indispensable foundation in the study of pretribulationism. It is safe to say that pre- "America's New Religion" tribulationism depends upon a particular definition of the Continued from page 2 church, and any consideration of pretribulationism which does not take this major factor into consideration will be We think, too, that a case might be made even for organ- largely beside the point."— The Rapture Question, p. 19. ized sports as a means of developing community spirit, of pride in one's city, or even of giving a nation some relief The Deciding Issue from the depressing economic and political news that seems "It is therefore not too much to say that the rapture ques- to pervade the world at the present time. No activity is to- tion is determined more by ecclesiology than eschatology. tally without redeeming value. But it is not our purpose in . . . Any answer to the rapture question must therefore be this editorial to discuss these aspects. What we want to based upon a careful study of the doctrine of the church as attempt is to develop concern about organized sports as "re- it is revealed in the New Testament. To a large extent pre- ligion." We want to encourage serious thought about organ- millennialism is dependent upon the definition of the ized sports from a Christian perspective. We want to encour- church, and premillenarians who fail to distinguish between age people who profess to live by the principles set forth in Israel and the church erect their structure of premillennial God's Holy Word to ask themselves some pointed questions. doctrine on a weak foundation."—Ibid., pp. 16, 17. For example, in the area of stewardship, is the amount of The deciding issue could not have been better said. Wal- time devoted to watching football disproportionate to the

R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 9 amount of time spent in more worthwhile pursuits? Is the vol. 9, p. 43. God's people must not encourage or participate amount of money spent for sports in proper relation to the in activities that divert people's minds from eternal reali- amount spent to help others, either physically or spiritually? ties; they must "combine in a strong effort to call the atten- What if Christ should suddenly appear while a Christian is tion of the world to the fast-fulfilling prophecies of the word mingling with the godless, drinking thousands in the sta- of God" (ibid.). dium? Is it possible to harmonize the brutality and violence As we see the world absorbed in pursuits that numb the of the football gridiron with the spirit of the gospel? Is the spiritual senses and consume time and money, we must effort to destroy the enemy, or to maim him and put him out sound the warning, "Love not the world, neither the things of action, compatible with the principle of love? that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust Seventh-day Adventists, Especially of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is Seventh-day Adventists, especially, need to take a hard not of the Father, but is of the world" (1 John 2:15, 16). look at their relationship to sports. Can a people who be- "The eternal God has drawn the line of distinction believe that Christ is coming soon, a people who feel respon- tween the saints and the sinners, the converted and the un- sible to convey the message of the three angels to the en- converted. The two classes do not blend into each other im- tire world, a people who want Christ to live out His life in perceptibly, like the colors of the rainbow. They are as them (see Christ's Object Lessons, p. 312), devote their atten- distinct as midday and midnight."—Counsels to Parents and tion, energies, time, and money to a pursuit that is of no Teachers, p. 341. consequence so far as eternity is concerned? If America and other countries have indeed developed a Ellen G. White has pointed out that "the powers of Satan new religion—the religion of sports with its pantheon of are at work to keep minds diverted from eternal realities. gods—the message must be sounded, "Choose ye this day The enemy has arranged matters to suit his own purposes. whom ye will serve." After all, God commands at the very Worldly business, sports, the fashions of the day—these beginning of the Decalogue, "Thou shalt have no other gods things occupy the minds of men and women."— Testimonies, before me." K. H. W.

ing have been very great at times during the SDA school, and received no answer on a Letters past year. Not sending our five-year-old to Monday morning at ten o'clock. Why not a kindergarten seems to bring overwhelming secretary or an answering service? Why just Continued from page 3 astonishment from neighbors who have sent the church telephone number in the direc- their children, and apparently the children tory? Why not the pastor's or Bible worker's this child then goes to first grade. I feel this "love it." The argument in some cases being number listed under the church number? is unfair to the child if his learning ability that it is just two to two and a half hours a Why a frustrating dead end if no one hap- and readiness have reached a level equiva- day, and it prepares the child for a longer pens to be at the only number given? lent to a second- or third-grade level. Thus day in grade one. Adventist friends also Thank God, our service station friend he can be with his age group and not be seem surprised that we do not take advan- didn't go unvisited. My husband finally tele- plagued with the "I'm older than the rest" tage of a school just two blocks away. phoned a personal friend—a lay person— image. DIANE AND MILTON PERKINS who was willing to help us with the fol- My husband, who is now an M.D., was Ancaster, Ontario, Canada low-up. Through his friend, my husband fi- taught at home by his mother with the aid nally located the name of a pastor. But what of Home Study for two years and was put in Why Push This Book at of cities where we have no personal friends to tell us the name of the current pastor? the third grade at eight. My own parents Camp Meetings? waited until I was seven and a half and put The church's organized evangelism takes me in second grade. Neither of us suffered Your stabilizing comment [Sept. 20, 27] on in the whole globe. But what of those souls learning problems. We enjoyed school, but the sensationalism in How to Prepare for the we stumble onto, the ones we aren'tlooking we also enjoyed the first years we spent at Coming Crash, by Robert L. Preston, was ex- for, and who are seeking us? When they home. I don't think it is "wrong" to place an cellent. The most startling revelation was seek, do they find? eight-year-old in first grade. Rather, I feel not something Mr. Preston had said, how- DARLENE SANDERS this is not what Mrs. White meant when she ever, but your mention that the book was Simi Valley, California suggested a later starting age. offered for sale at a Seventh-day Adventist Also, the question of teaching young chil- camp meeting. You did not explain how this Conditioned to Fear dren reading or writing or basic math both- could be. ers us. Children definitely should never be STEPHEN RIEHLE I don't condone "fanaticism" or the ob- pushed—encouraged, yes—to be "good" at Santa Maria, California viously counterfeit movements going on something to support their parents' egos. around us, entered into both by individuals Yet some children want to learn to read or and by highly organized church groups. But A Light on a Hill? write at four or five years of age. What do after reading the article entitled "Revivals: we do! To my surprise in reading Child Guid- On a recent trip my husband and I had oc- a Time When God and Satan Work" [Aug. 2] ance I came across this quote on page 136: casion to stop at a gas station in Sacramento, and also listening to the words of church "When very young, children should be edu- California. While there we had an experi- members, I wonder if the idea of rejection cated to read, to write, to understand fig- ence that has left us both thrilled and frus- has become so much a part of us that we may ures, to keep their own accounts." So even trated. We share it with you in the hope of be in danger of rejecting the genuine when though we don't put them in school till eight stimulating some readers' thoughts. it comes. or nine Mrs White was not against early The entire incident is too lengthy to re- We may well be conditioned to be overly home education. She was always for the best late here, but let it suffice to say that my hus- fearful of the latter rain. And our fears may interest of the child, and if we follow her band was able to share the precious news of or may not be well grounded. In searching writings, it will be of benefit to both parent Jesus Christ with the desperate station man- the deep recesses of our minds, hearts, and and child. ager. My husband read from Steps to Christ characters, how many of us might well be JACKIE HAMILTON and presented the gospel to this soul who carried away with the power of the true Orlando, Florida was literally crying out for help. He ac- Spirit? cepted Christ as his Saviour and said he A truly humble and prayerful spirit is The articles written these past few months would do anything to assure his salvation. needed and cannot be overestimated, but have been such a help and a comfort to us as Since we do not live in that area my hus- should we let our fear of the spurious post- parents of three children. The oldest child band tried to call the local pastor, No an- pone the day of the genuine? just became five years of age in August of swer. He tried all five of the SDA churches CONSTANCE CONROY this year. Pressures for kindergarten school- in the immediate Sacramento area, plus our New Haven, Connecticut

10 MN, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 Family Living

The Little House in Reno, Nevada.

By MARGARET BOBST as told to Ella Ruth Elkins

the houses. It was a little cottage at the rear of another home. The floors were in need of repair, the walls were dirty, and the sink area was rotting and ugly. My mind drifted back to the neat, tidy homes that we'd lived in before, and something inside of me began to rebel when all of a sudden I heard Lenny saying, "Tell her we'll take it, Mom. Give her some rent money right now! There are people out front waiting their turn at the opportunity." "But, Len! Not this!" I looked at my son' in utter disbelief. MEMORIES "We'll fix it up, Mom. Paint, new sink, linoleum. Daddy and Bob and I can do it in no time and it will be fun. And think of how low the rent is! It FROM THE will be cute when it is fixed up. Sure, it's small; but you and Daddy will be alone most of the time. With us all away at school and with your work you won't be a slave to a larger place, not LITTLE HOUSE to speak of all the extra expenses." Well, he was a good little convincer. I gave the lady the check and that afternoon we began working the place MY HUSBAND BOB and I had just cial occasion. Bernice was to march over. By the time the furniture came returned to the United States from down with the junior class prior to the from overseas and our other things Germany, where we had lived for more grand entry of the seniors. How proud were out of storage, we were ready to than three years while working for the we were to be there! move in. Every square inch of floor government. Our three children—Bob, All too soon that happy occasion space counted. There was even just Lenny, and Bernice—had preceded was in the past and we found our- the right empty space on the wall to us to the States, one at a time, to con- selves in Reno, Nevada, looking for a hang our German-made cuckoo clock. tinue their studies at academy and place to live during my husband's The house was cozy, cute, and it was college. Each had spent time in next tour of duty at Herlong, 60 miles "home." schools abroad while living with us. from Reno. We were thrilled at being That was a busy summer. Everyone Lenny had gone over with us. He was stationed there, for the children's had a job, including Bernice, who there two years and Bobby and Ber- grandparents lived in Reno, which became our cook and housekeeper. nice were there two summers and a made it especially nice. We all dis- Since we had been parted so much school term. But now Lenny was soon cussed the housing situation and just during the previous three years, you to graduate from Campion Academy, what it would take to meet our needs. can well imagine how enjoyable our in Colorado, and our arrival in the Something small, rent low, with space evenings were with everyone having States came just in time for this spe- for storage of the "extra things" that tales to tell about their jobs and pre- we wouldn't really need to make our vious school years. Friends knowing home comfortable. We looked at the about our being back in the West Margaret Bobst is a homemaker in ads in the paper and followed up all stopped in for visits. At these times Reno, Nevada. Ella Ruth Elkins, for- the ones that sounded as though they the children would go to the grand- merly a schoolteacher, is now a home- might meet our needs. parents' house to sleep so that the maker in Elgin, Oregon. Lenny went with me to see one of guests could stay in "the little house."

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One evening shortly after my hus- has to do. But we did so much want thing was ready and at four o'clock band had left the States for a special everyone home," I said, trying not to sharp the little red Volkswagen assignment, I was invited to a social show how terribly disappointed I was. buzzed into the driveway, passed the event at the beautiful home of a friend. I didn't allow the feeling to spoil the big house in the front and on to our I didn't want to go alone because I evening, and after getting our guest "little house" in the back. didn't think I'd be able to be happy settled, everyone enjoyed the hours of Everyone was home. Everyone was all by myself—my husband gone and music and talk until the cuckoo clock happy. Most of all, everyone was thank- all—other couples together. Some- said it was past bedtime. ful. We were thankful for our chil- how I let these thoughts slip out and True, it was bedtime, but not sleep- dren. And I like to believe our chil- Len came up with a quick decision. time for me. I lay awake for hours dren were thankful for us. Little could "I'll take you, Mom!" With that he wondering how a boy could make such we have realized that was the last dressed in his sporty best and he made a decision on a Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving we would ever have with me feel like a queen. But then, my —a family day—a day when families Lenny; for the following year Bob and children made me feel like that many get together to enjoy one another. I I were in Korea, and the children went times. whispered my feelings to my husband. to their grandparents' for Thanks- The more I voiced my thoughts, the giving. And the following spring Mother's Escort deeper the hurt became. We'd been Lenny was killed in an automobile As we arrived at the home of my separated enough already without accident on his way to classes at friend, she met us at the door. With a this. It was really all "hurt," not "re- PUC—in that same little red VW that surprised look on her face she said, sentment" at all. had brought him home to us on our "Why Len! I didn't invite any of the Sometime during the night I drifted last Thanksgiving Day together. kids!" off to sleep. But it was a disturbed How grateful I am that we didn't "I'm not a kid," Len answered sleep. I got up early the next morning say on that Thanksgiving Day, "He kindly. "I'm my mother's escort!" and by seven-thirty was mixing the made a stupid decision; now just let I felt I would burst with pride. It dressing. Somehow the tears just him suffer it out," or something of the turned out to be a lovely party, and wouldn't stay back and a salty stream sort. As the mother and the father, we we had a wonderful time. trickled down my cheeks. My husband can amend some of our children's deci- As we were quieting down for sleep came into the kitchen and watched sions and thus help the changes to that night Len spoke from his room. me in silence as I stepped to the end happen, and to have a happy memory "I was just lying here realizing how of the table, picked up the telephone to add to other good memories in- ❑ we are all talking; you in your room, to talk to Lenny at PUC. Yes, he was stead of any regrets. Bernice there in the living room on up already and was studying. the hide-a-bed, and I in here, and "But I didn't realize this place over there at that home where we would be so dead." Lenny sounded a were tonight the bedrooms were half little dejected, I thought. "Everyone a block apart! I would choose this ar- who said he was going to stay and rangement to that any day!" And that study has left; but I'm fine. Don't was the way it was in "the little house" worry about me." and I liked it the same way Lenny did. "But Lenny," I said, "don't you want When Bernice left for her last year to be home?" of study at Campion Academy in Colo- "Of course, Mom. It was just a dumb rado, it was just about time for the decision on my part and now I'll make boys to leave for college at Angwin, the best of it." California. I buried myself in my sec- "But would you come home if Daddy retarial work in Reno, while my hus- went after you now?" I said. band busied himself at his work after "I don't expect him to do that. I had commuting to Herlong each day. But a chance to ride with those kids from he was home by six each evening and Carson yesterday and made this de- our life was uncomplicated. We drove cision, and now I'll stay here and to the college every few weeks to visit study. I'll admit it was dumb, but at the boys, and we all looked forward to the time it made sense." these happy occasions. At this point my husband gave me It was nearing Thanksgiving, and the high sign that he was on his way Bob and I gave the little house the to get Lenny if I just gave the word. cleaning of its life the days before the "Daddy wants to go after you. It will children's arrival. The cupboards take him four hours to get there. He'll were stashed with all the favorite be at the dorm at noon. You will both foods and the pies were made. Bernice be home at four. I'll tell your grand- was the first to arrive home. She flew parents that we will eat at four instead in from Colorado early Wednesday. of two." Shortly after supper that evening "O.K., I'll be waiting; but I don't ex- Bobby and a friend arrived. After the pect Daddy to do this for me." hugs and introductions of the new "Daddy is backing out of the drive- friend I asked, "Where is Lenny?" way now. He is happy, because he As parents, we can wants you home too. Bye—see you "Oh, he didn't come. He felt he amend some of our should stay at college and study and later. Love you." work on a theme." I fairly flew about the house the rest children's decisions That is the time that a parent of that day. Every minute was a happy and thus help changes doesn't have the courage to speak. The one. The table was placed in the cen- disappointment of one child missing ter of the living room. Every inch of to happen. didn't seem right at all. "the little house" was taken up with "Perhaps he really knows what he either something or somebody. Every-

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Center at Huntsville. They were reminded that the Skylab in which three astronauts recently circled the earth was built in Huntsville. And they visited the campus of the nearby Ala- bama A & M University, which has an enrollment of 3,000 students. Oakwood College is a perpetual testimony to the divinely inspired wis- dom of Ellen G. White, who selected this site for an educational home, which at that time was an unpromis- ing-looking location. WESLEY CURTWRIGHT Communication Secretary Ephesus Church

INDIA Punjab Red Cross Society Requests Temperance Talks

Adventists recently were invited to represent the National Temperance Society of India in two training camps sponsored by the Indian Red Cross Society, Punjab State Branch, at Tara Devi. Responding to this invitation, Dalbir Massey, temperance secretary of the North India Section, and the BUILDING MAN-POWERED AIRPLANE IS CLASS PROJECT writer gave temperance talks, showed films, and demonstrated the mechan- Forty-one eighth-graders at San Gabriel Academy have built an airplane in ical smoker. The program was identi- their classroom under the direction of their teacher, Ted Bauer. fied as a Seventh-day Adventist public The pedal-powered biplane has a span of 36 feet for the top wing and 30 feet service. for the bottom wing. It has a 12-foot-long tail, a seven-and-a-half-foot propeller, Two hundred high school youth attended from 18 states in India, along and weighs 150 pounds. with 36 counselors, one man and one The plane has yet to make its first manned flight, but it has left the ground as woman from each state. high as five feet while being towed. The class now plans to test the plane inside Seventy headmasters and college a hangar in order to control the conditions. professors from different' states at- Mr. Bauer and a student, Diana Andrews, are pictured making an adjustment tended the second camp. Thirty of on the plane frame. F. W. HUDGINS these educators took part in a poster PR Director, Southern California Conference contest. Two headmasters pledged they would not drink again after listening to the, temperance talk. When a headmaster from Gujarat learned the NEW YORK Supper was served in the college danger of using snuff he gave up the cafeteria, and the group attended ves- habit immediately. Ephesus Church Group pers at sundown in the Moran Audi- Dr. N. Gujral, of Ruby Nelson Me- torium. They returned on Sabbath morial Hospital, Jullundur, spoke to Travels to Oakwood morning for Sabbath school and the group on the danger of using church in the auditorium, and were drugs. Many people signed up for the The Family Circle, a group of about cordially welcomed at both services. Voice of Prophecy health course. 50 people led by Mrs. Dollie C. John- After a vesper service, the group Leila Shamma, deputy director for son, from the Ephesus church in New was entertained at a social. Oakwood home nursing of the Red Cross in York City, spent Labor Day weekend at President Calvin B. Rock addressed Delhi, also attended the second camp. Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala- the Family Circle, commending them Although she is a non-Christian, she is bama. for conceiving the idea of spending a well acquainted with Seventh-day Ad- Some members of the group, who holiday weekend visiting Oakwood. ventists. had not been to Oakwood for years, Sunday morning, the group was The governor and chief minister of found few of the old landmarks visible taken in the college bus on a sight- Punjab are the president and vice- around the new Oakwood. seeing trip to see the new Eva B. president, respectively, of the Indian 0. B. Edwards Hall was the Family Dykes Library, the college farm, the Red Cross Society, Punjab State Circle's home for the weekend. It is a college rock quarry, and a farmers' Branch. These contacts led to an invi- three-story building, built around a market nearby. They viewed historic tation from Dr. Sharma, of the Indian rectangular grassy court, with bal- sites in Huntsville, and were shown Red Cross Society in Ludhiana, to pre- conies on each floor facing the court. through the modern First Seventh-day sent the temperance program in ap- Two students share a room, and each Adventist church. proximately 50 colleges in the area. He group of three rooms has its own re- They learned that the Oakwood Col- offered the use of their van and equip- ception room, opening onto the bal- lege dairy supplies milk to the sur- ment for the proposed visits. cony. Central air conditioning and a rounding community, and that the P. K. PETERSON recreation room are additional attrac- school's commercial laundry serves Secretary, Temperance Department tive features. the personnel of the U.S. Rocket Northern Union

14 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 NEBRASKA The team members were aware of this concept and capitalized on it. Union College Team Sings They included in their programs such songs as "Seeking the Lost," "There Songs of Early Adventism Is a Happy Land," "How Sweet Are the Union College's witnessing team, di- Tidings," and "What Heavenly Music," rected by Marvin Ponder, college which expressed the anticipation of chaplain, sang songs of early Ad- the early believers and their desire ventism at camp meetings in the to sing with the angels. Northern and Central Union confer- At the end of those early camp meet- ences this summer. ings the believers in attendance would The over-all objective in forming the gather in a large circle for the final team was to bring to the attention of parting ceremony. They would shake the Adventist people the reality of hands and say, "Well, brother, I prob- the second coming of Christ, according ably won't ever see you again on this to Elder Ponder. earth. I'll see you in heaven!" They "Sometimes we feel that the youth, were sure that the Lord would come who are three or four generations before the next camp meeting. Many removed from the pioneers of our of them were overcome with emotion church, have lost this feeling of Jesus' as they sang "What Will It Be to See soon coming. We attempted to show Jesus." the church that the young people still As they parted, they could be heard feel very strongly about the second going across the hills singing, "I am coming of Christ." bound for the promised land . . ." To form this witnessing team, Elder Others would sing, "What, never part Ponder chose a group of ten Union again?" Over the hill another group College students on the basis of their would answer, "No, never part again!" personal Christian experience as well Ponder's team sang in many depart- HOSPITAL INSTALLS GENERATOR as musical talent. One entire week was ments of the various camp meetings, spent on the college campus in a study but their special emphasis was di- The Taiwan Adventist Hospital of of successful witnessing techniques rected toward the youth. They encour- Taipei has completed the installation and musical rehearsal. aged young people to participate in of a 100-kilowatt diesel generator to the programs by singing and giving supply electricity during power black- Eight Camp Meetings personal testimonies. outs caused by typhoons or other Traveling 9,400 miles during the Although the witnessing team per- emergencies. Pictured with the gen- summer, Elder Ponder and his student formed only at Adventist meetings, erator are Mr. Wang; Joseph Lee, as- evangelists visited and performed at they were not restricted in their wit- sistant manager and treasurer; Mr. eight camp meetings in Iowa, North nessing encounters. "Once when we Liu, electrical engineer. and South Dakota, Minnesota, Ne- were doing our laundry, we met a E. E. BIETZ braska, Missouri, Colorado, and Wy- woman in the laundromat who re- Manager, Taiwan Adventist Hospital oming, and at a youth rally in St. Louis. quested a song," Ponder noted. "We There is no way you can separate the sang for her right there in the laundro- flavor of Early Advent music from the mat and invited her to the camp meet- camp meeting spirit. The two grew up ing. She came and was moved by the PHILIPPINES together. The whole idea of camp music and testimony." meetings stemmed from the revival of MARVIN PONDER Stewardship Emphasized the 1800's and the hope of the second Union College Chaplain in Five Local Missions advent of Christ. As told to Kent Campbell

Stewardship emphasis weeks are being conducted in the five missions of the North Philippine Union Mission by the local stewardship secretaries and T. V. Barizo, union stewardship secretary. Results have been encouraging. In one church where an emphasis week was held, the stewardship secretary reports tithes and offerings have increased by 500 per cent. In another church the increase has been 300 per cent, and in another, 150 per cent. These local stewardship emphasis weeks follow a stewardship field school held recently at the Baesa church in Caloocan City, Philippines, by Paul G. Smith, General Conference associate stewardship and development secretary, and C. A. Williams, Far Eastern Division stewardship and development secretary. It was attended by 100 mission administrators, mission stewardship secretaries, and district pastors, who studied new concepts of stewardship and learned the mechanics of conducting stewardship emphasis weeks in local churches. T. V. BARIZO Stewardship Secretary Union College witnessing-team members sang songs from the nineteenth century at Ad- North Philippine Union Mission ventist camp meetings this summer. Marvin Ponder, right, is director of the group.

R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 15 The council also planned leadership GC Departments Map training programs, church temperance projects, and Community Services such as the Five-Day Plan, the Four Dimen- Plans for Future —2 sional Key to the Cause of Alcoholism, and Home Help programs for alcohol, These five reports conclude the coverage begun last week of the World Advisory Council tobacco, and drug problems. Special meetings that met in Washington, D.C., from September 27 to October 7, 1973. See the emphasis was placed on the follow-up of Five-Day Plans. November 15 REVIEW for reports from the Communication, Education, Lay Activities, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, and Youth departments. Temperance as a spiritual evangelistic ministry was our constant thought as we studied together Spirit of Prophecy guidance to the church and in socialist countries where mo- on temperance principles and pro- Temperance rality and abstinence from alcohol grams. By ERNEST H. J. STEED and tobacco are emphasized. Plans were laid for a five-day insti- Division temperance leaders re- tute at Andrews University, June, ported that young people of the church 1974; an Asian Pacific Congress on "A Time for Temperance World- are involved in temperance, giving out Smoking and Society in Singapore, wide" was the theme of the Temper- literature, marching in parades, con- August, 1974; a seminar for the Preven- ance World Advisory Committee. ducting exhibits, and working with tion of Alcoholism in Brasilia, March, In many areas where it is difficult other youth on a one-to-one basis in 1974; the second European Congress to utilize other evangelistic agencies, order to help them live temperately. on Smoking and Society in Poland, temperance programs are accepted June, 1975; the second World Congress and are finding a place in the lives of Women in Temperance of the International Commission for the people. These programs have Women have made significant his- the Prevention of Alcoholism in Mex- proved to be appreciated by govern- tory with their dedication to the tem- ico, 1976; and two-day seminars and ment and civic leaders alike. perance cause. Therefore, the advisory institutes of scientific studies for the Therefore, plans were laid for committee recommended a new aspect prevention of alcoholism in many strengthening the temperance work in of temperance work called Women for countries around the world, including Moslem, Hindu, and Buddhist areas Temperance action units. four in the United States.

Above: lose M. Vianna, South American Division; Robert Taylor, Afro-Mideast Division; Marcel Abel, Inter-American Division; B. G. Mary, Far Eastern Division. Below: Ronald Taylor, Australasian Divi- sion; Francis Soper, GC associate temperance secretary, addressing the group.

16 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 Publishing By D. A. McADAMS Plans for the future of the Adventist publishing work around the world can be summarized in the goals for literature evangelist team strength and soul winning set by division publishing secretaries for attainment by 1975: Literature Souls Division Evangelists to Win Afro-Mideast 1,000 1,500 Australasian 150 120 Euro-Africa 1,000 600 Far Eastern 4,000 4,000 Inter-American 5,000 4,000 N. Europe-W. Africa 1,000 330 South American 3,000 2,800 Southern Asia 500 250 Trans-Africa 500 1,200 North American 3,000 3,000 19,150 17,800 Prudent publishing house expan- sion was urged in order to make possible the production of literature in sufficient quantity to supply literature evangelists, who are expected to increase from approximately 9,000 to 19,150 by 1975. It was reported at the Advisory Council that in the Philippines 1,800 delegates attended the largest literature evangelist institute in the world recently. The Inter-American Division plans to recruit 5,000 literature evangelists by 1975. Their team has almost doubled since a year ago, from 941 to 1,850. Also from this division came the Top of the page: M. L. Mills, president of news that Finland, for the third year, the Trans-Africa Division, standing at right, Of the South American Division's asks a question of publishing leaders D. A. goal to sell $15 million worth of litera- has the leading literature evangelist of the world, Mrs. Anne-Liisa Helle- McAdams and Bruce M. Wickwire. Divi- ture during the quinquennium, more sion presidents attended many of the dif- than $11 million worth has already vaara. Already this year she has sold ferent departmental advisory sessions. In been sold. more than $90,000 worth of literature. the center row are J. T. Knopper, Northern Northern Europe-West Africa Di- The Southern Asia Division is proud Europe-West Africa Division; S. D. Pang- vision leaders told of entering Gam- of its first "centurion," the first litera- born, Far Eastern Division; J. M. Curnow, bia—a new country to the church. ture evangelist in the division to win Southern Asia Division. In the bottom row 100 persons to Christ in a year. above are Walter Ruba, Trans-Africa There were no Adventists in Gambia Division; G. E. Garne, editor of the Sen- until a literature evangelist moved in, These reports and the others that tinel Publishing House, Cape Town, South but now a baptism of new church were given show that the Lord is guid- Africa; and E. 0. Rouhe, editor of the Fin- members is being planned. ing the publishing program. land Publishing House, Tampere, Finland.

R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 17 Sabbath School

By FERNON RETZER

Because of the dollar devaluation, an exceptional action was taken by the World Sabbath School Advisory. In order to help the world mission program advance at a more acceler- ated rate, it was felt that our membership should be given an unprece- dented challenge. Therefore, it was recommended that Sabbath school members around the world be encouraged to double their Sabbath school offerings. The purpose for this action is to maintain and expand the mission program of the church, to enter into expanding opportunities Sabbath School personnel attending the world advisory meetings included Laurell Peterson, throughout the world, to invigorate assistant secretary of the General Conference Sabbath School Department; W. F. Storz, the giving of the evangelistic message from the Southern Asia Division; and T. R. Haylock, from the Inter-American Division. of the church, and to broaden the training of workers, giving them a worldwide vision. Sabbath school found an important Sabbath school lesson for areas using Interest in the Profiles of Faith place. In the summer of 1852 James simplified English. course (formerly called the Pastor's White expressed the need of some Aside from these lessons the Sab- Bible Class) is mounting. C. D. Brooks systematic Bible lessons adapted to bath School Department prepares recently completed evangelistic meet- the young people. So in August, 1852, Program Helps and Teaching Aids for ings in Chicago, and since then more when the Youth's Instructor was all Sabbath school divisions. than 200 have been baptized. As a founded, the first number carried the According to the report given to the follow-up to these meetings, each new Sabbath school lessons. advisory committee by R. Curtis Bar- convert is taking the Profiles of Faith From this small beginning the pro- ger, Sabbath school statistical secre- course. This is possibly the largest gram of preparing Sabbath school tary, the world membership of the single use being made of the Profiles lessons has grown to the point where Sabbath school is 2,986,200. These of Faith materials. the adult Sabbath school lessons are members meet in 32,793 Sabbath Year for Better Teachers translated into about 90 languages schools around the world. The role of from manuscripts prepared in the the Sabbath school in gathering funds The year 1974 has been designated General Conference Sabbath School for the support and extension of the Better Teaching Year in our Sabbath Department. The manuscripts are sent world work of the church is well schools. Our goal is to have a teacher all over the world according to ar- known. In the second quarter of 1973, training course conducted in every rangements made through each di- Sabbath school members gave a total Sabbath school. We urge every teacher vision Sabbath school secretary. of $4,350,418, with more than a third of to prepare himself to be a better Currently the adult lesson manu- this coming from members outside of teacher, "rightly dividing the word scripts are prepared on the same North America. of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15). topic in three lengths: the regular and Sergio Moctezuma, Sabbath school teachers' quarterlies that are used es- secretary for the South American Di- pecially in North America and Aus- Boy and Mother Give vision, reports the phenomenal tralia, and the world edition in 48- growth of our work in Sao Paulo, Bra- and 32-page lengths. Divisions select Their Hearts to Jesus zil. To date, there are 148 Sabbath which length manuscript they can use [Bekele Heye, of the Afro-Mideast Division, re- schools in the city, with 28,786 mem- and publish it accordingly. counted this story to fellow Sabbath school secre- bers. At this meeting an action was taken taries at the World Advisory Council held in Wash- Early in the history of our work, that we also prepare a basic short ington, D.C., September 27 to October 7.—Ennosal In June, 1972, I went to the African continent to conduct camp meetings in the different fields of the Tanzanian Union. While there, I went to our Ikizu Seminary, situated on a hill in central Tanzania, where I learned that the students conduct a number of branch Sab- bath schools every Sabbath afternoon. One group of students went into the valley to conduct a branch Sabbath school in a little village. Among those assembled they found a 12-year-old crippled boy. They invited him along with the other children to come to the seminary and join them the next week for Sabbath school. The following Sabbath a number of the children found their way up the hill to the seminary. Since the crippled boy couldn't walk, he begged his mother to help him. He began to cry, so to silence him she carried him to the top of the hill and placed him in front of the Ikizu Seminary church. Two General Conference men who led out in the Sabbath School advisory are Fernon He crawled to Sabbath school and Retzer, left, secretary, and H. F. Rampton, associate secretary, Sabbath School Department. enjoyed hearing Bible stories. The

18 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 Above, left to right: Ella May Stoneburner, associate secretary, and Ralph F. Waddell, secretary, General Conference Health De- partment; H. Stoeger, Euro-Africa Division; D. W. Smith, Trans-Africa Division. Right: Mazie A. Herin, associate secretary, Gen- eral Conference Health Department; K. A. P. Yesudian, Southern Asia Division; D. Nestares, South American Division.

following Sabbath the same thing hap- pened. He wanted to go to Sabbath school. Again he cried, and again, to quiet him, his mother carried him up the hill. However, this time, to dis- courage him, she put him as far away from the church as possible. His legs were not covered, so you can imagine how difficult it was for him to crawl a long way over rough ground to go to current literature and in many in- Sabbath school. After the service one Health stances has made our church the ob- of the boys with a bicycle rode him By RALPH F. WADDELL ject of admiration, accrediting it with home. leadership in such fields as nutrition, This continued until camp meeting dental health, health education, and time. Every morning he was the first "And he sent them to preach the physical fitness. Steps have been rec- to be there. kingdom of God, and to heal the sick" ommended to extend this leadership At the end of our camp meetings we (Luke 9:2), was a dominant thought role and further establish Seventh-day usually make an appeal for people to throughout the church's first World Adventists as guardians of physical, give their lives to God or renew their Health Advisory Council as division mental, and spiritual health. covenant with God. When I made an health leaders met with General Con- appeal, the crippled boy was the first ference staff members in a week of Health Evangelism one to come forward. Others came too. earnest study and prayer, The inte- The church has embarked on the Suddenly my translator stopped speak- gration of healing and preaching as greatest and most comprehensive ing and began to cry. As I looked over God's chosen method for demonstrat- soul-winning program it has ever ex- my audience, I saw a number of people ing His love to alienated mankind, so perienced. Health evangelism is to weeping. I didn't know what was going perfectly shown in the ministry of play a prominent part in this cam- on. In fact, they had to ask another Christ, served as the basis for planning paign. The world's marked interest in translator to come up and help me, as the future of the church's health pro- health has helped to bring into focus my translator couldn't talk. At the end gram. the tremendous value of uniting our of the service I was told the following Current trends in the delivery of health message with the gospel of story: health care make necessary a restudy salvation. Recommendations have The boy had tried to convince his of our methods as they relate to di- been made that will further cement mother to come to church with him, vinely established objectives. The these two evangelizing forces into a but she refused week after week. Then church's interest in health at all levels powerful tool for finishing the work en- she heard the announcement that a demands that our approaches, facili- trusted to the church. man from Ethiopia, whose friend went ties, techniques—and failures as well Seventh-day Adventist educational to Jerusalem 2,000 years ago and was as successes—be evaluated continu- institutions have more students in at- baptized by Philip, was coming to ally. The administration of the tendance than at any previous time in Tanzania to conduct a camp meeting. church's healing ministry dedicates our history. More and more Adventist She decided to come with her son to itself to an ever-closer identification youth are planning careers in health- look at this man from Ethiopia. She with the inspired counsel, that the ob- care lines. Encouragement is con- told me later that God spoke to her jectives and purposes so wonderfully stantly given to them to renew their through my sermons and she was con- provided may be attained. dedication, while orientation to meth- victed that she too should respond to Scientific studies and research have ods, policies, and principles of church the appeal. What a joy to see this demonstrated the validity of the organization and institutional admin- mother join her son as he gave his church's health message. The Advent- istration is provided as a means of life to the Lord Jesus! ist way of life has been described in increasing their effectiveness and en-

R&I-1, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 19 hancing their spiritual and profes- of approximately a million shillings 2. To share with evangelists the sional fulfillment. (US$140,000) in tithe. Ninety-seven experiences of stewardship and de- Plans have been developed to in- churches are under construction in velopment secretaries so they can im- crease the efficiency of personnel re- the East African Union, all being built plement stewardship concepts into cruitment, to maintain a high degree under the church development pro- evangelistic preaching. of professional competence, and to gram. 3. To encourage pastors to make engender even higher levels of aggres- earnest appeals in every stewardship Give Heart and Covenant sive spiritual integration into clinical sermon for the surrender of lives to work. Provisions are being made to A church member in the Austra- Christ. strengthen nursing education and lasian Division seems to sum up the 4. To introduce stewardship con- nursing service as keys to success in spirit of the covenant service in this cepts, through prepared courses, into Adventist health care. expression: "I give my heart to the every level of academic training in The World Health Advisory Council Lord; I also give my covenant." order that the ideas might grow with closed with renewed dedication to the One pastor in Northern Mindanao, the students. task of acquainting men with Christ, Philippines, had the joy of seeing 52 5. To develop a slide series on the the Great Physician, and preparing former members of his church re- concepts and principles of steward- the inhabitants of earth for His soon claimed during his first stewardship ship. appearing. guidance program. This was reported 6. To develop, when appropriate and by C. A. Williams, Far Eastern Divi- possible, another film on Christian sion stewardship secretary. stewardship. Stewardship After hearing these reports, the ad- No one can pinpoint the exact means visory council formulated the follow- by which God will finish His work. But By WALTER M. STARKS ing plans: whatever means He chooses, steward- 1. To make available the concepts, ship and development secretaries REPORTS OF God's blessings and principles, and methods of Christian around the world pledge themselves divine providence from stewardship stewardship to every pastor through to be ready with dedicated people and secretaries of the church's divisions an escalated training program in order consecrated means, in order for the around the world gave both inspira- for the program to make its maximum church to be able to enter every open tion and direction to our advisory contribution in the shortest possible door and to take advantage of every council. time. opportunity to spread the gospel. Y. Lusingu, of the Afro-Mideast Di- vision, reports that 12,000 people in the East African Union have made cove- nants with God. This dedication of their lives has resulted in an increase

Division stewardship secretaries include, top row: Gabriel Castro, Inter-American Division; I. H. Wade, Australasian Division; Sunderaj James, Southern Asia Division; S. L. Folkenberg, Euro-Africa Division. Bottom left: Y. Lusingu, Afro- Mideast Division. Bottom right: Paul G. Smith, third from right, GC associate stewardship secretary dictates notes to leaders.

20 R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 pecially for St. John's, the capital city, North American with a Bible correspondence course enrollment card. The tract advertises Atlantic Union Radio VOAR, operated by the confer- news ence, and gives a brief summary of Adventist teachings. ► Mrs. Jeanette Baldwin has been selected by the Atlantic Union execu- I. A harvest Thanksgiving service tive committee to represent the union held recently at the Perth Avenue at the 1974 lay activities advisory con- church in Toronto was climaxed by the notes ference in Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. baptism of five persons. Fresh fruits, Baldwin will be present for the one- vegetables, and flowers decorating the day Community Services segment. church were sold in the evening, real- Inter-American 0- Wendy Waite, of the Bronx, New izing $1,200 for the church. York, church, directed a Vacation THEDA KUESTER, Correspondent ► The Seventh-day Adventist voca- Bible School this summer for 160 boys tional academy in Venezuela was vis- and girls. ited September 17 by Dr. Simon Saave- Central Union dra Hernandez, governor of the state of 11► Ministers of the New York Confer- Yaracuy, where the school is located. ence have ordered 35,000 volumes of 0. The Missouri Conference has or- The academy faculty and a dozen ad- Steps to Christ, The Desire of Ages, and dered a new disaster van to be de- ministrators and teachers representing The Great Controversy, to be distrib- livered soon. The conference and the two Venezuelan fields participated uted in conjunction with missionary churches will share the cost. in a fellowship dinner. At the end of his and evangelistic endeavors. ► The new Community Services cen- visit, the governor said, "I am deeply 10. Missionary Volunteers from the ter in Lincoln6 Nebraska, was for- interested in the spiritual tone of your Capital City church, Albany, New mally opened for service on November school." York, share their faith with patients 20. C. E. Guenther, of the General Conference, and officials from the city ► On opening night about 1,600 at- and employees of two nursing homes tended an evangelistic campaign in in the city. Under the direction of Mrs. of Lincoln will attend the opening Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Virgin Rosa Kilby, MV sponsor, the group ceremony. also pays home visits to church mem- Islands. Caribbean Union Evangelist ► At the conclusion of a Vacation K. S. Wiggins was the speaker. bers recently released from the hos- Bible School held in connection with L. MARCEL ABEL, Correspondent pital. an evangelistic meeting in Kansas City, Missouri, 14 children were bap- ► On the weekend of September 14-16 more than 300 ministers and elemen- tized. All were from non-Adventist Southern Asia tary-school teachers from the South- homes. ern New England Conference gath- 10. Students from Union College are 10. Eight of the ten new Sabbath ered with their families at Camp Win- schools started in Kerala this year are conducting Story Hours and Neighbor- nekeag in Ashburnham, Massachu- hood Bible Clubs in Lincoln, Ne- the result of branch Sabbath school setts, for inspiration and fellowship. evangelism. Three new church schools braska, and surrounding areas during this school year. have also opened this year, making a ► Thirteen inmates of the Queens total of nine. House of Detention in New York CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent were baptized recently by John Guy, ► Members of the Kothur church in Bangalore, under the leadership of pastor of the Corona church, and Rob- Columbia Union ert Lister, pastor of the Mount of Laymen Dorairaj and E. Dhanaraj, 0. Kettering College of Medical Arts held Action '73 meetings near their Olives church. EMMA KIRK, Correspondent has begun the new school year with church and saw 15 persons baptized as 337 students, the college's largest en- a result. Canadian Union rollment. Two new faculty members ► Dr. Devadanam, a layman from are Dennis A. Munroe, physical educa- Andhra, has worked in Bangalore tion, and Louis J. Kuntz, biomedical 00 Dr. Robert Lang, director of health among the Telegu-speaking people. electronics technology. Twenty-one were baptized as a result services at Andrews University, was the guest speaker at an Ontario Con- ► Ground has been broken for a new of his work in Anjannappa Gardens. church in Springfield, Ohio, with a Sixty people are now attending Sab- ference ministerial-medical retreat at Camp Frenda in South River, Ontario. proposed seating capacity of nearly bath services. When Dr. Devadanam 300. returned to Andhra his son, T. V. 0. Sixteen persons from various con- Thomason, went to Bangalore until a ference districts were baptized by 10. Howard McGuire, of the Potomac Telegu worker could move there. D. W. Corkum and J. D. Blake on the Conference, and Ann Collins, of the Chesapeake Conference, were named V. D. Ohal was appointed president last Sabbath of the Maritime Confer- ► ence camp meeting. Literature Evangelist Man and Woman of the Maharashtra Section at a recent of the Year at the recent Columbia meeting of the Central India Union 11► Adventists gave away 2,500 pieces Union publishing institute held at committee in Bombay. S. G. Mahapure of literature at the Brome Fair in Que- Shenandoah Valley Academy, New continues as secretary; B. G. Sable was bec. A booth was operated by members Market, Virginia. appointed treasurer. of the South Stukely church, Canada's oldest Adventist church. ► The Yale, Virginia, church spon- ► R. D. Riches, formerly lay activities sored a five-day sewing seminar prior and Sabbath school secretary of the ► Leaders of the Botwood Pathfinder to the recent opening of a Community South India Union, has been ap- Club in Newfoundland have been con- Services center in Emporia, Virginia. pointed president of the Central India ducting a youth-outreach program for The women made the uniforms they Union. teen-agers following their regular will use in their Community Services Ir. Three hundred persons attended Pathfinder program. On one occasion work. evangelistic meetings at Chekuri- a Royal Canadian Mounted Police of- palem, India, near Tenali. The interest ficer spoke on drugs, and educational 10 Seventy Pathfinders attended the in this village was aroused by I. Jesu- films were shown on smoking and recent Pennsylvania Conference dass, who worked with N. S. Bhasker drugs. Non-Adventist youth of the camporee held at Cherry Springs State Rao and I. V. Rao through the meet- community are thus being reached. Park, Coudersport, Pennsylvania. ings. Adventists in Chekuripalem ► Ingathering in Newfoundland will ► Kenneth Osborn is the newly ap- have a church with 60 members. be a real evangelistic endeavor this pointed assistant administrator of the A. J. JoHANsoN, Correspondent year. A tract has been prepared es- Reading Institute of Rehabilitation,

R&H, NOVEMBER 22, 1973 21 Reading, Pennsylvania. Jack Schleen- the Upper Columbia Conference. subcommittee investigating labor un- baker is the institute's administrator. M. C. Torkelsen, North Pacific Union ions in Frankfort, Kentucky. They Conference secretary, spoke during presented the church's stand on union ► The Reading, Pennsylvania, Hamp- den Boulevard church broke ground the morning worship service. involvement, in an effort to secure a conscience clause in the Kentucky recently for their new church building. ► According to Gene Petrie, publish- The new church will seat 380, according secretary of the Upper Columbia statute. ing to Reginald Shires, pastor. Conference, fair booths are worth- ► More than 4,000 copies of the new while. The Home Health Education book Managing God's Goods have been ► Lorenzo Grant, Columbia Union distributed to church members in the youth leader, and G. J. A. Breedt, youth booth at the Spokane County Fair received the names of more than 2,000 Florida Conference to aid them in the leader of the Southern Union, Trans- study of their Sabbath school lessons. Africa Division, were featured speak- persons interested in having someone visit their homes and show them Ad- ers at the recent New Jersey Confer- ► Pastor and Mrs. Tom Whitsett, of ence Pathfinder camporee held at ventist literature. On Sabbath after- the Tallahassee, Florida, church, were Tranquil Valley Youth Camp. noon 150 were enrolled in the Voice of recently invited by the State health Prophecy Bible courses. department nutritionist to lecture on ► The Hyattsville Community Serv- CECIL COFFEY, Correspondent vegetarian foods at Leon High School. ices center opened recently. Charles L. The Tallahassee church operates a Armentrout, mayor of Hyattsville, Pacific Union health-food store in the area, which is gave the keynote address at the open- patronized by many State officials, in- ing ceremony, and a Community Serv- ► Ernest L. Broder has begun his cluding the governor's wife. ices Award was presented to Jack new duties as education, MV, and Cohen. temperance leader in the Nevada- ► More than 200 Florida youth at- CHARLES R. BEELER, Correspondent Utah Conference. He replaces Howard tended the annual Florida Bible Con- Barron, who has accepted a call to ference held recently at Camp Ku- Lake Union San Pasqual Academy. laqua. 1 J. B. Currier has moved from Moab, ► Eighty senior citizens recently at- ► Fourteen youth and five adults of Utah, to Vernal, in the southeastern tended the fall festival held at Florida the Holly-Fenton, Michigan, area part of the State, to try to establish a Conference's Camp Kulaqua. Activi- joined together recently for an Ad- new church in the rapidly growing ties included boating on the Suwanee ventist Youth in Action project. They area. River, visiting the Stephen Foster painted the home of a church member, Memorial, and special lectures and Gladys Gilbert, a retired widow. ► Emilio Knechtle was the featured social programs. speaker at a Bible Conference at Wa- OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent ► Roseville, Illinois, members dis- wona Camp in Yosemite, attended by tributed 168 copies of Steps to Christ more than 200 students representing during the Warren County Fair this each academy and college in the Andrews University summer. union. ► Seventeen AU students have en- ► Another Community Services cen- ► Veteran Missionary Ogden L. Aaby rolled for the 1973-74 academic year ter has opened in Michigan in the in European colleges, under programs Orion-Oxford district. is the new business manager at Monu- ment Valley Mission and Hospital. designed to broaden their interna- ► Mary Minarek, a woman "well into Mrs. Aaby is working in the hospital tional understanding while furthering her 80's," was given special recogni- pharmacy. their social and intellectual develop- tion recently for her contributions ment. Two are studying at Bracknell, Henry D. Jeffries has come out of that led to the burning of the mortgage ► England; two at Braunau, Austria; retirement to pastor the Moab and seven at Collonges, France; and six at for the new school facility in Munising, Castle Valley churches in Utah. Michigan. Mrs. Minarek helped to fell Valencia, Spain. trees, clear brush, and at her insist- Permission has been granted by ► ► Attended by 150 regular partici- ence climbed to the top of a scaffold the U.S. Department of the Interior to pants and up to 300 visitors, the fifth to help paint the ceiling when the open a medical-dental clinic and wel- Campus Concern Retreat was held at school was being built. fare center for Navajos at Chinle, Camp Michiana, October 4 to 7. Moti- GORDON ENGEN, Correspondent Arizona. Search is under way for medi- vated by the desire to know God and cal personnel willing to donate their one another better, students involved time. North Pacific Union themselves in a variety of activities ► In addition to hosting a Christian designed to help them achieve their ► Gem State Academy was the recipi- Record camp for the blind, the South- goals. Featured speaker for the re- ent of a $3,000 donation from the ern California Conference also had a treat was Lorenzo Grant, youth coor- Laura Moore Cunningham Founda- group of 17 deaf campers this year at dinator for the Columbia Union Con- tion, Inc. their Camp Cedar Falls. ference. ► Two new schools in the Lower ► Community Services societies in ► Installation of a Xerox Sigma 6 Yakima Valley raced against the cal- Central California have donated $400 computer was completed in August endar this summer in an effort to be toward a demonstration home in at Andrews. The computer, replacing ready for the opening of school. These Ethiopia and $250 toward a school a smaller system, provides for a wide were Central Valley Junior Academy building in the jungles of Colombia. variety of academic services as well and Grandview Junior Academy. SHIRLEY BURTON, Correspondent as enhanced administrative services. Gunnar Nelson is the new Minis- Other SDA institutions will be able to ► use the computer via remote terminals terial secretary of the Washington Con- Southern Union ference, having come from Colorado, for accounting and other administrative functions. where he held a similar position. ► Wallace Burns, director of the Way- out Help Clinic in Houma, Louisiana, ► E. Wayne Shepperd has assumed ► Melvin Johnson is the new pastor reports the beginning of Project 500, duties at Pioneer Memorial church of the Upper Columbia Academy an endeavor to enroll 500 new people on the AU campus as an associate pas- church. in the Voice of Prophecy correspond- tor for college youth. ► Dr. Jack Provonsha was the speaker ence school. The teaching staff of Andrews Uni- for the Walla Walla College autumn ► ► Melvin E. Adams, associate secre- versity was increased this year with 17 Week of Prayer. His series was entary of the General Conference Depart- new teachers in the college and semi- titled "Lift Up Your Heads." ment of Public Affairs and Religious nary divisions. Nine teachers were ► Inaugural services were held re- Liberty, joined retired pastor Irad added to the laboratory school. cently for the Sunnyside church in Levering in appearing before a State OPAL YOUNG, Communication Officer

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California, left New York, September 16, emy, Corozal Town, British Honduras; Loma Health Personnel 1973. Dawn (MeCreery) Boyd left Laredo, Texas, Florence C. Moline (WWC '37; U. of Nebr. September 25, 1973. Needs '51), returning as a teacher, Rusangu School, Susan L. Gryte, of Lee Vining, California, Monze, Zambia, of Angwin, California, left to serve as office secretary, Hong Kong Ad- NORTH AMERICA Chicago, April 11, 1973. ventist Hospital, Hong Kong, left San Fran- Henry A. Novak, M.D. (WWC, PUC, LLU cisco, September 19, 1973. Accountant Lab. tech. '51), to serve as physician, Saigon Advent- Delbert 0. Harrison, of Boise, Idaho, to Administrator, Maint. eng. superv. ist Hospital, Saigon, Vietnam; and Phyllis C. serve as evangelist, Liberian Mission, Mon- psych. unit Med. rec. libr. (WWC, PUC), of Bakersfield, Cashier Med. technol. (Meier) Novak rovia, Liberia, West Africa; Shirley (Lenon) Cooks Nurse aides California, left Los Angeles, September 17, Harrison and two children, left New York, Counselor II Nurses, CCU 1973. September 2, 1973. Counselor III Nurse, head Perry A. Parks (WWC '60, AU '61), return- Patricia James, of Willowdale, Ontario, Dietitian Nurse, psych. ing as president of South Lake Field, Blan- Canada, to serve as a nurse, Hong Kong Ad- Dietitian, a dm. Occup. ther. tyre, Malawi; Gloria (Kennedy) Parks (Can ventist Hospital, Hong Kong, left San Fran- Director, School Psychologist UC '57; Hinsdale Nursing '60) and three cisco, September 19, 1973. of Radiol. Secretaries children, of Post Falls, Idaho, left New York, Exercise ther. Secretary, exec. Housekprs., men Secretary, unit September 12, 1973. Key-punch op. Unit manager Floyd F. Petersen (WWC '69), returning as a teacher, Rusangu School, Monze, Zambia; Coming Eileen L. (Perry) Petersen (Kingsway; Bran- Write Placement-Recruitment, General Con- Ingathering Campaign November 17-January 5, 1974 ference of SDA, 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., son Sch. of Nursing '64), and two children, Ingathering Crusade Washington, D.C. 20012. December 1 of Arpin, Wisconsin, left Kelowna, British Church Lay Activities Offering December 1 Columbia, September 7, 1973. Stewardship Day December 15 Because of immigration requirements, this notice Thirteenth Sabbath Offering applies only to permanent residents of the United Harley E. Rice, to serve as a fund raiser, (Trans-Africa Division) December 22 States and Canada. Saigon Adventist Hospital, Vietnam, under the provisions of the Sustentation Overseas 1974 Service plan; and Hilda Rice, of Denver, Soul-winning Commitment January 5 Colorado, left San Francisco, September 14, Church Lay Activities Offering January 5 1973. Health Evangelism Emphasis January 12 lb New Posts Liberty Magazine Campaign January 19-28 Laurel L. Roehl (UC), to serve as a teacher, Religious Liberty Offering January 28 Worker transfers within union conferences are Japan English Language School, Osaka, Ja- Bible Evangelism February 2 not listed here. Such transfers, when brought to our pan, on a special basis, of Hatton, North Church Lay Activities Offering February 2 attention, may be found in News Notes. Faith for Today Offering February 9 Dakota, left San Francisco, September 14, MV Day February 16 secretary-treasurer, Arizona 1973. MV Week of Prayer February 16-22 Tom Bledsoe, Listen Campaign Emphasis Conference, from same position in Alabama- Londa L. Schmidt (AU '61; Hinsdale Med. February 23 Tract Evangelism March 2 Mississippi Conference. Tech. '63), returning as a teacher, Middle Church Lay Activities Offering March 2 Leon Cornforth, Sabbath school, lay activ- East College, Beirut, Lebanon, of San Pedro, Spring Missions Offering March 9 ities, and communication secretary, Arizona California, left New York, September 20, Conference, formerly lay activities secretary 1973. of Georgia-Cumberland Conference. Donald K. Short (CUC '40), returning as Jess Dixon, pastor, Sheridan, Wyoming, publishing house manager, Sentinel Pub- r district, from Potomac Conference. lishing Association, Cape Town, South Af- Jack Henderson, publishing secretary, rica; and Garnette G. (Mathe) Short (CUC), of Change of Address Arizona Conference, formerly assistant pub- Apopka, Florida, left Washington, D.C., Sep- lishing secretary, Ohio Conference. tember 10, 1973. If you're moving, please Albert Dwight Smith, Jr. (AUC '57), re- let us know six weeks Ted Herr, pastor, Sequim, Washington, dis- before changing your trict, from Oak Park, Illinois. turning as a science teacher, Adventist Col- address. Place magazine Robert Hunter, pastor, Carolina Confer- lege of West Africa, Ilishan-Remo, West Ni- address label here, print ence, from Andrews University. geria; Ruth Ellen (Schwartz) Smith (AUC), your new address below. Tom Knoll, member of Snow evangelistic and two children, of Stockton, California, If you have a question team', British Columbia, Canada, from Vir- left Washington, D.C., September 8, 1973. about your subscription, place your magazine ad- ginia. William Earl Smith (WWC '57; AU '58), re- RE turning as a missionary pilot, West Irian dress label here and clip Ruben Lopez, treasurer, Kentucky-Ten- this form to your letter. HE nessee Conference, from assistant treasurer, Mission, Djajapura, Irian, Indonesia, Oleta Florida Conference. 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nes) Vandulek (Radford College '58; AU '62), ATTAC Yan-Letchworth churches, New York Con- of the following boxes ference, from Wisconsin Conference. and two children, of Lansing, Michigan, left and mail this form with William VanGrit, staff, Marienhoehe Mis- New York, September 2, 1973. your payment to your sionary Seminary, Darmstadt, Germany, Velyo R. Vinglas (AUC '60) returning as Book and Bible House. ❑ ❑ from Pacific Union College. secretary-treasurer, Mashonaland Field, new subscription re- Inyazura, Rhodesia; Martha E. (Johnson) new my present subscription. Vinglas (AUC '61) and two children, of Leo- ❑ one year ❑ perpetual. FROM HOME BASE TO FRONT LINE minster, Massachusetts, left Boston, Sep- tember 30, 1973. Maynard F. Aaby, D.D.S. (Univ. of Nebr. Marilyn M. Weesner (AU '62), to serve as subscription rates: '44), to serve as relief dentist, Bangladesh dietitian, Saigon Adventist Hospital, Saigon, Clinic, Ramna, Dacca, Bangladesh; and Olga Vietnam, of Loma Linda, California, left ❑ 1 year $9.95 ❑ perpetual $8.50 Louise Aaby, of Tracy, California, left San Los Angeles, September 22, 1973. ❑ Payment enclosed ❑ Bill me later. Francisco, September 19, 1973. Robert A. Forbes (UC '61), returning as field secretary, Mulangeni, Malawi; Betty D. ADVENTIST VOLUNTEER SERVICE CORPS name (please print) (Bloom) Forbes (UC), and three children, of Akron, Ohio, left Washington, D.C., Septem- Maureen Blabey, of Willowdale, Ontario, ber 23, 1973. Canada, to serve as a teacher, Japan Mis- address Dean 0. McDaniel (WWC '63; AU '64), re- sionary College, Saniku Gakuin, Chiba-Ken, Japan, left Los Angeles, July 24, 1973. turning as a pastor and district leader, Ni- city state zip code cosia, Cyprus; Valora L. (Mechalke) McDaniel Bruce B. Boyd, of Sandpoint, Idaho, to (WWC), and four children, of Chowchilla, serve as a teacher, Calcutta Adventist Acad- I-

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page Paradise Valley Hospital, was placed on loan for one year and arrived in Australia in January, 1973. After a preliminary period of planning and organization the new Volunteer Services Organization was launched. Within weeks more than 100 volun- Cambodian Membership Doubles teers had joined the new organization. Membership now exceeds 150. These volunteers have already Cambodian church membership doubled at an made a significant contribution to the hospital. Lo- October 20 baptism in Phnom Penh. In that war- cal leadership has been trained and is taking over torn country the work of the Adventist Church has responsibility for the volunteer-service area. been slow. When the student missionaries and regu- Miss Carlsson has been asked to spend the last lar missionaries evacuated Cambodia in August three months of her year setting up a Volunteer owing to unsettled political conditions, they left Services Organization in the new Auckland Ad- behind only seven baptized Cambodian nationals. ventist Hospital, first Adventist hospital in New The missionaries went back the first part of Septem- Zealand, presently under construction and soon to ber to reopen the English-language school and con- open. A. E. GIBE tinue the church's evangelistic thrust in Cambodia. The recent evangelistic crusade at the language center drew 40 persons, according to missionary Union Publishing Men Set Goals Helton Fisher. JANE ALLEN Central Union publishing leaders, recognizing the urgency of complex world conditions, have set College and University Enrollments a special 1974 soul-winning goal of 450 new members. Administrators are considering the employ- The following statistics indicate the number of ment of additional well-trained evangelistic work- students who are taking classes on campuses of ers to follow up the thousands of spiritual interests Seventh-day Adventist Colleges in North America. developed by literature evangelists. A sales goal of $2,125,000 was set for 1974. BRUCE M. WICKWIRE * Andrews University 2,276 Atlantic Union College 674 Canadian Union College 98 Ellen White "Signs" Articles Reprinted Columbia Union College 826 Kettering College of Medical Arts 334 The publication of Ellen G. White's REVIEW AND Kingsway College 31 HERALD articles has created a growing demand for * Loma Linda University 3,877 Mrs. White's Signs of the Times articles. For some Oakwood College 988 time at the White Estate the necessary careful prep- * Pacific Union College 2,108 aration in arranging for their publication has been Southern Missionary College 1,536 under way. About a third of the 2,000 Signs of the Southwestern Union College 616 Times articles are reprints, either from the REVIEW Union College 753 AND HERALD or from earlier issues of the Signs or Walla Walla College 1,835 Ellen White books. These will not be included. The Signs of the Times articles in facsimile form Total Student Enrollment 15,952 will provide four volumes of approximately 520 In addition, several schools have off-campus ex- pages each. It is planned that volume 1 will be tension programs, the enrollments of which are not ready for distribution by the summer of 1974, just included in these figures. There is an increase of 100 years after James White published the first copy 638 students over last year. The asterisk notes that of the Signs of the Times. At closely spaced intervals students on post-graduate and/or graduate levels the Pacific Press will issue the other volumes in the are included. CHARLES B. HIRSCH series. There is a richness in the Ellen G. White Signs articles, particularly in doctrinal lines, which will be Volunteers in Australasian Hospitals appreciated by the thoughtful reader. Many of these Ellen White wrote especially for non-Adventist H. E. Clifford, M.D., medical director of the Sydney readers reached by the evangelistic Signs of the Adventist Hospital, reports the launching of a new Times. ARTHUR L. WHITE Volunteer Services Organization at the time of the official opening of the hospital's new building earlier this year. (See August 23, 1973, REVIEW.) There First SDA's Son Dies in Washington are now about 150 volunteers contributing their services to the hospital through this new organiza- Ernest Emory Farnsworth, 101, born June 24, tion. 1872, in Washington, New Hampshire, died in Walla The administration of the hospital has felt the Walla, Washington, on October 28. In recent years need for such a service organization for some time, he had lived in Chehalis, Washington. He was the but did not have experienced leadership in that twenty-first and last living child in a family of 22. area. In 1972 a request was made to the Paradise His father, William Farnsworth, is considered to Valley Hospital, National City, California, for help. have been the first Adventist to observe the seventh Ethel Carlsson, director of volunteer services at the day as the Sabbath.

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