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111STRALASIAN RIN3011,1) id advent world survey Editor: Robert H .Parr VOL. 81, NO. 3 PRICE: 13 CENTS January 19, 1976 WELCOME TO was welcomed! In the next two weeks preparations were completed; everything was in readiness, from a refrigerator full AUSTRAUSWS FIRST SPANISH PASTOR AND FAMILY of food to the baby's cot, and toys for the children. E. B. PRICE, Lay Activities Director, Victorian Conference At five minutes to midnight on Sunday night, November 16, the Conference A DREAM WAS REALIZED by Migrant director, Pastor J. A. Skrzypaszek, president, Pastor H. C. Barritt, Migrant on Monday, November 17, when Pastor Manuel Cea and his family arrived in director, Pastor J. A. Skrzypaszek, and Melbourne to head up the Spanish work in Victoria. This dream began when his assistant, Brother Majchrowski, along Pastor Skrzypaszek baptized the first Spanish converts, Brother and Sister Cano, with Pastor and Mrs. Self, the writer a few years ago. Since that time the number of Spanish-speaking people has and a contingent of over twenty Spanish people, gathered at Tullamarine to wel- grown. Fostered by Pastor and Mrs. Self in recent years at Glenhuntly, a group come the family. The T.A.A. plane now numbering up to forty Spanish people with an ever-increasing number of arrived on time, the people alighted— interests, began to clamour for a pastor to lead and care for them. then the stream of people stopped. "Any more still to get off the plane?" we Many of the Spanish-speaking people The response was magnificent. Offers asked. The gracious hostess replied that who had recently migrated from Chile of furniture and household goods poured the plane was empty—our family was not mentioned the name of an outstanding in to Sister Self, who was co-ordinating on it, and there were no more planes out evangelist in Chile—Pastor Cea (pro- the project. We wondered how we would of Sydney that night! nounced Sayer)—and began to pray that get it all picked up and installed in time, Next morning a very tired family ar- the way would be opened to call him to when news came through that the rived on the first plane down, having this field. Pastor Cea often baptized over family would not be arriving for another 100 people a year. Would his Con- two weeks. This was the first delay that (Concluded on page 14) ference release him, and would he be prepared to leave home and loved ones to cross an ocean and work in a strange land, having to learn a new language? As delay after delay came and the months and years slipped by, the Spanish people were at times tempted to become discouraged. During this period Pastor and Mrs. Self proved a tower of strength to these folk, as they learned Spanish and opened their hearts and home to them. Then Sister Self began a specialized work in migrant centres initially for the Spanish people. Finally, word arrived that all was in readiness for the Cea family to leave. In the early hours of one Sabbath morning they were scheduled to arrive, the pastor, his wife, and five children—the youngest a baby. What would they sleep on ...? Pastor Skrzypaszek recalled his welcome to Victoria, and the old camp bed which left his back aching for the next three months! We determined to make every- thing as comfortable as possible for this family, so they could quickly commence the work they had come to take up. Response Magnificent Calls were sent out to each city Federa- tion, and in turn to the individual societies, for furniture and everything else a family of seven arriving from Victorian Conference president Pastor H. C. Barritt welcomes Pastor and Mrs. Cea to South America with just a few suitcases Victoria, where they will care for the Spanish-speaking believers and interests, centred would require to set up home. in the Glenhuntly area. Photo: R. H. H. Thomas. Registered for posting as a Periodical—Category A [2] 19/1/76 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD beams of greater building length could not be found in the area, it has a glorious Visitor to Vienna tells of . Spanish altar over 300 years old shim- mering with gold and semi-precious stones. Ornately carved and crafted timbers, beautiful colours and Spanish charm, marked the whole area in this THE PLACES WHERE amazing, if minute, house of worship. It was in Rome, though, a city of 500 splendidly ornate places of worship, where questions had begun to arise. Our THEY WORSHIPPED passion for beautiful churches led us to EDNA HEISE only a few of these. St. Peters, of course, must be seen to be believed. But one I THOUGHT I HAD NEVER SEEN anything so poetically exquisite as question persisted. Why were so many of these monumentally lovely houses of the delicate lace of stone that composed the towers of St. Stephen's Church in worship seldom filled? Some seldom Vienna. I wanted to get closer to that symphony in stone, but that was a used? And what effect did such elegant mistake, in a way. I just couldn't see those magnificent towers from close range. churches have on the communities who My neck doesn't take kindly to an extended stop at the ninety-degree angle. So lived beneath their shadows? The great- we remembered to take a further long look at the superb sight as we peered from er the number of churches, we hopefully the windows of tall buildings nearby. It hurt to think that bombs had so fear- predicted, the greater the community fully ravaged such beauty during the war. What idiocy war is! piety. And what did we find in just one of Built with infinite care at astronomical they still needed to be repeated, as more these cities? cost, it was a fitting house in which to and more continental churches submit- worship God—built not once, but, with ted to our eager investigation. Then No Curb to Sinfulness no credit to the disastrous war, twice, came the unforgettable Westminster Ab- Three of our acquaintances had bags with equally painstaking craftsmanship. bey of London. Majestic, historic, and violently snatched from their arms. A This was the spirit reminiscent of David, beautiful—all that we hoped it would be. guide agreed to a price for a tour only King of Israel, who sought eagerly to New York heard the epithets again as to return and demand more for his ser- build a house fitted for the glory and the bus tour stopped by what must be vices. Bus drivers refused to set our worship of God. the biggest church in America—St. Johns. party down at its proper destination un- Then we visited Munich. From the Nearby Riverside Church, with its famous less a further astronomical sum of money tower of the Rathaus or Town Hall, we organ, HAD to be superb. You see, Mr. was offered. Pick-pockets made a bid to saw the spires of a huge church beneath Rockefeller was refused a place on the relieve one of our party of his wallet. our feet. This we had to see. My diary Board of St. Johns, so our guide told us, Improper passes were made to some of recalls the splendour of the multi- so he left that church and built one of the ladies, while angry drivers leaned on coloured artistry on those vast ceilings, his own—Riverside. It IS superb, and he their horns for the smallest incon- supported by enormous columns topped WAS on the Board. venience caused by the huge column of traffic. with delicate pastel colours. I wondered Memorial Chapel of Rare Beauty And I wondered why. One conclusion if it was worth looking at any other But for compelling beauty, magnificent I'll share. churches. It seemed we had found the taste and consummate elegance, the When Jesus stood up in the chapel at ultimate in beauty! Like too many other Stanford Memorial Chapel must claim Capernaum one Sabbath morning, "the glorious monuments to the worship of first place. The Stanford University in eyes of all were upon Him." So I won- the Lord in Europe, this also, after suffer- Palo Alto, California, was built by the dered if with all their physical mag- ing its baptism by bombs, was meticu- Stanford parents in memory of their son. nificence, these places built for the lously restored to its original splendour. Central to the university campus stands We saw the desolating ruins captured on this remarkable chapel. Both Leyland worship of God were not being used according to the original terms of con- film for all to see. What courage it must and Jane Stanford were deeply religious, have taken to begin again! and they determined to provide a place tract—to lift up Jesus Christ for all to see, to hold out hands beckoning the Spires Pointing Heavenward of inspiration and worship which would sinner steeped in guilt to come to the West, then by south in the luxurious thus relate religion in a significant way Fountain for cleansing—to say to the trains of Europe, and one common factor to the high purposes of a university. broken-hearted, "Jesus, the source of all prevailed—in every small town and ham- "While my whole heart is in that uni- comfort, is here with all the healing your let that nestled in the picture-book versity," said Mrs. Stanford, "my whole sad heart needs." Even to the proud, the countryside, the church was central. One soul is in that church." And judging church has a message if it will give it: spire, two spires, gold-painted spires, by the exquisite beauty infused into it, "Come, fall on the Rock, Christ Jesus, shining steel spires, sheer-white towers her claim was fully demonstrated.