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Dp HAWAIIAN ISLANDS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE PACIFIC UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS VOL. 59 ANGWIN, CALIFORNIA, JANUARY 18, 1960 NO. 25 Cancer Research Project Give for Freedom The faith and hope of the Seventh- Watchman, What of 1960? From our standpoint time is short, and day Adventist Church member grows In 1959 Sunday Legislation in the these Sunday law programs give us a stronger as he watches the fulfillment United States received stronger support unique opportunity to state the truth of prophecies. He thrills as the authen- than ever before in the history of the concerning the Lord's true Sabbath. ticity of the Word of God is revealed "land of liberty," states the editorial in Let us roll up a very liberal offering through archaeological and scientific re- 'Tell. on January 23. search. He is glad when instruction Eternal vigilance is the price of lib- F. W. SCHNEPPER, President, from the Spirit of prophecy is verified erty, but it costs something to promote Pacific Union Conference. and supported by practical test and ap- the cause of liberty. We do not know plication, but his satisfaction and pleas- what 1960 will bring, but we must do Herald of Freedom— ure reaches its greatest height when he all in our power to defend religious free- Liberty Magazine himself has opportunity to make a tan- dom and the separation of church and Words like "Freedom" and "Liberty" gible contribution to a fact-finding proj- state as these issues confront us. are trite words in the vocabulary of an ect which may add significantly to the To this end we have decided on an American citizen, yet their meaning is distinctiveness of his position. Such a ambitious program to acquaint public as deep as life itself. Without freedom research endeavor is being sponsored by officials of this menace and its meaning, the life of a human soul is without the American Cancer Society. by use of the Liberty magazine. What meaning. We, as Seventh-day Adventists in better material could we use? The big An environment of religious freedom California, have been given the oppor- day for helping financially is Sabbath, is one phase of our republican form of tunity to participate as a group. While January 23. government The Constitution guaran- the American Cancer Society enrolled tees that congress will not enact laws Startling developments are taking and questioned over a million people in which establish religion or which will place around us today, and we are ap- the November, 1959, project, we will prevent the free exercise of religion. proaching the troublous times of the participate as a block, thus making avail- This "hands off" procedure has brought end. Liberty of conscience is already able a valuable mass of statistics not prosperity to the nation and growth to denied in some countries, and here in only for our own research men at the our homeland the advocates of Sunday (Continued on page 2) (Continued on page 4) laws are pressuring the legislatures. A Sunday blue law revival is sweeping America, if we are to judge by the expe- What You Can Do rience of 1959 when thirty-two states The church must be stirred. The false propaganda by TV and radio is were engaged in some kind of Sunday forces of intemperance are gaining casting a bewitching spell over many blue law agitation. ground. According to recent data re- youthful minds today. Our religious liberty secretaries are leased by the Federal Bureau of Investi- It is time to act. For years our church counting on you to provide the means gation, fifty-seven per cent of all arrests has believed in the doctrine of total for combating this trend. The least we in 1,586 American cities last year were abstinence, but we have done little to can do is to make the most of every related to alcohol. The National Safety give the church-sponsored American opportunity to hold back the forces of Council reveals that up to fifty per cent Temperance Society any backing. Actu- evil in order that people may be able to of highway accidents is due to drinking ally only one in every sixteen Adventists better understand and appreciate the and driving. in the Pacific Union is a member of privilege of living in a land where there Alcohol consumption in California is the ATS. Seriously, is this in keeping is freedom. increasing at twice the rate of the popu- with the clear-cut counsel from God's We must keep this line of defense lation. The situation is serious, and one servant when she states: "From the light strong, not merely to protect our own thing that alarms us most is the fact God has given me. every member among religious rights but to maintain the that liquor and tobacco advertisements us should sign the pledge and be con- essential conditions and privileges neces- are making inroads among our own nected with the temperance association." sary to finish the work given us of God. Youth. The constant bombardment of Temperance, p. 197, "Of all who claim 2 PACIFIC UNION RECORDER Pacific Union Recorder VOL. 59 NO. 25 Something NEW MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1960 Official organ of the Pacific Union Con- ference of Seventh-day Adventists, Box 146, Glendale, California. Published weekly at Angwin, Calif.; fifty issues a year. Address: l'acific Union Recorder, Box Angwin, California. Notice of change of address should give both the old and the new address. Subscription Price, $1.00 a Year W. J. BLACKER Editor MRS. MARGARET FOLLETT . Assistant Editor F. W. SCHNEPPER . —Assistant Editor Entered as second-class matter Septem- ber 3, 1927, at the post office at Angwin. California, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Acceptance for mailing at Watch for your special the special rate of postage provided for I GEs1 16'176°1 "6:A 1c)ultcandy-striped csult envelope. It will in section 412, Act of February 28, 1925, authorized September 3, 1927. be delivered to you by mail this week. to be numbered among the friends together with your offering of February Sunset Table of temperance, Seventh-day Adventists 27 to sponsor 35,000 Listen magazine Friday, January 22 should stand in the front ranks." Ibid., subscriptions to the elementary and sec- Angwin 5:20 Oakland 5:21 p. 233. ondary public school teachers of Cali- Arlington 5:10 San Diego 5:12 What more can be said? Your church fornia and other states in our union. Chico 5:14 San Jose 5:20 and conference leaders are ready to act. Think how much good this can accom- Eureka 5:21 Phoenix 5:50 Your personal support now is urgently plish for it's the teachers who mold the Fresno 5:13 Reno 5:07 Lodi 5:16 Salt Lake City 5:32 needed. We pray that as this opportu- thinking and habits of the youth today. Loma Linda 5:09 Honolulu 6:15 nity comes to you this year, by a special OUR SLOGAN Los Angeles 5:13 Hilo 6:06 striped envelope through the mail, you "Every Believer a Member." will be aroused to action. We trust that MILLER BRQCKETT. Friday, January 29 every believer and family in the Pacific Angwin 5:28 Oakland 5:29 Union will become bona fide members Arlington 5:17 San Diego 5:18 of the ATS by signing the pledge and Give for Freedom Chico 5:28 San Jose 5:28 giving the membership fee indicated so (Continued from page 1) Eureka 5:80 Phoenix 5:56 that the work can go forward. Fresno 5:21 Reno 5:15 religious movements within the borders Lodi 5:24 Salt Lake City 5:41 Four simple steps will make you or of the nation. Loma Linda 5:16 Honolulu 6:20 your family active members: Despite the proven success of this Los Angeles 5:20 Hilo 6:11 1. Sign the pledge that you will re- wall of separation between church and ceive in the candy-striped envelope com- state, there are citizens acting both in- MAKE A . ing to you by mail this week. dividually and collectively who have as 2. Check the membership you desire their objective the altering of this tra- VOICE —$2 for the regular membership, or $3 ditional concept. for the family membership which in- Demands are made to secure govern- CALL SUNDAY cludes everyone in the home. ment tax money for church-sponsored 3. Enclose the small fee, according Invite Others to Listen literature evangelists to carry on their to membership checked. door-to-door ministry. Under a banner THE VOICE OF PROPHECY SERMON TOPICS 4. Return it immediately to your con- of "public welfare" Sunday closing laws "The Purchased Kingdom"—Jan. 24. ference. This action makes you a mem- are introduced into state legislatures. ber of the church-sponsored temperance Probably ninety-nine and forty-four one, Bible Questions Answered—Jan. 31. society called the American Temperance hundredths per cent of American citi- --0-- Society. In return you will receive abso- zens would declare a firm belief in the "Those who live for themselves are lutely free, all year long, the bimonthly principle of religious freedom, but a always in want; for they are never temperance journal Listen. great number of these support the type. satisfied." Your membership funds will be used of measures described above because of "Angels are now restraining the winds of strife. but a storm is gathering. and when God shall bid His angels loose the winds, there will be such a scene of strife as no pen can picture, - -EDUCATION.