A Journal of Adventist History Volume 16 Number 1 CONTRIBUTORS Michelle Abel is a second-year university student majoring in profes- clididtrge sional writing and history and looking to a B.A. degree. She moved from waitressing at the Valley View Restaurant in the Warburton Health Care Centre to a position as editorial assistant at the Signs Publishing Com- Editor pany in Victoria, Australia. She has two younger brothers and two Dorothy Minchin-Comm younger sisters, accounting for five of the grandchildren of Kenneth Mead. Michelle is single, though she speaks enthusiarically about her La Sierra University boyfriend. Her hobbies include reading and writing, travel, and eating Italian and Malaysian food. Associate Editors Ronald D. Graybill Malcolm J. Bull graduated from Avondale College with a B.A. in La Sierra University Theology. Having served for a year as the island's pastor, his knowledge Gary Land Sorry, of Pitcairn comes first-hand. He has also ministered in New Zealand, and since Andrews University photo not January of 1993 he has been the minister of the Moree, New South Wales, available church. His wife, Glenysie Evelyn, hails from New Zealand, and they have Guest Editor four children. Arthur N. Patrick Sydney Adventist Hospital Managing Editor Ella Lenona Coombs lives with her husband, Glen, at Balcolyn, New Norman D. Ault, Jr. South Wales, on the shores of Lake Macquarie. As a granddaughter of La Sierra University Maud Sisley Boyd, she has taken a keen interest in the early pioneer history of Avondale College. Her husband worked as a government land Editorial Intern evaluator, and Ella made a lifetime career of primary school teaching. Kara S. Watkins Retirement now permits time for her hobbies of gardening, music, sewing, and, as she puts it, "loving my granddaughters." Layout and Design Kara S. Watkins Circulation Manager Laurence Gilmore served as a paramedic in the Australian Army Medical Ronald D. Graybill Corps during World War II. As a young man called to pioneer mission work in Papua New Guinea, he took his young wife June and five-month- old baby to this isolated island country. Subsequently, he returned to Managing Board New Zealand to work in several large city missions and to pastor. Later Dorothy Minchin-Comm %OF he filled public relations posts in New South Wales, becoming the Steve Daily founding editor of a monthly newsletter, Conference News. He has four Ronald D. Graybill children and five grandchildren. In retirement he and June live in Fritz Guy Balcolyn, NSW where they pursue their hobby of gardening. Frederick Hoyt John R. Jones Milton Hook, a pastor-evangelist in Sydney, Australia, lives in Wahroonga. Stuart Tyner He graduated twice from Avondale College, with a Primary Teacher's Kenneth L. Vine Certificate (1961) and a Theology degree (1964 ). From Andrews Univer- sity he holds two degrees, an MA in Religious Education (1976) and an Editorial Board EdD in Religious Education (1978). He has served as an elementary Ronald D. Graybill school teacher as well as a Bible teacher at both the academy and college levels. He and his wife Beverley served as missionaries in Papua New Gary Land Guinea. They have two sons, Andrew and Lauren. Milton enjoys stamp Dorothy M inch in-Comm collecting and walking. His interest in historical research and genealogi- cal studies has made possible his contributions to Adventist Heritage. Continued on next page ADVENTIST HERITAGE f Spring 1993 CONTRIBUTORS Robert K. McIver, along with his wife Susan and their two daughters Althea and Skye, resides at Avondale College, where he is a Senior Lecturer in the Theology Department. Robert has earned several degrees, including a BSc from Canterbury University, a BA from Avondale College, a BD(Honors) from London University, and an MA and a PhD from Andrews University. Before joining the faculty at Avondale, he taught high school Mathematics and worked as a Youth Pastor. His special interests include studying the Gospel of Matthew and archaeology. Karen Miller is a graduate of Avondale College (B.Ed.). Having served nine years as a secondary school English teacher for the Seventh-day Adventist educational system in Australia, she now works as an Assistant Editor at Signs Publishing Company in Warburton, Victoria, Australia. She is involved in the production of three church journals, Record, Good Health, and Signs. She is devoted to her family of two sisters, one brother-in-law, a "very precious three-year-old niece, and her widowed mother. Her special interests include photography and travelling, but she ranks writing at the top of her list. Arthur Patrick, of Castle Hill, New South Wales, has behind him a rich history of service—first in pastoring, and then in teaching in New Zealand and Australia. Since 1992 he has been Senior Chaplain at Sydney Adventist Hospital. His academic record includes early studies at Avondale College (1954-1957), followed by an MA in Theology and a MDiv (1972) at Andrews University. He took his next three degrees in Australia: DMin from Christian Theological Seminary in 1973; MLitt from University of New England in 1984; and Ph.D. from the University ofN ewcas de in 1992. His d issertat ion d iscussed "Christianity and Culture in Colonial Australia ..., 1891 - 1900." His special- interests publications on Australian church history qualify him well to be guest editor of this issue of Adventist Heritage. Gilbert Valentine, with his wife Gail and two teenage sons, presently lives at Newbold College, England, where he serves as Chaplain and senior lecturer in Religion. His wife lectures in business Studies at Henley College. After some years in pastoral and youth ministry in Australia (1969-.1974), he served as President of Pakistan Adventist Seminary (1985-1990). He holds a BA from Avondale College (1968) as well as an MA and a PhD from Andrews University (1982). A prolific writer and researcher in SDA history, his most recent book published was The Shape of Adventism. Gardening, tennis, and music are his regular hobbies, but just now they are secondary, he says, to "soaking up the beauty of England's historic homes, churches, and gardens." clieritve Volume 16, Number 1 Spring, 1993 Editor's Stump 3 Arthur N. Patrick Dorothy Minchin-Comm Photo Essay 6 Kenneth Mead: Michelle Abel and Karen Miller Painting Pastor of Australia Bookmark 10 Arthur Ferch's Journey of Hope Milton Hook Medicine 13 Hospital on a Hilltop Milton Hook Church Beginnings 30 Ellen White: Mother of the Church Arthur N. Patrick in the South Pacific History 41 South Pacific Historians Gilbert Valentine Interpret Their Church Education 46 Physical, Mental, and Moral Robert McIver Education at Avondale College Island Adventists 56 Triumphs, Tragedies, and Transportation: Malcolm J. Bull AQuarter-Centuryon Pitcairn Island, 1890-1924 Biography 70 The Sisleys: Ella L. Coombs & Dorothy Minchin-Comm Lives of Sacrifice and Service Adventist Heritage is published by La Sierra University, 4700 Pierce Street, Riverside, CA 92515-8247. Bulk postage rates paid at Riverside, CA. Copyright 1993 by La Sierra University. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $12 for three issues ($18 overseas surface mail, $25 overseas air mail). Available back issues are sold for $4 each. Subscription orders, change of address notices, editorial correspondence and manuscripts should be sent to: Adventist Heritage, La Sierra University, Riverside, CA 92515-8247. Adventist Heritage invites manuscripts. Each will be considered, but no responsibility will be assumed for unsolicited materials. Adventist Heritage is indexed in the S.D.A. Periodicals Index, and is available from University Microfilms International. ISSN 0360-389X. ADVENTIST HERITAGE / Spring 1993 THE EDITOR'S STUMP Interpreting the Adventist Past in Australasia by Arthur Patrick Guest Editor "The First Fleet" is the the United States before he led the pioneer band of universally -accepted name Adventist missionaries to Australia and New Zea- for eleven motley ships land. The very next year (1886) Haskell described which brought the first Euro- the church's new missions in the Southern Hemi- pean residents to Australia in sphere for a volume published in Basel, Switzerland, 1788. Almost a century later entitled Historical Sketches of the Foreign Mission of the the first contingent of Sev- Seventh-day Adventists. enth-day Adventist mission- During 1899 the Agricultural Gazette of New South aries paused briefly in Sydney Wales reported on a visit by a Member of Parliament before settling in Melbourne, and others to the institution which is now Avondale the capital of the colony (now state) of Victoria during College. The author, W.S. Campbell, was impressed 1885. Thus it is only recently that the Adventists by the new "industrial college" and by "some splendid celebrated their centenary (1985), just before the specimens of young vegetarians" which he saw "run- Australians hosted a plethora of bicentennial events ning about." in 1988. Since then the Adventists have remem- Readers of Adventist Heritage will be intrigued by bered the centenary of Ellen Whites's arrival (1891) Gilbert Valentine's account of Adventist historiog- for a nine-year sojourn in the antipodes. raphy with reference to the church in the South Pacific Adventist Heritage has been to the fore in helping Division. A New Zealander now working in England, the church in the vast territory of the South Pacific Valentine's credentials as an Adventist historian are Division tell its story to the rest of the Adventist world. best illustrated by his 1992 volume from Andrews A special issue focused on the then Australas ian Division University Press, The Shaping of Adventism: The Case in 1985, and feature articles have appeared in other of W .W . Prescott. issues. It is fitting, then, that this issue should include, Hugh Mackay, one of the most acute observers in addition to narrative, a more comprehensive attempt of contemporary life in this country, has this year at interpretation.