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[Not long ago we reported the case of a little Pakistani girl flown to Los Angeles for and heart surgery at our medical school. This incident led to a Government-aided plan to fly certain of the Lorna Linda medical staff to Karachi for a month of heart surgery. As you will note from the date line, this report was written and sent from Karachi.— EDITORS.] Overseas KARACHI, PAKISTAN, JUNE 2, 1963. URING their month in Karachi the physician members of the team saw nearly 300 patients and operated on 44. D In a city that often has been sharply critical of the Heart Seventh-day Adventist hospital, the Loma Linda University Heart Mission made a most positive impact. Local newspapers have written of the "miraculous success of the project." Scores of Pakistani physicians have entered our hospital for the first Surgery time so they might witness the medical skills of the team. The United States ambassador to Pakistan, Walter P. McConaughy, has spoken of the "pride with which all Americans view" their work. "With the Lord's blessing, we may help some of these peo- ple," said Dr. Ellsworth E. Wareham, associate professor of surgery at Loma Linda University and leader of the team. By Jerry Wiley And no one could deny that the Lord is blessing, for as this Manager of News Publications is written, not a single patient has been lost, and the Seventh- Loma Linda University day Adventist hospital in Karachi has been the focus of the most favorable publicity concerning America that the city has seen in months. [A patient died after this report was sent to us. The story of God's overruling providence in connection with this will be reported later.—EDITORS.] The University Heart Mission offers (To page 8)

Vol. 140 No. 28 TRUE SELF-KNOWLEDGE ES A SPUR TO ACHIEVEMENT ,AND AN AID TO ACQUIRING A BALANCED MATURITY

By Albert L. Hendrickson

NSCRIBED in letters of gold on e, endowed with a desire to know the Greek temple at Delphi, and now best to adjust himself to the de- I regarded as divine, were the mands that life has placed upon him. words "Know thyself." Because man is gregarious by nature, There are many reasons why it is le courts the approval of the society important to know and understand n which he lives. Thus one goal of self. First, we cannot deal intelligently ife is to make this adjustment success- with self unless we understand self. Ully and so obtain general approval. Second, we cannot deal intelligently This will help bring happiness. with others unless we are acquainted Various and devious means are em- with self. loyed by some people to attract the An acquaintance with self keeps us ttention of their associates. Men from overestimating our worth. One trive to obtain wealth, position, and of the best ways of evaluating self is •ower—in excess of the common to view ourselves through the eyes of ood—for the prestige that these ac- our friends—or our enemies. Our uirements provide. Or they may seek friends may hesitate to tell us what ocial prestige by camouflage, deceit, they consider to be our true value, o r show-off methods. but our enemies are usually quite free with their criticism. attlesnake Pete Here lurks the first enemy to con- In a Midwestern town a little old sistent self-analysis. We give too much an, bedecked in all the gaudy trap- credence to complimentary remarks, ings peculiar to the old West, ap- while we discount the uncomplimen- proached me, extended his hand, and tary. Because we are sure that only nceremoniously introduced himself our friends, who comment favorably, s Rattlesnake Pete. Some kind of see us in the right light, and that celebration was in progress, and Rat- those who make unfavorable com- lesnake Pete grandiloquently took ments are biased, it is impossible for is place in the colorful parade. I us to obtain an accurate picture of ained the impression that this little ourselves. old man was an egotist with an im- As Robert Burns so aptly stated: ature mind. His mind had reached "Oh, wad some power the gif tie gie us i s maturity at an age when to play To see oursel's as ithers see us!" cowboy and Indian seemed best calcu- If we could but see ourselves as ls to attract the attention of one's others see us, we would recognize the llows. He was Rattlesnake Pete, and need to correct in ourselves some of hero in his own eyes. the same unlovely traits we see in There are many Rattlesnake Petes others. i the world, with varying degrees of If we become offended when others i telligence and learning. Not long tell the truth about us, it is because a o the nation was stunned by the we have placed upon ourselves a ews that a boy had committed a greater value than is justifiable. We s•ries of revolting murders. News are unwilling to reason objectively in s ories took note of the fact that this seeking self-acquaintance because of 1 d walked with a swagger. He lacked the results that an honest appraisal c lture, education, training, and com- of self will reveal. We are afraid of on decency, so he attempted to sup- what we will see in the mirror of •ly the lack and attract attention by a self-inspection. s agger and by murder. In this way We can know ourselves. Everyone received the attention that, with else knows us, at least partially. Many h s limited intelligence, he had pre- have tried to tell us what we are like. y ously been unable to secure—a Rat- Why not attempt to discover in our- t esnake Pete with a criminal mind. selves what everyone else has known Bob Morley was an ambitious, all along? Socrates declared that "the od-looking young man with high unexamined life is not worth living." eals, natural dignity, and a pleasing Every person is, or at least should p rsonality. Although not a brilliant REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 student, he finally received a Doctor of the crowd. He made no bid for bald made a complimentary remark of Philosophy degree. Bob liked to be popular acclaim, nor did he advertise about his phenomenal achievement. in the limelight. He joined various his virtues. Don Walters had no il- Looking at Archibald with those deep- organizations and carried on a rather lusions about himself. He was ac- set eyes, he replied, "Archie, my boy, consistent advertising campaign to quainted with his imperfections, and we know nothing."' solicit cheers for himself from the he was mature in his appraisal of Many a person who has been the grandstand. them. He had 'become acquainted object of the egotist's contempt has But those on the side lines were not with himself. risen to look with pity upon the one impressed. They saw him only as On May 20, 1927, a young man set whose false sense of values cheated plain Bob with mediocre ability and forth on a mission that was destined him of the respect of others. Someone an ear tuned to the applause of the to immortalize his name in the field has aptly said, "Be nice to your news- crowd. They could have loved him of aviation. Charles Lindbergh en- boy; you may be tried in his court for what he was and for what he had joyed a measure of popularity ac- someday." accomplished if only he had evi- corded to comparatively few men of James, a lonely boy, once stopped denced a maturity comparable to any age or station, and yet through at the home of a prosperous farmer those accomplishments. But Bob it all he remained diffident and unas- and asked for a job. The farmer chose the Rattlesnake Pete approach. suming. Lindbergh's greatness lay not needed help, and being favorably im- Money is often used by those who so much in his achievement as in his pressed, he hired the lad. As time happen to possess it as a means of im- ability to graciously and modestly ac- went on, James fell in love with the pressing others with their importance. cept the acclaim of his admirers. He farmer's daughter. He approached To assume, however, that possessing sought not for the plaudits of the mul- the father and asked him for the hand money will in itself make one favor- titudes but for seclusion and peace of of his daughter. The father was in- ably accepted is an unjustifiable as- mind, and in so doing he revealed censed to think that this nobody sumption. A wealthy person either his mature manhood. People loved would presume to ask for the daugh- can be loved or hated. People love and admired Charles Lindbergh be- ter of a well-to-do farmer, and the the modesty and humility that ac- cause he was able to remain humble boy accordingly was dismissed and companies the mature and well-bal- when honored, and sought not the sent on his way. anced man of wealth, and they hate laurels of a hero-worshiping popu- Years passed, and as the farmer the snobbishness of the immature and lace. built new and better buildings, it be- self-centered person. Most snobs become so with little came necessary to tear down the old Vance Dorsey, for example, was the cause. Snobbishness is often inversely barn where, in the hayloft, James had son of a wealthy businessman, and he proportionate to learning. The vir- slept while working as the hired man. enjoyed the privileges common to one tues that snobbish people think they As they removed the various timbers with his financial status. But Vance have would, if actually possessed, pre- in the barn loft they found one upon never grew up. Though he was a poor clude snobbishness. The English poet which the young man had carved his student, a poor social mixer, and un- John Gay declares that "pride is in- name. That name was James A. Gar- cooperative in his business dealings, creased by ignorance; those assume field. he was a snob. His father also was a the most who know the least." What are we? A lump of clay, a snob. Evidently Vance wanted to im- While those who try to impress single inhabitant of a tiny earth be- press people. Well, he did; but it was others have a measure of success in longing to a small solar system on on the debit side of the ledger. His fooling themselves, they fail dismally the fringe of a mighty universe, a neighbors disliked him and his busi- in their attempt to fool the general finite being in the midst of an eter- ness associates mistrusted him. He, of public. An English statesman, Lord nity that stretches into countless tril- course, had the usual fair-weather Bolingbroke, says, "Pride defeats its lions of years. Surely we have no rea- friends who characteristically toady to own end by bringing the man who son to strut! wealth; but his immature thinking seeks esteem and reverence into con- How wise are we? We possess frag- processes were unable to discern their tempt." mentary and meager bits of knowl- superficiality—or his own. Only the wise realize their limita- edge about our earth and space. We Vance needed to become ac- tions. One day when the newspapers but faintly glimpse the wonders of quainted with himself. With a little were ablaze with 'headlines lauding the heavens. We are dependent upon mature reasoning he could have had one of the great accomplishments of the Omnipotent for our being and our that for which he yearned—the es- Charles Steinmetz, his friend Archi- subsistence. We have hope of an teem of others. A little less conceit eternal existence only in and through and a proper degree of humility, a the merits of a vicarious atonement. little less arrogance and more consid- eration for others, a little less selfish- Pelee/Woo ..Selptem* The more we know of self, the more ness and a little more of the milk of we recognize the greatness of God and our need of Him. We see our human kindness, would have made By KATHRYN BARNET,'' CAS1,► own nothingness. Yet we should not him loved and admired. I cannot see acutely become discouraged, for we are sons Like the soaring, graceful Balanced Maturity . and daughters of God. We have great Who sees with microscopic elf; potential when surrendered to Christ. Now and then a person appears From lofty height. To know ourselves is the first step to- who b,y placing himself under the ward fulfilling our destiny. same magnifying glass that he uses Nor can I hear the ultra Imo That guide the air-borne bat on others gains a perspective that en- Unerringly on silent wing "With Ignorance wage eternal war, to ables him to reach a sane and well- Through darkest night. know thyself forever strain, balanced maturity. When Don Wal- Thine ignorance of thine ignorance ters emerged with a Ph.D. degree he Though human sight is fail is left self in the background. He fol- And ears but dimly, hear, thy fiercest foe, thy deadliest lowed a path of integrity and service, In faith I sec; "I hear His vOr. bane." with no appeal for cheers from the And He is near. -SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON grandstand and no fear for the boos (To be continued) REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 3 HY didn't God give the Ten Commandments to the people of Israel while tl4ey were still in Egypt? Why didn't e make obedience to His law, or at le st an agreement to its principles, a c ndition for deliverance from bond- a e? If the principles of the law were a ready known, why did God make s ch an impressive occasion of a re- sts tement of them? The revelation of God at Sinai was u ique—different from anything that h d happened before or has hap- p ned since in the history of the w rld. Such an event is significant, n t only for what was said but also be- c use of how, when, where, by whom, a d under what circumstances it was s. id. Indeed, the significance of the words themselves is enhanced as they a e seen in the entire context of the p eceding experiences of Israel as re- corded in Exodus, chapters 1 to 19. Three days before God spoke His I w from Sinai He gave instructions to oses concerning the preparations t 1 at were to be made. He intro- d ced His instructions by the state- ent "Ye have seen what I did unto t e Egyptians, and how I bare you o eagles' wings, and brought you u to myself. Now therefore, if ye will o ey . . ." (Ex. 19:4, 5). God's claim for obedience was based on His previ- s actions on behalf of His people. is revelation at Sinai was made in t I e context of His revelations during t e preceding months in the desert a d in Egypt. Our study of the law, t I en, must begin with the first chap- t r of Exodus rather than with the t entieth. The book opens with a description Israel in slavery to the Egyptians. is a pathetic picture of a people COPYRIGHT © 1958 BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD JES SCHLAIKJER, N.A.ARTIST hose life is bitter, rigorous, futile, a d hopeless, under a Pharaoh who h s absolute power and before whom t ey are helpless. The second chap- s r begins on a note of encouragement. I introduces Moses who, although Preparation c ndemned to death before he is born, i brought into the line of succession t the throne of their oppressors. How- e er, all hopes that he might free Light on God's Law—A Series in Three Parts for t em were dashed by his flight for his I fe. As the slaves "groaned under t I eir bondage, and cried out for elp" (Ex. 2:23, R.S.V.) there was no an to listen. time Lam But God heard them. God remem- bered His covenant. God saw the peo- p e. God knew their condition. (See v•rses 24, 25.) And He responded by By Frederick E. J. Harder c ming down to send this Moses back Chairman, Department of Education, Andrews University om his sheep in the desert, to lead I rael out of enslavement to the Egyp- t ans into the service of God.

The REVIEW AND HERALD is published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is printed every Thursday by the eview and Herald Publishing Association at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., U.S.A. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. Copyright © 1963 by Review a d Herald Publishing Association. Vol. 140, No. 28. 4 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 Chapters five to twelve relate the ily. "Then Moses brought the people Accompanying these magnificent story of divine judgment meted out out of the camp to meet God; and sights were -majestic sounds. The peo- upon the oppressors. Repeatedly the they took their stand at the foot of ple were summoned by the blast of a word of the Lord confronted Pharaoh the mountain" (verse 17, R.S.V.). trumpet. When the lightning flashed, claps of thunder ricocheted through- to demand release of the slaves. With "The Lord Came" pathetic monotony the unregenerate out the valleys. As the trumpet broke heart responded in the negative. The commands of God outlining its crescendo, Moses called out to God, In contrast to the judgments that the procedures preparatory to His ap- and God answered him in peals of fell upon the Egyptians, the record of pearance were of two types: invita- thunder. While the people stood awe- Exodus relates the redemption of Is- tions and warnings. He invited Is- struck, fearing for their very exist- rael from a living death in Egypt and rael to become a holy nation of priests. ence, Moses and Aaron quietly began from literal death at the Red Sea. He asked for a consecration and a their ascent and disappeared into the This salvation was not brought about purification of their persons. He sum- smoke and clouds from which the by the power, skill, or merit of the moned the priests into a special dedi- spectacular sights and sounds eman- people. It was accomplished entirely cation of themselves. The trumpet ated. by the power of God. blast was to call the people up to the The divine commands inviting con- Not only were the people delivered, mountain near to God. Finally, secrated and clean people to meet they were preserved. Their food came Moses and Aaron were bidden to come God, yet warning them against care- from heaven every morning. Water into the divine presence on the moun- lessness or familiarity; the majestic was made to flow out of a rock for tain. display of clouds, smoke, lightning, them. Their victory in battle was God warned the people of certain earthquake, and fire; and the terrify- achieved by divine power. The God hazards involved in coming into such ing trumpet blasts mingled with peals of their fathers rescued them from a close relationship with Himself. of thunder and the voice of God, all their oppressors and preserved them They were not to go up the moun- combined to impress the people with through the hazards of the wilderness tain or touch it, under penalty of the majesty, glory, power, and holi- by His power exercised directly on death. The transgressor, either man ness of God. That this effect was in- their behalf. This was the background or beast, was not to be touched, but tended by God is evident from the for the experience of Sinai. This was would be executed at a distance—by statement of Moses to the people the preparation that was consum- stoning or shooting. To help protect while it was going on: "God has come mated by a three-day special prepara- the people, Moses was to warn them to prove you, and that the fear of tion for the giving of the law. This and set specific bounds around the him may be before your eyes, that you was the experiential context in which mountain, the overstepping of which may not sin" (Ex. 20:20, R.S.V.). the Decalogue was spoken. This is the would be punished by death. Israel's preceding experiences (as literary context in which the Ten The sights connected with this ex- recorded in the first 18 chapters of Commandments must be understood. perience must have been overwhelm- Exodus) indicate the rightful place of ing. Israel was encamped in one of the law in life under God. The act of "Be Ready" the most desolate wildernesses on divine redemption from bondage and earth. They were surrounded by life- a revelation of the divine nature pre- God initiated the preparation for less mountains of granite dominated cede the statement of the divine prin- the great occasion. He offered to make by Mount Sinai. For three days wher- ciples. First a gift from God—then Israel uniquely His own among the ever they looked within the camp they gratitude from the people. First a rev- peoples of the earth—"a kingdom of saw clothes being washed and laid out elation — then a response. First priests, and an holy nation" (Ex. 19: to dry. They watched apprehensively redemption—then legislation. First 6). This He would do on condition as bounds were marked around the grace—then law. The progression is that Israel would obey Him and keep foot of the mountain. On the third day from salvation to responsibility. The His covenant. He gave instructions the sky was overcast with an ominous movement is from grace to works. for the preparation of the people and cloud from which great streaks of This is the thrust of the entire Bibli- the mountain. His particularity in re- lightning flashed. As this fearsome dis- cal revelation. Any attempt to re- gard to the details was confirmed play hovered over them, smoke bil- verse the order in life makes both three days later when He sent Moses lowed forth, enveloping the entire grace and works impossible. Redemp- to double check all preparatory meas- mountain. Then, as the earth quaked, tion must precede responsibility, but ures just before He spoke the law. the presence of the Lord was seen de- responsibility must follow redemp- The preparation began with the scending in a blinding ball of fire. tion. people's promising to obey and to ful- fill the conditions that the Lord re- quired. After their agreement had been reported to the Lord by Moses, they took the second step by making 7004teeet a personal consecration. This was fol- E. BELL lowed by three days of cleaning and By. laundering. Their physical washing I wonder whether the sleeping saints will be called from their dusty beds did not purify them, but it impressed by strains of heavenly music, for, in I Thessalonians 4:16 we read, "The Lord upon them their need of purifica- himself shall descend from heaveri• yith the trump of God; and the dead tion. Their preparation was climaxed in Christ shall rise . . ." With advancing years my rest comes in.short naps, accompanied by dreams. by a stern warning not to touch the Some dreams are quite vivid. From some I am glad to awaken and find they mountain. were but dreams. But others are pleasant Mount Sinai was put in readiness The Desire of Ages, page 47; tells_ us that when Jesus came the first time, jointly by Moses and the Lord. Moses the event was announced by the angelic choir. And Isaiah 51:11 says, in part, set bounds about it and consecrated "The redeemed of the Lord shall fi, . . come with singing unto Zion." What it. Then on the third day the Lord more wonderful way to be called from the prison house of death, where some wrapped it in smoke, covered it with have gone in pain and fear, than by the glorious strains of victorious music? thunders, lightnings, and a thick I wonder. cloud, and shook the mountain might-

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 5 Though removed by two and a half millenniums from the Israel of Isaiah's day, our attitudes and rebellions By Wilber Alexander are tragically similar. Strange Estrang ment

"The ox knows its owner, greatness bestowed by the Father are co e to them" (Isa. 1:4, 21-23, and the ass its master's crib; being used irresponsibly, squandered R. .V.). but Israel does not know, as though He did not exist. In verse 3 I otice the words Isaiah uses to my people does not understand" God compares men to the most stupid de cribe their condition—laden with (Isa. 1:3, R.S.V.). of beasts to illustrate their insensibil- in'quity, corrupt, forsaken the Lord, ity to the true relationship they have d • pised the Holy One, harlot, mur- HIS portion of a soul-probing to God and He to them. He says, in de ers, dross, bribes, injustice, inhu- Hebrew poem reveals a star- effect—even animals feel an attach- m nity, desertion, insult! He sums up Ttling and incisive commentary ment for the one who takes care of th•ir condition with the phrase at the on a people's strange estrangement them, but in your rebellion you do not e d of verse 4, "They are utterly es- from God. In utter frankness it sets even recognize Me. r nged." forth the tragic insensibility of a peo- At this point Isaiah offers Israel he next verses set forth the con- ple steeped in sin. tangible evidence of how far they di ions that prevail in their strange Any person with a sensitive mind have removed themselves from God. es rangement. "Why should ye be who studies these words and those "Ah, sinful nation, a people laden st icken any more? ye will revolt more that follow will discover some reasons with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, a d more: the whole head is sick, and for his own separation, his own pecul- sons who deal corruptly! They have th whole heart faint. From the sole iar moments of apostasy from God. At forsaken the Lord, they have despised of the foot even unto the head there the same time, one with a sensitive the Holy One of Israel." "How the is o soundness in it; but wounds, and heart who reads the entire first chap- faithful city has become a harlot, she br ises, and putrifying sores: they ter of Isaiah will not miss the message that was full of justice! Righteousness ha e not been closed, neither bound that brings help and hope in the hour lodged in her, but now murderers. u s, neither mollified with ointment. when his relationship to God seems Your silver has become dross, your Your country is desolate, your cities most strained. wine mixed with water. Your princes ar burned with fire: your land, When the cause of evil seems to are rebels and companions of thieves. strangers devour it in your presence, prosper, when there is evidence on all Every one loves a bribe and runs after an it is desolate, as overthrown by sides of open sin, of scoffing at the law gifts. They do not defend the father- st angers. And the daughter of Zion of God, it is not difficult to preach the less, and the widow's cause does not is I eft as a cottage in a vineyard, as a anger of a righteous God and His cer- lo ge in a garden of cucumbers, as a tain judgment upon those who are in be ieged city. Except the Lord of hosts rebellion. We would expect to find has left unto us a very small remnant, Isaiah uttering warnings and scath- 74 61444e w: should have been as Sodom, and ing rebukes as he begins his oracle on w should have been like unto Go- the desperate condition of Israel. But By FLOYD A. KRAUSE morrah" (Isa. 1:5-9). before he speaks about divine anger his is the end result of a nation's and judgment, he pleads with his peo- He called for a basin in which to wash his ple to consider the agony, the sorrow- hands; re ellion. Isaiah does not gloat over ful cry, the yearning of a father for He hoped to rid himself of this strange, hi people's dire situation, but he sees the sons he is losing because of their silent Galilean, it as unnecessary and absurd. Israel unbelieving, uncaring hearts. To secure his position in Caesar's eyes, ha watched her enemies wade Lovingly but sternly God speaks. To still the wild clamor of the mob; th ough the blood of loved ones, leav- So he stood with hands held high, glistening, in a trail of destruction and death. First He calls on heaven and earth to dripping, witness His words. In this setting it T e land is still smoldering; the cries And cried, "I am innocent of this just per- of those mourning their dead are yet might be possible to impress the dull son: see ye to it." senses of His people with the extent hes rd. They are defeated and in the of their condition. "Hear, 0 heavens, But water never cleanses hands stained with th oes of death. Still they are rebel- and give ear, 0 earth: for the Lord blood, li and limping on down the road hath spoken, I have nourished and Never was a guilt-laden soul purged in that a ay from God. mild manner; brought up children, and they have A Appeal rebelled against me. The ox knoweth Empty gesture of a desperate man, chang- ing nothing. his owner, and the ass his master's It only set the guilt indelibly on his saiah asks, "Why should ye be crib: but Israel doth not know, my soul, st icken any more? ye will revolt more people doth not consider" (Isa. 1:2, 3). And marked him for eternity as the one a o more: the whole head is sick, and God calls His people children—but Who sent the spotless Son of God to Gol- th whole heart faint. From the sole children whose lives, blessings, and gotha's bloody tree. of the foot even unto the head there 6 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 is no soundness in it; but wounds, came, and the habit pattern was set. "Wash you, make you clean; put away and bruises, and putrifying sores: While their dross still shone bril- the evil of your doings from before they have not been closed, neither liantly and their watered wine still mine eyes; cease to do evil; learn to bound up, neither mollified with oint- contained color, they came to trample do well; seek judgment, relieve the ment" (verses 5, 6). the courts of God, hoping their oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead Israel, already you have been nakedness of soul would not show. for the widow. Come now, and let us wounded again and again—there is God could not be consistent with reason together, saith the Lord: really no place on you to lay another His character and allow them to go though your sins be as scarlet, they stripe, but still you rebel. Why? How on and on in stubborn, willful ig- shall be as white as snow; though they much will it take to convince you that norance. They must know their true be red like crimson, they shall be as you are only reaping what you have condition. They must know the ulti- wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye sown? mate end of their rebellion. All this shall eat the good of the land: but if Even stranger to Isaiah, and more He tells them through the prophet, ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be de- so to God, is the worship Israel offers. and then, instead of passing sentence voured with the sword: for the "Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers upon them and leaving them in their mouth of the Lord hath spoken it" of Sodom; give ear unto the law of misery, rejected and hopeless, He of- (Isa. 1:16-20). God invites Israel to our God, ye people of Gomorrah. To fers them pardon and redemption. meet with Him in frank and open dis- what purpose is the multitude of your Verses 16-20 summarize the alterna- cussion about their condition. It is to sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I tives in their personal salvation. their advantage to forsake sin and am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I de- light not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. When ye come to appear before me, who hath re- 7ive/o.de-Ae;gf when quired this at your hand, to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; A Macabre "Joke" you' re the new moons and sabbaths, the call- ing of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meet- WAS terribly shocked by a recent you rs a ing. Your new moons and your ap- I incident. When you live with the pointed feasts my soul hateth: they constant threat of global annihilation, are a trouble unto me; I am weary to with political treachery, with perpetual bear them. And when ye spread forth crime, you think you're finally shock- your hands, I will hide mine eyes from proof, but then something happens in your own little world that is so brutal, you; yea, when ye make many prayers, so nakedly evil, you feel as though I will not hear: your hands are full you're staring directly into a pit of of blood" (verses 10-15). writhing serpents. On any Sabbath day, high day, or This was the incident. A friend of thing by teen-agers. They apparently feast day crowds still thronged the mine was away from home for the pick names at random out of the tele- Temple courts. The sounds of cattle, day, having left a reliable baby-sitter phone book. Sometimes it doesn't work, sheep, and doves filled the air already with her small children. A telephone but occasionally they get hold of some- heavy with incense and the smoke of call, which the sitter took, gave the one like this." burnt offerings. All around hands message that my friend's father had My friend could hardly believe that died suddenly as the result of a heart such wanton, senseless, meaningless were lifted in prayer. Careful atten- attack. No further details were given. cruelty was actually considered enter- tion was paid to liturgical detail The sitter frantically tried to reach my taining by some young people. beautiful in form. The setting and friend and finally succeeded, while the "Oh, yes, you'd really be surprised," activity were most impressive. little children sobbed, already missing the police sergeant continued. "Young Through the prophet God says to "Grandpop." people used to use the telephone for this congregation: You rulers of Since my friend's father lives in an- pranks, some of them quite annoying, Sodom, you people of Gomorrah, you other State, and since his is a traveling some just silly—but this is something Temple traders, why do you continue job, several frantic hours were spent else again. And the worst of it is, we're trying to trace the telephone call, try- unable to do much about it." to worship? ing to make traveling arrangements, I'd find it difficult to believe that any The prophet, a man of righteous- trying to put aside grief. It was assumed Adventist young person would so far ness, faith, and consecration, in great that the sitter had failed to get all the forget his standards, his "do unto earnestness and boldness speaks God's necessary information; but as the hours others" training, as to be involved in words: Look at the blood on the wore on it became apparent that some- anything remotely resembling this hands you lift up to heaven. Look at thing must be wrong. It was—very kind of degenerate conduct. Even if, the lust and greed in the eyes around wrong. In fact, the whole thing was by some wild, impossible stretch of the nothing more than a cruel, horrible, imagination, you get a measure of you and in your own eyes. Your ears macabre "joke." amusement from this sort of thing, you are closed to the pleas of little chil- My friend was in a state of near can't possibly know all the circum- dren and brokenhearted women. How collapse when her father finally was stances surrounding your victim, nor can you pray? How can you look reached. Could her tormentors have the effect the "joke" may have on him. heavenward? How can you hear God? known that last year she lost her You can't know what physical and Yet you come. Why? mother, her aunt, and her father-in-law, emotional strains this person is under. Wickedness and worship have noth- all within the space of a few weeks? Are you going to be the one to push ing in common. Later Isaiah points Would it have made any difference if him over the brink? You are your they had known? I'm wondering, be- brother's keeper, you know! If you're out that they came partly to bribe cause when the police, called to the sometimes a part of "practical" jokes, God—hoping He would restore their house by the outraged husband, were which aren't jokes at all, but which losses. They came partly to appease told the story, they shook their heads cause heartache or inconvenience or God so the future might not be so sadly, and one remarked, "We've been discomfiture to someone else, will you dreadful. They came because others having a real epidemic of this sort of resolve never to be involved again? REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 7 gr at alternatives of life and death an appeals to us to accept life. n the face of this, if we separate ou selves either momentarily, gradu- all , or abruptly, we are rebels with- ou a cause and ours is a strange est angement.

oma Linda University and Overseas Heart Surgery (Continued from page 1) an impressive sequel to the story of tw• other Karachi residents who were he ped by the United States. One of these is the now-famous Bashir, the ca I el-cart driver. The second is a st y previously reported in the RE- vi :w, that of four-year-old Afshan Za-

EWING GALLOWAY fa . It was her case that triggered the en ire project. Flown to the United Strange it is that some still remain within the shadows of the church, observing formal require- ments, offering ceremonial compliments to God, but at the same time compromising and even St tes upon the authorization of Vice- openly violating the solemn commands of God's law—professing one thing, living another. Pr•sident Lyndon B. Johnson, she want to Loma Linda University's walk in righteousness. The choice is Strange is the independent, careless W ite Memorial Hospital. There Drs. theirs. attitude of some toward their rela- M Morton Woolley and Ellsworth Isaiah concludes: "Zion shall be re- tionship with God. Lack of concern is E. Wareham used their God-given deemed with judgment, and her con- the great drawback to spiritual sk lls to save Afshan from a short life verts with righteousness. And the de- growth. Strange it is that God should of semi-invalidism. struction of the transgressors and of call us sons and beckon us to repent- the miraculous story of Afshan the sinners shall be together, and they ance and salvation. sw pt the city and the nation. The that forsake the Lord shall be con- Strange is the attempt of some to Se enth-day Adventist hospital and sumed" (verses 27, 28). serve two masters, to walk the broad th UhnenitegduSetraieteds oEnmbthasesysuinbiKecatitchhei As we look in on the Temple serv- way and the narrow way at the same w re swamped with requests from par- ice of the eighth century B.c. we can time. en s whose children had similar de- easily condemn these saints of another Strange is the hierarchy of values fe ts. Drs. Arthur Weaver and R. I. age. We can agree with God and His that causes men today to burn them- M Fadden began to look for a way to prophet, Isaiah, in their heartbroken selves out to gain this sinful world gi e hope to other parents. accusations against Israel. We can while they separate their souls from even see the stupidity of Israel's ways God. u iversity heart team in California ex- and worship. Yet, oddly enough, we Strange it is that some still remain pr ssed an enthusiastic willingness to seldom are able to sense varying de- within the shadows of the church, ob- go to Pakistan, and listed their needs grees of the estrangement that too serving formal requirements, offering to make the venture feasible. Supplies often characterizes our own lives. ceremonial compliments to God, but an equipment alone came to 2,000 Estrangement from God is strange! at the same time compromising and po nds, and they would need six peo- even openly violating the solemn com- pl from the United States as well as Strange It Is . . . mands of God's law—professing one a ost of mission workers. The six Strange it is that we possess so thing, living another. fr m the university were Drs. Ells- much revelation and information Strange it is that estrangement to- w rth E. Wareham, chief surgeon; C. about God and yet do not know or day seems to be more an indifference Jo n Coggin, cardiologist; F. Lynn understand Him better, particularly than open hostility. Artress, anesthesiologist; Wilfred M. to know how He looks upon the sin Strange it is how easily man is self- H se, assistant surgeon; Mrs. Lavaun that comes between us. deluded so that he refuses to see his W rd Sutton, open - heart nursing Strange is the long-established fact true condition. spr cialist; and Lester Gibson, heart- that God wants to save us from any Strange it is that in a sense an es- lu g machine technician. Later the final estrangement and will do every- tranged person eventually destroys u iversity decided to send Jerry Wiley thing possible but force our will. himself. Man determines his own des- to report on the mission, and to assist Strange it is that the experience of tiny by accepting or refusing salva- in administrative details. others with sin has taught us only that tion. f ter months of negotiations with experience is an unprofitable teacher. Strange it is that religion is so rea- th United States Government, the All the accumulated hurt and heart- sonable yet raises so many doubts in G vernment of Pakistan, and a host ache of the centuries have taught man men's minds. All the reason in the of other organizations, Vice-President very little, for he goes stumbling on world indicates that we should do as Jo nson's office once again arranged into sin deeper and deeper year by God would have us do. fo transportation to help the people year. In our estrangement God continues of Pakistan. Strange it is that at times we can to call us His own. He continues to here does the story begin? The live shut up within ourselves, doing show us the status of our lives, the fa Iher of Afshan, Z. A. K. Zafar, feels exactly as we please, as though there foolishness and unreasonableness of th t "in my case it began with a maga- were no God. our rebellion. He holds out to us the zi e, the Signs of the Times." In a

8 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 scrapbook he has kept of Afshan's "Can you sleep, Chris?" he asked. story Mr. Zafar has a letter to the "No, this floor is to,o hard. I'm sure it's Signs editor, Arthur S. Maxwell. But Veedded iiddevtamee made of iron." "Nobody's come to that room," went who sent him the Signs? 1 Corinthians 15:55 on Jimmy. "I don't believe anyone's going Does the story end here? No, for to sleep there. I've a mind to get into that the University Heart Mission goes on By CLOE BROWN KICKLITER bed." "Well, you can if you want to, but to the Bangkok Sanitarium and Hos- My Friend has built a strong and beautiful I don't think we should, so I'll stay here pital for more open-heart surgery, and Bridge "over the river," and I shall not be on the floor, even if it does feel like iron." then to Taipei, Taiwan. There is Afraid to cross, for He has promised to walk Jimmy got off his hard bed on the floor, much talk of asking the team to re- Close by my side. pulled back the curtains, opened up the turn to Karachi soon. Some have sug- 0 Death, where is thy sting? bed, and hopped in. gested that the university send similar "What a bed, Chris," he said. "You ought to get in too." teams from the other medical special- But Chris had his doubts. Perhaps ties on such lifesaving missions. went. It was indeed a small room that someone would come in late; and any- Each passing day adds more won- she showed them, with no windows in it. way, if the woman of the house had derful detail to the project that had One wall was covered by a long, long wanted them to have it she would have as its seed a subscription to one curtain. They were soon ready for bed— given it to them. However, after 20 more church periodical. The testimony of a hard one on the floor. turns on the hard floor he too crept into that one church paper has swept the "I wonder what's behind that curtain," bed. In a few minutes he was fast asleep. city of Karachi, the country of Paki- Christopher said as they undressed. In the haziness of the early morning the stan, and is now spreading throughout "We can soon find out," said Jimmy as two boys seemed to be dreaming that they he pulled the curtain back just a little and heard voices and laughter. Gradually they Asia. took a peek. realized that these voices were not dream A long whistle escaped his lips. sounds but real! Chris opened his eyes "Say, Chris, just look at that," he said. wide. Where were they? He caught sight "A bedroom! And what a comfortable- of the curtains and remembered; and then looking bed, and what nice furniture! he looked on the other side. What he saw Somebody's going to be lucky to have shocked him into being wide awake. That that room and bed." side of the room was all plate glass, and "Must be for one of the visitors to the outside he saw a small group of men and fair." women and children looking and talking Somehow after seeing that comfortable and having a good laugh as they pointed bed, the hard one on the floor that they to him and Jimmy. The bed they were in had said would suit them so well didn't was part of the furniture in a furniture seem so comfortable. store showroom! That was why the woman Bed in the Window An hour passed, and after repeated had not invited them to sleep there. Now By Miriam Hardinge turnings, Chris said, "How're you making they were on display to everyone who out, Jimmy?" passed down the street! HRISTOPHER and Jimmy were "Oh, all right, I suppose," Jimmy re- I don't know how they got out of bed two young English schoolboys, just plied, "but I keep thinking of that bed on and on the safe side of the curtain, nor C old enough to go for a walking va- the other side of the curtain. I wonder what they said by way of explanation to cation in Switzerland on their own. They when the person who is going to have it their kind landlady; but I am sure of this had planned for it and talked about it will come in." —they learned that morning that the for a long time, and now they were actu- A few more minutes passed, and then things we do under cover of darkness have ally on the road in Switzerland, knapsacks Jimmy spoke. a way of coming to light! on their backs. All day they walked along mountain roads and trails, and at dusk they would look for a room in a village where they could sleep. One evening they came to a village and found that a fair had been taking place that day. Flags were flying from the bal- conies of the houses, and the streets were thronged with men and women and boys and girls, many of them in national cos- tume. The boys knocked at door after door but were told that because of the fair every room was taken. At one end of the village stood a large house. They knocked at the door and were greeted by a woman with a very kind face; but she, too, shook her head as in their halting German they asked if she had a room where they could sleep that night. "My rooms are all taken," she said. "But please, we don't need a bedroom or a bed—just let us sleep on the dining- room floor and we shall be perfectly happy," pleaded Christopher. The woman looked at them thought- fully for a moment. How could she turn away these two fine-looking boys and let them sleep out in the woods in the cold night air? S. E. BOHLMANN, ARTIST "Well, if you don't mind a very small "Nobody's come to that room," said Jimmy. "I don't believe anyone's going to sleep there. I've dark room, I can let you sleep on the a mind to get into that bed." "Well, you can if you want to," replied Chris, "but I don't think floor," she said. So into the house the boys we should, so I'll stay here on the floor, even if it does feel like iron." REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 9 CONDUCTED BY PROMISE JOY SHER

The Counting Dev

A plan that one mother found useful in helping her children form good habits

Whether building bridges or villages, it isn't easy to put the toys away wh n bedtime comes.

OBERT, did you hear the clock "Five—six—" He kicked his bridge, " ut I beat you, Bob," said Eliza- strike? It's time for you to put sending the blocks sliding over the bet , with some show of satisfaction. R away your toys." floor in all directions. " ou didn't have as many toys to I was sitting in a corner of the "Seven—" Robert stood up and sur- put away as I had," retorted Bob. room, waiting for Mildred to get the veyed his surroundings. " hat wasn't why I beat you," came youngsters to bed so we could have a "Eight—" Elizabeth was standing the prompt rejoinder. "I started on quiet visit. Robert did not even look in the doorway. one? You started on nine!" up from his play, but continued with "I beat you, Bob; I've got all my 11 right, children, we're ready for the bridge he was building. things put away." our story and bed." Mother lifted the His mother began to count slowly, "Nine—" Robert began hurriedly toy box and set it in its place on the "One—two—" gathering up his toys and dropping she f. "Oh, Mamma, please," pleaded the them into the box. Armfuls of minia- fterward I asked Mildred how she boy. ture autos and airplanes followed the ca e to adopt the counting device. "Not tonight, dear. building blocks in rapid succession. Th s is what she told me: "Three—" Mother set the toy box He had won the battle with his feel- wo years ago, when Elizabeth in the middle of the room. ings and now was smiling. was six and Robert four, they began "Four—" The little fellow looked "I beat you, Mom," he said pleas- loit ring. Sometimes I had to speak up, pouting, but continued working antly. five or six times before they showed with his building blocks. "Ten—. You barely did, son." any sign of hearing me. Calling them 10 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 half a dozen times to get up in the but I can't work in the garden. I read, morning or to come in from play at read, read, finishing up The Great noon became tiresome. I began to On Zepirtg Wouse Controversy course and getting ahead realize the harm that this habit of in- IN JULY on the Bible Year. The REVIEW and attention and dawdling was doing to Instructor are welcome visitors. Our them, and I wondered how the habit local librarian knows the type of could be broken before it became so By Carolyn E. Keeler books I like and saves them for me. firmly established that it would be a Now the gardens are yielding their hindrance throughout their lives. treats. Is there any vegetable more "For weeks I puzzled over the prob- NE beautiful Sabbath evening luscious than new green peas served lem. After trying several devices I hit in May I asked my husband with little new potatoes? And how upon this plan of counting. Now in- O to take me to the woods a tasty the Swiss chard! We have had stead of asking them again and again little way from town so I could see the pleasure of tasting redroot greens to do something, I seldom have to re- the wildflowers. We found a little dirt for the first time. And I am very fond peat a command. If Elizabeth or Rob- road into the woods, and the flowers of kale. Have you ever eaten fried ert fail to carry out my requests be- were lovely, so dainty and fragile, and squash blossoms? This may sound fore I count to ten, there is a penalty I picked a few. Coming back down a queer to you, but a neighbor down to pay." little incline to get into the car, I fell South told us of this one time and we "Was it hard to get the children to headlong. My left leg doubled up un- tried them. Good. You pick the blos- cooperate with you?" der me and I heard a bone break—in soms, cut off the green end, open up "Not very. I remembered the in- fact my doctor said all three bones and wash and dry a bit, then dip struction received in my elementary broke. We hurried 16 miles to the into beaten egg and brown in a little education class at school: 'In forming hospital where my ankle was X-rayed vegetable oil. a new habit, launch it with a strong and put into a cast. I spent six days A dairy near Olean (New York) initiative, and never allow the excep- in the hospital and then came home. sells the most wonderful cottage tion.' Twelve weeks in a cast, the doctor cheese. When we go on a picnic we "First of all, Elizabeth and Robert said. And I had so many plans for the always try to take a carton of this and I had a talk together. I told them summer! along with us. There is a beautiful stories of disasters that followed tardy Everyone has been so thoughtful, rustic park with many tall beech trees actions. We talked about habits, good and the days have not been too bad— in it just across from our high school. and bad. We went into our back yard only a little boring at times when I We go there often for a pleasant time and looked at a crooked tree. It might get weary of resting my ankle on a together. Sometimes for dessert my easily have been straightened when pillow. I discovered that I could do husband makes a lemon-meringue young and tender, but it would always quite a few things in a wheel chair; pie. Here is the recipe recommended be crooked now, because it had formed by the U.S. Department of Agricul- the habit of leaning, until it had ture. Try it. Lemon pie is always so grown misshapen and ugly. refreshing. "While we stood looking at the tree For the lemon filling: Elizabeth asked, 'Why didn't some- (9; body help it grow straight while it 1 cup sugar was little?' Then, of course, we talked 21/2 tablespoons flour about overcoming bad habits and 1/8 teaspoon salt forming good ones in early childhood. 4 tablespoons lemon juice "As soon as they showed signs of Grated rind of 1 lemon wanting to do this, I promised to help A Solemn Responsibility 2 eggs, beaten them. We agreed to work together on When our two girls were five and nine, 1 tablespoon butter or margarine the difficult task and decided on the they were discussing the second coming of 2 cups of water counting device as an aid in forming Jesus near where I was washing dishes. habits of promptness and dispatch. It With the water running in the sink I failed Mix sugar, flour, salt, lemon juice, works. When they become careless to hear much of their conversation, feeling rind, and water. Cook over low heat and lag behind the count, they take too pressed for time to turn it off and listen. or boiling water, stirring until thick- Soon an insistent little voice and a tug- ened. Cook 10 minutes more; stir their punishment without protest, be- ging at my skirt made me suddenly and cause it is a necessary part of the fight fully attentive. "Mamma, will you hold my often. Stir hot mixture slowly into against the bad habit." hand when we run to meet Jesus?" eggs; return to pan. Add the fat. Cook I had to compliment Mildred on "It was five-year-old Robin, whose small- 2 minutes, stirring. Cool and pour the splendid cooperation she had se- ness often caused her to fall behind when into 9-inch pastry shell. cured from her children. the rest of the family hurried. As I hugged For a sumptuous meringue, beat "As a usual thing," she continued, her and quickly assured her that I certainly egg whites and salt until the foam would hold her hand when we run to meet "they start moving before I count as Jesus, the magnitude of the question began forms soft, moist peaks. Add sugar, 1 far as three or four." to engulf me. tablespoonful at a time—allowing 2 "It was a bit hard for Robert to- Anew I was filled with the solemn respon- tablespoonfuls of sugar for each egg night," I ventured. sibility of preparing my children to be ready white—and beat thoroughly each "Yes, he had his mind set on finish- to run to meet their Saviour. If I myself time to dissolve sugar. After all the ing the bridge he was building. I were not ready, what of our youngest, who sugar has been added, beat until the knew he was hoping that I would al- would need my hand to help her run to meringue piles well. When topping low him an extra ten minutes, as I meet Him? Or our oldest, if we fail in the pie, be sure to cool the filling teaching her the true principles of life, and first, or the meringue may develop a sometimes do when he is working on leave her unprepared for running to meet an unusual project. But tonight I the Master? watery consistency. Be sure to spread thought it only fair that my husband Since that time my consecration to the the meringue to the very edges of the and I should have a free evening for task has deepened and a closer walk with pastry, so it has something to cling to a good visit with you. So I began the Great Teacher is my constant desire. during baking. Bake in a moderate counting promptly and stuck to it." C. MATLEE PARKS oven (325° F.) 15 to 20 minutes.

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as to unemployment benefits in contrast to others who A Seventh-day Adventist and the do not hold her pa titular religious beliefs. The case was the appealed to the Supreme Court of Supreme Court the United States. T e point clearly at issue was whether her free exercise of r ligion was or was not truly impeded As stated in a last-page note, the Supreme Court of in any way by the ecisions of the lower courts. Listen the United States, by a 7-2 decision, ruled that a Seventh- to this observation i one of the first pages of the decision day Adventist may receive unemployment compensation. of the U.S. Supreme Court: We wish here to expand on that note. Before us, as we "We turn first to the question whether the disqualification for write, is the text of the decision, which bears date of benefits [for Mrs. Sherbe t because of her religious beliefs] imposes June 17, 1963. As probably most all of our readers know, any burden on the free exercise of appellant's religion. We think it is clear that it does. In a sense the consequences of such a there is in force in various States of the Union a pro- disqualification to religi us principles and practices may be only vision whereby a person who finds himself unemployed an indirect result of we fare legislation within the State's general may secure, for a limited period of time, a certain amount competence to enact; it s true that no criminal sanctions directly of money weekly, known as unemployment compensa- compel appellant to w k a six-day week. [That is, there is no State law requiring her o work on Saturday.] But this is only the tion. To protect the State against malingerers, there is a beginning, not the end of our inquiry. For '[i]f the purpose or provision that if the person who has lost his job declines effect of a law is to im ede the observance of one or all religions for any personal reason to accept from some other or is to discriminate i vidiously between religions, that law is company a similar job he is competent to perform, his constitutionally invalid ven though the burden may be character- ized as being only indir ct.' . . . Here not only is it apparent that claim to unemployment compensation is voided. appellant's declared incl. gibility for benefits derives solely from the In the case we are here considering, a Seventh-day practice of her religion, but the pressure upon her to forego that Adventist, Mrs. Adell Sherbert, had been employed in a practice is unmistakable The ruling forces her to choose between textile mill that had a five-day work week. In 1959, two following the precepts of her religion and forfeiting benefits, on the one hand, and abandoni ng one of the precepts of her religion in years after she became an Adventist, the work week order to accept work, on the other hand. Governmental imposition was changed to six days. Because she was unwilling to of such a choice puts he same kind of burden upon the free work on the Sabbath, she lost her job. One of the foot exercise of religion as w .uld a fine imposed against appellant for notes accompanying the court decision observes: her Saturday worship. "Nor may the South arolina court's construction of the statute "No question has been raised in this case concerning the sin- be saved from constitu ional infirmity on the ground that un- cerity of appellant's religious beliefs. Nor is there any doubt that employment compensati n benefits are not appellant's 'right' but the prohibition against Saturday labor is a basic tenet of the merely a 'privilege.' It s too late in the day to doubt that the Seventh-day Adventist creed, based upon that religion's interpreta- liberties of religion and xpression may be infringed by the denial tion of the Holy Bible." or placing of conditions upon a benefit or privilege." Another note declares: The court then g es into the presentation of certain citations from decisi ins of the past that have a bearing "After her discharge, appellant [Mrs. Sherbert] sought em- ployment with three other mills in the Spartanbure area. but on the case and foil ws with this argument: found no suitable five-day work available at any of the mills. In "Likewise, to conditi n the availability of benefits upon this filing her claim with the Commission, she expressed a willingness to violate a cardinal principle of her reli- accept employment at other mills, or even in another industry, so appellant'sgious faith effectivelywillingness pe t alizes the free exercise of her constitutional long as Saturday work was not required." liberties." Then the Supreme Court observed: Equal Justice to Al The Employment Security Commission "in administrative pro- ceedings under the statute, found that appellant's restriction upon The Supreme Co rt notes that the Unemployment her availability for Saturday work brought her within the pro- Compensation law, s framed by South Carolina, "ex- vision disqualifying for benefits insured workers who fail, with- out good cause, to accept 'suitable work when offered . . . by presslythe kind saves of choice the Sun w ay worshipper from having to make the employment office or the employer.'" ich we here hold infringes the Sab- liberty." The South Carolina law The Case Comes to the Courts declaresbatarian's that religious if, in time of national emergency, there The case was appealed from the Commission to the is need for overtime work, no employee will be required courts, which sustained the Employment Security Com- if he is conscientiously opposed to mission. The case then went on up to the South Carolina it,to workand that on heSunday shal not jeopardize his seniority or be Supreme Court, which also sustained the decision. in any other manner. The Supreme Courtd;scriminated observes: agains "Th unconstitutionality of the disquali- This court explicitly rejected "appellant's contention that, as fication of the Sabb tarian is thus compounded by the applied to her, the disqualifying provisions of the South Carolina religious discrimina 'on which South Carolina's general statute abridged her right to the free exercise of her religion secured under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment statutory scheme necessarily effects." In other words, through the Fourteenth Amendment. The State Supreme Court why provide that t e Sundaykeeper be in every way held specifically that appellant's ineligibility infringed no con- protected if his cons ience prevents his working on Sun- stitutional liberties because such a construction of the statute day, while penalizi g the Sabbatarian because his con- 'places no restriction upon the appellant's freedom of religion nor does it in any way prevent her in the exercise of her right and science prevents his working on Saturday? freedom to observe her religious beliefs in accordance with the As the 12-page dec'sion draws to its close and the judg- dictates of her conscience.' " ment that the court ill render is already quite evident, In brief, the State supreme court said that Mrs. the honorable justi es declare: Sherbert has perfect freedom to exercise her religion. "In holding as we do, plainly we are not fostering the 'establish- But it failed to add that in so doing she will be penalized ment' of the Seventh-di y Adventist religion in South Carolina, 12 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963

for the extension of unemployment benefits to Sabbatarians in debated it at considerable length—it merits careful con- common with Sunday worshippers reflects nothing more than the sideration by all religious groups for its clarity, its will- governmental obligation of neutrality in the face of religious dif- ferences, and does not represent that involvement of religious ingness to forgo personal advantage in recognition of a with secular institutions which it is the object of the Establishment fundamental principle, and its concern for the rights of Clause to forestall. . . . Nor does the recognition of the appellant's others. R. F. C. right to unemployment benefits under the state statute serve to abridge any other person's religious liberties. Nor do we, by our decision today, declare the existence of a constitutional right to unemployment benefits on the part of all persons whose religious The Deadly Capsule convictions are the cause of their unemployment. This is not a case in which an employee's religious convictions serve to make him a nonproductive member of society. . . . Our holding today An unusual tragedy happened in Mexico a short is only that South Carolina may not constitutionally apply the time ago. According to a story in The National Ob- eligibility provisions so as to constrain a worker to abandon his server, the 10-year-old son of Jesus Espindola Iberra, religious convictions respecting the day of rest. This holding but a caretaker who lived with his family on the estate of reaffirms a principle that we announced a decade and a half ago, namely that no State may 'exclude individual Catholics, Lutherans, an engineer in Mexico City, died under mysterious Mohammedans, Baptists, Jews, Methodists, Non-believers, Pres- circumstances. In three months his wife died. A month byterians, or the members of any other faith, because of their faith, later his daughter died. or lack of it, from receiving the benefits of public welfare legisla- tion.' " Authorities launched an intensive investigation. They discovered that the engineer on a trip to Canada had Let Us Thank God purchased a capsule of deadly radioactive cobalt-60. When he returned he stored it in a protective lead For this clear-cut decision we may well thank God cylinder in his Mexico City home. The engineer warned anew for His protecting care over those who conscien- Espindola to leave the capsule alone, that it was tiously witness for the truth of the Sabbath at the risk dangerous. of discrimination in the matter of unemployment com- But this warning did not reach the caretaker's son, pensation. Of course, such discrimination is only one who apparently opened the cylinder and delightedly exhibit of various kinds that might be invoked by em- carried the deadly capsule around in his pocket. By ployers or others in regard to a Seventh-day Adventist. the time authorities ascertained why Espindola's son, God's hand is still on the helm. Let us have faith in Him wife, and daughter had died, it seemed likely that both and give obedience to His will. Thus we shall not only Espindola and his mother also had received lethal do what we should, we shall also witness before all men, doses of radioactivity. The engineer and two associates even before the Supreme Court of the United States. were arrested for possible negligence. It is hardly necessary to consider the dissenting opinion, which expressed the mind of two of the justices. Two Lessons The essence of this opinion, is simply that Mrs. Sherbert should be denied benefits, not because she is a Seventh- Several lessons may be drawn from this story. First, day Adventist, but "as any other claimant would be like the cobalt capsule, sin, however small and innocent denied benefits who was not 'available for work' for it may appear, is deadly. It can be harbored in the soul personal reasons." The extended quotations given earlier only with the gravest consequences. Satan tries to make reveal the invalidity of this dissenting opinion. us forget this—too often with success. Yet the experience Again we say, let us thank God and take heart! of Adam and Eve with the tree in Eden forever settled F. D. N. the fact that even the smallest sin is large enough to keep us out of Paradise. Second, sincerity is no substitute for knowledge. No matter how sincere we may be, evil habits, false teach- Presbyterians Adopt Church-State ings, or wrong ideas damage us. Espindola's little son was no doubt sincere in believing that he possessed a Policy fascinating capsule-toy. But he died in spite of his sincerity. The cobalt heartlessly stabbed into his tender Late in May the General Assembly of the United Pres- flesh with its radioactive waves. Similarly, millions of byterian Church adopted a declaration on church-state people are innocently puffing on cigarettes, deluded by relations that has been acclaimed the most comprehensive the advertisers' deceptive claims that tobacco is a neces- document on the subject ever prepared by a Christian sary ingredient of abundant living. But lung cancer body. The New York Times hailed it as "an admirable treats the sincere and insincere impartially. Those who blend of courage, responsibility and clear thought," and violate health laws suffer. "a trail-blazing contribution to the erection of better Likewise, those who violate moral laws suffer. And safeguards for religious freedom." those who believe error suffer. (We do not mean that Applying the principle of "a political order in which God arbitrarily punishes people who innocently believe no church will dominate the civil authorities or be domi- error. We mean that error is always deficient when com- nated by them," to practical problems currently under pared with truth. To illustrate, a person who believes debate in the public arena, the General Assembly went that Sunday is the right day to keep, and has no oppor- on record against religious exercises of any kind in the tunity to know differently, may be accepted by God, but public schools, and as opposed to any Federal, State, or does he receive the same rich, satisfying blessing that local grant to elementary or secondary schools. It also comes through keeping the seventh-day Sabbath, with recommended that the churches voluntarily repudiate all its deep significance?) their tax-exempt status, in order to avoid "being obli- Let the tragedy of Espindola's capsule give us clearer gated, or seeming to be obligated, to the state by virtue insight into the inherently destructive nature of sin. of special tax privileges." The document also calls on And when the Spirit points out wrongs in our lives (no Presbyterians not to participate in the drive for Sunday matter how small the wrongs may be), let us claim laws, but to use their influence to seek amendments divine power to overcome. This is the only course of ac- exempting those who observe another day than Sunday. tion that will defeat the great destroyer, and assure us of Though some aspects of this declaration may well be an opportunity to live with Christ forever. open to further debate—the Presbyterians themselves K. H. W.

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 13 ESLU cox vitLeit

Part of the group attending the first biennial session of the North Peru Mission, in front of the Chiclayo church.

North Peru Mission First Biennial Session

By R. A. Hayden, President

INETY-NINE delegates met to- Hope Clinic in Lima, were specially in- and made special mention of the 807 gether in the Adventist church in vited guests. All of these visitors con- me bers added through baptism during N Chiclayo, Peru, April 17 to 20, tributed greatly to the success and inspira- the two-year period. The membership of for the first biennial session of the North tion of the meetings. the mission stood at 3,221 at the end of Peru Mission. The delegates represented In his report, R. A. Hayden expressed 196 , with a total of 5,600 Sabbath school 11 of the 13 organized churches and 43 of his gratitude to God for the evident me bers. The majority of these brethren the more than 100 companies of believers blessings that have been poured out upon are humble farmers who lead a simple scattered throughout the territory of the this mission from the very beginning, life among the hills and walk long dis- mission. North Peru is the youngest mis- tanc s to gather at their adobe meeting- sion in the Inca Union, having been or- hou es or to teach their relatives the ganized two years ago when the old Peru Felipe Villar (second left) and Felizardo trut . Many candidates for baptism in Mission was divided. Its territory com- Ramos (second right) are two active laymen the *solated groups are awaiting the visit prises the departments (states) of in the North Peru Mission. Brother Villar works within prison walls, while Brother of a pastor. Tumbes, Piura, Lambayeque, La Liber- Ramos' territory stretches for miles over the sisU te ion Evangelist Moises Tenorio, as- tad, Cajamarca, and Amazonas, covering vast open spaces among the hills of Jaen. by five young workers, held an 60,000 square miles. It includes coastal Pastor Iuorno stands in the center. eva gelistic effort in the city of Sullana areas, highlands, and last year, and as a foothills. The mission result 78 persons were has its offices in rented baptized. Smaller ef- quarters in Chiclayo. forts were held in a The South Ameri- number of other can Division was rep- towns. The workers resented at this meet- are confident that with ing by Alcides J. Alva, the Lord's help they educational secretary, will reach the goal of and the Inca Union 550 baptisms in 1963. Mission by its presi- Andres Rode, secre- dent, D. R. Christman, tary-treasurer of the and secretary-treas- mission, reported a urer, Henry Baerg. most encouraging in- Daniel Iuorno, pastor crease in tithe from of one of the large one year to the next. churches in Lima, in With local funds, gifts, the Central Peru Mis- and special subven- sion, and Oreste Bi- tions, it was possible aggi, from the Good during the two-year 14 period to make additions to the day mud to work the jack. The tires had ap- tire island to our message. During the academy in Chepen, erect a four-room peared to be in good condition at the meetings seven more persons were bap- church school building in Chiclayo, and a outset of our trip, but we continued to tized. six-room school in Celendin. Roofs, have tire trouble. At the time of our visit the brethren benches, and other materials were given With all these interruptions along the were making adobe bricks to build a to finish 11 small chapels, buy a small way our arrival was delayed some 17 meeting place, which would also serve as property for the church and worker's hours. By this time our island brethren a school during the week. As this con- home in Huamachuco, and a lot for a had decided that we were not coming, and struction progresses, the pastor, Cypriano church in Sullana, where the brethren there was no boat to take us over to the Morais de Silva, plans to give a course of are meeting at the present time under a island. Leaving our car on the bank, we practical instruction in hygiene to help canopy of bamboo mats. finally found a man with a canoe and these folks improve their standard of liv- A desperate need is felt for a boarding simple sail who agreed to take us and ing. The school will be the only educa- academy to provide Christian education our luggage across. Suzie and Joe began tional facility of any type within a 250- for the scores of youth of this region who to dip their fingers in the cool water. This square-mile area. have nowhere to go for Christian train- brought a shout from the boatman, warn- The enthusiastic singing of these loyal ing. There is also a great need to begin ing them of the deadly piranha fish, which people will always stand out in our medical work. with its razorlike teeth will attack and memory. We not only conducted a bap- The departmental secretaries gave devour any living thing. To illustrate, he tism but celebrated a communion service. thrilling reports of progress in all lines, and were all re-elected. At the sermon hour Sabbath morning, Dr. Alva presented a stirring message on Christian education. In the afternoon a number of laymen briefly told their soul- winning experiences. Among them, Fe- lipe Villar, an inmate of the state prison under the custody of two armed guards, reported how a group of prisoners often numbering 60 or more meet daily to study the Sabbath school lesson and the radio school lessons. Brother Felizardo Ramos told about the eight Sabbath schools he has organized in out-of-the- way places near and far from his ranch. All rejoiced at the ordination of Claudio Huainan to the gospel ministry. Pastor Huaman is a native of northern Peru, and a graduate from the minis- terial course offered at Inca Union Col- lege. He has had charge of the large Huamachuco district, the most isolated section of the field, for a number of years. He will now pastor the churches in Piura and Sultana. The brethren and workers in the North Peru Mission enter a new biennium fully dedicated to the task of finishing the work quickly and hastening the return of Jesus.

Journey to the Island of Cataracts By Merlin Kretschmar, President Bahia-Sergipe Mission One of the boats used to ferry the missionary group across the treacherous waters to the One day recently three other ministers; Island of Cataracts. my wife, Juanita; and our two lively chil- dren, Suzie, age 8, and Joe, age 6, boarded our faithful jeep station wagon and held up his own badly scarred hand. Soul-winning workshops were conducted headed for the Island of Cataracts, which Upon our arrival the brethren soon by Waldemar Ehlers, of the East Brazil is situated on the Sao Francisco River at caught sight of us, and with a shout of Union, and Monteira de Souza, of the a point where the river forms the bound- joy came flocking to help us with our local mission. Mrs. Kretschmar spoke to ary between the states of Bahia and Per- luggage. At mealtime they set before us the parents about child training and nambuco. We were to attend a two-day the best they had to offer—rice and home hygiene. conference for believers there, who rarely beans, and a drink made from beans. We At dusk of the last day we spent on had the privilege of entertaining mission all adjusted to the rhythm of eating with Ilha de Cachoeira we boarded a little visitors. We knew that they would be one hand and waving away flies with canoe and headed into the dangerous, anxiously awaiting our arrival. the other. That is, all except Suzie, who swift-flowing, rock-filled river channel. Our car had just come from a repair was in tears because she couldn't seem to Through the night air we heard the shop after a ten-day stay, but we ran into get her hands coordinated! stirring strains of that well-loved Advent difficulty after only 18 miles. After two This island has approximately 80 in- hymn, "Jesus Em Breve Vira ("Jesus Is hours it was possible to make the neces- habitants, of which half are Adventists. Coming Again")," sung by the islanders sary repairs, and we set out again. Every- Several others came in from neighboring on the shore, and we joined them. Soon thing went well for the next 50 miles as areas to attend the meetings, and more the darkness of night shrouded our little we jolted over the bumps and ruts along than 100 were in attendance. The mes- canoe from the sight of these humble, the only road in that area. Then a tire sage was first brought to this island by a faithful brethren, and we were on our blew out. We found our jack handle believer who moved here some years ago. way home, thanking God for their loyalty broken, and had to stretch out flat in the The group has set out to convert the en- and devotion. REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 15 Colporteur Triumphs in Southern Africa

By J. N. Hunt, Departmental Secretary Southern African Division

Just before her last call one evening Sister E. Esterhuizen, successful literature evangelist of the Transvaal Conference, was told: "Don't go to those people next door. The husband never works, they've got too many children, and they owe everyone money!" Disregarding the warn- ing, she knocked on their door. The fam- ily was pleased to see her, and invited her in as though she were a long-lost friend! She sold this family the Golden Treas- ury, I Must Know, and the Signs of the Times, all on a time-payment basis. To her surprise the payment was always ready when she called. Later she studied with them herself and arranged for a lay- man to give them regular Bible studies. As a result, father, mother, and the seven children have all accepted the truth. Also at our recent South African Un- ion literature evangelist institute, J. G. Malan told of selling several message books to a school principal in Rehoboth, near Windhoek in Southwest Africa. This man was also superintendent of a large Sunday school. He liked The Marked Bi- ble especially, and decided to read a chap- ter each week to his Sunday school. The Sunday school members became intensely interested in the story and could hardly wait for the next installment. They be- lieved the message to be true, and invited Brother Malan to hold weekly meetings in their church. That Sunday school super- intendent and 24 of his members are now rejoicing in the light of truth. Roy Harebottle told of an experience in Pietermaritzburg, Natal: "One evening last April I knocked at the door of an attractive little home in a Pietermaritzburg suburb. The man was friendly and invited me in. He was keenly interested when I showed him The Bible Speaks, and said he had been wanting to Top: Group of South African literature evangelits praying by the sea at sunrise during study the Bible further. He eagerly pur- the Camp Anerley institute. Below: Twenty-one of the 45 credentialed literature evangelists chased a copy. attending the South African Union institute at C mp Anerley, Natal. Seven of this group "As is my custom, I called back after a participated in the Veree iging campaign. few weeks and asked him how he was enjoying the book. He was full of ques- ate in Government service to this precious wi th two publishing secretaries, joined to- tions. I arranged for Bible studies and truth." get er for three intensive weeks of team- returned regularly to his home. He ac- Brother Harebottle reported nine of wo k. They worked out a special home cepted every phase of our message as it his customers had been baptized, 18 more sur ey form and specialized in the full- was presented to him, and became most were keeping the Sabbath, and 35 oth- me sage books, The Great Controversy, enthusiastic about it. He read early and ers had attended church during 1962! Al- Th • Desire of Ages, and Drama of the late and invited many men from his together, the colporteurs at this institute Ag s. office to come and hear about the Bible reported 153 souls won. They are now ublishing Secretary A. M. du Plessis from me. working on a program of teamwork in reports that the results are astounding. "This man, Chris Els, was highly quali- evangelizing the cities in each confer- Thry completed 1,150 survey forms, fied in the specialized field of aerial sur- ence. prayed in 450 homes, and delivered more veying. He was a key man in the Govern- At an institute in the Transvaal, R. tha 350 full-message books. Karl Birken- ment surveying department of Natal. He Dettmar, of the Central European Divi- sto k, local evangelist, was excited about was the only such man in Natal, and one sion, and W. A. Higgins, of the General the results. He said, "I would never think of only ten in the entire Republic of Conference, outlined the successful plan of .tarting a campaign in the future with- South Africa. He knew it would be diffi- of the book evangelists and the minister out the help of the literature evangelists!" cult to secure Sabbath privileges in such working together in the cities of Germany. He invited them to his first baptism, a position. However, he surrendered all J. W. Newman, president of the Trans- Ma 26. to the will of God and gave notice to the vaal Conference, and his publishing lead- I the words of Elder Du Plessis, "A head of his department. Last October he ers decided to take immediate action. ne day has dawned, and we move for- and his wife were baptized into the Dur- They selected the industrial center of ward in confidence, knowing that the ban church. They are thrilled with this Vereeniging, about 35 miles south of Jo- Lord is leading." Pray for the colporteur message, and are now giving Bible stud- hannesburg, as the target city. workers for truth in South Africa as they ies to others. They have already won his Less than a month after the close of go forward to do great soul-winning ex- mother and father and a former associ- the institute eight literature evangelists, ploits for God this year.

16 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 stocked welfare center at the church pro- visit to these groups was made in April. Spared From the Flames vided initial relief. It was a thrill to see the joy on the faces in New Jersey Mrs. Chandler, who is also the church of believers who have not heard an Ad- press secretary, appealed for clothing over ventist preacher for several years. By D. A. Roth the local radio station and in a nearby When my plane landed at Bahrein I Departmental Secretary daily newspaper. The response was so immediately began looking for the face Columbia Union Conference overwhelming that within a day the call of a Seventh-day Adventist nurse I ex- for clothing had to be canceled, but ap- pected to see at the airport. I did not On April 20 the power of prayer and peals were continued for furniture, food, know of other Adventists in Bahrein. I the protecting hand of God were demon- and cash for the destitute. More than 300 searched through the airport crowd and strated in a small New Jersey community. persons were directly aided by the Dorcas spotted a woman I knew must be an Ad- On that day an Adventist church and the women under the direction of Mrs. Mag- ventist. Gladys Peters was very surprised homes of ten of its members were dramat- nolia Miller. when I approached her and introduced ically saved from a forest fire. The wind- On Wednesday evening following the myself. blown fire blazed to within a few feet of disaster, members gathered at their small My trip began with a visit to our be- the Newtonsville, New Jersey, church and church for a praise and thanksgiving serv- lievers in Kuwait, richest country of the crackled in the grass surrounding it, but ice. Persian Gulf area and perhaps the rich- failed to ignite the building. This Sab- est land, per capita, in the world. Travel- bath-day drama strengthened the faith of ing along the four-lane divided highways the 37 members of this Allegheny Con- Adventist Groups in past ultramodern buildings and homes ference congregation. Fire damage in the with more air conditioners than people, immediate vicinity of the church Qatar and Bahrein it is difficult to realize that only a few amounted to $280,000. One life was By Carroll V. Brauer years ago Kuwait was a mud village of snuffed out, and 30 homes and two pearl divers. An interesting side light on churches were destroyed. Departmental Secretary Middle East Division life in Kuwait is that nobody bothers to Mrs. Wilmot Chandler, the church lock his automobile. One reason is that clerk, reported that the roaring fire raged Qatar is a low-lying desert peninsula everyone seems to be rich, but a more out of control on three sides of her home, extending about 100 miles from the impressive reason is that the standard in a wooded area. Firemen rushed in, not Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf. sentence for stealing is to cut off the to fight the blaze, which was fanned by In the past the people of Qatar were hand. 40-mile-an-hour winds, but to evacuate poor and few in number. Today, Qatar Because of political differences be- people from their homes. After Mrs. is a relatively important oil-producing tween Kuwait and Iraq it had not been Chandler left her home, a young fireman country, and Doha, the capital, is a busy, possible to visit our believers in Kuwait remained to halt traffic and alert other modern city. To the north of Qatar and for more than a year. Previously, one of residents. He later reported seeing the only a few miles from the Arabian coast our Iraqi pastors had visited them every fire race toward the Chandler residence, are the Bahrein Islands, one of the first three months. I found our believers there then in one big fireball shoot across the oil-producing regions in the Persian faithful. They gave me their tithes and street and land on the roof of a frame Gulf area. Both Bahrein and Qatar are offerings for the past year. We celebrated Protestant church, which quickly burned sheikdoms, but their foreign affairs are Communion together and conducted to the ground. When Mrs. Chandler re- under British control. other services, some of which were at- turned later that day she discovered that About eight years ago the first Seventh- tended by non-Adventists. We have two her garage, only a few yards from the day Adventists came to live in Qatar and Sabbath schools meeting in Kuwait, with house, had burned to the ground. Grass Bahrein. For qualified medical personnel a total of 15 members. was singed within inches of the house, but to maintain adequate hospitals in the Across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait is the house itself was not damaged. Nine Persian Gulf area, the British Govern- the famous oil refinery city of Abadan, other families of the congregation had ment turned to India. Scores of Indian Iran. Robert C. Skinner and family are the same experience. doctors, nurses, and technicians came to laboring to establish a church there. After The Newtonsville fire was one of many work in Qatar, Bahrein, Saudi Arabia, visiting the members in Abadan I went brush and forest fires that raged out of Kuwait, and other Persian Gulf coun- on to Shiraz for a short visit with Jack control over a wide area of the mid-At- tries. Among these Indian medical work- Bohannon and family. Brother Bohan- lantic coast for several days as the result ers were several Seventh-day Adventists, non is diligently studying the Farsee lan- of an unusually dry spring season. Earlier mostly nurses. The Persian Gulf area is guage and hopes to be able to preach in that Sabbath members of the church met extremely hot, and high wages were of- it soon. as usual. During the service they noticed fered. The day I was supposed to leave Shiraz a great deal of smoke in the distance. The Middle East Division officers have the airport was closed because of a sand- Concern mounted as the service contin- been in correspondence with our mem- storm. Next morning proved to be a fine ued, and before the benediction the con- bers in Qatar and Bahrein, but the first spring day, and soon my plane was on its gregation united in a petition to Heaven for protection for their church and their homes. That afternoon they watched home after home burn to the ground in their small community. Even while their own homes were threatened, members of the Dorcas So- ciety gathered at the church to lay plans for helping the homeless. On Sunday morning they were the first group to go to work for the many homeless. A well-

The woods surrounding the Newtonsville, New Jersey, church and the homes of ten Adventist families were saved from a wind- swept fire on Sabbath, April 20. Not one was touched by the flames. Selena Chandler, church clerk, here points to the spot where the family garage stood. "Trees in the sur- rounding area," she said, "were a roaring mass of flames. Only God in His mercy spared our home. It was not even scorched. Truly the Lord rebuked the devourer."

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 way to Dibai, a town on the Trucial the earth need our prayers. With the Arena meetings nearly 1,000 non-Advent- Coast of Arabia. That was an interesting exception of Iran, countries in the Per- islts signed commitment cards declaring plane ride, partly because the pilot either sian Gulf area are as yet unentered by t eir belief in the Bible truths they had could not or did not want to climb high our organized work. It is extremely diffi- h ard, and their purpose to folloW the enough to go over the mountains. In- cult to obtain visas even to visit these li ht. stead, we went through canyons and places, and it is impossible to place work- During the arena meetings, more than around the higher peaks. The other rea- ers or do missionary work there. But we 1 tons of Bibles were distributed, for son I will never forget the ride was our thank the Lord that in each of these " ible in hand" audience participation. landing at a little Iranian town with the lands we have a nucleus of believers who A proximately 300 ushers, hostesses, of- most primitive and roughest landing are letting their light shine. Our Arabic fi e personnel, and other workers were strip I have ever seen. magazines and the Signs in English are n eded to distribute the Bibles, sort When the plane came to a halt on the going to many in these areas, and we be- ountains of request cards, and care for packed-sand runway at Dibai I looked lieve that soon the Lord will open the t e many details of the meetings. for an Indian doctor, a non-Adventist way for a broader proclamation of the Following the series in the Sports friend through correspondence. Since my truth. A ena, Elder Vandeman spoke seven plane was a good day late, I did not know ti es each week in three different areas— whether he would be there to meet me. L s Angeles, Long Beach, and Van Nuys. You can imagine my relief when Dr. inisters in each area formed evangelis- Mandoody came forward and introduced Southern Californians ti groups to organize the meetings and to himself. This man had lived next door to vi it those who attended. In two other Adventists as a boy, and he knew several Throng It Is Written a eas Conference Evangelists Don Dole- of our former missionaries to India. I By Philip Follett, Coordinator m+ n and Clarence Duffield held meetings had corresponded with him regarding a to which those who had attended the subscription to the Signs of the Times, The largest evangelistic campaign in S orts Arena meetings were invited. Hun- and when he learned of my visit he in- the history of the Southern California d eds were baptized or were preparing vited me to stay at his home. That eve- Conference has already tallied a total at- fo baptism by the conclusion of the nine- ning we had a service in Dr. Mandoody's tendance of more than 200,000 at public w ek intensive series, and many more living room, with about 25 in attendance. meetings at four locations, and is still in w re attending church services regularly. To my surprise, most of the group were progress in the 85 churches in the confer- A ter the public meetings baptismal fairly well acquainted with Adventists ence. cl sses were begun for others. and their beliefs, and two of the group It Is Written combines the modern The Southern California Conference had attended our schools as children. mass-communications techniques of tele- co mittee has voted to continue the It From Dibai I traveled to Doha, in vision, a series of public evangelistic Is Written telecast series in Los Angeles Qatar. Our eight members there and sev- meetings, Bible classes and preaching by fo another year. During this time each eral friends attended the services Sab- every pastor, and regular visitation by ch rch in the conference will conduct bath. As far as we know, these were the thousands of laymen and ministers. This fo low-up meetings. first services ever conducted in Qatar by intensive program has blanketed the a Seventh-day Adventist worker. Two Southern California Conference since other members who live at a considerable September 1962. T omasville, Georgia, distance from Doha could not be visited The major public meetings were con- on this trip. ducted in the Los Angeles Sports Arena Church Organized On Sunday I rebaptized a young In- by Elder George Vandeman, speaker and dian nurse, bade farewell to our members director of the telecast, since March 30. y C. E. Platner and flew over to Bahrein, where I held More than 11,000 have thronged the giant Departmental Secretary two evening services, also an Adventist arena at one time, causing a traffic tie- Georgia-Cumberland Conference "first." We have three members there, all up that turned hundreds of cars away. nurses from India. The turnstile count for the 18 meetings early 90 years after the Advent mes- My last visit was to the city of Dhah- in the arena has topped 132,000. Some sa e was brought to a south Georgia ran in Saudi Arabia. We have about ten 14,000 persons attended a double session to n, a new church was organized ten members working in hospitals there. They one Sabbath afternoon and evening. mi es away at Thomasville. This was a are faithful and zealous in missionary More than 6,000 non-Adventists have re ult of the combined efforts of lay evan- work. Although they are from India and requested copies of the sermons during ge ists and a crusade by the Georgia-Cum- be land Conference evangelist. speak little Arabic, they are working to the series, and some 2,300 have enrolled give the message to the national people. in the "Take His Word" series at the etty Dorminey, Mrs. J. 0. Highsmith, Our members in these isolated areas of arena. On the final night of the Sports an members of the Barwick church ini- tia ed a campaign to enroll the entire cit in the School of Bible Prophecy. By The Los Angeles It Is Written campaign opened in the Sports Arena with an attendance of 11,000. A total attendance of more than 132,000 was recorded during the four-week campaign. mi -1961 those receiving the first lesson nu bered 3,600. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Con- ne 1, members of the Standifer Gap ch rch, responded to an appeal made at ca p meeting for laymen to enter the da k counties in full-time lay evangelism. Son they were conducting meetings each Friday night and a branch Sabbath school in the city library on Sabbath afternoons. Then the John Hayward-Harold Keeh- ne evangelistic team came to Thomas- vil e. The Connells were already conduct- in nine Bible-study programs in homes abi ut the city, but there were still about 121 Bible school students they had not be :n able to reach, and another 42 in ne rby Cairo. Evangelistic meetings were be un in the local medical building from M rch 2 until the organization of the ne church. Attendance frequently was as igh as 150. In addition to the regular eve ing health lectures, Mrs. Keehnel co ucted cooking classes each Sunday.

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Charter members and friends at the organization of a new church at Thomasville, Georgia.

Working very closely with the evange- Prayer—Antidote doors swung open the nurse in charge listic team were the district pastor, F. W. anxiously asked me to see a very sick Harvey, and a Bible instructor, Ruby for Tetanus child admitted earlier that evening. Damon. Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Carlton, col- I hastened to a cot at one end of a porteur evangelists, have moved into an By Dr. W. E. Staples hospital corridor, where a small girl about adjoining dark county. Medical Superintendent eight years old lay with head and feet This church is the ninth to be organ- Maluti Hospital arched in a terrific muscle spasm. When ized in the conference during the past I touched her face, she writhed in agony 16 months, and seventy-fifth in the con- How good the lights of home seemed as as her tense muscles were drawn into one ference. we bumped along the rough country road spasm after another. The child had teta- "I've never before seen a place where toward Maluti Hospital in the Orange nus, and had been in this condition two interest is so great in the Advent mes- Free State of South Africa. After a long, days before the parents were able to bring sage," exclaims Brother Connell. Elder tiring day at Kolo Mission dispensary 150 her from a far-distant village for medical Hayward commented, "It was the per- miles distant, our thoughts focused on help. We hastily administered what medi- sonal work done by the Connells that supper and a short time of relaxation in cations we could to alleviate her suffering, made the difference." the quietness of home. As the ambulance and I asked a nurse to get the parents to come and see me as soon as possible. Next morning before talking with the parents I went to see the little girl, who seemed to be dying with pneumonia. Calling the parents into my office, I gently told them that we could do noth- city. He charged Christian missionaries ing to help their child, but that there was aimed at the destruction of "the three One who could help; and we discussed main pillars of Judaism—belief in God's together the love of Jesus and His power oneness, in divine law, and in the Mes- to save from sin and death. Then I asked siah's future coming." Meanwhile, preach- them whether they wanted the chaplain ing at the same service in Jerusalem, two and me to have special prayer for their rabbis urged the Knesset (Parliament) to little one who lay dying in the room next Selected from Religious News Service. enact laws barring missionaries. Israel's door. Quietly we went into the room and, Minister of Religious Affairs, Dr. Zerah without removing the screens that sur- Wahrhaf tig, has stated repeatedly that the rounded her bed, knelt to pray. In sub- LOUISVILLE, KY.—Confusion over government has no intentions of passing Kentucky's Sunday-closing law continues, dued voices we pleaded with the Lord to "antimissionary" laws to control Chris- hear our prayers for healing. Tears were although the State's highest court has up- tian missions. Such demands have been held it for the second time. Louisville running down the cheeks of both parents made in the past by ultra-Orthodox mem- as we tiptoed out of the room. Police Court Judge William G. Colson bers of the Knesset. said he does not know what stores can That moment a marked change set in, stay open on Sunday under the 162-year- LONDON—Anglican Canon John D. and the child began to get well. Some old law. Many Sunday-closing summonses Pearce-Higgins created a stir during his weeks later this little girl said to the nurse will be tried eventually in his court. The installation as canon and vice-provost of who was busy in her room, "How lucky Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled early Southwark Cathedral by publicly protest- you are to live here at the hospital. If you in May that the law was not too vague ing against the "duty and necessity" of get sick you can get help from the doctor to be unconstitutional. Judge Colson had having to assent to the Thirty-Nine Arti- immediately. It took them a long time been dismissing Sunday-work summonses cles as a condition for assuming office. to bring me here." issued by police on grounds that the law The Articles—drawn up in 1562 and The nurse asked the little girl whether was too vague. Now, he said, "I can't imposed on the clergy as a profession of she remembered anything about her early buck the court of appeals." faith by an act of Parliament in 1571— stay in the hospital. Yes, she could re- are a formulation of the beliefs of the member the soft voices as prayer was be- JERUSALEM—Special services were Church of England. Canon Pearce-Higgins ing offered, but that was all. The nurse held in synagogues at Tel Aviv, Haifa, says they are as outdated as a "theological took time to explain to her that it was Jerusalem, and other cities in connection fossil" embodied in the church's constitu- because of those prayers that her life had with the Day of World Prayer for the tion. been spared, and that she should grow Peace of Israel and the Soviet Jewry. Several rabbis, preaching at the services, WASHINGTON, D.C.—Legislation to up and be a witness of Jesus' great love for her. used the occasion to attack Christian mis- ease the burden on parents who send their sionary activities as "endangering" Israel children to parochial and other non- Some time after this conversation the and the Jewish people. In Tel Aviv, Chief public schools by making tuition payments little girl was able to go home with her Rabbi Isser Unterman called for "vigorous deductible for Federal income tax pur- parents. Laughing and jumping, in per- activity" against missionaries who, he poses was introduced here by Rep. John fect health, she was a living witness to said, had been particularly active in his E. Fogarty. God's power to save.

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 19 Sacrificial Giving— 14, in Michigan. This was presented in the The Alumni Association of Columbia parlor of the Health Center, under the ion College, during a special awards and Sanctification direction of David Knecht, English and pel, awarded 30 grants of $100 each to By W. E. Murray, Vice-President speech teacher at the academy, and dents of the college. General Conference Thomas K. Williams, chaplain of the Health Center. The importance of young All true believers in Christ desire to people having wholesome philosophies experience Bible sanctification. "Sanctifi- was stressed. Eileen Moon and Jorgen cation is not the work of a moment, Henriksen presented their views on the an hour, a day, but of a lifetime." It is purpose and values of having convictions. the result of obedience, "the fruit of faith The Ruskjer brothers, Ronald, Robert, and love." "This work can be accom- and David, blended their voices in the plished only through faith in Christ, by beautiful hymn "The Love of God." the power of the indwelling Spirit of On May 11 teen-agers from grades 7-10 sailed from New pp. 560, ▪ iss Lois B. Votaw God." (The Acts of the Apostles, conducted the Sabbath services of the York City, on the S.S. Hoegh Silverwave, 563; The Great Controversy, p. 469.) Kirkland, Washington, church. Teryl J ne 4, for India. She served from 1957 Sacrificial giving is one facet of this Lofgren served as Sabbath school super- to 1961 as a nurse in India. After a fur- work of transformation. One's attitude intendent, Jim Stream as pastor, Don lo gh and leave of absence she is return- toward giving to the various projects of Haas and Ernest Burrell as elders, and in to connect with Vincent Hill School the church is more closely related to sanc- Sue Johnson and Jim Durney of Auburn as an elementary teacher. tification than many may have realized. Academy as speakers. Sharon Trapp led . Robert Johnson, M.D., of Glendale, The thrilling advance of the church the MV meeting. C lifornia, left New York City on June 10, around the world testifies to the fact that Bradley Nelson, junior religion major fo Libya. He is to serve for three months many clearly perceive this relationship. It at Atlantic Union College, has been as a relief doctor in the Benghazi Hos- testifies, also, to God's love at work in the chosen as the Student Association's stu- pi al. believer's heart. Giving of one's means dent missionary for the summer of 1963. to advance the gospel reflects our love r. and Mrs. Frank W. Bredenkamp for the Redeemer to those still in dark- The Yerba Buena Mission in Chiapas, a d three children, of Takoma Park, ness. Sacrificial giving transforms worldli- Mexico, has been chosen as this summer's M ryland, sailed from New York City, on ness into otherworldliness. It expresses location. This is a Seventh-day Adventist t e S.S. Maasdam, June 11, going to South trust in God and confidence in the tri- mission independently operated by Mr. A rica. Brother Bredenkamp has accepted umph of His cause. and Mrs. Ray Comstock. Chiapas is situ- a all to teach in Solusi College, Bulawayo, Covetousness is the foe of Bible sanc- ated in the southernmost tip of Mexico, R odesia. He is a national returning to tification, as the parable of the foolish approximately 120 miles north of the hi home division. rich man makes clear. Neither poor nor Guatemalan border. Bradley was chosen lder and Mrs. Willard J. Clemons, rich are safe against this evil virus unless by an 11-member committee of faculty of Warsaw, Indiana, sailed from New they have been immunized. and students appointed by the Student Y rk City, on the M.S. Wallenfels, June Coming, July 13, is the Midsummer Association senate. He left New England 11, en route to Libya. Brother Clemons Offering, and with it an opportunity by by air the first part of June and will re- w 11 serve as a chaplain in the Benghazi God's grace to help us overcome this turn to college the latter part of August. H spital. deadly virus. May we give sacrificially = Youth of Collegedale Academy have Mr. and Mrs. Jabbour S. Simon, of to meet pressing mission needs. completed a series of evangelistic tent G endale, California, left June 11, from meetings on the east side of Chattanooga, N w York City, on the M.S. Wallenfels, Tennessee. Ten students presented the fo Lebanon. Brother Simon is returning nightly sermons. The programs were un- as a national to his homeland, for service der the direction of James Anderson, as assistant secretary in the medical de- Rodney Hyde, Glenn Wheeling, Judy p rtment of the Middle East Division. Whitman, and Janet McKee. W. R. BEACH

OF MEN ▪ On March 30, 375 people attended the , AND EANT$ third meeting of the United Youth League in Taunton, Massachusetts. This organization is composed of the young people of the Pawtucket, Providence (Rhode Island), and Taunton districts. m nths. This is the first report of out- James Costa is president and Nancy st nding success in this area in selling Inghan serves as secretary. H. R. Burrow Middle East Division th's book, the first large Spirit of Prophecy led out in the singspiration part of the Reported by v lume in Arabic. meeting, with K. W. Hutchins of Hudson, W. R. Lashes Public meetings conducted in the evan- Massachusetts, at the organ. The Cedar- g listic center in Cairo, Egypt, from April brook choir, under the direction of Her- th ough June, have resulted in a good bert Brendel,- sang. A new 500-foot well at Middle East in erest, according to Evangelist C. E. ▪ Recently a course in Christian witness- College was recently inaugurated at a M seley, of the General Conference. ing was given at Union Springs Academy. simple ribbon-cutting ceremony by R. A. Filmy Berbawy translates the sermons H. J. Harris, conference home missionary Wilcox, chairman of the board. G. A. in o Arabic. About ten Egypt section secretary, conducted the study. These Keough, college president, stated that workers were associated with Elder Mose- young people gave up their evening rec- there has been a water shortage at the le in this effort. reational period in order to take the college since it located at the present site D. A. McAdams, of the General Con- course. They plan to distribute literature, in 1947. The new well will provide ade- e ence, and D. L. Chappell have con- give Bible studies, conduct branch Sab- quate water for the institution, faculty d cted student colporteur institutes in bath schools, and live Christ before all homes, and the campus, and make com- iddle East College, Iran Training men. mercial gardening possible. S hool, and Nile Union Academy. More than 60 students from these three schools ▪ A Voice of Youth program was fea- ▪ Frayh Rizk, a colporteur in Egypt, tured by the Battle Creek Academy and has sold 172 copies of the Arabic transla- plan to engage in colporteur work during Health Center, Sunday evening, April tion of Patriarchs and Prophets in recent the summer. 20 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 Mrs. Elaine Derby, sponsor of the Investi- ference; Prof. M. Anderson of the State IS Columbia Union ture Club. Teachers College in Ellendale; A. H. Den- ning, chairman of the building fund com- Reported by " The Burns Avenue, Detroit church in Don A. Roth mittee. The machine for the digging was the Lake Region Conference is making waiting to begin the excavating of the in soul winning. During the good progress basement. The church is to have a first quarter of this year C. F. Warren r"- V. W. Schoen, associate home mission- seating capacity of 275. Estimated cost of baptized 36 persons. Others are studying ary secretary of the General Conference, the building is $50,000. was guest speaker at a laymen's rally in for baptism. C. E. Bradford, president of Canton, Pennsylvania. More than 200 the conference, was speaker for the spring were in attendance. MV Week of Prayer for the youth of the North Pacific Burns Avenue and City Temple churches. " "Youth Speaks Out" was the title of Union the series of evangelistic meetings pre- sr Reported by sented by the youth from the North Jer- Northern Union Mrs. lone Morgan sey Seventh-day Adventist School Center Reported by " Twenty-one members were added to in Waldwick. Six boys and girls from the air L 14. Nettsburg ninth and tenth grades were the speakers, the Sharon church in Portland, Oregon, and other students prepared the special by baptism on June 1. A. Wellington music and acted as ushers and usher- " A children's branch Sabbath school, or Clarke, the pastor, conducted the service. ettes. Story Hour, is conducted each Sabbath "I` More than 800 Pathfinders were on afternoon at the home of L. E. Phillips in 1" Sixteen persons were baptized by Paul hand to participate in opening cere- Council Bluffs, Iowa, under the leadership monies at Oregon's Pathfinder Fair, May G. Smith, pastor of the Laurel and Athol- of Mrs. Glenn Larsen, assisted by Mrs. ton, Maryland, churches recently. 12, at the Lane County Fair Grounds in F. G. Lehnhardt and Mrs. Stanley Teller. Eugene. Climax of the day was the award- Attendance has been between 15 and 27, ing of ribbons and trophies. Honors went Lake Union and the interest is high. to the Hood River Club, with Mrs. Fay 1" The annual Twin City (Minneapolis Ziegele as director, the Coquille Club, Reported by with Dr. Robert Gronemyer as director, Mrs. Mildred Wade and St. Paul, Minnesota) Ingathering "tag days" were a resounding success, with and the Tabernacle Club of Portland, total receipts approximately double those with Forrest Montgomery as director. Raymond Hill will join the agricul- of a year ago. All tag day receipts are con- A group of 17 men and 22 women at- ture department of Andrews University sidered as part of the regular Ingathering tended the Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking this coming year as horticulturist. An goal, and each year many members raise held in Newport, Oregon, from May 19 alumnus of Andrews, he received his Mas- their Silver Vanguard goal and more in through 23. At least 29 of these had con- ter's degree at Michigan State University, a few hours on these two days. quered the habit by the end of the five and taught ten years at Mountain View The Ellendale, North Dakota, church nights. Public interest indicates the de- College in the Philippines. building program got off to a good start sirability of another adult session. Plans with several men breaking the first sod: are also being laid to work with the high " At an Investiture service held April 27 school age group this fall. Dr. Robert at Grand Ledge Academy, Michigan, 175 H. J. Eslinger, the church pastor; the Honorable Earl Redlin, mayor of Ellen- Kaye, of Oceanlake, and Robert Letcher, vocational Honors were awarded to 48 pastor of the Newport district, with the Missionary Volunteers, and Master Guide dale; Ben Trout, president of the North Dakota Conference; N. K. Harvey, secre- assistance of Dr. M. K. Hartzell, of Eu- pins were given to six. L. C. Caviness, gene, are leaders in this project. conference MV leader, was assisted by tary-treasurer of the North Dakota Con- " At commencement exercises June 2 at Walla Walla College, Dr. P. W. Chris- tian, president, conferred 163 degrees: 59 Bachelor of Arts, 4 Bachelor of Music, 79 Ohio Pathfinder Fair Bachelor of Science, 13 Bachelor of Sci- ence in Engineering, and 8 Master of Pictured below is one of the clubs on parade at the annual Ohio Pathfinder Fair, Arts. held May 19 at Mount Vernon. Chet Long presented high lights of the fair on his N. R. Dower was re-elected to his WBNS-TV newscast Monday night, May 20. The Pathfinder trophy went to the Mount fourth, two-year term as president of the Vernon Club. ROBERT L. OSMUNSON Washington Conference in June. Also re- Departmental Secretary elected were E. C. Christie, secretary- Ohio Conference treasurer; M. J. Perry, educational sec- retary; E. H. Webb, MV secretary; A. R. Lodahl, Sabbath school and temperance secretary; E. K. Mooers, legal association secretary; Peter Tadej, publishing depart- ment secretary; 0. A. Braman, Book and Bible House manager. Wayne Scriven was elected home missionary, radio, and TV secretary to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of D. A. Neufeld, who is con- necting with the Religious Liberty De- partment of the General Conference. 6' Thirty-five teen-age youth of the Idaho Conference attended a recent Bible Con- ference. Gordon Balharrie, dean of the- ology at Walla Walla College, gave seven studies on "Knowing the Times." Opening registration for the summer session at Walla Walla College totals 531, according to statistics released by Orpha Osborne, registrar. On campus at College Place are 455 students; at the Portland clinical division of the school of nursing, 39; and at the WWC biological station at Anacortes, 37. 21 Lake Union Mi higan rand Ledge July 4-13 Wis onsin Portage July 18-27 North Pacific Union Oro n adstone July 10-20 Pacific Union No thern California F rtuna July 17-21 Sou heastern California (no camp meeting) Sou hern California (no camp meeting) Southwestern Union Okl shoma klahoma City August 2-10

Mi summer Missions Service and Offering July 13 Laymen's Training Course in New Jersey Pio eer Evangelism (Dark County) August 3 Ch rch Missionary Offering August 3 A select group of laymen were called to the New Jersey Conference headquarters Oa wood College Offering August 10 chapel recently for a five-day intensive training course in soul winning. The instructors Ed cational Day and Elementary ffering August 17 of this course were V. W. Schoen of the General Conference Home Missionary Depart- Lit rature Evangelists Rally Day September 7 ment (center, seated); H. K. Halladay, union home missionary secretary (third right); Ch rch Missionary Offering September 7 Mis ions Extension Day and Offering September 14 M. K. Eckenroth, president of the New Jersey Conference (third left); and R. D. Re Few and Herald Campaign Sept. 14-Oct. 12 Steinke, home missionary secretary (second left). M Pathfinder Day September 21 hi teenth Sabbath Offering Departmental Secretary R. D. STEINKE, iddle East Division) September 28 New Jersey Conference Nei hborhood Evangelism October 5 Ch rch Missionary Offering October 5 Voi e of Prophecy Offering October 12 D. Thomann, B. Padilla, T. Requenez, Sabath School Visitors' Day October 12 Pacific Union Co munity Relations Day October 19 and A. Guzman, pastor. Te perance Day Offering October 26 Reported by "1" E. J. Anderson, principal of San Fer- Wit essing Laymen November 2 Mrs. Margaret Follett Ch rch Missionary Offering November 2 nando Academy since 1958, is replacing We k of Prayer November 9-16 Max Torkelsen in the Arizona Conference We k of Sacrifice Offering November 16 Ing thering Campaign Nov. 23-Jan. 4, 1964 as secretary of the education, temperance, Ing thering December 7 and MV departments. Elder Torkelsen Ch rch Missionary Offering December 7 'I' Five Pacific Union College couples Thi teenth Sabbath Offering have accepted calls to teach in mission has accepted a call to the Central Cali- ( outhern African Division) December 21 lands. Jack and Beverly Staddon are un- fornia Conference. der appointment to Far Eastern Academy 1" Dowell E. Martz, associate professor of in Singapore; Harold Peters and family physics at Pacific Union College, has ac- OFFICIAL ORGAN CO TOE SEVENTH:0Ay ADYNTIST CHURCH will sail soon for Southern Rhodesia; cepted a position as senior research engi- EVIEW and HERALD George and Jeanette Bryson have received neer at the California Institute of Tech- a call to Ghana; A. A. Milward is going nology. 1¢ 1849 a company of Sabbathkeeping Adventists with his family to Spicer Missionary Col- " Brian Ellingsworth, formerly of South whe background was the Millerite movement began lege in India; and Alberto Sbacchi and to publish a paper called The Present Truth. In 1850 Africa, has been invited to the pastorate thealso published five issues of The Advent Review. his fiancée, Margareta Karlman, will spend of the Palmdale church in the Southern In ovember, 1850, these two papers merged under their honeymoon in Europe en route to the name, Second Advent Review and Sabbath Her- California Conference. ald, now titled simply REVIEW AND HERALD. Its Ethiopia. Also, Martha Gonzalez returns edit nal objective remains unchanged—to preach "the to her former school—Calexico Mission eve lasting gospel" in the context of the Sabbath, the Sec nd Advent, and other truths distinctive of the School—as a teacher in the elementary 1963 Camp Meetings Adv nt Movement. grades. Readers of the REVIEW AND HERALD will be in- • "I" Thirty-nine seniors and postgraduate terested to know in advance the plans for the camp Edi or: Francis David Nichol meetings in North America. The following is the list students at Pacific Union College com- as reported by the various local conferences. Assdciate Editors: Raymond F. Cottrell E. W. DUNRAR Kenneth H. Wood, Jr. pleted requirements for State and Gen- Consulting Editors: R. R. Figuhr M. V. Campbell eral Conference teaching credentials in Atlantic Union Theo. Carcicis, W. E. Murray June, and another 11 expect to finish F. L. Peterson, R. S. Watts Greater New York Edi orial Secretaries: Promise Joy Sherman their work during the summer. Altogether Berkshire SDA Camp Idamae Melendy Spanish July 7-13 43 graduates have announced their accept- Spe ial Contributors: Frederick Lee, W. R. Beach, ance of teaching appointments in denomi- Canadian Union C. L. Torrey, Presidents of all Overseas Divisions national schools for next school year. Alberta Canadian Union College, Lacombe July 12-20 Circ lotion Manager: R. G. Campbell Pobida church, Beauvallon July 27, 28 ▪ The Chico, California, church held a Peace River, Peoria July 26-28 • golden anniversary celebration June 28 British Columbia Hope July 19-27 Sub criptions: United States, $5.95 (slightly higher in to 30 in honor of all the missionaries who Manitoba-Saskatchewan C nada); other countries, $6.95. When changing Clear Lake, Manitoba July 5-13 a•dress, give both old and new address; allow 30 have gone from the church. Fifty years Maritime to 60 days for change. When writing about your sub- ago the church sent out its first family, Pugwash, Nova Scotia August 2-11 sc iption or changing your address, please enclose Newfoundland th address label from your copy or from the and since then about 30 others have fol- St. John's w apper in which it comes. lowed them to serve in various parts of August 9-11 the world. Central Union • Kansas TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS: Manuscripts should be The Hayward Spanish church was Enterprise Academy, Enterprise July 17-20 type., double spaced, with adequate margins. Use ▪ Wyoming only one side of paper. Unsolicited manuscripts can- dedicated May 25 with Carl Becker, Casper July 11-14 not e acknowledged or returned unless stamped self- add essed envelope is sent with them. The REVIEW president of the Northern California Columbia Union does not pay for unsolicited material. Copies of Conference, giving the dedicatory sermon. Chesapeake roan scripts sent to other journals cannot be used. Others participating in the service were Catonsville, Maryland July 25-August 3 Lay members should identify themselves by giving West Pennsylvania the name of the church they attend and the name C. S. Bendrell, M. Leon, E. A. Schmidt, Somerset August 1-11 of eir pastor or local elder. 22 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 The MASTER DECEPTION o SAT - Do You Recognize It ? Can You Counter It ?

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REVIEW AND HERALD, July 11, 1963 23 ye sity School of Medicine, to study the oc urrence, of death from pulmonary em- ph) sema among Seventh-day Adventists. T is disease, which is a growing concern to doctors, is rapidly developing into mi or epidemic proportions, as lung can- ce began to do a few years ago. The st • y reveals again a very low rate of Illinois Conference Session Anchorage, Alaska (September 6 and 7) occurrence of this disease among Advent- Seventh-day Adventist church ist , further buttressing the theory of Dr. The biennial session of the Illinois 637 "A" Street Gr nshaw and others that the disease is Conference was held on May 5. W. A. Retreat begins 7:30 P.M., Friday du primarily to cigarette smoking. Nelson was re-elected president, and El- (Servicemen should contact their chap- ton Dessain secretary-treasurer. All of the lain or commanding officer immediately departmental secretaries were returned to to make arrangements to attend the T xas Camp Meeting office. Reports indicate that the work is Anchorage and Fairbanks retreats.) moving forward encouragingly in Illinois. S =ts Soul-winning Goals W. P. BRADLEY Fort Lewis, Washington (September 11) he following telegram from B. E. On the base Le i ch, president of the Texas Confer- (For details contact the Seventh-day en e, reflects great enthusiasm for soul Lake Region Adventist military chaplain at Fort wi ning on the part of the church in Lewis: Chaplain (Major) Earl T. Lee, Biennial Session Te as: 35th. Eng. Bn., Fort Lewis, Washing- ' Texas camp meeting ended high note. At the biennial session of the Lake ton.) M i re than $275,000 in cash, land, pledges, Region Conference held in the camp given to great Operation Lone Star pro- meeting pavilion on the camp ground gr*n. Six new churches introduced; 20 at Gassopolis, Michigan, June 23, 1963, Lung Cancer, Emphysema— m 're planned next 12 months. Plan enter C. E. Bradford was re-elected president and Adventists 35 dark areas by January 1; baptize 1,000 and M. C. Van Putten was returned to by next camp meeting. Earnestly solicit the office of secretary-treasurer. Each de- A most interesting resume of the mas- yo r prayers." partmental secretary was re-elected. The sive amount of evidence indicating the president reported that 1,161 persons were causal relationship between the use of baptized during the past biennial period. cigarettes and the development of lung This brings the total membership to 5,670. cancer has appeared as a 16-page item in California Church Burns During this two-year period the tithe the June, 1963, issue of the valuable jour- he General Conference Insurance amounted to $983,125; and missions of- nal, Consumer Reports. This article is Co pany informs us that on Sunday ferings, apart from Ingathering, totaled an abstract of a book authored by Ruth m ning, June 23, the Lynwood, Cali- $55,340. and Edward Brecher and published by for ia, church burned down with a loss F. L. BLAND the same journal. Studies directed by Drs. of $150,000. This was covered by insur- Frank Lemon and Richard T. Walden, of an e. The church was also known as the the Department of Preventive Medicine Ly wood Academy Chapel. No informa- Health Book and Public Health at Loma Linda Uni- tio as to possible cause of fire is pres- Published in Arabic versity, are mentioned in considerable de- en ly available. tail as a "remarkable" demonstration of June 5 will long be remembered by the the "inherent implausibility" of some workers at the Middle East Press in Bei- hypothetical constitutional X-factor sup- rut, Lebanon. On this day a new health posedly involved in lung cancer. To- book entitled Your Way to Health and bacco industry spokesmen have blamed Happiness, written by Dr. Clifford An- this as the actual cause of the disease. derson, came off the press in the Arabic As the authors noted, lung cancer language. among Seventh-day Adventists is quite R. E. Anderson, manager of the press, infrequent. Cases that do occur have so and his workers produced this large, hard- far been found, almost without excep- Selected from Religious News Service. bound subscription book in about five tion, among recent converts to Advent- months—a real accomplishment, indeed. ism. All were previously heavy cigarette AMBURG, GERMANY—A significant On June 19, D. L. Chappell, the Middle smokers. Describing this so-called "X- inc ease was reported here in the number East publishing department secretary, sold factor," the Brechers stated: of erman Evangelical missionaries over- the first copy of this new book to a fa- "If such a factor exists, it must (of sea since the end of World War II— mous doctor in Beirut who owns a hos- course) have the two characteristics noted: fro 180 to 1,155. These missionaries in- pital. It must be associated with cigarette smok- clu e ministers, doctors, nurses, and D. A. McAnAms ing (as distinct from cigar or pipe smok- tea hers. Among lands in which German ing); and it must cause lung cancer. In Pr testant missionaries serve are Indo- addition, we can affirm on the basis of nes a, Ethiopia, Egypt, Japan, South Retreats for SDA Servicemen the Seventh-day Adventist findings, that Af *ca, and New Guinea. the X-factor must be present in Catholics, Parents and friends of young men in ASHINGTON, D.C.—The halls of Methodists, Baptists, Jews, and atheists— any of the U.S. armed services who are Co gress here echoed to words of praise but Seventh-day Adventists (except re- stationed in Alaska or who are in or for the late Pope John XXIII and ex- cent converts) must somehow be resistant near Fort Lewis, Washington, are urged pre sions of regret in the loss the world to notify them of the following planned to, or lacking in it altogether! su ered in his passing. This outpouring "There is, of course, a much simpler retreats. J. R. Nelson, director of the Na- of sentiment in addresses to both the Seventh- tional Service Organization, will be in and more plausible explanation. Ho se and Senate came from legislators attendance, and he would like to urge day Adventists do not smoke." of 11 faiths. all Seventh-day Adventist military person- Another study, soon to be summarized in the REVIEW by Drs. Lemon and Wal- A PAZ, BOLIVIA—A program of evan- nel to be present. den, was reported in New Delhi, India, gelization and Scripture distribution has The retreats are as follows: at the International Congress of Chest been started here by the Pocket Testament Fairbanks, Alaska (August 30 to Septem- Physicians on February 21. This report Le gue. Plans were announced by the ber 1) was presented by Dr. Gerald Crenshaw, org nization, which was founded in 1893 Seventh-day Adventist church an Oakland, California, chest surgeon an has headquarters in Englewood, N.J., Slater and Bentley Drive who teamed up with Drs. Lemon, Walden, to istribute 200,000 copies of the Gospel Retreat begins 7:30 P.M., Friday and Dysinger, of the Loma Linda Uni- of ohn in Spanish.