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THE ADVENT SAB BAT H *REVIEW AND HERALD GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DEDICATED TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL

• Girding for the Final Triumph*

By LOUIS K. DICKSON

"Therefore we ought to give the more ear- gradually filling with inferior inter- are ever mounting. to greater heights nest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For ests until love for Christ and His and giving us cause for rejoicing. But if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, church was being quenched. we must now re-examine everything A and every transgression and disobedience re- Are not these same dangers threat- we have and are in the light of this ceived a just recompense of reward; how ening us today? The storm brews great hour to which we have come. shall we escape, if we neglect so great sal- vation; which at the first began to be spoken about us but has not broken. The wa- It is obvious that although the by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by ters are still calm, and the sky is clear. church is in earnest about the finish- them that heard Him; God also bearing them But we seem to be "falling away from ing of God's work, it is not yet putting witness, both with signs and wonders, and our steadfastness." ✓ with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy forth its full effort to finish it. This Ghost, according to His. own will" Heb. surely is not through a lack of wish 2:1-4. Has the Church Changed? to accomplish our task but through HE apostle is here writing to the We need to ponder well now whether lack of will to do it. This will to do early Hebrew Christian believers the primitive principles, objectives, and to dare for God, a heritage left Tof the first century. His message and attitudes of the pioneers of the to us by the early pioneers of the mes- is directed not to the irreligious but advent message will survive in us. If sage, must be regained. We must find to those who made up the Hebrew part our early pioneers were to return and again the devotion of the stalwart men of the apostolic church. They had be- preside over the church, would they and women of noble purpose and abil- come weary of the protracted fight as recognize that the ideals they consid- ity who founded this great work. they strove to uphold their new-found ered of paramount importance are be- They were made eminent by God's faith. It had been a great struggle, ing looked upon as fundamental today? grace and Spirit, so that by faith they and they were giving way through Things have changed so since their day moved forward. And now we find our- sheer exhaustion. in nearly all respects. Would they find selves in practically every country and Many of these Hebrew converts themselves bewildered strangers in island group on the face of the earth were looking backward toward their the church? within a mere century of time. Their ✓ former religion, with its very tangible Certainly they would find a world as clear principles and convictions have, forms and ceremonies, and they were different from the one they knew one under the blessing and power of God, forgetting the things which they had hundred years ago as was their own built a movement in accordance with learned. By a gradual and yet alarm- from that of Moses and the Pharaohs. their consciences and judgment. Their ing process they were little by little An evolution has occurred in the world, voices rang clear wherever they were which has rushed civilization into an heard. There was no muffling of their • slipping back and away from the faith once delivered to the saints and were era of unparalleled revolutionary up- findings in God's Word. They gave yearning for what they had left be- heaval and transition. the trumpet a certain sound. Would they not also be shocked and hind. The apostle reminds them in the The Power of a Christlike Life first chapter of those things which surprised at what they find in the they had been taught, and seeks to re- church of their founding? "What," They were master builders of the * kindle in their minds and hearts the they would ask, "has become of those kingdom of God, and their faith has glow of faith. "Therefore," he says, ideals, standards, and principles which become our rich and glorious inher- "we ought to give the more earnest marked the beginning of the advent itance. Their power was not prima- heed to the things that were heard, movement? Where is the spirit of the rily in their reforms, their strategies, lest haply we drift away from them." pioneers ?" their technique, but rather in their 4 (Revised Version.) It is true that in the vast enterprise fervent, forceful, full spiritual life and Not lest ye fall into some glaring that has been built up, which we call devotion. That has been this move- sin. No, the storm had abated. Now the advent movement, there is much ment's distinctive contribution to the danger was lest they be caught off for which we need to be profoundly Christianity in this last generation, guard and drift back by degrees. To thankful. It is noteworthy that today and that must continue to be its driv- powerful influences adverse to Chris- in the midst of world chaos this church ing power until Jesus Christ comes tian fidelity they were gradually yield- in all the world proclaims with great again. ing. Their zeal for Christ was dimin- joy and thanksgiving the unity of one Where has that spirit gone? Has ishing. Their resistance was becom- of the most outstanding and far-reach- there been a drifting away, a slipping ing less resolute. Their hearts were ing movements which the Christian from those original moorings? church has ever witnessed. Our lit- These are dangerous hours. The • * Given at the Fall Council, Grand Rapids, erally stupendous achievements in all danger is that we will continue to al- Michigan. avenues of ministry for a dying world low the spirit of the pioneers to leak • ARK WASHINGTON, D.C., U.S.A. DECEMBER 13, 1945 NE Ell 1111 r • DECEMBER 13, 1945 out of our experience and work. "We ceived their labors. We have sympa- against them. These are the princi- ought to give the more earnest heed to thizing brethren to sustain us and ples which need to be revived through- the things which we have heard, lest fully appreciate our labors; the first out our work today. The hour de- at any time we should let them slip." laborers in this work had but very few mands a truer unity born of the Spirit What was the spirit of the pioneers to stand by them. All could be counted than we now see. which we must seek to recapture? in a few minutes. In Testimonies, vol- Like the apostles of old the pioneers They had a burden of soul as they met ume 3, pages 317, 318, we read: of this message possessed lives distin- one with another which we seldom wit- "We knew what it was to go hungry guished by spiritual power. They ness today. They had put away from for want of food, and to suffer with acted under the deep movings of the their hearts inferior interests, secon- cold for the want of suitable clothing. Holy Spirit with strong fervor and dary things. To seek to walk with We have traveled all night by private deep devotion. This they recognized God was their constant burden of soul. conveyance to visit the brethren, be- to be the normal Christian life, not We, too, must regain that all-consum- cause we had no means with which the abnormal. ing burden. to defray the expenses of hotel fare. The pioneer spirit and attitude We traveled miles on foot, time and Need of Spiritual Power brought to them a sense of awe as they again, because we had no money to How shall we recapture this spirit opened the Scriptures and searched hire a carriage, Oh, h .w.preci-ois was -of-the-apostles and the pioneers? How for the- truth—therein hidden. Th0i6 the truth to us! how valuable souls shall we find and hold more spiritual who sought to serve as ministers and purchased by the blood of Christ ! We power? Not by sentimentality. Not workers handled the Word of God with have no complaints to make of our by a spirit of hand folding. • We must a marked holy respect and carefulness. sufferings in those days of close want come to a fuller fellowship with God. There was a sanctifying, self-sacri- and perplexity, which made the exer- This can be realized only by an inward ficing attitude on 'the part of those cise of faith necessary. They were communion which is constant and fer- early workers, that told of the deep the happiest days of our lives. There vent and accompanied by an outward experience which they had in the we learned the simplicity of faith. fidelity to His revealed will—all this things of God. Filled with earnest- There, while in affliction, we tested and raised to the level of joy in the Lord, ness and zeal, they did not shun trial proved the Lord. He was our consola- until a likeness to Christ Himself is and responsibility. tion. He was to us like the shadow seen in the life. The spirit of the pioneers would not of a great rock in a weary land." To accomplish all this we must cease allow them to be swayed by circum- our aimlessness and superficiality in stances. They were men who prayed Earnest Students of the Word things spiritual. It is far easier to n produce a great movement that covers much and who through prayer found We need to recapture the spirit of their way. That spirit needs to be the earth than it is to produce an in- more manifest in all our counsels and investigation of the Word of God ner spiritual abiding experience such which the pioneers had. They were so as we have just described. True, we lives today. in earnest in their searchings for the Does there not need to come upon us have the power of a well-nigh perfect truth that they frequently spent all organization, but such power has never a new respect for experience through- night together in seeking for more out our ranks? Some who have the yet been strong enough to draw us into least experience, who have carried no light. In doing this they endeavored the deepest spiritual experience or ele- to make differences between brethren vate us to that ultimate holiness with- burdens and have done little or noth- as slight as possible. They drew close ing to advance this cause, and who out which it is impossible to please have no firsthand knowledge of mat- together. Where has that spirit gone God. in these later years? Why are we so It is important that we grow speed- ters of which they speak and criticize afraid to get together and discuss quite flippantly, are the first to find ily in numbers, but it is more impor- points upon which brethren may differ tant that we grow in spirituality. We fault with the management and lead- in their study of the Word? In these ership of the work, whether it be in must ever give more and more to the the local, union, or General conference. last days does it seem impossible to cause, that it might succeed and ex- find a common way as did those early pand, but we must give exceedingly apostles of the faith? The Spirit of Sacrifice more of our hearts in self-abandon- What fortitude they displayed under ment to Christ, that we may reflect We are suffering from great pros- affliction. Theirs was not a soft policy His spirit and attitude, and be filled perity today in the work of God. While in the face of trouble. No, they walked with His power. True, we must have we today are amply provided for in by faith and declared the whole truth wheels of machinery which are steady • point of means, our weekly wages and as God had revealed it to them. Holy and true and constant, but we must expenses are sure, those pioneers of boldness with humility were charac- find also the secret of abiding continu- yesterday in this cause suffered depri- teristics of the early leaders of this ance in spiritual living, that we may vations of every kind without mur- message which we need to recapture glorify God before men. muring or complaining or manifesting and hold. the least sign of discouragement. Great simplicity marked their lives. Call to Greater Unity and While today there is no particular call Clear distinctions from the world set Consecration for such deprivation among our work- them apart from those around them. ers, yet the spirit of faithfulness un- They were not seeking to be hidden It must be very obvious to us all der which those early workers labored away among men through compromise that if the church is to fulfill Christ's without promise of material recom- and world aping. The standards of desire for it now, there must come a pense is worthy of our emulation and the truth were distinct and clear in the new emphasis upon the pioneer spirit. is a spirit which we need to preserve lives of the pioneers. They constantly That' spirit will best be seen in a in this great work in this later hour. held aloft in their teachings and in greater unity of purpose to deepen the They went forward by faith and their lives the great truths which spiritual side of our experience and through believing prayer and faith called them forth to be a peculiar work. We must not only sing, "Like conquered and passed down to us the people. a mighty army moves the church of heritage we now possess. Where has The early pioneers were faithful to God," but we must see to it that those that spirit gone? Must we not recap- organization. They had respect for who look on will not see prominently ture it, and that speedily? God's chosen servants, and by these manifested among us a carping and backbiting company of stragglers and They had no assurance of anything. great characteristics a unity was de- ii They were dependent upon God, and veloped which defied the stiffest oppo- hangers-back. The world must not be upon the few truehearted ones who re- sition which the evil one could bring (Continued on page 23) rIVCK1 -r r • 2 TI-11 A • EDITORIAL • <

Heart-to-Heart Talks

Si The. Misuse of Degrees

"Be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your has completed a certain prescribed personnel rule, which ruthlessly elimi- Master, even Christ; and all ye are breth- o ren." Matt. 23:8. course and received an academic de- nates applicants without degrees, un- gree, will regard himself as a super- dervalues the capacity of ambitious HRIST, the great teacher, pos- man, as one of a superior class, when, persons to acquire a genuine education sessed no academic degree. He comparatively speaking, he may be far on their own. C was not an educated man in the inferior in practical education to the "Some of our best minds are self- sense that He had completed any set man who has never had the same taught. In my own years of academic a course of study in the schools of His school advantages but who has ac- life as undergraduate, graduate stu- day. His contemporaries said of Him, quired a much greater fund of useful dent and then instructor, I met few, "How knoweth this man letters, hav- information and has so disciplined his if any, savants in the universities who ing never learned?" John 7:15. The intellectual powers as to enable him exceeded in brilliance of economic book of divine revelation, the book of not only to utilize acquired informa- thought and expression such economic ilo nature, and the book of humanity tion, but to tap as well the sources of analysts as , the distinguished were His textbooks; the Holy Spirit knowledge in continued life study and writer, and the late , neither of was His teacher; prayer, the means research. whom ever attended college. The con- by which He found audience with the The true master of history or of sci- temporary world pays a premium for Source of all wisdom and power. ence or of art is not he who is content competence and knowledge, and, if an But while He did not sit at the feet with completing a brief elementary individual does not complete a higher of the great teachers of His day, He course, receiving for his limited pre- education, he should compensate for was in the truest sense an educated scribed study an academic degree, but the lack thereof with well-directed man, and He became the greatest edu- rather the one who gives long years of reading and adult education courses. cator that this world has ever seen. patient, faithful, plodding study to his "A great educator, William James, He gathered around Him a band of chosen line. The latter student may once summed up the spirit of construc- humble followers, and so molded their have begun his research with the pre- tive education in these words: 'Edu- thought and instructed their minds scribed course—well and good if he cation consists in the organizing of and clarified and enlarged their vision has had this great advantage; but de- resources in the human being; of pow- as to give them rank among the great- nied this privilege, he may have gained ers of conduct which shall fit him to est teachers in the history of the in private study and untutored toil, his social and physical world. . . . One • world. far more than that gained by the titled who is educated is able practically to This does not say by any means that schoolman. The academic degree is extricate himself from circumstances it is not right that one should avail not necessarily a sign of superior in which he never was placed before.' " himself of the instruction of the knowledge or mental superiority. schools, that he should not sit at the Doctor of Divinity feet of human teachers, obtaining "Degree May Be Overvalued" In these days of pomp and pag- s from them a knowledge of the essen- This is well expressed by Merryle eantry and high-sounding titles, it is tial facts of life as found in history, Stanley Rukeyser, a noted journalist, refreshing to read the simple, sensi- in literature, in science, in music, in author, teacher, and lecturer, in the ble statement made "by a minister art. Sunday Examiner of Los Angeles, under forty-five," of the Presbyterian We believe most heartily in the California (Nov. 11, 1945) : Church, under the article heading, to cause of education. Every man is un- "The colleges and universities have "What to Do With My Honorary De- der solemn duty to God to make the no monopoly on knowledge. The will gree." We give his remarks entire most of himself in the development of to learn and to improve oneself can for the good sense which they express. his moral, mental, and physical pow- also find more informal outlets. The We copy the article from The United ers. Heaven places no premium on ig- public libraries, correspondence Presbyterian, which, in turn, reprinted norance, but will hold us responsible, schools, and adult education lectures— it from The Continent, another Pres- * not alone for what we know, but for each in its own way can fulfill the de- byterian journal: what we might have known. And we sires of those who are eager to make "One morning, during the last com- believe that this education can best something better out of themselves. mencement season, I answered the tel- be obtained, at least in its elementary Sometimes, in this hurried world of ephone, and a familiar voice was heard, phases, under the regular, methodical short-cut formulae, employers and oth- saying, 'I want to congratulate you on I routine of school life. And if the ers tend to overvalue the college de- receiving the degree of doctor of di- course of study accomplished entitles gree as such. . . . vinity from College.' the student to a degree, it is proper "The degree does, of course, have " 'There is some mistake,' I replied. that he should have this merited rec- meaning, but prejudice should not ex- Yet soon came official notice and later ognition. It is not to the securing of clude others who through individual the diploma, duly signed and sealed. • degrees that we object, but to the mis- study and experience have acquired "Now, what shall I do with my hon- use, the parading, of these degrees' the moral equivalent of a sound for- orary degree? The first thing I did after they have been secured. We mal education. The degree admittedly do was to appreciate it. That the would recommend that every young provides preliminary selection of ap- board of trustees of a prominent and man and woman complete, as far as is plicants for jobs. It presumably ex- influential Presbyterian college, lo- consistently possible, a college course. cludes morons and persons who have cated near my field of service, should, The great danger in these days of kept themselves aloof from being ex- by this token, express the opinion that superficial standards is that one who posed to culture. But an inflexible amid conditions not a little trying, my AND SABBATH HERALD DECEMBER 13, 1945 ministry had made good, seemed stand that such degrees as doctor of high scholarship and the manifesta- mighty agreeable. Also, why not divinity are only honorary or compli- tion of Christlike qualities do not nec- frankly confess that it sounded well mentary. Not so with the average essarily stand in inimical relation to to my ear to have folks speak the layman. He supposes that they stand each other. We have confidence in stately word 'Doctor'? for an attainment of scholarship or them, both as scholars and as Chris- "But I had always believed in the study. It is an impression not easy tians, and feel honored with their `parity of the ministry.' And it had to correct, too. What possessor of this friendship. never seemed quite right that the more degree is willing to seem so unappre- successful ministers—let us say those ciative of the institution conferring Educational Aristocracy to whom God had given greatest grace it as to go before his people and dis- We recognize that in maintaining Sib —should be tagged for it in their very abuse their minds concerning its sup- the accreditation of our colleges it is name. Has not success a vc;,Nc, loud posed significance? And what minister necessary for our teachers to secure enough to proclaim itself? Is mere who has not received this distinc- academic degrees higher than the A.B. any danger that my abilities will not tion wishes, by telling the facts about and B.S. degrees conferred by our own be recognized unless each time my honorary degrees, to incur the charge schools. We have no criticism of this • name appears there is a reminder of of 'sour grapes'? So it comes to pass procedure. The danger is that there the same? And if this recognition of that those who write these mystic let- will be created a class consciousness of achievement is to be fairly done, the- ters after their-irames, without even superiority and that -these-- teachers tendency—already marked in giving wishing to do it, before the most of will be considered by the student body to some men two honorary degrees, to their lay brethren, are practically sail- as representing a higher grade of effi- others three—must rightfully be car- ing under false colors. It is not a ciency than associate teachers who, ried out indefinitely, until we approach comfortable thing to think about. while not possessing the higher de- that horror of Protestantism, a com- "So what shall I do with my hon- grees are really more proficient in plex succession of dignities, amounting orary degree? In college and semi- their work. In the world around us to a hierarchy of only another style. nary, as I may fitly say behind a nom we see exclusive guilds and clubs and Already we often hear reference made de plume, it was my privilege to lead aristocracies of various kinds. Men as to the D.D.'s of a presbytery or synod, my classes in average grades. My and women are rated by their social, as though these belonged to a special work has been successful, perhaps be- political, or educational standing, or order of the ministry. To such a tend- yond many others at the same period by money values. Let us carefully ency I am unwilling to lend aid by of the ministry who have received the avoid the creation or recognition of so much as two letters and their pe- degree. The college that conferred my aristocracies of this character. It was riods ! D.D. is a noble one and worthy of the to avoid the creation of an educational aristocracy in our schools that the Au- "Calculated to Humiliate the Brethren appreciation I surely feel and will try constantly to show. And the easiest tumn Council of the General Confer- "Then the possession of my honor- thing to do, as most would probably ence Committee, held at Omaha, Ne- ary degree gives me a sense of shame feel, would be to accept my degree as braska, in 1931, passed the following among my fellow ministers. Men who worthily bestowed. Many of the breth- resolution: in the attainments of the Christian ren have so assured me. But I do not "We recommend, 9. That for the spirit and in their fidelity to fields of wear it with ease or comfort. sake of maintaining Christian ideals, labor more needy than conspicuous, our college faculties should discourage men, who, though they are the very "Rather than produce in one brother a feeling of envy; rather than put a the use of the title 'Doctor,' for this salt of the church and the light of the practice has a tendency in the stu- world, never receive more recognition barrier between my own heart and that of the humblest sinner; rather than dents' mind to create a kind of educa- than the unostentatious love of those tional aristocracy. It would seem that whom they help, speak to me and call cultivate one iota of self-pride or suf- ficiency; rather than disallow my Mas- the Lord's admonition against the use me 'Doctor.' And I do not feel com- of titles of preferment (Matt. 23:8-10) fortable. Why should they call me by ter's counsel bidding His disciples take the lowly place, I would prefer to keep would apply here."—Review and Her- a a more dignified title than I can return ald, Nov. 26, 1931. to them? It is contrary to my consti- my name undecorated, and reserve all We believe this was a fine recom- tution to enjoy such an acknowledg- personal honors for a brighter realm, mendation and should be put into prac- ment of ability as is calculated to hu- where, with heart cleared of all weak- tice by all our schools. If this could miliate my brethren. ness, I can hear without sin or peril be done by our Theological Seminary "And often it comes to me to think the Master's own, 'Well done.' and by our senior and junior colleges, of the Master's own words: 'Be not ye "And it is my wish that the reform the influence would prove most helpful called Rabbi: for one is your Master, which is sure to come, might come in maintaining the principles of Chris- even Christ; and all ye are brethren. soon, and the whole subject of minis- tian education. It would preserve the . . . Neither be ye called masters: for terial honors be revised and purged. parity of the educational brotherhood one is your Master, even Christ. But And gladly would I help the little that the same as we- may well believe it was he that is greatest among you shall be I could." practiced in the schools of the proph- your servant.' Who can think of Dr. Parading of Titles ets of Israel of old. John or Dr. Paul? And does it not seem irreverent to speak of Dr. Jesus? It is to be regretted that many oth- But there is altogether too much There are some who believe that a ers holding honorary degrees, and for striving in the educational world after large loss of power has befallen the that matter many holding degrees high-sounding titles, as though their church just because this spirit of which have been earned by hard mere possession conferred special dis- honor for others rather than self, schoolwork, are not as modest in pa- tinction and ability. Notwithstanding which Jesus constantly taught and ex- rading their titles as this writer. This the educational acquirement which emplified, has been reversed. statement does not apply to all. We these high degrees are supposed to count among our personal friends men represent, oftentimes some men and • "Laymen Think Extra Scholarship of high degree who possess the same women of really superficial education Is Involved innate and commendable modesty as as well as superficial character are "One thing more is troublesome to the writer of the above article. They their recipients. Real greatness and think of. Ministers generally under- demonstrate that the attainment of true ability need no tagging in order

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This practice is deceptive of the men who proclaim it. But few tion and unholy ambition. Let the and is contrary to the spirit of our of the great men of earth will become church of Christ heed the Master's work and message. It indicates, as do its advocates. It will be as true in this admonition: "One is your master, even other tendencies, a departure from the age as in the days of the early Chris- Christ; and all ye are brethren." simplicity of the gospel of Christ. The tian church, that "not many wise men The great Teacher declared, "I re- cause of truth is neither honored -nor after the flesh, not many mighty, not ceive not honor from men." And to advanced by such procedure. many noble, are called: but God hath His opposers He put the searching Surely, if scholastic titles are to be chosen the foolish things of the world question, "How can ye believe, which employed at all, they should be applied to confound the wise; and God hath • receive honor one of another, and seek alone to those to whom they technically chosen the weak things of the world to not the honor that cometh from God belong. But we believe it would be confound the things which are mighty; only?" John 5:41, 44. We may prof- far better to address our ministers, . . . that no flesh should glory in His itably study the principle enunciated irrespective of their scholastic titles, presence." by Christ in this scripture. by the good old Bible terms of "pas- The greater the natural talent, the Let us encourage our young men tor," "elder," "evangelist," "brother," greater the acquired ability, the more 4 and women to secure a liberal educa- rather than by titles wholly worldly in effectively may the disciple be used of tion in preparation for the work of their origin, and foreign to the prin- God, provided that talent and ability God. At the same time let us help ciples of the gospel and to the parity are consecrated in all humility and un- them to form right estimates of life, of Christian brotherhood. selfish devotion to the cause of the and to realize that true greatness con- It is unfortunate that any Seventh- Master. But the enabling power in • sists in the possession of Christ's char- day Adventist minister, who by prayer all Christian service is of God. "Thus acter rather than in meeting some and the laying on of hands has been saith the Lord, Let not the wise man worldly standard of achievement. set apart to his sacred work as an glory in his wisdom, neither let the In harmony with the gospel princi- undershepherd for Christ, should pre- mighty man glory in his might, let not ples so clearly expressed in the fore- fer to be called or designated by a the rich man glory in his riches: but going quotation, we believe it would worldly title conferred upon him by a at let him that glorieth glory in this, that be much better for all the teachers in worldly university rather than by the he understandeth and knoweth Me, our schools to be addressed by the title given him by divine revelation ! that I am the Lord which exercise general title of "professor," rather He is solemnly ordained to preach loving-kindness, judgment, and right- than designating some who possess a the everlasting gospel which declares, eousness, in the earth: for in these doctor's degree by that title. In seek- "Fear God, and give glory to Him; things I delight, saith the Lord." Jer. • ing to keep out of our schools the spirit for the hour of His judgment is come." 9:23, 24. Therefore, "he that glorieth, of worldly education, let us avoid as Rev. 15:7. let him glory in the Lord." far as possible its forms and titles. Those engaged in medical practice Let us seek to preserve in all our are designated by the term "doctor," Christian service and association the Evils in the Ministry but this title is applied in common to form as well as the spirit of simplicity • And particularly let us be guarded all who complete a medical course of characterizing the• life and work of against these evils in the ministry. instruction, irrespective of any post- the great Teacher. In this attitude of Unfortunately, we see creeping into graduate work which may be taken heart and mind we may confidently ex- our church literature, especially into later. Thus the parity, or equality, of pect the blessing of Heaven upon our some of our school and conference pa- the medical brotherhood is maintained endeavors. F. M. w. pers, the employment of scholastic ti- so far as the general public is con- 1929 E. Glenoaks Boulevard, 4 • tles as applied to our ministers. Some cerned. Glendale 6, California.

• Do We Really Believe—Part 43 Do We Defraud Others?

* HE eighth command calls for us to Conscienceless Borrowing drawing. It is true to life and may do more than simply refrain from be seen a sufficient number of times in Tbreaking into someone's house and But there are also those who with our churches to warrant this discus- stealing his possessions. There are no special crisis confronting them cap- sion. And how shall we describe the more ways than one to steal. Take, italize on friendships to borrow sums course followed by such borrowers? • for example, borrowing with little or of money. And not infrequently those Frankly, we think it should be de- no intent to repay. There are some from whom they borrow have been re- scribed in terms of the eighth com- who borrow commodities and some ceiving through the years no larger mandment. The borrower who really who borrow cash with a very light income than the borrower. When believes this command will not permit heart. The heavy heart they leave to confronted with the fact of an overdue himself comforts at the expense of a obligation, such borrowers often react • the lender when he seeks to obtain re- just debt. We even venture to say payment. We are not referring to the in a rather casual manner. They give that he will go without butter and des- unfortunate man or woman who in an evidence of a very pale sense of duty. serts, if need be, to make regular pay- hour of unexpected crisis borrows to They can recite plausible reasons why ments on a debt. He may not enjoy meet a grim emergency and who may they are unable to repay. But they his meals for a time, but he will find be unable to repay, despite his most may be driving a better car than the new enjoyment in a sense of • obliga- 40 sincere efforts. There are such per- lender, and setting a better table. tions honorably met. We believe that sons, and they are entitled to pity. This is no fanciful picture we are making ready for heaven includes pay-

AND SABBATH HERALD 5 DECEMBER 13, 1945 41P ing all our debts if that is humanly with the money invested in us? In mand, we shall give proper recogni- possible. blunt language, we are stealing it. tion for every clear-cut, well-defined There is no more appropriate word to idea, plan, or solution of a problem Employers and Employees use. that we are employing in our presenta- If we are employers do we pay our The youth who frankly declares tion. And if ideas and plans are so • employees what they are worth, or do that he is not interested in school, and woven together as to make very diffi- we seek to withhold from them, by leaves rather than be an expense to his cult identifying sources, we shall at one device or another, part of what parents, is probably foolish, but he is least make some general statement of is really due them? This inquiry may at least honorable in regard to the in- recognition. Men will not think us not have so much point in these days vestment being made in him. But the less wise and understanding of a mat- when labor is strong and time and a youth who squanders his school days, ter because we admit we have drawn half is often paid for overtime. But even boasting of how he escaped this largely from the counsel of others. On the principle applies. The eighth com- or that assignment, has nothing to the contrary, they will esteem us more mandment ever stands as a condemna- commend him and only his tender highly for our honesty. tion of any device or subterfuge by years to extenuate his sinful theft Our most valuable possession is un- ris which an employer deprives an em- from his parents. doubtedly our good name. Do we ever ployee of full pay for his labors. In our varied contacts in the busi- become a party to gossip and slander, Reversing the question. now: Lf ness world here_are_ times when we those thieves of reputation.? _If so, we are employees, do we give full time are not charged properly for some violate the command : Thou shalt not and full efficiency for the pay we re- commodity or service, or when a ticket steal. Shakespeare well stated the ceive? To soldier on the job is to of transportation is not lifted. It is matter in these familiar lines : steal from the one who pays us our considered by some in the world a "Who steals my purse steals trash; .. . wages. We are paid to work and not smart thing to keep silent and profit But he that filches from me my good to daydream, or discuss politics, or to by the oversight. If we really believe name ° do anything that will take our minds in the eighth commandment we shall Robs me of that which not enriches from our work. A few minutes a day be as prompt to call attention to an him, • devoted to idleness, when multiplied undercharge as to an overcharge, and And makes me poor indeed." by a year, and then by the hourly rate we are all capable of doing the latter. we are paid, can result in a rather im- The amount may be small, but life is One of the singular facts of life is pressive total. And that total is the made up of a multitude of small the vigor with which most of us react amount we have stolen from our em- things. The fabric of character is to an attack upon our own good name ployer. woven from innumerable gossamer while thoughtlessly tampering with rs threads of experiences and decisions the good names of others by passing Youth Who Steal From P‘irents in relation to all of life that con- on idle gossip and slander. The true For young people the commandment fronts us. believer in the eighth command will has a certain peculiar force. There never be a party to the theft of repu- are many youth who steal from their Stealing Ideas tations. F. D. N. J parents. No, not in the ordinary sense There is another way in which we of the word, but in an equally sinful may violate the spirit of the command. way. Parents often deny themselves We may steal the ideas of others. The AN old clergyman said: "When I comforts, sometimes even necessities, usual way in which this is done is for come to die I shall have my greatest in order to keep their children in our someone who- gathers- such ideas, per- grief and my greatest joy-; my great- • schools. Every hour at the school rep- haps of subordinates in an organiza- est grief that I have done so little for resents an investment in hard money. tion, to present them as his own. Ideas the Lord Jesus, and my greatest joy Now, if we who are young squander are valuable properties. If we are that the Lord Jesus has done so much our hours at school, what are we doing sensitive to the true spirit of the corn- for me." 4 Child Preachers in Sweden in 1843-44 UR books haye long set before and believe as she taught, or be ex- turn and give their hearts to the Lord. us the story of the children pelled, fined, or cast into prison. There- A great reformation was wrought, and • O who preached the second com- fore, it pleased the Lord to use little many gave their hearts to God. ing of Christ in the days when the children from three to eight years of "A certain wealthy man who lived advent awakening passed over Europe age to proclaim the message. in the vicinity worked with all his in the 1840's. But the other day, in "When these could not be silenced, might to silence these unlearned looking for an item in the REVIEW the authorities placed them in asy- preachers, but all in vain, for two of file for 1883, I came across a story new lums, pronouncing them sick, and try- his own daughters immediately corn- • to me, by Elder P. L. Hoen, then of ing to make them take medicine; but menced to preach and warn, the people. Iowa, a faithful minister who worked these young teachers refused to take He tried to stop their preaching by in English and in the Scandinavian the medicine, and said they were well locking them in the cellar, but he could languages. In the field reports was and had a message for the people. not silence them; for the people gath- hidden away one of the best stories "They preached with great power, ered around the house and listened to of the work of those Swedish children and proclaimed that the hour of God's their warnings. Some of these same that I have read. Elder Hoen wrote: judgment was come, repeating in sub- people who listened to that message "I have lately been laboring with stance Revelation 14:6, 7; Joel 2:1-3; there in old Sweden rejoice now in the some Swedish families from Nykjiip- Zephaniah 1:14; and other passages of third angel's message in this country." ing, Sweden, who relate some inter- Scripture. When asked whether they —Review and Herald, Oct. 30, 1883. • esting things concerning the spread had ever read the Bible, they would Readers of this story of the early of the first angel's message in that reply that they had never seen a Bible. days of the advent awakening will re- country in 1843-44. Among them is Often, when about to be taken to the call that the messages of the Spirit the following: asylum by the authorities, they would of prophecy among us have over and "At 'that time there was not the flee into the woods, where they were over stressed the work that children same liberty there that is now enjoyed. followed by the people, who listened will do in the closing days of our work. le All had to belong to the state church eagerly to their earnest pleadings to W. A. S. 6 THE ADVENT REVIEW

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GENERAL ARTICLES

In Such a Time as This 0 An Appeal to Our Youth By MARY J. VINE

• WONDER what it felt like to be seemed to be in evil case. Rather than Phinehas never forgot the sight of Phinehas, Eleazar's son, that won- being lightened, their burdens were Moses and Grandfather Aaron pass- derful day when Grandfather laid heavier upon them. They were ing out into the storm and returning Aaron came back from his mysterious driven and hounded, scourged and from it unharmed. wilderness journey, not alone, as he beaten. But soon came a day when It must have been grand to be had gone, but in company with an- the taskmaster failed to make his Phinehas! But he saw greater won- s other. Who was it? Who could it rounds as usual. He was down by the ders yet. He saw darkness come be? Phinehas looked at the great river, with dozens of others of his down like a great wall around Goshen, face in wonder. It was—it could kind, digging as the men of Israel had and he knew that the day of deliver- only be—yes, he was sure it was—it never digged—digging till his arms ance was at hand. Somehow all Israel was grandfather's brother, that very ached and his back ached and the un- knew. They began to gather their ♦ Moses. Phinehas wanted to shout. wonted sweat poured down. Not even possessions together and make ready He wanted to shake somebody. He for gold have men dug so frenziedly for departure, and never an Egyptian couldn't contain himself. That as the Egyptians dug that day for could lift a finger against them. Moses! He who had led Pharaoh's water. But when they had dug deep Something was going to happen, and armies; Moses, the strong one; Moses, enough, the cold, damp earth was it was going to happen soon. It was • about whom it had been whispered red, And the red drops trickled into told in Israel that once Moses had fled that he might have been Israel's de- nauseating pools. Silver-bellied fish before the face of Pharaoh, but not liverer; Moses, the mighty in word floated dead in the red river, and now. Now Moses trod kingly in the and deed. But he had made a mis- Pharaoh's gilded barge glowed ruddy royal courts while Pharaoh quailed in take, and waiting, hoping hearts had in the morning sunshine. Red—red terror. been discouraged. Phinehas looked —everything was red. Their sacred, To have lived with Phinehas during ♦ at him now. Could this man ever life-giving Nile was a stinking abomi- the next few days and to have watched. have made a mistake? nation. Father Eleazar brushing the blood on Phinehas couldn't find the words to Neither were they able at all again the lintel must have been wonder- interpret his flooding thoughts, for to harass Israel, for after the spoiling ful. Never had the father loved the he was going to be their deliverer, of the waters came the frogs—and son so much. Never had the son been • this Moses. Somehow Phinehas the lice—and the flies—and the mur- so confident in the father. knew it. But where had be been all rain—and the boils and the blains— To have heard, with beating heart, this long time? He looked as if he and the hail with flaming fire and hot that fearful, wailing cry; to have had come straight from heaven's thunderbolts. thrown wide the door after that sol- gate. He looked as emn feast, and one- if he had heard self to join the gird- fty things and seen ed throng; and then things and felt later to have stood things beyond the while mighty waters knowledge of com- rose in walls on ei- mon folk. Phinehas ther side of their • wanted to touch him, path; to have heard to make sure he was the voice of God lite real. But there was thunder, and seen such dignity about Moses descend from him, such majesty, the presence of the t as if God's hands Lord; to have beheld had rested on him Jehovah's devastat- and uplifted him. in g judgments No, he must wait. among His people; Perhaps later he to have grown to might have the op- manhood, journey- s portunity. For the ing still, yet every moment he just al- day to have known most worshiped. He, oneself totally de- Phinehas, knew it pendent on the hand was time for the de- of God; to have ♦ liverer to come, and drunk at His rock here he was—Moses. and eaten of His Nor was Phinehas Heaven-sent food; disappointed. There- and then finally to after the terror of have seen cities 6 God lay over the tremble at His touch, land. For a few ROBERTS their battlements days, truly, Israel But Were They More Blessed Than We Whose Eyes Behold the Pageant of These Days? crumble and their AND SABBATH HERALD 7 • DECEMBER 13, 1945 stout walls fall—how marvelous was Phinehas of the Exodus live in a more recognize how honored we are, how such an experience. wonderful time than we of the twen- unbelievably privileged. There was It ought not to have been hard for tieth century do? a boy called Phinehas, one of a chosen Phinehas to remain faithful, to wor- Were they who sometimes felt the generation, when God's people should ship only God, and to know himself Lord's touch, who listened to His find deliverance, liberty, and victory. indeed to be one of a chosen genera- words, and who knew the utter joy of "And who knoweth whether thou art tion. His companionship and heard Him come to the kingdom for such a time But one could wish perhaps still say "Blessed are your eyes," "Blessed as this," when God's people shall more that he had lived some eighty- are . . . your ears," more blessed than again find deliverance, full and final; or ninety-odd years short of two thou- we whose eyes behold the pageant of when they shall again be free; and sand years ago. For there were chil- these days? We have seen our loved when they shall again sing, but this dren then who had the joy of sitting ones, armed for battle, depart for the time with God Himself swelling the on the dear Lord's knee. There were four corners of the earth. Where chorus? boys who knew what it was to follow sounds of war have never before pene- Let us not, therefore, shun the Him all day, even to the forgetting of trated, we have felt the blast of the cross. Let us bear it smilingly and • the bread they had in their pouch, lest terrible ones against the wall. The on strong shoulders, proud to be, as they should lose one of His gracious great hour of the world's history has one has called us, "Knights of the wor-d-s-. There were boys whose ""eyes come. La--gt Legion of King Jesus:" first opened upon His matchless face, Now wherever we are we can hear and there were girls to whom the the sound of the Lord's chariot's loud "Oh, I am glad I live in Time, and words He spoke were dearer than the rumbling. He is on His way again, Time's last hour, healing He bestowed upon them, Himself, the Lord, and we shall see And I shall see the last great fight golden words that they never forgot, Him, you and I, and all those who and shout words often retold until in distant looked for Him. Upon the mount of triumph, when years other tongues repeated them. "Ye are My disciples," He told the power "Jesus of Nazareth said that to my those who listened and believed; Of Satan has gone down in utter grandmother ; she told me so." How "take up My cross." He says it rout. marvelous to have been one of those today, "Ye, too, are My disciples." girls, to have felt the sanctification And the way may be harder, and the "Oh, I am glad, for surely nevermore of His healing touch and to have cross heavier, for the time is shorter; Can love unfold such pageantry di- known the thrill of His life-giving the message is more urgent, the' devil vine; power, to have walked with Him and is angrier, and the event more stu- And through what little part therein talked with Him. To have seen Jesus! pendous. I bore It must have been wonderful. You and I were born, too, especially There shall be joy and glory, ever And yet, would we change? Did for this time. Oh, let us not fail to mine."

The Godly in Christ Shall Suffer Persecution By A. MUNSON •

ERSECUTION is a blessing in dis- We cannot drift with the tide of hu- guise. To be Christlike, we must man sin; we must stem it. And if we P suffer persecution. Jesus began stand as reformers and endeavor by His sermon on the mount with these our actions and our teachings to coun- remarkable words : "Blessed are ye, teract the power of sin and worldli- when men shall revile you, and perse- ness, we will eventually bring down cute you and shall say all manner of upon ourselves the wrath and con- evil against you falsely, for My sake. demnation of a generation that hates Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for the restrictions of the law of God and • great is your reward in heaven: for so that is determined to cast off all law. persecuted they the prophets which The very nature of the case is such were before you." that the loyal few will 'eventually du- Paul, the veteran, who calmly walked plicate in their own experience the into the very jaws of persecution, pattern of the' life of Christ. seemed to relish imprisonment and As camp pastor in the Hawaiian Is- beatings and other untold sufferings joyed great popularity. Multitudes lands, I have been deeply interested for the gospel's sake. He seemed to followed Him, but as He began to un- in watching the effect of persecution feel as if it was an integral part of fold His great message and as His gos- upon the lives of our servicemen. Be- the life of a militant Christian. After pel began to cut more and more across fore I understood more fully the phi- • long years of suffering he wrote from the selfish interests of men, He became losophy 'of persecution, I felt grieved his prison cell, "Yea, and all that will increasingly unpopular. about this. I felt that imprisonment live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer Some of His disciples felt that He for the truth's sake was a calamity to persecution." 2 Tim. 3:12. deliberately threw away the opportu- be sedulously avoided, but as I have All acknowledge that the life of nity to lead the nation for the sake of seen the amazing effect of this experi- Christ is a perfect example for every expounding an unpopular gospel of ence upon our young men, I have been one of us to follow. Christ never self-sacrifice and suffering for others. led to view it in an altogether different sought for unnecessary trouble. But Near the end of His lifework Jesus light. he was as willing to tell the glad tid- rebuked the hypocrisy and perfidy of Recently a colored boy in the Navy ings of salvation to Nicodemus and the leaders of Israel with language came to me and begged me to explain Joseph of Arimathaea as He was to that burned like a cauterizing knife, our position to his commanding offi- give it to the woman at the well. At and yet there were tears of love in His cers. I met these men and talked to the beginning of His ministry He en- eyes. them and did my utmost to help them 8 THE ADVENT REVIEW S DECEMBER 13, 1945 to see our position. Apparently it did miliating for the prisoners, especially office became the very vestibule of no good. Our faithful boy was put in a military guardhouse. It is impos- heaven. in jail and sat in solitary confinement sible for one living in a cell to escape Again and again the same thing has • on bread and water, but he stood firm. the feeling of shame, humiliation, and happened—our trembling, God-fear- In a few days he was out. The next disgrace. Try as you may, it is almost ing serviceman goes into his experi- Sabbath he was again in jail; never- impossible to keep from crying; never- ence of Gethsemane with misgiving theless, his faith was strong. Then theless, God comes very near at such and uncertainty, but the fire of perse- the test came a third time, but he times, and a visit from the camp pas- cution works a great transformation, • again held firm and was in jail for tor is like a breath from heaven. How and he comes forth a stern-faced, fear- three days. precious and comforting the promises less champion of everything this truth After I had appealed to the officers are. How sweet it is to bow in prayer stands for. He goes in an ordinary of lower rank without success, I went and feel that the angels are near and boy but comes out a real Christian to the man at the very top, and in a that hundreds of your friends are man. The experience works such a few hours the whole matter was ad- praying for you. transformation that I feel the sooner justed and our boy was put to work As I talked with this young man God's people begin to paSs through where he would be able to keep the and pointed out the promises and these experiences the better it will be Sabbath without hindrance. bowed in prayer, it seemed that the for their own life and the finishing of Now, the setup of any prison is hu- angels drew near and the little prison God's work in this world.

The Sanctuary—Part IX • The Day of Atonement—No. 2 a By M. L. ANDREASEN

T now becomes our duty to court, the altar, the laver, the inquire just how the atone- mercy seat. Almost every- I ment was brought about and thing was symbolical, from the • how the symbolism answers to priests' dress to the ashes used the reality. How can the sanc- in sprinkling the unclean. Yet tuary be cleansed with blood all of it put together did not when it was by that very means constitute a complete type, and that it was defiled? Would not much of it did but imperfectly • more blood defile the sanctu- mirror its original. ary still further rather than We have noted before that cleanse it ? Aaron not only represented the We call attention to the state- people but was practically iden- ment found in Numbers 35:33, tified with them. What he did, to which we have already re- they did. What they did, he • ferred : "So ye shall not pollute did. Let us stress this again. the land wherein ye are: for The high priest "represented blood it defileth the land : and the whole people. All Israel- the land cannot be cleansed of ites were reckoned as being in the blood that is shed therein, him." In him "everything be- • but by the blood of him that longing to the priesthood gath- shed it." ered itself up and reached its This text embodies a princi- culmination." "When he sinned, ple applicable to the cleansing the people sinned." of the sanctuary. "The blood Adam was the representa- • it defileth the land." This is tive man. By him "sin entered clear. "The land cannot be into the world." By his "dis- cleansed . . . but by the blood obedience many were made sin- of him that shed it." Accord- ners." And so "by one man's ing to this, blood defiles and offense death reigned by one," blood cleanses. This is the sit- and "through the offense of one 4 uation in the sanctuary. many be dead." Rom. 5:12, 19, It is to be had in mind that 17, 15. no type is an exact counterpart On the Day of Atonement Both Priest and People Christ also was the represen- of that which it is intended to Were Required to Be Clean Before the Lord tative man. He was the second portray. The real work of the man and the last Adam. "The • atonement in heaven involves so many was not. Any offering which the high first man is of the earth, earthy: factors that it is not possible to find priest offered because of his own sins, the second man is the Lord from an exact earthly parallel. Christ lived, could therefore not be true to type. heaven." 1 Cor. 15:47. This sec- died, and rose again. How can a fit- For these reasons many ceremonies ond man, "the Lord from heaven," ting type be found to illustrate this? were necessary to illustrate the com- undid all that the first man had done A lamb may represent Christ and be plete work of Christ; and yet they by his transgression. By the disobe- • slain as He was. But how can the failed to illustrate fully. The priest dience of the first man "many were resurrection be shown? Another live typified certain aspects of Christ's made sinners." By the obedience of animal may be used, but the type is ministry. So did the high priest, the the second man "shall many be made not perfect. veil, the shewbread, the incense, the righteous." Rom. 5:19. By the of- lamb, the goat, the meal offering, and fense of the first man, "judgment came 6 High Priest Typified Christ many other items in the sanctuary upon all men to condemnation." By The high priest typified Christ. But service. The holy apartment had its the righteousness of the second man, Christ was sinless, and the high priest signification ; so had the most holy, the "the free gift came upon all men unto • DECEMBER 13, 19 45 justification of life." Verse 18. And We Sorrow Not for sin He died because He identified so, "as in Adam all die, even so in Himself with us and took our sins Christ shall all be made alive." 1 Cor. BY LEON A. SMITH upon Himself. He died for sins be- 15:22. WE sorrow not as those that have no cause our sins were laid upon Him, • The high priest was a type of Christ hope and He must bear the penalty. Dying and a representative of the nation. When from their loved ones parting thus for sinners, He satisfied the As a representative of the nation he at the tomb, claims of the law. was identified with their sins and was As those whose minds in heathen dark- Christ died not only as a substitute worthy of death. As a type of Christ ness grope for the sinner but also as the Sinless • he was their mediator and savior. In And find no ray of comfort in the One. Taking our sins upon Himself either case he transacted with God gloom; —we say it reverently—He ought to for the people. In this sense he was Who view their dead as on some dis- die; the law demanded it. But per- the people. If God rejected him He tant shore, sonally Christ had not sinned. He was rejected the people in him. For this To be by Charon ferried o'er the sinless ; yet He died. And the death • reason the people were anxious to hear Styx, of the Sinless One is a definite part of the sound of the bells and the pome- Whence not one ray of light comes the plan of God. His death as a sin- granates on the Day of Atonement. evermore, ner satisfies the claims of the law. When at last the atonement had been Or hope can with the mourner's sor- His death as the Sinless One provides effected and the reconciliation was row mix. the ransom and frees the sinner from complete, the sound of the bells as the death. • high priest resumed his high-priestly How precious is the knowledge which After the high priest had offered the garments was the sign that God had dispels bullock and sprinkled its blood upon accepted the substitute. As he stepped Our ignorance concerning them that the mercy seat and before the mercy outside and the sound was clearly sleep ! seat, he was told to "kill the goat of heard by all, their joy and thankful- How clear the story Inspiration tells, the sin offering, that is for the people, ness were profound. God had once How comforting the words to those and bring his blood within the veil, more accepted them in the person of that weep! and do with that blood as he did with the high priest. Our loved ones -are not lost in realms the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle of night; it upon the mercy seat, and before In the Most Holy They sleep in Jesus, objects of His the mercy seat : and he shall make an When the high priest went into the grace; atonement for the holy place, because most holy on the Day of Atonement, And while they wait the coming morn- of the uncleanness of the children of he went in as the representative of ing bright, Israel, and because of their transgres- the people. In him Israel appeared be- How sacred, how secure, their rest- sions in all their sins: and so shall he fore the Lord to give account of the ing place! do for the tabernacle of the congrega- tion, that remaineth among them in sins of the year. The record of these For those that sleep in Him there is sins appeared in blood on the altar of the midst of their uncleanness." Lev. no death; 16:15, 16. burnt offering and in the holy place. They only rest from earthly toil and With the Day of Atonement the day It has before been noted, but should strife; here be emphasized, that the blood of of reckoning had come, the day of For on the sacred page the record judgment, when all sins were to come the bullock and that of the goat ac- • saith, complish two different things. The in review before God. The high priest That God hath given to them eter- appeared in God's presence, while the first makes atonement for Aaron and nal life. his house. The second makes atone- veil of incense shielded him. For the And though the grave may hide them first time that year sin was brought ment for the people and the sanctuary. for a day, (Verses 11, 15, 16.) Nothing is said before God in the most holy. The We know that life is theirs, wher- • high priest sprinkled the blood of the of the blood of the bullock making e'er they be, atonement for or cleansing the sanc- bullock "upon the mercy seat east- And that time's shadows soon will ward; and before the mercy seat shall tuary, but this is definitely stated of fade away the blood of the goat. (Verses 15,.16.) he sprinkle of the blood with his finger Into a glorious eternity. seven times," and received "atone- This may be accounted for on the fol- ment for himself, and for his house." lowing grounds: • Lev. 16:14, 11. He was clean. What- In all cases where atonement is ever sins he was identified with, what- seat, and a substitute has been ac- made for a person, with one minor ever sins he was responsible for, had cepted instead of the sinner. On this exception, the atonement is accom- in figure been transferred to the sanc- substitute the sin has been placed; it plished by means of blood, and indi- tuary. He was clean; but the sanc- has been made sin, and as such has cates transfer of sins to the sanctuary. tuary was not. died. It has paid the penalty of trans- The sinner transfers his sins to the What had thus far been accom- gression. It has died in the sinner's victim which is slain, and the blood is plished is this: The high priest in his place and for sin. It has paid the debt sprinkled on the altar of burnt offer- representative capacity has appeared due because of sin. ing or in the holy place in the sanctu- ary. The blood which—because of before God and the law. He has acl. • knowledged his sins and sprinkled the Substitutionary Atonement sin's having been confessed on the blood. The law has in effect asked: In our consideration of sacrifices victim—might be called sin-laden "Have you sinned?" for sin, stress has been laid on the blood, typically and ceremonially de- The high priest has answered: "I placing of the hand upon the victim's files the place where it is sprinkled. have sinned, and I have confessed my head, whereby sin is transferred to Thus the sanctuary is made unclean. sins." the victim. In each case the victim The law says : "The wages of sin is dies with guilt on its head, dies for Priest and Sanctuary Cleansed death. I have no other choice than to sin. Thus Christ took our sins upon When the high priest on the Day of demand life." Himself and was made sin. Being Atonement came out after sprinkling The high priest replies, "I have made sin, He must die; for the wages the blood of the bullock, he was brought the blood of the victim. Ac- of sin is death. cleansed. Whatever sins he carried 4 cept it." Christ, however, died not only for for which he was responsible had been The blood is sprinkled on the mercy sin but for sinners. When He died confessed and transferred to the sane- DECEMBER 13, 1945 tuary. When he stepped out of the filed, separate from sinners, and made went into the most holy with the blood most holy, he was cleansed, free, holy, higher than the heavens." Heb. 7:26. of the bullock and made atonement for a type of Christ, the Sinless One. He The blood of this goat has cleansing himself and for his house. This hav- • had confessed his sins, they had been efficacy. It makes possible the cleans- ing been done, the work of cleansing forgiven him, and he had no further ing of the sanctuary. began. The most holy was cleansed confession to make. The Lord's goat, The earthly tabernacle service was with the blood of the goat, and then whose blood he was about to sprinkle, typcial of the work carried on in the the holy. Thus the record of sin was also typified the Sinless One. In all sanctuary above, where a complete blotted out. After this the altar was • the offerings during the year the record is kept of sins committed and cleansed. "He shall sprinkle of the death of Christ as the Sin Bearer was of sins confessed. When the Day of blood upon it with his finger seven portrayed. He was made sin who Atonement came, all Israel were sup- times, and cleanse it, and hallow it knew no sin. In the goat on the Day posed to have confessed their sins and from the uncleanness of the children of Atonement He was typified as the to have that confession recorded in of Israel." Lev. 16:19. chosen of God, harmless, undefiled, blood in the sanctuary. To complete Thus he makes "an end of reconcil- • sinless. the work it was necessary to have the ing the holy place, and the tabernacle To repeat : In the goat offered on the record removed, to have the sins blot- of the congregation, and the altar." Day of Atonement we have symbolic ted out, to cleanse the sanctuary of its Verse 20. After the ceremonies of reference to the death of the sinless blood defilement. Before this specific this day were carried out all was then Christ, "who is holy, harmless, unde- cleansing was done, the high priest cleansed, reconciled, and atoned for. • Make Sure of Your Own Salvation By A. R. BELL • HE Christian life is a battle and everything else amounts to nothing. labor earnestly, I say, to make sure of a march. . . . The field of conflict We may hold high position; we may your own salvation." Tis the domain of the heart. The be wonderfully successful in our var- How wonderfully kind is Jehovah battle which we have to fight—the ious avenues of service; but without in this matter of working out our own • greatest battle that was ever fought it, while others may be saved through salvation. Not a soul can be saved by man—is the surrender of self to our work, we ourselves become cast- whose will is not surrendered to God, the will of God, the yielding of the aways. (1 Cor. 9:27.) and yet His goodness is seen in that, heart to the sovereignty of love."— In this connection we should give as we are told. "It is God Himself Mount of Blessing; p. 203. serious thought to the counsel of the whose power creates within you both Salvation is a tremendously per- great apostle as given us in Philip- the desire and the power to execute • sonal matter. Every habit and prac- pians 2:12 (Weymouth) : "Labor ear- His gracious will" (verse 13) ; and, tice of the life must be brought into nestly with fear and trembling— . . . not only this, but He also brings about harmony with the habits and prac- the accomplishment of the desire. tices of heaven. "The formation of In other words, God so fills with character is the work of a lifetime." The Home of My Thoughts Himself the heart surrendered to Him • —Counsels to Teachers, p. 61. "To BY PEARL WAGGONER HOWARD that His love flows out from us and learn of Christ means to receive His BE the home of my thoughts, 0 God, finds expression in the life in the grace, which is His character."— When the enemy, same as now, things we do. Christ's Object Lessons, p. 271. Like a roaring lion stalks abroad, What a wonderful God is Jehovah! "A character formed according to When worries and fears and doubts God makes it possible for helpless the divine likeness is the only treasure assail, humanity to become heaven's own that we can take from this world to When friends thought true are found agent in helpfulness. In working out the next. Those who are under the to fail, our own salvation, "it is God which instruction of Christ in this world When storms are raging and strifes worketh in you [us] both to will and will take every divine attainment with abound, to do of His good pleasure." them to the heavenly mansions. And • When tares 'mid choicest wheat are The question is asked, "How can a in heaven we are continually to im- found, man's benevolence be a blessing to prove. How important, then, is the When cares of life are pressing sore him, if he never exercises it?" and development of character in this life." And problems loom, unmet before— further, "There is but one genuine —Ibid., p. 332. Be then the home of my thoughts, cure for spiritual laziness, and that These thoughts on character build- 0 Lord; is work,—working for souls who need s ing are ordained to lead us in our The home of my thoughts, be your help."—Testimonies, vol. 4, p. study to that one end that we shall Thou! 236. fully grasp what is required of us to God puts His Spirit into us that we meet the mind of the Eternal. Be the home of my thoughts, 0 God, may be like Him. In working out our "A profession of faith and the pos- Nor permit them again to roam! own salvation, we have God working • session of truth in the soul are two For as long as the devil stalks abroad— in us to the one end that we may ex- different things. The mere knowledge In time of calm as in time of storm, hibit the pattern given us. And in of truth is not enough. We may pos- When blow the winds or cold or warm, this working out we are working the sess this, but the tenor of our thoughts There's always danger apart from purposes of Him who has called us out may not be changed. The heart must Thee, of darkness into His marvelous light be converted and sanctified." "Our And perilous insecurity. —working out in deed and in truth, • profession may be as high as heaven, May ever my thoughts on Thee be our own salvation. but it will save neither ourselves nor stayed May this wonderful Spirit be mani- our fellow men unless we are Chris- In peace, where nothing can make fested in you and me, that Christ shall tians."—Ibid., pp. 97, 383. afraid. not have died in vain for us, and in This statement should lead us to Till I reach Thy heavenly home, 0 that glorious day, soon to dawn, we • some very personal questioning in our Lord, may come, bringing our sheaves with own hearts. To be a Christian is the Be here of my thoughts the home! us. Only thus can we make sure of demand of the hour. Without this our own salvation. AND SABBATH HERALD 11 •

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the work. This system is preparing ber of trained workers now in the Our Work in the Bolivian the peasant of the morrow, useful to field. Invest in victory for the cause the fatherland, an untiring producer, of God, and there will be souls to thank • Andes and a good sound citizen. you in His coming kingdom. By R. E. KEPKEY "Collana, symbolically, is, in our opinion, a self-made community which N the official organ of propaganda speaks Spanish, which contributes On India's Northern published by the Bolivian Minis- five hundred electors for the filling of • I try of Government there appeared public offices, which has sacrificed Frontier a few weeks ago a most interesting more than two hundred lives to the (Continued) _ article concerning the progress of the fatherland in the Chaco war, and Indian community of Collana, situ- which is molding the new Indian, who By A. F. TARR ated a few miles from the city of La will blossom forth with a culture of or Paz. To terminate this article, Mr. his own in the Bolivia of the future." ROM Leh it was our plan to Hugo Avila gave a brief account of —"Collana, an Indian Community of visit Baltistan, another unen- the work of Seventh-day Adventists the Andes," by J. Hugo Lopez Avila, F tered territory of our division. in this region. It indicates in a small former director-general of propa- We planned to enter it from the north, way the great appreciation that many ganda, in Bolivia Illustrated, organ of but owing to the swollen condition of officials of the Bolivian Government the General Directory of Propaganda, the Indus and the unlikelihood of our • have for the work we are doing in put out by the Ministry of Govern- being able to effect a crossing lower Bolivia. It is translated into English ment, June, 1945, p. 31. down, we decided to enter it from the as follows: The Seventh-day Adventist Mis- east. Therefore, recrossing the sus- "There are three things that one sion is undoubtedly the most potent pension bridge near Hangu, we con- first admires on visiting this commu- factor influencing the development of tinued on the southern side of the • nity : the Spanish language used by the Andean Indians of future Bolivia. Indus, though for possibly a hundred the majority of the people (95%), the Government officials have no hesita- miles we were separated from it by literacy of an increasing number of tion in saying so. Recently a number high mountain ranges. Later we re- its inhabitants (67%), and the use of of senators and representatives of the entered the Indus canyon by way of our European clothing. From there federal government asked that we en- the Suru River, and for several days starts, then, investigation of the large our work in their districts and we followed it in its drive through • methods used for the civilization of in a number of cases begin work Baltistan. Day after day we wound the Indian, and one is necessarily where there is none. in and out, up and down, the narrow obliged to speak of the Bolivia Mis- Our problems in expanding our path as it clings to the face of pre- sion of Seventh-day Adventists. work in Bolivia are not merely finan- cipitous cliffs. The murky, swiftly "In 1923 the first evangelists [Ad- cial; we have an urgent need for well- flowing waters of the Indus could al- • ventists] arrived among this nucleus trained teachers for our training ways be seen to our right. Some- of Indians. Before this date Collana school at Cochabamba, and more con- times the river would be far down lived in obscurity and the most fear- secrated, well-trained native evan- below us with the roar of its passage ful misery and illiteracy. They estab- gelists and station directors. For sounding but faintly in our ears. At lished themselves, preached faith in these we are largely dependent on other times our path would descend the regeneration of humanity, the the Lima Training School in Peru. almost to its level, and when its banks advent of the Saviour of the world, This institution for many reasons is and bed were rocky, the roar of its and the consecration of the seventh being moved to Nafia, several miles onslaught was terrific. Or if the day. But they did not confine them- from Lima, where it is being en- banks broadened out, we would find selves to preaching. Men of action, larged to fit the growing needs of the ourselves tramping through deep they founded the first school to cate- Inca field. The costs of this neces- tracts of sand, that made our prog- • chize and educate the Indians. Today sary change are tremendous, and as ress slow and tedious. their influence and beneficial work is the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering over- Having now left the Treaty Road, so great that in the province of flow for this last quarter of 1945 will we followed a path that was generally Sicasica alone they maintain more go to the Inca Union to help defray narrow and much less traveled. In than forty schools. the expenses of this project, our places the melting of the winter snow • "The plan that they employ is as earnest prayer in Bolivia and cer- had obliterated all signs of a track, follows : all the children should study tainly throughout the Inca Union is and we found it difficult to pick our until the fourth year of primary in that our brethren and sisters in the way among the rocks and boulders. the local Indian schools, costing their homeland will give something far Horses were often useless, and it parents a matriculation fee of only above their usual thirteenth Sabbath seemed to happen usually that on the Bs. 200 [$3.50] annually; from among gift to missions. This will advance days we were able to find them we them- are selected the most capable, the school project in Nana and give were in a section where the path was who are sent to Cochabamba to real- us the shop in which the future tools too narrow or too steep for extensive ize a course of professional special- for the finishing of the work in the riding. ization as Indian teachers; there they Inca Union may be forged. The work At intervals, as the Indus threads are instructed in trades, culturalized, we have to do is more than has been its way through Baltistan, flanked by and above all, in an organized man- done. barren walls of towering mountain, ner are instructed in agricultural The Macedonian call was no idle an occasional level spot appears. methods with modern machinery, and dream, and is louder and more urgent Here someone—perhaps beginning learn to make the earth produce. In today than in the days of Paul: "Come thousands of years ago—has planted this manner the future Indian teacher over . . . , and help us !" Most of some trees and grain, having first sur- is prepared, with morality, with ca- you can't come yourselves, but your rounded the spot with walls of stone pacity, and honesty and discipline in invested dollars will multiply the num- that even the ubiquitous mountain 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW • DECEMBER 13, 1945 goat cannot scale. If the level spot pauses of snow, the trail we were of our journey over lakes and along is large enough and adjacent to some following seemed to disappear com- the Jhelum River back to Srinagar. stream from which water can be led, pletely. At other times it would lead Here ended the difficult and more haz- • the most attractive little village will to a raging torrent that even on horse- ardous part of our journey, and we nestle picturesquely amid walnut, back seemed altogether impassable. were happy to have covered so great apricot, apple, and mulberry orchards, As the trail is only negotiable—by a distance, under such unusual condi- and waving fields of grain. pack animal at least—for two months tions, without a single mishap. Many of the homes are of two or in the year, July 15 to September 15, At Srinagar another visit was paid * three stories, the animals usually in- and as we began its ascent as early to Canon Biscoe, an octogenarian mis- habiting the ground floor with its as July 20, after the severest winter sionary who has spent over fifty years cobblestones and its clean, substantial on record, we found both snow and in Kashmir. The influence of his mis- mangers. Besides the outside stair- rivers difficult to cross. sion school—now with an enrollment way leading to the upper stories of Mosquitoes, however, were as dis- of nearly two thousand pupils—is felt the house, a staircase from within comforting as anything. Here, at an all over that great country. In our • the stable serves the interior. Usually altitude of sixteen thousand feet, travels we had met many of his for- the lower walls of the house are of they attacked us in great numbers and mer pupils, now holding responsible stone, while the upper portion is of with much persistence. Only when a positions in various places. Though timber, often ingeniously carved. strong wind would blow could we get few had accepted Christianity, all Around the homes at the time of our any relief by day. When our sleeves spoke appreciatively of the principles • visit were great bundles of wheat, were rolled up, as they usually were, learned at the school, and which they ready to be threshed, and in some we could often kill as many as twenty were trying to carry out in their daily cases being threshed most merrily by at a time on our forearms with one lives. Some asked us for Bibles; oth-. men, women, and children. Their slap of the hand. Our faces and ers desired books on the life of Christ, laughter and singing as they worked necks were equally violently attacked. One, a seller of carved wood, showed together—apparently in f amilies— Finally, we got so bespattered with an unwillingness to sell an article • could be heard all over the village. blood that we resorted to waving with a flaw—a flaw which we had not At some of our stopping places for them off with towels, but even this detected. In explanation he quoted in the night the villagers would gather made poor headway against these English a verse which Canon Biscoe around us with much curiosity and bloodthirsty creatures ("superforts," had taught him in school watch our every movement. On one Brother Hamel called them), that had "Truly shape and fashion these, • occasion it was apologetically ex- probably never learned the fear of Leave no yawning gaps between; plained to us that it had been four man. Think not, because no man sees, years since the last white man had Here in the Deosai plains, unin- Such things will remain unseen." passed that way. habited by man, there grow the most About two hundred miles down the Later, as we talked of Christianity beautiful wild flowers that we had and asked him why he was not a • Indus from Leh we came to Skardu, ever seen. Except for these and a Christian, he made this confession, "I the capital of Baltistan. On the last certain amount of grass the country part of the way we had a very enjoy- know Jesus; I believe Jesus." Yet seemed void of all vegetation. All persecution had prevented him thus able visit with the prime minister, our fuel and supplies had to be car- who with a great retinue was mov- far from openly accepting Christ. ried with us from far down in the The wooden posts on the play- ing from his winter headquarters at valley. ground of the school were in the early • Skardu to his summer headquarters Descending the Burzil Pass to at Leh. Members of his staff, who days constantly being stolen. Canon about eight thousand feet, we fol- Biscoe decided to plant trees in their were preceding him by a day's jour- lowed the Gurais valley until we place. At one end of the field stood ney, had previously visited our camp reached Kanzalwan, where we had to at a place called Bagicha, and when two trees which he pointed out with ascend to twelve thousand feet again much satisfaction and almost rever- • saying good-by had promised to in- and cross the Razdhainangan Pass— form the missionaries at Kargil (with ence. One was in memory of, an old as beautiful a pass as we had seen in schoolboy, the son of Joseph Gergan whom they knew we were friendly) all our travels. Then on descending of our safe arrival at Bagicha, and of Leh (mentioned previously as hay- to Bandipur we were fortunate in se- ing translated the Bible) , who was then added the rather unsettling curing a donga (a kind of freight words, "But from here on God alone murdered when courageously doing • boat and houseboat combined, which his duty. The other was in memory knows." brought us the last thirty-five miles We understood better the signifi- of another of his pupils who had been cance of those words a few days later crucified by Mohammedans, though while ascending the steep, narrow later rescued in time to be saved, trail which leads from Skardu up to Before binding him to the cross his 6 the Deosai plains. Frequently, on persecutors said to him, "You love the cross; you shall have one." steep mountainsides, or in great ex- (Continued on page 23)

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Translation of Bible Into Tibetan. Missionary Joseph A. F. Tarr Ascending Zugi At the End of the Motor Road Waiting for Horses. Gergan in His. Study With O. 0. Mattison and A. F. Tarr La Pass A. F. Tarr and 0. 0. Mattison AND SABBATH HERALD 13 > t THE FAMILY FIRESIDE...1i <

Conducted by Nora Machlan Buckman The Happiest Hour of the Day By MAE CARBERRY BRADLEY

[NOTE.—This article, with the problem it hedge about their children."—Ibid., such a wonderful opportunity? The discusses, is another in the series prepared vol. 1, pp. 397, 398. reproof found on page 701 of vol- • especially for the REVIEW by the Parent and Nations today are spending billions ume 2 applies to many of God's people Home Education section of the General Con- ference Department of Education.] for defense; yet we are here offered today: "You have not devoted suffi- unsurpassed-. --protect o-n —uferely----1 or cient time -to- family prayer, and yon— F ever there was a time when every the asking. Can we afford to neglect have not required the presence of the house should be a entire household." I house of prayer, it is But I hear someone now. . . . And yet, in 00004 000000004040000000004040000000.00000000 000 protest, "Children do not this time of fearful peril, enjoy family worship. some who profess to be WHAT WOULD YOU DO? They become restless and Christians have no fam- irreverent." Too true— PRACTICAL HOME PROBLEMS—REVERENCE IN GOD'S HOUSE ily worship."—Testimo- in some families. Allow • nice, vol. 7, p. 42. How is reverence expressed? me to give two contrast- Is there any connection between worship in the home ing pictures of family I hope others who and worship in the church? work with children have worships I have attend- not found, as I have, Example I Example IV ed. And since as a child that not more than one I learned to "save the The minister announced the open- The Smith family consisted of • fourth of those from ing hymn, and the congregation stood mother, father, thirteen-year-old Fred, best for the last," we Seventh-day Adventist to sing, but Janet sat busily arranging ten-year-old Anne, eight-year-old shall have the dull, color- the things which she had brought with Nancy, and two-year-old Frank. At less picture first. homes have family wor- her. When the music ceased and all the close of Sabbath school Fred and ship at home. Let us were invited to join in the morning Nancy quietly and quickly made their Father, mother, and consider this important prayer, Janet still remained seated, for way to the place where the family al- the several children are phase of fulfilling the by this time she was engrossed with ways sat for church, while Anne went seated in the living room • the new "Little Friend." She was to the cradle roll room for Frank. command to "train up a quiet, so why make a fuss about hav- Mother met them in the vestibule and for evening worship. child in the way he ing her stand for the opening song took charge of the baby, and Anne Father reads a long should go." I should like and kneel for prayer? Wouldn't she joined the rest of the family. Frank's chapter from either the to discuss how to make learn to do that as she grew older? needs were cared for, and then he was Bible or some other spir- taken outside for a brief opportunity the worship hour the Example II . to stretch his legs and "let off steam" itual book. Then father happiest of the day, but before going in to church. Just be- offers a long prayer, Scattered here and there through- fore the service began, mother took first, because so many out the audience were groups of two, mother offers a longer him in and he was ready to join in the fathers and mothers do three, or four children sitting together prayer, and each child opening song—for didn't he help to apart from their parents and without not sense its importance, hold the hymnbook? When the con- prays in turn. One or adult supervision. There was contin- I must urge every par- gregation knelt for prayer, mother two may fall asleep ual conversation interspersed with gig- helped Frank to kneel and remain ent to heed this instruc- gles, and worshipers sitting in their kneeling beside,their quiet. Each had a small part in the tion from the Lord for vicinity found it difficult to follow the chairs, but they are day's offering to the Lord's work, so thoughts the minister was presenting, the safeguarding of were ready to join in the full spirit of awakened enough to or even to hear him at all. Was the their children: worship. The older children followed mumble through their church service helpful to those chil- the sermon by finding in their own "Before leaving the dren? prayers. When the last house for labor, all the Bibles the texts read. Nancy listened one has finished, worship • Example Ill for a time, but as she grew restless family should be called mother handed her a color book and is over and with sighs of together, and the father, Each member of the family had crayons. Part of the time Frank sat relief the children stum- or the mother in the fa- dressed carefully for Sabbath school next to mother, but as he, too, grew ble off to bed. Did you and church, but one thing showed they restless she, took him on her lap and ever witness a family ther's absence, should did not fully appreciate God's pres- diverted his attention from time to plead fervently with God ence in His house of worship, and the time with quiet objects brought out worship like this? to keep them through the reverence due Him. All were lustily one at a time from purse or bag. Now let us visit Aunt day. Come in humility, chewing gum on the way to the church It takes careful planning to provide Alice. She is "auntie" —and horror of horrors—did not re- suitable entertainment for little folk with a heart full of ten- move the gum when they entered the during church service, to keep them to all, and makes a point derness, and with a sense church. Is this an example of com- quiet and happy, so that they will not of inviting to her home of the temptations and mon courtesy, to say nothing of rever- disturb those about them—but it pays every lonely-looking dangers before your- ence for the time and place of wor- good dividends, both immediate and man, woman, or youth selves and your children; ship? future. she spies at church. She by faith bind them upon "Ye shall keep My Sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord." especially watches for the altar, entreating for Lev. 19:30. young girls who are them the care of the "The hour and place of prayer and the services of public worship the child should be taught to regard as sacred because God is there. And as reverence away from home, believ- Lord. Ministering an- is manifested in attitude and demeanor, the feeling that inspires it will be ing that many who go I gels will guard children deepened."—"Education," pp. 242, 243. astray do so because they who are thus dedicated "Parents should not only teach, but command, their children to enter the miss the sheltering influ- to God. It is the duty of sanctuary with sobriety and reverence."—"Testimonies," vol. 5, p. 496. "Would it not be well for us often to read the directions given by God ence and dear associa- Christian parents, morn- Himself to the Hebrews, that we who have the light of the glorious truth shining tions of home. If Auntie ing and evening, by ear- upon us, may imitate their reverence for the house of God?"—Ibid., p. 496. Alice should read this nest prayer and perse- article and recognize 00000044400400000004004000000.000000000000000.00 vering faith, to make a •••••••••••••,••••••••••••••••••• ••••••••••••••••• 4.4••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...... herself in it, I wish her 14 THE ADVENT RFVIFW • DECEMBER 13, 194 5 to know that her kindness to me in my

youth helped much to keep me in the 101111111I narrow way. LIFE'S PATTERNS • Of course there will be company, but company never interferes with worship in this home. Auntie Alice announces simply that it is time for Consequently, the minister, who had a high re- worship. Seven children with beam7 spect for the appearance of God's house, took time to do some of the work that did not belong • ing faces are quickly seated among to him. He could have used that time studying. adults with equally happy faces. Then there was Brother Jones, who allowed him- "Betty may choose the song to- self to become careless. So the minister had to night," says Auntie Alice. take some more of his valuable time to visit and encourage him to come back to church. Or "Take Time to Be Holy," is the maybe the Dorcas Society was practically dead • rather surprising choice of tiny and the minister had to take time to canvass for Betty, and all join heartily in singing TEAMWORK clothes and food to help poor families. Or maybe —sometimes several songs, chosen by FTER a sermon one day a man remarked it was simply the attitude of those who attended both adults and children. Billy's to his friend, "Our preacher didn't hit church that discouraged him. They didn't act favorite is, "Master, Hast Thou Work A the ball today." "Perhaps," said the interested, and spent much time talking. All other, "that was because he had to pitch his this could have helped to cool his zeal and for Me?" Mother Elson, Auntie own game and catch all the flies." weaken his message. If everyone had been • Alice, or someone of the visitors may Have you ever tried to play ball without doing his little bit, the minister could have done enough players to make up a team? We used his part in a much more satisfactory manner. read or tell a bedtime story. The get in children are led in repeating the mem- to play a game called "work-up." It was always I remember how upset we used to a substitute for the regular game of baseball and school when one of the girls in the dormitory ory verses for the quarter's Sabbath was played only when there were not enough of overstepped the privilego. The faculty nearly school lessons, and the current lesson us to choose sides. The one who could bat the always made extra and more rigid rules for the • is discussed in an interesting way. most balls stayed at bat the longest. If he was rest of us simply because one or two would not Someone offers a short prayer, and all especially good, the rest never had much chance stay within bounds. If those who disobeyed had to show what they were able to do. It was a only thought about it, they might have realized unite in repeating the Lord's prayer case of every man for himself. that the whole "team" had to suffer because of or some other prayer the children Going back to the minister, why do you think their poor playing. have learned. If time permits an- he didn't "hit the ball," as the man suggested? It is possible that the players involved in the other song, a choice is made. All too I have thought of a number of reasons entirely little "team" of which you and I are parts would apart from his qualifications as a "batter." It do better work if we were better players. At soon it is bedtime, and as little Betty could have been that the janitor was careless least it is a thought worth considering. begins her round of good night kisses and didn't clean the church as he should have. N. B. she remarks, "I wis we tould have worsip aden." In the volumes of the Testimonies • there is such a wealth of instruction on family worship that you would receive fered should be short and pointed. In vent, devoted spirit in the worship of far more help from it than from my simple, earnest words let the one who God. . . . Parents, be careful what own reactions. Therefore, since I am leads in prayer praise God for His example and what ideas you give your sure you have access to them, I shall goodness and ask Him for help. As children. Their minds are plastic, circumstances permit, let the children and impressions are easily made."— • mention only a few gems; and if you have not read them recently, will you join in the reading and prayer. Ibid., vol. 5, pp. 496-498. not do so soon? Does the following "Eternity alone will reveal the good In our home, the children feel un- not sound very much like the word with which such seasons of worship able to get ready for bed without a pictures given above? are fraught." bedtime story, but we first have wor- "Fathers and mothers, make the While the worship periods should ship as an entirely separate exercise. • hour of worship intensely interest- be interesting and attractive to the Early evening worship seems to us to ing. There is no reason why this children as well as to adults, we must be the ideal time for the children's hour should not be the most pleasant not give the impression that worship Sabbath school lesson study. Friday and enjoyable of the day. A little is for entertainment. Children must evening is special, with extra songs or thought given to preparation for it be led to understand that the family stories or both, as the children may • will enable you to make it full of in- worship is for the purpose of worship- choose. Often our morning worship terest and profit. From time to time ing God. It is not always possible or period contains a portion of the senior let the service be varied. Questions practicable to find Scripture portions Sabbath school lesson, but we en- may be asked on the portion of Scrip- which the very small child can under- deavor to translate it into simple lan- ture read, and a few earnest, timely stand, but he can early be taught the guage, thereby helping ourselves to remarks may be made. A song of importance of quiet and reverence understand it better. The children praise may be sung. The prayer of- during worship. Though he may not have so often heard us discuss or ask comprehend everything, he will not questions about certain portions that dread the short worship period, and they, too, feel free to ask questions or may even be soothed and calmed by make comments. the atmosphere of worship. As soon Our children enjoy family worship. • as hp can talk and remember, he can No, they did not inherit our love of take part in the prayer and song. prayer and Bible study. Even if such Influence has much to do with the were possible for any child, it could child's reaction to worship. All little not be for ours, since in our work for children are imitators. When they the Master it has been our privilege Ct see everyone else quiet and reverent, and joy to adopt and rear our family. • they are quick to follow the example. Your children may have the advantage On the other hand, if they see father of inheriting your good qualities of or mother freely whispering some con- brain and disposition; ours receive fidence to the neighbor who happens from us only good training and en- to be present during worship, they vironment. quickly conclude that reverence is not "Train up a child in the way he so important, after all. "We have should go : and when he is old, he will abundant reason to maintain a fer- not depart from it." Prov. 22:6. AND SABBATH HERALD 15 WORLD-WIDE FIELD1.< .

church. At the strategic prophetic God has given us an understanding Who Has the Solution? moment God brought forth Seventh- of the hope of eternal peace. We are HIS question is not out of order. day Adventists to bear a message dis- obligated to give the world that knowl- The critical issues in the interna- tinctively different from that of any edge. To do this there must be a Ttional, economic, and religious other organization in the world. The denomination-wide revival of mission- phases of life are demanding an an- demonstration of God's singular bless- ary activity. Every important and swer. Discerning people recognize ing upon that work is revealed by the productive period of church history • that it will take the knowledge of the great progress that has been made in has been characterized by strong, con- Divine to cope with present-day prob- such a short period of time. certed effort combining the forces of lems. The Inspired' Word says, "If -One-of the many signs pointed out minis Li y -and--lay-workers.- -The book- any of you lack wisdom, let him ask by our people as evidence of the soon Acts of the Apostles is but a chron- of God, that giveth to all men liberally, literal return of the Lord Jesus Christ ology of the outstanding achievements and upbraideth not; and it shall be is found in Matthew 24:7, which made by lay workers, possessed of the given him." James 1:5. But the reads : "For nation shall rise against true knowledge of God and the zeal of question arises, Who shall be the in- nation, and kingdom against king- the Holy Spirit. terpreter of this wisdom from God? dom." Statesmen are seeking means The early days of the advent mes- Can the world look to the messen- by which to banish war forever. But sage were days in which every believer gers of the Roman Catholic Church scarcely had the heat and fire of the regarded himself as a lay worker, and • for the solution? A Roman Catholic cannon cooled following victory in Eu- actively engaged in some soul-winning priest himself gave the answer in a rope, before strife broke out in many pursuits. When that Spirit seizes us letter which appeared in The Christian quarters, making it evident that the anew, we shall again see the miracles Century magazine dated May 16, 1945. carnal heart of man possesses the and wonders that were performed in He said, "It is necessary for my own same greed which brings about all war. those earlier days. • preservation that my name be kept First it was Trieste, then Teschen, and "The prevailing monotony of the re- secret. We priests are simply Charlie then the countries of Lebanon and ligious round of service in our McCarthys—cannot offer even a hum- churches needs to be disturbed. The ble suggestion to the august hier- leaven of activity needs to be intro- archy. But it would be wrong to con- duced, that our church members may • clude that we have no mind of our work along new lines and devise new own." The priesthood of Catholicism, methods."—Testimonies to Ministers, therefore, cannot give the solution, be- p. 204. "It is a fatal mistake to sup- cause they are bound to the policies pose that the work of soulsaving de- laid down by the Holy See at Vatican pends alone on the ministry."—Acts of City. History points out repeatedly the Apostles, p. 110. "The burden of • that the Vatican will use war as well the work has been left largely with as peace to forward her purpose. those who are laboring under salary. Can the world look to Protestantism But this is not as it should be."—RE- for the solution? On May 31, 1945, VIEW AND HERALD, Oct. 22, 1914. "He I attended a special meeting of Prot- expects all, laymen as well as minis- estant clergymen in Chicago, to hear ters, to take part."—Testimonies, vol. the Reverend W. A. Visser t' Hooft, of 9, p. 116. Holland. Of this man it has been Has not the time come for us to said, "If Protestantism were said to place before our people the obligation of soul-winning work which is theirs? have an official spokesman on matters Syria. Disputes in other portions of • of concern to the world-wide church, the continent are infectious and Has not the time come to analyze every that man would be Dr. Visser t' Hooft." threaten future trouble. The Chris- phase of our organized work, to see In his address he discussed the work tian Century, of June 13, 1945, edi- whether it directly contributes to soul of the Protestant churches before and torialized the situation like this, "The winning? during the recent war. Among the millions killed in Europe's latest war, The solution of the critical world many fine things which he said was the terrible punishment undergone by problem is in the message of the soon • this, "Europe was ready for the de- France, the exhaustion of England, coming of Jesus Christ. If we can ception of the National Socialist party haven't changed things a bit." Every establish confidence in our believers to of Germany because the churches of evidence demonstrates that men will do lay work, working with and train- Europe before the war did not have again use arms, bloodshed, and war, ing them, will not these many voices any clear message for the world.. . . with its attending chaos, to gain their unite in the single message of the soon The enemy (Germany) wanted to de- objectives. coming of Christ and blend together stroy the church because it knew that The hope for the world is the old to bring about the mighty crescendo the church had insufficient inner hope—the blessed hope—the soon com- of the loud cry? strength to survive with national so- ing of Jesus Christ in the clouds of Our believers are ready and willing. cialism." Protestantism of Europe glory. We have been and are preach- Should we not gear the work of our has not the solution, and evidence ing that message. We have experi- churches in these times to a greater I might be cited to show that Protes- enced drops of the latter rain. When soul-winning program, enlisting hun- tantism of America does not have it will come the outpouring and the full- dreds of lay workers in every confer- either. ness of the latter rain? The Lord is ence to send this glorious message to The solution is not with any organi- giving us a portion of success, but for a famishing world, that the way of the zation on this earth. It is with God. every one baptized there are thousands Lord might be prepared and Jesus Bible prophecy outlines the future of yet waiting who should eventually soon come? The need is expressed in nations as well as the future of the come into this message. a poem written by Dr. J. G. Holland : 14 THE ADVENT REVIEW DECEMBER 13, 194 5 "God, give us men! A tiine like this servicemen at the Seventh-day Ad- servants, both Army and Navy men, demands ventist school mission. Elder Mun- gathered together for the purpose of Strong minds, great hearts, true son was in charge of this meeting and worshiping God on His holy Sabbath • faith, and ready hands; called upon all those who were there day. Men whom the lust of office does for the first time to speak. I told Although Okinawa was rough, hot, not kill; them something about the street and muddy, and we were annoyed by Men whom the spoils of office cannot meetings being held back in New York snipers and air raids, and all the men buy; City. seemed to be suffering from some kind • Men who possess opinions and a After receiving additional training of rash, I could look up at the stars in will; at Honolulu, our group was assigned the sky at night and know that our Men who have honor; men who will to various locations. Excitement heavenly Father was watching over not lie; grew as five were selected to go to us regardless of where we were. Men who can stand before a dema- Okinawa, and twenty-one of us were We were just leaving Okinawa on gogue sent to Guam for further assignments. our way home when we were called • And damn- his treacherous flatteries We left by plane for Guam, stop- back and the ship was requisitioned without winking! ping at Johnston Island for lunch. We to bring back prisoners of war from Tall men, sun-crowned, who live were held up three days, as the Japa- Japan. The following night, while above the fog nese were sinking and damaging so we were in Buckner Bay, awaiting In public duty and in private think- many of our ships at this time at transfer to another ship, the battle- • ing; Okinawa that a call was sent out to ship Pennsylvania, flagship of the For while the rabble, with their rush all surplus aviators forward. Third Fleet, lying a short distance thumb-worn creeds, We left Kwajalein by twos and from us, was hit, and some one hun- Their large professions and their lit- threes. Upon arriving at Guam our dred were killed or wounded. The tle deeds, group was soon broken up, some next night, as the Third Fleet steamed Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom being sent to Saipan, Tinian, Iwo out of Buckner Bay, a Japanese plane weeps, Jima, Palau, and Ulithe. I was as- released an aerial torpedo that struck Wrong rules the land, and waiting signed to Iwo Jima, but feeling that the APA 124, only seventy-five yards Justice sleeps." I would never see Okinawa, I pro- from our anchorage. I was standing S. M. MCCORMICK, tested and accepted temporary work on deck at the time holding onto the Home Missionary Secretary, in supply at Guam. rail. A major, not so fortunate, was • Illinois Conference. thrown by the concussion and had to At Guam I made deliveries to docks, have three stitches taken in his fore- ships, canteens, etc., and it was dur- head. Flames shot up from the ing one of my trips that I noticed a water's edge high above the ship, and Service in Two World Seventh-day Adventist church sign when the fire was put out, the smoke . Wars beside a tent standing in the wilder- screen lifted, and the all-clear ness. On Sabbath I visited this sounded, we learned that on the ship INCE joining the American Red church, and to my surprise found na- next to ours lay twenty dead and Cross Services attached to the tives attending also. Later I learned thirty wounded men. I was reminded S armed forces in World War II, that a sailor, Henry Metzke, pharma- of the ninety-first psalm. I have traveled twenty-five thousand cist's mate, first class, assisted by While it took me twenty-seven • miles, six thousand of which were Master Sergeant Oliver and Sailor hours flying time to go from Honolulu covered by air. It is needless to say Mosley, first class petty officer, had to Okinawa, it took me about that now that I am glad to be back home. founded this church, and Brother many days to return via ships. Upon One has wisely said, "Be it ever so Metzke's faithful efforts had inter- entering Pearl Harbor, I was once humble, there's no place like home." ested the Ulloa (pronounced Ujloa) again able to visit our church in Hono- • You hear some GI's say they wouldn't family of eighteen members in the lulu. I met some of our boys that I have missed the experience for any- Seventh-day Adventist faith. They had seen on the way out and also ran thing; yet they wouldn't want to go distributed our literature and did col- into Sailor Corbly Lash, of Missoula, through it again for a million. This porteur work. The news of the sud- Montana, whose acquaintance I had being my third war, I do not know den change of the religion of this made on the way out. Although of what I would do if another one broke family spread all over Guam, and very • another faith, he participated for the out. soon opposition broke out. Pressure first time in the ordinance of foot After crossing the country we left was brought to bear by the island washing. After the services we were from the port of Seattle, Washington, officials as well as by Army chaplains. invited to the home of Mrs. George S. on the fast ship General Hawze, ar- Although the colporteur work was Waterhouse for dinner, and I renewed riving at our first stop, Honolulu, five stopped, the Ulloa family were still an old acquaintance of thirty years • days later. This was in contrast to keeping the Sabbath when I left Guam ago. the fifteen days that it took to cover for Okinawa. [Nine members of this It was a happy day when we sailed the same stretch of water on my way family have now been baptized.] Mat- for home. CHARLES L. SELL. home on the LST 544. Honolulu is thew 24:14 is being fulfilled: "This situated on the island of Oahu. While gospel of the -kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a wit- HIGH HONOR • the island of Hawaii, about two hun- dred miles to the southeast, is the ness unto all nations; and then shall OF all the gifts that heaven can be- largest in the Hawaiian group, Oahu the end come." stow upon men, fellowship with Christ is the most important, because Hono- Shortly after I reached Okinawa I in His sufferings is the most weighty lulu is located there. learned that Brother Allan Hillier trust and the highest honor. Not While in Honolulu I was happy to and others had organized a Seventh- Enoch, who was translated to heaven, • attend the Keeaumohu Seventh-day day Adventist church and were hold- not Elijah, who ascended in a chariot Adventist church. It is a large edi- ing meetings every Sabbath at one of of fire, was greater or more honored fice, and I was told that there are the hospitals. As we sat in the chap- than John the Baptist, who perished about six hundred members there. lain's tent, singing and listening to alone in the dungeon. "Unto you it is About 125 servicemen attended the Captain Westcott and others speak, given in the behalf of Christ, not only O Sabbath school and church services I could but think of what a living to believe on Him, but also to suffer that day. After the church services I testimony it was to those who passed for His sake."—Ministry of Healing, went to lunch with a group of eighty by the tent to see these faithful p. 478. 11111 111011n 17 DECEMBER 13, 1945 day when the Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a result of the work of Anna Knight North American church was dedicated free of debt. and H. M. Lodge. Gleanings Two persons were baptized at the Miss Mabel Head has joined the same time, conference office as an assistant treas- • Atlantic Union urer. She was in the mission field Northern Union for a number of years. The young people of the Berea Two converts were baptized as the Church of Nyack, New York, held a result of the effort held by R. H. Southwestern Union youth rally and took charge of the Brodersen, Watson Buckman, John church services a few months ago. The effort that was held in New • Herr, and Miss Grace Burke, in Mott, Orleans, Louisiana, by D. J. Dixon The young women of the Danish- North Dakota. Other interested ones Norwegian church in New York City and his wife, Birdie McCluster, and are Still receiving studies. J. H. Williams, has resulted in the have organized a young ladies' Dor- The Bowdle, South Dakota, church cas Society and are having good suc- addition of thirty-four to the church. members are remodeling their church J. C. Greene has moved from Tex- cess. building. • Seven members were added to the arkana to Fort Worth, Texas, where German New York church by baptism North Pacific Union he will take up work as assistant field_ October 27: secretary of the Texas Conference. Evangelistic meetings in Granite Carl Ashlock and his family have Miss Doris Davis is now working Falls, Washington, were opened Oc- in the office of the Greater New York recently moved to Texas. They have tober 24. Lewis E. Lyman and Frank been working in the Alabama-Missis- • Conference. She was President Jones' Phillips, with their wives, are the secretary at Atlantic Union College sippi Conference. workers taking charge. Plans are under way for the erec- prior to this. E. F. Coy, of Kansas City, has ar- T. R. Gardner has succeeded W. C. tion of a new dining pavilion on the rived in Washington, to take over the campground of the- Oklahoma Confer- Raley as Atlantic Union Conference work of the Renton-Auburn district. secretary-treasurer and auditor. ence. The new caretaker's residence • J. W. Osborn and his family, from is also well along. These have had to Central Union Florida, have arrived in Seattle, be built because of the destruction Washington, where Brother Osborn from a terrible storm. N. 13. Gideon Haas and F. C. Neisner will have charge of the Seattle Cen- began a series of evangelistic services tral Church. at Torrington, Wyoming, on Sunday A Washington Conference male • night, October 28. quartet has been organized for the Power of the Gospel in Byron Chalker and his family, from radio and evangelistic work there. It College Place, Washington, have ar- is composed of E. F. Coy, first tenor; South America rived in Pine Bluff, Wyoming, and W. L. Schoepflin, second tenor; Don will assist A. E. Hagen in evangelistic ARQUES DE WAVRIN, a H. Spillman, baritone; and W. I. Un- • work. terseher, second bass. Frenchman who spent some On Sunday night, October 21, T. M. G. E. Patterson will conduct a M time in South America study- Rowe baptized thirty-two persons as series of evangelistic meetings in ing the savage Indians, wrote the fol- a result of the colored effort he held Sweet Home, Oregon, beginning No- lowing: in Denver, Colorado. vember 4. "A few North American religious W. K. Smith, of Bourbon, Missouri, leaders, known as the Adventist Mis- • recently baptized two persons, a Pacific Union sionaries, worked among the Campa mother and a daughter. J. E. Cox, pastor of the Philadel- and Chama Indian tribes only a short A. V. Dick recently added two mem- phian Church in San Francisco, Cali- time. They surely used some super- bers to the church in his district in fornia, reports that twenty-seven were human power in their work, as they Missouri. baptized as a result of the meetings. prohibited the Indians from using any Columbia Union he has been holding. fermented drinks. To leave off the In Culver City, California, evan- masato (the Indian alcoholic drink) Brother Schomburg has joined J. W. gelistic meetings are being conducted meant a great sacrifice and was very Franklin in Princeton, West Virginia, by J. B. Currier, Fred Hickman, and painful and hard for the Indians. for a series of meetings to be held in Mrs. R. D. Moon. But the Adventists had in a short the church building. 0. R. Scully reports the baptism of time so thoroughly persuaded them The Sligo Men's Missionary Society four persons as the result of the ef- with the gospel power that not only a is sponsoring a series of outdoor meet- fort in Oxnard, California. few groups but thousands and thou- ings in Franklin Park, Washington, A two-room church school building sands of the Campa and Chama In- D.C. J. E. Kelchner is leading out. is just being completed at Baldwin dians have gained such a complete J. D. Haynes led out in a series of Park, California. victory over sin, drink, and drunken- revival meetings in the Erie, Penn- An eight-room church school build- ness that they would not touch the sylvania, church recently. ing is under way in Glendale, Cali- strong drink for any reward. fornia. "Quite the contrary with the Cath- Lake Union olic Franciscan priest, who stayed Murray J. Harvey has accepted the Southern Union and worked two full years with a position of principal of Shiloh Acad- W. J. Keith is to be the new pastor group of Indians with no success. He • emy in Chicago, Illinois. He was for- of the First Church in Atlanta, offered them rice and many attractive merly connected with the official staff Georgia. presents if they would only drink less of the Lake Regional Conference. J. R. Perkins has been asked to of the intoxicating drinks. Yet his Cornelius Harris, of Chicago, has take charge of the Albany, Georgia, teachings and offers seemed to be in recently joined the office staff of the district. vain, because drunkenness increased Lake Regional Conference as book- H. R. Thurber will have charge of among them, and finally they drove keeper. the Raleigh and Durham, North Caro- the Catholic priest from their village. Two Adventist dentists are setting lina, district. He has been formerly "Not only did the Adventists succeed up practice in Indiana: Dr. Merle in the Southern New England Con- in getting the Indians to leave off fer- Harris, in Warsaw, and Dr. J. A. ference. mented drinks, but they also taught Hickey, in South Bend. The Greensboro, North Carolina, them to abstain from the use of un- October 27 was the long-hoped-for colored school has opened this year as clean meats, which they classified as _ 18 Ur An r • DECEMBER 13, 1945 pork, monkeys, duck, and all fish with- But now hath God set the members out scales. This meant a great sacri- Our Part in the Ingath- every one of them in the body, as it fice for the Indians, because there was hath pleased Him." such an abundance of monkeys, wild ering Work What is the function which most • hogs, and unclean fish, and fewer of HILE prayerfully consider- completely characterizes life? It is the clean. From all indications there ing our task before us for activity. Each cell which functions is great power in the Adventist mes- this year, here in the Ger- normally is active. Each organ sage, a power the Catholics do not man-American church of Los Angeles, which is doing its appointed job is have." of which J. F. Huenergardt is pastor, active. And an active thing is living, • Yes, thank God for the gospel mes- it seemed as if a musical voice from not barely living or vegetating, but sage, which is so marvelously trans- heaven spoke to our souls: "Go and full of life, vigorous, vibrant, pro- forming souls. Continue to pray that work for Me in this Ingathering to ductive, fruit bearing. And when this gospel message will accomplish save precious souls." you think about it, is that not your its full work in the hearts of Indians The basic goal set by our confer- conception of our first forebears, • as well as whites in South America. ence committee for our group was Adam and Eve? They were made Missionaries and many other eager $416. This basic goal was reached "very good" by the hand of God. hearts look to you for continued close shortly after the campaign was They were perfect once, capable, mas- co-operation in turning men and launched. Soon we reached our terful, dignified, enlightened. After women from vice and sin to the Sav- Minute Man goal for the entire mem- their sin God mercifully left Adam iour of mankind. bership. As we realized the extraor- and his wife health and vitality and J. C. CULPEPPER. dinary conditions in the world and strength of mind and body and spirit. found the public so willing to give, a Even after centuries and generations new desire gripped our souls, to go of mounting sins this body we have .far beyond whatever we have been has stood up marvelously well. Another Publishing privileged to do before. Brushing Our Creator fashioned man for ac- • aside confronting obstacles, by the tivity, for noble purposes. Man's ac- Project combined efforts of the singing group tivity was to be a well-balanced com- NE of the great objectives of and individual solicitors, we reached bination of all his powers, the mental, the Missions Extension pro- a second Minute Man goal for our the physical, and the spiritual. O gram throughout the years has church membership—$32 per capita, He put his son Adam in a large • been the erecting and the establishing a grand total of $1,776.30. garden to dress it and to keep it, and of mission publishing plants in vari- While we are grateful for what has to name all the living things he found ous lands. For some time a printing been accomplished, we ask ourselves : in it. He also gave the man a help- plant has been in operation at the "What is all this in the face of those meet. Man's body was so fashioned training school of the Caribbean Un- great demands with which our gen- that all these activities could be ac- eral work is confronted in this war- complished and all these powers de- • ion Conference and is located in the basement of one of the dormitories. torn world?" In comparison, how veloped. Not only that, but the body About three years ago, upon the arrival small seem all our accomplishments is so constructed that full use of each of W. E. Read as director of the Carib- and efforts! But let us all work so capability and the physical structure bean Union Conference, plans were that we may hear the final word: behind it is necessary to the most inaugurated to house the printing "Well done, thou good and faithful abundant, productive, healthful, and • plant in a substantial building on the servant: . . . enter thou into the joy happy living on this earth. college campus. A donation from the of thy Lord." Fifty and sixty years ago, when Missions Extension Fund was supple- DR. P. F. GERNHARDT, medical discoveries were much in mented by gifts from other sources, Missionary Leader. their infancy, Mrs. E. G. White wrote and a dignified-looking building which on the particular subject of physical a will give prestige to the cause of God activity. She saw even then that it has been erected. The building cost Exercise and Christian was an important problem of our mes- about $7,600, and its construction and sage. She saw errors and recognized appearance are a credit to our work. Experience clearly the need for reforms in child It was recently dedicated, fully paid UR body is a marvelous and training by parents during the forma- • for. It will adequately house the press. intricate organism. It com- tive years, the necessity of a more Thus another little printing plant is O bines into one structure a perfectly designed plan of formal edu- added to the large group of printing chemical laboratory in which thou- cation by schools, and the value of institutions that have been established sands of chemical reactions are in consistent continuance of right habits in many lands to send forth the light operation on a twenty-four-hour sched- of living in afteryears. Mrs. White of truth. E. E. FRANKLIN. ule. The body is a veritable paradise uses the expression that the little of study for the physicist who wants ones should be "free as lambs" to run to observe the principles of me- about, exercise their bodies, and in- chanics, energy, motion, hydro- vestigate the things God made. Man- Appreciation of the dynamics, optics, audition, etc., in ac- made apartment houses, with potted Review tion. It is a fruitful object for the plants outside closed windows, and • investigator in electricity, because concreted driveways or streets for INASMUCH as many have taken in each cell is a power plant or a con- playgrounds are uninteresting and hand to set forth in order a declara- ductor or a receptor of electricity. unnatural environs for children. The tion of the years they have been read- It is all too complicated for anyone environment is beyond the child's ers of the REVIEW AND HERALD, it fully to understand now, but we do control. He has to take what his par- seemed good to me also to tell of my know that though one cell or tissue ents can give him. Parents should • experience. I was born in 1854, with may have a job different from its take sober thought and weigh their the REVIEW in the home. I have never neighbor, each one has its proper responsibilities. seen a week that it was not within my place in the plan which God used when Have you ever seen a Seventh-day reach, and as the years go by, I ap- He fashioned man. Paul had an ac- Adventist home where conveniences preciate it more and more. curate conception in his day of man's have been added one upon another FRANK FISHELL. make-up. I like it. "For the body till there is practically nothing for Cedar Lake, Mich. is not one member, but many. „ . Johnny or Mary to do? The chil- AND SABBATH HERALD 19 DECEMBER 13, 1945 • dren's responsibility is limited to your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, logged ground during the rainy season, being good and keeping out of trou- acceptable unto God, which is your and suffers from "wet feet"; the other ble. They can use their minds and reasonable service. And be not con- is in well-drained ground. There learn things, but they need not be formed to this world: but be ye trans- are traditions and fancies we were able to do anything productive. This formed by the renewing of your mind, brought up in before we heard the • is a dangerous situation, and it leads that ye may prove what is that good, truth. If we do not get free from to trouble. and acceptable, and perfect, will of that influence, we become tradition- Many body temples are defiled by God." Rom. 12:1, 2. bound and cannot grow in grace. We wrong practices begun during the LIEUT. COL. ROBERT S. HAMILTON. must, therefore, let our Master Gar- period of parental influence, in many dener transplant us into the ground • cases unknowingly by the youth and of fact and reality so that our lives, ignorantly on the part of the parents. The Parable of the Two drained of harmful theories, will grow Mrs. White realized the danger of luxuriantly to His glory. unbalanced and inordinate study in Palms We notice, too, that some of the school without the benefit of daily lower fronds are dry and dead and • physical activity. She repeatedly HE Seventh-day Adventist church need to be cut off. They have served spoke and wrote that much mental in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, their purpose but now are not beauti- activity, -unbalanced by physical- Twas dedicated- by---the--late.-E. G. u -or useful: So in our Christian ex- activity (she preferred productive Boger in 1930, under the ministry of perience there are things which at one work), would derange, depress, and A. N. Ingle, who had conducted a very time seemed very beautiful, but as we becloud mindsL—a condition which in successful effort in the city. have been led by the Holy Spirit into • turn limits the person's usefulness, The two palms beside the entrance greater light, we have found that these happiness, and even spiritual welfare. to the church, as seen in the accom- beliefs, doctrines, and ideas are not So much for the physical aspects of panying picture, were donated by an, true, and so become dry and lifeless— the child's training years. The die elderly sister and planted by the wife such doctrines as that the dead are will be cast quite well by then, but of the first local elder, who looked alive, that christening is as acceptable if it has been forged imperfectly, it after the garden and grounds gener- as baptism, and that Sunday is the needs reworking. Let the adults re- ally. Sabbath. These must be cut away, consider themselves. What are your The palm on the left as you face for they are useless. We must not muscles doing for your health and for the church was much smaller than the hold on to them, for if we do, they will your Christian experience? Are you other at the time of planting and was mar what might otherwise be beau- menfolk confining your activities to put in that position because the ground tiful. • sedentary, brain-taxing work at the was slightly higher, to make it appear We notice that the palm on the left office, and do you return to your fam- the same size; now, as we see them, has fruit clusters, while the other one ilies mentally tired, nervous, and per- they have spoken to the writer, who has not. The one bearing fruit was haps irritable and sharp-tongued? Is will try to pass on the lesson they planted on higher ground. Thus, if your whole body dyspeptic, body and symbolize. we would be fruit-bearing Christians • mind and heart, from your unbal- Why has the originally smaller one we must live on higher ground. Our anced living? Is your whole energy grown so much better than the other? Lord says that if we do not bear fruit, being expended within the confines I have noticed in the early morning we are useless and cumber the ground of four walls? If so, it is unneces- that the one on the right is in the and will be cut down and uprooted. sary; it is sin. shadow from large trees on the oppo- These palms, both of them, unfold • When we look around us by some site side of the street and is sheltered upward. The one puts out three or natural yearning to balance our ac- from the early morning sun, while the four fronds to the other's one. So as tivities, the same garden that God larger one is not so sheltered. So, if Christians we, too, must 'unfold up- placed Adam and his wife and chil- we would grow in the Christian life ward.' As we look upward to Jesus dren in is inevitably and surely the we must bask in the light and warmth we shall grow like Him. As we pray, answer. God made the garden before of the Sun of Righteousness and let lifting our hands in faith to Him, so man made the city, and God made the Him rise with healing in His wings. will our Christian life unfold in a garden for man to keep. This is one lesson the two palms give beauty that will attract others to the The ideal is not too much for God us. shade of our palm in the days of trial to ask of us, else He would not have The one on the right is in water- and conflict before us. said, "Be ye therefore perfect." • Handicaps beyond one's control are considered justly. Perfection for one of us may be imperfection for an- other. But man is committed to ac- complish his most and best, with the grace of God. I have tried to show that physical activity is necessary for life, for God made us that way. It plays as im- portant a role as, other Christian ac- tivities. And when the body suffers by neglect, all other human faculties suffer. "There should be no schism in the body; but . . . the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member a suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it." 1 Cor. 12: 25, 26. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present The Church in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa 20 THE ADVENT REVIEW •

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The unfolding of the fronds upward, ..... ...... in it seriously. It is true that we have as with the tree on the left, reminds all the answers to the world's needs, me of the parable of the talents, "Unto * Gem of the Week * but we do not practice them. Our dis- • everyone that hath shall be given." So cipleship lacks reality, and for this let us use the one talent wisely and to reason there is in it no contagion. It the glory of God, the Giver, and He Jesus lives; He is not in Joseph's new tomb: has not yet become the biggest thing will make us more and more useful by He is risen, and pleads for us on high. We have in our lives. adding talent to talent; so instead of a living Saviour. Let us praise Him with heart There must come to the church and • having only one, we shall be worthy of and soul and voice. If any have lost faith, let to each one of us a new emphasis on five, or even ten. them seek God today. The Lord has promised prayer. We are facing our problems Notice the peaceful scene in the pic- that if we seek Him with the whole heart, He too much in the spirit of seeking how ture ! The church is on a busy thor- will be found of us. Turn unto Him today; for we may discover some new method or oughfare, but is unaffected by the He will abundantly pardon.—"Review and Her- find some new scheme of man's devis- noise of life. We who worship regu- ald," June 9, 1891. ing with which to accomplish our • larly every Sabbath appreciate this needs. We fail to seek the Lord suf- and feel the peace enhanced by the ficiently to ensure His interposition in noise about us. our behalf when we face the heavier God does keep His promises and In a day when the world is dying be- perplexities. This is the hour when give us the peace the world cannot fore our eyes, the church must live be- it must be made perfectly clear that • understand or possess. fore men a life that is triumphant and our dependence is upon God through May the parable of the two palms en- is a full demonstration of salvation to prayer and faith. Our vision will courage and help us to live the luxuri- the uttermost. A new oneness must thereby be enlarged. Our plans will ant life of living Christians. also be seen that will be a fulfillment no longer be mediocre and meager. H. HIPKINS. of the prayer of Christ : "That they We will enter into a new era of mighty all may be one ; . . . that the world may things in the name of our God, and • His great program will meet its final believe that Thou hast sent Me." He staked the world's acceptance of Him triumph speedily. Let us now reconsecrate ourselves On India's Northern upon the oneness of His followers. It to a more heroic practice of that which is a solemn and sobering fact that our we preach, a more devoted seeking Frontier finishing of the work for God depends after His mighty power, and the appli- (Continued from page 13) upon the oneness of the church. In cation of faith beyond anything we this day of unsettlement and crisis the have yet known. The times demand We concluded our travels in this church must give a living demonstra- it. God is calling for it. Let us not little-known section with a new ap- tion that it is possible for brethren to preciation of some of the Bible prom- be negligent now ! live and work together in unity. 0 ises. The grandeur and majesty of this almost solid block of mountain A Living Experience fastnesses often brought to our minds Are You Moving? The pioneers of this third angel's Isaiah's picture of God's eternity and You should notify us in advance of any change message were men and women in compassion : "For the mountains shall of address, as the post office will not forward whose lives something had happened your papers to you even though you leave a for- depart, and the hills be removed ; but warding address. Your compliance in this matter in no uncertain terms. Discredited by will save delay and expense. • My kindness shall not depart from the nominal churches around them, so- thee, neither shall the covenant of My cially unpopular, economically enslaved peace be removed, saith the Lord that THE ADVENT SABBATH and handicapped, they went, with an hath mercy on thee." Isa. 54:10. adventurous faith, into a world which REVIEW AND HERALD And the thought of this great hated them and to a generation which unentered region brought new sig- • cursed them. Unperturbed by cross Dedicated to the Proclamation of the nificance to another promise : "How Everlasting Gospel bearing, they carried the plain teach- beautiful upon the mountains are the ings of their new-found faith in every EDITOR F. D. NICHOL feet of him that bringeth good tid- direction and grew into an organiza- ASSOCIATE EDITORS ings, that publisheth peace; that tion and body which commanded the J. L. MCELHANY F. M. WILCOX W. A. SPICER bringeth good tidings of good, that FREDERICK LEE • attention of the world about them. publisheth salvation ; that saith unto SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS Christ was to them not a theory C. H. WATSON W. H. BRANSON L. H, CHRISTIAN Zion, Thy God reigneth t" Isa. 52 :7. E. D. Dick W. E. NELSON but an experience of their everyday L. K. DICKSON Here, from this great region of W. G. TURNER lives; not a historic figure but a pres- PRESIDENTS OR ACTING PRESIDENTS OF mountains and snow, there flow the OVERSEAS rYiVisioNS ence in life; not someone who had lived rivers that water the plains of India EDITORIAL SECRETARY - NORA MACHLAN BUCKMAN but someone who lives and reigns. CIRCULATION MANAGER C. E. PALMER • and give food to millions of people. Something had happened in them Here dwell a rugged, hardy, yet This paper does not pay for articles, and because which forever changed their way of of the large number of contributions constantly kindly people—possibly as kindly as received for publication, we cannot undertake ei- thinking and acting. They practiced or return manu- any in the world. Little wonder it ther to acknowledge their receipt what they preached and preached what scripts. Duplicates of articles or reports furnished seemed to us, that a special blessing other papers are never acceptable. they practiced. That was the pioneer All communications relating to the Editorial De- should be pronounced on those who, • advent church : a blessed communion, partment, and all manuscripts submitted for pub- despite hardship, would be con- lication, should be addressed to Editor, Review and a fellowship divine. The church to- Herald, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. strained to carry to them the last mes- sage of salvation. day must "give the more earnest heed SUBSCRIPTION RATES to the things that were heard, lest United States haply" they let them slip away. That One year $3.00 Six months $1,65 spirit must be recaptured. It must be Canada • Girding for the Final One year $3'.35 Six months $1.85 recaptured quickly and now. Ours is Foreign Countries Where Extra Postage Triumph a great task. Ours is a tremendous Is Required responsibility. This is our last hour One year $3.50 Six months $1.90 (Continued from page 2) Make all post offide money orders payabk: at the of greatest opportunity. Washington, D.C., post office (not Takoma Park). Address all business communications and make all able to point at the church as a quar- We have treated the church and its drafts and express money orders payable to RE- relsome group of people who instead great objectives too casually. We have VIEW AND HERALD, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. In changing address, do not fail to give of fighting sin fight one another. not taken our service and membership both old and new addresses. 1111 11101111 1111H111 23 • DECEMBER 13, 1945 plans for an intensive evangelistic campaign in the new year. Last Sab- OF SPECIAL INTEREST bath we baptized twenty-seven new members, who were converted during • the last effort which was held in Son- sonate. Our coming effort will be held Brethren Who Were accepted the Seventh-day Adventist in San Salvador, the capital city, faith. which has a population of 105,000. This brother desired to be baptized, Gun Targets Here we have a large church in a good • but there was no Seventh-day Advent- section of the city. We request your GOD, who delivered Daniel from the ist minister in the town in which he prayers that the Lord will bless our lions' den, the three Hebrews from the lived. He visited another town, but efforts." fiery furnace, and the people of God found no Seventh-day Adventist min- from the death decree in Esther's day, ister there. His courage still good, he delivers His people who look to Him went to another town, where he met • for deliverance today. Here are the a Seventh-day Adventist minister and experiences of, two Filipino_ Seventh- was baptized„ Later, not only his—fa- _Missionary Departures- ther but the whole family were won to day Adventists who, during the Jap- MR. and Mrs. Carl W. Shafer, of the anese occupation of the Philippines, the truth. The Lord's promise is, "He shall Potomac Conference, having accepted were falsely accused of resisting the a call to connect with the faculty of Japanese, scheduled to be shot, and call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will Helderberg College, sailed from New miraculously escaped death through Orleans on the S.S. Kendall Fish, No- divine providence. deliver him, and honor him." Ps. 91:15. vember 5, for Cape Town, South Af- One of our pastors, accused of aid- PFC. GILBERT BERTOCCHINI AND rica. ing the Americans, was taken into PFC. CHARLES HILL. • custody by the Japanese. He was Elder and Mrs. F. Brock Wells, of placed in a room with an armed Jap- Michigan, sailed from New Orleans, anese soldier, who was ordered to November 5, on the S.S. Kendall Fish, shoot him. The soldier aimed to shoot for Cape Town, South Africa. Elder the pastor, hesitated, began to per- El Salvador, Central Wells has been appointed to serve as spire, and became very nervous to the Bible teacher in our training school in • point of being unable to shoot him. America Uganda, East Africa. The case was taken to a Japanese We reported Elders R. H. Hartwell commanding officer. This officer soon A RECENT letter from Orley Ford and L. E. Reed as sailing from San Francisco, October 26, in response to found that the Filipino scheduled to tells of his return with his wife to be shot was a Seventh-day Adventist the mission field following their fourth the call for a number of workers to re- • schoolteacher who had been his in- furlough. They have labored in vari- turn to China, to assist in reopening structor. The Japanese officer re- ous South and Central American coun- certain centers that were closed dur- leased the pastor from all suspicion. tries for twenty-nine years. This time ing the war. We learn that the boat Elder and Mrs. Ford are working in on which they started was recalled to Pastor Tomas Pilar, of the Philip- San Francisco, and they had to wait pine Union College, related the follow- El Salvador. Of his new work Elder • ing experience: Ford writes : until November 10, when they, with "This is a busy, overpopulated little A. R. Boynton, another former China A non-Adventist Filipino, falsely worker, sailed on the S.S. Osage. accused of being a guerrilla, was taken republic that just bustles with life, from his home to prison. despite tropical heat. Poverty is Professor and Mrs. L. A. Horning, greater than in any other field in and Professor Horning's mother, Mrs. Later, while marching with a num- which we have worked, and living Josephine Horning, of the Central ber of other men due to be shot as conditions are very bad, owing to California Conference, left Miami by guerrillas, he met one of his friends. overcrowding. However, there are plane, November 12, for Jamaica, Pro- At the gravesite the men who were many fine people here. The climate is fessor Horning having been called to to be shot were ordered to kneel be- hot and tropical but is not as un- connect with the West Indian Train- fore their prospective graves. One by healthful as some other places. Food- ing College at Mandeville, as teacher • one they were ordered to stand for the stuffs of native varieties are plentiful. fatal shot. It was planned that each of science and mathematics. man would fall into his own grave. "This country is noted for its revo- Two missionary couples from Ta- lutions. The last one broke out just koma Park, appointed to serve in West His friend was next to him in line. a few months ago. Bombs were His friend was ordered to stand, was dropped from airplanes by contend- Africa, sailed from New York, No- shot, and fell dead into his grave. vember 14. They were Mr. and Mrs. • ing factions. Thus they had a dimin- V. C. Brown, Brother Brown to serve This Filipino pleaded with God for utive war among themselves, and deliverance and offered to dedicate his as director of the Koforidua Mission many lives were lost. Our office shows Station, in the Gold Coast; and Mr. life to the Lord if he was delivered. the effects also, for within two feet While he was standing, with the order of my head as I sit in my office is a and Mrs. J. D. Meade, Brother Meade to fire about to be given, a Japanese to serve as director of our Elele Mis- • bullet hole, and there is another just sion Station in the Southeastern Ni- officer arrived with papers proving behind the Missionary Volunteer sec- this Filipino was not a guerrilla, and retary's office chair. Had he been sit- gerian Mission. he was released. ting there at the time, he would most Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Conmack, of Having providentially escaped certainly have been killed. Now Georgia, and Professor and Mrs. L. A. death, this Filipino was determined to things are quiet again, and the pres- Edwards, of Iowa, sailed from New • live out his promise to dedicate his ent government seems to have the Orleans, November 29, for Cape Town, life to the Lord. In seeking for truth, situation under control. South Africa. Brother Conmack will he became acquainted with a Seventh- "Our work is thriving. We have serve as an evangelist at the Gwelo day Adventist family, who informed around five hundred members, and we Mission, and Brother Edwards as him of the Sabbath and other truths. have as workers several graduates of Bible teacher in the Malamulo Mission Within three months he was fa- our academy in Costa Rica, who are Training Institute, in Nyasaland. miliar with our truth and had fully doing excellent work. We are making E. D. DICK.