Educational Number
Who Shall Teach Our Children
By E, E. COSSEINTINE
Educational Secretary, General Conference
Who shall teach our children is a question of with this purpose."— Fundamentals of Christian vital importance to every Seventh-day Adventist. Education, p. 436. How it is answered will determine the very foun- Here is the basic pattern for us as teachers: dation of the entire denomination, for what our a sound conversion, lives fully surrendered to God, schools are to day, the church will be tomorrow. and a clear understanding of our responsibility The strength of the Advent movement is no greater for the conversion of the children committed to than the character of the teachers who train the our care. The teacher must have not only intel- ministers and other leaders of the church. No lectual ability and training, but thorough training system of thought and life can continue unless it along pedagogical lines so that he brings to his holds its youth. task the best possible equipment to accomplish The teachers of our children are setting the certain definite things in the lives of his children. standards and practices that will guide the denom- He must be able to lead them into higher intel- ination in the days before us. They determine the lectual achievement as well as spiritual development, very life and vitality of the church. These things for spiritual education must at all times go hand being true, the question "Who Shall Teach Our in hand with general education. "Our work of Children?" takes on added importance. First, education is ever to bear the impress of the teachers must know and understand God's plan for heavenly, and thus reveal +how far divine in- today in their own lives and then in the lives of struction excels the learning of the world." — the boys and girls, Counsels to Teachers, p. 56. "The teachers in our schools need to search the Who shall teach our youth? Men and women be acquainted with God by an experimental of courage and conviction, for to teach the children knowledge. They should know Him because they is not an easy task, but one that requires complete obey all the commandments He has given."— consecration, infinite patience, unlimited tact, and Counsels to Teachers, p. 248. good physical stamina. They shall be individuals `The teachers in our schools need to search the who combine the best intellectual ability with the Scriptures until they understand them for their deepest spiritual consecration. They must have individual selves, opening their hearts to the precious a clear vision of their responsibility to God for rays of light which God has given, and walking the youth entrusted to their care, that they may be therein."— Testimonies, Vol. VI, p. 155, rightly trained to obey God and His law and "Eternal interest should be the great theme of become fit for service. To become a teacher is teachers and students. Conformity to the world a great responsibility. It is a work that must be should be strictly guarded against. The teachers entered into only under deep conviction that this need to be sanctified through the truth, and the is God's task for me, but it carries with it the all-important thing should be the conversion of unlimited blessings of heaven. their students, that they may have a new heart Who shall teach our children? Men and women and life. The ()Meet of the Great Teacher is the who know God in the darkness as well as in the restoration of the image of God in the soul, and light, who love the youth as Christ loves us in every teacher in our schools should work in harmony that He was willing to give His life for us.
FAMINE RELIEF OFFERING, NOVEMBER 5, 1949
VOLUME THIRTY-FIVE SEPTEMBER, 1949 NUMBER NINE FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949
teachers and government favor for our work in Our Challenge Japan; the French government is granting free land for a school in Dalat; an excellent college By W. 0. BALDWIN site is being offered for expansion in the Philippines; Educational Secretary, Far Eastern Division and a keen awakening is developing in Indonesia. That it may encourage us to enter the doors The smiling face of Reggie Yeo on this page opened by the Lord's providences and rejoice at is symbolic of the nearly 11,000 students, the 428 the blessings already given, the pictures and reports teachers, the 173 schools, and the thousands of of this edition are given. mothers and fathers in the Far Eastern Division to whom this issue of the Outlook is dedicated. Following the Pattern
By V. T. ARMSTRONG Fresvid.ent, Far Eastern, Divislion
The pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist church built better than they knew when they heeded the instruction given and started in a very small way the establishment of a Chrstian school — the first of many such schools now found in many lands of the earth. Without these schools where our children and youth can be trained for service, the efforts of the remnant church would be greatly handicapped if not entirely helpless in this day of opportunity. Some years ago, I was asked by a missionary of another denomination if we were having any difficulty in securing young missionaries for our work who are fundamentalists. He went on to say that great perplexity had come to his organization because the new workers coming to them were not teaching the fundamental principles of the church. How thankful I was to be able to tell that fellow-missionary that the young people in our schools were still being taught the fundamental doctrines by teachers who believe the Bible as the word of God and the only safe guide for our young people. The foundation laid for our educational system so many years ago by the servant of God must continue to be the basis of all our educational work. The enemy knows that this is the secret of strength, and we may expect that he will endeavor by every means possible to change the emphasis of our educational system. We must therefore be always on our guard. Within the homes of the 40,000 and more church Education and the third angel's message are members in the Far Eastern Division, there are inseparable. "The influence of these messages has perhaps 20,000 children and youth. They present been .... setting in motion the springs of action to the church the greatest opportunity for soul- ....bringing into existence institutions of learning winning evangelism to be found anywhere. They " Vol. VI, p. 18. Workers must be trained are the most valuable asset of the church. If they quickly. "Our church schools are ordained by God are lost, it will be the most tragic experience to prepare the children for this great work." that can come to our people. C. 7'. p. 176 The church cannot lose the children and youth to the world and still grow in strength and members. Our strongest work is in fields having the strongest Their adherence to the teachings of the church is educational systems. Denominationally trained vital, for it is from these growing youth that the workers are indispensable to a progressive movement. future workers in God's cause must be recruited. The pictures and reports given of the educational They must not only step in to take the place of progress in each Union will show what has been older workers, who in time will lay off the burdens, done, but the greatest picture is of the work yet but thousands more must be added to answer the to be done. Our leaders estimate conservatively calls of a rapidly expanding work. that at least 10,000 Seventh-day Adventist children Safbguarding these lambs of the flock, and in our Division are being denied a Christian training them for willing service, is a duty and a education today. God's providences inspire us to privilege that cannot be delegated to others. It is plan courageously for future expansion which an obligation of individual parents and the church will place every S, D. A. student in a S. D. A. membership as a body. Unitedly, all must share school. As if by a miracle, the Lord has provided in this reponsibility.
September, 1949 FAR EASTERN DI VISION OUTLOOK 3
Through the years, we have built up educational and also opened a school on August 2 with an institutions in the Far Eastern Division which initial enrollment of thirteen. are playing a very important part in our denom- Our brethren in North Sumatra have also caught inational program. These schools today are full the spirit of Christian education and they opened and overflowing. Thousands are enrolled but more a church school the first part of August. They thousands are still attending worldly schools or have also opened a secondary school, thus lining are not in any school. The need for more insti- up with the school in Minahasa, North Celebes. tutions is keenly felt. To meet the need requires With the continuation of our English school much additional space and many more units'. in Bandoeng for the current year, we now have To meet these needs, the call is for a still greater six church schools operating in our Union Mission. sacrifice on. the part of all. Simplicity in all our This beginning, though small, is very heartening plans is necessary in order that facilities may be and with the blessing of the Lord, our children and provided and yet we not become involved in debt. youth can look forward with hope and expectation While the parents, the church, and the schools for a training to fit them for a part in the finishing are to unitedly do their part, we must not lose of the Lord's work in Indonesia. sight of the part the young people themselves are to act. The past is filled with experiences of boys and girls who caught a vision and earnestly Indonesia Union Seminary went to work to improve every opportunity to get an education. "Where there's a will, there's a way." By A. M. BARTLETT We need to hold up before the youth the possibilities, Director, Indonesia Union Seminary and encourage them to attempt great things. Every time a youth has to face a first-class difficulty and The correspondence which we have received masters it, he is made stronger for the next test. indicates that the Adventist youth of the East The opportunities for an education today are better Indies are turning their eyes to the Indonesia than ever before. Let us encourage these young Union Seminary. For the past three months, people to move out by faith. By willingness and letters and applications have been flowing into hard work, a way will open. Gadobangkong from Ambon, Sumatra, Celebes and Let every father and mother, every member, Java. We wish that this report could be written and every worker do all that we can to provide after the opening of the school, the 5th of September, schools, and may we do all we can to assist and but since this cannot be we are very glad to tell encourage every child in the church to strive for of the plans and prospects for the school year, a Christian education. 1949-1950. Indonesia Union Seminary is located on the main highway and railroad leading from Batavia to A Step Forward Bandoeng. It is situated in a beautiful valley, watered the year around by streams and artesians By I. C. SCII.K1DT from the mountains. Bamboo groves, rice sawahs, Educational Secretary, Indonesia Union coconut palms, and banana trees are to be seen growing in luxuriant beauty on every hand. Across "The missionary work in Australia. and New the highway from the school, is a rugged little Zealand is yet in its infancy; but the same work bluff called "Gunung Bohong." This name literally must be accomplished in Australia, New Zealand, means "the lying mountain" but our school is one in Africa, India, China, and the islands of the sea of the beacons of truth even though it is in such .... "—F. E. pp. 208-9. a corrupt neighborhood. Behind our campus one We are happy indeed that the time has arrived can see old "Berungrung Mountain", some ten miles when "the islands of the sea" are swinging into distant. This mountain rises about six thousand line with God's world educational program. five hundred feet above sea level and was cast up Further, we are told by the Spirit of prophecy by an ancient volcano. Just beyond it is the crater that, "We are to follow where God's providence of a living volcano called "Tankuban Praha". We opens the way; and as we advance, we shall find that Heaven has moved before us, enlarging the field for labor far beyond the proportion of our means and ability to supply." F. E. p. 209. These inspired words have met their literal fulfillment "in the islands of the sea" as the following will clearly show. The unusually large overflow received in the 1948 Ingathering campaign, made it possible for our committee to set aside a goodly sum toward educational purposes in the Indonesia Union field. We therefore greatly rejoice that we are now able to report the opening of church schools in various parts of our needy field. On August 1, the first schools were opened in Soerabaja (East Java) and in Palembang (South Sumatra). The former opened with an enrollment of fifteen children, and the school in Palembang began with twenty-five children. Our Semarang, Administration Building — Indonesia Union Java, church received the necessary inspiration Seminary 4 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949 curriculum. In addition to this, a two-year teachers' training course and a two-year ministerial training course, both meeting all of the Junior College requirements, will be conducted. Additional students and a greatly enlarged curriculum has created a need for a larger faculty. This year cur faculty will consist of eight full-time teachers and two student teachers. Mrs. Wortman, who with her husband labored in establishing and conducting the school until the time of the war, is the teacher with the longest period of service on our faculty. Mr. Wortman's valuable services to the cause of God were cut short by his untimely death in a Japanese concentration camp. Mrs. Wortman is the matron, dean of girls, and teaches classes in health and home economics.
Physical Education Class — Indonesia Union Seminary are proud of our Seminary and its beautiful sur- roundings. We think that there probably is no place on earth any nearer like the Garden of Eden than the country around our school. With its delightful climate and unsurpassed beauty, it seems that one should be able to forget all about the cares of life, and the sin and suffering that exist in the world today. Of course this is impossible, but with the Spirit of God directing in our school, and with a feeling of fellowship and cooperation, one can certainly mold his character and become a fit citizen for the kingdom of God. Twenty years ago the Seminary was opened. Its birthplace was about five miles from its present Temporary Buildings Celebes Trail/47w School location. It operated for ten years on the small compound at nit-ninth which is now being used Mr. Mamora is the dean of men and the instruc- for the Voice of Prophecy and workers' homes. tor in Bible and English. About a year ago Mr. Just a few years before the war, in 1939, the school and Mrs. Lloyd Mauldin arrived in Java after flying was moved to its present location which is a larger half-way around the world. Mr. Mauldin imme- piece of property farther away from the city, and diately began his work of teaching Bible and English. where there is room to expand. For several years This year he will he head of the newly organized a boarding school for elementary students and educational department and will be in charge of orphan children was conducted here in one of the the library. Mrs. Mauldin will teach English, dormitories. In connection with this a two-year typing, and biology besides doing the work of the ministerial course was offered, but the Japanese registrar. Mr. W. U. Hutapea is our treasurer and occupation stopped the normal growth and develop- manager of the bookstore which supplies books ment of the school. It was not until August of for the student colporteurs. Many of the students 1948 that the school got its postwar start. About have been able to earn their entire way by selling forty-five students began a ministerial training at our denominational books. His work of teaching that time. This training course consisted of two will be in his favorite field - bookkeeping. The years of intensified Bible and language study. Malayan and Dutch languages will be taught by Now the school is making the advancement and Mr. Wairata, and Far Eastern History will be growth which was interrupted by the war. taught by Mr. Sukidjo. We are glad to have the At the time of this writing, one hundred and help of L. Hogendorp who has had wide experience two students have been accepted for the coming in evangelism and is a good Bible student. He school term. By the time this article appears in will assist the writer in the theological department. print, no doubt school will have begun with an One new building will be added to our campus anticipated enrollment of one hundred and ten in 1949. This will be a new dining room and students which is our maximum capacity. We hope library-study hall combined. This building is to that not too many young people will be disappointed be large enough to comfortably seat 150 students. if we have to refuse admittance because of the For the first month or two of school, we will be lack of space. However, if some are thus dis- operating with very cramped quarters, but with appointed, we wish to encourage them with the the completion of the new building our former prospect of more dormitory space for the following and much too small dining room will be used year. for living quarters for the girls, The school has expanded in many more ways With such fine buildings and a strong faculty, than in an increased enrollment. Whereas formerly I am sure that the Lord will richly bless in the a two-year ministerial course alone was offered, coming school year. It is His purpose that the we are now offering a full middle school (Academic) gospel shall be preached in all the world in this September, 1949 FAR EASTERN DI VISION OUTLOOK 5 generation. This little corner of the world, known locations, it was decided that by deepening and as Indonesia, by the help of God is doing its part enlarging the well, and the supplementary use to supply teachers and ministers necessary to of water tanks for rain water during the rainy meet the challenge of our times and to help complete season, which would reduce pumping expense, the task. the problem could he satisfactorily solved. The original plan called for wooden buildings. Our School in the North Celebes However, after study it seemed advisable to use material which would not be destroyed by fire, By L. R. WINKLER white ants and wood borers. The latter are very Principal, Celebes Training School destructive on the native hard woods usually used Sekolah Pendidikan Sulawesi, which also bears for building purposes. the name Celebes Training School, opened the While cement has been voted for our use, the second year of its history on the 16th of August. problem of foreign exchange limits our orders It is estimated that the total enrollment in the to the States, and with cement selling in the local first two years of wofk will be about 100. The past "daylight" black market for 22 guilders a sack, year, only Class 1 of the Middle School was offered it is readily understandable why we are seeking and each year for the next three years one more other materials. class will be added. This will give us the four In the islands just to the north of Minahasa, the classes of the Middle School which corresponds to people have for generations, in fact they claim for grades 7 - 10 in the American school system. As over a thousand years, made a building material this is strictly a Malay school, and because suitable similar to cement though resembling lime. It is textbooks are not available, our methods of teaching known as reef-lime. It is made by gathering vary widely from those current in our American nigger-head coral, splitting, drying, and burning schools. it and finally adding water to the hot coral. After Our staff at present consists of three national a few days it becomes a white powder quite different families and the writer and his wife. We are from the ordinary lime. however, awaiting the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. After some experiments in adapting the native John Anderson from the China Division. Brother materials to modern methods familiar to builders, Anderson is soon to join our staff as industrial L. J. Norris, president of the local mission, who man in the shop and in our building program. was a builder in the Sates and in the Middle East, E. B. Matahari, our school treasurer, who is from the islands mentioned and familiar with the native material, and the writer, have succeeded in making a very durable cement brick without using cement. It is the plan to begin very soon a small test building of the material. While we regret the delay in the building of permanent structures, we feel that the Lord has led in the matter and that the result in the end will be much better structures at lower costs and that require a minimum of materials not available here. We, the faculty of the Celebes Training School, feel that a great and important work lies before us which with the help and blessing of the Lord will greatly strengthen the work in this educa- tionally-neglected part of the world field.
Interior View — Celebes Training School We have plans for both Brother and Sister Ander- son as members of our teaching staff when they have mastered the language. Due to the uncertainty of the water situation on the present school site, no buildings of a permanent nature have as yet been built. Temporary bamboo structures have served well and they have made possible a school which has not gone un- noticed in our local educational field. Another local school obtained the dictated notes used in some of our classes and these were in turn dictated to the students of that school. While bamboo may do well for temporary use, there always comes a time when the temporary must give way to the more permanent structures. As mentioned above, our building program has been delayed due to the uncertainty of the water supply in our present location. However, after Student Body 1948-49 — North Celebes Training thorough study of the situation and alternative School FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949
is doing excellent work in carrying the responsi- Home Commission Meetings in bility of the Home Commission work in the Indo- Indonesia nesia Union. Her ability to speak Malay, Dutch, and English was a great help in the conducting By Mrs. V. T. ARMSTliONG of these meetings. We shall be awaiting the good reports that will be coming in from the Celebes Division Home Commission Secretary as they go forward with plans for active work in these many churches. In May and June, it was my privilege to make It was my privilege to attend the mission; an extended trip to the Celebes in company with Mrs. session of the Ambon Mission held in Ambon I. C. Schmidt, Home Commission secretary of the the latter part of June. During the week spent Indonesia Union, in the interest of the Home there, two and sometimes three meetings a day Commission work. We began our itinerary at were conducted relative to the various phases Makassar where we held our first conventior.,. of the home. These meetings were much enjoyed The attendance was very good and we found an by our members for this was their first opportunity active society already organized and carrying on since before the war to have help in the work of work. the Home Commission. From there we went to the North Celebes where Delegates to the conference came in from a conventions were conducted in Tondano, Langoan, number of other islands and all of their ten Perapei, Menado, Ratahan, Sonder, Amurang, and churches were well represented. Plans were laid Tumaluntang. These churches are centrally located to begin active work in all of these churches. The in sections where other churches could avail them- leaders chosen went home full of enthusiasm to selves of the benefits of these meetings so in each carry on active plans to help our people in their place there were many delegates present from homes. a number of other churches. A large number of believers attended. For the most part, these conventions lasted three Japan Junior College days and we therefore had opportunity to have By W. W. KONZACK a number of meetings each day. At the close of each convention, societies were formed in the President, Japan Junior College various outlying churches so that systematic study Japan Junior College is the training school for can be conducted in the various subjects pertaining Japan's youth who are seeking a place in God s to the home. A committee composed of Mrs. work. The Japanese name, Nihon San-iku Gakuin, L. R. Winkler, Mrs. L, C. Norris, Mrs. Andol, carefully selected by the founders of the school, Mrs. Walando, and Mrs. Laloan was appointed heralds to the public our three-fold educational to foster the work in these societies. philosophy: the training of the head, heart, and We were also privileged to meet with our brethren the hand for God and for man. in the North Celebes Mission Session, and time Before the war, a girls' school was located on was given for meetings on the home. R. S. Watts our mission compound in Tokyo, and a boys' school and I. C. Schmidt conducted a workers' institute was conducted on a beautiful country site fifty prior to the mission session, and the last two days miles out from Tokyo on the Chiba Peninsula. of the meeting were turned over to Home Com- Since the war, the two schools have been combined mission work and to a study of plans for carrying on the Chiba campus. The school has been organized forward active work in our many churches in to follow the present educational pattern in Japan, that section. and we now operate accredited junior and senior The time spent in the Celebes was a very high school departments, and a junior college depart- pleasant and profitable season. Mrs. 1. C. Sdimidt ment for the training of workers.
110ME COMMISSION INSTITUTE
North Celebes Menado
September, 1949 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK 7
JAPAN JUNIOR COLLEGE
Faculty and
Student Soft
1948 - 49
A few interesting statistics show graphically the staff and facilities, we are able to accept only those advances made in the school since the war, because who are determined Sabbathkeepers. This brings of a new day of opportunity for Christianity and us to another interesting fact about our postwar student body. The precentage of baptized students ENROLLMENT in the school is much larger than in prewar years. mm mm AM m ra Ed a u" Figures for the present year are not yet available / 0 / ' 30 ' ' 60' / 90 / /120! /150 for the school year ends in March, 1950. The 1937 ! 1,0. i;%.* "W. (112) 1948 percentage would be higher but the ten per cent not baptized were students in the Junior 1947 ! MN (30) High School and they were too young for baptism.
1948 ! 44::P:.;44o-4.4.44 44. (117) PRECENTAGE OF STUDENT BODY BAPTIZED .:ozn- 1949 ! K-V„v ,ONTS* (152) 0 ! 10 ! 20 ! 30 ! 40 ! 50 ! 60 ! 70 ! 80 ! 90' ! M MMMMMMMMM MN MMMMMMMMMM rrrrrrr ■ r®a®aamrrrrn®®ar®®rq 1940 44:: WA =A= it._ Christian education. The prewar figures (the largest year has been taken for comparison) are as accurate 1947 aO.O 4-* 0410 as available from the depleted records of the two schools, 1948 ! ■ From the enrollment graph you will see that the ere®rrrrr rrr MMMMMM IMMOMMUUMM2MMMMMMOMMOWOMMM UMNIX postwar student body is already much larger than This reflects the good spiritual tone that exists the largest year in prewar Japan. The student in Japan. Our prewar missionaries have noted body would be much larger than it is, but we the changed spiritual tone of the student body. are so limited for facilities that we are unable When Elder P. H. Eldridge conducted our Week to accept many of the students who would like of Prayer in the early part of 1948, a real Pentecost to be in the school. was experienced; every teacher and student sur- Of the 152 students enrolled at the opening of rendering and reconsecrating his life to God. Later the 1949-50 school year, 38 are in the Junior High when Elder F. R. Millard conducted a Week of School, 76 in the Senior High School, and 38 are Prayer, the same experiences re-occurred and every enrolled as college or special students. This older student dedicated his life for service as well. group of students is a very interesting and promis- Thus a large precentage of students are going ing group. Most of them are mature young people from the school into the organized work. Five who have completed their college or advanced of our thirty students in 1947 were employed by education in other schools. They have been converted our denomination in Japan. Twenty of our students to Christianity and are giving their lives to the in 1948 were employed, and we expect even more cause of God. They have come to us for a from the 1949 class. In addition, many of the rapid training so that they can enter quickly young men and women are going back to their the Lord's work. own churches to carry heavy responsibilities and In prewar days, it was necessary to solicit leadership in lay evangelistic activities. students for the school. but now it is necessary Not only is our student body an encouraging instead to turn down most of the applicants who and interesting group, but our faculty as well desire to enter the school. Because of our limited is a source of real encouragement to our work in 8 FAR EASTERN D IVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949
Japan. The staff now includes twenty-two full our Theological Seminary, and in some of the time and eight part-time teachers. Elder B. P. universities, thus bringing to our school excellent Hoffman, veteran missionary in Japan and professor been in attendance. of Bible at our Seminary in Washington, D. C., has been teaching in the school for some time, and he has made a real contribution. Brother Donald Lee, head of our Bible department, has done excellent work in the training of ministerial students. We regret that we are losing Brother Lee to Korea. The dean of the school is Elder Toshio Yamagata, a Christian gentleman. He holds graduate degrees from the Tokyo Imperial University and is highly respected by the students, teachers, and the entire field. We have been fortunate in securing a number of teachers who seem to be specifically prepared for our needs. Mr. Tamura, our treasurer, is a ma a with years of successful experience as a commercial teacher and personnel manager of a large industry, and he was converted to Christianity at a crucial time to supply one of our real needs at the school. Miss Kato was selected by the Lord, it seems, Ministerial Students of Japan Junior College with for the special work of training our church school the Posters They Made to Advertise the Effort in teachers, as her heart was given to God at the Kisarazu close of the war, after having had valuable education and experience in the training of teachers. The We are pleased to have well-qualified teachers, same might be said of many of our other teachers. but the needs of the school demand even more of Three of our Japanese teachers have spent ten this type of teachers than we have. The Japanese or more years in America studying in our colleges, are a race of highly educated people, and our ministerial students need more than just junior college training. Our church school teachers must have senior college training to meet state re- quirements. We need more teachers of the kind that we have. We are grateful to God for the blessings which we see in our student body and our faculty. Immediately upon coming Ito the campus, you will find a note of courage, of en- thusiasm, of a pioneering spirit, and a determination to meet the mighty challenge of taking the Gospel to the eighty million Japanese. Pray for our Bible studies each week. Student Evangelism at Japan Junior College
Bible Instructor, Japan Junior College By DONALD LEE
During the months of October and November of last year, the class in evangelism of Japan Junior College conducted a series of sixteen meetings in the nearby city of Kisarazu. The largest public hall in town, accommodating 125, was secured. Very favorable contacts were made with the city officials in securing the hall, and the mayor of the city was among those who attended on the opening night. The average attendance for the series was between seventy and seventy-five persons. Two hundred enrollments were received for the Japanese Voice of Prophecy Correspondence Course. At the close of the meetings, 87 individuals were being given school in Japan. On November 13, 1948, the first regularly conducted Sabbath school and church services were held in a rented hall on Sabbath morning. Twenty-two Last Years's Ministerial Students of Japan Junior non-Adventists attended. Each Sabbath morning College and Now Employed by the North and /South since then, a goodly group of interested persons have Japan Mission. educational qualifications. September, 1949 FAR EASTERN DI VISION OUTLOOK 9 March 19, 1949, was a day for great rejoicing. From the Mindanao Mission Academy come 234 Elder F. R. Millard organized a church with 18 students. The Philippine Union College Academy charter members — 8 by letter and 10 on profession presents 282 students. The largest school, West of faith, pending their baptism in the afternoon. Visayan Academy, presents 313 students, an in- Tears of joy were shed as these ten candidates crease over last year of 142. The academy students were buried in the watery grave. A month later, total 1,313, which is 216 more than last year's four more were baptized, making a total membership enrollment. of twenty-two for the Kisarazu church. Fourteen As the approximately 8000 students pass, we of those baptized were the direct result of the thank God for His blessings upon our work. We efforts of the young people of the college. thank Him for the 106 academy students and 238 The total cost of the effort was about 20,000 yen church school pupils baptized last year, and for or $70 U. S. During the first five weeks after the the 47 souls won to the truth through the branch Sabbath services were begun, a total of 6,736.60 Sabbath schools and cottage meetings conducted yen was given in offerings. Since the recent by our academy students. We solicit the prayers of baptisms and the organization of the church, the all that the schools may do even more to save offerings and tithe have steadily increased. This our children and train them for service. indicates that the new believers are willing to give of their means that others may share in the same blessings that they have experienced. Is God Calling You to be a T.O.T.
Today there should be hundreds of these efforts By NELLIE FEE progress in Japan. The cost of each effort is in Philippine Union extremely small in comparison with the returns Principal, Elementary School, • College gained in baptisms and interested persons. Now is the great day of opportunity in Japan. In the newspapers of today, we read a great deal about WHO and UNESCO and others. But Parade of Philippine Schools have you heard of TOT? Just perchance you have not, I should like to introduce you to our "Teachers of Tomorrow." We have a fine group of them By A. M. RAGSDALE here at P. U. C. this year preparing for that "nicest Educational Secretary, Philippine Union work ever assumed by man;" —the work— "than which nothing is more important." We are told Here they come! Headed by the eight MiSS103 that these members should be selected as carefully educational superintendents, the parade begins with as those for the ministry. 2,000 first-graders. During the hour and a half required for them to pass five abreast, we are constrained to wish that we could provide pre- primers, primers, and other necessary materials wherever they are lacking. Some are from well- equipped schools. Many come from one-room nipa and bamboo buildings with earthen or sand floors, home-made desks, and painted galvanized iron blackboards. It takeS neia,rly three hours more for the 1,300 second-graders, 1300 children from the third grade, 1050 fourth-graders, 600 fifth-graders, and 300 sixth grade pupils to pass. The blessing of God seems to be upon them, for He honors those who obey His instruction though it means a real sacrifice. But it does not seem to be a sacrifice when 238 of the older children are baptized and added to the church in one school year. We regret that the number of fifth and sixth- graders is not as large as the other groups because most of our church schools have no government permit for the fifth and sixth grades. Every teacher for these grades must be a normal graduate, and only about 40 of the 210 church school teachers have reached this attainment. We are looking for more graduates year by year who are qualified to teach in these schools Now come the academy students. Two church- operated junior academies, Polillo and Agdangan present 37 and 28 students respectively. These are new schools, opened by faith, sacrifice and persistence. The mission academies come in order according to size. Here are 69 students from North- east Luzon Academy, 143 from East Visayan Miss Nellie Ferree — Principal, Elementary School, Academy, and 207 from Northern Luzon Academy. Philippine Union College 10 FAR EASTERN DI VISION OUTLOOK September, 1949 At the present time, only a small proportion One of the big objectives of our TOT is to of our elementary teachers are Elementary Training interest other consecrated, talented youth in this Course graduates. Everyone of them should be. important work. Dear young people, we invite If we continue to operate government recognized You to join the present members of this organization, schools, we must have qualified teachers. Recently and with them prepare to have a part in the most a mission president came to me quite distressed fruitful evangelistic field to be found anywhere. because the Bureau was not accepting the present faculty in two of their larger schools, Why? Because they are not E. T. C. graduates. Then Is God's Pattern Global to meet God's standards, they must be graduates from our own Christian schools. By ANDREW N. NELSON President, Philippine Union College What are we going to do? Shall we close these schools and send our boys and girls out into In the quiet of my vacation in the pine-clad the world? No! A thousand times, No! We can- hills of Baguio, I have reread those three wonder- not. We dare not. Now is the time to put forth ful books on our program of Christian education,— the effort to save them—not after they have °gone Education, Counsels, and Fundamentals, It was beyond our control. How can we expect them a thrilling experience to reread my old underlinings to serve the Lord if we educate them to serve the and also to underline newly discovered principles world. and practices which we should incorporate into I am sure that there must be many earnest our schools. young people in this great island field who would This time I read these books against the back- like to join our present group of "Teachers of ground of my educational experience in four diverse Tomorrow" so that we will not have to close any countries: America, Japan, China, and the Philip- of our schools. I can think of no greater calamity pines. I was struck with the truly global or that could befall us as a denomination. Our international pattern of the program of education schools hold the key to the success of our world- presented to us. It may be that in different lands wide work. The elementary school is the foundation the number of years devoted to formal education of the whole educational structure. and their grouping may differ, as for example, Perhaps there are young people now who are trying 6-3-3-4; 6-5-3-3; 6-4-4; 6-5-4; etc., but the great to decide just how and where they may serve essentials of the program are the same in any the Lord most effectively. To every thinking,, land. To illustrate: conscientious, Christian young person, this question 1. We find an emphasis on the importance presents itself again and again until it is settled. of thoroughness and the teaching of the common To a large extent one's choice is going to be branches well. Surely this is of world-wide dependent upon his talents. If one should decide application. to be 'a lawyer or a mechanic, he would do the 2. We are told that our schools should be work of one individual. If one decides to be a located in the beautiful rural areas away from teacher, his talents are multiplied. Every evangel- the contamination of the cities. There is no ist, each mission president and secretary, every reason why this principle should not be followed loyal lay member represents the work of some in all lands. For our youth everywhere are teacher. The leaders of tomorrow are in the equally susceptible to either the demoralizing schools of today. Someone will have the joy and influence of the big cities or the purifying, satisfaction of teaching them. Will that someone ennobling influences of a beautiful, rural location, be YOU? as the case may be.
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Philippine Union College
FAMINE RELIEF OFFERING, NOVEMBER 5, 1949. September, 1949 FAR. EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK 11
PHILIPPINE UNION COLLEGE STUDENTS
Enrolled in Extension Division at Mindanao
3. We are urged to establish industries in applicable principles of Christian education. Let our schools and give every student, rich or poor, us ask ourselves questions such as these: the experience of engaging in real, remunerative a. Is our school located in the quiet of a work. In one country where we were establish- pure, rural atmosphere in the midst of Nature's ing a school along the lines of the Testimonies beauties, or is it in the contaminated atmosphere on education, we were told that "while American of a city? youth do not 'mind engaging in practical manual b. Are we making first things first? work, you can't get the young people of this c. Are we stressing character development? country to do that." But we went ahead anyway, d. Is our classroom teaching thorough or with the teachers working with the students and superficial? leading out in printing, carpentry, canning, and e. Are we carrying on a sufficient number other industries. The result was that the of agricultural, mechanical, and service industries students enjoyed working as much as studying. to give practical, remunerative work to all In fact, in that school for years and years, every students? single student, rich or poor, engaged in the work f. Are all our teachers working with the program. The work-study plan is definitely students in school industries? applicable everywhere. g. Is our school steadily growing to take 4. No one takes exception to the world-wide care of the ever-increasing number of Adventist nature of our objectives, namely, to give a youth? Christian education to all our Adventist youth, b. Are we stressing evangelism? and to train them all for Christian service. i. Are we preparing our youth for service 5. As I reread these good books on Christian here on earth and also for the long life of the education, I made a note of the specific courses hereafter? to be taught and found them also to be of universal importance. Grouped, these courses are Philippine Union College News as follows: Bible and evangelism, science, history, languages, music, accounting and management, By IRENE WAKEHAM home economics, trades, nursing and health, Head of the Department of English, Philippine personality and character development, missions, Union College pedagogy, speech, literature, etc. Although there has been a steady growth in the 6. We are told that the daily program should enrollment of the Philippine Union College since provide time for both work and study, a very the war, the percentage of increase this year sensible program indeed to insure a practical exceeds anything previously experienced. With 60 education and to safeguard health in all lands. per cent more students this year than last year, every facility of the college plant and the entire All the way through my review of these outstand- college staff is being taxed to the limit to ing books on education, I was impressed with accommodate the splendid group of 338 college young their intensely practical principles and the fact people. that these principles are of global application. A comparison of the opening reports for recent I therefore feel that we as Far Eastern educators years gives the following encouraging information. should take stock of our schools as they are now There are always a few students who enter late, running, and then take steps to bring them into perhaps at the second semester or a later quarter; line with these most excellent and universally but for purposes of comparison the opening reports, FAMINE RELIEF OFFERING, NOVEMBER 5, 1949. 12 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949
Philippine Union College Extension Division
compiled two or three weeks after the beginning of the world to prepare for a place in the work of of school, give a fair basis. God.
Date Number of Percentage of All the different lines of work are well represented College Students Increase 'over in the enrollment. About 50 are in different stages Preceding Year of the Ministerial and Bible Worker's curricula. July, 1946 134 More than 75 are taking the course leading to July, 1947 181 35% the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education. July, 1948 211 17% Approximately 45 are enrolled in the different July, 1949 338 60% commercial courses. Nearly 40 are preparing for the nurses' course, while another dozen are graduate It is also interesting to note that in the three- nurses taking advanced work. The premedical and year period the increase has been a little more than scientific courses account for another 45. The 150%. Although this large enrollment adds heavi- two-year normal course is richly blessed with a ly to the burdens of the administration and of the group of more than 50 in the first year, and another teaching staff, all are deeply grateful that so 20 who will finish this year. A few are special many young people have turned from the schools students, or as yet undecided.
WEST VISAYAN
ACADEMY September, 1949 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK 13 Because of the large elementary enrollment, a many are continuing their training, either at the combined fifth and sixth grade room had to be commission: added, giving additional opportunities for practical experience to normal students. With 275 academy students (as against last year's 229), it is no Field Nursing longer possible to hold joint services in the chapel. Its Part in Carrying the Gospel in the For this reason, and also to develop leadership in the academy students, separate vesper services, Far East Sabbath school, and Missionary Volunteer services are held for the academy group. Then for the By PHYLLIS NAL-DE, R. N. sake of unity both college and academy students Head of the Department of Nursing Education join in the gymnasium for church services. A Philippine Union College junior church service is held for the upper elemen- tary and lower academy group, also meetings Friday A new day dawned in the history of Christian evening and Sabbath afternoon. This large academy education in the Far Eastern Division - when Philip- group also furnishes excellent experience for the pine T:,`lii011 College in its postwar program admitted future teachers now in training at the college, The a new member to the college campus, the Department secondary teacher-training program is under the of Nursing Education. While it is still in the efficient direction of the newly-elected academy developmental period, yet the signs of its growth principal, Professor Reuben Manalaysay. are evident. In the first semester of the present school year, 34 young people enrolled in the Since the P. U. C. dormitory population increased prenursing course and 12 graduate nurses in the to about 180, many new double-deck bunk beds had advanced course, Encouraging as this progress may to be added. The college shop furnished the 135 seem to be, there is one thing infinitely more signifi- new classroom desks needed to accommodate the cant. The college gave recognition to a very im- extra classes. A new school-owned motion picture portant group of medical missionary workers, the projector has already been put to use in furnishing field nurses. A special course of study was provided worth-while Saturday night entertainment. A new for them to meet their own particular need. This complete set of Bible and history maps add materially service." — C. T., p. 471. to the efficiency of those two departments. The addition of a school dentist, Dr. Vicente Tamayo, "The cause of God today would have been far in advance of what it is, had we in former years to the staff has improved the growing health service department. been more active in the training of nurses who, in addition to their acquirement of more than In addition to the group at P. U. C, in Manila, ordinary skill in the care of the sick, had also about _60 college students have registered at P. U. C. learned to labor as evangelists in soul-winning in Mindanao. Official delays in making the neces- is in harmony with the statement: sary arrangements for starting a new school un- Field nursing is a heaven appointed task. It doubtedly kept this number lower than it would finds its fullest expression when Jesus sent out otherwise have been; but with the limited teaching His twelve disciples and later the seventy with the staff available, a group of this size can be given a college or in various medical lines. high standard of instruction. "As ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven Of the 56 members of the College Senior class is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, of 1949, 29 have already been employed in some raise the dead, cast out devils; freely ye have re- line of denominational endeavor. Of Me rent, ceived, freely give." — Luke 9:2; 10:6; Matt.
NOT:V[1ERN LUZON
-AI ACADEMY JO: 14 FAR EASTERN D IVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949 As the disciples fulfilled the commission of the needs is the only avenue by which they can be Lord, their message "became the power of God approached." — C. H. p. 388. unto salvation, and through their efforts many "There are souls in many places who have not were brought to a knowledge of the Messiah." heard the message. Henceforth medical missionary We read that, work is to be carried forward with an earnestness "In their work of teaching and healing, the with with it has never been carried." — Ibid., p.392. disciples followed the example of the Master Teacher, "Those who engage in house-to-house labor will who ministered to both soul and body. The gospel find opportunities for ministry in many lines. which He taught was a message of spiritual life They should pray for the sick, and should do all and physical restoration. Deliverance from sin and in their power to relieve them from suffering. They the healing of disease were linked together." should work among the lowly, poor, and the --C. T. p. 465. oppressed.... Not only are the field nurses to be trained as "Missionary nurses are best qualified for this evangelists; but also as teachers, and personal work; but others should be connected with them." workers, as some of the following excerpts will —Ibid., p. 391. show: The college with its well-prepared faculty and "Thousands need and would gladly receive in- facilities has a very decided responsibility in the struction concerning the simple methods of treating Preparation of this important body of workers— the sick—methods that are taking the place of the the field nurses. It is clearly brought out in these use of poisonous drugs. There is great need of words: instruction in regard to dietetic reform."— C. H. "Let the medical missionary and the educational p. 389. work go forward. I am sure that this is our great lack—earnest, devoted, intelligent, capable workers." "Never has the world's need for teaching and —Ibid., p. 393. healing been greater than it is today."— C. T., The need for an army of medical missionary p. 467. workers well-organized, well-prepared, consecrated, Let us notice what the messenger of the Lord devout, and earnest, is great. All around us are has to say about personal work. souls steeped in superstition and fear, and ignorance. "In almost every community there are large "Many have no faith in God and have lost cofidence numbers who will not listen to the teaching of in man. But they appreciate acts of sympathy God's word or attend any religious service. If and helpfulness." these are reached by the gospel, it must be carried The college in cooperation with the medical to their homes. Often the relief of their physical institution can develop a standardized course of Study for field nurses and other workers interested in medical missionary work. Space does not permit to show what the Lord has instructed regarding the knowledge and preparation of canvassers and gospel workers in medical missionary work and their responsibility in the dissemination of such knowledge. The field nurses can receive education in evangelism, methods and principles of teaching, maternal and child care, in nutrition and in simple tests for blood and urine that will be a help to them as they labor in remote villages and barrios where there are no available medical facilities. In the Far Eastern Division, medical facilities are concentrated largely in the cities and larger towns. The people living in the hills, in isolated places, and in the barrios have little or no medical help for many miles around. Then there are places that would not permit any other gospel worker to labor, but would admit a medical worker. These are the people who must also be reached with the gospel story. The Lord's commission is: "Let little companies go forth to do the work to which Christ appointed His disciples. Let them labor as evangelists, scattering our publications, and talking of the truth to those they meet. Let them pray for the sick, ministering to their neces- sities, not with drugs, but with nature's remedies, and teaching them how to regain health and avoid disease." — C. H. p. 397. "I know that there should be workers who make medical tours among the towns and villages." —Ibid., p. 397. East Visayan Academy — Medical Cadet Corps "Let us remember that we bear a message of Members Taking Census of Fire Victims in Co- healing to a world filled with sin-sick souls. May operation with the Red Cross at the Time of the the Lord increase our faith, and help us to see Recent Fire in the City of Cebu that He desires us all to become acquainted with September. 1949 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK 15 His ministry of healing and with the mercy seat. r_Ell!nef 1 He desires the light of His grace to shine forth from many places."—Ibid., p. 392. May the Lord help us to do our part in the preparation of this important group of medical missionaries, the field nurses, in the finishing of His work in the Far Eastern Division. * This article was received too late to be included with the Medical Nu.mber and hence we are including it here in the special Educational Number. A Problem Solved
"Professor Santos, I feel so discouraged. wonder if I really ought to try to teach." Miss Velasco looked earnestly into the face of her educational superintendent as they sat in counsel Sabah Training School — Taniparuli, North Borneo after the school had closed. from one: 'Tendency to confuse symbols is charac- "You must have noticed the first grade reading teristic of mental ages below six years, and is class today. Some of the children are doing well, usually eliminated in mental ages above seven.' but several of them just can't seem to learn. Another reports, 'The later the entrance to the If I can teach some, why can't they all learn? first grade the better the personal adjustment to They seem to be intelligent all right, but they the entire school program.' Still another declares: seem to be unable to learn to read." `By postponing the teaching of reading until "How old are these children?" the superintendent children reach a mental age of six years and a asked. half, teachers can greatly decrease the chances of "Well, some are a little young," the teacher failure and discouragement and can correspondingly replied. "You see the parents urge me, and it is increase their efficiency.' " hard to refuse. Only one is under six, but as "Why, that reminds me of a Spirit of prophecy I think of it now, the poor readers are mostly statement we learned at the College. Do you the younger children in the class." remember the reference, Professor Santos?" "There is a reason for this," Professor Santos "Yes, it's in Counsels to Teachers, p. 79. Here, began, "You see we make adjustments in school I have it copied in my notebook. 'Parents should for the age of the pupils. Pencils for first-graders be the only teachers of their children until they are bigger around. The spaces between lines on have reached eight or ten years of age.' This, their writing paper are wider, because the children of course, does not mean that parents should teach have not learned to adapt their muscle control them to read and to add." to small work. The type of print in their reading "I am sure that if our parents could have been books is larger because their eyes are not able with us here this afternoon they would not want to focus on small print. That is why some of their children to start school too early. I think your children hold their books too close to their I can explain this so that the parents will cooperate," faces." Miss Velasco declared with confidence. Miss Velasco asked a question: "What is the best By A. M. RAGSDALE age for beginning reading; that is, how can I know when children are too young to attend school?" Church Schools Needed Professor Santos reached for his brief case, By L. C. Wit.cox "Some authoritative educators have made scientif- Educational Secretary, Malayan Union ic studies of the problem. Here is a statement There is a growing conviction in the minds of many throughout the Malayan Union Mission that Christian Education is a powerful agency in the training and saving of Seventh-day Adventist youth. The primary school is an important part of the educational program given to us through the Lord's messenger. In these schools children are to receive more than mental discipline. Under the instruction and guidance of consecrated Seventh- day Adventist teachers, children are to be taught of God. Character development and Christian ex- perience are to keep pace with mental growth, for church schools are to be an evangelizing influence in their communities. We are told that "when rightly conducted, church schools will be the means of lifting the standard of truth in the places where they are established; for children who are receiving } a Christian education will be witnesses for Christ." "As the children sang in the temple courts, 'Hosanna!', Lanchczng Village School tin Sarawak Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord, 16 FAR EASTERN D IVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949 so in these last days children's voices will be can we expect to see large fruitage resulting from raised to give the last message of warning to a Christian education, but as we attain to the pattern, perishing world we will not fail to receive the promised blessing. "Our church schools are ordained by God to The duty we owe our children and youth is clear. prepare the children for this great work. Here children are to be instructed in the special truths The Malayan Union Seminary for this time, and in practical missionary work .... Then let the church carry a burden for the lambs By L, C. Wmeox of the flock. Let the children be educated and Acting Principal, Malayan, Union, Seminary trained to do service for God, for they are the Lords heritage." Test. vol. 6, pp. 202, 203. The Malayan Union Seminary, in an endeavor Much encouragement and instruction are given to measure up to the purpose of its founding, us in the Spirit of prophecy regarding the duty is extending its course of study, and enriching of the church to conduct church schools. Large its work in the secondary field. More Biblr,:k blessings will accrue to the church, the home, and World History, Vocational Training, Typing, and to the work of the Lord, when these instructions National Language, are being given a place in the are faithfully followed. Church leaders and Chris- new curriculum for students in the secondary tian parents should give Careful study to the classes. Two two—year courses are being prepared writings of the Spirit of prophecy on this matter, for students who definitely plan to enter denomi- for neglect of duty always brings loss, and especially national work. This work will be of college level, in these days when evil influences are everywhere one course for ministerial students, and the other seeking to make inroads into the ranks of God s for prospective teachers. The normal classes will commandment-keeping people. open in January, 1950, but the work for the Expensive? Yes and no. It will take money to ministerial students will be offered at the opening give our children a training in our own schools, of the third term this year, September 12. The that is true. But if the cause of God is advanced, following subjects make up this term's work: and our children are saved for the kingdom of Church Organization, Evangelism, Christian Home heaven as a result, who can say that the enterprise Making, Denominational Bookkeeping and Principles is not cheap enough! It is not too much to expect of Christian Education. We believe the plans for that every Seventh-day Adventist child shall be this advanced work will contribute much toward given the advantage of a Seventh-day Adventist the building up of a needed corps of young men education. This should be our goal. and women to strengthen our evangelistic and At the present time we have enrolled in the educational lines of endeavor. Malayan Union Mission 2005 students in all grades. The Seminary has a record enrollment of 566 Of these 1623 are in the primary grades. By students this year, of whom 94 are registered as missions the enrollments are as follows: residents of the dormitories. The Senior Cambridge Class, with an enrollment of 36 students, is also Indo-China 244 Malay States 755 1 North Borneo 82 Sarawak 209 Siam 333 The Teh Sin School at Kuala Lumpur, reports the baptism of 23 students in 1948 and the first half cf 1949. We are glad for this result from the school and we expect larger results by the end of the present school year. We are not so much interested in large enrollments as in the quality of the work we do in our schools. It shall be our -constant aim to work and plan to attain to the exceedingly high standard set before us by the Lord. Only as we approximate this goal
Malayan Union Seminary Faculty the largest in the history of the Seminary so far as we can learn from available records. Thirteen students were baptized during the 1948 term and seven have been baptized thus far in 1949. The new cafeteria building was erected last year tram Ingathering funds, a part of which was raised by the students and teachers of the Seminary. This building is being used now though it is not fully equipped. From this year's Ingathering money, it is planned to complete the cafeteria equipment, and to build a much needed Vocational Arts Building which will house the woodwork shop and provide space for the vocational training Indo-China Seminary classes. The woodwork shop is keeping a crew September, 1949 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK 17 of students busy turning out quality school furniture. The Seminary is becoming increasingly popular with its business friends and the educational department through the work of the shop. We understand that this is the only school in Singapore equipped to offer vocational training classes. The Board of Management and the Seminary Staff are united in the consecrated desire to see this institution measure up to the highest standards of Christian Education. To the youth of the Malayan Union Mission we would say in the words of the Spirit of prophecy you "should not let slip even one opportunity of qualifying yourselves intellectu- ally to work for God."
Malayan Union Seminary Woodshop
trial and agricultural parts of the country, but it also cut off the northern half where our educational work had been developing in Soonan since about 1908. The beginning made in educational work in the Seoul area before the war was found to be entirely too small to meet the demands of the Advent youth who were clamoring for a Christian education. While looking for an adequate place to locate our Junior College and Middle School, we were guided by the principles given us by the servant of the Lord, such as: Demonstration Table in Science Classroom, Malayan "Never can the proper education be given to the Union Seminary a Product of the Woodshop youth in this country, or any other country, unless they are separated a wide distance from the cities." Korean Junior College Location — F. E. p. 312. "We shall find it necessary to establish our By JAMES M. LEE schools out of, and away from, the cities, and yet Principal, Korean Junior College not so far away that they cannot be in touch with them, to do them good, to let light shine amid Not only did the cessation of hostilities in Korea the moral darkness." Ibid., P. 313. in August of 1945 drop the "Iron Curtain" across After several unsuccessful attempts to get what the center of the peninsula, thus dividing the Indus- we thought would be a suitable location, we were
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Seoul, Korea 18 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949 led to purchase over 200 acres of wooded hill and I valley land belonging to the former royal family of Korea, located about six miles from our Union Mission headquarters and Sanitarium. Being tomb- land, it had been .uninhabited for over 300 years. The area includes a complete watershed, thus making it possible for us to protect our own water supply. The natural terrain is so arranged that several small valleys open toward one central spot. Each of these valleys is being used to locate the Korean teachers' homes, the garden and orchard, the industrial building with its accompanying dairy barn and chicken house, the boys' and girls' dormitories and the administration building, the three homes for the American faculty, and a first- class granite stone quarry. Work was started early in 1948 on the quarry and the industrial building, after a mile and a half of road had been made into the area. Over twenty acres of land were put under cultivation this spring, and the produce is being purchased by the State Mukko, Korea, Primary School Department commissary. Construction on the ten Korean teachers' homes is almost completed, and The Korean Union Training School the girls' and boys' dormitories are well under way. We expect that construction will be far enough The Korean Union Training School which is along for us to be able to move our student being conducted in Seoul is the successor to the body of over 400 to the new location this fall. training school which was operated for over thirty The students and faculty have been looking forward years in Soonan, most of that time under the leader- to this move for two years. At the Sam Yuk Dong ship of Howard M. Lee. This school will be (Threefold Education Village), taken from the incorporated into the Korean Junior College which name of the school, which is Threefold Education is now in the process of construction, as reported Junior College, we are looking forward to having in an accompanying article. a "school apart from the cities, where the eye On July 21, 1949, 59 students finished the third- will not rest continually upon the dwellings of year course and 35 completed the fourth year. men, but upon the works of God; where there The fifth year will be offered this fall. shall be places of interest for them to visit, other The enrollment for the year just closed was than what the city affords. Let our students be 273. These young people had gathered from all placed where nature can speak to the senses, and parts of Korea to receive the only Adventist middle in her voice they may hear the voice of God. school education available. Many of them had Let them be where they can look upon His wondrous come from north of the 38th parallel under great works, and through nature behold her Creator.' danger and hardship. F. E. p. 320. One of the outstanding events of the year was the Week of Prayer conducted last fall by the writer and Y. S. Oh, the assistant principal of "One great object of our schools is the training the school. Many young people took their stand for of youth to engage in service in our institutions the truth and a baptismal class was organized and in different lines of gospel work." which resulted in the baptism of 44. Many of — Testimonies, Vol. VI, p. 133. these had taken their stand for the truth under great persecution. This spring the student body was divided into three groups which went out to the adjacent villages and conducted two-week evangelistic efforts. This has resulted in the establishment of three groups who are now keeping the Sabbath and preparing for baptism. This fall the middle school students and the junior ministerial students will be studying under one roof. To have these two institutions in one place will be a great blessing. For the past two years, we have been conducting the middle school in one place and,the ministerial training class at the headquarters. The construction work for the Junior College has been going on at the third place. We hope our efforts will soon cease to be so scattered. One of the "great problems of the educational work in Korea is the lack of qualified teachers. Korean Union Training School — Faculty and 1949 However, it has been most encouraging to see that Graduates as different teachers have been required the Lord September, 1949 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK 19 has been leading new converts into the truth who have a long background of Christian belief and have had teaching experience. Although they have not been trained in our own schools, yet their Christian training is proving of great value as they unite their "first love zeal" with those who have long been in the truth. We are looking for- ward to the day when the students who are now in preparation at the Philippine Union College will return to us and unite their efforts for the upbuilding of a strong educational work in this field. By JAMES M. LEE
North Sumatra Secondary School In the article by I. C. Schmidt on page three, we find reference to a church school and a second- ary school having been opened in North Sumatra. Korea Junior College — Teacher's Home Just as we are going to press with this special educational number, we are happy to receive a classroom the first floor of a shophouse right in letter from Brother Mampe Siregar who is located the heart of the town. The 43 students are boarding in Medan, North Sumatra, in which he gives us and lodging in 18 different homes of Adventists and the latest information regarding the secondary non-Adventists. school which they have just opened. We herewith "Just a few days ago, we held a meeting and quote excerpt from Brother Siregar's letter. — Ed. we asked ourselves why we had the -audacity to "Perhaps the following news will be of interest enroll 43 students (more are coming in) when to you. August 7, 1949, will go down as a very we had no school accommodations, no dormitories, special date in the history of the North Sumatra students living in non-Adventist homes, and the Mission. On that date we opened the Seminary principal living 128 kilometers distant. We answered for our young people. I call this date a historic ourselves by saying that if we were to wait till one for at the opening exercises in the rented the time when everything would be in readiness, chapel there were neither school accommodations we never would have a secondary school. So we nor dormitories for would-be-students. There was decided that it is better to have problems than no principal. There was no teacher. We walked not to have them because we are not doing any- out by faith. When we had registered 12 students, thing. Pray for us. M. SIREGAR" I was appointed as acting principal right there and then. We borrowed other teachers. Five days Editorial in the week I teach in the Seminary. This leaves me only Saturday and Sunday for my evangelistic This month we are pleased to bring to you, work in Medan. You know the distance from Medan Outlobk reader, messages from many of our workers to P. Siantar is 128 kilometers. I have to cover whose time and talent is devoted to the "noblest that distance every week. missionary work that any man or woman can undertake," the management and instruction of "Slowly but steadily the students are coming in and at the present time the student body numbers boys and girls and older youth. W. 0. Baldwin, our educational secretary for 31 boys and 12 girls. All but five are children the Division, has been in the field for a little of our own members. We are renting for our more than a year. It is encouraging to note that advancement is being made in all parts of our field. You will be convinced of this fact as you read the reports given in this issue of the Outlook. A number of church schools have been opened which is a new departure in some of our fields. It has long been felt that this is one of our out- standing needs in our educational endeavors. One of the reasons why we are admonished to start church schools is found on page 203 of Volume VI of the Spirit of prohecy. We quote: "When heavenly intelligences see that men are 'no longer permitted to present the truth, the Spirit of God will come upon the children, and they will do a work in the proclamation of the truth which the older workers cannot do, because their way will be hedged up. Our church schools are ordained by God to prepare children for this great work." May we each carry a burden for the children and youth of the flock to the end that they may be Korean, Junior College — Garden with Industrial educated and trained to do service for God in giving Building at the Right College property extends td the last message of warning to a perishing world. the Skyline C. P. SORENSEN 20 FAR EASTERN DIVISION OUTLOOK September, 1949 Hospital. Her sister, Ella Mae, pounds who were formerly students who recently passed through at the Far Eastern Academy in Singapore, is to serve at the Hong Kong. Gifford Mission Hospital in Nuzvid, Two families of the Malayan Kistna District, India. Union compound spent their Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Becker and vacation in Borneo. Elder and Mrs. H. W. Peterson and the three Vol, 35, SEPTEMBER, 1949 No. 9 daughter spent a week's vacation in Penang, going there by boat and boys were in Kuching, and Mr. and Published monthly as the official returning by plane. Mrs. Paul Coleman and Dickie are organ of the FAR EASTERN in Jesselton, North Borneo. In the DIVISION of The General Con- Elder and Mrs. N. C. Wilson and cases of Brother Peterson and ference of Seventh-clay Adventists, two sons are scheduled to be in Brother Coleman it was a com- 800 Thomson Road, Singapore, Asia. Singapore on the 20th of September bination work and vacation period. for an overnight stop. They are Postal Address: Box 226, Singapore, Thursday, August 11, was red- enroute from the States to Austra- Asia. letter day in Penang. On that lia. Elder Wilson is the president afternoon George Cheng, M. D., of of the Australasian Inter-Union Yearly Subs. Price 50 cents (U.S.) the Penang Mission Hospital, and Conference. -Elder F. A. Mote, Miss Song Swee Gaik, a member formerly of the Far Eastern Divi- Editor C. P. Sorensen of the Penang Seventh-day Adven- sion, is the secretary of Australasian tist church, were united in Inter-Union Conference. In a DIVISION DIRECTORY marriage in the beautiful Wesleyan recent letter to C. P. Sorensen, President V. T. Armstrong Church. Pastor Arthur Mountain Elder Mote asks to be remembered Secretary C. P. Sorensen read the marriage service, and the to his many friends in the Far Treasurer & Auditor, P. L. Williams vows were solemnized by the Eastern Division. Assistant Auditor E. L. Becker pastor of the Wesleyan Church. DEPARTMENTAL SECRETARIES Signe Nelson spent her vacation Immediately following the cere- with friends in Bandoeng, Java. Educational W. 0. Baldwin mony, a reception was held on She made the trip to Batavia by Home Missionary and the lawn of the Wesleyan parsonage boat but returned to Singapore Sabbath School .... F. A. Pratt for hundreds of friends of the by plane. Medical R. F. Waddell, M.D. bride and groom. A chorus of Ministerial R. S. Watts H. W. Barrows, General Confer- "oh's" and "ah's" went up from Publishing G. A. Campbell ence auditor, recently audited the those assembled when, as the Miss. Volunteer , C. P. Sorensen towering wedding cake was cut, Home books of our Division. He arrived in Singapore from Hong Kong, a number of birds fluttered out Commission Mrs. V. T. Armstrong having spent better than three of one of the layers of the cake Division Builder H. R. Emmerson weeks there auditing the China and sped away, to tell the glad Division books. news, we assume, to all the realm FROM HERE AND THERE of nature. G. A. Campbell returned to Recent visitors on the Division Singapore on the 25th of August. For the present, Dr. Cheng is and Malayan Union compounds He reports that they had a very continuing his work as head of have been: Mr. and Mrs. A. Fossey, successful Publishing Department the Penang institution without Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Cooper and pre-council in Manila and also a interruption. We understand that two children, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur very interesting Union biennial the honeymoon will come in a Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Charles session with an excellent spirit few months when the pressure of Holford and son Ted, Mr. and Mrs. pervading the meetings and the medical work is not so heavy. Albert Schimke and sons, Dallas progress reported in every phase and Clyde, and Miss Ella Mae of the work. CHANGES IN NURSING PERSONNEL Stoneburner. All were enroute F. A. Pratt recently attended to various parts of the Southern Wilma Leazer, superintendent of Asia Division, having been obliged pre-councils for the Home Mis- sionary and Sabbath school depart- nurses at the Youngberg Memorial to leave their posts of duty in the Hospital, has accepted a call to China Division due to the un- ments in Manila. Following the biennial session, he left for Indo- the Bangkok Sanitarium and Hos- settled political conditions of that pital where she will serve as assis- war-torn land. nesia where Mrs. Pratt joined him. Following appointments in the tant to Ruth Munroe in the School of Nursing. The many friends of Edna North Celebes, they hope to spend Stoneburner in the Far Eastern a pleasant vacation in Bandoeng, Thora. Thomsen formerly of the Division will be interested to know Java. China Division has been invited that she is now the dean of girls to connect with the Penang Mis- at the Forest Lake Academy near Mrs. E. H. Wallace and little sion Hospital as superintendent Orlando, Florida. Prior to the Karen are spending a few weeks of nurses, and Elizabeth Rogers, war, Edna was connected with the in Singapore. They are the guests who has served in that capacity Manila Sanitarium and Hospital of Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Bond. since the war, is being transferred and during the war she with many Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Figuhr and to Singapore to fill the vacancy others was interned for a number family arrived in Singapore on in the Youngberg Memorial Hospi- of years. Since her return to the Monday, August 29. Brother Figuhr tal caused by Miss Leazer's accept- States she has been a supervisor is to teach the young people on the ing the call to Bangkok. at the Washington Sanitarium and Division and Malayan Union com- By C. P. SORENSEN