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—invd r11111111:1111'1'11, 1(11, 1 I 81 111,1 I 1 !Ill 5.1_01111111111111111161,-41111r111111111111111111 ,il1Iiiii.1111,1!!!!11,, ., 11,1 Hi Rim to Rim: Correction ignoring the health principles the Perfection It was with dismay and chagrin that I Lord has so graciously given us. Thanks to Clifford Goldstein for realized shortly after "Perfection" (July 24). To understand my article ("Rim to —Donald E. Casebolt, M.D. cold we have heat, to grasp perfection Rim," July 24) was FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO we have been given the opportunity for published that I had imperfection. However, I do find one of made two errors. Clifford's arguments misleading while The first had to Another Mama's Legacy still being valid in its foundation. do with the diet fed The story of Mable Siemens ("Mama's Goldstein states: "What purpose to the young men in Legacy," July 24) brought back many were His temptations . . . if Christ the 1967 study from Sweden. Unfortu- similar memories. I became a Seventh- couldn't have fallen? What type of nately, the original article in Acta day Adventist as an answer to prayer for example would Jesus be for us in our Physiologica Scandinavica did not tell God to lead me to the church that struggles with sin if He could not specifically what was fed, but merely believed in and lived the Bible way. I have sinned?" stated that the first diet was a mixed was the only Adventist in my family, and While it is self-evident that Christ diet, the second was 1,500 kilocalories my husband and his parents were not in had the capability of sinning (lying, of protein and 1,500 kilocalories of fat, favor of my newfound faith. cheating, stealing, sexual promiscuity), and the third was 2,300 kilocalories of I wanted my children to have a I wonder how Goldstein would handle carbohydrates and 500 kilocalories of Christian education in our schools. the comment by Ellen White that He protein. Since meat has no carbohy- When I took them out of public school, had no propensity toward such sin. In drates in it, I assumed that the second my husband was irate. But I went to work fact, He was repulsed by it—a far cry diet was all meat. In all likelihood it as a literature evangelist, selling our from our own condition. The fact that was derived from animal sources. Since books in the "highways and hedges." God Christ could have sinned in terms of a the third diet had no fat, I assumed that blessed my efforts with enough for the specific deed misses the real point about it was vegetarian. But it's possible that children's tuition and my operating His temptations and why He was some of the protein could have been expenses. They all graduated with honors tempted beyond anything we can imag- from animal sources. from Adelphian Academy in Michigan ine. I've concluded that even if Christ The second error was regarding the and went on to Andrews University. could not have sinned, He would have idea that superior endurance came from Also, my sewing for a special piano still been able to serve as our Saviour the noneating of meat or animal prod- teacher provided one child the oppor- (not orthodox Adventism, I know!). ucts. According to David Nieman, who tunity to start music lessons, with the Why? Please read in The Desire of is very knowledgeable in this area, others following. Ages the chapters on Christ's tempta- recent studies have shown that the high My husband could see the value of a tions in the wilderness and in Geth- carbohydrate intake is responsible for Christian education. Two days before he semane. It appears to me that His real the superior endurance. died of a massive heart attack, he gave temptation was to operate under His Even though it now appears that his heart to the Lord in surrender. I have own power and let go of the Father- being a vegetarian does not confer always been thankful that we did not operating-through-Him mode that He greater endurance, there are still many compromise our beliefs. had maintained His entire time on other proven advantages to a plant A legacy? Only the love of a wife earth. He could have abandoned food diet. In my 44 years of medical and mother. humankind and returned to heaven. practice I have seen many people, The real temptation was to do His both Adventist and non-Adventist, —Laurie McClanahan own will instead of the Father's will. If suffer from diseases as a result of FLETCHER, NORTH CAROLINA He could have returned to heaven, as

2 (1266) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1 9 9 7 DVENTIST indicated by Ellen White, this act of about people not liking the Adventist operating under His own power could Review covers. I think the covers are fan- not have been considered a sin. tastic—a real improvement over the past Whereas we are either Christ-con- 20 years. Bravo to the layout team! R trolled or Satan-controlled, and never self-controlled, Jesus in fact could oper- — John A. Boyance COVER STORY ate under His own power and good- SUMTER, SOUTH CAROLINA ness—but He chose to allow the Father 8 Will the Stars Fall Again? It's been nearly 164 years since the to operate Him instead. great meteoric shower. Would we This is why His temptations were Outstanding, powerful covers! I espe- be surprised to see a repeat? greater than ours—He was the only per- cially liked Jonah (July 12) and reli- BY MICKEY KUTZNER son ever capable of actually running His gious liberty (Aug. 14). ARTICLES own life. Yes, He could have told a fib, but that misses the essential element. — Helen Stiles 12 Feelings of Emptiness His real example was that He was always MERIDIAN, IDAHO We should be happy that our chil- a dwelling place for His Father. dren are testing their wings. BY KIM A. JOHNSON

—Gary Brown Adventists and Catholics (cont.) 16 Jesus: The Life-giver CALDWELL, IDAHO As a Catholic Christian who occasion- Improving the quality of life. ally reads the Adventist Review, I want to BY ELLEN G. WHITE say how edifying I find your magazine. I Misleading? believe that the Holy Spirit consistently 18 Another Widow, I'm certainly not intending to detract inspires much of it. I particularly liked Another Mite from the issue of copyright infringement the tone of William G. Johnsson's After years of faithfulness, was this God's way of repaying her? by Pacific Rim Press, but the July 10 "Adventists and Roman Catholics" BY FRANCES M. SCHWARTZ Newsbreak article states that "the White (June 26). I agree that substantial doctri- Estate board of trustees has opposed plac- nal matters still divide us, and that we 24 Let the Walls Come Down ing Ellen White's writings within the should not blur them but prayerfully and Just how far does Jesus expect us same covers as the Bible for many years." respectfully discuss them. to take this unity thing? BY JOHN D. BUTLER, SR. Doesn't the Review and Herald In the same issue's Newsbreak, Bert Publishing Association publish The B. Beach seems to equate papal primacy DEPARTMENTS Study Bible, sold through Adventist with papal infallibility. This may be a Book Centers, advertised as containing fine point, but there are two distinct 2 Letters "significant Spirit of Prophecy comments doctrines here. One can believe in papal 7 Give & Take on . . . each page . . . and marginal refer- primacy without believing in papal infal- 15 On the Home Front ences . . . to other statements made in libility—and vice versa. Papal primacy 19 Children's Corner Mrs. White's books"? This would seem to pertains to church governance; papal give "critics the opportunity to accuse infallibility pertains to teaching sound 20 World News & Perspectives Adventists of having their own Bible doctrine. Both refer to ministries of ser- 27 Leaving the Comfort Zone and placing Mrs. White's writings on par vice and the accompanying charisms 28 Clifford Goldstein with the Sacred Canon." that the Lord promised for exercising Don't get me wrong—I like The Study these ministries. Some relevant Scripture 29 Bulletin Board Bible. But the Newsbreak comment passages are: Matthew 16:18, 19; Mark 30 Reflections seems misleading. 3:16, 9:2; Luke 22:32, 24:34; John 21:15- 17; and 1 Corinthians 15:5. EDITORIALS —Gary M. Kelley Of course, Catholics read these pas- 5 In Praise of Distinctives FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS sages understanding the ministry of Peter 6 Good for You to be continued by the bishop of Rome The White Estate and Review arid and the ministry of the apostles to be con- NEXT WEEK Herald Publishing Association have differ- tinued by the Catholic college of bishops. ent boards.—Editors To Love, Honor . . . and Rescue —David H. Carey, chair When she was drowning emotionally, he was there for her. When he decided to go DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY snorkeling . . . Covers: The Response WHITMAN COLLEGE I can't stand it anymore! So many letters WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON

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4 (1268) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 2 5 , 1 9 9 7 EDITOR I A L In Praise of BILL KNOTT Distinctives

Our God is as big as all outdoors. Join us as we worship Him on But "generic Christian" suggests that there is an actual some- top of Loon Mountain. Gondola departure, 10:30 a.m.; service thing, however minimal, that is common to all who claim the starts a half hour later at the top. Nondenominational (generic name of Christ—a kind of lowest-common-denominator creed. Christian) service. Reduced-rate gondola ticket available ($3.50 for In these fractious days, the thought of common anything adults; 16 and under free)—ask for the "church ticket." Inclement appeals. But upon what truths would all Christians agree? weather: Octagon Lodge. Loon Area Christian Ministry. Certainly not the divinity of Jesus. Unitarians and Baptists have been arguing that one for 175 years. M y wife stood beside the restaurant bulletin board, And it couldn't be a unified approach to the authority of tapping the faded poster and smiling enigmati- Scripture. The clashes between liberal and conservative cally. "This you've got to see," she murmured. "I Protestants alone over how to read the Bible continue to sense an editorial coming on." rock the religious world. She disappeared to shepherd our boys Roman Catholics and the Orthodox have debated about through the otherwise all-too-hasty process of washing hands the Holy Spirit for nearly half the Christian Era—"Does He before a meal. Evan and Brady don't really believe in the proceed from the Father and the Son, or from the Father existence of germs, despite our best efforts. only?"—while Pentecostals revel in a baptism of the Spirit I studied the poster carefully, searching for the unusual some Evangelicals find unbiblical. item that would cause Debby to deliberately remind me of Issues of church governance separate Anglicans from work in the middle of a long weekend in New Hampshire's Presbyterians, while Quakers and Congregationalists assume White Mountains. "Outdoors . . . worship . . . Loon Mountain no higher structure than the local body of believers. . . . gondola ticket . . . kids free," I mused, connecting the dots Are all these things, in fact, "the shame of the Christian in my vacation-clouded consciousness. Suddenly, I saw the church," as many in the religious world are telling us today? words that had made her willing to risk our three days of Or is there in each doctrinal distinctive a wholesome tranquillity: generic Christian. impulse to understand and experience a God who is more I grinned, taking in the flood of images the word "generic" than the sum of what we can agree on? rapidly evoked: white cardboard cereal boxes stamped with I'm convinced that God is known in the details of our black print; colorless tubes offering "toothpaste"; pharmacy expressions of faith. The impulse to worship Him calls us to labels with ingredient names I couldn't pronounce. elaborate, not abbreviate, our understandings of who He is Debby emerged from the washroom, her own smile prov- and how He acts. The very struggle to articulate His majesty ing she had enjoyed the irony all through her brief campaign and His ways leads inevitably to a dozen different view- against bacteria. "So you saw it," she laughed. "Now, tell me, points. Or a hundred. was I right?" We Adventists particularly need not hang our heads "Yes," I allowed. "I sense an editorial coming on." because our faith is full of glorious distinctives. A century What in the kingdom of heaven is "generic Christian"? ago creationism and Second Adventism were widely derided Now, I think I understand a phrase like "nondenomina- as the foolish doctrines of a minor sect. Now tens of millions tional." It suggests a laudable desire to avoid offense on the around the Christian world embrace these part of those organizing the worship service. At a non- truths in many different faiths. denominational event, I assume, we wouldn't be guided by Doctrines and distinctives need the latest missal or even the Book of Common Prayer. Altar not divide; in fact, as Adventist history calls and snake-handling would probably be absent, too. The makes wonderfully clear, they word itself is a negation. We understand it as the absence of can become the rallying truths that that which would, in Ellen White's kindly phrase, give bring us nearer to that day when "needless pain to a sensitive souL"* "every knee [will] bow . . . and Most Christians do nondenominational things as a tem- every tongue confess that Jesus porary expedient: the town Thanksgiving service, the Christ is Lord" (Phil. 2:10, 11, Memorial Day observance, the blessing at the interfaith NIV).

wedding we attended last June. It is a stopping place, but - not a spiritual home. * Steps to Christ, p. 12.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 (1269) 5 EDITOR IA L ooa or r ou STEPHEN CHAVEZ

y most standards those of us who live in industrial- When I hear people complain that there's nothing to do, ized countries live pretty comfortable lives. We that their lives are bland and joyless, I always want to know have closets full of clothes, cupboards full of food, what they're doing for others. Because I've met very few peo- garages full of cars, bicy- ple over the years whose lives haven't cles, mowers, toys, and been enriched and energized by being other junk. We have enough gadgets, involved in some kind of service (get- doodads, and trinkets to mystify and We can do ting paid to serve doesn't count). amaze three fourths of the world's Church is a good place to start. inhabitants—right within the four a great deal to Most departments and divisions are walls of our homes. always looking for responsible, will- Yet there often seems to be a ing leaders and helpers. And schools feeling that something is lacking, solve some of are another place volunteers are des- that life must offer something more. perately needed. But don't stop As I visit from place to place, some society's problems. there. of the common refrains I hear There's a wealth of service repeated are: "I'm bored." "There's opportunities outside the local nothing to do." "What's the point of going on?" congregation as well. Every community has groups and These complaints aren't just limited to the young, to committees that work to feed the hungry, control drug those who have been conditioned by nonstop action. I also and alcohol abuse, tutor children, preserve parks and hear from older folks who complain that after spending streams, cooperate in disaster relief—all activities consis- eight or 10 hours on the job, all they want is to come home tent with our Adventist worldview. Our cooperation with and veg out in front of the television. these organizations gives us opportunities to be known in Part of the problem is that now, more than ever, we're our communities, as well as to become acquainted with tempted to believe that we're the center of the universe. I other socially conscious groups and individuals. am a constituency of one, relentlessly pursuing experiences, Then there's the spiritual dimension: "Do not forget to opportunities, and possessions that I believe will improve do good and to share with others," wrote the apostle, "for the quality of my life. My work, my relationships, my with such sacrifices God is pleased" (Heb. 13:16, NIV). responsibilities, are all vehicles for getting what I want. One of the reasons that the church in some industrialized But there's another way to put meaning into life, and countries often seems listless and ingrown is that we've that's to dedicate oneself to serving others. become a community of spectators. We would rather pay As we become more affluent, more preoccupied with liv- someone to serve than be involved in service ourselves. That ing the "good life" (whatever that is), we become anes- and the fact that spectators by nature tend to be critical thetized from both the needs of the less fortunate in our make it uncomfortable for people who are society and our ability to make a difference in relieving motivated to serve. It's easier just to sit on those needs. The truth is that we can do a great deal to the sidelines and save our energy for serving solve some of society's problems—if we care enough to give our own interests rather than the needs something of ourselves. of those who have yet to know Jesus as Now, this is usually where the writer (speaker, radio voice, Lord and Saviour. or talking head) urges you to get out your wallet or check- Yet Jesus is clear: "Whoever wants book and send a donation to some desperately worthy charity. to save his life will lose it, but who- But I'm not talking about money; I'm talking about making a ever loses his life for me and for the personal commitment. Not money, but time; not a pledge of gospel will save it" (Mark 8:35, NIV). financial support, but personal involvement. It's good for the Get real. Get involved. It'll do people whose needs we meet, but it's also good for us. you good.

6 (1270) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 2 5, 1 9 9 7 ADVENTIST LIFE Recently associate pastor Garrett Caldwell told the children's story at Sligo Adventist

Church in Takoma Park, Maryland. Caldwell, whose head is completely EWS shaved, told a story about hats. Getting the CR

kids involved, he asked what he would need TERRY BY before he went out in the hot summer sun. One youngster leaned toward the micro- ION phone. "A wig!" she boomed. ILLUSTRAT One morning my 2-year-old woke up with a sore throat. When I asked her how she got it, she said, "I talked to Jesus for a long time." —facIce.e McCallum, Ocoee, Tennessee

Our 5-year-old daughter, Shoni, was singing along with our Heritage Singers tape. "All God's children . . . all God's children . . ." she sang. After a minute she looked up and asked, "Mommy, am I God's children?" "You certainly are," I assured her. With eyes beaming, she exclaimed, "Oh, good; I betcha I got boned again!" —Ginger Sayles, Hagerstown, Maryland

ELLEN WHITE . . . UNDERSTOOD HERALD'S TRUMPET Ellen White's writings include words uncommon today and words that she created. This quiz might help you better understand what she wrote. Hi, kids! Are 1. Provender you attending an Adventist school this (a) provisions, food; (b) one who provides for future needs; (c) the care or year? This time when you send in your benevolence of God; (d) one who provokes or annoys postcard, tell us what you like best about your school (be sure to name it). We'll 2. Ribaldry print some of the responses on this page. (a) series of ribs, as in a ship's framework; (b) military decoration given for valor; Now, let's see ... what else is there to (c) coarse, vulgar language or humor; (d) an unruly crowd say? Oh, that's right! Herald, the Review 3. Sacerdotal angel, is back, and Herald's trumpet is (a) without doubt, certain; (b) of priests, priestly; (c) loose-fitting coat; (d) gran- again hidden somewhere in this magazine. ular, crystalline In our last contest (August 21) the three winners were: Laura Grinnell from 4. Preternatural Spokane, Washington; Melialani Stone (a) abnormal, irregular; (b) before, superior to; (c) theology based on observation from Newberg, Oregon; and Steven of natural processes; (d) foreknowledge, preconceived notion Malik from Davenport, Iowa. Laura, 5. Deleterious Melialani, and Steven received Secrets (a) premeditated, methodical; (b) removable, erasable; (c) delightful, pleasing; From the Treasure Chest, by Charles Mills. (d) hurtful, destructive Where was the trumpet? On page 25, beside the loaf of bread. Key: 1-a (Testimonies, vol. I, p. 229); 2-c (Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 222); 3-b (The Great Controversy, If you can find the trumpet this time, p. 45); 4-a (Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 291); 5-d (Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 562). send a postcard telling us where to Herald's Source: Ellen G. White Estate. Trumpet at the Give & Take address below. The prize is Guide's Grent'st Stories, compiled by Randy Fishell. WE NEED YOU Have fun searching—and don't forget Give & Take is your page. Send your "Adventist Quotes," top-quality photos, "Adventist Life" to write about your school! vignettes, "Readers' Exchange" items, and other short contributions to: Give & Take, Adventist Review, 12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904; Fax: 301-680-6638; CompuServe: 74532,2564.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 (1271) 7 Why an 1833-like shower might occur this November, or the next, or the next

BY MICKEY KUTZNER

VER SINCE CHRIST'S MOUNT OF OLIVES November 1833 prophecy of times when the sun and moon do Only two years after William Miller began his public not shine and stars fall from the sky (Matt. ministry, on the night of November 12-13, 1833, an unusu- 24:29; Mark 13:24, 25; Luke 21:25, 26), ally dazzling meteor shower occurred over most of the conti- Christians have panned the heavens. Seventh- nental United States. In 1888 J. H. Waggoner, an ardent ,day Adventists, in particular, have shown a special interest Adventist believer, recounted the event: = in meteor showers because of Ellen White's indication that "It was a sight never to be forgotten. It stands as vividly —Jesus was referring to literal signs in the sky rather than printed on my memory today as it did a month after it speaking figuratively about, for example, the fall of earthly occurred. ... They [the stars] penciled their way down the E kingdoms or the end of a historical age.' vault of the heavens. . .. They could no more be counted the earth's atmosphere) The nineteenth-century believers fell in France and were were not particularly troubled by the witnessed by 300 people, scientific explanation. Said Thomas scientists dismissed the Nelson, superintendent of the reports as groundless and Pentecostal Bands, "If He chooses to physically impossible.' An display His supernatural omens accumulation of evidence through natural law, does that disannul eventually convinced their character?"' astronomers of the Even the demonstration that the extraterrestrial origin of shower was a periodically occurring meteors. event did not trouble Uriah Smith, who stated, "The Saviour announced Scientific Explanation that the stars should fall from heaven Observations of the as a precursor of His second coming. tremendous 1833 shower He did not say that the sign should be revealed that the meteors confined to one exhibition of the radiated in all directions falling meteors; and though there HALE-BOPP. Photo by Mickey Kutzner and Richard Dower. from a certain point in should be a score of such, if they take the constellation Leo. It place this side of the specified time at than one can count the fast-falling was quickly argued that this radiant which they were to appear as a sign, flakes of snow in a hard storm. They point was an optical effect of perspec- they must all be taken as omens and continued to fall without any diminu- tive or projective geometry—that is, heralds of the great day."' tion of numbers until the dawn of day the millions of meteors that fell during More recently it has been suggested obscured them. And when the the shower were actually moving in that the sign is repeated for emphasis' approaching light of the sun paled parallel paths, but appeared to diverge sake to remind us periodically that them in the east, they still covered the from a point in Leo for the same rea- Jesus is approaching and will soon western sky. And when the spreading son that parallel railroad tracks appear arrive.' The significance of such mete- light obscured them in every direction, to diverge from a point on the horizon. oric showers to past and present occasionally one of great brilliancy would leave its trace in the west, show- "The Night the Stars Fell" ing that they were still falling."' "Many thousands of 'stars' were now shooting at once. The road ahead was Number estimates for the meteors constantly lighted up by the confluent flashes. Presently a different kind of me- are somewhat uncertain, but reliable teor appeared to hang suspended in the sky, near observers estimated that at least the pole star. As first seen, this stationary body 10,000 to 25,000 bright meteors were looked to be about the size of the full moon. . . . visible per hour. Some meteors were After ten minutes or more, it faded from view. . . . considered to be as bright as the full "While they were watching this huge stationary moon' fireball, a vivid red aerolite shot across the sky The firestorm made a deep impres- with great velocity, apparently flying very low. The sion on the American psyche. horses shied and reared again, snorting at the According to newspaper reports, almost sight or sound of this red meteor; and a few sec- everyone in the country saw the dis- onds later came a loud report. . . . play. Many, including Ellen White, rec- "At farmhouses many of the people appeared ognized this as one of the signs of to be awake and at the doors and windows, although it was now long past mid- Christ's second coming, and Miller's night. 'The world's afire!' one man shouted excitedly. preaching received additional impetus.' "At one house they heard voices singing a hymn; and at another place the The scientific community of the people seemed to be at prayer. At yet another place the farmer was out attempt- time was also jolted. Only a few years ing to drive a flock of sheep into his barn—as if afraid the animals would be before that, most astronomers believed struck by the falling stars! Still farther on a drove of six horses jumped the fence that meteors (streaks of light briefly of the pasture and followed them, neighing as from fear, for a mile or more. seen in the sky) were of terrestrial ori- "No abatement of the fiery shower was perceptible. It was like a steady rain- gin, having no astronomical connec- storm, with an occasional peal of distant thunder and low crackling sounds aloft tion at all. In 1790 when a number of as the largest aerolites rushed down into the lower strata of the atmosphere." meteorites (interplanetary chunks of —excerpted from The Youth Companion, Apr. 18, 1907; contributed by Adriel rock with sufficient size and cohesive- Chilson, College Place, Washington ness to survive the fiery trip through

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 (1273) 9 The mete- mately every 33 years—also the oric material period of the comet. The 33-year hits the cycle of impressive Leonid meteor dis- earth's upper plays can be traced back for more atmosphere than 1,000 years, with particularly (100 kilome- impressive displays reported in 902, ters high) at 934, 967, 1037, 1202, 1366, 1533, 10 to 40 kilo- 1799, 1833,10 and most recently, 1966. meters/second Reports of the shower of 1966 indi- and, like a cate that it was at least as intense as reentering the shower of 1833, but seen by only a spacecraft, is small fraction of the U.S. population. heated by the The shower was visible only in the friction of air western United States, where the molecules col- weather was clear. Observers conserva- liding with it, tively estimate 15,000 meteors per vaporizing the hour, with higher estimates of 150,000

Fig. 1: The appearance of the eastern sky from the Northern Hemisphere surface layers. per hour reported." Some described at approximately 3:00 a.m. in mid-November. If the constellation doesn't The trail of looking at the radiant and getting the look like a lion to you, try a backward question mark for the mane and vaporized impression that the earth was hurtling foreleg region. The radiant point for the Leonid meteor showers is lo- meteoric that direction through space. cated near the backward question mark. material and heated atmos- Repeat Performance? Adventist thought was thoroughly dis- pheric gas emits light, producing the While the only certain prediction cussed by Harold Wright in a previous glow we see. The meteors appear to that astronomers can make about these Adventist Review article.9 Wright made diverge from a radiant point in the sky, meteor showers is that they will be the important point that the 1833 dis- since that is the direction of the earth's somewhat unpredictable,' the next play had added significance because it travel on that particular night. few years offer us the possibility of wit- occurred at a time and place where a (Driving through a snowstorm pro- nessing another great Leonid shower. community of believers was actively duces a similar effect.) In 1998 the comet P/Tempel-Tuttle engaged in the careful study of Bible The shower of 1833 was especially will make its closest approach to the prophecy and thus served as a great stunning source of encouragement. because a par- ticularly rich Not Unique, but Stunning swarm of Although the meteor storm of 1833 meteoroids ranks as one of the more memorable surrounding events in U.S. history, and certainly the comet in Adventist history, it is not a unique P/Tempel- event. Though stray meteors can be Tuttle and noted on any clear, moonless night, moving along every autumn around November 17 or the same 18 there is a small meteor shower of orbit as the perhaps six to 10 meteors per hour, rest of the with a radiant point in Leo (see Fig. Leonid mete- 1). This shower and others like it (see ors was Table 1) are noted on a yearly basis, encountered since once a year the earth's orbit car- by the earth ries us across the orbits of crumbling that year. In Orbit of Comet comets (see Fig. 2). The debris left in fact, the P/Tempel-Tuttle the orbit of the comet consists of earth and this

small stones the size of a pea or dense cloud Fig. 2: As a comet's ices evaporate, it releases small stones of meteoric smaller. The spectacular, curved tail of of meteoroids material strewn along its orbital path. Once a year the earth passes comet Hale-Bopp , which graced our have an through this stream of meteors, resulting in a meteor shower. Close to the skies earlier this year, was made up of encounter comet the material is more dense, resulting in sometimes spectacular such material. approxi- meteor showers occurring with each orbit of the comet.

10 (1274) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 11.H. Waggoner, "The Falling of the Stars," Signs of the Times, Apr. 13, 1888, p. 8. Table 1: Important Meteor Showers ' D. Olmsted, "Observations on the Meteors of November 13, 1833," American Journal of Science 25:411 and 26:132-174. Here's a listing of important meteor showers occurring throughout the years. ' E. Howell Cooper, The Great Advent Meteor shower names are assigned according to the constellation in which the Movement (Washington, D.C.: Review and radiant point is located. The normally weak Leonid meteor shower was responsi- Herald Pub. Assn., 1935), p. 14. D. K. Yeomans, Comets: A Chronological ble for the great meteor displays of 1799, 1833. and 1966. History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Shower Name Date Approximate Hourly Rate 1991), p. 189. 6 T. H. Nelson, The Midnight Cry, or the Quadrantids Jan. 2-4 30 Consummation of All Things (Indianapolis: Lyrids Apr. 20-22 8 Pentecost Band Pub. Co., 1896), p. 62. Aquarids May 2-7 10 Uriah Smith, "The Stars Shall Fall From Heaven," Review and Herald, Dec. 25, Aquarids July 26-31 15 1866, p. 30. Perseids Aug. 10-14 40 C. D. Anderson, "An Inquiry Regarding Orionids Oct. 18-23 15 Meteoric Showers With Emphasis on the Shower of November 13, 1833: Their Cause, Taurids Nov. 1-7 8 Extent, and Effect" (master's thesis, Seventh-day Leonids Nov. 14-19 6 Adventist Theological Seminary, Washington, Geminids Dec. 10-13 50 D.C., 1957), p. 66. 'Harold Wright, "Falling Stars, Rising Hopes," Adventist Review, Nov. 24, 1983, p. 4. sun, and the time will be ripe for the blessed hope. Thankfully, the Advent 10 D. K. Yeomans, "Comet Tempel-Tuttle cycle to repeat itself. Based on the pre- movement has matured to where a and the Leonid Meteors," Icarus 47 (1981): 492-499. vious records, the best chance for an large meteor storm (and a spectacular " D. Milon, quoted in editorial staff, "Great exciting meteor shower is in the year comet) occurring within a few years of Leonid Meteor Shower of 1966," Sky and just before and just after the comet the end of the millennium, though Telescope, January 1967, p. 4. 12 J. Rao, "The Leonids: King of the Meteor passes us. (Last fall the reported num- reminding us of the shortness of time, Showers," Sky and Telescope, November 1995, bers of Leonid meteors was not large, should not lead to the setting of dates p. 31. but those that were seen were un- for Christ's return. " Editorial staff, "A Bevy of Bright Leonids," Sky and Telescope, March 1997, p. 115. usually bright and left visible trails Let us rejoice in the promises of our " J. Rao, "The Leonids' Last Hurrah?" Sky lasting more than six minutes.)" Saviour and maintain our upward gaze and Telescope, November 1996, p. 74. Of course, because a meteor shower as He has recommended: "When these lasts only a few hours, observers on things begin to take place, stand up and only a fraction of the globe might see lift up your heads, because your redemp- Mickey Kutzner is associate it. Cloudy skies could also ruin the tion is drawing near" (Luke 21:28). ■ professor of physics at chances of observation; this year the Andrews University, where moon will be near Leo on those nights, ' Ellen G. White, Early Writings (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Pub. he also teaches astronomy. reducing the visibility of meteors. Still, Assn., 1945), p. 41. the likelihood of a display such as the showers of 1833 and 1966 are greatest each November 17-18 from this year Tips for Skywatchers until the end of this century. Interestingly, calculations show that At midnight the earth is headed in the direction of the sky on the eastern hori- in 2029 the comet P/Tempel-Tuttle, zon and rising. This is the direction from which the meteors appear to diverge, so on its return to the inner solar system, there is no point in watching for meteors until 1:00 or 2:00 a.m., when this point will pass near enough to the massive has risen higher in the eastern sky. In November this position in the sky corre- planet Jupiter to have its path de- sponds to the constellation Leo. Leo is shaped like a sickle or a backward ques- flected, increasing the distance tion mark. By an hour or two before dawn, the radiant point located in Leo should between the comet's orbit and the be high in the sky and the chances for meteor observation best. earth's orbit—meaning that there Bring a few friends (to keep you awake), a flashlight, and a thermos of hot might be no significant Leonid meteor cocoa. Bundle up and set up your reclining chair in a spot where most of the sky showers next century." is visible and far from city lights. A pair of binoculars or a telescope will not help much in meteor observation, although scanning the skies with them may provide igns of the Second Coming are entertainment while you wait for the show to begin. both clear and abundant, and The meteors can also be recorded on ASA 100 or faster film by mounting your Sthe recurring Leonid meteor camera on a tripod (or setting it on the ground), aiming your camera toward Leo, showers serve as reminders of both our and leaving the shutter open for a few minutes at a time. rich Adventist heritage and our

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 199 7 02751 11 fffI ING S "PTINM Mentally I place "goodbyes" in the same category as beestings, poison ivy, and taxes.

BY KIM A. JOHNSON

S MY WIFE AND I WALKED BACK TO reflect over Cheerios and toast. our car, I could almost hear some great cos- I don't remember who phoned first, us or her, but how we mic clock striking the hour that I had enjoyed hearing her voice! "Are you feeling OK? How's dreaded for so many years. We were leaving dorm life? How's the food? How are your classes? Are you our only child, Stefanie, at a boarding acad- sure you're OK?" I strained to detect any hidden pangs of Aemy for the very first time. It would be her senior year. loneliness or frustration. Instead she exuded a surprising Mentally I place "goodbyes" in the same category as bee- degree of enthusiasm. During the next few weeks she rattled stings, poison ivy, and taxes. Our daughter had traveled away off a parade of stories about new friends, hilarious late-night from home many times before. But after one or two weeks conversations, upcoming events, intramural basketball she always came back to her own room, her own bed, her games, student association picnics, etc. own place on the couch, her own seat at the dinner table. At first I thought, Hey, I'm dragging around up here in a Now all that changed permanently. melancholy downer and she's having a ball! Then I smiled. I As I drove out of the parking lot, I stole a final glance turned to my wife and commented, "She's doing great, isn't over my shoulder just in time to see "Stef" disappear around she? She really is doing great." the corner of the dorm, her dark-blond hair bouncing Parenting is unique in that for years you are supposed to slightly with each step. form the closest possible bonds of love and association with After arriving home 13 memory-laden hours later, not your kids with the full knowledge that one day you will have much was said for quite a while. Just minimal, necessary to intentionally encourage them to go away. That inevitable conversation: "Did you get all the luggage? Do you want goodbye is a muffled sound far over the horizon when they anything for supper?" Overnight our house had been offi- are little, but becomes an insistent siren when they hit the cially transformed from the two-story gray garrison on Allen late teens. "It is time now," the voice says. "You know it's for Road into an "empty nest." the good of everyone concerned." On the way to bed that night I walked past our daughter's After quizzing older friends, reading, and experimenting, darkened corner bedroom. The few stuffed animals that did my wife and I have stumbled onto several helpful hints that not have enough sentimental value to make the journey eased our transition. south now huddled together as unwitting orphans, inhabit- Don't compare yourself with others. Some parents ing the spot where her pillow used to be. breeze through their empty-nest experience, while others The next morning I arose and automatically stepped grieve. There are too many variables to take anyone else's toward her room to wake her up with the usual "Hey, experience as a model for your own. Wonderful, time to rise and shine!" But then I caught It is often the case that the more successfully parents nav- myself, drew in a deep breath, and trudged downstairs to igate earlier separations during childhood, the better they

12 (1276) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 are equipped to handle Johnny's or derive a significant measure of self- tle blew, her team were the champs. Jennifer's leaving home. These other esteem from their jobs in the commu- Later my wife and I journeyed home separations include childbirth, self- nity have something to fall back on. alone. While I was chomping on a feeding, walking, riding a bike, the first Many parents need to restructure some grilled-cheese sandwich at a restaurant, day of school, eighth-grade graduation, of their life's goals intentionally in tears gushed down my face nonstop. I getting a driver's license, the first date, order to invest their talents in new daubed as inconspicuously as I could. etc. and rewarding ways. Why this? Why now? My wife and I were helped im- One author offers this suggestion: After some reflection, the cause of mensely by our decision to let go as "Let's ask ourselves what we did for our my distress turned out to be a no- much as possible the year before Stef children that we don't do anymore and brainer. I taught my daughter how to moved away. We would intervene only find a reasonable substitute. Not just hold a basketball, how to shoot, dribble, for reasons of safety or unacceptably any substitute, but a satisfying replace- pass, and catch a basketball. I helped negative consequences. She had room ment." coach nearly every game she played. to make mistakes under our general If a husband and wife built their mar- Now someone else led out in the hud- supervision, and we got valuable prac- riage around the kids, they may also have dle. Someone else gave the halftime tice in sorting out some pre-empty-nest to redefine patiently and lovingly how to pep talk and set the plays and defenses. jitters. relate to each other now. All I could do was shout encourage- Take time to sort out your own Expect ups and downs. I muddled ment when she made an errant pass or self-worth. Mothers who do not work through the first six empty-nest months rimmed out a free throw. Those games outside the home often have a harder without any major "boohoos." Then it symbolized, like nothing else could, my time letting go than those women who hit me like a brick. My most nostalgic, new role—on the sidelines of her life. have another career. If mom's sense of teary day came after attending the invi- Don't resent your child's new loy- value came mainly from child rearing, tational basketball tournament in alties. Even when your son or daughter her self-image could take an enormous which several academies, including my does come home to visit, they may pre- hit when she is no longer at the center. daughter's, contended for trophies. Stef fer to spend the majority of their time On the other hand, women who played center, and when the final whis- with friends rather than with you. e HEALTH & WELLNESS CONFERENCE For Health Care Professionals, Health & Lifestyle Advocates, Health & Temperance Persons, Ministers, and Educators Cohutta Springs Conference Center • Crandall, GA October 6-9, 1997 Homeopathic Medicine, AIDS, Cancer, Diabetes, Nutrition, Life Style, Hydrotherapy and Hypertension Featuring Workshops, Panel Discussions, Morning Devotionals, ) Exhibits, Multi-Media Presentations, Concerts and Special Music Featured Speakers Guest Agatha Thrash, M.D. Presenters Reservations: Richard Neil, M.D. Paul S. Brantley, Ph.D. Guest Musical Artists Sam DeShay, M.D. Lenore Brantley, Ph.D. 1-800-940-6789 Wintley Phipps, Edrene Malcolm Bruce Hyde, M.D. Keith Wood, Ph.D. Additional Information Elder Sydney Mills, Chris Rucker Brantley Broadcasting Network Scott Grivas, M.D. Devotional Charlotte Holmes, Fred Hardinge, Dr PH Speakers (205) 830-6404 Angela Meriweather Bethany Jackson, Ph.D. RD E.E. Cleveland, D.D. E-mail: [email protected] Cohn Standish, M.D. E.C. Ward Lottie C. Blake, M.D. was the Seventh-day Adventist denomination's first black physician, a graduate of the American Medical Missionary College in Battle Creek, a protege of DeWitt Williams, Ed.D. R.C. Mills Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and an avid practitioner of homeopathic medicine.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 (1277) 13 Verena Kast offers this helpful per- study and pray, then off to breakfast at may be detrimental to dredge up cer- spective: "That children find othei 6.20, thcn I shower and get dressed for tain hurt6 from years gone by. people appealing has nothing to do school, then classes from 8:00 to 11:30, Give them instead to God, who is the with whether or not children are still then lunch and band, then . . ." great healer. If, however, sharing can dependent on their parents. It has to On and on she jabbered, with the be of mutual benefit, then consider do with the fact that children can also wonder of someone who had just dis- finding the right time to talk over as love other people, which merely con- covered a cure for the common cold. much as is appropriate. firms that the child is capable of Her mother and I were elated. Her Don't forget the benefits. To be love."' They don't cherish you less. previous year at home had often been honest, it wasn't long until my wife The rock of love you dropped into an exhausting jumble of disjointed and I felt a certain sense of relief that their lives is now rippling into the events. We raced around like the we no longer had to enter into peri- lives of others. Keystone Kops. Now, out of the blue, odic wrestling matches with our off- Our young adults still need us, but this miraculous transformation! Was it spring over things like curfews and we must let them solicit our help and something in the water down there? keeping her bedroom from being con- not push it on them. Late one evening the climate? I offered up a silent demned by the local board of health. our daughter phoned from the dorm, prayer of thanks. No more nagging over homework, "Man, am I glad I got hold of you guys! Don't expect too much from your term papers, and music lessons either. I've got to talk. I'm so upset! One of time together. During her year at Ha! That's the school's problem now! my best friends just got disciplined over boarding academy our daughter came A part of me will always miss what the stupidest thing. It's s0000 dumb. home for only two or three days each once was. But I have also come to You see, she signed out to go to a month. At first I wanted that special appreciate and embrace what our friend's house, you know, and . . ." The time to go perfectly. When we had our entire family is becoming since our story tumbled out. first home-leave spat, I felt horrible. I precious eagle left the nest and flew. • I mentally groped for potential now realize my expectations were replies. In the end we simply listened much too high. The time together 'William Coleman, Full House to Empty Nest (Discovery House Publishers, 1994), p. 24. and said we were sorry the whole thing should unfold naturally, without pres- 2 Verena Kast, Letting Go and Finding Yourself happened and that she felt so hurt. sure. We don't interrogate or make her (Continuum Pub. Co., 1994), p. 43. "Oh, I just needed to talk to someone feel that we live for her visits. She anyway," she sighed. should not feel the burden of alleviat- Kim Johnson is an associate Don't think they "owe you." ing our loneliness. treasurer of the Northern Sometimes we can resent the fact that Clear up the past. There are times New England Conference of our grown-up children don't invest when the empty nest causes deep pain Seventh-day Adventists, in more in our lives as parents. "I gave because of regrets over past failings. It Portland, Maine. 111 the best years of my life to that kid, and he can't even remember to call me once a month!" The truth is that our children not only took from us; they also gave. If we must get out the scale, Walking in the it is not really as lopsided as we some- footsteps of times think. the apostle Paul. My own daughter and her friends History, ElhdodelpHa filled our home with laughter and archaeology, taodicea energy for years. She delighted us with hotography, Mediterranean worship, prayer, Cappadocia her oboe solos and children's stories at Galatia church. She taught me many lessons friendship, Ankara building bridges, Byzantium about creativity, caring, courage, and Istanbul resiliency. She enriched our lives in delicious countless ways. Her sideof the scale is Turkish food, and morel heavy enough. For more information, please call Give them to God, who can grow Lois Campbell 904-730-0405 or them in new and exciting ways. October 1-15, 1991 One Melek Jones red-letter evening, about three months with Livtcl,ck peril 234`4" 7' 19981998 423-775-6574 e into the new school year, Stef called ober 1-15, 1998 oo-neks Oct home with a stunning announcement: 328 Ridgecrest Dr. "Mom and Dad, guess what? I got Dayton, TN 37321 myself on a schedule! I'm up at 5:30 to

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LESLIE KAY Camp Meeting or Bust!

e pluck the last zucchini from the garden, it until he turned the microphone over to me with the words steal the last egg from our squawking hens, "And what can you tell these people about the Review?" and kiss the cat goodbye. We can't afford Did I know anything about the Review? Anything coherent? it, and we don't really have the time, but As I glanced dumbly from the malevolent microphone to we're on the road to camp meeting. the expectant faces before me, my legs took on the consistency WTo the endless refrain of "Jenny's looking at me!" and of Jell-O and my throat withered into the vast Sahara. My "Becky took my Barbie!" the dusty desert mind departed like a scroll when it is rolled towns of old Route 66 roll by. Hackberry, up, and every rational thought was removed where the infernal desert wind nearly from its place, to loosely paraphrase sends the kids' plastic picnic table sailing Revelation 6:14. off the ski rack. Seligman, where the sight Finally I confessed, "Really, I'm a writer, ; of the Roadkill Steakhouse helps us not a speaker." Roy Adams took pity and 3 remember why we're vegetarians. mercifully hustled me off to my seat. We travel south to the pine-covered (After the service every grandmother in mountains of Prescott, Arizona. And the audience came forward to console me: t when we arrive, shortly before Sabbath, "I know just how you feel, dear. It always we feel as if we've come home. happens to me, too.") Thank the Lord for camp meeting! An The next day while I was grazing at inexpensive country vacation at least. An opportunity for per- the vegemeat sample table, the phrase "So you're a writer, sonal and corporate renewal at its best. Because beyond the not a speaker?" wafted on the breeze heavy with the scent ever-present dust; beyond the gargantuan spiders; beyond the of sauteing Chik Nuggets. That's when I met bearded, rickety bunk beds and cockeyed showerheads—I find my cherubic Rollie. brothers and sisters in Christ. And as the Holy Spirit refreshes Rollie coleads the primary Sabbath school division and my soul, He binds my heart to theirs. organizes vespers at his church in Yuma. His burning desire Like Ed and Anita from Albuquerque. They're not sure how is to gather the children in his care to Christ and to gather He did it, but last year the Lord enabled them to put a young his church family together in joyful worship and meaningful man from New York City through Thunderbird Adventist fellowship. His enthusiasm refreshed me. Academy—an expense not anticipated in their budget. Sunday morning comes too soon. Time to ponder that And Erwin, who hates dust but loves camp meeting. age-old camp meeting mystery: "How come all the stuff that Nine years ago, disillusioned with the church and terrified of came out of the car never fits back into it? an impending economic collapse, Erwin fled to the South As our sleepy kids nap through the sleepy towns, I think American rain forest. But armed robbers, thieving caretak- of how I'm a gatherer like Rollie. I gather these precious ers, and his faltering farm drained him emotionally and people—and their stories—into my heart. financially. He prayerfully returned to Arizona with a new I praise the Lord for the pleasure of knowing these broth- compassion for human frailty and an intense desire to dis- ers and sisters, for the privilege of praying for them, for the cover his ministry for Christ. privilege of writing (as opposed to speaking) about them. Rollie, from Yuma, is discovering his ministry too. And They are my camp meeting gift of grace. although Roy Adams doesn't know it, he's responsible for They're the reason I'll be at camp meeting again next year. my acquaintance with Rollie. Embarrassing details follow: The night after I met Adams, he spotted me in the audi- When she's not attending camp meeting, Leslie ence and invited me up to the platform. As he graciously Kay and her family make their home in Chloride, Arizona. introduced the "Adventist Review's newest columnist," I'm sure he didn't realize the speed with which this columnist was suc- cumbing to a paralyzing case of stage fright. I smiled and faked

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 (1279) 15 esus: The Life-giver It is not because God has given His Son that He loves the world, but because He loved the world He gave His Son . . .

BY ELLEN G. WHITE

O SEE CHRIST AS HE IS, IS ONE OF THE sick." . . . They thought that He would immediately respond T greatest blessings that can ever come to fallen to their message, and be with them as soon as He could reach humanity; and to know Him is to know the Bethany. . . . [But] for two days He remained in the place Father also.' where He was. . . . He permitted Lazarus to die. . . . Had Why not educate yourselves to talk of Christ been in the sickroom, Lazarus would not have died. Jesus—He in whom our hope of eternal life is centered, He . . . Death could not have aimed his dart at Lazarus in the who has shown so much love for us that He has given His presence of the Life-giver. . . . life to redeem us?2 "Where have ye laid him?" He asked. "They said unto him, It is not because God has given His Son that He loves Lord, come and see." Together they proceeded to the grave. the world, but because He loved the world He gave His Son, ... Lazarus had been laid in a cave in a rock, and a massive "that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but stone had been placed before the entrance. "Take ye away the have everlasting life." As you connect yourself with Jesus stone," Christ said... . The command is obeyed.. .. "And ... Christ you connect yourself with eternal life. His life is in he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth." .. . There is a you; you are hid with Christ in God' stir in the silent tomb, and he who was dead stands at the door Man has no control over his life. But the life of Christ was of the sepulcher.. . . The beholders are at first speechless with unborrowed. No one can take this life from Him. "I lay it amazement. Then there follows an inexpressible scene of rejoic- down of myself," He said. In Him was life, original, unbor- ing and thanksgiving.... But while brother, sisters, and friends rowed, underived. This life is not inherent in man. He can are rejoicing in this reunion, Jesus withdraws from the scene. possess it only through Christ. He cannot earn it; it is given When they look for the Life-giver, He is not to be found.' him as a free gift if he will believe in Christ as his personal Saviour. . . . This is the open fountain of life for the world.' Jesus Gives Life to a Little Girl Christ is our Deliverer. He exclaims, "I will ransom them from Returning from Gergesa to the western shore, Jesus found the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death."' a multitude gathered to receive Him, and they greeted Him with joy. He remained by the seaside for a time, teaching The Life-giver at Bethany and healing, and then repaired to the house of Levi- Among the most steadfast of Christ's disciples was Lazarus Matthew to meet the publicans at the feast. Here Jairus, the of Bethany. . . . At the home of Lazarus, Jesus had often ruler of the synagogue, found Him. found rest. . . . Sorrow entered [that] peaceful home. . . . This elder of the Jews came to Jesus in great distress, and Lazarus was stricken with sudden illness, and his sisters sent cast himself at His feet, exclaiming, "My little daughter lieth to the Saviour, saying, "Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands

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C) on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live." He has life in Himself to quicken whom He will. He is Jesus set out at once with the ruler for his home. . . . invested with the right to give immortality. The life that He Already the hired mourners and flute players were there, fill- laid down in humanity, He takes up again, and gives to ing the air with their clamor. . . . Requiring them all to humanity. "I am come," He said, "that they might have life, leave the house, Jesus took with Him the father and mother and that they might have it more abundantly."' of the maiden, and the three disciples, Peter, James, and Consecrate yourselves to God. Let the whole heart be con- John, and together they entered the chamber of death. verted to Him. . . . Whatever business you have to do, do it in Jesus approached the bedside, and, taking the child's hand the name of Jesus. Then you will proclaim that Christ is the in His own, He pronounced softly, in the familiar language of resurrection and the life. We want this truth to resound to all her home, the words, "Damsel, I say unto thee, arise." parts of the world—Christ is the resurrection and the life' ■ Instantly a tremor passed through the unconscious form. The pulses of life beat again. The lips unclosed with a smile. ' Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, Nov. 12, 1894. 'Sermons and Talks, vol. 2, p. 35. The eyes opened widely as if from sleep, and the maiden 'Ibid., p. 110. gazed with wonder on the group beside her. She arose, and The Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary, vol. 5, p. 1130. her parents clasped her in their arms, and wept for joy.' Notebook Leaflets From the Elmshaven Library, vol. 1, p. 41. The Desire of Ages, pp. 524-536. When God gave Jesus to our world, He gave all heaven. ' Ibid., pp. 342, 343. This gift has secured for us our adoption into God's family. Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, July 23, 1900. The Father's promise is Yea and Amen in Christ Jesus. . . . 'The Desire of Ages, pp. 786, 787. "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten I° General Conference Bulletin, May 24, 1909. Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." God's Word is immutable. Jesus has These statements, compiled by the Ellen G. White proclaimed over the rent sepulcher of Joseph, "I am the res- Estate staff, are selected from urrection and the life."' Ellen White's published sketches of the life and ministry of To the believer, Christ is the resurrection and the life. In Jesus Christ. our Saviour the life that was lost through sin is restored; for

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that she rolled around in her mouth. Suddenly she L Dgrabbed her pencil and started figuring. The little 80-year-old widow was having problems. She never told

anyone. So unless she said something, no one would know. Her one-sided PHOTO BY JOE smile was just as fetching, and her blue eyes still sparkled. But underneath it all she was concerned whether she would be able to continue honor- ing the Lord with her giving. For years she had returned her tithe to the Lord. And then, overwhelmed by God's generosity, she had begun paying a double tithe—in addition to her regular offerings. But recently things had begun going wrong. First the furnace quit during winter's coldest weather—$100 there. Then she lost three fillings out of her teeth (about a week apart)—another $150. Next her car started overheating—$50 for repairs. Moreover, the interest on money she had lent out was not coming in. So her monthly income was $400 less than what she was used to. Property she had listed for sale had gone weeks without so much as a nibble. In the meantime, letters kept piling up, asking for donations: Voice of Prophecy, It Is Written, the Quiet Hour, Amazing Facts, the American Bible Society, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Christmas and Easter Seals, etc. Then on top of it all (or more precisely, under it all), a washing machine hose ruptured one night, flooding her house—all except one bedroom.

18 (1282) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 2 5 , What next? she thought. I'm surely One day, worried about making a promised, "I will open up the windows of being tested. $20,000 payment on her home, she heaven for you and pour out a blessing so They were little things, of course. But received news from a former neighbor: great you won't have r000m enough to sometimes the little things aggravate the "Have you heard the news? Your old take it in!" (Mal. 3:10, TLB)? most. Dear Lord, she prayed, I want to house next to mine has been sold again." Later the woman reflected on God's give to all these worthy projects, but I With the profit from that sale the providence. God's blessings are not always can't—arid still keep returning a double woman was able to pay off her present monetary, she thought. Sometimes the tithe. She paused a moment and added, home, free and clear. biggest blessing of all is the inner feeling of I'm just going to keep giving my double tithe The insurance settlement on her happiness that comes from knowing that and leave the rest of it up to You. flooded home netted her a new carpet in we've done our part. Almost immediately the Holy Spirit one bedroom, a good deal on carpet for reminded her of two government bonds the other bedroom, and all the other car- t's a terrific story, because it happened she had paid $75 apiece for about 20 pets wet-vacuumed, shampooed, and to me. In more than 80 years of life years before. She cashed them in for thoroughly dried—with the insurance I I've learned that God seems to enjoy $469. She wrote out a check for $94 company picking up the entire bill. She showing just how well, and how consis- (double tithe) and used the rest for some didn't even have to pay the deductible. tently He cares for His children. of those requests she had prayed about Besides this, kind Adventist neighbors, just days before. the Mitchells, came over to help and Then she began receiving her interest replaced the burst hot water hose on the Frances M. Schwartz wrote payments again. washer, saving a bill from the plumber. this from Sun City, Arizona, Next she got a call from her real Most of those things were unrequested where she was treasurer of estate agent with an offer for one of her and unexpected. She had asked the Lord the Sun City and El Mirage pieces of property. Along with it came a to help her get a fair settlement, and He Seventh-day Adventist substantial down payment, and monthly did. What more could one expect of a churches. payments of nearly $150. kind and loving heavenly Father, who

ing. Have you ever heard your con- science? Perhaps you have been Listen tempted to do something, and a little voice inside your head tells you that ROSY TETZ would be the wrong thing to do. Or maybe you have seen someone who looks lonely, and you get the feeling that you should go talk to them. This ave you ever heard a sound waves that are traveling doesn't have anything to do with recording of your through the bones in your head. sound waves. Where does this little voice? Were you sur- Sound travels differently through voice come from? How do we get prised that you sounded different things. For instance, did these feelings? like that? When people you know that sound travels four Jesus sends them. Before Jesus died Hhear their voice on an answering times faster in water than it does in on the cross, He told His disciples that machine or a home movie, they usu- air? So the sound traveling through He was going away. But He promised ally think That doesn't sound like me! your head travels at a different speed to send a Helper so that we would even though they know that it must than the sound traveling through the know how to live. That Helper is the be their voice and even though air. Fortunately the sound doesn't Holy Spirit. Jesus promises that the everyone tells them that that's ex- have far to go—it's only a few inches Spirit "will lead you into all truth" actly what they sound like. from your vocal cords to your ears, (John 16:13, ICB). Your voice sounds a little different whether the sound is traveling The Spirit will help you do the to you than it does to other people. through your head or out of your right thing. The Spirit will help you When you speak, your vocal cords mouth and around to your ears. But know how to live. The Spirit will be vibrate, making sound waves. When because you hear your voice through your conscience. others hear your voice, they hear two pathways instead of just one, It takes practice to learn how to only the sound waves traveling in the your voice sounds slightly different hear the voice of your conscience. air. You hear those air-traveling to you than to everyone else. That voice can be very quiet. Listen. sound waves too, but you also hear There's another pathway of hear-

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 (1283) 19 WORLD NEWS & PERSPECTIVES ADRA Helps Volcano Survivors in Montserrat

BY BETH SCHAEFER, ADRA NEWS AND INFORMATION OFFICER

he Adventist Develop- ported by 16 volunteers from Maranatha kitchen. This gift was made possible ment and Relief Agency Volunteers International, with help through the efforts of George Piper, a International (ADRA), from the Adventist Community former president of the Montserrat along with other support- Services Federation of Montserrat. Rotary Club and the Vineland YMCA. ing organizations, is in Thus far the major support for the Recording artist Jimmy Buffet offered Tthe forefront of relief efforts to assist project has come from Maranatha vol- to fly the equipment in one of his the people of the small Caribbean unteers, the North Caribbean planes, but because of the volume of island of Montserrat during its two- Conference, the Caribbean Union, the shipment, it was necessary to send year volcano crisis. and the Inter-American Division. the gift by ocean freight, which was also Besides helping evacuate people ADRA's central office also contributed paid for by the Vineland Rotary Club. from the active volcano area 18 to initial relief efforts. The North The New Jersey Rotarians are providing months ago, the agency is now hous- Caribbean Union will assist in provid- up to 200 stackable cots as well as the ing 200 people in an unfinished multi- ing food items. cutlery to serve about 200 people. purpose center and providing them Other support has come from a For more information about ADRA with food, reports Wallace Amundson, variety of service organizations, includ- projects, call 1-800-424-ADRA. ADRAs director for the Inter- ing the Vineland Breakfast and Lunch American Division. ADRA is also pro- Rotary Clubs of New Jersey, which viding food to as many of the general donated commercial-style appliances public as it can. and equipment for the shelter's On July 2 the lava flow reportedly destroyed 200 homes, wiped out an entire village and most of six others, and killed 10 people, with 20 more missing and feared dead. Hundreds Macedonia Revisited are now homeless, and many others are crammed into already over- Three North Americans Introduce Christ to Gypsies crowded shelters. "There has been so much hardship due to the volcano," says Amundson. BY MARIJA TRAJKOVSKA, WHO WRITES FROM SKOPJE, MACEDONIA "All commercial activity has ceased, forcing the people to return to rudi- ike the apostle Paul, who re- Norman Skeels, both of Angwin, mentary forms of survival, such as sponded to the Macedonian call California, and Dr. Barry Wecker, a plant-and-eat, but it's difficult for them L2,000 years ago, three North physician from Arthurette, New to leave their homes. We hope to American Adventists recently jour- Brunswick, Canada, conducted the reorient the people to skills that are neyed to Macedonia to conduct what meetings, which were held in an more appropriate for a rural lifestyle, church leaders believe is the first open-air setting. to make them more self-reliant." Adventist evangelistic meeting ever On the first night more than 200 Two of the active shelters are held for European Gypsies. children and a large crowd of adults Seventh-day Adventist churches, and Nestled between Yugoslavia and gathered on wooden benches as another is the ADRA center. Although Greece, Macedonia is noted for its Wecker delivered health messages. the center is unfinished, it is occupied large Gypsy settlement in Suto Following the lectures Wallace deliv- because of the massive housing shortage Orizani, near the capital city of ered spiritual messages, and music was in the northern area safe zone. Con- Skopje. Some 45,000 Gypsies reside in provided by Skeels and various Gypsy struction of the center is being sup- the community. Elton Wallace and singing groups.

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Listening From Afar The next morning Adventist Church Bible instruction. These people repre- Not all the Gypsies were brave leaders visited Macedonian authorities. sent 50 percent of the entire Adventist enough to come and sit in front of the God performed a miracle, opening the membership in Macedonia (411). platform at the meetings. Being doors for meetings to continue. Responding to the interest, teams of Muslims and living in Islamic sur- The Gypsy and Macedonian church volunteers immediately started visiting roundings, many decided to listen from members went to God with one more people in their homes. The scenes their gardens, parked cars, balconies, petition. Since the meetings were being repeated in Gypsy homes by day, and in bus stops, or the open windows of their held in the open air, they wanted God, the meetings by night, in many ways living rooms. A powerful sound system who controls the whole universe, to resembled those seen on the hills of enabled hundreds of people to "attend" control the weather in Macedonia so no Galilee and Judea during the ministry the series. rain would fall between May 11 and 31, of Jesus Christ. Dr. Wecker examined The first night's program was broad- the time of the meetings. As it turned many sick persons, encouraging and cast by the Sutel television station to out, no rain fell until the last two days advising them. Those with spiritual residents in the Gypsy settlement. of the series. By that time the meetings problems were counseled by Wallace Religious leaders from several other had been moved to the Gypsy Ad- and Skeels until late in the night. denominations became upset when ventist church. Near the end of the series a spe- they saw the interest of the Gypsies. cial television program was launched With the help of local authorities they Personal Contact by the local Gypsy television station tried to close down the meetings. The organizers believed the subse- that featured the evangelistic team. In response to the protests, the quent meetings would be better served It was very well received in the evangelistic team organized prayer cir- in an indoor site, allowing for more Gypsy community. cles among the Adventist members in personal contact with those interested The series brought new enthusiasm Skopje. Other church members joined in further Bible study. More than 200 among local church members and a in prayer in New Brunswick. persons expressed a desire for more new desire and zeal to share the gospel.

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Rwandan Refugees Killed on "ADRNs operation began in November 1996, when thousands of refugees returned to Rwanda, and continued Adventist University Campus until January 1997, when the emergency Non-Govern- ()re than 100 Tutsis were killed and others severely ment Organization food distribution program ended," said Mwounded in a machete attack August 21 on a Peters. "The attack on Spanish aid workers that left three refugee camp at the former Seventh-day Adventist cam- dead caused ADRA to withdraw all its foreign workers pus in the border region of northwest Rwanda. immediately, leaving behind equipment and supplies at Emmanuel Nlo Nlo, communication director for the the Mudende campus." Adventist Church in central and western Africa, reports The deteriorating security situation led ADRA to that 130 died and 80 were seriously injured, mainly Tutsis begin moving supplies to Kigali, and the first shipment from the former Zaire. It is not known whether arrived just prior to the attack. "We are greatly saddened Adventists are among the dead. by this terrible tragedy and hope that the situation will The attack came after renewed violence in the area soon be resolved so that ADRA can continue its vital and threats against the refugee camp in Mudende. work there," Peters added. Conflict continues between rebels and Rwandan army A representative for the United Nations, Pamela units in an ongoing anti-guerrilla operation in this moun- O'Toole, described the massacre as "shocking and tainous region of a country that has seen much fighting extremely worrisome," noting that some 8,000 refugees and loss of life. fled from the camp after the attack. While the church has suspended its educational opera- This latest attack is the most recent atrocity in a con- tion on the campus, aid workers with the Adventist tinuing ethnic war that began with the massacre of more Disaster and Relief Agency (ADRA) are still present in than 500,000 Rwandans in 1994. The resulting civil war the area. According to David Peters, director for has destabilized the whole region and left hundreds of ADRA/Rwanda, based in Kigali, foreign aid workers are thousands homeless. excluded from the area, which has been classified as Despite the troubles, ADRA/Rwanda continues to

unsafe by the United Nations and the American operate in other areas, and recently announced a new Embassy. program to feed and provide vocational training for 550

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 2 5 , 1 9 9 7 (1285) 21 W OR L D NEWS PERSPECTIVES

By Kermit Netteburg, ASSISTANT TO THE NORTH AMERICAN DIVISION PRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATIONS

he Bible Code, by Michael Drosnin, is the latest phe- since it is based upon acrostic references in the Hebrew nomenon to exploit millennial fever as we approach text. Indeed, it even requires that the length of lines be pre- the year 2000. But its eschatology owes more to scribed by inspiration. The Adventist Church believes that supermarket checkout lines than to bib- "holy men of God" spoke as they were lical analysis. NEWS COMMENTARY moved by the Holy Spirit, not dictated to The book purports to have found a by the Spirit. secret code hidden within the original Hebrew text of the The book also contains few references to the New Bible. The code, which can be cracked only with a sophisti- Testament, and none of the code is found in the New cated computer program, reveals secrets of the future—or so Testament. Finally, the book contains only one passing ref- Drosnin claims. erence to Jesus. Adventists will reject the book's basic premise—that a Drosnin spends a great deal of effort trying to convince secret code in the Bible is the guide to the future. The book readers that his code-cracking is scientific. It's wasted effort. accepts the common fundamentalist view that the state of Scientific gibberish is still gibberish. Israel is central to the fulfillment of Bible prophecy—a view Adventists will no doubt recognize that The Bible Code is the Adventist Church does not accept. just millennial fever, and return to the Good Book instead. The book also accepts a verbal inspiration of the Bible

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street children. This program aims to reunify children with The center provides cleaning supplies, blankets, gro- their families and to provide them with technical skills ceries, personal and baby items, and work clothing for disas- before integrating them back into society.—Adventist News ter victims. The center staff is working in concert with Network. officials from the state's emergency management agencies.

Women's Ministries Outreach Five Educators Receive Yields 943 Baptisms in Nicaragua Medallion of Distinction

In June and July Adventist women in Nicaragua launched The General Conference Education Department recently evangelistic outreach meetings in many areas, sharing the honored five educators with a GC Medallion of Distinction, gospel message of peace and love. As a result, 943 persons the Adventist Church's high- joined the Adventist Church. est award in education. One of the speakers was Waveney Martinborough, Inter- Receiving the awards were American Division women's ministries director, who con- Ernesto Ferreira (not pictured), ducted her series in the central church in Managua. The who gave 53 years of service to church, which seats about 400, was full every night, with half the church as an administrator of the attendees guests. At the end of the series 160 persons and educator and today (at age Marion Ariel Roth were baptized. 82) is principal of an Advent- Hartlein Leading out in the program was Lourdes Vargas, women's ist elementary school in ministries director for the Nicaragua Mission. Portugal; Marion Hartlein, who gave 46 years of service to the ACS Responds to Colorado Floods church as an educator and admin- istrator, including responsibili- Adventist Community Services volunteers in Colorado ties in the General Conference are helping flood victims in the Fort Collins area, reports and North American Division; Leona Clifford Monte Sahlin, ACS director for North America. Ariel Roth, former director of Running Sorensen

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Religion in the News Historical Note

Dissidents in Episcopal Church Seek to Form 121 Years Ago: New French Language Journal "Church Within a Church" Delegates to the September 1876 General Conference Leaders of the Episcopal Synod of America, an indepen- session in Lansing, Michigan, voted to "hail with joy the dent organization of conservatives within the Episcopal appearance of the French paper issued by Brother Andrews Church, meeting in the wake of the church's July 16-25 in Europe," noting wisely that "it lays us under renewed General Convention and frustrated by the church's gener- obligation to do what is required of us to support that ally liberal stands on gender and sexuality issues, have branch of the work." agreed to become a "church within a church." J. N. Andrews' paper, Les Signes des Tempes ("The Signs However, some leaders of the synod, with an estimated of the Times"), published its first issue in July 1876 in Basel, 250,000 followers, also suggest it could become a separate Switzerland, less than two years after Andrews and his chil- province or denomination, in the worldwide Anglican dren, Charles and Mary, left Boston as the first authorized Communion, rivaling the 2.4-million member Episcopal Seventh-day Adventist missionary family. Church, the recognized Anglican body in the United States. Andrews himself was the principal contributor to the The synod, composed of bishops, priests and laypeople, magazine, authoring more than 480 articles during his has voiced dissatisfaction in its eight-year history with seven years as editor. Mary, only 15 in 1876, served as edi- what it calls radical shifts in the Episcopal Church, includ- torial assistant and copyreader, while older brother Charles ing the decision to ordain women as priests and the recog- set type. nition of gays and lesbians as full-fledged members. In addition to editing Les Signes des Tempes, Andrews At the General Convention, the four dioceses that cur- served simultaneously as an associate editor of the Adventist rently do not accept women priests were given three years Review and Sabbath Herald, forerunner to today's Adventist to comply. These four dioceses now form the core of the Review. He kept these dual roles until his death from tuber- new province.—Ed Briggs, Religion News Service. culosis in 1883 at age 54.—Bill Knott.

NEW SBR E A K the Geoscience Research Institute, who has served the church sions have been changed to the East and West Congo Union for 54 years; Leona Running, professor emerita of biblical missions, respectively. languages at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University, who has given 56 years of Church Leaders Remember Princess Diana continuous service; and Clifford Sorensen, who has served as president of three colleges and one local conference, and The General Conference joined thousands of individuals executive secretary of the General Conference Board of who expressed their condolences to Great Britain's royal fam- Higher Education. ily for the tragic death of Diana, Princess of Wales, on August 31. News Notes In a letter sent to the United Kingdom's ambassador to the United States, John Olav Kerr, GC public affairs and ✓ Leon B. Wellington, West Indies Union secretary, was religious liberty director John Graz wrote, "She [Princess recently elected union president. Wellington replaces Silas Diana] occupied a unique place in the hearts of both the McKinney, who retired after 41 years of denominational ser- British and American people, and indeed, in the idealized vice as a pastor and administrator. thinking of countless people around the world, she repre- ✓ Noel Fraser, West Indies Union ministerial secretary, sented the prototype of being a princess." was elected union secretary, replacing Wellington. ✓ Cory S. Chambers, executive vice president of Shady What's Upcoming Grove Adventist Hospital in Maryland, was recently appointed president of the Adventist Healthcare Mid- Sept. 27 Pathfinders' Day Atlantic Corporation, Shady Grove's parent organization. Sept. 27 Thirteenth Sabbath Offering Chambers replaces Bryan Breckenridge, who has accepted for the Trans-European Division a leadership role with a national health-care company based Oct. 5-11 Health Emphasis Week in Arizona. Breckenridge will also serve as vice chair of the Oct. 11 Sabbath School Guest Day Adventist Healthcare board of directors. Oct. 11 Community Relations Day ✓ The names of the East and West Zaire Union mis- Oct. 18 Spirit of Prophecy Day

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BY JOHN D. BUTLER, Sr.

T ONE PERIOD IN MY LIFE THE DAILY White—even teenagers and children—in similar conditions trip from my office to pick up my son from of destitution. school took me past the corner of Virginia Such sights serve to remind me of the moral, mental, and Avenue and Twenty-first Street Southwest, in physical descent of humanity from the image of God in Washington, D.C.—usually between 5:00 and which they were created. I have frequently asked myself, A5:30 p.m. And as I would pass by in the cold of winter, I "What is my relationship to the man at Twenty-first and would frequently see a man reclining on a sidewalk grating Virginia Avenue?" And what should be my attitude toward to catch the warm air as it came through. the other persons I just mentioned? Am I, are we, that dif- He was Caucasian, in about his mid-40s, and rather obvi- ferent from them? Aren't those homeless winos and vagrants ously homeless—dirty, ragged, with ruddy weather-worn skin. brothers and sisters of ours? And yet in his facial structure, in the posture of his reclin- There may be no genealogical evidence of kinship, as far ing, and in the pride and insouciance of his countenance and as available records are concerned. But what about our demeanor, there was something regal—vestiges, perhaps, of belief in the biblical account of Creation—that God cre- the nobility, dignity, and grandeur of the man he once was or ated one couple, from whom came all other human beings? might have become. On one occasion I stopped and asked Based on biblical history, aren't we all, like it or not, him if he needed help, but he disdained my offer. My heart, anthropological siblings, however attenuated the blood however, would go out to him whenever I passed that corner, connection (see Acts 17:26)? whether he was there or not. And I would always breathe a As members of the human family and servants of the liv- prayer for him and ask myself: Could I do more? ing God, we dare not condone, nor should we brook, the Practically the same thing was true of other homeless per- nefarious luxury of class, racial, or socioeconomic prejudice. sons I would see from time to time in other parts of the city. In his book What the Bible Says About the End-time, Jon In one instance I ran into one wearing an open shirt and Paulien establishes the concept of universal relationship by ragged, dirty pants, walking on badly swollen bare feet in the virtue of Christ's death for all humanity, a fact that should bitter cold of winter. More recently, in the vicinity of eigh- be especially appreciated by Seventh-day Adventists: "Those teenth and Q streets Northwest I saw a couple drifters, one who are true 'Adventists" he says, "who are keeping watch for male and one female (apparently under the influence), hold- Jesus' coming, will treat others the way Christ has treated them. ing hands, each trying to steady the other, like the blind . . . To believe that Jesus is coming soon should have an leading the blind. impact on how we treat our `brother.' Who is our brother? Living and working in the city of Washington has The person for whom Christ died (Rom. 14:15; 1 Cor. 8:11). allowed me to see many men and women, both Black and . . . He died even for those who look different, think differ-

24 (1288) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 ent, and act different. Those who fully own private world. We have no right understand the depth of their forgive- The gospel to despise any person—saint or sinner, ness in Christ will know how to treat highborn or lowborn, rich or poor, lib- others for whom Christ died."' calls upon us eral or conservative, Democrat or Montaigne, a sixteenth-century Republican, male or female, Black, French essayist, wrote: "Every man White, Red, or Yellow. "Whoever says, bears within himself a prototype of the to recognize the `I am in the light,' while hating a human condition." Goethe, Germany's brother or sister, is still in the darkness. most famous poet and man of letters, dignity in every Whoever loves a brother or sister lives wrote: "A mysterious bond of brother- in the light, and in such a person there hood makes all men one." person. is no cause for stumbling" (1 John 2:9, And as I write, I am reminded of 10, NRSV). the song recorded by a group of stel- Most of us do not consistently rep- lar entertainers back in 1985 resent the image of God, just as there to raise funds for the victims were many Bible characters who did of famine. "We Are not represent God consistently. But as the World," the song's He said to the faltering woman, Jesus title proclaimed, its says to us: "Neither do I condemn lyrics reminding us thee: go, and sin no more" (John that we are all a 8:11). "For God sent not his Son into part of God's great the world to condemn the world; but big family. that the world through him might be But I like best saved" (John 3:17). the concept of Neither should we condemn our human solidarity less-fortunate brothers and sisters in as expressed by the human family. As followers of the inspired mind Christ it behooves us, at the of Ellen G. very least, to be courteous to White. Christ's the denizens of the streets love, she says, is whose lifestyle is so disturb- not restricted to ing to us. For true courtesy any class. "He iden- "ignores caste."' tifies Himself with Some years ago a friend every child of and I were in conversa- humanity. That we tion on the subject of might become mem- brotherhood, bers of the heavenly Christianity, and our family, He became a readiness to meet the member of the earthly Saviour when He family. He is the Son of comes. My friend ven- man, and thus a brother to tured his opinion that every son and daughter of the sociological and Adam. His followers are not to spiritual handicap of feel themselves detached from the racial prejudice will perishing world around them. They constitute the unreadi- are a part of the great web of human- ness of a great many ity; and Heaven looks upon them as Christians when Jesus brothers to sinners as well as to saints. comes. What could he do, The fallen, the erring, and the sinful, he wondered, about those of Christ's love embraces; and every deed his acquaintance who were of kindness done to uplift a fallen soul, yet to be fully liberated from

the shackles of racial prejudice? every act of mercy, is accepted as done DISC to Him."' Seventh-day Adventists are an We cannot—we dare not—with- exceedingly diverse community of PHOTO C draw into the cozy comfort, the iso- believers—nationally, racially, ethni- lated and insulated security, of our cally, linguistically. We are different PHOTO

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7 in terms of features, hair color and ' Jon Paulien, What the Bible Says About the , The Southern Work (Washington, textiire, acrent, cultural back End-time (Hagerstown, Md.: Review and Herald D.C.: Review and Herald Pub. Abbll, 1966), p. 15. ground—the list goes on. And yet we Pub. Assn., p. 90). 'Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages are called upon to be one big family (Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Assn., in Christ. 1898, 1940), p. 638. Many have searched the records of 3 , Education (Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Assn., 1903, 1952), p. 240. John D. Butler, Sr., is a history and anthropology in the vain 4 , in Review and Herald, Jan. 21, 1896. hope that some hidden key to the dif- Paulien, pp. 91, 92. retired professor and univer- ferences in races could be found. But 6 White, Testimonies for the Church sity administrator living in (Mountain View, Calif.: Pacific Press Pub. Assn., Washington, D .0 . all theories, philosophies, and "isms" 1948), vol. 9, p. 209. remain confounded by the Word of God. "Speaking to His disciples the Saviour said, 'All ye are brethren.' God is our common Father, and each one of us is our brother's keeper."' A...,!Arealth And to quote Jon Paulien again: "The judgment also assesses our rela- its ar- tionship to Christ in terms of our at your nngern s treatment of others. Did you treat your SALE brother and sister the way Christ has '4 1 treated you? . . . The brother in Christ NEW l 11 ,s m is someone who is of a different color 4e() of skin or a different culture. The sister in Christ is the unkempt stranger or the relative with AIDS."' One function of the empower- ment by the Holy Spirit in the latter rain will be to wash the prejudice out of our hearts. "When the Holy • Spirit is poured out, there will be a triumph of humanity over prejudice The Sage Digital Library on CD-ROM for Windows in seeking the salvation of the souls With this CD you can have instant The Seventh-day of human beings. God will control access to more than 220 pieces of classic Adventist Bible minds. Human hearts will love as Christian literature. For example: Commentary on CD-ROM Christ loved." 6 ■6 Bible versions for Windows • Commentaries (Clarke, This CD includes the complete inally, we should realize that Spurgeon, Henry, etc.) text of the Commentary prejudice is not restricted to any • Reference and theology books Reference Series (with updated F one race, nationality, or ethnic (Nave's Concise Topical Encyclopedia), KJV, NIV, and group. Many among minorities suffer Bible,Vincent's N.T. Word Studies, Strong's Concordance, more than the same affliction with regard to the plus more) 400 full-color photographs of • The Ante-Nicene Fathers biblical sites and artifacts, plus majority. All of us "should be careful • The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers more than 100 illustrations and not to strengthen prejudices that ■Classics by Charles G. Finney, E. M. 160 3-D landscape maps with ought to have died just as soon as Bounds, John Calvin, William interactive links to Bible texts. Christ redeemed the soul from the Law, John Wesley, and others Comes with Logos Bible bondage of sin."' • Illustration/quotation collection Software 2.0. Let us all pray for deliverance from ■24 classic maps every vestige of corruption in order Regularly that the Holy Spirit, abiding in us, US$59.99, Cdn$86.99. US$389.99, Cdn$565.49. Distributed by Review and Herald Special, may enable us to stand in that great Publishing. US$289.99, Cdn$420.49. day to meet Him who prayed so beau- tifully in John 17:21: "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, This software from the Review and Herald is available n at your local Adventist Book Center. Call 1-800-765-6955. and I in thee, that they also may be Visit us at www.rhpa.org Prices and availability subject to change. Add GST in Canada. one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." •

26 (1290) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER LEAVING THE COMFORT ZONE I Don't Think God CHRIS BLAKE Is Amused

"Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the Americans no longer talk to each other; they entertain each renewal of your mind" (see Rom. 12:2). other. They do not exchange ideas; they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good n 1985' Neal Postman published Amusing Ourselves to looks, celebrities, and commercials." Death. The book's foreword contrasts the dark visions As a consequence, many opinions are actually emo- of George Orwell's tions—"being offended" is 1984 with Aldous the lowest blow. We Orwell's 1984 Fears Huxley's Bnz'e New World Fears Huxley's Brave New become so enamored by I 1.Externally imposed 1. Internally imposed World (as highlighted in the seamless, exciting, horrify- oppression. oppression.' box). ing presentations that a 2. Books banned. 2. No reason to ban a book. Today, even in formerly simple truth gets buried. A 3. Deprived of information. 3. So much information totalitarian societies the pure love is passed over. that we are reduced to Huxley paradigm prevails. While we sit on the couch, passivity and egoism. In his book Give War a our principles are snatched 4. Truth concealed. 4. Truth drowned in a sea Chance, P. J. O'Rourke up and swallowed. of irrelevance. makes the point that 72 In a visual culture, "see- 5. A captive culture. 5. A trivial culture. years of bullhorns blasting ing is believing" gains cred- 6. Controlled by pain. 6. Controlled by pleasure. Communist propaganda ibility. Windows look 7. Ruined by what we hate. 7. Ruined by what we love. were drowned out by a cleaner when the camera three-ounce Sony aims at an empty pane, Walkman. Harper's index reports that the U.S. has approxi- detergent flakes seem more like snow, and mashed potatoes mately 5,000 movie theaters; the former Soviet Union has don't melt like ice cream under lights. 150,000. But if seeing is believing, perhaps an invisible God is not What we love will rule us. That's why loving God to be believed.' An attractiveness quotient gives new mean- supremely is so basic, so indispensable. ing to the term face value. Abstract qualities such as charac- Amusement literally translates into a, meaning "with- ter and mind we don't notice; yet it is by character that God out," and muse, meaning "be absorbed by thought." At defines Himself. times we savor giving thought a rest. (Some claim I've Of course, some leave the comfort zone to listen critically, rested for months at a time.) As with anything, amusements read well, speak wisely, and probe deeply. Most of us, how- can be overdone. ever, as Aldous Huxley suggests, would rather be tranquilized Television is still the primary source of information and with the trivial. entertainment in North America. More than 90 million Jesus didn't amuse Himself to death. Neither should we. people in the United States watch TV each night. Every day 250,000 TV sets are produced in the world, one for ' The year after 1984. We come to "adore the technologies that undo (our] capacities to every child born. An average of 737,000 Americans every think." day tape AU My Children.' ' From Harper's index. Television (including videos) is a medium of amusing ' In truth, we can't believe everything we see, and we can't see every- thing we believe ("see" John 20:29). bursts of disconnected images, "fragments of events." Postman terms the result disinformation, information—par- ticularly in TV news—saturated with entertainment that Chris Blake teaches at Union College in Lincoln, "creates the illusion of knowing something but which in fact Nebraska. leads one away from knowing." Postman adds, "In courtrooms, classrooms, operating rooms, boardrooms, churches, and even airplanes,

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 (1291) 27 CLIFFORD GOLDSTEIN

n June I went to Brazil; a week later, upon landing in written specifically to undo one of its own decisions (sort of like Washington, D.C., I felt as though I had returned to a asking Joe Camel to judge antismoking regulations). And, as foreign country. feared, the High Court in Flores ruled RFRA unconstitutional. I'm talking about City of Boerne v. Flores, in which a According to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the 6-3 majority on the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Constitution, Congress is allowed to pass "appropriate legisla- IReligious Freedom Restoration Act tion" to ensure that constitutionally (RFRA). In one fell swoop the free guaranteed rights (such as free exer- exercise of religion, for years accorded cise) are enforced. In short, Congress special constitutional protection (the can pass only laws that protect already idea being that one's relationship to Religious freedoms existing constitutional rights; it can't God was so sacred, so personal, that legislate new ones. government shouldn't be allowed to are fragile. Though the majority's argument in interfere except in extraordinary cir- Flares dealt primarily with "the separa- cumstances), now has less protection tion of powers" and the question of than "obscene and indecent" messages whether Congress overstepped its on the Internet. bounds with RFRA, the Court looked at this issue from the The background is this: since the early 1960s the onus was premise that Smith (which protects people only from laws that on the government to show that any "substantial burden" it intentionally restrict their free exercise) was the correct way to placed on the free exercise of religion was justified by the least interpret the free exercise clause. RFRA was voided, therefore, restrictive means of furthering a compelling state interest. In because from the narrow standard of Smith it created rights that other words, if a law—however incidentally and unintention- weren't already there. Much of this decision, wrote Justice ally—hampered someone's free exercise of religion, the govern- O'Connor in her dissent, "is premised on the assumption that ment needed to prove that it was in the paramount interest of Smith correctly interprets the free exercise clause. This is an the state to forbid these religious practices; otherwise, exemp- assumption that I do not accept." tions were constitutionally mandated. If, however, the majority believed that the pre-Smith (the Then in 1990, with Employment Division Department of "compelling state interest") test was the correct interpretation, Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith, the U.S. Supreme Court then RFRA would not have created any new constitutional decided instead that if a law wasn't written specifically to hin- rights, but would have simply been "appropriate legislation" to der a religious practice, but applied to everyone equally, then ensure that the already existing right of free exercise (as under- even if that law had the "incidental effect" of prohibiting free stood pre-Smith) was enforced. exercise, tough luck. If your legislature will grant you the On an immediate and pragmatic level, Flores means that exemption, fine; if not, well—"majority rules." minority religions will have a harder time practicing certain Now, if you're a Jew in New York or a Mormon in Utah, chances tenets of their faith. And on a grander scale, though not the end are the local politicians won't ruffle your religious feathers. If, though, of the world (no, it doesn't mean Sunday laws are imminent), you're an American Indian in New York, or a Seventh-day Adventist the decision should warn us that religious freedoms are fragile. in Utah, or a member of any faith anywhere without enough voters to By the way, what was I doing in Brazil when I first heard get your legislators' attention, then since Smith, if a law incidentally about Flares? Attending a world congress on—of all things— tramples on your religious freedom, you're in trouble, because the religious liberty. courts can no longer protect you. In response Congress passed RFRA, which reinstated the pre- Clifford Goldstein is editor of Liberty, a magazine of Smith "compelling state interest" test, which said the government religious freedom. had to give a good reason for restricting a person's free exercise. Unfortunately, the constitutionality of RFRA was challenged, and before long the U.S. Supreme Court had to rule on a law

28 (1292) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 25, 1997 and at Lincoln, Nebraska, and Keene, Texas, use of health-screening vans. He is survived by where she was the family life director for the his wife of 50 years, Virginia; one daughter, Southwestern Union. Together they worked at Stanva; one son, John; two sisters, Helen Smith the General Conference for 10 years, retiring in and Lottie Wood; and two grandchildren. 1992. She was cofounder of Shepherdess EVA, W. Duncan—b. May 19, 1914, Cape International, a support group and training Province, South Africa; d. July 2, 1997, source for ministers' wives. She received the Clarksville, Md. He served more than 30 years President's Award of the Association of in Africa and came to the General Conference Adventist Women in 1991 and Woman of the in 1965 as an associate secretary. He served as Year for Church Life. She is survived by her president of the Northern Europe-West Africa husband, Floyd; one brother, Larry; three sons; Division and returned to the General Con- one daughter; and two grandchildren. ference as general vice president from 1973 to BRODERSEN, Emma Jean—b. Sept. 23, 1980. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, 1916, Ganges, Mich.; d. May 25, 1997, Gloria; one daughter, Marilynne-Rose Wilkes; Collegedale, Tenn. She taught church school for one son, Willmore; and two grandchildren. At Rest more than 30 years. She accompanied her hus- LUMB, Karen Jean—b. Dec. 4, 1948, band to India for 14 years and helped raise up a Portland, Maine; d. June 22, 1997, Boston, BERG, Henrique—b. 1931, Santa Catarina, small church school in Madras that now has Mass. She served as vice president for patient Brazil; d. Mar. 17, 1997, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. hundreds of students. She is survived by her hus- care at Leland Memorial Hospital, Riverdale, He served in the church for 36 years as a pastor band, Raymond; two sons, James and Ray; one Md., from 1981 to 1990. During this time she and administrator in Brazil and a missionary in daughter, Judy Winters; and eight grandchildren. helped found and was a board member of the Africa, where he was imprisoned. After return- DOMBROSKY, Stanley Louis—b. May 8, Adventist Community Services and Adventist ing to Brazil in 1977, he pastored and then 1914, Buffalo, N.Y.; d. May 4, 1997, Largo, Fla. Home Health Services in Silver Spring, became an administrator on the union and divi- After serving in the military, where he was rec- Maryland, and Shady Grove Adventist sion levels. Since 1995 he coordinated the divi- ognized for his friendly demeanor with the GI Hospital, Rockville, Maryland. She was senior sion Global Mission program. He is survived by Joe award, he returned home in 1946 and began vice president at Boston Regional Medical his wife, Mirian; daughters, and grandchildren. working as an assistant colporteur. He served as Center, Stoneham, Massachusetts, from 1992 BRESEE, Ellen Louise Hendrickson—b. a pastor in California, Maryland, and Florida until her death. She is survived by her parents, Jan. 15, 1928, Puyallup, Wash.; d. July 13, until 1970, when he became director of per- Walter and Norma Lumb. 1997, Central Point, Ore. She served with her sonal ministries and Community Services until pastor husband in churches throughout Oregon his retirement in 1981. He was a pioneer in the

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et me make a confession: I pick up money. In and wherever life has us. Various metaphors suffice: we are fact, four years ago I picked up $47.09; three otherwise useless on the road, in the hall, on the floor in years ago I picked up $86.25; two years ago, front of cash registers. Apart from the way God views each $107.19; and last year, $147.45. How can I be so one of us, in and of ourselves we have little value. It is sure? Because the last morning service of each God's use of us that makes us valuable. But lying there, Lyear I put the previous year's total in the benevolent fund at waiting to be dedicated to God's service as He sees fit—ah, church. Not to brag, no, but in part to have fun watching there's power in that. One by one we can cluster in an the ushers and the various others try to heft that collection ever-larger "God's jar" to be put to work as only God plate as it makes its rounds. knows how to fit us into His plan. Most of the money is, admit- Our Abba-Father is the God of tedly, in pennies, and much of it is the lost ones. He goes searching in five-cent pieces. Less common for us in spite of the fact that but not unheard-of are the larger Scoop me up, sometimes we don't even know our denominations of coin and bill; the true condition. We lie there, some- largest to date has been a $20 bill. times right in the open, but lost Most of the money I find at the hold me tight. nevertheless, denomination intact high school where I teach; doing (doesn't anyone else see us?), wait- my weekly supervision, walking ing until the God of the lost ones down the hallway, just going out to benevolently shepherds you, me, my car—I find money all over the place. into service. In the hands of the God of the lost ones, the One time someone had quietly left a pile of pennies at battered ones, there is true value, value far exceeding the my classroom door; at least I think it was a pile of pen- temporality of what this world deems important. Value nies that I kicked, spraying the coins across the hall. enough for God to send the redeeming Christ. And oh, Nevertheless, I had to pick up nearly 20 cents that some- how much it cost Christ to buy us back. one else had already accumulated and stacked. Another time someone left a tidy pile of assorted coins on the od of the lost ones, scoop me up, hold me tight roof of my car. I find many coins when I do my nightly in that punctured palm of Jesus' hand, and walk; the streetlights help to highlight them for me. My then, in Your power, put me to work. Help me children find them and bring them to the collection pot, G an old Squirrel peanut butter container, which we call to realize humbly some of the impact that I may have "God's jar." on the others with whom I come in contact. Use me, One day an unruly student, Patrick, asked me bluntly my talents, and my energies to assist others in coming why I pick up the money that the students throw around. to You. Use me, God of the lost ones, to further Your Initially I thought he was making oblique comments about kingdom and to hasten the return of Your Son, Jesus. ■ teachers' rates of pay. I explained to him what I did with the money. A few days of coin-on-the-floor scarcity later I was astounded to find that Patrick, unruly Patrick, had been scrounging the halls ahead of me. On the last day of class that week he unloaded a hefty couple handfuls of assorted coins into my hands. His smile was warm and G. Watson Pickup is an English teacher who writes mischievous; his admission that he was pleased to help from Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada. was a delight. So where is the object lesson in all this? The coins are like you and me. We come in various sizes

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