June 23. 1960

GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

The Church of God and Its Support-1

From Disappointment to Triumph By C. L. TORREY, Treasurer, General Conference

ROM earliest times dedicated men and women have Said the servant of the Lord, "I saw a company who F had a part in the process of building God's spiritual stood well guarded and firm, giving no countenance to temple or church. The servant of the Lord says, "Paul and those who would unsettle the established faith of the the other apostles, and all the righteous who have lived body. God looked upon them with approbation. I was since then, have acted their part in the building of the shown three steps—the first, second, and third angels' temple. But the structure is not yet complete."—The messages. Said my accompanying angel, 'Woe to him who Acts of the Apostles, p. 599. shall move a block or stir a pin of these messages. The The final phase in the building of the spiritual temple, true understanding of these messages is of vital importance. or church, began after the great disappointment in 1844. The destiny of souls hangs upon the manner in which At that time a large number of students of prophecy they are received.' expected the Lord to come in power and glory and take "I was again brought down through these messages, and them with Him to heaven. These waiting ones pinned all saw how dearly the people of God had purchased their their hopes on departing from this world, leaving behind experience. It had been obtained through much suffering heartaches, suffering, sin, and death. and severe conflict. God had led them along step by step, When Jesus did not come, the disappointment was great until He had placed them upon a solid, immovable plat- indeed. Some left the Movement and went back into the form. I saw individuals approach the platform and ex- world, while others searched the Scriptures for the cause amine the foundation. Some with rejoicing immediately of the disappointment. These sincere believers found that, stepped upon it. Others commenced to find fault with instead of referring to the coming of Jesus to gather His the foundation. They wished improvements made, and people, the prophecy "pointed to Christ's ministration then the platform would be more perfect, and the people in the most holy place, to the investigative judgment, and much happier. not to the coming of Christ for the redemption of His "Some stepped off the platform to examine it and de- people and the destruction of the wicked. The mistake clared it to be laid wrong. But I saw that nearly all stood had not been in the reckoning of the prophetic periods, firm upon the platform and exhorted those who had but in the event to take place at the end of the 2300 days." stepped off to cease their complaints; for God was the —The Great Controversy, p. 424. Master Builder, and they were fighting against Him. Although William Miller had led out in searching the They recounted the wonderful work of God, which had Scriptures and expounding the 2300-day prophecy, he did led them to the firm platform, and in union raised their not see or accept the seventh-day Sabbath as God's holy eyes to heaven and with a loud voice glorified God. This day. However, many of those who experienced the great affected some of those who had complained and left the disappointment later accepted the Sabbath truth and in platform, and they with humble look again stepped upon due time united in organizing the Sabbathkeeping Ad- it."—Early Writings, pp. 258, 259. ventists, naming themselves the Seventh-day Adventist It is an inspiration to turn back the pages of history Church. These members kept the commandments of God that record the acts of the early Sabbathkeeping pioneers and had the Spirit of Prophecy in their midst as foretold and note the plans they laid for the finishing of the work by prophecy (Rev. 12:17; 19:10). God had assigned to them under the guidance of the Holy So, out of the ashes of the great disappointment arose Spirit. Their assignment and that of their successors was a people grounded in faith and tried in the fires of af- to go into all the world and preach the gospel to every fliction. It was upon these men and women that God creature. What a tremendous undertaking to contemplate! built the foundations of His remnant church. The founda- They were few in number. They had no educational in- tion was strongly laid. stitutions in which to train (Continued on page 11) S.S. Lesson Help for July 9 Vol. 137, No. 25 Vol 137, No. 25 June 23, 1960

[These news items are taken from Religious News Service, Ecumenical News Service, and other sources. We do not necessarily concur in statements made in these items. We publish them simply to give our readers a picture of current COVER From Disappointment to Triumph religious developments.] EDITORIALS Page 3 Bible Society Reports New Scripture Distribution Record The Critics Examined—Raised "With" Christ—An- other Shift in Protestant Thought? ✓ A record distribution at home and abroad last year of 17,650,917 volumes of Scriptures in 296 languages was reported GENERAL ARTICLES Page 6 by the American Bible Society at its 144th annual meeting False Claims of Shepherd's Rod Exposed—Getting in New York. At the end of 1959 the whole Bible had been pub- Right With God and Man—Full of Years—The Serv- lished in 219 languages and dialects, a complete Testament ant of the Lord—The Gospel of Forgiveness in 271 more, and single books in 661 more. This made a total OUR HOMES Page 12 of 1,151 languages in which some part of the Bible has been published. Ann's Embarrassing Moment—Steam Vents and Whis- tles—Tale of the Talents Southern Baptists Announce Braille Monthly for FOR ADVENTIST YOUTH Page 14 Teen-agers Words to the Young—Youth Deny Self for Missions ✓ The Southern Baptist Convention's Sunday School Board MISSION STORY OF THE WEEK Page 16 announced in Nashville, Tennessee, it will start publication next October of a monthly magazine in Braille for use by blind Among the Aborigines of Taiwan early-teen-agers in Sunday school. Entitled the Intermediate Braille Baptist, the publication will contain the International NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD Page 18 Uniform Sunday School lessons which appear in the Inter- Osaka, Japan, Evangelistic Center—Ordination in Ni- mediate Pupil, a monthly for sighted pupils, plus a selection geria—Lahaina, Maui, Church Dedicated—Laymen on of articles from Upward, a weekly story paper published by the the March in Australasia—New Hospital in Port-of- Spain, Trinidad—European SDA Servicemen's Meet- board for the 13-16-age group. ing—Wickford, Rhode Island, Church Dedication— New Medical Horizons in Viet Nam—Advanced Edu- NAE Cites "Unrest" Over Catholic President cation at Solusi Missionary College—"Get On That Train and Go Back Home"—Manila Sanitarium Mo- ✓ Doubt that a Roman Catholic President "could or would bile Clinic—From Home Base to Front Line—VOP resist fully the pressures of the ecclesiastical hierarchy" be- Student Graduates at Age of 107—Forward Despite cause of "the political-religious nature" of the Catholic Church Difficulties in Nyasaland—Ordination Services in the was expressed in a resolution adopted by the National Associa- Middle East—In Brief-1960 Camp Meetings—Church tion of Evangelicals at its eighteenth annual meeting in Calendar for 1960—Sabbath School Activities Chicago. "The real source of unrest" regarding Catholicism and the Presidency, the NAE said, "is the total lack of any con- SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 28 vincing commitment of the Roman Catholic Church to the The Decalogue (Lesson for Sabbath, July 9) principle of Church-State separation." Such assurance, it added, "could only come from the highest authority of that POETRY organization and could only be evidenced by realignment Our Father's Love, p. 6; Someone Knows, p. 9; Giving of Catholic policy in those countries where Catholicism is now for Missions, p. 11 the established religion." Faculty Salaries Up in Church-related Schools TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS ✓ College faculty salaries have risen an average of 10.6 per As the chronicler of the history of the church the REVIEW is always interested cent throughout the nation in the past two years, the U.S. in prompt reports with pictures of important happenings—church dedications, Office of Education reported in Washington, D.C. 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Powell Copyright © 1960 by the Review and Herald Publishing Association. 2 REVIEW AND HERALD We also made clear that if we did not secure this in- The Critics Examined formation through the special committees of the Na- tional Council of Churches we would have to secure it In the past several issues of the REVIEW we have ex- through our own research and travel, and at much amined the question of whether the Seventh-day Ad- greater cost. In other words, we are saving money for the ventist Church has membership in the National Council church. of Churches. We have done this because, as we ex- plained, certain very vocal critics, self-styled "re- But these facts mean nothing to the type of mind that formers," who avow great concern for the orthodoxy of is determined to be critical. All we have published in the the Advent Movement, have charged that we were mem- REVIEW and all that has been explained in personal bers of the Council and that, thereby, the leadership of correspondence leaves these critics still active in pouring the church is in "alliance with apostates." out their derogatory remarks. Now, having examined this sore criticism of the lead- One of Two Conclusions Required ership, we think it appropriate to examine these critics. We have done little of this through the years so far as Only one of two conclusions is possible concerning critics within, or on the fringes of, the church are con- these critics. Either they are so inattentive in their read- cerned. Solomon says that there is a time for everything. ing and in their investigation of facts as to be unable to We think that now is the appropriate time for offering draw an obvious conclusion, or else they have wittingly some comment on these critics, or so-called reformers, sought to deceive. We would prefer to think that the lest our continuing silence be misunderstood as an in- former is the explanation. But if it is, they are unworthy ability to say anything in reply to their often-fantastic of serious attention. If the latter explanation be the cor- charges. There is, indeed, a clear cut reply that can be rect one, they have doubly forfeited a claim upon our given. attention. We make this reply not because we think we will It is a hard thing to say, but the context and all the change the thinking of the critics, but because we wish writing of these critics seem almost to demand that the to protect loyal members from being confused. We are latter is the correct explanation. For the facts about our confident that the overwhelming majority of our member- relationship to the National Council are so evident ship are loyal. But we do not want even a few of our from the record, and could have been so easily verified by people to be bewildered or deceived. correspondence with the office of the National Council, As the reader will recall, the evidence presented dur- that even a wayfaring man could not fail to reach the ing the past several weeks makes crystal clear that we are right conclusion. This is probably as strong a statement neither members nor associate members of the National as we have written for the REVIEW in many a long year. Council. Furthermore, we have shown that during the But we believe that betimes there is full justification, whole decade since the National Council was formed, and with ample scriptural precedent, for speaking out since the World Council has come into focus in America, clearly and vigorously in exposure of deception and mali- the REVIEW has repeatedly and at length declared we cious charges. could not become members, and has offered the reasons why. Now, these critics on the fringes of our ranks, who Why Do Men Do This? give evidence of reading the REVIEW with microscopic at- The question clamors for answer: Why do men do this? tention, could not have failed to see all of this material It is a good question. Nor do we think it hard to answer. we have published. Yet, despite this, they have sought, As all of us have noted in the journey of life, some through their circular letters and other means of propa- people never seem so happy as when publicizing the fail- ganda, to convey an idea that has no foundation in fact— ures, real or imaginary, of others. Indeed, such people, the idea that we are members. when unable to find failings, seem able to invent them. It is a sobering fact that the first being ever to fall from False Charges as to Money Paid grace acquired, erelong, the unsavory title of "the ac- They have set forth with great affectation of spiritual cuser of the brethren." That title had never been held shock, the fact that we have paid to certain division com- by anyone in the universe before Satan fell. We know not mittees of the National Council a few thousand dollars whether he is jealous of the title, but we do know that out of our more than $20 million of annual world appro- he has had to share it with many through the long cen- priations. To these critics this is clear proof that we are turies. strongly supporting an "apostate" organization. But in It is easy to twist and turn facts and statements. How their haste to indict us they have never troubled to in- plausible a charge sounds when the inventor of it remarks quire why we paid these few thousands to these par- smugly: "Well, these are the facts." It is actually possible ticular committees. In the editorials just published we that what he has stated are facts, but are they all the have tried to make clear that the amounts we paid were facts, and are they nothing but the facts? In court it is for helpful data and information on certain matters, such necessary not only that a man swear to tell the truth, as regulations of various governments, visas and pass- but that he tell the "whole truth and nothing but the ports, transportation of mission goods and welfare sup- truth." Indeed, even if we grant that, by chance, an ac- plies, and numerous other data of vital importance for cuser might set forth all the facts—though we do not an organization like ours that is pouring out millions presently recall any such instance—it could still easily each year on a mission program and on other programs, be possible that a false picture might be given to the such as broadcasting and religious liberty. reader. JUNE 23, 1960 3 And why? Simply because facts are something like the year-old son of the minister, spread word that the pieces of a mosaic. You arrange them in one way and the family had received "spiritual notification" that the result is a certain over-all picture. You arrange them in father would emerge from his grave at daybreak, April another way and you have a different picture. Indeed, 30. In full faith that the resurrection would take place, you may even have something grotesque. It is necessary Leon quit his job as a truck driver in order to assist his to know not only all the facts, but the factors that pro- father in the ministry. duced the facts, and the relationship of one fact to Before daybreak Leon and his mother, and the large another. We may know that a certain action was taken by crowd of curious onlookers, were at the graveside. A few a responsible body of men, but we may not know what songs were sung, and prayers were offered. prompted the action. If we did we might wish to pass an Darkness gave way to dawn. The sun rose behind a entirely different judgment on the action. bank of gray clouds. But nothing happened. Disap- We who must sit for endless hours in committees, draft- pointed, the crowd began to disperse. By eight o'clock ing plans and programs to meet difficult and sometimes everyone had gone—everyone except Paul Frye, that is_ grave situations as they develop in the world work, are He remained in his grave. sometimes quite astounded later to hear what is supposed It is not surprising that a large crowd gathered in re- to be an authentic report of all that we did in these com- sponse to the announcement that this minister would mittees, and why. The report may bear little relation to come forth from his grave. Twentieth-century man is what actually took place and even less relation to the miracle-hungry. He is fascinated by supernatural demon- causes and the motives that prompted the actions. Un- strations. And what could be more exciting than to see doubtedly this will always be so as long as sin is in the a man rise from the grave! As Christ's coming draws world. We must be prepared to meet a certain amount near we can expect more of this sort of thing, for through of distortion of our words and acts, whether we are in spiritism Satan will perform many undoubted miracles— religious work or any other kind of work. perhaps he shall even apparently raise the dead. But the Bible is clear that the dead will not come forth A Personal Reference until the second coming of Christ. At that time the Speaking personally: Numbers of times we have seen voice of the Son of God will shatter the graves, and the our own words twisted and distorted out of context in the dead will arise. See 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18. writings of critics who seemed bent on making us say Dead Not Now in Heaven something we never intended to say, something that could not rightly be drawn from our writings. We ought A contemporary critic of Adventist beliefs contends to know what we have written, and we ought to know that 1 Thessalonians 4:14 proves that the souls of those the intent behind our writings. Certainly we ought to who have died in Christ are already in heaven and will know it better than anyone else. Yet we have faced this come with Christ at the second coming; that at that time situation repeatedly. they will be reunited with their bodies. He bases his argu- Indeed, who among us had not had the experience of ment almost entirely on the use of the Greek preposition having his words twisted, his actions misjudged, until he sun (am) which, he says, "has no meaning other than could hardly recognize himself in the pen portrait drawn `together with.' " of him? The memory of that fact should make us all suspi- Perhaps this critic is sincere, but we believe he is cious as to the dependability of the material written in trying to prove the unprovable. Instead of seeking to indictment of the denomination by a certain kind of discover Paul's meaning exclusively from the way a prep- critic. osition is used, he would do well also to compare other We should be doubly suspicious when criticisms, in- scriptures that throw great light on the problem. dictments, and heavy charges are the stock in trade of Seventh-day Adventists believe, of course, that when certain people, so that what they write seems to be filled Paul wrote, "even so them also which sleep in Jesus wilt from beginning to end with doleful presentations of the God bring with him" (1 Thess. 4:14), he was affirming mistakes, the blunders, the evil deeds, allegedly, of the that just as Christ rose from the dead, just as He came leadership of the Advent Movement. A moment's medi- forth in the flesh, just as He came forth never to die again, tation would surely lead any of us to realize that despite in like manner God will bring the saints from the grave the fact that the leadership is frail and human, like the at the second coming. rest of us, they could scarcely be as bad as painted by Does Paul elsewhere use the preposition sun in this those who seem to have an insatiable passion to picture mystical, spiritual, symbolic sense? He does. For example, such leaders as apostates and as turning the Advent in Romans 6:8: "Now if we be dead with Christ, we be- Movement rapidly down the road toward Babylon. Surely lieve that we shall also live with him." When Paul wrote it hardly seems reasonable to believe that if the leaders this, Christ was not dead, and the believers (the "we" of of this Advent Movement were so blind and sinful, God the verse) were not dead physically. Paul meant that they, would be so signally blessing and expanding the world having died to sin, entered symbolically into Christ's lit- program of the Advent Movement that is directly in the eral death, through baptism; and they were now alive charge of these men. F. D. N. with Him spiritually. Certainly no one would claim that (To be continued) Paul's use of sun in this text would demand that Christ and the believers must be together with each other physically. Colossians 2:12, 13 illustrates this use even more Raised "With" Christ clearly. Paul writes: "Buried with him in baptism, There was considerable excitement in the little com- wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of munity of Mount Clinton, Virginia, the morning of April the operation of God, who hath raised him from the 30. On that day Paul F. Frye, a Pentecostal minister who dead. And you, being dead in your sins and the uncir- died November 23, last year, was to be resurrected! On cumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with hand to witness the miracle in the county cemetery across him, having forgiven you all trespasses." the road from the Mennonite church were nearly 1,000 Obviously the physical presence of Christ was not curious spectators, some of whom had spent the night in necessary for believers to be raised and quickened their cars to be sure of a graveside location. "together with him." Whenever believers are baptized by Interest in the event started when Leon A. Frye, 37- immersion, accepting by faith the wonderful provisions 4 REVIEW AND HERALD of salvation, they are "buried with him" and "quickened reformers," and then he goes on to observe that "theolog- with him." ically and biblically it had no leg to stand on." If it be argued that sun can have only one meaning in But in our generation, says Father Baum, much has a given context, we must insist that this is not so. The already happened within Protestantism, and there has apostle often uses one word in more than one way, been another radical shift. The now-old liberalism of even in a single text. For example, in Romans 3:21 he earlier years is on the verge of being replaced by a new uses law twice. The first time he is speaking of law as a concept of the theological bases of faith. Liberal Prot- principle; the second, of Moses' writings which, plus estants are coming to regard the New Testament as "the prophets," evidently here include the entire Old primarily a record of what the early church thought Testament. Jesus said and did, and to transfer the focus of their con- But we need not seek to discover what Paul meant in cern from Jesus' earthly life to the apostolic church. The 1 Thessalonians 4:14, merely through word constructions significance of this shift, Father Baum believes, cannot be and usages. In 1 Corinthians 15 Paul declares that "if exaggerated since it places the New Testament in an Christ be not raised," "then they also which are fallen entirely different light, from both the historical and the asleep in Christ are perished" (verses 17, 18). Perished liberal Protestant points of view. It minimizes the impor- is a strong word if what Paul really meant was that the tance of what Jesus "may" have said and done while on souls of the righteous dead are already in heaven. But earth, in favor of emphasis on His continuing action Paul did not hold such a belief. He believed that the within the church and with what the church believed righteous dead are sleeping in their graves, awaiting the about His saving power. The historical church, not a resurrection, a resurrection in every respect like that of historical Christ, is coming to be the source and center Christ, whose resurrection makes the resurrection of the of liberal Protestant faith, and consequently the church saints a certainty. Note these verses: and tradition "suddenly become quite important to Prot- "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the estant theology"—as they always have been to Catholic firstfruits of them that slept. . . . For as in Adam all die, theology. even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man As a result of this major theological shift Roman in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they Catholics who make it their business to sample the Prot- that are Christ's at his coming" (verses 20, 22, 23). estant atmosphere find it entirely different today from The apostle declares that the righteous "shall all be what it was even a decade or two ago. So much so, says made alive." Why would it be necessary to make them Father Baum, that "the things we [Catholics] used to alive if they already are? Further, he says, "every man in prove to Protestants by apologetical arguments now have his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that become firsts which they accept spontaneously." Accord- are Christ's at his coming." Christ arose nineteen cen- ingly, he concludes, "the change [in Catholic discus- turies ago as the firstfruits; the sleeping saints shall arise sions of Protestantism] reflects much more than an in- from their graves together with (sun) Him at the crease of tolerance; it is rather a consequence of the second coming. change that has taken place within Protestantism, change With this conclusion the Spirit of Prophecy agrees: which, on the one hand, leads Protestant theology closer "Paul meant that as Christ was raised from the dead, to the tradition of the Church and, on the other, offers, so God will call the sleeping saints from their graves, by its profundity, a true challenge to Catholic theology." and take them with Him to heaven."—The Acts of the Apostles, p. 259. Implications for Seventh-day Adventists The friends and loved ones of Paul Frye were disap- Implicit in Father Baum's discussion of the recent pointed when he was not resurrected. But at Christ's re- change in Protestant thought are two points of particular turn how different will be the scene. "The dead in Christ interest to Seventh-day Adventists. First is the fact that shall rise" (1 Thess. 4:16). "Precious consolation! glori- within our generation there has been a decisive, though ous hope!"—Ibid. K. H. W. perhaps unintentional and as yet not fully appreciated, reorientation of liberal Protestant thought in the general direction of Rome. Second, as a result of this reorientation Roman Catho- Another Shift in Protestant lics are adapting their appeal to liberal Protestants to meet the change. Perhaps we as Seventh-day Adventists Thought? would also do well to inquire if the way in which we are giving our message to the Christian world is effec- In the May 20 Commonweal—national Catholic lay tively reaching the minds of men where they are today, weekly—Father Gregory Baum comments on "clear signs instead, perhaps, of where they were fifty or seventy- ... that the Catholic attitude towards Protestantism is un- five years ago. Our message to the world is the same today dergoing a change," as evidenced by the "more sympa- as it always has been, and will remain the same, but cer- thetic" consideration of Protestant writings and teachings tainly we can find ways of telling it ever more convinc- now appearing in American Catholic publications. He ingly. Protestant thought has traveled a long distance in addressed himself to the question of whether this is the twentieth century, and the telling arguments of yes- merely a more moderate and friendly manner of speak- teryear may, to a large extent, fall unconvincingly on ing, or whether it reflects a fundamental change in atti- modern ears. At least, we could well give closer study tude. He proceeds to review briefly the position of liberal than we have to current trends in Protestantism in an Protestant scholars of the late nineteenth and early endeavor to ascertain more precisely what people are twentieth centuries, to whom the New Testament was a thinking, and then consider how to present our message combination of authentic history and popular legend, with more telling force. and who essayed to distill from it a hypothetical image Certainly none of us would deliberately choose to be of what they considered to be the true "historical Jesus." found in the role of a blind man loosing a blast of buck- Their a priori dismissal of everything supernatural took shot in the general direction of a flock of geese honking them far, of course, from the traditional Protestant posi- high overhead, in the hope of occasionally bringing tion of Luther, Calvin, and others. Baum aptly observes one of them down. Clear sight and a steady aim are as that in the process liberalism "made a one hundred essential in the quest for men's souls as they are in hunt- eighty-degree turn from the original position of the ing geese. R. F. C. JUNE 23, 1960 5 False Claims of Shepherd's Rod Exposed

By W. E. Murray Vice-president, General Conference

OUT 12 miles from the city of give him a hearing. This group was land on which they set up the Mt. Waco, Texas, is a place called composed of 12 ministers from the Pa- Carmel Center. Recently the David- Mt.R Carmel Center—headquarters of cific Union Conference and the Gen- ians sold this tract and purchased an- the offshoot movement known as the eral Conference. At this meeting it other tract of some 900 acres at a dis- Shepherd's Rod. This group chooses appears that Mr. Houteff insisted that tance of about 12 miles from Waco. at present to call itself the "General an answer be given him after he had The Davidians hold that Mr. Houteff Association of Davidian Seventh-day presented his first theme. This was possessed the gift of the Spirit of Adventists." The beliefs and practices thought unfair, but finally out of con- prophecy. of this sect have been found to be out sideration to him the committee gave Through the years the Shepherd's of harmony with the teachings of the a report to him and about a dozen of Rod people have engaged in a nui- Seventh-day Adventist faith, and be- his followers. sance campaign against the Seventh- cause of that we have taken issue with In this report it was pointed out day Adventist Church. They have them from the very beginnings of clearly that his teachings were out of come into our churches at meeting their history. A brief review of the his- harmony with the Scriptures and the times and tried to present their ec- tory of the Shepherd's Rod movement writings of Ellen G. White. The com- centric theological ideas. They have will perhaps be helpful to some of mittee earnestly urged him to give up in many instances posted representa- our readers. the errors of his teaching. One state- tives at the doors of our churches as ment of the report is: "Since error is the meeting hour approached, to dis- History of the Movement found in the Shepherd's Rod, and it tribute their publications, such as Mr. Victor T. Houteff was founder is in open disagreement with the Bi- "The Shepherd's Rod," "The Sym- of the movement. A study of this ble and the Spirit of prophecy, the bolic Code," "Timely Greetings," and man's history reveals that he was born only safe course is to reject its teach- others. One of the great burdens of and reared in Bulgaria. He was born ings and to discontinue its study." these people appears to be to bring in 1885, and died in February, 1955. About 1935 Mr. Houteff went to caustic accusations against the min- In his experience in the Greek Ortho- Waco, Texas, where he and his fol- isters and leaders of the Seventh-day dox Church he became involved in lowers secured about 200 acres of Adventist Church. controversy with its leaders. He was We understand that in April, 1959, finally expelled from Bulgaria and 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111i1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 some 800 people gathered at the came to the United States in 1907. He Shepherd's Rod headquarters near was baptized in 1919 and became a Waco, Texas. These included mem- member of the Seventh-day Adventist Our Father's Love bers of the sect, followers and leaders Church. of offshoots of the Shepherd's Rod, By 1925 we find him in California, By Alice Slater their children, and some others who and in 1930 he was a Sabbath school We read in the dear old Bible came out of curiosity. They had pre- superintendent in one of the local A story of love sublime: dicted that a "great slaughter" of the churches. Appropriating the influ- A loving Father who sent His Son leaders of the Adventist Church, and ence of his local church office he took To a dark world filled with crime. several other events, would occur on charge of the teachers' meetings and April 22, 1959, or soon thereafter. there began to propagate his peculiar He loved His Son, as all parents do— The people who gathered at Waco beliefs. And the sacrifice was great; had come to witness the demonstra- His history from then on was But He saw that sinners would be tion of God, which they proclaimed marked by a series of conflicts with destroyed, would be evidence to all that God local church authorities because of his And desired to change their fate. was leading in their teaching and insistence on spreading his strange work. theories. The years were also marked Oh, give this message to all who will But the day came and went, with- by many interviews with pastors and hear; out the expected manifestation. Some leading brethren of the Adventist Proclaim it far and wide: of these people had sold their homes ministry. Records reveal that it was That Jesus, our loving Saviour, and businesses, we understand, ex- the unanimous opinion of those who For all of us has died. pecting that the next move would be were close to these transactions, that to Palestine, headquarters for preach- he was given more than a fair chance And through the power of His dear name ing the loud cry, or for the evangeliza- to be heard. The ministers of those We can live a life that is right; tion of the world, as predicted by the days endeavored by kindly considera- For only Christ can save us from sin, Shepherd's Rod writings. Gradually tion, prayer, and study to show Mr. And clothe us in garments of white. they began to leave Waco. Houteff the error of his way, but It was at this time—June, 1959— without success. Finally, in 1930, he Because of the wonderful love of God that Elder A. V. Olson was preaching was dropped from church member- I now am a child of the King. in our own church in Waco, Texas. ship. I've been redeemed by Christ's precious He was invited by the Shepherd's Rod In 1934 a group of Seventh-day Ad- blood; leaders to speak to their people at ventist ministers was appointed to I owe Him everything. their Mt. Carmel tabernacle near 6 REVIEW AND HERALD Waco. Elders R. L. Odom, R. P. their beliefs, and the last part of the They further declare that the Montgomery, and R. L. Winders time was used by the General Confer- "slaughter of Ezekiel 9" immediately joined Elder Olson and tried to give ence representatives to explain the precedes the 42 months of Revelation spiritual help. The meetings contin- viewpoint of the church. All the meet- 11:2 and/or the 1260 days of Revela- ued for about two weeks, closing on ings at this hearing were held in an tion 11:3. They interpret the slaugh- July 7. At the last meeting the leaders atmosphere of Christian considera- ter of Ezekiel 9 as an act of God. Ac- of the Shepherd's Rod requested the tion, courtesy, and understanding. cording to their predictions the pe- General Conference to appoint a From among the subjects discussed riod of 1260 literal days began No- committee of ministers to meet with I wish to bring to the attention of vember 9, 1955, the date they mailed an equal number of their representa- REVIEW AND HERALD readers some out from their Waco headquarters the tives for a hearing. points, of the many touched upon, announcement of the Shepherd's Rod The General Conference under- that are of general interest. explanation of this time prophecy_ stood that this request was motivated The end of the period was to come by a sincere desire on the part of the The Time-setting Quandary at the end of three and one-half lit- Shepherd's Rod to learn where their In November, 1955, shortly before eral years-42 literal months, or 1260 doctrines were wrong, and to seek an his death, Mr. Houteff expressed the days—on April 22, 1959. understanding that might ultimately decided conviction that "the time At the end of this period, according guide them back to the Seventh-day prophecy of Revelation 11:2-12 and to the Shepherd's Rod, should "come Adventist Church. A committee of Daniel 12:6, 7 could have met their the earthquake [shaking] in which seven was appointed, of which the fulfillment only in type from 538 A.D. will be slain all the hypocrites in writer was one, and the Davidians ap- to 1798 A.D. and that they have a lat- God's part of Christendom—the Ad- pointed an equal number. ter day fulfillment." It is believed by ventist Church." The meetings of this group of the Shepherd's Rod that the period of They declared "that during the days fourteen were held in a house on prophetic time mentioned here refers of this prophecy [spring of 1959] the Maple Avenue, in Takoma Park. to literal 24-hour days, quite out of Gentiles are treading the Holy City, at They began on July 27 and closed on keeping with the Biblical standard of the end of which they are to be driven August 7. The representatives of the each day's representing a year accord- out." Shepherd's Rod had the first part of ing to the well-established principle In a press release made in the spring this period for the presentation of of prophetic interpretation. of 1959 they affirmed: "We expect that sometime this spring [1959] God will commence to set up His peaceful kingdom in the Holy Land." There were, therefore, three pre- dictions set for the fulfillment of time prophecies in the spring of 1959. None of these took place. fzetief Regite With 9 afed Nam Plainly the Shepherd's Rod made a prediction in all seriousness, marked By Brownie R. Owen off with mathematical precision, but what they predicted failed to come to pass. They wrote: "Notice was also ACK in the 1920's one of the His Spirit, urging us to repent and sur- given that the fulfillment of the events workers at the White Memorial render. How wonderful it will be when of verses 7-13 which follow the 1260 O Hospital came into possession we get to heaven to talk to Christ face days, as explained by the Davidians, of some gold coins worth $55. For senti- to face and thank Him for the love ex- would be the means by which the mental reasons the pieces were highly tended to us in our redemption from this Lord will demonstrate that He is lead- prized, and in searching for a place of sinful world. ing this association in its teaching safety for them, he arranged for this Satan would keep our sins before us and work." gold to be placed in the vault of the hos- and make us believe we are beyond hope. It would seem clear to anyone who pital. Some months later when the owner But God has recorded in His Word many understands the principles of pro- went to get them the gold coins were of the failures of His chosen ones, that phetic interpretation that a grave er- gone. A diligent search did not turn up we might not become discouraged by our ror was made. In the first place, no any trace of the missing treasure. Even- failures. Think of the lives of Moses, time prophecy, or time period in tually it was written off as an unsolved Enoch, and Elijah. All were sinners by prophecy, has a double application. mystery. nature, yet all were saved and now are The Davidians apply the 1260 days— Thirty-six years later, at revival serv- in heaven, according to Scripture. All prophetic years—to the long period of ices held in the White Memorial church, of these chosen ones responded to God's papal persecution beginning in 538 many were influenced by God's Spirit to entreaties and let His Spirit control ev- and ending in 1798. Here the year-day renew their consecration to Christ and ery thought and act of their lives. If Jesus principle is used by them. Then they get ready to meet the judgment and the is the "same yesterday, and to day, and apply the same prophecy to another return of their Lord. Shortly after the for ever," He will do for us what He did time period, using the literal day prin- meetings closed the gold coins that had for these three men, if we are willing. ciple. This procedure is inconsistent disappeared from the hospital vault 36 Think of the jealousies and rivalry and out of harmony with the prin- years previously were returned to the among the twelve disciples, and the mis- ciples of prophetic interpretation, owner via first-class mail. There was no erable failures some of them made at and must be rejected. indication as to who had sent them, but times—Peter even denying his Lord Furthermore, the beginning of the whoever it was relieved himself of a load with curses. But when they were con- period of November 9, 1955, has no of guilt that had weighed on his con- verted they proved themselves by martyr- historic or prophetic significance. It science many years. dom for God, and they will be among the is acknowledged by them to be an How thankful we should be for a pa- redeemed. We should derive strength and "arbitrary date." The most significant tient and loving Saviour. Time in years courage from their experience. What element is that the prediction was not is as nothing to Him. He follows us by God did for them He will do for us. fulfilled. The Scriptures teach that a JUNE 23, 1960 7 prophecy in which the predictions are is made that the General Conference Seventh-day Adventist believers every- not fulfilled is false. representatives at the hearing used where should be to have nothing to The Shepherd's Rod declared that Ellen G. White's writings "almost do with these misleading beliefs. they were staking the future of their exclusively" in presenting their Those who give ear to the teachings movement on the fulfillment of this studies. I have reviewed again the sec- of the Shepherd's Rod and other off- prophecy. If the prophecy were to retary's report of those meetings very shoot movements are surely heading come true, said they, that would be carefully and I do not believe it is at for spiritual confusion and ultimate proof that their movement was God all fair to make this charge. In all the disappointment and apostasy. inspired. When the prophecy of their presentations made by the General We write these lines having in our own invention failed in fulfillment, Conference representatives, references heart all Christian consideration and then we can only conclude—in har- were made freely and frequently to charity, but having also in mind our mony with their own prior admission the Bible, as also to the Spirit of responsibility to warn the faithful —that their movement was not in- Prophecy writings. against error. We believe, in the provi- spired by God. In conclusion, after hearing and dence of God, that the Advent Move- giving study to the presentation of the ment has been raised up to carry the Shepherd's Rod Claim Houteff Shepherd's Rod in a deliberate and everlasting gospel to all the world be- Possessed Gift of Prophecy open-minded attitude, we must with fore the second coming of our Lord. The Shepherd's Rod professes great firmness declare that their conclusions We know also that the powers of evil respect and confidence in the writings are erroneous. are endeavoring to weaken our wit- of Ellen G. White, yet in the matter In the themes presented by them, ness by the most subtle means. of time setting their preaching runs which have to do with the interpre- In the days of the early Christian exactly counter to such warnings as tation of Old Testament prophecies, church the apostle Paul warned that the one on page 55 of Testimonies to we believe they are following a most grievous wolves would "enter in Ministers, and another in the REVIEW faulty and imaginative interpretation. among you, not sparing the flock. Also AND HERALD, March 22, 1892: "Again They apply Bible texts arbitrarily. of your own selves shall men arise, and again have I been warned in re- They use the writings of Ellen G. speaking perverse things, to draw gard to time-setting. There will never White in a sense apparently not in- away disciples after them" (Acts 20: again be a message for the people of tended, paying little or no attention 29, 30). We believe this instruction God that will be based on time. We to the context. They teach and prac- applies to our own times, as well as to are not to know the definite time tice time setting, which is condemned the times of the apostle. either for the outpouring of the Holy by the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy. We are convinced that the best de- Spirit or for the coming of Christ. . . . We believe the counsel to all our fense against error is truth. We sin- Time will never be a test again." See also The Great Controversy, p. 457. The Shepherd's Rod people at the Finding the laboratory work too con- Takoma Park hearing explained their fining, he changed to apiculture, where belief that Mr. Houteff possessed the he could be out in the open. He developed gift of prophecy. They asserted that a large honey business. The Wisconsin the year of restoration of this gift in State Beekeepers' Association made him a living vessel was 1930. As a founda- their treasurer for 13 years, bee inspector tion for this belief they presented a for 15 years, and judge of honey exhibits 1500-year period and added a 430- at State and county fairs for approxi- year period, which reached 1930. That mately 20 years. is the year, they say, that the prophetic When Brother Allen and his parents gift was restored. became Adventists in 1878, there were They declare that Luther, the about 14,000 Seventh-day Adventists in German reformer, found a Bible in the world, with one publishing house, one the year A. D. 1500 and at that sanitarium, and one college. And so he time the Reformation really began. has seen the cause grow into a great world Let the reader remember that Luther organization. Through the years he has was then about 17 years old. Then for been an earnest lay preacher, frequently the 430 years, they take the period of giving talks on health, temperance, and years in Exodus 12:40, "the sojourn- religious liberty to non-Adventist groups. ing of the children of Israel . . . in It was his privilege to know Sister Ellen Egypt." They say that at the end of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Allen G. White. this period (1500 plus 430, or 1930) Sister Allen was a Bible instructor for the gift of prophecy was restored in Brother Allen is 95 years old and Sis- some years in Wisconsin. For the past 12 the person of Mr. Houteff. This is the ter Allen is 85. Their youthful days were years they have lived in Fort Meade, year Mr. Houteff began to preach his spent in Wisconsin. Between the ages of Florida, where Brother Allen is assistant peculiar beliefs in the Sabbath school 13 and 18 Arthur was practically an in- elder. For exercise Brother Allen cares for in California. valid. When almost 20 he went to the old his garden and takes a walk of a mile or The species of logic that can take Battle Creek Sanitarium for about three more every day. When asked the secret of an incident in the life of Luther and months. There he learned and adopted his advanced age, he quotes Proverbs 3: unite it with the sojourning of Israel the principles of health reform as taught 1 and 2, which says: "My son, forget not in order to bolster up the inspiration by Dr. J. H. Kellogg and his associates, my law; but let thine heart keep my com- claimed for Mr. Houteff is, to say using the teachings of the Spirit of mandments; for length of days, and long the least, ridiculous. Nothing can be Prophecy as a foundation. At the age of life, and peace, shall they add to thee." proved by this kind of reasoning. 33 he married and located in Portage, When a boy Brother Allen signed a After the hearing in Washington, Wisconsin. A church was organized, and pledge never to use tea, coffee, tobacco, in the summer of 1959, the Shepherd's Brother Allen was local elder for many or liquor. He has been a strict vegetarian Rod people published a pamphlet years. He engaged in the manufacture of for 60 years. reporting the meetings. One statement flavoring extracts and perfumes. ERNEST LLOYD 8 REVIEW AND HERALD cerely trust that none of our dear undermining the foundations of our New Testament where the Greek people will be led astray by the false Scripture-founded faith. The founda- word pais is rendered "Son" in rela- teachings of those who claim to have tion of God stands sure. Let us hold tion to Jesus Christ. These texts are: new or strange light. They are really to the truth as it is in Jesus. "God . . . hath glorified his Son Jesus" (Acts 3:13) and "God, having raised up his Son Jesus" (verse 26). In these verses the word means more than "son," however; it could better be ren- Jesus, Our Lord-5 dered "servant and son." In some English translations (such as R.S.V., Rotherham, Weymouth, 20th Cen- tury, et cetera) it is rendered "serv- The Servant of the Lord ant." Others render it "son," as in the K.I.V. A recent translation, the Amplified By W. E. Read New Testament, gives the word pais its fuller meaning when it renders Acts 3:13, 26 as follows: "God . . . has glorified His Servant and Son Jesus;" HE suffering servant of God is rience with his own people. He de- "God sent His Servant and Son Jesus." Tportrayed in the prophecy of clared, "But they have not all obeyed This is more in accord with the mean- Isaiah 52:13 to 53:12. References to the gospel" (Rom. 10:16). ing of the original word, and consti- the "servant" aspect of the person de- 7. The Witness of Peter. Peter rec- tutes still further evidence that the scribed in this scripture are found in ognized in his Lord and Master the "servant" concept of Isaiah 52 and 53 other places in the Old Testament, fulfillment of Isaiah 53:9. In 1 Peter applies to our blessed Lord. but this particular Isaiah section is the 2:22 we read, "Who did no sin, neither The Church Fathers of the early one that deals more in detail with this was guile found in his mouth." centuries were unanimous in their theme. The Greek word pais, usually ren- application of the prophecy of Isaiah This Biblical passage has been re- dered "servant," is used of Jesus in 53 to Jesus the Messiah. They used garded by the church through the cen- Matthew 12:18. this very effectively in their witness turies as one of the strongest and most "Behold my servant [pais], whom both to the Jews and to the Greeks. vital witnesses to the life and ministry I have chosen; my beloved, in whom Jewish Belief in Days of Jesus of Jesus of Nazareth. my soul is well pleased." This is In the New Testament there is at quoted from Isaiah 42:1. The same While the Jews throughout the cen- least a sevenfold witness to the appli- word is used in the LXX of Isaiah turies have held various concepts con- cation of this part of holy writ to 52:13: "Behold, my servant [pais] cerning the Messiah, it was generally Christ our Lord. shall deal prudently." This text in- believed in the days of our Lord that 1. The Witness of Matthew. Mat- troduces the subject of the Suffering Isaiah 53 definitely applied to the thew recognized the experience of Servant, or Messiah, of chapter 53. coming One. There are numerous ref- Jesus as a fulfillment of Isaiah 53:4, There are two other texts in the erences in the Talmud, Midrashes, which reads, "Surely he hath borne Targums, and other Jewish writings our griefs, and carried our sorrows." 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII that emphasize this. It is recognized Matthew 8:17 says, "Himself took our also in a current work such as the infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." Someone Knows Jewish Encyclopedia: 2. The Witness of Mark. Mark rec- "There are, however, four passages By Ruth S. Underwood ognized the crucifixion as a fulfill- in the Isaiah compilation where per- ment of Isaiah 53:12. Mark 15:28 Oh, Someone knows the heartaches, haps the 'national' interpretation is reads, "He was numbered with the He knows the reason why; not admissable, namely, Isa. xlii. 1-4, transgressors." For He alone can understand, xlix. 1-6, 1. 4-9, lii. 13-liii. 12. The 3. The Witness of Luke. Luke rep- And healing balm apply. descriptions in them of the attitude resented Jesus as saying: "This that He'll give us grace and courage, and conduct of the ebed YHWH seem is written must yet be accomplished Sweet peace and quietude; to be idealizations of the character in me, And he was reckoned among And if we will accept it, of an individual rather than of the the transgressors" (Luke 22:37). See His love and fortitude. whole of Israel. Especially is this true Isaiah 53:12. of Isa. lii. 13-liii. 12, the exaltation 4. The Witness of John. John While walking close to Jesus of the 'man of suffering.' In this a found the unbelief of the Jews a ful- O'er life's strange and rugged way, prophetic anticipatory picture of the fillment of Isaiah 53:1. We read, With His strong hand to hold us Messiah has been recognized by both "Lord, who hath believed our report? We're nearer home each day. Jewish and Christian tradition."— and to whom hath the arm of the That resurrection morning The Jewish Encyclopedia, Art. "Serv- Lord been revealed?" (John 12:38). The Saviour's voice we'll hear ant of God." 5. The Witness of Philip. Philip Awakening His sleeping saints "In the Targum (i.e., the Jewish preached the gospel to the eunuch, To join their loved ones dear. Aramaic translation of the Old Testa- reading from Isaiah 53:7, 8. "Philip ment) Isa. 52:1 reads: 'Behold, My opened his mouth, and began at the Oh, let's keep close to Jesus Servant, the Messiah.' And the serv- same scripture and preached unto And let Him be our Guide ant of Isaiah 52:13-53 is also specifi- him Jesus" (Acts 8:35; see verses 32, O'er life's steep, narrow pathway cally called the Messiah."—The Syn- 33). Till the pearly gates swing wide, optic Gospels (London: Macmillan 6. The Witness of Paul. Paul saw And we behold the grandeur & Company, Ltd., 1909), vol. I, pp. in the expression "Who hath believed Of that fair home at last, 48, 49. our report?" (Isa. 53:1) a prophetic When God shall wipe away all tears, The general belief of modern Jews forecast of this disappointing expe- And earth's trials shall be past. is that the Messiah has not yet come, JUNE 23, 1960 9 and it seems that not many of them In this prayer "Messiah" has "de- Years ago disputes were sometimes today are looking for Him. Most of parted from us." But how could He settled by a duel. Guns would spit the Jews have given up the Messianic depart unless He had been with us? flames and death. Victory and vindi- hope. There seems to be some con- Then the implication is that He will cation of self would come to the sharp- fusion in their thinking, however, for come "the second time." But how shooter whether he was morally in their prayers for use on the Day of could he come the second time, un- wrong or right. Atonement they refer to a Messiah less he had been here the first time? But the desire for personal triumph who has already come, and that they Should we not pray for "the lost has no place in the matter of asking have rejected him. It should also be sheep of the house of Israel"? Some for forgiveness or granting it; rather, observed that the wording of Isaiah of them will seek the Lord. Yes, some to ask or graciously give forgiveness 53 is used in this lamentation. Here even today are seeking God and find- is done to satisfy the law of righteous- is one example: ing in Jesus the true Messiah. (See ness. To give or ask forgiveness is to "Our righteous anointed [Messiah] The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 380, know you are doing right, and the is departed from us; horror hath 381.) satisfaction you receive is similar to seized us, and we have none to justify Of the great apostle Paul it is de- that felt by a person who may be us. He hath borne the yoke of our clared: "He preached Christ [Mes- tempted to steal but refuses to do so iniquities, and our transgressions, and siah]" and "confounded the Jews . . . because he loves God and knows that is wounded because of our transgres- proving that this is very Christ [Mes- he cannot fulfill God's will while tak- sion. He beareth our sins on his shoul- siah]" (Acts 9:20, 22). Let us follow ing what belongs to his neighbor. der, that he may find pardon for our his example and proclaim with re- Away then with the philosophy of iniquities. We shall be healed by his newed vigor, and in the power of the "saving face," or of being too proud wound, at the time that the Eternal Holy Spirit, that Jesus is indeed the to give your adversary the advantage! will create him [the Messiah] as a Messiah. "And be ye kind one to another, ten- new creature. 0 bring him up from (To be continued) derhearted, forgiving one another, the circle of the earth. Raise him up even as God for Christ's sake hath for- * This quotation is taken from page 239 of the given you" (Eph. 4:32). Joseph for- from Seir, to assemble us the second Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) Prayer Book or Machzor, with a translation by Dr. A. Th. Philips, gave because he loved God and God's time on Mount Lebanon, by the hand published by the Hebrew Publishing Company of of Yinnon [Messiah]." * New York. ways—it had become a quality of his life to forgive. We see in Joseph's experience an- other aspect of forgiveness when he asked: "Am I in the place of God?" (Gen. 50:19). He refused to hold the office of avenger. He said, in effect, The Gospel of Forgiveness "This is an office for which I have no qualifications. I cannot hold an office By J. M. Mershon for which God alone is qualified." Pastor, TV ahpeton, North Dakota And the apostle Paul recalled the dic- tum of the Father of us all: "Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God; for it is written, `Vengeance is mine, I will repay— "But as for you, ye thought evil Guided to a place of authority next (Rom. 12:19, R.S.V.). against me: but God meant it unto to Pharaoh, he was God's light for Some people perhaps say to them- good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, the knowledge of the Most High in a selves while reading this verse: "I will to save much people alive."—Genesis land of darkness. How quickly he for- not avenge, because God will." And 50:20. gave those who had wronged him! gritting their teeth they go on to add, At every turn in Joseph's road of "I am certain that God will do it, so N THE experience of Joseph in life he displayed this divine quality forgiving his brothers we observe I'll be willing to wait long years, and I of forgiveness. He forgave the hea- through it all see their reverses of life, a divine attitude of forgiveness. This then, and he forgave his brothers. The attitude, if adopted by husbands and their grief, and loss, and finally to wives, parents and children, relatives exult and say, I knew it." But is this and friends, and brethren and sisters forgiveness? in the church, would make it possible At one time a sister with the true to resolve even seemingly great dif- spirit of forgiveness asked me to visit ferences. But some refuse to forgive her husband from whom she had been even though God has made it plain Sir it-rv4cormtibe, separated for some years. He had had that unless we forgive others He can- toom.aituie a series of strokes that had made him not forgive us. a complete invalid. In the preceding By way of review, briefly recall that Lord imparted this virtue to his will- years, though he had fathered a large Joseph's brothers intended to remove ing heart. family, he had refused to help the him completely from their sight and When Joseph's brothers came to mother in training the children and jealous memory. Coldly and calculat- Egypt for food, how generous and for- financially providing for their needs. ingly, these wicked men sold Joseph giving he was! He had already for- For this dear sister the years had be- as a slave. given them in his heart. Even so it is come one long series of abuses that Then came the challenge to Jo- with God. As the sunshine, unseen would be enough to dishearten and seph to be God's man. In Potiphar's by human eyes, is above the dark break the most courageous. house he was misrepresented, and for clouds, just so does God's divine for- Yet now, near the end of her hus- years he suffered injustice in an Egyp- giveness await the sinner coming in band's journey, when he was tasting tian dungeon. But God had not for- faith to confess. "If we confess our the bitter fruit of his own sowing, this gotten him. In the providence of God sins, he is faithful and just to forgive" noble wife wanted someone to speak his undying faith was rewarded. (1 John 1:9). to him about his soul's salvation. She 10 REVIEW AND HERALD had maintained a spirit of forgiveness; "MY DEAR CAPTAIN: Publishing Work and to the end she hoped that he "I find it in my heart to forgive you, In 1849 Elder James White stepped would find the saute joy and happi- even you who killed my son. I, too, out in faith and started to write, with ness and forgiveness she had gained am a Christian. If we are living when no money in sight to support his from communion with her heavenly the war is over, I hope you will come family or to publish his writings. We Father. to Germany to visit me, that you may have all heard the story of how he What helped Joseph grant forgive- take the place in my home, if only for completed the writing and the print- ness so freely? He believed in God's a time, of my son whom you killed." ing of that first little paper, Present overruling providence. To his broth- This is a miracle of God's grace in Truth. With many tears a little group ers he said: "As for you, ye thought the human heart. of Sabbathkeepers knelt around those evil against me: but God meant it Each of us had a share in the death papers and besought the Lord to let unto good, to bring to pass, as it is of the Son of God. In sorrow over our His blessing rest upon these printed this day, to save much people alive" sins we ask His forgiveness. He sends messengers of truth. Elder White then (Gen. 50:20). back His moving, compelling answer: placed them in a carpetbag and car- Here, then, is a view of the divine "I forgive you, and when the war is ried them to the post office in Middle- working of God in personal and world over, I want you to come and live town, some miles distant. history. Oh, we worship a great God! with Me and be My son forever." That was the meager beginning of Joseph saw his faith in the Eternal With such an example of personal a mighty literature ministry and the confirmed when he looked back over forgiveness, let us always forgive one fulfillment of Sister White's prophecy the events of his life to behold the another in this earthly warfare, that that our literature would be printed mysterious, divine manner in which eternity may find us with Him and and scattered like the leaves of autumn God is able to overrule evil for good. those we have forgiven. throughout the world. That prophecy So God wants us to see that though has become a reality, for we now have forgiveness is an act which at first From Disappointment to 44 publishing houses and many other would seem a foolish loss of face— smaller printing presses sending out helping the enemy—it is truly an all- Triumph the message in 218 languages. Their important element of God's character. (Continued from page 1) total investment in land, buildings, When practiced, it makes good come and equipment is $366,314,927.27. As out of evil, and makes friends of ene- their young people for work in God's of December 31, 1959, there were mies. "While we were yet sinners, vineyard. They had no publishing 3,545 colporteurs distributing truth- Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:8). We houses to produce and publish litera- filled literature. Literature sales find tucked away in this experience ture for distribution. They had no amounted to $21,702,984.89. "How of Joseph the dawning of a glorious medical institutions where the sick beautiful upon the mountains are the light that was to reach high noon in and suffering could come for medical feet of him that bringeth good tidings, Christ. The costly gift of Jesus on the and spiritual help. cross was not an inducement for the In short, they had no money and that publisheth peace" (Isa. 52:7). Father to love us; rather, it was sim- few friends. But they had something Schools ply an unveiling of the deep love He of greater value—they had faith in has always had for sinners. God's promises, and they had the In 1854 the first church school was From Joseph, too, we learn that privilege of having in their midst the started in Buck's Bridge, New York, when we put our trust completely in servant of the Lord, through whom with Martha Byington, age nineteen, God no one can permanently injure God sent messages of instruction and as teacher. In 1854 Sister White re- us by word or deed. Neither Joseph plans for the development of His ceived a message from the Lord warn- nor Christ received permanent in- work. ing the Sabbathkeeping Adventists to juries from their enemies. They separate their children from the in- As we look back to those early days, fluences of the world. In 1875 Battle trusted in the marvelous providential we marvel at the faith and fortitude working of God to honor the integrity Creek College opened with 13 full- of the pioneers, and their determina- time teachers and an enrollment of of their heart, and His promises over- tion to press forward the task of world flowed in fulfillment. evangelism in the face of seemingly 289 students. The total cost of the Joseph's forgiveness was the true plant was $53,341.95. This was a large insurmountable obstacles. Let us sum in those days. forgiveness that also forgets. "Now briefly recount the progress of the therefore fear ye not: I will nourish work since those early days and note Today there are 4,892 Seventh-day you, and your little ones. And he com- the way God has directed and led His Adventist elementary schools, acad- forted them, and spake kindly unto people. It is a thrilling story. emies, and colleges scattered through- them" (Gen. 50:21). out the world. The enrollment in these schools numbers 273,142. There Francis C. Stifles tells an experience 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111[11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111[11111111111111111 from the life of a British officer. This are 11,702 teachers busily engaged in soldier in writing to a mother in Ger- Giving for Missions our worldwide educational program. many said something like this: By Harry Silbaugh Medical Work In May, 1866, our first sanitarium, "MY DEAR MADAM: Across a wide expanse of ocean known as the Western Health Reform "In the course of a commando raid To a dark and heathen shore, Institute, was t stablished in the city on a French village, it became my Help a light shine in the darkness, of Battle Creek, Michigan. Since that duty to kill your son. My heart aches Where it never shone before. time 221 sanitariums and hospitals with sorrow in sharing with you the To the desert, and the jungle, and treatment rooms have been estab- experience of loss that must be yours. And every darkened land, lished in many countries of the world, I write earnestly to ask your forgive- They of heathen superstition and God has richly blessed in the ness, for I am a Christian. I hope that Need a helping hand. activities of these institutions as soul- after the war is over I may see you To the mud hut by the delta, winning agencies in this cause. Now and talk with you face to face." Where the voodoo terror reigns— there are 421 doctors and 2,544 nurses Months later the young officer re- Help the sick and brokenhearted, employed in these institutions. ceived this answer: Through Jesus live again. (To be continued) JUNE 23, 1960

HOW TO KEEP THEM HAPPY AND HEAVENLY

CONDUCTED BY PROMISE JOY SHERMAN

" 'Thank you, Lord, for life so Ann's Embarrassing Moment sweet, Thank you for the food we eat, By S. B. Foster Thank you, Father, for birds that sing, H, THIS is so embarrassing!" When mother finished, Ann started We thank you, God, for everything.' O Ann was thinking, and she eating, but somehow the food did not Amen." wished with all her heart that she taste so good as it should. Mother's had asked her little friends to wait hand was still on her shoulder and she "Oh, Ann, please teach me that little outside until she had finished her heard mother say proudly, "The little verse. I think it is very nice! I want to lunch. She cast an anxious glance at verse of thanks that Ann says is even say it at my table," exclaimed San- her mother, who was smiling at her nicer. Why don't you say it, dear?" dra. Ann looked at her little friends expectantly. Mother had just said, and felt very happy. She was glad "Remember to say the blessing before Children Pleased that they didn't giggle, that they really you eat, dear." To Ann's surprise the children liked it! Ann smiled at everyone, then Ann was embarrassed; she was watching her smiled their encourage- repeated the little verse again and afraid of being laughed at. She looked ment. Ann folded her hands, bowed again until all the children could say at Jean. "I have been to her house her head and began: it with her. when the whole fam- Then she ate the most delicious ily had dinner, and lunch she ever remembered eating, nobody said any bless- while mother read aloud from the ing!" Ann thought to Bible: herself darkly. Then "Whosoever therefore shall confess there was Sandra, me before men, him will I confess also Ann's best friend. She before my Father which is in heaven. knew that neither But whosoever shall deny me before Sandra nor Larry men, him will I also deny before my and Amy, Sandra's Father which is in heaven" (Matt. brother and sister, 10:32, 33). who sat beside San- dra, patiently waiting for Ann to eat so that Steam Vents and Whistles they might resume By Virginia Ray Hansen, R.N. playing in the sunny back yard — well — S THE five-o'clock whistle blew, Ann knew none of A a nurse stood looking down at them ever had to say the admission page of the chart she table grace, so why held in her hand—Mr. James Mc- did she have to while Kinsey: address, 1162 South Rose Ave., they were here? What Oakville, California; age, 42; diagno- would it hurt to miss sis, essential hypertension, nervous ex- saying the blessing haustion. Beth sighed. How many pa- just once? Ann imag- tients with the same story had she reg- ined in her mind how istered. One would almost conclude Larry would start to that most of the people today could giggle; then the others fit into such a diagnosis! would join in! The first time Dr. Reynolds had "I just won't eat!" sent a hypertensive patient to her desk Hot tears of embar- it was routine, but today, after regis- rassment stung her tering this man, the impact of the eyelids. many recurrences of this diagnosis ap- Ann's mother was palled her. Just what was the cause, most understanding. the prognosis, the cure? Quickly she She touched her little searched through her handy medical daughter's shoulder dictionary. Hypertension—hyperten- lightly and said, "I'll sive—of course, she knew generally say it, dear." Without it meant an increase in blood pressure. further comment she To refresh her memory, she turned began — "Heavenly to her Medical Diseases, for Nurses Father, we are truly that dear old Dr. Smith had taught so thankful for the food graphically. On page 299 she found, You have given us EVA LTJOMA "Essential Hypertension—develops this day ... Ann folded her hands, bowed her head, and began her blessing. after age forty, cause obscure, hered- 12 REVIEW AND HERALD

ity sometimes a factor; mental strain, nosis and had grown to a noble man- ure. "Oh well," she mused, "life is like overeating, and insufficient exercise hood, blessed with musical talent and that!" seem to favor its occurrence." She an insatiable desire to succeed. She How many times she had chided smiled smugly to herself. She need had proudly married him, and God herself for being such a "worry wart." never worry about the exercise prob- had honored them with two boys, Why just yesterday lem, she was sure. Besides, doctors and whom they dearly loved. In turn, their It seemed that little boys, dirt, and nurses are never supposed to get sick. sons brought love and happiness along boy-powered hot rods gravitated to They knew better!—in theory, at least. with the usual problems of childhood her big back yard. It was black-topped She thought of her life with Fred. and youth. At times she wondered —"a wonderful race track for hot In spite of crippling polio as a small whether there weren't a few extra rods, Mother." Beth had been in the child, he had defied the doctor's prog- difficulties thrown in for good meas- kitchen finishing the last crimp in the crust of the apple pie she was making when she heard a shriek of "Well done, good and faithful servant!" terror, a screech of rubber, and the THE IP said the master. "You have been faithful sound of splintering orange-crate hot over a little; I will set you over much." rods. As she rushed to the scene her Lastly, the one-talent man came to re- youngest greeted her disgustedly from port. He was a surly sort of fellow. "Mas- under the overturned "vehicle" as he ter," he said, "I knew you were the kind held up a badly scraped arm, "For Tale of the Talents of man who likes to make profit out of pity's sake, Mother, don't look so wor- other men's work, so I buried your old ried! It only took off the top soil!" By Arthur S. Maxwell talent. Here it is. Take it. You can have She smiled to herself. Worry, tension, Knowing that He would soon be leav- it back." steam ing His disciples and going away for a At this the merchant was very upset. long, long time, Jesus tried to give them "You wicked and lazy servant!" he said. Running on Steam all the good advice He could so that "Why didn't you at least put my money This morning Johnny pounded the dip, would know what to do while He in the bank so I could have gained in- table to show his displeasure at some was gone. terest on it?" foolish thing thought up by his little That is why He told them the story of Then he added, "Take the talent from brother. Mother had said aloud to the ten sleepy girls. He wanted them to him and give it to the man with the ten father, "Why does a fellow have to be ready always for His return. But just talents. And throw this worthless servant blow off steam like that?" And father being ready was not enough. They must outside into the dark." placidly replied, "I just can't imag- make the most of their lives, serving God There is a lesson here for all of us. The ine. I save mine to run on." faithfully every day and using every merchant in this story is Jesus. He has How well he saved his steam to run chance to tell others of His love. gone away to a far country. And to each on, only she knew. The early morning To make this plain Jesus told another of His disciples He has given talents telephone calls to care for a drunken story. This was about a merchant who "according to their ability." Some have driver and the victims of his folly, the went on a long trip into a far country. five talents, some two, some only one. harassed mother of a petulant child, Before leaving, this man called three of But He expects all to use them the best the harnessing of power for the solv- his servants and handed each of them a they know how. ing of many problems in connection certain amount of money—"to every man Soon, when He returns, He is going with school boards, hospital board according to his several ability" to use it. to ask us what we have done with all the meetings, and other activities. Some- To one he gave five talents, to another good gifts He has given us. where along the line he had found two talents, and to the third, one talent. Oh, but you say, "He never gave me any and kept the secret of courage, con- Then, after urging each to do his best, money." tentment, and serenity under stress. he went on his journey. Maybe not. But money isn't the only She discovered his secret one day, The man with the five talents started talent. Your voice is a talent, with the of all places, in his laboratory. Slip- to work at once, buying and selling until power to talk and sing. Your brain is a ping in quietly this spring day, she he had made his five talents ten. talent, with the power to think and plan. found him with his open Bible before The man with the two talents did the Your hands are a talent, with the power him. She leaned over his shoulder and same, only he didn't earn quite so much. to write, to play music, to do good to the gave him an affectionate squeeze. Even so, he made a 100-per-cent gain, needy. There in his Bible, written on the so that his two talents became four. Count your talents. You will probably flyleaf, she found these words: "God But the man with the one talent merely find that you have more than five, maybe never leads His children otherwise dug a hole in the ground, buried his tal- ten. And Jesus wants you to use them all than they would choose to be led, if ent, and took life easy. He told his friends to His glory. they could see the end from the be- that he didn't see why he should work Perhaps you are saying, "But I have ginning, and discern the glory of the while the boss was away on vacation. only one talent." All right. Just don't purpose which they are fulfilling as By and by the merchant returned and bury it. Make the most of it. Use it, and coworkers with Him."—The Desire called his servants to account for the watch it grow! of Ages, pp. 224, 225. money he had entrusted to them. It's not the number of talents we have "Coworkers with Him " She felt The first came and told how he had that matters, but how faithful we are in she loved her Lord, but was she work- traded with the five talents and earned using them. Jesus wants us to be "faith- ing with Him? Her calendar was us- five more. ful in that which is least"—in the few ually black with appointments for "Well done, good and faithful serv- things, the smallest things, we do for Him. Pathfinders, storytelling, Dorcas work, ant!" said his master. "You have been And when the day of reckoning comes, dinners to help with, excursions to faithful over a little; I will set you over how happy you will be to hear Jesus chaperon, people to visit, cards to much." say to you, "Well done, good and faith- send, nursing calls to answer—really Then the second servant told what he ful servant"! though, was she working with Him? had done. That "Well done," said with a smile Like the stubborn oxen in the old- "Master," he said, "you gave me two and a handshake, will be reward enough time story, was she trying to carry the talents; here are two more." for anything any of us ever did for Him. (Continued on page 25) JUNE 23, 1960 13 method in their work, and applied themselves intelligently to what they had to do, they would have accom- plished much more in a shorter time. By dallying over the less important matters, they find themselves hurried, perplexed, and confused when they are called upon to do those duties Practical Counsel From the Pen of Inspiration that are more essential. They are al- ways doing, and, they think, working very hard; and yet there is little to show for their efforts. Words to the Young Under circumstances like these, where young men and women are By Mrs. E. G. White making such mistakes in their life dis- cipline, it would be sinful not to speak words of advice and counsel. E YE therefore perfect, even as ness of those with whom they are as- It is an extremely delicate thing to B your Father which is in heaven sociated. tell people of their faults. The re- is perfect." Can we look on indifferently, and prover is likely to find that in those "Do all things without murmurings know that the course that one of our reproved, pride and stubbornness as- and disputings: that ye may be relatives or friends is pursuing, is a sert themselves, and the will is ar- blameless and harmless, the sons of course that will greatly hinder his rayed in defiance and opposition. But God, without rebuke, in the midst of usefulness, and, because we fear he for all this, advice should be given, a crooked and perverse nation, among will take offense at a word of reproof, and faults should be laid bare. Let whom ye shine as lights in the world; warning, or instruction, keep our lips the young cultivate a teachable spirit, holding forth the word of life; that I closed? Shall we not advise, counsel, that they may be benefited by the ef- may rejoice in the day of Christ, that and caution him concerning his dan- forts of those who seek to help them. I have not run in vain, neither la- ger? Shall we see persons pursuing a You may feel that you are doing your bored in vain." wrong course to their own detriment best, and that you have been re- The Lord appeared unto Abra- and to the injury of others, and yet proved for very trifling matters, and ham, and said, "Walk before me, have nothing to say? Do we love souls, you may be impatient that any one and be thou perfect." Enoch walked and still let them pass on in evil, flat- should feel it his duty to reprove you with God three hundred years. tering themselves that they are all for such small matters; but this is the "Epaphras, who is one of you, a serv- right, and never tell them that the injunction given by the apostle: ant of Christ, saluteth you, always la- work they are doing will not stand the "Obey them that have the rule over boring fervently for you in prayers, test of the judgment? you, and submit yourselves: for they that ye may stand perfect and com- Shall the faithful servant of God watch for your souls, as they that plete in all the will of God." keep silent when there is under his must give account, that they may do it "Christ in you, the hope of glory: notice one who makes it evident by with joy, and not with grief: for this whom we preach, warning every man, the way he performs his daily duties, is unprofitable for you." These spe- and teaching every man in all wis- that unless his evil habits are cific directions would not have been dom; that we may present every man changed, he will work at a great dis- given, unless there were those who perfect in Christ Jesus: whereunto I advantage? needed reproof and counsel. also labor, striving according to his There are some young men and There are persons who will never working, which worketh in me might- women who have no method in doing receive reproof, who build themselves ily." their work. Though they are always up in their own way, and insist on The faithful servants of Christ are busy, they can present but little re- clinging to their own evil habits and called upon to warn every man, sults. They have erroneous ideas of practices. When reproved, they say, teaching every man in all wisdom; work, and think that they are working "Why do you tell of these things? I and in those whom they are called hard, when if they had practiced cannot be any different." But they de- upon to instruct, there should be a ceive themselves in saying this. They teachable spirit, a willingness to re- could make changes if they would; ceive instruction. Young men and but they prefer to have their own women are to take heed to their ways, way, rather than make a determined and to correct every wrong habit, as effort to seek a better and more per- it is made apparent to their under- fect way, by which their usefulness standing. might be greatly increased, and their The one who is cherishing the ability developed to fill positions of wrong may not see his defects, al- trust. though they are plainly discerned by Those who will never admit that those with whom he associates. Be- they are wrong, feel injured when re- cause of relationship or connection proved, and bring forth reasons as with those who are in error, we are numerous as vain, to justify them- under obligation to set before them, selves. They always think they are not indifferently, but in a serious right, and so continue to practice manner, the wrongs and defects that their wrong habits, thus making it are marring their character and con- more and more improbable that they duct, and exercising an evil influ- will reform. They are too indolent to "There are persons who will never receive reproof, ence upon those around them, de- . .. and insist on clinging to their own evil habits and put forth a determined effort to make practices. . . . Their usefulness might be greatly in- tracting from the peace and happi- creased, and their ability developed to fill positions of reformation. Cautions, counsels, ness of the family, or from the happi- trust." prayers, entreaties, result in making 14 REVIEW AND HERALD little change in their course of action. remember that we have been bought doer of the work, this man shall be They do not see that they are defec- with the price of the blood of the Son blessed in his deed. If any man among tive, and are satisfied with their own of God, and that every faculty of our you seem to be religious, and bridleth erroneous way of doing, and think being must be brought into captivity not his tongue, but deceiveth his own that every one else should be as sat- to Christ, that we may glorify Him. heart, this man's religion is vain. Pure isfied with them as they are with In humility we shall correct every religion and undefiled before God themselves. They see no necessity for fault and defect of character; because and the Father is this. To visit the fa- reproof and counsel. Christ is abiding in the heart, we therless and widows in their affliction, The word of God describes such shall be fitted up for the heavenly and to keep himself unspotted from cases in this language: "Seest thou a family above. the world." man wise in his own conceit? there is "For if any be a hearer of the word, "The wisdom that is from above is more hope of a fool than of him." and not a doer, he is like unto a man first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and Will those who are so well satisfied beholding his natural face in a glass: easy to be intreated, full of mercy and with themselves, consider that in or- for he beholdeth himself, and goeth good fruits, without partiality, and der to become perfect in character, it his way, and straightway forgetteth without hypocrisy. And the fruit of is necessary to be under discipline what manner of man he was. But righteousness is sown in peace of and training in the school of Christ? whoso looketh into the perfect law of them that make peace."—ELLEN G. The great Teacher has His human liberty, and continueth therein, he WHITE, in The Youth's Instructor, agents, whom He terms undershep- being not a forgetful hearer, but a Aug. 31, 1893. herds; and to these, under His direc- tion, He commits the work of setting things in order. The human agent is to do thorough and earnest work, both in preaching the word and in personal labor, watching for souls as one that must give account. "All Scripture is given by inspira- tion of God, and is profitable for doc- trine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works." Those who are defective in character, in conduct, in habits and practices, are to take heed to counsel and reproof. This world is God's workshop, and every stone that can be used in the heavenly temple, must be hewed and polished, until it is a tried and precious stone, fitted for its place in the Lord's building. But if we refuse to be trained and disci- plined, we shall be as stones that will not be hewed and polished, and that are cast aside at last as useless. Human agents are not able to read our hearts, but they can observe our lives, watch our actions, scrutinize our manners, and weigh us in the scales of human judgment. "We are made a spectacle unto the world, to Youth Deny Self for Missions angels, and to men." It may seem that we are to study our own hearts, and After hearing a report concerning our exclaiming, "Me carry you my village. square our own actions by some stand- work among the primitive people in New There tell Jesus!" ard of our own; but this is not the Guinea, the students of Grand Ledge Twenty-five thousand are now in the case. This would but work deform in- Academy in Michigan decided to forgo "get ready" class. Typical of the 1,400 stead of reform. The work must be- the corsages and related decorations for baptized this past year is Kaka, a can- gin in the heart, and then the spirit, the Kappa Gamma banquet and give nibal transformed by the power of the words, the expression of the coun- the $100 that would have been spent for Christ. He exclaimed in pidgin English, tenance, and the actions of the life, this evening program to advance mission "Me kill plenty," and then grasped one will make manifest that a change has work. In the picture, youth leaders of finger after another to show how many taken place. the student body and the academy dean he had killed. When he ran out of In knowing Christ through the are shown watching Principal Ralph P. fingers on both hands he bent over, grace that He has shed forth abun- Bailey sign the check. raised his foot, and encircled three toes. dantly, we become changed, and the In the Highlands of New Guinea al- This was his way of telling me that he character is sanctified through belief most one million people wait for our had murdered 13 men. He went on to of the truth. The inward life grows message. On a "walk-about" in the East- say, "Me finished. Now me missionary." strong, and the entire conduct will be ern Highlands, Missionary L. H. Barnard From village to village he goes as a in conformity to the will of God. Hu- was telling these primitive people of "Jesus" man giving the message of love. mility will be cultivated, because we Jesus and His love and directing their J. ERNEST EDWARDS shall feel our nothingness, and realize minds to heaven. An old man rushed Secretary, General Conference our dependence upon God. We shall forward grabbing him around his legs Home Missionary Department JUNE 23, 1960 15 The "Glad Time of the Harvest" Among the Aborigines

By E. L. LONGWAY, President, South China Island Union Mi:

Scene at the riverbank, near Ta She, Taiwan, when thirty-two were baptized.

FORETASTE of the "glad time each doctrine as it was revealed to peril of incurring the wrath of these A of the harvest" was accorded the them. They began to keep the Sab- wicked spirits. writer on a recent trip to the moun- bath, and were such exemplary men One should also know something tains of southern Taiwan. The work that they succeeded in having the of the method of burying the dead in of the Seventh-day Adventist Church weekly vacation day changed from that strange place. Wood is scarce, among the Paiwan, a branch of the Sunday to Sabbath, so that the entire and coffins for the dead are made of aboriginal peoples of Taiwan, began village school was free to attend serv- slate. The lower limbs of the dead in the village of Ta She, some seven ices on the Sabbath. They also began are drawn up tight against the chest, or eight years ago, when H. C. Currie, to pay tithe, and soon requested bap- and the body is encased in a rude box Dr. Lin Ta-chuan, and Kao Kwang- tism. Others in the village became in- made of slate. This coffin is buried in hui made a pioneering, exploratory terested in the truth, and at the first the earth in a hole dug in the stony trip into the mountains of Pingtung baptism these two brethren, with two soil so that the top of the coffin is just District. There, five hours by walking others of the Paiwan people, were about level with the ground. Another but 1,800 years removed from the baptized into the faith. These four slate is fitted over the top of the cof- present, as far as contact with the brethren were the first fruits among fin, and then heavy stones are piled modern world is concerned, they the Paiwan in the mountains of Ping- on this coffin lid to keep animals from found the village of Ta She. The sick tung. disturbing the body. were treated, the gospel was Meanwhile, God had been prepar- Scores of these graves were exca- preached, and several people were ing another youth to take up the bur- vated, the remains of the dead dis- enrolled in the Voice of Prophecy den that Brother Chou Tsung-chao posed of elsewhere, and a plot of Bible Correspondence Course. was compelled to lay down. Brother ground leveled for the building of a Some of the seed fell upon good Lu Yen is also a member of the Pai- Seventh-day Adventist church. To the ground! In a few months two teachers wan people. He was encouraged to great surprise of the villagers our in the village school, one a member join the training course for mountain worker and his helpers suffered no re- of the Paiwan people, and the other workers conducted at the Taiwan buffs at the hands of the evil spirits. an immigrant from the mainland of Training Institute, and after only a On the contrary, they were blessed of China, accepted the truth as it came few months of study and preparation God in casting the evil spirit out of a to them. Two young men, both of was sent to Ta She. The little chapel young girl, the daughter of the village them newly converted, and with scant that had been erected there earlier elder, who had also served as a witch training, were sent to Ta She to nur- in the history of the work had been and a spirit medium. Earnest and ture this new interest. pulled down by the enemies of truth, continued prayer to God resulted in Brother Tseng Kwang-hung, one of and the building materials consigned the healing of this girl, who was later these brethren, was soon called away to the flames. To bring further dis- baptized into the faith at an annual to Freedom Village in the central couragement, the site of the first meeting in the city of Tainan. And so part of the island, and Brother Chou chapel was assigned to another mis- the little church was built and the Tsung-chao was left alone to carry on sion organization, and a church number of believers increased. as best he could in the midst of super- building where God is worshiped on But the enemy was not yet ready to stition, poverty, and the enmity that Sunday was erected in that place. admit defeat and relinquish his grip Satan aroused in the hearts of his sub- Brother Lu Yen appealed for an- on Ta She. One of the first four to be jects. A little piece of land was ob- other plot of ground on which to baptized, an earnest young man, fell tained, and a small chapel, built of build a chapel, and after long delay sick of a mysterious illness. For a bamboo and mud at modest expense, was given permission to use a por- time his mind was deranged, owing was provided as a meeting place for tion of the village burying ground for to severe fever. His older brother and those newly coming to know Jesus. the proposed Seventh-day Adventist his relatives were most bitter in their In a short time, owing to the mis- chapel. To understand the problem denunciation of Seventh-day Advent- takes of youth and inexperience, and and the difficulties facing our young ists and their foolhardiness in disturb- to the rage of Satan, our young brother and the newly baptized con- ing the graves of their ancestors. brother was compelled to leave his verts one must know the superstitions Shortly before our young brother post. But the progress of truth was connected with the burying of the died his mind cleared, and he most not long delayed. The two school- dead in that remote mountain area. earnestly pleaded with his elder teachers, Brethren Chen Chin-cheng The dead, supposedly, are under the brother to accept Jesus as his Sav- and Fan Ching-hsien, continued to control of the evil spirits. Anyone dis- iour. His older brother's heart was study the truth earnestly, accepting turbing their graves does so at the touched at the faith and devotion of 16 REVIEW AND HERALD of Taiwan

Part of the 300 and more members and inquirers who were present at the revival meetings held in connection this young witness for Christ, and he, with the church dedication at Ta She, Taiwan. The new church building is in the background. too, gave his heart to Jesus. Shortly afterward he was baptized and be- the four days of revival meetings held believers have been organized into came a member of the Adventist in connection with the church dedica- companies of Sabbathkeepers. The faith. tion. names of these villages are Do Na, God blessed the witness of His What a day of rejoicing was that Sha Moh, Wu Tai Hsiang, and San faithful messengers. In time Brother Sabbath, January 16, 1960! After the Tih Men. After the close of the last Chen Chin-ching, one of the original Sabbath school exercises and at the evening meeting, two and one-half four converts, was assigned as evange- beginning of the church service, an hours long (an hour looking at pic- list in charge of that village. Converts elder and two deacons were ordained tures of the General Conference ses- were won through the years, and soon to serve this newly organized church. sion held in Cleveland, and an hour their building was too small. Brother One of the deacons was the fourth of and more for a sermon on the blessed- Chen determined to enlarge their the original converts, and Elder Ba is ness of Sabbathkeeping), around 30 house of worship. the brother of the young man who more of the Paiwan people rose to Where could he find the needed witnessed so faithfully for the Sav- their feet in response to an invitation funds? The work in Taiwan is iour, and who now lies buried just to prepare for baptism and to place branching out so rapidly that there outside the east wall of the new themselves on record as determined never is enough money available to church building. After a brief ser- to keep God's Sabbath holy. meet all the needs and opportunities. mon on the meaning of baptism 32 On a little level plot of land just Brother Chen enlisted the members candidates, who had been examined above the new church Brother Chen of the church to volunteer for service during the preceding three days of plans to hold a small kindergarten so with the State Forestry Bureau, with the meeting, were baptized in a beau- that the children of the village can himself as leader, and all their wages tiful, clear stream that flows by the early learn of the Saviour who loves were devoted to the new church foot of the mountain where the vil- them. It is planned to purchase a new building project. Three times in 18 lage of Ta She is situated. organ for the newly dedicated church. months this process was repeated. In the afternoon the new church A young girl, only 16 years old, With these funds in hand the breth- was dedicated, Elder Lin leading out named Lee Chen-yu, or True Jade ren cleared the new chapel site and in the service with Elder Chen re- Lee, has come to the Taiwan Train- started work on the new church. All counting the trials and triumphs that ing Institute to learn to play the the building materials from the out- had made the building of the church organ and to prepare to teach in the side world had to be carried in on the proposed kindergarten. backs of these wonderful people, a possible. The ordinance of humility was explained to these dear brethren There is a difference between the distance of 15 miles, and five hours' and sisters, and while the women re- Adventist believer and those still held walk, much of it up steep mountain in the clutches of Satan and his evil paths. When believers are willing to mained in the church for the service our brethren scattered over the open spirits, and this difference can be seen make sacrifices of this sort they really space at the front of the church and at a glance. Of the 138 homes in the want a church! served one another under the open village more than 80 have one or The church was built and made sky. more of their number who list them- ready for dedication. Present for the selves as Seventh-day Adventists, even dedication were: Su Tung-o, the first One hundred thirty-two took part though they have not been baptized of the Taiwan brethren to be or- in the sacred rite of the Lord's Sup- yet. At the last workers' meeting held dained to the ministry of this church; per. What a joy it was to see the in Ta She our young workers reported B. S. Lin, one of the original four newly ordained elder and deacons that 160 prospects for baptism are on brethren to come over from the main- carrying the emblems of our Lord's their list for 1960. land to pioneer the work in Taiwan; broken body and shed blood to these Brethren and sisters, let us open Fan Ching-hsien, who was one of the babes in the faith! our eyes to see the miracles of this our first to be baptized in Ta She, and is Twenty of the newly baptized were day. Let us open our ears to hear the now a faithful worker in the cause; added to the church at Ta She, bring- shouting from the mountain tops of Elizabeth Chen, a mountain girl from ing the membership of this group to Taiwan, "Come over and help us!" the Taiyal people of Central Taiwan, just over the 100 mark. The other 12 And let us open our pocketbooks and and a graduate of the Taiwan Sani- were from the neighboring villages give, give as we have never given in tarium-Hospital School of Nursing; where the truth has gained a foot- the past. This is the "glad time of the and the writer. We also took part in hold, and where small companies of harvest"!. Let us all have a part in it! JUNE 23, 1960 17 The mayor of Osaka, who had been a patient in our small hospital in Osaka, Japan, Evangelistic Center Kobe many years ago, commended us on the completion of this fine By E. A. Hamlin building. Quoting briefly from the let- Public Affairs Secretary, Japan Union Mission ter of Governor Sato, he said: "We believe that this center will render SAKA has approximately four planned within the Osaka Center. In great service for letting the light O million inhabitants at present, discussing the worldwide ministry of shine, helping our people to advance and is a great industrial area. Interna- the church he stated that the Osaka in worth-while living, and to promote tional trade fairs are held here every Center is but one of a number of in- social welfare." two years, and travelers from many stitutions around the world dedicated Beginning at 1:45 P.M., and before parts of the world constantly come to the needs of our time. the open-house program, the mayor and go. The city is expanding into a Following his talk, part of which of the particular district (ward, as fine modern industrial and civic area. was presented over radio and televi- the Japanese prefer to say in Eng- The three-story ferro-concrete sion, representatives from three well- lish) in which the center is located Osaka Evangelistic Center, erected at known civic leaders in Osaka read cut the ribbon leading into the wel- an approximate cost of $100,000, was letters of congratulation and com- fare room. He spoke briefly after- opened last year. A well-planned mendation, and expressed their con- ward. This welfare center was also open-house program took place De- fidence and good will to us as a featured over radio and TV. cember 20, from two to four o'clock church. These men who sent greet- W. T. Clark, president of the Ja- in the afternoon. More than 200 were ings were: Governor Y. Sato, Osaka pan Union Mission, with other in attendance. Prefecture (prefecture being compa- church leaders throughout Japan, R. R. Figuhr, president of the Gen- rable to a State government in the took part in the program. Guided eral Conference, was the featured United States); the mayor of Osaka, tours and refreshments were given be- guest speaker. He pointed out the Mr. M. Nakai; and Mr. Sugi, inter- fore and after the program. well-balanced program of healing of nationally known president of the The Osaka Center has a neon sign body and mind, welfare assistance, Osaka Chamber of Commerce and In- on the roof, which can be seen from and evangelical activities that are dustry. one of the large electric train corn-

Ordination in Nigeria Lahaina, Maui, Church Dedicated Five men were ordained to the gospel ministry during The new Lahaina church, on the island of Maui, was the West Nigerian Mission constituency meeting held at dedicated Sabbath, March 26, 1960. The dedicatory ser- Otun, West Nigeria. Those taking part in the service mon was given by Cree Sandefur, then president of the were H. J. Welch, president of the West African Union, Hawaiian Mission. This house of worship was constructed who gave the charge; C. D. Henri, union ministerial sec- almost entirely with labor donated by the membership retary, who presented the ordination sermon; S. A. Dare, on Maui. It is one of the most attractive church buildings district superintendent, West Nigerian Mission, who of- in this community. In years gone by, Lahaina was the fered the prayer; and G. M. Ellstrom, president, West supply center for whaling ships in this part of the Pacific. Nigerian Mission, who extended the welcome. Today it promises to become a key vacation center in The five newly ordained brethren are (from right to these Hawaiian Islands. Gordon Collier, pastor, led out left) J. E. (and Mrs.) Adewoye, S. A. (and Mrs.) Majo- in the church construction. The building is of modern lagbe, R. W. Simons, T. K. (and Mrs.) Olufemi, and B. A. design, and functional in every respect. (and Mrs.) Roberts. M. T. BATTLE EARL WRIGHT Public Affairs Secretary Public Affairs Secretary West African Union Mission Hawaiian Mission 18 REVIEW AND HERALD muter stations in gregation the inspiring theme song the city. The center "Arise and Shine"; then Chairman is easily accessible W. A. Townend, Trans-Tasman Un- by means of bus, ion home missionary secretary, streetcar, and train. stepped to the microphone. He was A fine concrete, followed by Pastor L. S. Rose, newly four-lane street elected Victorian Conference presi- passes by the front dent, who welcomed delegates from of the center. West Australia, South Australia, Tas- The Osaka Cen- mania, South New South Wales, and ter with its three other conferences in our sister union. floor levels offers a Delegates felt grateful to be housed number of serv- on the beautiful 30-acre, tree-dotted ices. On the first campground, surrounded by natural floor is a very at- bushland at Nunawading, only twelve tractive auditorium miles from the heart of the city. that seats 250 and Practical workshops were ably con- provides for a var- ducted by Pastors W. A. Townend, ied program of W. A. Stewart, and E. A. Reye, South events. It serves as New South Wales president; and spe- an evangelistic- cial classes in audio-visual, Vacation church audito- Bible School, leadership, and public rium for the center. Osaka Evangelistic Center. The neon sign on the roof gives the name in Japanese. evangelism techniques were held un- Classes are taught der the guidance of experts in these in English, stereophonic musical con- It was a thrilling moment as the fields, J. R. Kent, Alice Lowe, FL certs are presented, and educational delegates approached the front with White, and A. P. Cooke. and religious motion pictures are their multicolored banners, 154 of Decision classes with J. E. Edwards shown on the permanent-type built-in them, held high above their heads. challenged our hearts as we met screen. Other features include a black- Above the carpeted platform was a morning and afternoon to study the light screen and a baptistry. 4-by-12-foot calico sign bearing the know-how of getting decisions for the On the second floor a medical arresting congress motto in gold let- truth. clinic and dental office are provided, ters, "Coming to Study . . . Going to Sabbath school was colorful, as and on the third floor are the welfare Serve." four new Australians and one of our and health-education rooms. In the Pastor Arthur Duffy, radiant song aboriginal sisters joined us on the health-education center 75 people leader, introduced to the large con- platform with their national flags, can be seated comfortably. Apartments for two worker families connected with the center are pro- vided, as well as rest rooms, storage rooms, and, in the basement, the large coal furnace that heats the water and provides heat for the entire building. Since the Osaka Center opened in early November, after the dedication program that took place October 30, a large number of interested ones have come, an encouraging list of names has been secured, and a bap- tismal service was held December 20 after the open-house services. Kindly remember in your prayers the ministry of the Osaka Evange- listic Center. New Hospital in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad Laymen on the March in Construction of a new half-million-dol- The new hospital building when com- lar community hospital for Port-of-Spain, pleted will provide modern operating and Australasia Trinidad, in the West Indies, began on delivery facilities, well-equipped and well- By R. K. Brown February 2, 1960. It is scheduled for com- appointed diagnostic departments, and pletion by December of this year. 57 beds for medical and surgical patients. Departmental Secretary, South New The site selected for the new institution South Wales Conference Medical work was established in Trini- dad by our church more than 13 years combines the availability of the city with More than 750 delegates from the ago. A large mansion was remodeled into a touch of rurality and is adequate to five conferences of the Trans-Com- a 20-bed hospital. Separate and apart provide for expansion of the hospital monwealth Union marched down the from this hospital, a discarded army bar- as the work grows. aisle of the six-pole tent on Wednes- racks served as an outpatient depart- The Lord is greatly blessing the med- day, December 30, 1959, for the start ment and diagnostic center with phy- ical work in Trinidad and using it as a of the Melbourne laymen's congress. sicians' offices. While facilities have been means of bringing many souls into the Some were dressed in the clothes of limited, the influence of the work has church. their occupation. A miner wore a hel- been extensive. Today the scientific pro- H. E. RICE met and lamp, a woodcutter carried ficiency and Christian gentleness of the Associate Secretary an ax, a dairy farmer held a set of Seventh-day Adventist medical work is General Conference milking machine cups. well known throughout the island. Medical Department JUNE 23, 1960 19 European SDA Servicemen's Meeting Wickford, Rhode Island, Church Dedication A letter from our civilian chaplain for Europe, Harold The Wickford, Rhode Island, church was dedicated on E. Kurtz, Frankfurt-Main, Germany, reports that more Sabbath, April 16. Rather unusual was the fact that this than 250 SDA servicemen and their families were present church had its official opening and dedication at the same at the Berchtesgaden camp meeting (retreat) March 21 time. A group of members were organized in 1882 and to 25. moved to Slocum, Rhode Island, in 1888. A small group Says Chaplain Kurtz: "This represents about 50 per cent in Wakefield, Rhode Island, joined the group in Slocum, of our SDA servicemen in Europe. We very much appre- and with their combined efforts and sacrificial gifts they ciated the counsel, support, and insight of J. R. Nelson, were able to build this new church in three years' time associate secretary of the Missionary Volunteer Depart- without incurring debt. ment." Those taking part in the dedicatory services were Merle The dedication of Chaplain Kurtz and the fine group L. Mills, president of the Southern New England Confer- of officers and men who assist him in his work of spiritual ence; Kenneth W. Tilghman, treasurer of the Southern leadership resulted in a baptism of nine servicemen at this New England Conference; George A. Coffen, pastor; meeting. The accompanying photograph shows these nine Richard Gage, associate pastor; Rolf Lindfors and George servicemen with Chaplain Kurtz on the left, and U.S. Rice, both former associate pastors; Paul Knowles, local Army Chaplain E. T. Lee on the right. elder; and Donald Blake. CARL P. ANDERSON E. W. DUNBAR Director of Public Relations Associate Secretary, General Conference Southern New England Conference

and took part in the opening prayer. New Medical Horizons gave way to our new parking lot. The In the church worship service there Riverside, California, Women's Aux- was nearly 100 per cent response in Viet Nam iliary sponsored the pipe laying, and to Elder Edwards' call for dedication By Edwin A. Brooks, M.D. the Johnson Drake and Piper Com- to a greater soul-winning program for Medical Director, Saigon Hospital pany provided the fill materials and 1960. Figures handed to me at the services that made the new parking close revealed that 84,396 hours had Perhaps nowhere in the world has lot. A few weeks later an American been pledged for missionary work for the providence of God been more patient, who had spent six weeks in the year 1960. Delegates prayerfully manifest in establishing and building the hospital, enlisted other friends, covenanted with God to put forth an up the medical work than in Viet and together they completely screened earnest endeavor to win 2,172 souls Nam. From very humble beginnings the hospital. Mosquitoes and flies dis- this year. This was a dramatic mo- in 1955 under the direction of Dr. appeared, and mosquito nets for pa- ment in the congress. Ervin 0. Winton the work has devel- tients became a thing of the past. For one hour on Sabbath after- oped into a self-supporting program About one month later a morgue noon a visitation program was con- employing some 40 persons, all of (which unfortunately every hospital ducted in Melbourne. Under the di- whom are church members. still needs) was erected over the open- -rection of Victorian home missionary It was in March, 1958, that we left air baptistry and a beautiful baptistry secretaries F. L. Taylor and L. H. the Taiwan Sanitarium and Hospital Hay, 80 cars transported 350 people on Formosa to take over the direction to nearby suburbs for the distribu- of our medical work in Saigon. The tion of 905 pieces of literature. More work we found being done at this in- than 700 homes were visited, 88 fant hospital of the Far East was surely prayers were offered, and 127 were far beyond anything that could be ex- enrolled in the Bible course. This big pected when the meager equipment undertaking was well organized. and poor accommodations were taken The Australasian Division home into account. However, it is under missionary secretary, C. C. Weis, cli- such circumstances that the provi- maxed the Sunday night program dences of God are most appreci- with the commissioning of 107 dele- ated and the progress of the work is gates for the 120 Club. Each of these most evident. I would like to review persons had won a soul or had helped the high points of the most thrilling to win one in the past four years. 16 months of our lives. The president of the American Women's Association We believe that the congress In April, 1958, the mosquito-breed- of Saigon presenting to Dr. E. A. Brooks a check for marked the beginning of a great for- ing, rat-infested ditches that bordered 75,000 piastres (about $25,000 U.S.). This money is to be used to add a small pediatric ward to our Saigon ward surge in soul winning. the hospital property on two sides Hospital in Viet Nam. 720 REVIEW AND HERALD was built inside the church. This his good wife from Australia. The Fanie have both passed. The Lord has much-needed project also was spon- companionship and excellent profes- blessed you, so stop worrying." sored by the Riverside, California, sional help of these two will make Tommy woke with a start. It was Women's Auxiliary. the future much more enjoyable. morning. The dream, so vivid, had Shortly after this the hospital laun- The office of Dr. Ray Smith, who is banished his worry. dry transferred to new quarters, and the Capital Engineering doctor, is also Two weeks later, as Tommy was again the contractor went to work, in the hospital, and the voluntary cleaning one of the classrooms, Miss combining the old laundry and the ad- services he renders in surgery and Florence Moline came in with out- jacent kitchen. The open charcoal OPD are much appreciated and help stretched hand and a beaming smile. fires gave way to beautiful new char- us to carry what would otherwise be "Congratulations!" she exclaimed. coal-burning stoves provided by the an almost impossible program. "You passed, and Fanie passed too." American Women's Association of Sai- Our needs are legion, but God is Joyfully, but without surprise, gon at a cost of 18,000 piasters. Our supplying them one by one, and to Tommy thanked her and hurried to nursing station has also taken on a His name be the praise and glory for Dr. Clarke's office for details. He new look. The open, barnlike cement the progress of the medical work in found that the results were the best drains have given way to white tiling Viet Nam. Solusi had ever had in the senior high and enclosed drains. The station's school finals. Two of Tommy's class- new cupboards are appreciated by the mates had gained distinction in math- workers. Advanced Education at ematics. The junior high school re- August, 1958, saw the beginning of Solusi Missionary College sults were unusually good too. The the nurse's training program, and in By Ruth Gorle hard work and earnest prayers of April, 1959, we witnessed the first cap- teachers and students had made it ping exercise in Viet Nam—a most de- Teacher possible for God to bless His school lightful occasion. Eight young people Sleep had never seemed more de- in a special way. pledged themselves to the nursing pro- sirable or more remote. Tommy tried Now Tommy is enrolled in one of fession. It is to these and to the three for the hundredth time to relax, to the college courses as a first-year stu- young people now training at the think of something that would help dent. This is the third year that post- Bangkok Sanitarium that we look for him woo sleep. For the hundredth matriculation work has been offered the future development of our medi- time the question he was trying to for- at Solusi Missionary College, and cal work in Viet Nam. The greater get reared its head and stared at him there is every prospect that those who part of our nursing service is still in the dark: "Have I passed? What if I enrolled at the beginning of 1958 will being supplied by graduates of our haven't? Did I say enough about cot- finish successfully and graduate in Manila Sanitarium. These Filipino ton growing? Did I stick to the point November, 1961. missionaries are rendering a mission in that comprehension answer?" It Standards of education for Africans service of inestimable value. was vital to him to pass this matricula- are being raised rapidly all through The major project of the year was tion examination, not only because the Federation of Rhodesia and Ny- the addition of our new surgical suite, his own future plans depended on it asaland and in the territories to the labor room, and one double bed- but because the reputation of Solusi north. For the past five years the room. This was financed entirely by Missionary College would be affected workers at Solusi have been making relatives and friends in the States and by the results of this important public special efforts to keep abreast of the is now the hospital's pride and joy. examination. new trends, or even a little ahead of One half of the third floor of the Toss, toss, toss! Desperately Tommy them. Solusi Missionary College is one hospital already has a new appear- threw back the blanket at last, knelt of the few schools for Africans in the ance, and remodeling continues. The by his bed, and asked for help to stop Federation that enter candidates for administrative, medical, laboratory, worrying and for patience to wait the matriculation examination that and pharmacy staff will soon be at quietly for the results to come. "And gives entrance to university studies, home in their newly remodeled quar- please, dear Lord, help me to go to and it is the only private school at ters. sleep now," he concluded. present to offer postmatriculation New living quarters for doctor, Getting back into bed, he thought courses to Africans. nurses, schoolteacher, and others are of Fanie. Where was he tonight? Dear Dr. Clarke and his co-workers are fast moving toward completion over old Fanie! How they had worked and doing everything in their power to on the new compound where the new studied and prayed together during improve the equipment and facilities hospital is to be built. the past year! Now we would like to stop and take "Wonder what he's a breath or two, but we cannot. On doing," thought the morning of July 6, 1959, the hos- Tommy drowsily, pital staff was thrilled when the pres- as sleep rolled over ident of the American Women's As- him, blotting out sociation of Saigon presented the med- the whole world. ical director with a check for 75,000 Suddenly he piasters to be used in adding a small seemed wider pediatric ward. This gift is the larg- awake than ever. est donation ever given by this organ- Why was the prin- ization to any one project. So the cipal, Dr. [C. F.] work goes on. There is no stopping. Clarke, in his The growth of our inpatient depart- room? Why was he ment, especially the surgical and ob- holding out two stetrical services, is thrilling. white cards covered We appreciate the material bless- with red writing? ings that God has given us, but we "The results have Tommy Nkongola consulting his textbook and Isaiah Matiti studying the model appreciate much more His kindness come, Tommy," he of a frog at one of the work benches in Solusi Missionary College's new science in sending to us Dr. Alan Jones and said. "You and laboratory, which was opened in 1959. JUNE 23, 1960 21

of the school. They are grateful for My wife and I talked the matter over my experience and of my decision the appropriations that make advance and we decided that for the time being that, regardless of the arrangements possible. Nowhere is development I should go back to work on the rail- I had made the previous evening, I more evident than in the science de- way while she would keep the Sab- was going to keep God's holy Sabbath. partment. Harold Drake, the head of bath and later I would join her in After struggling on in the colpor- this department, is offering a course Sabbathkeeping. teur work for several weeks more with in botany on the college level this That Friday evening I went back little success we finally had to dispose year, and hopes to add zoology next to my former employer, explained to of all our furniture to meet our rent year. It is expected that a member of him my situation, and asked to be re- and other obligations. I got in touch the faculty of science in the Univer- instated. He was willing to do this, with one of our farmer brethren and sity of South Africa in Pretoria will and it was arranged that I was to re- was hired by him to work on his farm visit Solusi in June. If he is favorably turn to work the following day, the for a couple of months. During those impressed by the laboratory facilities Sabbath. two months on the farm my mind was and by the work being done, it may That night I couldn't sleep, so I got constantly troubled about the colpor- mean much to the future expansion out of bed and prayed. When I arose teur work. I felt that I ought to be of Solusi in the field of science. from my knees it was daylight—not out giving this message through the The needs, problems, and difficul- only outside, but in my soul as well. printed page. I spent much time in ties of this growing school are many, Sabbath morning I told my wife of prayer over the matter and finally but workers and young people feel that God is blessing their efforts to overcome all obstacles. The Southern African Division needs well-trained African leaders in the Bantu churches, schools, and communities, CHURCH CALENDAR FOR 1960 and by God's grace Solusi will do her part to provide them. For An evil voice seemed to say— Happy "Get On That Train and Go Back Home" Hearty By P. G. Biy Manager, Kingsway Publishing House Living Thirty-five years ago my wife and I were living in Mid- western Canada, where I was em- ployed on the rail- c) way. I had a good IPromote Wealth Oducation, position with ten years' seniority and a good opportunity P. G. Biy for advancement. By We were attending the Catholic Church, but through the • Placing Life and Health in Every Doctor's Office influence of a devoted colporteur who lived for a time in our home my wife and I took our stand for this truth. • Offering Classes in First AidoHome Nursing, and One Friday evening, when the day's Cooking work was done, I informed my em- ployer that I had decided to follow the teachings of the Bible, keep the • Maintaining Health and Welfare Centers seventh-day Sabbath, and planned to enter the literature ministry. He had "Medical missionary work is the pioneer work of the very little regard for religion of any kind, and in his opinion I was making gospel. In the ministry of the word and in the medical a very unwise decision. missionary work the gospel is to be preached and Early one Monday morning our practiced."—The Ministry of Healing, p. 144. colporteur friend and I started out canvassing in the town where we lived. We canvassed all day but se- cured no orders. The next day I can- medical missionary ay vassed alone but with the same result —no orders. On Wednesday after- noon I secured my first order for Bible tily 2, /960 Readings. Thursday's canvassing g brought no orders, and Friday was no better. I was feeling very discouraged. 22 REVIEW AND HERALD promised the Lord that when my two the Lord would think of me. "But, books?" Then they too would put months were up on the farm I would hurry," something said again, "the their name on the dotted line. return to the colporteur work. train is pulling in." And, believe it or Finally I was curious enough to ask The time came for me to fulfill my not, when that train pulled away from one of my prospects who this man was promise. We moved into the city the station, I was on board. whose name seemed to be so influen- where we rented a couple of small The sight of the brass-buttoned con- tial. "Oh," he replied, "he is our rooms, and there I left my family ductor coming toward me to collect bishop." I had not realized I had can- while I left the next morning by train the fare awakened me to a realization vassed their bishop and secured his for my territory. We were to be sepa- of how foolish I was. What should I order. He was the man who was in the rated for the first time for two whole do now? I had to think quickly. I de- field plowing. He was the spiritual weeks. cided to keep the return ticket I had leader of that Mennonite community. I arrived at my destination that bought in the morning, pay the fare The two weeks seemed to slip by morning about nine o'clock. It had to the next station from the bit of quickly. When the time came for me been raining heavily all night and change I still had in my pocket, and to return home for the weekend, I was was still drizzling. As I sat there in by getting off there I would still be in a very happy colporteur indeed! Af- the little station and sized up the situa- my territory. When the train pulled ter that experience I spent 15 years as tion, my courage sank out of sight. in to the next station, I reluctantly a colporteur and publishing depart- I couldn't muster enough courage to got off. The train pulled away, and ment secretary in the literature minis- begin canvassing in town, and coun- there I stood on the station platform try. Later I was called to the publish- try canvassing looked like a hopeless all alone. All alone? No, not all alone, ing house as assistant manager of the task. for I felt now that the Lord was with book department and then as mana- As I sat there in the little depot I me. ger of the book and periodical de- began to argue with myself as to It was a wide-open prairie country partment. whether I was cut out for the colpor- dotted with farm homes that could Still later I was asked to serve as teur work. I even indulged in con- be seen for miles in all directions. Oh, assistant manager of the publishing siderable self-pity (which I later dis- how I needed courage to go up to the house and finally as general manager. covered is not a wise thing to do). first home and give a canvass. I knelt As I review God's providential lead- Finally I talked to myself seriously. down beside the railway track and ings in my life, I can truly say with "Look here, Peter, you've got to get prayed for courage to go up to the the psalmist that "weeping may en- out and sell books, wet or not wet. first home. My first canvass was re- dure for a night, but joy cometh in You've bought a ticket to come out warded with three orders for Bible the morning" (Ps. 30:5). here and canvass for two whole weeks. Readings, with good deposits, supper, You know very well you haven't any a night's lodging, and breakfast. money to waste on train fares." Surely the Lord hears and answers Manila Sanitarium Mobile Just about the time I thought I when we call on Him in time of trou- had the courage to start out, I would ble. Clinic take another look at the weather and The next morning the sun was shin- By L. E. Gonzaga say to myself, "But how can I start ing at its best. I started out canvass- Chaplain out in this wet, disagreeable weather? ing bright and early. My first prospect My clothes have just been pressed; my was a man plowing in the field. I gave The mobile clinic of the Manila shoes have just been shined. How can him a canvass and soon had his name Sanitarium and Hospital held one of I go out into this mud?" on the dotted line. After that, to my its regular free clinics at the Pueri- I argued with myself in that depot amazement, the orders kept rolling in culture Center of Tayug, Pangasinan, till finally I heard the train whistle. one after another. about 160 miles from Manila, De- It was the same train that had brought As I showed my prospects the list of cember 5 and 6, 1959. The free clinic me to my territory. Now it was return- names of those who had ordered the was held Saturday night and Sunday ing early in the afternoon. "Get on book, I noticed that one name in par- morning. In all, about 280 patients that train and go back home," an evil ticular seemed to attract special at- were treated. The clinic group was voice seemed to say to me. "No, I tention. They would order on the composed of three doctors, four stu- mustn't," I said. "What will my wife strength of that name. They would dent nurses, two regular nurses, the think of me?" I never thought of what ask, "Oh, is he getting one of these chaplain, and a driver.

One of the three doctors from the Manila Sanitarium examining patients in Tayug. The Manila Sanitarium group that went to Tayug, Pangasinan, Philippines. This place is in Northern Luzon Mission. JUNE 23, 1960 23 On Sabbath afternoon a special Mrs. Parsons first accepted appoint- health program was held in the audi- ment to Angola in 1929. Sister Par- torium of the Luna Colleges of Tayug sons, who has had secretarial training upon the invitation of Mrs. Mamerto and the nurse's course, has served as Mamenta, wife of the president of an operating room nurse in the Bongo Luna Colleges. She was a former pat- Mission Hospital, and as Sabbath ient of Manila Sanitarium and Hospi- school secretary of the Angola Union tal. The mayor of the town gave the Mission. Dr. Parsons, who graduated opening remarks, and Mrs. Mamenta from the College of Medical Evange- introduced the group. lists in 1929, has been medical director The next day, Sunday, after the of the Bongo Mission Hospital at Lepi clinic, a special banquet was held in since 1931. He has served for many honor of our sanitarium group in the years also as medical secretary of the social hall of the Luna Colleges. Town Angola Union Mission. Upon return officials, influential citizens, and to the field he will continue his service former patients of the Manila Sanitar- in these positions. ium were invited to the banquet. Dur- Eleanor Bahnmiller, of Portland, ing the banquet former patients tes- Oregon, sailed from New York City on tified of what the sanitarium had done the S.S. Flandre, May 24, for England, for them. en route to the Belgian Congo. Miss Bahnmiller obtained a B.S. degree in Hakim Sahib Khan Chouri, of India, 107 years old. The trip has made it possible for In his right hand he holds his claims court record as us to begin soul-winning work with nursing from Walla Walla College, proof of his advanced age. In his left hand is his two influential families. having taken training at the Portland prized Voice of Prophecy Bible course certificate. For the year 1959 the Manila Sani- Sanitarium and Hospital. Since grad- tarium held about eight free clinics uation she has had experience as an glasses, I asked him if he would be in the three missions of the North operating room nurse. Her appoint- willing to share some of the secrets Philippine Union Mission, examining ment is to nursing service in the of his long life. He was happy to do about 1,250 patients, In addition, 20,- Songa Mission Hospital at Kamina, in so, and began by saying that he favors 390 pieces of literature were given the Belgian Congo. a very simple diet, abstaining from away, 6,469 prayers were offered, 708 W. P. BRADLEY the use of rich foods. "In this way," patients were enrolled in the Voice of he pointed out, "I avoid various ill- Prophecy, 864 Bible studies were nesses, all of which tend to weaken given, 395 books were loaned to pat- VOP Student Graduates the body." ients, and 47 books were given away. at Age of 107 Great stress was laid on the fact that Through these efforts 28 souls were he has never touched alcohol or to- baptized. The Manila Sanitarium has By D. T. Hawley bacco in any form, and he did not also given 159 names to the Manila Chaplain, Karachi Hospital use tea or coffee until 1950. Now these Center for follow-up work. are once again being omitted from his Hakim Sahib Khan Ghouri, 107 diet. He has always considered it im- years old, recently graduated from the portant to sleep a full eight hours Voice of Prophecy Bible Correspond- each night, although in later years he From Home Base ence School. As recorded in the claims found six hours sufficient. court, he was born at 4:00 A.M., De- "Daily exercise is a necessity," he to Front Line cember 25, 1852, in Gwalior City, continued, "and even now I never miss Gwalior State, India. He is a very dig- a day in this regard." His body is still Dr. and Mrs. George C. Ekvall, Jr., nified old gentleman with his flowing so supple that he can walk 12 miles and three children, of Olive View, white beard and erect bearing. without becoming tired. The need California, left San Francisco, Cali- During an interview with Mr. for water and sunshine was also men- fornia, May 3, for the Philippines. Ghouri I learned that longevity seems tioned, as was the matter of self-con- Sister Ekvall's maiden name was to run in his family. His father, who trol. He is a vegetarian. Reatha Lucille Venden. She is a was a head clerk in the military, lived As I left him, Hakim Sahib stated daughter of Elder and Mrs. D. E. to be 110 years of age, and his mother with vigor that he hopes to live at Venden, of San Jose, California. She was 90 when she died. There were least another 40 years. Having studied took the nurse's course at the Loma two boys and one girl in the family, in his Voice of Prophecy lessons about Linda Sanitarium and White Memo- his brother living to be nearly 100 and the imminent return of Christ, he rial Hospital schools of nursing. In his sister 70. He was married at the hopes to be alive when our Lord re- 1948 Dr. Ekvall completed the medi- age of 30, and has three sons and one turns for His people. cal course at the College of Medical daughter, all living. He has at least Evangelists. He has had five years of 22 grandchildren, and many great- training in general surgery. For three grandchildren. Forward Despite Difficulties years he has been connected with the At one time in his career Mr. Takoma Hospital and Sanitarium in Ghouri appeared in the government in Nyasaland Greeneville, Tennessee. He has been assembly to represent the rights of the By Norman L. Doss appointed on a short-term basis for sweeper class. Later the Maharaja of President, North Nyasa Mission service as a surgeon in the Manila Gwalior gave him 100,000 rupees to Sanitarium and Hospital. open a large pharmacy of native med- "We'll fix you when we get back!" Dr. and Mrs. Roy B. Parsons, re- icines. More was spent to permit him shouted the angry mob at our pastor, turning after furlough, sailed from and his companion to go back into when he refused to join them on their New York City, May 19, on the S.S. the jungles in search of special herbs march to the government offices to Vinkt, their destination being Angola. to use in compounding the potions. demonstrate. In many other places Before marriage Sister Parsons' name As I watched Mr. Ghouri reading throughout Nyasaland on that cli- was Mabel Carmella Vasacca. Dr. and along very easily without the use of mactic day in early March, 1959, simi- 24 REVIEW AND HERALD lar occurrences took place. What a decision for Christ by laymen—one than 50 per cent over the previous would the future bring? What effect for every six members in the mission. year. Ingathering donations had would these events have on the Lord's Tithe income had increased more reached the highest figure ever for work? this area, with an overflow above the Organized in January, 1958, the previous year's total of £265 (about North Nyasa Mission includes the $740). eastern provinces and part of the We thank God and take heart at northern provinces of Northern Rho- this evidence of His blessing. In this desia, and the northern and most of land we are in a period of readjust- the central provinces of Nyasaland. ment, and the future course of events In this area, which covers more than is not known. However, this much 32,000 square miles, live about one about the future we do know: the million people. gospel message will be heard every- In December, 1958, we occupied where and then Jesus will come. new offices in Mzimba, in Nyasaland's Buoyed up with this bright hope, we, Northern Province. Mzimba is a small with you, face the momentous future. town and government headquarters, which lies very near the geographic center of the territory assigned to our Steam Vents and Whistles mission. Around this hub are distrib- (Continued from page 13) uted five mission stations, divided into sections, with ministers in load in her own way, in her own charge. Our ministerial staff of 25 in- strength? cludes four missionaries. Sixty Then she remembered the familiar teacher evangelists and five medical text; "Come unto me, all ye that la- evangelists round out our worker Aram Aghassian, left, receiving his certificate of or- bour and are heavyladen, and I will family. dination, Mrs. Aghassian in center. give you rest. Take my yoke upon Our mission promotional plans for you, and learn of me; for I am meek 1959 included a Win One League, Ordination Services in the and lowly in heart; and ye shall find with laymen as the active soul win- Middle East rest unto your souls. For my yoke is ners, and a strong tithe and Ingather- easy, and my burden is light." ing program. When riots suddenly Ordination services are few in the Mid- At home, that evening, the family broke out in several places in March, dle East Division. However, we were gathered for worship. Daddy played it seemed that this program would greatly pleased when two men were set the organ. Mother tried to match him surely be hindered, for we could not apart for the ministry in the same mis- on the piano, while the boys played travel freely among the churches. sion during one month. The first, Aram their brass instruments. Grandpa and Roads were hoed up and bridges de- Aghassian, was ordained at the beginning grandma joined them in the singing: stroyed, cutting off our contact with of the month of February, after having some schools and one mission station accepted a call to Cyprus. It was an in- "There is a place of quiet rest, for as long as two months. spiring occasion, for we were reminded near to the heart of God, of Paul and Barnabas' being set apart A place where sin cannot molest, "The Angel . . . Delivereth" not far from Beirut prior to their sailing near to the heart of God. Pastor Yobe Mwandire was threat- for Cyprus. There is a place of comfort sweet, ened with injury and even death if he The second ordination took place at near to the heart of God, continued to refuse to go with a the end of February when Salim Noujaim, A place where we our Saviour meet, group of rioters. He told them that president of the Lebanon Mission, was or- near to the heart of God. his work was to help all people and dained after his return from the States, There is a place of full release, not to join one group against an- where he spent about four months on a near to the heart of God, other, and he remained at his house. leave of absence. A place where all is joy and peace, Later, on his way to a teachers' in- ANEES A. HADDAD, Secretary near to the heart of God." stitute at one of our mission stations Missionary Volunteer Department he passed through the government Suddenly a great calm, like a warm center, where these rioters had gone coverlet placed by her mother's gen- many days before, and visited some of tle hands, enveloped Beth—fear of los- them—in jail. They told him he was ing her loved ones, foolish hurts long a wise man to have stayed home. since past, an outgrown coat of worry In nearly every incident of this —slipped from her shoulders. God kind where bodily injury or damage was there, and of a surety He would was threatened to our people or our help her carry her burdens. Life buildings, someone from among the would be easier since she had learned mob would raise his voice in our de- to share the load with Jesus. fense and the group would pass on. Later that night, when the boys We feel the promise in Psalm 34:7 is were asleep and Fred was playing surely appropriate to these events: softly on the organ, she couldn't re- "The angel of the Lord encampeth sist telling him, "You know, honey, round about them that fear him, and I think I've found your secret. When delivereth them." the steam pressure is high and I feel As we reviewed last year's program the lid's ready to blow off my particu- at our recent year-end meetings, our lar teakettle, I think I've found the hearts were filled with gratitude for way to put the steam to use." the "great things He hath done." Five R. A. Wilcox greeting Salim Noujaim following his Fred grinned, as if he'd known hundred souls were reported led to ordination. Mrs. Noujaim stands at the left. all along. JUNE 23, 1960 25 of the Northeastern Conference, spoke at tion Bible School and a branch Sabbath the eleven o'clock hour, and R. T. Wil- school in every church. son, former pastor of the Buffalo and • Sunday, May 1, was annual College Rochester churches, spoke at the 4:00 Day at Emmanuel Missionary College. P.M. service. Nine buses and two dozen cars brought • V. D. Dortch, administrator of the more than 425 academy and high school New England Sanitarium and Hospital, seniors and their sponsors to visit the OVERSEAS has been elected a nominee of the Ameri- campus. Indiana Academy received the can College of Hospital Administrators. trophy this year for the highest percentage Southern African Division The official election will take place at of students enrolled. Their 1959 class sent the convocation ceremony in the War 69 per cent of its 26 members to EMC. • S. G. Maxwell, division ministerial Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, Runners up were Battle Creek with 67 association secretary, with five African California, Sunday, August 28, 1960. per cent; Adelphian with 65 per cent; ministers, held an evangelistic effort at and Cedar Lake with 62 per cent. Gatooma, Southern Rhodesia, during the • The seventy-third annual commence- month of April. Halls were available in ment weekend was held on the Atlantic • The new church home for the Michi- the two townships, so two series of meet- Union College campus, May 27-29. In- gan City, Indiana, congregation was dedi- ings were run conjointly. Interest was cluded in the weekend schedule were E. J. cated Sabbath afternoon, May 21. Al- good and 85 were placed in the first Bible Folkenberg, consecration speaker on Fri- though there has been an organized class at the close of the meetings. day evening; R. R. Figuhr, baccalaureate church in this city for 36 years, this is the speaker on Sabbath morning; and F. E. J. first time they have enjoyed the privilege • The East African Publishing House, Harder, commencement speaker on Sun- of having their own house of worship. located at Kendu Bay, Kenya, is now day morning. On Saturday night, May 28, Jere D. Smith, president of the Lake making a large addition to their plant. the senior class of 1960 presented a pro- Union, gave the dedicatory sermon. Much of the 8,000 additional square feet gram of retrospect. of floor space will be for the bindery sec- • The beautiful, new Emmanuel Mis- tion, although additional office space and Columbia Union sionary College church was dedicated free an enlarged translation department also of debt on May 21. J. L. Tucker, former will be provided. The East African Pub- • More than 100 seniors were granted pastor, was invited by the present pastor lishing House publishes denominational diplomas on Saturday night, June 4, at and the church board, to give the dedica- literature in eight languages. the Washington Missionary College com- tory sermon on Sabbath morning. Others sharing in the service were F. 0. Ritten- M. E. Lind, president of the Uganda mencement ceremonies held in the Sligo • church, Takoma Park, Maryland. Dr. house, president of Potomac University, Mission, reports an excellent interest, and G. E. Hutches, former Michigan Con- under the blessing of God, in his city-wide George T. Harding, medical director of the Harding Sanitarium, Worthington, ference president, and now educational Kampala effort. It began on Sunday night, secretary of the Lake Union. May 1. The five week-night audiences Ohio, addressed the seniors. average 500, and more than 700 come on • Takoma Academy raised $5,275 for In- • Donald Mackintosh, pastor of the Sunday nights. Ninety have responded to gathering this year, more than any other Holly, Michigan, church, reports that Ill a call to keep the true Sabbath, and 150 secondary school in the Columbia Union youth received special honors at an In- are attending the Bible class. Conference. vestiture service, April 26. L. C. Caviness, Missionary Volunteer secretary for the • Nine Jewish converts to the three • Construction on a $70,000 addition to Michigan Conference, was present to angels' messages were baptized on April Takoma Academy will begin early this make the presentations and address the 16 at Sedaven during the camp meeting summer, according to Principal J. Paul audience of friends and relatives. The of the Transvaal Conference. J. J. B. Laurence. This will include a biology- four church school teachers under the Combrinck had worked earnestly for these chemistry laboratory, a home economics leadership of Jack Stiles, principal, pre- souls. unit, and a large music room. sented the youth for their honors. Five • On Sabbath, April 9, a church was • Eighty-four seniors graduated from Master Guides, including the pastor and dedicated at Chebawi Mission Station in Mount Vernon Academy on Sunday, May his wife, assisted in the presentation. Kenya by R. J. Wieland and A. Snyman. 29. This was one of the largest classes in Lloyd D. Browne, the station director, has the history of the academy in Ohio. Pacific Union used wisely and well the limited funds • Literature evangelists in the Allegheny • A series of illustrated evangelistic and material available. Conference delivered $125,000 worth of meetings has been conducted in the San literature during the first quarter of 1960. Jose Spanish church, with Joseph Espinosa NORTH AMERICA and Efran Caballero as speakers, and • Newtonville, New Jersey, branch Sab- Jorge Basaez as singing evangelist. Atlantic Union bath school members were organized into a church recently. There were 22 baptized • W. B. Bristow was called recently to • Dr. Hilbert Lentz, CME School of serve as secretary of the religious liberty, Dentistry, class of 1957, has located in Old charter members, with several more in the baptismal class. public relations, industrial relations, and Lyme, Connecticut. radio-TV departments of the Northern • Several changes have been made re- • Marion Kidder has been appointed California Conference. He succeeds cently among the Spanish pastors in New pastor of the Laurel and Atholton, Mary- Stanley M. Jefferson, who at his own re- York City. R. C. Perez moved from Mott land, churches. He replaces Kenneth Live- quest has assumed the duties of district Haven to the Spanish Prospect Street say, who continues as pastor of the Spen- leader, presently of the Escalon and Man- church. He takes the place left vacant cerville, Maryland, church. teca churches in the Northern California since last September, when Mario Collins Conference. Lake Union left to continue his education. R. V. Vin- • Ground-breaking services for the new glas became pastor of Mott Haven, and • V. W. Esquilla, Sabbath school secre- Pedro C. Rogue, who recently arrived Berean church of Los Angeles were held tary of the Illinois Conference, tells of May 1 with nearly 200 members and from the Republic of Guatemala, is now plans for Vacation Bible Schools. Last friends in attendance. Participating in pastor of the Brooklyn Spanish church. summer the conference had the largest the occasion were: Alvin G. Munson, sec- • The former Epiphany Episcopal number in its history-14 schools, with a retary-treasurer of the Southern California church was recently purchased by the total enrollment of 928. As a result 52 Conference; W. S. Lee, secretary, regional Northeastern Corporation of Seventh-day attended Sabbath school, 13 were in department, Pacific Union Conference; Adventists, and has become the church church school, and 118 took the Bible T. M. Fountain, former president of the home for the members of the Jefferson course. The largest school was at Hins- Lake Region Conference; Isaiah Scipio, Avenue church, Rochester, New York. dale, with 158 enrolled. The second minister of the Christian Methodist Epis- Members and friends met on Sabbath, largest was at West Central in Chicago, copal church, in whose church the Berean April 23, for the first service in this new where they first introduced evening congregation has been meeting; R. R. church home. H. D. Singleton, president schools. Illinois aims to conduct a Vaca- Bietz, president, Pacific Union Confer- 26 REVIEW AND HERALD

ence; and Dennis T. Black, pastor of the Central, East High School, Denver August 5-6 Nevada-Utah Northeastern, First Baptist Church, Salt Lake City, Utah June 24-26 Berean church. 114 Beech St., Sterling August 13 Northern California Southwestern, High School Auditorium, Fortuna . July 6-10 • The Hauula company, a branch of the Cortez August 27 North Central, Campion Academy, Southern California Kaneohe church on the island of Oahu, Loveland ...... September 3 Lynwood June 16-26 was organized into a church at the wor- Northwestern, High School Auditorium, Rifle September 10 Southern Union ship service on Sabbath, May 14. Con- South Central, St. Paul Methodist Church, ducting the services was Cree Sandefur. Colorado and Routt, Pueblo September 17 Western, High School Auditorium, South Central Twenty-seven persons placed their names Delta September 24 Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama August 11-20 on the church scroll designating them- Southeastern, Lincoln High School, 3d and Belleview, La Junta October 1 Southwestern Union selves as charter members. San Luis Valley, First Christian Church, 1st and State Avenues, Alamosa October 8 • The literature evangelists of the South- Kansas Arkansas-Louisiana ern California Conference recorded the Enterprise Academy, Enterprise August 10-13 Little Rock, Arkansas - July 22-24 Missouri Gentry, Arkansas July 14-17 largest Big Week deliveries in their his- Sunnydale Academy, Centralia July 13-16 Oklahoma tory. The Lord blessed with more than Wyoming Bierig Park, Oklahoma City July 28-August 6 $15,000 worth of books placed in homes, Casper July 8-10 Texico Sandia View Academy bringing the total so far this year to more Columbia Union Albuquerque, New Mexico August 5-12 than $100,000, reports Milton T. John- Allegheny Pine Forge, Pennsylvania June 30-July 9 son, publishing secretary Chesapeake Catonsville (near Baltimore), Mary- land August 12-20 1960 Camp Meetings East Pennsylvania Wescosville June 30-July 9 Atlantic Union New Jersey Kingston (English) June 30-July 9 Kingston (Spanish) July 10-16 FOR 1960 Greater New York Ohio Sloatsburg (English) July 1-9 Mount Vernon June 30-July 10 Sloatsburg (Spanish) July 10-16 West Pennsylvania Thirteenth Sabbath Offering June 25 New York Somerset August 4-14 Union Springs Academy, Union Sprins Medical Missionary Day and Church Medi- (tentative) June 30-July 9 cal Missionary Offering July 2 Northeastern Lake Union Midsummer Missions Service and Offering July 9 Camp Victory Lake, Hyde Park June 30-July 10 Illinois Enlightening Dark Counties August 6 Southern New England Southern, Makanda August 18-21 Church Home Missionary Offering August 6 South Lancaster, Massachusetts June 30-July 9 Lake Region Educational Day and Elementary School Cassopolis, Michigan August 19-27 Offering August 13 Canadian Union Grand Ledge August 4-13 Oakwood College Offering August 27 Wisconsin Literature Evangelist Rally Day September 3 Portage July 28-August 6 Church Home Missionary Offering September 3 Alberta Missions Extension Day and Offering September 10 Canadian Union College, Lacombe July 14-23 JMV Pathfinder Day September 17 Pobida church, Beauvallon July 27-31 North Pacific Union Thirteenth Sabbath Offering September 24 Peace River, Peona July 27-31 Idaho Neighborhood Evangelism October 1 British Columbia Church Home Missionary Offering October 1 Hope July 21-30 Gem State Academy, Caldwell June 23-July 2 Montana Voice of Prophecy Offering October 8 Manitoba-Saskatchewan Sabbath School Visitors' Day October 8 Saskatoon July 7-16 Mount Ellis Academy, Bozeman July 1-9 Oregon Review and Herald Campaign Clear Lake July 20-24 October 15-November 12 Maritime Gladstone Park, Gladstone July 21-30 Upper Columbia Temperance Day Offering October 29 Pugwash, Nova Scotia August 5-14 Witnessing Laymen Newfoundland Walla Walla College, College Place June 16-25 November 5 St. John's August 10-14 Washington Church Home Missionary Offering November 5 Ontario-Quebec Auburn Academy, Auburn July 14-23 Week of Prayer November 12-19 Oshawa Missionary College, Oshawa, June 30-July 9 Week of Sacrifice Offering November 19 Pacific Union Ingathering Campaign for 1961 November 26, 1960-January 14, 1961 Central Union Arizona Home Missionary Day December 3 Colorado Prescott July 21-30 Church Home Missionary Offering December 3 Conference constituency business session Central California Thirteenth Sabbath Offering (Christmas (7:30 p.m.), Denver Central church August 4-5 Soquel July 7-17 Offering) December 24

weeks later. But they were disappointed, The influence is spreading. One family SABBATH SCHOOL for only a few from the community at- said, "We had heard about that program tended. They continued their efforts, how- and wondered whether you were going to OH ever, and along with the others Mrs. Del- invite us." Our people are allowing the bert Graves went early to the community non-Adventist children to help carry the to remind the folks of the meeting. In responsibilities of secretary, pianist, et Branch Sabbath Schools in the one home the mother planned to attend cetera. The pianist, a neighbor of Dr. and but had forgotten. Mrs. Graves suggested Mrs. Dittes, said, "I want to go to church Southland that she would help get the children now." The mothers are enjoying reading On December 5, 1959, when I was at ready. "I never gave six baths so quickly the papers given out, and all the primary Highland Academy in the Kentucky- before," she said, "but they were all there and junior children appear to enjoy the Tennessee Conference, the brethren in- for Sabbath school." Soon the attendance films. Mrs. Parish, the leader of the kin- vited me to attend their branch Sabbath swelled to 40. This was in June of 1959. dergarten, was using the same songs, flan- school at two-thirty in the afternoon. Some A short time later the Highland church nelgraph aids, and pictures as were used children and adults were already there started another branch Sabbath school in for the children of our own people on when I arrived, but they kept coming in Portland, Tennessee. This, too, was a Sabbath morning. by fours and fives, until the leaders had to thriving organization. Problems arose, Surely the influence growing out of search the building for more chairs. There however, when the winter season came, Sabbath school work would improve and were 82 in attendance, three of whom for there was no heat in the buildings. enlarge the church if all our Sabbath were Adventist children. A decision was made to combine these schools would be doing as the Highland Mrs. A. G. Dittes has had a burden for branch Sabbath schools during the winter Academy church is. William C. Hatch, branch Sabbath schools. While riding in months and transport the members to the conference Sabbath school secretary, be- the country one Sabbath she noticed an church, with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sim- lieves that all of his Sabbath schools will unused schoolhouse in Buck Lodge com- mons as leaders. So now each Sabbath have similar projects within a short time. munity. She informed others in the church. afternoon church members and youth S. S. WILL They obtained use of the building and from the school go out in their cars to Sabbath School Secretary opened the branch Sabbath school a few pick up those who will come. Southern Union Conference JUNE 23, 1960 27 The sin of Rebekah and Jacob sepa- rated them forever. It brought Jacob into the control of an uncle whose cunning became a sharp threshing instrument used by God to teach Jacob that sin against man is really sin against God. Soon Jacob learned by the presence of By HARRY W. LOWE, General Conference Field Secretary idolatry in his household that one sin begets another, and that safety lies in strict obedience to God's holy law. "The FOR SABBATH, JULY 9, 1960 written word, the law of God, will meas- ure the character of every man, and con- demn all whom this unerring test shall The Decalogue declare wanting."-/bid., p. 268. 3. The Existing Standard of Life MATTHEW 5:17-19. "Till heaven and [This Lesson Help is a running comment on the there can be no such breach."-G. CAMP- lesson presented in the Sabbath School Quarterly and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no should be read in connection with it.] BELL MORGAN, The Ten Commandments, wise pass from the law, till all be ful- p. 120. filled." Jesus had been sweeping aside the PEAKING to crowded congregations in EXODUS 24:12. "I will give the tables piles of traditional rubbish under which S London's Westminster Abbey in 1891 of stone . . . which I have written." These the Pharisees had well-nigh buried the and 1892, the well-known Dr. F. W. Farrar words are amplified in Deuteronomy 5:22, law. They had spies listening and ready to had this to say of the Decalogue: "It is where God not only wrote them, but report Him as opposed to the law. To impossible to exaggerate the importance "spake . . out of the midst of the fire answer them and to assure His disciples and interest of the Ten Commandments. . . . with a great voice: and he added no of His loyalty to truth, He uttered these They are not only the earliest historic more." Josephus records a superstition of words from Matthew 5:17-19. code which has come down to us, but also the Pharisees regarding this scene by say- "The law" here comes from the Greek the most profound and the most corn- ing that "no one of these words escaped word nomos, which in this verse has the prehensive."-The Voice From Sinai, p. 3. them, . . . which it is not lawful for us meaning of the Hebrew word torah, 1. The Ten Words of God to set down directly, but their import teaching, or the whole revealed will of ROMANS 3:1, 2. "The Jews were en- we will declare."-Antiquities, Book III, God. "The law and the prophets" are trusted with the oracles of God" (R.S.V.). chap. 5, par. 4. How tragic that a people two parts of the Hebrew Scriptures. Com- Verses 1-4 of Romans 3 answer the ques- who had such awe of the Supreme Being pare with John 1:45. More often the tion of the importance of being a Jew, that they would pronounce neither His division was the law, the prophets, and raised in chapter 2:28, 29. Paul gives sev- sacred name (even its original pronuncia- the psalms, as used by Jesus in Luke 24: eral reasons for Jewish privilege. In Ro- tion becoming unknown) nor His holy 44. The moral law of the Ten Command- mans 1:8 the faith of Jewish Christians in law, should nevertheless "resist the Holy ments is, of course, included in our text. Rome was "spoken of throughout the Ghost" and become "the betrayers and JAMES 2:8-10. "Whosoever shall keep whole world." In Romans 9:4, 5 "the murderers" of "the Just One," who might the whole law, and yet offend in one adoption, and the glory, and the cove- have become their Redeemer. (Acts 7: point, he is guilty of all." Satanic on- nants, and the giving of the law, and the 51, 52). slaughts against God's law take all forms, service of God, and the promises," and 2. Law From the Beginning sometimes asserting that the whole law descent from the fathers through whom GENESIS 26:5. "Abraham obeyed my was abolished, sometimes leading men to Christ came-all this tremendous category voice, and kept my charge, my command- ignore one or another of the divine pre- of advantages-came to the true Jews. ments, my statutes, and my laws." This cepts. "If he can lead men to disregard Now in Romans 3:2 Paul lists the cus- verse uses words descriptive of every re- one precept, his purpose is gained."- todianship of the oracles, or solemn ut- quirement of God, whether they came to Ibid., p. 763. terances of God. This privilege turned the patriarch by direct revelation or by PHILIPPIANS 2:13. "It is God which to their condemnation "because they re- oral tradition. There was thus law before worketh in you both to will and to do of belled against the words of God, and con- Sinai's formal declaration. The patriarchs his good pleasure." In the beginning man temned the counsel of the most High" observed all the requirements of God's was created in the image of God. He was (Ps. 107:11). The counsels of God are holy law, including the Sabbath: "It was in perfect harmony with the nature of the called "right judgments, and true laws, kept by all the patriarchs, from Abel to law of God. Sin marred this harmony, good statutes and commandments" in righteous Noah, to Abraham, to Jacob." but "through the merits of Christ he Nehemiah 9:13, and the next verse, by -The Great Controversy, p. 453. [man] can be restored to harmony with including the Sabbath, shows the wide use GENESIS 3:6. "The woman . . . took of his Maker. His heart must be renewed by of words to include all the commands of the fruit thereof, and did eat." The first divine grace; he must have a new life God. sin mentioned in the Bible was a transgres- from above."-The Great Controversy, p. DEUTERONOMY 4:13. "He declared unto sion of the tenth commandment. It was 467. Compare with Galatians 2:20. you his covenant, . . . even ten command- also a transgression of the direct spoken ments." The use of the word covenant in word of God: "Ye shall not eat of it, 4. Observing the Law in the Last Days respect to the Ten Commandments neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die" REVELATION 14:12. "Here are they that strongly suggests that Hebrew destiny was (verse 3). Both of these sins, and the re- keep the commandments of God." This is dependent upon their loyalty to God's sultant curse in verses 16-19, prove the in contrast to the selfishness, covetousness, ten commandments. The tremendous existence of law from the beginning, for boasting, pride, blasphemy, and lawless- scenes on Sinai, when "ten thousands of "sin is the transgression of the law" (1 ness of the last days (2 Tim. 3:1-5) . These holy ones, with flaming fire at his right John 3:4). evils "may in a great degree be attributed hand appeared," are a unique combina- GENESIS 4:10-12. "The voice of thy to a failure to study and obey the Scrip- tion of majestic power and divine love. brother's blood crieth unto me. . . . Now tures," with its consequent "turning away See Deuteronomy 33:2, 3, R.S.V., where it art thou cursed from the earth." The from God's law."-Prophets and Kings, is said: "Yea, he loved his people; all those curse upon the soil and the serpent in p. 624. consecrated to him were in his hand." Genesis 3:14-17 is here extended to man, REVELATION 22:14. 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JUNE 23, 1960 31 Aid for Chile ment. It is wonderful that in the very The Critics Examined heart of the Southern African Divi- Disaster Victims sion, in the important city of Johan- We begin in this issue a series of editorials under the general head, The American Red Cross, CARE, nesburg, the work continues to move "The Critics Examined." It is no and the various church relief agencies forward in power. God signally have responded immediately to the blessed the evangelists there last year, secret that there are certain persons on appeal for aid for the earthquake vic- and at the opening meeting of a sec- the fringes of the Advent Movement, tims in southern Chile. Two complete ond city-wide campaign between three sometimes church members, whose U.S. Army field hospitals were flown thousand and four thousand crowded chief business in life seems to be to to the devastated area. Food, medi- in to hear the everlasting gospel pre- criticize the church. Often these criti- cines, water purifiers, warm clothing, sented. cisms are scurrilous attacks on the blankets, and building materials have But even more encouraging is the leadership of the Movement. How been landed or are on the way. deep interest in the Bible school, factual are these plausible attacks? Is The stricken area is extensive, and which has more than doubled in size the Movement being led into apos- estimates indicate the destitution will since last year. There are prospects tasy? Who are these critics, anyway, be the worst of any disaster in the of a good harvest of souls. that pose as "reformers" of the church? Western world in the last two decades. We are happy to report that our These and other questions we shall The distress is aggravated because work at the Evangelistic Center in seek to answer. Chile is now entering its winter sea- London is bearing real fruitage. More son, with heavy rainfall in the area. than thirty followed their Lord in the We are grateful for latest reports waters of baptism a few weeks ago, One Thousand Students that indicate that not one of our mem- and within the coming weeks more to Canvass bers lost his life. Our relief organiza- than twice as many others will declare tion has sent $12,500 to bring aid to their faith and rise to walk in newness From the colleges and academies of earthquake victims and assist them in of life. R. A. ANDERSON North America more than 1,000 stu- rehabilitating their homes. We have dents have entered the field to sell our shipped 82,500 pounds of warm, win- books and magazines in order to earn ter clothing from our Eastern and Literature Wins Souls scholarships. Western clothing warehouses at New Think of the influence of all these York City and Watsonville, California. in South America young people as they visit the homes, W. E. PHILLIPS God is greatly prospering the lit- pray with people, enroll them in one erature ministry in the South Ameri- of the Bible courses, and sell them can Division. During the year 1958 gospel literature. British Union Committee the literature evangelists in that field We invite the readers of the REVIEW Appoints Mission Officers distributed 378,800 books, 7,100 Bi- AND HERALD to pray for the success of bles, and 2,350,000 magazines. Last these young men and women. The British Union committee met year 450,800 books were circulated, W. A. HIGGINS recently and made the following ap- 37,300 Bibles, and 2,127,000 maga- pointments for the three missions zines. within tne union. At a recent institute conducted in Awakening Among Welsh Mission: president, K. A. the Goiano-Mineira Mission in Brazil, Ukrainians in Canada Elias; secretary-treasurer, W. G. C. 13 of the literature evangelists present Walton. reported 107 souls won in 1959. This Recent word from Philip Moores, Scottish Mission: president, W. T. represents 34 per cent of the baptisms president of the Manitoba-Saskatche- Newman; secretary-treasurer, W. G. C. for the field for the year. wan Conference, Canada, says: "Elder Walton. In the Sao Paulo Conference insti- P. E. Uniat, pastor of the Yorkton Irish Mission: president, W. G. tute 105 literature evangelists were Ukrainian church district, has re- Nicholson; secretary-treasurer, present. Fifteen of these were new re- ceived more than 2,000 inquiries from W. G. C. Walton. cruits. In this same conference 115 Ukrainians regarding our message. May the Lord bless these brethren students worked during the vacation Twenty of these people took their as they lead these fields forward to period. Ten assistant publishing de- stand for the message at a meeting in ultimate triumph. partment secretaries were employed to Grandview, and ten have commenced T. A. MCMILLAN train them. keeping the Sabbath. These people In January of 1960 the South Amer- had been prepared by constantly lis- ican Division made a 68 per cent gain tening to our message given in Evangelism in Our Large in literature sales over January of Ukrainian over the radio." Cities 1959. Elder Moores pleads for an extra At the close of this wonderful re- helper for Elder Uniat in order that Encouraging reports continue to port sent to us by Nicolas Chaij, the the mulitplying interests may be cared come to us from many parts of the division publishing department sec- for. There is indeed a great awakening world field. From Australasia, the Far retary, he states, "Wonderful. Thanks among the Greek Orthodox and East, and South America we learn of to God." Roman Catholic people of other unusual advances in the Advent Move- D. A. MCADAMS tongues. WESLEY AMUNDSEN