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THREE CLOUDS

By JOHN BOTTSFORD, M.D. Orchid Islanders gather by the author.

HE screen was a temporary structure. Four spent in seeking food; and food is kept scarce by many of bamboo poles formed an upright square the taboos and rituals of living in a spirit-dominated cul- suspending a bedsheet. The monotonous ture. For example, during our visit the early morning drone of the four-cycle engine reassured the secret sacrifice of a small pig was performed by each company of a continuous electric source. On boatman prior to the use of the large nets in fishing. the screen Jesus ascended to heaven. The inscription was It is said that the cloud surrounding Jesus was a multi- in Chinese characters, the translation in Yami dialect. tude of angels of light. Conversely, the cloud surrounding The next slide arrested my attention in a new way. It these people is composed of angels of darkness. The task was a divided slide. The title was "Two Clouds." On the of dispelling this cloud with the love of Jesus is our work. left "a cloud received him out of their sight" ( Acts 1:9 ). Interest has been stirred on Orchid Island. A worker On the right, "Behold, he cometh with clouds" (Rev. needs to be sent now. The budget at present cannot sup- 1:7 ). Two more important clouds will never be known port the addition. It is sad to watch opportunities for —the cloud that received Jesus up to heaven and the the advancement of God's work fade away. We pray cloud that attends His return to this earth. now for a way by which a worker may soon go to This presentation of the second coming of Jesus was Orchid Island, there, by the Spirit of God, to disperse part of a pioneering program on Orchid Island. Orchid the cloud of superstition and false belief, there to gather Island is 45 miles southeast of the island of Taiwan. together those who will look up and say, "Lo, this is Under the leadership of the Taiwan Mountain Mission our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us" president, J. E. Christensen, work is beginning in this (Isa. 25:9). +4 new area. Last year Elder Christensen surveyed the area for in- terest during a short visit. This year a five-man team ar- rived on Orchid Island to develop the interest: L. Lamber- ton, a dentist; John Bottsford, Jr., a physician, both from the Taiwan Sanitarium and Hospital; two national work- ers, Tseng Wu Lang and Tseng Chieh Ya; and Pastor Christensen. This minister-medical-dental team worked in four of the six villages during the five-day stay. People from the two other villages came to one of the four for treatment. Daylight medical and dental services were followed by the evening meetings of slides and motion pictures. Each night another area heard of the soon coming of Jesus. Each night the slide with two clouds was shown. Each night it became plainer that these two clouds must dispel a third cloud. These aboriginal people, numbering about 2,000, are enshrouded in a cloud of superstition and false belief. The concept of the "happy heathen" is not true here. The task of living is encumbered with many PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR taboos. Much of the time of these primitive people is Tseng Wu Lang brings the gospel story to the Orchid Islanders. By WALTER RAYMOND BEACH

Marching in Aarth' s Sunset

UT through the gates of Je- heaven, shall so come in like manner "I will come again." This realistic rusalem He led them—across as ye have seen him go into heaven" hope in the Lord Jesus makes us Ad- O the Kedron, up the green (see Acts 1:4-11). ventists—makes us a people with a slopes of Olivet—Jesus the Master, This communication was not news changed outlook on life; a people risen from the dead, immortal and save as the disciples had forgotten who "live, here and now, responsible, triumphant, and His eleven disciples what their Lord had previously told honorable and God-fearing lives. And transported with joy at His resurrec- them. Some forty days before He had while we live this life we hope and tion and filled with hope. They stood said, "I go to prepare a place for you. wait for the glorious denouement of around Him on the brow of the And if I go and prepare a place for the great God and of Jesus Christ our mountain in eager expectation. you, I will come again, and receive savior" (Titus 2:11-13, Phillips).* "The kingdom, Lord! The king- you unto myself; that where I am, Others may find their main interest, dom! Would Thou at this time re- there ye may be also" (John 14:1-3). their future, and their fortune in store again the kingdom to Israel?" Before that, Jesus had taught much this present world. But Adventists fol- But He said to them, "It is not for about the coming kingdom. Finally low a new way, setting their affec- you to know the times or the seasons, the disciples came to understand tions on things above and centering which the Father hath put in his own God's message and work. Apostles their interest in the world to come. power. But ye shall receive power, now, they left the sandstone fastness of They plan their future where their after that the Holy Ghost is come Judea conquering and to conquer Lord has gone to prepare a place. upon you: and ye shall be witnesses with Christ's own words of promise "We are 'looking forward to the unto me both in Jerusalem, and in on their lips. happy fulfillment of our hope when all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto We can think of no more encour- the splendour of our great God and the uttermost part of the earth." And aging message, no words of greater Saviour Jesus Christ will appear' " He lifted up His hands and blessed cheer, nothing of more assurance and (Titus 2:13, N.E.B.).t them. "And when he had spoken importance today than this: "I will But this "looking forward" will rec- these things, while they beheld, he come again." Our Lord, our Saviour, ognize that a definite task has been was taken up; and a cloud received our God is coming. He is coming per- assigned to us here—one that must be him out of their sight." sonally. He is coming to gather to completed before the glad day of the Parted and lost in the clouds. Their Himself for all time those who have Lord's return. Like the apostles, we Lord was gone and where now was chosen Him above all else in the must be the unceasing and unwearied the kingdom? Where their hopes? world. He is coming to make an end emissaries of "present truth." The Steadfastly they gazed toward heaven of sin and of all its evil results. He is "everlasting gospel" must be pro- until the cloud faded away in the coming to purify this world and to claimed to "every nation, and kin- distance. remove from His universe forever all dred, and tongue, and people" in the But as the disciples watched with traces of sin's contamination. He is setting of the judgment hour (Rev. sinking hearts, it seemed the cloud coming to abolish death and to be- 14:6). It is our conviction that we was returning. Could it be? It was. stow eternal life upon His purchased have a definite place and mission in The points of glory increased in size possession. He is coming to gather His this world now. The world needs our and form and brightness. Then, as in own. The prophet Malachi, with the message and help. We cannot look the opened tomb, two men framed in angel of revelation peeping over his upon ourselves as just one more re- light stood by their side. As the dis- shoulder, wrote: "And they shall be * The Bible texts in this article credited to Phillips ciples sought to bring their eyes into mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that are from The New Testament in Modern English, ® J. B. Phillips 1958. Used by ?permission of The focus, the messengers of heaven said, day when I make up my jewels; and I Macmillan Company. "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gaz- will spare them, as a man spareth his t Texts credited to N.E.B. are from The New English Bible. © The Delegates of the Oxford Uni- ing up into heaven? this same Jesus, own son that serveth him" (Mal. versity Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge Uni- which is taken up from you into 3:17). versity Press 1970. Reprinted by permission. 2 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 as we advance, we shall find that Heaven has moved before us, enlarg- ing the field for labor far beyond the proportion of our means and ability to supply."—Fundamentals of Chris- tian Education, p. 209. Executing God's Great Design Heaven has enlarged the resources and the ranks of believers and the staff of workers. Yet, the inability to answer all the calls is ever sorely felt. "In secret places," wrote the messen- ger of the Lord, "they are weeping and praying that they may see light in the Scriptures; and the Lord of heaven has commissioned His angels to cooperate with human agencies in carrying forward His vast design, that all who desire light may behold the glory of God."—Ibid. And the view of these praying ones still cheers us on as we set our sights on a finished work, a work that shall encircle the world. Moreover, to the eternal credit of g REVIEW AND HERALD l'INtOCT APIL/trtbtlfg, Ani our church leaders and members Those who look forward to the "happy fulfillment of their hope" will recognize that, down through the decades since then, like the apostles, they must be unceasing and unwearied emissaries of "present truth." let it be said that there never has been wavering or hesitancy in the denom- ination's resolve to carry to comple- ligious body, just another name to be out through the Golden Gate of San tion the responsibility divinely as- added to a long list. This generation Francisco to unfold a golden future signed. Strong and capable men and of Adventists must bear the message for the Advent band in the Austral women have offered themselves for committed to it: "Behold, He is corn- Pacific. Six years later (1891) Ellen G. service to go to distant lands. Fathers ing" (Rev. 1:7, R.S.V.)—with all that White joined the forces that had been and mothers have cheered their sons this message entails. mustered "down under." Soon (as and daughters on to serve in faraway usual) a school was established in Mel- places, frequently aware as they bade A Gigantic Undertaking bourne, and in August, 1892, twenty them farewell that they would never Indeed, a gigantic undertaking of students crowded into the little see their children again in this world. faith has been entrusted to us. From chapel on St. Kilda Road to listen Even from deathbeds, devoted par- the start in 1844, Seventh-day Advent- to a chapel talk presented by the mes- ents have charged their children not ists have been touched with the fire senger of the Lord. That talk, re- to desert their posts of duty. Some of conviction that they must do ex- corded in Fundamentals of Christian 2,600 are in the field today. ploits for God. Only eleven years after Education, pages 201-211, was to Meanwhile, millions in money have organizing as a church, that little make history in our work. There poured into the coffers of our church handful of 3,500 believers sent out came into it bold sentences of inspira- since that first little group was sent the first worker to an overseas assign- tion to world mission. out in 1874. Sacrificial giving has built ment. "Behold, He is coming" was the "The plans and work of men are up and supported the worldwide cry. not keeping pace with the providence program. The conviction of each Sev- Then, eleven years later (in 1885) of God. . . . We are to follow where enth-day Adventist still remains, I am representatives of the church sailed God's providence opens the way; and sure, to continue the support of this REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 3 work with ever-increasing fervor and mans, the apostle admonished Chris- design. Millions lift their hands heav- devotion until the Master says, "It is tians "to be experts in goodness" enward today and thank God for the finished," and we hear these wonder- (Rom. 16:19, N.E.B.). Apostolic change in life and outlook that comes ful words "Well done." In that day goodness was "active goodness" (Heb. when the lively hope in Christ be- the gold and silver of faithful Advent- 10:24, N.E.B.). This goodness of life comes a reality. ists will not have cankered nor will was the basis for the apostolic achieve- It was indeed a good way of life for the rust of hoarded treasure be a wit- ment. A life experience will bring ul- one family. A mother's home had be- ness against them. Their means will timate victory to the people of the come a shambles. The marriage was have been sent on before to that bank Advent. on the rocks because of the degrada- "where neither moth nor rust doth I think of one fine country in East- tion of an alcoholic husband. The corrupt, and where thieves do not ern Europe where, it is reported, some children were growing up hungry and break through nor steal" (Matt. 6: 75,000 Adventists attend Sabbath uncared for, headed for lives of crime 20). school weekly. An official of that coun- and violence. Then the mother her- try revealed the secret of this achieve- self became an alcoholic. Work Must Be Finished ment when he said to me, "Your peo- At the height of the crisis a son was "Behold, He is coming" means, ple are a good people." And that is all brought under Christian influence then, that the task entrusted to the it takes. 0 the inexorable power of a through Seventh-day Adventist good- Advent Movement must be com- life that bears witness day after day ness. By curiosity the little waif wan- pleted. "To finish the work" is the to the character of God! dered into the city Dorcas workroom. goal. But we can repeat until dooms- Some months ago two office girls in He was scrubbed, cleaned, and day this well-worn watchword, yet Montevideo, Uruguay, showed them- dressed, and introduced to Sabbath the work remain unfinished. Idle repe- selves "experts in goodness." They school. This was an entirely new ex- tition can actually become an anes- called at a home and much to their perience for the lad. A little later he thetic and induce a kind of spiritual surprise were not well received. The timidly brought a brother and a sister hypnosis that bewitches into thinking mistress of the house, half in anger, to Sabbath school after the Dorcas sis- that the work is being finished. We said, "I want nothing to do with your ters had cleaned them up and pro- must audaciously translate such words Bible or your lessons. I am not in- vided clothing. Then the mother into actions if we would, indeed, fin- terested in religion." She slammed the came to Sabbath school. She came ish the work. We need to match our door. The next week these two young with misgiving, but found warmth millions in offerings with millions of people knocked at the same door. The and friendship such as she had never lives fired with holy ardor and blazing unfriendly woman spoke out louder known before. She came again and faith, with sacrificial economy and than before. "I told you last week, again, and a great change took place sanctified imagination. No! Since then my husband has died in her. Of this she wrote: The way of God's witnesses today and I have less desire now than I did "I have given up smoking and must be a revelation through life and then. Be gone, be gone!" drinking, and I am very glad for that. word in the power of the Holy Spirit The two young people talked I have enrolled in the Bible course. (1 Thess. 1:5). Ministry to the world about this episode. "Should we go The Bible is new to me, for my father must be the fruit of a life. A witness, back again?" They decided they would not allow one in the house. I be he layman or one chosen by the would. They prepared a bouquet of love the Sabbath school. We are pre- church for a special mission, is not flowers and knocked at the door. No paring for baptism. This is the most just a zealot seeking out proselytes; one was home, so they left the bou- wonderful experience for all of us." he is not just a recruiting sergeant quet in the doorway just as a friend Oh, the wonders that can be done exerting his talents to enroll soldiers would. They left no note as to who by "experts in goodness." When the under the banner of the cross. He was the giver. Advent people set their hearts upon will not just organize an effort or a "living a life that is good," divine campaign. He will do all that; but he A Message and a Love power combines with human effort, will also bear fruit from the abun- Some hours later in the market and mountains of difficulty are re- dance of his doctrine and of his life. place this rather rebellious woman moved and cast into the sea. Onward He will finish the work in his field be- saw the two girls. She approached and still onward the work will ad- cause the work of God has been fin- them and asked, "Are you the ones vance until every nation and tribe, ished in him. Through him God will who brought the flowers to my door?" language and people have been do "a short work" in revealing His "Yes," they answered. "Come to see brought face to face with present character to the world and enlighten- me, will you? My husband was buried truth. ing the earth with His glory. "Into the two days ago. Your goodness has darkness of the world is to be shed the touched my heart. I am ready now to Glories of the Homecoming light of His glory, the light of His look into your Bible. Come and see Today we march shoulder to shoul- goodness, mercy, and truth."— me, please." Of course, this woman der, dauntless, determined, and eager Christ's Object Lessons, p. 415. is now a baptized member of the in Heaven's cause. But we march into church. Moreover, such youthful earth's sunset. "Behold, He is com- Secret of Christian Success goodness in South America resulted ing!" The time is minutes to midnight All this is brought about by the in a one-day baptism of 6,384 youths. and minutes to morning. We hear the lively hope in Him who "gave him- How marvelous in this day of per- footsteps of an approaching God. self for us, that he might rescue us plexity and threat and bitterness that This is the grand finale, the goal to- from all our evil ways and make for Seventh-day Adventists are on the ward which have marched the pilgrim himself a people of his own, clean and scene with a message and a love that saints of all ages as they struggle, pure, with our hearts set upon living brings about the transformation of stumble, and climb upward. The day a life that is good" (Titus 2:14, the whole man. People who accept this eternal casts a radiant glow upon the Phillips). "A life that is good" is the way of life find it does them good. It lengthening shadows in earth's sunset. secret of success. Writing to the Ro- is the new and living way of God's ++

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4 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 scribes a colossal banquet of 180 days long, in 483 B.c., to which Xerxes had called all his princes from the far corners of his vast empire. What he was really doing was enlisting their support for his massive invasion into Greece, that he undertook in the fol- lowing year. At this marathon ban- quet, Vashti, his queen, refused to be billed as a common entertainer. After deposing Vashti, Xerxes gave the or- der that the fairest young women of the empire were to be gathered, from whom he would select his next queen. Selection of Miss Universe The first phase of this beauty con- test was to be conducted while Xerxes was on his military campaign in Greece. It wouldn't take much imagi- nation to see the excitement in each village throughout the empire during the 36 months of the king's absence— z Miss Persepolis, Miss Arbela, Miss Nippur, Miss Babylon; and then by regions, Miss Parthia, Miss Egypt, o Miss Bactria. And finally, Miss Uni- verse, Hadassah from Shushan, a young Jewess who had been brought up by an older cousin, Mordecai. Mordecai urged his young cousin to change her name to Esther, a fa- miliar Persian name, and not to make her Jewish background known. The Jews were well-favored and influen- tial in Persia at this time, though they had come as war prisoners under Babylon. But Mordecai wisely knew that the Jews were still aliens in a foreign land. Furthermore, Mordecai knew that in a time of crisis the af- By HERBERT E. DOUGLASS fluence of the Jewish minority would breed suspicion, envy, and hostility. So Xerxes returned from his mili- E LIVE in a time even The Book of Esther, relating events tary disaster to behold young Esther, more significant than that occurred about 480 B.c. amid the the most beautiful girl in the world. when Noah's ark tossed magnificence of Shushan, reveals the What do we know about Esther? Not W much except that she was orphaned on the raging flood, or when Caleb human factor in the work of God on and Joshua held the line in the wil- earth. Truth needed to be heard with early and that she was as beautiful derness, or when the future of this urgency, but the urgency, if it were in character as in appearance. world was in the hands of 11 per- to reflect the will of God, was not to Good Home Training plexed and disappointed men after a compromise the truth. crucifixion. The main character, of course, is Somewhere in her home training Perhaps our day, however, is more Esther, with her older cousin playing she learned discipline and judgment like the time just under 2,500 years a remarkable supporting role. Ha- and self-denial, and also a healthy re- ago when the destiny of this earth man is the villain and Xerxes, or specefor her foster parent. For Esther, hung on the courage and resourceful- Ahasuerus, as he is called in the Bibli- there was no hangup between author- ness of Esther, a young woman who, cal narrative, is the mystery element. ity and self-fulfillment. Somehow au- indeed, stood at the confluence of Xerxes, the son of Darius the Great, thority and love and freedom were so truth and urgency, as very few have was emperor. Although described as a well blended that Esther, even in her ever experienced. handsome man with no equal among adulthood, found it natural and right The primary problem of our day, the Persians, he was also capricious to value Mordecai's counsel even as in all pivotal moments in history, and self-indulgent. Nor was he the though she was the queen of all she is that there are many people with military genius his father was. Dur- surveyed. truth, in a way, but with no compel- ing his reign the Persians lost all dom- But there is more that is beyond the ling sense of urgency; but there are ination in Greece, and in 466 B.c. he ordinary about Esther. During these also many people who are urgent, lost on one day the Persian army and five years as queen of the world, be- intensely urgent, but with little navy. This national humiliation ag- fore the great crisis of chapter four, grasp of truth—only some informa- gravated palace intrigue and insecu- what did this luxury and power do tion, seasoned with a scorn for history. rity, which helps to explain some of to her spirit? What would it have the details in the Book of Esther. done to most people you know? Condensation of the baccalaureate address at At- lantic Union College, May 30, 1970. The first chapter of Esther de- When a person has gone up in REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 5 the world and has achieved a posi- Infuriated that Mordecai would not will pray with us. After that I will tion of power and eminence, whether formally bow down in his presence, go to the king—and if I perish, I it is by force or wealth or brains, it he resolved not only to destroy Mor- perish." requires strength and beauty of char- decai; he would exterminate all the We learn much about Esther and acter for that person still to love and Jews throughout the empire—all the truth in this quiet, resolute decision. remember the simple people from Jews of the world. She was not a loner nor was she self- whom he or she sprang. Humble This in a simple sentence was a confident. Her piety was not some- girls have often married wealthy men, death decree which if enforced, would thing she practiced in secret, nor had forgetting their origin in the process. have destroyed the seed of Abraham, she forgotten where she had come They have, in fact, been ashamed of Isaac, and Jacob, and thus the de- from or the people who had sacrificed anything that might remind them of pository of God's truth on earth. for her development. it. The crisis that Mordecai faced, as She knew her great risk, but a It may have crossed Mordecai's well as all Jews, was immediate; it high resolve lifted her above desper- mind once or twice during those five demanded quick, earnest, and urgent ation, stoicism, or overwrought feel- years, and especially as he prepared action. ing. his reply to Esther at the time of the The news of the death decree ap- And so after the three days of death decree: "Has she changed? Is parently never reached Esther until prayer Esther, with high courage, she too high and mighty now to re- she learned of Mordecai's distress in pulled back the curtain and walked member me and her people?" the street. Mordecai not only gave her slowly down the high-vaulted hall the news but also the only solution across the enormous marble floor to- More Than an Alien he could think of, even though it ward the throne, every inch a queen. But Esther was almost more than seemed well-nigh impossible. "You, The record says that she won his we could have dared to expect. Truth Esther, are Israel's only hope—you favor. had found a home in Esther's heart, must dissuade the king or all will be The guards, the palace sycophants, and that makes all the difference in lost." the chief of protocol, must have been the world when the chips are down, Esther's first response would also be astounded. Could there have been and the light flickers, and mooring yours. "This is a solution? Everybody greater news in the capital gossip rope loosens, and when the trusted under the sun, from the palace guard mill? Is it for real? few can only pray as the next step to the humblest peasant, knows that Why did Xerxes so freely accept is decided. Esther knew that she was no one enters the king's presence un- Esther's impropriety, her boldness? more than an alien in a strange land. bidden. And the secret service has the Because Xerxes had learned to trust She was more than a mere Jewess. palace under tight security since the this unusual woman. She lived a life She was a child of the God of Israel— last attempted coup. I wouldn't have apart from the usual beauties in his a lonely witness, but she was at least a chance. Besides, even I as queen Oriental harem. He trusted her un- one, and that was more important to have not been called to the king's spoken request because he trusted Esther than the applause and the chamber for 30 days." her; she had been living the truth, so gold of an empire. Mordecai's Counsel now she could be trusted with the Something rare is going on here, urgency. It would have been a sad for here is a young woman, not any And back, straight as an arrow, day for Israel and for truth if Esther older than most in this graduating with no condemnation or flattery, as had not been living a life of integrity, class, who had more in her hand than only genuine friends can talk together a positive, consistent, constructive, anyone here has ever seen with his in a crisis, came Mordecai's counsel. lovable life. If her personal insecuri- eyes, yet a human being whose char- "If you keep silent, thinking you will ties drove her to live like the rest of acter is secure from the rot of wealth, escape, you will eventually be dis- the girls who flipped with every fash- prosperity, and power as well as the covered. And if, by chance, you ion just to stay "in," if her record rot of jealousy and envy and cyni- weren't, your people would die be- had not been transparently worthy cism in the heart of those who strive cause you did not do what no one of trust, low-minded Xerxes could for someone else's wealth and power. else but you could do. have thought of other reasons why When a person lives like this, it can "Somehow help will come, from Esther would make her power move be said that "he has the truth." where we cannot see at the moment; at this time and in this way. You know the swift pace of the God will not utterly forsake us. But Furthermore, Esther did not win events in the story of Esther. After what we do know is that you are in a the favor of Xerxes because of mere being selected as one of the finalists position, an extraordinary position, to physical beauty—for him this aspect in the Miss Universe contest she was do something. Could it be, Esther was probably a dime a dozen. A sense groomed for one year before that dear, that your whole life has been of destiny, a conviction that God has night when she took the long walk leading up to this moment, that God a place for you and that you are in down the center stage before King has done His part and now you that place, risk or not, plus a life that Xerxes. One after another the girls alone, so far as this world is con- backs up that conviction and chooses were judged by the king himself, but cerned, are able to do yours—the sav- to reflect the character of this God Esther was in a class by herself—the ing of your people and the preserv- adds up to a radiance that only the record says that "she charmed all who ing of the truth of our fathers? Who word truth can properly describe. saw her." There is nothing more knows whether you are come to the Truth in living color is hard to resist striking than simplicity, freshness, kingdom for such a time as this?" —especially when it is moved with and a pure conscience. This is what we call "truth with urgency. Then there is the rise of Haman, urgency." who elbowed his way up and became And Esther's response—was it that Urgency Not Enough the prime minister under moody, of a gambler or of a trained animal But for you, my graduating friends fickle Xerxes. Intoxicated with his who always let someone else do her of 1970, more than at any other time power, he enjoyed the fawning obei- thinking? Far from it. Back went the in world history, the need to hear sance all would give him—everyone message to Mordecai: "Gather our and see truth has never been so ur- except Mordecai, the foreigner, the people together and pray with me for gent. The crisis of the seventies, alien, the Jew. three days. My personal household whether economic, political, cultural, 6 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 moral, or social, will not be solved by you down: "He that findeth his life before: "Who knoweth whether thou mere urgency or more laws or physical shall lose it: and he that loseth his art come to the kingdom for such a force. life for my sake shall find it." time as this?" A man gathers great If they are to be solved it will be And it is such a pity to see people strength when he believes that God through people who have been dis- losing their lives, maybe not unto has a work for him to do. "There's ciplined through the years to attack death but lost to truth, either because a divinity that shapes our ends, rough- problems with Christian grace, poise, they feel no personal urgency or be- hew them how we will." resourcefulness, courage, and a con- cause they sense the urgency without The Seventh-day Adventist Church, cern for accurate information. This spending enough time looking for without equivocation, is God's move- kind of person is not grown over genuine solutions. The applause of ment of destiny in these last days. night; urgency, yes, but not truth the future will not be for those who The choice you and I have to make can be turned on like water from a merely did something—who felt only is simply this: Are we committed to faucet. This kind of person will ea- the wave of urgency—but for those being the people who will complete gerly be received by others who are who truly advanced the boat when its mission? Am I a person of destiny? implementing change in the affairs they made the waves. Waves will al- The risk frankly is as high as Esther's. of men because he has a record above ways move the boat. The question is Four or five generations of people, suspicion. which way? as a whole, have elected to sit it out, If you decide, on one hand, to sit You as graduates of this college have or to wait for something to break it out and wait for something else to been exposed to a philosophy of life before they make the personal deci- come down the pike or, on the other, and a theological system that can sions required — and the return try to effect change without thinking stand upright and foursquare wher- of Jesus has thus been postponed. through constructive methods and ul- ever you go around this world. Be- Even as Mordecai told Esther, If timate consequences (two choices cause of this you have an obligation you do not rise and speak for your that Esther obviously rejected), you that you cannot easily shake off— people, deliverance will come from might kid yourself that you played it although if you try hard enough you another place, so the same wistful, cool or that you have made a mark can lose it. It is an obligation that sad comment can be made today. If for yourself as a mover. But the dev- forces the question and the subtle this generation does not do its task, astating comment of Jesus will track suggestion as it never has been asked which can very well be done with this generation, then deliverance will arise from another generation, from a group of people yet unborn, to do the work FOR THE YOUNGER SET you could do but would not. If you with all the breaks and blessings of a college education do not Only Twenty Cents! lead your generation before Xerxes, By INEZ BRASIER if the likeliest fail, then the unlike- liest may be raised up. ALL the way to church Benny thought twenty cents for the four—Matthew, But woe to him who is able to be of the three dimes in his pocket. He Mark, Luke, and John. Perhaps the Jesus a specimen in God's exhibit A in thought of what grandpa had said before the Bible seller was talking about would these last days and would not. Woe he started. "Now be sure you put them help her and her family so she could buy to him who places his premium on in the collection for missions. Be sure one and learn about Him. you do it." —But I do not have even the five urgency and writes his own rules for But give all three dimes? Why, he cents,' she whispered to herself. Oh, how truth! Woe to him who waits for a could get two fat ice-cream cones, one I want one! She thought about it while more convenient season. for himself and one for his special friend the Bible man talked. I shall ask one of "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Jack, on the way home. my neighbors to lend me twenty cents. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to "I'll just give one dime," he told Jack. "'Why, of course, Maria! You may fortune; "If grandpa asks me I'll show him my have the twenty cents now to pay for the pocket is empty." Gospels. Who knows when the Bible man Omitted, all the voyage of their life When Benny and Jack sat down in will come again? You can pay me some Is bound in shallows and in miseries." their seats in the children's room their other time.' Ride the high crest, you have so pastor came in. "Now we'll have a story "You see, those poor people have so we like," Benny whispered. many advantages. The hour is now; little money that twenty cents seems like the clear, high purpose before you as Their pastor held up two dimes, a great deal. twenty cents. "This time I shall tell you "Maria hurried home with the four Seventh-day Adventist young people the story of two dimes. It happened away Gospels. She read them often. She read has never faced such urgency. Match down in South America in a small town them to her children. She read them to the urgency with a life of truth for called Obispo Trejo. her neighbors. destiny now sweeps you toward the "A woman named Maria was hurrying "'It is a wonderful thing that Jesus mountain peak, sublime and terrible, home along the street when she saw her loves us,' they told her. neighbors on the corner. 'I wonder what a mountain that must be climbed with they are looking at,' she said to herself. "'Yes, He loves even me,' Maria re- all the energy you can muster. Many So she just had to see and listen. plied. 'And my family loves Him now. in your generation will turn to the "It was a man with Gospels to sell. We belong to Him. Think of it! Eight of safety of the valley and fall back 'These Gospels tell you of the great God us saved to love Him—and all for only into this world's comfort, where above. They tell you how He loves each twenty cents.' " some play it cool and others ride the one of you and wants you to be happy,' Benny's pastor held up the two dimes current of whatever is popular at the the man told them. again. "Only twenty cents—two dimes— moment. "If I perish, I perish" will "Maria thought of the few little things and eight people found Jesus." then be said with a hopeless resigna- she had bought and she knew there Benny nudged jack as he took the tion. But for you, pray God, as you wasn't even one penny left. But she three dimes from his pocket. "I'm put- wanted a Gospel so much! She was often ting all three dimes in the collection to abandon yourself to the fullest pos- so unhappy; she was so poor and there buy Gospels." sible expression of truth, "If I perish, were so many in her family who needed "Sure," Jack whispered back. "Maybe I perish" will be your door to life food. Only five cents for one Gospel, only they will help more people find Jesus." without end. ++

REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 7 timonies, vol. 6, p. 17. (Italics sup- plied.) The third angel combines the Chris- tian's faith in Jesus with faithfulness in keeping the commandments of God (Rev. 14:12). In this verse we act; hi see the delicate balance God desires. The commandments of God describe the way of life that Jesus best repre- sents. The two are inseparable. But Satan tries to thwart our suc- Mess, "9 cess by driving a wedge between these two wonderful facets of the same truth. With increased emphasis on justification by faith, some went to ill Peril the opposite extreme of neglecting, or, in some instances, playing down the distinctive features of our doctrine. As one notices the dates of the coun- By BRUCE JOHNSTON sels of Mrs. White on this matter, he discovers that about ten or 12 years after the Minneapolis General Con- ference (1888) in which justification by faith received such renewed em- UCH perplexity has arisen emphasis was heard in the preaching phasis, it was necessary to urge the over a statement made by of righteousness by faith. It was much brethren not to lose sight of our dis- ..Mi.. Ellen G. White in the Re- needed, and Mrs. White gave this tinctive message. view and Herald, April 1, 1890: "Sev- preaching enthusiastic support. In 1900 Ellen G. White wrote: eral have written to me, inquiring if However, opinion was divided. "Satan is constantly seeking to cast the message of justification by faith Some feared that emphasis on the a shadow about these messages, so is the third angel's message, and I have message of justification by faith that the people of God shall not answered, 'It is the third angel's mes- would eclipse the preaching of present clearly discern their import, their sage in verity.' " truth. Knowing that the third angel's time and place; but they live, and The statement is positive and une- message was of "most solemn import" are to exert their power upon our quivocal. But when one reads the and that its proclamation was "our religious experience while time shall message of the third angel in Revela- work" for this time they inquired, last."—I bid., p. 18. tion 14:9-12, he is not strongly im- Is the message of justification by faith In 1902 Mrs. White stated with pressed with the thought of right- the third angel's message? Is it a part great urgency: "I pray that my breth- eousness; the emphasis seems to be of the message that we have been ren may realize that the third angel's focused on a severe and judgmental especially commissioned to give in message means much to us and that warning against receiving the mark these last days? The answer was clear, the observance of the true Sabbath of the beast. Hence the perplexity.* "It [righteousness by faith] is the is to be a sign that distinguishes those In lands where the background of third angel's message in verity [ver- who serve God from those who serve the people is not basically Christian ity means "the quality or state of Him not. Let those who have become and where Sunday laws are no issue, being true or real"]."—Review and sleepy and indifferent awake. We are the question is raised, Should we not Herald, April 1, 1890. called to be holy, and we should emphasize the righteousness of Christ In other words, the message of carefully avoid giving the impression and say little if anything about the justification by faith is not an isolated that it is of little consequence whether message of Revelation 14? The above truth, but is most decidedly included or not we retain the peculiar fea- inspired statement from the pen of in the third angel's message. tures of our faith. Upon us rests the Ellen White jars us back to reality. Furthermore, while we speak of the solemn obligation of taking a more How do we resolve this apparent third we must not isolate it to the decided stand for truth and right- contradiction? First it is important exclusion of the messages of the other eousness than we have taken in the to remember that Satan tries to keep two angels. "The three angels of Rev- past. The line of demarcation be- us just off center in our emphasis. He elation 14 are represented as flying tween those who keep the command- will keep us either in the refrigerator in the midst of heaven, symbolizing ments of God and those who do not or in the fire if he can. The thing he the work of those who proclaim the is to be revealed with unmistakable fears is a balanced emphasis. first, second, and third angel's mes- clearness."—Ibid., vol. 7, p.108. In a certain period in our history sages. All are linked together."—Tes- In 1909 she further stressed the undue emphasis on the law developed. This resulted, in too many cases, in Christless preaching. In 1888 a new

*It should be noted that when used historically the expression "third angel's message" at times has a wider significance than the simple statement of its Some look into the future for a particular time message appearing in Revelation 14:9-12. Historically it may refer to the body of truth that came to Seventh-day Adventists after 1844. In other words, when the third angel's message should be proclaimed, where historically the first angel's message referred to the preaching of William Miller and his asso- ciates, up to 1844, and the second angel's message referred to the message preached in the summer of but this message is a timely message and should be 1844 that resulted in the Adventists' separation from the churches of which they had been members, the third angel's message referred to the body of truth proclaimed now. that came to the Adventists in the period after the Disappointment.—Ens.

8 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 importance of proclaiming the mes- "The Lord God of heaven will not and the message of justification by sage of the three angels: "There is no send upon the world His judgments faith are two facets of the same truth. other work of so great importance. until He has sent His watchmen to 2. Neither of these messages should They [Seventh-day Adventists] are to give the warning. He will not close be emphasized to the exclusion of allow nothing else to absorb their up the period of probation until the the other. attention."—Ibid., vol. 9, p. 19. message shall be more distinctly pro- 3. The proclamation of the third claimed. The law of God is to be angel's message is the purpose for Purpose of Schools magnified; its claims must be presented which our institutions were estab- In 1913 she said with reference to in their true, sacred character, that lished and is the work we have es- our schools: "It is important that we the people may be brought to decide pecially been commissioned to per- should have intermediate schools and for or against the truth. Yet the work form. academies. To us has been committed will be cut short in righteousness. The 4. The third angel's message should a great work—the work of proclaiming message of Christ's righteousness is be preached now. the third angel's message to every to sound from one end of the earth 5. The third angel's message is a nation, kindred, tongue, and people." to the other to prepare the way of worldwide message to be proclaimed —Counsels to Parents and Teachers, the Lord. This is the glory of God, in every country on earth. p. 209. which closes the work of the third 6. The preaching of Jesus and His Mrs. White also gives the proc- angel."—Ibid., vol. 6, pp. 18, 19 righteousness must ever be united with lamation of the three angels' messages (1900). the proclamation of the third angel's as the basic reason for the existence Thus we are able to conclude: message. Only thus can the work of of all our institutions. 1. The message of the third angel God be finished in the world. ++ "The influence of these messages has been deepening and widening, setting in motion springs of action in thousands of hearts, bringing into existence institutions of learning, pub- How can You teach me Willingness lishing houses, and health institutions. when All these are instrumentalities of God I'm so busy becoming unwilling? to cooperate in the grand work . . . of How can You teach me Loving-Kindness warning the inhabitants of the world when that Christ is coming the second time I'm so concerned with being loved? with power and great glory."—Tes- timonies, vol. 6, p. 18 (1900). How can You teach me Trust "All our medical institutions are when established as Seventh-day Adventist I'm so busy trusting another? institutions to represent the various No, features of gospel medical missionary I've no need to trust You. work and thus to prepare the way How can You teach me Patience? for the coming of the Lord."—Ibid., NOW, I've vol. 7, p. 107 (1902). no time for The Message Timely Now being Some look into the future for a FATHER? patient. particular time when the third angel's How can You teach me Joy message should be proclaimed, but when this message is a timely message and I'm should be proclaimed now. Even too busy looking, though the Sunday question is not By JUNELLE JACKSON looking, currently an issue in a particular here? country, it may become so. God has been good to give advance infor- How can you teach me Peace when mation. We owe it to the people to willfully warn them of the dangers that are I trust You not? just ahead. This will also have the effect of confirming the truth of our How can You teach nie to know You message when the events prophesied until occur. Jesus said, "Now I tell you You before it come, that, when it is come turn to pass, ye may believe that I am he" my willful disobedience (John 13:19). into "Now, just now, is our time to work a willing obedience in foreign countries. As America, the of land of religious liberty, shall unite Love with the papacy in forcing the con- and science and compelling men to honor Trust? the false sabbath, the people of every country on the globe will be led to How can You teach me of Life unless follow her example. Our people are I'm willing to trust not half awake to do all in their You power, with the facilities within their completely? reach, to extend the message of warning.

REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 9 teresting to me was Dr. Wu's attitude toward Christianity. He said that be- fore sailing for the United States he BE A MISSIONARY! had met some Christian people and had determined that when he arrived By W. P. HENDERSON in the United States he would accept the first invitation extended him to OU do not need to cross the water front, spent the afternoon put- visit a Christian service. ocean to become a missionary! ting literature on both the Chinese When do you suppose that first in- YIn fact one may cross the ocean and foreign vessels in the harbor, vitation came to him? The first week? and work in a mission station, and then walked the four and a half miles The first month? still not be a missionary. If one is not home, and received no pay for my He had spent four years in Wash- a missionary before he goes to the mis- time—this was missionary work. ington, D.C., and had gone to New sion field, he will not be a missionary The Shanghai Sanitarium and Hos- York to board the ship to return to when he arrives—unless he has a pital began its work in a rented resi- China, when a Chinese pastor of a change of heart en route. dence, the home of Dr. Wu Ting Christian church invited the ambassa- When I went to China as manager Fang. At one time Dr. Wu was the dor to attend his service. of the Signs of the Times Publishing Chinese ambassador to the United Dr. Wu Ting Fang brought about House, with 64 employees, I did not States. After the ambassador's four one of the greatest reforms in Chinese feel that that made me a missionary. years in Washington, D.C., he re- history after his return to his home- But when on Sabbath afternoon I turned to China and wrote his mem- land. walked four and a half miles to the oirs. One thing that was especially in- I have often contemplated what great work Dr. Wu might have ac- complished in the giving of the gospel to his fellow men if someone had led him to Christ. A Wonderful Family to Which to Belong For fear there may be a Dr. Wu By MARY K. WALTER Ting Fang in my neighborhood who might be missed by others, I take the The graceful silver-and-blue form of a jet was thousands of feet over the Signs of the Times to every neighbor rice fields of India. Lazy, fleecy clouds blotted out some of the view, but Clif on both sides of the street in my could not help wondering as he gazed at that vast country below, What work neighborhood. In front of my home is yet to be done in that great mission field? Suddenly his thoughts were brought is a tree between the sidewalk and back to the people about him in the jet. the curb. I have nailed a rack to that "We have been observing you, young men. Wherever we stop whether it tree and keep the rack filled with be in Singapore or Rangoon, Calcutta or New Delhi, you always have a com- Signs and booklets. mittee to meet you. We have been fascinated and intrigued. You must be im- A short time ago a truck driver portant men—diplomats, correspondents, ambassadors, executives. Please tell us, called at the Pacific Press. He re- who are you?" marked that from a paper rack about Clif looked into the face of his inquirer and smiled. For some time a well- two blocks up the street he had taken dressed couple had made the same plane connections as had Clif and his travel- a booklet published by the Pacific Press ing companions. As the gentleman had observed, the three young men were in which was printed an offer to re- always warmly greeted at the airport. ceive a free Bible correspondence As Clif listened to his inquirer, his thoughts took a moment's flight into the course. He was asking for the corre- past. The trip around the world had been a dream of many years. All the plans spondence course. had fallen into place after he had written to the mission stations along the The woman at the Pacific Press ex- planned route and had asked for information and suggestions. The answers plained to the truck driver that the had been prompt and encouraging and filled with offers of hospitality. Bible course would come to him from Some mission compounds had guest rooms for them; in some areas the the Book and Bible House in San missionaries were to be gone on vacation and had left their quarters to be Jose. The truck driver did not want used by the travelers. In other countries mission homes were opened in hos- to wait for his Bible lessons. He asked pitality, and good food and lodging were made available. If none of these for the address of the Book and Bible accommodations were possible hotel rooms were reserved by someone who knew House in San Jose, and said he would the best procedures. drive there immediately and secure As a result, as the traveling couple had noticed, the men were greeted at the lessons. each stop as they flew from Tokyo to the Philippines, Hong Kong to Burma, Three newspaper boys delivering and on to India. their papers stopped to look over the "Who are we?" Clif was eager to reply. "Really we hold none of the posi- booklets. Each one chose the copy he tions you mentioned. We are three clergymen of the Seventh-day Adventist wanted and rode away looking happy. Church and as such are part of a worldwide church family. Some of those who Last Sabbath afternoon a boy came have greeted us are former classmates, an occasional one is a relative, still others to our door selling something. I ex- are friends of friends, but many we've never met before. We are making a plained that it was the Sabbath, and round-the-world trip and had written to most of our mission stations asking we did no purchasing. But I said, "I their advice as to the best accommodations." have something free for you. Look in The older couple was amazed and deeply touched. the rack and see what you can find." "We also belong to a church, but we do not have this warm fellowship. Our He chose eight different copies, and trip abroad has been interesting, but always we've been strangers in a strange with a big grin on his face went on country. May God bless you and the church family you represent," they said. his way. The great wheels of the jet touched down, shooting up puffs of black smoke Every Seventh-day Adventist should as they braked against the concrete runway. There again was someone to greet be a missionary. Not all can serve the trio with the warmth and love of a great church family. overseas, but all can serve. Be a mis- Surely the Advent family is the best family in the world to which to belong! sionary! ++ 10 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 IFearrioily Living

Sammy and June married young, and even though their marriage lasted, they both said:

"We Were Cheated"

By RUTH WHEELER

WENT out to the back lot where board and picked up my cookbook. was a real success, except that the our boys were working on an old "No," June said, her dimples deep- flower girl was too young. June had I car. There were three boys in- ening. "You see, it's going to be so chosen the little girl because she was stead of two draped across the fenders much fun to cook in my own kitchen so cute, although she was not quite and disappearing under the hood. that I'm just going to wait and learn three. The child had marched in very When I spoke, the boys straightened then. Sammy says he doesn't care if I nicely but she soon grew tired of up. don't know how to cook. We'll both standing and swung her flower basket "Oh, Sammy, it's you." I smiled at have fun while I learn." over her head. When the bridesmaid the tall, light-haired boy with smudges "Well," I answered rather dubi- tried to hold her, she pulled away and of grease across his cheeks and on his ously. "I hope it works out that way." ran between the bride and groom, hair. I was not surprised to see him, "Oh, it will," June laughed at my and clutched the minister around the for he was the buddy of Bert, my doubts. "I'm keeping my fingers knees. Finally, when she saw her older son. crossed. I'm sure everything will be mother in the audience, she tripped "Mom, had you heard that Sam fine." off the platform. The wedding pro- and June are getting married when I said nothing more but I thought, ceeded then with decorum. school's out?" Bert asked. Young lady, it takes a lot more than Sam got a job in a distant town, "Oh, no!" I was surprised into say- crossed fingers to make marriage a and we seldom saw him. June came ing. "You're too young, Sam." success. It takes preparation and ma- home often to visit and stayed a week "Yeah, that's what my folks say. I turity. You are too immature to even or so each time. She came to see me guess it'd be better if we waited a know you need to prepare. on one of these visits. She pulled a couple of years, but we've been going June went on to tell me every de- chair up to the kitchen table where I steady now for more than a year. It's tail of the wedding—veil and seed- was shelling peas for dinner. either break up or get married, and I pearl crown, dresses, flowers, music— "How's everything?" I asked in a don't want to lose her. June is a sweet, everything, even to the clothes the casual way, not meaning to pry. good girl, and I think we'll make it tall blond groom would wear. Lots of "Oh, all right." Her answer didn't all right." thought and preparation had gone hold much enthusiasm. She reached "What about school? You boys were into this part of the planning. But for a handful of pods and began to going on to college together." whenever I mentioned anything that shell out the round green peas. "But "Oh, I'm not giving up college. dealt with life after the wedding, I it's wonderful to come home once in June wants me to go on. I may not lost her attention. a while. It's so lonesome over there in make it next year, 'cause there'll be "We've got so much to think about, the valley." quite a lot of expense getting set up getting ready for the wedding, that "Not many young people in the in housekeeping and everything. But we just haven't had time to plan too church, I suppose." I'll be back all right. I can't let this much about what we'll do afterward. "Oh, yes, there are really quite a smart fellow here get ahead of me." But it'll work out all right. My few young people, 'specially in the He gave Bert a shove, The boys had mother was married when she was 16, summer when they are home from been together all through grade and she got along all right." school. But, you know, the kids our school and high school. They had "Does your mother want you to age are all so stuck up, not a bit competed in sports, for grades, in marry at 17?" I asked. friendly like the ones in academy." everything but girls. Since Sam had "Oh, no!" June burst into laughter. "In what way are they stuck up?" been going with June we hadn't seen "She keeps saying that I should do as "Oh, you know, they have parties much of him. she says and not as she did. But she and things and they don't even invite June stopped by the house a few likes Sammy. Everything will be all us." days later to tell me about their wed- right, I'm sure." "You're married now, June," I said ding plans, her dark hair flying in the And so they were married. June gently. "Maybe they think you just wind as she ran up the steps. was a most attractive bride. Her dark aren't interested in their games and "Have you been practicing cooking hair glowed under her bridal crown parties." at home?" I asked her as she settled and her blue eyes sparkled. The wed- "I guess maybe that's it." June on the kitchen stool by the drain- ding was beautiful too. Everything looked thoughtful.

REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 11 "Do the married people include and Sammy, of course. But I could "We started going together too you in their parties and things?" have had them later. It's too hard to young." "Yes, they invited us a few times, meet all the problems of married life "She was 15 and I was 18," Sam but they are all so old. Why, they're when you're so young. Too often I added. "We started going steady and almost 30; some of them are even just ran out on the disagreeable things pretty soon we couldn't think of any- more than that. And all they want to rather than meet them. That made thing but getting married." talk about is their babies and their things bad for Sammy." "I know I was willful," June's voice farms and things like that. And they "That didn't matter," Sam inter- was low. "But my folks could have act like I'm just a kid." rupted. "But I could see how hard absolutely insisted that I not go with I could see the situation well things were for June. I feel that I boys while I was so young, at least not enough. The teen-agers in the church cheated her out of the things other alone, and with the same boy all the weren't interested socially in the girls have. Girls have the most fun, it time. I should have been with a group, young married couple. They felt a seems to me, when they are between not just dating Sammy. That way I'd married couple should be in the mar- 16 and 21. That's when they have have been interested in other activi- ried group. And of course the young their dates and their school days. ties. Of course, Sammy was the nicest bride had nothing in common with That's when they grow and mature boy in school," she added, and her these women in their late twenties and get ready to settle down. June blue eyes sparkled. "But I think I and thirties. And so they were social never had any of that. She spent those would have been content to let our misfits, orphans, with no group to years trying to learn to keep house friendship slide along and not get se- which they could belong—a very and to care for her children." rious for a few years if I hadn't been lonely situation. "Another thing," June began, "I with him so much." June talked on. "I come home keep thinking about is what if some- Start Earlier whenever I can. It's fun to be back in thing happened to—" my own room again and just go to the "That bothers me too." A frown "Didn't your mother try?" I asked. table and eat and not have to worry creased Sam's forehead. "Suppose "Let's not blame mothers for every- about what to cook." something happened to me now. June thing that happens." "Oh, yes, how's the cooking com- has no way at all to earn a living for "Yes, she didn't want me to marry ing? It's fun to have a kitchen all to herself and the children except by so young. But that was after I'd al- yourself, isn't it?" hard manual labor. She didn't get ready made up my mind. She should "Yeah, I guess so," she answered in- very far in school, you know, and have begun years before to talk about differently. "But everything costs so doesn't have any profession. She'd getting through school and about much. Sammy says I've got to be care- have a pretty hard time sending the having a profession. If I'd thought ful and not spend so much for gro- girls to college. I'd feel a lot more enough about the future I would have ceries and not waste food; but I can't secure if she had a profession. I feel known I wasn't ready for marriage. help it. Sometimes things don't turn that I cheated her by taking her out But my folks didn't say much about a out good and I have to throw them of school before she had any training girl having a profession or going on away, and that makes him mad. for the future." to school. And they didn't care when When I run out of grocery money I "I hope to get my training yet." I dated Sammy. Mother said he was a just come home. You've no idea how June turned to me and her face was nice boy and she could trust me with much groceries cost!" serious. "Sammy is willing for me to him. And that was all true, but I "So you come home to get a little do it, and as soon as the children are should have had my mind filled with help on how to cook," I added, trying in school I'm going back to classes. I'm other thoughts." not to sound I-told-you-so. going to take a secretarial course." June shot an amused glance at her "I Deserve a Little Fun" I nodded in agreement. "But it will husband. "Sammy says he's going to be hard to keep up your home and sit on the porch with a shotgun if any "Oh, no!" and her dimples showed school work too." boys come around our house before again. "I don't want to see the inside "Yes, it will be hard on both of us, our girls are 16 or 17 or maybe even of a kitchen when I come home. I but we want to do it." June looked at 18." want to play the piano and run Sam with a trace of sadness. "I wish "Not really," Sam looked embar- around and have a good time. It's so Sammy could go on. He planned to rassed. "But I do think we can teach lonesome over there and everything. be a dentist, you know. Maybe when them to have fun with the family. We I deserve a little fun." I get through the secretarial course I will try to take them places and do "And Sammy?" I asked. "Does can work and let him go on to school." things with them, like camping and Sammy get pretty lonesome when Sam shook his head. "No, it would hiking and boating. When they are you are away?" be too many years of sacrifice and old enough to have boy friends, I "Yeah, but he's been away from work for the whole family. The chil- hope we can invite the boys along home before and he's used to it. He's dren would miss too much all the and still have fun together. Maybe we so busy that he doesn't have much years they were growing up with both can hold the idea of an education be- time to be lonesome. Payday is next of us working and away from home. fore the girls. That will help them to Wednesday and then I'll go on back." No, I'll just keep on working in a keep marriage out of their minds * * * garage. It's not too bad." until they have some kind of profes- That was six years ago. June and "But it's better to be what you sion." Sam have two children now, and June want to be," June spoke softly. Sam picked up a sleepy little girl is a good housekeeper and mother. "Honestly now, Sammy," I said, for from the couch. He cuddled her a They seemed to be a happy little fam- I really wanted to know. "Why did moment and pushed the damp curls ily when they came to visit a few days you and June marry so young? And back from her forehead. "Don't think ago. what do you think parents can do to we aren't happy, for we are. But we "June, now that you are 23, as you keep their children from cheating could have had our happy marriage look back on it, would you advise a themselves out of youthful fun and a and home and these other things too, girl of 17 to marry?" I asked. June career, as you say you did?" if we had waited. I am sure those first looked at her tall husband and smiled. Sam looked at June and hesitated. years of marriage were unnecessarily "No, I wouldn't. I love the children She answered for him. rugged for both of us." 4+ 12 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 4' • ft

Should parents try to discourage a going steady type of relationship when their children are teen-agers or should they merely accept such relation- ships as a fact of life that their teen-agers will outgrow? If they do want to discourage it, when should they start? And how should they go about it? -*Ai. T "r6: '

By all means we should try to discourage teachers started giving parties. With school, One scertain person day it...young people seldom outgrow the effects church activities, and the well-supervised asking for trouble. or; the problems caused by early marriage. family parties, we teen-agers were busy , and Teen-agers need a busy life, preferably in Tile admonition, with reading material and happy. one of our schools with some work, enough examples we see daily, should start well in studies, and work around home if they still advance. Well-organized group activities play Auburn, Alabama live at home. With all that there isn't much a big part in this ounce of prevention. The time left for, getting into trouble. pound of cure is a poor risk. It may build 0" We have been Adventists for the last three Perhaps the question is: What is the defini- rebellion and cause the young people to be of eight years of married life, and it seems tion of "going steady"? I believe it varies more determined. like we've been married forever! Really, only from parent to parent and from teen-ager to However, we could use a look of disap- since we were 18. A young marriage that was teen-ager. proval and let them know we are expecting a direct result of a "going steady" relation. ,Allen Bec kett ' them to live up to the goals we have set ship as teen-agers. What we went through Tracy, California before them. I- believe it still means some- those first five years, I wouldn't wish, on my thing to most young people not to break their worst enemy. The,last three have been heaven Rather than diacourage the "going steady" parents' confidence in them. in comparison. type of relationship, it might be better to Mrs. Walter Kohler I'd highly recommend discouraging any channel the enthusiasm, emotions, and energy Madison, Tennessee going steady type of relationship. I'll be the of our young teen-agers into more creative first to admit that such relationships are a activities and raise their sights off of them- fact of life, but not one they'll outgrow— selves. Far too often we allow the feelings 13" I think that parents should discourage simply one they should not experience for at of our youth to run ahead of their better teen-agers from going steady. I think teen- least five years. judgment without properly training and age is the golden age for young people. They When should you begin to discourage it? guiding their easily influenced minds into should be enjoying life freely and making As soon as the first person teases your little better avenues of, service. Our neglect in lead- lots of friends, going out with groups, playing four-year-old about "girl friends." Or the first ing them into a better understanding of serv- the field, instead of settling down with one time some doting uncle suggests your five- ice for others and not showing them the steady. They lose out on a lot of clean fun. year-old be his "little sweetheart." integral role they have to play in Society And the time to start is when they begin to How should you go about it? By teaching often leaves them with no alternative but to ask questions when they are very young. them the love of Jesus is more desirable than seek the love and acceptance, they crave in a Always give a reason for your answers. the love of any earthly being. "going steady" relationshipn'ffi" Mrs. Frankie Boyd N. Smith If our homes were to offer7:0i':balance of Los Angeles, California Laramie, Wyoming discipline, communication, sincere concern, and appreciation for each member of the 10' I definitely discourage going steady. When a" Young people "go steady" because it gives home circle, a true satisfaction and content- I was a teen-ager (I am 25 now), we consid- them security and a sense of belonging. Many ment would. occur making it unnecessary for ered steadies as engaged to be engaged. And of them feel left out of things at home. The the oftentimes:Unhealthy "going steady" re- as with any commitment, the emotions were parents don't have time for them so they lationships that transpire in our society usually intense. Teen-agers are apt to grow find security and love in a girl friend or boy today. Maturiiy could follow its normal toward a premature marriage by going friend. Also young people are lonely. They course and natural, relationships would de- steady. They seldom give up the idea of a are looking for companionship and under- velop in the proper time and setting. close relationship. Instead, one steady re- standing and they are finding that "going Mrs. M. Demintv places another until marriage. steady" is a convenience. Wadena, Minnesota The time to start discouraging it is at You should not discourage it. birth. I was appalled recently when I took Linda Fine 1," Parents who want to decide whether or not my sort, aged one, with me to meet a neigh- Downsv ille, Louisiana *0 discourage "going steady" should try to bor. After introductions, the neighbor turned determine why the teen-ager is "going steady." to here three-month-old daughter and said, As parents we have always felt that both If it seems to be a healthy relationship, let 'Just think, Kim, you may marry him some the young people and we ourselves need to it alone. If' the parent detects immature at- Dressing a child as an adult and look ahead to situations that may arise. titudes or loss of attention to school work, constantly quizzing and teasing about boy Through the yeats with our two college church attendance, or former hobbies, it may friends and girl friends encourages premature young folks we've enjoyed many times as a be wise to discourage it. relationships. I'm hoping my two sons won't family frankly discussing the problems in- A. Jeannette Boyd 'discover" girls until they are at least 17, volved in boy-girl friendships—with my hus- San Jose, California and then will be too busy with life to think band and me doing a great deal of listening. of steady dating for several years after that. This began back when our boy and girl were Social life shouldn't be for couples. Church in church school. With prayer in our hearts NEXT QUESTION activities and parties are wonderful places we have- watched them grow. No parent can What are some of the ways your family for teen-agers to enjoy one another. I remem- follow each offspring around every hour, but has developed for making the Sabbath a wel- ber parties my parents gave for the teen- if the groundwork is well laid, to go steady come and happy day/ agers. With my parents and young brother or not to go steady won't be such a big issue. included, the parties were sometimes slow I do feel that some young people need the Send your answers to Homemakers' getting started; but invariably, after a group security of knowing they have an escort (or Exchange, Review and Herald, Ta- game or two everyone was having a marvel- someone' to escort). "Going steady" in itself konia Park, Washington, D.C. 20012. ous time. We played the corny old games you isn't wrong, if the parties involved understand Letters must not exceed 300 words in can find in any party book, we had lots to themselves and what is right and wrong. length. Include complete return ad- eat, and we had lots of fun. The party idea Getting serious too early is wrong. Parents '.dress. Three dollars will„be paid for is contagious, too. Other parents and even who allow their thildren to see too much of each answer published

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SAD DAY FOR HONOR of fulfillment, which is a part of the reason for the tor- mented ferment around us. The masses are restlessly Explaining why his university had discontinued the seething in a caldron of blind concern in a search for honor system for student examinations, a professor meaningfulness. As one young woman remarked on a stated: "The teachers had the honor and the students TV interview: "We are terribly unfulfilled inside." "The had the system." central neurosis of our times is emptiness," said Carl Whether his statement was accurate or merely a play Jung, the founder of analytic psychology. on words, an experiment by the State of Delaware This restless searching is illustrated by a certain group seems to indicate that others beside students have the described recently by Newsweek as "a new breed of "system." Early in June, State highway authorities in- venturesome souls" who are deliberately, totally changing stituted an honor system for paying tolls on the Delaware their careers after having taken years to prepare for Turnpike. Motorists who did not have exact change them, and to establish themselves. Some of them are in at unattended toll booths could take an envelope and middle age. All are said to have made the change "with mail in the fee. Of the 26,000 envelopes taken during the hope for more happiness." They are changing the the first 20 days, only 582 were returned. And not all pattern of years of living in the hope that it will bring of these contained money. Some contained stamps, others greater meaningfulness and help them to "be" in Mr. merely pieces of blank paper. Goldberg's sense. On July 4 the "honor" system was discontinued. It We need to note here that this desire to "be" is not had lasted less than a month. the same as the desire for success in some field of en- No doubt some motorists forgot to send in their deavor. Many who are "somebody" in that sense still envelopes. Others—chronic procrastinators—planned to know a deep-down gnawing for fulfillment that position, mail the toll but never got around to it. Still others, power, money, or popularity cannot satisfy. perhaps, rationalized that their small fee would hardly We feel that an important key to the solution of man's be missed, or that State taxes were so high they could problem of a lack of fulfillment is in the area of belief. easily take care of highway tolls. According to the Oxford English Dictionary "belief" We fear, however, that too many were downright is derived from "be," an old English term meaning "to dishonest. Since the State had no way of knowing who remain, to stay, to continue to be," linked with a second they were, they simply withheld the fee. word, meaning "to hold estimable, or valuable." Thus, Some Christians? etymologically, belief means to remain by, to continue to hold a concept as estimable and valuable. Perhaps some of those who rode free on the turnpike are Christians. Perhaps some have been infected by the Filling an Emptiness current teaching that God's commandments are merely But this is just what man is not doing today. He holds norms to be followed "ordinarily" (Fletcher's word). few concepts as really worth while and permanently Perhaps some have no regard for God's authority. Cer- established. He does not have beliefs of the enduring, tainly few are concerned that an all-seeing God keeps a bedrock kind that stabilize and sustain. He stumbles record with each person and will "bring every work along the barren, shifting, sinking sands of his own into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be inconstant world. For all he knows, God may be an good, or whether it be evil" (Eccl. 12:14). illusion. History to him is a tragedy—or a comedy. He In this time of sagging moral standards, the people wonders whether he himself is not, in the words of Ber- of God must stand in sharp contrast to the world about trand Russell, merely "the outcome of accidental col- them. Let everyone who names the name of Christ be locations of atoms," and he finds life to be an apparently fully committed to God and the principles of His law. unfillable emptiness. In this world of darkness let Christians shine as lights. But, sadly, it is not only those we sometimes term Let them show that there is a vast difference between "people of the world" who have the need to "be" in those who serve God, and those who serve Him not. the sense to which we are referring. Many professed K. H. W. Christians have an inward emptiness just as aching, just as dark, just as desolate, as they. Many church members have a "God-shaped void" just as much as the most BEING AND BELIEVING scripturally illiterate, morally rebellious modern. For Commenting on the frustration of our times, sociologist spiritual fulfillment is not merely a result of believing Steven Goldberg observed wistfully in an article in or not believing in God and Bible teachings in an in- the May 30 issue of Saturday Review: "We are able to tellectual way. It is a result of a committing belief that be so much, yet we are so little able to understand causes one to open the life to Jesus. what it is we are supposed to be." When this faith commitment is made, then God can In these words Mr. Goldberg, whose immediate subject make of us what we have yearned to be all along. was the seemingly deterministic, essentially meaningless We have known or heard of people who were defeated, universe in which many feel we live, points to one of inept, drifting men or women (we ourselves may have the major problems troubling our world. been among them) who found Christ and meaningful- Man senses within himself a potential to reach great ness and were transformed. In Him they found what heights. To an extent, it is this recognition that prompts they wanted to, and could, be. youth to feel that they have the capacity to go out Multitudes, then, not a few of them inside the church, and change the world. Furthermore, in the accumulation hunger and thirst for personal fulfillment. But it is only of knowledge and in technological accomplishments, those who hunger and thirst after the righteousness that twentieth-century man has figuratively and literally been comes through Christ, and who, in committing belief, able to reach into space. partake of Him, "the living bread which came down But in spite of his potential and accomplishments, from heaven," that can be "filled" and become what man is suffering from a lack of purpose, of direction, their souls so deeply desire. T. A. D.

14 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 about the good things that are coming out The competition between colleges adds to L.E1- 11"EIRS of our Adventist colleges and universities to- the cost of education. Many State Univer- day? sity systems, which have greater financial . . .-CO-tfAe. EaMwt, For example, a woman in our community, resources than we do, use central planning completely paralyzed because of an automo- to avoid unnecessary duplication. We simply [Letters submitted for publication in this column bile accident a year ago, needs help. Because cannot afford duplication. If we continue, cannot be acknowledged or returned. All must carry the writer's name and address. Short letters she can do nothing herself some students we will price ourselves right out of the mar- (less than 250 words) will be given preference. from this university are helping to rehabili- ket. Too many students are already leaving All will be edited to meet space and literary re- quirements. The views do not necessarily repre- tate her. The doctors thought that she would our schools because of high costs. We should sent those of the editors or of the denomination.) never walk again. The men's club (Sigma do all that is within our power to keep the Phi Delta) took money from its treasury to costs of education down. pay for tests that would determine the pos- An example of an area of study that is WHAT DO WE VALUE? sibility of her walking again. Now there is a too thinned out is the field of music, which With the alarming increase in the tide chance for her because some young people suffers from being here, there, and every- of evil, ill will, and misunderstanding, and took the time and effort to care. where. A good music program demands the danger attached, just what do I value It seems that news such as this doesn't specialization in instruction and equipment. above life and limb? About 20 years ago the count because it's something good. The ma- Adequate physical facilities are expensive. house in which we lived burned completely jority of students are here today because How long can each of our colleges afford to to the ground. A large crew of men in a they want to be. They could have gone to spend $90,000 or $100,000 for an organ? Each business nearby were able to save the fur- any public school, but they didn't. They college cannot afford to spend this kind of niture and most of the small items. Afterward chose to come to Andrews (or any other money for the relatively few music majors I asked one after another about the old Adventist college) for the same reasons that that are on each campus. clothes chest an ancestor of mine brought I did. We want a Christian education. The A great deal of specialization is required from Norway in the 1850's. Finally, someone teachers and administrators are here because in the area of instruction also. Teachers told me it was safe and sound, and I relaxed. they want to be, even though they could be whose specialty is musicology, theory, com- The modern things could be replaced, but making more money at a public college. They position, conducting, performance, and oth- the old Norwegian trunk could not. It was are here because they, too, know what a ers are needed in order to train the students then I knew that I value old sentimental good Christian education means. so that they can fill the tremendous need for things—the keepsakes—and that this is all MICHAEL. A. PRESNY good music teachers in our elementary schools I will ever mind having taken from me or Berrien Springs, Michigan and academies. In the area of performance having to leave. much more specialization is needed. Instead of one teacher for all the brass instruments, Maybe it is time for all of us to take stock: BRIGHT COLORS IN A DARK WORLD What do I value? Soon the time of trouble there should be individual teachers in trum- will be here and we will lose most of our I can't see a thing wrong with bright pet, French horn, and trombone, at least. worldly things. Jesus does not think it neces- colors. Didn't God make the flowers that This also applies to the other major areas sary to save those for us. He does, however, dazzle the eyes with brightness? Didn't He of performance—strings, keyboard, wood- want to save us, all of our loved ones, and make the rainbow? winds, and voice. all others for whom we should be working. It's hard for some people to get used to a The only way that this would be finan- He valued only ourselves and our souls and change. But I like bright colors in this dark cially feasible would be to establish one those of everyone in the world. Do we? world of sin. school of music, on one of our campuses. A Thank you for the REVIEW, the heart The April 9 issue reminds me of the rain- truly great school of music could be estab- pulse of our church! bow. lished to take the place of many mediocre MRS. PEARL L. PFLUGRAD VIOLET RICHARDSON departments of music. A substantial saving Portland, Oregon Vista, California could also be realized. This would not mean that music would cease to play a role on the other campuses. A music minor and DARK COUNTIES FOR 65 YEARS—AND LESS various ensembles could still be offered. This One suggestion may help those in the The REVIEW in general make-up and is just one of the many improvements that cities or congested SDA centers who wish to articles is better than ever, and I have read could be implemented by a central North move to a location where they are needed. it week after week for 65 years. American board of higher education. There are many, many "dark counties." But E. L. CARDEY HARVEY BRENNEISE how can one know where the needs are? St. Helena, California Berrien Springs, Michigan Couldn't the REVIEW publish in some form a map of the United States detailing each I wish to commend the editorial staff VARIETIES OF PRAISE county and shading the ones in which Ad- of the REVIEW for an outstanding work on I am concerned lest we get the impres- ventist families are especially needed? style, content, and format. As a 24-year-old sion from some of our excellent church mu- ROSALIE WAINWRIGHT reader, I feel spiritually blessed and uplifted sicians and influential denominational writ- Oroville, Washington every week. The articles reflect careful study and earnest prayer. ers that God is better pleased by one form DENNIS J. FISCHER of musical praise than another; that in our MORE SIMPLICITY Goldsboro, North Carolina worship services He prefers the exalted hymn of praise directed toward Him to the simple Our REVIEW writers tend more and song of joy in Him shared by the worshipers. more to a style of expression that makes THREE GENERATIONS Certainly Luther's broad tolerance, for ex- understanding the message more difficult for ample, for a variety of practices as one sin- those of us who have only average education. My grandmother became a member of cerely worships and witnesses should com- We are sure all have observed that the the Adventist family faith many years ago mend itself to us. ministers, teachers, and writers who expound when Uriah Smith was editor of the REVIEW. VINSON BUSHNELL in simplicity have always accomplished the It has been a welcome visitor in our home Walla Walla, Washington greater good. through three generations since. W. B. REESE ESTHER M. WALKER HOW TO ADDRESS A BROTHER Jackson, Tennessee Takoma Park, Maryland I wonder if I am way out in left field in regard to a growing practice in our TOO MANY COLLEGES A CAMPUS WITNESS churches. I simply cannot get used to hear- At a recent testimony service at An- I agree with Lucile Lewis ["Adventist ing church members call each other Mr. or drews University my fellow students told of Education," May 14] that the Seventh-day Mrs. To me this sounds so formal and cold. how God had helped them over the hard- Adventist Church operates too many senior After all, aren't we one big family with Christ ships that faced them, and of the love they colleges in North America. Some of them as our Elder Brother? in turn had for Him. This was an impres- are just too small to operate economically, JOHN L. CLARK sive evening; but how often do you hear not to speak of the quality of education. Keene, Texas REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 15 Author's Name Withheld By Request

understand. It wasn't as if they cept religion, but the old saying were worldly and selfish. There that there was no war as bitter and wasn't much money, but no needy cruel as a religious war was cer- person turned from their door un- tainly true when applied to family helped. They neither quarrels. smoked nor drank. She learned early to avoid all Daddy was care- mention of religion when both Not ful of his language. parents were present. When very They were faith- small she had been terrified when ful church mem- words like wedding or funeral Worth bers, each to came up. She wouldn't say "This his own Is the House That Jack Built" at church. Of home because it had the words JUANITA STARED at her room- the course, priest and marry in it. How foolish mate. "You mean Art asked Mom's church that was! She remembered her you to go to the banquet Price was too far fright when her parents had gone with him and you refused? Are away, and she to a funeral at a third church to- you crazy? He's the catch couldn't attend, but she studied gether. If just mentioning religion of the year! Every girl in school is her Bible and taught her children in the home could bring on a quar- dying to be asked by him. Why to love God and to sing hymns. rel, what would a whole hour at a didn't you accept?" Sue Ellen smiled wryly at the church do? She had been im- Sue Ellen felt the red creeping thought of hymns and Bible study. mensely relieved when they came into her cheeks. "Because he When she was small she couldn't back still on friendly speaking doesn't go to the same church understand why dad didn't like his terms. I do, and I decided long ago that family to sing hymns. The songs Always in the back of her mind if I ever got married, it would be were so nice—all about God and had been a little fear that one or to one who belonged to the same Jesus and heaven—why couldn't the other of her parents would church I do." they sing them? How many times leave home. She had heard both "But going to a banquet doesn't had she stood by the window of them threaten to do so during mean that you're going to marry watching for daddy, while the quarrels. If one were gone too him! You'd have all the girls green others sang? When she gave the long, she worried. Perhaps this was with envy. I think you're stupid." alarm that he was coming, the the time. Which one would she go "I know one date doesn't make music stopped instantly, hymn- with if it happened? How could a marriage, but I don't want to books were whisked out of sight, she live without either of them? start anything that might be hard and everyone went about his busi- Worse, what if they both went off to stop. Art's a real nice fellow, and ness. and left her all alone? Even with it would be easy to fall in love The mail, too, had to be many years intervening, she felt with him. It isn't fair to either of watched, for mom's church papers, her stomach contracting as she re- us to let something get started that and they had to be kept hidden. membered the time her father and I'm not willing to finish. No, I'll Once when she was reading, the the older children had gone off to keep my dates for boys from my story was too interesting, and dad his church in the rattly old Ford, own church." had come upon her unawares. and her mother had left the house Juanita sniffed. "You wouldn't There had been a terrible scene and hurried through the orchard catch me being that noble. But between her parents, followed by along the road. How could she you may be right. I've got to go to days when only necessary words know that her mother was only the library. Be seeing you." were spoken, as briefly and coldly going to see if dad picked up the Sue Ellen sat playing with her as possible. She always tried to neighbors or not? The thought that pencil, remembering. Mom and make herself small and unobtrusive filled her with utter consternation daddy were such good people. at times like that. Her parents had was that perhaps this time her That's what made it so hard to never quarreled about anything ex- mother was really going to leave

16 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 her. Maybe the others wouldn't her father's church forbade it. She the old, hopeless feeling of being come back. couldn't do that because her moth- torn between two forces had en- Pigtails flopped and tears er's church forbade it. Sometimes gulfed her. It had been years be- streamed as she stretched her she wondered what she believed fore he could speak to her without skinny legs to the utmost trying to herself. Sometimes she hated both tears in his voice. Then, for the keep up to her mother. In vain. Far parents for pulling her apart like first time she understood why behind, she flung herself on the that. Sometimes she hated God. hymn singing and Bible study had ground under a tree, a green apple In the end, careful Bible study had been forbidden. It was his deep boring into her ribs. Great sobs led her to accept her mother's concern for her salvation. He had racked her whole body. When her faith. The tears came again as she felt that his church was the only mother returned and picked her remembered her father's heart- true one and outside it she was up, she was almost ill from the vio- break when she told him her de- eternally lost. lence of her emotion, but she cision to join her mother's church. With a shiver her mind came couldn't explain the terror that If he had been angry, had scolded back to the present, and reached gripped her at the thought that or beaten her, it would have been into the future. It wasn't worth it. she might be left all alone. She easier. But he had wept. She had She couldn't do that to her chil- could smile at the absurdity now, never seen him weep before. dren. Her religion was the most but to her as an exceedingly timid "You'll be lost," he had said, his important thing in her life, and child, it had been torture. gray head bowed in his hands, his if the most important man in her Life at school had been difficult sturdy shoulders shaking with sobs. life didn't share it, better not have too. She couldn't do this because "You'll burn in hell forever." And a man. 4+

"Like a Mighty Army"

"WE STARTED TALKING about the Seventh-day Adventist health principles, political situation, and then discussed and he immediately decided to follow what the Bible says is to happen." Ser- them. Week after week he returned to the geant Dennis Breese was working at the Servicemen's Center, and after continued Osan Air Force Base in Korea as a supply study with Sergeant Breese and Elder clerk with Staff Sergeant Robert Dale. Zytkoskee he was baptized on April 4, Day after day the two found themselves 1970, one week before leaving Korea for talking about subjects varying from his return to the States. politics to Bible subjects relating to cur- Dennis will not forget the thrill he rent events. felt when Bob was baptized. But Bob was Soon they were studying the Bible not the only one that Dennis studied together in the evening. Then Dennis with. Each Sabbath he visited churches gave Bob the book From Sabbath to Sun- throughout Korea, sometimes preaching day, by Carlyle B. Haynes. After read- and sometimes just visiting Korean ing it Bob suggested that together they friends. Although serving his country he would go to Seoul the next Sabbath and was at the same time a soldier for his attend church at the Korean Union G.I. Lord. Center. There he met Chaplain T. V. H. R. KEHNEY Zytkoskee, and many more of his ques- Public Relations Secretary tions were answered. He learned of the Korean Union Mission

REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 17 So goes the gripping account ot one mans Changed arid how it with the delivery oi sealed orders.'' INTERNATIONAL NEWS

chief security officer for the whole district. At that time the Central Celebes Mis- sion was trying to open new work among the Daa and Seko tribes south of Palu. From Spy to Lag Preacher A young man and his family had been sent down to Kulawi to make contact with the mountain tribes. He had been By A. M. BARTLETT there but a few weeks when he was sum- President, East Indonesia Union Mission moned to the local police station. There he was treated roughly. The next day he was told that he and his family must take In 1968 Evard Kamuh, East Indonesia requests. They had listed 13 subjects they the next bus back to Palu. He suspected Union evangelist, was sent to the little did not want presented. These included that religious prejudice was involved in city of Palu, provincial capital of Central our main points of doctrine. With a the order and reported immediately to Celebes, to hold evangelistic meetings. prayer in his heart, Pastor Kamuh asked the mission president. They went to the The local mission had been requesting a question—"May I read from the Bible, district police office and asked for an him to come for some time, and he was or have they specified certain passages of explanation. eager to go because a regular campaign Scripture I must not read?" The matter was duly reported to Cap- tain Suatan, who made a thorough inves- had never been conducted there. The Mohammedan colonel got the However, there were discourageme-nts point. "We Mohammedans would want tigation. The result was that the follow- ing week the young worker and his family from the start. When Pastor Kamuh went to be able to use all of the Koran," he to the police for a permit, he was refused. mused. Then he asked, "Could you give returned to Kulawi with a letter from However, one of our members, a non- me an example of what you mean?" the highest military office ordering the commissioned army officer, appealed to This was the opening Pastor Kamuh police to grant him protection and free- the military authorities. After discussions had been praying for. He turned to Levit- dom in his work. between the army and the police it was icus 11: "One of the things they have During the months that followed Cap- tain Suatan realized a strong desire to decided that the request would be con- requested that I not preach about is the witness for his new-found faith. So he sidered only if our people could get the matter of what a person ought to eat. finally decided to hold some public meet- written consent of the leaders of all the But here in my Bible I read, 'And the ings. other churches in Palu as well as the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be He chose a small village about ten leader of the Islamic party. This was cloven footed, yet he cheweth not the miles from Palu. After 30 meetings he really a polite way to refuse permission. cud; he is unclean to you. Of their flesh was overjoyed to see seven baptized as a But our members refused to be de- shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall result of his work. feated. They went from one church ye not touch; they are unclean to you.' " Then he held meetings nearer the city, leader to another, and finally to the head The colonel almost jumped from his and this time three persons were baptized. of the Islamic movement. The Lord chair. "Does it say that in the Bible?" he For his third campaign he chose our worked on the heart of each leader; each asked. "I thought all Christians were pig church in the city of Palu. As a result signed a letter stating that he had no eaters." seven people were baptized, with four objection to the Adventists' holding meet- After a few minutes' discussion the colonel said, "You have my permission to others in the baptismal class who will be ings. baptized soon. The police and military officers were continue the meetings. But I will have a And so the man who had no particular astonished when our men presented the man there every night to take careful interest in the evangelistic meetings, but letters. They suspected them to be for- note on what you preach. As long as you who was assigned to spy on the preacher, geries and checked with each of the men prove your points directly from the now feels that his main business is evan- who had signed them; then they granted Bible, fine. But if you cannot prove your position from the Bible, we will ask you gelism. He keeps his army commission permission. just to pay expenses. The pavilion was crowded on the to close the meetings." opening night, and Pastor Kamuh was Pastor Kamuh knew that he was on the surprised to see present the leaders of the spot. At any time a preacher from one of other churches who had signed the let- the other churches might make a com- ters, as well as leaders of the police and plaint, and he would have to defend him- army. self to the colonel, whose decision would The meeting went smoothly and the re- be based on the report of his own observer, sponse was good. The evangelist retired who might not even be a Christian and that night weary but happy. who might have little understanding of He was awakened early the next morn- the topic under discussion. He prayed for ing by a knock on the door. It was our help to make the sermons strictly Biblical. member in the army. He brought a sum- From then on an army captain came mons from the colonel requesting Pastor with his family night after night. Pastor Kamuh to appear immediately. Kamuh suspected that he was the colo- In the colonel's office Pastor Kamuh nel's observer, or spy. It soon became was told that a near riot had occurred clear that there were other spies coming during the night because of the meetings regularly too. Each of the other churches and that only with great difficulty had the had people there who were waiting for army and the police been able to con- an opportunity to trip him up. But he INDIA: tain the disturbance. In view of this, the left out none of the topics. permit probably would have to be re- At last the meetings drew to the time Itinerating Among the voked. However, the colonel said he of decision. What a thrill it was to Pastor Mizos of North India would contact each of the leaders of the Kamuh, when the captain, the colonel's various religious groups again to see if spy, took his stand, together with his The story of Christianity among the any of them wished to change their whole family. And he was not the only Mizo people of India is a saga of modern minds. That day our members met in the spy who made a decision. Three of those missions. It is the story of a race of head- church for special prayer. In the after- appointed by other churches as special hunting animists who, previously in a noon Pastor Kamuh was again called by observers also took their stand. constant fear of spirits (whom they ap- the colonel. Shortly after the army captain, Captain peased by sacrifices or the wearing of He was told that the other religious Suatan, was baptized a situation arose charms), accepted Christianity as a race leaders had agreed that the meetings that showed again the leading hand of in less than 70 years. could continue, but they had made some God. The captain was appointed as the The Mizos are not native to India but

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are Mongolians who probably migrated offered us accommodations in a govern- CONGO: from the east through Burma or Tibet. ment inspection bungalow. They had no written language until it The next day, which was Sabbath, 200 Marking Fifty Years of was reduced to writing early in this cen- attended the services. In the afternoon tury by an English Baptist missionary, representatives of each church gave a re- Advancement in Congo who began to translate the Bible for port of their activities. Singing and Bib- Next year, 1971, will mark the fiftieth them. The Bible was finally completed lical discussions were carried on until the anniversary of the work of Seventh-day in 1959. The conversion of the Mizos to early hours of the morning. We heard Adventists in the great land of the Congo. Christianity was done under Baptist and stories of witnessing and of decisions In the years since our work was begun Presbyterian missionaries. made, and we met Laltlana and his sis- there in 1921 we have established mis- In 1941 a young Mizo named L. Zuala ters, who have composed 27 hymns. sion stations throughout the four fields Sailo attended our Assam Training The meetings closed all too soon, and that now make up the Congo Union. We School and became the first Mizo Sev- we started back to Aijal. On the way we have a large hospital in Songa and about enth-day_ Adventist. As a result of the were met by Brother Lalavua and his 100 sick bays, two colleges, and a large work for the Mizos begun by him we church group from Bakthawng, who wel- number of secondary and primary schools now have 1,000 baptized members, some comed us with songs and delicious pa- throughout the union, serving the Con- of them workers among the Mizo people. paya and bananas. golese. And the Voice of Prophecy is in Some weeks ago V. Raju, manager of Early next morning we left Aijal by contact with thousands who study our the Oriental Watchman Publishing doctrines by correspondence. House in Poona, accompanied Mrs. bus for the hot, steamy plains of Assam. Christo and me to Aijal to attend the We carried with us the love and prayers In preparation for our anniversary we annual meeting there. The Mizo district of our fellow believers. Their lives will have started evangelism in the big cities. is mountainous and densely forested. be a constant inspiration to us. Through We began with Bukavu, the capital of the We saw miles of bamboo thickets on the days of trial and affliction they have re- province of Kivu. All around beautiful sharply crested ridges. The houses are mained true. They, with us, wait with Kivu Lake and on the islands of the lake raised on piles and built of bamboo with longing expectation for the glorious re- are 55,000 Adventists. However, in this grass roofs. turn of our Saviour. large town of Bukavu we had not a sin- There is only one motorable road in G. J. CHRISTO gle member. And every time we have the entire district, a road from Silchar President, Northeast India Union tried to establish our mission station to Lungleh, via Aijal, the district head- quarters. In Silchar we met Brother Khuma who was Assam Section's Layman of the Year in 1969. He has raised up two churches and now has 73 people attend- ing Sabbath school. At Aijal as our bus rounded the corner of the bazaar we spotted the smiling face of V. L. Rawna, who is leading out in the work among his own Mizo people. We also found K. T. Zama, an Advent- ist photographer. To see his happy face, one would never imagine that he had lost home, photographic equipment, and all worldly possessions in the cross-firing between government and rebel forces only five years before. He fled to the Burma border, was arrested there, and spent several weeks in prison. Through faith in God's love for him, and by hard work, he owns a thriving business once again. His signboard is a witness that he is a Sabbathkeeper. Outside his studio is another chalkboard on which he writes a new message every few days for passers- by. The day we visited him his board carried an explanation of the 1,260 days of papal persecution. More than 300 attended the weekend Spanish Leader Interviewed on Washington services we held. They came from vil- lages under rebel control and from re- Television Program grouped villages under Indian army con- "Now there is religious freedom in our country," Angel Codejon (left), president trol. Each had to get a permit to come. of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Spain, told viewers of TV channel 14, Wash- Some had walked 60 miles; others had ington, D.C., when he was interviewed during a visit to the city recently. His interviewer hitched rides in jeeps and trucks. was Ramon Irigoyer, speaker for the channel's Spanish Hour. Shortly after the meetings closed, Pas- Elder Codejon, who attended the General Conference session in Atlantic City, tor and Mrs. Rawna, L. Hmingliana, told his Spanish-language viewers that Protestant churches in Spain, which at one from the section office, and Mrs. Christo time could not be identified as churches, now can bear identification and are open for and I hired a jeep for the 300-mile anyone to attend. round trip to Lungleh, the headquarters of the South Mizo circle. Pastor Raju had He further said that Protestants are now permitted to hold evangelistic meetings returned to Poona. Twelve miles from in their churches. A recent series of meetings, he said, had resulted in the opening of Lungleh, at about six-thirty in the eve- a new Seventh-day Adventist church in Spain. ning, we were halted by military police An Adventist Seminary has been started in Valencia for the training of new who checked our permits and persuaded ministers, Elder Codejon reported. At present 50 theology students are enrolled. us not to continue farther that night, as Adventist membership in Spain has doubled in the past two years, he stated. There curfew would have been imposed on the are now 34 Adventist churches, with 5,000 members. town by the time we reached there. They M. CAROL HETZELL

20 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 there, we have met with great opposition. In June of last year I was sent to hold an evangelistic campaign in Bukavu. The Recent Ordinotiotts last rebellion in that region had caused much ruin, which made it difficult to find a hall for the meetings. I received permission to preach from the local authorities and rented a cinema. Among my listeners was a magistrate. He was enthusiastic about our message and went to preach our doctrine in his birthplace. A large interest manifested it- self immediately, so much so that several letters and telegrams were sent inviting us to come and organize a mission among 4,500 Christians there who were calling GUYANA: S. A. Willsey (left) and Lloyd themselves the temporary Adventist DENMARK: Rudolph Andersen (center) Le Gendre (right) were ordained to the church. I have been asked to go there to and Ole Niels Larsen (right) were or- ministry in Georgetown, Guyana, on May evaluate the situation. dained on May 16 by the West Denmark 9. G. 0. Adams, president of the Carib- As for the town of Bukavu, we now Conference. Left is Helge Andersen, con- bean Union, presented the sermon and have 85 members there. ference president; back row are John F. charge. V. T. Boyce, president of the Our Congo Union office is in the town Coltheart, Northern European Division Guyana Mission, is shown welcoming the of Lubumbashi in the southern area of ministerial secretary, and Jens Madsen, men and their wives. the Congo. Ever since I arrived in Lu- West Nordic Union president. bumbashi we had wished to begin a French-speaking church, and God has an- swered our prayers, for Daniel Walther came to help us during the months of November and December, 1969. We ob- tained from the government the free use of the town cinema and advertised ex- tensively. Dr. Walther had a large at- tendance at the meetings. Most of the lis- teners were from the university where I had been preaching for two years. We now have a French-language church in Lubumbashi. D. SOFRANAC NORWAY: Odd H. Olsen (second from PAKISTAN: Three ministers were or- Public Relations Secretary right) was ordained by the West Nordic dained on April 11 at the Punjab camp Congo Union Conference in May. His wife is on his meeting in Pakistan. Left to right are right. Left are J. Elisenberg, West Norway Pastor and Mrs. M. M. Khan, Pastor and Conference president; P. Sundquist, North- Mrs. Melvin Justin, and Pastor and Mrs. ern European Division MV secretary, and S. A. Ditta. Both Pastors Khan and Justin (right) J. Madsen, West Nordic Union are second generation ministers, and both Brief News president. their fathers officiated.

AUSTRALASIAN DIVISON + Some 120 Adventists attended a family First Converts Baptized on Indonesian Island retreat held recently near Cooranhong, New South Wales. Bible study for all ages D. Batoebara, president of the East Java Mission, Indonesia, greets Mr. and Mrs. helped to make the retreat worth while. Mohammed Hafid, of Sumenep, Madura Island, the first converts on the island. With + Ora Paul, a Seventh-day Adventist girl, them is worker S. Wahjuoe. was among a group of students selected The island of Madura has been a difficult one to evangelize. Eight years ago a was reopened in by the government of New Guinea to worker had to be moved because of difficulties. However, the work travel to Australia to see the queen in June, 1969, and we are optimistic that many will join the church there. D. BATOEB ARA April. President, East Java Mission + Each year the Missionary Volunteer Society of Australia and New Zealand sends a building team to the Pacific islands mission field. This year many have re- sponded to the call for builders, brick- layers, plumbers, electricians, and plaster- ers for the 1970-1971 MV building project at Fulton and Navesau, in Fiji. + From August 7 to 9, nine youths from several Australian states met with 8 MV departmental secretaries at Wahroonga, Sydney, on a committee to evaluate the senior MV program, the church's social program, and the total youth-for-youth outreach. An evaluation form had been distributed among hundreds of youth all around the division, and the opinions ex- pressed had an important bearing on the discussions. M. G. TOWNEND, Correspondent

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of Blue Mountain Academy received di- expected they will be collected by Sep- plomas upon the completion of the food tember 6. The money will be used to service supervisors' workshop held at An- erect an all-purpose lodge at the confer- drews University recently. ence camp. + Literature evangelist deliveries in the + Fourteen were baptized at the North + Atlantic Union College students have Pennsylvania Conference recently ex- Dakota camp meeting climaxing a week launched a door-to-door and One to One ceeded $13,000 for a single week. of evangelistic meetings by Joe Crews, evangelism program at Haverhill, Massa- MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent Amazing Facts radio broadcast speaker. chusetts. The Amazing Facts program is on nine stations in North Dakota. + Twenty non-Adventist children at- tended the Bellows Falls, Vermont, an- + The Cambridge, Minnesota, Seventh- nual Vacation Bible School held in a day Adventist church was dedicated debt large plastic tent set up on the lot of Cake (Aim free May 30. H. M. Dukes, a former pas- Mr. and Mrs. Albert LaClair in Drews- tor, preached the dedicatory sermon. ville, New Hampshire. Mrs. William Thearon Staddon is the present pastor. L. H. NETTEBURG, Correspondent Stacy, director, was assisted by Edna Parry, + One hundred and twenty-eight chil- Agnes Ball, Elverna Hutchinson, and dren enrolled in the South Flint, Mich- Myrtle Lowell. igan, Vacation Bible School this year. + A hymnal belonging to Joseph Bates Ninety-one of them were non-Adventists. will be placed on display in the Wash- + Indiana Conference ministers Daniel ington, New Hampshire, church. A dis- Wandersleben, Ralph Blodgett, and David play case is being sponsored by ministers' White have surpassed their entire year's wives of the Northern New England baptismal goal in the first six months. + Marjorie Watson, who has been an Conference. The conference has set a goal for a 10 administrative secretary at Portland Ad- + Milton W. Hallock has just concluded per cent membership increase each year. ventist hospital, and Mrs. Austin (Ione) a three-week series of meetings in Con- + The new Cedar Lake Academy cafe- Morgan, editor of the North Pacific Un- cord, New Hampshire. Five people were teria-laundry building is expected to be ion Gleaner and REVIEW correspondent baptized. He was assisted by Robert John- in use for the opening of school the first for the North Pacific Union, have retired son. week of September. after long years of service. EMMA KIRK, Correspondent + Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital has + Fifty-one made decisions for Christ dur- embarked on a plan to help people lose ing a five-week evangelistic series held weight through what it calls the Slim recently by J. Lynn Martell, Anchorage, Line program. A two-minute telephone Alaska, church pastor. message can be heard any time, day or + A new community services center was Ceicrud night, by a person battling the weight recently formed by members of the Belle- problem. vue, Washington, church. In addition to + Michigan's Upper Peninsula camp health and welfare assistance, the organ- + The Nebraska Conference has had 139 meeting this year set a record with more ization is exploring such areas as volun- baptisms during the first six months of than 400 persons attending the weekend teer work in the Eastside Mental Health the year. This is the most baptisms for convocation July 24 to 26. Center, Echo Glen School, a teen center, the first six months of any year during the GORDON ENGEN, Correspondent and helping at the Interlake Manor Nurs- past ten years. ing Home. Services will also be available to other community organizations when + Mrs. E. R. Schwab, wife of the North needed. Platte, Nebraska, district pastor, was the leader of the kindergarten division at the + Speakers for the summer commence- General Conference session. Mrs. Schwab Negoiduic ment at Walla Walla College, August 7-9, wrote her own program material for the a were Dr. W. M. Schneider, Southern Mis- nine meetings. The theme was "The Plan sionary College president; Walter D. of Salvation." + Clyde Best, Minnesota Book and Bible Blehm, Oregon Conference president; House manager, reports camp meeting and Larry M. Lewis, assistant professor + Ronald Wham, pastor of the Grand- sales totaled more than $23,000. of religion at Walla Walla College. view and Independence churches, Mis- IONE MORGAN, Correspondent souri, was ordained at the Missouri camp + Five young people—Cynthia Carlisle, meeting. Larry Jackson, Randy Lambert, Linda CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent Booth, and Bradley Booth—were added to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, church by baptism in June. + As of June 24, 96 were baptized as a result of the Voice of Prophecy-Detamore evangelistic meetings held in the Veterans + On July 31 the Jubal Quartet—Jesse Catania Auditorium, Des Moines, Iowa. Seventy- Fernandez, Dave Castro, Fernando Wes- nine of these were added to the Des tre, and Samuel Rivera; and the Jubilee Moines church. The others joined Trio—Irma Fernandez, Elina Castro, and + Mr. and Mrs. Merle Morris, of the churches within a 50-mile radius. Rose Westre—began a month-long musi- Bladensburg, Maryland, church, were + Eight persons were baptized recently in cal missionary tour of Latin America. elected as Potomac Conference's Laymen the Lehr, North Dakota, church as a re- All are members of churches in the River- of the Year at the camp meeting recently sult of a series of meetings held by Harold side and Santa Ana, California, area. The held in Takoma Park, Maryland. M. Williams, Ministerial secretary of the groups will give concerts in Chile, Colom- + The West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, North Dakota Conference. He was assisted bia, Ecuador, Uruguay, Argentina, Vene- church, in the Allegheny East Conference, by Don Howe and Edward J. Kanna, dis- zuela, Peru, Panama, Costa Rica, El Sal- was recently dedicated free of debt. trict pastor. vador, Guatemala, and Mexico. + Benjamin Garey, of Columbia Union + North Dakota church members began + During the month of May, some College; Mrs. Juanita Doat, of Kettering a drive for 1 million pennies during its $330,000 worth of books and magazines Medical Center; and Mrs. Lillian Gray, camp meeting June 26 to July 1. It is were delivered in Pacific Union Confer-

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ence territory. This is the highest month's COat I i rs delivery in the history of the publishing work in this union. WASHINGTON By Arthur H. Roth + A workshop for modern-language teach- ers, sponsored by the Pacific Union Con- A MONTI-11-1( OF HAPPENINGS AT GENERAL C.OftlFZEPIENCiE HEADQUARTERS ference Department of Education and the Adventist Language Teachers Asso- SCORES OF VISITORS. Prior to and ary Volunteer, Stewardship, Biblical ciation, had as its guest lecturer Frank particularly following the General Con- Research; M. S. Nigri, Temperance, Sta- M. Grittner, Wisconsin State supervisor ference session scores and scores of visitors tistical, Sabbath School; Neal C. Wilson, of foreign languages. The workshop was from overseas and North America visited Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, Re- held on the La Sierra Campus of Loma church headquarters and other denomi- gional, North American Missions, Associa- Linda University August 3 to 13. tion of Adventist Services and Industries. MARGARET FOLLETT, Correspondent national institutions in the Washington, D.C., area. It would be an honor to men- tion by name all these dear comrades in SECRETARIAT. Secretariat responsibil- the Advent Movement and tell about ity for the world field has been appor- where they serve, but that would require tioned as follows: C. 0. Franz, general; a good portion of one issue of the RE- D. H. Baasch, South American and Inter- VIEW, so we shall have to content our- American divisions; L. L. Bock, North selves by telling our readers that these American Division; C. E. Bradford, North American Division; A. E. Gibb, Austral- + Forty-nine branch Sabbath schools were visitors from many places vividly re- minded us, as they walked along the halls asian Division and Southern Asia Divi- conducted in the Florida Conference this sion; D. W. Hunter, Central European summer. and visited offices at the General Confer- ence, that the Advent people are truly Division and Northern European Divi- + Sixty teen-agers attended the special sion; D. S. Johnson, Far Eastern Division; teen camp conducted in the South Cen- the church from "every nation, and kin- dred, and tongue, and people." B. E. Seton, Trans-Mediterranean Divi- tral Conference, July 19-26. sion and Trans-Africa Division; R. F. + The Open Bible crusade held by THE DESIRE OF AGES. One day re- Williams, Afro-Mideast Division. In ad- Rainey Hooper in Sarasota, Florida, cently Arthur L. White, secretary of the dition to overseas division responsibil- closed July 26 with 27 baptisms. Ellen G. White Estate, Inc., gave the ities each of the secretaries has numerous + Following a Five-Day Plan held at officers of the General Conference a pre- other duties. Hialeah Hospital, Miami, Florida, re- view of a special paperback edition of ESDA. N. W. Litchfield, former manager cently, the president of the Norwegian The Desire of Ages printed by Pyramid Caribbean Lines gave $1,000 in appre- of ESDA, has been appointed general ciation for his "kicking the habit." An Publications under an arrangement that manager. ESDA is the denomination's anonymous gift of $500 was also received. makes it possible to offer Ellen G. White's purchase and supply department, espe- much-loved life of Christ on bookstands cially established to supply the needs of + Fifteen major evangelistic efforts were throughout the country for 95 cents. The conducted in the South Atlantic Con- missionary personnel and institutions. ference during the summer. Conference identical book, with slight cover changes, ministers have set a baptismal goal of will also be available through our Book HEALTH ASSOCIATE. In mid-Septem- 1,700 for 1970. and Bible Houses from the Pacific Press. ber, J. Wayne McFarland will be joining OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent Later, possibly other Ellen G. White the Health Department as an associate books will become available on the paper- secretary. His special activity will be back bookstands. health evangelism. RETIRING. Two General Conference WORKER. "When the year 1971 opens, staff members have requested retirement the Sabbath School Worker will make its laatiweguic tam in addition to those who did so prior to appearance in a new, less bulky and more and at the session. They are: R. L. Odom, practical size," states Sabbath school sec- retary Fenton Retzer. Supplementary pro- + The Texico youth camp just concluded who has served the church for more than at Black River Village, El Porvenir, New 45 years as pastor, evangelist, missionary, gram and teaching helps for the various Mexico, had 119 campers in attendance. editor, and researcher; and Verna Slate, children's and youth divisions of the Sab- At the conclusion of the camp 26 young who has been an office worker for more bath school, which formerly were part of people gave their decision for Christ. than 40 years. The General Conference the Worker will no longer be featured + Ninety young people, mostly non-Ad- Committee has taken recognition of the in that journal, but will be available on ventists, were brought together for a week devoted and distinguished service given 51/2" by 81/2" sheets punched for three- recently in the Arkansas-Louisiana Con- to the church by these faithful work- ring notebooks. Teachers and superin- ference friendship camp. Thirty of these ers. The church desires for them God's tendents will be able to receive in sep- young people were from the Lafayette- continuing care and blessings. arate packages the particular lesson and Lake Charles, Louisiana, area. program helps they need. + Dale Hoover, employed by the Texas VICE-PRESIDENT COUNSELORS. The By making these adjustments it is be- Conference to follow up literature evan- vice-presidents of the General Confer- lieved the churches will be able to effect gelists' customers, is presently working in ence carry a variety of counseling duties considerable savings. The smaller Fort Worth, Texas. Twenty families con- in , addition to serving as chairmen of monthly sixteen-page two-color Worker tacted by literature evangelists are receiv- numerous committees and boards and should cost about $1.90 per year. The ing Bible studies. giving of their ministry to the church in teachers' lesson helps for children and + The top ten literature evangelists for the North American and overseas divi- youth will be available at twenty-five May in the Southwestern Union include sions. They serve as counselors to the de- cents a quarter per set and the division J. D. Davis, Jerry Smith, Paul Cooper, partments as here listed: R. R. Bietz, superintendents' program helps will be Vern Colvin, Ed Sherrill, Gene Cowden, Darlene Faulkner, Clara Summers, Ted Health; F. L. Bland, Public Relations, available at forty cents a quarter. Teach- Ramirez, and Curtis Thurber. Combined Radio-TV, Audio-Visual; Theodore Car- ers and superintendents of the adult divi- sales for this group was nearly $20,000. cich, Publishing, Ministerial, Lay Activ- sion will continue to have their helps in J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent ities; W. J. Hackett, Education, Mission- the present book form.

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in Human Relations Council Noah Beasley, assistant publishing secre- tary (Allegheny East), formerly literature evangelist (Central States). By CHARLES C. CRIDER Harry Cartright, pastor, Cambridge and Salisbury, Maryland, from Andrews Univer- sity. A unique chapter in denominational one left the council with an urge to agi- Charles Case, departmental secretary history was written in Detroit, Michigan, tate or apply pressure on anyone either (Kansas), formerly public relations officer, last May. inside or outside the church. Each ex- Loma Linda University. Two congregations of Seventh-day Ad- pressed the hope that others would have Paul M. DeBooy, MV department secretary ventists—a black one pastored by T. Mar- an opportunity to share in a similar ex- (Pacific Union), formerly associate secretary, shall Kelly and a white one led by Leslie perience. As one participant said, "Let us GC Young People's Missionary Volunteer Neal—came together to explore the pos- show our brothers and sisters and the Department. sibility of establishing a basis for fellow- world what can happen when people B. J. Furst, departmental secretary (Minne- ship. Both of these pastors had been par- truly come together in the love and spirit sota), from same position (Kansas). ticipants in the first human-relations of Jesus. Let us work to maintain this Warren C. Heintz, secretary (Southeast- workshop held on the Andrews Univer- unity among ourselves and to widen our ern California), formerly pastor, San Diego sity campus in March of 1969. For this circle by inviting others to join us and North Park church, California. reason their churches had been chosen share this experience with us." W. E. Jamerson, pastor (Southern Califor- for the first human-relations council to be It should be noted that a large por- nia), formerly MV secretary (Nebraska). held with laymen, using the techniques tion of the membership in both the black Jack Jansen, staff, Adelphian Academy and methods developed in the workshops. and white churches were Southern born. (Michigan), from Sunnydale Academy (Mis- Most of the significant happenings oc- This distribution was fully represented souri). curred in small groups. But opportunity in those who participated in the council. William E. Jones, secretary-treasurer was given for the participants to assem- The amazing thing seemed to be that (South Dakota), formerly Book and Bible ble as a total community to share and place of birth had no observable effect House manager (Nebraska). relate what had been done. This took on the fellowship that developed between Sharon Lau, office secretary (Hawaiian Mis- place both within the regular sessions the participants of different racial back- sion), a recent graduate of Pacific Union and those held in the churches over the grounds, nor did it seem to affect their College. weekends. Progress by individuals took enjoyment of the experience. Esther R. Lee, office secretary (Colorado), place at different rates, with regular at- One sister who had taken four black from same position (Illinois). tendants making the most significant guests into her home reported that she 0. L. Maize, staff, Madison Academy changes. Reaction to the program as ex- had scarcely gotten them inside the door (Kentucky-Tennessee), from staff, Platte pressed by participants themselves was when her telephone rang. She heard the Valley Academy (Nebraska). positive even in the case of those who did voice of a neighbor who said that she Fermon Mock, staff, Highland Academy not attend all the sessions. thought she saw her taking black people (Kentucky-Tennessee), from staff, Platte Val- Nineteen regular sessions were held, into her home. With some apprehension ley Academy. stretching over the better part of 11 days. our sister replied, "Yes, we are having Stanley Morton, truck driver, College Fur- Twenty of the participants spent two brotherhood week in our church, and niture, Union College, from same position, days at Andrei'srs in a warm-up session. these are my brothers and sisters from Thunderbird Academy (Arizona). During the entire period the participants the Adventist church on Burns Avenue." Mrs. Velda Nelson, staff, Campion Acad- ate, worshiped, and played together, and She was much relieved when she heard emy (Colorado), formerly teacher (Iowa). on alternate weekends entertained one her neighbor say, "Good for you, Ann! I S. F. Pedersen, pastor, New Haven district another as guests in their homes. But wish more of us had your courage." (Kansas), formerly pastor (Colorado). above all, they struggled and worked to- It was evident in the council that both Bruce Ronk, assistant professor of English, gether to resolve the differences and di- blacks and whites were fearful of what Andrews University, from Union College. visions that existed between them. As a might happen from extremists in retalia- result they reported that they not only tion because they were developing close learned to admire and respect one an- relationships with people of another race. other as blacks and whites but also got to But the question was faced squarely, and From Home Base to Front Line know one another much better, and felt it was concluded that what was happen- North American Division much closer than they had to even the ing was too important to be dropped be- members of the congregations where they cause of fear. Louise M. Smith (AUG '52), to be secre- regularly worshiped. One participant put it this way, "They tary-accountant in the Inter-American Divi- What are the initial relations when may burn my home or even the church. sion office, Coral Gables, Florida, of Portland, church members of different races are But how can we call ourselves Christians Maine, left Washington, D.C., May 15. brought together like this and allowed to if we continue to remain separate from a Jaime Sanchez (attended Hunter College speak openly and freely about what is whole category of our brothers and sis- '62-'65; St. Barnabas School of Medical Tech- on their hearts? Many are fearful that ters who live in the same community with nology '69), to be medical technologist in the such confrontations will produce anger us? How can we say we have a unified Bella Vista Hospital, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, and further alienation, and that division church when we have never had com- Mrs. Sanchez, nee Antonia Mercado (Junior between the races will be increased. But munion with a brother or sister of a dif- High School, Puerto Rico '48), and daughter, in Detroit the opposite took place. Those ferent race? Most of us have never stayed of the Bronx, New York, left Miami, Flor- of us who had the opportunity to observe overnight in the home of an Adventist of ida, May 25. were surprised to see something take another race. We don't know one anoth- William G Jensen (attended WWC '41- place very much like what is described in er's names. We must continue to fellow- '42; '46-'47), to be maintenance engineer in the first chapter of the book of Acts. They ship together. We must work together and Port of Spain Community Hospital, Trinidad, broke bread together with gladness of wait together for the coming of Jesus." West Indies, Mrs. Jensen, nee Frieda Hazel heart. They were in unity in their desire The human-relations program has rep- Jahn (attended WWC '46, '47), and daughter, to unite in their witness that they were resented a cooperative effort between left Los Angeles, California, June 18; they one in Christ. Andrews University, the Lake Union, and previously served in Thailand. It was of interest to see the earnestness the Michigan and Lake Region confer- Lois L. Fouts (WWC '38), returning as and devotion with which they worked. No ences. cashier in Far Eastern Division, Singapore,

26 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 left Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 21. (CUC), of Norristown, Pennsylvania, left Send a continuous supply of old Bibles to Idamae Melendy, Review and Herald, Washington, D.C. Mrs. Reginald F. Mattison, nee Ellen Miami, Florida, April 28. 20012. Louise Larrabee (attended PUC '47-'49; at- Ruth Audrey Feeback, to be nurse in New permanent address for T. W. Bestman to receive used, clean literature: SDA Church, P.O. tended LLU Nursing School '49-'50; WWC Andrews Memorial Hospital, Kingston, Ja- Box 111, Greenville, Sinoe County, Liberia, West '59), left New York City, June 24. Elder maica, student missionary (CUC), of Vienna, Africa. Pastor F. Edwards, Community Hospital, P.O. Box Mattison preceded her, having left Febru- Virginia, left Washington, D.C., May 6. 767, Port of Spain, Trinidad, W.I., desires used copies ary 22 for the South American Division to of periodicals, especially These Times, Message, Signs, Jerald Alfred Reinshagen, to be music Listen, Liberty, Instructor, Present Truth, Life and serve as stewardship and development secre- teacher Lake Titicaca Training School, stu- Health. tary. They previously served in Puerto Rico. New address for G. Thang Pu, SDA Mission, Homa- dent missionary (CUC), of Miami, Florida, fin, Hkamti District, Naga Hills, Burma, who de- Ralph H. Jones (SDATS '55; attended left Miami, May 17. sires Liberty, Review, These Times, Life and Health, WWC '58-'59), returning as teacher to Spicer Bible pictures, Bible games, songbooks, old Bibles, Harriet Ann Thornton, to be Bible instruc- melodica, and musical instruments. Memorial College, Poona, India, Mrs. Jones, tor Honduras Mission, Tegucigalpa, Hon- Pastor Watkins Attah, P.O. Box 14, Kwamang/ nee Viola Marie Kendall (attended WWC Mampong-Ash., Ghana, West Africa, needs Bibles, duras, student missionary (CUC), of Berea, books, records, greeting cards, 35 mm film strips, '53-'54), and three children, left San Fran- Kentucky, left Miami, Florida, May 19. periodicals. cisco, California, June 26. Douglas Robertson, M.D., Port of Spain Community William Barreto, to do ministerial work in Hospital, P.O. Box 767, Port of Spain, Trinidad, W.I., Ira E. Bailie, M.D. (LSC '51; LLU '52), El Salvador Mission, San Salvador, student desires Signs, Life and Health, periodicals, books, but returning as a physician for the Paraguay no Reviews. He sees 300 plus patients a week and can missionary (CUC), of Bronx, New York, left use a large supply. Hospital, Asuncion, Mrs. Bailie, nee Clara Washington, D.C., May 24. J. P. Johnson, 135 Cromwell Dr., Hendersonville, Naomi Jackson (attended PUC '45; LLU Tenn. 37075, wants clean Signs, Listen, and Liberty C. 0. FRANZ only. School of Nursing '49), and three children, WANTED: Songbooks, greeting cards, Bibles, to left Baltimore, Maryland, June 28. Mg. Robert Van Turn, SDA Mission; T. T. Far- Australasian Division rawn; P.O. Haka, North Chin Hills, Burma. William Milton Lee (PUC '36; AU '60), re- J. U. Okwandu, SDA Church Headquarters, Aba, turning as ministerial and radio-TV secretary Margaret Rutter, to be physiotherapist on c/o Dr. K. F. Mueller, Box 111, Port-Harcourt, the staff of the Togoba Hansenide Hospital, Nigeria, needs Instructor, Sabbath School Worker, South China Island Union Mission, Taipei, Bibles, and youth books. Taiwan, and Mrs. Lee, nee Helen Virginia Mount Hagen, New Guinea, of Wahroonga, Daung Kyint, Khua Sak, SDA Thuklai P.O., New South Wales, left Sydney, March 1. North Chin Hills, Burma, needs Seventh-day Advent- Warren (attended PUC '33-'34; St. Helena ists Today, The Sabbath Hours, My Bible Friends, Sanitarium School of Nursing '36), left Los Stuart Hemsley, to be builder for Coral A Little Child Shall Lead, Bible 7 Game, Spiritualism Angeles, California, June 30. Sea Union Mission, Lae, New Guinea, left Today, Christ and Tomorrow, Christ Forever, Faith for Today, Christian Home Calendar, Forever Robert Zamora (LSC '48; George Wash- Sydney, March 2. Heaven, Gift of Prophecy in the SDA Church, God R. L. Aveling, returning as publishing, and Evolution, God and the Future, God and I Are ington University '70), to be a teacher in Partners, God's Holy Day, How to Read the Bible, Newbold College, Bracknell, Berkshire, Eng- Sabbath school, and lay activities department I Became a Seventh-day Adventist, Light of the secretary for the Coral Sea Union Mission, Ages. Prayer for the Sick, Symbols of Salvation, Way land, on two-year exchange program with to Christ, When a Man Dies, The Bible Story, Secrets Columbia Union College, Mrs. Zamora, nee Lae, New Guinea, and Mrs. Aveling, left of the Spirit, The Spirit of the Teacher, With God Donna Coyle (UC two years), and two chil- March 8. You Win, Elisha Man of God, The New Song, The Secret Church, Songbooks, Message, These Times, dren, sailed on the S.S. France from New Wallace Booker, to serve on the staff of the Fellow Travelers of Spiritualism, Dimensions in Sal- York City, July 2. Togoba Hansenide Colony, Mount Hagen, vation. URGENTLY NEEDED: 1970 copies of Review, Irmin Eugene Burke (LSC '42; WWC '48), New Guinea, Mrs. Booker and son, left March Instructor, Guide, These Times, Signs, Message, Lis- to be administrator Bella Vista Hospital, 23. ten, Liberty, Life and Health, Primary Treasure, and Little Friend by Adassa Brown, Golden Spring P.A., Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Mrs. Burke, nee Miss Gillian Bichard, to serve in the Jamaica, West Indies. Dorothy Josephine Skeels (attended WWC South American Division office, Montevideo, Mrs. S. B. Palkar, SDA Hospital, Athwalines, Surat, Gujarat, India, needs Signs and Present Truth. '47-'48), and three children, of College Place, Uruguay, having just completed a term of Philemon E. Ile, SDA Mission, c/o State School, Washington, left College Place, May 1. service in office work in the Trans-Africa Erema, Ahoada, Rivers State, Nigeria, desires Bible and memory verse pictures for 1970 and onward for Hugh Carroll Love, D.D.S. (EMC '49; LLU Division and taken a furlough, left Sydney, 90 children. '61), to be relief dentist in West Pakistan, June 11. Send Guide, Primary Treasure, and Little Friend to Bauan Adventist Rural School, c/o Mr. Ricardo Cusi, of Loma Linda, California, left Los Angeles, Glyn Lock, to teach in the Betikama High Pandayan, Bauan, Batangas, Philippines, and the California, May 24. School, British Solomon Islands, Mrs. Lock same to Binan SDA Elementary School, c/o Tomas Racasa, San Vicente, Binan, Laguna, Philippines. J. Bjornar Storfjell (WWC '66; AU '68), and their infant child, left Sydney, June 14. (Weight limit for printed matter to P.I.: 6 lbs., to be Biblical languages teacher in Middle C. M. Winch, returning to serve as mis- 9 oz. each parcel, tied or open-ended; postage approximately $2.) East College, Mrs. Storfjell, nee Judith Irene sionary airplane pilot in the Coral Sea Union WANTED: A continuous supply of Modern Ways Lloyd (WWC '66), and two children, of Mission, Lae, New Guinea, Mrs. Winch and to Health, Behold the Man, Alone With God, God's Commandment-keeping Church Today, The Faith of Gresham, Oregon, left Philadelphia, Pennsyl- their four children, left June 15. Jesus, hymnals, Counsels on Diet and Foods, The vania, June 14. R. D. Donaldson, returning as president Ministry of Healing, I Became a Seventh-day Advent- ist, I'd Like to Ask Sister White, Reflections on Love John M. Howard, (Newbold College '55; of the Bougainville Mission, Rabaul, New and Marriage, tracts, and Bibles, to Pastor Peter SMC '56; SDATS '60), to be lay activities and Guinea, Mrs. Donaldson and infant child, Amoateng, SDA Mission, P.O. Box 22, Kintampo B/A, Ghana West Africa. Young People's Missionary Volunteer secre- left Sydney, June 16. E. A. Sinco Northern Mindanao Mission, Cagayan tary of the Congo Union, Mrs. Howard, nee A. A. Godfrey, returning as president of de Oro City, Philippines, needs a continuous supply of Signs, These Times, Review, Listen, tracts, Bibles, Emilie Mook (Marienhoehe Seminary '50), the Western Solomons Mission, with head- color books, songbooks, small books, picture cards, and two children, of Oshawa, Ontario, Can- quarters at Kukudu via Gizo, British Solomon cutouts, stories, prophetic charts, audio-visual aids, slides, films, Bible games, Ellen G. White books, ada, left New York City, June 21. Islands, Mrs. Godfrey and four children, left Insight, Guide, Life and Health, denominational Sydney, June 21. books, Christmas cards, and other missionary material. J. K. IRVINE Also send similar material to the following: Reynaldo Adventist Student Volunteer Corps R. Sinco, Davao Mission, Davao City, P.I.; Elias Butad, Northern Mindanao Mission, Cagayan de and Other Workers Oro City, P.1.; Samuel R. Sinco, Yacapin Extension, Cagayan de Oro City, P.I.; and Lowell Teves, Negros Adeny Schmidt, to teach for one year in the NOTICES Mission, Bacolod City, P.I. Adventist Educational Center, Pena Blanca, Send missionary materials to the following in a Literature Requests continuous supply: Manuel A. Panaguiton, Don Depto Cortes, Honduras, Central America, Carlos, Bukidnon, P.I.; Evangelist A. Randolph of Takoma Park, Maryland, left Miami, Flor- [All requests for free literature should be sent Thompson, Guyana Mission of SDA, P.O. Box 78, to the mission or conference office of the area. They Georgetown, Guyana; Alfred Ogues, Banga, South ida, April 17. will then send on to us such requests as they feel Co'abato, P.I.; Pastor J. A. Nsiah, SDA Church, Edith Evelyn Kreuder, to be English are proper to honor. All literature requested P.O. Box 22, Tanoso-Sunyani, Ghana, West Africa; through this column is to be used for missionary Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Adjepong, SDA, Domia- teacher Panama Adventist Institute, La Con- work, not personal needs. Mark packages: "Used bral, Konongo, Ashanti-Akim, Ghana, West Africa; cepcion, Chiriqui, Republic of Panama, stu- publications—no monetary value. Destroy if not George C. Powell, Port Maria SDA Church, 88 deliverable.") Stennett St., St. Mary, Jamaica, W.I.; Paul L. dent missionary (PUC), of Angwin, Cali- Hinoguin. Davao Mission, P.O. Box 293, Davao City, fornia, left San Francisco, California, April WANTED: A continuous supply of Christian Home P.I.; Ludy Fernandez. Mati SDA Church, Mati, Calendar, Signs, Listen, Liberty, Life and Health, Davao Oriental, P.I.; Pastor C. Odero, P.O. Ranen, 20. These Times, Message, Review, Good News for You, via Kisii, Kenya, East Africa; S. J. Bloemitje, P.O. Michael Lee Anderson, to do evangelistic Tour Bible and You, and other denominational and Box 117, Maraisburg, Transvaal, South Africa; S. Spirit of Prophecy books, by Joseph F. K. Mensah, Conferido, Western Mindanao Mission, Box 13, and pastoral work, Central Jamaica Con- SDA Mission, P.O. Box 22, Kintampo, B/A, Ghana, Ozamis City, P.I.; B. S. K. Amoako, SDA Mission, ference, West Indies, student missionary West Africa. Techimantia, Ghana, West Africa.

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and three in English—and he contributes • Briefs From Theo Fletlfigicrams WO -1-14.e4 Week _ frequently to several Adventist magazines. At least one person in this office recalls F. Walter Raymond Beach, one of the that the first book read aloud to her was SCAN 0 new field secretaries of the General Con- a nature book by Ruth Wheeler, whose by-line appears this week under the article 4 or, ference, writes this week, "Marching in \ Briefs From the* FIEDIIIVOLMIED Earth's Sunset" (page 2). "We Were Cheated" (page 11). For the past 16 years Elder Beach, a For many years Mrs. Wheeler's books native North Dakotan, has been General have been familiarizing children with ORGANIZATION CHANGE FACED Conference secretary. He began his de- nature (Little Kildeer), the joys of being BY NCC in the outdoors (On the Trail With nominational service in 1923 at Auburn ST. PAUL, MINN.—The retiring president Academy immediately after receiving his Freckles and Don), how we got our pres- ent Bible (The Story of the Book), and of the National Council of Churches says he degree from Walla Walla College. For anticipates that the NCC may be supplanted three years he was dean of men and a many other topics. "before many years" by a new conference teacher before going as a departmental What Adventist children have not at one time been exposed to nature on a of churches. "I feel it's altogether possible secretary in the Latin Union, which had that the Roman Catholic Church may be headquarters in Gland, Switzerland. That dreary day through Mrs. Wheeler's games —Larkspur, Goldfinch, Chipmunk, and participating in the new agency along with union was composed of Algeria, Belgium, some Protestant denominations not now in France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Monarch? the NCC," said Dr. Arthur Flemming, who Switzerland—essentially the core of the Both Mrs. Wheeler and her husband, Herschel, are avid naturalists, and he, is also president of Macalester College, St. Southern European Division, which was Paul. organized in 1928. particularly, is a superb photographer. When the division was organized, Elder Their most recent combining of efforts— Beach became president of the Belgian her writing, his photography, and their CHURCH TO UNDERGO Conference. Four years later he became love of nature—is the book for adults TRANSFORMATION president of the Franco-Belgian Union. My Father's World. Another four years later, in 1936, he For the past four years the Wheelers MEXICO CITY—Mexico's Catholic bishop was called to be secretary of the Southern have been living in Takoma Park, where vowed here that the Church in Mexico will European Division, a position he held she has been an editor in the textbook undergo a complete transformation, "begin- for the ten years prior to becoming presi- division of the General Conference Edu- ning at once." In an announcement following dent of that division. It was from there cation Department. They have recently a plenary session of the Mexican Council of that he went to the General Conference moved back to their home in California. Bishops (Conferencia Episcopal), the bish- in 1954 to become its secretary. Mrs. Wheeler's narrative this week re- ops told "all the faithful and all the general Elder Beach, who holds a Master's de- counts one of the experiences she had public" that the Church in Mexico "will no gree from the Sorbonne University, has during her many years of teaching and longer act as a unilateral authority, but will written at least six books—three in French counseling in academy and college. act only bilaterally, together with the au- thorities, duly elected, and the people of Mexico."

CANADA'S CATHOLICS AID POOR

In 1849 a company of Sabbathkeeping Adventists began to publish a paper called The Present Truth. In 1850 VICTORIA, B.C.—Bishop Remi De Roo, they also published five issues of The Advent Review. Later that year, in November, these two papers merged of Victoria, said Catholics in Canada will be under the name Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, now titled simply REVIEW AND HERALD. Its editorial objective remains unchanged—to preach "the everlasting gospel" in the context of the Sabbath, the Second asked to contribute from 3 to 5 per cent of Advent, and other truths distinctive of the Advent Movement. their income to help the poor at home and abroad. Editor: KENNETH H. WOOD Associate Editors: DON F. NEUFELD, HERBERT E. DOUGLASS THOMAS A. DAVIS SOCIAL, POLITICAL SOLUTIONS Secretary to the Editor: CORINNE WILKINSON CHICAGO—Christianity does not offer, and is not supposed to offer, a solution for social, Editorial Secretaries: ROSEMARY BRADLEY, RUBY L. JONES political, and economic problems according to IDAMAE MELENDY Jacques Ellul, the French Protestant histo- Layout Artist: RAYMOND C. HILL rian and theologian. Instead of giving a solu- tion to problems, he says, Christianity under- Consulting Editors: ROBERT H. PIERSON, REINHOLD R. BIETZ stands that "God in Jesus Christ put questions F. L. BLAND, THEODORE CARCICH, W. J. HACKETT to us. . . . It is the Christian himself who M. S. NIGRI, NEAL C. WILSON must make answers." Special Contributors: C. 0. FRANZ, K. H. EMMERSON R. R. FIGUHR, W. R. BEACH, FREDERICK LEE PRESIDENTS OF WORLD DIVISIONS PERMIT ASKED TO RUN TV STATION Circulation Manager: GEORGE H. TAGGART WASHINGTON, D.C.—A request for a temporary license to operate WLBT-TV, Field Representative: CLIFFORD K. OKUNO Jackson, Mississippi, was made to the Federal TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS: The REVIEW welcomes articles on devotional and doctrinal topics; also news Communications Commission here by a non- and pictures of important denominational happenings—church dedications, camp meetings, evangelistic meet- profit, interracial corporation. The license ings, and other newsworthy events. All manuscripts should be typed, double spaced, with adequate margins. News stories and pictures should indicate whether they are being submitted to other publications or are exclusive of the station, formerly operated by the La- to the REVIEW. All pictures should show a high degree of color-tone contrast. Action pictures are preferred. mar Life Insurance Company, is in abeyance Unsolicited manuscripts, while welcome, will be accepted without remuneration, and will be returned only if accompanied by a stamped self-addressed envelope. Authors should identify themselves, laymen by giving the following court action sought by the Office name of their church and pastor. Items submitted for "Letters to the Editor" cannot be acknowledged. Send all of Communication of the United Church of editorial materials directly to the Editor, Review and Herald, 6856 Eastern Ave., NW., Takoma Park, Christ. Washington, D.C. 20012. Communications Improvement, Inc., of SUBSCRIPTIONS: United States, $9.59 (slightly higher in Canada); other countries, $10.50. When changing address, give both old and new address; allow 80 to 60 days for change. When writing about your subscription Jackson, formed by white and black citizens or changing your address, please enclose the address label from your copy or from the wrapper in which it comes. interested in broadcasting that will improve Address correspondence concerning subscriptions to: Manager. Periodical Department, Review and Herald, 6856 Eastern Ave., NW., Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 20012. race relations, asked the FCC for permission A quarterly edition of the REVIEW in Braille is published by the Christian Record Braille Foundation, Box to run the station until the license is re- 6997, Lincoln, Nebraska 68506. Available free to the blind. granted.

30 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 20, 1970 AN OPEN LETTER

FROM YOUR SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Dear Reader:

Concerned about the SABBATH SCHOOL WORKER? We're sorry, but not surprised. January, 1970, some things were added, some taken away. Why? Popular demand. May we explain? Folks wanted program helps and teaching aids, complete and special- ized for each division. These had been produced in some places, with much duplication of effort, but it was felt that these should be more carefully edited and made available to all. Thus in 1970 these were added to the WORKER. It was felt, too, that something like an experimental senior teach- er's quarterly that had been used and liked by thousands, should be available to all. Thus in 1970, lesson notes for senior division teachers were taken out of the WORKER and published in a special teach- er's edition of the lesson quarterly. This was good, but not good enough. "We want our own looseleaf program helps, packaged and distributed individually," said division leaders. Division teachers said the same about their aids. The next step was obvious: Extend the department's service to provide separate program and teaching materials for all divisions. On January 1, 1971, this will be done. What about those who have gotten the WORKER in order to have spe- cial helps for programs or teaching? Possibly some have said, "We won't need it anymore." Wrong? The changes now in process will make it more wanted and needed than ever before. The new WORKER, January, 1971, will be a 16-page, two-color, com- pletely new format, contemporary design; same page size helps keep price down. Best of all, a fresh, helpful journal for EVERYONE, designed to lead to the personal involvement of every member in the life and work of the Sabbath School. Fresh Sabbath School spot news. Frank discus- sion of Sabbath School problems and needs. Letters from readers and dialog on current issues that affect the Sabbath School. Pooling of fresh, vital ideas for progress. As an every-member magazine, the WORKER will emphasize simple, direct, and effective methods of evangelistic involvement. In short, plans call for a crisp, readable, attractive journal for the total Sab- bath School constituency. And all this for the new low price of only $1.90 per year, postpaid. Leaders and teachers will need the WORKER even more. They are the catalysts in the grand chemistry of personal soul-winning involvement for each member. The WORKER will inform, inspire, and motivate them in this. But in addition they will have their own specialized helps in looseleaf form, packaged and distributed individually. Program helps for seniors and youth will be produced separately on an annual basis. All others will be published quarterly. Now for the frosting! Beginning in January, 1971, every officer and teacher can have this specialized material in greater quantity, but at less over-all cost than ever before? What is more, the WORKER will become a most valuable and desirable journal for every member to read, enjoy, and use. There should be at least one in each home. We hope this has clarified the matter and stimulated you to con- tinue your support of the WORKER. Sincerely, THE SABBATH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT WORLD NEWS AT PRESS TIME

Hundreds Baptized in Java has been set up in the church school in Corpus Christi. Through Gift Bible Program Health Personnel Needs The Texas Conference relief vehicle A. Hendriks, West Java Mission lay Summary No. S was on the scene in Corpus Christi before the hurricane struck the Texas coast. The activities secretary, reports that during a Professional and technical help needed recent period in his field, church members neighboring Texico Conference vehicle On Seventh-day Adventist hospitals report- arrived from Amarillo, Texas, the follow- gave Bibles and reading guides to 1,970 ing this past month include those given neighbors, most of whom were of the ing morning. Three additional relief ve- below: hicles, from the Southwestern Union, are Moslem religion. North America Following the steps outlined in the Gift now on the spot, and their crews are en- Bible Program Guide Sheets, they visited accountants gaged in aiding victims. The Southern these contacts frequently and helped 1,039 6 dietitians—members of ADA Union volunteered its help and is co- to finish the 24-lesson course. As a result 35 licensed practical nurses operating with SAWS, Washington, to 512—about 50 per cent of the graduates =7 medical records librarians dispatch two additional vehicles with —were baptized. This is an outstanding 8 registered laboratory technicians such articles as linens, children's clothing, 74 RN's—general duty success, which demonstrates the power of and blankets. 21 RN's—supervisory the Word of God. SAWS was the first to help some victims, registered physical therapists V. W. SCHOEN supplying linens, needed clothing, and Overseas Missions bedding. Generators in the relief vehicles supplied the only emergency illumina- -1; 6 dentists • Book Review Gives High Marks tion in some cases. SAWS also provided 1 dietitian mass-feeding services and, through means to Adventist Publishing Work t 1 nurse/anesthetist of radio transmitters, supplied the only 24 physiciansgeneral practice A book review in the magazine Christ communication with the outside world. 2S physicians—specialty Anyone desiring to provide aid for hur- to the World, edited in Rome by Catholic 1 RN—edUcaticin adinini‘tration ricane victims should do so through their priests, recently praised the Seventh-day 3 RN's—service adminiitiation Adventist publishing work. Commenting local welfare representative. on The Undaunted, a book written by Other types of health workers are also C. E. GUENTHER Carol Hetzell and published by the Pa- urgently needed. Details of openings may • cific Press, the magazine stated: be obtained by writing to Miss Norma IN BRIEF "In this volume the author traces the Eldridge, Department of Health, General development of the publishing work of Conference of. • Seventh-day Adventists, + New Positions: E. L. Becker, treasurer, the Seventh-day Adventists, from the first t 6840 Eastern Avenue NW:, Washington, Loma Linda Foods, formerly controller, small leaflet to the present multi-million Ac. 20012. Loma Linda University; Raymond F. Cot- dollar globe-encircling programme. trell, book editor, Review and Herald, "It is a story of faith and courage, of formerly associate book editor; he is suc- persistence and selflessness . . . from ceeding Merwin R. Thurber, who has re- which all missionaries can certainly learn check the local log to determine actual tired; Jan S. Doward, assistant secretary, a great deal. broadcast time. Stations in the network General Conference Young People's Mis- "The example of these men and are: sionary Volunteer Department, formerly women who overcame seemingly insur- Bible teacher, Columbia Academy, Ore- mountable handicaps and achieved the WAUR, Berrien Springs, 640 KHz. gon Conference; G. W. Morgan, presi- impossible is surely a great stimulus for WGTS, Takoma Park, 91.9 MHz. dent, Nebraska Conference, formerly stew- our zeal in bringing Christ to the world." KANG, Angwin, 89.9 MHz. ardship secretary; he succeeds F. 0. San- RICHARD H. UT'T WSMC, Collegedale, 90.7 MHz. ders, who retired. KUCV, Lincoln, 91.3 MHz. KGTS, College Place, 91.3 MHz. + Deaths: Nassif Boutros, a minister in KLLU, La Sierra, 90.0 MHz. Egypt, his wife, and a daughter, July 16, E. G. White Books Constitute KEMR, Loma Linda, 88.3 MHz. in an automobile accident; Nettie M. Most of Wisconsin Sales VOAR, Newfoundland, 1230 KHz. French, widow of W. R. French, July 27 at Calimesa, California. One hundred and twenty-five sets of Though the message will be of special Testimonies for the Church were sold on interest to Seventh-day Adventists, the Sunday, August 2, at the Wisconsin camp content will be suitable for all listeners, meeting held at Portage. In addition, and friends of the church should be in- hundreds of other Spirit of Prophecy vited to listen. "-CHANGE OF ADDRESS W. R. L. SCRACC volumes were sold. Lyle Litzenberger, z manager of the Wisconsin Book and Bible aN O 3 House, reports that total sales for the day At amounted to $13,174.75 at special dis- SAWS Rushes Relief to

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Hurricane Celia Victims s Approximately two thirds of the book sales were of E. G. White's books. Another devastating hurricane, named D. A. DELAFIELD Celia, has struck the Gulf Coast of Texas. Although there was less loss of life and a fewer injuries than in some previous dis- "et General Conference President asters, damage to homes was much more Begins Broadcast Series extensive than that caused by Hurricane Beulah in 1967. Early reports show 9,000 Beginning Friday, September 4, Robert homes destroyed, 14,000 suffering major H. Pierson will use the facilities of the damage, and many more, lesser damage. N Adventist Radio Network to speak to Thus many thousands of people are home- ei more than 50,000 Seventh-day Adventists less and others have lost practically all across North America. His broadcast series their possessions. will carry the name "Let's Talk It Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service Over." (SAWS) is working closely with the Amer- Recommended release time for the ican Red Cross to aid victims in com- broadcast is 9:00 P.M., but listeners should munities most affected. Our headquarters

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