JUNE 27, 1974

ReviewADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD + GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

By RAOUL DEDEREN 41NSW RECENT DOCUMENT may provide fresh evidence that Bible prophecy is rapidly fulfilling. In a historical statement on papal primacy, Lutheran and Cath- olic theologians have agreed that a "renewed papacy" might well become a focus of unity for all Christians. The statement, the first major agreement on the papacy by a Catholic-Protestant dialog group, was issued March 4 by the U.S. National Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue, a group sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs and the U.S.A. Na- tional Committee of the Lutheran World Federation. As part of a continuing ecumenical study on doctrinal prob- lems dividing the two churches, 26 theologians-13 Catholics and 13 Lutherans—officially appointed by their respective agencies issued a 5,000-word Common Statement, "Min- istry and the Church Universal." They assert that although their churches have feuded bitterly about the authority and legitimacy of the Roman Pontificate, their differences are no longer significant enough to bar a reconciliation of their churches. The very issue of papal primacy, they say, Lutherans "need not be a barrier to reconciliation" (art. 32). The Lutheran-Catholic discussions began in 1965 in the aftermath of Vatican Council II. It has an unusual history of achievement. Its four volumes entitled Lutherans and and Catholics in Dialogue' record a Continued on page 8

Catholics Raoul Dederen, Ph.D., is chairman of the Systematic The- ology Department, Seventh-day Adventist Theological Agree Seminary, Berrien Springs, Michigan. on a "Renewed Papacy" Guest Editorial "The Most Valuable Thing" "WE PRESENT you with this Book, the most val- institutions. Submission must be gladsome, for moral uable thing this world affords. Here is wisdom; this is truth demands obedience and action. If not, not only the royal law; these are the lively oracles of God." will truth be wrung from our grasp but we shall suffer So said the moderator of the Church of Scotland irreparable loss and, worst of all, answer at last to God when he presented a copy of the Bible to Queen Eliza- for perhaps the greatest of sins—rejecting Heaven's beth at her coronation almost 21 years ago. light. Seventh-day Adventists have always loved the Book. The vitality of every Seventh-day Adventist's convic- But does it mean as much to us as individuals and as a tions of truth needs as never before to be reinforced and church as it ought to mean? Does it mean as much to strengthened by daily Bible study. It is not new light you as it did to your spiritual forefathers? that we need so much as to relate day by day in the In lands that were once the strongholds of Christi- proper way to the abundant light we already have. Our anity, religious illiterates abound today. Why? Because greatest defense in these solemn times, both as individ- the Bible no longer holds the place it once held. If it is uals and as a church, against error, heresy, and apostasy not despised or repudiated or explained away, it is is simply to remember what we know and to let it be- treated as the classic concerning which it was said, "A come fully effective and operative in our lives. Daily book everybody has heard about but which nobody study of the Word keeps faith fresh, meaningful, and reads." Could it be, possibly, that Adventists are drift- strong, and is not only a powerful defense against sin ing in that direction? but imparts the strength of character God's people so It is admittedly not easy today to nurture and maintain sorely need. faith in the Bible. Man glories in his accomplishments. Such Bible study bears fruit, as we have indicated, In half a century he has extended the frontiers of scien- in an obedient life. "Do all things without murmurings tific knowledge more than in any previous millennium. and disputings," Paul wrote to the Philippians (Phil. But has he ever been more spiritually impoverished? 2:14). Such obedience does spiritual wonders for us and For many persons skeptics have turned out the old the church. For it is not profound argument or involved lights, but they have not turned on any new ones. Ag- doctrine and philosophy clear only to an initiated and nostics have raised doubts and asked questions, but they informed spiritual elite, that will win the day for Christ. have not supplied answers. It is rather "the exhibition of the love of God as seen in Some learned men, while not atheists, for they find unselfish ministry," the living of Christianity. This room in their reasonings and philosophy for a Supreme "will be the means of leading many souls to believe the Being, are yet deists, not theists, for they reject the word of God just as it reads" (Testimonies, vol. 9, Bible and its great revelations, the Incarnation, the plan p. 40). of salvation, the Second Advent, the resurrection, and These are fateful days. Often without realizing it, as the judgment. They scorn "saving faith." individuals and as a church we are daily making crucial It is Satan who has masterminded modern skepticism. decisions between tremendous alternatives. The conse- Let us have no illusions. If Satan cannot get us to reject quences will be far reaching, even eternal. This is no the Bible, he is equally satisfied if we neglect it. He time, then, to deny ourselves the discernment and in- makes the drift away from it comfortable and almost sight, the divine guidance and spiritual power, daily imperceptible. The erosion of simple faith is often com- Bible study brings. plete before the trend is realized. And the way back is Nothing must rob us of the blessing of daily Bible never easy to find nor to walk. study or unfit us for it. Regardless of the problems we face, our study of the Sabbath school lessons and our We Become Self-righteous Sabbath school classes must become and be seasons of And there is another way he repeatedly deceives us prayerful and fruitful searching of the Scriptures. From and seeks to thwart •what God purposes to do for His them truth must emerge radiant and splendid to bless people through His Book. He persuades us to consider our hearts. If our pastors are not preaching the Word ourselves above the need of its messages of correction enough, expounding and applying saving truth, let us and rebuke. We seat ourselves on a kingly throne and in ask them to do so. And when they do "press it home on smug self-righteousness dispense justice and judgment all occasions, convenient or inconvenient" (2 Tim. from the Bible for all and sundry. We do this when our 4:2, N.E.B.), let us bow low before the message of di- greatest need is to hear the Bible's voice saying to us, vine truth. Whether it wounds our pride, offends our as Nathan said to David, "Thou art the man!" When carnal hearts, or shames our cherished self-image, let we do truly hear that voice, it will lead to the heart- us take it to our hearts. Let us pray that our administra- broken repentance Laodicea so sorely needs to experi- tors and leaders on all levels will apply the principles of ence. the truth and the cross in every decision they are called And let us not be in doubt about another aspect of on to make. A first essential for the church in these the matter. The true revival and reformation for which times is just such a leadership. we long and pray so earnestly will never be a full reality This church stands at the end of a long line of noble until we accord the Bible its proper place. The authority defenders of the great truths of the Book, men and of its great principles of truth and its standards of Chris- women whose lives have been its vindication. Will we, tian living must be enshrined in our inmost hearts, fully likewise, fulfill God's purpose in these last hours and acknowledged in our homes and churches, wholeheart- fulfill it gloriously? W. DUNCAN EVA edly applied in our denominational organizations and Vice-President, General Conference

2 (690) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 Seventh-day Adventist Seminary, Berrien Springs, Michigan, as a visiting professor in Scan 1964. He is now chairman of the Seminary's News Briefs From the Religious World Review Systematic Theology Department and teaches such classes as the doctrine of rev- BAPTIST REPORT: NEW TESTAMENTS, elation and inspiration, the doctrine of the HYMNALS PUBLISHED IN U.S.S.R. Sabbath, and the doctrine of Christ. WASHINGTON, D.C.—A three-year-old Adventists have always had a special in- Christian publishing house in the Soviet terest in the power of the papacy, its rela- Union has been producing up to 500 New tionship with other churches, and its doc- Advent Review & Sabbath Herald Testaments or hymnbooks a day, according trinal changes. Dr. Dederen's summary of 124th Year of Continuous Publication to a report published by The Capital Baptist, recent dialogs between Catholics and Lu- news publication of the District of Columbia therans and the conclusions reached during Editor: Baptist Convention. KENNETH H. WOOD those dialogs sheds light on some of these The report says that documents and letters Associate Editors. special-interest areas. from Soviet Baptists have arrived at the DON F. NEUFELD, HERBERE E DOUGLASS "How Narrow Is Narrow?" (p. 4) by Editorial and Administrative Secretary: Centre for the Study of Religion and Com- Richard Hammill, president of Andrews CORINNE WILKINSON munism in England. These documents University, Berrien Springs, Michigan, asks Editorial Assistant: "contain positive confirmation of the so- )OCELYN FAY who defines the size of the narrow gate called Christian publishing house which Editorial Secretary: that leads to heaven. In a plea to avoid IDAMAE MELENDY was established in Russia in 1971 to produce extremes, Dr. Hammill suggests that the in- Art Director: ELFRED LEE Bibles, New Testaments, hymnbooks, and Designer: G. W. BUSCH dications given by God as to what actions other Christian literature." Editors, Monthly Editions: and attitudes will and will not fit us for RAY D. VINE, English heaven must be taken into account, but that FERNANDO CHAII, Spanish—North America 84 AND "HANDICAPPED," HE TEACHES GASTON CLOUZET, Spanish—South America we must not try to define the width of the BOYS IN HOME REPAIRS PROJECT C.R. TAYLOR, Spanish--Inter-America gate for God. YONKERS, N.Y.—Some 50 boys at Consulting Editors: Rose Greer Stoia, author of "The Sancti- ROBERT H. PIERSON, W. R. BEACH, Saint Anthony's Catholic School are learn- THEODORE CARCICH, W. DUNCAN EVA, W. I. monious Skinny Man" (p. 6), is a registered ing the "rudiments of carpentry and small HACKETT, C. D. HENRI, M. S. NIGRI, dietitian and has worked at Hinsdale Sani- NEAL C. WILSON home repairs" in special classes taught by Special Contributors: tarium, Hinsdale, Illinois, and Children's Jack Shesler, a handicapped, 84-year-old C. 0. FRANZ, K. H. EMMERSON, R. R. FIGUHR, Hospital, Columbus, Ohio. Now in charge FREDERICK LEE, M. E. LIND, R. R. FRAME, P. H. retired man. ELDRIDGE, B. L. ARCHBOLD, ALF LOHNE, of community nutrition education at Ketter- The boys are making birdhouses, doll R. A. WILCOX, R. S. LOWRY, M. L. MILLS, ing Medical Center, Kettering, Ohio, she has swings, art frames for the school's art C. L. POWERS authored a children's nutrition book, Dande- Corresponding Editors, World Divisions: classes, typewriter tables for their business- Atro-Mideast, R. W. TAYLOR; Australasian, lion, the Lion Who Lost His Roar, and co- instruction group, and a variety of other ROBERT H. PARR; Euro-Atrica. E. E. WHITE, authored another book entitled About Nu- associate E. KOEHLER; Far Eastern, D. A. ROTH, wooden items. Funds for the necessary Inter-American, MARCEL ABEL; Northern trition. equipment—including drill presses, miter Europe-West Africa, PAUL SUNDQUISE; South In her article Mrs. Stoia emphasizes that American, H. I. PEVERINI; Southern Asia, boxes, jigsaws, electric sanders, vises— A. J. JOHANSON; Trans-Atrica, overeating can be eliminated only as its DESMOND B.. HILLS have been obtained through the newspaper- cause is discovered and dealt with. collection drive, which is held the first week Circulation Manager• W. B. Ochs began his denominational serv- of every month. EDMUND M. PETERSON ice in 1916 as a district pastor in the Upper Field Representative. JOEL HASS Columbia Conference. He served in many COURT RULES PRAYER PERMISSIBLE capacities during the following years, includ- IN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL CASE SUBSCRIPTIONS: United States and Canada, 89 95. 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All will be edited to meet space and lit- edition contains 200 color pictures from the erary requirements. The views presented do not necessar- Holy Land and other areas of importance in ily represent those of the editors or of the denomination.) This Week Biblical history. The book will be available Raoul Dederen, author of our cover ar- Baby-sitters in both hardback ($3.50) and paperback ticle, was born in Belgium. After attending ($2.50). the Seventh-day Adventist Seminary at Re "Changing Channels" (Jan. 31). I To date, in all editions, 44,408,537 copies Collonges, France, where he received a agree wholeheartedly with this mother that of Good News for Modern Man have been B.A. degree in 1947, he entered pastoral in front of the television set is not where distributed in the U.S. and abroad. Of the work in Belgium, where he was ordained in our children should be. How about their total, 41.3 million were published by the 1954. He taught at the SDA Seminary in spending so much time at the baby-sitters? American Bible Society, which originated France and studied concurrently at the Uni- I know dentist and doctor appointments the translation. More than 2.2 million have versity of Geneva, Switzerland, where he ob- do come up. Recently I spent many hours been published and sold by commercial tained his Ph.D. in 1963. He went to the Continued on page 13 firms.

VOL. 151 NO. 26 R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (691) 3 and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few" (Matt. 7:13, 14, R.S.V.). Maybe you have wondered how narrow the gate actually is that leads to life. This is a good topic on which to reflect, for perhaps day by day you and I may be flinching away from God's gate to eternal life, to settle unconsciously for the wider gate that the evil one makes so pleasing. After much study of God's Word and much reflection during 35 years in the ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, I have decided there are grave dangers facing ,0 cevtetvsto Seventh-day Adventists residing octv- awscht jan in the ideas and practices that con- 8y , of front us every day, and for which ensa twot.." we do not give adequate attention Cond a at Al as we make decisions about our ac- preset° tions and about the objects we embrace. Some of these dangers attack us from without, but there are others of equal potential for evil that come from one another within the church, Ellen White has re- minded us that "it is not the opposi- tion of the world that most endan- gers the church" (The Acts of the Apostles, p. 549). We may get potentially fatal concepts from one another, par- HAVE YOU ever moved into a ticularly regarding the standards • new house to find that the refrigera- and requirements that God has es- tor is about half an inch wider tablished for Christian conduct. than the kitchen door, or your prize There are church members among desk would not squeeze into the us who maintain that the church room designated to be the study? has made the gates to the kingdom I remember the frustration at of God too narrow. They state that one of our institutions when we the church has become too par- were installing a baptistry in the ticular and too absorbed with minor chapel. We had the maintenance de- matters of conduct, with the result partment measure carefully the that many potential members of the place where the baptistry was to go. church and candidates for the king- They then constructed a baptistry dom turn away from the church and to fit the space by welding galva- from the service of God. The tenor nized sheets of iron together. Soon of their comments is that the church it was on the truck, heading for the is making the gate to the kingdom chapel. We were all filled with too narrow. consternation when we discovered Charge of Legalism that there was no door in the build- ing big enough through which we Anyone who works around our could bring the new baptistry. academies or colleges, or has re- Perhaps similar experiences have sponsibility in their leadership, is prompted you to reflect on the familiar with the statement that is words of Jesus: "Enter by the nar- often made to the effect that the row gate; for the gate is wide and church is driving its young people the way is easy, that leads to de- away from the kingdom by its strict struction, and those who enter by regulations, by putting undue em- it are many. For the gate is narrow phasis on minor matters. Parents and young people have discussed at Richard Hammill, Ph.D., is presi- length with me the concept that the dent of Andrews University, Berrien church ought not to make such a Springs, Michigan. large issue over the way young peo-

4 (692) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 ple dress, or over certain areas of the ages when Jesus shall come, gate wider than it is, or trying to entertainment that the church has bringing an end to this age of re- make it narrower than it is. We declared unwholesome. Efforts to bellion and ushering in His eternal must remember that it is Jesus uphold the sanctity of the Sabbath kingdom. For the guidance of those Christ who makes the decision as or to require attendance at religious who choose to follow in God's way, to who will enter through the gates meetings bring down upon us the He has given His Ten Command- and who will be denied. In fact, He charge that we are legalists. ments and additional teachings in said, "I am the door; if any one en- Those with such views fre- the Word of God by which a genu- ters by me, he will be saved, and quently quote God's statement to ine Christian will shape his life. In- will go in and out and find pasture. Samuel, "Man looketh on the out- cluded among these is the seventh- . . . I came that they may have life, ward appearance, but the Lord day Sabbath, to be honored as a and have it abundantly" (John 10:9, looketh on the heart." When I have memorial of God's creative power. 10, R.S.V.). quoted clear-cut statements from In seven literal, 24-hour days God Let us remember that Jesus is Ellen White to the effect that these fitted up the earth as a habitation the Good Shepherd, and that from things are important, and that God for man and set apart the seventh the sanctuary in heaven He is invit- expects His followers to hold high day as a memorial thereof, and has ing all men, in the highways and by- standards in matters of dress, ap- asked men to observe it. ways, to come to His kingdom. We pearance, and conduct, the answer who are His messengers are to that I regularly receive is that I am Help on the Way to the Kingdom extend the invitation, "Let him that quoting these statements of Ellen Seventh-day Adventist Christians heareth say, Come." But we are to White out of context. who believe these major doctrines tell them also that they who come I certainly do not want to be and follow in the footsteps of Jesus must have on the wedding gar- guilty of quoting Ellen G. White will be helped on their way toward ment; they must be clothed in the or the Bible out of context; but to the kingdom; they receive encour- righteousness of Christ; they must me it seems clear and unequivocal agement from the promises of Jesus be willing, out of love and appre- that since man is unable to look that they, through their faith in ciation for what God has done for upon the heart, God has given him Jesus Christ and their willingness them, to keep His commandments the guideline "By their fruits you to shape their lives by His Word and to shape their lives by the shall know them." He has expanded and His commandments, "may teachings of His Word. We are not upon this by clearly warning Chris- have right to the tree of life, and to discriminate against any in ex- tians against immodest dress, and of may enter in through the gates into tending the gospel invitation. the dangers of following cultural the city" (Rev. 22:14). "In the advocacy of the truth patterns of our society that do not I cite these particular matters, not the bitterest opponents should be match up with the teachings of the as a complete indexing of the great treated with respect and deference. Bible. teachings of God's Word but to Some will not respond to our ef- On the other hand, I find many illustrate that as followers of Christ forts, but will make light of the gos- people in our church who feel that we do not have the privilege either pel invitation. Others—even those the church is not as strict as it of reconstructing God's gateway to whom we suppose to have passed ought to be, and that the church is make it wider or of adding man- the boundary of God's mercy—will making the door too wide. Thus made restrictions to make it nar- be won to Christ. The very last they feel a burden to make the gate rower. work in the controversy may be the to God's kingdom narrower. I think John closes the book of Revela- enlightenment of those who have they try to make it narrower than tion by saying, "I warn every one not rejected light and evidence, but God has made it. who hears the words of the proph- who have been in midnight darkness From my study of the Bible I ecy of this book: if any one adds and have in ignorance worked have concluded that there are great to them, God will add to him the against the truth. Therefore treat doctrines taught in the Word of God plagues described in this book, every man as honest. Speak no that are absolutely essential that and if any one takes away from the word, do no deed, that will confirm one should accept and practice in words of the book of this prophecy, any in unbelief ."— Testimonies, order to be a child of God, and also God will take away his share in the vol. 6, p. 122. (Italics supplied.) to be a member of the Seventh-day tree of life and in the holy city, Since we do not know who are Adventist Church. These major which are described in this book" honest and who are dishonest, we landmark doctrines include the min- (Rev. 22:18, 19, R.S.V. Italics are to encourage everyone to join istry of Jesus Christ in the sanctu- supplied.) with us on the march toward the ary in heaven, where He now guides It is these serious words that gates of the City of God. And as the agencies of heaven in bringing have caused me to discuss this sub- we encourage them and teach them, the gospel invitation to all men, en- ject with our believers. God has we are to be careful lest we go couraging, guiding, and helping all warned us that we are not to add from one extreme of the world in those who respond to grow in grace to His words and neither are we to ignoring many of the teachings in and in the knowledge of God. take away from them. To do either the Word of God, to the other ex- Other vital doctrines include the will make us liable to the plagues treme of trying to impose upon Biblical teaching that man has life and will cause us to forfeit our right those who march with us to the only through faith in Jesus Christ to enter through God's gates into kingdom of God our own ideas, and that after he dies he does not the heavenly kingdom. ideas that do not find clear and have any further existence until We must shun both extremes; we unequivocal support in the Word of he is resurrected at the climax of must beware of trying to make the God. ❑

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (693) 5 By ROSE GREER STOIA The Sanctimonious Man

MANY SKINNY Seventh-day Dr. Ancel Keys 1 placed 36 young regulated at a different level of Adventists feel smugly sanctimo- men who were not fat, but normal body weight. In that case, altering nious over their trim girth and in weight, on a 1,570-calorie diet a body weight requires much more glance sideways with private dis- day for six months. These young than "taking oneself in hand," since dain at their roly-poly brothers and men were used to eating 2,000 cal- it involves altering a dynamic state sisters. Like the Pharisee in Christ's ories or more a day. Their bodies of equilibrium or "body balance." parable, they thank God that they quickly adapted to the attempted Another important factor in are not as other men are. change in energy equilibrium by weight maintenance involves food At a recent camp meeting, a decreased pulse rate, lowered basal habits and eating patterns. Making sweet young mother stated flatly, metabolic rate, decrease in activity, a drastic change in eating habits is "I just don't have any confidence in and decrease in creative energy, all a near-impossible task for anyone, the judgment of a fat person." of which decreased energy expen- whether he is normal weight or "Why?" I asked. diture. In addition, numerous psy- overweight. Although nutritionists "Well, obviously they don't have chological changes occurred; pre- and physicians have for years her- much will power and are of wishy- occupation with food was increased, alded the discipline of a rigid low- washy character," she replied. "So good table manners disappeared, calorie diet as the main answer to I just don't trust their judgment in general irritability increased, and overweight, studies show that such anything." craving for food increased while diets do not always work. "One "Then you think they are to be dislike for specific foods disap- authoritative group concluded that: trusted less than the average per- peared. `. . . most obese patients will not son?" I inquired. remain in treatment. Of those who "Yes," she stated emphatically. Psychological Changes Persist do remain in treatment, most will "Do you trust my judgment?" I These psychological changes per- not lose significant poundage, and asked, feeling fairly safe with my sisted for several months after of those who do lose weight, most 125 pounds. rehabilitation, although weights re- will regain it promptly.' " 4 "Sure," she said with a smile. turned to pre-experimental levels Is overweight then "predes- "Would you trust my judgment if almost immediately. Dr. Keys tined"? Not exactly, but many I were a thief?" I asked frankly. affirmed that it is very hard for even parents unwittingly encourage their "No," she gasped, obviously normal-weight people to lose weight children to overeat during infancy shocked. and what is lost is gained again very and early childhood when cells are "Could you tell if I were a thief soon. The psychological and phys- still multiplying, therefore increas- by just looking at me? Or a drug iological resistances to change are ing the number of fat cells.5 This is pusher?" equally strong for the overweight accomplished easily by popping a "Probably not," she admitted. person. bottle in the baby's mouth every "Then," I said, "I think your at- Is there also a resistance to time he cries, later demanding he titude toward obese people is il- weight gain? Four separate studies belong to the "clean plate club," logical and unfair. Overweight peo- have been done to determine the allowing him to snack often on ple definitely have a problem. But answer.2 Normal-weight patients high-calorie foods, or having empty- so do gossipers, hypocrites, cheat- were given an appealing, high cal- calorie foods and rich dessert as a ers, and many others. The only dif- orie diet and asked to consume all regular part of his diet. Since even ference is that the fat person wears the food placed before them. The the most severe weight reduction his evidence." diets were several hundred calories does not decrease fat-cell number— "Then you feel that fat people more per day than the subjects nor- only fat-cell size—these children may not have any greater problem mally consumed. In most cases, as may fight "hungry" adipose (fat) than thin people?" she asked, a result of the excess input of cal- tissue for the rest of their lives. frowning. ories, changes occurred to increase The Perfect Answer "Right," I said, "only their prob- expenditure of energy, and there- lem is more obvious." fore weight gain was resisted. So, what is the answer? The only What are the determining factors "Quite clearly, then, the organ- perfect answer to weight control is in weight maintenance if it is not ism defends its body weight and —don't gain unwanted weight. But solely will power? Let us consider resists alterations in energy balance for those unfortunate ones who one factor that is becoming more in either direction. Moreover, simi- have gained weight—what then? and more evident—the body's re- lar evidence indicates that the The first question to be answered, sistance to weight change. obese individual may be as resistant which many physicians and nutri- as the normal person." 3 It appears tionists have overlooked for years, Rose Greer Stoia, R.D., is a dieti- highly probable, then, that over- is "Why do fat people eat too tian in charge of community nutri- weight people, even though we de- much?" tion education, Kettering Medical fine their weight as abnormal, are "I'll tell you why I eat," huffed Center, Kettering, Ohio. actually in a state of equilibrium one obese lady in my office one

6 (694) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 rainy afternoon, "because I'm than not, are dissociated with a in and buy a dozen fresh glazed starved!" physiological need for food. doughnuts and eat the whole dozen "You're really hungry?" I asked. Contrary to what the overweight before I get home." "Not hungry, starved!" she em- patient said about eating because "Why?" I asked. phasized. "As soon as the children she is "famished," many studies "Because I'm hungry," Fred leave for school I dash to the re- have been done showing that over- stated flatly, then smiled at me as frigerator and tear the cupboards weight people eat because of the we both doubted what he had said. apart looking for something good to taste, because they think it is meal- "Well, maybe because he made eat." time (although in some studies me so mad?" Fred asked. "Something good to eat?" I clocks may have been set ahead to "Well, you're angry all right. But echoed. "If you were that hungry, deceive them), because the food is what do the doughnuts have to do wouldn't anything edible do?" available, and because of many with it?" I challenged. "No, it has to be something other environmental stimuli other "Because I didn't deserve to be good, like hot Pop Tarts and cold than hunger. They also continue bawled out," defended Fred. milk, or last night's pie with ice eating long after "fullness" has "And so?" I encouraged. "So, cream," she said. been reached, because food is what then?" Physiological hunger is a need there, because they are conditioned "So," faltered Fred, "I wanted for food. Our bodies usually signal to clean up their plates regardless some doughnuts." this need by gastric motility, which of hunger, or because nibbling is a "Would a big tossed salad with causes movement, sounds, and habit that they do automatically, low calorie dressing have done even hunger pains. Dr. Stunkard 6 many times being totally unaware the same thing?" I asked. tested obese and normal-weight in- that they are eating. "I should say not!" he said, shak- dividuals to see how their gastric ing his jowls emphatically. motility coincided with their re- Stop at the Doughnut Shop "It had to be something you ports of hunger. The thin usually "Role play with me a moment, really liked?" I queried. reported hunger when there was Fred," I said to a man some 100 "Yes, something really good," gastric motility, while the obese pounds overweight who had come answered Fred. often reported hunger with no gas- to me for help. "Let's pretend it's "Why?" I persisted. tric motility. What cue do many been a hard day for you working in "Because, well—because I de- people interpret as hunger, if not a the X-ray lab." served it!" Fred exploded. physiological need for food? "That's not hard to imagine," "Was it a reward?" I asked. "A Try this little quiz on yourself. responded Fred. "My boss is a nice thing you could do for your- What do you associate with a birth- grouch!" self to make up for being treated so day? Birthday cake, and ice cream "Let's pretend that just before rotten?" come immediately to mind. What do quitting tonight your boss really let "Yeah, that's it, I guess," sighed you associate with Thanksgiving? you have it. Let's say he accused Fred, "but are you saying I have Probably you visualize a table you of a mistake that was not your some kind of complex, or hangup, heaped high with scrumptious food. fault, and would not hear your side or something?" What do you associate with a social of the story," I said. "No," I laughed. "You're per- evening among friends? Along with "Yeah," Fred nodded, "that fectly normal. You just compensate the chatter and laughter you im- would really burn me up." for the normal frustrations of life by agine some type of refreshments, "So now," I continued, "you're treating yourself with high-calorie don't you? Do you eat that delicate on your way home." goodies." piece of white cake and gooey, pink "I'm driving along muttering to "I see," mused Fred. "Maybe frosting topped with chocolate- myself," added Fred. my skinny wife takes care of her marble ice cream on your birthday "And you stop at the light in frustrations by reading love stories because you are hungry? No, you town right beside the new doughnut in her women's magazine and eat it because of environmental shop," I said, knowing Fred has a letting the housework go." stimuli that have conditioned you particular fondness for doughnuts. "Right," I smiled. "Many skinny probably to feel the need of birth- "So I stop," continued Fred, "go people are no more self-disciplined day cake on your birthday. than you are, but their way of People of affluent countries are handling life's problems may be conditioned by advertising media smoking, swearing, belittling family to eat many times when they are or friends, or driving like a maniac, not truly hungry—at parties, when Vesper Prayer all of which are unacceptable ways, traveling, when friends drop in, yet have very few calories, and so while watching TV, et cetera. En- By B. N. PACHE do not add fat." vironmental stimuli condition one Be oreThii, throne a! cic-,e day, "I get it," Fred said, rising to to eat at noon, whether he is hun- `,Ve come, I) Lord, to sing and pro., leave. "You want me to be more gry or not. This conditioning is re- And all re Thee surrender. aware of why I eat than what I eat peated so many hundreds of times 0 let TH, peace de,_:•Lend on us. —I'll try," he called over his shoul- ❑ that one soon actually incorrectly Arid f11,1,,.' ThV 011Wlik, 2 *A.11 o or OS. der as he went out the door. labels this as hunger. The tinkle of 0 Lord, our sole defender an ice cream wagon bell quickly REFERENCES "hungry." Lord, dive Thy children r -epose. ) A. Keys, S. Brozek, A. Henschel, 0. Michelsen, and conditions a child to feel H. L. Taylor, The Biology of Human Starvation, vols. 1 and The warm smell of fresh buttered And may our wean5 evelidis close 2 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1950). Henry A. Jordon, "In Defense of Body Weight." popcorn on cool Saturday nights With TH. most tender blesidni,4_ JADA 62:17-21, 1973. stimulates many adults to register 1) grant us, Lord. lhy paroun nom ' Ibid. Richard B. Stuart and Barbara Davis, Slim Chance in a "hunger," although supper is less s we before Thee humbk Fat World: Behavioral Control of Obesity (Champaign, Ill.: Research Press Co., /972). than an hour past. Eating becomes a Our menu sins ri_oniessing, Jean Mayer, Overweight: Causes, Cost, and Control (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, Inc.). conditioned response to environ- A. Stunkard, "Obesity and the Denial of Hunger." mental stimuli that, more often Psychosomatic Medicine, 1959, pp. 21, 281.289.

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (695) 7 Lutherans and Catholics church. To be specific, the question the early church (arts. 6, 13). They was, had the papacy, as an expres- also granted the beneficial role of Continued from cover sion of the Christian ministry, the papacy at various periods of served the unity of the Christian Christian history (arts. 21, 28). Ex- general consensus on such divisive church in the past and could it serve pressing their belief in God's sover- issues as baptism, the role of the it in the future? eign freedom, they declared they ministry, and the significance of the After meticulous scriptural and couldn't deny "that God may show central sacrament of the eucharist, historical study involving the pro- again in the future that the papacy that is, the communion service. Pre- duction of more than 30 research is His gracious gift to His people" cisely because large areas of agree- papers the two sides found ground (art. 28). The 26 theologians agreed ment existed among them on these for accord. The Catholics conceded that whereas the development of points, the members of the dialog it is incorrect to insist that Jesus Peter's role in the early church decided to begin discussion of what conferred the papacy on the apostle "does not constitute papacy in its is probably the thorniest problem Peter, and equally wrong to hold later technical sense," one can, between Catholics and Protestants that the papacy remained sub- however, see "the possibility of an in general—the role of singular stantially the same through succeed- orientation in that direction, when offices and persons, particularly the ing centuries (art. 6). The Lutherans shaped by favoring factors" in papacy, in exercising responsibility recognized that they had minimized subsequent centuries (art. 13). In for the unity of the universal the importance of Peter's role in essence, both sides accepted the notion of a "renewed papacy," that is, of a papacy that would, in the future, "function in ways which are better adapted to meet both the Time Out for Fire universal and regional needs of the church in the complex environment By ELLA RUTH ELKINS 0 Cl of modern times" (art. 29). What Kind of "Renewed Papacy"? THIS WAS THE DAY! The day when watch out the back window, and Ellen In view of the history of Martin the family was to leave for their vaca- plopped her chin in her hands. Ellen Luther's attitude toward the papacy, tion by the sea. The homemade kyak and Donnie looked, and their eyes the Reformer often denouncing the grew round with fear. For smoke and was tied to the top of the car, with the papacy as antichrist, it is indeed a oars safely tucked inside. Suitcases bits of flame came up over the trunk were packed with swimming suits, that was tied to the back of the car. dramatic shift, that a group of towels, sand pails, and shovels, and Ellen pointed, but no words would scholars for the Lutheran tradition sunburn lotion. Altogether there were come from her throat. Donnie was and the Roman Catholic Church four suitcases and three boxes of food first to find his voice. could declare that they are willing to when Daddy started packing the car. "The car's on fire! The car's on consider the possibility that some But with five children in the family fire!" he screamed. form of renewed papacy might be and Mamma and Daddy (who owned Daddy stepped on the brakes and worthwhile for Christian unity. But an old car with no trunk in the back swerved to a stop beside the road. then, who will define what this re- As he opened his door with his left of it!), the car would be full enough newed papacy would be? Sug- hand, he reached for the fire ex- without the suitcases! gestions have not been lacking, as At last Daddy had gotten all the tinguisher with his right. He jumped food packed and three of the suit- from the car and ran to the back one can imagine, all the way from a cases, when Mother came out drag- where he pumped spray all over the papal office that would have limited ging a big wooden trunk! burning trunk. powers attached to it to a function "What's in that?" Daddy asked in The family sprang from the car and held for a limited period of time. In surprise. ran to a safe spot on a nearby hillside. its March 15, 1974, issue, for in- "Bedding. It gets cold and foggy "Just the trunk and that old quilt stance, the National Catholic Re- there. And I took plenty of sheets." are on fire," called Daddy. porter suggests that such a papacy Daddy straightened up and drew in Daddy pulled the trunk away from could be an office "held for a a deep breath. the car and dumped everything out limited term by the accepted leader "I know. I'll just tie that trunk and to see what damage had been done. this one remaining suitcase onto the A small hole was burnt clear through of one tradition within the Christian back bumper." Daddy turned into the the trunk—about as round as an church and then passed on to an- garage and came back with some orange. A little of the bedding was other such leader, and then an- stout rope and a piece of old quilt. burnt, but not much. Now that it was other." "Nonsense," reacts the He put the old quilt between the safe, the family gathered around. conservative National Catholic trunk and the car, so the trunk "The fire started from that quilt I Register (March 24, 1974); such wouldn't scratch the car, and tied used for padding being too close to suggestions can only be harmful to them tight. He leaned and pulled on the hot exhaust fumes coming from the cause of Christian reunion! them, but they held good and solid. the exhaust pipe," said Daddy as he Daddy smiled. "Pile in!" he called. and Mamma packed everything back Whatever this renewal might im- Out onto the highway they went, into the trunk. "We'll tie this trunk on ply, the Catholic theologians in the then off onto a wide road that wound the left side of the bumper this time discussions insisted that papal over the mountains toward the sea. so it won't be near that exhaust primacy is "an institution in ac- The children sat on the edges of pipe." And soon it was tied securely cordance with God's will" (art. their seats as the car wound along in place. 30), and must therefore be main- the mountain road. All of a sudden "Well, thanks to Donnie and Ellen, tained. For Lutherans, this seems Donnie turned to Ellen and said, we saved most everything in time." to be a secondary question. The one "Hey, let's turn around and kneel, Mother smiled at the two children, thing necessary, they argue, is that as everyone climbed back into the car. so we can look out the back window. papal primacy be so structured That way we can see where we've "And we should all thank God that been." the angels suggested to Donnie that "that it clearly serve the gospel and "Oh, let's!" he and Ellen should look out the back the unity of the church of Christ," Both children whirled around to window!" ❑ so interpreted that its exercise of

8 (696) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 power "not subvert Christian free- dom" (arts. 28, 30). As it draws its conclusions, the theologians' joint report poses The Way questions to both churches. It asks Catholics to consider whether they can accept the possibility of a reconciliation that recognizes "the to the Kingdom self-government of Lutheran churches within a communion," a By LOUIS F. CUNNINGHAM reconciliation that would respect "the spiritual heritage" of the Lutheran communities (art. 33). It THE title of the book caught my the believer's trust and endeavor asks Lutherans if they will "ac- eye—How to Be a Christian With- effective is best seen in the life of knowledge" not only the "legiti- out Being Religious—and set some Christ. macy" but also the "desirability" thoughts of my own in motion. We are told, "From the manger of a "renewed papal ministry" in a My first question was What about to the cross, the life of Jesus was a larger Christian communion that Jesus? Was He religious? In His call to self-surrender, and to fellow- would include the Lutheran com- daily conversation He talked a ship in suffering."—The Desire of munions (art. 32). The theologians great deal about God, far more than Ages, p. 57. imply the answers should be Yes. most Christians do. The needs of The question, then, is not "Am I other people meant more to Him doing better?" but "Am I fully Sensitive Point Not Explored than even food and rest. There surrendered, as Jesus was?" So This does not mean that now the was His prayer life, as well. These important is this spiritual factor in pope will govern Lutherans or that were all ways of expressing His our lives that we are confidently members of both churches will religion. Who could have known assured, "Let no one despair of freely attend each other's services. the Saviour without being im- gaining the victory. Victory is sure For one thing, the theologians have pressed by the way His religion when self is surrendered to God."— hardly explored the extent to which showed through in everything He The SDA Bible Commentary, the existing forms of the papal did? Ellen G. White Comments, on Gen. office are open to change in the fu- Judging by Christ's example, a 32:24, p. 1095. No wonder self- ture, nor have they touched on the Christian is to be different from a surrender is said to be "the sub- most sensitive point of papal in- non-Christian. This difference stance of the teachings of Christ" fallibility, taught by Vatican Coun- must be more than a name, more (The Desire of Ages, p. 523). cils I and II. Moreover, for all the than outward appearance, more As well as Christlike surrender relevance they may see in them, than doctrine. It is a difference in there is a type of surrender that is their conclusions are still their own life-style, direction, goals. Ellen false and ineffective. Do not be led and in no way commit either the White was discussing the necessity into a submission that is passive Lutheran or the Roman Catholic of these differences when she or negative. Surrender must never churches. Nevertheless, for the first wrote: "It is a great misfortune to mean the futility and hopelessness time since the Reformation, 26 be double-minded. . . . Let us use of resignation, but rather the vitality theologians officially appointed to to a purpose the mind the Lord and fervor of Christian commit- represent the nation's 48 million has given us. Ambition, covetous- ment. There is a vast difference Roman Catholics and 90 per cent ness, the mania to follow the between the two. One is sure to of all American Lutherans2 have fashions, the customs, and the fail. The other is sure to succeed. provided their communions with a practices of the world in order not Some think of surrender as "giv- document that may significantly to be thought singular, will soon ing in" or "giving up" to God, as influence the infallibility dialog that obliterate all lines of distinction if it called for great personal sacri- has already begun, and the bilateral between the Christian's lines of fice. The Scriptures say, "For the ecumenical conversations between pursuit and the practices of the Lord is a sun and shield: the Lord Catholics and other Protestants world."—In Heavenly Places, p. will give grace and glory: no good around the world. 165. (Italics supplied.) thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly" (Ps. 84:11). To the increasing number of ad- A Certain Test vocates of visible unity, this joint On the other hand, we are told, statement provides the most con- Sooner or later every believer "Your sins have withholden good vincing evidence yet that there must endure the threat of scorn and things from you" (Jer. 5:25). ought to be room, in a reunited ridicule. So marked is the distinc- The rewards of commitment are Christian church, for a "renewed tion between genuine godliness and not only in the hereafter but here papacy" that would serve Chris- worldliness that a test is certain to and now. They are immediate and tian unity "in ways better adapted come. What is involved in these continuing. to meet both the universal and tests and how shall we gain the What more could we ask of God regional needs of the church in the victory? in return for so little'? We give up complex environment of modern With some, it is a matter of our degraded and defeated selves. times" (art. 29). ❑ trying harder next time. Others say He gives us a new heart, the wis- not to try, but to trust. To be sure, dom and might of His Spirit, and REFERENCES AND NOTES there is an element of both faith the companionship and protection The proceedings of previous dialogs: The Status of the and works in the right approach. of myriads of angels. More than Nicene Creed as Dogma of the Church, One Baptism for the Remission of Sins. The Eucharist as Sacrifice, and Eu- But the key to victory that makes that, He gives us renewed hope, charist and Ministry are available from the U.S.A. Na- tional Committee, Lutheran World Federation, 315 Park His peace, and everlasting life. Ave., South New York, N.Y. 10010, How gracious is our God to us, His Three of the nation's eight Lutheran denominations Louis F. Cunningham is a retired took part in the talks: The Lutheran Church in America, the minister living in Candler, North rebellious and undeserving chil- American Lutheran Church, and the Lutheran Church- ❑ Missouri Synod. Carolina. dren!

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (697) 9 displeasing to the Lord. Our morn- ing and evening prayers around the altar keep our minds and hearts open to the Spirit's voice as we go "What about our duties for the day. The fishermen of Brittany, we are told, used to utter this simple prayer early in the morning before they began their arduous and perilous Have They Seen in labors, "Keep me, 0 my God: my boat is so small and Thy ocean is so great." A beautiful thought in- deed for our morning devotion. Well may we pray, "0 Lord, the Thine House?" world is so great and we are so small. Keep us during the hours of By W. B. OCHS the day as we go about our work." The prayers ascending in our homes at the family prayer altar help us to cast all our cares upon Him and to believe that He cares IN THESE days of haste we Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith for us. These prayers bind the must not neglect those things that the Lord" (verse 17). hearts of the members of the family build us up spiritually and help us How we need to apply this sad together in love; they increase a to be prepared for the coming of experience to our own hearts! We zeal to do greater things for God; Jesus. His message to us is "Watch need to learn from our own mis- they inspire us to help those who ye and pray, lest ye enter into temp- takes, as well as from those of are in need of spiritual help. Our tation" (Mark 14:38). others. There are far too many prayer altar is a good cure for criti- The question the prophet Isaiah Hezekiahs among our people today. cism, faultfinding, and backbiting. asked Hezekiah has special mean- What do those who visit our homes "The family that prays together ing for us today, "What have they see? Our earthly possessions? stays together" are not idle words. seen in thine house?" (2 Kings Strife, quarreling, sadness, a bro- Commenting on Abraham's 20:15). ken-down prayer altar, or an altar altar upon which were offered the A short time before, Hezekiah of prayer? One reason why so morning and evening sacrifices, the had been given a forthright message many grow cold spiritually and servant of the Lord delivers this from God: "Set thine house in fall by the way is that their family admonition: "So the homes of order; for thou shalt die, and not altar has broken down. A true self- Christians should be lights in the live" (verse 1). This caused him to examination so often reveals that world. From them, morning and turn to God in prayer, and his we are guilty before God. How we evening, prayer should ascend to prayer was heard. Through the need to turn to Him and to the first God as sweet incense. And as the prophet He sent the message "I love we had when we accepted morning dew, His mercies and will heal thee," and 15 years were Him as our personal Saviour. blessings will descend upon the added to his life. suppliants."—Testimonies, vol. 7, Because of his dramatic healing Altars of Prayer p. 44. the king of Babylon presented a gift Men who accomplished great But the prayers offered around to him through his servants. Instead things for God built altars of prayer. the family altar, as vital as they are, of telling them about God's healing Of Noah we read: "And Noah cannot take the place of private power and his prayer altar, he builded an altar unto the Lord . . . devotion. We need to spend time showed them "all the house of his and offered burnt offerings on the each day on our knees alone with precious things, the silver, and the altar" (Gen. 8:20). This was his God. This gives us added strength gold, and the spices, and precious first act of worship after leaving the to overcome the temptations that ointment, and all the house of his ark. The sacrifices he offered ex- Satan may bring to us. In my armour, and all that was found in pressed not only his gratitude for mother's hymnbook I found a his treasures: there was nothing in his preservation but his faith in the clipping with the words "Prayer is his house, nor in all his dominion, coming Redeemer. That God was the incense that gives the devil a that Hezekiah shewed them not" pleased with him is expressed in headache." To be sure, Satan (verse 13). the words "And the Lord smelled trembles when he hears the sincere Is it any wonder he was asked, a sweet savour" (verse 21). prayers of God's children whether "What have they seen in thine Abraham had no stone house to they are around the family altar or house?" Because of his failure to live in, but he had enough stones to in private communion with the grasp the opportunity that God gave build an altar for God. After he Lord. him to witness for Him, he re- moved to the east of Bethel he Prayer Is Earnestness ceived the sad message "Behold, pitched his tent "and there he the days come, that all that is in builded an altar unto the Lord" John Bunyan said: "Prayer is a thine house, and that which thy (chap. 12:8). This altar symbolized sincere, sensible, affectionate pour- fathers have laid up in store unto his dedication and became the place ing out of the soul to God, through this day, shall be carried into where he renewed his daily vows Christ, in the strength and assist- and received daily strength. ance of the Spirit, for such things W. B. Ochs, of Calistoga, Califor- Our family prayer altar keeps us God has promised. Prayer is not nia, was vice-president of the Gen- close to God. It helps us to begin eloquence, it is earnestness: it is eral Conference for North America the day aright; it helps us to avoid not the definition of helplessness, when he retired in 1962. saying and doing the things that are but the feeling concerning it.

10 (698) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 Prayer is not coined in figures of through the dark clouds of doubt a faith that will open the doors still speech; it is found in the earnest- and helps us to see the light of closed to the gospel. We have a ness of our soul." God's glory. We cannot afford to right to be heard, for we read, "And When we think of the prayers neglect our prayers around the whatsoever we ask, we receive of Jesus offered, we feel as did His family altar and our private com- him, because we keep his com- disciples when they said, "Lord, munion with Christ, for prayer is mandments, and do those things teach us to pray." Our prayers can the wing that lifts our souls to that are pleasing in his sight" (1 be likened to emergency candles heaven, and our meditation is the John 3:22). that are always within our reach eye of faith that helps us to see the The serious times in which we and that require no outside ma- Lord and to believe His wonderful live call for the rebuilding of the chinery to keep them in order. But promises made to those who ear- family prayer altar and for a per- let us remember that it takes the nestly seek Him. sonal, daily communion with the match of faith to light them. This is no time for formalism. Lord. The call to all, old and As the invisible radio beam guides The Lord calls for a faith that will young, is "Back to God, back to airplanes through fog and darkness, move Heaven; that will bring de- our knees, back to the inner cham- so the prayer of faith leads the soul liverance to His suffering children; bers of intercession." ❑ When You're Young By MIRIAM WOOD To Be Happy in Heaven "WOULD YOU BE HAPPY in heaven?" someone asked this negative art. For instance, isn't it selfishness to make me recently. It didn't take more than a second for me to certain, as most of us do, that we come out ahead in all our reply. relationships—that others are never left in doubt as to the "Of course I would!" I asserted emphatically. fact that we are the best, the most, and the brightest in Since I was so sure of my answer, during the rest of that every way? It's my conviction that the right and left hands day I kept thinking about the reasons whyl would be happy are kept pretty well informed as to our praiseworthy activi- in heaven. After I compiled them, I found one central ties; they, in turn, lose no time in informing the general thread running through them. As I list a few, I wonder if public. you'll notice the recurring characteristic. Another aspect of selfishness is this: Do you find it com- 1. In heaven I would be happy because I would never pletely natural and easy to rejoice when something need to fear losing those I love by death. good happens to a friend? I've noticed that most of us can 2. I would be free of the disappointment of seeing the sympathize sincerely with friends who are having bad times, lives of those I love shattered by tragedy and bad decisions. but it's a bit more difficult to rejoice with those who re- 3. I would possess eternal youth; I would never again joice. Isn't it? The selfish heart hears that nagging little look into the mirror and see an aging stranger. voice: "Why did he 'luck out'? Why not me?" 4. I would possess eternal vigor; I would never again feel "None can enter heaven whose characters are defiled by tired. the foul blot of selfishness."—Christian Service, p. 22. 5. A confirmed wanderer, I could indulge my taste for God doesn't consider selfishness a charming little pecca- travel throughout eternity without the debilitating fear of dillo. He terms it a "foul blot." flying that is such a problem to me now. "In heaven, none will think of self."—Testimonies, vol. And so on and on. 2, p. 132. Did you notice that selfishness runs through these rea- "Let none suppose that they can live a life of selfishness, sons like a dark thread in a skein of wool? I am totally con- and then, having served their own interests, enter into the cerned with the benefits that heaven will have for me. I have joy of their Lord. In the joy of unselfish love they could given no thought to what I might bring to heaven to make not participate. They would not be fitted for the heavenly others happy. Now, I don't think that my reasons are courts. They could not appreciate the pure atmosphere of "wrong." Surely the Lord expects us to look forward to love that pervades heaven. The voices of the angels and the some of these things. But the aspect that troubles me is music of their harps would not satisfy them."—Christ's the totality of my concern with myself. Object Lessons, pp. 364, 365. Disturbed by what I was finding, I decided to do a little Now let's suppose that in heaven not all the mansions research in Ellen White's writings on the subject of heavenly are of the same degree of splendor. While "mansions" are citizenship and its requirements. As I read, I was astonished mentioned (though I think a more accurate rendition is at the recurrence of the words selfish and selfishness. In "dwellings"), for the sake of our point, suppose that one fact, it began to seem to me that the quality which would Christian is assigned a "mansion" somewhat superior to disqualify one the quickest as a citizen of heaven is just that of another. If he still possesses any selfishness in his heart, he is going to be discontented immediately. Of that—selfishness. Since the counsels were given for practicing Christians, course, the argument breaks down, for if he still is selfish, apparently we do not understand all that is involved in self- he wouldn't be in heaven. Nonetheless, you see the point. ishness. Just what is encompassed in the word selfish? In view of all this I'd like to compile a new list of reasons "The selfish principles exercised on the earth are not the why I'd be happy in heaven. I think I could include the ones principles which will prevail in heaven."—Counsels on I've already mentioned, but first I'd want to mention the Stewardship, p. 133. joy of communion with my Saviour, the opportunity to It seems to me that we have too narrow a view of "selfish- live in a sinless universe, the glory of seeing others there, ness." From our childhood on, we are prone to think that some who have suffered cruelly for their beliefs, and the selfishness means taking the biggest piece of cake and clear, shining beauty of being able to contemplate the glory "That's not nice." But when you come right down to it, of "The Lamb of God." Feeling this way, I believe I could cake-taking is the most elementary form of selfishness. As help to make heaven a happy place for others. we get older, we become much more adept practitioners of And if in heaven, why not here on earth?

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the second angel's message swells into the loud cry, Worthy or Unworthy men are called upon to come out of Babylon that they "receive not of her plagues" (chap. 18:4). The third Motives angel's message appeals to fear of punishment of the most terrible kind, "The same shall drink of the wine Addressing a convocation on Evangelism in Con- of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mix- temporary Experience in Claremont, California, Dr. ture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tor- Alan Walker, a noted Australian evangelist, said that the mented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the church should abandon "archaic doctrines" that base holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb" (chap. evangelism on appeals to personal fear and hope of 14:10). Apparently God goes all out in His final appeal. heavenly reward. Men who haven't responded before to the various ap- The fear of hell and the hope of heaven in an afterlife peals of the gospel messengers are confronted with one are unworthy motives for mission, based on eighteenth- last ultimatum, an ultimatum Dr. Walker would decry and nineteenth-century views, the Methodist clergyman not only as "archaic" but "unworthy." told the more than 450 clergymen attending the convo- When Dr. Walker's evangelistic bait catches men, cation. what have his converts found? What is it that they now The answers as to how the church could conduct possess that places them at an advantage? What new evangelism and what it should say, he said, are provided hopes thrill their souls? by the social and economic issues of the times. He How paltry the fare this type of evangelism offers listed nuclear threat, population explosion, pollution, compared with what Jesus offers in the Gospels and in exploitation of persons, maldistribution of natural re- the other books of the New Testament! sources, and anonymity in mass society as the most To Dr. Walker's suggested substitution we respond pressing issues. in the words of Jeremiah's astonished exclamation, To us it seems that Dr. Walker is making light of and "Be astonished, 0 ye heavens, at this, and be horribly discarding the teachings of Jesus and the motives to afraid, be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my which He appealed. people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Take, for example, the Sermon on the Mount. To what me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out does Jesus appeal in it? Here are a few sample state- cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water" (Jer. ments: "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for their's is the 2:12, 13). kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 5:3). "Blessed are the meek: Suppose a country with fertile soil and ideal climatic for they shall inherit the earth" (verse 5). "Blessed are conditions should be discovered somewhere on this they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for earth. Let us suppose further that those in charge of their's is the kingdom of heaven" (verse 10). "Blessed that country were eager for immigrants to come and are ye, when men shall revile you. . . . Rejoice, and be settle their country and that they had sent out represent- glad: for great is your reward in heaven" (verses 11, atives to the various countries of earth inviting people to 12). their country. Furthermore, let us suppose that they offered these immigrants free transportation and a home Jesus' Varied Appeals with acreage enough for a comfortable living, also with- Notice Jesus' appeals to fear in the sermon: "And if out charge. thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from Would Dr. Walker and other evangelists of his per- thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy mem- suasion discourage people from going? Would they bers should perish, and not that thy whole body should say that since the hope of living in that land of plenty be cast into hell" (verse 29). was an unworthy motive the people should refuse to go Concerning almsgiving and rewards, Jesus made the there? Would they accuse or ridicule the emissaries following observations: "Take heed that ye do not your from that country or their local representatives? alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. . . . The Trend of Liberal Theology But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know On the contrary, we would hope that they would at what thy right hand doeth: that thine alms may be in least visit this country and verify for themselves that the secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself information was true and that people who immigrated shall reward thee openly" (chap. 6:1-4). there received exactly what they had been told and were We are not denying that Jesus appealed to other mo- happy in their new circumstances. We would expect to tives, as well. Certainly love is one of the strongest see them joining the emissaries and representatives, motives. But we are pointing out that Jesus and the going to overpopulated countries, to famine-ridden New Testament writers repeatedly appealed to rewards lands, to ghettos and slums in prosperous countries, and to fear in their gospel preaching. At the same time helping the people settle their affairs and move. we should point out that while a convert may decide Then why are they not doing this when it comes to to accept the Christian faith largely on the basis of the heaven? Does not that country have much more to hope of heavenly reward or on appeals to personal fear, offer than our make-believe country? as he grows in grace certainly other motivations are We can come to only one answer—they have lost added and perhaps become predominant. their faith in that future world. If there is such a thing Take also the three angels' messages, the last warn- as an afterlife, they are virtually saying, the whole thing ing message Seventh-day Adventists are to carry to the is so vague that it ought not to be mentioned—in fact, is world. To what do these angels appeal as they call for unworthy for one to speak of in any way as a drawing decisive action on the part of earth's inhabitants? In the card. first angel's message men are called upon to fear God Dr. Walker represents the trend of liberal theology. "for the hour of his judgment is come" (Rev. 14:7). As Some liberal theologians are far from sure there is a

12 (700) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 God, or if there is one, what He is like. Because they taught heaven and repeatedly used the hope of heaven have so little faith in the supernatural, they leave this as a motivation for Christian living. If such a country element out of their preaching. To them the church is a as heaven exists, and the Bible believer harbors no social structure, fulfilling certain needs in certain peo- doubts in his mind, then to tell people that such a coun- ple. It can do the most good in the world helping people try exists, that there is plenty of room there for all who adjust to their environment and to contribute in some wish to live there, that God is eager for all to respond to way to the betterment of society. His invitation to live there, that He has made provision We agree that the church should be involved in re- that all who wish may go, is the best news that can be lieving human suffering. This is what Jesus taught: "Is proclaimed. How hollow is evangelism that fails to pro- not this the fast that I have chosen? . . . To deal thy claim this news; worse yet, how shocking that a con- bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that vocation on evangelism should be told that to mention are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, such a country is an appeal to unworthy motives! that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from Adventists need to re-examine their evangelistic mes- thine own flesh?" (Isa. 58:6, 7). sage lest, caught up in modern concerns, they fail to em- But the same Jesus who taught social concern also phasize God's panacea. D. F. N.

SDA Schools Andrews Not First Letters Hearty amens to Miriam Wood's article Re "A Centennial of SDA Missions" Continued from page 3 "Pacific Union College" (March 21). We (Jan. 10 to Feb. 14). ought to have more articles like it. I am glad I have studied church history, on and in the dentist's chair, but I didn't find it and thankful for our schools. Praise the off, in school and out of school, but I don't necessary to leave my children with a baby- Lord! remember noting before what preceded or sitter. My 4-year-old daughter sat in the Connected as I am with a self-supporting led up to the sending of J. N. Andrews waiting room with dolly and a coloring book, institute, I believe such institutions have overseas as our first official foreign mis- and my 2-year-old son sat on a stool beside their place. They are doing a good work. sionary. One might wonder whether he was me while the dentist worked. The children But a balance must be maintained in all our first foreign missionary, although he had a good time playing quietly with their things. was the first worker really sent out by our toys, and the dentist didn't mind at all. I ADAH MAE THORN church mission board. truly believe a child taught to mind and to Dunlap, Tennessee Our work in Europe and other places behave from the cradle up, can be taken seems to have been well represented by anywhere. Finished Through Sacrifice others before Andrews crossed the sea. I How many of us if we owned a precious "Hastening Christ's Coming" (March 7) am glad finally to have learned these facts gem like none other in the world would was a perceptive statement of a most impor- about our work. leave it for someone else to watch? Our tant issue for our church today. Your four WYLDES MUNROE children are the most precious of all gems. factors make our position clear. Of the three Centralia, Washington They are a gift directly from God. If He human factors, (2) finishing the proclama- had wanted Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith to take tion; (3) reflecting the image of Jesus; (4) Sunday Laws care of them He would have given these climaxing the apostasy, it appears to me that The Editor's Viewpoint (April 4) shows a children to them. (3) is the key, The image of Jesus, which continuing concern for Sunday-law interest. BARBARA ROWE we must reflect, is an image of sacrifice, not While recognizing the basically religious Hendersonville, North Carolina widely practiced in our ranks. nature of such laws, there is no harm in Total involvement with Jesus would pro- Adventists pointing out other undesirable Throwaway Children duce (I) increased lay activity in the out- aspects. Loren Fenton's plea for a program reach of the church, but perhaps more im- We can assert that a Sunday law is an within the Seventh-day Adventist Church portant, a sharp increase in lay management "old grandmother's" type of remedy. It is for its "throwaway children" (Feb. 28) of local churches, releasing the professionally unsound economically. It works hardship should be reread by every member. trained ministry for a more effective out- on all, because it represents a law that can- Whether we are parents, teachers, pas- reach; (2) a reduction in the funds needed for not be overridden in cases of genuine tors, counselors, or just concerned citizens, administration (keeping the wheels turning, economic and social necessity. none of us likes to dwell on our failures. as you put it) on all levels, largely a nursing Further, it is not good legislative usage The church is no different. operation, which a devoted laity could carry to make laws in such minute detail that they In the past, it seems the only goal in situa- in large measure; and (3) most effective of cannot be uniformly enforced on all the peo- tions involving children in trouble has been all, a new concept of sacrificial giving. Funds ple. Laws that penalize the poor, for in- to remove them from the immediate scene, for completing the work could thus be dou- stance. on the premise that once gone, so is the bled or tripled, and then how quickly apos- ROBERT M. SHREWSBURY problem. tasy would climax! Mayagliez, Puerto Rico I can tell you from observation and ex- Sacrificial giving is a delicate subject perience that that is not so. Society, like the among Adventists, amazing as purse protec- Exorcism church, has too long employed this kind of tion appears to be in a denomination noted Your recent article on exorcism (April 18) philosophy in dealing with breakers of the for its high level of giving. But let's face the gave me the suggestion to include the topic laws. Our backward penal system is the facts. A large percentage of our members in my MISSION '74 line-up of topics. result. do not give any regular or significant financial I have been astonished at the lack of infor- Surely the church ought to lead the way support to the church. Among those who mation given in various periodicals that with love in showing the rest of us how to give consistently, genuine self-denial is not have discussed the subject, and quite alert deal with children and young people who common. There is, of course, a devoted to the absence of the real and only approach may not presently fit in with the rest of the minority who practice sacrificial giving. in exorcism, the name of the Lord Jesus crowd, but who might be redeemed in every In Eden, recognition of God's ownership Christ, pronounced by a commandment sense of the word. of property (the tree of knowledge) shared keeper and one whose life testifies to the A group of church leaders might do well emphasis with recognition of God's owner- saving grace of the Lord Jesus. to give serious study to the formation of a ship of time (the Sabbath). The church So much emphasis has been placed upon living-in educational institution for its makes no test of giving as it does of Sabbath the individual rather than upon Jesus, who is "throwaway children" while there is still observance, but I am sure God does. The ever willing to relieve demoniacal suffer- time. work will be finished through sacrifice. ing. STAN SHOWALTER RICHARD B. LEWIS HAL RUTHERFORD Michigan City, Indiana Riverside, California Marysville, Michigan

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (701) 13 "In every church one may find youth whose spirit- Carel ual interest has waned and who no longer attend church. These young people belong to us. They constitute a tremendous investment on the Cares part of parents, teachers, pastors, and the church as a whole. Who can accurately estimate the hopes, prayers, tears, and sacrifices expended to bring youth to spiritual maturity? "Therefore, that which is ours by blood and spiritual ties should occupy our prime interest and attention. While working to save those we do not know, we must never neglect those we do know—our own children. If we do not continue our efforts in their behalf, who will? "One effective tool which the church supplies for the spiritual encouragement, inspiration, and involvement of Adventist youth is INSIGHT magazine. The editorial staff is constantly striving to develop a spiritual and rele- vant journal within the context of Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, teaching, and practice. I therefore want to appeal to our pastors, church officers, and church mem- bers everywhere to make this good magazine available to every young person within and without the church."

INSIGHT, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012 rh Homemakers Exchange

I am a young mother and I have a burden on my Let the Holy Spirit do the pleading. Although you are saddened and annoyed, remember heart for my husband who is an ordained church Jesus will help you to be sweet (see 2 Cor. elder. Although he does nothing bad in the eyes of 12:9). I believe you can help your husband, most people, and he is good to us, my heart is heavy. mainly by showing your constant love as He uses much slang and often profanity. He has you prayerfully remember the words of Jesus when He hung upon the cross. Believe many worldly interests. He rarely studies the Bible for God's promises found in Matthew 7:7, Mark 11:24, and Luke 1:37. Finish with 1 John himself, although he knows it quite well and can 5:16, "If any man see his brother sin . . . he quote more texts than I can. He seems to act as if shall ask, and he shall give him life." MRS. JOHN KING most church activities are a drudge. Sometimes I Havre, Montana find myself getting angry with him (which is wrong). ► I fear there is little you can do by way of argument to help your husband to be a more How can I keep from becoming annoyed at him for consistent Christian. But you can pray. And his indifference, and how can I help him? God through His Holy Spirit can do more than we can ask or think. Pray for yourself and also that the Holy Love your husband in spite of his faults, jealous for the God of Israel in Old Testa- Spirit will help you always to be sweet, lov- ► ing, and considerate of your husband, never which are painful to you and to God. If you ment days. find this hard to do, daily ask the Holy Spirit It seems that two competing salesmen manifesting a self-righteous spirit. LUCILE JOHNSON to enter your heart and to give you that love. have come to the same house. The One has He will, because God has promised (see something to exchange with your husband. Hillsboro, Ohio Luke 11:9). Examine your motives and be The other has on display wares that seem ► Slang has been called the language of sure that you are not thinking that your to duplicate those his competitor has dem- thieves, a language below standard. Profan- marriage is a mistake. God has a wonderful onstrated. On closer observation, these ity is the use of words referring to religious purpose for you in the home where you are. counterfeits that seem now so attractive to or sacred things or purposes. The Ten Com- Daily ask for God's promised wisdom and your husband are found to be very expen- mandments tell us to refrain from taking the humility for yourself, so that you may learn sive. name of the Lord in vain. at His feet how to help this man, who is also JIMMY RIDDLE Years ago we had a minister who used your Christian brother and friend, to find slang in his private conversations. He called Your problem is half conquered since the joys of walking closely with Him. Ask ► his slang expressions "pet words." After you recognize that anger and annoyance are God to grant for him the promise of Ezekiel studying into his usage of "pet words" he not proper emotions. Disapproval and self- 36:26, 27. was surprised to learn their origin. Many righteous anger are two destructive tools in Do not fail to demonstrate to your hus- were sacred words that had been shortened. a human relationship. band your love, respect, attentiveness, and He preached a sermon on it. Ellen White You may often have praised someone else your right example. Wait with joy and has much to say in regard to this subject. who is a contemporary, or has functioned thanksgiving for the Holy Spirit to work out These are cheap words, common, and well, according to you, as an elder of the His will. God does not fail us. He must work worldly, and idle words, unnecessary in church. This is sly criticism of your husband out things in His own time and way. speech. and is unfair. His present actions could be ELAINE C. PRIVAT Children's minds are impressionable, and the result of his frustration in trying to meas- Geyserville, California words influence them. ure up to your ideal for him. Prayer is needed to help the husband ► From the order of your questions, you Obviously he has many virtues to praise. overcome. Your best source of help and reveal awareness that the initial change must Dwell on these—to him privately and to information is found in the Spirit of Proph- take place in you. To try to force control of others openly, but be sure you mean it. In ecy books. all likelihood he would discard unfavorable your mate's will by nagging and faultfinding HELEN GRAHAM would be a cause of bitterness, a useless un- traits and interests in direct proportion to Woodland, Pennsylvania dertaking, one unapproved by God. the loving approval and understanding with Your first step is to pray earnestly that the which he felt you regarded him. Holy Spirit will fill both your hearts with Disapproval by tone of voice, look, or such love and understanding of God, that action curdles love and stifles growth. You you will each desire to become like Him in are mates—not judge and jury. Sharing the NEXT QUESTION character. Next, read daily the thirteenth intimacy of marriage gives more knowledge As a professional man I deal with people chapter of 1 Corinthians, choosing a perti- of a person than anyone else could have. most of the week. On Sabbath afternoon I nent key thought to dwell on continually for We know best how to please, and how to would enjoy very much having a couple of that particular day. wound. More important—we each need the assurance that those closest to us are our hours to walk or read in solitude. However, With your heart attuned to Christ's, you the children feel that I should spend the en- will learn to dwell on his good qualities, staunchest allies and will not betray our tire afternoon with them. I enjoy giving them which will help both him and you. vulnerabilities or failures. Home is where the praise can be sweetest. Better a smile the time but sometimes feel that I have just God will surely bless your efforts to make had one more day like all the others, without your home a little bit of heaven. and an understanding wink than "a word of wisdom." a chance to worship God unhurriedly. RAMONA WISTHOFF Would I do wrong to my children if I re- Michigan City, Indiana JEAN HAMM Baton Rouge, Louisiana served some time for myself? By use of different parables Jesus illus- ► Send answers to Homemakers' Exchange, Re- trated the condition of those who are spiri- ► First, you will have to face the fact that tually lost. It may be your husband is like a your husband needs to understand more view and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 20012. Letters must not exceed 300 words in lost coin or, perhaps, he is the elder brother. fully the love of Christ. This makes your role length. Include complete return address. Three dol- Without wanting to take sides in your par- more difficult and serious. It may be that you lars will be paid for each answer published. ticular situation, I believe your anger, since are the only one who can help him. Questions for discussion in the Homemakers' it is for the cause of God, is justified. Re- This is where being "wise as serpents, Exchange are welcome and should be directed to member how some were angry and even and harmless as doves" is most beneficial. the address given above.

R&H, /UNE 27, 1974 (703) 15 By DUANE S. JOHNSON Family Commitment— IT ALL BEGAN on September 14, 1945, when Captain Robert H. Dunn, M.D., serving in Europe with the 95th Evacuation Hospital, The High Road of Missions wrote the General Conference. In his letter he told of his and Ann's (Ann Mittleider) commitment. "My wife is a nurse and we have felt we could serve our Lord well as medical missionaries. This de- sire has been interrupted by war, tion will be incomplete."—Coun- English language school in but we'll soon be ready for that sels to Teachers, p. 263. Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and was missionary work. Although India As I might have expected, in "with the action" from the day he and China are the countries in sending us evaluations on David was welcomed by Ed Moore and which we are now most interested, one of his college teachers ques- his group of volunteers in early we will also consider other places tioned his readiness for mission May, 1973. where our services are needed. I service because of his age. How- How does he keep busy? Work- feel fortunate to have a wife who ever, one of his deans encouraged ing all week with youth, profes- lives wholly for her Lord, and who me with the comment that "he is a sional, and government people in is interested in mission service." diligent worker, sincere Christian, the language school; playing his When World War II closed, the who is interested in helping people, guitar and the piano; leading out General Conference asked the dependable, steady, and a posi- in Sabbath school, church services, Dunns to go to China, where they tive influence." Considering this and Friday evening meetings, help- studied Mandarin and served in and other above-average evalua- ing with a public evangelistic series. Chungking until conditions forced tions, the Appointees Committee He even pinch-hit at another lan- them in 1949 to evacuate to Kalim- assigned him to teach at the Paki- guage school in Southeast Asia for pong, India. For the next 15 years stan Adventist School and Col- nearly a month, when the American Dr. Dunn worked in Karachi, Paki- lege near Lahore. Depositing his authorities evacuated the group stan; Surat, India; and Rangoon, money for the round-trip fare in the from Phnom Penh during the Burma, in administration, clinical transportation office of the General heaviest fighting. work, surgery, and in medical Conference and receiving help with Steve, a senior, and David, a evangelism. Of their nine children, his travel papers and other details, junior, will be attending Columbia three were born in the U.S.; of the David left for Pakistan in early Union College again in a couple other six, Sylvia was born in Kalim- March, 1973. Since then he has of months. They will have com- pong, Stephen in Surat, Elizabeth been teaching, helping with plant pleted a valuable 12-month course and Sarah in Rangoon, Tommy in maintenance, working with the in missionary service not formally London, and Esther in Amoy, vocational program, singing solos, listed in the bulletin of any col- China. Dr. and Mrs. Dunn will go directing musical groups, and serv- lege. They will not immediately as missionaries again as soon as ing as accompanist on the piano. see their sister, Sylvia Hyde, and some of their personal obligations Questioned His Readiness her husband, Bradley. have been cared for. Bradley, too, comes from a fam- At this time three of their chil- It bothered me a little, though, ily with whom there is also a tradi- dren are serving overseas as vol- when in late January, Stephen tion of self-sacrificing church and unteers. Dunn, David's brother, offered to mission service, particularly in David Dunn had just turned 19 "fill one of those Southeast Asia Africa where his grandparents and and was soon to finish his second needs" that required him to be in uncles served with distinction. year of college, when he visited me the field by early April. Steve is Sylvia and Bradley had visited me one Friday evening and asked about slightly older than David and was several times about service over- volunteer service overseas in finishing his third year at CUC. In seas. However, they hesitated to school or hospital work. I advised the evaluations we, received there respond because both of them had him to spend another year in col- were no questions raised about many academic and vocational lege before a year of service, but Steve's fitness, but I had other interests. Bradley had received his he felt that the 1972-1973 winter questions: "How will your parents degree in mathematics and physics break in the Columbia Union Col- react to both of you being on vol- from Southern Missionary College lege school year would be the best unteer assignments at the same in 1971, and Sylvia had obtained time for him to fit a year of mission time?" her B.S. in nursing in December service into his schooling. He re- "They want us to serve where we of that year. How many projects minded me of something he had are able." should a young couple tackle im- heard me quote from Ellen White: "What about the money for your mediately after their marriage? "Students cannot afford to wait till fare?" When George Babcock of the their education is considered com- "I can get something out of my Pakistan school presented the need plete, before using for the good of car, and I'm going to work and for relief help in teaching in the others that which they have re- save." vocational program, and for addi- ceived. Without this, however they "Can you afford to drop out of tional help in the dispensary, Brad- may study, however much knowl- the theology course for a year?" ley and Sylvia prayed and made a edge they may gain, their educa- "I am sure. I'm young enough decision. They pooled their meager and I need to apply the theory I've resources and left Washington June Duane S. Johnson is an associate been studying." 6, 1973, for Chuharkana Mandi in secretary of the General Conference. Stephen was assigned to the the Punjab. With many valuable

16 (704) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 Bengali teachers leaving Pakistan sion. Mr. Meyer told me, "Our Columbia Union College. She had to return to Bangladesh and with children have led the way, inspiring already worked as a substitute the program at the school expand- us to believe that now is the time teacher. When the Afro-Mideast Di- ing, their training and abilities are to get involved in mission service." vision listed a request for a student taxed to the maximum. Bradley's It began for the Meyers when missionary at the Nyabola Girls' mathematics, science, and practical their eldest son responded to the School, in Kenya, East Africa, she background, and Sylvia's nursing request from Bugema College, near responded. Cindy left for that as- and music ensure an interesting and Kampala, Uganda. Bruce, a student signment January 27, 1973. How- profitable school year for the pre- from CUC, began teaching biology ever, she didn't reach Nyabola, for nurses and teachers in training. and other science subjects and car- she was asked to teach at the Sylvia helps care for the villagers ried out many extracurricular Kamagambo School instead, which who come to the dispensary for help chores assigned to him at Bugema. is also in Kenya. Being a Meyer as well. Bradley was teaching seven Discovering that he didn't have and a missionary, she proved flex- classes daily, five days a week, the enough hands, talents, or hours in ible. last I heard. each day, he convinced his brother Whole Family Involved Although the rest of the Dunn Willy to make himself available for family is in the United States at service on the AVSC (Adventist Which brings us full circle to present, they are by no means idle. Volunteer Service Corps) plan. As Mr. and Mrs. Meyer and their As Dr. Dunn inspires the members a result, Willy has been teaching youngest daughter, Nancy, in of the Takoma Park church to in- auto mechanics and working with Beirut. Brother Meyer says, "Now volvement in lay activities work, he electrical installation and mainte- the whole family is involved in mis- reminds them, "Not all can go as nance at Bugema College since sion work. I believe we have gained missionaries to foreign lands, but September, 1971. Both Bruce and more from the children's student all can be home missionaries in Willy had worked to support them- missionary service than we have their families and neighborhoods." selves in school, and as one evalua- given. Their service experiences —Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 30. tion sent to the General Conference have given us new insights into life For the Meyer family who left put it, had "saved a little 'nest and clearer goals. We now under- Miami for Beirut, Lebanon, on egg,' on the side." This became stand better who we are and where September 2, 1973, the sequence of their foreign missions fund and we want to go as a family." mission service and influence is re- proved an excellent investment in The how and why that makes versed. David Meyer and his wife, missions and morale. these personal experiences in serv- Ethel, are providing school facili- By last January, Cynthia Meyer ice a reality is often referred to by ties for the children of our overseas had completed the second year of Ellen White. "Missionaries for the workers in the Afro-Mideast Divi- her elementary education major at Master are best prepared for work abroad in the Christian household, where God is feared, where God is loved, where God is worshipped, Left, Stephen Dunn arrived in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in May, 1973. Besides teaching at the English language school, he helps distribute supplies to war refugees. Right, Bruce Meyer where faithfulness has become sec- teaches biology at Bugema Adventist College, our school located in Uganda, East Africa. ond nature. . . . The highest duty that devolves upon youth is in their homes, blessing father and mother, brothers and sisters, by affection and true interest."—The Adventist Home, p. 35. Nineteen seventy-three was "Youth and Family Life Year" in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The vitality and service of each family in the church is so important that youth and Family Life should receive continuous attention until Jesus returns. Ellen White tells us: "God's faithful people have always been aggressive missionaries, conse- crating their resources to the honor of His name, and wisely using their talents in His service."—God's Amazing Grace, p. 26. Thus we have the Dunns in Asia and the Orient, the Meyers in Lebanon, Uganda, Kenya; our physicians, nurses, and dentists in mission hos- pitals around the world; evangelists reaching new tongues and peoples with God's message for today; teachers preparing the youth for service among their people; and vol- unteers who fill the gaps and give Sylvia Hyde, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert that "extra lift" to the working H. Dunn, and her husband, Bradley, are volun- teers at Chuharkana Mandi in the Punjab, Paki- force. We can join them in making stan, where Sylvia nurses and Bradley teaches. our own family commitment. ❑

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Jadhav rides this horse from village to vil- Kissan Jadhav, the wandering sadhu, and his musical group sing one of the bajhans he com- lage, where he sings Christian songs to the posed. His wife sits to his right, and Estherbai, who studied with him, sits to his left. people. He holds a chipale and a thara.

country folk for food. These people regarded him as a saint and gladly wel- Singing Laymen Bring Gospel comed him. One day, as Estherbai was giving a to Millions in Maharashtra Bible study in a village home, Jadhav came in and listened. When he left he in- By R. D. RICHES vited her to continue her studies in his little hut. For two months they studied together. For the first time in his life, GOD'S WORK in Maharashtra, of Gangapur. She has been an Advent- Jadhav realized that his heart was India, has been advancing with quick- ist for 60 years. In the past decade she afraid, that he had no assurance of ening pace in recent times. Of the 500 has brought 292 into the church and salvation. He found the peace he million people in India, one tenth live raised up eight new groups of believers. needed in Estherbai's message of Jesus. in Maharashtra, an area covering more Although she has never been to school, Before his baptism in November, 1973, than 307,000 square miles. Its capital she preaches fluently and with no little he buried his safron robes, Hindu city, Bombay, transacts more business, power. She reads her Bible, having books, and gods in the sand of the gives more employment, attracts more learned laboriously from a small urchin riverbed. Rama and Krishna were once beggars, and dazzles more young peo- in the village. supreme. Now there was only Jesus! ple than any other city in the country. Nearby lived a wandering sadhu by Since that day, five months ago, Jad- The state has always been a scarcity- the name of Kissan Jadhay. He trav- hav has composed almost 150 songs to ridden area with often but scanty rain- eled by pony back from place to place, illustrate the life of Christ and the doc- fall from the fickle monsoons. Much of singing the songs of the Hindu deities trines of the Bible. His wife and Esther- the land is hilly and little more than a Rama and Krishna in the village tem- bai sing with him to the accompaniment desert during the long, hot summer. A ples, depending on the charity of the of the thara and chipale. On horseback recent drought—the worst in recorded history—brought millions to the edge of death. This history of deprivation and suffering has made the people iso- lated and self-contained. They are not easy to persuade. Only six years ago baptismal figures for a 12-month period barely reached 100. For years total baptisms could be counted on the fingers of two hands. In 1973, however, 619 persons were added to the church. One evangelist, Athwale, working in the villages around Dahipuri, baptized 102 and became the first centurion in the section. Morale is high among the members. Regional meetings held during the month of March brought many of them together to share their experiences and to sing together far into the night. Estherbai came from the small town

R. D. Riches is president of the Central These five laymen from south Maharashtra last year were responsible for 39 baptisms among India Union. them. They are trying out new tablas given them to help in their musical evangelistic work.

18 (706) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 he continues to visit the many villages REPORT TO THE CHURCH where once he was made so welcome as a Hindu teacher. He sings on, with as many as 400 sitting and listening far into the night to his Christian hajhans. Study Groups Examine Singing has always been the tradi- tional method of imparting religious Contemporary Issues knowledge throughout the country. The stories of the gods have been handed down as much by the medium of song By WILLIS J. HACKDT I as by speech. Many an illiterate villager is able to compose his own songs to IN RECENT YEARS the General express his inner thoughts. People con- nating discrimination in the use of Conference has initiated a number of women's talents in the church. The way tinue to listen into the early hours of important studies of problems that has been opened for union conference the morning to such singing. Adventist have been perplexing the church for organizations to utilize women in laymen are forming their own groups, many decades. One of the first to be church offices as may be deemed ad- composing their own songs, and sing- undertaken was a study of our philoso- visable by the local congregations, ing to highly appreciative audiences. phy of teaching literature. The counsel and approved by the local and union The worker in Jadhav's area complains of Ellen White in regard to the type of and division committees. that there is so much interest in Ad- literature that should be studied in The ordination of women as local ventism he just cannot keep up with it Adventist schools was given careful elders and to the ministry is being all. consideration. As a result, a philosophy studied further by union and division In the village of Bondala lives F. M. on the teaching of literature in our committees. While there are differences Tupe. Honored as Layman of the Year schools was developed, with certain of opinion on actual ordination, there in 1973, he is a persuasive preacher guidelines that we believe will assist our is a spirit of urgency on the part of who last year saw 48 baptized through literature teachers in a program con- church leaders to utilize the talents his efforts. His work has brought him sistent with our standards. These guide- of both men and women for proclaiming into contact with a community of peo- lines have been widely distributed the message. ple who have never responded to the through the General Conference Edu- Recently the General Conference Advent message. cation Department. Committee set up study groups to give Tupe is the village postman, earning Another difficult area is that of music. consideration to matters involving a mere $10 a month. Although this is an Church musicians have been concerned drama, competitive activities, and average Indian wage, it is still not suffi- for a long time about the type of music interscholastic sports within our church cient to raise a family, not even enough used in religious services. While a structure. for the bare essentials. Just prior to his comprehensive study has not been Other studies dealing with a nondis- baptism he was approached by the completed, certain guidelines were criminatory wage philosophy and scale, leader of another church with the offer, drawn up that will help to unify the reorganization, evangelistic procedures, "If you join us we will give you an church's standards in the field of music. ministerial needs, lay involvement, and additional $15 a month! Those Advent- Certain types of music were delineated denominational trends are also under ists will give you nothing. In fact, they as inconsistent with the spirit of Christ way. Certainly the time demands an will demand a tithe of your small in- and the high and holy calling of the all-out effort on the part of the Ad- come!" Christian. We hope this will bring a ventist Church to remove every hin- It was a big temptation. But he had spirit of unity into the music structure drance to the outpouring of the Spirit the right answer: "You don't have the of the whole Adventist Church. and the completion of the gospel call. truth. I have not become an Adventist Recently we also entered into a study We invite our members round the for money. I want salvation. I am con- of the role of women in the church. world to pray for the General Con- vinced I have found it through Advent- The study committee made certain ference president, for the leadership ist teachings. I shall never leave it. I recommendations to the Annual Coun- of every segment of our work, for our shall live in it and die in it!" cil that will go a long way toward elimi- institutions, and for every church mem- There is much yet to he done in ber that the church may follow in God- Maharashtra. Adventists in the whole Willis J. Hackett is a vice-president of ordained paths and procedures for the state number only 3,127—one for every the General Conference. accomplishment of the gospel task. ❑ 16,389 people. After 50 years of effort, Adventism still is located in only three main centers. There are yet 18 un- entered districts. The few ministers and "WE DON'T PRAY HERE!" Bible workers there can never tell the Good News to everyone. The church's The cargo truck from Mountain View College was at hand at the airport in hope is in its members, who are rising Northern Mindanao when my plane arrived. Three smiling Filipinos welcomed to meet the challenge. ❑ me with warm handshakes. I had come for speaking appointments on the campus, which was about 70 miles away. As I climbed aboard the truck I remembered what I had heard about the slippery rock surfaces and narrow bridges of the mountain road, so I suggested to the truck driver that we have a word of prayer. "But we don't pray here," he responded quickly. Then we started off for the college and I just sat, wondering what he meant. For the first 20 miles the road was level and paved, although it had potholes. A half hour later the pavement stopped and the rocky surface had a formidable look. The mountain loomed ahead, and heavy timber trucks loaded with big logs roared around the precipitous curves. Then the driver pulled off the road, turned off the ignition, looked soberly at the mountain ahead, then at me, and said quietly, "We pray here." I smiled my agreement as I looked toward the mountain and the ugly trucks. Then we prayed. The practical nature of the experience struck me. Now we are facing the big mountain with the dangerous curves ahead. If we don't pray here, where do we S. B. Shinde, lay activities secretary of pray? If God doesn't help us in the days ahead, I wonder how far we'll get on that the Maharashtra Section, gives an Indian harmonium to F. M. Tupe, Layman of the mountain! D. A. DELAFIELD Year for 1973, to use in his evangelistic work. Associate Secretary, Ellen G. White Estate

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (707) 19 CALIFORNIA Laymen, Centurion Pastors LW Nursing Program Win Converts in Haiti Becomes Fully Accredited Loma Linda University's Associate degree nursing program has received By TULIO R. HAYLOCK full accreditation by the National League of Nursing, the major accredit- land. One of these packages was given ing body for schools of nursing in the IN HAITI TODAY there are some United States. 57,000 Sabbath school members and to a German ship's agent in Cap 46,000 baptized church members. On a Haitien, Haiti, who in turn gave it to The accreditation report from the recent visit to Cap Haitien, headquar- one of the Protestant churches in the NLN reviewers was filled with com- ters of the North Haiti Mission, Isaac city. Henry Williams, a tailor by trade mendation for an innovative, well- Jean-Baptiste, mission president, re- and a deacon of one of the churches, planned curriculum. The program is ported that 4,003 persons were bap- read some of these tracts. He and his built for the average college student to tized during 1973. wife became the first Seventh-day Ad- complete in two school years, but al- A large portion of those baptized in ventists in Inter-America. lowance is planned for independent North Haiti were brought into the Williams was able to obtain other learning and progress, which may speed up or slow down the program time for church through the participation of the reading material, which he distributed learning according to individual needs. laymen in EVANGELISM '73. Last to neighbors and friends. Some of this year the mission sent 15 laymen into fell into the hands of Michel Nord Currently 130 students are enrolled new areas with a literacy program, us- Isaac, who became convinced of the in this two-year RN program. They ing the Bible as their textbook. Their truth and began preaching his new form a very important part of the 455 expenses were covered by the dona- beliefs. As a result of his work, the nurses enrolled in the various programs tions of a few friends. However, thou- first churches in Haiti were organized. of nursing at LLU. sands of others are going out on their He became the first Haitian ordained RONALD W. BOWES own to help preach the gospel. More minister and, for a time, the leader of University Relations Officer than 4,900 branch Sabbath schools are the church in Haiti. He died in 1949 at La Sierra Campus being conducted by laymen. the age of 71. ❑ Loma Linda University All the pastors are also actively en- gaged in evangelism. Lucien Pierre recently held an evangelistic crusade in Port-Margot. Near the meeting place was another Protestant church, whose members were invited to attend. A number of them came, and as a result of the meetings all the church officers and almost half of the members de- cided to become Seventh-day Advent- ists. When their pastor saw that his church was almost empty, he said to the few remaining members, "Don't you know that the Adventist minister of Port-Margot is a crazy man?" "He is not crazy," answered some- one from the back, "he has the truth." Pigs Found Dead In Villard, Artibonite, a church built near the main highway running north and south through the country was recently dedicated. Shortly afterward an evangelistic crusade was held and 60 persons were baptized. During the baptismal class, someone asked why Seventh-day Adventists do not eat pork. The instructor explained why. Then the man said, "I have several pigs that I have been raising. If it is true that I should not own them, then the Lord will have to help me to get rid of them before my baptism." A few days later all the pigs were found dead. The man accepted this as an indication DONOR TO BUILDING FUND ATTENDS CHURCH GROUNDBREAKING that he should be baptized. Officers of the San Francisco Chinese church and Central California Conference The North Haiti Mission has 18 dis- tricts, each one with its pastor. During administrators gathered February 24 at the Geary Boulevard and 42nd Avenue site 1973 one pastor baptized more than to break ground for a new Chinese church building. On this occasion Chan 500 people, three baptized more than Shun of Hong Kong presented to the conference and the church his gift of $100,- 300, six baptized more than 200, and 000 to help build the new sanctuary. Mr. Chan is managing director of Crocodile seven baptized more than 100. Garments, Ltd., in Kowloon, Hong Kong. The Advent message entered Haiti Pictured from left to right are Wallace Chan, pastor; Walter Chin; Caleb Chan; in 1879, when J. N. Loughborougly Chan Shun; Mrs. Chan; Tom Chan; Harvey Retzer, Central California Conference sent several packages of tracts to the secretary; Earl W. Amundson, conference president; and R. L. Stretter, confer- West Indies from Southampton, Eng- ence treasurer. (Caleb and Tom are sons of Mr. and Mrs. Chan Shun.) Tulio R. flaylock is communication Estimated cost of the project for Phase I, which consists of the main sanctuary, secretary of the Inter-American Divi- is $195,000. Construction is to begin when the local church fund objective has sion. been reached. EARL W. AMUNDSON

20 (708) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 Church gave her a greater thrill than of students to work in Chinese-speak- any other appearance she had ever ing areas of Southeast Asia as teachers, made, because she now has a message ministers, medical personnel, office to sing and is not merely entertaining. workers, and linguists, according to From the baptismal tank she sang, "I John T. Hamilton, ACA director. Will Follow Thee, My Saviour." Jointly sponsored by the Seventh- Mrs. Santos is enthusiastically wit- day Adventist colleges and universities nessing for her new faith. Already a in North America, ACA provides coor- number have been baptized into the dinated overseas study for their stu- Toronto Portuguese church as a re- dents. Programs are now operating in sult of her witnessing, among them her France, Spain, Austria, and Argentina, husband and son, her mother, father, as well as the new one in Hong Kong. grandfather, and her best friend and Complete information in any of these her husband and daughter. programs may be obtained by writing: Says Henry Feyerabend, pastor of Adventist Colleges Abroad, Loma the Toronto Portuguese church, "Many Linda University, Riverside, California Signing an agreement between the Navy and new people are coming. On March 16 the GC Temperance Department are Lt. John 92505, or calling (714) 785-2141. Kane; Milo Sawvel, associate temperance we had the largest attendance we have secretary; Capt. P. H. Hartley, project ever had in our church, among them manager, Navy Human Resource Develop- four families that Isabel had brought." FRANCE ment Project Office; and Ernest H. J. Steed. A year ago there was no Portuguese church in Toronto. After a series of Conference Rest Home meetings by George Vandeman in Opens in Clapiers WASHINGTON, D.C. Toronto four years ago, two families in Toronto and one in nearby Hamilton The opening of a new rest home, Five-Day Plans to Be Given were baptized and formed the nucleus Romarin, in Clapiers, near Montpel- by U.S. Navy Personnel of what has since developed into a lier, France, by the South France Con- church. They held together as a branch ference is the fulfillment of a vision of Early this year an agreement was en- Sabbath school, without leadership Sister Becker, who a quarter of a cen- tered between the United States Navy until September of 1972, when Elder tury ago opened an old people's home and the General Conference Temper- Feyerabend, who had worked with for 30 persons at Pignans, in the same ance Department for the holding of Elder Vandeman in the Toronto cru- area, as a private enterprise. The new Five-Day Plans to Stop Smoking on all sade, returned to Toronto. rest home accommodates 80. U.S. naval bases. The nucleus of 12 members has Four fifths of the cost of the new rest Training by Adventists of navy per- grown into a thriving membership of home was provided by government sonnel to lead out in these plans began 109, the last nine of whom were bap- grants and interest-free loans, and the in late January on the East Coast, and tized on March 24. remaining fifth came from the sale of the first Five-Day Plan directed by the THEDA KUESTER the old property donated by Sister Navy was held at Little Creek, Virginia, REVIEW Correspondent Becker, who herself is not a resident in March 26 to 30. the home, and from an appeal to the Two more Five-Day Plans were membership of the two French con- scheduled for the end of April, and CALIFORNIA ferences. other training sessions are being ar- The home is situated in a pine forest ranged. ACA's New China Program and olive groves in a site typical of The agreement is that the five half- Offers Year in Hong Kong Languedoc, and comprises 60 single hour Five-Day Plan films will be used as and 20 double rooms. A chapel, fi- the basic structure of the presentation, Adventist Colleges Abroad (ACA) is nanced entirely by conference funds, with the control booklet and materials planning a new program beginning this has also been built and dedicated. used by Adventist trained personnel. September, at South China Union Col- Speakers for the recent opening Local pastors stirred up the Navy's lege, in Hong Kong. ceremony of this home for senior citi- interest in the Five-Day Plan by holding The course of study will center zens were Elie Davy, president of the sessions on several bases. After around Mandarin Chinese; other sub- South French Conference; Adi Zurche'r, thorough study, the Human Resource jects to be offered include religion, his- pastor for the Montpellier suburbs; and Development Project Office of the U.S. tory, and Oriental culture. The program the mayors of the neighboring localities Navy selected the program. is open to all college students, who may and other public officials. It is the belief of General Conference apply through their own college for the EDWARD E. WHITE Temperance leaders that this de- Hong Kong year of study. Education Secretary velopment, clearly identified with the ACA hopes to prepare a select group Euro-African Division church's temperance department, will help many who are now desiring to overcome the smoking habit. ERNEST H. J. STEED Secretary Temperance Department General Conference

CANADA TV Entertainer Joins Church and Witnesses for Truth

Nine people recently became mem- bers of the Portuguese church in To- ronto, Ontario, among them Isabel Santos, Canadian Broadcasting Corpo- ration entertainer and soloist with the Ivan Romanof Chorus and Orchestra. Recently Mrs. Santos testified on tele- vision that singing in the Adventist Romarin rest home, in Clapiers, France, was opened recently by the South France Conference.

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (709) 21 JAMAICA health secretary; S. A. Grant, steward- secretary; Basil Reid, publishing and ship and development secretary; temperance secretary; C. S. Plummer, Three Local Conferences and K. C. Henry, youth and communi- Sabbath school and communication Hold Triennial Sessions cation secretary. secretary; William A. Kirlew, steward- East Jamaica Conference: F. E. ship and development secretary; and B. The East, Central, and West Jamaica White, president; J. G. Bennett, secre- Melbourne, youth secretary. conferences held their triennial tary-treasurer; Horace Newman, Book The Seventh-day Adventist Church sessions April 3-6, 10-13, and 17-20, and Bible House manager; S. G. is one of the strongest in Jamaica, an respectively. At these three sessions Campbell, education and communica- island about 140 miles long. At the the officers in each conference were tion secretary; L. G. Kelly, lay activities end of 1973 the three Jamaican con- re-elected, but some readjustments and Sabbath school secretary; L. H. ferences had a total membership of were made on the departmental level. Davidson, publishing secretary; 70,528. There are 369 organized The staff elected for each conference Josephus Allen, stewardship and de- churches on the island, and total is as follows: velopment secretary; and Horace baptisms for the past year stand at Central Jamaica Conference: E. A. Taffe, youth and temperance secretary. 6,202. Hyatt, president; B. L. Henry, secre- West Jamaica Conference: S. M. "Evangelism" is the watchword in tary and Sabbath school secretary; Reid, president; E. R. E. Wright, sec- Jamaica and in the West Indies Union. E. H. Scott, treasurer and Book and retary and ministerial secretary; N. S. For 1974 their goal is to baptize at Bible House manager; 0. M. Mon- Frazer, treasurer; H. Barrett, Book least 8,000 new church members. crieffe, education and temperance and Bible House manager; C. R. JOSE H. FIGUEROA, JR., Secretary secretary; A. L. Lyle, lay activities and Perry, lay activities and education Inter-American Division

Offering for Famine Victims Is July 13

TIME MAGAZINE, May 13, featured an article entitled members to reach deep into their pockets July 13, when "Famine Casts Its Grim Global Shadow." Thousands are the Disaster and Famine Relief Offering is collected, to starving to death in Ethiopia, the African nations of the make a sacrifice in behalf of starving humanity, and with Sahel (Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, and Upper us to pray earnestly that many of these people who will Volta), Gambia, and areas of Tanzania and Kenya. There are be helped with material things will also be brought to the many other places mentioned in this article where famine is knowledge of Jesus. C. C. WEIS already knocking at the door, such as Bolivia, Syria, Yemen, Associate Secretary and Nigeria. To this we could add Guyana, Somalia, Lay Activities Department, General Conference Guinea, and Zaire. During the 1960's there was an abundance of food in America, and Government agencies paid farmers not to plant crops. Now the world's food reserves amount to a mere 27 days of consumption, and farmers everywhere are being encouraged to raise food on every acre of land that can be cultivated. What if there should be a crop failure on a large scale anywhere? The results could be starvation on a global scale such as has never been seen on the earth. Ellen G. White writes, "He ISatan 1 sweeps away the ripening harvest, and famine and distress follow. He im- parts to the air a deadly taint, and thousands perish by the pestilence. These visitations are to become more and more frequent and disastrous."— The Great Controversy, p. 590. This statement is finding its fulfillment to the very letter in some of the countries already mentioned. "Poverty and distress in families will come to our knowl- edge, and afflicted and suffering ones will have to be re- lieved. We know very little of human suffering that exists everywhere about us, but as we have opportunity we should be ready to render immediate assistance to those who are under a severe pressure."— Welfare Ministry, p. 137. God is calling upon us to be His helping hand in lessen- ing the suffering that has come to so many people. Jesus said, "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." There never was a time when there was greater need for the exercise of mercy than today. The poor, the distressed, the afflicted, the sorrowing, and those who are ready to perish from exposure, hunger, and pesti- lence, are all around us. SAWS (Seventh-day Adventist World Service) has already sent aid to famine victims in a number of countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. New food programs are in the planning stage. The resources of SAWS are pitifully small in view of the current dimensions of global need. Mother and child in Ethiopia show the effects of undernourish- What is your response to this call? We appeal to church ment, which plagues thousands in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

22 (710) R&H, JUNI_ 27, 1974 ► E. W. Pedersen, newly elected field school of evangelism at Maveli- president of the Afro-Mideast Divi- kara in Kerala, India. Evangelistic sion, has arrived in Beirut, Lebanon, meetings are conducted in two places NEWS and has assumed his new responsibili- simultaneously each night. Students ties. M. E. Lind, former president, from Spicer Memorial College and has returned to his homeland, Norway. Kottarakara Seminary are united with Afro-Mideast Division baptisms experienced evangelists in this pro- ► gram. NOT for the first quarter of 1974 number FROM THE WORLD DIVISIONS 2,469. More than two fifths of the bap- ► John Roberts has conducted a suc- tisms were in Ethiopia. Division mem- cessful evangelistic campaign in the bership at the end of the first quarter city of Vasco da Gama, Goa. Thirty was 155,054. people, including ten former Hindus, Australasian Ole Bjerkan, president of Middle have been baptized as a result of these ► meetings. ► Easter Monday, almost to the day East College, has accepted a call to be the first anniversary of patients' being the president of Swedish Junior College A. J. JOHANSON, Correspondent moved into the new Sydney Adventist and Seminary in Rimbo, Sweden. Hospital building, maternity patients ► Jack Bohannon, chairman of the moved into the South Wing. This two- religion department at Middle East Trans-Africa floor block, completely renovated, pro- College, and his family are returning ► Final enrollment figures for the first vides 50 beds, plus a 40-cot air-condi- to the United States this month after semester of 1974 reveal that there are tioned nursery, and three labor wards. serving in the Middle East for the past 308 students in the elementary, acad- With maternity vacating the main 12 years. emy, and college divisions of Helder- building, 40-odd additional beds are R. W. TAYLOR, Correspondent berg College, South Africa. In addi- available for other patients, mostly in tion to this, there are nine students who the pediatrics section. stay at the college but attend classes ► Sonoma Adventist College in Papua Euro-Africa at the University of Stellenbosch. New Guinea and the surrounding Ad- ► Four thousand Swiss francs have ► Carl Seligmann, director of Kanye ventist churches have pledged to win been allocated for relief work in Chad. Hospital, has been appointed medical 1,000 new members on the Gazelle The Cape Verde Islands Mission is secretary of the Zambesi Union. In Peninsula of New Britain in 1974 as the ► addition to Kanye Hospital, the union result of lay evangelistic activities. planning extensions to each of its three church schools. operates a flying-doctor service in ► During April and May, Fernon Ret- Botswana, many dispensaries, a dental zer, General Conference Sabbath school ► Three weekends have been set aside practice in Bulawayo, and a dental secretary, conducted Sabbath school by the Italian Secondary School in practice soon to be opened in Salis- institutes in all conferences and union Florence during which prospective theo- bury. missions of the Australasian Division. logical students may spend the time free of charge in order to get to know ► Plans are under way for the exten- ► The Western Pacific Union Mission this institution better. sion of the work among the Coloured celebrated the Dorcas Welfare Cen- population of Rhodesia. Recently, a tennial by staging a week-long work- ► Henri Tierce, now pastor in Tou- new church was dedicated at Umtali. shop, January 6-12, using the facilities louse, France, has been appointed W. Marais, director of the Voice of of Betikama High School on Guadal- president of the Reunion Mission. He Prophecy Bible school in Cape Town, canal to house the more than 100 dele- will be assisted by Gerard Viney, of will be the new president of the Zam- gates and observers who came by ship Mauritius, secretary-treasurer. besi General Field. and plane from every sector of the DESMOND B. HILLS, Correspondent ► Johan Van Bignoot, now working British Solomons. in La Reunion, has been appointed ► In the interest of economy and effi- president of the Mauritius Mission, ciency, and bearing in mind the prob- succeeding Sam Appave, who has North American lems that have arisen with strikes and taken charge of the college at Phoenix. go-slow approaches in the postal and This school will be developed as the Atlantic Union telegraph services, the Australasian Indian Ocean Union Mission training Division has decided to install a Telex school. ► In March, the Ebenezer church in machine at division headquarters. The Freeport, Long Island, New York, pur- Claude Bosdedore, a French mis- Telex terminal will enable communica- ► chased a 12-passenger van to serve tion with the General Conference, sionary now in Reunion, has been visitors and church members. Jona- transferred to the Seychelles Islands, North American publishing houses, and than A. Thompson, pastor, says already where he will assume the presidency other organizations around the world many miles have been put on the van that have installed Telex. There is a of the Seychelles Field (Afro-Mideast transporting visitors to and from Sab- strong possibility that a Telex machine Division). bath services, involving Adventist and will be installed at the Signs Publishing EDWARD E. WHITE, Correspondent community youth in recreational activi- Company to facilitate central-credit ties, and taking members once a month office literature evangelist orders, to visit a nursing home. which are experiencing much delay at Southern Asia The five Seventh-day Adventist the present time owing to go-slow atti- ► ► John Willmott has completed a suc- churches in the Rochester, New York, tudes of postal workers. cessful evangelistic program in the city area decided to place Steps to Christ M. G. TowNEND, Correspondent of Virudhunagar in the Tamil Field of and a specially published brochure in South India. One hundred and sixty- each of the 215,000 area homes. The one persons have been baptized, and brochure, entitled "Ready or Not, Afro-Mideast another 50 are expected to take their Here I Come," emphasizes the immi- stand in the follow-up program. While nence of Christ's second advent. Ret Chol, a graduate of Middle East ► the main campaign was being con- College, is working in Sudan, a coun- A baptism of 15 juniors recently ducted in this city, laymen visited five ► try new to the Advent message. was conducted in the Syracuse, New nearby villages and gave Bible stud- York, church by area pastors. F. R. Through his influence, Sudan has writ- ies, prayed with the people, and brought ten religious freedom into its constitu- Scott, Syracuse pastor, reports that them to the meetings. This was an im- a baptism of adults was held recently tion. Thirty-five people in the Sudan- portant factor in the success of the Ethiopian border area are asking for to climax a month-long evangelistic campaign. baptism. This will be the beginning of series on the theme "Where Jesus the first church in Sudan. ► W. H. Mattison is conducting a Walked."

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South Lancaster, Mass. 01561 Telephone 617-365-4561, ext. tract protein from leaves. The result ► Mrs. Clarine Kennedy, R.N., has Columbia Union been appointed to the new post of will be a high-protein green powder for mixing in broth, soups, sandwich nurse coordinator at New England ► The Metropolitan church of Plain- Memorial Hospital in Stoneham, Mas- field, New Jersey, has opened a Com- spreads, and with flour in bread dough, sachusetts. She will work closely with munity Services center. according to Edward Cross, who is the the medical staff and nursing service to chairman of the college engineering ► John Thomas, of the York County, department. help prevent an extended stay, for Pennsylvania, Pathfinder Club, was which a patient might be financially selected Pennsylvania Pathfinder of the ► Several vegetarian restaurants responsible if his insurance does not Year at the annual Pathfinder Fair at have been opened during the past year cover it. Blue Mountain Academy, Hamburg, in the North Pacific Union Confer- ence. Owned and operated by Adventist ► New pastor of the Cortland-Ithaca, Pennsylvania, church. New York, district is Dale R. Kon- laymen, the restaurants already report Twenty-seven persons were bap- gorski. He is not a stranger to the East, ► good results from their type of wit- tized following a recent four-week having graduated from Atlantic Union nessing. evangelistic crusade by Gordon T. College in 1969. Blandford in Hampton Roads, Vir- Ninety persons have been baptized EMMA KIRK, Correspondent ► ginia. Elder Blandford is Ministerial during the Faith for Today Bible lec- secretary and coordinator of evangel- ture series conducted in the Tri-Cities Canadian Union ism for the Mountain View Conference. area of Washington (Pasco, Kenne- wick, and Richland) by Gordon F. The first telecast of the new It Is ► Under the leadership of Mrs. Lorne ► Dalrymple. John Davidson served as Weller and Brenda Farrow, of the Cal- Written series in the Washington, D.C., coordinator. gary, Alberta, church, members have area brought a telephone response CECIL COFFEY, Correspondent been conducting story hours every Sun- from 350 persons requesting literature. day morning. Mrs. Weller has been do- ► The Wheaton, Maryland, church Southern Union ing this for a number of years, and be- dedicated its Sabbath school all-pur- tween 30 and 40 children are attending pose building debt free on April 20. ► The Florida Conference has estab- her weekly Story Hour. The church began in 1959 with a char- lished a continuing education program ter membership of 60. Present mem- for its ministers. Twenty-seven minis- ► MV Societies, Pathfinder Clubs, and church school groups all across Canada bership is 225. ters—all working on their Master of gave special offerings to purchase and Divinity degrees—and Bible instruc- ► The Virginia Youth Federation of send badly needed farm equipment to the Allegheny East Conference was tors recently completed four hours of West Indies College, in Jamaica, last held recently in Petersburg, Virginia, graduate work at an Andrews Univer- December. On March 14-24 of this on the campus of Virginia State College. sity extension school, in Orlando, con- ducted by Gerhard Hasel. year a Maranatha Flight took young CHARLES R. BEELER, Correspondent people from the Ontario Conference to ► Students at Orlando Junior Acad- Jamaica, to work at the college where emy scored an average of 7.3 percent- the crew of nine painted the interior of Lake Union age points higher than the State aver- the large college library. The project age on a recent State-wide testing U.S. Congressman John N. Erlen- was sponsored by Elder George, MV ► program, administered by the Univer- director of the Ontario Conference. born, representative for the fourteenth district of Illinois, visited informally sity of Florida. ► Margaret Coolen and Marie Pifher, with leaders and employees of Hins- ► Montgomery, Alabama, school both home economics graduates of dale Sanitarium and Hospital on April children recently raised more than Andrews University, conducted a series 25. Erlenborn answered questions $235 in a Bike-a-Thon for Faith for of health and nutrition classes in the about inflation, impeachment, labor Today. Halifax and Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and unions, health costs, and other top- OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent churches. ics presented by some of the approxi- mately 60 persons who attended the ses- ► Harry Van Pelt, director of the Al- Andrews University berta Conference department of health sion. A food-service consulting center education, has been appointed to an ad ► Four students from Andrews Uni- ► hoc committee on health curriculum versity Academy, Harold Brinley, has been established on the campus of for the Alberta Government Depart- Robert Lang, Leonard Minisee, and Andrews University to provide a va- ment of Education. Arnie Peugh, left in June to serve six riety of new services to Adventist ad- THEDA KUEStER, Correspondent weeks as student missionaries at the ministrators and food-service directors. Indian mission school in Holbrook, First institution to use the new services, Arizona. which are under the direction of Clin- Central Union ton A. Wall, will be Broadview Acad- A community Bible school that be- emy, La Fox, Illinois, where a new Theodore E. Wade, of Liberal, ► ► gan March 3 in the Brunswick area of food-service building is being con- Kansas, will go to Central America to northwest Gary, Indiana, has had an structed. Counseling programs will in- relieve the staff surgeon at Hospital attendance each Sunday of almost 40. clude architectural counsel, career Adventista, La Trinidad, Esteli, about guidance, assistance in placement of 75 miles north of Managua, Nicaragua. Approximately 25 persons attended ► food-service personnel, and assistance While in Central America he will visit a nutrition school on four consecutive in providing arrangements for camp his son and family, the Loron Wades, Sunday afternoons, sponsored by the meetings, summer youth camps, College at Alajuela, Mount Vernon and Centralia, Illinois, at the Adventist church retreats, and workers' meetings. Costa Rica. churches. GORDON ENGEN, Correspondent ► Three lectures on creation and evo- ► Pathfinders on the eastern slope of lution were presented at the Lawrence, the Rocky Mountains-342 in all— North Pacific Union Michigan, high school in April by rode 15,183 miles over a two-mile Harold G. Coffin, professor of paleon- course in a recent Pathfinder Bike-a- tology at Andrews. Thon. Two hundred and twenty-four ► On the campus of the Walla Walla College Marine Biological Station at riders rode 50 miles or more. Of their ► A youth rally for secondary school earnings, $24,492.82 pledged by hun- Rosario Beach, Washington, a new and college age youth was •conducted dreds of sponsors, 50 per cent will re- laboratory will be built immediately in Pioneer Memorial church at An- main with the local Pathfinder Clubs and following the summer session. Most of drews University, April 12 and 13. the remainder will be sent to the con- the construction will be done by volun- Featured speaker was Jan Doward, as- ference youth department to be used teer workers. sistant youth director of the General for youth projects. ► Walla Walla College engineering Conference. CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent students are designing a machine to ex- OPAL YOUNG, Communication Officer R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (713) 25 Bulletin Board

Peru; Gayle (Wilson) Haeger (AU '68) and Health Personnel three children, left San Francisco, March 25, Deaths 1974. Needs COBBAN, Franke Flowers-b. March 2, 1886, Stanley George Hagen (UC '65), returning Howard Town, S. Dak.; d. May 2, 1974, Angwin, NORTH AMERICA as departmental secretary, Central Brazil Calif. She entered denominational work in 1904 at Battle Creek Sanitarium. She served at Wash- Mission, Goiania, Goias, Brazil; DeLara V. Buyer Nurses, ICU ington Sanitarium and Hospital, the Harding (Haas) Hagen (UC '66) and two sons left Cashiers Nurses, LVN Rural Rest Home, Worthington, Ohio, the Gen- Miami, March 25, 1974. Clerk-typists Nurses, med.-surg. eral Conference Medical Department, the White Laren R. G. Kurtz (AU '72), to serve as a Memorial Hospital as instructor of nurses, the Cooks Nurses, OB teacher, Kivu College, Butembo, Zaire, and Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital, and the St. Dietitian Nurses, superv. Helena Hospital as director of nurses. In 1971 Electron. engr. Nursing-serv. dir. N. Averil (Juriansz) Kurtz (AU '72) of La she was chosen for the Hall of Fame in the North- Groundskeepers Occup. ther. Fox, Illinois, left Toronto, Ontario, Canada, ern California Chapter of ASDAN (Adventist Housekprs. Pharmacist March 14, 1974. Nursing Organization). Her brother, H. H. Cob- Inhal. thers. Phy. ther • Ronald Dale McBroom (WWC), returning ban, pre-deceased her. Key-punch superv. Psych. tech. to the construction department, Central GATES, Robert Clyde, Jr.-b. June 11, 1943, Maint. engr. superv. Rad. technol. American Union Mission, Guatemala, Gua- Denver, Colo.; d. April 11, 1974, La Grande, Managemt. engr. Receptionists Oreg. He attended Union College and graduated temala; JoAnn (Pence) McBroom (WWC '59) Med. transcrib. Secretaries, med. from Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, Nurse aides Secretaries, ward and two children crossed the border at Eagle Tennessee, in 1966. His special missionary proj- Pass, Texas, February 18, 1974. ect was giving eye care to the people of Haiti. Write or call Health Personnel Placement Service, Paul Elwin Moore (AU '60), returning to He made three volunteer trips to the island, tak- ing donated glasses to fit people he had re- General Conference of SDA, 6840 Eastern Avenue serve as Bible teacher, River Plate College, fracted. While visiting his wife's family he died NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. Telephone: (202) Entre Rios, Argentina; Jeannie (Wyant) in an air crash along with his brother-in-law, 723-0800, Ext. 349. Moore (CUC '62) and four children left New Lewis Border, and a friend, Dale Tillay. Survivors include his wife, Sylvia; two children, Robert C. Because of immigration requirements, this notice applies York, March 17, 1974. III and Suzanne; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rob- only to permanent residents of the United States and Canada. William Howard White (AU '68), to serve ert C. Gates, Sr.; a brother, John; and a sister, as English teacher, Japan Missionary Col- Linda Sanchez. lege, Chiba-ken, Japan; and Noriko (Kawai) LOASRY, Roland E.-b. Feb. 8, 1890, Kettering, White of Carbondale, Illinois, left Los An- Northhamptonshire, England; d. May 5, 1974, geles, April 12, 1974. Loma Linda, Calif. He came to America at the To New Posts age of 18, and in 1915 was a member of the first graduating class of Washington Missionary Col- Worker transfers within union conferences are not listed NATIONALS RETURNING here. Such transfers, when brought to our attention, may be lege, Takoma Park, Maryland. From 1910 to 1912 found in News Notes. Lalbela Chhangte to serve as teacher, he was a missionary in Bermuda. In 1913 he mar- ried Bernice Manuel. They spent 23 years in Assam Training School, Jowai, Meghalaya, Charles Bell, chairman, school of engineer- service in India, doing evangelistic and educa- ing, Walla Walla College, College Place, India, and Ralluaii Chhangte left Washing- tional work. In 1938 he became chairman of the Washington, formerly associate professor of ton, D.C., April 28, 1974. New Testament Department of the Seventh-day Arundell Dontn;an, to serve as a teacher, Adventist Theological Seminary, a post which he physics, Walla Walla College. held for 22 years. From 1960 to 1969 he engaged Lyle Botimer, principal, Pioneer Valley St. Thomas, Virgin Islands School, Bridge- in part-time teaching. His wife survives. Academy, New Braintree, Massachusetts, town, Barbados, West Indies, left the States MAC LAFFERTY, Gordon Merritt-b. Jan. 11, formerly dean of men, Southern Missionary in September, 1973. 1907, Port Townsend, Wash.; d. March 29, 1974, College, Collegedale, Tennessee. Phillip K. Kao, to serve as physician, Shirley, Ark. In 1930 he married Phyllis Elaine Adriel D. Chilson, pastor, Elko-Winne- Tokyo Sanitarium-Hospital, Tokyo, Japan, Thompson. They taught together for several years and Betty C. Kao and three children left in denominational schools and then were called mucca district, Nevada-Utah Conference, to the ministry. While assisting in evangelistic from Wisconsin. Los Angeles, March 26, 1974. work on the West Coast, Elder MacLafferty ac- Bernard L. Cook, secretary-treasurer, Illi- Arno E. Kumpel, to serve as treasurer, cepted a call to Hawaii, where he labored for 12 Parana Academy, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil; years. Survivors include his wife; son, Merritt, nois Conference, from same position, Wash- a teacher at Highland Academy, Portland, Ten- ington Conference. Gilda Kumpel and two children left New nessee; a daughter, Mrs. Harry Bennett, who Mark Finley, evangelist, Southern New York, March 25, 1974. assists her husband in the music department of England Conference, from Georgia-Cumber- Peter James Prime, to serve as pastor- East Brazil College in South America; five grand- children; and a sister, Bernice Christian. land Conference. evangelist, South Caribbean Conference, Lawrence F. Kagels, pastor, Long Beach, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies; Glenda RISLEY, William C.-b. Feb. 22, 1915, Loma Prime and son left the States, December, Linda, Calif.; d. March 15, 1974, Bellingham, California, from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Wash. He graduated from Pacific Union College Merlin Kretschmar, lay activities and Sab- 1973. in 1941 and that year married Vivian Ellis. He en- bath school secretary, Greater New York Francisco R. Ramos, to serve as youth tered the ministry in 1943 at Santa Ana, Califor- Conference, formerly pastor, Yakima, director, East Puerto Rico Conference, nia. His first pastorate was at Orange, California, Villa Los Maestros, Puerto Rico, left New with other pastorates in Brawley, Vista, El Cajon, Washington. Victorville, Fullerton, and Escondido, California. York, March 31, 1974. His wife, Paula, and After the death of his wife, he married Marjorie E. FROM HOME BASE TO FRONT LINE their daughter will join him later. Keene in 1966. He pastored the Auburn City Kenneth Scott Brown (AU '67), to serve as Daulat Sitanggang to serve as adminis- church and most recently, Bellingham. Survivors include his wife; daughter, Bonnie Lewis; son, trative assistant to pathologist, Bangkok ministerial secretary, Pakistan Union, La- Edward; mother, Mrs. Edward H. Risley; and sis- hore, Pakistan, and Ruth Elizabeth (Croak) Adventist Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand; ter, Dr. Margaret Shellhous. Brown (UC '40), of Pocatello, Idaho, left Jarunun Sitanggang and three children left New York, April 16, 1974. San Francisco, April 10, 1974. Norman L. Doss (UC '51), to serve as de- William Vargas, to serve as foreman, An- partmental secretary, Trans-Africa Division, tillian College press, Mayagilez, Puerto Coming Salisbury, Rhodesia, and Florence T. (Oss) Rico; Elizabeth (Toledo) Vargas and two Doss (UC '49), of Kansas City, Kansas, left children left the States, November 12, 1973. Thirteenth Sabbath Offering (Far Eastern Division) June 29 Miami, April 16, 1974. Lynford Williams, to serve as pastor- Church Lay Activities Offering July 6 Disaster and Famine Relief Offering July 13 Arthur E. Geschke (LLU '38), to serve as evangelist, East Caribbean Conference, Dark-County Evangelism August 3 physician, Thailand Medical Institutions, Bridgetown, Barbados, West Indies; Kath- Church Lay Activities Offering August 3 Oakwood College Offering August 10 Phuket, Thailand, of Fresno, California, left leen Angeleena Williams and three children t.ay Preachers' Day September 7 San Francisco March 27. He married Hilma left New York, October, 1973. Church Lay Activities Offering September 7 Missions Extension Offering September 14 H. Gezelt in Germany and they proceeded Donald R. Wilson to serve as surgeon, Missions Centennial Day September 14 on to Thailand. Sydney Adventist Hospital, Sydney, Aus- Review and Herald Periodicals Campaign two sons left September 14-October 12 Gerald Gene Haeger (PUC '65), returning tralia; Margaret L. Wilson and Bible Emphasis Day September 21 as professor, Inca Union College, Lima, Los Angeles, April 28, 1974. JMV Pathfinders September 28

26 (714) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 REVIEW INDEX January June 1974

This index includes general articles, short feature arti- International Co-op Will Unify World (E). May 9: 13 Marter, Nancy. Have We Lost Our Nerve? (SO). Mar cles, editorials, and the various columns; abbreviations for Keeping Humble About the Future (E). Apr 18: 10 28: 12 which appear below. News reports and children's stories Little Stewardship Would Help (F). Feb 7: 12 Maxwell, C. Mervyn. Christ and Minneapolis 1888. May are not included. The index has four sections: Authors, 'ri- Malnutrition Sentences the Unborn (E). May 2: 16 16: 16 des, Subjects, and Poetry. 1973: In Retrospect (E). Mar 7: 12 McKay, Donald W. Mother and Her Apple. Jan 24: 5 In general, in the first issue of each month appear—Es- Protestant Missions in Transition (E). Jan 3: 12 McMillan, J. A. Take Away the Filthy Garments. Jun 20: 4 pecially for Women; in the second issue—Heart to Heart, Salving the Conscience (E). Mar 21: II McReynolds, Erma. Unity, How'? Apr 25: 8 Dateline Washington, Especially for Men, Let's Talk Special Truth and a Special Wolk (E). Jun 6: 14 Merrell, Jesse H. How Important Is a Mother? (FL). May About Health, and Young Adult; in the thial issue—Home- Spiritual Power Failure (E). Feb 14: 10 9: 14 makers' Exchange. Suggestions on How Churches May Coopetate (E). Jan Miller, Theodore. 400-Member Church Has Beginnings in 24: 10 Doctor's Waiting Room. Apr 18: 14 Thoughts During an Energy Crisis (E). Jan 17: 14 Murray, Gilbert U. H. In Defense of Missionaries (SO). List of Abbreviations Truth Understood Only by Men of Faith (E). Jun 20: 11 May 9: II Why God Is Urgent—And Yet Waits. May 16: 21 Neal!, Beatrice M. Week of Prayer's Allegory of Arnion F. Editorial Drury, Alice. Rejoice in Disappointment. Feb 28: 11 (RR). Feb 7: 14 EM Especially fot Men Elkins, Ella Ruth. On Becoming a Pastor's Wife (FL). Feb Neufeld, Don F. Adventists and Charitable Deductions EW Especially for Women 28: 14 (E). Feb 21: 13 FL Family Living Emmerson, Kenneth H. Church and the World of Finance. Angels on Vacation'? (E). Jan 10: 9 GE Guest Editorial Jan 17: 4 Bible Questions Answered. Jan 17: 11; Feb 7: 6; Mar 7: H Let's Talk About Health Engen, Gordon. "In Prison You Visited Me." Jan 3: 6 It; Apr 4: 12; May 2: 15; Jun 6: II HH Heart to Heart Adlai Albert. Christ Crushed by the Crowd. May Broader Application (E). May 30: 12 RC Report to the Church 2: 7 Church Is Born (E). Apr 25: 12 RR Response From Readers Eva, W. Duncan. "The Most Valuable Thing" (GE). Jun Examining the Forest of Revelation (E). Mar 21: II SO Speaking Out 27: 2 How Is the Divine Name Pronounced? (E). Jun 13: 9 WY When You're Young Evans, Kristin. "Fiddling Little Sins." Apr 18: 7 Is There a Teaching Authority in the Adventist Church? YA Young Adult Farag, Wadie. If Two of You Shall Agree. Apr 25: 14 (E). Jan 31: II Fenton, Loren L. Church's Throwaway Children. Feb Messages' Current Application (E). May 9: 12 28: 4 New International Version of the NT (E). Jan 24: 9 Fernandez, Gil G. Axis of History. Feb 21: 4 New Year's Prayer (E). Jan 3: 12 Figuhr, Anne Stump. Father's Day—Resurrection Style. Jun 1973's Top Religious News Stories (E). Feb 14: 9 Authors 13: 1 Righteousness by Faith—Is It Biblical? May 16: 6 Flaiz, T. R. Use of Drugs. May 30: 1 Three Angels' Messages in Their Historical Application Adams, Robert E. He Was My Hero, Jan 3: 17 Flugstad, Irene. Week of Prayer's Allegory of Arnion (RR). (E). Apr II: 14 Allen, Sydney. Destination Heaven. Apr 25:11 Feb 7: 13 What Is Apocalyptic Literature? (E). Mar 14: II Anderson, Mary Lane. Famine Relief Work in Ethiopia. Franz, Clyde 0. Archivist's Finds Illuminate Early SDA Worthy or Unworthy Motives (E). Jun 27: 12 Jun 20: I History. May 9: 10 Nigri, M. S. Through the Bible 50 Times (GE). May 23: 2 Argent, Russel/ H. Harbingers of the Ultimate Revolution. Giles, Ann. On Being a Stepmother (FL). Mar 28: 13 Northrop, La Verne Hughes. "Be No More Children ..." Apr 4: 10 Glass, Jeanina Collier. Song of the Waters. Apr 11: 15 Jun 6: 18 Arrogante, F. M. Good Night Until the Morning. Jan 3' 4 Threads of the Past. Mar 7: 10 Ochs, W. B. "What Have They Seen in Thine House?" Jun Batten, Charles 1'. Mind of Christ. Mai 28: 7 Goddard, Lisa and Doherty, Ivy R. Shared Moccasins. 27: 10 Battistone, Joseph J. Making the Right Decision (YA). May Apr 4: 16 Ogden, Lewis R. Importance of Nature Study (FL). Apr 9:17 Griffiths, Victor S. Emphasize the Positive Features (RR). 4: 18 Beal, Carolyn. My Two Fathers. Jun 13: II Mar 7: 15 Oliphant, Charlotte J. Adventist Wife at Upper-Class So- Berecz, John. Age of the Vicarious (YA). Feb 14: 13 Hackett, Willis J. Law of the Unenforceable (GE). Apr cial Occasions. May 2: 10 Blincoe, Thomas H. Sufferings of Christ. May 23: 4 25: 2 Olmstead, Clovis 0. God Used a Child (FL). Apr II: 15 Boyle, Pan ick. Message Designed for Om Day. Mar 28: 4 Study Groups Examine Contemporary Issues (RC). Jun Oosterwal, Gottfried. After 100 Years Why Is the Task of Bradford, C. E. Saved From Sinking Sand. May 16: 9 27: 19 Mission Not Completed', Jan 31: 6 Bradley, W. P. Christians and Lawsuits. Jun 6: 9 Hall, Ilene. Mission: Navajo Land. Jun 6: 20 "Into All the World." Jan 24: 6 Resolving Our Differences. May 30: 4; Jun 6: 9 Hammill, Richard. How Narrow Is Narrow? Jun 27: 4 Lay Movement. Feb 7: 9 Bradshaw, Rebecca M. After the Breakup—Then What? Hammond, Richard. Polyester, Wool, and Salvation (YA). Movement Is Born. Jan 10: I (FL). Jun 20: 13 Jun 13: 13 Shut Door Opens. Jan 17: 6 Excuses in Disguise (FL). Jun 6: 17 Hancock, John. Church Is Three Feet Tall. Feb 7: 4 Patt, Donna. Do Our Cooking Classes Teach Health Cook- For the Love of Money. May 23: 8 Hastings, Robert J. Religion Is a Four-Letter Word. May 9: 9 ery? (SO). Jun 20: 10 Happiness Is . • . Not Divorce (FL). Jun 13: 10 Turtle Turn-Arounder. May 2: 11 Pettis, Shirley. First SDA "House"-wile in Washington. Man, Adultery, and the Church (FL), May 30: 13 Virtue Needs No Press Agent. Apr 11: 18 Feb 7: 18 Balton, Alejandro. The Bible That Floated. Feb 14: 15 Henri, C. D. God's Business Is Our Business (GE). Mar Pfannmuller, Mrs. C. Week of Prayer's Allegory of Arnion Burton, Shirley. Judging Fruits. Jan 3: 13 28: 2 (RR). Feb 7: 14 Bushnell, Clyde. Blackberry Pickers—A Parable (YA). Hoehn, G. H. Christian Bee and Beehive. Jan 17: 12 Pierson, Robert H. "Another Generation ... Which Knew Jan 10: 13 Holbrook, Betty. Are You What You Will Be'? (EW). Feb Not the Lord"? May 23: 1 Butler, Jonathan. Dare a Pelson Say "I Am Saved'"? May 7: 17 Church Moves Ahead in Plans for Reorganization and 16: 19 Gossip Is So Tasty (EW). Apr 4: 19 '75 Session (RC). Apr 25: 18 Campbell, Alma L. Keeping Fellowship Alive and Glowing. "Here Is a Theme, Poor Formalist . . ." (EW). May "Go ... and Tell" (HH). Apr 11: 2 Mar 28: 6 2: 21 Good News . for You! May 16: 28 Carcich, Theodore. Shoddy or Quality Merchandise'? May I Detest Football! (EW). Jan 3: 16 I Visited Three All-Adventist Islands. Mar 7: 9 2: 6 My Picture of God Has Changed. May 16: 13 "The Lord Is Ready. The People Are Ready." (HH). We Are Never Alone. Mar 21: 6 Respectfully Yours (EW). Jun 6: 19 Jun 13: 2 Card, E. C. I Gave Up Speaking in Tongues. Jan 31: 4 So This Is What It's Like (EW). Mar 7: 17 Loving, Giving, and Joy (HH). Mar 14: 2 Chase, John. Three Pharisees. Feb 21: 12 Horn, Siegfried H. '73 Dig Yields Its Treasures. Mar 28: 8 Open Letter to the 68,260 SDA Denominational Workers Chen, Philip S. Spiritual Grafting Is Contrary to Nature. Third Season of Heshbon Excavations. Mar 21: 4; Mar Around the World. Jan 3: I Feb 21: 9 28: 8 So You Want to Be a Leader? Feb 14: 2 Cleveland, E. E. Delta Flight 523. Apt 25: 1 Howse, F., W. God's Gift to His People. Feb 28: 8 Standard-bearer of the Past Speaks (HH). Jan 10: 2 Clifford, F. G. Our Compassionate Heavenly Father. Apr Iscot, Albino (as told to Loron T. Wade). Rifle, Three "Without Me—Nothing" (HH). May 9: 2 18. 4 Oranges, and God's Call. Feb 28: 16 Randolph, Lois Christian. How to Teach Children Hon- Clouzel, Gaston. Mind of Jesus (E). May 2: 16 Javor, G. T. and G. E. Snow. Apollo Sixteen Mission and esty (FL). Feb 7: 16 Trinity Psalm (E). Mar 7: 13 Biochemical Evolution. Mar 14: 4 Rasmussen, Maxine T. Stickies (FL). Mar 7: 16 Coffen, Richard W. Apples of Sodom (YA). Apr II: 17 Joers, Lawrence E. C. Why Pray? Apr 4: 8 They Also Serve. Feb. 14: Il Comm, Dorothy Minehin. That Empty Space. Feb 14: 14 Johnson, Duane S. Family Commitment—The High Road Read, W. E. Eat thl y Sanctuary—Glorious Structure! Cooney, Betty. In the Midst of Chaos: Rest. Jun 6: 12 of Missions. Jun 27: 16 May 2: 4 Cornog, Lillian E. Senior Citizen Confesses Her Faith I Visit Down Under. Apr 4: 4 Reaves, Benjamin. There Is Yet One Man. Mar 7: 4 (RR), May 30: 11 We Visit the Islands of Australasia. Apr 18: 12 Rentfro, Charles A. Bible Study Adventure (RR). Apr Cunningham, Louis F. Way to the Kingdom. Jun 27: 9 Work Begins Down Under. Apr 11: 12 4: 9 Dabrowski, Ray. On Rebirth of an Ideal Family (FL). Jan Joiner, James. Three Men at Calvary. Apr 11: 10 Reynolds, Gloria. Web. Jttn 20: 14 24: 12 Jorgensen, Alfred S. Emmaus and the Aftermath. Apr Richards, H. M. S. Mother Said, "You Must Punish Me." Davis, Kirby. Reduce Length of the School Day (SO). Jun 18: 6 May 16: 12 6: 6 Kemmerer, Martin E. World Budget of the Church. Mar Roberts, Jim F. "Prove Me Now." Mar 14: 10 Dederen, Raoul. Lutherans and Catholics Agree on a "Re- 21: 8 Rosenvold, Lloyd and Leola. Maintain the Proper Balance newed Papacy." Jun 27: I Kohler, Clarence N. "This Is Our God." May 30: 8 (RR). Jan 17: 16 Delafield, D. A. Ellen White in Europe: She Emphasized Lausten, Esther. Plan of Salvation—for Cherubs. Jan 17: 18 Roth, D. A. South Vietnam After One Year. Mar 14: 1 Unity. Jan 3: 19 Lesher, W. Richard. Alphabet of the Christian Life. May Sackett, Florence M. Greatest Argument. Mar 21: 14 Experts Condemn Overuse of Antibiotics, May 30: 6 16: 25 Savoy, Judy. Changing Channels (FL). Jan 31: 14 Diaz, Lucas M. Make Your Faith Felt. Mar 7: 10 Lindstrom, P. R. Excellence. May 2: 14 Scragg, Walter. From Honeymoon to Happiness (EM). Doherty, Ivy R. and Goddard, Lisa. Shared Moccasins. Lloyd, Ernest. Glory of the Empty Tomb. Apr 11: 9 Jun 13: 12 Apr 4: 16 Honoring Mothers. May 9: 15 "I Remember" (EM). Mar 14: 14 Douglass, Het bet t E. Boredom (E). Apr 4: 13 Logan, William H. Week of Prayer's Allegory of Arnion Kiddie Power (EM). Apr 11: 16 Dauntless Dr. Brown (E). Jan 10: 9 (RR). Feb 7: 13 New Year Survival Guide (EM). Jan 10 12 Do-Gooder (E). Mar 28: I I Loveless, Edna Maye. Request Rather Than Command Shout or a Sigh (EM). Feb 14: 12 Ellen White's Eschatological Principle (E). May 23: 12 (FL). Mar 14: 13 Smart Generation (EM), May 9: 15 Gas Stations and a National Sunday Law (E). Feb 28: 12 Marsh, Frank Lewis. What Did Darwin Prove'? May 9: 4 Shuler, J. R. Five R's (RR). Feb 21: 10

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (715) 27 Sloan, Nancy. My Garden of Memories (FL). Jan 17: 17 Evaluating Self-Awareness Experiences. Ronaele Whitting- Smith, Flora Kellogg. Red Balloon, Mai 28: 14 ton. Feb 7: 7 Snow, G. E. and 0. T. Javor. Apollo Sixteen Mission and Examining the Forest of Revelation (E). Don F. Neufeld. Biochemical Evolution, Mar 14: 4 Mar 21: 11 Spalding, Helen. Plan Ahead—the Secret of Sabbaihkeeping Excellence. P. R. Lindstrom. May 2: 14 (FL). Jan 10: II Excuses in Disguise (FL). Rebecca M. Bradshaw. Jun Specht, Walter F. Christ the Lamb. Feb 28: 6 6: 17 Coming King. Mar 14: 8 Exorcist (WY). Miriam Wood. May 2: 12 Glorified Christ. Feb 14: 4 Experts Condemn Overuse of Antibiotics. D. A. Delafie/d. Lamb Versus the Beast. Mar 7: 6 May 30: 6 Superintendent of the Church. Feb 21: 6 Family Commitment—The High Road of Missions. Duane S. Staples, Russell 1.. Church in the Third World. Feb 14: 6 Johnson. Jun 27: 16 Stele y, Dennis. Safari Across Guadalcanal. Mar 7: 18 Famine Relief Work in Ethiopia. Mary Lane Anderson. Slow, Rose Greer. Sanctimonious Skinny Man. Jun 27: 6 Jun 20: 1 Strong, June. You Don't Have to Be a Michelangelo (FL). Father's Day—Resurrection Style. Anne Stump Figuhr. May 2: 20 Jun 13: 1 Thrift, 1.. R. Where Goes the Adventist Home'? (FL). Apr "Fiddling Little Sins." Kristin Evans. Apr 18: 7 25: 13 First SDA "House"-wife in Washington. Shirley Pettis. Thurber, Merwin R. Gems for a Month of Meditation on Feb 7: 18 Righteousness by Faith. May 16: 27 Five R's (RR). J. L. Studer. Feb 21: 10 Trim, Marye. Star in Israel. May 9: 8 For the Love of Money. Rebecca M. Bradshaw. May 23: 8 Vandeman, George E. Meet the Master. May 16: 3 From Honeymoon to Happiness (EM). Walter Scragg. Jun Vine, Ray D. Churchgoing—An Optional Luxury? (17.). Jan 13:12 31: 12 Funds, Friends, and Frauds (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Feb Gods That Fail (E). Apr 4: 13 21: 2 Making God in Man's Image (F). Jun 20' 11 F.Y.I. (El. Kenneth H. Wood. May 30: 2; Jun 6: 2 Strength Through Humility (F). Mar 14: 12 Gas Stations and a National Sunday Law (E). Herbert E. Waddell, Ralph F. Anemia (H). Feb 14: 8 Douglass. Feb 28: 12 Backache (H). Jan 10: 8 Gems for a Month of Meditation on Righteousness by Faith. Goiter (H) May 9: 6 Merwin R. Thurber. May 16: 27 How About Breakfast? (H). Mar 14: 7 CALIFORNIA ADVENTIST Glorified Christ. Walter F. Specht. Feb 14: 4 Noise (14). Apr It: II Glory of the Empty Tomb. Ernest Lloyd. Apr 11: 9 Science and Health (H). Jun 13: 8 BECOMES CENTENARIAN "Go . . and Tell" (HH). Robert H. Pierson. Apr 11: 2 Wagoner, Omer, Psychology and Ellen G. White. Apr 25: 6 Ella Krater of Loma Linda, California, God Used a Child (FL). Clovis 0. Olmstead. Apr 11: 15 Wahlman, Judy. Occupation Homemaker (FL). Jan 3: 15 God's Business Is Our Business (GE). C. D. Henri. Mar Walther, Daniel. Survey of Zw ingli's Theology. Jun 20: 6 celebrated her one hundredth birth- 28: 2 Zwingli for Fatherland and Christendom. Jun 13: 4 day on April 5. She became an Ad- God's Gift to His People. E. W. Howse. Feb 28: 8 Zwingli—The Lesser Known Reformer. Jun 6: 4 Gods That Fail (E). Ray D. Vine. Apr 4: 13 Watts, Kit. Miriam, Secret Weapon. Jan 17: 8 ventist after attending evangelistic Goiter (H). Ralph F. Waddell. May 9: 6 Wearner, Robert G. Haystack Prayer Meeting. Apr 25: 4 meetings conducted in the old "Mis- Good News . . . for You! Robert H. Pierson. May 16: 28 Webster, F. C. Week of Prayer's Allegory of Arnion (RR). Good Night Until the Morning, F. M. Arrogante. Jan 3: 4 Feb 7: 14 sion" in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Gossip Is So Tasty (EW). Betty Holbrook. Apr 4: 19 White, Ellen G. "Keep My Commandments." Feb 21: 10 Her husband gave up a promising Greatest Argument. Florence M. Sackett. Mar 21: 14 Popular Holiness Meetings. Apr 25: 10 Growing Power of Unions. Ronaele R. Whittington. Apr 4: 6 Whittington, Ronaele. Evaluating Self-Awareness Experi- position in the post office in order to Guru (WY). Miriam Wood. Jan 3: 11 ences. Feb 7: 7 join the Adventist Church with her be- Happiness Is . . Not Divorce (FL). Rebecca M. Brad- Growing Power of Unions (A Case Study From Hawaii). shaw. Jun 13: 10 Apr 4: 6 fore their marriage. Shortly afterward Harbingers of the Ultimate Revolution, Russell 14. Argent. Sensitivity and Encounter Experiences. Jan 31: 8 they left for Battle Creek, Michigan, Apr 4: 10 Seventh-day Adventists and the New Group Awareness Hastening Christ's Coming (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Mar 7: 2 Therapies. Jan 24: 4 to train for nursing careers. Have We Lost Our Nerve'? (SO). Nancy Marter. Mar 28: 12 Wilcox, W. L. Rescued! Apr 11: 7 Above, Mrs. Krater visits with one Haystack Prayer Meeting. Robert G. Wearner. Apr 25: 4 Wood, Kenneth H. Comet Kohoutek (E). Jan 17: 2 He Was My Hero. Robert E. and Mildred E, Adams. Jan Demon Possession and Exorcism (E). Apr 18: 2 of her young neighbors. 3: 17 F.Y.1. (E). May 30: 2; Jun 6: 2 S. A. YAKUSH "Here Is a Theme, Poor Formalist . ." (EW). Betty Hol- Funds, Friends, and Frauds (10. Feb 21: 2 brook. May 2: 21 Hastening Christ's Coming. Mar 7: 2 Departmental Secretary Honoring Mothers. Ernest Lloyd. May 9: IS Jesus Made the Way Plain in Parables. May 16: 14 Southeastern California Conference How About Breakfast'? (H). Ralph F. Waddell. Mar 14; 7 Love, Forgiveness, and Harmony (E). Mar 21: 2 How Important Is a Mother' (FL). Jesse H. Merrell. May Much About the Church Is Right (E). May 2: 2 9: 14 Need for Oil (E). Jan 24: 2 How Is the Divine Name Pronounced? (E). Don F. Neufeld. One Hundred Years of World Mission (E). Jan 3: 2 Jun 13: 9 Reaction to the Council Appeal (10. Feb 28: 2 How Narrow Is Narrow' Richard Hammill. Jun 27: 4 2 Bible Study Adventure (RR). Charles A. Rentfro. Apr Responsibility of Leaders (E). Jan 31: How to Teach Children Honesty (FL)., Lois Christian Ran- Apr 4: 2 Sunday, War, and "Big Daddy" (El. 4: 9 dolph. Feb 7: 16 of Watergate (E). Feb 7: 2 Bible That Floated. Alejandro Balton. Feb 14: 15 Ten Lessons I Detest Football! (EW). Betty Holbrook. Jan 3: 16 Three Steps to Victory (E). Blackberry Pickers—A Parable (YA). Clyde Bushnell. Jan Jun 20: 2 I Gave Up Speaking in Tongues. E. C. Card. Jan 31: 4 10: 13 Wood, Miriam. Christian Energy (WY). Feb 21: 8 "I Remember" (EM). Walter Scragg. Mar 14: 14 Exorcist (WY). May 2: 12 Boredom (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Apr 4; 13 Broader Application (E). Don F. Neufeld. May 30: 12 I Visit Down Under. Duane S. Johnson. Apr 4: 4 Guru (WY). Jan 3: 11 I Visited Three All-Adventist Islands. Robert H. Pierson. Jay and the Children Who Lcd Him (WY). Apr 18: 9 Centennial of SDA Missions, Gottfried Oosterwal and Russell L. Staples. Jan 10: 1; Jan 17: 6; Jan 24: 6; Jan Mar 7: 9 Little Something (WY). Feb 7:'11 1 If Two of You Shall Agree. Wadie Farag. 31:6; Feb 7: 9; Feb 14: 6 Apr 25' 14 My Ellen 0. White (WY). Jun 6: 7 Importance of Nature Study (FL), Lewis R. Ogden. Apr Pacific Union College (WY). Mar 21: 7; Apr 4: 11 Changing Channels (FL). Judy Savoy. Jan 31: 14 Christ and Minneapolis 1888. C. Mervyn Maxwell. May 4; 18 Questions and Answers (WY). Mar 7: 7 In Defense of Missionaries (SO). Gilbert U. H. Murray. Random Thoughts While Waiting in a Gas Line (WY). 16: 16 May 9: 11 May 23: 7 Christ Crushed by the Crowd. Adalai Albert Esteb. May 2: 7 Christ of the Apocalypse. Walter P. Specht. Feb 14: 4; "In Prison You Visited Me." Gordon Engen. Jan 3: 6 To Be Happy in Heaven (WY). Jun 27: 11 In the Midst of Chaos: Rest. Betty Cooney. Jun 6: 12 Voice of Performance (WY). Jan 17: 13 Feb 21: 6; Feb 28: 6; Mar 7: 6; Mar 14: 8 International Co-op Will Unify World (E). Herbert E. Doug- When the Answer Is "No" (WY). Jan 24: 7 Christ the Lamb. Walter F. Specht. Feb 28: 6 Christian Bee and Beehive. G. H. Hoehn. Jan 17: 12 lass. May 9: 13 Woods, Cora Stark. Just a Glimpse of Him. Jan 10: 6 "Into All the World." Gottfried Oosterwal. Jan 24: 6 Young, Opal Hoover. "College on a Stump." Apr It: 4 Christian Energy (WY). Miriam Wood. Feb 21: 8 Is There a Teaching Authority in the Adventist Church? (E). Youngs, Dallas. Two Strides Behind (YA). Mar 14: 15 Christians and Lawsuits. W. P. Bradley. Jun 6: 9 Don F. Neufeld. Jan 31: 11 Zalabak, Mrs. Paul. Week of Prayer's Allegory of Arnion Christ's Object Lessons (E). Herbert E. Douglass. May 23: Jay and the Children Who Led Him (WY). Miriam Wood. (RR). Feb 7: 14 12; Jun 6: 14 Church and the World of Finance. Kenneth H. Emmerson. Apr 18: 9 Jan 17: 4; Mar 21: 8 Jesus Made the Way Plain in Parables. Kenneth H, Wood. Church in the Third World. Russell L. Staples. Feb 14: 6 May 16: 14 Titles Church Is Born (E). Don F. Neufeld, Apr 25: 12 Judging Fruits. Shirley Burton. Jan 3: 13 Church Is Three Feet Tall! John H. Hancock. Feb 7: 4 Just a Glimpse of Him. Cora Stark Woods. Jan 10: 6 Adventist Wife at Upper-Class Social Occasions. Char- Church Moves Ahead in Plans for Reorganization and '75 "Keep My Commandments." Ellen G. White. Feb 21: 10 lotte J. Oliphant. May 2: 10 Session (RC). Robert H. Pierson. Apr 25: 18 Keeping Fellowship Alive and Glowing. Alma L. Campbell. Adventists and Charitable Deductions (E). Don F. Neu- Church's Throwaway Children. Loren L. Fenton. Feb 28: 4 Mar 28: 6 feld. Feb 21: 13 Churchgoing—An Optional Luxury? (E). Ray D. Vine. Keeping Humble About the Future (F). Herbert E. Doug- After 100 Years Why Is the Task of Mission Not Com- Jan 31: 12 lass. Apr 18: 10 pleted'? Gottfried Oosterwal. Jan 31: 6 "College on a Stump." Opal Hoover Young. Apr 11: 4 Kiddie Power (EM). Walter Scragg. Apr 11: 16 After the Breakup—Then What? (FL). Rebecca M. Brad- Comet Kohoutek (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Jan 17: 2 Lamb Versus the Beast. Walter F. Specht. Mar 7: 6 shaw. Jun 20: 13 Coming King. Walter F. Specht. Mar 14: 8 Law of the Unenforceable (GE). Willis J. Hackett. Apr 25: 2 Age of the Vicarious (YA). John Berecz. Feb 14: 13 Dare a Person Say "I Am Saved"? Jonathan Butler. May Lay Movement Gottfried Oosterwal. Feb 7: 9 Alphabet of the Christian Life. W. Richard Lesher. May 16: 19 Little Something (WY). Miriam Wood. Feb 7: /1 16: 25 Dauntless Dr. Brown (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Jan 10: 9 Little Stewardship Would Help (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Anemia (H). Ralph F. Waddell. Feb 14: 8 Delta Flight 523. E. E. Cleveland. Apr 25: 1 Feb 7: 12 Angels on Vacation? (E). Don F. Neufeld. Jan 10: 9 Demon Possession and Exorcism (E). Kenneth H. Wood. "Lord Is Ready. The People Are Ready" (HH). Robert H. "Another Generation . . . Which Knew Not the Lord"? Apr 18: 2 Pierson. Jun 13: 2 Robert H. Pierson. May 23: I Destination Heaven. Sydney Allen. Apr 25: II Love, Forgiveness, and Harmony (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Apollo Sixteen Mission and Biochemical Evolution. G. T. Do-Gooder (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Mar 28: 11 Mar 21: 2 Javor and G. E. Snow. Mar 14: 4 Do Our Cooking Classes Teach Health Cookery, (SO). Loving, Giving, and Joy (1-11-1). Robert H. Pierson. Mar 14: 2 Apples of Sodom (YA). Richard W. Coffer). Apr II: 17 Donna Patt. Jun 20: 10 Lutherans and Catholics Agree on a "Renewed Papacy." Archivist's Finds Illuminate Early SDA History. Clyde 0. Double Sin. Rebecca M. Bradshaw. May 30: 13; Jun 6: 17; Raoul Dederen. Jun 27: 1 Franz. May 9: 10 Jun 20: 13 Maintain the Proper Balance (RR). Lloyd and Leola Rosen- Are You What You Will Be'? (EW). Betty Holbrook, Feb Earthly Sanctuary—Glorious Structure! W. E. Read. May vold. Jan 17: 16 7: 17 2: 4 Make Your Faith Felt. Lucas M. Diaz. Mar 7: 10 Australasia, Then and Now. Duane S. Johnson. Apr 4: 4; Ellen White in Europe: She Emphasized Unity. D. A. Dela- Making God in Man's Image (E) Ray D. Vine. Jun 20: 11 Apr II: 12; Apr 18: 12; Apr 25: 16 field. Jan 3: 19 Making the Right Decision (YA). Joseph J. Battistone. May Axis of History. Gd 0. Fernandez. Feb 21: 4 Ellen White's Eschatological Principle (E). Herbert E. 9: 17 Backache (H). Ralph F. Waddell. Jan 10: 8 Douglass. May 23: 12 Malnutrition Sentences the Unborn (E). Herbert E. Doug- "Be No More Children . . ." La Verne Hughes Northrop. Emmaus and the Aftermath. Alfred S. Jorgensen. Apr lass. May 2: 16 Jun 6: 18 18: 6 Man, Adultery, and the Church. Rebecca M. Bradshaw. Bible Questions Answered. Jan 17: 11; Feb 7: 6; Mar 7: 11; Emphasize the Positive Features (RR). Victor S. Griffiths. May 30: 13 Apr 4: 12; May 2: 15; Jun 6: II Mar 7: 15 Meet the Master. George E. Vandeman. May 16: 3

28 (716) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 Message Designed for Our Day. Patrick Boyle. Mar 28: 4 Righteousness by Faith—Is It Biblical? Don F. Neufeld. Use of Drugs. T R. Flaiz. May 30. 1 Messages' Current Application (E). Don F. Neufeld. May May 16: 6 Victorious Living. Jan 31: 1; May 2. 7 9: 12 Safari Across Guadalcanal. Dennis Steley. Mar 7: 18 Virtue Needs No Press Agent. Robert J. Hastings. Apr Mind of Christ. Charles T. Batten. Mar 28: 7 Salving the Conscience (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Mar 11: 18 Mind of Jesus (E). Gaston Clouzet. May 2: 16 21: II Voice of Performance (WY). Miriam Wood. Jan 17: 13 Miriam, Secret Weapon. Kit Watts. Jan 17: 8 Sanctimonious Skinny Man. Rose Greer Stoia. Jun 27: 6 Way to the Kingdom. Louis F. Cunningham. Jun 27: 9 Mission: Navajo Land. Ilene Hall. Jun 6: 20 Saved From Sinking Sand. C. E. Bradford. May 16: 9 We Are Never Alone. Theodore Carcich. Mar 21: 6 "Most Valuable Thing" (GE). W. Duncan Eva. Jun 27: 2 Science and Health (H). Ralph F. Waddell. Jun 13: 8 We Visit the Islands of Australasia. Duane S Johnson. Apr Mother and Her Apple. Donald W. McKay. Jan 24: 5 Senior Citizen Confesses Her Faith (RR). Lillian E. Cornog. 18: 12 Mother Said, "You Must Punish Me." H. M. S. Richards. May 30: II Web. Gloria Reynolds. Jun 20: 14 May 16: 12 Sensitivity and Encounter Experiences. Ronaele Whitting- Week of Prayer's Allegory of Arnion (RR). Irene Fiugstad, Movement Is Born. Gottfried Oosterwal. Jan 10: I ton. Jan 31: 8 William H. Logan, Mrs. C. Prannmuller, Mrs. Paul Much About the Church Is Right (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Seventh-day Adventists and the New Group Awareness Zalabak. Feb 7. 13, 14 May 2: 2 Therapies. Ronaele Whittington. Jan 24: 4; Jan 31: 8; What Did Darwin Prove? Frank Lewis Marsh. May 9' 4 My Ellen G. White (WY). Miriam Wood. Jun 6: 7 Feb 7: 7 "What Have They Seen in Thine House" W. B. Ochs. My Garden of Memories (FL). Nancy Sloan. Jan 17: 17 '73 Dig Yields Its Treasures. Siegfried H. Horn. Mar 28: 8 Jun 27: 10 My Picture of God Has Changed. Betty Holbrook. May Shared Moccasins. Lisa Goddard and Ivy R. Doherty. Apr What Is Apocalyptic Literature'? (E). Don F. Neufeld Mar 16: 13 4: 16 14: 11 My Two Fathers. Carolyn Beal. Jun 13: I I Shoddy or Quality Merchandise? Theodore Carcich. May When the Answer Is "No" (WY). Miriam Wood. Jan 24. 7 Need for Oil (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Jan 24: 2 2: 6 Where Goes the Adventist Home' (FL). L R. Thrift. Apr New International Version of the NT (E). Don F. Neufeld. Shout or a Sigh (EM). Walter Scragg. Feb 14: 12 25: 13 Jan 24: 9 Shut Door Opens. Gottfried Oosterwal. Jan 17: 6 Why God Is Urgent—And Yet Waits. Herbert E Douglass. New Year Survival Guide (EM). Walter Scragg. Jan 10: 12 Smart Generation (EM). Walter Scragg. May 9: 15 May 16: 21 New Year's Prayer (E). Don F. Neufeld. Jan 3: 12 So This Is What It's Like (EW). Betty Holbrook. Mar 7: 17 Why Pray" Lawrence E. C. Joers. Apr 4: 8 1973: In Retrospect (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Mar 7: 12 So You Want to Be a Leader? Robert H. Pierson, Feb 14: 2 "Without Me—Nothing" (HID. Robert H. Pierson. May 1973's Top Religious News Stories (E). Don F. Neufeld. Song of the Waters. Jeanina Collier Glass. Apr 11: IS 9: 2 Feb 14: 9 South Vietnam After One Year. D. A. Roth. Mar 14: I Women of the Bible. Jan 17: 8; May 9: 8 Noise (1-1). Ralph F. Waddell. Apr 11: 11 Special Truth and a Special Work (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Work Begins Down Under. Duane S. Johnson. Apr 11- 12 Occupation Homemaker (FL). Judy Wahlman. Jan 3: 15 Jun 6: 14 World Budget of the Church. Martin E. Kemmerer. Mar On Becoming a Pastor's Wife (FL). Ella Ruth Elkins. Feb Spiritual Grafting Is Contrary to Nature. Philip S. Chen. 21: 8 28: 14 Feb 21: 9 Worthy or Unworthy Motives (E). Don F. Neufeld. Jun On Being It Stepmother (FL). Ann Giles. Mar 28: 13 Spiritual Power Failure (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Feb 14: 10 27: 12 On Rebirth of an Ideal Family (FL). Ray Dabrowski. Jan Standard-bearer of the Past Speaks (HH). Robert H. Pier- You Don't Have to Be a Michelangelo. June Strong. May 24: 12 son. Jan 10: 2 2: 20 One Hundred Years of World Mission (E). Kenneth H. Star in Israel. Marye Trim. May 9: 8 Zwingli for Fatherland and Christendom. Daniel Walther. Wood. Jan 3: 2 Stickies (FL). Maxine T. Rasmussen. Mar 7: 16 Jun 13: 4 Open Letter to the 68,260 SDA Denominational Workers Strength Through Humility (E). Ray D. Vine. Mar 14: 12 Zwingli—The Lesser Known Reformer. Daniel Walther. Around the World. Robert H. Pierson. Jan 3: I Study Groups Examine Contemporary Issues (RC). Willis J. Jun 6: 4 Our Compassionate Heavenly Father. F. G. Clifford. Apr Hackett. Jun 27: 19 Zwingli, Ulrich. Daniel Walther. Jun 20: 6 18: 4 Sufferings of Christ. Thomas H. 13Iincoe. May 23: 4 Pacific Union College (WY). Miriam Wood. Mar 21: 7; Apr Suggestions on How Churches May Cooperate (E). Her- 4: I I bert E. Douglass. Jan 24: 10 Subjects Plan Ahead—the Secret of Sabbathkeeping (FL). Helen Sunday, War, and "Big Daddy" (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Spalding. Jan 10: I I Apr 4: 2 Adultery: church's position on Man, Adultery, and the Plan of Salvation—for Cherubs. Esther Lausten. Jan 17: 18 Superintendent of the Church. Walter F. Specht. Feb 21: 6 Church. Rebecca M. Bradshaw. May 30: 13. Excuses Polyester, Wool, and Salvation (YA). Richard Hammond. Survey of Zwingli's Theology. Daniel Walther. Jun 20: 6 in Disguise. Jun 6: 17. Happiness Is . Not Divorce, Jun 13: 13 Take Away the Filthy Garments. J. A. McMillan. Jun 20: 4 Jun 13: 10. After the Breakup—Then What? Jun 20: 13 Popular Holiness Meetings. Ellen G. White. Apr 25: 10 Ten Lessons of Watergate (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Feb 7: 2 Andrews University: an historical review of its first 100 Protestant Missions in Transition (El. Herbert E. Douglass. That Empty Space. Dorothy Minchin Comm. Feb 14: 14 years. "College on a Stump." Opal Hoover Young. Jan 3: 12 There Is Yet One Man. Benjamin Reaves. Mar 7: 4 Apr 11: 4 "Prove Me Now." Jim F. Roberts. Mar 14: 10 They Also Serve. Maxine T. Rasmussen. Feb 14: II Archeology: report of 1973 Heshbon expedition. Third Psychology and Ellen G. White. Omer Wagoner. Apr 25: 6 Third Season of Heshbon Excavations. Siegfried H. Horn. Season of Heshbon Excavations—Parts I & 2. Siegfried Questions and Answers (WY). Miriam Wood. Mar 7: 7 Mar 21: 4; Mar 28: 8 H. Horn. Mar 21: 4; Mar 28: 8 Random Thoughts While Waiting in a Gas Line (WY). Mir- "This Is Our God." Clarence N. Kohler. May 30: 8 Australasia: history of Adventism in area of. Australia, iam Wood. May 23: 7 Thoughts During an Energy Crisis (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Then and Now. Duane S. Johnson. Apr 11: 12: Apr 18: Reaction to the Council Appeal (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Jan 17; 14; Jan 24: 10; Feb 7: 12; Feb 14: 10 12; Apr 25: 16 Feb. 28: 2; Mar 7: 2 Threads of the Past. Jeanina Collier Glass. Mar 7: 10 report of 1973 division council. I Visit Down Under. Red Balloon. Flora Kellogg Smith. Mar 28: 14 Three Angels' Messages. Don F. Neufeld. Mar 14: 11; Mar Duane S. Johnson. Apr 4: 4 Reduce Length of the School Day (SO). Kirby Davis. 21: 11; Apr 14; Apr 25: 12; May 9: 12; May 30: 12 Bees: lessons learned from. Christian Bee and Beehive. G. Jun 6: 6 Three Angels' Messages in Their Historical Application (E). H. Hoehn. Jan 17: 12 Rejoice in Disappointment. Alice Drury. Feb 28: 11 Don F. Neufeld. Apr 11: 14 Bible: an analysis of Psalm 23. Trinity Psalm (E). Gaston Religion Is a Four-Letter Word. Robert J. Hastings, Three Men at Calvary. James Joiner. Apr 10 Clouzet. Mar 7: 13 May 9: 9 Three Pharisees. John Chase. Feb 21: 12 reading it keeps one in communion with God, Through Request Rather Than Command (FL). Edna Maye Loveless. Three Steps to Victory (El. Kenneth H. Wood. Jun 20: 2 the Bible 50 Times (GE). M. S. Nigri. May 23: 2 Mar 14: 13 Through the Bible 50 Times (GE). M. S. Nigri. May 23: 2 Bible Questions Answered: Feb 7: 6; Mar 7:11, Apr 4: 12; Resolving Our Differences. W. P. Bradley. May 30: 4; Jun To Be Happy in Heaven (WY). Miriam Wood. Jun 27: I I May 2; IS; Jun 6: 11 6: 9 Trinity Psalm (E). Gaston Clouzet. Mar 7: 13 Bible study: an adventure in several languages simulta- Respectfully Yours (EW). Betty Holbrook. Jun 6: 19 Truth Understood Only by Men of Faith (E). Herbert E. neously. Bible Study Adventure (RR). Charles A. Rent- Responsibility of Leaders (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Jan 31: 2 Douglass. Jun 20: 11 fro. Apr 4: 9 Rescued! W. L. Wilcox. Apr 11: 7 Turtle Turn-Arounder. Robert J. Hastings. May 2: II important to character development and personal salva- Rifle, Three Oranges, and God's Call. Albino Ixeot (as told Two Strides Behind (YA). Dallas Youngs. Mar 14: 15 tion. "The Most Valuable Thing" (GE). W. Duncan to Loron T. Wade). Feb 28: 16 Unity, How? Erma McReynolds. Apr 25; 8 Eva. Jun 27: 2 Bible translations: analysis of the New International Ver- sion. New International Version of the NT (E). Don F. Neufeld. Jan 24: 9 Boredom: analysis of and suggestions on avoiding. Bore- dom (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Apr 4: 13 Brown, Dr. Gertrude: a tribute to her 94 years of service. Dauntless Dr. Brown (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Jan 10:9 Children: care and training of. Request Rather Than Com- mand (FL). Edna Maye Loveless. Mar 14: 13 high moments in parent's life. My Garden of Memories (FL). Nancy Sloan. Jan 17: 17 should be trained as outlined in Bible and Spirit of Proph- ecy. Kiddie Power (EM). Walter Scragg. Apr I I: 16 their need fulfilled can bring salvation to their helper. Jay and the Children Who Led Him (WY). Miriam Wood. Apr 18: 9 Christ: His mind is man's model Mind of Christ. Charles T. Batten. Mar 28: 7 Christian character contrast with worldliness. Apples of Sodom (YA). Richard W. Coffee. Apr 11: 17 danger of letting anything crowd Jesus out of our minds. Christ Crushed by the Crowd. Adlai Albert Esteb, May 2: 7 dependence on God only way to grow spiritually. New Year Survival Guide (EM). Walter Scragg. Jan 10: 12 greatest argument for the reality of God Greatest Argu- ment. Florence M. Sackett. Mar 21: 14 how to handle frustration and disappointment Rejoice in Disappointment. Alice Drury Feb 28: 11 humility, the sign of greatness. Strength Through Humil- CHURCH DEDICATED IN CLOVERDALE, CALIFORNIA ity (E). Ray D. Vine. Mar 14: 12 integrity, a matter of man's words and life. There Is Yet The Cloverdale, California, church was dedicated January 5, 1974. Opening One Man. Benjamin Reaves. Mar 7: 4 making a habit of being good. Do-gooder (E). Herbert E. services were held on June 5, 1971, and a little more than two years later the Douglass. Mar 28: 1 church debt was erased. making excellence a life habit. Shoddy or Qualtity Mer- chandise? Theodore Carcich. May 2: 6 At the pulpit is F. M. Ramsey, pastor. Others participating were Gerald Haeger, not to wallow In self-pity or self-justification. Are You What You Will Be'? (EW). Betty Holbrook. Feb 7• 17 Leslie Hardinge (who built the church pews and pulpit furniture as a gift to the must be victorious over sin. Open Letter to the 68,260 new church), the Merlin Foll family, Joseph Phillips, Gordon Bietz, and H. C. SDA Denominational Workers Around the World, Robert H. Pierson. Jan 3: I Retzer, president of the Northern California Conference. W. B. BRISTOW not achieved by an arbitrary act of God. Love. Forgive- Communication Director ness, and Harmony (El. Kenneth H. Wood. Mar 21: 2 quality work speaks for itself. Voice of Performance Northern California Conference (WY). Miriam Wood. Jan 17: 13

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (717) 29 encouragement is strong medicine. They Also Serve. respect and pride contrasted. Respectfully Yours (EW). mutual fellowship of church members. Keeping Fellow- Maxine T. Rasmussen. Feb 14: 11 Betty Holbrook. Jun 6: 19 ship Alive and Glowing. Alma L. Campbell. Mar 28: 6 spontaneous expression of appreciation needed. Little Christian leadership: Christ's example ensures true success. personal injunction to all. "Go . . and Tell" (NHL Rob- Something (WY). Miriam Wood. Feb 7: 11 So You Want to Be a Leader? Robert H. Pierson. Feb ert H. Pierson. Apr II: 2 General Conference Session: '75 GC session plans and plans 14. 2 use social occasions for tactful witnessing. Adventist for reorganization. Church Moves Ahead in Plans for Christian service: chief concern is willingness to do one's Wife at Upper-Class Social Occasions. Charlotte J. Reorganization and '75 Session Robert H. Pierson. best. Blackberry Pickers--a Parable (YA). Clyde Bush- Oliphant. May 2: 10 Apr 25: 18 nell. Jan 10: 13 Evolution v. creationism: no new basic types since Crea- Giving: the joy and increase of blessings are sure. Loving, Christian witness: in lives of Christlike people. Just a tion have evolved. What Did Darwin Prove? Frank Giving, and Joy (HH). Robert H. Pierson. Mar 14: 2 Glimpse of Him Cora Stark Woods. Jan 10: 6 Lewis Marsh. May 9: 4 Christlikeness: how obtained. Three Steps to Victory (El. Excellence: a goal for all Christians to strive for. Excel- God: always present and sees all. We Are Never Alone. Theodore Carcich Mai 21: 6 Kenneth H. Wood. Jun 20: 2 lence. P. R. Lindstrom. May 2. 14 necessary to produce effective Christian witnessing. A Exorcism: lessons to be learned from interest in The Exor- every man has a God-shaped space in his basic needs. Comm. Feb Special Truth and a Special Work (E). Herbert E. rise. Demon Possession and Exorcism (EL Kenneth H. That Empty Space. Dorothy Minchin 14: 14 Douglass. Jun 6: 14 Wood, Apr 18: 2 as a super-Man only. should be sought by those expecting Christ's second analysis of public opinion that condemns its indecencies. man's inclination to envision God Making God in Man's Image (E). Ray D. Vine. Jun advent. Truth Understood Only by Men of Faith (El Exorcist (WY). Miriam Wood. May 2: 12 Herbert E. Douglass. Jun 20: 11 Ezekiel's temple' why did God give such detail? Bible 20: t I Christ's death: appropriate burial providentially provided. Questions Answered. Don F. Neufeld. Jan 17: 11 pronunciation of Yahweh. How Is the Divine Name Pro- nounced? (E), Don F. Neufeld. Jun 13: 9 Three Men at Calvary. James Joiner. Apr 11: 10 Faith: hears God whether in the thunder or whisper of the Gods, false: philosophy, knowledge, and technology lead Christ's righteousness: provided for all wino will accept. Spirit. Shout or a Sigh (EM). Walter Scragg. Feb 14: 12. despair. Gods That Fail (E). Ray D. Vine. Apr 4: 13 Take Away the Filthy Garments. J. A. McMillan. Jun pursue duty regardless of hardships. "Keep My Com- to Goiter: thyroid deficiency should be supplied. Goiter (HI. 20: 4 mandments." Ellen G. White. Feb 21: 10 Commitment. complete commitment as clay to the potter. Faith and works: require balance and proper definition. Ralph F. Waddell. May 9: 6 Gossip: analysis of the gossiper's motives Gossip Is So New Year's Prayer (E). Don F, Ncufeld. Jan 3: 12 Maintain the Proper Balance (RR). Lloyd and Leola Tasty (EW). Betty Holbrook. Apr 4: 19 lack of commitment observed in adventuieless living. Rosenvold. Jan 17: 16 Grafting: spiritual lessons learned. Spiritual Grafting Is Have We Lost Our Nerve? (SO). Nancy Marter. Mar Family: child's insistence on church attendance led to re- (FL). Clovis a Olm- Contrary to Nature. Philip S Chen. Feb 21: 9 28: 12 conversion. God Used a Child surrender to God brings literal and eternal blessings. The stead. Apr 11: 15 Greer, George: most unforgettable Adventist. He Was My Way to the Kingdom. Louis F. Cunningham. Jun 27: 9 experiences of a new stepmother. On Being a Step- Hero. Robert E. and Mildred E Adams Jan 3: 17 Church: apostasies must be worked at. Make Your Faith mother (FL). Ann Giles. Mar 28: 13 Group therapy: an analysis of Gestalt theory. Seventh-day Occupation Homemaker (FL). Judy Felt Lucas M. Diaz. Mar 7: 10 joy of a housewife. Adventists and the New Group Awareness Therapies. Wahlman. Jan 3: 15 danger of forgetting the mission and spirit of founders. Ronaele Whittington. Jan 24: 4 "Another Generation . .. Which Knew Not the Lord'"? many SDA families lax in upholding standards. Where analysis of, in light of Adventist concepts. Evaluating Goes the Adventist Home? (FL). L. R. Thrift. Apr Robert H. Pierson. May 23: 1 Self-awareness Experiences. Ronaele Whittington. unity achieved through the cross. Unity, How? Crone 25: 13 Feb?: 7 parents have responsibility to make things of God pleas- McReynolds. Apr 25: 8 analysis of T-groups and Carl Rogers' Encounters. Sensi- ant. "I Remember" (EM). Walter Scragg. Mar 14: 14 Church attendance: source of strength for everyone. tivity and Encounter Experiences. Ronaele Whitting- Churchgoing—An Optional Luxury? (El. Ray D. Vine. parents must he models. On Rebirth of an Ideal Family ton. Jan 31. 8 (FL). Ray Dabrowski. Jan 24: 12 Jan 31: 12 Haystack monument: beginning of American foreign mis- Church finance: an analysis of church budgeting. World Family altar: Christians should not neglect to have. "What sions. Haystack Prayer Meeting. Robert G. Wearner. Have They Seen in Thine House?" W. B. Ochs. Jun Budget of the Church. Martin E. Kemmerer. Mar 21: 8 Apr 25: 4 operation of GC Treasury Department. Church and the 27: 10 Health: advanced by scientific discoveries. Science and Father: his selfless life. Father's Day—Resurrection Style. World of Finance. Kenneth H. Emmerson. Jan 17: 4 Health (H). Ralph F. Waddell, Jun 13: 8 Anne Stump Figuhr, Jun 13: 1 anemia, its causes and prevention. Anemia (H). Ralph Church leadership: special and solemn responsibility on Football: spoiler of family unity. I Detest Football! (EW). church officers. Responsibility of Leaders (E). Ken- F. Waddell. Feb 14: 8 Betty Holbrook. Jan 3: 16 cause and cure of backaches. Bachache (H). Ralph F. neth H. Wood. Jan 31: 2 Forgiveness: God's unfailing example. Our Compassionate Church organization: Church Manual is a basic for au- Waddell. Jan 10: 8 Heavenly Father. F. G. Clifford. Apr 18: 4 breakfast, importance of. How About Breakfast? (H). thority. Is There a Teaching Authority in the Adventist Foster, Dr. Vernon: sketch of his life, 400-Member Church Neufeld. Jan 31: 11 Ralph F Waddell. Mar 14: 7 Church? (E). Don E. Has Beginnings in Doctor's Waiting Room. Theodore Church standards. Adventist schools appealing to youth. interview with world head of Adventist food factories. Miller. Apr 18: 14 Much About the Church Is Right (F). Kenneth H. God's Gift to His People. E. W. Howse. Feb 28: 8 Friendship: comfort during bereavement. Shared Mocca- Holy Spirit: God's agency for making character fit for Wood. May 2: 2 sins. Lisa Goddard and Ivy R. Doherty. Apr 4: 16 how members rationalize. Salving the Conscience (E). heaven. Need for Oil (El. Kenneth H. Wood. Jan Herbert E. Douglass. Mar 21: 1 I 24: 2 should reflect both broadness and narrowness of Bible Home Base to Front Line. Clyde 0. Franz. May 9: 21 standards. How Narrow Is Narrow? Richard Ham- Homosexuals: what to do with the problem. Questions and mill. Jun 27: 4 Answers (WY).Mnriam Wood. Mar 7: 7 Clothing: unimportant compared to inward adorning. Poly- Honesty: children need direct, clear instruction. How to ester, Wool, and Salvation (YA). Richard Hammond. Teach Children Honesty (FL). Lois Christian Randolph. Jun 13: 13 Feb 7: 16 Contemporary issues: study group, set up to consider phi- Imagination: molds the mind and habits as much as actions. losophy of teaching literature, type of music used in Age of the Vicarious. John Berecz. Feb 14: 13 religious services, role of women in church, among Infidelity: excuses do not justify. Excuses in Disguise (FL). others. Study Groups Examine Contemporary Issues Rebecca M. Bradshaw Jun 6: 17 (RC). Willis J. Hackett. Jun 27: 19 Inflation: rising costs affect Adventist literature. F.Y.I. Courtesy: recognizes the need for others to say, No. When (E). Kenneth H. Wood. May 30: 2 the Answer Is "No" (WY). Miriam Wood. Jan 24: 7 SDA publishing costs to line with worldly publishers. Creationism: review of recent discoveries in the use of F.Y.I. (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Jun 6: 2 oxygen in earth's atmosphere refute evolutionary Jesus: all-sufficient Savibur. Meet the Master. George E. theories, Apollo Sixteen Mission and Biochemical Vandeman. May 16: 3 Evolution. G. T. Javor and G. E. Snow. Mar 14: 4 center of earth's history. Axis of History. Gil G. Fer- Creativity: encourage children in. You Don't Have to Be a nandez. Feb 21. 4 Michelangelo (FL). June Strong. May 2: 20 man's example of humility. Mind of Jesus lE). Gaston Death: may conic unexpectedly. Delta Flight 523. E. E. Clouzet. May 2: 16 Cleveland. Apr 25: 1 reality of resurrection grounds hope. Emmaus and the not the end for Christians. Good Night Until the Morn- Aftermath. Alfred S. Jorgensen. Apr 18: 6 ing. F. M. Arrogante, Jan 3: 4 resurrection brought peace to believers. Glory of the Deborah: qualities of this prophetess and judge of Israel. Empty Tomb. Ernest Lloyd. Apr 9 Star in Israel. Mat ye Trim. May 9: 8 suffering began when sin first appeared. Sufferings of Decisions: response to God's call enables one to make right. Christ. Thomas H. Blincoe. May 23: 4 Making the Right Decision (YA). Joseph J. Battistone. Labor unions: take-over of all public employees in Hawaii. May 9: 17 Growing Power of Unions. Ronaele R. Whittington. Diet: prospective mother's diet affects brain of unborn. Apr 4: 6 Malnutrition Sentences the Unborn (E). Herbert E. Last days: Catholics and Lutherans agree on papal power. Douglass. May 2: 16 Lutherans and Catholics Agree on a "Renewed Divorce aftermath: rebuild life—accept a project. After the Papacy... Raoul Dederen. Jun 27: I Breakup—Then What? (FL). Rebecca M. Bradshaw. review of current world problems. Sunday, War, and Jun 20: 13 "Big Daddy" (E), Kenneth H. Wood. Apr 4: 2 Drugs: few conditions require use of. Use of Drugs. T. R. review of fantastic changes in present generation. Har- Flaiz. May 30: I bingers of the Ultimate Revolution. Russell H. Argent. antibiotics condemned by authorities. Experts overuse of Apr 4: 10 Condemn Overuse of Antibiotics. D. A. DeInfield. May some future events uncertain. Keeping Humble About 30:6 the Future (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Apr 18: 10 Education: changes suggested for SDA program. Reduce COLUMBIA UNION COLLEGE Law: areas in which it cannot operate. Law of the Un- Length of the School Day (SO). Kirby Davis. Jun 6: 6 enforceable (GE). Willis J. Hackett. Apr 25: 2 warning against subtle worldliness. A Standard-bearer of WALK-A-THON NETS $11,818 Lawsuits: evils resulting from. Christians and Lawsuits. the Past Speaks (HH). Robert H. Pierson. Jan 10: 2 W. P. Bradley. Jun 6: 9 Energy crisis: developing a Christian response. Christian These three Columbia Union Col- follow Bible injunction in settling. Resolving Our Differ- Energy (WY). Miriam Wood. Feb 21: 8 lege students are part of the more ences. W. P. Bradley. May 30: 4 how Christians can be examples of thrift. Suggestions on than 130 students and friends who par- evils resulting from lawsuits. Christians and Lawsuits. How Churches May Cooperate (F). Herbert F. Doug- W. P. Bradley. Jun 6: 9 lass. Jan 24: 10 ticipated in a 20-mile fund-raising Marriage: lasting, includes exploring of each other's per- most serious shortage is that of Holy Spirit. Spiritual sonality. From Honeymoon to Happiness (EM). Power Failure (El. Herbert E. Douglass. Feb 14: 10 walk-a-thon held by the college's Stu Walter Scragg. Jun 13: 12 poor stewardship produced current energy crisis, Little dent Association (SA). At last count with help of Christ, differences can be resolved. Happi- Stewardship Would Help (B). Herbert E. Douglass. $11,818 had been raised through the ness Is . . . Not Divorce (FL). Rebecca M. Bradshaw. Feb 7: 12 Jun 13: 10 produces pleasant by-products. Thoughts During an project to produce Bible textbooks Miriam: special prophetess and support for Moses Miriam, Energy Crisis (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Jan 17: 14 Secret Weapon. Kit Watts Jan 17: 8 Ethiopia famine: relief by SAWS. Famine Relief Work in for Adventist schools overseas and to Misson service: beginning of Adventist effort to send mis- Ethiopia. Mary Lane Anderson. Jun 20: 1 send out student missionaries from sionaries overseas and last year's record. Archivist's Evangelism: appeal to people's desire for heaven is not unworthy motive, Worthy or Unworthy Motives (E). CUC next year. First to cross the finish Finds Illuminate Early SDA History. Clyde 0. Franz. Don F. Neufeld. Jun 27: 12 May 9: 10 line were, pictured from right to left, description of being a missionary. So This Is What It's every Christian called to be a witness. God's Business Is Holbrook, Mar 7: 17 Our Business (GE). C. D. Henri. Mar 28: 2 Richard Fredericks, SA president; Like! (EW). Betty gospel commission: can be completed only by individuals Richard Alway, SA vice-president; and far-reaching influence of one family. Family Commit- having Christ indwelling, "Without Me—Nothing" ment—The High Road of Missions, Duane S. Johnson. (I(H). Robert H. Pierson. May 9: 2 Allan Buller. BILL HARSH Jun 27: 16

30 (718) R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 spiritual reformation required before latter rain. Five R's (RR) J. L. Shuler. Feb 21: 10 time of, dependent on readiness of church. Reaction to the Council Appeal (El. Kenneth H. Wood. Feb 28: 2 waiting for unity of God's people. "The Lord Is Ready. The People Are Ready" (HH). Robert H. Pierson. Jun 13: 2 why Jesus delays His return. Hastening Christ's Com- ing (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Mar 7: 2 Self-examination: time for reflection reveals faults. Random Thoughts While Waiting in a Gas Line (WY). Miriam Wood. May 23: 7 Self-righteousness: avoiding the perils of judgmental Phari- see. Three Pharisees. John Chase. Feb 21: 12 Selfishness: unfits one for heaven. To Be Happy in Heaven (WY). Miriam Wood. Jun 27: 11 Seventh-day Adventist Church: Adventist mission requires commitment of laity. Lay Movement. Gottfried Ooster- wal. Feb 7: 9 analysis of its distinctive mission. Message Designed for Our Day. Patrick Boyle. Mar 28: 4 short historical review. A Movement Is Born. Gottfried Oosterwal. Jan 10: I still lacks genuine world vision. After 100 Years Why Is the Task of Mission Not Completed? Gottfried Ooster- wal. Jan 31: 6 unity of doctrine and fellowship among SDA believers. Ellen White in Europe: She Emphasized Unity. D. A. Delafield. Jan 3: 19 Sins, little: if not overcome, mean an individual's eventual defeat. "Fiddling Little Sins." Kristin Evans. Apr 18: 7 South Vietnam: description of country and SDA work. South Vietnam After One Year. D. A. Roth. Mar 14: 1 Stewardship: miserly habits bless no one, For the Love of Money. Rebecca M. Bradshaw. May 23: 8 a plea for positive statements. Emphasize the Positive Features (RR). Victor S. Griffiths. Mar 7: 15 Suffering: principles of great controversy at work. Angels on Vacation? (El. Don F. Neufeld. Jan 10: 9 Sunday law: implications of gas shortage. Gas stations and a PUERTO RICO WELFARE GROUPS OPEN NEW CENTER National Sunday Law (El. Herbert E. Douglass. Feb 28: 12 Dorcas and Good Samaritan groups of the El Comandante church, in the East Television: influence on a growing family. Changing Chan- nels (FL). Judy Savoy. Jan 31: 14 Puerto Rico Conference, inaugurated their new welfare center recently under the Tithe: modern experience of blessings. "Prove Me Now." Jim F. Roberts. Mar 14: 10 leadership of Gloria Sanchez, Dorcas leader. Loren Gallardo, conference welfare Tithes and offerings: honesty with God expected of Ad- director, and Iris Santos, coordinator, were present along with Jose Ayala, church ventists. Adventists and Charitable Deductions (E). Don F. Neufeld. Feb 21: 13 pastor, and a large group of members and friends of the Dorcas and Good Tongues, ecstatic: personal experience of a former Pente- costalist. I Gave Up Speaking in Tongues. E. C. Card. Samaritan societies. Jan 31: 4 The welfare center not only will give help to the poor, and to disaster victims, Unity of world powers: achieved for economic reasons. International Co-op Will Unify World (E). Herbert E. but also will be a health-education center for the community. It will be open to Douglass. May 9: 13 Watergate: lessons all may learn from. Ten Lessons of the public every Sunday evening. LOREN GALLARDO Watergate (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Feb 7: 2 Weight control: emotional factors to be considered. The Sanctimonious Skinny Man. Rose Greer Stoia. Jun 27: 6 White, Ellen G: an answer to personal meaning. "Here Is a Theme, Poor Formalist . . ." (EW). Betty Hol- Missions: Adventist outreach in North America before Jesus as set forth in. Glorified Christ. Walter F. Specht. brook. May 2: 21 1874. Shut Door Opens. Gottfried Oosterwal. Jan 17: 6 Feb 14: 4 harvest principle, main theological theme. Ellen White's Adventists in the third world. The Church in the Third Jesus as victorious King the central theme. Coming King. Eschatological Principle (E). Herbert E. Douglass. World. Russell L. Staples. Feb 14: 6 Walter F. Specht. Mar 14: 8 May 23: 12; and others development of Adventists into world movement. "Into Jesus, through His Spirit, closely identifies with the how earlier attitudes have changed. My Ellen G. White All the World." Gottfried Oosterwal. Jan 24: 6 church. Superintendent of the Church. Walter F. (WY). Miriam Wood. Jun 6: 7 positive word for missions. In Defense of Missionaries Specht. Feb 21: 6 Youth: challenge of many emotional dropouts. Church's (SO), Gilbert U. H. Murray. May 9: It over-all message of book as related to Revelation 14. Throwaway Children, Loren L. Fenton. Feb 28:4 survey of N.A. Protestant missionaries. Protestant Mis- Examining the Forest of Revelation. Don F. Neufeld. realize real values and shape lives accordingly. Smart sions in Transition (E). Herbert E. Douglass. Jan 3: 12 Mar 21: II Generation (EM). Walter Scragg. May 9: 15 time to re-emphasize the uniqueness of the Adventist proclaiming and accepting three angels' messages at the Zwingli: his life and teachings. Zwingli—The Lesser Known mission. One Hundred Years of World Mission (E). end of time will require courage. Messages Current Reformer. Daniel Walther. Jun 6: 4 Kenneth H. Wood. Jan 3: 2 Application (E). Don F. Neufeld. May 9: 12 his theology was practical. Survey of Zwingli's Theology. visit of R. H. Pierson to three all-Adventist islands. I review of why Jesus as a slain lamb could be victorious. Daniel Walther. Jun 13: 4 Visited Three All-Adventist Islands. Robert H. Pierson. Christ the Lamb, Walter F. Specht. Feb 28: 6 life reviewed. Zwingli for Fatherland and Christendom. Mar 7: 9 theme of conflict and victory runs throughout Revelation. Daniel Walther. Jun 13: 4 Mothers: need for character training by. How Important Is Lamb Versus the Beast. Walter F. Specht. Mar 7: 6 a Mother? (FL). Jesse H. Merrell, May 9: 14 Revelation 14: meaning of apocalyptic literature. What Is their influence on children. Honoring Mothers. Ernest Apocalyptic Literature? (E). Don F. Neufeld. Mar Lloyd. May 9: 15 14: 11 Nature study: spiritual values gained. Importance of Na- Righteousness and faith: brief analysis. Good News . . . Poetry ture Study (FL). Lewis R. Ogden. Apr 4: l8 for You! Robert H, Pierson. May 16: 28 Navajo Land: history of Monument Valley Hospital. Mis- glossary of frequently used terms. Alphabet of the Chris- Beers, Lee. Prayer. Jun 6: 10 sion: Navajo Land, Ilene Hall. Jun 6: 20 tian Life. W. Richard Lesher. May 16: 25 Boccheciamp, Gloria. Heavenly Transplant May 30: 13 1973: review of 1973. In Retrospect (E). Herbert E. Doug- Righteousness by faith: as taught in Christ's parables. Jesus Bryant, Bess. Dad. Jun 13: 11 lass. Mar 7: 12 Made the Way Plain in Parables. Kenneth H. Wood. Campbell, Alma L. Lowly of Earth, Take Heart. Feb 14: 12 Noise: harmful effects of. Noise (H). Ralph F. Waddell. May 16: 14 Donaldson, John R. Dream Fulfilled. Feb 21: 12 Apr II Biblical analysis. Righteousness by Faith—Is It Biblical? Engen, Sadie Owen. Mother's Prayer. Mar 7: 17 Nutrition: cooking classes should reflect SDA teaching. Do Don F. Neufeld. May 16: 6 Esteb, Adlai Albert, My New Year's Wish. Jan 3: 18 Our Cooking Classes Teach Health COokery? (SO). difference between genuine and spurious holiness. Popu- Self-examination. Jan 31: 1 Donna Putt. Jun 20: 10 lar Holiness Meetings. Ellen G. White. Apr 25: 10 Spark of Faith. Jun 20: 7 Offerings: funds should be sent through regular channels. goal of a quality people for which God waits. Why God Ewert, Mabel, Like a Little Candle. Mar 28: 1 Funds, Friends, and Frauds (E). Kenneth H. Wood. Is Urgent—And Yet Waits. Herbert E. Douglass. May Ford, Malcolm. Moving Mountains. Feb 7: 8 Feb 21: 2 16: 21 Garnett, Carmin. Sermon. Mar 28: 6 Pacific Union College: reflections on a recent visit. Pacific Jesus as man's substitute. Mother Said, "You Must Pun- Goyne, Lynn, Jr. Except Ye Abide. Apr 25: 7 Union College (WY). Miriam Wood. Mar 21: 7; Apr ish Me." H. M. S. Richards. May 16: 12 Greer, Hazel McElhany. 0 Jesus. Feb 7: 14 4: II Minneapolis 1888 episode. Christ and Minneapolis 1888. Grenberg, Allise. One Hundred Years. Jan 10; 5 Pastor's wife: review of first three years by wife. On Be- C. Mervyn Maxwell. May 16: 16 Other Sheep. May 23: 9 coming a Pastor's Wife (FL). Ella Ruth Elkins. Feb only God's power can save man. Saved From Sinking Harris, Amy E. "It Is Written." Jun 13: 9 28: 14 Sand. C. E. Bradford. May 16: 9 Howe, Clifford B. As We Think. Jan 17: 15 Pathfinders: review of remarkable progress. Church Is Sabbath: how to honor the Sabbath and receive the bless- Ingraham, Nicholas Lloyd. Heir Mail. May 23: 12 Three Feet Tall! John H. Hancock, Feb 7: 4 ing. Plan Ahead—The Secret of Sabbathkeeping (FL). Lord of Roots. Feb 28: Perseverance: the Wilma Rudolph story. Two Strides Be- Helen Spalding. Jan 10: 11 King, Vera. Rain Rhapsodies. May 2: 14 hind (YA). Dallas Youngs. Mar 14: 15 its purpose. In the Midst of Chaos: Rest. Betty Cooney. MacDonald, George. I Need Thee. May 16: 11 Prayer: examples of many answered prayers. Why Pray? Jun 6: 12 Meeker, Fleeta. Delivery. Feb 28: 15 Lawrence E. C. Joers. Apr 4: 8 Salvation: Christians may have assurance. Dare a Person God It Is, Who Determines. May 30: 9 Prisoners: laboring for. "In Prison You Visited Me." Say "I Am Saved"? Jonathan Butler. May 16: 19 Legacy. Feb 21: 13 Gordon Engen. Jan 3: 6 how to explain to children. Plan of Salvation—for Cher- Spring Delight. Apr 4: 6 Psychology: false and true contrasted. Psychology and ubs, Esther Lausten. Jan 17: 18 Mollenkopf, Marcia. No One Phones Anymore. Apr 4: 19 Ellen G. White. Omer Wagoner. Apr 25: 6 Sanctuary: description of earthly. Earthly Sanctuary—Glo- Nixon, Bob. Phylactery. Mar 21: 6 Religion: top news stories in 1973. 1973's Top Religious rious Structure! W. E. Read. May 2: 4 Pache, B. N. Vesper Prayer. Jun 27: 7 News Stories. Don F. Neufeld (E). Feb 14: 9 Second Coming: compared to a rescue from prison camp. Price, Merle. Prayer for Every Day. Feb 14: 9 Revelation: distinctiveness of third angel's message. Rescued! W. L. Wilcox, Apr 11: 7 Reed, Jeanette Hawley. My Master's Eraser. Mar 14: 11 Broader Application (El. Don F. Neufeld. May 30: 12 description of Satan's Impersonation of Jesus. "This Is Vess, Virginia. Do You Know? Feb 21: 15 historical application of Rev. 14. Three Angels' Mes- Our God." Clarence N. Kohler. May 30: 8 Wade, Loron. On Quietness. Mar 28: II sages in Their Historical Application (E). Don F. Neu- example of false Christs—guru. Guru (WY). Miriam Wilbert, Priscilla. Top Without a String. May 9: 18 feld, Apr II: 14 Wood. Jan 3: 11 Withrow, Albert William, Jr. Prayer. Jan 24: 13 historical application of three angels' messages. A Church signs of: lessons from Kohoutek. Comet Kohoutek (E). Wolter, Lucille. Not for Sale. Feb 28: 6 Is Born (E). Don F. Neufeld. Apr 25: 12 Kenneth H. Wood. Jan 17: 2 To Have and to Hold. Mar 21: 12

R&H, JUNE 27, 1974 (719) 31 the back page John Nevins Andrews to Europe. Early film footage lends reality to the pioneer work of those first missionaries to the Amazon, to Af- rica, to the South Pacific. In sharp contrast is the handsome color of today's photography New North Pacific Officers that follows, picturing present aspects of God's work around the world. R. C. Remboldt, president of the Upper Churches holding special services in recog- Columbia Conference for ten years, has been nition of the centennial will find To the Nations elected secretary of the North Pacific Union is a film they can be proud to invite their non- Conference. He replaces M. C. Torkelsen, Adventist neighbors to see. Prints are avail- who has accepted a call to become president able. Those interested in seeing it should check of the Southeastern California Conference. with their conference communication secre- Richard D. Fearing, president of the Moun- taries. M. CAROL HETZELL tain View Conference for the past five years, has accepted the invitation to become the new president of the Upper Columbia Confer- Australian S.S. Has 155 Guests ence. E. R. WALDE Members of the Maitland, New South Wales, Australia, church, whose total membership is Central States Leadership Change less than 150, report that in a recently con- cluded Vacation Bible School as many as 160 The Central States Conference' committee, children attended, with a daily average of ap- at a meeting on June 2, voted to invite Sam- proximately 135. uel D. Meyers, pastor of the University church Desiring to follow up the apparent interest, in Los Angeles, California, to accept the con- the leaders invited the children and their par- ference presidency, following the request of ents to attend the regular Sabbath school the the president, D. L. Crowder, that he be re- next Sabbath. They write, "Can you imagine lieved of his responsibilities. Elder Meyers re- the excitement when 120 children and 35 par- sponded favorably. ents showed up at 9:30?" R. CURTIS BARGER Elder Crowder will return to pastoral and evangelistic activities, in which he engaged previously. H. D. SINGLETON Far East Youth Hold Meetings One hundred and forty Voice of Youth evan- Jewish Bible Course Revised gelistic meetings have been conducted already this year in the Negros Mission in the Central Revision of the Israelite Heritage Institute Philippine Union Mission, reports B. E. Jacobs, Bible Course was completed recently. The re- Far Eastern Division youth secretary. So suc- vision has been sufficiently thorough to justify cessful have these meetings been that the mis- labeling the course as new. Careful attention sion provides financial aid in the amount of ap- has been given to making the course as inter- proximately US$40 to help each MV Society esting as possible. Associated with Robert L. in its series. Odom in the editorial undertaking have been Elder Jacobs also reports that the East Indo- C. H. Lauda, J. Hoffman, Herbert Silver, Sam nesia Union Mission has 20 Youth Societies Roseman, and Maxine Stickney. holding Voice of Youth meetings, and recently To date, 5,875 students have graduated from the Southeast Asia Union Mission voted to the Israelite Heritage Institute Course. The hold a Voice of Youth meeting in every first 20 lessons deal with Old Testament proph- church. LAWRENCE M. NELSON ecies that point to the coming of the Messiah. The last 20 show how Christ fulfilled in every detail the Messianic prophecies. People in the News For free enrollment cards, write to: The Is- raelite, Heritage Institute, Box 99, Newbury Oswaldo R. Azevedo, appointed field secre- tary of the South American Division. He previ- Park, Calif. 91320. GORDON F. DALRYMPLE ously served as president of the South Brazil Union. New Film for Mission Centennial E. M. Adams, 92, long-time missionary to the Philippines, died June 8, in Lakeport, Cali- A film portraying the growth of the church fornia. 0 Naomi Boothby, 68, died June 1 in since its first overseas mission thrust will help Berrien Springs, Michigan. Her husband, Rob- Adventist churches in their programming for ert L. Boothby, served most recently in the the Centennial of Adventist World Mission Michigan Conference. 0 Calvert Warren, this year. 85, died May 24 on Pitcairn Island. His death Called To the Nations, the 25-minute film reduces Pitcairn's population to 71, including moves through the early days of the church's two Royal Air Force personnel stationed on mission work, beginning with the voyage of the island.

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