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UN ION REAPER CONFERENCES CENTRAL STATES. COLORADO. KANSAS. MISSOURI. NEBRASKA AND WYOMING VOLUME XXXII COLLECE VIEW, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA JULY 23, 1963 NUMBER 30 the local city authorities as unsafe, should bo replaced with a new dormitory for Give A Little More the young ladies. We are appealing to E. E. HAGEN, Home Missionary and Sabbath School Secretray, you, the members in the Advent family Central Union Conference who believe in the divine institution of Christian education, to give a liberal God's people are a blessed people. As a church we still face the challenge offering toward the building program They are a blessed people in so many of an unfinished work. We all know of Oakwood College on Sabbath, August and varied ways. Think how they have that the time of our Lord's return is 10, 1963. been blessed through the Sabbath school, very close at hand. Every day brings F. L. BLAND, Associate Secretary which has been an organized entity us nearer to that climactic day when Regional Department within the church since 1852. As people our gifts will be of no avail. Will you General Conference, S.D.A. of God we have been blessed abundantly be one among thousands to give a little by the services of this organization. more to missions through the Sabbath Hit Again, Brother In the year 1886 we began a system- school next Sabbath? atic plan of giving to world missions "The following story about the early through the Sabbath school. Since that Oakwood College Offering days of the work in Egypt was written time (1886 to 1962) we have given a August 10, 1963 by Habib Banna, a ministerial student total of $157,661,741.65 to missions in from Egypt, now attending Middle East Sabbath school offerings! We are a The Oakwood College Offering is to College in Beirut, Lebanon. The preach- multi-millionaire people in giving! This be taken in all churches. The need is er in the story was Elder George Keough, is not to our impoverishment, but to urgent and great for this important pioneer missionary to Upper Egypt. On our blessing and prosperity! How could offering to be the largest amount ever September 28, the Thirteenth Sabbath this people possibly give so much? Yet, given. offering will be taken for the building the above amount does not represent The members of the churches have of a church center in Damascus, Syria. the total giving of our church member- given liberal offerings in years gone When I was a child of eight, I had ship. Besides the gifts given through by to the expansion program carried a remarkable liking for stories. My Sabbath school we must take into con- on at Oakwood. The money received has mother, conscious of this fact, made it sideration the tithe, other mission offer- brought to the college campus the much a habit never to send me to bed without ings and church and school building desired face-lifting which has come, two stories: One from the Bible and projeots all taken outside of the Sab- due to the construction of several build- another from her past rich experience. bath school time! ings which were needed. This building One night my mother had a serious Gould we have given more? Un- program has tangibly helped Oakwood expression on her face as she said: doubtedly we could. As a people most College to increase its facilities and "Tonight I want to tell you one of the of us have not reached our limit in improve its educational program so best stories that I have ever told you." giving. There are many reasons why that more young people can receive "Thirty-five years ago," she began, our giving habits should grow. We Christian training. FOR ALL PAST "a stranger arrived at our village. His have a special message—a special truth— GIFTS WE SAY FROM GRATEFUL features strangely resembled the pic- at this special time, for all people of HEARTS, THANK YOU! ture I had drawn in my mind of the the world. How shall they hear without This is the year and time when Hen- angel we read about in the Bible. He special dedication on our part to make derson Hall, the old fire hazard on the was looking for a house to rent. He that truth known to them? There is campus which has been declared by informed my father that he left his no coercion, no forceful demands made family in Assuit with the hope that they upon any of us to give to missions. Our would soon join him in the new home giving is voluntary and comes from a Please send in mailing changes he would rent. My father asked him deep seated love within us that urges at least two weeks in advance. if he was planning to be engaged in us on to give to finish the work! Should Each wrapper returned costs us some local business, and whether or we not pray that that love might grow a ten cents. Your cooperation will not he thought that his knowledge of little deeper that we might "give a little be greatly appreciated in cutting Arabic would be sufficient to pursue his more." Not force, but love, causes God's this expense. The Editor objective. As I overheard their con- people to give to the cause of missions. versation, many questions sprang in my 0 a ZI NOIONIRSVA 211Vd ZAV rannvia ovs9 Q S 10 1N00 N30 ItYL=Z2 •••••=0MOINEWM•••• 41111MMINININIMMINNIM 2 CENTRAL UNION BE l'ER CENTRAL UNION REAPER mind: Was the stranger going to begin from the family who had planned to Official Organ of the Central Union Conference a new company in the village? Did he kill the Adventist preacher came to my of Seventh-day Adventists intend that our house should be the father's house and asked to see the Clara Anderson Editor center of his business? Or, was he B. L. Schlotthauer Managing Editor preacher. They had been impressed with Subscription price $1.00 a year. going to open a new school? his attitude and their consciences had All checks and money orders should be made "The thorough discussion led finally payable to the CENTRAL UNION REAPER. given them no rest. Now, they were Both old and new addresses should be given to an agreement that father would allow beseeching pardon and forgiveness." when a change is requested. Zone numbers should be included for all zoned cities. the stranger to rent two rooms in our At that point I asked my mother All copy for publication should reach the house and would permit him to occupy REAPER office by TUESDAY NOON preceding whether my grandfather, the priest, the dote of publication. those two rooms until a suitable place came with them to see the preacher. Published weekly (fifty issues a year) by the Central Union Conference at College View would be found." "No," she answered "for he feared that Station, Lincoln 6, Nebraska. "The news," continued my mother, Second-class postage paid at Lincoln, Ne- the whole story might have had a plot braska. "soon reached the members of my fam- behind it. He preferred to postpone Accepted for mailing at special rate on October 8, 1917, authorized August 20, 1929. ily. My mother grew antagonistic to going till the morning." Office at 4547 Calvert St., Lincoln 6, Ne- the whole matter as she learned that "And did they meet the preacher?" braska. Mailing address: P.O. Box 6127. Telephone 488-2313. the stranger was a Seventh-day Advent- I asked. ist, who had come to the village with "Yes," she answered, "the preacher Union Conference Directory the intention of 'misleading' the people. graciously accepted their repentance Office address, 4547 Calvert ST., In her zeal she spoke to her father, the Mailing address, P. 0. Box 6127 and from that day till the present time President R. H. Nightingale priest of the village, trying in every they have been close friends of the Sec-Treas. B. L. Schlotthauer way to point out to him that the stranger Auditor R. E. Spangle Adventists in the village." ASI Sec. B. L. Schlotthauer should be driven out of his son-in-law's "Son," my mother concluded, "never Education W. A. Howe H. M. and S. S. E. E. Hagen house. forget what the Bible says: 'The angel Ind. Rel. R. H. Nightingale "She found little difficulty in arousing Missionary Volunteer P. M. De Booy of the Lord encampeth round about Public Relations W. A. Howe her father against the stranger for it them that fear him, and delivereth Publishing Dept. Sec. J. F. Kent Radio-TV E. E. Hagen never appealed to the priest to shelter them.'" Religious Liberty Sec. R. H. Nightingale an opponent in the family's house. How- Temperance P. M. De Booy Transportation B. L. Schlotthauer ever, the priest could not overcome the The Challenge of Natl. Service Org. P. M. De Booy stubborness of his son-in-law, that is, Cuban Refugees Local Conference Directory my father, and the stranger did rent the Seventh-day Adventists, along with CENTRAL STATES house. 14 other Christian denominations repre- W. W. Fordham, President "Six months later, the stranger dis- J. E. Merideth, Secretary-Treasurer sented in Miami, help the U.S. Govern- Telephone Wabash 1-9980 covered a new center near our house ment to take care of the material and 2528 Benton Blvd. Kansas City 27, Mo. for his evangelistic work. Soon ten COLORADO spiritual needs of more than 200,000 H.