Adventist Review General Organ of the Seventh-day Adventist Church September 17, 1981

Ellen White's use of sources Page 3 Jumping for joy Page 11 `We'll have to get into the book" Page 12 `This work is of God, or it is not" Page 13

The school is simple and rustic, with few financial resources, but students at the new Adventist agriculture- industrial school in Brazil are happy for a place in which to prepare for service. See page 15. THIS WEEK Adventist Review

When we planned this issue we had no idea that a story of irk timeliness and importance to the ‘411, world church would break, pre- empting seven pages (3-7, 13, 14) 131st Year of Continuous Publication of regular material. Many church EDITOR members have been concerned Kenneth H. Wood with charges of plagiarism made ASSOCIATE EDITORS against Ellen White, charges that Leo R. Van Dolson, William G. Johnsson have been publicized in newspa- ASSISTANT EDITORS pers around the United States. Jocelyn R. Fay, Aileen Andres Sox Warren L. Johns, chief counsel of ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR the General Conference Office of Eugene F. Durand General Counsel, decided to put ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY the matter into the hands of an Corinne Russ attorney who specializes in such EDITORIAL SECRETARIES cases. The story that begins on the Chitra Bamabas, Celia Singer opposite page is the result. and needed. Please relay a belated the time was a student at Hawai- ART A recent letter from J. H. Director, Byron Steele note of appreciation to Author ian Mission Academy, Honolulu, Designer, G. W. Busch Horning, of Healdsburg, Califor- Lilya Wagner. Hawaii. He received a first-place CONSULTING EDITORS nia, shed some light on a photo "You credit the picture of the award of $300." Neal C. Wilson, Charles E. Bradford, L. L. credit we gave for a picture used kitten that heads the story to Art and photo credits: Pp. 5, Bock, L. L. Butler, Alf Lohne, Enoch Oliveira, G. Ralph Thompson, Max Torkel- in the December 25, 1980, issue Kodak High School Photo 6, Howard Krenrich; p. 10, sen, Francis W. Wemick and republished with this column. Awards, which is correct. The Review photo; all other photos, SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS " 'Caretakers of His Creatures' picture was taken and submitted courtesy of the respective R. R. Figuhr, Robert H. Pierson, George W. was timely, thought-provoking, to Kodak by Melvin Ing, who at authors. Brown, G. J. Christo, W. T. Clark, Bekele Heye, R. J. Kloosterhuis, Edwin Ludescher, Kenneth J. Mittleider, K. S. Parmenter, W. R. L. Scragg, Joao Wolff EDITORS, NORTH AMERICAN LEITERS UNION EDITIONS Columbia, Ernest N. Wendth Southwestern, Richard W. Bendall

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SWANSON, M.D. literary requirements, but the author's mean- Editor, R. S. Lessa, Portuguese ing will not be changed. Views expressed in I have worked in an Adventist Akron, Ohio Editor, Jose Tabuenca, Spanish the letters do not necessarily represent those hospital where Adventist stand- CORRESPONDENTS, of the editors or of the denomination. ards have been upheld, but I am WORLD DIVISIONS Not beyond temptation Africa-Indian Ocean, J. B. Kio; Afro-Mideast, afraid that there are more institu- D. Jean Thomas; Australasian, R. M. Kranz; Why call this a witness? tions like the one I just described. Not long ago a man came to my Euro-Africa, Heinz Hopf; Far Eastern, M. G. door and asked me, "If you Townend; Inter-American, Fred Hernandez; Re "SDA Nurses Needed" NAME WITHHELD Northern European, H. J. Smit; South Ameri- (July 9). should die tonight would you go can, Arthur S. Valle; Southern Asia, A. M. to heaven?" I told him that the Peterson; Trans-Africa, Barbara Mittleider I am an Adventist nurse work- Caffeine not sole' culprit Bible teaching concerning a per- CORRESPONDENTS, ing in an Adventist hospital and I "Caffeine Update" (Aug. 27) son's condition in death and the NORTH AMERICA feel that our main need is for the UNIONS: Atlantic, Leon H. Davis; Cana- was excellent, but it and the impending judgment precludes hospital administration to comment on drinking coffee in dian, P. F. Lemon, Columbia, Ernest N. our going to heaven when we die. Wendth; Lake, Jere Wallack; Mid-America, reassess our goals and mission. This Week were misleading in Halle G. Crowson; North Pacific, Morten Since that time I have come Our hospital seems to do little that they seemed to imply that Juberg; Pacific, Shirley Burton; Southern, across the following in Christ's George Powell; Southwestern, Richard W. to carry out the counsel from the caffeine is the Bendall culprit associated Object Lessons, Spirit of Prophecy quoted in the with many illnesses. Not so. page 155: "Never can we safely put confi- UNIVERSITIES: Andrews, Chris Robinson; article, "to disseminate light, and Caffeine is Loma Linda, Richard Weismeyer not the sole culprit. dence in self or feel, this side of to advance reform." Our particu- Other pollutants found in CIRCULATION heaven, that we are secure against lar institution allows smoking in decaffeinated coffees and soft Manager, Robert S. Smith temptation. Those who accept the Associate Manager, E. W. Moore patients' rooms, meat is served drinks cause great harm to the Field Representative, Ron D. 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2 (874) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 "Nowhere," Ramik pointed out, "have we found the books of Ellen G. White to Ellen White's use of sources be virtually the 'same plan and character throughout' as those of her predecessors. Washington copyright lawyer concludes that Nor have we found, or have critics made Ellen White was not a plagiarist and her reference to, any intention of Ellen White to supersede . . . [other authors] in the works did not constitute copyright infringement. market with the same class of readers and See also editorial "This work is of God, o is not," page 13. purchasers." Instead, she invariably introduced considerable new matter to that which she borrowed, going far beyond mere "colorable deviations," and, in effect, created an altogether new literary work. Ellen G. White is not guilty of 5. What case law is available between Furthermore, "the sheer 'compila- copyright infringement or plagiarism. 1850 and 1915 that might suggest the tion' of the works of Ellen G. White This is the opinion of Vincent L. Ramik, extent of an author's protection against necessarily reflects her labor and skill. So senior partner of Diller, Ramik & Wight, literary piracy? long as she did not (and the evidence Ltd., a lawyer who practices patent, 6. Is there anything within the pub- clearly establishes that she did not) draw trademark, and copyright law in Wash- lished works of Ellen G. White that from any prior works 'to a substantial ington, D.C. would suggest literary piracy (Federal degree,' she remains well within the Mr. Ramik undertook to research Mrs. copyright infringement) within the stand- legal bounds of 'fair use.' White's writings after Warren L. Johns, ards existing between 1850 and 1915? "Moreoever, so long as the materials chief legal officer of the General Confer- Ellen White's literary output report- were selected from a variety of sources, ence, retained the services of Diller, edly approximated 25 million words and were 'arranged and combined with Ramik & Wight last April because of during a writing career spanning nearly certain passages of the text of the original allegations made against Mrs. White by 70 years. A number of the 90-plus books, work, and in a manner showing the Walter Rea, at that time pastor of the including compilations, from her pen in exercise of discretion, skill, learning, Long Beach, California, church. print today have been translated into as experience, and judgment,' the use was Ramik, a Roman Catholic, spent more many as 100 languages. `fair.' " than 300 hours researching about 1,000 The fact that Mrs. White incorporated Intent is a chief ingredient that must be relevant cases in American legal history. quotations and paraphrased materials demonstrated in plagiarism cases; and He concluded his 27-page legal opinion* from other authors (principally historians Ramik believes he has proved not only with an unequivocal declaration: "Based of the Reformation era and contemporary from Mrs. White's own published state- upon our review of the facts and legal nineteenth-century devotional writers) in ments but indeed from the admission of precedents . . . Ellen White was not a her books and articles has itself never some of her critics themselves, that she plagiarist, and her works did not consti- been at issue. She, during her lifetime, did not intend to defraud in the borrowing tute copyright infringement/piracy." and church officials, subsequently, have of other literary productions. The legal report was delivered to repeatedly acknowledged such use. But "Proceeding with but the highest Johns's office late last month. It responds Walter Rea undertook the task of identi- motivations and intentions," said specifically to six questions: fying the various sources of that literary Ramik, Mrs. White, in fact "modified, 1. Was there a Federal copyright law borrowing. This study demonstrated that exalted, and improved" much of that between the years 1850 (when Ellen Mrs. White had borrowed more extensi- which others wrote, in a manner entirely White first published) and 1915 (the year vely than had been estimated previously. ethical, as well as legal. of her death) granting literary property "It is impossible to imagine that the Books not copyrighted rights to authors? If so, what was the intention of Ellen G. White, as reflected essence of such law? Did it substantially Ramik discovered that many of the in her writings and the unquestionably differ from copyright law in 1981? books from which Mrs. White borrowed prodigious effort involved therein, was 2. Was the payment of royalties by were not in fact copyrighted. But, he anything other than a sincerely motivated publishers a standard legal and business continued, even if they had been thus and unselfish effort to place the under- practice at that time? protected by law, her utilization of standings of Biblical truths in a coherent 3. Were licensing agreements for the phraseology and even multiple para- form for all to see and comprehend. use of literary property standard business graphs did not in law constitute copyright "Most certainly, the nature and con- practice at that time? infringement, nor plagiarism. tent of her writings had but one hope and 4. Was there a standard literary prac- "If the issues had been court-tested intent, namely, the furthering of man- tice to use quotation marks, footnotes, between 1850 and 1915, Ellen G. White kind's understanding of the word of and bibliographical citations in literary emphatically would not have been con- God." works that utilized the literary property victed of copyright infringement," con- In his summation, Ramik concluded, of other authors? concluded Ramik. "Considering all factors necessary in The law specialist found it ironic that reaching a just conclusion on this issue, it * The complete document may be obtained by sending a Mrs. White's sternest critics themselves is submitted that the writings of Ellen G. request, with $5.00, to the General Conference Legal offer "the best evidence available" to White were conclusively unplagiaris- Services Office, Dept. RD, Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 20012. support a position of noninfringement. tic. " ❑ ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (875) 3 9 9 her writings that changed my mind. And I think there's a distinction—a very "There simply is no case salient difference—here. REVIEW: Would you describe the Interview about Ellen White and her writings distinction that you see? Ramik: I believe that the critics have with Attorney Vincent L. Ramik, missed the boat badly by focusing upon senior partner of Diller, Ramik & Wight, Ltd., Mrs. White's writings, instead of focus- ing upon the messages in Mrs. White's specialists in patent, trademark, and copyright writings. cases, Washington, D.C. REVIEW: What did you find in her messages, Mr. Ramik? How did they affect you? Ramik: Mrs. White moved me! In all REVIEW: Attorney Ramik, how much material by critics all the way from D. M. candor, she moved me. I am a Roman did you know about Seventh-day Canright down to Walter Rea. And he Catholic; but, Catholic, Protestant, Adventists in general, and Ellen White also gave me a number of works by whatever—she moved me. And I think in particular, before you were asked Adventist authors who attempted to her writings should move anyone, unless to research the legal questions in- defend Mrs. White. In the report I have he is permanently biased and is unsway- volved in Mrs. White's use of literary listed many works that were consulted. able. sources? REVIEW: What was your reaction REVIEW: Would you explain what Ramik: Actually, my knowledge was after digesting all of this material? you mean by this? quite limited. Our firm had done some Ramik: Well, that's an interesting Ramik: Well, a person can walk this work for Seventh-day Adventists, proba- question! I started out, I think, basically earth doing good deeds and saying to bly 50 years ago, before I became a neutral on the literary charges. But, himself (and maybe to others): "I'm a member of it. And we continued to somehow, as I read one particular nice person." And after a time you really represent Adventists in various matters Adventist-authored defense of Mrs. come to believe that you are. But when through the years. But my knowledge of White, it left me with the feeling that she was the last time that you really looked them as a people was minimal. And I was not, in fact, very well defended. inside yourself and found out what you knew scarcely anything of Ellen White REVIEW: What do you mean by that? were really like? Now, there are a lot of other than what I had picked up in Ramik: Well, I came back thinking things that Mrs. White has put down on newspapers off and on—and, of course, that Mrs. White was, if I may use the paper that will, if read seriously, perhaps last November in that large half-page expression that has been used by others, a cause a person to look inwardly, hon- story in the Washington Post that was not literary "borrower." And that she had estly. And if you do, the true self comes exactly favorable. borrowed a lot and that she had borrowed out. I think I know a little more today REVIEW: Do you recall how you were with something less than candor and about the real Vince Ramik than I did brought into this present case? honesty! In other words—and this was before I started reading the message of Ramik: Yes. Attorney Warren Johns, before I had delved into her works Ellen White, not simply her writings. of your General Conference Legal Serv- themselves—I became actually biased REVIEW: Were you surprised at this ices office, contacted me and asked against her in the sense that I thought she reaction? perhaps a half-dozen questions, in the was what some people, such as her latest Ramik: I guess "pleasantly sur- abstract, about plagiarism, literary critic, Walter Rea, had alleged—guilty prised" would be a very mild understate- piracy, copyright infringement, things of plagiarism. ment. But she says some very deep like that. But no names were attached. REVIEW: Once you got into her things, quite frankly, even if they sound Having read the Post article not long writings themselves, was this negative as if they've been said before. Quite before, I asked Mr. Johns, "Does this impression reinforced or altered in honestly, I think I've left this task with have anything to do with the Ellen White any way? more than I've put into it. And it's simply issue in your church?" He responded that Ramik: I gradually turned 180 her messages. It's simply what you indeed it did. And we went on from degrees in the other direction. I found receive from reading something. It there. that the charges simply were not true. But makes you believe a little more firmly in REVIEW: Once you were retained on I had to get that from her writings; I did things you may have believed a little bit the case, what preparation did you not get that from either the people who less in the past. I'm not a religious make by way of reading, before said she was a plagiarist, or the people person; I am not a practicing Roman researching the law as it relates to who said she was not. I simply had to Catholic. I was born one; but my wife literary matters? read her writings and then rid my mind of happens to be a Protestant; one child is Ramik: I obtained a copy of Mrs. the bias I had already built into it—preju- baptized a Catholic, one is baptized a White's The Great Controversy, which I dice. And, in the end, she came out quite Protestant. I guess you could say we are read all the way through. I obtained favorably. But it took more than 300 an "ecumenical" family! Essentially, copies of other works by Mrs. White. I hours of reading—including case law my outlook on anything, including this contacted Ron Graybill, of your General histories, of course. work and in my daily life, is searching for Conference, and he gave me a lot of REVIEW: So it was reading her writ- God's will for me; and then, I hope, material—a book on the life of Christ by ings that changed your mind? having the wisdom and courage to carry Hanna, things like that. He also gave me Ramik: It was reading her messages in it out. I do have a God of my under- 4 (876) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 standing. Mrs. White has made me "Aha! I find it here. And he took it from public domain—were thus public understand Him a bit better. And for that, an earlier writer. And here's another property. You went on, further, to I think I'm a better person today than one." point out that even if they had been when I started this project. Let me explain it this way: Last night I copyrighted, Ellen White's use of these REVIEW: And the message? reread my memorandum on this case, materials fell well within the carefully Ramik: The message is what is and I noticed that I had used the adjective prescribed boundaries of "fair use," crucial. The critic reads a sentence, and "prodigious" in referring to Mrs. White as defined by the law of her day. One receives no meaning from it—he may, as a writer. Then, by coincidence, I contemporary critic, however, raises and often does, even take it out of happened to read, also last night, a book the question of ethics and propriety: context. But read the entire message. loaned me entitled The Vision Bold. And Was it moral for Ellen White to What is the author's intent? What is the it spoke of Mrs. White as a "prodigious" borrow heavily from other people's author really saying—where the words writer. Then, when I walked into this literary productions and not, at least, come from is really not that important. room this afternoon, someone here called acknowledge the sources? Would you What is the message of this? If you her a "prodigious" writer. Well, I did care to respond to the question of disregard the message, then even the not use the term because it was used by ethics here? Bible itself is not worth being read, in someone else; I used it because it's a Ramik: Well, yes. Walter Rea has that sense of the word. natural word for me to use. But the critics publicly said (and I've listened to the REVIEW: Which of Mrs. White's jump on that sort of thing and make a cassette recording of one of his presenta- books did you find most helpful? mountain out of a molehill. tions and then read the verbatim tran- Ramik: The only one I read all the And another question the critic usually script carefully) that there is nothing way through was The Great Contro- ignores is this: Was the statement that the "moral" in a purely legal definition of versy. But, actually, before I finished my alleged "borrower" had taken from the plagiarism. Of course, elsewhere, he research, I had read a great cross section earlier author really original with the attacks Mrs. White on moral grounds, on of her books. I really don't think it makes earlier author—or did, perhaps, he take ethical use of others' materials. Well, all that much difference which of her it, consciously or otherwise, from some- first, he's totally wrong in saying there's books one reads; I think it is whatever one still earlier? no element of morality in the charge of work of hers you happen to have before Now let's take Walter Rea. He reads plagiarism. H. M. Paull, who wrote you, for whatever purpose you need it. Ellen White and says: I found a certain Literary Ethics about 1928, is still today REVIEW: And it didn't bother you, phrase here, a certain paragraph there, a recognized authority on the subject. worry you, that certain people were and it came from this predecessor. Well, Incidentally, while he never came right saying that she had borrowed heavily that's not proof; that's assumption. And I out and defined "plagiarism" in his book from other writers and books? think the first step in any accurate critique (because, as I said a moment ago, Ramik: Forty or four hundred— is to go back to the real original—it "plagiarism," per se, is not a crime), he frankly it's quite immaterial. It would not might be Virgil, Homer, the Bible. does contrast plagiarism with piracy. The make any difference to me if they were Because how do you know it was original literary pirate does not care whether he all taken from other works. with the predecessor—how do you know gets caught; but the plagiarist worries REVIEW: What about plagiarism, he did not get it from someone else who, that he will be found out. (And you say then? Is there really no such thing as in turn, got it from still another earlier there's no element of morality involved plagiarism? someone else? Didn't Solomon say, in plagiarism!) Incidentally, to accuse Ramik: There is no such thing, in law, "There is no new thing under the sun"? Ellen White of plagiarizing Conybeare & as "plagiarism. " Literary crimes are REVIEW: In your legal opinion, Mr. Howson's uncopyrighted Life of Paul is those of either piracy or of copyright Ramik, you pointed out that many of absurd, if for no other reason than the fact infringement. Literary theft—piracy—is the works Mrs. White is accused of that she publicly urged her readers to get not such an easy thing to prove. You "stealing" were, in fact, not a copy and read it for themselves. cannot read someone's writing, and find copyrighted by either author or pub- REVIEW: All right; but, still, would a word, a phrase, a sentence, and say, lisher, and were, therefore, in the you care to comment upon whether Ellen White encroached in the area of ethics by using materials—quotations, paraphrases, ideas, and so on—of others without publicly stating where she got them? Ramik: There is no reason why Ellen White could not use the ideas of others in expressing the thoughts she wished to convey. It's not even rational to expect someone writing on a theological sub- ject, for example, to write in the abstract without researching what others who have gone before—or even contem- poraries—have said on the subject. In the middle of the nineteenth cen- Interviewing Attorney Vincent L. Ramik (second from left) for the REVIEW are (left to right) Victor Cooper, General Conference associate communication director; Roger Coon, associate secretary tury—just when Ellen White was begin- of the Ellen G. White Estate; and Warren L. Johns, of the General Conference Legal Services. ning to write for print, 1845—in the ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (877) 5

ous. On the contrary, it's the sensible But I get that simply from her writings. man, the wise man, who makes use of I was not there when she wrote, and I that which was done in the past, when it suppose that few of the critics were, was done well. Somewhere in one of our either. I have a feeling that unless you legal archives there is an inscription over had some type of "motivation," you the door, "Past Is Prologue." I believe simply could not deliver in words that that applies to writings, too. which I have received from her writings. Ellen White used the writings of Now, I, personally, could not be others; but in the way she used them, she disturbed by the thought that God may made them uniquely her own, ethically, have inspired her to select something as well as legally. And, interestingly, she from a certain book. And if God inspired invariably improved that which she her to select something that was written "selected"! better by someone else than she could REVIEW: Do you have anything you have written it herself, so what? would like to add on this fascinating Actually, in the final analysis, I think it subject? all comes down to a question of faith. And, for myself, I have no trouble in Ramik: Yes. I believe it was Warren accepting what she wrote as a matter of Vincent L. Ramik Johns who shared this analogy with me faith. once when we were discussing this case The bottom line is: What really counts and point. The situation is something like legal case of Emerson v. Davies, is the message of Mrs. White, not merely Massachusetts Circuit Justice Story in the builder who wishes to build a house. the mechanical writings—words, effect exonerates a writer who has used There are certain basic, essential units of clauses, sentences—of Mrs. White. The- building materials that are available to other men's words and ideas and woven ologians, I am told, distinguish here them into his own composition. him—windows, doors, bricks, and so between verbal inspiration and plenary In effect, Judge Story says, Only fools on. There are even certain recognizable attempt to do that which has been done kinds of textures and styles that have better in the past; no one really ever been created by various combinations of builds a language exclusively his own. these different materials by earlier In other words, the words themselves builders. have been there for years and years. The The builder brings together many of crucial issue is how you put them these and uses them. Yet the design of the together, and the effect you wish to house, the ultimate appearance, the produce from those words. ultimate shape, the size, the feel, are all Now, if someone in the past, accord- unique to the immediate, contemporary ing to Judge Story, has written something builder. He individually puts his own that is splendidly written—something stamp upon the final product—and it is that is historical, something that is a uniquely his. (And he doesn't say—or common, everyday human experience or need to say—I got this brick here, that occurrence—why should you break your door there, this window there, either!) back trying to say it better than someone I think it was that way with Ellen else has already said it? White's use of words, phrases, clauses, For those types of writings, there is sentences, paragraphs, yes, and even absolutely nothing wrong or incongru- pages, from the writings of those who went before her. She stayed well within Warren L. Johns the legal boundaries of "fair use," and all the time created something that was substantially greater (and even more inspiration. Too many of the critics have beautiful) than the mere sum of the missed the boat altogether. And it's too component parts. And I think the ulti- bad, too! mate tragedy is that the critics fail to see I, personally, have been moved, this. deeply moved, by those writings. I have I have been asked whether I thought been changed by them. I think I am a Ellen White was "inspired." Well, better man today because of them. And I inspiration is a theological word, not a wish that the critics could discover that! legal word; and I am more at home with REVIEW: Attorney Ramik, how legal words than I am with theological would you sum up the legal case words. against Ellen White as far as charges of I don't know whether she was plagiarism, piracy, and copyright inspired, in the theological sense. I do infringement are concerned? believe that she was highly motivated. Ramik: If I had to be involved in such And if it wasn't God who motivated her, a legal case, I would much rather appear then I don't know who it could have as defense counsel than for the prosecu- Victor Cooper been. tion. There simply is no case! ❑ 6 (878) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 The story behind this research An interview with Warren L. Johns, chief counsel of the Office of General Counsel, General Conference of SDA.

REVIEW: Attorney Johns, how and terms, would probably rank about fiftieth White's use of literary materials of other under what circumstances did the in Fortune magazine's well-known list of authors she clearly was within the legal Legal Services of the General Confer- the top 500 corporations in the United definition of "fair use." By the defini- ence come to be involved in retaining States today. We already were very busy tions established in the law itself she is the firm of Diller, Ramik & Wight, with other work, especially with First seen to be operating not only well within Ltd., to research questions pertaining Amendment issues and challenges. the law but in a high, ethical manner, as to Ellen White and her use of literary Then, too, the plagiarism charges present well. The charges made against her sources? some incredibly deep and complex legal simply do not hold water. She did not Johns: Well, last October an issues. We felt we must have a specialist, operate in an underhanded, devious, Adventist pastor on the West Coast was and that's what we got. The best firms in unethical manner as charged. She was an featured prominently in the Los Angeles this branch of law are here in Washing- honest, honorable Christian woman and Times, and serious allegations of plagia- ton, and we have worked with Mr. author. I also might add that in law there rism were raised against Ellen G. White. Ramik's office on other cases for the past is a legal test of a causal factor that might The story, carried by a wire service and a four or five years. During this time we well be applied to Mrs. White's min- news syndicate, appeared in dozens of have found him to be highly professional istry—we sometimes speak of it as the newspapers across North America. It and superbly competent. Because of his "but for" test: but for this particular even found its way into the Manchester demonstrated ability and undoubted event, or cause, or action, that particular Guardian in England. Understandably, expertise in this field, we have developed result would not have occurred. And I see it raised a lot of questions in the minds of great respect for him. Ellen White in that light. But for Ellen G. our church members, as well as among REVIEW: Did the fact that Mr. White there would have been no non-Adventist readers. Last April—six Ramik, a Roman Catholic, would of Seventh-day Adventist Church, as we months later—our office decided that we necessity have to read The Great know it today. ought to get to the bottom of the legal Controversy in its entirety (which REVIEW: That's interesting! And aspects and implications of the case. So some Catholics find personally offen- how do you view the future? we retained the services of a highly sive) concern you as you contemplated Johns: I tend to agree with Sociologist reputable firm specializing in patent, retaining him? Irmgard Simon, a doctoral candidate at a trademark, and copyright law. And they Johns: We recognized that some university in Miinster, Westphalia, Ger- have now tendered their very compre- Adventists might wonder about whether many, who, in 1965, wrote in her Ph.D. hensive legal opinion. he could be objective. But, on the other thesis (which dealt with Adventism and REVIEW: Did the General Conference hand, if we hired an Adventist lawyer Mrs. White): "The Seventh-day Advent- officers or the Ellen G. White Estate and he came up with a favorable conclu- ists still live on the spirit of Ellen G. request you to proceed in this direc- sion some perhaps would say, "Oh, White, and only as far as this heritage tion? well, he had an ax to grind—what else lives on do the Adventists have a Johns: No. We acted entirely on our would you expect?" Anyway, we future." Last January 19, Newsweek' s own initiative. Neither of these groups already knew Mr. Ramik to be highly religion editor, Kenneth L. Woodward, was involved. On April 21, I told the professional and objective; and, most observed in a similar vein: "If it loses its secretary of the White Estate what we important, we wanted to know the founding mother, the church may find proposed to do; but neither his depart- truth—let the chips fall where they that it has also lost its distinctive ment nor the GC officers initiated it. might. We felt he would discover the visionary soul." Besides, none of us knew either the facts, apply the law, and settle the issue REVIEW: What will be the impact of direction the research was taking or the for the church once and for all. the Ramik report on the church, and conclusions reached until the work was REVIEW: Do you feel that his com- on the critics of Ellen White? Will it finished and the report was in. The cost of prehensive, closely reasoned 27-page silence the critics? this kind of legal research is substantial; report settles the issues raised? Johns: Well,'I am sure it will confirm but our office felt it was important to get Johns: Absolutely! the faith of those who have been made the truth, hence our office is paying the REVIEW: What do you feel is the uneasy by allegations now shown to be bill for the work that was done. significance—the meaning—of this without foundation. And it may cause REVIEW: Why did you choose Diller, report for our church? some second thoughts among some of the Ramik & Wight, Ltd., for this task? Johns: The charges about plagiarism, critics. But, in the final analysis, for Johns: First of all, our office has only literary piracy, copyright infringement, those who choose to believe, no proof is three lawyers to serve the General and so on, are shown to be entirely necessary; and for those who choose to Conference—and the GC, in financial without foundation in law. In Mrs. disbelieve, no proof is possible! ❑ ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (879) 7 By beholding we become changed-2 and will do so throughout eternity. But it is to say that God respects creaturely choice and freedom. God will not force a revelation of Himself upon those who refuse to receive Is seeing believing? it. Our salvation is possible only when we behold a true As did our first parents, we face revelation of Jesus Christ. We behold Him by studying a tree of life and a tree of His life. Salvation has to do with change, and change comes through beholding Him. Damnation also has to do knowledge of good and evil. with change, as concentrating our attention on man-made idols takes the place of beholding Jesus. Beholding anything that leads us away from Christ destroys us. Because Satan knows this from firsthand experience, he applies this principle with almost total success throughout the world. Appeal to the senses! Get through to the mind screen! Take control of the mind through the argument that "seeing is believing." These are Satan's tactics. Consider Eden. Satan questioned, "Hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" (Gen. 3:1). Eve responded, "God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die" (verse 3). But Satan appealed to his own example—he was touching it; yet he was not dead. After pointing that out, he placed some fruit in her By NORMAN R. GULLEY hands (see Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 55). "And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it Why is there no plan of salvation for the fallen angels? was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make Unlike humans, they lived in God's presence at the one wise, she took the fruit thereof, and did eat" (verse 6). throne. They had constant opportunities to behold Him. "Seeing is believing" led to the fall of our ancestors in Sin, terrible mystery that it is, should never have arisen. Eden.

It arose in the mind of Lucifer, his imagination projecting The same strategy will capture this final generation. a false image of God onto the screen of his consciousness. John says: "I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out He chose to behold this misrepresentation rather than the of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the genuine revelation before him. By beholding the false, he beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they became changed. He pictured God improperly, thinking are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth of Him as unjust, believing He made a law impossible to unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to keep. Gradually these false concepts made Lucifer unjust gather them to the battle of that great day of God and rebellious. By beholding a false picture of Jesus— Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief" (Rev. 16:13-15). One who occupied a position that Lucifer felt he should Generation open to miracles have and thus a favored one—Lucifer became changed to Satan. Ours is a generation open to the miraculous. The The angels that listened to Lucifer's false portrayal of demand for psychic healing is spreading like wildfire. Father and Son also became changed. In time the change Miracles and tongues-speaking—two types of appeal to was irreversible; the angels had committed the unpardon- the senses—are found within the charismatic movement. able sin. Prior to their reaching this point God had pleaded The neopentecostal upsurge already has jumped over with Satan and his angels to return. His revelation of more than one hundred high denominational walls. mercy and concern for them should have touched their In contrast to the cold, arid, doctrinal divisions of hearts and brought change. But, steadfastly holding on to long-established denominations, this movement, with its the false picture, they refused to behold the genuine feeling of warmth and fervency, brings Christians picture of Jesus. They allowed their subjective beholding together. It comes as something inviting, something that to cancel out their objective beholding and became slaves ordinary people can hold on to in a time when there is little bound to erroneous misconceptions. There was nothing left to cling to. Prophecy predicted that "papists, who more that God could do for them. boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, will This is not to say that God had exhausted His be readily deceived by this wonder-working power; and self-revelation toward these fallen angels. He is constantly Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also manifesting greater depths of His character to all creatures be deluded. Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power."—The Norman R. Gulley is professor of religion at Southern Great Controversy, p. 588. Missionary College, Collegedale, Tennessee. The ultimate appeal to people's sight comes with

8 (880) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 Satan's impersonation of Christ. His deception will If "we are what we eat," then we are also (in mind) convince almost everyone (see The Great Controversy, what our mental diet is. Whatever occupies the mind's pp. 624, 625). attention controls it. This is why minds absorbed with the Although miracles will test Seventh-day Adventists, trivial will become trivial; minds absorbed in big ideas perhaps most will pass the test. Likewise the imperson- will become big; minds absorbed in worldly affairs will ation of Christ probably will not ensnare most of our become worldly; and minds absorbed in the holy will be members. They know that Christ will not touch the earth at elevated. His second advent (1 Thess. 4:16-18). The battle is for the mind. Whoever or whatever has our But what about television? Could this be the single most minds has us. Satan is out to "gain control of the whole potent force for robbing Adventists of eternal life? No mind" (The Great Controversy, p. 489). He knows that it generation in any period of history or in any place has had is the mind that "elevates man above the beasts" to face such a deluge of violence as modern Americans, (Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 127). If he can debase the mind by glued to the TV screens. TV is having more influence on getting it to behold evil, he has reduced humans to the human behavior than many would like to admit. level of the beasts. The world is fast coming to this level.

SPEAKING OUT teristics of our time. In the would happen, did not form a church of God these elements part of the body of truth as it was are not unwelcome, provided once held. Today this is no they do not disturb the well- longer so. We received this planned and already divinely stirring truth many years ago. inspected units of the church We have proclaimed it to mil- edifice. We cannot entertain, lions on earth. God has set His The foundation even momentarily, the thought stamp of approval upon it. that the building of which Jesus Would anyone today maintain stands secure Christ Himself is the foundation that we need to retrace our steps needs any drastic or major and reformulate elements that One measure of a church's strength is 2:19). No human or demon can alteration. already have been incorporated the degree of freedom its members have to speak out—to express minority points of lay any other foundation. In other words, the truths that into our foundation? Nothing view. At times the editors disagree with the could be further from the truth. opinions expressed in Speaking Out, but they The foundation of God's lie at the heart of the message of publish them to stimulate thought, to produce eternal church is not only the the remnant church cannot be Further light? Indeed so. But constructive discussion, and to allow readers to test the validity of the ideas presented. Lord Himself, it also is, of altered or improved. Even now, whatever form this additional necessity, the truth of God. throughout the world, they are illumination will take, we are Where Jesus reigns, His truth calling men and women to sure that it will not tear apart The significant structure that will provide the necessary repentance. Lives are being either the foundation or the is God's church on earth is guidelines. In spite of this fact, transformed today because the family of God. We should pray almost completed. The Archi- numerous substitute blueprints truth of the message is unassail- and search for additional light. tect is God Himself. We—the have been urged upon the over- able. It will come gradually and move saints, the members of God's seers appointed by God as His Our Lord's atoning death into the church in full synchro- household—are the structural helping hands. So far, none opened up a way of escape from nism with our needs and abili- units with which this divinely have added improvements, nor perdition for all mankind. His ties to understand. Above all, it conceived and living edifice has are other blueprints yet to be priestly ministry in the holy will create greater unity and not been bonded together. conceived likely to add to the places, for those that accept His disruption. Unfortunately, now The Foundation, the Corner- strength of the foundation gracious intercession, culmi- and then supposed new light has stone, is none other than Jesus already laid. nates in the great day of atone- caused God's edifice to tremble Christ. The prophets and apos- Since Jesus is the Truth, it is ment that vindicates God's just as if shaken by an earthquake. tles form a part of this support of the utmost importance that dealings with sinners. Finally, But the building of truth has insofar as they declared and we, as the structural subunits, His glorious return restores His always sustained and survived exemplified the truths revealed speak the truth, the whole truth, people to glory. These truths, the tremors. It will continue to by Jesus Christ. It is a most and nothing but the truth. "Let and others, form the founda- do so until the end. happy circumstance that no no one attempt to dilute truth tion, which needs no last-min- New light does not demand other foundation can be laid with a mixture of sophistry. Let ute substitutions. the reconstruction of God's than the One already firmly put no one attempt to tear down the Did the divine Architect foundation, nor a major change in place by God Himself. This foundation of our faith, or to blunder in His original specifi- in the structural design. So firm encouraging assurance also is spoil the pattern by bringing cations? The very thought are these that the Builder has put the guarantee of ultimate and into the web threads of human sounds blasphemous. Most cer- up a warning to anyone who lasting triumph. devising."—This Day With tainly, God's revelation of truth would tamper with them. But humans would not be God, p. 324. (Italics supplied.) has been and still is unfolding. God "has appointed that His sinful humans if they were not Attempts at dilution of truth So is our understanding of it. church on earth shall stand to try to alter or even find or tearing down the foundation There was a time when even perfectly united in the Spirit and substitutes for God's Founda- have been made through the certain core doctrines were counsel of the Lord of hosts to tion. In fact, this has been done ages. It is not surprising that being revealed in their simplest the end of time" (Selected repeatedly in spite of the warn- intensified attempts are being elements. Certainly, the truth Messages, book 2, p. 397). ing and declaration that God's made today. Change and dis- about the cleansing of the sanc- R. L. KLINGBEIL Foundation stands firm (2 Tim. covery are outstanding charac- tuary, as well as the time this Canby, Oregon

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (881) 9 Many Americans spend at least 20 hours each week FOR THE YOUNGER SET watching TV. That is 1,040 hours, or 130 eight-hour working days, each year. At only $5.00 an hour, this time is worth $5,200. If people work a 40-hour week and watch TV 20 hours a week, they spend half as much time with the "tube" as they do on the job. Such prolonged exposure inevitably brings change quickly. The clothesline cat Do we spend more time with our television sets than By JOAN BECK with our Bibles? Do we spend more time beholding that mixture of good and evil or in beholding Jesus? Eve fell at "Come here, Spike," Sherry from the girls. Putting it on the called to the stub-tailed cat. ground under the clothesline, the tree of knowledge of good and evil—her eyes had "I'm not going to hurt you; I she began taking the wet clothes slipped from beholding her Maker. Before the TV set most just want to pet you." As Sherry out and hanging them on the people face a modern tree of knowledge of good and evil, reached under the truck, Spike line. "Come on, girls, help and their gaze is distracted from Jesus. TV or the Bible; ran out the opposite side and hid me," she said. "Keep your tree of knowledge of good and evil or tree of life—which in the undergrowth at the base of eyes on the weeds at the bottom the fig tree. Sherry reached of the fig tree." will we allow to formulate our thinking? under the bushes. "Ouch!" she As they hung the wet clothes Because we are born with sinful natures, we are cried as she jerked her hand on the line, Spike came out of corrupted easily. By contrast, it takes longer to change us back. the weeds, meowing to be pet- to become like Jesus. Through "beholding the glory of the "Mrs. Beck, please get this ted. He came right over to them, Lord" we "are being changed into his likeness from one thorn out of my finger," she meowed, and rubbed against asked, holding her hand out. their ankles. When Sherry bent degree of glory to another" (2 Cor. 3:18, R.S . V.) . "Sherry, you'll never catch down to get more wet clothes, Change for the good is gradual. This is why we have no Spike that way," Judy said, Spike ran under her hand and time to lose in these final days before Christ's return. watching her mother pull the rubbed against it. Sherry sat There is only time for the best. "Unless the sinner makes it thorn from Sherry's finger. down and began petting Spike, his lifework to behold the Saviour, and by faith accepts the "I know he wants me to pet who climbed into her lap. him by the way he acts," Sherry "He's a strange cat! I'd hate merits which it is his privilege to claim, he can no more be replied, "but every time I try to to have a cat that would let me saved than Peter could walk upon the water unless he kept touch him, he runs away. That pet him only when I was hang- his eyes fixed steadily upon Jesus. "—Ellen G. White, in doesn't make sense; one minute ing clothes. What makes him Review and Herald, Sept. 29, 1896. No one can save he's rubbing against my ankles like that?" Sherry asked. himself, and Christ cannot save anyone who does not take and purring, and the next he's "It's a habit he formed as a running away from me." kitten," Mrs. Beck replied as time to look to Him, for salvation has to do not only with "There's the thorn that was she hung another pair of blue atonement and forgiveness but with change, with getting giving you all that pain," Mrs. jeans on the line. "Spike was a fit for heaven. And change comes through beholding Beck said, holding the thorn up wild kitten that decided to make Jesus. for Sherry and Judy's inspec- our farm his home. He lives in tion. the weeds under the fig tree. No wonder Ellen White uses various terms to "If you want to pet Spike, When I'd come out to hang emphasize the importance of taking time to think of Him. Sherry, there's only one way clothes, I'd bring him some- For example: We should behold Him "steadfastly" you can. Come with me and I'll thing to eat, and we became (Review and Herald, May 21, 1908), daily keeping the show you the secret," she said. friends. He formed the habit of eyes "fixed" on Him (ibid., Jan. 13, 1910), the mind "You girls run and get the being petted at the clothesline laundry basket full of just- and won't let us pet him any- "stayed" on Him (ibid., April 5, 1892); we should washed clothes and bring it where else. We call him our "dwell" on Him (ibid., Feb. 28, 1907) "constantly" around to the clothesline; then `clothesline cat.' He's a good (ibid., March 5, 1895). We must behold Him "perpetu- we'll pet Spike." example of how important it is ally" (ibid., Feb. 18, 1896) and be "absorbed in Mrs. Beck took the basket to form good habits, because contemplation" of Jesus (The Desire of Ages, p. 139). once they are formed they are almost impossible to change When we follow this instruction, we are walking in the unless you have Jesus' help," presence of Christ, conscious of His nearness, with our Mrs. Beck said as she finished minds constantly reaching to Him even amid the routine of hanging up the clothes. work, just as the young Jesus lived in the atmosphere of "Now I know why you are heaven with His mind reaching out to His Father as He such a strange cat," Sherry said to Spike as she ran her hand toiled at the carpenter's bench. down the satiny brown-and- Beholding everything but Jesus will make our minds gold-streaked fur. All three of like those of the fallen angels; eventually God will not be them laughed as Spike meowed able to change us. Beholding Jesus, we are drawn to want his appreciation and pushed to see more of Him. Spending time with Jesus is not a upward with his back legs, raising his body so that Sherry's legalistic necessity but a wondrous privilege. Seeing Him hand would travel the entire is truly believing. As we keep looking to Him we are safe length of his back to the tip of from Satan's final thrust. ❑ his stubby tail. To be continued 10 (882) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981

his master power to bring in fanaticism on the one hand and cold formalism on the other, that he may gather in a Jumping for joy harvest of souls. "—Ibid., p. 19. Nothing would be gained by replacing one evil with Which is the greater danger— another. Fanaticism is a danger to guard against. But it is fanaticism or a stilted correctness? not necessarily the greater evil. It may well be that Satan would find a stilted correctness more suited to his purpose in our day. After all, Laodicea is not noted for being on fire! For those troubled about emotion, David C. K. Watson's observation is worth noting: "Christ is con- By LOUIS F. CUNNINGHAM cerned with the whole man: body, mind, heart, and will. To bypass the mind altogether and whip up the emotions is If David were alive today, would he still dance "before something I am as much against as anyone else. But true the Lord with all his might" (2 Sam. 6:14)? Would he also Christianity does not leave the emotions untouched. The make this appeal: "Let Israel rejoice in him that made only thing which has no emotions is a dead body, and if him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let your faith is without emotion it is a dead faith. "—My God them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises Is Real, p. 83. unto him with the timbrel and harp" (Ps. 149:2, 3)? As for whipping up the emotions, one country preacher In earlier times, the Bible expression rejoice often put it this way: "When David said, 'My cup runneth meant "to exult," or literally, "to leap for joy." This over,' it wasn't because he tipped the cup." Manipulating David did with all his soul. And nothing so aptly identifies the emotions may satisfy an excitable temperament but not him as a man after God's own heart as does his the thirsting of the soul after God. spontaneous outpouring of praise and adoration. Response to God's goodness But if God was pleased with David's display of religious ardor, Michal, his wife, was not. "She despised True worship centers in our Maker and is a response to him in her heart" (2 Sam. 6:16). How could he think of our awareness of God and of His goodness to us. The carrying on like that in public? apostle said, "We love him, because he first loved us" (1 To her rebuke he replied, " 'I will celebrate before the John 4:19). Lord. I will become even more undignified than this, and I How deep should that response be? Jesus said, "Thou will be humiliated in my own eyes' " (verse 22, N.I. V.). shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all If we as a church had to take sides in David and thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind" Michal's dispute, might not our sentiments be with her? (Luke 10:27). Nothing in that statement suggests formal- What other stand could we take? Imagine what might ity or casualness. Such love deeply affects the whole happen if we were to sanction David's example! being. Yet we have reason to wonder whether we have "If our perceptions could be quickened to take in this improved on the more open expression of the psalmist. Is wonderful work of our Saviour for our salvation, love, our conservative way of worship really a step forward or deep and ardent, would burn in our hearts. Our apathy and for the most part merely a reaction? It may indeed be a cold indifference would then alarm us. "—Testimonies, reaction, not to David but to those who have abused and vol. 3, pp. 396, 397. counterfeited the spirit of the psalmist. Rather than being a dull exercise, true worship is One of the serious problems of early Adventism was the vibrant with emotional quality, as is illustrated by the wave of emotionalism that swept over some of the spirit of the two disciples during their walk with Jesus on churches. Spiritual fakery and fanaticism threatened the the way to Emmaus. "They said to one another, 'Did we progress of the work and had to be met with firm and not feel our hearts on fire as he talked with us on the road prompt action. Ellen White warned, "We cannot allow and explained the scriptures to us?' " (chap. 24:32, excitable elements among us to display themselves in such N.E.B.). a way that would destroy our influence with those we wish But why did they respond that way? Because they to reach with the truth. "—Selected Messages, book 2, p. walked and talked with the Lord Himself. He was as real 44. to them as flesh and blood. But we need to distinguish between emotion and Could it be that He is not real to us? Have we not walked emotionalism. They are not identical. True zeal and rash and talked with Him? excitement are not the same, nor from the same source. They believed by seeing. We see by believing. They "If Satan sees that the Lord is blessing His people and saw Him go away. We shall see Him return—in all His preparing them to discern his delusions, he will work with glory. And for that hope we rejoice with burning hearts in the certainty of God-given faith that exclaims, "Bless the Louis F. Cunningham is a retired minister living in Lord, 0 my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy Yucaipa, California. name" (Ps. 103:1). ❑ ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (883) 11

FAMILY LIVING within its sacred pages are found promises that impart courage and comfort, and passages of instruction and admonition. Strength and power to live the victorious life "We'll have to get can be ours when we approach the study of the Bible with a willing, teachable, and prayerful spirit. When we spend time beholding Jesus "in the Book," His Spirit will into the book" gradually, silently, and imperceptibly change our natures until the "Jesus in the Book" will become Jesus in us. Two thoughts her 3-year-old That is what He is waiting for. That was one reason why He came to live on this earth—to show us the way; to show expressed led the author to us how it can be done. some deep spiritual observations. All day Jesus would labor with crowds, with individ- uals, and with His little group of personal followers. He brought healing for body, soul, and mind. It was hard work, and it called forth hatred, ridicule, and suspicion from His enemies; lack of faith and understanding on the part of His followers; and subtle, adverse spiritual influences. At times, His human strength gave way to extreme weariness, but He never failed or became discouraged. After He had dismissed the crowds at the close of the day and after His disciples had gone to rest, He would spend time with His Father in some quiet spot. At other times His Father would awaken Him before the hustle and bustle of the workaday world began. There, in the stillness of the early morning, He would pour out His By SHEILA M. DUNCAN love and His heart's needs to His Father in heaven. As He prayed, the Holy Spirit flooded His soul with courage, "When we go to heaven, Mommy, we'll have to get enlightenment, and power. He would go forth rejuvenated into the book," Terry, our 3-year-old daughter, said as and refreshed. Those hours with the Father were the she looked at pictures of Jesus coming in the clouds. I source of His power. smiled at her childish logic as I tried to explain that Jesus really was not in the book, but that He was up in Tapping power reserves heaven—"way up in the sky"—and that He was We too can tap the reserves of divine power that lead to preparing a place for us so that we can live with Him one complete victory in our daily lives. "In the secret place of day. "But then how did Jesus get out of the book, prayer, where no eye but God's can see, no ear but His can Mommy?" she asked with a puzzled and unconvinced hear, we may pour out our most hidden desires and expression on her little face. longings to the Father of infinite pity, and in the hush and Later I found myself wondering whether there was not a silence of the soul that voice which never fails to answer deep spiritual lesson in this question for those of us who the cry of human need will speak to our hearts. " "In this are older. Truly Jesus is in "the Book," for John tells us communion with Christ, through prayer and the study of that "in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was the great and precious truths of His word, we shall as with God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1). But it also hungry souls be fed; as those that thirst, we shall be is true that the Jesus "in the Book" will avail us nothing refreshed at the fountain of life. "—Thoughts From the while He remains merely a character in a storybook or a Mount of Blessing, pp. 84, 113. pretty picture to look at. We need to take Him "out of the These are not idle promises. I know. I have proved them Book" and permit Him to come in and live in our over and over again. It does take time, determination, and hearts—let Him become someone to live for; someone to effort. It may mean rising an hour earlier than usual or turn to in the trials and circumstances of life; someone passing by some of the multitudinous activities that with whom to share our happiness and joy. clamor for attention each day. In the case of those who The next question that came to my mind was one that is have small children, and older ones, too, it may be that the not original with me: How do we gain this saving only way to have a quiet hour free from interruptions is to knowledge of Jesus? Terry's childish observation gives us get up before the family does. a clue. We'll have to get into the Book. From God's Soon the Jesus whom we have learned to know and love Holy Word alone can we gain a true knowledge of Him. will come in all His heavenly glory. We will then no Not only does the Bible impart information about God, but longer have to search for Him "in the Book," for our blessed Saviour literally will have "come out of the Sheila M. Duncan is a teacher and homemaker living in Book." Before then, however, we will have to "get into Gwelo, Zimbabwe. the Book. " ❑ 12 (884) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981

FROM THE EDITORS arrangement, or parts of his plan and arrangement, from existing and known sources. He may have borrowed much of his material from others, but if they are combined in a different manner from what was in use before, and a fortiori, if his plan and arrangement are real improvements upon the existing modes, he is entitled to a copyright in the book embodying such improvement.' " "This work is of God, In the case of Lawrence v. Dana et al., Justice Storrow acknowledged: " 'Few judges have devised safer rules or it is not" upon the subject than Judge Story. He held that . . . if so much is taken that the value of the original is sensibly For decades friends and critics alike have discussed diminished, or the labors of the original author are Ellen White's use of literary sources in her writings. substantially, to an injurious extent, appropriated by Critics have charged that her "borrowing" amounted to another, that is sufficient in point of law to constitute plagiarism and copyright infringement. Friends have said infringement; that, in deciding questions of this sort, No, her "borrowing" should be classified as "fair use. " courts must "look to the nature and objects of the So intense was the debate three decades ago that F. D. selections made, the quantity and value of the materials Nichol in his book Ellen G. White and Her Critics devoted used, and the degree in which the use may prejudice the 64 pages (pages 403-467) to a discussion of the various sale or diminish the profits, or supersede the objects of the issues involved. original work." ' " Until 1981, however, no thoroughly researched opinion Attorney Ramik comments: "The manner of taking, the was available from the legal profession. All parties in the extent of the taking, the intent involved, and the damage debate had been, in one sense, laymen—ministers, done are all factors from which might be determined the educators, physicians. Now, however, for the first time a existence or nonexistence of plagiarism. " top-flight attorney has spent about 300 hours reviewing He quotes from Justice Story in the decision of Emerson the copyright scene from 1790 to 1915, has studied v. Davies et al.: " 'I think it may be laid down as the clear carefully the definitions of plagiarism, has examined Ellen result of the authorities in cases of this nature, that the true White's use of sources, and has rendered his opinion: test of piracy (infringement of copyright) or not is to "Ellen G. White was not a plagiarist and her works did not ascertain whether the defendant has, in fact, used the plan, constitute copyright infringement/piracy. " * arrangements and illustrations of the plaintiff, as the We are not so naive as to think that this extraordinarily model of his own book, with colorable alterations and frank and unequivocal statement will end the discussion. variations only to disguise the use thereof; or whether his Another attorney with equally respectable credentials work is the result of his own labor, skill, and use of might study the question and come to a less firm common materials and common sources of knowledge, conclusion or to a different one. Even when arguing from open to all men, and the resemblances are either accidental identical data, attorneys often differ. If this were not so or arising from the nature of the subject. In other words, there would be no need for courts and judges. Of course, whether the defendant's book is, quoad hoc, a servile or judges also differ sometimes, even the Justices who sit on evasive imitation of the plaintiff's work, or a bona fide the U.S. Supreme Court. At times not only a majority original compilation from other common or independent decision is rendered but also a minority decision. The sources.' " supreme law of the land rarely is what all nine Justices say We havedncluded these statements to point up the fact it is; often it is what only five of them say it is. that even those who are laymen, so far as the legal Mr. Ramik's 27-page opinion quotes heavily from profession is concerned, by comparing legal standards court cases dealing with copyright infringement and with the way Ellen White used sources are virtually certain plagiarism. We have spent considerable time reading and to arrive at identical conclusions with those of Attorney studying these cases. In the case of Emerson v. Davies et Ramik. al., Justice Story, who, according to Mr. Ramik, "is Question of inspiration not addressed recognized as the most influential judge in the area of copyright law in the era in question," concluded that For the editors of the REVIEW, previous or contempo- " 'the question is not, whether the materials which are rary efforts to label Mrs. White as a plagiarist or copyright used are entirely new, and have never been used before; or infringer have never seemed impressive. Most have even that they have never been used before for the same grown out of a false or inadequate understanding of the purpose. The true question is, whether the same plan, revelation-inspiration process. It is important in this arrangement and combination of materials have been used connection to recognize that Mr. Ramik's study does not before for the same purpose or for any other purpose. . . . address the question of Mrs. White's inspiration. Though [The author] may have gathered hints for his plan and we may consider settled the question as to whether Mrs. White was a plagiarist or copyright infringer, we still must * See note at bottom of page 3. determine for ourselves whether we believe she was fully ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (885) 13 inspired of God as were the ancient prophets and apostles. become more and more unbelieving. You will question Was she inspired? We answer Yes, based on the weight point after point of the established faith of the body, of evidence. become more self-willed in your opinion, and grow darker 1. We have applied the various Biblical tests of a and darker in regard to the work of God for this time, until genuine prophet to Ellen White and we feel that she meets you set light for darkness and darkness for light. "—Ibid., them more than adequately. p. 231. 2. We have individually and collectively proved the In the days of Jesus people rejected God's own dear Son worth of her counsels in our respective ministries on many primarily because they stifled the convictions brought to continents around the world. We have tried them and they them by the Holy Spirit and looked around to see what the work. Mrs. White and her writings pass the test of leaders thought of Him. When the Temple policemen pragmatism. were sent to arrest Jesus they returned empty-handed, 3. Her writings feed our own souls as do no others save explaining their failure by saying, "Never man spake like Scripture itself. this man" (John 7:46). They felt deeply convicted that He In addition, her writings agree with the Bible; they lift was no ordinary person. But when the ecclesiastical up Jesus Christ as our Saviour, our substitute and leaders scornfully asked, "Have any of the rulers or of the example; they are accompanied by a supernatural power to Pharisees believed on him?" (verse 48) they rejected the change lives; they contain a self-authenticating quality; evidence of reason and their own senses. The test they and they have been overwhelmingly accepted throughout applied was simply that of source credibility. They the decades by the Seventh-day Adventist community. seemed to take the position that if a matter is true it will be In our view there is no way a person can take a neutral accepted by the majority, or, at least, by leading position in regard to Mrs. White and her writings. Either people—rulers, priests, scholars, or others. But Mrs. White offers this trenchant observation: "Those to whom the message of truth is spoken seldom For those who believe, no proof ask, 'Is it true?' but, 'By whom is it advocated?' is necessary, and for those who Multitudes estimate it by the numbers who accept it; and the question is still asked, 'Have any of the learned men or choose not to, no proof is possible. religious leaders believed?' . . . It is not an argument against the truth, that large numbers are not ready to accept it, or that it is not received by the world's great one accepts her as being sent of God or he rejects her as men, or even by the religious leaders. "—The Desire of being an emissary of Satan. Mrs. White herself took this Ages, pp. 459, 460. view. For example, she wrote: "If you are thoroughly We think again of the personal testimony of Attorney convinced that God has not spoken by us, why not act in Ramik, a Roman Catholic layman, who declared that he accordance with your faith and have no more to do with a felt the problem of the critics of Ellen White is that they people who are under so great a deception as this people focus upon the writings while missing or neglecting the are? If you have been moving according to the dictates of message of Ellen White. Liberal scholars have long been the Spirit of God you are right and we are wrong. God is more concerned with the text of the Bible, the methodol- either teaching His church, reproving their wrongs and ogy of the prophets, historical and cultural backgrounds, strengthening their faith, or He is not. This work is of and other factors associated with God's communication to God, or it is not. God does nothing in partnership with mankind than they have with approaching the Word with Satan. My work for the past thirty years bears the stamp of awe, listening for God's voice in His Word, and then God or the stamp of the enemy. There is no halfway work obeying His commands. Apparently many critics of Ellen in the matter. "—Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 230. White are following this same well-beaten path that has In writing to "Brother G," Mrs. White said: "If we led multitudes ultimately to become skeptics. surrender to God we shall choose the light and reject the The fact that the chief counsel of the General darkness. If we desire to maintain the independence of the Conference Office of General Counsel asked the firm of natural heart, and refuse the correction of God, we shall, Diller, Ramik & Wight to research the legal question as to as did the Jews, stubbornly carry out our purposes and our whether Mrs. White was a plagiarist or a copyright ideas in the face of the plainest evidence, and shall be in infringer provides further evidence that the church wants danger of as great deception as came upon them; and in our truth and will continue to seek it whatever the risks. But let blind infatuation we may go to as great lengths as they did, us never forget that faith always will be an essential and yet flatter ourselves that we are doing work for God. element for the Christian, whether dealing with the "Brother G, you will not long stand where you now are. writings of the Bible or those of Ellen White. As Attorney The path you have started upon is diverging from the true Johns said, "For those who choose to believe, no proof is path and separating you from the people whom God is necessary; and for those who choose to disbelieve, no testing in order to purify them for the final victory. You proof is possible." And how one relates to God's attempt will either come into union with this body, and labor to reach his soul through God's modern messenger may earnestly to answer the prayer of Christ, or you will well determine his eternal destiny. K. H. W. 14 (886) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 NEWSFRONT South American Division immediately proceeded with field secretary, made repeated plans. They had some of the visits to government officials. young men cut down the first The authorities began study- trees to indicate ownership of ing the proposition, but noth- the property and erected a ing happened. wooden sign by the highway COVER STORY One day, Federal Deputy declaring, "An Adventist Igo Losso, a Seventh-day school is under construction Adventist, was invited to a on this site." New school in Amazon party in the home of the The Gutzeit family, who minister of agriculture. When had already moved to the area jungle is born by faith drinks were served, Brother to do missionary work, were Losso politely refused. The eager to help and pitched in By ARTHUR S. VALLE host inquired why he did not with the young people to make drink whiskey and he replied, a clearing and put up straw "Because I'm a Seventh-day shelters—the first primitive This is the spot for our excellent piece of land. A Adventist. As they chatted dormitories. This family was school! thought Waldemar mile-long segment of the he reminded the official of the an inspiration to the rest as Will, pastor of the Altamira famous 2,000-mile highway Adventists' request for land. they worked together to clear district, as he passed by a went by the property. But he The minister promised to more land to plant rice, beans, beautiful stretch of land also discovered that it would work on the matter iminedi- cassava (a fleshy root yielding covered with lush vegetation not be easy to obtain the acely. nutritious starch), and fruit and huge trees while making 6,900-acre tract, since it was At last the church received trees. his first trip on the Brazil considered one of the best news that the land had been Being 120 miles from the Trans-Amazon Highway. areas in the Trans-Amazon. granted. What rejoicing after nearest telephone, amid the It was only a dream, but he Time passed. The vision the long period of praying arid wild creatures and neighbor- mentioned his idea to the persisted. The new North waiting! Providentially these ing Indian villages, the North Brazil Union president, Brazil Union president, public officials had been workers made their meals of Joao Wolff (now president of Alberto Ribeiro de Souza, influenced to donate the prop- palm hearts and jungle fruits the South American Divi- went to Brasilia to contact the erty to the Adventists when found in the area and used sion), who set about investi- federal government. With other organizations had kerosene lanterns for light. gating possibilities. It was an prospectus in hand, complete offered to buy the land from The pioneering spirit of sacri- with photographs, statistics on the government. fice spurred on the group Arthur S. Valle is the REVIEW Adventist work, and detailed Elder Souza and Luiz despite the oppressive heat correspondent for the South plans for the school, Pastor Fuckner, then president of the and myriad tiny, vicious gnats American Division. Souza and Walter Streithorst, Lower Amazon Mission, that attacked arms and legs, leaving painful swellings. This small, flickering light would soon be sending its rays throughout the region. Now the Institute Adven- tists Agro-Industrial da Trans- arriazOnica is operating an eight-grade school in its tem- porary quarters, which, along with the classrooms, include boys' and girls' dormitories, chapel, and dining hall. Of the 170 young people enrolled, 140 are dormitory students, with 92 girls and 48 boys. Soon the school will expand to offer the academy grades. Joel Fernadez, the princi- pal, says, "These Adventist youth are in a simple, rustic school with few financial resources, but they have the will to study and work in order to prepare themselves for the Lord's cause. It is especially inspiring at sunset tirne to hear these young people blend their voices with the songs of the birds and the sounds of the other wild creatures of the jungle as they sing praises to their Creator." Members of the Gutzeit family pitched in to help clea? land to ne dew Adventist agriculture-indusiciai school. The Thirteenth Sabbath

ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (887) 15 Special Projects Offering for INDIA the third quarter is destined to help this infant school. Elder Multivillage Souza, when asked about the needs there, said, "We need program works everything—farm machinery, A multivillage program of office machines. It costs the evangelism was conducted for school approximately US$3,- the first time in the North India 000 per student per year. Section. Rawal Gill worked Many of the young people hard to prepare five villages in arrive at the school with noth- the Bheni Mien Khan area of ing except their eagerness to Punjab; then ten experienced learn in a Christian school, evangelists were sent in. Two and we cannot send them by two they worked the five away, even though we don't villages, coordinating their have enough job opportunities individual efforts with the for them all at present. They team as a whole. are our future church—and In spite of great opposition workers. With the third quar- from a coalition of groups ter's special offering we will opposed to Seventh-day be able to give the students Adventists, God used these better living conditions and brethren wonderfully. facilities, and watch as these One day while J. Joseph young men and women pre- was preaching, a man stood up Land is fertile in the rii.von region of Brazil. Fruit on this papaya tree pare for the kingdom of and said, "You have been sent at the school is so heavy that it pulled the tree over to the ground. God." here to convert us, but we will

Many youth arrive without any money at the agriculture-industrial school. Most, like these two young women, are given jobs; none are turned away 16 (888) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 see that we convert you chronological constraints of instead." Another opponent the patriarchal period, and challenged, "If you can bap- geo- and cosmic chronology. tize even one person from our Harold G. Coffin discussed village, we will be your ser- the petrified forests of Yel- vants for all our lives." lowstone, the lowest Cam- These and other challenges brian bed in the Grand Can- were met with prayer, and as a yon, the chalk cliffs of Dover, result of God's blessings 18 the Franciscan Formation of people took their stand for central California, the Rocky Christ in that one village. Mountains, the Appalachians, Mr. Rab, whose name and the origin of coal. Richard means "god," an old man of Tkachuck dealt with general 85 years, inspired the group evolutionary theories of spe- one Sabbath morning when he ciation, changes in organisms, said, "What the Adventists and biogeography. preach is true according to the Others who gave instruc- Bible. I have decided to fol- tion were L. R. Brand, of low it, and I advise you to do Loma Linda University, and the same." Paul A. Gordon, of the Ellen As a result of this man's G. White Estate. Dr. Brand testimony, 82 people took demonstrated the value of sci- their stand for Christ. The entific research as he gave evangelistic team has started reports of field and laboratory preparations for another mul- work done by himself and his tivillage program, and another Lesotho's camp meeting was in the foothills of the Maluti Mountains. staff that indicate that fossil five villages will soon hear the footprints of salamanders and gospel. watchers of the Kubake as late of the delevopment of the lizards in the Coconino Sand- J. R. L. ASTLEFORD as the great trek of the Boers in Austrian and Swiss Alps. It stone of Arizona were made Departmental Director South Africa. His son, was amazing to learn that a under water and rapidly de- Northern India Union Moshoeshoe I, succeeded in huge mountain such as the posited. Elder Gordon called conquering these people and Matterhorn was formed as the attention to the way in which gave them ground to settle on. African plate overrode the Ellen White looked to the They learned to cultivate the Eurasian plate as an effect of results of scientific research in TRANS-AFRICA DIVISION soil and raise domestic ani- continental drift. The field her day and her statements mals for food. guide Dr. Roth prepared also concerning the earth's age. Mission will Today plans are that this was a great help during the Ample time for questions occupy Hill of site will be known as the place time in the Alps. was given during all lecture where the gospel of Christ is Other members of the Geo- periods. Those who attended the Cannibals preached and men and women science Research Institute were convinced of the value of The Lesotho Field camp are led to the foot of the cross. staff provided scientific and the field trip and expressed meeting was uniquely situated BARBARA L. MITTLEIDER informative lectures. Robert appreciation for the scientific at the foothills of the Maluti REVIEW Correspondent H. Brown gave instruction in approach to the various sub- Mountains, at the southeast radiometric dating and the jects. HERMAN J. SMIT end of Mohaleshoek. Moha- traditional Hebrew-Christian REVIEW Correspondent leshoek means "the corner" view of time, the interpreta- Northern European NORTHERN EUROPE of the soldiers. Standing by tion of carbon-14 age data, the Division itself was Kubake, the "Hill of the Cannibals." Geoscience field A little more than 200 years trip informs ago Kubake served as the watchtower from which European leaders pedestrians in the valley Forty-two administrators, below were watched, trapped, teachers, and editors of the killed, and then taken to the Northern European Division cave to the left of the camp- took part in a geoscience field site, the hideout of the sol- trip June 25-July 9. Organized diers, where they were eaten. by Jan Paulsen, secretary of This particular site has been the division, and the Geo- allocated to the Lesotho Field science Research Institute, the for a mission by Chief Fooso. trip began at Bogenhofen The pastor's house has already Seminary, Austria, and ended been completed, and plans are at Collonges-sous-Saleve, being laid for further develop- France. ment. Ariel Roth, director of the The grandfather of the pres- Geoscience Research Insti- ent king of Lesotho, King tute, gripped all who attended Moshoeshoe II, was captured, with his precise knowledge of killed, and eaten by the locations and his explanation The geoscience study group gathers at the shore of Lake Gosau, Austria. ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (889) 17 went back almost three years including one Seventh-day Adventist hospitals are to when my wife and I arrived Adventist physician. Most of in Moberly after accepting an these new hospital employees instruments of church growth invitation to bring together are young people with chil- two old hospitals and develop dren. By JAMES C. CULPEPPER a new Seventh-day Adventist Where have these employ- health-care facility. ees come from? Some worked Having worked in other at other Seventh-day Advent- May 2 was a special Sab- Health and Temperance well-established Adventist ist hospitals, but many have bath to us in Moberly, Mis- Department, who was in Mis- hospitals, I was accustomed to come from nondenomina- souri. The church was full. souri to participate in the attending churches with mem- tional employment. Many Our guest speaker was R. L. dedication of the new Moberly bership of 500 to 1,000. Our church congregations around Pelton, associate director of Regional Medical Center. first Sabbath in Moberly was the United States have con- the General Conference The next day Ellsworth quite different. We found only tributed to make the Moberly Reile, Mid-America Union about 15 members attending church membership grow and James C. Culpepper is president, along with Ralph church. The majority of these to help in the development of a administrator of the Moberly Watts, president of the Iowa- members lived outside the new Seventh-day Adventist Regional Medical Center, Missouri Conference, would community, from ten to 40 health-care facility. Moberly, Missouri, which join 3,500 guests and visiting miles away. How has the establishment opened May 3, 1981. He has officials in the dedication of a Today the Moberly church of a new Adventist medical served in an administrative new Seventh-day Adventist has a membership of more center in Moberly benefited capacity in hospitals in Flor- medical center. than 110 and regular attend- the Seventh-day Adventist ida, Oklahoma, and Colo- As I sat on the platform that ance of about 80. We have just Church? First of all, the rado. Sabbath morning my mind completed our second year church is much better under- with an eight-grade church stood in the community than school. There are 15 children before. Most people in this in the cradle roll-kindergarten community had never heard of Books in Review division and six in the pri- Adventists. Many confused us mary-junior division. We with other denominations. The Search for Truth ing for their lives. He begins his have purchased property on Many have asked questions J. L. Shuler exposition of Biblical truth by focusing upon salvation ("The which to construct a new about the Sabbath, about why Review and Herald Publishing church, school, and Commu- we do not eat pork or serve it at Assn. Most Essential Truth"). From this he moves on to consider the nity Services building. Our the hospital, and about other Washington, D.C. Second Coming ("The Ultimate pastor's district has been 1979, 139 pages things we believe and teach. Price: $ .85 Space Achievement") and the reduced from three churches Members of our adminis- role and purpose of the Advent to two. It is obvious that today trative staff have the opportu- Movement in the modern reli- the Moberly church is very nity each day to talk to the "What is truth?" Pilate's gious scene ("The Present much alive. question dangles like a carrot Truth"; "Christ's Great Truth for influential people in the com- stick before humanity. Veteran Our Day"). To most Seventh-day munity. We belong to civic Evangelist J. L. Shuler has pro- "In the preaching of John and Adventists the Adventist hos- clubs like Rotary, Kiwanis, vided a response to this query for Jesus and His apostles, and of pital is thought of as the Lions, and Optimists, where Seventh-day Adventists who Seventh-day Adventists, the peo- medical ministry of the there are many opportunities wish to find a book that will ple . . are hearing . . . truths church, but how many have to talk to these people. We satisfy the needs of interested fulfilling what Christ had ap- thought of the Adventist hos- find most of them interested in friends and relatives. Grounding pointed to be preached and be- pital as a "church builder," as the medical center and the his entire presentation in Christ, lieved," he affirms. After con- a means of establishing a new church. They ask questions Shuler takes the reader through a trasting the Advent Movement church or of bringing new life that give us the opportunity to classic exposure to the Adventist with cryptic Babylon of Revela- and meaning to an existing message and its contribution in tion, he concludes with a direct share with them our love for the final days of earth's history. appeal for the reader to contem- church? the Lord. Shuler's chapter sequence plate becoming a part of God's One of our senior physi- resembles what an attendee remnant. Finally, he offers a New members cians was somewhat skeptical would hear in an evangelistic summary of the fundamental doc- Where have the new mem- during the early involvement series. Those of us who are trines of Seventh-day Adventists bers in Moberly come from in of the church in developing acquainted with Shuler's style of ("The Jesus Way"). the past few years? About a evangelistic preaching can, at While this is not a "full-mes- the new medical center. He times, hear the "audible" voice sage" book, it does compare half dozen have been baptized was not sure he wanted the speaking through the words on favorably with larger works such into the church; several have "Advents" to build and oper- the page. as Your Bible and You, by A. S. transferred from other ate a hospital in Moberly. His thesis is simple: Truth that Maxwell. Except for privately churches that were near While visiting a relative in matters is found in Jesus Christ. printed sets of evangelistic ser- Moberly. But most of the new Denver he asked him whether "Without the truth in Christ, mons, nothing quite like this members have joined the he was aware of how the there is no knowing," he states. It exists in Adventist print. Its church because they are "Advents" operated hospi- follows then that half-truths directness of appeal and evangel- employed by the new medical tals. The relative told him that "regarding some of the funda- istic flavor makes it an attractive center. When my wife and I the Adventists operate Porter mental doctrines of the Bible have tool for soul-winning purposes. led millions astray from the way Beautifully bound in small arrived in Moberly there was Memorial Hospital in Denver Jesus leads." paperback format, this book actu- one Seventh-day Adventist and that it has the best reputa- Desiring to alleviate this prob- ally offers an evangelistic crusade nurse working the 11-7 shift at tion of any hospital in the city. lem, Shuler notes that the "way "in print." one of the two hospitals in The doctor asked a phar- of Jesus" is found in Scripture; JERRY A. GLADSON town. Today the hospital maceutical detail man the there people must find the mean- Southern Missionary College employs 35 church members, same question. This drug

18 (890) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 salesman indicated that both is a viable part of the Iowa- wood, New York, who have "The evangelistic work is of his children were born at Missouri Conference, as well volunteered their services for progressing faster than any- Hinsdale Hospital near Chi- as the Mid-America Union a two-year period. With no thing—which is what we cago, and that it was the best Conference. It is an effective modern equipment such as really want," she continues in hospital he had ever used. witness in Moberly, as well as tractor or plow, and with her letter. "Two hundred After these two experiences, in a dozen or more surround- hardly any funds to purchase sixty people have been bap- the physician felt better about ing communities where our needed supplies, Mr. and tized recently as the result of a us. members live. Mrs. Walter Lacks are reju- three-month evangelistic I have found that confer- Seventh-day Adventist hos- venating and revitalizing this campaign by the Tanzania ence presidents who have an pitals are more than Christian badly neglected mission sta- Union evangelistic team." Adventist hosptial in their health-care facilities. They tion. Funds are being raised for the conference recognize a help break down prejudice, Mr. Lacks has begun an construction of a new church growth in membership, a help create better under- experimental vegetable gar- in Tarime. church-school program, and a standing, are a tremendous den that is maturing "We are also involved in strong financial program. Our public-relations agent for our The avocado, mango, guava, conducting Dorcas seminars, pastor, Harry Reile, recently church, and win souls for lemon, banana, and mulberry in which we encourage the shared with our members the Christ. trees, neglected for so long, people to become 'servants to financial report from the con- have been pruned and watered the world.' Even in their own ference, which indicated that and once again are producing need, they already have the Moberly church has the TANZANIA good fruit. A pineapple crop proved they can win souls by highest per capita in giving. also is anticipated. lovingkindness." This does not just happen; it is Kibumaye is Mrs. Lacks is renovating The literature evangelists the result of a growing church the main house on the mis- and other church members are of dedicated Christians. It is rejuvenated sion. "With months of scrap- winning souls. "One man in true we have many health-care A house and 80 acres of ing, scrubbing, and painting particular, Mishaeli Nya- professionals in our church; it land at Kibumaye Mission on (with paint flown in from the honyo, from the Borega also is true that this giving a hill overlooking the border United States at a cost of $75 a church, near the Kenyan bor- record is evidence that they town of Tarime, northern Tan- gallon as compared with der, has spent all his life as an are dedicated to the needs of zania, are being reclaimed and locally bought paint at $180), active layman, supporting the church. restored by a stalwart mis- the house is beginning to himself and his family of nine Today the Moberly church sionary couple from Nor- sparkle," she writes. children, putting them WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE HELP?

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One of these is a Inside Washington By VICTOR COOPER more, we could help in the congregation in the Simon areas where there is a food Duvalier urbanization of Port- shortage, such as at Ikizu au-Prince. • Atonement: A new 730-page book entitled Sanctuary and Secondary School 90 miles How did these Christians Atonement: Biblical, Historical, and Theological Studies has been southwest of us where 360 learn of Adventism? Their printed for the General Conference by the Review and Herald. The students are in especially diffi- book consists of 23 research papers related to the atonement and written pastor, Andre Max Pierre- by a variety of authors, including Gerhard Hasel, William Shea, cult circumstances." Louis, says that no one visited JEAN THOMAS William Johnsson, Mervyn Maxwell, and Edward Heppenstall. with him initially regarding Edited by Arnold V. Wallenkampf and Richard Lesher, the book is REVIEW Correspondent the Bible truths, but that he dedicated to Gordon Hyde, who for 11 years was director of the had a dream in which God Biblical Research Institute and who initiated this project. Commenting, spoke to him. At first he kept Dr. Hyde said that the book is an assemblage of research "not produced SWITZERLAND the dream a secret because it under provocation of any present issues. We set out," he said, "to did not harmonize with his determine historically and exegetically with the Old Testament and New Testament studies what is our understanding of the atonement and Weaponless own beliefs and aspirations. the way in which the sanctuary fits into the whole concept of "At first I resisted the call," atonement. In the Adventist perception, atonement is considered service approved he declared, "because I was incomplete in that whereas the price to pay for our atonement was paid Recently the Swiss Federal too proud, but then I asked in full at the cross, what is now being administered to the individual Council passed a new regula- God to again show me the believer are the benefits of the atonement, which result from a personal tion, which will be effective way." faith relationship with the Lord as Redeemer and Mediator. " January 1, 1982, that permits Again the Holy Spirit More than a thousand orders for the book already have been unarmed service in the Swiss revealed truths to him in a received. It is available at Adventist Book Centers for $8.95. Army for conscientious dream. Then a woman in his • The home team: More than 500 European pastors and their wives objectors. congregation told him about a attended one of six Home and Family seminars held by Delmer and Up to now, those who have dream that she had had, and he Betty Holbrook and Ron and Karen Flowers in the Northern European refused military service, even recognized the same Biblical and Euro-Africa divisions. The subjects included marriage enrichment, for religious reasons, have truths. Convinced that this parent-child relationships, family finance, sexuality, and communica- been liable to a penalty. This was a true message, he pre- tion and conflict resolution. caused serious problems to sented the truths of the dreams • In Spanish: All 33 of the New Media Bible films covering the books many Adventist young peo- to the members of his church. of Genesis and Luke are available with narration in Spanish as well as ple. For this reason church The members then united with English, according to Gary Gray, national sales executive of the members in Switzerland held him in praying for the revela- Washington-based Genesis Project. Nonnarrated films with sound track also are available so that local narrators can read the associated a Sabbath of fasting and tion of God's will in their Scripture in any language. prayer about this problem on lives. January 17, 1981. Six months At this point Pastor Pierre- • ASI flight: According to ASI executive secretary James Aitken, one later the following new legal Louis called on the president of their member organizations, Maranatha Flights International, has of the South Haiti Mission, arranged for 68 persons to fly to Belfast, Northern Ireland, to build a regulations were approved: church at Banbridge, County Down, some 25 miles south of Belfast. 1. Any cadet can apply for Max Charles, and together unarmed service in the army, they studied all the funda- • Visitors: Kofi Owusu Mensa, a history teacher for the Adventist if he claims reasons of con- mental subjects of Adventist Seminary of West Africa, is in Washington, D.C., researching in the science, as much as three doctrine. Pastor Pierre-Louis General Conference archives the history of the Seventh-day Adventist months prior to drafting. agreed wholeheartedly with Church in Ghana. 2. Responsible for grant- all these doctrines, including Eric McGraw, director of Population Concern, Billericay, Essex, ing the request are the officer the Sabbath and healthful liv- England, told SAWS personnel at the General Conference that financing for humanitarian projects in developing countries is available in charge, the regional com- ing. He reported back to his for private agencies both from the governments of the eight mander, and a member of the members, and the group member-countries of the European Economic Community and from the investigative chamber of the decided to request member- EEC itself, for private agencies to use in operating social, educational, draft. ship in the Seventh-day and health programs in Third World countries. Assistance is greatly 3. The recruit has the right Adventist Church. The local needed, he said, because the world population is increasing at the rate to appeal the verdict. elder of the Adventist church of one million every week. Weaponless service may be in the Mahahaim district of the • Appreciation: Neal C. Wilson, General Conference president, rendered in either medical or city then gave the group of showed the General Conference Committee a Certificate of Apprecia- air-raid protection companies new converts Bible studies for tion from the president of Poland for the church's gift of $5,000 to the or in any other military depart- two months. Members of the International Children's Hospital in Poland. ment where the use of weap- Mahahaim church also • Daniel and Revelation Committee: The Daniel and Revelation ons is not required. showed Christian love and Committee is to meet September 28-29 in Washington, D.C. Secretary HEINZ HOPF companionship to the group. Frank Holbrook said the group will be reviewing recent research on REVIEW Correspondent Finally, Pastor Mathieu various issues pertaining to the problems in these apocalyptic books.

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Such transfers ordinarily kok, Thailand, of Yuba City, Califor- Relief Team #17A, Bangkok David Crabtree (and Narelle and are included in News Notes. nia, left Los Angeles. June 2. 1981. Adventist Hospital, Bangkok, Thai- family), of Australia, returning to David Jaekwan Jo (Senior Dental land, of Puyallup, Washington, left serve as disrict director, Fiji, left NORTH AMERICAN Clerkship), to serve in dental service, Los Angeles, April 20, 1981. February, 1981. DIVISION Seoul Adventist Hospital, Seoul, Carol Joy Thomas (Special Serv- Dale Henley (and Jasmine), of Korea, of Lorna Linda. California. ice), to serve as teacher, Korean Australia, to serve as teacher, Kosena Jack W. Wagner, senior vice- English Language Schools, Chung College, Samoa, left February 4, president for finance of the Adventist left June 19, 1981. David Robert Johnson (LLU) Ryang, Seoul, Korea, of Collegedale, 1981. Health System/West, Portland, Ore- Tennessee, left Los Angeles, July 20, Fred Nash (and Margaret), of gon; formerly vice-president for (Special Service), to serve as orthope- dic surgeon. Bella Vista Hospital, 1981. Australia, returning to serve as vice- finance, Northwest Medical Founda- Robert Mason Bo Turnage president-executive, Spicer Memorial tion, which was merged under Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Odette (Samaan) Johnson (U. of Redlands), (Senior Dental Clerkship), to serve as College, India, left February, 1981. Adventist Health System/West. dentist, Seventh-day Adventist David Potter (and Janice and Ivan Warden, inner-city director, and family, of Corona, California, left Los Angeles, June 24, 1981. Health Center, Blantyre, Malawi, of family), of Australia, returning to Southern California Conference; for- Loma Linda, California, left New serve as principal, Kauma High merly assistant professor of urban Susan Elaine Kaisand (U. of Nebr. '77) (Special Service), to serve York City, June 16, 1981. School, Kiribati and Tauvalu Mis- ministries, Andrews University, Ber- Ernest August Wagner (LLU '34) sion, left February, 1981. rien Springs, Michigan. as teacher, English Language Schools, Osaka, Japan, of Lincoln. (Special Service), to serve as physi- Colin and Karen Reeve, of Aus- Regular Missionary Service Nebraska, left Los Angeles, June 20, cian, Mwami Adventist Hospital, tralia, to serve as teachers, Kabiufa 1981. Chipata, Zambia, and Lillie LaVona High School, Goroka, Papua New Thomas Bruce Davis (LLU '77), Paul C. M. Lehndorff (AUC '80) (Coltrin) Wagner, of Sonora, Cali- Guinea, left February 23, 1981. to serve as coordinator, preventive (Special Service), to serve as English fornia, left New York City, July 21, Ray Roennfeldt (and Carmel and and rehabilitation medicine, Valley teacher, Japan English Language 1981. family), of Australia, returning to of the Angels Hospital, Valle de Schools, Osaka, Japan, of Clinton. serve as director, Omaura Bible Angeles, Honduras, Pauline Emily Massachusetts, left Los Angeles, Student Missionaries School, Papua New Guinea, left (Dietrich) Davis (LLU '79), and June 22, 1981. March 15, 1981. three children, of Berrien Springs, Annette Frances (McKay) David Lee Anderson (CUC), of Barry Saville (and Donna), of Michigan, left New Orleans, July 22, Marcus (Special Service). to serve as Bedford, Virginia, to serve as assist- Australia, to serve as business man- 1981. teacher, Japan English Language ant to the secretary-treasurer, South- ager, Sopas Hospital, Papua New Atsushi Higa (LLU '72), returning Schools, Osaka, Japan, of College East Africa Union, Blantyre, Malawi, Guinea, left April 17, 1981. to serve as physician, Adventist Med- Place, Washington, left Los Angeles, left New York City, July 9, 1981. Ramond Schultz (and Glenice), of ical Center, Naha, Okinawa, Emiko June 22, 1981. Jacqueline Mae (Hill) Carrigan Australia, to serve as teacher, Kabiufa (Toguchi) Higa, and three children Howard Luke Marin (U. of Pac. (LLU), of San Diego, California, to High School, Goroka, Papua New left Los Angeles, June 5, 1981. '43) (Special Service), to serve as serve as teacher. Japan English Lan- Guinea, left February 4, 1981. Leonard George M. Klein, to dentist, Cambodia/Thailand Relief guage Schools, Osaka, Japan, left Medgee Serret, of Australia, to serve as publishing director, Zambesi Team #19, Bangkok Adventist Hos- Seattle, June 22, 1981. serve as office secretary, Africa- Union, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, pital, Bangkok, Thailand, of Valley Trudi Elizabeth Heinrich (UC), Indian Ocean Division, Ivory Coast, Aldine Myrdes (Eisenman) Klein Center; California, left June 24. of Tolstoy, South Dakota, to serve as left May 31, 1981. (UC '70), and three children, of 1981. English teacher, Central American Kevin Silva (and Thelma), of Newhall, Iowa, left New York City, Linda Aurore Maynard (Special Union College, Alajuela, Costa Rica, Australia, to serve as youth depart- July 6, 1981. Service), to serve as nurse-English left Miami, July 9, 1981. ment director, Papua New Guinea Vernon Chin Luthas (LLU '53) to teacher, Kobe Adventist Hospital. Sharon Lynn Mc Dowell (UC), of Union, Lae, Papua New Guinea, left serve as anesthesiologist, Bella Vista Kobe, Japan, of South Lancaster, Chanute. Kansas, to serve as English March 23, 1981. Hospital, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Massachusetts, left Los Angeles. teacher, Central American Union Roy Sodeman (and Edith), of and Elizabeth (Kim) Luthas, of June 22, 1981. College, Alajuela, Costa Rica, left Australia, to serve as teacher, Kabiufa Kettering, Ohio, left Miami, June 22, J. Wayne McFarland (LLU '39) Miami, July 9, 1981. High School, Goroka, Papua New 1981. (SOS), to serve as lecturer at workers' Tammy Sue McGuire (UC), of Guinea, left February 23, 1981. Bruce Douglas Powers (U. of Pa. meetings in Switzerland and Austria, Alamosa, Colorado, to serve as Eng- Jennifer Stanley, of Australia, to '70), to serve as biochemistry teacher, and Martin C. McFarland, of Grand lish teacher, Central American Union serve as assistant director of nursing Montemorelos University, Monte- Terrace, California, left Los Angeles, College, Alajuela, Costa Rica, left education, Atoifi Adventist Hospital, morelos, Mexico, Carol Joy (Reile) June 8, 1981. Miami, July 9, 1981. Solomon Islands, left March 10, Powers (Mich. State U. '62), and Elwin James Moore (LLU '58) Janet Carole Wallace (PUC), of 1981. four children, of Houston, Texas, left (Special Service), to serve as•physi- Angwin, California, to serve as Eng- David Sutcliffe (and Patricia), of McAllen, Texas, June 25, 1981. clan, Cambodia/Thailand Relief lish teacher, West Indonesia English Australia, returning to serve as educa- Albert Earl Spaulding (U. of Team #19, Bangkok Adventist Hos- Conversation Schools, Jakarta, Java, tion department director, Papua New Colo. '66), returning to serve as pital, Bangkok, Thailand, of Lynn- Indonesia. left Los Angeles, June 22, Guinea Union, Lae, Papua New business manager, Rusangu Second- wood, Washington, left Los Angeles. 1981. Guinea, left April, 1981. ary School, Monze, Zambia, and June 3, 1981. Steven Herbert Wrate (SMC), of Raymond Swendson (and Lily Martha Edith (Marshall) Spauld- Thomas Todd C. Murdoch (AU Arcadia, Indiana, to serve as teacher, and family), of Australia, returning to ing left Chicago, July 12, 1981. '54) (SOS), to serve as agriculture- Seventh-day Adventist Language serve as evangelist, Tahiti, left Febru- financial consultant, Mountain View Institutes, Seoul, Korea, left San ary, 1981. Francisco; July 7, 1981. Volunteer Service College, Valencia, Bukidnon, Philip- Maxwell Townend (and Eunice), pines, of Errington, British Colum- of New Zealand, returning to serve as Ingrid K. Blomquist (Medical bia, left San Francisco Tune 23, AUSTRA IL, ASIAN director, communication department, Elective Service), to serve in medical 1981. Far Eastern Division, Singapore, left work, Ottapalam Seventh-day Boyd Edward Olson (UC '39) DIVISION February, 1981. Adventist Hospital, Ottapalam, (SOS), to serve as education-steward- Regular Missionary Service Kenneth Vogel (and Marlene and Kerala State, India, of Loma Linda, ship director, Southeast Asia Union family), of Australia, to serve as California, left New York, June 24. Mission, Singapore, and Elizabeth John Ashton (and Margaret and district director-pilot, Rakamanda, Stanley James Hansen (Special Laura (Wester) Olson (UC '40), of family), of Australia, returning to Papua New Guinea, left April 1, Service), to serve as teacher, Japan Walla Walla, Washington. left Oak- serve as teacher, Fulton College, Fiji, 1981. English Language Schools, Osaka, land, California, June 28, 1981 left February 4, 1981. James Ward (and Mary and fam- Japan, of Alix, Alberta, left Los Kenneth Wayne Perry (Special Graham Blackb.urne (and Vera ily), of Australia, returning to serve as Angeles, June 22, 1981. Service) to serve as teacher, Japan and family), of Australia, returning to nurse, Kendu Adventist Hospital, Emanuel Pete Heinrich (So. Coll. English Language Schools. Osaka. serve as teacher, Betikama High Kenya, left March, 1981.

22 (894) ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 Volunteer Service 1967 until his death he served in the trust 1927, La Spezia, Italy; d. July 2, 1981. For WOOLLEY, Andrew P., Jr.-b. Dec. services department of the Florida Confer- 34 years he served the Italian Mission in the 17, 1915, Atlanta, Ga.; d. March 14, 1981. Adventist Volunteer Service ence. Survivors include his wife, Erma; a following positions: pastor, secretary, He attended Washington Missionary Col- Corps: 20 daughter, Carol A.; a son, Robert B.; a teacher, director, and district elder. He also lege (now Columbia Union College), Student missionaries: 7 brother, Arthur; a sister, Edna B. Hardt; served as principal of our Italian seminary. Takoma Park, Maryland, and Otterbein and two grandchildren. Villa Aurora. for ten years. Survivors College, Westerville, Ohio, from which he JONES, Floyd-b. Oct. 9, 1896, Leba- include his wife, Esther; a son, Emman- received his B.S. degree in 1940. During,. non, Mo.; d. April 29, 1981, Angwin, uele, who is editor of our SDA Italian World War II he served in the Army and Calif. He drove the bus for Lynwood church paper; and a daughter Laura. was discharged latet as a first lieutenant in Academy, Lynwood, California. and did STRAND, Edith F.-b. Feb. 13, 1894, the Medical Corps. He then returned to Ordinations maintenance work for White Memorial Rochester, N.Y.; d. July 31, 1981, Washington Missionary College to com- Hospital, Los Angeles. California. Survi- National City, Calif. She served as a plete his premedical training, enrolled at In the Oklahoma Conference: vors include his wife, Lena; and a step- secretary in the Western New York Confer- Loma Linda University Medical School in daughter. Dorothy Holmes. ence and then as a teacher at the Browning 1947, and graduated in 1951. For several Frank Jenkins, pastor of the Ada, years after this he worked at the two Baptist Coalgate, and Madill-Oakland MARSH, Veda S.-b. Aug. 12, 1891, Memorial church school in Rochester. New York. After taking the nurse's training medical centers in Birmingham, Alabama. churches; Dan Jensen, newly Antigo, Wis.; d. July 5, 1981, Deer Park, Calif. She taught in the elementary schools course at the New England Sanitarium, she He also served as medical secretary for the appointed pastor of the Enid and Elk in the Antigo, Wisconsin, area until she worked in the business office at the Alabama-Mississippi Conference for 13 City churches; and Robert Streib, started her career in nursing. She taught sanitarium for a short period before she years and was a member of the Southern pastor of the Guthrie, Perkins, and nursing at Walla Walla College, Washing- became a nursing instructor, serving in that Union Conference committee for several Perry churches. ton Missionary College, Atlantic Union capacity from 1927 to 1931. Following this years. Survivors include his wife, Nora; a daughter. Ann Lynnette: three sons, In the Arkansas-Louisiana Confer- College, Southwestern Junior College, and she became director of the School of Andrew Price III, James Louis, and Fred- ence: Gary Herr, pastor, North Little at the nursing schools of Glendale and Nursing at the same institution, a position she held for 15 years. In the 1940s she erick Morton; and a brother, Morton M. Rock church; Ernest Jackson, for- Paradise Valley sanitariums. She wrote a set of textbooks on health for use in became director of nursing and nursing Woolley. mer pastor of the West Helena church, Adventist schools and for nearly 30 years services at St. Helena Hospital, Deer Park, now in the Texico Conference; and wrote a column for children in Life ek California, serving there for 13 years. After John Sisk, conference evangelist. Health magazine under the name "Aunt the death of her husband, Samuel H. In the Texas Conference: Joel Sue." Survivors include a sister, Martha. Strand, Jr., in 1965, she moved to National Alberti, pastor of the Orange-Port ODEN, Bess-b. May 20, 1895, in City, California, and served as a teacher in Notices Arthur district; Max Barton, religion Iowa; d. July 15, 1981, Sacramento, Calif. the two-year nursing program of Loma Linda University offered at Paradise Valley teacher, Chisholm Trail Academy; She served as a nurse's aide at the Orlando Sanitarium, Florida, in the 1950s and Hospital and then as part-time staff nurse Solusi needs used Jack Boswell, pastor, Lufkin- 1960s. Survivors include her husband, until she retired in 1970. Survivors include Nacogdoches district; Cecil May, Bert; a daughter, Creta Bossody; a son, a sister, Florence; a brother, David E. Fay; Primary Treasures assistant treasurer of the Texas Con- Tom; three grandchildren; and two great- and a granddaughter, Suzette Strand. Solusi College needs used copies of ference; Stanley Patterson, pastor, grandchildren. SWENSON, Clara C.-b. April 14, Primary Treasure for mission purposes, North Houston district; Jerry Pugh, SANTINI, Francesco-b. April 2, 1908, Iron Mountain, Mich.; d. Aug. 3, according to J. G. Evert, Trans-Africa pastor, Arlington-Hurst district; Max 1981, Hemet, Calif. After the death of her Division Sabbath school director. All mag- husband, Helmer Swenson, she taught for E. Trevino, ABC manager, Texas azines sent will be used, no matter how old three years in Minnesota, and then moved they are. Send packages wrapped and taped Conference; Mike Tucker, religion to Loma Linda, California. She taught teacher and youth guidance coun- securely, maximum of four pounds per mathematics and French for four years in package for printed matter rates. Mail to selor, Chisholm Trail Academy; Del Valejo High School in San Bernardino, Solusi College, c/o Mrs. Helen Krall, Tune in to Vialo Weis, pastor, Waco-Hillsboro California. She also served as principal of Private Bag T-5399, Bulawayo, Zim- district; and Orlando Zaceta, pastor, the Banning SDA school in California. In babwe, Africa. Dallas Spanish church. 1975 she became principal and teacher in VIEWPOINT Hemet, California. Survivors include three In the Southwest Region Confer- sons, Helmer, Fred, and David; a daughter, The International ence: M. L. Baez, treasurer, South- five minutes of editorial com- Mary Hollock; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Har- west Region Conference; and James ment by the editors of the riette Haugen; and ten grandchildren. Insurance Company Ford, education and Sabbath school REVIEW. TRUESDELL, George A.-b. Aug. 5, of Takoma Park, director for the conference. WADS (Andrews University) 1884, in Nebraska; d. July 22, 1981, Maryland Hemet, Calif. Elder Truesdell devoted his 90.7 Mhz FM Saturday, 8:30 life to the pastoral ministry in various parts The annual meeting of The International of the United States, and helped pioneer the Insurance Company of Takoma Park, KUCV (Union College) work in central California as a pastor-evan- Maryland, will be held at 9:30 A.M., 90.9 Mhz FM Saturday, 7:30 gelist and Bible teacher at Humboldt Monday, October 12, 1981, at Takoma Deaths A.M. Academy in Eureka. He also served in the Park, Maryland, in connection with the KSGN (Loma Linda University) Utah Mission and in the Southeastern Annual Council meetings of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. BUTZER, Gail I.-b. June 8, 1899, 89.7 Mhz FM Saturday, 4:30 California and Oklahoma conferences, Rothbury, Mich.; d. June 30, 1981. He retiring in 1944. Survivors include his The purpose of the meeting is for the P.M. wife, Iva; a daughter, Patricia Rose; two transaction of the general business of the served as an X-ray technician for 25 years KANG (Pacific Union College) at the Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida. grandchildren, Dr. Kenneth Rose and Debi company and the election of directors for After his retirement he served as head of the 89.9 Mhz FM Saturday, 8:00 Pedersen, and one great-grandchild. the term of three years. Florida Hospital Credit Union for ten years. A.M. WARNER-SHUFF, Maude-b. Nov. The Intemational Insurance Survivors include his wife, Hattie; a WSMC (Southern Missionary 8, 1903, in Michigan; d. July 5, 1981, Jay, Company of daughter, Betty Lou; a brother, Herbert; College) Okla. After graduating from Washington Takoma Park, Maryland JOHN E. ROTH, Secretary and two sisters, Mrs. Ruby Carty and Mrs. 90.7 Mhz FM Saturday, 8:50 Missionary College (now Columbia Union Beulah Bavery. A.M. College) as a registered nurse, she served at the Washington Sanitarium (now Washing- FOLKENBERG, Alvin W.-b. April KGTS (Walla Walla College) 9, 1904, Eugene, Oreg.; d. June 4, 1981, ton Adventist Hospital), Takoma Park, Correction Ukiah, California. He was a graduate of 91.3 Mhz FM Saturday, 6:15 Maryland; in Port Huron, Michigan; Hins- Harvey A. Rud saile, mentioned in the Pacific Union College and earned his P.M. dale Sanitarium, Illinois; Beeville, Texas; August 13 To New Posts column, is adviser Doctorate of Medicine degree from Loma VOAR (St. John's, Newfound- New England Memorial Hospital, Stone- for the West Central Florida area to the Linda University School of Medicine in land) ham, Massachusetts; New Canaan, Con- Florida Regent of the American College of 1932. During World War II he became a 1230 Kc AM Friday, 5:55 necticut, and finally at Jay, Oklahoma. She Hospital Administrators in addition to commander in the Navy. Following the war P.M. married Gene Warner in 1926, who pre- being president of the Medical Center ceded her in death in 1961. In 1978 she he returned to southern California and WGTS (Columbia Union Col- Hospital, Punta Gorda, Florida. resumed his medical practice in the Los married Owen Shuff. Survivors include her Angeles area. After his retirement in 1975 lege) husband, Owen; four sisters; and two he became director of emergency medical 91.9 Mhz FM Saturday, 2:30 brothers. LLU seeks research services at Ukiah Adventist Hospital, P.M. WESTERMEYER, Elizabeth-b. reports Ukiah, California, until September 1980. KSUC (Southwestern Adventist May 30, 1892, Monticello, Iowa; d. June Survivors include his wife, Ethelmae; three College) 26, 1981. She and her husband, William Loma Linda University is preparing a daughters, Pamela Kunza, Susan Wilcox, 88.3 Mhz FM Saturday, Westermeyer, began their ministerial serv- Sourcebook of Research on the Seventh- ice in Wisconsin, later serving in several day Adventists. This document will contain and Diane Travis; and seven grandchildren. 10:00 A.M., 5:00 P.M. HENRY, Harry L.-b. Aug. 30, 1902, conferences in the Southern and Southwest- an annotated bibliography of a wide range Hilo. Hawaii; d. May 8, 1981, Napa, Calif. WDNX (Harbert Hills Acad- ern unions. Elizabeth served as a teacher in of studies related to the Adventist Church. He served at the Pacific Union College emy) these areas. In 1957 they retired and moved Such information is invaluable to church cafeteria. Survivors include two daughters, 89.1 Mhz FM Saturday, 6:15 to Loma Linda. Her husband preceded her administrators, pastors, scholars, and lay- Iva Lee Henry and LaVonne Lemanna; and P.M. in death in 1965. Survivors include a son, men. If you are aware of research involving a son, John. WOCG (Oakwood College) Dr. Vaughn; one daughter, Virgene Buck; studies of Adventists or examinations of HILL, Ralph B.-65; d. July I, 1981, 90.1 Mhz FM Saturday, 5:30 five sisters, Helena McKerlie, Sally Nel- some aspect of church activities, please send a copy of the study, an abstract, or the Orlando, Fla. He pastored churches in P.M. son, Edna Lieser, Marie Kjellgren, and Pennsylvania for seven years, Ohio for 27 Betty Magruder; a brother, Howard reference to Dr. Ian P. Chand, Behavioral years, and in 1965 became pastor of the Wemli; ten grandchildren; and four great- Sciences Research Group, Loma Linda Jacksonville SDA church in Florida. From grandchildren. University, Riverside, California 92515. ADVENTIST REVIEW, SEPTEMBER 17, 1981 (895) 23 THE BACK PAGE habits during a season notori- Teachers (various ous for oversnacking. disciplines and levels) 22 In addition to the focus on Vocational workers 3 sugar, the October Winner Physicians 32 will examine claims that small Dentists 8 amounts of alcohol may be Nurses 4 Protestants 21 years in mission service in beneficial. Another article Paramedical workers 3 the South India Union. El will explain how the vocal Medical administrator 1 in Haiti ask Minnie E. Dauphinee- cords work, and the effect that Miscellaneous 4 Roberts, 89, on August 30 in smoking can have on them. Some of these positions to join SDAs Deer Park, California. She The Winner is published require specific academic In a mountainous area had served as dean of women monthly, September through qualifications, experience, between the towns of Bainet at Pacific Union College, May, by the Health and Tem- foreign-language mastery, or and Peti Goave in the hills of Washington Sanitarium and perance Department of the other conditions. All require Haiti, hundreds are enlisting Hospital, and St. Helena Sani- General Conference. Single adaptability, loyalty, ability to under the banner of Jesus tarium and Hospital. issue copies of the October, work well with people of other Christ. 1981, Winner are available for cultures, and a love for people A dozen spiritual leaders of 15 cents each. Write to: The outfiowing from a close per- other denominations have Liberal offering Winner, Box 4390, Washing- sonal relationship with God. visited the South Haiti Mis- ton, D.C. 20012. If you think you might sion to announce the decision for SDA college MERVYN C. 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for the selected projects. A JUANITA TYSON-FLYN tt For the record All Afro-Mideast Division S S ach l New positions: Gerhard F. members, including faculty ab el

Hasel, dean, SDA Theologi- and students of the University h

World field e cal Seminary, formerly assist- College, thank Sabbath school re ant dean and chairman, Old members for their continuing needs workers or pri

Testament department. ❑ interest, prayers, and support. Each month the General nt Arnold Swanson, secretary, HOWARD F. RAMPTON Conference Secretariat makes old

Michigan Conference, for- a tabulation of calls for the ad d r merly senior minister, Troy, world field that have not yet ess: Michigan, church. He Handout for been filled. As of September 4 TT, replaces James Hayward, new they are as follows: president of the Wisconsin Halloween Administrators, Conference. 11] Sulo Hal- The October, 1981, issue of conference/mission 10 minen, president, Finland The Winner has been designed Departmental directors Union, formerly president, to hand out to trick-or- (various) 10 West Finland Conference. He treaters. Ordained pastors and succeeds Wiljam Aittala. The issue will feature an evangelists 3 Died: Henry Alexander article on the effects of sugar, Accountants/secretaries 2 Hansen, 92, on August 11 in plus some ideas for children Educational Yucaipa, California. He spent on how to practice good health administrators 6

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