March 14, 1968 Vol. 145 No. 11

REVIEW AND HERALD • GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

By ARTHUR S. MAXWELL Editor, Signs of the Times

"The hour has come, the hour is strik- ing, and striking at you, the hour and the end!" (Eze. 7:5, 6).* ANY times over the past 50 years I have stood on Capitoline Hill M in Rome looking down at the ruins of the ancient Forum, conjuring up the glories of the Roman Empire of which only these ruins remain. I have stood in the majestic temple of Karnak in Upper Egypt, marveling at the riches and talents of the ancient civilization that once erected this mighty building. I have stood on the Acropolis in Athens, viewing the ruins of the magnificent edi- fices erected during the golden age of Greece. All over the world you will find relics of the past such as these—the pyramids of Egypt, the columns of Baalbek, the Aztec monuments in Mexico, the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Zimbabwe Temple in Rhodesia—all of which tell of long- faded glories and of the end that came to cities, countries, empires, and civiliza- tions in the long ago. No matter how great and powerful (To page 6)

[Sermon preached at Mountain View, California„Janu- ary 13, 1968. (Based on the new Book of the Year, This Is the End!)] *From The Bible: A New Translation by James Moffatt. PHOTO BY PETE TURNER, COURTESY OF Copyright by James Moffatt 1954. Used by permission of LEDERLE LABORATORIES, A, DIVISION Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated. OF AMERICAN CYANAMID COMPANY. THE ellIE FOR PURIM

H. A. ROBERTS PHOTOS What's Wrong

but guilt feelings may bring women to a doctor, a pastor, or to a mental breakdown and hospitalization. Sex is talked about so freely at pres- ent that even mere children are amaz- ingly well informed about anatomical facts, and most adolescents believe this is the whole story, blissfully ig- norant of what constitutes a mature understanding. Young people of high school and college age who see adults HE voice crying in our mod- amount of maternal suffering. De- seemingly doing as they please and ern world "What's wrong with voted to their progeny, many of these getting what they want, equate free- T premarital sex?" sounds women will make every sacrifice to dom with absence of restraint. They strangely familiar. It is an echo of a try to give their babies a normal life. often are led to seek no higher con- similar question raised millenniums Some, ridden with guilt, to get the trol for themselves than their feelings. ago: "What's wrong with the fruit of child a home, will make unhappy But feelings are temperamental, the tree of knowledge of good and marriages, one, two, or more times, changing from minute to minute, evil? It is very pleasant. It will make spreading their misery through many variable according to circumstances. one wise. It will help one 'attain to a families. Then there are those who Action on this basis is not freedom more exalted sphere of existence, to shift the responsibility to parents, to nor a "new freedom." It is the old enter a broader field of knowledge.' " welfare, to aid to dependent children, slavery to passions, leading to destruc- These same virtues are extolled for so the child will live first in one, tion of all that makes life here worth premarital sex, and incidentally, both then in another, and then in still an- while and life hereafter possible. carry the sting of the serpent. other foster home. I have cared for Yes, sting is the proper word, for many such children. Mature Relationships someone always gets hurt whenever Even when premarital sex does not As men mature they develop the there is sex outside of marriage. For result in conception, someone gets capacity to give. Maturity in sexual example, in the white population of hurt. For example, in those couples relationships is present when the giv- America there are four illegitimate who indulge and soon marry, even ing of satisfaction is much more im- births out of every 100 births and in though neither party has been pro- portant than receiving it. Whenever the nonwhite population there are miscuous, circumstances arise that sex behavior fails in giving and is in- 26.3 per 100. Think of the suffering suggest doubts about the fidelity of terested only in getting satisfaction, it of these children, first as babies, later the one spouse to the other. The lacks maturity and is a manifestation as confused adolescents, as they grow memory of the previous behavior in- of self-indulgence. Sex behavior out- up without proper, adequate family creases the lack of trust and confi- side of marriage always has the qual- relationships. The situation is bad dence and leads to quarreling, in- ity of self-indulgence. On the part of enough when finances are adequate crimination, and too often to divorce, the braggart who tells of his con- and worse when they are not. with its attendant disruptions of the quests of unsuspecting and not-so-in- This is not the whole story. It is family and quota of disturbed chil- nocent girls, it has the quality also of only one phase. There is a tremendous dren. Perhaps it doesn't go this far, self-aggrandizement. There is much 2 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 perience is necessary and desirable is part of "sales talk" of men who are trying to seduce women. It is contra- dicted by every study ever made. When pressured by the group to give up her virginity, one girl answered, "I can make that choice any time I want to. You no longer have a choice, only to live by the consequences of your actions." Some girls choose premarital sex as a way of showing the world they are free of their parents or of their reli- By HARLAND P. KAHLER, M.D. gion, not realizing that someone is go- ing to get hurt. Free love is advocated as a desirable way of life, but sexual intercourse without commitment is promiscuity. Sexual intercourse in these circumstances is not the real sharing that human nature seeks, the complete surrender of each to the other, the merging of both in a re- lationship that is bigger than either one of them. A real neurosis may be the result of these experiments, which may make successful adult adjustment to sexuality impossible without long With Premarital Sex? psychological re-education. (See Paul Popenoe, Are Virgins Out of Date? The American Institute of Family Relations, Publication 28.) written today on "sex freedom," "fun hurt is future, so no action can be Another area that needs attention morality," and pornographic litera- based on such a supposition. It's to- is "permissiveness with affection" that ture is flooding the markets. But all tally impossible to base a sound, true some advocate; but it raises more of this is leading many to slavery. conclusion on such an "if" premise. questions. How much permissiveness? When sex is motivated by any con- Some of the advocates of premari- How much affection? The distinction sideration other than a giving to an- tal relations answered the following depends on knowledge and percep- other, a form of caring, it becomes question with an "if." "If you were tion of adult motivation and emo- manipulative. For example, sex can the father of a teen-age daughter who tional reaction toward which the be motivated by the anxiety of loneli- asked permission to engage with her teen-ager is striving. This comes with ness, by the wish to conquer or to be lover in premarital intercourse, maturity and is not easily taught, so conquered, by vanity, or by the wish would you say for her to go ahead?" permissiveness becomes sexual ex- to hurt or even destroy. When it is They said, "If it would make her ploitation. In short, heavy petting motivated by any of these rather than happy, I would." Their answer shows leads to sexual exploitation. Extra- by true love, the sexual act becomes the argument to be fallacious, since marital sex as advocated by a num- manipulative and this can happen no one can certainly predict such hap- ber of writers arguing for "varietism" either inside or outside a marriage re- piness. The action is to be now—the is also specious, though made to ap- lationship. Premarital sex usually happiness, if ever, in the uncertain pear desirable; in a society where in- falls into manipulative behavior and future. Many, both men and women, fidelity prevails, children are deprived is engaged in only for the immediate who have fallen into the trap of pre- and hurt and marriage is insecure. pleasure, ulterior design, or physical marital sexual experimentation find It is from the standpoint of health satisfaction of one or both of the the happiness they thought would —emotional health, physical health, partners. come with marriage to be an empty spiritual health—that I submit the hoax. I think of a couple I counseled desirable ideal is premarital chastity. An Empty Hoax who had been married 22 years and It makes for self-esteem and respect. Even if one were to lay aside the whose children were grown. Quarrel- Continence is possible and is not det- traditional religious emphasis, the ing and nagging ultimately brought rimental to the mental or physical threat of venereal disease, and the divorce because the relationship after health of either the male or the fe- statistics quoted above, he would still marriage was not as it had been pre- male. Continence for the sake of a come up with the answer that pre- maritally. It has been demonstrated future good assists in the achievement marital intercourse is not good. This that as a test of suitability premarital of emotional and sexual maturity. is illustrated by the attitude of men intercourse tells us nothing of signifi- The Scriptures repeatedly con- who say, "It's O.K. for me to sleep cance that cannot be discovered in demn all types of extramarital sex. with your sister, but it's not O.K. for other ways. And what it may appear Fornication (Greek porneia) is an you to sleep with mine," or "I hope to tell us is more likely to be mislead- inclusive term (see Eph. 5:3; 1 Cor. to get straightened out and marry a ing than helpful. 5:1; Col. 3:5). Fornication is sin nice girl and have a good family," as It has also been observed that play- (Gal. 5:19). Unless they truly repent was stated to me recently by a young ing with sex in premarial sexual ex- and turn from their sins, those who philanderer. Two people who talk perience has little relation to sex engage in extramarital sex will not over the problem and decide "It's all strictly speaking; it is based on curi- enter the New Jerusalem (Rev. 22: right if nobody gets hurt" forget that osity, vanity, and desire for attention. 15). "Blessed are the pure in heart: the answer to whether someone gets The idea that premarital sexual ex- for they shall see God" (Matt. 5:8). REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 3 Time to Seek the Lord-6 the Lord not respond as graciously now as He did then? Faith and perseverance are a vital part of claiming God's promises. Eli- Prevailing Prayer jah exemplifies the course we should follow. We are familiar with the story By JOE ENGELKEMIER of the perseverance with which he prayed for rain at Mount Carmel. "As he prayed, his faith reached out and ONCERNING the prayer expe- rain. On Tuesday a prolonged and grasped the promises of Heaven; and riences of the disciples during gentle rain fell over the State. Elder he persevered in prayer until his peti- C the days preceding Pentecost, S. S. Will, president of the Kansas tions were answered. . . . Faith such we read: "They knew that they had Conference, reported that by mid- as this is needed in the world today— a friend at the throne of God, and they June rainfall was eight inches above faith that will lay hold on the prom- were eager to present their requests to normal. ises of God's word and refuse to let go the Father in the name of Jesus. In If the Lord will give rain for our until Heaven hears."—Prophets and solemn awe they bowed in prayer, re- physical needs, will He not grant just Kings, p. 157. peating the assurance, 'Whatsoever ye as generous an outpouring of the This kind of faith is closely related shall ask the Father in My name, He Holy Spirit for our spiritual needs? to submission to God's will. "Christ will give it you. Hitherto have ye The above experience reminds us of says, 'What things soever ye desire, asked nothing in My name: ask, and the promise, "Ask ye of the Lord rain when ye pray, believe that ye receive ye shall receive, that your joy may be in the time of the latter rain; so the them, and ye shall have them.' Mark full.' John 16:23, 24. They extended Lord shall make bright clouds, and 11:24. He makes it plain that our ask- the hand of faith higher and higher, give them showers of rain" (Zech. ing must be according to God's will; with the mighty argument, 'It is 10:1). we must ask for the things that He has Christ that died, yea rather, that is "At every meeting we attend our promised, and whatever we receive risen again, who is even at the right prayers should ascend, that at this must be used in doing His will. The hand of God, who also maketh inter- very time God will impart warmth conditions met, the promise is un- cession for us.' Rom. 8:34. And Pente- and moisture to our souls. As we seek equivocal."—Education, pp. 257, 258. cost brought them fullness of joy in God for the Holy Spirit, it will work The servant of God then assures us, the presence of the Comforter, even in us meekness, humbleness of mind, "For the pardon of sin, for the Holy as Christ had promised."—The Desire a conscious dependence upon God Spirit, for a Christlike temper, for of Ages, p. 833. for the perfecting latter rain. If we wisdom and strength to do His work, In another passage it is stated this pray for the blessing in faith, we shall for any gift He has promised, we may way: "They claimed the endowment receive it as God has promised."— ask; then we are to believe that we of power that Christ had promised. Testimonies to Ministers, p. 509. receive, and return thanks to God Then it was that the Holy Spirit was that we have received."—I bid., p. 258. poured out, and thousands were con- Mighty Arguments of Faith The gift of the Holy Spirit is men- verted in a day."—Ibid., p. 827. This brings us to the second point tioned. No greater gift could be Notice several instructive points. —in the experience of the apostles sought. "This promised blessing, First of all, prayer was entered into divine promises became mighty argu- claimed by faith, brings all other eagerly, and with solemn awe. Sec- ments of faith. In this connection we blessings in its train."—The Desire of ond, divine promises became mighty should review the conditions for an- Ages, p. 672. arguments of faith. Third, as they swered prayer, as brought out so We call to your attention again the claimed these promises, the presence clearly in Steps to Christ in the chap-. encouraging promise upon which we of the Holy Spirit was manifested. ter entitled "The Privilege of focused attention in the first article of So it needs to be today. We have Prayer." These conditions are (1) this series. "The descent of the Holy every reason for entering into prayer that we feel our need, (2) that we Spirit upon the church is looked for- just as eagerly as did the disciples. not cherish iniquity in our hearts, ward to as in the future; but it is the We, too, have a Friend at the throne (3) that we have a spirit of love and privilege of the church to have it now. of God. We are urged to "come boldly forgiveness, (4) that we have faith, Seek for it, pray for it, believe for it. unto the throne of grace, that we may and (5) that we be persevering in We must have it, and Heaven is wait- obtain mercy, and find grace to help prayer. ing to bestow it."—Evangelism, p. in time of need" (Heb. 4:16). We have not space to discuss all of 701. It was thrilling to read in the RE- these. But we would emphasize the Claiming the Promises VIEW last summer the story of how, in importance of sensing our need as response to a day of prayer and fast- we pray for the outpouring of the "Seek for it, pray for it, believe for ing, the Lord sent rains to the State Holy Spirit and point out again how it." Note the repeated emphasis in of Kansas. From September, 1966, to the disciples, before Pentecost, "felt the Spirit of Prophecy writings upon mid-March, 1967, there had been their spiritual need and cried to the believing, upon claiming the prom- practically no moisture. The State- Lord for the holy unction that was to ises. Having fulfilled the conditions wide day of prayer and fasting was fit them for the work of soul-saving." discussed in earlier articles, we can held on Sabbath, March 18. The five- —The Acts of the Apostles, p. 37. claim specific promises concerning day forecast on the previous day had What would happen if, with a deep the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, indicated that there was no rain in sense of need, hundreds of thousands and expect these promises to he ful- sight through the following Wednes- of Seventh-day Adventists would filled. day. But on Saturday night there unite in seeking the outpouring of In Christ's Object Lessons is found was some rain in the eastern half of the Holy Spirit the way the disciples a chapter entitled "Asking to Give." the State. On Sunday there was more did there in the upper room? Would It is based on Luke 11:1-13, the con-

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4 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 cluding thought of which is, "If ye the Voice of Prophecy went on their of His people so abundantly in send- then, being evil, know how to give seventh 50,000-watt clear channel sta- ing rainfall to Kansas, in sending good gifts unto your children: how tion with the Nite Owl broadcast, funds to the Voice of Prophecy, in much more shall your heavenly Fa- sending the gospel out to the nearly helping bring in food for the Navajos, ther give the Holy Spirit to them that 32 million Americans who are up at how much more abundantly will He ask him?" It would be appropriate to night. answer our prayers as we seek the out- turn to this verse almost daily, claim- Dave Hartman, the Voice of Proph- pouring of the Holy Spirit in order ing it in prayer. In this connection it ecy treasurer, said they were espe- to share our hope with others. would be well to read the above men- cially impressed by the letters that ac- We must seek, pray, believe. "Pray tioned chapter, "Asking to Give." companied the gifts. One elderly without ceasing, and watch by work- Urging us to present our petitions couple, upon receipt of Elder Rich- ing in accordance with your prayers. before the Lord, the author says, ards' letter, prayed about it and de- As you pray, believe, trust in God. It "Plead for the Holy Spirit. God stands cided to take $1,000 out of their sav- is the time of the latter rain, when back of every promise He has made. ings and send it. The next morning the Lord will give largely of His With your Bible in your hands say, they felt impressed that the gift Spirit. Be fervent in prayer, and I have done as Thou hast said. I pre- should be larger, and they sent half watch in the Spirit."—Testimonies to sent Thy promise, 'Ask, and it shall of their $5,000 savings. The letters ac- Ministers, p. 512. be given you; seek, and ye shall find; companying many of the gifts, both Seven and Seven knock, and it shall be opened unto large and small, showed the same During last school year, as an out- you.' "—Christ's Object Lessons, p. spirit of sacrifice. growth of a Bible conference and As the Spirit of God moved upon 147. other spiritual activities, some of the many hearts, the promise that God is Paul points out that God "is able to youth of the Pacific Union formed able to do exceeding abundantly do exceeding abundantly above all what they have called the Seven and that we ask or think, according to the above all that we ask or think was in- Seven prayer group. The idea is that power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3: deed fulfilled. at seven o'clock each morning and 20). Note the graduated emphasis. The young people of southern Cali- seven o'clock each evening, or as close God is able to do all that we ask . . . fornia were involved in a food-collect- to that time as practical, young peo- all that we ask or think . . . above all ing project for the Navajo Indian ple will pause for a few moments of that we ask or think . . abundantly work. The drive was launched in prayer, requesting two specific things above all that we ask or think . . . ex- Glendale on Halloween, 1966, when —that God will bless the youth on ceeding abundantly above all that we about 100 academy students brought Seventh-day Adventist campuses ask or think. in approximately two tons of canned around the world, and that He will Let us strengthen our faith by re- goods. The student leaders had set a finish His work through the promised counting two recent fulfillments of goal of 15 tons. As I looked at the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. this promise. stacks of food it took to make two During the Pacific Union Bible November, 1966, the Voice of Proph- tons, and thought of the 13 more tons conference for student leaders during ecy was $100,000 behind on its budget still needed, I concluded that their September, 1966, delegates from more —the result of a $50,000 drop in the goal was terribly unrealistic. Some than 20 academies, from La Sierra summer offerings, and a $50,000 de- food would come in from Pathfinder College and Pacific Union College, crease in the October offering taken groups, and some from other acad- and from Loma Linda, all were intro- in the churches. At the same time emies—but not 13 tons! duced to this plan. Many student plans had been developed to expand Several times in our voluntary leaders are currently promoting it on the Voice of Prophecy radio coverage prayer bands students would suggest their campuses. through the use of Nite Owl broad- that we remember the Navajo project Will you join these young people? casts. It appeared that this plan as a special request. I was grateful Pray for all of God's youth. Never would have to be dropped. for this interest, but still could not have the influences of sin been more On November 30 the whole Voice envision 15 tons of food ever being de- alluring, and if we ever needed to of Prophecy staff met for a special livered. pray that God will establish a hedge prayer service. After the service it was Early in December an 11-ton load, about His young people, it is now. decided to send out a special letter, of which about seven tons was food, Some are catching a vision of finish- in which Elder Richards would was hauled to Monument Valley in a ing God's work through the power of frankly explain the problem and the truck donated by the American Red the Holy Spirit. But there are still need. In the letter he quoted the Ball Transit Company. The western many scores of thousands who have above text from the Amplified New manager of this company, when con- not committed themselves to Christ. Testament, which puts it that God is tacted by a ninth-grade student on Pray for them. Send up a silent prayer able to do "super-abundantly" above Halloween, had volunteered the free every time you have an opportunity, all that we dare ask or think. transportation and had also suggested praying that the conditions for the This letter went out on December to us several contacts where food do- outpouring of the Holy Spirit will be 11. Meanwhile the staff continued to nations might be received. As a re- fulfilled so the work may be finished. pray most earnestly. Others were sult, a few weeks later a truckload of Thus can be brought to pass the praying too. 18,000 pounds of canned goods was events the servant of God foresaw By December 31 such an avalanche delivered to the Holbrook Indian when she wrote: "I have been deeply of mail had poured in that the staff Mission School near Holbrook, Ari- impressed by scenes that have passed needed extra help just to write re- zona. And at the time of this writing before me in the night season. There ceipts. When it was finally all tabu- a subsequent donation of another 18,- seemed to be a great movement—a lated, the December offerings re- 000 pounds is being delivered to the work of revival—going forward in ceived through the mail amounted to Holbrook school for use during the many places. Our people were mov- an unprecedented $330,000—almost 1967-1968 school year. ing into line, responding to God's $200,000 above the previous Decem- The grand total of canned goods call."—Selected Messages, book 2, p. ber. The $100,000 deficit was re- brought in by this project was about 402. moved, and the Nite Owl programs 25 tons! Isn't it time—now? were assured. On September 3, 1967, If the Lord will answer the prayers (Concluded)

REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 5 THIS IS THE END Likewise, when the fall of Judah he possesses the power to destroy him- was still 25 or more years away, Zeph- self. The manufacture of plutonium (Continued from page /) aniah declared, "The great day of proceeds apace. By 1970 two dozen they were in their heyday, because of the Lord is near . . . and hasteth nations may be in possession of nu- internal weakness judgment came greatly" (Zeph. 1:14). clear weapons and it will take only upon them, leaving but memories of About 595 B.c., when Babylon was the explosion of one small atom bomb, vanished glory. at the height of its power, the prophet in some remote part of the world, to Now it is our turn; and this time Jeremiah said, "Thine end is come," start a world war, to set off a chain the whole world is involved. Not one though the Medo-Persians did not reaction of destruction—swift, terri- country or one race or one people, overthrow it for another 40 years ble, and total—from one end of the but all. The hour of God's judgment (Jer. 51:13). What the prophet meant earth to the other. The end of history is come upon the entire population of was that the judgment of Babylon was is upon us. this planet. This is the end! As our certain, irrevocable, and imminent. When the end time comes, Jesus text says: "The hour has come, the And he was right. also said, the world will become as it hour is striking, and striking at you, Now another end time has arrived. was in the days of Noah. We have the hour and the end!" Only now when we declare, "This is but to turn back to the book of Gene- This is the supreme fact of our time the end!" we mean that the end of sis to discover what He had in mind. —more important than war in South- human history is upon us; the end of Evil was then predominant. So much east Asia, or the explosive situation our civilization; the end of the world. so that "every imagination of the in the Near East, or the worldwide It is the end of which the disciples thoughts of his [man's] heart was only racial tensions. And no greater task spoke when they asked Jesus, "What evil continually" (Gen. 6:5), and "the confronts us as Adventists than warn- shall be the sign of thy coming, and earth was filled with violence" (verse ing mankind of its imminent doom. of the end of the world?" (Matt. 24:3). 11). The days of Noah are here again. Our medical work, our welfare work, It is the end to which Jesus referred Toward the end of March, 1967, our educational work, all are essen- when He said, "This gospel of the the Torrey Canyon, one of the largest tial. But we must never forget that kingdom shall be preached in all the oil tankers ever built, went aground God raised up this Advent people for world for a witness unto all nations; on a reef off Land's End, England. one supreme purpose—to proclaim, and then shall the end come" (verse From holes in her bottom and sides "The hour of his judgment is come." 14). It is the hour of judgment for all poured thousands of gallons of oil, I am aware that some are saying, mankind that has come upon us. This which wind and tide soon wafted to- "My lord delayeth his coming," and is the hour that is striking, and strik- ward Cornwall's beautiful beaches and asking, "Where is the promise of his ing at you—the hour of final consum- across the channel to France. As the coming?" These are the ones who ad- mation. dark-brown tide swept onward it vocate that we should confine our ac- I recognize that this is a stupendous spread slimy ooze over picturesque tivities to welfare and relief work and claim to make. I realize that it may harbors, lovely rock pools, and miles not bother to send out missionaries be challenged. Some will say that such of silver sand beaches. Likewise, a any more. But this philosophy is not an end is impossible; that because our dark, ugly tide of lawlessness is sweep- only false, it is suicidal. We have civilization is the most wonderful that ing over the world, destroying every been chosen and appointed by God mankind ever achieved it is indestruc- beautiful thing in its path and defying for one majestic purpose—to herald tible. But God's prophetic word to the best efforts of law enforcement the soon coming of the Lord to every Babylon comes ringing down the ages agencies to stop it. nation, kindred, tongue, and people. to our generation: "God hath num- It is one of the paradoxes of history All heaven is depending on us to per- bered thy kingdom, and finished it. that the space age, replete with incred- form this task. . Thou art weighed in the balances, ible wonders, and supposedly the When choosing This Is the End! as and art found wanting" (Dan. 5:26, most enlightened period in the annals the title for one of the volumes in the 27). of man, should have spawned the 1968 Book of the Year package, I was Is the evidence sufficient to warrant worst lawlessness since the Flood. suddenly pulled up short with the such dramatic statements? Or have the Crime is growing six times as fast as Question, Do I believe it? And then, signs of Christ's coming grown old and the population. Since 1960 it has in- Does the church believe it? For it is tired and faded during the 125 years creased 47 per cent. We are on the one thing to say, "Time is running that the Advent Movement has been verge of anarchy, with city after city out," or "Christ is coming soon," and in existence? beset with riots and looting, rape and quite another to declare with sincere Today the signs are clearer, more murder. No one is safe on the streets conviction, "This is it. There is no certain, more global than ever. Evi- any more. longer any doubt. The end is upon dences of the onrushing end grow As Billy Graham was about to start us!" more vivid, more unassailable, from his Greater London Crusade in De- I use the phrase as it was used on year to year. They are like tidal waves cember, 1966, Sherwood E. Wirt, edi- various occasions by Bible prophets. roaring up the beaches of every land tor of Decision magazine, published For instance, about 760 B.C. Amos on earth. these reasons why the campaign was wrote: "The end is come upon my End of History imperative: "Crime of every kind has people" (Amos 8:2). He was referring skyrocketed. . . . Sixty per cent of to the kingdom of Israel, but he did Jesus said that before He returns criminal cases go unsolved. Only one not mean that it would pass away next men will "faint with terror at the crime in 12 reaches a court sentence." morning, or even next week. Actually thought of all that is coming upon the The same could be said of almost more than 30 years elapsed before the world" (Luke 21:26, N.E.B.).t That every city around the globe. Every- Assyrians captured Samaria. But Amos time is here. Never was there such where immorality, drunkenness, drug saw catastrophe coming. He recog- fear of the future. For the first time addiction, violence, grow by leaps and nized the signs of approaching disas- since man was placed on this planet bounds. ter. He warned his countrymen that It was just such widespread moral The Bible texts in this article credited to N.E.B. the end time had arrived. Unless the arc from The New English Bible, New Testament. decay which brought the flood of © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and nation changed its ways its doom was the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961. Noah's day, which led to the destruc- inevitable. Reprinted by permission. tion of Sodom and Gomorrah, and 6 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 later brought Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome to ignominious de- feat and ruin. The same decay, now universal, is about to bring destruction upon the whole world. The judgments A Plea for Loved Ones of God are hanging suspended, like • By ALMA L. CASE• the sword of Damocles, over the head of this generation. This is the end! 0 God, our hearts are grieving tonight •For dear ones who've gone astray, End of Hope Confused, deceived by the wily foe And lured from the upward way. The UN has long been widely ac- claimed as man's last best hope, the Oh, what can be done for these precious ones only way of escape from World War To break the enemy's spell • III and the total destruction such a And. show them the pitying love of Christ conflict would involve. More wond'rous than words can tell? Now the utter helplessness of the Perchance our faulty lives have binned UN has become obvious to all. Its lack The light of the Saviour's love. of unity, its inability to solve even the Perchance we're to blame that they forget smaller international problems, its The beautiful home above. lack of authority over its own mem- bers, has reduced it to a vacuity, a Forgive, we pray, and thoroughly cleanse noble facade of impotence. In a very And fit us, every one, special way it fulfills the word of the That 'we may help them by life or by death, Lord, "On earth nations will stand 0 God, may Thy will be done. helpless, not knowing which way to turn from the roar and surge of the sea" (Luke 21:25, N.E.B.). There are other signs equally om- inous and equally convincing. The book of Revelation clearly suggests possibly sustain. With an annual pop- moves triumphantly into every nation, that the freedom that millions enjoy ulation growth of 2 per cent the world kindred, tongue, and people, bearing today will not endure. By one means will have more than 8.7 billion people the name of God, the honor of God, and another it will be eroded, until at in the year 2000—just 32 years from the mercy of God, to a godless and last tyranny will return, with restric- now. . . . People, governments, and decadent generation. tions mounting to the place where at the United Nations are not yet alerted last no one will be able to buy or sell to the magnitude of the danger. . . . "Prepare to Meet Thy God" unless he has a certain mark or num- There is very little time left." Swiftly, by printed page, by radio, ber upon him. We are rapidly racing One of the most significant facts of TV, and Telstar—in a thousand toward this time. our day is that the world is running tongues—its message is reaching into Already it has been suggested that out of living space and of food to feed every home on earth, pleading with every child born in the United States its rapidly growing population. Ray- every soul, "Prepare to meet thy God!" should be given a number that he will mond H. Ewell is reported to have pre- This is the dramatic climax Jesus en- carry all his life, for income tax, So- dicted that the worst famine in history visioned when He said that the good cial Security, and other purposes. is at hand and that more than a bil- news of His kingdom would be Congress is also considering setting lion persons in Africa, Asia, and South preached in all the world as a witness up a national data center, which will America face starvation. He also has unto all nations and "then shall the contain detailed information about predicted serious famines in China, end come." every citizen. This means that George India, and Pakistan by the 1970's, ex- This is where we are in history. The Orwell's 1984 is not as far-fetched as tending ultimately to other nations. end of time is upon us. some might think. It could even come Famine will dwarf all other problems Looking ahead there is one ray of upon us ahead of time. The lamblike we face and will be "the most colossal light, one glorious hope—the return creature of Revelation is getting ready catastrophe ever to befall mankind." in glory and majesty of our Lord and to speak like a dragon. (See John Nuveen, "The Facts of Saviour Jesus Christ. This is the hope Life," in The Christian Century, Aug. that will carry us through the crisis End of Resources 10, 1966, p. 984.) before us. And it is this hope which, Said Jesus, "Nation shall rise against Last and greatest of all the signs is above all else, we should be giving to nation, and kingdom against king- the arrival on the world scene of God's mankind today. dom: and great earthquakes shall be remnant people in this hour of con- A hope such as this and a task such in divers places, and famines, and pes- summation. Marvelously they ap- as this are the supreme reasons for our tilences" (Luke 21:10, 11). We have peared at the right moment in history. existence as Seventh-day Adventists— tended to overlook the famines and Miraculously they have spread to every to proclaim not only the evidences of pestilences. They have seemed impos- continent and island. Never minimize the end but the certain hope of a new sible in view of our overflowing super- the origin, the purpose, the potential, beginning, the coming of that glorious markets. But the fact is that the world the destiny, of this great Second Ad- day when all suffering, sickness, and has almost reached the end of its re- vent Movement. Providentially and misery shall be over, and man shall sources. unmistakably it is now being thrust not make war any more. Not long ago Ralph Bunche, United into the forefront of the religious In this sublime moment of history Nations Undersecretary for Political world as the last great champion of the let us rededicate ourselves to this Affairs, told the Commonwealth Club Christian faith and of those basic prin- thrilling task, urging all men, by our at San Francisco: "We are moving to- ciples of righteousness and truth which fervent words and noble lives, "Fear ward a situation where there will be mankind has despised and discarded. God, and give glory to him; for the more life on the planet than it can With wondrous converting power it hour of his judgment is come." REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 7 A grocery store employee writes a firsthand report of When the whole chickens don't sell fast, they are taken from the counter, after lying there three or four days, and made into cut-up chickens, split broilers, chicken parts, or whatever is selling faster. Then they're put back What Meat Buyers in the counter. Sometimes the prices are higher this way because cut-up chicken and parts are more expensive. At times, chicken and spare ribs Should Know* become so spoiled that they just can't be sold in the counter. So they're put in cold, heavily salted water. They're left there to soak for several hours By ADELINE THOMAS and then are rinsed off. The salt water draws the smell out of them. Then the chickens are put on spits, covered with barbecue powder and cooked in the rotisserie oven. Usually someone HAVE worked in more than 20 Any customer who sees spare ribs, will buy the barbecued chicken or grocery stores in one of America's pork steaks, chops, or any meat coated ribs for a quick supper. After it's I largest cities during the past 15 with barbecue powder, and perhaps cooked and covered with spicy powder years. (Chain stores make it a prac- labeled, "Delicious for Barbecue," it's impossible to tell by taste that the tice to shift their girls from store to will do well to leave it alone. The meat is spoiled. I have never seen store.) All of the meat departments only reason barbecue powder is put a fresh, wholesome piece of meat are operated about alike. I know all on this meat is that the color, odor, cooked in one of these rotisserie the practices used by these stores to and taste of it need to be disguised. ovens. market their products. In some stores whole fryers are sold When hams are first delivered, they in two kinds of plastic bags. One bag Not Fresh are weighed and put in display coun- is plain with nothing on it but the Now, a word about hot dogs. No ters. After a month or so, flecks of price tag. The other is brightly col- one should try to save money by buy- mold appear on them. This mold ored. On it is printed, "The chicken ing the bulk hot dogs that have been doesn't harm smoked meats, but the in this bag was scientifically fed, bred, wrapped in red paper and put in a hams are put in deep sinks and given and housed to give you more tender container like the other fresh meats a hot-water bath. The mold is meat per pound." The chicken in the are put in. Sometimes they will carry scrubbed off with a brush. Often the colored bag is priced from five to ten a bright yellow or red sticker, saying, hams are left in this hot water for a cents higher than the one in the plain "Packed Fresh in This Store Daily." good share of the day while employ- bag. They may be packed in fresh contain- ees are tending to more urgent work. In the same counter may be cut-up ers and have fresh paper and adver- The water cools, and grease floats on fryers. Some are in plain wrappers tisements on them, but except in rare the top. If there is blood from cutting and some in colored ones, with the cases the hot clogs are not fresh. liver, or ice from chickens—even same advertisement as on the whole When name-brand hot dogs get scrub water—it is dumped in the sink fryers. slimy and sticky with age, they're on top of the ham. taken out of the original wrappers, Eventually the ham is removed Chickens Are Alike washed in hot water, and rewrapped from this filthy liquid, and wiped off. How are these chickens selected to in different containers. The price is Then it is wrapped, weighed, and put be wrapped and priced? The butcher usually 49 or 59 cents a pound, or less, back in the counter for sale. The ham brings about four to six cases of depending how eager the store is to stays there until someone buys it or chickens from the cooler and dumps sell them. The smoked sausage, mold appears again. If it gets moldy them all together in the big deep knockwurst, polish sausage, ring it is given the water treatment again. sinks. A clerk then takes a stack of bologna, slab bacon, bacon squares, A week later, if still unsold, the ham plastic bags and places the chickens and cottage butts all get the hot-water is ground up with a little pork that is in them, one at a time. She ties each bath when they get moldy and sticky. too spoiled to sell any other way. Hot bag shut with green paper-covered Perhaps the colored paper, here spices and a dry barbecue powder wires. When she decides she has again, is a local custom, but whenever are added and mixed with it. enough chickens in the plain bags, a customer sees such products re- This mixture is formed into a loaf she takes a stack of colored bags and wrapped without a brand name on and covered heavily with the barbe- fills them. The chickens are all alike them, it is wise to leave them there. cue powder to conceal the green color and have the same grade. At times you may see a product and the odor. Then a slice of pine- called "homemade sausage." What apple and a cherry are laid on the top. The cut-up chickens are selected and prepared in the same way. We is this? The meat cutters take pork This loaf is then wrapped and priced that is almost too spoiled to sell, grind at about 69 cents a pound. Likely it call the higher-priced chickens "sucker chicks." Customers often tell us that it, add plenty of spices and water, will be given a fancy name like, "Ed's mix it up, and call it sausage. Nat- De Luxe Ham Loaf." Perhaps it also the "sucker chicks" are much better urally, the more spoiled it is, the more will be given a sticker saying, "Oven than the other ones. Imagination spices they add to it, and the lower Ready." plays a large role in the taste buds of some people. (I understand that the the price will be. [. This article was written and submitted to the use of colored wrappings for chickens Another thing that sometimes is REVIEW by a Lutheran unacquainted with Adventist dietary teachings and practices. Part of it has no is outlawed in some States. Not all the featured is "Mock Chicken Legs," relevance to our readers, as all will recognize. We publish it to strengthen the convictions of those who stores I've worked for used this col- "City Chicken Legs," or "Lamb Pat- have adopted a nonflesh diet, and to acquaint others ored paper either, but it's a good ties." Whatever they are called they with dangers involved in meat purchases and prepara- tion. See also editorial on page 13.—EmTons.] thing to know about.) look about the same. They are ground 8 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 meat, rolled in corn-flake crumbs or but the inspector doesn't follow it un- it by throwing meat away in a bone corn meal, with a wooden stick in til it appears on someone's table. barrel. He finds every way of selling them for a handle. Sometimes they If something is reported to the it that he can, even if he wouldn't are made into patties. They can be health department, they'll investigate take it to his family. I've seen butch- veal, pork, lamb, or a combination of it. Usually, when a health officer ers put pork loin roasts in the counter meats—actually, whatever the butcher walks in, he sees to it that all health for sale after removing worms a quar- wants to sell quickly. cards are up to date, that the help ter of an inch long in them. The girls have hair properly covered, and that who cleaned and wrapped the roasts Seller's Interest the room is fairly clean. He checks handled them with rubber gloves so Beef, like other meats, is marketed carefully to see that no one is smok- they wouldn't have to touch them with the seller, not the consumer, in ing in the preparation room. Now with their bare hands. But they still mind. For example, the only differ- and then he'll look inside the saw or put them in the counter for sale! ence between ground round and cuber to see that they're clean. I've I'm not trying to turn the popula- ground chuck is the price. The meat never seen a health officer take any tion into vegetarians. I'm just trying is all ground in one big grinder at the test on the meat. to ease my conscience by telling others same time. First, the butcher takes A meat manager has to look out what to look out for. Customers have one container in such a way as to for his gross profit, and he can't get a right to know what they're buying. catch the meat in it with a little hole in the center. We put a sprig of pars- ley in the hole to decorate it. This is ground round. When he has enough to last half a day, he gets a different- The art of livi shaped container and puts the "ground chuck" in it. He takes the meat out of the grinder so it will look different from "ground round." Many people say there is a big dif- ON One of the most dif- on the idea that they must be perfect or ference in the taste of ground round SELF- ficult people to cope it's "no sale"! Sometimes people are loved and ground chuck. This is amazing, DEPRECIATION with, as far as I'm as much (or more!) for their weaknesses for I have yet to work in a store where concerned, is the per- as for their strengths. they are prepared separately. There son who continually minimizes himself. If, however, self-abasers are uncom- is, however, a big difference in the Almost the moment you contact a person monly vociferous, their listeners are regular hamburger and the ground of this kind, he launches into a campaign placed in the miserable position of having round or chuck. Ground meat, some- of self-depreciation. No matter what sub- to reassure them—and reassure them: times called "chopped sirloin," is the ject you hopefully introduce, thinking to "Oh, but you are!" "Oh, but you aren't!" same as ground round, ground chuck, distract him, you'll be the unwilling lis- —depending upon the turn which the self- extra lean, or sirloin patties. The tener to torrents of self-hatred—or, if depreciation has taken. It's so physically usual price is about $1.09. that's too strong a word, torrents of self- wearying, to say the least. A favorite sales device of some dislike. Before I learned a few bruising lessons, stores involves frozen-meat orders. "I'm just not efficient like all the rest I sometimes used to transfer from reassur- When a customer orders steaks to be of my friends." ance to brisk suggestions as to how the done in freezer paper, the butcher "I can't everseem to get anything various deficiencies might be summarily picks the old ones out of the counter, done . . ." remedied, or, at least, alleviated. Always takes them out of their containers, "I always say stupid things, and make a an activist, I saw what I thought was my and puts them in freezer paper. Once fool of myself . . ." clear duty, my clear assignment. Alas for they're frozen, no one can tell if they "I don't know why anyone bothers with my misguided efforts; people who are were fresh or were ready for the bone me anyhow . . ." dedicated to running themselves down barrel. "I'm just a mess . . ." aren't about to be deprived of this doubt- It's perfectly natural, I think, for every ful pleasure. They don't want solutions; Meat Inspection human being occasionally to have strong they want to wallow in the warm comfort Many of my readers will find this feelings of dissatisfaction with himself of being avowedly inferior. It's a rather article hard, if not impossible, to be- and with his performance in life's arena. pleasant gambit for those who like it— lieve. They'll say, "What about meat The larger one's vision the stronger his at least they're spared having to put forth inspectors? What about the States dissatisfaction, because ahead of him and a positive effort to improve! where it's mandatory that the cutting quite unattainably above him he sees the A corollary to the whole problem is, I rooms be open to the buying public? elusive form of the ideal—in being and think, the terrible self-absorption in What about the places where the in action. And this is good. I've always which these people are involved. They're wrapping is done only a few feet from agreed with Robert Browning that "man's so busy thinking about themselves and the ultimate customer?" reach should exceed his grasp." I think, their shortcomings and their reactions and Even open-to-inspection cutting though, that Browning did not have in their inabilities that they never have the rooms wouldn't keep stores from sell- mind that the reachers and the graspers exhilaration of throwing themselves into ing doctored-up or spoiled meat. Re- should loudly bewail their ineptitude. "the furrow of the world's need." member, the employees work several From the purely practical standpoint People who constantly minimize them- hours before the store opens. When I should like to suggest that the short- selves really ought to give some serious the customer sees the meat being comings of others are obvious enough thought to this area of the art of living. wrapped, he doesn't walk behind the without their being pointed out by the When the apocryphal Dutch boy was counter and smell the ham loaf, or shortcomer. Fortunately, though, most holding his finger in the dike, it's a sure feel the pork or chicken. Further, few people aren't looking for flaws in others, thing he had bigger problems than would know why chickens or spare nor do they dwell on them; they're will- whether he was as efficient as another ribs were soaking in cold water. ing, even eager, to emulate the sundial in boy, or whether his finger was as well- Of course the meat is inspected be- its positive approach to living. After all, shaped! Personally, I'm for a minimum fore it's released to the store for sale, people don't base their regard for others of self-minimization. REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 9 LD OF Z/

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O THIS is being a missionary! wonder just how much day is left. my thoughts exploded as I There are many items on our bless- S fiercely squirted insecticide. ings account: travel, adventure, as- My three-year-old had awakened surance of God's leading, and every- that morning with blotchy bites over day blessings such as simple food her body. "Mosquitoes," I cried out, and water when there is famine all eying the unscreened windows. But a about. (Our wheat, sugar, and rice little later I discovered the servant are rationed. We cannot buy white crushing a mysterious something be- flour.) There is also electricity that tween her fingers as she made the chil- keeps the refrigerator going; the smile dren's beds. So I examined the mat- from a puny child when I give her a tresses and what my horrified eyes clean, crisp dress; a glimpse of green identified bounced me to the spray leaves. Truly, we are millionaires! can, determined to attack and de- On the footpath opposite live a stroy. Bedbugs! snowy-haired man, his wizened wife, When that job was done, I entered four children, their black dog with a the kitchen. Kitchen? I would prefer tail like a question mark, and two never to enter that narrow, cupboard- dusty hens. Home to this family is a less room with an open drain. But be- tiny crude shelter of sacking and plas- cause I serve fifty or so meals a month tic that leans against the wall of a to visitors (travelers, missionaries, By MARYE TRIM wealthy man's house. The pavement friends) as well as the daily nourish- and drain are their bathroom and ment for a family of six, well, I have kitchen. This is what I see from my to go in, even though there is only kitchen window. a packing-case top to work on. If I The father, squatting on the street am ever tempted to be discontented or corner, sells homemade sweets and pine for the sparkling new kitchen 1 with the seventh-grader to dictation kites for a living. I have heard that he left in the homeland, I need only to with the third-grader, and then stop was a leper. Perhaps so. Lepers, blind glance out the window. (The union to help first-grader find the pencil to and limbless, emaciated sufferers from has voted recently to renovate the which Miss Three has helped herself. tuberculosis are as plentiful as shells kitchen.) My husband works with the people, along our seashore. When I hung up the drapes that I leading them to live and work for On the second corner from our mis- had laundered the previous day, my Jesus. Someday, maybe sooner than we sion compound lives a mentally dis- daughter gasped, "They've shrunk!" realize, the cause of Christ in this turbed woman in the middle of a I remembered I had been cautioned, country will be led by trained, na- traffic island, surrounded by her rags "The available cloth usually shrinks." tional witnesses. So I feel that my min- and rubbish. On the corner beyond So now I shrugged nonchalantly. ister-husband is doing the work of a her, red-eyed and raving, is a man my "They don't look too bad. Anyway, it real missionary. children call the "ek anna man" be- won't be long till I have to wash them But what do I contribute? The cause he is always demanding ek anna again. You know how the dirt from thought is an active volcano in my ("one penny"). 0 for the shadow of the street blows in. No sense getting mind—busy, busy, busy. Yet how in- the Man of Nazareth to fall on such excited about it." finitesimal my accomplishments as these! against the task! Some branch Sabbath During school the door buzzer Bedbugs and Rats school teaching and Dorcas work; sounds frequently. That's all in a some literature given away and gospel Only little things such as bedbugs day's work. First comes Dorothy to songs sung; meals prepared, school select and practice a solo for the Sun- could do that to me. Or the cock- taught, washing done—all in a day's roaches, big ones, or maybe the rats day night evangelistic service. Her work. But as I see the multitudes that clear soprano voice wafts into the that scuttle in; or perhaps the alley daily pass along our street, I sadly cats, half crazed with hunger, that slip street as I play, "My heavenly Father in between the bars of the kitchen watches over me." window to steal what food they can Abraham, our song leader and Sab- find. bath school superintendent, hears the Nine o'clock. Time to teach my : "The husband in, the open mission- beautiful melody and comes in to lis- ary: field may receive, the honors of ten. "Would you help me with some three school-age children and at the men, while the home toiler may receiVe same time keep three-year-old Miss songs too?" he asks. no earthly credit for her labor. But if: "Sure," I smile. Just another phase Busybody occupied. When I trained she works for the best interest of her as a teacher little did I know that the family, seeking to fashion their char- of the program. I could not do it at Lord was preparing me one day to acters after the divine Model, the re- all unless I knew that my plea at dawn teach my own family in a strange cording angel writes her name as one was answered. (I hope that someone land. Most days our school goes of the greatest missionaries in the: in the homeland is praying for mis- smoothly and we have fun, but some- world.!'—Testiniony . Treasures, vol: 2,. sionary wives too.) times—well, my brain is doing gym- p. 236 I have discovered it is best not to nastics as I go from measuring angles expect to keep a rigid routine. Each

10 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 day and night is too different for that. Men should be particularly alert to Instead, I try to take each project in E.apecuatteg these influences, for the male more than order of importance or urgency: write IFC)F1 MEN the female is susceptible to dehumaniza- letter to mother, sew pajamas, grind tion. Psychologists and sociologists agree wheat for bread, bake granola. that the greatest single distinction be- But those bedbugs and lizards that tween male and female lies in this: that woman's number one concern throughout share the apartment with us, and the THE MACHINE Two features of our perpetual squalor and ripe odor so her existence is with people and life, IS THE THING age tend to rob us of while man's chief preoccupation is with close to our windows! Is this what our humanity, and goes with being a missionary? Why objects. "Understand this fact," writes the male more than the female is suscep- Lester David, "and a lot of things start did no one tell us before we came? tible to their influence. Why did not someone warn us that becoming very clear. It explains, for ex- The first feature is, paradoxically, close- when it is not hot and humid, it is ample, why you are entranced by the lat- more humid and hotter? What about ness. A hundred years ago on the farm, est lawn-mowing gadget, while she throws with houses a long trudge between, neigh- prickly heat? What about hookworm it a cursory look and concentrates on her and other tropical diseases? What bors knew each other; neighborliness was flowers. The machine is the thing, but the a dimension of living rather than a defini- about living in an apartment build- flowers live." ing with no playground for our four tion of loss. In this day of population In more than one sense, the machine is explosion (the specter of being squeezed children? Nobody told us. the thing. From the time a little boy first to death is now sharing top billing with sees his father behind the wheel of a Family Togetherness the fear of being blown apart), of vast two-ton, two-tone, automatic-gadgeted, urban complexes filled with too-close chromed-up sublimator, the machine is But neither were we told that our apartments with too-thin walls, our very the thing. The point is not that interest family togetherness would grow and proximity cultivates a remoteness, an im- in, and knowledge of, the workings of an enrich because as a family we are en- personalized relationship divested of con- internal combustion engine—or lawn voys for the King of kings. Neither did cern and devoid of compassion. mower or stereo or electric can opener— we know that the children's faith The second feature is a subtle mate- are undesirable, but rather that we must would root deeply and strongly; nor rialism based on science. Charles Lind- resist the subtle materialism and urbani- that they would develop dependabil- bergh, once a worshiper in the shrine of zation of our day. Awareness of our mas- ity as a result of their parents' being science, draws the picture: "Living in culine tendency to give objects priority occupied with other people's needs. rented apartments, jamming roads and over beings is vital, for we are to co- Sabbath afternoons the children subways, punching time clocks, sitting operate with Christ in demonstrating run their own branch Sabbath school paunchily at desks, cramming the minds Heaven's concern for even one human with a dozen children present. At of his children with technical knowledge, soul. church they learn to sit quietly while modern man sacrifices health of body and The next time your wife suggests that mother is at the organ and daddy is freedom of spirit to the scientific idol of you concern yourself with the spiritual preaching. his time. On its altar go the smell of barometer of a neighbor, concede to the "I'm going to be a Sabbath school earth, the feel of wind and weather, vision gentle sex another trait worthy of emula- teacher when I grow up," declares our of fields and rivers, warmth of friendship, tion and cultivation—concern with people eight-year-old as she traces and cuts understanding of children, even the con- and life. Then put the lawn mower back out children of the world to add to templation of God; all these are given together and try mending lonely hearts. her collection of teaching aids. over to a metallic intellectual existence." It's the way of discipleship. "I'd like to be a preacher best of all," affirms the boy. Miss Three chirps, "I want to be a missionary 'nurch.' " Cornflower- WOMEN IN THE NEWS As a climax to the educational hour at the Gladstone, Oregon, camp meeting, the blue eyes roll in emphasis. General Conference Educational Depart- It is the mission field that has ment awarded Miss Enid Sparks a bronze opened their eyes and hearts to the Vete/tag 7e,aeiteit medallion struck especially for her in rec- need of dedication. ognition of her more than 50 years of qieueoleet teaching. Veteran teacher of the Northwest, Miss It is night now—a purple-black Sparks retired at Longview, Washington, tropical night studded with stars. Itaudaed Vedeeaueue in her fiftieth year of teaching, because of Crowds of people still tread the street, a broken hip. However, within two years but my children are sleeping. A beam By SHIRLEY BURTON she was back in service, teaching first- and second-graders at Tillamook, Oregon, of light from the rich man's house from her wheel chair. opposite lingers on their freshly Miss Sparks is the fourth church school scrubbed cheeks. Jenny, the eldest, teacher in the denomination's 95-year his- smiles as she dreams of the dainty doll tory of church schools to merit the award. dress she sewed today—or perhaps she The award was featured on Portland is dreaming of the boarding school a television. More than a hundred former thousand miles away that she may at- students gathered around her chair fol- tend next year. The other three, with lowing the presentation. Her children's teddy bears, are relaxed after story stories appeared from time to time in Our Little Friend, the REVIEW (Stories for and prayers. the Younger Set), and secular magazines. Outside my window there are the C. B. Hirsch, secretary of the General wail of a naked child who sleeps on Conference Department of Education the pavement, the echo of a clanging (right), made the presentation, assisted by prayer gong in a shrine, and the dron- H. R. Nelson (left), secretary, Oregon Con- ing of prayers to Allah. Yes, there is ference education department, and T. W. much work to do—much work, while Walters (center), secretary, North Pacific it is day. Union education department. REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 11 mother and I? Suppose we had had no oughly, arid then grind them. We'll have children to help us out in this trouble." something like granola. From Battle Willingly the teachers helped the boys Creek I remember how that was made." with what they missed by their "regular" After that Cecil made delicious bread absences. Faithful in their assignments, each week—always with yeast. they made good grades the entire four Haskell too learned by the trial-and-er- years on the alternate-day attendance ror method when he washed mother's red plan. flannel petticoat with the white tablecloth Cecil still recalls some of the amusing until the latter had a color never seen Two Capable Nurses experiences in their housekeeping ven- before. Before long the boys' housekeep- tures. One clay when he had all his les- ing was the marvel of the neighbors. How sons prepared, he decided to surprise his By LOIS C. RANDOLPH they admired the boys for helping their father and brother with homemade bread parents out in such a difficult situation. for supper. "Mother, tell me what all goes Once the church people decided to sur- WHEN a mother takes care of two sick into bread?" prise Cecil on his birthday. Haskell had boys, that does not seem unusual. But "Flour, yeast, water, salt, oil, and some been sworn to secrecy. But the Sunday when two strong sons take care of a sick sweetening—sugar, molasses, or honey," they were coming he had to work on a mother for years, that is unusual. Two she told the new baker, and gave him the new job. Before leaving, he whispered, Colorado boys, whose parents were both proper proportions of each. "I hate to tell you, but tonight there is to Battle Creek nurses, had that privilege. Cecil put them in, and kneaded the be a surprise party for you here. Maybe Their wonderful mother suffered a stroke dough thoroughly. After two or three you will want to straighten up the house when Haskell was eight and Cecil eleven hours it had not doubled in size as he ex- arid be ready. Act surprised anyway. You years old. pected, but he decided that the bread won't know who or how many are com- When the father realized that mother would probably rise in the oven and be ing." could no longer act her part as the chief all right. At seven the young people of the homemaker, he called his two sons to- Imagine his disappointment when he church arrived, loaded with good things gether for a man-to-man conference. took out loaves as hard as rocks and no to eat. In order to appear as surprised as "Loving mother as we do, we want her at larger than they had been at first. Father possible Cecil was still wearing his work home with us so that we can take good asked, "Did you put in everything that clothes. care of her. Besides, we don't have the mother mentioned? For instance, the Later in life, as foreman on the eight- money needed to keep her in a hospital." yeast?" mile tunnel project near Loveland, Colo- Stunned, the boys asked, "You mean "That's my whole trouble. I forgot the rado, Haskell was rated an outstanding that mother can no longer cook, wash, yeast." worker. Cecil, as my husband for thirty iron, and clean the house?" "Never mind, son. We can cut up years, has lightened my burdens many "Boys, that's just what I mean. Let's these hard loaves, toast the slices thor- times with his housekeeping skills. be thankful it is her walking and not her speech that is affected." Haskell added, "How can Cecil and I care for mother when we have to go to school?" "That's the problem God will help us solve," replied father. "Perhaps you could Lamentations of a Church Hymnal take turns attending school, and study at home on the days when you care for By CLIFTON CAL.KINS mother." Father's courage filled the boys I am a Church Hymnal and have been in service in a Seventh-day Adventist with hope. Soon father put on his coat and hat. church for about live years. When I came here from the Book and Bible House I was "Where are you going?" the boys wanted attractive and felt that I could proudly represent the truth the church leaches. But to know. you should see me now! "I'll tell you when I get back." And My end sheets are cohered with the scribbling of children whose thoughtless parents dad was gone. have allowed them to use me for a paper rest. I have been dropped so many times that An hour later their father returned, my corners are crushed. The book well in which I am kept is not padded, and my smiling as if he had just heard good news. edges and (milers are worn through by my being dropped week alter week onto the "I have had a visit with your school prin- hard bottom. Sereral lists of numbers hate been written on my end sheets by song cipal. He is willing to cooperate. He as- sures me that the teachers will do the leaders. Many of my page corners are turned back as bookmarks. The inside of my same. If you boys can attend school three back cover has been spoiled by Scotch tape used to insert a loose-leaf poem. On several days a week, he believes you can make of my pages appear witty sayings of young people. your grade. For the two days a week you I know I am a disgrace to the cause I represent. My only hope now is that someday are absent, you can hand in written work. my church will realize this and send me to a bindery where I can have my (ovens I'm glad you are good students." renewed, my end sheets replaced, my pages mended and cleaned. I hope that once Four years they worked this plan. Each again I can be a respectable hymnbook and assist in attracting people to the truth, boy attended school three days a week rather than in driving them from it as I feel I am now doing. and stayed home two days. On the day when they were both in school mother I would like to make some suggestions, which, if followed, will double my life would either stay with one of the neigh- and keep me attractive when I come back from the bindery. bors or someone would come in to care 1. Do not let small children handle me under any circumstances. for her in the home. 2. Be SUIT the bottoms of book wells into which I will be placed arc padded. Under the loving care of her three 3. Never make a list of songs to be used in song service on my end sheets. "men" mother thrived. She could walk a 4. Never turn the leaves back to mark a hymn to be used later. little with help from one of them. Some- 5. Do not paste a poem or song for a special meeting On my covers or fly leaves. times she could assist with some easy 6. task, such as peeling potatoes or shelling Do not mend torn pages with heavy Scotch tape. Use a proper light transparent tape made f peas. On Sunday the three washed, or that purpose. ironed, and cleaned the house thor- 7. Do not take your Chinch Hymnal out on singing bands. oughly, singing as they worked. That was 8. Teach young people to respect the Chinch Hymnal so they will never maliciously the only day besides Sabbath when fa- write in it. ther did not work as a salesman. The 9. When you finish using a hymnal, place it in the book well right side tip with family had to have a steady income to the title facing you. meet expenses. Often daddy would say, "Who has more wonderful sons than

12 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 ADVENTIST YOUTH- approximately 100 years has proclaimed a health mes- TODAY'S "THREE HEBREWS" sage. It has set forth a positive program with the aim of helping its members enjoy optimum health. It has warned against the use of alcohol, tobacco, and stimu- lants. It has advocated a balanced program of rest and recreation. It has encouraged adoption of a nonflesh diet wherever a wide choice of wholesome food is available. This program has been a great blessing. Doubtless it has spared Adventists considerable disease and suffering. It also has contributed to a greater life expectancy. Increasingly these teachings have been vindicated by demonstration. Certainly this is true in the matter of smoking. Now supporting evidence is coming, to a cer- tain extent, in the area of diet. At the turn of the century Ellen G. White wrote: "Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods that are healthful and life-sustaining are to be prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat."—Testimo- nies, vol. 7, p. 124. Again she wrote, "I am instructed to say that if ever meat eating were safe, it is not safe now."—Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 384. Disease among animals prevails everywhere, and even if meat is inspected carefully, one can hardly be sure that he is purchasing the flesh of healthy animals. "The ani- mal creation is diseased, and it is difficult to determine the amount of disease in the human family that is the result of meat eating. We read constantly in the daily THOMAS DUNBEBIN, ARTIST papers about the inspection of meat. Butcher shops are "We will not serve thy gods, nor worship the continually being cleaned out; the meat being sold is con- demned as unfit for use."—Ibid., p. 413. golden image which thou hest set up" (Dan. 3:18). Sounds Up to Date The latter statement was written seventy years ago, yet it sounds as up to date as today's newspapers and maga- "EAT . . . TO THE GLORY OF GOD" zines. The December 4, 1967, issue of Newsweek con- Seventh-day Adventists believe that Christianity is not tained the following report: "Some of the dirtiest stories merely a philosophy; it is a way of lite. The teachings of in government files concern the nation's approximately Christ are relevant not merely on the Sabbath but on 15,000 intrastate meat plants. Federal inspection reports every day of the week. They are not merely to guide the reek with tales of filthy premises, unclean equipment Christian in making moral judgments, but are to influ- and worse. In Brooklyn, an inspector found wooden de- ence all his relationships with both God and man. They bris in the salted meat of a kosher processor. In Georgia, even help him decide what he shall eat and drink. workers in a fly-ridden plant were slicing pork bellies on meat blocks encrusted with blackish-green mold and ac- Relationship of Mind and Body cretions of ancient blood. In Omaha, a processor was cur- This broad concept is rooted in a holistic philosophy ing pork jowls in tubs tainted with half-inch corrosion of man. The Christian is not merely a mind, he is a before sending the food to market in packages labeled: body. The teachings of the gospel are to affect not merely `Sausage products with that old world taste.' In the an- the mind but also the body. The body and the mind are nals of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, tales like so closely interrelated that the interests of the two are es- this have been commonplace for years." sentially one. What affects the mind affects the body, A staff writer, in the Washington Evening Star of Au- and vice versa. gust 15, 1967, documented atrocious conditions in a num- This all-embracing, demanding concept of the Chris- ber of slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants in Mary- tian life is well set forth by the apostle Paul when he says, land, Virginia, and other States. One inspector found "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy "employes smoking cigarettes while working directly over Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye exposed products . . . observed cigarette ashes fall into are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: there- meat going into grinder." One government inspector fore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which "observed two beef livers that had small abscesses on are God's" (1 Cor. 6:19, 20). "Whether therefore ye eat, them, also one abscessed and one parasitic pork liver." or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" This was in a Virginia meat plant. (chap. 10:31). A report on a Colorado meat-packing firm said: "Meat In line with this philosophy the Adventist Church for was being broken on an open dock by a dirt road in 95

REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 13 degree weather. There were flies on the meat and there processes are sanitary, the consumer cannot be sure that was no attempt to keep flies out of the plant. Drums of the meat he buys is fresh. Why? bone and meat scrap were covered with maggots. I picked During recent hearings, Ralph Nader, self-appointed up a used meat box and a large cockroach flew right into advocate of the consumer, pointed out, "Seasoning agents, my face." preservatives, coverup doses of antibiotics and coloring Protests and denials have come from some States, agents are put to work as profound cosmetics that effec- charging that reports are false and have been fabricated. tively mask the true condition of the products. The mean- But in the main, inspectors' testimony seems well docu- est deception of all is thereby achieved—that of render- mented. ing inoperable the natural detection processes of human The November 20, 1967, National Observer reported beings: seeing, smelling, and tasting." on testimony furnished to Capitol Hill legislators work- At the beginning of this editorial we pointed out that ing on a meat inspection law. Among the items reported: "health reform" is a blessing. It has been given for our "Garbage from a California tuberculosis sanitarium be- benefit, that we may enjoy better health and thus return ing sold as feed to pigs. A North Carolina packing house glory to God. Surely the testimony that we have presented where workers told of 'snuff spit on the floor, sausage from current news media provides massive support for meat fallen on the same floor, which was then picked up Sister White's warnings about the dangers of including and shoved into the stuffier.' Packing houses in an un- flesh foods as a part of one's diet. named state, which were 'covered with mire, grease, and But let us remember that Sister White's indictment of rotting meat. Rats, roaches, and flies abounded. Filth, meat is based not merely on the fact that flesh food may vermin, and even parts of rats became part of products be diseased or unsanitary. It is grounded in the fact that to be consumed by human beings.' " "flesh foods are injurious to the physical well-being" According to the news report, "A Senate Agriculture (Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 156). This phase we shall examine subcommittee learned that these examples were not ex- next week. K. 11-1. W. treme and isolated excesses, but part of a broad evidence of a lack of strong regulations, neglect of enforcement of existing regulations, and general abuse of meat-inspec- tion laws." Minnesota Senator Walter F. Mondale THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES "warned that the housewife cannot be sure of buying AND THE CANON clean meat even when she shops at major supermarket chains." A reader inquires, Why is the book of Ecclesiastes in- cluded in the canon of Scripture? He feels that the state- Not Just Filthy Conditions ments in the book sound more like the thoughts of a worldling than those of a Christian. He mentions a cer- Filthy conditions of this kind are only part of the haz- tain minister expressing similar perplexity. ard faced by meat buyers. Less than three years ago a We are sure others share the perplexity of our reader. meat producer in New York precipitated a scandal when The writer of Ecclesiastes expresses a mood throughout it was discovered that "meat found in the company's much of the book that appears altogether too pessimistic. plant . . . came from crippled and diseased cattle, from At least we have been led to believe that a much happier horses, and from cattle that had died instead of being mood is expected of a devoted follower of the true God. slaughtered." The company was indicted on charges of Listen to his cynicism: "Vanity of vanities, saith the conspiring to use more than 120 tons of meat unfit for Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity" (Eccl. 1:2). human consumption in sausages, frankfurters, and sa- "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; lamis. and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit" (verse The same Chicago newspaper that reported the New 14). York scandal carried a story headlined, "Illegal Meat "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is Confiscated by Oak Park Authorities." The meat found wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is in a butcher shop of this Chicago suburb contained so- vanity and vexation of spirit" (chap. 2:17). "The day of dium sulphite, an illegal preservative known as "dyna- death [is better] than the day of one's birth" (chap. 7:1). mite" in the meat industry. Sulphite, according to the "My soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a chemists investigating the scandal, "is used to give the thousand have I found; but a woman among all those meat an attractive red color and to eliminate odors of have I not found" (verse 28). decomposition." What are we to make out of these sentiments? Are they The Associated Press reported a case in Grand Rapids, recorded for our guidance? Are the negative attitudes and Michigan, where, during a five-and-a-half-year period, two cynicisms so prevalent in the book set down as a pattern meat firms had conspired to "unlawfully acquire, proc- for the Christian to emulate? ess and transport in uninspected vehicles meat carcasses, We think not. Why, then, are they included in the in- or meat products of animals which had died of natural spired revelations of God to men? or unnatural causes, including disease." The secret unlocking our problem is in the following statement: "By the spirit of inspiration the king recorded Inspection Laws for after generations the history of his wasted years with Conditions of this kind aroused such public indigna- their lessons of warning."—Prophets and Kings, p. 79. tion that during its recent session Congress passed a meat Notice the phrase "history of his wasted years." This inspection bill. On December 15, 1967, President John- history is what we have in the book of Ecclesiastes. The son signed the bill saying that he hoped it would force book is a record of Solomon's attempt to find happiness dirty packing houses to "clean up or close down." apart from God. But whatever he attempted turned to Whether this bill will accomplish its purpose is prob- frustration. lematical, even doubtful. Twenty-nine States already have "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee meat inspection statutes, but some of the worst violations with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this have been found in these States. Eight States have no also is vanity" (chap. 2:1). meat inspection laws, and another 11 have only volun- "I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine . . . ; tary meat inspection regulations. and to lay hold on folly" (verse 3). We have already pointed out that even if animals are "I made me great works; I builded me houses; I healthy when they are slaughtered, even if meat-packing planted me vineyards:... I gathered . • . silver and gold.

14 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 . . . Whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them. serves a place alongside the other books that constitute . . . Then I looked on all the works that my hands had the Old Testament canon. wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: The lessons are precisely those that modern materialis- and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and tic-minded man needs. In his mad search for happiness there was no profit under the sun" (verses 4-11). in the accumulation of wealth, comforts, and security he While reviewing the history of his wasted life, Solo- will be no nearer achieving the desired goal than was mon shared with us his thoughts during the periods of Solomon some three millenniums ago. his apostasy and his adjustment. His perverted philoso- Our reader cautions against using texts from Ecclesias- phies, therefore, while he was separated from God, are tes to prove points of doctrine. His caution is well placed. portrayed in the book. But they must not be regarded as Certainly we should not quote as the utterances of God divine guidance for us; they must be regarded as patterns those sections in which Solomon sets forth his perverted of thought to be shunned. They stand as a warning to philosophies. This is an obvious principle that applies all who would pursue a similar course. to all Scripture, for in the Bible we have recorded not "The king ... wrote out for the benefit of after genera- only the messages of God's spokesmen, but those of false tions a record of his folly and repentance"—Ibid., p. 85. prophets, apostate kings, and even the devil himself. But along with the record of his folly Solomon recorded There is not the slightest implication that these messages also "lessons of warning." These he interspersed through- should be heeded simply because God saw fit to include out the book. Admittedly because of this mixture, it be- them in the Sacred Canon. comes difficult at times to know where the records of Our reader's observation that parts of the book of Job fallacious thinking and unseemly acting end, and where are similar to Ecclesiastes is well taken. We need to be the warnings and counsels begin. It is obviously this careful lest we quote as messages and counsels from God intermingling that perplexes our reader. We sympathize citations from the friends of Job of which God did not with him, but believe that when the nature of the book approve, for God was not pleased with much of what is understood and its purpose is discerned it rightly de- these comforters said. D. F. N.

of the Epistles of Peter in the church here power) is well charged and ready to give a and use the N.E.B. along with the K.J.V. good performance of Christian living and It was a timely reminder to have a care in witnessing. But too many of us have our the use of the various versions. batteries charged merely with enthusiasm In one of my studies there was a particu- and we forget the real Source of our lar example of dynamic equivalence in 2 strength. We do well on our own power, Peter 3:3, where the K.J.V. has "walking but before long we begin to tire of well do- after their own lusts" and the N.E.B. has ing and fall back more and more in our "live self-indulgent lives." Another example Christian performance. We may attend a SABBATH WORK that appeals to me is in Romans 1:17 where good revival meeting which will charge our EDITORS: Re the editorial on the problem the K.J.V. has "the righteousness of God" batteries again, and we go off to do well as of working in hospitals on Sabbath: and the N.E.B. has "God's way of righting before, but finally run down, some com- Many Seventh-day Adventists are working wrong." pletely losing faith and dropping out of the in non-Adventist hospitals, and all feel they I notice that J. B. Phillips in his book church and away from God. Others wait are doing a good work. In the book The The Ring of Truth, A Translator's Testi- for another revival to charge up their bat- Desire of Ages, page 207, we read: "The mony, says that "any man who has sense as teries again. law forbids secular labor on the rest day of well as faith is bound to conclude that it is But, thank the Lord, we may learn early the Lord; the toil that gains a livelihood the truths which are inspired and not the in our Christian life that our power, our must cease; no labor for worldly pleasure or words which are merely the vehicles of own power, is not enough to keep us going. profit is lawful upon that clay; but as God truth."—Page 15. The context of this pas- We must plug into the true Source of power. ceased His labor of creating, and rested upon sage needs to be read but the soundness of Once we give up trying to go ahead on our the Sabbath and blessed it, so man is to his observation seems to be justified by the own, and slow up long enough to be sure leave the occupations of his daily life, and dynamic equivalences I have quoted above. we are plugged into the true Source of ever- devote those sacred hours to healthful rest, R. BOLTON lasting power, take time to study the Word to worship, and to holy deeds. The work of Bath, England of power, take time to talk with that true Christ in healing the sick was in perfect ac- power, God, through prayer, then will we have a successful Christian experience and cord with the law. It honored the Sabbath." WILL POWER AND GOD'S POWER Christ did not do this for a livelihood, or one day come into "face to face" contact profit. EDITORS: The article "Will Power" (Janu- with that true Source of power. 0 what a I have talked with many of our people ary 11 REviEw) brought to my mind the wonderful day that will be! about this. Many of them have never asked illustration of a portable radio. The portable MARILYN HOBART for Sabbath privileges, yet others asked for radio starts out its useful life with charged North Jay, Maine the Sabbath, from sunset Friday to sunset batteries ready to give good performance. It Saturday, and it was granted. may render good performance for many PRAYER WHEELS I feel our leaders should make some def- hours, then it begins to tire of doing well inite recommendation and urge our people and begins to weaken. It keeps weakening EDITORS: The editorial "Prayer Wheels for not to work Sabbath unless there is an until it fades away and finally stops alto- Missionaries" (November 30 REVIEW) im- emergency. gether. You may recharge the batteries and pressed me deeply because I am the mother of MARGIE STEWART it will run again on this power for a while, a missionary and an aunt to another. Every Rye, New York but it will again tire of doing good, and time I hear the sentence, "Lord, bless our stop. Try as you may you cannot make it missionaries and workers all over the world," play any more. If you plug is into the elec- during a prayer, even though I know it is BIBLE TRANSLATION tric power it will go beautifully again as meant sincerely, I always wish specific needs, EDITORS: The editorial "Bible Translation long as it is connected with the source of problems, and missionaries would be men- Methods Examined" (November 30 REVIEW) power, but if you unplug it from this power tioned. I am sure the missionaries would be states principles that every Bible teacher it will not perform at all. greatly strengthened, as well as the work, ought to know, particularly now when there Isn't that very much like our Christian if they knew that at least their home are so many new translations. I especially experience? When we accept Christ and are churches and colleges were praying for them. appreciated it because for several weeks I baptized we are just beginning our Christian CORA LYNN MILLER have been presenting a verse-by-verse study life of usefulness. Our battery (or will Junction City, Oregon

REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 15 INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Governor's Son Faces Hardship After Baptism By ANASTACIO B. GAYAO Dean of Students Mountain View College, Philippines Much Bible study and a hard struggle took place before Fidel Damasco, his wife, and five children decided to be bap- tized into the Seventh-day Adventist faith. And their troubles are not over. Fidel is the eldest son of Lope Da- masco, who for three terms was governor of Bukidnon in the Philippines, where Mountain View College is situated. In 1950 Dr. Andrew Nelson was working to acquire the site where the college now stands and spent a night in the gover- nor's home. This was Fidel's first contact The Honorable Omar Giouda, minister of health for Libya, speaks at the dedication serv- with Seventh-day Adventists. A close ices of the new Benghazi Adventist Hospital, which has 42,000 square feet of floor space. friendship developed between Dr. Nel- son and the governor, but the family re- mained indifferent to the faith. Their satisfaction with their present religion and the influence of associates were Official Opens Eibyan Hospital strong deterrents to their interest in Ad- ventism. By F. C. WEBSTER, President The next contact Fidel's family had Middle East Division with the Adventists was through Pastor Praxedes Ramos and his team of minis- terial students from Mountain View Col- Early this year a modern new Advent- and arrangements for construction were lege, who conducted an evangelistic cam- ist hospital in Benghazi, Libya, was dedi- the work of Roger Wilcox and Vincent paign in 1964 in Malaybalay, where Fi- cated—as the cornerstone inscription Fenn, the previous administrators of the del lived. His children attended the meet- reads—"to the glory of God and the serv- Middle East Division. These men, to- ings and took the Voice of Prophecy ice of humanity." gether with hospital leadership, also Bible course, but Fidel and his wife re- About six years ago plans began to be worked out arrangements for a group of mained uninterested. However, they did formulated that led to the dedication on petroleum companies operating in Libya listen to some of the Bible studies that January 17 of this new and modern 60- to bear much of the cost of construction. were given to their children. bed medical facility at the perimeter of This hospital is modern in design and After the evangelistic meetings the fam- the fast-growing city of Benghazi. Present functionally efficient in the application ily moved to the farm and eventually lost to participate in the dedication cere- of the up-to-date equipment that has contact with the Adventists, but the Lord monies were high government officials, been installed. These tools for healing in did not abandon them. Two years later military personnel and regional leaders, the hands of a consecrated and well- Mariano Abesta, ranch supervisor of members of the diplomatic and consular trained staff make certain to the people Mountain View College, with some min- staff of various nations, and a host of of Libya the excellence for which Ad- isterial students contacted Fidel. Mr. friends and well-wishers. Chief among the ventist hospitals around the world have Abesta was delighted when Fidel said, "I dignitaries and principal speaker was become famous. would like you to give Bible studies to Omar Giouda, minister of health. He Since its establishment in 1956 many my family and me. I want you to give came as a special representative of His have cooperated in the operation and them to us because you are elderly. You Majesty King Idris I, beloved ruler of development of this institution. Dr. do not argue or enter into controversy." Libya. Roy S. Cornell was the first medical di- The studies were begun at once by Representing the General Conference rector, then came Dr. Jay P. Munsy and Mr. Abesta, and the family accepted ev- were F. L. Bland, vice-president, and Dr. William Wagner, and today Dr. D. C. ery message and made the necessary A. E. Gibb, associate secretary. A sizable Ludington, a third-generation mission- changes in their lives. Fidel stopped keep- group of the Middle East Division per- ary, serves the institution. ing company with his liquor-drinking sonnel were also present. The Benghazi Adventist Hospital was friends, refrained from Sabbath work, Dr. D. C. Ludington, medical director, opened as the pioneer Adventist en- and abandoned his smoking habit. Even- and Cleo V. Johnson, business manager, deavor in the North African country of tually he requested to be baptized with and the hospital staff had carefully Libya. To accommodate that new en- his family. planned all details of the opening cere- deavor a hotel building, centrally located This news stirred his father and other monies, which were executed with a in the city, was secured. Though the government officials to action. As an al- Christian dignity and warmth of which building served well during the pioneer lurement they visited Fidel with ex- the Adventist family around the world stages, the facilities were poorly adapted tremely attractive job offers. He could be can be justly proud. to efficient hospital operation. the principal of either one of two schools Those who attended could not fail to The total value of the new hospital is near his home. Another position was recognize the high place that our hospital £500,000 (U.S. $1.4 million). It contains made available in the provincial engi- holds in the hearts of the Libyan people 42,000 square feet of floor space and one- neering department at a good salary. and of the foreign residents of the coun- half mile of hallways. The building has These offers were tempting, especially try. An indication of that feeling was the the latest in equipment, and the hospital since he needed money to support his ten surprise announcement made by the personnel assures the high professional children, seven of whom were in school. minister of health during his address, services of a modern hospital. Dr. Lud- However, his decision to follow Christ that he brought with him as a gift from ington, C. M. Johnson, business manager, was firm. He said, "I would rather stay His Majesty King Idris I a personal check and their staff of 105 dedicated doctors, on the farm and be a good Seventh-day for £10,000 (U.S. $28,000) for hospital de- nurses, and technicians are committed to Adventist Christian than to accept a job velopment. bring health through loving service to the that will take me back to my old com- Plans and design for this new hospital Libyan people. panions and expose me to trials and

16 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 temptations while I am still young in the cepted Christ almost a half century ago Sabino Aguilar, now an old man, stood faith." was clouded when the publishing secre- with other veteran members when the On September 2, 1967, Fidel and his tary of the Seventh-day Adventist church Veracruz church building was dedicated family accepted Jesus fully and were bap- urged him to become a literature evangel. the first Sabbath of 1968. From all corners tized at Mountain View College. ist. He could not see himself selling books of the Mexican Union 175 ministers, lead- His father and other members of the from door to door! But he found mental ers of the 36,000 baptized Mexican Ad- family called him for a conference. He peace, as had William Miller almost a ventists, were also present to share the was told that the small lot of land where hundred years before, by asking God for beautiful monument God has given Vic- he was to build a home for renting as a a sign he considered impossible of fulfill- toriano Calvo instead of his barber chair. source of extra income was already sold. ment. If God sent him someone to buy Now he must remove his house from the his barber's chair and other equipment land. This was a shock to the newly bap- he would become a colporteur! tized family, for this was an indication With a sigh of relief he went about his Prisoners Converted that they were being disowned by the work. To his surprise, in less than 24 father. It posed another serious problem hours two men came to his door offering by Venezuelan Laymen —there were renters in the house. Where to buy his business for cash, and soon By ALFREDO GAONA BELTRAN could he move them to? The property he found himself not only a colporteur Departmental Secretary was providing the cash to keep his chil- but the leader of a team of four literature West Venezuelan Mission dren in school, so they dropped out and evangelists in the port of Veracruz. joined their parents on the farm. But When one of them took sick one day, Two dynamic lay workers from Bar- even the farm could be taken from them, Victoriano went to the market place to quisimeto, Venezuela, Facundo Ardila because it belonged to the senior Damasco buy an earthen jar in which to mix the and Jose Arrieche, recently took the ini- family. medicine. There he found the woman in tiative to visit the San Felipe peniten- The two older girls have now applied the pottery stall so absorbed in reading a tiary to present the good news of the for work at Mountain View College, book that she did not notice him. When gospel. Using the My Bible Says plan, where they hope to complete their studies he saw that the book she was reading was they enrolled more than 60, among whom and be of service to God's cause. the Bible, his barber's instinct for draw- were some of the employees and guards In some ways Fidel and his family are ing people into conversation came into also. Already a great transformation is in a state of uncertainty as to the future, play. seen in the lives of some of the men. but in God's hands they are secure, for Tapping on an earthen jar, he asked, Sabbath after Sabbath the laymen Christ the Sun of Righteousness is "Lady, aren't you going to wait on your held meetings, and after a few weeks of their guide, protector, and provider. customers? What's that you're reading?" Bible studies more than a dozen persons Arising slowly, she answered, "It's the received their diplomas. The enthusiasm Bible." and interest grew more and more; so did "That's a bad book, isn't it?" he sug- the admiration and gratitude of the New Veracruz Church gested. prison directors. a Memorial to Early "Oh, no, this is the Word of God." The Holy Spirit softened the harsh "Well," he continued, "I have a copy character of five prisoners, and they mani- Mexican Book Work of the Holy Scriptures, but it doesn't look fested a desire to give their hearts to By CHARLES R. TAYLOR like that." Jesus Christ and become members of the Departmental Secretary "There are many versions," she re- true church. On Sabbath, December 2, plied, "but their truth is the same." Inter-American Division one of these prisoners who obtained his "I'm sure your Bible doesn't say the freedom was baptized. The next Sabbath A beautiful church full of happy peo- same as mine. Here, read me from the the other four, who must still remain be- ple will be one of the surprises awaiting book of Exodus, chapter 20, verses 8 to hind bars, were given permission to leave Victoriano Calvo when in the earth made 11 ." the prison and be baptized in an im- new he will discover how the gospel seed And so began the opening of her eyes provised pool. he had sown bore fruit after his death. to the contents of a book she already When Victor Urbina spoke before the On January 6, 1968, while 400 people loved. Mrs. Aguilar, of the pottery stall, service of the power of the gospel to gathered to inaugurate a $25,000 church became the first member of the Veracruz transform, the assistant director of the three blocks from the waterfront in Vera- SDA church. When her son returned from prison, who witnessed the baptism, said: cruz, Mexico, Mr. Calvo was resting in a military service he found that his mother 'This is the truth! Those men were im- hillside grave 80 miles away. belonged to a church he had never possible, but for the past few months they The joy Victoriano felt when he ac- heard of. have been model prisoners."

Only standing room was available at the inauguration ceremonies of the new Veracruz, Mexico, church—a monument to Victoriano Calvo. REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 17 INTERNATIONAL NEWS

DATELINE- Vatican Library Accepts Bible Story Volumes WASHINGTON By B. BENJAMIN RIFFEL By Arthur R. Roth Pacific Press Publishing Association The old walls of the Vatican library in parl ji I ,f,.• Rome keep many a treasure—among them LII enin Conference id • ers the famous Codex Vaticanus, a manu- 8 • "lir, i,, 111'111[111[111 11(1611[I'v,, • script of the Bible written in Greek, which dates from the fourth century A.D. It now houses a new "treasure," the Ad- BIG LITTLE MISSIONARY PERIODI- eral Conference staff extends arms of ventist collection of Las Bellas Historias CAL. Generally the denomination's mis- fellowship and welcome. de la Biblia ("The Beautiful Stories of sionary periodicals are edited at the pub- the Bible") in ten volumes. As far as we lishing houses where they are printed. 1968 YEARBOOK. As I prepare these know, these are the first Adventist books However, Israelite, a small but growing notes for Dateline, statistical secretary to be placed there. missionary periodical designed to bring J. 0. Gibson has brought to our desks the Dr. Gianfranco Rossi, director of pub- the message of Jesus the Messiah and His new 704-page, blue-bound Yearbook for lic relations of the Italian Union, An- 1968. This volume furnishes us with im- dres H. Riffel, director of lay activities of second coming to the Jewish people, is the Inter-American Division, and I took edited in the offices of the General Con- portant information about the church: the General Conference, its departments, this set, published by the Pacific Press, to ference. the Vatican. The president of the library, R. L. Odom, editor, writer, and evan- services, corporations, legal associations, and world divisions; the union and local Monsignor Raes, was attentive and gelist of long experience, has the respon- friendly. We talked with him in German, sibility for this periodical. A Jewish pro- conferences; missions; educational insti- one of the seven languages he has mas- fessor of a Hebrew school in Paris said tutions; hospitals; sanitariums; publish- tered. On receiving the books, he praised about Israelite: "You are the only Chris- ing houses; food factories; old people's them generously, and wrote in the pro- tians who could establish a fruitful con- homes; and orphanages. It gives us the spectus the following testimony, which he tact with Judaism. I wish to have all the names and addresses of some 28,210 de- signed and sealed: nominational workers (not including li- "Many thanks for the generous gift of information and documents available in the ten volumes of the Stories of the order to talk about your faith with my censed missionary workers, though some of these workers are listed under their Bible. I sincerely wish you the good colleagues." Israelite, in part, responds to fortune of a large distribution of this ap- the counsel urging that "special efforts respective organizations). preciated work." be made for the enlightenment of the The Yearbook also catalogs the many Jews." periodicals published by Seventh-day Ad- ventists in numerous languages of earth; Missionary Directs Help GENERAL CONFERENCE WORSHIP. it provides a copy of the General Confer- Every working day at eight o'clock, be- ence constitution and bylaws; it gives the to Borneo Villagers church calendar and special days for fore staff members take up their activities, By D. A. ROTH they gather in the General Conference 1968 and 1969; it states briefly the fun- Assistant Secretary chapel for worship, usually under the damental beliefs of Seventh-day Advent- Far Eastern Division guidance of personnel director C. D. ists; and closes with a general index to Forshee. At this time they pray for those organization. The combined efforts of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and the helicopter who have made special requests and for VISITING BRETHREN. During the crews of the Royal Air Force of Great the church in the world field, particularly early weeks of 1968 people from several Britain recently prevented death by star- for those areas where our people are un- countries visited church headquarters— vation in two isolated villages in Borneo. der extraordinary distress. At these wor- Australia: Dr. Eric Magnusson and the The twin kampongs of Ibol and Mu- ship periods the staff has opportunity to the Clapham family from Avondale Col- hear messages and reports from visiting lege, Cooranbong, and Pastor and Mrs. speakers or from fellow staff members Bill Otto from Queensland; Costa Rica: who have returned from extensive itin- Martha Argueta and the Misael Mastrapa eraries. These worship periods are high family from Colegio Vocacional de Amer- points to the staff. In recent weeks inspi- ica Central, Alajuela; England: John For- rational messages and reports have been tune from Birmingham; Uganda: Rebecca given by W. M. Starks, A. A. Esteb, E. L. W. Kigiri and Seth Lubega from Kam- Minchin, Theodore Carcich, A. E. Gibb, pala. and D. W. Holbrook. MISSIONARY VOLUNTEER WEEK. STAFF MEMBERS. Three new members Plans and preparation for Missionary have joined the General Conference staff. Volunteer Week program series, "Steps Paul M. DeBooy, formerly Missionary to Christ," were made by our Missionary Volunteer leader in the Central Union, Volunteer Department leaders months has joined the Missionary Volunteer De- ago. A new feature this year is the prayer partment as an associate secretary. P. G. list (Review, February 29). In united Smith has come from the Ohio Confer- purpose the Missionary Volunteers ence to become associate secretary in the around the globe will pray each day for Stewardship and Development Depart- their fellow youth in one or two of the ment. R. M. Reinhard, who for the past world divisions. The MV Department has ten years has been treasurer and auditor a conviction that, coupled with prayer, of the Trans-Africa Division, has ac- there should be a mighty evangelistic cepted the call to be an associate auditor. program to keep our youth occupied in Four Royal Air Force helicopters airlift To these men and their families the Gen- the work of God. relief food to starving villagers in Borneo.

18 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 ding are eight hours by motorboat from Borneo's coastline city of Kuching, Sara- wak. The only way supplies can be brought into this interior area is by boat. Lack of rain over a period of weeks dried up the river and made it impossible for any supplies to be brought to the vil- lages. As the days went on, the supply of rice and other food dwindled to almost nothing. Soon some were starving to death. When the situation became desperate, a message was sent by foot courier to an Adventist village that had radio contact with Richard Hall, president of the Sara- wak Mission, in Kuching. When he heard the plight of the people in these areas he went into action. Soon bags of rice and other food stacked up at the airport. Pastor Hall discovered that the heavy bags were too much for his Cessna 180 to handle in an emergency situation, so he appealed to friends in the Royal Air Force. The helicopter crews agreed to take the food to the villages as part of a training exercise. Soon four of the big craft winged their way to the interior and within 30 minutes they settled down in a clearing close to one of the villages. Two Schools Benefit Frortr Overflow The residents of the villages looked on The Assam Training School extension is now well on its way and can soon be with awe as they saw the helicopers land. finished because of the large Sabbath school offering overflow last September. Also, When they saw the rice and wheat they Kellogg.Mookerjee High School in East Pakistan has its new location chosen and shouted and leaped for joy. purchased and can now= start its building program. Both Mete htstitotion4still then be better equipped to accomplish their purpose. The bulletin board in the office of the Southern Asia Dirhiou expresses our appreciation for this offering, of friendship. At the bulletin board arc W. F. Storz, secretary,. and. Mist _Gloria Thomas, assistant, Sabbath sr.hotd .13epartatent,-.,-Southcru • Vivhdou. afea‘meiee,ag F.. STOW.

Wales Launches VBS Program Under the leadership of ministerial in- not an easy one, for Finland was then the adjacent denominational old peo- tern Stuart Ware, the first Vacation Bible under the rule of Czarist Russia. During ple's home in December, 1966, he met School in Wales was held late in Decem- the fateful years of World War I, after Mr. Hoglund and paid tribute to his ber in the home of a member in Barry. which Finland emerged as an independ- service to the cause. Mr. HOglund leaves Eight non-Adventist children attended ent republic. Mr. Hoglund guided his the younger generation an example the first day. Within a few days the eight small but courageous group of light bear- of faithful devotion, heroic persever- had increased to 18, and these remained ers to ever-increasing victories. ance, and active faith in the Saviour, to the close. Twelve of the 18 came to After 21 years of devoted service, Mr. whose second advent he was called to the regular Sabbath school, and six of Hoglund retired from his position as pub- proclaim. the older children asked to stay for the lishing secretary of Finland, but he did AAREN UNHOLA, Manager divine worship. not cease working as a literature evan- Finland Publishing House This VBS followed the recent visit of gelist. During the subsequent 21 sustenta- G. R. Nash, of the General Conference tion years he averaged 1,716 working Sabbath School Department, who awak- hours a year. Spirit of Prophecy Speaker ened a decided interest in Vacation Bible When GC president Robert H. Pier- Visits Philippine Institutions Schools in the British Union. son visited Finland Publishing House and During his visit to the Far East, D. A. Encouraged by this start in Barry, the Delafield, of the White Estate, Washing- Welsh Mission is making plans for a num- ton, D.C., conducted a series of Spirit of ber of Vacation Bible Schools next sum- Prophecy lectures at Mountain View Col- mer. lege, Malaybalay, Bukidnon, and at Philip- KENNETH H. GAMMON pine Union College in Manila. He also British Union S.S. Secretary had speaking engagements at sanitariums, publishing houses, and academies. Pioneer Literature Evangelist Elder Delafield's sermons, counsel, and instruction on the gift of prophecy, given of Finland Worked 52 Years at special meetings and rallies, buoyed up Otto Hoglund, pioneer literature evan- the courage of the people and established gelist and publishing secretary in Fin- more firmly their faith and confidence that land, died recently a few weeks short of "we have nothing to fear for the future, his ninetieth birthday. He had been in except as we shall forget the way the Lord the literature work since shortly after his has led us, and His teaching in our past baptism in 1902. history." F. M. ARROGANTE In 1912 Mr. Hoglund was called to be Departmental Secretary union publishing secretary. The task was Elder Pierson greets veteran Otto Hoglund. Central Philippine Union Mission

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Rallies and Displays in Britain gram to find 21,500 regular readers of Our Lead Way in Literature Growth Times. The publishing department aims to increase this to 50,000 for the March, Twenty-one publishing rallies were 1968, issue, when they will launch a mis- held in Great Britain during the last sions extension campaign to raise funds three months of 1967, according to John for a new school dormitory at Yele Second- Arthur, publishing secretary for the Brit- ary School, West Africa, and a new mis- SOUTH INDIA UNION ish Union Conference. sion station in Ethiopia. D. P. THOMAS, of Koilpatty, reports Classes were conducted at Swansea, Bel- In one field, the North England Con- that 16 persons have been baptized as a fast, and Glasgow; the work of literature ference, auxiliary literature evangelists result of his work in Meenachipuram. bands has been consolidated; members doubled their sales during the first ten He expects that the whole village will have become acquainted with the wide months of 1967, compared with the same turn to worship Christ. Twenty-three range of literature produced by the Stan- period in 1966. They sold £4,510 ($10,- were baptized during the first 11 months borough Press through mobile displays in 800) worth of literature. of 1967; more than that number may the churches; and many new members VICTOR H. COOPER soon follow. have launched out in a house-to-house pro- Secretary, British Union SINCE moving to Mayavaram last May, N. Y. Ponniah has baptized 17 people. One of these was a young man who was on his deathbed. One of our laymen, Mr. The King's Busine s Abraham, prayed for him and the boy was wonderfully restored and became one of the first fruits of their work there. Three more were baptized at Santhan- By W. P. BRADLEY kudi, making a total of 20. AT THE beginning of 1967, A. Dason, THE CHURCH It happens that I be- so as to secure the cooperation of others working with his lay-preacher father, BOARD long to a rather large involved. Y. Asirvatham, and the church members church; in fact, it is The board may appoint subcommittees set a goal to win 50 converts before the one of our denomination's largest. When to work on specific projects such as build- end of the year. When on September 17 the local church approaches or passes a ing, decorating, organ, et cetera. All com- eight persons were baptized by Pastor membership of 3,000, it must have care- mittees report to the board. D. Gnanasundram on behalf of Mr. ful, even expert, leadership and a good The treasurer reports monthly on Dason, he reached his goal. D. R. WATTS, Correspondent organization. Aside from the spiritual church finance; other officers report re- forces at work in a church, there is hardly garding their responsibilities. any factor that can give strength like The state of the church roll is studied. SOUTH CHINA ISLAND UNION good organization. And these two Requests for church letters and requests SEVENTY delegates from all corners of strengths, the spiritual and the organiza- for admission to the church are con- the South China Island Union Mission tional, are not opposed to each other. sidered, and recommendation made to met recently for the ninth biennial ses- Happy the situations where they are the church. Inquiry may be made into sion. Co-ordinated evangelism was an im- blended in balanced measure, to the bless- the spiritual standing of any member and portant part of the plans laid for this field, with its population of 18 million. ing of the members, to the credit of the appropriate action recommended. Plans Every worker dedicated himself to having leaders, and to the glory of God. should be set in motion to help the sick, a part in this evangelism thrust. New church officers, and even old ones, the discouraged, the backslidden. L. R. COLISURN, Correspondent ought to become well acquainted with The board should be interested always the references to the work of the church in enlisting all members in active mis- FAR EASTERN DIVISION board in the Church Manual. If one sum- sionary service. Especially at times when marizes this material it comes out some- evangelistic meetings are being held in A NEW library and auditorium building is under construction in Singapore for thing like this: the church or in the vicinity, the board Board Members: Elder(s), head deacon the Southeast Asia Union College. Part steps up plans to enlist the cooperation of the funds for the building were solicited and deaconess, clerk, treasurer, lay activi- of all. in the city by special teams of Ingatherers. ties leader, lay activities secretary, Sab- Restrictions: The church board cannot THE first Adventist-sponsored television bath school superintendent, Dorcas Wel- receive or dismiss members or grant let- fare Society leader, MV leader, press re- series for Japan has now been presented ters of transfer; it can only make recom- in Tokyo, the largest city in the world. lations secretary, and such other mem- mendations to the church. Unable to purchase time for a religious bers as the church may elect at the an- series, the radio-TV department of the nual elections. New members: Candidates for baptism should be examined publicly before the Japan Union Mission negotiated for a Chairman: The pastor. If he prefers not series of weekly medical programs. It was church, the church board, or a special to serve as chairman, he arranges for an directed by Paul Nelson, former radio- elder to preside. committee appointed for that purpose. TV secretary of Japan. The board should plan for the welcom- Meetings: Monthly, at least. Best to SPECIAL weeks of emphasis on the Spirit ing of new members and bringing them have them at a regular time, for example, of Prophecy for youth have been con- the first Tuesday night of each month. into active participation of the church's ducted throughout the division by D. Special meetings are called as needed. activities. Arthur Delafield, associate secretary of Quorum: The minimum number of To summarize the church board's work: the Ellen G. White Estate. He visited board members authorized to do business "The church board functions as the gov- Japan Missionary College, Korean Union College, Taiwan Missionary College, should be specified by the church in a erning committee for the church, dealing with all questions of activities and busi- Philippine Union College, Mountain business meeting. View College, Southeast Asia Union Col- ness matters that normally face a church. Business: All details of church business lege, Indonesia Union College, and Mount are appropriate. The board co-ordinates It should be recognized, however, that Klabat College. This is the first time that the work of all church departments. Any many of its actions will be recommenda- a representative of the White Estate has department planning a special activity tory."—Church Manual, p. 128. visited the Far East. should seek counsel of the church board (Next: Special to Delegates.) D. A. ROTH, Correspondent

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tively, also participated in the program. + The final Ingathering total for the Plans were made for 12 revivals and 15 Kansas Conference was $88,604.20, as re- /Mudd U evangelistic campaigns during 1968, with ported by N. K. Harvey, conference secre- a goal of more than 300 baptisms. The tary-treasurer. This represents a per capita amount of Ingathering reported at the of $23.86. victory banquet was $68,360.61. This is an + At the Ingathering victory banquet at + C. J. Owens, Kansas Conference educa- Springfield, Massachusetts, Mrs. Emily increase of $4,000 over last year. tional secretary and youth leader, reports Anderson was honored for soliciting $1,- EMMA KIRK, Correspondent that the elementary school children 147.06 during the recent campaign. Mrs. gathered $7,036.25 during the Ingathering Anderson is more than 70 years of age campaign. This amount almost doubled and has been a church member for only their goal of $3,593.25. three years. She learned of the third CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent angel's message from a pamphlet left at her door. Pastor Arthur M. Moyer also honored Mrs. Aurore Gemme, who solic- ited more than $300. Marcus E. Payne, lay activities secretary of the Southern + Osborne Lee, pastor of the Sydney and New England Conference, was the ban- North Sydney churches in Nova Scotia, quet speaker. has been elected president of the Protes- tant ministerial association for the Cape As a result of the witnessing of Albert + Breton area. Schwab and his wife, members of the Pittsfield (Massachusetts) church, David + The Oliver, British Columbia, church First Nursing Class Receives Dixon, his wife, and their two boys, Mal- was dedicated on December 2, 1967. J. W. Caps at Kettering College colm and Stewart, were baptized on De- Bothe, Canadian Union president, cember 16, 1967, by Arthur Harms, South- preached the dedicatory sermon. Men- Kettering College of Medical Arts held ern New England Conference secretary- tioned in the historical sketch of the its first department of nursing capping treasurer. Richard Coffen is pastor of the church were many of the members who ceremony on February 4, 1968, with 74 stu- Pittsfield church. had helped to make the new church pos- dents receiving their nurse's cap. sible by their support through the years. Gladys Duran, director of nursing serv- + A successful Five-Day Plan to Stop Among the early members present were Smoking series, with 260 in attendance, ices at the Kettering Memorial Hospital, Mrs. E. Klatt, Mrs. A. Gibson, and Mrs. gave the challenge to the students. Mrs. has recently been completed in the Gar- R. Sprosson. den City Junior High School auditorium. Duran said, "Upon you the heritage of Leading out in the session were Dr. Dun- + Gordon Madden, a member of the this school will be founded. May it be a bar Smith, J. R. Hoffman, and Austin Paris, Ontario, church, was recently rich heritage, marked by your vigilance." Butler. Sponsors included the Parent- awarded a Silver Centennial Medal by the Harvey Hahn, pastor of the Otterbein Teacher Association, American Heart Secretary of State in recognition of his Evangelical United Brethren church, of- Association, and the American Cancer service to the nation. The newspaper fered the dedicatory prayer. To conclude Society. stated: "When a family has been bereaved the program the students took the nurse's and temporary financial help has been pledge of service, led by Anna May + John Carlos, Jr., a member of the Lin- needed, he has gone to the rescue quickly. Vaughan, chairman of the department of den Boulevard church in St. Albans, New When food, furniture, or clothing has nursing. York, and a senior student in the School been a problem, Mr. Madden has rounded Diane Calfee, Curt Carr, Jr., and a of Physical Therapy at Loma Linda Uni- up the articles, and where children have string ensemble provided music. In honor versity, has recently been elected presi- been involved he has been particularly of the nursing students, relatives and dent of his class. He was the recipient of interested. On a number of occasions he friends after the capping attended a recep- a $1,200 scholarship awarded by the Veter- has helped students through college." tion in the residence-hall lobby. ans' Rehabilitation Administration. Mr. Carlos completed his undergraduate stud- PEARL BROWNING, Correspondent DAVID BAUER ies at Atlantic Union College in 1960, Director of Public Relations after two years of study at Oakwood Col- Kettering Memorial Hospital lege. He worked for six years as an assist- ant research technician at the New York + The CUC concert band recently pre- State University in cardiovascular re- sented a series of sacred concerts in Penn- search and development before going to sylvania. Included were programs at Read- Loma Linda University. ing, Philadelphia, and Blue Mountain Academy. Adell Haughey is director. + Senator Edward M. Kennedy addressed + Charles Phillips, a Missouri Conference the student body of Atlantic Union Col- literature evangelist, sold $1,112 worth of + Radio station WGTS-FM, the voice of lege on Monday, February 12, the first day books in one week during the month of Columbia Union College, scored a "scoop" of Negro History Week. Senator Kennedy January. on Washington area news media recently gave a 30-minute talk in which he dis- by carrying the first announcement of the + Twenty-two persons were baptized as cussed his concern for civil rights and the settlement of the Montgomery County southeastern Asia situation. A question- the result of evangelistic meetings held in teachers' strike. Inaugurating a new pub- the San Luis Valley in Colorado by Ben and-answer period followed his address. lic service program, Listen Here, the sta- Z. George, conference evangelist, and tion had as guests Morris Jones, from the + The ministers and their wives in Wayne Anderson, district pastor. Northern New England met in Portland, Maryland Teachers Association, and Dr. Maine, January 14-16 for a three-day work- + The Casper, Wyoming, church members Howard Housemen, representing Mont- ers' meeting and Ingathering victory ban- are financing a radio program to run for gomery County. At the conclusion of the quet. Lawrence Nelson, General Confer- several weeks. Evangelistic meetings are hour-long program the two men made the ence MV associate secretary, led out in planned as a follow-up to this program. first announcement of the strike settle- the meetings. + The Missionary Volunteers of the Ne- ment. Dr. Stephan Hiten, head of the col- lege speech department, is the coordinator Carl P. Anderson, president of the con- braska Conference have launched a cam- of the new series, and the guest inter- ference; W. W. Menshausen, conference paign for 100,000 dimes by May 12, 1968, viewer was Dr. Delmer W. Holbrook, lay activities and Sabbath school secretary; to furnish and equip the kitchen-lodge to president of Home Study Institute. and K. W. Tilghman and W. E. Peeke, be constructed at Camp Arrowhead. The Atlantic Union Conference secretary-treas- youth hope to have enough dimes to + Twelve years of faithful work on the urer and lay activities secretary, respec- "sink a canoe." part of laymen in the Trenton, New Jer-

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sey, area has resulted in the baptism of a plaque signifying that in 1967 Illinois and has moved to the College Place cam- seven prisoners at the New Jersey State led the North American Division in sales pus, where she will assume direction of the Prison. Gordon Barnes, New Jersey litera- of Life and Health subscriptions per program of psychiatric nursing. ture evangelist, began the work, which has capita. + Walla Walla College became a member since been carried on by other local lay- Gary Bevins, literature evangelist, was of the American Association of Colleges men, including Fred Zimmerly and John awarded a trophy by Mr. Okuno for lead- for Teacher Education by formal vote of Hood. At the present time 14 prisoners ing the conference in sales of Life and the organization February 16, according to are attending the branch Sabbath school, Health. He sold enough subscriptions to J. V. Peters, chairman of the department which is held each week. supply one family for 672 years, a total of education. of $3,696. He was top in the union for + B. H. VanHorne, Ph.D., has joined the IoNE MoRGAN, Correspondent staff of the Kettering Memorial Medical total sales in books and magazines, with Center to participate in the development $37,451.80 for 1967. of a research program. In addition to be- ESTON L. ALLEN ing professor of physics and mathematics Departmental Secretary at Kettering College of Medical Arts, Dr. Illinois Conference VanHorne will be engaged in biomedical 114 1110406. research and statistical analysis. For the + The Rockford Seventh-day Adventist past ten years Dr. VanHorne has been youth always have been an enthusiastic Ingathering group, but this year was ex- engaged in instrumentation research with + Mavis Jacobson, Oak Park Academy ceptional. Nine children raised $2,700. the Dow Chemical Company, Midland, senior, was named Homemaker of Tomor- Michigan. Greg Smith, a seventh-grader, was the top row as a result of her test score in the solicitor. He went Ingathering every night MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent Betty Crocker Homemaker Examination. during the campaign and collected $450. The church goal was $8,600. The church + The Iowa Conference raised $20,805.66 raised in excess of $10,350. L. J. Marsa is for Investment in 1967, a per capita of pastor. $5.91. MILDRED WADE, Correspondent + Four Council Bluffs, Iowa, church mem- Lake au'otic bers attended a civil defense training course. The director gave public recogni- tion to Seventh-day Adventists for their Illinois Bookmen Meet: help in disasters. Sales Leaders Recognized + In an effort to reach the surrounding area, the Minnetonka, Minnesota, church The Illinois Conference had 26 book has presented the following areas of ac- specialists placing Christian literature in + W. R. Hunker, a 1967 graduate of Pa- tivity to the church members. thousands of homes in 1967. Like their cific Union College, has accepted a call 1. Project Community Task Force-5,- fellow literature evangelists all over the to be head of the new audio-video de- 000 visitation leaflets to be distributed. world, they diagnose the world's ills and partment of Portland Sanitarium and 2. Project Fireside—Sunshine and Sing- treat them, not with an injection, but Hospital. Initial plans for the video in- ing bands. with Christian books and magazines. stallation include a studio and control 3. Project Mercy—aid in time of dis- They sold $307,883.39 worth of books room. The program will be used in nurs- aster. in 1966 and $360,481.58 in 1967, and ing education for the hospital's school of 4. Project Intercession—prayer for the have set their goal for $500,000 in 1968. practical nursing, Walla Walla's school of success of the work. At their annual literature evangelist professional nursing, and the hospital's 5. Project Remembrance—placing of rally January 27, 28, R. L. Chapman, con- in-service education department. flowers in hospitals and rest homes on ference publishing department secretary, Sabbath afternoons. reported a total of 12 known baptisms for + Walla Walla General Hospital is setting The members have indicated the areas the year, 18,051 pieces of literature given up a new laboratory facility, and has em- in which they will become involved. ployed Robert Hessong, registered medi- away, 4,343 Bible enrollments, 192 people L. H. NETTEBURG, Correspondent taken to meetings, 59 former SDA's con- cal technologist, to head the department. tacted, 2,893 prayers offered in homes, + A. C. Fearing and Archa 0. Dart, from and 246 Bible studies given. the General Conference, held meetings in J. W. Proctor, Lake Union publishing the Washington Conference recently. director, shared with them publishing Elder Fearing held evangelistic meetings news and methods being used around the in Olympia; Elder Dart, in the Seattle world. Clifford Okuno, field representa- area, spoke on the home and its influence. tive of the Review and Herald Periodical Department, presented to Elder Chapman + By delivering $1,089 during the week + Appearing weekly in the Pacific Union ending February 3, Kenneth Thompson Recorder is a series of articles on Sev- became the first literature evangelist in enth-day Adventist pioneers and the be- the Washington Conference to join the ginning of Adventist work in the West, as $1,000 Club for 1968. In the 11 months part of the union's celebration of its cen- he has been a literature evangelist he has tennial year. Compiled by Ernest Lloyd, delivered $11,456 worth of books. retired minister and pioneer in his own + Attending a three-day annual Academy right, the articles feature reminiscences Bible Conference in February were 144 about workers such as J. N. Loughborough delegates from the Oregon Conference and D. T. Bourdeau and descriptions of academies and churches. Guest speaker early facilities of the church, compiled was Graham Maxwell, chairman of the from personal recollections of elderly Department of Religion at Loma Linda church members. University. + The Barron-Turner evangelistic team is holding Crusade for Christ meetings in + Mrs. Lloyd Hazelton, who has been a Long Beach, California, nightly, March 2 member of the WWC School of Nursing through 24. faculty since January, 1966, recently com- pleted work for the Master of Nursing + A special Bible course for members of C. Okuno and G. Bevins displaying trophy. degree at the University of Washington the Mormon faith, called Gospel Salvation

22 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 Bible Course, has been developed by the Voice of Prophecy. Application cards and information on the course may be ob- tained from Box 17174, Salt Lake City, Utah 84117. + Spanish-speaking residents of Delano, + Five hundred dozen cookies, a surprise California, were special guests during gift from the campus Pioneer Memorial evangelistic services of the local Adventist church to Andrews University dormitory church, and 23 persons made decisions for students, were distributed February 14 Christ. Domingo De Leon, local church by church deacons and deaconesses. Prep- school teacher, served as master of cere- aration for the project began about two monies and translator for speakers at the months ago, and the cookies were donated meetings, which were a follow-up to the by community women. branch Sabbath school program he and + On display in the James White Library his wife had previously launched in De- exhibit room at Andrews University dur- lano. ing the month of February were approxi- + The Arizona Conference believes in Jasper Wayne Band mately 40 art works by members of the advance education of its top State admin- art department faculty. The exhibit fea- James Cromwell's caroling band at istrators, legislators, judges, city mayors, tured works by Peter D. Erhard, Gregory Tucson, Arizona, reached their Jasper and other county, community, and State Constantine, and department chairman Wayne goal in the Ingathering campaign leaders regarding the Seventh-day Ad- Irvin Althage. Individual creations varied just closed. Front (from left to right): ventist position on Sunday laws. Five in form, ranging from woodcuts and Connie Rasmussen, Teddy Cromwell, and hundred copies of Dateline Sunday, U.S.A. etchings through cloth-over-plywood works Sherrie Rasmussen. Second row: Dr. Nels are being distributed by the conference and sculpture. The works also varied in Rasmussen, Jr., Mrs. Nels Rasmussen, Jr., to these officials, with many warm re- subject matter. Biblical themes were the Mrs. Leonia Demas, James Cromwell, sponses having been received from the basis of paintings such as "Lay Not Up for and Elmer Volk. Mrs. Fred Dotson, Jr., recipients. Yourselves Treasure," and "Lazarus, Come also in the band, is not in the picture. Forth." Current events found artistic re- + Robert Whitsett, pastor of the Van Mrs. Demas, who has solicited Tucson flection in "A Little War Far, Far, Far Nuys, California, church, is conducting merchants for the past 30 years, has Away," and poetry was made visual in a Search for Truth meetings through April consistently received from $250 to $350 sculptured portrayal of "Abou ben Ad- 6 at his church, assisted by John Alspaugh, yearly for Ingathering. hem." Of special interest in the exhibit associate pastor. Dr. Lance Judkins, physi- Not pictured is Mrs. Ruth Grounds, an were woodcuts of two assassinated United cian and chairman of the church board of 84-year-old member, who writes letters for States presidents, Abraham Lincoln and elders, is presenting travelog lectures on her contribution since arthritis confines John F. Kennedy. various Middle East countries during the her to her chair and walker. This year series. her letters brought in $115. + Fifth-grade AU elementary school pu- pils recently displayed 25 floats depicting + Pacific Union Missionary Volunteer CECILE MC CAMEY Church Public Relations Secretary the States and countries represented in secretaries and civilian chaplains of the the room personnel (20 States and seven Pacific Union got a firsthand look at the countries). The diversity of home bases military, as well as a closer acquaintance was occasioned by the fact that many of with the program of help given Adventist the parents, who are attending the AU young men in their early military service, School of Graduate Studies and Seminary, as they recently visited Fort Ord, Cali- come from various countries. fornia, under the guidance of Adventist Chaplain Joseph T. Powell. + AU Civil Defense Coordinator Gordon Prenier states that on campus there are + Operation Cookie, sponsored by the + The "It Is Written" telecast is again seven shelter areas stocked with survival Yuba City Adventist church in Northern being shown in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. rations enough for 1,426 persons. Three California, is sending three-pound metal It began February 11, over WBAP-TV, more areas are soon to be surveyed and cans of cookies, baked by members and channel 5. The re-showing is in connection stocked, which will furnish shelter for an friends, to servicemen of the Sutter and with an area-wide evangelistic campaign added 500 persons. These are established Yuba City communities now serving in by Elden Walters in the Dallas Central by the Army Corps of Engineers and are Vietnam. Seventh-day Adventist church, which be- supplied with enough food to last each + Australian Evangelist A. Geoffrey Rat- gan February 17. person for 14 days. cliffe will conduct evangelistic meetings + The ministers of the Arkansas-Louisi- at the Scottish Rite Temple in Stockton, ana Conference have pledged themselves California, beginning March 2. The seven- to conduct 61 evangelistic crusades during week series will include Bible and arche- 1968. ology lectures, which will be illustrated by color slides. + A new church building has been pur- chased in Hamburg, Arkansas. W. D. + Thirty-eight visitors attended the Welch and M. D. McIntosh will be con- Chino, California, Spanish church on Visi- ducting a series of meetings in this church + A weekend of foreign mission empha- tors' Day, some of whom found a church in the near future. sis on the La Sierra campus was held re- home. The 80-member church now re- cently. Visiting speaker was David H. joices in missing members returned to + Eleven persons were baptized in the Baasch, associate secretary of the General fellowship, six new Sabbath school mem- Arkansas-Louisiana Conference in 1967 as Conference. The final service featured a bers, and two persons attending the pas- the result of contacts made by literature film, Behold the Dreamer. tor's Bible class. evangelists. + University President David J. Bieber + Teen Time, new open-forum discussion + While on his way to work, John A. left March 11 for a three-week tour of meeting for youth of the Riverside, Cali- Sinksen, assistant in the Arkansas-Louisi- schools abroad affiliated with Loma Linda fornia, area, has been initiated by the La ana Book and Bible House, was fatally University: Middle East College, Beirut, Sierra church. Plans are to hold the forum injured in an automobile accident, Jan- Lebanon; Seminaire Adventiste, Col- bimonthly, according to youth pastor uary 30. His wife, Ruth, is employed by longes-sous-Saleve, France; Seminar Mar- D. D. Devnich. the conference as an accountant. ienhoehe, Darmstadt, Germany; and Bo- HERBERT FORD, Correspondent J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent genhofen Seminary, Austria.

REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14. 1968 23 GENERAL NEWS

I had a firsthand insight into mission work and the life of a primitive people and the opportunity to see strange dis- A Relief Doetor Reports eases that would never be seen in the United States—an insight that can be ob- By DAVID H. UNSELL, M.D. tained only by being there, an experi- ence that cannot be weighed in dollars [Dr. Unsell, a Montana physician, accepted an in- dren and darling grandson, Davy, to eat and cents. If I have been of some service vitation to serve as a relief doctor to West Africa in 1967. At various times he and his wife wrote to the together, to go to church and Sabbath in filling the gap and in upholding the General Conference. These excerpts from their letters school with them in our mission church, hands of our devoted missionaries, I shall were selected by R. R. Frame, associate secretary of feel well repaid for my venture. the General Conference.] was a wonderful experience. The people in Africa are very precious, During this time I examined more DEAR ELDER FRAME: and I felt sad to leave them, for I felt than 3,000 patients, performed 175 op- Now I am home and soon will be back they needed me. The day we left for erations (112 majors and 63 minors), in my old routine again, but my thoughts home a pretty Hausa woman who has representing 23 different major proce- and no small part of my heart are far eight children came running to bring dures and 17 different minor procedures. away. Mrs. Unsell a present to take home to Aside from the cultural advantages and Thank you for inviting me to go as a America. It was a dozen eggs. She could the professional medical interest in this relief physician to the Kwahu Hospital, not speak a word of English, but Ken experience, there is a spiritual tugging in Ghana. After spending three months told her that we could not take eggs with at your heart when you leave people who at Kwahu, I served for two months as us on the plane, for it was too far to our seem to be benefited by your presence relief physician at the Jengre Hospital, house in America. She looked so disap- and who beg you to stay, like one Fulani Northern Nigeria, at the invitation of the pointed and tears were running down man who said to me, "When you left one West African Union. This has been a her face as she told Mrs. Unsell good-by. year ago I never expected to see you great experience. My wife cried too, for she really loved her again [Dr. Unsell visited Nigeria in Every day we worked in Jengre was a and will be looking forward to seeing her 1966]. Many times I would see you in new thrill. Just to be with our dear chil- in God's kingdom. my sleep, but always when I woke up you were not there. Now you are back again. I am glad. Now you say you are soon leaving. I won't see you any more. I want you to stay 20 years, maybe 30. "I have just finished reading a book I don't want you to go away. I cry too AVENUES TO /el that in my opinion should be thoughtfully much!" studied by all Seventh-day Adventists. It This part of the world cannot be com- is not an ordinary work but a unique, pared to the homeland. Would you like 11).a.ote4e comprehensive analysis of present-day to hear the jungle come to life as dark- Catholicism in the light of the recent ness drops like a curtain over the tropics, By H. M. TIPPETT Ecumenical Council of the Catholic and hear the throaty bark of the giant Church, known today as Vatican II. fruit bat three blocks away, or stand in the dark where he hangs in a tree 15 feet Amos R. Wells, for half a century ac- Seventh-day Adventists would be wise to give scholarly consideration to the ac- above you, or listen to the babylike cry tive in religious journalism, out of his of the tree-bear that echoes through the wealth of reading experience wrote a tions of this council and its subsequent forest for one third of a mile, or hear the poem on books. From it we quote a developments in the light of the gospel distant beating of the talking drums or stanza with this stimulating thought: commission and from a Biblical and the wailing for the dead by people who prophetic standpoint. have no hope in God? "Before you read a book and make it "The world is faced with a remodeled Would you like to see and hear all yours, Catholic Church with some changes in these things? Then come with me to a Bethink you of the parable of seeds: attitudes and procedures. Only by becom- land where you walk and work among a You are the book's more than the book ing fully acquainted with the decisions people so primitive that their only cloth- is yours. and the possibly far-reaching results of ing is a bunch of leaves, their only farm Vatican II can a person arrive at a cor- tools a hoe and a knife; who live in the Not openly but inwardly its roots open or at best in mud huts; who eat rats Will pierce and thrive. Preparing in the rect assessment of present-day Catholi- and bats and ants; who die suddenly from dark, cism. The gulf between the Vatican and the witch doctor's poison or the deadly Some day its pallid shoot will break the Protestantism is steadily diminishing as cobra or viper, or more slowly from mold, friendly hands are crossing both ways malaria, tetanus, meningitis, typhoid, tu- Some day the book will show itself with a view of hastening reunion through berculosis or cancer; where leprosy and abroad various bridge-building endeavors. blindness from onchocerciasis are com- And make a garden of your face, your "Are we prepared, are we in a position mon; where nearly everyone has either hands, of knowledgeable strength, to deal fairly microfilaria, or schistosomiasis, or hook- worm, or tropical ulcer. Yet with all of Your tongue and eyes, the very life you and intelligently with the new Rome in this, they can laugh and sing and dance live. such areas as ecumenism, Bible scholar. to the rhythm of their drums, or hurry For all the elements conspire with books, ship, historical reliability of the Bible, to the market or their fields of guinea To make them grow; you cannot keep universal judgment, second coming of corn or maize or millet or groundnuts them down." Christ, church history, calendar reform, with their tools or baskets of produce or religious liberty, Mary as mediatrix, sal- jugs of water balanced on their heads. We are devoting our column this week vation, social problems, birth control, Come with me to the land of ivory and to one very important book just off the poverty, culture, war, hunger, peace, evan- gold and cocoa, of mahogany and pre- Review and Herald press: Vatican II— gelism, proselyting, divine origin of the cious woods; where bananas, mangoes, Bridging the Abyss, by B. B. Beach. 352 week, worship, and many other council guavas, pawpaws, and palm oil are plen- pages, $6.95. considerations? tiful; where people chew sugar cane for candy, and betel nut for gum, and drink The following evaluation of this mo- "Dr. Beach's book, Vatican II—Bridg- palm wine for fun. Remember that it is mentous hook is by Andrew Fearing of ing the Abyss, will be welcomed by every the land of the deadly anopheles mos- the General Conference Ministerial De- serious student of current religious quito, the black gnat, and the tsetse fly. partment: trends." Be sure to take your mosquito net along,

24 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 R. L. Kretz, lay activities, Sabbath school, and public relations secretary (Minnesota), formerly same position North Dakota. Gene Gerdts, pastor, Bucyrus-Galion- Marion-Upper Sandusky district (Ohio), formerly chaplain, Porter Memorial Hos- pital. George Kiyabu, pastor, Denver Japa- nese church (Colorado), formerly pastor (Hawaii). Dr. David Unsell (right), who served as relief doctor in West Africa, along with Dr. J. A. T. F. Wick, youth pastor, Pacific Union Lennox, medical director of Kwahu Hospital at Mpraeso, Ghana, and two Nigerian nurses. College, formerly youth co-ordinator (Colorado). Robert E. Reynolds, president, Walla and don't forget your daraprim or chloro- hammer or dishcloth. Close your doors, Walla College, formerly president, Atlan- quine, lest you not come back. leave the "rat race," and come where you tic Union College. This land is the white man's grave and will see new places and new faces, share also the black man's grave. Men and new problems, face new challenges; Milton Hallock, intern pastor, Portland women are dying of malaria, tetanus, where the service you give would not be district (Northern New England), from snake bite, tuberculosis, typhoid, men- given but for you. This will give you a South Lancaster, Massachusetts (Southern ingitis, poisoning. Women who are preg- thrill you could never know if you stay New England). nant cannot deliver. People have spleens where every day is much the same as it Robert Edwards, field secretary of con- that fill half the abdomen and livers that has been for 35 years; and you will agree ference association and church develop- are two or three times their normal size. with me that life can begin after 60. If ment secretary (Northern New England), If you are past 60 years old, and the you would do all this, you should have formerly leader of Manchester, New pace of life is becoming monotonous and been with me; for all of these things have Hampshire, district. seems to be losing some of its charm, then been mine during my service as relief Richard C. Valle, biology teacher, At- come. Drop your scalpel or ledger sheet, doctor. (Continued on page 30)

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ANSWERING THE CALL Born in Oregon, Dr. Kahler is a grad- Of 1A/xtrem, uate of Loma Linda University (1933). (Continued from page 25) He also holds degrees (Bachelor's) in sci- ence and modern languages. After years lantic Union College; he will receive Andlie ma of private practice he became psychiatrist Doctor of Philosophy degree in zoology in Eastern Oregon State Hospital in from Syracuse University later this year. Mucelleakts__ Pendleton, Oregon. Since June, 1966, he Laurence A. Skinner, association field has been senior psychiatrist at Patton representative (Southeastern California), This Is the End is the dramatic title of State Hospital, Patton, California. formerly corporation secretary (Washing- Arthur S. Maxwell's article beginning on This week Marye Trim speaks to the ton). our cover. The article is based on his 1968 Adventist Woman (page 10). Mrs. Trim is Alfred M. Matar, pastor, Reno, Nevada Book of the Year by the same title. With a missionary's wife working in Bombay, (Nevada-Utah), from Missoula, Montana. reference to the end, Elder Maxwell raises India. Her husband, John, is Sabbath (Conference names appear in parentheses.) the significant query, "Do I believe it? school, lay activities, and temperance secre- Does the church believe it?" tary of Western India Union. She describes one of her typical busy days and then From Home Base to Front Line Elder Maxwell was born in London, England, and attended Stanborough Col- ponders the questions, "What does a mis- lege. From 1920 to 1936 he was editor of sionary's wife contribute? What are the Australasian Division Present Truth at Stanborough Press in pluses and minuses of being a missionary?" England and from 1925 to 1932 was also If an abused Church Hymnal could talk, Miss S. Barnard (Sydney Sanitarium manager of the press. In 1936 he and his what would it say? Clifton Calkins tells and Hospital), to be nurse, Togoba Han- family came to the United States where us on page 12. Mr. Calkins is a book senide Colony, Goroka, New Guinea, left he has been editor of Signs of the Times binder of many years' experience and has Sydney, Australia, January 10. Miss Bar- from 1937 till the present. operated the binderies in six of our de- nard is a daughter of Pastor L. H. Bar- Elder Maxwell is the author of many nominational schools. Having rebound nard. books and is the Uncle Arthur of the hymnals for hundreds of our churches, he Mr. and Mrs. Glyn Lock, teachers, Beti- Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories (20 vol- feels that there is a desperate need for im- kama School in the British Solomon Is- umes). provement in the way hymnals are han- lands Protectorate, left Sydney, Australia, Widely discussed these days is the sub- dled. His suggestions are worth putting January 11. ject of moral standards. Many have into practice. Beverley Brown, staff member, Jones adopted a so-called new morality, which We are happy Adeline Thomas, a Missionary College, Kambubu, near claims to grant men new liberties. What Lutheran, decided on the REVIEW when Rabaul, New Britain, in the Bismarck- voice do Seventh-day Adventists raise in she debated as to where to send her article Solomons Union Mission, arrived January the wilderness of moral confusion? What on the handling of meats in retail out- 17. is wrong with premarital sex? For the lets. Having worked in several stores, she Milton Krause, to be teacher, Helder- answer read Dr. Harland P. Kahler's "The felt meat eaters had a right to know what berg College, South Africa, Mrs. Krause, Case for Purity" (page 2). they were buying. See page 8. and three children sailed on the Southern Cross from Australia on January 17. John McMahon, to be teacher, Jones Missionary College, Kambubu, in the Revzew dEsAra_a_ Heald Bismarck-Solomons Union Mission, and Mrs. McMahon left January 17. In 1849 a company of Sabbathkeeping Adventists began to publish a paper called The Present Truth, In 1850 they also published five issues of The Advent Review. Later that year. in November. these two papers merged Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Dever, to be teach- under the name Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, now titled simply REVIEW AND HERALD. Its editorial ers, Jones Missionary College, Kambubu, objective remains unchanged—to preach "the everlasting gospel" in the context of the Sabbath, the Second New Britain, left North Queensland, Advent, and other truths distinctive of the Advent Movement. January 22. Mr. Dever is a son of John EDITOR: KENNETH H. WOOD Dever, who previously served as a mis- sionary in the Bismarck-Solomons Union Associate Editors: DON F. NEUFELD Mission. F. 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REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968 by W. W. Fordham, associate secretary of the General Conference Regional Depart- ment. More than 1,000 were in attendance during week nights. In two weeks' time the list of interested has grown to nearly 3,000. Associated with Elder Fordham are a number of Haitian workers, with whom a daily class on evangelism is con- Atlantic Union College committee is to give careful study to ducted. operating it as a day academy. H. D. SINGLETON Board Elects New President This 12-grade school, now In its tenth The board of trustees of Atlantic Union year, is situated on the conference's camp College has elected Dr. Herbert E. Doug- grounds. W. P. BRADLEY Ekamai Students Conduct lass president of the college. Youth Campaign in Bangkok An AUC alumnus, Dr. Douglass suc- ceeds Robert L. Reynolds, who has ac- Former New York Treasurer As the result of a Voice of Youth series cepted the presidency of Walla Walla Appointed to Trans-Africa of meetings and the Week of Prayer at College. During the current school year the Ekamai Adventist School in Bangkok, Dr. Douglass has been the acting president Vincent A. Fenn has been appointed Thailand, 204 students made their deci- in the absence of Professor Reynolds, pres- treasurer and auditor of the Trans-Africa sion for Christ. This school is comprised ently on graduate study leave. Division. He succeeds R. M. Reinhard, of some 900 students, of whom only 10 The newly elected president previously who has joined the General Conference per cent are Adventists. Two of the non- served as chairman of the department of staff as one of the associate auditors. Seventh-day Adventist speakers decided religion, later as academic dean. Before Elder Fenn has previously worked as to become Christians. One was the presi- coming to AUC, he taught religion and treasurer of the East Pennsylvania and dent of the senior class. Of the 204 stu- theology at Pacific Union College. New York conferences and of the Middle dents, 113 were from the upper grades CHARLES B. HIRSCH East Division. At the time the action was and 91 from the lower grades. This is a taken appointing Elder Fenn to this re- great victory for God in this land of sponsibility, he was on his way back to Buddhism. Michigan Studies Over-all the mission field to serve as secretary-treas- The Voice of Youth services, under urer of the Central African Union of the the direction of John Harris, pastor and Academy Development Trans-Africa Division. teacher, were held during the Sabbath The size and progress of Michigan's A. E. GIBB school period each week, because the stu- academy-development program were dis- dents are not required to attend the cussed at the conference constituency church services. meeting February 25 at Battle Creek. The 3,000 Interested Persons After the Voice of Youth series, Gil J. Bertochini, MV secretary of the Far East- delegates considered how to meet the ed- Found at Haiti Crusade ucational needs of all conference youth. ern Division, conducted a Week of Prayer One phase of this program is to be the An estimated 5,000 were present on at the school. For the first time in the discontinuance of Grand Ledge Academy the first and second Sunday nights (Feb- history of the school, a testimony service as a boarding academy at the end of this ruary 4 and 11) of the evangelistic cru- was conducted on Friday evening, in school year. Meanwhile, the conference sade conducted in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, which the youth testified of their accept- ance of Jesus. So great was the response that again on Sabbath morning scores more publicly acknowledged Christ as their Saviour. COMMITTEE MEETS TO STUDY PROBLEMS OF YOUTH From every country of the world sim- ilar thrilling stories come to our world "I want to thank you and your commit- and in subcommittees, studying problems headquarters revealing the ever-increas- tee for making me a part of this wonderful of both spiritual and social significance. ing tempo of MV TARGET evangelism. meeting today. It was without doubt one We discussed the possibility of enlarging LAWRENCE NELSON of the most tremendous opportunities I've the present student missionary program, ever had.. . . of the introduction of an Adventist volun- "It hardly seems possible that you men teer service corps for service at home and Thousands Attend Meetings in the General Conference could be inter- abroad. We considered denominational ested in what we young people have to say. periodicals, church services, Sabbath school in Stockholm, Sweden You were not only interested, but you were lessons, and MV programs. We talked Between 7,000 and 8,000 people at- acting on our suggestions." about and planned for more involvement tended the opening services of a city- So wrote a young person from one of in needed work in the inner cities of North wide evangelistic campaign conducted by our colleges after attending the Youth America, of opening more channels of J. F. Coltheart in Stockholm, Sweden. Challenge Committee in the General Con- communication between youth and old- This is good news, for in Sweden it has ference office February 27. sters in an endeavor to bridge the "gen- been difficult to get people to listen to Seventh-day Adventist eration gap." The subject of witnessing the preaching of the gospel. Prospects youth today face knotty more effectively for Christ both on Sev- are bright for a good ingathering of problems; they are also enth-day Adventist and non-Adventist souls. Pastor Coltheart is the evangelist REPORr eager to be involved in campuses was explored. for the Northern European Division. TO THE the life of their church. We did not expect to solve all the prob- N. R. DOWER To explore ways and lems, and we did not solve all the prob- CHURCH means of increasing this lems. We did have free, frank, helpful involvement and to discussions, and the committee has pre- South American Bookmen search for answers to ex- pared a series of recommendations that Report $2.6 Million Sales isting problems, a study will be submitted to the General Confer- group was appointed by the General Con- ence officers for consideration. These will South American literature evangelists ference officers to meet at GC headquar- be given careful study, and we are hope- sold $2,617,703.61 worth of Christian lit- ters February 27. Included in the group ful that some new plans for youth involve- erature during 1967, according to P. S. were young men and women from our ment will emerge. We also hope that simi- Camacho, division publishing secretary. universities and colleges across North lar meetings of youth and youth leaders The previous year's sales were $2,533,- America, ministers, departmental leaders, may convene in the future so that we may 112.86. This advance in sales is a part of and administrators on several levels of plan more solidly for youth participation the $10 million goal for this quadrennium church administration. in the finishing of the work. in the South American Division. We spent the day in general discussion ROBERT H. PIERSON R. A. WILCOX 32 REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968