Adventist Review General Organ of the Seventh-day Adventist Church March 22, 1979

Christ forgives Page 3 The Friday hassle Page 11 The drive to amend the U.S. Constitution Page 13 Surgeons restore beauty of young Yugoslavian Page 15

Leo Ranzolin, General Conference associate youth director, met these children on their way to school in Roorkee, Uttar Pradesh, India. For the story of his visit with young people in the Southern Asia Division, see the article on page 16. THIS WEEK Adventist Review (ISSN 0161-1119)

Contents Dr. Gane's major field for his nicht's past writing experience 1111111® General Articles Pages 3-10 doctoral study at the University includes authoring the Prayers Columns of Nebraska was Renaissance- From the Parsonage section that For the Younger Set 10 Reformation. appears regularly in Ministry 129th Year of Continuous Publication Especially for Women 12 Readers will be interested in magazine. EDITOR Family Living 11 the unique first-person account The General Conference Kenneth H. Wood From the Editors 13 Ellen Kristin Thompson shares Women's Auxiliary recently ASSOCIATE EDITORS Newsfront 15-23 with us in her article "No raised $1,500 to help "Esther," Don F. Neufeld, Leo R. Van Dolson News Notes 22 Grumblers in My Home Zvjezdana Plesko, meet the ex- ASSISTANT EDITOR Back Page 24 Church" (p. 9). In the little penses of plastic surgery to take Jocelyn Fay Erwin R. Gane, author of the white church on the bank of the away terrible burn scars on her ASSISTANT TO THE EDITOR four-part series Christ and Sal- Bogna River she "became con- neck and part of her face. John Eugene F. Durand vation (part 1, p. 3), is professor vinced once and for all, that the Hancock, General Conference ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Corinne Russ of religion at Pacific Union Col- Lord still has a people who have Youth director, first met Esther lege, Angwin, California. His not bowed their knee to grum- four years ago in her parents' EDITORIAL ASSOCIATE Aileen Andres Sox previous service includes ten bling, faultfinding, greed, pride, home in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. years' teaching at an Adventist and all that self requires." Elder Hancock was instrumental EDITORIAL SECRETARIES Pat Alden, Chitra Barnabas high school and Avondale Col- Cherry Habenicht, author of in arranging for Esther's surgery, lege in Australia, and another ten this week's Family Living arti- which was done free of charge by ART Director, Byron Steele years teaching Bible at Union cle, "The Friday Hassle" (p. a plastic surgeon in Los Angeles. Designer, G. W. Busch College in Nebraska. He also 11), teaches French at Broad- You won't want to miss his ac- CONSULTING EDITORS served as pastor and evangelist in view Academy, La Fox, Illinois, count of this saga of international Neal C. Wilson, Charles E. Bradford, W. the North New South Wales having received the Alliance love (on p. 15 of this issue). Duncan Eva, W. J. Hackett, Richard Ham- mill, C. D. Henri, Alf Lohne, M. S. Nigri, G. Conference and as a pastor in the Francaise diplomas from the Art and photo credits: Pp. 4, Ralph Thompson, Francis W. Wernick Michigan Conference. His fa- French Adventist Seminary in 5, Paul Remmey; p. 7, Harry SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS ther, E. Roy Gane, was formerly Collonges, France. Her husband, Anderson; p. 9, Terry Crews; all C. 0. Franz, K. H. Emmerson, R. R. Figuhr, Robert H. Pierson, B. L. Archbold, W. T. the publishing department secre- Richard, is the academy pastor other photos, courtesy of the re- Clark, R. S. Lowry, Edwin Ludescher, M. L. tary of the Australasian Division. and Bible teacher. Mrs. Habe- spective authors. Mills, Enoch Oliveira, K. S. Parrnenter, W. R. L. Scragg, C. D. Watson EDITORS, NORTH AMERICAN UNION EDITIONS Columbia, Franklin W. Hudgins LETTERS Southwestern, George Schram EDITORS, SPANISH EDITIONS Inter-America and North America, Humberto Letters submitted for publication should once a week, and almost all other given to fallen, sinful human M. Rasi, Wanda Sample, Raul Villanueva contribute ideas and comments on articles or South America, Gaston Clouzet material printed in the ADVENTIST REVIEW. Adventist hams I know use it beings the high honor and privi- They should be brief, not exceeding 250 regularly. lege of being the ones to help EDITOR, PORTUGUESE EDITION words, and must carry the writer's name, R. S. Lessa address, and telephone number (although this This list helps us locate friends vindicate His character. We can number will not be printed). Letters must be who have become operators, become involved in helping His EDITORS, AFRO-MIDEAST EDITION legible, preferably typewritten, and double- Jack Mahon, Jean Thomas check net schedules, and arrange side. spaced. All will be edited to meet space and CORRESPONDENTS, literary requirements, but the author's mean- for messages to and from over- True, we have many trials ing will not be changed. Views expressed in WORLD DIVISIONS the letters do not necessarily represent those seas workers. During the past here, but the rewards and com- Afro-Mideast, Jack Mahon; Australasian, of the editors or of the denomination. Gordon A. Lee, Robert H. Parr; Euro-Africa, several years I have visited sev- pensations we will receive are E. E. White; Far Eastern, M. G. Townend; eral missions where there were utterly fantastic! First, God has Inter-American, Tulio R. Haylock; Northern "New" church paper Europe-West Africa, Paul Sundquist; South amateur operators, and in each given His only Son to the human American, Arthur S. Valle; Southern Asia, Please let me join other place I found the list being used. race throughout eternity to be A. M. Peterson; Trans-Africa, P. J. Salhany readers in telling you how much I JOHN B. TAYLOR one of us and belong to us in a CORRESPONDENTS, like the new format of the AD- Louisville, Kentucky way He does not belong to other NORTH AMERICA UNIONS: Atlantic, Geraldine I. Grout; Ca- VENTIST REVIEW. I particularly beings. Second, when the earth nadian, A. N. How; Central, Clara Ander- like the listing of the articles on Vindicating God is made new He and His throne son; Columbia, Franklin W. Hudgins; Lake, Jere Wallack; North Pacific, Morten Juberg; the cover. Although I read each Re "Dear Lord . . . I Desire will be here with us. Our world Northern, Halle Crowson; Pacific, Shirley issue from cover to cover, I usu- Thy Leash" (Feb. 8). will thus be greatly honored. We Burton; Southern, Oscar Heinrich; South- western, George Schram ally turn to these articles first— Some people have the idea that cannot imagine the many things they set the tone for the rest of it is unfair for our world to have He has prepared for the re- UNIVERSITIES: Andrews, Ray Minuet; Loma Linda, Richard Weismeyer my reading. I am neither a new had to endure sin and its results. deemed to enjoy throughout reader of the REVIEW nor a They wonder why God permitted eternity. CIRCULATION Manager, Edmund M. 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If the price kind of government so that in the may" over warnings against An index is published in the last Review of must go up, so be it. Just don't end God's character would be people "who advocate extreme June and December. The Adventist Review is let us miss our REVIEW! vindicated before the universe. positions on various matters." indexed in the Seventh-day Adventist Period- ical Index. CHERIE B. GRIFFIN This world became the "labo- I am most thankful that the Portland, Tennessee ratory" and "teacher." Adam editors of the REVIEW are un- The Adventist Review is published every Thursday. Copyright © 1979 Review and and Eve did not have to sin, but daunted by such criticism. Herald Publishing Association, 6856 Eastern Ham writes they did, thus involving the en- Through the years I have read the Avenue NW., Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 20012. U.S.A. Second-class postage I appreciate very much the tire human race. Even though editorials in each issue, and have paid at Washington, D.C. Subscriptions: one yearly listing of Adventist Ama- this was a tragedy, God has been grateful for their steadfast- year, US$15.95. Single copy, 45 cents. teur Radio Operators in the RE- found a way to bring great good ness and for their fidelity to the Vol. 156, No. 12. VIEW. I refer to my list at least from it for humanity. He has Continued on page 14 2 (290) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979

Christ and salvation-1 "I can never be baptized. I have committed too many serious sins. God can't forgive them all," a young man sadly told his friends after a baptismal class. Christ forgives Gently appealing to him, they responded, "Certainly God can forgive. What about the dying thief, Mary Magdalene, David, Moses, and myriads of others whom The Sinless One was made sin the Lord forgave and used in His service! And God will for the human race, that all who will, forgive you, too. He can forgive all of us!" no matter how vile their past, But the young man would not listen. Going away unconvinced, he was never baptized. His life outside of may have their sins forgiven. Christ was filled with sorrow and tragedy. A few years later it ended in an auto accident. Can a person be forgiven despite his past? Christ's death makes forgiveness possible. At the Last By ERWIN R. GANE Supper, as He presented the wine to His disciples as a symbol of His shed blood, Jesus said, "This is my blood, . . . which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins" (Matt. 26:28).* Before the cross, people were forgiven for sin, but that forgiveness was conditional upon the penalty for sin to be paid by the death of the Messiah. God forgave sin before Calvary as He does today. But that forgiveness would never have resulted in resurrection from the dead and the ultimate gift of eternal life for the one forgiven unless the penalty for sin had been borne by the Son of God. Paul makes that point clear. "If Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins. Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished" (1 Cor. 15:17, 18). Abraham fell asleep in Christ. His sins had been forgiven. Nevertheless, Abra- ham would never rise from the grave if Christ had not died for his sins and risen again. Christ endured the sentence The sentence of eternal death for sinners was com- muted to a temporary sleep, because Christ elected to endure the sentence for those who accepted Him. "He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed" (1 Peter 2:24). "The Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all" (Isa. 53:6). "For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God" (2 Cor. 5:21). In what sense was Jesus "made" sin for us? He was the Sinless One at every stage of His earthly existence (Luke 1:35; John 14:30; 1 Peter 2:22-23). Yet in some mysterious sense, which it is difficult for us to grasp, human guilt was laid upon Him, so that He "bore our sins in his body on the tree." As Jesus hung upon the cross, "the guilt of every descendant of Adam was pressing upon His heart. The wrath of God against sin, the terrible manifestation of His displeasure because of iniquity, filled the soul of His Son with consternation.

* Bible texts in this article are taken from the Revised Standard Version.

Erwin R. Gane, Ph.D., is professor of religion at Pacific The ancient sanctuary services illustrate Christ's work of forgiveness. Union College, Angwin, California. ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 (291) 3 . . . But now with the terrible weight of guilt He bears, the ancient tabernacle or Temple, so our High Priest He cannot see the Father's reconciling face."—The today presents in the heavenly court the merits of His Desire of Ages, p. 753. shed blood for the repentant sinner. In the light of this, how can anyone say that his sins If animal sacrifices and priestly mediation made for- are too many for God to forgive? Christ's sacrifice made giveness possible for the ancient Israelite, it was only forgiveness of sin a reality. His infinite suffering was because they pointed forward to the once-for-all sacrifice all-sufficient to atone for human wrongdoing in every of Christ and His mediation above. As the book of age. And whatever the intensity of a person's delin- Hebrews exclaims, "How much more shall the blood of quency, Jesus' blood avails for him. Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify your conscience from "Jesus paid it all, dead works to serve the living God" (chap. 9:14). All to Him I owe; Christ's blood applied in heavenly mediation completes Sin had left a crimson stain; the divine transaction whereby the sinner is forgiven; for He washed it white as snow." "he entered once for all into the Holy Place, taking not The ancient sanctuary services illustrate Christ's work of forgiveness. The Old Testament emphasizes that the high priest and his assistant priests were to bear the iniquity of the children of Israel who came to the sanc- tuary to offer their sin offerings (Ex. 28:38). The priests were to "bear the iniquity of the congregation, to make Disposal time atonement for them before the Lord" (Lev. 10:17). "The Lord said to Aaron, 'You and your sons and your By GIVEN A. BUDD father's house with you shall bear iniquity in connection A cleanup day at the church! Not just a sweep-out, with the sanctuary; and you and your sons with you shall mop-up, dust-thoroughly type of cleanup, but a day to bear iniquity in connection with your priesthood' clean out long-neglected closets and corners. Our pastor announced this need on a Sabbath morning, (Num. 18:1). and the next day a sizable group of us returned to Every ministering priest who thus, in type, bore sin for church to help with the task. the people represented the coming Messiah, whose How things accumulate! We found goal devices and poster illustrations put away to use again; book- function as sin-bearer was beautifully anticipated by lets containing timely advice, and pamphlets provid- Isaiah, "Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our ing pertinent information, tucked away for the time sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, being; a piece of paneling left over from a recent renovation, and a half gallon of paint left from the and afflicted" (Isa. 53:4). He was "numbered with the latest painting bee; even an old, worn carpet that had transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made been used to keep muddy feet from soiling the spot- intercession for the transgressors" (verse 12). less lobby. When they were put away, the items were thought There was a legal aspect to the forgiveness provided in to be of some possible value later. However, after the sanctuary services. The sinner's transgression was several years, the goal device and poster illustrations atoned for when, after he brought his animal sacrifice to had lost their value. The timely advice of the booklets was no longer timely, and the pertinent information in the sanctuary (later the Temple) and offered it in the the pamphlets had been replaced by newer materials. manner specified by God, the priest ministered the blood The time had come when all of the old things according to the Mosaic law. As described in Leviticus should be taken from their places and disposed of properly. In a short time we had changed the disorder 4, the guilty Israelite, with his own hand, shed the blood and clutter to orderliness and neat arrangement. of the animal he had brought. After this the priest either This cleanup would have been in order at any time, put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of burnt but our pastor, a person with forethought, had been thinking of the series of meetings soon to be held in offering and poured the rest at the base or sprinkled of the the church. I'm sure he must have thought of the blood before the Lord in the holy place. In those in- necessity of having the building clean and free of stances in which the blood was put on the horns of the anything that would cause our visitors to think of us as being untidy people. altar of burnt offering, the flesh of the animal was to be But the project went beyond that. It made us think eaten by the priests (Lev. 6:24-30). The performance of of our lives as a building in which we desire cleansing these acts provided "atonement" for the repentant sinner and readiness for a future event. We wondered, Is there an accumulation of old items that we need to so that his sin was forgiven (chap. 4:20, 26, 31, 35). discard? Are there things that need to be removed Just so, for Christians today, the death of the Saviour, from our lives because they are not an aid in helping which was foreshadowed by every animal sacrifice in the us to have characters that are acceptable to Christ, our heavenly Visitor? Have we considered and reorgan- ancient Israelite Temple, was essential in order for them ized our lives? And have we asked God to help us to be forgiven their sin. It was their sin that slew Him, clean our hearts and minds—our whole lives—so that and He was their sin offering. That one death was we are ready for that great meeting that is going to be held one day soon? enough. It never needs to be repeated, and no substitutes for it can ever be valid (Heb. 7:27; 9:28; 10:11-12). Furthermore, as the earthly priest ministered the blood in

4 (292) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22. 1979 the blood of goats and calves but his own blood, thus reclaiming from sin. It is the outflow of redeeming love securing an eternal redemption" (verse 12). that transforms the heart. David had the true conception This is why only Christ can forgive sin. Only Christ is of forgiveness when he prayed, 'Create in me a clean our Mediator (1 Tim. 2:5, cf. Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24) and heart, 0 God; and renew a right spirit within me.' Ps. heavenly Advocate (1 John 2:1), because only He pro- 51:10. And again he says, 'As far as the east is from the vided the sacrifice. Christ earned on Calvary the right to west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us' forgive sin. No human priest has that right, because no Ps. 103:12."—Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, p. human priest could ever bear the sins of the human race 114. in his own body on the tree. Forgiveness is deliverance from the thralldom of evil. Forgiveness is transformation It is redemption of the sinner who in God's mercy is transferred to the kingdom of Christ. It is important to realize that the forgiveness provided In Scripture, forgiveness and justification are closely in the ancient sanctuary services involved cleansing of related. Consider, for example, Acts 13:38-39, which the soul from sin. Forgiveness in the Old Testament, as states that through Christ "forgiveness of sins" is pro- in the New, involved restoration of the penitent to claimed, so that through Him all who believe are jus- covenant union with God and, thereby, an inner spiritual tified. renewal by which the soul became a partaker of the Ellen White says, "Pardon and justification are one divine nature. Atonement that made forgiveness a reality and the same thing."—The SDA Bible Commentary, (Leviticus 4) provided spiritual cleansing for the peni- Ellen G. White Comments, on Rom. 5:1, p. 1070. She tent. continues, "Justification is a full, complete pardon of The book of Hebrews underlines the fact that the sin. The moment a sinner accepts Christ by faith, that application of blood in the sanctuary provided spiritual moment he is pardoned. The righteousness of Christ is purification for the worshiper (Heb. 9:12-14, 18-24). imputed to him, and he is no more to doubt God's This was not because animal blood could cleanse any- forgiving grace."—Ibid., p. 1071. one, but because of the worshiper's faith in the Messiah who was typified by the animal. Repentance a prerequisite to forgiveness So the believer today may "enter the sanctuary by the In order to be forgiven, we must be willing to accept blood of Jesus" (chap. 10:19) and have his heart Christ's gift of repentance. Repentance is sorrow for the "sprinkled clean from an evil conscience" (verse 22). past and turning away from it. Such attitudes can be ours John declares, "the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us only as we choose to allow Christ to bestow them upon from all sin" (1 John 1:7). The cleansing is a vital aspect us (Acts 5:31; Rom. 2:4; 2 Tim. 2:25). Then He is able of God's forgiving act. This is why 1 John 1:9 indicates to forgive us by wiping out our past sin and empowering that when we confess, Christ "will forgive our sins and us to serve Him. Forgiveness is always associated with cleanse us from all unrighteousness." The forgiveness genuine repentance (see Isa. 55:7; Mark 1:4; Luke involves cleansing. 24:47). Throughout Scripture this broad concept of forgive- Second, we must be willing to forgive others who have ness as both expiation of (atoning for) past sin and heart wronged us (Matt. 6:12, 14-15; 18:21-35). Jesus cannot cleansing of the penitent is featured prominently. In forgive our sins if we cherish a bitter, unforgiving spirit some instances forgiveness is illustrated by the wiping toward others (see Thoughts From the Mount of Bless- out of a debt incurred (Matt. 18:27; Luke 7:42). In other ing, pp. 113-116). instances forgiveness is represented as the purging of a Third, we must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. The soul from impurity. When Isaiah caught a vision of the first and second points are dependent upon this one. We Lord upon His throne, he cried out in agony of spirit, can repent and forgive others only as "we know and " 'Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean believe the love God has for us" in communion, fellow- lips' " (Isa. 6:5). An angel touched his lips with a ship, and total union with Christ (1 John 4:16). burning coal from the altar and declared, " 'Behold, this Believing in Him is much more than mere mental has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away, and your assent to the historical facts of Christianity. It is total sin forgiven' " (verse 7). Certainly forgiveness for Isaiah surrender to the life style He stipulates for us. It is meant cleansing of heart from sin. "The live coal is entering into a close spiritual union with Jesus, so that symbolical of purification, and it also represents the His way of life becomes ours. Belief is allowing Jesus to potency of the efforts of God's true servants."—Gospel live out His life through us. That is why belief makes Workers, p. 23. forgiveness a vital experience for the Christian. He When David pleaded for forgiveness, he was seeking knows that his past sins are forgiven, and he knows that a transformation of heart so that God's verdict of condem- new power has come into his life. That power is Christ. nation could be replaced by a verdict of approval (Psalm "To him all the prophets bear witness that every one who 51). Ellen White comments: "God's forgiveness is not believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his merely a judicial act by which He sets us free from name" (Acts 10:43). ❑ condemnation. It is not only forgiveness for sin, but To be continued

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Another in the series Wonderful Jesus said: "I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also" (John 14:3). On the day of His ascension, the promise from the lips Wonderful of their Master was confirmed by the heavenly messen- gers who appeared to them while they were still recov- ering from the dazed shock occasioned by His departure: Deliverer "This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him The good news of Christ's go into heaven" (Acts 1:11). second coming to deliver The good news of Christ's second coming is the His people is the dominant dominant note of the New Testament. Jesus Himself had a great deal to say about this, the greatest event of human note of the New Testament. history. In Matthew 24:30 and 31, He gives us a graphic word picture of what His coming will be like: "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." (See also Matt. 25:31.) Other New Testament writers repeat the glad refrain By G. E. GARNE "Jesus is coming again." The apostle Paul refers to it as "that blessed hope . . . the glorious appearing of the "His name shall be called Wonderful" (Isa. 9:6). great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13). It was a tense moment in the history of the world when The apostle Peter assures us that "the day of the Lord during World War II the American Army was forced to will come" (2 Peter 3:10), notwithstanding the incredu- evacuate from the Philippines in the face of the Japanese lity of scoffers who cynically ask, "Where is the promise onslaught. When the islands fell to the invaders, thou- of his coming?" (verse 4). The beloved apostle John sands of American soldiers were left behind as prisoners closes the book of Revelation with an assurance and a of war. Sensing how desperate these men would feel in prayer: "He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I the hands of their captors, General MacArthur sent back come quickly. Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus" a flight squadron to leave them a message that would (chap. 22:20). kindle a flame of hope in their troubled hearts. Instead of The manner of His coming dropping bombs, the planes released hundreds of thou- sands of pamphlets bearing the simple announcement: "I Now let us look closely at the words of Jesus and other shall return—General MacArthur." Two years later he witnesses, and see exactly what they tell us about did return, in fulfillment of his promise. On the glad day Christ's second coming. It is clear from what we have of his arrival, many an emaciated soldier testified that it read that His coming will be (1) literal; (2) physical; (3) was that message of hope that had kept him going and personal; (4) visible; (5) audible; (6) exceedingly glori- had enabled him to endure the rigors of hunger and ous; (7) unmistakably real; and (8) climactic, that is, privation in the crude Japanese concentration camps. history-culminating. They confessed that whenever they had felt like giving There is nothing in these passages that in any way up the struggle and yielding to despair, a crumpled little suggests that Christ or the apostles intended their words piece of paper and the unfailing words of assurance, "I to be understood symbolically, or figuratively, or as shall return—General MacArthur," had given them fresh implying that His coming would be "spiritual" and determination to persevere. ethereal. When General MacArthur sent back a message Almost 2,000 years ago, our Saviour was bidding His to his men behind barbed-wire fences, he meant literally small band of followers farewell. He had been sent to this that he would return personally, victoriously, to set them dark, sin-cursed world to accomplish a special mission. free! They understood his words to mean just that. They Now He was about to return to His Father. This meant did not try to interpret his message as meaning some- leaving His disciples behind to endure persecution, suf- thing else. They accepted his promise at face value. fering, and the other privations that would be their lot in When Jesus says, "I will come again," He expects us to the enemy's prison house. They needed a message of treat His promise in precisely the same way. Why accept hope, and Jesus did not disappoint them. This is what He literally the promise of a fellow human, yet "spiritual- ize" the promise of our Master? He said He would come G. E. Game is editor of the Sentinel Publishing Associ- "with power and great glory." He said that "all the ation, Kenilworth, Cape Town, South Africa. tribes of the earth" would see "the Son of man coming 6 (294) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979

in the clouds of heaven," and would mourn. He said He sometimes hear people talking about a "secret rapture," would "send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet" and in support of the idea we hear texts such as Matthew and that they would "gather together his elect." The 24:40 and 41 used. But let us see exactly what Jesus is heavenly messengers who confirmed His promise at the saying in these verses: "Then shall two be in the field; ascension declared that "this same Jesus" would "so the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women come in like manner as ye have seen him go into shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and heaven." This is Christ's pledge, ratified by Heaven. Let the other left." us take it at face value! Like every other, these texts must be read and under- The next fact we need to notice is that when Jesus stood in their context. Jesus had just finished saying in comes the second time, it will not be to walk, work, and verses 30 and 31 that His coming will be so visible, live among men as He did when He came the first time! audible, and terrifyingly glorious that all the tribes of the He is coming to "gather together his elect" (Matt. earth "shall . . mourn, and they shall see the Son of 24:31). He said He would come again to receive us unto man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and Himself (John 14:1-3). In other words, He is coming as a great glory." His angels sent forth with "a great sound conqueror, as a deliverer, to emancipate His people from of a trumpet" will gather together His elect. Does this the prison camp of sin where so long they have been held sound like a "secret rapture"? as prisoners of war in enemy-occupied territory. He next proceeds to state that no one, not even the It is important that this fact should be clearly under- angels, knows when this great and dreadful event will stood, because Jesus warned us that before He comes, take place. The time is known to God alone (verse 36). impersonators will arise who will claim to be Christ and He then compares His coming to the days of Noah will deceive many. Notice His words: "Take heed that (verses 37-39), with particular reference to the fact that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, the people in Noah's day were so preoccupied with saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many" (Matt. material things that they failed to heed the warning. It is 24:4, 5). in this context that He warns in verses 40 and 41 that He then goes on to tell us how we can be sure that "one shall be taken, and the other left." these impersonators are indeed not Christ, as they claim We mentioned earlier that the second coming of Christ to be: "For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and will be a climactic event. It will, in fact, be the climax of shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming off human history, the culmination thereof as we now know the Son of man be" (verse 27). The brightness and it. It is the point in human affairs where man steps aside majesty of His appearing as He descends from heaven and God takes over. with all His holy angels will be indescribably glorious. Contrary, then, to what many teach and are taught, the There is nothing "secret" about this dramatic event. We second coming of Christ leaves the earth in shambles.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 (2951 7 "Every mountain and island" have been "moved out of In the third chapter of the Bible (Genesis 3) we find the their places" (Rev. 6:14). Before the destruction falls, story of the intrusion of sin. In the third-to-the-last the angels gather together Christ's elect and take them up chapter of the Bible (Revelation 20), we find the story of to meet the Lord in the air. The group of delivered ones the destruction of sin. In Genesis 1 and 2, the Bible includes both those who are alive to see Jesus come and begins with a perfect Creation. In Revelation 21 and 22 those who are now raised to life: "For the Lord himself the Bible ends with a perfect creation. Everything in the shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of Bible in between is the story of the struggle that has the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead raged between good and evil from the time sin entered in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and the world to the time sin is eradicated. This is what the remain shall be caught up together with them in the Bible is all about! It is the story of Satan's efforts to clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever destroy, and of God's efforts to save, and of God's be with the Lord" (1 Thess. 4:16, 17). ultimate triumph over the forces of evil. You may be wondering right now how Jesus is going The millennium to be able to find you on that day when He comes to The delivered ones spend the next thousand years with deliver His own. After all, you say, I am merely one out Christ (Rev. 20:4, 6). During this thousand years the of approximately four billion people on the face of the earth is in a state of desolation. The wicked have been earth! Can God be mindful of me, just a little "speck" in slain at Christ's coming (chap. 6:15-17; 19:21). At the the vast mass of humanity? Let me share with you one of close of the thousand-year period, the wicked are raised the most precious promises in all of the Bible: "For the to life; the Holy City descends from God out of heaven, eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole and Satan incites his followers to besiege and conquer it earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose (chap. 20:5, 7-9). At this dramatic instant, when the heart is perfect toward him" (2 Chron. 16:9). wicked are marshaled against the people of God, fire He knows where His people are! It matters not comes down from God out of heaven and destroys the whether, when that day comes, you are incarcerated in a enemies of truth and righteousness (verses 9, 10). This is dungeon, living in exile in a jungle or on a solitary the end of the great controversy between Christ and island, suffering on a hospital bed, or engaged in your Satan, which has raged on our sad old planet for ap- daily task. It matters not whether, when that day comes, proximately 6,000 years. After the first of God's judg- you have died and your grave is in the bowels of the earth ments have purged the earth of every trace of defilement, or in the depths of the sea. He will know just where to God makes all things new and restores the earth to its find you, and will send His angel to gather you to original Edenic perfection (2 Peter 3:7, 10-13; Rev. Himself . 21:1-5). Wonderful Jesus! Wonderful Deliverer! El

God is at the controls By JOHN W. FOWLER The quiet, reassuring voice of the DC-3 whispered is well we are kidding ourselves." Another strong voice softly as the sleek, strong airplane carried me toward my cries, "I look for the church to split wide open!" destination. Secure in the bosom of that giant bird, I was Is the church falling apart? Is it moving toward disas- soon fast asleep. Suddenly the plane seemed to be falling ter? Just as happened in the airplane, anxiety grips my away beneath me, dropping like a bolt from the sky, and heart in the presence of such worrisome expressions of rocking this way and that. I was sure that it was spinning concern. My thoughts are driven farther and farther from wildly out of control. Daggers of fear stabbed at my the promise of peace. Nothing seems to be stable—ev- heart. My thoughts raced madly before the prospects of erything is shifting, changing, tumbling. Struggling certain disaster. Struggling savagely, I grasped for the desperately to free my mind from this dreadful bondage, seat ahead of me. I reach out, grasping, hoping, praying. . . . Instantly, a "Sir! Can I help you?" The stewardess' voice, calm, voice, strong and reassuring, arrests my frenzied yet strong, reached into my tumbling dream world jerk- thoughts. I listen: "The church may appear as about to ing me back to reality. As consciousness oozed back into fall, but it does not fall. It remains, while the sinners in my being it brought me joyous relief to realize that the Zion will be sifted out."—Selected Messages, book 2, plane was flying serenely through the skies—that all was p. 380. well. Another voice adds, "I will build my church; and the As I settled comfortably in my seat again, my thoughts gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). turned to the remnant church. Today many things being "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for said about the church fill my heart with anxiety and I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help concern. A member remarks, "When I joined the church thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my it seemed to be strong and sure; but now I don't know." righteousness" (Isa. 41:10). Another adds, "I'm not at all certain about our system of Quietly, but surely, the promises drive out the doubt- organization." Others claim, "The church is being sa- ing spirit and dispel the tormenting fear. Faith lifts the botaged from within by our system of higher educa- crushing burden, and a perfect calm settles over my tion." A voice is heard grumbling, "If we think that all soul.

8 (296) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 words were few and her response simple. She said that the greater church, to which our smaller church be- longed, was soundly rooted. Doubt never entered my mind, and it certainly never entered hers, as to whether our brothers and sisters in positions of higher trust could be any less genuine than Svanhild herself. Blessed little church by the Bogna River. It was there that I became convinced once and for all, that the Lord still has a 'people who have not bowed their knee to grumbling, faultfinding, greed, pride, and all that self requires. The benches in that church were painted a pale-gray. We sat on them for some length of time each Sabbath morning, discussing the Sabbath school lesson and tak- ing turns reading the texts, the questions, and the com- ments. The two Johannas, Dora, and Svanhild paused to marvel at the greatness of the Lord, savored every passage that told of His soon return, and sighed at the thought of obstinate people who refused to obey the Word. They reverently studied their Bibles together, guided by the lesson prayerfully prepared by a fellow believer far away. I heard no complaining, no expressing No grumblers in of dissatisfaction, no mocking. What they did not un- derstand, they accepted by faith, and the sacred Bible truths never seemed repetitious. When Sabbath school my home church was over, we knew that there was a "balm in Gilead." When I was a teen-ager, I became a Sabbath-keeping Christian, joining the four other Sabbathkeeping mem- Through two Johannas, one Dora, bers in their worship. My parents lived across the river and one precious Svanhild in from the little white church edifice. During the years I my home church, my beginnings lived at home I eagerly walked along the Bogna River each Sabbath morning. I crossed the bridge and took a in the Christian life short cut, skipping from stone to stone alongside the were uniquely blessed. gurgling waters, before climbing the steep bank to the little Adventist church. The neighbors who occasionally peered out from be- hind lace curtains did not seem to think that meeting with four elderly women every Saturday morning, rain or By ELLEN KRISTIN THOMPSON shine, was a likely choice for a young girl. But what did others know of the fellowship provided in a humble There were no grumblers in my home church. Other church home surrounded by wafting summer grasses? It than myself, there were two Johannas, one Dora, and one was "grace upon grace" (John 1:16*). Would that there precious Svanhild. We met in a little white building on a were more such Sabbaths! bluff overlooking the Bogna River. Through the two Johannas, Dora, and Svanhild my Now, many years and many churches later, whenever beginnings in the Christian life were uniquely blessed. It I meet the grumblers, the complainers, the judgmental, is a rare privilege for a new convert such as I was to the opinionated, the brassy, and the abrasive, my mind become part of a living church where every single goes back to the quiet picture of that happy little group. member seemed to enjoy her salvation to the full. Later, When I am tempted to wonder how people who can when I went away to boarding school, and could be home barely agree on nonessentials will ever agree on putting only for the holidays, I eagerly looked forward to re- self aside sufficiently to win souls, my inner ears hear turning to my home church. "Not many of you were once again the glorious prayers of adoration and thanks- wise according to worldly standards, not many were giving that ascended heavenward from the lips of the four powerful, not many were of noble birth" (1 Cor. 1:26) women—the two Johannas, Dora, and Svanhild. indeed, but the welcome they gave me was royal. When I handed Svanhild my first tithe envelope her Though they were well advanced in years and knew their share of hardships, the four members did not Ellen Kristin Thompson lives in Botley, Hampshire, England. * All Bible texts in this article are from the Revised Standard Version. ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 (297) 9 grumble or complain. It was far from their way of the true and sincere life they were praying me into. The thinking to allow physical limitations and personal dis- nearest minister was 120 miles away, but they recog- appointments to become their "present truth." nized the size of his district, and uncomplainingly rested When I came home on holidays they would urge me to in the fact that the Lord held the whole world in sit at the little table in the aisle after the lesson study so His hands. Besides, we had the highly prized services of we could have what they termed "an after meeting." visiting lay preachers. There I sat, with the Johannas on the pale-gray bench to Though we were ardent Adventists, we knew little of my right, with Dora and Svanhild on the pale-gray bench the "Adventist world." It was not until a couple of years to my left, and with the big, black, well-polished wood later that Adventist institutions came into focus for me. stove facing me. I shared thoughts with them that I had But in my first little home church I became anchored to remembered from what the great preachers at the school something infinitely worthwhile. It was there, with the had presented. I summarized for them the main thoughts Bible before me, facing the wood stove and the earnest I had gleaned from the Weeks of Prayer when church gaze of the four women members, that I became firmly leaders from abroad visited the school. They were eager anchored to Him who "had no form or comeliness that to gather all the fragments. As I shared with them texts I we should look at him, and no beauty that we should had found in my personal Bible reading, they nodded in desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man happy agreement and told me how, years before, the of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from Lord had given them that text, too, and how good it still whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we was. esteemed him not" (Isa. 53:2, 3). "Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is Just two Johannas, one Dora, and one precious Svan- just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely" (Phil. 4:8) we hild other than myself in my home church gathering discussed. In summer, the breeze expanded the curtains; around the Word without a grumble. They will be at in winter, the snow fell quietly by closed windows. home by the river of life, savoring the goodness of God Through the changing seasons I was challenged to live and praising His name as always. ❑

FOR THE YOUNGER SET

Happiness is . By NETTIE EDEN Tracy was unusually ex- "Now, Tracy," Father cited as she dressed in her instructed, "you may push white nurse's uniform with your wheelchair patients the red cross appliquéd on into the parlor and seat them the pocket. Because she where each has a good lived next door to her fa- view. We will sing several ther's convalescent hospital, songs before beginning the almost every day she was main program." using it. Many of the songs "My story is about Jonah able to help do whatever an "I know," said Tracy. "I selected were children's and the whale," she began. 8-year-old could for the am to push only those who songs she had learned at Each of the patients leaned grandmas and grandpas in aren't too heavy for me and Sabbath school. So she forward to try to catch every the hospital. She loved to leave the other ones for the helped them sing. word and to watch as she visit them. They looked nurses." She skipped mer- Then a voice boomed placed the characters on the forward to seeing her, since rily down the hall, pausing over the public address sys- board. Before she realized it she was the only child some at each door until she found tem, "Tracy will now tell a she had finished the story. of them were able to see. a room where there was story and illustrate it on the All the patients were smil- Today was special be- someone she could help. flannel board." Tracy's ing when they thanked her. cause the nurses were giving As they assembled in the heart pounded. She swal- That night, when Tracy a party for the patients. parlor one woman played lowed hard. Would she put knelt to pray, she remem- Tracy had been asked to tell the piano as the others each cutout in the right bered to thank Jesus for a story, so her father set up a tremulously sang. Tracy place? Would she remember helping her tell the story and flannel board and placed the was blessed with a clear, to speak loudly and clearly? for bringing happiness to all cutouts she would use sweet singing voice, and She sent up a silent prayer the grandmas and within easy reach. she thoroughly enjoyed for Jesus to help her. grandpas.

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FAMILY LIVING the Sabbath is the only day during the week when we entertain), and plans for something special for Friday night supper. The Friday hassle When I was a student I would arrive home from my last class on Friday afternoon somewhat overwhelmed by the thought that I would have to drag through my part of With realistic expectations the weekly cleaning and then muster enough energy to and advanced planning the attend vespers. Then, when I was a young wife I set preparation day need not be impossible standards for myself. Though working full time, I wanted to have a spotless house, Sabbath dinner dreaded. in the refrigerator, and fruit soup simmering on the stove—all in time for my husband and me to welcome the Sabbath. Finally, when I became a new mother, I simply gave up. It was impossible to continue my former habits and ever be ready. I could not plan beyond more than the next feeding and could expect almost any emergency. Forced to rethink my household tasks and to establish new priorities, I prayed for answers. What was more By CHERRY B. HABENICHT important to God—a dust-free house or a guilt-free heart? I asked questions of others, observed their homes, "Come on over—if you don't mind the Friday and read all I could find. These are my conclusions: hassle," Ray responded cheerfully when I telephoned to First, Sabbath should be a special day, but it need not let her know I was in town for the weekend and that I had require elaborate preparation. Why not see how simple hoped to see her. the traditional noon meal can be? We are told to "Pro- Being aware of my own frustration as I tried to prepare vide something that will be regarded as a treat, some- for Sabbath without neglecting my 15-month-old daugh- thing the family do not have every day."—Testimonies, ter, I purposefully avoided visiting Ray until late after- vol. 6, p. 357. We are, however, urged not to prepare "a noon. I found her turning the house upside down to look more liberal supply or a greater variety of food than for for a pocket-sized New Testament the little boy she other days."—Ibid. In the winter why not try a stew and baby-sits had somehow misplaced. a tossed salad served with cold milk and oatmeal cookies After Teddy's precious Bible had been found and he for dessert? A summer picnic menu might include baked and his father had left, Ray and I exchanged knowing beans, cottage cheese, whole-wheat bread, and crisp looks. relishes. We might suggest to friends that they share with "Friday is a bad day for visitors," I said. "I'm glad you wanted me to stop by." Ray sighed. "Did you ever wish Jesus would come on a Friday so you could skip all the cleaning and extra Sing, choirs of heaven cooking for that week?" she asked unexpectedly. I had to admit that I had never considered the Second By HERMAN T. ROBERTS Coming from that angle, but I certainly dreaded the strain Sing, choirs of angels, in a joyful clime most Fridays put on me. Clearly, Ray had attempted too Of harmony. Let thine angelic lays much that particular day. With both of us tackling Swell in a rapturous melody sublime necessary jobs while our three children played, we man- And charm the Exalted Ones with choral praise. aged to finish just before sundown. I kept thinking about the whole idea of Friday, the preparation day. How many Trailing through yon celestial bower, thy train Sweeps through the sacred courts, nor silent goes, times I had prayed on Friday morning, "Lord, help me to But echoes back in what divine refrain be ready for Your Sabbath," yet somehow had not been The joy that from their templed heights o'erflows. able to accomplish everything I had planned before the sun set that evening. What sweet angelic choruses my soul Why is it that we so often plan more for Friday than Shares with the seraphim on Zion's hill! With what sweet rapture through the heavens roll we do for other days? Of course, it is a natural time The paeons of pure delight—roll and are still, for tying up all the loose ends of the week, but to the necessary tasks of any given day we add a thorough Soft fading in the clear celestial night. housecleaning, preparation for Sabbath dinner (perhaps Hushed harmony, what sacred peace inspires! Now all is silent as the jeweled light Cherry B. Habenicht is an instructor in French and Tapers the heavenly room with myriad fires. English at Broadview Academy, La Fox, Illinois.

ADVENTIST REVIEW MARCH 22, 1979 (299) 11 us in hosting a meal for visitors or plan a mini-potluck "Make Friday the Preparation Day." Interestingly, the with a few families. opening statement is, "On Friday let the preparation for Second, being ready does not mean that everything is the Sabbath be completed."—Child Guidance, p. 528. perfect. "Before the setting of the sun, let all secular In families where each member is able to help, the work be laid aside, and all secular papers be put out of necessary work may be divided so that much can be sight. "—Child Guidance, p. 528. We may be aware that accomplished on Friday without undue stress. Others there are dirty clothes in the hamper, but we don't have may have to begin on Thursday, leaving only last-minute to think about them. Our teen-ager may have his car details and meal preparation for Friday. Still others, engine torn down, the greasy parts spread out on news- particularly families with toddlers, may find that Sabbath papers, but he can leave them, stay out of the garage preparation begins at sundown Saturday night and needs during the Sabbath, and refuse to be reminded of an to continue throughout the week with only a general pick unfinished project. Some families set Thursday night as up and surface cleaning on Friday. the cutoff point for laying aside long-range work to avoid Finally, the emphasis of our preparation is to enhance the temptation to finish up on Friday. Attempting too spiritual communion. If Dad has worked so hard washing much only leads to the defeated feeling that once again the car, mowing the lawn, and burning the trash that he we have lost the race with the clock. has no time to plan a meaningful sundown worship, what Living up to someone else's ideas brings frustration. is the benefit? Can an exhausted mother receive a bless- Who cares if husband's mother always served fresh bread ing when she must be up early Sabbath to set the table, on Friday night? Buy a loaf or warm up one from the check on dinner, and see that all the children are ready? freezer. Why do our kitchen floors need to be waxed? We Is Sabbath just like another school day for the children, can wipe up the spots and take time to pick a bouquet of with the morning rush now directed toward hurrying flowers with one of the children. Maybe our best friend them off to church? does get her windows washed. We can polish off the Friday need not be dreaded. It does not have to be a fingermarks and use candlelight to welcome the holy day of superhuman effort before collapse. With realistic hours. expectations and advance planning, it can provide time to In the chapter "Sabbath—the Day of Delight" in put the finishing touches on our week-long preparation Child Guidance, the editors have labeled a section for God's holy day. ❑

ESPECIALLY FOR WOMEN By BETTY HOLBROOK vorce. He knows only that heaven yet! Divorces still he feels a loss, an insecu- occur, and children are the rity. And how can he be innocent casualties. sure that the other parent What then? Just a few won't leave too? ideas that might be helpful: Findings worth thinking 1. Allow the child to talk about have come from a about it, giving him or her study on the postdivorce as much reassurance as pos- The aftermath-2 trauma of children: sible. Divorce again. Last was security in that. I 1. Divorce frequently 2. Help the parents to be month we talked about the needed my mother, but I takes children by surprise. supportive of each other (in unexpected problems hus- also desperately needed my Many of them have known spite of personal feelings) band and wife face in a di- father." of no open conflict and, if and to reach acceptable vorce—problems that usu- Minutes later Trudy asked, would have rated agreements concerning the ally don't surface until added: "Strange. After all their homes as happy. children. afterward. But perhaps the children were gone from 2. Children usually 3. Make visitation rights more tragic yet is what hap- home, Dad and Mother reacted by being "upset, as pleasant as possible—not pens to the children who are seemed to make peace. worried, confused." Only a a time for hostility. affected by the hostilities Years later, when I went small percentage of children 4. Help the child not to and angers of divorce, and home on a visit, I saw the from unhappy homes ex- feel responsible for what has suffer the loss of one of the most beautiful sight in all pressed relief that it was happened. (Many children two most important people the world—Dad putting his settled. assume they are in some in their lives. arm around Mother." 3. The entire group stud- way to blame for the di- "I shudder when I even Divorce for a child is a ied felt less secure and less vorce.) think about it." Trudy haunting loneliness. The happy than before the di- 5.. Soften the blow of the seemed to be reliving the parent does exist and yet is vorce. feeling of worthlessness and past. She spoke quietly but not there. Studies tell us that 4. Almost half felt they abandonment that the child thoughtfully. "Our home no matter how frequently a had been "used" by one or may feel. was never really happy. I child sees the absent parent, both parents. The aftermath? It's nei- can't remember as a child it is not enough. Very young 5. Most children, after ther easy nor attractive, and ever seeing Mother and Dad children tend to grieve divorce, were drawn closer sometimes it can even be express affection for each openly for that parent; older to their mothers and felt less avoided. But when it can't, other, but often I heard them children more often express close to their fathers.* spare the child. He too must argue angrily. And yet their grief through anger. The solution to all of this, face life. somehow I knew that Dad It's almost impossible for of course, would be no di- Marriage and Divorce Today, ATCOM, would never leave. There a child to reason about di- vorce, but we're not in Inc., Sept. 25, 1978.

12 (300) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 FROM THE EDITORS the campaign, thus giving it added impetus. The National Taxpayers' Union, a Washington-based lobby, is coor- dinating the drive. We have no way of knowing whether 34 States will ask Congress to call a Constitutional convention. We think it highly unlikely that they will—but highly un- likely events take place rather regularly in these unpre- The drive to amend dictable times. (For example, who would have predicted the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, the reestablishment of full diplomatic relations between the United States and the U.S. Constitution the People's Republic of China, border fighting between For the second time in 12 years special-interest groups Vietnam and China, and that there would be three popes and politicians in the United States are calling for a in a six-week period?) Of course, even if two thirds of convention to reconsider various aspects of the nation's the States were to call for a convention, Congress would Constitution. Twelve years ago 32 States, only two short not automatically call one. It might resort to a number of of the 34 needed, passed resolutions demanding a Con- legitimate emergency devices to avoid doing so, fearing stitutional convention. (Thirty-four is the magic number that the conclave might alter the Constitution so radically because the nation's founding fathers set up a provision as to make it unrecognizable. Said one senior House that if the legislatures of two thirds of the States ex- Republican: "Everybody here is afraid of the rogue pressed a desire for a Constitutional convention, Con- elephant idea of a convention. So we would give them gress would be authorized to call such a meeting.) something, a balanced budget next year or maybe even a In the current drive, 28 States had lined up behind the proposed amendment, before we would let the States get movement by late last month, and two more seemed into the amending business." likely to do so immediately. Polls indicate that more than At present the forces opposing the convention are two thirds of the American people favor the issue that has mounting a counterattack. The chairman of a House task been the rallying point for calling a convention, namely, force established by Speaker "Tip" O'Neill to study the to pass an amendment requiring the Federal Government issue has written to all State governors, warning them to operate on a balanced budget. Advocates of a balanced that Federal aid to State and local governments would be budget hold that the only way to force the Government to a sure victim of a balanced-budget austerity wave. And hold down spending is to add an amendment to the U.S. Senator Edmund Muskie, chairman of the Senate Budget Constitution requiring this. Committee, delivered a blistering but well-reasoned Twelve years ago the campaign for a Constitutional speech before the National Press Club, attacking the convention failed because the general populace saw that proposal to call a convention, portraying it as an invita- there are terrible dangers in opening the basic structure of tion to disaster, and describing a balanced-budget re- our Government and the charter of our liberties to the quirement as an economic straitjacket. unpredictable whims of delegates. The Washington Post published an editorial entitled "Assault on the Constitu- Relation to prophecy tion," and described the proposal to assemble a Consti- As Adventists, we are not particularly concerned with tutional convention as "a sneak attack which, if suc- the legal or political aspects of the current drive for a cessful, would expose the whole Constitution to peril." Constitutional convention. But we are deeply concerned The editorial concluded by saying, "Every State legisla- about the possible relation of this event to Bible proph- ture that has not been sucked into this dangerous venture ecy. For years, determined groups have endeavored to should be alerted to what is happening. It is difficult to breach the wall that separates church and state in Amer- believe that well-informed legislators will risk such haz- ica. They have endeavored to obtain the help of Gov- ards to our Constitutional underpinnings if they know ernment in enforcing Sunday laws, and they have tried what they are doing. This back-door assault on the repeatedly to find a way to get the Government to fund Constitution should be stopped. "—March 21, 1967. church institutions. Always the United States Constitu- tion has been the major obstacle blocking their way. Drive started four years ago Some success has been achieved by circumventing Con- The current drive started about four years ago. At first stitutional prohibitions, but never has a frontal assault it moved slowly. But when California passed Proposition against a Constitutional provision been successful. 13 by a thumping majority last year, politicians and Perhaps we are now entering a new era. Perhaps we others recognized that there was strong grass-roots sup- are entering a time when zealous people, with little sense port for any proposal that would put the brakes on of history and slight regard for the principles that have Government spending. At once the campaign for a Con- contributed to America's greatness, will seek to emas- stitutional convention to consider an amendment calling culate or destroy the Constitution in order to achieve their for a balanced budget picked up steam. Early this year objectives. Perhaps the time is near when "our country California's Governor Brown threw his support behind shall repudiate every principle of its Constitution as a ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 (301) 13 Protestant and republican government."—Testimonies, our best interest in mind. In doing so, we violate both the vol. 5, p. 451. If so, many of the prophecies set forth in law of the Sabbath and the natural law that stipulates that broad outline in the book of Revelation and expanded we human beings need a Sabbath rest to ensure good upon in The Great Controversy are on the verge of physical and mental health, as well as proper spiritual fulfillment. development. As the apostle Peter looked to the future, when the Lest this last statement be misconstrued as legalism, earth would be destroyed by fire, he exclaimed, "What we hasten to add that every one of God's natural and manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation moral laws is designed to meet humanity's needs. When and godliness. . . . Beloved, seeing that ye look for such we violate any one of them, we are not merely attempting things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, to get away with something that "will be all right as long without spot, and blameless" (2 Peter 3:11-14). With as we don't get caught." What we are doing is cheating last-day events taking place in rapid sequence today, ourselves—preventing ourselves from enjoying the best surely we would do well to apply Peter's counsel to our in life that God desires us to have. own lives, giving top priority to our relationship with In doing so, we lose twice. We lose heaven, and we Christ and abandoning the business-as-usual attitude that lose blessings in this life—the peace, joy, happiness, and seems to characterize many in the church. Let us never preciousness of communion with God and the saints that forget that when Christ ceases His work in the heavenly are provided in the Sabbath, and the physical healing and sanctuary, we must be ready, not be getting ready. restoration of both body and mind that the Sabbath is K. H. W. intended to provide. The Sabbath provision nicely illustrates the fact of spiritual life that although we cannot earn our way to heaven by the things we do, we most certainly can lose our way to heaven through acts of carelessness and Losing isn't earning disobedience. Here is a point we dare not downplay in Although Adventists sometimes are accused of trying our rightful attempts to help our critics understand that to "earn their way to heaven," we have never met a we Adventists do not keep God's laws in order to be member of this church who subscribes to this position. saved. L. R. V. What we Adventists do teach—and we believe that we do so on the clear authority of the Scriptures—is that Christ's sacrifice alone makes it possible for us to be saved and taken to heaven. On the other hand, some of LETTERS Continued from page 2 the things we do can keep us out of heaven. Support for this last statement is found in such pas- Bible truths and Spirit of Proph- to deceive if possible the very sages as Revelation 21:27—"And there shall in no wise ecy counsels. We need watch- elect (Matt. 24:24)? Why should men on the towers of Zion who we not expect him to allure us enter into it [the Holy City] any thing that defileth, are faithful and uncompromis- with "light and much power" neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a ing. from the fallen churches (Early lie." Also left out of the city are "sorcerers and forni- KATHRYN BOWERMAN Writings, p. 56)? Grand Rapids, Michigan ROBERT HORNER cators and murderers and idolaters" (chap. 22:15, Seale, Alabama R.S.V.). These kinds of evil acts keep people out of Where for truth? God's kingdom. After seeing the interest some ► Readers might be interested in reading "The Legend(s) of There is a subtle distinction between the fallacious members of the church have ex- pressed in the messages of John John Todd" in Christianity concept that doing good earns entrance into heaven and Todd, Geoffrey Paxton, and Today, Feb. 2, 1979. the Biblical teaching that doing evil keeps us out of others, I would like to raise a heaven. We may not be able to earn heaven by what we question concerning a basic On target scriptural principle. Where in the "The Exciting Future" by do, but we can certainly lose the privilege of being there Bible or the Spirit of Prophecy Neal C. Wilson, president of the by neglecting to do what God tells us to do. Recognizing does God ever command by pre- General Conference (Feb. 1), this fact will make a great deal of difference in how we cept and illustrate by example provided me with real encour- that we should go outside the agement and stimulation. He practice our religion. guardianship of the church (or said, "As Adventists, we have For example, Adventists should never keep the Sab- Israel) for truth? no choice but to keep preparing bath in order to be saved. But when we fully understand On the contrary, the Lord calls people for the Advent. This actions similar to these idolatry should have preeminence in all what God is saying in commanding us to "remember the (Deut. 12:1-4; 13; 32:17) and we do and say and in everything sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Ex. 20:8) we risk losing harlotry (Eze. 16; 23). Do we not for which we expend money and the heaven Christ has earned for us if we deliberately or say from Scripture that Babylon, human energy." the apostate church and her There is no veering to the right carelessly ignore God's clearly expressed will in this daughters, are harlots and try to or to the left in this statement. It matter. make all nations drink of the is precisely in the center of the Why? Because behind every overt act of disobedience wine of the wrath of her fornica- purpose of God in raising up this tion (Rev. 14:8; 18)? Will not movement. lies a spirit or attitude of self-will and distrust of God. Satan come down as "an angel J. L. SHULER We are acting out our conviction that God doesn't have of light" (2 Cor. 11:14) and try National City, California

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States, into their homes until and give her testimony. She Surgeons restore beauty Esther would be able to return also acquired a wide English to Yugoslavia. vocabulary during her brief of young Yugoslavian Esther and her mother ar- stay. The General Conference rived in Los Angeles in Oc- Women's Auxiliary flew her By JOHN HANCOCK tober and were given a warm from Los Angeles to Wash- welcome by Yugoslavian ington, D.C., to be the guest friends. Our daughter and artist at their "Talent Night," God's love and leading— about his daughter's condi- granddaughter, Dottie and January 6. At that time Esther through many loving peo- tion, he showed me a picture Joni Versteeg, greeted them met many of the new friends ple—recently changed a 16- of her. The skin and muscles on our behalf and presented who had helped to make this year-old Yugoslavian girl's on her neck had stretched so Esther with a gift. experience possible. life. Formerly scarred and much that her head was The plastic surgery, which We wish we could have self-conscious, she now is at- pulled to one side. After see- took four hours, was done been at the Belgrade airport tractive and of good courage. ing the photo I wanted more November 14. The graft took when Esther and her mother 1 first met Zvjezdana than ever to try to help restore beautifully, and the incision stepped off the plane into the Plesko four years ago in the her beauty. Hinko also told from which the skin was se- arms of Hinko, his son, home of her parents, Hinko me that Zvjezdana meant lected healed without any in- Zorro, and other friends. and Alenko Plesko, in Bel- "the stars," and that I could fection. The doctor told us it How the tears of joy must grade, where her father is call her Esther. was the largest skin graft he have flowed! I remember the youth director of the Yugo- When I returned to the had ever made. It will take words Esther spoke to my slavian Union. After eating a United States, my wife and I about a year for the healing wife and me as we said our delicious dinner I was treated contacted many persons to processes to be completed, last goodbyes in California: to some excellent piano music see what could be done but already Esther's father, "You say you love me, but I by Zvjezdana, who was then through plastic surgery to with tears in his eyes, writes love you more!" about 12 years old. I was im- correct this disfigurement. As to us, "My daughter has a Perhaps we will not see pressed with her piano tech- God opened doors, the Esther new neck. Praise the Lord!" Esther again until we get to nique and the ease with which story unfolded. Before Esther returned to the kingdom, but we praise she played difficult classical First, a plastic surgeon Yugoslavia to continue her God that through His divine selections. friend of ours in Los Angeles education at the Yugoslavian providence a 16-year-old can As soon as Zvjezdana fin- agreed to do the surgery, Adventist Seminary, she face life with new vigor and ished playing the piano, she which normally would cost made many appearances in courage, for Esther is beauti- hurried out of the room. It from $5,000 to $10,000, as a churches to play the piano ful again. was then that I noticed she loving courtesy. It seemed had terrible burn marks on her more than a coincidence that neck and part of her face. Her his office nurse was of Yugo- parents told me that she had slavian descent and took a been severely burned by hot real interest in the project. water when she was a small The doctor arranged for a child and, despite some plas- four-day hospital stay and tic surgery, would always found an anesthetist who have this disfiguration. Since would volunteer his services a large portion of her body without charge. had received third-degree G. 0. Bruce, of the Gen- burns, it was almost a miracle eral Conference Treasury, that she had lived. contacted Pan American Air- I assumed that I would not ways and arranged for a free see Zvjezdana again, but I round-trip ticket from London could not erase this visit from to Los Angeles. Then the my mind. As the years passed General Conference the impression that something Women's Auxiliary took on might be done to help her the "Esther Project" and came back again and again. raised $1,500 to help meet Last summer when I returned other expenses. Though Ad- to Europe I knew I would see ventists in America had never my good friend Hinko, whose met Esther, there developed a daughter now would be 16 love relationship as the time years old. I wondered how for her trip drew near. Bake she was doing psychologi- sales, special dinners, and cally with the disfigurement, other activities took place at and my heart went out to her. the General Conference as the I know now that it was the office family joined hands to Spirit of God making these help Esther. impressions, for soon events Two Yugoslavian Advent- took place that revealed ist families, the Vrbetas in God's leading. Paradise, California, and the As Hinko and I talked Zeravicas in Los Angeles, were happy to take Esther and John Hancock is General her mother, who would ac- John Hancock and Esther's mother, Alenko, on the left, are as pleased Conference youth director. company her to the United as 16-year-old Esther, right, that her plastic surgery was successful. 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The author enjoyed meeting high school youth at Roorkee school in northern India, left, and young women from Pakistan Adventist Seminary, right.

rollment is about 400, ture, built on a 67-foot plat- Southern Asia youth according to the principal, form in the center of the Brooke Sadler. sacred town Amritsar. The tackle challenges In addition to operating a central dome of the temple cereal factory and printing and the upper half of the walls By LEO RANZOLIN press, the seminary has com- were covered with gold- pleted a new Village Health plated copper sheets by Ma- Education Center, where the haraja Ramjit Singh. Excited about my first visit All over India and Asia our people will receive help and When I returned to Delhi, to Asia, I contemplated the church has the challenge of training in healthful living. A Justin Singh and I started a hundreds of languages, the bringing down evil and im- tremendous venture is the trip through India, a fascinat- various religions, the exotic mersing in the waters not the new church, which when ing country about twice the culture, and, most of all, the goddesses and images but completed will be the largest size of Alaska with 650 mil- work of the church and its people won to Jesus. Wher- church in Southern Asia. lion people. The 1951 census vibrant youth. ever I went I met young peo- Our workshop was com- listed 845 languages and The challenges of the Ad- ple with bright smiles, full of posed of youth directors and major dialects, 14 of which ventist Church were made joy and zeal for the Word of about 35 young people. Pas- are "official," including clear to me after I landed in God. They want to tackle the tors McHenry and Cooper as- Hindi, spoken by one third of New Delhi, the 800-year-old challenges of our work in sisted me in the "compact the population, and English. capital city of India, with a Southern Asia, where my weekend," which included Eighty-four percent of the population of 3.6 million. host, Justin Singh, serves as classes, a youth rally, and a people are Hindu, 10 percent Hundreds of gigantic images youth adviser of the division. wonderful fellowship with the Moslem, and two and one- of the demons, King Ravana After flying from Delhi to many missionaries and half percent Christian, and and Meghnad and Kumbha Lahore, Pakistan, a city of workers at the seminary. the remainder Sikh, Jain, Karna, could be seen nearly 2 million people and On Sunday we returned to Buddhist, and Parsi. Sev- throughout the city. During the site of the largest mosque Adventpura for a special enth-day Adventists have 582 Vijayadashami, one of the in the world, we stopped event, the wedding of Joseph churches and 78,874 mem- festivals of India, the effigies briefly at "Adventpura," the Iqbal Zahid, our assistant bers in India as of September, of the demons, some of them headquarters of our work in youth director, and Audrei, 1978. 100 feet tall, were burned, Pakistan, where G. C. John- who comes from Sri Lanka Accompanied by C. while all over the city there son is the president and over- and is a secretary in the union Pheirim, Northern Union were deafening noises and seer of 2,500 Seventh-day office. In Pakistan the groom youth director, Pastor Singh great excitement. One news- Adventists and 36 churches. is the one who receives most and I first went to our high paper reported that "as Ra- W. H. McHenry, former of the attention. He usually school in Roorkee, a few vana's smashed 'bones' youth and education adviser comes to the wedding on a hours' ride from Delhi. This crashed to the ground, scores of the division, and Lowell horse, escorted by a band. school, called "The Re- of people seated in the front Cooper, Pakistan Union Joseph did not use a horse, treat," was established in enclosures ran for them to add youth director, were my but there was a band accom- 1928. The principal is S. D. to their collection of 'relics'!" companions. Our task was to panying him, and he had a Kujur, Pastor Singh's The paper also reported the conduct a leadership training golden veil over his face. It brother-in-law. immersion of 78 images of course at Pakistan Adventist was an impressive ceremony Our youth rally and work- the goddess Durga to mark Seminary and College in and was conducted by Ken- shop at Roorkee drew young the end of the four-day puja Chuharkana Mandi, 30 miles neth Brown. people from different parts of festivities. After chanting west of Lahore. After an all-night train trip the field to learn new ways to hymns and beating drums, We arrived at the school on we crossed the border on foot work in their youth societies. devotees immersed the Friday, the Moslems' sacred and then went by car to Many are already sharing images at sunset. day. The prayers and chant- Amritsar, site of the Sikhs' their faith in the villages with ing came loudly and clearly famous Golden Temple, branch Sabbath schools, Leo Ranzolin is a General through speakers to our cam- completed in 1604. We took Voice of Youth meetings, and Conference associate youth pus from the mosques sur- off our shoes before going in- other activities. director. rounding the school. The en- side the sturdy marble struc- Before leaving for Calcutta

16 (304) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 Young people from the Adventist Training School in northeast India, left, and from Burma, right, are happily preparing for service to their church. we briefly visited Agra, fa- in 1975, is to help the youth 1972 from wounds inflicted Burma seemed like a to- mous for the Taj Mahal, one in the cities. Members get to- by bandits in his home. As tally different world. I was of the most beautiful struc- gether three times a week to missionaries retell their fascinated. It is the land of the tures in the world. practice, to study the Bible, stories and I hear of the prob- Buddhas and the pagodas. The Taj, on the right bank to visit jails, and to help with lems and trials of our workers The Shwe Dagon Pagoda, of the Jumna River, is a evangelistic meetings, church overseas, I wish I could do standing on a small hill in mausoleum for Mumtaz-i- services, and other occasions. more for the Lord. The path Rangoon, is one of the Mahal, the wife of Shah After a two-hour flight we of many missionaries has world's most revered Bud- Jahan, one of India's Mogul landed in Dacca, capital of been stained by blood, and dhist shrines. The Stupa emperors. Before her death in Bangladesh, for leadership the history of many a school (spire) soars 368 feet into the 1630, Mumtaz-i-Mahal re- training for the youth direc- and institution reminds me of air and is covered with solid quested two things of her tors and pastors. Formerly the sacrifice of our pioneers gold and precious stones. husband, that he not take an- known as East Pakistan, and faithful missionaries. I have fond memories of other wife and that he build a Bangladesh is roughly the Rangoon and Burma: lovely tomb to her memory. size of Wisconsin, with a Busy in Burma and dedicated young people, The grief-stricken emperor population of about 80 mil- Rangoon, the capital of smiling, friendly, and hospi- fulfilled the two requests; in lion, two million in Dacca. Burma, was our next destina- table people. There for the 1631 he began the construc- Eighty-five percent Moslem, tion. A country about the size first time I preached bare- tion of the Taj, which took it is the world's second most of Texas, Burma has more footed—a custom of our peo- 20,000 workmen more than populous Moslem country, than 30 million people, 2.5 ple in Burma when they go 17 years to complete. after Indonesia. About 14 million in Rangoon. The onto the platform. Our lead- I saw a lesson for the youth percent of the population are country is predominantly ers in Burma are full of cour- in this story. Apparently there Hindu, and the rest are Buddhist, with a small Chris- age and are preaching the existed great and genuine Buddhist, Christian, and an- tian element and some ani- gospel. love between the emperor and imist. In Bangladesh the Sev- mistic believers. We have 93 "We don't have a hospital his wife, something we need enth-day Adventist Church churches and 7,000 believers anymore, and we can't do in these days of separations has 2,400 members and 24 in Burma. some things we'd like to, but and divorces. Perhaps what church buildings. We were greeted by three we are all evangelists," they young and old need to learn is David Skau, union presi- of our church leaders, Kyaw said. I thought to myself, to build a palace for their dent, and Selmo Dio, youth Balay, Burma Union presi- Someday we all will be evan- partners while they are still director, greeted us at the air- dent, Ba Hla Thein, treasurer, gelists, and then the Lord will alive, a palace of love, un- port. Our destination was and Thein Shwe, secretary. come. derstanding, and friendship. Bangladesh Adventist Acad- As we drove from the airport, One of the highlights of my Our next stop was Cal- emy in Goalbathan, a couple they told us that when a visi- trip was the Southern Asia cutta, en route to the colorful of hours' drive from Dacca. tor comes from the General Division Camporee, held near Northeast to visit ATS (Ad- We stayed at the home of the Conference he works hard in Bangalore November 1 to 5. ventist Training School) in Ondrizeks, whom I had met Burma. This was evident as I Since this has already been the hills of India. A flight to at Lower Gwelo College in looked at the schedule for the reported in the REVIEW I will Gauhati and several hours of Rhodesia in 1973. next five days: a leadership not repeat the details, but I driving brought us to our of- About 30 leaders and pas- training course, a youth rally, must say that it was a dra- fice in Shillong, a lovely city tors attended a Pathfinder an Investiture, and various matic and inspiring event in in the mountains. After a workshop to lay plans for speaking appointments. the lives of the 700 Path- brief stop we moved on to our starting effective Pathfinder About 70 students came finders and staff who at- academy. What a lovely place Clubs. The hot weather and down from our Burma Union tended. nestled up in the hills, where the long hours did not dis- Bible Seminary to join 30 After the camporee we the air is fresh and pure! courage anyone from partici- others for the leadership spent a few days in Bangalore On Sabbath the Living pating and from enjoying the workshop. The youth rally, for a leadership training Circle Singers came from fellowship. attended by 600 people, cli- course with the youth direc- Shillong to inspire our people Of particular interest was a maxed on Sabbath afternoon tors in the division. This gave for service. The purpose of visit to the tomb of E. R. with the Investiture of 70 us a chance to visit Lowry this 25-member group, begun Hutchinson, who died in Master Guides. Memorial High School, near ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 (305) 17 NEWSFRONT Continued

the city, named for the father with an evangelistic meeting challenge of reaching mil- past four years, two converts of the division president, R. in Colombo. lions and millions of people have been baptized. S. Lowry. Hundreds of Path- After our flight back to with the third angel's mes- Pastor Schmidt made his finders and young people India via Madras and Bombay sage. visits from his home in Loma lined up at the entrance of the we went by car to Poona, the My trip was over, but not Linda, California, accompa- school to welcome us for a division headquarters, three the memories, the joys, and nied by volunteers including brief chapel talk and the hours away. I visited and the satisfaction of a wonder- physicians, dentists, dieti- opening of the intramural spoke at all the institutions in ful itinerary. Pastor Singh tians, dental hygienists, and collegiate games. K. I. the area and attended a Path- was a fine host and a wonder- mechanics. These volunteers Varghese is the principal of finder Day at Spicer Memo- ful example of our church conducted Five-Day Plans to this school of 1,659 students rial College, eight miles from members in Asia. I was re- Stop Smoking, cooking from the elementary to the the division office and the minded again of the greatest classes, and evangelistic junior college level. Oriental Watchman Publish- joy I have—belonging to the meetings, and have provided After our visit to Lowry ing House. family of God! No matter equipment for these events. school we went by train to The support of the Path- where we go, we have the Thousands of pieces of Ad- Madras in southeastern India finders and youth program same hope, the same joy, the ventist literature in the Ger- and then by plane to Co- was evident at Spicer. As the same doctrines—we are one man language have been dis- lombo, Sri Lanka. There are boys and girls marched down body, one people, waiting for tributed. 23 SDA churches in Sri the aisles M. E. Cherian, Jesus to come. On October 21 Donato Ra- Lanka and 1,300 members. college president, told me mirez, pastor, baptized the I was amazed to find many that the college requires every first convert from the colony, Portuguese names on the is- religion major to become a MEXICO Enrique Schallenberg; on land of Sri Lanka; that was Master Guide before gradua- November 4, Samuel because the Portuguese had tion. Work opens in Schmidt, director of the The- arrived there in 1505. Our A brief visit to the Voice of ology Department at Monte- host was Errol de Silva, union Prophecy Correspondence German colony morelos University, baptized youth director, who has a School and the publishing As the result of 22 trips Mr. Schallenberg's wife, Ca- Portuguese background. With house made me aware of the made by Retired Pastor San- tarine. It is hoped that the A. V. Hyland, lay activities, enormity of our work in Asia. tiago Schmidt to a German- Schallenbergs, along with Sabbath school and publish- The workers have to cope speaking colony of some their friends and relatives ing director, we left by car for daily with the multiplicity of 40,000 near Chihuahua, who are taking Bible studies, Lakpahana Adventist Semi- languages and the tremendous northern Mexico, during the will form the nucleus of a nary, about 70 miles away. Our time at the school was spent in an intense ten-hour Pathfinder leadership training course from Friday afternoon through Saturday night. Many people, including the school principal, R. E. Stahl- necker, received their Master Guide pins on Sabbath after- noon. While we were still teaching the training course many students left with Pas- tors Hyland and Stahlnecker to hold branch Sabbath schools in the villages. Sunday morning we drove back to Colombo. The scen- ery was beautiful—coconut trees and rice paddies. Ele- phants are used for work and are even kept as pets, as I noted in the Colombo Sunday paper: "Elephant for sale; full-grown male, about 32 years old, family pet, one owner since birth. Excellent condition, well trained, doc- ile, good worker." Glendale, California, map shows SDA hospitals Our Pathfinder fair in Co- A committee to develop a spiritual identity tions and clinics operated by Adventists. lombo included a number of program at Glendale Adventist Medical The work was specially designed for the activities, including a per- Center, Glendale, California, has completed Medical Center by Lasercraft of Santa Rosa, formance by the Lakpahana the first phase of its work with the installation California, and is the first of several original tumbling team under the di- of an original wood mural in the main lobby. pieces planned for major entrances to the rection of Quincy Rabot, one The unique creation, eighteen feet long and institution. The intent is to develop a hospi- of the teachers at the school. six feet high, was carved in walnut by laser tal-wide program emphasizing the Christian The night before the fair the beam. The world map is highlighted with dots basis and dedication of the facility, and the tumbling team had assisted representing some of the 450 medical institu- relationship to the worldwide medical work. 18 (306) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22. 1979 new group of Adventist be- NETHERLANDS lievers. A parcel of land has been Publishing house secured for a church. A pastor who speaks fluent German is moves into needed to move to Chihuahua new building to continue the work Elder Schmidt has begun. Volun- On January 16, nine teers who are interested in months after the decision was helping with this project are made to buy new property for welcome. We ask for the the Netherlands Publishing prayers of Adventists House, Vitgeverij Veritas, throughout the division that the official opening took this small beginning may place. When the purchase grow and prosper in the Lord. was made, part of the build- SAMUEL SCHMIDT ing had been constructed, but there was still opportunity to modify the plans. In the mid- GREAT BRITAIN dle of December, 1978, the building was finished. Media covers The new Veritas is one of a series of office buildings in GC president Alphen aan den Rijn, a town Less than one month after of 50,000 inhabitants not far his election to the General from the historic city of Lei- Conference presidency, Neal den. The building has about C. Wilson visited England in Brazilian senator visits institutions 400 square meters of floor connection with the winter space. For the eight workers meetings of the Northern Eu- Enoch Oliveira, right, South American Division president, of Veritas, that space is more rope-West Africa Division. recently greeted Senator Magalhaes Pinto, one of the most than sufficient. It is possible Besides giving counsel on eminent men in Brazil and president of one of the largest now to enlarge the staff to numerous committees, Elder banking systems in the country, at division headquarters in about 14 persons. Wilson was able to speak on Brasilia. Downstairs is the reception the BBC "Sunday" program, The senator is well acquainted with the work of Adventists. area; offices of the manager, which had changed its fre- He has eaten at the Adventist-operated vegetarian restaurant in his secretary, and the treas- quency only three days earlier Belo Horizonte in the state of Minas Gerais, of which he is a urer; other office space; and a to a more powerful transmit- former governor. After Senator Pinto dined in the Adventist storeroom. The first floor is ter on 1500 meters (long restaurant, his wife went there to ask whether she could secure for the editorial depart- wave), covering the whole of the services of an Adventist cook to prepare "an excellent ment—the editor of the Dutch the British Isles and much of meal like my husband enjoyed at the restaurant." Life and Health magazine and the European Continent. As a In order to keep in touch with the authorities, the church three editorial workers. There result of Elder Wilson's con- sends Jornal Adventista, which contains timely messages and is an office for typesetting and tact, and an earlier visit by pertinent information, to senators, deputies, and governors. space for a layout studio and a Robert H. Pierson, former ARTHUR S. VALLE darkroom. Just below the roof General Conference presi- REVIEW Correspondent are the archives. The total dent, good relationships have building costs were approxi- been established for the mately 600,000 guilders church with the BBC. An- statements made by Elder ever, both archbishops sent (US$272,727). other interview was con- Wilson at various meetings. greetings and best wishes to About 150 guests came for ducted with Elder Wilson on Elder Wilson was inter- the new General Conference the official opening. Among the popular London Broad- viewed for 45 minutes by one president on his assuming of- them were literature evangel- casting Corporation (LBC) of Fleet Street's leading jour- fice. ists, ministers, board mem- station, spelling out reasons nalists, Colin Cross, in the In a country where media bers of various institutions, for Adventist beliefs such as board room of the Observer, coverage of Adventist news and business associates. R. the Second Coming and the a national Sunday newspaper historically has been infre- Henning represented the Sabbath. with a circulation of more quent, members in Britain General Conference, and R. Thames Valley Radio in than 750,000. have been encouraged by the E. Appenzeller represented Reading included a news item Church leaders in Britain turning of the tide. As further the Northern Europe-West about Elder Wilson's visit to made contacts with the Arch- news reports about Adventists Africa Division. A Belgian Newbold College. bishop of Canterbury, Donald are released by the press, delegation of three people at- At one stage it appeared Coggan, and the Roman radio, and TV, they pray that tended. Stanborough Press that television cameras from Catholic Archbishop of the results will be a better was represented by its man- two national stations might be Westminster, Basil Hume, understanding of the church's ager and treasurer. featuring Elder Wilson's visit with a view to Elder Wilson's theology and program, and a The main speaker during to Britain, but news regarding paying courtesy visits. Un- continual eradication of the the opening ceremony was F. the People's Temple in fortunately, the Adventists prejudice that still exists in J. Voorthuis, manager of the Guyana received priority. were not able to give these some quarters. Dutch publishing house for However, several local news- religious dignitaries sufficient W. J. ARTHUR almost 45 years until his re- papers devoted a good notice for dialogues to mate- Communication Director tirement in 1974. Other number of column inches to rialize on this occasion; how- British Union speakers included Pastors

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Henning and Appenzeller and ARGENTINA difficult. Inflation was 164 as a result of their receiving K. C. van Oossanen, Nether- percent in November and in- Christian orientation, Chris- lands Union president. Offering to be creased to 170 percent in De- tian education, and mission- R. Bruinsma, manager of cember. Last January it took ary vision in the Austral the Dutch publishing house, used for youth 600 Argentinian pesos to buy Union's church schools. The emphasized in his short Among the three projects one U.S. dollar; by Decem- construction of the academy speech that this occasion was in South America to benefit ber it took 1,000 pesos. in South Argentina is a ne- to be seen, not as a comple- from the Thirteenth Sabbath Elder Weiss, on behalf of cessity. tion, but as a beginning. "A Special Projects Offering for this enterprise, says, "We One young man, a member number of challenges will the first quarter of 1979 is an have about 1,100 academy- of one of the large churches in have to be met in the near academy for youth in south- age youth in southern Argen- the conference, recently future," he said. Pastor ern Argentina. The Austral tina, but in our area we have urged, "Pastor, when you Voorthuis offered the dedica- Union leaders (Juan Carlos no church-operated secondary write to the ADVENTIST RE- tory prayer. Viera, president, and R. N. school for them to attend." VIEW about the work in South After the official opening, Wensell, treasurer) are exert- He went on to say, "The time America, please don't forget all guests were invited to in- ing their greatest efforts to see has come to build an acad- to mention that the youth are spect the new building. Upon that another academy is con- emy, since we now have the keenly interested in the con- leaving, each one received a structed in the Austral Union, land, and the Austral Union is struction of our school, and copy of the latest book by P. and in this endeavor they are collaborating with us to see we are praying to God that the Lanares in the Dutch lan- working closely with Walter this objective carried out in necessary financial means guage, on the subject of Weiss, president of the South accordance with God's plan. will be provided." Israel. Argentina Conference, where We hope that the brethren of ARTHUR S. VALLE The church in Holland is this boarding academy is to the world field will remember Review Correspondent pleased to have another at- be built. us on the next thirteenth Sab- tractive institution. This im- Through sacrifice the con- bath." portant forward step is taken ference acquired 470 acres of Argentina has been out- OREGON with the hope that God will land near Balcarse, 50 miles standing in its support of bless the work in the Nether- from Mar del Plata in the Christian education, and the Adventists on TV lands Publishing House and province of Buenos Aires. In Adventist young people, from that further expansion in the order to pay the $300,000 early childhood, are taught by for four hours near future will be possible asking price for the land, the their parents how important it Adventist television pro- under His blessing. conference had to sell the 593 is to attend church schools. A grams are being aired four R. BRUINSMA acres they owned in Colonel great number of missionaries hours each week in Corvallis, Communication Director Suarez for $100,000. Eco- are sent from Argentina to Oregon. Netherlands Union nomic problems made this many countries of the world With the help of Ray Henry, assistant professor of the radio-television depart- ment at Oregon State Univer- sity, a cooperative arrange- ment between the Adventist church and the university tel- evision station has been worked out. The station management provides four hours of free broadcast time each week in exchange for use of the church's videotape player. The four programs being aired are Faith for Today's Westbrook Hospital series, which is seen once a week; the It Is Written program aired three nights a week; The Quiet Hour's Search telecast, aired twice a week; and Come Alive, a quarter-hour pro- gram featuring the Heritage Singers and Roy Naden, also seen twice a week. In addition, church mem- bers are producing a daily 15-minute program of nutri- tional hints, including their favorite recipes. This pro- gram is directed by Dr. Henry. C. E. PLATNER Communication Director The official opening of the new Netherlands Publishing House, near the city of Leiden, took place January 16. Oregon Conference 20 (308) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22. 1979

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1,500 teachers who trained at ground, leaving six adults, Afro-Mideast the training college formerly five children, and a six- Columbia Union situated at Bekwai. Mr. Ag- month-old infant homeless, • Church growth in the South boka also pointed out the site Thunder Bay, Ontario, Com- • Two hundred and fifty Ethiopia Field has been a for the new library, which the munity Services workers sent union administrators and de- challenge to the field presi- contributions of alumni and ten boxes of clothing and partmental directors recently dent, Gebre Michael Felema. friends will make a reality. bedding to the family. met for four days near Whereas there were not more Wheeling, West Virginia, to than a half dozen members in • Continuous reading of the • G. E. Maxson was elected project the growth of the Co- 1950, the membership now Bible by students at Finland to the presidency of the Brit- lumbia Union through 1985. stands at 13,963. District Junior College drew the at- ish Columbia Conference at • Kettering Medical Center committees have been formed tention of news media all over the conference session on participated in the annual to help with local administra- Finland. Progress reports February 18, after A. W. Dayton, Ohio, Holiday Heart tion. The 21 new churches during the 77-hour reading Kaytor announced his inten- program, which attracted 200 presently in various stages of appeared in national and local tion to retire. Others elected businessmen and a television construction are the result of papers. The object of the to new offices were Gary De- news team from WHIO, and members contributing most of reading was to emphasize that Boer, secretary-treasurer; E. resulted in a full-page story in the building material (such as Seventh-day Adventists con- F. White, director of trust sider the message of the Bible services; and H. S. Larsen, the Dayton Journal Herald. sand, stone, and wooden • poles), anticipating that the relevant to both young and Ministerial secretary and lay Members of the Spring- old in 1979. activities director. field, Ohio, church recently union will help with the pur- celebrated the church's one- chase of nails, iron roofing, • Many new "children" hundredth anniversary and its and cement. Plans call for all have already joined the fam- dedication on the same day. these churches to be com- North American ily of God in Quebec in this This 165-member congrega- pleted this year. International Year of the tion has retired the building's • Because of the number of Atlantic Union Child. The Quebec SDA $50,000 mortgage, raised Church Association averaged emergencies that have oc- • During 1978, 45,796 per- money to surface the parking curred in the past few years in approximately one baptism lot, opened a church school, sons had their blood pressure per day during January, 1979, Lebanon, it has been difficult tested on the Greater New and won 55 converts since to keep up an adequate supply with a total of 29 baptisms April, 1974. York Conference fleet of four reported by January 29. of clothes and blankets for vans, and 14,270 signed up war victims. However, with • A Christmas program de- for Bible studies offered by picting the early life of the establishment of a new van personnel. In addition, Central Union permanent depot in part of the Jesus—"The Hidden Years 26,347 received nutrition in- of Nazareth," written by old Afro-Mideast Division formation, and 8,940 were • On December 16 the Lead- headquarters building in ville, Colorado, church, val- Myrtle Pohle—drew more given material on giving up than 200 persons to the C. F. Beirut, it is now possible to smoking. Visitation requested ued at more than $75,000, keep large supplies on hand in was dedicated. Richard Richards School in Staunton, by Bible course students has Virginia. case of another emergency. led to many baptisms, and Necker pastors this 24- many more people are at- member church, situated two tending local Adventist miles high in the mountains. Lake Union Northern Europe- churches as a result of con- • Members of the Berean tacts made through the van church in St. Louis, Mis- • Members of the Wilson, West Africa program. Michigan, church held show- souri, have given the title of ers recently for two local • On Sabbath, February 3, a Miss Ingatherer of 1978 to • Bjorgvin Snorrason, prin- families whose homes had new Spanish church of 37 9-year-old Nadege Johnson, been destroyed by fire. One cipal of Iceland Secondary members was organized at the who raised more than $138. School, reports that all but shower was for Frank Racine, one of the Icelandic Adventist Providence, Rhode Island, • Elder and Mrs. John a literature evangelist; the temple. Four of the 37 per- Wagner have moved to Colo- other was for a non-Adventist children of secondary-school sons were baptized at the be- age are enrolled in the Ad- rado, where he is to be Colo- family. ginning of the meeting that rado Conference education ventist school. Iceland Con- day. • Indiana literature evangel- ference, with 527 members, director. Both he and his wife ist Chuck Hood recently in- operates four elementary have been working on doc- terviewed Dan Devine, head Canadian Union toral degrees at the University schools in addition to the of Florida. football coach of the Univer- secondary school. sity of Notre Dame's Fighting • Members of the Hamilton • The Seventh-day Adventist • Jim and Jackie Davis have Irish, about drug education. East church in Ontario report moved to the Kansas Confer- Mr. Hood contacts business- Secondary School, Bekwai, success in distributing a copy Ghana, celebrated its silver ence, where he will intern in men to sponsor Listen maga- of Steps to Christ to every the New Haven district. zine in their local high jubilee December 3, reports home in their area. H. I. Dunton, division edu- • Twelve persons have been schools. cation director. The director • At the Alberta Conference baptized as a result of the In- • The newly rebuilt Boyne general of the Ghana Educa- session that convened on sight to Revelation meetings City, Michigan, Community tional Service spoke to a ca- February 25, all conference held in Sundance, Wyoming, Services Center was officially pacity crowd. Israel Agboka, officers and departmental di- by Edwin G. Brown, confer- opened on January 28 to re- headmaster, a graduate of rectors were reelected. ence evangelist. Many people place a center destroyed by Bekwai, told about the more • When soon after Christmas attended the meetings as the fire in April, 1975. Building than 1,000 alumni of the sec- a home on the Sandy Lake result of work by the pastor, funds came from foundations ondary school and nearly Indian Reserve burned to the Richard Holmes. and community residents, as

22 (310) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22. 1979 well as from church sources. the Upper Columbia Confer- Hixson congregation. More • Vera Wolfe, Oklahoma Boyne City mayor Keith ence. Members from nearby than 100 people were in at- Conference Community Fitzpatrick was present for Newport worked with their tendance, coming from Geor- Services director, recently the ribbon-cutting ceremony. pastor, Don Roper, in estab- gia, Alabama, and Tennes- completed a tour of federation • Four persons were baptized lishing the new congregation. see. A similar event was held seminars in Ardmore, Clare- and joined the Decatur, Illi- in the Hixson church in Janu- more, Enid, and Oklahoma nois, church on December Northern Union ary. City. Keynote speaker was 30. • A three-member team from Faye Campbell, Kentucky- • Elder and Mrs. George the Amazing Facts radio pro- Tennessee Conference feder- • Seven persons were bap- Vandeman and Lonnie Mela- ation president. tized and joined the Downers gram is engaged in a three- shenko conducted It Is Writ- month evangelistic thrust in Grove, Illinois, church re- ten Seminars in Waterloo, cently. Sylacauga, Alabama. The and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with church in this city of some Loma Linda University approximately 125 non-Ad- 20,000 was disbanded about North Pacific Union ventists in attendance. Fol- 13 years ago. The first branch • Loma Linda University has low-up in local churches will Sabbath school session was received $4,500 in unre- • Two North Pacific Union continue for eight weeks. held February 3, with 34 in stricted funds from the Sears- academy principals will work • The Northern Union K-12 attendance. Members of the Roebuck Foundation. Grants on doctoral degrees at An- board met in Minneapolis, team, Charles Wheeling, totaling more than $108,050 drews University at the con- Minnesota, during the last David Sauer, and Ray Vice, were recently distributed to clusion of the present school week of February to discuss are combining public evan- 43 privately supported col- term. They are Eugene Rau, plans for the 1979-1980 gelism with literature evan- leges and universities in Cali- Upper Columbia Academy, school year. gelism. fornia. The Sears-Roebuck Foundation has made contri- and Edward Norton, Portland • The Southern Missionary Adventist Academy. • Representatives from the butions to Loma Linda Uni- union and conference offices College orchestra will leave versity for more than ten • Gunnar Sjoren, pastor of of the Lake, Central, and for a three-week concert tour years. the Hermiston, Oregon, Northern unions recently at- of the Orient on May 6. The church, reports 30 baptisms tended a seminar in Minne- group, which numbers some • A Loma Linda University so far as a result of meetings apolis, Minnesota, when 75 members, is under the di- Medical Center patient was held by Les Fowler, Nebraska Desmond B. Hills, of the rection of Orlo Gilbert. baptized recently after her Conference evangelist. Ele- General Conference Youth exposure to Adventists while • An evangelistic crusade by a patient at Loma Linda. Vir- ven others plan to be bap- Department, presented the the Don Edwards-Ron Glad- tized. new youth Bible-study pro- ginia Alkire, of Sun City, den team has resulted in 43 California, observed doctors • Several new programs that gram, "New Beginnings." additions to the Forest Lake Others presenting information and nurses praying with pa- emphasize practical skills, church in Forest City, Flor- tients and enjoyed hearing the outdoor living, and Christian and answering questions were ida. witness are being conducted Clark Smith and Charles nurses on her unit singing at the Olympia, Washington, Martin, of the General Con- hymns at the shift change. Junior Academy. Nine stu- ference National Service Or- Southwestern Union Upon discovering that Loma dents are enrolled in a "pre- ganization, and Frank Peter- Linda University was an Ad- first" program at the school. son, Bill Lawson, and • The New Orleans First ventist hospital, she called the Principal Dan Harris says the Eugene Stiles, of the Chris- church recently hosted a Sun City Seventh-day Ad- program differs from the tra- tian Record Braille Founda- four-night nutrition school ventist church to find out ditional kindergarten in that tion. conducted by Natalie Weaver more about Adventism. the young students are not re- • On Sunday mornings of Michigan. One hundred and twenty people registered, • Fred H. Osbourn and C. D. quired to exercise the small KOBH, in South Dakota, Achord, faculty members in motor muscles in their eyes. broadcasts a new program, according to the pastor, Ernie Schwab. the Graduate School's family Pupils in grades one to ten aid Impact, sponsored jointly by and community studies de- the local Community Services the Hot Springs and Custer • Kenneth Oliver, pastor of partment, recently were center in helping older resi- churches. Ron Halvorsen is the Bristow, Oklahoma, granted status as approved dents. Tenth-grade students the speaker. church, reports having bap- supervisors by the American are learning drafting and tized 25 people in 1978, • The Muscatine, Iowa, Association for Marriage and computer programming on Claudine McClendon, a liter- Family Therapy. Only ten the school's newly acquired Community Services Center ature evangelist, was instru- helped 1,940 people during therapists in the State of Cal- computer. mental in winning 11 of the ifornia have been granted this 1978 and gave out 34,568 ar- 25. • Members of the Kenai, ticles of clothing, 9,199 recognition. Alaska, congregation ini- pieces of literature, and many tiated their newly constructed other items. church with evangelistic Legal notice: meetings. Evangelist Phil Christian Record Braille Foundation Shultz, from the Oregon Southern Union The quinquennial constituency meeting of the Christian Record Braille Conference, joined the local Foundation, Inc. will be held on Thursday, April 5, 1979, at 10 A.M. in the • Special Sabbath services chapel of the Central Building of the General Conference, 6840 Eastern pastor, Dave Brown, for the for the deaf were held Febru- Avenue, NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. The purpose of this meeting is to series. consider reports concerning the work of the foundation during the years ary 10 at the Rome, Georgia, 1973-1978, to elect a board of trustees for the new term, and to consider • Twenty-seven members church by David VanDen- proposed changes in the bylaws, the possibility of Christian Record being signed the charter of the burgh, pastor of the Hixson, involved in working for the deaf and those with impaired hearing, and any other items that may properly be presented. C. D. HENRI, President newly organized Diamond Tennessee, church, and Dave E. M. STILES, Secretary Lake, Washington, church in Conti, a deaf member of the ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 22, 1979 (3H) 23

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president for more than 12 The Korean Signs has Those wishing to be on the Middle East years. reached an all-time high cir- mailing list of this publication Delegates reelected W. J. culation, and probably will and desiring to participate in College reopens Nepjuk secretary-treasurer. reach 100,000 by the end of the association should contact Middle East College in They also returned the de- the year. William Smith, Andrews Beirut, Lebanon, resumed a partmental directors to office In Japan many young peo- University Air Park, Berrien scholastic program on Janu- except for the lay activities ple are becoming literature Springs, Michigan 49104. ary 3, with 40 students in a and Sabbath school director. evangelists. The president of There is no charge for the limited college program. The Vacant at the time of the ses- the Japan Union, Yonezo publication at present. Middle East Union, new sion, this office will be filled Oka-fuji, leads a recruiting When writing please give sponsor of the college, is by the Conference Commit- team that includes the union your status as a pilot, license proceeding with plans to tee. publishing director, Yo- and ratings, and a brief state- operate the school as a junior At the fortieth session of shiyuki Mukai, and the pub- ment regarding your flying college beginning in Septem- the Alberta Conference, held lishing house manager, Hisa- experience. Nonpilots should ber, 1979. in Bowden, Alberta, Febru- shi Yasukouchi. They visit indicate their interest in avia- The following disciplines ary 24 and 25, J. W. Wilson, the churches, promote the tion. have been authorized (with president, N. W. Klam, sec- evangelistic power of the GORDON ENGEN some additional minors): the- retary-treasurer, and the en- press, and recruit members ology, business administra- tire departmental staff were into literature evangelism. tion, elementary education, reelected for the ensuing The monthly circulation of For the record and secretarial studies. The term. the Japanese Signs is approx- program has been divided G. RALPH THOMPSON imately 50,000. By year's Died: Alzo Virgil Ed- into four short terms of six end this figure is expected to wards, 84, who served the weeks each. A student can reach 100,000. church for many years as a receive up to nine credits each BRUCE M. WICKWIRE Bible teacher in the Trans- six weeks, or 18 per quarter. Vans play part Africa Division, on February The Afro-Mideast Divi- in large baptism 28 in Arpin, Wisconsin. sion, former sponsor, had Association closed Middle East College At least one pastor in Flor- last October 26, because of ida is grateful for the work of for aviators the four Community Services the escalation of military ac- Aviation has become as If you're moving, please let us know six tivities on and around the vans operated in the Central useful a tool in the spread of weeks before changing your address. Print your Florida Federation area. Pas- new address below, clip out this entire corner, campus. Middle East Union the gospel by the Seventh-day including the label, and send it to us. If you had, therefore, to consider tor Best, of the Mt. Sinai Adventist Church as medical have a question about your subscription, please carefully its educational pol- church in Orlando, recently launches, rolling clinics, and clip this form to your letter. baptized 77 out of approxi- disaster vans. Mail to: Review and Herald Publishing Asso- icy and in particular its con- ciation, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Washing- tinuing need for a junior col- mately 100 people whose Piloting the 50 airplanes in ton, D.C. 20012. names he received from J. R. lege for its young people mission service and an even To subscribe, check the appropriate boxes finishing secondary school. Mitchell, van operator. Mr. larger fleet of private and de- below, print your name and address clearly, The union committee made Mitchell and his teams had nominational planes in the and mail this form with your payment to your enrolled these people in the Adventist Book Center. Expires 8(3I/79. application to the division to U.S.A. are hundreds of ❑ New subscription carry on a modified study Gift Bible program while pilots. ❑ Renew my present subscription doing health-screening work. ❑ One year (USS15.95) program on the Middle East The story of Adventist avi- ❑ Single copy 45 cents College campus and to reopen S. L. DOMBROSKY ation around the world some- under the same name, but times goes untold. In the past,

with junior college status, an unofficial group called the

next September. The ap- More literature Adventist Pilots' Association 8 ueu published a newsletter called at proval was given on condition d) that the new faculty be re- in Japan, Korea the Adventist Aviator. Area asaa1

cruited from Middle East na- Korean Publishing House pilots' meetings were held in d

tionals. Two budgets for pressroom workers are put- various parts of the country. ur overseas teachers were ting in overtime hours to meet Regional chapters were en- (t granted temporarily to give a growing demand for litera- couraged, some of which still flexibility in staffing during ture, reports E. A. Brodeur, operate. the early years of administra- Far Eastern Division publish- With the establishment of tion. J. E. ESTEPHAN ing director. If the publishing the Aviation Center at An- house continues at its present drews University, new inter- growth rate it will need to est was generated in a pilots' Canadians expand its building. organization. A new organi- It is planned that the ten- zation, building on the foun- elect staffs volume Bible Story set will dation of several that pre- Don MacIvor was elected be published soon in the Ko- ceded it, has now been president of the Manitoba- rean language. (Presently formed—the Adventist Avia- Saskatchewan Conference at these volumes are available in tion Association. This group, its triennial session, which 13 languages: English, Span- which carries the sanction of convened at the Blackstrap ish, Portuguese, Dutch, Nor- the Aviation Committee of Health Center, Dundurn, wegian, Finnish, Swedish, the General Conference, Saskatchewan, on March 4. Danish, Amharic, Icelandic, plans a quarterly newspaper He succeeds W. G. Soloniuk, Afrikaans, French, German). to be called Wings.

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