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Ed Rolita of the Adventist hospital in Dessie helped distribute thousands of pounds of food to hungry Ethiopians. FOR A FAMNE

Orval R. Scully

Orval Scully spent three months in Ethiopia helping to provide food for victims of the famine there. We print here a summary of his most interesting report.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia come in from the surrounding areas and the weakened condition of the February 1, 1974 in search of food. Five or 10 died farmers. each day during the worst weeks of One week ago today, Friday February 14, 1974. the famine. morning, January 25, I arrived in It is the nomads who follow their Addis Ababa via Ethiopian Airlines. Thursday morning we flew to grazing cattle who have been most Since then I have spent every avail- the airport of Kembolcha where Ed seriously hurt by the drought. An able moment learning about the fa- Rolita, the administrator of the Ad- article in The Ethiopian Herald for mine, what has been done, and ventist hospital in Dessie, was wait- February 2 states that 500,000 no- what needs to be done. ing for us. We visited the large mads in the provinces of Harrarge, I have had several conferences government feeding camp just out- Bale, Sidamo, and Gema Gofa are with Adventist church leaders here side the town. During the crisis affected. Plans were laid for me to —Hugo Palm, president for Ethio- over 7,000 had been accommo- fly into this region, since very little pia, and L. G. Diamond, treasurer dated in this camp, but the roll was relief work is being done there. and official representative of Sev- now down to around 1,500. Dr. A very difficult problem faces re- enth-day Adventist Welfare Ser- Lilli Rolita and her husband had lief operations in Ethiopia. There vices ( SAWS ). They have told me cared for as many as 70 children at seems to be sufficient grain and that the church has already dis- a time. Every four hours a gruel of food, but there is practically no tributed several bales of clothing grains, vegetables, and milk from transportation. Trucks are scarce, in Makele and some food grains UNICEF was given to these chil- and roads are bad. Distances are which were parceled out in 30 kg. dren. They responded quickly, and great and mountainous. The Police ( 66 lb.) bags. The government au- after three or four days 10 of the re- Department has promised to fur- thorities cooperated with us by fur- covered would be replaced by 10 nish trucks to transport our grain to nishing trucks to transport the bags needing nourishment. Only one the famine areas. We have pur- to the outlying districts where the child had up to that time failed to chased 200 tons of grain and are suffering was most severe. respond. awaiting the trucks to take it to the Dr. T. H. Scoggins, administrator Ed Rolita believes we can con- hungry people. of our large hospital in Addis tribute to a long-range program by The vice-governor of Bale gave Ababa, is a member of the execu- teaching the farmers to grow vege- us the following statistics furnished tive committee of the Christian Re- table gardens. The very fertile soil by the chieftains and district gover- lief Committee ( CRC ). He has needs only water, and by conserv- nors of his province: Last year, been telling me about the relief ing moisture, he feels, the vegeta- 1973, it was reported that in El work that other groups and bles would be easy to grow. Kere Awaraja 1,477 nomads died as churches have been doing. This is the dry season in Ethio- a result of the famine; 5,002 camels, On Wednesday morning Les An- pia, and the "short" rains are ex- 25,477 sheep and goats, 27,626 cat- derson, youth leader and mission pected soon. However, the "long" tle, and 20 donkeys or mules died. pilot, took me in the mission plane rains do not come until June or The large number of animals which to get a quick overall view. The July. Only then can we know if have perished means that the peo- plane is a Cessna 185 recently do- there will be a harvest. Much suf- ple who depend on them for their nated in part by J. L. Tucker and fering is expected through April sustenance are faced with very bleak the Quiet Hour Program. We spent and May of this year. It was due to prospects for the near future. the afternoon visiting the govern- a lack of rain during the past two or While waiting at the airstrip of ment feeding camp in Makele and three years that the famine became Negele Borana, Sidamo, for the talking with the vice-mayor. Dur- acute in 1973. The "long" rains governor's Land Rover to take us ing the crisis this camp cared for came last year, but the harvest was into town, we talked with some of more than 2,000 persons who had small because of the lack of seed the people who live around the

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 - 3 "I have nothing to feed my children," the father explained. "I would rather give them away than watch them die." army installation there. Many fam- dis Ababa before dark. Gebre Mi- rest, but we think they will be ilies are in dire need of food. chael and five students began to lay available again this week. The gaso- In order to get food quickly to plans for getting the grain to the line consumed cost us $400. these needy people we have re- most needy people. One of our members who is a quested the police to send two There are six tribes living in the lumber merchant walked three days trucks to the Adventist college at area around Negele Borana, and from Goba Bale into the village of Kuyera, where our grain is stored. each is represented by a chief. Meso where the Philadelphia Swe- They will be loaded, and at least These were fequested to contact dish Lutherans have a mission. He two volunteer college students will those who were in greatest need speaks Swedish and was happily re- accompany them to Negele Borana. among their people and ask them to ceived by the two girls who run There we will ask the tribal chiefs come in with a- container or skin in the mission. While he was there, to identify those who are in need of which to receive grain. an Ethiopian who lived nearby food and request them to come and The list was made up by a com- came and wanted to give him some receive from our supply. The Nor- mittee composed of the tribal chief, of his children. "I have nine chil- wegian Mission has offered their a government representative, two dren and nothing to feed them," he storage facilities if needed. elderly men who knew the families explained. "I would rather give Our organizational plans are mak- well, and a SAWS representative them away than watch them die." ing good progress. Gebre Michael who acted as secretary. Each adult The "short" ( or early) rains are Felema, a very capable and ener- was to be given two, kilograms ( 4.4 falling. Now is the time for plant- getic man, has been appointed by pounds) and each child under 12 ing. We thank God that these rains the Adventists to lead out in a long- allowed one kilogram of grain. are coming in a rather normal pat- range program. Plans have been Those over 12 were considered tern. Now we pray for the later discussed for locating small orphan- adults. There were an average of rains in a renewed sense, hoping ages or child-care units near the six to eight in each family group. A that many lives will be spared schools and mission compounds to card was given to each family with thereby. care for the many homeless chil- a number on it which corresponded dren. to his number on the list. It is March 19, 1974 hoped that this group can be given Some have asked about airlifting March 4, 1974. their ration of grain each week for food, and this may become neces- At 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb- about ten weeks or until the rains sary into some regions. Our little ruary 21, we were finally able to come. Cessna doesn't carry much food. make telephone contact with our They kept asking, "When do we Sometimes we try to take along a college at Kuyera. We learned that come back for the grain?" It was bit for the passengers, but its maxi- the two police trucks had loaded hard for them to realize that the mum payload is 800 pounds—about and left around 2:00 p.m. the day grain was actually there and all three sacks of grain. before. Calculating that it would they had to do was go through line There is no doubt that transpor- take them about a day to drive to and receive it. But as those who tation is the greatest problem we Negele Borana, we decided to leave received grain began to emerge are facing. The vice-governor of Addis Ababa at 12:00 by plane. Ac- from the warehouse, their faces Bale province has come before our companying us were Toby Gooch beaming, the others began to rea- committee twice to request our as- of Oxfam, who wanted to visit the lize that at long last they were go- sistance. The Department of Fa- affected areas of the south, and ing to have something more to eat. mine Relief has given him 30,000 Representative to Parliament Ato Of the 170,000 affected by the sacks of grain, and he would like us Debissa Arerro, who had first re- drought in the Negele Borana area, to help him distribute it. At first the quested us to send help to his peo- we recognized that only about 10,- governor planned to pay for haul- ple. 000 could be helped by SAWS. Some ing all the grain to these two cen- By the time we reached Negele walked for six hours to get their ters, and we would distribute it Borana the trucks had arrived. Ge- grain. On Friday, March 1, a tele- from there. He has three Mercedes bre Michael had accompanied the phone conversation with the team five-ton trucks which are nearly trucks, and together we visited the informed us that the grain was ex- new but are idle because he has governor again. He was very glad hausted and that a total of 1,477 not sufficient funds in his provincial to see us and offered the use of a families representing 11,380 per- budget to pay for new tires and large warehouse nearby for distrib- sons had received allotments. Un- some small repairs. We agreed to uting the grain. It was necessary fortunately, the police trucks could purchase 18 tires, pay for the minor for those of us who came by plane not be sent back with more grain repairs, and buy the fuel. He would to return soon in order to reach Ad- last week because of political un- furnish the drivers for the three

4— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 Waiting hungrily— hoping— and hope fulfilled.

clothes and bedding and helped them become a part of the school family. We found our SAWS team ready to go. S. F. Petersen, the business manager, lent us his VW bus, and we loaded the four boys and their trucks and place them at our dis- camping equipment and started for posal, and our teams would distrib- Goba, the capital of Bale Province. ute the food according to our It was 9:30 p.m. when we arrived, method. Then came the problem. but the governor received us in his The government sought bids for home even at that late hour. The hauling the grain to Ginir and El heavy rains had made most of the Kere. One bidder asked $20 per roads impassable, but he thought sack, then decided he could not we could get as far as Goro, where send his trucks into El Kere. We supply the much-needed food. trucks had left some grain. He had have now purchased the tires for a Meanwhile, the undernourished sent notices to the surrounding vil- total of $4,600 and paid the garage will feel the cold that comes with lages. We had arrived just in time bill for starter repair dated Decem- the rains, and no doubt death will to help in the distribution. He asked ber 23, 1973, and which came to a increase. the police to furnish a Land Rover little over $500. We have bought It is natural for parents to give to take him, and next morning we 50 drums of diesel fuel, and our Ad- the last of their food to their chil- started on ahead with our VW. ventist lumber merchant has loaded dren so that they can survive. This It was only 75 kilometers to Goro; the tires and drums on one of his means that there are many children but after hours, pushing the vehicle trucks and will deliver them to being left homeless and orphans as through mud eight times, we came Goba Bale for us without charge. a result of the famine. We are ex- to a swollen river which proved too Our team has returned from Negele pecting many requests to come in deep for our confidence. We turned Borana, and some will go with the for child care. around and started back and met grain and organize the distribution the governor in the Land Rover. He in harmony with the method used April 5, 1974 took the boys and their gear aboard in Sidamo Province. Last Friday I This will be my last report from and went on into Goro. We re- placed a request with the CRC Ethiopia. It hardly seems possible turned to Goba. executive committee for $15,000 to that my three months are about up. I could tell you much more. Ed help with the transportation of There is much to do, and I am glad Rolita is very enthusiastic about his grain to Bale Province. Last night that Ed Rolita can now dedicate plan to teach the people how to the request was approved, and to- full time and Gebre Michael part grow vegetables even in very dry day we have the check in hand. time to directing the relief work. It conditions. Government officials This is the first time the govern- is in good hands. I have become have assured him they will back ment and a voluntary agency have rather emotionally involved with him whenever he is ready to begin. worked together in a feeding pro- the work and the people here, and Gebre Michael has over 90 volun- gram, and all are interested in the it will be painful to leave. teers at the Kuyera College to outcome. Last week we took two orphan spend the summer months helping While the rains seem to be nor- boys aged 12 and 14 to our college in different sections of the country. mal so far this year, it will take sev- at Kuyera. The teachers were glad Please continue to pray for Ethio- eral months before a harvest will to take them in and gave them pia. ❑

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PHOTOS BY MARY LOU ANDERSON Serving the World/Fiji Islands

No one dreamed what the day tor Kabu fought his way to the would bring forth. Of course, it church to secure the windows and was common knowledge that there doors, thinking the storm would was a hurricane in the area, but soon pass. there wasn't a chance in a million it By nine o'clock he feared for the HELP would come to them. Twenty years safety of some of his members who ago a hurricane hit the Yasawa Is- lived in thatched homes in a nearby lands and badly bruised Suva. But village. Steering his car through this was the dry season for Ba and flying debris, he successfully AFTER A Lautoka, and rain was just out of brought them to the comparative the question. safety of the church. THEN BEBE! Business houses closed, and shut- HURRICANE Suddenly a notice came over the ters went up; working people strug- radio in three languages that Bebe gled to their homes. By eleven had changed course and would pass o'clock the hurricane was in full directly over Lautoka and Nandi. swing, and our pastor thought of R. G. Robinson Pastor Aisake Kabu, Director of Ad- the safety of his own home and ventist churches in the Western family. Travel was virtually impos- Director of Adventist Community Services District, was busily engaged in his sible, but with a prayer he endeav- in the Central Pacific. work and did not hear the radio ored to drive home. warning; he was unaware of the im- On the way he saw trees being pending storm. However, as the uprooted and roofs being torn from In the northern town of Lautoka sky changed color and dark clouds buildings. Sheets of corrugated iron in the Fiji Islands everyone went banked up, he became suspicious. whirled in the air about him. It off to work as usual on that fateful Soon rain began to pound down, was a terrible sight, and the wind Tuesday morning, October 24, 1972. followed by gale-force winds. Pas- screamed at anything it could not

6— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 Hurricane Bebe devastated the Fiji Islands last October. R. G. Robinson was right there leading the first rescue teams. He wrote this report while the rescue work was going on.

Far left Only the floor was left on house in foreground; the roof blew off the house be- hind. So the floor was made into a roof!

Top Quiet seas permit supplies to reach Maloto.

Bottom Another roof blew off and sits intact as loaded rescu- ers start into the bush seek- ing refugees. move. He steered past trees strewn They came to what used to be battered house. Most of these peo- across the roadway and around sev- the home of a lay preacher of an- ple were Hindus, but they recog- eral abandoned cars. Some were other denomination. The top story nized our pastor and thanked him under trees, and others were badly had blown away, but the under- for helping them. dented. Feeling that the Lord had neath portion of the building, surely helped, Pastor Kabu finally though leaking badly, was holding Protection From the Storm reached home without mishap. together. The old man had diffi- Next morning Pastor Kabu drove culty squeezing through the door, into a valley where 95 percent of Homes Disintegrated and for good reason! One hundred the homes were wrecked. Many By noon many homes had blown and thirty people were already people did not know where their away, and their occupants were crammed inside, wet, shivering, loved ones were. One lad had been braving the storm in the streets and and hungry. killed instantly by a piece of flying looking for cover. Old Indian Pastor Kabu braved the elements roofing iron that cut his throat. It women were suffering on the sides again—this time to see the very wor- was impossible to work just then, of the road unable to stand. Young ried D.O. ( government district of- and the pastor had to return the men tried to help them as well as ficer) and ask for some kind of help next morning to survey that area. mothers with babies. Talking was for this desperate situation. The However, before leaving, he looked difficult, and many a cry went un- D.O. said, "If you can get anything for some of his members who lived heard. Pastor Kabu personally saw from any of the shops in town, have there. people narrowly missed by falling it charged to the government and He knew his prayers for their trees. There was also the peril of take it to those poor people." Al- safety had been answered when he stepping on fallen electric power though it was midnight, Pastor saw the two homes of his members cables. Kabu saw someone in a shop and absolutely intact and their owners In the evening he felt impressed was able to load up his car with safe. These two homes were both to go out in his car again. He saw milk and other basic provisions. filled with refugees; there was an old man trying to get back to a Rattling his way down the cluttered barely standing room. People of all shelter, so he stopped to assist him. roads, he finally arrived back at the ages were crammed in, and they

PHOTOS BY I. KABU SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 —7 People were digging their mattresses out of the mud and trying to wash them in the muddy

had been in that position all day the Red Cross was doing. A few services, we were directed to St. and all night. They told the Ad- days later New Zealand sent many John. Then Naomi, our Community ventists that their God must be a tons of urgently needed items. Our Services Organization president, strong God to be able to protect people were happy to help the Red contacted the director of St. John their property in the face of such a Cross even though they themselves Ambulance. The director told her, hurricane. No harm came to any received no credit for it in the New "I have no experience in this work; who had entered those two homes. Zealand newspapers; it was a case it is just not in my line. I know the Was it any wonder that on Satur- of getting the job done. Two Land Adventist people can do it very day morning a number of these Rovers complete with drivers were well. Now that you are here, I will people attended church with our supplied by the government to be finish up, and the responsibility of believers? at the disposal of our welfare work- distributing clothing is in your ers to deliver supplies to needy hands." He then mentioned this to Relief Truck areas. the commissioner, and all their ser- On Wednesday the Adventist vices were placed at our disposal. Community Services Organization Some Big Questions We distributed clothing. The food in Suva attempted to send 150 bags There have been some villages was distributed by the government. of clothing through to the Lautoka where Adventist church workers and Ba areas. With the truck had never been allowed to enter. Thanks to New Zealand clearly marked "Seventh-day Ad- When our people arrived in govern- In this area we are supplied by ventist Hurricane Relief Supplies," ment-driven Land Rovers, villagers the Adventist churches of New Zea- the driver set off on the five-hour there said, "Where is the govern- land. Thanks to the support of journey. The narrow winding road ment; why aren't they coming to women members there, we have was blocked in many places, and help us?" Our answer was, "The been able to supply more than 360 the highway department had every government is happy for us to take bags of clothing, but there is still a available man and machine out over this work, because we are pre- big work in front of us. Fiji's pleas- clearing up. When the truck driver pared for it." Often the people next ant climate usually allows the wear- found himself in long lines of cars, asked us, "Where is our minister, ing of minimum clothing, with only people beckoned him on so that he for we don't know where he is?" a bed sheet for covering at night. could go to the front, and on a num- Then they would say, "It is strange This year, even in November, we ber of occasions bulldozers towed that Seventh-day Adventists come have been glad for a blanket. This him across the rough places. At two to help us, especially when you cold intensifies the present clothing o'clock the following morning, just know you have no members here." and blanket crisis. Teams were 15 hours after leaving Suva, the We explained that we loved them, organized to survey the different truck arrived in Lautoka. By day- and that where there was a need, areas. After lists were made out, break our people were unloading we wanted to help. parcels for the various individuals the truck and preparing for distri- Naturally this has been a very or families were made up at the bution. A little later an additional busy time for our members. Stop- base. Then survey teams returned 50 bags were sent. ping only for a little sleep and to the people with the clothes. This necessary food, they have pressed was a sure way of knowing that Red Cross Manned on tirelessly; surely good will come every garment met a definite need. When the D.O. came to the Red out of it all. God has been so good Cross center, which is near our to us. We know of no injuries sus- Working for Methodists church, he saw the clothing being tained by our people. Some have The Methodist training center unloaded. He said, "The Seventh- lost their homes and crops ( the was turned into a refugee camp. day Adventists seem to be the only damage to church property is esti- We received permission from the people who are doing anything mated at $15,000 ), but praise God Methodist minister to visit there so around here. Could you come over for life itself. Our welfare workers that we could ascertain their needs and help the Red Cross as well?" are covering every area, including for clothing. He was pleased to re- Pastor Kabu divided the church some places they have never visited ceive our help, as most people had into two groups, and the govern- before. lost everything. In three hours we ment handed over the food rations had satisfied everyone in that cen- so that our folk could supply those Let the Adventists Do It ter. In another school we visited in need. The city of Suva is in what is there was no drinking water, and Cameramen who flew up from called the Central District. At first the people were crammed into the New Zealand were soon on the all welfare cases were referred to classrooms; some of the children scene taking pictures to show the the St. John Ambulance. When we were sucking cucumbers to obtain people back in the homeland what reminded the government of our moisture.

8— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 river. It was a pitiful sight.

Our workers wore the distinctive of destruction were scattered ev- Fire Walkers Visited Dorcas-Welfare Society uniform; it erywhere. Although it was the Sab- The government arranged car is proving to be a great advantage, bath, the women worked very hard and boat transport for Naomi to for it has opened up a number of sorting clothes and making up the visit Bega, which is the Fijian fire rare privileges. Service has been parcels. They gave out overcoats walker's island, and the people immediate at any government and long warm skirts to be used as there asked her why she had come. counter, and no questions were blankets. Several carloads of tired She told them the commissioner asked if we used police, post office, welfare workers returned to Suva had asked her to, and they asked, or other government department that night, but after a good sleep "Why did he send the Seventh-day telephones or equipment. they were back on the job Sunday Adventists and not our church?" morning. This time we were pro- Government Helpers Supplied Naomi told them that we have the moted to the post office building, clothes and the helpers and we love At Naysori we took over the gov- where we had more room to work. to help people. Now the fire walk- ernment buildings as our base to The police were eager to help us ers receive us "warmly." sort clothes. Hungry people soon carry the bags over. In the process Youth Are Into It appeared on the scene, asking for we found out why. food which the government person- The night before, a couple of The young people of the Suva nel supplied from the main coun- drunks had been giving trouble, and district hired a bus and then a boat ter. They then lined up for cloth- the police wanted to lock them up to visit a nearby island where they ing, but we had no way of telling for the night. However, this was built a home on the Sunday follow- who was in genuine need. The D.O. impossible because the cells were ing the storm. They have been supplied an expert who knew the filled with our welfare clothing, so working on many other projects too, language and the people, and after the police took another action. They and we are proud of them. The careful screening half the crowd beat the two men, sent them home, children are bright. One observed melted away. We also valued our and closed the saloon until further that Bebe means "butterfly" in Fi- Indian and Fijian workers who notice. It seemed to me that they jian. Some butterfly! were indispensable when it came to were working on the idea that it At Fulton College ( an Adventist the interviews. was no use having the saloon open school ), the crops were cut to save the roots, but food will be a scarce Navua Flood Victims unless the jail was able to cope with resultant misbehavior. One made item early next year. The neighbor- After seeing how organized we the other necessary. ing farm lost more than half of its were, the government asked us to livestock, but the Fulton dairy lost go down to Navua, a town some 25 Barrier Broken only one calf out of 1,160 head of miles west where there had been In one of these areas our people cattle. We thank the Lord for this. severe flooding. Two Public Works had been trying to visit for over Dennis Tame and his family live Department trucks were placed at two years, but the chief would not in an old house soon to be demol- our disposal. We filled them with allow Adventists near his village. ished to make way for the proposed bags of clothes and sent them to Several months before Bebe, our new men's dormitory. For safety's Navua. About one hour later we welfare women arrived in a bus sake they abandoned their old place had more or less taken over the with some clothing, but the chief and took refuge in a new two-year- available space in the Navua police said he did not want Seventh-day old home. Just to be really safe station, including two empty pri- Adventist clothes given to his peo- Dennis Tame roped down the roof son cells. This became our sorting ple, not even to the old people and of the new house, but before he station, while our three survey children. This same man was ap- had finished some sheets of iron teams went out by government proached on this occasion, and the were blown off. One sixth of the transport to list the needs. We used people were in such desperate need roof was lost and two garages were Land Rovers, boats, and trucks. that he let us in. Runners soon had blown away, leaving the cars un- Everywhere we went people the lists back at the post office damaged. What happened to the were trying to light fires to boil the where the women made up the old house? Nothing! muddy water so they could drink it. bundles, and they were quickly We are grateful to God for what The smell of hundreds of dead cows given to their new owners. The has been saved. Surely He will caught high up in the trees was chief could hardly believe his eyes bring about some good out of this overpowering. One pathetic sight when he saw help come so quickly, tragic experience. We look forward was to see people digging mat- and he told our Community Ser- to the day when the work on earth tresses out of the mud, washing vices Organization president, "You is finished and we can go home to them in the muddy river, and then can come back here at any time you heaven where there will be no laying them out to dry. Evidences like now." storms or human suffering. ❑

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 - 9 • / • Serving the world/Nebraska A \c 1s h nor 11

The Good Neighbor Center in Lincoln is already serving the community in bold new ways.

Top left Many volunteers help provide clothing, keep it neat.

Top right Trained dietitians teach classes in food and cooking.

Right Even children are considered very important persons.

It doesn't look like a welfare cen- come here we want them to think She has already secured the ser- ter. The director's interview room of us as their friends. It's the first vices of various professional people has the atmosphere of a living move toward making them feel they in the area, including professors room, furnished in Mediterranean have personal worth." from nearby Union College, person- and Early American. The center is well stocked with nel from the Red Cross, and two And it isn't a welfare center. Its clothing, bedding, and food and instructors of the Frank Lauback scope and outreach are far greater. provides for people temporarily in "Each One Teach One" method of It's the new Seventh-day Adventist need. teaching adults to read and write. Good Neighbor Center in Lincoln, But its primary function is to Ministers are involved too. Nebraska. reach out to the entire city of Lin- So are many public and private "We chose this name," says direc- coln with an educational program. agencies. Says Mrs. Roper, "We tor Hulda Roper, a former police- "We plan to make classwork our have Lutheran Family Service, woman, "because when people major thrust," Mrs. Roper explains. Catholic Social Service Bureau, Lin-

10— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 PHOTOS BY J. B. GRAY DraKa Maria A. Butler

Top Clothes are displayed for easy selection.

Left Mrs. Roper arrives for work with her arms loaded with new material.

Bottom The check-out counter has no cash register.

coin Council on Alcoholism and a Saturday afternoon story hour di- classes, baby-sitting classes, and Drugs, and many others. When I rected by students from Union Col- classes to teach young mothers the was in the police department, I lege, several Five-Day Plans to basics of nutrition. worked closely with all of them and Stop Smoking, and a course in "We need to teach parents how have very good working relation- "groovy snacks" to teach teen-agers to be better parents," Mrs. Roper ships with them. They call on us; I how to prepare healthful refresh- says, "especially women how to be call on them." ments for their parties without the better homemakers, better compan- One of the first programs the cen- use of alcoholic beverages. Boys ions, and how to communicate bet- ter held was a series of classes to and girls from all social levels at- ter with their children and hus- teach retarded individuals the ba- tended these classes, including bands. They should realize how sics of nutrition and food prepara- some on probation. important their position is in the tion. On the center's agenda for the home." Other programs so far have been future are plans for home-nursing (Continued on. page 31)

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Serving the World/Australia A FLOOD DOWN UNDER George W. Maywald Director of Adventist Community Services in Australia

Ninety inches of rain in two days resulted in the worst flood in Brisbane since 1893.

Cleaning up after the flood in Brisbane.

The last weekend of January, partly submerged, 20 were swept Distribution centers were opened, 1974, saw the worst flood in the his- away. Shops, warehouses, store- and through them we gave out tory of Brisbane, Australia, since houses, factories were engulfed. many thousands of articles. Ad- 1893. Up to 90 inches of rain fell in Damage was estimated at $200,000,- . ventist school buses were used to little more than two days in parts 000. take canned food, fruit, and cloth- of the catchment area of the Bris- Some people waited as long as ing from door to door in the bane River, which winds through four days before they could reen- stricken areas. our city of nearly one million popu- ter their homes. In the meantime Adventist women were soon man- lation. Hurricane Wanda came the contents were swimming in the ning community and mobile kitch- down the Queensland coast and murky, greasy, slimy water. ens. The government appointed our went inland, pouring its heavy bur- Within minutes of realizing what lay activities director, Pastor E. A. den of water on the hills. was happening, skilled women of Robinson, as welfare director for With a strong easterly whipping the Community Services of the Sev- civil defense. Thus he controlled waves to nearly 20 feet and with a enth-day Adventist Church opened the importation, handling, and dis- king tide blocking the mountainous receiving depots for donations of tribution of relief food for the water coming down, stream banks food, clothing, and furniture. Ra- whole city. were unable to contain the deluge. dio announcements directed people As the waters receded, Adventist Soon beautiful homes along the wa- to these receiving centers. The un- men, women, youth, and children ter's edge were threatened. Within scathed from miles around re- joined thousands of others in a hours, almost entire suburbs were sponded when they heard, and soon mammoth clean-up program. flooded. People had to be evacu- we had truckloads of gifts arriving. As the people became settled ated fast. Accommodation centers Adventist youth and youngsters again, opportunities came to bring had to be found or established. In went door to door on food and spiritual help to these deeply all, 13,000 homes were totally or clothing drives. shocked families. 0

12— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 Serving the World/Minnesota A FIRE IN THE NIGHT W. G. Larson Director of Adventist Community Sery ices for the North Central States.

The insistent ringing of a tele- "There was nothing between her phone jabbed into the quiet night. and the tank. Just as she stepped A 10,000-gallon Bernard Furst half opened a sleepy out, it blew." tank of propane eye and looked at his watch. Ex- Out of the horror-filled night blew up outside an actly 3:30 a.m. He picked up the came many stories of narrow es- receiver. cape, of heroism, of rescue, of apartment house "Bernard." The voice belonged to prayer and hopefulness, along with at 12:40 a.m. R. C. Schwartz, president of the stories of utter despair. One stunned Minnesota Conference of Seventh- onlooker, 17-year-old Greg Wil- day Adventists. "A terrible explo- liams, graphically described the sion has just occurred at the Bellow maddening chaos: "It looked like Courts and Charlton Park Apart- the end of the world." ments in Saint Paul. I understand it The voice of disaster in the night isn't just an ordinary 'run-of-the- sounded far and wide. Pastor Furst mill' thing; it's pretty bad! I think set up a clothing and bedding de- you really ought to get in touch pot in the old armory in Saint Paul. with the Red Cross right away." In a matter of hours Adventist lay- Bernard Furst is the director of men and clergy alike responded to Community Services for the Sev- the need. For long hours after the enth-day Adventist Church in Min- center closed at night these volun- nesota. This was his introduction teers worked willingly and tirelessly to the devastating fire that eventu- to get the clothing arranged by size ally reached and exploded a 10,000- so that serving would be faster and gallon propane storage tank in the easier the next day. courtyard of an apartment complex Janet Neikirk stood on a chair in in Saint Paul at 12:40 a.m., January her dark bedroom and looked 11, 1974. The explosion hurled toward the pink hue of the fire six chunks of metal hundreds of feet, blocks away as she worried about shook houses six blocks away, her husband, a volunteer fireman. spewed flames 150 feet into the air, "All of a sudden there was a boom killed four, and destroyed 200 like an atomic explosion," she re- apartments. called. "I could feel the warmth of Firemen fought in sub-zero weather. Furst knew what to do. In just a the explosion on my face as if the few hours the conference's disaster sun was shining through the win- Janet Neikirk with her daughters. She van and a convoy of cars carrying dow." She added quietly, "I am saw the blast that killed her husband. clothing and bedding and blankets glad I saw it. I understand now were on their way to the stricken how he died." area. And, as he had anticipated, Nothing short of an atomic blast the Red Cross was eager for Sev- could have equaled the destruction enth-day Adventists to take charge wrought by this fire, one of the of the clothing distribution. most disastrous ever to strike the In 10°-below-zero weather hun- Twin Cities of Minneapolis-Saint dreds of apartment residents had Paul. fled their homes wearing little more Though the fire has long since than night clothes and overcoats. been extinguished, the people in- They were happy for the clothes volved will never forget it. One they received from the Community businessman said, "I know you peo- Services van. ple. I give a donation to your In- Mrs. Peterson and her husband gathering program every year, but had just finished alerting residents next year I mean to do even better." in their 54-unit apartment when The Adventist Church counts it she was mortally injured by a piece a privilege to minister to those who of flying metal. "She got everybody suffer in catastrophies the world out but herself," said her husband. around. ❑ MINNEAPOLIS STAR

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Serving the World/A deeply ingrained philosophy

A

THAT

HEALS Henry M. Porter, for whom the hospital was named.

LaVonne Neff

Here's a church that believes it should be as concerned about sickness as it is about sin.

In 1900 you could tell a Seventh- quite radical ideas of good health. ber 100,000 for a complete physical day Adventist by the peanut butter It was originally named the West- examination. on his breath. ern Health Reform Institute, but "Biologic living" has become Concocted in the 1890's by an Kellogg renamed it the Medical famous, but its relationship to the Adventist physician, Dr. John Har- and Surgical Sanitarium in 1876 real message of Seventh-day Ad- vey Kellogg, peanut butter quickly when he, at the age of 24, became ventism was but little known. The gained wide national acceptance its director. In two years the num- Adventist Church was built on and lost its denominational conno- ber of patients at the sanitarium al- more than peanut butter. tations. But others of Dr. Kellogg's most tripled; its profit more than In the 1840's and 50's Adventists ideas remained to identify loyal Ad- tripled; and donations to the poor proclaimed that Jesus was coming ventists. Vegetarianism. Abstinence increased almost 1,000 percent. soon. "His coming is near, even at from alcohol, tobacco, tea, and cof- By the early twentieth century the doors," they cried. "Prepare ye fee. Simple clothing, free from Kellogg's sanitarium had estab- the way of the Lord." Through long hoops and bustles and flowing lished a reputation that attracted days and nights of intensive study, trains. Water treatments for conta- statesmen, scholars, entertainers, aided by the Holy Spirit, these pio- gious diseases. In short, the system and financial barons. William Jen- neer Adventists came to understand that Dr. Kellogg dubbed "biologic nings Bryan, Will Durant, Eddie the importance of complete righ- living." Cantor, Alfred DuPont, John D. teousness before God. They ear- In Battle Creek, Michigan, the Rockefeller, Jr.—all shared a first- Adventists had one grand and glo- hand acquaintance with the Battle LaVonne Neff is becoming well-known rious institution that promoted Creek Sanitarium. William How- as a writer for her frequent excellent what were then considered to be ard Taft registered as patient num- articles in the "Signs."

14— SIGNS OF THE TIMES-SEPTEMBER 1974 Porter Memorial Hospital, Denver, Colorado. nestly sought to rid their lives of sin ers to build health institutions Healer in restoring bodies as well and to follow all of God's require- where the distinctively Adventist as souls. ments. They diligently studied to message could be taught. A few thousand Adventists could show themselves approved unto Most Adventists soon saw the tell their neighbors that Jesus God, rightly dividing the word of wisdom of Mrs. White's practical would soon appear in the clouds of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15. advice. When they paid attention heaven. They could hold evangelis- By 1863, when the Seventh-day to diet, exercise, and rest, their tic meetings to explain Bible proph- Adventist Church was formally or- minds were clear to study the ecies and to uphold the eternal law ganized, many of its leaders were Word. Their bodies were strong to of God. They could even open pri- broken in health. The years of ar- preach what they learned. And mary schools for their children to duous work and study and the long when they applied natural methods instruct them in God's Book from hours had put too much strain on of treating disease—physical ther- their earliest years. But how could their weak constitutions. apy rather than opium, calomel, ar- a few thousand Adventists open a At this time Ellen White, wife of senic, and strychnine—their mor- medical institution? one of the church's founders, James tality rate plummeted. Many saw Faith began to operate. Believ- White, saw in vision the importance the wisdom in Mrs. White's re- ing that God had instructed them to of good health to the struggling peated statements that "true educa- proclaim the healing of the body young church. The message for the tion . . . is the harmonious devel- along with the healing of the soul, last days included more than whole- opment of the physical, the mental, a few brave Adventists opened the ness of spirit and mind. It included and the spiritual powers."—Educa- Western Health Reform Institute in wholeness of body as well. Mrs. tion, page 13. They saw the need 1866, with "two doctors, two bath White encouraged the church lead- to follow the example of the Master attendants, one nurse, three or four

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 -15 Several hospitals have been given to the Adventists, complete and fully paid for. helpers, one patient, any amount of the San Fernando Valley. Valued But Ellen White didn't. She con- inconveniences, and a great deal of at $40,000, the property with build- tinued to investigate the property faith in the future of the institution ings sold for only $10,000. and soon discovered that the sale and the principles on which it was As soon as the San Fernando price had been reduced to $85,000. founded." property was secure, Mrs. White Still too high. But when the Ad- As could be expected, the Insti- and other church leaders went to ventists made their third inquiry, tute was in real financial trouble San Diego. In the suburb of Para- they discovered that the financially within two years. But to the sur- dise Valley they found a well-land- burdened stockholders had ordered prise of many, it weathered the scaped 20 acres with a three-story the place sold for $40,000. The Ad- storm, and within a decade it was sanitarium already on it. Formerly ventists bought it. keeping within its budget. By the valued at $25,000, the property was Now, it may be impressive to turn of the century it had sister in- on the market for only $12,000. To read about a church that values stitutions in California, Nebraska, debt-ridden California Adventists physical and mental health along Colorado, Massachusetts, Oregon, struggling to operate in the black, with spiritual health. It may be Iowa, Ohio, and Washington. It the price was not right. fascinating to learn of institution had added a school of nursing and Two years later the price after institution bought for a frac- a fully accredited four-year school dropped. The Adventists bought tion of its original price. But it of medicine. Books and pamphlets the Paradise Valley Sanitarium for wouldn't be too surprising to learn on healthful living poured out of only $4,000, and just in the nick of that the church was unable to meet the Review and Herald press in time. Even while the papers were payments, would it? Battle Creek. Kellogg's magazine being signed to close the deal, a Many Adventists feared just that Good Health circulated millions of letter was enroute from New York possibility. The General Confer- copies. A young church was learn- to the owners offering $6,000 for the ence — in Washington, D.C. — ing that God rewards those who property. frowned on the California pur- move forward in faith. The same year, 1904, the church chases. Many California church It was time, in 1902, to embark on bought the Glendale Hotel. Valued members gloomily predicted bank- a new adventure. at $50,000, it sold for only $12,000. ruptcy and disgrace. But money In 1874 only about five hundred The Adventists went right to work started to come in. Adventists lived in the whole state to turn it into a sanitarium. Some members borrowed large of California. In 1902 over a thou- Within two years the southern sums on their personal accounts to sand lived in southern California California Adventists had pur- pay off the church's debts. Some alone. The growth rate may have chased one school and two sanitar- offered to mortgage their homes. been encouraging, but many south- iums. Now, perhaps, they could Completely unexpected gifts came ern California Adventists were not pay off their debts and try to put a through the mails. Which is not to the least bit encouraged by Ellen little money in the bank. They say that the Adventist leaders were White's newest idea. hadn't counted on Mrs. White's vi- free from fear. On September 5 she wrote to A. sion for the Adventist medical To the contrary, they were sick G. Daniells, president of the Gen- work. with worry as the calendar showed eral Conference of Seventh-day "We need more than two sani- payment-due dates creeping closer Adventists: "Brother Daniells, con- tariums in southern California," she and closer. Through the generosity stantly the Lord is keeping south- insisted. "We also need a training of church members, $5,000 had ern California before me as a place school for medical workers. It's not been put down on the Loma Linda where we must establish medical Paradise Valley, and it's not Glen- property. Any subsequent default institutions." dale. We'll find it if we keep look- would cause the church members to The brethren were flabbergasted. ing." lose both the property and the They had just voted a no-debt pol- They found what they needed in money already invested in it. Now icy. The times did not seem right Loma Linda. Seventy-six acres of the second $5,000 was due, and no for any new institutions, let alone land, eighteen planted in fruit trees money was in sight. Every south- several in southern California. Mrs. and fifteen in alfalfa. The rest of ern California Adventist had al- White assured them that "the Lord the property landscaped in lawns, ready given as much as he could. has given me instruction that He is drives, and walks. A main building Northern Californians refused to preparing the way for our people with 64 rooms. Four four-room cot- help on the grounds that church to obtain possession, at little cost, of tages. A large recreation hall. The leaders had counseled against the properties on which there are build- steam-heated, electrically lighted purchase in the first place. ings that can be utilized in our buildings in perfect condition. Live- Now it was the morning of the work." The brethren weren't so stock, farm equipment, an abun- day when the second payment was confident. dance of water. Asking price on due. Leaders assembled in com- Their faltering faith was strength- the $150,000 investment: $110,000. mittee. Those who had initially ened that same year when they The Adventists sighed and turned favored the purchase tried to de- were able to purchase a school in to other business. fend their position while the more

16— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 reluctant blamed them for the im- pending disaster. Someone sug- gested that the morning mail might bring relief. In a few minutes the postman -climbed the stairs and delivered the mail. One letter was from an Ad- ..ventist lady in Atlantic City. Mrs. White had written her about the needs in California, and she had felt impressed to give a donation. The amount of her check: $5,000. Not every payment was supplied by providential checks. Church members continued to empty their pockets. But in the end southern California Adventists owned three Open-heart surgery. Porter's intensive care unit. sanitariums and a medical school— debt free. Almost every part of the world has an Adventist medical center to- day. From Addis Ababa to Wah- check for the balance-45 cents. Adventists are healthy. The Octo- roonga, Adventists carry their The good care and the honesty of ber 10, 1966, issue of the Journal of message of God's power to heal both Adventistosanitariums made a the American Medical Association body, mind, and spirit. Every hos- lasting impression on Henry Por- reported research done by Drs. F. pital has its own history. Some are ter. Two months after his dis- R. Lemon and R. T. Walden show- built on faithful sacrifice; some on charge from Paradise Valley he ing the low incidence of respiratory unexpected generosity. The hospi- wrote to the credit manager: "Can disease among Seventh-day Advent- tal in Denver, Colorado, belongs to you give me the address of the gen- ists. Other research by the same the second group. eral manager of your various cor- two doctors confirms that death A Denver banker, Henry M. Por- porations, as I would like to cor- rates from cancer and heart disease ter, liked to winter in southern Cali- respond with him in regard to are lower among Adventists than fornia. While staying with his establishing a like institution in among the population at large. daughter in Pasadena, he caught a Denver." Currently the National Cancer In- bad cold. She suggested that he try And so in 1928 the Porter Memo- stitute and the Loma Linda -Uni- a hydrotherapy treatment at the rial Hospital was born. Located on versity School of Health are con- nearby Glendale Sanitarium. 40 acres in south Denver which ducting a joint study "to determine The banker's symptoms were so were part of the original Porter es- which components of the Adventist relieved that he fell asleep on the tate, the hospital today serves the life-style may account for their treatment table. Awakening, he of- area with 285 beds. lower risk of developing cancer, fered the therapist a dollar tip. The Adventist medical work heart disease, and other serious ill- "No, sir," said the boy. "I'm paid by grew. In 1916 the women of the nesses." the hospital, and I couldn't accept church raised the money to build In 1974 Adventists are healthy. further payment." The banker filed the White Memorial Medical Cen- We ought to be—we have spent away the incident in his mind. ter, which now has 305 beds in over a century preaching .redemp- A few years later Porter and his downtown Los Angeles. The Loma tion of body, mind, and spirit. But wife were vacationing at the Hotel Linda medical training school soon if we are still known only for our del Coronado near San Diego when became a first-rate school of medi- interest in health, our message has he came down with another cold. cine, adding a school of dentistry been incomplete. He asked around until he discov- in 1953. Food factories were estab- Before Jesus healed the paralytic, ered the existence of the Paradise lished around the world to produce He said, "Your sins are forgiven." Valley Sanitarium. He immediately protein foods of vegetable origin. Mark 2:5, RSV. With Jesus spiri- checked in. Today health publications such tual and physical healing went The hydrotherapy treatments re- as Life and Health and Listen cir- hand in hand. The Seventh-day laxed him, his cold improved, and culate widely. Home nutrition in- Adventist Church, like its Leader, he was well impressed with the structors licensed by the General believes in restoring the whole man. courteous care the nurses gave to Conference hold cooking schools "Beloved, I wish above all things all the patients. He paid his bill emphasizing meatless cookery. that thou mayest prosper and be in and returned to Denver. Within Five-Day Plans to Stop Smoking health, even as thy soul prospvr- a week the sanitarium accountants are conducted in churches, schools, eth." 3 John 2. discovered they had overcharged and even subway trains to help peo- Anything less than this is not Porter, so they mailed him a refund ple overcome the smoking habit. enough. ❑

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 - 17 Serving the World/A long-standing concept 3LA7ER OF A GLORIOUS PAIL

Daniel Walther

One hundred years ago this month John N. Andrews sailed from New York for Switzerland, pioneering the glorious trail of service to the world which so many thousands of Adventists have followed since he led the way.

A young widower with two teen- expressed by some of the American It may be safely stated that An- age children sailed from Boston on fellow workers who in 1878 wrote drews was a pioneering missionary the S.S. Atlas 100 years ago this a letter to the "Dear brethren in in the correct, original meaning of month, September, 1874. After Switzerland" who "neglected to see the word: "one sent." eleven days of rough weather they in Andrews a servant of God." He landed in Liverpool, England, and was, they wrote, entitled "to more Who was John Nevins Andrews? a month later reached their destina- sympathy, love, and cooperation." He was a typical American whose tion—Switzerland. They were reminded that "when a ancestors had come to America just John Nevins Andrews—the name call came from Europe for help, we 14 years after the first landing of of the traveling widower—was the sent you the ablest man in all of the Mayflower. He was born in first officially appointed representa- our ranks." The real genuine, hon- Portland, Maine, in 1829 and died tive to be sent abroad by the Sev- est, and warm nature of the Swiss in 1883 in Basel, Switzerland. In enth-day Adventist Church, which brethren revealed itself later on. the short span of his life he pro- had been organized only 11 years If Andrews was not prepared for duced an amazing and fruitful before. the task, neither were his fellow work. It is nigh to impossible to Although Switzerland was a workers in America. It was their gauge completely a man's life, for heartland of the Reformation, An- first experience in sending a worker it is too often hidden by a reputa- drews often felt like a foreign mis- overseas. Their official call to send tion that may not tell the whole sionary. As an American, he was Andrews to Europe was voted on story. However, in the case of J. N. among strangers. He was unable to August 15, 1874, and he sailed on Andrews there were a number of use the Swiss languages (German September 15. remarkable traits already apparent or French ). And he met with a As a minister preaching in a for- in his youth. way of living and thinking that was eign country, Andrews was called Physically he was never robust; foreign to his own. No one had upon to bring a specific message to he was ill a good part of his life. prepared him for his task. Probably Christians who were, in too many In an early letter he wrote, "I loved no one could have. One hundred cases, dried up in traditional religi- severe study much more ardently years ago, when world travel was osity. He was to present an urgent than I did any of the sports." In- on a very reduced scale, national message pertaining to their time. deed, among his fellow workers, in traits were even more pronounced The signs of those times were to be America and Europe, he was known than today. noticed and explained according to for the excellence of his trained The Swiss Andrews met did not, the unfamiliar prophetic books of mind and his taste for substantial at first, respond to his appeal for Daniel and Revelation. Andrews reading. What he said or wrote was cooperation. They did not seem to was to stress the Bible truth of based on mature thinking and a display some of the amenities that Christ's second coming and the im- rare gift of intellectual rectitude. Andrews may have been used to. portance of the true weekly rest Prominent among his traits were He had never been out of his home- day of the Lord. Also Andrews was gentleness and respect for the land, and now he had to deal with to make his European friends aware a reserved people and with fellow that a Christian should attune his Dr. Walther has taught church history workers who were sometimes blunt beliefs to a genuine Christian way for many years and has written ex- in expressing their opinions. This of healthful living, including habits tensively on the subject. He is actively may account for the disappointment of diet. retired in Switzerland.

18— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 HARRY ANDERSON, ARTIST; REVIEW AND HERALD

Lonely, discouraged, sick, Andrews died convinced he had failed. If only he could have seen the future!

opinions of others. In situations ventists in America. Czechowski drews not only published regular which were not always marked by pleaded with the leading Advent- articles in the French Signs, he also courtesy he remained a gentleman, ists in Battle Creek, then the head- wrote numerous tracts that were a quality one finds too seldom quarters of the denomination, to translated into several languages. among Christians. This should not send him back to Europe to preach. While stressing the events of the convey the idea that he didn't have But the church was not ready for end of time, Andrews also wrote ex- strong opinions or definite convic- such a venture and for several other tensively on basic Christian beliefs tions. On the contrary, he staunchly reasons did not respond to his re- such as regeneration and divine defended concepts which, he ear- quest. Czechowski then applied to grace. nestly believed, were fundamen- another church that sent him to His stay in Europe was inter- tally Biblical. He presented his own Europe where he taught the news rupted in 1878, when he was in- convictions vigorously but with pa- of Christ's return. He knew several vited to attend some executive tient tact. languages, and groups of believers meetings in Battle Creek, Michi- In America he made significant sprang up in various sectors, sev- gan. He had to take his young contributions as a writer, teacher, eral years before Andrews arrived daughter Mary, critically ill, to be and administrator; he served one in Switzerland. cared for by Dr. J. H. Kellogg at term as president of the General Many of these converts asked the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Un- Conference of Seventh-day Advent- the Adventists in America for help, fortunately, Mary succumbed ists. He greatly helped his church which resulted in sending Andrews, shortly after her arrival. Andrews in reaching a consensus on funda- who forthwith organized the grow- was almost inconsolable. He wrote mental beliefs, mostly on teachings ing movement. He was soon to his Swiss fellow workers: "I seem that had to do with the end of all assisted by able workers such as D. to have buried my wife a second things. He was regarded as a re- T. Bordeau who had been in Can- time." He took hold of God's prom- spected historian; his History of the ada. Two early Swiss helpers were ises, but "with a numb hand." Sabbath and the First Day of the A. Vuilleumier and J. Erzberger. In 1879 Andrews returned to Week was published in 1859 and The latter had received some theo- Switzerland where his physical con- in an enlarged edition in 1873. logical training at Saint Chrischona, dition deteriorated rapidly. In his near Basel, where he .learned of sorrow he neglected his own physi- Although Andrews was his de- Christ's return and wholeheartedly cal needs. His financial means were nomination's first missionary to accepted the message. scant and reached him irregularly. Europe, he found there various One of the first and constant con- He was extremely frugal, and even groups already keeping the sev- cerns of J. N. Andrews was to use his washing and that of his son had enth-day Sabbath and awaiting the printing press te spread the gos- to be taken care of in his own way Christ's return. Some had received pel. He decided to publish a because, as the custom then was, the message through stray copies of monthly paper in French, Les the Swiss did their washing only denominational journals from Signes des Temps (The Signs of three or four times a year, he re- America. Others had been con- the Times). Thus the French ver- ported. tacted by relatives in America. And sion of the Signs is a hundred years He was not lacking in courage. In then there was that strange man, old too. The cost of a journal that moments of joy he stated that he Czechowski, a Polish priest who, af- had a very small circulation was a "never ceased to believe in final ter adopting Protestantism, joined problem; yet that paper proved to success" ( 1878 ). But these were the ranks of the Seventh-day Ad- be an effective missionary. An- rare moments. Like so many gifted

20— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 Home where he wrote Sabbath history. The school named in his honor, Andrews University, Michigan. leaders with a strong sense of re- nificantly, 105 were on salvation by on the Rock. The tempest will sponsibility, Andrews thought and grace. All of Andrews' associates abide. God is good; God is infi- stated that his life appeared to be expressed their appreciation of his nitely good." a total failure. Many outstanding gentleness, his ability to get along J. N. Andrews lies buried in the church leaders have displayed a well with everyone. Basel cemetery. Young and old of- similar paradox: courageous In the United States he had a simi- ten visit the modest grave bearing achievement and an utter feeling lar reputation. Wrote his longtime his name. They cannot but think of despair and frustration. To a friend and colaborer in Battle of a towering leader endowed with trusted Swiss he confided, "My life Creek, James White, "We greatly a mighty spirit and a flaming faith. has been a total failure. . . . enjoyed the society and labors of No wonder that in writing to the Nearly all my efforts for the ad- Andrews" ( 1868 ). While standing Swiss brethren his American breth- vancement of truth have come unmovable on his personal convic- ren stated: "We sent you the ablest short." This feeling, almost an ob- tions, Andrews consistently dis- man in all of our ranks." session, was of course worsened by played a gracious courtesy. His his rapidly declining health ( ap- ceaseless efforts to build up the Maybe a personal note is in or- parently tuberculosis ). By 1883 he church, to lead, enlighten, and en- der. About 1920 I attended a tent- was, in his own words, a mere skele- courage regardless of how desper- meeting held in Switzerland. On ton. In September 1883 he was un- ately useless his efforts appeared in the platform was a patriarch with a able to leave his bed. His doctor his own eyes were the marks of a white mane and a flowing beard. said that he was practically starved sensitive man, intellectually en- Energetically he exhorted the con- to death. He died on October 21, dowed, but constantly concerned gregation to be respectful in that 1883; he was 54. about the welfare and progress of place. I couldn't help thinking of a cause to which he was deeply Moses descending from Mount Si- Whatever Andrews felt about his committed. nai. own efforts and the response of his Of all his contributions, his labor Later, during a quiet moment, I associates, he was far more appre- as a pioneer in Europe was his buttonholed this venerable leader. ciated by his European brethren greatest. It was also his most diffi- It was J. Erzberger who, as a young than he realized. cult and demanding task. He faith- man, was one of the first Swiss What impressed these men and fully sowed the seed; some fell on workers with Andrews: "What do women who knew of his illness was stony ground, but some reached fer- you think of Andrews?" I asked the amazing amount of work he ac- tile soil, grew and blossomed, and him. complished. They reported that in is still bearing fruit. His name is a "Andrews? He was small in his seven years Andrews published, in household word among Seventh- body but great in mind and dedica- Basel, over 500 articles and tracts, day Adventists around the world. tion. Indeed, he was the best man about 80 a year. They also indicated Several institutions are named after the Americans could have sent us what Andrews wrote about mostly: him, including a university ( An- then. Andrews thought we didn't 60 of these essays dealt with the dr ews University at Berrien understand or appreciate him. He last events leading to the second Springs, Michigan ). didn't know that his great soul was, coming of Christ as revealed by As he was about to lay down his and is, an immense comfort and Bible prophecy; 23 were on the life, he said to his Swiss brethren: example to us. John Nevins An- Sabbath-Sunday controversy; 61 "It seems to me that I am in a drews? A man of great charac- were on Christian living; and, sig- roaring river. And my feet stand ter." ❑

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THE TRUTH MOUT \ EA\ DERTHAL Harold W. Clark

Recent studies strongly In the middle of the last century Anthropologists have been in- suggest that Neander- peculiar-looking bones were un- clined to over-emphasize what they earthed in various places in Europe. have regarded as "primitive" fea- thal Man—given a The most notable discovery was a tures and that which they have shave and a haircut— portion of a skeleton found in a looked upon as linking Neanderthal could pass unnoticed cave in the Neander Valley of Ger- with the apes. However, it is now on any big-city street many; from this location the speci- generally acknowledged that these men was named Neanderthal Man. "primitive" features were second- today! It served as a type for many other ary, possibly due to aberrations or discoveries, and in time sufficient departures from normal. But there evidence accumulated to indicate still lingers in the minds of many that there was once a race in that the impression that these people region that was different from the were a kind of half man who must present inhabitants. be accounted for in some way other Anthropologists have speculated than by the simple Genesis record considerably regarding the origin of literal creation. of this race. Was it the forerunner When we look at the geological of the present Europeans? Or was column as given in any textbook of it a descendant of men who were geology, we can see that popular essentially like modern man? These theory holds that millions of years questions have perplexed scientists, were involved in the history of life and from studies carried out on upon the earth. The different peri- these ancient remains many inter- ods are supposed to have seen the pretations have been given, some evolution of life from simple forms of them widely different. What to the complexity of plants and ani- was Neanderthal like, and how did mals that we see today. Human re- he live? mains are found only in the upper- He was short and robust, with a most portion of the column, in what small cranium, but with limb bones is known as the Pleistocene, or gla- much like those of modern man. He cial, epoch. had prominent browridges and a To evolutionists this poses no sloping forehead. The arms were problem, for it is consistent with ILLUSTRATION short and the fingers stubby. In their general theory of the ascent BY spite of some early illustrations of life. But to creationists it pre- HOWARD showing him as stooping, it is now sents certain questions, for they LARKIN known that he walked erect. cannot allow such long time peri- Neanderthal lived largely in the ods. open, in camps on the terraces of It has been suggested that the the rivers in central Europe. Skulls puzzle may be solved by assuming of similar type have been found as that there once existed upon the Dr. Clark, from far east as Palestine and as far earth pre-Adamic races, and that his home in the south as Kenya in east Africa. In they were destroyed because of Napa Valley of many places in Europe hearths and their iniquity, and a new creation California, has other evidences of habitation have took place. This is the "ruin-and- been setting the been found in the limestone caves restoration" theory and presents se- record straight along the rivers. There is no evi- rious theological problems. The Bi- on evolution for dence that Neanderthal practiced ble gives no support to it at all, and more than fifty agriculture; he was a hunter and neither do we. years. not a grower of food. Rather than speculate, let us

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study the evidence. What is the do with the age-dating methods animals were created during that nature of the remains of fossil man that appear to give millions of years week each "after his kind," and not himself—Neanderthal or any oth- beyond Biblical chronology? On by gradual change from lowly ers? this let us point out that if the forms into advanced types. Recent studies on anthropology reader will check recent investiga- While evolution theory involves have created an attitude toward tions that have been made in the a geological scale of hundreds of these remains that is greatly differ- field of radioactive age dating he millions of years in which life was ent from early opinions. It has been will find so many discrepancies that developing on the earth, creation said recently that if Neanderthal serious doubt will be thrown on theory allows for life only from the Man were to be dressed in modern the validity of these methods. ( See third day of creation onward. There clothes, given a haircut and a shave, R. H. Brown, Signs of the Times, can be no consistent compromise he could walk down one of our city June, 1973.) And—let us get this between the two views. streets without attracting any spe- very clear — if these much-publi- Neanderthal Man of Europe and cial attention. Recent publications cized dating methods are unrelia- the Near East is not the only type have stated also that the variation ble, there is no other resource but of human being involved in the of this race from the modern, and to go back to the Bible account of problem. There are the pithecan- within its own geographical areas, the origin of the earth and its life thropoid "races" in southeastern is no greater than can be seen in and to abide by the inspired rec- Asia and the australopicines in any modern city. This naturally ord of the fifth and eleventh chap- eastern Africa and southern Africa. raises the question: Was Neander- ters of Genesis. But in each of these areas the prob- thal human? To this we can an- Once we have done this, every- lem is much the same. As more swer emphatically that it is now thing falls into line readily. Nean- and more knowledge comes to light recognized that he was actually derthal and all his kind are recog- regarding these specimens, the evi- Homo—man—and not "ape-man." nized as degenerate or deteriorated dence for their relation to any kind The humanity of this race has fur- types of humanity that roamed the of animal ancestry grows dimmer ther been strengthened by discov- fringes of civilization after the and dimmer. For instance, whereas eries of distinctly modern-appear- Flood—the farther from the center early reports on the specimens in ing skulls in several sites in Europe of civilization the more degenerate. Africa led many to feel that they at a stratigraphical level below that Once man settled down and began must be regarded as apes or related of skulls that are definitely Nean- agriculture and urban existence, the to apes, it is now coming to be rec- derthaloid. This leads anthropolo- "primitive" types largely disap- ognized that even they are, after all, gists to believe that Neanderthal peared, except in the more remote distinctly human types. They may was the result of a deterioration of regions of Africa, southeast Asia, be somewhat more degenerate than originally superior stock rather than New Guinea, and Australia. Even the Neanderthals of Europe and an evolution upward from primitive these people are definitely human, Palestine, but they have definite stock. and always have been. There is no and unmistakable human character- In the light of these facts we can positive evidence of the ascent of istics nevertheless. raise a very pertinent question: any of them from animal ancestry. Many evolutionists ridicule the Why should we attempt to explain About all one can find in anthropo- creationist interpretation of geolog- these prehistoric creatures as non- logical literature is either detailed ical and anthropological data. But human, soulless, or primitive ape- technical details, which mean noth- anyone who has to resort to ridicule men? Why not regard them as hu- ing except as interpreted, or else to fortify his case has a very poor man beings, even though they do elaborate speculations which no case to defend. The creationist is show certain anatomical peculiari- one can prove true. not afraid to face the facts as they ties? There is no good reason for A distinct separation should be are, for he is finding that they more considering them as anything but maintained between evolution the- and more strongly strengthen his human beings. ory and creation theory. Evolution position. Where, then, shall we place them theory is based on the hypothesis In closing this study let me throw in the stream of time? Would it be that the earth has reached its pres- out a word of caution to anyone consistent to interpret them in ent state as the result of geological who is interested in these problems. terms of the ordinary belief in geo- action operating more or less uni- Be sure that the material used as a logical ages? The creation account formly over millions of years; plant basis for your conclusions is up-to- found in the book of Genesis can- and animal life has developed from date and written by scholars who not be harmonized with popular simple, primitive forms into the are willing to face the facts geological theory. Any efforts to do complexity we see today. Creation squarely no matter how they may so result in confusion. theory is based on the statements affect current theories. Then gather Why not recognize the latest evi- of Genesis—scientifically it is an- the facts, passing over theories sug- dence and look upon these prehis- other hypothesis—that the earth was gested, and you will be surprised to toric remains as legitimate human created by special acts of God and see how these facts can be fitted beings, the descendants of Adam? that it came into its perfected state into the literal Biblical interpreta- If we do this, then what are we to in exactly six days. The plants and tion of history. ❑

24— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 Surprise for

Mrs. Stone DAVID TOGAM I "Why so thoughtful?" said Harry wondering if we couldn't do some- she didn't say anything. "You know to Jim as he ran into Jim's house thing for her." where the mower is," she went on. after school one day. "Like washing her windows?" "You may get it. I must hurry back "Oh, just thinking!" said Jim. asked Harry. into the house; I've so much clean- "That's what I guessed," said "Well, not exactly that," said Jim. ing to do today." Harry. "But what about?" "It's an awfully hot day. But I've The boys began at once cutting "Pleasant things," said Jim. noticed her lawn has grown quite Mrs. Stone's grass. They did a "Quit beating about the bush," long and she has no one to cut it." bang-up job, even trimming the said Harry. "What are you thinking "Then your idea is that we mow edges. When they had finished, about?" her lawn!" exclaimed Harry. "Good! Harry knocked on the door. "Mrs. "A job," said Jim. But where can we get a mower?" Stone," he said, "we've come to re- "Oh," said Harry, not at all sure "I was thinking," said Jim, "that turn your—" he agreed with Jim's idea of pleas- we could use hers." But Mrs. Stone saw beyond him. ant things. "What kind of job?" "You mean we'd ask her to lend "Why, bless my soul!" she ex- "One we won't get paid for," said it to us and then cut her lawn with claimed. "You've cut my lawn. You Jim. it? What a joke!" said Harry. dear boys. What made you do such "Poof," said Harry, now quite "Let's get going," said Jim. a lovely thing?" sure Jim was out of his mind. Politely they asked Mrs. Stone for "You've always been so nice to "Really," Jim explained, "I was her lawn mower. "Of course you us," said Jim, "we wanted to give thinking about Mrs. Stone. She does may use it," she said. "I suppose you a gift, and we decided this so many nice things for us boys, you are going to earn a little pocket would be a nice one. And now it's and nobody ever gives her anything money cutting one of my neighbor's time we were getting home." for it." lawns?" she questioned. The two boys turned and ran, and "You mean you think we ought "Well, er, well—" Harry flustered. Mrs. Stone suddenly had to grab to buy her something?" asked "Your roses are exceptionally for the corner of her apron to wipe Harry. "All the money I've got, I'm beautiful this year, aren't they, Mrs. away a tear—she was so touched saving up for camp, and, er—" Stone?" Jim broke in, and if Mrs. by it all. "Sure, I know," said Jim. "I was Stone noticed the change of subject, Your friend, 4(14"4111 I VI 1119, =AB

LIFE'S SPLE\DID VISIO\ "And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to wor- ship at the feast . . . saying, Sir, we would see Jesus." John 12:20, 21. He is a native of the hill country south of the river, a charter mem- ber of the little group that worships in the valley. Because he is such a good neighbor and a faithful Chris- tian, no one else on the watershed is more widely known or highly re- spected. That brilliant autumn morning he sat quietly while a guest speaker exhorted the sparse gathering of believers to develop and maintain a high level of "doctrinal profi- ciency." The previous week another guest, who had spent years in his- torical research, had given an in- teresting background sketch of life in Bible times. A week before that a third had told something of the advance and triumph of modern missions—under the title, "Con- quests of the Cross." Sitting beside him, the rancher's wife read the spiritual weather signs with experienced eyes. The service ended, and they walked to the car in silence, but each know- ing what the other was thinking. Three miles upriver they crossed the bridge and headed into the beautiful world of upflung slopes and skyline ridges. It was here that the darn broke. "Doctrines. History. Welfare work." He spoke the words with vigor. "There's nothing wrong with any of them. But they aren't enough. They need something to go with them. "Doctrines are to the gospel what dimension timbers are to a barn— sills, posts, plates, purlins, rafters,

26— SIGNS OF THE TIMES -SEPTEMBER 1974 Sanford T. Whitman

"And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast . . . sayi ng, Sir, we would see Jesus." John 12:20, 21.

Sanford Whitman grows his own fruit and vegetables and cuts the wood that heats his Oregon home where he writes his delightfully inspiring messages.

bracing. Absolutely essential. But squalid assemblage of shopworn what good is a barn that has only words. framing? Too often doctrines become a "History to the gospel is like sid- rack of clubs. The beautifully ing to a house. Like paint to a wall. wrought gown of history sometimes Siding doesn't make a house any covers deep spiritual impoverish- more than paint makes a wall! ment. Recounting the triumphs of "And modern missions is a thrill- modern missions does not explain ing chapter in the story of the cross. that enormously significant fact: But welfare alone doesn't make Our Lord has not yet come. much sense. They're all like a roof The news of the kingdom is good without a building under it! news. Always it is made strong "Our speakers didn't do wrong in with doctrine, landscaped with his- presenting these subjects. And tory, spotlighted by miracles. Even they couldn't do more in the time so, both voice and pen fall short. they had. The danger is that many Only a sin-cleansed, born-again fel- will regard this as the full gospel, or low being can tell the story ade- at least enough to save lost men, quately. The light that shines in the and will seek no more and try no eyes. The curve of the lips. The in- harder. flection of the voice. The angle of "No doubt the Greeks that came uplook. Behavior amid affliction. to the feast realized there had to be How tragic that anyone should take more than words to the message of any part of the whole and, like a life. They were seeking that some- one-string fiddle, harp on it full thing extra. The core. The meat. bow day after day! The heart of the gospel. Doctrine? Yes! History? Yes! "Then or now men need love! Miracles? Yes! But above and be- The love of creation. The love of low and around all these—a single redemption. The love of the man- glorious fact. A single, glorious Per- ger birth. The love of Gethsemane. son. Christ! Christ crucified. Christ The love of Calvary. The love of risen. Christ indwelling. Christ the resurrection. The glorious, tri- coming. Christ glorified. umphant, unending love of all Paul compressed the whole ex- things new!" perience in these exceedingly re- And so indeed we do! vealing words: We lecture on prophecy. We "For me to live is Christ." Philip- sketch perspective with deft strokes pians 1:21. of the historical brush. We laud the Fellow pilgrim, if you haven't involvement and commitment of done so already, get with Christ— Calvary, exhort to good works, talk today! Enter into that wonderful of faith and obedience and better experience of what is always a won- days to come. We give forth elo- derful fellowship. Allow Him to quently on the spiritual conquests use you in that incontrovertible wit- of the past. But without the love of ness of love which only you can God, fresh from the fountain and in give and which you can give only limitless supply, we have only a when He abides within! LI JOHN STEEL. ARTIST © P.P.P.A. SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 - 27 Your Bible Questions Answered Ivan Crawford

MINUS TO PLUS through to victory. The battle is increase. See 1 Corinthians 3:6. It I was raised in a very conserva- already won through the life and is only in eternity that we will be tive church atmosphere but con- death of our Lord Jesus Christ. By able to measure the results of our cluded at an early age that that faith lay hold on eternal life. faithfulness here. kind of life was not for me. I ran off and got a job, and now I am in WASTED LOVE TRINITY AT CREATION the money. Recently, however, I Religion is such a wasteful busi- In talking with a lady who be- have noticed that things are not ness. They tell us that we should lieves that Jesus was not present at secure, and I have a yearning to "do good to all men," but many creation, I discovered that the He- recapture some of the plus signs bite the hand that feeds them. It brew word "elohim" really refers that I turned into a big minus. How seems to me foolishness to cast my to the power and the characteris- do I go about it? G. B. bread upon the waters (Ecclesias- tics of God and that its use in the tes 11:1) only to have the sharks plural form in Genesis 1 need not It may have been that in your eat it up. For many years I have demand plurality of persons. Would early life you felt you were forced wasted my love and generosity on you please comment on this. into a mold that did not meet your my children, but not one has shown D. W. thinking. Now that we are in a any gratefulness for it. Why not time of great change, which It is true that the plural elohim invest where you can see results? does denote strength and majesty, threatens our smug life, many peo- T. T. ple are thinking more seriously but you might like to know what than usual. Count yourself fortu- It is said that the late Will Rog- Strong in his Systematic Theology, nate that the door of mercy is still ers was once asked how a person pages 318, 319 has to say about it: open and that God is waiting to re- could get rich. "The plural noun elohim is em- ceive you. "It's easy," replied Will. "Just go ployed, and that with a plural verb One of the big problems of our out and buy some stocks, wait till —a use remarkable, when we con- time is in "getting it all together," they go up in value, and then sell sider that the singular el was also making life add up to something. them." in existence. . . . Getting the Bible and science "But what if they don't go up?" "The fact that elohim is some- together, for instance. Also achiev- the questioner asked. times used in a narrower sense, as ing peace and harmony with God. "Then don't buy the stocks," said applicable to the Son (Ps. 45:6; cf. With most people there is a great Will. Heb. 1:8), need not prevent us gap between principle and prac- The lesson for us is clear. The from believing that the term was tice, and young people are fully person who withholds his love, or originally chosen as containing an aware of our inconsistencies. his witness for Christ, until he finds Why not start to read your Bible a sure prospect will surely find through? Even the early chapters himself on the rolls of the unem- INTERNATIONAL SERVICE have some solid truth—that God ployed. I cannot agree with you To meet the needs of the millions made all things good, but that Sa- that you have "wasted" your love in the United States and Canada who tan, who had at some previous on your children. If you had not speak languages other than English time been cast out of heaven, loved them, what else would you and prefer to read magazines in their own mother tongue, the publishers of tempted our first parents, thus have done? Hated them? What the "Signs of the Times" issue similar gaining a measure of control over other kind of parent could you have journals in the following languages: the world. Here is the only logical been than a loving parent? It is explanation for sin and disease. It when we love those who are un- French: "Les Signes des Temps" German: "Zeichen der Zeit" could also explain why even non- grateful, even our enemies, that we Spanish: "El Centinela" religious people give the world have reward. See Matthew 5:45, 46. Ukrainian: "Oznake" only a few years more of survival. Although some of the seed we Some people are led to blame God sow is unfruitful, a portion of it Should you wish a free copy of one of these journals, either for your- for their ills, and others go to God falls on good ground and bears self or for a friend, address your re- for help and hope and assurance. good fruit. See Matthew 13:23. quest to Frank L. Baer, Manager, As the world is now being di- You may sow the seed, someone Foreign Language Division, "Signs of the Times," Mountain View, Cali- vided into two camps, make sure else may water it, but please re- fornia 94042. you are safe in God's keeping. Pray member that it is God who gives the

28— SIGNS OF THE TIMES — SEPTEMBER 1974 allusion to a certain plurality in be no gatherings when I come." Be- the divine nature. Nor is it suf- cause of a drought in Judea, Paul ficient to call this plural a simple sent word ahead to the churches he plurally majestaticus; since it is expected to visit, telling them to easier to derive this common figure have something ready (Greek from divine usage than to derive thesaurizu, to treasure up, to store the divine usage from this common up) to give to the saints, church figure—especially when we consi- members, who needed their gifts; der the constant tendency of Israel and he instructed that this reckon- to polytheism. ing and treasuring should be done "The Holy Spirit who presided on the first day of the week. over the development of revelation Some have contended that this may well have directed the use of "treasuring up" must have been God Loves Families the plural in general, and even the done in a public meeting, and they adoption of the plural name Elohim would like to use this text to show in particular, with a view to the fu- that the apostles authorized Sunday ture unfolding of truth with re- sacredness. The best scholarship is gard to the Trinity." against the idea that a public meet- In Genesis 1 you have not only ing is here implied. SEND "SIGNS" the plural form, elohim, but you "Every Sunday each of you is to also have the plural form of the put aside and keep by him a sum in TO YOUR verb, naoseh, in Genesis 1:26: "Let proportion to his gains, so that us make man." The combination of there may be no collecting when I the two plurals is remarkable. Cou- come." New English Bible. "Let FRIENDS ple with this the mention of the everyone of you ( personally) put Holy Spirit in Genesis 1:2 and you aside something and save it up as You like the "Signs." Your friends and neighbors have in the very first chapter of the he has prospered." Amplified Bi- will like it too. Send them a gift subscription Bible an introduction to the Trin- ble. today. It's just $6.50 for a full year. ity. "Paul, if we examine his language You might ask your friend if she closely, says no more than this: that everyone should lay by in his own believes that simple majesty or Yes! Please send "Signs" to my friends. I enclose strength created the earth or house on the first day of the week, $6.50 for each subscription. whether a person created it. If a whatever he was able to save." His- person was involved the emphasis tory of the Planting and Training moves away from the qualitative of the Christian Church, Dr. Augus- Friend's name aspect of the noun, and the plural- tus Neander, translated by Ryland ity of form becomes more impres- ( London: George Bell & Sons, Address 1900), Vol. 1, p. 158. sive and more valid. Zip Where was the believer ("each BE HONEST, NOW! of you") to treasure up his offering? Your name Would you please print 1 Corin- The Greek says par'heautu, beside thians 16:2 in its entirety and ex- himself, at home. The French ver- Address plain the same in your magazine to sion says chez lui, at home. And your readers. You simply do not this is the interpretation given by Zip stick to what the Bible says, and foremost Greek scholars. We conclude, therefore, that the your whole structure would fall if The "Signs" is also available in other languages. opposite of a public meeting is here you had to admit your fallacy con- Check the language you wish sent to your cerning the Sabbath. You would indicated and that the idea that friends, if other than English. lose your people overnight. Sunday sacredness is advocated in this text is entirely absent. R. L. ❑ French "Les Signes des Temps" ($2.50) It might prove interesting to We must follow wherever truth know on what day of the week ❑ German "Zeichen der Zeit" ($2.55) leads; and if we would lose our Paul met with the Corinthian be- ❑ Japanese people overnight, so be it. We will lievers when he visited them in ($4.70) therefore not hesitate to find out their city. Acts 18:4 enlightens us ❑ Ukrainian "Oznake" ($2.00) from unbiased scholars the correct on this point: "He reasoned in the ❑ Spanish "El Centinela" meaning of Paul's counsel to the synagogue every sabbath, and per- ($3.25) Corinthians. suaded the Jews and the Greeks 1 Corinthians 16:2 says, "Upon [Gentiles]." Verse 11 says that he Clip the coupon and mail with your check or the first day of the week let every did this for a year and six months, money order to "Signs of the Times," 1350 Villa one of you lay by him in store, as which would mean nearly 80 Sab- Street, Mountain View, CA 94042. God hath prospered him, that there baths altogether.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 - 29 DAVID A. HANSEL i have a question youth questions answered dick winn

WHY DID THE CURTAIN TEAR? been accomplished. Symbol had for us through the curtain" has been The Bible says that when Jesus been fulfilled in reality. The veil made available. Hebrews 10:20, died on the cross the veil in the was torn just as the priest was ready RSV. We can come directly to God temple was torn from top to bottom. to offer the evening sacrifice, show- in faith through the sacrifice of Je- See Matthew 27:51. What is the ing that with Christ's death such sus. We can "draw near with a real meaning of this strange event? sacrifices were no longer necessary. true heart in full assurance of faith" No longer were the people to be through this opened curtain. Verse This veil, or curtain, which sepa- dependent upon types and symbols 22. We need no longer wait for rated the holy from the most holy in order to enter into God's pres- priests and sacrifices. We can en- place in the temple, was a huge and ence. Through Jesus' death a "new ter directly in to the most holy place expensive piece of elegant tapestry. and living way, which he opened —through Jesus! No human hand could tear it, es- But that torn tapestry meant something more ominous. It had pecially from the top downward. Do you have a question? Let Dick God certainly must have had some Winn help you. Write: veiled the sacred chamber symbolic of God's very presence with the special meaning in this startling act. Dick Winn Primarily, the tearing of the veil Signs of the Times Jewish nation. But now the most meant that the whole system of sac- 1350 Villa Street holy compartment was left gaping rifices on which the temple services Mountain View, Calif. 94042 open. As a nation Israel had re- were built had come to their end. Please include your name, age, jected her Lord. God demonstrated Their task—which was to point for- and address. that His presence was gone. ward to Christ's death—had now The torn veil brought a message

30— SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 of joy or of terror, depending on both need all the security they can started taking a special interest in one's view about Jesus. And it still get in which to grow. A license, a group of deaf-mute women. She does. viewed in that way, can bolster that organized them into a sewing club security. called the Deaf Community, and I FEEL VERY MUCH MARRIED Is your common-law marriage a now they get together and do sew- sin? As you know, this kind of mar- ing for the center. "We deliver the When did people begin to get the riage is not mentioned in the Bible precut flannel," says Mrs. Roper, idea you have to get a marriage li- —the standard reference work on "and they make it into gowns and cense before you can call yourself "sins." Yet the Bible does reveal pajamas. They also make large married? Is common-law marriage God's concern for the public inten- dresses for heavy women." a sin in God's eyes? My "husband" tions of permanence in marriage. Plans are also being developed and I have been together for almost Jesus endorsed a public wedding to hold camps for inner-city chil- two years now, and we have a baby by His presence. See John 2:1-11. dren. Church youth are being or- girl. I have been studying my Bi- He spoke out in favor of stable mar- ganized into teams to conduct pro- ble lately, and the Lord has an- riage, and against divorce. See grams in better living at summer swered many of my questions; but I Matthew 19:3-9. sessions of the Lincoln public haven't found anything on common- While we can't answer the ques- schools. All these activities will be law marriage. My husband, who is tion for you as to whether your mar- operated out of the center. not yet a believer in the Lord, does riage is a sin, we can assure you not feel that we need a marriage li- Asked what she envisions for the that God loves you right where you cense, and I really don't either. I future, Mrs. Roper paused, and are. And we trust that as you con- feel very much married. We are then replied, "I think the time will tinue to study and pray God will true and good to each other. I feel come when our building will be too make it clear to you how to proceed that marriage in your hearts is more small. The land next door is vacant. from here. You may find out that a important than a license. But is our If we ever get enough money, we marriage license is saying the same common-law marriage a sin? want to buy it, because we'll need things you want to say already— it to expand on." Hurrah for marriage in the hearts that you love each other enough to The Good Neighbor Center, built of two people in love! That will want to make your marriage last. at a cost of $128,000, was financed surely do more for a lasting rela- entirely by contributions from the tionship than just a piece of paper! Lincoln Seventh-day Adventist NEIGHBOR IN NEBRASKA But is it really necessary to call churches and the Nebraska Confer- that marriage license just a piece of (Continued from page 11) ence of Seventh-day Adventists, paper? Seen in its larger role, a li- Mrs. Roper hopes eventually to with the help of many generous cense can be a real strength to your develop a program for the rehabili- contributions from friends and bus- marriage, rather than just a social tation of alcoholics. ( She spent inessmen in the annual Ingathering nuisance. Marriage, and the act of nearly 30 years in detective work in campaign. Asked if Federal funds forming a new home, is something the criminal division of the Lincoln had been used, Mrs. Roper em- that takes place in the midst of so- Police Department.) "Alcoholics phatically replied, "No Federal ciety. With home the very founda- are really great people," she main- funds whatsoever." tion unit of society, society has a tains. "There's a lovingness about All the services of the center are right to encourage permanence in an alcoholic that you don't find in given free. It is staffed entirely by its homes. other people. They've been hurt, volunteers, except that Mrs. Mary Getting a marriage license is a and to look down on an alcoholic Baker, the assistant director, re- way of announcing to the surround- just drives him farther away. It ceives a modest salary paid by the ing society that this is now a union takes far more than lecturing, churches. "It's important that we that intends to last. And it invites preaching, and just being his friend have one full-time paid person," the support and endorsement of the to help him. He's never had his feet Mrs. Roper feels. "It helps to sta- society — friends, businesses, even on the ground. He's had brain dam- bilize the place." the government. And if the going age, and it takes a long time, some- Mrs. Roper, Mrs. Baker, and the gets rough in a marriage, society times a whole month, to get his Adventist churches of Lincoln have can use the marriage license to brain dried out so he can under- every reason to be proud of their make it just hard enough to walk stand what is being said to him." building. But they have far greater away from that relationship so that The wives of the theology stu- reason to be proud of the services the involved couple is encouraged dents at Union College have raised of the center—services not only for to get back in and try to make it funds and are busy making layettes. the disadvantaged but for all in the work. "We don't give away a layette un- city who wish to enrich their lives. It's a proven axiom that if a cou- til the baby is born," Mrs. Roper "We want to give folks an insight ple can drift easily into a relation- explains. "But when the baby is into their personal worth," Mrs. Ro- ship, ("Let's try it for a while to see born, we deliver the layette to the per says. "We want to stress the if it works" ), they can just as easily mother at the hospital; or she can importance of learning to love and drift out of it again when things get send someone in to get it for her." to live, to give people a concept of a tough. Love and young children Sometime ago a policewoman better way of life." ❑

SIGNS OF THE TIMES - SEPTEMBER 1974 - 31 Medical records indicate that toys that had been coated with more than half the fatal cases of paint containing lead. But now it lead poisoning occur in children less is the exhaust of automobiles that than two years old. It appears that is incriminated. Most automobile children are more sensitive to lead fuels contain lead. There are 38 than are adults. But this is not the million cars in the U.S., and each only reason why more children than of these, on the average, discharges adults have lead poisoning. Re- more than four pounds of lead dust search conducted at the Dartmouth into the atmosphere in a year's time. Medical School revealed the sur- This lead-laden dust is deposited on prising fact that 25 percent of chil- streets and sidewalks and on porches dren living in cities have danger- and steps. It is easily tracked into ously high amounts of lead in their the house where the baby plays on blood. Only 1 to 2 percent of the floor. The baby puts his fingers women and 3 to 5 percent of men into his mouth and sucks on toys who dwell in cities have compara- and other objects. The "dirt" that LEAD POISONING IN CHILDREN ble amounts. So your question is enters his mouth carries its share quite pertinent: Where does a baby of lead dust. And this is how the Our neighbors' baby, 18 months get so much lead? baby happens to have so much lead old, is sick, and the doctors say she It used to be thought that lead in his body. has lead poisoning. Where does a poisoning in children came from the The time has come to operate baby get lead enough to cause her child's swallowing particles of old automobiles on lead-free fuel! to be ill? No one else in her family paint. This he did by biting the has this problem. rail of his crib or by gnawing on SKIN GRAFTING I was burned severely on my thigh about a month ago. The doc- tors say that it was a third-degree burn, and now they want to graft 1skin onto the raw area. I have ob- jected to the skin grafting because I understand they get the skin for After Reading This Issue, I grafting from some other part of my body. Why should I have two raw I areas? Isn't there some medicine Would You Like Some Help or vitamin or special diet that will To Know Your Bible Better? cause the skin to grow faster and I cover the wound.

We can enroll you in any of several different In a third-degree burn the skin in Bible courses. You do all your studying at home. I the burned area is entirely de- The only textbook you need is the Bible. You may stroyed. There are no islands of re- ask questions, and they will be answered. No I maining skin from which new skin one will call on you unless you request it. And can grow. If allowed to heal on its there is no charge. All the lessons are free, be- own, the new skin can develop only cause we want you to know your Bible better. I from the margins of the wound, and this takes a long time. Furthermore, Check the course of your choice: as skin grows in from the margins I of a large wound it tends to shrink 111 New Life (adult) ❑ Explorers (junior) and form a tight, deforming scar. ❑ Bright Horizons (young adult) 11} Healthful Living I By grafting skin onto such a "raw" area, islands of skin are pro- D High Way (youth) ❑ Braille (for the blind) vided from each of which new skin *Recommended for beginners. I develops. Thus the process of heal- ing is greatly hastened and the scar Your name is less troublesome. I The skin to be grafted is removed Address from another part of the body in Zip I such a way that this area is not left entirely "raw." The donor area re- covers quickly. There are no medi- Clip the coupon and mail to Signs of the Times, 1350 Villa Street, Moun- I tain View, CA 94042. cines or vitamins or special diets that can cause skin to grow in a raw" area.

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LAWRENCE MAXWELL n • EDITOR NAVY'S WAR ON SMOKING Lorna Tobler

T. R. Torkelson The Human Resources Department Associate Editor of the U.S. Navy has signed an agree- Lorna Tobler ment with the Seventh-day Adventist CHANGE OF HEART Editorial Secretary Howard C. Larkin Temperance Department for the use of John Maury Allin has been installed Art Director its Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking. as the twenty-third presiding bishop of Paul B. Ricchiuti Training sessions and pilot plans have the Episcopal Church in the United Design and Layout already begun, using films, control States. He succeeded retiring Bishop A. R. Mazat Circulation Manager books, and other material supplied by John E. Hines at a colorful pageant the temperance department. Five-Day watched by some 3,000 persons in EDITORIAL Plans conducted throughout the world Washington Cathedral. Elected last Catastrophes and Christ's Coming / 34 average approximately 100 per week. year by the Episcopal general conven- ARTICLES tion for a 12-year term as head of the 3.2 million-member denomination, Food for a Famine / 2 FOOD CRISIS Orval R. Scully Bishop Allin had led the Diocese of Help After a Hurricane / 6 Twelve nations are on the verge of Mississippi since 1966. In a press con- R. G. Robinson bankruptcy, and the world's food ference the day of his installation A Neighbor in Nebraska / 10 Maria A. Butler reserves are adequate for only 27 days Bishop Allin recalled that he had been A Flood Down Under / 12 of consumption, according to a recent a "hardnose opponent" of women George W. Maywald statement by American Ambassador to priests at the denomination's general A Fire in the Night / 13 the United Nations Clarence C. Fer- convention last fall when a move to W. G. Larson guson, Jr. Mr. Ferguson said that there open the priesthood to women was A Church That Heals / 14 are several reasons for an imminent narrowly defeated. The new chief LaVonne Neff food disaster. Weather patterns are prelate of the Episcopal Church said, Blazer of a Glorious Trail / 18 Daniel Walther changing, resulting in a 1,700-mile belt however, that he is inclined to think The Truth About Neanderthal / 23 being struck by drought, especially in the ordination of women "is going to Harold W. Clark Sub-Sahara Africa and regions of Latin come about" in his denomination. Surprise for Mrs. Stone / 25 America and India. The American Uncle Spencer "And I still get a little emotionally Life's Splendid Vision / 26 food surplus no longer exists. And upset [over the issue] , which makes Sanford T. Whitman fertilizer is in short supply. me suspicious of myself," he added.

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Cover and page 2: Orval R. Scully SIGNS OF THE TIMES — SEPTEMBER 1974 — 33 Catagtrophc8 and ChriA: Coming One catastrophe after another! This whole issue neglected to do so. There are to be people so is filled with human suffering—famines, fires, lovingly unselfish that Jesus can call them sheep floods, misery—page after page of it. and others so utterly self-centered that He will This isn't the only Signs that has been saturated have to call them goats; He will separate the two with so much disappointment and distress. And we groups, inviting one into everlasting life while don't expect it to be the last. dispatching the other to eternal death. Why? For one hundred years the Signs has This final separation is characteristic of all the claimed that the events of our times foretell the groups Christ mentioned. The faithful and wise speedy return of Christ and the end of sorrow and servant is put in charge of His Lord's possessions; pain. the drunk servant is cut to pieces. The wise youth We have pointed to earthquakes, wars, and go into the wedding, the others are shut out. The famines, as reminders of Christ's coming. But we diligent servants enter into the joy of their Lord, have never said that God is waiting for, say, 10,963 the indifferent are cast into outer darkness. earthquakes, three world wars, 350,000 hurricanes Both good and bad are living together when (et cetera) to take place and then He will come. Christ comes. The weeds and the wheat grow Indeed, such calculations are entirely out of place. together till the harvest. See Matthew 13:30. Christ's most complete single discussion of the The central event in Christ's coming is the signs of His coming is recorded in Matthew 24 and harvest. Revelation 14 describes Him as coming 25, His answer to the disciples' question, "What with a sickle in His hand. A voice commands, "Put will be the sign of your coming?" Matthew 24:3, in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has RSV. come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe." Jesus began by listing wars, famines, earth- Verse 15, RSV. quakes, and false Christs and stated that these are Harvest, of course, implies ripeness, a full not specific signs of His coming. "This must take maturity—in this case, ripeness of character, either place, but the end is not yet." Matthew 24:6, RSV. good or bad. He went on to describe the long period of "Christ is waiting with longing desire for the persecution which extended to near the end of the manifestation of Himself in His church. When the eighteenth century. After this He listed certain character of Christ shall be perfectly reproduced in specific signs, the dark day, the blood-red moon, His people, then He will come to claim them as His the falling stars. "Then," He said, "will appear the own."—E. G. White, Christ's Object Lessons, page sign of the Son of man in heaven." These three 69. signs, as we have pointed out repeatedly, have The whole history of our world has been already taken place. (See, for instance, the May concerned with the question whether Christ's way issue. ) is best or some other way is better. When, through What is often overlooked is that the rest of much Bible study and prayer and willing sub- chapter 24 and all of chapter 25 are included in mission to God, some develop a fully ripened Christ's answer. These sections, which form by far character that is as pure and lovely as the character the larger part of His answer, talk about the of Christ, then earth will be ready for harvest. character of the people living on earth when Jesus Jesus will come to claim these Christlike people for comes. There are to be, Jesus said, "faithful and His own. wise" servants doing their Lord's bidding and Earthquakes, wars, and famines will end at the "wicked" servants eating and drinking with drunk- harvest. It could be a long time from now. It could ards. be just a little while. Will you let Christ ripen and There are to be wise youth ready for the perfect your character now so sorrow and sighing bridegroom and foolish youth unprepared. There can end soon? We don't want to produce any more are to be workmen who have fully developed their issues like this one. We want you saved in God's talents for their Master's glory and others who have kingdom. L. M. TWO NEW ALBUMS FROM THE HERITAGE SINGERS USA

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