The Joy in Jesus My Soul with Music Sings; This Inward Joy I Would Not Trade by Harry Silbaugh for Legacies of Kings

July 30. 1959

GENERAL CHURCH PAPER Of THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

My heart with joy is laden, The Joy in Jesus My soul with music sings; This inward joy I would not trade by Harry Silbaugh For legacies of kings.

[S.S. Lesson Help for August 153 Vol. 136. No. 31

Vol. 136, No. 31 July 30, 1959

[These news items are taken from Religious News Service, Ecumenical News Service, and other sources. We do not necessarily concur in statements made in these items. We publish them simply to give our readers a picture of current religious developments.] COVER The Joy in Jesus EDITORIALS Page 3 Cardinal Cushing Attacks Ruling Blue Laws $1.17, or Priceless?—Caution, Bible Study Aheadl— Unconstitutional In Spite of Handicaps ✓ Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, issued GENERAL ARTICLES Page 5 a strongly worded statement attacking a recent Federal court Finland and Scandinavia—Full of Years—Measuring decision in which Massachusetts laws regulating Sunday busi- Up to the Standard—A Called-Out People—The Dis- ness were declared unconstitutional. Expressing "serious alarm covery of Derbe about the attitude toward Sunday which is generally preva- lent today," the Roman Catholic prelate urged his parish- TO YOUR HEALTH Page 11 ioners to help restore Sunday to its "proper status" as a day Is Diet Concerned With Cardiovascular Disease? of prayer and rest. "It is extremely disturbing," Cardinal Cushing said, "to be confronted with this new trend of OUR HOMES Page 12 thought, according to which Sunday is to become legally re- Full Compensation—Lord of the Winds and Waves cognized only as a day on which people may, if they choose, FOR'' ADVENTIST YOUTH Page 14 . . . engage in whatever activities may be pleasurable and profitable to themselves." Admit It—How to Find Salvation—How David Grew FEATURE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Page 16 Missouri Synod Lutherans Tighten Doctrinal Teaching A New Manuscript Discovery in Egypt Po After debate that extended over parts of three days, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod acted to tighten up its NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD Page 18 doctrinal teaching. The conservative church body of 2.5 Progress in the East Mediterranean Union—Tokyo million members did this by making binding on all pastors, Sanitarium Graduation — Foxboro, Massachusetts, professors, and teachers of the Synod the "Brief Statement" Church Dedication—Monument Valley Mission Clinic adopted by the Synod in 1932. The "Brief Statement" is an in Utah—Potomac University Graduates Sixty-two— 8,000-word document, which holds that the Bible is verbally Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital, Hinsdale, Illinois inspired and contains "no errors or contradictions," including —The Lannark Fire—From Home Base to Front Line —Buried With an African Chief—In Brief—In Re- the parts which treat of historical, geographical, and other membrance—Notice secular matters. It accepts the Genesis account of the world's creation as having occured in six days—a belief that some SABBATH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Page 28 Missouri Synod pastors are said not to accept. Hong Kong Branch Sabbath Schools Baptists in Italy Report Gains CHURCH CALENDAR FOR 1959 Page 28 to" Baptists in Italy, although a small minority, are scoring SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 29 membership gains more rapidly than in almost any other area, Doing God's Will (Lesson for Sabbath, August 15) the Baptist World Alliance reported in Washington, D.C. A total of 405 new members were baptized last year, the POETRY Alliance reported, which represented one baptism for every Very Soon, p. 5; I Love Jesus, p. 8 ten members. Five years ago there were only 128 baptisms, or one for every 28 members. Baptist membership in Italy has doubled since the end of World War II, increasing from TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS 2,200 to 4,383, the report said. As the chronicler of the history of the church the REVIEW is always interested in prompt reports with pictures of important happenings—church dedications, Anglican Prelate Urges Catholic-Protestant Unity camp meetings, evangelistic meetings, and other newsworthy events. An out-of- date report is not news, and is not acceptable. Also, the REVIEW is interested v. Anglican Bishop Falkner Allison, Lord Bishop of Chelms- in articles. Copies of manuscripts sent to other journals cannot be used. Lay members should identify themselves by giving the name of the church they at- ford, England, said in San Francisco he believes it is God's tend and the name of their pastor or local elder. plan that the Protestant and Roman Catholic churches should All manuscripts should be typed, double spaced, and with adequate margins. Use only one side of paper. Carbon copies are never acceptable. Unsolicited be unified. "It is deplorable for Protestants to be comp/aunt manuscripts cannot be returned unless a stamped self-addressed envelope is sent with present divisions of their Church," he said at a yneeting with them. The REVIEW does not pay for unsolicited material. All communications relating to the editorial department should be addressed at the Episcopal Diocesan House. He urged Protestaffis and to: Editor, Review and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. Catholics to work together for unity.

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But here, as in driving a car, a little learning may Many years ago when in grade school we were sol- prove to be a dangerous thing. When a novice with more emnly informed that all the chemicals in the human zeal than knowledge essays to enter upon serious Bible body could be purchased for only 98 cents. Today, ac- study and wanders in beyond his depth, wholly unaware cording to Tom Keller, instructor in chemistry at Texas of the pitfalls and bypaths that persons with more ex- Southmost College, inflation has boosted the cost to perience have learned to avoid, he often goes free- $1.17. wheeling through some of the more difficult problems But even with this new evaluation it is apparent that of exegesis that have taxed the best efforts of earnest the worth of a human being cannot be reckoned in and able students of the Bible for centuries. Some of dollars and cents. Jesus did not die on Calvary for a the documents that have come to us bear eloquent testi- dollar's worth of chemicals! mony to the fact that the first and most important les- Man is valuable because God combined the necessary son for any and every student of the Bible to learn is elements to make a being in His own image, a being the extent of his own limitations in knowledge and capable of developing a Godlike character, a being that experience. could live forever. When man sinned, much of his worth A little learning is a dangerous thing because it may vanished. He became a rebel, incapable of doing right, tend to blind a person to the vast extent of informa- waiting only for death. tion he has not yet explored, and of the existence of But Christ took man in this condition, and on Calvary which he may not even be aware. Under such circum- placed a new value on him. As a result, once more man stances a false sense of confidence sometimes takes over, can reach the spiritual heights. Through God's power he as it often does with teen-age drivers who are careless can be transformed into the divine image. And he can only because they have not had sufficient experience to live forever! teach them caution. As long as no unusual situations As a result of what Jesus did, no earthly values can arise on the highway they are likely to get along rather compare with the worth of a soul. New automobiles fade well, but unexpected dangers often catch them unpre- into insignificance. And with them go houses and lands, pared. Teen-agers who are willing to recognize their new furniture, TV sets, and boats. In fact, the entire personal limitations and to drive accordingly are likely world would not compensate for the loss of a soul. Said to develop into safe drivers. Jesus, "What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the Like teen-age drivers, inexperienced readers of Holy whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a Writ sometimes take eagerly to a study of some of its man give in exchange for his soul?" (Mark 8:36, 37). more difficult passages, quite unaware of their complex- How much is your soul worth? When tempted to say ity, and as a result are prone to rush in where those with $1.17, look again at Calvary. K. H. W. more training and experience have learned to tread cautiously, and with holy fear. After a few hours or weeks of study on a problem they are ready with glib answers to profound questions that have puzzled devoted Caution—Bible Study Ahead! students of the Bible for years and that may, indeed, In some of the letters and unsolicited manuscripts on occupy the attention of the redeemed throughout eter- moot points of Biblical interpretation that come to our nity. A sanctified sense of one's personal limitations— editorial offices from time to time the writers evidently in both training and experience—is perhaps the most struggle to make up for a lack of skill in serious Bible important safeguard one can pray for as he enters upon study by a series of emphatic, but unproved, assertions. a study of God's Word. Certainly it is his first step First of all, we wish to affirm our personal appreciation toward knowledge. for every sincere effort directed toward a better under- We would not be misunderstood as implying that lay- standing of God's Word. We ardently wish that all might men should let ministers do all of their Bible study experience the joy that has often been ours in such study. for them. God forbid! Every Christian should study Now, in some respects, to engage in serious Bible God's Word diligently for himself, to the extent of his study is like operating an automobile. One essential ability. We do not recommend a clerical monopoly on characteristic of a safe driver, as of a careful Bible stu- the exposition of Scripture, nor do we want a pope to dent, is caution, which is the product of training plus speak ex cathedra on matters of faith and doctrine. But experience. Inexperienced drivers are usually lacking while the great truths of salvation are so clear and simple in caution, not so much because they are inherently that anyone can grasp and apply them to his own needs, incautious—they may, indeed, invite accidents by being people who are honest with themselves must admit that overcautious—but because they have not learned to there are difficult and obscure passages of Scripture anticipate situations that call for special skill at the where a sanctified, saving sense of caution will lead wheel, and they are, as a result, not prepared to cope every man, be he scholar or layman, to a humble recog- with them. nition of his personal limitations and to avoid posing As on the highway, a saving sense of caution in the as an authority, at least beyond these limits. study of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy often Thank God that in the Bible the pathway to life proves to be one's best protection against dangerous— eternal has been made plain for all! But this is not to and possibly fatal—mistakes. To be sure, there are glo- affirm that everything in the Bible can be readily under- rious truths to thrill and inspire those who have had stood. A difficult passage may require detailed study in JUL Y 3 0, 1 959 3 the languages in which the Bible was written, or its another a hand if he shows them he doesn't want to sit meaning may be modified by a variant reading in the still and withdraw." best ancient manuscripts. Its interpretation may depend upon certain obscure facts of archeology and ancient Others With Handicaps history, or on an understanding of ancient Oriental cus- Dr. Fitzpatrick's case is hardly unique, of course. Some toms and modes of thought and expression. of the world's most famous people have had various To use another illustration, if someone with a smat- handicaps. Lord Byron had a clubfoot. Robert Louis tering of knowledge about the human body should pose Stevenson and John Keats had tuberculosis. Charles as an authority on cancer and offer a pill or potion to Steinmetz and Alexander Pope were hunchbacks. Ad- cure this deadly affliction, intelligent people would dis- miral Nelson had only one eye. Edgar Allen Poe was a miss his claims as not meriting serious consideration. psychoneurotic. Charles Darwin was an invalid. Julius They would prefer the more prosaic judgment of the Caesar was an epileptic. Thomas Edison and Ludwig American Medical Association, the American Cancer von Beethoven were deaf. Peter Stuyvesant had a wooden Society, or the cancer specialists at the National Insti- leg. tutes of Health, even without the promise of an immedi- Then there was Louis Pasteur, who was so nearsighted ate and certain cure. he could hardly find his way around his own laboratory Now, there are certain aspects of health and hygiene without glasses. There was William Pitt who whipped that any normal person can master and should put into Parliament into line with his crutches. There was Frank- practice. In fact, with reasonable intelligence and ap- lin Delano Roosevelt who, though crippled by polio, plication most of us can learn enough about physiology, on braces and crutches became governor of New York diet, disease, and health to keep at least reasonably well and four times was elected President of the United States. most of the time. But there are very definite limits in Think also of Alec Templeton, the blind piano virtuoso, the medical field beyond which laymen, medically speak- and of Helen Keller, without sight or hearing, graduating ing, are wise not to trespass. It is important to recognize with honors from Radcliffe College. the limits of one's knowledge and experience, and in These people refused to alibi. Instead of saying, "I these areas to accept the concensus of informed medical could amount to something if only I had the advantages opinion, balancing it, of course, with the inspired coun- of other people," their actions proclaimed, "I will suc- sel that has come to us. Something similar is true with ceed in spite of my handicap." They proved that physical respect to some of the more difficult and obscure portions limitations are not decisive if the mind is keen and the of Scripture. spirit dauntless. At present all of us see through a glass darkly, and we To the ranks of these notables we could add many might as well admit the fact. Let us never forget that others, some of whom could have used their backgrounds attempts to darken counsel still further by words with- as an excuse for mediocrity. Lincoln was born of illiterate out knowledge never make us appear wise in the eyes parents in a log cabin in Kentucky, but rose to become of God, or for that matter in the eyes of our fellow men. one of the greatest leaders of all time. Epictetus, the first- To the contrary, let us ever be diligent in our study of century Greek slave, became an outstanding scholar and all that God has graciously revealed to us, that we may philosopher. Booker T. Washington, though born in continue to grow in grace and in a knowledge of truth. slavery, became one of America's greatest educators. And At the same time, may a sanctified sense of caution ever George Washington Carver, another slave, became one balance our valor as we strive with the sword of the of the truly distinguished scientists of his generation. Spirit, lest inadvertantly we slay truth itself! R. F. C. "I Can't" Sometimes the physically handicapped are tempted to In Spite of Handicaps forget that there are other kinds of handicaps—spiritual, intellectual, and environmental, for example. In fact, When American University in Washington, D.C., grad- almost everybody in the world is handicapped in one uated its senior class this spring, 38-year-old Richard S. way or another. But the greatest handicap is the state Fitzpatrick received a Doctor's degree in social psychol- of mind that says, "I can't; the other fellow can, but not ogy. Through this achievement he captured headlines in me. If I had his talents, if I had his advantages, if I had the Washington Sunday Star (June 7, 1959). For Dr. his connections, I could." Fitzpatrick "marched" with his class in a wheel chair. This state of mind is particularly dangerous when Ever since the age of four he has been confined to this dealing with spiritual matters. The person who says, "I vehicle, a victim of muscular dystrophy. can't be faithful to the Lord because I live in a divided But Dr. Fitzpatrick has not permitted his handicap to home," would probably make excuses even under ideal keep him from being successful. When he came to Wash- conditions. The person who says, "I can't pay tithe ington with his family early in World War II, he had a because I'm under such heavy financial obligations," B.S. degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee. likely would not pay tithe under better circumstances. Joining the USIA in 1948, he added a Master's degree The person who says, "I'm isolated. I'm bound to lose from American University, and began teaching psychol- out spiritually because I do not have church privileges," ogy in the U.S. Agriculture Department's graduate school no doubt would be a weak Christian even if there was program. For the past 16 years he has been secretary of a church within a block. Why not exercise some mis- Sigma Delta Chi, a journalism fraternity. He also is sionary zeal and raise up a company of believers, thus associate editor of the fraternity's magazine, The Quill, saving lost souls and strengthening one's own spiritual and serves as a book reviewer for several other publica- fiber? When truly dedicated to God an isolated member tions. Recently he was elected to American University's can move mountains! honor society and a psychology honor fraternity. All this Our natural inclination is to plead with God to remove while in a wheel chair! our handicaps. But in His infinite wisdom and love He Dr. Fitzpatrick does not feel sorry for himself. He does not often do this. Even the apostle Paul carried an takes the position that "life is going to go on. Either you affliction through life. But what a mighty work he did participate in it or you don't." "You know," he says, in spite of it! His motto was: "I can do all things through "people with handicaps would be a lot better off if they Christ which strengtheneth me" (Phil. 4:13). Shall we knew that there are so many [people] willing to give not take his motto as our own? K. H. W. 4 REVIEW AND HERALD

• • • • • Finland and Scandinavia • • The Editor Reports on Missions • • Editorial Correspondence • Hamburg, Germany • July 2, 1959 • •

T T'S an understatement to say that of more church schools. That's one of desired. The brethren have saved a 1 there's a difference between the the best items of news I've heard thus good sum toward such a plant. Part atmosphere in Russia and that in far on my journey. No one can meas- of the 1960 first quarter Sabbath Finland. You sense it, you see it, you ure the value of the church school in school overflow will go for this pur- respond to it. The peoples of Fin- implanting right principles in the pose. They're looking hopefully to- land, and also of Scandinavia, are a hearts of our children. Why compass ward that overflow, they said. If you robust, individualistic kind of people, land and sea to make proselytes and could see the handicaps under which and their governments reflect the let our children be weaned away from our overseas brethren often labor you mood and manner of the people. the truth! If we have to sacrifice al- would certainly want to increase all The Finns are the people who, in most everything else, let's have church your offerings. That's the effect, I the midst of the economic crises pro- schools. know, that it produces on me. I think duced by war, faithfully met their The colporteurs are active in Fin- a good Thirteenth Sabbath overflow payments on their note to the United land. One of their great problems is will help to warm the hearts of our States. That was front page news at lack of population, they told me. Finnish colporteurs—and they need the time, for great nations in Europe There are about 4 million people, it. The temperature sometimes goes were defaulting. I mentioned the fact which means about 1 million homes. down to 30° or even 40° below zero to a Finn in Helsinki, the capital. He Our publishing brethren explained at the time of year you will be mak- saw nothing remarkable about it. that the colporteurs cover these ing your gift—in one of our nicely "That's only what we promised we'd homes in about three years. This heated American churches. do," he observed, and went on with means that even the best-selling book The Finnish colporteurs certainly his work at the hotel. I wish we had can't be effectively used, in quantity, do something impressive with health more Finns in the world! for longer than this. So they must be literature. Though the membership The work in Finland is growing. constantly searching for new books is only 5,000, their health journal At the close of 1945, with the war's to use. But right here they face a often has a circulation of 29,000! end only a few months earlier, the problem. They do not own a printing Like the brethren in Poland, the membership stood at 2,744. At the plant. Getting non-Adventist printers Finnish brethren are this year pro- close of 1958 it was just at the 5,000 to do our work leaves much to be ducing their first hymnbook with mu- mark. The economic hardships in the sic. The music was written by hand, postwar years have not kept the breth- 411[1111111111111111111U11111111111111111111111111111111111111I111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 and the printing job was done by off- ren there from strong evangelistic set. It's no small book either-663 work. Really, there's no substitute for Very Soon hymns. On this joyous note I left it. Either we evangelize or we shrivel Finland. The stay was short—too and die. Finland includes in its evan- By Irene Butler Engelbert short—but long enough to make me gelistic personnel two women—very keenly aware that the Advent light successful women. I don't presently I'm traveling to the homeland, shines brightly in this far northern think of a duplicate of this in any Where earthly cares do not exist; land. other field. Where with neither cost nor payment Finland reaches north beyond the I'll be given heaven's raiment— A Brief Visit to Sweden Arctic Circle. At the very point where Very soon. A short ride by plane, and I was this imaginary and very frigid line in Scandinavia proper. Stockholm, runs across their land, our Finnish Yes, I'm going to heavenly Canaan, chief city of Sweden, is beautifully Conference has a church. They are Where the sick shall moan no more; situated. It's the little children of planning a further evangelistic meet- Where in place of health insurance Sweden that impress me most—fair ing there in a few months. Well, if it's I'll have Heaven's blest assurance— haired, blue-eyed, and rosy-cheeked. possible to give life and warmth to Very soon. They ever bring to mind the poet's the preaching of the message at the description of the skipper's "little Arctic Circle it ought to be possible Oh, I'm on my way to glory, daughter," in that sadly beautiful anywhere! Where the weary shall find rest; poem, "The Wreck of the Hesperus": Like many of the European fields, Where in place of union wages Finland has not had any church I will have the joy of ages— "Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, schools. But it is planning to open Very soon. Her cheeks like the dawn of day, one this autumn. Money has been the And her bosom white as the haw- problem, of course. The Finnish I'm traveling now to homeland, thorn buds, brethren still seem uncertain as to Where the future is secure; That ope in the month of May." how they can finance the school, but Where in place of retirement pension At the door of our Stockholm church they are determined to go forward. I will have a heavenly mansion— stood a little girl, not more than two They hope it will be the forerunner Very soon. years old. I put out my hand; she JULY 30, 1959 5 shook it and gracefully curtsied. The one who told me this story the world is much too large to tarry That's a vision of ingenuous charm, was Brother J. R. Arnesen, who is long anywhere. So I came on to Den- beauty, and good manners you can't in charge of production at the Swed- mark and its capital city, Copen- soon forget. Thank God for the little ish Publishing House. The book that hagen. There's one thing that all children He has given us. How drear the colporteur sold had been written these Scandinavian cities have in com- would be the world without them. by Brother Arnesen's father, Eric Ar- mon: they are scrupulously clean. In The work in Sweden was begun a nesen. In turn, Eric Arnesen had been this they are much like Switzerland, little more than 75 years ago by that started in the work by Elder Mat- where the cities look as if they had pioneer to Scandinavia, Elder John teson, who, as I mentioned, did the been washed and ironed every morn- G. Matteson. Just two weeks before pioneering work in Scandinavia. ing. I spoke there, the church had cele- Only in heaven will we learn the There are two local conferences in brated its seventy-fifth anniversary. I inter-relationships of lives and good Denmark. I could visit only the East think that a sight of the present com- deeds that have saved the souls of Denmark Conference. Attached to it, modious and modestly beautiful men. But this story gives a hint of organizationally, are the Faroe Islands church, along with conference office what thrilling revelations lie in store —a little group of islands about 800 quarters, would have cheered Brother for us. miles west in the cold North Atlantic. Matteson's heart. Let me add right Sabbath afternoon I visited the And what did our brethren do to get a here that more and more our over- Swedish school—answering more or favorable footing there? They opened seas headquarters and our churches less to a North American Academy— a clinic for the sick. Our experience in the large cities have substantial some 40 miles from Stockholm. Since everywhere seems to suggest that there and respectable quarters. That is as I was there in 1947 they have erected is no other way half so effective. it should be. True, we are pilgrims a very representative administration The problems of evangelism are and strangers in the earth. But we and classroom building. The location real in Denmark, though it is possible are to occupy till He comes. Our goal is beautifully rural, with ample land. to secure a larger attendance, it seems, should normally be to buy rather I wish we had more schools so situ- for evangelistic meetings than in than pay rent. ated. During the summer vacation Sweden. State ownership of the radio The brethren in Sweden told me part of the plant is transformed into makes it impossible to buy time. So of the present difficulty in persuading a summer sanitarium. The patronage great dependence is placed on the people to attend our evangelistic is excellent, and evidently all non- Bible correspondence school. There meetings. All religious bodies, they Adventist, if I may judge from the is a health course and a Bible course. explained, have great problems try- jewelry. Here is certainly an ingen- Part of the enrollments are secured ing to fill their churches. Sweden, to- ious way to make profitable use of by our church members. However, day, is prosperous and peaceful— otherwise idle buildings in summer- advertisements have also been placed holidays and sports are prominent in time. Our Scandinavian brethren are in newspapers and in the Danish edi- the lives of the populace. Nor is it resourceful. tion of the Reader's Digest. The latter possible to use radio. The state owns But I could not tarry in Sweden— has produced very good returns. the radio, and we cannot buy time. But there are other ways to win men. Listen to this good story: Thirty years ago a Swedish family bought one of our message-filled When very young, Sister Conway books from a colporteur. One of the worked in Topeka, Kansas, selling our boys of the family read it and then truth-filled books and obtaining sub- pondered its teachings through the scriptions for the Signs of the Times. She years. Not so long ago he enrolled was among the first workers to employ in the Bible correspondence school. the down-payment method—and with That further stimulated his interest good success. After college days she had and increased his conviction that the the good fortune to be connected for a message he had long ago read in the time with Dr. David Paulson and his as- book was true. He finally wrote to sociates in medical missionary work in the Bible correspondence school that Chicago. Elder Conway entered the min- he had already begun to keep the istry in 1896. For several years he and Sis- Sabbath. ter Conway were connected with the The conference sent an ordained work in the Hawaiian Islands. minister to visit him.The visit revealed In 1942 these earnest and faithful that he was firm on all the main workers were invited by the Central points of faith. The next Sabbath he California Conference committee to open was baptized. Following the baptism a missionary project in the Yosemite Val- he stood up in the church to tell the ley. For nine years they were there from story of how he had been led to ac- May to September, reaching thousands cept the truth. He began with the of visitors with our literature, bringing colporteur incident of 30 years ear- some into the church, and gathering a to- lier. The minister's eyes glowed. Soon Elder and Mrs. F. H. Conway tal of more than ten thousand dollars he sprang to his feet: "Are you one for missions. of the boys in that family," he ex- Elder and Mrs. F. H. Conway, now 86 Elder and Sister Conway remember claimed, describing some details of and 84 years of age respectively, live in Ellen G. White, and recall very pleas- the long-ago sale. "Yes I am," said California. They have served actively in ant contacts with her in the long ago. the convert. "Well, I'm the colporteur denominational work for more than 60 Especially do they like to think of her who sold your family that book," years. As early as 1891 they both engaged helpful counsels to them as young work- added the minister. A little later the in colporteur service, although as yet ers. They in turn became helpful coun- wife enrolled, and is now converted unacquainted with each other. Later they selors to other young workers in the to the faith. attended Union College, in Nebraska. cause of God. ERNEST LLOYD 6 REVIEW AND HERALD About 50 per cent of those who take Iceland. The average stay at the san- ing, I saw a small room with a stand the health course respond to the in- itarium is 22 days. Another thing im- on which to place a coffin. Seems that vitation to go on and take the Bible pressed me. There is worship for the in this part of the world it is the course. whole sanitarium family, including practice, when a member dies, for A young night watchman noticed doctors, every morning at 7. They feel the undertaker to bring the body to some papers by the trash cans as he this helps greatly to give cohesion to the church. There it remains till in- made his rounds. He picked up a the work and to maintain the spirit ternment. I confess I like this. Not copy—it was an Ingathering paper. of an Adventist institution. How right only do we need more of the church He found in it an enrollment blank they are. One more feature of the during our lives, in a sense we really for the correspondence course. He sanitarium interested me greatly. belong to the church in death. It is finally was baptized. Now he spends From 1898 to 1958, the medical direc- the Christian church that robs death his spare hours trying to enroll others. tion of the place was spanned by two of its dreadful apparent finality. The He put an identifying mark on blanks men, Dr. Carl Ottosen, followed by Christian hope is compressed in the that he placed in phone booths. Thus Dr. A. Andersen. Dr. E. Hansen, now assurance of Christ: "Because I live, far, more than 300 such cards have in charge, was for years an associate ye shall live also" (John 14:19). come in. Sundays he solicits rides on the staff. That makes for stability. You'd love Scandinavia—at least back and forth between Skodsborg The sanitarium runs full, provides during the short and heavenly sum- and Copenhagen—a half hour's trip employment for some 260 Adventists, mer. Everyone tries to get out into —in order to talk to the auto drivers and from its profits can substantially the country for a time—some by car, about enrolling. Evidently the first help the work. others by motorcycle, or bicycle, or fervent love of the truth dominates There's a beautiful new church foot. Along a country road we passed the hearts of Danes, as of other building on the grounds. Only a mile a broad field where an array of tents people. and a half away is another such build- were pitched—of every size and shape. Denmark doesn't have a publishing ing. Adjoining it is a home for aged I must honestly confess, however, that house. The books are printed by com- Adventists. The oldest inhabitant at it seemed a bit rugged, even if exhilar- mercial firms. But we have editorial this home is a sister 93 years of age. ating, way to spend a vacation. But offices to provide manuscripts and Had a little visit with her. A beaming then, I've been spoiled by long years distribution machinery to send the soul. How joyous it is when the saints of American comforts. There are printed books and papers to the col- become ever more mellow as they many of these camping sites in the porteurs and to our churches. Recently grow older. The home is self support- northland. an edition of 50,000 Steps to Christ ing. Have found several such in I can't stay here, no matter how was printed. Already 30,000 have been Northern Europe. Those living there beautiful and inviting the country is. sold to our Danish churches for mis- pay for the residence with their gov- Must travel on to Germany. sionary work. That's better than good ernment pension checks. when you remember that the Advent- Looking through the church build- F. D. Mum.. ist membership is only 4,000. The health journal has a circulation of 8,000. I think that in relation to membership many of our overseas fields distribute much more literature than we do in America. A Peculiar People-6 Copenhagen is near the Baltic Sea —only 10 miles from the city is the shore, from which you can look across a narrow stretch of water to the Swedish mainland. By this scenic shore is a village called Skodsborg, Measuring Up to the Standard where the kings of Denmark once had their summer palace. In 1898 the property came into our hands, and By A. V. Olson there we established our oldest medical institution, I believe, in Europe. Certainly it is by far the largest. The palace still stands, though additional VERY human organization, be it It is also comprehensive in its scope, buildings have been added through E civic, business, cultural, or reli- since it covers "the whole duty of the years. gious, must have well-defined laws and man" (Eccl. 12:13). But there is something more dis- standards if it is to prosper. What is The prosperity of the church de- tinctive about it than that. It is still true of a civil government is also pends in no small measure upon the a sanitarium, not a hospital, as a great true of a church organization. If it is loyalty of its members to this high and number of our sanitariums have be- to accomplish the purpose for which holy standard which Satan hates with come. I had a long visit with the med- it has been established, it must have a bitter hatred. While still in heaven ical staff. They assured me that in laws defining the relationship of its he trampled it under his feet. He led this distinctiveness lay their economic members to God and to one another. one third of the angels into rebellion strength. People could get good hos- It must have standards governing the against it, and as soon as he was cast pital care and excellent surgery in behavior of its members. out into the earth he set about lead- numerous other medical institutions. Recognizing this all-important fact ing man to transgress it. But only here could they get sani- Christ, the founder and invisible head God's peculiar people have always tarium care and treatments. TwO of of the church, established a code of been in danger of permitting Satan the patients at my table in the dining laws that knows no equal. This divine to blind their eyes -to the importance room had made more than six return standard of conduct has no flaws or of loyal adherence to God's holy stand- visits to the sanitarium over the years. weaknesses. It is like its Author— ard.• This danger' has usually been One was from Norway, the other from perfect, spiritual, holy, just, and good. greatest in times of prosperity. JULY 3 0, 1959 7 Moses, the mighty leader of Israel, 28:19, 20). Being obedient to their Having by this time become large, understood this. Before laying down Master's command, these lowly fol- strong, rich, and influential, the his responsibilities and turning over lowers went out and preached with church was easily led to depend more the reins of leadership to Joshua, he great power the gospel of Jesus Christ and more upon its own resources and called all Israel together and talked —a gospel that is so effective that it is less upon God. Gradually it lost its to them much as a dying father would even able to make saints out of sinners reverence for God's commandments talk to his children gathered about his and commandment keepers out of law- and began to lower the standards that deathbed. He loved his people. Dur- breakers. From city to city, and from had been entrusted to it. ing 40 years he had been their leader. village to village, the glorious mes- The Reformation and After Now he knew he must leave them, sage of a crucified and risen Saviour never to see them again in this world. was carried with mighty power. Thou- As a result the doctrines of the The great desire of his heart was that sands were converted in a day. Bible were tampered with and stand- they should so live that he would have As Satan beheld multitudes of his ards were callously trampled in the the joy of seeing them again in the captives being set free, he became dust. The members who remained heavenly Canaan. Therefore he ap- alarmed and infuriated. Fires of per- faithful were cast out of the church pealed to them most earnestly to be secution were kindled. Thousands of and cruelly persecuted. Soon the true to their God. After reminding Christians were thrown into prison, world was plunged into the blackness them that they were about to enter the tortured, and martyred. But nothing of the Dark Ages. Promised Land, a land flowing with seemed able to stop the onward march When it began to look as though milk and honey, where they would of the gospel of Christ. From land to the lamp of truth would go out for- have bread and wealth in abundance, land it went, conquering and to con- ever, God stepped in and fanned the he admonished them earnestly not to quer. Even the armies of the Caesars flickering flame into a glorious ef- forget their God. (Read Deuteronomy could not arrest its dynamic progress. fulgence. A mighty reformation swept 8 : 11-14.) Soon the members of the church were over the Old World. The face of Eu- Moses understood human nature numbered in the millions. rope was changed. As multiplied thou- and the wiles of Satan. He knew how When Satan saw that he could not sands of men and women throughout prone man is to forget his God in days stop the spread of Christianity by per- the continent surrendered their hearts of prosperity. The subsequent history secution, he decided to change his to God, they were transformed. By of Israel reveals that Moses had reason tactics. He now dampened down the precept and example God's standard to feel concerned for his people. As fires of persecution and set about to of righteousness that had trailed in long as Joshua, that sturdy, unswerv- induce the church to lower its stand- the dust during long, gloomy centu- ing man of God, was in their midst, ards, presumably to make it easier for ries was again exalted and lifted on leading them through the hardships, the heathen to come into the church. high. Once more the world had a liv- dangers, and trials of conquering, posing demonstration of true Christian- sessing, and developing the land of ity. Canaan, they remained loyal to God, 1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111t11111111111111111111 But, sad to say, as these Reforma- but as soon as they were established tion churches increased in members, in their new country and were enjoy- wealth, and influence, they gradually ing to the full the ease, comfort, and I Love Jesus began to drift away from their moor- wealth of the Promised Land, they By Minnie S. Allen ings. Again doctrines were changed forgot their God and His holy law. and standards were lowered, until (See Judges 2:7-12.) I love Him, I love Him! My Saviour is now it is often difficult to tell pro- God did not immediately cast away He; fessed Christians from non-Christians. His wayward children. In great love He'll never forsake me if faithful I'll be. The law of God, His standard of right- and mercy, from time to time He sent I'll ask Him to guide me wherever I go, eousness, which should be written on prophets and priests with earnest ap- And peace like a river around me will the fleshy tables of the heart of every peals to return to Him. At times there flow. professed Christian and lived out in were revivals and reformations, but the daily life, is declared to be no these were usually of short duration I love Him, I love Him! When from Him longer binding upon men. They want and were followed by new apostasies. I roam, to live as they please—"lovers of pleas- Finally God sent them His only Son, I hear His voice calling, "0 wanderer, ures more than lovers of God; having whom they rejected and nailed to the come home." a form of godliness, but denying the cruel cross. I'm tired of my folly and the sins of the power thereof" (2 Tim. 3:4, 5). world, Because of this sad apostasy God Rejection of Ancient Israel I'm now on His side with my banner un- has raised up the Advent Movement When God saw there was no more furled. to carry His last call for reformation hope for Israel He sorrowfully cast into all the world. It is a clarion call away His chosen people, for whom I love Him, I love Him! So mighty is to come out of Babylon, a mighty ap- He had done so much, and proceeded He— peal to forsake the world, its fashions, to raise up another people to take He walks on the waves of proud Galilee, its pleasures, and all its evil practices, their place. This time He did not He speaks to the tempest, its ragings are to be transformed by the power of the choose a nation. Instead, Jesus gath- stilled; Holy Spirit into children of God. It is ered about Him a small group of hum- He speaks to my heart, and with joy it is a movement directed by Heaven to ble men and women who had accepted filled. restore God's holy standard of right- Him as their Lord and Master and eousness to its rightful place in the organized them into a church with I love Him, I love Him! He comes for church and in the hearts of men. Himself as its head. His own; "Here is the patience of the saints: To this newborn church Jesus com- He'll say to the faithful, "Sit down on here are they that keep the command- mitted the great responsibility of lift- My throne. ments of God, and the faith of Jesus" ing high before all men His holy Your trials are over, your vict'ry is won; (Rev. 14:12). standard of righteousness that had Receive from My hand your harp and This Advent Movement came into long been trampled in the dust (Matt. your crown." existence a little more than a hundred 8 REVIEW AND HERALD years ago. Humble indeed was its be- fleshy tables of the heart, thus bring- light. It is thus that they become the ginning. Its adherents were few and ing the life into harmony with God's light of the world. The nearer they poor. They possessed no institutions, holy standard of righteousness. It come to the divine Pattern, the not even a chapel in which to meet. means a daily submission to Christ, brighter they will shine. Their pure But they were rich in faith. Confident permitting Him to live in us, to con- lives, their good works, will attract that God had raised them to give a trol our lives, and to mold and fashion the attention of the world and cause message to the whole world, they us according to His divine will. men and women to glorify God. (See moved forward. Today this movement Thus, having their lives brought Matthew 5:14, 16.) is firmly established in every section into harmony with the divine stand- How important, then, that every of the world. Its members are found ard of righteousness, the members of member of the church should seek, in nearly every land on earth. It op- the remnant church become God's through the grace and power of God, erates thousands of chapels and hun- peculiar people, to show forth the to have his life in strict conformity dreds of institutions. Millions of dol- praises of Him who has called them with the standard God has set up to lars flow through its coffers every year, out of darkness into His marvelous govern his daily conduct! and it is now comparatively rich. Ev- ery year it is gathering momentum as it moves forward into all the world. Naturally, our hearts fill with joy and gratitude as we behold the movement of which we are a part and Pillars of the Advent Faith which we dearly love growing in numbers, in material things, and in influence. But in the midst of this prosperity are we not individually in danger of losing sight of our dependence A Called-Out People on God? Are we not in danger of lowering the standards and drifting toward the world as have so many other By Robert H. Pierson religious movements? We are made of the same flesh and blood, and we face the same cunning foe. Our only hope lies in keeping close to our Sav- HE Advent message calls men seeking. Jesus would have them hum- iour daily, in following in His steps. Tand women out from the crooked ble—"in honour preferring one an- Not for one moment can we afford to ways and the wrong habits of this pres-. other" (Rom. 12:10). "He washed lower our standards. Instead, the ent evil world. It makes a person a their feet" (John 13:4, 5), and then "standard is to be elevated higher and new creature in Christ Jesus. It makes added, "I have given you an example, higher, to meet the requirements of him healthy, happy, honest, sober, that ye should do as I have done to the Bible."—Fundamentals of Chris- modest, and a member of God's you" (John 13:15). tian Education, p. 288. remnant church. It enables him to The Advent message calls a person Instead of lowering the standards live straight, to think straight, to out from the selfishness of this present to meet the faulty lives of some of its deal straight, to walk straight, to be world. Love for Christ and his fellow members, the church must seek to straight. man makes him generous as well as bring its members up to the stand- The Advent message calls a man honest. It has been the will of God ards. "This is the work that devolves out from the old life of sin. It leads that man should develop a character upon every faithful standard-bearer---- him down into the watery grave of like His own—a willingness to share. to bring the men up to the colors. The baptism and brings him forth a new In the Garden of Eden the Creator Lord calls for wholeheartedness. We creature in Christ Jesus. reserved only one tree for His own, all know that the sin of many profess- Baptism is the door of the church, and gave Adam and Eve access to all ing Christians is that they lack the and the church is the body of Christ the others. In acknowledging the one courage and energy to bring them- (Eph. 1:22, 23). There is but one way tree as God's, man could exercise the selves and those connected with them to enter that body. "By one Spirit are same unselfish, "sharing" attitude that up to the standard."—Testimonies, we all baptized into one body" (1 Cor. actuated his Maker. vol. 9, p. 46. 12:13). God still tests His professed follow- The true prosperity of the church Before baptism a person must re- ers today. Not a-tree but a tenth He depends upon its purity, upon its pent (Acts 2:37, 38). He must believe reserves for His own. In returning loyalty to God. Loyalty to God in- on the Lord Jesus Christ (Mark 16: this tithe to its rightful Owner, we volves faithful obedience to all of His 15, 16). He must be instructed in the may develop the sharing character of commandments. life and teachings of the Saviour. As God. As we conquer selfishness and we rise from the watery grave we make prepare ourselves for heaven we are Conformity to God's Standard a public confession of our belief in, at the same time helping others to According to the apostle and and our acceptance of, the Saviour's hear the truth of God. It is Heaven's prophet John, one of the distinguish- resurrection from the dead. We cove- plan that our tithes and offerings ing marks of the remnant church is nant henceforth to walk with Him in should support the worldwide pro- that it keeps the commandments of newness of life. gram of preaching the gospel, and God (see Rev. 12:17; 14:12). Keeping The Advent message calls a person thereby hasten the return of Jesus. the commandments means more than out from the pride of our present day. The Advent message calls a person professing faith in them, more than In coming to this world to become out from the intemperance of this proclaiming their binding obligation. man's Saviour, Christ stripped Him- present world. In lands where intoxi- It means living them. It means that self of His divine glory (John 17:5) cating beverages flow freely and where through faith in Christ and surrender and took the form of a servant. His law-abiding citizens suffer the baleful to Him the Holy Spirit has been per- disciples needed to learn the lesson of effects of alcoholism, God's truth ex- mitted to write the law of God on the humility. They were proud and self- horts to sobriety and uprightness. JULY 30, 1959 9 "What?" Paul asks, "know ye not the loving Shepherd is the very essence find peace, health, and happiness in that your body is the temple of the of the Advent message. Today His His way. Those who accept this Holy Ghost which is in you, which voice invites all who will, to leave the blessed invitation are indeed and in ye have of God, and ye are not your old life of sin and disobedience and truth a "called-out" people. own?" (1 Cor. 6:19). Our bodies belong to our Creator. We are not at liberty to misuse and mar them as we may choose. Intemperance is not confined to drunkenness, for we read: "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, The Discovery of Derbe or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31). It includes By Siegfried H. Horn what one eats as well as the amount he eats. God would have His people not only happy but healthy, and the Advent message therefore incorpo- HE year 1956 marked the discov- ..„:.,.< t ...... rates health reform into its message. Tery of Derbe, the last to be dis- God's original diet for the unfallen covered of the several sites in Asia -. , - . -,..,...... 0„, - . pair in Eden was grains and fruits and Minor mentioned in the New Tes- nuts (Gen. 1:29). After the Flood tament. The city of Derbe, in which ...... God placed the animals, as food, in a Christian church had been founded .... two categories, clean and unclean. by the apostles Paul and Barnabas dur- . Some animals commonly eaten today ing their first missionary journey, was ... ....,. God classes as unclean and therefore visited repeatedly by Paul (Acts 14: • CA 1 \ unfit for food. (Read all of Leviticus 6, 20; 16:1). The other cities touched "AN.,....,•4 11.) These animals were placed on , by the two missionary apostles, Perga ...7:------"!!„, /4, God's forbidden list because, as scav- in Pamphylia (now Murtana), An- umt engers, they were potential carriers of tioch in Pisidia (now Jalowadj), Ico- disease. God's clean people are to nium (now Konia), Lystra in Lycao- yards long, 200 yards wide, and 70 feet leave these meats alone. In fact, we nia (now Zoldera) and Attalia (now high. The archeological evidence of will enjoy better health if we stay Adalia) have all been identified dur- the ceramic remains found at that by the Lord's original diet of grains, ing the past one hundred years. Only site, combined with that of literary fruits, and nuts. Derbe's location remained a mystery, sources mentioning Derbe, make it Our safest course in eating and although it was evident that it could certain that this city had been in ex- drinking today is to abstain from all not lie far from Lystra, since the two istence for several centuries before that is harmful and to be temperate cities are mentioned together (Acts the Christian Era and remained an in the use of that which is good. Then 14:6; 16:1). inhabited town at least until the fif- we can present our bodies "a living Biblical scholars have in the past teenth century A.D. sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God" suggested several possible sites for Thus the last of the sites on the (Rom. 12:1). ancient Derbe. Some put it at Divle, mainland of Asia Minor mentioned The Advent message calls people 34 miles east of Karaman; others be- in the records of Luke and visited by out of religious apostasy and theolog- tween Zosta and Bosola, some 19 Paul during his first missionary tour ical error. In the seventeenth and miles west of Karaman. Ramsay sug- has now definitely been located, and eighteenth chapters of Revelation the gested Gudelisin, which lies six miles Bible maps can be corrected accord- condition of earth's fallen churches west of Bosola, while Grollenberg ingly. The accompanying sketch map is graphically depicted. Some gener- sought it near Zosta. All these identi- shows the location of these cities. ally accepted teachings, based upon fications had no factual or inscrip- Bibliography: M. Ballance, "The tradition rather than upon the Word tional basis and were pure guesses. Site of Derbe; a New Inscription," of God, include the idea that the Ten Now, however, the riddle has been in Anatolian Studies, vol. 7 (1957), Commandments have been abrogated, solved. M. Ballance of the British pp. 147-151, pl. IX. that the first day of the week is the School of Archae- Sabbath, that infant baptism and ology at Rome, sprinkling are to be practiced, and during topographi- that the soul is, immortal. cal investigations The revelator describes the undone made in the area of and fallen condition of apostate Chris- ancient Lycaonia tendom thus: "Babylon the great is in 1956, discovered fallen, is fallen, and is become the an inscribed block habitation of devils, and the hold of of stone at Kerti every foul spirit, and a cage of every Hilyiik, 13.7 miles unclean and hateful bird" (Rev. 18:2). north-northeast of Then He calls, "Come out of her, my Karaman. The in- people, that ye be not partakers of her scription can be sins, and that ye receive not of her dated to the year plagues" (verse 4). A. D. 157 by its date God is calling His people out from formula, and con- the confusion of religious thought tains a dedicatory that characterizes our day. He appeals text issued by the to those who are honest in heart to council and people leave the churches that cling to the of Derbe. The man-made doctrines of Rome and to mound of Kerti COURTESY OF M. H. EALLANCE find shelter in His fold! The call of Huyiik is about 300 Inscribed stone mentioning Derbe found at Ketri Huyuk in 1956. 10 REVIEW AND HERALD hundred years. He states: "With these shortcomings in mind it is possible to delineate the following broad S r trends. Meat consumption has gen-

CONDLiCTEC. C,ENEFAL CONFERENCE MEDICAL OEPRRTMENT erally tended to be relatively high in major strata of the population and has remained much higher than in most other economically developed countries. Another unique American die- Is Diet Concerned With tary characteristic—the large intake of butter, lard, and other predominately saturated fats—has been further ac- Cardiovascular Disease? centuated. With this a change has By T. R. Flaiz, M. D. taken place in the composition of in- gested fats, partly due to the introduc- tion in 1910 of the catalytic hydro- T T APPEARS to be characteristic of "In these individuals many factors genation process, which saturates 1 human nature to accept with ut- may interact significantly with diet; double bonds and converts vegetable most reluctance facts that call for the genetics and heredity, metabolism and oils into 'plastic' shortenings and mar- change of favorite habits. The attitude endocrinology, clothing mechanisms, garines." is the same when the changes called previous medical history, psychologic Bearing very significantly on the for adversely affect the financial pros- make up, physical condition (fatigue, qualitative considerations relative to perity of those concerned. The medi- stress, tension, frustration), smoking, our diet, from the Department of cal profession is in no doubt as to habitual physical activity of work, Agriculture's 1955 Household Survey the harmful effects of tobacco. Yet, and other environmental factors." we learn that Americans take 42-45 how slow the medical profession is to According to Dr. Stamler, diet is per cent of their daily calories in fat. come out solidly in condemnation of the major consideration in the cause This compares with less than 20 per this entrenched habit, which yearly ac- of this disease, and interacting with cent for Italy, where coronary disease counts for most of the 25,000 bronchi- diet are the other secondary factors is significantly lower than in the ogenic carcinoma deaths and con- mentioned. If we would avoid a coro- United States. Referring to countries tributes substantially to an even nary accident we will then give first of lower income levels, Dr. Stamler greater number of deaths by coronary attention to our food habits, perhaps asks, "Why is it that the poor of coun- disease. The smoking habits of phy- first as to c uantity. Consumption of tries such as Egypt, India, Japan, Italy, sicians and the financial interests of more food Lian the body requires is a and Spain have low death rates due to the tobacco industry are the most po- prime factor in the deposition of fat coronary disease, whereas Americans tent factors in silencing opposition around the body, most significantly in in the' lower rungs of the enonomic to this death-dealing commerce. the arteries. It is recognized that the ladder have rates at least as high as Except for the personal habits of a hazard of coronary disease increases more well-to-do groups? Are these ap- large segment of the population, there directly with the increase of body fat parently contradictory trends incon- would be an immediate demand that or weight. This immediately relates sistent with the basic thesis of a key alcoholic beverages be placed under diet to cardiovascular disease on a relationship between diet and athero- the same restriction as other poisons. quantitative basis. The overeater sclerosis?" He immediately answers Similarly, there are people who still stands in greater danger of a heart at- his own question: give little evidence that they recog- tack than the person who carefully "The answer to this question is a nize a relationship between their food chooses a diet just adequate to his definite 'No' since important differ- habits and cardiovascular health. needs. The Spirit of Prophecy counsels ences prevail in the dietary patterns Here again, physicians often fail to on health frequently remind us that of lower income Americans and the call the attention of patients to much- an abstemious diet contributes sig- poorer classes of all the aforemen- needed changes in their dietetic hab- nificantly to good health. tioned countries. In contrast to the its. The health reports of several hun- Referring to the difficulty of sorting population en masse of these coun- dred people, mostly professional peo- out related and unrelated factors in tries, major strata of the economically ple, come to the Medical Department heart disease, Dr. Stamler discusses less privileged in the United States, at of the General Conference each year. food trends in America over the past least since the depression in 1930-40, It is disturbing to see how many of have been consuming sizable quan- these reports contain laboratory evi- tities of meat, milk, eggs, fats, and oils, dence of early or even fairly advanced white flour products, refined sugar and cardiovascular disease. Yet caution or salt. The intake of these poorer Amer- counsel has not been given to the icans of total calories and empty cal- patient regarding diet. While it is be- ories, total fats, and saturated fats coming increasingly clear that other (animal and vegetable) and choles- factors are involved in coronary dis- terol tends to be almost as high as ease, dietary indiscretion is, without those of upper income Americans." question, a major consideration and Space does not permit us to include one concerning which there is much more of the enligtening discussion of we can do. this topic by Dr. Stamler. These scien- In a recent issue of the Journal of tific opinions from a leading research the American Dietetic Association Dr. authority of the American Heart As- Stamler, of the Cardiovascular Re- sociation leave little room for doubt search Institute of Michael Reese Hos- that it is at the dinner table that we pital, Chicago, speaking of the varia- very largely determine how soon we tion with which different people react permit ourselves to be overtaken with to a given dietetic pattern, observes: a heart attack. JULY 30, 1959 11 HOW TO KEEP THEM HAPPY AND HEAVENLY

CONDUCTED BY PROMISE JOY SHERMAN "Oh, my," I thought, "now they will both want to be teachers, and then " But no— Full Compensation "O.K., you be the teacher, and I will be the student." By Kathryn Barnett Cash I gave a little sigh of relief that this hump was over, and my mind turned to other things. Then I caught a frag- REDDY, you are almost five! How carry this trait with us? Did God give ment of the conversation again a few Ffast the years have flown since you little children this characteristic just moments later. came to bless our home. I am your to have them lose it as they grow "I want to be the teacher now," mother, the one who, through no older? No, I am sure He did not. said whichever one of you who had choice of yours, must lead you and Parental love is the only security chil- been the student so patiently. guide you through the years to Chris- dren have at this tender age. And I was sure this time there would be tian maturity. And yet, as my mind when they are disciplined, instinc- a real clash of wills and waited for sweeps over these five years, I am tively they turn for an extra portion the tumult to follow the other's reply. thankful for the many lessons I have of this security, into the arms of "O.K., we will have two teachers." learned from you, a tiny baby, my mother, or father, whichever the case "Yes, we will have school with two little chap, just now growing out of may be. teachers and no students." your babyhood. You taught me a lesson today. I didn't gather enough of your con- Today, for instance. You just didn't Sometimes I find myself resenting the versation from then on to see how want to take a nap. That is quite nat- ways that God is leading me—resent- that school progressed, but it must ural for a little fellow nearing five, ing the pruning knife, chafing under have been• a great success, for you but I tucked you into your bed any- the trials that mark my pathway. Now were still at it a half hour later. And way, knowing that the day would be I am determined to submit myself to while I ironed, I couldn't help think- too long for you to maintain your His discipline, knowing it is for my ing that if all of us were as willing to usual cheerfulness without an after- own eternal good, and when the hurt accept the desires of others, even if it noon nap. You didn't rebel; you just is greatest, to turn to those everlasting meant there were two teachers and no decided not to go to sleep and found arms of love for extra strength and students, a lot of complications in life so many distractions that soon you comfort. would be solved, and a lot of broken were busy talking to yourself and That was today. Last week it was friendships would be salvaged. Susie, your dolly. I didn't want to another incident, but it etched an Little things are such a joy to you. punish you, so I waited a few minutes. indelible picture in my mind. You Your eyes sparkle as you watch the Sometimes you have talked yourself to were downstairs playing with Rolene, geese flying in formation above the sleep, but not today. I heard foot- your best friend. You two never quar- lake. The clouds sailing by in fan- steps and peeked into your room. rel, and I often wondered why. While tastic shapes make you think of so Sure enough, you were out of bed. I was ironing upstairs that day, I dis- many things my calloused eyes do not It wasn't much of a little spat that covered the secret. see. And through your eyes I live I had to give you, but it broke your "Let's play school," one of you sug- again in a world of childhood curi- heart. Salty tears flowed down your gested. osity, and am revived. cheeks and dropped onto the pillow- "O.K.," came the ready reply. All week long you live for the Sab- case. I bent to kiss you, and your "We'll play school." bath. Every day the same question is chubby little arms were suddenly I wasn't paying enough attention to asked, "When will it be Sabbath around my neck. There we were, the notice which one of you said which again?" And when Friday comes, your two of us, locked in each other's arms, thing, but the conversation went on joy is almost complete. Tomorrow is you seeking a bit of love to help you something like this: the Sabbath. Tomorrow you can go take the hurt, and I wanting to show "I want to be the teacher." to Sabbath school again. Tomorrow you how much I did love you, even you can say the memory verse that if I did have to administer a little you learned early in the week. Sab- unappreciated discipline. bath is the best day in the week for In a second or two your tears were you. No other day gives you so much gone, and you smiled as I tucked you pleasure, so much joy, so much hap- back under the blankets. Not another piness. Keep that love for the Sab- sound came from your bedroom, and bath, Freddy. Guard it sacredly in two minutes you were sound asleep. through your boyhood, through the It was only a common incident in dangerous years of your youth, and the day, but I sat down to ponder it on through your manhood. Guard just a bit. How quick you are to for- that love for the Sabbath until you get the hand that hurts and to accept can take it with you through the the proffered love to ease the momen- pearly gates and worship God in the tary pain. That is a trait of babyhood, earth made new. but why is it, I asked myself, that so Sabbath has grown dearer to me as often as we grow in years we fail to a result of your sweet and innocent 12 REVIEW AND HERALD delight for it. How could I help but Studebaker heading for home. It was you thought you were welcoming Him catch some of your enthusiasm? Can afternoon, and the western sky was that day. I love it less, can I cherish it less than aflame with the tropical sunset. One Is my love for Jesus so great that I does my baby boy? And every week as large cloud in particular seemed to long for Him to come as much as you Friday comes around and we clean capture extra glory as the gilded edges do? This question has led me to do the house together, you three boys expanded with brilliant hues. some heart searching of my own. Yes, and I, the anticipation in your face You clapped your hands and cried, like you, I too am waiting for that is inspiring. And as the Sabbath hours "Mommy, hurry home, and let's put wonderful day when Jesus will come. are ushered in with our own little on our Sabbath clothes; Jesus is com- Oh, may the years never dim your sunset family worship, I share your ing, Jesus is coming!" hope! May you still be watching for happiness that for the next twenty- There wasn't any fear in your little Him and ready when that small cloud, four hours we may enjoy communion voice—only joyous expectancy. How the size of a man's hand, appears in with Jesus through the Sabbath school I hated to disappoint your hopes! the sky. God keep you true to Him and church service, through nature, They seemed almost sacred to me. until that great day. through the wealth of Sabbath read- But gradually you have learned that May God help me and all the moth- ing material, and through beautiful not every shining cloud is the one on ers in modern Israel to be able to hymns and other music. which Jesus is coming. Still your hope present our children, the beautiful Your prayers are such an inspira- has not been dimmed, and I know flocks the Lord has given us, as pre- tion to me. Oh, yes, sometimes your that if Jesus should come today you cious jewels for His everlasting king- phrases startle our conventional ears would welcome Him just as gladly as dom. and produce suppressed smiles, but I know they are precious to God, for they come from the bottom of your So bad was the storm that even Peter, own little heart. You talk to God as James, John, and the other disciples, who though He were right beside you, and had grown up on the lake, were fright- I believe He is. It has put me to think- ened. It was the worst night they had ever ing a lot lately how my own prayers known. Despair seized them. They felt must sound—so many requests, so few sure this was the end. thanks. God must really treasure Lord of the Winds and Waves Then they remembered Jesus. prayers such as yours for a change By Arthur S. Maxwell Oddly enough, He was still asleep. —all thanks and no requests. What- Even the loudest thunderclaps had not ever your eyes alight on is subject One evening, after a busy day of teach- awakened Him. Nor had the fearful roll- matter for prayer. ing and healing, Jesus said to His disci- ing and tossing disturbed Him. I still have no idea what may be ples, "Let's get into a boat and go to the As the water rose higher and higher in your mind when you so often other side of the lake." He was weary and in the boat, despite their best efforts to thank Him for "all the stuff," but longed to get away to some quiet spot bail it out, the disciples felt they could I am sure He knows. "Thank You for where He could rest awhile. stand it no longer. Jesus must we roused. my mommy, and for my daddy, and But it was hard to persuade the people Shouting above the noise of the gale, for my two brudders. Thank You for to go home. They just stayed and stayed one of them cried, "Master, don't You my bed. Thank You for the angels, and stayed, enjoying every minute in His care that we perish?" and for the angels to watch over me. presence. Like children at bedtime, they Jesus stood up, His feet in the water Thank You for my blankets. And kept on asking for more and more stories. that was sloshing from side to side of the Thank You for my toys. For Jesus' At last, however, the disciples made them boat. sake, Amen." And unconsciously I understand that Jesus simply couldn't "Lord, save us, we perish!" cried the have found myself including a few talk to them any more that day. He just disciples—a cry Jesus never fails to an- more "thank-you's" in my own had to have a rest. swer. prayers, and among them I always in- As the crowds began to drift away the Looking around at the dark, angry sky clude a special thank-you for my little disciples helped Jesus, even as He was, and fearful white-capped waves, He said boy, this little child who so often into one of the boats and pushed off from in a voice of command, "Peace, be still!" leads me to closer walks with God. the land. Other little boats set off at the Suddenly, as quickly as it had come up, With what eagerness you watch for same time, no doubt filled with people the storm died away "and there was a Jesus to come! Scarcely a week goes who had made up their minds to follow great calm." by that you do not peer out of the Him wherever He might go. In words of gentle rebuke Jesus said large picture window and wish that Tired out, Jesus went to the back of to His disciples, "Why are you afraid? He would come on one of those big the boat and lay down on a pillow. A mo- Have you no faith?" clouds in sight. We were missionaries ment later He was fast asleep. There was nothing they could say to in Ecuador when that hope of seeing It was a beautiful evening. The sun this. They just went on bailing out the Jesus was first instilled in your little went down behind the western hills in a water, whispering in awe one to another, mind. You were only two then. blaze of glory. Darkness fell and the stars "Who then is this, that even wind and In your small sphere of life, people came out. A gentle breeze filled the sails, sea obey Him!" Now the Creator had always came and went by plane; yet carrying all the boats toward Gadara. spoken again and creation had recog- even so it startled me a bit when you Then, suddenly, the weather changed, nized His voice. suddenly asked one day, "Mommy, as it does on the Sea of Galilee even What happened to all the people in when Jesus comes, will He come in today. In less time than it takes to tell, the "other little boats"? The Bible does a glider or an airplane?" Your eyes a storm swept down from the mountains, not say. But they must have had a very grew big with excitement as I told turning the peaceful lake into a wild bad time. If Peter was afraid I am sure you that Jesus would come on a and dangerous sea. Dark clouds rushed they were too. No doubt they also cried bright shining cloud. For days you across the sky, blotting out the stars. for help. Certainly when the great calm talked of nothing else. Oh, for the Thunder roared. Lightning flashed. The came they shared it. faith of a little child! breeze became a hurricane, whipping up In all the storms of life Jesus is never Shortly after that, one day you and great waves that swept over the boats, far away. The little prayer, "Lord save I, just the two of us, were in the old filling them with water. me!" will bring Him swiftly to our rescue.

JULY 30, 1959 13 I suppose it was only a few seconds until I found myself standing to my feet. Every eye was upon me. The professor was stunned and shocked. It seemed like a long time before he spoke. When he did his words pierced my heart and hurt worse than a beating. He said, "Why, Willis, I am sur- Admit It prised at you. Of all the students in this school you are the last one I would have suspected of such an act. By Willis J. Hackett Proceed to my office." With red face and mixed emotions I marched out of the auditorium. I HEN I was young my parents At that moment the principal of waited in the principal's office a long Wlived in a little town in Colo- the school, Mr. Grant, stepped into time before he came in. Students rado where we were isolated from the auditorium to see what the com- peeked into the office as they passed other Adventist families. Con- motion was all about. The eraser the door. I could hear my name being sequently, I had to go to public school. dropped with a thump on his balding discussed. I was a marked boy in the large high head just as he was saying, "Let's have When Professor Grant finally en- school, for I did not sing in the choir it quiet now." A muffled roar went up tered the room it did not take long to or in the male quartet on Friday from the student body. explain to him what had happened. nights. I did not participate in the Mr. Grant straightened up to his My swollen cheek testified to the games on Friday nights or Sabbath. full six-feet-two-inch height, and truthfulness of my account. The students soon nicknamed me the glared indignantly. It, was obvious to Other Ways of Being Dishonest "Advent." him that the eraser had originated At times I found it difficult to stand from the section in which I was sit- That experience has stayed by me up to the contempt of scoffing stu- ting. As his piercing eyes scanned the through these many years. I have con- dents. I did not like being the butt of room a deathlike silence fell over the cluded that there are many ways of ridicule. I was bolstered, however, by place. Finally he said, slowly but em- being dishonest besides lying or steal- my parents, who insisted that my ex- phatically, "Will the young man who ing. One of these is failing to admit ample of integrity would be helpful threw that eraser be man enough to guilt. If we are to build good charac- to my fellow students and to the build- stand and admit his guilt?" ters we must learn to acknowledge our ing of my own character. My profes- I was slouched down in my seat by mistakes. Children in their play al- sors were very lenient to my requests this time, hoping that no one around ways want to be right. They find it for special Sabbath privileges. In fact, had seen me. But I was mistaken. It hard to say "I was wrong; you were because of my faithfulness to my reli- became obvious that a few boys right." Homes are broken because gion, my teachers often expressed around me had witnessed the unex- parents will not admit their wrongs their confidence in me by asking me to pected blow I had received and my to each other and to their children. perform special tasks for them and quick reaction to it. Nations go to war because they will giving me special privileges where A great battle raged within me. If not admit their guilt. strict honesty was required. I confessed that I had thrown it, the I remember an experience I had a One day I was sitting at my desk whole student body would be shocked few years ago when I was cashing a in the large assembly hall. Nearly that the "Advent" would do such a $1,000 check at a bank. I had stood in 300 students were in the hall with thing. I felt that for the sake of my re- line a long time awaiting my turn at their heads buried in their books. I ligion I should keep quiet. But an- the window. When I handed my check was seated well to the rear of the other voice seemed to whisper, "You to the teller, he counted out what I room, working diligently on my geom- cannot remain silent and be a Chris- thought were ten $100 bills. Without etry lesson. Suddenly, something very tian. You cannot be a man and allow stopping to count the money before hard hit me across the right cheek. the blame to rest on someone else. I left the window, I tucked it into my The impact left my cheek red and Those seated around you will know coat pocket and proceeded to the stinging like fire. A blackboard eraser you failed to stand like a man." door. dropped to the floor at my feet. Its Although it seemed like minutes, But my former training made me hard side had struck me in the face. decide to step over to the desk and I looked up to find that the study count the money before leaving the hall supervisor had stepped out for a bank. After counting it several times few minutes and one of the freshman I was certain that I had been given boys up in the front of the auditorium eleven $100 bills instead of ten. I was had taken advantage of the moment $100 ahead. to engage in a little mischief. Impul- So I stepped back in line and sively I hurled the eraser back through waited again for my turn. Upon the air with as much power as I could reaching the window I said, "Sir, a muster. But instead of hitting the few moments ago I presented here a young man in the front, it soared up check for $1,000 which you cashed. and up, almost to the ceiling of the When I stepped away from the win- auditorium. dow and re-counted the money, I A large steel girder supported the found that you had made a mistake." roof just above the aisle where the Before I could finish what I was students and teachers passed in and about to say, the teller impatiently out of the auditorium. The eraser hit retorted, "You should have counted that steel girder, then started to drop the money before you left the window. down into the aisle. "He had given me $100 too much" I cannot make any correction after 14 REVIEW AND HERALD you have put the money in your Learning to admit one's mistakes is When they learned about the pen- pocket and left the counter." I was a sign of maturity—both emotional alty attached to the murder, In-Ho stunned by his response, and I stood and Christian. How mature are you, Oh's family in Korea did their best before him speechless, a bit incensed using this achievement as a yardstick? to save the 19-year-old boy from the at his sureness of himself. Obviously electric chair. They pleaded with the he thought I was going to say he had judge to spare his life. Then they of- underpaid me. fered to establish a fund in the hope Hoping to teach him a lesson, I of bringing about a change in the life quickly responded, "Thank you, sir. of the accused young man. I am $100 better off than I was be- It was not possible to save him, how- fore." Then I stepped out of line, put ever, and District Attorney Victor the money back into my pocket, and Blanc, while he was moved by the proceeded on my way. How to Find Salvation kind Korean parents, said that public At home I was telling my wife the By D. A. Delafield safety demanded that the murderer story when a car drove up outside and be prosecuted to the limit of the law, the bank president knocked on the Not long ago a jury of eight women and also the other boys involved. door. He began to apologize for the and four men convicted a 19-year-old This tragedy illustrates the fact, clerk, and asked for the return of the youth of murdering a Korean student, juniors, that we are all sinners and money. I assured him that I had no and condemned him to death in the that we have violated God's law. True, intention of keeping the money, but electric chair. The boy accused of mur- we may not have taken a human life, wished that the teller should learn der was one of nine teen-agers who but we have broken the Ten Com- a lesson from the experience. If he had apparently were involved in the sense- mandments, and that law demands shortchanged me his response would less beating of In-Ho Oh, near the that we shall die. But God is kind and have been the same. We both felt it University of Pennsylvania campus He has arranged a plan whereby the would be wise to ask the offender to April 25, 1958. The Korean student justice of the law can be maintained come in person to apologize and state was 26 years old. The newspapers re- while we who are condemned by it that in the future he would be sympa- ported that others among the nine can go free. You see, He sent his Son thetic with any who had complaints. would be brought to trial. Jesus to be our substitute. Christ died That night he, came to our house, The unfortunate Korean boy had in our place upon Calvary's cross. He and after a long talk with him I re- simply walked to the mailbox to drop has also instituted a plan for the re- funded the money. I am sure he in a letter when the gang jumped on generation of the accused. The gospel learned a valuable lesson from the him with bottles and blackjacks. It was provides—through Him—the hope of experience for always thereafter he thought that they wanted to rob him, victory over all our sins. Aren't you seemed very courteous to all customers but the Korean student had little glad for His unselfish, loving, and under every circumstance. change in his pockets. noble life? Instead of feeling bitter and hateful toward the youth who took the life of their son, the parents of In-Ho As It Looks to Me-8 Oh pitied him and pleaded that he might be spared from the death penalty. When Jesus witnesses our sins His heart of pity goes out in love to us. While we should die to pay the eciag Dacia 9teeti penalty for our sins, He has provided for us a protective robe to cover our By Victor Fitch, Dean of Men, Canadian Union College nakedness, and cleansing blood to wash away the guilt. A Lamb has been slain. Its blood has flowed. That Lamb is Jesus. "I must have been about fourteen services. Nor will we grow strong merely Man lost in sin has a recoverer— then," said a student of Carl Walter, by having worship each morning and our Saviour, Jesus Christ. "Perad- "and I dismissed the incident with the evening. venture for a good man some would easy carelessness of youth. But the words How, then, can we be assured of spir- even dare to die," said Paul, "but God the professor spoke that day came back itual growth? commendeth his love toward us, in to me years later, and ever since have David prayed three times a day (Ps. that, while we were yet sinners, Christ been of inestimable value to me. 55:17). He also loved God's Word and died for us" (Rom. 5:7, 8). He is the "Carl Walter was my piano teacher. meditated on it. "I delight to do thy will, Lamb of God who "taketh away the During one of my lessons he asked me 0 my God: yea, thy law is within my sin of the world" (John 1:29). how much practicing I was doing. I said, heart" (Ps. 40:8). "Mine eyes prevent the How much of the grace of God it `About three or four hours a day.' night watches, that I might meditate in would take to offer to die as a substi- " `Do you practice in long stretches, an thy word" (Ps. 119:148). Moreover, David tute for a murderer who took the life hour at a time?' " was ever conscious of God's presence. "I of your brother or your sister, your " 'I try to.' " have set the Lord always before me: be- mother or your father! That would be " 'Well, don't,' " he advised. " 'When cause he is at my right hand; I shall not a noble act, would it not? Yet "God you grow up, time won't come in long be moved" (Ps. 16:8). so loved the world, that he gave his stretches. Practice in minutes, whenever You and I may develop a strong spir- only begotten Son, that whosoever be- you find them—five or ten before school, itual life through Christ as we commune lieveth in him should not perish, but after lunch, between chores. Spread the with Him in prayer, study His Word, have everlasting life" (John 3:16). practice through the day, and piano play- and meditate upon His sinless life, His That "whosoever" means you, jun- ing will become a part of your life." law, and His plan for us. Then, as we ior friend. Do you believe in what You and I will never grow strong set Him ever before us we shall not be Jesus has done for you? This is the spiritually by just attending Sabbath moved. way to find salvation. JULY 30, 1959 15 (11 0411 N5C1' tp in Egypt

INCE their discovery in 1947, the Sea scrolls, which are written in He- cerning both oneself and God. To S Dead Sea scrolls have been widely brew and Aramaic, languages familiar achieve this knowledge is to under- publicized and discussed. Virtually to a host of scholars and most of which stand God and discover oneself, and everyone is now aware that these man- have been made immediately avail- in this harmony the terrors and inco- uscripts from the period just before able to a team of highly trained spe- herences of life disappear. and contemporary with Jesus and the cialists, have been widely studied and To express this "knowledge" the apostles have opened up a vast, previ- discussed. Gnostic employed a variety of myths ously unknown area of information One manuscript of this Coptic col- describing how God had sent forth concerning the backgrounds of the lection, however, made its way to from Himself a series of emanations; New Testament and the early church. Europe, and after protracted negotia- the world was said to have been cre- Much less widely known, however, is tions was purchased for the C. G. Jung ated by a degenerate emanation, and another discovery of manuscripts Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, in the story of the rehabilitation and re- made at almost the same time in 1952. A part of this manuscript has instatement of this emanation por- Egypt, which when it has been fully been studied thoroughly and pub- trayed mythically the salvation of the assessed will probably prove to be of lished, so that scholars have at least a world. The story of Christ's descent almost equal significance to that made foretaste of what is in store when the from the Father to reclaim humanity, near the Dead Sea. This is a Gnostic entire library will be available. His ascent, and the resurrection of the library found at Nag Hammadi in From the Jung Codex, as this manu- righteous could thus also be under- upper Egypt in 1945. script is now called, and from prelim- stood mythically as portraying the As is so often true with important inary reports concerning the manu- Gnostic doctrine of salvation. archeological discoveries, the circum- scripts kept in Egypt, it appears that The beginnings of Gnosticism are stances surrounding this find are not these writings formed the religious uncertain. Early Christian writers of entirely clear. It appears, however, library of a group of Gnostics who in- the second and third centuries, who that sometime in 1946 a group of habited the area of Chenoboskion in faced it as a contemporary menace, peasants were digging in an ancient the third and fourth centuries after attributed its founding to Simon cemetery near the modern village of Christ. Most of the 48 different works Magus, the sorcerer whom Peter had Nag Hammadi, some 60 miles north contained in the 13 volumes found, challenged at Samaria (Acts 8:9-24). of Luxor. (This is the site of the an- appear to be translations from Greek Whether or not Simon was the origi- cient Chenoboskion, an important originals, and go back much earlier. nator of Gnosticism as it was known center of early Christianity in Egypt.) Of the four treatises that make up the in Christian circles remains a ques- They came on a large jar containing Jung Codex, it seems clear that at least tion of dispute among scholars, but it 13 books, totaling almost 1,000 pages three are from the second century, and is becoming increasingly clear that in- of papyrus, bound in leather folders thus portray the teachings of an im- clinations to Gnosticism were already resembling modern card cases. Not portant group of Gnostics at that very present in certain Jewish sectarian cir- realizing the value of what they had early period. cles even before the advent of Christ. found, the peasants tore up and Thus certain of the non-Biblical Dead burned part of their find and sold the What Was Gnosticism? Sea scrolls, though they can hardly be remainder for the equivalent of less At this point we may ask, What was called Gnostic, set forth the impor- than $10. Gnosticism, and what was its signifi- tance of knowledge in such a way that From this point the wanderings of cance for the early Christian church? they can be said to stand in a sort of the manuscripts are not entirely Gnosticism, from the Greek word pre-Gnostic tradition that provided known. The followinng year one man- gnosis, "knowledge," was a type of re- the setting in which Gnosticism could uscript was purchased by the director ligious thought in the ancient world develop. of the Coptic Museum in Cairo. The that laid emphasis on the importance Scholars have discussed at length rest continued to travel devious of the possession of secret knowledge whether there are traces of Gnosti- courses until 1952, when all but one for the salvation of the soul. cism in the New Testament. When were acquired by the Coptic Museum. While this knowledge took many one compares with the New Testa- Since that time these have been kept different forms, and Gnosticism is ment what is known of Gnosticism in in Cairo and have not been available found not only in Christianity but the second, third, and fourth centu- to European scholars. This, together also in paganism and Judaism, the ries, there are striking parallels in with the fact that they are written in general point of view of the Gnostic terminology and motifs. Thus, for in- Coptic, a language which only a com- was that man is separated from, and stance, Paul refers to the "fulness paratively few scholars are equipped forgetful of, God, and hence he is (pleroma) of the Godhead" (Col. to use critically, has meant that this subject to foolishness, fear, and terror, 2:9); for the Gnostic the Greek term find has received but small publicity understanding neither God nor him- pleroma, "fulness," was a favorite in the press. By comparison, the Dead self. Salvation lies in knowledge con- term for the heavenly world. John 16 REVIEW AND HERALD ~scave1•

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The dry climate of Egypt has preserved many priceless documents dating from ancient times.

repeatedly employs the contrast of darkness and light to signify evil and good (John 1:5; 3:19; 12:35), a contrast familiar in Gnostic teaching. But it is one thing to discover such parallels and another to show that the direction of borrowing was from Gnosticism to Christianity. This is R. E. HUGHES, ARTIST particularly so when it is remembered that the New Testament is a first- century work, while our Gnostic sources are from the second century This statement seems to be best ex- ponent has fully and fairly portrayed and later. Some of these terms and plained as a reference to the teaching the teaching against which he is writ- motifs, such as that of light and dark- of a Gnostic named Cerinthus, a con- ing. So, while the importance of Gnos- ness, have been found in the Dead temporary of John. He held that while ticism to the understanding of early Sea scrolls, which are clearly pre- Jesus was only a man, at His baptism Christianity has long been realized, it Christian, but not clearly Gnostic. the power of God came upon Him, has not been clear exactly what Gnos- Thus it would appear that the New but that during His passion and be- ticism taught and where it came from. Testament, rather than borrowing fore His death, this power left Him. In view of this, the importance and language from Gnosticism, drew at Thus, to use John's terminology, Cer- significance of the newly discovered times on vocabulary and concepts that inthus stressed the water (of baptism), Chenoboskion papyri can easily be were familiar in the Jewish back- but not the blood (of the cross). grasped. Now for the first time, almost grounds of its earliest readers, and half a hundred treatises written by the which at a later time were adopted A Mortal Threat to Christianity Gnostics themselves are at hand. also by the Gnostics, either directly But whatever the position of incipi- When these are published and studied from Jewish thought or from the ent Gnosticism in the first century, we shall know much more about this New Testament. it was in the second century that it heresy that threatened to overwhelm At the same time, it is possible that came to full prominence and posed Christianity almost in its cradle days. certain passages in the New Testa- its greatest threat to the young Chris- Of the treatises contained in the ment are directed against forms of tian church, still struggling to get Jung Codex, two may be mentioned early Gnosticism that threatened firmly on its feet in the Roman world. briefly here. One, a short epistle Christianity already in the days of the Indeed, it is not too much to say that known as the Letter to Rheginos, is apostles. Two examples in particular Gnosticism at this time threatened to concerned with the doctrine of the may be mentioned. In 1 Timothy 6:20 destroy orthodox Christianity. Perse- resurrection. In 2 Timothy 2:18 there there appears a warning against the cution by Roman and barbarian never is a reference to certain false teachers "oppositions of science falsely so posed as serious a threat as did this who held that "the resurrection is past called." The word translated "sci- movement during the century follow- already." This probably refers not to ence" is in Greek gn5sis, the very term ing the apostolic age. the teaching that the resurrection as used by the Gnostics for their saving While scholars have been aware of a historical event had already oc- "knowledge." In 1 John 5:6, in an this fact for many years, their knowl- curred, but rather to the idea that obvious reference to some false teach- edge of just what Gnosticism was has the resurrection was to be understood ing, is the declaration, "This is he rested almost entirely on the writings spiritually as the experience of re- that came by water and blood, even of early Christian fathers who opposed generation enjoyed by each Christian Jesus Christ; not by water only, but it. As with all polemical writings, one at his conversion. Thus for each bap- by water and blood." can never be quite sure that an op- (Continued on page 20) JULY 30, 1959 17 At seventeen the girl still wanted to be baptized, but was afraid to tell Progress in the East her father. Several of the teachers went and talked with him. He called the girl and asked her if it was true that she still wanted to be baptized. She Mediterranean Union said, "Yes, Father, I do." He said: "You are seventeen, and it seems that By Raymond H. Hartwell there, is no cure for this Adventist belief you have. But if you are baptized I do not ever want to hear that DERSECUTION, obstacles, difficul- had been baptized that day. When you have given it up!" It was a happy ties, and unsettled conditions unite she replied that she had not been day in May when she went down into in the Middle East to make progress baptized, her father could not believe the Mediterranean Sea for baptism. extremely slow. However, in the face her. The father then asked the prin- This spot where Catholics, Protes- of all these apparent hindrances, the cipal of the Adventist school whether tants, Moslems, Druses, and others Lord is blessing. or not his daughter had been bap- have been baptized is becoming dear In one Middle East village we tized. He replied that she had asked to many. have operated a mission day school to be baptized, but that the same Also, in May five Armenians were for a number of years. At a baptism commandments that said, "Thou shalt baptized in Beirut. Some of them ex- about three years ago a fourteen-year- not kill," also said, "Honour thy fa- perienced victories over opposition old girl unexpectedly requested bap- ther and thy mother," and that since and threatened persecution. Up in tism. But since the father was unwill- she had not informed her father of northern Lebanon several Arabs of ing and the girl had not told him of her intentions, she had not been bap- Lebanese origin were baptized. her intention, she was advised to wait. tized. The father relaxed, but threat- In Jordan, for some time, we have When she went home her father met ened that the knife would be used if been able to hold property in the her with a big knife and asked if she she should ever be baptized. name of our General Conference, and

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The scene at the right By a special offering on August 8 the faraway lands; let us not forget those on shows ground-breaking ceremonies for a membership of the Pacific Union Con- our own doorstep. twelve-bed hospital at the Monument Val- ference is being asked to participate in WESLEY AMUNDSEN 18 REVIEW AND HERALD Tokyo Sanitarium Graduation Foxboro, Massachusetts, Church Dedication Ellen McCartney, director of the Tokyo Sanitarium Dedication services for the New Seventh-day Adventist and Hospital School of Nursing, writes concerning their church in Foxboro, Massachusetts, were conducted on recent graduation: the afternoon of April 11, by the pastor, Ernest E. "The Tokyo Sanitarium and Hospital School of Nurs- Wheeler. Willis J. Hackett, president of the Atlantic ing graduation exercises for 1959 were held March 27-29. Union Conference, delivered the sermon of dedication At the consecration service, T. Yamagata, president of and Merle L. Mills, president of the Southern New Japan Missionary College, was the speaker. The bac- England Conference, gave the dedicatory prayer. calaureate address was given by W. T. Clark, president The first ministers to do evangelistic work in the Fox- of Japan Union Mission, and the commencement address boro area were W. R. Utchmann in 1908, and J. K. Jones by P. H. Eldridge, director of the Voice of Prophecy. in 1909. A building fund was started in 1953 while Twelve nurses received diplomas at this time. Joseph Damazo was pastor. Under the leadership of "We were privileged this year to have in attendance Ernest E. Wheeler and the faithful laymen the church at the commencement exercises [seated left to right] was completed. Almost all of the work on the church was Natsue Inoue, editor in chief, Medical Ladies Journal, contributed by the members themselves, thus saving at and head of the Nursing Department of the Japan least $12,000. Nurses Association; Mrs. Masae Hirai, chief of the Nurs- The laymen who had an active part in the building of ing Department, Tokyo Municipal Office; and Mitsu the church are Joseph Turner, Clifford Turner, Jr., Clif- Kaneko, chief, Nursing Department of the Welfare Min- ford Turner, Sr., Roy Turner, Albert Silva, Lawrence istry. D. LOIS BURNETT Arsenault, and others. CARL P. ANDERSON later we were permitted to build two Potomac University Dick, former president of the uni- churches and to organize an officially versity. This handsome gift was pre- recognized welfare association. Re- Graduates Sixty-two sented by Gordon Jensen, class presi- cently we secured permission to op- By F. 0. Rittenhouse, President dent. erate hydrotherapy rooms in Amman, The 62 members of the Class of 1959 the capital. Recently the Seventh-day The 1959 annual spring commence- included 9 who were awarded the Adventist Church in Iraq has been ment exercises of Potomac University degree Bachelor of Divinity, 44 the recognized officially, and is permitted were conducted on the evening of Master of Arts from the Seminary, to own property. The hospital in June 4 in our Takoma Park, Mary- and 12 the Master of Arts from the Baghdad has been taken over by the land, church. For the Seventh-day Ad- Graduate School. Happily, the ma- Government, but the church and ventist Theological Seminary this was jority of this class go immediately in to school properties are held by the na- the thirty-second such occasion, and denominational service, with a tional church and available for use. for the School of Graduate Studies smaller number planning to continue Believers on Cyprus have their own and Potomac University, the third. their graduate studies. church, and soon a missionary family A challenging address entitled will be established there. Awaiting "The Pursuit of Excellence" was pre- the arrival of this family, Brother and sented by the dean of the School of Sister Salam Aboujawde, Arabs from Graduate Studies, Dr. W. H. Beaven. Hinsdale Sanitarium and Lebanon, have been laboring there, Some of the others participating in Hospital, Hinsdale, Illinois and the Lord has blessed their work. this colorful event were: Dr. C. E. People are constantly moving away Weniger, dean of the Seminary; By A. C. Larson, Administrator from the Middle East once they are Esther Benton, University registrar; converted, and it is hard to report Dr. Richard Hammill and E. E. Cos- The Hinsdale Sanitarium stands to- great progress. But the Lord is work- sentine of the General Conference day as a monument to the sacrifice ing upon human hearts, and souls are Department of Education. Elder Cos- and devotion of its pioneers. Drs. continually being won to the faith. sentine presented awards and teach- David and Mary Paulson had a bur- When the going is hard, and the devil ing certificates to eleven graduates. den to help the unwarned people tempts you to think that you can't An unusually pleasing feature of in our large cities. Chicago offered endure the hardships of life longer, this convocation was the presentation such a challenge. The medical work think of the believers in the Middle to the university on the part of the was used as an opening wedge, physi- East and in other troubled spots of this Class of 1959 of an excellent, approxi- cal suffering was relieved, and preju- world. Thank God, and take courage. mately life-size portrait in oil of E. D. dice was broken down. The work JULY 30, 1959 19 "And He was raised up after He had `devoured' the visible through the invisible and He has opened for us the way for our immortality. Then, as the Apostle [Paul] said, we have suffered with Him and we have risen with Him and we have gone into heaven with Him. . . . We are drawn up to heaven as rays by the sun, with nothing to hinder us. That is the spiritual resurrection which 'devours' the physical and fleshly resurrection."—F. L. Cross, ed., The Jung Codex, p. 55. The other treatise in the Jung Codex to which we shall refer, and the most important part of that book, is the Gospel of Truth. It has 'always been known that a work by this name was used in the second century by Gnostics. lrenaeus, the Christian bishop of Lyons who about A.D. 180 Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital. Inset: A. C. Larson, administrator. wrote the first great refutation of heresies, states that the followers of a grew, and in 1904 the headquarters a training center, and 864 nurses have Gnostic leader named Valentinus were moved to the village of Hins- been graduated and are helping to added a work entitled the Gospel of dale, located approximately 20 miles lighten dark places the world around. Truth to the four Gospels of the west of Chicago. The sanitarium has a fully accredited apostles (Irenaeus, Against Heresies, The sanitarium, as a self-support- training program for medical tech- iii. 11. 9). But this heretical fifth "Gos- ing enterprise, officially opened its nologists. X-ray technicians are also pel" remained lost until discovered doors in 1904. From the first the trained, and during the current year in the Jung Codex. It has now been Lord's blessing was manifest, and the approval was obtained from the edited in an excellent publication by work grew rapidly. History records Council on Medical Education to set Prof. M. Malinine, H. C. Puech, and many providential answers to prayer up a rotating internship for medical G. Quispel (Evangelium Veritatis: in meeting the financial needs of this students. Zurich, 1956). growing work. The self-sacrifice of the This so-called Gospel is really not early workers revealed their complete a Gospel in the sense that it recounts devotion to the task of bringing the MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS the life of Christ. It is rather a treatise gospel light to a perishing world. This setting forth an early type of Gnosti- same spirit of consecration and loy- cism, with no clear indication of a alty is manifest in the lives of over historical framework. This unhistori- 400 workers today. From a small be- cal point of view is characteristic of ginning the sanitarium and hospital Gnosticism. As we have already seen has grown to a well-equipped and in regard to the doctrine of the resur- fully accredited 200-bed institution. rection, the whole plan of salvation In 1945 the Lake Union Confer- was looked at not from the standpoint ence of Seventh-day Adventists took As we review the providences in of a process working out in history over the responsibility of operating connection with the small work be- but from that of the personal experi- the institution, and since that time it gun in 1904 to the new building com- ence of the individual Gnostic. Un- has been a link in the chain of de- pleted in 1954, we see the guiding like the canonical Gospels, the Gospel nominational hospitals that circle the hand of God continually over this of Truth contains nothing about the globe. work. second coming of Christ, nor is it con- During the year 1958, 7,837 pa- We solicit an interest in the prayers cerned with man's ethical responsi- tients entered the hospital seeking of God's people that the light kindled bilities toward his neighbor. health and healing, besides 34,913 so long ago may burn brighter and This Gospel of Truth is also im- who came on an outpatient basis for brighter until the work is finished portant for the history of the New specialized service. Today the institu- and we reach our eternal home. Testament canon. It is commonly tion is operating at maximum capac- known that for several centuries after ity, much of the time with a waiting most of the other books of the New list. A New Manuscript Testament were generally accepted as Each patient affords a new oppor- Discovery in Egypt Scripture in the early church, He- tunity and a responsibility. Many bed- (Continued from page 17) brews and Revelation remained in a side prayers offered by the nurses and disputed position in certain areas. attendants bring comfort and relief tized Christian the resurrection was But the author of the Gospel of Truth to weary, sin-sick souls. Two full-time considered to be "past already." clearly draws on both of these books, chaplains are employed to care for the A similar point of view is set forth as well as the canonical Gospels and spiritual welfare of the patients, and in the Letter to Rheginos. The author the Epistles of Paul. If, as seems prob- a goodly number of Bible studies are of this epistle rejects the common able, this heretical Gospel was com- being given. Much follow-up work is Greek view that man is by nature im- posed at Rome in the middle of the being done by the chaplains, local mortal, as does also the New Testa- second century, we would seem to pastors, and lay workers. ment, and relies on the doctrine of have here a very early testimony to This medical center was planned the resurrection. Speaking of the Re- the authority of these books in that not only to care for the sick but to be deemer, he declares: city. 20 REVIEW AND HERALD In addition to the treatises con- The Lanark Fire But behind all this it is quite pos- tained in the Jung Codex, another sible that we have here a very early apocryphal Gospel from the Cheno- The entire business section of the town list of some of Jesus' sayings, remem- boskion library has recently become of Lanark, south of Ottawa, Canada— bered and preserved by those who had available to a few scholars in Europe more than 25 stores and as many homes— heard Him. Both Luke (1:1) and and America in photographic repro- was razed by fire June 15, leaving 150 John (21:25) indicate that there were ductions. This is the Gospel of people homeless. Eight Seventh-day Ad- many things Jesus said and did that Thomas. It is scheduled for publica- ventist Welfare Centers responded, and are not recorded in our canonical tion in the near future by Prof. H. C. two truckloads of clothing, bedding, and Gospels. It has long been recognized Puech of the Sorbonne in Paris. food were rushed to the aid of the home- that collections of Jesus' sayings must Unlike either our canonical Gos- less. Also a check for $500 was given to have circulated in the early church pels or the Gospel of Truth, this "Gos- the city by the Canadian Union and the before the Gospels were written (see pel" consists simply of a list of 114 Ontario-Quebec Conference. Much favor- SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 5, pp. sayings attributed to Jesus, almost all able publicity was given to this humani- 178, 179), and our newly-discovered beginning with the words, "Jesus tarian gesture by television and radio "Gospel" may go back ultimately to said." This collection is of particular broadcasting stations, as well as in many such a collection. interest because parts of it in Greek daily newspapers. Town officials ex- Does this mean that we now have a had already been found on two frag- pressed deep appreciation, and stated that fifth Gospel that should be accepted ments of papyrus published by B. P. our church was the first to bring organ- into the New Testament? For a num- Grenfell and A. S. Hunt in 1898 and ized relief, and that the only organized ber of reasons the answer must be an 1904. It was not known at that time business concern that matched our cash emphatic No. Even though it is pos- that these two fragments were part of donation was the local brewery. sible that this collection may contain one collection and that they repre- H. D. HENRIKSEN, President authentic statements of our Lord, they sented such a small portion of the Ontario-Quebec Conference are so mixed with later additions that total. While the complete collection no one can be sure what is original. of "sayings of Jesus" recently discov- Thus these sayings cannot claim au- ered are in Coptic, the previously thority of eyewitnesses in the way known fragments prove that the Cop- the same as ones found in the New that the canonical books of our New tic is a translation from a Greek col- Testament. "Jesus said: Come unto Testament do (see Luke 1:1-3; John lection. me, for my yoke is gentle and my rule 21:24; 1 Cor. 15:1-8; Heb. 2:3, 4; These sayings, or logia as they are is easy, and ye shall find rest for your- 1 Peter 1:10-12; 1 John 1:1-3). Nor called, are of such varying quality that selves" (see Matt. 11:29, 30). "He said: was this collection ever recognized by they appear to have passed through A good man had a vineyard; he turned the church as a part of its inspired the hands of a number of compilers it over to husbandmen that they Scriptures, as the books of the New and editors who felt free to change, might work it and that he might re- Testament have been. amplify, and to add new sayings in ceive fruit from them. He sent his Like the other documents from the accordance with their own theologi- servant that the husbandmen might epoch-making discovery at Chenobos- cal views. Some of these logia are give him the fruit of his vineyard. kion, the so-called Gospel of Thomas clearly the creations of a Gnostic, such They seized his servant, beat him, and will be an important source for our as the following, with which the col- they lacked but little of killing him. understanding of the history of the lit- lection begins: "Jesus said: Let not The servant went and told it to his erature and thought of the early him who seeks cease to seek until he master. His master said: Perhaps they church; but our New Testament re- finds, and when he finds, he will be- did not know him. He sent another mains the unique testimony of the come troubled, and when he is trou- servant; the husbandmen beat the apostles and their associates, under bled, he will be astonished, and he other one also. Then the master sent the Holy Spirit, to the revelation of will rule over the All." his son. He said: perhaps they will God in Jesus Christ. The majority of them, however, do have regard for my son. Those hus- not show characteristically Gnostic bandmen, when they knew that he traits. Some appear to be typical of was the heir of the vineyard, seized From Home Base Jewish Christianity, which centered him and killed him. Let him who has in the church at Jerusalem (see Acts ears, hear" (see Luke 20:9-15; Matt. to Front Line 21:20) until that city was destroyed by 21:33-39; Mark 12:1-8). the Romans, and thereafter in Trans- What can we conclude concerning Reginald F. Mattison, returning jordan. The following saying is prob- the relation of this new "Gospel" to after a furlough, left College Place, ably from this source: "If ye do not our four canonical Gospels? Do we Washington, June 9, 1959, going to keep the Sabbath as Sabbath, ye shall have here any authentic words of Mexico City. Brother and Sister Mat- not see the Father." Jesus? It is certainly clear that many tison have served in the Panama Con- Still others of these logia contain of these sayings are the work of hereti- ference and in the Mexican Union sayings that are related to those in cal Christians who placed them in Mission, having first gone to the mis- our Gospels, but are not identical Jesus' mouth long after His time. sion field in June, 1953. It is planned with them. Here are two examples: Prof. Oscar Cullmann of the Univer- that Sister Mattison and the children "Jesus said: Why do ye wash the out- sity of Basel, Switzerland, has sug- will proceed to Mexico in August, side of the cup? Do you not under- gested that this collection passed after the close of summer school. stand that he who made the inside is through the hands of at least two Elder Mattison is Missionary Volun- also he who made the outside?" (see editors who changed some of the logia teer department secretary for the Matt. 23:25, 26). "Jesus said: The and added others. The final editor was Mexican Union Mission. He is to con- kingdom of the Father is like a quite clearly a Gnostic, which ac- tinue this work upon his return to woman who took a bit of leaven; she counts for the collection's having Mexico. put it in the dough, she made of it been found as part of the Gnostic li- Dr. and Mrs. Waldo E. Crane and large loaves. Let him who has ears, brary of Chenoboskion. Before him, three children, of Lodi, California, hear" (see Matt. 13:33). a Jewish Christian probably worked left New Orleans, Louisiana, for A few of the sayings are virtually over the collection. Puerto Rico, on June 18. Sister JULY 30, 1959 21 c C.) now in illustrated form. Evangelistic health

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22 REVIEW AND HERALD Crane's maiden name was Arlene M. Buried With an African to merit death—he had done every Cornell. She is a graduate nurse from task faithfully. The chief saw how the White Memorial Hospital School Chief very frightened his servant was and of Nursing. Dr. Crane, prior to taking By Mrs. R. E. Dale told him to rise. Chief Dongo then the medical course, sang for three told poor frightened Muhidi he was years with the King's Heralds, of the Muhidi was a young African boy very pleased with all his work. From Voice of Prophecy. Then he com- who volunteered to serve as a slave now on he would become his most pleted the medical course at the Col- to Chief Dongo of another village. trusted servant and stay close to him lege of Medical Evangelists in 1944. Muhidi worked hard and did every and even eat with him. Then he took Since that time he has practiced medi- task he could for his chief. off the old rags Muhidi was wearing cine. His specialty is in treatment of One day Chief Dongo called for and put a new garment on his loyal ear, nose, and throat. Dr. Crane has re- this faithful servant. Poor Muhidi servant. sponded to the call to connect with went trembling, and fell down on his Back in his own village Muhidi's the Bella Vista Hospital in Mayaguez, face before his chief, fearing death. mother and father were preparing Puerto Rico. W. P. BRADLEY Muhidi wondered what he had done a way to set their boy free. They saved their money and gathered much cattle and started off to Chief Dongo's village where their son was a slave. On arriving at the village they saw CHURCH CALENDAR FOR 1959 their very own boy near to the chief. They offered the chief all these gifts if he would free their boy and let him go home to his own village and be with his own family. The matter was put to Muhidi. If he wanted to leave, the chief would accept the gifts and Muhidi would be free. He's Our Tomorrow Muhidi thought and thought. What should he do? Go back to his own village or stay and be a servant of the chief? He chose to remain with the Are We Ready ... chief all his life. So with heavy hearts the parents who came to free their boy from slav- * With consecrated teachers? ery trudged back to their own village, not with the long-hoped-for prize of * With school buildings? their son, but with only the posses- sions they hoped would free their * With classroom facilities? boy. Muhidi continued to be a faithful * With financial support? servant to the chief. One day the chief became very ill and died. It was the custom in Nyasaland that when the * With room for all? chief died his most trusted servant must be buried with him. Everyone Our schools supply the leaders in the village gathered around to dis- and workers for our churches at home and abroad. cuss what should be done now that their chief was dead. What servant should be buried with Chief Dongo? Only the most trusted loyal servant, the one closest to the chief, should go with the chief to his death. They called Muhidi and told him he must be buried with Chief Dongo. Muhidi cried and thought, "Why, oh, why didn't I go with my parents Now Is Our Opportunity . . . when they came to free me; then I could have peace and joy and life "It is time . . . to put every dollar we can spare into the Lord's even now, but I chose to remain with treasury, that institutions may be established for the education the chief and now I must die." So they buried Muhidi alive with of workers." "Act decidedly and determinedly to increase the the chief he chose to serve. facilities, that a great work may be done in a short time." 6T 441 A great sum was paid for you and me to free us from slavery to sin. That debt was paid upon Calvary by Jesus Christ. The choice is ours. Which chief have you chosen to serve Christian Education Day —the chief of this world with whom you will at last be buried or the Chief August 15, 1959 of heaven, your heavenly Parent, who gives you freedom, joy, and life Department of Education, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists eternal? JULY 30, 1959 23 were honored for their many years of serv- bec Conference. Elder Radcliffe and his ice in connection with the sanitarium. family have already arrived and are now Also honored were a special group of 16 getting settled in Oshawa. workers who have served the sanitarium • Lawton Lowe and Hans Fischbacher for a quarter century or more. Among and their families have just joined the these were Frank Burgess, Steve Gascay, worker family of this conference. These Mildred Judkins, Jerry Ladeau, Ruth brethren are graduates of Canadian Un- OVERSEAS Deininger, Mabel Gascay, Muriel Hamil- ion College and have been in attendance ton, and Bertha Ladeau. at the Seventh-day Adventist Universtiy Middle East Division • Dr. F. Russell Tyler has arrived in at Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. • Eleven new members were baptized in New England to take up his final resident Beirut, Lebanon, in June, most of them training with Dr. Nickerson. Dr. Tyler Central Union by K. L. Vine, head of the department of will complete his residency at Salem • A. L. Ingram, publishing secretary of theology at Middle East College. Hospital in about one year. At that time the Colorado Conference, has accepted a he will assume his duties as full-time call to the Oklahoma Conference as pub- • Missionary Volunteer Investiture serv- pathologist for the New England San- lishing leader. He and his family have ices were held in the spring of 1959 by itarium and Hospital. already moved from the Central Union Anees Haddad, secretary of the MV de- Conference territory. partment of the Middle East Division, in • The first graduating class of Westbury the following places: Taibeh, Ramallah, Bible Correspondence School received • Mrs. Violet Lewis, who has been sec- Beit-Jala, Karak, Husn, and Amman, in their diplomas of graduation on Sunday, retary in the MV and educational depart- Jordan; and at Aramoun, Bishmazzine, June 7. This school was held by the West- ments of the Central Union Conference the Beirut Armenian church, the Beirut bury Mission, Westbury, N.Y. Approxi- for several years, has resigned-and taken Arabic church, and Middle East College, mately 20 people have completed the up full-time duties in the home. Mrs. in Lebanon. A total of 240 Busy Bee, course (12 graduating on June 7) and Everett N. Dick of Lincoln, Nebraska, is Sunbeam, Builder, and Helping Hand more than 60 are attending Sabbath serv- secretary to W. A. Howe in the educa- pins were given to the primary age chil- ices. The graduation service was con- tional department. dren; 123 Friend, Companion, Explorer, ducted by C. E. Bradford and Roy Foster, director of the school. • J. W. Bassham, formerly dean of men and Guide pins were given to the juniors; at Southwestern Junior College, has re- and 14 Master Guides were invested. • A tri-church baptism was held on Sab- cently moved to College View in Lincoln, • Chafic Srour reports having shown bath, May 30, at the New England Sani- Nebraska. Mr. Bassham is associate pastor moving temperance films in the Amman tarium church, where 24 people were of the College View church. churchyard to a select group of some 300 baptized. They will join three different persons. Many of these were influential churches—Sanitarium, Lynn, and Lowell. Columbia Union persons, including an associate of the The following ministers officiated: C. W. • Leon Roberson, financial counselor for Minister of Education for the Kingdom Guenther, Willis Graves, and H. A. Uhl. the East Pennsylvania Conference, has of Jordan, the Governor of Amman, and • M. E. Rees, formerly of the New York retired from active service with the con- other officials. One army official was so Center, has accepted a call to serve as ference. The Robersons left for Califor- pleased with the pictures that he has re- public relations secretary of the New nia, where they will make their home. quested them to be shown to not less than York Conference and to assist in the 1,000 of his soldiers. • Kamp Keystone is the new name fund-raising campaign in connection with chosen by the East Pennsylvania Confer- • R. E. Osborn has spent six weeks in the building program at Union Springs ence for the summer camp near Ham- Baghdad, Iraq, in connection with the Academy. burg, Pennsylvania. Dar es Salaam Hospital problems. Only Canadian Union the families of Dr. Wiliam Wagner and • The new sales manager of Loma Linda R. G. Ubbink remain there at the time of • Planned to seat 1,100, the erection of Food Company, Eastern Division, is P. L. writing this report. the new Oshawa College church is well Macguire, from California. He takes the under way. It is beautifully and strategi- place vacated by F. C. Smith who is now • A cable from Hilmy Berbawy and cally located on King Street East at the production manager of the plant at Antar Yacoub in Egypt reads: "With entrance to the college campus and the Mount Vernon, Ohio. great zeal and courage 66 attending the Kingsway Publishing House. colporteur institute unite in one aim— • Samuel Carlton Hagan, of Pine Forge, consecration for literature ministry this • The Oshawa City church, with a seat- Pennsylvania, has been nominated for the summer." ing capacity of 500, situated on a hill annual Achievement Awards program overlooking the city, is nearing comple- sponsored by the National Council of • Four have been baptized by George tion. Teachers in English. Raffoul in the north Lebanon district since March, partly as a result of the • Authorization to operate a school of • New additions to the staff of Washing- work of Brother and Sister George Issa nursing at the Branson Hospital, Toronto, ton Missionary College for next year in- and the teachers of the Bishmazzine mis- has been obtained from the Health De- clude Daniel Cotton, instructor of reli- sion school. Chafic Srour baptized one in partment of the Province of Ontario. gion; Mrs. Zella Holbert and Marion Karak, Jordan (the old capital of Moab), This is the first school of its kind to be Hartlein, instructors in the department brought into the truth largely through established in Canada by the Seventh- of education; Edo Lindquist, instructor the efforts of Brother and Sister Shehade day Adventists. It will begin operation in the music department; and Alice Smith, Halibi. February 1, 1960. A new studept nurses' chairman of the department of nursing. residence is being erected this summer. • The largest check on record from the • T. S. Geraty, president of Middle East The present expansion program to be College, has been appointed to serve as Potomac Conference to the Columbia completed this fall will provide the hos- Union Conference was recently sent on an associate secretary of the General Con- pital with a bed capacity of 160. ference Department of Education, and by Edgar Bradley, acting secretary-treas- will take up his new duties as soon as a • Elder and Mrs. B. H. Stickle and urer of the conference. The check, rep- replacement is provided. family will leave for India in August. resenting tithe and mission offerings, Elder Stickle has served as secretary- was for more than a quarter million dollars. NORTH AMERICA treasurer of the Ontario-Quebec Confer- ence for the last five years and will serve • The Medical Group Foundation re- Atlantic Union as secretary-treasurer of the Northeast cently held its annual membership meet- India Union. ing at Riverdale, Maryland. In charge of • At the annual recognition program the meeting was Dr. Wendell L. Malin, of held at the New England Sanitarium and • R. J. Radcliffe, secretary-treasurer of Wytheville, president of the foundation. Hospital, Dr. C. A. Haysmer, Dr. R. F. the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference, Linthwaite, and Dr. R. J. Carruthers is the new treasurer of the Ontario-Que- • An ordination service was held on 24 REVIEW AND HERALD Sabbath, July 11, at Pine Forge, Pennsyl- English members joined them, alternating vania, for two young pastors, Nelson meetings in the morning and afternoon. FOR MORE FAMILY FUN Bliss and William DeShay. Presiding at Since January 4, 1930, the two groups the ceremony at the Allegheny camp have been united into one church body. PLAY THESE meeting was William Cheatham, presi- • Sabbath, June 13, the members from dent. Condon and Spray united with the Hepp- • Daniel L. Cotton, pastor of the Cam- ner, Oregon, church for an all-day serv- den, New Jersey, church, was ordained ice. C. L. Vories, who had been holding BIBLE GAMES to the gospel ministry on Sabbath, June evangelistic services in that area, admin- 28, at Kingston on the first weekend istered the rite of baptism to seven candi- of the New Jersey camp meeting. On dates during the afternoon service. the same afternoon his brother, David, • Don Jacobsen who has been a district Bible was ordained at the Southern California minister in the Upper Columbia Con- Conference camp meeting at Lynwood. ference has now moved to Alaska, where Journeys • Two young men were ordained to the he is the pastor of the northernmost or- Game ministry at the time of the Potomac camp ganized church in the United States—at meeting at New Market, Virginia. They Fairbanks. "Egypt to Canaan" were Don Yost, assistant secretary of the • A new two-room church school build- MV Department of the General Confer- ing was dedicated May 24, at Moscow, Our newest and most fascinating home game ence, and Robert Schwindt, associate Idaho. The school is located on a four- —fun for all ages. Educational and recrea- pastor of the Capitol Memorial church acre tract two miles out of town. At pres- tional. Large 14" x 221/2" playing board. May in downtown Washington, D.C. ent 32 children are enrolled; however, be played by any number from two to six. Ideal for all family recreational situations. • Harold Hass, MV and educational the school will accommodate 60 pupils and secretary of the Missouri Conference, has plans are made to expand as needed. PRICE, $2.75 been appointed principal of the Shenan- Moscow's Mayor Spence Lewis and James doah Valley Academy in the Potomac Broyles, chairman of county commission- Conference. He takes the place of George ers, were present and expressed their ap- H. Akers, who has accepted a post as dean preciation for the new school and work of Bible of students at La Sierra College in Cali- the Seventh-day Adventists. "Seek" fornia. • The president of the Montana Confer- ence, George E. Taylor, reports that 32 Game Lake Union persons became members of the church • K. M. McComas, who has served the by baptism during the month of June as Here is something in Bible games that will Illinois Conference as pastor and evan- the result of short evangelistic meetings afford many hours of exciting and instruc- gelist for the past eight years, has ac- conducted by the pastors in Livingston, tional fun. Any number up to twenty can play cepted an invitation from Canada to Billings, Glendive, Mt. Ellis, Plentywood, it, but the maximum pleasure comes when connect with the work in Toronto, where Anaconda, and Darby. played by from four to eight players. It tests one's knowledge of Bible characters and one's he will be engaged in pastoral and evan- • The first-term registration of the gelistic work. agility in spelling their names. It uses an Walla Walla College summer session interesting forfeit system. PRICE, $1.50 • R. E. Knox, who has been connected reached 508, including 372 on campus, with the work in the Chesapeake and 29 at the Biological Station at Anacortes, West Pennsylvania conferences, has re- and 107 at Portland. Last year's first-term Bible cently accepted an invitation to the registration was 481. Illinois Conference. He will take up his Characters new duties as pastor of the Aurora and Pacific Union Sheridan churches about the middle of • Several workshops are being conducted Game July. Mrs. Knox is a sister of Mrs. J. 0. at Pacific Union College during the sum- Iversen, who made her home in Illinois Conducted according to the rules provided, mer, namely: Workshop for Elementary it furnishes stimulating rivalry in acquiring while her husband served the conference School Teachers of Science, conducted by a wide knowledge of Bible personalities and as MV and educational secretary. William Clawson; Workshop in Counsel- the books of the Bible in which they may be • Victor R. Brown, pastor of the Kan- ing, under the chairmanship of Dr. Louis found. Educational and devotional emula- Normington; Workshop in Supervision, tion are provoked in the family circle or kakee, Illinois, church, reports the official church group when played intelligently. opening of the new church building on organized by the PUC department of ed- Sabbath, May 16. With the fellow believ- ucation; and Workshop for Physicians, PRICE, $1.25 ers who joined the small group of 18 conducted by Dr. Arnold Oettel. members, were many interested towns- • Herbert Griffith retired recently after people. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. serving as manager of the Southern Cali- Bible Gordon Graves. Mr. Graves, a contractor, fornia Conference Book and Bible House donated his professional services in order for 17 years and more recently for two Books to see a place of worship established. years in the Conference Association, re- Representing the Illinois Conference were ports R. R. Bietz, president of the con- Game Elton Dessain, treasurer, who spoke at ference. While Brother Griffith was man- This is a game cleverly designed to teach the worship service, Mrs. W. B. Hill, and ager of the Book and Bible House the net those who play it how to familiarize them- Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Macdonald. sales amounted to $3,914,645.50. selves with the relative positions of the books of the Bible. Develops skill in turning quickly North Pacific Union • The first Sabbath in June 180 were to any needed Bible text. Printed on durable present for Sabbath services in Yosemite enameled stock, it consists of 66 cards, one • The delegates to the Idaho Confer- National Park, and on the next Sabbath for each book of the Bible. ence session at Caldwell, Idaho, voted on there were 205 in attendance. "We have PRICE, $1.00 June 25 to rebuild Gem State Academy. had visitors from Florida, Massachusetts, The cost of this project will be more than Louisiana, Minnesota, Virginia, and from a half million dollars. various parts of California," report Elder Where Family Life Ends, • The members of the Ballard, Wash- and Mrs. B. E. Schaffner who are in Juvenile Delinquency Begins ington, church dedicated their brick charge of the services. church free of debt on June 6. The • Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stoops, who have Order From Your Book & Bible House Ballard Scandinavian church was organ- served in various capacities in the Hawai- Review and Herald Publishing Association ized November 24, 1907, and in 1922 the ian Mission for the last five years, are now Periodical Department Washington 12, D.C. JULY 30, 1959 25 DERTING.-Iva Gulick Derting born Aug. 9, connecting with the Modesto Academy in 1877, in Niwot, Colo.; died at Cie Elum, Wash., the Central California Conference. Dallas May 26, 1959. She became a church member in 1890. She was united in marriage with James M. Derting Can is replacing Mr. Stoops as principal in 1896. Left to cherish her memory are four daugh- of the Kailua elementary school. ters; six sons; 44 grandchildren; and 70 great-grandchildren. • Nearly 9,000 were in attendance at the Lodi camp meeting on the first Sab- EIFFLER.-Marie Clara Eiffier, born May 5, 1888, BAKER.-Sarah Elizabeth Barnes Baker, born in Ill.; died May 25, 1959. In 1955 she joined the bath, June 13, to share in the inspiration Oct. 6, 1863; died June 5, 1959. Early in life she be- Glendale, Calif., church and later moved her mem- of worship together. Some 1,500 people came an Adventist. Left to mourn are five children, bership to the Eagle Rock, Calif., church. Left to Louis A. of Kansas City, Mo., Beulah Burnham of mourn her passing are her husband, Henry L. Eiffier, comprised the population of the tent city. Ethel, Mo., Hubert of Ethel, Mo., Carlos of Denver, and one sister, Mrs. Cecil Turpie of St. Paul, Minn. The motto for the session was "Working, Colo., and Elsie Butherus of Cedar Lake, Mich.; 15 FOSKETT.-Roy Foskett, born June 25, 1895; died 0 Christ, With Thee." grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; four great- June 6, 1959. He was baptized at the age of 12. In great-grandchildren; and one brother, Asa Barnes of 1920 he was united in marriage with Irene Rohlfing. • The Neville Ottley family of South- Sundance, Wyo. One son, who died in infancy, was born to this un- eastern California are returning to their BELK.-Wanda E. Belk born in 1895; died in ion. In 1938 the Fosketts united with the church. Webb City, Mo., April 30, 1959. About four years ago Fourteen years ago he entered the publishing work, native Trinidad, where he will teach in she became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist serving in the capacity of a literature evangelist for the Caribbean Union College. They were Church, and was instrumental in winning her mother the Missouri Conference. He was active in this work to the truth. Left to cherish her memory is her up to the time of his death. He is survived by his members of the Riverside Emmanuel husband. wife and two brothers, Roland G. and Eugene R. church. Foskett. BOUCHER.-Blaine Boucher, born Aug. 25, 1885, at Ondago, Mich.; died May 12, 1959, at Ardmore, GRAHAM.-Hattie Bell Graham, born Aug. 19, • Harvey Voth, for several years the Okla. From youth he had been a church member. 1874, in Carlenville, Ill.; died in Orlando, Fla., dean of boys at Monterey Bay Academy, The survivors are four children, Hazel Wolke, Ad- May 28, 1959. In 1928 she was united in marriage is succeeding Elmer J. Digneo as princi- define Pompay, Dale Boucher, and Emery Boucher; with Robert H. Graham, who survives. Thirty years nine grandchildren; two sisters, Evalena Hibbard ago she became a church member. pal of the Hawaiian Mission Academy. and Anna Alliance Kirby; and two brothers, Wesley and Walter. HALL.-Orrin A. Hall, born Aug. 7, 1878, in • Douglas Marchus, former pastor of the Scranton, Iowa; died at Glendale, Calif., June 24, BUNCH.-Frank Lowell Bunch, born July 22, 1959. At the age of 17, he with his parents, brothers Turlock church in the Central California 1895, in Coquille, Oreg.; died in Calif., May 26, and sister joined the church in Crawford, Nebr. He Conference, has been called to serve as 1959. He was born into the Adventist faith. He was graduated from Union College in 1899. He was called graduated from Walla Walla College, and then to teach in a church school in Missouri, and in 1900 pastor of the Lodi Central church in the entered Whitman College of Walla Walla, Wash., to he began working as a licensed minister in the Ne- Northern California Conference, replac- obtain his Master's degree. In 1916 he was married braska Conference. In 1902 he married Elizabeth to Vesta Bella VanAusdle. He has served in denomi- Jones. They labored in the Nebraska Conference un- ing B. W. Mattison, who is now the Sab- national work for 43 years. In 1922 he and his fam- til in 1904 when he was called to be principal of the bath school and Religious Liberty secre- ily became missionaries. He served as a teacher in the training school in Canada, where he served until Malayan Seminary and was superintendent of the 1907. He was ordained to the ministry this same year tary in the Southeastern California Con- Kuala Lumpur Mission. For seven years he was prin- after returning to the Nebraska Conference. He ference. cipal of the Malayan Seminary. For one year he was served as MV secretary of this conference for two manager of the Manila Sanitarium and Hospital, years, and in 1909 the family went to China, their thus completing 15 years of mission service. During first appointment being in the Honan province, Southwestern Union the past ten years he taught at the Lodi Academy. where he served as principal of the training school Those who cherish his memory are his widow; two and as mission director. The school was moved to • Theodore A. Atkinson, head deacon at daughters, Madlyn Golnette,. Niagara Falls, N.Y., and Shanghai, and he taught there several years. Then Julia Paulene Jensen of Chula Vista, Calif.; three he became superintendent of the East China Union, the First Seventh-day Adventist church at grandchildren; his twin brother Herschel of Culver, where he continued for nine years. His next field was Little Rock, Arkansas, will be on a nine- Oreg., and two other brothers, Dr. James of Co- the Central China Union Mission, with headquarters quille, Oreg., and Paul of Ontario, Oreg.; and two at Hankow. Because of his wife's health, they re- man team selected to participate in a sisters, Edith Casper of Ridge, Oreg., and Bessie turned to the States, and he was districtpastor of foreign seminar program in nine Euro- Tenney of Astoria, Oreg. four churches in Sonoma Co., Calif., for five years. Then they returned to the mission field, serving in pean countries this summer. Brother At- BUND.-GeorgeBund, born April 15, 1883, in the South China Union. After five years in Hong kinson is connected with the University Austria-Hungary; died June 19, 1959, in Sacramento, Kong, he did editorial and ministerial association Calif. He held membership in the Sheldon, Mo., work for the division. He was again called to be su- of Arkansas Agricultural Extension Serv- church. perintendent of the East China Union. When our ice, where he received his degree of Mas- workers were evacuated because of the war, he was CORNFORTH.-George Erastus Cornforth, born one of the last to leave Shanghai. For five years after ter of Science in agriculture economics March 21, 1876, at Littleton, N.H.; died at South returning to the States, he was district pastor of four in 1949. Lancaster, Mass., June 21, 1959. His schooling was churches in the Auburn district in the Northern obtained at Colby College and at Battle Creek, California Conference. He retired at the age of 70. • Thirty-five persons were baptized at Michigan. In 1902 he joined the church and mar- Left to mourn their loss are his wife; daughter Loleta ried Clara E. Sullivan. He served in several of our Barron; one sister, Olive Baker of Missouri; and the close of two series of meetings held institutions. For 41 years he was employed at the one brother, A. B. Hall of Nebraska. in Dallas, conducted by F. G. Roper and New England Sanitarium and Hospital, where he was chef, dietitian, and teacher. He frequently contrib- HANSON.-Dagmar C. Hanson, born Oct. 31, F. F. Schwindt. uted articles to our magazines and was the author of 1886, in Redwing, Minn.; died at Ellijay, Ga., two books, Good Food and How to Prepare It and March 13, 1959. At the age of eighteen she started • I. V. Stonebrook of the Central Union, Better Meals for Less. He retired from active service her teaching career and continued about 35 years. has accepted an invitation to join the in 1947. His wife having died in 1945, he was mar- She was married to Fred M. Hanson in 1920, and two ried to Mrs. Mildred N. Whetmore in 1947. She years later they went to Hawaii, where both were Texas Conference, where he will serve as survives. employed in the Hawaiian Mission Academy. The educational secretary. survivors are her husband; two sisters, Helga Fore- CRAMER.-Emmit J. Cramer, Sr., born June 12, hand of Orlando, Fla., and Hertha Anderson of San • L. E. Rogers of the Iowa Conference 1872, in St. Louis, Mich.; died at Napa, Calif., May 6, Carlos, Ariz.; and two brothers, Emil and Einar 1959. In early manhood he developed a homestead in Christiansen, both of Redwing, Minn. is the new pastor in Corpus Christi. Montana. Later he moved to Nevada, where he was married to Melvina Graviett in 1913. In 1930 he be- HAMILTON.-Dorothy Louise Hamilton, born • Ralph Pueschel of the Texas Confer- came a church member. The survivors are four chil- Sept. 27, 1864, near St. Louis, Mo.; died Dec. 22, dren, Emmit Cramer, Jr., Delina Andrieux, Wood- 1958. In 1882 she was married to James Edward ence, has accepted a call to the Iowa row Wilson Cramer, and Herman Ben Cramer. Hamilton, and they joined the church in 1886. At Conference. the time of her death she was a member of the GRUMP.-Maud Frances Crump, born Aug. 21, Huntington Park, Calif., church. Mourning her pass- • The dedication of the new $150,000 1886, near Green Castle, Mo.; died April 28, 1959. ing are two sons, Roy and Duane; three daughters, She taught public school for a time and then at- Inez, Flossie, and Vienna; 11 grandchildren; 18 Community Hospital in Merryville, Loui- tended Union College and Emmanuel Missionary great-grandchildren; and seven great-great-grand- siana, was held July 5. Victor Ralph Lee, College. In 1914 she was baptized. She taught at children. [Obituary received June 19, 1959.-Ens.] Mount Vernon Academy and Southwestern Junior M.D., son of Elder and Mrs. Leonard College. After teaching at Emmanuel Missionary Col- HOWE.-Mary Frances Howe, born Nov. 21, 1862, Lee, is the medical superintendent of this lege during the summer of 1923 and also serving as at Buford, Ohio; died in Bakersfield Calif., May 14, dean of women, she went to Canadian Junior Col- 1959. She had been a church member for 62 years hospital. Fred Wallace, also a Seventh- lege, where she was speech teacher and dean of and was the oldest member of the Bakersfield Hill- day Adventist, is on the staff of the hospi- women. In 1933 she began Bible work in the crest church. Left to cherish her memory are a son, Georgia-Cumberland Conference. Later she was Bi- Raymond of Shafter, Calif.; three daughters, Anna tal board. ble instructor in the Potomac and West Virginia Butterfield Mina Raworth, and Frances Koop of conferences, retiring in 1955. She leaves two sisters, Oregon; 16 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; • A gift of the college village clubs at Florence and Daisy Crump of Green Castle, Mo. nine great-great-grandchildren; and a brother, John Southwestern Junior College has made CAMPBELL.-Alma Campbell, born Oct. 20, 1898, Marsh of Michigan. possible a new Steinway grand piano for in Rolla, Mo.; died April 22, 1959, in Rolla, Mo. Since childhood she has been a church member. The HOYT.-Alice L. Hoyt. born in Ransom Center, L. C. Evans Hall. survivors are four children. Theron Campbell and Mich.; died May 15, 1959, at Riverside, Calif. She Lucille Kaufman of Rolla, Mo. James Campbell of was a niece of Elder Hiram St. John, and her • Six of the 21 members of the Altus, the United States Army, and 'Margie Lambellet of mother, Ann Maria Brant, was an Adventist pioneer. Oklahoma, church are actively engaged in Washington, D.C.; eight grandchildren; a brother, She was married to Frank Hoyt of Battle Creek, Elder J. A. Stevens of Washington, D.C., and a sis- Mich. Left to cherish her memory are three children, selling truth-filled literature and books. ter, Margaret of Lamar, Mo. Joseph E. Hoyt of Arlington, Calif., Gertrude M. Vollmer of Riverside, Calif., and Bessie F. Peter of • Wayne Baysinger of Oregon has been CASE.-Philip Orson Case, born Dec. 25, 1880, at Bakersfield, Calif.; nine grandchildren; and 17 great- Coudersport, Pa.; died in Sayers, Pa., April 1, 1959. grandchildren. One of her grandsons is Prof. F. G. invited to pastor the Sacramento Central He was a church member for many years. Mourning Hoyt of La Sierra College. church, and Edward W. Koenig of the their loss are his wife, Leona Mason Case of Inez, Coudersport, Pa.; a daughter, Verna Case of Cincin- HUNTER.-Nita Merl Hunter, born March 7 Texas Conference, the Lodi Hilborn nati, Ohio; a son, Richard, of Boyds, Md.; and a 1908; died April 15, 1959. In 1922 she was married church. brother, James, of' Inez, Coudersport, Pa. to David Hunter. Early in life she gave her heart to 26 REVIEW AND HERALD

God, and in 1955 accepted the third angel's message. She is survived by her husband and two children. KNOWLES.-Lue Leroy- Knowles, born May 12, 1875, in Oskaloosa, Iowa; died in-Arlington, Calif., April 20 1959. About six years ago he joined the church. Left to cherish his memory are his wife, one daughter, and one grandchild. LATHAM.-Lana Latham, born Jan. 23, 1880, in Austin, Tex.; died May 23, 1959, at Walla Walla, Wash. Left to mourn are two daughters, Mrs. Henry Swarat, Walla Walla, Wash., and Mrs. George Kretschmar, Arlington, Calif.; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Florence Thurston, Seattle, Wash.; a stepsister, Ida Palmer, Caldwell, Idaho; and two stepbrothers, J. D. Salton, Spokane, Wash., and H. A. Salton, Gilroy, Calif. LAWRENCE.-Florence Luella Lawrence, born March 22, 1896, in Chicago, Ill.; died at Glendale, Calif., Feb. 6, 1959. For forty years she was a member of the North Shore church in Chicago, and later of the Glendale church. She was baptized in 1916. For many years she was secretary to the treasurer and later Bible instructor in the Illinois Conference. She leaves to mourn, a sister, Ione Lawrence. [Obitu- ary received June 8, 1959.-Ens.] LAWRENCE.-Leila Ronson Lawrence, born Dec. 2, 1872, in Waxahachie, Tex.; died May 24, 1959, in San Diego, Calif. She graduated from Battle Creek College, and in 1892 married Norris W. Law- rence. Their lives were devoted to Christian work, she in teaching and he in ministerial efforts. Seven of her eight children remain to mourn their loss. MOONEY.-Mollie A. Mooney, born Jan. 8, 1869, This at Madison, Wis.; died May 12, 1959, at Stockton, Calif. She was a church member for 45 years. The survivors are eight grandchildren, 24 great-grand- EASY children, and three sisters. MC CURDY.-Ethel Lenora Folsom McCurdy, Way! born Oct. 8879, in Stillwater, Maine; died at Sanitarium, Calif.,C May 10, 1959. For a time she taught and then became a nurse, graduating in 1908. 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OR YOUR BOOK AND BIBLE HOUSE SAMSON.-George Leonard Samson, born March 10, 1868, in Ontario, Canada; died May 5, JULY 30, 1959 27 our teachers and church school students children going to the broadcasting studio have arranged to hold a branch Sabbath of the Rediffusion station in Hong Kong. school in some of these schools on Sab- Eleven small children grouped around bath morning. the microphone while the twelfth one Recently, we made a short visit to three took her place at the piano. An excellent of these branch schools before returning program of Sabbath songs, prayer, stories, to our regular Sabbath school. At the first a dramatic dialog teaching the tender Hong Kong Branch Sabbath one we found approximately 80 students care of Jesus for His little ones, and Schools meeting in their one large upstairs school- more musical numbers were put on by room in an old building. One of our these capable little Cantonese-speaking Wonderful opportunities have opened students from the Pioneer Memorial Seventh-day Adventist children. to our Hong Kong Sabbath schools which church school was leading out. At the This monthly Sabbath afternoon broad- they have met in a very commendable second place we climbed a dark, narrow cast has been going on for some time way. There are only nine Sabbath schools stairway to the third floor of an old apart- now. As these children present the Sab- in the Hong Kong area, but for some time ment house and found about 60 students bath school of the air they are responding they have been conducting from 25 to 30 meeting in their single-room school. Only to the request of the broadcasting station, branch Sabbath schools, with an attend- a short distance from this room, we found instead of having to pay for the time. ance ranging from 1,500 to 1,700. the third branch Sabbath school in an- Furthermore, the station pays them Because of the crowded conditions in other room where 40 little kindergarten H.K. $50 for each program, which they Hong Kong there are not enough govern- students were absorbed in the flannel- turn in for Sabbath school Investment. ment schools to provide for the tens of graph story being told by their teacher. The Hong Kong Sabbath schools are thousands of students, so many private At the close of the story each child re- conducting a commendable program. schools have been started. Most schools ceived a copy of our Chinese Little PAULENE BARNETT run on a six-day-week schedule, and chil- Friend, provided by the teacher himself. Sabbath School Secretary dren must attend on Sabbath. Some of A few days later I joined a group of South China Island Union

1959, at Sanitarium, Calif. He was employed as a Calif.; 12 grandchildren; and one sister, Ellevine Literature, including Signs, These Times, Review, baker at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, the Loma Rasmussen of Denmark. [Obituary received June 29, Instructor, Worker, picture cards, MV Kit, children's Linda Sanitarium and Hospital, and Oakwood Col- 1959.—Ens.] stories, finger plays, children's songbooks, old Bibles, lege. In 1891 he was married to Edith Tilly, and two choir anthems and songbooks, Quarterlies, small daughters were born to this union. His wife died in VALENTINE.—Ella Kissam Valentine, born books, Little Friend, Message, Guide, Life and 1913, and in 1914 he was united in marriage with Dec. 27, 1883 at Greenlawn, Long Island N.Y.; died Health, Primary Treasure, Ministry, Liberty, Listen, Empress Brickey. He was a member of the St. May 17, 1956, in Waterbury, Vt. In 1606 she was Present Truth, Worker, Review, tracts, Go, Midget, Helena, Calif., church. The survivors are his wife married to William Valentine. They lived in North- and Bible games to the following: and two daughters, Charlotte Callion and Nina port, N.Y., Hicksville, Vt., and Huntington, N.Y. Since 1946 she bad made her home in Bristol, Vt. Edward Roy Babao, 9 Mallo Dist., Dumingag, Gregory. She had been a church member since 1941. Surviving Zamboanga del Sur, P.I. SHOUP.—Rosella D. Shoup, born Aug. 15, 1866, are three sons, seven grandchildren, two sisters, and Alfreda T. Felio, 186 Abad Santos St., Marbel a brother. Koronadal, Cotabato, Mindanao P.I. in Clyde, Ohio; died June 14, 1959. Her husband, a Ruth F. Lachica, Odiongan, homblon, P.I. successful real-estate operator, preceded her in death ZUTT.—Henry Zutt, born Aug. 25, 1877, in Ger- Dolores Pallasa Pacific Equipment Corp., Sipalay many years. She accepted the truth through the ef- many; died in San Diego, Calif., May 6, 1959. At Copper Mine, Negros Occidental, P.I. forts of Ida Mae Walters. Soon after the removal of the age of 17 he left Europe and came to Los Ange- Carlos Llapitan, km. 116, Paco Kidapawan, Cota- the denominational headquarters to Takonaa Park, les, Calif., where he met some German Seventh-day bato, Mindanao, P.I. Washington, D.C., she settled there. She is survived Adventists. Soon he accepted the truth, and began to Ministerial Seminar, Mountain View College, by a grandson. give Bible studies to a group of his countrymen in Malaybalay, Bukidnon, Mindanao, P.I. SKINNER.—John Skinner, born in 1884, in Scot- Long Beach, Calif. Several who were baptized from Stephen Java, Mountain View College, Malay- land; died May 28, 1959, at Santa Ana, Calif. He this group formed the nucleus of our church in that balay, Bukidnon, P.I. joined the church in 1921. He is survived by a son, city. For 15 years as a conference Bible worker he Eliseo T. Pingal, Gigaquit, Surigao, P.I. Kenneth; three daughters, Dina Baker, Alice Sat- labored in various cities of southern California. He Justin Royal, Johnstown Dis., Lyssons P.O., St. terlee, and Harriet Bower, all of California; and one was instrumental in winning more than 140 persons Thomas, Jamaica, B.W.I. sister in Scotland. to the truth. In 1900 he was united in wedlock to Leon Buencochillo, Mountain View College, Ma- Selena Gaetz, who died in 1934. Eight years later he laybalay, Bukidnon, P.I. SMITH.—Edmund J. Smith, born April 9, 1866, was married to Wilhelmina Riedel. Mourning their Pascual Vargas, POOC, Nabas, Aklan, P.I. in Vermont; died in Arlingtoil., Calif., June 2, 1959. loss are his wife, two daughters, three stepchildren, Ernesto Peraflorida, Acmonan, Tupi, Cotabato, In 1895 he was married to Minnie Perry. He was a nine grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Mindanao, P.I. lifelong Adventist. Left to cherish his memory are his R. A. Jaundoo, Lot 27 Pilot St., New Amsterdam, wife; a daughter, Iva Dell; two sons, Guy Howard Berbice, British Guiana. of Arlington, Calif., and Irvin Edmund of Walla Belen Serra, Acmonan, Tupi, Cotabato, P.I. Walla, Wash.; a foster daughter, Ferne; three grand- NOTICE Hazael Pueblos, Catadman, Ozamis City, Misamis children; and five great-grandchildren. Occidental, P.I. STROSNIDER.—Alice Kuffel Strosnider, born Literature Requests Lilia A. Villan, Bayuco, Lambonas, Iloilo, P.I. Oct. 21 1867; died at Beaumont, Calif., Jan. 1, 1959. In 1912 she was united in marriage with James [It is understood that all literature requested Knox Strosnider. Six years ago she became a church through this column will be used for missionary work, member. Left to mourn are two sisters and two not personal needs. Mark packages: Used publica- brothers. [Obituary received June 3, 1959.—Ens.] tions—no monetary value, destroy if not deliverable.] SWAN.—Burdette Franklin Swan, born April 8, Suitable literature is desired by the following: 1876, in Flint, Mich.; died June 4, 1959, at Takoma J. H. Newkirk, 2000 9th Ave., N., Nashville 8, Park, Md. He was baptized at the age of 16 while Tenn. attending the annual camp meeting. Here he was Mrs. F. C. McCune, 1327 W. Malone, San Antonio greatly impressed by the preaching of Ellen G. 11, Tex. Enlightening Dark Counties August 1 White. He worked for a time at the Review and C. R. Malcolm, Cacoon, Dias, Han., Jamaica, Home Missionary Offering August 1 Herald Publishing House in Battle Creek, Mich. He B.W.I. Educational Day and Elementary School attended Battle Creek College and Washington Offering Missionary College. For quite a long time he was a Arthur Henry, Rosita Mines, c/o LaLuz Mining Oakwood College Offering August 2915 literature evangelist, laboring in a number of States. Co., Siuna, Nicaragua, C.A. desires Steps to Christ in Literature Evangelist Rally Day September 5 In 1897 he was married to Eunice Sooy, and to this English, also El Centinela keraldo de la Salud, and Home Missionary Offering September 5 union a son, Floyd, was born. In 1915 he was united other Spanish papers. Missions Extension Day and Offering September 12 in marriage with Mabel E. Wolff. Left to mourn are Apolinario Baladjay, POOC, Nabas, Aklan, P.I., JMV Pathfinder Day September 12 his wife; one son, Floyd; a stepdaughter, Winnie M. wishes small books, songbooks, Morning Watch, Sabbath School Rally Day September 26 Hansen; a foster daughter, LaVon Parkam; eight Quarterlies, and other suitable teaching materials. Thirteenth Sabbath Offering (Far Eastern Division) grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and two Ignacia D. Montealegre, Midsayap, Cotabato, P.I., September 26 brothers, Francis Swan of Illinois and Ross Swan of wants Life and Health, Signs, Instructor, Review, Neighborhood Evangelism October 3 Ohio. Home Missionary Offering October 3 Listen, Liberty, Little Friend, MV Kit, choir an- Voice of Prophecy Offering October 10 TOPPENBERG.—Sophie M. Toppenberg, born thems, Worker, Present Truth, tracts, Quiet Hour, Review and Herald Campaign Nov. 4, 1880, in Copenhagen, Denmark; died at These Times, cards, Primary 'Treasure, Quarterlies, October 17-November 14 Sanitarium, Calif., Dec. 21, 1958. She learned the old Bibles, songbooks, and other material. Temperance Day Offering October 24 truth at the Skodsborg Sanitarium. In 1911 she was Manuel Aquino, Genio Edcor Farm, Midsayap, Witnessing Laymen November 7 united in marriage with Helfred I. Toppenberg. Cotabato, Mindanao, P.I., wishes a continuous supply Home Missionary Offering November 7 They made their home in Loma Linda, Calif., for of Life and Health, These Times, Listen, Liberty, Week of Prayer and Sacrifice November 7-14 47 years. She is survived by her husband; five chil- Signs, Review, Instructor, Guide, Worker, MV Kit, Week of Sacrifice Offering November 14 dren, Dr. D. R. Toppenberg of the St. Helena Sani- tracts, Quarterlies, Little Friend, Primary Treasure, Ingathering Campaign for 1960 tarium and Hospital, Sanitarium, Calif., Paul I. Top- Christian Home Calendar-, picture cards, small books, November 21-January 9 penberg of Van Nuys, Calif., Elder John H. Toppen- old Bibles, songbooks, Message, Ministry, children's Home Missionary Day and Offering December 5 berg of Buena Vista, Va., Genevieve Bolton of Exe- songbooks and finger plays, used greeting cards, and Thirteenth Sabbath Offering (Southern ter, Calif., and Philip Toppenberg of Los Angeles, other missionary materials. Asia Division) December 26 28 REVIEW AND HERALD accept Christ by faith, only as we consent to the bringing into captivity of every thought to the obedience of Christ."— 41 it Gospel Workers, p. 57.

ty HARRY W. L0`67 3. Obedience Based on Knowledge A "oclok' ScE:t•f Gv,crar C.:1,c,, Sabbath Schoo, JAMES 4:17. "To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin." The positive lesson here is that a FOR SABBATH, AUGUST 15, 1959 man is judged according to what he knows to be right. A man who professes the moral standards of Christianity, but lives in clandestine iniquity is as guilty as Doing God's Will the open sinner. Both know what is right, but do not do it. It is the same with any known truth or moral principle. "A belief that does not lead to obedience [This Lesson Help is a running comment on the is presumption."—Thoughts From the lesson presented in the Sabbath School Quarterly and Mount of Blessing, p. 146. Compare 1 should be read in connection with it.] John 2:4. See also Christ's Object Lessons, page 276, on "the spirit which leads to HERE is something more to Bible obedience." Tobedience than conformity to a code MATTHEW 7:24-27. Hearing and doing or law. When the creature's relation- God's words is likened to a man building ship to the Creator is unclouded by sin, his house safely on a rock; hearing and then obedience becomes a living response ignoring is like building on sand. The to the voice and words of God. By a word one endures the storms of life, the other God created man and the world in which is washed away. Jesus says: "Receive Me; he lives (Gen. 1:26, 27; Ps. 33:9). Apart build on My words."—The Desire of from the divine Word (John 1:4) man Ages, p. 314. could not exist (Dent. 8:3). But sin MARK 7:7-9. "In vain do they worship marred the life-giving relationship. Man, me, teaching for doctrines the command- with many avenues of obedience, took ments of men." Here is a situation the the one way of disobedience. He disre- opposite of that in James 4:17, above. garded God's word, "Ye shall not eat of Men may write their own human com- it," and eating the forbidden fruit for- mandments, they may seek to obey them feited an uninhibited relationship with by the exercise of all the fanatical zeal, his Maker. There was left a narrow and will power, and meticulous external ob- painful road, a road marked by stern servances of the Pharisees, yet all their necessity of strict obedience to every "obedience" is vanity. It is empty, to no word of God on pain of eternal death purpose, like the "great swelling words" (Matt. 4:4; Gen. 3:3). Henceforth, obe- of false teachers (2 Peter 2:18). Can we in dience, blessing, and life were indissolubly the Advent church erect standards not linked together, as were disobedience, found in God's Word, and which there- 2. The Controlling Hand fore are vain? curse, and death (Deut. 11:26-28; Ex. 23: 2 CORINTHIANS 5:14, R.S.V. "For the 20, 21; Heb. 5:9). love of Christ controls us." The love of 4. Guided by God's Will 1. The Road to the Kingdom Christ, that is, Christ's love for man, "was ROMANS 12:2, R.S.V. "Be transformed the actuating principle of his [Paul's] con- by the renewal of your mind, that you JoHN 14:15, 21, 23, 24, R.S.V. "If you duct; it was his motive power, . . . In his may prove what is the will of God." To love me, you will keep my command- labors for his brethren he relied much the transformed mind God's will is "good ments." Jesus is here building an appeal upon the manifestation of infinite love and acceptable and perfect." "Trans- on the disciples' attachment to Him. "It in the sacrifice of Christ, with its sub- formed" here is from the same word ren- is a love whose reality is exposed by keep- duing, constraining power."—The Min- dered "transfigured" in Matthew 17:2; ing His commandments (1 John ii. 3-5, istry of Healing, p. 500. Jesus coupled Mark 9:2. "Luke (in 9:29) avoids this iii. 23 sqq., v. 2-4). Secure in faith, and divine love with omnipotent power: "The term, which might have suggested to Gen- dedicated to the mission, they will remain Father loveth the Son, and hath given all tile readers the metamorphoses of heathen united to one another by mutual charity things into his hand" (John 3:35). It is gods, and uses the phrase egeneto heteron, (xiii. 34), and detached from the world; this divine, controlling Iove which does `was altered,' lit., 'became (ginomai) dif- victorious over its enticements (1 John "what the law could not do, in that it ferent (heteros).' "—VINE, Dictionary of ii. 14-17); in it, but not of it (xvii. 14- was weak through the flesh" (Rom. 8:3). New Testament Words, vol. 4, p. 148. 17)."—HosKYNs, The Fourth Gospel, p. It leads to the righteous life "after the When people know us intimately, do they 458. Who loves Christ is loved of God, Spirit" (verse 4). say we are altered, different, transformed and to him is given a gracious manifesta- JOHN 5:30, R.S.V. "I can do nothing since we became Adventists? Or is there tion of the glorified Christ (John 14:21), on my own authority; . . . I seek not my very little difference? Have we "obeyed in this life (verse 18), in the resurrection own will but the will of him who sent from the heart" (Rom. 6:17), or do we (verse 3), and in the world to come (Rev. me." The Son of man during His incarna- have the "form of godliness" without 22:3, 4). tion was obedient to His Father's will "the power thereof" (2 Tim. 3:5)? See MATTHEW 7:21-23. "Not every one that in all things, as in the prophecy: "I de- Testimonies, volume 1, page 128. saith . . . but he that doeth the will of light to do thy will, 0 my God; yea, 1 JOHN 5:18, R.S.V. "Any one born of my Father." This passage deals with more thy law is within my heart" (Ps. 40:8). God does not sin, but He who was born than casual lip service: "Here is the great- We should remember that Jesus here had of God keeps him." This translation in- est deception that can affect the human been charged with "making himself equal dicates Jesus as the Keeper of the new- mind; these persons believe that they are with God" (John 5:18), and He is re- born sons of God, just as the Lord was right when they are wrong. . . . Jesus plying as the obedient Son, witnessing of Israel's Keeper (Ps. 121:4). Compare the finally tears off their self-righteous cover- His Father and His will. He empties words of Jesus: "That of all which he ing."—Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 417. How Himself (Phil. 2:8) in order to save man hath given me I should lose nothing" careful should be our self-examination be- and glorify God. (John 6:39); "neither shall any man fore the Lord! The road to the kingdom "We can receive of heaven's light only pluck them out of my hand" (chapter is to love the brethren (1 John 4:20) and as we are willing to be emptied of self. 10:28); "those that thou gayest me I have to do God's will (John 9:31). We can discern the character of God, and kept" (chapter 17:12). JULY 30, 1959 29

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ORDER FROM YOUR BOOK AND BIBLE HOUSE JULY 30, 1959 31 of a series of music lessons for our ele- Change in Presidents of Death of F. B. Knight mentary schools. When these lessons F. B. Knight, assistant treasurer of have been completed they will be Regional Conferences the General Conference since 1951, placed on tape and made available to The Central States Conference com- died July 15, at the Washington Sani- all of our elementary schools through- mittee recently met and selected tarium in Takoma Park, Maryland. out the division. These will be "teach- W. W. Fordham, president of the Brother Knight first entered the work ing tapes," thus making it possible for South Central Conference, to serve as at the St. Helena Sanitarium in 1933. every pupil in our schools to receive president of the Central States Con- In 1936 he and his wife were called excellent training in music regardless ference. The South Central Confer- as missionaries to China, where they of where he attends. ence called F. L. Bland, president of labored for a number of years, return- The other workshop members are the Central States Conference, to serve ing to the homeland in 1945. selecting the stories and other ma- as the new president of the South Brother Knight was an indefatiga- terials that will form the content of Central Conference. Each of these ble worker. We pause to pay tribute the Basic Seventh-day Adventist Read- brethren has rendered long and faith- to him for rendering such willing and ers for grades four, five, and six. The ful service in his respective field. able service to the cause he loved, and Department has already produced the F. L. PETERSON for the constant demonstration of lov- Basic Readers with inspiring charac- ing-kindness that characterized his ter-building content for grades one, life. two, and three. The work done this Japanese Voice of Prophecy Our heartfelt sympathy is extended summer will constitute the initial step to Sister Knight and other members in producing the Readers for the in- an Effective Soul Winner of the family. A life sketch will ap- termediate grades. Ninety million people with 14 mil- pear later. During the past few years the De- lion radio-equipped homes in an area C. L. TORREY partment of Education has produced the size of California—this is the chal- 60 textbook items—textbooks, man- lenge facing the Voice of Prophecy uals, and workbooks—most of them in Japan. With limited budget and Woman Magistrate for the elementary grades. These facilities, the best the Voice of Proph- Baptized in Accra, Ghana curriculum materials have greatly ecy can do to meet this challenge is strengthened and enriched the pro- the weekly Japanese Voice of Proph- Late news from the Ministerial In- gram of Christian education through- ecy radio program heard every Sun- stitute and public meetings in Accra, out the world. day over five main stations and seven Ghana, indicates that the first woman G. M. MATHEWS affiliated stations located in strategic magistrate in the history of West Af- areas. The program is also carried by rica has been baptized into the Sev- one station on the island of Okinawa enth-day Adventist Church. An Ad- Triumph of God's Love and by two stations in Hawaii. ventist layman was the first to invite Given Wide Circulation The Voice of Prophecy also offers Mrs. Marks to the public services. Her Bible correspondence courses. Of the keen interest in the proceedings was The book The Great Controversy 265,000 applicants 93,000 have be- apparent from the start. After recess- contains a special message for this come active students, 36,000 have ing court, she often attended the time, and is one that should be read graduated, and 2,800 are now active classes for ministers that were con- and studied carefully by every Sev- church members. ducted daily. One evening she asked if enth-day Adventist. Through the One of the outstanding features of we would sell her a copy of The Great years we have encouraged our litera- the Japanese Voice of Prophecy broad- Controversy. Still active in public af- ture evangelists to sell this volume. cast is the singing of the King's Her- fairs, her acceptance of the faith has A few years ago the Southern Pub- alds in the Japanese language. The already influenced others. C. D. Henri, lishing Association brought out a new listening audience never cease to ministerial association secretary for edition of The Great Controversy, and marvel at the beauty of the gospel West Africa, writes, "Baptisms will with the permission of the Ellen G. hymns sung in their own language. continue until the end of the year." White Trustees gave it a new title, P. H. Eldridge, speaker and direc- E. E. CLEVELAND Triumph of God's Love. During the tor of the Voice of Prophecy in Japan, short time since publication in this relates that recently a young woman new format and with new illustra- spoke to him in the Central church Workshops in Music and tions, nearly 27,000 copies have been in Tokyo, saying, "About two years Reading sold. ago I happened to tune in your pro- In a recent letter W. C. Gracey of gram. We lived away out in the coun- Two educational workshops are the book department of the Southern try. I had never been to a Christian meeting in Washington, D.C., this Publishing Association says that they church, but I was thrilled with that summer under the direction of the are preparing to print another edi- singing. It was the King's Heralds Department of Education of the Gen- tion. This book is a great soul winner, that attracted me to Christianity." eral Conference. The participants of and as more of these books go out And then she added, "I'm in Tokyo these workshops come from many into the field more souls will come now, and soon I'm going to be bap- areas of the North American Division. into the church. tized and become a member of the One is devoted to the preparation D. A. McAnAms church." ELMER R. WALDE