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By ELLEN G. WHITE

It is important that the members of our churches that is in you with meekness and fear. You cannot should attend our camp meetings. The enemies of truth afford to lose one such privilege. are many; and because our numbers are few, we should Anciently the Lord instructed His people to assem­ present as strong a front as possible. Individually you ble three times a year for His worship. To these holy need the benefits of the meeting, and God calls upon convocations the children of Israel came, bringing to you to number one in the ranks of truth. the house of God their tithes, their sin offerings, and Some will say: "It is expensive to travel, and it would their offerings of gratitude. They met to recount God's be better for us to save the money, and give it for the mercies, to make known His wonderful works, and to advancement of the work where it is so much needed." offer praise and thanksgiving to His name. And they Do not reason in this way; God calls upon you to take were to unite in the sacrificial service which pointed your place among the rank and file of His people. to Christ as the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin Strengthen the meeting all you possibly can by being of the world. Thus they were to be preserved from the present with your families. Put forth extra exertion to corrupting power of worldliness and idolatry. Faith attend the gathering of God's people. and love and gratitude were to be kept alive in their Brethren and sisters, it would be far better for you hearts, and through their association together in this to let your business suffer than to neglect the opportu­ sacred service they were to be bound closer to God and nity of hearing the message God has for you. Make no to one another. . . . excuse that will keep you from gaining every spiritual If the children of Israel needed the benefit of these advantage possible. You need every ray of light. You holy convocations in their time, how much more do need to become qualified to give a reason of the hope we need them in these (Continued on page 9)

VOL. 128, NO. 23 JUNE 7, 1951 Vol. 128, No. 23 June 7, 1951 The Religious World contcnts [These news items are taken from Religious News Service. We do not necessarily concur in statements made in these items. We publish them simply to give oui FRONT PAGE Camp Meeting Season Is Here Again readers a picture of current religious developments.] GENERAL ARTICLES ------Page 3 ^ Urge Good Friday Be Made Legal Holiday A Life Sketch of Ellen G. White, Part 1—Can We Keep the Ten Commandments?—The Investigative Judgment— Legislation to make Good Friday a State holiday was asked Conversion of a Prominent Lawyer—The Two Laws— by the Massachusetts Council of the Knights of Columbus at its Making Strong Converts—Mr. Eagle Has His Picture annual convention in Boston. The convention also demanded Taken—A Mother's Tribute to Her Children—How Do the enforcement of all Sunday laws. In another resolution the You Look Today?—Did You Know That— delegates deplored the sale of obscene literature, including "garish comic books that glorify sex, horror and crime." They EDITORIALS ------Page 12 recommended that Knights of Columbus members investigate One Step Nearer Church Union—Beyond the Power of newsstands and "boycott, after notice to the proprietor, such Scottish Courts—Brief Biographies—Is Our Best Enough? stores as continue to display such literature." —Hezekiah's Weakness and Strength NEWS FROM THE WORLD FIELD - - - Page 15 > National Council Sets Evangelistic Campaign New Opportunities in Southern Asia—In the Mission A country-wide evangelistic campaign will be launched by Fields of the Northern European Division—Our New the National Council of Churches on World Communion, Sun­ Hospital in Puerto Rico—A Visit to Vienna—Advancing day, October 7. The campaign will last 15 months. Its theme in Southern Africa—Church Celebrates Seventy-fifth An­ will be "The Churches United in Christ to Evangelize Amer­ niversary—Church Editor Describes Seventh-day Advent- ica." Plans for the drive were outlined in New York by the ists—Week of Prayer at Loma Linda—An Entire Island board of managers of the council's Joint Department of Evan­ Won for God—Brief Current News—Camp Meeting gelism. A major target-will be the nation's armed forces. Mis­ Schedule, 1951—Church Calendar for 1951 sions will be held in army camps, air force and naval bases, POETRY and spiritual life conferences will be arranged for their chap­ lains. I Trust, p. 4 >• Church Attendance in Nation's Capital Copyright, 1951, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. Church membership in the nation's capital is lagging far be­ hind the national average. This report was given in Washing­ ton, D.C., by John Halko, director of the department of church planning of the Washington Federation of Churches, who de­ scribed Washington as "a city of religious escapists." The re­ port showed that the church membership increase in the Greater Washington area during the last 25 years has been only 38 per cent of the national trend. In the nation as a whole church membership has increased 51.5 per cent since EDITOR ___-.-..__ FRANCIS D. NICHOL CONSULTING EDITOR ------\v. H. BRANSON 1926, while the population has increased only 30 per cent. ASSOCIATE EDITORS - - FREDERICK LEE, W. A. SPICER, F. M. WILCOX Thus, church membership has gained nationally at a rate 71 ASSISTANT EDITOR ------D. A. DELAFIELD per cent greater than population growth. EDITORIAL SECRETARY -_--.. PROMISE KLOSS SHERMAN SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS ^ Protestant Radio Work in Latin America J. L. MCELHANY, C. H. WATSON, E. D. DICK, C. L. TORREY, L. K. DICKSON, More than 1,000 Protestant radio programs are now broad­ R. R. FIGUHR, W. B. OCHS, A. V. OLSON, H. L. RUDY, PRESIDENTS OF ALL DIVISIONS cast monthly in Latin American countries, according to a re­ BRIEF CURRENT NEWS CORRESPONDENTS port published in Buenos Aires by the River Plate Evangelical GENERAL CONFERENCE: Miss THELMA WELLMAN; OVERSEAS: AUSTRALASIA: S. V. Church Federation. Protestant programs, the report said, are STRATFORD; MIDDLE EAST: ———————————; FAR EASTERN: C. P. SORENSEN; now aired in all Latin American countries except Peru and NORTHERN EUROPE: E. B. RUDGE; INTER-AMERICA: Miss EFFIE A. JAMES; SOUTH AMERICA: SANTIAGO SCHMIDT; SOUTHERN AFRICA: F. G. CLIFFORD; SOUTHERN Argentina, where such broadcasts are prohibited under "exist­ ASIA: E. M. MELEEN; SOUTHERN EUROPE: MARIUS FRIDLIN ing restrictions." Six Protestant radio stations now function NORTH AMERICAN UNIONS. ATLANTIC: Miss LAURA M. DROWN; CANADIAN: MRS. south of the Rio Grande, five of them on a purely "cultural" ESTHER DAVIS; CENTRAL: Miss AUDRA WOOD; COLUMBIA: WARREN ADAMS; LAKE: MRS. MILDRED WADE; NORTHERN: A. R. SMOUSE; NORTH PACIFIC: MRS. basis—that is, with no commercial programs. The sixth, in IONE MORGAN; PACIFIC: Miss OPAL STONE; SOUTHERN: Miss CLARA CRAWFORD; Mexico, is operated as a commercial station, according to the SOUTHWESTERN: H. C. KEPHART report, "because of the peculiar circumstances of the constitu­ CIRCULATION MANAGER ------R. J. CHRISTIAN tion of that country, which forbids religious propaganda of any kind." All communications relating to the Editorial Department and all manuscripts submitted for publication should be addressed to Editor, Review and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D,C. > Bible Distribution Continues in China Circulation of the Scriptures in China during 1950 under the Countries Where Extra Chinese Communist regime amounted to 718,977 volumes, the United States Canada Postage Is Required One Year ...... $4.75 $5.05 $5.25 American Bible Society announced at its 135th annual meeting Six Months ...... 2.50 2.65 2.75 in New York. "To those who take for granted that the 'turn­ Make all post office money orders payable at the Washington, D.C., post'office over' accomplished in China just before the year 1950 began (not Takoma Park). Address all business communications and make all drafts would spell the immediate cessation of all Scripture distribu- -and express-money orders payaJWe-to-*EVffiW AW&-HERALBrIakoma-Park, Washington 12, D.C. In changing address, do not fail to give both the old and " lion "there," a report saMr "if conies as a "grateful Tiifpfisenthat new nddress. the society's circulation in China fell only from 965,480 vol­ umes in 1949 to 718,977 in 1950, and that the distribution oi whole Bibles actually advanced from 31,578 to 33,245." The Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Thursday by the Review report disclosed that three Chinese paper mills have been per­ and Herald Publishing Association, at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C., U.S.A. suaded to experiment in the manufacture of Bible and India Entered as second-class matter August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, paper, so that an ample supply will be available for this year's D.C., under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. One Year, $4.75. Vol. 128, No. 23. publication program. REVIEW AND HERALD A Life Sketch of Ellen G. White

(Part 1)

By THE EDITOR

[Last week, in the editorial columns, we discussed of my heart. Everything seemed shut out the relation of Mrs. E. G. White to the Seventh-day Lather's house the previous evening. . . . Adventist Church. Among other things we stated that from me but Jesus and His glory, and I "Faith now took possession of my heart. it is the Adventist belief that God gave to her the gift of the Spirit of prophecy, and that the giving of lost consciousness of what was passing I felt an inexpressible love for God, and this gift was in fulfillment of Revelation 12:17 and around me. had the witness of His Spirit that my sins 19:10. The questions naturally arise, therefore, What "The Spirit of God rested upon me manner of person was she? and What was her state were pardoned. My views of the Father in vision? Following is the first of four articles that with such power that I was unable to go were changed. I now looked upon Him as seek to provide at least a partial answer.] home that night. When I awakened to a kind and tender parent, rather than a realization, I found myself cared for in stern tyrant compelling men to a blind Mrs. E. G. White, born Ellen Gould the house of my uncle, where we had as­ obedience. My heart went out toward Harmon, began life at Gorham, Maine, sembled for the prayer meeting. Neither Him in a deep and fervent love. Obedi­ .November 26, 1827. While she was a small my uncle nor my aunt enjoyed religion, ence to His will seemed a joy; it was a child her parents moved to Portland, although the former had once made a pleasure to be in His service. . . . Maine. At the age of nine she was struck profession, but had since backslidden. I "My peace and happiness were in such in the face by a stone thrown at her by was told that he had been greatly dis­ marked" contrast with my former gloom another schoolgirl. She bled profusely, turbed while the power of God rested and anguish that it seemed to me as if lay in coma for three weeks, and seemed upon me in so special a manner, and had I had been rescued from hell and trans­ about to die. But she slowly recovered a walked the floor, sorely troubled and dis­ ported to heaven. I could even praise tressed in his mind. God for the misfortune that had been measure of health. In her autobiography "When I was first struck down, some of she thus comments on this experience: the trial of my life, for it had been the those present were greatly alarmed, and means of fixing my thoughts upon eter­ "For two years I could not breathe were about to run for a physician, think­ nity. Naturally proud and ambitious, I through my nose. My health was so poor ing that some sudden and dangerous in­ might not have been inclined to give my that I could attend school but little. It was disposition had attacked me; but my heart to Jesus had it not been for the sore almost impossible for me to study, and mother bade them let me alone, for it was affliction that had cut me off, in a manner, retain what I learned. . . . plain to her, and to the other experienced from the triumphs and vanities of the "I had a bad cough, which prevented Christians, that it was the wondrous world."—Ibid., pp. 38, 39. me from attending school steadily. My power of God that had prostrated me. teacher thought it would be too much for When I did return home, on the follow­ She, with other members of her family, me to study, unless my health should be ing day, a great change had taken place accepted William Miller's preaching on better, and advised me to leave school."— in my mind. It seemed to me that I could the Second Advent of Christ. Of the year Spiritual Gifts (1860), vol. 2, pp. 11, 12. hardly be the same person that left my preceding the expected Advent, she wrote, Her own account of her "This was the happiest year of childhood years, immediately my life."—Ibid., p. 59. following the accident, reveals About two months after the her as exceedingly frail; in fact, disappointment of October 22, her health was so poor that 1844, she had her first vision. she did not attend school after She introduces her account of she was twelve years old. She what she saw, with this brief complained of a bad cough. statement: She was deeply religious, and "I was visiting Mrs. Haines refers to the effect produced on at Portland, a dear sister in her by the preaching of the Christ, whose heart was knit doctrine of hell-fire: "The hor­ with mine; five of us, all women, were kneeling quietly rors of an eternally burning at the family altar. While we hell were ever before me."— were praying, the power of God Life Sketches, p. 32. She tells came upon me as I had never of praying for long hours in felt it before."—Ibid., p. 64. great anguish. About a week later she had This was her experience a second vision. when she was not more than "The Lord, gave me a view fourteen or fifteen years old. of the trials through which ] About this time she talked with must pass, and told me that a kindly minister who spoke to I must go and relate to oth­ her of the love of God, and her ers what He had revealed to fears were greatly relieved. me. . . . She then joined with others "After I came out of this in a prayer meeting conducted vision I was exceedingly trou­ at the home of a relative: bled; for it pointed out my duty to go out among the people "As I prayed, the.burden and and present the truth. My agony of soul that I had so health was so poor that I was long endured, left me, and the in constant bodily suffering, blessing of the Lord descended and to all appearance had but upon me like the gentle dew. a short time to live. I was only I praised God from the depths The House in Gorham, Maine, Where Ellen Gould Harmon Was Born seventeen years of age, small JUNE 7 , 1951 3 and frail, unused to society, and naturally disappointment of the Advent believers. There was an added factor that made so timid and retiring that it was painful The once-large, united company, who had still more difficult her work. While the for me to meet strangers."—Ibid., p. 69. been joyfully looking for their Lord to Advent Movement had existed as a well- She struggled against this call to go out return, had created no church organiza­ defined group, the caution had been re­ and tell others what she had seen in vi­ tion during the brief years of their antici­ peatedly sounded by the principal leaders sion. pation, and in their disappointment natu­ that the believers should be on their guard "I coveted death as a release from the rally tended to fall apart into diverse against those who thought they had re­ responsibilities that were crowding upon groups, perplexed, bewildered, and some­ ceived dreams and visions from the Lord. me. At length the sweet peace I had so times contentious. When they met to­ All this was to the credit of the leaders, long enjoyed left me, and despair again gether in different places it was generally who, knowing something of church his­ pressed upon my soul."—Ibid., p. 70. in homes, though sometimes in rented tory, were aware that the movement She seems to have found some release halls. Nor was there any paid ministry to would be troubled by deluded persons from this distress of soul in connection care for these different companies of be­ who hoped to find in such a spiritually with an earnest prayer service, in which a lievers. awakened group an attentive audience for number of persons engaged. Under such conditions it was inevitable their hallucinations, false visions, and that discordant theological views would dreams. It has always been the tragedy Grasp of Understanding develop and bring division. And, as noted, of religion that the genuine graces and Though exceedingly young, she re­ such companies were subjected, at times, gifts of the Spirit have been so frequently vealed an amazing understanding of the to incursions by that strange, unstable imitated that prudent Christians, to say temptations that trouble the human heart. kind of person, the fanatic, who is like nothing of the skeptical world, have been slow to accept the genuine when it has "One great fear that had oppressed me appeared. was that if I obeyed the call of duty, and went out declaring myself to be one fa­ Thus Ellen Harmon could expect, not vored of the Most High with visions and I Trust a receptive hearing, but rather a critical, revelations for the people, I might yield to skeptical one. The very fact that fanatics sinful exaltation, and be lifted above the By T. Edward Hirst had imposed, at times, on different com­ station that was right for me to occupy, I trust, though dark may seem the way; panies of Adventists, only made such bring upon myself the displeasure of God, But in the dark I still can pray. companies doubly skeptical. and lose my own soul. I had known of My Saviour knows my every need; Even if she had had a stout heart and such cases, and my heart shrank from the I go to Him in faith to plead. a strong nervous constitution, she might trying ordeal. have quailed at the thought of launching "I now entreated that if I must go and I trust, though dense may be the cloud out on such a mission. That she did go relate what the Lord had shown me, I Through which I pray. This thing allowed should be preserved from undue exalta­ forth in weakness and fear proves at least Is planned of God my faith to build. this much at the outset, she was no self- tion. Said the angel: 'Your prayers are The darkness is what He has willed. heard, and shall be answered. If this evil seeking person in search of gain or fame. that you dread threatens you, the hand of I trust, though foes assail and hate; Her Encounters With Fanatics God will be stretched out to save you; by One thing I do—I pray and wait. affliction He will draw you to Himself, No matter how the blows may fall, The autobiographical sketch of those and preserve your humility.' "—Ibid., pp. My Lord will help me through it all. first few years reveals that Ellen Harmon 71, 72. no sooner set out on her public ministry Then began, almost immediately, a pub­ I trust until night turns to day. than she met, head on, the discordant lic ministry of preaching, counseling, and My Lord is all my strength and stay. elements and the fanatics that sought to writing, that was to continue for seventy Beyond the night, my sight regained, gain control of Adventist groups or com­ Life's mysteries' will be explained. years in rather steadily increasing volume, panies. The record is clear that she spoke or until almost the time of her death, in I trust, and God will give me song- with vigor and great definiteness against 1915. Her first speaking appointment Sweet notes of faith upon my tongue, all such. As she traveled and met with away from Portland, was in Poland, Songs in the night, and then at last different companies she experienced from Maine, thirty miles from her home. Of Redemption's song when night is past. time to time the singular spiritual exer­ this she wrote: cises that she declares were visions from "For three months my throat and lungs God. She refers to her visions in simple, had been so diseased that I could talk brief language. The actual descriptions of but little, and that in a low and husky a fly in the ointment. It does not take her in vision are given by others, and tone. On this occasion I stood up in meet­ many such persons to bring even the best these will be presented in a later article. ing and commenced to speak in a whisper. religion into bad odor, to say nothing of At one of the first places she visited, I continued thus for about five minutes, bringing distress and confusion to simple- where certain men were troubling the when the soreness and obstruction left me, hearted, trusting people. church with great pretensions of piety, she my voice became clear and strong, and I spoke with perfect ease and freedom for We need this sketch of the kind of had this experience: "During family nearly two hours. When my message was world into which Ellen Harmon moved prayer that night, the Spirit of the LORD ended, my voice was gone until I again in order to evaluate correctly her char­ rested upon me, and I was taken off in stood before the people, when the same acter and her work. Picture a young vision." — Spiritual Gifts, vol. 2, p. 48. In singular restoration was repeated. I felt woman, seventeen, frail, timid, poor, start­ the few lines that follow she tells how a constant assurance that I was doing the ing out under the tremendous conviction God revealed to her the true character will of God, and saw marked results at­ that she must preach to these Advent of these impostors. A little later, in an- tending my_efforts."—Ibid., pjx. 72, 73. -Companies _ what _Go_d_had given_to_her_ by _____ The first years of her public ministry special revelation. No wonder that she because of an injury received in falling were, in some respects, the hardest of all. wrote, "I coveted death as a release from from a wagon. She wrote: "Sister Foss Not only was she young and frail and the responsibilities that were crowding joined with me in pleading for God's unaccustomed to public life, but she had upon me." From the time she started her blessing, and for relief from pain. About behind her no well-knit church organiza­ public life, in 1845, she found herself con­ midnight the blessing sought rested upon tion .to give to her either financial or fronted with problems that would have me. Those in the house were awakened moral support. She began to preach in taxed the resourcefulness and resoluteness by hearing my voice while in vision." — the days immediately following the great of a seasoned minister. Ibid. REVIEW AND HERALD A little later she describes a meeting in woman's standing before them to speak skeptical persons in the church companies Portland, Maine, that was appointed in with authority concerning Christian con­ with which she met, declared that her order for her to relate what had been duct and the Christian life. At one point visions were simply "excitement and mes­ shown to her. Then she adds immediately, in her earliest public years the opposition merism," that is, hypnotism. "While praying for strength to discharge became so great that her spirit seemed to To offset the depression and doubt that that painful duty, I was taken off in vi­ be overwhelmed and her mind dazed. She pressed upon her own mind as a result sion."—Ibid., p. 49. wrote, "Discouragements pressed heavily; of the charge that her visions were only As might be expected, she met with and the condition of GOD'S people so filled mesmerism, she went alone to pray at bitter opposition from those whose lives me with anguish that for two weeks my times. On some of these occasions she was she had exposed, and from some who mind wandered."—Ibid., p. 51. given a vision. We quote: "The sweet were averse to the very idea of a young To add to her distress of heart, some light of heaven shone around me, and there have I been taken off in vision."— Ibid., p. 57. But she was not entirely freed of the doubts that were pressed upon her by those who charged "mesmerism." To this Meeting Life's Problems With Qod was added the depression of spirit that came when some falsely charged her as BY J. L. TUCKER being the leader of the fanaticism that she was trying to stop. Says she: "All these things weighed heavily upon Can We Keep the Ten Commandments? my spirits, and in the confusion, I was sometimes tempted to doubt my own ex­ / was talking recently to a minister of a cer­ I continued, "Is it the seventh one? [His wife perience. And while at family worship one tain church about our different doctrinal be­ was there.] I presume it is impossible for morning, the power of GOD began to rest liefs, especially emphasizing obedience to the you," I said, "to be faithful to your wife upon me, and the thought rushed into Ten Commandments, when he said, "It is though you try and struggle to be true to her, my mind that it was mesmerism, and I impossible to keep the commandments of yet your lusts carry you away into the sin of resisted it. Immediately I was struck God. You don't keep them, and neither does adultery." dumb, and for a few moments was lost to anyone else." With emphasis he replied, "I am true to everything around me. I then saw my When I affirmed, "I do!" he asked, "Will my marriage vows and to my wife." sin in doubting the power of GOD, and you answer a question for me?" And when I Quickly I asked, "Perhaps it is the tenth that for so doing I was struck dumb, and mid, "Fa try!" he asked, "What is sin?" I commandment that is your downfall? You that my tongue should be loosed in less said, "Sin is the transgression of the law." covet some other man's wife, and only regret than twenty-four hours. . . . Then he said, "So you don't sin. The Bible your hasty decision to be married to your "After I came out of vision, I beckoned talks about folks like you!" And he read, " 'If present companion." for the slate, and wrote upon it that I was we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, With a burst of praise for his wife that dumb, also what I had seen. . . . Next and the truth is not in us. . . . If we say that would have put a glow in any wife's cheek, morning my tongue was loosed to shout we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and he reaffirmed his great love and complete the praises of GOD. After that, I dared not his word is not in us.'" 1 John 1:8-10. satisfaction for her. "Then perhaps it is the doubt my experience, or for a moment Well, that just floored me. What could one eighth command that's the impossible one resist the power of GOD, however others say? What explanation would you have made, in your life," I quickly added. "You find your­ might think of me."—Ibid., pp. 59, 60. Brother Tucker? self with sticky fingers, always taking things The Setting of Her Visions You surely did have quite a disastrous ex­ that belong to others. Is stealing your beset­ perience, and yet it need not have ended as ting sin?" As we turn the pages of her earliest it did. I once had a similar experience; in With a show of indignation he cried, "I want you to know, Mr. Tucker, I am an autobiographical work, we find repeatedly fact, it was almost identical. sentences like these: A minister of a certain organization said honest man." to several of my congregation that he could I replied, "My friend, I am sure you are, "The meeting commenced with prayer. show their pastor in fifteen minutes that he and I am confident you do not bow down to Then as I tried to pray, the blessing of was preaching error and would make him idols and worship them, or take God's name the LORD rested upon me, and I was taken admit it. Several passed his words on to me, in vain with cursing and swearing, and that off in vision."—Ibid., p. 64. insisting that I be present at this gathering. every life for whom Jesus died is sacred in "In the afternoon the blessing of the So I felt constrained to go. It was an informal your eyes, and there is no thought of killing LORD rested upon me, and I was taken off meeting, and shortly this minister was asking in your heart. Now," I concluded, "you won't in vision."—Ibid., p. 76. me questipns similar to the one with which admit that you break one of the command­ ments, and yet you stoutly affirm that it is That is the usual picture she paints of you were confronted. He said, "Mr. Tucker, the prelude to a vision—a religious set­ 1 want you to answer me a question by yes impossible for me to keep the law of God. or no. Do you keep the law of God? No dodg­ What's wrong? ting, prayer around a family circle, with ing, answer, yes or no." "Your whole question is wrong. You left her own prayer generally offering a transi­ I realized he had set a trap to prove me Christ out of your thinking when you asked tion point between the world of earthly wrong either way I should answer. If I said your question. Man without the indwelling things and the world of vision. Sometimes yes, he would quote the text you heard from Christ is helpless before the standard of a the transition point was a public sermon, 1 John 1:8; if I said no, he would have said, spiritual law, but the Christian says, 'Christ when she was addressing a company. "I told you so; no one can keep the Ten liveth in me; and the life which I now live in There were instances, however, when Commandments; it is an impossibility; and if the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me.' Gal. her visions were preceded by attacks of an impossibility, why preach about them?" illness that were marked by fainting. She I remember that Christ when confronted 2:20. 'I can do all things through Christ with that type of question did not endeavor which strengtheneth me.' Phil. 4:13. recounts a number of visions, such as we to answer until He had asked a question or "The question should be, Can Christ keep have already noted, before the following two, so I said to the minister, "I will answer the Ten Commandments? and to ask it is to incident took place: your question, if you will answer a question have the answer: 'I have kept my Father's "I was suddenly taken ill and fainted. for me." commandments and abide in his love' (John The brethren prayed for me, and I was "All right!" he said. "Go ahead!" 15:10) and Jesus never changes (Heb. 13:8)." restored to consciousness. The Spirit of I asked, "Which of the Ten Command­ No more questions were asked that day, GOD rested upon us in Bro. C.'s humble ments is it impossible for you to keep?" To and the affair gave opportunity to witness to dwelling, and I was wrapt in a vision of make my point more direct and meaningful, the power of the indwelling Christ. GOD'S glory."—Ibid., p. 83. JUNE 7,1951 whose garment was white as snow, and The Investigative Judgment the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream By Leonard C. Lee issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand Judgments have fallen upon man since Now is the time of this judgment. We stood before him: the judgment was set, his first wrong step in the Garden of are living through its very hours. The and the books were opened." Dan. 7:9, 10. Eden, when he was judged unworthy of tribunal of heaven in awful majesty is The revelator gives us a further picture: eternal life and was driven from paradise. even now convened. The names of men "I saw the dead, small and great, stand The greatest judgment and final one will and women who have lived, or are living, before God; and the books were opened: come at the end of the world. Then all are being called before the judgment bar. and another book was opened, which is men, both living and dead, will be judged Jesus is there as an advocate for all who the book of life: and the dead were according to their deeds. have surrendered their lives to Him and judged out of those things which were Paul before Felix "reasoned of right­ accepted Him as their Saviour. Only those written in the books, according to their eousness, temperance, and judgment to who have confessed Christ before men works." Rev. 20:12. come." Acts 24:25. He wrote to Timothy, by word or life will be considered in the Solemn is the thought that Heaven "I charge thee therefore before God, and investigative judgment. They only have keeps a record of our lives. "For we must the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge become candidates for heaven, and only all appear before the judgment seat of the quick and the dead at his appearing candidates can be elected. At the judg­ Christ; that every one may receive the and his kingdom." 2 Tim. 4:1. ment those candidates who continue in things done in his body, according to that There are two phases to every judg­ sin or turn from their profession will be he hath done, whether it be good or ment: the investigation of the case, after disqualified. bad." 2 Cor. 5:10. which sentence is pronounced; and the The Bible gives us some pictures of the Men keep records on wax disks or wire execution of that sentence. This is true solemn tribunal that is to decide man's or tape. We can now reproduce the voices in God's judgment of men. Here we shall eternal destiny. of Caruso or Franklin D. Roosevelt. How consider the investigative judgment. "I beheld till the thrones were cast easily can the Creator with His infinite The Bible teaches that a special time down, and the Ancient of days did sit, knowledge keep a perfect account of has been appointed for this judgment. "The times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: because he hath ap­ pointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath Ringing Doorbells for Qod given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead." Acts 17: 30, 31. From this text we note that God will judge the world at a definite time, and Conversion of a Prominent Lawyer that Jesus will represent us before the judgment seat. The colporteurs of South America have asked him whether he had a book explaining our doctrines and beliefs. "For Christ is not entered into the holy very good success in selling our literature to the professional people, and in this way places made with hands, which are the The colporteur was ready for this question many teachers, doctors, and lawyers are learn­ and immediately produced from his brief figures of the true; but into heaven itself, ing of the message. W. A. Bergherm, publish­ case a full copy of Bible Readings in the Por­ now to appear in the presence of God ing secretary of the South American Division, tuguese language. It was just what the lawyer for us." Heb. 9:24. sent in the following encouraging soul- wanted. He bought it immediately and began winning experience: to study it. He found it so interesting that Judgment Message to Be Preached In the city of Vitoria, Espirito Santo, he could not lay it aside, but studied until John the re\elator saw a time when Brazil, lives a prominent lawyer, Dr. Americo three o'clock in the morning. the judgment message would be preached. R. Coelho, who not only is an active member The lawyer said that by that tune he had of our church but is the right-hand man of become so convinced of the Sabbath that he "I saw another angel fly in the midst the minister in charge. He is always faithful had made up his mind he was going to keep of heaven, having the everlasting gospel in his relations with the church and is a it. He continued his study and the next Sab­ to preach unto them that dwell on the cheerful Christian—one who inspires con­ bath came to our humble meeting place. earth, and to every nation, and kindred, fidence. Soon afterward he was baptized. He never and tongue, and people, saying with a Some years ago a colporteur while deliver­ misses a Sabbath service. He is always present loud voice, Fear God and give glory to ing books in Vitoria was making some to teach his Sabbath school class. him; for the hour of his judgment is Ingathering calls at the same time. Among Recently the president of the republic, come: and worship him that made heaven, others he visited this lawyer. He began his General Caspar Dutra, announced that he conversation by telling him that he repre­ and earth, and the sea, and the fountains was coming to visit Vitoria. Our brother was sented a certain splendid organization, with­ of waters." Rev. 14: 6, 7. appointed as one of the delegation to meet out mentioning the name of the church, and He also saw that the first phase of the him and welcome him to the city, but it so proceeded to show the Ingathering paper, happened that the president was to arrive on judgment would take place just before which told of our work. the Sabbath. Dr. Coelho told his associates the-second -coming-of Christ.______...._ ~Gn^ several "oceasfonsr the-Jrawyer had han­ that it would be impossible for him to meet dled cases for the Protestant churches of the "The nations were angry, and thy wrath the president on Sabbath morning, and he city, and had some knowledge of Protestant is come, and the time of the dead, that was present at his class and for the church activity. Immediately he desired to know they should be judged, and that thou service as usual. It is a real inspiration to what church the colporteur represented. A shouldest give reward unto thy servants have a man with such convictions as a mem­ few pleasant remarks were exchanged about the prophets, and to the saints, and them ber of our church. that fear thy name, small and great; and the many denominations among Protestants. shouldest destroy them which destroy the When the colporteur finished his appeal the D. A. McADAMS, Associate Secretary, earth." Rev. 11:18. lawyer responded with an offering and then Publishing Department, General Conference. REVIEW AND HERALD every life. The psalmist said, "Put thou Jesus in repentance, He will write at the Be sure your name is written in the my tears into thy bottle: are they not in bottom of our awful list of sins, "I, even I, book of life. Jesus said, "Rejoice not, thy book?" Ps. 56:8. am he that blotteth out thy transgressions that the spirits are subject unto you; but In Malachi we read: "A book of re­ for mine own sake, and will not remem­ rather rejoice, because your names are membrance was written before him for ber thy sins." Isa. 43:25. written in heaven." Luke 10:20. them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels." Mal. 3: The Two Laws 16, 17. The investigative judgment consists in A Radio Talk seeing not only whose name is on the book of life but who is worthy to have his name remain in the book. For the book of death By Paul P. Felt will also be examined, to see whether all sin is forgiven. Either our sins must all be confessed and forgiven or our names "My sheep," said the Saviour, "hear my ments of God, and the faith of Jesus." must be blotted out. No sinner can get voice, and I know them, and they follow Rev. 14:12. "Blessed are they that do his into heaven. If through the shed blood me." John 10:27. This Good Shepherd is commandments, that they may have right of Jesus we stand as overcomers before Himself the Lamb, which taketh away the to the tree of life, and may enter in God, all our sins will be blotted out and sin of the world. His sheep are described through the gates into the city." Rev. our names will remain. "He that over- in Revelation 14:4 as "they which follow 22:14. cometh, the same shall be clothed in the Lamb whithersoever he goeth." white raiment; and I will not blot out Jesus, the Lamb of God, faithfully fol­ Law Kept Through the Ages his name out of the book of life, but lowed His Father in heaven. For Him God's faithful, people of all ages will I will confess his name before my Father, to do this meant that from His earliest be in that city. Paul tells us that Abraham and before his angels." Rev. 3:5. years He perfectly kept His Father's com­ "looked for a city which hath foundations, If, on the other hand, we refuse to turn mandments. He said Himself, "I have whose builder and maker is God." Heb. away from sin and rebellion against God, kept my Father's commandments, and 11:10. The Lord had said of Abraham, refuse to accept the salvation and par­ abide in his love." John 15:10. Had He "Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my doning grace so freely offered, so that a not done this, He could never have been charge, my commandments, my statutes, just God cannot blot out our sins, then the Lamb without blemish, slain for the and my laws." Gen. 26:5. our names must be blotted out of the sins of the world. What do we le'arn from this? We see book of life. We are Jesus' lambs, as He said when that Jesus kept His Father's command­ He counseled Peter, "Feed my lambs." ments. We see that the saints today will Name of Unrepentant Blotted Out John 21:15. For us to follow Christ as keep the commandments of God, and that After the Israelites had made a golden our Good Shepherd means that we are before Moses was ever born, Abraham calf "Moses returned unto the Lord and willing to be obedient to His command­ kept God's commandments. said, Oh, this people have sinned a great ments. "As the Father hath loved me, so The law of God, unlike the ceremonial sin, and have made them gods of gold. have I loved you: continue ye in my love. law of Moses, was not made necessary Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin — ; If ye keep my commandments, ye shall because sin had entered the world. These and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy abide in my love." John 15:9, 10. commandments were given before our first book which thou hast written. And the The commandments Jesus asks us to ancestor sinned. One of them, which we Lord said unto Moses, Whosoever hath keep are no different from the command­ call the fourth commandment, was written sinned against me, him will I blot out of ments He kept when He walked among into the very structure of the week at the my book." Ex. 32:31-33. men, with the exception that we are not creation of the world, and was given to When the investigative judgment is to observe the law of Moses as He did. man as a never ending reminder that "it ended Jesus will close all human proba­ He entered this world as a Jew. As a is he that hath made us, and not we our­ tion by the solemn announcement: Jew He kept the great annual festival days selves; we are his people, and the sheep "He that is unjust, let him be unjust with His family and disciples. We do not of his pasture." Psalms 100:3. Isaiah tells still: and he which is filthy, let him be observe these things, because the grand us that in the new earth, which God has filthy still: and he that is righteous, let event they foreshadowed has come to pass promised to make as the final home of His him be righteous still: and he that is holy, —the atoning death of Christ upon the children, this fourth commandment will let him be holy still. And, behold, I come cross for our sins. These ordinances, which still be kept by all the inhabitants of quickly; and my reward is with me, to God had given especially to the Jewish that glorious new world. give every man according as his work nation, were shadows of Christ and His We read: "For as the new heavens and shall be." Rev. 22:11, 12. work, typical in nature. the new earth, which I will make, shall Jesus is a loving Saviour. He longs to remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall save each one. He is waiting at the throne The Law of God your seed and your name remain. And it of grace to present you clothed in His Above and beyond the law of Moses, shall come to pass, that from one new own righteousness as a candidate for eter­ which 'met its antitype in the death of moon to another, and from one sabbath nal life. But you and I must give Him Christ, is another and greater law of God. to another, shall all flesh come to worship our lives, that He may cleanse and purify This is the law that is to be kept by all before me, saith the Lord." Isa. 66:22, 23. them and present them spotless before His the saints. Obedience to it binds them Some wonderful day "all flesh"—every Father. together in Christ and makes them what living soul on the face of the earth—will Human probation will soon close, then Peter calls "a peculiar people" (1 Peter keep the commandments of God, includ­ fesus will come to bring rewards. Now is 2:9), distinct from all the rest of man­ ing the Sabbath. the time .to make sure that Jesus is our kind. The true church in the last days By His death upon the cross fesus advocate. The record of all our sins is keeps "the commandments of God, and Christ abolished those "carnal," shadowy, written down in the books above. We can­ have the testimony of Jesus Christ." Rev. ordinances which had been given to not change one iota of it. But that rec­ 12:17. "Here is the patience of the saints: Moses. The Lamb slain from the founda­ ord need not condemn us. If we turn . to here are they that keep the command­ tion of the world made unnecessary bv UN E 7, 1 95.1 His death the offering of any more tem­ These commandments are the glass into There were thousands of these partial porary sacrifices for the sins of man. Daily which every hearer of the Word must converts from the Egyptians who accom­ and annual ceremonies now gave place look. These are the perfect mirror God panied Israel from Egypt to the Promised to the final sacrifice of the Son of God, made. Reflected in this mirror, as the Land. They had not been thoroughly in­ offered "once for all." prophet Isaiah expressed it, "all our right­ structed and initiated into the faith of But the commandments of God, which eousnesses are as filthy rags." Isa. 64:6. In the children of Israel.' It was they who the saints are still to keep, were not its light even the respected Pharisee is originated the open 'complaints and mur- abolished by Jesus' death. These com­ shown to be but a whited sepulcher. Only murings against Moses as their leader, and mandments were fulfilled by His life of one Man has been able to stand before thus caused Israel to go astray. perfect obedience. And the apostle Paul this morror, and in its light be found holy says He died "that the righteousness of and perfect. Then why need such a Man The Mixed Multitude the law"—these same commandments of die? The answer is that He died to pay The Bible says, "The mixt multitude God—"might be fulfilled in us, who walk, the penalty of transgression for your sins that was among them fell a lusting." It not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." and mine, that we might be blameless as was these who complained, "There is Rom. 8:4. He is. Let us thank God for such a won­ nothing at all, beside this manna, before It is these commandments that James derful love as this and respond to it by our eyes." This dissatisfaction was very called "the perfect law of liberty" by hearty obedience. contagious, and it spread throughout the which he says we shall be judged. (James "Christ also loved the church, and gave encampment of Israel, and caused the 1:25; 2:12.) Written by the finger of God himself for it; that he might sanctify heart of Moses to sink in despair. Himself on tables of stone, they were and cleanse it with the washing of water It was the mixed multitude that mur­ given by the Lord to Moses to place by the word, that he might present it to mured and complained when their water in the ark of the covenant. Here they had himself a glorious church, not having spot, failed, and caused Moses to lose his tem­ a position of honor as the eternal princi­ or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it per when he was commanded to strike ples of righteousness by which all men should be holy and without blemish." Eph. the rock from which the water was to are to be judged in the last day. 5:25-27. flow. It was the mixed multitude that led the children of Israel to indulge them­ selves in gluttony, licentious reveling, and sensual gratification, even to the extent that the pliant leaders in Israel yielded Making Strong Converts to the demands of the unconsecrated mixed multitude. By C. S. Longacre What was the cause of the apostasy in the Christian church in the early cen­ turies of the Christian Era? The church Christ gave the great commission to who have rejected the truth; and many historians are all agreed that many new His disciples to go into all the world are driven where they can never again converts won from paganism to the Chris­ and preach the gospel to every creature be reached. A minister might better not tian church during the second, third, and and gather out disciples from all nations engage in the work unless he can bind forth centuries were never truly converted, it off thoroughly."—Gospel Workers, pp. by teaching them to observe all things and that these converts outnumbered the 367, 368. that He had commanded them. genuine Christians, put a new mold on We are to carry on the work of evan­ We are often led to rejoice when we the church, and made all kinds of com­ gelism until every creature has been read the reports of our ministers who bap­ promises with the pagan rulers in order warned and given an opportunity' to ac­ tize large companies of people, and later to escape persecution. "In every persecu­ cept Christ's message of salvation. But we we are made sad when we learn of the tion there were great numbers of un­ are admonished by the Spirit of prophecy number of the new converts who have worthy Christians," says Edward Gibbon, as follows: apostatized. the noted historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, "who publicly "A solemn responsibility rests upon the Written for Our Admonition disowned or renounced the faith which ministers of Christ to do their work with thoroughness. They should lead young We are told in the New Testament that they had professed; and who confirmed disciples along wisely and judiciously, step the experiences of the children of Israel the sincerity of their abjuration, by the by step, onward and upward, until every after they left Egypt on their way to the legal acts of burning incense or offering essential point has been brought before Promised Land "were our examples," and sacrifices. Some of these apostates had them. Nothing should be kept back. ... that "all these things happened unto them yielded on the first menace or exhortation "Ministers should not feel that their for e,nsamples: and they are written for of the magistrate; while the patience of work is finished until those who have our admonition, upon whom the ends others had been subdued by the length accepted the theory of the truth realize of the world are come." 1 Cor. 10:6, 11. and repetition of tortures. ... As soon indeed the influence of its sanctifying What was the cause of Israel's down­ as the severity of the persecution was power, and are truly converted. ... fall during their forty years of wander­ abated, the doors of the churches were "Too often the work is left in an un­ assailed by the returning multitude of finished state, and in many such cases it ing in the wilderness? Who was respon­ amounts to nothing. Sometimes, after a sible for the display of idolatry and re­ penitents, who detested their idolatrous company of people has accepted the truth, bellion at Sinai? We are told 'that it submission, and who solicited with equal the minister thinks that he must immedi­ was the mixed multitude who were Egyp­ ardor, but with various success, their re- ately go to a new field; and sometimes, tians—partly converted to the faith of submission into the society of Christians." without proper investigation, he is au- Israel—that instigated the making of A little later, when Christians became -thorized-to go.- This -is wrong; -ie should- the -golden calfr stubbornly-persisted -in - more popular and- kings andr -rulers -em­ finish the work begun; for in leaving it their rebellion, and proposed to return braced the faith of the Christians, the incomplete, more harm than good is done. to the land of Egypt. It was these Egyp­ generals of the army and the soldiers were No field is so unpromising as one that has tians who professed to believe in the God baptized en masse, and the subjects of been cultivated just enough to give the weeds a more luxuriant growth. By this of Israel after they witnessed the mighty the ruling monarch nominally embraced method of labor many souls have been wonders God wrought in Egypt, just be­ the creed of the established church. When left to the buffeting of Satan and the fore the chosen people were delivered Christianity entered the palaces of kings opposition of members of other churches from Egyptian bondage. and formed an alliance with the Roman

8 REVIEW AND HERALD Empire, the spirit of compromise and less thorough work is done by personal conformity to heathen customs and doc­ evangelism in faithful instruction in all Gamp Meeting Season trines of belief gradually crept into the points of testing truth, and individual Is Here Again Christian church as the new converts to converts give evidence of genuine conver­ (Continued from page 1) Christianity gained control of the ad­ sion, the church will suffer spiritually at ministration of the church. the hands of the mixed multitude that last days of peril and conflict! . . . Many pagan philosophers and educa­ is brought in. But this need not be where None of us should go to the camp meet­ tors were among the new converts, and God's plan of revival is accompanied by ing depending on the ministers or the they molded the doctrines of Christianity careful instruction of the candidate for Bible workers to make the meeting a bless­ in harmony with pagan philosophy and church admittance and continued inter­ ing to us. ... Each one should feel that customs. There was no fundamental doc­ est in the spiritual welfare of the new in a measure the success of the meeting de­ trine of Christianity that they did not member on the part of the church. pends upon him. Do not say: "I am not change. They were the mixed multitude responsible. I shall have nothing to do in that remodeled Christianity into the this meeting." If you feel thus, you are Papacy. None but those who have fortified the giving Satan opportunity to work through We need to avoid the mistakes of the mind with the truths of the Bible will you. He will crowd your mind with his past. Public evangelism with mass move­ stand through the last great conflict.— thoughts, giving you something to do in ments is fraught with grave dangers. Un­ The Great Controversy, pp. 593, 594. his lines. Instead of gathering with Christ, you will scatter abroad. The success of the meeting depends on the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. For the outpouring of the Spirit every lover of the cause' of truth should pray. And as far as lies in our power, we are A Story for the Children to remove every hindrance to His work­ ing. The Spirit can never be poured out By R. N. MONTGOMERY while variance and bitterness toward one another are cherished by the members of the church. Envy, jealousy, evil surmising, and evilspeaking are of Satan, and they Mr. Eagle Has His Picture Taken effectually bar the way against the Holy Spirit's working. . . . for dinner. Below in the shadow of a mighty In all the world of birds probably none is Christian benevolence and brotherly such a noble example o£ size, beauty, and pile of granite boulders was the nest, and power of flight as the golden eagle. Much has near it two people were busy in a tree that love must be far more abundantly shown. been written about him—some facts, some grew close by and Was higher than the rock The words are ringing in my ears, "Draw fable. For ages man, with admiration, has on which the nest was built. together, draw together." The solemn, watched him sweep through the skies! Known The two were busy placing a shapeless sacred truth for this time is to unify the variously as the ring-tailed eagle, black eagle, green object in the tree opposite the nest. people of God. The desire for pre­ gray eagle, or brown, it can easily be identi­ Mr, Eagle widened the circle and flew di­ eminence must' die. One subject of emula­ fied once the conspicuous points are known. rectly overhead, anxiously hovering near. tion must swallow up all others—who Soon he was joined by Mrs. Eagle, for the The golden eagle feeds upon ground squir­ will most nearly resemble Christ in char­ rels, rabbits, fawns, woodchucks, prairie nest now contained two eggs. Fear of man acter? who will most entirely hide self ia dogs, turkeys, chickens, grouse, lambs, pigs, kept them from swooping down on the two goats, and cats. men so busy in ,the tree. Soon they pulled up Jesus? . . . a square object by a long rope and placed In color the feathers are dark brown, and Atmosphere of Faith the ends of the feathers are spear-headed with it inside the green thing in the tree, and one tips of deep gold brown, and with a yellowish of the two walked away and down the moun­ When the grace of God reigns withinv nape of the neck. Its feathers were highly tainside. the soul will be surrounded with an at­ prized by the Indians for decorating war The eagles were pleased to see this; and mosphere of faith and courage and Christ- not being able to count, they did not know bonnets. Two eggs the size of goose eggs are like love, an atmosphere invigorating to laid, white in color marked with dark rich red that one had stayed behind in the green brown. These are usually laid in March, canvass blind fastened in the tree. Later as the spiritual life of all who inhale it. Then hatching forty-two days later, and the young Mrs. Eagle sat on the eggs she was annoyed we can go to the camp meeting not merely birds fly eleven weeks later. These great by a glassy eye peering at her from the blind to receive, but to impart. Everyone who is eagles are found in many distant lands: in and a whirring sound entirely new to her a partaker of Christ's pardoning love, Europe, south to North Africa; in America, ears, but nothing moved, so she gradually everyone who has been enlightened by south to Florida. They are known positively paid less and less attention to the strange the Spirit of God and converted to the to live to the age of ninety-five years, possibly object in the tree. truth, will feel that for these precious longer. All the while the naturalist in the blind blessings he owes a debt to every soul Mr. Golden Eagle has been credited or was taking many feet of film showing every with whom he comes in contact. Those blamed for some very surprising feats of habit of the great birds morning and evening. strength, such as carrying off children to Days passed, and finally the eggs hatched. who are humble in heart the Lord will rocky nests or stealing half-grown sheep. Now the task of feeding two hungry mouths use to reach souls whom the ordained These tales have lost nothing in the telling. began, and the camera recorded each change ministers cannot approach. They will be However, facts are facts; and to give the in the eaglets. Eleven weeks later the young moved to speak words which reveal the golden eagle proper credit, the greatest birds were, after many trials of wings, hold­ saving grace of Christ. weight one has ever carried off, which was ing fast to the nest, ready to take to the air, And in blessing others, they will them­ later actually weighed, to my knowledge, was and the photographer in the blind faithfully selves be blessed. . . . about nine pounds. People investigating the recorded the event. Now the life history of Those who gather at camp meetings the golden eagle was recorded so that boys nests have at times been attacked, but on the must be impressed with the fact that the whole Mr. Eagle does not go hunting trouble, and girls everywhere could see and learn as we shall see. about them. Mr. Eagle had kept unknow­ object of the meetings is to attain to a The waves of heat rose in shimmering ingly the spirit of the statement in the Bible higher Christian experience, to advance lines from the rocky slope of the mountain­ which says, "As much as lieth in you, live in the knowledge of God, to become side. In the cloudless sky Mr. Eagle flew in peaceably with all men." He had emerged strengthened with spiritual vigor.—Testi­ great spirals on unbending wing, searching from his nest for all the world to see. monies, vol. 6, pp. 38-45. JUNE 7, 1951 There's pride on the outside, but a A Mother's Tribute to Her Children hurt within, For my two boys are now my two men. Fourteen years ago on a sweet May There are so many beautiful things ing away in your khaki uniform. As I evening I felt a soft little bundle placed written about mothers — their faith in watch you come whistling down the road in my arms, and the voice of my mother God, their deep and enduring love for in your cadet uniform, I get a lump in saying, "A little girl this time." My cup their homes and families, their patience my throat. No, I shall not be afraid to let of joy was surely overflowing. A baby and tenderness, and their sacrifices so you go, because God gave you to me, and girl! How I had wished for that! Yes, a willingly made for their loved ones. But He is able to keep you. little girl with soft blue eyes and the tonight I am thinking of the joys and con­ Maurice, what a big boy you are getting darkest hair! From the very beginning, stant streams of happiness our children to be! Why, you're even taller than I. Elaine, you have been a sweet child, easy give to us — the mothers of all the earth. Remember, we measured the other night? to teach and ready to learn, though liking How happy we should be that we are You're a hard boy for some folks to un­ to have your own way. But we are learn­ counted worthy to be called mothers! derstand, but that's mostly because they ing, aren't we? Your coming, my little How proud and blessed we should feel don't really know you. Many times I have girl, has meant a house cluttered with that God has chosen us for such a glorious had to punish you, but only because I lost kittens, stray puppies, and baby rab­ and sacred position! Simply because we loved you. You like to tease your sisters, bits. The little black kitty you found are mothers? No. But rather because He pull the cat's tail, and hide the dolls. hungry and lost grew into a lovely cat has given us the great gift of motherhood. You are not really bad; you are just a boy. for you, but today we buried it under the God has put into the weak, frail hands Today as I cleaned your room I won­ willow tree with all the other pets. of mortal women the material that, rightly dered at so many things and what to do As I see you sitting at the piano prac­ trained and educated, will bring joy and with them. Here on the table lay the ticing your lesson, I realize you too are salvation to the ends of the earth. So, makings of a radio, cluttered with pieces growing up, and I find myself wishing you I speak for thousands of mothers the of many other radios. In the corner is the were not. I only hope I have given you world over when I say, It's not so much old typewriter you have been working on. what it takes to grow into a lovely young what I have done for my children but And here, hanging from the ceiling, is a woman, who will be as lovely on the in­ what they have done for me that I wish fluorescent light you have rigged up. Just side as the outside, who will love God's to remember. look at the wires! I pull a switch—it really great cause, and who will use all your works! You are my daring son, always talents to further His work. My Two Boys looking for something new, keen and My Baby Girl Shall we begin with my oldest son? anxious to tear something apart and see James, you were a beautiful baby, and what it looks like inside. Rebecca, my baby girl. What a lot of as I held your little three-month-old form You have kept me on the alert, and it energy is wrapped up in that little bundle in my arms I little realized the fullness of has been good for both of us. You are my of you! How you come merrily home from joy you were to bring me. You were an stand-by when I need a job done quickly. school swinging your lunch box! You adorable baby with brown eyes and far But you are growing up too. I recall a always forget you are a little girl, and too many curls for a little boy. You were few lines I wrote the other night about ride the boys' bicycles, and kick the ball, a mischievous little runabout too, some­ "My Two Boys." and run races. How lonesome the house times chasing the mother hen and her Not dirty rompers or tousled head, is when you have gone to school, but how baby chicks, or sitting in the chickens' But two grown-up boys, I'm seeing [ long for schooltime again when you are watering pan in your clean rompers. You instead; home! You teach me so many things by have always been a happy child, your simple faith in Jesus, and willing and gracious and obe­ many times your prayers have dient. been answered. You love every­ Work has not been hard for thing—the doll with its head off, you, for you have had responsi­ the white puppy dog, the weak bility since you were a little little plant trying to grow, and boy. No, you have not been the grasshopper with one wing. a lazy boy, nor have you been You like to go to the barn with one to think only of yourself. daddy, and delight in the smell Many times your week's earnings of horses and cows and fresh hay brought home to me has met an and tractor grease and warm emergency. But all cannot be milk. What will you be when compliments even for you, my you grow up? This we have often son. There has been your quick wondered. temper to work on, and with Yes, I wonder what place each God's help we shall gain the vic­ of you will fill in life. This I tory. I can still see the twinkle know: You will not fail God, in your eyes as I reproved you neither will you disappoint me. I for taking up too much time know you are good girls and -with a certain young woman. boys, and the world needs you. You listened as I explained^ You are a great joy and comfort "You should wait until you're to me, arid so I pray the Lord a little older; you'll have plenty will bless you, and lead you, and of time for girls yet." You agreed. teach you, and use you for His And I reminded you that Jesus honor and glory and for the sav too has a right to expect us to ing of many souls in His king­ make something good and useful dom. As you accomplish this for • Of Our lives. H. D. Wheeler God my cup of joy will be full Soon now you will go march- Two Happy Girls Can Bring Much Joy to a Mother's Heart to the brim.

10 REVIEW AND HERALD bered her in happier years, I was able to secure her address. The story she told me later was one that made me shudder. She said: "After leaving academy I began gradu­ How Do You Look Today? ally, to keep company with associates whose standards were much lower than those I had always held. I began to read By F. W. Foster things which were questionable, such as detective stories and so-called true stories. After reading these a while I found that A few weeks ago it was my privilege to quickly scrambled up to take a better the Bible and other worth-while reading visit Franconia Notch in the beautiful look, but in so doing brought her own held no appeal. Then I became an ad­ dict of those places where / saw things White Mountains of New Hampshire. body between the picture and the mirror. Thus instead of seeing the picture of which made a great impression on my life. While there I saw something I have always Yes, I became a movie fiend. And now wanted to see. Yes, you've probably Jesus reflected, she saw only herself. So she lay down again, and again she saw the I've gone to the very depths of sin. My guessed it—the Old Man of the Moun­ picture of Jesus. She was up and down life is shattered, wrecked, ruined!" tain, the Great Stone Face. As I gazed at several times after that, with her eyes As I drove up to the house that morn­ that massive, rugged profile my thoughts fixed on the mirror. Then she said, ing in January, 1949, and as she walked were turned to the story in American 'Mummy, when I can't see myself I can clown the path to greet me, I saw what literature of the man who lived down in see Jesus; but every time I see myself she meant. She was now a "peroxide the valley at the foot of this natural won­ I don't see Him.' How true it is that blonde." Her teeth and fingers bore the der. when self fills the vision we, do not see Jesus." yellow stains of nicotine; she was a chain Day by day, so the story goes, this man smoker—one cigarette right after the gazed frequently at that Great Stone I am thinking now of a lovely, blue- other. She wore high-heel spikes with an­ Face. As he worked the fields his glance eyed, blond Southern girl who was reared kle bracelets; and her lips, fingernails, and would often be directed toward the firm by an Adventist mother. Eventually she toenails were colored brightly. She was chin, set lips, and determined look of went away to academy. This is where I a pitiful sight. : the Old Man of the Mountain. Many of first met her twelve years ago. At that Continuing her tale of woe, she said. his leisure moments were spent in this time she was a good example of what a "I am now teaching in a dancing school. manner. He gazed upon the face so much teen-ager ought to be—refined, courteous, I have been twice married and twice that one day his neighbors discovered that and with unquestioned moral standards. divorced (she was twenty-seven then). his features resembled those of the Great With her effervescence and sparkle she I'm lost, hopelessly lost, and nothing can Stone Face. By beholding he had become certainly "made a hit." The students loved save me now. My life is ruined. Neither changed. her for her beautiful Christian disposi­ God nor the devil would have me as tion. She gave every evidence of being To Be Like Jesus [ am." a young woman who often beheld Jesus Would you like to be like Jesus? If so, and who was making Him her guide. Things That Influence Us you should determine that He is to be Then, because of home circumstances, your example; and then, by talking with Yes, tfie literature we read, the things she was forced to leave school and get a Him, and by reading His love letter to we see, the sounds we listen to, the com­ job. For about eleven years I lost all con­ you, let Him influence your life. The pany we keep—these influence our lives tact -with her. After I had finished acad­ early morning contact with Jesus—all more than we realize. By beholding un­ emy and college and had been in the alone, where it is quiet—can show you godly things we are changed—not in His ministry a few years, it fell my opportu­ things about Jesus and things about your­ image, but in the image of His opposite. nity to have some week-end appointments self that you have never noticed before. You and I can never afford to take our in this young woman's home city. Through Then throughout the day, at work or in eyes off the Master. We must be frequent older members of the church who remem- leisure moments, you can have a little in our visits with Him. We must be faith­ talk with Jesus, which will give you fre­ ful in reading His words to us, for by quent glimpses of Him. them He tells us how to be like Him. I'm sure the reason some of us fail to While claiming to be His children we behold the Master is that we ourselves Did You Know That— must not lead orphaned lives by dwelling block the way. How much we hear youth with those who are members of Satan's Last year 35,500 Americans were family. Never forget, our lives are influ­ saying, "/ am so busy. / want to have some killed in traffic accidents. fun." Yes, our desires too often keep us enced, no matter how strong willed we from beholding Jesus and becoming like * * * may think we are. Good things will mold Him. In 1950, 1,799,800 Americans were us in Christ's likeness; worldly things, in A writer in the Canadian Baptist says: injured in traffic accidents. Satan's likeness. This matter of being changed by beholding works both ways. "Some of us are so full of ourselves * * * This lovely statement from The Desire and our busy servings, that we cannot see There were 235,800 more persons of Ages, page 827, has always meant a Christ in all His beauty. Some years ago injured in U.S. motor vehicle ac­ when I was away on a preaching appoint­ cidents last year than in 1949. great deal to me: "Tell the people of Him ment, my wife and little daughter stayed who is 'the Chiefest among ten thousand/ at the home of a friend. On the bedroom * * * and the One 'altogether lovely.' Words wall, just over the head of the bed in Speeding on U.S. streets and high­ alone cannot tell it. Let it be reflected in which they slept, there was a picture of ways last year killed 13,300 men, the character and manifested in the life. the Lord Jesus which was reflected in a women, and children. Christ is sitting for His portrait in every large mirror of the dressing table stand­ disciple." What kind of picture are you ing in the bay of the bedroom window. presenting to the world today? Christ is "When my little girl awoke on her first 8750 fatalities on our highways morning there, she saw the picture re­ last year were attributed to intoxi­ sitting for His portrait in your life. Is flected in the mirror while she still lay cated drivers. that portrait of Jesus clear and sharp in in bed, and exclaimed, 'O, Mummy, I can your life, or is it blurred? Are you giving see Jesus through the mirror.' Then, she a true picture of Jesus? Think it over. JUNE 7, 1951 11 EDITORIALS

anything to hook on to at present, and a bridge with nothing One Step Nearer Church Union to hook on to is just up in the air.' But if it is not yet a span across the greatest gulf in Christendom, the Episcopalians' There seems to be mounting evidence that some leaders latitude may yet provide a few planks to throw across inter­ in Protestant churches are looking for a way to build a denominational ditches."—March 26, 1951, pp. 69, 70. (Italics bridge that will span the great gulf now fixed between supplied.) their denominations and the Catholic Church. Though pointed proof for this is lacking, the student of prophecy A Striking Similarity is ever watchful of events that may lead to church union. This writer's statement has significance to Adventists Protestant leaders recognize that the big task before when we associate it with the comments made by another them now is to unite their own forces before they can writer years ago. We note a striking similarity between hope for any real union with Rome. these paragraphs and a prophetic statement by God's messenger. Attempt at Protestant Union "When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf The recent organization of the National Council of to grasp the hand of the Roman power, when she shall reach the Churches of Christ in the United States of America over the abyss to clasp hands with spiritualism, when, under constitutes the latest and most effective attempt at Protes­ the influence of this threefold union, our country shall repudi­ tant union. The twenty-seven church bodies who formerly ate every principle of its constitution as a Protestant and composed the Federal Council of Churches are now republican government, and shall make provision for the joined together in the National Council. The Federal propagation of papal falsehoods and delusions, then we may Council was just one of twelve interdenominational know that the time has come for the marvelous working of Testimonies, agencies now combined in the National Council. Satan, and that the end is near."— vol. 5, p. 451. When this organization was constituted in Cleveland, (Italics supplied.) Ohio, from November 28 to December 1, 1950, the dele­ In another place Mrs. White described church union gates chose as their leader and first president the presid­ in this way: ing bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Just why "Through the two great errors, the immortality of the soul an Episcopalian bishop was asked to head this large and Sunday sacredness, Satan will bring the people under his Protestant council (there are also several Orthodox deceptions. While the former lays the foundation of Spiritual­ churches in the council) is not definitely known, but ism, the latter creates a bond of sympathy with Rome. The when we pause to consider the long-range objectives of Protestants of the United States will be foremost in stretching ecumenical Protestantism we think we see in this choice their hands across the gulf to grasp the hand of Spiritualism; they will reach over the abyss to clasp hands with the Roman an attempt—calculated or otherwise, we do not know— power; and under the influence of this threefold union, this to further implement the union of Protestantism with country will follow in the steps of Rome in trampling on the Rome. The influence of an Anglican bishop would go rights of conscience."—The Great Controversy, p. 588. farther than that of any other non-Roman church leader "Those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as because of the peculiar nature of the denomination he enemies of law and order, as breaking down the moral re­ represents. The Protestant Episcopal Church has been straints of society, causing anarchy and corruption, and calling called the "bridge" church between Protestantism and down the judgments of God upon the earth. Their conscien­ Catholicism. tious scruples will be pronounced obstinacy, stubbornness, and contempt of authority. They will be accused of disaffection "The Church and the Churches" toward the government. Ministers who deny the obligation of In a recent issue of Time magazine this question is dis­ the divine law will present from the pulpit the duty of yielding obedience to the civil authorities as ordained of God. In legis­ cussed in an article entitled "The Church and the lative halls and courts of justice, commandment-keepers will be Churches." One of the subheads reads, "Why an Episco­ misrepresented and condemned. A false coloring will be given palian?" In answer to this question the writer says: to their words; the worst construction will be put upon their "At the apex of the pyramid is the National Council's first motives."—The Great Controversy, p. 592. president, Bishop Sherrill. When the delegates to the National The union of church and state will naturally result in Council's constituting convention elected Bishop Sherrill its persecution. This is the inevitable consequence of depriv­ first president, they did not pick a veteran wheelhorse of the ecumenical movement. Nor were they singling out one of ing people of their personal liberties and enforcing re­ the sparkplugs of U.S. Protestantism—a barrier-breaking ligious tenets by civil law. theologian like Reinhold Niebuhr or a hard-hitting polemi­ We are nearer the time when the bridge between Prot­ cist like Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. They were estantism and Catholicism will be built than we know. simply picking the best man for the job. Though it is true that "the bridge doesn't seem to have "He js best partly because of the kind of church he heads. anything to hook on to at present," it will not lack for Almost anything anyone coulcl say "about the EpiscoparChurch an anchor on either side of the gulf when the time is would be partly true. It is Protestant or Catfiolic, depending fully ripe for the union of Protestantism and the Catholic on which of its members you are talking to. Its clergy include Church. We read, "Church and state are now making some who are embarrassed by most of the Apostles' Creed and others who call themselves 'Father,' and say Mass every day, preparations for the future conflict."—Testimonies, vol. with all the liturgy and ritual of a Roman Catholic church. 5, p. 449. Is the .church of God, the remnant church, "For such ambivalence the Episcopal Church has been called making adequate preparations for this conflict? From all the 'Bridge Church' between Protestantism and Catholicism. appearances this time is nearer than we think. As Bishop Sherrill says: 'The bridge doesn't seem to have D. A. D.

12 REVIEW AND HERALD Beyond the Power of Scottish Courts reverse it? Neither custom, nor churches, nor ecclesiastical councils, nor bishops, nor popes, nor men high or low During the second world war I made a note of some­ can change the eternal fact declared by God in speaking thing in an English newspaper, covering an incident in His holy law from the mount: "The seventh day is the Scotland. A woman in Scotland who had always taken sabbath of the Lord thy God." satisfaction in marking her birthday by serious celebra­ What is a fact? One small dictionary defines fact as tion was much put out by discovering that the day was follows: "A thing done. Latin, factum—act, deed." In the same as that of Hitler's in Germany. There his party this matter of the Sabbath we are not faced with some­ was celebrating the day with pomp and display. thing that man did. God is the one who did things. He The women went to the courts in Scotland, determined made the earth and man upon it in six days. He rested to have her birthday changed. But courts agreed in upon the seventh day. Sabbath means "rest," and that assuring her that it was impossible to change the day. made the seventh day God's Sabbath. He blessed that day. Her birthday was fixed by the unalterable fact that a If blessing means anything, that made the seventh day certain day was the day of her birth. No court could different from all other days of the week. He "made it change that fact. The courts of the realm were powerless. holy." And the woman was helpless to reverse fact and truth. Men can no more change these facts about the seventh day than they can change the fact that God made the Fact Could Not Be Reversed world. No one can change his birthday by celebrating When I read about the incident I thought of an ex­ another day, the wrong day, contrary to the unchangeable ample in ancient times of an effort to reverse facts. The fact. No observance by men or the church of the first day people of Israel in their journey to Canaan were passing of the week instead of the seventh—through centuries— by the land of Moab. Balak, king of the Moabites, had could ever make the choice of men the day of God's true hired Balaam, once a prophet of God, to go and curse Sabbath. It is "an act of God" that every soul has to Israel. But by the interposition of God, Balaam was deal with here, either accepting it as fact or rejecting it. hindered from speaking othewise than as the Lord would "Can length of time on God Himself exact, allow. Time after time the prophet blessed Israel while And make that fiction, which before was fact?" Balak was paying him to curse. After his futile attempts w. A. S. Balaam answered the king's complaints: "Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and he hath blessed; and God's Grace—3 I cannot reverse it." Num. 23:20. Note this everlasting fact: In laying the foundation of this earth and creating man upon it, the Creator rested Is Our Best Enough? upon the seventh day. That made the seventh day His Sabbath. He blessed that day and made it holy. "The Man has made many brave and self-sacrificing attempts sabbath was made for man," said Jesus. He knew, for He to cure the world's ills, and in many instances he has it was who made man and made the Sabbath. "Without been successful. Cruel monarchs and dictators have been him was not any thing made that was made." John 1:3. overthrown. Slaves have been set free. The hungry have He it was who "blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it," been fed, the poor clothed, the refugees have found a as the fourth commandment declares. home, the sick have been healed, plagues and epidemics Here again we say, He hath blessed, and who can have been conquered, and science has opened new vistas of hope. Greek civilization gave us culture. Roman civilization gave us order. Modern civilization is giving us abundance. The list of human achievements is a long one. This has led some to believe that man is the master of his own fate. Brief Biographies But this is being widely questioned today as serious fundamental weaknesses in human character become His childhood and youth were spent in more and more apparent. The trouble is, the human Iowa. Here he finished high school, attended physician has only been able to treat symptoms and has normal school, and spent a little time at Battle Creek College preparatory to teach­ not been able to touch the deep causes of our woes. ing. Later he felt the urge to preach and Something More Is Needed acted as tent master in Texas, followed by a year in the home of James White in secre­ Man at his best is not enough. This is the tragic lesson tarial work. In 1880 he returned to Iowa for of history. Something more is needed to save us from those six years, during which time he was ordained things which threaten soon to overwhelm us and bring as a gospel minister. His first call to foreign final disaster. work was to New Zealand, where he raised up a church, organized a There are, no doubt, many good and honorable men conference, and became its first president. In 1892 he became presi­ in the world who are neither atheists nor Christians. They dent of the Australian Conference, and was later chosen as president of the Australian Union. His election as president of the General hold to high moral principles of honesty, integrity, sym­ Conference came in 1901. A general reorganization followed. Union pathy, justice, purity, benevolence. Their vision is broad. and division conferences were formed, new departments were Their energies are spent in helping to work out the salva­ created, the removal of the denominational headquarters to Takoma tion of the world. We must credit these men with doing Park was made, and our foreign mission work and evangelism all that is humanly possible for the good of mankind, received a new impetus. His twenty-one years of leadership were and we must respect them for it. filled with administrative routine, travel, writing, and unstinted But are they doing enough? Can they do enough to labor in the setting and reaching of new goals in all departments reach the goals they have set for themselves? No. Again of the cause. The year 1926 marked the close of a four-year period we say, man's best is not enough. We need more than good as secretary of the General Conference. A tour of Australia and South America followed. On his return to America he fostered the men. We need reborn men, a new creation, members of a formation of the Ministerial Association and the publication of new race. its organ, The Ministry. His life was ever characterized by his Some often wonder why we need Christianity, when devotion to God and his faith in the Advent Movement. What was some men can be so good without it. By comparison with his name? To identify, see page 22. others about them, their robes appear spotless. And these

JUNE 7, 1951 13 are the men who are hard to convince that Christianity is saved?" the apostles replied, "Believe on the Lord Jesus necessary. Not having seen the pure white linen of Christ's Christ, and thou shall be saved, and thy house." Acts character, they know not how much they lack. 16:30, 31. Thus it was, no doubt, with the man in the wedding- By this simple formula will men be saved. If it were feast parable that Jesus used to illustrate this point. We not for the grace of Christ, where would we stand today? remember how He said, "When the king came in to see In spite of all our efforts to measure up to the righteous­ the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wed­ ness of the law, to be what God expects of us, to live holy ding garment: and he saith unto him, Friend, how earnest lives before men, we would still be sinners, subjects of thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he eternal death. But the Son of God comes among us and was speechless." Matt. 22:11, 12. says, "Believe in Me. Commit your life to Me, and I will make a new man of you. With Me you shall enter the When He Saw the Difference eternal inheritance. I am the way, the truth, and the life. Evidently this man thought his own garment was good Follow Me." F. L. enough. It may have been of very fine quality, and no doubt it had been washed and ironed as perfectly as human hands could do it. Before the man went into the Hezekiah's Weakness and Strength feast he must have felt quite satisfied. So he refused the garment offered to him. There is an interesting contrast in the history of Heze- Only when he was inside did he realize how different kiah's conflicts with Sennacherib, ruler of Assyria. It his garment was from what the king expected of him. shows how weak a man is when in the wrong, and how By comparison with others outside the room he felt quite strong the same man can be when in the right. respectable, but inside, as he beheld the beautiful, fault­ less robes of those about him, he began to realize his Assyria's First Attack insufficiency. It is no wonder that when the king asked The Ekronites had rebelled against Assyria, and Heze- him how it was that he came in without a wedding gar­ kiah had made himself a partner with them in the revolt. ment that "he was speechless." Thus it will be someday Therefore, Sennacherib, after punishing Ekron, came with all those who feel that the good that men do will against Judah. Hezekiah knew he was in the wrong. The make them fit to enter the kingdom of God. record says: Comparisons are dangerous if we only compare our­ selves among ourselves. Let Christ's character stand re­ "Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to vealed before us; then our own righteousness will appear Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. . . . And Hezekiah gave him as filthy rags. Not until man comes to this point can all the silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in Christ do anything to save him. the treasures of the king's house. . . . Hezekiah cut off the Nicodemus was one of the world's best men, and he gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and from the probably felt little need until he met Jesus and talked pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid." 2 Kings with Him. It was because Nicodemus liked to associate 18:14-16. himself with good men that he sought out Jesus that night. But how quickly the Son of God pierced his thin Assyria's Second Attack veneer of righteousness. The next invasion of Judah by Sennacherib ended New Creatures in Christ very differently. Doubtless the proud Assyrian expected the same humiliating submission the second time. But Not responding to the flattery with which Nicodemus this time Hezekiah said to his people: accosted Him, Jesus wasted no time, but said directly, "Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for "Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." John 3:3. for there be more with us than with him: with him is an arm of This is the keynote of the message that Christ brings flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight to the world. Not by any righteous act that we can do can our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words we be restored to the Edenic state, for we are a race of of Hezekiah king of Judah." 2 Chron. 33:7, 8. sinners who have been cast out of God's holy kingdom. What made the difference? On the first occasion Heze­ Some great change must take place in our lives before kiah was in the wrong; now he was in the right; and all we can be restored to the society of God and heavenly be­ the strength of the God of right was on his side. Assyria ings. We must be born again. Such a new birth cannot be brought about by any represented then the greatest power on earth. But in one night this greatest of powers was humbled by one angel of miracle of science, by any round of ceremonies, or by God. You know the story. More power was with Hezekiah anything that man can do. We become new creatures than with Assyria. through the grace of God and the power that Christ will exercise over those who commit their ways to Him. The Lord lives today, and it is a blessed truth that the Thus Paul wrote, "Therefore, if any man be in Christ, humblest and weakest man or woman who is in the right he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, with God is stronger than the might of all the world. all things are become new." 2 Cor. 5:17. And the world is powerless to coerce into sin. It is sin Once we admit that a new birth is necessary, how within that makes one weak in the day of trial, not the quickly human works recede into the background. These forces without. w. A. s. thoughts are beautifully summed up in the following words: "But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the wash­ which all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they ing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible, he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; a power which makes him strong to do good, strong to that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs ac­ resist evil, strong to bear adversity. It is here that true cording to the hope of eternal life." Titus 3:4-7. excellence of character shines forth with the greatest When the jailer called out, "What must I do to be luster.—Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 656. 14 REVIEW AND HERALD News From the World Field

The leaders of the division are fully New Opportunities in Southern Asia aware of the present new opportunities, and at the time of their annual meeting set aside 200,000 rupees ($10,000, U.S.) By E. D. Dick especially and solely for evangelistic work. The prospects for increasingly large re­ sults are cheering. There were 1,015 bap­ Vast changes have taken place in India the British out of their country. Because tized last year. The membership stands at in recent years. These changes have of this rising tide of unrest within India 10,712, and the Sabbath school member­ brought new opportunities and challenges and because of financial stringency . at ship at 19,281. such as have never been seen hitherto in home the British graciously withdrew. Second, a change in attitude is also seen the history of our work. Let me explain. On their withdrawal the Hindus set in their receptivity to Christian literature. For a century and more, prior to 1947, about to establish a Hindu state to revive Not long ago it was difficult to sell our India was a British possession. During the the Hindu philosophies and practices to books. Colporteurs had to be heavily sub­ time of British occupation great invest­ bring about a great revival of Hindu sidized to carry on. In the past few years ments were made throughout the country worship. This was highly distasteful to the the Christian colporteurs' sales have —developments in transportation, rail­ Mohammedans, and led to bitter strife greatly increased. People are reaching out ways and harbors, country roads and city between the two communities. In this a for something which will bring hope and streets. In communication good postal million or more lost their lives, and other assurance to their starved hearts and lives. service and telephone and telegraph in­ millions were rendered homeless by forced stallations were provided. In health serv­ migrations. This resulted finally in the Growing Interest in Christian Literature ices large hospitals and medical centers establishment of two nations—Pakistan, a A further indication of their changed were established. Medical and veterinary predominantly Mohammedan state; and attitude is seen in their willingness to colleges were operated, and sanitary serv­ India, a predominantly Hindu state. buy religious literature. Formerly we ices developed. In agriculture huge irri­ But conditions have not improved eco­ could sell only health literature. Now re­ gation canals were built, and vast irriga­ nomically. The promises made by the poli­ ligious books are sought after. People are tion schemes were carried out. The police ticians have not been fulfilled. Conditions getting down from their shelves our books and military preserved law and order, and have deteriorated, and the peoples of bought long ago and comparing them a high standard of justice and equity was Pakistan and India are becoming disillu­ with the truths presented by our evange­ meted out in the well-regulated civil and sioned. They have passed through a vale lists'in their tent meetings. One woman criminal courts of law. of tears and sorrow, to emerge with the brought out an old book given to her Despite these huge investments, which sting of poverty greater than ever before. grandfather by a now-forgotten friend brought about greatly improved living Famine threatens great sections of the many years ago after attending our meet­ conditions, a spirit of unrest egged on by population; and therefore their peoples ings. It was The. Story of Daniel the aggressive, political, national leaders de­ are reaching out anew for something dif­ Prophet, by S. N. Haskell, and because the veloped. ferent—something better. They seek de­ message presented was the same as that India has a huge population. There liverance from the cruel 'conditions under taught in her good book and the Bible, are approximately 420,000,000 in that sub­ which so many of them live. she accepted the truth and was rebap- continent of Asia. This means that if the tized. The Appeal of Religion peoples of earth should march by a given Two other evidences of a change of at­ point, every fifth person would be an The peoples of India are outwardly re­ titude are seen in their eager reception of Indian. ligious. Everywhere one sees temples and the Voice of Prophecy Bible Correspond­ tombs and shrines in which they have ence School and the weekly radio broad­ Untold Millions in Great Need placed their confidence. Their conditions casts from Goa and Ceylon. After three Most of these people are very poor. have not improved. There is now an out­ years of operation of the Voice of Proph­ Probably half of them never had a good reach for peace, for freedom, for security. ecy Correspondence School, publicized by meal in all their lives. Many, many live For this the third angel's message is the limited newspaper advertisements, 68,000 on the verge of starvation continually. true remedy. In the hearts of many has were enrolled and pursued or are pursu­ Then, too, illiteracy is very great. Ap­ come a spirit of inquiry, a search for de­ ing the prescribed courses. Very many are proximately 88 per cent of the men and liverance from the fatalistic treadmill of eager in their acceptance of the new truths 94 per cent of the women can neither their past unsatisfying religious ceremo­ which they have discovered in these much- read nor write. nies. This is seen in many changed atti­ esteemed Bible courses. Hundreds profess Political agitators stirred up the people tudes. Let me enumerate some of them: acceptance of Jesus as their personal Sav­ to believe that their poverty and un­ First, a change is seen in their attitude iour and are asking for baptism. favorable conditions were due to the oc­ toward Christian evangelism. Formerly it Thousands of others are regular listen­ cupation of their country by the British. was difficult to secure an attentive audi­ ers to the weekly radio broadcast, which There were two dominant religious ence for Christian services, but now is clearly understood to be a Christian communities in India, 240,000,000 Hindus crowds attend our meetings regularly. At program.'Letters of interest and appreci­ and 100,000,000 Mohammedans. Though the time of my visit and before, large ation have come in from many lands. ordinarily there was great hatred and and successful efforts were in progress in This truly is the day of opportunity and strife between these two communities, Bombay, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore, challenge for the peoples of Pakistan and these were united in their desire to drive Colombo, Calicut, and elsewhere. India, and we must pre-empt the oppor-

JUNE 7, 1951 15 tunities promptly. We repeat, This is the is so apparent, the need so great. True most gratifying. He is a real friend of the day for the preaching of the third angel's peace, freedom, and security are found hospital and of our mission. message. The people of India are balanc­ only through the gospel of Christ. Let us A Sabbath was spent at the Awtun Sta­ ing precariously between Communism not fail to occupy these opportunities, tion, where Pastor and Mrs. A. E. Farrow and Christianity. We have the message for and meet the challenges which come to us are working. Several hundred believers the world for this time, but particularly in these great lands where multitudes are and friends gathered in a large open-air for these lands where the heart hunger hungry for the gospel of Christ. service, which was attended by the para­ mount chief and his counselors. In the evening a visit was paid to the chief, who, when we departed, insisted on making a present to us of a well-fed and very In the Mission Fields of the Northern lively duck, which was carried by the chief's son to our car and safely encaged European Division in the luggage compartment under the chief's scrutinizing eye. Later in the eve­ (Concluded) ning the church members sent us a letter of thanks signed by their elders and enclosing in the envelope a five-pound By A. F. Tarr, President note to apply on our expense in paying Northern European Division them this visit. As we reflected on their ap­ parent poverty we were greatly moved by this very generous expression of their At Accra a day was spent in the home of Hyde is the president of this field, and gratitude. Elder and Mrs. J. O. Gibson. Elder Gib- L. G. Anniss was at the time of our visit Across the Niger River son is the newly appointed president of secretary-treasurer; Brother Anniss has the West African Union. Because we were since been called to be secretary-treasurer At Asaba, after a two-hour wait, we to return to Accra later for the union of the union. Here also we found E. E. crossed the Niger River on a ferry steamer, committee meeting, we hurried on to. Hulbert, who is in charge of the Voice of landing at Onitsha on the eastern bank. other parts of the field, one of which was Prophecy. Late that afternoon, with our car and Bekwai, the training school for the Gold ourselves heavily covered with dust, we Coast. Here we were happy to meet Elder A Different Kind of Welcome arrived at Ihie, the site of the Nigerian and Mrs. H. J. Welch, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Training College. L. R. Downing is the Moyer, and Miss Joyce Mohlmann with From Ibadan we visited Erunmu, where principal, assisted by Mrs. Downing and the African teachers and students. a rather novel welcome awaited us from Mr. and Mrs. Brendell and a staff of Among other things, this school is em­ the churches of that district and their African teachers. Of the three hundred phasizing practical education, and the friends. The road for a great distance ap­ students many have already been engaged students are being trained in printing, proaching the church was lined with mem­ in denominational service and are now agriculture, and building. Altogether more bers, and a great banner of welcome borne taking advanced work to qualify them­ than three hundred young people in all by the church elders preceded our cars. selves better as evangelists and teachers. the grades are being trained at this school. The church was packed, and hundreds It was encouraging to meet with this Sixty-one, including two from Sierra tried to find a place outside the windows forward-looking group of students. Leone, are in the advanced classes. Evan­ and doors. Before we left the church an Aba is the headquarters of the East gelism is promoted with special enthusi­ endless file of school children presented Nigerian field. Here we spent some happy asm, and as a result of the efforts con­ a gift from the church members. days with W. J. Newman, W. G. Till, and ducted by students and teachers eight By the time the procession had passed J. D. Meade, and their families and as­ new companies were raised up in the in and out of the church for possibly sociate African workers. Elder Newman surrounding towns during 1950 with 240 fifteen minutes there was a huge stack is the president of this mission, which has souls won. Sabbath services were con­ of yams weighing no less than half a a membership of over 4,000. The district ducted at Aguna and Assamang, where ton, two hundred eggs, and two live leaders, had been gathered in to meet us. several hundred believers had gathered. turkeys. We thanked the people for these Visits were also made to some of the gifts, and then asked that they accept nearby village schools, where we inspected The Gold Coast Mission them, or at least the greater part of them, possibly a thousand pupils. At Kumasi, the headquarters of the as our contribution toward a school build­ Gold Coast Mission, we were guests in the ing they were erecting, and they seemed We Enjoyed the Singing very happy. Next we inspected the 330 homes of J. C. Vetter and D. J. Clarke. Particularly impressive were the Chris­ A district leaders' meeting and a meeting school children, who with their school band, and arranged in class groups, were tian songs sung by tliese children, many of the mission committee coincided with of whom were from non-Christian homes. our visit. Evangelism is strong in this lined up on the school grounds adjoining the church. A visit to the paramount chief We shall never forget the fervor with mission. Baptisms totaled 1,002 in 1950. which the tiny tots of one school sang: At a recent laymen's institute personal followed. He appealed, as he has done for goals were set for 1,500 new converts in years, for the establishment of a secondary "Heavenly sunshine, heavenly sunshine, 1951. We were told that the 1950 camp school in his district. Flooding my soul with glory divine. Heavenly sunshine, heavenly sunshine, meetings were attended by more than A strong hospital is being operated at Hallelujah, Jesus is mine!" 15,000 people, and that at one meeting He-He, under the direction of Dr. S. A. a~ Mohammedan chief and all Hisi elders TSTageT, who at the time of our visit was ~A~t "one school in another "field the Teacner were present, bringing generous offerings assisted by Nurses Frances Martz and celebrated our arrival by having the entire to the harvest festival. Sylvia Turtill, and Mr. and Mrs. R. V. school sing, "Lord, send a revival and let Next we visited Nigeria. At Lagos we Santini. Nearly forty thousand patients it begin in me." were met by H. S. Pearce, manager of the were treated in the hospital and clinic last In North Nigeria our little Dove plane Advent Press, who motored us to Ibadan, year, and the devotion of the staff to their was met at the Jos airport by Dr. and Mrs. Nigeria's largest city, and the headquarters task was inspiring. The commendation J. A. Hyde. In their delivery wagon (they of the West Nigerian Mission field. J. J. of the king of Ife, whom we visited, was call it a kit-car here) we were driven to

16 REVIEW AND HERALD Jengre, where Dr. Hyde, under pioneering this lonely station conscious of the great conditions, is operating a dispensary with task confronting these workers and pray­ A Visit to Vienna accommodation also for inpatients in ing that God would greatly multiply their By L. L. Moffitt native-built, mud-walled, thatch-roofed pioneering service for Him. Secretary, Sabbath School Department huts. In these huts he has had to treat Our last appointment in West Africa General Conference many cases of pneumonia, sleeping sick­ was at the union headquarters in Accra, ness, and meningitis. In nine months of where for over a week we met with the [This is another direct air-mail report from Elder Moffitt, who is attending meetings in Europe.—EDI• last year his cases totaled 14,592. In ad­ union committee in its annual budget TORS.] dition to his medical work Dr. Hyde car­ meeting. J. O. Gibson, the new union ries the mission superintendency of a field president, gave understanding leadership To a transient such as I life in Vienna extending four hundred miles in one direc­ to the meetings, and we had some happy seems to be approaching normalcy. There tion and seven hundred in the other, with and deeply spiritual times together. Re­ are indeed numerous gaunt skeletons of a population of more than eight million ports of progress were rendered by every bombed buildings in a few sections of people. His force of workers, including one of the seven local mission fields and the city, but repair operations completed those in the hospital and field and school, all the union departments and institu­ or in progress have already healed or are number fourteen in all. They are not very tions. God's rich blessing has obviously healing many of the superficial wounds well trained but are most deeply devotee! attended the past service of workers and of war. The shop windows are full of to their work and outstandingly proficient lay members alike, and we look for even goods, and the markets are abundantly in their knowledge of the Bible. We left greater blessings in the days to come. supplied with food. The people are well clad, and appear to be well nourished. There are many rosy cheeks not obtained in the drugstore. In the parks happy chil­ dren play and tulips bloom, with daisies and dandelions brightening the green­ sward. Out in the country, as I traveled, Austrian farmers were plowing and plant­ ing. The winter grain and grass brightened the landscape. The apple and pear trees bloomed as pink and white as anywhere in the world. O that men could be as peaceful as the springtime countryside! For centuries Vienna has been a famous center of culture, art, music, and medicine, but today it is also a center of Adventist influence in Europe. Although the city suffered from bombing attacks during the war, there remain, nevertheless, many grand old buildings—cathedrals, museums, municipal offices, and imperial palaces. At Our Headquarters Building Of chief interest to me, however, was a new building on Nussdorferstrasse, Ad­ vent Mission, the headquarters of the Austrian Union Conference of Seventh- day Adventists. In this spacious five-story building, which includes offices and apart­ ments for workers, is a commodious chapel for one of the eight Adventist churches in Vienna. Here we held our Sabbath services for the Austrian Union Sabbath Our New Hospital in Puerto Rico school convention, April 27-29. Delegates were present from thirty-two It is a pleasure to bring to the REVIEW For some years now the charity clinic sec­ Sabbath schools, besides a large attendance family a short report of the new hospital tion has been operating on a limited basis from the one thousand believers in Vi­ being constructed in Puerto Rico. This proj­ down in the city. However, there has been no enna itself. On Sunday we met in another ect was the recipient of assistance from one place to care for those needing surgical in­ church with about two hundred delegates, of the thirteenth Sabbath overflow offerings tervention. This need will be filled just as local officers, teachers, and interested mem­ last year, and at the present time is about soon as the new hospital opens its doors to 60 per cent finished. Built on the side o£ a the public. bers. L. Schneebauer, the union president; hill, overlooking the town of Mayagiiez, on L. L. Dnnn, the business manager, is at O. Uebersax, the union conference Sab­ the west coast of Puerto Rico, this institution present overseeing the actual construction and bath school secretary; and other workers will offer the same sanitarium and hospital the securing of necessary equipment. Soon gave excellent help in the convention. care that our other medical institutions offer. Doctors Charles Moore and Donald Sargeant Brother Uebersax has newly come to the Because of its location in rural surroundings, will be returning from their studies to work department, and is giving very capable quiet and rest help in restoring the sick. together with Doctors Colby Dunscombe and leadership to the Sabbath school work. The accompanying photograph gives a Maxwell Rudisaile, D.D.S., who will be giv­ Austria has a population of more than little idea of the modern architecture with its ing their undivided attention to this new 7,000,000. Our work began in Austria full sun decks, balconies, and large windows hospital. We take this opportunity to thank taking advantage of the tropical breezes. The those who have so liberally contributed in about 50 years ago. Progress has not been new Bellavista Hospital will fill a very definite the past to this project, and ask an interest rapid. But now there are 40 organized need on the western end of the island in a in your prayers that it may be a real soul- churches with a membership of 2,591. In section classified by the government as defi­ winning agency. the city of Vienna there is a present mem­ nitely needing more hospitals. S. L. FOLKENBERG. bership of 999. Some of the other larger

JUNE 7, 1951 17 churches are in Linz, Graz, Innsbruck, and and even more prosperous days for our been established: Sedaven, in the Natal- Salzburg. Counting the home Sabbath work seem to lie just ahead. Transvaal Conference; and Hillcrest, in schools, the last Sabbath school report This is the eve of May Day. I have just the Cape Conference. Good Hope Train­ shows 98 Sabbath schools with a member­ returned to my hotel from an hour-long ing School, in the Cape Field Conference, ship of 2,608. torchlight parade along one of the main has been developed by the erection of a Our training school—Schloss Bogen- arteries of the city. With street lights out new dormitory and boarding unit. Four hofen—near Salzburg, is one of the units and with bands playing and banners fly­ of the African training schools—Bethel, in our educational work in Europe that ing, the hundreds of torchbearers ac­ Solusi, Malamulo, and Bugema—now of­ are preparing Advent youth for a place claimed their favorite candidate for the fer secondary academic work on the junior in the work of God. presidential election next week. Three certificate or junior secondary level. A So far nearly everywhere I have gone in main parties, I understand, are in the branch of the Home Study Institute has Europe I see posters advertising the contest—communist, Catholic, and Social­ been opened at Claremont for the di­ coming youth's congress in Paris. Evi­ ist. The mayor of Vienna, on the Socialist vision, offering nearly thirty secondary and dently this meeting is getting good pub­ ticket, appears, in Vienna at least, to be college subjects, in addition to Bible sub­ licity and a large number plan to attend. a very popular candidate. It looks as if jects in the primary school. The believers in Austria are of good there is considerable democracy in Austria. The Sentinel Publishing house, near courage. As already remarked, conditions Tomorrow my schedule calls for de­ Cape Town, is printing two missionary are apparently getting back to normal, parture for Italy. journals, Signs and Tekens, with a com­ bined circulation of 21,000 monthly. Sab­ bath school lessons are published in eleven different languages, including English and Advancing in Southern Africa Afrikaans. Aside from tracts and pam­ phlets, thirty-one new publications were completed in the last four years. This By H. L. Rudy, Vice-President house is printing in twenty languages, General Conference but that does not anywhere nearly meet the literature demands. In his report to the council M. E. Daw- The report of progress of our work African Division, resulting in 38,471 bap­ son, the manager, stated: "A small song- in the Southern African Division is indeed tisms, with 66,242 in the Bible classes pre­ book, Sabbath School Quarterly, baptis­ a far cry today from what it was sixty- paring for baptism. This means that an mal manual, and a few other small books four years ago when the first Seventh-day average of 22,144 people accepted this and pamphlets constitute the entire range Adventist mission station was opened in message in each of the past four years. of literature available to a large part of that territory—at Solusi. When a minister As the story of this marvelous growth our growing African membership. Seventy reported three or four baptisms in "one unfolded, all hearts were cheered, and languages are being used in the verbal year sixty years ago, it was marvelous the conviction that God's arm was ex­ presentation of the message, but we have in the eyes of those early pioneers. Two tended to Africa for salvation was crystal­ publications in only thirty-two. There is or three of those early workers were pres­ lized in the minds of the delegates present. a great need for Spirit of prophecy books. ent at the South African Division council At the closing meeting of the council, It is a startling fact that the only book held in Bulawayo, April 15-21, 1951 and when opportunity was given for everyone within the division territory by Ellen G. heard the reports of baptisms as they were to bear testimony, practically all spoke, White in any language other than English given by the various unions. and such statements as the following were is Steps to Christ, a book of less than one Reports covering the results of the past repeated many times: "I have received a hundred pages, and it is available in only four years were rendered as follows: the new vision of the greatness of the Advent five languages." Congo Union, 8,287; the East African message." "We rejoice over the unity and Union, 11,442; the Southeast African love seen at this council. We Africans will The Medical Ministry Union, 4,762; the South African Union, bear a greater burden in finishing the The medical work, with a thirty-year his­ 3,976; and the Zambesi Union, 7,788. The work in Africa." "We used to report tory in the division, is developing rapidly. membership increase for the same period three or four people baptized annually. This is being carried on in eleven hos­ came to 24,779, bringing the present total Now the reports are in the thousands." pitals, the youngest being Maluti, in Basu- church membership of the division up to "My faith and confidence in this message toland. Two new hospitals, Ankole and 75,089 members. This means one new is greater than ever." "The Lord will Heri, are now in process of construction. church of 119 members every week for the show us how to save many more souls." One of the outstanding needs in the de­ past four years. Of these church members "The overseas and European brethren velopment of our medical work is that of 68,056 are native Africans and 7,033 are have done all they could for us. We assure training our own European nurses in Europeans and other nationalities. them that we will remain united with Africa. At present there is no denomina­ In October, 1950, Angola and Portu­ them until the work of God is finished." tional nurses' training program for the guese East Africa were transferred to the This growth in membership has called European young people of this division. Southern European Division with a bap­ for marked expansion of plans and facil­ Dr. C. P. Bringle, medical secretary of tized membership of 4,711 and 3,919 ad­ ities. Added to the working force were the division, appealed for such training. herents to the faith. These are not in­ 729, bringing the total for the division to He said: "One of our critical needs at this cluded in the above membership report 3,521 as of December, 1950. Including ten time is a solution of the problem of of the division. Referring to this transfer, new mission stations and three hospitals, providing a suitable nurses' training pro­ C. W. Bozarth said in his inspiring report 355 building units were constructed or gram for our fine South African young, _ to -the council; ".We.are sorry Jo _par t.with otherwise acquired, _— ——-—. — --people. - It --is—eursincere and -earnest our fellow workers and church members prayer that God may lead us to a solution in these fields, but we are confident that Educational and Publishing Work of this extremely important problem." the Lord's work will advance more rapidly Helderberg College has been raised to Our people in the Southern African under the new arrangements. Our prayers full senior college status in order to meet Division are most grateful for the strong will follow them." the increasing demand for higher denomi­ financial support the General Conference During the past four years 3,824 evan­ national education and training. Two has been able to give to our growing work gelistic efforts were held in the Southern new secondary schools for Europeans have in that fruitful field. The appropriations

18 REVIEW AND HERALD from the General Conference in 1950-were held in Hurley, South Dakota, March home offerings, and that during the past almost double the total tithe income 22-26. ten years tithe and mission offerings alone within the division in the same year. That This was an outstanding event in the have totaled $88,388. factor alone indicates the large part our history of the church, when groups from Newspapers in that section of South people in the homeland have in the ad­ other Adventist churches in South Dakota Dakota carried stories of the diamond vancing work in Africa. This should bring met with the members of the Hurley jubilee for the Hurley church, with in­ great joy to the hearts of God's people church to memorialize the founding of the teresting historical facts regarding its ex­ who are able to send means to the mission Swan Lake church seventy-five years ago. periences and progress during the 75 year fields beyond where thousands of precious The church building was removed to Hur­ period. souls are eagerly reaching for a saving ley, seven miles from Swan .Lake, about knowledge of Jesus Christ. But Africa ten years ago, and there the congregation is also joining in raising mission funds. of about a hundred members now wor­ Church Editor Describes A general increase of 25 per cent in mis­ ship. sion offerings and Ingathering has been W. E. Nelson, field secretary of the Seventh-day Adventists possible during the last four years. General Conference and sori of -N-. -P. Nel­ By Henry F. Brown The immediate prospects for the rapid son of the first Adventist family in South growth and development of our work in Dakota, joined the conference and church Recently, in Austria, the energetic mis­ Southern Africa are very bright. As the leaders in the anniversary program. sionary activity of the Adventist laymen leaders and evangelists turned their faces The record reveals that on November 8, made such an impression on the editor toward their fields from this great mis­ 1874, Brother and Sister N. P. Nelson and of a Catholic church magazine that he sionary council in Bulawayo, they did so Brother and Sister O. A. Frederickson were printed a long article about them, from with the resolute determination to make baptized, and that "they upheld the ban­ which we extract the following para­ the next four years, under God, the great­ ner of truth to the ever increasing popula­ graphs: est in their experience in soul winning. tion in the community." The next year "From their restless zeal for the spread­ There is every reason to believe that the the church was organized, with O. A. ing of their idea, one can conclude that membership of our churches in this di­ Frederickson, elder; N. P. Nelson, treas­ they expect the day of Jesus Christ very vision will be doubled during that time. urer; and N. C. Jensen, clerk. Minutes of soon, as much as they hold themselves as With that objective before them and in the organization meeting records an ac­ the 144,000 (Revelation 7:4) 'the sealed,' earnest prayer to God for the realization tion "to raise $22.00 for the support of 'the chosen,' 'the saints,' and 'the right­ of that goal, this fine group of men and the gospel ministry during the balance eous' of the last short appointed time be­ women left Bulawayo for their confer­ of that year." All members signed their fore the approach of the millennium. ences, institutions, and mission stations in names to this record. By .the spring of They make it a point to spread their Southern Africa. 1876 the membership in eight months had Adventist ideas in all parts of the world grown from seven to thirty-two. Later, as to get the full quota of 'the sealed.' a result of a series of meetings by E. W. "Therefore the active propaganda of Church Celebrates Farnsworth, then a .young preacher just the Adventists has led in some strong out of school, eighteen were baptized. Catholic territories to a disagreeable effect Seventy-fifth Anniversary As the local church work grew and made recently. Every real Adventist is not only By J. R. Ferren progress, workers for many fields of serv­ a member of that sect, but also a most ice were developed, summarized in this zealous messenger and proclaimer of their The story began about 1872, when sod short historical paragraph: "From the ideas. The whole world—every country, houses sprang- up in clusters over the val­ doors of this church have gone many who every city, every village and home is a leys of Dakota and the first railway was have become laborers for God in the ca­ mission object of Adventists. Nobody is completed from Sioux City, Iowa, to pacity of missionaries, both at home and exempt from their propaganda, not even Yankton, South Dakota. Thousands of in foreign lands, Bible instructors, gospel our ministers and clergy. They talk to the prairie schooners, many of them drawn ministers, evangelists, doctors, nurses, people where they find them—in the by ox teams, carried into this new Mid­ teachers, and conference workers." homes, in the street cars, waiting rooms west the sturdy, hopeful settlers who The strength financially to the cause of and trains, hospitals, offices, in front of were to become the stock from which the God that this church proved to be is churches and meeting halls. They search permanent population was to spring. shown by figures revealing that for the for them using every casual meeting of Among the homesteaders in what is twenty years closing in 1934 members had people. now Turner County, South Dakota, came given $98,640 in tithe and mission and "They do colporteur work, sell and give N. P. Nelson and family from Iowa. To out reading material—books and maga­ this family there had come some Seventh- zines—distributing their handbills and day Adventist literature, and as a new often cleverly made up invitations. . . . home was established farther west it be­ "Most of their ministers, teachers, evan­ came a center of light for the surround­ gelists and distributors are self-supporting. ing, settlers. Together with another fam­ Nobody will be accepted into their ranks ily the Nelsons studied the message and without thorough instruction. . . . were convinced in their own minds that "Next to a knowledge of the Bible, they they had found the truth. Often the two emphasize the salvation of souls. In con­ families met together for prayer and Bible trast to the Jehovah Witnesses who want study. Interest grew, and in due time a to reach their aim in a fighting and storm­ teacher was sent for; a minister came; ing way, the Adventists try to find a fitting there were baptisms, and the first church word for every person through which they in the Dakotas, then one State, was or­ may introduce Adventist thoughts in their ganized near Swan Lake, now in South hearts."—Der Volksbote, Feb. 26, 1950. Dakota. These are eulogistic words, and describe Those early days of Adventism in that an ideally missionary church. We are con­ area were reviewed, and the providence strained to wish that all that is said of The Swan Lake Church, Hurley, South Dakota, of God through the years was recounted Where Services Were Recently Held Celebrating Sev­ our Austrian brethren could be truthfully at a seventy-fifth anniversary celebration enty-five Years of Growth and Witnessing said of every Seventh-day Adventist.

JUNE 7 , 1951 Week of Prayer Tench Island, and what I saw and heard fully, and we are happy that twenty-two was a great inspiration to me. The people were baptized during the first half of this at Lorna Linda stated that they were all Adventists, and year. Other baptisms are to be conducted were waiting for baptism. It was amazing later." By N. R. Dower what they knew regarding the message. We thank God for these loyal believers During the week of April 21-28 ifc-was They had one house set aside in which on tiny Tench Island in the South Pa­ my privilege to conduct the spring Week to keep the tithes and offerings, and it was cific. The Spirit of God is speaking to of Prayer at the Loma Linda Division of overflowing. Their tithes and offerings people's hearts everywhere, and the re­ the College of Medical Evangelists. The consisted of curios and handcraft, be­ sponse is wonderful. Soon the last island sanitarium and medical school adjusted cause these people have no money. When will have heard God's message for this their programs so that two services were the tithes and offerings were loaded on time, and the last honest heart in every held daily. A very deep interest was mani­ the mission ship her holds were full. land will be reached with this truth, and fested in the messages presented. Decisions Eight years' accumulated tithes and offer­ the Advent family will be fully numbered. were made for the Lord, which surely will ings—what faithfulness! What a joy and privilege it is to have bear fruit for the kingdom of heaven. "These faithful believers persisted in some part, wherever we may be, in help­ It was a source of genuine inspiration their request for baptism, so a teacher was ing to hasten the blessed day of our to note the wonderful spirit that is evident placed there for a time to instruct them Saviour's return. on the campus. Faculty and students alike manifest a genuine dedication to the prin­ ciples of truth for which our denomination stands. There is a spirit of unity and kindly courtesy present, which is most heart warming. The standard of truth is held high at Loma Linda, and we are Brief Current News happy for the light that is thus shed abroad in the hearts of those who come in contact with it. May God continue to bless the faculty and students of these splendid schools to the end that a mighty band of OVERSEAS « Elder and Mrs. H. R. Rolfe have moved consecrated workers will be furnished to Southern African Division from Manchester, New Hampshire, to needy fields of earth. Brunswick, Maine. Elder Rolfe is doing • The ninth quadrennial missionary colporteur work and will have charge of council of the Southern African Division the Bath and Freeport churches. He will met in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, follow up interests created by the work An Entire Island Won April 16-21, 1951. Reports indicate that of Doctors R. A. Settle and M. W. Wester- the gain in baptisms over the previous meyer. for God quadrennium was 102 per cent, 38,471 By N. C. Wilson souls having been baptized. « Dr. Ronald A. Settle, at Brunswick, Union officers were elected as follows: Maine, was recently appointed medical A very interesting story comes to us Congo Union: president, K. F. Ambs, re- secretary of the Northern New England from T. F. Judd, president of the Bis­ elected; secretary-treasurer, M. Koopmans, Conference. marck Archipelago Mission, in the Coral re-elected. Central Union East African Union: president, E. D. Sea Union. We know it will bring courage • J. N. Hunt, publishing secretary of the and joy to the hearts of God's people in Hanson; secretary-treasurer, C. T. Ban­ nister, re-elected. Nebraska Conference, reports splendid all lands. In writing of the blessing of results during a week of teamwork in God on the work in his island field Southeast African Union: president, S. G. Maxwell, re-elected; secretary-treas­ Boone County. Five Nebraska colporteurs Brother Judd gives us the following cheer­ urer, P. Stevenson, re-elected. delivered nearly $ 1,200 worth of message- ing report: filled literature in five days and enrolled Zambesi Union: president, W. R. Vail, 43 in the Bible correspondence school. "Tench Island is a tiny dot in the re-elected; secretary-treasurer, E. Gregg. South Pacific Ocean in the St. Matthias • The Nebraska Conference reports good • The South African Union Conference gains for the first quarter of 1951 com­ Group. It is approximately one-half mile held its twentieth quadrennial session at long, and one-fourth mile wide, with East London, Cape Province, March 29 to pared to the same period the previous practically no elevation. The total popu­ April 2, 1951. Pastor Duncan Eva was year. Baptisms have increased by 51; tithe lation is approximately fifty people. Vege­ elected to the presidency of the confer­ has increased $21,754.60; and the Sabbath tation on the island is limited to wild ence, and C. H. Mackett was re-elected as school offerings show a gain of $1,600 in spite of the fact that last year was the fruit, a few coconut trees, and the usual the secretary-treasurer. More than 2,000 members were added to the church dur­ high year for Sabbath school offerings in tropical undergrowth. Food supplies are Nebraska. rare, bananas and yams being the main ing the past quadrennium. The treasurer • W. W. Baysinger, assisted by R. C. garden products. reported the receipt of $1,008,390 in tithe and $173,517 from Ingathering. The free­ Remboldt, is holding a series of evange­ "Very little had been done with these will offerings amounted to $450,013. listic meetings in the beautiful new church people (Tench Island is still regarded as in Hemingford, Nebraska. The attendance uncontrolled territory, and a special per­ NORTH AMERICA has been very encouraging. mit is needed to enter there), but some Atlantic Union of their menfolk had spent a few months • The Wyoming Conference has the honor of being the first conference in the on a. nearby island, Emirau, where they • Joseph H. Webb, who has been ter.ch- ing-atrBrookside Academy, is-assistant-tc -North- Aaaeriean - Division - to—reach—the learned of the truth, and on returning O. A. Braman, manager of the Southern Minute Man goal for Ingathering in 1951. home in 1939, one of them began to care New England Book and Bible House. Mr. O The Rock Springs, Wyoming, church, for the spiritual needs of his people. Webb succeeds Robert Aldrich, who was He conducted morning and evening wor­ consisting of 24 members, raised $1,801, called into the U.S. Army. an average of $75.04 per member, or more ship, Sabbath school, church services, and • S. A. Renzi, formerly Bible instructor than a triple Minute Man goal. Ten other meetings for eight years without one at Brookside Academy, is doing pastoral churches in the conference raised a Min­ visit from outside. work on the island of Nantucket, Massa­ ute Man goal, and four of these more "In 1947 it was my privilege to visit chusetts. than a double Minute Man goal.

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JUNE 7, 1951 21 • Members of the Wichita, Kansas, • The Washington Conference reports Manitoba-Saskatchewan ...... —._—...... July 6-15 Maritime ...... June 21-July 1 church met on the evening of April 30 in that the Japanese church in Seattle is the Newfoundland —-—-...... June 14-17 a layman's workshop conducted by Elders first over the Ingathering goal again. The Ontario-Quebec ...... August 17-26 Brown, Reiner, Rees, and Hagen. Nearly 17 members have a total of $1,009.88, or a St. Lawrence Mission everyone present signed a covenant card per capita of $59.40! Total Ingathering Central Union pledging to do certain missionary projects funds for the union reported the first week Central States —.-..-...... —.—-—... No Camp Meeting each week. were $89,370.19, or 40 per cent of the Colorado ...... June 15-23 goal. Kansas _...... ——.-...... —.--...... _._..— June 1-9 Lake Union Missouri ...... -———.._...... June 8-16 9 At the close of the evangelistic service Nebras_ka ...... August 10-19 • L. L. Murphy, of the Indiana Academy, Wyoming on May 6 in Everett, Washington, F. G. Columbia Union has accepted an invitation to. become the Roper baptized 17 converts. A special Bible teacher and pastor at Maplewood Allegheny ...... July 12-22 feature of this baptism was an entire Chesapeake ...... August 16-26 Academy in Minnesota. V. R. Pike, now a family of 6 who followed their Lord in East Pennsylvania ...... -—.—...... June 28-JuIy 8 district leader in Indiana, has been chosen New Jersey ...... July 12-22 baptism. Ohio ...... July 5-15 as the new Bible teacher for Indiana Potomac .—. —--- . .--...-..—...... ———.... June 8-17 Academy; and the Indiana Conference has • On Sabbath, May 5, L. E. Biggs, Oregon West Pennsylvania ...... —...... ——. June 21-July 1 called Dyre Dyresen, of Minnesota, for Conference president, met with the com­ West Virginia ...... June 14-24 district work. pany at Woodland, Washington, and or­ Lake Union ganized them into a church. Last winter • The Michigan Conference is the first in Illinois .—...... ———...... June 7-16 Eldon Stratton and Kenneth McVay held Indiana ...... —...... June 7-16 the Lake Union to reach its Ingathering a series of meetings there, and those who Lake Region ...... June 13-23 goal. For the week ending May 5 the con­ Michigan ...... ——...... August 15-26 accepted the truth at that time together Upper Peninsula ...... June 7-10 ference had a total of $145,063.81 and a with members of other churches living in Wisconsin ...... August 9-18 per capita of $11.74. The church at Pratt- the vicinity have united with this new Northern Union ville made an outstanding record this organization. year. With a conference basic goal of $492, Iowa —...... —.—...... —.-——....————.. August 9-18 Minnesota ...... ——...... June 14-23 the 41 members set out to raise 52,500. In • Rudy Knauft recently began a series of North Dakota ...... —...... ——.—..... June 8-16 exactly two weeks they had taken in a meetings in the small community of Me- South Dakota .—..-...... —.-..-...... — June 1-9 thow, Washington, in the Upper Colum­ total of |2,833.37, which gave them a per North Pacific Union capita of $69.10! bia Conference. Encouraging reports are Idaho ...... June 21-30 coming from all the evangelistic meet­ Montana ...... June 29-July 7 • The evangelistic program is going for­ ings throughout the conference. During Oregon ...... July 19-29 ward in Wisconsin. During April, Henry Upper Columbia ...... June 14-23 the month of April 91 persons were added Washington ...... July 19-29 Uhl reported 2 baptized at Racine, 5 to the churches by baptism or profession were baptized in Milwaukee by C. W. of faith. Pacific Union Guenther, and J. H. Meier baptized 11 in Arizona —...... -.-...... —...—...... ——..... August 2-11 Pacific Union Central California ...... July 19-28 La Crosse. A number of new efforts are Hawaiian Mission planned and will soon open in other parts 9 The three-day bivouac of the Medical Nevada-Utah ...... July 26-August 4 of the conference. Cadet Corps of the Southern and South­ Northern California ...... June 14-23 Southeastern California ...... Regional Meeting eastern California conferences was photo­ Southern California ...... June 21-July 1 • Miss Allena Ray, of Racine, Wisconsin, graphed by Donn Thomas, secretary of the has accepted the invitation of the Lake Pacific Union Conference Press Bureau. Southern Union Region Conference to become their maga­ The film was developed by N.B.C. and Alabama-Mississippi ...... —.——... June 7-16 zine leader. She has had considerable ex­ Florida ...... June 21-July 1 shown on television throughout the south­ Georgia-Cumberland ...... June 14-23 perience with single-copy and subscription ern California area. Kentucky-Tennessee .-.—...... —...... June 7-16 magazine work, and was formerly con­ South Atlantic -...... --...... ——. May 31-June 9 nected with the work in the Northeastern • An evangelistic effort conducted by South Central ...... May 31-June 10 Conference. Robert L. Osborne resulted in the baptism Southwestern Union of 18 on April 27 in the San Fernando, Arkansas-Louisiana ...... --...... June 4-9 Northern Union California church. Oklahoma ...... August 2-11 Southwest Region ...... --..—--.—--...... —..——.. June 7-16 • H. R. Kehney, the South Dakota Con­ • The membership of the Las Vegas, Ne­ Texas -...... —...—-—...... --.--...—...... ——...... June 7-16 vada, church stood at 47 one year ago; Colored Camp Meeting .—— ...... ——...... June 7-16 ference Sabbath school secretary, reports Texico ...... -..—...... ——.. August 10-18 that belated Investment Fund receipts May 1, 1951, the figure had doubled, the have brought the total for the 1950 In­ membership being 94. Of the new mem­ vestment effort up to 35,239.78 in that bers, 32 are the direct result of a 14-week conference. effort conducted last fall by E. R. Priebe Brief Biographies and J. H. Nixon and their wives. • Vernon W. Becker, who has served as A. G. Daniells. Born Sept. 28, 1858; died principal of Campion Academy for sev­ • The Southern California Conference March 22, 1935. eral years, has been chosen as educational has welcomed John W. Osborn, of Walla and Missionary Volunteer secretary of the Walla, Washington, as the new pastor of Northern Union Conference to fill the the Glendale City church. He follows An­ vacancy caused by the election of E. A. drew Fearing, who, in January, became Robertson as educational secretary of the president of the Nevada-Utah Conference. Columbia Union Conference. The Van Nuys church in the same con­ Church Calendar for 1951 ference is anticipating the arrival of G. M. • J. H. Lantry, the Missionary Volunteer Lien, of Minneapolis, to serve as pastor. secretary for the North Dakota Confer­ une 23 Sabbath School Rally Day ence, reports an unusually large investi­ une 30 13th Sabbath (South America) ture service at Beach on April 13. There uly 14 Midsummer Offering uly 28 Educational Day were 37 young people invested in 6 differ­ Camp Meeting Schedule, 1951 uly 28 Elementary Schools Offering ent MV classes. iAug. 18 College of Medical Evangelists Offering Sept. 1 Colporteur Rally Day ------North—Pacific- Union Atlantic Union .._ __...._ "SeptT29--"Sept. 8 """~~~ ~" "~Missions ~ T3tnSSbatfryCmna) Extension Offering Greater New York ...... July 20-28 Oct. 6 Home Foreign Day New York ...... June 29-July 8 Oct. 13 Voice of Prophecy Offering • E. M. Oberg, of the Chehalis, Washing­ Northern New England Oct. 13-20 Message Magazine Campaign ton, district is retiring from full-time labor District Meeting, Lewiston ...... —— June 15, 16 Oct. 27 Temperance Offering District Meeting, West Lebanon ...... June 22, 23 Nov. 3-24 Review Campaign and is assuming lighter responsibilities. Southern New England ...... June 29-July 8 Nov. 10-17 .4. "Week of Prayer Earl K. Mooers, of the Olympia district, is Nov. 17 Week of Sacrifice Offering Canadian Union Nov. 29 Thanksgiving Day assuming the leadership of the Chehalis Dec. 29 13th Sabbath (Inter-America) district. Desmond Cummings, a new minis­ Alberta ...... July 13-21 Beauvallon ...... July 24-29 NOTE.—Unless otherwise indicated the first Sabbath terial intern, will work in the Olympia Peace River ...... -——-—...... ———.-.-...— August 1-5 of each month is Home Missionary Day, and on district. British Columbia ..„...... —...... July 27-August 5 the second Sabbath a mission offering is scheduled.

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Colporteur Work in Eire The shepherding and care of our own amounting to 20 per cent more than in men in the service is equally pressing the preceding year. The Phoenix school, For a long time our publishing leaders upon us. Not one must be forgotten. Pe­ under the leadership of H. Evard, re­ in Great Britain have been endeavoring riodicals and literature generally must be opened with 224 students, a much larger to get our colporteur work started in Ire­ provided. Each and every Seventh-day Ad­ number than the previous year. The lack land. F. Male, of England, some months ventist serviceman can become an active of space at the school is a great handicap. ago responded to an invitation to go to agent of the church, an ambassador for The new dispensary is doing good work that country as a full-time, self-supporting the Lord. As he goes outside the gate his and already has earned an excellent repu­ colporteur. His adventurous, pioneering church will go with him. Such a program tation in the city. spirit is leading him into remarkable ex­ of service will require money. There periences, and the Lord is opening many should be ample funds provided for this doors for the Advent message in Eire. He fine missionary program. It may mean the Souls Won Through Radio is selling a combination of two books, salvation of your son or loved one. We Work in Australia God's Good News and Your Home and have confidence that our people will not L. C. Naden, director of the Voice of Health, to businessmen, seamen, army fail us on June 16. C. L. TORREY. men, and ministers, as well as from door Prophecy in Australia, writes of the souls to door. So far this year he has delivered won through radio contacts in his field. over $600 worth of these books. He is the "We have just broken through into only colporteur at work in all of Eire, and Believers in Naga Hills, Assam radio in New Zealand. We discovered it is most encouraging to -witness his suc­ one station there that is not under gov­ The Naga Hills, in Assam, are still a cess. E. E. FRANKLIN. ernment control, and we have been able very primitive place, where even in to arrange broadcasts of our programs recent years head-hunting among some over this station for the next twelve Recent Missionary Departures of the tribes has not been unknown. months. This makes the sixtieth station Very few of the Nagas are Christians, in our division over which the Voice of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Buck and their two and this great tribal area has scarcely Prophecy programs can be heard regu­ children, Betty Evonne and Donna Jean, been touched by any Christian mission larly each week. A good harvest of souls of Spokane, Washington, sailed from San society. There is a great need to bring continues as a result of the seed sowing Francisco for Manila, May 17, on the the gospel with its Advent emphasis to of these sessions. The Greater Sydney S.S. Philippine Transport. Brother Buck these primitive peoples of the jungle. Conference alone reports 100 souls won will serve as publishing department sec­ F. E. Spiess, president of the Northeast through radio contact during the past retary of the North Philippine Union India Union Mission, is making plans two years. All the local conference presi- Mission. now for one of our mission families to , dents are enthusiastic supporters of our Two nurses of the Washington Sani­ respond to the call of the Nagas. programs and are very pleased with the tarium, Miss Ruth White and Miss Already, even before the foreign mis­ results of the broadcasts." Marian Miller, having accepted appoint­ sionary has gone, word has come that the ment to service in India, sailed from New Advent message has found its way into York for Bombay, May 18, on the S.S. these beautiful hills. Pastor N. O. Dahl- Thrilling Ingathering Steel Director. Miss White is connecting sten writes this interesting word: Experience with the Surat Mission Hospital, and "Last night a lad came in from the The following Ingathering experience Miss Miller with the staff of the Ranchi Naga Hills with several rupees in Sabbath was sent in by the Lake Union: Hospital. W. P. BRADLEY. school offerings. He is not a baptized member of our church. He attended "Sunday morning Orville Tarr and Assam Training School two years ago. John Hinkle were soliciting from house Offering for Serv­ He reports that we have two Sabbath to house on the same street in New icemen, June 16 schools there and many who are keeping Castle, Indiana. Brother Hinkle came to the Sabbath without having seen an Ad­ the home of a woman who was deaf, and The General Conference \ voted at the ventist preacher." tried to tell her what he was doing. He 1951 Spring Council to enter upon a We hope that not many months will had to shout so loudly that the neighbor program of service to our armed forces. pass before our missionary family will be across the street heard what he was doing A series of missionary leaflets, written and able to gain entrance to these hills and and called over that she would give some­ illustrated in a style servicemen under­ help to follow up this interest. thing too. Brother Hinkle told her that stand, is already being prepared for dis­ ROBERT H. PIERSON. Brother Tarr was coming along on that tribution by chaplains and by our own side and would be there in a few minutes. Adventist men in the service. On the When she handed Brother Tarr a $5 gift back page of each of these beautifully Record of Baptisms in he was really pleased, for he had not even _ jUssjtrated. Jeaflets_ _will _appe_ar _ an_ an-__ Mauritius Mission- . given a_ canvass. As he started__away_frc!m . nouncement of a Servicemen's Voice of the house she said, "Wait a minute, my Prophecy Correspondence Course of 20 Charles Monnier, director of the daughter wants to help too." And she lessons, specially adapted to servicemen. Mauritius Mission in the Southern really did! The daughter gave him a We anticipate a large membership in this European Division, reports that last year twenty and three tens! Brother Tarr correspondence course. One Seventh-day 64 persons were baptized in the small walked away from that house with $55 Adventist man recently sent in 40 names island of Mauritius. This is a record. without even saying anything about what of fellow soldiers who desired to join. The increase in tithe is also considerable, he was doing, except "Thank you!"