Adventist Review General Organ of the Seventh-day Adventist Church August 25, 1983

A day at the Sixth Assembly Page 4 Happy single; happy married Page 13 New bookshop succeeds in Poland Page 16

The most moving moment of the opening service of the World Council of Churches' Sixth Assembly was when an African mother handed her baby to Philip A. Potter, WCC general secretary, as a symbol of life. See page 4.

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They should be brief, not exceed- EASTERN AFRICA EDITION ing 250 words, and must carry the writer's others do it." had some attractions—the Editor, Bill Edsell name, address, and telephone number I hope this kind of profile harem was an accepted life (although this number will not be printed). Letters must be legible, preferably typewrit- continues regularly. A plumber style. But to a Jew it would have INTER-AMERICAN EDITIONS ten, and doublespaced. All will be edited to Editor, Wanda Sample meet space and literary requirements, but in California needs to know how presented all kinds of problems Associate Editors, Simone Doleyres, the author's meaning will not be changed. another in Ohio shares his faith and temptations in addition to French; Humberto Rasi, Raul Villanueva, Views expressed in the letters do not Spanish necessarily represent those of the editors or by his work; a physician in being a direct violation of a of the denomination. SOUTH AMERICAN EDITIONS Idaho might just catch the vision divine command (Deut. 7:3, 4). Editor, R. S. Lessa, Portuguese when seeing the witnessing Diet alone would have posed Acting Editor, Rubem M. Scheffel, Where is he? Portuguese example of a fellow medic in almost insurmountable difficul- Editor, Jose Tabuenca, Spanish I found "Life With My Arkansas. CHARLES MITCHELL ties. Nor does it seem likely that CIRCULATION Mother-in-Law" (July 7) inter- Northridge, California the king's couriers would be Manager, Robert S. Smith esting and informative. How- depending on applications. Assistant, L. Rhea Harvey ever, I have two questions after They were commissioned to TO CONTRIBUTORS reading it: What happened to the Not Atlantic City bring in beautiful young vir- Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome, but notification as to acceptance or rejection last son, Francis Edward? 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2 (818) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 Gold

By EDNA MAY OLSEN

Christians measure values by a heavenly standard.

raving respite from the searing heat of the city, we fled C to the Colorado mountains for a long weekend. Inquiring at a drugstore on the main street of an abandoned mining town as to where we might be able to park our Airstream, we were given directions to a campground a couple of miles down the road. Here, the druggist explained, was plenty of room for the various visitors who frequented the area all summer long. We chose a quiet spot by a meandering stream, rejoicing in the cool breezes that, playing over the still-snow-clad mountaintops, brought us the pungent perfume of sagebrush. We drank in deeply the refreshing air, congratulating ourselves on being led to a perfect spot. "Stopping by later in the morning? Maybe we'll have a After a good deal of maneuvering, the camper was in place few flakes to show you." and secure, the windows flung open wide, and the awnings "We're off to church," my husband began, "but maybe extended. While Roger added the finishing touches to our tomorrow." campsite, I set about quietly to prepare our lunch, hating to "Church today?" questioned the man, straightening his miss even for a moment the sound of water tumbling over the back. "It's only Saturday!" rocks a few feet away, mingled with the plaintive cry of birds "We're Seventh-day Adventists," Roger continued, but chiding us for trespassing in their domain. he had lost his audience. The eyes of all four were back on the Later in the afternoon we roamed the riverbank and sluice box, watching for traces of gold. chatted with an old-timer who was panning for gold. Further downstream, despite the icy water, several gold "This is the way I make my living," he told us, showing a seekers were in up to their waists, some using simple gold bag in which were deposited a few tiny nuggets. "Barely pans, others with sluice boxes, while yet another couple, make enough to get by on, but one day I may strike it rich." clad in wet suits, were utilizing a sophisticated hydraulic Nearby stood his ancient Ford station wagon that served pump. both as living and sleeping quarters for him and his venerable We went to worship in a tiny church a few miles down the hound. Marveling that anyone would endure such an road and were later invited out for lunch. existence in the dubious hope of future riches, we left him "Do you ever pan for gold?" I inquired of our host. panning and continued our walk. "No," he said with a grin, "we leave that to the tourists. Upon awaking Sabbath morning, we were somewhat Besides, my Father owns all the gold in these hills. In fact, surprised to discover we had several neighbors, all of whom He's promised that my future home will be of pure gold!" must have arrived during the night. On our prebreakfast walk As the twilight cast long shadows over the distant we passed the camper parked nearest us and noticed the mountains, we returned to our camper. Most of the gold occupants were already hard at work. A homemade sluice seekers were still there, and we paused to greet our box had been erected near the edge of the river. Two young neighbors. men and their mother were running a bucket brigade with soil The man looked up at us and rubbed his back. "Time I from the riverbank, in turn dumping each load on the sluice packed it in," he said; "it's been a long day. Want to get an box. As the father slowly poured river water over the soil, all early start in the morning." four watched diligently for signs of the precious metal. "Did you find much?" my husband asked him. When we approached they paused momentarily, and we "Just a few flakes, that's all," he admitted somewhat asked if they had been successful. sadly. "But maybe tomorrow!" "No luck so far," the man said. "Are you going to be We moved in the direction of our camper, and he called working this spot also?" after us. "You should try it. Remember, gold is the only "No," we chorused, "we're just going for a walk. It's thing that doesn't change and will last forever. I'm going to such a lovely morning." be rich someday!" "So are we," I said to Roger. Then, remembering the city Edna May Olsen is a homemaker living in Colorado Springs, of gold, I added, "As a matter of fact, we're rich Colorado. already!" ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 (819) 3 Report From Vancouver-2 A day at the Sixth Assembly

By THE EDITOR

Delegates to the World Council placards. Advocates of various other causes handed fliers to people passing in and out of the plenary sessions. But the meeting convene under the theme protesters—probably no more than 50 in all—had minimal "Jesus—the Life of the World." effect on the work of the assembly. The program of meetings, which was complex, was well eautiful British Columbia" goes the slogan of their organized and in general ran smoothly. Security at the B tourist department. It kept going through my mind as, plenary hall was tight—not so much because of threats of waking early the first morning because of jet lag, I jogged violence (although the hall once was emptied for this through the silent streets of Vancouver and marveled at the reason), but because of the restricted seating capacity. brilliant manicured lawns and profusion of flowers. Later Without an ID card one could not get in to the plenary that day, as I saw the houses with window boxes ablaze in sessions or, indeed, get in anywhere at the assembly. The color—reminiscent of Europe—and the frequency of flower ID cards themselves were color-coded: delegates in red; shops (seemingly every few blocks), I thought of it again. delegated observers, delegated representatives, guests, and Such floral beauty comes with a price tag, however. advisors in blue; observers and accredited visitors in yellow; Vancouver is a rainy city. I had left the REVIEW office in press in white; and staff and stewards in clear. Day visitors Washington, D.C. , in the midst of a heat wave; I landed in were issued tickets to the plenary hall as space was available. 65° F. (18° C.) rain. My first act was to purchase an I found that my white press card was a key to almost any umbrella—and it proved to be a wise investment. part of the convention. The organizers treated those of us To beautiful British Columbia came Christians and media from the media with courtesy, going out of their way to be personnel from all over the world for the Sixth Assembly of helpful in furnishing facilities and up-to-date information. the World Council of Churches, July 24 to August 10, on the They provided a press briefing each morning to alert us to campus of the University of British Columbia. The 304 significant events of the program for the day, set up a session member churches of the World Council of Churches sent later in the morning to give backgrounds to important issues, some 840 delegates, representing an estimated 440 million of and arranged for at least one press conference every day. the world's Christians. In addition, there were official Two personal touches of the assembly especially observers from the Vatican and other major world religions. impressed me. When I arrived in the press room to register, I Together with invited guests and staff, they numbered about was directed to an ID booth where two Canadian teen-age 1,000. Accredited visitors constituted nearly another 1,000, lasses were taking the photographs. Before long I observed while the press corps was about 800 strong—the Sixth young people at work throughout the campus. In fact, the Assembly was considered a major news event. All told, stewards were all young people-175 volunteers from 82 between 3,000 and 4,000 people were participating in any countries. They gave out material, distributed the common given day of the Sixth Assembly. It was by far the biggest bread at a service in appreciation for the gift of life, helped and most publicized of the assemblies of the World Council confused delegates find directions. They seemed happy, of Churches. pleasant, sincere, fresh-looking. Delegates to the assembly were a colorful and friendly I liked it. Might not our own General Conference sessions group. They came from 97 countries, with 35 percent benefit from this idea? from the Third World. Women (30 percent) and youth (13 percent) were strongly represented. Prior to the Cushions as gifts opening of the council, the latter two groups met for three And the second touch. The press seats in the plenary hall days of discussion of common concerns. were in the balcony, on long, hard benches. But the agony of This was my first time at an assembly. Inevitably the long sessions was relieved by 3,600 cushions placed at gathering of the races of the world and the busy schedule of strategic intervals throughout the auditorium—a thoughtful meetings invited comparisons with a General Conference gift made by women of the churches of Canada. These same session. Some contrasts stood out. Most obvious was the good women sewed canvas tote bags and provided them free abundance and variety of clerical garb—dark-robed Ortho- to all delegates; each one contained a note of welcome from dox nuns; bishops in purple vests; the Romanian leader with the person who made it. scarlet headdress; and crosses, pendants, and rings of office In all, I saw many evidences of Christian care and everywhere. Plus another difference—an abundance of friendship. I met many fine people. cigarette smoke! But I was most pleased to make contact with those Others came to the conference to protest. Carl McIntyre, "special" Christians—those of my Adventist faith. Bert B. leader of the International Council of Churches; Bob Jones, Beach, director of the Public Affairs and Religious Liberty of Bob Jones University; and Ian Paisley, Protestant leader Department of the General Conference, attended the from Northern Ireland, showed up with supporters bearing assembly as a delegated representative (churches that are not

4 (820) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 Clockwise, beginning at upper right: In the opening celebrations at the Pacific Coliseum, 12,000 local Christians joined in a liturgical pageant. Worship services were held in a yellow-and-white-striped "tent of faith" erected on the campus of the University of British Columbia. Harold H. Wilke, who com- pensates admirably for his lack of arms with amazing foot dexterity, autographs his book. part of the World Council of Churches may be invited with Death," and "Life in Its Fullness." They also worked nonvoting status). Neville 0. Matthews, associate in the through eight issues confronting the assembly: Witnessing in Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department of the a Divided World, Taking Steps Toward Unity, Moving General Conference, and Russell Staples, professor of world Toward Participation, Healing and Sharing Life in Commu- mission at Andrews University, had accredited visitor status, nity, Confronting Threats to Peace and Survival, Struggling as did Doug D. Devnich, public affairs and religious liberty for Justice and Human Dignity, Learning in Community, and director of the Canadian Union. The Adventist contingent Communicating With Conviction. was completed by Kenneth Holland, editor of These Times. The delegates' day was a full one. It typically consisted of The Adventist representatives met together from time to three main parts—worship, plenary sessions, and small time. One evening they hosted a dinner of Christian group discussions. fellowship for a small group of leaders of other churches Worship services were held each morning at eight-fifteen. present at the session. We did so to make plain to them that The organizers had pitched a huge yellow-and-white- while we are not part of the WCC and in fact are not in striped tent for the purpose. With a seating capacity of about sympathy with many of its programs, we are happy to sit 3,000, it was usually filled. Many of the participants down at a table with fellow Christians. obviously thought it a novelty, but to Adventists like me it I was glad for this initiative—one taken jointly by the imparted a camp meeting atmosphere. General Conference Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Worship services also were held at 12:30 P.M. and in the department and the Canadian Union. Too often we stand evening. Attendance was lighter because of conflicts with aloof from other Christians, especially those in positions of other meetings. leadership. Only as we extend the hand of warmth and Plenary sessions were held at least once every day, friendship can they learn what sort of people Adventists are. Sundays excepted. As the assembly drew to a close and Now for the format of the meetings of the Sixth Assembly. reports and recommendations from the small groups came in, The main planning centered upon the delegates and plenaries increased to three times daily. Held to 90 minutes advisers to the conference. They worked through a complex in length, they convened in the university's gymnasium. agenda designed to reflect on the theme for Vancouver, The delegates and advisers gathered in various locations "Jesus—the Life of the World," and its subthemes: "Life, a around the university for the small group discussions. During Gift From God," "Life Confronting and Overcoming the first week they prepared responses to the presentations in

ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 5983 (821) 5 Interfaith Dialogue Center; three major Public Forums; a wide range of musical programs; special Canadian Native features; and multicultural events, such as a display of Christian art from young people of the Third World. Sound like a full program? It was. And we haven't mentioned the various committees (on business matters, nominations, credentials, policies, and so on) that were meeting behind the scenes. Nor the special events of a restricted nature such as dinners hosted by Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury, the Lutheran dinner, or the dinner for members of the Reformed communions. Let me take you through one day at the assembly to give you a feel for the specifics of the convention. But first, an atypical day—the opening one, July 24. That Sunday morning about 3,000 delegates and others gathered for worship in the giant tent. The joyful, colorful celebration of life and Jesus Christ, the Word of life, featured spirited singing in several languages, drumming, the music Irish Protestant leader Ian Paisley led an anti-WCC attack. of several Pacific cultures, and prayers in six languages. One of the most moving moments of the service came plenary sessions on the theme and its three subthemes. The when symbols of life from various cultures were brought to second week they divided into eight groups working on one the altar. An African mother brought one—her baby. She of the eight issues before the assembly. handed it to Philip A. Potter, WCC general secretary. He Those of us from the press had access to these discussions. rocked the baby gently in his arms as the choir sang "Jesus The accredited visitors—about 1,000 strong—did not, Christ—the Life of the World" and television cameras however. But they were not left at loose ends—the whined. organizers provided special speakers and discussions for Archbishop Ted Scott, the Anglican primate of Canada them during these periods. Some of these events were also of and moderator of the WCC Central Committee, led in a interest to the news media. ceremony of dedication of the tent, after which the homily In addition, the local planners provided a variety of was given by Pauline Webb, a British lay preacher. programs for the public. They included: the Agora, a display Sunday afternoon the assembly received a colorful area and marketplace of ideas, where almost anyone with a welcome from the host Canadian churches. Leaving the cause to tout could find a place; the Well, a center University of British Columbia campus, the delegates concentrating on women's issues; the Peace and Justice became part of a crowd numbering 15,000 that swelled Center, which brought in a variety of headline speakers; the Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum. For two and a quarter hours

Quotes of note from the Sixth Assembly "Just think for a moment of a traffic jam, everyone sitting "The image which the living God reveals to us is not one alone inside their own tin can, slowly and aggressively of eternal solitude, but one of eternal communion. God is edging their way forward. Frustration and hatred of the love because God is triune. The mystery of the triune God is people in front and the people behind is the normal reaction. the supreme mystery of unity and communion together." This is an image of life in its emptiness in the rich world." —William H. Lazareth, Faith and Order Secretariat, WCC. —Dorothee Soelle, German theologian and poet. "Our communion in the body and blood of Christ, our "Upon all taking part in the Sixth Assembly of the World spiritual sacrifices, the offering of the gift of the Spirit we Council of Churches, I invoke the wisdom, light and peace of have received, demands that we exorcise the heresy of the Holy Spirit. With the words of Saint Paul I say: 'My love magisterial authority and power in the church, and become a be with you all in Christ Jesus' [1 Cor. 16:24]." true priesthood of all believers among whom the gifts and —From a telegram sent by Pope John Paul II. functions are not imposed but mutually accepted, whether "The prevailing mood is no longer one of scientific ordained or lay." triumphalism—`Science can solve all our problems . ' —Philip A. Potter, general secretary, WCC. Instead, the promise of more scientific power over nature "We live in a world pregnant with His coming kingdom. tends to increase the fears and anxieties that many people We share the travail and the labor and the sweat of bringing to entertain about the future." birth that new age of the Son of God, to whom, as the writer —John Francis, British scientist. of the [First] Epistle [of John] puts it, the Spirit, the water, "We hold God's creation in the palm of our hand. This and the blood bear witness." generation will either decide actively to save it, or by passive —Pauline Webb, British lay preacher (from her sermon at complicity destroy it." the opening service of the Sixth Assembly). —Helen M. Caldicott, head of Physicians for Social Change.

6 (822) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 Women had a prominent role at the Assembly: A Russian Orthodox nun in a discussion group at pre-Assembly Women's Meeting. they watched a pageant of Scripture—from Genesis to assembly: "Life Confronting and Overcoming Death." As Revelation. By way of readings, liturgical dance, and music the six speakers presented brief papers, I was almost from a 750-voice choir and a brass-and-percussion ensem- overwhelmed by the stories of suffering, persecution, and ble, they saw the story of Creation, Christ's crucifixion and oppression. A social ethicist from Czechoslovakia spoke of resurrection, and through to the promise of the Holy City. the horrors of war out of an Eastern European memory. It was a Canadian Christian spectacular. Misaeri Kauma, Anglican bishop from Uganda, told of the Now, one day at the assembly. insecurity, poverty, and violence that have wrecked his The first item on each morning's program was worship in country. His paper made a small but favorable reference to the tent at eight-fifteen. However, already at seven-fifteen a the work of Adventists in Uganda. Helen Caldicott, a morning eucharistic service was conducted in the Chapel of pediatrician and mother of three herself, now head of the Epiphany—as it was each day of the conference. Physicians for Social Responsibility, told of the horrors of The worship service, 30 minutes in length, was designed nuclear war and predicted unimaginable destruction by 1990 to enable maximum participation even without language unless the nuclear arms race is halted. We heard also from a interpretation. It featured hymns and songs from different young Bolivian woman, from a Syrian Orthodox woman parts of the world and liturgical readings (one morning describing the siege in west Beirut, and from the former worship service was prepared and led by children). moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Korea. I normally skipped the worship service because a press In the midst of death each speaker affirmed life and hope. briefing was scheduled for the same hour. John Bluck, But that hope was based on Christ's resurrection. I listened in affable communications director of the WCC, highlighted vain for word of the "blessed hope"—His second coming. the day's program and answered questions from media After the plenary, I walked through the rain to the student representatives. On this morning, after he had described the union building, the general headquarters for the assembly. various facilities available to the press—telex, TV, radio, All sorts of other options were available: At that hour there videos—someone pointed out that the only thing lacking in was a discussion on the churches of Asia, a program on the the press room was a Bible! Bluck promised to get one church of the poor, one titled "The Forgotten Women," a immediately. Christian-Moslem dialogue, and another presentation by Dr. As I walked to the auditorium for the 9:00 A.M. plenary Caldicott. session, I saw the crowds streaming from the worship I sat down in the lounge and began to write a letter. The service. Their glad appearance showed they had enjoyed the room was almost full. Some people were reading newspa- experience of worshiping together. pers, a few were snacking, one or two, frazzled from all the I wondered: Could this be the chief attraction for many meetings, were stretched out and asleep. members of the WCC—the joy of interracial fellowship in Members of a string quartet arrived and began to play. Christ? The member churches of the WCC are national in Russell Staples came by, and we compared notes on the character. Unlike Adventists, most Christians have no global progress of the Sixth Assembly. view of the church or interracial worship except as they By now it was 12:30 P.M. I could have gone to worship in become part of an international body such as the WCC. It the tent to hear a Pentecostal speaker from Argentina, seemed to me that the delegates were experiencing—many attended a talk entitled "Disabled Women Speak Out," for the first time—something that Adventists have enjoyed listened to a lunchtime concert, or heard a presentation on for years. "The Hazelnut and the Planet." The plenary that morning was devoted to a subtheme of the Instead I joined the other members of the media at the

ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 (823) 7 press conference with Dr. Philip Potter. With TV cameras recording every gesture, he took a series of questions—some FOR THE YOUNGER SET of them sharply pointed—on policies of the WCC, especially its controversial programs to confront racism, poverty, and injustice. He answered queries on relations with the Roman Catholic Church, charismatics, and Christians in Socialist bloc countries. It was a lively, informative hour. After the press conference, the cafeteria was crowded. A fine-looking gentleman with silver thatch and mustache was The stuck eraser about to get up from his table, and motioned me to take a By MICHAEL M. RABUKA place. He stayed on for a while to chat. I discovered he was from Brazil. "In our country," he said, "we like to tell One day long ago the Mr. Young, the storekeeper. stories." With a sparkle in his eye he related a tale about an teacher and children in a Minutes later she was gal- Englishman and a Frenchman. I replied with one in kind. For country school in Saskatche- loping back to the school- 30 minutes we talked and laughed. wan, Canada, were sud- house with a little package. He had to leave. A tall, stern-faced figure in clerical garb denly aware that something While waiting for Lena's immediately took his place. Crossing himself, he proceeded was wrong with little Nina. return, the schoolroom, with With head down on her desk its 40 or more pupils of all to eat. The language barrier was too great to bridge; we ate in she sobbed as if her heart sizes, was unusually quiet. total silence. would break. Soon the An occasional sob from I rose to leave. Nearby, an Orthodox nun, her meal teacher was leaning over Nina reminded them that all complete, was crossing herself. I walked outside. Some her, asking, "Nina, what is was not well, and it was hard demonstrators with placards were holding a silent protest. A the matter?" to think about lessons. What young man handed me a leaflet attacking the WCC. As soon as she could would happen next? That afternoon for the public there was a concert in the control her sobs Nina As Lena hurried breath- Asian Centre, a forum on the Right to Life, and a film entitled explained that her ear was lessly to the teacher all eyes The Owl and the Raven. itchy and she had tried to watched. Quickly the scratch it with the rubber end teacher opened the package Life in its fullness of her pencil. But the eraser she had given him, and from had stuck in her ear, and the it he took a pair of small But the delegates were on their way back to the plenary more she picked at it, the tweezers. Only the loud hall for the third subtheme—"Life in Its Fullness." farther it had gone in. Now ticking of the big wall clock Dorothee Soelle, poet, author, and professor of systematic she could not hear with that could be heard as the teacher theology at Hamburg University and Union Theological ear. carefully picked out the Seminary, gave the key address. She spoke of life's Tears began again as she eraser. emptiness and humanity's longing for fulfillment. In a finished her story. In sympa- When a big smile spread dramatic moment she read in a letter of a woman in Latin thy her little friends began to across Nina's tear-stained cry too. face the children felt like America who had borne 17 babies. Because of malnutrition After taking a look at the clapping. Now Nina could only three children had lived, and of these only one was a ear and trying to comfort the hear, and everything was all normal child. sobbing child, the teacher right again at Golden Valley A business plenary session followed. Delegates rose to went to his desk. Quietly the School. question the reports given earlier in the week by the children watched as he sat But there was one lesson moderator and the general secretary, and to probe the there writing. In a few none of those children would direction of the WCC. Some were disturbed by the lack of moments he went over to forget after that day. In emphasis on evangelism and theology, and by the extent of Lena, Nina's older sister, health class their teacher told the WCC's involvement in social activism. and asked her to ride her them to remember this prov- That evening a Public Forum featured Festo Kivengere of horse to the country store a erb: "Never put anything in mile away with the note he your ear except your elbow, Uganda, an outspoken bishop, and Alan Boesak, a South had written. and that only after you have African church leader. For those inclined, a film from the Lena rode as fast as she wrapped your coat around U.S.S.R. also was being shown. could and gave the note to it!" At last, at 9:30 P.M., worship in the tent, and the day was over. Not quite. At 10:00 P.M. a program of Guatemalan music was scheduled. Obviously, no one person could take in every event of that day or any day of the session. But by concentrating on "the action"—the plenary sessions, the press conferences, the main discussions—I was able to form clear-cut impressions about the direction being taken by the Sixth Assembly and to suggest an Adventist reaction. In the next article I will share these reflections with readers of the REVIEW. ❑ To be concluded

8 (824) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 Justification and judgment-6 Pre-Advent judgment and John' s judgment

By IVAN T. BLAZEN

As Saviour and Lord, Christ judged A correct understanding of the investigative judgment will not view it as an independent event, something apart from the sin at the cross, justifies the flow of salvation history, for that would make it another track sinner by faith, and judges the of salvation. Such would be a grievous error. Rather, the justified by works. investigative judgment can be properly understood only when it is seen in relation to the final judgment on the one hand and, on the other hand, Christ's judgment on sin at the Summary of the previous article cross leading to His justification of the sinner by faith. By recognizing salvation as a gift from God, do we then abandon the idea Some have wished to say that in Ellen White's depiction of that Christ is to rule as sovereign over us in this earthly life? To do so would distort Paul's intent, for when he stresses the first he by no means negates the the investigative judgment in the book The Great Contro- second. versy (pp. 479-491) she misused the Bible, for she applies The saving act of texts about the final judgment to the investigative judgment. God is at once a gift and a claim upon our Another and better interpretation is possible. Ellen White lives. Jesus is both uses final judgment texts because in her thought and the Saviour and Lord in thought of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the investi- dimensions that in- volve not only eter- gative judgment is an integral part of the final judgment. nity but the present Two major considerations support this view. First, as well. In no sense is it an issue of grace pioneer Seventh-day Adventists, including Ellen White, with added works. foresaw Christ's second advent as very soon. The ending of Both stem from God the investigative judgment and the appearance of the Saviour as an indivisi- ble unit. Forgive- with His reward were on the horizon. In such a setting it was ness and renewal impossible to separate the investigative judgment from the are complementary final judgment, with its divine recompense, which would sides of one pack- age. Dietrich Bon- take place at the coming of Christ. In fact, the period of the hoeffer is right when investigative judgment was a time of special preparation to he says that "the only man who has meet Christ and in peace pass the execution of His just the right to say that decision. They believed in the most intimate continuity he is justified by between the opening of the books and the rendering of the grace alone is the man who has left all decision in the pre-Advent judgment and the execution of the to follow Christ. "— decision, for good or ill, at the Advent judgment. It was all The Cost of Disci- part of one symphony of the judgment, and the finale soon pleship, p. 43 . — Editors. would be reached. In the second place, the investigative judgment and the Adventists believe the Bible teaches a final judgment deal with a basic question common to both: Is S process of judgment that takes place prior to the second the believer's life one of continuing faith, repentance, advent of Christ. Traditionally this judgment has been confession, and obedient service in love? These ter ttts known as the investigative judgment. What is the signifi- summarize the many expressions Ellen White uses in her cance of this pre-Advent judgment? Does it stand in conflict Great Controversy chapter on the investigative judgment to with the scriptural teaching on justification by faith and describe what God expects in the life of those who have judgment according to works? Does it take away the claimed His justification. They are the same in essence as assurance of salvation that justification by faith brings? those in which Scripture represents the divine Judge as Critics of Adventism have said Yes. At times inadequate expecting of His people in the final judgment. The two presentations of the investigative judgment may have judgments are really one, but the one judgment has two suggested that such a "yes" was warranted. phases. It is my contention, however, that the investigative But there is one other element considered in the judgment, rightly understood, is in harmony with justifica- investigative judgment—a primary element—and it corre- tion by faith and judgment according to works. It encom- sponds to the reality of God's manifestation of His passes within itself the ingredients of these two fundamental righteousness at the cross (Rom. 3:21, 24, 25) and His teachings. justification of the sinner by faith {chap. 3:22, 25, 26). According to Adventist thought, when the repentant Ivan T. Blazen is chairman of the Department of New sinner comes to Christ and confesses his faith in the Testament, Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Saviour's atoning sacrifice, pardon is registered next to his Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan. name in the heavenly books (The Great Controversy, p.

ADVENTIST REVIEW AUGUST 25. 1983 (825) 9 483). When the books are opened in the judgment this record perfection takes away the believer's assurance, then it must of forgiveness can be seen. Plainly, the investigative be replied that Scripture makes the same call. 1 Thessaloni- judgment does not deal merely with the sins of mankind but ans 3:13 and 5:23 are sufficient to illustrate the point. But with the forgiveness of Christ. believers can rejoice that no matter how great the stringency Consequently, when the whole package is put together, of God's appeal, "He who calls you is faithful, and he will and justification by faith and future judgment according to do it" (1 Thess. 5:24). And, believers can "give thanks to works are seen as the content of the investigative judgment, it the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures can be stated that there are two questions this judgment forever" (Ps. 106:1) . answers. First, has the sinner sought and received Christ's The relationship of the investigative judgment to justifi- forgiveness of his sins? Second, has this forgiveness brought cation and the final judgment may be represented in its forth good fruit in his life? totality in this way. On the one hand, the investigative To expand the combined content and effect of these two judgment ratifies and confirms the justification procured by questions so fundamentally pertinent to the investigative Christ at the cross and received by believers through faith. judgment, the following questions may be asked in the form On the other hand, the investigative judgment inaugurates of direct address, detailing the concerns of this judgment the final judgment that is consummated when Christ returns toward believers. Has Christ been both your Saviour and the second time and again after the millennium. The initial your Lord? What have you done with the cross of Christ and phase of the final judgment exposes the true relation of the grace revealed therein? Have you affirmed the cross for believers to Christ, and the closing phase rewards believers the whole of your existence or for only part of it? When the in accordance with the true nature of their service for Christ. crucified Christ came to you with His gift and claim, did you Purpose of investigative judgment submit to Him and follow Him, taking up your cross, or did you go your own way—the same way you went before you When Seventh-day Adventists speak of an investigative met Him? Have you let your thoughts and actions be taken judgment, it should not be understood as meaning that God captive to Christ? Or have you—God forbid—separated seeks information He does not have. After all, God is the yourself from His grace by denying with your life what you Author of the books which His judgment opens. The books have professed with your lips? Has your freedom from the stand not for new knowledge that God has yet to acquire but condemnation of God's law led you to a new faithfulness to for old knowledge that God now will expose. So the purpose that law in the strength of Christ's grace? Have Christ's love of the investigative judgment on God's part is not to discover and forgiveness to you become the basis of your forgiveness reality but to unmask it, not to find out the truth but to reveal and love to others? it. Only when the answer to such questions is a fundamental As a result of this process of exposure and disclosure, the Yes can the final revelation of God's forgiveness and mercy redeemed cry: be extended to believers, in accordance with Christ's words: Great and wonderful are thy deeds, "Forgive us our debts [in the future judgment] as we also O Lord God the Almighty! have forgiven our debtors [in this world]" (Matt. 6:12). * Just and true are thy ways, If such an approach of God to man in the investigative O King of the ages! judgment takes away assurance of salvation, as some have Who shall not fear and glorify thy name, 0 Lord? alleged, then the same must be true of the final judgment as For thou alone art holy. well. One can hardly claim to hold to the Biblical view of the All nations shall come and worship thee, final judgment and then raise objection to the appearance of for thy judgments have been revealed (Rev. 15:3, 4). the same issues in the investigative judgment. One cannot As Paul writes: "0 the depth of the riches and wisdom and fairly maintain that God's claim is not contrary to the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and believer's assurance in the final judgment, but that it is how inscrutable his ways! 'For who has known the mind of contrary to the believer's assurance in the investigative the Lord, or who has been his counselor?' Or who has given judgment. The only way this could be done is by viewing the a gift to him that he might be repaid?' For from him and final judgment in terms of a once-saved-always-saved through him and to him are all things. To him be glory for theology. Such a theology and the automatic assurance it ever. Amen" (Rom. 11:33-36). brings obviously would be contrary to the investigative It will be helpful now to turn to certain aspects of the judgment and the assurance it supports—assurance by apostle John's teaching on the judgment. His teaching has continual adherence to Christ. been used at times to make of little or no effect the general However, the Biblical passages on judgment, such as New Testament teaching on the judgment to come and the those adduced in this article, make it abundantly evident that issues involved in that judgment. So what will be said here the once-saved-always-saved theology is indefensible. If this will be relevant both to the pre-Advent and Advent phases of is so, then the issue of the true nature of assurance arises with the final judgment. full force for everyone who confesses that believers "must The fact is, according to John, that the cross is God's all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one judgment on sin (John 12:31-33; 16:11) and that the may receive good or evil, according to what he has done in judgment of the believer, as well as the unbeliever, is in the the body" (2 Cor. 5:10). past. This depends upon acceptance or rejection of the light If we say that the investigative judgment's call to that Christ brings (chap. 3:18-21)--and these truths should be gratefully acknowledged. They contribute significantly to * Bible texts in this article are from the Revised Standard Version. the overall New Testament understanding of judgment.

10 (826) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 However, these Johannine truths must not be allowed to (chap. 5:29). Deny the one reality (hearing and believing), override what Paul and the rest of the New Testament clearly and one necessarily denies the other (having eternal life and teach, that is, that a day of judgment for the world is yet avoiding condemnation). After all, does not John 3:18 teach coming, and even believers will be called to account before that he who believes in Christ is not condemned, but he who the King. In other words, the pasmess of the judgment in does not believe is condemned already? The presence of John should not be utilized to negate the futurity of the "already" in the second half of this verse does not restrict the judgment elsewhere. meaning of this verse to the past. If a person stops However, to speak this way is to speak too simply, for it is believing—and John nowhere denies its possibility—the not the case that the judgment in John is only past and the "already" becomes operative. John 3:36 is applicable: "He judgment elsewhere is only future. Paul, for instance, who believes in the Son has eternal life; he who does not obey teaches a past judgment as well as a future one. This is [believe inj the Son shall not see life." Unless John operates explicitly taught in Romans 8:3, where he says that God sent with a once-saved-always-saved mentality, cessation of His Son and "condemned sin in the flesh." It also is the belief must mean cessation of life. We see that eternal life is obvious implication of justification by faith. Justification by contingent upon continual belief. faith means that the verdict of the future judgment has moved When John 5:24 uses the present perfect tense to picture into the present, initiating Christian existence (but without the transfer from death to life, this does not mean the text is negating the future judgment according to works, as we saw talking about an irrevocable transfer that even unbelief could earlier in this series). not alter. The believer, as a result of transfer, is in a state of John, on the other hand, can speak of a future judgment as life (the significance of the perfect tense of the Greek verb) well as a present one. According to John 12:48: "He who only as long as he keeps on hearing and believing. The text rejects me and does not receive my sayings has a judge; the indeed talks about permanence, but not a permanence word that I have spoken will be his judge on the last day." separated from the permanence of faith. John 5:29 speaks of those who will be raised "to the In like manner, the fact that in John 10:28, 29 Christ's resurrection of judgment." In 1 John 4:17 we read about sheep shall never perish and no one shall snatch them from Christian "confidence for the day of judgment." We see that Christ's or the Father's hand is contingent upon their hearing both Paul and John have an "already/not yet" theology. But the Shepherd's voice and following Him. Nothing suggests in Paul's teaching the "not yet" of the judgment involves that this hearing and following are by necessity (preparing believers, and it can lead to a negative result if Christ has not the way for the concept of the necessity or automatic been honored in the body. How is it with John? Do believers permanency of eternal life) rather than by choice. come into the future judgment, and especially one with the We are to abide in Christ possibility of a negative result? Some have answered this question by an emphatic "No," 3. Other texts in John strongly support the fact that basing their answer particularly upon John 5:24 where Jesus believers can be adversely judged. John 15 urges believers to says: "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my word and abide in Christ and bear fruit. The branch that bears no fruit, believes him who sent me, has eternal life; he does not come the Father "takes away" (verse 2). Or in more dramatic into judgment, but has passed from death to life." While this form: "If a man does not abide in me, he is cast forth as a text contains the wonderful news of an already-accomplished branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown movement from death to eternal life on the part of those who into the fire and burned" (verse 6). hear and believe Jesus' word, several considerations show 4. In 1 John we find several tests for the presence of life: that it would be wrong to use this text to teach that John a. Believing in and confessing Christ (chaps. 2:22; thought believers have no relation to a future judgment. 4:2, 3, 15; 5:9-13). 1. The text does not necessarily say that believers do not b. Abiding in Christ (chap. 2:24, 25, 28). come into judgment in any sense. The Greek noun for c. Keeping God's commandments (chaps. 2:3-5, 17; judgment here sometimes bears the meaning "condemna- 3:21-24; 4:21; 5:2, 3). tion" in John (chaps. 3:19; 5:29; see the same use of the d. Walking as Christ walked (chap. 2:6). Greek verb in 3:17, 18; compare Acts 13:27; Rom. 14:22; e. Doing the right and avoiding sin (chaps. 2:29; 3:6, and 2 Thess. 2:12). 7, 10). Since judgment is the opposite of eternal life in John 5:24, f. Loving one another (chaps. 2:7-11; 3:11-17; 4:7, 8, the text must be saying that the believer does not come into a 11, 16, 17, 20, 21; 5:2, 3). judgment of condemnation, meaning a judgment which g. Not loving the world (chap. 2:15, 16). issues in condemnation. How does the believer avoid such a These are tests of life because, according to John, by their judgment? This brings up the second point. presence or absence it is shown that a person has or does not 2. What makes it possible for the believer to escape a have life. Notice, for example, 1 John 3:14 (which may be judgment of condemnation and come into possession of compared with John 5:24): "We know that we have passed eternal life is that he hears and believes Jesus' word. The out of death unto life, because we love the brethren. He who Greek words for hearing and believing are in the present does not love abides in death." According to 1 John 4:16, tense, hence they refer to a continuous action and not a mere 17, "he who abides in love abides in God, hence has one-time hearing or believing. "confidence for the day of judgment." The implication It is by continually hearing and believing that one seems obvious: He who does not abide in love can have no continually has eternal life and avoids the judgment of confidence for the day of judgment. condemnation that comes upon those who have done evil In light of the larger patterns of Johannine thought, as well

ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 (827) 11 as the more immediate exegetical particulars of John 5:24, WINDOWS ON THE WORD we cannot conclude that for John there is no relationship of the believer to the future judgment. This conclusion is By GEORGE W. ROD strengthened when one makes inquiry of John 5:28, 29, a passage that is related intimately to John 5:24. Are those who have done good here, hence are resurrected to eternal life, those who have only believed—doing good being equivalent to believing in John 5:24? Or are these they who have done good in consequence of believing, the inference being that if faith has not issued in good works, there is only a The Trinity in 1 John resurrection to judgment (condemnation)? Surely the second option is best. More than likely the kind of doing of good Please verify the trans- almost all the early Euro- spoken of in John 5:29 refers, at least in part to loving other lation of 1 John 5:6-8. We pean translations were people as in 1 John 3:14, a text which, like John 5:24, speaks have recently been told made. of passing from death to life. that these verses were not Not finding the text in in the original manuscript, question in any of his manu- In conclusion but added by translators. script sources, Erasmus Is this valid? P.M. omitted it from his first The main considerations of this series now have been Your informers are on Greek edition. When protest presented. We need to be clear: Justification and assurance of target. The question centers arose, he is reported to have salvation are not achieved by human works or by faith plus on 1 John 5:7, which in the told his critics he would human works. Justification and assurance come only by the King James Version reads, insert it if he could be shown all-sufficient work of Jesus Christ as Saviour. "For there are three that bear one Greek manuscript But Christ our Saviour also is our Lord. Only by beholding record in heaven, the Father, including it, whereupon he Him and seeing the inseparable connection between His the Word, and the Holy was confronted shortly with Ghost: and these three are the Dublin manuscript, a saviourhood and lordship can we rightly explain the one." copy of dubious origin, relationship between justification and judgment, faith and Unfortunately, we no scarcely 100 years old in works. As Christ cannot be divided, so these realities that longer possess the autograph Erasmus' time. relate to Him cannot be separated from each other. Through (original manuscript) of this Filled with doubt, but the power of the Spirit faith always leads to fruit in the lives or any other Bible book by committed to be true to his of the justified. which to check the original word, Erasmus included the In His dual office as Saviour and Lord, Christ judged sin at reading. However, we have sentence in his forthcoming the cross, justifies the sinner by faith, and judges the justified copies from later times with third edition (1522) from by works. The cross is the means by which justification is a manuscript ancestry which translators inserted it effected; faith is the means by which justification is accepted; reaching back to that origi- as they worked. The Casi- nal. doro de Reina-de Valera and good works are the means by which justification is The text quoted above is translation into Spanish manifested. Works of righteousness testify to the reality and missing from all our ancient (published 1569, 1602), vitality of justification. Their absence indicates a broken Greek manuscripts of the influenced by the Latin Vul- relation with Jesus. New Testament, and for that gate Version, also included As Saviour, Christ obeyed God for our sake; as Lord, He reason is excluded from the questionable verse. summons us to obey God for His sake. As Saviour, Christ recent Bible translations. It The evidence suggests gave His life for us; as Lord, He bids us live for Him. does appear, however, in that verse seven is not genu- The more deeply one understands the riches of Christ's Latin translations of the New ine, therefore we are wise grace, the more He hears Christ's call to obedience. The Testament made as early as not to rely upon it alone. The the fourth century. Evi- truth of the Trinity is clearly believer heeds the call, however, not as stern obligation but dently our earliest evidence taught in other New Testa- as heartfelt appreciation. In the context of Christ's infinite comes from its quotation by ment passages. Jesus incor- love, obligation ceases to be hard duty and becomes the easy Priscillian, a Spanish writer porated it into the baptismal yoke of Christ. The apostle Paul captured the beautiful condemned as a heretic, who formula of Matthew 28:19. balance in God's salvation when he said: died in A.D. 385. Although they lack the "I am the least of the apostles, unfit to be called an apostle. The Greek New Testa- familiarity and often-felici- . . . But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace ment was first printed in tous expressions of the past, toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder 1514 under direction of the the best of recent transla- than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God Spanish scholar Cardinal tions make available to us which was with me" (1 Cor. 15:9, 10). Ximenes de Cisneros, but its sound scholarship that As a result of your receiving the gift of God's justifying distribution was delayed. undergirds an intelligent Meanwhile, the Dutch trust in the Bible. grace, Paul's words apply to you: "It is my prayer that your scholar Erasmus issued a love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all printed Greek New Testa- discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and ment in 1516 that, along may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with Questions for this feature are with three later editions, welcome. Send questions to the the fruits of righteousness which come through Jesus Christ, became the text from which Editor, ADVENTIST REVIEW. to the glory and praise of God." (Phil. 1:9-11). ❑ Concluded

12 (828) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 SINGLE LIFE

Happy single; happy married Look in your creative hand. You hold the key.

By DEBORAH ANFENSON-VANCE

ere's a three-penny True or False quiz. The questions H are simple. 1. Life is easier when you're single. 2. Life is easier when you're married. 3. Life is easy. Here's the key. The answers are a little complicated: 1. Life is easier when you're single. False. If you are single and answered True, you have (a) a commendable attitude toward singleness, or (b) a regrettable attitude toward marriage. If you are married and answered True, perhaps you also believe that the hot-fudge sundaes are always bigger at the other table. 2. Life is easier when you're married. False. If you are married and answered True, you are probably lucky. If you are married and answered False, you are probably normal. If you are single and answered True, you have some big surprises ahead if you ever decide to get married. 3. Life is easy. False. If you are a person and answered that the solo/duo situation of humankind is always in flux. True, you (a) are fibbing; (b) live on a different planet than Therefore, if you are single, consider this fair warning. the rest of us (where is your planet, and how do we get Things may change. there?); (c) read exceptionally well for a 5-year-old. (Don't After I graduated from college, I lived singly for three and worry; if you wait a few years, life will get tougher. In the a half years. Some days I liked it; some days I didn't. But this meantime, sit back and enjoy Our Little Friend.) ambivalence about my solitary life style had less to do with my singleness itself than with the hesitant self-concept and Vital statistics basic insecurity I experienced. I had to learn to grapple with You may be single, but you are not alone. It is a life on my own and not to be afraid of it. well-established fact that 100 percent of human beings are I did. And the day came that I not only accepted my unwed at some time in their lives. It is also true that sooner or singleness, but was excited by its potential. I saw later about 95 percent of these unwed humans marry. opportunities to form close relationships, travel to new Nevertheless, at any given time, singles comprise more than places, increase my professional abilities, advance my 30 percent of Adventist Church membership. education, and broaden my scope of service. If, however, you are matrimonial at heart but not in status, Later I married, but the person I discovered in my do not despair over these figures. They do not mean that the singleness—the person who could thrive with or without a Seventh-day Adventist Church fosters singleness any more companion—did not waste away. Rather she discovered that than the rest of the world does. But these percentages signify the tools necessary for living happily alone were some of the same tools necessary for living happily together. Deborah Anfenson-Vance is assistant editor of Insight. My own story makes me think of something I once read in

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Love Is a Feeling to Be Learned, by Walter Trobisch: "The During our engagement Rodney and I did the proper thing, task we have to face is the same, whether we are married or enrolling in an Engaged Encounter weekend. I do not single: To live a fulfilled life in spite of many unfulfilled remember much of what we heard there except that the desires. speakers could never emphasize enough the importance of "Love is a feeling to be learned by the single person as working at marriage. Work at communication; work at well. Those who do not marry do not have to give up love, staying in touch with each other's feelings; work at keeping but they have to learn love which gives up—just as those who romance exciting; work at this, work at that. Work, work, are married must learn it. One could even say that the desire work. to be married is the condition for a happy single life. Well, work didn't turn out to be such a bad idea for us "Though the task we have to face is the same, whether we young marrieds. And maybe what's good for two is also are married or single, let us not make the mistake of thinking good for one. Problems crop up in single life. They have to that our present state is permanent. Let us not burden our be worked on; they have to be dealt with. The idea that one hearts with the fear of finality. "—Page 18. can slip through single life, lapping up its benefits without encountering a hard place or two, is a fallacy. To stop a rose Let's take advantages garden from turning into a weed patch, you have to work. I see a number of winning features that accompany the I recall three basic problems I encountered when I was single life style. And most of them revolve around one basic single that occasionally sabotaged my enjoyment of the concept—flexibility. benefits of singleness. They were: 1. Increased mobility. Two years before I married, I 1. Lack of security. Sometimes I missed the sense of loaded my furniture into a U-Haul truck and left my job to go belonging that I assumed married people had. to graduate school. I did not have to wonder how this 2. Faltering self-concept. This was a double-edged decision would affect my husband and children—I had none. sword. I wished I had someone around who from time to time All I needed to know was that this choice was right between would tell me what a marvel I was. And I wondered if not me and God. being married itself meant that I basically wasn't so 2. Financial flexibility. Living on one income is chal- marvelous. lenging, but you can live on it at your own discretion, setting 3. The unchallenged state. I wanted someone around to your own priorities. If you want to eat beans and rice for three tell me how nice I was. But occasionally I needed someone weeks so you can pay someone's tuition, introduce a pine around to tell me how nasty I could be, or how wrong, or how armoire into the household, or buy a Brooks Brothers suit, inflexible. I needed another person to challenge the way I you can do it without affecting anyone else's life. lived. 3. Time flexibility. I have heard married people tell single People who enjoy close, healthy, growing relationships people that single people have more time than married find it easier to counteract or avoid these three pitfalls. But people. This is not true. Everybody has the same number of relationships require commitment, and they require work. hours in a day, regardless of his or her marital situation. My successfully single friends work as hard at their What I had when I was single more than I have now is singleness as my successfully married friends work at their elasticity of schedule. marriages. And they enjoy their work. 4. Risks. Career changes, financial ventures, living or The creative life working in dangerous locations—these may carry conse- quences you would not want to inflict on a spouse or If we go back to the beginning, all the way back to Adam children. A single person has the opportunity to risk more and Eve, we will find that we were created male and female freely and to live more intensely if he or she wants to. in the image of God—the God who instituted marriage and 5. Opportunity for broader relationships. A married lived His earthly life as a single man. person invests (or should invest) much time and emotional But the strongest implication of our Godlikeness concerns energy into fostering deep relationships with spouse and not whether we should live as pairs or as singles. It concerns children. The single person has the opportunity to spend this the way people fashioned after a Creator ought to live—as time and energy developing a broad network of close friends creative beings. Our capacity for creativity implies not only who serve as family. that we may carve sculptures and compose sonatas, but that It's true that married people have mobility and financial we can live winsome, undefeated lives. By virtue of both our flexibility—they can rearrange their schedules; they can take creation and our re-creation, the tools for these living risks. And married people have friends. But none of these masterpieces lie within our reach. One does not need Italian benefits can be as easily or as fully achieved for the married marble and Steinway concert grands to model magnificence. as they can for the single. God started with common garden soil. What gets in the way? Another little quiz After considering the advantages of single life, we have to Here are three more True or False questions: admit that sometimes it more nearly approximates existence 1. Being married can be fulfilling. in a brier patch than life in a bed of roses. But be not 2. Being single can be fulfilling. deceived—marriage too has its rocky ground and weedy 3. I can learn in whatever situation I find myself to live landscapes. People don't have problems because they are creatively and be content. married or single; they have problems because they are The answers? Look in your creative hand. You hold the human. key. ❑

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In 1864 Ellen White wrote of about half its revenues came from Handwriting people who went to church "with a tobacco products in 1982. Much the stupefying quid of tobacco in their same picture exists with other com- on the wall mouths, and the high-colored saliva panies. Cigarette companies now staining their lips and chin, and own or control such nontobacco After a three-century-long grip their foul breath polluting the enterprises as Saks Fifth Avenue, on America the tobacco industry at atmosphere. They leave their poi- Marshall Field, Seven-Up, Jergens last is coming to terms with the sonous filth either upon the floor, or Lotion, Del Monte Foods, Ken- prospect that its halcyon days are in receptacles prepared for the pur- tucky Fried Chicken, and Alpo dog gone. Sales of its traditional prod- pose. "—Spiritual Gifts, vol. 4a, p. food. Investors report, however, ucts are headed downhill. 127. the companies are having difficulty Early English explorers found finding new products that yield SDAs vindicated native Americans smoking pipes profits comparable to those of filled with the dried leaves of an Since 1848, Adventists have bat- tobacco. indigenous weed growing in sunlit tled the use of tobacco. Although While we are not directly con- glades of New World forests. for more than a century we were cerned with the ebb and flow of Before long tobacco was chic in ridiculed as extremists on the sub- corporate fortunes, it is satisfying to Europe, not only with Bohemian ject, now we are vindicated by a find sufficient numbers of people types but, surprisingly, among growing scientific consensus. dropping the use of tobacco to titled aristocrats and well-heeled With the quick rise to popularity influence its manufacturers. The merchants for whom it became a of cigarettes about 60 years ago, Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking and commercial bonanza. What could tobacco became big business. In other health-education efforts of the be better for profit-making than a time half of America's population Adventist Church are at least par- product fawned upon by people of was puffing away, filling corporate tially responsible for the change. privilege and diabolically habit- coffers with what seemed an unend- We are pleased with the idea that forming? ing flow of dollars. millions of former tobacco addicts At first tobacco was smoked in Today the public, alarmed by are enjoying longer, healthier lives. pipes, but in time it came more to warnings of tobacco-related health Whether or not they recognize it, be used in the mouth, where it hazards, is shying away. Two thirds they receive one of the benefits of induced an abundant flow of brown of Americans now avoid tobacco, increased cooperation with God's viscous spittle. It was splattered and the trend away from it con- design. The full extent of His plan everywhere in nineteenth-century tinues. The message is clear in is more grand by far—eternal life in America. Richmond, Durham, and the board Christ Jesus. We are anxious that rooms of New York. they share this ultimate reward, as Now that the tobacco companies well. G. W. R. are facing a projected decline in domestic cigarette sales, the race is on to diversify. In 1964, when the first Surgeon General's report came out, cigarette sales accounted for nearly 100 percent of tobacco com- pany revenues. Today the picture has changed. R. J. Reynolds, for example, whose Salems, Camels, and Winstons make it the largest manufacturer, reports that only

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accepted the offer, arranged for Adventist Church produces. New bookshop in Poland a complete renovation, and They were especially pleased by notified the publishing house, the Adventist emphasis on proves a phenomenal success which promptly sent its van morality and ethics, health, and filled with books to stock the family life. shelves. The health-education depart- By R. E. APPENZELLER Dignitaries at the opening ment was interested in a new ceremonies on May 3 included drug-abuse handbook written the vice-mayor of the city, the by Pastor Dabrowski that is I never dreamed that I ever persistence, officials became deputy director for religious being sold by the thousands would see people waiting in line convinced that Adventists affairs, and the city's director of throughout Poland for use in for hours to buy Seventh-day indeed did have something to health education. Following the schools, clinics, hospitals, and Adventist books—that is, until I offer the residents of their city. opening, a delegation from the police stations. The book is so recently visited Poland and saw They offered a tiny shop (about Adventist church (including the popular that the Government it with my own eyes. six feet by 14 feet-1.8 meters writer) was invited to city hall has offered paper to produce an It alI began some 12 months by 4.3 meters) on a main for a reception hosted by the additional 100,000 copies in before my visit. Erwin Pieszka, pedestrian thoroughfare about vice-mayor and the other offi- order that it may be circulated pastor of the Central church in 100 meters from the central cials who participated in the even more widely. Katowice, told Elder Ray railway station—an ideal loca- grand opening. The atmosphere During the renovation, peo- Dabrowski, manager of the Pol- tion. The shop was small, but so was cordial, and the officials ple discovered that books were ish Publishing House, that there was the monthly rental of only expressed their appreciation for to be sold in the new shop. On was a need for some kind of $10. Pastor Pieszka quickly the fine literature that the the day of the official opening, outlet for Adventist literature in one man began waiting at nine his city. "What we want is a o'clock in the morning so he bookshop," he said. In could be first to get in to make response, Pastor Dabrowski his selection. When the doors extended a challenge: "If you opened at one o'clock, the can make the necessary arrange- people crowded in. During the ments with the city officials, the afternoon as many as 25 people publishing house will set up the lined up outside, waiting their shop"—which was quite a turn to buy books. They repre- challenge, considering that sented all walks of life, includ- there are no Seventh-day ing priests and nuns. Adventist bookshops in Poland, The first day's sales totaled or even in Eastern Europe, for 210,000 zlotys ($2,470). Word that matter. Undaunted, Pastor soon spread through the down- Pieszka accepted the challenge. town area about the new book- Katowice is a city of 360,000 shop, and the second day's sales inhabitants, located in Silesia nearly doubled. At closing time (southern Poland), the heart of on the third day, 70 people who the industrial-mining area and were waiting in line had to be the most densely populated por- turned away. Total sales for the tion of the country. Twenty first two and one-half days religious organizations are amounted to more than one registered officially with the million zlotys ($12,000). To city, including Seventh-day give an idea of the amount of Adventists and Buddhists. Pas- literature involved, the most tor Pieszka spent hours going expensive single book cost 240 from one office to another, zlotys ($2.90). Most books were attempting to convince the city in the neighborhood of 100 fathers that the Adventists zlotys ($1.20), and a Signs of the needed an outlet for their litera- Times magazine costs only 20 ture. zlotys (25 cents). When one After nearly 12 months of compares these prices with the one million zlotys in sales, it is R. E. Appenzeller is publishing Top: Many literature evangelists set up small tables on street easy to see the tremendous director of the Northern Euro- corners or in railway stations. Bottom: When word spread that volume of literature purchased pean Division. the Adventists had opened a bookshop, crowds came to see it. in a very short time.

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Nearly 200 full- and part- ject field and grade level. For time literature evangelists take ease in finding information, the books and magazines to the curriculum library uses its own homes of the people in Poland, card catalog. and approximately 350 students Though usually unnoticed by participated in selling during the the majority of students at summer. Many literature evan- Southwestern, the curriculum gelists set up small tables on library is a collection that Bar- street corners or in railway bie Knight, a senior elemen- stations and sell to the people tary-education major from who crowd around. I watched as Oklahoma City, calls a "store- three students from the semi- house of information." nary sold 25 copies of The Great Controversy and dozens of other small books and maga- zines in just three hours in the central railway station in War- saw. This is absolutely incredi- New church is formed in Pakistan ble when one considers that On April 24 Ivan Jones, manager of the Qasid Publishing House SDA favorites nearly all of the books sold are in Pakistan, laid the foundation stone for the future church in Thoker doctrinal in content and that the Niaz Beg, some five miles from Adventpura, headquarters of the to be included in people buying them know they Pakistan Union. On May 21 nearly 60 adults were baptized as are Adventist books. charter members—a major breakthrough in a land where Adventism new hymnal Adventist books are in such has progressed slowly. When people talk to me about demand in Poland that the pub- A special interest had developed in the area early in 1982. Since the new hymnal, some variation lishing house cannot keep them then, several general meetings and Bible studies have been of the following question usu- in stock. Each literature evan- conducted, with Kingsley Peter, a literature evangelist from ally is asked: "Are you going to gelist has been limited to 200 Lahore, leading out. give us back some of the 'good copies of the new edition of The When a decision was made to build a church, funds for the old songs' we miss from Christ Great Controversy. Fifty thou- acquisition of the plot came in quickly. Now only the raising of the in Song, The Gospel in Song, sand were printed, but in order funds for the church building itself—an amount estimated at Hymns and Tunes, Gospel to supply literature evangelists, $7,500—remains. D. R. L. ASTLEFORD Melodies, and other Adventist the bookshop, and students, Publishing Adviser, Southern Asia Division songbooks?" quotas must be adhered to The new Church Hymnal strictly. The Desire of Ages could print handbills, tracts, curriculum libraries in the State Committee is studying carefully came from the presses around and other materials that the of Texas. all the hymnbooks that belong the middle of May, but the Government presses cannot Begun in conjunction with to our Adventist heritage, even edition was limited to 10,000 schedule. One hundred thou- Southwestern Adventist Col- back to the first little hymnal copies because of the shortage sand dollars would enable them lege ' s teacher-training pro- edited by James White in 1849. of paper. to install a computer typesetter, gram, the curriculum library has Ron Graybill, of the Ellen G. The publishing house has an photographic and platemaking grown since the late 1960s from White Estate, has done signifi- ambitious program for 1983, equipment, and two small 50 to 11,000 volumes (includ- cant research into early Advent- with plans to print 210,000 Czechoslovakian offset presses. ing audiovisuals). ist hymnology and is bringing a books. This will take more Only $50,000 would buy Many education majors, report to the committee regard- paper than has been allocated to enough paper to print 500,000 especially those studying teach- ing which hymns have historical them by the Government, but books in 1984. ing methods, use the curriculum value and could be brought back they are planning in faith. They The doors of opportunity are library as an aid in preparing for our congregations to sing could easily sell 500,000 books open wide in Poland. A chal- classroom demonstrations. The again. if paper were available. The lenge exists that is waiting to be library contains hundreds of From these and other old Polish Publishing House is met. pictures and a large number of hymnbooks, we already have probably the only publishing patterns and models students voted the following: "Faith Is house in Europe where the may use for classroom demon- the Victory," "Give of Your shelves are always nearly bare, TEXAS strations. The library also has Best to the Master," "Great Is since most editions are sold out scores of filmstrips that educa- Thy Faithfulness," "Jesus Is six to eight weeks after produc- SAC curriculum tion majors may check out along All the World to Me," "My tion. with a projector. Faith Has Found a Resting The Polish Government has library is Besides all this, says Marvin Place," and "Open My Eyes, given permission for the estab- Gunter, curriculum librarian, That I May See." Also, we lishment of a Seventh-day considered tops the library also lends materials have chosen to restore "When I Adventist printing plant in Thousands of textbooks, to elementary schools through- Can Read My Title Clear," by Warsaw. Presently the church hundreds of recordings, and out the Southwest for a very Isaac Watts. James White used has an editorial staff and bind- scores of filmstrips, catalogs, small shipping fee. In the to sing this song while marching ery, but printing is done on bulletins, pictures, maps, and library there is a collection of down the center aisle to open his Government presses. By having models, dealing with almost textbooks in the various subject meetings. WAYNE HOOPER its own printing plant the church every imaginable subject, line fields of both elementary and Executive Secretary could meet deadlines for the the shelves of what many con- secondary schools. The books New Church Hymnal monthly Signs of the Times and sider one of the most up-to-date are further subdivided by sub- Committee

ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 (833) 17 group of babies. Recently I there are no institutional walls, All my homeless babies became vividly aware of the no personnel problems, no mas- plight of homeless babies in sive blocks of funds that must be India. Some of these babies are allocated. Between Eleanor and being given a chance in life Louise Lowry, the program's because of the love and care of other supervisor, approximately By MIRIAM WOOD both Indian and expatriate 100 babies are being cared for. workers in the large city of God brought together the Poona, where the Southern Asia right components in the form of Division office is located. the Shreevatsa Agency and the In 1976, Eleanor Hetke felt Seventh-day Adventist Church that an Adventist orphanage (shreevatsa means "children of must be established there. How- God"—what more appropriate ever, she did not know that God name could be found for the had a better plan in mind for work being done?). Shreevatsa these dark-eyed little people. in turn had been inspired by the Here is how it worked out. need seen by two social workers for the abandoned babies who Small beginnings came into the city's government When the Southern Asia hospital. The mortality rate for Division opened a small ten-bed newborns was a heartbreaking hospital on the division grounds 100 percent. Some people said, in March, 1979, pediatrician "These babies are nothing— Jawant Navarange was asked to they should be thrown away. be a consultant. He had wide Let them die." But Shreevatsa contacts in Poona. Next, Mrs. thought otherwise. Hetke was asked to take care of The day after the first baby a tiny, screaming, sick 5- came to the Hetkes, the agency month-old baby girl until a called to say they had two other scheduled adoption in Alaska children who needed special was completed. It never was attention. Could she help? Mrs. completed, much to the joy of Hetke went to the hospital the Hetke family, for by then the intending to bring two babies mite was their baby. home. Instead she brought four! They applied for permission One was a newborn, one 3 to adopt. When the social months old, one 4 months old, worker came for the mandatory and one 6 months old. (Elder home visit and saw the wonder- Hetke gulped a bit when he saw fully loving home, she sug- the "instant family," but he gested hesitantly that perhaps rallied beautifully.) All the the tiny hospital likewise would babies probably would have Dhananjay is a no-longer-homeless baby, thanks to the Salis- take (only temporarily, of died had they not been taken bury Foster Care program, which found foster parents for him. course) a premature baby that from the hospital and put into was just about ready to come out foster homes. Only $75 a month will keep family; they may not survive of the incubator. Until then the Small sum Dhananjay alive . . . and Latha any other way. Someone has to baby had been in the care of . . . and Ramesh . . . and love and care for them. But not Shreevatsa, an agency formed The advantage of the foster- Manisha . and Nalini . . all babies are given this herit- to protect homeless children. care program is that for the But before I tell you about age. Orphanages are overcrowded relatively small sum of $75 per these special babies, let me tell When I visited New Guinea and understaffed and unable to month the babies are fed, you how I feel about babies in and saw the dusty, sick babies give a premature or sick baby clothed, given medical atten- general. Babies are God's along those jungle trails, I the special attention it needs. tion, and have the love and care sweetest gift to the human fam- "adopted" all of them as my But a preemie all by himself that a home environment pro- ily—babies, with their tiny own. I have written about them, in an impersonal hospital? Mrs. vides. There is a small monetary flowerlike hands, their big, given talks about them, sent Hetke thought the baby should reward to the families, which wondering eyes, and the smiles money for them, worried about have a home and expressed her often goes toward educating that break like sunshine across them, and given thanks over and convictions vigorously. The their own children. However, their toothless little mouths. over again for the loving and caseworker replied, "Well, you the babies soon become so dear The very helplessness of a baby caring of Adventists in Austra- find us such a home and we will that the income ceases to be the arouses in me the fiercest of lia and New Zealand who give bring the baby." significant factor for keeping desires to nurture, protect, and their money, their love, and That's exactly how the Salis- the children. When a baby love. Babies deserve to come themselves to care for the little bury Foster Care Program was becomes ill an adoptive par- into a world that eagerly awaits creatures. They even make tiny launched—when tiny Sudha, ent—often both of them—will them with a secure, loving warm jackets to keep the babies weighing only two kilograms go and sit with the child in the comfortable during the cold (4.4 lbs.), came into the home hospital, nurture him or her Miriam Wood is author of the nights of the highlands. of the R. G. Buhlers. The tenderly, then boast of his quick REVIEW column Dear Miriam. Now I must "adopt" another genius of the program is that development, and do every-

18 (834) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 thing possible to bring love into little boy could not live much institutional life, she thought. embarking on this project. the little child's life. Instead of longer. This was sad news to his Then she chose a baby so sick Since the beginning of the Salis- lullabies, soft hymns are sung. former foster mother, but she that the doctor had said it could bury Foster Care Program three When funds run short and a mentioned through her tears her not survive; and finally, a baby other agencies have asked to be baby must go back to Shree- love for Bunty. girl. included in it. vatsa and the orphanage, the Shortly after the visit Dr. An Indian family that could Adoptive homes for these heartache of separation for both Navarange returned to the hos- not bear to see the bright baby tiniest and most helpless of baby and foster parents is pital, went into the room, and boy disposed of in this way took God's children can be found and almost indescribable. softly called, "Bunty?" He did him, not knowing whether they are being found in other coun- In one such case when a little not expect a response, for the could feed everyone, and will- tries. It is a matter of foster 3-month-old baby boy had to be baby had not responded to ing to go without food them- homes having them long returned, he almost immedi- anything for many hours. But selves to make the food stretch. enough to allow Eleanor Hetke, ately contracted such violent the tiny, emaciated form The sick baby died. And the Louise Lowry, Shreevatsa, and diarrhea that his life was in stirred—the little mouth smiled. other baby girl? Who knows? others to work on the problems grave danger. The agency From then on the former foster entailed. The $75 per month Open hearts brought him to the little hospital parents came many miles each buys the very best of loving on the division grounds. Dr. day, traveling by bus and bicy- Although foster parenting is care. It also buys time for Navarange did all he could for cle, to sit and hold Bunty. But new in India, God has opened permanent situations to be the baby, but he became stead- he could not be saved. The blow the hearts and understanding of found for these little lives. ily worse. of separation had been too the Indian believers. They, As I said in the beginning, I During one of the biweekly great. along with expatriate workers, think about my dusty babies in clinics, the former foster A few weeks ago Mrs. Hetke have cared for about 300 babies New Guinea all the time. Now I mother, who lived miles away, was told that three more babies in the four years that the system will think about my homeless came with another baby for its would have to be sent back; has operated. Adoption is a babies in India. But thinking checkup. In the doctor's con- there was no money for their complicated process, and many will not be enough. I have to do versation with her he described care. With a lump in her throat Indian families do not have the all I can for them. the listless condition, the lack of she chose one healthy baby financial resources required. But what I can do will not be response, and the fear that the boy—he had a chance to survive However, many families are enough either.

September 10 offering for mission extension Nestled against the base of a low mountain on a tropical island evangelists were encouraged to contribute the earnings of their in the South Pacific Ocean stands a small academy, which serves biggest day's sales. as a symbol of Adventist education and Adventist life style for The concept gradually became associated with the Mission the people of that area. The students who come to this school Extension Fund, used for special projects in overseas countries. have been attracted by their brothers and sisters and their friends Big Week was discontinued as a fund-raising project many years who have shared with them both the excitement of learning and ago, but today the annual Mission Extension Offering is taken in stories of the mighty power of the Christians' God. churches around the world to meet critical needs in many lands. This simple school, West Irian Academy (at the "end of the These may be evangelistic, educational, publishing, medical, or line" in a remote area in New Guinea, Indonesia), is there today other needs. Beginning this year, two world divisions each year because 20 years ago the people of North America cared enough will benefit from this special offering. to share their nickels and dimes, their quarters and half The Inter-American Division, with more than 720,000 dollars—and their one-, five-, ten-, and 20-dollar bills—that members, has set for its goal during the One Thousand Days of Christian education and the story of Jesus might come to an Reaping the formation of 200 new congregations. This means island thousands of miles away. money is needed for evangelistic programs and church buildings Those who invested money in that school those many years for the new congregations. ago—buying shares in the venture, so to speak—now can rejoice The South American Division, the third-largest in size because the graduates of that school have spread to hundreds of (following the Inter-American and North American divisions), towns and villages the story of Jesus and His power to change also is in critical need of scores of new church homes to people and to prepare them for heaven. How did it happen? accommodate the large number of newly baptized members. People gave to the offering that we call the Mission Extension These two divisions are looking to you and to me to help them Offering. meet these urgent needs. One of the great strengths of the Adventist Church is its cohesiveness, its oneness, its willingness Offering is a source of blessing to share. The Holy Spirit brings about this spirit of unity and The Mission Extension Offering, received annually through- makes us want to help one another. out the world, has been a source of great blessing to hundreds of On September 10 the Mission Extension Offering will be schools, medical units, publishing projects, evangelistic pro- received in North America. The goal is $750,000. Before we jects, and even church building projects. The idea grew out of decide the size of our offering, we should consider prayerfully the Publishing Department's Big Week program of former the needs of these divisions and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us in years, when one week in the year was devoted to the sale of determining how much we should return to God in appreciation Seventh-day Adventist publications not only by literature for all He has done for each of us. May God's love for us and our evangelists but also by church leaders and lay persons, who in love for Him lead us to make an overwhelming response. turn would donate at least half (and, if possible, all) of their W. T. CLARK week's sales earnings to the work of missions. Literature President, Far Eastern Division

ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 (835) 19 BURMA headquarters for the Delta Sec- tion, and leaders hope the con- Review and Comment Record turnout gested facilities at Myaungmya can be used exclusively as the for regional seminary campus. meetings More than 500 church mem- ■ bers attended the meeting at Review and Comment recently reported that archeologists were speculating that they had discovered the Garden of Eden near the Two regional meetings were Bassein. Two couples who were southern edge of the Sea of Galilee. That theory now may come held recently in Burma. The married in conjunction with the under a chilling attack, because scientists have discovered fossils in first, in Bassein, Delta, was meeting celebrated the happy Alaska and the Yukon that indicate a former climate much like that convened on the three-acre event by providing a special of the African savannah. In fact, some have even speculated that it estate that many years ago had dinner for the whole group. might have been the site of the Garden of Eden. What does all of this been the site of the mission Another highlight was the bap- prove? Nothing, really—except that Utopia is elusive, be it in the headquarters, living quarters for tism of 19 people. past or present. several workers, and other The second regional meeting buildings. However, for more was held at Chanthagyi, a small ■ Contrary to what many conservative Christians might think, the than 30 years the army had village in upper Burma. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) does not always pit itself occupied the property, and Attended by more than 1,150 against religion. Officials of the Miami, Florida, community of officials held no hope of getting people, it was the largest meet- Surfside have told former opera and night-club singer Gracie Read it back. Nevertheless, the ing ever held among Adventists that the Star of David, a portrait of Jesus, and the exhortation "If church readily accepted it when in Burma. being born hasn't given you much satisfaction, try being Born the government recently Although Adventism entered Again," all of which are painted on a wall of her house, violate local vacated and handed the entire the region only some 30 years zoning laws. Miss Read says she'll go to jail before she removes estate back to the mission. ago, the work in upper Burma is from her wall what has been an aid in saving some 500 people from Although only the main progressing more rapidly than "certain damnation." Her ACLU legal counsel maintains that the building and several fruit trees in any other section of Burma. First Amendment guarantee of free speech protects the message and remain, a number of the older Furthermore, lay leadership is pictures. "This is her wall," he said. "There's no commercial members present expressed prominent in upper Burma, message. . . . It's a peaceful religious message." their conviction that God must where the meeting was organ- have a special purpose in the ized completely by a committee ■ Georgetown University law professor Stephen Cohen, writing estate being returned, and the of laymen. The total cost of the in the New York Times, stated that the Bob Jones University case members are grateful to the meeting was borne by the local does not mean that all racially discriminatory schools will lose their government for its action. After church members. tax-exempt status. According to Mr. Cohen, by merely making a 30 years of silence, praises to V. RUAL CHHINA statement to the Internal Revenue Service that it does not the Lord ring there once again. Communication Director discriminate—even if it in fact refuses admission to certain races—a The estate now will serve as the Burma Union school can retain its tax-exemption, which infers that Bob Jones University was penalized primarily for admitting the true nature of its policies. Although 111 schools have lost tax-exempt status since 1971, according to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission another 3,500 discriminatory institutions have not. We feel that such an uneven, intermittent application of antidiscrimination laws is in itself a form of discrimination—against honesty. ■ Marriage may have lost some of its glamour, it seems. According to the United States Census Bureau, between 1970 and 1982 the number of unmarried couples living together jumped from 523,000 to 1,863,000. Four out of every 100 households are unmarried cohabitants. Those who do marry are doing so later. The median age is 25.2 for men, 22.5 for women—the oldest median age in almost 90 years. More than 13.7 million children under 18 years of age live with only one parent—compared to 8.2 million in 1970. Some 2.8 million children live with mothers who never have married—a 400 percent increase during the past 12 years. And more than half the men legally obligated to pay alimony or child support default on all or part of their payments. Adventist youth celebrate in Tanzania ■ Don't try to tell 13-year-old Jessica Sams, of Silver Spring, Adventist youth in Tanga, Tanzania, recently celebrated the tenth Maryland, that the world is full of bad people, because she won't anniversary of their Adventist Youth organization. Tanga is located believe you. While en route to the Bahamas with a ballet group, she north of Tanzania's capital city, Dar es Salaam, where the youth inadvertently left her wallet containing $50 in a North Carolina enjoy a year-round climate featuring temperatures of 80° to 100° F. restaurant. Within minutes the restaurant attendant who found the (27° to 38° C.). wallet had phoned Jessica's parents, informing them of her loss and During the One Thousand Days of Reaping, the senior and junior promising to mail to them both the wallet and the money. Her youth, to date, have helped 1,009 people in their preparation for parents in turn wired $50 to the president of the charter airlines on baptism. which she was to fly from Florida. When the money had not arrived All the youth in Tanzania shout slogans. Although most slogans by the time she was due to depart, the company's president are political, the youth pictured above are shouting, "Jesus for me personally gave her the money, choosing to believe the stranger brings success." who had promised him by phone that the money was on its way.

20 (836) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 We've planned this open house to thank you for your support and to show you all the items we have to help you spread God's word. Be sure to see these two new items we have in store for you:

is Anyone Listening?

GEORGE E. VANDEMAN

You know the questions: Why does God Knowing about God has value, but know- allow war and disease, crime and disaster? ing Him—having a personal, positive rela- What is this "cosmic war" which involves tionship with Him—transforms the Chris- everyone personally? How can a false tian into victor. prophet be recognized? The five simple yet practical steps in this Now learn the answers. Then share them witnessing book for 1984 will bring anyone with others. nearer to His kingdom, no matter where he CRY OF A LONELY PLANET, by George stands on the pathway to God. Vandeman, director and speaker of It Is TO KNOW GOD, by Morris Venden, well- Written. known Adventist author and speaker. US$5.95 US$1.50 US$5.95 in packages of 5 NEWS NOTES from the world divisions

CORRESPONDENTS, cized in Segni dei Tempi ■ On May 26, a Voice of Service and the balance was WORLD DIVISIONS—Africa-Indian Ocean, J. B. Kio; Australasian, R. M. Kranz; Eastern ("Signs of the Times") and Prophecy correspondence sent to World Vision. Africa, Bill Edsell; Euro-Africa, Heinz Hopf; Far Eastern, S. Wayne Young; Inter-Ameri- drew a large audience. school was inaugurated in the can, Fred Hernandez; Northern European, Himalayan foothill city Siliguri, H. J. Smit; South American, Assad Bechara; a For the first time the Euro- Canadian Union Southern Asia, A. M. Peterson; Trans- in Nepal. The chief guest, S. K. Africa, Ruby Patterson Africa Division's midyear ses- Mitra, a noted surgeon, ■ Ten students completed the CORRESPONDENTS, sion took place on the campus of expressed his appreciation for four-year Master of Public NORTH AMERICA—UNIONS: Atlantic, the Adventist seminary in Frie- Leon H. Davis; Canadian, P. F. Lemon; the facilities where people could Health course offered through Columbia, Ernest N. Wendth; Lake, Jere densau, in the German Demo- Loma Linda University's Wallack; Mid-America, Halle G. Crowson; become acquainted with the North Pacific, Morten Juberg; Pacific, Shir- cratic Republic, which was the laws of good health and better School of Health and sponsored ley Burton; Southern, George Powell; first missionary school in Conti- Southwestern, Richard W. Bendall living by correspondence by the British Columbia Confer- nental Europe. Some 45 mem- ence. Another three students UNIVERSITIES: Andrews, Andrea Steele; courses. Upon cutting the rib- Lorna Linda, Richard Weismeyer bers of the division committee, bon and declaring the school previously completed the pro- representing different fields of open, he said, "May God bless gram. the European territories, met this school." ■ Euro-Africa May 30 through June 2. One Approximately 400 people day of the session was reserved attended the "Strawberry Tea" ■ The newly constructed for a visit to the city of Witten- sale of home baked goods and Adventist church in Coburg, berg, which was particularly North American handmade items and crafts, West Germany, recently was decorated because of the five- Atlantic Union sponsored by the women's aux- inaugurated, with church and iliary to the Rest Haven Lodge, hundredth anniversary of Mar- ■ The Kenneth Cox evangelis- city authorities present. The Sidney, British Columbia. The tin Luther's birth. tic team recently conducted a residents of a non-Adventist old proceeds of nearly $800 will be five-week Dimensions of people's home in the vicinity, used for the benefit of the Prophecy Crusade in Worces- impressed by an Adventist who Gift-Tuck Shop, and in provid- Southern Asia ter, Massachusetts. The mem- works as caretaker and an ing items for the lodge. One ■ bers and pastors of several Adventist physician who cares When the laymen in the project on which the auxiliary district churches visited for many of them, had contribu- Kabaw valley found that the women are working is the cro- interested persons during the ted DM1050 ($420) to the mission could not afford to hire cheting of covers for cushions meetings and have conducted an building fund. more new graduates from that will be used to make the Burma's Bible seminary, they ongoing follow-up program backs of the institution's ■ The Franco-Belgian Union formed a society of laymen, since the meetings. The meet- wooden dining-room chairs has realized a steady and began giving extra offerings, ings concluded on June 25 with more comfortable for the resi- remarkable growth over the past and hired four workers them- a mass baptism in Worcester's dents. decade—something some of the selves, on a temporary basis. Indian Lake. At that time 107 other European fields have not The workers are stationed at persons were baptized, 13 were experienced. The union reports Mosi, Phulmawi, Kalemyo, rebaptized, and ten were Mid-America Union a net increase of 39 percent over and Thalmual. accepted into church member- ■ Ted W. Borchers, of Monroe, the past decade. ship on profession of faith. Nebraska, still does not know ■ On May 21, field workers who sent in his name in ■ Two Swiss churches that pre- from the east Himalayan region ■ On May 14 a company pre- response to the Seventh-day viously had not sponsored a and lay members from nearby viously known as the Worces- Vacation Bible School experi- churches and companies gath- ter, Massachusetts, Main Street Adventist ad run last October in enced the challenge and satis- ered with members from Mission was organized into a the Reader's Digest. When Adventist Pastor Harry Curl faction of conducting one dur- Gadadhar to take part in the church with 25 members. ing the spring vacation. In the organization of the second Rava came to visit him he brought out ■ his well-worn Bible Readings, Bern and Biel churches, some church. The first Rava church Recently the churches in 40 and 25 children, respec- was organized at Kudalbasti on Brimfield and Quinebaug, which a literature evangelist had tively, most of them from non- October 30, 1982. About 60 Massachusetts, participated in a sold to him several years earlier. Adventist homes, responded. church members worship in the project to help fight world hun- Since he had read it many times and believed what it said, Mr. The parents were invited to the newly built church at Gadadhar. ger. Love Loaves—small loaf- Borchers soon was ready for churches for the final program. shaped containers—were ■ On March 28 and 29 a lay placed on church members' din- baptism. On the afternoon of ■ Adventist Pastor Antonio preacher training course was ner tables as reminders of the July 14 he was baptized in the Caracciolo conducted a public conducted at Chantagyi village, project, and members were stock tank on his farm, a place evangelistic campaign in the a few miles from Kalemyo, in encouraged to contribute coins specifically chosen so that his Florence, Italy, Central Burma. The meeting was at each meal to aid in hunger wife, who suffers from Parkin- Adventist church, dealing wth attended by more than 135 relief. Of the more than $500 son's disease and is confined to the prophecies of Daniel. The laymen, who represented more collected, 60 percent went to the house, could watch the 12 meetings had been publi- than 30 congregations. Seventh-day Adventist World ceremony.

22 (838) ADVENTIST REVIEW, AUGUST 25, 1983 ■ Because of flooding from the Pacific Union vas, will be displayed in the special weeks, each emphasiz- lobbies of Jellico Community ing a specific world issue, such Platte River, the camping pro- ■ gram at Camp Arrowhead, near Volunteers at the White Hospital, Jellico, Tennessee; as endangered species, human Lexington, Nebraska, was re- Memorial Medical Center have Highland Hospital, Portland, rights, the Holocaust, and scheduled to be held at Broken presented the center's presi- Tennessee; and Memorial Hos- nuclear arms. Film and guest Arrow Ranch, Olsburg, Kan- dent, Erwin Remboldt, with a pital, Manchester, Kentucky. speakers help to focus attention sas. There were water problems check for $165,000, given spe- The cost for the appropriate on the subject being studied. All at Broken Arrow Ranch as well, cifically to supply the hospital's displays was about $750 each. programs are free and open to but the camping program went neonatal intensive-care unit the community. ■ A Caring Church Seminar ahead. with infant bassinet warmers and electronic monitors. was conducted for Carolina ■ Southwestern Adventist Col- ■ Conference workers July 31 to lege's Community Lyceum Eleven persons have been ■ baptized at Detroit Lakes, Min- E. Earl Cleveland was the August 3 at Mount Pisgah Acad- Series begins its tenth anniver- nesota, since the congregation featured evening speaker during emy, Candler, North Carolina. sary season in September. This there launched the One Thou- the Arizona camp meeting. Pastors, teachers, literature year's features include such sand Days of Reaping program Singer Marshall Kelly partici- evangelists, departmental direc- artists as Chet Atkins, the Sons by sending Signs Digest to pated during the first weekend, tors, conference office secre- of the Pioneers, and the Chinese everyone on the area's five mail ■ Three members of the El taries, and a group of lay repre- Magic Circus of Taiwan. routes. Mirage, Arizona, church— sentatives took part. although not intentionally lis- ■ Emil Moldrik, associate pas- Loma Linda University North Pacific Union tening to another conversation tor of the Walker Memorial ■ Harris Technical Systems, of ■ Two grants totaling $8,000 in a restaurant one Sunday church, Avon Park, Florida, morning—overheard a couple Lincoln, Nebraska, recently have been given to the Total reports that on April 30, 200 donated $1,200 worth of agri- Health Foundation in Yakima, from Illinois expressing their members of the church distrib- desire to give to some church a culture computer software Washington, as an incentive to uted 600 copies of Cosmic packages to the Loma Linda be matched by their own fund- $5,000 organ from the estate of Conflict to friends and family in the man's parents. Approaching University's Department of ing. The funds were given by the community surrounding the Agriculture. Walla Walla General Hospital the couple as they left the café, church. and the Portland Adventist the Adventists apologized for ■ Memorial funds have been a The Southern College Medical Center, with the stipu- eavesdropping, but said that established for two well-known Alumni Loyalty Fund Drive lation that the foundation raise their church could use the gift. Lorna Linda women. The first is successfully reached its goal of an additional $16,000. In addition to the organ, they a nursing scholarship set up by received linens, clothing, and more than 1,327 donors contri- Carrol S. Small, in memory of e The Walla Walla College other items valued at $1,500. buting a total of $100,000. As a his wife, Lucille Joy Small, result, Business Executives day-care center is a busy place ■ who died May 30. A memorial each weekday morning. Ac- George "Bucky" Weeks, Challenge to Alumni (BECA) Jr., is the new youth director for gift also was established in the cording to center director Gloria will add $43,500 to the total. name of Idalene Anderson, wife Hicinbothom, the facility is a the Southern California Confer- Most of this fund will be used ence, coming from the Florida of former Loma Linda Univer- positive influence for Advent- for student scholarships. The sity president G. T. Anderson, ism in the Walla Walla valley. Conference, where he was asso- Southern College alumni exec- ciate youth director. who died June 9. This gift will For about half the parents whose utive committee salutes every be devoted to work in the children attend, it is the main s A new team of literature member who contributed to this Heritage Room at Loma Linda contact with the church. More evangelists has been organized success. University. than just a center, it is also a for Koreatown, in Greater Los ■ The School of Education has training facility for early child- Angeles. Hyung Mo Chung is Southwestern Union hood education majors from the field supervisor, working received word that following a ■ Walla Walla College. Each day under the auspices of the A Circle K Club, the colle- successful evaluation by the some 30 to 35 children, ranging Southern California Conference giate branch of the Kiwanis California State Commission on from infants to 10-year-olds, publishing director, Mel Lyon. Club, recently was organized at Teacher Credentialing, the spend time at the center. Southwestern Adventist Col- school has been granted contin- ■ The Hollywood Spanish lege, according to Gene Edel- ued approval for all seven cre- ■ When Ken and Wanda Harri- church, organized with 91 bach, the new club's president. dential programs offered. son and their four daughters members in 1976, has grown to A senior secondary education ■ Nearly $50,000 in scholar- purchased five acres of unde- more than 500 members. The major from Kellogg, Minne- ships went to 148 students at the veloped forest land near Port expanding congregation has sota, Gene says the dub, which annual awards assembly held on Angeles, Washington, they ex- bought a larger church. has 35 charter members, was the La Sierra campus this June. pected to build their own home. organized in order to "give Some of the highlights included When Mr. Harrison was laid off Southwestern students another Southern Union $8,000 in eight scholarships from his job, the only employ- avenue for interaction with ■ from the George H. Mayr Foun- ment he could find was in Three hospitals in Tennessee other college and university dation; a single scholarship of Mississippi. In the meantime, and Kentucky have received students, and to provide another $3,000 from the newly estab- Mrs. Harrison and the girls have large prints of the Harry Ander- outlet for service and close lished Landeen, Airey, and decided to continue with their son painting Christ the Healer, cooperation with surrounding Hilde History Scholarship; and plans to build, and many of the for the most part made available communities." Port Angeles church members through the gifts of local philan- $2,000 in four scholarships have joined them in the project. thropists. The 40-by-60-inch a Southwestern Adventist Col- from the Friends of Lorna Linda The family hopes to be in their (one-by-one-and-one-half- lege's Crossroads for the second University, La Sierra, a com- new home shortly. meter) prints, mounted on can- year is sponsoring a series of munity booster club.

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nar, for the Southern European four major Philippine dialects. Less smoke countries, was held at Sagunto The Bibles now are off the rises in Morocco College in Spain. The 65 people presses and have been delivered in attendance represented back- to the 1,000 pastors and lay The Moroccan minister for grounds as diverse as literature preachers in the Philippines social affairs recently invited evangelists, laymen, Bible who will be responsible for their the Adventist Life and Health workers, pastors, and youth distribution. Association to conduct a Five- directors. Day Plan in Rabat. Some 147 Avoiding malpractice suits: Participants at the seminars smokers attended, and 137 suc- Twenty-three patient represent- felt enriched by the experience cessfully quit smoking. The atives and patient-relations stu- and inspired to become more ministry of culture in Rabat dents from 13 Adventist hospi- professional in their approach to granted use of its grand con- tals were sponsored by youth. Leaders and pastors gress hall for the course. Adventist Health Systems at a committed themselves to help The lectures, presented by ten-day intensive training Adventist youth understand Jean Kempf, a regional director course in patient relations, held their role in the church today of the International Commis- recently at Porter Memorial and lead them to active service sion for the Prevention of Alco- Hospital in Denver. Those in for Christ. LEO S. RANZOLIN holism and Drug Abuse; Jean attendance learned how good The Winner: Ribot, the general secretary of patient-relations programs can the Life and Health Association; Personnel needed prevent medical malpractice healthy handouts and Roland Rayard, an Advent- claims as patient representatives ist physician, were attended by in Inter-America work with patients and hospital now a tradition a group of some 20 physicians Among the urgent current personnel to solve health-care This Halloween marks the and psychologists from the regular calls for medical per- problems and to assure patient third consecutive year that The royal court. sonnel in the Inter-American satisfaction. In hospitals where Winner will be available at The minister for social affairs Division are the following: 1. such services have been pro- special bulk rates to hand out to expressed satisfaction with the Director, school of nursing, vided, malpractice insurance trick-or-treaters. More than 9,- results of this pilot program in West Indies College, Jamaica costs have been reduced and the 000 copies of The Winner were Morocco. HEINZ HOPE (to reside in Kingston, Christian character and reputa- purchased by churches, Path- Jamaica). Master's degree in tion of the institution has been finder Clubs, and individuals to nursing is required, preferably enhanced. hand out to trick-or-treaters in Youth Ministry in nursing education. Experi- To new positions: George H. 1982. ence in nursing education also is Crurnley, treasurer of the Lake "Last Halloween came in the Seminars held required. 2. Director of Nursing Union, to be assistant treasurer wake of the Tylenol scare," Service, Adventist Hospital of of the General Conference, says the magazine's editor, in Europe Haiti, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. replacing Eugene M. Stiles, Sherrie Thomas, "so the maga- The General Conference and Experience in ICU is required. recently appointed general man- zines were received especially Euro-Africa Division youth Those interested should con- ager of Pacific Press Publishing gratefully. There's nothing departments, in cooperation tact: Roy F. Williams, General Association; Ronald E. Appen- risky about a child's receiving a with Andrews and Loma Linda Conference of SDA, 6840 East- zeller, formerly publishing positive, upbeat magazine on universities, conducted three ern Avenue NW., Washington, director of the Northern Euro- health." Youth Ministry Seminars in D.C. 20012; telephone (202) pean Division, to be associate The October, 1983, issue of Europe between June 3 and June 722-6659. director of the General Confer- The Winner again features a 30. ence Publishing Department; Halloween theme, and the cover The Adventist seminary in Brian Ball, chairman of the story, "Some Sugar-coated Friedensau, East Germany, was For the record Newbold College theology Facts," deals with sugar's the location for the first semi- 85,000 Bibles: During the department, to be principal of effect on teeth. nar. It was attended by 30 youth past year, concerned Christians Avondale College, in Australia; The following bulk rates for pastors and staff. A multidivi- in North America have sent gifts L. R. Colburn, former mission- the issue include postage: 1-10, sion seminar was held at the to The Quiet Hour radio and ary in the Far East and currently 75 cents each; 11-50, 50 cents Bergheim Retreat in Muh- television ministry for the a pastor in the Mid-America each; more than 51, 35 cents lenrahmed, West Germany, and printing of Bibles to be distrib- Union, to be field secretary of each. To order in time for was attended by 110 pastors, uted during and following a the Far Eastern Division. Halloween, please send check youth directors, and teachers nationwide crusade to be held in Died: H. W. Kibble, Sr., or purchase order before Octo- from the Northern European the Philippines. Totaling $200,- retired pastor and conference ber 1 to Narcotics Education, Division and from the German- 000, these gifts have paid for the president, in an automobile Inc., 6830 Laurel Street NW., speaking countries of the Euro- printing of 50,000 English accident, July 26, Huntsville, Washington, D.C. 20012. Africa Division. The final semi- Bibles and 35,000 Bibles in the Alabama. MERVYN G. HARDINGE

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