Wo, No Hear of Jesus"

rip July 4, 1968 P. Vol. 145 No. 27

REVIEW AND HERALD • GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

When I asked him if he had ever heard of Jesus Christ, he replied, Wo, No Hear of Jesus"

By D. A. ROTH

NESTLED IN THE HEART of Southeast Asia sBattambang, which has only about 40,000 residents. between Thailand and South Vietnam is the king- Not the least of Cambodia's charms is the strik- dom of Cambodia, a round-shaped country of more ing contrast of an age-old culture side by side with than 6 million people. As part of the territory of the twentieth-century modernity. I was struck by the Far Eastern Division this unique nation presents a cleanliness of the cities. I found no garbage stacked challenge to Adventists possibly unparalleled in any in the streets as we see in some Oriental cities. There other part of the world. is a modern sewer system. The streets are wide and Cambodia today is a modern, forward-looking tree-shaded. The people are well-dressed and are state, with fast-developing industries, excellent com- shyly friendly to strangers. munications, and a progressive people. Yet it has The Cambodians are generally a friendly, tradi- never lost touch with its great past. The famous tionalist, and hard-working people. Most of them ruins of a lost civilization, Angkor Wat, remind are employed in agriculture (rice, rubber, palm the twentieth-century population of their religious trees) and fishing. Another of Cambodia's assets, heritage. which provides work for many, is its forest lands, On a recent visit to Cambodia while on a lengthy covering more than 30,000 square miles and provid- itinerary of our division, I learned some interesting ing rare species of wood as well as building timber. facts about this country, some 70,000 square miles in I visited several Cambodian schools. As in other size. Forty per cent of the land is arable, the rest is countries, the youngsters seemed afraid of strangers. deer) forests. The soil is highly fertile. In one school all the first- and second-graders scam- Through Cambodia flows the great Mekong River, pered in fright from the room when they saw me an important means of communication and transportation, three miles wide in places and deep enough to bring ocean- going ships up to Phnom Penh, the capital. Most of the country is flat, not more than ten feet above sea level, especially around the Mekong and Tonle Sap, the nation's great lake. This body of water is unique in that it stores up water during the rainy season, and when the rains stop, the lake and the Mekong River seem to reverse themselves and flow toward the sea. This takes place usually in November, and is the time for the national Water Festival, a celebration of harvest and fertility. The main city is Phnom Penh, 150 miles from Saigon, South Vietnam. Phnom Penh PHOTOS COURTESY Of iHE AWHOR has more than 600,000 inhabitants. The Education in Cambodia is meager, especially in rural areas, though compul- city nearest in size to Phnom Penh is sory for the lower grades. This teacher has few books; his pupils have none. The Cambodians are a friendly, traditionalist, and hard-working people.

appear in the doorway. But the older children seemed curious and crowded around to see this strange sight, an American. Several small boys at Siem Reap who knew a little English told me they were earning money to go to school, so I presumed that they planned to attend a private school. The language used is Khmer, but most people in the cities know French. The influence of colonial France is still strong in the country, and I was de- lighted to be able to have "original" French-fried potatoes, French onion soup, and French bread in traditional sidewalk-cafe fashion. The state religion is Theravade Buddhism. There is only one Seventh-day Adventist church in the entire kingdom, a well-built structure situated on one

of the main streets of the city across the boulevard Cambodia is a land of elephants. Here the author enjoys a ride. from the residence of the chief of state, Prince Noro- dom Sihanouk. Seventh-day Adventist work was started in Cam- tion at Angkor Wat. I found these monuments of a bodia in 1930 when Fred L. Pickett arrived in Phnom past religion to be one of the most fascinating attrac- Penh. When the government denied his request to tions I have seen since coming to the Far Eastern build a church he established a group of 32 Cam- Division. There are 600 different sets of remains bodian members at Tinh Bien in an area that now scattered over a wide area, the best known of which is in South Vietnam. In is Angkor Wat. This architectural "wonder of the January, 1937, Robert world" was constructed at the beginning of the Bentz arrived in Cambodia, twelfth century and is remarkable for its richness of and from 1939 to 1941 oper- sculpture, the vastness of its reconstructed area, and ated a Bible school and a the charm of apsaras, the legendary lady dancers of maternity clinic in the capi- the temple. tal city. During World War Angkor Wat is a vast temple. The frontage is II, in 1941, he went to Sai- about 5,000 feet. The temple contains a maze of gon to direct the French passages, courtyards, rooms, and cloisters, and a Indo-China Mission. profusion of wonderful bas-reliefs measuring more In 1957 the Southeast than a half mile, which present a continuous narra- Asia Union Mission sent tive, including the epic stories of the Ramayana Pastor Ralph Neall, a and the Makabharoto eras. young missionary from New The bas-reliefs here as well as at Bayon, two miles York State, to reopen work away, tell the unique—almost documentary—story of in the kingdom. He opened the life of the people who built, defended, and lived a mission office, organized in these ancient Khmer capitals centuries ago. The A giant tree embraces a wall of an ancient temple. a church, and constructed amazingly precise carving in sandstone shows almost a home. The political situa- every aspect of the life of the period. tion made it necessary for I'll never forget my visit to another temple, Ta him to leave in 1965. He is now president of the Promh, which has been left just as it was found Vietnam Mission, and the territory of his mission years ago. No reconstruction has been done. Great includes Cambodia. There is now no organized trees have sprung out of the stone temple walls. Foot- Adventist work in the country. wide roots have wound around complete buildings. I found that it was rather easy to get a visa for Along the eaves and roofs and plunging down the Cambodia. The kingdom encourages tourists to visit sides of a window to disappear inside a labyrinthine its star attraction, the remnants of the old civiliza- passage, like great serpents weave the roots and

2 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 A branches of trees that started growing three cen- family, I asked him if he had ever heard of Jesus turies ago. It is dark in this area, and the gentle Christ. A cloud passed over his sun-darkened Asian rain that was falling when I visited it added to the face. "No, no hear of Jesus," he replied. His religion eerie feeling I experienced as I walked alone in the was Buddhist, but he knew little or nothing of its dark passages. I heard only the birds and wild mon- teachings. Later I learned that we do have a few keys which live in the jungle. books, a Bible correspondence course, and a few Because of an altered itinerary due to circum- other items in the Cambodian language. It's no stances beyond my control, I was at Angkor Wat on wonder that I consider Cambodia as one of the great the Sabbath day. The nearest Adventist church was challenges of the Far Eastern Division. 300 kilometers away. I did not know the name of As I left Siem Reap and flew into Phnom Penh I any church member in the entire kingdom. Never breathed an emotion-filled prayer, "Lord, before the before had I experienced a day like this. I took my Second Advent, these 6 million people must have a Bible and one other book and walked to one of the chance to hear the story of salvation and Thy love. nearby tumble-down temples. I meditated on the past, But how are we going to do it?" the present, and the future of the work of God in In Phnom Penh, where I stayed overnight before this area. At one time more than one million people catching a Burma Airways DC-6 to Bangkok, I re- lived in the immediate area, now occupied only by called that a faithful colporteur had been selling the bats which use the temple towers as a dormitory. books in this area for a number of years. No doubt All of these people and millions of others in that the thousands of books he left in homes all over Cam- time lived and died without a knowledge of the sav- bodia will have an influence sooner or later. ing power of Christ. Yes, the challenge is great in all parts of the globe, The next day, when I had a chance to talk with not only in Cambodia. A finished work will take the my "cyclo" driver who took me to one of the temples combined efforts of laymen and ministry in giving 25 kilometers away from Angkor Wat, I was jolted the gospel message. From the Far East we ask our back to reality. He knew conversational English membership in all nations to remember Cambodia, quite well. After talking about his work and his a mystic land of charm and challenge.

The Bayon is a temple in Angkor Thom constructed by Jayavaram VII at end of the twelfth century. Topping it is a 45-yard-high tower. REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 3 Preserving the teceeseld Morrhye

By T. R. FLAIZ, M.D.

N AMERICA approximately one precipitated suddenly, unexpectedly, in three marriages ends in di- as in this case. Rather they result I vorce. Divorce, with the result- from years of festering disagreement, ing broken homes, contributes heav- sharp retorts, misinterpretation of ily to the social perplexities of our motives, selfish insistence on the part times. A disproportionately high per- of the spouses upon their own way, centage of our crime statistics, par- gradual drying up of the usual, nat- ticularly those in the teen-age group, ural lines of communication, and, at results from broken homes. They are last, the disappearance of those mani- responsible for much of the malad- festations of affection and romance, a justment and emotional instability vanishing of the cement that helps seen in children and young people. hold people together in the close ties Children who have seen and heard of a happy home. It is this gradual or who have been the victims of fam- development of marital conflict that ily strife are ill prepared to under- accounts for the majority of separa- stand normal family and social relations. tionships. A significant exception to this gen- Statistics alone can convey but a eral rule is the case in which hus- dim understanding of the extent, band or wife becomes enamored of depth, or bitterness of the sorrow or another person, loses his sense of di- heartache of both the parents and tempt on the part of the family to rection and of values, and turns his the children of broken homes. The change his decision had led only to back on marital love and parental re- minister in his study, the physician unfruitful and unpleasant words. sponsibility. With no thought for re- in his office, and the social worker sponsibility to the children, and blind have to deal frequently with the trag- Causes of Failure to the widespread consequences, he edy, the devastation, of disintegrat- Her anguished inquiry was, "Have rushes into an "affair" that holds ing homes. I failed? Am I at fault? What should deep tragedy for the family and in Some time ago a gentle, cultured I have done that I have not done?" the end deep remorse for himself. If woman of perhaps 40 years came to I attempted to talk to the husband the erring party returns to sanity, he my office with her 10- and 12-year- but it was soon clear that he had no finds that serious damage has been old daughters. She was seeking help desire to discuss the matter with any- done, much of it irreparable. in her attempt to stay the cruel hand one. He wanted only his freedom. In In this discussion our interest is not that was destroying their home. Was answer to this woman's inquiry as to in the sordid statistics or the unsavory there possibly some counsel that a whether she might have been at fault details of the experience of divorce. physician could give to help turn in bringing on the impending sepa- We are concerned rather with possi- back the impending tragedy? This ration, I told her that the answer was ble avoidance of those paths that woman told how she had kept an at- Yes; she was in large measure respon- lead to the divorce courts. A study of tractive and immaculate home. Never sible. Her mistake dated back 15 ways to avoid the breakup of the fam- had she knowingly failed to supply years when she consented to marry ily reauires a look at what originally the best food for the family three this handsome, dashing young cava- put that family together. If we can times daily. She had provided an at- lier, who promised so much as to identify the influences that brought mosphere of culture and cheerful- how he would change his ways and these people to the marriage altar ness, faithfully reflected in the two live according to her high Christian perhaps we can check to see what well-mannered daughters. She could ideals. This cultured woman was has become of these factors in the not understand what had happened sure that once the young man she so intervening years. in the mental processes of her hus- much admired came under her wider It may be helpful to list some of band to make him announce casu- influence, she would be able to mold the qualities deliberately, purpose- ally to the family that as of the fol- him into a faithful companion and a fully, and tactfully exhibited by the lowing Sunday he was leaving. His good father. young man or woman in pursuit of mind was fully made up and any at- Most marriage casualties are not a mate. Our prospective bride doubt-

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4 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 less turned on every charm at her command. I. She was careful always to look her best. Her clothing was appropri- ately chosen and in tidy condition. She was careful that her hair looked its best, never stringy and unkempt. 2. She presented the very best in her personality. Smiles came freely and charmingly. She was free with her compliments wherever these were appropriate or merited. In conversation she sought to show interest in those matters or topics of interest to her fiancé. If he was a professional Lae, New Guinea 1:27). Seventh-day Adventists are never man she at least attempted to appear Dear Brethren and Sisters off duty; ours must be a constant witness. intelligent on matters related to his Around the World: Our lives will reveal the pure truths we hold and match the awesome hour in profession. If he was an outdoor man "We are a colony of heaven." Thus which we live. Those with whom we come with an interest in the manly sports James Moffatt interprets the words of in contact during our workaday week, she not only attempted to convince Paul in Philippians 3:20 to the believers in our business, and during our hours of him of her interest in the great out- in Philippi. These words express a great recreation will know, indeed, that we doors but also to the best of her abil- deal of practical theology. Philippi was have been with Jesus—that we belong to ity hiked, climbed, skied, swam, arid a colony of Rome, and Roman fragments "a colony of heaven." played, to the obvious satisfaction of of Rome "out-Romaned the Romans." her fiance. They were fiercely proud of their citizen- A Practical Demonstration 3. Religiously inclined, she was ship. Their customs, their language, their clear and articulate with her fiance People of the world want a practical dress—most everything—were constant re- demonstration of our faith. The greatest as to her religious interests, convic- minders of their source, Rome. They were tions, and practices. She attended test of any religion is not the eminent part of Rome, and neither they nor any- theologians it produces, not the often- church and gave every encourage- one with whom they came in contact were extravagant claims of its enthusiasts, not ment to her fiancé to do likewise. She permitted to forget it. the beauty of its buildings, but rather the discussed and made clear her ideas In writing to the Christian believers transformed lives of its disciples. People of the place of religion in the pro- in Philippi the apostle may be thought want to know whether our religion works. posed new home. of as saying in essence: "You know They have a right to make such a de- 4. This young woman put forward what a Roman colony is like—how the her best foot in making clear her so- mand. They want to see our faith trans- people are never allowed to forget that lated into action. If we claim to be Ad- cial interests and her cultural inter- they belong to Rome. Now you belong ventists, we should live as people expect- ests and standards. If she saw too to a colony of heaven—don't forget it. ing the imminent return of our Lord. much divergence in his refinement Let your deportment under all circum- They have a right to expect practicing and personal habits from her own stances declare you belong to the Lord along with preaching. People believe in ideals she knew this was reason for Jesus Christ. You 'are a colony of what they see more than in what they some serious thoughts as to the con- heaven'!" tinuation of her friendship. hear. Acts and facts carry more weight 5. She put forth special effort to An Adventist Slant than wind and words in our daily witness. "It is our own character and experience show her skills as a homemaker. She The latter part of verse 20 has a definite that determine our influence upon oth- left no doubt as to her ability to pre- Adventist slant. "... from whence we look ers."—The Ministry of Healing, p. 469. pare fine food, her ability to keep the for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ." We reveal our citizenship by what we do home spotless, comfortable, and at- Our belief in the imminency of the Ad- as well as by what we do not do! Our tractive. vent makes this peculiarly applicable to zeal in doing good must be matched by 6. During her courtship contacts Seventh-day Adventists. If Paul were our consistency in being good! she was alert to present her best speaking to us in 1968, he would doubtless Jesus, our Great Exemplar, left us pre- charms, to show herself to her in- say, "Wherever a Seventh-day Adventist cious lessons in applied theology, in prac- tended husband to the very best ad- is, he must never, under any circum- tical godliness. The Master never forgot vantage. stances, forget that he is a Christian—a that He came from heaven. How full of Seventh-day Adventist Christian—a citi- A Husband's Retrospect goodness were Jesus' good deeds. He zen of heaven." spake as never man spake because He God expects much of Seventh-day Ad- The husband, looking back 15 lived as never man lived. His ministry ventists because they claim much. We years or more, might well recall just was power filled because His living was declare we are members of God's rem- what he did to attract his young power filled. He did good because He nant church, that we are a chosen people, woman friend. He also will recall that was good. that we have God's last message to preach when he went to call on her he pre- "We are a colony of heaven." Let us to the world. If this is true, then we have sented his very best charms. never forget it! 1. He was careful and neat in his a high purpose to justify, an exalted dress. He spared no effort in attempt- standard to maintain, for we "are a colony ing to look his best, to have his hair of heaven." Our conduct, our witness, Yours for a faithful daily witness, neatly combed, his shoes polished, must match our citizenship. and his clothes well pressed. "Let your conversation [conduct] be as 2. In conversation he was manly, it becometh the gospel of Christ" (Phil. courteous, and generous. He did not pick up an argument over trivial mat- * From The Bible: A New Translation by James Moffatt. Copyright by James Moffatt 1954. Used ters. He was careful to take an inter- by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, est in matters that were of interest to Incorporated.

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 5 her, and if he was ignorant on such Communication was free and easy. without some tender manifestation of matters or had no interest in them he The greatest delight of each was to your love? Do you give your wife an was a good listener. be in the presence of the other. What unhurried kiss and tell her how you 3. In those courtship days he was was now happening to destroy this enjoyed the good breakfast with her thoughtful, attentive, and always earlier beautiful relationship? The and the family? Do you tell her how courteous. Had the young woman ingredients of the relationship that much you will look forward to get- seen anything but courtesy in his con- brought this couple together are the ting home to her in the evening? You duct she would have had the good ingredients that may serve to rekin- used to do some of these things, why judgment to present him with his dle the flames of love and devotion. not try it again? When you go to exit visa without delay. He was care- If your home is threatened with the your work in the morning, leave with ful to remember occasions calling for tragedy of separation, study your your wife and children the picture of special attention, such as flowers or problem in the light of possibly a true Christian gentleman, one who something special on her birthday. bringing to bear some of the forces is kind, courteous, and cheerful. In little things he anticipated her that brought it together originally. Wives, are you employing your needs or desires and took pleasure in Husbands, are you as thoughtful, charms as you once did? Are you surprising her with little marks of at- as attentive, as gentle as you were? careful always to look your most attention. Has your business, your profession, tractive? Have you permitted the 4. He was patient and did not eas- made such demands upon your time passing of years to dull your sense of ily show irritation. He was generous that there is little left for your wife the importance of personal charm? as far as his circumstances permitted, and children? Alleged success in busi- No, of course, you do not look as never stingy or small in his dealings. ness or in profession at the cost of a young or perhaps as glamorous as you 5. It was his purpose to show at- healthy, happy family life is failure. did 15 years ago. Nor, of course, does tentions that would leave no ques- Many families are falling apart be- your husband. The intelligent wife tion as to his chivalry. He conducted cause of the almost total occupation will, however, make sure that her himself as a gentleman should. of the husband with his work. There husband carries through the day a 6. He was alert to anticipate her are circumstances that may legiti- picture of her at her charming best, desires and even considered it a privi- mately prevent a husband from be- beautiful, loving, and understanding. lege to inconvenience himself in her ing with the family for a time, but Such a picture, inspiring through the service. when this becomes a way of life, the day thoughts of devotion and loyalty, Such were the attitudes of this hus- way is wrong. Again, husbands, are will go far toward holding the love band and this wife 15 years earlier. you neglecting some of the atten- you prize so much. Each was seeking to please the other. tions and courtesies by which you There is more than humor in a Neither hesitated to give expression used to give evidence of your love? cartoon that appeared in a popular to sentiments of love and devotion. Do you leave home in the morning magazine a few years ago. It showed a handsome husband eating a hurried breakfast, waited upon by a half- awake wife in an old bathrobe, her hair disheveled, and generally a The Watysilde Pulpit sorry sight. The second picture was TIPPE of the man arriving at the office tio where a very attractive secretary greeted him with gracious smiles. The "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and raphy, The Burden is Light. She tells the caption read something like this, thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst remarkable story of her conversion and "Don't be surprised if." not tell whence it cometh, and whither it reformation from alcoholism and ciga- The intelligent wife will pass up goeth: so is every one that is born of the rette addiction by the casual reading of a no opportunity to appear at her best Spirit." John 3:8. Gideon Bible one day when time hung and will seek to know what she can Jesus could not have used a more apt heavy on her hands in a hotel room. The do to be most pleasing and attractive figure of the free operation of God's Spirit scripture that gripped her interest was to her husband. She will see her hus- in conversion than this analogy He em- Ezekiel's description of the Temple. A band off to his work in the morning ploys between the mobility of the wind lover of lucid prose, she became entranced supported by a good breakfast to his and the adaptation of the Spirit to human with the pure rhetoric of the prophet, liking. Looking her best she will send need. The wind is an appropriate symbol "There was a man, whose appearance was him away with a good-by kiss and a of those invisible forces that erupt into like the appearance of brass, with a line cheery assurance that she will be hap- the world of sense, sometimes with dra- of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; pily awaiting his return in the eve- matic power or again with gentle wooing and he stood in the gate" (chap. 40:3). ning. even as the breeze that bends the golden And as she read on through the "measur- But some will say, "That is newly- grain into rhythmic patterns. Sometimes ings" she exclaimed, "Can this be in the wed stuff, not applicable 15 years like the hurricane it will not be denied Bible?" It had only been a literary classic later." No, it is some of the stuff of and again it can be turned aside by the as far as she was concerned, but now she which happy marriages are made and closing of a door. was caught in the conviction that "there it is the stuff that helps keep them Likewise, many and varied are the ways was an enlarging, and a winding" that intact, secure, and happy. If these of the movements of God's Spirit in reach- went "still upward" and that it was for things are too much trouble after 15 ing human hearts. And even as "God her. years, 25 years, or 40 years, then you tempers the wind to the shorn lamb," so As one reads the subsequent narrative are not intelligently concerned for He brings "the blind by a way that they of deepening conviction, he is impressed the preservation of your home. know not," leading them in unfamiliar anew with the proverb, "Every word of Sex problems may lead to difficulty paths, making "darkness light" and God is pure" (Prov. 30:5) and that the in some homes. Here again a kindly, "crooked things straight" (Isa. 42:16). "whosoever" invitation of Revelation generous attitude on the part of each An unusual modern instance of the 22:17 can be found even in Ezekiel's pic- toward the other, an attitude pre- electric power of the Spirit is illustrated torial gallery of cherubs and chambers sumably prevailing at the time of in Eugenia Price's spiritual autobiog- and chariots. your marriage, will go far toward

6 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 deepening mutual love and devotion. The apostle Paul showed re- The art of 'iv' markable insight in this matter when, under inspiration he wrote the coun- lSy MTRTAM 'WOOD sel which we find in I Corinthians, chapter 7. This is essentially a practical application of the golden rule DEFINITELY As I swooped down firm view of the married state. Marriage in an area vitally concerned with NOT A LADY upon a drugstore the isn't, you see, to be compared to a top- marital happiness and tranquillity. other day, prepared to coat which can be slipped on and off at Recently roadside signs have pop- spend no more than three precious min- will. Without meaning any disrespect by ularized the motto, "Families that utes making a necessary purchase, I was the term, I think a married man is the pray together stay together." In- brought to a full stop. The reason? A "property" of his wife, just as she is tended basically as an appeal for reg- magazine cover—or, rather, the prom- his "property." Perhaps loud cries of ular church attendance by families, inently displayed title of an article in "Stop, thief!" would bring the picture it may be regarded also as a re- the magazine itself. The periodical is into a bit sharper focus for these female minder of the significance of regular one that I find totally distasteful; as a vultures. For that matter, I've always family worship in the stability of the matter of fact, it has become little more been under the impression that when and family ties. Families that regularly than a literary(?) cesspool, masquerad- if a legal battle develops in these cases, worship together in morning and eye- ing under the guise of what used to be a the court definitely considers the "third ing devotions have their lines of free fairly respected name. Nonetheless, I'd party" just that—a thief. communication open. Free communi- hardly expected the editor to go this far. Back to the article, though. At great cation prevents the buildup of stresses No innocent I, yet I found myself shocked lengths, the participants delineated ways and pressures likely to burst out into to the marrow (if that's the ultimate in whereby they could remain "ladies" in open conflict. The happiest and the shock potential) by this unbelievable these immoral liaisons. Of course they most successful families I know are title: "How to Remain a Lady While had the wrong verb. You can't "remain" regular in their family worship. Dating a Married Man." something which you've so resoundingly Glancing about, I saw that several proved that you aren't. They must, they Inspired Counsel young girls were reading copies of the decided, be patient, understanding, unde- Excellent counsel comes to us in magazine with breathless, avid interest. manding. When asked if any of these the Spirit of Prophecy, pointing the (Drugstores don't like that, but people affairs had culminated in marriage, only way to a happier home. To the hus- do it anyway!) One of the first laws of one girl was able to answer Yes. Shrilly band this advice is pertinent: "Your writing is accuracy, you know; so, since I the others insisted that they hadn't wife's time and strength and happi- felt an urge to attack the author's view- "wanted or expected" marriage. After all, ness are now bound up with yours. point, I purchased the magazine. In the they had a right to "live"—didn't they? . . . Be very careful not to spoil her process, I feel quite certain that I sus- As their motto, I'd suggest "Live and life."—Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 45. To tained a decided rise in blood pressure— Lose." the wife there comes this good coun- a physical development that I really In the living and the losing, though, sel: "Do not give way to discontent couldn't afford. However, I'd be willing they're being as deadly as cobras. De- or moodiness. Do not long for a life to risk hazards far greater than an ele- liberately, willfully, and selfishly, they're of ease and inactivity. Guard con- vated blood pressure if by doing so I shattering love and trust in hitherto stantly against giving way to selfish- might convince just, one young person of happy homes even though they seldom ness."—Ibid. Then to the husband "glvmorized deadliness." succeed in marrying their paramours. In- and wife together there is this per- The format of the article was a sym- nocent children are their victims. Never tinent advice: "Both of you have posium—a symposium of "career girls," mind about the role of the unprincipled strong will power. You may make this each of whom had been "involved" with husbands. We can discuss that phase power a great blessing or a great at least one married man. Several of the another time. Just for the record, though, curse to yourselves and to those with relationships had continued for long pe- I've always observed that an "involve- whom you come in contact. Do not riods of time. Coolly, arrogantly, these ment" requires two people—both of them try to compel each other to do as you young women dissected their situations willing. wish. You cannot do this and retain and philosophies. None of them, as far My reactions to this incredible journal- each other's love. Manifestations of as I could see, felt anything even re- istic debacle are varied. Anger, certainly, self-will destroy the peace and happi- motely resembling remorse or guilt. Not as I'm sure you've already realized. But I ness of the home. Let not your mar- once did the question arise as to whether feel also a sense of overpowering sadness. ried life be one of contention. If you a girl should date a married man. As a Where are those glorious, shining ideals do you will both be unhappy. Be matter of fact, one girl stated flatly that that have kept human beings above the kind in speech and gentle in action, as far as she was concerned there was animal level? Where is honor? If all of giving up your own wishes. Watch "absolutely no difference" between a mar- it is gone, then I, with A. E. Housman, well your words, for they have a ried man and a man who is unmarried. am "a stranger, and afraid, in a world powerful influence for good or for ill. "If a man interests me, I'll date him," I never made." Allow no sharpness to come into she declared. But of course it is not all gone. God your voices. Bring into your united At the risk of being categorized as has promised that always there will be life the fragrance of Christlikeness." abysmally "out of it"—and in this case, some human beings—fewer and fewer, —Ibid., p. 47. the categorization would be a supreme but some—who believe and live their be- Heeding such practical counsel compliment—I'm constrained to point lief in His commandments, and who will may not remove all the rough spots out that a solemn vow "before God and have the ineffable joy of doing so through- in the marriage relationship, but these witnesses" to remain faithful until out eternity. consistently followed it will bring "death us do part" has, throughout his- There are words to describe a girl in- you closer together and make more tory, tended to segregate the married male volved with a married man, however great possible the survival of the home, the from the unmarried. Even if the seventh or however small the involvement. Preda- Christian home, the nearest thing to commandment is discounted by moderns tor, thief, adulteress, are some of them. heaven we are permitted to experi- who are "emancipated" from religion, any But one word which cannot be used is ence on this earth. court in any civilized land takes a rock- "lady." REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 7 LD OF

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goes. Come early each day, and don't report in for the half day Saturday." So the challenge was to show her that I could turn out as much work 0.4)&c;e under this special arrangement as anyone else, and to prove that Sev- By M. CAROL HETZELL enth-day Adventists are good workers. Being the first to arrive on the scene each day made it possible for me to EFORE the denomination rec- were heavy. We were expected to pro- select the stool with the slickest ognized my "sterling" worth duce. wheels, and, since I was the athletic The trick was to take your pack of type, I could really make good time B and called me, I toiled for a on the long stretches. Sometimes I time in the card division of the Li- order cards in one hand, sit down on brary of Congress. It was not the most a stool with well-oiled wheels, and zip walked, but nine hours is a long time challenging work in the world, but it up and down the long aisles to where to be on your feet. did require a certain degree of dex- you thought your cards might be At times, when the full crew was on terity and a definite sense of balance. nestled. Here was where balance and hand, traffic would become a bit con- To begin with, the section of the agility applied. The dexterity was gested, but I somehow managed to card division to which I was assigned mainly digital as you flipped rapidly avoid collisions with other racing through the particular drawer that searchers. I was careful to retain a had what seemed to be acres of cata- friendly courtesy even if someone log cards set out in open drawers on might hide the card you sought. seemed to be asleep over a drawer I long tables, row upon row. All of the Now, this sounds easy, but I had a more than 7 million books and bit more challenge than the rest of was eager to prowl through. A teas- pamphlets in the Library of Congress the searchers. I was a Seventh-day Ad- ing snore would often be the only ventist. hint needed to open the way. In fact, were listed there—in some fashion. most of the searchers were courteous It was my job, along with others, to The first day on the job I had ap- and pleasant to work with—until that discover how. proached my supervisor with the re- day . . . To this section came the orders of quest for Saturdays off. "I'll make it He was new on our card acreage— librarians from all over the world— up any way you suggest," I offered. orders for catalog cards. Each order "Perhaps I could come in an hour dark-haired, intent, unsmiling. I would give information such as au- earlier each day." I was anxious for might better say he thrust himself thor, title, publisher, for each book the job because my money was run- onto the acreage. He had a heavy ac- ning low, and I had been a month cent too—which, of course, no one in which the ordering library was in- minded. But what everyone did mind terested. Our job was to ferret out, in without work. was the sound of that accent in the that seemingly endless battery of For a moment the supervisor eyed two words: "Excuse, please." cards, the matching LC (Library of me speculatively. At that time there Perfectly nice words, you say? Congress) card and jot down on the were dozens of applicants for the job. Yes, they are perfectly respectable order the LC catalog number. Orders Then she smiled. "We'll see how it words. The trouble was that the speaker expected too much of them. I'd he concentrating furiously on find- CREATIVE COOKING ing a card in a particular drawer, my COURTESY, GC MEDICAL DEPARTMENT AND SDA HOSPITAL ASSN. fingers swiftly shuffling through the BLINTZES' 'a eggs cards. Suddenly I'd hear those words: 1 tablespoon flour "Excuse, please." And in the split cup milk teaspoon salt second it took me to glance up, this Filling unusual man would have taken over 1 1/3 cups cream cheese< 2 teaspoons flour the drawer I was working in! Again 2 teaspoons milk or erilain, Pinch of salt and again I watched him thrust ahead Sauce of others all equally eager to turn out 3/4 quart fresh strawbeir 3/4 cuP sugar a good job. 2 teaspoons cornstarch 3 teaspoons lemon juice In the evening, when the elevators Combine eggs, flour, milk, to street level were jammed with peo- and salt. Beat well. Dip 7,4 cup batter onto oiled 6-inch ple panting to be home, the words frying pan (allow 1 teaspoon came out again. Always the first one oil for each blintze). Brown on one side, turn over, but in the elevator, the apologetic pusher do not brown. Place on ab- would, on arrival at street level, ex- sorbent paper to cool. Whip filling ingredients. Put filling tend the magic apology and elbow on browned side of blintze. Fold over and fry on both his way out from the back of the car, sides. Serve hot with straw- leaving a dozen open-mouthed com- berry sauce made by mash- ing half the berries to which muters standing there speechless. you add sugar and cornstarch and cook until clear. For this man the mouthing of po- Add lemon juice and re- liteness met all the requirements. mainder of whole berries; There was no need to adhere to the 8 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 matching principles of common courtesy. He could accomplish his desired end otherwise. I don't know whether he was pro- moted or demoted out of the department in order to clear the air. I only know that after a while he was miss- ing from the searchers corps. Some- times people like this are recom- mended upward in order to rid the current locale of their obnoxious presence. On the surface some might be inclined to conclude therefore that selfishness pays, as indeed it seems to at times. But through the years I have seen enough of men and machines and the machinery of men (and I use the word in a generic sense to include businesswomen), to know that in the long haul genuine thoughtful- ness and courtesy that are bone deep I didn't expect to get that same spine-tingling feeling again. Nevertheless, when pay the richest dividends. our ship entered New York Harbor a few weeks ago, it was there as strong as before. There she stood, shrouded in a veil of mist, with the first rays of dawn shining upon her face—the glorious Statue of Liberty! Seeing her brought to my mind other lands—some with freedom for all, some not so free. Still, I have observed in people of all lands that same pride of country —patriotism. God put this love for native land in every heart. Keeping House However, right now, I am thinking how important it is for parents to define (1 LY Christian patriotism for their children, for there are patriots who believe they can pursue happiness while their neighbors down the street may be denied this same privilege. There are patriots who believe in freedom of speech so long as others do not By CAROLYN E. KEELER express an opinion contrary to their own. There are patriots who believe that standing up for their own country is ULY already! Everything is grow- synonymous with standing up for their own selfish interests. ing vigorously—in the garden This certainly is not the type of patriotism Seventh-day Adventist parents should and in the woods. The steady instill in their children. progress of summer makes you The more I think about the matter, the more convinced I am that Seventh-day jr Adventists really need to say`very little on the subject of patriotism. If they follow think of all the things you wished to the golden rule they will become so immersed in giving of themselves and of their accomplish and haven't, especially time to the betterment of their country and the welfare of others that they will with your life, and of all the dreams carry their allegiance quietly in their hearts. you had of what you were going to do Such an example of Christlike patriotism would ensure a loyalty in our chil- when you finished school. dren to the cause of right and truth—an allegiance that will stay with them A few years ago we lived near a right through the closing events of earth's history. D. E. large truck farm in Pennsylvania, just across the line from New York State. This truck farm had several large strawberry gardens. The Oswayo I notice my canning book recom- the jars and process 21/2 hours in a River flowed at the end of the patch, mends another method. It suggests to hot-water bath or 40 minutes at ten irrigating the berries and producing use from 1 to 2 cups of sugar to each pounds in a pressure canner. Canned beautiful plants, tall and laden with quart of berries, to alternate layers of beets look so beautiful in the jars, luscious Sparkle berries. Since the berries and sugar in a wide pan, and but it is rather a messy job to process owners could not get enough pickers, to let the berries stand two hours be- them. they allowed people to come in and fore simmering them about five min- You may have spinach or chard in pick and pay a stipulated price per utes, without stirring. After standing your garden for greens. Red root is quart. During the height of the sea- overnight covered, the berries are remarkably tasty as a green, as is the son there were pickers almost any placed cold in hot jars, sealed, and lowly pigweed. For dinner, Lima hour of the day, but the group was processed 15 minutes in a hot-water beans, a baked potato, and some of the largest in the evening. Then the bath. I haven't tried this method. these greens are nourishing and tasty. picking of those large berries was a Since our strawberries are everbear- Have you tried shampooing your delightful task. One year we picked ing we have them most of the sum- upholstered pieces? There are kits for some 30 quarts, and not having a mer. We have one row of Sparkles. this purpose. You make thick suds freezer, I canned most of them. Probably by now you have small and apply only the foamy part to the In the process of canning, after beets in your garden and want to can furniture, being careful not to get the sorting the berries, I washed them some of these for next winter's use. furniture wet. With a soft brush or a gently about two quarts at a time, lift- Wash them thoroughly and leave the sponge you use a circular motion. Go ing them up and down in the water, root and about two inches of the stem. over a small area at a time, overlap and then placing them in a colander Put the beets in a pan and boil until as you proceed, and wipe with a bath to drain. After capping them I rinsed the skins slip off easily. After remov- towel. When through, put the cleaned them gently once more, put them in ing the skins, roots, and stems, put the item by a breezy open window or let hot sterilized jars, filled the jars with beets in a hot jar, pour on boiling the electric fan blow on it. Of course, hot syrup, sealed them, and then proc- water, and place a teaspoonful of salt the first step is to vacuum the furni- essed them in a hot-water bath for 20 in each quart jar. The beets can be ture thoroughly. I would put the cart minutes. cubed or sliced or put in whole. Seal before the horse! REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 9 necessary to discover who the Holy Spirit is and in what way He touches our lives. Probably everyone exposed even slightly to the Scriptures is aware that the Bible speaks of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (cf. Matt. 28:19). At the same time the Bible says "there is but one God" (Mark 12:32; cf. The Sin James 2:19). Some have wondered whether this is Biblical double talk. "How," they ask, "is it possible for three to be one?" The United States Govern- ment has three branches—executive, SUPREME legislative, and judicial—and yet these three comprise but one government. Though each has its separate work and sphere of influence, it takes a combination of all three to make up By W. A. FAGAL the Government. This may help us understand the Godhead in heaven. Probably everyone with any scriptural background knows that God the Father is the ruler of all (1 Cor. 15:28; cf. 8:6). S THERE a sin that is unpardon- Answering this unfortunate man is Similarly, it is well known that God able? If so, what is it? a happy privilege, for I can positively the Son created all things and died On my desk is a letter from an assure him that, sordid though his for us on Calvary (Col. 1:16; 1 Cor. I 15:3). But few know much about the inmate of one of America's largest life might have been, he has not com- prisons. Evidently a person of educa- mitted the unpardonable sin. work of God the Holy Spirit. Hap- tion and ability, he wrote, in part: What makes me so sure? One thing pily, the Bible is not silent on this "For the past two years I have been reveals it clearly—his deep concern important theme. incarcerated and am facing 25 life over his eternal destiny, his sincere Just before Jesus ascended He sentences for breaking the eighth desire to be right with God. promised to send the Holy Spirit to commandment. One evening I was The one distinguishing mark of a earth. Referring to the Spirit as "the so disgusted with myself and the life man guilty of the unpardonable sin Comforter," He added, "And when I was living that I fell on my knees is a total disregard, a complete lack of he is come, he will reprove the world by the side of my bed and in agony concern, regarding spiritual things. of sin, and of righteousness, and of and utter desperation, I called aloud Of course, not everyone who is dis- judgment" ( John 16:8). to God, asking Him to release me interested in matters of the Spirit has The Work of the Holy Spirit from Satan's tight grip. Two nights committed the unpardonable sin. later, as if in answer to my fervent Rather than attempting to judge the Let us consider three conclusions plea, I was apprehended. spiritual state of others, we should that we can logically draw from this "Since I insisted on a full confes- each examine ourselves and our own scriptural reference: sion, my lawyer could not help me. attitudes toward spiritual things. And 1. The Holy Spirit is to reprove or To this day, he and many others do recognizing the awful and eternal convict of sin. Here is an illustration not understand why I admitted ev- consequences of rejecting God's of how that works: Those who cruci- erything. With the state having little Spirit, we should determine rightly fied Jesus probably did not fully re- or no evidence, I am here due solely to relate ourselves to God. alize what they were doing. It is even to my own confession. Jesus called the unpardonable sin possible that some actually thought "Since then I have studied His a sin against the Holy Spirit: "Where- they were doing the will of God in Word. Until I read about the un- fore I say unto you, All manner of putting Him to death. After all, the pardonable sin in your fine course, I sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven priests and rulers approved and en- thought that I had turned the right unto men: but the blasphemy against couraged the crucifixion. However, way and that He had forgiven my the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven when Peter preached on the day of sins. But now I find myself in great unto men. And whosoever speaketh Pentecost, his hearers "were pricked fear of having committed this sin for a word against the Son of man, it in their heart, and said unto Peter which there is no forgiveness. shall be forgiven him: but whosoever and to the rest of the apostles, Men "Am I beyond the promises of speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it and brethren, what shall we do?" Christ, or do they still include me? shall not be forgiven him, neither in (Acts 2:37). Peter then led them Through my folly and sin have I lost this world, neither in the world to through repentance to conversion. the promise and right to eternal life? come" (Matt. 12:31, 32). What had brought conviction of sin I am praying over this problem Evidently, then, the unpardonable to their hearts? The Holy Spirit. Sim- which to me has more importance sin has to do with rejecting the Holy ilarly, this member of the Deity than my release from this institution. Spirit. brings reproof and conviction of sin "If you will show me that some- But how is this possible? Some may to hearts today. how I can still qualify to enter convincingly argue that having 2. The Holy Spirit is to convince through the narrow gate I will be hardly even heard of the Holy Spirit, of righteousness. On the Damascus grateful beyond description for His they could not possibly have rejected road Saul of Tarsus became certain great love and forgiveness for such a Him. In order correctly to compre- of the righteousness of Jesus Christ sinner as I." hend the unpardonable sin it will be and the rightness of following Him. 10 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 Earlier, at Golgotha, the centurion thing you knew to be wrong? How ment to come, he feels no need of a had become similarly convinced. Just did you feel about it later? Pretty Saviour from sin. He has no desire to so, when we see truth in a new light low, dejected, even disgusted with change his life in any way. God's re- and become convinced of its right- yourself? You have then heard the jected Spirit has been withdrawn, ness, we, too, have come under the voice of God's Spirit bringing convic- never to return. He is now joined to influence of God's Spirit. tion of sin, awareness of right, and his idols of sin like Ephraim of old 3. The Holy Spirit warns of com- warning of a coming judgment. and God will "let him alone"—until ing judgment. God's Spirit makes Now let us probe a little deeper. the judgment! men willing to change their lives in How did you react to God's Spirit The unpardonable sin is no spe- preparation for a coming day of judg- speaking conviction to your heart? cific sin such as murder or adultery. ment. If ever you have felt a desire Positively, by confessing your sin and Rather, it is the sin of rejecting the to be done with your sins and live a requesting divine aid to resist success- appeals of God's Spirit to live right. good life in preparation for the end fully in the future? Or negatively, by Any sin that a man is unwilling to of all things, this has been the work throttling the inner voice? give up can lead ultimately to the of God's Spirit. unpardonable sin. Other verses of Scripture reveal Divine Warning Are you clinging to anything just two more areas in which the Holy Here is a divine warning that each now that separates you from God? Spirit works for our salvation. of us should take seriously: "Grieve Remember, "There's a line that is 4. The Holy Spirit guides men not the holy Spirit of God, whereby drawn by rejecting our Lord, Where into a knowledge of truth. Jesus ye are sealed unto the day of redemp- the call of His Spirit is lost, And you promised, "When he, the Spirit of tion" (Eph. 4:30). The Scriptures hurry along with the pleasure-mad truth, is come, he will guide you into also command, "Quench not the throng—Have you counted, have you all truth" (John 16:13). How much Spirit" (1 Thess. 5:19). "Grieve not," counted the cost?" all of us need to be kept from error "quench not" are thought-provoking But someone may be thinking, "I and led into truth in these mixed-up words. have tried to live right and have days! This is the work of God's Spirit. fallen again and again. I do not seem Isaiah said, "Thine ears shall hear a to have the strength to obey God and word behind thee, saying, This is the keep His commandments." way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to One of my favorite writers has ex- the right hand, and when ye turn to pressed it this way: "Many are in- the left" (Isa. 30:21). quiring, 'How am I to make the sur- 5. The Holy Spirit appeals to sin- render of myself to God?' You desire ners to accept Jesus as Saviour and to give yourself to Him, but you are Lord. Christ said, "No man can come weak in moral power, in slavery to to me, except the Father which hath doubt, and controlled by the habits sent me draw him" (John 6:44). The of your life of sin. Your promises and last book of the Bible declares: "And resolutions are like ropes of sand. . . . the Spirit and the bride say, Come. As a compass responds to magnetic fields, What you need to understand is the And let him that heareth say, Come. man's conscience responds to the Spirit. true force of the will. This is the And let him that is athirst come. And governing power in the nature of whosoever will, let him take the wa- man, the power of decision, or of ter of life freely" (Rev. 22:17). Evi- If stifled, the inner voice will prob- choice. Everything depends on the dently the Father draws sinners to ably not be as clear, accusing, or in- right action of the will. The power Christ, but it is the Holy Spirit who, sistent next time. In time that sin of choice God has given to men; it is along with the Saviour, appeals to will actually not seem so wrong and theirs to exercise. You cannot change hearts to accept Christ's sacrifice on heinous to us. Our heart's compass your heart, you cannot of yourself Calvary as being for them. needle is now being deflected from give to God its affections; but you As a ship's compass is influenced its normal position; in time it could can choose to serve Him. You can by the earth's magnetic field, so a tell us that wrong is actually right! give Him your will; He will then man's conscience should receive di- While the Holy Spirit will return work in you to will and to do accord- rection from the Holy Spirit so that again and again with gentle warning to His good pleasure. Thus your it, too, may guide, warn, and point ings and earnest appeals, in time, too whole nature will be brought under the direction to go. long rejected, He will cease to be the control of the Spirit of Christ; But as it is possible to deflect a heard. Long ago God stated, "My your affections will be centered upon compass with a magnet, so it is possi- spirit shall not always strive with Him, your thoughts will be in har- ble deliberately to deflect one's con- man" (Gen. 6:3). God's Spirit will mony with Him. . . . science. Or to use a Bible simile, it is finally be withdrawn from anyone "Through the right exercise of the possible for one's conscience to be- who rejects His calls to the good life. will, an entire change may be made come insensitive through its having When this happens, that person has in your life. By yielding up your will been "seared with a hot iron" (1 committed the sin against the Holy to Christ, you ally yourself with the Tim. 4:2). Spirit, the unpardonable sin. power that is above all principalities According to the Scriptures, the God once said of a certain people, and powers. You will have strength unpardonable sin is committed by "Ephraim is joined to idols: let him from above to hold you steadfast, and the man who "speaketh against the alone" (Hosea 4:17). It is a fearful thus through constant surrender to Holy Ghost" (Matt. 12:32). Such a thing to be let alone by God. God you will be enabled to live the man obviously is rejecting the warn- When the rejected Holy Spirit is new life, even the life of faith."— ings and reproofs of the Spirit of God withdrawn a man no longer feels the Steps to Christ, pp. 47, 48. in his life. He is willfully determined slightest conviction for his sins; he Will you will to obey Him, placing to retain his sins. is perfectly happy in his wrongdoing. your life in the nail-scarred hands of Let us now make this matter per- Now he happily lives for the moment the One who died for you? He will sonal. Stifling an inner condemna- without regard to his eternal destiny. hold you fast through all your days tory voice, have you ever done some- Unconcerned regarding the judg- on earth and ultimately redeem you.

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 11 IN—the very word sends a shud- der through the sensitive Chris- S tian believer. For "sin is a hateful thing. It marred the moral beauty of a large number of the Man's Inhumanity angels. It entered our world and well- nigh obliterated the moral image of God in man. . . . By WESLEY AMUNDSEN "Christ saw humanity, through the working of the mighty growth of sin, possessed by the prince of the power of the air and putting forth gigantic strength in exploits of evil."—Testi- in the law?" (Matt. 22:36). Suppose Writing to the remnant church in monies, vol. 9, pp. 21, 22. someone asked you a similar question, its infancy, Ellen G. White remarked, Not all sins are the same in God's what might you answer? Jesus did not "God designed that man should be judgment, for there are degrees of sin single out any one of the Ten Com- openhearted and honest, without af- based upon the eternal law of God. mandments in particular. His answer fectation, meek, humble, with sim- "The only definition we find in the was all-inclusive. The Ten Command- plicity. . . . But poor, frail man has Bible for sin is that 'sin is the trans- ments are to be accepted and obeyed sought out something different—to gression of the law' (1 John 3:4)." as a whole, for Jesus answered: follow his own way, and carefully at- —Selected Messages, book 1, p. 320. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God tend to his own self-interest."—Testi- However, let none be deceived into' with all thy heart, and with all thy monies, vol. 1, p. 114. thinking that because a sin may be soul, and with all thy mind. This is Thus through Cain, inhumanity termed a lesser evil, God passes over the first and great commandment. toward men began. Disregard for an- it lightly, without penalty. Although And the second is like unto it, Thou other human being is contrary to "God does not regard all sins as of shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. God's way of life and to the abundant equal magnitude; there are degrees of On these two commandments hang life promised by Jesus. guilt in His estimation as well as in all the law and the prophets" (verses J. William Lloyd is reported to have that of finite man. But however tri- 37-40). said, "There is but one virtue: to help fling this or that wrong in their course The basic principle of the com- human beings to a free and beautiful may seem in the eyes of men, no sin mandments of God is love. No man life; but one sin: to do them indiffer- is small in the sight of God. The sins can love God unless he also loves his ent or cruel hurt; the love of human- which man is disposed to look upon neighbor. No man can love his neigh- ity is the whole of morality. This is as small may be the very ones which bor without loving God, "for God is Goodness, this is Humanism, this is God accounts as great crimes."—Testi- love." When this love is the generat- the Social Conscience. monies, vol. 5, p. 337. ing principle of life, no man will Well might we bare our souls be- The crime that brought misery to work any ill to his neighbor. The fore God in humility and penitence the entire human race, and brought golden rule gives emphasis to God's for our lack of that almost forgotten the Son of God down to earth from law: " 'Treat other people exactly as quality—humanity toward man. The heaven to bring redemption to those you would like to be treated by them sin of our inhumanity toward man is who would put their trust in Him, —this is the essence of all true reli- not localized. It is everywhere present. may seem to many as being a minor gion' " (Matt. 7:12, Phillips).* And because it does not show up as transgression. Simply to partake of The poet Edwin Markham wrote: malevolent as do sins such as adultery, some fruit from a tree in order to sat- "We have committed the Golden rape, and murder, we are prone to isfy the desire of appetite does not Rule to memory, let's now commit it shrug our shoulders—figuratively appear to be a heinous sin. Adam and to life."—Elbert Hubbard's Scrap- speaking—and pay no attention to Eve might have said, "Oh, well, what book, p. 38. the fact that this crime is a "great of it? It was just some fruit, good Ellen G. White wrote: "The inhu- sin." "The exceeding sinfulness of sin fruit, from a beautiful tree." Notice manity of man toward man is our can be estimated only in the light of how Ellen G. White sets forth the real greatest sin."—The Ministry of Heal- the cross."—Steps to Christ, p. 31. significance of the act. "They might ing, p. 163. What is inhumanity? What should be our relationship have reasoned: This is a very small Webster defines it as being "destitute to humanity—all of humanity? "We sin, and will never be taken into ac- of the kindness and tenderness that must love men for Christ's sake. It is count. But God treated the matter belong to a human being." It is con- easy for the natural heart to love a as a fearful evil, and the woe of their trasted by such synonyms as gentle- few favorites, and to be partial to transgression will be felt through all ness and kindness. The sin of inhu- these special few; but Christ bids us time. In the times in which we live, manity is one that has plagued the love one another as He has loved sins of far greater magnitude are world ever since Satan entered the us."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. often committed by those who pro- Garden of Eden and disrupted God's 157. fess to be God's children. In the trans- plan for a sinless world. It was evi- "Human beings belong to one great action of business, falsehoods are ut- denced by the controversy that arose family,—the family of God. The Cre- tered and acted by God's professed between the two sons of Adam and ator designed that they should re- people that bring His frown upon Eve over the question of divine wor- spect and love one another, ever man- them and a reproach upon His cause. ship and the offering of sacrifice, a ifesting a pure, unselfish interest in The least departure from truthful- controversy that culminated in a mur- one another's welfare. But Satan's aim ness and rectitude is a transgression der. When questioned by God as to has been to lead men to self first; and of the law of God."—Ibid., vol. 4, pp. the whereabouts of his brother, Abel, yielding themselves to his control, 311, 312. Cain answered impudently, "Am I they have developed a selfishness that There was a certain lawyer who my brother's keeper?" (Gen. 4:9). has filled the world with misery and came to Jesus with a perfectly reason- strife, setting human beings at vari- * From The New Testament in Modern English, ance with one another."—Counsels able request. "Master," he said, CI J. B. Phillips 1958. Used by permission of The "which is the great commandment Macmillan Company. on Stewardship, p. 24. 12 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 Here is a basic principle in the de- and its greatest danger is that it blinds never did a rude action, never spoke velopment of the great sin of "man's us to its own nature. As Martineau a discourteous word."—Sons and inhumanity toward man." One word said; 'It is the only thing in the uni- Daughters of God, p. 319. stands out prominently in our vocab- verse which the more we practice it The prayer of that godly man of ulary as being elemental in describ- the less we understand its nature.' " the early Christian centuries, Francis ing why we mistreat our fellow hu- As workers together with Christ we of Assisi, has in it the essence of the man beings. That word is selfishness. need to examine ourselves to see if kind of life Christ desires to help us "Selfishness is the essence of deprav- this great sin of man's inhumanity to to live. ity, and because human beings have man is operative in our lives. yielded to its power, the opposite of "Lord, make me an instrument of The following words of counsel are Thy peace. . . . allegiance to God is seen in the world worthy of consideration. To accept today. Nations, families, and individ- Where there is hatred, let me sow them and put into practice the prin- love; uals are filled with a desire to make ciples set forth, will keep us from the Where there is injury, pardon; where self a center. Man longs to rule over evil inherent in our natures. Separating himself in there is doubt, faith; his fellow men. "If we are not better men and Where there is despair, hope; where his egotism from God and his fellow women, if we are not more kind- there is darkness, light; where beings, he follows his unrestrained in- hearted, more pitiful, more courteous, there is sadness, joy. clinations. He acts as if the good of more full of tenderness and love; if 0 Divine Master, grant that I may others depended on their subjection we do not manifest to others the not so much seek to be con- to his supremacy. love that led Jesus to the world on soled as to console; to be un- "Selfishness has brought discord His mission of mercy, we are not wit- derstood, as to understand; to into the church, filling it with un- nesses to the world of the power of be loved, as to love; for it is in holy ambition. . . . Selfishness destroys Jesus Christ. Jesus lived not to please giving that we receive; it is Christlikeness, filling man with self- Himself.. . . He came to elevate, to in pardoning that we are par- love. It leads to continual departure ennoble, to make happy all with doned; and it is in dying that from righteousness. . . . whom He came in contact. . . . He we are born to eternal life." "Let us strive to help and strengthen one another. Seeking the good of others is the way in which true happiness can be found. Man does not work against his own inter- scope, you will often discover that they est by loving God and his fellow men. are very beautiful," she said. The more unselfish his spirit, the hap- After Tony had looked at the sand for pier he is, because he is fulfilling a few minutes, mother said, "Go out into him."--Thid., pp. the yard and look under the trees. Maybe God's purpose for you can find a bird's feather. There is 24, 25. (Italics supplied.) much to see in a feather." It is possible for men to be guilty In a moment Tony was back with a of the great sin of "man's inhumanity small feather he had found under the to man," and be unconscious of the A Grain of Sand and oak tree. It was partly black and partly terrible effect their attitudes have white. He remarked, "I think it must be upon others. This sin may be found a Feather a woodpecker's. A black-and-white wood- in high places as well as in the low pecker sometimes pecks on that dead By RUTH WHEELER limb on the oak." places. It may be found among the He looked at the feather through the ministry, and those who serve in BECAUSE Tony had a cold, he could microscope. After a moment he said, "It church leadership. It may be found not go to school. He didn't feel too looks as though there are many tiny in petty, small-minded persons who worried about that, but with the other feathers running out from the center." fill lesser positions of leadership, but children gone, there just didn't seem "We call the center rib of the feather who sadistically bring dictatorial pres- much to do at home. He sat on the front a shaft," mother said, "and on each side sures upon the employees. None of us step in the sunshine all alone. of the shaft is a web. The web is made is immune from this wicked thing. It "Tony," mother called, "will you bring of many small rods that lie side by side. is extremely necessary that we exam- me a handful of sand from the pile in the There are several hundred rods that are back yard? I want to show you some- held together to make the web." ine ourselves more than we examine thing." "I see the rods," Tony said as he bent others, for we are judged not only by Tony went to the pile of gray sand closer over the microscope, "and they are our acts but also by our motives for that had been dumped in the back yard held together with little things that look the acts. where the men were building a walk. He like hooks." Ponder these words: "There is a scooped up a handful and ran into the "We think that man invented zippers," most fearful, fatal deception upon house. mother said, "but that is not so. What human minds. Because men are in Tony put the sand on a sheet of paper you are looking at are tiny zippers. Some- that mother gave him. "Spread it out times the web of a bird's feather gets positions of trust, connected with the very thin, then look at it with this micro- pulled apart. It would be hard for him work of God, they are exalted in their scope," mother said. Tony spread the to fly if there were many tears in his own estimation, and do not discern sand out. It looked very ordinary to him. feathers. But the bird can make the that other souls, fully as precious in Then he looked at it through the micro- feather whole again. He runs the feather the sight of God as their own, are neg- scope. through his bill and zippers up all the lected, and handled roughly, and "Oh, I see many little stones," he said. little hooks." bruised, and wounded, and left to "Some of them are yellow and some are Tony picked up the feather and pulled die."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. red, and I see some blue ones. And some the web apart, then he ran the feather 356. are like little pieces of glass. Come and between his fingers, and it was all whole look, Mother. The sand is not gray at again. In his book When the Lamp Flick- all. The grains are of many different "Look, Mother, I can zipper it up too," ers, Leslie D. Weatherhead, former colors." he said. pastor of the City Temple church, Mother looked at the sand through the "You have just learned one of na- in London, England, wrote: "Sin is microscope. "When you look at the ture's secrets," mother said. "A feather the most dreadful fact in the universe, things God has made through the micro- is a wonderful piece of machinery." REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 13 HOW LONG TILL DOOMSDAY? them that fear His name, small and great; and destroys those who destroy the earth (chap. 11:18). "Earth's end—in fire or ice?" Two classes only are found at doomsday—those for So ran a caption on a picture suggesting two possible whom it is a day of inevitable calamity, and those for ends to the earth. The picture accompanied a report on whom it is a day of unspeakable joy. Destinies are de- the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union termined before doomsday arrives so that when that in Washington, D.C., in April. The report was entitled day of tragedy arrives it will be impossible for the "Here Comes Doomsday" (Newsweek, April 22, 1968, doomed to escape predestined extinction. p. 63). "Perilous is the condition of those who, growing weary The author commented, "If man survives The Bomb of their watch, turn to the attractions of the world. and the Race Problem, the latest evidence suggests While the man of business is absorbed in the pursuit Doomsday may come in a searing rain of solar radiation of gain, while the pleasure lover is seeking indulgence, 2,000 years hence. And if the fire is averted, the prospect while the daughter of fashion is arranging her adorn- of another ice age faces mankind." ' ments—it may be in that hour the Judge of all the earth The ice, which supposedly will cover the top half of will pronounce the sentence: 'Thou art weighed in the the Northern Hemisphere to a depth of a mile, is not balances, and art found wanting.' "—The Great Contro- expected until about 80,000 years from now (40,000 versy, p. 491. years for Canada), according to Wallace S. Broecker, of Yes, doomsday comes as a snare. "For as a snare shall Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory. it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole He believes that ice ages are caused largely by a slow, earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may cyclical wobbling of the earth as it spins on its axis. be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall There are also believed to be periodic changes in the come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man" tilt of the earth's axis, affecting earth's climate. (Luke 21:35, 36). The threat of a hotter doomsday was propounded by "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your Keith L. McDonald, of the Institute for Earth Sciences, hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, Boulder, Colorado. Protecting the earth from solar winds and the cares of this life, and so that day come upon you are lines of magnetic force from the earth's poles, he unawares" (verse 34). observed, but the magnetic field has been weakening, Doomsday! What will it mean for you? Doom or re- creating the possibility of the deadly radiation reaching demption? The choice is yours today. Tomorow you this earth some 2,000 years hence. may have no choice. Students of Bible prophecy are unimpressed by these D. F. N. prognostications. Biblical forecasts lead to an expecta- tion of the end long before the burning doses of radiation are supposed to reach our planet two millenniums hence. MAN ENDANGERED BY URBANIZATION Furthermore, students of prophecy expect the end to come, not by some slowly developing natural causes, but Few four-wheeled, antennaed suburbanites would ever by the direct intervention of God in human affairs. notice it, but as the bedroom communities of great cities Nevertheless, doomsday will come. In this these prog- balloon into megalopolises, something tragic is happening nosticators are right. in the fields and forests beyond. For every time a new Doomsday will come suddenly, unexpectedly. "For tract is opened up for small-lot housing and every time a yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so new section of superhighway is laid down, the range of cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, some mammal, bird, or fish is squeezed or quartered. Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon At the same time the march of concrete seems to be them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they stifling the nobler qualities of the very people who shall not escape" (1 Thess. 5:2, 3). benefit from the suburban sprawl. Doomsday comes while men are pursuing their busi- Recent reading reveals that on nearly every continent ness and pleasure. "As it was in the days of Noe, so once-common species are moving steadily toward extinc- shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. They did tion. From the upper reaches of the great Himalayas to eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in the torrid jungles of Central Africa, reports indicate that marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, certain creatures are approaching extinction. In the and the flood came and destroyed them all" (Luke 17:26, United States such disparate creatures as the Key deer, 27). the blunt-nosed leopard lizard, the gila trout, and the But doomsday for this earth and the majority of its Southern bald eagle are now rare. In fact when Interior inhabitants is redemption day for those who have staked Secretary Stuart Udall issued his first listing under the their all with God. Sealed with the seal of God, the right- terms of the 1966 Endangered Species Preservation Act, eous stand unmoved and are protected when doom strikes 78 mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes were (Rev. 6:16, 17). included. As the smoke of doomsday ascends, the redeemed rem- Yet, these creatures are not the only things that man nant cries, "Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, stands to lose in his clanking march toward "progress." and power, unto the Lord our God" (chap. 19:1; cf. verse He faces the shrinking of spiritual qualities that thrive 3). To them earth's doomsday is the glorious day of re- out where the sky is a familiar roof and the turf a living ward and deliverance. It is the day when God gives re- carpet. wards to His servants the prophets, and to the saints, and We have observed that communities attached to great

14 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 cities differ from communities of the same size far from metropolitan machine. This is the quality of neighborli- a metropolis. The noise and dirt and hubbub of the ness. Compare the relationships of distant neighbors in center city spill over easily into the suburbs. Even the frontier times with those of apartment house dwellers in person who wishes to remain aloof is gobbled up by the the large cities today. Many apartment residents confess city's mechanical fingers. Above all, the city never waits. that they have no idea who lives on their floor! The Like a giant blotter, it soaks up the spare minutes of its reason? When people get too close, they look upon one citizens by demanding a half hour or more to get to work, another as objects, not persons. Personal qualities in by offering an endless menu of entertainment features, others are intentionally overlooked, all for the sake of and by embroiling its families in group functions (often preserving privacy. a different one for each member of the family on the same The development of Christian character may go for- night). ward in any environment, but urban life squelches many Such time stealing becomes grand larceny in places a noble purpose. Said the messenger of the Lord: "The such as Manhattan, where the activities of one day blend people who live in the country places are often more into those of the next as though night doesn't exist. easily reached [with the gospel message] than are those With time goes worship. We do not walk with our who dwell in the thickly populated cities. Here among Maker while we run to catch the 8:11. Nor is it easy to the scenes of nature Christian character is more easily hear His voice in the babble of a subway car. God may formed than amid the wickedness of city life."—Evan- be as close to us in the city as in the country; the dif- gelism, p. 46. ference is with us. So-called Christians rushing each morn- Increasing urbanization endangers the finer spiritual ing toward the time clock might do well to imitate the qualities of man just as it endangers the very existence of worshipful habit of the Thai people, who daily bring many of God's creatures. But unlike the birds and beasts a flower offering to their gods. Somehow, despite the press of the wild, man may consciously maintain sufficient of traffic, they each pick or purchase a remembrance— range for his spiritual life despite ballooning materialism. their morning devotion to their gods. But he must put forth the effort to find the quiet glade, Besides time for worship, we lose another fine quality the open sky, and uninterrupted communion with his of life when we allow ourselves to be caught by the Friend. F. D. Y.

and encouragement for a job well done. WANTS DEEPER EXPERIENCE Nevertheless, isn't it proper to call a question concerning some of these trophies and awards EDITORS: I was very much impressed with that are sometimes expensive and that are so the article "Problems Confronting the typical of methods used in the secular world Church," by Elder Robert H. Pierson; also for theatrical and sports accomplishments? the article "The Holy Spirit and the Latter The apostle Paul, one of the hardest-work- Rain," by Elder W. R. Beach. I have been ing and most successful church workers and an Adventist and church member for 40 years and it seems to me that during this RECIPES soul winners of all time, said, "The love of Christ constraineth us." time there has gradually been a "conform- EDITORS: I want to thank you for the recipes WARREN N. WITTENBERG ing to the world"—perhaps begun by the that are coming to us in the REVIEW. I am Winter Park, Florida laity but continuing on through our educa- putting each one in my recipe file and look tional and medical institutions. forward to the next one. Being in color Accreditation must be maintained for our makes them so attractive. Please keep them "SAVED" NOW institutions at any cost; or so it seems. Is it coming. EDITORS: If ever there was a need for an absolutely necessary? Has it helped to pre- MRS. LOLA ROGERS article of vital importance, and of an en- pare a people to meet their God? How much Ashland, Ohio couraging nature, as well as one that would has the church profited by maintaining ac- clear up an oft-misunderstood counsel from creditation? I submit these questions for the Spirit of Prophecy writings, it is the your consideration. I consider that the lead- QUESTIONS TROPHIES article "Are You Saved?" (Feb. 8 REvIEw). ers of this movement are sincere when they EDITORS: Why are more and more awards and I can agree one hundred per cent with all of ask for the prayers of the laity. trophies of wood, metal, and stone being it just as it is written. I came into this truth Sports and fashions corrupt the minds of offered by different departments of our work? in 1959. I came from another church, and the laity as well as the students in our The Sabbath School Department once offered while going there I knew I was saved when schools. Miniskirts, bikini bathing suits, and scores of ribbons, certificates, and other awards I repented of my sins and took Jesus, by loincloths worn by boys and men, all find to adults for various accomplishments. Then faith, as my Saviour. When I came into the their place in our churches, schools, and a change came and these were discontinued in Adventist Church, many of the members homes. favor of pointing up the thrills and joys of would not say they were saved. I could not I can see that all these form a mountain Bible study, soul winning, and the reaching believe I was unsaved now, but saved in my that only a strong faith, with works to cor- of other Sabbath school objectives. former church. respond, could remove, with God's help. I Children may need some of these visible, I soon saw that because of the quotation think it would take a revival and a reforma- immediate rewards for accomplishments, but of Ellen G. White on page 155 in Christ's Ob- tion like Israel experienced when they re- often even they can be educated to appreciate ject Lessons (the first quotation mentioned in turned from Babylon. Where the god of the greater values of the awards God gives. the article) they thought they should never fashion reigns, modesty and virtue are for-. But do our wonderful literature evangelists, claim it. But, as given in the article, other gotten, and spirituality is at a very low ebb. our self-sacrificing soul-winning laymen, our quotations from Ellen G. White show clearly Even miniskirts are appearing in the dedicated youth, our faithful Ingathering that we are "saved" now if we are redeemed churches. workers, our talented public relations secre- now. Ellen White obviously was speaking I do not believe that our leaders ap- taries, our invaluable church school teachers, against the "once in grace always in grace" prove of this condition, but I am afraid and other hard-working church officers and doctrine that some hold to. She knew she was that to make any change in the dress and members need or want loving cups, man-made saved (Selected Messages, book 1, p. 392) in practice of the laity and officers in our trophies, pins, medallions, and plaques to the sense the article puts it; the apostles churches the cure will have to begin with stimulate them or reward them? knew they were saved; and let us not miss the them. When there is immoral display in the Of course, there is always a proper place joy of knowing that we are saved too. Let us church, by some elected to office, how can for the letter of commendation, the carefully not evade the question other Christians ask we ask the angels to be present? planned public recognition at one of our us: "Are you saved?" KARL CAMERSON DANIEL L. CADY gatherings, the personal words of appreciation Elkhart, Indiana Willows, California

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growth of the work. Twenty years ago the church's work was concentrated around Tampuruli, the mission headquarters. At that time a call was made for the members to swarm and establish outposts in new areas. He pointed to a map of Sabah and showed how the gospel message had spread. Then he made a ringing appeal for members to leave their homes and settle on the east coast, which is largely untouched. This, he said, would be a means of opening up the work there. The Sabbath afternoon meeting in the main pavilion brought increased evidence of revival. Some weeks before, a two-week lay training school was held in this same auditorium (REviEw, May 30). This afternoon laymen who were set on fire at that school reported to the constituency who were attending this camp meeting. Ten of the 60 laymen who were trained spoke. All of them had gone into Members of Sabah Mission are challenged by Mandatang Gaban (left), departmental sec- new territories as lay evangelists. Dulim, retary, to migrate into new territories where we have no tihurches and open up our work. a short, stocky layman, told of 30 decisions for Christ from his ten-day evangelistic meeting, and of the Sabbath school that has been started in Kampong Pahu. Durus told of going into the Mos- lem village of Bongol. Only three at- Results of Lay Work tended his evangelistic meeting the first night, only four the second night, but 40 attended the third night. Unfold at Sabah Mooting Other high lights of the Tampuruli camp meeting: A series of studies on By DANIEL R. GUILD, President last-day events by Pastor George Mun- Southeast Asia Union son, the president of the mission; a cooking school, teaching healthful cookery, by Mrs. Munson; an hour a day on fam- A revival is sweeping the Sabah Mis- coming back to the church. This,' she ily life and mental health; a series of sion on the island of Borneo. said as she held up the bill, 'is my Thank daily Bible studies by Pastor A. Wa- At the breakfast table this morning Offering to God for rescuing me.' " woroendeng, the mission secretary-treas- Bill Smith, a dedicated bush missionary All of us around the breakfast table urer; sights and sounds in evangelism— (REviEw, April 25 and May 2), told us agreed that her ten dollars was like the a training program to teach laymen how the following experience: widow's mite, for in the undeveloped to use visual aids; an evening series of "Last Sabbath at Marabou, just before areas of Sabah this could easily represent evangelistic-revival sermons by the un- the sermon, a woman came to the front her total income for a month or more. ion president. waving a ten-dollar bill. She made it I am at the Tampuruli camp meeting The meetings in the main pavilion clear that she wanted to speak. as I write. The motto at the front of the were conducted in four languages: Eng- "She said, 'Fifteen years ago I became main pavilion, a temporary building lish, Kadazan, Malay, and Chinese. a member of the Seventh-day Adventist seating 1,000, is "Prepare for Heaven." The Missionary Volunteers were ac- Church. After a few years I became care- The evidence is overwhelming that God tive throughout the convention. Music less, and for the past five years I have is at work here in Sabah. by the students of the Sabah Adventist been completely out of the church.' She During the Sabbath school this morn- Secondary School lifted us all heaven- continued with marked emotion, 'God ing, Mandatang Gaban, a departmental ward. On Sabbath 500 children and has been speaking to my heart. I am secretary of the mission, reported on the youth crowded into their own divisions.

Left: Believers in Sabah Mission, North Borneo, met in this pavilion at camp. Right: G. W. Munson, president of Sabah Mission, gives a welcome to the campers on arrival.

16 The finals of the national temperance dren's room, two classrooms, minister's contest for the youth of Sabah were a room, deacons' room, a pipe organ, four high light at an evening meeting in the pianos, pews, tables, chairs, a kitchen, an main pavilion. army-style building with three rooms, and On Saturday night Pastor Munson a double garage. challenged his people to look to God for After necessary renovations the Ade- the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. At laide Polish Adventist church was opened the close of his sermon every hand was on January 27. Guest speakers were C. T. stretched toward heaven, reaching out Cook, elder of the Congregational for this promised gift. church; R. J. Coombe, S.M., M.B.E., past The laymen of Sabah are already re- president of the Good Neighbour Coun- ceiving that gift, if the experiences they cil of South Australia, representing the reported are any guide. In addition to immigration department; and L. C. the testimonies of Dulim and Durus, we Coombe, South Australian Conference heard of laymen conducting evangelistic president. meetings with up to 500 people in attendance; of a small girl, about 12 years old, who was so inspired by the enthu- Tour of Church-State Commission-6 siasm of those who returned from the institute that she went out herself and opened up the work in a new village; Our Polish Seventh-day Adventist church What of Religious of a new church company with 80 in recently purchased in Adelaide, Australia. Freedom in Poland? attendance; of fellow Seventh-day Ad- ventist villagers caring for the families By ROLAND R. HEGSTAD Editor, Liberty of these laymen and paying the tuition prayer was rewarded. One day someone for their children so they could go out came to the conference office and offered and spread the message. Recently the world press has been to sell- a building that had been previ- filled with reports of involuntary "resig- These laymen walked hours along ously used by a Congregational church. steamy jungle paths with poisonous nations" of Jews from party and govern- He asked the unusually low price of $16,- ment positions in Poland. And reports snakes lurking in the grass, over steep 000. The location was good. The build- circulate in American papers from time mountains, and down into low valleys, ing was purchased. to time of tensions between the Polish carrying knapsacks full of evangelistic This building included a sanctuary Government and the Roman Catholic equipment that often weighed more seating 300, two halls, a chapel, a chil- than the layman who carried it. They Church. Are these incidents part of a pic- crossed crocodile-infested rivers, with the water often over their heads. No wonder the surprised chief of Kam- pong Gonsurai asked Sompat: "Why did you come here?" "Oh," answered Sompat, "to bring the message of God!"

Polish Immigrants Buy Church in Adelaide By ANDRZEJ NAPORA Polish Church Adelaide, Australia More than 400 persons from neighbor- ing Adventist churches in and near Adelaide shared with 160 Polish immigrants the joyful and sacred moments of the dedication of the first Polish church in Australia. The congregation had only four members in 1961. Cornerstone Laying at Ethiopia's Empress Zauditu In 1962 C. D. Judd, past president of Memorial Hospital the South Australian Conference, ar- ranged for J. Lipski to take up the work Ethiopia's Minister of Health, Betwoded Asfaha Woldemichael, praised the past among Polish immigrants. He and his services and achievements of the Empress Zauditu Memorial Hospital at cornerstone- family had arrived from Poland the year laying ceremonies early this year in Addis Ababa. before. Speaking of the work of the Adventist Church in Ethiopia, he said: "The missions' At first Pastor Lipski worked with members have indeed exhibited their spiritual love to the people of Ethiopia by Pastor C. H. Rickmann to assist Advent- sacrifice of worldly pleasures, working under trying circumstances and thus helping to ists in Poland to reach Australia. With alleviate the suffering and pain of people stricken by disease and ill health. The services God's help the task was accomplished de- which the mission has rendered to Ethiopia in the past 45 years clearly signify the truly spite many difficulties. blessed aims and ideals of the mission." In 1963 the Adelaide Polish congrega- Besides hospital and mission officials, His Excellency Dejazmatch Kebede Tessema, tion numbered 29; in 1964 it had grown member of the Crown Council, participated in the ceremonies. to 38, and in 1965 to 65. Now about 160 On the platform for the ceremonies were (left to right): Dr. G. R. Rigsby, medical worship together each Sabbath. During secretary, Ethiopian Union; Jarle Ravn, Norwegian manager of Architectural Consult. this time 29 were added to the church ants; Zark Skulic, manager, construction company; R. Unnersten, Northern European through baptism. The rapid growth of Division treasurer; W. Duncan Eva, Northern European Division president; Dr. Alex membership demanded larger quarters. Bokovoy, medical director, Empress Zauditu Hospital; Ato Bekele Heye, departmental With much prayer Pastor Lipski sought secretary, Ethiopian Union Mission (both standing); His Excellency Betwoded Asfaha to solve the problem of a separate place Woldemichael; His Excellency Dejazmatch Kebede Tessema; and C. D. Watson, Ethio- of worship. This diligence and faith in pian Union Mission president. C. D. WATSON

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 17 INTERNATIONAL NEWS ture of intolerance toward religion in self took steps to curb excesses. (It preferred status and engages with some Poland? should be remembered that many Jews regularity in a power struggle with the Not if conclusions reached by the 34 occupied important positions in govern- Government. While the Government does members of the Andrews University mental and academic circles, hardly an not involve itself in affairs of a strictly Church-State Study Commission are cor- indication of disfavor.) religious character, it does concern itself rect. Second, tensions between the Govern- with church administrative affairs—pub- Three days in Poland certainly did ment and the Roman Catholic Church lishing of religious books, nominations of not make experts on that country's reli- arise, in the main, out of the church's church officers, et cetera—to a degree that gious affairs out of any of us. We did, unwillingness to accept parity with other would be unacceptable under some defini- however, do our homework, and we in- faiths, its desire to control education of tions of religious freedom. terviewed church and state leaders in youth—now a state monopoly—and its But one should not overlook this fact: Poland, including the minister of reli- involvement in politics. (No church and Religious toleration in today's Poland is gion and leaders of several church or- no government anywhere seem likely to far more meaningful than that offered ganizations, before putting our seal of agree precisely on where a church's legiti- by the pre-World War II government, approval on two conclusions. mate sphere ends and the state's begins.) when the Roman Catholic Church—the First, the so-called Jewish problem is Admittedly, given the best of circum- state church—dictated the treatment of largely the consequence of an interparty stances, tensions could be expected be- all religious groups. And if that treat- political struggle, the analysis of which. tween a church that claims the allegiance ment falls short of what some of us we will leave to nonreligious publica- of more than 90 per cent of the Polish would call religious freedom, we must tions specializing in such matters. (Com- people and a socialist government dedi- acknowledge that, as in other areas of mission members have varied opinions cated to atheistic principles. And one Eastern and Western Europe, the church on what precipitated it.) Religious bias, cannot say that the best of relationships brought a good measure of its troubles or more specifically, anti-Semitism, did' exist between church and state in Po- on itself. not seem to be the motivation behind land. As we noted, the Roman Catholic Call, then, the climate in Poland one the "purge," which involved non-Jews as Church in Poland, less sophisticated and of religious toleration. And do not fail well as Jews. When anti-Semitic over- less ecumenically-minded than in the to note that some 30 minority faiths tones did develop, the Government it- West, has adjusted badly to its loss of there are tending to their gospel knitting

types of business such as the reports of The King's Busine s committees. For example, if a church 11;1111[ school board is receiving the report of a special committee appointed to make recommendations regarding the improve. By W. P. BRADLEY ment of the playground, it is obviously ON BEING Have you ever noticed The chairman's second duty is to see better to have a written report, with all CHAIRMAN how some church busi- that business is presented to the group the parts listed in proper order. ness meetings function and dealt with by the group in an or- Every motion must be disposed of in smoothly and efficiently and seem to get derly way. If there is a written agenda, some manner. Some motions the chair- much done, while others give the im- this is distributed and the items are called man may rule to be out of order. A pression of being somewhat disorganized, up one by one. Either the chairman or main motion may be amended. After an with discussion getting out of hand or some other competent person states the amendment has been passed by the body, going off on a tangent? At such times kernel of the question or problem to be action must still be taken on the main there is an overwhelming feeling of futil- discussed. As soon as the merit of a cer- motion. A main motion may be disposed ity or indecision, and very little construc- tain course of action becomes clear, some- of by being accepted or rejected; it may tive work comes out of the meeting. one may make a motion, which, upon be- be withdrawn by the mover with the con- Responsibility for achieving good results ing seconded, is now formally before the sent of the seconder; the body may vote rests upon the chairman. body and must be disposed of. This is to "lay it on the table." Unless there is It is a pleasure to see a good chair- called the main motion, only one of which a subsequent action to lift it from the man in action. He doesn't need to say may be before the meeting at a time. table, it is finished. much himself; talking isn't necessarily There are several kinds of motions The chairman puts a motion to the the sign of a good chairman. He pays that may be introduced bearing on the body for vote and in doing so he should close attention to the course of the dis- main motion or having to do with a repeat the substance of the motion so cussion, his rulings are fair, not arbi- question of procedure, and some mo- that all will be clear on the issue on trary; he has poise, and often makes use tions have a special status. For example, which the vote is to be taken. In putting of a saving sense of humor. The bear- motions to adjourn the meeting, to table the motion he does three things: 1. calls ing of a chairman can accomplish much the main motion (to remove it from con- for the affirmative vote ("All in favor in controlling tension and making the sideration) or to limit debate are not say 'aye' "); 2. calls for the negative vote time count. debatable. Dealing with various kinds of ("All opposed say 'nay,' or 'no'"); 3. The first responsibility of the chair- motions in a precise way may become declares the result ("The ayes have it man of a meeting is to keep order by very complicated. Usually in our church and the motion is carried"). Alternately, allowing only one person to speak at a business meetings the accepted rules of the chairman may ask for the hands to be time. He must also hold the attention order are not enforced too strictly, but it raised. of the group to the general discussion, is well that the chairman have at least an A simple way to expedite business not allowing the meeting to break up elementary knowledge of proper parlia- when the point at issue is minor and into little discussion groups. Even whis- mentary procedure. In any meeting spe- there is an apparent agreement is for pering can be very distracting. Each per- cial rules of procedure may be adapted to the chairman to rule, "If there are no son who desires to speak must gain the fit the circumstances. objections, it is so ordered, or "By com- attention of the chairman by standing In many situations it is better that mon consent, it is so ordered." or by raising his hand, and must be rec- motions be presented in written form, Let's do the King's business properly ognized by the chairman before he begins particularly if they are long and com- and efficiently! his remarks or introduces a motion. plicated. This is especially desirable with (Next: The Spirit of the Times)

18 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 and coming up with a pattern of growth tized by E. E. Cleveland, of the General dents of the North, Central, and South and vitality that rivals results achieved Conference Ministerial Association, fol- Philippine unions respectively. From the in Western societies. Ecumenical leaders lowing his 1960 series of evangelistic Far Eastern Division were E. A. Brodeur, with whom we met reported full meetings in Warsaw. No other Adventist publishing department secretary, and churches on Sunday and enthusiastic conference visited by our group pre- M. R. Lyon, assistant. participation by the laity in church evan- sented more convincing evidence of the The council convened at Adams Cen- gelistic endeavors. existence and effectiveness of an evan- ter, the new headquarters of the South The Seventh-day Adventist Church in gelistic program! We learned that 262 Philippine Union. Poland in no way falls behind other corn- persons were baptized during the previ- Resolutions and recommendations munions in its commitment to spreading ous nine months in some 46 evangelistic passed during the three-day session will the gospel, as we learned during a three- campaigns. We found that more than 30 strengthen the publishing program hour interview with the leaders of our per cent of our church is composed of throughout this island archipelago. work in the headquarters of the Polish young people. A leadership training school, March Union, a stately multistoried building Most difficulties of Adventists in Po- 6-9, immediately followed the publishing that once served as the Japanese em- land center on Sabbath observance. Ad- council. bassy (REviEw, May 23, p. 15). Present ventist children are not required to at- W. D. JEMsoN, Manager was the union conference committee, in- tend schools on Sabbath, but Sabbath Philippine Publishing House cluding presidents of the three confer- examinations on the high school level ences in the Polish Union. S. Dabrowski, are a problem. The Minister of Reli- president of the union; Z. Lyko, secre- gious Affairs for the country, with La Sierra Student Missionary tary and editor of Polish publications; whom several of us had a two-hour con- Teaches in Colombian College and E. Lawaty, head of the Seminary, versation, has on several occasions inter- Ruth Wilson, student missionary of La briefed us on the advance of our work. ceded with employers on behalf of Ad- Sierra College, California, is teaching We learned that we have some 70 ventist workers. French to the Spanish-speaking students workers in the Polish Union and more As we left the conference office the of Icolven, a junior college of the Co- than 4,000 members. Institutions oper- secretaries presented each of us a beauti- lombia-Venezuela Union Mission. ated by the church include the old peo- ful long-stemmed red tulip. "We are peo- A third-generation Adventist whose fa- ple's home in Bielsko and the training ple of faith, optimism, and hope," said ther works at the Pacific Press Publishing school for ministers in Podkowa Lesna, Elder Dabrowski. Nothing we saw in Association in California, Ruth tells what where 42 students are enrolled. Poland leads us to dispute that judgment. has impressed her most about the work On the conference table about which she is doing and the people she is serving: many of us sat were a score of Adventist "The church members and students seem periodicals, all of which have been to have a greater missionary spirit than printed by government presses. All church I have seen elsewhere. I hope to return publications are censored, but our lead- someday as a full-time missionary." ers reported that, to this date, not one Ruth came to Icolven well prepared word in any of our books or magazines has for her teaching position. She began as a been changed. language major at Pacific Union College, During the past eight years the Ad- Publishing Departments Hold then went for one year to France where ventist Church in Poland has printed 32 Tri-Union Council in Philippines she studied in Collonges. Her third year books, including 13 by Ellen G. White. was spent at La Sierra College. During This figure compares with only six books To "Light the World With Literature" the vacation of 1967 she canvassed in printed in the 20 years before World War is the ambition of 83 publishing depart- French-speaking Quebec. II. Six additional books are in process, ment leaders and assistants who met for She is a relative of Neal C. Wilson, ten translated. Forty colporteurs sell the tri-union publishing council at Davao vice-president of the General Conference these to the public. The Adventist City, Philippines, March 3-5. for the North American Division, and Church in Poland prints more literature Present, in addition to a full represen- she has a sister, Lois, who is instructor of than all other Protestant churches com- tation of department secretaries and as- nursing in the Adventist hospital in Ban- bined, one reason why it is now the sec- sistants and book and periodical agency dung, Indonesia. ond largest Protestant church in Poland. managers, were the presidents of the 14 Ruth will stay in Colombia until Sep- With us in the conference room were local missions, and T. C. Murdoch, E. A. tember. J. G. NIKKELS several secretaries, one of whom was bap- Capobres, and V. M. Montalban, presi- Departmental Secretary Colombia-Venezuela Union

Novel Fund-Raising Plan Leads to New Church in Larne, Ireland The 130 Seventh-day Adventists who gathered from all the churches in Ire- land on March 16 had every right to their seats in Larne's new church building, for they had helped to raise the funds. In 1966 Donald Lowe, Irish Mission president, had initiated a plan—since adopted by the conferences and missions of the union—that every member throughout the mission contribute 1 per cent of his income to the building of a new church. The Larne church building was the first. On that same day the church was organized. Present for the opening service were Deputy Mayor Aubrey Girvan, Ber- nard E. Seton, British Union Conference president, and Pastor Lowe, president of the Irish Mission. SDA Polish leaders brief members of Church-State Study Commission at Polish Union Con- EDGAR E. HULBERT ference headquarters. Literature on the table was printed for us on Government presses. Pastor

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Western Youth Congress i°,0 7 t.tt Draws 20,000 on Sabbath Cadetlodiadt One of the largest meetings of its kind ever held in the denomination convened recently at Long Beach, California. More + Mrs. Dorothy Spenst, wife of Pastor than 20,000 persons attended Sabbath Art Spenst, of Prince George, British sessions of the Western Youth Congress. Columbia, conducted four health and Some 1,200 official delegates from 431 nutrition classes in her home from April Pacific Union Conference churches were 2I-May 7. A special feature was prepara- present for the Wednesday-through-Satur- tion of foreign dishes from Korea, day gathering held in the large Long Ukraine, Germany, Hungary, and Leba- Beach Arena and Municipal Auditorium. Former student missionaries react as k. M. non. Wisbey, Southeastern California Confer- PEARL BROWNING, Correspondent Highlighting the congress were a series ence's associate youth leader, talks by tele- of discussions on subjects about which phone with student missionaries in Hong young people feel deeply concerned—mil- Kong from the Western Youth Congress. itary service, building Christian homes, social relationships, and so forth. Wednesday evening's opening session featured presentations by Rebecca Alkire, favorable reactions to these advertise- Miss American Teen-ager for 1967; Archie ments were expressed by business people and residents of the city. Moore, former sports champion; and Don + During the recent Big Week in Mis- The congress was directed by Miller Lonie, a Baptist minister who is one of souri, Larry Cansler, associate conference Brockett, Pacific Union Missionary Vol- America's outstanding lecturers to youth. publishing secretary, was top book sales- unteer secretary, and his associate, Harry Several thousands of those attending man for the week with $2,011.35. Four Garlick. Youth leaders of conferences the congress participated in a special other literature evangelists sold more than throughout North America were present activity by visiting homes throughout $1,000 worth of literature: R. C. Thomas, at the session, which immediately pre- Long Beach to distribute literature and associate union publishing secretary, ceded the quadrennial council of Mis- copies of a statement of beliefs of Seventh- $1,301.70; Glenn Willits, $1,273.50; Ralph sionary Volunteer secretaries held at Pine day Adventist young people. This state- Sellers, Missouri publishing secretary, Springs Ranch in the Southeastern Cali- ment, drafted by youth attending the $1,005.25; and David Haugsted, $1,003.50. fornia Conference. session, was also formally presented to The total deliveries for Big Week in Mis- HERBERT FORD, Correspondent the mayor of Long Beach. souri were $13,088.95. Theodore E. Lucas, world youth leader + At the request of the Salina, Kansas, of the church, spoke to the congress at Boy Scouts, Pastor F. S. Sanburn con- the Sabbath morning worship service on ducted a dawn worship service for more "The New Morality." than 400 scouts and their leaders at the Asking the youthful delegates and vis- *kW& 'Wit recent Three Rivers Scout Camporee at itors to shun pseudo standards set by Bennington State Lake. worldly leaders, Elder Lucas insisted, "In + a world where hatred is too prevalent, More than $7,000 came in May 12 for + prejudice so dominant, where suffering Dr. William H. Lesovsky, professor of help in purchasing equipment for the shadows the lives of millions, and where psychology at Atlantic Union College, kitchen-lodge at Camp Arrowhead, Ne- hunger still takes its deadly toll, you will be visiting professor during the sum- braska's youth camp. Mark Teter of Craw- must join the government of Jesus Christ mer session of the School of Medical Arts ford, Nebraska, goes to junior camp free and do something to make the world bet- in Kettering, Ohio. for turning in $290 for the project called ter. To a Christian, such a sick and weary + Of the 10,204 persons interviewed in "Sink-a-Canoe" with dimes. The Norfolk world holds a serious obligation." the Favorite Hymn Poll recently taken in Pathfinders averaged $23.50 per person for As a prelude to the youth congress, the Atlantic Union Conference, 1,198 the project and received a new nylon Path- open letter advertisements were placed chose "The Old Rugged Cross." The next finder flag for their support. in • the two metropolitan newspapers of most favored were "Rock of Ages," 993; CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent Long Beach advising the 345,000 residents "How Great Thou Art," 669; "Faith of of the city what they could expect of Our Fathers," 518; and "A Mighty For- the thousands of young people who were tress," 498. converging for the session. Numerous EMMA KIRK, Correspondent

Some 1,000 youth sang in the congress choir. Each meeting featured selections presented by academy, college, and university musical groups in the Pacific Union Conference. Kettering Hospital Observes National Hospital Week

Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur of San Francisco toured Kettering Medical Center one month before he became president of the American Medical Association and spoke to the medical staff, civic advisory board, and hospital personnel in connection with the hospital's observance of Na- tional Hospital Week, May 12 to 18. After returning home Dr. Wilbur wrote J. R. Shawver, hospital administrator, that he and Mrs. Wilbur looked back on their "very pleasant" trip to Kettering as "one of the high lights" of their trip. "Let me tell you as well," Dr. Wilbur said, "that I appreciated the inscribed

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 copy of The Ministry of Healing which + Construction has begun on the new was in our room." Hinsdale church at Oak and Walnut Dr. Wilbur's appearance was one of streets, Hinsdale. The $900,000 building, Kettering's several events to celebrate with a sanctuary designed to accommodate National Hospital Week. Another was 1,000 and a youth chapel that will hold an an open house in the physical medicine additional 250, is expected to be com- + About 10,000 persons attended South- and rehabilitation department during pleted within a year. Those who par- eastern California Conference's annual which more than 400 hospital employees ticipated in the recent groundbreaking camp meeting held May 10 and 11 at and visitors became better acquainted were Mardian J. Blair, administrator of the new Anaheim Convention Center. with the department's functions. Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital; W. A. Speakers included H. M. S. Richards, Sr., Members of the medical staff and rep- Nelson, president, Illinois Conference; and the General Conference president, resentatives from each hospital depart- Dr. F. M. Brayshaw, previous owner of Robert H. Pierson. Four ministers were ment were honored at a special employee most of the building site; Pastor S. K. ordained at special services: Douglas D. staff meeting. Lehnhoff; Dr. Charles L. Anderson, chair- Devnich, La Sierra youth pastor; Don A. JESSE MERRELL man of the church's finance committee; Nelson, San Diego youth pastor; Lester Edward Borre, architect; Nathaniel M. E. Park, conference educational secretary; Symonds, president of the Village of and N. C. Sorensen, San Pasqual Acad- Hinsdale; Fred L. Ockerlund, Jr., general emy principal. contractor; and Jere D. Smith, president, Lake Union Conference. • McKeague Hall, named in memory of Lake thusoit Elder Robert J. McKeague, was formally + The Decatur, Michigan, church re- opened at Hawaiian Mission Academy recently sponsored a series of nutrition cently. It includes music and industrial classes to benefit church members and arts areas as well as a combination audi- Alpena, Michigan, their friends. Mrs. DeWayne Toppen- torium-gymnasium with complete shower Church Dedicated berg, a registered nurse from Andrews and locker rooms. University, described the four food groups from which to choose a balanced diet. HERBERT FORD, Correspondent In one class Mrs. Toppenberg showed the benefits of a vegetarian diet over meats by comparing their cholesterol levels. Each evening prizes were given to acquaint non-Adventist guests with vegetarian foods. MILDRED WADE, Correspondent + W. M. Abbott held five spring Dorcas Federation meetings in the Kentucky-Ten- nessee Conference to promote the new conference welfare service depot. H. H. Schmidt and W. L. Mazat from the South- Novi P ern Union were guest speakers. + Twenty-five persons made decisions and three have been baptized as a result of the + Arthur L. Bietz of Glendale, Califor- evangelistic meetings held in Elizabeth- nia, received the honorary degree of town, North Carolina, by H. E. Metcalf, Doctor of Laws at the commencement union ministerial secretary. ceremonies at Walla Walla College, June 2. At the same ceremony 184 seniors re- + Students of Laurelbrook Academy received Baccalaureate degrees. port nine persons took their stand for the truth as a result of the Voice of Youth Alpena, Michigan's new Adventist + Forty-one Walla Walla College School meetings in Dayton, Tennessee. church, valued at $150,000 and with a of Nursing seniors received the WWC OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent seating capacity to 360, was officially School of Nursing pin and the SDA Mis- opened April 27. James Papendick is the sionary Nurse pin, June 1, in a cere- local pastor. Connected with the church, mony directed by Wilma Leazer. Robert which cost the congregation only $85,000 H. Brown, vice-president, presided at the to build, is a two-classroom school, and pinning, and Floyd Matula, a Portland a gymnasium fellowshiphall. The smaller pastor, presented the topic, "Now." Sec m Mic children's departments in the Sabbath IoNE MoRGAN, Correspondent school wing are equipped with special kiddy-size pews. The teachers have dis- + Twenty-two persons have been baptized covered that benches are less noisy than in the evangelistic campaign conducted by individual chairs. The children are thus E. K. Walter, ministerial secretary of the trained to be more quiet during Sabbath Southwestern Union in the new Southern school and church services. Nmaeitic uuaw Hills Seventh-day Adventist church, in Elder Papendick was not content merely Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The pastors to build a church to seat 360 people. On of the greater Oklahoma City area are + Groundbreaking ceremonies for the the evening of the dedication he began studying with 18 others. a series of evangelistic meetings aimed new Minneapolis Junior Academy were at increasing the present membership held May 19, with Dr. Elmer J. Martin- + Seventh-day Adventist nurses in North of 53 to one that will overflow the new son, chairman of the development com- America recently attended the National church. As many as 150 non-Adventists mittee, as master of ceremonies. The Nursing Association meetings in Dallas, have attended each meeting and the first phase of the $350,000 building proj- Texas. While there, they spent a day work- church is setting a goal of 50 baptisms ect is scheduled to be completed and ing over problems related to Adventist by the end of the year. ready for use in 100 days and will serve medical institutions and recent attempts ERNEST N. WENDTH the needs of five churches in the Minne- by labor unions to organize medical per- Departmental Secretary apolis area. sonnel. Michigan Conference L. H. NETTEBURG, Correspondent J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent

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and there was damage done; our large Ephesus church in Harlem has been Ministry of love in Resurrection City threatened; and our large $600,000 church in Atlanta has been threatened. Our efforts in Resurrection City have By E. E. CLEVELAND done much to bring relief to our people. Associate Secretary, GC Ministerial Association Our ministers are no longer getting threat- ening telephone calls, for the work done at Resurrection City has reversed our For the first two weeks that the Poor talked with the minister. He said, "We image at every level of society. People were camped in Resurrection City, want to make it clear to you that our sub- Adventists at Resurrection City did Washington, D.C., after my eight-hour day urban churches will cooperate with the what Seventh-day Adventists have been at the office, I donned my lay activities' Adventists in any way to see that these doing for a hundred years—clothing the Health and Welfare Service uniform and poor people are relieved of their misery." naked, spreading blankets over shivering went down in the cold and the rain to I could go on and on with similar experi- men and women, and speaking words of help bring relief. I stayed until after mid- ences. spiritual encouragement. The Adventists night. While steering clear of politics, we have were not marching, making fiery speeches, The opportunity for Christian Advent- succeeded through this welfare operation or indulging in the politics of the situa- ist ministry to human need was unlimited. in accomplishing many worth-while ob- tion; but just as on the battlefields of the I talked personally to mothers with chil- jectives. world, though we do not believe in war, dren who had never had a sheet on their 1. We have been able to give city offi- we send our young men to minister to beds back where they came from. I con- cials of the District of Columbia a pic- human need, so they helped the Poor Peo- versed with men who had never seen a ture of the broad program of human aid ple. We usually have to look for Poor Peo- doctor before going to our medical van carried on by this church. ple to supply their needs, and with pride and getting treatment for long-standing 2. We have been able to set forth in a at Thanksgiving and Christmas we have illnesses. I stood one evening and watched favorable light the work of Seventh-day taken our Dorcas baskets and bundles to 15 little children, white and Negro, Adventists to the leadership and manage- them. But in Resurrection City we had eagerly sifting through toys and clutching ment of the Poor People's Campaign, who 3,000 of them all in one spot. them to their bosoms as if never to let go. are very vocal in matters affecting human There are those who ask, "But what if One evening about 11:30, with a cold relations in America. peaceful demonstrations become violent drizzle coming down, I was passing out 3. Adventists have become the focal and disruptive? Will this not cast us in a blankets and being closely observed by a point of humanitarianism through which bad light?" It will only enlarge our task, woman from a suburban Protestant 15 or 16 other denominations funneled as in the recent civil disorders. War is church. After about a half hour she came their aid to the needy. violence, but we do not hesitate to aid the up and said, "I certainly wish that my 4. The impressions of Adventists made wounded. Our responsibility is to minister church was organized like the Adventists on the thousands of inhabitants of Resur- to human needs wherever we may find to do this kind of thing. I envy you peo- rection City will be carried back to the them. ple. I have been trying to get my church various parts of this nation. Is not this what Christ would do? members involved, but they just don't 5. We who visited Resurrection City seem to understand." were able to hold conversations with On another evening I was standing by young men who have been and are mem- the medical van when an automobile bers of gangs that roam the streets of our drove up, and a high official stepped out cities, terrorizing honest people. We usu- into the mud and the slosh. He walked up ally had to call in a "translator" to tell us and asked if there was an Adventist doctor how to talk to men at this level of society. on duty. When informed that there were Through our operation at Resurrection other doctors on duty but the Adventist City we had liberal contact with many of doctor had left, he turned and got in the these young men. When they go back to A Loma Linda University School of car with the word, "Well, I'll come back, their cities, Adventist pastors will be able Education will be inaugurated July 1. because I want an Adventist doctor to to converse with them. The new professional school will offer examine me." While we do what we do because we programs leading to Bachelor's and Mas- The vice-mayor of the city of Washing. love people and are interested in human- ter's degrees in several areas of teaching ton was standing in conversation with ity, I think it should be known that the and school administration. certain officials of the Southern Christian bread cast on the waters at Resurrection Williard H. Meier, Ed.D., associate Leadership Conference when someone City is already coming back in many ways. professor of education, is to become the made the suggestion that the Adventist For one, many of our churches, white and dean of the school. George T. Simpson, van should be moved farther back into the Negro, have been saved from destruction. current head of the department, will con- city and away from the entrance to the The men and women who sponsored tinue as a full-time professor. village. The vice-mayor replied, "The Ad- the program at Resurrection City are non- The School of Education will offer a ventists have been helping us from the violent people, but there are organizations diversified major for future elementary very start, and they deserve to be where in the city of Washington that are dedi- school teachers and a straight elementary they are. Keep that van right up front cated to a violent solution to America's education major. At the Master's degree where everybody can see it." racial problems. And because of the previ- level will be curriculums in elementary It was a source of great joy to me to ous image that we have had in the Negro education, secondary education, educa- stand there by the large New Jersey van community of noninvolvement even in tional administration and supervision, and have Methodist and Baptist ministers constructive projects, many of our and student personnel services. and even Catholic priests and nuns walk churches have been in real danger. I feel The new school will have a testing up to me with large boxes of clothing, that we have recovered 80 per cent of the laboratory listing more than 400 stand- delivering them to the Adventist van for ground through this operation at Resur- ardized tests. Other laboratories include distribution to the Poor People in Resur- rection City, not only in the reconstruction those for music education, reading im- rection City and to hear their words of of our image but in the saving of thou- provement, and audio-visual education. commendation and encouragement. sands of dollars in church real estate that The dean-elect is a native of Washing- One evening a large truck backed up to would certainly have gone up in smoke ton, who graduated from Walla Walla the van. It was being driven by a Method- this summer College with a Bachelor of Arts degree ist minister and one of his associates. They Our Negro church in Pittsburgh has al- in history. His Master of Arts degree is got out and asked me, "Where do we put ready been leveled; the Springfield, Ohio, from the University of Washington. In these clothes?" I was able to direct them church has been fire-bombed twice; a 1966 he received the Doctor of Educa- to our van, beside which I stood. We Molotov cocktail was thrown into the tion degree from the University of Cali- helped to unload the truck, after which I DuPont Park church here in Washington, fornia at Los Angeles. 22 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 GENERAL NEWS

Miracles of Grace Result us another opportunity to continue our department, Southwestern Union College, cooperation with God in performing formerly a teacher, Pioneer Valley Acad- From Missions Giving miracles of grace—the Midsummer Of- emy (Massachusetts). fering. We know that "one dollar now is Jack and Wilma McClarty, music and By W. W. FORDHAM of more value to the work than ten dol- education-English departments, South- Associate Secretary lars will be at some future period" western Union College, from graduate N. A. Regional Department (Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 732). school, University of Montana. What I saw in Haiti is the result of My two-and-a-half-month visit to Haiti liberality in the support of worldwide Max Qualley, music teacher, Southwest- this spring for evangelistic meetings in missions. There would have been no ern Union College, from Armona Acad- Port au Prince, the capital, permitted miracles of grace in Haiti had it not emy (Central California). me to associate with a group of dedicated been for the funds to make such a meet- Karl Konrad, chemistry department, and consecrated ministerial workers. Our ing possible. Southwestern Union College, from grad- meetings were conducted in our attrac- uate program, Illinois Institute of Tech- tive evangelistic center, which seats ap- nology. proximately 2,500 and is strategically sit- Boris Pache, modern language depart- uated near the president's palace. ment, Southwestern Union College, from From the initial meeting on Febrnary Kingsway College, Canada. 4 until we completed our ministry in Andrew Leonie, chairman, education Port au Prince, April 14, thousands of department, Southwestern Union College, Haitians, as well as other nationals, from a university in South Africa. packed the center to overflowing. The meetings attracted people from Beverly Beem, instructor, English de- all walks of life. To date more than 450 partment, Southwestern Union College, have been baptized and a new church from graduate program, Andrews Univer- has been organized. In this group are sity. lawyers, teachers, nurses, medical techni- Robert Elliman, speech department in- cians, businessrnen, and government structor, Southwestern Union College, workers, including a government official from Thunderbird Academy (Arizona). with a high position in the department Robert Devlin, biology department in- of education. Public Relations Seminars structor, Southwestern Union College, Miracles of grace became the hallmark from graduate program, University of Ok- of this evangelistic campaign in Port au in the Philippines lahoma. Prince. Here let me relate one experience that made a tremendous impression Two public relations seminars on the Jeannine Dilts, dean of women, South- upon me. mission level were held recently in the western Union College, from Madison A businessman attended our meetings North Philippine Union Mission with Academy (Kentucky-Tennessee). D. A. Roth, Far Eastern Division public and related his experiences with evil (Conference names appear in parentheses.) spirits. He had had some serious reverses relations secretary, as principal speaker. in his business, resulting in the loss of Shown here on the steps of Manila thousands of dollars. Finally in a desper- Center are those who attended the sem- From Home Base to Front Line ate attempt to recover his losses he de- inar in March for the Central Luzon Mis- sion. Most of these had assisted in the cided to seek the aid of a voodoo priest. Australasian Division He was assured that for a sum of money Greater Manila evangelistic crusade. At the power of voodoo would prevail in his the extreme right, front row, is T. C. A. F. Campbell, to be headmaster, behalf, helping him and restoring his Murdoch, union president. Rumba School, Bougainville, Bismark- losses. However, after paying hundreds The other seminar was held in the Solomons Union Mission. Mrs. Campbell of dollars to the voodoo priest, he be- Southern Luzon Mission and was attended and two children left Australia on April came only more deeply involved in dif- by the entire mission staff. 21. ficulties, and upon refusing further pay- The first seminar on the union level Fred Cracknell, to be headmaster, Na- ment, was tormented nightly by evil was held last November. vesau Central School, Suva, Fiji, left April spirits. He despaired for his life. B. B. ALSAYBAR 30. Mrs. Cracknell and their infant Desperately seeking to escape these Departmental Secretary daughter will later join him. terrible encounters with the spirits of North Philippine Union Mission devils, he found his way one evening to North American Division our meetings. From his own testimony he stated that the first sermon he heard Vinston E. Adams (CUC '31), to be gave him the help he so desperately press manager, West Indies College, Man- aa needed, and from that night he never deville, Jamaica; of Takoma Park, Mary- missed a meeting. His encounters with land, left Miami, Florida, May 13. Mrs. the evil spirits ceased, and now he is re- NtliMPAIP-.11111 Adams will join him later. joicing as a baptized believer. I saw this Ronald Desmond Marx (CUC '68), in miracle of grace. the United States on study leave, return- Roy V. Brasher, associate publishing In a land rich in heritage, where black ing as assistant treasurer, Trans-Africa leader (Central California), formerly a men bled and died for freedom from the Division. Mrs. Marx, nee Lenora Myra colporteur. evil yoke of slavery, the third angel's mes- Beardsell (Helderberg College '52), and sage is setting hundreds free front the Don V. Moran, associate publishing two sons sailed on the S.S. African Dawn slavery of voodooism and apostate Chris- leader (Central California), formerly a from New York City, May 14. tianity. These miracles of grace that I colporteur. Mrs. Elva Babcock Gardner (UC '38), witnessed in Haiti are being repeated in Ellsworth S. Reile, president (Carolina), many lands today under the power of the to be relief teacher, Inyazura School, Rho- formerly MV and temperance secretary desia; of Collegedale, Tennessee, left Holy Spirit. (Southern Union). Miracles of grace such as we experi- Washington, D.C., May 19. W. B. Johnson, pastor, New Port Richey Donald A. Short (SMC '59; AU '60), enced in Haiti are made possible by the (Florida), formerly president (Carolina). liberal sacrificial gifts of Adventists returning as editor, Africa Herald Pub- around the earth. What a rich dividend D. E. Holland, MV and temperance lishing House, Kenya. Mrs. Short, nee we reap in men saved by our liberality secretary (Southern Union), formerly MV Janice Eileen Black (SMC '61), and two to missions! secretary (Kentucky-Tennessee). children left Washington, D.C., May 20. Sabbath, July 13, will bring to each of Harold Keplinger, industrial education C. 0. FRANZ

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New Jersey COX Ira-b. Dec. 11, 1892, Indiana; d. May 5, CAMP MEETING SCHEDULE Garden State Academy 1968, dlendale, Calif. Survivors are his wife, Eliza- Box 10, Tranquility (07879) July 18-27 beth; and three sons, Paul, Ronald, and Rodney. Atlantic Union DETWILER, Sallie C.-b. Nov. 16, 1873 Phila- Greater New York Lake Union delphia, Pa.; d. Jan. 2, 1968. She is survived by Spanish, Berkshire Camp, Wingdale July 7-13 Illinois five daughters, Lillie Wynne, Eva Knopf, Anna Little Grassy Lake Reeser, Sarah Hanson, and Louella Scott. [Obituary Route 1, Box 228, Makanda (62958) August 14-17 received May 22, 1968.-Ens.] Canadian Union Michigan Alberta EVANS, Cora-b. April 28, 1908, Lancaster, Canadian Union College, Lacombe July 12-20 Grand Ledge Academy, Saginaw Highway Grand Ledge (48837) July 11-20 Ohio; died April 16, 1968, there. Her husband, Peace River (8 miles south of Wanham) July 25.28 Wisconsin Ralph, survives as well as a daughter, Mrs. Leon Beauvallon (on Highway 45, 2 miles west) July 25-28 Myers. British Columbia SDA Campgrounds, Portage (53901) August 1-10 Hope, British Columbia, SDA Campground FAIRCHILD, Blanche-b, Jan. 27, 1889, West Nelson Street July 19-27 North Pacific Union Unity, Ohio; d. March 23, 1968, Mount Vernon, Manitoba-Saskatchewan Washington Ohio. Survivors are two daughters, Lucille Gibson Saskatoon, Saskatchewan SDA Campground Auburn Academy, Auburn (98002) July 11-20 and Rachel Eve. Herman Avenue and Millard Street July 5-13 FERGUSON, Cora-b. 1874, Mattawan, Mich.; d. Clear Lake, Manitoba, SDA Campground Pacific Union Feb. 13, 1968, Traverse City, Mich. Arizona Riding Mountain ational Park July 17-20 FIGUHR, Richard A. Jr.-b. Jan. 1, 1947, Palo Maritime Prescott (86301) August 8-17 Alto, Calif.; d. May 6, 1968, Southampton, England, Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Gulf Shore Road Central California while on a mission in an army ambulance heli- R.R. 4 August 2-10 Soquel (95073) August 1-10 Hawaiian Mission copter. Survivors are his parents, Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Newfoundland Mission Figuhr; a sister, Rae Lee Cooper; and grand- St. John's, Newfoundland Kauai August 30 31 Hawaii parents, Elder and Mrs. R. R. Figuhr and Mrs. 106 Freshwater Road August 9.11 September 6, 7 Frank J. Stump. Maui September 13, 14 Central Union Molokai-Lanai September 20, 21 GILLIT, Charles Melvin-b. Dec. 22, 1929, Har- Central States Oahu September 27, 28 lingen, Tex.; d. April 10, 1968, Madison, Tenn. In Nevada-Utah 1952 he received his B.S. degree from Pacific Union Edwardsville, Kansas, Camp Shady Hill Springville, Utah 84663 College. In 1956 he received his M.D. degree from 8726 Osage Drive (66022) July 4-13 July 22-27 Wyoming Northern California the College of Medical Evangelists. Survivors are Mills Spring Camp, Casper (82601) Philo July 24-27 his wife, Patricia Joan Clark Gillit; a son, Gary Fortuna July 30-August 3 Paul; and three daughters, Terri Lee, Ginger Ann, (13 miles south of Casper on Lodi and Gina Rae. Mountain Park Road) July 10-14 August 9, 10 Southern California GURR, Daniel Wayne-b. Nov. 8, 1961, Redding, No Meetings Columbia Union Calif.; d. Jan. 25, 1968, there. Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lester Gurr; a sister; and a Chesapeake Southwestern Union brother. Catonsville, Maryland Oklahoma HORNE, Dewey Marion-b. Nov. 13, 1902, La- 24 Fusting Avenue (21228) July 18.27 Oklahoma City August 2-10 Salle Parish, La.; d. March 16, 1968, West Monroe, La. A son, Edward, and a daughter, Aline Pring- field, survive. HUMMEL, Bernita-b. Dec. 12, 1891, Deweyville, Ohio; d. March 10, 1968, Findlay, Ohio. Survivors are two sons. Richard and Gerald. Union College for a year. Then for five years he JOHNSON, Sylvia-b. Feb. 10, 1888. Survivors are worked at the College Press Takoma Park, Md. In four daughters. Mrs. Alfred Hasenburg Mrs. David 1947 he transferred to the review and Herald Pub- Tims, Mrs. John Zielinski, and Mrs. Florian Berger; lishing Association. He was the first pastor of the and two sons, Oscar and John. Damascus, Md., church. In 1950 he was called to work at the Philippine Publishing House, where he LEWIS, Edson-b. Feb. 7, 1892, Bridgewater, S. was manager for two years and then was plant Dak.; d. April 25, 1968. Surviving are a daughter, superintendent. After his return to the United Jane Cunnington; and a son, Warren. States, he was appointed as an estimator in the pro- LINDSAY, Bertha Almeda Shepard-b. ;rube 30, duction office of the Review and Herald. Survivors 1877, Battle Creek, Mich.; d. April 21, 1968, Madi- ABBOTT, Kenneth Harvey-b. Dec. 9, 1911, Na- are his wife; son, James; twin daughters, Linda Gay son, Wis. In 1906 she married Dr. W. T. Lindsay. tional City, Calif.;. March 3, 1968, Glendale, Calif. and Cheerie Lou; and his parents, Elder and Mrs. They were connected with the Madison Sanitarium He received his B.A.. degree from Pacific Union Col- H. J. Capman. and later worked at the Chamberlain Sanitarium, lege in 1931 and his medical degree from the Col- CARDEY, Carol Porter-b. July 6, 1887, Cam- Chamberlain, S. Dak. There she was matron and ge Medical).n nely Evangelistsin i married bridge, N.Y.; d. May 3, 1968, St. Helena, Calif. She anesthetist. In 1912 they again joined the Madison Mariann 1933.He npracticed l6 ntar io taught church schools in New York and California. Sanitarium at Madison, Wis. Survivors are her hus- California, until 1941, when he became a Fellow in She married Elder E. L. Cardey in 1955. He sur- band; and two daughters, Mrs. Glen Curry and Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic. During World War II vives. Mrs. Otis Crary. he served with the 47th General Hospital and then CARPENTER, George M., Jr.-b. June 16, 1916, MATTSSON, Karl E.-b. July 14, 1874, Sweden; with a surgical hospital, participating in the in- Victoria, Tex. He attended Southwestern Junior Col- d. April 25, 1968, Dinuba, Calif, He came to vasions of Leyte and Luzon in the Philippines. In lege and received his B.A. degree from Union America in 1921 to teach the Swedish language 1958 he joined the Department of Neurosurgery of College in 1949. He received his Master's degree and mathematics at our Broadview, Illinois, school. Loma Linda University, where he served until his from Texas Wesleyan College. In 1944 he married He is survived by his daughter, Margaret Wonderly. death. Through his writing and teaching he was Gladys Moore. He was principal of Dallas Junior MC CRARY, Patricia Mabel-b. Oct. 29, 1896, known to nearly every neurosurgeon in the United Academy, taught at Southwestern Junior College, States. Survivors are his wife• four children, Dr. Dublin, Ireland; d. April 21. 1968. Survivors are was principal of Hurst Elementary School and prin- her husband, Leo; and a son, Robert McLeod. Kenneth, Jr., John, James, and 'Julie; five grandchil- cipal of La Sierra Elementary Demonstration School. dred; and a sister, Irma Osborne. He is survived by his wife; son, George Carpenter MC CULLAUGH, Lauritz Boysin-b. Oct. 1, ABBOTT, Reginald E.-b. April 2, 1912; d. April III; and daughter, Kathryn. 1898, Danbury, Ohio; d. Feb. 21, 1968, Akron, 24, 1968. Survivors are his wife, Margaret; a daugh- CLARK, Frances Mabel Nay-b. Aug. 6, 1885, Ohio. Survivors are his wife, Marion; a daughter, ter, Regina McGriff; and three sons, Ronald, Wis.; d. April 4, 1968, National City, Calif. Sur- Rosemary Glen; and four sons, Charles, David, James R., and Gerry J. Abbott. vivors, in addition to her husband, Manville, are a George, and Michael. AMUNDSEN, Catherine-b. Sept. 11, 1886, Wal- daughter, Evelyn Morse; and two sons, Richard A. MC KEE, A. D.-b. April 27, 1906, McDonald, lace, S. Dak.• d. May 13, 1968, Long Beach, Calif. Nay and Raleigh E. Nay. Miss.; d. April 17, 1968. Portland, Tenn. He was a Survivors are' her husband, Halfdan; a son, Howard; COOPER Enlow Grubbs-b. Dec. 7, 1912, Callo- graduate of Southern junior College. In 1929 he and a daughter, Marguerite Dills. way, Ky.; ci. April 8, 1968, Collegedale, Tenn. Two married Helen Swain. Ile was called to the minis- ARMSTRONG, Eva Webber-b. Jan. 16, 1885, sons, John and Charles, survive. try in 1930 and served in the Georgia-Cumberland Corvallis, Oreg.; d. April 23, 1968, Tonasket, Wash. COOPER, Helen Wright-b. Sept. 10, 1920, Paint- Conference. In 1943 he was ordained. He also held Survivors are her husband and two daughters, rock, Ala.; d. April 8, 1968, Collegedale, Tenn. A pastorates in the Alabama-Mississippi and Carolina Claudine Brendel and Bonnie Alljier. daughter, Sandra Cobos, survives. conferences. For the past ten years he has been BARTO, Nora-b. Nov. 11. 1891, Oreg.• d. chaplain of Highland Hospital. Survivors are his COPELAND, Gertrude-b. March 17, 1910, wife; son, Robert E. McKee; three daughters, Mrs. March 27, 1968, Piqua: Ohio. She served with' her Springfield, Ill.; d. Jan. 30, 1968 Hialeah, Fla. Sur- husband, Elder Barto, in the Carolina and Georgia- Lee Davis, Mrs. Larry Highsmith, and Mrs. Don vivors are her husband, Ray R. Copeland, Sr.; three Taylor, Cumberland conferences. Survivors are a daughter, sons, Ray, Robert Lee, and William Lee' and a Mary Newby; and three sons, Leonard, Loren, and daughter, Rose Mosely. [Obituary received May 16, MC KINLEY, Eva Enos-b. Tuly 12. 1894. Milo, Robert. 1968.-Ens .j Ill.; d. April 28, 1968, Rapid City, S. Dak. In 1913 BENSON, Bess-b. Feb. 22. 1885. Marissa, Ill.; she married Leslie L. McKinley. Elder and Mrs. d. April 8 1968, Redding, Calif. Survivors are a COURVILLE, Cyril Brian-b. Feb. 10. 1900, McKinley spent 44 years in the ministry. Survivors daughter, Enid Nelson; and two sons, Dr. Orron R., Traverse City, Mich.; d. March 22, 1968, Glendale are her husband and a daughter, Donna Jean and Harold J. Benson. Calif. He graduated from Cedar Lake Academy and Roath. took premedical training at Emmanuel Missionary BOYTE. Clara Blanche-b. July 24. 1881, Oxford, College. He completed medical training at the Col- MEADOWS, Lilly-b. March 2, 1886, Shropshire, Ind.; d. May 23, 1968, Memphis, Tenn. Survivors lege of Medical Evangelists, took a three-year course England; d. April 13. 1968, Youngstown, Ohio. Sur- are a son, Charles J., Jr.; and a daughter, Irma in neuropathology, neurology, and neurosurgery, and vivors are a son, Jack; and a daughter, Nellie Kaminski. returned to teach at his alma mater. He was the Beech. BRENNER, Edwin-b. July 14. 1889, Massillon, author of a score of books, one of which is the Ohio; d. April 4, 1968, Kenton, Ohio. Survivors are standard textbook on neuropathology. In 1934 he MESERAULL, Carrie A.-b. Dec. 2, 1888. Gratiot his wife, Cora; and a son, Lester. founded the Cajal Laboratory of Neuropathology. County, Mich.; d. May 3, 1968, Flushing, Mich. Survivors are two children, Reo, and Leota Clark. BRITTINGHAM, Daisy C.-b. Oct. 16, 1893; d. He served his Alumni Association as its president, April 1, 1968, Manchester, Ohio. and at the time of his death was an associate editor MEYER, Christian Frederick-b. Aug. 27, 1881, of the Alumni Journal. He helped to organize the Eisenstaten, Germany; d. April 29, 1968, Hagers- BURKE, Bonnie Petcoff-b. Bulgaria; d. May 12, SDA Medical Cadet Corps, and with fellow faculty 1968, Santa Cruz, Calif. Survivors are her husband, town, Md. Survivors are his wife, Sarah K. Meyer; William; and three daughters, Grace Cafferky, Mary members founded the 47th General Hospital Unit, and the six daughters of his first wife, Margaret which served in New Guinea and the Philippines Gaskin, Chaney, and Betty Feyen. during World War H. Dr. Walter E. Dandy, of CAPMAN, Elmer Howard-b. 1919, Picton, Ont., Johns Hopkins University, referred to Dr. Courville MOORE, Walter Thomas-b. March 8, 1912, Canada; d. May 19, 1968, Silver Spring, Md. He at- as "the world's greatest neuropathologist." Survivors Clarkton, Mo.; d. April 30, 1968. Survivors are his tended Atlantic Union College, and in 1941 married are his wife, Margaret Farnsworth Courville, and a wife, Clarkie, four sons, and two daughters. Vera Griswold. He taught printing at Atlantic brother, Dr. Donovan Courville. (Continued on page 30) 24 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 4, 1968 Are

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IN REMEMBRANCE tary of the General Conference Medical WILMA& Department. (Continued from page 24) Of Wesley I. Amundsen, author of the ar- PARADIS, Emma M.-b. Feb. 14, 1887, Iron ticle "Man's Inhumanity" (page 12), has Mountain, Mich.; d. April 20, 1968, Flint, Mich. Aid:taws, awl Survivors are two sons, Joseph A. and Joseph E. recently retired from the positions of secre- Paradis. tary-treasurer of the Association of Self- PETERSON, Stanley Robert-b. March 30, 1913, MciattEcusts_ Seattle, Wash.; d. May 10, 1968. He attended Au- Supporting Institutions (A.S.I.) and as burn Academy and in 1938 graduated from Walla secretary of the North American Missions Walla College. In 1939 he married Agnes Kruger and they began denominational work in Boise, Theodore R. Flaiz, M.D., who writes Committee. The A.S.I. promotes the in- Idaho, where he was a teacher. Following this he "Preserving the Successful Marriage" terests of self-supporting enterprises oper- was principal of schools in Spokane and Yakima, Washington. He became principal of Walla Walla (page 4), was secretary of the General ated by Seventh-day Adventists in the Academy in 1943 and in 1946 joined the faculty Conference Medical Department before United States and Canada, and the Mis- of Walla Walla College. He received his Master's degree from the SDA Seminary in 1950. He joined his retirement in 1966. A native of Med- sions Committee serves the foreign-speak- the faculty of Loma Linda University in 1954 ford, Minnesota, and a graduate of Walla ing, Jewish, Eskimo, Indian, and deaf teaching in the division of religion. Survivors are his wife; daughter, Judith Grossboll; and son, Walla College (1917), he began work for populations of the United States and Robert Stanley. the denomination as a minister in the Canada. PICKNEY, Jessie Alice McConnell-b. July 18, 1885, Caney, Kans.; d. Jan. 20, 1968, Dallas, Tex. Upper Columbia Conference in 1917. Two Elder Amundsen has also served as She graduated from Keene Academy, Texas, in years later he took the position of direc- teacher, pastor, or evangelist in the Min- 1911. Previous to this she had studied nursing at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Before her marriage tor of the Telugu Mission in India. After nesota, Texas, Southwestern Union, and to Ed Pickney, in 1921, she taught church school working in the South India Union Mis- Kentucky-Tennessee conferences. He was and was a Bible instructor and colporteur in Arl kansas and Texas. [Obituary received May 17, sion for 13 years (during which time he president of the Texico Conference from 1968.-Ens.] was ordained), he returned to Loma Linda 1937 to 1939 and president of Madison PRIDE, Minnie-b. June 18, 1880, Michigan and obtained his medical degree in 1937. Town, Ind.; d. Feb. 23, 1968, Youngstown, Ohio, College from 1950 to 1951. She and her husband, Birdwell Pride, served for a For two years after his graduation he Enthusiasm for the REVIEW is strong, number of years as literature evangelists in Ohio. served as assistant to the president of even in India. In a recent letter I. Kana- RAYMOND, George Ernest-b. Sept. 28, 1889, Kankekee, Ill.; d. March 18, 1968, Bastrop, La. the College of Medical Evangelists in garayan Moses, general field secretary of Survivors are his wife, Allie Jane; son, Ernest Eu- Loma Linda. the Southern Asia Division, told of a gene; and seven daughters, Libby Coyle, Emma Detomatis, Helen Schmitz, Dorothy Ried, Edith From Loma Linda Dr. Flaiz went to most interesting bird that comes to his Birkes, Ruth Stanert, and Mary Pearman. Yakima Valley, Washington, to set up a estate in early morning hours and sings ROBINSON. Allen R.-d. April 4, 1968, Loma Linda, Calif. Survivors are his wife, Kathryn; and private practice of medicine. While there a song that sounds like "take REVIEW," four sons, Paul E., Dale M., Lynn R„ and Willis L. he also served as medical examiner for or "eat REVIEW." "Every time I hear this Robinson. the Yakima Valley Draft Board. From I think of your office and how appropriate SATTERFIELD, Ernest 11.-b. Feb. 9, 1899, Greenville, S.C.; d. May 1, 1968. Survivors are his 1944 to 1947 he was medical secretary of it would be to have this bird in a cage wife, Mrs. Jimmy Eubanks Satterfield; two daugh- the Southern Asia Division and medical in the lounge of the Review and Herald ters, Mrs. Clyde England and Mrs. Emily Larson; and three sons, Dr. E. Wayne, Burris H., and director at Giffard Memorial Hospital, to sing his song as people visit your plant," Curtis T. Satterfield. Nuzvid, India. In 1947 he became secre- said Elder Moses. SHROYER, Ruth Joan Shingleton-b. Nov. 22, 1893; d. Feb. 21, 1968. A daughter, Ruth Ann Murchland, survives. SPELL, Minnie Elgin-b. Jan. 14. 1884, Winfield, Kans.; d. Feb. 26. 1968. She is survived by three daughters, Helen, Ethel, and Gladys. STEARNS, Sadie-b. April 4, 1882, Trilly, Ill.; d. Review 4EtArmAti_ April 10. 1968. Traverse City, Mich. In 1960 she Heald married Hugh Stearns, a minister. They labored in In 1849 a company of Sabbathkeeping Adventists began to publish a paper called The Present Truth. In 1850 Michigan, Kentucky, and Illinois. Survivors are two they also published five issues of The Advent Review. Later that year. in November, these two papers merged daughters, Mrs. Paul Peterson and Mrs. Silas Gag- under the name Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, now titled simply REVIEW AND HERALD. Its editorial non; and two sons, Howard and Hugh. objective remains unchanged-to preach "the everlasting gospel" in the context of the Sabbath, the Second STRAUSS, Ethel-b. Oct. 7, 1890, Shreve, Ohio; Advent, and other truths distinctive of the Advent Movement. d. March 14, 1968, Wooster, Ohio. STRAUSS, Martha Harriet-b. Dec. 5, 1909, Wooster, Ohio; d. March 20, 1968, Cleveland. Ohio. EDITOR: KENNETH H. WOOD TITUS, Donald Robert-b. Jan. 21, 1947; d. March 8, 1968, Vietnam. Survivors are his parents, Associate Editors: DON F. NEUFELD Mr. and Mrs. John Titus, and a sister, Sharon. F. DONALD YOST VAN METER, Donald D.-d. May 9, 1968, Ft. Hood, Tex. Survivors are his wife, Carmela; and Consulting Editors: ROBERT H. PIERSON, F. L. BLAND two sons, Grant and Don, Jr. VANZANT, Ova E.-b. Nov. 9, 1911. Ohio; d. M. V. CAMPBELL, THEO. CARCICH March 15, 1968, Williamsburg, Ohio. He is sur- R. S. WATTS, NEAL C. WILSON vived by his wife, Lora May; and a son, Lonnie E. Vanza nt. Editorial Secretaries: DOROTHY EMMERSON WELCH, Mabel S.-d. May 16, 1968, Mount Vernon, Ohio, aged 88. Survivors are her husband, IDAMAE MELENDY Charles E. Welch; and a daughter, Olive Benson. WENTLAND, Clara E.-b. Sept. 1. 1886, Berlin, Layout Artist: RAYMOND C. HILL Wis.; d. Feb. I, 1968. 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OssoRN to continue the conference intact for at churches are meeting regularly, and both least two more years. At the end of this members and pastors are carrying on period the matter will again be carefully God's work despite all obstacles. Investment in Northern reviewed. We are endeavoring to obtain the neces- Europe Shows Increase According to Cree Sandefur, Columbia sary permission to send in food and other Union Conference president, the admin- urgently needed supplies. A recent letter from B. B. Beach, Sab- istrative and departmental staff will be B. B. BEACH bath school secretary of the Northern somewhat reduced and several committees European Division, gives the following will be studying how best to cope with report on Investment statistics showing financial and organizational problems. Surinam Hears SDA Message the first quarter, 1968, compared with NEAL C. WILSON the same quarter, 1967: for First Time on Television British Union Conference 75 per cent increase Ethiopian Union Mission 300 per cent increase Adventists' beliefs were recently heard Finland Union Conference 250 per cent increase Work Continues in Nigeria Greenland Mission started (nothing last year) on TV for the first time in Surinam, on Iceland Conference 60 per cent increase Despite Hardships of War the northern coast of South America. Netherlands Union Conference 50 per cent increase Swedish Union Conference started (practically Though cut off from the outside world The opportunity developed after a nothing last year) minister of another church, appearing on West Nordic Union Conference 150 per cent increase and closed in by the bloody Nigerian civil West African Union Mission 85 per cent increase strife, Dr. Sherman Nagel and his wife "A Word From the Church," attacked belief in the soon coming of Jesus Christ The over-all increase is approximately have remained unswervingly at their post 110 per cent. It is hoped that Sabbath of duty in Biafra, East Nigeria, and have and specifically mentioned the Adventists as though they were fanatics. schools throughout the world will not kept the North Ngwa County Hospital only reach but go beyond the 2-million open. They are the only Adventist mis- A number of people were upset be- mark during 1969. cause of this attack on our faith. Im- sionaries still in Biafra. G. R. NASH Their youngest son, 13-year-old Jimmy, mediately the Adventists wrote a letter to a plucky little soldier of the cross, has the TV station and to the National Com- been with them during these difficult mittee of Christian Churches, which spon- times of war and isolation. On May 23, sors this program, to express their concern. VBS Enrollment is 6,000 thanks to the assistance of the Interna- Soon the minister called the president of in 52 California Schools tional Red Cross, he was able to leave the Surinam Mission and apologized. Vacation Bible Schools are off to a good Biafra. The DC-4 transport plane in Arrangements were made that he and I start this summer. James Hardin, Sabbath which he left had to take off from a high- would appear together on "A Word From school secretary of the Southern California way temporarily closed to car traffic. After the Church" so that we could state the Conference, states, "You will be happy to two weeks he arrived safely in Europe, reasons for our belief in the soon coming know that we have 52 Vacation Bible where he was issued a passport. of Christ. Schools scheduled this summer. Last year Jimmy is the first person who has been So it happened that on March 28 the we had 37, which means an increase of 15. able to provide the Northern European Advent message was heard on television It appears that we will have close to 6,000 Division office (responsible for the work for the first time in the history of our boys and girls enrolled." in West Africa) with an eyewitness account work in Surinam. Since this program we Vacation Bible Schools are a challenge regarding our work in that area. have had numerous favorable reactions and a real opportunity. In the United The hospital is overflowing with pa- and many people think differently about States more than 60 million children, 14 tients. Dr. Nagel and his overworked staff Seventh-day Adventists. We hope that years old and under, look to you to give are doing a Herculean job, but they are eventually we may be able to have our them something worth while this summer. beginning to run short of some medicines own program on the only TV station of Is your church planning a VBS? We hope the country. so. Do not disappoint the children in your Until now only the four churches that neighborhood! form the National Committee of Chris- FERNON D. RETZER tian Churches have spoken for all faiths, but the station manager has said that plans will be worked on to give other IN BRIEF churches—among them the Seventh-day Adventists—the opportunity to appear + Susie S. Nelson, wife of William E. on television. Nelson, who for 14 years was treasurer P. M. VAN BEMMELEN of the General Conference, died June 12 at Sanitarium, California. Her husband predeceased her in 1953. Midsummer Offering Will + A few months after reaching her 100th Be Received July 13 birthday, Sarah Elizabeth Peck, one of the early Adventist women missionaries, who The annual Midsummer Offering for went to South Africa in 1892, died June the advancement of the Seventh-day Ad- 17 at St. Helena Sanitarium in California. Jimmy Nagel reports to R. Unnersten, North- ventist world-wide mission program is to Her picture and a story of her life ap- ern European Division treasurer, and B. B. be received in all churches July 13. A peared in the April 27 issue of the REVIEW Beach (left) about conditions in Biafra. liberal offering on that day will help make (pp. 15, 16). See also June 27, p. 13.

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