GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

A group of children and adults in the Gold Coast listen attentively as a teacher explains the gospel by means of a Picture Roll. Mrs. J. 0. Gibson is seated with the group. This is in a new village where the work is just being opened. Activity in the Gold Coast

By T. L. OSWALD, Secretary Home Missionary Department, General Conference

N COMPANY with Elder and Mrs. can leaders associated with these Eu- nine churches and companies were in Edgar Keslake, I recently visited ropean workers. They are doing fine attendance. Never have I seen people I the interior of the Gold Coast Mis- work as teachers in the school. More more anxious to learn ways to become sion, West Africa. Our first stop than three hundred young people are better soul winners. They took was at Bekwai. Here is located the in attendance. Teachers, pastors, and notes and asked many questions in Bekwai Training School, dedicated to district leaders, all get their training regard to giving the message to their the preparation of our young people in this school. An excellent work is neighbors. Every one in attendance for the work of God. There are two being done by the European and Af- had won some souls during the past missionary families here—Brother rican teachers. two years. and Sister A. V. Sparks, from New From Bekwai we went farther On Sabbath morning many of our York, and Brother and Sister J. Far- into the interior of Agogo, where we people from the surrounding vil- rell, from Britain. The dean of held our first home missionary insti- lages attended the services. The chief, women, Ruth Smith, is from the tute. All the pastors and district lead- with his elders, was also in attendance. States. ers, a number of teachers from the He pleaded that a training school and There is a capable group of Afri- schools, and delegates from thirty- (Continued on page 24) VOL. 133, NO. 35 AUGUST 30, 1956

108th Year of Continuous Publication Vol. 133, No. 35 August 30, 1956 1 ,I IJ FOR THE WEEK [Based on phrases in well-known hymns.—EDITORS.]

COVER Activity in the Gold Coast "Take Thou the Side of God" GENERAL ARTICLES Page 3 Are You Hastening Christ's Coming?—The Sacredness of Wedlock—Healing Needed, It is reported that one of the placards in Spiritual and Physical—God Forgives Confessed Sin—On the Religious Front—Our Faith- a General Motors plant reads as follows: "Ac- ful Shepherds cording to the theory of aerodynamics, and EDITORIALS Page 8 as can readily be proven by wind tunnel Answering Questions Is Not Easy—From the Editor's Mailbag—"Every Work Into Judg- experiments, the Bumble Bee is unable to ment" fly. This is because the size of its wings in relation to the size of its body makes flying SABBATH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Page 10 impossible. But the Bumble Bee, being unac- SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 11 quainted with these scientific truths, goes Christ and the Sabbath ahead and flies anyway and gathers a little OUR HOMES Page 12 honey every day." The Double Reward of Hospitality—"But" Every child of God is acquainted with. FOR ADVENTIST YOUTH AND JUNIORS Page 14 Satan's list of "impossibles." One of his favor- Choose . . . the Best—The Late Mr. —Rogue Elephant! ite arguments is that no one can maintain FEATURE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Page 16 a genuine Christian experience in modern "As the Days of a Tree" business and industry and be successful. TO YOUR HEALTH Page 18 That taunt is almost sustained when we think "Operation Back to School" of the subtle and devious ways in which evil is masked and justice perverted in busi- NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD Page 19 A Visit With the Davis Indians—Japanese Nurses Carry Message in Song—My Trip to ness, government, and public enterprise. We Nepal—First Ordinations for Borneo—Literature Ministry in the Congo Union—Fruitage lament the apparently hopeless task of any- Amid Persecution—Report From Alberta—Junction City, Kansas, Church Dedicated— one's achieving favor and eminence who Music in My Bible—Prospectus Creates Interest in Message—Salinas, California—In Brief lives in strict moral rectitude. —In Remembrance—Notices—Correction—Church Calendar for 1956 Yet from the days of Joseph and Moses POETRY and Daniel, men who lived spiritually strong Job's Hope and Mine, p. 3; Praise, p. 4. amid a corrupt environment, there have been witnesses to the power of the gospel to make men and women valiant in doing exploits for God. Their wonderful record of devotion and spiritual victory gives the lie to every challenge of the evil one. The greatest and most incontrovertible argument against the charge that a thing cannot be done is the evidence that it is being done. FRANCIS DAVID NICHOL, Editor Satan whispers that it is impossible to keep the Sabbath and to care adequately for one's FREDERICK LEE, Associate Editor R. R. FIGUHR, Consulting Editor family, even in the face of the fact that KENNETH H. WOOD, JR., Assistant Editor J. L. McELHArry, Contributing Editor PROMISE KLOSS SHERPAAN, Editorial Secretary countless thousands are doing it. He argues. that it is foolish to try to be happy while SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS relinquishing worldly pleasures, yet multi- C. H. WATSON, W. H. BRANSON, W. R. BEACH,D. E. REBOK, C. L. TORREY, L. K. DICKSON, A. L. HAM, tudes who never before knew joy are rejoic- W. B, OCHS, A. V. OLSON, H. L. RUDY, E. D. DICK, PRESIDENTS OF ALL DIVISIONS ing in the happiness of obedience to God. "IN BRIEF" CORRESPONDENTS He ridicules as improvident fools those who. OVERSEAS: AUSTRALASIA: R. R. FRAME; FAR EASTERN: C. P. SORENSEN; INTER-AMERICA: CLYDE 0. FRANZ; pay tithes out of meager wages, but the MIDDLE EAST: A. GORDON ZYTKOSKEEI NORTHERN EUROPE: E. B. RUDGE; SOUTH AMERICA: L. H. OLSON; prosperity of believers who follow that gospel SOUTHERN AFRICA: W. DUNCAN EVA; SOUTHERN ASIA: J. F. ASHLOCK; SOUTHERN EUROPE: MARIuS FRIDLIN plan of finance makes his taunts absurd. NORTH AMERICAN UNIONS: ATLANTIC: MISS LAURA M. DROWN; CANADIAN: MRS. EVELYN M. BOWLES; CENTRAL: MRS. CLARA ANDERSON; COLUMBIA: DON A. ROTH; LAKE: MRS. MILDRED WADE; NORTHERN: L. H NETTEBTJRG; Nothing good is impossible to him who can NORTH PACIFIC: MRS. IONE MORGAN; PACIFIC: MISS OPAL STONE; SOUTHERN: MISS CLARA CF.AwFORD; say with Paul, "I can do all things through SOUTHWESTERN: H. E. SCHNEIDER Christ which strengtheneth me" (Phil. 4:13). To OUR CONTRIBUTORS H. M. TIPPETT As the chronicler of the history of the church, the attend and the name of their pastor or local elder. 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Printed every Thursday by the Review and Herald Publishing Association at Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. U.S.A. Entered as second-class matter August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington 12, D.C., under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Vol. 133, No. 35. Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit- Copyright, 1956, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington, 12, D.C. bearing trees.--Saadi. 2 REVIEW AND HERALD Are You Hastening Christ's Coming ?

By H. E. DOUGLASS

In the central reading room of the sounding for more than one hundred years to send Jesus back to this world, Library of Congress, in Washington, years, yet Christ has not come. This but God's people have not done their D.C., just above a statue personifying delay never was part of the will of duty or prepared themselves fully for History, are found Tennyson's last God. (See Evangelism, pages 695, His coming. lines of In Memoriam: 696.) The message of the Scriptures to "One God, one law, one element, Frequently, the pen of Ellen G. the Adventist is: "Since all these And one far-off divine event, White traces the sad story, that these things are thus to be dissolved, what To which the whole creation moves." many years of lingering in this world sort of persons ought you to be in need never have been. In 1883 she lives of holiness and godliness, wait- In the mind of Tennyson, history wrote that if the messengers of 1844 ing for and hastening the coming of was the story of God and man moving had continued in faith and had the day of God" (2 Peter 3:11, 12, irresistibly in huinan affairs toward a preached with strength the genuine R.S.V.). If we have the opportunity glorious climax. Whatever the poet third angel's message, "the Lord to hasten the Advent by lives of holi- may have had in mind, to the Advent- would have wrought mightily with ness and godliness, conversely we may ist these eloquent lines express the their efforts, the work would have delay His return by lives that are not hope of Christ's second coming, to been completed and Christ would models of godliness. which is connected the grand mission have come ere this."—Ibid., p. 695. The messenger of the Lord tells of heralding the Advent message. Again she wrote before 1900: "Had us: "Christ is waiting with longing It is the Adventist's duty not only the church of Christ done her ap- desire for the manifestation of Him- to proclaim the fact of that divine pointed work as the Lord ordained, self in His church. When the charac- event—the return of Jesus—but also the whole world would before this ter of Christ shall be perfectly repro- to reveal the conditions which deter- have been warned, and the Lord duced in His people, then He will mine how soon or late He will return. Jesus would have come to our earth come to claim them as His own. Have we not heard many sermons on in power and great glory."—The De- "It is the privilege of every Chris- the fact of Christ's return, but exceed- sire of Ages (1940), pp. 633, 634. tian not only to look for, but to has- ingly few on the conditions which Thus it must be crystal clear that ten the coming of our Lord Jesus may hasten or delay His return? we cannot blame God for this delay. Christ. . . . Were all who profess His Christ's return is long overdue, and All heaven has been waiting for many name bearing fruit to His glory, how the very people who have the most to quickly the whole world would be gain by His return have become the sown with the seed of the gospel. instrument of delaying this great Job's Hope and Mine Quickly the last great harvest would event. be ripened, and Christ would come to How many years has it been pos- By I. A. CRANE gather the precious grain."—Christ's sible for a man on this earth to say, Object Lessons, p. 69. I know that my Redeemer lives; "Jesus can come in my day"? To I see that day at hand Here we find the key to the delay preach the return of Jesus as that one When He, the mighty Son of God, in last-day events. There can never be divine event to which the whole cre- On earth again shall stand. effective preaching without effective ation moves, was the mission of Paul living of the message preached. and Peter, of James and John, of With Job I know that if the worms The Holy Spirit is careful as to the Polycarp and Irenaeus. It has been This body turn to dust, instruments through whom He works. the mission of the unnumbered hosts In flesh again I'll see my God, The latter rain and the loud cry will of that "endless line of splendor" My Lord in whom I trust. come only when God can find enough which have made up the faithful And I shall see Him for myself, people in the church to whom He church through the centuries. But My own eyes shall behold, can trust His power. they could not truthfully say, "Jesus And not what other eyes have seen For six thousand years heaven has can come in our day." Wycliffe, Lu- Or other tongues have told. been eagerly looking for a generation ther, Wesley, and others also looked of men who will completely reflect for Jesus to come—but not in their Job shrank from centuries of strife; the righteousness of God. All the lies day. I stand near time's full sum. of Satan will be exposed, beyond any Not until after the sun was dark- He prayed for hiding in the grave, future doubt, when men and women ened, after the stars displayed their But I for Christ to come. in the flesh demonstrate the keeping glory in the shower of 1833; not until Job sleeps, nor heeds the lapse of time; power of the grace of God. They will after the mysterious stroke, tolling the He sees not what I see, become Exhibit A for all the uni- beginning of the judgment in 1844 For I see every sign fulfilled verse to behold—that God's promises —not until then could a man say, That brings eternity. are sure, that His way does lead to "Jesus can come in my day!" fullness of joy, that men can live with- New responsibilities rested upon Yes, Job, the man of God, shall rise, out sin, that love is stronger than the heralds of the Advent after 1844. He'll hear when Jesus calls; death, that "many waters cannot They possessed a message the world But I, praise God, may never die, quench love, neither can the floods had never heard before. Around the Nor pass death's gloomy walls. drown it" (Song of Solomon 8:7). world, with the speed of angels, the For those who live till Jesus comes, This last generation will see in good news was to go—"Jesus can All robed their Lord to see, God's people His greatest display of come in our day. Get ready! Get Shall never taste of death at all glory as foretold in 2 Thessalonians ready!" This message has now been But live eternally. 1:10: "When he shall come to be AUGUST 30, 1956 3 glorified in his saints." Jesus not only Safe may we rise, this earth's dark the Lord will arise upon you and his receives honor from His people—but vale forsaking, glory will be seen upon you. And na- because of them. Through all the long, bright day to tions shall come to your light, and We are told: "For the creation dwell with Thee." kings to the brightness of your rising" waits with eager longing for the re- Is the coming of Jesus worth every- (Isa. 60:2, 3, R.S.V.). vealing of the sons of God" (Rom. thing to you? Then you will sur- The gospel will thereby be abun- 8:19, R.S.V.). Why do we keep them render everything to Him, and in the dantly preached, and Jesus will come. waiting? Do we really want Jesus to power of His might arise and reveal In that day God's people will be "a come in our day? What does His re- the glory of God in your life. Then church that shall outshine even the turn mean to you? will be fulfilled the words: "For be- golden glory of its dawn—by the There is a grassy plot, off in the hold, darkness shall cover the earth, splendor of its eternal noon." Let us black dirt of a country graveyard in and thick darkness the peoples; but pray for the power to hasten that day! Illinois, just off Route 30, that holds one of life's treasures. My choicest friend lies sleeping there. Strong in Marriage at Its Best-5 manhood, valiant in church service, tender in sympathy—he was first elder in one of our churches—but stricken at thirty-four. I had to bury him. It The Sacredness of Wedlock was one of the largest funerals his town has ever beheld. When traveling By Harold Shryock, M.D. through that State now, I find time to make my way to this grassy corner Successful marriage involves a is a normal part of the marriage bond. and rededicate my soul to his God blending of the lives of two indi- The love a person has for his own and my God. I long for Jesus to viduals in all realms of human experi- brothers and sisters may be very deep come. ence—intellectual, emotional, spirit- and very tender but, in a sense, broth- You have your grassy plots too— ual, and physical. A husband and wife ers and sisters are always rivals. They here, there, perhaps far away in a for- whose lives have become thus united usually enjoy each other's company eign battlefield, or perchance in the are happy. They are especially happy but not in the sense that a husband quiet tomb of the sea—a place where when they can be together. Compan- and wife unite their efforts and ener- a bit of your heart is buried. The ad- ionship allows them to strengthen the gies for their mutual good and happi- vent of the Life-giver is worth has- ties that bind them to each other. It ness. tening, dear friend. allows them to develop deeper appre- The personal bond between a hus- I think back to the churches I've ciations of each other. band and wife is much stronger than pastored; I look around into the cir- It is this happiness in being pos- that which exists between two friends. cle of my loved ones and wider circle sessed of each other that constitutes In a friendship there must always be of priceless friends; I smell ethered the love which each partner in mar- a certain personal reserve. There halls, I see glucose bottles with their riage feels for the other. Such love must always be the recognition that little hoses and the needle in the arm; differs from all other kinds of love some friendships come and go. I hear moans from strong lips and because no other human relationship A happy husband and wife are not some from a delirious eight-year-old binds persons so closely together. rivals, for their lives are being spent girl—and I long for the day when The love of a child for his parents in the interest of each other's welfare. Jesus will come. is different from that of a husband Their marriage vows bind them to I see homes that have become cells and wife. A child honors his parents each other for the duration of life. of misunderstanding—void of mutual and respects them for their wealth of They realize that their relationship interest. Sons and daughters grow— experience and their unselfish motives. to each other takes priority over any some to honor and some to return But the difference of one generation other human relationship. They are only heartache. I can only hope that between the child and his parents careful never to betray each other's Jesus will come soon and recompense prevents the close companionship that confidence. No other person is ad- the faithful and the patient ones. mitted into the realm of their intimate I look for those who were once with companionship. us, in the schools, in the earlier years Praise As the blending of a man's and a of ministerial service, but now shorn wife's personality takes place in a of their dreams and aspirations— By C. RUTH BROWN happy marriage relationship, each some just short of grasping their learns to consider the other as part of heart's desires—because of disease. I shall never cease to praise Him himself for, "they shall be one flesh" Who has saved my soul from sin. (Gen. 2:24). It is not that either one Then I think of the day after Jesus He has patiently bent o'er me has lost his identity, but rather that comes. "Without the handicap of All my wayward heart to win they have learned to complement weariness, without the discourage- each other so that either one feels that ment of frustrated plans and disap- He has banished by His presence All my ugly sin and pride— something (part of himself) is miss- pointed hopes, we shall all become ing when he is alone. enthusiastic students" of His wonders. Everything that's dark and selfish In His precious blood to hide. Each one naturally shares his joys Do we not want to hasten on into and his sorrows with the other. Each these limitless vistas of joy and fellow- Giving vict'ry, peace, and blessing one feels free to confide his disap- ship? Where was grief and shame before; pointments and his trials. Each one Oh, how we want Jesus to come in Now my joy shall be to witness— rests secure in the knowledge that the our day: Tell His love forevermore. other will not be jealously critical. "So, when that morn of endless light 0 that Love so great and tender! Neither will ridicule the other. is waking, Everlasting, deep, and free! The husband and wife who have And shades of evil from its splendors May we follow all Thy biddings— arrived at this state of intimate, co- flee, Ever keeping close to Thee. operative partnership will manifest 4 REVIEW AND HERALD only tender regard for each other. riage relation should be close and As we become better acquainted with They will often mention their per- tender, holy and elevated, breathing a God and as we gain deeper insight into sonal appreciation of each other. And spiritual power into your lives, that Christ's sacrifice for mankind, our being husband and wife, they will you may be everything to each other capacity for love increases. The more express this appreciation by mani- that God's word requires. When you we love God, the more we are capable festing affection. reach the condition that the Lord de- of manifesting genuine love toward For the husband and wife who are sires you to reach, you will find heaven each other. truly in love, merely to repeat endear- below and God in your life."—Ibid., ing words is not a completely satisfy- p. 112. The Family Altar ing way to express affection. Husband The sacredness of the relation be- In a Christian home the husband and wife should be kind and tender tween a husband and his wife was and wife will recognize that their as they speak to each other. But even established at the time the minister happiness in each other's companion- casual friends can be thus considerate of the gospel united them in marriage. ship is dependent on their faithful- of one another and can express their They were then given to each other in ness in religious matters. The wife personal appreciation by choosing holy wedlock. From then on the God- will understand that her husband is a words that are pleasant to hear. given experience of marriage was good husband because he is first of all Affection between husband and wife theirs to possess, to enjoy, and to use a good Christian. And similarly the is expressed in deeds as well as words. intelligently—but never to use self- husband will love his wife more as she The Creator intended that their love ishly, to pervert, or to treat with in- allows the love of God to permeate should be a deeper, holier, more satis- difference. her personality. Thus recognizing that their love fying experience than the feelings of "As I Have Loved You" personal regard that develop in any for each other is stronger because they other human relationship. He there- Christ said, "This is my command- each love God, they will find pleasure fore made provision by which, within ment, That ye love one another, as I in spending some time together each the bond of holy wedlock, a man and have loved you" (John 15:12). Herein day in religious devotion. The plan of wife can express their complete love Christ expressed the principle upon having worship together is the great- for each other in a language that only which cordial relations among Chris- est single means of ensuring contin- they can understand. It is this special tians depend. In a special sense this ued happiness within the home. Shar- provision, designed by the Creator, same principle provides the answer ing in this devotional experience binds that makes of marriage a sacred rela- to the question, How can the love be- the hearts of husband and wife closer tionship—sacred in that this language tween husband and wife always be a together. of love is God's special gift to hus- sacred love? "Remember, my dear "Family religion is a wonderful bands and wives; sacred in that no brother and sister, that God is love power. The conduct of the husband other human being should trespass by and that by His grace you can succeed toward the wife and of the wife to- coming within the circle of sanctity in making each other happy, as in ward the husband may be such that it in which their two hearts beat as your marriage pledge you promised will make the home life a prepara- one. to do."—Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 49. tion for entrance to the family above." This complete expression of mutual "Hearts that are filled with the love —The Adventist Home, p. 94. "Make love between a husband and wife in- of Christ can never get very far apart. Christ first and last and best in every- volves much more than the physical Religion is love, and a Christian home thing. Constantly behold Him, and expressions of affection. It has also is one where love reigns and finds ex- your love for Him will daily become intellectual, emotional, and spiritual pression in words and acts of thought- deeper and stronger as it is submitted components. The husband and wife ful kindness and gentle courtesy."— to the test of trial. And as your love who succeed in blending all of these Ibid., vol. 5, p. 335. for Him increases, your love for each components of true love are the ones God is the source of love. Christ other will grow deeper and stronger." who become completely happy. It is interpreted this love to mankind. —Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 46. when there is an overemphasis of the physical factors in conjugal love that happiness suffers and the relationship between husband and wife deteri- orates to a lower level than God in- tended. L Marriage is a vital part of God's original plan for providing happiness [Address prayer requests to Parents' Fellowship of Prayer, R and Herald, Washington 12, D.C.] for the human race. Ever since sin entered the world the devil has been Healing Needed—Spiritual and Physical using his fiendish skill in trying to destroy the sacredness of the marriage An anxious mother in Florida writes: "I profession can do. The parents are numb am asking the prayers of God's people ev- with grief. I feel sure that if it is God's relationship. But in spite of the many erywhere for my boy who is killing himself will to heal her in answer to the prayers sinful perversions of this holy institu- smoking and drinking. He has a severe of God's people it will go far toward bringing tion, God's plan for the happiness of cough. He is generous, good-hearted, and my son back to his own church in which he Christian men and women remains the kind to everyone but himself. Please ask God was reared. same. to put it into his heart to want to quit these "I rarely miss a Friday evening in joining "Jesus did not enforce celibacy upon soul-destroying habits, and give him strength the Parents' Fellowship of Prayer, and I any class of men. He came not to to do it." surely thank God for this department in our destroy the sacred relationship of mar- From New Jersey comes a request that a good REVIEW." son may come back into the truth. Both he "Perseverance in prayer has been made a riage, but to exalt it and restore it and his wife now belong to "one of the condition of receiving."—Steps to Christ to its original sanctity. He looks with popular Protestant churches." "Now their (Pocket ed.), p. 97. So let us not give up, pleasure upon the family relationship little girl [nine years old], their only child," even though the answer to our prayers may where sacred and unselfish love bears has been "stricken with a serious malady .. . seem to be delayed. God's Spirit is at work sway."—The Adventist Home, p. 121. for which, we have been told by the diagnos- to accomplish that which is best, even though "Your companionship in the mar- ing physician, there is little that the medical we may not see immediate results. AUGUST 30, 1956 5 God Forgives Confessed Sin

By W. H. Branson

[These news items are taken from Religious News Service. We do not necessarily concur in statements "Be it known unto you therefore, guilt. God had multiplied pardon to made in these items. Wepublish them simply to give our readers a picture of current religious develop- men and brethren, that through this her. ments.] man is preached unto you the forgive- "If the Son therefore shall make ness of sins" (Acts 13:38). God has you free, ye shall be free indeed" promised to forgive sins that are (John 8:36). In the parable of the Graham Bids Americans Drive by truly repented of and confessed. Jesus prodigal son Jesus represents the Golden Rule died on Calvary to make this possible. young man as saying, "I will arise It was for this that He left heaven and and go to my father, and will say unto Evangelist Billy Graham appealed to the came to earth. him, Father, I have sinned against U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce to "teach The completeness of God's pardon heaven, and before thee, and am no all our young to drive by the golden rule as you teach them to drive safely." "I believe granted to repentant sinners is clearly more worthy to be called thy son: safe driving in America is a spiritual pro- set forth by the prophet Isaiah when make me as one of thy hired serv- gram" he said in the keynote address to the he says: "Let the wicked forsake his ants" (Luke 15:18, 19). Jacees' annual convention. "If the American way, and the unrighteous man his This was as far as his faith could people would drive by the golden rule, they thoughts: and let him return unto the reach. He felt that his wrong was so could cut accidents by two thirds." Lord, and he will have mercy upon great that he could not ask more him; and to our God, for he will than that. The hired servants were abundantly pardon" (Isa. 55:7). not recognized as members of the Jewish Group Distributing Bibles The marginal rendering of this family. Possibly his father would re- to Hospitals scripture speaks of God's "multiply- lent and forgive enough to be willing ing" pardon. We confess all the sins to hire him as a servant. Even that Members of Menorah Lodge of B'nai B'rith we can remember, and He forgives would be bliss compared to his present presented 312 Old Testaments to Sinai Hos- them, but also in addition He forgives state. pital in Baltimore, Maryland, one for each those we cannot remember. We ask bed in the institution. The action marked Complete Acceptance the launching of a project by the 1,400-mem- for a little, and He gives much. He ber Jewish fraternal group to put a copy multiplies pardon. "And he arose, and came to his of the Scriptures in "every hospital room in God is able to do "exceeding abun- father. But when he was yet a great the city of Baltimore." Milton Seidenman, dantly above all that we ask or way off, his father saw him, and had lodge president, said the project was under- think" (Eph. 3:20). Weymouth's compassion, and ran, and fell on his taken after the organization's Bible commit- translation of this verse reads: "Now neck, and kissed him. And the son said tee had found "to our amazement" that there to Him who, in the exercise of His unto him, Father, I have sinned were no Bibles for the use of patients in most power that is at work within us, is against heaven, and in thy sight, and rooms of Baltimore hospitals. able to do infinitely beyond all our am no more worthy to be called thy highest prayers or thoughts—to Him son. But the father said to his serv- be the glory in the Church and in ants, Bring forth the best robe, and Ten Commandments to Be Erected Christ Jesus to all generations, world put it on him; and put a ring on his at Montana Capitol without end! Amen." hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring This is an illustration of the abun- A large stone monument inscribed with hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and the Ten Commandments will be erected in a dance of God's love and grace. Sin let us eat, and be merry: for this my landscaped setting on the Montana capitol may abound in our lives, but if and son was dead, and is alive again; he grounds in Helena. Governor J. Hugo Aron- when heartfelt confession is made, was lost, and is found. And they be- son headed the State board of examiners, God's grace far exceeds the guilt. gan to be merry" (verses 20-24). who approved installation of the religious Thus God's "love covereth all sins." What a picture of God receiving a monolith. Other members were Attorney It was this great truth that led Paul repentant sinner! Take away his rags General Arnold H. Olsen and Secretary of to exclaim: "Where sin increased, all and put upon him the best robe in State Steve C. Arnold. They acted at the re- the more was grace abundant" (Rom. the house. Put shoes on his feet. quest of Helena Aerie No. 16, Fraternal Or- Make a great feast. Invite in the der of Eagles. The monument will be a 5:20, Weymouth). gift from National and State Eagles' organi- The Bible abounds with illustra- neighbors. Let us eat and be merry. zations. tions of how God grants full and Why? Because "this my son was dead, complete pardon to those who come and is alive again." That was reason to Him in contrition and faith, and enough for rejoicing. cast their sins upon Him. There was Sin had abounded, but grace over- Vatican City Paper Urges Church Mary Magdalene, out of whom Christ flowed. Pardon had been multiplied. Sanctions Against Traffic Killings had cast seven devils. She was vile and He was fully reinstated in the heart L'Osservatore Della Domenica, Vatican laden with sin. But as the result of and home of the father. City weekly, appealed for a "Christian con- her contact with the Saviour, she had Just so it is with the repentant sin- science" to halt the rising toll of traffic been entirely cleansed of her spiritual ner. "I say unto you," declared Jesus, deaths. The artide said that in the absence defilement; and when Jesus came "that . . . joy shall be in heaven over of laws and in the "sad but undeniable weak- forth from the tomb she was present, one sinner that repenteth, more than ening of the civil conscience," the Church and the first to greet Him. It was by over ninety and nine just persons, must raise her voice to repeat God's com- which need no repentance" (verse 7). mand, "Thou shalt not kill." "The Fifth her that He sent His first message to Commandment applies equally to crimes on His sorrowing disciples, telling them The thief on the cross next to Jesus the highways," the paper said. It suggested of His resurrection. Her life had been longed for pity and pardon, and this that the Church be "just as inexorable" in washed as white as snow, and now she led him to cry out, "Lord, remember inffictin. severe ecclesiastical penalties in stood before her Redeemer in the me when thou comest into thy king- traffic killings as it has been in punishing possession of full pardon from all her dom" (Luke 23:42). He felt he dared duelists. 6 REVIEW AND HERALD not ask more. But the response of the and reclothing us with the garments of for sin I will remove.' "—Testimonies Redeemer went much further. He salvation. to Ministers, pp. 519, 520. would not only remember him but "We did not seek after it; it was Not only does God forgive sins, would take him to heaven. He was sent in search of us. God rejoices to but He forgets them. He refuses to to be with Him in Paradise. bestow grace upon all who hunger remember them or hold us respon- A man who was sick of the palsy and thirst for it, not because we are sible for them. "I, even I, am he," was brought to Jesus, and he asked worthy, but because we are unworthy. the Lord declares, "that blotteth out to be healed. But Jesus did not stop Our need is the qualification which thy transgressions for mine own sake, there. He saw before Him a sinner gives us the assurance that we shall and will not remember thy sins." with a repentant heart, and said to receive the gift. It should not be diffi- How comforting is this heavenly him, "Thy sins be forgiven thee." cult to remember that the Lord de- message. Only God is big enough to Then He healed him of the palsy. sires you to lay your troubles and per- do that. We may forgive each other, Then there was King David's great plexities at His feet, and leave them but sometimes we do not forget. Often sin. He became guilty of both murder there. Go to Him, saying: 'Lord, my we keep the sins of others against us and adultery by causing Uriah to be burdens are too heavy for me to carry. ever fresh in our memory. But not so killed so that he could take Bath- Wilt Thou bear them for me?' with God. When He forgives He puts sheba as his wife. These sins blackened And He will answer: 'I will take them. them entirely out of mind. Forever his life. They blighted his glorious With everlasting kindness will I have afterward when He looks upon the reign. Nathan said that David had mercy upon thee. I will take your pardoned sinner He sees him clothed given "great occasion to the enemies sins, and will give you peace. Banish in the righteousness of Christ, and He of the Lord to blaspheme." But the no longer your self-respect; for I have can say of him as He did of David, He repentance of David was heartfelt and bought you with the price of My own is "my servant . . . , who kept my sincere. In great contrition he poured blood. You are Mine. Your weakened commandments, and who followed out the confession of his guilt. will I will strengthen. Your remorse me with all his heart." In response to David's full confes- sion of guilt and plea for forgiveness, God sent Nathan the prophet to as- sure him of pardon and cleansing. "The Lord also hath put away thy Our Faithful Shepherds sin," declared the prophet; "thou shalt not die" (2 Sam. 12:13). By Ernest Lloyd Some eighty years later, when the Lord was chiding the wicked Jero- boam for his sins, He said: "Thou I remember some of the old min- to require. With his kindly skill the hast not been as my servant David, isters in our denomination who ex- man of God would seek to lead the who kept my commandments, and erted a wonderful influence in visit- parents to even greater devotion in who followed me with all his heart, ing the homes of our people. Such their religious life. He was faithful to do that only which was right in names as Haskell, Kilgore, Starr, to warn when he found it necessary, mine eyes" (1 Kings 14:8). Lane, Wheeler, and Tait were fa- and he did so with loving tact. miliar ones in our old home on the Though his words might wound a Accounted Righteous farm in northern Illinois. When one bit, he was respected and loved. How could God say this regarding of these good men arrived at our Then the children were called in. a man who had committed such house, all ordinary work was sus- They loved this man, for he showed grievous sins as had David? It was be- pended, except the essential duties, a genuine interest in their affairs and cause David's sins had been confessed, and a large part of our time was plans. How we enjoyed his stories! forsaken, and cleansed. His life of given to him. And they were of the kind that il- sinfulness had been covered with These ministers, by the way, had lustrated and emphasized the Chris- Christ's life of righteousness. God had previously informed the members tian graces and qualities that are so cast his sins behind His back to re- from the pulpit that they did not desirable in every home. member them against him no more. come to the homes to be feasted, but Our acquaintance with such men They had been blotted out as a thick rather to feed the souls of the mem- increased our desire to attend the cloud. He had been saved to the utter- bers and of their families with the annual camp meeting to meet and most. bread of life. I never saw my mother hear them again. Thus we became Just so it is today with those who "fly around" to fix up extra dishes more and more attached to our lead- come to Christ for pardon and cleans- for the ministers. She was a good ers, and their personal influence over ing. The vilest sinner may come and cook, if I may say so, and set a table us was strong. It helped to guide us find cleansing and purity. "Whoso- of substantial, tasty food, and a pleas- in our choices and decisions as we ever will" may come, and coming, he ing variety. But when a minister grew older. It was a definite factor in shall find the arms of Christ out- came, her time was not spent, like bringing us into the work of the stretched to receive him. that of Martha, in much serving, for church. "If you give yourself to Him, and she was ready, with father and the Hundreds of our growing army of accept Him as your Saviour, then, boys and girls, to rest and listen. denominational workers are con- sinful as your life may have been, Usually the parents first talked with nected with the organization today for his, sake you are accounted right- the minister about any local church because of the loving personal work eous. Christ's character stands in problem on which they needed his of ministers who have done wise place of your character, and you are good counsel. Then possibly they dis- and sympathetic visiting in homes accepted before God just as if you had cussed any family difficulty that throughout the land. Only eternity not sinned."—Steps to Christ (Pocket might be current. With his back- will measure the great influences ed.), p. 62. ground of rich experience, and his growing out of such service on the This brings full release from guilt familiarity with the Word of God, the part of our ministers. Blessings upon of past sins. It is the complete taking minister was able to impart the help these men of God who seek after the away of our filthy garments of sin that their problems and trials seemed upbuilding of the church! AUGUST 30, 1956 7 apply. Discussions should always be held on a high level Answering Questions Is Not Easy of friendliness, courtesy, and patience, seasoned with a liberal amount of reasonableness. Foolish and unlearned Sooner or later almost every Adventist believer is questions that minister strife should be avoided. We questioned concerning his faith. Some questions are should withdraw ourselves from those that dote about asked through a sincere desire to learn the basis for "questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, one's belief. Again, others may ask questions because strife, railings, evil surmisings." We are not to give of prejudice and a desire to trap the believer. Still oth- heed to those questions in which there is no godly edi- ers ask questions merely because of their love of dis- fication. cussion. Paul's further word to Timothy was: "The servant of What attitude should one take toward these ques- the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, tioners? Paul tells us in these words: "Let your speech apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man" (Col. 4:6). oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them What Paul means by this is that the Christian should repentance to the acknowledging of the truth" (2 Tim. always reply with courtesy and kindness, and the answer 2:24, 25). should be made as agreeable as possible. This is not Discussions Within the Church always easy to do. If one is not too clear as to the rea- sons for his faith, questions can lead to embarrassment There is much instruction in the Spirit of prophecy and a lost opportunity. If one is extremely self-assured, writings along this line. Though much of this relates he is likely to manifest a dogmatic and bigoted attitude to discussions and debates with those not of our faith, toward the questioner, and thus cause him to lose what yet some of the rules enunciated apply equally to those interest he may have had when he asked the question. in our midst who raise questions concerning Biblical If the questioner plainly reveals that he is prompted interpretation and other subjects of a religious nature. by a desire to annoy, the one questioned may find it Let us note these suggestions: difficult not to respond with some sign of impatience. "While Christians are not to sacrifice one principle of The discussion of questions concerning religion can truth, they should avoid controversy whenever it is pos- lead to some very unchristian experiences, unless a spirit sible to do so."—The Desire of Ages (1940), p. 434. of humility and patience is represented on at least one "Preachers should be careful that every word is as side of the discussion. Pride of opinion must not be God would have it. Their words should never cut. They met by pride of opinion, rancor with rancor, wit with should present the truth in humility, with the deepest wit, bigotry with bigotry. love for souls, and an earnest desire for their salvation, The one who sincerely believes he has truth on his and let the truth cut."—Gospel Workers, p. 377. side can afford to be gracious and careful in his speech Concerning her own experience Mrs. White wrote: and make his answer as acceptable as he is able to do "In time past there have been presented to me for and still bear an honest witness to his faith. my opinion many non-essential, fanciful theories. Some have advocated the theory that believers should pray Certain Questions to Be Avoided with their eyes open. Others teach that, because those Of course, it is always difficult to know what attitude who ministered anciently in sacred office were required, to take toward one who quibbles over nonessentials or upon entering the sanctuary, to remove their sandals who jumps from one question to another in order to and wash their feet, believers now should remove their confuse the issue. Paul warned the youthful Timothy shoes when entering the house of worship. . . . against certain types of questioners. He wrote: "I am instructed to say that these theories are the "Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, production of minds unlearned in the first principles of which minister questions, rather than godly edifying the gospel. By such theories the enemy strives to eclipse which is in faith: so do" (1 Tim. 1:4). the great truths for this time. . . . "He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about "Workers for God should not spend time speculating questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, as to what conditions will prevail in the new earth. It strife, railings, evil surmisings, perverse disputings of is presumption to indulge in suppositions and theories men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, sup- regarding matters that the Lord has not revealed. He posing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thy- has made every provision for our happiness in the self" (1 Tim. 6:4, 5). future life, and we are not to speculate regarding His "But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing plans for us. Neither are we to measure the conditions that they do gender strifes" (2 Tim. 2:23). of the future life by the conditions of this life. . . . Again, to Titus, Paul wrote: "But avoid foolish ques- "When questions arise upon which we are uncertain, tions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings let us ask, What saith the Scripture? And if the Scrip- about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain" ture is silent upon the question at issue, let it not be (Titus 3:9). made the subject of discussion. Let those who wish for The discussion of questions is not always limited to something new, seek for that newness of life resulting those between believers and nonbelievers. They may from the new birth."—Ibid., pp. 313, 314. arise even among members of the same church. When Further statements made are as follows: "Therefore this is so, the same principles enunciated by Paul also treat every man as honest. . . . Let no human boasting 8 REVIEW AND HERALD be heard. Let no sign of self-sufficiency be made."— if we are to hold our youth. It is one of those half- Ibid., p. 374. "In the advocacy of truth the bitterest truths that can be more dangerous than outright error. opponents should be, treated with respect and defer- Certainly we wish to hold our youth. We must. But to p. 373. what do we wish to hold them? Is it merely to the form "We• should present sound arguments, that . . . will of church life, so that they will nominally declare that bear the closest and most searching scrutiny."—Ibid., they happen to be members of the Adventist Church? p. 299. Hardly. That is the road along which endless other When we consider the various types of persons who church bodies have traveled. Either this Advent Move- ask questions, and the standard of Christian conduct ment has distinctive high standards and beliefs, or it has set up for those who attempt to answer them, we are no excuse to exist in the world. Accordingly, unless our not wrong in declaring that answering questions is not endeavors in behalf of our youth seek ever to hold them easy. One who undertakes this phase of the Christian up to the highest standards and objectives of the church, witness needs much of the grace of God besides a good we gain little or nothing merely by holding them on understanding of the Scriptures. F. L. the church rolls. We question seriously whether we would have much success in holding them even to the mere form of church membership by a worldly type of entertainment. From the Editor's Mailbag We have more entertainment for our youth today than Last week we discussed in part the question of the en- ever before. But there is nothing in the statistical tables tertainment provided by social committees in some of of the church to warrant our believing that we are hav- our churches and institutions. We noted particularly the ing much greater success today in holding our youth kind of entertainment given in certain of our schools than we have had before. at times. We also quoted from recent typical letters from Incidentally, we should add that this problem is not the field relative to social activities in some of our confined to our youth. It seems that those who are older churches. often enjoy being present at social hours as much as Now what shall we say in response to such letters? the youth. Now, we may rejoice that our older people Shall we take the position that no entertainment ought are young in spirit. What concerns us here is, that if the to be provided for the youth, or for our church mem- level of entertainment is not what it ought to be, there bership in general? Emphatically, No. Good religion is is damage to the sense of values of old as well as young. not opposed to moments of relaxation, or even to a And that presents a double danger to the church. hearty laugh. But we should never forget that it is along As we have noted the frequency of letters on this the path of entertainment that some of the gravest dan- whole problem in the relatively recent past, we have gers lie, and that we can never be too careful in the begun to fear that there is a relationship between the matter, lest we go by imperceptible stages over into rapid appearance of television sets in American homes areas that are alien to the spirit and the objectives of and the kind of moving pictures and other entertain- the Advent Movement. ment considered proper by the social committees in We believe, in the light of the evidence available, some of our churches and institutions. How could it be that those responsible for the social events of some of otherwise, when a steadily increasing total of Adventists our churches and institutions have permitted themselves have in their own homes a television machine, which, to go definitely beyond the bounds of safety and thus if not constantly guarded and controlled, will present to endanger the ideals that we seek to maintain. We endless vaudeville skits and movies in the parlor? It cannot say less than this and be honest. We cannot say would be nothing short of a miracle if some of this less and be true to our trust. did not reflect itself erelong in the social activities of The record will testify that we have given ample the church. space, week in and week out, to descriptions of the If we had a thousand years to make ready to meet glorious advances of the cause, and the blessing of God our God, a millennium in which to perfect character, upon His work. We shall continue to do this. God is countless centuries in which to finish a task for God in indeed with us, and we humbly thank Him for it. What the earth, we might take a more measured stride in dis- is more, we confidently believe He will go with us to the cussing matters like this. But our mood must ever be end. But we would be a deceived company of people if measured by our conviction that the day of the Lord is we focused our eyes and our minds wholly on the hope- near and hasting greatly, and that we must be pre- ful aspects of our church life. pared to meet Him face to face. A true Seventh-day We cannot forget the warnings both of Scripture and Adventist can never be casual about anything that might of the Spirit of prophecy that grave dangers beset us on affect his readiness for heaven. It is a matter of life and every side and that many who believe that they are ready death with him as to the direction in which any in- for the day of the Lord are walking in dangerous paths, fluence might lead him. He must ever ask himself the spiritually asleep, and will be rudely awakened at the question, Am I being led upward or downward? last great day. Hence we cannot do other than raise our As a people we have given due heed, and well we voice in warning when we read letters that describe in may, to the warning that the deceptions and lying won- specific detail certain social activities and certain mov- ders of the devil will be abroad in the world in the ing pictures that have been shown under the auspices last days. But we have too closely circumscribed the of the social committees of some of our churches and range of those deceptions and wonders. We have institutions. thought of them rather exclusively in terms of false It is bad enough for a family in the circle of their doctrines, delusive views concerning the manner of own home to have a social that is less than ideal. It is Christ's coming and the purposes of it. We believe it is much worse for that kind of social to be held under the time for all of us to see a larger meaning in the inspired auspices of the church. If the church does thus and so, warning against such deceptions. there cannot be anything wrong with it; thus reason The chiefest deception, we believe, that will rob Ad- many of our young people and some who are not so ventists of heaven will not be in the form of false doc- young. trines. We are rather well established on our main We are aware of the persuasive argument that we must teachings, and a host of us can give proof texts without have this or that kind of social hour and entertainment end. But proof texts alone are not sufficient to protect AUGUST 30, 1956 9 us from all the devil's deceptions, nor are they of them- We recognize that the mere sight of a policeman will selves a passport to heaven. Deceptions in the form of a not make a saint out of a sinner, an honest man out of false sense of values, of entertainment, of social views, a gambler, or a modern Carry Nation out of a drunkard. can as effectively debar us from heaven as any false Outwardly correct behavior may be only a thin veneer doctrine. that covers an inwardly corrupt nature. The only true We believe with all the earnestness of our soul that answer to the problem of sin is to repent at the foot of there is need for reform in our conception of what is the cross and there let Christ give us a new heart. tight and proper and good in this whole realm of social activities, entertainments, and moving pictures, not God's Eye on Us only in our homes, but also in our churches and our in- But even after that has been done, we need ever to stitutions. Heaven is worth too much to exchange it for a have a sharp consciousness of the fact that "the eyes of few questionable social hours on this earth. the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good" (Prov. 15:3). Everything we do, everything we say—even our very thoughts—are not only being ob- served, but are being recorded. And we shall meet them "Every Work Into Judgment" all again, for "God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether Motorists driving through the half-mile-long tunnel it be evil" (Eccl. 12:14). God "will examine the case in West Virginia's modern, new turnpike are under of each individual with as close and searching scrutiny constant surveillance by means of four closed-circuit as if there were not another being upon the earth."—The TV cameras. From the moment that drivers enter the Great Controversy, p. 490. tunnel until they break out into the daylight again they Do we think of this as often as we should? Is there not are always in the eye of at least two cameras. State troop- a tendency to forget that an overwhelmingly solemn ers in their office at the tunnel entrance watch traffic on work is now going on in heaven—the investigative judg- four receiving sets. If there is an accident or tie-up ment—and that when this work is completed, the des- anywhere in the tunnel at any time, these officers of the tiny of every soul will have been decided for eternity? law know it immediately and can take charge in a mat- Inexorably the process goes on. Perhaps even now the ter of seconds. names of the living are being considered. 0 solemn This is just one of the many new uses to which closed- thought! Surely this is a time for deep and faithful heart circuit TV is being put. Elsewhere such cameras are searching. This is a time for true repentance, for sorrow watching shoplifters, carrying the messages of ministers for sin. This is a time to subdue every evil tendency, to and teachers to overflow congregations and classes, keep- overcome every besetting sin. We dare not now feed our ing an eye on sickrooms and hospital wards, speeding minds on trashy literature, or be found among the pleas- freight car handling, and confirming customer signa- ure seekers of the world at their places of amusement. tures and balances in banks and stores. Nor will we want to if we have really come to know the If some of today's speed-crazed drivers knew that they much more satisfying joys of communion with God and were under the constant, watchful eye of the law, it fellowship with Christ. seems altogether possible that they would remove some Every moment is priceless now. Every day should see of the lead from their accelerator foot. If shoplifters new victories gained. For soon it will be too late. Soon plying their thieving trade knew that the store manager that decree will go forth which will forever fix the des- could practically see the whites of their eyes by means tiny of every soul: "He that is unjust, let him be unjust of a TV camera, it seems likely that they would need a still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and strong nerve sedative in order to help steady their trem- he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he bling fingers. There is something about being watched that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come that helps promote a high level of conduct! And the quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man fear of being arrested and penalized serves as a further according as his work shall be" (Rev. 22:11, 12). deterrent against wrongdoing. K. H. W.

Not long ago I was in Puiggari, Argentina, Training Schools 3 14 where people first began to keep the Sabbath SABBATH SCHOOL Hospitals 1 7 in South America. Again I listened to the ► But not all the great missionaries of South America have passed to their rest. story of the Kansas farmers who emigrated Or J I saw to that locality in response to the letter of 4 honor given to Brother Streithorst, Sr., who a relative who wrote: "If only there was has given forty-seven years to the work in someone to keep the Sabbath with, I would Brazil. During his ministry he has baptized surely keep it." Then I looked at the beauti- in 1906, and F. A. Stahl, who opened the 3,300 souls. Then there were Brother and ful River Plate (Silver River) Sanitarium and Indian work around Lake Titicaca. I saw Sister L. B. Halliwell, who have given thirty- the full-to-overflowing college built in that Indians in their colorful dresses weep at the six years to Brazil, most of the time on the locality, and wondered if those pioneer remembrance of Brother Stahl, and heard Amazon where you never feel cold. And there farmers who went to the Argentine in 1890 them thank God for this great apostle. were Brother and Sister R. A. Hayden, the dreamed of such growth and progress. The work was not easy. The seed of the successors of Elder and Mrs. Stahl to the A few days ago, I was privileged to attend message was watered with tears. Persecution Indians, who have given twenty-six years to a celebration of the fortieth anniversary of and tragedy awaited the light bearers every- Peru and Bolivia and who are not through the organization of the South American Divi- where, but the work grew, and by 1916 there yet. And last, but by no means least, W. E. sion, and my heart welled up with emotion were thirty-four churches, with 4,413 mem- Murray, the beloved president of the South as I saw the pioneers of the work honored. bers. It was then organized into a division American Division today. He came to Brazil There was Frank H. Westphal, who came with 0. Montgomery as its first president. in 1919 and has filled almost every office dur- to Argentina in 1894 and organized the first Notice the wonderful growth during the ing his thirty-seven years of service. Sabbath school. There was J. W. Westphal, forty years. The South American Division is forty years 1916 1955 the great South American organizer. There old this year. It has been a wonderful forty was F. W. Spies, who came to Brazil in 1897. Church Buildings 34 780 years in preparing souls for the coming king- There were the colporteurs who pioneered Church Members 4,413 80,128 dom of God. May God's richest blessing rest the way into Chile, and up the coast to Peru. Ordained Ministers 37 221 upon the workers in this division. There was G. W. Casebeer, who came to Peru Colporteurs 74 503 ERIC B. HARE 19 REVIEW AND HERALD strife by presenting the man with the withered hand. The "Pharisee§ watched him, whether he would heat on the sabbath day; that they might- find an accusation against him" (Luke' 6:7). Extreme literalists, they sought condemnation of another rather than their own contentment in God. FOR SABBATH, SEPTEMBER 15, 1956 In Matthew 12:10 they inquired of Jesus: "Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days?" He had previously told them that David's action in eating Christ and the Sabbath the shewbread was not strictly lawful (verse 4); now they proceed to en- trap Him in an unlawful action of [This Lesson Help is a running comment on the lesson presented in the Sabbath School Quarterly and nacle of Nob, where Ahimelech served His own. But Jesus caught them in should be read in connection with it.] as high priest (1 Sam. 21:1-6). David their own dilemma by asking which Excepting His claims to be God's was in need on God's service, hence of them would not rescue a sheep Son, nothing caused more bitterness as blameless as were the priestly fallen into a pit on the Sabbath, and from the Jewish leaders than Christ's workers on the Sabbath. The strict "How much then is a man better than manner of Sabbath observance. The letter (Lev. 24:5-9) gave place to a sheep?" " 'That is the question New Testament does not record the higher necessity. which Christian civilization has not contemporary rabbinical rules on The Jews had stressed complete even yet adequately answered.' "— Sabbathkeeping---those sources of so and , compulsory cessation of all ac- BRUCE, quoted in Robertson's Word much error—but some of their end- tivity on the Sabbath, to the exclu- Pictures, vol. 1, p. 94. sion of gladsome service. These two less, burdensome, ingeniously casuis- The Courage of Christ tic rules may be read in Edersheim's aspects have been presented as fol- Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, lows: " 'If God had rested as the No answer forthcoming, Jesus gave volume 2, pages 777-787. These in- Jews rested on the Sabbath, no sun them a forthright one: "It is lawful credible exaggerations occupy nearly would have shone, no flowers would to do well on the sabbath days. Then 65 columns in the Jerusalem Tal- have bloomed, all creation would saith he to the man, Stretch forth mud, and 156 in the Babylonian. have languished, all the universe thine hand. And he stretched it forth; They are all discussed as of vital reli- been dissolved.' "—BRAUNE, quoted in and it was restored whole, like as the gious import. To read but a few is to Hessey's Sunday, p. 163. "The spirit of other" (Matt. 12:12, 13). understand the undisguised disdain the fourth commandment, like that The poignant story of the Bethesda of Jesus for such petty and hair-split- of so many in the Mosaic revelation, pool in Jerusalem illustrates anew the ting religious concepts. was a spirit of mercy. The Sabbath is fact that "He who ordained the Sab- One of the first Pharisaic encoun- not forced on us as an irksome obli- bath loves the poor," as well as dem- ters with Jesus (compare John 5:9, 16 gation, but granted to us as a precious onstrating once more the pettifog- for an earlier one) over the Sabbath boon."—FARRAR, The Voice From ging outlook of the rulers. For nigh was the grainfield incident of Mat- Sinai, p. 164. Compare Testimonies, forty years none had helped this poor thew 12:1-8; Mark 2:23-28; Luke 6:1-5. volume 6, page 359, on the Sabbath cripple, and when Jesus went out of It is an outstanding illustration of His as "the most joyful day of the week." His way to bid him: "Take up thy open justification of a course so con- "The sabbath was made for man, bed, and walk," the Jews could only trary to current notions. The first and not man for the sabbath" (Mark say: "This is the Sabbath; you must three Gospels group this incident 2:27) is remarkably like a law of the not carry your mat" (John 5:10, (out of historical order) with that of rabbis, quoted by Edersheim: " 'The Twentieth Century New Testament). the healing of the man with the Sabbath is handed over to you; not, This time the Jews persecuted Jesus withered hand, obviously because of ye are handed over to the Sabbath.' " and sought to slay Him. "Jesus seems the Sabbath controversy. That it was —The Life and Times of Jesus the forthwith to have been for the first not the same Sabbath, as may appear Messiah, vol. 2, p. 58. But men who time cited before the authorities, on from Matthew and Mark, is clear had misused the Sabbath were not the formal charge of Sabbathbreaking; from Luke's curious "the second sab- likely to receive the teachings of "the but His judges were little prepared bath after the first" (literally, "the Son of man" who "is Lord even of the for the tone of His defence. Left to second-first Sabbath," chap. 6:1), and sabbath day" (Matt. 12:8). It was answer for Himself, He threw the "another sabbath." (Compare The against both the Lord as the divine assembly into a paroxysm of religious Desire of Ages [1940], p. 286, and Son, and against His interpretation fury by claiming to work at all times The SDA Bible Commentary, on Luke of the Sabbath as a joyful day of rest for the good of men, since it was only 6:6.) for the worship of God, that they were what God, His Father, had done, not- in revolt. They could neither call- withstanding the Sabbath Law, from The Law of God or the Laws of Him "Lord" nor call "the sabbath a the beginning.... "—GEIKIE, The Life the Rabbis? delight" (Isa. 58:13). and Words of Christ, vol. 2, pp. 93-96. The Pharisees defended the rab- Healing on the Sabbath was a This was a great turning point. binical law that forbade the removal debatable question. In Jewish eyes Jesus was no longer safe in Jerusalem, of husks, which was sifting, the only actual danger to life warranted a and even the more cosmopolitan Gali- rubbing of heads of grain, which was breach of the Sabbath law, but what lee, where He did such mighty deeds, threshing, the blowing or tossing in was a danger to life? In answering was henceforth full of enemies. The the hands, which was winnowing, etc. that, the rabbinical casuistry lost it- cross came closer, because men hated Jesus defended the Biblical law which self in a sea of nonsensical interpre- the Lord of the Sabbath, by whom allowed the fugitive David and his tations (see The Life and Times of were "all things created, that are in followers, "when hungered," to eat of Jesus the Messiah, vol. 2, p. 60). heaven, and that are in earth" (Col. the sacred shewbread in the Taber- They sought to engulf Jesus in this 1:16). AUGUST 30, 1956 11 CONDUCTED BY PROMISE KLOSS SHERMAN

ing to eat but those steaming potatoes The Double Reward of Hospitality and bread. As one person expressed it, "A welcome is more than a palace." By Lois C. Randolph Many of our church members, both in the east and in the west , are given to hospitality. One June we attended One snowy Sunday in Chicago it could with all of us confined to the church as strangers at our academy in Mother and I were finishing up a house. New York State. I sat next to a woman washing done the old-fashioned way. About six o'clock Mother baked who had a girl about two years old. Clotheslines were strung up in the one of her good omelets, and we had The woman whispered to me that she kitchen, and some of the clothes were more homemade bread, canned could not lift her daughter because drying there; other things were drying peaches, and Postum. Family worship she had just had major surgery. So I on the enclosed back porch. Both of followed. Then I walked with them to took the child on my lap and enter- us were tired. the elevated station, and they were tained her with picture cards. At noon our doorbell rang, and merrily on their way to Florida. No After church the woman said, "I Mother admitted a man, his wife, and doubt the husband, at least, had see from your selection of cards that six small children. "We are from hoped that Father would be at home. you have come from the West. Come North Dakota and are stopping off However, I never forgot Mother's hos- home with us to dinner." As if to reas- till eight o'clock tonight on our way pitality on a busy washday, and her sure me that she would be strong to Florida. As we have read your hus- utter lack of irritation at the inter- enough physically to entertain our band's articles in the Danish-Nor- ruption, as contrasted with my first family, she added, "My husband's wegian paper, Evangeliets Sendebud, reaction. sister of eighteen and her friend are we thought we would spend the time with us, and it will not be too much. waiting here." We are driving out to one of the My heart sank. "What an imposi- largest rose gardens in the world after tion!" I thought. "We are going to dinner. You ought to see it while you have these boring people here for are in this part of the country." both lunch and supper, with our When eleven of us were seated at kitchen looking like a disorganized the dinner table, the hostess discov- laundry." Being only in the ninth ered that her parents and my husband grade at the time, I had enjoyed home had been missionaries in India at the comforts without having yet experi- same time. After our visit to the rose enced the coldness of an unfriendly garden, these new friends urged us to world. stay all night, and after breakfast we Mother did not seem in the least left for New York City, richer in mem- disturbed. She made the visitors com- ories. fortable, and by one o'clock we were After I had been away from home Not so long ago in Oregon I sat as all eating in the dining room. How some years and enjoyed people's kind an interested spectator, observing how well I remember the simple menu— hospitality or observed their lack of fifty-five visiting choir members were lentils seasoned with tomatoes, scal- it, I began to understand why Mother distributed among various church loped potatoes left from Sabbath din- rose to the occasion just described. families in the vicinity. Just a visitor ner, a simple salad, homemade bread, She had canvassed, summer and win- with no claims on anybody, I intended and canned pears. The guests confided ter, for six years, and had lived here to find a hotel for the night. My over- that they had eaten only cold food and there without a home. night bag must have branded me, for out of a lunch box since they had During one of my early years of soon a cordial sister stepped up to left home. They ate with evident rel- teaching I had an errand one Sunday me. "Won't you come home with us?" ish. noon that took me to the home of one she asked. "We planned to take five After lunch the man busied himself of my pupils. The lady of the house set of the young people, but we did not reading books from my father's library. the table, putting on, as I remember get any." Mother sat with her knitting and vis- .well, a big dish of steaming boiled It did not take us long to get ac- ited with the wife part of the after- potatoes. Then I said, "I must be go- quainted and discover that we had noon. The rest of the time she went ing." They made no protest and I mutual friends. We spent a happy calmly about her usual duties. The walked back two miles to my board- Sabbath afternoon together, the only children played with my sisters. After ing place. introduction being that we both be- lunch I decided to cease being a dis- On the way back I thought, "I wish long to the Advent family On Satur- cordant note, and joined in the fun, these people had been like Mother, day night after the service this sister telling stories to the children. The who could take in eight people on inquired about my future plans. ' visiting mother, seeing the baby asleep washday." I liked that family. The "We shall be glad to drive you to and the other children happy, offered mother had a face that reminded me of the train on Sunday morning," she to iron some of the flat pieces that my mother. It would have warmed my said, in response to my protest that my were dry. The afternoon proceeded heart to sit down with them as one of going home with them would neces- more pleasantly than I had imagined their family, if there had been noth- sitate a twenty-mile drive on their 12 REVIEW AND HERALD part. Thus another pleasant memory While taking her home that eve- After five years the Carvers rejoiced of the kindness was added. ning, we suggested that she attend our hearts by telling us that they were One of our colporteurs tells this Sabbath school and church with us the attending Adventist Sunday night story from Colorado. When it was al- next forenoon when she had nothing meetings held in their town. We wrote most dark, he canvassed a family liv- but fancywork to occupy her. She did to the pastor about them. Soon his ing in a one-room cabin. He asked if so. The Sabbath school lessons were wife was giving them weekly Bible their nearest neighbors up the road on the book of Revelation, a book she studies. One September day the Carv- would have room to keep him all had always longed to understand. ers entered our kitchen door with the night. "Yes, they have a spare bed- When her few days of visiting were vegetables and fruit they always room." He rode on his bicycle to that over, we told her not to pay out money brought from their ranch. They were next house, tried but failed to get an for motels again, because we always enthusiastic. "We see it; we see it; we order, and then asked if he might stay had plenty of room for her and her see it!" they. exclaimed. overnight, as houses were scarce in that family. In a few months her husband, "What is it 'you see?" we asked part of Colorado. "No indeed, we the youngest son, and she came back. them, as we had no idea what they have no room for you," was the blunt They all attended church. The Signs meant. response. of the Times was sent to them, for "We see the Sabbath." As he cycled back past the one-room which they insisted on reimbursing us. It was a happy day for us when we cabin, the owner called to him: "I "We like it better than our own drove two hundred miles to spend see the people didn't consent to keep church paper," they said. Friday evening at the Carver home you. Such people!" he muttered. "It's Two or three times a year for six and to see them baptized the next not safe for you to go on in the dark, years they came to us when they day into the remnant church. At the for there are deep pits, and you may wanted to visit their son in the sana- baptism this question forced itself fall into one of them. Let me talk torium. Each time we had talks and upon me, "What if I had not obeyed to my wife." studies on the Bible. Once we said, the impression of the Holy Spirit and The consultation yielded the wife's "You are looking for the Seventh-day invited this stranger to our home permission, and supper for the hungry Adventist Church. You lament the seven years ago? What a blessing our colporteur. They managed to keep worldliness in your church—the bingo home would have missed. How kind him this way: There was only one bed parties, raffles, the sponsored dances is God to send these opportunities to in the cabin, so an extra set of springs in the church halls." His children." and mattress was brought in for the night. While the wife, the woman vis- itor they had, and the girl of eight son of David, should permit such idolatry got ready for bed, the husband, the within sight of the beautiful Temple! It was boy of ten, and the colporteur studied awful! the stars outside. When the women The worship of Molech called for the sac- had retired in one bed and the light rifice of living children, who were made to had been turned out, the three males "pass through the fire," screaming in pain came in and got into the other bed and fright. How could Solomon, who had "But" shown such tenderness toward a baby when and slept well. After breakfast the the two women came to him, now permit next morning—the people would ac- By Arthur S. Maxwell such horrible torture of innocent little ones? cept no pay—the colporteur went on How far could a man fall? Great, wise, and rich though he was, Solo- his way. He is convinced that if peo- No wonder "the Lord was angry with Solo- mon had one big "but" in his life. You will ple are really hospitable they can al- mon." find one recorded in the first verse of the He had reason to be. Twice He had ap- ways make room somehow. eleventh chapter of the first books of Kings. peared to the king in his younger days with By following the Bible injunction, king Solomon loved many strange "But promises of great blessing if he would do "Be not forgetful to entertain stran- women." right and follow the ways of God. Now Solo- He had many, many wives. Hundreds of gers," we may actually make our homes mon had failed Him. With all the wisdom soul-winning agencies. About ten them. the Lord had given him, he had allowed The worst of it was that these women were years ago I had a brilliant young man himself to become a fool. "He kept not that not Israelites, but "Moabites, Ammonites, as a student in the tuberculosis sana- which the Lord commanded," and soon began Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites," the very torium where I teach. One day he to pay the price of his disobedience and folly. women whom God had expressly forbidden "Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, remarked casually, "My mother is His people to marry. Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou coming to visit me. I want you to No doubt the reason why Solomon married hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, meet her. You'll like Mother." so many wives was that each one brought which I have commanded thee, I will surely On a Friday afternoon I did meet with her a big dowry from, a wealthy father. her. As I knew she was living in a But though his wives brought him great rend the kingdom from thee." motel a mile away, with nothing to riches, they "turned away his heart." How sad! How terribly sad! As a young man he began his reign with He had started out so well, and God had do except during the two hours a day blessed him so greatly! Now he was rejected, when she could visit her son, I sug- his heart set on God. That was why he built the Temple and prayed that wonderful like Saul before him. gested, "Come home with us, and have prayer of dedication. He had gained riches, power, prestige, supper. We are Seventh-day Adventists But when the foreign princesses came everything a man could wish for, but he had and shall be studying our Bibles this flocking into Jerusalem, they wanted to wor- forgotten God. And in losing God he had evening, but since you are a Christian ship their own gods. Some were followers of lost all. that will probably not bother you." Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Zidonians, Is there a "but" in your life? Could it be She accepted the invitation, taking others of Molech, "the abomination of the said of you, "This boy has a nice home, many part with us in family worship. Ammonites." To please them, and to keep fine toys, a new bicycle, BUT he tells lies," them happy and peaceful, Solomon built or "he can't be trusted," or "he hates going Afterward she broke down weeping. places of worship for these heathen gods. to church"? "My husband has been an elder in our "Likewise did he for all his strange wives, Or, "This girl has wonderful parents, beau- church for twenty years, and I have which burnt incense and sacrificed unto tiful clothes, the best of everything, BUT she been a Sunday school teacher just as their gods." is cross, grumbly, impatient, and never says long; but we have never had family The good people of Jerusalem must have her prayers"? worship." been shocked. To think that their king, the Let's beware of the "buts" in our lives. AUGUST 30, 1956 13 slight expense. So my academy-age daughter can have a collection of hun- dreds of beautiful full-color minia- tures of the masters, with interesting Con,rcird try KFtiNETH H. WOOD, explanatory texts, at low cost. I saw the world's great figures in rare and inadequate news photo- "Now, in My Day"-1 graphs or in cartoons. I never saw a President. But the great of today en- ter your home and talk to you face Choose . . . the Best to face via your television screen. We could go on for an hour listing the cultural advantages of the mid-twen- By Richard Lewis tieth century. If you haven't thought of two ob- Most old folks who start talking also hear fine recorded music, played jections to my first argument, those about "my day" end up with the fool- on the best electronic equipment that who are older have, and with some ish conclusion that the "good old modern scientific genius can devise. justification. With all these benefits, days" can never be equaled. The wise You actually hear better music that they say, come a host of evils. Though man said, "Say not, 'Why were the way than I could ever have afforded to radio and television have brought former days better than these?' For hear in my youth, because modern re- some good, they have also brought it is not from wisdom that you ask cordings are made under optimum evil. And the evil outweighs the good. this" (Ecd. 7:10, R.S.V.). So let's conditions. For every good book on the drugstore have a close look at your day as com- To go a little further, I saw Heifetz, stand, there are a hundred filled with pared with mine. Kreisler, and Elman—the violin was the devil's own wares. The airways It has been a generation, about my line—saw them in person from the that bring the fine music also bring thirty-seven years, since I entered the fourteenth row of the gallery. Some- the thumping rhythm of the sophis- "youth" bracket, and the memories one lent me a decrepit pair of field ticated savages of this time. of the experience are still fresh. The glasses, which gave me an enlarged, This is all true. But the solution time may come when those days will color-fringed view of the artist. But to the problem lies in exercising our be fogged over with the golden haze today you can see scores of artists on God-given power of choice. If the air of senile reminiscence, but not yet. television with better visibility than is full of froth or even filth, a The young person of today has the a box seat could afford. twist of a dial or a flick of a switch privilege of the ages to live in these Consider also the world of books can make it as remote as Saturn. The amazing times. His time is ahead of and magazines. I read the old Na- bookstand or the library may contain my time, ahead of every other time. tional Geographic magazine in black the strongest moral poison of the ages, That proposition I'll support with and white. You read it in color. You but you are never harmed by the four arguments, of which the last is can also buy cheap editions of the books you do not read. the best. greatest books of all time for twenty- Are there not more evils now than First of all, young people of today five cents or a dollar. Your magazines there used to be? Isn't the world get- have inherited the cultural treasures are full of pictures, many in color, ting worse? Yes. But you need not be of all the ages in their most available that tell you about the wide world as sullied by today's wickedness. You can forms. I could never see it in my youth. choose only that which is true, pure, How well I remember my first sym- Personal visits to art galleries were honest, and lovely (see Phil. 4:8). phony concert! I had to travel fifty rare in my day, and are only some- And if TV, with its strange but fas- miles to a city big enough to support what less rare today, since many cities cinating mixture of good and bad, a symphony orchestra. My grand- don't have them. But the engraver's proves too subtle and hence starts father furnished the ticket. It was a art makes paintings available today at to undermine your spirituality, you thrill that towers above all can always choose to elimi- the other thrills of my last nate it from your home. pre-teen years. I can still The second objection remember the pieces the runs like this: "The young orchestra played under the people of today spend too baton of Alfred Hertz. much time being enter- It was many a long day tained. In my day we were before I heard another thrown on our own inge- symphony orchestra. You nuity. We had to entertain could count on your fingers ourselves." the number of concerts I This is a hard objection had heard by the time I to meet, for people today graduated from college. do spend too much time in But youth of today have passive pleasure, too little many more opportunities in creative activity. But to hear symphony orches- they don't have to. From tras and other fine musi- finger painting for small cal organizations. More- children to model railroads over, through radio they for maturing men, there is have access to great music something creative to make every day in the year. I was or to do for every age and well out of my teens before EWING GALLOWAY place. Through the mediums of radio, television, and high fidelity recordings, good music, I had a radio. such as that produced by a symphony orchestra, is much more readily available to- To build up an efficient Today many of you can day than it was a generation ago. gasoline motor was a privi- 14 REVIEW AND HERALD lege for yesterday's hot-rodders! To- "Now," said Mr. Campbell, after morrow's young mechanics may well they had walked for an hour or so, bring out the revival of steam motors "we last saw him here." Then he for cars, with their marvelous power pointed to some big tracks in the and economy. And there is the devel- mud. "I think he's over there in that oping gas turbine and the hoped-for area," he said, motioning toward a Diesel electric, with power delivered forest nearby. directly to each wheel. There is plenty For several minutes they marched of room for creative activity. Rogue Elephant! on, forgetting about the tigers and Good cameras are relatively inex- By D. A. Delafield the leopards and the cobras and other pensive and even color film is reason- dangerous creatures who might at any able in price. Recent contests have The missionary and his wife sat in moment threaten them. shown that the creativity of teen-age their wicker chairs fanning them- As they advanced they suddenly be- photographers often exceeds the orig- selves. There was a knock at the door. came aware of a noise in the bushes inality and penetration of many The missionary rose and made his way ahead, perhaps 150 yards away. professionals. to the veranda. "I think we've found him," said Mr. Don't whine, "What'll I do?" to me. "Good morning, Mr. Osmunson." Campbell in a hushed voice. There are a hundred things to do in It was Mr. Campbell, the government In the distance the big, lumbering this wonderful world; more and bet- officer for the area. "Pardon the inter- form of the angry beast could be seen. ter than ever before. History, liter- ruption," he said, "but a rogue ele- Instinctively the missionary raised his ature, stamps, shells, skin diving, phant is loose, destroying crops, crush- rifle to fire, but the hand of the experi- body building, mountain climbing— ing the native houses, and killing enced hunter slowly pressed the rifle name any creative pleasure you please people. If we don't kill this animal, barrel to the ground. "Not yet," he and you will find better facilities more we'll have havoc around here for days. said, "we must get closer, much easily available than in my day. Please bring your rifle and come help closer." So they crept forward, cau- Never say, "Why were the former me." tiously, quietly, into the very pathway days better than these?" For these days "I'll come," said Brother Osmun- of death and the great behemoth will yield all the good things you can son. Seizing his rifle, kissing his grazing before them. ask, if only you choose wisely. "Hate wife good-by, and with a prayer in Now the animal caught their wind. what is evil, hold fast to what is good" his heart, he took off after the white Lifting his huge trunk he trumpeted (Rom. 12:9, R.S.V.). hunter. defiance, then charged through the brush toward them. "I'll shoot first," said Mr. Campbell. "As soon as you hear the discharge of my rifle, fire!" PERSONALITY the participants must be present at Quietly, methodically, the experi- nine-thirty sharp. Of course he'll be enced hunter raised the firearm. there! There was a loud report and the bullet

Is This You? But on Sabbath morning nine- sped to its target in the mighty skull. thirty comes and goes, your nerves Then when the animal was only growing tighter and tighter. Finally twenty-five yards away, the missionary The Late Mr. --- you go onto the platform without fired. The elephant kept coming, but the Late Mr. . During the spe- turning to one side, he veered from The late Mr. whom I wish cial music he arrives and takes his his course, and trumpeting in pain, to describe isn't obituary material at place. What was all the excitement lumbered off into the jungle. all. He's very much alive, so much so about? He got there in time to give The next day in the distance they that he drives his friends nearly to the review, didn't he? Obviously the saw the buzzards circling overhead desperation. It sometimes happens two of you don't speak the same lan- and they knew that the mighty beast this way: guage where promptness is con- had fallen. The rogue elephant was A group of individuals plan an out- cerned. dead and the natives were thankful. ing. "We'll meet at Joe's house to- It is true that much of our living is You can see that missionaries some- morrow morning promptly at seven governed by the clock, and it becomes times have an exciting time. But they o'clock, because if we don't leave then wearisome always to be meeting dead- don't find their greatest thrills in we'll get into the worst of the traffic. lines. But is there any other way to fit shooting rogue elephants. They have Now remember, seven sharp!" into a complex, highly organized a mightier foe than the beasts of the Previous experience should have world? Refusing to conform to estab- jungle, and other weapons than guns. warned them. The group are assem- lished custom on this point will not Said Peter, "Be sober, be vigilant; be- bled by 6:45, all but the Late Mr. mark you as an individualist. It cause your adversary the devil, as a . Seven o'clock comes. Seven- will mark you as irresponsible! roaring lion, walketh about, seeking five. Seven-ten. Seven-fifteen, with Sometimes it can become ridicu- whom he may devour" (I Peter 5:8). each minute dragging on leaden feet. lous, such as when dinner invitations The weapons that the missionary uses Tempers begin to fray, enthusiasm are given for six o'clock—"But I to fight the devil are, as Paul said, wanes. Then at seven twenty-three he would feel foolish to arrive at six; let's "not carnal, but mighty through God drives up, breezy and happy, without go at six-fifteen." Or, the party invi- to the pulling down of strong holds" so much as an apology. He doesn't tation is for eight o'clock—"But no (2 Cor. 10:4). That means that our even notice the frigidity in the atmos- one will come on time; let's go at missionaries turn the weapons of faith, phere. The group does get tied up in eight-thirty." the Word of God and prayer, against traffic jams, everyone becomes slightly Personally, I wouldn't want to be the beasts of sin. They battle against cross, and the day is off to a bad start the Late Mr. , either alive or the rogue elephants and the man-eat- —all because of the Late Mr. dead! ing tigers of vice and crime in order Or he agrees to give the review at to rescue poor people and bring them Sabbath school, and you go to great to Christ. And isn't that our work, lengths to impress upon him that all too? AUGUST 3 0 , 1956 15 The first ordained minister to keep the Sabbath was Frederick Wheeler, son of Captain Theodore Wheeler. He was born at Acton, Massachusetts, on March 12, 1811. We catch our next glimpse of him at the age of twenty-one, when at Washington, New Hampshire, he married Lydia Proctor, seventeen, daughter of one of the older families of the State. It seems quite certain that they eatute 741-tirZc lived for three years in Washington, OF THE WEEK then from 1835 to 1848 in the nearby town of Hillsboro, New Hampshire. It was during these years at Hills- boro, about 1840, that Frederick Wheeler was ordained a minister of the gospel in the Methodist Episco- pal Church. enth-day Sabbath ever given by an munication he sent to the REVIEW About 1842 a farmer group of the Adventist minister. That sermon was was dated December 1, 1850. He Christian denomination erected a given in the Washington-Barnes red wrote: house of worship in Washington. This schoolhouse in the town of Hillsboro. "As it regards the state of the is the same building that is often There is some reason to believe that cause in this place, and vicinity, I spoken of as "the oldest Seventh-day the date of the sermon was Sabbath, would say, there is a little company Adventist church." It is said that March 30, 1844. who have been endeavoring to keep everybody helped and the church was Beginning to keep Q the Sabbath the Sabbath according to the com- completed in six weeks. They secured probably one week earlier, William mandment since 1844; and several Frederick Wheeler to serve as their Farnsworth and his wife, Sarah, were have lately been led to embrace the pastor, thus adding this New Hamp- now joined by others, until within a truth of the third angel's message in shire town to his circuit. few months about forty in Washing- full, and others are more or less in- In this same year Joshua Goodwin, ton and adjacent towns were keeping terested in the subject." a minister from Maine, brought the the Sabbath. In the following month Elder James Advent message to Washington. It was It was probably in the spring of White visited Washington. He found generally accepted by the above-men- 1845 that a Millerite preacher from Elder Wheeler was "deeply impressed tioned Christian community. At about southern Massachusetts suddenly ap- with a sense of duty to go out and the same time Frederick Wheeler peared among them seeking firsthand give the message." Elder White en- also accepted the doctrine of the im- information. This was Joseph Bates. couraged his conviction that he minent advent of Jesus Christ. He, He reached the Wheeler home at a should "sound the third message with however, reached that conclusion late hour, after the family had retired success, as he did the two former through a study of William Miller's for the night, but Elder Wheeler arose cries." sermons. and admitted the visitor. Many years But it was hard for Elder Wheeler Among the Washington congrega- later, George Wheeler, then a young to get started in joining "the travel- tion was a certain Seventh Day Bap- lad, told of being awakened at in- ing brethren," as our ministers were tist widow, Rachel Harris Oakes tervals through the night to hear the often called in those days. There was (later Preston). The story has been hum of earnest conversation going on no conference to employ him at a told many times of the quarterly serv- and on, as his father and Elder Bates weekly wage or to pay even the ex- ice conducted by the pastor in March talked and compared scripture with penses of travel. He was a poor man, of 1844, in which he urged all those scripture. and his family depended on him to about to take part in the sacred rite It appears that after breakfast these provide the necessities of life. to examine themselves, making sure two men went to the home of Daniel James White made his second visit they were living in harmony with Farnsworth, where they held a long to Washington in October of 1851. God's sacred law. His words were like conference in the front yard under This time he reported: manna from heaven to the soul of the the great maples that stand there to "Our beloved Bro. Wheeler, who widow who had long tried in vain to this day. Here they were probably has been doing what he could in the interest her friends in the true Bible joined by Cyrus Farnsworth, then a cause, in his embarrassing circum- Sabbath. young man of twenty-one, by his fa- stances, has resolved to give himself Watching her opportunity after- ther, Daniel Farnsworth, and perhaps more fully to the work of preaching ward, she asked Elder Wheeler if he by Cyrus' brother William, who lived the word of life to perishing souls. remembered those words. Then as some three miles distant. We have been with him in a number suddenly as Nathan the prophet ac- After this first Sabbath conference of meetings, and are satisfied that cused King David, she demanded, held under the trees in front of the he, with God's blessing, will exert a "Why do not you keep all of God's Farnsworth house, Joseph Bates re- good influence, and accomplish much commandments?" turned to his home in Fairhaven, in bringing out the hidden jewels of The pastor had supposed that he Massachusetts. He was fully satisfied the Lord. While our dear brother goes did keep all of God's law, but listen- that the new light was indeed the out in search of the lost sheep of the ing to the burning words of this truth, and that it was his duty to tell house of Israel, the brethren should woman, he determined to restudy the it to the world. not be backward to inquire after his subject. As a result of that study he In 1848 Elder Wheeler moved from temporal wants, and the situation of soon kept his first Sabbath. Moreover, Hillsboro to Washington. While his family at home." he celebrated that occasion by preach- working on his farm on weekdays he Immediately Elder Wheeler began ing what is supposed to have been continued to serve his flock on Sab- visiting believers and holding meet- the first sermon in favor of the sev- baths as their pastor. The first com- ings in Vermont, Massachusetts, and 16 REVIEW AND HERALD demand by the sick; he encountered new regions. Others went for financial fanaticism, privations, and hardships, advantage. Elder White moved to but kept on. Much of the time he central New York at the call of his worked alone. Occasionally he joined brethren in conference assembled, to with others in holding evangelistic carry on the soul-winning work that meetings. He worked with Josiah he had done so faithfully and success- JF A Hart, Elon Everts, Alfred Hutchins, fully in New England. Samuel Rhodes, and others. Now at this very time, 1856-57, a One New Hampshire mother wrote controversy arose over the seven to the REVIEW expressing her grati- churches of Revelation 2 and 3. Were tude for Elder Wheeler's comforting Seventh-day Adventists in the Laodi- words when she was mourning the cean or the Philadelphian church? By C. L. TAYLOR untimely death of her little son. Only Down here a hundred years later, because Elder Wheeler was detained some may ask, What difference did it at home longer than had been make? As has been explained in re- planned, was he able to conduct the cent articles in the REVIEW, it made a funeral service for the child. In a very great difference. If Adventists letter, she wrote: "He spoke from 1 were members of the Philadelphian Connecticut. In closing his first report Thess. iv, 13, 14. The Holy Spirit so church, it must be that they were in a of travel among the believers he accompanied the word, that for a sea- high state of perfection, and almost pledged: "The gospel armor I will son our mourning was turned to re- ready for translation. If, on the other not put off, the contest I will not joicing." hand, they were members of the Lao- yield, until with all the ransomed host A little later Brother Wheeler was dicean church, their condition was I shout the final victory in the name called to Rochester, New York, to deplorable and in desperate need of of the Lord, Amen." conduct the funeral of Robert Har- divine help. During the six years that followed, mon, the only brother of Ellen G. The Spirit of prophecy had made we get glimpses of Frederick Wheeler White. it clear that the Laodicean message laboring in every State of New Eng- In 1857 Elder Wheeler moved to was directed to Seventh-day Advent- land, and later in New York State New York State. At this time many ists as well as to other churches of also. In one place he held a confer- Adventists from the Eastern States this period. Now the controversy was ence, in another a tent meeting, and were moving to the Middle West. on. Hundreds who had confidently he conducted baptisms. He was in Some did this to carry the truth to believed for years that the descrip- tion of a lukewarm people in danger of being spewed out applied only to other churches, now found it neces- sary to inspect carefully their own lives. Many letters began coming to the REVIEW office from ministers and laity, telling of their acceptance of the new light. Some, however, even among the ministry, were slow to take their stand. Naturally anyone interested in the life and work of our first ordained minister would wish to know what his reaction was in that crisis hour. Those who were living a hundred years ago did not have long to wait. Early in the controversy the response of Frederick Wheeler came to the REVIEW office, strong and clear. On December 2, 1856, he wrote: "That a lukewarm state has come over the church, is a fact too plainly seen to be denied. The worldly spirit that is seen, the lack of consecration, and of the spirit and power that marked the early progress of the Third Angel's Message are too ap- parent, and tell that it is even so. But I rejoice that the church is beginning to feel their condition and to awake. The exhortation of the faithful and true Witness to be 'zealous and re- pent,' is beginning to move them; and there are signs of coming up to the work of the Lord. I look forward with confidence to see a mighty move

ARLO GREER, AALLAT among the remnant soon, and a more Rachel Harris Preston asked Frederick Wheeler, "Why do not you keep all of God's commandments?" (Continued on page 25) AUGUST 30, 1956 17 2. Adequate nutrition for good looks and physical strength. 3. Rest very important for fast- traveling Sabrejets. CONDUCTED BY E GENERAL CONFEr'ENCE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT 4. Ability to fly in smooth forma- tion with other jets. Ready for take- off to school. "Roger."—Used by permission. "Operation Back to School" Both parents and teachers are nec- essary to a smooth take-off for each By Joyce Wilson student. The burden does not rest more heavily on the latter group than on the former. The teachers of September—the month to which and teeth brushed after every meal. Seventh-day Adventist church schools many parents and children look for- 6. No evidence of communicable are making an honest effort to pro- ward, for it is back-to-school time. disease: sore throat, runny nose, or vide a healthful environment and Preparation for going to school in- watery eyes. Keep grounded in hangar health education for their students. cludes several things: new clothes, if any of these symptoms is evident. A guide, in the form of the School new books, farewell to vacation time. Health bulletin, comes every month It also includes getting ready health- "Twin Engines (6-12 years) to each teacher. ("Operation Back wise, for the best of health is necessary 1. Booster shots if needed. to School" also appears in the Sep- to getting the most out of a school 2. Dental checkup. tember, 1956, issue of School Health.) year. 3. Seven basic foods daily. Good A few of the local conferences in The Health Education Journal of breakfast important. the North American Division have the Los Angeles City Schools, in Sep- 4. Observance of safety rules. full-time nurses or doctors staffing tember, 1955, provided a check list 5. 10-11 hours of sleep before take- their health education departments, for parents and students as they pre- off and avoidance of excessive stimu- and these give direction to the pro- pared for another school year. In this lation before bedtime. gram of health in the church schools high-speed, air-minded age, we must of their respective territories. Seek appeal to youth through the medium "Jets (12-15 years) their help and guidance. they most readily understand. Thus 1. Physical and dental checkup. "Since the mind and the soul find we quote for you here "Operation 2. Hi-octane foods for growth and expression through the body, both Back to School," written in the lan- speed: eggs, milk, vegetables, and mental and spiritual vigor are in guage of airmen. fruits. Avoid candy, gum, and starches, great degree dependent upon physical "In this super-jet and atomic age as they may aggravate skin blemishes. strength and activity; whatever pro- the check list is used to prepare all 3. 9-10 hours of sleep at night. motes physical health, promotes the aircraft for flight. Before take-off all 4. Keen interest in the facts of development of a strong mind and a the items have to be perfect to stand health, sex, and science. well-balanced character. Without the stresses and strains of accelerated 5. Progress in learning to live with health no one can as distinctly under- speeds. Children entering school have emotions. Learn to make a smooth stand or as completely fulfill his ob- physical and emotional stresses which landing even if out of gas and the ligations to himself, to his fellow be- can be lessened by adequate nutri- engines are on fire. ings, or to his Creator. Therefore the tion, sufficient rest, and proper emo- health should be as faithfully guarded tional attitudes. Perhaps a check list "Sabrejets (15-18 years) as the character."—Education, p. 195. would be helpful in preparing chil- 1. Understanding and management If we believe the closing statement dren for school. of self. of the above paragraph, we will do something about this "Piper Cubs (5-6 business of health. We years) will see to it that our 1.Immunized against children are building tetanus, whooping healthful lives. We will cough, and diphtheria. seek all information 2. 11-12 hours sleep having a bearing upon every night before take- this subject. We will off. study it broadly and 3. Fuel—Breakfast of deeply; our instruction whole-wheat cereal or will be given with ac- egg, milk, and citrus curate, adequate fruit. Lunch to include knowledge behind it. milk, proteins, vege- Our lives will show we table, and fruit. Dinner are interested in pre- to include potatoes, senting to God "a liv- proteins, vegetables, ing sacrifice," not a fruit, and milk. half-dead one. We will 4. Pre-flight. Visit to not make the study of school. Walk route to health burdensome to be traveled and stress our youth, but alive, safety rules. Briefing as interesting, vital. We to activities on play- will provide them with A. DEVANEY ground. Preparation for going back to school should include not only buying new clothes and new books the best food—both 5. Dental checkup but getting ready healthwise as well. physical and spiritual. 18 REVIEW AND HERALD Ituwubia Falls about five miles from A Visit With the Davis Indians our destination. Here at the foot of this raging cataract it was necessary By L. A. Kraner, President to leave the launch and form an British Guiana Mission overland caravan, carrying the cargo, food, provisions, motor, gasoline, et cetera, for twenty minutes around the The international character of the audience, our words being readily falls. Repeated trips were not easy in Advent message was clearly mani- translated into the Akawaio dialect view of the rapid approach of dark- fested in a visit several months ago to by Gibson, the experienced linguist ness, with here and there a log thrown our Davis Indian mission. Accom- among our Davis Indian believers. across a creek to form a bridge. Mud panied by P. W. Manuel, a Canadian, The following morning, aware of huts were not a few, and the dense and Dr. R. F. Dunlop, a Scotsman, the presence of a missionary doctor, jungle trail provided a perfect setting the writer, an American, visited the the Indians brought their sick at the for the spirit of adventure. well-known Davis Indian mission rising of the sun. Scores of treatments Safely landed on the bank of the deep in the interior of British Guiana. were administered in the prebreakfast Kamarang just above the falls, a four- For such a visit, plans had to be dawn, and after a meeting with our hour wait was necessary while two effected well in advance. One must Indian believers we again boarded our Amerindian boys paddled a wood- travel with all the food necessary for faithful outboard to complete our skin canoe to the mission and brought the entire trip, for there are no stores journey to Paruima, the headquarters down a longer boat. The time passed along the way from which to pur- of our work among the Amerindians. quickly, however, and almost without chase needed provisions. Neither Day's end found us approaching the realizing it we were making our way would one wish to exist on the plan- tain-and-cassava-cakes fare of the Amerindian. There are no well-trav- eled roads for quick and comfortable transportation; neither is it economi- cally wise to transport all the neces- sary provisions by plane. Hence it is necessary to ship all foodstuffs, gaso- line, et cetera, overland weeks in ad- vance. Our plane was charted to carry us quickly over the mountainous passes, landing us safely at the mouth of the Kamarang River. There at the gov- ernment station our genial director of the Indian mission waited with the mission launch, an over-size corial [canoe] hollowed out of a log. Powered by an antiquated Johnson outboard motor, the little craft with its human cargo and necessary provi- sions launched out on its seventy-five- mile journey up the winding waters of the Kamarang. The tired motor, with experienced reluctance, carried us the first day to the first mission station, an Indian Japanese Nurses Carry Message in Song village known as Waramadong. Here a welcoming party, made up of many At the time of our medical council in they have been able to carry the message in Tokyo, Japan, earlier this year, four young a manner that would not be possible through Indians headed by the chief, carried ladies being trained in the Tokyo Sanitarium any other avenue. So impressed was the Army our bags and ushered us up the School of Nursing came before our council Officers' Club in Tokyo that the authorities muddy river bank, through the small group and rendered some beautiful sacred not only gave them $45 but asked the young village, and into the unfinished school, songs in the Japanese language. These young ladies to return at a later date. where we were to hang our hammocks ladies were attired in their colorful national The educational and missionary opportuni- for the night. costume, and we were all immensely im- ties afforded our young ladies in our schools These Indian believers were con- pressed with the earnestness of the message of nursing throughout the world go far tent with nothing short of a preach- they bore in this manner. beyond the mere technical training they A letter just received from 0. L. Aaby, receive in preparation for meeting the physi- ing service, regardless of the late eve- manager of our Tokyo Sanitarium, tells us cal needs of patients. ning hour. So before eating supper and that the same four young ladies have been In the picture (left to right) are the Misses bedding ourselves down for the night, invited to meet with many different societies Takei, Nakonura, Takei, and Imanoga. we each in turn spoke to an interested and organizations in the Tokyo area, where T. R. FLAIZ AUGUST 30, 1956 19 rapidly through the clouded darkness My Trip to Nepal the Nepali government paper Gurkha of the near-midnight hour up the Sam bad consented to publish our peaceful river on the last lap of our By B. Nowrangi, Secretary health lectures from Your Radio Doc- day's journey. Voice of Prophecy, Northeast tor in the Nepali language. Midnight found us ascending the Union, Southern Asia Division In and around Katmandu, in three riverbank of the Davis Indian mis- places, some Christian organizations sion, where we were welcomed by the It was a wonderful privilege for have opened medical work. In Kat- wife and children of our genial mis- me to visit Nepal from April 25 to mandu proper there is a good fifty- sion director, and were again re- May 3, 1956. For several years I had bed hospital run by four overseas doc- freshed with a hot drink. Slumber that been eager to visit this country with tors and several nurses. night was sweet in the cool mountain a Bible in my hand, because several A very influential man there told atmosphere of the tropical forest land. of our Voice of Prophecy students me that the present King Mahendra had requested me to visit them. We The joyous weekend was one of is very liberal minded toward the have more than thirty Voice of Proph- foreign doctors, and in fact he is in- exciting activity. Long had our faith- ecy graduates there and about sixty viting some specialists to open medi- ful Indian believers looked forward more who are taking the course. cal centers in Nepal for such diseases to our visit. Arriving there Thursday It was the coronation time, and as tuberculosis and leprosy. night, we spent the following day in thousands of visitors were pouring in counsel with our Indian brethren. We From what I saw and heard there, every day, so it was not difficult to I feel that if we approach the Nepal found that many had traveled long cross the border as a visitor. I met government soon, there is still a distances through the jungle lands about sixteen Voice of Prophecy stu- and even the broad savannas to at- chance for us to secure permission to dents in the city of Katmandu. Owing open medical work in Nepal. tend the weekend camp meeting. to difficulty in communication I was I like the people there very much, Some were sick, and upon hearing not able to visit those students who and I am sure the Lord has many that Dr. Dunlop was present, they live in the interior. But from my people from among them waiting to came with their complaints, and went observation of the people in Kat- be gathered in before Christ comes. away thankful for the relief given. Dr. mandu, I got a fair idea of the people Dunlop set up a crude office in the and the country. schoolhouse. The Nepalese are good, simple- First Ordinations for The following day was thirteenth natured people, very sincere and hon- Borneo Sabbath. In the simple, sincere man- est. They are very sociable too. Their ner of these "children of the forest," bravery is well known all over the By J. M. Nerness a touching thirteenth Sabbath pro- world. gram was presented by the children The younger generation is trying Adventist high days occur in the in the Akawaio dialect, followed by to keep up with the modern times, jungle too! Sabbath, April 14, was the the superintendent's eloquent appeal. but that progress is slow. I had a nice time. The event was the ordination Then the members came up with visit with our Voice of Prophecy stu- service in which the first men native their offerings. Some brought money; dents there. I made friends with to Borneo were ordained to the but many brought their cassava bread, many of them. I am hoping that with Seventh-day Adventist ministry. plantains, peanuts, sweet potatoes, further contact (by visit and by let- Seeds of truth were dropped on sugar cane, et cetera, and all were ter) some of them will be gathered the island of Borneo by Seventh-day "precious in His sight." into the kingdom of God. Adventist Chinese soon after the turn of the century. Missionaries entered, Among the Indians gathered there, I was very much encouraged to meet Mr. Cleveland of the American and the first mission was organized in a group of 107 had walked for ten library (USIS) there. With his help 1913. It was not long before the efforts days for the spiritual refreshment of put forth brought a fruitage in bap- one weekend. The loyal group of Ad- I contacted Radio Nepal and we made vent believers had been many months final arrangements to broadcast Your tisms and in the organization of without any contact with a worker; Radio Doctor program in Nepali churches. However, the development but still their faithfulness was more from Radio Nepal. Also the editor of of a national ministry has been slow. than evident, for among them were approximately thirty souls to whom they had taught the Advent message, and who had come for baptism. Also they had brought nearly $800 (B.W.I.) in tithes and offerings accumulated over the months. Our brief visit among them doubly convinced us that our mission program is worth every sacrifice. Today, our two schools at Warama- dong and Paruima are each fully staffed with Indian teachers doing ac- ceptable work, and a strong program is in evidence. But the need of funds with which to branch out and accom- plish our task is great. Workers are needed, as is adequate equipment with which to successfully furnish these mission outposts. Let us all bear in mind the fact that our gifts to missions are more than appreciated out in these needy fields. Himalayan hill people listening to the message presented by means of a kerosene-operated projector. 20 REVIEW AND HERALD ing campaign more than eighty men volunteered to go out immediately. With the cooperation of the Holy Spirit they went out over the hills and valleys of their populous land to sell more than ten thousand truth- filled books proclaiming the soon- coming Saviour. A wonderful begin- ning! Many of our 119 regular and part- time literature evangelists have had wonderful experiences in contacting both Europeans and Africans, and interesting them in this message. In several instances colporteurs have raised up whole companies, and a regular worker has had to be sent to care for the interest. It is especially encouraging to see the wonderful cooperation that exists Left to right: L. E. A. Fox, for the past nine years president of the Sarawak Mission; James Maung, first between the mission publishing secre- Land Dyak to be ordained; Mandatang, first Dusun (North Borneo) to be ordained; and Arthur Mountain, tary, his station assistants, the travel- president of the reorganized Borneo-Brunei-Sarawak Mission. ing pastors, district leaders, teachers, and literature evangelists. Our litera- Forty years have gone by, but at last village to teach his people to read ture men feel as if they really belong two men have qualified. James Maung, and write. But as he learned more to the regular mission staff. They at- a Land Dyak from Sarawak, and about the truth he felt that his peo- tend the monthly district leaders' Mandatang Gaban, a Dusun, of North ple's greatest need was to be taught meetings, as do all other workers, Borneo, are the first from Borneo's the third angel's message. He felt con- participating in general planning, re- many races to be set apart by ordina- strained to enter the ministry. Al- ceiving counsel, and reporting all in- tion to the gospel ministry. though he has faced severe temptation terests and converts to their district It seems certain that a providential and hardship, he has stayed by his leaders. care has been over these men. In pledge. He has labored faithfully, To sell books, we have had to pro- Brother Mandatang's case, G. B. leading out in a school of 100 stu- duce them. In our union it has been Youngberg, the church school, the dents while pastoring a flock of 140. a very important part of our work. Malayan Union Seminary, and con- F. A. Mote, C. P. Sorensen, A. Besides translating and printing, we secrated parents have all contributed Mountain, L. E. A. Fox, J. T. Pohan, have had to study costs to keep our to his development. From the early D. P. Siagian, and the writer partici- books within the price range of vil- days of his youth he lived under a pated in the ordination service held lage folk. Even color combinations conviction that he should dedicate in Jesselton on April 14. There is and pictures have had to receive con- his life to the ministry. His father great rejoicing over this long step sideration. sent him to the Malayan Seminary in forward in finishing the work in During this four-year period, we Singapore in 1941. Singapore was Borneo. have translated and published in five captured by the Japanese, and_ food languages fifteen books ranging in supplies ran low. Someone suggested size from thirty to one hundred pages that he join in stealing food, but Literature Ministry in each. Several of these books have had Mandatang prayed that if it was God's the Congo Union two to three reprintings. One of these will for him to be a worker for the books was written by one of our lead- Dusun people that He would de- By T. W. Staples ing African pastors. liver him from his plight and open Africans everywhere are yearning the way for his return to North Bor- Four years ago our publishing work for literature. We as Adventists are neo. was organized in the territory of the practically the only ones working in Within a matter of hours a priest Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi, the field of literature evangelism. came to inquire if there were any at which countries comprise the Congo Most of the other Protestant churches the Malayan Seminary who wanted to Union Mission. Fifteen million people are tied down meeting rising govern- go to North Borneo. Mandatang re- live in this area. ment standards in education. Govern- joiced. After more than a week of In December, 1951, the Southern ment regulations keep out cheap, travel, he reached his home. The African Division, at its year-end meet- trashy literature and comics. There is family had given him up as dead, had ing, provided a budget for a publish- a dearth of reading matter in the land. held a memorial service and draped ing secretary for the Congo Union. With God's help we hope to rise to his enlarged picture with tokens of The union committee chose Our the opportunity, with greater plan- mourning. But his work had just Paradise Home and His Messenger as ning, larger books, and a training begun. When the mission was re- the books with which to spearhead our program for our youth to enter the established after the war years, Brother literature evangelism endeavors in cities with our truth-filled literature. Mandatang joined the forces and his the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi. First As already mentioned, the total of ministry has been fruitful under the printings were 20,000 and 15,000, re- books sold in 1951 was more than 10,- blessing of heaven. spectively. 000. In 1955 the total was 45,381. James Maung was among the very In March and April of 1952, the late Already the seeds of truth sown by few who responded to the truth in a P. M. Lewis and I held the first insti- the books themselves are bearing fruit. heathen village near our Ayer Manis tutes in Ruanda-Urundi. From the During 1955 twelve hundred souls School in Sarawak. Maung entered very beginning, God blessed this won- were won through the efforts of our the school, expecting to return to his derful work. During this first recruit- literature evangelists. AUGUST 30, 1956 21

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MISSIONS EXTENSION PROJECTS

Australasian Division Equipment for the Summer Sanitarium at Our Bena Bena Central School, on the Sepik River in Training School in Iceland New Guinea South American Division Far Eastern Division Rio de Janeiro Hospital Nursing School New Girls' Dormitory at the Tokyo Sanitarium and Equipment for East Brazil Academy Hospital School of Nursing Equipment for the New Junior Theological Semi- Training School Needs in Java nary at Pernambuco Southern African Division Inter-American Division Yuka Mission Hospital in Barotseland, Northern Equipment for West Indian Training College Print Rhodesia Shop Southern Asia Division Middle East Division Medical Work on the Island of Ceylon (Request for Middle East College Elementary School Building Hospital) for Training of Teachers Southern European Division Northern European Division Extension of the Publishing House in Greece Dormitory for Otun School near Ibadan, Nigeria Mission Station in Gamboula, French Equatorial Extension of the Advent Press at Accra Africa r a New,4 9 d Ette,adeaft • September 8

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22 REVIEW AND HERALD Fruitage Amid Persecution sion where baptismal increases are In point of fact, this prosperity may more encouraging. In the area re- come very close to our church organi- By R. R. Figuhr ferred to in this letter, and where zation, as oil wells are opened nearer President, General Conference this pastor is forbidden to visit our and nearer to the property of our Ca- various groups of believers, yearly nadian Union College at Lacombe. In a letter written by one of our some two hundred are baptized and H. T. Johnson, president of the earnest national pastors from a land added to the church. They verily college, and his staff of capable teach- where religious freedom is denied the count not their lives dear unto them- ers are making a magnificent contri- people, we have just received the fol- selves that they may finish their bution to the development of our lowing: course with joy. Their faithfulness work throughout Canada. They are "The Lord blessed us the past se- brings us courage. At the same time giving special emphasis to a rational, mester with baptisms. When you were our sympathies go out to these per- well-balanced, industrial program, here we baptized thirty-three, and secuted brethren. Let us not forget and this will mean much to our youth later fifty-seven more souls were bap- to pray for those who are being per- in years to come. tized. We thank God for His bless- secuted for righteousness' sake. The Alberta Conference regularly ings upon our field. Also the goal for holds its camp meetings on the cam- Ingathering of $2,500 has been passed. pus of Canadian Union College. A In the present quarter there are Report From Alberta large auditorium, which during the excellent prospects for more bap- By W. R. Beach school year serves the interests of the tisms, but the dragon is angry with college, is used for the larger meetings us. We request your prayers. Do not Secretary, General Conference of the annual meeting. The Lacombe forget us. The church in was Instead of being a land flowing camp is a definite part of the spiritual closed by the government. In this with milk and honey, Canada might traditions of the Alberta Confer- field almost all the doors are closed be called a land of wheat and oil. In- ence. Plans have been laid by the con- against our visiting the churches. This deed, the great province of Alberta is ference to add larger and more com- makes me very sad. The church fast becoming a land of wealth and modious facilities. in has begun a Week of Prayer prosperity. The agricultural pursuits The Alberta camp meeting fol- and Fasting that the Lord may help of the people in the past years have lowed the pattern set by the Canadian us finish the work in this great field. been fraught with the uncertainty of Union committee for this year's gath- The harvest is all white. crop failures and lagging grain prices, erings. The first Thursday evening "Our brethren in various places can- but now the economy of the province and Friday were devoted to the bi- not meet. They are taken from their is finding a steady prop in the rich oil ennial session of the conference. Then homes, put in prison, and punished fields that are developing in several with the Friday evening meeting be- with heavy fines and threats. Reli- areas. gan a youth congress, to which many gious liberty in this place is very del- This has changed the picture for hundreds had come with the high icate. When I visited the authorities Alberta, and it is also bringing ma- purpose of getting inspiration and to ask permission to go to see our terial prosperity to the cause of God. better training to share their faith. brethren in the country, they an- swered me thus: 'You have no per- mission except to act in your own church. If there are two churches in this city, each one must have a pastor, and in the country the churches and groups each must have a pastor also, in order to do their work. They can- not depart from these places to make propaganda.' "In the coming month we are go- ing to have a Week of Prayer and Fasting throughout the entire union, because in God is our hope in the matter of religious liberty. Oh, how precious is liberty! We sigh for it. But thanks be for the liberty that there is in Christ. They cannot take it from us. Thanks for Jesus, the King of liberty. "Pray for me. I have a heavy re- sponsibility resting upon my shoulders in respect to the flock of our Lord. I think much upon our brethren in the country, those that I cannot have liberty to visit. Pray also for the breth- ren and for me. May the good Lord be Junction City, Kansas, Church Dedicated with you in your responsibility. I em- brace you with Christian love in the On Sabbath, July 7, the Junction City, A small building 22 x 30 feet was obtained blessed hope of the soon coming of Kansas, church was dedicated. As early as in 1938 at a cost of $520. This structure was 1908 there were small beginnings in Junction rebuilt and enlarged to more than twice its Jesus." City, but it was not until late in 1925 that the original capacity, with a half basement. The Despite these difficult circumstances present church organization began to take structure was completed in the autumn of under which our people are com- root. Robert L. Boothby held a series of meet- 1955. R. E. Browning, district pastor, gave pelled to labor, there is probably no ings there in the winter of 1925, and in April, great help in completing the project. other country in that entire divi- 1926, a church of thirty-three was organized. E. E. HAGEN AUGUST 30, 1956 23 T. E. Lucas, of the General Confer- justified this progressive move. An- Prospectus Creates ence staff, was present for this part of other large item in the treasurer's re- the camp meeting. As usual, his min- port was the total contributions of the Interest in Message istry for youth was greatly appreci- conference to educational projects. By B. E. Wagner ated. From Monday until Saturday This total was practically the equiv- evening the regular camp meeting alent of the special evangelistic Literature evangelist Bert Woods, activities were the order of the day. budget. As a result, church schools of the Southern New England Con- The biennial session afforded the are developing, and Canadian Union ference, sends the following experi- officers and staff of the Alberta Con- College is able to count on the sturdy ence that shows how God works to ference the opportunity to report on support of the Alberta Conference in place our literature in the hands of the results achieved during the two- its program of expansion and equip- honest souls who are searching for year period. George E. Taylor, presi- ment. the truth: dent of the conference, led out in this The last Sabbath morning service "A young single man about thirty report and sounded the keynote of the marked a wonderful spirit of repent- had purchased The Great Contro- entire camp meeting when he said: ance and dedication. versy in a secondhand bookstore. He "While we are on this campground, found it to be a prospectus and had hundreds will decide their eternal written the publishers, expressing a destiny. We believe we are safe in say- deep desire to obtain a complete copy. ing that some will make their final When I called Monday night he was decisions for eternity. Let us earnestly delighted to know it was still in print. pray that this will be the most spir- "I mentioned several of our fine itual meeting the church in Alberta books, and he paid cash that night for has ever held." The Great Controversy and The De- Brother Taylor went on to mention Music in My Bible sire of Ages. The Holy Spirit is truly the various activities and achieve- guiding this man. He said he wanted ments of the past two years. He re- By Helen G. Grauman Daniel and the Revelation. He also ported on public evangelism, Bible took Steps to Christ and Thoughts studies, Bible correspondence school Pacific Press Publishing Association, $3.00 From the Mount of Blessing. activities, youth rallies, Ingather- The history, philosophy, and science of "Tuesday evening before going out ing, and the placing of our truth- music have all had numerous volumes dedi- to work he called and asked whether it filled literature in the homes of the cated to their study. This book, however, was Drama of the Ages that had the people. Then he showed how all of deals with music in one of its unique aspects picture of the image of Nebuchadnez- —its beginnings in Biblical antiquity and zar's dream. I said it was, and he said this had been integrated into a pro- its development through the theocracy of gram to save souls. The results were Israel, its splendor in David's and Solomon's he felt impressed that he should have heartening, for during the past two reigns, and its ministry in the early Chris- one. He was glad to take it that night years the number of baptisms in Al- tian church. and also paid me cash for the Daniel berta marked an all-time high of 502. Herself an accomplished musician, the and the Revelation I was to deliver This total doubled the number of author has spared no pains to consult an later. baptisms recorded during the previ- extensive bibliography in her search for en- "When I delivered the Daniel and ous biennial period. lightening information on the place and sig- the Revelation about two weeks ago, nificance of music as it is revealed in the I found out that this young man is This figure really told the story of Scriptures. From Jubal, the traditional success. We noted that each depart- keeping the Sabbath. I had prayer founder of music, first mentioned in Genesis, with him and invited him to church. ment and worker had a definite part the fourth chapter, to the transports of in this achievement. The efforts of praise sung by the angels as recorded in I am sure he will one day take his the workers were spearheaded by Revelation, this review abounds with au- stand with God's remnant people. He E. M. Chalmers and G. P. Friesen, thentic information and interesting side- has studied deeply and sees errors in who with their capable wives formed lights on musical instruments, musical rit- other doctrines while testifying that an evangelistic team and proclaimed ual, music in worship, and music on the our literature 'rings true.' " the message in many districts, from march. Phrases associated with music in the the great Peace River area in the Bible, such as "the song of the sea," "with north down to Medicine Hat and timbrels and with dances," "sound an alarm Activity in the Gold Coast Lethbridge in the south. As a result with the trumpets," are examined in the (Continued from page 1) of the work of this team, more than light of their background and treated with two hundred souls made a start for a keen sensitivity of their relationship to hospital be established among his the kingdom. This winter the evan- the life of the people. The marvelous antiph- people. gelistic team will hold an extended onal singing of the first and second tem- We held three such institutes in the campaign at Calgary. ples, today a lost art save for echoes of it interior of the Gold Coast Mission. in Jewish synagogues and classical choral Every departmental leader is de- groups, is seen in its contribution to the At each one of these institutes the serving of mention as we think of the magnificence of the temple worship. The attendance was exceptionally good. steady progress recorded. Ingathering music of joy, of grief, of comfort, of praise, The interest in the instruction was results have reached an all-time high, of hope, and of aspiration are all represented very remarkable. and total book-evangelist sales made in the Bible from the song of Deborah to the The eighty-seven churches and com- a one-hundred-per-cent gain. Student singing of Paul and Silas in the Philippian panies that were represented in these colporteur deliveries for 1955 were prison. three institutes reported 614 souls the third highest in North America. Teachers of music will find this an in- baptized during the past two years. The conference treasurer's report valuable reference work. Bible teachers and Of these eighty-seven churches, sev- ministers of the gospel will find it a con- revealed steady financial progress. We venient commentary on Bible references to enty-nine had baptisms during the noted that in addition to the normal music not available to the busy worker. No past two years. Many of the delegates budget provisions for workers' ex- layman can read it without a new reverence related thrilling soul-winning experi- pense, the conference committee set for the meaning of true music. It is fully ences. Besides these 614 that had been aside more than $42,000 for special indexed and highlighted with ten illustra- baptized, there were 775 in baptismal evangelism. The results have fully tions and forty-seven musical scores. classes and 1,444 in the hearers' 24 REVIEW AND HERALD classes. At these three institutes, the "His strong constitution and great ducted in Aaron Hilliard's parlor in delegates set goals for souls totaling vitality, combined with adherence to Buck's Bridge. Martha Byington, then 1,637. strict temperance principles, gave nineteen years old, was the first I was very much surprised to learn him a tenacious hold on life. He teacher. . . . The following year that we had thirty-nine Dorcas So- literally died of old age, and breathed (1854) the school was held in Henry cieties represented, and what stories his last as peacefully as a child falling Hilliard's parlor, and was taught by they related about visiting the sick asleep." Lucinda Paine. Martha, in the mean- and needy, and providing food and The writer was fortunate in secur- time, attended Potsdam Academy." clothing, and wood for their cooking! ing from Henrietta E. Kolb, of Ames- Martha was the eldest daughter of Companies have been raised up in bury, Massachusetts, the following Elder John Byington, first president new villages as a result of the wel- recollections of his personal appear- of the General Conference. In 1860 fare work carried on by these socie- ance: she married George W. Amadon, one ties. "A tall, thin, white-haired man. He of our early ministers, who was prom- On our way back to Accra, where had a large frame and large hands inently connected with the Review the union headquarters is, we and feet. A very dignified and spir- and Herald Publishing Association. stopped for a few hours at the Kwahu itual man, and a gentleman, but with She went to Michigan in 1858 and Hospital. Here we found a fine group an impediment in his speech which lived in Battle Creek until 1913, when of workers, Dr. P. A. Lowe, Brother would in these days disqualify him she and her husband moved to St. and Sister L. A. Hubbard, and a nurse, as a speaker. Not so in those days. Joseph, Michigan, where he died the who are all British. What a splendid "I can still remember eagerly same year. work is being carried on by these faith- It was the privilege of Sister Ama- ful, self-sacrificing medical workers. don to be present on several occa- On our way to the interior we passed sions when Ellen G. White was given through village after village where the Salinas, California visions. She has recorded for us some people are calling for the gospel. That of the best descriptions of these events Here in Salinas, California, we have been ever written. was also true on our way back. using our midweek prayer meeting and the Truly the Gold Coast of West Af- Sabbath services each week for the past four rica is ripe for the harvest. Other months for evangelism. We have not spent William Gifford thousands could be gathered in if we a penny on advertising. Our laymen have brought their friends and loved ones. We William Gifford was a dear friend had the necessary means and workers. have baptized thirty strong converts in the and neighbor of Joseph Bates. They J. 0. Gibson, president, and N. B. past four months. were born in the same town, Roches- Nielsen, secretary-treasurer of the God has blessed wonderfully. We also ter, Massachusetts. They were mem- West African Union, are giving fine reached our Minute Man goal in Ingathering bers of the same Christian church, leadership. There are seven missions in both churches in this district for the first and of the same temperance society in this union, all as fruitful as the time in years. So we have much to rejoice in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, one of Gold Coast Mission. about. DEAN DUDLEY the first of these organizations in America. They also espoused the faith as taught by William Miller in "As the Days of a Tree" the same year (1839), passed through watching to see him come in sight, the disappointment in 1844, holding (Continued from page 17) sitting up straight in his open buggy, firmly to their faith in God, and ac- drawn by Billy, his faithful old gray cepted the Sabbath truth at about the perfect consecration of all to God. horse. We saw no ministers in those same time. It seems fitting that we Hasten it on, 0 Lord! is my prayer." early days except on these occasions, should remember with respect and Soon the family of Frederick and what a treat it was!" appreciation the long, steady alle- Wheeler was settled at West Monroe, For many years Brother Wheeler giance to the truth demonstrated in New York, just north of Oneida Lake. slept in a cemetery at West Monroe the life of this loyal, faithful layman, For years he labored on in New York in an unmarked grave. Later the who, though not a professional min- State, traveling and preaching, as he General Conference placed at his ister, yet preached the gospel almost had formerly done in New England. grave a modest monument, on which every day of his long, godly life. His beloved companion of fifty-four was inscribed this line: "A Pioneer William Gifford was distinguished years died in 1886. This was a hard Minister of Seventh-day Adventists." I in one way, however, in which prob- blow to him. believe that his angel recorder wrote ably none of his fellow Sabbathkeep- of him, "Faithful unto death." When too old to travel, he con- ers shared. He was born late in the eighteenth century and died in the tinued to serve his own church at Martha Byington Amadon twentieth. This seems an astound- West Monroe, New York. When his ing statement at first thought. The eyesight was nearly gone, and he Of all the thousands of men and exact dates are: born September 22, could walk but little, his mind was women who have taught in Seventh- 1798; died December 19, 1903. He still clear. At the age of ninety-five, day Adventist church schools in the reached the extraordinary age of 105 by Elder Spicer's request, he dictated past century, probably none have years. to his neighbor, Brother Bartle, a reached the longevity record of our I. D. Van Horn said of him: clear statement of his early life and first teacher, Martha Byington. Born "Brother Gifford was a strong tem- his acceptance of Sabbath truth. not far from the St. Lawrence River perance man, never using tobacco in His last years were spent in the in northern New York State on any form, nor tasting intoxicating home of William Henry Anderson, March 28, 1834, she died at St. Jo- liquor of any kind. . . . His temper- his adopted son. When the end fi- seph, Michigan, on January 2, 1937. ate life helped much to prolong his nally came, on October 11, 1910, he Thus her life span was more than days to an advanced age reached by lacked only five months and a day of 102 years. few." reaching the century mark. S. B. Of that first church school her [The incidents related above were searched out Whitney, who conducted his funeral, daughter, Grace Amadon, wrote: by the writer in early church publications and per- wrote: "In 1853 a home school was con- sonal memoirs.—Eorrons.3 AUGUST 30, 1956 25 held at Blue Mountain Academy, August been prepared depicting the various ways 27-29, under the direction of Wesley in which the children are investing for Amundsen. Delegates from the Columbia, God. Lake, Atlantic, and Canadian unions North Pacific Union were in attendance. • The last Sabbath afternoon of the • Fred J. Kinsey, of Jeffersonville, In- Oregon camp meeting Gordon Dalrym- diana, has been appointed new secretary ple, Paul Gordon, and Estel Richardson OVERSEAS of the home missionary, Sabbath school, were ordained to the gospel ministry. and public relations departments of the Middle East Division West Virginia Conference, replacing Ste- • The Oregon Conference committee • In transit to the Southern Asia Divi- phen Paully, who has accepted the pas- has arranged three specialized evangelis- sion, A. A. Esteb spent a few days in torate of the Philadelphia Boulevard tic teams under the leadership of A. 0. Beirut, speaking to the churches in this Church in the East Pennsylvania Con- Sage, Don Doleman, and Don Gray for area. ference. campaigns during the coming fall and winter. In addition, other evangelistic • H. W. Barrows was a recent visitor to Lake Union campaigns will be conducted by other our division headquarters, where he com- • Michigan has had several baptisms workers. pleted the work of auditing the division lately. G. C. Winslow held a service for • Larry Lewis, a June, 1956, theological books. five in the Big Rapids church, Sabbath, graduate of Walla Walla College, has be- • June Soper arrived in the Middle July 21. H. H. Crandell baptized nine on gun his work as a ministerial intern in East Division and has taken up her duties the same day at Allegan, and B. J. Furst the Montana Conference. He will be as head of the music department in Mid- baptized three candidates on July 13 at associated with the Stanley Harris com- dle East College. Traverse City and three more on Sabbath, pany at Billings in a major effort, which July 14, at Boyne City. • Arthur Fund, treasurer of the East begins September 23. Mediterranean Union, has left on fur- • The Lake Region Conference is con- lough to the States with his family. ducting a very successful evangelistic ef- Pacific Union • A. J. Jones has been appointed acting fort in the city of Chicago. E. E. Cleve- • The Arizona Conference rejoiced in land is the speaker. The Cathedral the baptism of fifty-one persons during treasurer of the East Mediterranean Un- Quartet, of Oakwood College, and Joyce ion. the second quarter of 1956 and in the Bryant are furnishing some fine music. addition of seven others on profession of • The first junior camp to be conducted Attendance has been large, and is still faith. in Iran was recently organized and di- increasing. The attendance was largest on rected by Anees Haddad, the MV secre- Sunday night, July 22, with 1,100 seats • Newbury Park Academy, boarding tary of the East Mediterranean Union. filled before the meeting started. Even academy for Southern California Confer- the addition of 100 chairs left more than ence, has continued to add work oppor- two hundred people standing. tunities for their students. At present they NORTH AMERICA have a broom factory, a commercial • The Senior Youth Camp held at laundry, a large garden project, orchard, Atlantic Union Grayling, Michigan, July 22-31, is con- dairy, poultry industry, and a flower-seed- • T. S. Hill, who has been in Portland, sidered the best ever held there. There growing acreage—all offering profitable were 85 in attendance, in addition to the work for the students. Maine, for the past five years, is now staff. Miller Brockett of the Lake Union pastor at Chattanooga, Tennessee. assisted Fred Beavon, the youth leader • The pastor and laymen of the Moab, • Wayne P. Thurber, of the Carolina for Michigan. The regular camping pro- Utah, church solicited for Ingathering in Conference, has been elected educational, gram included devotionals, classes in vari- three nearby towns that had never before Missionary Volunteer, and temperance ous crafts, campfires, and overnight hikes. been worked. They secured the Minute secretary of the Southern New England Seventy-one campers in 35 canoes partici- Man goal for the church. Conference. pated in a special canoe trip 100 miles • Members of Japanese churches met • Roy H. Sandstrom, brother of Donald down the Au Sable River and back. for a camp meeting in the Wawona youth camp of central California, July 3 to 8. J. Sandstrom and a junior medical stu- Northern Union dent at Howard University, has made Those attending included members from arrangements to take his internship at • Mrs. Mary Chalmers, age 85 years, is Toronto, Canada; Denver, Colorado; the Pawtucket Memorial Hospital, and is an active member of the Grand Forks, Seattle, Washington; and five churches in planning to establish his practice in South- North Dakota, welfare center. This cen- California. This was the sixth such meet- ern New England. ter and the Wahpeton, North Dakota, ing of our Japanese believers. welfare center have been recently organ- • Eduardo Acosta, who recently came to Southwestern Union the Greater New York Conference from ized. the Inter-American Division, has been • Four new individual living cabins, to- • The Texas Conference Welfare Depot appointed by the conference executive gether with a large lodge building, have and the field organization at Keene par- committee to serve as secretary for the been completed at the Lake Metigoshe ticipated in the recent nationwide alert. Spanish work in the New York City area. Junior Camp in North Dakota. This A mass meeting was called and more than camp is located less than a mile from the five hundred attended. The aims of the Columbia Union Canadian border in the Turtle Moun- operation were speed, efficiency, and par- tains. ticipation. Keene was notified by short • H. K. Halladay, Columbia Union wave to prepare for 500 evacuees. A later home missionary secretary, reports that • Walter Howard reports twelve bap- check showed that 1,054 evacuees could the final Ingathering total for the union tisms and Fred Schultz five for the month have been cared for. There were 145 who is $713,477.81, or a per capita of $20.72. of July in the Iowa Conference. took part in the alert, in addition to those Five of the eight conferences reached the • The statistical records of the North- who prepared their homes. It was esti- Minute Man goal, and seven reached ern Union Conference show a new high mated that there was at least 90 per cent their basic conference goals. in membership for both Iowa and the participation. The radio announced that • Herbert Kinsey is the new dean of union. The net membership gain in the it took Keene only twelve minutes to get boys at Blue Mountain Academy in the union was an even one hundred mem- ready, as compared with thirty minutes East Pennsylvania Conference, replacing bers, eighty-two of this net gain coming for Cleburne. Leslie Scofield, who has gone to South from the Iowa Conference. • Ten individuals have already taken America to serve as a medical launch • The Willmar, Minnesota, Sabbath their stand for the truth as the result of worker on the sao Francisco River. school is enlisting the active help of all the evangelistic effort being conducted • A regional convention of the Associa- the juniors in the church to swell the by the Barron brothers in Beaumont, tion of Self-supporting Institutions was Investment fund. A large banner has Texas. 26 REVIEW AND HERALD tarium, South Africa, and Wahroonga Sanitarium, in Minneapolis, Minn.; died in Los Angeles, Calif., Australia. He also served in California in connection April 8, 1956. She joined the church at the age of 14. with Paradise Valley Sanitarium, Loma Linda Sani- tarium, Glendale Sanitarium, and St. Helena Sani- FABIAN.-Frank Fabian, born July 13, 1904, in tarium. Left to mourn are a son, Glenn Anthony, of Baltimore, Md.; died June 24, 1956. He served in the California; a daughter, Dr. Anna Jean Babcock, also U.S. Navy for 18 years. In 1932 he was married to of California; and a granddaughter, Dr. Barbara Jean Lois Poole, and in 1946 he was baptized. He is sur- Babcock. vived by his wife, 2 sons, a daughter, and 2 brothers. FARNSWORTH.-Addie R. Page Farnsworth, GARNER.-Lucile Ackerman Garner, born May NIES.-Jacob H. Nies, born Aug. 20, 1890; died at born June 29, 1868, in Nelson, N.H.; died July 4, 18, 1882, in St. Paul, Minn.; died in Glendale, Calif.. Loma Linda, Calif., July 19, 1956. While attending 1956. At an early age she united with the church. In May 18, 1956. In 1904 she graduated from the nurses' Plainview Academy he was baptized. He graduate 1925 she was married to Elgin Farnsworth, who pre- course in Battle Creek. She was united in marriage from Union College in 1915. When 23 years of age he ceded her in death. with Harlan R. Garner in 1907. Those mourning are was appointed as accountant and farm manager of 3 daughters, a granddaughter, and 2 sisters. Plainview Academy. Thus began a series of denomi- BUSH.-Susie 0. Liggett Bush, born April 10, 1876, national appointments, which included conference in Dyersburg, Tenn.; died in Orcutt, Calif., May 27, DETWILER.-Mary Johnson Detwiler, born Jan. treasurer, Book and Bible House manager, and 1956. In 1893 she was married to Eugene M. Bush, 18, 1861; died May 28, 1956. She was baptized in sanitarium administrator. These positions took him and soon afterward became a church member. Mourn- 1890. Surviving are 8 children, Mrs. Della Fisher, to North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Wash- ing their loss are 2 sons, 2 daughters, 14 grandchil- Harry, Oscar J., Mrs. Cora Anglemoyer, Mrs. Lydia ington, D.C., and California. For more than 13 years dren, and 22 great-grandchildren. Bailey, Frank, and Mrs. Edith Arnold and Mrs. he was conference treasurer and manager of the Book Blanche Wood of the Review and Herald Publishing and Bible House in South Dakota. In 1917 he was HENDRICKSON.-Sarah Elizabeth Hendrickson, Association; 15 grandchildren, and 17 great-grand- married to Hazel Emily Bossert. While in Nevada, born Nov. 19, 1861, in Grayson County, Ky.; died children. Iowa, in addition to being secretary-treasurer of the near Benton Harbor, Mich., June 23, 1956. In 1884 she was married to James L. Hendrickson. Left to JUDD.-Mabel Judd, born in 1880 at Prescott, conference, he was manager of the Iowa Sanitarium Iowa; died at Glendale, Calif., June 27, 1956. Our and Hospital. In 1936 he was called to Takoma Park, mourn their loss are her daughter, 2 half brothers, and 1 half sister. sister received her education at Union College. She Maryland, to become the business manager of the was also a graduate nurse of the Battle Creek Sani- Washington Sanitarium and Hospital, which position CULVER.-Victor H. Culver, Sr. born May 3, tarium School of Nursing. In 1909 she was married he held until 1951. That year he accepted an ap- 1893, near Traverse City, Mich.;in ied Flint, i Mich., to George E. Judd, who for 54 years was business pointment to the Pacific Union Conference Associa- April 14, 1956. Surviving are his wife, Vivian, a son, manager of the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Left to tion, serving as secretary-treasurer until he was called and 2 grandchildren. [This obituary notice was re- mourn are 1 daughter, 1 foster son, 2 brothers, and to connect with the Loma Linda Sanitarium and ceived on July 18, 1956.-Ennoris.] 1 sister. Hospital. He is survived by his wife, daughter, and 3 sisters. MANN.-Charles Clayton Mann, born June 13, 1889, in Iowa; died in Flint, Mich., May 23, 1956. ISAAC.-John Isaac, born Aug. 3, 1873, on the Survivors are his wife, Florence, 2 sons, 1 daughter, NOTICES high seas; died in Bakersfield, Calif., uly 18, 1956. 1 stepson, 8 grandchildren, 4 brothers, and 2 sisters. At the age of 19 he attended Union College, where he was converted. He immediately prepared for the FARR.-Hattie Carolyn Farr, born Sept. 16, 1873, Literature Requests ministry, and was ordained shortly thereafter. In 1902 in McClennan County, Tex.; died in Ranger, Tex., he labored in Canada, and while there he was called May 16, 1956. She is survived by 3 sons and 2 No more literature is needed by Keith Collins, to Germany. He was asked in 1906 to teach in Walla daughters. 615 N. 5th St., Fremont, Ohio. Walla College, and in 1913 he became president of Caldwell Mollay, Charlotteville, Tobago, B.W.I., the Oklahoma Conference, which position he held MAC PHERSON.-Addie Walling MacPherson, desires Reviews, Instructors, used books, and mis- 5 years. From 1918 to 1920 he was an instructor in born Aug. 14, 1868, in Wallingsford, Colo.; died in sionary literature of all types. the Clinton Theological Seminary, after which he be- Orlando, Fla., J y 1, 1956. Her aunt was Ellen G. Mrs. Louise T. Johnson, Box 215, Slate Hill, N.Y., came pastor of the Portland, Oregon German church. White. Mourniitheir loss are 1 son and 1 brother. wants Listen, Life and Health, Liberty, These Times, In 19'22 he became president of die Polish Union, MC CANDLESS.-Henrietta Beryl McCandless, Signs of the Times, literature on tobacco and alcohol, which position he held for 9 years. Left to mourn his for use in reading racks. passing are his wife, Alice; a son; a daughter; his born May 19, 1888; died at Soap Lake, Wash., April brother, Elder Frank Isaac; and his sister. 7, 1956. She was married to G. A. McCandless in Life and Health, These Times, Signs of the Times, 1904. To this union 1 daughter and 5 sons were born. tracts, and any type of missionary literature is desired SYPE.-Minnie Day Sype, born April 18, 1869, [This obituary notice was received on July 9, 1956.- by Mrs. Anna Wurschum, 388 E. 2d St., Salem, near Thayer, Iowa; died at Portland, Oreg.,. June 23, EDITORS.] Ohio. 1956. In 1889 she was united in marriage with Logan Miss Mae Zoerman, 1112 N. Michigan, Saginaw, P. Sype. In 1902 Brother and Sister Sype were sent to MOREAU.-Otto Herbert Moreau, born Dec. 24, 1891, in South Bend, Ind.; died at Benton Harbor, Mich., desires all kinds of literature suitable for mis- do pioneer missionary work in the frontier counties of sionary purposes. western Oklahoma Territory. Her husband led the Mich., July 11, 1956. During World War I he served singing, and Sister Sype proclaimed the message in the Navy. He is survived by his wife, Gertrude Signs of the Times, Instructors, Guides, and litera- DeVoe Moreau, a daughter, 4 grandchildren, 2 ture adapted for the needs of youth is desired by publicly. After spending a number of years in evan- brothers, and 3 sisters. Mrs. P. Webster, 13 Barker Ave., Yeovil Umtali, S. gelistic work in Oklahoma Territory they were called Rhodesia. She will acknowledge receipt where send- to do the same type of work in Iowa. After her hus- SALENKO.-Pauline Salenko, born Jan. 17, 1871, er's name and address are clearly given. band's death in 1925, she continued with her life- in Kidanovka, Russia; died at Garrison, N.D., May work. Through the years she served as evangelist, 25, 1956. In 1892 she was married to Owen Salenko, Hipolito L. Rabanes, Paco, Kidapawan, Cotabato, pastor, conference home missionary secretary, circula- and in 1905 they came to the United States. She is sur- P.I., is in great need of Signs, These Times, Present tion manager of a religious periodical, and missionary vived by 7 children, 13 grandchildren, and 11 great- Truth, Little Friends, tracts, small books, songbooks, to the Bahama Islands. She served in ministerial lines grandchildren. and Sabbath school supplies for adults and children, in the States of Iowa Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, such as Quarterlies, Workers, Picture Rolls, cards. Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Florida. For a time SAUTTER.-Christian Stephen Sautter, born Sept. she traveled in every State in the Union, while work- 2, 1880, in Reuston, Germany; died in California ing for the Southern Publishing Association. The July 3, 1956. In 1904 he was united in marriage with Request for Prayer surviving relatives include a son, Elder R. J. Sype, of Regina Thellman. More than 50 years ago he united Washington; a daughter, Mrs. P. B. Gregg, of Oregon; with the church, and in his younger days suffered A sister in the Midwest requests the prayers of the 4 grandchildren, the eldest of whom, Elder Earl J. imprisonment for his faith. Left to mourn are his church for her healing, if it is God's will, that she Gregg, is serving in the Zambesi Union; 9 great- widow, 3 daughters, 2 sons, 8 grandchildren, 7 great- might care for an afflicted daughter. Also she asks grandchildren; 3 brothers and 1 sister. grandchildren, a brother, and a sister. the church to pray that her children may be con- verted. SLADE.-Charles Walter Slade, born Dec. 25, 1879, VOTH.-Jacob Abraham Voth, born March 4, 1872, in Lyons, Mich.; died at Takoma Park, Md., June in Russia; died in Oklahoma, June 1, 1956. He came 22, 1956. He attended Battle Creek College and to America in 1878, and in 1893 he was united in mar- Correction worked in the Battle Creek Sanitarium Food Factory. riage with Christian Barreth. Surviving are his wife, a We regret the mistake, not attributable to the In 1901 he was united in marriage with Daisy Hol- daughter, and a brother. writer, which appeared in a report on the Nether- yoake. After their marriage they engaged in self- WIEDRICK.-Harriet Rowan Wiedrick, born Jan. lands Antilles Mission published in the July 12 supporting missionary work in the south. He is sur- 29, 1880, in Hamilton, Ont., Canada; died in Sonoma, REVIEW. The author referred to the visit of "The vived by his wife, a daughter, and 2 sons. Calif., April 20, 1956. In 1901 she was married to Queen" to the islands last year. "The Queen" HARTER.-Maude Leavitt Harter, born Feb. 11, Martin Marenus Wiedrick, and in 1924 accepted pres- through some inadvertency was changed to "Queen 1875, in Oshkosh, Wis; died in Takoma Park, Md., ent truth. Left to mourn are 2 daughters, 2 sons, Elizabeth of England." This of course was an error, July 2, 1956. In 1892 die was united in marriage to 5 grandchildren, a brother, and 2 sisters. [This obit- for "the Queen" in the article could only have re- Robert E. Harter. For a number of years she served as uary notice was received on July 13, 1956.-Enrrons.] ferred to the Queen of the Netherlands. Sabbath school secretary of the District of Columbia Conference when her husband was the president of WILLHELM.-Edgar Wilhelm born Aug. 28, the conference. Left to mourn are 1 son, 1 grand- 1869, in Frontier, Tex.; died in Izort Worth, Tex., daughter, and 3 great-grandchildren. July 1, 1956. In 1889 he was united in marriage with Rebecca Orlena Hurley. Left to cherish his memory BURBRIDGE.-Mary Jeanette Hardiman Bur- are 7 children, 10 grandchildren, 11 great-grand- bridge, born June 1, 1876, in Litchfield, N.Y.; died children, a brother, and 2 sisters. June 24, 1956. At the age of 16 she became a church member. In 1902 she completed normal training at CUDNEY.-Frankland B. Cudney, died April 6, Union College, and between 1903 and 1945 she 1956, in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, at the age of 80 taught 21 years in church schools. In 1914 she was years. In 1912 he accepted the third angel's message. united in marriage with Joel James Burbridge, who Left to mourn are his wife, Ruby, and 2 sisters. [This Literature Evangelist Rally Day Sept. 1 preceded her in death in 1943. obituary notice was received on July 6, 1956.- Home Missionary Day (Literature) Sept. 1 EDITORS.] Home Missionary Offering Sept. 1 SPERRY.-Deo Sperry, born March 19, 1879, in DAVIS.-George Washington Davis, born Dec. 27, Missions Extension Day and Offering Sept. 8 Battle Creek, Mich.; died in Mountain View, Calif., 1869, at Adelphi, Md.; died at Takoma Park, Md., Thirteenth Sabbath Offering Sept. 29 June 17, 1956. He was married to Lucinda Lawrence July 24, 1956. He had been a church member 51 years. Neighborhood Evangelism Oct. 6 in 1900. While attending Battle Creek College he Left to mourn are his companion, a daughter, a (Bible school enrollment) began working for the Review and Herald, where he grandson, 3 great-grandchildren, and a sister. Home Missionary Offering Oct. 6 continued until it was destroyed by fire. In 1903 he Voice of Prophecy Offering Oct. 13 joined the staff of the Pacific Press, and labored LANE.-Eva Lane, born Oct. 16, 1889, in Elk Sabbath School Rally Day Oct. 20 there for many years. The last years of active service County, Kans.; died in San Fernando, Calif., July 21, Temperance Day and Offering Oct. 27 were in the Central California Book and Bible House. 1956. While living in Kansas she married and had 2 Message Campaign October He leaves his wife and 1 sister. children. In 1918 she was widowed. In 1940 she was These Times Campaign October baptized, and for a time served as a colporteur. She Witnessing Laymen Nov. 3 WESSELS.-Ruby Electa Anthony Wessels, born remarried in 1948 and is survived by her husband, Home Missionary Offering Nov. 3 Jan. 21, 1869 in Lower Selma, Nova Scotia; died in Robert Lane. Other survivors are a son, a daughter, Review and Herald Campaign Nov. 3-24 Lodi, Calif., tune 20, 1956. In 1894 she married John 5 grandchildren, 7 great-grandchildren, 2 sisters, and Week of Prayer and Sacrifice Nov. 17-24 James Wessels. She spent 8 years in South Africa and 2 brothers. Week of Sacrifice Offering Nov. 24 2 years in Australia, where she shared her husband's Home Missionary Day and Offering Dec. 1 burdens as he served as manager of Claremont Sani- INGER.-Mabel Alcinda Inger, born Feb. 1, 1885, Thirteenth Sabbath Offering Dec. 29 AUGUST 30, 1956 27 CHRIST'S LAST LEGION By 4. W. Spalding By A. 111 1. Spalding

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AUGUST 30, 1956 31 Missions Extension water falls, and gorgeous fjords. The lyn, of Takoma Park, Maryland, sailed little Volkswagon came through with- from New York August 17 on the S.S. Offering out skipping a beat (except when we United States bound for England. The church calendar lists Septem- ran out of gas). We crossed the Arctic Elder Olson is to teach at Newbold ber 8 for the Missions Extension Of- Circle amid snowdrifts and freezing Missionary College as a part of the fering. A leaflet has been prepared weather. I fully expected a polar bear affiliation program arranged between explaining the various projects ur- to welcome us, but we had to be con- that institution and Washington Mis- gently requested by the mission fields, tent with a herd of reindeer crossing sionary College. W. R. BEACH and this will be placed in the hands the road. We climbed over passes well of our members before the offering is above timberline and spent almost as taken in our churches. much time on ferries as on the road." Conversions Among Our work in those lands is growing When MV Secretary Skinner wrote Servicemen so fast and the needs are so many that of this experience, he was visiting the it is impossible to provide the means newly developed campsite in north During the first half of 1956 Sev- over there, so our brethren are ap- Norway. This conference of less than enth-day Adventist chaplains baptized pealing to us for a very special of- 1,000 members, entirely within the 20 servicemen. This does not repre- fering to help them. It is hoped that Arctic Circle, has invested in its youth. sent the total converts from this there will be an average of $1.00 a Pastor Torkelson, the president, and source. An Air Force man, member member in North America contrib- Pastor Guleng, the MV secretary, are of the Air Force Symphony Orchestra, uted toward these needs. May the to be commended. The camp is named has requested baptism this past week. Lord impress you to give liberally Sommerfryd, meaning "summer joy." Another airman, 15 years in the Air when the offering is taken on Septem- It is on a peninsula jutting out into Force, was baptized earlier in the year. ber 8. C. L. TORREY the Langenes Fjord, between Narvik He writes: "After being in a more or and Tromso. This is our northernmost less drunken condition most of that youth camp. The young people who time, it is wonderful what the saving A Growing Work in Cuba attend there are part of a great MV power of Jesus has done for me. My camping program, which last year had body was literally poisoned with alco- A recent letter from Paul W. an attendance of 40,139 in 411 camps. hol and tobacco, yet God took even Kemper, Sabbath school secretary of THEODORE LUCAS the longing for it entirely away just the East Cuba Conference, brings this like that. It has all come about by His encouraging word: saving grace." "Not long ago I traveled by jeep From Home Base At the LeJeune Marine Base we some three hours' trip into the moun- now have a report that there are five tains away from the road, and had the to Front Line requesting baptism. One of these, who privilege of organizing a new Sabbath Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Sorensen and had not known Adventists previously, school of about twenty-five members. their children, Erik, Nancy, and Lief, expects to enter school and prepare There are now six or seven ready for of Berrien Springs, Michigan, sailed for the ministry. We thank God for baptism. The work is growing rapidly. from New York August 10 on the S.S. these manifestations of the power of We now have 94 Sabbath schools, and Argentina. Brother Sorensen has been the gospel among servicemen. our membership is well over 3,565. instructor in agriculture at Emmanuel W. H. BERGHERM We are aiming at 4,000. Pray that Missionary College, and the family God will help us reach our goal soon. goes to River Plate College in Argen- It is a thrill to go into these new places tina, where Brother Sorensen will Department of Education and preach the gospel and leave know- serve as manual arts teacher and farm News ing that the heart of the church beats manager. Southwestern Junior College an- every day anew as the members study Elder and Mrs. R. H. Hartwell, re- the Bible lessons the best they can. nounces that A. E. Hayes, former man- turning after furlough, left New York ager of the Texas Conference Book God is doing a marvelous work in our August 12 on their way to Beirut, day." L. L. MOFFITT and Bible House, is succeeding J. H. Lebanon. Elder Hartwell is president Bischoff as business manager of the of the East Mediterranean Union. The college. Sommerfryd Youth Camp Hartwells have spent 21 years in over- Word just received in the Depart- in Norway seas service in the Orient and the ment of Education office from the Middle East. Pacific Union Conference reports a Laurence Skinner, associate secre- Mr. and Mrs. G. Herbert Fleenor new high in enrollment during the tary of the Missionary Volunteer De- and their daughters, Joyce and Nancy, past school year—a total of 18,201 partment of the General Conference, of the New England Sanitarium, left on all grade levels from elementary writing recently from Norway to the Texas by car August 15. Brother through college. This is a gain of al- home base says: Fleenor will take up his duties as most 1,000 over last year's totals. Cer- "We traveled almost 1,000 miles administrator of the Montemorelos tainly this is a splendid record, and north from Oslo to Tromso. It is a Hospital in Mexico. we congratulate Pacific Union on its land of high, snow-capped mountains, Elder and Mrs. Robert W. Olson fine program of Christian education. beautiful green valleys, sparkling and their children, Arthur and Eve- E. E. COSSENTINE