Adventist Review Paper of the Seventh-day Adventist Church June 7, 1984

Pastors in uniform Page 3 Forgiveness in marriage Page 12 Adventists and military enlistment Page 14 The religion of President Reagan Page 20

Cover: Adventist chaplain James J. North, Jr., receives a flag from a serviceman's coffin to give to his next of kin. See This Week, page 2.

THIS WEEK Corps. (See " Ever- • ett N. Dick, MCC," p. 8, and "A Medical Cadet Remembers " p. 10.) An area of contribution that may not be known so widely is Published continuously since 1849 the work of Adventist military EDITOR chaplains. Some of their experi- William G. Johnson ences are shared in "Pastors in ASSOCIATE EDITOR Uniform: Walking the Narrow George W. Reid Road," p. 3, and "A Chaplain MANAGING EDITOR Recalls . . . ," p. 6. Jocelyn R. Fay Bible credits: Texts in this ASSISTANT EDITORS issue credited to N.I.V. are James N. Coffin, Eugene F. Durand from The Holy Bible: New Aileen Andres Sox International Version. Copy- ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY right © 1978 by the Interna- Corinne Russ tional Bible Society. Used by EDITORIAL SECRETARIES Chaplain North gives flag to father of a deceased serviceman. permission of Zondervan Bible Chitra Barnabas, Jeanne James Publishers. ART Although the Seventh-day batant capacity—usually as Art and photo credits: Director, Byron Steele Adventist Church does not man- medics. To increase their effec- Cover, pp. 2, 3, 5 (bottom), 6, Designer, G. W. Busch date that its members not bear tiveness as they attempt to serve NSO; p. 7, Gaines Dog CONSULTING EDITORS Research Center; pp. 8-10, Neal C. Wilson, Charles E. Bradford, L. L. arms in the military, the - both God and country, Ever- Bock, L. L. Butler, Charles B. Hirsch, W. ity of Adventist young men ett N. Dick some 50 years ago ; and p. 13, R. Lesher, Alf Lohne, Kenneth J. Mitt- leider, Enoch Oliveira, G. Ralph Thomp- follow the church's recommen- persuaded the church's leaders David B. Sherwin; other son, Francis W. Wemick dation of service in a noncom- to establish the Medical Cadet photos, authors. SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS Kenneth H. Wood, Robert H. Pierson, George W. Brown, G. J. Christo, W. T. Clark, Bekele Heye, R. J. Kloosterhuis, Edwin Ludescher, , W. R. L. LETTERS Scragg, Joao Wolff SOUTHWESTERN UNION EDITION Letters submitted for publication should There were about 7,000 or Library at Editor, Richard W. Bendall contribute ideas and comments on articles or material printed in the ADVENTIST 8,000 cataloged books housed still bear the ownership mark: EASTERN AFRICA EDITION REVIEW. They should be brief, not exceed- Editor, Bill Edsell ing 250 words, and must carry the writer's in the General Conference General Conference Library. Of name, address, and telephone number Library. Among the books were course, now they also bear the (although this number will not be printed). INTER-AMERICAN EDITIONS Letters must be legible, preferably typewrit- most of the important theologi- later stamp that identifies them Editor, Wanda Sample ten, and doublespaced. All will be edited to Associate Editors, Simone Doleyres, meet space and literary requirements, but cal reference works. There was with the Seminary Library. French; Humberto Rasi, Raul Villanueva, the author's meaning will not be changed. an excellent collection of peri- For the 14 years following Spanish Views expressed in the letters do not necessarily represent those of the editors or odicals, primarily denomi- 1946 the Seminary Library was SOUTH AMERICAN EDITIONS of the denomination. Address letters for this national, both current and back the official library of the Gen- Editor, R. S. Lessa, Portuguese column to Editor, ADVENTIST REVIEW, 6840 Acting Editor, Rubem M. Scheffel, Eastern Ave., NW., Washington, D.C. volumes for 20 or 30 years. eral Conference. From 1960, Portuguese 20012. There were also all the Reading when the Seminary was moved Editor, Jose Tabuenca, Spanish Course books and other general to Michigan, until the present CIRCULATION GC library reading. time, the General Conference Manager, Robert S. Smith Associate, L. Rhea Harvey I found it ironic that the same When the library was was without a library of its issue (April 19) that carried the removed to the Seminary, feel- OWIL MARY JANE MITCHELL TO CONTRIBUTORS Unsolicited manuscripts are welcome, but obituary of T. Rose Curtis ings ran high. Berrien Springs, Michigan notification as to acceptance or rejection may be expected only if accompanied by a should also contain the state- The librarian, T. Rose Curtis, • Until it moved to Hagers- stamped, self-addressed envelope. ment, in Newsbeat, that "for fell from a stepladder in August, town, Maryland, the Review 1946, and broke her back while An index is published in the last Review of the first time in its history the and Herald Publishing Associa- June and December. The Adventist Review General Conference is to have a getting a book from a top shelf. is indexed in the Seventh-day Adventist tion, which had an extensive Periodical Index. reference library." While she was in the hospital, reference library, was the One of the most pleasant the General Conference Com- The Adventist Review (ISSN 0161-1119) is library for the General Confer- published every Thursday. Copyright C memories connected with my mittee voted to merge the Gen- ence. 1984 Review and Herald Publishing Associ- secretarial work in the General eral Conference Library with ation, 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagers- town, Maryland 21740, U.S.A. Second- Conference Department of Edu- that of the Seminary (located in class postage paid at Hagerstown, Mary- Honesty land. Postmaster: send form 3579 to same cation is of T. Rose's friendly what is now the General Con- address. Subscriber: send address change to and helpful presence as General ference South Building). I am The more I think about the above address. Subscriptions: one year, US$30.95. Single copy, 90 cents U.S. Conference librarian a few pretty sure that it was an econ- "Three O'clock Honesty" (edi- currency. Prices subject to change without doors down the hall. In 1946 the omy move—not needing two torial, April 26), the more I notice. books were incorporated into libraries such a short distance wish it could be posted on every Address all editorial correspondence to 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. the Seminary Library (to T. apart. committee wall and every 20012. Rose's distress, it must be The books came to us (I was church bulletin board. said). ESTHER BENTON Seminary librarian at that time). ERNEST H. J. STEED Vol. 161, No. 23. Glendale, California Many books in the Seminary Washington, D C

2 (586) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 Pastors in uniform: walking the narrow road

Editor William Johnsson talks doctrines. Sunday morning, of course, they are more limited—they adapt their sermons to the chapel audiences with Charles Martin and their needs. about Adventist chaplains And they have services on for Adventists and in the armed forces. others who may wish to come? Definitely. They often conduct services on the base Friday nights or at other times on the Sabbath as needs develop and Review: How many chaplains do Adventists have in the as chapel or room space is available. If there are Adventist armed forces? churches in the community, we encourage our Adventist Martin: We have six in the Air Force, 13 in the Army, and young people in the military to attend them. Our chaplains 14 in the Navy—a total of 33 on active duty. This sounds like a large number. There are quotas based upon church membership in the United States. We have about 6,000 "Seventh-day Advent- ists" in the military, that is, people who have given SDA as their religious preference. About 900 are on the mailing list to receive our church papers. Actually, we are above our chaplain quota. Some churches—for instance, the Catholic Church, which is short of parish priests—do not fill their quotas. If a denomination has not filled its quota, the authorities invite us to help fill it. Among our Seventh-day Adventist ministers we have many veterans who feel a deep concern for men and women in the services. In fact, we have a waiting list of Adventist ministers who would like to become chaplains. So our Adventist chaplains have made a favorable impression with the authorities? Very much so. I wish you could read the officer efficiency reports about our chaplains. I frequently read them, and some are outstanding. Our men are highly respected, in many cases because of their Biblical preaching in the chapels and their personal interest in counseling. I take it that their work is not confined to Adventists. That is correct. Much of their time is spent in counseling. A chaplain who went into the Navy from the Northern California Conference a few months ago remarked, "I have had more people seek help or counseling in one week as a chaplain than I had in three months as a pastor." Sometimes the families of service personnel also need help. Our chaplains conduct some Sunday services. One of our men, a Navy chaplain assigned to a Marine base, is a very fine preacher. The father of one of the pilots on that base, himself a chaplain serving in the chief chaplain's office in Washington, stated, "My son says the Adventist chaplain is so popular they ask him to take about three of the four Sunday services, though they have four or five other Protestant chaplains on the base." Our chaplains also conduct Bible studies or midweek meetings, in which they are free to take up any of our

Charles Martin is director of the church's National Service Conducting worship services is only one of the responsibili- Organization, which assists Adventists in the military and ties of Adventist military chaplains. In this photo Robert D. evaluates candidates for chaplaincy. Roberts conducts an outdoor service during the war in Vietnam.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (587) 3 keep active, sometimes even helping pastor nearby Advent- Only those who have a real burden for it, a genuine ist churches. One chaplain is a local Pathfinder Club director. concern. This ministry takes a special type of person who can Do they also serve outside the United States? work under discipline, under unusual conditions and At present we have six chaplains in Europe—two in pressures. England and the rest in Germany. We also have one in Korea I imagine it calls for a special type of wife and family and two in Okinawa. The chief chaplain's offices in also. Washington allocate personnel, assigning them to military Yes, it does, especially for Navy chaplains who are units, which they follow until reassigned. deployed at sea for long periods. But many wives have found How long have Adventists been involved in this type of this ministry fulfilling. Depending on their situation, they ministry? have many opportunities for witnessing. But it's different The first Seventh-day Adventist chaplain was Virgil P. from being the wife of a parish pastor. Hulse, a chaplain in the Civilian Conservation Corps from What about women in chaplaincy? 1933 to 1937. During World War II, when many Adventist The military has 52 women chaplains. Presently more than boys were drafted, the feeling began to grow among us that 10 percent of the military forces are women; the United we needed some of our ministers to help these young men States has more than 190,000 women in the military, which who were isolated from their homes and churches. So in 1942 Floyd E. Bresee became an Army chaplain, with the "unofficial endorsement" of the General Conference. Although in 1943 the Spring Council took action warning On one base the Adventist chaplain Adventist ministers not to accept commissions as Army is so popular they ask him to take chaplains, the General Conference in 1944 modified this position by leaving the decision to individual pastors, and in three of the four Sunday services, 1950 reversed the 1943 action. even though the base has other Do some of our people suggest that the armed forces is Protestant chaplains. not a proper place for an Adventist minister? That is rare. To the contrary, most of our people are pleased that we have chaplains to help take care of Adventists who are in the services. is the highest percentage of any country in the world. They How should an Adventist young man who is interested continue to look for additional women in the chaplaincy. in chaplaincy in the armed forces go about realizing his The ordination requirement will be a problem for goal? Adventist women. Anybody interested in the chaplaincy needs to contact our It is. Up to the present time our church has not felt clear in office. We try to work with him early as he goes to the ordaining women. Many young women who have finished Seminary, which is required. All applicants must have a their Master of Divinity program are disappointed they could Master of Divinity degree as well as be an ordained minister. not move into military chaplaincy. We have encouraged During their Seminary training they can enter the reserve some of them to find institutions where they might minister program as a seminarian. Of course, there are physical and where ordination is not required. examinations, security checks, and other requirements. Do our chaplains ever win new members to the Candidates send an application to us, giving the names of church? references. We send evaluation sheets to these references—a Indeed. We've had numerous baptisms by our chaplains. conference president, a union president, other workers in the One of our chaplains, while serving in the Air Force, won church with whom they are acquainted. Based on the two of his chaplain's assistants. One of them went on to evaluation sheets, the NSO committee votes approval or Andrews University and is now teaching school in Califor- denial of their request. If there is approval, the name is taken nia. He and his wife have now brought in four or five people. to the General Conference Committee, which must vote an The other assistant also went to Andrews University, and got "ecclesiastical endorsement." Every chaplain must have his degree in business administration. Another airman who such an endorsement. was baptized also went through Andrews University and the The educational requirements, pastoral experience Seminary, and is now a minister in the New York leading to ordination, then the military and General Conference. This chaplain has been responsible for a total of Conference screening must account for the high caliber 13 baptisms. Other chaplains have had numerous baptisms of people we have in the chaplaincy program. also. I believe so. We've had a very good record. At present we Do the authorities in the armed services object to our have the strongest group of chaplains we have ever had. They chaplains leading young men to become Adventists? are first Seventh-day Adventist ministers; second, they are No, though some realize that problems may develop over officers in the military. In fact, the armed services insist that the Sabbath. It can become difficult if two or three men in a chaplains retain their denominational distinction; they do not small unit decide to become Seventh-day Adventists, which want them to be just general chaplains. If the authorities ever has happened. Rotating schedules can then become difficult, change that viewpoint, we'll look again at our chaplaincy sometimes virtually impossible. This happened as a result of program. evangelistic meetings near a missile site when three Air What sort of men is the church looking for in this Force security guards were baptized. But when baptisms are specialized ministry? scattered there are fewer problems.

4 (588) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 What problems does an Adventist chaplain face? He has to walk a narrow road. He is part of the military system, but he is first of all a Seventh-day Adventist Chaplains minister. So when a young man has a Sabbath problem that has become serious, the Adventist chaplain must be willing without uniform to put his career on the line if necessary to defend the Adventist church member. We've had chaplains do just that, By CHARLES MARTIN defending a young man against a higher-ranking officer's The 1983 Annual Council voted to establish Adventist position because they felt their first duty was to the principle Chaplaincy Ministries to coordinate chaplaincy services for of Sabbathkeeping. Another challenge our chaplains face is the National Service Organization, military/Veterans remembering that they are first of all Seventh-day Adventist Administration, health-care institutions, prisons, campuses, ministers who must not become so broadly Protestant that and other areas served by chaplains within and without the they lose the distinctive Adventist concerns, and yet are able church. to serve those of all faiths. The longest-standing and largest group is composed of the Are Adventist chaplains paid by the services? 125 chaplains serving in Adventist hospitals. They are members of the Seventh-day Adventist Chaplains Associa- Entirely, including retirement. tion, a division of the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital What training does a young man entering the service as Association. a chaplain go through? The church operates three accredited training centers for There are three basic chaplain schools. The Army school chaplains, two for Clinical Pastoral Education and one for is at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey; the Navy school in pastoral counseling. An increasing number of women are Newport, Rhode Island; and the Air Force school at Maxwell taking their places as trained chaplains. Currently, several of Air Force Base, Alabama. If he has been in the reserves, a them are serving effectively in our institutions; additionally, chaplain may come out of training as a captain. If he has had two women are in resident training. very little experience in the Army, he goes on active duty as a Our church also has one prison chaplain, and another chaplain in a State hospital in Delaware. We would like to first lieutenant. In the Navy he begins his duty as a lieutenant expand in these areas. Contact has been made with the chief JG (junior grade), and in the Air Force as a first lieutenant. chaplain of Federal prisons with a view to placing some Have some Adventists risen significantly in rank? Seventh-day Adventist chaplains in that system. Along with Yes, a number on active duty have become lieutenant the Methodists, Baptists, and Presbyterians, there also colonels in the Air Force and Army, or commanders in the should be an Adventist influence. Navy, and several have retired as full colonels. We have written to the correctional systems of all 50 Are there other Adventist military chaplains beyond States. Nearly 40 have responded, giving us their require- the 33 you mentioned? ments for chaplains. Many say that if an opening develops, We have four Veterans Administration chaplains assigned they will let us know, to hospitals, ten seminarians in the military chaplaincy Our prison chaplain, Walter Horton, located at Ionia, program, and nine ordained ministers who are reserve-unit Michigan, is paid by the Michigan State Correctional System. He is doing an outstanding job at the penitentiary chaplains. Most of the latter are academy Bible teachers or there and at two other units he serves. The prisoners and pastors who serve part-time as chaplains for reserve units. administration have great respect for his work. Charles W. Are there any Adventist civilian chaplains serving Colson, Watergate ex-convict and director of Prison people in the armed forces? Fellowship, wrote to Walter after he had visited the prison There are five. Two in the United States are ordained and commended the program he is carrying on there. Seventh-day Adventist ministers paid by the General Conference to spend full-time helping our servicemen with Sabbath problems and the like. One operates our serv- icemen's center in Frankfurt, Germany, a place where our men can stay and worship on weekends. We have a similar program in Seoul, Korea, and a center on Okinawa. Since we have chaplains in the services, why these civilian chaplains? Military chaplains are restricted to a particular unit. Our young people may not be assigned to a military unit near an Adventist chaplain, so we need ordained Adventist civilians who can circulate among various bases. It's amazing how many Sabbath problems develop. It seems that the work of our chaplains has gone largely unnoticed by our people. Yet here are Adventists retaining their distinctive identity while reaching out to minister in some tough situations. We see this ministry as an extension of the Incarnation, Christ's coming to earth because there was a need. There is a Prisoners and administrators have great respect for the need in the military, and it is impossible for an outsider to work of Walter Horton, a chaplain in Ionia, Michigan. witness as effectively as someone within the system.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (589) 5 A chaplain recalls . . .

By J. PAUL MONK, JR.

War has a My greatest challenge came at Fort Carson, Colorado, during the . Many soldiers there were returned brutalizing effect veterans with only a few months left in the service. Many of on people. them were hostile over having to salute, keep their shoes Adventists should shined, and so forth, for they had learned from combat experience that those things did not help them survive. At not leave the Fort Carson an extremely high percentage of black and healing of its Hispanic soldiers were serving sentences in the post wounds to stockade, or jail. Many blacks found the religious services unfamiliar and other churches. alien at best. People who were supposed to help them, particularly chaplains, were not reaching them. As a black J. Paul Monk, Jr. Seventh-day Adventist pastor, I knew we could reach people from the inner city, that we have a message for them. But as a T became interested in the chaplaincy through an acquain- junior chaplain, I took turns conducting Sunday services tance with Joe Powell, a black Adventist Army chaplain, with two other Protestant chaplains and preached only once a and James North, a friend who is an Air Force chaplain. month. There was no continuity. After graduating from the Seminary and while serving as a In our chapel (one of about a dozen on post) we had an pastor in the South Atlantic Conference, I wrote the General average of 16 people attending Sunday service. Few black Conference for information about the chaplaincy. I had read troops attended. I knew that if I started a worship service in Ministry magazine that we needed chaplains because of more familiar to blacks we could help many people with their the war in Vietnam. lives. I wrote directly to the commanding general and asked The very day I mailed the letter I came home to find a letter if I could start such a service. He was sensitive to the from the General Conference asking if I was interested in the problem, so we started a "Gospel Chapel." Within six chaplaincy. Because the shortage of black chaplains is months attendance reached nearly 400. That chapel is still critical, the services are willing to let a denomination have functioning (as is another I started at Fort Jackson), the first more than its quota of chaplains if it can furnish black clergy. permanent black worship service since President Truman Eventually the General Conference recommended me for integrated the armed forces. Now there are "Gospel the chaplaincy. At that time chaplains entered active duty in the service as captains, so on my first day I held a significant rank. Then followed eight weeks of chaplain basic training to teach us how to function in a military environment and to get us into physical shape. Of our class of 40 chaplains, I was the only Seventh-day Adventist. First stop, Fort Carson Most chaplains are stationed first in the United States, so I was sent to Fort Carson, Colorado, for about a year and a half. Then I was sent to Korea for a 13-month tour while my family stayed in Colorado. Afterward we went to Fort Jackson, South Carolina. En route I spent three weeks at paratrooper school and became jump-qualified. After three years in South Carolina I was sent to Fort Hamilton in New York City to the advanced course for chaplains. This is a nine-month course for those selected to make a career of the military. Toward the end of the course I decided that I had achieved much of what I came into the military for and felt led to begin a different ministry. I left the Army in 1977, but have fulfilled any obligation by remaining in the Army Reserves. 4!.r. J. Paul Monk, Jr., a chaplain in the Army Reserves, is editor Not all services are in churches, as Chaplain Gary R. Councell of Message magazine. illustrates. A jeep and makeshift pulpit serve the purpose.

6 (590) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 Chapels" (a euphemism for a chapel where black worship styles predominate) or ethnic chapels all around the world on FOR THE YOUNGER SET military bases. When you preach in a military chapel you are talking to all kinds of people from many denominations, with many varieties of beliefs. For example, each wanted Communion to be celebrated his own way. I found it an interesting challenge! Once a parishioner asked why I served grape juice instead of wine. I answered that since this liquid represented When Skeeter counted the blood of Jesus, I did not want to use anything spoiled or fermented. That simple answer satisfied him. his blessings-1 Many Adventists think that Seventh-day Adventist chap- lains minister primarily to Seventh-day Adventist ser- By MARJORIE DAWSON WOODRUFF vicemen and women. But in my experience it was rare to see Skeeter wagged his tail the house and called him. an Adventist, and an Adventist soldier was extremely and jumped in happy circles "Come, Skeeter, come!" fortunate if his unit had a Seventh-day Adventist chaplain. when he recognized he was Obedient as always, he came Because the draft has ended, the services now are composed at Grandma's house after the trotting in. She showed him of volunteers. Adventist leaders have cautioned against long, hot ride in the car. In his big bowl of dry dog food volunteering because of Sabbath and combat problems, so spite of being 13 years old, and the dish full of fresh, only a few of our young people with a strong commitment to Skeeter still remembered cool water. Then she patted their faith choose to go into the service. Unfortunately, some Grandma from when he was his head and said, "You a puppy at her house. Jeremy have to stay, Skeeter. who do enter are content so long as they can attend church for and Joel with Mother and Stay," as she went out and an hour or so. Daddy were also glad to closed the door. The 24-hour Sabbath finally reach their destina- Of course, Skeeter tion. couldn't understand that he A number of young people who identify themselves as But later the same after- would be much more com- Seventh-day Adventists are not what we would call noon Skeeter began to sus- fortable in the air-condi- Adventists, having never been baptized or even attended pect that something else was tioned house than shut up in church. But they say, "If I were going to be anything. I'd be about to happen. He the small, hot trailer while a Seventh-day Adventist," even though they don't know watched intently as his fam- his family toured around what this really means. The knowledgeable young man or ily took suitcases out of their historic Williamsburg, Vir- woman who may be a denominational employee's child or car and put them into the big ginia. At the house he would tan car hitched to the trailer. have Grandpa and Grandma who may have attended our schools, and who is running Skeeter decided he better get and Great-grandma to play away from the church, may not identify himself. in too. with him and feed him. Yes, It is difficult for some military officers to understand that a "Look at Skeeter," Joel his family was really doing Seventh-day Adventist keeps the Sabbath for 24 hours. But shouted. "He's in what was best, but all he since they all understand what a church service is, I tried to Grandpa's car!" knew was that they had gone help our Adventist personnel by scheduling a service at "He's figured out that off and deserted him. So he vesper time on Friday evening. That way, a Seventh-day we're getting ready to go whined. And whined some Adventist could show on the official schedule that he or she again and doesn't want to be more. He sounded so sad was expected in church at sunset. The next day, Sabbath, we left behind," laughed that Grandpa and Grandma would have another service scheduled for them at a local Jeremy. and Great-grandma felt very "Poor Skeeter," Mother sorry for him. But he church. Our members usually could be counted on to take sighed. "He doesn't know ignored them and wouldn't them home to dinner and entertain them until Sabbath was he can't go with us this even listen to their kind over. time." words or offers to play. He Not only do our chaplains preach on and It wasn't long before he just wanted to be with his Sundays; they counsel, including marriage counseling, and found out. Mother went into family! teach courses in character guidance, trying to help people Think about it: Did clarify and establish their values. Skeeter have any reasons to As we look back on events in Vietnam, we can see that be sad? Did he have any people failing to say the right thing at the proper time may reasons to be happy? Are have allowed situations to escalate until atrocities were there times when you are committed. I wonder, if a chaplain had spoken out at My Lai, sad? Do you have some reasons to be happy during whether that tragic massacre would have occurred. those times? Does Jesus War has a brutalizing effect on human beings. I don't think promise us only happy Adventists should leave the bandaging of wounds and times? How can knowing healing of broken minds and spirits to other churches. We Jesus make us happy even have something to say, something to offer; we have a during sad times? Next week complete answer. Our aversion to military things, to war, you will find out how Skeeter must not cause us to run from this responsibility. We need to became happy again. stay there on the front line where we are needed. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (591) 7 ADVENTIST PEOPLE

President M. L. Andreasen to request that the church initiate Colonel Everett N. medical military training for its youth. Andreasen presented the matter to the 1933 Annual Council but received no favorable response. Dick, MCC The faculty at Union college decided to take action anyway. Andreasen appointed a committee to study the Fifty years ago a man with a vision question, with Professor Dick as chairman—a natural choice because of his interest and experience in the Marines during placed Adventist youth facing war World War I. In the fall of 1933 this committee proposed a forever in his debt. curriculum of cadet training that included first aid and some basic training such as drill instruction. The faculty, board, and male students enthusiastically approved the idea. So the By JIGGS GALLAGHER Medical Cadet Corps began on the first Monday evening of the new semester in January, 1934. MCC training did not replace Army basic training, and plaque in the administration building at Union while it did not guarantee the prospective soldier a place in A College, Lincoln, Nebraska, testifies that the man for the Medical Corps, it was designed to increase that whom the building is named, Dr. Everett N. Dick, was, possibility. The college dropped its physical education among other things, "Founder of the Medical Cadet Corps." requirement, instead offering college credit for men taking This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of that notable event the MCC course. The class met each Monday from 6:30 to in Adventist history. 8:00 P.M. Evening worship and study period were shifted to During World War I President Woodrow Wilson ordered accommodate the exercises. that no American who was a for Major Emil Burgher, U.S. Army, was adjutant instructor religious reasons could be forced to bear arms. Adventists of the Nebraska National Guard's 110th Medical Regiment, especially appreciated that provision, for since the Civil War based in Lincoln. Professor Dick approached him about they had generally chosen CO status. Yet our members were advising the budding program. "He expressed surprise that patriotic citizens who wished to serve their country as far as Adventists would participate in war at all," says Dr. Dick. they could without disobeying God. "We held the class on Monday because that was Major Sabbath observance turned out to be a greater problem, Burgher's only free night." with many a court-martial following refusal to work on the Carefully he informed seventh day. At the war's end in 1918, 35 Adventist soldiers Major Burgher and his asso- were serving sentences of five to 20 years in the prison at Ft. ciate, Sergeant Zachary Leavenworth, Kansas. Scarborough, about Advent- While serving as dean of men at Oak Park Academy in ist antipathy toward smoking Iowa during the 1920s, Everett Dick pondered these and swearing. "But we problems. He remembered that during World War I Union never had a problem," he College had offered nurse's training for Adventist men in the recounts. "They were real old Nebraska Sanitarium on campus. He also knew that gentlemen." sometime after the war Emmanuel Missionary College (now General Conference Andrews University) briefly organized a drill team. Putting leaders, hearing of the proj- the two ideas together, he wondered, Why not offer both ect, became concerned that medical and military training to prepare potential Adventist Union College was becom- draftees for service in the Army's Medical Corps? This ing militaristic. They dis- would allow them to render allegiance to both God and patched the GC treasurer to Caesar by serving as noncombatants who could care for the visit Professor Dick. Did he wounded at all times, including the Sabbath. have a commission in the When' the winds of war began to blow again in the 1930s ? he Everett Dick, then a teacher at Union College, persuaded asked. No, said Dick, but he hoped the training would Jiggs Gallagher, formerly college relations director at make it inviting for the Army Union College, presently is assistant director of public Everett N. Dick speaks at the 1981 alumni homecoming to place our boys in the relations at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, Glendale, at Union College, where the medical department in case California, Medical Cadet Corps began. of a wartime draft.

8 (592) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984

Two years later the idea took root at the College of Medical Korean battlefield. The United Nations commander, General Evangelists (now ). CME also called Mark Clark, issued an order for all Adventist soldiers to be its program Medical Cadet Corps, although they were given a weekend pass for a meeting with their General preparing men as reserve personnel for the 47th General Conference representative. Word was given that soldiers Hospital. Dr. Dick (by this time holding a Ph.D.) continued should bring their towels for the celebration of the to gain support for his program. In 1937, after seeing a film of foot-washing ordinance. Their helmets served as basins. the corps at Union, an educational convention at Blue Ridge, Medical Cadet training had its greatest development in the North Carolina, voted to recommend similar training at all Far East, where Colonel Dick directed camps in most Adventist colleges in North America. The 1939 Annual countries of the division during 1953, 1955, and 1957. The Council looked with favor on the concept, reversing its stand corps flourished in the Philippines, where the government of 1933. allows medical cadet training to replace training with rifles in MCC training included litter drill, regular drill without high schools and colleges. Division reports indicate 50,000 weapons, and personal hygiene. Elmer Hagen, now associ- youth have received this training. ate pastor of the College View church in Lincoln, was the The plaque in Union College's administration building drummer in that first class of 1934. Cree Sandefur, retired lists other accomplishments by Everett Dick in addition to president of the Pacific and Columbia union conferences, fathering the Medical Cadet Corps. He became one of the was another member. Clark Smith, long the director of the earliest Adventists to venture into the world of advanced National Service Organization at the General Conference, degrees. His Ph.D. in history would be commonplace today, also trained under Dr. Dick. but was rare in the Adventist Church of the 1930s. He now During the summer of 1939, just before the war began, serves as a member of the Union College faculty as research Union College hosted the first MCC summer camp. It professor of American history. Soon after his first book on attracted about 50 noncollege men with no other opportunity history, The Sod-House Frontier, was published, a critique to train for medical service. A second camp held in the of the work appeared on the front page of the New York summer of 1940 attracted 75 men. Times book review section, catapulting the author into the Later Dr. Dick helped start a national camp at Grand forefront of United States Plains historians. He has written Ledge, Michigan, named Camp in honor of other volumes of history and narrative, the latest being From the Adventist soldier who was the first noncombatant to win Horse and Buggy to the Automobile, a social history of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Kansas from 1900 to 1925, soon to come from the press. At At the close of World War II, MCC training was present he is working on a book about the pioneer woman, discontinued in most places except Union College. When the aided as always by his wife, Opal. began, the General Conference reactivated the Although he is a pioneer in several fields, Everett Dick corps, naming Dr. Dick colonel in command of Adventist probably will be best remembered by Adventists as the medical cadet training around the world. progenitor of a program that met a need among Adventist In 1953 the Far Eastern Division called for Dr. Dick's youth facing military service. In this golden anniversary services. There he visited Adventist servicemen on the year, we salute him. ❑

Medical Cadet Corps observes 50th anniversary Everett N. Dick, Union College historian and Nebraska author, and many former members of the Medical Cadet Corps, which he initiated, met for an MCC fiftieth anniversary observance Friday, April 13, at the Union College auditorium. Three members of the original 1934 cadet corps were present at the meeting: Elmer Hagen, William Hanson, and Alex Reiswig. Also present was Orason Lee Brinker, who headed up a similar program at Walla Walla College, Walla Walla, Washington, after training under Dr. Dick and Charles Martin, director of the National Service Organization of the General Conference.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (593) 9 A medical cadet remembers . . .

By LOWELL LITTEN

Four young men practice first-aid training in a Medical Cadet class at Union College, Lincoln, Nebraska, in the early 1940s.

n October, 1940, six years after Adventists began training Shortly after the camp ended I took a job in a Virginia I their youth to serve as medics in the military, I attended nursing home and married the owner's daughter, Dixie. I the Medical Cadet Camp for the Lake Union on the Michigan became adjutant and drill instructor of the Northern Virginia Conference campground at Grand Ledge. In the 1950s and MCC unit in Vienna and also joined the First Medical Cadet '60s this place for two weeks each summer would become Corps Reserve in Takoma Park, Maryland, under the Camp Desmond T. Doss, the National Medical Cadet Corps command of MCC Major D. M. Brown. As reserves we (MCC) Camp, named for the Adventist medic who won the completed a 54-hour course in emergency nursing at the Congressional Medal of Honor. Washington Sanitarium and participated in community At that camp I first met the founder of MCC, Dr. Everett service, such as providing first-aid attendants for the opening N. Dick. As the camp commander he wore the gold oak of the National Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. leaves of an MCC major. He made platoon leaders of a few of Thanks to my MCC training, I obtained a job in 1942 us trainees and "commissioned" us cadet 2d lieutenants. I staffing a first-aid station for civilian construction workers could not foresee how much influence Dr. Dick was to have at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, wearing my MCC uniform and Red on my life in later years. Cross emergency first-aid shoulder patch. When I was drafted soon afterward, it was helpful to know Lowell Litten, now retired, was editor of Guide magazine for that I could go into the service as a noncombatant because 12 years. church leaders such as J. N. Andrews during the Civil War

10 (594) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 As battle casualties arrived the morning after the invasion, we suddenly felt the horrors of war.

and C. B. Haynes in both world wars had persuaded the The next morning I went to company headquarters and military to allow Adventists to serve without weapons. asked for a pass to go to church. The clerk responded, "The During the month I spent at Fort Lee I was asked to instruct says you are to report to the chaplain." The other recruits in close-order drill. When some officers asked chaplain was waiting for me in his office, where for the next me what military academy I had attended, I was happy to tell half hour he told me all the reasons why I should not be them about the Seventh-day Adventist preinduction pro- asking to be excused from "necessary" work on my gram. That was the first of many opportunities to put my Sabbath. Explaining that other churches grant "dispensa- MCC training to work—not only the marching skills but also tions" to their members in such situations, he questioned my character guidance, military courtesy, and similar skills. loyalty to the government. At Camp Grant, Illinois, on the Friday before the first big I replied that I was willing to care for the sick and wounded Sabbath inspection (from which Adventists were excused) I seven days a week (which I did do a few months later under made up my cot "half-sheet" fashion just as I had learned in combat conditions), but that in this case I was willing to take MCC. My platoon sergeant showed it to the first sergeant, the consequences for disobeying man's orders that I felt were who had it carried to the center of our tent area. The first contrary to God. He was not impressed. sergeant then called out the entire company and instructed When the chaplain dismissed me, I returned quickly to the everyone to make up his cot exactly like mine. company office. As confidently as I could, I told the clerk, I went from basic camp to the 76th General Hospital in "I've seen the chaplain and have come for my pass." He Vancouver, Washington, which was awaiting orders to go looked surprised, but made out a pass to the nearest town. overseas. Because of techniques learned in the MCC Slipping the pass into my shirt pocket, I marched briskly out emergency nursing course, I was assigned to a clinic, but of the office and through the gate before he could check with later I was transferred to ward duty when the need for the first sergeant. In the military as well as in civilian life, I wardmen became greater than the need for clinic workers. found that doors open to one who steps out in confidence and We crossed the North Atlantic to Liverpool, England, faith. going from there by rail to North Wales. From Wales 100 of Functioning under fire our hospital force were sent to Northern Ireland near Belfast to operate a field hospital. Through three military campaigns, including the Battle of Probably there is no prettier spot in the world than Ireland the Bulge, our tent hospital functioned more as an evacuation in the spring. Our Quonset huts nestled in the greenest of unit than as a general hospital. We were bombed, strafed, green rolling hills. The war seemed so remote. A few weeks and were under sniper fire; but thanks to God's protecting before D day, June 6, 1944, our detachment rejoined the hand, we lost only 26 of our hospital personnel. We sang main hospital in Leominster, England. As battle casualties carols by the light of parachute flares during the bombing of arrived the morning after the invasion, suddenly we felt the Liege, Belgium, on Christmas Eve. horrors of war. I'll never forget looking for a patient's second After two years overseas, where I came eventually to serve combat boot only to discover a blood-soaked bandage on the as wardmaster, I was overjoyed to see the war end and get stump of his leg. back to my little family. With government help, I enrolled in Just before sailing for France about two months after D Washington Missionary College (now Columbia Union day, we tented for about two weeks near Southhampton. College), but dropped out of school after one year to build up There my MCC instruction on Sabbathkeeping in the a Virginia farm we hoped to turn into a nursing home. military was put to use. A hospital needed some ditches dug, On the farm I taught the Medical Cadet Corps course at so a few from our unit were selected for the honor. I told the Shenandoah Valley Academy, and Dr. Dick invited me to first sergeant that as a Seventh-day Adventist I would like to serve on his Camp Doss staff. During the summer camps and work Sundays and be excused from duty on Sabbath. He in letters between camps he would say, "Lowell, you've got nodded but made no promises. to get back to school. The church needs your talents." Finally I returned to college the last week I could before Serious about Sabbathkeeping my benefits under the GI education bill expired. After six Just before sundown on Friday a first lieutenant walked out years of teaching English and MCC, I accepted a call to the to the ditch. I assumed he had come to see if I was serious General Conference Youth Department, where for nine about keeping the Sabbath. When I saw the sun nearly years, besides editing the MV Program Kit, I helped conduct touching the horizon, I stuck my shovel in the ground, gave national and union conference MCC camps. My last 12 years the officer my snappiest salute, and said, "Good evening, before retirement were spent as editor of Guide. sir." He returned my salute, and I walked quickly to the I had not wanted any part of military service; but looking barracks. Although I expected someone to come after me, it back, I can see that God in His providence used MCC, the did not happen. Army, and Everett Dick to lead me into my lifework. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (595) 11 FAMILY LIVING

There is no way we can experience a close relationship Forgiveness in without on occasion hurting each other. Who of us dares claim we have lived in a state of marriage and never caused pain to our mate by our thoughtlessness, unkind criticism, or mamage downright meanness? Asking for and granting forgiveness is an essential component of marital intimacy and happiness. How can we forgive and forget? Resolving conflicts in a positive manner is the backbone of a good relationship. And many conflicts will not only resolve Suggestions for resolving but also dissolve when we can swallow our pride and say, "I conflicts in a positive manner. am sorry; will you please forgive me?" Dialogue can play an important part too. Something a spouse does may be very irritating. He may seem to be thoughtless, uncaring, or even mean, which in turn may arouse resentment. But a dialogue may reveal that the person By PEGGY and ROGER DUDLEY involved is simply being himself. Take the matter of the thermostat (house, electric blanket) or early-riser (or arold and Alice were married young—right after late-riser) metabolism. Understanding the other's feelings H academy while they were still in their teens. Their reveals that what is needed here is acceptance of differences immaturity and lack of personal skills made the marriage a in needs rather than rights and wrongs. Talking about these disaster almost from the first. Harold often gave stinging differences can help spouses make adjustments with which criticisms when Alice did something that displeased him. He they both can be happy. ridiculed her attempts at cooking and housekeeping and spent But what about areas where one has not been thoughtful or money on things he wanted even though he knew Alice often caring of the other—matters in which something needs to be went without basic necessities. When the children came, the made right? It could be impatience, not meeting responsibil- couple argued over discipline, and each would set them up ity such as doing a task or chore, not meeting appointments, against the other parent. Much of their conversation came to or making a wrong judgment. Ogden Nash's little verse is a be blame-finding. After ten years they both realized that they favorite of ours, and perhaps yours: had destroyed any shred of affection they once had for each "To keep other. Harold moved out of the home. your marriage brimming But both were church members and hesitant to initiate a with love divorce. Finally they approached their pastor to ask for help. in the loving cup With his counseling they made a new commitment to their When you're wrong marriage and began the hard work of building a new life admit it, together. when you're right, The greatest obstacle was Alice's inability to forgive shut up. " Harold and forget the past. She had been hurt deeply and Admitting wrongdoing is the first step. The second is found it almost impossible to relate to him differently than saying "I am sorry; please forgive me." This turns the focus she had in the past. Whenever a new behavior was proposed, from the person who has erred to the one who was wronged. she would counteract with "But he'll just make fun of me" What kind of response will he or she make to this request? It or "He won't really care how I feel" or "I know how he is is healing to hear "That's all right, dear. Let's just forget it about things like that. " Unless Alice could learn to forgive happened." there was little hope for the marriage. But these words are difficult to say, especially if we have Forgiveness is a word that comes up in all human been hurt deeply. Is it necessary to forgive something that has relationships, especially in close ones, such as marriage and been costly or repeated often in the past? the family. A few years ago the words of a popular saying We had someone ask at a marriage seminar, "How many proclaiined, "Love means never having to say you're times do I have to forgive my spouse?" Peter asked the same sorry." But all of us know that the opposite is true. To love is kind of question: "Lord, how many times shall I forgive my to say, "I'm sorry; please forgive me. " brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21, N.I. V. ). If we are interested in the numerical Roger Dudley is associate professor of church and ministry boundaries of 70 x 7 = 490 times, we can see readily that we at the SDA Theological Seminary, Berrien Springs, Michi- shall lose count before we arrive at the boundary. gan. He and his wife, Peggy, a registered nurse, conduct But Jesus expanded His answer to Peter by telling the story Marriage Enrichment Seminars. of a king whose servant owed him several million dollars and

12 (596) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 was about to lose everything by foreclosure. The servant testimony that could be given to the reality of Bible threw himself on the king's mercy, and the gracious religion. "—Testimonies, vol. 5, pp. 170, 171. sovereign canceled the debt. Then the forgiven servant went In his book, None of These Diseases, S. I. McMillen out and, finding one of his peers who owed him a few makes the comment that when Christ gave the formula for dollars, seized him and threw him into jail. When the king forgiveness as 70 times seven He was not thinking of our learned of this, he demanded full payment from the first souls alone—He was thinking also of our physical health. An servant. Jesus concluded, "This is how my heavenly Father unforgiving spirit has been known to produce physical will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother from illnesses such as colitis, ulcers, high blood pressure, and your heart" (verse 35, N .I. V .). strokes. He adds that thousands of people have died of As Ellen White wrote: "Our Saviour taught His disciples "grudgitis." to pray: 'Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.' A As counselors we find that carrying a grudge can cause great blessing is here asked upon conditions. We ourselves problems in relationships other than those with whom the state these conditions. We ask that the mercy of God toward difference originated. A spouse may relate in ways harmful us may be measured by the mercy which we extend to others. to his or her partner because of unresolved and unworked- Christ declares that this is the rule by which the Lord will deal through feelings toward a parent. The marital relationship with us: 'If ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly cannot be healed until spouses go back and work through the Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their repressed feelings they carry toward parents, because those trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.' repressed feelings are coloring the perceptions (unrealisti- Wonderful terms! but how little are they understood and cally) in the marital relationship. The point is that repressed heeded. One of the most common sins, and one that is feelings do not lie completely dormant. Although unspoken, attended with most pernicious results, is the indulgence of an they are still influencing health and/or relationships. unforgiving spirit. How many will cherish animosity or Sometimes people say, "I can forgive, but I can't forget." revenge and then bow before God and ask to be forgiven as What does it mean to forget? We do not mean that the they forgive. Surely they can have no true sense of the import incident is wiped out of the memory bank so that it cannot be of this prayer or they would not dare to take it upon their lips. recalled. Human beings do not have the power to do that. We are dependent upon the pardoning mercy of God every Rather it means to interact with the loved one without taking day and every hour; how then can we cherish bitterness and the injury into account. It means not bringing up the past. It malice toward our fellow sinners! If, in all their daily means to deal only in the present. This is the forgiving and intercourse, Christians would carry out the principles of this forgetting that Alice needed to make a good marriage prayer, what a blessed change would be wrought in the possible. This is how God forgives us. In being forgiving, church and in the world! This would be the most convincing not only are we Christlike but we do ourselves a favor. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (597) 13 FROM THE EDITORS

happiness. Being at the threshold of As an example, Air Force regula- Adventists and maturity, they lack experience to tions state, "No promises or guar- help sort out fact from fiction. antees may be made regarding spe- military In the late teens many are at cial consideration because of midpassage in the shift from paren- personal, religious, moral, or ethi- enlistment tal supervision to personal auton- cal beliefs." Regulations of the omy. Direct argument, or at least an other services are equally explicit. Current evidence indicates that emotional tug-of-war, goes on in Some enlistees encounter few prob- substantial numbers of youth from many Christian homes. Roger Dud- lems, but the military services are Adventist backgrounds continue to ley, an Adventist authority on not obligated to provide for Sabbath- enlist in the United States armed youth, has described how in the keeping volunteer enlistees the kind services, in this way inviting severe adolescent mind rejection of paren- of Sabbath observance called for in conflict if they wish to practice their tal authority often is expressed by the Bible—a dedicated period of 24 faith. Each year between 6,000 and parallel rejection of the parents' life hours. 7,000 enlistees write "Seventh-day practices and religion. Driven by The simple truth is that military Adventist" in the blank where family conflict but still thinking of authorities do not want Adventists incoming trainees designate reli- himself as Adventist, a young per- to enlist. Sabbath observance and gious preference. son may see enlistment as a quick noncombatancy create almost insu- Why do these youth choose to way to personal independence. Par- perable problems in a system enter military service at a time ents, frustrated by interpersonal designed to function around the when no obligatory draft is in struggle, at times encourage enlist- clock on a seven-day week. effect? In contrast to the required ment under the rationale "It'll help What can we do to ease the national service system operating in him grow up." Ironically, the urge problem? Here, as so often, preven- many nations, all United States to escape what he sees as a regi- tion is better than cure. First, military services now are staffed mented home leads the youth into church members must take the ini- with volunteers. For this reason a military discipline, one of the most tiative in keeping close to youth in vigorous recruiting program is authority-laden environments in the their congregation. Speak to them. needed to gain new personnel. modern world. Learn their names and what their Recruitment officers regularly Future painted unrealistically interests are. Youth are the charge visit high schools and other places of every church member, not sim- where youth gather, in a systematic Unfortunately, recruiting officers ply the elected youth leader. And effort to attract both young men and with an eye to fulfilling quotas do because of social patterns, someone women into the armed services. In a not always deal fully or even outside the young person's family time when satisfying employment is accurately with the concerns of the frequently can do more than a difficult for young people to find, prospective enlistee. The future is parent. Kind, genuine attention, the recruiter offers secure employ- painted in rose-tinted unrealities. free from unsolicited advice or ment, travel, access to technical Glib assurances of freedom to prac- criticism, often can bridge age gaps training at no cost, and a generous tice one's religion mask the simple of even 50 years. Seek to bind retirement/medical care program fact that the military idea of practic- every young person to the congre- that begins at about age 40 and ing one's faith may mean little more gation with cords of sincere interest reaches to death. than attending a worship service for and affection. A willing, trusted ear From a material standpoint the an hour or two. The overall goals of needs to be available whenever a package is attractive, but other the particular branch of service take tension-laden youth wants to talk factors may be even more impor- precedence. something over. This is the very tant. Often youth are weary of the work that occupied much of predictable routine of school. Christ's time. Manipulators of their culture tell The National Service Organiza- them that money, excitement, fast tion of the General Conference cars, and adventure are the keys to publishes several helpful leaflets giving honest information about

14 (598) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 what Adventists who volunteer may President awoke to find that a The book of Jonah has been expect to find in the armed forces. burglar had climbed through the called "The Gospel of the Second They are available through the con- window from a ledge and was Chance." Even when the runaway ference youth director or directly stealing his wallet, a watch, and a prophet gave up on God, his Father from the Washington office. charm. was not ready to give up on him, Parents need to understand what "I wish you wouldn't take that," but went to extraordinary lengths to is happening as youth approach he said, referring to the charm. The accomplish his rehabilitation. maturity and begin to think of startled thief looked at it more Those imbued with the spirit of independence. Good judgment at closely and read the inscription: heaven will treat others with the this point often can prevent the "Presented to Calvin Coolidge, same consideration, as is seen in the alienation that might lead to enlist- Speaker of the House, by the Mas- case of John Mark. Having "aban- ment. Parents can obtain valuable sachusetts General Court." doned ship" on a previous mission- suggestions for reading about how "Are you President Coolidge?" ary journey, young Mark was not to deal with youth by writing the he asked. welcome on the next trip as far as General Conference Home and "Yes," replied Silent Cal, Paul was concerned. But his cousin Family Service. adding, "If you want money, let's Barnabas argued that he should be One more suggestion: service talk this over," proving that he was given a second chance, and Barna- people in our churches need to also Cool Cal. bas was vindicated when Mark know that the entire congregation The intruder then confessed that turned out to be a Gospel writer and cares for them. Not only is this a he and a friend needed money for faithful worker who was profitable mark of genuine , but it their hotel bill and train fare back to not only to Barnabas but to Paul as boosts the courage of people who college, whereupon Coolidge gave well. As with Coolidge's student face what often are real difficulties him $32 as a loan, so the young visitor, he proved that people often as they try to mesh the Christian life man would not be a thief. The live up to our trust in them. with military expectations. Chris- President's kindness and confi- A popular adage says, "Don't tian ministry is not merely or even dence turned out to be well placed, trust anyone any farther than you principally the preserve of profes- for sometime later the money was can throw him." But in truth it is sional clergy. It is the privilege of repaid in full. better to be cheated sometimes than everyone who claims the name of Presumably President Coolidge not to trust others, for to live in Christ. G. W. R. could have summoned the police constant suspicion of people harms who must have been on guard not us more than they ever could by far away. Or a command to leave betraying that trust. Paul must have empty-handed by the way he came learned this lesson, for in his letters A second chance would doubtless have been obeyed we find him repeatedly expressing A heretofore-unpublished story by a chagrined youth who had no confidence in the Corinthians, the about President Calvin Coolidge intention of robbing the President. Galatians, the Thessalonians, and came to light recently on the fiftieth But compassion found a better Philemon, as when he wrote, "I anniversary of his death. The way—the transgressor received a rejoice therefore that I have confi- reporter to whom the President told second chance. dence in you in all things" (2 Cor. the experience was asked not to How like the way our Lord treats 7:16), even though, as did President publish it, but since he also died us! We do not deserve a second Coolidge, he had reason to mis- long ago, all need for secrecy chance any more than did that trust. would appear to have passed. young trespasser, yet divine love We would not rob God any more Though Coolidge is remembered overrules stern justice on our than the student knowingly would as a man of few words, those he behalf. As did another young thief, have robbed the President. Yet we spoke on this occasion had the one on a cross, we receive not a must ever remain in debt to Him. desired effect. It had been 20 days penalty, but a pardon and a prom- For unlike Coolidge's chance since Warren G. Harding died sud- ise. acquaintance, we can never repay denly and Coolidge, his Vice Presi- His gift to us in Christ Jesus. This dent, was sworn in as the United being true, we should imitate not States' thirtieth President. Not yet only Silent Cal but the Silent Lamb having moved into the White in extending to others our trust, and House, Coolidge was staying at the a second chance. E. F. D. Willard Hotel in Washington. On the night of August 23, 1923, the

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7 1984 (599) 15 WORLDVIEW

national career as the church Early in 1983 Mario F. Mufioz, Homecoming to Bay Islands school teacher on the island of then president of the Honduras Guanaja. At the time most of the Mission, met with the members shows SDAs have moved ahead inhabitants lived on the two to choose a plans-and-build- little keys where the church had ing committee. Pastor MUTIOZ been built. They did their farm- promised to contact Maranatha By B. L. ARCHBOLD ing and gardening on the island, Flights International to see if but chose to build their homes they would be interested in such on the keys away from the a historic project. When Columbus explored first Seventh-day Adventist mosquitoes and sand flies. Most In April, 1983, 30 Canadian the Bay Islands off the coast of church in Inter-America. The of the houses were built upon and North American represent- Honduras, he found the islands church's charter members were coral and hung out over the atives of Maranatha arrived to of Guanaja (sometimes called David Haylock, Stephen Hay- water. The "streets" were actu- begin the work, accompanied Bonacca), Roatan, and Utila, as lock, Jarrat Wood, Estela Hay- ally wharves, and I could slip by Pastor Mufioz and V. G. well as a chain of tiny keys. He lock, Eugenia Haylock, Jane into my swimsuit in the morning Newman, a retired denomi- described the inhabitants as Kirkonel, and Eva Kirkonel. and take a plunge out of my national worker on temporary being of large stature with a Later, Sabbath schools in bedroom window for a refresh- special assignment as district martial bearing, adding that North America provided a 35- ing swim before getting ready pastor. Within a few days the they were civilized, peaceful, ton schooner named the Herald, for a day in the classroom. old wooden building, which and friendly, and that they and Pastor Hutchins became they jokingly described as being Four churches treated him and his men kindly. known as the "storm king" "held together by termites Centuries later the islands' captain as he plied the waters Because mosquitoes are holding hands," was taken population swelled as immi- along the coast of Honduras and more controllable today, the down and work was begun on a grants from England, Germany, among the islands. By 1900 island proper gradually is new church. Switzerland, the United States, communication between the becoming inhabited. Its major There are no trucks or cars on and other countries began to islands had improved, so the industry continues to be fishing those little keys, so all the arrive. English became the pre- vessel was sold and the funds and fish and seafood pro- material had to be carried by dominant language. In 1859 used to purchase mission prop- cessing. The 5,000 inhabitants hand from the beach. Men, Great Britain ceded these beau- erty. A small motor launch was are still a sturdy, hardworking, women, boys, and girls, all tiful mountainous islands with purchased for interisland trans- honest people, and there are helped. The Maranatha workers their sandy beaches, palm trees, portation. now four Seventh-day Advent- remained for two weeks and in and tropical fruits, to Honduras. After almost 11 years of ist churches on the island— that time completed the floor, When Frank J. Hutchins and faithful labor, Pastor Hutchins three English-speaking and one the walls and roof, and much of his wife arrived in 1891, the died of a tropical illness and was Spanish-speaking. Church the plastering. The national cur- first Seventh-day Adventist buried beside the grave of membership stands at 230. rency is the lempira, at the time, missionaries, they found hard- another pioneer worker, John In recent years it became valued at two to the U.S. dollar. working, industrious people— Eccles. clear that the original wooden The L50,000 budgeted for eight of whom already were In 1928 I began my denomi- church needed to be rebuilt. beginning the church was spent, keeping the seventh-day Sab- bath. The Hutchins, who com- bined dentistry, colporteur work, and preaching, were invited to conduct meetings in an interdenominational church that had been built on the coral between two keys about a quar- ter of a mile off the coast of Guanaja. A large percentage of the congregation accepted the Adventist message, and by mutual agreement with the interdenominational group the building was turned over to Pastor Hutchins to become the

B. L. Archbold is a retired former president of the Inter- In 1928, B. L. Archbold (seated, center) was the only teacher in this Adventist school for grades American Division. 1 through 8 on the island of Guanaja, one of the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras.

16 (600) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 and the project came to a islander living abroad donated 285) in tithe and an equal Mr. Ulmer, a retired real estate temporary halt. the baptistry; another, the ceil- amount for local church projects developer, has been a leader in Being persuaded that ing fans; and someone else, the and the building fund. establishing the college's new rebuilding this landmark where lighting fixtures. The Mara- By December, 1983, the Century II Endowment Fund. Seventh-day Adventists were so natha group donated approxi- church was completed. It was William A. Iles, president of well known was important, the mately US$35,000 worth of dedicated free of debt on Janu- the Committee of 100 since its church members requested that labor, and the Honduras Mis- ary 4. Since I had begun my formation, was honored with a the Honduras Mission assign sion gave an appropriation of career there 55 years before, I plaque for meritorious service. Pastor Mufioz to their district. L1,000 (US$500). was invited to return to preach Mr. Iles, assistant to the presi- Both Adventists and non- The rest of the money— the dedicatory sermon and hold dent at Florida Hospital in Adventist friends rallied around L265,000 (US$137,500)-- a week of revival meetings. Orlando, is active in local phi- him when he arrived back at his came from the islanders. I was thrilled to learn of the lanthropy there. home island. A volunteer mis- Although the church has only far-reaching influence of the Master of ceremonies for the sionary worker did all the pro- 100 members, in 1983 they church school where I had celebration was William J. fessional electrical work. An contributed L116,570 (US$58,- taught. Through the years many Hulsey, president of College- non-Adventist families have dale Caseworks, Inc., and a sent their children to that charter member of the Commit- school, and as adults they tee of 100. maintain a friendly relationship Since the Committee of 100 with Seventh-day Adventists was formed in May, 1963, it has and were glad to participate in provided the college with $6 the building of the church. million worth of campus From 1891, when the first improvements. The committee church in Inter-America was is composed of influential lay- organized, to 1984, when a new people in the Seventh-day church was built on the same Adventist Church who are site, in Guanaja has committed to excellence in pri- come a long way. It still is well, vate Christian education. The strong, and growing. group's executive director, Charles Fleming, Jr., is chair- TENNESSEE man of the board of Collegedale Interiors. Annual dues are $500 per Philanthropic member. However, the dues act group celebrates only as "seed" money for the creative financing of projects 20th anniversary that eventually return income to The Committee of 100 for the college. It is estimated that SMC. Inc., a philanthropic for every $1 given, a $10 benefit body of Southern College of is realized. Seventh-day Adventists, held The committee maintains its its twentieth anniversary cele- own set of books, separate from bration April 10-11 on the those of the college, and at any Southern College campus. given time may own several During a special assembly, buildings on campus, leasing an award was presented to Ruth them to the college and even- King McKee, vice president of tually turning them over to the McKee Baking Company and college debt-free. Buildings wife of 0. D. McKee, chairman erected and various other proj- of the company's board. Mrs. ects that have been accom- McKee was honored for her plished by the committee years of service and philan- include the physical education thropy to the college. A McKee center, the quarter-mile track, Scholarship Fund for worthy three racquetball courts, the and needy students has been broom-shop building, expan- functioning for many years, and sion and renovation of the Col- Mrs. McKee presently is lege Plaza Shopping Center, cochairman of an alumni project Maize Herin Nursing Hall, to renovate Miller Hall into a additions to Talge Hall and theology center. Thatcher Hall dormitories, and Sanford and Martha Ulmer, a gift of $250,000 to furnish and from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, equip WSMC's (90.5 FM) new were presented the college's quarters in the fine arts build- VINITA SAUDER The first Seventh-day Adventist church in the Inter-American first Distinguished Alumnus ing. Division, in Guanaja, Bay Islands (top), was razed recently Service Award. The Ulmers Director of Public Relations to make room for the new one (bottom), dedicated in January. have been supporters of the Southern College of Behind the new church, to the left, is the Adventist school. college for more than 60 years. Seventh-day Adventists

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (601) 17 WASHINGTON, D.C . trators, 12 nurses, 11 pastor- date six people have been bap- anatha Seminar II at Kallion- evangelists, and eight dentists. tized. iemi in July, where they will be The figures change from week The seminar had been held at instructed in how to win others Students to week as appointments are a beautiful campsite in Kallion- for Christ. TEUVO KALLIO pay visit made and additional needs iemi, with home visitation done Lay Activities Director arise. at Suolahti, about 32 kilometers West Finland Conference to GC committee Back on campus, several stu- (20 miles) away. The initial Fifteen Columbia Union Col- dents expressed their amaze- approach involved a survey, a WASHINGTON, D.C. lege students, representing nine ment at the complexity of staff- personal testimony, the sharing academic majors, observed a ing mission positions. They also of a Bible promise, then prayer. session of the General Confer- commented on the committee's When Elder Monnier out- Service persons ence Committee on Appoin- efficiency. ZELLA HOLBERT lined the steps, some of those to benefit tees March 14. Since 1967 this Columbia Union College attending the seminar objected. has been an annual experience "Pastor Monnier," they said, from offering for CUC students who are FINLAND "this may be possible in On Sabbath, June 9, a special interested in serving in a mis- America, but in Europe we are offering will be received to use sion field. conservative. It may not work on behalf of Adventist men and The annual visit is a result of Visits open here." women serving in the armed the college administration's 160 homes, yield Not to be put off, Elder forces. These church members, philosophy that students should Monnier replied, "You may be removed from their homes and be exposed to many phases of six baptisms right, but just remember, I am a churches, often are based in the denomination's programs. Several months ago when European also. I too come from areas where Adventist churches The location of the college, only Samuel Monnier, associate a conservative background. are distant and Sabbath can one mile from the General director of the General Confer- Let's just try it this way and see become quite lonely without the Conference, makes such an ence Lay Activities Depart- if it works." fellowship of others of like experience possible. ment, visited Anne Pasanen in As he had predicted, the faith. General Conference secre- the small country town of Suo- homes opened, people were To help fill this void, the tary G. Ralph Thompson, com- lahti in central Finland, she did friendly, and the seminar partic- National Service Organization mittee chairman, briefly not know much about Seventh- ipants were able to step in, keeps in touch with these per- explained the work of the com- day Adventists. Today she not conduct the survey, give their sons through newsletters and mittee and introduced the com- only is a church member but is testimony, read the Bible, and the mailing of literature, which mittee's members, designating planning to attend the Adventist 80 percent of the time offer a includes such denominational the overseas division for which school in Toivonlinna to train prayer before leaving. The publications as the ADVENTIST each of the associate secretaries for a life of service for her Lord. approach was almost too effec- REVIEW, Insight, Message, and is responsible. Elder Monnier was not alone tive, for by the end of the week Listen. Elder Thompson explained in his visits at Suolahti last July; 160 persons had requested a On Sabbath, June 9, you will that at present there are needs he was assisted by the 100 return visit. But it was a pleas- be given an opportunity to have for 176 regular missionaries, 99 people attending the Maranatha ant challenge to have to arrange a part in supporting this worthy short-term workers, and 20 Seminar he was there to con- for subsequent visits, and mem- endeavor. You are invited to nationals returning. This num- duct. Nor was Anne the only bers from Jyvaskyla, the closest give so that present services can ber includes 44 doctors, 31 person to be led to baptism. As a church, situated about 35 kilo- be continued and new ones college, secondary, and ele- result of the work begun at meters (22 miles) from Suo- added as funds permit. Your mentary teachers, 13 adminis- Suolahti during the seminar, to lahti, took their follow-up prayers as well as your contribu- responsibility seriously. tions are solicited. Pastor Erkki Haapasalo, CHARLES B. HIRSCH president of the West Finland General Vice President Dramatic Conference, declared after the General Conference Inspiring second day's visits, "I must confess that now I am an NORTHERN EUROPE Fascinating `addict' of home-to-home visi- tation. I know that it works." Correspondence Some months later when he personally led out in an evangel- schools make istic campaign in Suolahti, most Too Late of the people who came to the major impact meetings had been contacted When the Northern European during the seminar. Of the six Division's Bible correspon- people baptized at the end of the dence school principals gath- to Hide crusade, five had been con- ered last fall for their first advi- Follow the yet to be played out drama tacted the first time during the sory council since 1969, it be- of life just before Christ returns. door-to-door visitation. came apparent how significant a Since her baptism Anne role the correspondence schools Available from your Adventist Book Center Pasanen has been conducting play in church evangelism. US$4.95 CON$6.20 studies with her non-Adventist More than 20 percent of the ©1984, Pacific Press Publishing Association friends, using the Gift Bible people baptized in the Northern Plan. She and others who were European Division have taken baptized will be attending Mar- at some stage a Bible corm-

18 (602) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 spondence course. Therefore, its thousands of students and tion card, ten enroll in a corre- worthwhile? Not the figures, of the approximately 1,500 bap- engages in a correspondence spondence course. During 1981 impressive though they may be, tisms each year throughout the prison ministry. and 1982, 48 percent of the but the gratitude of the more division, some 300 are directly The Dutch school, which baptisms in Denmark and 38 than 20,000 students taking influenced by the work of the offers an attractive range of percent of those in Norway were courses at any one time. eight Bible correspondence courses, has seen its graduates influenced by Bible correspon- CAROL-TOY PATRICK schools, and for many it is their increase from 166 in 1966 to dence schools. Editorial Assistant first contact with Adventist doc- 524 in 1981. Most of the schools have Northern Light trines. A team of some 35 In Sweden, local pastors visit some form of follow-up that Northern European Division workers contributes to these some 75 to 90 percent of the they themselves conduct. The results. students. During the past five Danish school, although con- MID-AMERICA Of Northern Europe's Bible years, 30 percent of all baptis- centrating on one-day seminars correspondence schools, the mal candidates in Sweden have in local churches, also conducts Danish school offers the great- gone through a Bible corre- weekend seminars. At two Pilot program est number of courses. The spondence course before bap- recent seminars where a total of seeks to involve school also does a creditable job tism. 75 non-Adventists attended, 22 of self-financing, with 82 per- K. Fretson Taylor, principal people expressed their desire for laypeople cent of its budget coming from of the British school, personally baptism. Spectacular results More than a year ago nine church members' and students' marks a staggering 1,000 have been seen in Finland's churches in the Rocky Moun- gifts and donations. answer sheets every week. The five-day camps for students, tain Conference accepted the The Polish Bible school, school's work load is the which are held each summer. At challenge of becoming pilot while presently offering only heaviest in the division. one such camp, 75 people churches in a program designed one Bible course, is translating The Norwegian school has requested baptism, but not all of to show how lay involvement courses on Revelation, archeol- the highest ratio of enrollments them were considered ready. can help churches grow. ogy, and health. The school to applications: for every 18 What makes the Bible corre- Administrators from the Mid- keeps a complete file on each of people who send in an applica- spondence schools' work America Union joined local

"All evidence points to multiple myeloma." On My TThe doctor carefully measured his words as he pointed out the diseased areas that were clearly defined ac on the X-ray film. 'And what is myeloma?" Evelyn asked in innocence. "Evelyn, it's cancer. Bone cancer!" Limp deep within yet calm on the surface, Evelyn left the doctor's office and turned her footsteps 00kgin toward home. "Lord," she breathed, "this can't be! Not me!" It was true, and it was happening to Evelyn. On My Back, Looking Up is her journal of the disease's progress and her own personal testimony. It is candid but not morbid. It is full of praise to a loving God, who sustains His children. You'll fall in love with Evelyn. You'll be drawn closer to her God, and your faith will be strengthened by her story. Available at all Adventist Book Centers for US$4.95, For Visa/MasterCard orders call 1-800-253-3000. , Review and Herald I Publishing Association

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (603) 19 conference leaders in offering and/or involved in holding lay meeting led to seven baptisms). Revelation Seminar in the churches a financial subsidy of meetings; (2) at least one lay In the first year of the program Loveland High School. They $2,400 a year if they would reaping meeting of some type the Pueblo congregation has have used Signs to follow up follow certain broad guidelines (cottage meeting, evangelistic grown by more than 80 mem- and acquire names of interests, in using the funds for meeting, or seminar) conducted bers. Because lay members lead and their elders and deacons developing greater lay involve- each year; (3) at least one major each new member through an have attended a seminar on ment in their churches' outreach public evangelistic meeting entire series of home Bible visitation and helping former or and nurture. held each year with laypeople studies after the person or fam- inactive members. Former The participating congrega- involved in groundwork, visita- ily is baptized, a high percent- members receive the church tions—in Colorado, the Pueblo, tion, and follow-up; (4) at least age of the converts remain in the newsletter and invitations to Montrose, Chapel Haven, Ster- one lay-witness training class church. church events, and a Sunday ling, Cortez, Greeley, and conducted each year, including The Chapel Haven church in brunch is hosted for new mem- Campion churches; and in Wyo- on-the-job training; (5) a former the suburbs of Denver is another bers each quarter. ming, the Greybull and Casper member reclamation program in example of what can happen The various churches have churches—represent a cross effect; (6) nurturing of church when laypeople become tried to establish programs tai- section of large and small, city members as an ongoing effort; involved. Since beginning the lored to the needs of their and rural. While the programs and (7) at least 20 percent of program they have seen 100 particular situation, but the and the results have varied, church members committed to people baptized into their common denominator has been depending on local situations, specific outreach ministries of church. lay involvement. Not only has nearly all the churches report some type. The Campion Academy there been an increase in church increases both in baptisms/pro- Laypeople in the Pueblo church conducted a lay evangel- attendance as a result of the fessions of faith and in atten- church recently began their sec- istic series last year in the small outreach, but the members dance at church and Sabbath ond Open Bible Seminar since community of Berthoud, and themselves have become more school. the pilot program began. More several people were baptized as excited about their faith. Wit- The conference has set sev- than 125 people attended each a result. Academy students have nessing and loving concern for eral standards as a prerequisite evening, 25 of them non-SDA participated in a number of others have become a way of to receiving financial assis- guests. Local pastor John Mar- these outreaches, as well as in a life. JERRY N. PAGE tance: (1) 10 percent of church tin reports that 18 have Reflections Drama ministry. Personal Ministries Director members giving Bible studies requested baptism (the first lay The members plan to conduct a Rocky Mountain Conference

Saviour. Noting this, Christianity Today commented: "By his use Ross Report >♦ of that verse, Reagan seems to have staked himself clearly to the tenets of evangelical Christianity and gone beyond the safe borders By GARY M. ROSS of civil religion, to which most Presidents pay homage." 1161111 Admittedly, evidence of his lifelong commitment to organized religion is vague. Reagan's father was a nominal Roman Catholic. His mother belonged to the Christian Church (Disciples of The religion of President Reagan Christ). The future President was baptized into the latter church, The season to evaluate White House aspirants approaches again, attended a college affiliated with it (Eureka College in Illinois), and and the religious factor arises as one of the several factors to subsequently listed himself as a member of that denomination. consider. Even though we grant that this is hard to measure, do the There is no evidence that he attended services regularly or candidates possess a vital belief in religion that conditions participated in the life of a congregation. performance in the public arena? But as governor of California, Reagan attended the affluent and I begin with the President himself. Like his predecessors, Reagan innovative Bel Air Presbyterian church in West Los Angeles. voices the rhetoric of spirituality when it is appropriate to do so. On Although he did not formally join it while in office, be began an the other hand, he was a fixture on the Hollywood scene, which enduring friendship with the pastor, Donn Moomaw, whose some associate with decadence, for 30 years. knowledge of his religious outlook understandably is rich. Certainly he champions causes that align him with conservative Guardedly, Moomaw once discussed the President's spiritual life Christianity—pronouncing against abortion and ERA, promoting with me. Reagan, he said, attends church except when precluded for tuition tax credits, and urging government-sponsored school security reasons. He seeks advice from the clergy and help from prayer. He laments the moral decline of society and hails family God, as was the case when as governor his first opportunity to living. Apparently these stances are more than lip service, for the commute a death sentence drove him and Moomaw to their knees. opposition genuinely is worried. The President uses prayer, the pastor felt, to "condition his heart Behind the President's policy orientation lies a strong regard for and mind so that he will be able to respond in the right way to Scripture. Upon hearing that the American Civil Liberties Union whatever comes." objected to declaring 1983 The Year of the Bible, Reagan promised Within hours of the March, 1981, attempt on Reagan's life, the to "wear that indictment like a badge of honor." And 1984, he two men visited and talked of the future. According to Moomaw, says, could be the year we translate Scripture into action. "My the President observed: "In this life of mine—purified by fire, you experience in this office has only deepened a belief I've held for might say—I am going to give whatever time remains to doing many years: Within the covers of that single Book are all the God's work more resolutely than ever before." answers to all the problems that face us today—if only we'd read Cynics see opportunism in this, and it cannot be denied that the and believe." President's religiosity appeals to many voters. Libertarians see He acknowledges transcendence, too. "We must be cautious in church-state complications in some of the utterances, and that I claiming that God is on our side," Reagan likes to say; "the real grant too. But just the same, this is a man of values, even religious question we must answer is—are we on His side?" Recently, to a values. Compared with Southern Baptist Jimmy Carter, who standing ovation of American evangelical leaders, the President attended church avidly and taught Sunday school while President, quoted John 3:16, with its unequivocal declaration that Jesus is our Reagan's profile simply is lower in this regard.

20 (604) ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 NEWS NOTES from the world divisions

CORRESPONDENTS, WORLD DIVISIONS—Africa-Indian Ocean, serving the Hanke Adventist governor of Maine, at the Gen- Sowlers, who had begun their J. B. Kio; Australasian, R. M. Kranz; Eastern Secondary School area in Zim- eral Conference session in Dal- public school health and tem- Africa, Ruby Patterson; Euro-Africa, Heinz Hopf; Far Eastern, S. Wayne Young; Inter- babwe, has prepared 176 per- las, on the steps of the U.S. perance ministry following his American, Fred Hernandez; Northern Euro- pean, H. J. Smit; South American, Assad sons for baptism. Capitol, and in Bermuda— retirement from Mount Vernon Bechara; Southern Asia, A. M. Peterson where they performed 14 con- Academy, worked with hun- ■ Solusi College's wheat har- CORRESPONDENTS, certs in one week. dreds of students before Mr. vest this year averaged 5.3 tons NORTH AMERICA—UNIONS: Atlantic, Sowler's poor health forced Leon H. Davis; Canadian, P. F. Lemon; per hectare, compared with last Columbia, Ernest N, Wendth; Lake, Jere them to cease such activities. Wallack; Mid-America, Hate G. Crowson; year's national average of 4.7 North Pacific, Morten Juberg; Pacific, Shir- Canadian Union ley Burton; Southern, George Powell; tons per hectare. Southwestern, Richard W. Bendall ■ The Wetaskiwin church in ■ Addise Ansebo, who has Lake Union UNIVERSITIES: Andrews, Andrea Steele; Alberta was dedicated on Loma Linda, Richard Weismeyer been taking advanced education November 26, 1983. ■ Those who attend camp in the Philippines, has returned meeting at Grand Ledge, Michi- ■ to Ethiopia to teach mathemat- Mervin Kempert, pastor of gan, this year will benefit from Africa-Indian ics, physics, and biological sci- the Brandon, Manitoba, funds made available by Michi- Ocean ences at Ethiopian Adventist church, recently was a guest on gan Advance Partners (church College. During his six-year radio station CKX's Morning members who give systemati- ■ A group of Adventist laymen absence, Mr. Ansebo earned a Line show. The open-line, call- cally to strengthen work in the in the United States is paying Bachelor of Science degree in in interview program had ini- Michigan Conference). Cabins the salaries of three evangelists biology, and a Master of Sci- tiated a new phase called "Ask have been painted and ence degree in botany, special- in the North Nigerian Mission. the Clergy," and Pastor Kem- improved, new cots and mat- izing in plant genetics. While pert was the first clergyman to tresses have been bought, and ■ ASSAR, an association of doing graduate study at the participate. Later he was fea- more road paving has been health centers and dispensaries, University of the Philippines, tured with Diane Grain, director done. has increased the patronage and he was a continuous recipient of of the Westman Cancer Society, income of Adventist medical the university's Integrated For- as she promoted Canada's ■ Sabbath afternoon Caring facilities in Rwanda by stan- eign Scholarship. national nonsmoking day, Church Seminars are being dardizing regulations and estab- referred to as "Weedless conducted at local churches in lishing and controlling the Wednesday." the Indiana Conference. inventory of supplies and medi- North American Instruction is given by Edward cines. Barry Wecker, ASSAR Atlantic Union Skoretz, personal ministries director, reports that the com- Columbia Union director, and Jerry Lastine, ■ The Grand Concourse and munities surrounding each of stewardship director. Elder Tabernacle of Joy churches in ■ these centers, as well as govern- Nearly 2,500 people filled the Skoretz illustrates a five-point the Greater New York Confer- ment authorities, have Kennedy Center Concert Hall, plan for a growing church, and ence conduct joint baptisms at expressed their appreciation for in Washington, D.C., on April Elder Lastine discusses the four the end of each month. By 18 to hear Verdi's Requiem the improved services, avail- anchors that keep people in the mid-April the churches had performed for the benefit of ability of medicines, and the church. monthly visit of a physician. added 21 new members so far World Vision. The proceeds this year. Church members are will go to World Vision's feed- ■ The Niles, Michigan, church ■ As a result of an active reminded regularly that evan- ing programs for hungry and is making plans to conduct two weekly prison ministry by the gelism is the first work of the starving children in Third Stop-Smoking Clinics, two Marcory church in Abidjan, church. The new members World nations, particularly in cooking and nutrition classes, eight prisoners have been bap- already are bringing relatives drought-plagued Africa. More and an evangelistic series. In tized. and friends to church to share than 300 choristers and instru- addition, the juniors of the their newfound faith. mentalists, joined by four noted church are distributing literature soloists, were led by Adventist in the area, and two church ■ Carlos Morales, professor at Eastern Africa conductor Francisco de Araujo, members, Michael Martin and Argentina's River Plate College whose idea it had been to hold Terrance Harrison, are coordi- ■ Some 230 young people and and mayor of Libertador San the benefit concert. nating a Revelation Seminar. 25 teachers from several Martin, has invited Pine Tree ■ ■ schools attended the Central Academy's (Freeport, Maine) When the Mount Vernon, Glendale Heights Commu- Zimbabwe Field Youth Con- Bell Ringers to perform and Ohio, teachers' association nity Hospital in Illinois has a gress held recently at Lower witness before audiences in sev- recently put on an awards ban- new piece of equipment Gwelo Adventist Secondary eral cities in his country. Since quet, Adventist retirees Clayton designed to save time and School, Zimbabwe. its organization nine years ago, and Ardis Sowler received a money and decrease pain for the group has performed at the citation for their services in patients suffering from kidney ■ Pastor Chipamba, a recent State capitol in Augusta five no-smoking education at the stones. The equipment, an Solusi College graduate now times, at the mansion of the public middle school. The ultrasonic lithotriptic apparatus,

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 (605) 21 uses sound waves to break up ease the suffering caused by the the stones and offers a noninva- storms. sive method for removing the *)skrirotit*D* obstructions. The equipment • The West Palm Beach, Flor- can reduce hospitalization by at ida, Ephesus church opened a least one half. Most postproce- facility on February 7 to assist dural pain disappears within students with their mathemati- two days and can be controlled cal homework problems. with simple aspirin. Gerald Burke, a mathematics instructor, is conducting the • A Revelation Seminar being program, which is designed to held at the North Shore church improve minority students' test in Chicago has drawn an aver- scores on the ACT and SAT YOU JOIN age attendance of 200 people, college board examinations. about 75 of whom are non- Adventists. The seminar is • McKee Library, on the cam- being conducted by local pastor pus of Southern College, Col- Stanley Cottrell. legedale, Tennessee, recently A LABOR received a $5,000 check after • In order to provide more Bell & Howell's Micro Photo efficient care and cut costs, the Division selected four college New Day Center for the treat- libraries at random from its ment of substance abuse, in microfiche and microfilm sub- UNION? Gaylord, Michigan, was closed scriber lists, giving away a total at the end of 1983. As a result, of $20,000 for scholarships. raditionally, the Seventh-day Adventist the New Day Centers at both The award money will be placed Church has discouraged its members from Tri-County Community Hospi- in the college's Century II Tjoining labor unions. This has often tal in Edmore, Michigan, and Endowment Fund, where the caused misunderstandings among labor officials. the Battle Creek Adventist Hos- interest income will be used for Adventists and Labor Unions in the United States pital in Battle Creek, Michigan, worthy student scholarships. now will provide both adoles- looks at the relationship of the church to the labor cent and adult services. movement. The author, Robert C. Kistler, shows that the denomination views the compulsory union • The Indiana Advance Offer- Andrews University membership issue from the perspective of religious ing for the first quarter of 1984 liberty. He also traces the growth of the labor was $36,208.83, or .51 percent • John and Millie Young- berg, originators of Andrews movement and points out the benefits it has brought of tithe. Forty percent of this money will be used for a build- University's Marriage Commit- to the workplace. ing program at Indiana Acad- ment Seminar, recently con- This balanced presentation is appropriate to share emy, according to Jerry Las- ducted the fiftieth such seminar. with labor union officials, employers, new Advent- tine, conference stewardship George Akers, dean of the ists—anyone who might have questions about the director. School of Education at church's position. Available at your Adventist Book Andrews, sent a letter of appre- Center for US$8.95. Call toll-free (800) 253-3000 • Caleb Rosado, pastor of the ciation to the Youngbergs, and charge your order on Visa or MasterCard. When All Nations church in Berrien complimenting them on their Springs, Michigan, was one of success. Betty Holbrook, direc- ordering by mail, add tax and 10 percent (minimum several resource persons who $1) postage. tor of the General Conference made presentations at the Con- Home and Family Service, also Review and Herald Publishing Association gress for Urban Ministry held in wrote to praise the Youngbergs Chicago recently. The congress Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 for their efforts to strengthen is sponsored by a consortium of marital relationships "in this seminaries in the Chicago area time of unprecedented strain on and is held semiannually. Elder marriages." Rosado made three presenta- tions. • Andrews University's FM radio station, WAUS, has applied to the Federal Commu- Southern Union nications Commission in Wash- ington, D.C., for a new tower ISeventh-day Adventists were height of 560 feet (171 meters), involved in diSaster relief work the present tower to be replaced in North Carolina, South Caro- by a new one for the station's lina, Mississippi, and Kentucky five-bay antenna. WAUS, an after spring storms that brought affiliate of National Public tornadoes and floods to the Radio, began broadcasting with South. Conference Community 28,000 watts of power in 1971 Services directors, pastors, and and increased to 48,000 watts in church members joined with the 1977. The station broadcasts 19 Red Cross and other agencies to hours a day.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, JUNE 7, 1984 THE BACK PAGE

Construction, a two-phased sale of the Mountain View Christian Record SDA chaplains process, will begin in the fac- property, the Pacific Press will hold meeting tory portion. This 456- by 288- have no debt on its new facility holds business foot (139- by 88-meter) build- by the time it is ready for The Seventh-day Adventist ing is expected to be ready for occupancy. Some funds from session Chaplains' Association held its occupancy by the end of Octo- the sale also will be used to Christian Record Braille annual meeting in conjunction ber, 1984. upgrade the sheet-fed printing Foundation held its quinquen- with the Protestant Health and The second phase, an office operation. In addition, it is nial constituency meeting April Welfare Association conven- complex, will be a two-story expected that $1.5 million of the 5 in Washington, D.C. The tion in Kansas City, Missouri, structure containing some 27,- previously incurred debt will be session featured progress March 23-28. 520 square feet (2,557 square repaid. BOB GORTON reports for the 1979-1984 Prior to the PHWA conven- meters). This structure, plus the period. tion, the Adventist chaplains mezzanine areas in the factory General Conference vice spent the weekend at Shawnee section, will house all the SDA war hero president Lowell L. Bock was Mission Medical Center, which administrative, editorial, and receives citation reelected chairman of Christian is located in a Kansas City prepress operations. Also Record's board, and 19 board suburb in Kansas. planned is a small area for an from Jews members were appointed. H. H. During the PHWA meetings, outlet store where some of the John Henry Weidner, hero of Voss, current general manager, Adventist chaplain Walter E. Pacific Press's products will be the book Flee the Captor, was reelected, with his title Kloss, of New England Memo- sold. Present schedules call for recently was honored by the San changed to president. Pat L. rial Hospital, presented the completion and occupancy of Francisco Jewish Community Horst and William R. Lawson topic "Spirituality Versus Reli- the office section by early Feb- for his World War II rescue were elected secretary and giosity—The Chaplain and Per- ruary, 1985. efforts that saved the lives of treasurer, respectively. sonality." Adventist chaplain Pacific Press president Gene more than 1,000 people, Christian Record, begun in George Gibbs, of Harding Psy- Stiles says, "The budget for including 800 Jews. Now a 1899, now serves some 75,000 chiatric Hospital, presented the construction of the facility is $5 Pasadena, California, busi- blind and deaf persons in 89 topic "Mental Illness and million, and the management is nessman, he and his wife, countries. All services, includ- Demon Possession." committed to staying within that Naomi, own a chain of health- ing magazines, books, National LARRY YEAGLEY figure." The cost of land, utili- food stores. Camps for Blind Children, ties, and on-site improvements During the war Weidner led glaucoma screening, services is not included in that figure. the Dutch-Paris Underground, for the deaf, and Bible corre- Pacific Press The Pacific Press manage- which helped fugitives escape spondence schools, are pro- begins building, ment has announced plans to along a route from Holland vided at no cost. Owned and move several departments from through Belgium and France to operated by the General Confer- plans move Mountain View to temporary Switzerland or Spain. ence, the Christian Record is Construction began on the quarters in the Kamloops facil- The San Francisco Yom supported through gifts from new Pacific Press facility in ity in the Westpark Industrial Hashoa service at which the business people, a direct-mail Nampa, Idaho, the week of Park, Boise, Idaho. Beginning award was given was held in the program, wills, trusts, annui- April 23. in June and extending over a ornate Temple Emanu-El and ties, and an annual offering In late April, bids for the six-week period, the shipping, attended by a thousand or more received from church members prefabrication and erection of marketing, finance, administra- Jews, who came in memory of in North America. the steel structure were opened, tion, editorial, art, composi- the 6 million Jews killed in the JOHN TREOLO and the contract awarded to tion, and typesetting depart- Holocaust. Span Construction and Engi- ments will be moved. On behalf of Mayor Dianne neering. The building will be It is felt that a staged move Feinstein, Rhoda Goldman pre- For the record erected by a local crew. The will be less disruptive, will ease sented Weidner with a com- To new positions: Marvin total cost of shop drawings, the relocation problems of fami- memorative plaque. In his Anderson, vice president for steel fabrication, and erection lies with school-age children, acceptance speech, Weidner, finance at Southwestern will be $1,048,720—$20,000 and will make part of the who has been proclaimed in Adventist College, to serve as under the budget estimate and Mountain View property avail- Israel as a "righteous Gentile," college president, replacing $300,000 below the highest able to the buyer sooner. This in clearly identified himself as a Donald R. McAdams, who has bidder. The new facility will be turn will provide Pacific Press Seventh-day Adventist. "My become president of the Texas a Varco-Pruden preengineered with part of the sale price more father was a Seventh-day Independent College Fund. steel structure containing quickly and will make the Adventist minister," he said. Died: Hans L. Rasmussen, approximately 180,000 square interim financing of the new "We were taught in our home 79, former missionary to Africa feet (16,723 square meters). facility easier. that love is the basis of the Ten and college teacher and admin- The first shipments of steel are Because financing for the Commandments." istrator, April 20, Sacramento, expected by mid-July. new facility will come from the RICHARD LEE FENN California.

ADVENTIST REVIEW. JUNE 7, 1984 (607) 23 regional kidney transplant center, and Sonle hingS microsurgically restoring sight and Skylines reattaching severed limbs. Our long- change overnight. standing dedication, coupled with a Kitty Hawk ingenuity now entertains Christian atmosphere, makes us a car- space travel. Micro-computers hold ing place where people are special. billion-dollar corporations for ransom. The future of medicine promises to Yet in the midst of it all, some be as optimistic as its past, and for things never change. And at Florida Florida Hospital one thing will never Hospital in Orlando, it's our commit- change — our dedication to Christian ment to Christian nursing. healthcare. If you'd like to be a part of Florida Hospital is, today, the it, write to us: 601 East Rollins, world's largest Seventh-day Adventist Orlando, FL 32803. medical center (1,121 beds by 1985), performing more than 1,500 open Florida Hospital heart surgeries each year, serving as a Where people are special

A Seventh-day Adventist hospital, owned and operated by System/Sunbelt