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------II MIMS/ WEUMW SWIM-- • Milli NW WWWWW -•••••44•••• • MR•1••• EDITOR: R. H. PARR WARBURTON, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA Volume 78, Number 13 Price: 8 cents April 1, 1974 DR. FRANCES HARDING RECEIVES HIGH AWARD

FRANCES K. HARDING, M.D.* (daughter of the late Doctors Martin and Florence Keller), of Columbus, Ohio, was selected by Hobart and William Smith College as the 1974 recipient of the Elizabeth Blackwell, M.D., award. The anniversary of the graduation of the first woman doctor trained in the Western hemisphere was chosen by Hobart College to hon- our the graduation of Dr. Blackwell from Geneva Medical College, New York. The United States Postal Ser- vice joined in the recognition by issu- ing a commemorative stamp to mark the occasion. This is the first postal stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Ser- vice honouring a woman physician. The award has been presented to seventeen women, among them being Frances Perkins, Margaret Mead, Marian Lasher, Marian Anderson, Helen Taussig and Catherine McFar- land. Dr. Harding was selected for her pioneering work in family plan- ning both in Australia and the United States and as immediate past-president of the American Medical Women's Association. The programme, re-enacting Dr. Blackwell's graduation in the Presby- terian church in Geneva, New York, was followed by a banquet at Hobart College, and a visit to the Blackwell Room in the college library took place on January 23, 1974, exactly 125 years after the original graduation.

*Dr. Frances Harding and her husband, Dr. Warren G. Harding, spent some years in Australia during the 1930s on the staff of the Sydney Sanitarium (now the Syd- ney Adventist Hospital). A life sketch of Dr. Frances Harding's mother, Dr. Flor- Dr. Frances K. Harding. ence Keller, appears on page 6. Registered jor posting as a Periodical—Category [2] 1/4/74 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD Youth/Family Life Year A HAPPY HOME AND FAMILY WORSHIP JOYCE TOTENHOFER

"BUT WE CAN'T GO YET, we haven't had worship," lisped my little tow-haired brother. I turned and looked at his serious face. You see, there had been an emergency on the farm. The cows had broken through the fence and were devouring the next-door-neighbour's grass instead of their own, and both Father and Mother had been needed to get them back to their own pastures. So big sister had taken over the preparation of breakfast. Now with three heads of hair neatly combed and faces wiped clean of the remains of breakfast eggs, I thought my steps-and-stairs brothers were ready to go to school, so I ushered them towards the door. But I was wrong. I had quite forgotten no time at all before I was able to return "You have not taken time to instruct that we had not had family worship, and to where I had left my young charge. your children, keeping before them their this nine-year-old didn't feel ready to But as I gazed at the backs of the heads highest interest. God loves your chil- leave home until he had had worship and peering eagerly at the actions of the dren; but they have had little encourage- prayer. "We gotta have worship," he re- funny little people in the shop window, I ment to live a religious life."—Id., page 54. couldn't recognize Stephen. I went from iterated. He quickly got the book we I read recently the views expressed by were reading, and together we talked to one end of the group to the other, check- a group of ten-year-olds at Sunday ing for a boy with red hair and a yellow God. Then there were happy good-byes. school. These children were asked, shirt, but in vain. I searched up and It is a fact that no Seventh-day Ad- "What's wrong with parents?" Their down the street. I asked the shop assis- ventist family should think of starting complaints, which made interesting read- tants, but no one had seen a red-haired the day without "the morning watch." ing, were that grown-ups break promises; boy in a yellow shirt. A home where family worship is unknown they don't do the things they tell their There was nothing else for me to do is a home where the children are in peril, children to do; they never listen when but to go to the police station. Surely and where the parents are failing in their children talk; they won't admit their mis- he would be there! God-given responsibilities. takes; they talk too much about money; The officer was kind and sympathetic, they are always discouraging . . . need I The enemy of souls has worked hard but no, they had not seen any boy an- go on? Does that sound like you? Or and had unqualified success in his efforts swering to Stephen's description. How- me? Let us ask ourselves the question, to divide the family into separate units, ever, they would alert the patrol car to "If my children follow in my footsteps, each one going his or her own way, with search for him. In the meantime, they will they reach heaven?" little communication between members suggested I return home. and certainly never any endeavour to do All the way down the streets and lanes, The Right Direction things together. And this is just where I prayed. But I didn't expect to find him For parents, what are steps in the right we must commence to build a bulwark at home. He had lived with us only a few direction? against the wiles of him who would seek months, and he was such a little boy; and to ensnare souls. the way home was very circuitous. Per- I would suggest, first, demonstrate In Psalm 106: 38 we read of "their sons haps this is where he got lost; trying to LOVE. I personally believe that this is and . . their daughters, whom they sac- find his way home, but with no one to the most important factor in any home. rificed unto the idols of Canaan." Our show him the way. How unimportant It does not mean that we should spoil sons and daughters are disappearing too was my Christmas shopping now; I could our children or give them lavish and ex- —from the church. Can it be that we are not have cared less about any of it. A pensive presents; but we give them the sacrificing them to the idols of this world little boy was lost, and that was what best gift—ourselves and our time. Let our —a home dominated by a TV screen and mattered until I found him! children know that we love them and want them in our home. "Let not the the fastidious fashion of a house for look- Sometimes I have met up with friends heart of one connected with you starve ing at rather than for living in? whom I had known in previous places for the want of kindness and sympathy." and seasons, and upon asking after their Homes should be for families to work ("Ministry of Healing," page 360.) Do children have been told in glowing terms together, play together and pray together things together with your children. that the particular son or daughter was on our way to our heavenly home. Usually the happy child is the one whose doing fine, heading up some firm or de- parents give him much of themselves. partment, owner of a lavish home and Little Boy Lost Our parents were past masters at this— status-symbol car, at which news I have I shall never forget my first personal in fact, they still are. If any of us were rejoiced—until I discovered that the experience of a lost child. Stephen had away, we were missed, and we knew it. young person no longer responded to the red hair and an engaging smile and had We were welcomed home with such gusto, been our foster child for some months. Master's invitation. I have gone away sadly reflecting . . . children . lost . we almost felt we didn't want to ever go Getting near to Christmas time, we set tragedy. away again! Is it any wonder that home off happily to walk to the shopping centre. is still a very attractive place to us? All went well, but I had so much shop- How much do we care if a child is lost ping to do, while Stephen was more inter- eternally? Could a testimony given to a If we love our children, we will watch ested in looking at the Christmas panto- brother long ago apply to us? over them with ceaseless vigilance; we will spend time with them, listening in- mime in the shop window. He begged, "What's Wrong with Parents?" "Couldn't I just stay and look?" terestedly to what concerns them, and "If you love your children, let it be helping them to make the right decisions. Feeling this was a solution to how to your chief study to prepare them for the get all those articles crossed off my list future, immortal life. . . . Work while it Second, God is glorified and children more quickly, I agreed, after making very is day; redeem the time, and win the are saved for eternity when we, like definite arrangements regarding meeting crown of immortal glory. Save yourself Abraham, the friend of God, fit into the back at the same place. I felt quite and your household, for the salvation of pattern of Genesis 18: 19: "I know him, happy as I hurried so much more rapidly the soul is precious."—"Testimonies," Vol. that he will COMMAND his children and from store to store, and to me it seemed 4, page 503. his household after him, and they shall AUSTRALASIAN RECORD 1/4/74 [3] keep the way of the Lord." (Emphasis too, will take a lot of your time. Often it cleaned and tempting food already cooked mine.) Parents are meant to be the is much easier to do a job yourself than —with appropriate music and stories for leaders in the household, and children to bother to see your children learn how the children to enjoy. should early be taught to obey. In modern to do it. I well remember the many times decades, some educators have advocated that I have been tempted to think it An Important Day leaving children free to do what they like, wasn't worth the effort to teach my chil- Then, the next day, as much as pos- lest they develop a complex, but experi- dren how to cook. As I've cleaned up the sible, all can sit together in church and ence has proved this theory most unsound. mess from the bench, the floor, the sink, the other programmes. Discipline is perhaps the most difficult and the stove, I've almost decided I Ideally, part of the Sabbath should be part of parenthood. I'm sure we would wouldn't allow them to "help" again. But spent in fostering our children's interest all gladly dispense with it—but we dare help they must. They need to learn prac- in nature. We are told Christ sharply re- not, for it is necessary. It is part of our tical skills, the achievement of which will proved the people of His time because job. When we make rules, we must see bring great satisfaction and build confi- they did not get from nature the lessons that they are carried out. Pray often dence into even the most timid child. they might have learned. ("Testimonies," with your children, especially in times of Expect your children to mow the lawn, Vol. 4, page 580.) What would He say to displeasure. It will help you and them. clean the car, sweep the paths, do the us as parents today? Rightly administered in love, discipline dusting. They can, and as a result you The books "Christ's Object Lessons" results in happy, well-adjusted children, will have more time to spend together who feel secure because they know their with them. Children trained to carry and "Education" will help us to prepare boundaries. responsibilities when they are young will our children to listen to God's voice through nature. You may remember we A recent survey of unhappy wives in- grow into dependable youth. are instructed to "Ask now the beasts, and terested me considerably. In every case Last, and this point I want to empha- they shall teach thee," "consider the it was found that the woman's father had size, MAKE HOME A ITFtACTIVE—the been a wavering individual. The girl had lilies," "behold the fowls," "go to the ant," most attractive place on earth to your and "speak to the earth and it shall teach not learned respect for her father because children. I don't mean with costly drapes thee." he showed no authority or leadership in or crystal chandeliers, but with the rich- To my mind, nothing promotes a feel- the home; therefore, as a grown woman, ness of family togetherness. It will not ing of family togetherness more than the her ability to become a happy, satisfied just happen, any more than your tem- daily practice of family worship. "Pray- wife was shattered. Parents, you do your poral furnishings just happen. We must ers at Breakfast" is how Mrs. Beryl Bye children a disservice when you are vacil- plan for it, and work hard to achieve a describes the experience with her family lating, for children will not respect weak- happy family. Of course, a good emo- in her book of that title. She goes on to ness. tional relationship between husband and state that "the introduction and regular Let me quote: "The curse of God will wife is basic for the rearing of well- practice of good habits in family life re- surely rest upon unfaithful parents. Not adjusted children in a happy atmosphere. only are they planting thorns which will quire determination, patience and persis- You know, I feel that we, as Adventists, tence. . . . Even the cleaning of infant wound them here, but they must meet have a tremendous advantage because we their own unfaithfulness when the judg- teeth and the washing of junior necks have the Sabbath as the high point of become a constant battle." We should, ment shall sit. Many children will rise our week. What a glorious opportunity up in judgment and condemn their par- therefore, not expect the habit of praying this is—one day in every seven to spend together as a family to happen without ents for not restraining them."—"Testi- especially with our families, and with our monies," Vol. 1, page 219. effort on our part. "For while one pre- heavenly Family. All can join in a joyous sumes that the devil is not greatly con- What to Expect time of fellowship as we welcome in sac- cerned with healthy teeth and clean Third, EXPECT MUCH of your chil- red time—the work of the week com- necks, he is vastly concerned with healthy dren. Challenge them to achieve, and pleted; the house like a shining pin; the Christians, and we must therefore be pre- teach them how to do so. Of course, this, clothes ready for church; the shoes pared for some opposition." You can be sure that the enemy of souls will do his utmost to crowd out the worship period. Every possible interrup- tion and distraction will occur to bring discouragement and tempt us to abandon the plan. The phone will ring; the neighbour will call; the milk will boil over; the stray dog will attack the guinea pigs; it will be time for the news; and yes, the cows will escape to the next-door paddock—you name it; it will happen to attempt to deflect you from receiving power to live an overcoming life. But no child born to Christian parents should be able to remember a day when the voice of prayer was not heard or when the song of praise was unknown. For family prayer is the means ordained of Heaven to draw the hearts of the parents to the children, uniting them in a spirit- ual fellowship that will endure unto life everlasting. Morning and evening worship can be the most precious time, of the day. It is when we first introduce our children to the One Altogether Lovely. Mere babies will sit and absorb the pictures as we read such masterpieces as "My Bible The author with her family (left to right): Mrs. Totenhofer, Pastor E. 1. Totehhofer, president of North Friends" to them. In later years they Queensland Conference, and their children, Wesley and Sharman. (Concluded on page 5) [4] 1/4/74 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD

INI TOGETHER —WITH THE PRESIDENT

What Time Is It ?

BACK in Christ's time the people were reminded of Surely God is looking for Daniels today to hold up the necessity to be able to understand the signs as they God's Word and to convey His messages. We may not appeared in the sky and elsewhere: "0 ye hypocrites, ye be called to a Belshazzar's feast, but in the world of can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern today, as the handwriting appears on the wall, so many the signs of the times?" Matt. 16: 3. are searching for answers. The opportunity is ours to I believe that so many people are today reading the present the claims of God and to help our fellows to signs around them and beginning to recognize that the understand something of the meaning of life in the tense world cannot continue in its present state. We seek to hour of present need. impress others that we have about come to the hour for The late President Harry Truman said, "There is no which all creation has waited, but do we, as church mem- problem on this earth tough enough to withstand the bers, know the time ourselves? How are we reading the flame of a genuine renewal of religious faith . .. all man- hands on the clock faces around us? We may tell the kind stands at the door of destruction. . . . This is the time in the face of nature. In the destruction that spreads supreme opportunity for the church. For an Isaiah or a across the world through flood and famine we should be Paul to inform a sick world of its moral responsibilities." able to recognize that the end of all things is at hand. It is no time to apologize and be on the defensive. It is We can tell the hour in the face of religion with its time for the church to be manifest in all her glory: a time multiplied forms and false beliefs. In an article on Satan to arise and shine. "Time is short, and our forces must worship, which is before me as I write, a Lutheran clergy- be organized to do a larger work."—"Testimonies," Vol. man refers to Satanism in Florida, U.S.A. He says: "They 9, page 27. drove a knife or dagger into the Bible on the lectern, When Jesus made His sacrifice it was the greatest cleared the altar and draped it in black lace." crisis hour for the human race. He had only a short time The struggle for the human heart goes on and the to prepare His disciples to carry the evangel to the world. signs should remind us that the evil one was never It would seem that they were ill-prepared at the crisis busier. We can tell the hour in the face of economics. hour and yet what a mighty work they did as they were Look at the industrial problems that are affecting almost empowered by the Holy Spirit. They went forth with a every country in the world. Capital versus labour as single purpose to tell the simple story of the cross and predicted in the Word of God. Trade union pressures, of Jesus and His saving grace. strikes, lockouts, are symptomatic of a disease that At this time Christ is still our helper. As we go for- threatens to engulf mankind in economic chaos. ward admonishing the wayward, cheering the oppressed We can tell the hour in the face of science. Today and downcast, we go in His Name, remembering that man is capable of unleashing great forces that can both even though the world is stricken by the fiercest of storms, He is still at the helm. "During the loud cry, the bless and destroy. The scientists themselves are crying out in fear. Some realize that they have gone too far church, aided by the providential interpositions of her exalted Lord, will diffuse the knowledge of salvation so and that they have constructed their own doomsday clock. abundantly that light will be communicated to every city We can read the time in the face of crime. Crime and town. The earth will be filled with the knowledge stalks our cities and the man in the street assents that of salvation. So abundantly will the renewing Spirit of such a situation cannot continue. Our time clock tells us God have crowned with success the intensely active many other things that we do not have space to record. agencies, that the light of present truth will be seen flash- ing everywhere."—"Review and Herald," 1904. But let us remind ourselves of what Ezekiel says in chap- ter 7 verse 6 (Moffatt): "The hour has come, the hour is As we take another look at the clock of time, may we striking, and striking at you; the hour and the end!" We note carefully that it is minutes to midnight. May we fully co-operate with Christ in doing "deeds of omnipo- should not be strangers to such a verse as evidence builds up around us and points to the imminent return of Christ. tence." ("Gospel Workers," page 113.) May we make cer- When Babylon fell, which is a type of the close of time, tain of our own salvation and ensure the same for the Daniel was ready. Tremendous issues were at stake at multitudes around us. that fatal hour. Belshazzar was at his feast when the invader silently made his entry into the city. The writing R, l/ R. Fv444%(- appeared on the wall, and the man of God was called to President, Australasian Division provide the interpretation thereof. of Seventh-day Adventists. AUSTRALASIAN RECORD 1/4/74 [6]

A HAPPY HOME AND FAMILY WORSHIP (Concluded from page 3) Will still be sitting close by and enjoying both the illustrations and the narrative of "The Bible Story." Reading to our children is a "must" for every truly Ad- ventist home. It is a sharing experience. A chapter of some missionary book can form a thrilling segment of every day. Our family have especially enjoyed stories about David Livingstone and other early missionaries to Africa and the East. At present we are reading "Singer on the Sand" by Norma Youngberg, and it's a real thriller. No other church has such a wealth of good books for young children and young adults. Our homes should be full of them. Around the Piano Last time I saw my parents we had been together but a short time' when my father said, "You should have been here last night, Joyce. We had such a wonder- ful evening all singing around the piano." And I have many memories of unforget- table times when young and old enjoyed real togetherness in a way that cannot be experienced if we do not participate. Even little people will love singing, espe- cially when it is combined with some activity such as clapping to "Happy, Happy Home," marching to "I'm in the Lord's Army" or doing "exercises" to "Hallelu." But remember, when children are young, the worship period should not be long-drawn-out. "Too much talk will lead [the children] to loathe even spirit- ual instruction, just as overeating burdens the stomach and lessens the appetite, leading even to a loathing of food."— "Counsels on Sabbath School Work," page 119. Holidays, too, should be rich experi- ences of family togetherness. When we were little, guest houses were quite be- to spend some gift money; or where to before a beautiful temple in old Peiping yond the limited means available to our build the fish pond; or how you can get when the Chinese man asked him what family of eight children, but we didn't all the garden jobs done in one short day! he considered to be the most beautiful mind that. Our parents took us to out- You will find there is more co-operation sight in all the world. of-the-way places, where Nature shut us in a family that holds a council meeting. Stidger thought perhaps his friend was in with her God, and we had wonderful I am sure it is the earnest wish of every referring to temples and answered, "The times of interest and fun. dedicated Seventh-day Adventist parent Taj Mahal in India, or Notre Dame When all the children in the district that their children should grow up to find Cathedral in Paris, or St. Paul's . . ." were excited at the prospect of going to salvation through Christ and the joy of But he was interrupted. "No, I don't the Saturday afternoon football finals, or Christian service. But in order for this mean temples." our school girl-friends were planning goal to be achieved, there must be untir- their first dance dresses, our parents saw ing effort. When we consider the time "Ah, then, you must be thinking of a to it that a substitute activity of which and endeavour entailed in training young glorious sunset, or perhaps a sunrise," they could approve was provided for us. people for a chosen profession—and this said William Stidger. We never felt deprived because we were is perfectly in order—and then compare it "No." Adventists; rather we felt privileged, for with the amount of effort put into guid- "Then you must mean natural scenery we had so much more to enjoy. ing our sons and daughters toward an —The Yangtze Gorge, Mount Everest, "Brought up under the wise and loving immortal life, I know you will readily Grand Canyon ..." guidance of a true home, children will agree that all too often the emphasis is "No, not those," insisted his friend. put on the wrong direction. It is a mat- have no desire to wander away in search "Then I give up," said the poet. "You ter of getting our priorities straight. of pleasure and companionship. Evil will tell me what is the most beautiful sight not attack them."—"Ministry of Healing," After all, apart from our own salvation, in the world." page 394. the eternal destiny of our children is the most important matter of our lives. It's And his Chinese friend replied, "The The Most Beautiful Sight up to us to give them the heritage of a most beautiful sight in all the world is A family council is also an excellent good example. the sight of a little child going confidently contribution to family unity. Get together I remember once hearing a story told down the road after you have shown him and let all members share in the decision by the poet William Stidger, who was the way." as to where holidays will be spent; or how standing one day with a Chinese friend I'd agree with him, wouldn't you? [6] 1/4/74 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD Life Sketch of Pioneer Doctor

FLORENCE ARMSTRONG KELLER was born in Missouri, U.S.A., on March 18, 1875, to James and Frances Armstrong. The family moved to Springdale, Arkansas, where they em- braced the beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. At the age of ten the little girl accompanied the family by covered waggon to Washington state. She grew up among the Indian children of the Pelouse nation. Later, the family moved to Walla Walla so that Dr. Florence's father could assist in the construction of Walla Walla College. Dr. Florence was a mem- ber of its first class. Following her graduation from college, she went to Battle Creek, Michigan, to study nursing. After completing her nurse's course, she worked with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg as his surgical nurse. It was he who encouraged her to study medi- cine. She graduated from the American Medical Missionary College, a precursor of the College of Medical Evangelists, in the class of 1900. She interned in Spokane, Washington, and then in 1901 went to New Zealand as a medical missionary. There she married her college sweetheart, Dr. Peter Martin Keller. They spent nineteen happy and productive years in New Zealand. Dr. Florence was appointed physician to the Maori royal family soon after her arrival. She was greatly loved, especially by the poor. She often rode seventy miles on horseback to visit the sick in Maori villages, and her services were freely avail- able at any time to those in need. She recorded several "firsts" in New Zealand. She was the first woman medical practitioner to be granted a licence. She held the distinction of being the first foreign professor in Auckland University. She was the only woman elected to the Auckland Hospital Board, and also served on the Auckland Hospital and Charitable Aid Board—both these between 1913 Dr. Florence Keller at the age of ninety. and 1919. In 1920, after a short time in Australia, Dr. Florence and Her deep convictions and strength of character were con- Dr. Martin Keller were invited to join the faculty of the College tagious. For countless people, both patients and friends, she of Medical Evangelists, now Loma Linda University. They were was a rock in the time of storm, one to whom they could turn colleagues of other leaders of the medical school in its early for care, counsel and encouragement. They all had complete days, which included such well-known persons as Percy T. confidence in her. Magan, Newton G. Evans, D. D. Comstock, and George Thoma- She was a devoted member of her church. Her prayers were son. Dr. Florence became a well-known and popular profes- always inspiring and uplifting, for they reflected a personal sor of gynaecology to generations of medical students. acquaintance with and a supreme confidence in her God. Following the death of Dr. Martin (he gave his life in the Dr. Florence came out of that vigorous, resilient, dynamic service of the Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital when, in 1931, English-Irish-Scottish mould, similar to that which formed so he was shot by a mentally disturbed patient), she continued many of our great national leaders. The strength of character her practice at 504 South Boyle Avenue in Los Angeles, where that she demonstrated throughout her life, is a sorely-needed she maintained open house for the poor. No appointments commodity today. She and what she represented so ably, will were necessary, and fees were based on ability to pay, with a be missed. Those who knew and loved her can consider them- maximum of $4 set per visit. She also served in her latter selves fortunate for having been acquainted with these fine years on the board of Garfield Hospital, Alhambra, California. character traits and for having had the opportunity to assimi- In 1967, advancing years forced her retirement from active late some of them into their own lives. practice. Dr. Florence leaves to mourn, her only child, Dr. Frances Many honours came to Dr. Florence during her sixty-seven Harding, her son-in-law, Dr. Warren G. Harding II, and their years as a surgeon. She was a Fellow of the American College three children, Dr, Florence Hiscock, Dr. Carolyn Motzel and of Surgeons and also of the International College of Surgeons. Dr. Peter Harding. In addition, there are six great-grandsons She was the Senior Fellow of the latter society at the time of and two great-granddaughters who had her total affection. her death. She was honoured as Physician of the Year by the Her death on January 15, 1974, after nearly ninety-nine American Medical Women's Association, and she received years, removes an active worker from our midst. She goes to recognition in many other ways for her role as an outstanding her rest with the faith and hope well expressed in the follow- physician and personality. ing lines by Kipling: Those of us who were privileged to know Dr. Florence When earth's last picture is painted, remember most vividly her outstanding personality characteris- And the tubes are twisted and dried, tics. She was what one would call, in the best sense of the And the oldest colours have faded, word, "colourful." She was a brilliant conversationalist, and And the youngest critics have died, an engaging speaker. Her stories of her life experiences held We shall rest, and faith, we shall need it— one spellbound. There seemed to be no limit to her courage, Lie down for an aeon or two, both physical and moral. It is not an exaggeration to say that Till the Master of all good workmen she was essentially a fearless person. Shall set us to work anew! AUSTRALASIAN RECORD I 4/74 MEDIA MINISTRY, Exciting and Mysterious

M. G. TOWNEND, Secretary, Department of Communication, Australasian Division

MEDIA MINISTRY throughout the territory of the Australasian Division is both exciting and mysterious. It is exciting to realize that in Sydney and Mel- bourne alone, each Sunday morning, more than a quarter of a million people view the "It Is Written" half-hour full-message television programme. It is thrilling to recall that almost 1,000 souls are baptized throughout the lands of the Division each year from radio-television and Bible school ministry.

A check on calls to our various tele- stream of Bible course applications phone dialling services in Australia made out and returned to the school and New Zealand recently revealed a on cards which have been released to total of more than 2,000,000 calls for the churches for distribution from two each year. Then there are the thou- to ten years previously. Whether sands of people who listen each week these cards have been stored in to Pastor Ron Vince's Voice of Proph- church cupboards or in the homes and ecy programmes over sixty stations. cars of our own people and only re- As a result of the preaching of our cently distributed, or whether they national broadcasters from Tonga, Fiji, have remained in the homes of the Samoa, Tahiti, New Caledonia, the receivers until some prompting causes Solomon Islands and Papua New them to send the cards in to the Bible Pastor M. G. Townend. Guinea, remote areas in our island mission territory, where our mission- aries find it difficult to make regular school, we do not know. The real contact, are each week penetrated answer remains a mystery, but the with the everlasting gospel. fact that the cards do flow in after Such things are thrilling and excit- such delay should be a real encour- ing. They are present-day evidences agement to our people who may not of the effectiveness of media ministry. always see immediate results in a There is also the mysterious side of given year for the work done by the our media ministry outreach. Though distribution of Bible correspondence we know of hundreds of thousands of course enrolment cards. people coming under the influence of Through media ministry in Austra- our media ministry each week, yet lasia we are preaching the everlasting apart from the 36,000 who annually gospel, which must "be preached in apply for our Bible courses, we have all the world for a witness unto all no indication of the impressions being nations" before the end shall come. made upon the hearts and lives of the That is why we are inviting our people majority of people who hear and see to do three things on April 6: first, to what the church has to say through give strong financial support to the media ministry. The mystery sur- media ministry offering so that the rounding the silent majority who work of radio, television, telephone come under the influence of our and Bible Correspondence School media ministry will be removed when, ministry may be strengthened and ad- during the loud cry, "barriers .. . will vanced; second, we are asking for 1-1- be rolled away" and thousands will million cards advertising the new flock into the church.—"Education," Mrs. Lucy French, senior instructor at the Bible "Here's Life" Bible Correspondence page 692. Correspondence School, Sydney, is happy when School course to be distributed; third, One of the mysteries of our media the school is busy. She receives a steady flow we ask our membership to pray for ministry concerns our Bible courses. of enrolment cards, most of which were released the work of media ministry which for distribution up to four years ago. In the Each day brings to the Bible Corre- background is Mrs. Stanley, who is also an plays such an important role in telling spondence School in Sydney a steady instructor. Photo: M. G. Townend. the masses of the soon return of Jesus.

Offering for Radio-TV Ministry, Sabbath, April 6 [8] 1/4/74 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD Trans-Tasman Telephone Ministry K. E. MARTIN, Secretary, Department of Communication, Trans-Tasman Union Conference

EFFECTIVE MEDIA MINISTRY continues to expand through dialling services in the Conferences of the Trans- Tasman Union. Forty-five lines in this Union received an amazing 1,395,456 telephone calls on our Dial-A-Prayer sys- tem alone in the twelve-month period Just closed. Our dialling services are backed by such offers as "The Bible Answer" correspondence course. Working people, curious people, frightened people, lonely people, people from all walks of life and from all age brackets, consistently use this interesting branch of our community service. The true value of our telephone minis- caller to Sydney's popular telephone an- Soul Talk, operated by the Youth Depart- try cannot be estimated this side of hea- swering service. ment. In December of that year, Pastor ven. How many aching, anxious hearts According to records it is now some L. A. Gilmore became Sydney's sixth have found new hope as they dial and twelve years since Pastor E. H. J. Steed Dial-A-Prayer pastor, and this commun- listen to the message for the day? How promoted the idea of a telephone minis- ity service to the public continues to draw many potential suicides have been calmed try, and since radio speaker, Pastor W. R. newspaper comments, including the occa- by the quiet, confident voice of the pas- L. Scragg, became the first of six speakers sional cartoon in the metropolitan daily. tor? The Lord alone knows the answer. to date. While I was talking to a Qantas pilot Let us forage in the files of our Greater For some years the service was located just recently, he noted that the service is Sydney Conference as typical of the ser- at Wahroonga, where Pastor H. W. King- well-known to flying personnel, with at vices offered in our Union. ston operated this Christian ministry to least one in three using the telephone. We discover that there are three ser- Sydney's millions. With the coming of Humorously he added that many would- vices operating: Dial-A-Prayer, Gospel Pastor 0. K. Anderson as Radio-TV sec- be admirers of the attractive stewardesses Good News, and Soul Talk. Wollongong retary to the Greater Sydney Conference, are often given the Dial-A-Prayer num- also has a Dial-A-Prayer line, making a the machines and programmes moved to ber rather than the girl's home number! total of four services offered to the public the Conference office at Strathfield. Dur- One wonders as to the reaction of the ing his leadership, a second service de- in the Greater Sydney Conference. Over caller when he hears "Hello there and veloped, known as Dial Gospel Good News, the past two years 529,670 people have welcome to Dial-A-Prayer. This is Lau- availed themselves of these services. That which is a daily devotional message. rence Gilmore inviting you to share a makes over half a million contacts for Upon his retirement, Pastor Anderson moment of meditation." Christ! From these contacts 462 are handed over the work to Pastor K. H. classified as "interests." Who said "Tele- Mead. Four months later, Pastor M. M. Unsolicited letters of appreciation, phone evangelism doesn't pay"? Only the Stewart had the pleasure of operating the donations and pretty greeting cards are record books in heaven can reveal the full machines there, and later in the new all part of the regular fan mail which story of this powerful evangelistic service. Conference office with the specially-pre- comes to the office. What has happened "Dial-A-Prayer is my church and I pared recording studio-chapel. During in Sydney and Wollongong should be never miss a daily call to hear the pastor his term of office, until the year end of multiplied scores of times in every city and his message," declares one regular 1972, he saw a third service added, that of and town of reasonable size throughout Australia and New Zealand. Just recently, Pastor Gilmore was in- terviewed on Radio Norfolk Island about the services, and was guest speaker at the Rotary Club. It is anticipated that we will initiate Dial-A-Prayer on little Nor- folk once a further group of phone out- lets are installed, even though one can hardly see any evidence of this common amenity on the island. Reader, what about your city or town, and what is your pastor doing about it? Note the letter received last year from a regular listener: "Dear Dial-A-Prayer Pastor, "I am a male, twenty-five years of age, and rang Dial-A-Prayer because I am searching for the truth. I am most con- cerned about the corrupt moral and spiritual state this world is heading to. "I am not a Christian at this stage, and for some years now I have been trying to fathom out the truth and reason for our existence on this earth. I do find myself coming back to the same conclusions, that I must investigate the Bible more thor- oughly; perhaps it may lead to the way to solve my existing doubts. "Your guidance with the Bible, I am sure, will be a great help to me. "Thank you sincerely."

Miss Yvonne Ogg, Soul Talk recorder, checks out the lines of Dial-A-Prayer in the centre group. When you support media ministry on Gospel Good News machines are to the left and Soul Talk to the right. April 6, you will provide evangelistic aids Photo: L. A. Gilmore. that support our telephone ministry, AUSTRALAsIAN RECORD 1/4/74 [9] the Voice of Prophecy in America. This we have adapted to make it readily ac- "A LIGHT OUT OF DARKNESS" ceptable to the average Australian and ROSS C. PIPER, Principal, Bible Correspondence School New Zealand enquirer after truth. In- corporated in it will be attractive features gleaned from some of our courses at JULIET didn't start out as our most enthusiastic student. But we know that present being operated in Europe, as well a sixth-form high school pupil doesn't have too much spare time so, after she had as not a few ideas of our own. enrolled in our "Faith" Bible course, it wasn't surprising that there was a lengthy Released under the catchy title of delay before the first completed test papers arrived back at the Bible Correspon- "Here's Life," this course will be new in dence School. And then nothing. format. It will use a clear, easy-to-read Carefully worded reminder letters were surely and yet consistently working on type face, and its carefully selected illu- written to her over a period of time, and the hearts of men and women, boys and strations will add to its eye-appeal. But then just a few months ago we received girls. most importantly, while the doctrinal the following reply: When it comes to our major doctrinal message will be the same, it is presented "Thank you very much for your con- Bible course, "Faith"—the one currently in a deeply spiritual setting and, above cern which you have shown for me in being studied by Juliet—the sense of won- all, each truth is firmly Christ-centred. your two letters you wrote me regarding der grows. This particular course has May we stress that the local production my lack of response to your Bible course. been with us for so many years, its age is of a completely new Bible course is a The excuse for my negligence is perhaps showing. While the message it contains major project. Despite every economy we a typical reaction of youth today. I was is doctrinally sound, its format, its style can effect it will cost thousands of dol- too busy. Other things of less importance of presentation, its illustrations are all lars. To help us meet this expense we took priority and I just drifted behind with your lessons. You, however, seemed to sense my weakness of spirit, and throughout the year sent me inspirational messages, the arrival of which seemed to coincide with my problems at home, at school, and socially. I refer especially to your valued publication, 'Channels.' "At a time when social values are changing, and morals are being ques- tioned, many young people today find themselves lost and insecure. I often find myself in this condition, and unfortun- ately I am not the only one. But like a light out of darkness, at the end of a rocky and tedious road, at last I have found God. And I am sure I would have missed that path without the guidance of your publications. It is so easy to lose your way with so many outside pressures —school, friends, and our own materialis- tic desires. I know that unless I have something positive to work with, like your Bible course, I will again become distracted and lose His precious light. "Again my very sincere thanks. If there is any way in which I can assist with your work, I would be honoured if you would contact me. Unfortunately, I Pastor Ross C. Piper shows obvious pleasure and enthusiasm for the format of the new "Here's am not financially independent and there- Life" Bible correspondence course lessons as he considers a layout submission from the Signs Pub- fore cannot make regular contributions. lishing Company. Photo: M. G. Townend. I hope to continue with my course, and will look forward to receiving future dated. It has been revised a number of need a generous offering on the Sabbath copies of your magazine. times, but just as there is a limit to the devoted to this purpose. We also need "P.S. I would be very interested to number of "face-lifts" a person can re- your prayers as this new course is know more about the Seventh-day Ad- ceive, there is also a limit to the number launched. And we need your active sup- ventists and their involvement in the of revisions a publication can receive. port as enrolment cards are distributed community. If you have any such in- And the "Faith" course has passed that throughout the length and breadth of formation available, would you please limit! our Division. Our hopes are high, as we pass this on to me?" But now for the good news: At long last confidently expect that the introduction Please pray with us that Juliet, and a brand-new course is in production. of this new course will breathe new life countless others like her who are currently Over a period of approximately two years into our Bible school work in Australia studying our various Bible courses, will we have been evaluating every course be- and New Zealand. never lose sight of this light at the end ing currently offered by our various Bible Please help us to discover many more of the road. We at Advent Radio-Tele- schools around the world. The one most Juliets who are eagerly looking for some vision Productions never lose the sense of closely approximating our needs is an ex- ray of "light out of darkness." May they, wonder as we see God's Spirit silently, cellent new course now being operated by too, find God at the "end of a rocky road."

Remember the Radio-TV Offering on April 6 1101 1/4/71 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD In Papua New Guinea ... HEAVEN'S LIFELINE R. TINDALL, Secretary, Department of Communication, Western Pacific Union Mission OUR "VOICE" IS FOR A COAST WATCHER to stay alive during the tense war years in the SILENT BUT Pacific, certain things were vital. An alert pair of ears and eyes, a strong con- stitution, and a good two-way radio in a strategic position were essential. These men watched for the enemy under jungle conditions that were fit only for animals. ACTIVE They were always on the run, yet always ready to help; life-savers in the correct C. A. TOWNEND sense of the word. Communication Secretary, Papua New Guinea Un'on Mission Many a naval rating, many an allied lights in the Pacific, stabbing fingers of "WHY do people think they must fight, soldier, owes his life to the alertness of light through the cloak of sin; constantly kill, lie, cheat, steal and curse in order to these intrepid man and their faithful storming the ranks of the enemy with be happy?" "If a person died before me, band of indigenous carriers. our life-saving messages. would I ever see him if I died before the Today, however, the steamy jungles and These schools in each of our six local second coming of Christ?" mountain ridges of New Georgia and missions are very popular. The last bea- These two questions were taken from con to be added to our series of light- two different letters. Both letters came houses was the one at Tarawa in the in with test sheets for the "God's Way" northern Gilbert Islands. In 1973 alone Bible correspondence course. Almost our records indicate that 110 Pacific Is- every day the Voice of Prophecy mail landers were baptized through the direct brings questions from its students. influence of various courses. Eternity In Papua New Guinea the Voice of alone will reveal just how many more Prophecy is silent. We do broadcast from were influenced by these truth-filled the Government radio stations. But we pages. are not allowed to advertise our Bible Earlier I said that coast watchers were course or use the name "Voice of Proph- a thing of the past; but the Solomons ecy." have another variety coming into promi- Proudly the name of the Seventh-day nence. Adventist Church is often associated with "Community Hymn Singing," and weekly Street witnessing in Honiara with the Bible "Church Worship" programmes. Several course. Photos: R. Tindall. of our evangelists also assist with "Daily Devotionals," and "Readings from the Guadalcanal no longer hide the watch- Bible." Our speakers use English, Motu, men of yesteryear. The enemy has been Melanesian, Pidgin and Kuanua. defeated. There are some hints which suggest On Betio in the Gilbert Islands, it is that there will be commercial broadcast- business as usual where a thousand young ing in the future. We are ready to let Americans died on the coral strand. Iron our "Voice" speak to the two and a half Bottom Sound of Guadalcanal is just a million people of Papua New Guinea. reminder now of the days when two Here at Union headquarters in Lae we navies locked themselves in battle, only have a nicely equipped studio and we are to see many of their proud ships slide into ready to produce Voice of Prophecy pro- the depths below. grammes. There are lessons here, I believe. A Many have found Bible course enrolment cards Our Voice of Prophecy Bible school is man with a radio—a lifeline! An enemy floating in bottles. our active voice. Since January, 1974, we is still very much with us. Up in that have one central school in Lae replacing village on the mountain ridge, down on Around the Pacific we have an active a number of smaller units around the the artificial islands that are common "bottle evangelist." From time to time we country. With the new school we have a around Malaita, out on that coral strip of have a number of requests coming in to new post office box (Box 631, Lae) and Ontong Java, or the Ellice group, he's us from a very unusual source—a bottle a new instructor. still around, probing, worrying, blocking, on the seashore with a spirit-filled mes- Miss Evelyn August comes from Rabaul. and killing. sage. A short letter arrived on my desk Prior to working in the Rabaul mission But we have that lifeline about which from one of our modern "coast watchers." we were talking a moment ago: the radio. You may like to read it in part. (Concluded on page 13) To the national, it is one of those modern "Dear Sir, marvels. The increase of knowledge has "The bottle which you drift in with the made it easier for the good news to skirt message in it has been washed ashore on the ridges, miraculously sweep through Dende Beach in the Florida Islands. I those steaming jungles, leap the barriers was very, very thankful when I found the of the deep and eventually find its way bottle that you send it in. God has into the home and heart, from Choiseul guided the bottle with message in it Island in the west, the Gilberts in the FRIEND. north, and down to our little bit of France "Thank you, in the south—New Caledonia. We have "Your obedient servant." our preachers of righteousness in the Western Pacific Union Mission, and the It may not be written in the Queen's results are heartening. best English, but what a thrill it was to us here to know that bread cast upon the Hand in hand with the radio is the Fifty-six people entering the Markham River to Bible Correspondence School. This life- waters is not returning to us void in the be baptized in Papua New Guinea. line continues to be one of those bright Western Pacific Union Mission. Photo: C. A. Townend. AUSTRALASIAN RECORD 1/4/74 [11]

The Australian Radio Broadcast R. A. VINCE, Radio Evangelist and Associate Secretary, Department of Communication, Australasian Division

WHO SAID that for Australia and New Zealand the day of radio is finished? The Australian Minister for the Media, Senator McClelland, recently announced that the number of medium frequency radio stations in Australia could be doubled, and that many to benefit would be minority groups, such as education bodies and ethnic groups. In a world where TV is capturing the minds of people, there is still a strong demand for radio. In fact, at certain times of the day, radio is king. Australia's ten million radios would suggest that any church which fails to make use of this medium is fail- ing to grasp its evangelistic opportunities. These opportunities appear to be increasing.

It is gratifying therefore to report that And what about the response from the satisfaction with the impact of the mes- our own "These Times" Voice of Prophecy listening public? A recent newspaper sage of "These Times." A Methodist programme is contracted to be heard dur- article affirmed that people more often minister telephoned his appreciation from ing 1974 from sixty stations in Australia than not will write letters of protest his bedside on Sunday evening. Catholic with an aggregate of ninety-eight separ- rather than letters of praise. To us, let- nuns have written, so have Jehovah's ate programmes each week. Forty-one of ters of protest are few. One radio station Witnesses, school children and many these stations carry the 15-minute pro- recently complained because our radio others. These letters have indicated gramme, and nineteen carry the 5-minute message referred, they thought, disparag- that people are listening, and listening programme three days a week. In New ingly to the Roman Catholic Church. If regularly. Zealand, national policy restricts our be- this continued they would consider with- One lady, about to undergo surgery for ing heard to any significant extent. Only drawing the programme. Another lady cancer, tuned in to "These Times" the one private radio station in Dunedin car- of the Baha'i faith wrote regretfully that night before, and in her state of fear and ries our 15-minute programme each we had deplored in our broadcast the de- apprehension, received great comfort from week. The Gospel Radio Fellowship Inc. velopment of Eastern religions in our the message, which seemed to be just for was to have carried our 15-minute pro- Christian society. Another wrote from her. Such communications warm our gramme this year, but apparently at the Darwin discrediting our "smooth talk." hearts, and remind us that at the other last minute was not granted licence to But that is all the protest we have re- end of the radio line there are real peo- broadcast. However, New Zealand's Radio ceived in two years. ple, needy people, listening and storing "i" could possibly be including our pro- Letters mostly speak of the blessing re- away seed thoughts and memories which gramme in 1975 if present negotiations ceived, both through the broadcast and we trust will one day bear fruit in accep- work out favourably. the Bible lessons. Two radio station an- tance of the message of salvation we love Paul wrote in 1 Cor. 14: 10, "There are, nouncers have written expressing their so much ourselves. it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world. . . ." Voices promoting, persuad- ing, pleading, promising. Surely the Voice of Prophecy must be heard, too. (We have recently been identifying our radio broadcasts, not only as from "Your Adventist Friends," or as "Sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church," but as being "Australia's link with the inter- national broadcast of the Voice of Proph- ecy.") Paul goes on to say, "If I am ignorant of what the sound means, I am a savage to the man who is speaking and he is the savage to me. It is the same in your own case, since you aspire to spiritual gifts, concentrate on those which will grow to benefit the community." Jerusalem Bible. There are still multitudes in our society to whom we are, figuratively speaking, as unintelligible as savages. The voice of truth must be sounded clearly and regu- larly to benefit those who are unfamiliar with the life, language and worship of the Christian church, and especially the remnant church today. So with the bless- ing of the Lord and the support of our people, our voice will continue to be Prayer is offered by Pastor R. A. Vince before recording his weekly Voice of Prophecy broadcast heard, and we hope increasingly so in the which in 1974 is heard over sixty radio stations in Australia and one in New Zealand. future. Photo: M. G. Townend. [12] 1/4/74 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD tinued to pray, and her fowls continued to do their work. At the end of the sec- Mama Pepe's Investment Tree ond year of sales Mama Pepe proudly presented to God, through the Sabbath G. C. PORTER, President, Cook Islands Mission school in Avarua, another $32. This was followed the third year with $43, and then IT ALL BEGAN hack in 1969. Pastor Howard Rampton, then Lay Activi- in 1973, during the month of August, the ties secretary of the Australasian Division, was visiting Rarotonga for our camp Sabbath school members listened to Sister Pepe relate her story of faith and watched session. During his stay here, he very ably promoted Investment in our Sabbath her place on the Sabbath school table schools in the Cook Islands. $53.50 which she had received from sales that season. Listening to Pastor Rampton that day, yard around the tree so that the fowls was Sister Mama Pepe Mani. Sister Pepe could get to work and feed the tree. To- Surely this is a modern miracle. Truly lives just a few steps away from the Cen- gether with much prayer and the work of the God of Moses and the God of Jacob tral Post Office in Avarua, the adminis- the fowls, sure enough, results came. God and the God of Isaac has honoured this trative capital of the Cook Islands. She was able to answer Sister Pepe's prayer woman's faith and made her barren tree lives in a little old shack made from and for the first time in its history of at to bear fruit because she has promised opened-up biscuit tins and milk cases, least twenty years, the tree bore fruit. God every cent from the produce. Sister with a galvanized iron roof. Mama Pepe There was much rejoicing in the Avarua Pepe could very well use all this money could very well do with a new home for Sabbath school when, in the first year, to build herself a more comfortable shack. herself. However, on listening to Pastor Sister Pepe brought along for the Lord However, she has chosen instead to help Rampton's promotion, she promised God some $18 for Investment. finish the work of God in this generation that she would do her best to invest for The story doesn't finish there with the through the Investment plan. Maybe we Him to help finish the work in this gen- end of the first year. Mama Pepe con- can all do more to invest for Him. eration. The more Sister Pepe thought about Investment, the more she liked the plan. The problem was that there was not very much the little old lady could do, living right in the city. Then she remembered Leaves from a Missionary's Diary the tree that grew in her yard. The bar- MOLLY RANKIN ren Vikavakava tree. This tree was a November 23. very large tree and should have been Such a nice, contented feeling. bearing fruit for years. The fruit of this Cleaned house, cooked ready for Sabbath, visitors arrived for week-end tree is delicious and many of the people about 3.30 p.m. Ken Dever took a most interesting opening Sabbath meeting in her city would be only too pleased to over in the church. Prospects of a happy week-end with good fellowship and buy the fruit and pay well if her tree interesting conversation. would produce it. This gave Sister Pepe So-o-o nice to get to bed, though. Just dozing off when Honey began to an idea; she took the matter to God in bark. (We are looking after Honey while the Raethels are on furlough.) Ian prayer and she asked God to bless her staggered out of bed and told Honey to be quiet, then came back and said, barren Vikavakava tree and make it to "It's for you." bear fruit. Her part of the bargain would Flung on my clothes and grabbed the light and ushered the little army of be to sell the fruit and give all the money mamas and sisters and aunties into the clinic. Ascertained which was the to God for Investment. expectant mother, and got her settled on the delivery bed. Mama Pepe was a very industrious wo- By the time the baby was born it was too late to call Denmark to give the man and decided that it was no good ask- injection of ergometrine, so, trying to look as if I had all the experience in ing God to make the tree bear unless she the world, I filled the syringe, sighted the spot, took a deep breath, shut my also did her part. She commissioned her eyes and stabbed. It worked! Something else written off to "firsts" in non-Adventist husband to build a fowl experience. November 25. Business is brisk! Ian took the Devers over to Yonki, where the new hydro-electric scheme is in the course of construction. I stayed home and had the power turned on so I could use the washing-machine. Washing finished, I went down to the clinic and tended to mother and baby, and then to the hospital and washed the small patients who were admitted. Just coming home to prepare lunch when I was intercepted by Denmark's wife. Breathlessly she informed me that a woman had just arrived to have a baby. Back I flew to the clinic. It was the mother's fourth baby, and so she knew exactly what to do and co-operated beautifully. However, I was just wiping two new little eyes with sterile water when the staff children shrieked through the louvres at my back: "Mama bilong Esther, Mama bilong Esther, nutherpella meri laik karim pikinini." "All right," I replied calmly. "Go away." Then I looked helplessly at Den- mark's wife who was looking on with interest. "True?" I asked unbelievingly. She ran out of the delivery room into the ward and was back in as long as it takes to run from one room, to the next, and said smilingly, "True." Carefully I helped the patient into the ward, deposited the baby in the waiting crib, then flew back, changed the sheets on the delivery bed and was in business again. That made three baby girls in thirty-six hours. As I said before . . . busi- ness is brisk. Mama Pepe beside her Investment tree with $53.50. Photo: G. C. Porter. AUSTRALASIAN RECORD 1/4/74 [13]

OUR "VOICE" IS SILENT BUT ACTIVE work up in the area and leave the "rat The incident of the $20 is only one of (Concluded from page 10) race" of the city. many manifestations of our Father's Work was scarce in the area, but I was blessings to ... office, she graduated from the Bible In- fortunate in securing work with the local "Another Pensioner," structors' Course at Sonoma College. council as a labourer on the basic wage, Victoria. Since January 8, when she came to Lae, about $61 a week (quite a comedown), she has set up a new filing system, pro- and my wife gave up her job. Tithing on the Pension-2 cessed 259 applications, enrolled fifty-two We had worked it all out, and thought Dear Editor, new students, marked over 100 test papers we would be able to manage on this I refer to your editorial in issue dated and sent out thirty-three graduation cer- meagre wage until my wife got a job at 111/74 headed "Tithing on the Pension." tificates. All this in three weeks! the local printing works, but things I have been a widow since August, 1972, Hopefully our silent "Voice" may soon didn't quite turn out like that. and in receipt of a Widow's Pension since be able to speak. But in the meantime that time. My late beloved husband was we are planning for even greater activity We were not then Adventists, but had not insured and not in any superannua- with our Bible courses. As in many de- become very interested and were receiv- tion scheme, and so my pension is all I veloping countries, the people of Papua ing instruction and Bible studies from the have. My first cheque in 1972 was for New Guinea are eagerly searching for re- local church pastor. $32, and that is fortnightly. The sum liable information. God's Word has the Suddenly I was stricken with a serious has grown since then to $46 a fortnight. facts. illness and was rushed off to the Austin My late husband and I always returned Pastors, evangelists and laymen will Hospital, Melbourne. This left my wife a faithful tithe, and it never occurred to give life to the "Voice," and we look for- alone in a comparatively strange area (we me to consider discontinuing this practice ward to increasing baptisms. had been living twelve miles outside the when he fell asleep, so out of each cheque township) and unable to drive the car. I put aside the tithe first. I might add I had not been with the council long that since the Stewardship Plan was in- enough to receive sick pay, and had to troduced in our local church I have fol- apply for Social Service Sickness Benefit, lowed that also, putting aside at least which is the same as the pension without twenty-seven cents for every dollar of any of the extra "perks," and still keep tithe returned. on paying off the house at $25 a week. The main purpose of this letter is to God sees all things, and my wife was tell you that if I were to commence list- offered a home with several Adventist ing the blessings which the Lord has families, to all of whom we are still most poured out on my unworthy head in all grateful, and she accepted the invitation this time, I could use up a whole writing of one. pad! Suffice it to say that I have been Then the question of tithe was raised. very conscious of His wonderful love and How could we live on $11 a week after providence in so many ways. He does paying the house and tithe? not give me everything I think I want at times, but better than that, He gives me I was in the hospital at the time, and everything I need always. LETTERS thanks to this Adventist family's advice, As long as He grants me breath I will my wife decided to "give it a go," and do consider it a privilege and a joy to return to the EDITOR you know what? All of our needs have to Him what is His own. After all, He PLEASE NOTE: Letters are accepted for been supplied, and a good many of our emptied heaven for me, did He not? I publication at the discretion of the editor ; the wants, too! And if I didn't know better, receipt of a letter does not mean that it will write this, not to boast about my faith- necessarily be published. Correspondents should I would say it was uncanny. fulness (for I know that I am the weakest also understand that their letters will be sub- edited to bring them to a suitable literary stan- Since leaving hospital I have been on of His saints!) but so that, if my letter dard, though every effort will be made to the invalid pension, still paying off the should get into print, it may encourage preserve the essential point of the original. Pseudonyms may be used for publication, but house, without a worry in the world. others (who perhaps have hesitated to the original must have the full name and address return the tithe on a similar small in- of the writer. I have been trying my hand at garden- Letters published may not necessarily represent ing as therapy, with amazing results. come) to step out in faith and give back the ideals or the teachings of the denomination ; to God what is rightly His. (My brother, such are found in our editorial, devotional and Plants come up all over the place where news columns. I haven't even sown any, and with what my sister, you will never know the joy of I have planted, we have enough to give really working with Jesus until you do!) Tithing on the Pension-1 away! He will keep His promises. I have proved Him over and over again Dear Editor, We had a hospital bill of $21 which the during the past twenty years, and espe- Since reading your editorial, "Tithing H.B.A. wouldn't pay, so we prayed about cially during the past nineteen months on the Pension," in the AUSTRALASIAN it, as we always do when these problems since my husband fell asleep. RECORD, I felt an immediate impulse to come up, and a few days later in the mail I just had to put down on paper how I record the following experience which was an anonymous envelope containing personally feel about the tithing system, you might like to pass on to the instigator just two $10 notes. No note, name or and what a great blessing it has been to of your editorial reply. address! Just the money. me. My wife and I had both been working My advice as a recently baptized Ad- "Yet Another Pensioner," while living in rented accommodation ventist is: Pay your tithe willingly, and South New South Wales. until quite recently, and were earning you will receive much more than you about $150 a week between us; but some- give; and, just as important, if you re- A D.S. Enthusiast how we never seemed to be able to ac- ceive any extra income, however small, Dear Editor, cumulate anything. pay tithe on that, too, and you will be I read your editorial in a recent We had bought a dilapidated property truly amazed at the results when you RECORD on Daily Study and felt I must in the country for which we were com- trust God to keep His promises. Trust write you. mitted to repayments of $25 a week, and Him with all your worries, too! He won't After forty-two years of Daily Study I were going up every week-end and holi- let you down. can testify it has never been so good. The day renovating and decorating ready for I suppose by some people's ideas I fall present theme on Righteousness by Faith our retirement in another ten years. far short of the standard we should ad- is a thrilling, living, Spirit-indited theme. Just over one year ago, we had got the here to, but it seems that an ever-loving I am deeply sorry for anyone who cannot place "livable," and during our Christmas Father is always ready to help a repen- understand it. Somehow it seems to me holiday, decided on impulse to try to get tant sinner who trusts and tries. to be like a person standing on a nickel [14] 1/4/74 AUSTRALASIAN RECORD bed or an oil deposit with millions under The presence of a wide circle of relatives and Fry, daughter of Brother and Sister Alan Fry of friends (including the bride's grand-uncle, Pastor Auburn. As this young couple have exchanged his feet and he does not know it. A. G. Stewart), a tastefully decorated church sacred vows, we wish them all the joy and My plan of study which yields rich and glorious sunshine made the day a memorable happiness which their great Creator designed for relatives them in their holy relationship. go one. After the service, and friends dividends is this: Sabbath afternoon, gathered at the Nunawading church hall to Noel H. j. Smith. over (not deeply) the coming week's les- express good wishes for the future happiness of son; each preceding night do the next the bridal pair. We pray God's blessing on WOLFE-SCHNIEDER. David, only son of this new home and upon Dr. Merlene and Warren Pastor and Mrs. Wolfe of Auckland, New Zealand, morning's section (this gives the sub- as they continue their careers in medicine and and Faye, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. conscious mind something to come up music. Richard Schnieder of Halidon, South Australia, George C. Best and W. H. Simmonds. joined hands at the altar of the Trinity Gardens with); in the morning before breakfast MATTHES-KATO. In the evening of Feb- church, Adelaide, South Australia, on the summer study it carefully, pencilling in my notes, ruary 28, 1974, a large gathering of friends met evening of January 10, 1974. Both are respected using Weymouth, New English and the in the Ponsonby church, New Zealand, to witness youth of the church, Faye having been secretary the marriage of Kurt and Pepe, both well known to the Youth director in Adelaide for three years, Living Bible and the teachers' notes (half in the Auckland Adventist Samoan community. and David a member of the Whyalla church in an hour goes by unnoticed); then on Sab- Pepe is the smiling cook at the Bethesda Home the far west of the state. The young couple will for the Aged in Auckland, where she has served make their home in Whyalla, where David is bath the oil gusher really flows. for nine years. As they set up their home in employed by the B.H.P. Many friends and (Pastor) A. Sedgman (retired), the city, we wish them God's richest blessings. relatives joined in the sacred service at the Eric P. Wolfe. church and at the festivities in the Paynham New South Wales. Civic Centre. Pastor and Mrs. Wolfe came from MILLGATE-RYLE. It was a happy day for New Zealand for the ceremony. John Matheson Millgate and Marguerite Ryle on Eric P. Wolfe. Sunday, February 3, 1974. Providence overruled, and threatening rain was held back. Both residents of Cairns, Queensland, the young couple came to their local church to exchange vows in the company of many relatives and friends. John is a new convert, having been baptized the WEDDINGS previous day during divine service. Margi was 1 reared an Adventist, and her parents are esteemed members of the Cairns church. John and Margi are making their home in the Cooranbong district, where Margi hopes to Would those who send notices of weddings pursue the Primary Teachers' course at Avondale TILL HE COMES and obituaries please remember that two facts College while John continues as the breadwinner. must be included in every notice. These are May the Lord abundantly bless this new home the date and the place at which the death (or with His abiding presence. G. W. Oaklands. burial) or wedding took place. Without this ABEL. John Desmond, the three-month-old information the notices cannot be published.- McINTYRE-FOWLER. Sunday, March 3, baby son of Brother and Sister Wesley Abel, Editor. 1974, was a day that set records in Melbourne for died suddenly on March 7, 1974. We tenderly high temperatures. But this in no way seemed laid this little one to rest in the Moe Cemetery, COYTE-TINWORTH. In the tastefully to detract from the enthusiasm of the many Victoria, on March 9, following a brief service decorated Wahroonga church, New South Wales, friends of Graeme McIntyre and Marilyn Fowler, conducted jointly by Pastors Eric Winter and on December 23, 1973, Tony Coyte and Julie both of Melbourne, as they gathered at the David Dabson in the Seventh-day Adventist Tinworth solemnized their marriage vows. Tony Nunawading church for a noon wedding. With church at Moe. To the sorrowing parents, is the son of Mrs. Coyte, who has served as the delicate tints of green and orange, worn by Elizabeth and Wesley, grandparents Brother and secretary in several of our denominational offices. the bridesmaids, giving the setting, Marilyn was Sister George Abel of Warragul, and Brother Julie is the daughter of Neville and Pearl radiantly beautiful as she came down the aisle and Sister Bowman of Adelaide, and the large Tinworth of Wahroonga. Tony is presently on her father's arm to stand beside Graeme; congregation of family and friends, we presented employed by the Papua New Guinea Union and as the happy couple exchanged vows of that "blessed hope" we have through Jesus. Mission as an electrician, and this happy young love and faithfulness, the prayers of the con- With greater eagerness we now look for that couple have returned to Papua New Guinea to gregation were for their happiness in the home glorious day when the "wolf also shall dwell continue in mission service. K. S. Parmenter. they establish. We believe God will bless and with the lamb . . . and a little child shall lead use this young couple as they take Him with them." Isa. 11: 6. What a happy time it will DRISCOLL-BRITTEN. Sunday, December them into their great life-venture. be when Jesus comes again and young parents 23, 1973, was the day chosen for the wedding H. W. Hammond. will be reunited with their little ones who now of Susanne Ruth Britten and Lyndon John NELSON-VIEIRA. At 6 o'clock on the lie sleeping awaiting the resurrection call of Driscoll in the chapel at Avondale College. A Jesus-"the Friend of little children"! large gathering of relatives and friends assembled afternoon of February 14, 1974, Stanley James David J. Dabson. to witness the marriage of Susanne and Lyndon. Nelson, son of Brother and Sister E. Nelson of Both are members of well-known Adventist Darwin, waited at the Stanmore church, Sydney, families in the Cooranbong district. Susanne's for his bride, Maria Grace Vieira, daughter of CUNNING. After a short illness, Winifred parents are Sister B. Britten and the late Brother and Sister M. J. Vieira of Marrickville. Cunning passed to her rest on February 11, Raymond Britten. Lyndon is the son of Brother Grace was a beautiful bride, and although it was 1974, at Port Macquarie, New South Wales. and Sister W. J. Driscoll, now located at Fulton a rainy day, the rain stopped for her entrance Born in Birmingham, England, sixty-nine years College. We wish them God's richest blessing and for the young couple leaving the church. ago, she came to Australia at the age of nineteen, as they establish another Christian home to the The wedding breakfast was held in the bride's married, and then settled in Port Macquarie. glory of God. R. V. Moe. home. It is their friends' sincere prayer that She was first interested in the Advent message these young people will bring honour and glory many years ago by the late Christian Rosendahl, JAMES-FRAMPTON. On Thursday, Feb- to their heavenly Father as they walk life's an early pioneer in this district. Over the years, ruary 7, 1974, Nyla June Frampton and Lyndsay pathway together. Ken R. Low. her contact with Adventists deepened her desire to join the remnant church. After a series of Graham James exchanged marriage vows. Nyla TOBIN-LANCASTER. The Brighton Sev- is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John studies last year, she was baptized, together enth-day Adventist church, South Australia, was with her daughter and son-in-law. She died Frampton of Oxford, New Zealand, and Lyndsay chosen for the uniting in holy wedlock, on is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur James of rejoicing in the blessed hope, and now awaits the January 20, 1974, of Ann Bernette Lancaster, call of the Life-giver. Pastor A. P. Salom was Christchurch. Both are currently employed in only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Lancaster associated with the writer at the funeral. the Sanitarium Health Food Company in Christ- of Sturt, South Australia, and Michael Stanley W. A. Baines. church. The bridal party was photographed in Tobin, whose mother, Mrs. P. Tobin, resides at the beautiful Factory gardens, and later, friends Warburton, Victoria. Angels of God witnessed and relatives met at the home of Mr. and Mrs. McPHAIL. Mildred Izant McPhail, aged the solemn exchange of marriage vows, after eighty-four years, passed away on March 5, 1974, Saunders (Senior) to wish Lyndsay and Nyla which a happy gathering fellowshipped at the well. We wish this new family much of God's at the Methodist Aldersgate House, Leichhardt, blessing as they begin life's journey together. wedding breakfast and expressed their best wishes New South Wales, after many years of ill E. C. White. to the happy couple. We believe that as Michael health. Baptized in May, 1919, she joined the and Ann set up a Christian home in Warburton, Stanmore church, where she was a member until the angels will continue to dwell therein. her death. At the Rookwood Cemetery she KIMPTON-JURY. January 7, 1974, was a G. B. Agars. happy day when friends and relatives gathered at sleeps in Christ, awaiting the call of the Life- the Brighton Seventh-day Adventist church, WALKER-PEASE. Sunday afternoon, Dec- giver to accept her reward for faithfulness here South Australia, to witness the exchange of ember 9, 1973, was a very special occasion for in this life. May God sustain and bring comfort marriage vows between Robyn Raelene Jury, Valerie Pease and Noel Walker. On that to her two remaining sisters and to her other second daughter of Brother and Sister R. Jury occasion, Valerie Ann Pease came as the first relatives. C. H. Raphael. of Renown Park, South Australia, and Raymond bride to the newly erected Townsville church, William Kimpton, youngest son of Brother and North Queensland, to be united in marriage with SPENCE. Sister Alberta Margaret Spence Sister W. L. Kimpton of Marino, South Aus- Noel Frederick Walker. Valerie is the youngest passed to her rest at the Bowral District Hos- tralia. After the solemn yet happy ceremony, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Pease of Tully, pital, New South Wales, on Monday, February Brother W. M. Phillips ably chaired the wedding while Noel is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. J. 18, 1974, after a long illness. Aged sixty-nine, breakfast, where friends and relatives of both F. Walker of South Townsville. As this our dear sister had courageously borne much families met to express good wishes for the respected young couple establish their home in suffering in recent months, and the Lord saw fit young couple's future happiness. As Raymond Townsville, we know the Lord will bless their to answer in this manner the earnest prayers on and Robyn continue to walk with God, their lives together and that they will continue to be her behalf. During the memorial service held home at Hackam will be as a light to those who a blessing and provide strong leadership in in the chapel of the beautiful Forest Lawn live around them. G. B. Agars. church activities for their fellow youth. Memorial Gardens, Leppington, those who W. R. Cross. mourned her passing were pointed to the words LEE-THRIFT. Two well-known young written of Mary, as she mourned the death of people of the Nunawading church, Victoria, were WILLIAMS-FRY. At the Auburn church, her brother. Immediately she heard the words. united in marriage on January 27, 1974. Warren New South Wales, on Sunday, March 3, 1974, "The Master cometh and calleth for thee, she Lee, only son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lee, Neville B. Williams, second son of Brother and arose quickly and came to Him," for Mary and Merlene Thrift, eldest daughter of Mr. and Sister Ron Williams of Yagoona. New South believed that Jesus did all things well. And Mrs. Lyndon Thrift, were the happy couple. Wales, was united in marriage with Kerry g. though to our finite minds there are many

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things hard to be understood, we may rest TY WANTED URGENTLY. Exacta camera. assured that the Lord does not willingly afflict Anyone having an Exacta camera for sale please the children of men, and we may confidently CAREER OPPORTUNITY write to Pastor Alec C. Thomson, 55 Yarravel grasp the promise that "he that believeth on Street, Kempsey, N.S.W. 2440, stating the price. Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live An opportunity exists at the Signs He urgently needs such a camera for his work in doing illustrations and pictures in again. And whosoever believeth on Me shall Publishing Company for a keen message never die." May this promise of our Lord his work for the aboriginal people. comfort and sustain our dear brother Kenneth young man 16 to 17 years of age to Spence as he awaits the coming of the Life- commence a printing apprenticeship. WANTED TO BUY. Dolls 40 years or older, giver. F. J. Gorry. in any repairable condition. Mrs. Ailsa Willis, Only those interested in making a Schoolhouse, Waikeria, Te Awamutu, New Zea- contribution to the work of God on THURLING. On March 4, 1974, Sarah land. Thurling quietly passed to her rest in the New a continuing basis should apply. Plymouth Base Hospital, New Zealand, at the Please write to: age of eighty-three. Sister Thurling had been a member of the remnant church since 1965 only, THE MANAGER, when she was baptized under the ministry of Signs Publishing Company, Pastor L. J. Cherry. She will be remembered Warburton, Victoria. 3799 for her devoted service through the Health and AUSTRALASIAN RECORD Welfare work. During a service at the New or phone Warburton 66 2501. Plymouth Adventist church, relatives and friends and Advent World Survey were pointed to the certain hope of a resurrection to come. After this we tenderly laid her to Official Organ of the rest at the Awanui Cemetery at New Plymouth, AUSTRALASIAN DIVISION OF SEVENTH- there to await the call of the Master. J. Veld. FASHION FABRICS. P.O. BOX 16, GLEN- DAY ADVENTISTS ORCHY, TASMANIA. 7010. DACRONS: florals, $1.30 per metre; TERYLENE/CHIF- TUAKE. Little Upokounga Tuake wandered FON : florals, $1.50 per metre; TERYLENE/ Editor R. H. PARR away from where his parents were working and LINEN: plain colours, $1.50 per metre; TERY- Associate Editor - was swept under a truck working on the Motor- K. S. PARMENTER LENE/GABARDINE : plain colours, $1.50 per Office Secretary - DULCE RICKARDS way construction in the heart of Auckland on metre; TERYLENE/JERSEY : $1.80 per metre. the afternoon of December 12, 1973. Two days All 1.14 metres (45-in.) wide. Samples avail- Wahroonga Representative later, he was laid to rest at the age of four able. Remnant parcels, $5 and $10. CELIA STOTESBURY years in the Mangere Lawn Cemetery. He was the son of John, church clerk of the large Pon- FLORAL SERVICE AT SYDNEY sonby church, and Mary Tuake, both respected ADVENTIST HOSPITAL members of our Rarotonga community. Comfort Our readers will be glad to learn that flowers, was given both in the home and at the graveside bowl arrangements, posies, and baskets of flowers Annual subscription—post paid: by the writer. These godly parents were a true may be ordered direct from the hospital's new All areas covered by the Australasian example of fortitude and Christian courage. Floral Boutique and delivered with your per- Eric P. Wolfe. sonal message to any patient in the hospital. Division $4.00 Write to : The Florist, Other countries $6.30 WARD. The funeral service of the late Sydney Adventist Hospital, Edgar Harrison Ward of Manly, New South 185 Fox Valley Road, Air Mail postage rates on application. Wales, was conducted at the Northern Suburbs WAHROONGA, N.S.W. 2076 Crematorium on March 9, 1974. Our brother or phone : Sydney 487 9111, Office. 48 4998 after • Order through your Adventist Book Centre or was born in Yorkshire, England, on July 1, 1889, hours. send direct to the Signs Publishing Company, and was by trade a draper. Late in life he Warburton, Victoria, Australia. 3799 FOR SALE: 3 B.R. Fibro cottage on 2 acres All copy for the paper should be sent to The joined the Adventist faith, being baptized by land. Close to beach. Half mile from town of Editor, RECORD, Signs Publishing Company. Pastor Arthur Bath. He leaves to mourn his Byron Bay, N.S.W. Recently renovated. H.W.S., Warburton, Victoria. 3799 passing, his wife and his two daughters, Melva septic. $20,000. R. S. Murray, C/- Warburton (Mrs. Ross Piper) and Dulcia (Mrs. John Sanitarium, Warburton, Victoria. 3799 Appearing regularly in the Australasian Record Adams) and their respective families. They will are articles from the Review and Herald, the always have memories of a good, kindly, Chris- LET US ATTEND TO YOUR TYRE PROB- general church paper of the Seventh-day Adven- tian gentleman who is today awaiting the call LEMS: City Rubber Co. Pty. Ltd., corner Meri- tists, published at Washington, D.C., U.S.A. of the Life-giver. Ken R. Low. vale and Russell Streets. South Brisbane. New Printed weekly for the Division by the tyres, recaps, retreads. Phone 41 1191 (Brisbane). Signs Publishing Co, Warburton. Victoria. WILLS. Ellen Bertha Wills, aged eighty-four years, passed peacefully to rest on February 1, VERMONT CHURCH CATERING COM- 1974. She joined the church in 1942, being MITTEE will look after that special occasion baptized by the late Pastor H. J. Meyers, and for you. Weddings, 21st Parties, Buffet Dinners was loved and respected as a devoted mother, —moderate prices, in the Eastern suburbs of DIRECTORY raising a family of ten children. She is sur- Melbourne. Ring M. Pietsch-874 7120; S. vived by nine children, most of whom hold Chapman-874 1412. AUSTRALIAN DIVISION OF responsible positions in the church, and twenty- SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS nine grandchildren. To all we extend Christian 198 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, N.S.W. 2076 sympathy and condolences, and point to Jesus, the true and only source of comfort. Services President R. R. Frame were held in the Bundaberg church, Queensland, Secretary - - K. S. Parmenter and at the graveside of the Bundaberg Cemetery. Treasurer L. L. Butler M. M. Kennaway. Assistant Secretary - R. A. Evans ATTENTION YOUNG ADVENTISTS Assistant Treasurer - A. H. Forbes Field Secretary - - - A. S. Jorgensen Auditor - - - - S. H. Macfarlane You could be one of today's nurses at the Associate Auditors - - - G. J. Bland RETURN THANKS Sydney Adventist Hospital if you: R. W. Richardson Mr. and Mrs. C. Mills, Darryl, Bronwyn, Grant and Lo-ann, wish to thank all kind • Are at least 17 years of age. Departmental Secretaries friends and relations for floral tributes, expres- • Possess school certificate or Education - - - E. G. McDowell sions of sympathy and acts of kindness in their matriculation. Health Food - - sad loss of their beloved son and brother, - - F. C. Craig • Have a certificate of health. Lay Activities - - - G. W. Maywald Desmond. Would all please accept this as a Health D. E. Bain personal expression of gratitude. • Are a baptized member of the church. Ministerial Association - C. R. Stanley "Even so them also which sleep in Jesus will • Have an interest in spiritual ministry. Sabbath School and God bring with Him." 1 Thess. 4: 14. Communication - - M. G. Townend Adventist nurses are the kind of people who Communication (Associate) - R. A. Vince A General Meeting of the Adventist Aviation like involvement. Meeting and understanding Publishing - - - - - J. W. Nixon Association is to be held on April 21 at 7.30 p.m. people. Getting more out of life than the or- Stewardship and Development J. H. Wade Temperance and Religious in the Avondale Memorial Church Hall. Election dinary nine-to-five person. Belonging to the of office-bearers and amendments to the constitu- Liberty - • - - - R. W. Taylor tion comprise the major business of the meeting. most dedicated profession. Being recognized Young People's Missionary All members are invited to attend. and respected all over the world. Meeting hu- Volunteer - - - - C. V. Christian Trust Services Director - W. E. Rudge man needs. Representing Christ to men and THINK ATTENTION! ERARING for your women. group conventions. Accommodation up to 80. Building available for meeting place. Excellent If you would like to be one of them, join the ADVERTISERS PLEASE NOTE! All ad- kitchen and servery facilities. Enquiries for July 10, 1974 (applications close March 30), or special rates and other particulars to Caretaker, vertisements should be sent to the editor at January 22, 1975, nursing class (applications Signs Publishing Company, Warburton, Victoria. S.D.A. Campground, Eraring, N.S.W. 2264, 3799 Phone 049-731233. close September 30). Advertisements approved by the editor will be ATTENTION! For your Easter holidays, Applications or enquiries to: inserted at the following rates: THINK ERARING on beautiful Lake Mac- Director of Nursing, First 25 words $2.00 240V Each additional 5 words - - 10 cents quarie. Electricity, caravans, 32V tent Sydney Adventist Hospital, sites. Septic, hot and cold showers, safe swim- Remittance and recommendations from local ming, excellent access boating and water ski-ing. 185 Fox Valley Road, pastor or Conference officer must accompany Can you beat this price? $12.00 Friday to WAHROONGA, N.S.W. 2076 copy. Monday includes vans, $10.00 tent sites. 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* Drs. Phil and Noelene Cappe are "holidaying" in FLASH POINT . South New Zealand. Notice the inverted commas. You see, Pastor David Lawson and the Drs. Cappe >(-- Be the first to know officially that Mr. Harold J. Win- ran a "Better Living" Programme in Greater Sydney deyer, secretary-treasurer of the Victorian Confer- last year with excellent results. Then Pastor L. re- ence (who has been, perhaps, sec.-treas. of more ceived a transfer to S.N.Z. With the persuasiveness Conferences in this Division than any other living of a true evangelist, he talked the Cappes into going soul—South New Zealand, South Queensland, to picturesque S.N.Z. for a "holiday" and fronting up Greater Sydney, Western Australia and Victoria), is with him every Sunday, Wednesday and Friday retiring on June 30 after thirty-six years of service, nights. Results have been uniformly good, with twenty-nine of them at the secretary-treasurer's desk. over half of the audiences (between 450 and 800) This week, the Victorian executive committee called non-Adventist. Mr. E. R. Piez, presently secretary-treasurer of the >(-- The audience looks to be settling down to a steady Papua New Guinea Union Mission, who was about to be granted permanent return. Victoria welcomes the 500 (week nights included) and the Cappes are rush- new secretary-treasurer, shedding a silent tear as it ing out to see the local beauty spots in between a does so in grateful memory of the man who elects to hectic programme. They've even FLOWN back to be lay down his pen. (Good fishing, Hal!) at a meeting. And it is paying off. Pastor Lawson has 380 names for visitation, and things have seldom How many of you ninety-two-year-olds have had a looked brighter. And the pastor is loud in his book published? Hardly anyone! Well, Pastor A. G. praises for the work of the good doctors. Who Stewart has. And how many of you have had a wouldn't be? copy of that book specially bound in leather by the publishers for presentation to the Queen? Not a >(-- While we are in South New Zealand, you ought to single one! But Pastor Stewart has. The book hear about the S.H.F. Factory there. Those who have arrived while Her Majesty was touring the South visited this little bit of horticultural heaven will know Pacific. Word filtered through to her that "In Letters that the gardens around the grounds are simply of Gold" had arrived and she hurried home to read it. breath-taking, even in a garden-conscious city like Of course, the official hand-out to the Press was that Christchurch. Well, every year the Canterbury Hor- the British elections were the reason, but we know ticultural Society runs a competition for gardens— the real reason, don't we? In the meantime, the homes, streets, industrial, and no doubt, several Queen's private secretary has written a glowing other categories. This year Our Factory won first thank-you letter to the Elder Statesman of Australa- prize (again) in the A Grade section for industrial sian Adventism, thanking him for his gift. By the Gardens. This year the Society had a special section way, you HAVE read "In Letters of Gold," haven't for gardens featuring the Commonwealth Games, you? It's really something. A collector's item. and Guess Who Won First Prize? RIGHT! Our Fac- tory (who else?) with a feature showing the British * Appeal for Missions! This you MUST know. The per Commonwealth Games motif. Splendid Work! Well capita honours for collecting go to that hard-working Done! Bravo! ! And Congratulations! ! ! Conference, led by the indefatigable (look up the pronunciation of that word in your dictionary; you x- Last month (sorry we're a mite late) Pastor and Mrs. may be surprised) Pastor Keith Hankinson, South H. E. Rice stopped over briefly in Sydney en route New South Wales, which has an unbelievable $19.81 to the U.S.A. Pastor Rice has been on volunteer ser- per head of its Adventist population. Next comes vice in Saigon, Vietnam. He is a former associate sec- South New Zealand with a new-record $17.59 and retary of the General Conference Health Department, third, also in the $17-bracket, is South Australia and recently retired in Colorado, after giving forty- ($17.01). Last on the list, with a quite-low-but-not- seven years of service to the denomination. finished-yet $5.36 is . . . but we mention no names, > The Australasian Division executive committee has and we make no enemies. appointed a committee to co-ordinate the transfer of >(-- Fifth report for the Ingathering is $33,864 which control of the Avondale Primary and High Schools takes the total for the Division to $583,350 as com- from the Avondale College to the North New South pared with $525,452 last year. Every year we seem Wales Conference. Hitherto the schools have been to break a record! Wherever will it end? operated as part of the college. There will continue >(.- Twenty-six churches get the banner for averaging to be close liaison and co-operation between the $25 per member (or more). Head of this noble band schools and the college, as the schools are closely is Greymouth, South New Zealand with an astro- associated with the teacher-training programme. nomical $100.31 per member! Next is Carmel Col- Pastor Peter A. Miller, president of the North-East lege, with a staggering $70.00, then follow Ararat Papua Mission, has been granted permanent return (Vic.), Woden Valley (S.N.S.W.), Oak Flats (S.N.S.W.), to the homeland in order to enable him to further his Gladstone (S.Q.), Oakleigh (Vic.), Penrith (Gr. Syd.), theological studies at Andrews University. Pastor Hamilton (Vic.), Panania (G.S.), Pine Rivers (S.Q.), Miller has a B.A. in theology from Avondale, and a Bathurst (S.N.S.W.), Colac (Vic.), Griffith (S.N.S.W.), Bachelor of Divinity from London University. It is Stawell (Vic.), Biloela (S.Q.), Broken Hill (S.N.S.W.), expected that a national minister will be appointed Campbelltown (G.S.), Cooma (S.N.S.W.), The Rock to the position vacated by Pastor Miller. (S.N.S.W.), Kellyville (G.S.), Dalby (S.Q.), Goulburn (S.N.S.W.), Aspley (S.Q.), Albury (S.N.S.W.), and )(._ "Finally, brethren . . .": Fathers are people who give Wagga Wagga (S.N.S.W.). South New South Wales their daughters away to men who aren't good lead in this group with ten churches! On behalf of enough for them, so that they can have grandchil- the mission field, Thank you, you lovely people. dren who are smarter than anybody else's.