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2 THESE TIMES/ September 1, 1977 Cover by Dave Darner, inside by Curtis Casey I 'M COMING home. It's all right if there isn't a bed. I'll sleep on the floor," writes sixteen-year-old Esperanza from her boarding school in Navojoa, Mexico. Home, where it's beans at noon, bean sandwiches at night, and refried beans for breakfast; where money's so scarce that all you can do is stare as the ice cream man jingles his way past the front gate. For her, home is Door of Faith Orphanage, a sprawling 160-year-old dude ranch, forty-two miles south of Tijuana in beautiful La Mision Valley, Baja California. In this quiet valley large eucalyptus trees sway in cool summer breezes, and decorative rocks painted white in the Mexican tradition grace the sloping landscape. It's the only home Esperanza remembers, and she's willing to sleep on the floor to be there. Door of Faith was founded in 1960 by Curtis and Sylvia Freeze, better known as Mamma and Papa Freeze. Since that time it has fed, clothed, and An aerial view of the Door of Faith Orphanage and La Misi6n Valley, Baja California. sheltered over eleven hundred needy Mexican children. established in the community. When a their homes at night to pray for the new baby is expected in the village or sick," says Papa Freeze. "We'd walk An escape from poverty. Children a family is without food or dothing, over little kids lying on the ground who come here are given a chance to Door of Faith is there to help. wrapped in rags. They went to bed step out of the poverty from which Ensenada social workers team with without a thing to eat. It got hold of they come. Rosario Cruz, for example, Door of Faith when a desperate me to where I couldn't eat; Mamma completed her training in bilingual situation arises and clothing is needed. couldn't eat. I said, 'We have to do education in the state of Florida this During the tragic floods in La Paz last something to help.' " past year to become a teacher. Oscar year, the Freezes helped Mexican Ramirez is working and interpreting authorities by supplying clothing and A small beginning. But at the time for a construction company in other help to survivors. they didn't know from day to day Ensenada; and Esperanza Cruz, who A humble man with little education, where the next dollar was coming came to the orphanage in infancy and guitar-playing Papa Freeze taught from. "Then one day thirty-five dollars wrote the above letter, has returned himself Spanish from a high school came in," Papa Freeze related. "I said, with her husband to help him pastor textbook years earlier in response to 'Mamma, we're going to rent us a little the La Mision Church. God's call to work with building and start feeding some Through their work, Door of Faith Spanish-speaking people in Puerto hungry little kids.' " has gained the confidence of the Rico. Then in 1958 God spoke again. They found a small house for Mexican people and become Never one to question God's leading, thirty-five dollars a month, then Freeze packed his suitcase and headed hopped into their old International Rhonda Casey, free-lance writer, teaches for Tijuana, Mexico, to start a new pickup and drove several hundred history, English, and journalism at a church. miles up and down California's Central junior high school in Sacramento, After a few weeks he and Mamma Valley, picking up beds, chairs, tables, California. Her articles have appeared in Freeze developed an inescapable and what-have-you from well-wishers. such publications as "Woman's World," burden for the Mexican children, many Papa Freeze remembers those meager "Today's Family," "Lady's Circle," and of whom lived in cardboard houses or beginnings. "Well, we wasn't broke, "Guideposts." abandoned cars. "They'd call us into but we's badly bent!" Photograph by Von Freeze THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 3 115701t4 t NU tiniZ/It. u r, 1. 1 ', LS TUNlk19 115 II .ire I 411 I sINLIGII Isl 111,11, Ill, TT ,liriNu )OR OF FAITH ORPHANAGE VISITORS WELCOME ADMITEN VISITANTES

Agnes Freeze helps "mop up," following one of the recent dam breaks, by clearing the debris which might back water up into the nearby buildings.

Two weeks later eight children were me," he says, " 'your work in Mexico man never knew what he gave his life living at Door of Faith, and a work to is done. You're in jail, and everything for." which the Freezes would devote the is ruined.' But then a scripture came to People of all faiths help support rest of their lives had begun. "Started me: 'Greater is he that is in you, than Door of Faith, as do groups like the there," beams Papa Freeze, "and we're he that is in the world' (1 John 4:4). I YMCA, Kiwanis, and Scouts. Von still a goin'." thanked God right then and prayed, Freeze, a son, who came in 1969 when The "goin' " wasn't always easy 'Unto him that is able to do exceeding the burden of work became too great though. Shortly after their move to La abundantly above all' I ask or think, I for the older Freezes, laughs and says, Misibn in 1963, tragedy struck. It was thank You, Father, for delivering me. I "Papa Freeze calls us the 'United unusually dark as they drove home refuse to doubt, I refuse to worry, I Brethren.' " along the bumpy Mexican road, the refuse to fear." back of their pickup camper loaded Donated food and medical services. with supplies purchased in San Ysidro, Three days after the accident Papa One of the biggest expenses is food, a town just north of the U.S.-Mexican Freeze was released on eight hundred and fortunately much is donated. A border. dollars bail put up by Dr. Wilson, a one-hundred pound sack of beans As they passed a bar and restaurant Christian who read of the accident in makes only three meals, and it takes a man plunged in front of their truck. the newspaper. Freeze was later nine to thirteen loaves of bread for just Seconds later a stunned Papa Freeze deared of all charges. one meal. "Meat is so rare," admits got back inside the camper. "He put One hour after his release, a U.S. TV Agnes, Von's wife, "we don't even his head down on the steering wheel," station called for an interview. Soon think about it." says Mamma Freeze, "and he just thousands of people had heard of Door Like food, medical and dental cried. 'Mamma,' he said, 'we're into it. of Faith, and hundreds offered their services are donated. Dentists from . . . That man's dead.' " help—a significant turning point in the nearby San Diego naval base care for Freeze remembers his time in the work. "That was the way God began to the children's teeth, and two nurses Tijuana jail. "Something would tell move," Mamma Freeze told us. "That from the Ensenada Health Department

THESE TIMES is published monthly (except July and September, when semimonthly) by the Southern Publishing Association of Seventh-day Adventists, 1900 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, Tennessee 37210. U.S.A. Second-class postage paid at Nashville, Tennessee. Subscription price $9.00 a year. Copyright, Southern Publishing Association, 1977. Volume 86, No. 10, September 1. 1977. 4 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 Photograph by Dave Coslett Their affection carries over to the with a scripture. "The Bible says in children's relationships with one Hebrews 11:6, 'But without faith it is another. impossible to please him: for he that "One of the most beautiful things at cometh to God must believe that he is, our home is the closeness of the older and that he is a rewarder of them that children to the smaller ones. It's not diligently seek him.' " unusual to see all ages (even high Their faith is rewarded, time after schoolers) in a circle, enjoying games time. A small boy once told Papa together. They love each other. Freeze, "We have no more flour and Ofttimes the older ones will help the only one can of milk. Now what will younger children with problems. we do?" When giving candy or fruit, they "I thought for a minute," remembers always call off the names of those not Freeze, "and the story in Genesis 22 present to make sure there is one for came to me where Abraham and Isaac them. I never cease to marvel at their were going up the mountainside, and thoughtfulness for each other." Isaac said, 'Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a A typical day. Life passes in a burnt offering?' And Abraham said, pleasant, but brisk, routine at Door of 'My son, God will provide.' So I said, Faith. Day dawns early, with the first 'God will provide.' Then I lifted up my bell to rise at six thirty. At seven hands and prayed, 'Thank You, Life hasn't always been easy for Papa o'clock the children line up in rows heavenly Father, for flour and thank and Mamma Freeze. They've gone with- outside the cafeteria and sing before You for milk,' just like I had it." out things most Americans take for breakfast. (The cafeteria is too small for Later that day Freeze was cutting granted. "But," says Papa Freeze, everyone to eat at once; so they eat in weeds in front of the orphanage when a "we've been happy in the work." shifts.) car drove up. "Could you folks use After breakfast it's a some flour?" the visitor asked. volunteer their time every Wednesday. three-quarter-mile walk for the sixty "We sure can!" Freeze said, almost A doctor in Rosarito sees the children children who attend the red-and-white before she finished speaking. free of charge and gives away medicine school in the village. In the afternoon As Papa Freeze carried it inside, the if he has it. there's study hall and chores. Every boy asked, "Yeah, but where's the Most children at Door of Faith are child who is old enough is responsible milk?" not orphans. For this reason adoption for making his bed and keeping the "It'll be here," he told the little is nearly impossible. "Many parents dormitory clean. Older children help skeptic. weep when children must be left and with the laundry, pick up trash, cut Shortly before sundown another would love to keep them," says Agnes. weeds, work in the kitchen, and sew. visitor drove up and asked whether "But they know they can't care for After the evening meal the younger they needed milk. Papa Freeze nearly them and realize they're better off here children are off to bed by six thirty, danced a jig on his way to the car to than starving at home." older children by eight thirty. All get that milk. A grinning boy helped The children's lives are so tragic that lights, except for teenagers', are out by him carry it in. the Freezes accept all they can. Often nine thirty, and another day ends at Their faith has cured more than little bellies are swollen from Door of Faith. hunger pangs. One year there was no starvation, and malnutrition has Raising one hundred children, money for several girls to attend caused mild to severe brain damage. leading a hand-to-mouth existence, Colegio del Pacifico, a Seventh-day But space is limited to one hundred and facing spiraling living costs might Adventist secondary school in children, and there are those who must unnerve some, but the Freezes find a Navojoa. Von sadly told them, "Girls, be turned away. "No room, no special joy in depending on God for if you don't pray, it's just impossible." room—the saddest cry we hear," says their needs. "You see, our heavenly They prayed. That night about dusk Papa Freeze. Father owns the whole world and a doctor who knew of the problem The Freezes are loving everything in it," declares Papa Freeze; drove to La Misi6n and pledged one parents—affectionate, devoted, loyal. "so we belong to Him. It's pleasing to hundred dollars a month for the girls' They are often surrounded by children, our heavenly Father for us to believe education. all chattering in Spanish, as everyone Him." Then a verse comes to mind as "That's the way the miracles tries to give a hug or kiss at once. he typically backs up his own views happen!" exclaims Agnes, her voice Photograph by Jack Briggs THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 5 Papa and Mamma Freeze with their orphanage family as it appeared in 1964. Current space limits the family to about one hundred children.

faltering, quietly near tears. "It would February, 1976, Von and Agnes were Remembering those days, Mamma take away all the joy and thrill if we outside shoveling mud when Agnes Freeze says, "I don't think I've ever knew what was coming from day to heard a rumbling noise. The crescendo worked so hard in my life or gone day." of sound became a dull roar, and the through so much. You just have to be earth vibrated. They turned and saw in God's will to do it." Although the orphanage has fourteen huge tidal waves of brown water Papa Freeze nods his head and is workers (Von and Agnes, plus two swirling wildly down the arroyo quiet. The eucalyptus leaves rattle in others, are volunteers), another couple toward the baby house, carrying tree the slight breeze. A child laughs. A is needed to help supervise. trunks, brush, and other debris in its door slams, and someone yells across Von, who recently suffered a stroke, wake. A dam in the mountains behind the play yard in Spanish. has been warned by his doctor to slow the orphanage had overflowed. (Since He looks over at the children playing down. "We've been praying 1972 the dam has broken three times ball, then across the green valley to the desperately for a couple," says Agnes. and overflowed once.) They screamed sage-dotted mountains. "Yes," he "But they'd have to be 'called,' because the alarm, and frightened workers agrees, "but we've been happy in the it really gets rough. In the winter when frantically rushed the children to work." the lights go out, and you run for a safety. nosebleed at night; when the rains Life hasn't always been easy for Papa Freeze died recently. At a come, and you slip and slide in this Mamma and Papa Freeze. They've memorial service held for him, the first adobe mud; when you have mountains gone without things most Americans mother who asked Papa and Mamma of clothes you can't get dry because the expect of the good life. During the Freeze for help spoke, bringing to dryer doesn't work; and when you early days at La Misi6n there was no mind precious and touching incidents can't cook or use hot water because electricity. The laundry was done on a from the past. Life at La Misi6n won't you're out of butane—that's the testing washboard in an old metal tub. They be the same without him. For those time. That's when you really have to used kerosene lights for seven years wishing to correspond with Mrs. be called." and took the children to the beach or Freeze, her mailing address is Door of Winters are more than just river to bathe because they didn't have Faith Orphanage, Box 1387, San trying—they're dangerous. In a bathtub. Ysidro, California 92073.

6 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 Photograph courtesy Freeze family 1 I ' A I. I ILW II 1. 1 1111 0 `14 I I L

OUT OF THE CORNER of my eye, I noted .111W.7, the temperature gauge flashing a red warning. Almost at the same instant tlry' steam began to spray out from beneath the hood of our Buick station wagon. I pulled off to the side of the road and watched helplessly as the contents of the radiator boiled in a murky stream across the highway. Fortunately there were four or five houses nearby, so making a phone call shouldn't be difficult. But after knocking patiently, and futilely, at four doors, I wasn't so sure. This must be a neighbor- hood of working women. Well, there was one more house, and I could hear voices and a radio playing—surely hopeful signs. I pushed the doorbell, and inside some- where a chime responded pleasantly. It was a split level, and just above my head a teenager raised a window and yelled impatiently, "What d'ya want?" Either she or the chime was in the wrong house. I explained that my car had broken down, and I needed only to make a phone call. "Wait a minute. I'll ask my mother." downstairs yet." vation, beatings, and every imaginable She disappeared. My watch said 9:22. suffering. Des Pres says large numbers I admired the long sweep of mani- The window closed. I made my way of men and women died because "they cured lawn, the bed of pink geraniums back along the driveway, down the failed to strive for life with every fiber at the doorstep. The day, young and road toward my wounded car, and on of their being." still endowed with dew and possibil- some distance in the other direction But the conclusion which most inter- ities, made it hard to be anything but toward a lone house, where fortunately ested me as a Christian was that only optimistic on such a morning. I met a warmer reception. those individuals who retained their com- The frowzy teenager returned and Months later I read Terrence Des passion and concern for others came pressed her nose against the screen. Pres's study of prisoners of war en- home. He quoted one Treblinka sur- "Sorry, my mother says we're not up titled The Survivor. He analyzed, after vivor as saying, "In our group we and about yet. You'll have to go to intensive research, the reasons why shared everything; and the moment the neighbors." some prisoners survived the horrors of one of the group ate something with- "There's no one home," I answered German and Russian prison camps out sharing it, we knew it was the be- meekly. "I tried them all." while others died. He shares several ginning of the end for him." "Oh?"—a faint relenting. conclusions, all of them enlightening Des Pres shares a quote from the From another room a strident voice and sobering. book Night by Elie Wiesel. An "old" slashed the August morning. "Shut There was, first of all, the element prisoner is speaking to new arrivals: that window, Mary. I told you to tell of what he termed "luck." Those too "We are all brothers, and we are all her it's too early. There's nobody old, too young, and too ill were soon suffering the same fate. The same eliminated. Second, there was among smoke floats over all our heads. Help June Strong, of Ba- the survivors a universal self-respect, one another. It is the only way to tavia, New York, is a a kind of dignity in the most awful sur- survive." lecturer and author of roundings. These people attempted to For some reason my thoughts turned the book "Journal of a maintain a form of cleanliness, when to my friends of the split level on the Happy Woman." She no real cleanliness was possible. sunny August morning. I wondered enjoys people, writ- Another characteristic common to all how they would have fared at Ausch- ing, gardening, and survivors was a fierce will to live which witz . . . or how any of us would have sewing. could not be snuffed out by filth, star- for that matter.

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A CONGRESS of sixty-one students at the Temple of Fremont. The Seventh-day but one. Others lunge toward freedom University of Connecticut has found no Adventist Church in Ohio plans a re- and selfhood and 'do their own thing' clear evidence that transcendental tirement center in Miamisburg. with the therapy of their choice in what meditation (TM) has any therapeutic has been called the great 'Me Decade.' effects on its users. 331 million more pieces of Scripture No one is likely to have the best of both David C. Zuroff examined students World distribution of the Holy Scrip- worlds, but no one need settle for the after some took the TM course and tures by the United Bible Societies worst of each, either."—Reprinted with others took a training program in reached a new high last year. Nearly permission from Evangelical Newsletter, muscle relaxation. Psychological 311 million Bibles, New Testaments, Copyright, 1977, Evangelical Minis- measurement techniques showed that and smaller portions of the Scriptures tries, Inc., Philadelphia, PA 19103. TM had no effect on the subjects' were distributed worldwide, according scores on psychological maladjust- to the annual report of the American Adventist missionaries return to Zaire ment, frequency of drunkenness, or Bible Society. The society is one of A dozen Seventh-day Adventist for- marijuana use, an Associated Press fifty-nine organizations that belong to eign missionaries who had been evacu- report indicates. the world fellowship. ated from Zaire have now returned to that country. The missionaries had Lutherans hit IRS American religion is like Heinz: moved to Zambia when it appeared A joint Lutheran declaration states it comes in 57 varieties that the mission where they were sta- that the Internal Revenue Service is When it comes to religion, Americans tioned might be threatened by fighting. making "an unwarranted intrusion into find themselves at a cafeteria line, Songa Mission is located near the area the affairs of the church." The statement overwhelmed with custom-fashioned where Zaire has been invaded by on behalf of the American Lutheran and tailor-made faiths for every con- rebels. The mission includes a hospital, Church and the Lutheran Church in sumer and customer around. Every- a school, a small leper colony, and the America describes new IRS regulations thing looks as good as everything church office headquarters for that re- as "theological judgments." Released else, and they simply cannot make up gion. A telex to Seventh-day Adventist by the Lutheran Council in the U.S.A., their minds to bite in anywhere, writes world headquarters in Washington, the statement says the state has "no Martin Marty, professor of church his- D.C., reports the situation has "re- right to define [the term] 'church.' " tory at the University of Chicago, in turned to normal." At issue is the filing of informational The Church Herald (April 15, 1977), returns by integrated auxiliaries of magazine of the Reformed Church in Campbell's finds itself in hot water churches. The IRS regulations have America. A vice-president of a company listed been opposed also by Baptists, Roman "Given this confusion," writes high among sponsors of violent tele- Catholics, Mormons, Seventh-day Ad- Marty, "the religious institution does vision programs concedes that citizen ventists, and the National Council of not define much, and people make their pressure forced the company to rewrite Churches. religion a private and thus invisible its policy. affair. . . . So they put together a com- John Preston, vice-president for Churches set up pletely private recipe of elements bor- marketing for Campbell's Soup, Cam- retirement communities rowed from childhood Sunday School den, New Jersey, said that the company Retirement communities seem to be faith, yoga from the local 'Y,' Zen from was "offended and shocked" by its growing in popularity these days. Now, a college course, Martin Buber from a rank of eleventh among top corporate churches are getting into the act. A Jewish friend, astrology from the morn- sponsors of violence on TV program- Baptist church in Florida plans to estab- ing paper, Oral Roberts from the tele- ming. "I think you'll see less violence lish a model community program for vision set—and they never meet anyone on television this year." senior citizens around a church com- else who has the same set of meanings. Mr. Preston appeared at the Chevy plex. Residents of the complex will buy "Over against the invisible religion Chase Baptist Church in a debate with their way into the community. What and infinite varieties of choice, then, Ted Carpenter, director of the National would normally be the profit from the people try to find their way back to Citizens' Committee for Broadcasting, operation will be used to build a one- roots. . . . This means that we see which did the ranking. million-dollar sanctuary and multipur- religious life from the viewpoint of a pose complex. woman, a youth, a member of a race, Some abortion doctors The pastor of the First Baptist Church a nation, a people, a denomination or experience guilt in Boynton Beach, Florida, has founded confession." "There may be a new abortion- a corporation to get that project under In light of this, Marty concludes that trauma in the land—not where one way. A similar Christian senior citizens' people still have to pick their way. expects it, in the psyche of the pregnant community is being developed in Cali- "Some lean to authority and security woman, but in the psyche of the doctor fornia by the Stoney Brook Full Gospel and ask leaders to screen out all signals who performs this legal and much-

8 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 ru yr ,tirttor tArt 11 1,i <--1-•tv . ..x.e2Ce- t.1r4r..rt P4 r( OTCO`1,,,,letn6C In addition, "the mother who is a FmTt YA4 V-cr-reu ;1z-ova., r-1-1 1.11 conscientious cook can be an artist. The rot - - 1-• - -77 - family that is cared for by such a home- qgt er-xu-cor, yt411.ft,'rt maker is blessed. mOteAT -1-1-reVri-rt cek "The afternoon hours spent helping .44 €-Xl-r-TTO it Or )-( cZrtma ut. B children with their homework, with c-1--re o 0A...tr. reading them stories, with listening to r"4 et f Yv-P-6141(.4errArtrw c-4, f-olis•- their woes, are hours of transcendent *4 ArinG-Atrei ''eresiro A)-'1• roq-o-trreff-try ?J'H X)4r* importance to the youngsters and, ulti- `4%6 2s. pjAciri o 11.41.4i ()104.--z-rf I p mately, to society. I would go further. A4-ri-but rec. cre-i.en-044.0 lti cy eci rtdrycre 9)1 YI7D The act of being a mother, of nurturing -ref sAt—ti eq. /4-0-trorAte,- children, is probably more important at x:44 than 90 percent of the work done by 90 percent of the nation's work force." —Reprinted with permission from Evangelical Newsletter, Copyright, 1977, Evangelical Ministries, Inc., 1716 Duke University research on Jesus the Old and New Testaments near the Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Dr. James H. Charlesworth (above time of Christ, i.e. around 167 BC to left) head of Duke University's pseud- AD 49. epigrapha department, Durham, North The other photograph (above right) 1,300 "new-time religions" in U.S. Carolina, is pioneering, together with is of the third century papyrus entitled since 1965 The American Jewish Committee re- other scholars, a research project at Bodmer Papyrus II, which is exhibited ports that "more than thirteen hundred Duke. It throws new light on the teach- in the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana, and 'new-time religions' have appeared in ings of Jesus, based on pseudepigrapha preserves part of the eleventh Ode of the United States since 1965." Rabbi (writing under assumed names), which Solomon.—Reproduced by permission James Rudin of the Committee's De- have been dated to a period between of Bibliotheca Bodmeriana trustees. partment of Interreligious Affairs says that many have long since disappeared and others have merged or been ab- sorbed. But Rabbi Rudin believes the desired operation," claims Norma 1977, Evangelical Ministries, Inc., 1716 sheer number of these high-intensity Rosen in The New York Times Magazine Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103. groups indicates a theological and (April 17, 1977). spiritual hunger present in America Although most doctors rarely express The homemaker's career today. Rudin made his report at a their feelings about performing abor- is not a waste session on the impact of religious cults tions, one doctor, who resigned his Some feminists love to ridicule on Jewish youth, held during the com- job as head of a nonprofit abortion women who choose to stay home and mittee's seventy-first annual meeting clinic in New York after a year and a raise a family, much to the dismay of in New York. half and 60,000 successful abortions, Edwin Roberts, who speaks out in The commented in The New England Journal National Observer (May 2, 1977). YMCA reports membership boom of Medicine, "I am deeply troubled by According to Roberts, housekeeping Business is booming for the Young my own increasing certainty that I had may involve many boring and taxing Men's Christian Association. Accord- in fact presided over 60,000 deaths." jobs, but so do many jobs in the ing to chief staff executive Robert Rosen found that other doctors' reac- business world. For example, in Wash- Harlan, YMCA membership in the tions to performing abortions varied ington, D.C., thousands of bureaucrats United States has passed the nine widely. Some derive great gratification resemble automatons in a bucket bri- million mark, up two and a half million from their work. "They recall with gade, but instead of moving buckets, in five years. In line with a policy horror the era before abortions were they move pieces of paper. voted two years ago, the YMCA is be- legal. They feel that they are saving However, "many aspects of the coming a family organization. Over two women's lives, both emotionally and homemaker's occupation are either thirds of its members are now women physically." appealing or challenging, or both. and girls. However, some doctors experience When the mother is wheeling a cart Harlan says there has been a trend guilt and despair, admit to heavy drink- around a supermarket, she is a purchas- back to more traditional ways of expres- ing, and complain of nightmares. One ing agent, an economist, and a nutri- sing the YMCA's Christian heritage doctor, in the midst of every abortion he tionist. Her decisions affect her family's and purpose. For a number of years performs, indicated that he "imagined health and financial situation. Each the YMCA has been open to people that the fetus was resisting its own abort- purchase is a vote, and so she is a part regardless of their religious faith. The ing, hanging onto the walls of the uterus of the huge market mechanism that National Council of U.S. YMCA's favors with its tiny fingernails, fighting to stay helps determine the price and availa- keeping that open position while still inside."—Reprinted with permission bility of thousands of foods and manu- providing a program in harmony with from Evangelical Newsletter, Copyright, factures." Christian principles. i• Photograph by Religious News Service THESE TIMES /September 1, 1977 9

How to conquer depression

A psychologist examines the physical and mental factors that propel people into depression and provides practical suggestions on how to shake off depression.

by Elden M. Chalmers

DEPRESSION can happen any time in men over the age of sixty. Rates for prophet] have passed one of your from the cradle to the grave. Even women are much lower. The loss of a psychological tests as being babies as young as seven to fifteen sense of personal worth, combined emotionally healthy?" The rest of the months of age can be depressed. It with a hopeless outlook for the future, question betrayed the marks of a happens when they are separated from can trigger depression. The elderly skeptic deeply prejudiced against a loving mother, feel emotional often are unable to accept their new psychology and psychologists. neglect, or sense that the mother role of increasing dependency, their I replied, "If you could go through herself is downcast and despondent. waning physical strength and three years of famine, fed only by the Babies become withdrawn and flexibility, the loss of some deeply ravens, all the while haunted by the inactive after an initial burst of crying, loved person, or apparent financial thought that the king's forces were out making no demands on their insecurity. The closeness of a new to slay you; if you could face 450 environment and showing increasing loved one or the genuine caring and prophets of Baal thirsting for your life, feelings of hopelessness and sadness. cheerful sharing of a son or daughter then, after performing an outstanding Sometimes they cry intermittently but or younger brother or sister have all miracle to exonerate the God of are mainly unresponsive and listless. helped many of these out of their heaven, learn that the king's wife had They show feeding disorders, often depression and kept others from even vowed you would not live; if your regurgitating their food and sleeping experiencing it. work seemed all in vain; if, only after excessively. all this you would suffer a spell of One baby developed a depression Even the faithful Christian is not depression, you would probably pass because his mother was uneasy about beyond the burden of depression. Job, my psychological tests for emotional caring for him. Afraid to hold him, she one of the leading figures of the Old health with flying colors!" Yes, even avoided him except for his obvious Testament, cried out: Elijah became depressed. But God physical needs. After talking to her "Wherefore then hast thou brought loved him and sent an angel to sustain pediatrician, she was able to relax and me forth out of the womb? Oh that I him even in his depression. give her baby the warmth and loving had given up the ghost, and no eye care he so much needed, and her baby had seen me! . . . I was at ease, but he Life loses its meaning. Anyone who began to smile and to conquer his hath broken me asunder. . . . He has suffered from depression knows depression. poureth out my gall upon the ground. how terrible it is! You feel all alone, Let's consider depression among the . . . I have sewed sackcloth upon my and nobody seems to understand. If aging. Suicides occur most frequently skin, and defiled my horn in the dust. somebody succeeds in sparking you My face is foul with weeping, and on with hope, the spark quickly dies. It Elden Chalmers, professor of pastoral my eyelids is the shadow of death. . . . seems as if there is no use. The other care at Andrews University Theological I have said to corruption, Thou art my symptoms are many and widely Seminary, Berrien Springs, Michigan, is father: to the worm, Thou art my different for different people and author of "Guidelines to Christian Living." mother, and my sister. And where is different circumstances. One finds A clinical psychologist, evangelist, and now my hope?" concentration difficult, and the lecturer, he conducts family-life seminars. After one of my lectures on morning is probably the worst time of He has appeared on several TV and radio emotional health, someone turned in the day. programs. the question, "Would Elijah [a Biblical Everything takes extra effort. You

Photograph by Sallie India Linebaugh/Image THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 11 Many factors can feel washed out and tired. You can't cause depression: in B12, can be cooked like cabbage or make up your mind about anything. kale or put in a raw tossed salad. And of course you have no ambition or bad diet, low blood Meals should be eaten slowly and interest in what is around you. You sugar, guilt, and food masticated thoroughly to make may even feel guilty, and yet not be good blood. Low thyroid can be sure what about—or you may know financial or marital corrected by your family physician. So that many others have felt forgiveness difficulties. much for avoiding the physiological for the same things or worse, but that causes of depression. doesn't help you at all. You just feel sure God has forsaken you, and you Value of positive thinking. If every may even be scared and cry a lot more member of the family would practice or become easily irritated. Perhaps you positive thinking about life (see box), feel you are about to lose your mind. we all would be building our sense of Sometimes depressed people sleep personal worth, and feelings of fitfully and awaken very early, long and bring on feelings of depression. depression would seldom come, if before they are rested. Others have ever. If they did, they would be trouble getting to sleep. They don't feel How can we avoid these spells of short-lived. like eating. They have spells of depression? Nobody has all the In my teens I memorized passages of dizziness and disturbing palpitations answers. But here are a few very Scripture that were to become the of the heart. The symptoms are many, important suggestions: guiding mottoes of my life: and most depressed people do not Make sure that your meals are eaten "I can do all things through Christ experience them all. The symptoms at regular times, spaced about five which strengtheneth me" (Philippians differ for different people and for hours apart, and moderate in size. 4:13). different circumstances. Regularity in your meal schedule is "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, important in regulating blood-sugar do it with thy might" (Ecdesiastes What causes feelings of depression? levels and in providing your digestive 9:10). Usually a combination of causes hits system with its necessary rest. "Count it all joy when ye fall into us. We might be low in blood sugar, Many disturbed and easily divers temptations; knowing this, that low in hemoglobin, or low in thyroid. I depressed children come from homes the trying of your faith worketh have found these three to be the most where mealtime is unimportant. They patience. But let patience have her common physical causes of depression. developed habits of eating "junk food" perfect work, that ye may be perfect Some authorities think that there is in at all hours of the day or night. and entire, wanting [or lacking] in some instances an upset or defect in Refined sweets, if used at all, should nothing" (James 1:2-4). amine metabolism. But often the be used very sparingly. Carbohydrates "Thanks be to God, which giveth us problem is not physical at all. should come from fruits and the victory through our Lord Jesus Some incident may trigger off a whole-grain foods, such as wheat, Christ" (1 Corinthians 15:57). whole chain of thoughts that corn, oats, and millet. Low Encourage the family to find exaggerate our failure experiences, and hemoglobin can usually be prevented powerful Bible passages like these, we feel totally incapable and worthless. by meals rich in iron, vitamin C, and memorize them, and share them A surrender of our otherwise highest vitamin B12. The highest during family worship. You will be moral principles in a moment of concentrations of iron for the helping to build the emotional health weakness can trigger the deepest ovo-lacto-vegetarians (those who eat of your family. These suggestions will depression with feelings of terrible eggs and drink milk) are found in toughen up your emotional fibers. guilt and unworthiness. I have seen dried fruits, dark leafy green such persons experience extreme vegetables, whole grains, eggs, and A change of environment or activity. sensations of nausea, often followed by cheese. Eggs and cheese should be But what do we do when depressing vomiting. Repeated financial used sparingly, however. feelings and thoughts hit us? The difficulties, mounting debt, failure in Adequate amounts of B12 are moment you sense this happening, marriage or child training—any of provided by even small daily intakes of deal with them decisively. Physically these will tend to drain off nervous milk and cream or cottage cheese. move out of the spot where you are energy, disrupt the chemical balance, Comfrey, a vegetable source fairly rich and think about something you can do

12 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 How to think positively

How CAN we avoid having thoughts that make us depressed? • First, develop the habit of thinking of good things—interesting things: your successes, achievements, opportunities for service, people in need whose lives you can brighten. • Second, develop the habit of looking at every problem and complete surrender to His revealed will difficulty as a stepping-stone to victory. I have never forgotten a as found in the Bible. cartoon I saw when I was just a lad. A young boy with a saw in his If your feelings of depression are right hand looked with dismay at a piece of board with a notch he had accompanied by feelings of failure and just cut out to fit around a post. It was obvious he had cut out the worthlessness, dwell for a few wrong side of the board, but I'll never forget the caption of the moments upon some of your cartoon. It read: "Even a mistake shows you've tried!" Look at every achievements and successes in life. In mistake as something you can profit from—a stepping-stone to victory! fact, it's good to review many of these • Third, feel yourself toughening up the muscles of your character high points of success in your life as you tackle the unpleasant tasks, the mundane chores, the messy during times when you are not jobs. And then, take as your motto, "I'll always be true to my depressed so that it will be easier to think of them when you need to. conscience." Remember, you were made to succeed, • Fourth, make a habit of smiling at people from the inside; practice and just as a child gets up after falling feeling your happy thoughts toward the people you meet. and learns to walk, so if you will keep • Fifth, memorize key Scriptural promises that can carry you through getting up to try again, you will periods of discouragement or despondency. achieve success. Incidentally, parents should see to it that children learn to succeed even in small things and to enjoy their successes. Teach them how with your hands. A change of and that when one fires, nearby to do things that will give them a sense environment will help you change centers tend to fire too. In view of this, of achievement and personal worth. your thoughts. Deliberately bring your it is easy to see why one discouraging Minimize their defeats and maximize their mind to a new task—scrubbing, thought will trigger off another and successes. digging, planting. Drink a glass of still another until all we can think of is If the depression was triggered water. Breathe deeply out in the fresh something discouraging! So when this because you were rejected by someone air. Vigorously wash your face and the happens, move out of the place where very important to you, get busy back of your neck with cold water. you are thinking these thoughts to lending a helping hand to the Take a warm shower followed by a help your thoughts tie into more unfortunate and needy. Do things for cold one. pleasant things. Do something little children and for the aging; they Any of these mechanical methods different and resolutely make the effort will appreciate your caring, and you'll will tend to shift the circulation of the to change the stream of your thinking. begin to feel your importance to blood and the firing patterns of your Yes, it does take effort and people. nervous system and make it easier for determination to change our thoughts Feelings of depression are always you to use your willpower to think of and feelings—but these mechanical characterized by negative the positive, wholesome, and movements will help us to do it. thoughts—negative thoughts about rewarding experiences of your life. yourself, about your circumstances, As you do these things, think new, Guilt-caused depression. If the and about your future. And because invigorating thoughts. Thoughts get depression-triggering thought these negative thoughts are greatly tied into our environments and our produced feelings of guilt and exaggerated and involve the deepest activities. The places where you have unworthiness, follow the Bible steps to emotions, they tend to get locked in to thought these invigorating, victorious resolve these feelings of guilt. If you've reverberating circuits in your nervous thoughts will tend to trigger them off been holding on to known sin, confess system, establishing themselves as again. it to God; apologize if you have habits in the process. Dr. Wilder Penfield, world-famous wronged someone; and make the If these feelings of depression build brain surgeon who has contributed supreme decision that regardless of the up so strongly and tightly that you much to our present knowledge of apparent cost to you you will use your can't handle them, seek out good brain activity, told me that his studies powers and strength and your professional help. The sooner you do, have shown that brain centers God-given energy to get that sin out of the easier it is for the therapist to help triggering similar thoughts and your life for all time. Make the you break up the undesirable thought feelings are located next to each other supreme commitment to serve God in patterns.

THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 13 Everyone will receive a summons to this court, and everyone must appear. How will the Judge of the universe rule in your case? by Edward Heppenstall

L ATE ONE NIGHT the phone at my I sat throughout the trial until the You did your best to lead me to be- house rang. The voice of a former judge called me to the bar. "I under- come a genuine Christian. I know student of mine told me he had been stand you have been this boy's friend better; I am a big boy now. The re- arrested on a morals charge. Would I and counselor for four years," he said. sponsibility is mine." help him? He had spent four years in "Before I sentence him, I want to make When the judge pronounced sen- college. During that time I had given sure that my judgment is made in face tence, no one laughed. All those af- him many hours in counseling. The of all the facts. Do you know of any rea- fected were very depressed. There climax came in the courtroom. The son why this professed Christian would be no appeal to a higher court. evidence was presented. The time came young man should not be sent to for judgment. prison? What have you done over the If you were brought to trial today, years to prevent this kind of behavior? charged with a serious offense, how Theologian Edward Heppenstall, of Car- If there are any excuses to be made for would you feel? If Jesus Christ were mel, California, has written three books: him, I want them now." the Judge presiding in that court, what "Our High Priest," "Salvation Unlim- I turned to Bill, asking, "How many would you say? It is a pertinent ques- ited," and "In Touch With God." He, times have I counseled you through tion, because this is exactly what is with three others, authored "Perfection— the years on this issue?" going to happen; "for the Father the Impossible Possibility" and contrib- "More times than I can remember," judgeth no man, but hath committed uted to the "Seventh-day Adventist Bible was his answer. all judgment unto the Son" (John 5:22). Commentary." He has conducted exten- "Would it have helped if I had talked I think Christ would weep if we did sion classes for theological students in with you more about it? Did we fail not qualify for everlasting life. Even England, Australia, Japan, Singapore, you in any way back there? Do you He would be unable to understand Jamaica, and the Philippines, as well as have any excuses to make for this how people can be lost forever in face seminars for ministers in the U.S.A. and moral lapse?" of all He has done to save them. There Africa. "No. I did not need any more time. are few things more depressing than

14 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 Illustration by George Ulrich/Firestone the decision of a judge that goes son to judge our lives. Christians justified or condemned. But this does against a man. know that Jesus will not bring them to not make the heavenly judgment un- Would you be afraid to have the rec- judgment in order to accuse or con- necessary. The one is private, known ord of your whole life opened up for demn them but to justify them. We only to God. The other is public, a investigation? The judgment will be need not fear that Christ will deal judgment hour for the manifestation an opening of the books, a revelation harshly with those who have put their of the righteous judgment and char- from the detailed records of heaven. trust in Him now. Our union with Him acter of God. "The judgment was set, and the books will ensure forgiveness and justifica- His daily judgment is known only to were opened" (Daniel 7:10). tion when our names come before the Himself. Only God knows at this The recording books of heaven will court. Then we shall see the infinite moment who are saved and who are tell the whole story. All the facts about love of Christ toward all those who are lost. But the righteous judgment of us are written there. In the judgment allied with Him. God will take place before the court of Christ will require nothing but the "With all this in mind, what are we heaven, before the hosts of the angels, truth, the whole truth. We would all to say? If God is on our side, who is and before the inhabitants of a million be wiser and more concerned if we against us? . . . Who will be the ac- other worlds. Then Christ will make believed God's Word when Paul says, cuser of God's chosen ones? It is God known the final state of all men. "We shall all stand before the judg- who pronounces acquittal; then who ment seat of Christ. . . . So then every can condemn? . . . It is Christ, . . . Judgment according to deeds. It one of us shall give account of himself who is at God's right hand, and indeed is somewhat surprising to discover to God" (Romans 14:10-12). There is pleads our cause" (Romans 8:31-34, that the principle of judgment is al- no possibility of a mistake's being NEB). most uniformly according to deeds. made. The Word of our Saviour and Only a public hearing would satisfy The apostle Paul speaks of "the day our Judge will not be disputed. God's people. So deep will be their of wrath and revelation of the righ- gratitude and so ardent their love for teous judgment of God; who will For all to see? Does the opening of the Saviour that in all their sin and render to every man according to his the books mean the exposing of the guilt they will want to have the relation deeds" (Romans 2:5, 6). "For we must record of our lives to the gaze of all the of His mercy, patience, and forgiving all appear before the judgment seat of universe? There is reason to believe it love perfectly manifested. What more Christ; that every one may receive will. That day when we stand before appropriate platform presents itself the things done in his body, according God will be one open to the public before the universe than this revelation to that he hath done, whether it be around the universe. Judgment must of God's unending love? What grander good or bad" (2 Corinthians 5:10). rest on an all-sufficient ground. Christ occasion is there for the glory of God, It is evident from these Scriptures will uphold the honor of God's char- too sublime for sinful man to have con- that all men will receive the sentence acter as it is reflected in His holy law. ceived, to be made known? For Christ of life or death based on their conduct There will be no hushing up of un- will confess with joy the names of all —what they have done in this life. settled accounts. God's judgment will His children to the Father, to the angels, This conduct will be the evidence be true and will stand forever. "God and to all the universe. whether they have yielded themselves shall bring every work into judgment, "He that overcometh, the same shall to the Spirit of God or to Satan. The with every secret thing, whether it be be clothed in white raiment; and I emphasis here is that men's works or good, or whether it be evil" (Eccles- will not blot out his name out of the deeds in this life are a revelation iastes 12:14). book of life, but I will confess his of character. Deeds will go far toward Are we going to be less afraid be- name before my Father, and before determining a man's destiny in the cause Jesus Christ is to be the Judge? his angels" (Revelation 3:5). judgment. What would such a judgment fore- All this will be done with love and Can anything be fairer than this? bode? mercy, without any doubt as to the Judgment will be based on the whole I can conceive of our Lord seated eternal security of the saints. They life. Christ stated the principle in the judgment, talking to us about will have no reason to be afraid of the of judgment when He said, "Ye shall the way we have lived our lives, com- outcome. know them by their fruits" (Matthew pelling us to examine ourselves. Is it Even those who are lost will in the 7:16). Everyone will be sent to his possible in face of all the facts that end perceive the righteous judgment proper place according to the choices Christ will proclaim us justified and of Christ upon their lives. They will and deeds of his life here on earth that He will silence all the accusations agree there is all the reason in the —the righteous into everlasting life that might be made against us? The world why they should be excluded and the wicked into everlasting apostle John tells us, "God is love; he from heaven. destruction. who dwells in love is dwelling in God, If we clearly understand this, we and God in him. This is for us the per- Two types of judgment. There is a shall consider seriously the nature of fection of love, to have confidence on sense in which God's judgment of our responsibility to obey God. All our the day of judgement, and this we can men continues daily. To Him the conduct would be different if we rea- have, because even in this world we books are always open and each lized that at any time now our cases are as he is" (1 John 4:16, 17, NEB). one's account balanced daily so that could be brought into the heavenly Few of us would desire another per- every man stands before God either court for investigation.

THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 15 Freedom to disobey? It is a great mis- Of what particular time was Daniel take to believe that the way we live is speaking when he prophesied that of little account in deciding our eternal "We must all appear "the judgment was set, and the books destiny. The judgment is a moral were opened" (Daniel 7:10)? crisis for all men. Many have come to before the judgment This prophecy does not picture God regard God's love as a permissive seat of Christ; that as executing judgment on the earth. grace that saves all men by an easy act It reveals a judgment taking place in of belief and that ignores the kind of every one may receive heaven. The judgment setting be- life we live. Men interpret the gospel, ... according to that he tokens great solemnity: not as freedom to obey, but freedom to "Thrones were set in place and one disobey. The Scriptures clearly reject hath done" (2 Corin- ancient in years took his seat, his robe such a belief. Such a position falsifies thians 5:10). was white as snow and the hair of his the character and the law of God. head like deanest wool. Flames of fire People who take this kind of stand were his throne and its wheels blazing are in a desperate situation, wholly fire; a flowing river of fire streamed unprepared to come before the Great out before him. Thousands upon thou- Judge. This view may sound pessi- sands served him and myriads upon mistic, but it is true; for it is a warn- God's last warning and His final effort myriads attended his presence. The ing to those who want to believe they to save the world. The time has come court sat, and the books were opened" can live any way they choose and it to settle the accounts of all men. The (Daniel 7:9, 10, NEB). will not count against them in the heavenly court now sits. The books It will be dearly seen in this chapter judgment. Judgment is according to are open; the life records are examined. that the time of this judgment follows one's attitude to Christ. That attitude, When this judgment is over, pro- the rise and fall of world empires and however, is revealed by deeds. bation will close for all men. This the reign of that apostate power that judgment will inaugurate the return of "shall hurl defiance at the Most High The time of judgment. The following Christ. There will be no second chance. and shall wear down the saints of the passage of Scripture proclaims two This is it. Hence the universal impor- Most High, . . . and the saints shall be crucial events that will decide the des- tance of the judgment-hour message to delivered into his power for a time tiny of all men: first, the gospel the world. The cases of all men will be and times and half a time. Then the announcement to the world that the investigated prior to Christ's return. court shall sit" (Daniel 7:25, 26, NEB). judgment has come; second, the return The destiny and history of our world The time period referred to is three of Christ at the end of the world. Note comes to the end with these two final and a half prophetic years-1260 especially the sequence: judgment, events. literal years—of rule by this apostate then the Second Coming. power, ending in 1798. We conclude "Then I saw an angel flying in mid- And then the harvest. Furthermore that the pre-Advent judgment in hea- heaven, with an eternal gospel to Revelation 14 declares that with ven began shortly after 1798 and will proclaim to those on. earth, to every Christ's return following this judg- continue to the dose of probation, a nation and tribe, language and peo- ment, He will reap the harvest of the period known in Scripture as "the ple. He cried in a loud voice, 'Fear earth: "And he that sat on the cloud time of the end." God and pay him homage; for the hour thrust in his sickle on the earth; and The divine judgment is not simply of his judgement has come! Worship the earth was reaped" (Revelation part of a creed. It proclaims an ines- him who made heaven and earth.' . . . 14:16). capable relation between God and Then as I looked there appeared a Christ Himself declared, "The har- man, for or against. white cloud, and on the cloud sat one vest is the end of the world" (Matthew Now is the day of salvation and judg- like a son of man. He had on his head 13:39). ment. It is a necessary deadline. It is a crown of gold and in his hand a All through the millennia of time the a personal deadline. It is a decisive sharp sickle. Another angel came out kingdoms of this world have been deadline. Our Lord is never more in of the temple and called in a loud leading up to this moment. Now the control of our destiny than when He voice to him who sat on the cloud: day of reckoning has come. The final sits as Judge. The essential thing is 'Stretch out your sickle and reap; for crisis for all men is here. The judg- to make it possible for Christ to defend, harvest-time has come, and earth's ment-hour message calls men every- acquit, and vindicate us. crop is over-ripe.' So he who sat on where to repent, and it awakens men Our Lord will maintain a righteous the cloud put his sickle to the earth to the urgency of preparing to meet stand in favor of all those who trust and its harvest was reaped" (Reve- Christ when He comes. Under the holy and obey Him. He will express no lation 14:6, 7, 14-16, NEB). influence of God's truth, let us give doubt about those who have lived in The text clearly states that the judg- earnest heed to the admonition found union with Him. He will pass sentence ment has come, not will come. Con- in Hebrews 4:7: "To day if ye will hear without a shadow of a doubt: "Enter sequently this startling news is pro- his voice, harden not your hearts." thou into the joy of thy Lord. . . . claimed to the world as an essential The time of judgment to which the Inherit the kingdom prepared for you part of the everlasting gospel. This apostle John refers coincides with from the foundation of the world" judgment-hour message constitutes that spoken of by the prophet Daniel. (Matthew 25:21, 34). 16 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 When God focuses His camera on man, many people don t appreciate the photo they receive. Fortunately God can change that picture. by Marvin Moore

RECENTLY someone showed me a picture of myself camera is just like our cameras. It tells the plain, that I wish they had never taken. I happen to be the unvarnished truth. Read what God's camera tells you tall, thin variety among the human species, and the about yourself and you'll be aghast. The Bible uses camera caught me at my worst: shirt drooping off my some of the most repulsive word pictures to describe shoulders, chest caved in, spindly arms dangling. the sinful man. Sometimes I envy my friends with plump faces and well-rounded arms. But then I understand that they God's description of sin. Jeremiah compares the are horrified at pictures that reveal the fat hanging sinner to rotten figs (24:8-10) and to human from their faces and limbs. excrement (25:33). Isaiah likens him to a putrid, You don't argue with a camera though. It tells it running sore (1:5, 6) and to filthy (menstrual) rags exactly like it is: plain, unvarnished truth. What it (64:6). Ezekiel says man is like a harlot (16:15) and sees it records—nothing more, nothing less. like an illegitimate child cast into the city dump, God has a camera too: His Word. And God's filthy, naked, and unwashed (verses 3-5). John the Baptist compared the sinners in his day to poisonous Marvin Moore is a professional free-lance writer snakes (Matthew 3:7), and John the revelator living in Keene, Texas. Recent books include "How to describes the home of the sinner (Babylon) as "the Handle Guilt" and "Is This Living?" (on euthanasia). habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, OBorn in Lima, Peru, of missionary parents, reared also and a cage of every undean and hateful bird" in Argentina and Cuba, Marvin pastored a church for (Revelation 18:2). ten years. Notice also these two vivid descriptions from the

Photograph by Mike Battenberg THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 17 man handles the sin problem that God's camera shows up.

"Thou sayest, I am rich ... and have Some people think they can touch themselves up need of nothing; and knowest not before God gets around to taking the picture, that thou art wretched, . . . and something like I do before I go to the professional photographer to have my portrait made. I wash my poor, and blind, and naked." face, comb my hair, and put on well-pressed clothes. Women have all kinds of powders and colored creams to hide the lines and blemishes they don't want the camera to see. Sandra had this problem. She was the preacher's secretary. One morning her boss emerged from his office just as she finished typing one of his sermons. Bible: "There is none that doeth good, no, not one. The topic was tithing. Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues "You know, Pastor," she remarked, "every time I they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under drop my tithe in the offering plate, I think of all the their lips: whose mouth is full of cursing and dothes it would buy in the dress shop." bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: The preacher turned and looked at her. "Sandra," destruction and misery are in their ways" (Romans he told her, "I think that's exactly how you ought to 3:12-16). spend that money." "Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased Sandra gasped and threw her hand to her mouth. with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest "Oh, no!" she exclaimed. "Why, that's God's money. not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, I wouldn't dare spend it on myself!" and blind, and naked" (Revelation 3:17). Sandra was using tithe like makeup: to cover up Is it any wonder that when God focuses His camera her love of money. Weekly church attendance, Bible on us humans, we don't like the picture He gets! D. reading and prayer, and helping the poor are among L. Moody once said, "If all our secret thoughts and all the dozens of ways Christians have found to that has been in our hearts should be written on substitute outward religion for inward conversion. yonder wall, there would be the greatest stampede But the only ones who are fooled by this cover-up are you ever saw. You would get out of this hall as if you their friends, and sometimes even they—like were struck with the plague." Sandra's preacher—see through the facade. Just as And the Bible agrees. When God gave Isaiah a the blemishes on the face are still there under all the vision of himself as God saw him, he cried out, "Woe creams and powders, so when God focuses His is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of camera on us, the sins are all still there under the unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of so-called good deeds. unclean lips" (Isaiah 6:5). And on the judgment day What we don't hide with clean clothes and the wicked will be so horrified at the purity of God in powders and creams when we go sit in the studio, contrast to their own sinfulness that they will try to the photographer can fade out with tints on the commit mass suicide. They will beg for the rocks and picture itself. The lines on your face and the pimples mountains to fall on them and hide them from the and warts and birthmarks don't look nearly so bad face of God (Revelation 6:15-17). after he's touched them up. And there are some When we humans see something we don't like, we people who think they can do the same with the get busy and do something about it. Americans are picture from God's camera. especially famous for this. We have project this and Take Jim, for instance. He and Alice were deeply in operation that, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the love. They enjoyed reading together, hiking together, Square Deal, and the Great Society—all designed to even working together. He had asked Alice to marry() cure the problems that beset us. It's not surprising, him, but she felt unsure of herself. then, that when man sees the sin problem, he should One evening Jim picked her up to take her to a try to do something about that too. Please notice how concert. They stopped at a cafeteria on the way to get

18 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 a bite to eat. As they passed through the line, Jim took a pat of butter and slipped it under his slice of bread. Several weeks went by, and he sensed that Alice's Some psychologists try to interest was waning. One evening they talked about remove guilt by tearing down the it. She reminded him of the little pat of butter. laws and standards which point "But it was such a little thing," Jim protested. "It can't be that bad." out immoral activity. Touching up the Bible. Trying to make it mean just a little bit less than it really says. But there are no little sins with God. The photographer may gloss over the negative, but you can't gloss over the Bible.

I heard a story recently that points up yet another fallacy. Tina's mother had to spend a half hour at the person who thinks he can take care of everything by neighbor's but she didn't want to wake the baby. getting a different camera. Like Arnold. "You should Tina felt proud to be left in charge. read this new book I've got!" he exclaimed to his "But mind you, don't touch the paper and the friend Max one night. scissors on the desk," mother warned before she left. Max took the book and leafed through it. The "They've got very sharp points, and those papers are author was a prominent psychologist whose major important." premise seemed to be that all men's frustrations stem () Tina played with her paper dolls for several from the standards of the past. The last part of the minutes. But the pull of the papers and the scissors book consisted of an elaborate system of new proved to be too much, and soon she found herself "principles" by which he supposed modern man tiptoeing to the desk. There lay the paper, and there might live more happily. were the scissors. Tina reached for them. She had "I'm free!" Arnold exclaimed. "I'm free of the old them in her hand when she glanced up and saw a rules, free of the hang-ups of my parents." picture of mother on the desk. Mother seemed to be Yes, Arnold was free—free to live by some looking straight at her. man-made way of life; free to accept divorce, Tina felt guilty. She hesitated, then she reached for bankruptcy, and the mental hospital, where he spent mother's picture. Jerking it across the desk, she flung the next three or four years trying to figure out what it into the wastebasket. Then, picking up the papers it was that went wrong. and the scissors, she sat on the floor and played with The devil has all kinds of philosophies and ways of them. life to put in place of the Bible: the new morality, the Some professed Christians are like that. They think occult, transcendental meditation, and Oriental they can solve the whole sin problem by destroying religions, all custom-designed to produce a more the camera, as though breaking the camera would flattering portrait of you. We humans are willing to make the subject look any better! Destroying the be pictured as disadvantaged, culturally deprived, camera never yet cleaned up the spots on a man's delinquent, or emotionally disturbed—anything but clothes or washed the dirt from his face. And doing what God's camera shows us to be: corrupt sinners. away with the Bible won't make a saint out of a The trouble is that after all these cameras have been sinner. Some theologians call the Bible a myth, and tried, man is still the same as before. Changing there are some Christians who think the Ten cameras will not change the man. Commandments were done away at the cross. But Touching up your face or touching up the picture Peter declared that "we have not followed cunningly doesn't get rid of the problem. It just hides it. And devised fables" (2 Peter 1:16), and Jesus said, "Think destroying the camera or exchanging it for a different ()not that I am come to destroy the law, or the one won't even do that. You just pretend it isn't prophets" (Matthew 5:17). there, like the ostrich hiding its head in the sand when danger approaches, assuming that if it can't see Throw out the standards? And finally, there's the the enemy, there isn't one; or like the legendary king

THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 19 who pretended he had a new suit when actually he More accurate than any photograph you ever had wasn't wearing any clothes, and everybody ohed and made is God's record in heaven of everything you ahed at his beautiful "garments," but he was still as ever did or thought, and someday you'll have to face naked as ever. that record. "For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be Salvation by works is always like that. It's only a good, or whether it be evil" (Ecclesiastes 12:14; see sham. It never gets at the real problem. According to also Matthew 12:36 and Revelation 20:12). the Bible there is only one cure for sin: Jesus Christ. No creams or pastes or powders will work in the And the marvelous truth about His solution is that day when God lays bare before every man the secrets it's not just a touch-up or a pretense. Jesus doesn't of his soul. No good works, no amount of money just paste a Band-aid over the putrid sore; He heals it given or prayers repeated, will cover up the evil that (Isaiah 53:5). He doesn't just spray a little perfume on was left unrepented and unconfessed. Only a new the stinking rags; He washes them and makes them creation, a new life in Christ, will be accepted. pure white in His own blood (Revelation 7:14). He Why settle for a sham? Why use makeup and good doesn't just clean up the illegitimate child and give works to hide your blemishes when you can get rid him a bed under His roof; He adopts him into His of them through Christ? God's camera tells the plain, own family and makes him a true son (Galatians 4:4, unvarnished truth about the natural man. Thank God 5). He has a way to change the old man unto a new. And Are you troubled at the picture of your life that thank God that His camera also tells the plain, God's Word has revealed? Do you feel guilty about unvarnished truth about the new man in Christ. temptations that never seem to go away, that you Have you sat for your heavenly portrait yet? have never been able to overcome? Are you O overwhelmed by a sense of your own sinfulness? Then thank God! Yes, thank God that His Word reveals the truth about you. Thank God that He didn't paint the picture white when it should have been black. Thank God that He made it look bad enough so you'd be horrified and want to change. And thank God that For further thought after shocking you with the truth, He provided a way 1. Why do you think the Bible uses such strong to correct the problem, not just to patch it up. language to describe sin? What does this re- "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new veal about God's attitude on the subject? creature: old things are passed away; behold, all 2. Is morality related primarily to the culture in things are become new" (2 Corinthians 5:17). which we live, or do we have a standard of "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with absolutes by which we can pattern our lives? him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that Define what, or who, that standard might be. henceforth we should not serve sin." "Being then 3. What types of philosophies and ways of life made free from sin, ye became the servants of do humans utilize as a substitute for the Chris- righteousness" (Romans 6:6, 18). tian life-style? Define the disadvantages of these various substitute life-styles. When God takes over your terrible past, He gets rid 4. When God forgives our sin and provides us of it. There's no touching up with Him. He destroys a new heart, how should this affect our future your old nature and makes you a new creature in activities and attitudes? Do we need to con- Christ. He puts in you a life like that of God. When cern ourselves anymore about our past mis- God is through with you, you are prepared to sit for takes and wrong deeds? a portrait in His studio, not because He touched up your corruption but because He destroyed it. It's not just hidden; it's no longer there! God's camera is focused on every human being. It is focused on you. There is no way you can escape it.

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The problem: "Dear Mr. Jewett: I am a decision." Mrs. C., Daly City. young wife. My husband came from a home where his father used to beat up My turn: If the victim of wife or child on his mother. He has hit and kicked me abuse reaches out for help and the on at least ten occasions since our husband finds out, there is risk of marriage began not quite four years retaliation. At least this is the fear ago. He also abuses our children. Last shared by many victims. Rapists em- week he gave our three-year-old daugh- ploy the same kind of fear to intimidate ter a black eye for pulling the curtain their victims. down. It swelled almost shut. He pulled In my opinion the opposite is more a hunk of my boy's hair out for not likely to be true! While not a safe eating when he wanted him to. The last generality, it is a fact that a man who time he hit me, my arms were swelled attacks a woman is displaying an act and bruised." of cowardice. As stated by Mrs. L., it is important to make a firm resolution Candid comments: "My former husband not to take physical abuse, her theory was a merchant seaman who before we being that the best defense against a were married specialized in going with bully is a firm offense. married women. He liked to beat up on If you make it plain to your husband them, and they—being married—had that you will not tolerate any physical no comeback. His brother warned me abuse and threaten to seek outside help before we were married. The first time if it happens again, perhaps it will help. he hit me, I warned him that if he ever If it doesn't, then he must see that your did it again, I'd have him arrested." warning was not an empty threat. Only Mrs. L., San Francisco. in this way can you motivate him to seek "Dear Mr. Jewett: Since I am a woman the counseling that he so desperately who has been through it, my advice to needs. I do not think you serve any good her is the same advice my father gave purpose to suffer in silence, particularly to me: 'There are only three decisions in the cases of your children. A court of you can make: either stay with the man law probably would not absolve you of and take it; leave him; or stay with the guilt if your children are jeopardized man until you can't take it any more because of misplaced loyalty to your and then leave.' husband. "Because of the children I stuck it out Your husband can be helped! As you until I was forty. I ended up at the crime indicate, some of his problem originates photo lab at the police department and in his childhood home. His emotional went through the court process. A deficiencies have left him an emotional policeman saved my life. cripple. Let us not now seek to condemn his present behavior by scapegoating to "Wife beating is against the law. There him. We should not hate him for this, his heredity and environment. If he is no excuse for a man to beat up his any more than we would hate a physi- won't listen to you, then it becomes wife. If her husband is hurting the cally handicapped person. Love your necessary for him to get some straight children, she should call the authorities. husband as much as you can. But let talk in a context that forces him to listen. But she is the one who has to make that your love be creative. "The Lord is nigh unto them that are For every human problem there is a of a broken heart; and saveth such as Dick Jewett conducts a divine solution. The Golden Rule sug- be of a contrite spirit. Many are the radio talk show and gests that you do unto others as you afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord crisis-line service for would have them do unto you. But it delivereth him out of them all" (Psalm troubled young people is not a passive rule. It is what you 34:18, 19). in the San Francisco do, not what you neglect to do. There- The first half of this text is for your peninsula area. Those fore, ask yourself what you can do to husband; the second, for you. God will wishing to submit help your husband. You are to be deliver him if he has a contrite spirit. problem situations for commended for showing patience and It must be made very clear to him that possible inclusion in the pages of THESE love. the alternative is to be deprived of his TIMES or for a personal response please Perhaps what your husband needs wife and children. But if he chooses the write to Dick Jewett, Box 12010, San Fran- most now is to face the consequences Lord, he can have his peace and cisco, CA 94112. of his own actions. We cannot excuse happiness and family.

Photograph by Terry Moore/Image THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 21 ' Look younger and feel it too!

Good posture not only affects your appearance and how others feel about you, but it also affects how you feel about yourself. by Jabbour Semaan

WHILE I WAS OVERSEAS sometime "Orthotherapy—New Help for Your Does your abdomen protrude? Is the ago, I saw a woman walking with Aches and Pains," Reader's Digest, small of your back swayed or hollow? noticeable grace and beauty. She was February, 1972, p. 107). The major If you are still in doubt, try this smoothly gliding along, while carrying weight-bearing joints of the body in test: unsupported on her head a large vessel the low back, hips, knees, and ankles Stand with your back against a wall. of water. Her posture muscles, strong are directly influenced by poor body Tucking your chin in, touch the wall and in perfect balance, held her body alignment. Prolonged strain may cause with the back of your head, shoulders, erect against the ever-present tug of arthritic changes, which are likely to buttocks, calves, and heels. Tighten gravity. It was most unlikely that her produce pain and even incapacity your abdominal muscles and those of lithe body was suffering from chronic (Katharine F. Wells, Posture Exercise your buttocks while tilting your pelvis tension, fatigue, or low back pain. Handbook [New York: The Ronald up in front, and down in back. This Undoubtedly she worked hard to earn Press Co., 19631, p. 3). should bring the small of your back as a living. close to the wall as possible. Place the Why should you be concerned about Correct posture benefits every palm of your hand in the space your posture? For two main reasons. system of your body. It makes it between the wall and the small of your First, posture affects your appearance. easier to carry your body weight back. If this space is greater than the It influences how others feel about without strain or undue fatigue. The thickness of your hand, you probably you, and how you feel about yourself. proper alignment of your stomach, have one or more of the following How you look and the manner in liver, and kidneys improves both common posture deviations. which you move about may either digestion and elimination of wastes. a. Head and Shoulder Slump: work for you or against you. Your Your lungs expand more freely, filling The muscles at the back of the neck posture is often the basis on which with life-giving air. The activity of and between the shoulders are weak others form their first opinion about your brain improves and your outlook and stretched. Those at the front of the you and make instant judgments of on life brightens. neck and on the chest are tight and your personality. "A slumping figure Good posture is the correct short. This condition may be caused betrays advancing age, and nothing relationship of the parts of the body to by a prolonged habit of bending signals to us that someone is a 'loser' one another, in standing, walking, forward when reading, working, or more surely than a defeated slouch. By sitting, or lying. watching TV. the same token, nothing more How can you know whether your b. Swayback: effectively rolls the years or creates an posture is good? Ideally, your posture Muscles of the low back and hip may aura that a person is one of life's should be evaluated by someone who be tight and short, while muscles of 'winners' than a well poised body, a is trained and who, if necessary, can the abdomen may be weak and head held high" (Warren R.Young, recommend the kinds of exercises that stretched. The normal curve of the low "The Magic of Good Posture," Reader's would be most helpful. You can, back is increased by a forward and Digest, November, 1971, pp. 151, 152). however, appraise your own posture downward tilt of the pelvis. This is A second reason is that posture fairly well, if you are honest with also aggravated by the forward and affects your health. Dr. Arthur A. yourself, by using the following simple outward protrusion of the abdomen, Michele believes that "the primary tests: such as in obesity and pregnancy. cause of many pains—from aching 1. In a bathing suit or in a Another contributing factor to backs and sore feet to pains in the form-fitting garment stand in your swayback is poor muscle tone from hips, neck and shoulders—is bad usual manner facing a full-length habitual use of a soft mattress and posture" (Arthur A. Michele, mirror. See if your head is tilted to the upholstered chairs and the wearing of right or to the left. See if one shoulder high-heeled shoes. No longer the Jabbour Semaan is an instructor in or one hip is higher than the other, prerogative of women, many men have preventive care at the Loma Linda and if your toes are pointing in or out. now succumbed to this bad practice of University School of Health, Loma Linda, 2. Now turn sideways. Are your high heels. California. A physical therapist, he has head, shoulders, hips, and feet in Dr. John Mennell, a physician also served as editor in chief of the Middle vertical alignment? If not, are your specializing in physical medicine, East Press in Beirut, Lebanon. head and shoulders slumped forward? emphasizes the adverse effects of

Photograph by Dave Darner THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 23 The fruits of good high-heeled shoes on the spinal knee straight and back heel planted. curves. A woman wearing high heels posture are a Keep your trunk and head erect. Hold usually stands with knees and hips younger and more for a slow count of 5. Relax. Repeat partially relaxed. Her low back curve is with other leg 5 times, morning and increased. Her shoulders are more attractive look, evening. round and her head is thrust forward. leading to a greater 3. For Left Head Tilt: This alters her center of gravity, a. Sitting comfortably with your disturbs her balance, and prevents feeling of head erect, tilt your head toward the normal tension in her supporting confidence and right shoulder. Hold for a slow count musdes. Such abnormal posture of 5. Relax and repeat 5 times, morning produces wear and tear in every joint well-being. and evening. from her neck to her toes. The low b. Place your right hand above your back musdes become especially right ear and gently press while fatigued. The result, in time, is spasm resisting with your hand. Hold for a and pain (John Mennen, Back Pain slow count of 5. Relax. Repeat 5 times, [Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1960], morning and evening. pp. 52, 131). 4. For Right Head Tilt: Reverse the preceding procedure. How to improve your posture. You neck and small of your back down 5. For Depressed Right Shoulder: have now appraised your posture and against the floor. Breathe out as you Sit on a firm seat. Hold about 3 identified your problem. What are you press hard. Hold for a slow count of 5. pounds weight (i.e., a book) with the going to do about it? Listed below are Relax. Repeat 5 times, morning and right hand. Raise arm straight from the a few specific exercises. If you are evening. side over head, bending to the left side suffering from any back problem, b. Lie on your back with your knees from the waist up. Hold for a slow obtain your physician's approval bent and your feet flat on the floor. count of 5. Relax. Repeat 5 times, before beginning. The exercises Clasp your hands behind your knees morning and evening. involve no special equipment and and pull them down toward your chest 6. For Depressed Left Shoulder: should be performed in a slow, as far as possible. Hold for a slow Reverse preceding procedure. deliberate manner. The intensity and count of 5. Relax. Repeat 5 times, Keep two things in mind as you duration of these corrective exercises morning and evening. begin the extremely rewarding should increase gradually within your c. Lie on your back with your knees adventure of improving your posture. own tolerance. bent and your feet flat on the floor. Remember, practice maintaining good 1. For Head and Shoulder Slump: Clasp your hands behind your head. posture. Exercise to restore muscle a. With your head erect and chin in, Now bring your face toward your balance by strengthening weak clasp your hands lightly behind your knees as dose as possible. Hold for a muscles and stretching tight ones. head. Keep your elbows horizontal. slow count of 5. Relax. Repeat 5 times, Exercises that improve your general Press your head hard against the morning and evening. fitness, such as walking, cycling, resistance of your hands. Hold for a d. Lie on your back with your knees swimming, and jogging, will increase slow count of 5. Relax. Repeat 5 times, bent and your feet flat on the floor. your general muscle tone. morning and evening. From this position, lift and extend one The fruits of good posture are a b. Stand with your feet slightly leg forward, keeping about 6 inches off younger, more confident, more apart. Bring your arms forward, up, the floor. Hold for a slow count of 5. attractive look, leading to a great and back in a circle. Repeat 20 times, Return to starting position. Alternate feeling of success and physical morning and evening. legs. Repeat 5 times, morning and well-being. These are right within 2. For Swaybacks: evening. your grasp, bringing rich returns for a a. Lie on your back with your knees e. From a normal standing position little investment of time and effort. 6 bent and your feet flat on the floor. take a step forward. With your hands on the waist, bend your front knee as Tighten your buttocks and abdominal Reprinted from Life and Health, March, 1975, by per- musdes, while pressing with your far as you can while keeping your back mission.

24 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 The story of one minister's battle against crime in the by Lois Hoadley Dick New York harbor at the turn of the century

N 1896 a curious twenty-four-year- He strolled down cobble-stoned bought and sold like sacks of rice, old fellow, black bearded and husky, South Street, crisscrossed by the bow- even murdered and shoved off the deep set out to explore the New York port— sprits of the tall ships, the masts and end of a dock—all a matter of ugly known as one of the worst seaports in rigging creaking overhead. Vagrant routine. And no one cared. Outcast, the world. He could have passed for men set up their scruffy housekeeping unwanted, and friendless, a sailor had a seaman, except that he was Archibald right in the piles of the wharves. no laws to protect him. His life at sea Mansfield, a clergyman from upstate Vendors peddled coffee, baked beans, spanned twelve short years. who had just been offered a respectable and "rice pudding, a penny a portion." The crimps, big bosses of the sea- and safe parish in Kansas. Though so- The air reeked of dried codfish, mo- port, innkeepers who rented out filthy phisticated from European travel, lasses, and rum. Gulls shrieked over- lodgings, owned the floozies and held scholarly, and practical, he decided to head and chandlers sold nautical maps the power of life or death over the sea- look for a more challenging ministry and ship's hardware as they had for man. Before a sailor set foot on land, than parsonship. centuries. After dark, men gathered a small boatful of disreputable women around the bottle to trade tales of ship- offering liquor and false promises Lois Dick, free-lance writer from Newton, wreck and adventure in foreign ports. glided through the Narrows to wel- New Jersey, has been published in numer- For years newspapers had carried come him. After one night's spree on- ous religious journals. She has held church stories of sailors mugged, beaten un- shore, a seaman could wake to find a teaching positions for several years. conscious, drugged, shanghaied, year's wages gone.

Illustration courtesy Mary S. Spear THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 25 At this point the crimp took over. He offered the sailor room and board on credit, padding the bill. Since wages were paid in advance, the crimp signed the seaman over to a different ship, then collected the money from the captain. If a seaman seemed reluctant to take on another voyage, he was drugged or clubbed gunnel senseless and sold for twenty-five N6limunill -- 0- ONI aor dollars. Crimps and captains worked illIDPI hand in hand, and a man rarely landed a job on ship unless he let himself be A r sucked into the vicious crime ring. On South Street, saloons extended over the water so that dories could pass under them at night and catch the drugged or drunken sailors as they dropped through trapdoors. New York's first floating church, the Church of Our Saviour, measured 30 by 70 feet and rested on the hull of an old ferryboat moored at the foot of Pike Street. In the winter of 1834 six young men, Christian laymen from the Episcopa- deavors to make virtue and sobriety where seamen could leave their luggage lian Church in New York City, had cheerful and attractive. The men de- safely. He offered good food and dean banded together as waterfront mission- light in reading, praying, and singing beds at the hostel. Captains were aries, deeply moved by the spiritual hymns." The relieved writer ends the convinced to hire his sober and healthy and physical needs of the merchant letter: "New York is not a Sodom after seamen. seamen. By 1844 they had incorporated all!" "Now I must provide books and the Seamen's Church Institute, launched The floating churches soon were good music, a place where seamen can two floating churches, and opened a known throughout the seven seas as meet decent girls from the church," he few decent boardinghouses. places of spiritual refuge. But the evil declared. For years he fought on, fear- The Church of Our Saviour, measur- shadow of the crimp still darkened the less and alone, never losing faith in ing 70 feet by 30 feet, rested on the waterfront. God. A man highly organized, militant double hull of an old ferryboat moored on the side of right, he was the lone in a slip at the foot of Pike Street in Mansfield attacks the waterfront cor- champion of the sailor. the East River. An immediate success, ruption. After a good look at "sailor the floating church reserved 250 seats town," young Mansfield felt the call of Waterfront war erupts. His efforts fi- for seamen and usually turned away God and accepted the chaplaincy of the nally touched off the bloodiest war 300 from every service. floating Church of Our Saviour. He also ever seen on the waterfront. The crimps The second floating church, moored supervised the small hostel at 34 Pike hired gangs to waylay and kill Mans- at Dey Street in the North River, was Street. His work gave him plenty of field's converted seamen. They were named the Church of the Holy Com- time to observe the crimps and their tricked, lured astray, and jumped in forter. A third sanctuary, the Floating methods. dark alleyways. As for the young Church of Our Saviour for Seamen, "I'll get a launch and telescope, and minister, the crimps daily vowed to also attracted more crowds than could I'll watch the harbor as they do," he shanghai him. "Go away; don't be accommodated. declared, "and I'll get to the ships threaten me with sudden death," he Soon a mission opened on Coenties first." Appealing for help from many demanded sternly. "I have God's work Slip, where canalboats and harbor craft city pulpits, he said, "The welfare of to do." docked. A letter dated 1844 reads: "The the seaman belongs to no one religious In 1900 the trouble came to a head sailor's home I visited is remarkable for denomination." Soon he had the launch and burst after Mansfield signed on a temperance and good order. It en- and telescope and rented a warehouse crew for the square-rigger Benjamin 26 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 Illustration courtesy Seamen's Church Institute savings bank, a system of inquiry for missing seamen, and a marine medical service by radio. In 1911 Mansfield received the Doctor of Divinity degree. He promptly put on paper the plans for a modern institute where a sailor could find all the conveniences that landlubbers take for granted. A powerfully built man in clerical coat, he worked with a sledge- hammer, clearing the foundation for the new building. In 1912 he officiated at the laying of the cornerstone of the building. Among the first cared for were the victims of the Titanic. Mindful of seamen everywhere, Mansfield did not rest satisfied with the work in New York but encouraged The third floating church, the Floating Church of Our Saviour for Seamen, also at- the establishment of similar places of tracted more worshipers than could be accommodated within the limits of its walls. refuge in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and eleven other ports. F. Packard. The angry crimps sent two and his wonders in the deep. . . . gangs who fought the men on the water- Then they cry unto the Lord in their During the great depression millions front, then rowed after them, and con- trouble, and he bringeth them . . . unto of meals were served. If a man could tinued the battle on board ship. Police their desired haven." pay ten cents, fine. If not, fine. Sixteen answered the cries for help, and in the hundred men slept in a building meant scuffle a government agent of the Ship- His plans for expansion. Besides to accommodate seven hundred. Long ping Commission was fatally stabbed spiritual nourishment, Mansfield then before the day of public-sponsored in the back. reasoned that the men must have a health and welfare programs, SCI pro- Newspapers picked up the story; free navigation school. He quickly vided a variety of social services. clergymen preached on the disgrace purchased a suitable building, opened During World War II merchant sea- that was New York harbor, and public a shipping office of his own, and the men delivered cargoes and forged conscience rose up in anger. Mansfield Union Castle Line gave him full au- strong supporting links with the fight- rejoiced at the passage of a bill for- thority to select its crews. Other ship ing men. In wartime or in peace the bidding crimps from boarding ships. lines followed suit, and the crimping sailor is indispensable to civilization. A young lawyer, Franklin D. Roose- business began to wane. Our extensive commerce is the source velt, joined hands with him, gave him Four hostels opened, and Admiral of our wealth and comfort. Without needed publicity, taught him the ins Mahan, in speaking of them, said: "No merchant seamen, trade would be im- and outs of the law, and fought to get form of Christian activity is wiser or possible. Many merchant seamen met other legislation passed to aid seamen. more fruitful than that which seeks to death, and their names are inscribed Roosevelt stayed on as a board member stop the beginning of evil by providing on the plaque of the East Coast Memo- of SCI until his death. the surroundings of a 'home.' " rial in Battery Park. Divine service the following week, A sailor saved from vice and despair Through the years regular chapel doubtlessly full of meaning, found meant added safety for passenger ships services and holy communion have Mansfield reading from Psalm 107: "Let and cargo on the ocean. When the been held on land and aboard ships. the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom seaman's money was saved, it brought Pastor Mansfield, white haired but still he hath redeemed from the hand of the double blessing; it meant food and with the build of a sea captain, died enemy. . . . They that go down to the shelter for his parents or wife and of a heart attack in 1934 while check- sea in ships, that do business in great children and self-respect for himself. ing over some of his paperwork. "I waters; these see the works of the Lord, Mansfield helped establish a sailors' fought the crimping system, using its

THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 27 own rough and tough methods," he once said. "It was a good fight. I en- joyed it. The Lord was good."

Today the Seamen's Church Institute of New York, located at 15 State Street, beside the golden door, is a city within itself, with 275 air-conditioned guest rooms. Each year it is home to the quarter of a million seafarers entering the great port. An international club provides a lounge, recreation room, snack bar, and TV. A fully accredited Merchant Marine School, the Roosevelt Institute night school, the MARAD Radar School, and the Joseph Conrad Library of fifteen thousand volumes occupy the fourth floor. Facilities include a post office, audi- toriums, chapel complete with votive ship, restaurant, cafeteria, gym, and laundromat. SCI is the world's largest shoreside installation for active merchant sea- men, with 142 years of continuous service regardless of race, color, or Today the Seamen's Church Institute of New York, located at 15 State Street, has creed. The ship visitors, bi- and tri- 275 rooms and hosts a quarter of a million seafarers entering New York each year. lingual, comprise authorized personnel from SCI who daily visit the ships, The American Bible Society provides he located some. Another time a vessel extending the hand of Christian broth- a table of Bibles and Scripture portions sailing under the Liberian flag was erhood to all. in many languages. In a single year the sold while at sea. The men landed in In the typical year of 1974, over five chaplains conducted 2,227 coun- New York port without papers, jobs, eight thousand seamen representing seling interviews. When necessary, or pay. SCI came to their aid in various thirty-two foreign nations were enter- clergymen of other denominations are ways and also helped them return tained in the International Club and called upon to help. safely to their own countries. almost two thousand American and "We are careful not to put up Recently a Bulgarian fisherman suf- foreign visiting ships welcomed. denominational barriers which would fering from severe injuries was admit- Eleven missing seamen were located keep seamen of any country from feel- ted to a local hospital, but because of and 99,000 rooms were available for ing free to worship and pray with us," the language barrier he was unable to occupancy; 489,000 meals were served. explained Carlyle Windley, director of communicate. SCI contacted several "Everything we do," states Dr. John communications. The men leave SCI officers of a Russian ship in port who M. Mulligan, director, "must be a with a renewed faith in practical Chris- acted as interpreters. Perhaps even manifestation of the concern and love tianity. more important than treatment was the of the living God as we see it reflected The SCI has grown far beyond Archi- large bowl of freshly made borsch the in the life of His Son; in reconciliation, bald Mansfield's highest dreams, but Russians brought the homesick man. in outreach, in counseling, in comfort- the individual is as important today SCI has many ways of saying "We ing." The SCI places much emphasis as he was in early days. One seaman care" to all who sail the seven seas. on its very necessary social services, needed batteries for a foreign-made The shining cross—polestar and holy but the spiritual side of man is also hearing aid. A worker at SCI jumped symbol—on top of the building says an important factor. into a cab and combed New York until it all.

28 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 Illustration courtesy Seamen's Church Institute Two Ahcr worc A two-word motto—glowing against a background of crimson—hung on the wall between the bed and dressing table. by Marye Trim

MY MOTHER'S ROOM diffused a Sarah scant attention and turned to the stern-faced Sarah or not, she wins my distinct personality. No chic decor other faces. allegiance today. there. Rather it was old-fashioned, yet There my eyes lingered, returning "No child of mine will put his own captivating, like her motto that the serene gaze of paternal interest before duty and worship," dominated the wall. grandparents. Dignity and grace explained Grandpa. "Be it wet or fine, Shaded by a blue gum tree, the room flowed from their frames as I recalled convenient or inconvenient, God was ever cool and restful. Fanlight that they had been church folk, friends comes first in our lives. If you want to windows of fused pink and mauve of Preacher Spurgeon, who frequently live a noble life, don't you ever glass, casting a gentle glow, stayed visited their home in England. Their forget." open always to let in the rustle of Sankey and Moody hymnal rested on So my mother and her brother leaves and birds along with a the piano in our front room. Those tugged on their coats and rain boots suggestion of eucalyptus fragrance. As melodies were as much a part of my and trudged four miles to church. a small child I liked to creep into that life as were potatoes and apples from At this part of her story she always room, especially into the high double our garden. paused as my eyes asked, "And . . .?" bed with its deep soft mattress. Next on the whitewashed wall came "We were the only children there The furniture was elegant the portrait of my father on his that day," my mother would continue. Edwardian: bed, dressing table, chair, wedding day, rosebud jaunty in his "And as a reward for faithfulness, our wardrobe, and sofa of fine tapestry. lapel. The blue eyes spoke to me again teacher gave us each a wall motto. I Over in the corner, tall and dignified, his good-bye when he went to the have kept mine all these years." stood a grandfather clock of booming hospital and never came back. All those forty or so years that motto voice. "He" frightened me. By his photograph hung a dainty had influenced and guided my mother. But I adored mother's dressing table. doll with glitter-spangled skirt. My Ever it reminded her that she must There I would finger the crocheted daddy had bought her for me at the choose between selfishness and doilies, stroke the stately lady on the last fair we attended together. She was selflessness. That motto prompted her Wedgewood vase, and peep into a as beautiful as an angel. But I dared to study the Holy Scriptures and obey trinket casket. Then I would select a not touch or look at her anymore. I unquestioningly; tuned her heart to be text from the lavender-perfumed box of could not bear for my store of tears to sympathetic, generous, and kind; led Bible promises. Tiring of that, I would spill over again. her to worship and to know the living survey the rest of my mother's The next picture cheered and Saviour. kingdom. And always my eyes fell on amused me. Those dresses in the In her life I see fulfilled the words of the portraits that lined the wall. bridal group, and my mother's Jesus Christ: "Seek ye first the Information and imagination brought enormous, flower-laden hat! kingdom of God, and his those ancestors stepping out to me. Now I had studied it all, except for righteousness; and all these things First came my mother's parents: my one thing. Impressive as were the shall be added unto you" (Matthew beloved grandpa with snowy beard, grandfather dock, the elegant 6:33). As well as the food, drink, and and the grandmother whom I did not furniture, and the gold-framed clothing which are "all these things," remember because she had died when portraits, this was outstanding—more referred to in the verse, she gained I was a baby. She appeared severe to memorable than all. peace instead of perplexity, hope me, with somber face and stiff ruffles It was the motto. Glowing against a instead of confusion. Strength came to at her neck. So I gave Grandmother background of crimson, it hung survive tragedy and poverty. And God between the bed and the dressing made a rainbow for her from her tears. Marye Trim, a New Zealander by birth table. Two silver words. The impact of two silver words. but living in Australia, is a free-lance My mother told me its story many In turn, those two silver words have writer and member of the Australian times, and it did not become stale in burned their way into my sometimes Society of Women Writers. Wife of a the retelling. It commenced with the stubborn, modern mind. They echo clergyman and mother of five children, stormy day when she and her brother Grandpa's words: "Don't you ever she is especially concerned for the role of begged to stay home from Sunday forget." So I salute my guiding stars. If the Christian home in society. She has School. only they could blaze across the authored two books for children and "You will go," declared their father. heavens today to challenge and written inspirational articles, stories, and "Of course you will go," supported transform our world! poems for secular and religious journals. their mother. And for this fact, Two silver words: GOD FIRST.

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YOU'VE HEARD all those reports in the nonsmoking mothers. Medicine in Seattle discovered a mor- news lately about child abuse by par- But even more alarming is the inci- tality rate five times that of the national ents? Well, here's a new twist you dence of premature detachment of the average. And nearly half the survivors, haven't heard much about in the popu- placenta from the uterine wall as a result according to U.S. News and World Report lar press—child abuse of the unborn. of necrosis (tissue death caused by cir- (May 17, 1976), later turned out mentally Several medical studies conducted culation obstruction)—the major cause defective. recently now confirm that in addition of stillbirths. Mothers who smoke one to Another study, conducted by Dr. to avoiding drugs and unnecessary ten cigarettes a day during pregnancy Carrie L. Randall of the Medical Uni- x rays, pregnant mothers should also have two times as many of this type versity of South Carolina in Charleston, quit smoking and drinking alcohol—if of stillbirths than do nonsmoking moth- tested the effects of alcohol consumption they desire healthy, well-formed ba- ers; the eleven-to-twenty-a-day by pregnant mice on their offspring. She bies. smoker, 5.5 times as many; and the pack- documented a direct cause-and-effect For example, in one seven-year study a-day or more mother, 6.5 times as many. relationship between the alcohol con- of some sixty thousand pregnancies at The study also verified that mothers sumed and fetal malformations. twelve medical institutions, Penn State who smoke have more babies with con- She fed mice various rates of alcohol researchers proved that mothers who genital malformations than nonsmoking during the fifth through tenth days of smoke have far more miscarriages and mothers. their twenty-one-day gestation period babies with congenital malformations In addition to smoking, scientists also then compared the fetuses with those of than mothers who don't. identify the drinking of alcohol as an- mice on a nonalcoholic diet. We talked with Dr. Richard L. Maeye, other major cause of birth defects and Mice on a nonalcoholic diet revealed director of that study and chairman of fetus mortality. An article in the Journal a malformation rate of only about 2 per- the pathology department at Pennsyl- of the American Medical Association re- cent. But mice fed on a diet of 17 percent vania State University College of Medi- ports that a woman with a drinking alcohol (roughly equivalent to six or cine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He problem during pregnancy faces a 30 to seven drinks a day for a human) during confirmed that the incidence of mis- 50 percent chance of giving birth to an the fifth through tenth days of preg- carriage and congenital malformations abnormal child. nancy sustained an 8 percent rate of in the study increased in direct propor- Babies born to women who use alcohol malformation—or about four times as tion to the quantity of cigarettes the have far greater incidence of facial much congenital malformation as the mother smokes while pregnant. abnormalities, stunted body size, small nonalcoholic mothers. Those on a 25 His computer analysis of some 80 heads, and even below-normal mentali- percent alcohol diet had 30 percent of million pieces of information collected ties. (Facial abnormalities include short their babies deformed; the 30 percent during the 150-million-dollar study and upturned nose, low nasal bridge, alcohol diet resulted in 40 percent singled out tobacco as the major cause flat midface, smaller-than-normal eyes, malformation (see photos below). of miscarriage. It also revealed some long upper lip with narrow mouth edge, They used to say, "If you drive, don't startling facts. For example, the nine and facial features out of symmetry with drink." Obviously, based on the latest thousand mothers who smoked eleven each other.) evidence, if you want intelligent, well- or more cigarettes a day during preg- In one study of sixty babies with formed children, the new motto should nancy had 57 percent more stillborn fetal alcohol syndrome, scientists at the read, "If you want healthy children, babies than the twenty-five thousand University of Washington School of don't drink or smoke."—R.H.B.

Photos right show congenital malforma- tions in mice whose mothers received a diet containing various percentages of alco- hol. From left to right: prematurely opened eyes inside the womb (17 percent alcohol diet); break in the ab- dominal wall with in- testines exposed (20 percent alcohol diet); and gross malforma- tion of the brain and cranial cavity (25 per- cent alcohol diet).

30 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 Photos by Ron Sherman I I- II 4 ii.a III I III I I i

I HAVE BEEN enjoying THESE TIMES for understand the Bible more.—Mrs. Three years ago a family en route from a year now and can scarcely lay the Willie Ranks, Pensacola, Florida. Indiana to Colorado broke down here magazine aside until I've read every- for nearly a day. Would you believe thing that's in it. I'm not a Seventh- Too much sex they have stopped twice more to chat day Adventist, but I have some very In some past issues of THESE TIMES we and say thank you! I'm truly sorry I good friends who are. I like the way read about sex and its results. I may not can't recall their names, but somehow they think and live. see it in the proper light, but I don't I feel our current gift subscription to Your articles make Christianity so believe such articles do much good. The THESE TIMES has been a thank you from real. They are told simply, exactly the story about the 13-year-old girl being them.—Mrs. Ray L. Wilson, Jetmore, way they are. I'm referring now espe- abused by her father (May, 1977) can Kansas. cially to one in the April, 1977, issue, cause harm. They are things not desir- "Good News Can Be Hard to Accept." able to be kept before our young Note: We did some checking on this end Any child could understand and accept people.—Lettie Fiman, Paradise, Cali- and located the names of your current them. And the story about Christ's fornia. sponsor: Cassel and Marge Hostetler, crucifixion is marvelous too. I've Scottsburg, Indiana.—Editors. stopped several other magazines, since Another reader disagrees I'm on a limited budget now, but I want with the above Couldn't put it down to keep THESE TIMES coming.—Luella I am very thankful for Mr. Jewett's While waiting for my appointment to Grate, Hoyleton, Illinois. column in your May issue about a father see a doctor, I picked up a copy of your who sexually abused his daughter. 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I am a Christian and know the Lord as with His forgiving grace and salvation, with what their hosts are able to pro- my personal Saviour, yet I have no then look around and see with whom vide them. peace of mind. Can you explain this to you may share your blessing. What application to our times? A me? There are many needs. Perhaps the similar situation would be an instance church of which you are a member in which a visiting evangelist might I do not doubt your sincerity, but needs someone to teach a Bible class be a guest in some Christian home for a it may be that you are still on a casual- or to lead a group of Boy Scouts. Perhaps few days while conducting a series of acquaintance level with the Saviour. there are sick or elderly persons who meetings. The counsel to eat what his Perhaps you have not committed your- need a Christian visit or even the neces- hosts would be able to provide for him self to Christ with that wholehearted sities of life which you may be able to would be applicable. It would forbid vow a bride and bridegroom make to supply. There may be someone on the him to demand this article or that article each other in forming their bond of job to whom you can open the Bible of food or to complain about the quality union. The truly committed Christian and introduce Jesus. of his meals. It would mean that he honestly declares with the apostle Paul: As you try to bring some joy and would graciously accept the kind hospi- "For to me to live is Christ" (Philippians cheer into the lives of others by un- tality of his hosts and be content with 1:21). Jesus is first, last—and best. selfish ministry, you will find joy it. On the other hand, the Master's Through His Holy Spirit Christ brings coming into your own life. Living for advice would not be applicable if foods inward peace to His trusting disciple. self never produces the happiness of were served which God had forbidden The fruit of such a union is peace and mind we think it will. Christ has to be eaten. Such an application would joy (cf. Romans 5:1; Galatians 5:22). shown us the way: Cast your life and make Jesus endorse something He It is possible you mean to say by your talents into the furrow of the never had in mind. your lack of peace that you are looking world's need, and the plant of content- for some emotional experience or feel- ment will spring up in your own heart. Did Adam and Eve use any tools in the ing you believe a Christian should have. Garden of Eden? Their work was "to God does indeed bring joy into the life, Does Jesus' statement, "Eat such dress it and to keep it" (Genesis 2:15). but the Bible guideline is this: "Now things as are set before you" (Luke the just shall live by faith" (Hebrews 10:8), mean a Christian may eat any- In this passage the verb to dress is a 10:38). That is, in spite of the state of the thing his host may serve? translation of the Hebrew verb 'abad weather, the nation, or the variable out- which means "to labor" or "to work." put of his endocrine system, the Chris- It is always important to examine any When it is used in these early chapters tian lives by a calm trust in the eternal, passage of Scripture in its context. We in connection with the ground, the KJV unchanging God. His faith pierces the must understand its setting and what it translates it as "till"; the Good News black clouds of despondency and unrest meant in that setting. Once it is deter- Bible with "cultivate." For example, in that envelop him at times, and like the mined what the passage is talking the description of the earth just prior great jets he breaks above it all to live about in the original situation, then its to the actual creation of man the state- in the sunshine of his Father's promises. principles can be applied to our times ment is made: "There was not a man to Your problem may lie in the daily and situation. Failure to do this will till ['abad, "to work"' the ground" orientation of your living. Christ's life cause us to make the Bible say things (Genesis 2:5; see also Genesis 3:23). It was an outgoing life. He lived for one it really doesn't say. would seem reasonable to infer that purpose: to bless others (see Acts 10:38). The setting for this passage is readily Adam and Eve with their mental and The Christian must grasp this aspect of seen in verse 1. Jesus is in the process physical abilities would soon begin to the faith if he would know genuine of sending out seventy disciples on a invent some tools to enable them "to happiness. If Christ has blessed you preaching mission. They will precede work" the ground in the cultivation of Him to various towns and cities in plants as well as to perform other tasks In this column Pastor Israel, preaching and teaching, thereby of daily living. Frank B. Holbrook preparing the people to receive Him The earliest reference in the Bible, answers questions when He comes later. Christ is instruct- however, to the actual making of imple- about spiritual truth, ing these men on how to discharge ments is in Genesis 4:22. Tubal-cain, a ethical behavior, and their mission. descendant of Cain who murdered his Biblical understand- Among other instructions He tells brother Abel, is referred to as "the ing. 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THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 33 Two Ando lolution for Ack ficart

The foxglove plant has probably extended more lives than any other plant on earth. So has one other treatment. by Bob Devine

DO YOU KNOW the name of a little extracted from the foxglove leaf is The Bible tells us it is because of sin pink flower that may save your life digitoxin, which is used by millions of that the human body slowly wears out, someday? Meet the foxglove, one of people around the world. Digitoxin not and this obviously includes the heart. nature's prettiest and most valuable only slows the heartbeat down to a But Jesus Christ, the Creator, put flowers! normal rate, but it causes the heart digitoxin in the leaf of the foxglove The foxglove got its name from the muscle to become stronger. This plant to help sick hearts. shape of its flower petals. It looks like a happens because the heart doesn't He didn't quit there! He came to little fox put his paw into the flower have to pump as fast, letting the heart planet Earth once and died for you and and shaped it into a glove. muscle rest more. The result is a me, shedding his precious blood for Actually, the ancient Romans named stronger, healthier heart. sinful hearts. this flower, calling it digitalis, which Doctors tell us what happens inside If your physical heart is sick, you're means "in the shape of a finger." But a heart that causes it to beat too fast. not going to get better unless you take this Latin word means far more than There is a little marble-shaped organ the cure. Just knowing all about the just that. It's the name of one of the called the SA node. The creator of your medicine won't help. You need to most popular and powerful heart heart, the Lord Jesus Christ, put it receive the medicine into your body. medicines in the world. And it comes there to generate electricity to operate The same is true about your spiritual from the foxglove plant. your heart pumps, the right and left heart, your mind. The Lord Jesus In 1785 William Withering, a medical ventricles. A tiny switch inside the SA Christ offers you total forgiveness for doctor from England, gave a dried node turns the voltage on and off, your sin. He paid the full price for it. If portion of the foxglove leaf to a patient causing your heart to beat in rhythm. you're interested in His perfect cure, whose heart was beating too rapidly. But if something goes wrong with just tell Him, "Lord Jesus, my sin Within a very short time, the heartbeat the little switch and it turns on and off made You die. Thank You for fully slowed to a normal pulse. Dr. too rapidly, your heart will beat too paying my sin debt. I receive Your Withering had discovered a medicine fast. That will tire your body, wear out forgiveness, and I receive You as my that eventually would save millions of your heart, and lead to death. This is personal Saviour and Lord." lives around the world. why doctors give digitoxin. It causes That's what John 1:12 says, "As Since that day, farmers have grown the switch to turn on and off at a many as received him [Jesus], to them entire fields of foxglove plants to proper speed, pumping just the right gave he power to become the sons of supply the needed medicine for the amount of blood to your body. The God." To assure us that this is world's sick hearts. foxglove is some flower, isn't it! absolutely true, God raised Jesus Medical researchers have analyzed Genesis 1:11 in the Bible says, "And Christ from the dead with a real body, the foxglove leaf and have found six God said, 'Let the earth put forth proving to us that He really did pay for different forms of medicine useful for vegetation' "[The Revised Standard our sins. the human heart. Digitalis contains all Version, Common Bible]. This is how The Lord Jesus Christ gave us the six because it's made from the whole the foxglove plant came into being. foxglove for sick hearts, and He gave leaf. Scientists tell us the plant shows strong His life for sinful hearts. Neither will But the most popular medication evidence for a very intelligent design. help you unless you take them by The designer, Jesus Christ, is the same faith. Bob Devine is a writer for the American one who built your heart and put it in Reprints of this article in tract form are available from Tract Society. operation. the American Tract Society, Oradell, New Jersey 07649.

34 THESE TIMES / September 1, 1977 Photograph by Gail R. Hunt

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