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GENERAL CONF STATISTICAL SECRETARY TAKOMA PARK WASHINGTON D C h ir • Union Reaper COLORADO, KANSAS. MISSOURI, NEBRASKA AND WYOMING CONFERENCES AND CENTRAL STATES MISSION VOLUME XIX COLLEGE VIEW, LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, FEBRUARY 28, 1950 NUMBER 9 111S ARTICLE is being written in After eleven years of service in the 67Damascus, the oldest of the pres- Middle East, Elder E. L. Branson has Nve ent cities of the world. For the past asked for and has been granted a per- few days I have been attending meet- manent return to the homeland. He is ings of the Middle East Union com- being succeeded by Elder R. H. Hart- Days mittee in Beirut. Elder E. L. Branson, well, who arrived from the United who has for several years been presi- States a few days before the union dent of the union, presided at the meetings opened. As he and I roomed meetings, and reports were received together in Beirut, we had opportunity from all parts of the union field, in- to renew our friendship of Minneapolis ,Cebanon cluding Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon- days. He is taking up work in a very Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, and Tur- difficult field which has its full share a itt key. By the time another week passes, of problems. I will have visited all of these fields While in the country of Lebanon, with the exception of Iran and Turkey. which embraces all of the old Phoeni- Syria In the predominantly Moslem terri- cian coast, I saw the cedars which for tory included in this union, our mes- thousands of years have made Leba- M. V. CAMPBELL sage has not progressed with the ra- non famous. I also visited the ancient pidity experienced in some other parts cities of Tyre, Zidon, Byblos, and Baal- of the world, but the baptismal report bek. Near Zidon I stopped at the town given at the meeting was very encour- of Zarephath, where during the great aging, and there are some indications drought the prophet Elijah was cared that the truth will soon win Moham- for by a widow and her son. It was of medans in larger numbers. unusual interest to be in this town, Our Middle East Training College honored so long ago by the presence is located in Beirut, and is receiving of God's messenger and by miracles very favorable public notice. One eve- wrought in his behalf. It was there ning while I was there a reception was that the meal in the barrel and oil in given at the college for the chief offi- the cruse never failed. There, too, cers of the government of Lebanon. when the widow's son died, Elijah, The president of the Council of Min- through the power of God, raised him isters addressed a gathering of the stu- again to life. dent body, the faculty, and the board Both Tyre and Zidon, though shorn in the college chapel. On the platform of their ancient glory and without any with him were the minister of educa- great influence in the world, still sup- tion, the inspector of schools, the gov- port quite large populations. Since the ernor of the province, and the county time when Alexander the Great built sheriff. That evening Elder F. E. J. a causeway from the mainland to the Harder, the college president, and his great rock upon which it stands, Tyre wife entertained other government of- has no longer been an island. During ficials at their home. The members of the centuries sand has been washed up the United States Legation and officers against this artificial link with the of the American university were also shore, greatly enlarging its width, until present. today it is difficult to realize that Tyre 2 CENTRAL UNION REAPER was once separated from the coast. It was Clothing Depot Opens of interest to see the tomb of Hiram, the king who furnished the cedars of Leba- ifs A fAcry on West Coast non to Solomon for the temple he was The news of another clothing relief building. Many relics of old Tyre still depot will bring joy to the hearts of our remain to remind one of the glories of Telegram believers. At the last Fall Council an ac- the past. tion was taken to re-open a clothing depot RED CROSS AND This morning I visited Baalbek, a city for the West to supply the needs of a BROTHERHOOD world in distress. which for thousands of years was the DRIVES COMING FAST. INGATHERING WORK opponent of the worship of the true God. Over the past several months letters WILL BECOME MORE DIFFICULT FROM NOW have been pouring in to the home mis- Throughout its history it was the center ON. URGE ALL OF OUR MEMBERS TO WORK of Baal worship. Baalbek is supposed to sionary department of the Central Cali- AND FINISH CAMPAIGN SPEEDILY. MANY fornia Conference inquiring what could be be one of the most ancient cities of the DISTRICTS OVER THE TOP ALREADY. GOD IS world. Its early inhabitants claimed that done with the clothing that the Dorcas WORKING FOR US. LET EVERY MEMBER DO societies had been preparing. By the time it existed before the flood. In fact, the HIS PART NOW. D. E. REINER autochthons state that after killing his these lines appear, the baler will again be brother Abel, Cain fled to this point and Ingathering total to date: operating, and large shipments of clothing built a fortress, which still exists. The Central States $ 10,000.00 will be on their way to Europe and the temple of Baal in this city became a place Colorado 22,000.00 Orient. of pilgrimage, and soon eclipsed in im- Kansas 45,000.00 The clothing is to be prepared in the portance all other temples dedicated to Missouri 32,000.00 same manner as before. Please do not sun worship. When the Romans conquered Nebraska 20,830.00 send clothing that is passed usefulness. It this land, they recognized the worship of Wyoming 6,820.83 costs considerable money to send these Baal as essentially the same as the worship Total $136,650.83 garments overseas, and surely we would of their own sun god, Jupiter. Therefore, not want to send something that is already as the center of sun worship, the Romans worn out. Everything should be in good built the temples at Baalbek even more visited his Mamertine prison cell, and condition. Please see that the buttons are sumptuous than any in Rome. In the ruins mourned at the place of his execution. in place and that the garment is intact of these still beautiful temples are found Those are sad places to visit, but in the in every way. The extremely light-weight the largest stones ever used in the con- house of Judas on the street called garments are of very little use. High heels struction of any building in the world. Straight, there was gladness that day and toeless shoes are of no use whatever They were moved from a quarry near by, when Saul the persecutor became Paul the to the European people. If we are going and now lay in the wall about twenty apostle. In that room I was again re- to spend good money to ship things across, feet above the ground. The largest stone minded of the converting power of God, let us send things that will give service to ever quarried and cut still lies in the and of the miracles of transformation He those who receive them. Each garment quarry. It was evidently altogether too has made and is still making in the heavy to move to the temple. hearts of men. This afternoon as soon as I arrived in Central Union Reaper this great city of Damascus, I visited "the Official Organ of the Central Union Conference street which is called Straight" where of Seventh-day Adventists Ananias was sent by God to give sight FOR MEDITATION to the blinded persecutor, Saul. The "There are many places in which Editor Martha Helen Huffines street still bears the same name, and is the voice of the minister cannot be Managing Editor ..... W. B. Mohr one of the few straight streets of the beard, places which can be reached Middle East. The old thoroughfare lies only by publications,—the books, Subscription price, $1.00 a year. buried about twenty feet beneath the papers, and tracts that are filled All checks and money orders should be made payable to the CENTRAL UNION REAPER. present street. At two places I saw excava- with the Bible truth that the people Both old and new addresses should be given tions revealing the old pavement with its need. Our literature is to be dis- when a change is requested. Zone numbers should be included for all zoned cities. ruts made by chariot wheels two millen- tributed everywhere. The truth is to All copy for publication should reach the niums ago. be sown beside all waters; for we REAPER office by WEDNESDAY preceding the date of publication. Along this old street Ananias walked to know not which shall prosper, this Published weekly (fifty issues a year) by the p. 153. Central Union Conference at College View Sta- the house of Judas, which still lies buried or that." Christian Service, tion, Lincoln 6, Nebr. on the old level. What a thrill it was to me Entered as second class matter, June 6, 1911, How can these places be Act of Congress of March 8, 1870. to stand in the same room where Ananias reached? The colporteur evange- Accepted for mailing at special Pate of Octo- said to Saul: "Why tarriest thou? Arise, list has the privilege of gaining the ber 8, 1917, authorized August 20, 1920.