Adventist Review General Organ of the Seventh-day Adventist Church March 11, 1982

Living above the darkness Page 4 Sickness, healing, and prayer Page 6 Pilates— ancient and modern Page 13 Paralyzed pastor in Kenya is of good courage Page 15

"I will feed My flock and I will lead them to rest,' declares the Lord God." —Ezekiel 34:15, N.A.S.B. THIS WEEK Adventist Review Lambs and sheep seem to be Ellen Dana ("The Million- calming faith that uplifts the a part of early spring, when, in Dollar Telephone Call," p. 3) soul—oh, such help is worth 111Sx • las the United States, March experienced a difficult day but more than precious pearls."— 61_1- weather is spoken of as being found strength from a friend Page 161. either lion- or lamblike. The who was able to share her Bible credits: Texts in this Published continuously since 1849 images of lambs, sheep, and testimony about the goodness of issue credited to N.E.B. are shepherds are part of our spirit- God. This experience brings to from The New English Bible. C EDITOR Kenneth H. Wood ual life, mentioned throughout mind a passage from Sons and The Delegates of the Oxford the Bible. 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2 (218) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 The million-dollar telephone call

By ELLEN DANA

The Lord did not answer head boring through my vitals like the gnawing of a horrible monster. I felt like crumpling into a heap of discouraged my needs with money tears. Instead I fled upstairs to a spare bedroom, where I but with an unusual telephone call. would not be disturbed. On my knees I pleaded for the Lord's strength and asked verything was going fine until he called. No, my that He take away my feeling of despair. I repeated some of E brother's call was not the million dollar one—it only the promises. Nothing happened. I just could not get myself triggered it. He merely wanted to find out how our canning under control. I sat down on the bed and thought for a few was progressing. He had no intention of plunging me into minutes. total despair. Suddenly I knew what I needed—a human voice to flood Let me explain. The day had begun as did most other days. me with hope. But at the same time I had no desire to relate all I built the fire in the wood stove, knelt beside its still-cool the circumstances and explain to someone why I needed what black exterior, and, while the cedar kindling crackled I needed. Who could give me hope and confidence without comfortingly, I pleaded with the Lord for strength for the prying? day. I praised Him for His many blessings. Instantly I knew. Virginia—a former missionary, a After showering and dressing I settled down by the minister's wife, a Bible worker, even in her mid-80s. She now-warm stove with my Bible. As always I asked God to was full of trust in the Lord. What did it matter that there was lead me to the particular verses that would bring me the help I 30 years' difference in our ages? She was a special friend. needed for that day. I rushed to the extension phone and dialed her number. Her I do not always read the marginal explanations, but for cheery good morning reminded me of the chirruping of a some reason when I came to the verse, "I will not leave you bird, so pert and happy. "And what can I do for you?" she comfortless" (John 14:18), my eyes darted to the margin. asked. "Orphans," it said. Orphans! I knew immediately what God "Just one thing," I pleaded in an even, controlled voice. was trying to tell me. I had been concerned about finances, "Take just 60 seconds of your time to flood me with hope. attempting to shoulder the whole problem alone. I had been Just tell me out loud how great and good God is." acting as though I were an orphan. God reminded me that I She never hesitated, never asked why. "All right," she was not. said, and verbally "took off." "Our God is a great God and The burden of supporting the family rested on my He is so powerful that there isn't anything He cannot do. He shoulders—it had been that way for several years, ever since loves us so much and cares so much about us that . . ." the insurance ran out after my husband's accident five years At the first reminder of God's love the tears began to before. Yet I was determined to remain at home with the stream down my face. Not tears of discouragement, but tears children as much as possible, for I believed that they still of relief. God still loved me. He cared. Virginia believed it needed me. What money I earned would have to come from and so would I. tutoring, writing, or whatever else I could do to earn it. At the end of 60 seconds she stopped, so overcome with God still cared the love of God that her own tears were falling. I could not talk; I was crying too hard. I did manage a quavery "Thank God was letting me know that He was still there, that He you," and she quavered right back at me, "You're still cared. He never would let me down. If I did what I could, welcome," and we hung up. He would do the rest. God and I engaged in another little I stood in the middle of the bedroom floor amazed at the conversation right then. How grateful I was for His word to wonderful experience. It had never happened just this way me. before. Usually if I asked someone for spiritual help it turned I went about my work happily. Financial problems were into a I-feel-sorry-for-you session. not bothering me. Then came my brother's innocent call and "Thank You, Lord," I whispered. "That dear friend and question: "How's your canning coming?" I could not lie to that phone call were worth a million dollars. I'll gladly go him. We had done virtually none. without the funds I think I need right now in exchange for "I've done very little," I admitted. "We haven't had the blessings like that one. I wouldn't trade Your way of money to buy even the cheaper fruit from the orchards." managing my life for all the money in the world." "Oh!" his voice sounded a little surprised. He told me Back at the dishpan I realized how much more the Lord what he had been getting at reasonable prices and how many had given me—an insight into how to comfort others. When quarts of pears he had canned. Before we hung up I knew I those about me are too weak temporarily to "go it alone" and was in for a bout with discouragement. I could feel its ugly verbalize God's love, I can do it for them. I do not need to know the details—I only need to know that they need my Ellen Dana is a teacher living in Monument, Oregon. help. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (219) 3 Living above the darkness

By DANIEL AUGSBURGER

There is no place where the give glory to your Father who is in heaven' " (Matt. 5:14-16, R. S . V . ). darkness of the world is too The text teaches the existential nature of the light. "You deep for the radiance of a [people] are the light of the world." It does not deal with Christian character ideas or programs, but with character and lives. By exhibiting in action those attitudes that make life meaningful, and Christian love to penetrate. Christians are the light of the world. In a Christian's behavior the world can discover the reality of hope, not a hope built on either Keynesian or supply-side economics, but the living hristians should be "the light of the world," but what hope that rests on the assurance that Jesus intercedes for us in C does that mean? For some the church becomes a light the sanctuary in heaven and is preparing mansions for us. when it erects a beautiful, substantial building at a prominent Christians must demonstrate the reality of peace, not the location in the community. Many of the old cathedrals were peace that shakes with fear behind a wall of nuclear built at the highest points of the city in keeping with Jesus' warheads, but the peace that has a heavenly origin, that is so statement that a city built on a hill cannot be hid. But Jesus genuinely unique that Jesus calls it "my peace." said, "You are the light of the world," not "Your church Christians are to reveal the joy that results from the building is the light of the world." assurance of reconciliation and freedom from the burden of Others believe that Jesus' command finds fulfillment when guilt. They demonstrate by their actions a love that the His people teach sound doctrine. By telling the world the world's best thinkers do not believe possible. As Jesus came truth about God, Christ, and the gospel the church lets it light into the world and lived in such a way that the world could see shine. The mission of the church is conceived in purely God in Him, the Christian today is called to act out the hope, intellectual terms. Yet Jesus did not say, "Talk about the the peace, the fellowship of the gospel; what Ellen White light," but "You are the light of the world." calls, living on earth "the life of heaven" (Education, p. 74). Others give an ethical dimension to the light. The church The light is evident in those qualities of life that so many and the Christian have the duty to struggle to apply Christian people seek vainly but which should be obvious characteris- principles to our society. As Walter Rauschenbush said, the tics of the conduct of the children of God. church must become "the organized conscience of society." Light is natural to the Christian Christians are urged to create a collectivity that can use force or the political process to change the economic and social The passage in Matthew also shows that the light of which structures. The church, it is said, can be a light only when it Jesus speaks is something spontaneous. Jesus did not say, goes out of the sanctuary and appears on the public square "Try to let your light shine," but "Let your light shine." where the real action is. However, Jesus taught, "Let your Light is something that is a part of the person—written in his light shine," not "Impose your light upon the world." face, marked on his hands, echoed in his language, reflected Many of us would like to be light by proxy. We give in the way he greets people and the way he works and reacts. generously when a call for funds is made, and then sit Light is just as natural in the personality of a Christian as is a comfortably in our armchairs, sipping lemonade and reading radiant smile on the faces of a bride and bridegroom. reports from the welfare center or the jail band and consider The light of which Jesus speaks cannot be programmed. It that we have done our duty. We believe that we deserve some must be the expression of a relationship and the result of a of the credit for those who were baptized at the last baptism personal experience. Jesus did not say, "Let the light shine" and for missionary advances in distant lands. And we have or "Let a light shine," but "Let your light shine." To have accomplished all that without leaving our favorite chair. any significance, that light must be personal. Light is evident Jesus did not say, "Provide funds so that men may be light," in the serenity of a Christian who has seen his whole world but "You are the light of the world." crashing down and has not lost his hold on God. Light is seen What did Jesus mean? The passage about light in the in the joy of a Christian who contends daily with pain, with Sermon on the Mount helps us see what He meant: " 'You handicaps, with difficult work conditions, and with lack of are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. appreciation. Light shines from a Christian who experiences Nor do men light a lamp and put it under a bushel, but on a relief from the burden of guilt, the sweetness of reconcilia- stand, and it gives light to all in the house. Let your light so tion with an enemy, the victory over suspicion and doubt. shine before men, that they may see your good works and But no one can be a light merely by talking about a peace, a joy, and a hope that he does not really know. In such Daniel Augsburger is a professor of church history at the existential matters art cannot make up for reality, and even SDA Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Berrien the most eloquent words still betray the emptiness of such Springs, Michigan. expressions.

4 (220) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 Light is just as natural in the personality of a Christian as is a radiant smile on the face of a bride and bridegroom.

The text in Matthew indicates that the light of which Jesus stained-glass window. On it beautiful symbols and images speaks is always directed toward God. "Let your light so may be represented, but no one sees them in the darkness. It shine before men, that they may see your good works and is only as the sun shines through them that they become give glory to your Father who is in heaven." In chapter 6 eloquent and convey beauty. Jesus speaks of supposedly God-fearing people who do their In order to reflect light the Christian must dwell where good works, their prayers, their fastings, their almsgivings, light reaches him. He must live in the fellowship of heaven to be seen of men. Their piety is self-centered, their religious through prayer, Bible study, and gospel activity. He must activities are performed in such a way as to direct praise live above the darkness of sin, the darkness of bitterness, the toward themselves. By sound, by the choice of the place, by darkness of hostility, the darkness of doubt, and the darkness gestures, they seek public attention, and Jesus concludes of despondency. He stays above the darkness, not through sadly that when they have been seen of men "they have had intellect and will power, but through grace that makes a their reward" or, as the word in the Greek suggests, "they relationship with Christ a reality. He is aglow with the glory have been paid in full." The child of God acts in such a way of heaven because of the constant brightness of the presence that he remains hidden behind his heavenly Father, and it of Christ in his life. produces a totally different result: Men give glory to the Finally Jesus adds, "Let your light so shine." That means Father. we should shine like the house on a hill that cannot be hid or Notice that the text states clearly that it is because the lamp in the humble, one-room Palestinian house that Christians are light that people behold their good works. We dispels the darkness from every cranny and nook in the tend to take another sequence for granted. First we must dwelling. produce good works, and then the world will detect the light. Love overcomes As a consequence, we rely heavily on a public-relations program to do the work of the church. We call our institutions The light that the Christian must shed in the world is a "Adventist"; we stencil "Seventh-day Adventist Church" victorious light that overcomes the darkness. There is no on our cars and trucks. The import of the text, however, is place where the darkness of the world is too deep for the that people will not see any special value or beauty in our radiance of a Christian character and Christian love to works, as the Greek word suggests in the original, unless the penetrate. one who does them is light himself. In other words, people Charles Colson recently visited the Indiana State Prison at are more interested in character than in deeds. When acts Michigan City, Indiana. After talking and praying with a truly express a rare, loving personality even those who know large group of inmates in the prison auditorium Colson and nothing about God will pay notice. The most impressive his group went to death row, where he knew that some welfare work or medical work means little if these appear to prisoners were now born-again Christians. Awaiting them be the result of an impersonal program. were a few men who not long before had been such vicious The Christian's light always leads to God because it comes killers that tribunals had sentenced them to die. Yet he found from God. There is only one true source of light—"I am the them out of their cells, linking arms with unarmed men and a light of the world." All other light is derived from Him. "In frail young woman, a gospel singer. Time went by fast, and thy light shall we see light" (Ps. 36:9). "The Lord is my light there still was an appointment to meet at Indianapolis the and my salvation" (Ps. 27:1), "Christ shall give thee light" same day. When Colson gave the signal to leave he noticed (Eph. 5:14). "As we keep Christ in view, the bright rays of that one of his group had gone into a cell with a prisoner and the Sun of Righteousness shine upon us and flood the that they were praying and reading passages of the Scriptures chambers of the mind and heart and fill the soul temple with together. light. As the Light of the world shines upon us, we diffuse it Finally Colson's companion rejoined the group and to those around. . . . The soul that is stayed upon God explained, "You see, I am Judge Clements—the judge who commits to Christ all that perplexes, all that annoys, all that sentenced this man to die. I seldom saw a man so hostile and gives anxiety. The light of Christ shines in the soul in all insensitive as that fellow during his trial. Then he was in a goodness and peace, for in Him dwelleth all the fullness of direct way my enemy, for I represented society, which the Godhead bodily. "—Ellen White, That I May Know Him, demanded his life. Today, though, he is a newborn person; p. 190. he is my brother, and we feel as close as members of the same The Christian can be likened to a diamond. The stonecutter family. All that because some Christians cared and came and chisels many little light-reflecting facets, but even the best witnessed." diamond is totally dull in the shade. It needs light to shine. This is the light that must shine forth from Christians, a Likewise the Christian's character is chiseled by the Divine light that overcomes obscurity. When a person is that light he Stonecutter through life experiences, but only as he reflects will live above the darkness, for the darkness has no power divine light will he glow. A Christian is also like a over him. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (221) 5 Sickness, healing, and prayer

By B. B. BEACH

If God healed everyone nature of things. Thus, philosophers from the Stoics to Sartre have advocated a kind of fatalistic acceptance and patient in answer to prayer, endurance of suffering, sickness, and death. there would be negative fallout. The second approach is escape. Men and women must endeavor to escape human existence in a disciplined program that eliminates the desires of life. A personal agenda of rigid he problem of suffering and sickness is both basic and self-denial, it is claimed, leads to the solution of the problem Tperplexing. It involves the essence of the human of pain by eliminating the problem. Buddhism offers the predicament and has stood in all ages as a paramount classic expression of escapism, and Christian Science a challenge to thinking people. The greatest minds have modern variant. struggled with the problem. The age-old dilemma was The Christian response is neither compulsory acceptance expressed by the Greek philosopher Epicurus (342?-270 nor wishful escape but a facing up to actuality. Sickness and B. c.): If God wishes to prevent evil and suffering and cannot, suffering are tied to moral and physical evil and must be seen He must be impotent; if God could and will not, He must be in the wider context of the problem of sin. The mystery of malevolent. If God has both the power and the will, then suffering rests ultimately in the even deeper mystery of whence is suffering and sickness? iniquity: there is rebellion in the cosmos, there is sin, there is Outside of Scripture, two basic answers have been disharmony. All things are thrown out of joint. In a sense, offered, with many variations. First, there is the solution of that is what sickness is. The whole plan of salvation aims at acceptance. Humanity must accept suffering as descriptive reconciliation, healing, and righteousness by faith through of the way things are and not evade its destiny. Human beings the redemptive suffering of the cross. are seen as the end product of evolutionary accidents or the The universality of sickness is a stern reality. Atheists may helpless objects of impersonal determinative forces, and blame fate, and agnostics, chance. Theists at times blame therefore no answer is to be sought outside the unyielding God because some are not healed. But would it not be more accurate to say that eventually all are not healed? We do not, B. B. Beach is director of the Public Affairs and Religious of course, subscribe to the macabre view that death is a form Liberty Department of the General Conference. of healing.

6 (222) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 What, then, is the difference between Christians and promise invariable granting of our prayers. But that is not non-Christians insofar as sickness is concerned? The what is really meant. There are other, counterbalancing, distinction is not really in regard to sickness as such, though passages. In Gethsemane the holiest and most perfect of all Christians should be in better health and be more happy petitioners prayed three times that a cup might pass from because of their closer adherence to the divine laws of health. Him. It did not! Christians get sick and suffer with the rest of humankind; Second, we need to see in our lives and around us the they have to meet the ultimate manifestation of sickness— results of the law of cause and effect. It would be a death. The essential difference lies in the Christian's comfort topsy-turvy world if prayer easily could change all laws of and hope in ultimate healing—salvation in the resurrection. nature. We need to know that if we cut our hands we will It is a relationship—Jesus Christ in a Christian's life—that bleed, that smoking is detrimental to health. We must know makes the fundamental difference, not temporary healing as that if we consistently disobey the laws of health, we cannot such. expect prayer to overrule negligence. What a person sows, he Most Christians know of instances where, after earnest will have to reap. That is the basic Biblical principle. prayer, healing did take place and of other occasions where this was not the case. This raises the whole question of the Limited human knowledge efficacy of prayer. Is there indeed a causal relationship A third factor is limited human knowledge. The Lord says, between prayer and healing? This is obviously a very "My thoughts are not your thoughts" (Isa. 55:8). We do not important question. How many have experienced such a know enough to pray for unconditional healing (see causal relationship? What evidence would prove it? Healing Testimonies, vol. 2, pp. 147, 148). Voltaire, the French may take place after prayer, but could it not have happened philosopher, is often pictured as the archinfidel, yet he wrote anyhow, even a miraculous healing? Can we obtain a an interesting philosophical tale entitled Zadig (A.D. 1747). compulsive empirical proof? How could this be done? Zadig is pictured as a wealthy, honest, educated Babylonian. C. S. Lewis, in writing about the efficacy of prayer, makes He travels with a hermit who sets fire to the house of their an interesting suggestion: Let us set up as large a team as host. Zadig is appalled at this act of ingratitude. feasible and have it pray as hard as possible for the patients in Next night a widow extends hospitality to them. The Hospital A and for none in Hospital B. After a year or so we following morning she sends her nephew to show them the total up the cures and deaths! The same could be done, of way and help them across a narrow bridge, but the hermit course, for an airline or some other organization. pushes the young man off the bridge into the torrential river, What would this prove? With C. S. Lewis I say, nothing! where he drowns. Zadig thinks the hermit is a monster. At First of all, additional factors may be at work. Other people, that very moment the hermit turns into a heavenly angel and unknown to us, may be praying for Hospital B. Even if this reveals new information to the astonished Zadig: the master were not the case, no real prayer has actually taken place in of the burned house found a great treasure underneath the regard to Hospital A. We just cannot pray in order to conduct ruins of his house. The young man would have killed his aunt an experiment! Saying prayers is not praying. If this were the within a short time and Zadig himself a year later! And if the case, trained parrots—the more the better—would work and boy had lived, later he would have been assassinated himself, prayer wheels would be at a premium. The motive is together with his wife and child! Thus, even Voltaire taught all-important. We cannot pray for the recovery of the sick that Providence knows best. unless the end we have in mind is their recovery. We cannot We are invited to commit our desires to our all-wise have as a motive the healing of all patients in Hospital A and heavenly Father. "God never leads His children otherwise the recovery of none in Hospital B. Thus, the experiment than they would choose to be led, if they could see the end asks for the impossible, and empirical proof is indeed from the beginning. "—The Desire of Ages, p. 224. unattainable. Christianity always has had an intimate connection with We can believe healing. There has been a lesser link with health. It is a specifically Seventh-day Adventist contribution to bring Earlier, however, we referred to experiencing the efficacy together scientific medicine, including health education, of prayer. We cannot prove, but we can experience, a causal humane compassion, and spiritual healing. relationship between prayer and healing. We can believe in Pagan gods were interested in the strong and healthy. It is answered prayer. Through faith, we can know that God has perhaps of some significance that Asclepius, the Greek god healed. of healing, was the pagan god who held out longest in the Would it not be wonderful if God answered by fulfilling all popular mind against Christianity. Satan does not like our prayer requests? Actually, this would have a negative healing because it is intimately connected with salvation. fallout. Earlier we said that all eventually are not healed. This is, First, it would not be good if all were healed in answer to of course, true in the present human dispenSation. And yet, in prayer. If all our prayers always were answered as requested, the final analysis, only some will not be healed; because we would be hardly human. We would seem almost eventually all believers in Christ will be healed either through infallible; we would appear to be all-powerful magicians. the resurrection or translation into everlasting life, health, The result would be "rice Christians." Remember the and _happiness. Thus, a Christian, instead of asking Why? tremendous temporary popularity that resulted from the should rather ask How long? and trust, for the essence of faith feeding of the multitude by Christ. Prayer would become a is absolute trust in God and in His ultimate healing power. magical tool. With this assurance, we cannot do other than "in trouble Some New Testament passages seem at first sight to stand firm; persist in prayer" (Rom. 12:12, N.E.B .). ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (223) 7 Awaiting Christ's Return-2 Christ warns His church

By C. E. BRADFORD

The spiritual differences within hour, nobody knows it" (Matt. 24:36, Jerusalem). The waiting servants are not to spend their time in fruitless the ranks of God's people speculation as to the exact time of the second coming of are not superficial, Christ. This is something that Jesus Himself could not make known to His disciples. Ellen White puts it this way: "Had but deep and internal. He been at liberty to reveal this, why need He have exhorted them to maintain an attitude of constant expectancy? There arnings make us uncomfortable. They point out are those who claim to know the very day and hour of our Wreality, and this can be frightening, because it may call Lord's appearing. Very earnest are they in mapping out the for change, which often is painful. So we employ all kinds of future. . . . The exact time of the second coming of the Son of defense mechanisms, "the games people play." Jesus seeks man is God's mystery."—The Desire of Ages, pp. 632, 633. to break through these barriers, to get to us, to help us see We should notice something else. In these Second-Com- things as they really are. ing-oriented parables, we find indication of an apparent A strong note of warning runs all through the Parousia delay. "For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, parables. We are the target audience. This note of warning is who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to necessary because living in the last period of time is like every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch" walking through a field mined with explosive devices. But (Mark 13:44). I call this the long journey motif or theme. Jesus has pointed out the dangers and has told us how to avoid Christ seems to be warning His disciples that they must be them. ready for an extended wait. Here, then, is the challenge: to be The great Second Advent Movement developed out of an ready at a moment's notice and to keep up that readiness awareness of Christ's imminent return. The prophecies of during what seems to be an apparent delay. God's Word, the signs of the times, the spirit of the age—all Careless and indifferent seemed to declare that the end was near. The cosmic signs of Matthew 24:29, strange phenomena in nature, took place just "Because the time is apparently extended, many have as Christ had foretold. All this had a tremendous effect upon become careless and indifferent in regard to their words and the Christian world. The end time had begun, the time actions. They do not realize their danger and do not see and spoken of by Daniel the prophet and John the Revelator. A understand the mercy of our God in lengthening their great flood of light burst from the prophetic books, and a probation, that they may have time to form characters for the people were brought into existence whose very name future, immortal life."—Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 306. suggests that they look for their Lord's soon return—a people In Luke 21:34 the Saviour points out also the special kinds with a peculiar self-awareness and a consciousness of of dangers and perils that will confront the believer in this mission, a people who see themselves as watchmen charged time—dissipation, drunkenness, and worldly cares. "Satan by heaven to warn the whole world that "the coming King is . . . has set his satanic agencies at work to stir the elements of at the door." the world, in order that men may be deceived, deluded, and kept occupied and entranced until the day of probation shall Parables a challenge be ended, and the door be forever shut. "—Fundamentals of The Second Coming parables speak to these watchmen. Christian Education, p. 355. They are designed to challenge us, and even at times to shock It seems almost paradoxical—in an age when leisure time us, into a realization of our danger. There is always the is becoming a major social problem and labor-saving devices possibility that servants will become complacent and relax clutter our homes and offices—that most of us plead a lack of their vigilance. "Be ready for action, with belts fastened and time. We are busier than ever, or so we think Or is it the lamps alight. Be like men who wait for their master's return spirit of the age that we have imbibed? Discerning observers from a wedding-party, ready to let him in the moment he of modern life have protested for a long time that this arrives and knocks" (Luke 12:35, N.E.B.). busyness, this ceaseless round of activity, is to avoid facing Jesus gives more than a general warning. He describes for reality, to avoid admitting that life has lost real meaning, that us the dimensions of the crisis we face and the spirit of the there is no heaven to win or hell to shun. times. Those who await their Master's return have a goal, a Some things stand out. First, there are no more prophetic future, something to look forward to, that gives meaning to dates. The last period of earth's history, the time of the end, life. Anticipation—looking earnestly for the Advent— will be of undetermined length. ",But as for that day and breaks the spell and charm of the world and shows it up for what it really is. No allurements, no flattering inducements, C. E. Bradford is vice-president of the General Conference no cleverly mixed bag of truth and error, can deflect the for the North American Division. waiting servants who keep their eyes steadfast on the goal.

8 (224) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 Our denominational name is a constant reminder that our first duty is to be ready when the Master returns.

"Let no one's interpretation of prophecy rob you of the like this. There were ten girls, who took their lamps and went conviction of the knowledge of events which show that this out to meet the bridegroom" (Matt. 25:1, N.E.B .). great event is near at hand. "—Ibid., p. 336. What is so striking about these words of Christ is their The more we study Christ's counsel to the waiting increasing relevance, their complete description of the issues servants, the clearer it becomes. The great struggle during and challenges that the waiting servants must face. The the watching, waiting time is to keep alert, never to allow the parable of the ten virgins is the major Parousia parable. "We warning message to lose its force. No matter how events may all need to study as never before the parable of the ten seem to human reasoning, there is really no delay. The truth virgins. "—Ellen G. White Comments, The SDA Bible about the Second Coming still stands, including the shortness Commentary, vol. 4, p. 1179. "Every specification of this of time, its nearness. parable should be carefully studied. . . . This representation Some of us are old enough to remember the attack on Pearl should call forth our earnest study. "—Review and Herald, Harbor, which catapulted the United States into World War Oct. 31, 1899. "This parable has been and will be fulfilled to II. General George C. Marshall never could quite understand the very letter, for it has a special application to this time, how his Pacific commanders were caught unprepared for the and, like the third angel's message, has been fulfilled and event. They had ample warnings. As early as June, 1940, will continue to be present truth till the close of time. "— General Marshall foresaw the possibility of a surprise attack Ibid., Aug. 19, 1890. on Pearl Harbor and sent out the first of a series of warnings that would be repeated during the next 18 months: "Maintain Counsel in a time frame alert until further orders. " When that day comes. Jesus wraps His counsel in a time The next 18 months saw a pattern emerging, a kind of frame. That time is the waiting, watching time, the time of syndrome: alert followed by gradual relaxation. In addition, the end. The parable of the ten virgins is given to illustrate the there was infighting between the various branches of the experience of the church that shall live just before His second military, while the entire defense system seemed immobi- coming. (See Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 415, 416.) lized by lethargy and apathy. This state of affairs continued Ten girls wait to join a wedding party. The groom already to worsen until Pearl Harbor day, December 7, 1941. In has gone to the bride's house and at any moment will pass this Washington and in Honolulu, the commanders were spot with the wedding entourage. The girls plan to join the enjoying the theater and social functions when the news came party and take part in the feast. Ten young maidens—they all over the wires and blared from radios across the land: "Air look much alike. Each one is dressed for the occasion, each raid on Pearl Harbor. This is not a drill. " The irony of it is carries a lighted lamp, and each has a receptacle for extra oil. that the alert had been sent out over Marshall's signature on All wait for the same event, the appearance of the November 27 but not one person who saw it attempted to bridegroom. warn the Pacific commanders. In fact, the warning to Pearl We see ourselves mirrored in Jesus' words. As the ten girls Harbor arrived at the telegraph station in Hawaii well after each had a lamp, so we all have the Word of God. In the Japanese planes had left their carriers, and the messenger Adventism we have a clear, connected system of Bible boy, casually on his way to headquarters with a warning in doctrines that can be called "present truth. " As with the his pocket, was forced to take to the ditch to escape the attack maiden girls, we each have vessels in addition to our lamps, from the air. indicating the possibilities for growth, the potential for "When that day comes, the kingdom of Heaven will be development in Christian graces. The message of Christ's coming has called us into fellowship and into a special relationship with Him, and our denominational name is a We constant reminder that our first duty is to be ready when the By ELIZABETH THOMANN Master returns. Three crosses rose on a barren hill— There is much about us that is the same. We all vowed at three crosses crude and rough. Paling, our baptism to be faithful to our Lord, and when the minister on each a man condemned to die asked, "Is the soon coming of Jesus the blessed hope in your for sin hung bleeding. heart, and is it your settled determination to prepare to meet But One was God! Him in peace, as well as to help others to get ready for His On Him one turns in railing; glorious appearing?" we answered in the affirmative. It is the other on Him casts his soul. hard to tell the difference. But after all, it is not our business Upon earth's curve these three, to tell. The church is an open, inclusive society. The the sons of men, hang bleeding yet. preaching of the gospel, like the great net cast into the sea in And One is God! the parable, brings in all manner of fish. Tares are sown among the wheat. "Many are called, but few are chosen"

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (225) 9 (Matt. 22:14). Jesus' reading of the situation is accurate and individual to search his own heart, and attend to his own precise. "In the absence of persecution, there have drifted individual work." Spiritual Gifts, vol. 2, p. 223. "Put into our ranks some who appear sound, and their Christianity away your faculty for seeing the mistakes of others. Turn unquestionable, but who, if persecution should arise, would your attention to your own defects. "—The SDA Bible go out from us. "—Selected Messages, book 2, p. 368. Commentary, Ellen G. White Comments, vol. 7, p. 963. "Prosperity multiplies a mass of professors. "—Testi- Jesus is a physician to His last-day church. In His monies, vol. 4, p. 89. judgment all the waiting servants have special and peculiar So the ten maidens of the last day church read the same needs. The waiting church is the church militant, not literature, have the same Bible, the same Sabbath school I triumphant. It is not yet in a state of perfection. It is quarterly, attend the same meetings, hear the same sermons, interesting to note how often Ellen White compares the have the same potential and opportunities for growth and Laodiceans to the foolish virgins. "The state of the church development. represented by the foolish virgins, is also spoken of as the But there is a difference. Notice that Jesus did not say that Laodicean state. "—Review and Herald, Aug. 19, 1890. five were good and five were bad. Rather, "five of them were We all need a physician. We all have heard of people who wise, and five were foolish"—or, as some versions have it, have gone to their physicians for a checkup feeling quite "silly," "stupid," "thoughtless." "The class represented well, only to discover that they have a serious health problem by the foolish virgins are not hypocrites. They have a regard that must be taken care of immediately. So the differences for the truth, they have advocated the truth, they are attracted within the ranks of God's people are not surface or cosmetic, to those who believe the truth. "---Christ's Object Lessons, but deep and internal. Since we are represented by either the p. 411. foolish or the wise virgins, the only appropriate attitude and But, again, we must resist the temptation to judge. The response is expressed in David's words: "Search me, 0 God, waiting servants must not become critical and find fault with and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if one another. "I have seen that it was not the design of the there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way ❑ message to lead brother to sit in judgment over his brother, to everlasting" (Ps. 139:23, 24). tell him what to do, and just how far to go; but for each To be continued

FOR THE YOUNGER SET

"but your thong is gone. "Mamma, may I wait here on The blue thong Didn't I hear Mother warn you the rock? The road is so hot not to put your foot over the it's hard to walk with one bare By JEANE KRAVIG edge of the water?" foot." "Yes, Daddy," Steven Mother had been gone for Five-year-old Steven sat on yen cried, "My thong! My answered, his big brown eyes about ten minutes when she a big stone, his brown eyes thong! It's going down the flooding and overflowing shouted to Daddy, "Come sparkling as they watched a river!" down an already tear-streaked here! I think I've found it!" stream dancing merrily by. He Sitting on a rock nearby, face. "I just wanted to cool Daddy left on the run. and his parents had come to Mother looked up just in time my foot in the water." "See?" Mother pointed this beautiful spot in the to see a blue thong go sailing "You always have a prob- across the water to a big rock mountains to have a picnic past, the rushing current lem, son, when you disobey," hanging over the opposite supper. As they waited for twisting it this way and that. Daddy reminded him. Picking bank. "There, under the rock; their friends to join them, "Please get my thong!" Steven up in his strong arms, isn't that a thong bobbing in Steven at first was content to Steven wailed, tears spilling they started back to their little the water?" trail his hand in the cool water down his cheeks. spot by the mountain stream. Taking off his shoes, flowing by. But the late after- Both Daddy and Mother Steven heaved a big sigh as Daddy waded across the noon sun was still hot, and jumped up and began running he settled down again on the stream, climbed up the large soon he hung his thong-clad down the road near the water's rock. His usually dimpled face rock, and stretched himself foot over the stream. edge, trying to keep the fast- looked sober. "Mamma, across it. His hand reached Mother's voice called out, moving thong in view. How- couldn't we go look for the down, down, down, as far as it "Steven, keep your thong ever, the strong current soon thong again?" In a small voice could go, at last barely touch- away from the water. It's carried it out of sight. The blue he added, "Let's pray; maybe ing the water. Slowly feeling loose on your foot and could thong was gone! Jesus will help us find it." around, his fingers grasped the fall into the stream." As they turned back up the After a short prayer, blue thong rocking too and fro Steven obediently pulled road Steven came hobbling Mother said, "If we don't find in the safety of the dark cove. his foot back, but a few around a bend, trying to keep it, Steven, just remember, Steven is a year older now. minutes later he again put one his bare foot off the hot Jesus may want to teach you a But he will never forget that foot over the stream. Plop! his roadside. lesson in obedience." Jesus heard his prayer. Steven thong hit the water. "We looked everywhere, As Mother got up to go knows Jesus is a real friend of "Daddy! Mamma!" Ste- Steven," Daddy explained, search, Steven asked, boys and girls.

10 (226) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 TEENS AND TWENTIES

us exactly whether He claims to be the Messiah. Instead He tells us to make the judgment for ourselves." John's disciples "Still," Alphaeus said, "the evidence is irrefutable. One cannot spend a day with the Carpenter without knowing." "In a sense, "There's the difference between you and me, Alphaeus. He has led me here— I'm not really looking for any hard evidence," Matthias said. to this clammy dungeon." "My heart tells me what I need to know. His eyes, His winsome smile, are evidence enough for me." They trudged along solemnly into the gathering darkness. By GARY B. SWANSON Night "assembled" omniously around them like great black birds on the housetops and in the nooks and alleyways. he sun was just casting its last orange rays of the-day Furtively the two men went on, every step carrying them Tacross Jerusalem as Alphaeus and Matthias were closer to their sorrowful task. wending their way back to see John. Shopkeepers banged * * * their doors closed, and craftsmen laid their work aside for another day. For them the day was finished. But Alphaeus "He is the Messiah," they reported. "There's no doubt and Matthias had yet their most meaningful--and heart- about it. We have seen Him cast out demons, give sight to the breaking—task to perform. They were not hurrying. blind, raise the dead." Matthias shook his head in desperation. "How can we go John said nothing at first. The deepening silence of the back to John and tell him? At one time he could hold throngs dungeon oppressed them all, and a feeling of desolation hung of people spellbound. He could even silence the Pharisees, like a pall about them. Somewhere water trickled over cold but now that he's imprisoned, the crowds have abandoned stones. They could hear the crisp, harsh sound of marching him. If he ever needed our help and support, it's now. If only feet. Singing and laughter drifted distantly from Herod's he hadn't offended Herod!" palace across the courtyard. "I know what you are feeling," Alphaeus said, "but you John sighed wearily. "Of course, I've always known He must remember that John himself sent us to ask the Carpenter was the Messiah—at least I've known since the day He asked if He is the Messiah. We can't be responsible for the to be baptized. There was in Him such a magnificent answer." humility." John nodded. "I've been sure of it since then." "But we are responsible. And our decision would have His eyes cleared and brightened, took on the searing blue been so much easier if He would just come right out and tell that had pierced the hearts of thousands who had come to hear him in the wilderness. "You must follow Him—wherever He leads you. It won't be where you expect. In a sense, He has led me here—to this clammy dungeon. But if I am to be here, there is a purpose in it. I'm sure of that." The hollow clank of a huge key in the door startled them. The jailer burst officiously into the cell, flanked by two dull, bristle-faced guards. "Well, Baptist," the jailer said with a sneer, "it looks as though you've preached your last sermon." Motioning to the two guards, he ordered, "Take him away." Snarling like hungry animals, the guards grabbed John and raised him roughly to his feet. They pushed him ahead of them out the door, the shackles on his feet rattling dully. Alphaeus caught the jailer by the arm. "Where are you taking him?" Tearing his arm away, the jailer grinned wickedly. "Come along and see!" The grim finality of the jailer's answer gripped Alphaeus and Matthias, leaving them no doubt as to his meaning. But as they followed down the corridors and out into the street, Alphaeus brushed the tears aside with the back of his hand. "The jailer is wrong. John has one more sermon to preach. Tonight will be his grandest sermon of all." ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (227) 11 READER TO READER An exchange of views on a topic of current interest

I have two preschool children. The responsibil- sions. Help them to gain knowl- has given you directions to edge and wisdom until they are teach, train, and educate them ity of rearing them to be God-loving, conscientious able, with God's help, to make for Him so that they may love Christians can be overwhelming at times. Could proper decisions. and obey Him. you share some of the approaches that make secure Help them to adapt to chang- MERETLE H. WILSON adult Christians? How can I help my children rise ing circumstances and to realize New Bern, North Carolina above the peer pressure they will get in school and God is in control. Be consistent in what you ask your children to • Building a Christian character with friends? do and what you expect of them requires a firm foundation. Start in obedience. right now to teach your little • Over the years my reading has peer pressure, the best thing is ones of Jesus and the plan of led me to see the importance of an example of two parents who ORVILLE W. LITCHFIELD Perry, Florida salvation. Do not think they are at least three things relating to exhibit security, maturity, too small to understand. When this question. Christian commitment, and a • A truism in child rearing is my boy was 4, I kept a 3-year- Love them! Unconditional life of principle. that a child who will stand for old girl. Each afternoon I spent acceptance—when they are MADELINE S. JOHNSTON what he believes is one who has some time in the big rocker with good and when they are bad. Berrien Springs, Michigan been raised in a home where the both of them on my lap, telling They will feel secure and will parents consistently lived the them stories. In our home the have a solid foundation for their • One prime suggestion is to be values and principles they picture "What Happened to relationship with God. sure your children see God-lov- preached. JOAN BROMME Your Hand?" hung on the wall. Discipline them! Consistent ing, conscientious lives in their Alvarado, Texas One day my son asked, "Mom, rules and follow-through will parents. Be scrupulously honest what is that child doing in the bring respect for you and what in your dealings. Return the • Train your children to recog- picture?" This opened the way you stand for, rather than rejec- too-much change you occasion- nize when a situation is out of to tell about the life of Christ tion in the teen years. ally receive. Honor the speed their depth and how to select a and how He died for us. After Befriend them! Shower your limits. Do not try to get away reliable counselor, be it a dean, that, every day it was "Mom, spouse with obvious love. with anything. Your children teacher, parent, or God. Stress tell us about the picture." Shower your children, too, with see things you do not realize. the importance and value of For evening worship I would your time, your mind, and your Let them see that God is your selecting the correct option. tell them about Jesus' second touch. They will not be so friend. Explain that peers respect peo- coming, making it real and alive vulnerable to peer pressure if Be generous with praise ple who can make the right so that they would remember. their best friends are at home. where it is due. Let the children decision, however unpopular, ESTHER LAUSTEN These are all easier said than see affection between husband and stick to it. Knox, Indiana done—but just begin, and the and wife, such as a hug or a JOOK-TING SHIM Lord will bless. loving pat, and be lavish in Collegedale, Tennessee GERITA LIEBELT loving them. Love unexpressed Question for May Berthoud, Colorado does not register with the • Love and affection are Response deadline April 2 objects of your love. important in helping the chil- Our son will graduate from • Handling peer pressure will Take time to listen to your dren withstand the pressures academy this May. We have not be a big problem to the child children. Their little problems they may have to face. During done all we can to encourage who has learned firm and con- may not seem much to you, but family devotions lift them up in him to attend one of our col- sistent parental support and they are quite important to prayer, mentioning them by leges. He is a good boy and not whose life is committed to the them. If you listen when the name and thanking God for rebellious. The problem is he will of Christ, especially if children are small and do not them. Be quick to recognize wants to be a commercial pilot. parents continue to encourage make fun of their problems, their efforts to follow instruc- In spite of our counsel, he thinks the child's growing mind to they will be more apt to come to tion. the Air Force is the best training consider reasons for both faith you during the adolescent years. Keep communication lines for this. We need help in advis- and standards. An additional aid Many teen-agers complain, open between you and your ing him, particularly from those is a relatively late start in "No one listens to me." child. Do not be shocked at with experience in flying and/or school. This gives more time to CECIL SHROCK what you may hear. When your military service. solidify the values you have Leslie, Arkansas child uses words that sound taught, more maturity with offensive, explain: "We don't Send answers (or questions for consider- ation) to Reader to Reader, ADVENTIST which to understand them, and • Your devotion to God and an like those kinds of expressions REVIEW, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Takoma Park, Washington, D.C. 20012. less emotional need for depend- unselfish life of study, prayer, in our home. I don't believe that Letters should not exceed 300 words in length and will be edited to fit available ency on peers. Thus the child is and work, depending on Him Jesus would be pleased." space. Duplicate ideas and standard sug- better prepared to be a leader. for guidance, will do much to Remind children periodically gestions, such as "Pray about your prob- lem," will be eliminated. Letters must be Ultimately, for security, accomplish your desire. 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not exercise it. He stifled his con- miscarriage of justice that was in Pilates--ancient victions, sought a method to avoid the making, if he had risked his acting decisively on behalf of the future by setting Jesus free, even- and modem Prisoner and, as a consequence, let tually he might have become a an innocent Man die. He preferred follower of Christ. At Pentecost he One of the most starkly tragic to miscarry justice rather than risk might have publicly avowed his figures in history is Pontius Pilate, disapproval by his superiors and the discipleship. In any event he would Roman procurator of Judea. Here loss of his job. have had a secure place in history as was a man who had an opportunity If subsequent events in Pilate's a man of character and integrity. to be known as one who would life had justified his course (for Though Christ would have been "not be bought or sold"; a man example, if he had retained his sacrificed, Pilate's hands would not who was "true and honest"; a man standing with Rome and eventually have been stained with His blood. who would "not fear to call sin by had risen to sit on the throne of the From today's perspective it is its right name"; a man whose Caesars), his decision might be easy to see how disastrous and conscience was "as true to duty as considered as having some merit, at mistaken was Pilate's course. But the needle to the pole"; a man who least from a worldly standpoint. But do we see as clearly how short- would "stand for the right though quite the opposite happened. Not sighted and wrong it is for us to the heavens fall" (see Education, long after the crucifixion the very compromise principle? Do we see p. 57). When the Son of God was thing that Pilate sought to avoid by how dangerous it is to dabble in sin brought before him for trial, he vacillation, cowardice, and com- and stifle a tender conscience? Even could have defended Him and con- promise occurred. He was removed if through spineless, self-seeking demned His accusers; he could have from office, stripped of his honors, action we retain position, acquire stood for truth and justice; he could and banished to southern Gaul. riches, or "enjoy the pleasures of have set the innocent One free. Humiliated, his ego in tatters, he sin fora season" (Heb. 11:25), in Instead, putting popularity and the committed suicide. the end we will lose everything. hope for personal advantage above Tryon Edwards, great-grandson "All who compromise with sin will principle, right, and justice, he of Jonathan Edwards, once gain only sorrow and ruin."—The permitted the Saviour of the world declared: "Compromise is but the Desire of Ages, p. 738. The attempt to be crucified, then lost everything sacrifice of one right or good in the to gain "all this and heaven too" he had hoped to retain or gain by hope of retaining another, too often will fail. "Ye cannot serve God and this cowardly act. ending in the loss of both." How mammon" (Matt. 6:24). "Know ye Pilate had, at times, been ruthless true this was with Pilate. He knew not that the friendship of the world and cruel. Yet when Jesus, patient, Jesus was innocent. He knew he is enmity with God? whosoever exhausted, and holy, stood before should release Him. But he did not. therefore will be a friend of the him, he felt a burst of compassion He feared that to go against the world is the enemy of God" (James and longed to set Him free. He had wishes of the nation's religious 4:4). the authority to do this. But he did leaders and resist the pressures of Pilate is dead. But are not his the crowd would mean the end of philosophical descendants still cru- his public career. So he compro- cifying Jesus by compromising con- mised with his convictions, allowed science and principle? K. H. W. Jesus to be cruelly scourged, and, yielding to the demands of the howling mob, eventually author- ized His crucifixion. If • • • The name of Pilate lives today in infamy. If this Roman ruler had stood for principle, if he had coura- geously denounced the obvious

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (229) 13 Those who say that the Sabbath spells "legalism" have never heard its tone of pure freedom—the song of a soul set free.

boy and girl playing church on has entered into its joy, who has Now, more Sabbath afternoon, planning the found it a delight, its memories program, acting out Bible charades, spell celebration. than ever writing poems. Those who say that the Sabbath When I think of the Sabbath, I spells "legalism" have never heard The Sabbath is many things to hear the deep-throated voice of the its tones of pure freedom—the song many people. pipe organ, the black-robed choir's of a soul set free. Those who say When I think of the Sabbath, I "Alleluia!" and the preaching of that one day is as good as another think of my father, bag filled with the Word of God. I feel the tingle of have not found that the Sabbath is papers and small gifts in hand, expectancy, the awe of the Divine like no other day, that it partakes of setting out to visit the hospitals, old Presence, and the communion of a unique quality because God has people's homes, and shut-ins. That the Holy Spirit. I think of moments set it apart for us. Those who say is my earliest memory of him. Until eternal in quality. that the Sabbath was nailed to the his final illness confined him to bed, When I think of the Sabbath, I cross fail to realize that in 1982 we he never missed his Sabbath after- think of walks—by Himalayan still need the Sabbath. noon appointment with those who trails, on tropical beaches, through In our modern, frantic existence, had been unable to share the bless- Tennessee woods. I smell the rain- we need the Sabbath. We need the ings of the church services. drops on the evergreens and plow Sabbath now. When I think of the Sabbath, I through heaps of autumnal leaves. I Now, more than ever. w. G. J. think of Friday night candles and see the golden orb sinking over the children's songs and lying on the mountains, over the Arabian Sea, rug in front of the fire I think of our over Lake Michigan. The Sabbath is many things to many people, but to everyone who

LETTERS Continued from page 2 sions or trends were expressed God's faithfulness humility believe God gave us archs and Prophets, p. 42). The concerning "pluralism" of specific time for Sabbath wor- gospel message cannot contain I have just read the exciting Adventist doctrine? This is a ship without figuring out why? any of Satan's lies about our article "God's Blessing Is Seen topic that needs to be reported to Can we humbly believe God has gracious God. at Bangkok Adventist Hospi- the members via the REVIEW. a remnant church with a pro- God's requests of His people tal" (Jan. 7), and want to These issues directly affect phetic message in our day, or appeal to the reason of His express my appreciation for this every member, and I believe are we Laodiceans saying, I am intelligent creatures (Steps to outstanding testimony of God's keeping them fully informed rich in wisdom and do not need Christ, pp. 105-108). faithfulness! JUDY BEASLEY will help prevent problems in God's prophetic guidance? The Do we see any reason in Berrien Springs, Michigan the future. educated person runs the risk of choosing the Sabbath day? This KATHLEEN A. CARLSON thinking he is so intellectually day has accumulated many Albuquerque, New Mexico A test and a sign capable as to need no help, meanings through history. It Ralph Larson's article "A especially in such an uncom- came at the end of Creation • On December 23 the General Test and a Sign" (Dec. 31), prehensible subject as revela- week when our first parents saw Conference Committee with its emphasis on faith and tion. WILLIAM H. PHILPOTT God's love and concern for the appointed two ad hoc commit- trust in God's revelations rather Oklahoma City, Oklahoma happiness of His Creation and tees to study in depth the recom- than in our intellectual reasons their total freedom to choose mendations of Consultation for believing, is especially "A Test and a Sign" appears loyalty to God. It reminds sin- 11—the "Methods of Bible Study appropriate to those of us with to say that the Sabbath is arbi- ners that they cannot save Committee" and the "Aca- an education. One of the skills trarily chosen by God. I would themselves (Eze. 20:12). Also, demic and Pastoral Freedom an educated person has is to like to comment: it is symbolic of the rest of those and Responsibility Commit- figure things out in terms of his Satan's rebellion against God "in Christ" and looks forward tee." The REVIEW will own intellectual wisdom. This basically involves lies about to the final rest of God's people endeavor to report to the church very skill can become the stum- God's character, one being that in the new earth (Hebrews 4). findings of these committees as bling block over which people God is arbitrary (see Testi- WAYNE NELSON they become available. lose their faith. Can we in monies, vol. 5, p. 738; Patri- Sonora, California

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Nchogu had to be both mother So far the children have Paralyzed pastor in Kenya and father to her flock. collected $100 to help pay the Recently, in order to learn how school fees of their upcountry is of good courage better to care for her husband, brothers and sisters. All the she traveled 200 miles to boys and girls signed a Bible Nairobi. By JEAN SEQUEIRA and gave it to Pastor Timothy as Just two streets away from a constant reminder that they the Spinal Hospital is the were remembering him in their Nairobi Central church, where prayers. They also gave him Riding his piki-piki (motor- and nurses did all they could to the junior-earliteen Sabbath two cassette tapes of African cycle) through the fertile Kisii help, but finally, because of school class had been studying hymns so that some of the other Highlands on an eventful day spinal injuries, he was sent to about God's love. Deciding to patients could benefit from the four years ago, Pastor Timothy Nairobi, Kenya's capital, for put that love into action they had music too. Nchogu thought of the forth- specialized treatment. been considering various proj- During a visit to the Spinal coming communion service to Pastor Timothy's accident ects for the Year of the Disa- Hospital the children were be held at Metembe. Pastoring caused tremendous changes in bled. Hearing about Pastor joined by the dormitory students seven churches kept him fully the lives of his family. Six of his Timothy having lain on his bed from Maxwell Adventist Acad- occupied, and that day was no 11 children still live at home, for four years, the children emy. Their singing was enjoyed exception. Yet something was and another recently was sent agreed to "adopt" him. Some so much that they were asked to about to happen that would back home because of a lack of children did extra jobs, others return every week. change the pattern of his life. school fees. With father away, donated pocket money. Seeing During another visit, nearer Requesting and receiving the the children had to shoulder what the children were doing, to Christmas, the Nairboi Cen- right of way, he overtook the car extra responsibilities. Mrs. some adults decided to help. tral church members were asked ahead, but unbeknown to him another car was speeding in his direction. The driver of the oncoming vehicle was unable to prevent the inevitable collision, which left Pastor Timothy paralyzed except for one arm. Sprawled on the dirt road in his semicon- scious state he began murmur- ing about the piki-piki engine, which was still running on his battered machine. A brave bystander found the key and switched off the engine. The occupants of another vehicle gently carried the wounded man to their car, but Pastor Timothy first requested to be allowed to pray. To this day he does not remember praying, but eyewitnesses later told him what took place prior to his being driven to the Kisii Hospital. Pastor Timothy also spent time at the Kendu Adventist Hospital near the shores of Lake Victoria. The dedicated doctors

Jean Sequeira, a missionary to Africa for 17 years, is taking the external degree course from Columbia Union College. She writes from Nairobi, Kenya. Timothy Nchogu, paralyzed in an accident, holds a Bible given him by Sabbath school children.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (231) 15 to bring fruit, which eventually Pastor Timothy says he found ness and involvement by voting service, and enlightening young filled two large baskets. Mem- his hospital experience to be a to rejuvenate each National and old to principles of self- bers were requested to help with school where he had more time Temperance Society and have it control in Christ. This will lead transportation, as the fruit was to think about Christ. He says, registered with government to baptisms and more people too heavy for the children to "The Bible says we have 70 authorities. They also looked prepared for the soon return of carry. Arriving at the hospital, years to walk this earth, so I still with favor on the ICPA plan- Christ. the children spent some time have 15 more allotted to me." ning its Fifth World Congress "This is a work we have singing carols for those patients He prays that he will live until for 1984 in Rio de Janeiro. neglected," said Elder Wolff, able to sit in their wheelchairs. he can see with his own eyes the As far as I am aware, I visited "but now is our opportunity to Then they visted the other Lord returning in the heavens. the first training school any- take the lead in a plan that will patients in the wards and handed He feels that God has been good where in the world specifically contribute to our division's copies of Steps to Christ to each to him, for by still • having the for temperance workers, situ- goals of reaching 1,000 persons patient and staff member. use of one arm, he is able to turn ated in a suburb of Sao Paulo. a day in the One Thousand Days Thoughts easily turn inward the pages of his Bible and play Here lay persons and church of Reaping." when a person is bedfast, but in his tape recorder. pastors study the principles and spite of all his problems, Pastor Pastor Timothy has returned programs of temperance in a INDIA Timothy was able to inspire to his home village, where his five-day course and weekend everyone who visited his room. wife cares for him night and day seminars. The large home do- Hospital needs Only time will tell what influ- and where he is able to be a nated by a church member con- ence his life has had upon the source of love and inspiration to tains accommodations and to be upgraded patients of other faiths. his children. study facilities for approxi- The children at the Sabbath mately 40 participants. The cen- school in Jullundur, India, sing, ter has been operating full time "Clap your hands, all ye peo- since January. ple." On the flannel board is a South Americans ask, Ajax Silveira is renowned for picture of trees and flowers, and his services to the community as in the middle is a picture of "What took you so long?" director of Sao Paulo's alcohol Jesus. To most of the children and tobacco rehabilitation serv- the Sabbath school program is By ERNEST H. J. STEED ices. Fifty Adventist church familiar, but to a child sitting centers in the city cooperate out in the periphery with his with him in conducting area parents, this is entirely new. services with film showings, The stories of Jesus engage the South American countries, dinner function to meet distin- prayer, and counseling min- parents' attention also, even with a tradition of alcohol guished citizens who are sym- istry. more than that of the child. drinking, are facing major pathetic with the ICPA's tem- In Brazil and Argentina, Only one week ago this child, problems of intemperance, and perance aims. There was also Adventists are recognized for Kesho Ram, had been desper- governments and people are personal consultation with gov- their rehabilitative programs for ately ill and was admitted to the looking for leadership in ernors, generals, and ministers alcoholism and smoking. In Ruby Nelson Memorial Hospi- developing prevention pro- of education, health, social Brasilia, in the office of Senator tal in Jullundur. To the doctors grams. affairs, and justice. Added to Eunice Michiles, I met a steady the situation was all too famil- This was my finding after five this were public lectures, stream of visiting senators who iar. Yes, another child was ill weeks (in November and church services, temperance are sympathetic to our temper- with bronchopneumonia, septi- December, 1981) of meeting society committees, separate ance ideals. cemia, and dehydration. The government officials and pro- radio and TV interviews, and The chief of police in Uru- treatment was begun, and the fessionals in Ecuador, Peru, attendance at the South Ameri- guay, Washington Varela, and child made a slow but sure Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, can Division annual meeting. the minister of health, Luis A. recovery. Paraguay, and Brazil. We dis- Givogre, gave me an enthusias- This family, a migrant family cussed temperance organiza- Overwhelming response tic welcome. We discussed spe- from a neighboring state, is tion, particularly the Interna- The response was over- cific cooperative involvement poor and cannot pay for the tional Commission for the whelming. We were received for our community temperance treatment the child has Prevention of Alcoholism with eagerness and with an effort. Our mission president received. But the hospital staff (ICPA) and the coming Fourth attitude of "What took you so and temperance director, Carlos feel more than rewarded in the World Congress on Prevention long?" and "We will do our R. Mayer, has been supported child's recovery and in the set for August 29 through Sep- part for prevention. Simply give in his planning by a grant of interest that the family has tember 2, 1982, in Nairobi, us guidelines and tell us what to $2,000 for films from the Inter- shown in Jesus. Kenya. do." national Temperance Associa- Another patient is an East In most places the union There is no doubt that the tion. These leaders are eager to Indian from Canada visiting conference president, the com- church now must put the tem- move this work into the front India. He has his roots in a munication director, and the perance concept out front, not line. village nearby. After a road temperance director had only as a favorable contact point The division youth and tem- accident he was brought in with planned a press conference, a but also as a community serv- perance director, Assad a fractured collarbone, multiple ice, including sharing temper- Bechara, and the division presi- abrasions on his face, and Ernest H. J. Steed is executive ance principles and developing dent, Joao Wolff, believe that lacerations on the scalp. He was director of the International techniques for prevention pro- the temperance concepts given not seriously injured, but Commission for the Prevention gramming. this church hold opportunity for smelled of alcohol. Next to him of Alcoholism and the Interna- The division's annual council soul winning by breaking down in the hospital is a patient who tional Temperance Association. supported this increased aware- prejudice, rendering a public was burned at his factory, where

16 (232) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 During the second weekend had taught her son the method of my stay in Kabankalan, four two years before after his truckloads of persons, plus two younger brother, Eric, almost busfuls, made their way to the choked on a jawbreaker. riverside. We were thrilled that 173 persons were baptized in MARYLAND one mass baptism. These candi- dates had been prepared by Hospital solicits laymen in nearby churches. Two weeks later an additional 62 $1 million were baptized. In two subse- Four hundred and fifty-eight quent baptisms another 91 were individuals, corporations, added, making the total to date businesses, and other organiza- 326, with still one more baptism tions have made contributions expected. and pledges totaling $1,038,- The evangelistic budget was 205 in support of Shady Grove shared with the lay workers, Adventist Hospital, which providing them with Bibles and opened in Rockville, Maryland, lesson guides. Four new con- December 16, 1979. gregations have been formed as During 1981, SGAH a result of the laymen's work. received cash contributions These are located in the baran- totaling $153,233, with 37 per- gays of Benicuel, Tuyon, Bali- cent from corporations, 8 per- caocao, and Tampalon. cent from foundations, and 55 J. H. ZACHARY percent from individuals, Ministerial Secretary including hospital administra- Far Eastern Division tors, employees, and members of the hospital's medical staff. ILLINOIS Fund development for SGAH began in November, 1978, with Student saves the preparation of plans for a $1 Kesho Ram, 4, pictured in his mother's arms, recovered from his million building fund cam- illness at the Ruby Nelson Memorial Hospital in India. teacher's life paign, followed in the spring of Fourteen-year-old Loren 1979 by the organization of a he lighted a match for his PHILIPPINES Taylor recently became a hero campaign committee made up cigarette when he was close to a in his hometown of Monmouth, of business and community machine that was being cleaned Baptism results Illinois, for his quick thinking leaders who carried on the with gasoline. Both of these and skill in saving the life of his fund-raising effort. patients need the message of from members' teacher, Ted Teeters. In the spring of 1981, Shady Jesus, in addition to medical groundwork Mr. Teeters was eating lunch Grove Adventist Hospital care. with his students at the Prairie Foundation, Inc., was estab- Many more such cases are My heart was filled with View church school on lished as the permanent fund found in the wards of the anticipation as I returned to the November 17, when suddenly a development organization for Adventist hospital in Jullundur, Philippines, my former home, portion of his sandwich became the hospital. Foundation board but staff members labor under for a three-week evangelistic lodged in his throat. members include corporation many handicaps. The rooms are series. There had been extensive At first the students thought presidents, businessmen and far from attractive. In fact, this groundwork. One thousand of Mr. Teeters was teasing as he women, denominational hospital building was originally the church members in Kaban- gasped for breath. But as he leaders, hospital administra- an army officer's bungalow. kalan and nearby churches in turned blue, students realized it tors, and others. Executive The original stables now are the Negros Mission had been at was serious and began to cry. director of the organization is C. private wards. Unfortunately work for four months. They had As Loren came in from Oliphant, vice-president for there are many potential gone from door to door with another room where the older development and public rela- patients who see the defects in Bible lessons. Not only were students were playing, he tions at Shady Grove. the hospital's buildings and interested persons enrolled but immediately sensed what was The foundation began work seek other places for treatment. they were personally guided wrong. Calmly walking up in June, 1981, on its first The help of members around through the lessons. A total of behind Mr. Teeters, he put his project—raising $200,000 to the world this Thirteenth Sab- 98 Target 85 action teams had arms around his teacher and, fund the purchase of equipment bath will be most useful in banded together to conduct 28 using the Heimlich maneuver, for the new SGAH obstetrical upgrading the Ruby Nelson satellite evangelistic meetings. dislodged the obstruction from unit, which opened on Memorial Hospital in Jullun- Twenty-eight laymen had been Mr. Teeters' throat. November 22, and raising $50,- dur, and in increasing the effec- preaching for six weeks prior to A very thankful church 000 to help support a commu- tiveness of the outreach into this my arrival. school teacher later told report- nity health education program. large community in India. What a thrill it was to preach ers, "As far as I am concerned, In the first six months of its G. J. CHRISTO to scores of interested persons. Loren is a hero, and I will be existence, the foundation raised Chairman We were simply reviewing the grateful to this young man more than $135,000 in contri- Southern Asia Division message that they already had forever." butions and pledges. Advisory Council come to love. Loren's mother, Ruthann, C. A. OLIPHANT

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 (233) 17 Italian Adventist radio network. grams in almost every country, Radiobroadcasting is In almost every case these and Adventists seldom have had stations in Europe have been access to these stations. The expanding in Europe built and financed on the initia- exception may be Finland, tive of the local church, where Tauno Luukkanen has although some financial help been broadcasting a few pro- By TULIO R. HAYLOCK has been given by friends in the grams regularly for years. United States and Germany. It Lately other countries are dis- is a living testimony to their covering that the Seventh-day That the radio work in Europe ble publicity in the press. New faith in reaching through radio Adventist Church has some- is rapidly expanding can be transmitters were installed at the millions of people in their thing important to communicate witnessed by the number of French Adventist Seminary in respective countries who other- and occasionally are permitting local Adventist radio stations Collonges ("Radio Saleve"), wise might not be contacted. access to the government-con- that have been built during the Limoges '("Radio Mieux About three years ago the trolled radio and television sta- past few months. Church mem- Vivre"), Lyons, Marseille government of Sweden estab- tions. bers who have been awakened ("Radio Esperance"), Melun, lished minitransmitters in about For ten years the only alter- to the importance of using radio and Paris ("Radio 13"). Most 15 cities and invited various native to local stations has been to broadcast the message have of them operate with about 100 civic groups to participate in Adventist World Radio, which had some technical assistance watts of power, except the what it called "Nar-radio," or has been leasing time on sta- from Adventist World Radio to Parisian station, which has 2,- neighborhood radio stations. tions in Portugal and Malta (and enable them to take advantage 000 watts. The Adventist Church immedi- more recently, until the station of opportunities arising as a Some months earlier another ately jumped at the opportunity was closed, in Andorra). With result of changing political con- FM station, known as "Radio and has been allowed time on the cost of air time constantly ditions and laws. Maranatha," began broadcast- these neighborhood radio sta- rising, it seems advisable for During November and ing in Brussels, Belgium. Mem- tions in five cities. Although Adventist World Radio to build December, 1981, six church- bers in Italy have added another limited in power to about 20 its own station in Europe and owned local FM stations went station in Conegliano to the five watts, the signal covers a large broadcast as many hours per day on the air in France with favora- they already have in Bologna, population, though not always as is necessary. That idea has Florence, Gaeta, Naples, and the whole city. been approved, and the station Tulio R. Haylock is associate Rome, and they plan to build a Generally speaking, radio in is expected to be operating Communication director of the new studio in Florence to serve Europe has been restricted to within a few months. General Conference. as the radio headquarters for the government-sponsored pro- Funds for this project will be March Is ABC Music Month

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18 (234) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 provided through the Spring morning. His mother, mean- Mission Offering, designated while, was in her bedroom, by the Annual Council to be waiting for Iwan to go out with UPDATE received March 27 in all the his friends. Afraid of a confron- churches of the North American tation, each waited and won- Division. The General Confer- dered what to do next. ence and the European divisions As time for Sabbath services will continue to provide most of drew near, and as their big clock Canadian Ingatherer continues the operating expenses for these chimed eight-thirty, mother and to receive large donations broadcasts. son stepped out of their rooms, dressed for church. Then, bow- From year to year, news of large Ingathering donations by a Canadian businessman has been reported in the REVIEW. INDONESIA ing their heads in embarrass- ment, they explained to each This past year's donation was a record $25,000, according to Mother, son other that they had joined the Norman L. Doss, of the General Conference Lay Activities Adventist Church. How happy Department. Alex Vickers, a member of the College Park join church they were to walk to church church in Oshawa, Ontario, is the church member who solicits these donations each year. A mother and son in Indone- together that Sabbath morning, Mr. Vickers received his first donation—$2.00—from this sia learned recently, to their united in their newfound faith! man 30 years ago, when the man was employed as a worker mutual surprise, that both had F. SUNDALANGI in his father's sheet-metal business. When his father died and been baptized into the Seventh- Assistant Treasurer the young man took over the business, he increased his day Adventist Church unbe- East Indonesia Union Mission Ingathering gift to $100. He has given considerably larger known to the other. donations in recent years—$15,000 in 1979 and $12,000 in The woman, who lived in 1980. Langoan, 30 miles from Ma- Mr. Vickers has cultivated the friendship of this busi- nado, Indonesia, wanted to nessman, visiting him from time to time during the year. This attend evangelistic meetings past Ingathering crusade Mr. Vickers, 87, was not well conducted by Bill Tucker, of the enough to go out Ingathering, so the businessman brought his Quiet Hour. She had heard that $25,000 donation to Mr. Vickers' home. his doctrines were different from hers, but that the music at his meetings was wonderful. Six chapels are constructed Because she and her son, Iwan, in Trans-Africa Division were staunch members of a Pentecostal church, she did not Six bush chapels in the Trans-Africa Division were under want him to know she was construction at the end of 1981, and it was hoped that all six attending these Adventist meet- would be completed in January, according to Jeanie Oltman. ings. So she sent him to Ma- Mrs. Oltman and her husband, Don, from Twin Falls, Idaho, nado. are overseeing the construction of these chapels, which are After attending the first Governor being financed by funds from the fourth quarter, 1980, meeting, and the next, the helps launch Thirteenth Sabbath Offering. woman became so interested in Mrs. Oltman writes that a trailer has been built to haul the Adventist message that AUC centennial windows, doors, trusses, and roofing to the building sites. A when the meetings ended she Atlantic Union College church member in the United States has donated a Land was one of the 180 persons launched its centennial celebra- Cruiser for the Oltmans to use in their work. Bricks for the baptized. tion at a recent chapel with buildings are being made by members of the local Meanwhile, in Manado the noted guest speakers that congregations. news of Quiet Hour speaker included Gov. Edward J. King, LaVerne Tucker's upcoming of Massachusetts (above left, meetings was spreading. Want- with Larry Lewis, college presi- ing to attend the meetings, and dent); Sen. Gerard D'Amico, of knowing that his mother had no Massachusetts; David T. W. way of knowing what he was McCord, of Harvard University, doing, Iwan went to hear the Cambridge, Massachusetts; evangelist. At the conclusion of Stanford L. Strogoff, Clinton the series he was one of about District Court, Clinton, Massa- 250 who were baptized. What chusetts; Vincent J. Mara, pres- he did not know was that on the ident, Fitchburg State College, same day his mother was being Fitchburg, Massachusetts; baptized in Langoan. Edward J. Valley, chairman of The next Friday, Iwan went the board of selectmen, Lancas- home to Langoan, expecting his ter, Massachusetts; and Robert mother to be angry when she L. Reynolds, executive secre- learned he had become an tary of the General Conference Adventist. On Sabbath morning Board of Higher Education. he waited in his bedroom for his RONNA ARCHBOLD L. N. Moyo, right, Eastern Zimbabwe Field president, looks mother to leave for the market, College Relations Director over building plans for a new chapel in his territory. as she always had on Saturday Atlantic Union College

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CORRESPONDENTS, Series, plus another book. In ■ Three students from the min- WORLD DIVISIONS—Africa-Indian Ocean, ogy, attracting 460 persons, J. B. Kio; Australasian, R. M. Kranz; Eastern among them several clergymen this one home the literature isterial school at Rusangu, Africa, Bill Edsell; Euro-Africa, Heinz Hopf; Far Eastern, M. G. Townend; Inter-Ameri- of other denominations. Bible evangelist left 46 books valued Zambia, conducted a reaping can, Fred Hernandez; Northern European, at more than 2,000 guilders series in one of the largest H. J. Smit; South American, Arthur S. Valle; seminars are being continued. (US$800), with another $160 churches in Lusaka. L. D. Southern Asia, A. M. Peterson; Trans- ■ Africa, Barbara Mittleider The German Seventh-day yet to come. Raelly, of Zambia, reports that CORRESPONDENTS, Adventist church in Schleswig the evangelistic meetings and NORTH AMERICA—UNIONS: Atlantic, ■ In the Finland-Swedish Con- recently invited the local politi- the team's visitation resulted in Leon H. Davis; Canadian, P. F. Lemon; ference members are enthusias- Columbia, Ernest N. Wendth; Lake, Jere cal and denominational author- 45 decisions for Christ. Wallack; Mid-America, Halle G. Crowson; tic in their evangelistic out- North Pacific, Morten Juberg; Pacific, Shir- ities for a round-table discus- ley Burton; Southern, George Powell; reach. For the first time in many ■ Mr. and Mrs. Verland Ernt- Southwestern, Richard W. Bendel! sion on "The Challenge of the Conscience and of Liberty." years they have seen a small son have arrived in Zimbabwe, UNIVERSITIES: Andrews, Chris Robinson; increase in membership. More Loma Linda, Richard Weismeyer Questions of Christian attitude he to be assistant treasurer of the toward the commands of the and more contacts have been the Zambezi Union, and she to be modern state were discussed, as result of the systematic delivery secretary to the union president. of Voice of Hope cards, door- well as conscientious objectors ■ Euro-Africa and the peace movement. to-door visitation, and the work Kenneth and Sharon Winn of literature evangelists. Evan- have joined the staff at the ■ Inhabitants of the southern ■ Alfred Muhl, a retired pastor gelistic campaigns will be held division headquarters in Salis- parts of Austria can listen to a living in the German city of in Vaasa by Ernst Lillback, in bury, Zimbabwe, as has Agnes new voice on radio station Duisburg, was invited by the Ekenas by Hans Olof Stagling, Kingsfield, an SOS worker Radio Val Canale. On Italian president of the Federal Repub- and in Lovisa and Helsinki by from California. territory, but close to the Aus- lic of Germany, Karl Carstens, Sture Nilsson. An autumn cam- trian border, the station trans- to take part in a special recep- paign is planned for the city of mits programs of the Adventist tion of honor. Pastor Muhl was Hango in cooperation with the North American Church, free of charge, every decorated with an award for his East Finland Conference. Sunday night. The current Atlantic Union outstanding service during a series Enjoy Living! has raised public welfare campaign, when ■ Reginald Rice, who in 1980 considerable interest. The pro- he sold 116,000 welfare joined the Family Practice Resi- grams are being produced by a stamps. Trans-Africa dency at New England Memo- Vienna church member in coop- rial Hospital as clinical director, ■ ■ Several local workshops for eration with several pastors. November 13 to 15 was grad- has been appointed director of radio programming have been Another station, Radio Bavaria, uation weekend at Bethel Col- the residency. John Danis, who conducted in France and Bel- broadcasting from Italy into lege, when four students grad- directed the physician-training gium. They had become neces- Germany, has accepted the uated from the two-year theol- program since its opening in sary because most of the local same series. ogy course. 1979, will continue his tie with FM stations depend largely or • Pathfinder clubs throughout the residency as director of exclusively upon nonprofes- medical education. sional church members. John Northern Zimbabwe participated in the recent National Tree Planting Graz, communication secretary European ■ The New York Conference of the Franco-Belgian Union, Day. Special community pro- reports Sabbath school offer- grams of music, Scripture read- conducted seminars in Col- ■ ings totaling $152,529 for A literature evangelist in the ing, speeches, and prayer were longes , Marseilles, Limoges, 1981, an increase of $9,306 eastern part of the Netherlands conducted. One club, in con- Paris, and Brussels. over the previous year. recently visited a woman who junction with their school pro- ■ For the first time the French had some friends visiting her. gram, planted 940 blue gum ■ Communication secretaries in encyclopedia Quid 1982 men- When she saw The Bible Story trees. the New York Conference were tions Seventh-day Adventists volumes, she told the salesman responsible for 2,891 column ■ The people of Chilwa Island among the churches, and no she owned these books already. inches of newspaper coverage longer among the sects, as in Full of enthusiasm, she advised in Lake Mweru, Zambia, until for their churches in 1981. previous editions. Michel Bal- her friends to buy them. One of recently an unentered area, now ■ Ronald Schmidt, pastor of lais, communication director of the women ordered not only the report more than 200 believers, according to K. E. Thomas, Jackson Heights church, the North France Conference, ten volumes but also ten other Zambia Union president. He Queens, New York, was the has helped to bring about this books. In the meantime a rela- told members, attending the first participant in a health study recognition for the church. tive called. Learning that the literature evangelist was there, year-end division committee, of being conducted by Martin ■ The small Adventist congre- she ordered The Bible Story and new companies being estab- Lipkin, noted cancer-research gation in Namur, Belgium, the other ten books. The woman lished along the waterways and specialist and author, at Sloan- conducted six public confer- of the house bought the five- emphasized the need for a Kettering Memorial Hospital in ences on the Bible and archeol- volume Conflict of the Ages launch. Manhattan. The study compares

20 (236) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MARCH 11, 1982 Seventh-day Adventists with Mid-America Union Mr. Stober, who is doing the sylvania Conference; Washing- groups considered to have a work on a self-supporting basis, ton Conference, Ron Johnson, high risk of colon cancer, ■ Thirty persons, including has given out more than 7,500 formerly publishing director of ■ eight young people, were bap- books. the Texico Conference. The Utica, New York, church tized into membership of the ■ has begun a mall ministry two Columbia or the Boonville Four years ago members of days each month, offering free church in Missouri at the close the Olympia, Washington, Pacific Union blood-pressure tests, literature, of an evangelistic crusade by church felt the need for an and other services. ■ John and Clara Van Denburgh. outreach in the nearby commu- Student missionaries from nity of Lacey. Twenty-six both colleges in the Pacific ■ Richard Atwell was chosen ■ The Kansas-Nebraska Con- members from the congregation Union—Pacific Union College by his fellow literature evangel- ference report for 1981 shows rented another church and and the La Sierra School of Arts ists as Literature Evangelist of 480 persons baptized by pastors began services. In the months and Sciences of Loma Linda the Year in the New York and evangelists; $588,000 University—recently have been Conference. that followed, members began worth of books sold by literature to raise money and give sacrifi- acknowledged. Numbering 726 Lake Union evangelists, and 38 of their cially for a new sanctuary. during the past 17 years since contacts baptized; three new Construction began in April, the inception of the program, ■ The Illinois Conference church schools, Golden Hills 1981. Members recently saw the youthful missionaries have reports a total of 842 baptisms in (Bellevue), Mullen, and Sid- their four-year dream become a served primarily in the Far 1981, the highest figure in the ney, Nebraska; an additional reality when the first services Eastern, Australasian, Trans- conference's history. The pre- hospital acquired on a lease were held in the new church. Africa, and Inter-American vious record year was 1979, agreement in Osborne, Kansas; divisions of the world field. ■ A new church group has with 659 persons baptized. and 1,295 youth attending ■ camps at Camp Arrowhead and begun meetings in the Portland, Audray Johnson is acting as ■ Recent baptisms in the Michi- Broken Arrow Ranch. The tithe Oregon, area. Many of the director of the Southeastern gan Conference include six in increased by $377,145, making members have come from the California Conference health Unionville and five in St. a total of $4,541,040; $416,718 Hood View church, which had and temperance department, Charles. was sent to missions; $183,230 been holding two morning following the retirement of the church services because of former director, Melvin Jacob- ■ was raised in the Ingathering The 70 members of the Mu- overcrowding. Until a suitable son. Mrs. Johnson had assisted nising, Michigan, church dedi- campaign; and $2,259,282 was given to the local churches for location is found, the services Elder Jacobson. cated their church debt free on are being held in the Oregon operating expenses, building ■ With the transfer of Kenneth December 12. Conference office assembly upkeep, and local programs. Livesay to the General Confer- room. The Hood View church ■ Twenty-seven persons have ence, where he now heads ASI, ■ Seven students at the Hutch- has set aside funds for Sabbath been baptized, and 20 more are a new program for personal- inson, Minnesota, church school supplies and has pro- preparing for baptism at the ministries leadership has been school were baptized after vided nearly $1,400 in a Burbank-Oak Lawn church in inaugurated in the Southeastern attending a baptismal class church-expansion fund to aid Illinois. Mark Finley held a California Conference. John taught by Richard Coston. the new group. series of meetings at the Golden Robertson will coordinate the Age Restaurant in Oak Lawn; ■ KUCV-FM in Lincoln, ■ A new company has been program, which makes local between 150 and 200 non- Nebraska, armed with a collec- organized in Corbett, Oregon, a churches training centers for Adventists attended regularly. tion of classics and a remodeled small town high above the other areas of the conference. public library building, has ■ One person was baptized in Columbia Gorge. It had its Congregations that excel in managed to secure nearly 13,- Freeport, Illinois, on November beginnings in 1974 when four Sabbath school evangelism for 000 cumulative weekly lis- 7 by Terry Campbell. couples met in various homes as children, health education, per- teners-7.4 percent of Lin- a Bible-study group. sonal Bible studies, use of ■ Two persons were baptized coln's total radio listening Dukane projectors, and other ■ recently in the Gethsemane audience. Arbitron, a radio lis- Under the recent reorganiza- outreach ideas serve to instruct church in Danville, Illinois. tening survey service, arrived at tion of the North Pacific Union other congregations in those Conference publishing depart- ■ the figures after a survey was areas of witness to which they The eight-member Elwood, taken during April and May of ment, publishing directors have feel called. Indiana, church gave $700 to 1981. Such a percentage not been named for the various ■ the Cicero, Indiana, church only meets or exceeds the Lin- conferences. They include: Pacific Union literature evan- building fund in December. coln audience size of six area Alaska Mission, Larry Gasser, gelists set new records under the Cicero church members had commercial stations but is from Enumclaw, Washington; blessing of God during 1981, donated time in the recent reno- unheard of in classical radio Idaho Conference, Ed How- surpassing for the second con- vation of the Elwood church. circles. The station is owned land, from Spokane, Washing- secutive year $5 million in Then, when the Cicero church and operated by Union College. ton, and formerly district leader sales. Ellen White books burned down, the Elwood mem- in the Upper Columbia Confer- accounted for 60 percent of the bers decided to make a contri- North Pacific Union ence; Montana Conference, sales. About 40 percent were for bution. On the day they were William Miller, continuing as Spanish books. Total processed scheduled to decide how much, ■ Al Stober, a member of the publishing director; Oregon sales of $5.8 million reflect a they received notice that the Kirkland, Washington, church Conference, Charles Fletcher, 13.7 percent gain over 1980. Elwood church was to receive in the Seattle area, is from the Review and Herald Such sales result in the shipping $2,000 from the estate of a hand-delivering a copy of The Publishing Association; Upper of more than a ton of books from deceased member. From this Impending Conflict to every Columbia Conference, Dan the Home Health Education unexpected blessing they made home in King County, which Shafer, formerly the associate Service center by UPS every their generous gift. has a population of 2.5 million. publishing director of the Penn- office day.

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Sentinel Publishing Association, '40) (Special Service), to serve as Haiti To new posts Kenilworth, Cape Town, South accountant, and George Calvin Drs. Gladys Smarth and Frantz Per- Worker transfers within union confer- Africa, Helen Elizabeth Thomas, Russell (WWC '40) (Special Serv- pignan, Boite Postale 1339, Port-au- ences are not listed here. Such transfers and one son left New York City, ice), to serve as teacher, Adventist Prince, Haiti: Visual aids or slides for ordinarily are included in News Notes. December 30, 1981. Health Services, Majuro, Marshall health presentations on television. Neyi Jose Wachsmann (UC Islands, of Puyallup, Washington, '81), to serve as district pastor, East left Seattle, January 3, 1982. India NORTH AMERICAN Conference, Vitoria, Espirito Charles Samuel Thomas P. V. Jesudas, Ministerial Association DIVISION Santo, Brazil, and Mary Louise (Claremont Grad. Sch. '66) (Spe- Secretary, South India Union of SDA, (Tillman) Wachsmann, of Lin- cial Service), to serve as consultant, Post Box 120, Bangalore 560052, India: Regular Missionary Service coln, Nebraska, left Dallas, January UN Refugee Program/SAWS, Back issues of ADVENTIST REVIEW. 6, 1982. Bangkok Adventist Hospital, Edmundo Alva (AU '64), to Bangkok, Thailand, of Loma Philippines serve as academic dean, Colombia- Volunteer Service Linda, California, left Los Angeles, Mario S. Asumen, Northeastern Min- Venezuela Union College, January 8, 1982. danao Mission of SDA, P.O. Box 77, Medellin, Colombia, left Miami, Paul Allred (Special Service), to William Glenn Tramblie (LLU Guinguna Subd., Butuan City, Philip- January 13, 1982. serve as consultant, Jamaica Health pines: Bibles, Spirit of Prophecy books, '43) (Special Service), to serve as literature. Robert Douglas Baldwin Foods Industry, Mandeville, physician, and Esther (Weng) Teresita F. Asumen, Northeastern (Drexel U. '70), to serve as librar- Jamaica, of Riverside, California, Tramblie (Special Service), to Mindanao Mission of SDA, P.O. Box ian, Hong Kong Adventist College, left Miami, January 11, 1982. serve as medical assistant, SAWS 77, Guinguna Subd., Butuan City, Phil- Kowloon, Hong Kong, of Days Balf Wellington Bond (Pacific Refugee Program, Bangkok ippines: Picture Rolls, child evangelism Creek, Oregon, left San Francisco, U. '50) (Special Service), to serve Adventist Hospital, Bangkok, materials. January 12, 1982. as optometrist, and Doris Arden Pepito S. Ciencia, SDA Church, Thailand, of Midpines, California, Carifio, Paniqui, Tarlac, Philippines: Harold L. Calkins (AU '65), to (Philpott) Bond (Special Service), left Oakland, January 4, 1982. to serve as optometrist assistant, Temperance tracts to be used in evangel- serve as president, British Union, Linda Irene Wat (Medical Elec- istic meetings in April, 1982. Watford, Herts., England, began SAWS Refugee Program, Bangkok tive Service), to serve as physician, Percy Macombo, Mountain View Col- service October 15, 1981. Adventist Hospital, Bangkok, Bella Vista Hospital, Mayaguez, lege, Malaybalay, Budkidnon, Philip- Wilma Korgan Gill (Madison Thailand, of Eugene, Oregon, left Puerto Rico, of Loma Linda, Cali- pines 8201: Books and magazines. Coll. '53), returning to serve as Los Angeles, January 12, 1982. fornia, left Los Angeles, December Atty. Ireneo Z. Esto, 610 Garcia nurse, Kendu Adventist Hospital, Richard Lee Denslow (Special 1, 1981. Building, Rizal Avenue, Santa Cmz, Kendu Bay, Kenya, left Atlanta, Service), to serve as aviation Manila, Philippines. Pastor and Mrs. Albert C. Gulfan, January 10, 1982. mechanic, Irian Jaya Mission, Sen- Jr., Capitol Center SDA Church, Cebu Lindsay Keith Hanson (LLU tani Jayapura, Irian Jaya, Indone- Literature City, Philippines: Bibles, magazines, '78), to serve as physician, Guam sia, of Berrien Springs, Michigan, pamphlets, books. Seventh-day Adventist Clinic, left Oakland, January 11, 1982. requests Grace F. Polonares, DOA Lupon, Tamuning, Guam, Jessie Esther Robert Elmer Gibson (CCU Davao Oriental, P'"'ppines 9607: (Alvidres) Hanson (LLU '72), and '43) (SOS), to serve as pastor- Literature requests cannot be acknowl- Bibles, songbooks, Picture Rolls, Signs, three children, of Hinsdale, Illinois, teacher, Saipan Seventh-day edged, and will be published only if for- Your Life and Health, REVIEW, child- warded through one's local confer- evangelism materials. left Los Angeles, January 6, 1982. Adventist Church, Saipan, Mariana ence/mission office. Individual requests Aproniano Plenos, Iba, San Isidro, Leeta Evelyn Hemme (Stanford Islands, and Mildred Frances ordinarily will be published only once during Davao Oriental, Philippines. (Walker) Gibson (CUC '43), of each calendar year. In the list below, when U. '61), returning to serve as only name and address are given, send Romar D. Sausa, P.O. Box 179, elementary teacher, Overseas Mountain Home, Arkansas, left Los general missionary supplies. Butuan City, Philippines: magazines and Church School, Philippine Union Angeles, January 4, 1982. tracts. Mrs. Jeans Sescon, Bangonay SDA College, left San Francisco, Hugh Carroll Love (LLU '61) Africa December 27, 1981. (Special Service), to serve as den- Church, Jabonga, Agusan del Norte, Lindstrone Sam Amoakohene, SDA Philippines: Literature and child-evan- William Everett McFarlane tist, SAWS Refugee Program, gelism materials. Bangkok Adventist Hospital, Church, P.O. Box 615, Sunyani, Ghana: (LLU '66), to serve as dentist, ADVENTIST REVIEWS, Picture Rolls. Guam Seventh-day Adventist Bangkok, Thailand, of Loma Zephaniah Ch On'gwono, Marigwa West Indies Linda, California, left Los Angeles, Clinic, Tamuning, Guam, and June SDA Church, P.O. Box 868, Kisii, Mrs. Pansy V. Patterson, P.O. Box Meribeth (Wagner) McFarlane January 12, 1982. Kenya. 19, St. Margaret's Bay, Portland, (WWC '55), of Centralia, Wash- Lawrence William Martella H. B. C. Tsakala, Director, Voice of Jamaica, West Indies: Bibles, song- ington, left Portland, Oregon, Janu- (Special Service), to serve as Prophecy Bible School, P.O. Box 444, books, Spirit of Prophecy books, Picture ary 3, 1982. builder, Adventist Health Services, Blantyre, Malawi: Signs, These Times, Rolls, memory verse booklets, maga- Chris Neibauer (U. of Md. '76), Majuro, Marshall Islands, and Your Life and Health, tracts, doctrinal zines for children and adults. books. to serve as dentist, Yaounde Dental Ruth Elaine Martella, of Simi E. 0. Oshundele, Publishing Director, Clinic, Yaounde, Cameroon, Valley, California, left Los P.O. Box 19, Ibadan, Oyo State, Ni- Suzanne Virginia (Brigner) Nei- Angeles, January 10, 1982. geria, West Africa: Signs, Twentieth bauer, and two children, of West- Robert4aul Mohr (LLU '78) Century filmstrips. minster, Maryland, left New York (Special Service), to serve as den- George Omijeh, P.M.B. 21244, Ikeja, Church calendar tist, SAWS Refugee Program, Nigeria, West Africa. City, January 5, 1982. March David John Reeves (LLU '81), Bangkok Adventist Hospital, A. C. Nwankpa, Vegfru Limited, P.M.B. 35, Gombe, Bauchi State, Ni- 13-20 Adventist Youth Week of Prayer to serve as dentist, Seoul Adventist Bangkok, Thailand, of Oceanside, geria; Children's magazines (could use 13 Adventist Youth Day Hospital, Seoul, Korea, of Loma California, left Los Angeles, Janu- 10-20 copies of each issue). 20 Sabbath School Community Guest Linda, California, left Los Angeles, ary 12, 1982. Israel Lukwago, Kakoni SDA Church, Day 27 Spring Mission Offering January 6, 1982. Thomas Alfred Openshaw P.O. Box 30, Ibanda, Mbarara, Uganda, 27 Thirteenth Sabbath Offering Ardoval Schevani (Brazil Coll, (Special Service), to serve as con- East Africa: Visual aids on Daniel 2 and (Southern Asia Division) 7, Revelation 12 and 13, and the '56), to serve as manager, Inter- struction worker, Adventist Health April Services, Majuro, Marshall Islands, sanctuary, children's visual aids, Picture American Division Food Company Rolls, healthful-living charts. 3 Missionary Magazine Campaign branch, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, of Charlotte Madge (Edson) Open- Mrs. M. K. Butler, Riverside Farm 3 Church Lay Activities Offering College Park, Maryland, left shaw, and one child, of Fairview, 10 Literature Evangelism Rally Day Institute, Ltd., Box 53, Kafue, Zambia, 17 Andrews University Offering Miami, January 4, 1982. Alberta, Canada, left Edmunton, Africa: Spirit of Prophecy books, maga- 24 Educational Day and Elementary Donald Herbert Thomas (AU January 4, 1982. zines for children and adults, kindergar- School Offering (Local '63), returning to serve as manager, Wilma Dolores Russell (WWC ten and cradle-roll quarterlies. Conferences)

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you are willing to volunteer as a office as president and E. E. based on the development of Committee plans couple for a week at the fair; and Littman as secretary-treasurer. their own spiritual gifts. booth for if you have other skills and An evangelistic report during As more and more churches sources of supplies that can be the session revealed the largest begin to follow the principles of World's Fair of help, please contact Mrs. number of baptisms in 1981 for church growth, it is expected The Seventh-day Adventist Jane Sines, P.O. Box 1982, any single year in the history of that the Seventh-day Adventist World's Fair Project Committee Collegedale, Tennessee. the conference. Church will experience an epic met for the first time February C. E. BRADFORD In Newfoundland the Cana- church growth surge. 14 in Collegedale, Tennessee. dian Union committee returned BILL LIVERSIDGE Knoxville, Tennessee, will be G. D. Karst and R. L. Coolen, the site of the 1982 World's New division president and secretary-treas- Fair, which is to begin May 1 moves office urer, respectively, for another Study sessions three-year term. and run for six months. Eleven The Eastern Africa Division, At each of these sessions in the U.S.S.R. million visitors from the United formerly the Afro-Mideast some departments were Two Adventist theologians States and around the world are Division, is moving its offices expected to visit the fair. merged, and in most cases the from Europe will participate in a 3,000 miles south from the former department directors series of workers' meetings for A group of members, pas- island of Cyprus to Kenya. As were asked to continue. Dele- Adventist pastors in the tors, and conference personnel of April 5, the new address will felt that we should not overlook gates to each session voted a U.S.S.R. during 1982. Jan be General Conference of new constitution and bylaws, Paulsen of the Northern Euro- this opportunity to tell about the Seventh-day Adventists, East- patterned after the General Con- pean Division will visit in the work of the church. With the ern Africa Division, P.O. Box ference's recommended model, spring and Jean Zurcher of the help and backing of church 14756, Nairobi, Kenya, East leaders in the North American in an effort to have the proce- Euro-Africa Division will go in Africa. dures uniform alI across Can- the fall. Each of them will Division and union and local The large majority of mem- ada. P. F. LEMON participate in three weekend conferences, they formed the bers of the new Eastern Africa Seventh-day Adventist World's meetings in different parts of the Division are concentrated country. Fair Project Committee. The around the shores of Lake Vic- committee's makeup is in har- Southwestern During the meetings the toria and in the scenic Rift workers will study Adventist mony with Faith Action Valley. Daniel Arap Moi, presi- churches enjoy Advance, North America's doctrines, discuss Adventist dent of the Republic of Kenya, growth surge theology, and seek answers to soul-winning action plan. has invited the division to locate A 30-by-30-foot booth is After a year of following their questions. Since at the its headquarters there. (The present time Adventist workers being designed that will depict other part of the former Afro- New Testament principles of the Seventh-day Adventist life church growth, 31 model in the U.S.S.R. do not receive Mideast Division, the Middle any formal ministerial training style—people reaching people. East Union, became attached to churches in the Southwestern Construction specialists have Union Conference accounted in an established institution, the General Conference on Jan- they are looking forward to volunteered their time and talent uary 1.) D. J. SANDSTROM for 21 percent of the growth in to build the booth. A number of the four participating confer- these meetings. specialists in the field of health, ences of the union last year. ALF LOHNE pastors, and members have Three sessions These model churches volunteered portions of their enjoyed an 11.7 percent net vacation time to staff the booth. in Canada growth for 1981, while the other For the record As yet the committee, which Recently triennial sessions 388 churches experienced a 3.6 Died: Louis Bokpe, Ivory has been soliciting money to were conducted in the confer- percent increase. These figures Coast Mission publishing direc- pay for the $108,000 booth, ences and missions of Eastern became available after the Sec- tor, in an automobile accident does not know how literature for Canada. ond Annual Conference on on February 17. 0 J. H. Effen- distribution and other necessary Prior to the session the Cana- Church Growth conducted Jan- berg, 87, missionary to China materials will be obtained. But dian Union committee reap- uary 10-16 at Nameless Valley for 24 years, on February 24 in faith has taken them step by step pointed C. A. Sabot president of Ranch in central Texas. North Fork, California. 0 to this point, and, they are the Quebec Association and Church growth principles Arthur H. Roth, 70, on Febru- confident that these items will Marcel Abel secretary. The emphasize spiritual renewal in ary 26 in Takoma Park, Mary- be taken care of. treasurer, T. W. Staples, who is the life of the pastor, then the land. He worked in the Inter- If you have special skills in looking forward to retirement, congregation. Southwestern American Division from 1936 the field of health, counseling, has been asked to continue until Union Conference model pas- to 1962, serving as division or hospitality; if you regularly July 1, when a new treasurer tors are receiving specialized president for eight years. When adhere to Seventh-day Advent- will be appointed. training enabling them to equip he retired in 1980 he was ist dress standards; if you have a The Maritime Conference mature members of the body for administrative secretary to the vibrant, healthy appearance; if has returned L. G. Lowe to a fruitful witnessing life style General Conference secretary.

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