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OD is love, no matter what may come or G what men may say. The frustrations of daily living, the troubles that humanly speaking are insurmountable, may seem to hide His face. But we may know that we are dear to Him, that He is "in the shadows keeping watch above His His own." In our own quiet hour with Him we may claim the promise that sustained Jeremiah in all his heart-tearing experiences: "I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with loving- Loving-kindness kindness have I drawn thee" (ler. 31:3). The congregation in the little village church By INEZ BRASIER of my childhood often sang their trust in this love. How my young heart thrilled as their voices, led by the old singing master, blended in hymns and songs of devotion and praise. Always, when camp against me, my heart shall not fear" (Ps. they met together, one special song of praise was 27:3). Why? "The Lord is my light and my sal- sure to be heard: vation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?" (verse 1). "Awake, my soul, in joyful lays, Sometimes—it seems far too often—troubles And sing thy great Redeemer's praise; multiply and face us no matter which way we He justly claims a song from me; turn. When they do, it is no time to be over- His loving kindness, 0, how free!" whelmed or even bewildered. It is, rather, the Awake! Awake to a lively sense of His constant, hour to turn our thoughts and prayers to Him. saving presence. As the apostle Paul urged the And yes, even our praise. members of the church in Ephesus, "Awake . . . , "When trouble, like a gloomy cloud, and Christ shall give thee light." Be awake to His Has gathered thick and thundered loud, saving power. Never despair, for though you are He near my soul has always stood: lost and sinking in the mire of sin, He will save, His loving-kindness, 0, how good!" for He is mighty in power. His loving-kindness-- "0, how great!"—will restore the ruins of the Yes, He is near. Let the words, like a refrain, heart and soul. And His power to save is the sing over and over in our hearts. He always has power that will keep as it has kept you through been near. He always will be. all the past. We may sing as did those in that What kindness to you and to me! Loving- church of my childhood: kindness, free, great, strong, and good beyond all our finite thought, beyond all we can ever need! "Though numerous hosts of mighty foes, It is ours to know in all its fullness. Yes, God is Though earth and hell my way oppose, love, kindness ever merciful and divine. We may He safely leads my soul along: pray with all confidence, "Hold up my goings in His loving-kindness, 0, how strong!" thy paths, that my footsteps slip not" (Ps. 17:5). A fugitive for years from his enemies, David If we keep the roof of life firmly thatched with learned to trust in a power greater than that of prayer and praise we shall be safe no matter how all his foes. The song he learned has come down hard the winds of time and circumstance beat to us in his psalm: "Though an host should en- about us. ++ As the great drama of the ages unfolds upon the world's stage, angels as both spectators and participants watch in wonder and with concern. How admirably are we playing our party By GORDON M. HYDE

HE drama of the ages the love of God rejected and neg- His life the likeness of God but is being played upon lected by succeeding generations could not condescend to acknowl- the stage of this world. of men—only to see that love con- edge Him as the Son of God. Among the spectators tinually returning, like the persist- While they acknowledged the God- are angels, who watch ent waves of an incoming tide. likeness of Christ's good works, the drama being In the deepest darkness of man's they sought to stone Him for His worked out in the lives of men. sinful night, the angels witnessed claim to be God. (See John 10: At the same time, these angels the most amazing demonstration of 30-33.) serve as "ministering spirits, sent the love of God for man. On this After three and a half years forth to minister for them who world's stage—in Judea, in Beth- spent in manifesting God to the shall be heirs of salvation" (Heb. lehem, in a stable—the angels world, the Son of God faced the 1:14). watched in hushed amazement as crisis of the ages. Once more, on With amazing unselfishness the a virgin named Mary laid her the stage of this world, the an- angels work devotedly and untir- Baby in a manger—the God-man guished angels watched as cruel ingly to restore man to a relation- child, the Son of God Most High. tormentors, disappointed disciples, ship with God that is more inti- Just before He came as a babe, jubilant Pharisees, heartless Ro- mate, more personal, than they the angels had heard from heaven mans, scheming priests, and un- themselves can know. As a result, that voice of mysterious import principled rulers, in varying de- man who was made "in the image declaring: "Lo, I come to do thy grees shared in the guilt of the of God," is to become a joint heir will, 0 God" (Heb. 10:9). From hardened Roman soldiers as they with Christ upon His throne (see the birth of the Christ child the drove rough nails through the Rom. 8:17; Rev. 3:21). angels had watched over Him and quivering flesh of the Son of God, There is only one unselfishness ministered to Him. Even as a lad spiking Him to the crosstree, which greater than that displayed by the He had discerned that He must they dropped into a hole drilled ministering angels, and that is the be about His Father's business, as in Golgotha's hill. unselfishness manifested by God in once He respectfully explained to As all heaven was hushed in the person of Him who stepped His mother, Mary, and to her hus- grief, the Eternal Father drew down from the throne of the uni- band, Joseph. near the stage of this world to verse to take upon Him "the form As the devil dogged the footsteps suffer with His Son. What angel of a servant, and was made in the of Jesus, the angels watched with but would have counted it a priv- likeness of men" (Phil. 2:7). deepening concern and with ulti- ilege to take the place of Christ. mate relief as the devil found in But it was the love, character, and What Can Angels Learn? Christ the first Man who never law of God that had been chal- What, then, can angels learn once, even as much as by a lenged. God Himself, therefore, from the experience of man upon thought, harbored soul-destroying would provide the answer. "God the stage of this world? selfishness. How the angels adored was in Christ, reconciling the In the first place, the angels Him and how they loved God the world unto himself" (2 Cor. 5:19). have been witnessing ever-deepen- Father for giving His Son to redeem To its dregs Christ drained the bit- ing manifestations of the love of the world! But still, man did not ter cup of suffering and shame, God for man, who, though made adore Him. declaring, "Father, . . . not my in the image of God, turned from It seemed that in the purity of will, but thine, be done" (Luke his exalted destiny. They saw him the life of Christ, men saw a threat 22:42). turned away by the lying allure- to their perverted sense of happi- ments of him who first dared chal- ness—a threat to their unfettered Satan Unmasked lenge the character and govern- indulgence in sin. They saw in For the angels the cross of Christ ment of God, who first questioned climaxed the central act in the the absolute unselfishness of the drama of the ages. And by that love of God. As a consequence, cross the mask of deception upon man forsook his first allegiance the face of the devil was torn away and sold his birthright to the arch- forever. In pressing men to nail enemy of God. Christ to the cross, Satan signaled Again, in all the intricate affairs his own destruction, "for the ac- of men and nations, the angels have cuser of our brethren is cast down, been witnessing the overruling which accused them before our providences of God that seek to God day and night. Therefore save man from himself and from rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that the harvest of the seeds of self- dwell in them" (Rev. 12:10-12). destruction that he has sown. The man Christ Jesus is now The angels have also witnessed seen leaving the earth stage. He

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is seen ascending to His Father's jority. As the restraining hand of made "in the image of God" can throne. What next? God is removed from the forces regain and retain that image Satan next will demonstrate of evil, carnage, disease, famine, through faith in the Christ who against man the concentrated en- and pestilence decimate the mil- first overcame. mity he feels for the victorious lions of earth. Is it any wonder that John saw Christ. Now the angels will have Suddenly the angels of God these perfected disciples of Jesus further opportunity to witness how notice the presence of a new char- Christ following Him, the Lamb, the grace of Christ can nerve men acter upon the stage. A being of "whithersoever he goeth"—as tro- —sinful men—to defy the devil mighty power assumes the ap- phies of the triumph of His love and his hosts of darkness. pearance of one of them. But their and grace (chap. 14:4)? Swiftly the stage is set for an- intelligence quickly penetrates his And suddenly this theater for other death scene, reminiscent of disguise. It is Satan, that liar, the angels (and for the witnessing Calvary. The victim this time is that murderer, that old serpent universe)—this little world over one Stephen. He is being stoned the devil, in a new guise. which towers the cross of Calvary, to death because he will not deny It is rapidly evident that his will be completely changed. The his faith in the divinity of Christ. schemes are bent primarily upon organization of the universe will And the angels hear a prayer from the deception and destruction of be changed. For here in this thea- Stephen that reminds them of the a remnant that offers willingly to ter made over new will be "the prayer of the persecuted Christ: bear the cross of Christ, that throne of God and of the Lamb" "Lord, lay not this sin to their pledges itself to drink the cup of (chap. 22:3). Here on this world's charge" (Acts 7:60). As Stephen His suffering, that guards jealously refurbished stage will be the tree dies, the first martyr for the risen the commandments of the law of of life. Here God will cause to Christ, the angels sense that the God, and that cherishes the "testi- flow the waters of the river of life earth is soon to be deluged with mony of Jesus Christ"—His chosen (chap. 22). the blood of martyrs. channel of communication with Who then can be surprised to So it proves, as for 2,000 years His faithful few. find that the apostle Peter, in the angels are forced to witness As the conflict intensifies and speaking of the love of Christ as the conflict between the followers spreads, weeping angels bear the manifested in the divine plan of of Christ and the followers of sad news heavenward that many salvation, declares that here are Satan. But the end is not yet. of Christ's professed followers are "things the angels desire to look Satan works to obliterate the name yielding their loyalty. Singing an- into" (1 Peter 1:12)? of Christ from the earth. God in- gels, however, bear the news that What part do the angels see you tervenes to preserve to Himself a others have left the ranks of Satan, playing on the stage of the angel human witness. From each crisis have taken up their crosses to fol- theater? How well are you play- in the conflict there emerges a low the Lord. And the final rest- ing it? -++ remnant, bearing triumphantly ing places of many who die vic- the cross of Christ. torious over sin and the devil are duly marked by angel guardians. The Final Scene And now, with intense expecta- And now the stage is jammed tion, the angels press closer to the with players as the final scene of stage. There a trial-chosen few are the last act is about to be played, passing through a test that is and the great curtain of God's deeper than any angel can really omnipotent will is about to fall, know. While the devil is causing sealing forever the eternal destiny the whole world to yield allegiance of every man's soul. to the symbols of his power, there Again Christ and Satan are the is a remnant that retains the heav- antagonists but in the person of enly "Father's name written in their followers, and Satan's fol- their foreheads" (Rev. 14:1). They lowers are the overwhelming ma- are without fault before God (verse 5). They have "gotten the victory" over the agencies of Satan (chap. 15:2). The complete dependence upon Christ of this trial-tested number, their unwavering love for God, their undying loyalty to His com- mandments, their utter abhorrence of sin settled an issue forever. Man

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 3 Christianity becoming meaningless to today's people; we see fewer and fewer points at which the teachings of Christianity touch the ideologies of extraordinary people the average person. Yet Christians—if they sincerely be- lieve and teach what the Bible teaches —believe that their religion, and theirs only, has the answer to the world's problems. How, then, can the answer be given? As we consider these things, it seems that nothing but a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit can cut through the thick, solid, opaque wall of unbelief, indifference, cynicism—the outright By THOMAS A. DAVIS paganism—that separates the multi- tudes from truth and light. But as the welder must have his R. RADHAKRISHNAN, for- the things that Christians claim are oxyacetylene gun through which to mer President of India, once so, why are they not better people channel his gas mixture, thus ena- D remarked chidingly to a than I observe them to be? Why is bling him to produce a cutting flame, Christian missionary with whom he not Christianity a more meaningful so God must have His people to use was talking: "Christians are ordinary force for good in the world? as channels for the heart-melting people making extraordinary claims." Dr. Radhakrishnan had a right to power of the Holy Spirit. Christians do make some extraordi- ask these questions. He had a right to On more than one occasion I have nary claims. For example, they claim expect Christians to measure up to the heard one of our church leaders pray that of all the many sacred books of claims of their religion. For we judge during an ordination of ministers: the world's religions, their book, the a man's religion by what it does for "0 Lord, may they be no ordinary Bible, is the only true one; that it him. And if Christians make extra- men!" In other words, may these men alone contains pure truth. They claim ordinary claims, others may naturally now being consecrated to the gospel that of all the multitudes of the expect them to measure up to those ministry be made extraordinary men, world's gods, only their God is living claims. commensurate with the demands of and efficacious. And, perhaps the most And many honest, dedicated Chris- an extraordinary gospel; may these abrasive of all, Christians claim that tians of all persuasions are searching ordinary men be extraordinarily en- only Christ is able to forgive sins and their hearts with deep concern. They dowed by the Spirit. to save from sin. too are asking, Why is Christianity That prayer was prayed for a spe- Dr. Radhakrishnan is a Hindu, not manifesting the dynamic power cific occasion. But we believe that it and a Hindu is willing to concede that it claims to have? For it seems that needs to be prayed for the whole all religions are good and that their Christianity is like a Samson who has church membership: "0 God, may we goal is the same—only the roads are long been shorn of his hair. And all be no ordinary people!" This is the different. Thus, to a pious Hindu, the time the world is drifting farther crying need of Christianity today—a Christians are arrogant and presump- and farther from a condition in which people extraordinarily invested with tuous in their exclusive claims. Christianity has for it an appeal. Daily God's Spirit to demonstrate to the But it would seem that the real im- we see Christianity's values, beliefs, whole world that the claims of Chris- plications of Dr. Radhakrishnan's re- interests, philosophies, becoming less tianity are not mere mouthings of vis- mark are: Why are not Christians as oriented toward God's Word; we ob- ionaries and charlatans and misled extraordinary as their claims? If all serve the very language of traditional simpletons, but the mighty power of God unto salvation. The real problem of Christianity today, then, is that there are too many ordinary Christians. What the church thoughts thats'iatiPthe • must have is an extraordinary people, Impure thoughts that leave a stain, a people endowed with God's Spirit t Envious thoughts that mar the soul, Unkind thoughts that take their toll; as they have never before been en- " Haughty thoughts that soar cjn high, dowed, no, not in all history. ,Deceiving thoughts that speak a lie Referring to our day, Mrs. White All of these are lumps of leaven wrote years ago: "Peculiar and rapid 'Which surely will duty us heav changes will soon take place, and God's people are to be endowed with :Holy thoughts that fill the mind, the Holy Spirit, so that with heavenly Loving thoughts so sweet and kindV wisdom they may meet the emergen- Happy thoughts that lift and cheer, •, cies of this age."—Testimonies, vol. iTrusting thoughts that know no fear; , Serious thoughts that lead to ,learning, m. 6, p. 436. (Italics supplied.) ,eglous thoughts that set hearts burni The question to which the whole of these prepare the way universe awaits the answer with in- 'OW* W101 tense and impatient interest is When are God's people going to open their hearts to the Spirit's power? ++

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1000 OCTOBER 1000 1 2 3 4 8 8 By W. P. BRADLEY 7 0 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 10 17 10 10 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 27 20 T O SEVENTH-DAY Advent- 29 30 31 ists the year 1888 recalls events of deep spiritual signif- icance to the growing body of be- lievers, for it was at the General Con- ference session held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 17 to November longer I who live, but Christ who White, who welcomed the message of 4, that the theme of righteousness by lives in me" (Gal. 2:20, R.S.V.), is the righteousness by faith wholeheartedly faith received special attention in the very essence of the Christian faith and in 1888 and taught it consistently public sermons and devotional serv- the most vital aspect of the gospel throughout her life, both before and ices, in the testimony meetings, and message. after that year. in the messages brought to the ses- In 1950 two missionaries from Af- A New Emphasis sion by Ellen G. White. rica on furlough in North America, Seventh-day Adventists had been The new emphasis in preaching R. J. Wieland and D. K. Short, pro- sturdy champions of the teaching that and teaching set forth in the 1888 duced a rather extended study of the saved Christians should live in obedi- conference was received wholeheart- 1888 events under the title, 1888 Re- ence to the moral ten-commandment edly by some, while others at the con- examined. This manuscript was pre- law, including the fourth, which sets ference took a rather dim view of such pared for study by the General Con- forth the duty to observe the seventh a change in emphasis in presenting ference leaders in order to bring cer- day as the Sabbath. In their zeal to the Advent message to the world. tain aspects of the 1888 experience to preach the binding obligation of the The historical experience of the lead- their attention. After the authors had law upon Christians in all ages, Ad- ers and members of the church in returned to Africa, the manuscript, ventists perhaps had not given as that year and the years that followed without the approval of the authors, much emphasis as they might have to has been set forth quite fully in such was duplicated and distributed rather the central doctrine of the Christian denominational books as Christ Our widely. The theme it presents has faith, that is, that salvation rests on Righteousness, by A. G. Daniells, been variously received, some misun- Christ's atoning sacrifice on the cross Through Crisis to Victory, by A. V. derstanding the purpose of the docu- and that the sinner is saved through Olson, and By Faith Alone, by Nor- ment and attempting to misuse it faith in Him. To experience the new val F. Pease. It is also developed quite and wrest its purpose toward a criti- birth through the work of the Holy fully in, a forthcoming volume by cism of the General Conference, Spirit, to live as expressed in the L. E. Froom, and, of course, in vari- which the authors insist they never words of the apostle Paul, "It is no ous books and articles of Ellen G. in tended.

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 5 We come now to a period of more ership or of divine guidance of the triumph of the corporate, denomi- recent date having to do with events church. nated Seventh-day Adventist Church of the summer of 1967, which we be- As for the use of the manuscript and in the fulfillment of its divinely ap- lieve will be of interest to our work- its distribution, R. J. Wieland and pointed, worldwide task, and our loy- ers and members. At the invitation D. K. Short have made it quite clear alty to the doctrines and the organiza- of the General Conference, R. J. Wie- that they have not authorized its pub- tion of the church." land, one of the authors of the manu- lication and they deplore the irre- In this meeting at the General Con- script, spent several days in Washing- sponsible use that certain individuals ference headquarters all who were ton, D.C., conferring with a group of have made of the original manuscript present reaffirmed their confidence in the brethren who met with him to dis- and related documents in private agi- the Advent message and the triumph cuss the manuscript and its use and tations which have produced a divi- of God's church in the near future effect among those who have read it. sive effect within the ranks of the and pledged to continue to work and (D. K. Short, manager of the Senti- church. They firmly support the or- pray for the outpouring of the latter nel Publishing Association in Cape ganization and unity of the church. rain and the finishing of the work in Town, South Africa, could not at- Concerning the purpose and use of our generation. tend the meeting.) Those who were the manuscript they have made the This Seventh-day Adventist Church present in the group will testify that following statement: still has a great task to accomplish in it was an excellent meeting, and that proclaiming the central theme of a spirit of fellowship in the blessed Unauthorized Use of Manuscript righteousness by faith in the setting Advent message was present through- "We, as authors of 1888 Re-exam- of the three angels' messages in prep- out. ined, wish to state that this manu- aration for the return of our Lord It was made quite clear in the script was not written for publica- Jesus Christ to this earth to receive discussions that there has been no tion or for distribution, but for the His church and to bring an end to question on the part of the church study of the General Conference Com- the reign of sin. There is also a great leadership of the loyalty and sincer- mittee. We have not authorized any- spiritual work to be done for the ity of Elders Wieland and Short. On one to reproduce it for general circu- church as an organization and for the other hand, Brother Wieland rec- lation. Anyone who has made use of every member within it—in the recep- ognized that some passages in the our document in this manner has tion of the Holy Spirit, which comes manuscript, referring to the reaction clone so without our permission or ap- to revive and to empower the church in a past generation on the part of proval and entirely on his own re- to accomplish its great evangelistic some to the 1888 messages, could have sponsibility. We do not approve the task. The two go together: the out- been worded more mildly, and do not use of this material for agitation in pouring of the Holy Spirit to pre- represent on the part of the authors the field. pare the members to bear their wit- any lack of confidence in church lead- "We reaffirm our confidence in the ness, and the dedicated voice of every individual in wholeheartedly pro- claiming the message in its entirety and fullness. Joy in Unity We rejoice in the unity in faith and purpose that exists throughout the church. We rejoice in the many prayers that are ascending from members and workers through the world that the church may soon experience the latter rain in its fullness and that the And behold, there lived at a certain time a man of strong opinion aeltesteem, work of warning the world may thus honored and well thought, of among his :peers, who went, daily into the temple. be finished. He kept his robes well pressed and anointed his body daily with myrrh -amt perfume The opportunity presented to the of great price from a hidden alabaster box. 1888 generation teaches lessons to us Behold, this man was vexed in his spirit by those vhib served in the temple: who today hope to see the work com- "The priests are poor speakers," he mused, "inferior even to the rabble rousers in the market place. They raise not enough money for the treasury; they fill not the pleted and the Saviour return in our temple courts with their followers nor do they greet the people rwith flattering words time. We should be responsive to di- or deep bows." vine guidance and should repent of The musicians of the temple leased him not. Their chants were poorly ',chosen; any trace of pride and prejudice aris- poorly rendered. ing out of our cherished opinions. We The stupidity of the women (especially Dorcas and Lydia)-, who gathered gifts and must repent and turn to God with a goods for the poor without so much as• a word of• their many deeds, vexed- him deep0 whole heart and rid our lives of self- They had made no mention in the temple record of-his gift. Had he'not sent many of centered complacency. Our eyes his dead brother's robes, those he could not barter in the market place, to the temple should be anointed with the heavenly women? Nor had they made public mention of this at the temple gates! Now, therefore, this man pondered what he might do. Then he knew what • he eyesalve that we may see. It is for us would do—he would hold in no linger, he would vent his grievances. Sharpening his individually and collectively to study tongue, he spoke, with sharp and piercing words of the priest, the leader of the singers, how we may appropriate in its full- the chief musician, those who played with psaltery and harp, the temple helpers, the ness the righteousness of our Lord and money gatherers, and the helpers of the poor—even Lydia and Dorcas. make ,preparation to receive more And the two.edged sword of his, crafty tongue, entered the souls of the temple Ka:ric- fully the bestowal of the refreshing ers. Their works slowed until silence fell in the temple and in the courtyard. showers of the Holy Spirit which, "if The critic wrapped his robe m re surely around him and went on his, way fedi* claimed by faith, would bring all exalted in his heart and saying,"g od, I am glad that I am not= as other men." Nor other blessings in its train, and . . . is did he know that he had taken the eon out of the temple workers and left the temple, silent behind him. to be given liberally to the people of God" (Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 174, 175). +4-

6 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 Last Day Events-2 The Dragon

Mobilizes ence and philosophy—appearing to the masses so plausible in its untram- meled research, so broad and candid By RALPH S. WATTS in its conclusions, and so courageous and unprejudiced in its reasoning is bewitching worshipers, inviting them to believe in nothing but them- selves. In his new guise the dragon aims not so much to hurt the body as the soul. By killing moral habits, "And the dragon was wroth with various kinds will constitute the wounding consciences, and defiling the woman, and went to make war means by which Satan will cause the thoughts he seeks to deaden the reli- with the remnant of her seed, which world to worship him. He will be gious sensibilities of the people of keep the commandments of God and successful except for a noble rem- God. Mocking pious earnestness, he have the testimony of Jesus" (Rev. nant that refuses to fall to his de- corrupts public opinion to poison the very atmosphere true Christians 12:17). mands. Significant in his operations will must breathe. Working stealthily, he XILED on barren Patmos, the be the merging of the three elements strikes the soul with as deadly a real- prophet was shown in pro- of religion into one mighty move- ity as he did the bodies of the early FI phetic vision a murderous ment: "The Protestants of the Christians through ancient Rome's monster—the dragon. United States will be foremost in bloody laws. John was familiar with the symbol stretching their hands across the gulf "Spiritualism teaches 'that man is of the dragon, for ancient mythology to grasp the hand of spiritualism; the creature of progression; that it is had its draconic monsters. By his they will reach over the abyss to his destiny from his birth to progress, time the Chinese already had clasp hands with the Roman power." even to eternity, toward the God- adopted the golden dragon for their —The Great Controversy, p. 588. head.' And again: 'Each mind will imperial emblem. The servant of the Lord further judge itself and not another.' The Seventh-day Adventists believe reveals that "among the most success- judgment will be right, because it is that the dragon fitly symbolizes that ful agencies of the great deceiver are the judgment of self. . . The throne cruel persecuting power identified in the delusive teachings and lying won- is within you.' "—Ibid. In his book the book of Revelation as "that old ders of spiritualism" (ibid., p. 524). Psychology and the Christian Reli- serpent, called the Devil, and Satan" Seventh-day Adventists have long re- gion Dr. David Duffie, a Seventh-day (Rev. 12:9). This is the evil power garded as a basic element in spiritism Adventist physician, outlines devel- with which the church has long con- the work of demons. This concept is oping trends in the general practices tended. correct, and today spiritism is work- of "scientific" psychotherapy. Quot- The book of Revelation points to ing on a broad base. ing leading psychologist Fritz Kunkel a time when the discordant elements Modern spiritism has declared it- on the "birth of the mature person- in the world will unite. How will this self a religion and stands in company ality, the birth of the future man," come about? with the other great religions of the Dr. Duffie shows him answering the "And I saw three unclean spirits world, claiming mass attention. It is question "Who is the obstetrician of like frogs come out of the mouth of through spiritism that Satan presents the soul?" thus: "If the churches the dragon, and out of the mouth of to the world "a new and more ex- leave this vast field of badly needed the beast, and out of the mouth of alted system of religious faith" (ibid., work to the secular sciences, it is al- the false prophet. For they are the p. 589) by appealing "to the reason most certain that a spiritual miscar- spirits of devils, working miracles, by the presentation of elevating riage will ensue. Secular scientists, which go forth unto the kings of the themes," for he "excites the imagina- including Freud and Adler, are not earth and of the whole world, to tion to lofty flights, leading men to equipped for spiritual midwifery. gather them to the battle of that great take so great pride in their own wis- . . . If these people come from the day of God Almighty" (chap. 16:13, dom that in their hearts, they despise side of secular science, they find 14). the Eternal One" (ibid., p. 554). themselves overwhelmed with reli- Supernatural manifestations of Today the world's wisdom—sci- gious experiences which they had

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 7 never expected. If their background pealed to the Anglican clergy to help Papists, Protestants, and worldlings is religious and theological, they are in "the enterprise" of "the practice of will alike accept the form of godli- fascinated by a new approach to the psychotherapy" in 1936, he ap- ness without the power, and they will cherished treasures of their spiritual pointed as full-time secretary Miss see in this union a grand movement life. . . . A more intimate cooperation A. G. Ikin, "an expert psychologist for the conversion of the world and of psychotherapy and theology is un- and a convinced Christian who has the ushering in of the long-expected avoidable."—"Psychotherapy: A Con- spent much time in the study of the- millennium."—The Great Contro- tribution to Religious Life and ology." Her book The Background versy, pp. 588, 589. Thought," in Christianity and Crisis, of Spiritual Healing records her find- "The forces of darkness will unite July 7, 1947, p. 3. ings: "It is necessary to bear in mind with human agents who have given Through spiritism Satan will also the worldwide nature of the move- themselves into the control of Satan. make inroads into the popular ment of thought in which the empha- . . . Through yielding to satanic in- method of healing emotional disor- sis on the value and importance of fluences, men will be transformed ders: "The advantage he takes of the mind, expressed in the study of psy- into fiends; and . . . will become the science of the human mind, is tre- chology, has its roots." She contin- habitation of dragons, and Satan will mendous. Here, serpentlike, he im- ued, "It is not always realized . . . see in an apostate race his master- perceptibly creeps in to corrupt the that this movement within the Eu- piece of evil—men who reflect his work of God. . . . The sciences of ropean and American culture is par- own image."—The SDA Bible Com- phrenology, psychology, and mesmer- alleled by Asia, China, India. . . . mentary, Ellen G. White Comments, ism are the channel through which Buddhism is reviving." on Rev. 12:17, p. 974. he comes more directly to this gen- "By the beginning of the seventh Despite the dragon's all-out mobil- eration."—T•estimonies, vol. 1, p. 290. decade of the present century," Dr. ization, God's forewarned remnant In The Journal of the American Duffle comments, "the clasped hands church "will be able to stand in this Medical Association, Paul W. Pruyser had practically grown together, so time of almost universal apostasy" on January 17, 1966, wrote: "As long firm was the union."—Psychology (ibid., on 2 Cor. 11:14, p. 1106), for as psychiatry was really neurology or and the Christian Religion, p. 97. "the Lord will vindicate His truth merely an esoteric pastime of classi- "Satan determines to unite them and His people" (Prophets and fying, it had little relevance to reli- [Christians and the ungodly] in one Kings, p. 606). And as the third an- gion. And as long as the faithful de- body and thus strengthen his cause gel's message gains momentum in its fined religion exclusively in terms of by sweeping all into the ranks of spir- worldwide proclamation, from every the supernatural or lustily thought itualism. Papists, who boast of mir- corner of the earth the faithful will of detachable souls floating through acles as a certain sign of the true declaim with Martin Luther: a never-never land . . . there was no church, will be readily deceived by need for any conversation with psy- this wonder-working power; and "God's truth abideth still, chiatry."—Volume 195, no. 3, p. 198. Protestants, having cast away the His kingdom is forever." ++ When the Archbishop of York ap- shield of truth, will also be deluded. (Concluded next week)

trouble with people your age," he gritted. "You're so square The art of living it's a complete waste of time to discuss modern concepts and theories with you." With that final, rather ungallant, pronouncement he By MIRIAM WOOD stalked away, leaving me saddened, bewildered, and feeling rather like one of the mummies not yet excavated from A DEBT "If I want to use drugs, it's my own business; the Valley of the Kings (or Queens). TO CAESAR it doesn't concern anyone else—particularly To better inform myself, and to repair the glaring lacks the Government." Dan's delivery of this dec. in my education which my young friend declared exist, I've laration was characterized by steely determination, flashing been reading in the subject area of individual responsibility, eyes, and almost-gritted teeth. We'd been discussing the individual freedom, and the relationship of a citizen to his alarming (to me) increase in drug usage by young people, government. Dan won't like it, but what I've read has when I, all unwary, endorsed the idea of stringent Govern. reinforced my conviction that if civilization is to endure, ment controls. each person must think of himself as one of many; he must "One of the worst features of the modern world is the regard each of his actions as a stone tossed in a pool. How concept that a government has the right to invade a cit- far will the ripples go? Will they turn into tidal waves, izen's personal life," Dan continued. "I just don't owe drowning first those who love him then ultimately innocent Caesar—ancient or modern—anything!" bystanders? For a few moments I pondered in silence this extraor- Impassioned declarations of "the rights of each individ- dinary philosophy. Then I asked, "Suppose though, that you ual" coupled with fiery diatribes aimed at "governmental turn out to be one of those people who becomes totally failures" are high on the list of in things to do just now. incapacitated by the use of drugs? If you end up a mind- Both exist; both deserve attention. There's another "r" that less, babbling idiot, unable to support yourself, what will also deserves attention however—responsibility. For every right you do?" a citizen possesses there's a corresponding responsibility to Quick as a flash, he answered, "I'd go on welfare; what use the former wisely. Refusal to accept the truth inevitably else?" produces an even weaker government, and thus even greater Taken totally by surprise, I stammered, "But you said failure. a few moments ago that Government must not be allowed Citizenship in heaven could hardly be granted to any to interfere in a citizen's 'personal life,' as you phrased it, human being who cannot—or will not—accept the twin even to his making himself a human vegetable. Wouldn't concepts of rights and responsibilities. In view of this, an it follow that if he opts for this course of action, Govern- earthly citizen gets part of his basic training for heaven ment shouldn't have to pick up the pieces?" by discharging his debt to Caesar. So who can say that basic Angrily, Dan terminated our conversation. "That's the training should be waived or is unimportant?

8 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 Minimizing Spiritual Casualties

symbol for Achievement) equals L of "snap course" in which the student plus G times T. A=T (L+C). By gets good grades just for the asking? the application of this equation man To be sure, no one would admit that By J. W. OSBORN has learned to dominate and subdue he believed that, but how is it with the forces of nature, and by the ap- one who kneels and prays, "Dear plication of this same equation he Lord, help me to overcome this or may also dominate the realms of the that," or "Dear Father, send Thy mind and of the spirit. Holy Spirit upon me," then, rising NE morning a student whose For example, if you were to ask a from prayer, goes about life's way home was in jeopardy came piano student the question "What is without ever associating any sort of 0 to our Prayer Band request- the production difference between a organized activity or discipline that, ing prayer. The members prayed loud tone and a soft tone?" you would if carried out, would assist God in earnestly that his marriage might be probably get the answer "To produce answering these prayers. Wouldn't saved. Situations such as this always a loud tone you apply a high level of this seem to be treating salvation as provoke the question Why? Why power or weight to the key; to pro- if one expected good marks just for should there be such spiritual diffi- duce a soft tone you apply a low the asking? culties? Why should there be spiritual level." That sounds like a good an- Now back to the question Why casualties? swer, but it is incorrect, because the should there be spiritual casualties? One who has had college training factor that determines tonal differ- Could it be that spiritual casualties should have settled one thing, namely, ences in piano dynamics is the speed come about through ignorance? Of that the physical world operates un- with which the key descends. The course there will always be those who der law. If he has majored in the sci- ences, operation by law has been demonstrated to him a thousand times. But even the liberal-arts stu- dent should have been convinced that =7"(~-c) the physical world in which we live operates under fixed and immutable laws. more swiftly the key descends, the elect to live a Bohemian life in spite Take the human body. I suppose louder will be the resultant tone, and of all guidance and counsel, but such its healthful operation is governed by the more slowly the key descends, the would not likely be in any Seventh- a million laws. During each waking softer will be the tone. As the ac- day Adventist student body. But how hour every organ, each function, complished pianist performs he is not could ignorance be the cause? How down to the microscopic cell, is op- sitting there concerned with applying could any student pursue studies in erating under law. And while we varying amounts of power, but with one of our denominational institu- sleep other laws take over, and we producing varying speed rates of key tions and be ignorant of matters of survive several hours of unconscious- descent. The student who does not the spiritual life? ness. know this law and therefore does not May I make two observations?— But not alone is the physical under fulfill its conditions will never master and be assured they are observations law; the intellectual and the spiritual the full range of piano dynamics, no only and not criticisms. First, during are also under law. So patently is this matter how long he practices or how my tenure of service teaching in our true that if we wish to succeed in any hard he works at it. The equation Seventh-day Adventist schools I had project—physical, intellectual, or spir- A=T (L+C) operates in piano the opportunity of hearing hundreds itual—we must first learn the laws re- playing. It also operates in the realms of sermons and spiritual chapel talks. lated to it. We must then carefully of the mind and of the spirit. Most of these were well organized and fulfill the conditions these laws de- Is salvation a science? Ellen G. prepared and equally well delivered mand. Continued attention to these White speaks of "the science of all and presented, but most of them laws leads to formation of habits that sciences, the science of salvation" would have to be described as diag- will ensure our unfailing fulfillment (Christ's Object Lessons, p. 107). Stu- nostic. of the conditions. Having done this, dents who major in any of the physi- Suppose you were to take a medi- we may expect success. cal sciences must spend many college cal problem to a physician, and you and university class hours in class- would tell him all you knew and had Formula for Achievement rooms and laboratories to master the observed about it, and he would take This observation brings into relief science of their choice. I wonder how it from there and by various means an important triad—laws, conditions, many of these same students spend as and tests probe deeper into the mat- time. These are the elements, the fac- much time with the science of salva- ter. If, by and by, he would come up tors, of success. They might be ar- tion. Does it not often appear that with a report for you that would be a ranged in a simple equation: A (the salvation is treated as if it were a sort well-documented diagnosis of your

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 9 case and your problem, and having realm of the spirit as does the matter character development, but there is finished this would arise from his of character development. Character one quotation in Prophets and Kings desk, see you to the door, and bow is something for which none of us that seems to be talking about this you out, what would you think? Had can sign a check. It cannot be ex- level-by-level development of the char- you not expected him to do more changed for trading stamps or box acter from the physical and intellec- than this? tops, and it never comes to us in a tual to the spiritual. Many times I have left the place neatly beribboned parcel. Character "The kingly power of reason, sanc- of meeting feeling as would that pa- is our workmanship; it is our child, tified by divine grace, is to bear sway tient. Impressed. Depressed. Im- produced with the guidance and in the life. Intellectual power, physi- pressed because I saw anew and more power of God. cal stamina, and the length of life de- clearly my own spiritual needs and pend upon immutable laws, Through A Broad Pyramid shortcomings; depressed because obedience to these laws, man may nothing specific had been told me Character, it would seem, is the stand conqueror of himself, con- to do about them. Sometimes in crowning apex of a very broad pyra- queror of his own inclinations, con- Weeks of Prayer the impression would mid. It is constructed like this: A queror of principalities and powers, be given that there was nothing, ab- righteous character rests upon a col- of 'the rulers of the darkness of this solutely nothing, we could do to better lection of right habits; the formation world,' and of 'spiritual wickedness in our spiritual condition, and it was of right habits depends upon self-con- high places.' "—Page 489. not until I had read quotations such trol; effective self-control depends This is the spiritual triumph of as the following that I saw the matter upon the right action of the will— man, and it is a step-by-step progres- in better perspective: and here we mean the divinely moti- sion in which he and God take part. "While the sinner cannot save him- vated will; the right action of the will There is another quotation that self, he still has something to do to depends in turn upon attention; keen, deals with a level of this character secure salvation."—Patriarchs and alert attention depends upon surplus pyramid quite near the top: "Exces- Prophets, p. 431. nervous energy; surplus nervous en- sive study, by increasing the flow of "Each one has a personal battle to ergy is the product of optimum blood to the brain, creates morbid fight. Each one must win his own way health; and optimum health, as we excitability that tends to lessen the through struggles and discourage- are often told, must have its founda- power of self-control, and too often ments. . . . No one, not even God, can tion upon adequate nutrition, fresh gives sway to impulse and caprice."— carry us to heaven unless we make the air, pure water, exercise, rest, recrea- Education, p. 209. necessary effort on our part."—Testi- tion, and a clear conscience. The ideal Excessive study lessens the power of monies, vol. 5, p. 345. achievement of each level of this self-control. I wonder how many stu- pyramid is dependent upon the opera- dents, how many earnest students, Character Not an Accident tion of the equation A=T (L+C). If would reason that their study habits "A noble character is not the re- any section of this pyramid is missing had anything to do with their morals? sult of accident; it is not due to spe- or defective the entire structure will I take it very few would, and this cial favors or endowments of Provi- be weakened and the end product im- strengthens my belief that spiritual dence. It is the result of self-discipline, paired. casualties come about largely through of subjection of the lower to the We do not have the space to discuss ignorance, not ignorance of the fact higher nature, of the surrender of the laws and conditions that must be that immorality is wrong, but ignor- self to the service of God and man." met so as to succeed in each step of ance of some basic law, the conditions —Prophets and Kings, p. 488. All of which seem to be saying that there are certain fundamental laws, certain conditions, that must be ful- her whether she would have any canning filled if we are to be saved. peaches. Second, it is possible that the bap- "Sold out yesterday," said the clerk, tismal classes that followed the Week "and couldn't get any more until morn- of Prayer and processed persons for ing. They'll be here by noon." Mary started to leave but was stopped church membership, while they might by a sudden change in the clerk's voice. have adequately instructed in the ar- In a louder voice the woman on the stool ticles of faith, only meagerly in- continued, "You know, we buy our structed in the practical know-how, The Farmer's Sermon peaches up the valley from Seventh-day the means whereby the victorious life By MARGERY WILSON Adventists, and they won't do any busi- is lived. It seemed that the speaker in ness on Saturday. 'They have the best each case, in the pulpit or in the class- "H'M-M-M, that sign says PEACHES," peaches in the world, but they won't sell room, assumed that the listeners pos- observed Mary as she flipped her signal 'em on Saturday. So we had to wait over to turn off the road and park near the sessed practical spiritual know-how; until today to get some more." fruit stand. The small sermon suspended itself in and all he, the speaker, needed to do Inside, people milled about, pinching the silence. It had not missed an ear. Re- was to point out the goal, and every- green pears, separating corn husks to warding a puzzled fruit-stand clerk with one would take off triumphantly. But peek at golden kernels tucked inside, and a special smile, Mary got into her car they did not all know. I did not know. thumping the fat green watermelons that to drive away. And so we blunder along because it were stacked everywhere against the walls. Somewhere up the valley lived a Chris- has not been called to our attention A few tourists had seated themselves tian man who probably felt he was just that there are certain basic laws that at the picnic tables. They were alternating an ordinary dirt farmer. Perhaps he felt must be fulfilled again and again cool bites of red watermelon with long bad because he couldn't witness for the looks at the river where it slid somewhat and again in order to perfect charac- Lord as effectively as a minister who slowly under the bridge. preaches sermons and gives Bible studies. ter. It would seem that the equation The fruit stand had a large selection He faithfully tended his trees and A=T (L+C) applies in spiritual of fruit and vegetables, but Mary's search picked the yellow-gold fruit, unaware matters. didn't reveal any peaches. that many miles down the river the way Nothing so completely convinces Seeing the clerk return to her stool he lived and worked would preach a me of the operation of law in the behind the counter, Mary hurried to ask short sermon. 10 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 of which are unfulfilled in an area SPEAKING OUT seemingly remote and far distant from the problem in hand. Here the stage was set for spiritual failure. Now to sum up. First, when one "Doctor" or "Brother"? comes upon a spiritual casualty, wouldn't the important thing be to By CARSTEN JOHNSEN help him make a careful rundown of the architecture of character to lo- cate, if possible, the area in which Christ's words in Matthew 23:5-12 sence new teachers had entered who, in ignorance of law became the basis for constitute a timely warning against cer- their turn, had finished their university spiritual failure? The student would tain forms of human self-centeredness education. The first time I now heard then know that there is a definite and deeply rooted in everyone: "All their my name called over the loudspeaker of practical reason for every spiritual works they do for to be seen of men: the office, I had a surprising experience: "Would Lector Johnsen please come to defeat, and this is something he can they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, the office!" do something about. and love the uppermost rooms at feasts, "Lector Johnsen," I mused—that cer- Second, should not a Seventh-day and the chief seats in the synagogues, tainly sounded rather strange in this en- Adventist educational institution, of- and greetings in the markets, and to be ' vironment. Well, I soon had to establish fering the student a rich educational called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. But be not the historical fact that our office person- menu, providing him with the tools ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, nel had found it appropriate, presum- for a successful professional career, even Christ; and all ye are brethren." ably in accordance with the increasing provide him also with the practical I once used to think that mainly in- status of a progressive school, to abandon tools for Christian living, the means stitutions of the world—and only in cer- the old form of address of "Brother So- and-so." In place of that outdated ec- whereby the victorious life is lived? tain areas of the world—were infected by the peculiar habit of emphasizing clesiastical brotherhood we now had If salvation is a science, then the mi- one's titles. Approaching a professor in a something I was inclined to call an in- nutiae involved in understanding and European university, a friend of mine tellectual caste system. Our teachers had achieving it should be welcome in was careful to address him as "Herr Dr. officially been divided into two groups, any curriculum. Schmidt." But the professor corrected similar to the ones you know from our Third, wouldn't the minister, him most severely: "Nicht Dr. Schmidt, American colleges of the present day— whose responsibility it is to break the bitte. Ich bin Dr.-Dr. Schmidt." The stu- on the one hand the "Doctors So-and-so," bread of life to the children of God, dent had committed the offense of fail- those who have had the good fortune of do well to check his every sermon to ing to recognize that the scholar he was finishing their education; on the other hand, the "Misters So-and-so," the ones see whether it squares with the follow- talking to had two doctorates. Is the intellectualistic distinction be- who must be labeled as not having fin- ing suggestion? tween "Dr. So-and-so" and "Mr. So-and- ished their education! so" simply a European phenomenon, or Clear Explanation Needed a phenomenon confined to worldly en- Reason for Innovation "There are many who want to vironments? I immediately went to the office su- know what they must do to be saved. A few years ago two of our European perintendent inquiring why this division They want a plain and clear explana- divisions jointly arranged a convention had been deemed necessary. tion of the steps requisite in conver- for our university graduates. I was asked Here something interesting should be to give one of the lectures. I availed my- noted. I have observed the phenomenon sion, and there should not a sermon self of the opportunity of paying due on various occasions. It is not, generally, be given unless a portion of that dis- homage to our generous French hosts in the teachers who take the initiative in course is to especially make plain the connection with my subject. The man- introducing the watertight bulkheads way that sinners may come to Christ ner of public address is no problem in that seem to divide a faculty into sepa- and be saved."—Selected Messages, France. Whether the man you meet may rate parts. It is rather a more neutral book 1, p. 157. be a member of l'Academie Francaise or category of people, sometimes having no So in personal work, in the class- a garbage collector in the streets, he is academic degrees, perhaps not even the room, and from the sacred desk the always addressed simply as Monsieur. A personal ambition to acquire them, who student would receive a thorough un- country blessed with such intellectual de- obviously have a considerable admira- mocracy has impressed me for many tion and respect for such degrees, and a derstanding of Christian victory and years as an extremely pleasant place in definite appreciation of their value as how it can be obtained. This would which to live. an efficient means of boosting the pres- prepare him to carry out his part in But permit me first to give you a wider tige of their school. this great spiritual achievement where background of my personal experience. Of course, I had to admit that there God and man work together to effect I taught in our Norwegian college for might be many good reasons for increas- a new creation. about ten years. During that time I hap- ing the academic standing of our school With such an equipment the stu- pened to be the only teacher there hav- in the public mind. Personal letters of dent would be able to "make a go" of ing completed a university education. application may need a clear enumera- salvation. He would be able to plan (In fact, it seemed I was not called to tion of all titles and various achieve- teach there because of my education but ments. This is not necessarily vain os- for a successful spiritual career in in spite of it. Our brethren in those days tentation. This is realistic business for parallel with a successful professional obviously had a somewhat different way the teacher as well as for the firm or career. Moreover, he would be able to of evaluating things. And that way was cause he represents. In fact, there would enlist the help of all the laws, intelli- not always so foolish as it may now ap- seem to be a lot to praise and approve gently fulfill all the conditions that pear to some.) in our office personnel's attitude. How- would ensure his spiritual triumph I need not tell you that so far as titles ever, at the same time I had to point and prevent his becoming a spiritual were concerned I was simply Brother out that in my personal case the change casualty. But without this prepara- So-and-so, like any other worker on the of things meant a serious problem rather tion, this spiritual know-how, just how campus. Another title was never imag- than an improvement. In fact, if I were ined or dreamed of in that particular to go on feeling at home in that school, can anyone hope successfully to breast environment. the innovation they had devised with the the strong currents of human desire, However, after the ten-year period, it best of intentions, no doubt, would have or stand triumphantly in that day so happened that I was away from the to disappear. (And I was confident that when every man's work is to be tested school for some years. When I returned hardly a faculty member would seriously by fire? -4+ changes had taken place. During my ab- disagree with me.)

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 11 Sound pedagogical insight should also I let them understand that in my case woman in the reception office if I could have its evident arguments. Why should they could be entirely reassured. I would meet a department head (a really dis- we always emphasize, in front of our stu- not take any action against them what- tinguished scholar in his field). She dents—"This teacher has finished his ed- ever they called me. In fact, as I look spoke to the man, and then put down ucation, but that one there, sad to say, upon it (and I do hope I have not mis- the telephone, saying smilingly, "Mr. has not. In other words, the latter's understood my English altogether), be- N. N. is waiting for you in his office, Mr. teaching is almost bound to be inferior ing called "Mister" implies an infinite Johnsen." in some way; it is far from being the honor; it means that I have been pointed I was dumfounded. As for the "Mr. ideal in this school; it is not really what out as a real gentleman. So, from a Johnsen," of course I could take that you students are entitled to claim." strictly civil point of view, what more fairly well, but "Mr. N. N."—the famous Should we not use any titles whatso- could any man expect? On the other scholar! How was it this woman had ever then, except in our dealings with hand, if they were Adventists, and if they such boldness? Did she not have any worldly authorities? thought they could accept me, too, as an reverence for the lofty peaks of expert On the contrary, I admit the useful- Adventist (or as a passably good Chris- scholarliness? ness of certain titles on certain occasions, tian, anyway), then I would be still I soon found that every man on that even on the campus. What could be happier to hear them call me Brother campus was addressed as Mr. So-and-so. more informative and practical than say- Johnsen. And the same seems to apply to many ing to a student, perhaps a newcomer: What has caused the disappearance of other of our most highly selective uni- Go to Dean So-and-so or Principal So- that time-honored title of Christian fel- versities. What a shock to a person such and-so. Or: this is the office of Professor lowship, handed down to us as a precious as me, accustomed to the code of man- So-and-so or Pastor So-and-so. All these legacy, not only from our pioneers in ners prevailing in an SDA college. titles are meaningful in the sense that the Advent Movement but as a tradition they tell something essential about the older than the Church Fathers them- Inferiority Complex? profession and practical function of that selves? I have tried to ask some students After this, however, I seriously had to person. They tell me something of vital on our campuses why they are so careful ask myself the disagreeable but pertinent importance about his everyday life and to avoid this form of address. Some will question—Are we as a people internally the capacity in which he may enter into say openly: "It is precisely the long tra- disrupted by some kind of inferiority my life as a fellow man. dition that is the bad thing about it. complex? Is that the true reason why But here we are concerned about a We cannot be that old-fashioned today. we insist upon defining our titles? title of a different type—that is, the title Such obsolete phrases simply do not fit In one way, that explanation would of "Dr. So-and-so," not Doctor in the into twentieth-century language. Re- be nothing less than an attenuating cir- sense of physician or dentist, for that also member that we are here in a publicly cumstance, after all. And then there would imply a profession. But we are accredited American college. We are not might be considerable hope that things here speaking about Doctor in the sense an isolated group any longer. You must could change for the better after a while of Ph.D. What meaningfulness or mis- always take into consideration that some —that is, once we have finally grown up sion in life does that imply? What con- non-Adventist may be near at any time. and left behind our "childhood diseases." crete information does that provide? What would he think if we began to A time might come when we sense no Practically none whatsoever. Whether it speak about our 'brethren'? Do we not more need of laboriously boosting our was a doctorate concentrating on the look peculiar enough in the eyes of the "lacking dignity" by maneuvers of sheer guttural consonants of some dialect in world even without those out-of-date fea- vanity! But this, too, is probably a dan- the Caucasian Mountains, or on the com- tures?" gerous way of looking at our problem. puted prices of vacation cabin lots on Should we not rather go to the Bible the moon around the year 3,000. nothing New Developments; New Problems and ask—why are we so eager to "re- is told you. The only thing such a title I do not doubt for a moment that new ceive honour one of another" (John 5: tells, in fact, the only thing it was ever developments are creating new problems, 44)? intended to tell, is the fact that the per- sincere problems, for our students. And We do need honor; there is no doubt son concerned has reached the pinnacle what about our administrators, the peo- about that. No man can live without of erudition in some line or other, an ple in our offices? What problems do honor. Scripture testifies to that. But erudition existing for its own sake. they have that cause them to drop the from where should our honor come, the But worse yet is the situation that "archaic" forms of address we now find only honor that avails? It must conic arises when the phenomenon manages to hardly surviving publicly except in let- from God. And He says, "Them that enter our Sabbath school and church ters from the General Conference? Is all honour me I will honour" (1 Sam. 2:30). service bulletins—after Mr. So-and-so has this just a sign of modern adaptation or So let us have this one great concern— offered prayer, Dr. So-and-so will preach is it a symptomatic trait of a gradual to honor God. Then all our personal the sermon. process, in us as well, of a general secu- honor problems will simply disappear. larization? Is there a trend that could We shall have the one great thing we First Impressions of a Large be called the "dechristianization of Sev- are all lacking—the honor of God. College Campus enth-day Adventism"? But then we must become children Permit me to give a personal glimpse Could any other and less alarming rea- again. When I taught at our Seminar of my first impressions on arriving at sons be produced for our increasing fail- Schloss Bogenhofen, in Austria, I had the campus of one of our largest colleges ure to proclaim, with the childlike open- the thrilling experience of having those in America some years ago. I had been ness of our forefathers, that joyous heartily childlike students address me as called to the post of professor in one of fellowship of belonging to a peculiar Uncle Johnsen. The title my wife re- its departments. Some office workers group of Christian brotherhood? ceived was naturally Aunt Johnsen. Our whose desks I naturally had to pass on Anyway, there seems to be an invisible principal was Uncle Steiner and his wife that occasion puzzled me a little. They barrier of social pressure surrounding us was Aunt Steiner. Humanly speaking, I seemed to be actually uneasy about some- on all sides, a glacial crust of modern never felt more profoundly honored in thing. I understood afterward that al- secularism, an ice we do not dare to any school. To me these were titles of most every newcomer on the faculty break. human warmth; they could not help im- caused them the same awkward predica- Personally, I would like to find some pressing me as truly meaningful. They ment. How could they find out, prefer- mitigating circumstances to account for were definitely distance eliminating. It ably without asking directly, whether the even the fact that we seem to be the takes a real child to overcome distances. new teacher had a doctorate? For evi- most disturbingly "Doctor" conscious It takes a child to realize the warmth dently it must be considered as some- people in the world. and meaningfulness of brotherhood. thing close to a mortal sin to address a From my first real Adventist college This, in fact, is the great objection I man as Mr. So-and-so if, actually, he did experience in America I happened to have to our present use of the title "Doc- not at all deserve that "humiliating de- come to one of the most famous univer- tor" in its relentlessly intellectualistic preciation." Such treatment of visiting sity campuses in the country, a school sense—it will always tend to be hu- scholars would almost appear to be a counting a dozen Nobel prize winners manly cold and distance creating. It is valid reason for dismissal from the office. among its faculty members. I asked a too "adult" for the child of God. ++ 12 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 62-1,14eW hy Er()R()TITY LAI

we're going?" I wailed as I stumbled No matter what generation, each along beside her. individual likes to "I have cat's eyes, you know," she remember fondly his laughed. At the mention of cats my hair stood on end, for I'd heard the grownups say these woods were alive with wildcats, bears, and mountain Mother's lions. Tears streamed down my cheeks and mingled with the thicken- ing drops of rain. Mother, who had come to the Ore- Merry Heart gon country in a covered wagon when she was just a little girl and had lived through many an Indian uprising, wasn't afraid of wildcats. Nor of mountain lions. Nor of bears. She stopped, took off her coat, gath- ered me in her arms, tossed me over her shoulder and onto her back, then drew her coat around the two of us and tied the sleeves under her chin. With my legs around her waist and my arms hugging her neck, she started off, holding my ankles se- curely in her slender hands. Suddenly the heavens broke open, and the rain came down in torrents. But mother plodded on through the deepening dark, singing her favorite hymns, never hesitating, till she came to the bridge. The bridge was only a log with notches cut in it for steps. It angled down to the other side of the stream and when wet it was very slippery. Mother knew that if she missed one of those steps we would both plunge into the rocky creek below. She asked the Lord to guide her feet; then as a flash of lightning illumined the log, she moved forward. After taking the first step, she balanced there in the rain until the lightning showed her By DORIS HOLT HAUSSLER the second step, and the third, and the fourth, and the fifth. How long it took us to negotiate that slippery, makeshift bridge I have HERE was no threat of a back at the lowering sun. "We no idea, but it seemed like an eter- storm that autumn afternoon mustn't stay long," she cautioned. nity to a three-year-old who was as Tas mother and I sauntered The moments were so packed with fearful of the lightning as of the dark. down the road, with mother stopping visiting and play that no one noticed But to mother the lightning was to glory in the reds and golds of the angry clouds rolling in from the God's way of answering her prayer. Rocky Mountain maple, to admire a sea. Suddenly and without warning When the ordeal was over she made cluster of Oregon grape, to gather a it was eerie dark. As we hurried away the woods ring with her song of handful of huckleberries, or to help a few raindrops splattered heavily in praise and thanksgiving: "0 Thou me, her three-year-old daughter, cap- the road. Mother held my hand in whose presence my soul takes de- ture a baby frog. To her, life was tightly and kept up a one-sided con- light, On whom in affliction I call, one great adventure, so why should versation to quiet my fears. My comfort by day and my song in she hurry through it? Why should she "Maybe if we take the short cut the night, My hope, my salvation, my not take time to enjoy it when there we can beat the rain," she gaily re- all!" was no need to rush? marked as she led me down a grassy "If there isn't a funny side to a As we climbed the steps to Aunt path and into the woods. situation, make one," mother would Bell's beautiful home, mother looked "Mommy, how can we see where say. In a sense, she was a general

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 13 practitioner dispensing happiness things to enjoy was sinful. "Look for who wanted to gain an education. pills wherever she went, and she was the beautiful; look for the true," she Mother not only fed but also as faithful in taking her own medi- would sing if we criticized others or clothed these boys. With each new cine as she was in prescribing medi- began to repeat a tale we had heard. addition to our family dad took a cine for others. Mother had stored away in her quick look at their scanty wardrobes, One day she and dad and I were memory dozens of songs appropriate hurried to town, and returned with on our way to town in our fringe- for various occasions. We arose in bolts of material that mother would topped surrey. Dad stopped the the morning to her joyful rendition fashion into shirts, underwear, and horses in front of a neighbor's house of "Awake, my soul! Stretch every pajamas for her "adopted" sons. She and ran in to ask counsel on a farm- nerve, and press with vigor on" or kept an ear to the ground for the ing problem. As mom pulled hard on "The morning light is breaking; The faintest whisper of discouragement, the reins to control our skittish team darkness disappears" or, perhaps, and a long face was all it took to of colts, she wished for a third hand "Awake, ye saints, and raise your start her caroling, "Never give up; with which to cover an on-coming eyes," and we went to bed at night never give up. . . . Sing when your sneeze. But, alas! Her upper plate to the beautiful hymn, "0 Father, us trials are greatest; trust in the Lord went sailing across the back of one of in safety keep; we lay us down to and take heart." I have been told by the horses and disappeared in the sleep." my "adopted" brothers who are now deep dust. To avoid sounding preachy, mom ministers, teachers, and leaders in the When dad came out and found me often counseled or reproved us with church, "I probably would have been feeling around in the dirt, he looked a song. One day I had been cutting a dropout if it hadn't been for your at mother with a big question mark out paper dolls and was slyly push- mother." on his face. She gave him a toothless ing the scraps of paper under the smile, and we all burst out laughing. rug. Without turning to look at me, A Crippling Accident After reaching the conclusion that mom began singing, " 'Tis not the One Friday evening in 1933 mother the hapless set of teeth had most things you do, dear, but the things and dad were sitting in the living likely clattered down a deep ravine, you leave undone, that give you a room, reading the Bible. As the sun she put into practice two of her fa- bit of heartache at the setting of the was setting a low rumble in the dis- vorite proverbs: "Never cry over sun." Those scraps of paper came out tance intensified into a roar in the spilled milk" and "What can't be from under the rug in a hurry and earth beneath them, and the house cured must be endured." were promptly deposited in the trembled. Mother jumped to her feet wastebasket where they belonged. just as a second quake wrenched the She Lived the Proverbs Wherever we lived mother was the room, splitting plaster, tearing cup- "What is worth doing is worth do- neighborhood doctor. She cared for boards from the walls and hurling ing well!" mother drilled into us. the sick, sat up with the dying, and them crashing to the floor. The de- Then she set a worthy example by delivered babies, never expecting a mon temblor slammed mother down doing with her might whatever she reward for her services. " 'Freely ye across the arm of the davenport and attempted to do. There was the time have received, freely give,' " she struck her to the floor, where she lay when she and a friend were sitting would quote smilingly if we cau- painfully crumpled and unable to in the front row of the church bal- tioned her against overdoing the move. cony. With discouraging results the golden rule. It took mother's mercy vehicle music director urged the congrega- Mother was her happiest when sur- many hours to crawl around gaping tion to join in the song service. In rounded by young people. Much of holes in the twisted concrete, down desperation he lifted his eyes to the the time our home was filled with highways cluttered with the cars of balcony and pleaded: "Now you boys the age of my brother—poor the curious the 30 tortuous miles to folks sing the second stanza all alone boys who had no other home and the Glendale Adventist Hospital. and let's hear you make the rafters "Torn ligaments in the back" was ring!" the doctor's pronouncement. Mother sat up straight, braced her- After two weeks in the hospital self, and came in loud and clear on mom was fitted with a stiff, heavily- the first word. It made no difference boned corset, which she was doomed to her that she was the only one re- c7o Mot4er to wear the rest of her life. Besides, a sponding to his plea. He had told whiplash injury she had received in them to sing, so she sang! Alone and By ETHEL WALKER SHULTZ an automobile accident ten years with all her might she sang that verse Mother, I never dreamed, those years prior to this had left her with a nag- to the very end, oblivious to turning When I was your girl and free, ging headache. The ill-fitting shoes heads, craning necks, and the smiles How many times I troubled you of the 1800's had produced pains in of those on the main floor below. And caused you to cry for me. her feet from which she suffered for When she had finished, the director the greater part of her 89 years. chided his audience, "If all of you How could your strength hold up so long, But no one would ever have would sing like that little old lady in Working the whole day through? known that pain was her constant the balcony, we would have a really I never spared you a bit, I know, companion. The laugh wrinkles that Or lightened your cares for you. fine song service." lined her face only deepened with Was mother offended because he Now I have trials and cares of my own, the passing years. Joyfully she filled had called her an old lady? Not a And often weep bitterly the air with her songs and her ready bit! Over some trait in my own dear child wit, her cheeks dimpling and her Mother was deeply religious. She That you must have seen in me. blue eyes dancing to the very end of loved the Lord with all her heart, her abundant life. and that is why she was so happy. To Life with its chastening rod has taught "Her children arise up, and call her, seeing the thorns and thistles My heart to be quick to pay her blessed; her husband also, and Homage to you, loving mother, of mine, along the way was unbecoming for a For I understand today. he praiseth her. Many daughters Christian. Stopping to look at them have done virtuously, but thou ex- when God had given such beautiful cellest them all" (Prov. 31:28, 29). ++ 14 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 1,1, .111111111.111..9111111MILY. ..1-1•••••17.•

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FROM THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG Church of God, Mrs. Bradesku decided that perhaps her marriage (of 15 years' duration and involving five chil- Several months ago we received a letter from a reader dren) to a divorce was adulterous. She wrote to a Church asking us to editorialize on a court case reported in the of God minister to ask whether her marriage was valid. public press, involving marriage and divorce. We offered The minister replied, "In God's eyes and according to a brief personal reply, but felt we should wait until the the Bible, the present state would be adulterous." A case had been appealed to a higher court before mention- few months later she moved out. ing the matter in our editorial columns. Now the appeals Mr. Bradesku sued the church for alienation of affec- court has rendered its decision, hence we are publishing tion, and an Akron jury granted a judgment in his favor, the reader's letter, together with a few editorial com- ordering various church representatives to pay 330,000. ments. Here is the letter, written from abroad: But the Washington Post of March 26, 1969 (one year "Dear Editors: Please let me know our stand as Seventh- after the original court decree), reported that "Ohio's day Adventists on Matthew 5:32. This text states that a Ninth District Court of Appeals ruled unanimously man (or woman) may get a divorce for adultery, but that a church was exercising its religious freedom when that the guilty party is not entitled to remarry, and if he it advised a Cleveland woman that her marriage to a does, the one who marries him is committing adultery. divorced man was `adulterous' and thereby prompted I am enclosing a news clipping from the March 22, 1968, the woman to leave her husband." issue of Time magazine, telling of a woman who decided We think the appeals court made the right decision in to break up her home because her husband was a divorce reversing the ruling of the lower court. Religious freedom without `Bible grounds.' Is this woman right in what she must be upheld. But whether Mrs. Bradesku's action was did?" right is open to question. When the case first went to In reply we quoted the following statement from court Mrs. Bradesku testified that her husband had Thoughts From die Mount of Blessing, page 63: "In the beaten her the year after they were married, and that she sermon on the mount Jesus declared plainly that there had filed suit for divorce in 1966, but later withdrew could be no dissolution of the marriage tie, except for un- the case. Would Mrs. Bradesku have considered her mar- faithfulness to the marriage vow." We also said that the riage adulterous if she had been happy? Neither the Church Manual makes it plain that we believe exactly courts nor the REVIEW can determine this. what Matthew 5:32 says. On page 254 of the Manual (1967 edition) we read: "A guilty spouse, who is divorced, The Place of Grace has not the moral right to marry another while the inno- We fail to see, however, what could be gained by break- cent spouse still lives and remains unmarried and chaste. ing up a 15-year marriage, entered into in good faith, Should he (or she) do so, he (or she), if a member, shall and involving five children. God's prohibitions are de- be disfellowshiped. The person whom he (or she) marries, signed to provide structure to society and to keep us if a member, shall also be disfellowshiped." A church from getting into trouble. They are like fences at the derives its power from Christ, hence does- not have the top of a cliff. But if a person has already plunged over the authority to modify or change His commands. edge, what then? Can the disaster be reversed by human In Matthew 5:32 Jesus said, "Whosoever shall put effort? Do two wrongs make a right? Some situations are away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth beyond the power of man to correct. The one who has her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her made a mistake must simply throw himself on the mercy that is divorced committeth adultery." In Matthew 19:19 and grace of God. God knows the heart of the individual. He added, "Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it He knows whether repentance is genuine. And where it is, be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth He freely forgives. adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth Let us rejoice that God has given us commandments commit adultery." that we may conform to His will. Let us rejoice, also, Though this language is clear, many in our modern, that God's grace is equal to any situation, however diffi- permissive society consider the scriptural standard for cult. "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to divorce and remarriage too rigid. No doubt God's com- forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unright- mand to Adam and Eve not to eat of the tree of knowl- eousness" (1 John 1:9). Amazing blend of justice and edge of good and evil seemed rigid to our first parents mercy! K. H. W. also. And to multitudes today the command to keep the seventh-day Sabbath sounds rigid. But when one looks SHALL WE BOW OUR HEADS at the cross of Calvary and senses how merciful and lov- ing God is, he knows that all Heaven's commands are for IN PRAYER? our best good. He knows that our happiness depends on Shall we bow our heads in prayer? Yes. This is the implicit obedience. It follows, then, that the Bible rule present-day custom in our churches, whether the congre- for divorce and remarriage is best for the individual, for gation kneels or stands. the home, and for society. Shall we humbly bow our heads in prayer? Of course. Reverence should characterize our posture as we converse The Bradesku Case with the King of the universe. However, that such is not What shall one do when he is involved in a marriage the only posture men have assumed in prayer is clear where his partner has not been divorced on Bible from several Bible examples: grounds? This was the problem faced by Mrs. Melvin When Jesus prayed what is commonly referred to as Bradesku, of Cleveland, Ohio, and reported in Time His intercessory prayer, He "lifted up his eyes to heaven, magazine. After listening to radio broadcasts of the and said . " (John 17:1). Again at the grave of Lazarus

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 15 He "lifted up his eyes" (John 11:41). That other suppli- so forgetful that every time a public prayer is uttered ants also lifted up their eyes to heaven seems to be im- they must be told to bow their heads? Does the announce- plied in Luke 18:13, where the publican in his self-depre- ment really change conduct? Are the irreverent going to ciation "would not lift up so much as his eyes unto become reverent simply because of the reminder? We heaven." doubt it. In the Old Testament Solomon is described as spread- We can see the point in telling a group of children, for ing forth his hands toward heaven when he prayed to God example in the children's divisions of the Sabbath school, at the time of the dedication of the Temple (1 Kings to bow their heads reverently in prayer. The habits of 8:22). The attitude of his face is not described, but it children are not yet firmly established. Youngsters may would appear that it was also directed toward heaven. be tempted to look around during prayer. They still peed Concerning Ezra's prayer attitude it is recorded, "I fell to be told and repeatedly reminded to be reverent in upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord prayer. This is hardly true of an adult congregation. my God, and said, 0 my God, I am ashamed and blush How, then, should public prayers be introduced? They to lift up my face to thee, my God" (Ezra 9:5, 6). It thus may need no introduction whatever. If they follow a seems clear from both the Old and New Testaments that hymn for which the congregation is standing and the con- lifting the face or the eyes toward heaven was a posture gregation is expected to be standing during prayer and assumed at least occasionally when prayer was offered. the prayer occurs at the customary part of the service, We are not recommending that lifting the eyes to no introduction is necessary. If there is any question in heaven replace the bowing of the head in our churches. the minds of the congregation as to whether a prayer We are simply noting that more than one method has follows the hymn, a simple introduction such as "Let us obtained. We see nothing wrong in other postures when pray" is appropriate. If the congregation is expected to circumstances make them desirable. For example, when kneel during the prayer, a simple introduction such as out in the beauties of nature alone, where the sights are "Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker" is in order. conducive to communion with God, we have found our Incidentally, we have used the term congregation to prayers enhanced by gazing at nature's beauties while describe a group of worshipers. This term is clearly pref- addressing God. We have lifted our eyes to the starry erable to audience. Audience is particularly inappropriate dome at night while talking to God. He seems so near to use when announcing prayer. It implies that the as- in the midst of FIis created works. But in a worship serv- sembled people instead of being participants are merely ice or any public prayer, and in our family worships at listeners to a prayer. The term audience is defined as a home, we humbly bow our heads with other worshipers. group of listeners. In common usage congregation refers to a body of worshipers of God. Superfluous Custom Admittedly, the items we have been talking about are The point we are getting at is this: Since the custom clearly externals. We do not wish to magnify them out of bowing the head in prayer is so well established, is it of proportion. What really counts with God is the spirit not superfluous to call attention to the custom every of the worshiper. But sometimes attention to externals time prayer is announced? Especially before an adult may contribute to achieving a higher level of internal congregation, might not the repeated reminder "Shall we experience. The less obstruction we place in the way of humbly bow our heads in prayer?" almost be an insult the Spirit, the more effectively He will be able to work. to the intelligence? Are the members of the congregation D. F. N.

or those for some other student for whom An unforgettable woman? Solomon said, TAIEllEILS one wishes to become responsible.—Ens. "A virtuous woman is a crown to her hus- band." And I ask, What king ever forgot Ii.res74/ about his crown? THE UNFORGETTABLE WOMAN (Miss) ROSEMARY BRADLEY I was surprised that a married woman Takoma Park, Maryland (in the April 3 Letters) would ask the question "What is so important about [a (This feature gives REVIEW readers an oppor- QUALITY, NOT QUANTITY tunity to share their concerns and opinions with woman's] being 'unforgettable'?" I am not fellow church members. The views set forth married, but this I know—I don't plan to Re the article "Quality Rather Than do not necessarily represent those of the edi- tors or of the denomination. Only signed letters enter that blissful state until I have the Quantity" (Feb, 20). will be considered for publication; all will be assurance that to one man in the world Why such a waste in our operation? It edited to meet space and literary requirements.) I am unforgettable. costs many thousands of dollars and many Often in our church emphasis is placed prayers to get a single person baptized, and on externals—long skirts, short skirts, sleeve- we are losing one third through apostasy. A LEGITIMATE TAX DEDUCTION less blouses, make-up, wedding rings—and Today we bring them in through the front we usually deserve the rebukes whether they doors and one third go out through back I think too many SDA's are not aware come from men or other women. We try doors. I wonder whether we are justified that donations to schools and church build- hard to appear beautiful instead of cultivat- in calling this wholesale dropping out apos- ings are tax deductible. ing gentleness, graciousness, and kindness, tasy. Have these backslidden ones really If half the money sent to income-tax and instead of finding joy in the moment been part of the remnant church? receivers was sent to the nearest college, and hope in the future. Too often in selecting our workers we academy, church school, or church, there We expect ministers and ministers' wives look for men and women who have earned would be no need to wonder about receiv- to give talks about striving for virtuous their degree qualifications without making ing help from outside sources. lives instead of "outward adornment." But certain they have been called by God into DONALD J. CHEARY I found it encouraging to note (in the art- the gospel work. They are put to work in Bremerton, Washington icle ''The Unforgettable Woman"—Jan. 30, God's vineyard as qualified for the task, but Review) that other men—worldly men—value they work in their own strength rather than lo" In the United States, contributions to the intangibles as well. Perhaps there would in God's. As a result, conversions have been church-operated schools are tax deductible, be less marital chaos if more women tried more to the doctrines than to Christ. but not payments of tuition for specific to become unforgettable for their husbands J. H. ZACHARY students, either those for one's own children and children. Lytton, British Columbia 16 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 INTERNATIONAL NEWS

General Conference assume control of Loma Linda Foods, which at present is Leaders of the Church Gather an institution of the Pacific Union Con- ference. The 1969 Spring Council re- corded appropriate actions that look for 1969 Spring Meeting toward the transfer becoming effective January 1, 1970. The composition of the By R. R. FRAME general board of management of Loma Associate Secretary, General Conference Linda Foods received attention, as did the setting up of certain executive commit- Except for the Autumn Council, the man's problems, together with appealing tees whose activities will lead to a con- Spring Meeting of the General Confer- captions, are being planned. Follow-up tinuing successful operation of this unit ence Committee is the most important facilities are being studied, these includ- of World Foods Service. meeting of the General Conference Com- ing small booklets and information cor- Ellen G. White speaks of the health mittee on the church calendar. It was respondence courses that lead to the reg- food work as God's gift to His church, held this year April 1 through 3, and ular Bible courses. and we are confident that He will con- about 90 members attended. Other Actions tinue to bless this all-important work as Recognizing the necessity of seeking the it is further developed, not only in North leading of the Lord, the committee mem- A teacher's edition of the adult Sab- America, but around the world. bers began each day with a period of de- bath School Quarterly will be published votion. The speakers were Theodore by the Pacific Press, beginning with the Personnel Changes Lucas, W. M. Starks, and C. B. Hirsch. first quarter of 1970. This quarterly These men, who head the Missionary Vol- will contain 224 pages and be prepared At each Spring Council actions are unteer, Stewardship and Development, in loose-leaf form, The Sabbath School taken touching the lives of those who are and Education departments, respectively, Worker will continue to be produced in engaged in denominational service. At the all focused on qualities essential in the its present general format, but will be sub- 1969 meeting William Wagner, M.D., was lives of those who lead the church under ject to review before the 1971 issues are invited to connect with the General Con- God in these difficult days. The periods of prepared. In addition to general articles, ference to serve as an associate secretary spiritual refreshing led to a harmonious full program helps for teaching youth, in the Health Department. The plan will approach to the agenda and to a deter- earliteen, junior, primary, kindergarten, be for Dr. Wagner to locate on Loma mination to give greater impetus to the and cradle roll divisions will be included, Linda campus to succeed Dr. C. E. Ran- proclamation of the gospel. and each monthly magazine will con- dolph, who recently accepted a call to The work of the church calls for con- tain 128 pages. As time and production Madison Hospital, Tennessee. Dr. Wag- solidation and expansion in the spiritual arrangements permit, the journal will ner has given more than 20 years of realm. At least two of the actions taken appear in three more specialized sections, service as a medical missionary and has at the Spring Meeting served to illustrate each section carrying the general name been connected with denominational hos- this point. Sabbath School Worker with appropriate pitals in several divisions of the world First, plans were approved for the de- designations of the divisions for which the field. velopment of a strong Spirit of Proph- section is intended, Another action read, "Voted, To re- ecy study program throughout North In 1968 the committee agreed that the quest the Southern Union Conference to America. Administrative committees in unions and large local conferences are to select key men with ability and enthusi- asm to encourage a closer study of the Spirit of Prophecy writings by church New Name for Seoul Sanitarium members. Area workshops will be a part of the program. Such will be under the Curtis King (left), business manager, pital's name has been changed to Seoul auspices of the Spirit of Prophecy Com- and Dr. Louis Erich, medical director, Adventist Hospital. mittee. watch as a painter puts the new name The new name, chosen by the hospital's The Testimony Countdown program, of Seoul Sanitarium and Hospital on the board of directors during its annual meet- which was conducted in the Takoma Park hospital's ambulance. The Korean hos- ing on January 14, will make it clear that church from January to March, brought this hospital is indeed a Seventh-day Ad- great blessing to the large group who ventist institution. attended. Countdown will be launched in This institution has been well known in Adventist churches across North America a number of countries since its opening by September, 1969, and a worldwide 33 years ago by Dr. George H. Rue and Testimony Countdown program will others. In Korea it is best known for its probably be listed for attention at the high standards of medical care and for 1969 Autumn Council. As workers and the competent nurses who graduate from laity participate in such a program, they its nursing school each year. At the pres- must surely be consolidated in the truth. ent time there are 81 student nurses in A second action reveals that the work the school under the leadership of Mrs. of evangelism is the expanding agency of Grace Kim and Harriet Dinsmore. The the church. Every opportunity is taken to hospital is also known for its intern and introduce new approaches. A group of resident training program, now under men have developed a plan for introduc- the guidance of Dr. Jack Seeley. ing newspaper evangelism in the North The Seoul Adventist Hospital is also American Division. Such a program fore- widely known for its orphanage, which sees appropriate messages or advertise- now cares for 162 homeless children under ments being placed in Sunday magazine the direction of Fay Welter. supplements of more than 100 leading The hospital name in the Korean lan- newspapers in the United States and guage is to remain the same for the time about 20 in Canada. Statistics show that being, but the term "Seventh-day Advent- such advertising on one day would pro- ist" is to be used as frequently as possible vide a primary circulation of 23 million with the name. and a secondary reading audience of some LOUIS R. ERICH, M.D. 40 to 60 million people. Positive state- Medical Director ments showing God's answers to modern Seoul Adventist Hospital

REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 17 INTERNATIONAL NEWS release A. C. McKee, and to elect him director of deferred giving for the Gen- DATELINE- eral Conference." Elder McKee is experi- enced in the specialized activity of de- ferred giving, and he will strengthen the WASHINGTON work of an important phase of the church. By Arthur B. Roth As new appointments are made at Gen- eral Conference level, so it is necessary from time to time for men who have borne the burdens of leadership for many years to request release from current re- GENERAL CONFERENCE WOR- bring the brethren in tune with God sponsibilities. Gerald R. Nash, secretary SHIPS. During a recent week Columbia for the day's business sessions. of the Sabbath School Department of the Union College students presented the General Conference, presented his resig- Some items of interest were the elect General Conference worships. They gave nation, to be effective November 30, 1969. tion and retirement of members of the As W. R. Beach introduced the item, he thrilling testimonies of how they as to- General Conference staff. (Their names pointed to the fact that Elder Nash en- day's youth are serving the cause of God. and positions appear in column 1.) tered denominational work in 1927 in the Speakers were Tom Ipes, Dorothy Gates, Trans-Africa Division. He traced his 42- Dan Roberts, Dan Ipes, and Susan Carl- TELEX A Telex machine for sending year record of service through different son. cablegrams overseas has been installed parts of the continent of Africa, then as a Also not long ago, Milo Sawvel, recently in the General Conference offices on a local president in several conferences in appointed associate temperance secretary, trial basis. Using a typewriter keyboard North America prior to work in Sabbath presented spiritual lessons from nature; and a telephone dial, the operator can school departments, which led to his ap- Dr. C. E. Randolph, associate secretary pointment to the General Conference in make direct contact with other Telex 1958. A health problem has led Brother of the GC Health (Medical) Department, stations overseas. A special committee is Nash to submit his resignation at this showed films of the flood devastations studying the feasibility of using a sim- time. at Loma Linda, California; and C. G. ilar machine for communications in the Cross, manager of the Christian Record United States. Strong Financial Position Braille Foundation, told of winning one A most important item on the agenda of the Christian Record employees to the VISITORS FROM ABROAD. Visitors of the Spring Meeting was the presenta- Seventh-day Adventist message. from a number of different lands vis- tion of audited statements covering the ited General Conference headquarters fiscal period ending December 31, 1968. HSI ELECTS DIRECTOR OF STUD- recently. Some of them were Mr. and 0. A. Blake, the undertreasurer of the IES. Virgil E. Robinson, veteran mission- Mrs. K. B. Hansen and daughter, Anita, General Conference, presented the state- ary educator, was recently named direc- returning to Denmark to serve in the ment in several sections. He said, "It is tor of studies at Home Study Institute. encouraging to note that another fiscal Danish food factory after having spent The newly created post is similar to the eight years connected with the Sydney period has closed showing the General work of a college academic dean and Conference to be in a strong financial Sanitarium; Allan Maberly, sales man- fills a long-standing need at the insti- position. We thank the Lord for the suc- ager at the Signs Publishing Company cessful financial operation for 1968, and tute. Elder Robinson, a great-grandson in Australia; Dr. and Mrs. Robert Wood, we look ahead to 1969 with courage, hope, of Ellen G. White and son of Dores back from New Guinea for further study; and trust in God." Robinson, was a missionary in Africa Angeline Tan, from Singapore, who The minutes of the 1969 Spring Meet- for 25 years. He has been senior editor recently has been studying at Kingsway ing of the General Conference Commit- at Home Study Institute for the past College; Dr. Carrie Robbins, long-time tee and the North American Division seven years and is the author of nine missionary in Karachi, now returning for Committee on Administration cover many denominational books. Both sons, Don- pages and will be added to those records a three-month relief assignment; the ald and Marvin, are serving in the Max Church family, returning to serve which under the leading of the Spirit of Trans-Africa Division. God have been compiled over many dec- in the Congo; and the F. L. Webb fam- ades. We are confident that the actions KOREAN AMBASSADOR. Korean Am- ily, on furlough from Monrovia, Liberia. taken at this time, like those which have bassador You Chan Yang and Colonel been recorded by previous committees in WELCOME. The General Conference and Mrs. Bo Hi Pak, from the Korean other years, will tell for the expansion of family welcomes two new staff members. Embassy, toured GC headquarters, the the kingdom of God on earth and for the C. D. Watson and his wife arrived in Review and Herald Publishing Associa- hastening of His coming. Takoma Park the last of March, Elder tion, and the Washington Sanitarium Watson to take up his duties as associate on March 25. For almost a year the secretary of the Temperance Department. South Korean Government has broad- PHILIPPINES: He replaces R. E. Adams, who recently cast the Voice of Prophecy over Radio left for duties in South America. For sev- SAWS Helps Government Free Asia with a power of 50,000 watts. eral years Elder Watson was temperance, The station has agreed to broadcast the Aid Disaster Victims MV, and public relations secretary of Voice of Prophecy program in both the the Northern European Division. For The Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Korean and Chinese languages for an- the past three years he has been presi- Service (SAWS) in the Philippines has other year. These officials signed a con- dent of the Ethiopian Union Mission. been receiving letters and telegrams from tract while in Takoma Park. all sections of the country expressing ap- Another new family joining us is Elder preciation and commendation for the wel- SPRING MEETING. For the Spring and Mrs. K. W. Whitney. Elder Whitney fare work being done in behalf of disaster Meeting of the General Conference Com- has been auditor for the Columbia victims, self-help community projects, and mittee, Washington, just breaking into Union, which also has its headquarters many other aspects of volunteer pro- in Takoma Park. Now Elder Whitney grams. bloom, greeted union conference presi- During two recent typhoons that devas- dents and institutional heads with de- will be an associate General Conference tated many towns and barrios in the lightful spring weather. Each morning auditor. The Whitneys served many years Visayas and Mindanao, our welfare serv- session began with devotional studies to in the Inter-American Division. 18 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 ventists can show to the people—volun- tary welfare service. Dorcas Societies, young people's organizations, and the ministry can join hands in putting Chris- tianity into action by supplying not only the spiritual but the physical needs of those around them. P. C. BANAAG National Coordinator SAWS, Philippines

TOGO: Division Staff Member Holds Public Meetings B. B. Beach, departmental secretary, Northern European Division, has con- ducted a public campaign in Lome (pop- ulation 100,000), capital of Togo. This was the first public campaign ever held in Lome, where work was begun in 1964 Welfare workers loin the wife of the provincial governor, Mrs. Jose Esteves, beside by Henri Kempf from France, our pio- the truck used to transport clothing to barrios affected by recent volcanic eruptions. neer in Togo-Dahomey. The meetings attracted the attention of the public. The Togolese radio carried ice was able to send 800,000 pounds of peal seeking help in fighting the ever- the news of the lectures delivered by Dr. food and clothing. These were trans- increasing number of rats that are de- Beach, and the newspapers reported the ported by two Philippine Navy boats. stroying the crops and plants in many meetings. The Lome intelligensia—medi- Our welfare service is one of the volun- towns and cities. SAWS joined in the cal doctors, high government officials, tary agencies of the United States Ad- government program to eradicate the teachers and school principals, pastors ministration for International Develop- pests. This type of welfare service helps and priests, from other churches—at- ment (USAID), and we are gaining the to create good will for the Seventh-day tended. recognition of USAID because of SAWS Adventist Church all over the Philippines. It has been encouraging to see the re- efficient and honest handling of relief One of the strongest areas of social sponse to the lectures delivered. Togo, a supplies. service that the Philippine Government French-speaking country with a popula- Recently a national appeal was made is promoting is the program of self-help tion of about 1.7 million, is the cradle regarding the urgent needs of the people community projects. On this point SAWS of the voodoo cult so well known in in Southern Luzon because of the fre- is given full responsibility by USAID to Brazil and the West Indies. quent eruptions of Mayon volcano. supervise the distribution of food to vol- Meetings were held every night except Floods of lava have rolled down from the unteer workers of any self-help commun- Saturday in the new Advent Centre built crater and covered miles of vegetation ity project. SAWS participation increased with funds from a 1967 Thirteenth Sab- and roads. Of course, the Seventh-day Ad- because of the willingness of local mis- bath Offering overflow. ventist Welfare Service was ready to help. sion administrations to cooperate. 0. GJERTSEN Despite a long-standing ban against im- This is one of the best types of public Departmental Secretary portation of secondhand clothing, we relations gestures that Seventh-day Ad- West African Union Mission were given a special permit to import. We were able to coordinate our relief distribution to scores of barrios around the volcano with the city and provincial government administrations. The govern- ment provided us with trucks to trans- port the relief clothing from one barrio to another. It took one week to dispose of 100 bales of clothing. T. V. Barizo and B. Flores, president and secretary-treasurer, respectively, of the Southern Luzon Mission, helped in the distribution of the clothing. Local Dor- cas Society members worked until mid- night sorting and bundling the clothing. The departmental staff of the mission also cooperated. Officials Express Appreciation Both the wife of the provincial gover- nor and the Legaspi city mayor expressed their appreciation for what the Seventh- day Adventist Welfare Service is doing in behalf of the people in Southern Luzon. Another letter requesting 100 bales of clothing has come from the mission pres- ident because there are some 5,000 to 6,000 more families in other barrios that were not reached during the first distribu- tion. B. B. Beach of England speaks to a full auditorium as he conducts the first public Also recently there was a national ap- meetings held by Adventists in Lome, the capital of Togo, a West African republic.

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chased the necessary equipment—the churches last August. Under the leader- latest Philco-Ford training equipment, a ship of Pastor Ross, the membership of a Davidson offset press, and an offset cam- the Ellenville church has been steadily era, along with other equipment. increasing. EMMA KIRK, Correspondent + The pupils of the elementary division + G. Brito, a literature evangelist in the of South Lancaster Academy participated Greater New York Conference, delivered in various projects to raise $429.66 for the $1,199 worth of literature during the week annual Faith for Today Valentine offer- ending March 15. ing. + A number of successful Five-Day Plans + A Bible instructors' course, under the have been conducted by Elder John Fer- direction of 0. J. Mills, is currently be- raro and Dr. Gordon Brannan, and future ing conducted in the Hartford, Connecti- ones are scheduled for Poughkeepsie and cut, intermediate school with a capacity + Boulder Memorial Hospital opened its Amenia, New York. An active youth pro- enrollment of 20. Fifteen of these are also new million-dollar wing March 2. The gram is carried on in this district, and a pursuing the Bible instructors' course ribbon cutting was performed by R. H. baptism is planned for the near future. from the Home Study Institute. Each stu- Nightingale, union president, and Colo- + Three were baptized March 1 in the dent already has at least one person or rado State Representative Eric W. Middletown-Port Jervis district, and four family to whom he is giving studies. Schmidt. The addition contains 68 medi- or five will be baptized in the near future, cal-surgical beds, 49 of which are private + Twelve persons were baptized at Ellen- rooms, and a new clinical laboratory. reports C. A. Nelson. ville, New York, March 1 by Lance Shand. + Pioneer Valley Academy's industrial Five of the candidates were from New- + Forty-five teams are calling on more arts department introduced two new sub- burgh and seven from Ellenville. These than 200 persons in the Denver area who jects for the second semester—electronics were the fruits of the labors of Dennis at one time were members of the Seventh- and graphic arts. The school has pur- Ross, Jr., who came to pastor these day Adventist Church. The teams are using the Concern packet. Under the di- rection of Arthur R. Lickey, pastor of the Denver Central church, these groups plan to make three visits to each home. + Charles Buursma, Nebraska Conference evangelist, assisted by David Peterson, from the Southern New England Confer- ence, has been conducting evangelistic meetings in the Piedmont Park church in Lincoln, Nebraska. + Construction at Camp Arrowhead, the new general-purpose camp for the Ne- braska Conference, is under way. The first general-purpose building, which will serve as kitchen, dining hall, and possible in- door meeting place, is nearing completion. Plans are to erect a portion of the needed cabins and to complete the well and sani- tary system so that some camps may be held near the end of the summer. Camp Arrowhead is located on a 450-acre tract near the Platte River in central Nebraska. + Pastor A. V. Shultz and pastors of the Christian and Zion Lutheran churches were invited to present the history and beliefs of their churches to the Modern Mrs. Club in Phillipsburg, Kansas, March 27. A time was given for questions and answers. At the close of the meeting Pas- tor Shultz gave each of the 20 women a Signs of the Times, "A Quick Look at Seventh-day Adventists," and a Voice of Prophecy radio log. CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent International Congregation in New York City The Jackson Heights church in New York City is a truly international congregation. The 350-member church includes an English-speaking congregation, an expanding 68-member Spanish-speaking group, and a 25-member Yugoslavian Sabbath school class. The costumed members shown gathered around a replica of the Statue of Liberty Cotudaia, represent eight of the 25 nations and five races found in the church. They are (from left) Bonnie Luppens (American), Hyung Lin Kim (Korean), Hilda Bloomquist (Swedish), Ann Vitorovich (Yugoslavian), Nilda Lake (Spanish), Erika Fulop (Hun- Fifty in Cincinnati, Ohio garian), Katharina Keller (German), and Connie Hallock (Italian). Among programs sponsored by the church are the Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking, Complete Prophecy Course cooking classes, Vacation Bible School, and an active Pathfinder Club. In addition the Some 50 persons graduated from a pro- church operates a disaster and emergency relief service in which volunteers, on call phetic guidance class not long ago in the around the clock, man two disaster vans stocked with clothing and supplies to aid fire Shiloh church in Cincinnati, Ohio. victims in the city of New York. Members also support an elementary school on the After 12 weeks of intensive study under premises for children of the New York area. ANN VITOROVICH Alfred Jones, pastor and class instructor, Communications Secretary, Jackson Heights Church the group welcomed D. A. Delafield, asso- 20 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 ciate secretary of the E. G. White Estate, A. Dopp, conference MV secretary, wel- March 23. W. M. Buckman, welfare direc- for a weekend of meetings. On Friday eve- comed the Friday night crowd to the tor for the conference, explained that this rting Elder Delafield showed pictures of Mosque Theater. Other participants on program is not to duplicate services given his recent overseas trip, and Sabbath the program were Dave Bostrum, Lloyd by other organizations, but to cooperate morning he preached on the fulfillment Logan, and Danny Ipes, Columbia Union with them. Last year the total cash value of the last-day prophecies written by Mrs. College students; Pauline Goddard, a liter- of services rendered by Michigan health White. ature evangelist from New York City; and welfare workers was $1,299,039.38. In his Sabbath afternoon graduation Emilio Knechtle, educator and layman; + The Broadview Pathfinders in Illinois address Elder Delafield spoke on some of Paul DeBooy, associate secretary of the were invited to go from door to door for the historic events of the early church. MV Department of the General Confer- the March of Dimes. Mrs. Anne Krpalek The students, who were mostly recently ence; and W. J. Hackett, vice-president of received the call from the local chairman baptized members, learned that Sister the General Conference. asking that the Pathfinders help them. White's first vision was published in Cin- + Graduation services were held at the The boys and girls brought in $70, which cinnati in The Day Star in 1846. Many Ebenezer church in Philadelphia for 53 was twice as much as adults raised last original documents were placed on dis- persons who successfully completed the year. P lay . Go Tell course. Certificates and Bibles MILDRED WADE, Correspondent While more than 150 students have re- were presented to the graduates after a ceived certificates during the past two message by the pastor, J. M. Thomas. Mrs. years, the entire church has been spirit- Roberta Davis is the church Bible instruc- ually benefited by the study of the pro- tor, and James Street, Sr., is the lay activi- phetic guidance class. ties leader. ALFRED JONES + The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Health and Welfare Center recently opened its College Students Engage new headquarters. Participating in the ceremony were Harrisburg's mayor, Albert + As a result of the Cascade County in Telephone Evangelism Staub; acting police chief, Mr. Watts; crusade, eight new members have been The Columbia Union College religion Philip Lemon, lay activities secretary of baptized and added to the Great Falls, department is sponsoring "Truth," a tele- the Pennsylvania Conference; H. R. Keh- Montana, church. The crusade was con- phone evangelism program, in coopera- ney, pastor of Harrisburg church; Louis ducted by Kenneth Lacey, conference tion with Pastor Harold Lindsay of Adel- Canosa, educational superintendent of the evangelist; Verne Colvin, director of mu- phi, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, Pennsylvania Conference; Harry L. Lind- sic; Pastor Norman Graham; and Mrs. Lacey. D.C. say, Jr., director of student accounting and Dialers listen to a five-minute tape that child guidance in Harrisburg; as well as + Six people united with the church in includes an inspirational message, music, representatives from the Red Cross and Missoula, Montana, on March 15. the Goodwill Industries. Directing the 15- a prayer, and a Bible correspondence + In the Upper Columbia Conference a course offer. member staff at the center is Mrs. Ruth Cashman, assisted by Mrs. Merle Gates and baptism on March 22 added five persons Elder Lindsay's daily messages are re- to the church in Oroville, Washington, as corded by senior theology student Francis Mrs. Irene Barth. The building housing the center was donated by Mr. and Mrs. a result of evangelistic meetings held by Norcott. E. J. Royer. According to M. K. Eckenroth, chair- Gates, members of the Harrisburg church. Twenty business firms contributed cash, man of the department of religion, more + For a number of weeks E. L. Wilson of materials, and furniture. than 5,000 calls came in during the first Valley View has been conducting Smok- two weeks. To date more than 10,000 + Twenty pastors of the Delaware Valley ers Dial in the Medford, Oregon, area. calls have been received. Automatic an- SDA Ministerium have organized to co- Six people stopped smoking just from swering and recording devices are set up ordinate evangelistic activities and to hearing the telephone messages. After sev- in Richards Hall. An average of 100 peo- create a better understanding between the eral hundred names had come in over the ple write for the correspondence course races in the Greater Philadelphia area. telephone, plans were set for a Five-Day each week. They also exchange pulpits, participate in Plan in Hendrick Junior High School in "Why not offer Bible studies by the inner city "Wings of Health" program, Medford. Sixty-seven registered for the phone?" someone suggested. Twelve lay- and aid various health and welfare activi- course, and on the final night 51 had men from the Adelphi church made ties. Officers of this group are Horace mastered the cigarette habit. Helping themselves available for the experiment. Reading, Philadelphia Chestnut Hill Elder Wilson with the lectures were Dr. The offer was discontinued after one church, president; J.C.Smith, North Phila- Darrell Reiber of Central Point and Dr. week because there were more requests delphia church, vice-president; Milton Howard Ferguson of Shady Cove. than they could handle. Thomas, Philadelphia Ebenezer church, + Walter Blehm, president of the Oregon However, college students are laying secretary; and Earl Snow, Philadelphia Conference, received a special welcome plans to continue the project. As requests Boulevard church, treasurer. when he spoke at the Scappoose-St. Helen come in, printed Bible study lessons will MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent church March 22. As a boy he attended be mailed to the person making the re- the church school there. quest. At a designated hour on Friday IONE MORGAN, Correspondent evening, Sabbath, or Sunday, a college student will study the Bible over the tele- phone with the interested caller. "Truth" is the first program of its type Lake aim among SDA colleges. Its aim is to reach those who live in large apartments and housing centers where personal contact is + Chaplain of the Day on March 12 for difficult. the Illinois House of Representatives at ZELLA FIOLBERT Springfield was Roland Lehnhoff, pastor CUC College Relations + Sheyenne River Academy hosted this of the Centralia-Mt. Vernon district. year's Northern Union band festival with + With the opening of a new welfare cen- the Minneapolis Junior, Maplewood, Oak + Young people from Virginia, the Dis- ter at Burlington, the Michigan Confer- Park, and Sheyenne River academies par- trict of Columbia, and Maryland recently ence now has 46 centers, along with 120 ticipating. The festival band was made attended a youth congress at Richmond, health and welfare service units. Lewis up of 15 students from each academy, Virginia. Fenton E. Froom, president of Jenkins, the Burlington Village president, except Sheyenne River. Its entire band of the Potomac Conference, and Matthew cut the ribbon at the official opening, 40 was asked to participate. Dan Schultz

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from Union College was guest conductor sent 70 boxes of clothing to the New York and soloist. warehouse. + Mrs. Georgia Brockelsby was recently + Letters have been received from the baptized at Harlan, Iowa, as a result of an State Welfare Department commending Ingathering contact made by Mrs. Pauline the work of the Pierre, South Dakota, Kepford and Mrs. Ethel Shultz in Manilla, Dorcas Society in aiding disaster victims. Iowa. PUC Youth Hold "Protest" Recently a telephone call came from a for American Cancer Society + More than 700 garments and 118 pairs young man requesting a Bible and the Bible course lessons. It was learned that of shoes were sent to the welfare center Nearly 1,000 students and faculty of in Portland, Tennessee, by members of he had been burned out and the Pierre Pacific Union College participated in an church had helped. Now the young man the Knoxville, Iowa, church. This is the unusual "protest march" April 10. They and his mother are studying the Bible les- third time that Knoxville has responded paraded—complete with placards and sons together. to the needs of the southern hill country banners—over a nine-mile route from people of Tennessee. Knoxville has also L. H. NETFEBURG, Correspondent the Angwin campus on Howell Moun- tain down to the St. Helena city park. Purpose of the demonstration was to draw community attention to the annual fund-raising drive of the American Cancer Society due to begin that week in Napa County, and to warn the public that cig- arette smoking is the largest single cause of lung cancer. Both the march and the rally were sponsored by the Students' As- sociation under the direction of president Leland Yialelis. March coordinator was Herb Powell. The Associated Press and United Press International both filed stories; four tele- vision stations, in Oakland, San Francisco, and Sacramento, sent field film crews to cover the event. Two other San Francisco stations covered the arrival of rally speaker Emerson Foote at San Francisco's International Airport. Mr. Foote, a New York advertising executive who was flown to the West Coast by the American Cancer Society especially for this rally, is a cofounder of the Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency which handled the account of the American Tobacco Company in the 1940's. Later he became board chairman and president of McCann-Erickson, Inc., world's second largest advertising firm. By 1964 he had become convinced that the evidence against cigarettes as a killer was overwhelming; and since McCann- Erickson would not drop tobacco ac- counts, he quit the organization. The day after his departure he was made chairman of the National Inter- agency Council on Smoking and Health; and shortly thereafter President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him to member- ship on the President's Commission on Portland Adventist Hospital Opens Audio-Visual Center Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke. In addition to widespread television Portland Adventist Hospital in Oregon has just completed a new $30,000 audio-video coverage of the event in the San Francisco center. Bay area and Sacramento capital area, the The complex, directed by William R. Hunker, a 1967 graduate of Pacific Union protest march and rally were included in College, will be used for education, communication, chaplain programs, and public the morning NBC "Today" show and on relations. Mr. Hunker is assisted by Ron Robinson, also a graduate of PUC. the "CBS Evening News With Walter The center's 1,300 square-foot area is equipped with two black-and-white vidicon Cronkite." cameras, an Ampex video tape recorder, and three audio tape decks. The 13-channel ROGER W. COON audio-mixer control console can be used with two turntables, the video tape recorder, Director of College Relations the tape decks, and eight studio microphones. The mixer allows the program director to combine signals front any or all of this equipment in composing a program. At present 25 television sets are operational at nursing stations, in offices, and in + President James E. Chase, of the North- classrooms to broadcast education programs, nursing communiqués, and various in- ern California Conference, has formed a service subjects that help Portland Adventist Hospital provide better medical service special President's Youth Committee to to the community. The audio-video department will also tape, produce, and exchange discuss youth problems. Members include educational material with other education services. representatives from each academy in the The use of this kind of equipment, making programs and trading programs with conference, from Pacific Union College, other hospitals, medical schools, and education centers is part of Portland Adventist and from young marrieds of the church. Hospital's continuing program to provide the finest medical care in the Northwest. Conference MV workers joined the group J. 0. EMMERSON at the first meeting February 22, when Administrator the church's camping program, a scholar-

22 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 ship program for youth missionary work, choice from the Betty Crocker Search for motes the 1969 missionary book of the and the importance of the Spirit of Proph- the American Homemaker of Tomorrow year by Robert H. Pierson, and were ecy were considered. competition in Hawaii. given several SPA publications. + Eleven Indian students have been bap- RUTH WRIGHT, Correspondent + Winners of the annual student ama- tized thus far in 1969 at the Adventist teur hour at Southern Missionary College Indian Mission School in Holbrook, Ari- were Karen Pomfrey and Danny Stevens, zona. both from the Carolina Conference. + H. Eugene Miller, pastor of the Provo, + Pathfinders from the Atlanta, Georgia, Utah, church, was the initial guest on the Belvedere church put words into action KIXX radio Open Line series that began one recent Sunday when they showed up March 30. The unrehearsed program in- unexpectedly at the home of Elder and cluded answers to callers' questions on + The W. J. Blake Memorial Center at Mrs. Don Aalborg to clean the yard and philosophical differences between Sev- Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama, paint fences. Elder Aalborg, MV secretary enth-day Adventists and Mormons, on was dedicated March 16. Frank W. Hale, of the Georgia-Cumberland Conference, Sabbath observance, and on temperance Jr., president of the 73-year-old college, is still on crutches from an injury. work. led in the dedication ceremonies. The new + The Charlotte, North Carolina, Berean + A weekly Story Hour for neighborhood center houses facilities for student activi- church recently purchased a new welfare children is held at the home of Mrs. ties, food services, and administrative of- van. Seven other churches in the South Ted Hansen, member of the Reno, Ne- fices. It was named in honor of the presi- Atlantic Conference have also received vada, church. dent of the institution from 1905 to 1912. $1,000 each from the conference for the + The Heralds of Jesus, on KGST radio, + The 1969 Southern Union Music Festi- purchase of a welfare van. is the new evangelistic endeavor of the val convened on the campus of Mount + The Southern Chapter of the National Fresno, California, Spanish church. Elder Pisgah Academy, Candler, North Carolina, Association of Seventh-day Adventist J. 0. Basaez is the speaker, and music is April 4 and 5. The festival was arranged Dentists had its annual meeting and din- provided by the church choir for the 15- by Vernon Becker, union secretary of edu- ner in Atlanta, March 23. Officers for 1968- minute Sunday broadcast. cation, and Lane Schmidt, music instruc- 1969 include Dr. Lyndon Harder, Dalton, + Joanne Sakai, a senior at Hawaiian Mis- tor at Mount Pisgah Academy, assisted by Georgia; Dr. Fred Holweger, Chatsworth, sion Academy, won second place and a music personnel from ten other academies Georgia; Dr. Kenneth Wynn, Spartan- $500 scholarship to the school of her in the union. Professional guest clinicians burg, South Carolina; Dr. Don Culp, directed the 200 young musicians in var- Charlotte, North Carolina; Dr. Ronald ious performances. R. R. Bietz, of the Gadbois, Atlanta, Georgia; and Dr. Rob-

MYRON WIDMER General Conference, spoke at the worship ert Buckner, Decatur, Georgia. hour. + Ronald Halvorsen, conference evan- + Forty elementary and high school teach- gelist for Carolina, and Dave Wagner ers from the Nashville, Tennessee, Metro completed a series of meetings in Greens- school system visited the Southern Pub- boro, North Carolina, with a baptism of lishing Association to participate in the 15 persons. annual Chamber of Commerce Business + More than 500 persons from five South Education Day—a cooperative effort of Atlantic churches attended the annual the city's business and professional organi- Church School Rally Day, April 12, at zations to acquaint teachers with the basic Charlotte, North Carolina. Speakers were concept of the American free-enterprise M. E. Northrop, superintendent of educa- system. The group toured the plant, tion of the Carolina Conference; Mrs. which pro- viewed the film This Is Man, Ruth Green, dean of women at Winston- Salem State Teachers' College; and S. E. Left: Emerson Foote, advertising execu- Gooden, educational and youth activity tive of New York, addresses the student secretary of the South Atlantic Confer- "protest" rally. Below: PUC students show ence. Churches participating were Greens- what the nine-mile march was all about. boro, High Point, Wilmington, Winston- The story begins on the opposite page. Salem, and Charlotte. OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent

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+ Groundbreaking services for the Sal- lisaw, Oklahoma, Health and Welfare Center were held March 10. + Mrs. Daryl Dalton, health and welfare leader for the Tulsa, Oklahoma, church, recently received a certificate of apprecia- tion from the Tulsa Red Cross chapter for help given during times of disaster. + Evangelistic meetings in Ardmore, Oklahoma, have resulted in 22 baptisms. Workers included in this campaign were Robert Dale, evangelist; G. W. Wallace, pastor; and Dan Neergaard, assistant pas- tor. J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent anNYA ROSA "PRESS-DEMOCRAT, " 1969 CATHERINE LERNER, PHOTOC4HAYHER REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969 23 GENERAL NEWS

Michigan D. A. Leigh, secretary-treasurer (South 1969 CAMP MEETING Grand Ledge Academy, Grand Ledge July 3-12 Upper Peninsula June 13-15 England), formerly treasurer, British Ad- SCHEDULE Wisconsin vent Missions Ltd. SDA Campground, Portage August 14-23 R. M. A. Smart, president, Irish Mis- Atlantic Union North Pacific Union sion, formerly departmental secretary. Greater New York Idaho English, Camp Berkshire, Wingdale June 26-July 5 Gem State Academy, Caldwell June 12-21 Donald Halenz, academic dean, Moun- Spanish, Camp Berkshire, Wingdale July 6-12 Montana tain View College, Philippines, formerly New York Mount Ellis Academy, Bozeman June 19-28 Union Springs Academy June 26-July 5 Oregon head, chemistry department, Philippine Northeastern SDA Campground, Gladstone June 26-July 5 Union College. Camp Victory Lake, Hyde Park June 26-July 5 Upper Columbia Northern New England Walla Walla College, College Place June 5-14 Rebecca Gucilatar, director, school of Pine Tree Academy, Freeport, Washington Maine June 26-July 5 Auburn Academy, Auburn June 26-July 5 practical nursing, Andrews Memorial Hos- Southern New England pital, Jamaica, formerly acting dean of South Lancaster, Massachusetts June 26-July 5 Bermuda Mission June 12-15 Northern Union residence, school of nursing, Philippine Iowa Union College. Canadian Union Oak Park Academy, Nevada June 6-14 Alberta Minnesota J. D. Umbiga, teacher, Kabiufa Col- Canadian Union College, Lacombe July 11-19 Maplewood Academy, Hutchinson June 20-28 lege, (Coral Sea Union Mission), from Peace River July 24-27 North Dakota Beauvallon July 24-27 Sheyenne River Academy, Harvey June 13-21 Philippine Union College. British Columbia South Dakota SDA Campground, Hope, State Fairgrounds, Huron June 6-14 P. P. Nebres, Jr., treasurer, Philippine British Columbia July 18-26 Union College, formerly treasurer, Moun- Manitoba-Saskatchewan Pacific Union SDA Campground, Saskatoon July 4-12 Arizona tain View College, Philippines. SDA Campground, Clear Lake, Manitoba July 16-19 Prescott August 7-16 Roger Heald, M.D., staff physician-in- Maritime Central California Pugwash, Nova Scotia August 1-9 Soquel June 19-28 ternist, Manila Sanitarium and Hospital, Newfoundland Mission Hawaii from Youngberg Memorial Hospital, Sin- St. John's August 8-10 Honolulu August 22, 23 Ontario-Quebec Kauai August 29, 30 gapore. Oshawa, Ontario June 27-July 5 Hawaii September 5, 6 Maui September 12, 13 Remedios Albaciete, secretary, public Central Union Molokai September 19, 20 relations and MV departments (North Central States Nevada-Utah Camp Shady Hill, Edwardsville, Kansas June 12-21 Provo, Utah June 30-July 5 Philippine Union), from Negros Mission, Colorado Northern California Philippines. Campion Academy, Loveland June 20-28 Paradise June 25-28 Kansas Sacramento June18-21 Vernon Butler, M.D., staff physician, Enterprise Academy, Enterprise June 3-7 Philo June 18-21 Okinawa Medical Center, formerly med- Missouri Fortuna July 29-August 2 Sunnydale Academy, Centralia June 13-21 Lodi June 27, 28 ical director, Pusan Adventist Hospital, Nebraska Southern California September 20 Platte Valley Academy, Shelton June 10-16 Korea. Wyoming Mills Spring Camp, Casper August 12-17 Southern Union Osaku Inada, pastor for Japanese- Alabama-Mississippi speaking Taiwanese (South China Island Columbia Union Bass Memorial Academy, Allegheny East Lumberton, Mississippi May 30-June 7 Union), formerly pastor-evangelist (Japan Pine Forge Academy, Pine Forge, Carolina Union). Pennsylvania June 19-29 Mount Pisgah Academy, Allegheny West Candler, North Carolina June 6-14 Yang Chung Pei, business manager, Mount Vernon Academy, Florida Taiwan Missionary College, from South- Mt. Vernon, Ohio June 29-July 5 Forest Lake Academy, Maitland June 6-14 Chesapeake Georgia-Cumberland east Asia Union Mission, Singapore. Catonsville, Maryland July 10-19 Southern Missionary College, New Jersey Collegedale, Tennessee June 4-8 (Conference names appear in parentheses.) Garden State Academy, Tranquility June 27-July 6 Kentucky-Tennessee Ohio Highland Academy, Portland, Tennessee June 6-14 Mount Vernon Academy, Mt. Vernon June 20-28 South Atlantic Pennsylvania Hawthorne, Florida June 12-21 From Home Base to Front Line Blue Mountain Academy, Hamburg June 27, 28 South Central Pittsburgh June 20, 21 Oakwood College, Huntsville, Alabama June 12-21 Potomac North American Division Shenandoah Valley Academy, Southwestern Union New Market, Virginia June 12-21 Arkansas-Louisiana West Virginia Correction: In the March 6 issue, page Baton Rouge, Louisiana June 5-7 Parkersburg June 13-21 Ozark Academy, Gentry, Arkansas June 11-14 23, Edward W. Higgins, Jr., was listed as Oklahoma Lake Union Oklahoma City July 11-19 president of Indonesia Union College. Illinois Southwest Region We are informed that George Fisher is Broadview Academy, La Fox June 12-21 Jarvis College, Hawkins, Texas May 31-June 7 president of Indonesia Union College. Little Grassy Lake August 6-9 Texas Indiana Keene June 6-14 Elder Higgins is president of Mount Kla- Indiana Academy. Cicero June 13-21 Texico bat College, Menado, Celebes, East Indo- Lake Region Sandia View Academy, Cassopolis, Michigan June 26-July 5 Sandoval, New Mexico June 13-21 nesia. Carrie Josephine A. Robbins, M.D., nee Carrie Anderson (attended PUC '25- '26; LLU School of Medicine '33), to be ble House (Minnesota), formerly assistant relief physician, Karachi Hospital, West manager, Central Branch of Pacific Press, Pakistan, of Menard, Texas, left Washing- at Omaha, Nebraska. ton, D.C.„April 1. I. R. Kinnersley, pastor, Edgware and W. R. 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vision, the China Division, and the South- OF lAbarenc ern Asia Division. If a person were asked to summarize Anttriec cu&ct "Extraordinary People" (page 4) in one sentence, that sentence could well read: "If you don't plan to be a Christian, then M t4 celeahty . don't say that you are one." The following news items are taken from Religious Author Thomas A. Davis is editor at the News Service, and do not necessarily express the Oriental Watchman Publishing House in viewpoint of the REVIEW editors. R. S. Watts this week continues his Poona, India. And he has previously three-part series, "Last Day Events," under served in editorial capacities in this PRAYER, BIBLE READING ADOPTED the title "The Dragon Mobilizes" (page house and in the Philippine Publishing 7). CLAIRTON, PA.—This city's 3,200 public House. Elder Watts, who is one of the general school students reportedly have expressed His scope of interests alone might qual- themselves as being "almost unanimously" vice-presidents of the General Conference, ify him as an extraordinary person. He has served the church in a variety of in favor of a new "course" that has been has been a pastor and singing evangelist added to the curriculum. capacities since he entered the work as a (he was ordained in Ontario, Canada, in singing evangelist in the Chicago Confer- The course is called "Bible reading and 1956), has composed music accepted by prayer," and it was returned to classrooms in ence in 1925. And the variety has been Rodeheaver, has served in the medical defiance of the five-year-old ban by the U.S. not only in the jobs but in the places service of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Supreme Court. where he has served. He has worked in has written and published three books, Clairton's nine-member school board three divisions—North American, Far and states that he has special interest in ordered revival of the Bible reading and Eastern, and South African. practical Christian living, soteriology, and prayer ceremonies. In 1933 he was ordained to the min- current events related to prophecy. In Clairton, high school principal Neil istry in Seoul, Korea, and in 1942 he com- Doris IIaussler remembers her mother C. Brown said that "the whole thing started pleted his Bachelor of Arts degree at Pa- this week in "Mother's Merry Heart" with the students." He reported that students cific Union College and continued briefly (page 13). Mrs. Haussler, who is now a in Problems of Democracy classes "have been in some graduate work. housewife, served the church for almost advocating Bible reading and prayer for some His work now is, of course, on a world 20 years as a school music teacher. time." scale. He acts in an advisory capacity to She is the sister of Mrs. R. R. Figuhr, the General Conference Lay Activities and wife of the retired GC president, and SPIRITUAL RENEWAL URGED Temperance departments and the Bureau C. A. Holt, who was at one time associate NEW YORK—Neither prayer recitation of Public Relations. He is, moreover, a editor of the REVIEW. Her husband, J. C. in public school nor "pious amendments" general liaison officer between the presi- Haussler, is a professor of religion on the added to the U.S. Constitution can provide dent of the General Conference and the La Sierra campus of Loma Linda Univer- the answers to the great call for spiritual work of the church in the Far Eastern Di- sity. renewal being voiced in the nation, Sen. Mark Hatfield (R.-Ore.) said here. He spoke at a luncheon marking the ninetieth anniversary of Christian Herald IFt4e-ve-1e-wsT and lEltvaLle111.. magazine, a nondenominational monthly publication. In 1849 a company of Sabbathkeeping Adventists began to publish a paper called The Present Truth. In 1850 Senator Hatfield used the widespread dis- they also published five issues of The Advent Review. Later that year, in November, these two papers merged cussion of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings under the name Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, now titled simply REVIEW AND HERALD. Its editorial objective remains unchanged—to preach "the everlasting gospel" in the context of the Sabbath, the Second on prayer in schools as an example of a Advent, and other truths distinctive of the Advent Movement. topic requiring clear presentation in reli- gious magazines. Senator Hatfield com- EDITOR: KENNETH H. WOOD mended Christian Herald for "looking with Associate Editors: DON F. NEUFELD daring faith at truth." F. DONALD YOST Commenting on the mass media in gen- eral, he told the luncheon audience that a Consulting Editors: ROBERT H. PIERSON, REINHOLD R. 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Departmental Changes Made Elder Dale, ministerial secretary of the projects were begun, resulting in the high- Oklahoma Conference, formerly served est attainments yet, 40,498 baptisms. in Washington Conference in that capacity in Indiana. He replaces Our MV leaders believe that participa- The 386 delegates to the Washington Robert S. Joyce, who died April 10. tion in soul winning is a major answer to Conference session at Auburn Academy, All the other officers and departmental the problems of today's youth, that noth- April 27, heard reports that their varied secretaries were re-elected to their offices. ing else will give the youth the lasting joy missionary activities during 1967 and The conference committee was expanded and pleasure for which they continually 1968 had resulted in 849 baptisms. This to 11 members, increasing the representa- long. LAWRENCE NELSON is an increase of 150 over the preceding tion from the field. two-year period. The reports presented showed gains in Conference membership is nearly 9,000. every area. The conference finances are PR Seminar Well Attended The delegates re-elected W. L. Murrill in excellent condition. Three new as president and B. L. Cook as secretary- churches were accepted into conference at Mountain View College treasurer. The departmental responsibili- fellowship. D. W. HUNTER More than 100 attended a week-long ties will be: Winston DeHaven, educa- public relations seminar at Mountain tion and public relations; Gordon Harris, View College, South Philippines, reports Book and Bible House; E. C. Beck, lay Colorado Reports Gains E. Wilmore Tarr. activities, ministerial, radio-TV; W. A. in Sabbath School Work The General Conference PR Bureau Scriven, Sabbath school, religious liberty, chief says that many more would have industrial relations; Don Blehm, MV and Colorado members are using a Neigh- attended if the seminar had been designed NSO; L. E. Hubbs, temperance, health; borhood Bible Club plan (branch Sabbath for a larger enrollment. Interest held Peter Tadej, publishing; and R. E. Parks, school for children) as a follow-up of Va- throughout the week, he adds, with the stewardship. cation Bible School interests. number present increasing in spite of at- Concluding the day's activities, E. R. Writes C. V. Brauer, Sabbath school tendance restrictions. Walde, union president, made an earnest secretary of the conference: Workshops and seminars have also been appeal, asking all delegates to support the "We have several clubs that are going held at Japan Union College; Seoul, United Evangelistic Thrust program of strong. They are a follow-up of the large Korea; Taichung, Taiwan; and Philippine the conference. number of Vacation Bible Schools held Union College. R. R. BIETZ this past summer. M. CAROL HETZELL "We have had a good gain in Sabbath school Investment. We are hoping to Publishing Secretary Chosen reach the $6 per capita for this confer- Far Eastern Division Holds for Southern Asia Division ence. Our regular Sabbath school offerings Medical-Surgical Conference are up too. In addition we have 50 en- J. M. Curnow has been elected publish- rolled in the Home Study correspondence The Far Eastern Division department of ing secretary of the Southern Asia Divi- course 'Teaching in the Sabbath School.' " health, in cooperation with the U.S. mili- sion. He has been principal of Lowry G. R. NASH tary, conducted a medical-surgical confer- Memorial Higher Secondary School, ence March 27-30 in Saigon, Vietnam. Bangalore, India. Thirty-one physicians and administra- Elder Curnow is replacing J. A. Soule, First ASI Chapter Formed tors, representing 17 of the church's 52 who, after having given more than 18 medical facilities in the Far Eastern Divi- years of service in the publishing work in Northern California sion, attended this four-day conference. of the Southern Asia Division, is return- A new venture was undertaken April 19 Dr. Jess Holm, medical director of the ing home for the purpose of educating the in the establishment of a local chapter Saigon Adventist Hospital, reports that a children. for the Association of Self-Supporting In- series of lectures was presented by military D. A. McAnAms stitutions at Sacramento, California. officers, all specialists in their fields, deal- In this northern California area are ing with a wide variety of medical and many health-care institutions. For some surgical topics. Inter-America's Laymen Win time the leaders of these facilities have The cooperation of the military authori- Two Thirds of New Members been interested in organizing to foster ties stationed in Vietnam in conducting their professional and spiritual interests. this conference results from the church's "Inter-America will apparently achieve Aiding the organization of this new interest and concern for the sick, the its highest record ever in baptisms, going ASI chapter were Dave L. Olsen, of the wounded, and the homeless of that land. well over the 1967 mark and reaching Pacific Union, J. B. Church, of the North- RALPH F. WADDELL 24,000," writes A. H. Riffel, lay activities ern California Conference, and Canis H. secretary of the division, commenting on Lauda, of the General Conference. This the work of 1968. first local chapter may pave the way for President of Burma Union "Laymen have contributed much to other such chapters throughout the North Visits Central Region these baptisms, helping to win two out of American Division. every three new members. The Mexican CARIS H. LAUDA K. Paw, president of the Burma Union, Union for the first time will go far over recently traveled with his wife visiting its 3,750 baptismal objective and is now churches and a number of our former laying plans for greater evangelistic results Rangoon Sanitarium workers in central this year." MV TARGET Baptisms Reach Burma. Lay congresses are being planned for the Nearly 100,000 in 30 Months He reports that the organization of the month of May to give further impetus to work for the future is laid well. Members Adventist youth have taken as their lay evangelism in this division. especially expressed their determination to MV TARGET four-year goal the winning J. E. EDWARDS be loyal and liberal in bringing their of 100,000 converts for baptism between mid-1966 and mid-1970. tithes and offerings to the Lord's treasury. Worldwide reports just gathered reveal W. P. BRADLEY Indiana Constituency Meets; that at the close of 1968 our young people New President Is Elected had been instrumental in 93,373 baptisms IN BRIEF in the past two and one-half years. The Indiana Conference constituency The soul-winning pace is not slackening, + Death: P. H. Hermann, for many years in session April 27 elected Robert L. Dale, but rather each year there is a steady in- a departmental secretary and conference of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as president crease of both participation and results. president in Romania, April 16, at Loma of the conference. During 1968, 122,246 youth evangelistic Linda, California. 32 REVIEW AND HERALD, May 8, 1969