Adventist Review General Paper of the Seventh-day Adventist Church May 23, 1985

H.M.S. Richards Page 2 Modern Bible versions Page 8 The woman who wouldn't give up Page 12

Cover: Due to be launched this summer Project Canvasback is "one of the most exciting projects in Oregon today," says Senator Mark Hatfield. What can God do with two people, a boat, and a dream? See page 5. FROM THE EDITORS

teners. And his life testified to his H.M.S. own deep convictions, his firm In the shadow confidence in the Lord and His Richards leading of the church. of Jesus' home In the spring of 1982 he made a More than 30 years ago I sat in a last visit to Washington, D.C. At The city of Nazareth, Israel, rises large auditorium and heard a tall, age 87 he preached in Sligo church from the long, flat Plain of Jezreel lean preacher with a deep voice for Columbia Union College's like the swell of a mighty ocean. expound the Word. I can recall homecoming celebration. The fol- From its hilltop site the old cities of exceedingly few public addresses lowing morning I met him for an Nain and Shunem come into view. from that era when I was still in my interview for the ADVENTIST Cana lies just a few miles away on teens, but I remember well the REVIEW. I had requested an hour; the northern slope on the road to the sermon of that day in Adelaide, he gave me the whole morning. We Sea of Galilee. The Mediterranean South Australia—"Our Unsparing met in the student center of the Sea glistens in the west. God," based on Romans 8:32. The college, and students gathered Nazareth and its surroundings preacher was Harold Marshall Syl- conjure up many a Biblical story— vester Richards. the widow of Nain, the Shunam- With the death of H.M.S. H.M.S. Richards mite widow, Jesus' first miracle, Richards on April 24, "a prince and and of course Jesus' boyhood a great man [has] fallen . . . in was probably home. Here, in old Nazareth, the Israel" (2 Sam. 3:38). He was a the best-known Seventh-day Adventist Church prince of preachers—simple, clear, Seventh-day began a new venture two years ago. authoritative, warm, and Biblical. The church opened a health-educa- Yes, Biblical—above all else, Bib- Adventist. tion center and language school in a lical. Elder Richards' life was Certainly he was third-floor flat above the main immersed in the Scriptures, and his street. It is but a few steps away sermons became an outflowing of the most loved. from the traditional site of Jesus' the Word, the Word confronting boyhood home and His father's carpentry shop. And it is just south men and women today, the Word around to listen and laugh at his of the traditional cliff over which uplifting Christ, the Word bringing stories and catch his enthusiasm for the townspeople of Biblical years hope and healing and faith in these the Lord and for the church. tried to throw Jesus. last days. Elder Richards was probably the Years later I would meet him in best-known Seventh-day Adventist. As my wife and I recently visited person when he came with the Certainly he was the most-loved the Nazareth Center we heard first- hand from the workers there of the King's Heralds to Spicer College in Adventist. Graham Maxwell challenges of beginning a new ven- India. After a midweek evening summed up the feelings of us all in ture in a melting pot of cultures and sermon we would stand chatting his tribute at the service on April outside the auditorium in the warm, 27: "He made us feel proud to be religions—Jewish, Moslem, and blossom-scented air. Later again, Seventh-day Adventists." Christian. Two Adventist families and an much closer now, in 1980, we Apart from his preaching, I overseas student volunteer pres- would exchange ideas as we waited remember H.M.S. Richards best as ently operate the center and offer a to go on the platform for his a man without pretense. What you variety of health and English-lan- Sabbath morning sermon at the saw was what he was. And what a guage classes. The center's two Minnesota camp meeting. power for the Lord and to multi- offices adjoin a large, open room His mind was alert, informed by tudes that was! W. G. J. recent reading. He wanted to share that could probably hold up to 150 information he had recently found. people. "Have faith in God," he Francis Saliba, an ordained Arab encouraged millions of radio lis- minister who speaks fluent Arabic, To page 14

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EDITORIALS Adventist Review H.M.S. Richards William G. Johnsson 2 ••••...hic._" "Olt The editor remembers a great and well-loved Adventist. • In the Shadow of Jesus' Home Myron K. Widmer 2 %AP, The town is old, but the venture is new. Here's what Adventists are doing in Nazareth today, including the challenges and struggles. Published continuously since 1849, the Adventist Review seeks to exalt Jesus Christ, our Saviour, Lord of the Sabbath, and coming King. It aims to inspire and inform as it presents the beliefs and news of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist ADVENTIST PEOPLE Church. "After We Jumped Off the Edge Bonnie L. Paddock 5 EDITOR of the Earth" William G. Johnsson Jamie and Jacque Spence aren't the first people God has impressed to ASSOCIATE EDITOR build a boat. But their plans for the 71-foot catamaran Canvasback are Myron K. Widmer unique and exciting. MANAGING EDITOR Jocelyn R. Fay ASSISTANT EDITORS HISTORY James N. Coffin, Eugene F. Durand, Deborah Anfenson-Vance Can We Trust the Modern A. Graham Maxwell 8 ADMINISTRATIVE SECRETARY Bible Versions? Corinne Russ What do crocodiles have to do with the proliferation of Modern EDITORIAL SECRETARIES English Bibles? A lot more than most people think. Chitra Bamabas, Jeanne James ART Byron Steele, G. W. Busch SINGLE LIFE CONSULTING EDITORS The Woman Who Wouldn't Give Up Gary C. Jenkins 12 Neal C. Wilson, Charles E. Bradford, L. L. Bock, L. L. Almira Steele's life did not end when her husband died. What she did Butler, Charles B. Hirsch, George W. Reid, Alf Lohne, Kenneth J. Mittleider, Enoch Oliveira, G. Ralph Thompson, for the orphans of Chattanooga should make us all proud. Francis W. Wemick SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS Kenneth H. Wood, Robert H. Pierson, George W. Brown, WORLDVIEW G. J. Christo, W. T. Clark, Bekele Heye, R. J. Kloosterhuis, Edwin Ludescher, Jan Paulsen, W.R.L. Scragg, Joao Wolff Battle Creek Hospital Becomes Mental Health Facility 15 SOUTHWESTERN UNION EDITION Offering to Go for North American Missions 16 Editor, Richard W. Bendall Adventist Student Honored by Congress 16 AFRICA-INDIAN OCEAN EDITIONS Editor, James B. Kio; managing editor, James Fly Italy: AWR-Europe Station on the Air 17 INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION Martinique: Two Nutrition Workshops Held 17 Editor, Wanda Sample SOUTH AMERICAN EDITIONS Editor, R. S. Lessa, Portuguese; acting editor, Rubem M. DEPARTMENTS Scheffel, Portuguese; editor, Rolando Itin, Spanish From Our Readers 4 Children's Corner 18 CIRCULATION Robert S. Smith, L. Rhea Harvey Countdown to the 17 News Notes 19 HOW TO SUBSCRIBE GC Session Bulletin Board 22 Subscription prices: $34.95 one year, $16.95 six months, Review and Comment 18 The Back Page 23 $8.95 three months To place your order, send your name, address, and money to the local Adventist Book Center or the Review and Herald Publishing Association, 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagers- town, Maryland 21740. TO WRITERS We welcome unsolicited manuscripts for the different sections of the Adventist Review. It is advisable to send a preliminary outline and purpose of your article before writing COMING NEXT WEEK: the article or submitting it to us. Notification of acceptance or rejection may be expected only if accompanied by a stamped, ■ "A Testament of Love, Duty, and Faith" self-addressed envelope. Address all editorial correspon- by James H. Melancon. A New Testament scholar dence to 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. considers Paul's last words to Timothy. ■ INDEX "Making Home, Making Church," by An index is published in the last Review of June and Madeline Steele Johnston. Homemaking—it's not December. The Adventist Review is indexed in the Seventh- day Adventist Periodical Index. just for mothers anymore. ■ "Of Such Is the Kingdom," by Rona The Adventist Review (ISSN 0161-1119) is published every Thursday. Copyright © 1985 Review and Herald Catherine Swaine. Why a good, Seventh-day Publishing Association, 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagers- Adventist schoolteacher wore a gaudy necklace to town, Maryland 21740. Second-class postage paid at Hagerstown, Maryland. Postmaster, send address changes to church one Sabbath. And why the church members Adventist Review, 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagerstown, didn't mind. Maryland 21740. Single copy, 90 cents U.S. currency. ► Prices subject to change without notice. Art and photo credits: P. 3, David Sherwin; p. 6, Elwyn Platner; p. 7, photo, Rick Gustaysen; line drawing, Pitonzio; p. 16, Finnegan & Vol. 162, No. 21 Associates. Other photos courtesy of respective authors.

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want you to rejoice with us. sleepy from a late nap, insisted A pioneer for the 80s Because of your literature and on writing her own. She dic- prayers, combined with what tated her messages, which I The Leonard Bailey inter- money. She hastened to assure members of the church have wrote and she copied. But when views (March 21, 28) were most me that she knew it was around done, God has added 54 new she saw how long her message interesting reading. $25 and that she had $60 from members to the Thornpark to her oldest brother was in Surely the Baby Fae experi- her Christmas Club. When I church during 1984. writing, she decided to draw the ence must have moved Loma corrected her and told her it was Once more, beloved of God, Linda's image several vertebrae around $30 she said, "That's all we say, "Thank you very much up the spinal column toward right. We should be getting it, and keep loving." A. B. PHIRI where it belongs (Deut. 28:13)! and I want it to come to our Lusaka, Zambia R. W. HOPPER house. Daddy likes the old ones Rushville, Missouri he gets from Nana, and I like the Student scholarships stories, too." What have we learned from Thank you for the editorial I got the coupon and discov- this awesome experience? It ("Giving Dignity to Labor," ered we could get the REVIEW was Luke, capable physician of Jan. 17) regarding recognition for a special price, plus the his day and a Gospel writer, of good work performed by cookbook you then were offer- who quoted Jesus to illustrate a students. Prompted by this edi- ing new subscribers. My niece profound principle. A farmer torial, Walla Walla College and had to do some careful shopping cannot look back if he wants to its industries this year awarded for the rest of her gifts, but I felt plow a straight furrow across his ten students with scholarships the angels of heaven took care- field. His eye must hold fast to a of $250 recognizing an out- enclosed picture. (The message ful note of her decision, for it fixed goal. This holds true standing work program. was "I'm sorry I hit you with a thrilled my own heart. whether in the medical realm, or We believe that a good work bat while we were playing base- MARY WOODS while looking to Christ for program is a cornerstone in a ball.") Randolph, New York eternal salvation. Christian education. We hope Beginning Sabbath morning this recognition of a few of our we shared notes and giggles. It It takes dedication to pioneer What are we saying? in any field—especially if it hardworking students will was a special time, but we A father prayerfully watches concerns the most intricate and encourage other students in didn't realize how much it unique of God's creation: the his 4-year-old daughter with their own programs. meant to the children until human body in every stage of leukemia waste and die in his CASSIE RAGENOVICH Thursday morning when they arms. A devout young mother, development. Walla Walla College left to spend spring vacation deserted by her husband, sifts CHARLES A. RENTFRO College Place, Washington with their grandparents. They through her dreams to find only Rail Road Flat, California wanted to take their notes with aching emptiness. Thousands Note writing them. When they returned, and starve. Accidents maim and kill I read with delight Jeanne their first breakfast at home innocents with horrifying regu- James' Children's Corner in the lacked notes, my 8-year-old sat larity. March 28 REVIEW, in which she down, looked around, and Yet, amidst it all, Bic razors described her 11-year-old exclaimed, "Mom, you forgot are miraculously resharpened so daughter's Friday night worship the notes!" churchgoers can avoid financial program. Each family member Doubtless the experience sacrifice and save even more for wrote notes to another family drew us closer together as a investment. (See "From Our member thanking him for kind family, and doubtless we'll do it Readers," April 11.) acts, and so forth. again. Thank you, Kristi, for What are we trying to say We tried her suggestion with sharing family worship with about our God? our children, ages 10, 8, and 4, us. CHARLOTTE ISHKANIAN CHRISTOPHER BLAKE each writing two notes to each Ade1phi, Maryland Grover City, California family member. What we Letters submitted for publication should learned was heartwarming, contribute ideas and comments on articles Thanks for literature or material printed in the ADVENTIST eye-opening, and fun. Along REVIEW. They should be brief, not exceed- Priority gift ing 250 words, and must carry the writer's Words are not enough to with notes of thanks came gen- name, address, and telephone number express our true feelings of tle hints about not putting (although this number will not be printed). In December my niece (just Letters must be legible, preferably typewrit- turned 11) called me and asked gratitude to our brothers and unpicked-up toys in the attic, ten, and doublespaced. All will be edited to meet space and literary requirements, but if I would order the REVIEW for sisters the world over who are and not serving egg sandwiches the author's meaning will not be changed. sending literature to Thornpark at lunch. Views expressed in the letters do not her daddy for Christmas. I was necessarily represent those of the editors or taken aback, thinking, She has church, Zambia. Perhaps the most unique of the denomination. Address letters for this column to Editor, ADVENTIST REVIEW, 6840 no idea what it costs and surely We are not able to write to all notes came from my 4-year-old Eastern Ave., NW., Washington, D.C. doesn't have that kind of of you individually, but we daughter, who, though still 20012. 4 (524) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 ADVENTIST PEOPLE

mother had given me when I was a "After we jum off the teenager and started reading." 9 9 "Jamie and I would talk about who was going to get the Bible each night, edge of the e and we would stay up late reading by the oil lamps," comments Jacque. Jamie and Jacque Spence sailed halfway "I didn't understand much of what I read," Jamie says. "In fact, the Old around the world before they found Testament was asking more questions God. Now they're launching a humanitarian than it answered. But scriptures that dream called Project Canvasback. pointed forward to Jesus were clear to me. One night after rereading the book of Luke, I put down my Bible and said, `Jesus, I don't know who those teachers in India are, but I know who You are, By BONNIE L. PADDOCK and I'm going to follow You.' " "Just before we 'jumped off the edge Uor six years we sailed in our 31-foot one night in a secluded island anchor- of the world,' in Manzanillo, Mexico, trimaran, the Sea Spider—from age, a quiet voice woke me with just to sail across the Pacific Ocean, a friend San Francisco's Golden Gate across the five words: 'It all began in Zion.' I of mine gave me a little Christian South Pacific to Australia's Great Bar- knew that Zion was a Biblical word, so book," says Jacque. "The book said, rier Reef." Jamie Spence steps back to I felt God wanted me to read the Bible. I `God has a perfect plan for everyone's survey the graceful lines of Canvas- dug out the old King James Version my life.' Jamie and I believed those words, back, the 71-foot sailing mission ship being outfitted under his direction, near Astoria, Oregon. "We were earnestly seeking God. There in the ocean wilderness, surrounded by God's hand- iwork, we knew we were in His presence, but we didn't know how to find Him. "Yes," Jamie continues in his quiet Texas drawl, "we were reading every- thing about God that we could get our hands on—Hindu masters, Buddhist monks, Catholic saints . . " Jamie's wife, Jacque, interrupts briefly with her side of the story. "When I was in college, I studied Eastern religion," she says jokingly, referring to her Chinese heritage, "I just thought it came with the set." Her attendance at a Christian girls' school in New York State seemed to have made little impact. Nor had Jamie followed his early training. "All those years I had struggled with a lot of conflicting information," says Jamie. "I was continually praying for God to show me the right path. Then,

Bonnie L. Paddock is communication director for Project Canvasback. The Spences are pictured with Vernon Nye's watercolor conception of Canvasback

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (525) 5 and even though we didn't know who "His workmate soon came out to the And what did Jacque think? "When I God is, we prayed that He would show boat with a big Bible under his arm and returned from New York Jamie sug- us that perfect plan. Soon after, we started talking about Daniel and the gested that we go to prayer meeting." began to develop the basic ideas for Medes and Persians. The next time he When we finally found the church, Canvasback." came he brought his pastor, Max someone was drawing charts on the Mulligan, who turned out to be a blackboard—you know, 1260 years A near-fatal experience Seventh-day Adventist. Max and I and all that—and I thought it was really "Sailing the Pacific and visiting its became inseparable friends." weird. But in our travels we had remote islands changed our lives," Max and his wife, Margaret, were entertained cannibals and witch doc- Jacque continues. "Seeing people who surprised by what they found in the tors, so I was ready for anything. And were so poor and yet so willing to give Spences. "We'd found a couple who'd you know, those people just took us made a deep impression on us. We saw decided to keep Sabbath just by reading into their homes. They fed us, took care tremendous needs, both physical and the Bible," says Max. of us—you could say the Adventist spiritual. We arrived on one island "But it hadn't even occurred to us Church won us through hospitality. three days too late. A little boy had died that Sabbath was Saturday instead of "Eastern religion had seemed to of pneumonia, and they didn't even Sunday," Jamie explains, recalling the answer my questions," says Jacque. have penicillin to help him. We had the Mulligans' reactions. "Max suggested "It talked about peace and harmony. medication aboard our vessel." Bible studies a few times, but I thought But one thing bothered me—the con- "We learned firsthand the problems I could read the Bible for myself. Then cept of reincarnation. Reincarnation faced by isolated people with no access one day he sat me down, opened his says that you have to live a perfect life to medical care," says Jamie, recalling Bible, and announced that we were or be reincarnated. Every day I messed a near-fatal experience. "Jacque began going to have a Bible study." Jamie up meant another reincarnation. hemorrhaging at sea, so we sailed chuckles. I was hooked when Max "Then one day Max told me the plan through a tortuous coral pass to reach an showed me how the symbolism of the of salvation, how all you need to do is island village where, according to my sanctuary related to salvation." accept Jesus Christ as your Saviour. All sailing directions, there was a medical officer. A bushy-haired man in ragged shorts paddled out to the Sea Spider in a dugout canoe, his teeth bright red from chewing betel nut, his feet spattered with red spittle. His recommendation: Right: Canvasbacles hulls were built bot- `You take-em as-po . . . me think you tom side up, then taken outside and call-em as-po-rin.' Of course, that inverted. Below: Canvasback quickly would have made the bleeding worse. attracted the attention of television and radio producers. Here news reporter Wal- "I kept Jacque in her bunk and sailed den Kirsch of KGW television, in Portland, single-handed to Santa Cruz Island, interviews Jamie and Jacque Spence. where we were able to radio for a bush Page 7: Volunteers Ted Wackerle, of Ber- pilot. Then I took Jacque across the rien Springs, Michigan, and Canadian lagoon in the dinghy and led her up a Terry Van Vilet assist in the construction of Canvasback. Inset: Pltonzo's line rainy jungle path to the airstrip. We drawing of the proposed catamaran. heard the little plane circling the island, but clouds concealed the airstrip, so the pilot had to turn back. Inside I was crying. Jacque was pale and weak. But I calmly led her back to the dinghy and rowed her over to the Sea Spider. Three days later the airplane returned and transported Jacque to Honiara, in the Solomon Islands, where she was taken into surgery immediately. An islander in the same situation could not have afforded air service." Shortly after the Spences arrived at Gladstone, Australia, Jacque had to fly back to New York to attend her father's funeral. "While Jacque was gone I spent time with an atheist friend from England," Jamie recalls. "One day he said to me, `I work with a bloke who is a religious fanatic. You should meet him!'

6 (526) ADVENTIST REVIEW. MAY 23, 1985 that Max told me was music to my ears. our drawings, we felt we had been led supportive and helpful," says Jamie. A heavy burden was being lifted from by God. In 1981 the Spences declared their me. I wanted to accept Jesus Christ." "Nevertheless, you don't rush irre- intentions to the world by erecting a Mulligan invited the Spences to an sponsibly into a ministry of this scope large shop—it took 62 volunteers three old-fashioned camp meeting in without thoroughly testing and refining days to complete—near Astoria, Ore- Queensland. "We thought we'd go for the plan. We began a quest for counsel gon. "They were taking on a huge a couple of days," says Jamie. "But in Sydney with Jim Harris, then Aus- project," says Harris. "But when they once we got to the camp meeting and tralasian Division youth director and a had the ship plans and a building, I began learning about Bible prophecy, man with vast experience in youth knew they were on their way." we couldn't pull ourselves away." training and island mission work." "We met a lot of resistance and After traveling through the mission skepticism when we began the proj- Pursuing a dream fields of Asia, observing and learning, ect," says Jacque, "but it came only After camp meeting the Spences the Spences sought advice from the from people who were not knowledge- decided to join the Seventh-day General Conference, where they again able about mission service." Adventist Church. "We were baptized found Harris, who had become an "And," adds Jamie, "most of the together in the Boyne River—where the associate youth director. From the skepticism has died away now that the platypuses swim," says Jacque. "That General Conference the Spences trav- mission ship is being outfitted and was a high day for us." eled to Southwestern Adventist Col- Canvasback Missions, Inc., has grown After their baptism Jamie and Jacque lege, Loma Linda University, Pacific into a nonprofit corporation with a sold the Sea Spider. "For more than a Union College, Walla Walla College, qualified board of directors [including year we had been working out design and finally to the Oregon and North such notable members as United States requirements for an ideal medical and Pacific Union conferences. They Senator Mark Hatfield] and a large youth training ship," Jamie says. received guidance and encouragement voting membership. Many of our mem- "And when we got to Australia and all along the way. "We sought out the bers are physicians and dentists who found an existing design that matched experts, and they were tremendously will volunteer a few weeks each year to staff the island medical clinics. "All of our Canvasback family are skilled volunteers who are stepping out in faith," continues Jamie. "When people prayerfully make that kind of commitment miracles happen. God continues to provide the funds, materi- als, and volunteers just as they are needed. We have come to expect miracles." The goals, according to Walter Anderson, the corporation's board chairman, are twofold. "First, Canvas- back will provide floating medical clinics for the isolated people of Micronesia. Our second goal, Christian youth leadership training, is integrated with the first. "Canvasback will conduct intensive leadership training cruises in the sum- mer. In the winter the best-qualified young people will join the vessel, and sail to the outer tropic atolls. Our volunteer physicians, dentists, and other health-care professionals will also join the vessel to conduct the clinics and supervise the young missionaries in teaching primary health care and the gospel." As Senator Hatfield put it, "Their vision—not only for helping the 'for- gotten peoples' of Micronesia with healing ministry but also for training young people in altruistic concern—is truly one of the most exciting projects in Oregon today." ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (527) 7 Can we trust the modem Bible versions?

By A. GRAHAM MAXWELL

Some books of the Bible have been it was printed in its entirety in the May 22 editions of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Times. translated into more than 1,000 It had been agreed that after a suitable interval the languages. Can they be trusted? American members of the committee would publish an Or have only the English-speaking edition of the same revision, embodying their preferences and certain other minor changes. people been favored with the The American committee continued working for another "true" Bible? 15 years. The English Revised had retained many antiquated words and phrases such as "hough," "strowed," "hol- ore than 350 years have passed since the publication of pen," "pourtray," "sith," "go to now." Some words had M the King James Version. For most of this long period one meaning in England and quite another in America. the 1611 revision has remained the most widely accepted In 1901 the American Standard Version—the fifth version of the English Bible. authorized revision of the English Bible—was placed on the Almost immediately after its publication there were calls market. It won wide acceptance. It was still so highly for further revision. Some changes were made in 1629 and regarded that in 1963 the New Testament was republished in more in 1638. Then in 1653 the Long Parliament considered a conservatively revised form under the title The New a bill authorizing another full-scale revision. American Standard Bible. The Old Testament was added in Had this bill been passed, there would have been a fourth 1971. "authorized" revised version in the seventeenth century, Just as the English and American revised versions were and the King James might never have achieved the wide appearing, a discovery of the greatest importance was being acceptance it has now so long enjoyed. But with the made. Archeologists in Egypt began finding large quantities dissolution of Parliament, the plans to bring the English of ancient papyrus documents. Some of them had even been Bible once more up-to-date came to an end. used as stuffing in mummified crocodiles. Many of them Quiet revision of the King James continued for another dated back to the time of Christ and even earlier. century. The last changes of much consequence were made Most of these manuscripts were private documents—let- at Oxford in 1769 by Dr. Blayney, and this is substantially ters, title deeds, birth and death notices, receipts, wills, the form in which we have the King James Version today. marriage agreements, divorces, with even a letter from a More than 250 years passed before another major revision young schoolboy notifying his father that he had run out of was authorized. This time it developed into a joint money. British-American venture involving about 75 of the best Biblical scholars on both sides of the Atlantic. Because Mother asked The results of 15 years of careful work were published in The language of these documents was not classical Greek, 1885 as the English Revised Version. but the ordinary, everyday speech of the first-century It was a model of precision, even to the point of being Mediterranean world. Scholars had long been uncertain as to overly literal. One critic is said to have inquired, "Who the real nature of New Testament Greek. Now by asked the committee to prepare an interlinear for school- comparison with the language of these papyrus documents, it boys?"—an interlinear being a translation that offers the became evident that the writers of the New Testament used meaning word for word between the lines, a crutch the same koine—common, vernacular Greek. sometimes employed by lazy schoolboys when called upon No wonder the early Christian message spread so swiftly to recite. and with so great power! The records of the life of Christ and The new version was met with great enthusiasm. There the letters of the apostles had been written in language that was, of course, the usual criticism accorded every revision of everyone used and understood. the Scriptures. But the English Revised sold immediately by The impact of this discovery was felt at once. the millions. If the early Christians could read Paul and John in the In fact, so keen was the anticipation for the long-awaited common speech of their day, why should not modern version that when the New Testament was completed in 1881 Christians have the same enlightening opportunity? If the boys and girls in Rome and Corinth could hear the A. Graham Maxwell is professor in the Division of Religion, Gospels read to them in language they could follow and Department of Biblical Studies, Loma Linda University, enjoy, what about boys and girls in London and New York California. This material has been slightly adapted from the today? booklet You Can Trust the Bible, by A. Graham Maxwell. The implications were unavoidable. And since that Copyright © 1967 by Pacific Press Publishing Association. discovery there has flowed a steady stream of so-called Used by permission. modern-speech translations of the Bible.

8 (528) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 A mother asked if the New Testament could be translated texts as Isaiah 7:14, there burst over the heads of the into language her children could understand. Twenty translators a flood of the most vitriolic criticism since the scholars worked anonymously—and without pay—to pro- days of Cochlaeus. duce such a version. Between 1898 and 1904 it was The revisers were accused of being communists, atheists, published as The Twentieth Century New Testament—a modernists, agnostics, and even "semi-Jesuits." Their translation that I still find stimulating to read. version was denounced in innumerable pamphlets bearing In 1903 Weymouth put out the first edition of his superb such titles as "That Blasphemous Version," and "Satan's and widely known New Testament. Subtle, Subversive Masterpiece. The Most Dangerous Book of the Twentieth Century." "That Blasphemous Version" As it was no longer permitted to burn the translators, the Moffatt followed in 1913 with his strikingly different critics burned the translation. I have a newspaper picture of translation of the New Testament. In 1924 he added a the R.S.V. being put to the torch at an Ohio church meeting. modern-speech translation of the Old Testament. No one else A Florida clipping tells of its being publicly dunked into a has produced a great translation of the entire Hebrew and bucket of boiling water and lye. Greek Bible on his own. Luther's Bible suffered similar indignities. So did Then in 1923 a New Testament in modern American idiom Tyndale's. So did the King James Version. first appeared. It was the work of Edgar J. Goodspeed, who True, the R.S.V. is not perfect. The revisers themselves for much of his life was regarded as the greatest living would be the first to concede it. No translation ever can be. scholar of Biblical and patristic Greek. But the widely publicized charges against it can be shown to Some would still commend this version as the most be false and based largely on ignorance of the problems of precise, yet readable, of all translations. With amazing skill translation. Goodspeed succeeded in turning the Greek into modern When anyone asks me to recommend a conservative but English without the multiplication of words so often found in readable translation of the whole Bible, I never hesitate to other modern-speech New Testaments. suggest the Revised Standard Version. In 1931 there was added an Old Testament translated by Originally the R.S.V. was to have been another joint Smith and other scholars, thus forming The Bible—An American-British venture. But World War II intervened, and American Translation, sometimes known as the Smith- the American scholars went on alone. Goodspeed Version or the Chicago Bible. With the end of the war England returned to the work of Among modern-speech translators of the Bible, none is revision. But it was soon discovered that the religious better known than J. B. Phillips. atmosphere of Britain was undergoing a serious change. It Beginning with his 1947 Letters to Young Churches, was reported that less than 10 percent of the people of millions of copies of his New Testament have been sold. England attended church, and hardly anyone was reading the Like Moffatt before him, Phillips began to translate the Old Bible anymore. Testament also, the highly readable Four Prophets appear- In 1947 an interdenominational council was set up by the ing in 1963. But then he turned back to the New Testament Church of England, the Church of Scotland, and the free and in 1973 published a careful revision containing some churches of Great Britain, with representatives from Ireland 2,000 "improvements and corrections." When you feel the force and warmth of this translation, you can guess the kind of person who would choose to spend There seems to be less suspicion a lifetime at such work. Phillips modestly makes no claim to and more awareness of the plain linguistic erudition. As a pastor his only goal was to give his good sense it makes to read the Bible members a version that would win their interest and respect for God's Word. in language just as modern as One of my students was assigned to write a paper on the the original was in its day. Phillips Version. He sent a list of questions to the author. Back from England came a very gracious answer. "Please excuse the writing, but my secretary is away," he began. and Wales, to consider a solution to the dilemma The immensely busy translator had taken time to give the Representatives of the British and Foreign Bible Society and student all the information he desired. of the National Bible Society of Scotland joined in the You can trust translations put out by such men. planning. But now the time had come for another official revision of Since the study of the Bible is the very lifeblood of the entire Bible. Christianity, how could the people of England be persuaded In 1946 a large committee of scholars sponsored by the to take up their Bibles again? The council agreed that the National Council of Churches of Christ in America, situation called not for a mere revision as originally planned, representing 40 million Protestants in 33 denominations, but for a brand-new modern-speech translation fresh from published the Revised Standard Version New Testament. the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Since the R.S.V. is in direct line with the five previous The reasoning that led to this decision is well summed up official revisions, it could be designated as the sixth by A. M. Hunter, of Scotland, in his book Interpreting the authorized revised version. New Testament 1900-1950: By 1952 the entire Bible had been completed. On the "Since the famous forty-seven did their work in 1611, appearance of the Old Testament, with its handling of such nearly three and a half centuries have passed, and in that time

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (529) 9 our speech has so changed that the Authorized Version, for like the R. S. V. But this time there have been no burnings, no all the glories of its language, has grown more and more of a buckets of lye. foreign tongue. The common man does not speak or properly The public attitude toward versions seems to be growing understand the great accents of his Elizabethan ancestors. more friendly every day. There seems to be less suspicion Were the Christian preacher or teacher concerned only with and more awareness of the plain good sense it makes to read literary appreciation, he might rest content with the the Bible in language just as modern as the original was in its Authorized Version. But his task being what it is—to preach day. and teach the Word of God to a generation that is almost Some of the finest versions have been produced by Roman Biblically illiterate and slowly lapsing into paganism—he Catholic scholars, a number of them being translated from demands, and rightly demands, a version of the New the Greek rather than the Latin Vulgate. Testament that 'will clothe the word of the gospel in the There is the Westminster Version (1935), the New vesture of our common speech' and come home with living Testaments translated by Spencer (1937) and by Kleist and power to men who do not understand, much less appreciate, Lilly (1956), the whole Bible from the Latin by Knox (1949), the archaic splendors of Elizabethan prose." and large new Jerusalem Bible (1966). Thus in 1961 the presses of Oxford and Cambridge Difficult, delicate work universities published the New Testament of The New English Bible, followed by the complete Bible in 1970. Just as the Protestant King James Version of 1611 has been Instead of being the seventh authorized revision, The New revised through the years, so has the Catholic Douay Version English Bible is the first authorized Protestant English of 1610. Likewise, as the 1769 edition of Dr. Blayney translation ever to appear. All the preceding authorized became the standard form of the King James from then on, so versions were revisions, not translations. All of them go back the 1750 edition of Bishop Challoner became the standard to Tyndale. And Tyndale was not authorized. He was form of the Douay. And when the Protestant Revised executed. Standard Version appeared in 1946-1952, it was matched by It is a daring and highly interpretive translation. This is not the Catholic Confraternity revision begun in 1941 and a bad mark against it. It simply means that it is exciting and published in 1970 as The New American Bible. enlightening to read. Isaiah 7:14 has "young woman" just For years there has been talk of producing an English Bible acceptable to both branches of the Christian church. Catholic scholars have agreed that with minor changes the Protestant R.S.V. could meet this need. In 1966 there was published the Revised Standard Be a bristlecone pine Version, Catholic Edition. All changes from the Protestant edition are listed in the appendix. You would have to see the By CAROLYN BEAL list to believe how few and very minor all these changes are. A bristlecone pine tree growing 9,000 feet above sea level The Common Bible, an edition of the R.S . V. , is endorsed by in the White Mountains of California has a most appropriate Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, and Protestants. name, Methuselah. It is not a beautiful tree. For 4,600 years Jewish scholars have also been active in the translation of the elements have taken their toll, and the twisted, gnarled the Bible. A new version of the Old Testament is now under branches no longer bear needles. way, and the first five books, The Torah, came off the press Another tree, 4,900 years old, felled for scientific study, in 1962. Other books have followed, and when the Old provided a chronology based on its year rings that showed Testament has been completed, it will be known as The New specific times of weather distress. Jewish Version. Other bristlecone pines grow in the White Mountains and Could there ever be a version acceptable to Protestants, on Mount Washington in eastern Nevada, well above tree Catholics, and Jews? line. One wonders how they came to grow there. Were they planted by birds or the wind, or perhaps by squirrels hoarding It is already more than half done! The 60-volume Anchor supplies for winter? Whatever their source, they have Bible is a joint production of all three. The fresh and withstood the savage onslaught of severe cold, hot and dry scholarly Genesis volume was the first to appear, in 1964. summers, and howling winds. When I read it out loud to my family, the most frequent Satan seeks to destroy the human soul, just as the elements reaction was "We never noticed that in the Bible before!" have sought to destroy the bristlecone pines. He would tempt There can be no end to the list of versions, for even now you with discouragement and the one-eyed monster that rules more are on the way. The International Bible Society has most homes today, putting off missionary visits, delaying completed a new translation by a group of Evangelical Bible study and prayer until the mind is dull and eyelids scholars, The New International Version. heavy. Shall we wait until a "more convenient time" to Another translation of the complete Bible is Today's shape up our lives? Should we not rather surrender them English Version, otherwise known as the Good News Bible. completely to the One who holds our future in His hands, confident that He will help us withstand the wiles of Satan? Published by the American Bible Society in 1976, it has Lean upon God's promise "They may forget, yet will I not enjoyed very wide acceptance. The New Testament forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my appeared first in 1966, and within six years some 35 million hands" (Isa. 49:15, 16). Be a bristlecone pine in God's copies were sold around the world! kingdom. But if you would prefer to read the King James Version in its 1611 form, even that is a possibility. Publishers in England, Italy, and America recently produced a magnifi-

10 (530) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 cent facsimile of the original King James Bible—all 20 some religious group and contains unusual translations that pounds of it! Only 1,500 copies have been printed. are given particular emphasis by this group, again I would Why have so many men taken it in hand to retranslate the say, Beware! Scriptures? What has prompted them to devote so many Truth needs no special version of the Book. years of their lives to this work? But isn't it confusing to be faced with so many different One sometimes hears it darkly suggested that one reason ways of translating the same passage? Wouldn't it be better for preparing these versions has been to provide an to have just one? opportunity for unprincipled scholars to twist the words of Consider, for example, one of the most significant Greek Scripture to suit their own theological ideas. Such charges words used in the New Testament to summarize the purpose have usually been made by those who themselves have had of Christ's sacrificial death. In Romans 3:25 Paul declares little or no experience in the difficult and delicate work of that the Son of God thereby became our hilasterion. For Biblical translation. The evidence does not support their centuries Bible translators have wrestled with this term. criticisms. Wycliffe (1382) translates it "an helper," changed in a For my own satisfaction I have examined all the more later edition to "forgiver." influential versions of the English Bible, comparing them Tyndale (1525) prefers "a seat of mercy," following the verse by verse with each other and with the original. I have leadership of Luther, who invented the name "mercy seat" looked especially for instances of willful distortion of the for the golden covering of the ark. Scriptural text for doctrinal purposes. Such instances are so extremely rare as to be singularly noteworthy. Bible translators have been moved by far loftier purposes than this. When a version seems to be the special Tyndale risked and lost his life in his urgent desire to give possession of some religious group the Bible to the people in their own language. He wrote that and contains unusual translations he "perceaved by experyence how that it is impossible to stablysh the laye people in any truth, excepte the scripture emphasized by that group, beware. were playnly layde before their eyes in their mother tonge," "which thinge onlye moved me to translate the new The Great Bible (1539) translates it "the obtainer of testament. - mercy." The translators of the 1611 King James Version wrote in Whittingham (1557) offers "a pacification," but changed their no-longer-published preface that their purpose was to later in the Geneva Bible (1560) to "a reconciliation." do that which "helpeth forward to the saving of souls. Now The Bishops' Bible (1568) translates it "a propitiation," what can be more available thereto, than to deliver God's the words adopted by the King James Version in 1611. book unto God's people in a tongue which they under- Goodspeed (1923) chooses "a sacrifice of reconcilia- stand?" tion." The committee of scholars, including Goodspeed and Mrs. Montgomery (1924) renders it "an offering of Moffatt, who prepared the 1946 Revised Standard Version of atonement." the New Testament, expressed their purpose in the preface: The Basic English (1941) translates it "the sign of His "In the Bible we have not merely an historical document mercy." and a classic of English literature, but the Word of God. . . The Revised Standard Version (1946) offers "an expia- And men need the Word of God in our time and hereafter as tion." never before. . . . It is our hope and our earnest prayer that The New English Bible (1961) interprets it "the means of this Revised Standard Version of the New Testament may be expiating sin." used by God to speak to men in these momentous times, and Today's English Version (1976) translates freely, "the to help them to understand and believe and obey His Word." means by which people's sins are forgiven." But isn't it true that some versions are more literal, while Other versions present additional alternatives. others interpret rather than translate? The very variety of translations bespeaks the broad significance of this term and warns against the error of too Why so many versions? hasty or narrow an interpretation. It makes apparent the No one can translate without interpreting. There is a great necessity of more careful and wider study of Scripture to deal of interpretation in every major English version of the discover further clues as to Paul's inspired intention in this Bible, including such supposedly uninterpretative versions vital passage. as the King James, Douay, and Wycliffe. I think Tyndale would rejoice to see our day. So would the It is true that some interpret with greater freedom, clarity, translators of the King James Version. and consistency. These are the ones that give me the most Never has the Bible been so readily available in such help. excellent translations as today. Bible societies have reported Are there any versions that one could not recommend? Are that all or part of the Word of God has been rendered into any of the many translations not safe for one to trust? 1,631 languages covering almost the entire population of the Yes. When a version openly announces itself as translated world. "from the metaphysical viewpoint" (there is one) or "based How else could the gospel go to every nation under on numerology" (there is one), one is immediately warned to heaven, that God's truth may triumph in the end? take care. You can trust these modern versions. Read as many as you Or when a version seems to be the special possession of can. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (531) 11 SINGLE LIFE

years of marriage, Walter died, leaving Almira alone to raise The woman who their daughter and run the department store. In 1876 she closed the store and enlisted in the mission work that eventually led her to Chattanooga and her ministry to wouldn't give up homeless children. The Steele Home for Needy Children began with three At 42 Almira Steele small black girls and within several months was filled to capacity. In 1885, after one year of operation, a group of was a widow with "concerned citizens" set fire to the orphanage. There were an 11-year-old no serious injuries, but the 54 orphans were homeless once daughter. again. Friends and relatives in New England pooled their But far from being resources with the $2,500 property insurance and Almira over, her life Steele's savings to erect an attractive $18,000, 44-room had just begun. brick structure. Three more attempts were made to burn the orphanage, but they all failed. About this time Almira became a Seventh-day Adventist. Honoring the Sabbath, she conducted the orphanage By GARY C. JENKINS accordingly but without forcing her convictions on her charges. The orphanage also held Sunday services. "We he story of Almira S. Steele is the story of a woman have Bible for breakfast and Bible for supper," said Mrs. Talone—a woman who refused to allow tragedy and Steele. trouble to shape her life. As a young widow, she chose a Breakfast and supper were, by the way, the only two meals mission that brought her to the very center of hot of the day, a fact orphanage opponents tried to use against it. controversy. Enemies tried to thwart her with fire, vicious The meals were vegetarian, and while a great variety of food criticism, and false legal charges. But no one could stop was served, each meal in and of itself was quite simple. Almira Steele because she was a woman who wouldn't Someone accused Almira Steele of starving the orphans, and give up. she was summoned into court. In 1880 Mrs. Steele arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to organize and conduct a school for disadvantaged black children. Sponsored by the Women's Home Missionary The main orphanage in town was Association of the Congregationalist Church, she had geared to adoptable children. transferred from South Carolina, where the local Ku Klux Klan had thwarted a similar mission. Those who were diseased, disabled, Teaching in the mornings, Mrs. Steele spent evenings retarded, or older than 10 visiting jails, poorhouses, and hospitals. These visits fostered her increasing concern that no institution, no help, were not acceptable there. But the Steele existed for orphaned and abandoned black children. She home welcomed them. appealed to her sponsorship in Massachusetts, but the charity lacked the funds to establish an orphanage. She brought her petition to city and county officials; no one was interested. Robert B. Cooke, a prominent Chattanooga lawyer, So, with personal savings and money from her husband's life donated his services on her behalf. Although the charges insurance, Almira Steele purchased a large house, opening were eventually dropped, enemies of the orphanage did not The Steele Home for Needy Children in 1884. This was the forget them. The home always remained controversial. beginning of her life's ministry. If the Steele Home was unique as a black orphanage, it was Born in Massachusetts to a wealthy and prominent family just as unique for its operation and program. It didn't simply (her father was a railroad company president and an elected house children; it gave them a home to grow up in, complete county treasurer), Almira Derving traced her ancestry to the with a "mother," which was what they called Almira Steele. early Colonial period. After graduating from college she "I desire to start the children out with good principles, became principal of a local grammar school and at 29 married good manners, and skilled hands, believing in the dignity of Walter Steele, owner of a large department store. After three labor with practical economy," she said. Herself a trained teacher, Mrs. Steele paid a professional Gary C. Jenkins writes from Chattanooga, Tennessee. staff to assist her. Bible, English, grammar, and simple

12 (532) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 By opening her heart and enlarging her family, Almira Steele demonstrated that God's love does not discriminate.

etiquette, taught along with gardening and other practical skills, served to turn out well-rounded, self-confident individuals. After the completion of their primary education the boys were sent to vocational schools, while the girls remained to learn sewing, cooking, and other domestic arts. Almira Steele wanted each child to become a self-supporting adult. A few wished to go on to college, and Mrs. Steele paid their tuition and expenses. One small black college even offered the Steele Home Scholarship. At least two of her children became medical doctors, one a noted violinist, and one a lawyer. Most students trained to be carpenters, barbers, mechanics, tailors, or plumbers. Almira Steele placed great value on the ability of skilled hands. Although the children at Steele Home for Needy Children "I prayed for light, and it came. I saw that were predominantly black, several of them were I had been deceiving myself. I wanted an white. The main orphanage in town was geared to adoptable orphanage, but I wanted somebody else to children. Those who were diseased, disabled, retarded, or older than 10 were not acceptable there. But the Steele Home build it. I said to myself, Build it yourself. welcomed them. You have money saved from teaching; you On invitation, Almira Steele lectured in churches, calling have your husband's life insurance; you for compassion toward the abandoned child. Occasionally have your pension. Then I turned to my she wrote for the Chattanooga Times. "I don't have to keep little daughter and I said, 'Darling, we will in the work," she once pointed out. "I have plenty of trust the Lord for our future, and we will relatives and friends who are willing to tolerate me. use our money to make a home for these "Hundreds volunteer to go to India, China, and Africa, little waifs.' " and all are surely needed there, but there's a halo round the workers on the foreign field. I regret to find I am the only white woman in the United States who is trying to be a repeatedly to answer absurd charges. Someone went so far as Christian mother to Negro boys and girls, for surely there is a to charge her with murder, but the charge was thrown out great need of thorough training for all children. Can it be before it could receive a court hearing. Critics often accused right to neglect little children of any race and allow them to her of getting rich off the orphans. To this she retorted that grow up in sin, superstition, and ignorance?" others should cash in on the work so she wouldn't have the Although Almira Steele often found herself operating on a monopoly. Those who would open their homes to the shoestring, she never asked for money. Her own wealth destitute, training them to become adults responsible to God, spent, the orphanage continued primarily through unsolicited society, and self would be rich indeed. donations from New England and Battle Creek, Michigan. In 1925 Almira Steele was visiting Battle Creek Sanitar- Through frugal and wise economics the home prospered. ium for a needed rest when her heart failed. She was 83 years In 1916 Almira Steele requested the tax-exempt status of a old. The Chattanooga Times ran a lengthy obituary, referring charity. She was in Battle Creek when a committee appointed to her as a prominent citizen, praising her selfless and by the board of city commissioners paid the orphanage a invaluable service to the community. surprise visit. They reported deplorable conditions—chil- At her death the Steele Home for Needy Children closed. dren in torn and filthy clothes, sleeping on rags, and underfed The 25 orphans living there at the time were received by on a diet of black-eyed peas. On the basis of this report tax distant relatives. The property was sold to the city and exemption was denied. converted into an annex for the public school next door. The day the story appeared in the paper, an independent Almira Steele did not allow her life to end when her committee launched its own inspection, later filing a report husband died. For 41 of the 51 productive years following his quite contrary to the earlier one—remarkably clean rooms, death she operated the Steele Home for Needy Children, children healthy and happy, and not so much as a broken saving more than 1,600 from the streets and giving them the button on their "torn and filthy clothes." But denial for tax opportunity for a new beginning. By opening her heart and exemption had been decided, and it was not to be changed. enlarging her family, she demonstrated that God's love does The suspicion continued. Even some blacks questioned not discriminate. Almira Steele died penniless. But she was Almira Steele's motives. She found herself in court rich and will be forever. ❑

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (533) 13 In the shadow ent afternoon aerobics classes are a Every Sabbath Pastor Saliba winner, as they are drawing quite a preaches twice. He commented to of Jesus' home few participants, mostly women. us that only once in 14 years has he From page 2 During the breaks he gives five- ever preached just once on a Sab- minute health talks. bath. He usually preaches at the Hebrew, and English, serves as Still remaining as the best attrac- Nazareth church, which meets at pastor, interpreter, translator, and tion at the Nazareth Center are the the Nazareth Center, and at the teacher. Simo Perho, a Loma Linda English-language classes. Nearly Haifa church, about 30 miles away. University School of Health gradu- 50 students attend every weekday Normal attendance at the ate, with his wife Heidi and 10- from 2:00 to 4:00 P.M. With a Nazareth church service includes month-old baby, recently arrived second student worker, Lim said the Saliba and Perho families, stu- from Finland to serve as the cen- the number of participants would dent Lim, one other Adventist ter's health educator. Third-year rise. The center usually offers its member who lives in the area, and Union College student John Lim, a possibly a visitor or two, either Vietnamese-Canadian, teaches the local residents or vacationers. In upper-level conversational-English Haifa, the church numbers nearly classes. 20. In all Israel the Seventh-day Lim said a second student worker Adventist Church has 73 members. had been requested, but none had Bible correspondence You might ask why I am relating applied to come. He thought the lessons gather dust on this story to you. Maybe I should students, or their parents, might instead be telling you about South have felt it was not safe enough. the shelves of his office. America, or Inter-America, or Lim said he feels quite safe there None are being given places elsewhere where our church and enjoys his work. He said, out. None are being is expanding by thousands every though, that he does get lonely at day. Those stories always make us times without another student for requested. feel good. companionship. John lives a few I am giving this frontline report miles from the center in his own to you for three reasons: apartment and rides the bus to and 1. We must remember that from work. amidst all the success stories of the A feeling of loneliness at times classes and programs in the after- church there are areas where the might also apply to the Perho fam- noons, as men, by local custom, are work is tough—where a great cele- ily, who have left their family and usually the only ones out in the bration takes place over one who friends behind in Finland to work in evening hours. becomes a Christian. Israel. Both Simo and Heidi speak Besides interpreting for the other 2. The church owes its contin- fluent Finnish and English, but workers, Saliba spends most of his ued existence to God and to such neither Arabic nor Hebrew. Thus it mornings translating health bro- dedicated members as those in is difficult for them to understand chures into the Arabic language. He Nazareth, who, through the call and any radio or TV broadcasts, news- lamented the fact that only two direction of God, accept the chal- papers or magazines, or to talk with health brochures exist in Arabic and lenge to leave their families and neighbors, unless the neighbors that the Nazareth area has one of the comfortable homes to minister in speak English. They are hoping highest heart-disease rates in the often some of the most discourag- their "isolation" will end within a world—more than 65 percent. Thus ing and lonely circumstances this couple of years, as they are both the work of disseminating health world can offer. studying Arabic and Hebrew sev- education is also a compelling rea- 3. Your daily prayers are needed eral hours a day. Mr. Perho cur- son in the minds of the workers for for church workers and members rently organizes the health-educa- their existence in Nazareth. around the world. Because you tion programs and gives health Saliba also oversees a health almost always hear only the success lectures, with Pastor Saliba inter- correspondence course with 50 stories, you might be inclined to preting. enrollees and 159 previous stu- think that your prayers are not The center has offered many dents. Bible correspondence les- needed. They are needed. different health classes since it sons gather dust on the shelves of Remember the tough areas and began, yet attendance has been his office. None are being given pray for the workers who are giv- relatively low. Perho felt the pres- out. None are being requested. He ing their lives and energies to would like to update the course, but spread God's message to this his time is already filled., There is dying world. M. K. W. no one to help with the updating, either.

14 (534) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23. 1985 WORLDVIEW

Battle Creek Hospital becomes a mental health facility

By FRED McTAGGART

From the beginning, Battle important community need by Creek Adventist Hospital— carrying out the Adventist mis- known first as the Western sion of "wellness through Health Reform Institute and wholeness." later as the Battle Creek Sanitar- Now as a mental-health and ium Hospital—has been an substance-abuse treatment cen- innovator and leader in empha- ter, Battle Creek Adventist Hos- sizing the benefits of healthy pital continues to reach into the diet, exercise, and stress reduc- community through outpatient tion. services and a public awareness In the early 1900s, wealthy program. and influential patients from all "We have been emphasizing over the world traveled to Battle mental health as a part of our Creek to study under Dr. John long-range program for many Harvey Kellogg and get the best years," says president Teddric curative and preventive treat- J. Mohr. "It made sense to put Battle Creek Hospital in Michigan recently faced a critical crossroad. In less than a year, it relinquished its surgery beds ment of the time. our resources into meeting the In exchange for more-cost-effective mental-health beds. Times change, and with the present and future needs of the closing of sanitarium facilities community rather than merely chemical-dependency treatment therapy program for up to five in the early 1970s, the hospital duplicating resources available program for adolescents. hours a day. entered a troubling transitional elsewhere." To remain responsive to the Advertisements in local and period. To the public, it was still community, Battle Creek area newspapers have intro- Special needs the San, closely associated with Adventist Hospital has created a duced the hospital's services the late Dr. Kellogg. As a In addition to its adult psychi- range of outpatient services— while educating the public. An general hospital, it faced stiff atric program, the hospital has including psychological testing, important part of this program is competition from other area recently developed programs to evaluation and screening, and a continuing "Wellness and institutions. meet the special needs of both outpatient therapy and counsel- Wholeness" awareness cam- The dual pressures of rising children and adolescents. ing. paign in the community. medical costs and shrinking Because healing can take place The Admissions and Evalua- Through a series of educational Federal support continued in the only in a supportive environ- tion Center serves as an emer- ads, the hospital provides infor- 1980s, and a few years ago the ment, the entire hospital com- gency room for mental and mation on depression, stress, Michigan bed-reduction plan munity plays a role in the emotional trauma. A person in bed-wetting in children, adoles- mandated more efficient use of therapeutic setting—which crisis can come day or night and cent substance abuse, and the existing health-care facilities. includes family, group, individ- find professional staff capable hospital's new program to treat Facing another critical cross- ual, and recreational therapy of offering immediate help and eating disorders, anorexia ner- road in its history, Battle Creek and a multidisciplinary treat- evaluation to determine the best vosa, and bulimia. Adventist Hospital relinquished ment team. long-term-care plan. Now, a full two years after its surgery beds in exchange for The hospital's New Day Cen- the decision to become a spe- "Partial hospitalization" more-cost-effective mental- ter, a subsidiary of Adventist cialty mental-health and sub- health beds—transforming Health System North, offers a Battle Creek Adventist Hos- stance-abuse center, the transi- itself quickly from a general 28-day adult and 45-day adoles- pital has also developed a "par- tion is complete. While hospital to the area's only spe- cent inpatient program for alco- tial hospitalization" program. showing only a slight decline in cialty mental-health facility. It hol dependence or drug abuse. This program offers a less overall patient census, Battle successfully made the transition To provide more cost-effective restrictive alternative when Creek Adventist Hospital has in less than a year—filling an services, the hospital moved its weekly counseling is not communicated its new role and adult center to a residential enough but hospitalization is services over a wider geo- Fred McTaggart is a free-lance setting—lowering the cost of unnecessary or inappropriate. graphic area and to new age writer with Traver and Associ- staffing and services, while Patients live at home while groups and new referral ates in Battle Creek, Michigan. creating more space for the attending a community center sources.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (535) 15 1980 Native Americans num- there is a great zeal . . . to work Offering to go for bered 7 million; Chinese, 894,- in foreign countries; but it 000; Filipinos, 795,000; Japa- would be pleasing to God if a North American missions nese, 791 , 000 ; and proportionate zeal were mani- Vietnamese, 214,000. Add to fested to work the cities close these 8.2 million Poles, 2.8 by. . . . God in His providence By JOSEPH ESPINOSA million Russians, and hundreds has brought men to our very of thousands from other lin- doors, and thrust them, as it guistic backgrounds, and you were, into our arms, that they My mother had the beautiful a visit to a Chinese restaurant. have a United Nations melting might learn the truth. "—Chris- custom of pronouncing a bless- One of the most interesting pot right in North America. The tian Service, pp. 199, 200. ing on her children each time modern-day believe-it-or-nots figures are similar in Canada, "Elder [0. A.] Olsen [direc- they left home to visit relatives, is that the United States now has where French is the mother tor of the foreign-language attend overnight school func- the fifth-largest Spanish-speak- tongue for at least 6 million work in North America] told us tions, or accompany my father ing population of any country in residents. And the number of also of the encouraging begin- on his itinerary as a literature the world. One in five residents new non-English-speaking resi- nings among the Italians, Ser- evangelist. in California is Hispanic. Texas dents in North America is bians, Romanians, Russians, Before kissing me Goodbye has more than 3 million Hispan- growing by leaps and bounds by and several other nationalities. she would ask me to kneel at her ics; Florida has nearly a million. births and immigration. We rejoice with him in all that feet while she placed her right New York City Hispanics com- One thing is certain: The has been done, and yet our hand on my head, praying for prise 20 percent of the city's Lord has not been taken by hearts were made sad by the my protection and asking God population-1.5 million peo- surprise. Ellen White wrote, knowledge that much that might to bring me home safely. Then ple. Chicago, which had only "While plans are being carried have been done has been left she would reach into her apron 50,000 Hispanics ten years ago, out to warn the inhabitants of undone because of lack of pocket, take out some money, now has 700,000. Similar sta- various nations in distant lands, means. "—Ibid., p. 201. and put it into my shirt pocket. tistics, though perhaps less dra- much must be done in behalf of If we replaced the name Elder As a boy I considered her matic, can be repeated for other the foreigners who have come to Olsen with that of Elder Espin- ritual a double blessing—a groups. the shores of our own land. . . . osa, the above statement would prayer blessing and a money Census figures show that in Among Seventh-day Adventists still be accurate, except that I blessing. I probably appreciated would need to add Arabic, the money most. Since my Armenian, Cambodian, Chi- mother's death in 1946, how- nese, Croatian, Czechoslova- ever, I often have felt the need kian, Danish, the deaf, Dutch, for that kind of double bless- Eskimo, Estonian, Finnish, ing—particularly as I direct the French, German, Greek, His- Adventist foreign-language panic, Hungarian, Ilocano, work in North America. Indonesian, Japanese, Jewish, Seventh-day Adventists give Korean, Latvian, Laotian, Lith- millions of dollars every year to uanian, Native American, Pol- support the church's great over- ish, Portuguese, Samoan, Ser- seas foreign missionary pro- bian, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, gram. Since that program began Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, in 1874 thousands of North and others. American SDAs have left Presently, Adventist Portu- homes and loved ones to serve guese and Ukrainian leaders in in areas around the globe. We North America are pleading for are proud of our missionary funds to maintain a radio pro- program. Church members love gram in their language; Roma- to send money to build floating nians, to publish a Voice of mission schools on Lake Titi- Adventist student honored by Congress Prophecy Bible correspondence caca, staff medical clinics in the Just an hour and a half before President Ronald Reagan delivered course; French, to evangelize South Pacific and hospitals in his State of the Union Address on February 6, Diana Green, a the more than 3 million French- Africa, and purchase medical Seventh-day Adventist missionary's daughter and a recent Home speaking people of Montreal; launches for the Amazon River. Study International high school graduate, was honored by Congress Hungarians, to print Voice of Some Adventists, however, as Outstanding Home Study Graduate of the Year (ADVENTIST Hope Bible lessons; deaf, to don't realize that there is a REVIEW, Jan. 10, 1985) at a special reception in the U.S. Capitol's purchase video equipment; foreign-language mission field Mike Mansfield Room. Native Americans, to keep their right in North America. Perhaps Representative Marilyn Lloyd (left) of Tennessee, Senator Albert schools and Monument Valley their non-English contacts have Gore, Jr., and D. W. Holbrook (right), president of Home Study Hospital operating; Jewish been limited to an occasional International, participated in the awards ceremony. Two dozen Adventists, to fund the new snack at the corner Taco Bell or Representatives and 11 Senators gathered with the leaders of many Jewish missionary journal The national education associations to honor the winners. New Israelite; some of the new Joseph Espinosa is a General Diana's parents currently are stationed at the Adventist Asian groups, to print Sabbath Conference field secretary University of Eastern Africa, in Kenya, but her mother flew in to school quarterlies. As the pleas responsible for work among attend the reception. Diana is a freshman at Southern College of for help continue, I feel that I foreign-language groups in Seventh-day Adventists in Collegedale, Tennessee. need my mother's double bless- North America. D. W. HOLBROOK ing more than ever.

16 (536) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 The last time Mother placed Please help in this work. Give her hand on my head to pray for a special offering on June 8 COUNTDOWN TO THE GC SESSION-7 me was when my brother and I when the North American Mis- were drafted into the army sions Offering will be received during World War II. Both of us in your church; or send your gift GC session offers were heading overseas. The last to North American Missions, day of my furlough Mother General Conference of SDA, public attractions called me into the kitchen where 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., she had been preparing some Washington, D. C. 20012. In the wake of the 1984 world's fair, Adventists are cookies for me to take to camp. continuing to make overtures to the New Orleans conunu- Seated on a chair near our ITALY nity. old-fashioned cooking stove, In connection with the fifty-fourth General Conference she put her hand on my head, AWR-Europe session, the Communication Department has sent an leaned over me, and prayed. eight-page brochure to 800 churches, clubs, and a variety of She pleaded with God to watch station on the air social organizations in New Orleans, listing more than 50 over and protect me each day— Less than one year after the speakers and musical groups available for appointments. to let her see her sons alive project began, a new shortwave Harriet Butler, of the Metairie Adventist church, is again. As she prayed I could station for AWR-Europe has scheduling the speakers. feel her teardrops falling on me. begun broadcasting from a Information about the session is being sent to 180 radio After the prayer she tucked property near Forli, Italy. and television contacts in the area, describing session events into my shirt pocket a letter she Because of the expertise of that may interest the public—such as the nightly Interna- had written to assure me that she Walt Bollinger, a retired radio tional Festival of Missions, beginning June 29 at 7:30 P.M., would pray every day that God engineer who with his wife and the daily showing at 1:00 P.M. of pictures of Adventist would watch over me. My came from the United States and work. brother and I did return and donated his time and services, it Also of public interest will be the parade from the were able to spend a few months was possible to use a second- Superdome to Jackson Square. The parade will feature with Mother before she died. hand ten-kilowatt transmitter groups from many countries of the world, some in national Many times since then I have donated to AWR by a European costume. On the last Sabbath a missions pageant is scheduled longed for a hand like hers to government. for 4:00 P.M. touch me and to pray for me. The first test transmissions An International Art Exposition at the Hyatt Regency Not long ago, however, I was were conducted on January 30, Hotel will feature productions from some 75 Adventist reminded that I did have such a using a provisional dipole artists. The 13-minute audiovisual presentation that was mother, one who could pro- antenna. On February 18 the shown to some 200,000 people during the world's fair, nounce a double blessing on me high-gain LP directional "Jesus, the Source of Living Water," may be seen at the with even greater results today antenna went into service. Hyatt. A Sunday concert also is scheduled. than when I was a boy in New Although the ten-kilowatt The General Conference Health and Temperance Depart- Mexico. I was reminded of amplifier generates somewhat ment will present a variety of programs. A Stop Smoking Matthew 12:48, 49, where low power compared with the clinic will operate in conjunction with the American Cancer Jesus answered a man who told hundreds of kilowatts of many Society. There also will be health education seminars daily at Him that His mother was wait- shortwave stations, the recep- 10:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M., health films during meal breaks, a ing for Him. "Who is my tion is audible and the signal blood-pressure testing unit, and a computerized health-age mother?" He asked. "And he stable and good in the target appraisal unit. The Christian Record Braille Foundation will stretched forth his hand toward areas as long as there is no operate a free glaucoma-testing unit. his disciples, and said, Behold interference. This requires that In the Superdome, with its 95,000 seats (which have never my mother." the station be flexible and all been used at the same time), there is room for all. A double blessing belongs to switch to empty frequencies, VICTOR COOPER God's church today. The first mainly in the 49-meter band. blessing was pronounced in Shortwave listeners already 1874, when the church sent out have picked up the new voice in MARTINIQUE or homemade gluten. Plans are its first overseas missionary. the choir of established stations. under way to compile the Today the members can pro- A regular broadcast using En- Two nutrition French Caribbean recipes into a nounce the second part of the glish, German, Rumanian, and booklet. blessing by helping to share Russian programs is aired from education "My life was saved through through the written word the 0600 to 0900 and from 1500 to workshops held the vegetarian diet," said one of gospel message of hope and 1700 GMT. Other languages the workshop students. salvation with the millions of soon will be added. Some 190 men and women "Through the instruction of an non-English-speaking people The establishment of this participated in two nutrition Adventist, I changed my diet who find themselves in North station, to be heard throughout education workshops held and lifestyle, and in time I America. Europe and parts of Northern recently at Port-de-France, became an Adventist." This Many of these people can Africa, is a major step in imple- Martinique, featuring General young man and other workshop speak at least some English. Yet menting the General Confer- Conference Health and Temper- students like him hope to share deep spiritual worship and study ence plan to blanket the whole ance associate director Irma B. what they have learned in their often require their mother globe with broadcasts from a Vyhmeister. communities. tongue. These people also want network of strategically placed In a contest that was part of IRMA B. VYHMEISTER to do missionary work among Adventist shortwave stations. the workshop, students entered Associate Director their friends and neighbors both HEINZ HOPE 120 vegetarian dishes prepared General Conference Health and here and overseas. REVIEW Correspondent with cereals, roots and tubers, Temperance Department

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (537) 17 CHILDREN'S CORNER Review and Comment By JAMES COFFIN

The cooking school ■ American mail-order consumers have moved into the scientific era, according to the U.S. Postal Service. "It's not snake oil By JEANETTE PELTON anymore," postal authorities say about mail fraud. "Now they use the chemical name for the snake oil and throw in some Marcia was so excited. "Good!" said the pastor. pseudoscience"—and people buy it as if it were going out of style. Her mommy was conducting "Some of these people have Oh, 'tis sweet to live in the age of enlightenment, when people so a cooking school and she cooked one way all their willingly bow at the shrine of science while knowing little or said Marcia was big enough lives and don't think they nothing about it. to help. can change. But if they see a On the first night Marcia little girl cooking they learn ■ In an unusual article entitled — Hittin' It Big and Kissin' It helped set up the chairs and how simple it is. I'll look Goodbye," the Washington Post recently looked into what it greeted people. She handed forward to your demonstra- maintains is a limited but growing trend among women, particularly out the recipes for Mommy. tion." professional women who obviously have the skill to make it to the She felt so grown-up. While Marcia practiced at home. top, to drop out of the corporate rat race and opt for life as the pastor was giving a talk, She and Mommy practiced homemakers—with or without children. According to New York Marcia and Mommy set out what she was to say and how career counselor and psychologist Rhoda Trindell Green, many of samples of food for the best to demonstrate how to these women report having felt pressured to climb to the top in much people to try. make her recipe. Marcia did the same way that women of the 1950s felt pressured to marry, stay The next day Mommy feel a little scared, but at home, and raise children. "I see women all the time," asked, "Would you like to Daddy said he and Grandma Philadelphia psychologist Marion Rudin Frank says, "who have help me show how to make would come especially to worked so hard and are proud of what they've accomplished, but bread tonight?" watch her—and that helped say 'I'm not happy.' " Of course, as one young female investment "In front of everybody?" her feel better. banker who dropped out noted, "men are just as equally asked Marcia. That night, when the pas- trapped"—which may suggest that our whole value system is "Yes, you can do what I tor called her, Marcia took a askew. do and make a little loaf as I big deep breath and walked ■ Rumors have abounded for millennia. But an experiment done up to the table. Climbing up make a big one, just like we by sociologist Jack Levine at Northeastern University in Boston, on her stool, she said: do at home. I want them to produced some unexpected results, according to an article in see it isn't hard to do; and if "My mommy says that Special, the Paradise Valley Hospital monthly employee publica- they see a little girl doing it too much sugar isn't good tion. Levine tacked up posters around the campus, inviting students and having fun, it will help for little girls, so we make and faculty to attend a wedding on June 6; but he put the posters up them see it's not too hard for desserts that don't have on June 7. One week later he sent his class to interview 100 people them to try," answered much sugar. I like to make about the wedding—which had never taken place. Half of those Mommy. candy, and this is how I do interviewed had heard about it. But 12 percent of those questioned Marcia was a bit nervous it. said they had attended it. They even described it in detail, complete that night as she carried her "1 put two cups of peanut with limousine and flowers. The moral: Don't believe everything butter in a bowl and add two little mixing bowl up in front you hear—or read. like Mommy. But once she cups of dry milk and a half was behind the table with cup of honey. I like to use ■ The most important factor in determining whether a young Mommy, she felt braver. the crunchy kind of peanut person will drink is the parents' drinking habits, according to a She stood on a stool so she butter. Then I squish it all recent study of some 1,715 students reported in Health Scene. It could reach the table, and as together with my fingers, seems that most young people who drink began to do so at home Mommy added ingredients like this, until it's smooth. with their parents. While this information may not have direct to her bowl, Marcia added That's the fun part. After it's impact on most Seventh-day Adventists, the principle of parental them to hers. Mommy made all blended I roll it into a influence no doubt carries over to numerous other areas. four loves of bread and bunch of balls and roll them ■ Marcia made one. They both in chopped peanuts. Plain Truth magazine recently reported a National Institute of mixed and kneaded and "Oh, and when I'm done, Mental Health survey showing that nearly 19 percent of adults in the worked the bread. And I get to lick my fingers!" United States suffer from at least one psychiatric ailment. Heading everyone clapped when they Everybody laughed, and the list of disorders is disabling anxiety—which reminds one of the Biblical description of "men's hearts failing them for fear" as we left to put the bread in the Marcia took her bowl back near the coming of Christ. kitchen to rise. into the kitchen. She and "Would you like to do a Mommy made her candy ■ As the legal battle drags on concerning the constitutional demonstration all by your- into balls and set them out as propriety of the ambassador exchange between the United States self, Marcia?" asked the samples while another lady and the Vatican, some interesting comments have emerged that pastor later that evening. gave a demonstration of have great significance for church-state relations. Under question- Marcia looked at Mommy, sugarless apple pie. ing, one administration attorney told district judge John P. Fullam and Mommy said, "You "Mommy, I like teach- that the President's foreign-policy authority is so broad that he could show them how to ing," said Marcia with a "may have the power" to send representatives to the Church of make peanut candy. You do grin, as they carried out England or the World Baptist Alliance if such actions would that at home." samples to the sample table. advance foreign-policy objectives. A frightening comment, indeed. We hope the court sees it as we do.

18 (538) ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 NEWS NOTES from the world divisions

CORRESPONDENTS, wood. Vanuatu received 75 WORLD DIVISIONS—Africa-Indian Ocean, by some 33 percent. 1985 is also nars. Dozens of phone calls J. B. Kio; Australasian, R. M. Kranz; Eastern bales of clothing and $5,000 off to a good start, with January each day and more than 100 Africa, Ruby Patterson; Euro-Africa, Heinz Hopi; Far Eastern, G. Ray James; Inter- cash to provide food. sales of £307,267 being twice letters came as a direct result of American, Fred Hernandez; Northern Euro- pean, H. J. Smit; South American, Assad those of the corresponding the tabloid. More than 40 peo- Bechara; Southern Asia, A. M. Peterson period in 1984. Leading agency ple requested religious informa- CORRESPONDENTS, Northern lines in 1984 were vegetable tion or Bible studies. NORTH AMERICA—UNIONS: Atlantic, margarine (introduced during Leon H. Davis; Canadian, G. E. Maxson; ■ Creston Valley Hospital's Columbia, Ron Graybill; Lake, Charles C. European the summer), soya milk and Case;Mid-America, Halle G. Crowson; physiotherapy department was a North Pacific, Morten Juberg; Pacific, Elwyn ■ During 1984, 52 Adventist desserts, and sandwich spreads. Plainer; Southern, George Powell; South- Among the traditional products beehive of activity recently as western, Richard W. Bendall programs were broadcast to health professionals and lay- Poland from Radio Lisbon. manufactured at Granose, UNIVERSITIES: Andrews, Andrea Steele; people from the Creston Loma Linda, Richard Weismeyer Four programs and 11 Adventist which also showed good gains, Adventist church prepared for a worship services were broad- were Nutolene, Sausalatas, Lifeline Health Evaluation Day. cast over Radio Warsaw. In Ravioli, and the lentil and vege- table casseroles. Computerized glucose and cho- 1985 the Polish Seventh-day lesterol determinations were Australasian Adventist Church plans to have ■ Over a period of several done, and pulse-recovery rat- ■ a daily broadcast from Radio During the Victorian Confer- months the Polish Council of ings, breast-cancer detection, Milan, besides continuing ence camp meeting a fleet of State has awarded 15 Polish and life-span-extension broadcasts over Radio Lisbon. buses took church members on a Adventist administrators, methods were explained. Fifty- They also plan to sell cassettes guided tour of Adventist histori- department leaders, and pastors one people went through the of the radiobroadcasts. Cur- cal sites in Melbourne. The the state's highest orders and program. rently they have 26 cassettes camp's senior Sabbath school medals for their achievements containing 39 programs on program featured a reenactment in promoting religious liberty health and 39 on educational of the first Sabbath school held and social activities in Poland. Lake Union in Australia. topics. ■ Richard Peterson, pastor of ■ In addition to the 15- and ■ Adventist Development and the Joliet/Kankakee district in five-minute These Times pro- Relief Agency/Northern Europe North American Illinois, was ordained recently grams that are broadcast on 60 has produced two video pro- Canadian Union at the Kankakee church. Roy A. radio stations in Australia and grams on Adventist develop- Castelbuono, who has a call to ■ Lifestyle Line, an interview- New Zealand, 35 stations now ment and relief work in East and Japan, was ordained recently in format program sponsored by use a one-minute format called West Africa. The first program the Pioneer Memorial church in Adventists in British Columbia, "Minute Messages." features Chimpempe, an old Berrien Springs. mission station in Zambia that has received positive ratings. ■ After a decade of serving as a ■ could become a training center According to Canada's radio After helping the Reedsburg, mission pilot in Papua New for an agriculture and voca- rating company, Lifestyle Line Wisconsin, church's Vacation Guinea, Russell Gibbs has tional school if funds are avail- listenership peaks at more than Bible School last summer, joined the staff of the Australa- able. The second program fea- 7,400 during the ten-to-mid- Joyce Ginsel began receiving sian Division's Adventist tures Yuka Hospital and night slot each Saturday night. Bible studies from church pas- Media Centre. Gibbs, who has Leprosarium in Zambia, where Hosted by Vancouver pastor tor Willis Graves. Today Ginsel had a wide experience in media ADRA/International has spon- Bob Tetz, the program is a member of the Reedsburg production, heads a department sored a community-develop- addresses issues on mental and church. caring exclusively for the needs physical well-being and allows ment program. ■ of the division's three mission time for callers to ask questions Grace Carson, a member of unions. ■ Newbold College is sponsor- of the guests on each show. the Muskegon, Michigan, ing an interdenominational and church, has directed a self-sup- ■ ■ Adventist Development and international creationist confer- The 1985 Revelation Seminar porting quilting endeavor from Relief Agency, Australasia, has ence in December, 1985, the schedule for Metropolitan Van- her home for more than six had a busy summer as a result of first of its kind in Europe. For couver was advertised in a years. She has organized her the famine in Ethiopia and further details, contact H. I. tabloid called New Lifestyle upstairs six-room apartment for cyclones in Fiji and Vanuatu. Dunton, British Union Confer- Dimensions. The eight-page quilt production, and friends, Two hundred bales of ADRA ence, Stanborough Park, Wat- newspaper featured articles on relatives, and neighbors (sev- clothing were transported to Fiji ford, Hertfordshire, WD2 6JP, diet, cancer prevention, the eral from other churches) meet free by the Royal Australian Air United Kingdom. British Columbia Conference's once a week to work together. Force, and another 200 bales New Start program, and Life- The group, as many as 12 came from ADRA, Interna- ■ The British Union's Granose style Line (a weekly radio people, furnishes the Adventist tional's California warehouse. Foods reports all-time record show), free book offers, invita- Community Services center A total of $15,000 in aid was sales for 1984. Its sales of £2.43 tions to church, and a full-page with two or more quilts per given in Fiji for roofing iron and million surpassed the 1983 total ad for the 15 Revelation Semi- week.

ADVENTIST REVIEW, MAY 23, 1985 (539) 19 North Pacific Union bringing in their allowance further education in general and use," the woman said enthusi- money. No donations from par- education at Southern College astically. ■ Some 220 young people from ents were received. in particular," says Vinita ■ The Amarillo, Texas, church, grades 4 to 10 attended the Sauder, college director of pub- ■ facing a financial crisis in Oregon Conference's first band The Tamarind Avenue church lic relations. "We're including festival at Portland Adventist in the Southern California Con- some extremely practical infor- operating its church school but reluctant to increase tuition Academy. Carlyle Manous, ference has been the site of a mation that will make the tran- rates, made an all-out effort to choir director at Walla Walla once-a-week food distribution sition to the Collegedale cam- raise $5,000 to keep the budget Valley Academy, directed the program since early January. pus easier." workshop. Funded in part by a $10,000 balanced. Church members, grant from the Los Angeles ■ More than 60 academy stu- board members, and children ■ Ground has been broken for a County United Way, the pro- dents and sponsors from seven launched a variety of projects new 8,000-square-foot (745- gram is seeking to reach the academies met at Mount Pisgah that enabled them to save their meter) health-education center homeless, unemployed, and Academy, near Asheville, school. for the Kirkland, Washington, aged of the Compton area. After North Carolina, for the annual ■ Texas Conference ministers church. The lower floor of the showing two pieces of identifi- Southern Union Temperance and laymembers have con- building will house the Kirkland cation, needy residents can Weekend, February 14-16. ducted 44 evangelistic meetings Community Services Center, receive enough food to last for "Total Fitness" was the theme, and 158 Revelation Seminars so which is a major clothing bank five days. Included are such reflecting a broadening of tem- far this spring. for the area. During the staples as beans, rice, potatoes, perance to include exercise, groundbreaking ceremony, canned vegetables and fruit, diet, and mental intake, as well local pastor Jerry Brass inter- cereals, pasta, and dried milk. as the traditional concerns of Andrews University viewed center director Dorothy In February alone the church alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. ■ Rosenfeld, who reported that served 1,421 people. Students spent hours learning to The Institute of Archeology during a recent quarter 670 and the Horn Archeological ■ use a variety of computerized people were assisted. More than 80 baptisms-25 health-evaluation programs for Museum at Andrews University rebaptisms and the baptism of is participating in a summer ■ use in outreach activities. Darlene Conley, a member of some 55 people who had had no exchange program with Jordan, the Tacoma, Washington, prior contact with the Adventist ■ Academy students from under the auspices of American South Side church, recently Church—have been attributed around the Carolinas gathered Schools of Oriental Research. received a J. C. Penney Golden to Richard Pollard's Revelation for the annual Carolina Bible ASOR, headquartered in Phila- Rule Award for her many vol- '85 series, recently completed Conference at Nosoca Pines delphia, has more than 300 unteer activities. One of 15 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Wil- Ranch in Liberty Hill, South member institutions in the finalists in Pierce County, she liam MacCarty, pastor of the Carolina, the weekend of Feb- United States and seeks to foster received a certificate and a $250 Wasatch Hills church in Salt ruary 8 and 9. Students from study in areas such as anthropol- check for her church. Lake City, reports that several Fletcher Academy, Mount Pis- ogy, archeology, linguistics, ■ Four Eskimos were among more people are nearing deci- gah Academy, Tri-City Junior art, architecture, and history in the five people baptized at the sions for baptism. Five area Academy, and Columbia Junior the Middle East. churches and one company Academy attended. The theme conclusion of evangelistic ■ stand to benefit from the for the weekend was "Friends: The General Conference has meetings conducted in Bethel, appropriated $67,000 for resto- increased membership. How to Be a Better One." Alaska, by Richard Allison, of ration of the Horn Archeologi- Wrangell. Bethel, situated ■ Barbara Bostwick, director of cal Museum at Andrews Uni- some 400 miles (645 kilome- public relations at Glendale Southwestern Union versity. The museum must now ters) west of Anchorage, is the Adventist Medical Center, has raise $33,000 by the end of district capital for Yupik Eski- been elected vice president of ■ A camp meeting for the deaf 1985 in order to meet the goal of mos who live along the Kus- the Glendale Chamber of Com- is being held on the Ozark $100,000 required to complete kokwim River. Rick Jordan merce. Bostwick, who has Adventist Academy campus, the project. To date the museum serves the area as a Taskforce served on the organization's near Gentry, Arkansas, May has collected about $12,000, pastor. Work among the native board of directors since 1983, 31-June 8. Speakers will and the renovation has begun. population in the "bush" area include deaf ministers and will take office in June 1985, ■ of the State has been slow and serving a one-year term. others who are experienced in Alice Marsh, professor emer- difficult, and this represents a itus of home economics at ■ working for and with deaf peo- major breakthrough. The St. Helena Hospital ple. For information, contact Andrews University, was hon- men's chorus is among the John Blake (501) 437-2391 ored at the sixty-seventh meet- Pacific Union many groups who will sing (voice or TTY). ing of the American Dietetic during the General Conference Association for her 50-year ■ Seventh- and eighth-graders session at the New Orleans ■ Emilie Robertson, of Ada, membership in the association. at the San Gabriel Elementary Superdome in June. Oklahoma, included Christian She was honored also by the School in the Southern Califor- literature among the items dis- Seventh-day Adventist Dietetic nia Conference, inspired by a Southern Union played in a recent garage sale. Association for her 30-year series of morning worships and She also had a quantity of charter membership in that assisted by their teacher, Ken ■ Advantage, a new magazine literature to give away free. organization. Marsh taught at Phillips, recently organized a published by Southern College Among her clients was a woman Union College and the Univer- Feed the Hungry project for and geared to academy and high who wanted literature to help sity of Nebraska before joining Ethiopia. After learning that 40 school students soon to graduate her daughter in missionary work the Andrews faculty in 1950. cents would feed a family of as well as other prospective in a primitive area of South She served as chairman of the four for a week, the students students, is off the press. "It Africa. "I've been praying I Andrews Home Economics raised $119 in three weeks by points out the advantages of could find something they could Department for 21 years.

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Atsushi Higa (LLU '72), returning to Canadian Union Reed; and three aunts, Bertha Williams To new posts serve as physician, Adventist Medical Gerard Dis, through June 1, Montreal, and Jane and Leola Reed. Worker transfers within union confer- Center, Naha, Okinawa, Japan, Emiko Quebec FOLL, Linden Edgar-b. June 18, ences are not listed here. Such transfers (Toguchi) Higa, and three children, left Dave Laughton, through June 1, 1915, Noble, Ill.; d. Feb. 8, 1985, ordinarily are included in News Notes. Los Angeles, October 30, 1984. Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Orlando, Fla. He served as a principal, Claude Gary Hullquist (LLU '73), to teacher, and Bible worker, spending 20 Columbia Union serve as physician/medical director, years of his teaching career in the Lake Leslie Bumgardner, through June 20, NORTH AMERICAN South-East Africa Union, Seventh-day Union Conference. Survivors include his Worthington, Ohio DIVISION Adventist Health Centre, Blantyre, wife, Lorraine; two daughters, Delores Willis Adams, through May 23, Jim Clarke, pastor, Bowling Green, Malawi, Carolyn Marie (Davis) Hull- Perry and Cheryl Simpson; five brothers, quist, and two children, of Mountain Bluffton, Ohio Loy, Merlin, Wilfred, Gilbert, and Cecil; Kentucky; formerly pastor, Indiana Con- Louis Torres, through May 25, Cin- ference. City, Tennessee, left Washington, D.C., three sisters, Lula Gerhart, Maude cinnati, Ohio Albee, and Margaret Starr; and two Robert Fancher, pastor, Georgia- September 10, 1984. Jay C. Baker/Gabriel Kabrieb, Alfred John Irvine (LLU '80), to grandchildren. Cumberland Conference; formerly pas- through June 15, Grove City, Ohio serve as health educator, Hongkong tor, Flint, Michigan. Ted Struntz/Leroy Bruch, through HAMPTON, Jessie Viola Hartley- Adventist Hospital, Hong Kong, and Tim Garrison, pastor, Northridge, June 22, Steubenville, Ohio b. June 15, 1889, Newton, Kans.; d. Enid Marjorie (Roberts) Irvine (W WC California; formerly associate pastor, Bill Stewart, through June 8, Warren, Feb. 17, 1985, Keene, Tex. She and her '56) of Victoria, British Columbia, Can- Sligo church, Takoma Park, Maryland. Ohio evangelist husband, John Bunyan ada, left San Francisco, March 27. David L. Hakes, pastor, Dunlap, Charles Schiavo/Louis Torres, Hampton, lived in a tent for several years Albert Gordon Lui (LLU '81), to Tennessee; formerly pastor, Indiana through June 15, Cincinnati, Ohio as they held meetings in Oklahoma and serve as physician, Tsuen Wan Adventist Conference. Ron Patterson, through June 15, Cin- Texas. They later pastored churches in Hospital, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, and Lars Houmann, administrative direc- cinnati, Ohio the Texas and Texico conferences. She is Janet (Eng) Lui, of Hinsdale, Illinois, tor for the Center for Psychiatry, Florida Robert Brumfield, through June 15, survived by her son, Harold; one sister, left Los Angeles, March 17. Hospital Medical Center, Orlando, Flor- Cincinnati, Ohio Eva On; and five grandchildren. Gerald Alexander Mitchell, Jr. ida; formerly administrative director, James Terzo, through June 23, Get- HATT, Robert B.-b. Dec. 16, (Emory U. '54), to serve as oral surgeon, New England Memorial Hospital, tysburg, Pennsylvania 1916, Pittsburgh, Pa.; d. March 30, Guam Seventh-day Adventist Clinic, Stoneham, Massachusetts. George M. Harsha, through May 23, 1985, Takoma Park, Md. A graduate of Tamuning, Guam, and Rebecca Sue Dennis Kiley, senior vice president, Takoma Park, Maryland Washington Missionary College, he was (Boyle) Mitchell (LLU '76), of Santa Madison Hospital, Madison, Tennessee; Bill Davis, through June 27, Mont- dean of boys and math teacher at Maria, California, left Los Angeles, formerly vice president over clinical vale, New Jersey Broadview Academy (Illinois); and March 10. departments, Shawnee Mission Medical Ronald Aguilera, through June 15, served as vice principal and math and Center, Kansas City, Kansas. Virgil P. Morris (S.F. Coll. of Mort. science teacher for 38 years at Takoma Sci. '47), to serve as administrator, Hong Allentown, Pennsylvania Stephen Krunich, joining the minis- Derek Morris/Ed Reeser, through July Academy (Takoma Park, Maryland), Kong Adventist Hospital, Hong Kong, terial staff, Fletcher, North Carolina; 3, Allentown, Pennsylvania where he was head of the academy's formerly a student at Andrews Univer- and Delores G. (Jacobson) Morris, of math department at the time of his death. sity. Oxnard, California, left San Francisco, Mid-America Union He is survived by his wife, Joan; two Ira Lake, associate pastor, University April 3. Jim Cress, through June 8, Boulder, daughters, Christine Richardson and church, Los Angeles, California; from Butare Rukundo (U. of Zaire '78), to Colorado Linda Tatum; one sister, Naomi Patton; Phoenix, Arizona. serve as physician, Maluti Adventist John R. Loor, through May 19, and two grandsons. Dexter Le Blanc, district pastor, Hospital, Lesotho, South Africa, Littleton, Colorado KIME, Genevieve Graham-b. Feb. Nkurebe Butare Rukundo, and two Gulfport, Mississippi; formerly pastor, North Pacific Union 19, 1901, Portland, Oreg.; d. Dec. 16, Dallas, Texas. children, of Africa-Indian Ocean Divi- 1984, Forest Grove, Oreg. She and her sion, left Chicago, March 20. Boyd Wilkins, through June 1, Havre, Hugh Lee, associate publishing direc- Montana husband served as missionaries in the tor, Southeastern Conference; formerly Tamara Jean Sleeter (LLU '76), Federated Malay States, Java, Spice returning to serve as OB/GYN physician, Richard Pollard, through June 1, in the publishing department, Northeast- Boise, Idaho Islands, Celebes, and Borneo; and she ern Conference. Dhaka Clinic, Dhaka, Bangladesh, left taught voice, piano, and art at Laurel- Scott McCrery, district pastor, Seattle, December 13, 1984. Pacific Union wood Adventist Academy. Survivors Somerville/Whitehaven, Tennessee; for- Joseph Melashenko, June 1-29, Los include her husband, Dallas S.; two sons, merly student, Andrews University. Gatos, California Dallas S., Jr., and Graham; one daugh- Jack Nash, evangelist, Gulf States Richard Pollard, June 21-July 27, ter, Barbara Lewis; one brother, Ernest Conference; from the Michigan Confer- Prayer circle Watsonville, California Graham; one sister, Virginia White; ence. Gary Ford, through May 24, Chula seven grandchildren; and nine great- Ralph Reedy, district pastor, Ft. for evangelism Vista; June 15-29, Ontario, California grandchildren. Walton Beach, Florida; formerly pub- Ben George, through June 15, Orange, LLOYD, Ernest-b. Feb. 22, 1880, lishing director, Arizona Conference. The following pastor-evangelists in California Canada; d. March 14, 1985, Deer Park, Harry Sackett, pastor, Cleveland, the North American Div ison would Eradio Alonso, through June, Ana- Calif. After attending school at Battle Tennessee; formerly pastor, College appreciate the prayers of ADVENTIST heim, California Creek College and the New England church, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. REVIEW readers as they conduct evange- Sanitarium, he served in various pub- Ciro Sepulveda, pastor, Pico Rivera listic meetings during the One Thousand lishing positions and teaching posts Spanish church, California; formerly Days of Reaping. before joining Pacific Press in 1917, professor, California State University. Information to be included in this Deaths where he was editor of Our Little Friend Michael Sulen, pastor, Hollywood, listing, including opening and closing from 1924 to 1949. California; formerly pastor, Stevens dates, should be sent to your local DAVIS, Nida Geraldine-b. Sept. MUNGER, Nellie Vargason-b. Avenue church, Minneapolis, Minne- Ministerial Association secretary or con- 13, 1901, Fruitland, Wash.; d. Feb. 11. Sept. 10, 1892, Otter Lake, Mich.; d. sota. ference president three months in 1985, Battle Ground, Wash. She taught Feb. 2, 1985, Forest City, Fla. She Paul Van Buren, district pastor, advance of the opening date.- W. C. church school in Washington, Idaho, served with her minister husband, Mer- Eustis/Groveland, Florida; formerly pas- Scales, Jr., NAD Ministerial Association Oregon, Colorado, and Nicaragua, and rett, in Michigan, Maine, and New York; tor, Texas Conference. Secretary, General Conference of served as educational superintendent for and in Takoma Park, Maryland, where he Seventh-day Adventists. the Washington and New York confer- was circulation manager for the Review Regular Missionary Service Atlantic Union ences. Survivors include her twin sister, and Herald periodical department. Saul Agosto (AU '79), to serve as Michael Sady, through June 7, Fulton, Nita Dickey; and one brother, C. F. SEVISON, Hazel E.-b. May 21, theology teacher, Chile Adventist Col- New York Davis. 1898, Western Pa.; d. Feb. 10, 1985, lege, Chillan, Chile, Dianna J. Jim Mamanua/Associates, through DOWDELL, Willie Steven-b. June Mount Vernon, Ohio. For more than 37 (Badaracco) Agosto (AU '79), and two May 31, Rochester, New York 22, 1961, Philadelphia, Pa.; d. Feb. 5, years she served in the Michigan and children, of Berrien Springs, Michigan, Michael Pizar, through June 5, Sara- 1985, Huntsville, Ala. A junior theology Ohio Book and Bible Houses, and the left Miami, March 18. toga Springs, New York student at Oakwood College, he and a Review and Herald Publishing Associa- Byron Edwin Conner (LLU '79), to Jack Jones/Edmond Robinson, friend for the past four years had held tion, Takoma Park, Maryland. Survivors serve as health/temperance director, through May 27, Binghamton, New York evangelistic meetings in New York State, include her sister, Eunice Ruth Ethiopian Union, Addis, Ababa, Ethio- Lee/Blanche Yates, through June 5, New Orleans, and Miami. Survivors Liscombe; one stepson, Kenneth; two pia, Alfredia (Spigner) Conner, and Candor, New York include his mother, Fannie M.; one stepdaughters, Velma Behner and Valeta two children, of Visalia, California, left Nikolaus Satelmajer/John Portney. sister, Shirley E. Wright; his grand- Judd; ten grandchildren; and ten great- Los Angeles, August 26, 1984. through June 5, New York, New York mother, Lucy Reed; one uncle, Charles grandchildren.

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Plans, the AHN held a national companies' sponsorship of SDA chosen Five-Day Plan trainer's course sporting events. Cigarette ads For the record to speak on in Los Angeles, May 17-21. A are placed close to the score- Preserving the past: second course will be held in boards at major sporting events, Andrews University trustees NBC program Washington, D.C., September Thomsen says, so they will be recently established a commit- Floyd Bresee, an associate 15-19. For more information, seen every time the score is tee to restore Brooknook, the director of the General Confer- call (202) 722-6721. shown on television. Thus they last original frame structure on ence Ministerial Association, LISA F. MORGAN can circumvent the Federal campus. Brooknook is the home has been chosen as the summer Communications Commission originally occupied by Edward speaker for the National Radio SDA books used ban on cigarette advertising. A. Sutherland, the first presi- Pulpit—the oldest continuous Each year since 1981 Thom- dent of Emmanuel Missionary network program on the air— by college students sen has coordinated an infor- College (now Andrews Univer- broadcast each Sunday by the mational protest of the Virginia sity). The house has served as NBC Radio Network. in Portugal Slims tennis tournament in the the president's residence, the For 13 weeks, beginning July Bras Soutero, a literature Washington, D.C., area. "The campus infirmary, and as stu- 7, Bresee will speak about evangelist in Setubal, Portugal, involvement of these healthy, dent housing. Plans are to Christ under the title "He Is recently had better success than nonsmoking tennis players with restore the first floor to its Able." he would have even dreamed of cigarettes has caused untold original appearance. The sec- Radio station managers when he canvassed a group of misery to other women," he ond story will house offices for wishing to carry the 15-minute college professors. says. "The anomaly of tennis the Institute of World Mission. broadcast may obtain reel-to- "Do you have something players being supported by and Session Super Day Camp: reel programs ($3.00 each) by about the Reformation?" a his- promoting cigarettes is unex- During the 1985 General Con- calling Dave Pomeroy at (212) tory professor asked him. "We plainable to me." ference session, young people 870-2575 or by arrangement have only a few resource books Thomsen says that most between 10 and 15 are invited to with the local NBC affiliate. on this period." women's magazines derive attend the Super Day Camp to Listeners should check local "Sir, I have exactly what you about 15 percent of their total be held at Fontainebleu State listings for broadcast times. want," Sotero replied, and advertising budget from ciga- Park. The park has more than VICTOR COOPER handed him a copy of The Great rette advertising. 2,700 acres (1,093 hectares) Controversy . RICHARD E. INGLISH adjacent to Lake Pontchartrain Health network "Please come back tomor- and offers 250 camping sites row," the professor said, "and Stanborough furnished with water, electric- seeks to register I will give you my response ity, and picnic tables. It also after I have looked at the book Press completes provides a sandy beach, swim- all programs more carefully." ming pool, two pavilions, and The Adventist Health Net- The next day Sotero was largest project impressive nature trails. For work in North America is surprised to hear that the pro- Stanborough Press recently detailed information contact attempting to maintain a list of fessor wanted the book and 40 held a special service of dedica- "Pastor Ron," Box 31000, all Seventh-day Adventist more copies—because "I will tion when the first copies of Shreveport, Louisiana 71130; churches and schools offering also recommend it to my history Footprints of Jesus came off the (318) 631-6240. the Five-Day Plan to Stop students." HEINZ HOPF press. This 256-page book on To new positions: Norman Smoking, stress-management the life of Christ represents the Doss, secretary, Carolina Con- seminars, cooking schools, and SDA physician most ambitious project ever ference, to be president, New the like, to make it easier for the undertaken by the press. York Conference. public to find out about the battles cigarette Footprints of Jesus, which Died: Daniel Walther, 83, programs. was five years in preparation, is college teacher and administra- "We welcome information advertising lavishly illustrated with Holy tor in Europe, North America, about local programs so we can "The cigarette industry is the Land photographs taken by and Southern Africa, and chair- refer people who call our toll- largest single advertising indus- some of the denomination's best man of the SDA Theological free number or respond to our try in the United States," photographers. Every spread Seminary Church History advertising," says R. E. according to Russel Thomsen, contains four-color pictures. Department for many years, Klimes, executive director of a Seventh-day Adventist physi- In his dedicatory prayer, April 12, Collegedale, Tennes- the Adventist Health Network. cian who is determined to cur- Northern European Division see. ❑ Amanda Williams, wife Information should be directed tail cigarette advertising as president Jan Paulsen said, of Cecil A. Williams, long-time to: AHN, 6840 Eastern Avenue much as possible. "May this impressive master- missionary to the Far East and NW., Washington, D.C. Of special interest to Thom- piece on the life of Jesus lead associate director of the General 20012. sen, according to an interview many in these isles to the foot of Conference Stewardship In an effort to improve the published in the February issue His cross." Department, March 26, Wes- effectiveness of Five-Day of Smoke Signals, is the tobacco D. N. MARSHALL ton, Oregon.

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