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Top, a general view of the sawmill at Moun- tain View College. Bot- tom, a log on a moving carriage going through the head saw. Right, boards being rolled from the head saw to the edger for trimming.

. _ N EXCITING new chapter has been added to have pra,vided employment.lor hundreds of students. the records of the achievement of Harris Pine Large cash contributions have been made directly to Mills—the successful commercial enterprise has the=the General Conference fOr assistance - to our world- stretched its hands across the sea. wide mission program. When ownership of the enterprise was transferred to While traveling through itte'Far East in 1963, C. H. the church in 1951 the gift was the largest individual Harris. and •his wife visited Mountain View College donation the church had ever received. With the bless- on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. They ing of the Lord the enterprise has continued to expand.. Were impressed-with the potential of a logging and saw- Branch plants, operating in proximity to our schools, mill operation being carried on by the school. Then in 1967 C. J. ,Nagele. president of Harris Pine Mills, also Paul H. Eldridge is president of the Far Eastern visited Mountain View College. Upon his return to Division. the, United' States, die hoard of Harris (To page 8) EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT

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READER in California recently sent us sev- a healthy body; and that one may enjoy better eral columns written by Erik von Kuehnelt- health without stimulants and condiments. Leddihn, a Catholic writer based in Eu- In spite of his mistaken premise, the columnist rope. One of the columns, written from Munich, went on to draw a conclusion that we like: "There Germany, described the author's visit to two Prot- is no important, durable religion which does not estant colleges in America. It said, in part: demand heroic abnegations." Sometimes people sug- "One [college] belonged to the Seventh-day Ad- gest that it costs too much in self-denial and sacri- ventists and was situated in the Northeast. Religion fice to be a Seventh-day Adventist. We say, Non- entirely dominated college life and I was deeply sense! Even if there were no hereafter, a person impressed by the fervor of students and faculty alike. would be wise to accept Adventism, for it offers the "Needless to say that there was no dancing, smok- abundant life. Restrictions on diet are to promote ing or drinking, the girls wore no makeup, Bible better health. Tithe paying puts one into partner- reading was a major feature and Greek was part of ship with God. Heavy financial giving prevents one the curriculum because, after all, Holy Scriptures from being controlled by covetousness. If these are should be read in the original. . . . "heroic abnegations," give us more! "Food was a special concern. Not only was there At the end of his column Mr. Von Kuehnelt- no meat, no tea, no coffee, but pepper and vinegar, Leddihn referred to the fact that some conservative too, were outlawed. Did I smile about such ab- Catholics are fearful of Protestant influences on the stemiousness? Not in the least. There is no impor- church. He added, however, that in his view this tant, durable religion which does not demand heroic danger is much less of a threat than the fact that abnegations. many Catholic colleges are "leaning over backwards "In my talks with the students I sensed their in their efforts 'to be of this world.' " The danger, religious earnestness and dedication. Many were as he sees it, comes from secularism. "Secularism heading for the missions, as preachers or doctors." is the real temptation appealing to the secret—or Mr. Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's observation that not so secret—desire to be accepted by 'the World.' " "religion entirely dominated college life" is en- couraging indeed, for it indicates that the church Danger of Worldly Influences is achieving its objective. Denominational leaders This is a great danger in our own church too. long have argued that the campus is a unity, that Ellen G. White expressed it like this: "Worldly in- it cannot be divided into "religious" areas and "non- fluences, like the waves of the sea, beat against the religious" areas. Seventh-day Adventist education followers of Christ to sweep them away from the deals with the total person, and whether a student true principles of His meekness and grace; but is studying the Bible or science, he is being exposed we are to stand as firm as a rock to principle. It to religious philosophy. Adventist parents are will- will require moral courage to do this, and those ing to pay for this kind of education because they whose souls are not riveted to the eternal Rock believe that all truth is God-centered, and they will be swept away by the worldly current. We can want their young people to see this relationship stand firm only as our life is hid with Christ in in every class, whether it be biology, literature, God. Moral independence is wholly in place when sociology, mathematics, or any other. opposing the world. By conforming entirely to the We concur with the columnist's impression that will of God, we shall be placed upon vantage Adventist students reveal "religious earnestness and ground, and shall see the necessity of decided sepa- dedication." At times some of our youth do them- ration from the customs and practices of the world." selves an injustice by aping their worldly contempo- —Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 146. raries in dress and appearance; but their attitudes, Adventist educational institutions are not yet all their commitment, and the whole direction of their that they should be. The heights of academic and lives are different from those of the godless, re- spiritual excellence still lie ahead. But let us bellious, drug-using generation outside the church. not be discouraged. Let us press forward, supporting Many students in our schools will be outstanding our educators who are endeavoring to make our workers for God. Many will man mission hospitals, schools what they should be, and claiming the fol- teach in mission schools, or preach to crowds large lowing promise: "Though in many respects our and small. And the majority, though not a part of institutions of learning have swung into worldly the denomination's organized thrust, will witness conformity, though step by step they have advanced for Christ in their professional and social lives, and toward the world, they are prisoners of hope. Fate will be the backbone of local churches. has not so woven its meshes about their workings Mr. Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn felt that "food was a that they need to remain helpless and in uncer- special concern." He considered the lack of meat, tainty. If they will listen to His voice and follow tea, coffee, pepper, and vinegar as abstemiousness. in His ways, God will correct and enlighten them, But elimination of these items is rooted, not in a and bring them back to their upright position of negative concept, but in a positive one—that the distinction from the world."—Ibid., p. 145. Holy Spirit can operate most effectively through K. H. W.

2 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 sacrifice. Such is the story behind the Briefs From the n.lifigic....u. -r news items telling of the ordination of -k“ INS.. I. B. Rankin (page 19) this week. I Ian and Molly Rankin became mem- SCAN Donald D. Reiber, author of "The bers of the Whangarei, New Zealand, 2 V Talent of Fear" (page 4), received his SDA church in 1960 through the influ- do undergraduate degree from Walla ence of a layman. Both of the Rankins i8 Briefs From the Religious ilro Walla College in 1961 and immediately are certified public accountants. They entered denominational work as a were living comfortably, looking for- MANY BRING BIBLES TO church school teacher in Bozeman, Mon- ward to continuing their life style while GRAHAM CRUSADE IN CHICAGO tana. At the end of the year he entered serving the church in a lay capacity. CHICAGO—Evangelist Billy Graham, Andrews University to continue his However, as the months passed, a con- during a recent 11-day crusade, prayed for theological studies and received his Mas- viction deepened that they should be a "spiritual prairie fire that will sweep ter's degree in Old Testament in 1963. more actively engaged in full-time across the country." Since that time he has been a minister church work. Friends offered differing Returning to Chicago after nine years, in the Upper Columbia Conference. He advice, but their own conviction grew Mr. Graham continued, according to one was ordained in 1967 and served as until at the North New Zealand camp reporter, "to spellbind thousands each night youth pastor of the Walla Walla Col- meeting of December, 1962, they com- with his familiar exhortation that 'God lives.' lege church in 1968 and 1969. mitted themselves during an early morn- Half the people arrive carrying Bibles." A young woman, Kay Kuzma, writes ing prayer meeting. Mr. Graham urged the audience to con- on the subject of discipline in the Fam- Within a few days their home was tinue bringing Bibles every night. "The ily Living pages this week (page 11). sold, and Ian and Molly Rankin, with Bible is going to be my textbook," he said. Making a clear distinction between disci- their children, were at Avondale Col- "Not what the sociologists say. We've heard pline and punishment, she deals speci- lege, Australia, where he began prepar- that! Not what the professors say. We've fically with spanking. ing for the ministry. Funds became low, heard that! Not what the politicians say. Mrs. Kuzma holds her Bachelor of and the grind was hard. Ian drove truck We've heard that! What the Bible says!" Science in home economics from Loma part time to earn enough to provide for Linda University (1962), her Master's the family. ANOTHER FIRST: WOMAN NAMED in child development from Michigan After graduating in 1966, the Rankins TO HEAD DEACONESS AGENCY State University (1963), and her Ed.D. accepted a call to New Zealand for pas- in early childhood education from toral and evangelistic work, and then VALPARAISO, IND.—Despite its name, UCLA (1970). She has worked as an in January, 1970, he became principal the Lutheran Deaconess Association has al- elementary teacher and was assistant of Kabiufa Adventist College in the ways had a man as its executive director. professor and director of the preschool New Guinea Highlands. But that 50-year-old tradition was broken lab at San Fernando Valley State Col- Readers who are up to the minute on here when Dr. Lucille Wassman became the lege. denominational workers may wonder first woman to head the LDA. In addition to being wife and mother, whether we aren't. David Dennis, at the The new director is also the first non- she is teaching courses in two depart- time of writing "The Call of the Can- clergyman to hold the post. ments at Loma Linda and is establishing nibal Valley" (page 14), was the treas- a children's center for two-to-seven-year- urer of the West Indonesian Union CARDINAL BACKS GUITAR MASS olds at the University church. It will Mission. He has just been elected audi- serve as a laboratory for university and tor of the Far Eastern Division. LONDON—Young people who like gui- academy students. Vacationers remember that now is a tars at mass should not be criticized, ac- She is a member of a number of pro- good time to get rid of the Adventist cording to John Cardinal Heenan, Arch- fessional organizations, including Delta magazines that have accumulated over bishop of Westminster. Phi Upsilon, an honor society for early the past year. Hand them out to people He made the comment in a pastoral read childhood education. you meet as you travel. throughout his archdiocese, adding, "If we Each new ordained minister repre- It's also a good time to use the REVIEW don't like such masses we can always choose sents years of preparation and dedica- Friendship Issue. another time." tion; not often do we even bother to TEXTS IN THIS ISSUE credited to N.E.B. are "Tolerance is a form of Christian charity," think of that. But more than the prep- from The New English Bible, © The Delegates of he said. "Some like Latin, some like English. the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the There is room for us all in the Church of aration and dedication, there is another Cambridge University Press 1970. Reprinted by per- element that is often a major factor— mission. God."

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REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 3 HAVE never met a five-talent man, at least not that filled their hearts. Unde at the words one who claimed to have five talents. This strikes of Jesus meant to those w em, we may I me as a bit strange. Whenever the subject of tal- discern in them new vividne eauty, and may ents is brought up, people just seem to stampede into also gather for ourselves their er lessons."' the one-talent corral. This reaction is the natural result With this intriguing idea a launching pad, let of the traditional use made of this parable by preachers us take a flight backward in and join Jesus and preaching on it. The focus is on inherited abilities and His disciples. It is a pleasant Ttfesday evening in early acquired skills. The thrust of such sermons is that if spring. The crucifixion is only three days away. these are used in God's service they will be increased, Earlier in the day, possibly late morning, Jesus deliv- and we shall be rewarded. But if they are not so used ered His woe-filled rebukes to the Pharisees and de- we shall lose them, and what is worse—eternal life, parted from the Temple—forever. Later, on the Mount as well. of Olives, He gave His discourse on last-day events. This The hesitancy to lay claim to more than one talent He immediately followed with the series of illustrations stems, in part at least, from a reluctance to accept found in Matthew 25, which show who would and who responsibility. Such reluctance is deeply embedded in would not be ready for His second coming. It is this human nature. No doubt modesty is also a factor, and part of the lecture that we interrupt by our arrival. in a few instances it could be genuine honesty, But As we join the group, our Lord has just completed the the rush to rally around the one-talent standard is quite parable of the ten virgins. disproportionate to real life. The first words we hear are these: "For the kingdom The common use made of this parable is, of course, of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, valid. But the traditional application does not exhaust who called his own servants, and delivered unto them the theme. In fact, when Jesus told the parable I his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another think the disciples gained a different insight from two, and to another one; to every man according to what we do today—and reacted differently. his several ability; and straightway took his journey." Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing provides this stimulating suggestion with reference to a study of the Meaning of "Talent" Sermon on the Mount, a principle that may be applied In these two sentences is one word that meant some- to other passages, as well: "Let us in imagination go thing entirely different to the disciples than it means back to that scene, and, as we sit with the disciples on to us. That word is talent. To them a talent was not the mountainside, enter into the thoughts and feelings an aptitude, an ability, or a skill; it was a unit of weight or money. We must understand the significance Donald Reiber is a district pastor in Grandview, that an amount of money had for them in order to get Washington. the insight they gained from the parable.

4 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 By DONALD REIBER

The value of the talent in U.S. currency is about things"' is his way of saying, "This is just the begin- $630.' However, to grasp the significance, we have to ning of marvelous things we will do together." understand what this amount represented in the eco- But servant number three paints a radically differ- nomic structure of that day. To Christ's disciples this ent picture! With harsh, accusing strokes he sketches sum represented the wages of 20 years-20 years of the likeness of a severe, penny-pinching, slave-driving hard, back-breaking labor, working from daylight to taskmaster. "Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard dark six days a week. man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering In order to help us sense the impact even better, let where thou hast not strawed: and I was afraid, and us translate a talent into the economic structure of went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou our day. Suppose you were to work at a minimum hourly hast that is thine."' wage of $1.75 per hour, eight hours a day (not from Since the master represents Christ,' I used to feel daylight to dark), five days a week (not six), and do uncomfortable having my Lord represented by such a this for 20 years. Your earnings would be $72,800. This seemingly harsh person. It has been said that not all sum is the modern-day economic equivalent of a talent. details of a parable need to be taken to their literal Thus, if Jesus were telling the parable to Americans extremes. Therefore, all we need to see here is Christ in 1971 here is how it would sound: For the kingdom represented as the proprietor. We need not conclude of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country, that His character is represented, because elsewhere who called his own servants, and delivered unto them the Bible describes His character otherwise. This ex- his goods. And unto one of them he gave $364,000, to planation was acceptable, but it was not satisfactory. another $145,600, and to another $72,800; to every Variations on the Theme man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey. But one day I noticed that Luke 19 contains this There was a time when I sympathized with the one- parable with some variations, but teaching the same talent servant, and I've known others who shared this lesson, of course. In Luke's account the master's reply feeling to some degree. I suppose it's because we tend need not be taken as agreeing with his unfaithful ser- to pull for the underdog. The line of reasoning went vant. something like this: After all, the poor fellow did not Notice the master's first words in verse 22, "Out have much going for him. The master ought to have of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked been glad that he did not lose it or squander it as the servant." Now let us read the rest of his reply as a series prodigal son did.' But when we understand that the of questions instead of statements as many scholars do. one talent he received represented 20 years' wages, we "Thou knewest that I was an austere man? taking up that are no longer inclined to be so sympathetic. I really I laid not down? reaping that I did not sow? Wherefore doubt that any of the disciples felt sorry for him. I then gayest not thou my money into the bank, that believe any one of them would have been quite happy at my coming I might have required mine own with to have been in his shoes—even greedy, grasping Judas usury?" " Iscariot. We might paraphrase Christ's reply thus. "If I am To me the major thrust of this parable when Jesus really austere, if I actually take up what I do not lay told it is not what the servants did with their talents, down, if, in fact, I reap where I have not planted, but why they did what they did. Why did two of them if I were verily this kind of person, the very least you succeed and one fail? could have done was put it in the bank to draw interest. The key lies buried in the accounting given to the Isn't that right?" master on his return. Each servant paints a portrait of I'm sure that when Jesus told the parable and came his master from his own point of view. to the place where the servant hid the money in the Notice the portrait of servant number one. "Lord, ground that this thought flashed through the disciples' thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have minds, The fool! Why didn't he at least put it in the gained beside them five talents more." Now let us bank? read it using the present day economic equivalent. The unfaithful servant cannot bring himself to "Lord, thou deliveredst unto me $364,000; behold, I admit his error. Like the guest without a wedding gar- have gained $364,000 more." Can't you just hear his ment, he is speechless. voice bubble with enthusiasm and joy? His words ring Thus, if we read the master's answer in Luke's with appreciation for the chance of a lifetime! There gospel as a series of questions, we see that the master's is keen anticipation in his voice; anticipation for the portrait as drawn by servants one and two is indeed commendation he knows he will receive from the master the correct one. More than that, we gain an incisive whom he serves gladly. glimpse into the character of the one-talent servant. Even though the second servant received only two talents, three talents less than the first, this in modern A String of Failures economic terms represented $145,000. He was just as I picture him as follows: This failure was not his happy as the first servant and shared the joy of the first first. It was the last in a long string of failures that servant.' had become successively more frequent in occurrence The master's reply, "Well done, good and faithful and progressively more serious in nature. Whenever servant," is his way of saying, "I knew you could do something went wrong, it was never his fault. He it." His voice brims with joy and radiates satisfaction. was the victim of bad luck; some fellow employee had His statement "I will make thee ruler over many failed to do his part. This servant was one of that

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 5 legion who are never without an ex- Eden. Adam attempted to shift the this parable. Adam said, "I was cuse, but always without a reason. blame for his failure on God, "The afraid, . . . and I hid." " The one- His employer had tolerated the woman whom thou gayest to be talent servant said, "I was afraid, shoddy workmanship and slipshod with me . . ." " Ever since then . . . and hid." " The talent he pos- methods because he felt sorry for the guilty sinners have sought to shift sessed was the talent of fear, the man's family. Furthermore, he rec- the blame for their actions onto title of this article. Fear is the basis ognized the man did have potential shoulders other than their own. This of his entire relationship with his and sought to tap it. He knew the is exactly what the one-talent ser- master. dismal record did not merit entrust- vant attempted to do by his sting- From our study it is clear that ing the man with even one talent, ing portrayal. the fundamental difference be- but he risked it. The master can do nothing more tween the three servants in the par- If the negligent servant would for him. The man's day of grace able is not the number of talents rise to the challenge of such an has passed. The only choice is to they received nor what they did excellent opportunity the whole pat- relieve the unfaithful servant of with them—or even the rewards be- tern of his life could be reversed. his privileges and responsibilities. stowed. Their concept of the master's The master gambled a fortune in a The punishment was what justice character made all the difference in last attempt to salvage a soul from demanded—no more and no less. I the world—the difference between ruin. doubt that anyone in Christ's audi- life and death. ence sympathized with him. By his I feel the disciples discerned this Smear Campaign own words and action the third ser- kernel of truth the day Jesus told But the patience and forbear- vant condemned himself. The result the parable. It is a kernel of truth ance of the master, instead of re- would have been exactly the same not usually brought out in the tra- forming the man, seemed to have had he been entrusted with five tal- ditional application, but perhaps the opposite effect. The excuses for ents." awareness of it may slow down the his failure became more flimsy, and stampede to crowd into the one- the language he used in blaming The Result of Fear talent corral. One-talent servants others for his mistakes became more The distorted picture painted by are those who say they know God, abusive. The caustic characteriza- the unfaithful servant is the inevi- but serve Him from fear. They feel tion of his employer as a hard man table result of fear, and fear is trig- it is so hard to be a Christian. There is the capstone. gered by a fractured relationship are so many things you can't do, This ugly, smear campaign is an with God. We now hear a second can't eat, can't wear, that life is a echo we hear from the Garden of echo from the Garden of Eden in dismal drudge. One-talent servants may occupy church pews, but they are reluctant to actively engage in the witness and outreach programs of the church—thus they hide the treasure entrusted to them. One- Money in Bible Times----6 talent servants blame God — and THE WIDOW'S MITE others—for their failures, but not themselves. Like the servant in the By KENNETH L. VINE parable their day of grace will pass, and they will stand condemned by XCEPT for "virgin's lamps," wid- 42, which refers to the widow's mites their own words and their own E ow's mites, more than any other but informs us that two mites equal a item, are sought by tourists passing farthing (Greek, kodrantes). actions. through Beirut. These are becoming If, as according to Matthew 10:29, Tragically, they will receive what increasingly difficult to obtain, and, in two sparrows are sold for a farthing, they deserve instead of receiving general, are not well preserved. But we must conclude from this and Mark eternal life, which they do not de- what are they like? 12:42 that a "widow's mite" would serve, but which they could have The word translated "mite" is the purchase one sparrow. Sparrows to through a relationship with Jesus Greek word lepton. It is used three this day are considered a delicacy in Christ based on love. times in the Bible: (1) Luke 12:59, the Middle East and every day we where a man is represented as needing hear the guns of hunters shooting God grant that all Seventh-day to pay his last mite to get out of sparrows, and see the men walking Adventists might come to know as prison; (2) chapter 21:2, where Jesus home with bundles of sparrows tied we should "what is the breadth, and saw a "certain poor widow casting in to their belts. length, and depth, and height; and thither two mites"; and (3) Mark 12: The most common "mites" in circu- to know the love of Christ." " Then lation in Christ's day are believed to no one will possess the talent of fear, be rough copies of Maccabean coins for to know the dimensions of this minted under (1) John Hyrcanus (134-104 B.C.), which have a Hebrew love is to experience perfect love and legend on the obverse and a double "perfect love casteth out fear."' 4-4 cornucopia and pomegranate or poppy head on the reverse, or (2) 1 Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, p. 1. Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 B.C.), (Italics supplied.) 2 Matt. 25:14. 15. which have an anchor on the obverse 5 SDA Irble Dictionary, p. 733. and a wheel on the reverse. These 4 Luke 15:11-13. 5 Matt. 25:20. were struck on strips of metal, broken Verse 22. off, and put in circulation without 7 Verse 23. smoothing or finishing. So many were 8 Verse 24. ° Christ's Object Lessons, p. 325. struck by these two men that there " Luke 19:22. was little need for more in Christ's " Gen. 3:12. day, even though the Herods did 1, Ibid., p. 355. 15 Gen. 3:10. "Widow's Mites" strike a few. '4 Matt. 25:25. " Eph. 3:18, 19. " 1 John 4:18. 6 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 a

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ECENTLY a railroad bridge Sabbath desecration was among wearing his best clothes, takes a in Chicago, Illinois, was them. Other prophets joined in tour through a coal mine. Unless R damaged when the river over raising their voices against the evils extreme care is taken, his garments which it crossed caught fire. There they saw among the people. Speak- are liable to get some black spots was such a scum of waste products ing through Moses, the Lord earlier on them. from nearby refineries and steel had admonished the Israelite lead- Perhaps the words "extreme care" plants in the water that when a ers against polluting their land by offer a part of the solution to the match was dropped into it—per- not administering proper justice to problem. But this care cannot be haps by a careless smoker—the fire evildoers (Num. 35:33). Jeremiah merely an attempt to live in a legal- department had to be called to put spoke to King Zedekiah about pol- istic alignment to the requirements out the resulting blaze before the luting the house of the Lord (Chron. of God's law; it must be a complete bridge was damaged beyond repair. 36:11-14). The same prophet de- surrender of the will to the will of Pollution is a word that was clared that by not obeying the com- Christ, that He may work in our scarcely used a few years ago; now mands of the Lord, the people were hearts to remake our lives in His it is on everyone's lips. We breathe polluting even His name (Jer. 34:16). image, cleansing them from all im- polluted air; we eat food polluted Isaiah acknowledged that the Sab- purity in the process. from insecticides, mercury com- bath can be polluted by one's not A large industrial plant was or- pounds, and other contaminants; observing it properly (Isa. 56:2). dered to cut down the pollution most of us drink water from which In New Testament times the Gen- from its smokestacks, which were (we hope) the harmful impurities tile Christians were advised by • the belching black clouds into the at- have been removed by elaborate church council at Jerusalem to "ab- mosphere. An apparatus was in- processes; and we ponder the pos- stain from pollutions of idols" (Acts stalled that electrostatically charged sible evils of thermal pollution 15:20). the smoke particles, causing them from large quantities of warm water If spiritual pollution, like the to fall to the bottom of the stack, discharged into our lakes and rivers pollution of the physical world, con- where they could be cleaned out. by nuclear plants that are built on sists of allowing contaminants to When this device was put into op- the shores. spoil something that would other- eration, the effect was almost un- It is a healthy sign to see the pub- wise be pure—in this case "pure re- believable. Within a few minutes lic concerned over this problem. It ligion and undefiled before God," the visible smoke disappeared and would be encouraging to see in the as James describes it (James 1:27)— the surrounding sky was clear again. religious world a similar concern then it is important that we should This is just what the Lord wishes over another form of pollution—one guard against its occurrence. to do with us. He will charge our that is just as widespread and in- Governments of the world are lives with His love, causing the herently more dangerous—spiritual enacting strict laws to provide safe- harmful aspects to drop out. He pollution. guards against pollution. Should we will fill the vacancy with things do less to keep our Christian ex- that are true, honest, just, pure, The Prophets' Warnings perience without spot? lovely, and of good report (Phil. 4: Several Old Testament prophets 8). saw this danger and warned against Exposure to Spiritual Pollution In describing the effect of the it. Among them was Ezekiel, who Just as there are countless sources blessed hope of seeing Him "as he said to the Israelites of his day: "Ye spewing harmful substances into is" and being "like him," John pollute yourselves with all your the lakes, rivers, and oceans, and stated that "every man that hath idols" (Eze. 20:31). Earlier he had into the atmosphere, there are myr- this hope in him purifieth himself described some of the impurities iads of sources for impurities to even as he is pure" (1 John 3:2, 3). that had crept into their worship— come into one's life. Daily exposure A pure life, free from sin, is the to TV, books and magazines, and goal of every Christian. The Sav- Eugene Lincoln is editor of The the sights and sounds of a world iour has provided the means of Sabbath Sentinel, a position he has that has forgotten Christ puts the achieving this goal. Dare we settle held since 1960. believer in the position of one who, for anything less? ++

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 7 HARRIS PINE MILLS can be produced by the new mill. ing equipment will cost about US- Through a miracle, the college $75,000. The brethren have faith REACHES OVERSEAS has come into possession of a 500- to believe that the same God who kilowatt hydroelectric generating has led in the project thus far will (Continued from page 1) unit. They have also received from not fail to lead in securing the neces- the Philippine Government the water sary additional funds. Pine Mills responded to his enthusi- Mountain View College and the astic report by taking an official rights to a river that is adjacent to the campus and that has an ade- Far Eastern Division salute Harris action to assist the college in con- quate year-round flow. Damming Pine Mills for its helping hands structing and equipping a new and this river and installing the generat- across the sea. ++ more efficient sawmill. These contributions include: Cash, US$35,000 and salary and expense budget for one overseas FOR THE YOUNGER SET sawmill expert to install the equip- ment. Items of equipment (estimated Rosalyn and the Promises values in Philippine pesos): One edger, P40,000, one planer, P100,- By ELLA RUTH ELKINS 000, one 50-kilowatt caterpillar die- sel electric generator set, '50,000. ROSALYN lay face down on her bed, that text before that I can remember. I W. A. Watts was appointed to sobbing. Mother stepped into the room like it. It makes me feel that more than implement the sawmill project. Un- and sat down on the bed beside her ever God will help me now." der his direction the old plant was young daughter. "Right!" Mother smiled. "Now turn dismantled, an entire new sawmill "What's the trouble, dear? Did you to one last promise before we have was constructed, and the equipment have trouble again today at school?" prayer. Turn to Ezekiel 36:26 to 28." Rosalyn lifted her head a little and received from Harris Pine Mills was Rosalyn found the text: " 'A new sobbed, "Uh-huh," and then she put heart also will I give you, and a new installed. In addition to his long her face into the covers and cried all spirit will I put within you: and I will years of practical experience, Brother the harder. take away the stony heart out of your Watts brought to his task an inven- "Would you like to tell me about flesh, and I will give you an heart of tive mechanical ingenuity that made it?" Mother stroked her daughter's hair. flesh. And I will put my spirit within it possible for him and his assistants "It's . . . just . . . the same . . . old you, and cause you to walk in my stat- to fabricate on the site the entire . . . thing. I got mad during recess and utes, and ye shall keep my judgments, track and log-carriage assembly. slapped Judy again. I . . . I . . . I don't and do them. And ye shall dwell in the On February 4, 1971, the new want . . . to do things like . . . that. I land that I gave to your fathers; and ye plant began operations. It is now really don't. But I always seem to do shall be my people, and I will be your the things . . . I don't really want to God.' " turning out 6,000 to 8,000 board feet . . . do!" She broke down and cried Mother knelt beside the bed and a day, but has a potential output some more. Rosalyn slipped down beside her. of 15,000 board feet a day when an Mother thought awhile. When Rosa- As they arose from their knees, any- adequate power supply can be pro- lyn had quieted down, Mother asked, one would have been able to tell that vided. "Did you tell Judy you were sorry?" angels of God were present and had car- With an almost unlimited mar- "Yes, the teacher had us both stay ried their prayers to heaven, just by the ket, it appears that there will be a after school. That's why I got home late lights shining in their eyes. ready sale for all the lumber that again. But why do I do those things? I Rosalyn followed Mother into the try and try and try so hard. And then I kitchen to help prepare supper. She just find myself slapping somebody or hadn't done that for a long time, and The end cutoff saw trims the boards pushing him or hurting him by the it gave her a good feeling inside. On the to length. Unusable scrap pieces are things I say until he feels bad. Oh, I'm hauled away and burned for firewood. way they passed Little Bear, the fam- so miserable, I feel mean!" There was ily's pet hamster, in his cage. a new flood of tears. "Oh, look at that rascal!" Rosalyn "Then let's ask Jesus to help you see pointed at Little Bear. "There he is what is wrong." Mother gave Rosalyn a trying with all his might to open that hearty squeeze. "We'll ask Him to help cage door. He has gripped those bars you change your ways. Hand me your with his teeth and just look at him Bible and let's read before we pray." strain as he pushes up. With all that Mother turned to Matthew 7:7 and effort it seems he could get what he 8 and handed the Bible back to Rosa- wants. Why can't he open the door?" lyn. Rosalyn read: Mother gave a little laugh. "Look " 'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, down at his feet and you'll see why." and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be "Oh! Why, he's holding the bottom opened unto you: for every one that bar of the door down with one front foot asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh while he's trying with all his might with findeth; and to him that knocketh it the other foot and his teeth to push in shall be opened.' " the opposite direction!" Then talking "That means that when we ask for to the hamster, she said, "Little Bear, forgiveness for our sins and ask God you can't get anywhere by pushing in to help us not do them anymore He will opposite directions at the same time. I do that for us," Mother said. "Now turn know. I've been trying it for a long to Numbers 23:19." time, and it doesn't work." " 'God is not a man, that he should But Little Bear didn't understand. He lie; neither the son of man, that he just kept on pushing in both directions should repent: bath he said, and shall at once. Rosalyn shook her head and he not do it? or hath he spoken, and wondered if he'd ever learn. She was shall he not make it good?' " Rosalyn sure that she would never again be as turned to face Mother. "I never read foolish as Little Bear,

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 'M NOT a Christian; I don't be- The Jerusalem Conference on Bible Prophecy-3 lieve in God; and the Bible is 1 full of contradictions." Six-foot- six-inch Jerome Hines, celebrated opera star, who had delighted the conference with his superb singing, startled the participants as he thus began his testimony one evening. The Historic Conference But he hastened to add, "I'm not a Christian. I'm a Christ-ian. People talk about putting Christ back into Christmas; I say, put Christ back on Prophecy Closes into Christian. "I don't believe in God; I know God. "The Bible is full of contradic- By DON F. NEUFELD tions; it contradicts everything the human heart craves." Jerry, as he is affectionately called, subject of two presentations, the enjoys nothing more than singing of Calculating the period from the fall of Jerusalem in 587 s.c. (his date) first by Harold John Ockenga, presi- the love of God to outcasts at city dent of Gordon-Conwell Theological missions and witnessing to them by to 538 B.e. (also his date), Alexander Wachtel, a clergyman from Jerusa- Seminary, author of several books on personal testimony. prophecy. He noted first of all that In one of the most moving mo- lem, Israel, arrived at the figure of 49 years. This period, he suggested, he believes in the principle of a dual ments of the conference, he sang interpretation of many of the proph- what he considers to be the greatest corresponded to the ancient 49 years after which came the year of Jubilee. ecies; that is, there is an immediate song in Christian literature—"The fulfillment, which, however, does Holy City." He was accompanied The period from A.D. 70 to 1948 (1,878 years), during which Israel not exhaust the prophecy, and an by a local Jerusalem orchestra'. The ultimate fulfillment. As an example message was poignantly relevant, later was away from her land, he he cited Isaiah 7:14 which, he holds, sung, as it was, in the ancient city pointed out to be much longer than applies immediately to a woman in itself, to an audience that had, for the Babylonian period. Why? Be- cause of the enormity of their sin in Isaiah's day, as well as to the mother the most part, visited the supposed of Jesus, who bore Him 'as a virgin. sites of the crucifixion at one of rejecting the Messiah, he suggested. Quoting a source that estimated it In fact, he views much of prophecy which, or near which, the shadow as an incoming tide with successive of the ancient cross had been cast. would take Israel till 1981 to become secure, he subtracted 70 from 1981 waves of fulfillment. At the same But the song did not leave us pon- time he does not believe that all Old dering the scene of the crucifixion to arrive at the figure 1911. This last figure he divided by 49, which gave Testament prophecies can be spiritu- only. alized away and applied to the Chris- "Once again the scene was him the product 39 (40 stripes save one, 2 Cor. 11:24). tian church. changed. Mentioning first prophecies now New earth there seemed to be. We saw little point in these calcu- lations. We cite them here, simply in the process of fulfillment, but not I saw the Holy City beside the directly presaging the second com- tideless sea." by way of interest, to show in what channels certain minds run. We ing of Christ, he listed the four Though the conference had cen- horsemen of Revelation 6. The white tered on present Jerusalem and its place no credence in these figures whatsoever. Nothing else along this horse and his rider he believes rep- significance in prophecy, the song resent the preaching of the gospel carried us beyond to the Jerusalem line was offered at the conference, at least in public presentation. We mentioned in Matthew 24:14; the above, which will never "pass away," red horse and rider, general persecu- which one day will descend upon the saw no evidence that the view at- tracted much attention. tion throughout the ages; the black mount on which a few days ago we horse and rider, famines as men- had stood and on which we had Signs of Christ's coming were the often gazed as we moved up and down the streets of that historic city. The Western Wall of the Temple (the Wailing Wall) is one of the most sacred Jewish sites. "Sing for the night is o'er." How comforting the words Jerry intoned in his rich bass! How thrilling it will be when eventually the conflict is over, the victory is won, and our feet walk the streets of that golden city. Variety of Viewpoints The last full day of the conference arrived quickly. What struck us was the variety of viewpoints represented in the program planned by the com- mittee. Even a bit of numerology showed up in one of the lectures. Don F. Neufeld is an associate editor of the REVIEW.

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 tioned in Matthew 24:7; and the of the groups. In the first, which was ives). As we sat in the amphitheater pale horse, pestilence and earth- focusing on the antichrist, the ques- facing eastward we could see in quakes. It is obvious that Dr. Ock- tion was raised as to whether he the distance, almost obscured by the enga does not follow the historicist would be a person. The consensus early-morning haze, the northern interpretation subscribed to by Sev- seemed to be that he would be. end of the Dead Sea. Beyond we enth-day Adventists, which sees in Someone raised the question as to saw the heights of what formerly the seals a successive portrayal of the significance of the number 666. was Moab (now a part of the king- the church's history from John's day No one came up with a satisfactory dom of Jordan), from which Moses to the end. answer, and past efforts at identifica- viewed the Promised Land. In be- tion with historical figures were de- tween, less obscured by the haze, Expected Fulfillment of Prophecies preciated. rose the rolling hills of the Judean Among the prophecies not yet ful- In the discussion group on Reve- desert through which winds the road filled he mentioned (1) Israel dwell- lation, the question was raised as to from Jerusalem to Jericho. ing safely (Eze. 38:8, 11, 16, a pas- the significance of the little book There was no dearth of clergymen sage he believes applies to literal in the angel's hand, which in John's to serve the emblems. More than Israel in the future); (2) the tribu- mouth was sweet, but later became 200 had registered for the confer- lation, the one in which the wrath bitter (Revelation 10). The modera- ence. Among those assisting was of God is poured out; (3) the rap- tor, Merril C. Tenney, suggested that Roy A. Anderson, former secretary ture (he believes in the saints' being it represented God's word for the of the General Conference Ministe- raptured from this earth before the people—the more you think it over, rial Association. Emphasizing his Second Coming); (4) the Second the harder it will be to digest it, but key thought in the Communion ad- Coming, when every eye shall see it will give comfort to others when dress, Richard C. Halvorsen, pastor Him, which he believes comes some you speak it. As to the 144,000, he of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, time after the rapture; (5) various stated that he believed they would Washington, D.C., stated, "Whatever judgments; (6) the millennium. be literal Jews. He said he did not you wish you had done when you Concerning signs in the sun, know why Dan was left out of the stand before Jesus Christ, do it now." moon, and stars, he stated that he list of tribes. In answer to a question "The world is love-starved," he said. did not know how to apply them. on the millennium, he replied that "Even the church is love-starved." But highly significant to him was the he did not wish to dogmatize on The bread was baked in large flat prediction in Luke 21:24. In current what the millennium will be like. circular disks about 18 inches in events he saw an end to the "times of In the third and last group we diameter, and had been prepared in the Gentiles." had time to visit, the discussion cen- Bethlehem. As the ministers passed A second presentation by Wilbur tered on the church and the tribu- these disks, each participant broke M. Smith, professor emeritus of Eng- lation and was under the direction off a piece. The wine was served in lish Bible at Trinity Evangelical of Paul P. Fryling, a pastor from cups of olive wood made by Arab Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was of Christians. Each participant was al- (he was absent because of a broken the opinion that the church would lowed to keep his cup as a souvenir arm, but his paper was read to the not be raptured before the tribula- of the service. Closing the morning conference), emphasized also the sign tion, as many held. "It's too much service, and with it the historic Jeru- of the "times of the Gentiles" (Luke to believe," he said, "that you won't salem Conference on Bible Proph- 21:24) as one of the great prophetic be singed." The two witnesses (Rev- ecy, Dr. Ockenga quoted from the factors of our generation. However, elation 11), he thinks, will be the closing chapter of the Bible, "Be- Dr. Smith admitted that a reversal Jews and the Gentiles, who in the hold, I come quickly." To this, he of current political conditions could end will cooperate in worldwide suggested, every Christian should prolong that time. In other words, evangelism. respond in the words of John, "Even according to him the time may not so, come, Lord Jesus." yet have ended. Another significant God of All Nations As we reported earlier, the sign he mentioned was the phenom- In the closing address of the con- Seventh-day Adventist positions on enal spread of the gospel in all the ference, John R. W. Stott, pastor of prophecy were not represented at the world. He noted that in one of his the All Souls Church in London, conference, although certain points televised crusade addresses Billy Gra- England, and honorary chaplain to emphasized by Seventh-day Advent- ham reaches more people in one eve- Her Majesty the Queen, reminded ists were mentioned by some of the ning than did Dwight L. Moody in evangelical Christians that they are speakers; for example, the Biblical his lifetime. in danger of making Christ too teaching that God is a God of all The afternoon of the last full day small. "God is actually a God of nations. In the concluding article (June 17) was given over to group all nations, but Anglo-Saxons some- we shall evaluate what was presented discussions. This was the only part how feel that they have an edge on at the conference in the light of of the conference that provided op- Him," he cautioned. "Election and Seventh-day Adventist positions on portunity for feedback. Fifteen favoritism," he said, "are not the prophecy. groups were formed, meeting in as same thing. The purpose of election That an international conference many areas and discussing such a is that through the witness of the on prophecy was held at which the wide range of topics as "Signs at few the many may believe." In broad second coming of Christ was high- the End of the Age," "The Book sweeps reviewing sacred history, he lighted is significant. What its im- of Revelation," "The Antichrist," showed that in all periods God con- pact will be in terms of a revival "Christ in the Old Testament," tinued to reveal Himself as the God of prophetic study and preaching, "The Resurrection," "Evangelical of the whole earth. or in terms of a readjustment of in- Christianity and the Youth Counter- The conference ended Friday terpretation or emphasis on the part Culture," "The Rapture of the morning, June 18, in an impressive of some, or in terms of an awakening Church," and "Evangelism and the communion service on the Mount of of the world at large, remains to be Lord's Return." Olives (actually Mount Scopus, the seen. ++ We had time to visit only three northern end of the Mount of 01- (Continued next week) 10 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 IFearrsily Livirika

this has upon the child. A parent may begin to get some feeling of what this type of punishment does Is Spanking Necessary? to a child when he thinks of how he would feel in the child's place. On this point Mrs. White has By KAY KUZMA commented: "When you scolded your children, when with angry blows you struck those who were ARENTS generally agree that tion of helping the recipient im- too small to defend themselves, did an important child-rearing goal prove himself and helping him learn you ask yourself what effect such pis to have well-disciplined and a lesson that may make him a better treatment would have upon you? obedient children. But, they do not person. Discipline should be thought Have you thought how sensitive always agree on the methods of of as teaching. If one punishes with you are in regard to words of cen- discipline that should be used in the purpose of teaching, one is really sure or blame? how quickly you reaching this goal successfully. Dis- disciplining. If one accepts these feel hurt if you think that someone ciplinary methods differ in their ef- definitions of punishment and dis- fails to recognize your capabilities? fectiveness and some of them have un- cipline, then one can easily conclude You are but grown-up children. foreseen consequences. Ellen White that punishment to pacify one's an- Then think how your children must states that it is the mother's work to ger or as an attempt to prevent a re- feel when you speak harsh, cutting "subdue the will and temper of the currence of a wrong act should not words to them, severely punishing child and bring its disposition into be used. them for faults that are not half so subjection." But she also says that In Child Guidance, Ellen White grievous in the sight of God as is "by kind and judicious management, states, "Many parents follow im- your treatment of them."—Ibid., p. [a child] can be taught to obey," and pulse. They forget that the present 280. that "to maintain this authority, it is and future good of their children not necessary to resort to harsh requires intelligent discipline." Aggression Imitated measures" (Child Guidance, pp. —Page 237. Mrs. White and psy- No other behavior that a child 82, 83). chologists of today agree that even observes is more imitated than that Some parents frequently resort to though physical punishment may of aggression. Prof. Albert Bandura harsh measures, such as slapping, sometimes be used as a last resort, and his colleagues at Stanford Uni- jerking, shaking, shoving, hitting, it cannot be considered intelligent versity have conducted a number or spanking. Spanking is popular discipline. of experiments concerning aggres- because it is one of the easiest meth- In his book The Challenge of sion. The basic experimental design ods of discipline to administer. It Parenthood Rudolph Driekers involved the following elements. The requires little thought, and is over states, "If parents only knew what child was placed in a familiar play- in only a few seconds. The parent their child feels and thinks when room. In another corner of the room usually considers that his respon- they strike him, they would recoil there was a person playing with toys. sibility in training the child with in horror and never lay a hand on Sometimes this was an adult; some- respect to this needed lesson has him again. . . . In the moment of times another child. This other per- concluded. This is a wrong conclu- chastisement, children who are fre- son behaved very aggressively. He sion. quently beaten develop frightening struck a large Bobo doll, threw ob- Punishment and discipline are thoughts of hate and fury; even a jects and mutilated dolls and animal terms that are often used inter- wish for the death of their tormen- toys, while using aggressive language. changeably. But, in fact they are tor is not at all rare."— Page 135. Later on, the child who "acciden- very different. Punishment suggests Mrs. White also indicates the un- tally" observed this aggressive be- hurting someone in retribution, pay- wholesome reactions that children havior was tested by being allowed ing someone back for a wrong com- have when they are physically pun- to play in a room containing a va- mitted, "an eye for an eye" attitude. ished. For example, "When a riety of toys, including some similar You more often punish someone you mother gives her child a jerk or a to those used by the aggressive model. dislike than someone you love. One blow, do you think it enables him Without any provocation, perfectly may punish for many reasons; some- to see the beauty of the Christian normal, well-adjusted young children times to satisfy one's anger, some- character? No, indeed; it only tends engaged in aggressive acts, not only times in an attempt to prevent a to raise evil feelings in the heart, repeating what they had observed recurrence of a wrongdoing, some- and the child is not corrected at all." but elaborating on it. Moreover, times to make one comply with the —Child Guidance, p. 282. In an- the words and gestures accompany- law, sometimes to hurt an enemy, other passage she states, "Passion ing the actions left no doubt that the and sometimes in the hope of im- manifested by the parents creates child was living through an emo- proving the victim. Usually one passion in the children and stirs up tional experience of aggressive ex- punishes for one's own sake, not the evils of their nature." — Page pression. (See ALBERT BANDURA and for the sake of the victim. 283. RICHARD WALTERS, Social Learning This is not the case with disci- Why is it that children react so and Personality Development.) pline. One disciplines with the inten- negatively to physical punishment? Ellen White also realized how The feeling of pain that a child easily children imitate the behavior Kay Kuzma is assistant professor has when he is spanked or jerked of their parents. "Bear in mind and director of the Child Develop- or slapped is a very minor part of that when you become harsh and ment Center, Loma Linda Univer- the child's reaction when placed be- unreasonable before your little sity. side the psychological effects that ones, you teach them to be the

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 11 same."—Child Guidance, p. 240. And counsel, "A father who spares the child, because of the pain inflicted even more specifically she states, rod hates his son" (Prov. 13:24, by the parent, are reason enough to "Never give your child •a passionate N.E.B.). Doesn't this text give par- consider other methods of discipline blow, unless you want him to learn ents license to spank their children? carefully before resorting to physical to fight and quarrel."—Ibid., p. 251. Ellen G. White gives an example of punishment. Mrs. White even says: A child who is frequently and reg- a child throwing a temper tantrum, "Some children are so vicious in ularly spanked learns to fear and "kicking and screaming, while the their tempers that the infliction of yield to brute force; some of his injudicious mother alternately pain is necessary, but very many dignity, courage, and self-reliance is coaxed and scolded in the hope of cases are made much worse by this destroyed with each stroke. This restoring her child to good nature." manner of discipline."—Ibid., pp. type of punishment has other unde- She suggested that this treatment 251, 252. Therefore she suggests, sirable effects. "Rebellion is too fre- only fostered the child's passion and "Never raise your hand to give them quently established in the hearts of the next time he would go over the a blow unless you can with a clear children through the wrong disci- same grounds with increased willful- conscience bow before God and ask pline of the parents, when if a ness, confident of gaining his way as His blessing upon the correction you proper course had been taken, the he did the day before. "Thus the rod are about to give."—Ibid., p. 252. children would have formed good is spared and the child is spoiled."— One should also consider the fol- and harmonious characters."—Ibid., Child Guidance, p. 283. She also sug- lowing questions, "Have I submit- p. 237. gests that, "If, instead of unlimited ted my way and will to God? Have Some children deliberately invite indulgence, the chastening rod were I placed myself where God can man- punishment and obey only when they oftener used, not in passion, but with age me, so that I may have wisdom, are whipped. They exasperate their love and prayer, we would see hap- patience, kindness, and love in deal- parents with their waywardness and pier families and a better state of ing with the refractory elements in impertinence and appear to provoke society."—Ibid., p. 276. the home?"—Ibid., p. 251. anger continuously. Persuasion, warn- After parents have prayed for ings, and threats are completely in- A Last Resort guidance in terms of the discipline effective, and finally the distraught Some people may argue that the that they should use and have asked parent gives in to his irritation by in- phrase "sparing the rod" as used in themselves the questions concern- flicting physical punishment on the the Bible and by Mrs. White is just ing their own behavior, the next provoking child. Afterward, the child a phrase denoting the importance step is to reason with their children is like a changed person — under- of appropriate discipline's (not nec- and "clearly point out their wrongs, standing, loving, compliant, and essarily a spanking) being used with and impress upon them that they well-behaved. Is this an appropriate children rather than indulging them. have not only sinned against you, method of discipline in this case? However, Mrs. White clearly states but against God." And then, "with Driekers suggests that such chil- that there is one and only one time your heart full of pity and sorrow dren often feel ignored and rejected when whippings may be necessary, for your erring children, pray with and they try to divert to themselves and that is when used as a last resort. them before correcting them."— the attentions of their parents You "should not use the rod if it is Ibid., p. 252. through mischief and naughtiness. possible to avoid doing so."—Ibid., Mrs. White gives the following As long as the parents are not suf- p. 250. She adds that "frequently one example of effective discipline. "I ficiently vexed, the child feels that such correction will be enough for a never allowed, in correcting my he is slighted and he is not content lifetime, to show the child that he children, even my voice to be until he so disturbs the parents does not hold the lines of control."— changed in any way. When I saw that they disregard all other interests Ibid., p. 250. something wrong, I waited until the and resort to punishment. After an When we have spanked a child, 'heat' was over, and then I would outburst of temper, parents often there are no harsher measures of take them after they had had a repent of their conduct and try to physical punishment available to us. chance for reflection and were make amends by fondling and kissing We can only spank harder or spank ashamed. They would get ashamed, the child. longer. Therefore, if one uses spank- if I gave them an hour or two to If this is true, is it any wonder ing as a method of discipline after think of these things. I always went that the child begins to provoke pun- an act of disobedience and the child away and prayed. I would not speak ishment in order to attract atten- continues to disobey, one has nothing to them then. After they had been tion and perhaps even be favored stronger to resort to than spank- left to themselves for a while, they with a show of affection? If the ing the child again. Children may would come to me about it. 'Well,' parents resort to spanking this type actually think that they prefer this I would say, 'we will wait until of child, they think they are train- method and say, "Hurry up and evening.' At that time we would have ing him. But without suspecting it, spank me so I can get it over with," a season of prayer, and then I they are deliberately making them- or "If I do wrong, I will only get would tell them that they hurt their selves the tool of his desires. His a spanking." own souls and grieved the Spirit good behavior after the spanking In these cases, spanking has lost of God by their wrong course of is the price the child is willing to its effectiveness and therefore should action."—Ibid., p. 254. pay for the fulfillment of his wishes. not be used. For children who are If more parents today would fol- His provocative naughtiness is part spanked only on rare occasions, low this wise counsel, they would and parcel of his unconscious plan spanking can make a very strong seldom have to resort to physically to either get attention or to punish impression upon them and thus mo- punishing their children. When and excite the parents. (See The tivate them to avoid it. But in too faced with the dilemma of how to Challenge of Parenthood, pp. 136, many cases, the immediate compli- discipline your children, remember 137.) ance with a parent's request are not this advice, "As you deal kindly and In light of these factors, can the long-term results. tenderly with your children, they use of physical punishment ever be The feelings of rejection and re- and you will receive the blessing justified? What about the Biblical sentment that are aroused in the of the Lord."—Ibid., p. 246. ++ 12 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 IFirciorri the Eclitticor

Lessons From the Apostles---2 history more worth knowing than those first disciples whom Jesus personally chose to be with Him? HOW DIVERSE CHURCH MEMBERS Although the disciples were alike in being young men FIND UNITY and alike in coming from the common walks of life, they were unlike one another temperamentally. In fact, In selecting the disciples from common humanity, they differed widely in habits and disposition. Among Christ salutes the common man, the hard-working father them were the publican, Levi-Matthew; and the fiery or mother or student who sees his duty in the daily tasks, nationalist Simon, who hated like death the authority those who, though often unobserved and unsung, keep of Rome; impulsive Peter, ruled by his emotions; the wheels of normal living moving. The disciples are Thomas, truehearted yet timid; Philip, slow of heart not belittled when we emphasize their humanity. In and inclined to doubt; Judas, the man of mystery and fact, their lives take on added meaning. great potential. All that in one organization! How could God made it clear that He can use everyone in His they ever get along? How could anything get done? service. No one is too common, too ordinary to be used But together they were, with their different faults, by God to do great things for His work. Our natural all with their inherited and cultivated weaknesses; but abilities become our tools, but they are not the reasons in and through Christ they were to live and work as for our success. God alone brings success. a unit. "His love would lead to love for one another; God has placed Himself on record as the Lord of the lessons of the Master would lead to the harmonizing the many and not of the few. What God was able to do of all differences. . . . Christ is the great center, and with coarse fishermen and exacting tax collectors, He is they would approach one another just in proportion as able to do with burdened parents, weary students, frayed they approached the center."—The Desire of Ages, p. faculty members, and servants of the church at their 296. ofttimes lonely posts. How these men could come together and ultimately The inadequacies and limitations of the disciples find unity, with only one exception, is not only a did not cause God to turn from them in disgust or wonder but also a source of hope. It gives us encourage- disappointment. Their limitations are our limitations ment when we think of a worldwide church, representing —their victories may be our victories. the spectrum in color, national temperament, and socio- Their earthly victories are eternal victories as depicted logical conditioning. Each band in the spectrum is closely in the last two chapters of Revelation. Here described related to every other segment. No country, no mission is the glory of the New Jerusalem that shall come outpost, no city church, no person anywhere can go from God to replace the strife, confusion, and suffering it alone and be successful doing the Lord's work. In of our present world. It is a glorious city that has no our differences we yet need one another. need of the sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory Although differences create tensions and misunder- of God is its light. standings, when we, like the disciples, individually The walls of the City of God have 12 foundations. rally around Jesus Christ as our personal center, inter- On the foundation stones are engraved the names of personal frictions will diminish and we will draw closer the 12 apostles; each stone is different from the others, to one another. Of course, this is not the work of an yet each has its important place in the Holy City. instant, or even of a month—but it will come. Jesus If God can make those once-fumbling, frail men the has proved it to be possible as we look back on the experi- foundation of His eternal kingdom, then there is hope ences of the disciples. Their success as maturing persons for you and me. The 12 apostles are a supreme example was a result of their willingness to live like Jesus. of what God can do with varied human material that H. E. D. is yielded to His use. Is there any group of men in all (To be continued)

plan changed for the remnant? Are reasonable to pray, "Bless those who L.1E11- TIEFIS there exceptions God recognizes today keep the Sabbath and those who can- EctiCUrn, for whom we should ask His blessing? not keep it"? Does a loving heavenly Father ever If God makes no exceptions, why {Letters submitted for publication in this column ask or require the impossible? Would should we pray for that which does not cannot be acknowledged or returned. All must carry the writer's name and address. Short letters God make the above request and then obtain? "Through self-denial, the poor- (less than 250 words) will be given preference. fail to provide man with the capability est will find ways of obtaining some- All will be edited to meet space and literary re- quirements. The views do not necessarily repre- of carrying out His request? "No one thing to give back to God."—Counsels sent those of the editors or of the denomination.} shall come into the presence of the on Stewardship, p. 288. The example Lord empty-handed. Each of you shall of the widow in the Temple treasury STOP PRAYING FOR "THOSE bring such a gift as he can in propor- should cause us to cease praying for WHO CANNOT GIVE" tion to the blessing which the Lord "those who cannot give." "She de- Can God possibly be pleased with your God has given you" (Deut. 16:17, prived herself of food in order to give our offertory prayers that ask Him to N.E.B.). When we pray, "And bless those two mites to the cause she "bless those who give and those who those who cannot give," are we actually loved."—The Desire of Ages, p. 615. cannot give"? charging God with failure to bless His Read what our wasted means could In these days of affluence and pros- people and saying they therefore have accomplish (Counsels on Stewardship, perity are there really some members had to come empty-handed and grateful p. 291). who "cannot give"? The bringing of for nothing? Let us no longer by our offertory an offering was a definite requirement Again, the statement is to everyone: prayers encourage a worship that and indispensable part of worship for "Give unto the Lord the glory due unto comes empty-handed. Surely such a Israel. "No one shall come into my his name: bring an offering, and come prayer is offered in vain. presence empty-handed," was God's into his courts" (Ps. 96:8). No excep- RALPII B. HILL command (Ex. 34:20, N.E.B.). Has God's tion is made. Would it not be just as Orlando, Florida

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By CANNIBAL VALLEY DAVID D. DENNIS Auditor Far Eastern Division

Beyond the distant hills of beautiful Sentani Lake is the vast unentered Baliem Valley.

Ukumhearik, powerful ex-chief of the Suddenly and frighteningly, the old Dani tribe, sat cross-legged in front of leader jumped to his feet shouting, his two-story round grass hut, and stared "Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa . . ." in rapid stac- glassy-eyed and disinterestedly at me. His cato and extending his hand in wel- long hair hung in twisted ringlets con- come. Getting to my feet quickly, I tained in a net on the back of his enthusiastically clasped Ukumhearik's head, a symbol of mourning and hu- hand and returned his greeting. My mility for having just been deposed as "Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa" brought a roar of the tribe's leader in favor of the younger hilarious laughter from the chief, and war hero, Lukubalik. His bare body the other villagers came scurrying to- glistened from a fresh application of ward us from neighboring huts, where pig grease, while his emotionless gaze they had been awaiting in silence the remained fixed on me. Uneasily, I re- chief's response. Nationals trained at West Irian Acad- ciprocated in this silent entrance ritual Handicapped by a language barrier, emy become workers for their country. to this village of primitive, man-eating people in the heart of the great Baliem Valley, historically known as Cannibal Valley. With Milton Thorman, West Indo- nesia Union educational department secretary, I had trekked five hours the previous day from Wamena to Jiwika, headquarters of the 70,000 Danis living in the fertile Baliem Valley of New Guinea's Highlands. We were visiting our work in Indonesian New Guinea (West Irian) and were now making a survey of this great mission frontier un- entered by Seventh-day Adventists. Un- til only a few months before, when our West Irian Mission had flown in pro- visions of food and clothing (the latter almost totally foreign to the Danis), Seventh-day Adventists were unknown to this large group of stone-age people. During our itinerary we wanted to witness the colorful tribal feast, held only once in six years, during which was held a mass marriage of all girls from 15 to 21 years of age and the slaughter and eating of hundreds of pigs. The friendly people of Cannibal Valley posed themselves for a picture with Pastor Dennis. 14 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 all we could do was smile and return studying the tribe, "The Danis are and last year at Biak, the center of the friendly handshakes of the tribes- always at war." air transportation for this extensive men. The women and children re- Thousands of these native people territory. Enrollment at the West Irian mained shyly in the shadows of the have never heard of Christ, to say noth- Academy, the Adventist training school, nearby family houses. Our hosts now ing of ever hearing of Seventh-day at Dojobaru, a few miles east of Dja- smiled and chattered endlessly in low Adventists. The welcome by the vil- japura, has decreased over the past tones. Recognizing our cameras, they lagers on the one hand—even though two years. This is because of govern- pointed to them and promptly organ- with gifts of pork—and the immense ment-sponsored free education and the ized themselves for a group picture, unentered valley on the other seemed decrease in value of farm produce, much to our surprise and delight. to symbolize the enormous challenge from which profits the school depended We were not invited into their houses to the gospel in this large territory of heavily for financial support. as they are considered to be only for West Irian. sleeping and eating. So, after the mu- Doors of opportunity today stand Critical Worker Shortage tual exchanges of smiles and hand- open to Seventh-day Adventists here. As with most of our mission programs shakes, we motioned that we planned Prior to World War II, Dutch New around the world, the rapid increase to go. But the group indicated with Guinea (as it was then called) was a of membership and calls to open new brisk down-beats of the hand that we mission territory of the Central Euro- work in isolated areas have found us must stay. We paused a few moments, pean Division. During that time Ad- critically short of trained workers, wondering what was coming next, when ventists had problems in carrying the and deficient in funds. Our worker suddenly two of the men appeared message to the people in this primitive shortage is demonstrated by the fact carrying two generous portions of un- area. that during our recent visit, when 14 cooked pork. Fortunately, the meat was Following the war in that area of people were baptized in a mountain raw. If it is cooked, guests are ex- the Pacific, West New Guinea, still stream near the school, immediately pected to eat it with their hosts. We under Dutch control, was assigned as after the baptism one of the candidates, smiled and bowed to express our thanks a detached mission of the Far Eastern Adolf V. Imbenai, was ordained to the for this significant gesture of their Division by the General Conference. ministry. Pastor Imbenai is only the acceptance of our friendship. Now we After the territory was taken over by third national Irianese worker to be could leave and were glad for the oppor- the Indonesian Government in 1962 ordained. tunity. it became a part of the West Indonesia There is also an acute need for Once outside the fortified, fenced-in Union. Since 1965 Seventh-day Advent- houses of worship. At Abepura, a large village, one of several hundred in the ists have had complete freedom to village near Djajapura, more than 70 valley, we walked a trail through well- carry on all forms of medical, educa- new members were added to the church kept potato gardens—the Dani's only tional, and evangelistic work in this in 1970. The meeting place is a re- vegetable. The Dani tribe uses a system primitive area. modeled chicken house. With the in- of terracing and irrigation that seems To date we have made no entry crease in membership the municipal to be many years ahead of other heathen into the central part of West Irian's authorities condemned this structure practices they have. vast highland interior. The mission as a meeting place. Now the mission headquarters, located in Djajapura, the administrators face the perplexity of Villages in the Mountains government territorial capital, is the building a church before the old build- We looked across the fertile plain center of a small work along the north ing must be vacated. Referring to this to the distant mountain range in the coast. Total church membership of the need, Mission President J. S. Maramis southeast. Somewhere over there, less entire mission at the close of 1970 was said: "In some areas of the world our than a day's walk from where we stood, only approximately 1,000, but there were churches are only half full. But in West two missionaries from a small evangel- 173 baptisms during the past year. Most Irian half of the members must stand ical mission society had been speared of the 14 churches are clustered around outside and look through the windows to death and their flesh eaten raw in a the shores of Lake Sentani, whose murky of a packed church." village of this same Dani tribe in 1968. waters are inhabited by thousands of Transportation is also a problem. In Intertribal wars are a common occur- crocodiles, the skins of which provide a few areas a motorbike is ideal. Boat rence with the Danis, and cannibalism West Irian with one of its most profitable travel is slow. There are no buses ex- continues in spite of the Indonesian exports. cept in the few large cities. Small air- Government's efforts to control it. As A small work has been started along craft would be a definite advantage for one noted anthropologist observed in the coast at Sorong, Serui, Manokwari, our mission, but we do not yet have the means of transportation. Conse- quently, our workers must often travel the treacherous jungles for many days by foot. On one recent itinerary along the Membrano River it took one of our national workers 47 days to cover a relatively short distance to meet with a tribe who had shown an interest in his message on a previous visit. Thoughts such as these filled our minds as we followed the narrow trail across the Baliem at 10,000 feet. What can we do without aviation? Our journey ended as we entered the hillside mission station of another worldwide organization that has for more than ten years been working in Baliem Valley. That evening as we visited with the station director in the mission guest room he directed a very candid question at us. After de- scribing the work to be done for the primitive Danis, he said, "And where are the Adventists?" That question still rings in our ears. Djajapura, a city on the hills of the Pacific Coast, is the capital of West Irian. Cannibal Valley calls, "Where are the This is headquarters for the West Irian Mission of Seventh-day Adventists, as well. Adventists?"

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that we could quickly locate the lost ship from the air. Twenty-four hours had passed since it had begun drifting, Mission Boat and Plane and if it drifted at three knots, which seemed likely in this sea, it should be within an 80-mile radius of Emirau, presumably to the east. Cooperate in a Rescue Operation Soon we were flying east and north of Emirau with Colin Winch at the con- By GORDON A. LEE trols. Passengers in the plane were Mrs. President, Bismarck-Solomons Union Mission Winch, Pastor John Kosmeier, presi- dent of the New Ireland Mission, and two national brethren. This would per- The Bismarck-Solomons Union Mis- At 6:00 A.M. four men set out in mit six pairs of eyes to scan the vast sion plane, the J. L. Tucker, and the the boat's dinghy to row to Emirau for emptiness of the ocean below. mission boat Malalangi, functioning as help. Six and a half hours later, ex- Having contacted Rabaul by radio, a team, were instrumental in rescuing hausted, they made land. But no help we started a regular pattern of north- a boat drifting on the open seas of the was available. There was no radio south flights, moving to the east with South Pacific recently. communication with the outside world each circuit. We continued the search We had just arrived in the Malalangi and no boat of any kind was on the for almost two hours until it became at Emirau Island, a part of our mission island to bring aid to the distressed necessary to head for Kavieng, New territory, when we learned that the Ginetu. Ireland, for refueling. interisland trader boat, Ginetu, owned The only possibility was the Mala- At Kavieng we were met by the by a Chinese trader from Kavieng, on langi. The day before we had put our district commissioner, who had been the island of New Ireland, had gone plane down on the World War II alerted regarding the air-sea search. adrift. landing strip on the island to join the Another plane, owned by the Catholic The boat had been approaching boat on a trip to the island of Mussau. mission, was on the airstrip. Both Emirau in the darkness at about five As soon as we arrived back at Emirau planes were to be directed by the civil o'clock on the previous morning when we put the four men from the Ginetu defense headquarters in Port Moresby, suddenly its engine stopped and could on the Malalangi, which headed to the which was now controlling the search- not be restarted. A strong swell and east of Emirau to search for the drift- and-rescue operation. tide was sweeping the boat away from ing vessel. As soon as it was light we Following a shower and some break- the island. took off in the plane. We felt sure fast at Pastor Kosmeier's home, we boarded our plane, which had been refueled and made ready for flight. The pilot of the Catholic plane had to do some minor repairs and would be delayed briefly. Having received our instruction, we took off to the north of Emirau and Mussau. Taking a due-north course, we headed out over the vast expanse of ocean. On and on we flew, with every eye beginning to ache at the bright waters shining below in the hot morning sun. Then way ahead, right on course, we saw a tiny speck. Every eye turned SEVERN-OM ADVENTIST toward it. Could this be the missing CI1UPCI4 centiyag,itoosnot•iim boat? We had been deceived by floating logs and schools of fish several times during the morning. But confidence increased as distance decreased. Swiftly we approached the little craft. It was the Ginetu. In their desperation the crew had rigged a small sail from the tarpaulin, but the wind and current were unfavorable, and they were being carried away from the nearest island into the vast, uninhabited north. Cir- cling the ship, we radioed the news of our find back to Port Moresby. Below, the men on i the drifting ship had climbed to the most conspicuous places and were waving frantically to us. We circled low around them, awaiting in- structions from the civil defense head- Palaniappapuram, South India, Church Dedicated quarters. "Locate the mission ship Malalangi A new church was dedicated in Palaniappapuram, Tamilnad, South India, on and direct them to the stricken ship," March 19. Participating in the program were A. J. Johanson, Southern Asia Division was the command. We carefully noted general field secretary; M. D. Kodan, secretary of the South India Union; and V. D. the position of the drifting craft in Edward, president of the Tamil Section. The work in Palaniappapuram was begun relation to Tench, the closest island, in 1934 by Missionary H. W. Carter. and then flew southwest in search of Y. R. SAMRAJ our boat. Soon we sighted the white PR Secretary, Tamil Section, South India Union hull glittering in the bright sunlight 16 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 against the deep blue of the sea. But ence for this special baptismal service. participated in the second. Mrs. L. how do you get a message to a boat The Missionary Volunteers of this Washkansky, the widow of one of Dr. when you have no radio connections? conference have as their slogan, "We Are Christiaan Barnard's heart-transplant pa- Then someone thought of Pastor God's Fellow Workers." Recent Week of tients, Louis Washkansky, stopped smok- Kosmeier's sponge rubber thongs. A Prayer readings were translated into ing after attending the second clinic. She message written with ball pen, a low four Yugoslavian languages and printed remarked that if her husband had fly-past, and a release at the precise in small booklets for the youth. These stopped smoking she believed he would moment. Someone leaped overboard and booklets proved to be a great blessing be alive today. About 90 per cent of retrieved the thong. Then, in a few to the Missionary Volunteers of Yugo- the participants of both clinics claimed moments the ship took a new course slavia. they had stopped smoking. The major at top speed. We flew over again and The Yugoslavian Government has ap- Afrikaans weekend newspaper featured made off in the direction of the miss- proved a secondary school for Adventist a one-and-a-half-page article, with pic- ing Ginetu. The Malalangi followed. young people. This school, which pres- tures describing the program and its re- Once again over the Ginetu, we de- ently has 34 students, is situated in the ported successes. cided that the remaining thong was Castle Marusevec, a large medieval castle Jacobus J. Fouche, the president of the of no use to Pastor Kosmeier. So we north of Zagreb. The first graduates from Republic of South Africa, stated in an penned a message to the people on the school will receive their certificates interview with Pastor De Waal that after ship below. Another fly-past, another in 1974. reading the newspaper account he had drop, more excited swimming in the God's blessing is attending the work stopped smoking. ocean wastes, and the satisfaction of in Yugoslavia, and the acquiring of this Government officials in South Africa seeing the people rejoice in the hope of large castle with its spacious grounds, are concerned with the tragic results of a quick rescue. having more than 400 varieties of trees, smoking in South Africa, which report- For the next two and a half hours is felt to be a leading of Providence. An edly has the highest coronary heart death we flew back and forth monotonously Adventist contractor directed the refur- rate in the world and is one of the three between the two small ships out in the bishing of this interesting edifice, which leading nations in the number of ciga- empty loneliness of the South Pacific has proved to be a much-needed center rettes smoked. Ocean. We saw them come together. of church activities. DUNBAR SMITH Elatedly, we saw the tow ropes taken Mihael Avramovic is the Missionary Departmental Secretary up and the Malalangi begin the long Volunteer secretary of the Yugoslavian Trans-Africa Division haul back to safety. Union. "Your service completed, mission ac- JOHN HANCOCK, Secretary complished, return to base," was the GC Missionary Volunteer Department MASSACHUSETTS: call that came over the radio. Express- ions of gratitude were conveyed to us. Wreckers Respect SDA Our prayers had been answered, and SOUTH AFRICA: lives were saved. Church Worship Service Stop-smoking Clinics Because a Seventh-day Adventist Help Famous People church practiced its religion, a noisy YUGOSLAVIA: wrecking crew suspended operations for Two Five-Day Plans to Stop Smoking one hour during a recent Sabbath in Twenty-eight Youth were conducted recently in Cape Town, order that the church service might not Baptized in Zagreb South Africa, by David de Waal, Cape be disrupted. Conference temperance secretary, and When fire gutted a five-story tenement Twenty-eight teen-agers between the the writer. The first clinic was held in house in Boston recently residents who ages of 15 and 19 were baptized in the Salisbury, where the division headquar- managed to escape with their lives found Seventh-day Adventist church at Zagreb, ters is situated. The second was con- themselves without goods and without Yugoslavia, on Sabbath, May I. These ducted two weeks later in Cape Town. a home. The Seventh-day Adventist youth came from churches in various The Salisbury clinic was attended by church just across the street from the parts of the West Yugoslavian Confer- more than 100 people. More than 700 tragedy opened its doors and offered the homeless people shelter until more per- manent arrangements could be made. One week later, on Sabbath, a- wreck- ing company sent men and equipment to raze the skeleton of the burned-out apartment house. A huge crane was knocking down the walls still standing, and heavy trucks were roaring around loading and carrying off the debris. The din during Sabbath school was most distressing. Then the word got through: The church that had sheltered the homeless people was holding worship services. Precisely at 11:30, when the church service began, everything outside be- came quiet. From 11:30 to 12:30 the crane operator sat quietly beside his machine, and truck drivers sat in their cabs, motors silent. Worship in the Ad- ventist church proceeded unhampered, because these people had respect for a church that practiced its Christian re- ligion. M. CAROL HETZELL Associate Secretary Twenty-eight Yugoslavian teen-agers were baptized at Zagreb on Sabbath, May 1. GC Public Relations Bureau

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NIGERIA: nightly program as associate evangelists French Guiana to tell these people of were H. Holmes and Collin Dunbar. Jesus' love and of His soon coming. This Truth Seeker Studies Rolston Rose, principal of Edmer High country needs your prayers. School; Maxine Banks, assistant treas- G. M. ELLSTROM Ninety Courses urer of the mission; Steve McTaggart; President, Franco-Haitian Union and Mrs. McMillan also assisted with Vincent Omuoha, of the Oweru area in Nigeria, had been searching for the meetings as well as many lay peo- CEYLON: truth for many years. In his search he ple. Fourteen Bible instructors visited took 90 correspondence courses from a in the homes and studied with those large number of organizations and re- who were interested. Laymen and Pastors ceived 57 certificates. Now Vincent no On the Sunday night following the Work Successfully longer feels the need to search for close of the campaign Elder McMillan truth. He believes he found it in the began a series of studies on the book of Seventh-day Adventist laymen and last course he took—from the Voice of Revelation in the small church of denominational employees are active in Prophecy. George Town, which is now over- witnessing, working, and giving to When Vincent was small, his parents crowded because of new believers. win converts and finish the work in had him confirmed in a church of a MAXINE BANKS this island nation. Through their en- certain Christian denomination. He per- Acting Secretary-Treasurer deavors our literature is being read by formed all the rites required by the Cayman Islands Mission many, our churches are growing, and church. However, he became discon- men and women are being helped and tented with its teachings and practices. led to Christ. He began to ask many questions that FRENCH GUIANA: Teams of laymen are studying the no one was able to answer. Bible with interested people. At the In an endeavor to find' an answer to A Visit to the Land time of writing, more than ten persons his questions he began to take corre- from influential homes are on the spondence courses offered by various of Devil's Island verge of becoming Seventh-day Advent- churches. He spent most of his income French Guiana, with an area of more ists. Eight laymen's teams have begun for books to help him in his search, and than 35,000 square miles and a popu- public evangelism. to pay the postage on the courses. But lation of perhaps 40,000, is the most Three of our workers contacted a all of his studying only confused him sparsely populated country in South family, the mother and three daughters more. America. About one-half of its people of which had been possessed by evil Finally, he heard of the Voice of live in Cayenne, the capital city. This spirits for more than 13 years. When Prophecy Correspondence Course that is the country of the notorious Devil's questioned by our workers, the spirits we offer. In this course he found the Island, where the French Government said, "We are five—two in the mother truth for which he was seeking. once sent some of its prisoners. and one in each daughter." In the Eventually Vincent decided to share Recently I spent two weeks in French name of Christ these spirits were driven the truth he had found with others. Guiana on an extended itinerary to the out, and the four women, with other Consequently, he enrolled many of his country. The work of Seventh-day Ad- members of the family, were baptized. friends in the Voice of Prophecy course, ventists was begun here in the 1940's. An example of the way in which the and taught them the lessons when they We now have 400 baptized members, work is progressing is demonstrated by came. In time he had as many as 60 mostly around Cayenne, with some at St. the experience of a young literature people attending church in his home. Laurent and Mana on the west side, evangelist who was formerly a Buddhist. More than 30 are planning to be bap- and a few at St. George on the east side. He decided to sell our books to Catholic tized. The latter group mentioned are nearly priests and school principals. In just I. A. EKPANDU all Indians, and in St. Laurent we also a few weeks he sold our entire stock Principal have a large group of Indian believers of The Desire of Ages. In addition, Aba Voice of Prophecy School who have a lovely church in their village only a few of the doctrinal books we where we celebrated the communion had in stock were left. This young man service. has set his heart on selling at least one CAYMAN ISLANDS: In the interior of the country, which doctrinal book to every Catholic church, can be reached only by canoe or by a school, and convent in the country. Public Evangelism Wins small airplane, one trip a week, we have Vacation Bible Schools are very suc- More Than 100 but a few believers among the mine la- cessful. In a Vacation Bible School borers. There is no pastor for the area, conducted in Colombo, 170 of the One hundred and seventeen persons, so the interest of the members is lagging. 182 children who completed the course the largest number ever baptized as a There are not enough workers here, and were Buddhists, Of these, 45 now result of one evangelistic series on the budgets will not allow more. regularly attend a weekly religious class. Grand Cayman Island, joined the Ad- There are three or four tribes living The members of a small Sabbath ventist Church recently following meet- along the river that divides French school in Divulapitiya collected more ings conducted by L. V. McMillan, Guiana from Surinam. We have no work than Rs. 1,900 (US$200) for Invest- president of the Cayman Islands Mis- among those on our side of the river. ment last year, and Rs. 100,000 (US$11,- sion. There is not one believer. There is much 764) was paid in tithe in 1970. The opening meeting of the eight- work to do here. The Lakeside Medical Center has week crusade, which began on February While visiting St. Laurent I walked won 16 persons to Christ through the 7, was attended by more than 800 out of town to a small village of the use of Bible in the Hand lessons. In people. On the first night of the fourth Bosch tribe, where I found a bit of Africa addition, many have been helped to give week more than 2,000 people packed in in this country. The main difference up smoking and drinking. and around the tent to hear the Sabbath seems to be that here people live in The press and radio have given us truth presented. wooden houses instead of mud huts. I good coverage. The visit some time ago Never were there less than 400 in was interested to hear the word beke of General Conference president Rob- attendance at any meeting. This is phe- used by these people when speaking ert H. Pierson, and E. H. J. Steed, nomenal when it is realized that Grand about a white man. This is the same of the General Conference Temperance Cayman is made up of five main towns word used by the Ashanti tribe in Ghana. Department, was especially noted by and islands with a population of only I wondered whether perhaps the ances- the news media. 10,000. tors of these people came from Ghana. BERNARD F. PINGHO Assisting Elder McMillan in the There is much that must be done in President, Ceylon Union 18 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 with lusty, vigorous, enthusiastic voices. "They always sing when they get to- gether," explained the captain. A Humanitarian Safari in Brazil Dr. Regester observes, "While evan- gelistic meetings in the cities of America By VINNIE BUFFO yield converts, they gain but a small number compared with the rich harvest of souls just waiting to be plucked in The customs officer at Belem, Brazil, they sell them to obtain little-luxuries. this part of the world. In Belem alone flung open the large suitcase and found They forfeit the iron that could have there are 325 Adventist churches." it loaded. He stared at a large assortment prevented their anemia." Without television or other pastimes of drugs and medications. The look on The doctor adds that the main items to lure them, the converts take pleasure his face said, "A cache of narcotics—a of diet are beans and rice. in studying their Sabbath school lessons. smuggler." His eyes turned to the police In ten days Dr. Regester treated The record of study is always the same- officers who stood nearby. L000 patients and exhausted his supply 100 per cent. Sunnyvale, Dr. Willard Regester, of of drugs and medication. Vitamins and Dr. Regester plans to go to South California, felt himself already incrim- iron had vanished by the third day. America again to bring medicine to the inated. What could he do to convince The high light of Dr. Regester's people in the steaming Amazon jungle. the officer that he was not smuggling journey came when the Luzeiro passed The next time he will take along picture drugs. a native village and the boat captain charts so that he can show nutrition Quickly the doctor explained, "Ad- pointed, "There—up yonder is an Ad- facts to the people, a large percentage ventista Hospital. Adventista Hospital." ventist village. The people are all Ad- of whom are illiterate. The officer stopped in his tracks, glanced ventists!" "We must teach these people how to again at the doctor's papers, then into From the youngest to the oldest, the eat," Dr. Regester says. "We must bring his eyes. Suddenly, he waved his hand. villagers came to meet the boat, each to them our health message and help The inspection was over! carrying a Bible. And they all sang them to see the fullness of the gospel." The fact is that in Belem, a city of 300,000, everyone recognizes the Sev- enth-day Adventist hospital for its out- standing humanitarian work. It is re- ported to be the best in the city. Dr. Regester had arrived in Belem, at the mouth of the great Amazon River, to begin a unique medical "sa- fari." With his son, Gary, he would journey on the river into the interior to bring medical assistance to many people, perhaps most of whom had never seen a doctor. Leaving his practice in Sunnyvale, California, the doctor had chosen the Amazon jungle for a few weeks of self- supporting humanitarian work. "This is a true mission field," he ex- plained. "All manner of diseases af- flict the people who live along the river. Yet many of them live a lifetime with- out ever seeing a doctor." Referring to the large supply of drugs in his suitcase, he says, "When Gary and I made known our mission to Bra- zil, drug companies contributed thou- sands of dollars' worth of penicillin, antibiotics, and other drugs." While the doctor traveled with the crew of the Luzeiro IV along the Amazon River, treating the sick and maimed, his son assisted and took pic- tures. The clinic-boat carried medical equipment enabling the doctor to per- form surgery. The "White Angels" Are Coming Word of the "white angels" spread up the river. As the Luzeiro cut through the water, throngs lined the riverbank waiting to be treated. "We found all of the tropical diseases, but the main ones are parasitic worms Kabiufa Adventist College Principal Ordained and malnutrition," the doctor said. "Infant mortality is 40 to 50 per cent. Ian B. Rankin (second from left), principal of the Kabiufa College, in the New Almost all the people suffer from ane- Guinea highlands, was ordained at the college on April 10. He is being welcomed to mia. Yet Brazil nuts, bananas, oranges, the ministry by 0. D. F. McCutcheon, president of the Coral Sea Union. and sweet potatoes are plentiful. The Others participating in the ordination were E. A. Raethel (left), Eastern High- greatest need is to educate the people lands Mission president; and (center) J. H. Vavepitu, Kabiufa College Bible teacher on proper nutrition. Families with and dean of men; and the writer. C. D. WATSON chickens do not eat the eggs. Instead, Associate Secretary, GC Temperance Department

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 19 BRIEF NEWS

+ K. Paw, Burma Union president, a wonderful visit and reported it to reports that 179 persons joined the Pastor Spielman, who arranged Bible 1115144e Oa/ ieoce church in the first quarter of 1971 in studies. In a few weeks, during the evan- Burma. A Bible Seminary at Myaungmya, gelistic campaign conducted at the Way- which opened on May 21, is being at- land, New York, church by G. T. Bland- tended by some 40 students. ford, conference evangelist, the entire FAR EASTERN DIVISION Randall family of six were baptized. Mr. + Arun Rajan, a successful teacher Randall is now giving studies to several + The former Taiwan Sanitarium and and story and script writer, who in Hospital has been renamed the Taiwan teachers, a minister, and other friends desperation after a sudden loss of his at Alfred University. Adventist Hospital. eyesight attempted suicide, was saved + Thirty-four Adventist physicians and at the last moment by an old man + The Yonkers, New York, church was dentists from ten Far Eastern Division who dragged him from the tracks of an dedicated on Sabbath, June 12. Princi- countries attended a professional sem- express train. Soon after this experi- pal speaker for the afternoon dedica- inar in Singapore, April 23-38. The 20 ence, M. G. Rajasingh, a literature tion service was Neal C. Wilson, vice- physicians and 14 dentists came from evangelist, introduced Arun to Bible president of the General Conference both denominational institutions and studies, which he soon completed. for the North American Division. J. L. private practice. The session included After his baptism on March 16 he Dittberner, recently appointed presi- lectures by professionals at the Univer- took a new name, Daniel Arun Rajan, dent of the Atlantic Union Conference, sity of Singapore, discussions, and bus and is now a strong church member at preached the morning sermon. tours of Singapore. Erode, South India. EMMA KIRK, Correspondent A. J. JOHANSON, Correspondent + Efenito Adap, ministerial secretary of the Southern Luzon Mission, was or- dained during the recent mission bi- TRANS-AFRICA DIVISION ennial session. + During March and April, 250 per- D. A. ROTH, Correspondent sons were baptized in the Central Af- rican Union, thus reaching half of the INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION union goal for baptisms in 1971. The + A personal witnessing seminar was meetings were conducted by the ad- recently conducted for the ministers of + Alfred J. Lewis, district pastor of the ministrative officers of the union in- the Alberta Conference by J. B. Church, Guyana Mission, was ordained on Sab- cluding P. G. Werner, president, who of the Northern California Conference. bath, May 22. conducted two short efforts. George Knowles, Canadian Union Min- + Literature evangelists in Inter-Amer- + The South-East Africa Union work- isterial department secretary, chaired ica are winning an average of 190 new ers' retreat was conducted at Pumulani the meetings. Following the final ses- church members a month. During 1970, near Monkey Bay in Malawi, April sion of the seminar the pastors visited two colporteurs gained 20 converts each; 21-26. Included among the participants from house to house, putting into prac- seven won 21 each; three, 30 each; one, were M. L. Mills, Trans-Africa Divi- tice the principles that had been taught. 40; and another, 48. sion president; and Dr. Dunbar W. + A one-day, Sabbath, seminar on the + Rolando Morales, district pastor of Smith, Trans-Africa Division medical subject of salvation of man from the the Guatemala Mission, was ordained secretary. DESMOND B. HILLS fall to the restitution, was held in Bot- on June 5. N. R. Dower, General Con- Correspondent wood, Newfoundland, in April. Forty ference Ministerial Association secre- persons were expected but 75 registered. tary, preached the ordination sermon. TRANS-MEDITERRANEAN Church members were admitted only by DIVISION bringing a nonmember guest. Several + M. T. Battle, associate secretary of the persons have since been baptized as a General Conference Lay Activities De- -4- Work in the African nation of Sene- result of the meetings. partment, conducted nine laymen's gal is growing, though at a slow pace. THEDA KUESTER, Correspondent rallies in Inter-America during May and A. Kinder, mission director, reports that June. More than 5,000 workers were in- membership has almost tripled since vested with the 1971 Laymen's Year pin. 1967, when it was only 24. A baptism + French Guiana Mission president has taken place each quarter this year Luc Chandler began an evangelistic in the Casamance district. campaign in the Cayenne church in E. E. WHITE, Correspondent June. About 60 non-Seventh-day Advent- ists are attending the services. + Literature evangelists of the north- + Twenty persons were baptized on eastern Ohio district recently partici- April 24 as a result of two evangelistic pated in a group-canvass plan that re- series launched at the beginning of the sulted in sales totaling almost $5,000. year by the students and teachers of They also distributed 372 pieces of lit- West Indies College, Jamaica. Seven- + Clifford Randall, a teacher at Alfred erature and enrolled 134 persons in teen others have recently been baptized Bible courses. from other evangelistic outreaches by University, found a book in a motel the college, and several others are pre- room—Your Bible and You—that inter- + Eduardo A. Escobar, pastor of the ested him greatly. Not being able to put paring for baptism. Youngstown, Ohio, Spanish church, re- it down, he took it home and sent pay- L. MARCEL ABEL, Correspondent cently conducted a six-week evangelistic ment to an enclosed address. He prayed campaign for Spanish-speaking people for more light. Shortly thereafter some- of the Youngstown area. SOUTHERN ASIA DIVISION one came to his door with another full- message book, gave it to his wife, and + Thirty-one seniors recently graduated + Some 1,200 persons are in regular never came back. Also, somewhat mys- in an outdoor commencement service daily attendance at the evangelistic teriously he began receiving These at Garden State Academy, Tranquility, meetings conducted by John Willmott, Times. He read and prayed again for New Jersey. Dr. Winton H. Beaven, Tamil Section evangelist, at Palayam- help. An assistant publishing secretary dean of Kettering College of Medical cottah, Tamil Section of the South In- of the New York Conference, Lewis Arts, in Ohio, was the commencement dia Union Conference. On May 23, 72 Dininny, driving in the area, stopped speaker. persons were baptized. at his country home. Mr. Dininny had + One hundred and thirty students have 20 REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, 1971 enrolled in the summer program of Kettering College of Medical Arts, Ket- tering, Ohio. Curricula represented are: nursing, 68; radiology, five; respiratory therapy, ten; medical assisting, four; en- vironmental management, two; and gen- eral education, 45. MoRrEN junERG, Correspondent

+ A friendship league started by women of the Troy, Michigan, church has writ- ten letters to shut-ins, prepared scrap- books for convalescent patients at nurs- ing homes, and given programs at these homes. + A series of health and nutrition lec- tures was offered during the Lake Region camp meeting, which began July 1. Guest lecturer was Mrs. Thomas Longware Wright, home economist for Marion County, Indiana, Department of Public Welfare. Prior to her present position, Mrs. Wright taught for 21 years in Adventist schools and colleges. + The Spanish constituency of Chicago held its first camp meeting this June Henderson, Kentucky, Church Dedicated at Broadview Academy. More than 300 persons were present at the Sabbath Dedication services for the Henderson, Kentucky, Seventh-day Adventist church morning worship service. were conducted on Sabbath, April 24. Kimber D. Johnson, Kentucky-Tennessee Con- GORDON ENGEN, Correspondent ference president, and H. H. Schmidt, Southern Union Conference president, were the speakers at the morning and afternoon services, respectively. The church had its beginning in 1900. R. S. Bradley is the pastor. A. J. ISEMINGER PR Director, Kentucky-Tennessee Conference

cluding an honorary Doctor of Laws ference evangelist, and B. E. Leach, + A church was organized at La Habra, for Lowell R. Rasmussen, retiring Pa- Southwestern Union Conference presi- southeastern California, May 22, with cific Union superintendent of education. dent. Many young people responded in 56 charter members. Carol Turnick and Dwayne Carpenter, commitment to a greater involvement in the work of the church. 4- Ground was broken recently at Lake both Spanish majors, graduated with Havasu City, Arizona, for a sanctuary. honors projects. + A youth camp recently acquired by The building will be on two and one- + Dr. Morris Taylor and Fred Veltman, the Oklahoma Conference has been half acres overlooking a lake. professor of music and associate profes- named Horseshoe Canyon Camp. The 4- Active lay participation with evangel- sor of religion, respectively, at Pacific new camp is situated 50 miles southwest ist John Klim has resulted in 35 bap- Union College, were selected by junior of Oklahoma City, near the town of tisms into Oahu, Hawaii, churches, with and senior students as outstanding teach- Binger, Oklahoma. ers and honored at commencement ex- a dozen others continuing to study. + A new church has been organized in ercises. + More than half of those in attendance Bogalusa, Louisiana. The pastor is Alvin at the third week of lectures at the Cen- + Chula Vista, California, church mem- Wilson. tral California Health Evangelism Field bers opened their newly expanded and remodeled church in special church + Among the high lights of the 1971 School were non-Seventh-day Adventists. Texas Conference camp meeting were Cooperating in the lectures are Drs. homecoming services June 4 and 5. Two former pastors, Don Spaulding and L. the early-morning devotional messages Mervyn Hardinge, Irving Jones, and on the subject of the Spirit of Prophecy. Bruce Johnston. Ervin Lehman, spoke during the special services. These services were presented by dedi- + Chapel recording artist Barbara Mor- SHIRLEY BURTON, Correspondent cated laymen from various walks of life ton was featured by the Carson City, and were entitled "What the Spirit of Nevada, church in a Civic Auditorium Prophecy Means to Me." thank-you concert for the city. Expres- + Blind Camps, sponsored by the Chris- sions of gratitude for the city's response tian Record Braille Foundation, are be- to Ingathering and other campaigns ing conducted in the Arkansas-Louisiana were the focus around which the music and Oklahoma conferences during the was presented. The Friday night con- month of July. They are a cooperative cert was organized by the church press + More than 1,500 people recently at- effort between the local conference MV secretary, Barbara Herlan. tended a Texico Conference rally at the departments and the Christian Record + Pacific Union College conferred 320 Albuquerque Fair Grounds. Guest speak- Foundation. degrees during its June graduation, in- ers included Dick Barron, Texas Con- J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent

REVIEW AND HERALD, July 22, '1971 21 Focus on God

GETTING ACQUAINTED THE GOD-MAN OUR GOD IS ABLE WITH GOD HIS NATURE AND WORK by Otto H. Christensen by Roy Allan Anderson by Calvin B. Rock In response to the God-is-dead This examination of Christ's Looking for meaning in life? theology, author Otto H. Christensen life—and His philosophy of life— Our God Is Able, written especially says "impossible." God is alive probes the import of a Being for young Adventists, may reveal and vitally interested in the affairs all human, yet all God. Christ your answer. This book of every man. This book may crucified and risen is only part of describes what God will do for restore in its readers an active faith the story. Most important— those who put complete trust in in a personal God. Christ is the Saviour. Him, for God is able to start with anyone and make him someone. Price, paper $1.95 Price, paper $2.95 Price, paper $2.50 For postage and handling please add 25c for the first book, 10c each additional book to same address. Include sales tax where necessary. GENERAL NEWS

an astonishing restoration plan to make Sicamous, British Columbia, left Toronto, New Books lands productive that now seem arid and May 30. sterile. By Harry M. Tippett Presently an international agricultural consultant, Mittleider is known as "the Adventist Volunteer Service Corps magician with the soil." He demonstrates and Other Workers "Preparations for the time of trouble"— that the gardener or farmer can develop how familiar the phrase has become to unpromising land to yield bountiful har- Laurel A. Nelson, to teach in the Eka- Seventh-day Adventists. Admonitions from vests with proper use of nutrients, even mai School, Bangkok, Thailand, student the Spirit of Prophecy writings associated from ordinary sand and sawdust. His missionary (AUC), of Reading, Massachu- with that preparation include urgent flight method is one of scientific fertilization setts, left San Francisco, California, May 16. from the cities to country living, where available even to the uninitiated. This Denise Charlotte March, to serve as nurse families may subsist on the products of book, replete with colorful pictures of at Nicaragua Adventist Hospital, student their own industry when times grow bitter. once-arid spots, captures the confidence Missionary (UC), of Denver, Colorado, left But a mass migration to rural life could of even the most skeptical. Houston, Texas, May 17. be tragic without a knowledge of the soil The principles of Food for Everyone Gina Rose Huckins, to be a nurse in the and the secrets of its management. To meet are sustained by quotations from the pen Nevati Mission (East Peru Mission), a stu- the rapidly approaching contingency a pro- of inspiration that call for "new methods dent at Union College, of Denver, Colo- vocative hook has been written. Addressed of agriculture." These principles have been to the world's 3.5 billion people, two thirds rado, left Maimi, Florida, May 18. found workable in their application to of whom are reported to he undernourished both small gardens and large areas of arable Kathy Dianne Pundt, to be a nurse in and one half of whom go to bed hungry land. The gripping demonstration of what the Nevati Mission (East Peru Mission), a every night, it offers the potential for was done on Okinawa alone is worth the student at Union College, of Denver, Colo- abundance of food in face of the predicted price of the book. The whole economy rado, left Miami, Florida, May 18. world famine that experts have forecast of the island has been revived. for the 1970's. Jacob R. Mittleider and James C. Minor, to serve as teacher in The book contains 608 pages, 200 illus- Osaka Evangelistic Center, Japan, student Andrew N. Nelson, with a background trations (100 in color), $15.95 plus 75 cents of extensive experience in the magic po- missionary (CUC), of Takoma Park, Mary- for handling and postage to any address, land, left San Francisco, California, May 26. tential of soil development in mission lands, anywhere. College Press, Box 578, College are the coauthors of this truly exciting Place, Washington 99324. Suzanne M. Donaldson, to teach in Eka- volume, Food for Everyone. mai Adventist School, Bangkok, Thailand, There is no idle guesswork in the au- student missionary (LLU-LS), of Riverside, thors' claiming that the earth's tillable California, left Los Angeles, June I. soil can produce sufficient food for nine times the present world population. They Sarah Louise Morrow, to teach in Osaka call for a "green reformation"—the applica- English-Language School, Japan, student tion of known scientific approaches to ob- missionary (UC), of Lincoln, Nebraska, left tain maximum yields from the soil. It is Los Angeles, June 1. (Conference names appear in parentheses.) Patricia A. O'Ffill, to teach in Korean Le Tan A, teacher, Saigon Adventist Union Mission, Seoul, Korea, student mis- School, from graduate study, Philippine sionary (CUC), of Front Royal, Virginia, Union College. left Los Angeles, June 3. B. U. Donato, public relations and MV Lynda E. Shull, to teach in Korean Un- secretary, Southeast Asia Union, from Sab- bath school secretary, South Philippine Un- ion Mission, Seoul, Korea, student mission- ion Mission. ary (CUC), of Mount Vernon, Ohio, left Arno Kutzner, director of admissions, Los Angeles, June 3. Southern Missionary College, formerly Donna Jean Griffin, to be nurse in Haiti teacher, Thunderbird Academy (Arizona). Clinic, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, student mis- Visitacion Maestre, assistant publishing sionary (AU), of Hinsdale, Illinois, left secretary, Central Philippine Union, from Washington, D.C., June 6. magazine leader, Western Mindanao Mis- C. 0. FRANZ sion. Harry P. Morley, director of materials management, St. Helena Hospital and Health Center (Northern California). ettunc14, ectfehtztan, Clifford L. Newkirk, treasurer, Forest Lake Academy (Florida), formerly princi- Dark County Evangelism August 7 Church Lay Activities Offering August 7 pal, Indiana Academy. Oakwood College Offering August 14 Harold E. Reimche, pastor, German Bible Correspondence School Evangelism Brooklyn church (Greater New York), Day September 4 Church Lay Activities Offering September 4 Aid in the Quebec from (British Columbia). Missions Extension Offering September II Gary C. Spencer, director of development Review and Herald Disaster Campaign September 11-October 9 and public information, St. Helena Hos- Bible Emphasis Day September 18 A check for $1,500 for rehabilitation pital and Health Center (Northern Cali- JMV Pathfinder Day September 25 fornia). Thirteenth Sabbath Offering of families hit in the cave-in disaster (Trans-Africa Division) September 25 that occurred in the northern part of Decision Day for Lay Evangelism October 2 Church Lay Activities Offering October 2 Quebec on May 4, was presented to Health Emphasis Week October 2-8 Mayor Laureat Lavoie (left), of Quebec From Home Base to Front Line Voice of Prophecy Offering October 9 Sabbath School Visitors' Day City, by Erwin Morosoli, pastor of the October 16 North American Division Community Relations Day October 16 Quebec City church. Presentation was Temperance Offering October 23 Week of Prayer October 30-November 6 made on behalf of the General Confer- Douglas M. Pond (Canadian Union Col- Annual Sacrifice Offering November 6 ence, the Canadian Union, and the On- lege '64; AU '65), to be mathematics teacher Church Lay Activities Offering November 13 in Kivu Secondary School, North Congo, Ingathering Crusade Launching Day November 13 tario-Quebec Conference. Ingathering Crusade Promotion December 4 L. R. KRENZLER Mrs. Pond, nee Marilyn Joyce Goertzen Church Lay Activities Offering December 4 Stewardship Day December 18 Lay Activities Secretary (Canadian Union College '63; Toronto Thirteenth Sabbath Offering Ontario-Quebec Conference Teachers' College '65), and daughter, of (Far Eastern Division) December 25

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Central States Conference by Elder Dalrymple to be conducted in Dickinson, North Dakota, from October Elects New President Health-Personnel Needs 15 to November 15. More than 200 delegates of the Central Present openings for personnel in SDA Plans have been formulated for evan- States Conference met in special session hospitals include those listed below: gelistic meetings by Faith for Today in at Camp Shadyhill near Kansas City on 1972 in southeastern California; Cleve- North America Sunday, June 27, and elected D. L. land, Ohio; Wichita, Kansas; and Port- Crowder president of the conference. 4 dietitians—ADA land, Oregon. W. S. Lee, who served as president for 4 physical therapists DONALD W. MCKAY five years, had accepted a call to serve as 15 physicians—see below secretary of the Central Union Confer- 3 radiological technologists ence. 7 R.N.'s—directors Atlantic Union Laymen The new president has served as pastor 21 R.N.'s—ICU's of many churches throughout North 1 X-ray technician Active in Evangelism America, and most recently was pastor Overseas "So far during Laymen's Year 31 lay- of the Park Hill church in Denver, Colo- men in the New York Conference have rado. We believe Elder and Mrs. Crow- 4 dentists (2 self-supporting) been engaged in public evangelism," der will give strong leadership and an 1 dietitian writes W. E. Peeke, Atlantic Union lay evangelistic emphasis among our Black 16 physicians—general practice activities secretary. Public evangelism by believers in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, 12 physicians—specialty laymen has resulted in several baptisms. Nebraska, and Iowa. 2 R.N.'s—education The same is happening in other confer- Also voted at this special constituency 5 R.N.'s—service ences in the Atlantic Union. A number meeting was a three-year term. Physicians include: General practice; of lay efforts are in progress. Plans are NEAL C. WILSON general surgeon; psychiatrist. Informa- being laid to conduct more lay efforts in tion regarding openings and placement the fall. assistance may be obtained by contacting V. W. SCHOEN Board of Regents Meets Miss Norma Eldridge, Department of Health, General Conference of Seventh- in Washington day Adventists, 6840 Eastern Avenue NOTICE NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. The General Conference Board of STOP-SMOKING DEVICES Regents, meeting recently at headquar- ters office in Washington, D.C., voted to On the back page of the June 10 REVIEW AND HERALD we placed a notice regarding devices now on grant a five-year term of accreditation to the market intended to help people to stop smoking. Oakwood College in Huntsville, Ala- The wording of the statement created some mis- bama. A complete list of accredited Southern Union Raises understanding. In attempting to set forth our view schools, secondary and tertiary levels, in as few words as possible, and at the same time Half Million for '72 to identify the type of product causing us concern, will appear in the REVIEW at a later date. we referred to specific brand names. For this refer- The board also took an action to Southern Union members contributed ence we apologize. In addition, the expression merge the current Commissions on Sec- more than $500,000 for evangelism at the "money-making scheme" was used. This language ondary and Higher Education into one recent camp meetings. By conferences, was poorly chosen. We did not intend to reflect un- favorably on the profit aspect of any ethical business. body and to schedule its next meeting these were the totals received: In the notice the recommendation of the Temper- for May 18, 1972. In their discussions, Alabama-Mississippi $103,000 ance Advisory Committee was inaccurately stated some regents expressed concern over the Carolina 100,000 and it also indicated that the General Conference apparent permissiveness on some cam- officers had given their approval to this statement. Florida 120,000 This did not convey a correct impression. The offi- puses. It is hoped there can be more Georgia-Cumberland 117,000 cers, however, did refer certain matters regarding solid backing on the parts of parents and Kentucky-Tennessee 58,000 the temperance message and program to the 1971 churches to the adherence of rules and South Atlantic 40,000 Autumn Council for review and final action. E. H. J. STEED, Secretary regulations that are supporting the stand- South Central 3,500 ards and objectives of our schools as General Conference Temperance Dept. found in the writings of Ellen G. White. $541,500 CHARLES B. HiRson In Alabama-Mississippi and Carolina, a small portion of the funds will be used Eight New Members for their academies, but the largest share "CHANGE OF ADDRESS

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day Adventist Services and Industries ssaappy (ASI). They are: Bellinda Hospital, Port Hueneme, Faith for Today Crusades California; Fenderson's Rainbow Haven Yield 198 Baptisms (residence for retarded children), Shafter, California; Harbert Hills Academy and Several hundred have taken their stand ID Sanitarium, Olive Hill, Tennessee; for the third angel's message, and 198 Hiersche Nursing Home, Inc., Pendle- have been baptized as a result of evan- ton, Oregon; Hilltop Home Nursery (for gelistic crusades conducted by Faith for retarded children), Felton, California; Today personnel in Atlanta, Georgia; Jensen and Grove, Inc. (lumber busi- La Crosse, Wisconsin; and South Bend, N ness), Woodland, Washington; Pleasant Indiana. Grove Hospital, Anchorage, Kentucky; In the Atlanta Crusade, with W. A. 0 Ross Vital Foods (sales), Portland, Ore- Fagal as speaker, 82 were baptized. Gor- gon. don F. Dalrymple baptized 92 in South Membership in the ASI now exceeds Bend, while E. E. Duncan won 34 in La 200. Crosse. CARTS H. LAUDA Other meetings are planned this year

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