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ADVENT/5T WeeklyREVIEW News and Inspiration for Seventh-day Adventists April 24. 1986 Hal sey s a re End-Time Predictions ,),„ .„ LETTERS Amazed to educate their children and youth prepare for life on earth and a future in our schools. No way do most of us in heaven, to distinguish truth from I was amazed to see the advertise- have money for even one child—not ment for the contemporary singer error, to develop body and intelli- to mention three or more. Sandi Patti (Mar. 6). Please, can't we gence, and to be ready to help I realize that a number will not themselves and others to know stay within our denomination? As a sacrifice luxuries for Christian edu- salvation and the gospel. youth in the seventies I filled my cation. E. W. BROOKS HENRY Y. CHANG head with rock music, and this Hayfork, California Columbus, Ohio contemporary Christian(?) music has the same beat! I think you should reconsider Myron Widmer's interview with your advertising policies. Clifford Sorensen (March 6) is one We poor, ignorant, uneducated JOANNE BROWN more demonstration that the new Christians in the early twentieth Columbus, North Carolina REVIEW is dealing with issues cru- century established these schools cial to readers in ever more helpful and operated them in God's ways. At Atlantic Union College, in strength, furnishing education for Thank you for placing a Sandi historic New England, we're our students at a price they could Patti ad with her tour guide. endeavoring to do our part in mak- afford. Now look at the plight we are Three years ago I went to see her ing a quality Christian education in in after they've been operated by in concert. Good music does much a unique environment both chal- those with B.A., M.A., and Dr. with more for me than most sermons. lenging and affordable for a growing their names. Sandi's exuberant personality and student body. Our enrollment actu- ALVA A. COLVIN obvious love and close relationship ally went up second semester—evi- Astoria, Oregon with Jesus shone from her the whole dence that we're on the right track as evening. KAREN BLUMENBERG far as our students are concerned. Genesis Sharpsburg, Maryland LAWRENCE T. GERATY I would like the author of "Trage- South Lancaster, Massachusetts Struck dies in Space" (Mar. 6) to define "chaotic mess." The SDA Bible As a new Adventist, I was particu- Commentary on Genesis 1 (vol. 1, p. larly struck by the seeming incon- Something appeared to be lacking in this interview. 209) states that earth's "elements sistency of the 1972 Annual Council were all mingled together, com- statement on display and adorn- Foremost among the objectives set for our educational systems is pletely unorganized and inani- ment (Mar. 20). By what logic did mate," but this totally disregards the council conclude that modest the idea that all the young persons who finish our training programs Genesis and the Spirit of Prophecy: necklaces, earrings, bracelets, and "God was not indebted to preex- rings should not be worn but that should be well trained in the sci- ence of bringing people to the foot of isting matter [in the creation of this modest brooches may be worn, in earth]. All things, material or harmony with Christian principles? the cross and leading them in mak- ing a decision for Christ. A second spiritual, stood up at . His voice" How can a modest brooch be intrin- (Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 258). sically different than a modest objective is that of training all our young persons in the use of a trade If God had to create some ele- necklace? OLGA JOHNSON ments and let them settle a few eons Rockville, Maryland whereby they can work and provide for themselves and their families before they were in proper condi- tion to mold into a planet, how is it SDA Colleges without having to work for a pay- check. that He could create anything So far, "The State of SDA Colleges Perhaps the Spirit of God was already mature and producing? in North America" (Mar. 6) is the trying to tell us that 100 graduates a J. FLOYD VOGT, JR. best—no exception—and most year with the above qualifications Heflin, Alabama accurate of all the articles written are worth thousands who do not about our institutions of higher have such qualifications. learning. IRA M. GISH STANLEY MURPHY Letters should not exceed 250 words Port Charlotte, Florida and should carry the writer's name, Pecos, Texas address, and telephone number. All will be edited to meet space and literary requirements, but the author's meaning My children and grandchildren Adventist higher education must will not be changed. Views expressed in have never spent a day in public be different from other colleges, the letters do not necessarily represent those of the editors or of the denomina- school. But the fact is that, no matter different from other church col- tion. Address letters for this column to how great the value, more than 50 leges. It is our duty to teach our Editor, ADVENTIST REVIEW, 6840 Eastern percent of our families cannot begin young people to know God, to Ave., NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. 2 (426) ADVENTIST REVIEW ADVENTIST REVIEWApril 24, 1986 General paper of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Editor William G. Johnsson Associate Editor Myron K. Widmer Managing Editor Jocelyn R. Fay News Editor James Coffin Carlos Medley Assistant Editors Eugene F. 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Postmaster: send address changes trying not to get tangled in it. to Adventist Review, 55 West Oak Ridge Drive, Hagerstown, MD 21740. by Samuele Bacchiocchi COMING NEXT WEEK: Bible texts credited to N.E.B. are from The New English Bible. © The Delegates of the • "A Little Wine for Oxford University Press and the Syndics of LIFESTYLE the Cambridge University Press 1961, 1970. Thy Heart's Sake?" Can Reprinted by permission. Texts credited to moderate drinking hurt N.I.V. are from The Holy Bible: New Interna- 12 How to Choose Children's tional Version. Copyright 1978 by the you? According to sev- International Bible Society. Used by permis- Software sion of Zondervan Bible Publishers. Texts Of some 8,000 educational computer eral recent studies, the credited to R.S.V. are from the Revised answer is Yes. Standard Version of the Bible, copyrighted programs for children, only 1.5 percent 1946, 1952 C 1971, 1973. have been judged high quality. Here are • "What to Do When You Love God (but COVER: TIM MITOMA things to consider when you go shop- maybe aren't so crazy about the church)." Vol. 163, No. 17 ping. by Ruth Atkinson Pope A Lifestyle feature by Greg Brothers. APRIL 24, 1986 (427) 3 EDITORIALS pretation, Ellen White encouraged us to search these Bible books for greater understanding. And, in fact, the church is gaining fresh insights into these prophecies. The most recent meeting of the Daniel and Revelation Committee (DAR- RIGHTLY COM), held at Andrews University, convinced me of that. At the historic Glacier View con- DIVIDING sultation (August, 1980), General Conference president Wilson prom- ised that the church would set up a ith Hal Lindsey's ideas prophecy readily spawns sensa- committee of scholars for ongoing sweeping the evangelical tional, subjective scenarios.