Vol. 42 First Quarter, 1953 No. 1

THE OVERFLOW OF THE THIRTEENTH SABBATH OFFERING WILL AID IN PROVIDING ESSENTIAL BUILDINGS AND EQUIPMENT IN THREE MAJOR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: 1. Japan Missionary College—near Tokyo 2. North Celebes Training School—Indonesia Union 3. New Junior College—South Philippine Union

Graduating Class at Japan Missionary College

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SABBATH, JANUARY 3 The secretary's report was read by a Chinese. Terima Kaseh Banyak The mission reading was given by (Thank You Much) an Englishman. F. A. PRATT The review was conducted by a [Secretary, Sabbath School Department, brother from India. Far Eastern Division] This was not planned, but is a com- We were made very happy when we mon occurrence. The city of Singapore learned that the Far Eastern Division has been called "The Crossroads of the was to receive the overflow offering on Pacific," and it is just that. On the March 28, 1953. streets of this city you may meet In many ways the Far East is one people from most of the nations of of the most interesting fields among the world. It reminds one of Jerusalem our world divisions. It covers a vast in the days of Paul, for we read, territory, and although most of it is "And there were dwelling at Jerusalem water, still about 250,000,000 people . . . men, out of every nation under for whom Christ died live within its heaven." Acts 2:5. boundaries. From the island of Hok- We have Sabbath schools everywhere, kaido [Ho-ki'do] on the north to the nearly fifteen hundred of them. The island of Timor on the south is a program followed is the same as you stretch of over five thousand miles. use in your own home Sabbath school. From Sumatra on the west to the The mission story, the review, and the Marshall Islands on the east is nearly lesson study follow in their order. If four thousand miles. This is surely a you were to visit one of our Sabbath division of long distances. schools in Korea to the north, or The work in this division began with Borneo in the south, you would be the coming of W. C. Granger and delighted to find that you would feel T. K. Okihira to Japan in 1896. The right at home. You might not under- work has advanced through the years stand a word that was said, but as the until now our membership is approach- various members took part, you would ing sixty thousand. Probably no one feel the same spirit running through the knows definitely how many languages Sabbath schools out here that you do are spoken in this division, for the in the homeland. flags of many nations fly over our Recently at the Johore Sabbath field. This language barrier presents a school the mission reading was given real problem, for sometimes several by a brother lying on a table. Although languages are spoken in one church. unable to turn the pages of the Mrs- At the headquarters English church sroNS QUARTERLY himself, he read here in Singapore recently the Sabbath well, thus making his contribution to school, although conducted in English. the Sabbath school program. This ear- had the following nationalities on the nest brother, who is about forty years program: old, weighs only forty-two pounds. For The prayer was offered by an Ameri- more than twenty-five years he has can. been afflicted with arthritis, and his MISSIONS QUARTERLY 3

body is badly twisted, making it im- SABBATH, JANUARY 10 possible for him to stand or sit, so he must remain in a reclining position. Needs in the Far Eastern In spite of this, he is always present Division and on time at the Sabbath school. V. T. ARMSTRONG This man was baptized recently as the [President, Far Eastern Division] result of meetings held here in Singa- pore. He is looking forward to the Greetings to our Sabbath schools day when Jesus will come and heal throughout the world field. Your won- his crippled body. derful response to our appeal for help I want to take this opportunity to during the last quarter of 1950 cheered thank our world-wide Sabbath schools our hearts and brought encouragement for their liberal offerings -which have and blessing to the work in the Far come to this division in times past. Eastern Division. Now we have re- The plan is to use the overflow offering ceived the glad word from the General for this quarter to expand and strength- Conference that the offering for the en three of our major educational in- first quarter of 1953 has been assigned stitutions: to us. This is good news and we are 1. Japan Missionary College near happy to write and tell you of the Tokyo. This is our only secondary or projects that will receive the help collegiate school in Japan, and it is our world Sabbath school family is badly handicapped by a lack of es- going to give this quarter. It was diffi- sential buildings and equipment. cult for the division committee to de- 2. The North Celebes Training School cide which projects to select, not be- in the Indonesia Union. This school cause we did not have needs but because has several incompleted buildings which the needs are so numerous it is hard must be finished before it can function to eliminate any. efficiently. Within the territory of the Far East- 3. The new junior college now being ern Division are more than two hun- started on the island of Mindanao. dred and fifty million people. Seven- This college will meet an urgent need teen different national flags fly over for educational facilities in the newly these Oriental lands making up the organized South Philippine Union Mis- division field. Here, in a little over sion. fifty years since the first missionaries Our eyes are turned toward our came with the message, fifty-five thou- sister Sabbath schools around the world sand people have been baptized into during this first quarter of 1953. We church fellowship. Through earth- are sure that as you become better quakes, destructive storms, deadly pes- acquainted with our field through the tilences, and many devastating wars, readings from Sabbath to Sabbath, your the church in the Orient has carried on hearts will respond with a liberal over- and is today marching forward to vic- flow offering on March 28. tory along with other sister fields around the world. "Freely ye have received, freely A look at the map will reveal how ex- give."—Matt. 10:8. pansive is the territory of the division. 4 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

It stretches from the far northern bor- would also result in a dearth of workers ders of Japan and Korea to the day who will be needed to finish the task line on the east, south as far as before the church. Australia, and west to the borders of Experience has proved that young Burma. It is a very interesting field, men and women of the Orient, when and surely a needy one. This is the given a Seventh-day Adventist educa- day of opportunity for the remnant tion, are just as capable and successful church in these Oriental lands and workers as can be found anywhere. presents the greatest challenge to God's They are willing to sacrifice and endure people in this century. Within these hardship. They love the message and countries today many thousands of enjoy service for the Master, but young people are appealing to us for they must have an opportunity for educational facilities in order that they proper training in our schools. may be trained to take their place in It is a privilege to give to such the work of God. worthy projects, and we feel sure our Three schools will benefit from the Sabbath school members throughout the gifts you make on this thirteenth Sab- world will join in making a real sac- bath: The Japan Junior College, the rificial offering on this thirteenth Sab- North Celebes Training School, and bath. the Philippine college being established on the island of Mindanao in the southern part of the Philippine Islands. SABBATH, JANUARY 17 Others will tell you during this quarter Bukidnon Appeals to You of each of these needy projects and what your offerings will accomplish. GIL DE GUZMAN If you could visit these schools you [President, South Philippine Union] would see the crowded dormitories, This quarter, the attention of all our classrooms, and dining halls, and recog- Sabbath school members throughout the nize their dire need. In fact, you would world is being directed to the urgent find buildings only partly constructed need of a junior college to be located or still in the planning stage, while very in the newly organized South Philippine temporary arrangements have been Union Mission. A beautiful and ideal made to care for the hundreds of young site in Bukidnon [B5-o-kidinon] on the people who have crowded into these island of Mindanao has been found training centers for a Christian educa- which meets all the requirements of tion. God for an Adventist college. It is a Our future work in these lands tract of rolling land with an area of must be done largely by the young 1,000 hectares, or 2,500 acres, at an people enlisted and trained in these altitude of 2,100 feet above sea level, schools. To fail now to provide and which gives it a very healthful and in- equip them will mean the loss of vigorating climate conducive to diligent thousands of young people who will go study and hard work. The land is fertile elsewhere for their education and per- enough to produce a great variety of haps drift away from the church. It crops, including fruits and vegetables MISSIONS QUARTERLY 5 sufficient not only for the needs of God. To illustrate this fact, I will the college but a surplus for the sale cite you a representative example to in nearby markets. Right behind the indicate the fearlessness of our young land is an extensive and thick forest, people to answer where duty calls. containing Philippine mahogany and Up in the interior jungles of North- other first-class timber, for which there ern Mindanao there lives a non- is always a great demand. The site is Christian tribe known as the Subanos. connected by a fairly good road with These people are pagan, illiterate, and Cagayan [Ka'ga.-yan] de Oro, the cap- wear practically no clothes. They live ital of Oriental Misamis, which is one in the forest and seldom come in con- of the important ports of Mindanao. tact with civilization, but they have Besides this national highway the Phil- souls and are just as precious as any ippine Government, with the financial for whom Christ died. To reach these aid of the ECA, is definitely com- people one has to pass through thick mitted to open up another highway forests, swim across swiftly flowing which would reduce the distance of rivers, and then live in an area infested the college site from Cagayan by some with deadly malarial mosquitoes. We forty kilometers, and would also con- have been able to organize a mission nect it with the Davao and Cotabato school among these people, but it has provinces where many of our believers already cost the life of our first teacher, are living. who died of malaria barely six months We have in the South Philippine after he started work among them. Union Mission six hundred and fifty- But this life that was laid down in seven young people already enrolled in loving service bore fruit in the form our three established academies, and of twelve souls who were converted and some two hundred and four college baptized into the message. students who are now attending Phil- This interest had to be followed up ippine Union College Extension, located regardless of the cost. A strong ap- temporarily at Manticao, Mindanao. peal was again made to our students This large number of young people pro- at the Mindanao Mission Academy at vides us with a great reservoir of po- Manticao for volunteers to carry on tential workers for the quick evange- the work that was begun with such lization of this field within the short sacrifice. Instead of frightening our period of comparative peace left to us young people because of the grave pos- before the great time of trouble breaks sibility of becoming sick with malaria in its fury upon the world. while so far removed from medical Our students enrolled at the College help, the call was answered bravely. Extension Division at Manticao are Another student willingly volunteered showing evidence of consecration and to go to work among the poor be- devotion to God's work. They are nighted Subanos, that they might re- ready to answer calls for Christian serv- joice in the blessed hope of the soon- ice regardless of inconvenience, pri- coming Saviour. vation, and danger to health, if only This is the spirit of the young people they can be of help in the work of who are being trained in our junior 6 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

college. They certainly need a better istration building. We are thankful place where more of them can be pre- that at present we have four large pared to work for the Lord. brick buildings to replace the former Your liberal offering on this thir- bamboo sheds. These buildings are teenth Sabbath will greatly facilitate now being occupied, but they are still the transfer of our junior college to unfinished. We had to stop our build- this beautiful new location at Bukidnon ing program because the union was no which will mean so much in the de- longer in a position to further finance velopment of consecrated workers for the project. the Philippines. May the Lord bless Through the years, our people in you as you plan your offering for this Indonesia have responded slowly to thirteenth Sabbath. the idea of Christian education. Now our members have become education- minded, and Adventist boys and girls SABBATH, JANUARY 24 are coming to our schools in in- Remember S. P. S. creasing numbers. Our problem now is not to find students for our schools, M. G. LALOAN but to provide a place for them. We [Principal, North Celebes Training School] need more classrooms, for into some of our rooms we are crowding as many I wonder how many of you could as ninety students. This is certainly step up to a globe and without inten- far from ideal from the standpoint of sive searching place your finger on the health and education. We are in urgent starfish-shaped island of Celebes in In- need of an assembly hall for our chapel donesia. On the tip of the northern exercises and devotional meetings. At arm of the island is located the Sekolah present we are using one wing of the Pendidikan Sulawesi (North Celebes boys' dormitory for this purpose, thus Training School) which is the first and depriving the boys of space which they only training school in the North very much need. One day one of the Celebes Mission. It may be of interest boys was heard remarking, "Now I to you to know that this mission has know how sardines feel in a can." a membership of approximately six They are not complaining, for they are thousand, and is the fastest growing looking forward to the time when the mission in the Indonesia Union Mission. Thirteenth Sabbath Offering overflow The Celebes Training School was es- will improve matters. We need ad- tablished in 1948 because of the great ditional chairs, tables, desks, type- need for workers in this mission field. writers, pianos, maps, and much other Ambitious plans were made for this equipment which a school simply must educational institution, but because of have to function effectively. uncertain conditions in Indonesia, very little building could be done during the Last year we had an enrollment of first three years. Up until several seventy, and this year it is one hun- months ago, large thatch-roofed bam- dred eighty-five, representing an in- boo sheds with dirt floors served as crease of over one hundred per cent. dormitories, dining room, and admin- Indications are that next year the en- MISSIONS QUARTERLY 7 rollment will reach or pass the three withstood me." Dan. 10:12, 13. Man's hundred mark, and that means that barriers! They are everywhere—road- while you are listening to this report, blocks to eternity. They have been set three hundred or more students are up in men's hearts, built in every con- crowding school buildings meant for tinent of the world, erected in the only two hundred. Thus our buildings islands of the sea. But heaven always will have become too small before they finds a way—God detours. Mercy un- have been completed. paralleled, that the Infinite should de- One day a group of men in one of tour around the finite who obstruct the the nearby towns were discussing educa- Royal Highway. tion. A gentleman joined them, and For many years ecclesiastical and after listening silently for a few minutes political forces have combined to keep he raised his voice and said, "If you the Adventist missionary out of Guam wish your boys and girls to obtain a and the Pacific Islands, but the devil good education, send them to the Ad- started a war, and the United States ventist school there on the hill." The government sent a sailor-missionary to speaker was a government school in- win the first converts to this message spector whom, a few weeks previously, and open the way. After four years of I had had the privilege of conducting mission labor there are three organized around our school campus, and who on churches and one hundred fifty mem- that occasion became acquainted with bers on Guam alone. Adventist education for the first time. We certainly wish to live up to this Saipan, 100 per cent Catholic, has standard, which even the world recog- resisted Protestantism even through nizes as superior. We do have a few five or six years of occupation by an carefully selected non-Adventist stu- American missionary of another faith, dents in school. We were made happy who has not won a single convert. But a few weeks ago to see several of these a Guamanian Adventist worker was students join the baptismal class. sent to them, and the Lord stirred We wish to take this opportunity the people. Many are interested and to thank you all for the liberal Thir- several have been baptized. Among the teenth Sabbath Offering which we are converts was a man from Yap Island certain you will give. where we have not been permitted to enter. Since he was a resident of Yap, the government could not pre- SABBATH, JANUARY 31 vent his return to tell his people of the soon-coming Saviour and the claims Man's Barriers and of His law. Already there are many God's Detours interested, and a number are awaiting R. E. DUNTON baptism. The governor, at this writing, has just given permission for an or- [President, Far Eastern Island Mission] dained minister to go to that needy "From the first . . . thy words were island where 70 per cent of the popu- heard, and I am come for thy words. lace are avowed heathen, and 30 per But the prince of the kingdom of Persia cent are nominal Catholics. H MISSIONS QUARTERLY

The eastern Caroline Islands (Truk, SABBATH, FEBRUARY 7 Ponape, and others) and the Marshall College Islands are waiting for us, but other Philippine Union church groups have brought pressure on Extension the government to keep us out. How- DR. A. N. NELSON ever, God is finding a way. Mesubed, [President, Philippine Union College] one of our native believers from Palau, With the Philippine Adventist mem- has been sent with other young men bership approaching forty thousand and to attend the British Central Medical baptisms five thousand a year, the num- Training School in Suva, Fiji. Stu- ber of children and youth to be given dents have also been sent from Truk, a Christian education in the two Phil- Ponape, and the Marshalls, some of ippine Unions is nearly twenty thou- whom have been taken to our mission sand. Our one hundred thirty-five ele- station in Suva by Mesubed where mentary schools and our five senior they have learned the truth. Two academies are graduating an ever-in- young men from Ponape and one from creasing number of young people. Truk have been baptized and will soon These, added to the hundreds of Ad- return to their island homes to teach ventist youth in secular schools whose others the message for these last days. parents are becoming increasingly aware Three Adventist young men from Pa- of the need of a Christian education, lau have been sent to a government have brought about a phenomenal in- training school on Truk, where they crease in the enrollment of this P. U. C. are witnessing for Christ behind the of the Orient—from one hundred thirty- barriers. five in 1947 to six hundred college stu- Women have been beaten for em- bracing the truth, children have been dents today besides six hundred more turned out of their homes, mobs have elementary and academy students, or a been incited against our missionaries, total of twelve hundred. Besides these our literature publicly burned. The six hundred college students at Phil- promise of persecution has been ful- ippine Union College in Manila, we have two hundred more college students filled, but in the islands of the sea at our Philippine Union College Ex- God has made the wrath of man to tension at the Mindanao Mission Acad- praise Him, and the truth is marching emy in the south. This makes a total on. Old prejudices are being buried, collegiate enrollment of eight hundred, barriers are going down, and there is a new spirit in the islands—the Spirit and this is destined to grow to a thou- of the Lord. Heaven always finds a sand ere long. way. For the past two or three years the On this coming thirteenth Sabbath, Mindanao College Extension has been let us pray and give liberally for the temporarily housed on the campus of finishing of the work in the islands of the Mindanao Mission Academy, and the Far East. this has created a congestion which necessitated our finding a suitable "Go ye into all the world, and preach permanent site to which we could the gospel."—Mark 16:16. move our college students. In this task MISSIONS QUARTERLY 9 we were determined to find a place The rainfall is abundant and well which would enable us to put on the distributed throughout the year, which complete program of Christian educa- makes it ideal for farming. Two or tion. Our search has been rewarded, three crops a year can be raised. The and our prayers have been wonderfully land is excellent for rice, corn, pine- answered in the securing of a well-nigh apples, hemp, vegetables, fruit, sugar ideal site in the heart of the swiftly cane, poultry, and dairying. Further- developing island of Mindanao, in an more, the mornings and the early after- area where there are no typhoons, no noons are sunny, with the rains coming malaria, and mosquitoes are almost un- quite regularly in the late afternoon known. Here we can educate our col- or evening. So students and teachers legiate youth of the southern Philip- will be working in the cool sunny pines and many from Luzon and over- mornings and studying in the after- seas unions. The area consists of noons. twenty-five hundred fertile acres. It Plowing is under way, and a saw- cost only $14,000, and $5,000 of this mill has been purchased, thanks to is being given by the family of the late the hard work and sacrifice of eur Brother Tirso Jamandre, leaving a net Filipino brethren. Help is urgently cost to the college of only $9,000. The needed to provide a fund for buildings climate is cool, for the elevation is and equipment, for we expect an enroll- over two thousand feet. The site has ment of three hundred college stu- a beautiful mountain setting, and is dents the first year, and four hundred bounded by three cool, swift mountain the second, besides many academic and streams and a vast wooded area, the elementary pupils. adjacent 12,000 acres of which is our We are thankful that our one million forest concession. This concession will Sabbath school members around the furnish us with a superabundance of world are joining hands on this thir- lumber for our buildings, besides tim- teenth Sabbath to make possible the ber for the market. The timber in building up of this important training the forest is hard and semihard woods, center in the southern Philippines. out of which we can make beautiful high-class furniture for export as well as build our homes and school buildings. Triumphs of the Advent Message in the Celebes There is an abundance of water. There are many large, cool, pure N. C. WnsoN springs; and the mountain streams in- [President, Indonesia Union Mission] sure plenty of water for industrial, In the beautiful island field of the domestic, and agricultural purposes. North Celebes we have approximately There are about ten waterfalls in one six thousand church members. The of the streams which flows right through Celebes lies astride the equator between the place; and one of these is a hun- the Philippines and Java, and forms a dred and twenty feet high, assuring part of the new Republic of Indonesia. us of gravity-flow water and hydro- Our mission work in the Celebes is a electric power. story of victory and triumph. 10 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

About thirty years ago our mission in their densely populated island field. workers carried the standard of the Ad- For many years, the brethren in vent message to the Celebes. The charge of our work in the Celebes found people were friendly and receptive. themselves unable to establish a train- They live far removed from the routes ing school for our young people. The of world travel, and are a quiet and financial calls were so many and the happy people. Our work in the North funds so limited that it seemed im- Celebes is today one of the very possible to provide funds for this need. bright and challenging places in the Far But while the financial burdens seem Eastern Division, and indeed, it is a to increase year by year, we feel we can- work of which our people everywhere not delay longer in doing something to may be justly proud. God has done provide a training center for the large great things for His people in that groups of young people offering them- island field. selves for training and service. Work One of our national ministers recently has been started on buildings for a held a series of meetings in a Celebes school, and we are appealing to our village. The meetings continued for Sabbath school members in every land quite a time, and at their close thirty to help us provide facilities for the souls were baptized. They are a fine training of this army of capable and intelligent group of islanders, more than eager Advent youth in the Celebes. A half of whom are young people, eagerly good tract of land has been purchased facing life and anxious to have a part which will enable many of the young in some phase of church activity. people to grow much of the food In another village in the North Cele- needed, and thus help themselves fi- bes, a consecrated and capable layman nancially while attending school. They held meetings for several months. A are a willing and self-reliant group of group of twenty-two people accepted young people. the Advent message and joined the The Advent youth in the Celebes church. Wonderful victories were won are faithful in all church activities and for God in this village. Of those bap- in sharing their faith with others. tized, just over half were young people, They are eager to help raise money all of whom were desirous of training for the new training school now under in one of our schools. construction, and, of course, they are to have a large part in this task. But Wherever one visits our churches in we must send them financial help from North Celebes, large groups of young outside their own home field. We feel people are found. Our churches there it is a privilege for our Sabbath schools are throbbing with the enthusiasm and everywhere to have a part in this strength of consecrated Advent youth. good work. The young people of the They are a happy and willing group sev- Celebes are worthy of your help. eral thousand strong. Church schools and a training school must be provided if we are to train them for service and "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a wit- have the benefit of their ability and ness unto all nations; and then shall consecration in finishing the large task the end come."—Matt. 24:14. MISSIONS QUARTERLY 11

SABBATH, FEBRUARY 14 approximately six hundred thousand. Every year from two to six severe on Okinawa Progress typhoons strike the island, leaving in E. E. JENSEN their wake destruction and desolation. [President, Okinawa Mission] The last typhoon to strike reached wind velocities of around one hundred sixty Prior to World War H the name miles per hour. Many buildings were "Okinawa" was little known. However, destroyed and eighty-five per cent of at the present time much activity cen- the crops and gardens ruined. Because ters around this little island, and the of these storms and poor soil conditions, interest of the world has been awakened only about twenty-five per cent of the because of its strategic location. Were we to look at our geographies food needed for the population can be grown on the island. The rest must we would find that Okinawa lies about halfway between Tokyo, Japan, and all be imported. Manila, Philippine Islands, the distance The people of Okinawa are similar from either city being about nine hun- in appearance to the Japanese, although dred fifty miles. At present it forms apparently of a different origin. Hav- quite an important hub for the various ing been so closely related to Japan airlines which operate in the Far East. for many years the Japanese language From a military point of view the has been adopted officially, and all island is very strategic and is being schools are conducted in this language. developed as an important base. Lying Many of the older people speak only as we do in the same latitude as the Okinawan, which is an unwritten lan- northern part of Mexico, the climate is guage and was probably spoken until semitropical, with cool winters and Okinawa came under the control of hot, sticky summers. American soldiers Japan. Most of the young people have rather ironically nicknamed Oki- speak both languages fluently. nawa the "Garden Spot of the Pacific." The political status of the island is Vegetation is rather scanty and what somewhat uncertain, but at the present trees were growing in the southern half time the United States is acting as of the island prior to World War II trustee. There has recently been were completely destroyed during the formed a new government which will bombing which took place. In the control Okinawa and the surrounding northern part, a certain variety of pine islands, or that group geographically tree grows, which furnishes firewood known as the Ryukyu [Ri-aiku] Is- and a very poor grade of lumber. The lands. This central government is being soil consists of clay and coral, making fostered by the United States with an it very difficult to raise garden or other eye toward democracy. crops. Much of the island is composed During 1950, Seventh-day Adventists of sharp coral ridges rising several hun- began work on • Okinawa for the first dred feet into the air. The island is time. Prior to the war it was difficult sixty-seven miles in length and ranges to enter because of restrictions. Now in width from three to ten miles. this has changed, and it was felt The present population of Okinawa is we should begin work in this needy 12 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

field. Many Okinawan Seventh-day Ad- study with them. During the first year ventists are living in Hawaii, and for ten precious souls were baptized, and years they have been praying that the as the year closed, approximately two message might enter their home coun- hundred were in the hearers' classes. try. Their prayers and entreaties en- The first one to take her stand with couraged the Far Eastern Division to us was Mrs. Tsukayama, who was a vote to request from the General Con- prominent social worker in the United ference a budget for the establishment Church. Through the influence of her of a mission station on Okinawa. This uncle, Brother Yahiku, who was work- request was granted, with the result ing with us, she was led to a knowledge that we were asked to make our home of the truth, and joined with us in here and pioneer the work, which we mission work. Her resignation from gladly did. the United Church brought consider- Much could be said of those early able ridicule and abuse upon her, but days. Since the island is rigidly con- she has remained faithful and is ener- trolled by the United States army, there getic in her work. Through the com- was the matter of permits and authori- bined efforts of this lady and her uncle, zation to establish a mission. It seemed a woman minister, also of the United that the difficulties were many, but the Church, became interested and de- Lord always opened the way for us, cided to unite with us. This has done and we have much for which to be much to give us courage and to thankful. From the very beginning we strengthen our work. have had excellent cooperation from At the present time plans are being the army and from the Okinawan people. laid to begin operation of a small At first most of our efforts were clinic. This will be a great blessing to spent in getting a home and head- us, and the people are eagerly waiting quarters established. However, several for this unit to open. Facilities are meetings were started and soon around available, but we do not have a nurse. one hundred people were studying the We are also laying the groundwork message. Not long after our arrival for a church school, and this will open we were joined by Brother Mokichi within the next year. Yahiku, a layman from Hawaii who is Many of those who are accepting a native of Okinawa. He has worked the truth are young people. Several hard and faithfully with us, and the have been baptized, and another class Lord has blessed his efforts. is now ready for baptism. A number When we first arrived on Okinawa of these young people are attending our there was not one Seventh-day Ad- training school in Japan, some study- ventist, nor did we have anyone who ing to be ministers and others teachers. was especially interested in our mes- Soon we can look forward to a number sage. This soon changed, and before of these joining us in our work. long calls for Bible studies were com- This is the day of opportunity in ing to us from all sides. We have Okinawa. There is so much we could had to turn many away because we and should do, but we do not have have been unable to find the time to the means or the workers. It is diffi- MISSIONS QUARTERLY 13 cult to tell honest seekers for truth you can do something more for her, that you cannot study with them be- please do so," the mother pleaded. cause you are already overtaxed. Will "Yes, I think we can. We can pray you not give liberally of your means for her," came the assuring reply. and pray most earnestly that the work So the group in that home knelt in on Okinawa might go forward? prayer, but the girl did not get well. One night the little girl called her SABBATH, FEBRUARY 21 mother and said, "Mother, will you follow Jesus like the Adventists? Jesus A Little Child Shall loves me. If I die He will raise me Lead Them again." The mother's heart was P. D. ROCERO touched. She wept like a little child. [Educational Secretary, South Philippine Many days passed by. The little girl's Union Mission] sickness lingered until one day she A little girl was invited to attend quietly passed away. The folk in that one of our Sabbath schools. She en- little home mourned for her; but the joyed the songs and finger plays and little girl did not die in vain. Like learned the wonderful story of Jesus a little seed buried under Mother Earth, and His love. She continued to at- the little girl's words lived in the hearts tend for some time without the knowl- of her parents. They sought for the edge of her father and mother. truth, father and mother and their One day this little girl became ill other children, and they found it in with dysentery. The mother tried to our elementary school. Taught by the call for the doctor, but the doctor was teacher, they accepted the truth and far away. The father went to call for were baptized. They are now rejoic- him, but after waiting two days, the ing in the Advent hope. This is a doctor had not come. The mother was true story which took place in our alarmed: her poor little girl was be- accredited elementary school in Magal- coming worse. So the mother decided lon, Occidental Negros, Philippine Is- to try the medicine man, who came at lands. once. He applied medicine which he An interesting experience took place thought was good for the girl, but in our academy at Manticao a year ago. it did not do any good. Finally, one We had two boys who were drawing night the little sick girl said, "Call water every day from the town ar- for my Sabbath school teacher." The tesian well for the academy. This was teacher was called. When she came, their work as self-supporting students. the little girl was sleeping. The teacher One Sunday afternoon during faculty held her hand, and the little girl opened meeting, one of the young men came her eyes with a smile, although her running towards us. What could the fever was high. matter be, everyone thought. Presently, "Have you done what you can to we learned from the young man that save the life of your daughter?" the both of these boys had been violently teacher asked the mother. attacked by drunken men of the town. "Yes," was the mother's answer. "If This young man had been struck on 14 MISSIONS QUARTERLY the jaw and a tooth had been knocked The next Sabbath, father and daugh- out. The other young man was hit on ter came to Sabbath school together. the chest and on the back. They did There the father saw what the teachers not fight back, being Christian boys; and students were doing. He listened but seeing the evil-possessed drunken quietly, but he was thinking seriously. men meant to do more harm, our Later on, after the group had finished boys ran away towards the compound, the program, he came to the teacher leaving the carabao, the cart, and the and said, "Would you be willing to drums of water on it. Later, one night come to my house and tell me some the girls in the dormitory were dis- more about your faith?" This request turbed. There was a shower, not a was granted. Elder Mary and some shower of rain, but of big and small of the students came the following stones. No one knew who was re- Sabbath and gave this father a Bible sponsible until sometime later. study. Bible studies were given until About that time one of our lady this man was baptized. Now a small teachers and some of the girls decided chapel stands near his home, a chapel to start a branch Sabbath school. built by the students, where about a Equipped with an organ and a picture dozen members are now attending. roll, they went to the nearest barrio. In our conversation with this brother, Finding a shady spot near the village, he told us the story of his life. He the group started playing the organ. told us how he joined the army, how Soon the children came. They joined he became a guerilla, and how one in the singing and the finger plays. Sunday afternoon when he was drunk Several stories were told, and the chil- he struck our boys who were drawing dren especially enjoyed the story of water for the school. He told of the Jesus. Each Sabbath the group went throwing of stones at the girls' dor- out to conduct this branch Sabbath mitory • one night, and of his little school. girl's attendance at the branch Sabbath In a little hut far away from that school, which led to his conversion. place, a father noticed that his daughter All the neighbors marveled at the con- disappeared every Saturday. One Sab- version of this man, for he was known bath he saw his daughter coming home to be very wicked. We see the truth late. of the Scripture which says, "And a "Where have you been?" growled the little child shall lead them." father. This frightened the girl, but she said, SABBATH, FEBRUARY 28 "Papa, I went to see the Maestra. She played the organ and taught me songs A Move in the Right Direction and also the story of Jesus' love. I M. C. WARREN know a new song now," and she sang [President, North Philippine Union "Jesus Loves Me," which greatly Mission] touched the father's heart. Look at that short, stout young man ! "Ah," the father thought, "these are Note the well-developed muscles of his the Sabadistas." legs, arms, and body. What a wonder- MISSIONS QUARTEIZLY 15

ful physique! Back of that are genera- his reputation as a headhunter, that tions of outdoor, mountain life. See name was a dangerous one to carry. how easily he scales that canyon wall So, he explained to me, that was the and drops down into the next valley. reason why he had changed it. He is on his way down to the lowlands. Many stalwart young men and young To join a raid on a Christian barrio? women from the Mountain Province No. His headaxe and spear were left of Luzon and from the mountains of behind. Evidently he is not an Ad- the south have turned from following ventist, for hooked over one ear is the practices of their ancestors to train his short tobacco pipe. Having no for Christian service. Our educational pocket but the pouch formed by the institutions offering them this training inside loop of his G-string, his tobacco have all been located in the lowlands and matches were carried in the four- where the hot, debilitating climate inch Bontok hat cocked on the back sapped their physical strength and some of his head. No, he is not converted, of them became incapacitated for study but he is looking in the right direction. or work. He is looking toward a Christian edu- Now we look forward to the estab- cation. lishment of a school where it will be That was Tiwan Atiteo years ago. easier for the students to maintain their An Adventist relative had persuaded health while preparing for mission serv- him to enter our academy at Artacho, ice, and then enter upon that service Northern Luzon. He is now a faith- with the inestimable asset of robust ful minister among the Bontocs. With health. Two thousand five hundred a sense of humor he tells how, when, acres of farmland is being secured he appeared at the academy and joined in Bukidnon [Boo-kid'non], Mindanao. in the group who were registering, he This institution is well named Mountain attracted more attention than the View College, for it is to be located others. It was some time before he in the mountains on land ranging from knew the reason. Then he realized that eighteen hundred to twenty-five hun- the other young men were wearing dred feet above sea level, and flanked trousers. He had come to school in by mountains and a forest of over ten his G-string. The most respected men thousand acres from which to gather of his mountain village wore no more. timber for the college sawmill. When I first met him I asked for The view from this school site is the spelling of his name so that I superb. Far and near rugged mountains could record it. He then explained are to be seen. Between the far range that he changed his family name when and the school is a vast and rich it became necessary for him to travel valley where students and teachers can in other than his home section. As a carry on medical missionary and evan- pagan, Tiwan had been proud of his gelistic work and raise up and care for family name, for his father and grand- churches, putting into practice the les- father had been notorious headhunters. sons learned in the classroom. But when sent out to win souls in A big project is being launched that the section where his father had made gives promise of great dividends. You 16 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

may determine now the amount of your the dedication of our new building. share in this promising project and After I had described God's program make payment on the thirteenth Sab- of harmonious education, he said, "How bath. many schools do you have like this?" "Five," I answered. SABBATH, MARCH 7 "But we need more," he stated firm- ly, expressing his admiration for the God's Day in Japan teacher-student work program, our RAYMOND S. MOORE prison and orphanage work, and the [Educational Secretary, Japan branch Sabbath schools. Union Mission] I then told him that we planned on Japan is a miracle of modern mis- a network of these schools all over sions. For centuries she beat back Japan. He was enthusiastic. "That is every effort of Christian churches to what Japan needs," he said. These evangelize her people. But God knew were the very words used a few days that Japan would have to have trouble before to me by men high in the Japan to make her realize her need. He who Ministry of Education, when I had rules in the affairs of men and nations described our program to them. permitted her to enter a tragic war. The prince then agreed to come out It was tragic in every sense but one. to Japan Missionary College — fifty It brought an open heart to Japan. miles from his palace in Tokyo—where Today is Christianity's day in that na- he, the representative of the emperor, tion. will join a group of distinguished gov- The bars have come down, the cur- ernment officials at the dedication of tains drawn back, and hearts opened. our building. We are witnessing a It is common experience today to miracle. Japan, where once the Word begin Bible studies with strangers— of God was obscured by the darkness on the street corner, in the depart- of heathen superstition, is now ready ment store, or on the train—it makes and anxious for truth. God's plan does little difference where. Cultured or un- not bow to the approval of men. couth, rich or poor, educated or not, We recently enrolled five customs of- they reach out for God. Radio and ficers in the Voice of Prophecy Bible press are open and favorable to us. Course. The service station attendant Government officials and royalty en- where we buy our gasoline is also our courage us. Buddhist priest and rice customer—studying the Bible Course. farmer are enrolled in our Bible course The conductors and engineers on trains, with Shinto worshiper and royal prince. waitresses in the dining car, rice farm- A providential contact brought me in ers down the road, university students touch with Prince Takamatsu, brother we meet on the electric train or on of Emperor Hirohito, and his princess. the street, taxi drivers or pedestrians He placed his name in my little black we meet at boulevard stops, clerks and address book and said he would be executives in stores—these and many glad to visit us. Then the other day more are enrolled or studying with us I visited him to ask him to assist in in little Bible groups. MISSIONS QUARTERLY 17

Kagawa-san is a young customs of- turn away many fine young men be- ficial whom we met at Yokohama. He, cause we have no place to house them. like many Japanese, wonders why We need these men for our work. A Christian nations engage in war. He nation of eighty-five million—nearly is puzzled by the uncertainty of our two-thirds the population of the United times. He does not yet grasp the full- States—has yet only a handful of work- ness of God's plan, but his letters and ers. These workers cannot possibly an- his heart are alive with questions which swer more than a few of the calls. would melt your heart, and he is Our part of the Thirteenth Sabbath studying. Offering overflow will go for a new In a large Tokyo department store men's dormitory. By working together, one day, Mrs. Tachibana saw that my teachers and students, we believe we ability to speak Japanese was not equal can build for $30,000 a simple dor- to the situation. She and her daughter, mitory which will house one hundred Fumiko-san, helped us a great deal. A men. This is about one-eighth the half hour later they had asked for Bible average cost now in the United States. studies. For the past four months We here at Japan Missionary College two of us have been meeting in the are seeking the wisdom of God. We Tachibana home with Mrs. Tachibana, are trying to follow His blueprint for Fumiko-san, her brother, Keiji, a group Christian education. Every morning the of young university students and teachers meet for a few minutes of friends, and with two older men: Mr. rededication to this plan. Then after Tachibana, who is a director of the chapel and classes we go out together, Japan National Railways with a hun- student and teacher, into the shop and dred thousand employees under his di- the field, men and women together. We rection; and Hiroshi Sakai, whose fam- have a word of prayer at our work ily controls Japan's largest textile place, then try to work to show our- industry. We sit on the tatami floor selves approved unto God. On week around a little coal stove, and break ends and during the week we have the bread of life. We hope that one many, many experiences in spiritual and day soon this family and their friends social work—in orphans' and widows' will claim Christ as their Saviour; that homes, prisons, branch Sabbath schools, Fumiko-san, who is one of Japan's Bible studies, and literature ministry. champion swimmers, and Keiji-san, who We believe that Japan Missionary is a champion ice skater, will be cham- College, along with our other schools pions for God. in the Far East, offers a businessman's Such experiences as these are be- investment opportunity. Your income ing experienced daily by our workers will be measured when Jesus comes— throughout Japan. They could be mul- when dollars will be wanted by no tiplied a thousandfold if we had the man. Souls, the currency of heaven, workers to give leadership to the field. will be your inestimable returns. We have only one school for the formal "Our watchword is to be, Onward, preparation of these workers—Japan ever onward."—Testimonies, Vol. 6, p. Missionary College. But we have to 29. 18 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

SABBATH, MARCH 14 found boys shivering in an unheated, drafty building during subzero weath- Modern Chapters for the er. Your request for a drink of water Book of Chronicles could easily find the supply from the W. 0. BALDWIN well exhausted. Without being told, [Educational Secretary of the you would sense the great need for Far Eastern Division] the barest school essentials, including A modern Book of Chronicles would a boys' dormitory, a dining hall, facil- surely include three educational chap- ities for home economics, some music ters from the Far Eastern Division: one equipment, and a few classrooms to be called "The Faith of San Iku Gakuin";, added to the plant which is hardly one called "The Miracle of Bukidnon adequate for a small academy. [Boo-kid'non]"; and another called Your faith in God's leading would "Wonders of the North Celebes Train- brighten as you saw Dr. Moore and ing School." his staff of Japanese teachers tackling superhuman problems in one mighty re- The chapter on San Iku Gakuin solve to give the youth of Japan a would take you to the beautiful thirty- college training patterned fully after acre hilltop home of our Japan Junior our Edenic "blueprint." As in the College. Your heart would warm with schools of the prophets of Samuel's day, rejoicing as you saw nearly the entire the president, faculty, and students join student body of one hundred twenty frequently in the harvest of crops and students joining every Sabbath after- the work of the college. noon in conducting fifteen branch Sab- The chapter entitled "Wonders of the bath schools, with a total membership North Celebes Training School" would more than ten times that of the col- tell of the marvelous advance of our lege itself. You would find one Sab- work in an isolated section of the bath school being conducted by our world field; of the nearly six thousand students in a Buddhist temple. You believers in this beautiful land; and would find other students conducting an of an army of earnest and intelligent effort in a nearby city, and raising up young people waiting to be trained to a new church. If you should ask how carry responsibilities in the work. It a mission having so few members could would tell of the two church schools find so many students for a college, and this one partially built academy you would find the astonishing answer which are the only institutions now that most of these students were Bud- available to meet this great need. It dhists until the end of the recent war. would tell the familiar story of a people They found their way to this Christian long denied the privileges of Christian college, and today are fervent students education rallying to give their chil- of the Bible. dren cities of refuge. It would tell of You would quickly see why San Iku the heroic faith of the principal, Elder Gakuin has been placed on the thir- Martin Laloan, and his faculty, who teenth Sabbath overflow list when you teach in the mornings in unfinished visited the boys' dormitory and there buildings, with the most meager equip- MISSIONS QUARTERLY 19 ment and assist with the construction sands of acres of available timber from work in the afternoons. which a small sawmill could produce The enrollment tells the story and lumber for buildings; inspirational points to their acute need of financial natural scenery; a cool tropical climate; help to provide facilities for expanding and a series of magnificent waterfalls, the school. The school opened with one of them one hundred twenty feet about sixty pupils. The next year the high, which would provide gravity-flow number doubled. Now the number has water for the buildings and hydroelec- climbed to one hundred sixty, and the tric power for the entire campus. principal expects three hundred applica- But we live in the world of "the tions for enrollment next year. Where great controversy"—the forces of evil will they sleep? Where will they sit aroused to fury in a frenzied attack. for classes? Where will they eat? The government land men and other The chapter on "The Miracle of officials were very cordial and sympa- Bukidnon" would review the divine thetic, promising to do their utmost to providences which have opened the way help us; but some special interests and for the development of this new college squatters on the land vowed to oppose on the island of Mindanao. Elisha's us even in the highest courts of the school of the prophets set the pattern islands, if necessary. At the darkest for the miracle of Bukidnon when his moment, the Philippine unions ap- students came saying that their quarters pointed a special Sabbath for fasting were too small, and requesting that and prayer: not asking for this specific they move to larger ones. A prayer site, but asking rather that the Lord's circle of faculty and students began will might be made known. Almost praying for a new college. Then the before the Sabbath was over, three of president of the college, Dr. A. N. Nel- the opposing families came offering son, while traveling on one of the their land. One opposition leader was interisland boats, chanced to meet one rushed to the hospital for emergency of our members, Brother Tirso Jaman- treatment, where her fierce opposition dre. During their conversation about was stilled during a four-week en- our educational work, Brother Jaman- forced rest, and the other was taken dre unexpectedly offered 10,000 pesos out of the struggle by the sheriff, who (U. S. $5,000) to be used in opening conveniently locked him in jail for past a new college based fully on our divine offenses. During this brief period of plan of education. peace, the friendly squatters on the This first providence was swiftly fol- land all willingly signed their release lowed by others. The little band of papers, and, at the suggestion of the men chosen to search for a location government officers, our tractors began for the new school seemed providen- plowing. We saw the walls of Jericho tially led to a beautiful twenty-five fall! hundred acre site of government land, The interesting part about these mod- available at an extremely low cost. It ern chapters for the Book of Chronicles had ample level land suitable for farm- is that they are not yet finished. You ing; a mountainous background of thou- have your part to write. The pen is 20 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

now in the hands of our Sabbath Council to hear of 6,400 baptisms the schools around the world. That is past year around the circle of the field. why we are waiting with eager antici- "But what are they among so many?" pation to read the next installment of There are millions yet to be warned. this gripping account which is to be The call of the hour is for evangelism. written on this thirteenth Sabbath. Where are we going to get the needed Your offerings will determine how the evangelists and Bible instructors? We chapters will close. now have in the Far Eastern Division 118 overseas workers. We do not know what the future may hold in store for SABBATH, MARCH 21 these men and women. Surrounded as we are with warfare in various stages What Will It Be? we cannot help but wonder how long the winds of strife will be held. The C. P. SORENSEN political atmosphere can change sud- [Secretary, Far Eastern Division] denly one way or the other. We have Today I would like you to imagine a strong force of national workers, that you are sitting with me in the field or evangelistic, numbering 1538, chapel of the Far Eastern Division but again, "What are these among so office. Assembled here are delegates many?" There must be new recruits. from each of the six union missions These will have to come from our edu- in our territory. The occasion is the cational institutions. We thank God 1952 Annual Division Council. The for the schools that have been estab- workers present here, national and over- lished but they are inadequate. seas, represent the 53,674 Seventh-day As our mission presidents address us Adventists we have in our division field at this hour, we make mental note which has a population of 245,000,000. of some of the seemingly imperative This is the day, the hour, when the needs. In a local mission with five respective union presidents come before thousand members there is not a single us with their requests and pleas for church school. They do have an acad- funds. Warfare and banditry are ramp- emy which was started four years ago. ant in five of the countries in our field. Buildings are needed. The construction This complicates the carrying on of work which has been begun has been mission work, evangelistic efforts, and halted due to the lack of funds. The even travel from place to place. New enrollment in this training school could institutions are needed. Present in- be increased many fold if we had the stitutions must be enlarged to keep pace necessary accommodations. with an ever-expanding work. Projects One of the union missions has a which have been begun must be com- population of seventy million people, pleted. Help is solicited for evange- largely followers of Mohammed, but lism, for radio and Bible Correspond- the gospel must go to these also. In ence School work and many other this union field there is no publishing branches of the work. We have been house. Their greatest need seems to made very happy earlier in this Division be literature. An academy has recently MISSIONS QUARTERLY 21 been opened in one of the local mis- Philippine Union a new college is to sions, but they have only rented quar- be established. There are nine senior ters, entirely unfit for a school. The and junior academies in the Philippines, union training school has far outgrown but all are cramped for space. Every its location, and they cannot expand for dormitory is barracks style. Truly no lack of acreage. The school must some one has been lavish with money in the day be relocated. erection of any of these buildings. The Japan Missionary College needs But it is past the hour when this additional housing facilities, more equip- session should close. It has been a ment, and more than all else a boys' tense hour, for all the speakers have dormitory. What is the estimated cost? been desperately in earnest. What more —U. S. $30,000. In the homeland this could they have said or how else have may not seem a large amount, but to said it! Could they have been more our leaders in Japan it seems a stagger- in earnest as they presented the needs ing amount for they do not know where of their fields? These questions are the money will come from. uppermost in their minds as the meet- The pleas coming from Korea tear ing adjourns. at our heartstrings. Destruction to mis- Now will you come with me into sion properties total nearly half a mil- one of our division offices? A smaller lion dollars. They are not stressing re- group of men is seated in a circle— habilitation as yet for the future still the Budget Committee. They are sober hangs in the balance. The president men. They are told that the requests stresses the need for literature, colpor- presented at the general session total teurs, evangelists, and teachers. "Forty- more than U. S. $600,000—this in five or fifty thousand dollars will go addition to the regular base appropria- a long way to help us," says the presi- tion granted to each union mission. dent of the union mission. Surely this The General Conference has granted plea will touch the hearts of those our division U. S. $100,000 as specials. who live in the land of luxury, sur- To whom will we give? Who will be rounded by every modern convenience. denied? It is a difficult task. At a Each year a large number of workers later general session, the Budget Com- are being trained at Philippine Union mittee report is distributed. Though College. These take their places as the amount allocated to each field is teachers, evangelists, colporteurs, et far less than the need demands, each cetera, not only in various parts of the president arises in turn to express ap- Philippines, but they go as mission- preciation and thanks to God, our aries to other countries in the Far Father, to the General Conference, and Eastern Division. But Philippine Un- to the division for the funds received. ion College has long since outgrown These funds have come from our faith- its present facilities. There is a dire ful believers the world around, and to need for enlargement so that more stu- you who hear this we say a hearty and dents can enroll and more workers go sincere thank you. But what are these forth from its halls. In the South few dollars among so many needs! We 22 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

remember the five loaves and the two SABBATH, MARCH 28 fishes. Under God's blessing and with Japan's Richest School careful handling and distribution of the money, they will accomplish great RAYMOND S. MOORE things. A prayer of thanksgiving as- [President, Japan Missionary College] cends to God's throne above. Japan Missionary College is one of There is one bright ray of hope! The Far Eastern Division is again to the richest schools in the world. One be the recipient of the Thirteenth Sab- is conscious of this soon after he has bath Offering overflow the first quarter arrived on the campus—a campus of 1953. This promise comes to us from which has a far-reaching influence in the General Conference Sabbath School Japan. It is not rich in money or Department a year before the time of equipment. Its wealth lies in its deep the offering. However, the workers in and bountiful spiritual blessings which the field and the Sabbath school mem- are constantly coming from God. bers around the division begin early to Japan Missionary College is a small talk about, pray for, and work for a school. This new year, as this is being big overflow. There are many monu- written, we will be able to accept less ments scattered about the division than two hundred of the many appli- which bear testimony to the liberal cants. Its students are housed nearly overflow offerings we have received in one hundred per cent in campus dor- the past. Be assured that on this next mitories. This is important here where thirteenth Sabbath our hearts will be most of our college students come from filled with eager anticipation and per- non-Seventh-day Adventist homes—in a haps a bit of anxiety as we participate land where parental influence is still a in the exercises of the day. What will great power in the lives of young the offering be? But we must wait, people. With our share of the Thir- wait, another six months perhaps, be- teenth Sabbath Offering overflow we are fore we will receive word from the hoping to build a new dormitory for one General Conference as to the final re- hundred men. This will be a great help. sults. We will also repair our present dor- We thank you, Sabbath school mem- mitory, which has been condemned. bers, from the depths of our hearts for Before World War II this was a the gifts you have given and the gifts boys' school. During the war the cam- we know you will yet give to the end pus was taken over by the army for that this gospel may soon have gone a medical school. It was used roughly, to every nation, kindred, tongue and and before being turned back to us, people, not only in this division but had been looted of equipment and fix- in all the world. tures, but some of these were recovered. We are still making repairs and are "All heaven takes an interest, not painting most of the buildings for the only in the lands that are nigh and first time in more than sixteen years. that need our hell), hut in the lands that are afar off.".-Testimonies, Vol. There are a few people in this coun- VT, p. 459. try who have profited by the war and MISSIONS QUARTERLY 23 its aftermath. But for the most part, Fujiyama, Japan's greatest mountain. Japan is a poverty-ridden country, with More than half of our students bring its people trying desperately to piece with them stories of conversions that out an existence. Even here at the echo the miracles of modern missions. college, many of the students come to They are on fire for God. Their ex- class in the cold of winter with in- periences are new. Indeed, we are rich adequate clothing which has been in God's grace. Out of thirty-two who patched and repatched many times. went colporteuring in an eight-week Some of the students come to class in period last summer, twenty-eight sold the coldest winter weather without sufficient books for scholarships. But socks and wearing only wooden "geta" that is not all. or rubber or straw "zori" (slippers). In the surrounding towns these dedi- Neither the men's nor the women's cated students and teachers are con- dormitory is heated — even in the ducting sixteen branch Sabbath schools. biting cold of winter. We cannot Typical is Tsuchiya-san, who has a afford to heat them. Recently we group of fifteen bright high-school-age have, however, installed a small coal students. Hatanaka-san and his helpers stove in the dining room at the men's have about one hundred fifty. Minako- home, and in the sewing room in the san and her assistants have nearly two women's dormitory. These are used as hundred. They have a weekly attend- study rooms for the younger students. ance ranging from 1,500 to 2,000. We We also have coal stoves now in some have these meetings in town halls, of the classrooms. There are very few homes of the well-to-do, hovels, va- schools in Japan which have heat— cant lots, and even on the porches other than the sun—in their classrooms. before Shinto temple shrines. When Our college has forty acres of land. older folk come around, we enroll them This is not much, but land is precious in the Voice of Prophecy Bible Course here. It is a large amount for Japan, or give them the Japanese Signs of which has eighty-five million people in the Times. an area smaller than California, and Added to these are a number of whose land is largely mountainous. Saturday night and Sunday meetings Thirty acres of our land is planted, conducted hand in hand by teachers the year around, in truck gardens, and and students. They are assisting in such crops as corn, sweet potatoes, the operation of four churches which wheat, and peanuts. In the center of they have helped to raise up, and we this area about ten acres is given over have lost count of the number of to campus buildings, homes, and lawns. Bible studies. In the early fall, as All but one of our buildings are of we watched them go out, group by simple wooden construction. The girls' group, with their picture rolls, flannel- dormitory is stucco. Set on a rise above graphs, song charts, and other materials. surrounding rice paddies, we receive we wondered what they would do in from the east the breezes of the Pacific winter. Winter came, with its rain, a few miles away. Looking west across snow, and mud. But each Sabbath after- Tokyo Bay we have a view of noble noon after an early Sabbath dinner, 24 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

they plodded away through the mud— have been pronounced outstanding in to return up the hill to the campus only taste and tenderness by Americans and as the sun was setting. Japanese alike. With the help of God It was our privilege to help start one we are expecting to expand this de- series of studies in the home of the partment into what we hope will be mayor of a nearby town. This man the nucleus of a great nutritional pro- had studied our message twenty years gram for the people of Japan, where before, but had not accepted it. Now, according to American medical experts in the providence of a God who some- from 85 to 90 per cent of the people times permits wars to awaken men and are infected with tuberculosis, chiefly nations, this mayor invited a group of as a result of poor nutrition. fine young business and university men Japan Missionary College centers its and women into his home to study the program on the preparation of ministers Bible. This study is being carried on and teachers. In order to meet the by one of our Bible teachers, Professor high educational standards of Japan— Kunihira, and several of our senior one of the world's most literate nations students. —we are planning to expand our pro- Japan Missionary College is trying to gram from that of an accredited junior live up to its Japanese name, San Iku college to a full senior college. Gakuin, meaning essentially, "Three- Though we have little equipment, we fold School" (education of head, heart, feel that God is helping us to improvise and hand). All teachers and students, and to present a strong academic pro- men and women alike, work together gram. This, balanced with a vigorous daily in the fields and shops. In Japan work program, and a steady, vibrant where the teacher and the educated spiritual life, is preparing strong work- person rarely works with his hands, this ers for God. We are looking forward is unusual. But men of the strict in faith to our new boys' dormitory Japanese Ministry of Education have which will enable us to prepare more expressed enthusiasm about our plan. men for our great work. They have said, "We need more of your kind of school." God is working here! FOR THE CHILDREN Our Mokkobu, or woodwork shop, A Light in Indonesia contributed much to the construction of our recent classroom-library addi- MRS. L. W. MAULDIN tion, and was responsible for all interior "Amini, you may not go to Sabbath cabinets and furnishings. This has school! You must go to school today!" saved us much money. These harsh words of her father Our tiny health-food shop, 15 x 24 rang through the house. Her father feet, provides gluten products and other was a teacher in the high school. He health foods for our people as far was very angry because his oldest child away as Manila and Singapore. We had embarrassed him by keeping the are blessed with excellent leadership in Sabbath. this department also. The products Mother trembled in the other room. MISSIONS QUARTERLY 25

Amini bowed her head with grief ; but Amini remembered that she had not said nothing. In her heart she knew talked with the headmaster. So the that she would continue going to Sab- next morning she went to school early. bath school just as she had been doing Before she knocked at the door, she the past few weeks. Her sister and bowed her head and asked Jesus to brothers crept quietly from the room. give her the right words to say. As she They wondered what Amini would do entered, the headmaster looked at her when time for Sabbath school came. with a look of displeasure. Amini Amini was a little Indonesia girl who quickly and quietly made her request. had learned to love Jesus and the Sab- He gravely replied, "No, I cannot bath school. After mother had be- give you permission to be absent on come a Seventh-day Adventist, she Saturday." taught Amini how to pray. She taught Amini left the room with a sad heart. her many songs about Jesus. Her friends knew that Amini loved Amini had to go to the government the Sabbath school. They loved Amini, school, and this school had classes six for she was a good friend to everyone. days a week. After she had been They gathered about her to try to com- going to school for a few weeks, the fort her. They thought perhaps they teacher asked her to stay after school could help her attend Sabbath school. one day. One little girl said, "Amini, I will She said, "Amini, why are you always take your place as leader in the drill absent on Saturday?" period." Amini replied, "Teacher, that is the Another said. "I will take your books Sabbath. I must go to Sabbath school home for you." and church on that day." Now she was to get to go to Sab- The teacher told Amini that she bath school. Finally they decided that could not be absent any more. She Amini should come to school Sabbath must attend school every day. The morning, but when the bell rang she teacher said, "Amini, you have been should jump out of the window and chosen by the school to lead the gym- run to Sabbath school. nastic exercises every morning. You After school Amini returned home to just have to be here every day." talk over this plan with her mother. When Amini answered that she could Mother said, "Maybe we can try it." not come to school on Saturday and Sabbath morning came and Amini asked the teacher if she could not went to school as usual. Everything find someone to take her place on that went as planned. She jumped out day, the teacher became angry. of the window and raced across the She said, "If you are absent one more schoolyard, before the teacher saw day, I will tell your father as well as her. But daddy had seen her on her punish you severely." way to Sabbath school. Amini went home and told her mother When she reached the church, she what the teacher had said. They told them what she had done. They prayed that Jesus would help her so offered a special prayer for her. During that she could go to Sabbath school. the Sabbath school and church service, 26 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

Amini forgot her troubles, for how her that she could not pass her grade. she loved to sing those lovely songs. He told her that he would not have The family arrived home about the work any more if she did not go to same time, but daddy did not say school on Saturday. Finally he told her anything to Amini. The look on his that he would beat her every time that face was a look of anger. Soon a she went. Still Amini remained firm. knock was heard at the door. She said, "Daddy, I cannot go to Amini said to herself, "Oh, if I could school on Sabbath. I must go to Sab- answer the door before anyone else bath school. Jesus would be so un- does." She knew that it was her friend happy." who was to bring her books home. Her daddy said, "My children refuse Daddy reached the door before she to obey me! Go to Sabbath school! did. When he opened it, there stood Go to Sabbath school! Go all your a little girl. life! But don't ever tell me anything She said, "Here are some books." about it." Daddy asked, "Where did they come Amini was so happy that she could from?" go to Sabbath school, but she was sorry "Why, they are Amini's. She had to that her daddy would not go with her. go to Sabbath school, so I have brought Not so long ago, I visited Amini's her books home for her." home. Through her prayers, her love This terribly enraged her father. He for her daddy, and her love for Jesus, threw the books on the floor, grabbed she has turned her daddy's heart toward a big stick, and called, "Amini, come Jesus. He has promised to love Amini's here!" Jesus and to be baptized soon. If you could see Amini's eyes shine as she Oh, how he beat his little girl! Then tells about this, you would love your he said, "Amini, are you going to school Sabbath school more and more. or to Sabbath school?" Boys and girls, there are thousands Amini replied, "I am going to Sab- of children in Indonesia who need to bath school, daddy. Jesus will help know about Jesus; there are thousands me." of children who need church schools Mother and the children prayed for where they will not have to attend daddy that day. They prayed every on Sabbath. Here all government day that week that it would be all schools hold classes six days a week. right for them to go to Sabbath school Won't you make your Thirteenth Sab- the next Sabbath. bath Offering more than ever before, The next Sabbath Amini went to so that many boys and girls of Indo- Sabbath school as usual. As soon as nesia can be with Jesus in the new she returned, there was daddy waiting earth?—As told by Christine Matusea. for her. Her teacher had reported that she had not attended school that day. Daddy begged her to go to school, for "God's people are not to cease their labors until they shall encircle the her grades would be poor. He told world."—Testimonies, Vol. VI, p. 24.

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Little Lights had taught them at camp meeting the summer before, besides all the new AIRS. JOHN ANDERSON ones they had just recently learned. Two shy but smiling little girls stood But the missionary lady did not even just outside the missionary's door. imagine what they were to accomplish Their shining faces, neatly braided hair, for Jesus with those songs and memory and clean little dresses showed plainly verses. that they were ready for the Sabbath Bus travel is not as easy in Indo- day. nesia as it is in some places, so the "We have come to say we are sorry two little travelers with their daddy we won't be at Sabbath school today," arrived only in time for the church said Enike soberly, trying hard not to service. Enike noticed that many of show how excited she was inside. "We the little children did not know how are going with our daddy to visit his to sit quietly in church, so she and home village." Kettie decided to tell their stories "How very nice, Enike and Kettie. right then so that the minister could We hope you have a pleasant visit. have a more quiet service. Will you go to Sabbath school there, Standing outside just a little way so your attendance record won't be from the small church, the two girls broken?" asked the missionary, because began to tell a story to three or four these two little girls were the most children who came and stood beside faithful members of the small Sabbath them. Boys and girls around the world school which met each week on her like to hear stories, and so did those front porch. children. More little interested faces "If they have no Sabbath school gathered around them. Some of them there we will tell the children some were clean for Sabbath, but soon there of the good stories we have heard were others that were dirty from work here in our Sabbath school," she an- and play. swered brightly. "Come, hear the stories that the "Very well. Then we shall mark girls of the teacher from the mission your record for you." The lady teacher school at Kowangkoan are telling," in- watched their shining black eyes return vited some who had left the little group a thank you glance to her, and she to call their friends. After two or knew they would tell their stories well. three stories, the group of children became noisy again. There had been "Salamat jalan (peaceful traveling)," no one to teach them how to be quiet she called to them as they skipped for Jesus on His day. Little Kettie de- down her path. cided that they might try to teach "Salamat Tinggal (peaceful staying)," them some songs. Big and little folks they called back happily. These two of the Celebes Island just love to sing, "precious jewels" were able to repeat so all the children listened carefully many memory verses and, could sing to each song as it was sung over and all the choruses that Mrs. Armstrong over again until they could sing it to- 28 MISSIONS QUARTERLY gether. The group of eager children Fernando Starts a New grew much larger. Singing with their Mission Station voices was a new and delightful game. IRENE WAKEHAM And they learned finger plays, too. Enike and Kettie felt that the children [Registrar, Philippine Union College] should be more quiet. Then suddenly Fernando was a young man who lived they remembered a song they had sung on the island of Mindanao in the in Sabbath school. They began to southern Philippines. He went to school sing it softly and walk in a small circle. at the Mindanao Mission Academy, and The children listened quietly, then when he graduated he was asked if he they, too, moved gently into the widen- would like to go as a missionary ing circle and sang softly. Enike and teacher to the Subano people living Kettie's hearts were singing now, for at Decayo in the province of Zam- they had helped the children learn how boanga [sam'bo-an'ga]. Young Fernan- to be quiet for Jesus. Soon the min- do replied, "I am willing to go. Those ister's service was over, but before the poor people have been without any two girls went to dinner with their teacher for a long time, and now they daddy, they promised they would come are asking for one. I am young and back again in the afternoon. But long strong, and I believe the Lord will before they had finished eating there protect me, and so I am willing to was a crowd of children outside the go and try to teach them of Jesus." door anxiously waiting for another In order to reach the place where story-and-song hour. he was going to teach, Fernando had Enike and Kettie were thrilled to to walk for three days over very rough tell their two American playmates at country. He had a guide to help him, home all about the visit in their daddy's or he never would have found the trail home village. They were eager to because the forest jungle was so thick. learn some more songs to teach the He had to cross the river many, many children when they went back again. times. And he didn't have any bridge to cross on. He just had to pull his The very next week the two little shoes and stockings off and wade across. missionaries returned to teach an even And sometimes he had to climb very larger group of children more songs and high hills, and the only way he could stories about Jesus while their daddy get up was to pull himself up by large talked to their mothers and fathers. vines that grew on the sides of the The "Quiet Song" was sung first, and hills. Surely it was no place for a it helped all of the children to remem- weak or lazy man to go. ber that Jesus was near them and that they were to be quiet. Fernando carried books and medi- cines and clothes with him. He knew that the people where he was going "We are to cooperate with One who did not wear much in the way of knows no failure."—Christ's Object clothing, and he wanted to take them Lessons, p. 366. some new shirts and other things and MISSIONS QUARTERLY 29 teach them how to clothe their bodies But the most important thing that when they became Christians. He knew Fernando taught the people was the that he would have to act as doctor story of Jesus, and how He saves people and nurse as well as preacher and from their sins, how He is coming back teacher, and so he carried along all to this earth soon and will take all the medicines he could. those who love Him and keep His com- Finally he came to the place where mandments to live with Him in a beau- the Subano people live. He found him- tiful place called heaven. You see, self in a forest of beautiful, big trees. these Subano people had never heard Do you know what kind of houses these of Jesus. They worshiped things of Subanos live in? They live right up in nature, such as birds. They believed the tree tops. They build a little house that birds brought them good or bad away up in the tree, and then they luck. They did not understand what have a long, strong pole that reaches happened when a person died, and from the tree house to the ground, they thought that if someone died in and this long, stout pole is their lad- a house it was very bad luck for all der for getting into their house. They the rest of the family, and so every- put their bare feet on the sides of one would move away and leave that the pole and then lean over and take house at once. They thought that if hold of the pole with their hands, and a person happened to sing just before in no time at all the Subano boys and he started on a trip that was a sign girls can scamper up the pole into of bad luck, and so they would have their little tree house. When they to call off the trip and wait until the want to come down, they just slide next day to start out. They were down the pole. This might be fun afraid of many things, and so they for the boys and girls, but it was were very happy when Fernando told not so easy for the older people, and them of Jesus' love and that God Fernando taught them how to build would take care of them and that they houses like people in other parts of need not be afraid of the things of the Philippine Islands live in. Even nature that they had feared before. these are not houses like ours, but they Although Fernando was only a young are nice little houses built on poles man, he stayed and taught these people so that they stand off the ground, and for a whole year. He built a little in this way they are dry even in rainy schoolhouse for the children and when weather, but they have doors and win- the nearly-naked little brown boys came dows, and are very nice little houses. to school without any name, he gave Fernando taught the people many them the names of his teachers that other things. He taught them how had taught him back in the mission to keep themselves clean, and how to academy. At the end of the year he take care of their bodies so that they went back to school to get some more would not get sick so easily. He education, and another teacher went taught them something about cooking, to stay with the Subano people. This and he taught them how to make simple new teacher found that Fernando had clothing to wear. done such good work that there was 30 MISSIONS QUARTERLY a large group of people all ready to sumi's turn came, can you guess what be baptized. song she sang? Yes, she sang, "Jesus Loves Me This I Know," with all her heart. The teacher was very pleased. Katsumi Wins Her Teacher She and all the class knew that Kat- Yos HIO SEINO sumi went to church. The teacher asked her, "What church do you go to?" [Missionary Volunteer Secretary, Japan Union] Katsumi answered, "I go to the Seventh-day Adventist church." But Hello, children! Greetings from Ja- the teacher did not know very much pan. I am glad that I can bring you about Seventh-day Adventists. greetings from our Japanese children. Katsumi's mother sometimes gave We are glad to hear that a part of her some magazines, The Signs of the the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering over- Times and others, to give to her teacher flow is coming to us this time. We to read. The teacher received them hope you will remember our children kindly, but stacked them on her desk here in Japan. unread, for she found them a little In our country all the children go difficult to understand. to school six days a week, and almost The teacher became very fond of eleven months a year. Is that too Katsumi because of her lovely manners, much? But that is the way it is here. and was always glad to see her when This means that they go to school she arrived at school. Before long on Saturday, and if they want to go the teacher noticed that Katsumi was to Sabbath school they just have to missing every Saturday. At first she miss their classes that day. thought Katsumi must be sick, but Would you like me to tell you a every Monday morning she was just as story of a little girl named Katsumi? well as before. So one day she decided Katsumi's mother was an Adventist, to pay a little visit to the child's and she took Katsumi to the Sabbath home and find out just what was the school every Sabbath. Katsumi loved matter. She told Katsumi's mother the Sabbath school very much. But that she loved the little girl and did the time came when she had to go not want her to get behind in her to school, and because there was no school work. Katsumi's mother was a church school that she could attend, wise lady. She did not let this op- she had to go to the public primary portunity slip. She told the teacher school. she was sorry that it was necessary She had learned to be a good girl for her to take the time to come to in the Sabbath school, so she was a her home, but on the other hand she very good girl in school. She made was very glad to tell her why Kat- friends, and they loved her. At one sumi did not attend the public school time the teacher of her class asked on Saturdays. She explained to her the children to sing songs that they that Saturday is the Sabbath, and that liked. Children love to sing, so they God wants us to worship Him on that sang, one after another. When Kat- day. She also told her about the Sab- MISSIONS QUARTERLY 31 bath school and how Katsumi loved Pictures and articles on life and ways to go. in Far Eastern lands to be found in The teacher was very much im- the former issues of the National Geo- pressed with her earnestness, and she graphic Magazine: came back again and again for Bible "Philippine Islands" July 1949 studies. The more she learned, the "Mindanao" September 1948 more she became interested. Finally "Postwar Journey Through Java" the time came when she wanted to May 1948 stop teaching at the school so that she, too, could go to church on Sab- "Operation Eclipse" (Korea) March bath. The principal of the school tried 1949 in every way he could to change her "With the U. S. Army in Korea" mind, but in vain. She was determined June 1949 to be baptized and join the church "Japan During American Occupa- Katsumi belonged to. tion" June 1949 Miss Kato, the school teacher, went to our Japan Junior College to get more training. After a while our own THE NEXT THIRTEENTH church school was permitted to open. SABBATH OFFERING How glad Katsumi was to attend our OVERFLOW own church school! And Miss Kato WILL BE TAKEN became one of our first church school JUNE 27 teachers. IT WILL GO So you see, little Katsumi helped TO AID THE NEEDS OF her teacher become an Adventist. GOD'S GROWING WORK Please remember these Japanese chil- IN THE dren when you give your offering this SOUTHERN EUROPEAN coming thirteenth Sabbath. DIVISION

Additional Material for Use in Keep your Missions Quarterlies on the Children's Divisions file. They provide much helpful mis- For stories and geographical data of sions material. interest: Tales from Southeast Asia (Lewis) Friendship Press, N. Y. Make Thirteenth Sabbath Double With the Wild Men of Borneo (Mer- Dollar Day. shon) Pacific Press Pub. Assn. Tales of a Waste-Basket Surgeon (Seagrave) Judson Press, Los An- Issued quarterly by the Seventh-day geles Adventist Sabbath School Department, Tales from Japan (Nugent) Naza- Washington, D. C. rene Pub. House, Kansas City, Mo. [Printed in U.S.A.] 32 MISSIONS QUARTERLY

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