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HEAVEN IS BROUGHT NEAR TO EARTH BY THAT MYSTIC LADDER, THE BASE OF WHICH IS FIRMLY PLANTED ON THE EARTH, WHILE THE TOPMOST ROUND REACHES THE THRONE OF THE INFINITE. AN- GELS ARE CONSTANTLY ASCENDING AND DE- SCENDING THIS LAD- DER OF SHINING BRIGHTNESS, BEARING THE PRAYERS OF THE NEEDY AND DIS- TRESSED TO THE FA- THER ABOVE, AND BRINGING BLESSING AND HOPE, COURAGE

AND HELP, TO THE. CHILDREN OF MEN.- THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, PAGE 153. EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT

Confrontation in the Wilderness

HRISTIANS find joy in talking about Jesus. presence of temptation, who turned away from They delight in discussing the mystery of the dazzling spectacle of earthly power and glory C the Incarnation, the wonder of Heaven's spread out before Him. Gift at Bethlehem, the remarkable childhood of the Wielding the Word with consummate skill, Jesus carpenter's Son, the amazing life of the Teacher met every temptation successfully. He routed the from Galilee, the victorious death of the Lamb of enemy. "But the conflict had been long and ex- God, the glorious resurrection of the Son of God, ceedingly trying, and Christ was exhausted and the dramatic ascension of the Saviour of the world, fainting. He fell upon the ground as though dying. and the mediatorial ministry of our great High Heavenly angels . .. now came and ministered unto Priest. Him. They prepared Him food and strengthened Strangely, however, little attention is given to Him, for He lay as one dead."—Ibid., p. 55. the wilderness temptation of the Son of man. Few Christians talk about it. Fewer yet study it. Its Message to Us Relatively few see its tremendous importance. What does this dramatic, decisive confrontation Ellen G. White was an exception. In 1874 and in the wilderness say to us? What relevance does 1875 she wrote a series of 13 articles for the Review it have to our experience as Adventist Christians and Herald on the subject of temptation in general, living in earth's last days? with major emphasis on the magnitude and signifi- For one thing, it points up the importance of cance of the temptation of Christ in the wilderness. victory on the point of appetite. For another, the Four years later the articles were published in a 96- necessity of self-denial. "The great trial of Christ page booklet entitled The Temptation of Christ in in the wilderness on the point of appetite was to the Wilderness. The booklet was No. 2 in the Re- leave man an example of self-denial. . . . The sal- demption series. A few months ago the Review and vation of man was in the balance, and to be decided Herald reissued this long-out-of-print booklet in a by the trial of Christ in the wilderness."—Ibid., paperback edition entitled Confrontation. As we p. 66. It also teaches that victory over evil is more read the booklet recently, we found ourselves desirable than the preservation of one's life. And gripped by its message and underlining phrases and it reveals that Satan usually conceals his true sentences on almost every page. In this editorial we identity and the terrible results of evil. wish to share some of the thoughts gleaned. Most important, it reveals that all who are will- Picture the scene. For nearly six weeks Jesus had ing to pay the price of victory may obtain it. "Christ been in the harsh, desolate, Judean wilderness has power from His Father to give His divine grace "surrounded with wild beasts. Everything around and strength to man—making it possible for us Him was repulsive. . . . 'And in those days he did through His name to overcome."—Ibid., p. 63. "In eat nothing.' He was emaciated through long fast- the name of Christ we may have complete victory ing and felt the keenest sense of hunger. His in resisting his [Satan's] devices."—Ibid., p. 72. visage was indeed marred more than the sons of Christians who see the serious issues in the conflict men."—Confrontation, p. 37. between good and evil will be determined to have Then came the enemy. Not emaciated. Not weak. victory. They will not be content to retain sinful Not with marred visage. "He came to Christ en- habits in the life. The real problem is that in this shrouded in light, claiming to be one of the angels permissive age too many Christians excuse sin in- from the throne of God, sent upon an errand of stead of conquering it. "They have not the moral mercy to sympathize with Him and to relieve Him courage to persevere in self-denial, and to endure of His suffering condition."—Ibid., p. 38. He suffering for a time through restraint and denial "stated that he was the angel that stayed the of the taste, in order to master the vice. This class hand of Abraham as the knife was raised to slay refuse to overcome as did their Redeemer."—Ibid., Isaac. and he had now come to save His life." p. 77. (See Heb. 12:1-4.) —Ibid., p. 39. Christians who meditate upon the terrible con- Satan hoped to overcome Jesus on appetite, on flict of Christ in the wilderness and upon what the desire for ease and self-indulgence, on presump- God's dear Son was willing to endure for them tion, on the desire for self-preservation, on vanity, will be ashamed of what they have called sacrifice on the desire for earthly authority, fame, and and self-denial. And they will determine to over- power. But he soon discovered that his Foe was come, no matter what the cost, as did their Master. no ordinary human being. Here was One who saw It is right that we gather around the manger at clearly the terrible results of 4,000 years of indul- Bethlehem. It is right that we gather at the foot gence of appetite, One who would rather die than of the cross. It is right that we gather at the empty yield to temptation. Here was One who was so tomb. But let us not neglect to spend time in the familiar with Scripture that He recognized instantly wilderness of temptation, for "the scene of trial the enemy's misuse of God's Word, One who knew with Christ in the wilderness was the foundation of the difference between faith and presumption. the plan of salvation, and gives to fallen man Here was One who had perfect confidence in His the key whereby he, in Christ's name, may over- Father. Here was One who refused to linger in the come."—Ibid., p. 63. K. H. W.

2 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 Briefs From then NangItceeese tion" to patients. When he visits them in person they find it easier to talk to him 714.“ Week, dB. because he seems "familiar." SCAN Programs aired over the main hospital MISSION '72, described as the channel include medical orientation—expla- church's greatest coordinated evangelistic nations of what happens in the various thrust since its organization, receives at- 1.9e lierlenfes From the Fienlliggiceatien Sri rooms and the functions of blood tests and tention this week (see page 4). Assessing other tests. the general religious scene, Marvin H. CARDINAL SAYS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Reeder notes that events of recent PROMOTE HUMANISM IRAN'S "RELIGION CORPS" months indicate the "greatest surge of WILL DRAFT YOUNG MEN religious agitation and interest in years." WASHINGTON, D.C.—Patrick Cardinal Elder Reeder is an associate secretary A. O'Boyle of Washington declared that TEHERAN—A Religion Corps, into of the General Conference Bureau of the nation's public schools already consti- which young men will be drafted, has been Public Relations. He began work for the tute an "establishment of religion" in created within the Iranian Army by imperial denomination as a literature evangelist America through the implementation of edict. in 1942, later becoming a conference "secular humanism" as a state religion. It takes its place alongside three other publishing secretary. He continued in He said that public school neutrality to "revolutionary" corps, those on literacy, this line of work until 1955 (spending religion is a myth. health, and development. A group of 50 six years in Japan) when he accepted the "It may be argued that public schools Moslem divinity school graduates will be position of departmental secretary (pub- need not favor any particular religion," he the first inducted by March, 1972. lic relations, radio-television, religious said, "or any religion at all, because they Draftees in the Religion Corps will liberty, and industrial relations) of the can proceed on strictly humanistic, prag- undergo eight weeks of basic military train- Ohio Conference. In 1962 he accepted matic, and secular conceptions. ing and 16 weeks of specialized study. Dur- his present post. "But this is precisely the point. To pro- ing training, they will wear the same uni- ceed in this way is itself to establish a re- forms as members of other corps. They will Unconsciousness in the intermediate ligion—secular humanism—and to favor serve then for 18 months, wearing the attire state is the subject of the ninth in the this religion over all others." of Moslem clergy. series "An Adventist Confession of Members of the Religion Corps will be Faith," by C. E. Moseley, Jr. (page 6). assigned to duties in schools, cultural in- The term "intermediate state" may not CHAPLAIN VISITS stitutions, and other organizations. At the be familiar to some Adventists. It is a PATIENTS VIA HOSPITAL TV end of their terms, they will have priority theological term referring to the state of MIAMI—A unique closed-circuit televi- in jobs in many areas. man between death and the resurrection. sion system at Hialeah Hospital allows its Elder Moseley began work for the patients to have a "visit" from the hospi- denomination in 1929 as a pastor-evan- CATHOLIC CONVERT RATE gelist in Missouri. From 1934 to 1951 tal chaplain at least twice each day. FAR EXCEEDS CLERGY GROWTH Patients may also tune in for an entire he was head of the Bible department of evening of hymns, readings from the Bible, VATICAN CITY—The Roman Catholic Oakwood College. To advance his edu- and inspirational poems. Or they may watch church is making converts faster than it can cation, after earning his Master's degree such TV programs as Faith for Today and train priests to minister to them, according from Andrews University in 1946, he The Life of Christ, or such movies as Mar- to an Italian missionary information service. studied at both Northwestern University tin Luther and King of Kings. At the same time, the service warned, and the University of Chicago. From "When someone is a patient at our hospi- there are "vast areas of humanity" still un- 1951 to 1962 he was with the Regional tal, we want him to know it is a Christian touched by Christianity and other large Department as either associate secretary institution and that Christians care for areas that once were Christian and now or secretary. From 1958 until his recent him," explained David Jones, director of must be "re-Christianized." retirement he was a general field secre- television anti public relations. The Missionary Information Service, tary of the General Conference. Hialeah Hospital is affiliated with the sponsored by nine large Italian missionary BIBLE CREDITS: Bible texts in this issue cred- Seventh-day Adventists but not owned by orders, stated in a report that the "re- ited to The Living Bible are from The Living Bi- ble, Tyndale House, Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois. that denomination. Christianization" process is particularly Used by permission. The Reverend Douglas C. Prenier, hospi- true for Latin America where rapid popu- lation increases have caused an "acute PHOTO CREDITS: Page 8, Armstrong Roberts; tal chaplain, said his appearances on the TV p. 15, Review and Herald; pp. 17, 18, courtesy of chapel services serve as a "good introduc- shortage of priests." the authors.

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By MARVIN H. REEDER

IVENTS of recent months in Explo '72 the religious world indicate Campus Crusade, under the name F the greatest surge of religious Explo '72, will hold an intensive agitation and interest in years. training session in Dallas, Texas, A few months ago the "Jesus next June with Evangelist Billy Only" movement began to take Graham as honorary chairman. shape among rebellious youth of the Explo '72 is set to instruct 100,000 West Coast. Today it is sweeping students from around the world in the nation. That a revival of reli- Christian witnessing. Each one of gious interest has also taken place the 100,000 is expected to return to among Seventh-day Adventist youth his home or school campus and is undeniable. train five other youth. Thus it is Witnessing teams from our uni- hoped that there will be 600,000 versities, colleges, and conferences trained youth witnesses within the were everywhere in North America year. this summer sharing the happy born-again experience. Key '73 At Seventh-day Adventist camp "Key '73," a program of evangel- meetings this year adults came seek- ism involving 80 or more denomina- ing a deeper experience with God. tions, begins in 1972 and will climax They were not disappointed. in 1973, thus the name, "Key '73." Other religious groups are mov- Without a doubt, this program will ing into active programs of evangel- spur the interest of a great number ism. What the results will be, only of people in studying the Bible. time will tell. But here are some of their plans. Probe '72 Probe '72, an all-Mennonite con- Marvin H. Reeder is an associate sultation on evangelism, is sched- secretary of the General Conference uled for Chicago, April 13-16, 1972. Bureau of Public Relations. Writing about the projected consul-

4 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 tation, Myron Augsburger, presi- Christians . . . ask in faith for the conditions are clearly outlined in dent of Eastern Mennonite College, promised blessing, and it will Evangelism, page 699: "When we Harrisonburg, Virginia, says, "Per- come."—Ibid. have entire, wholehearted consecra- haps a new effort will begin a period MISSION '72 is the church reach- tion to the service of Christ, God of renewed vigor in Mennonite ing out to every man with the will recognize the fact by an out- evangelism in modern times." This "Blessed Hope." If, in concerted ef- pouring of His Spirit without meas- will be the first evangelistic pro- fort, every member unites in some ure; but this will not be while the gram for the Mennonites since the type of personal evangelism, we can largest portion of the church are evangelistic fervor that helped ask in confidence for the blessing not laborers together with God." shape the church into a separate de- and power of the Holy Spirit and MISSION '72 is the greatest chal- nomination many years ago. it will be ours. MISSION '72 can lenge and opportunity before the be the richest blessing ever experi- church to this time. Will you conse- MISSION '72 enced by the church if we are will- crate your life to a definite part in Into this caldron of religious fer- ing to meet these conditions, for this coordinated, all-out attempt to ment the Seventh-day Adventist God's promises are conditional. The reach fallen man? ++ Church has cast MISSION '72, de- signed to be the greatest coordi- nated evangelistic thrust since the organization of the church. Some, looking at the many large projects Christmas Power to be fielded by other churches dur- ing 1972 and 1973, have said, "What PEARL M. SMITH can our church do among all these?" They are fearful that our witness I HAVE recently been impressed by the following statement found on will be lost. some Christmas stationery purchased at a Christian supply center: Such fears are largely unfounded. "Long ago a Child was born. Long ago a life was lived. And the power All this additional evangelistic ac- of God was at work in that life. Now, as a result of that life, this same power tivity will stir minds. People who touches our lives today. For Christ the Lord was born for you." otherwise would not open their The lives of Seventh-day Adventists, of all people, should be so touched Bibles will search to see what these by this power that the world around us may see that the "excellency of the things mean. If Seventh-day Advent- power" is "of God, and not of us" (2 Cor. 4:7). ists make MISSION '72 what it We need to be in such close touch with God that our lives are like should be, these searching people photostatic copies of Jesus, rather than merely a dim and blurred carbon copy will find the answer. Instead of be- —dim because so far removed from the perfect Pattern; blurred by volun- ing a hindrance, the programs spon- tary contact with worldly influences so that those with whom we associate can sored by other organizations and scarcely recognize the original message of love. churches may provide the greatest While men are reveling in feasting and drinking we need to encourage opportunity for Seventh-day Ad- them to "taste and see that the Lord is good," that "blessed is the man ventists to witness since the mid- that trusteth in him." Let us plan that in some attractive way we may lead 1800's. them to have an experience such as Jeremiah had, who said, "Thy words Could these events portend the were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and outpouring of the latter rain? Cer- rejoicing of mine heart" (jer. 15:16). Such an appreciation of God's Word tainly it is something more than would bring them real Christmas joy. coincidence that all these special While neighbors vie with one another in lavish and expensive Christmas programs are focusing on the year lighting, can we not rather by word and deed display the light of the knowl- 1972. One thing is certain, some- edge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ? thing tremendous is happening in Many have given voice to their feelings that gift giving at Christmas time the religious world, and it seems has become an almost unbearable burden, to both the giver and the receiver. providential that the Lord has led Those who receive expensive gifts not only feel that they must reciprocate Seventh-day Adventists to an all-out with gifts of equal value, in many cases causing a burden of debt, but must evangelistic program at this time. display the gifts received in courtesy to the giver, regardless of how impractical The North American Division, the they are. And all of this occupies their time and attention to the exclusion of Australasian Division, and the In- contemplation on that precious God-given Gift the Christmas season is sup- ter-American Division will launch posed to commemorate. MISSION '72 simultaneously next Jesus said: "If thou knewest the gift of God, . . . thou wouldest have year. Other divisions will field the asked of him" (John 4:10). People must know Him in order to ask of Him. program in 1973. Are we making our plans and spending our money to make this Christmas In the words of the well-known season a special occasion for acquainting others with Him? spiritual, "If we ever needed the While the cause of God is languishing for want of means, with entire Lord before, we sure do need Him groups sending delegates many miles to appeal for someone to come and now." But we have the assurance of teach them, and no one to send because of lack of funds, must we still heavenly help in just such times as lavish our time and means on ourselves and our friends? these. "The descent of the Holy May Jesus be our Christmas lighting. "He . . . [is] the true light, which Spirit upon the church is looked for- lighteth every man that cometh into the world." ward to as in the future; but it is May He be our Christmas feasting. "If any man eat of this bread, he shall the privilege of the church to have live for ever." it now. Seek for it, pray for it, be- May He be our Christmas giving, as we pass on to others that precious lieve for it. We must have it, and and costly Gift that is ours to share—"To give knowledge of salvation unto Heaven is waiting to bestow it."— his people by the remission of their sins, through the tender mercy of our Evangelism, page 701. God; . . . to give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of And again the promise is "Let death, to guide our feet into the way of peace" (Luke 1:77-79). REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 5 An Adventist Confession of Faith-9

I Believe... that in the intermediate state the dead are unconscious

By C. E. MOSELEY, JR.

CLOSE friend of mine was always remain beautiful? Mom and transform themselves "into . . . an- dead. There he lay awe- pop both fell asleep in Christ. And gel[s] of light" (2 Cor. 11:14). A somely still, cold, and si- since I also cherish the same blessed Thus they are enabled miraculously lent. His form was wasted, the eyes hope of the Christian, mine is by far to impersonate the dead, mystify were tightly closed, and his color a sweeter memory. I cannot picture credulous men, and lure them into and visage, now marred to a mere them in death, but I remember my a quasi worship of the dead (com- shadow of his once radiant self, parents in life—life that was, and pare Rev. 12:9 and 16:13-15). have since haunted me at any men- hopefully, life that shall return How tragic it is that some of the tion of his name. when they awake from the sleep of living seem so swept away by de- We had long been close and hap- death. mon-inspired mysteries of death. pily compatible; and now, unable to Our blessed Lord calls death a Many appear to show more concern shake quickly from memory the un- sleep. Of one of His closest friends for the dead and bestow more value pleasant picture he presented, I re- He said, "Our friend Lazarus sleep- upon them after death than they solved not to look again upon the eth." He meant "plainly, Lazarus is ever did during their lifetime. They dead form of a close friend or loved dead" (John 11:11, 14). This truth shroud them in the finest clothing, one. That resolution has not been is of great comfort for Christians, lay them in costly caskets of bronze broken. My memory must not again and I may now be fully assured that, and tapestry, and provide expensive be so tortured. like Lazarus, mom and pop are only entourages for the burial proces- So the passing of mom and pop sleeping the sleep of death, and that sion, which often consume life sav- was different—wholesomely differ- reduces the rudeness and severity of ings and leave the living burdened ent. I smile a rewarding smile when death's sting. Believers then, need with debts. Some tend almost to I recall our parting pleasantries. We not sorrow so deeply as others who make a fetish of immortalizing the spent Christmas together, ex- have no hope. dead, just as though they must make changed gifts, and reminisced cheer- True, we shall be unable to com- up for failures and inattentions dur- fully as the week passed. Now I was municate as my parents and I did ing life. Or perhaps these things are leaving, and mom kissed me and on that last Christmas holiday, for done to speed the traditional "de- waved a cheery good-by from her in the sleep of death "the dead parted souls" on toward heaven or sickbed, as pop rolled his wheel know not any thing" (Eccl. 9:5). to some other beyond. chair near the door and waited. His "His breath goeth forth, . . . in that These remarks are not intended woolen plaid cap hugged his mas- very day his thoughts perish" (Ps. critically to depreciate appropri- sive head jauntily as I patted it and 146:4). "His sons come to honour, ately honorable burials of loved shook his hands. He turned from and he knoweth it not; and they are ones. But, really, is not honor of our me a wee bit, and I saw a lonely brought low, but he perceiveth it dead mere pretense when lavish fu- smile cross his elderly face. Neither not of them" (Job 14:21). "Neither nerals that are luxurious with trim- of us knew that we were signing off have they any more a portion for mings and fanfare that are ill af- finally for this life. Yet, but for a few ever in any thing that is done under forded take the place of honor that tears of love, our parting was sol- the sun" (Eccl. 9:6). In death then, should have been given in life? emnly sweet. there is no life, for dead men can- One often wonders why this ut- I have since been happy and re- not think, talk, or act. What tran- ter waste and empty honor, so lieved that our final parting was so quil "rest from their labours" is the vainly heaped upon expired souls lovingly pleasant. Mom and pop sleep of men in death (Rev. 14:13). who can in no way enjoy it! Dead were interred five months apart next men can only decay and waste away year, but I chose not to look upon Satan's Deceptive Lie in their graves, like fallen fruit be- their faces in death. I did not wish It was Satan, the great deceiver, neath a tree (see Job 17:13). Ac- to spoil the tender picture that still who invented the falsehood, "Ye tually, the soul cannot exist unless hangs in memory's hall. shall not surely die" (Gen. 3:1-4). man's body and the "breath of life" And why should not that memory And by that deception Eve was led are combined as they were since the into sin, and sin has inflicted death Creation (see Gen. 2:7). Even so, C. E. Moseley, Jr., until his recent upon the whole human family in death the soul dies because man's retirement, was a general field secre- (Rom. 5:12). Satan and his agents "breath goeth forth"; his spirit— tary of the General Conference. still deceive men; they even now the breath of life—returns "unto 6 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 God who gave it"; his decaying God's sleeping saints are precious in His sight. Guardian angels body returns to dust and "the dust return[s] to the earth as it was" tenderly mark their resting places and will be the first to greet (compare Eze. 18:4, 20 and Eccl. 12:7). them in the resurrection. This complete disintegration and death of the soul forever destroys the false notion that we humans possess immortal souls. Besides, the remains to float about hither and tion of life comes first, with the Scriptures teach that God "only yon, and no spirit of the dead ever Lord's return to earth (I Thess. 4: hath immortality" (see 1 Tim. 6: returns to torment the living with 16). At His return our Lord calls all 16). Moreover, the concept of im- memories he would rather forget. of His sleeping friends from their mortality that is "brought . . . to This is as our loving Lord planned graves; and in the re-creation that light through the gospel" affirms it, and His plans, like His promises, follows, the breath of life returns that man may "seek for" it through are unalterable (Ps. 89:34). More- and is united with reconstructed, acceptance of Christ, and that upon over, His sleeping saints are still immortalized bodies, and men His return the Lord will raise the precious in His sight and guardian again become living souls, prepared sleeping saints and cause them to angels tenderly mark the resting for an eternal existence with their "put on immortality" as part of place of these dead and they will be Lord (verses 15-17; compare 1 Cor. their eternal reward (2 Tim. 1:10; first to greet them at the resurrec- 15:51-55). Rom. 2:7; 1 Cor. 15:52-54). tion (Rev. 14:13; Matt. 18:10; 24: The "resurrection of damnation" 30, 31). follows a thousand years later, and An Ancient Spiritistic Seance It is heartwarming indeed for the every unrepentant soul will die and Christian to know that the expres- be consumed in flames of hell. This But one asks, did not King Saul sion "sleep of death" presupposes is the "second death"—it is final talk with Samuel after the witch of an awakening out of sleep. Our liv- and irrevocable (Rev. 20:5, 9, 10, Endor called his spirit up from the ing Lord, who raised His sleeping 14, 15; compare Mal. 4:1-3). grave? And we reply, The disguised friend Lazarus to life, calls that Today most living men have a king did resort unto the witch after awakening the resurrection. In our choice! Choose carefully, choose God forsook him, and the fright- Bibles He promises two general wisely. An understanding and lov- ened woman controlled by a "fa- resurrections: A "resurrection of ing Lord invites us (Dent. 30:9, 10; miliar spirit" did perform her in- life," and a "resurrection of damna- Matt. 11:28-30; Isa. 1:18, 19; Eze. 18: cantations, when assurances were tion" (John 5:29). The resurrec- 30-32). ++ given that her life would be spared (1 Sam. 28:3-20). But from the rec- ords of Scripture it cannot be shown that King Saul ever really saw the "form" about which the We Beheld His Glory witch spoke. When the woman de- scribed the form that she saw, Saul By DAN R. BETTLE "perceived that it was Samuel," that is, he actually assumed that the It was census year. A weary peasant from Nazareth led a donkey, on which witch had given a description of sat his young wife, toward the gate of the village caravansary. The dusk was Samuel's appearance. heavy with the smell of animals, yet the thought that they would be warm Can one imagine that the Lord and have a roof here lifted their tired spirits. The keeper hurried over, hands would permit His faithful servant waving, to say he was very sorry, there just was no more room! Just for Samuel to be raised from the sleep tonight, could they sleep on the ground with the donkey, over in the corner of death at the request of a demon- there on that pile of hay? Permission was granted. They ate a little from controlled witch, when He had com- their pack and collapsed. manded that all of her kind be de- The young wife couldn't sleep because her first child was due. By dust. stroyed from the land? (see Lev. 20: filtered moonlight, with what strength she had left from the journey, she 27 and Deut. 18:10-12). Again, to gave birth. A boy. She had brought swaddling cloth, just in case, so she disturb His sleeping prophet for the wrapped the baby tightly, then fell back on the hay while the baby slept. benefit of a disobedient king, whom Sometime in the night, rustling among the animals woke them. Struggling He had rejected, would be utterly to see, the husband and wife made out the forms of several excited shepherds unlike the great Ruler of the uni- who had seen a bright light in the sky and had heard angels singing. verse (compare 1 Sam. 28:6, 7 with But it wasn't the end of wonders. When the parents came to the Temple Isa. 8:19). We must therefore con- for the ritual of purification, an old, devout man of Jerusalem held the baby clude that the evil King Saul did and blessed God with feeling, praising Him that He had spared him to see not speak with the dead prophet His deliverance in Israel. Some time later three noble strangers from the Samuel. The form that communi- East entered their abode without introduction. Each left a costly gift. cated with the Godforsaken king So Jesus entered this world in the rudest circumstances amid bewildering was only an impersonating demon, events. If Jesus' birth had required a gilded crib, Solomon's Sinai smelters seriously bent upon luring the dis- to be banked, and a Roman holiday, He would have had it. Instead, it was obedient monarch to his destruc- just a sputter of light that only the watching saw. tion, which swiftly followed (see Until Jesus returns blazing, His love flickers, waiting exposure by pinpricks Rev. 12:12; 1 Peter 5:8; and 1 Sam. in flaws on the shell of the world—flaws that are you and me. This gift 31:4, 5). is not known by outward circumstances. The human acts through which God Let us then be assailed no longer speaks are just as ordinary as children and taxes: a drink of water to the by the popular superstitions of thirsty, a kind word to the discouraged, a moment of patience with one who death. For in its lifeless sleep there is unpleasant. When from God, it will be known by the inner worth of gift is no vital existence; no living soul and giver. Of our lives it may be said, "We beheld his glory." REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 7 "Season's Greeting," writ by spumes of swirling snow, and spun-glass weeds aglitter in the evening's glow, their crystaled beauty mirrored in the river's flow. Love's old sweet message etched in hoar-frosted sand, each hallmark air-mailed from a far-off heav'nly land; THE SEASON'S FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD all sealed and stamped— By PEARLE PEDEN ENGLAND then posted by the Maker's hand.

T WAS during the American the sun and observed by the Norse- Revolution. A detachment of men with their Yule feast in con- I Hessian soldiers had been hired nection with the fiery sun wheel. and sent over by England to aid These German soldiers possibly Keep the Cornwallis in his at-first-successful did not know how nor why the pursuit of George Washington's manger songs and carols were made forces across the State of New Jer- a part of the Christmas celebration. sey. Then came the twenty-fourth Many of the Christmas customs Christmas day of December, Christmas Eve. As were brought in by the people be- the Hessians huddled around their cause the church resented and campsite on the icy banks of the wished to banish the heathenism Tree Delaware River, they became home- that had crept into the festivities. sick. No doubt they were thinking Custom of Lighted of their homes in western Germany Christmas Trees Green= where friends and loved ones would be lighting Christmas trees. These battle-fatigued soldiers According to tradition, Christmas may have heard the story that Mar- Decorate trees were introduced in Germany tin Luther and his family brought by Boniface, an early-medieval Eng- the first lighted Christmas tree into lish missionary. But many Christ- their home at Wittenberg. All Ger- With mas customs are traceable to the many had come to admire and Roman feast of Saturn. During the adopt the custom of lighting a tree Saturnalia, trees were decorated for Christmas. with small images, candles were Never thinking that a few days Money burned, and gifts were given. A later they would be taken captive great controversy between the east- by Washington's forces, the Hessian By GLADYS 0. MURRY ern and western churches took place warriors went out along the banks in the fourth century, when the fes- of the river, cut down fir trees, tival of Christ's birthday was brought them inside, and decorated changed from January 6 to Decem- them with the remains of their half- ber 25, the time of the winter sol- burned candles. Thus, on the frigid stice, a time celebrated in the banks of the Delaware, lighted Yule Roman Empire as the birthday of trees cast flickering glimmers on the

REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 walls of the crude wooden lean-tos they march in from their Sabbath mas tree lanes and much publicized that sheltered them. school divisions with colorful en- festivals of modern times, no Yule- The idea of a Christmas tree had velopes or creative banks filled with tide ceremony could be more mean- already been introduced by some of coins to tie on the branches of the ingful to me than the ones held in the early American settlers from tree. Dorcas Society members wear our own Seventh-day Adventist Germany, though it was met with extra smiles, knowing that by their churches. They are ceremonies that opposition by a certain portion of donated food and hours of labor portray the true meaning of Chris- the settlers who considered the cus- many poverty-stricken families have tianity—love for the Christ child tom a pagan practice. Gradually, been given food baskets, ensuring and love for man, whoever he may their objections were overcome, and for them a nourishing Christmas be. For was it not Christ Himself the Christmas tree tradition spread dinner. who said, "Inasmuch as ye have rapidly across the young country From the candle-lit firs that grew done it unto one of the least of these during the following years. along the frozen banks of a New my brethren, ye have done it unto Various ornaments were added to Jersey river to the renowned Christ- me" (Matt. 25:40)? ++ the lighted trees. Some country folk started stringing cranberries and popcorn to drape around the tree as decorations. Later, the spirit of FOR THE YOUNGER SET Christmas was reflected by the use of colorful electric Christmas light- ing and progressed into the lighting The Cat That Saved a Train and decorative ornaments of the present day. By LOIS C. RANDOLPH Not long after, Franklin Pierce MANY years ago a father and his It soon became a part of the engineer- decorated a Christmas tree in the young son were traveling from St. Louis ing crew. White House. There was some con- to Kansas City, where they planned to But there was one fear that it cern among members of the Sev- change trains. They carried with them couldn't get over. Whenever Sunshine enth-day Adventist Church in the a basket in which was a yellow kitten. heard another train coming, it would The boy amused himself playing with crouch in terror at the feet of its master early days as to whether it was in his kitten and let him run loose in the and stay there till the train had thun- keeping with true Christian princi- train. Finally the lad fell asleep. When dered by. In vain did its master try to ples to observe Christmas by deco- they came to Kansas City, the father teach it not to be afraid of passing rating a tree. When questioned by and son were in such a hurry to change trains. such persons, Ellen G. White main- trains that they forgot the kitten. Months went by. Then one winter tained that although December 25 When the conductor checked on a run in western Missouri a terrible was not the correct birth date of through the train after it had reached snowstorm came up. Sunshine's train Christ, there was no harm in re- its destination, he found the yellow kit- waited at a station for the freight that membering His birth upon that ten asleep on a seat. He knew the fire- was due about the same time. However, man liked cats, so he carried it up to the freight did not arrive, and the en- date and that, in her opinion, it was the engine. The fireman made the kit- gineer decided that the storm must not wrong to bring an evergreen ten welcome, fed it, and made it com- have delayed it. He decided to travel to tree into the home for simple deco- fortable in the baggage car for the rest the next station ten miles away. rations. She also believed that it was of the night. To make sure he was not taking a proper to give inexpensive gifts to In the morning when the train went foolish chance that would result in a friends and loved ones. back to St. Louis, the kitten, named collision, he telegraphed to the next There are those who let the "sim- Sunshine by its new master, went along. station to hold the freight until his pas- ple Christmas" get out of hand. The For a few days it rode only in the bag- senger train came in. Because he re- gage car. Then one day it was pro- ceived no return message, he thought Christmas scene is ever changing moted to ride with the fireman in the the freight had not yet come in, so he with the production of larger and engine cab. decided to proceed. brighter baubles for decorating. But At first the noise of the big engine They had traveled only five miles within our Seventh-day Adventist frightened the cat, but it got over that. when Sunshine suddenly raised its head churches there has been adopted, and listened for a moment. Then it in my opinion, the best of all ran to its master's feet and crouched Christmas customs. there in fear. The fireman knew that the kitten had heard a train. The terrible Best Gift for Christ possibility that it might have heard the On the thirteenth Sabbath near- freight flashed into his mind. It was est Christmas, I consider it a privi- time for quick action. The engineer leaned out of the win- lege to sit in a certain Seventh-day dow to listen, but could not hear what Adventist church and enjoy a sim- the cat had. Nevertheless, he decided to ple evergreen tree, made greener by heed the cat's warning. strings of dollar bills instead of Quickly the train was backed to the cranberries and popcorn. Admon- nearest siding. It had hardly stopped ished by our Christian leaders that when the freight thundered by. The we should give our best gift to the engineer, fireman, and conductor all One whose birth we are honoring, trembled at what might have been. the entire congregation marches to They took the quivering kitten in their the front of the church to put their arms and quieted it. "Sunshine," declared the engi- Thirteenth Sabbath Offerings on neer, "under God you saved our train the tree. from disaster. You saved many lives. Ornaments are provided by You have a permanent pass on our young people of all ages. From the train. May you have nine lives to keep tiny tots to youth in their late teens, Sunshine was a favorite pet on the train. us safe as you have today!" REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 9 Living

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THEY PRAYED ON CHRISTMAS EVE

By MARGERY WILSON

WO Christian men knelt to indulgence, worldliness, and ad- pray on Christmas Eve, the verse example." Tone a good Adventist lay- And the Adventist neighbor, who man, and the other, an equally sin- lived across the street, knelt to pray. cere Adventist brother, who lived "My dear Father. I thank Thee across the street. for this season that turns many a The first man knelt and prayed worldly mind to think of the birth thus with himself: "0 God, I thank of Jesus. What a privilege it is to Thee that I am not as other men thank Thee for the gift of Thy Son, are, who smoke, drink, work on Thy even though the exact date of His Holy Sabbath, eat meat, and drink birth remains unknown! coffee. "I thank Thee for the fond fellow- "I read Mrs. White's writings and ship found in exchanging simple the Bible. I conduct daily family Christmas greetings and newsy let- worship and pray twice daily. ters with friends who live faraway. "I serve Thee in church leader- How encouraging to know that ship and am quick to recognize their faith clings to Thee also! error and to deal with it. "I thank Thee for the unity and "I give more Bible studies than togetherness Christmas brings to my any of my brethren in this district. family; for the fun we have unpack- I pay tithe on all that I have and ing our old decorations and in mak- give freewill offerings. My pledge to ing new things. I am grateful for the building fund astonished many. my children's delight in decorating "I faithfully attend prayer meet- an evergreen we cut in the woods,* ing every week and send my chil- a tumbleweed, or a simple, barren dren to church school. branch. "I did not waste money on a "I thank Thee for the joy found Christmas tree, or on ornaments, or in giving useful gifts to one another. tinny tinsel this year. I did not buy "I thank Thee for blessing my Christmas gifts. I didn't send any meager means so much that we have Christmas cards. I did nothing to a gift for Thee on Sabbath, some- celebrate this foolish pagan custom thing for a less fortunate family, that is so commercialized. and a book and something new to "I gave a large offering instead, wear for our children. and testified about my self-denial "I thank Thee for this great fam- LOMOINONK this season. ily season and that we have all been "I know this sacrifice will bring a spared to enjoy it again, together. ProTtcrfOlV blessing and I thank Thee that I How wonderful it is to hear each am not like my Adventist neigh- one renew his Christmas resolve to bor, who celebrates tonight in gaiety be ready to meet Thee when Thou and bright lights, unmindful of his comest to earth again! "Bless our home, bless our Margery Wilson is a farming church, and our humble everyday housewife in Stanfield, Oregon. A witness for Thee." former teacher and secretary, she now occasionally does free-lance * With permission from the Forest Service or similar authorities administering our evergreen writing. forests.

14025i1a51%5XAVSYMIgSAMIZMI;41)1:$305EZAWS311;i4740:5MESZEk #sS3143%5X5g5AS:511Z;MAIZ:63t551:5.EAEMMAIVAWSZMMUMMISUZAFX7:SX 10 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 ILL you and Father come to our birthday Wparty, Mom? The chil- dren all expect to be there." "At your house this time, isn't it?" replied mother. "We won't be able to come this time, son. Have a good The Faith dinner. Tell everyone we would like to be there. We will be thinking of you." The appointed day arrived. Fa- of Mrs. Job ther said, "Let us have special prayer for the children today. Even though they mean to do right, they By OLIVE CLARK might have a thought that would not be a blessing." To him this meant offering a sacrifice, which he strength left her. Attempting to tried to fix something that he could gladly did. grasp the fate of orphaned little eat. Night after night she listened to As they were busy with their daily ones, she heard the words of her his subdued groans. She knew he work, they saw a man hurrying to- husband as he tried to arrange for was innocent before God. He had ward them. They recognized him as the funeral. Ten graves carved out been a loving, kind husband and fa- one of the men who were plowing a of the rocky hillside would be ther. Why did God treat a righteous field for wheat. He excitedly told needed for the children, perhaps man like this? How could He be a them that the Sabeans had attacked. some for grandchildren, others for loving God and see one of His chil- "They carried off all the oxen we the servants. Strong, rugged peasant dren suffer so? Her heart ached. were using, and took the asses from that she was, it seemed that she Stealing in to try to do something the pasture. They killed all the men could not endure it. One thing we one night, she heard him say, "No, but me." do know is that she asked the ever- you try to get some sleep." Knowing "All those women left widows!" present, unanswerable question, that he could not live ,much longer exclaimed Mrs. Job. "We must do Why? To which her husband gave in that misery, and with discourage- something for those fatherless chil- the incredible reply, "We asked for ment clutching at her heart, she dren." children, and the Lord gave them to burst out, "Job, there's no use trying Job began to reply when another us. We had the satisfaction of seeing to serve God anymore. You have worker burst in. "We had just gath- them grow up. Now that they are been His faithful servant, and we ered the sheep together for the taken away, we can bless His name know it. He is not treating you fairly night when there was a bright flash for what He has done." —punishing you like this. You say and fire that fell from the sky. It set you will soon die, and that God does ablaze all the men and the sheep. I Multiplied Tragedy not care a thing about it. Why don't happened to be a little late getting One day soon afterward Job came you curse God and die?" there, so I was saved." in complaining of a red spot that "Now, Mother dear," he said, "all Job gasped. "What shall we do was sore to touch. They tried all the these years haven't we been telling now?" he questioned. remedies of which they knew, all those who were suffering to trust in Just then another man, tired from without results. Another sore ap- God always, for He will never fail? haste, blurted out, "The Chaldeans peared, and then another. It be- While enjoying health we found surrounded us and demanded the came difficult for him to walk. He happiness in helping others. Now camels. When we tried to save the felt the sores coming in his hair when it is my turn to suffer, ought animals, the Chaldeans began kill- and all the way down to the soles of we not to show the same faith? ing the servants. They got everyone his feet. His suffering became in- Though He slay me, yet will I trust but me. I dodged behind some tense. in Him. Let Him work out what He bushes." wants to in me." Like his wife, Job felt over- Convinced that all suffering is caused by the sufferer's sins, his Poor Mrs. Job! She felt so broken whelmed at the thought of the up. "Here you are," she may have great loss. He thought, too, of the neighbors began to shun him. Young men whom he had be- said, "needing all the encourage- suffering of the survivors. ment you can get, and I was the one "I'm sorry to tell you . . ." It was friended treated him disrespect- fully. Three special friends came to to lose heart. I am sorry for my lack their eldest son's servant talking. of faith." "While dinner was being served at comfort him, but they too were sure that all his trouble came because of Really, did God blame her as we the birthday party, a terrible tor- might be prone to? Did He accept nado struck, and your children were unconfessed sin. They were frank all killed, and the servants too. I in telling him so and implored him her repentance if, indeed, she re- long and emphatically to admit it pented? Was she the mother of am the only one left." Job's ten children who were born to In a sense of unutterable anguish and repent. It hurt Mrs. Job deeply to hear them blaming her husband him after that? Did she again hear and helplessness, Job tore his robe the chatter of baby voices and the and cut off his hair. Mrs. Job's when he was already suffering so much. pitter-patter of little feet? It is possi- Although Olive Clark lists herself At the close of the day she came ble. now as homemaker, she has given with cool water to sponge his in- Before we condemn anyone for a some 35 years of service in church flamed boils, trying to do something single mistake, should we not try to schools. to give him relief. Day after day she see the total picture? ++ REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 11 IFrorrs the Editors

CHRISTMAS AND KENOSIS defilement. . . . Shall selfishness come into your hearts? And will those who set not before them the pattern, What is kenosis? What does it have to do with Christ- Jesus, extol your merits? You have none except as they mas? come through Jesus Christ. Shall pride be harbored after Kenosis is a word that was popular with certain theo- you have seen Deity humbling Himself, and then as man logians in the middle-nineteenth century who were debasing Himself, till there was no lower point to which emphasizing the magnitude of Christ's self-denial and He could descend? 'Be astonished, 0 ye heavens,' and be self-sacrifice when He assumed human nature. amazed, ye inhabitants of the earth, that such returns The word is derived from Philippians 2:7, which should be made to our Lord."—Ibid., pp. 417, 418. reads: "But made himself of no reputation, and took We know that thoughts such as these will be far from upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the the minds of men, even of many Christians, during this likeness of men." The word translated "made . . . of no Christmas season. But what a difference it would make in reputation" is the Greek kenoO, from which is derived personal relationships to Jesus Christ and our fellow men the noun kenosis, which is transliterated into the English if the kenosis were made a subject of prayerful medita- as kenosis. tion not only during the Christmas season, but repeatedly! Keno() means literally "to empty." Precisely in what D. F. N. way Christ emptied Himself when He became man, theologians have argued over for centuries. There are mysteries involved in the Incarnation that finite minds cannot fathom. At the same time, inspiration has shed "THE HUMANITY OF THE SON much light on kenosis that it is our privilege to con- template. OF GOD IS EVERYTHING TO US" For the Christian kenosis is what Christmas celebrates. " 'Don't be afraid!' " he said. " 'I bring you the most Suddenly He who had been the Creator, who had been joyful news ever announced, and it is for everyone! The in close fellowship with His Father, who had received Savior—yes, the Messiah, the Lord—has been born the adoration of the angels, was absent from heaven. tonight in Bethlehem!' " (Luke 2:10, 11, The Living At the same time He appeared as a babe wrapped in Bible). So the old, old story goes, but ever new to weary, swaddling clothes, lying on the straw in the place where yet hopeful, men and women the world over. animals are kept. Marvel, 0 heavens, be astonished, 0 " 'The most joyful news ever announced, and it is for earth! What emptying! everyone!' " Amen and amen! It must be the supreme Was it easy for Jesus to take upon Himself human irony of all time that the Babe born in that Bethlehem nature? Let us permit inspiration to reply: "It was a stable, subjected from His earliest moments to the difficult task for the Prince of Life to carry out the plan hostility of men who did not understand and of a devil which He had undertaken for the salvation of man, in who did, the one Person Satan did his utmost to destroy, clothing His divinity with humanity. He had received is still the Person to whom many in the world pay their honor in the heavenly courts and was familiar with respect, one way or another, as each year ends—year after absolute power. It was as difficult for Him to keep the year after year. level of humanity as for men to rise above the low level Why? Because He was God who became man. But 0 of their depraved natures and be partakers of the divine how He came! Not as a heavenly prince, not as a dazzling nature."—Confrontation, p. 85. angel, not even out of the shadows of a lonely path, as a suddenly discovered superstar teacher. He came as Self-exaltation Condemned a babe as every other child of humanity has had to Even more was involved. Paul continues, "And being enter the world. found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and And 0 how He lived! Not on a pedestal far above His became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross" fellow men, untouched by their sorrows and temptations, (Phil. 2:8). did He live His 33 years. It is hard to believe that the "Christ was to die as man's substitute. Man was a Creator of the universe would imprison Himself within criminal under the sentence of death for transgression His own creation forever. Hard to believe that the Lord of the law of God as a traitor, a rebel; hence a substitute of Creation, who walked among the stars and whirled new for man must die as a malefactor, because he stood in universes into their orbits, would be born a helpless babe the place of the traitors, with all their treasured sins and laid in a dirty manger. But what is hardest to upon his divine soul. It was not enough that Jesus should believe is that He loved men and women so much that die in order to fully meet the demands of the broken He was willing to risk all, even His own future (with law, but he died a shameful death."—ELLEN G. WHITE, all that that means), as He permitted Himself to "meet in Review and Herald, July 5, 1887, p. 417. life's peril in common with every human soul, to fight The manger of Bethlehem was but the beginning of the battle as every child of humanity must fight it, at Christ's path of humiliation. To us this brings out a the risk of failure and eternal loss" (The Desire of Ages, lesson, not generally connected with Christmas, but cer- p. 49). tainly related to the kenosis: What was there about His coming that evoked the "In consideration of this, can men have one particle of angel's announcement: "'The most joyful news ever exaltation? As they trace down the life and sufferings and announced, and it is for everyone!' " humiliation of Christ, can they lift their proud heads as though they were to bear no trials, no shame, no Angels Knew What Was at Stake humiliation? I say to the followers of Christ, Look to First of all, the angels knew what was at stake. They Calvary, and blush for shame at your self-important ideas. had heard for too long Satan's charges that "God was All this humiliation of the Majesty of heaven was for unjust, that His law was faulty, and that the good guilty, condemned man. He went lower and lower in His of the universe required it to be changed"; they had humiliation, until there were no lower depths that He listened long to his doubts as to "whether the Father could reach in order to lift man up from his moral and the Son had sufficient love for man to exercise self-

12 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 denial and a spirit of sacrifice" (Patriarchs and Prophets, acting when He became man: who "was in all points pp. 69, 70). tempted like as we are, yet without sin." Second, they had heard him charge that "human be- ings were proved to be incapable of keeping the law of The Golden Chain God" (Selected Messages, book 1, p. 252). For these reasons Ellen White exclaims: "The hu- On that first Christmas the glad-hearted angels knew manity of the Son of God is everything to us. It is the that the dramatic moment had arrived. Their beloved golden chain that binds our souls to Christ, and through Lord had personally entered the fray to demonstrate Christ to God. This is to be our study. Christ was a that God would ask nothing more from His creation real man."—Ibid., p. 244. than what He Himself was willing to do for His crea- The song above all songs that will be sung forever is tion. He would prove, on one hand, that self-denial, for- that Jesus did not take flesh but became flesh, taking "our bearance, and love were His way of life also and not sinful nature, that He might know how to succor those only a program for created beings; on the other, He that are tempted."—Medical Ministry, p. 181. He took would prove that what He has asked fallen man to do "upon Himself man's nature in its fallen condition" could be done. "The Majesty of heaven undertook the yet in no way, "not in the least" did he "participate in cause of man, and with the same facilities that man its sin" (The SDA Bible Commentary, Ellen G. White may obtain, withstood the temptations of Satan as man Comments, on John 1:14, p. 1131). Indeed, though beset must withstand them. . . . In taking human nature, by fallen, sinful nature, our Lord remained sinless. Christ was fitted to understand man's trials and sorrows The miracle is not that He could be so tremendously and all the temptations wherewith he is beset."—Ibid. tempted—that, every man could understand; the miracle Could a greater sight be imagined? The purest, love- is that He could so tremendously resist. Jesus allowed liest Person in the universe committing Himself as a Himself to descend as low into humanity's weakness as Man to a battle that every other man had lost for more any other man has had to enter life; He took everything than 4,000 years. He came in the full glare of fallen that evil men and Satan could throw at Him; yet He and unfallen beings. "He took upon Himself fallen, suf- did not flinch, even when every other human being fering human nature, degraded and defiled by sin."— forsook Him. Using the resources of faith in the Father ELLEN G. WHITE, in The Youth's Instructor, Dec. 20, of all humanity, employing no advantage that is un- 1900. available to every other child of humanity, our Lord This was no sham battle. "Christ did not make believe Jesus sinned not; not in the slightest did He bend and take human nature; He did verily take it. He did in thus develop even a propensity to sin. reality possess human nature. 'As the children are par- What does His example mean to us in 1971? What takers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took does His life of sinlessness mean to those who have the part of the same' (Heb. 2:14)."—Selected Messages, book opportunity to be members of the last .generation of 1, p. 247. Paul here strained at language itself as he Adventists? To these questions we will address ourselves emphasized the completeness and totality of the human next week. nature of Jesus. A few verses later (chap. 4:15) Paul (To be continued) again struggles to make clear that Jesus was not play- H. E. D.

a lovely cover has an appeal to attract that we as a people are to declare with a LETTERS everyone. Thank you again. loud voice, "Fear God, and give glory to H. G. BAYLISS him . . . : and worship him that made Eamot, Kelowna, British Columbia heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the [Letters submitted for publication in this column fountains of waters." cannot be acknowledged or returned. All must The Biblical record teaches biogenesis. I carry the writer's name and address. Short letters CHRISTMAS GIVING ( less than 250 words) will be given preference. found encouragement in Ellen G. White's All will be edited to meet space and literary re- I wonder what the Lord thinks of comment on the occasion when God took quirements. The views do not necessarily repre- sent those of the editors or of the denomination.) His professed people when at Christmas Moses' rod and created a snake from it to time they spend so much money buying show His creative power to be above gifts, trees, wrapping paper, ribbons, and Satan's power. "It was beyond the power of PRESERVATION cards for people who in many cases have Satan to change the rods to living serpents. "Only One Blossom" [Nov. 11] took no need of them, while at the same time our The prince of evil, though possessing all me straight back to The Heart of the Pose mission fields are pleading for means with the wisdom and might of an angel fallen, which was read by one college dean to her which to build schools, hospitals, and has not power to create, or to give life; girls away back when. churches. this is the prerogative of God alone. But all As usual, we have here the double stand- After all, if they want to celebrate His that was in Satan's power to do, he did; he ard. While Paul dated the "appealing" birthday, why not give Him the gifts? produced a counterfeit. To human sight the young girls for two and a half years, his RUTH VAN DEN BRINK rods were changed to serpents."—Patriarchs purple chrysanthemum "missed out on a Hinsdale, Illinois and Prophets, p. 264. few years of frivolous fun" so she could be This suggests one way in which Satan may try to deceive scientists and laymen chosen as his sturdy, nonwithering, perfect TEST-TUBE LIFE blossom. alike by creating an optical illusion. An- ALTA ROBINSON I have noticed lately that perhaps other more subtle method would be for Takoma Park, Maryland some of our people are wavering on what I Satan to employ the possibilities of micro- had thought was a fundamental teaching of miniaturization. Satan may be able to con- the Bible, the Spirit of Prophecy, and the taminate the so-called nonliving scientific SHOW WINDOW church—that no matter how man may ad- experiments with very minute (beyond our Thank you for the peaceful country vance in altering, shaping, and controlling microscopes to detect) forms of life, so that scene on the cover of the October 14 issue. life (genetics and molecular biology), he it would again appear that man has finally After a busy day at work, to come home will never be able to create a spark of life in disproved biogenesis with an instance of and pick up such a lovely looking REVIEW a test tube or anywhere else. Through the spontaneous generation. gives one a real lift. Our church paper is years I had thought it was a corollary BURNEY L. DYCK the show window of the message, and such teaching of the three angels' messages in Ooltewah, Tennessee REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 13 EFORE resuming the story of the was involved in the development of Seventh-day Adventist presence Seventh-day Adventist educational B in the Hawaiian Islands, which work. I began in last week's REVIEW, I should The Seventh-day Adventist presence give a further word of explanation first reached the Hawaiian Islands, as with regard to Hawaiian royalty. In noted earlier, in 1883-1884. Abram La point of fact, beginning with Kame- Rue was accompanied by Henry Scott hameha, members of the royal house when he sailed from California to Hon- not only were involved in the Christian olulu to sell Seventh-day Advent- mission but ofttimes were decisive lead- ist publications. A year later W. M. ers. Royal names appear constantly in Healey was sent to Honolulu by the the story. General Conference. He and his wife Royalty started with the great organ- and ten-year-old daughter, says the izer of Hawaii; then descended through General Conference record, traveled brothers, sisters, uncles, and cousins to steerage class for $25 each in order to Queen Liliuokalani, the last. Along the conserve funds. way was a portly chief who weighed Considerable interest had been 300 pounds. stirred up by Colporteur Evangelists Toward the end of the nineteenth La Rue and Scott. A tent was pitched century Hawaiian royalty began to on the corner of Vineyard and Fort read the handwriting on the wall. Streets (I stood there one evening and Queen Liliuokalani tried to revert to mused about the heroic past). Soon a the good old feudal days, but the is- small company was organized by A. J. lands had grown too modern, too Cudney, who followed Healey. A few A Fleet of Islands-2 strong, and too important to the peace days after the organization of the and security of the United States and group, this godly adventurer left by the Pacific. So the queen lost her pal- sailboat for Pitcairn. The ship and all ace. She actually was locked up in it on board were lost at sea. On Novem- after 1893. She was a gracious sover- ber 19, 1891, while en route to Aus- eign who in retirement forgave her de- tralia, Ellen G. White and a party of posers and lived happily to a ripe old five stopped briefly in Honolulu. Dur- age. She died in 1917, still the beloved ing the 19 hours the ship was in port, queen. Ellen White spoke to a large audience Seventh- Her many talents included a mastery in the YMCA chapel. of music. She will long be remembered by the world for her internationally A Part of Hawaii loved song "Aloha Oe" ("Farewell to From 1895 onward Seventh-day Ad- Thee"). The queen composed the song ventists became a part of the Hawaiian day in the palace both as a love song and a scene. A small church school was stirring farewell. Incidentally, her started, and Preston Kellogg (brother brother who preceded her on the of W. K. Kellogg of cornflakes fame) throne, wrote the words to the song that opened a health institute in downtown has become the official State anthem of Honolulu. The undertaking was short- Adventism Hawaii. lived, but it was to be followed later by So much for Hawaiian royalty. We a full-scale medical institution. Educa- shall see a little later that a princess tional work, as we shall see, developed and spread across the islands. Walter R. Beach is a general field In 1915, L. T. Heaton and his family on the secretary of the General Conference. arrived in Honolulu in answer to a call IStFICES

By WALTER R. BEACH

14 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 in the REVIEW AND HERALD for some- tropical verdure in its natural state is one to go to the Hawaiian Islands to kept intact. foster colporteur evangelism. This The academy has earned top recog- man of God had been in charge of the nition among the best citizens of the publishing work in Canada before go- islands. A fine woman of Japanese ex- ing to Hawaii. After four years and a traction, who now operates one of break in health the Heatons returned Honolulu's best shops, informed me on to the mainland, but served again in the occasion of a purchase that she had the islands from January, 1930, to attended Hawaiian Mission Academy. April, 1946. The saintly life of Elder "Many of the students," she said, "went and Mrs. Heaton built strength into on to Pacific Union College on the main- the church, particularly on Oahu. land." Then she added, "You know, Many of their converts have been and every one of the ones who went to still are leaders in the church. A Pacific Union College made a success daughter, Georgia (Mrs. Alvin in life." The expansion is nearing completion. Dougan, of Napa, California), and her The Hawaiian school administration The renown of this institution is doctor husband made a real contribu- continues to struggle to make the spreading afar, as has the influence of tion in Hawaii for 14 years, both in the evangelistic program just as effective Hawaiian Mission Academy. Sitting at a areas of medicine and education. The as possible. Not all the students find table for breakfast in a Honolulu res- second daughter, Margie (Mrs. Wil- their way permanently within the con- taurant we fell into conversation with liam Maket, of Honolulu), trained as text of "the good life." Yet none at- an electrical engineer and his wife on a nurse, served long and well at the tend this good school, or one of our vacation from southern California. It Queens Hospital, Honolulu, and set- colleges on the mainland, without ex- wasn't long until he said, "I am going tled permanently in Honolulu. periencing a permanent impact for to be in the island for some months, We have noted that from small be- good. and I must get a medical checkup." Of ginnings the educational work has de- course, I recommended Castle Memo- veloped in a strong way on the five The Medical Work Returns rial Hospital. "Oh," said he, "I intended main islands. This is true of the The second general institution of im- to go to Castle Memorial Hospital. My schools I visited on Molokai, Kauai, Ha- portance operated in the islands was physician in Downey, California, is a waii, Maui, and Oahu. Our teachers are the outgrowth of the unsuccessful start Seventh-day Adventist, and he recom- serving with distinction in a truly of medical work back in 1896. Through mended the place. I wouldn't think of evangelistic cause. The large non-Sev- the years the Seventh-day Adventist going to anyone but a Seventh-day Ad- enth-day Adventist composition of the leadership felt that the church's out- ventist physician." student body has been and remains a reach was partial and incomplete with- Our conversation continued and fruitful field for evangelism. Substan- out the support of adequate medical soon the question came, "How do Sev- tial school plants have been developed facilities. Here, as in so many places, enth-day Adventists come to train such on all the islands on the elementary the Lord designed a good plan. Mr. good physicians and medical person- level. Castle, a descendant of one of the old nel?" I explained in some detail our The Hawaiian Mission Academy on Hawaiian families, made sizable funds educational system, our method of Oahu now occupies a completely new available to us for the construction of a choosing candidates for the School of plant of concrete and tile. In 1946, the general hospital to be operated by Sev- Medicine, and the Seventh-day Advent- mission purchased a royal estate at enth-day Adventists in keeping with ist mission to the world. Then I pro- 1438 Pensacola Street from the heirs of Seventh-day Adventist principles. The ceeded, "Perhaps most of all is the Princess Kawananakoa. The school caf- 72-bed Castle Memorial Hospital, built awareness Adventist medical person- eteria occupies the site of Princess Ka- on the windward side of Oahu across nel have that their face may be the last wananakoa's home, which was long a the island from Honolulu, was opened the patient will look upon in this landmark in Honolulu and the social in 1963. Currently the plant is being world." "I understand," he said. center of many picturesque royal cele- expanded by the addition of a new wing The five weeks of annual meetings brations. Only the old garden with and more adequate ancillary facilities. held on the five principal islands

Above: lolani Palace, from which Queen Liliuokalani reigned, is now a museum. Left: (from left) Ten-year-old Birdena Healey, Elder and Mrs. W. M. Healey, Henry Scott, and Abram La Rue, in front of the tent that was "pitched on the corner of Vine- yard and Fort streets," Honolulu.

REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 15 WORLD NEWS were heartening days. As we moved sand beaches; the endless luaus; ladies pastors, and laymen of the church, in- from one island to the other we were in muumuus (patterned after the New cluding youth. deeply impressed with the friendly peo- England Mother Hubbard); Hawaiian The first phase of the program, ple. A striking phenomenon is the girls everywhere making leis of orchids, called Impact, was the use of television, welding together of so many peoples frangipani, and carnations for gestures radio, and newspapers to inform the and races into the modern American of aloha; the Arizona Memorial, hon- public of what Adventists are doing. way of life. Countless peoples, most of oring the officers and men who were With each of these announcements the them from the Orient, have found their killed during the surprise attack on public was informed that a representa- home here. One distinguished Hawai- Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941); the tive of the Seventh-day Adventist ian claims to represent 51 blood strains Punchbowl where rest 19,000 men who Church would visit them in a week or from the past. This is indeed the Pa- died in World War II and the Korean two, giving them an opportunity to cific melting pot. And the fact is more conflict; and old Diamond Head—that help us in our work. impressive still in the Seventh-day Ad- unforgettable backdrop to Honolulu's The program was tried first in the ventist family. Along with this goes the skyline! The sparkling crystals of cal- city of Curitiba, which has a popula- over-all dedication of church members cite found on the surface of this famous tion of half a million. to God's cause and the fine quality of landmark were mistaken for diamonds Exhibits had been prepared that in- leadership provided for the islands by by early sailors. These volcanic bits no cluded animals from the Amazon, the Pacific Union Conference. A. G. longer fire man's imagination. True ex- pictures of mission launches, and crafts Streifling, until recently president of citement here arises at the sight of "liv- made by Indians in central Brazil. the local field (now president of Ne- ing stones" being built into God's There was a picture of the Penfigo vada-Utah), gathered about him eternal house. Many such diamonds al- (savage fire) Adventist Hospital in the a group of men and women truly worth ready have been cut and polished in state of Mato Grosso, the Adventist hos- their weight in gold. the similitude of Christ's likeness. pital where people are treated success- One of them, R. D. Delafield, district All this and more was in the picture fully for this dreadful disease. One leader on Hawaii, is an old Hawaiian gallery of the heart as our winged bird exhibit was a replica of a river boat hand. He and his wife pioneered the streaked toward the mainland, matched mounted on wheels. On its deck were work on Molokai many years ago. Old- in its course only by the wonderment a stuffed alligator and an armadillo timers and newcomers join together in of the flight of the third angel over the from the Amazon. A loud-speaker in- a fine team supported by some of the Hawaiian archipelago—"the loveliest vited the people to visit the plaza to see finest lay leaders I have found any- fleet of islands that lies anchored in any the exhibits. where in the world. The church elder ocean." Special features were planned for at Hilo, Hawaii, is a lay member of afternoon programs, including an Ad- the Pacific Union Conference commit- ventist doctor from Peru, who had tee. The baptized membership in the BRAZIL: been a witch doctor. During the day islands will soon reach 3,000, while our members were on the streets and plans are afoot for the creation of fur- Exhibits, News Media calling at homes, talking to the people ther institutions—including a health- Boost Ingathering and soliciting donations. At 5:00 P.M. care institution for the retired at Hilo. temperance films and travelogues were A different approach to Ingathering shown at the plaza. "Thrilling to Behold" was used recently with notable success House-to-house solicitors in Curitiba The climax of our visit came the in the Parana Conference of the South and other cities found their work easy weekend the camp meeting staff moved Brazil Union. The approach, called the because frequently people were wait- back to Honolulu for weekend meet- United Ingathering Crusade, was ing for them at their doors. In some ings and a workers' institute. The large planned to involve all departments, cities a permanent exhibit center assembly facilities at the Hawaiian Mis- presenting Seventh-day Adventist mis- sion Academy were vibrant with happy sion work has been set up. songs, stirring reports, and total com- Using this program, the whole Pa- mitments. The onward flight of the Two Ordained in rana Conference territory was covered third angel was thrilling to behold as Maritime Conference in one month. more than 2,000 crowded into a large Five of these programs have been public hall for the weekend services. J. D. Blake (left) and D. W. Corkum sponsored since 1967, each of which has Behold what God has wrought since (shown with their wives) were ordained been successful and well accepted by the first little organized company met at the time of the Maritime Conference the public and by city governments. in 1888. A total Seventh-day Adventist camp meeting. L. L. Bock, an associate The South Brazil Union is planning impact, including the availability of secretary of the General Conference, a bigger program with wider coverage Loma Linda foods, now witnesses to preached the ordination sermon; J. W. for 1972. It hopes that exhibits from "present truth." In the yearly Ingather- Bothe, Canadian Union president, gave other parts of the world can be added ing program these islands lead the Pa- the charge; Paul Heubach of the De- so that our worldwide program may be cific Union Conference. partment of Religion of Loma Linda presented to the people. Finally the time came to say "Aloha University gave the ordination prayer, C. C. WEIS Oe." But our memory lingers on the and J. W. Wilson, Maritime Conference Associate Secretary Hawaiian scene with its sapphire wa- president, welcomed the newly ordained GC Lay Activities Department ter, stately palms peacefully swaying in ministers. the trade winds, cool forests of giant THEDA KUESTER tree ferns, endless fields of pineapple Correspondent SOUTH AFRICA: (more than one billion plants repre- sent 75 per cent of the earth's annual Adventist Youth Enjoy crop), and men and women who are Bible Conference just nice people. A kaleidoscopic film records indelibly Hawaii's Haleakala More than 150 Adventist young peo- (the house of the sun), the world's larg- ple and youth leaders of the Republic est dormant volcano; Hana on Maui's of South Africa met for a weekend a eastern shore; Akaka Falls; Lahaina short time ago in the first national Ad- (the old whaling center), where now a ventist Bible Conference to be held in new Seventh-day Adventist church and the republic. The conference was con- school prosper; the white and the black ducted in a modern convention center 16 owned by the Orange Free State Pro- LEBANON: vincial Administration, at Mazelspoort, about 12 miles from the city of Bloem- Afro-Mideast Division fontein. Guest lecturers at the Bible Confer- Holds First Council ence were G. E. Garne, editor of the Signs of the Times (South African), October 29, 1971, marked the be- who presented a series of lectures on ginning of the first council of the newly A thirteenth-century chapel will be used constituted Afro-Mideast Division at the Holy Spirit, and the writer, who led for worship services at the health center. the young people in a study of the First. Beirut, Lebanon. Members of the divi- Epistle of John. Each of the lectures sion committee and invitees came from took three one-hour periods, following the East African, Ethiopian, Middle Georges Vandenvelde, president of East, and Tanzanian unions. which time was given to the young peo- the Franco-Belgian Union, reports that ple for discussion. Gideon J. A. Breedt, church members in the union are M. E. Lind, division president, em- MV secretary of the South African Un- pleased at the prospect of having a de- phasized in his opening remarks the ion Conference, directed the youth to nominational health center, the first "Forward Thrust" program. This is a vital principles of Bible study during within the union. Three qualified phy- well-organized and integrated plan of the vesper service on Friday night, and sicians have offered their services to the evangelism and soul winning involving the writer preached the Sabbath morn- institution. The French Minister of all departments and institutions ing sermon. Health has given the project official rec- throughout the division. He reviewed The Bible Conference proved to be ognition. past accomplishments of the program a time of genuine spiritual revival for There is still much to do and much and placed before the council plans for the youth. Many young people made money must yet be raised for the build- further implementation of the program decisions for Jesus Christ and His serv- ing program. But when the institution during 1972. Elder Lind reported that ice. On Sunday morning the group is completed it will offer a unique serv- recent baptisms represent a 24 per cent testified to their faith in Christ, and ice to people of the surrounding area. increase over those of 1970. many of them spoke with conviction E. E. WHITE Inspiring reports on what had been of their determination to match their Educational Secretary done during the limited period of the profession with practical godliness. Trans-Mediterranean Division existence of the new division were pre- Running through the testimonies was sented. One of the most moving was a the idea that they wanted to share their march across the stage of representa- faith as the Lord Jesus Christ directs. SOUTH INDIA: tives with the flags of six Middle East This first youth Bible Conference countries representing a population of was organized by G. J. A. Breedt. The Baptism Held During 87 million while an offstage voice an- nounced, "No Seventh-day Adventist youth directors who assisted him in churches, no Seventh-day Adventist planning the Bible Conference were Church Dedication members!" MV secretaries T. T. Turner, Oranje- The dedication of a new Adventist By contrast, some of the East Afri- Natal Conference; D. C. deWaal, Cape church at Quilon, state of Kerala, can Union reports indicated large bap- Conference; and W. J. J. Engelbrecht, South India, was made doubly im- Transvaal Conference. tisms, which brought the total for the pressive by the baptism of 13 new division for the twelve months ending Prior to the Bible Conference the members during the same service. June 30, 1971, to more than 17,200. MV secretaries of the Republic of Seventh-day Adventists have had a The presidents of the four unions of South Africa meeting at Bloemfontein work in Quilon for many years. How- the division were re-elected by the com- for a youth directors' council voted to ever, the present church building is the mittee. They are: R. C. Darnell, Mid- hold Bible conferences in 1972. result of an evangelistic campaign con- dle East Union; C. D. Henri, East Af- D. B. MIAs ducted in the city in 1968 by G. W. rican Union; H. W. Palm, Ethiopian PR Director Maywald, at that time lay activities sec- Union; and L. C. Robinson, Tanzanian Trans-Africa Division retary of the Southern Asia Division, Union. and R. D. Riches, South India Union M. S. Nigri, a general vice-president lay activities secretary. The accessions of the General Conference; W. J. FRANCE: to the church as a result of the meetings Brown, an associate secretary of the called for a church building. Funds General Conference Department of Union to Have First given by a member of the church made Education; and the writer represented Health Center a beginning possible. the General Conference at the council. P. C. MATHEW H. D. JOHNSON A 63-acre property to be used for a President, Kerala Section Assistant Treasurer hydrotherapeutic institution has been South India Union General Conference purchased by the Franco-Belgian Un- ion at Salies-de-Bearn, at the foot of the French Pyrenees. Afro-Mideast Division committee members met in council at Beirut, Lebanon, recently. Among the buildings on the prop- erty is a mansion in parklike surround- ings, which lends itself to easy conver- sion for an administrative building. Also on the estate is a chapel in good re- pair that dates from the thirteenth cen- tury. This chapel will be used without alteration for worship. It will be necessary to build and equip a sanitarium with about 80 beds. Equipment for dietetic, thermal, and hydrotherapeutic service will be needed. There are mineral springs on the property which add to the idealness of the property for the practice of our health principles. WORLD NEWS

SWEDEN: New Holiday Center Focuses on Evangelism The Swedish Union is using a new dimension in evangelism which, it is hoped, will serve to contact people with the gospel during their vacations. The new venture is a recreation cen- ter named the Swedish Union Recrea- tional Center, situated on the summit of a hill 1,600 feet above sea level, in the lake and mountain district of north- western Sweden. The center was developed because changing times and the modern way of life challenge the church to find new The Swedish Union Recreational Center is in a beautiful lake-and-mountain region. ways to reach the people. Holiday-mak- ing has become a big business and an important part of life. Other churches Adventist literature has been pro- The speaker for the campaign was and organizations are moving to take vided for each cabin, and in the main L. E. Montana, Ministerial Association advantage of the opportunities this lodge in the central building is a li- and radio-TV secretary of the Central trend offers. Consequently, the Swedish brary of Adventist literature. It is our Philippine Union Mission. He was as- Union has established this recreational hope that the Swedish Recreational sisted by ministerial interns from facility, officially named Undersaker Center will be a meeting place not Mountain View College and a number Semesterby. only for people from our own coun- of mission workers. This center, which is one of the first try but also for our members from The campaign was held in an Ad- of its kind in Sweden, is made up of a near and far. ventist church that was remodeled and group of cabins centered around an ad- The official dedication of the center enlarged for the meetings. Some felt ministration building. This building was held in September. The ribbon was that a successful campaign could not be contains a kitchen and dining hall for cut by the chairman of the community conducted in one of our churches. 50 people, a large common room with council of the municipality of Under- However, attendance was maintained an open fireplace, an office, sanitary siker. ODD JORDAL even during the follow-up meetings. facilities, and sauna baths as well as President During the series we were buffeted by quarters for the attendants. In addition Swedish Union Conference four typhoons. However, we missed to the central administration building only one meeting, which was made up there are seven individual cabins. In for later. each cabin there are two bedrooms, a PHILIPPINES: Because the doctor who was to con- living room, kitchen, entrance hall, toi- duct the health lectures found it im- let and shower. The cabins are com- 200 Baptized During possible to be with us for more than pletely equipped with all the bedding Evangelistic Series one week, most of the lectures were and kitchenware so that people staying conducted by a member of the team, there may do their own housekeeping. A successful Better Living Crusade Luis Sabino, an agricultural graduate The center is built to a high standard has just been concluded at Estancia, of Mountain View College. He was with comfortable furnishings and col- Iloilo, in the West Visayan Mission of aided by charts and slides produced by orful textiles in Scandinavian designs. the central Philippines. the North Philippine Union Mission It is electrically heated for use the As a result there was an initial bap- Health Department and the Loma year round, and has its own water and tism of 117 persons. Before the meet- Linda University School of Public sewer system. ings concluded a total of 173 were Health. To a large extent the financing of baptized. Follow-up meetings were ARCHIBALD TUPAZ this project was made possible through continued by the local pastor. We be- Ministerial Intern gifts, donations, and wills. A grant lieve that other baptisms will follow. West Visayan Mission from a special public fund has also helped the establishment of the center as well as division and union appropri- ations. The total investment is approxi- mately US$120,000. A number of activities are planned for the coming season, such as family camps, welfare groups, Bible study camps, retreats for old people, and spe- cial study weeks when spiritual sub- jects are discussed. Health retreats and Five-Day Plans are also scheduled. These occasions can be coupled with hikes in the mountains. On some of these occasions the par- ticipants will live in the cabins, pro- vide their own food, and do their own housekeeping. At other times there will be common housekeeping, and meals in the main dining hall. At times when no particular activity is planned the individual cabins will be available for families to rent. Pastors baptize some of the 200 new members won during the Better Living Crusade.

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New York, church, and Donald Orsburn of the Albany church at the Tri-City Wentee oNed Junior Academy, Cohoes, New York. Ceozhat aim + Recently Sabbath school council meet- ings were conducted in the seven up- + The Sedalia, Missouri, church has INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION state New York area churches. Repre- sentatives from most of the churches in begun its literature distribution cam- + Trevor D. Barnes, St. Elizabeth, Ja- the conference were present. Mrs. A. J. paign in preparation for MISSION '72. maica, has been awarded a US$1,490 Patzer, wife of the conference president, Ben L. Hassenpflug, union evangelist, scholarship by an aluminum-producing gave valuable instruction to the super- will conduct a MISSION '72 campaign company of Jamaica. Barnes is a senior intendents and secretaries. A. M. Karoli, in March, accounting student at Andrews Univer- conference Sabbath school secretary, con- + On November 7 the Christian Record sity. ducted separate meetings for the teach- Braille Foundation, Lincoln, Nebraska, ers of adult classes. sponsored a glaucoma screening clinic. • Usabell Dargenson, a lay worker in EMMA KIRK, Correspondent the North Haiti Mission, recently held Of the 423 local citizens taking advan- an evangelistic campaign. As a result of tage of this clinic, 18 were found to have her campaign, a Sabbath school has been indications of glaucoma. This new serv- organized with 63 members, five of whom ice of the foundation is under the di- are baptized. rection of R. N. Hubbartt. It is the de- etvgadiaot acieic sire of the foundation to hold similar + An Inter-American Division-wide au- clinics in other sections of the country ditors' workshop was held at the division also. headquarters, Miami, Florida, November + Dr. Neville 0. Matthews, president CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent 3 and 4, The workshop, held for auditors of Canadian Union College, Lacombe, of the seven unions in the division, was Alberta, former principal of the Medi- under the leadership of R. R. Drachen- cine Hat College, Medicine Hat, Al- berg, division auditor. The presidents berta, was named Citizen of the Year of and the treasurers of the seven unions Medicine Hat recently. An award was Coloxii auto* were present for the occasion. R. F. presented by Dr. J. H. Snedden, chair- Williams, General Conference associate man of the Board of Governors of the secretary; R. M. Davidson, General Con- Medicine Hat College. Dr. Matthews' + Student literature evangelists from ference auditor; and J. W. Peeke and record as an Adventist administrator in Joseph Laughlin of the General Con- Columbia Union College gave their this non-Adventist college made such a testimony and sold denominational mag- ference Insurance Service. L. F. Bohner good impression that the Board of Gov- azines in five non-SDA churches on a and F. L. Baer of the Pacific Press were ernors of the college selected another recent Sunday morning in Newport also present. Adventist, Dr. E. Stanley Chace, director L. MARCEL ABEL, Correspondent News, Virginia. Members of one Baptist of the Department of Psychology of church purchased 100 copies of Advent- Walla Walla College, to succeed Dr. ist religious and health journals. More Matthews as president of the college. than 1,000 copies of Adventist maga- + Glendon Corkum, pastor of the zines were sold during the weekend. Ottawa, Ontario, church, and E. D. Mac- + Ten Potomac Conference literature 41Itada U, varish, a literature evangelist in Ottawa, evangelists teamed up with church mem- have formed a team. to visit Mr. Mac- bers of Lynchburg, Virginia, and en- varish's "paid-up" customers. So far rolled 55 families in Bible studies on a + In 1971, for the first time in the his- eight families are studying the Bible, recent Sabbath afternoon. tory of the Northeastern Conference, one family is attending church, and two families are paying tithe. + Columbia Union literature evangelists baptisms for a year will exceed the show a gain in literature sales of more 1,000 mark. This increase is due to the + The publishing department of the than $353,100 for the first ten months large number of public meetings con- Ontario Conference operated a Bible of 1971 over the comparative period of ducted by ministers and laymen. In Story booth at the Canadian National 1970. The gain is seen in seven of the New York City alone seven evangelistic Exhibition in Toronto, said to be the eight conferences of the union. meetings were conducted this summer, world's largest annual exhibition, with four of them by laymen. more than 2 million visiting it annually. + Alfred Jones, formerly pastor of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Ebenezer + Dr. Leslie L. Lee, director of the At- Approximately 10,000 stopped by the booth and 1,000 registered. A weekend church, has been invited to serve as lay lantic Union College audio-visual de- activities and Ministerial secretary of the partment, recently received a check for display was also put on in Owen Sound, Allegheny East Conference. Paul Can- $250 from the trustees of the Sears and Ontario, where the Five-Day Plan, It Is Written, and the gift-Bible program trell, formerly of the North Philadelphia Other Funds from Boston to be used church, has been asked to serve as the for a study of black history and culture. were featured. Two hundred people registered for Bibles, 44 for the Wayout conference public relations and Sabbath + Pathfinders of the Elmira, New York, magazine, and 15 for the Five-Day Plan. school secretary. church, under the direction of Donald In Quebec a booth was featured at the + In this year's United Givers Fund cam- Taylor, collected more than 1,700 tins Brome Fair, where people signed up for paign at the Washington Sanitarium of food in the Treats for the Needy the Five-Day Plan. French literature was and Hospital, Takoma Park, Maryland, community food drive during Hal- given away, and samples of vegetarian employees topped last year's total of loween. foods were offered. $4,301 by a considerable margin, with + The Community Service organization + Janis Marilyn Hodder, an eleventh- several departments reporting one hun- of the Bethel church, Brooklyn, New grade student in the St. John's, New- dred per cent participation. York, has shipped more than 1,000 foundland, Academy, received an elec- + Kettering Medical Center adminis- pounds of clothing this past year to var- toral scholarship of $100 from the trator J. Russell Shawver was named ious islands of the Inter-American Di- department of education of the govern- president of the Hospital Advisory vision. ment of Newfoundland as the result of Council of Blue Cross of Southwest + A series of weekend evangelistic a test that she wrote for the Grade Ten Ohio at its annual meeting at Blue meetings were recently conducted jointly Confederation Scholarships. Cross headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. by Henry Uhl, pastor of the Elmira, THEDA K UESTER, Correspondent MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent 20 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 .141, 9:1M. stalled with a central telephone ex- Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking, classes change. It is the first system of its type in the art of nutritional cooking, first- Lake tho.`0,0 to be installed in eastern Washington, aid classes, and lectures on body care within the Pacific Northwest Bell terri- and dental health are slated and will be tory. Only the third of its type in the supervised by professionals who are + Employees of Hinsdale Sanitarium State, the system was engineered to church members. Josephine Green, and Hospital and members of the Hins- fit the needs of WWC, the largest tele- R.N., is the center's director. dale church observed the annual Fall phone user in the Walla Walla area. + A total of more than 1,500 workers Week of Prayer in joint meetings with CECIL COFFEY, Correspondent attended Dorcas Federation meetings in Dr. Hans K. LaRondelle. He is instruc- seven areas of northern California this tor in systematic theology in the SDA fall. Theological Seminary at Andrews Uni- versity. + Mariposa, central California, church members hosted 25 non-Adventist guests + More than 90 Andrews Academy stu- on their Community Relations Day. dents spent a weekend recently at Camp Guests at the church, pastored by R. L. Michiana near Berrien Springs, Mich- Garber, included a non-Adventist pas- igan, for a Bible camp retreat. About + The formal opening of a new Com- tor, a judge, and the editor of the local 200 were present for the Sabbath meet- munity Service unit in the Saint Cloud, newspaper. ings. John Loor, Ministerial secretary Minnesota, Seventh-day Adventist SHIRLEY BURTON, Correspondent for the Michigan Conference, was the church was held recently. Visitors from principal speaker. the city participating in the opening in- cluded the mayor, the Civil Defense di- + The Noblesville, Indiana, church was rector, and a representative of the Amer- dedicated some weeks ago after exten- ican Red Cross. Mrs. Carmen Harper, sive refurbishing. Although organized Community Service director for the St. &am more than 93 years ago, the church Cloud church, was chairman. passed through years when the member- + To date 74 have been baptized as a ship dropped to as low as four. Today + This year Oakwood College, Hunts- it has an active membership of 33. result of the Detamore evangelistic cru- sade in Minneapolis that closed October ville, Alabama, has its largest enroll- + Seven persons were baptized recently 24. Others are receiving instruction in ment in history-681 in the college and in Detroit as a result of a series of meet- anticipation of a future baptism. 108 in the academy. ings by layman Oliver Fenison. An ad- L. H. NEI IERURG, Correspondent + More than 1,000 people have signed ditional 27 persons have indicated an up for the Wayout Bible study program interest in joining the church. being promoted in Greensboro, North + Nurses in the Hinsdale, Illinois, area Carolina. have organized a chapter of ASDAN, + Twenty-seven people recently joined the Association of Seventh-day Adventist the Charlotte, North Carolina, church as Nurses. Mrs. Ted Bowen, a nurse on the a result of meetings conducted by R. K. staff of Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hos- Cemer and M. A. Tyner. pital, is the president. GORDON ENGEN, Correspondent + Pacific Union Sabbath school lead- + At the end of the third quarter, 1971, ers under the direction of Clarence Kott the Florida Conference membership have produced a collection of musical was 13,579, a gain of 359 for the quar- memory verses for primary and kinder- ter. Baptisms for 1971 totaled 1,076. garteners for 1972. Wayne Hooper se- + A new 30,000-square-foot building lected one memory verse for each month has been constructed at Georgia-Cumber- of the year and set it to music. It was land Academy to house the Little Lake then recorded by the Southern Califor- Redwood Industries. The redwood fur- nia Boys' Choir. The record will be re- niture assembly plant has been operat- + The Idaho Conference's newest fund- leased by Chapel Records, together with ing temporarily in farm sheds. It cur- raising campaign is abbreviated YOU for a 16-page book. rently employs 35 students. Youth Opportunities United. The money OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent gleaned from this program will be chan- + Pacific Union College has received neled directly into Camp Ida Haven, the 1971 award of merit for development Gem State Academy, youth evangelism, of a "master plan that enhances the and a worthy-student fund. aesthetics of the surrounding environ- ment." The Upper Napa Valley Associ- + Educators from SDA institutions in ates gave the award. the Pacific Northwest met with Walla Walla College education students Octo- + Plans have been approved for the ber 17-29. Workshops in language arts construction of a $500,000 classroom seg- and modern languages were held for ment of a new science complex for Pa- + The annual administrative depart- mental council meeting for the South- teachers in those fields. The meetings cific Union College. western Union Conference was held were conducted in order that educa- + Construction has begun on the $2.3 October 24-27, in Galveston, Texas. tional leaders and prospective teachers million library for the La Sierra cam- might become acquainted. pus of Loma Linda University. + Members of the North Houston church, Houston, Texas, celebrated their + Robert L. Morris, publishing secre- + More than 200 students and faculty 18 months of existence by uniting with tary of the Oregon Conference; Stephen members of the department of religion the Conroe church in holding a series Bukojemsky, pastor, Portland's Univer- at La Sierra College of Arts and Sciences of meetings, November 5-13. The series sity Park church; Elwood Starr, pastor, spent a recent study weekend retreat at was conducted by Harold K. West, pas- White Salmon, Washington; Gary Ad- Pine Springs Ranch. tor of Kress Memorial church, Orlando, kison, associate pastor, Laurelwood + A Better Living Center has been ded- Florida, and his brother, Ray West, Academy, and Robert Sanders, pastor, icated at the Newport Harbor church pastor of the North Houston and Con- Tillamook, Oregon, were ordained in in Costa Mesa, California. Services such roe churches. Twenty were baptized as Oregon recently. as family and marital counseling, drug a result of the meetings. + Walla Walla College has been in- and alcohol abuse clinics, a monthly J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent

REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 21 GENERAL NEWS

Nursing '62), and three children, left Miami, Florida, August 29. Donald Edward Williams and Mrs. Wil- Soviet Union Educates liams, nee Merrie Lyn Smith, of Berrien Springs, Michigan, for general mission work iii Sepik River Mission, Wewak, New Against Alcohol and Tobacco Guinea, left Los Angeles, August 31. Peter M. Van Bemmelen (Newbold Col- By ERNEST H. J. STEED lege '59; SDATS '71), returning as teacher in theology department Caribbean Union A few weeks ago I had the opportu- going class. It doesn't need drugs or College, Port of Spain, Trinidad, West In- nity of seeing Communist campaigns to anything to excite. It needs brightness dies, Mrs. Van Bemmelen, nee Jacoba counteract the problems of alcoholism and brightness again." To the Commu- Helena G. Derwort (Netherlands Hospital and tobacco. nist this morality does not have a nurses' course '59), and three children, left In 1970 I had visited the Socialist religious base. It does have a "spirit. Miami, Florida, September 2. countries of Eastern Europe and was ual" base, without reference to God. Raymond B. Hardy, of College Place, received most cordially by National In this attitude the Christian in Washington, to teach in Taiwan Mountain Sobriety committees, government Red Socialist countries sees something in Bible School, Taipei, left Los Angeles, Sep- Cross representatives, and antitobacco which he can have a part. He can con- tember 7. society personnel. Now I was eager to tribute toward the preservation of life Janice L. Coles, of Angwin, California, visit Russia. and well-being through his concern for to be a nurse in Saigon Adventist Hospital, In the Soviet Union the role of health and his involvement in the battle Vietnam, left Los Angeles, September 8. is a government responsibility and not against alcohol, tobacco, and drugs. Larry Carl Engel (PUC '64), to be lay that of other organizations or churches. activities, Sabbath school, and radio-televi- But the work of temperance is recog- sion secretary of North Coast Mission, For- nized as a total community responsibil- taleza, Ceara, Brazil, Mrs. Engel, nee Shir- ity to counteract the problems arising ley Mae Wheeler, and two children of from alcohol, tobacco, or drugs. Area Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, left Miami, groups are encouraged to support com- Florida, September 14. mittee action through various programs Karen M. Johnson, of College Place, and projects. (Conference names appear in parentheses.) Washington, to teach in Sierra Leone Mis- A Ministry of Health official in E. E. Miler, pastor, Moberly (Missouri). sion, left Great Falls, Montana, September Moscow outlined to me their national formerly pastor-teacher (Carolina). 16. program and their increasing problems Hector Mouzon, pastor, Huntsville, Ala- of drinking. Special educational films bama, formerly pastor (Arkansas-Louisi- Reinhold L. Klingbeil (PUC '40; LLU have been produced to spotlight alco- ana). '68), to be chaplain of Andrews Memorial hol's effect. These are shown prior to A. K. Phillips, district pastor (Kansas), Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica, and Mrs. the screening of major films in all formerly president, South Rwanda Mission, Klingheil, nee Grace Antoinette Morrell theaters. A large array of posters on Africa. (WMH School of Nursing '41; CUC '54; alcohol, tobacco, and drugs has been Robert W. Pohle, manager, College Press, University of California, Los Angeles '68), prepared by the Central Institute for Union College, from same position, Japan to be director school of nursing at Andrews Scientific Research. No advertising of Publishing House. Memorial Hospital, of Loma Linda, Cali- alcohol or tobacco is permitted on fornia, left Miami, Florida, September 26. Charles Walter Day, Jr. (AU '50; Kansas radio or television. No smoking is per- From Home Base to Front Line mitted in cinemas, theaters, buses, State University '68), to be manager of Inca trains, or public meetings. North American Division Union College, Lima, Peru, Mrs. Day, nee No liquor is permitted in Moscow Leora Kinder (AU '50; Kansas State Uni- Roy E. Perrin (PUC '48; SDATS '49; Uni- University, I was told by the rector. If versity '69), and two children, of Enterprise versity of Missouri '61), returning as presi- one of its more than 35,000 students Academy, Enterprise, Kansas, left Miami, dent of Martinique Mission of SDA, Fort- becomes involved with liquor he is Florida, September 27. de-France, Martinique, Mrs. Perrin, nee immediately dismissed. Fern Agetha Beltz, and daughter, left Keith K. Colburn, M.D. (WWC '66; LLU Posters emphasizing the dangers of Miami, Florida, July 15. '70), to be physician in Thailand Advent- smoking are used at the university, the ist Medical Institutions, Haad Yai, Thai- Kenneth Dean Syphers, to be maintenance rector said. He also stated that the ma- land, and Mrs. Colburn, nee Judy Gladys supervisor Karachi Hospital, Karachi, West jority of professors do not drink and Smith (LLU School of Nursing '70), of Ket- Pakistan, and Mrs. Syphers, nee Charlotte "in many meetings we talk about alco- tering, Ohio, left San Francisco, California, Elizabeth Schlehuber (WWC '65), of Au- hol and alcoholism." September 27. At the last international congress of burn, Washington, left Los Angeles, Califor- nia, August 15. Walton S. Whaley (0C '60), returning as the U.S.S.R. in Moscow, the rector pastor-evangelist in Sierra Leone Mission, states it was emphasized that hard liq- Perry Willard Munger III (LSC '66), returning as teacher in Kivu Seminary, Bu- West Africa, Mrs. Whaley, nee Leola John- our, such as vodka, would be limited son (LLU School of Nursing '56), and three in production. There is to be more tembo, Congo, Mrs. Munger, nee Sarah Alice McHenry, and two children, left children, sailed on the S.S. African Planet production of lower alcoholic bever- from New York City, September 28. ages and fruit juices. San Francisco, California, August 22. Throughout the Socialist world there M. C. Lamberton, D.M.D. (University of J. Gene Zimmerman, M.D. (LLU '59), is a growing emphasis on the moral Oregon Dental School '49; LLU '68), re- relief physician Bangkok Sanitarium and tone of society. Those who sincerely turning as dentist in dental clinic, Chieng- Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, of Antioch, seek the improvement of national val- mai, Thailand, Mrs. Lamberton, nee Mil- California, left San Francisco, September ues see alcohol, tobacco, and drugs as dred Evelyn Noble, and three children, left 29. a menace. Some quote Lenin, who said, Seattle, Washington, August 24. Udo F. C. Worschech (Canadian Union "We shall not allow brandy and other Charles William Habenicht (LLU '60; College '69; AU '71), returning as Bible narcotics. The proletariat is an up and University of Southern California '68), re- teacher Marienhoehe Missionary Seminary, turning as physical therapist in Bella Vista Darmstadt, Germany, and Mrs. Worschech, Ernest H. J. Steed is secretary of the Hospital, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, left Chi- nee Ursula Rosa Adler, of Berrien Springs, General Conference Temperance De- cago, Illinois, October 4, Mrs. Habenicht, Michigan, left Washington, D.C., October 2. partment. nee Jo Ann Schoonard (LLU School of Vanoy H. Smith, M.D. (WWC '66; LLU

22 REVIEW AND HERALD, December 23, 1971 '70), to be physician in Tsuen Wan Sani- Lois Beryl Votaw (CUC '56; AU '62), Charlotte Yates, Highway 62 West, Salem, Ar- tarium and Hospital, Chai Wan Kok, Tsuen kansas 72576: Signs, These Times, Listen, Liberty. returning as health education worker in Robert M. Hartfeil, 656 East 43rd Avenue, Van- Wan, Hong Kong, Mrs. Smith, nee Joan East India Section, left Los Angeles, Cali- couver 15, British Columbia,' Canada: English Alice Dietrich (WWC '63), and three chil- fornia, October 23. tracts only. dren, of Spokane, Washington, left Los Idamae Melendy, Review and Herald, Washing- J. M. Anholm, D.D.S. (College of Physi- ton, D.C. 20012: Bibles and New Testaments. Angeles, California, October 3. cians and Surgeons '46; LLU '62), returning Philippines James R. Wood, M.D. (WWC '41; LLU as dentist and orthodontist, Bangkok Sani- Chaplain Hector V. Gayares, Bacolod Sanitarium '44), returning as physician and medical tarium and Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, and Hospital, Taculing, Bacolod City, P.I. K-501: director Adventist Medical Center, Naha, and Mrs. Anholm, nee Betty Louise Boyce material for literature rack. Okinawa, and Mrs. Wood, nee Eloise Cal- (PAH School of Nursing '47), left New S. L. Arrogance, Northeastern Mindanao Mis- sion, Butuan City, P.I. lender (LLU School of Nursing '39), of York City, October 25. E. A. Sipco, Northern Mindanao Mission, Caga- Fair Oaks, California, left Los Angeles, R. A. Sprengel, M.D. (PUC '43; LLU '52), yan de Oro City, P.I. October 3. Rachel Cayanong, Lakeview Academy, Don Car- to be relief physician in Bangkok Sani- los, Bukidnon, P.I. Albert Dwight Smith, Jr. (AUC '57; LLU tarium and Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, Efenito S. Layson, Mahaba Mountain Mission '68), returning as teacher in Adventist Col- of Fresno, California, left Fresno, October School, 846 Atis St., Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, P.I. Pablito Layson, 848 Atis Street, Bayugan, Agusan lege of West Africa, Mrs. Smith, nee Ruth 25. del Sur, P.I. Ellen Schwartz (University of Southern Cali- Bruce M. Wickwire, Jr. (CUC '68; SDATS Ceferino Balasabas, Provident Tree Farm, Tala- fornia '67), and four children, left Washing- '71), to be ministerial worker in South gon, Agusan del Sur, P.I. G. D. Mostrales, Northern Luzon Mission, Ar- ton, D.C., October 3. China Island Union Mission, Taipei, Tai- tacho, Sison, Pangasinan, P.I. C-341. Lois V. Raymond (LSC '49; AU '64), re- wan, Mrs. Wickwire, nee Dorothy Patricia P. S. Manatad, East Visayan Mission, Box 68, turning as teacher in Yele Secondary School, Fuller, and son, of Berrien Springs, Mich- Tacloban City, P.I. 1-246. Osias Telia, Ketcharan, Agusen del Norte, P.I. Sierra Leone, left New York City, October 4. igan, left Los Angeles, California, October Bartolome Pilotin, Labu, General Santos, Cota- Mrs. Esther Wood (WWC '70), to be 28. bato, P.I. CLYDE O. FRANZ AND D. W. HUNTER Pauline Pilotin, Lagao, General Santos, Cota- teacher for missionary children in Franco- bato, P.I. Haitian Seminary, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of Pio Balasbas, MacArthur, Leyte, P.I. Walla Walla, Washington, left Portland, Wenceslao V. Solon, East Visayan Mission, Box NOTICES 68, Tacloban City, P.I. 1-246. Oregon, October 4. B. Somosot, San Jose, Toboso, Neg. Occ., P.1. Clinton R. Cornell (LSC '64; LLU '71), Adventist Tours Abroad Jose A. Espiritu, Koronadal, South Cotabato, P.I. 0-205. to teach in Gitwe College, Nyanza, Rwanda, Church members frequently inquire about Advent- Generoso C. Llamera, San Isidro, Kitcharao, Mrs. Cornell, nee Lois Marie Anderson ist tours abroad. The following list for 1972 has Agusan del Norte, P.I. L-109. been approved by the General Conference Depart- Mrs. Socorro Garcia, West Visayan Mission, Box (WWC '62), and two children, of Engle- ment of Education. If you are interested in taking 241, Iloilo, P.I. wood, Colorado, left Toronto, October 7. a particular tour, please contact the leader indicated. Edmundo Mauricio, 9 Cordillera Street, Galas, European Study Tour, English Quezon City, P.I. D-502. Fay P. Welter (AU '56), returning as di- Andrews University, Dr. Merlene Ogden Nancy T. Navarro, Padu Grande, Sto. Domingo, rector Seoul Adventist Hospital Orphanage, June 6-August 30 Ilocos Sur, P.I. Seoul, Korea, left San Francisco, California, Roman Catholic and Reformation Lands Study Tour Hami M. Tiano, South-Central Luzon Mission, SDA Theological Seminary, Dr. R. Dederen San Rafeal, San Pablo City, P.I. October 8. July 16-August 15 Pablo S. Tubera, Loreto Surigao del Norte, P.I. Harold L. Lee (OC '63; AU '64), return- Classical Greek, Roman History Tour Virgil Oguez, Rang-ay, Bangai, South Cota- ing as stewardship and development secre- Loma Linda University, Prof. R. Schneider bate, P.I. tary, Caribbean Union Conference, Mrs. June 21-August 1 Pastor I. C. Ladia, Matalam, North Cotabato Summer School of Music, Sweden 0-115, P.I. Lee, nee Barbara L. Kilgore, and four chil- Loma Linda University, Dr. V. H. Koenig dren, left Miami, Florida, October 8. July 3-July 31 South America Living Lands of the Bible Tour David S. F. Wong (AU '71), returning Pastor David Rambharose, Guyana Mission of Columbia Union College, M. K. Eckenroth SDA, Box 78, Georgetown, July 26-August 9 Guyana: Primary Treas- as chaplain Youngberg Memorial Hospital, ure, Little Friend, religious books, child evangelism Singapore, and Mrs. Wong, nee Mary Hui Fine Arts and Languages Tour devices, youth materials, cutouts, periodicals. Walla Walla College, Prof. R. Czeratzki Tze (AU '70), recently of Berrien Springs, June 13-August 11 South Pacific Michigan, left Boston, Massachusetts, Oc- Watercolor Adventures to Japan L. G. Sibley, Principal, Palau Mission Academy, tober 12. Pacific Union College, Prof. Vernon Nye P.O. Box 490, Koror, Palau 96940, Western Caro- June 20-July 18 line Islands: Guide, Primary Treasure, Little Friend. Roger A. Wilcox (CUC '36), returning as German Culture and Civilization president South American Division, and Southern Missionary College, Prof. R. Aussner Thailand Mrs. Wilcox, nee Violet Gertrude Numbers May 9-June 2 John K. S. Lee, Bangkok Sanitarium and Hos- European History Tour pital, Bangkok, Thailand: Signs, Listen, These Times, (Columbia Junior College '36), left New Union College, Dr. G. Thomson REVIEW, Insight, Life and Health, but no quarterlies. York City, October 16. July 24-August 14 West Indies CHARLES B. HIRSCH, Secretary Paul H. Eldridge (AUC '35), returning Department of Education Joseph Augustine, Curmuto Village, Trinidad, as president Far Eastern Division, Sin- W.I. gapore, and Mrs. Eldridge, nee Retha Hazel Literature Requests Giles (AUC '33), left San Francisco, Cali- fornia, October 17. When name and address only are given, send Ralph S. Watts, Jr. (UC '56), returning as general missionary supplies. CIAL7GC14, COLPRAuktft. president Southeast Asia Union Mission, Africa North Ghana Mission, P.O. Box 74, Tamale, Thirteenth Sabbath Offering Singapore, Mrs. Watts, nee Patricia Ann (Far Eastern Division) December 25 Ortner (UC '56), and three children, left Ghana, West Africa. Ghana Conference of SDA, P.O. Box 480, Ku- Los Angeles, California, October 18. masi, Ghana, West Africa. 1972 Earle A. Brewer (CUC '57; AU '67), to Lower Gwelo College, P.B. 9002, Gwelo, Rho- Soul-winning Commitment January 1 desia: Guide, Little Friend, REVIEW, books. be science teacher at Inyazura School, Church Lay Activities Offering January 1 Burma Liberty Magazine Campaign January 15-22 Inyazura, Rhodesia, Mrs. Brewer, nee Religious Liberty Offering January 22 Cin ZaKham, 14 Hospital Road, Kankaung Qr. Frances Naomi Thompson, and four chil- The Adventist Layman Emphasis January 29 (Lower) Mergui, Burma. Gift Bible Evangelism dren, of Berrien Springs, Michigan, left February 5 Church Lay Activities Offering February 5 Washington, D.C., October 19. North America Faith for Today Offering February 12 James Allen, Rt. 2, Box 264, Kingstree, South Christian Home and Family Altar Day February 19 Robert Edwin Montgomery (AUC '68), Carolina 29556: Bibles, books, magazines, song- Christian Home Week February 19-26 to be industrial supervisor Franco-Haitian books, pictures, cards, tracts, Sabbath school quar- Listen Campaign Rally Day February 26 Tract Evangelism Seminary, Mrs. Montgomery, nee Marcia terlies, Worker. March 4 J. P. Johnson, 135 Cranwell Drive, Henderson- Church Lay Activities Offering March 4 Rae Moeckel (AUC '68), and child, of South ville, Tennessee 37075. Sabbath School Visitors' Day March 11 Spring Mission Offering March 11 Lancaster, Massachusetts, left Miami, Flor- Mike T. Adante, Canadian Union College, Box MV Day of Fasting and Prayer March 18 ida, October 19. 510, College Heights, Alberta, Canada. MV Week March 18-25

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_ WORLD NEWS AT PRESS TIME

Report on Adventist Workers lowing names and locations: Evacuated to Teheran: Beverly Davis, Elsma Run- in Pakistan If You Want to Help ... nails, Mrs. F. E. Schlehuber, the Dr. C. L. Prowant family, Mr. and Mrs. When war broke out between India Some church members have asked Syphers, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hellman, and Pakistan we were immediately con- how they may help to meet the needs Dr. H. J. Sawatzky family, Mrs. L. N. cerned about the welfare and safety of of refugees in the India-Pakistan Powrie and children, Mrs. H. G. Giebel our nationals and overseas personnel in area. The General Conference is not and children, Dr. Geneva Beatty-Jones. both countries. calling for a special offering. How- In India: George Babcock family, News that the war had begun reached ever, all who feel impressed to con- C. E. Akroyd family, V. J. Puccinelli us on Sunday, December 5. We endeav- tribute may do so by placing their family, B. H. Stickle, Jr., family. ored to make direct contact with our offering in a regular offering enve- In Pakistan: workers in India and Pakistan, but were Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. lope, marking it "India-Pakistan Re- Lang, Dr. A. D. Garner family, Dr. Ni- unsuccessful. We then inquired of the lief," and placing it in the offering at cola family, William Bradshaw family, State Department, but it was so crowded their churches. It will then be routed Sylvia Smith, Dr. H. G. Giebel, Mr. F. E. with telephone calls that we were re- through regular church channels, Schlehuber, Miss Meyer, Miss Garsbach, ferred to an exchange that would open and will help meet the tremendous the next day. Miss York, Mr. L. N. Powrie, Mr. and needs of refugees and others whose Mrs. E. R. Hutchinson, Jamile Jacobs, Meanwhile we sent cables to Karachi, plight has been so clearly portrayed George Johnson family. A. M. Peterson where our large hospital is situated; to in the public press. family, N. L. Sherwin family, F. W. Ellis Lahore, in West Pakistan, site of our family, E. E. Wheeler family. union office, and where several of our At present we are still endeavoring to personnel are located; and to Dacca, contact Brother Jacobs and the Hutchin- headquarters of our work in East Paki- sons in East Pakistan. stan. also been evacuated from Dacca, in East D. W. HUNTER We had learned that some of our Pakistan, and was then in Poona. workers from Pakistan had gone to New Telephone information has been re- Delhi, India, for an education meeting, ceived also that other overseas workers and we were fearful that they might be have been evacuated to Teheran. They N.A. Ingathering Report-4 separated from their families. If this are being cared for in Iran until their December 4 marked the end of the were true we knew it would be very dif- future location can be ascertained. first quarter of the 1972 Ingathering ficult for them to be reunited, because One family is due a furlough in early Crusade. The total amount raised they could not return across the line 1972. We are suggesting to them that through this date is $3,886,653.03. The into Pakistan. We therefore cabled New they take their furlough a little early. total raised for a comparative period Delhi and the division office in Poona, The others are being asked to stay in last year: $3,933,636.03. This is $46,- asking for information about all our Teheran until we can determine their 983.00 less than for the corresponding workers from and in Pakistan. We also future. Two of the Pakistan-based Amer- period in 1970. asked about our members throughout ican families are vacationing in India. This week the total amounted to the entire Southern Asia Division. They may have to be evacuated to a neu- $895,111.60, against $907,145.07 in the The first response came from Teheran, tral country before they can return to comparative week last year. Iran. It gave a list of folks who had been Pakistan. The other family is a British- Five unions (Atlantic, Canadian, evacuated from the city of Karachi, in- passport-holder unit. We trust that we Central, Lake, and Northern) show a asmuch as there had been heavy aerial can get them back into Pakistan directly. gain this week. Canadian, Central, and bombardment of the city. In the meantime we have attempted Northern unions continue their record We also received confirmation from to contact the parents or near relatives of gains each week of the four-week the State Department of the same list of all those involved, by telephone or period. Leading the per capita Honor of names of those who had been evacu- letter, to tell them of the safety and the Roll are Southern, Northern, Canadian, ated and had arrived in Teheran. We whereabouts of their loved ones. Most and Atlantic unions. then received a cable stating that three recent word is that communications in- Two conferences report over the top— families from West Pakistan had arrived side India are normal as far as mail, tele- South Atlantic and Georgia-Cumber. safely in New Delhi, and that the en- phone, rail, and air transportation are land. tire families were together. Later infor- concerned. Only international traffic has mation from the division office gave the been disrupted. same information, that these three fam- As things develop we shall keep the ilies were in India. The communication field informed. —CHANGE OF ADDRESS mentioned that one of our workers had As of December 10 we have the fol- z

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