By TAYLOR G. BUNCH

The burden of Dumah. He calleth me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night? The watchman said, The morning cometh, and also the night: if ye will enquire, enquire ye: return, come" (Isa. 21:11, 12). In ancient times watchmen, or sentinels, were sta- tioned on the walls or in the towers surrounding the cities, to guard against surprise attacks by the enemy. When danger threatened they awakened the sleeping inhabitants by the blasts of the trumpet. They also an- swered inquiries as to the time. The importance of the responsibility of a watchman is pictured in Ezekiel 33:1-6. At any time, but especially in time of war, the penalty for unfaithfulness on the part of a military watchman is death. The Lord gives this a spiritual application: "So thou, 0 son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, 0 wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul" (verses 7-9). In the light of these words the responsibility of being a spiritual watchman, or gospel minister, is very great. Everywhere at the present time voices are calling out of the darkness of the night of sin, "Watchman, what of the night?" or, "How far has the night gone, watchman?" From my position on the watchtower of the walls of Zion and because of my study of the great prophetic clock, I can answer with certainty, "The (To page 3) VOL. 134, NO. 5 JANUARY 31, 1957 109th Year of Continuous Publication Vol. 134, No. 5 January 31, 1957

[Based on phrases in well-known hymns.—Eorroas.]

COVER - - History's Twilight Hour GENERAL ARTICLES - - - - ----- - - - Page 4 "Behind a Frowning "Love as Brethren, . . . Be Courteous"—Help in Time of Need—Working in Union With Providence" Angels—On the Religious Front—Esther EDITORIALS Page 8 In baseball, no matter how spectacular The Dangers Are Within—Seeking a Deeper Understanding of God's Will—Well Done?— the home-run hit, if the runner fails to touch From the Editor's Mailbag—A Practice That Should Become Extinct all the bases, his run doesn't count. It is a SABBATH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES Page 10 hard and fast rule and has led to many a SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 11 dispute between player and umpire. Patience and Forbearance In the natural world God's laws are just OUR HOMES Page 12 as strict. They have to be, lest the planets "What Have They Seen in Thine House?"—Fate of the Three Captains in space deviate from their course and pro- FOR ADVENTIST YOUTH AND JUNIORS ------Page 14 duce a catastrophe, lest chemical unbalance Tough Assignment—Visit to a Snake Farm, 3—Truth for Youth—A Bible in Prison in the soil make crops fail, lest the perfect FEATURE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Page 16 rhythm of breathing and heartbeat be dis- Evangelizing in Yugoslavia turbed, and life cease in the body. Drop BIBLE TEXTS EXPLAINED ------ - - - - Page 18 one molecule of hydrogen and you change Flight From Jerusalem—Peter's Contacts With Christ—Jesus' Brothers—The Message of the whole structure of the compound; alter Joel the chord by half a tone and you have dis- NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD ------Page 19 harmony; change the percentage of profit Time of Reaping in South America—Sabbathkeeping Group Discovered in Brazil—Chal- by a decimal point and a business fails. lenge and Response in Indonesia—Singapore Students Conduct Week of Devotion—New Again, in the spiritual realm the principle Office for Washington Conference—Southern Asia Division Council—Church in Hyattsville, holds. Paul says, "Note then the kindness Maryland, Celebrates Twenty-fifth Anniversary—Worthington Foods Sales Conference and severity of God" (Rom. 11:22, R.S.V.). —CME Participates in United Charity Drive—The Miracle of Wu-pao and Other Stories —In Brief—In Remembrance—Notices—European Emergency Relief Fund—Church Cal- There is really nothing contradictory in the endar for 1957 thought of kindness and strictness existing POETRY: in constituted authority. There is no kind- O Sabbath Guest, p. 4; There's a Nearness to the Absent, p. 6 ness in sparing the rod of correction and al- lowing a child to grow up willful, selfish, and vain. There is no unkindness in the thundering "Thou shalt not's" of God ut- tered from Sinai, for they are the safe- guards to spiritual happiness and peace. God's spiritual universe is upheld and controlled by exacting requirements that keep all heaven in harmony. Try to outwit those FRANCIS DAVID NICHOL, Editor principles of life and they become instru- FREDERICK LEE, Associate Editor R. R. FIGUHR, Consulting Editor ments of death and eternal destruction. There KENNETH H. WOOD, JR., Assistant Editor J. L. MCELI-IANY, Contributing Editor are no shortcuts to grace, no weak places PROMISE KLOSS SHERMAN, Editorial Secretary in God's perfect plan, no bargains in halos. SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS No wonder the psalmist was led to exclaim, C. H. WATSON, W. H. BRANSON, W. R. BEACH, D. E. REBOK, C. L. TORREY, L. K. DICKSON, A. L. HAM, "0 how love I thy law! it is my meditation W. B. OCHS, A. V. OLSON, H. L. RUDY, E. D. DICK, PRESIDENTS OF ALL DIVISIONS all the day" (Psalm 119:97). William Cow- per was not the first to discover that "behind "IN BRIEF" CORRESPONDENTS a frowning providence, He hides a smiling OVERSEAS: AUSTRALASIA: R. R. FRAME; FAR EESTERN: C. P. SORENSEN; INTER-AMERICA: CLYDE 0. FRANZ; MIDDLE EAST: A. GORDON ZYTKOSKEK; NORTHERN EUROPE: G. D. KING; SOUTH AMERICA: L. H. OLSON; face." H. M. TIPPETT SOUTHERN AFRICA: W. DUNCAN EVA; SOUTHERN ASIA: J. F. ASHLOCK; SOUTHERN EUROPE: MARIUS FRIDLIN NORTH AMERICAN UNIONS: ATLANTIC: MISS LAURA M. DROWN; CANADIAN: MRS. EVELYN M. BOWLES; CENTRAL: MRS. CLARA ANDERSON; COLUMBIA: DON A. ROTH; LAKE: MRS. MILDRED WADE; NORTHERN: L. H. NETTEBURG; NORTH PACIFIC: MRS. IONE MORGAN; PACIFIC: MRS. MARGARET FOLLETT; SOUTHERN: SOUTHWESTERN; H. E. SCHNEIDER To OUR CONTRIBUTORS As the chronicler of the history of the church, the attend and the name of their pastor or local elder. REVIEW is always interested in reports with pictures All manuscripts should be typed, double spaced, of important happenings—church dedications, camp and with adequate margins. Use only one side of meetings, evangelistic meetings, and other news- paper. Carbon copies are never acceptable. worthy events. Please send reports promptly. 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Entered as second-class matter August 14, 1903, at foreign skies, and yet has never awakened the post office at Washington 12, D.C., under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Vol. 134, No. 5. to the beautiful within five miles of the Copyright 1957, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. place where he is living.—G. H. Morrison. 2 REVIEW AND HERALD History's Twilight Hour fallen and has become the habitation that "the morning cometh, and also of devils, or evil angels. Then comes the night"? (Continued from page 1) the cry, "Come out of her, my people, The counsel of the apostle Paul is that ye be not partakers of her sins, very timely. "Carry out these injunc- morning cometh, and also the night." and that ye receive not of her tions because you know the critical That may sound like a contradiction plagues." period at which we are living, and to the uninformed, for how can morn- This brilliant illumination of gos- that it is now high time to rouse your- ing and night come at the same time? pel light that immediately follows the selves from sleep; for salvation is But they do come together, and in fact twilight hour seems to be indicated in now nearer to us than when we first they are both ushered in with the Zechariah 14:5-7. After saying, "The became believers. The night is far ad- same event. Lord my God shall come," the text vanced; the day is about to dawn. We The period of the reign of sin has continues, "But it shall be one day must therefore lay aside the deeds of been both day and night. It has been which shall be known to the Lord, not darkness, and clothe ourselves with daytime for the wicked, and night- day, nor night: but it shall come to the armour of light. Living as we do in time for the righteous. We call it "the pass, that at evening time it shall be broad daylight, let us conduct our- night of sin." Therefore the end of light." As the lights of men go out selves becomingly, not indulging in human history at the second advent all over the world, the lights of the revelry and drunkenness, nor in lust of Christ brings in an eternal day for righteous will shine with a new and debauchery, nor in quarrelling the righteous, and an eternal night brilliancy so that those who "sit in and jealousy. On the contrary, clothe for the wicked, a night that will darkness" will see "a great light," and yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, never end. But both day and night many will come "out of darkness into and make no provision for gratifying are preceded by a brief period of his marvelous light." your earthly cravings" (Rom. 13:11- twilight during the transition be- 14, Weymouth). tween the two. Twilight is a time of Lukewarmness in Affection In answer to the question of the semidarkness. Also just before the We are told that the message to the disciples, "When shall these things close of human history there will be church of Ephesus (Rev. 2:1-5) also be? and what shall be the sign of thy a twilight hour for human civiliza- applies to God's people at the pres- coming, and of the end of the world?" tion. ent time. When the early church lost Jesus said: "There shall be signs in In Zechariah 14:1-6, after the state- or relaxed its first love, an apostasy, or the sun, and in the moon, and in the ment, "Behold the day of the Lord spiritual fall from a high plane of stars; and upon the earth distress of cometh," we read: "And it shall come experience, began that finally plunged nations, with perplexity; the sea and to pass in that day, that the light shall the world into the Dark Ages. Only the waves roaring; men's hearts fail- not be clear, nor dark." In other those who love Christ can witness for ing them for fear, and for looking words, it will be twilight. "Not day Him, and when love grows dim the after those things which are coming and not night" is the rendering of the candlestick, or privilege of witnessing, on the earth: for the powers of Revised Standard Version. We are in is removed. Lukewarmness in affec- heaven shall be shaken. And then that twilight time now. "The morn- tion for both God and man is the shall they see the Son of man coming ing cometh, and also the night"— Laodicean condition of the remnant in a cloud with power and great morning for one class and night for of God's church, according to Revela- glory. And when these things begin the other. Both will be eternal. tion 3:14-22. There must be a revival to come to pass, then look up, and Sin is the great light extinguisher. of love and love-works in the church. lift up your heads; for your redemp- Therefore during the long reign of In the light of what is happening tion draweth nigh" (Luke 21:25-28). sin "darkness covers the earth, and in all parts of the world, can anyone Since these events have been taking gross darkness the people."' Jesus is question that we have come to the place for years with ever-increasing declared to be "a light," "the light of twilight hour of human history and momentum, it is high time that those the world," and "the true Light, which lighteth everyman that cometh into the world." "Night cometh" to all who reject Him and His gospel light. Jesus said, "If . . . the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" Those who accept and follow Christ become "lights in the world," and the church is called "the light of the world." The apostle Paul wrote: "That ye may be blameless and harm- less, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and per- verse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life" (Phil. 2:15, 16). Just before the end of the night of sin and the dawn of eternal day, there will be the greatest display of spiritual light since apostolic times. In Revelation 18:1-5 is pictured the final gospel appeal, symbolized by an angel coming down from heaven "having great power," and "the earth was lightened with his glory." This © 1954 BY REVIEW AND HERALD FRED COLLINS, 1-1.1,1ia message announces that Babylon is "Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel." JANUARY 3 1 , 1 9 5 7 3 who are looking for the coming of Laws of Soul Winning-5 their Lord wake up, get up, dress up, and look up with the expectation of being caught up to meet their return- "Love as Brethren, . . . Be ing Lord. Jesus called the scribes and Phari- sees "hypocrites" because they could Courteous" forecast the weather but could not "discern the signs of the times." The By G. A. Coon same rebuke applies to many in the modern Christian world. It is esti- mated that there are at least one The apostle Peter gave this three- A misunderstanding of the Scrip- thousand distinct prophecies in the fold admonition, "Love as brethren, tures can have the same effect on us Scriptures, most of which pertain to be pitiful, be courteous" (1 Peter today, therefore we must study care- the last days. Between 85 and 90 per 3:8). These words are as binding on fully the context of some of the most cent of them have been fulfilled, and Christians today as any other law harshly worded warnings. most of the others are in process of found in the Scriptures. Christ was a In a certain church where I re- fulfillment. All but the closing state- perfect example of courtesy as He cently held a meeting, one of our de- ments in each of the great lines of labored for lost souls. vout sisters told her Sabbath school prophecy in the books of Daniel and The power of courteous love is al- class of how she had obeyed the com- the Revelation have met their com- most limitless. We have not, as a peo- mand of the Scripture to "cry aloud, plete fulfillment. ple, begun to tap its resources. It is spare not," when she condemned The predicted growth of the papal one of the five virtues that by the Sundaykeepers who eat pork. This power, the present formation of the power of the Holy Spirit will help was directly opposed to what I had image to the beast in the federation net us one hundred conversions to been teaching in the revival series, of the religious bodies, the mounting the truth where now we have but one. so I felt that I must clarify the text wave of crime and juvenile delin- Some months ago I was conducting in the morning's sermon. quency, the rumors of war and prep- revival meetings in Glendale, Cali- I recalled the statement from the aration for war, the peace and safety fornia. While there, I visited Forest servant of the Lord to the effect that cry, and numberless other signs all Lawn Memorial Park, famous for its "the Lord wants His people to fol- proclaim the nearness of the end of Hall of Crucifixion, its Last Supper low other methods than that of con- the reign of sin and the dawn of eter- picture, and reproductions of statuary demning wrong, even though the con- nal day. by Michelangelo. demnation is just."—Gospel Workers, One of the greatest of all the evi- Among these reproductions is a p. 373. I had for some time accepted dences of the times in which we live statue of Moses, the meekest man this statement as a law, therefore I is the fulfillment of Matthew 24:14: who ever lived. On his forehead are knew that the text quoted by our "And this gospel of the kingdom shall two little horns. To inform the vis- sister must have been misunderstood. be preached in all the world for a itors why Michelangelo put horns on To be perfectly frank, I did not witness unto all nations; and then such a meek and humble man, the know how to explain it. Yet I knew shall the end come." The present managers of the park have placed an that it did not encourage the type world-embracing message, announc- interestingly worded plaque by the of soul winning in which this sister ing the coming of the King of kings side of the statue. It explains that and many of the rest of us are en- and His kingdom of glory, is a sign where our Bible says Moses' "face gaged. $o while the preliminaries that cannot be ignored. shone," Michelangelo's translation were being taken care of in the morn- The transforming power of the said his face "had horns." In his Bible ing worship hour I silently prayed Advent hope is beautifully set forth an unfortunate shade of meaning that the Lord would help me to un- in the following scripture: "For of the Hebrew word Baran had been derstand and explain this scripture. the grace of God has displayed itself used by the translators. Thus they with healing power to all mankind, pictured a man directly opposite in Counsel to Sabbathkeepers training us to renounce ungodliness nature to the one described in the As I prayed for the guidance of and all the pleasures of this world, Word of God. the Holy Spirit, I felt impressed to and to live sober, upright, and pious read the context. Then it became as lives at the present time, in expecta- clear as day. It is a message to be tion of the fulfilment of our blessed 0 Sabbath Guest borne to professed Sabbathkeepers, hope—the Appearing in glory of our not Sundaykeepers. great God and Saviour Jesus Christ; By ELZAIDA LOUISE FROST The sins against which the prophet who gave Himself for us to purchase was to cry out were those of dis- our freedom from all iniquity, and O Sabbath guest, accept thy rest Upon God's holy day, courtesy, unkindness, and covetous- purify for Himself a people who Together, let us praise His name, ness on the part of the "house of should be specially His own, zealous Together, kneel to pray. Jacob." The people had become quite for doing good works" (Titus 2:11-14, Together, we may lay aside negative in their health reform. Weymouth). The trials that oppress, When they fasted, they boasted of it. It is time for a great spiritual re- And through the quiet hours seek They were not courteous. "Ye fast for vival and reformation to visit God's The peace of holiness. strife and debate," God said, "and remnant people in order that this to smite with the fist of wickedness." beautiful scripture may be translated Together we will wend our way God pointed out further that the Unto His house of prayer; into a reality. We are told that "when Together let us do it, friend— very spirit of Sabbathkeeping em- he shall appear, we shall be like him; His presence will be there! braces a philosophy of life that will for we shall see him as he is. And 0 Sabbath guest, turn not aside, loose the bands of wickedness, undo every man that hash this hope in Nor cease to linger near— the heavy burdens, and let the op- him purifieth himself, even as he is The blessing that the Lord will send pressed go free. It was to deal bread pure" (I John 3:2, 3). May rest upon you here! to the hungry and bring the poor 4 REVIEW AND HERALD who are cast out to our homes (Isa. diplomatic we, His people, should be, we present our warning messages in 58:5-13). Thus they could call the in giving even the most severe mes- such a manner as to indicate that all Sabbath a delight instead of a bur- sages from Heaven! Sundaykeepers are stubborn or re- den, honorable instead of conten- Says the servant of the Lord: bellious and do not want to know the tious. And thus His people would be "When Christ was living on the earth, light, we ourselves are breaking the delighted with the true philosophy for how surprised His associates would very spirit that leavens the messages. which the Sabbath stands. have been, if, after becoming ac- There are two ways to present the That Sabbath morning I said that quainted with Him, they had heard truth. One is a kind, courteous this text of Scripture, far from giving Him speak one word of accusation, method; the other is the thunderbolt authority to denounce Sundaykeep- of faultfinding, or of impatience. Let method. One is Christ's method; the ers and pork eaters, denounces us for us never forget that those who love other is our own, having its roots in such a condemning attitude. It de- Him are to represent Him in char- the weaknesses of human nature. mands that we cry aloud against dis- acter."—The Ministry of Healing, p. Some place I read of where a fire courteousness, unkindness, and covet- 489. had broken out in a public building. ousness. Because we have not carefully stud- (It may have been merely a parable.) On our return from church that ied our presentation of truth in the The audience had no knowledge of morning, my wife and I decided to light of Christ's example we have too the fire; two men backstage discovered look up all comments in the Spirit of often been guilty of the sin pointed it. One wanted to rush out onto the prophecy on this scripture, to make out in the Testimonies, volume 4, stage and cry, "Fire! Fire! Escape sure that the interpretation I had page 536: "When some, who lack the for your lives!" But the other man given was correct. Sure enough, we Spirit and power of God enter a new said, "No, let me go out and use a found that without exception Mrs. field, they commence denouncing better method." White interpreted the scripture ex- other denominations, thinking that So he casually walked on stage and actly as I had; it is a rebuke to Sab- they can convince the people of the begged the pardon of the audience bathkeepers. But through a misun- truth by presenting the inconsistencies for having interrupted the program. derstanding of its meaning, it had of the popular churches. . . . We are Then he called attention to a law of been used as authority for being dis- provided with spiritual weapons to the city which required that on cer- courteous in presenting the truth to `fight the good fight of faith;' but tain occasions they should see how unbelievers. some seem to have drawn from the quickly the auditorium could be emp- armory of heaven only its thunder- tied. Pulling out his watch, he sug- The Three Angels' Messages bolts. How long must these defects gested that probably it could be done Another passage of Scripture that exist?" in about two minutes. is sometimes misunderstood by many We can also learn another lesson Quietly, and with no fear in his sincere, would-be soul winners is from the second angel's message. The voice, he suggested the order to be fol- Revelation 14:6-12. At one of our angel coming down from heaven with lowed in vacating the place. First, the camp meetings I was holding a series power, lighting the world with his aged ladies and men would leave; of Bible studies on the laws of soul glory, calls people in Babylon, "My then mothers with babies and small winning. One morning near the close people." Why should we not be cour- children; then all others. In a few of the series, I opened the floor to teous enough to do the same? moments the building was emptied. questions. Among the flood of ques- We are informed by the servant of The first plan would have caused tions that came in was one worded the Lord in The Great Controversy, pandemonium. It majored in the somewhat as follows: "If your phi- page 390, that the larger number of message of warning. The latter ma- losophy of soul winning is correct, the true church, the body of Christ, jored in saving lives. Let us be soul how do you explain the three angels' are still in other churches. Thus when winners more than mere warners. messages?" I did not go into the first part of the question, concerning my philoso- and gives life and power to humble and trembling hearts." phy of soul winning. Had I done so Our text does not say anything about sup- .4/ I would have had to concede that I plying our wants, our desires for things, personally had failed at times in re- but rather that which is more vital—mercy gard to the use of courtesy. But these and grace, the inward and spiritual blessings laws of soul winning are not mine. Help in Time of Need so greatly needed. Mercy forgives our fail- ings, grace helps us not to fail. We need They are Christ's. Only as we par- By ERNEST LLOYD take of His spirit can we be cour- mercy for pardon, grace to purify; mercy to teous. In the fourth chapter of Hebrews, verse rescue us, grace to guide us. And on the I did explain a bit concerning the sixteen, Paul pictures our Lord as one who throne of grace is One who while on earth three angels' messages. In the first has power to sympathize: "Let us therefore felt the need of help from God, from draw near with boldness unto the throne of angels, and from men. How thankful we angel's message, the "everlasting gos- grace, that we may receive mercy, and may should be that He is able and ready to pel" is brought to view. This shows find grace to help us in time of need" sympathize and help in time of need. that even in the judgment-hour mes- (A.R.V.). A more literal translation suggests, To do His will, to want what God wants, sage of the first angel we are to ac- "Let us come with frank confidence," ex- is the surest way to have our temporal needs centuate the positive. We are to pressing ourselves in full trust, as we have it supplied. He is faithful in keeping all His preach the gospel. in one of the psalms: "Ye people, pour out promises, and He never forgets our real In the second angel's message (and your heart before him." needs. The Good Shepherd goes before His in the message of the angel of Revela- "The highest energy the human heart is sheep and leads the way. "All the tomorrows tion 18:1) we find God presenting capable of is to pray, like the apostle Paul, of our life have to pass Him before they with the spirit and the understanding. It is can get to us." He is always in the future the warning message in symbols. Even deeply consoling to remember that it is a and knows just what our need will be. Our the church to which He referred Throne of Grace before which we kneel, Lord stands for all that we need for time could scarcely believe that this mes- and that though our prayers may be marred and eternity. It is this assurance that lifts sage was for her, so carefully did God and faulty, yet our loving Mediator in- us to a higher plane in our daily routine parabolize this great warning. Then terprets them in the ears of our loving of life and puts a song in our hearts. "Lo, how courteous, how kind, and how Father, while the Spirit helps our infirmities, I am with you alway." JANUARY 31, 1957 5 by an angel forth to safety,—all Working in Union With Angels show the closeness of the connection between heaven and earth."—Ibid., p. 152. By F. L. Peterson Those who labor to win souls to Christ are assured of the guidance of these divine helpers. Their love The Bible record is: "There was the base of which is firmly planted and interest in the ministry of soul- war in heaven: Michael and his angels on the earth, while the topmost round saving has not lessened during the fought against the dragon; and the reaches the throne of the Infinite. passing centuries. "Those who labor dragon fought and his angels, and Angels are constantly ascending and for the good of others are working in prevailed not; neither was their place descending this ladder of shining union with the heavenly angels. They found any more in heaven. And the brightness, bearing the prayers of the have their constant companionship, great dragon was cast out, that old needy and distressed to the Father their unceasing ministry. Angels of serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, above, and bringing blessing and light and power are ever near to pro- which deceiveth the whole world: he hope, courage and help, to the chil- tect, to comfort, to heal, to instruct, was cast out into the earth, and his dren of men. These angels of light to inspire. The highest education, the angels were cast out with him" (Rev. create a heavenly atmosphere about truest culture, the most exalted serv- 12:7-9). the soul, lifting us toward the unseen ice possible to human beings in this The archrebel, having lost his fight and the eternal. We cannot behold world, are theirs."—Gospel Workers, in heaven, determined not to give up their forms with our natural sight; p. 515. the struggle, and transferred his fight only by spiritual vision can we dis- When Christ commanded His dis- to this earth. Through a subtle and cern heavenly things. The spiritual ciples to go into all the world and cunningly devised plan Satan suc- ear alone can hear the harmony of teach all nations the wonderful story ceeded in seducing Adam and Eve. heavenly voices."—The Acts of the of redemption, He gave them the as- Thus he established himself as "the Apostles, p. 153. surance that He would be with them prince of this world." It is God's plan that the angels unto the end. By His indwelling Spirit However, the dominion that God shall render to man the help that is and by the ministration of angels had given to man in the beginning needed to deliver him from the Christ is keeping His promise. could not rightly belong to another power of evil spirits. Neither Satan The faithful, trusting, loyal worker being. The Scriptures tell us that "the nor his emissaries are allowed to dom- in the cause of God may be assured earth is the Lord's, and the fulness inate those who will to enter into that "the principalities and powers thereof; the world, and they that dwell covenant relation with God. "The of heaven are watching the warfare therein" (Ps. 24:1). In speaking of experience of Philip, directed by an which, under apparently discourag- man the Inspired Word says, "What angel from heaven to go to the place ing circumstances, God's servants are is man, that thou are mindful of him? where he met one seeking for truth; carrying on. New conquests are being and the son of man, that thou visitest of Cornelius, visited by an angel with achieved, new honors won, as the him? For thou hast made him a little a message from God; of Peter, in Christians, rallying round the banner lower than the angels, and hast prison and condemned to death, led of their Redeemer, go forth to fight crowned him with glory and honour. the good fight of faith. All the heav- Thou madest him to have dominion enly angels are at the service of the over the works of thy hands; thou humble, believing people of God; and hast put all things under his feet" (Ps. There's a Nearness to the as the Lord's army of workers here 8:4-6). Absent below sing their songs of praise, the choir above join with them in ascrib- Today the earth still is the Lord's, By RUTH S. UNDERWOOD and its dominion belongs to man and ing praise to God and to His Son." not to Satan. His claim to the world There's a nearness to the absent —The Acts of the Apostles, p. 154. is by usurpation and not by right. In the glorious sunrise hour Every worker for God is in league In the fullness of time the Son of When we hear all nature telling with holy angels in the work of rescu- God came to this world "that he Of the great Creator's power. ing mankind from the thralldom of might destroy the works of the devil" 'Tis the same bright sun ashining sin. It is gratifying to know that "an- (1 John 3:8). He came "to seek and Through each other's windowpane, gelic agencies, though invisible, are to save that which was lost" (Luke While the dancing sunbeams whisper co-operating with visible human agen- 19:10). Through Jesus Christ, God Of God's wondrous love again. cies, forming a relief association with opened up to man all the treasury of men. The very angels who, when Sa- heaven, and He will spare nothing There's a nearness to the absent tan was seeking the supremacy, fought that may be beneficial for his com- In the peaceful twilight hour, the battle in the heavenly courts and plete deliverance from the domin- When night softly draws her curtain triumphed on the side of God, the ion of Satan. And the dewdrops bathe each flower. very angels who shouted for joy over "Ten thousand times ten thousand" 'Tis the same moon shining on us the creation of our world and its and "thousands of thousands" of an- With her soft and tender light sinless inhabitants, the angels who wit- gels are available to help rescue man While the stars reveal God's mercy nessed the fall of man and his ex- from the prison house of sin. In Ja- As they twinkle through the night. pulsion from his Eden home—these cob's time of great need, as he fled very heavenly messengers are most from the wrath of his brother Esau, There's a nearness to the absent intensely interested to work in union "he dreamed, and behold a ladder When we meet before God's throne, with the fallen, redeemed race for the set up on the earth, and the top of And all share His peace and comfort, salvation of human beings perishing it reached to heaven: and behold the Make our wants and wishes known. in their sins. angels of God ascending and descend- With the Saviour's arms about us "Human agencies are the hands ing on it" (Gen. 28:12). Oh, how very near we seem, of heavenly instrumentalities, for We read that "Heaven is brought For His promise "I am with you" heavenly angels employ human hands near to earth by that mystic ladder, Spans the space that lies between. in practical ministry. Human agencies 6 REVIEW AND HERALD as hand helpers are to work out the power."—Testimonies, vol. 6, pp. knowledge and use the facilities of 456, 457.

1) "1 1!1_ heavenly beings. By uniting with Thank God that we can be mem- I these powers that are omnipotent, we bers of this relief association. Let us are benefited by their higher educa- labor earnestly and unselfishly to save men from eternal ruin. In all such [These news items are taken from Religious News tion and experience. Thus as we be- Service. We do not necessarily concur in statements come partakers of the divine nature, service Mrs. E. G. White states: "His made in these items. We publish them simply to give our readers a picture of current religious develop- and separate selfishness from our angels are ever by your side, making ments.] lives, special talents for helping one a record of your words, your deport- another are granted us. This is heav- ment, and the manner in which your Growing Attention to Religion en's way of administering saving work is done."—Ibid., vol. 4, p. 588. Religion is receiving increased attention in colleges and universities throughout the country, delegates to the 47th annual meet- Lessons From Bible Characters-2 ing of the National Association of Biblical Instructors in New York were told. A. Roy Eckardt of Lehigh University, association president, reported a growing number of Esther "conversions" on campuses between college departments and church groups. He also said there is a growing interest among college By C. L. Paddock faculty members in religion.

Sermons on Science and Religion There is a general feeling today ian, told her he felt God had made that religion and wealth do not mix her queen for this very crisis. "Who Ways in which science and religion comple- very well. Many feel that it is un- knoweth," he said, "whether thou art ment each other for the betterment of man- usual to find a rich man who is a come to the kingdom for such a time kind were stressed by Dr. John Sutherland real Christian. Jesus expressed the as this?" Believing this, he urged her Bonnell of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian thought that it is difficult for a rich to go in to see the king and to plead church in New York. In a sermon delivered in connection with the 123d annual meeting man to enter heaven. for her people. But this kind of thing of the American Society for the Advancement Another opinion held by many peo- just wasn't done. No one—not even of Science he declared that the centuries-old ple is that a woman can't be both the queen—ever went in to the king warfare between the two "has ended in a beautiful and good. Yet I have without an invitation. truce which all thoughtful people devoutly known some real Christians who had As any true follower of God would hope will be permanent." Noting that science plenty of money, and I have known do in a time of crisis, Esther prayed has "dwarfed the whole world into a neigh- some really beautiful women who for help and guidance. Of course, borhood," he said that religion must "teach were also beautiful in character. she must have been in touch with anew the age-old commandment of love of neighbor." All who doubt that a woman can Heaven daily, or she would not have be pretty and at the same time have a had the confidence to go to God for beautiful character, should read the guidance in this time of emergency. Stockholm Lutherans to Modernize book of Esther. Esther must have Services There were only two courses open been unusually beautiful—with pretty to her. If she did not plead for her A five-week "go to church" advertising hair, beautiful eyes, and a lovely face. people, they might all be slain. If she campaign in the Stockholm diocese of the Although she was chosen as the did go in to see the king without an State Lutheran Church has resulted in a most beautiful, the most attractive invitation, she might lose her posi- marked increase in attendance at 56 per tion, even her life. cent of the churches in the area, a report in young woman in all the realm of Stockholm, Sweden, showed. Publication of Persia, she did not become vain, or She could not make the decision the report coincided with an announcement lose her reasoning powers. Even alone. She must pray. She asked Mor- by church leaders of plans to make worship when chosen to become queen of the decai to pray. She asked her maidens services more "modern" and attractive. nation she did not lose her religion, to pray too that the Lord would show Lutheran Church representatives said they she did not forget her God. her just what she should do. propose to modernize church services by Beauty of character is of the utmost placing the church choir in full view of the Who of us does not admire her congregation, using children's choirs, and importance, of course, but it is not courage, her unselfishness? She said holding High Masses and communion services necessary to have an ugly face in or- that if she felt God wanted her to go to which entire families will be invited. der to be good, to be beautiful on before the king to plead for her peo- the inside. In fact, if we are really ple, she would do it even if it cost her Baptist Leader Urges "Indirect" sweet and gracious and loving, peo- life. Esther's words as recorded in Mission Work ple will count us beautiful. Esther 4:16 surely prove that a beauti- Esther must have been living close ful person can have sterling char- Dr. Arnold Ohm of Washington, D.C., to her God every day. Though in a acter: "So will I go in unto the king, executive secretary of the Baptist World heathen court, surrounded by idola- which is not according to the law: Alliance, made a plea in Nashville, Tennes- try, pageantry, and luxury, she main- see, for "the more indirect type" of mis- and if I perish, I perish." sionary work, such as providing scholarships tained her Christian virtues. Seventh-day Adventists have "come for foreign students either here or in their You know of the crisis that came to to the kingdom for such a time as own countries. He said that this can be the Jewish people. An enemy lobbyist this." We have been set in the world more beneficial than sending American mis- in the court of old Persia had per- as light bearers, as watchmen. The sionary personnel abroad. "One reason for suaded the king to sign a decree path of service may not always be this," he said, "is that the American mis- that on a certain day every Jew, high an easy one. There will be crises in sionary often has difficulty in becoming a or low, rich or poor, was to be killed. part of the community to which he is sent." our lives. But the Lord will help us "The men who go as missionaries must be Since Esther was a Jewess, her heart to face these with the same spirit of men who speak the language, know the cul- went out to her people. Her older courage and loyalty as did Esther, the ture, and can identify themselves with it." cousin, Mordecai, who was her guard- beautiful queen of Persia. JANUARY 31, 1957 7 shallow experience in the things of God and a super- The Dangers Are Within ficial understanding of truth. Like the multitude stand- ing on the shore, they are glad to hear the simple truths After the walls of Jericho had miraculously collapsed of faith, but depart from Christ when He begins to teach by the exercise of divine power, Israel attacked the things hard to understand. Again, some are like the smaller city of Ai. Overconfident because Jericho had disciples, who had spent a futile night and were con- been conquered so easily, Israel pitted relatively light tented to rest on that experience. In the search for forces against the smaller Canaanite stronghold. truth the lives of too many are barren. But Ai did not fall as anticipated. Israel's armies were smitten and the defeat plunged the entire camp into "Launch Out Into the Deep" deep gloom. "The hearts of the people melted, and Christ was content to speak to the multitudes in para- became as water" (Joshua 7:5). Even Joshua was bles, but to His disciples, He said, "Launch out into stunned. He rent his clothes, fell on his face before the the deep." The gospel story is simple for those who are ark, and he and the elders put dust upon their heads. "babes" in the faith, but it should not always remain Why was Israel defeated? Was it because the shock so simple for those who are growing in grace. It is not troops of Ai possessed better weapons? No. God's people along the shallow shore line that we secure the great met disaster because sin was being harbored. What drafts of Bible truth, but it is when we launch out into enemy forces could never have accomplished by frontal the deep that great and precious truths are obtained. assault had been caused by one man—Achan—and he Notice two things in this experience. Peter's boat was was supposedly on the Lord's side. Only when the camp surrendered to the direction of Christ. Realizing his had been purified did Israel again become a terror to her own failure, he committed his affairs to the Lord. Then, enemies. having no trust in his own ability, Peter said, "At thy Satan's technique for bringing defeat to the church word I will let down the net." Here we find some very today is similar. Wrote God's messenger: "As we near the important instructions for those who are seeking for close of earth's history, perils and dangers thicken around the deep things of God. There must first be a surrendered us. A mere profession of godliness will not avail. There life, and then every step must be taken only on a "Thus must be a living connection with God, that we may have saith the Lord." The one whom God is willing to bless spiritual eyesight to discern the wickedness which is in with an abundance of light and truth must be a humble a most artful and secret manner creeping into our midst man, not one who is seeking glory for himself by through those who make a profession of our faith."— discovery of some original light, or one who delights in Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 139. an independent spirit. God blesses with light those who We have little to fear from Satan's vicious attacks go forth in the spirit of consecration to God and coopera- from without. We have much to fear from his subtle tion with their fellow men. It was not Peter alone who underminings from within. Only as each individual pulled in the net. There were others with him who member stays close to the Master, overcoming sin by His enjoyed the blessing. power and being loyal to every phase of the three angels' None should be content with what knowledge of messages, can Satan's schemes be thwarted. Victory for the heavenly things they have, refusing to receive added church is assured if each member will serve the Lord light. The messenger of the Lord writes: with singleness of purpose in this mighty hour. "Whenever the people of God are growing in grace, K. H. W. they will be constantly obtaining a clearer understanding of His word. They will discern new light and beauty in its sacred truths. This has been true in the history of the Seeking a Deeper Understanding church in all ages, and thus it will continue to the end." —Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 706. of God's Will "We do not go deep enough in our search for truth. . . . God wants our minds to expand. He desires to put Christ had been teaching the multitude who thronged His grace upon us. We may have a feast of good things to hear Him. He had been speaking from a small boat every day; for God can open the whole treasure of anchored just off from the shore. The people listened heaven to us."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. 119. intently as He taught them in parables. His words awakened hope in the hearts of the simple and caused Hold Firmly to Fundamental Truths the wise to ponder. Many classes of people are found in the church. On completing His address, Christ turned to Peter, There are the contented ones, who are satisfied with the owner of the boat, and said, "Launch out into the what they have. Then there are the venturesome ones, deep, and let down your nets for a draught." Simon who launch out boldly into the deep in their search for answered and said, "Master, we have toiled all the truth and too readily claim the discovery of new light. night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word There are still others who are quietly, carefully, and I will let down the net." As a result of this action we humbly seeking for a better understanding of the blessed read: "When they had done this, they inclosed a great truths that are ours. They are not quick to draw con- multitude of fishes." (Luke 5:4-6.) clusions nor willing to work independently. They believe From this story we may learn some lessons that are that if true light is found, God's people will recognize it. very fitting for us today. Too many are contented with a They know, too, that God will not contradict Himself 8 REVIEW AND HERALD and will give no light that will overthrow that which He with the measuring stick of the business world? Have has plainly established and blessed. Concerning this, we been satisfied with less than a 600 per cent increase God has sent us instruction through the Spirit of proph- since 1932? Have we been successful in "selling" the ecy. gospel to enough people so that our church membership "Let none seek to tear away the foundations of our is now six times what it was 25 years ago? Have our faith,—the foundations that were laid at the beginning offerings also increased by the same ratio? Remember, of our work, by prayerful study of the Word and by this would make us only "average" as judged by business revelation.- Upon these foundations we have been build- standards. ing for more than fifty years. Men may suppose that they In making this comparison we are not suggesting that have found a new way, that they can lay a stronger anyone within the church should employ the harsh, pres- foundation than that which has been laid; but this is a sure methods sometimes used in the world to increase great deception."—Gospel Workers, p. 307. sales. But, according to the parable of Matthew 25, the "God calls upon us to hold firmly to the fundamental heavenly Householder does expect us to improve and principles that are based upon unquestionable author- multiply the various talents entrusted to us. A 100 per ity."—Ibid., p. 308. cent increase was achieved by each servant who put When we tie to the fundamental principles of our forth reasonable effort. Ten talents gained other ten; faith, which are referred to as "the old landmarks" and five talents produced five more; and two produced an which have been established by a "Thus saith the Lord," additional two. To each of these servants the Master said, then we need not fear to "launch out into the deep," "Well done, thou good and faithful servant." for we thus have an anchor that will hold us steady as What think ye? In these days of peace and prosperity we search for new treasures in the mighty ocean of are we working and giving in a manner that will merit us truth. a "Well done"? K. H. W. Every member of the church should seek to obtain a better and deeper understanding of the glorious truths that center in the Advent message. May the Lord bless From the Editor's Mailbag the work of all those who are earnestly searching out things new and old from the great and precious truth An aged brother, with a pencil in his evidently shak- opened to this people. Above all, may we as members of ing hand, wrote us from the Far West: "I just want to the remnant church seek to conform both in spirit and tell you that my beloved wife passed to her rest till in mind to the great light that has been shed upon our Jesus comes. What is there about death that makes us so pathway. F. L. sad? It seems that a wound has been inflicted in my heart that time hasn't yet healed, and it has been five months. It was hard to give her up. I weep and shed tears till I Well Done? feel I have no more tears to shed, but that does not bring her back. I will surely be glad when Jesus comes to The fast-moving pencils of America's statisticians are put an end to all this sorrow." working overtime in an effort to complete the tallies and This is a portion of one of the most touching letters comparisons for 1956 before the new year is too far ad- we have received. We do not know this brother per- vanced. sonally; our only bond is the common fellowship in Already we have been told that the people of this the faith of Christ's coming. And what a glorious and nation gave more than six billion dollars to all forms of comforting bond that is! Because his letter is like unto philanthropy during 1956. Of this amount some $3,120,- others that come to us, we are giving here our reply. 878,000 was channeled through church organizations. May it prove of some small solace to those like him who This represents an approximate increase of 10 per cent weep. above the total for 1955. Thus the steady but unspectacu- lar upward trend that began several years ago shows no Our Reply signs of reversing itself. I was deeply moved by your letter. It is in the presence We rejoice in this, but we believe that God is still of death that we are brought sternly to the realization being given far too small a percentage of our national that we live in the land of the enemy, in a world of sick- income. This conviction is based on a number of facts. ness and death. What woe and multiplying tragedy grew For example, America spent three billion dollars on out of Adam's transgression! We are his children and its church organizations but channeled more than three have walked in his ways, and behold the world we live times that amount—some ten billion dollars—into the in! Were it not for the grace of our Lord, who tasted coffers of the liquor traffic. And, according to J. Edgar death for every man, what hope would we have? But Hoover, as a nation we annually spend about $750 on thanks be unto God that our Lord and Saviour brought "pleasures" for every dollar given to missions. life and immortality to light through the gospel. And In the light of these comparisons it is difficult to see so we can say, in the darkest and the most troubled hour: Low any clear-thinking citizen can feel that the amount "I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that of money being contributed to the church is excessive. he is able to keep that which I have committed unto Actually it is minimal. him against that day." Nor are the gains achieved from year to year in the I find nothing in the Bible that assures me there will total amount of contributions impressive when com- be no occasion to weep while I walk through the valley pared with standards of the business world. For example of the shadow in this sinful world. Tears are part of the since 1932 the total sales volume in the United States price we pay for our transgressions and the transgressions has increased approximately 600 per cent. No doubt of all of our fathers before us. But those tears mysteri- many companies have shown a much greater growth ously serve a purpose in the plan of God. They are than this. However, in order to be even an "average" used of Him to make soft and mellow these hearts of ours, company, sales volume should have increased six times that we may be ready for a better world. But, thank God, compared with 1932. I find in His Word the assurance that we weep not as do Without being irreverent, we would like to ask a few others which have no hope. Our sorrow at parting is questions, comparing God's business with that of secular eased by our confident assurance of meeting again. We industry. How "average" has our church been, compared part for but a little while and then at the day of our JANUARY 31, 1 9 5 7 9 Lord—praise to His holy name—we meet to part no years ago, gained their first knowledge of Seventh-day more. Adventists from reading a stray copy of the REVIEW they And so, my dear brother, let not your tears keep you picked up by the roadside. They were so impressed that from seeing the promises of God. Look up, lift up your they set out at once to learn more and were soon bap- head, for the day of our redemption draweth nigh. tized. They remained faithful till death. I'm surely glad And as you look upward toward the light from the that that particular copy of the REVIEW was not de- throne, may it transform your tears into a rainbow stroyed! of hope—the hope of life everlasting for you and your beloved, who now rests for a little while. A Practice That Should Become Shall We Circulate Old Reviews? A church officer who has asked members to bring Extinct clean, used papers to the church for missionary pur- A major-league umpire who for years had been call- poses, writes: "Some of our good people seem to think ing balls and strikes once remarked that he could never the REVIEW is not to be used for reading racks or mis- understand how the crowds in the grandstand, hun- sionary purposes. Some of us maintain they are the dreds of feet from the plate and many of them located best and most interesting to read, besides acquainting anywhere but directly behind the batter, could see and others with our great worldwide work, and helping to judge better than he could just seven feet away. make our high standards of Christian living known to His remark points up a very common human trait— others. I personally have had those to whom I handed the despicable characteristic of passing judgment on our papers to read tell me that they liked the REVIEW issues and men when we are far removed from the scene. the best. Personally I can't see one thing in the REVIEW And often the farther we are from some problems the that is objectionable or that would do harm for non- more capable we feel of passing swift and decisive members to read. On the contrary I believe it is a soul judgment! Here is a paradox that would be laughable if winner for church members, as well as nonmembers." it were not so tragic in its results. Perhaps in the area of professional sports the privilege Our Reply of condemning the man who is nearest the problem may The question you raise is one that comes before us be considered an inalienable right; the customer's ticket from time to time. I can say at the outset: Don't destroy into the ball park serves as a license for passing judg- the REVIEWS. That would be folly. On the other hand, ment on all who take part in the game. But who has don't encourage folks to spearhead an evangelistic pro- authorized any of us to call strikes on our fellow men gram with copies of the REVIEW. That's not its purpose. who are playing the game of life to the best of their But inasmuch as the REVIEW has been printed and then ability, especially when we are too far away to under- read by our people, it is far better to let it go into the stand? Does it not seem likely that if we could obtain a hands of others who may read it, if they will, than to closer view of our brethren and the problems they face throw it into the trash can. It will never hurt anyone, that we would either withhold judgment or often completely is sure. On the other hand we have numbers of instances reverse our hasty and hardhearted appraisals of their where it has helped them. Why shouldn't it? It contains efforts? a cross section of the doctrinal teachings of the Advent "If we have a sense of the long-suffering of God to- Movement, a presentation of the high standards we ward us, we shall not be found judging or accusing others. seek to maintain, and cheering, impressive reports of When Christ was living on the earth, how surprised His God's leadings in mission fields. Yes, let's use whatever associates would have been, if, after becoming acquainted copies of the REVIEW that come into our hands and thank with Him, they had heard Him speak one word of ac- God that we have this extra material for possible reading cusation, of fault-finding, or of impatience. Let us never on the part of those who wish to know more about Ad- forget that those who love Him are to represent Him ventist teaching. in character."—The Ministry of Healing, p. 489. I might add that my own beloved parents, just sixty K. H. W.

Many years ago the Lord, through His a precious enterprise."—Counsels on Sabbath messenger, declared: "The Sabbath school SABBATH SCHOOL School Work, p. 129. The total contributions work is important, and all who are in- through the Sabbath school to our world- terested in the truth should endeavor to lk wide work by the close of the third quarter make it prosperous."—Testimanies, vol. 5, of 1956 amounted to more than $109,000,000. p. 127. L. 1th p,r,crt Truly our Sabbath schools are doing a great Through the years the majority of our work in raising funds for the cause of Got'. people, both of ministry and of laity, have not now what it may and should be. The Here again we need to guard against com- demonstrated their interest "in the truth" influence growing out of Sabbath school work placency. "From every church, prayers shoald by their "endeavor to make" the Sabbath should improve and enlarge the church."— ascend to God for an increase of devotion school work "prosperous." This is attested Quoted in Counsels on Sabbath School Work, and liberality."—Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 55. by the present prosperity, under the blessing p. 9. Church members and prospective church of God, of the Sabbath school work around In 1889, when the potentialities of the members in all parts of the world in training the world. Unfortunately, a few show little Sabbath school for doing "a great work" in the Sabbath school, learning more fully interest in the Sabbath school. work. To such were thus so clearly set forth, there was little the way of the Lord, are improving and en- we especially appeal, lest failing to "stir up" other evidence of the magnitude of God's larging the church. Note the development in their minds to the importance of this means plan for the Sabbath school work. It was this branch of the work since 1889. In that of grace, they "fall from" their "own sted- only about that time that the Sabbath schools year there were 1,199 Sabbath schools report. fastness." were catching their first glimpses of mission ing a membership of 30,225. Our latest statis- In the Sabbath School Worker of January, responsibilities in the raising of funds for tics (third quarter, 1956) reveal 19,831 Sab- 1889, the Lord sent us this message: our first mission station and the building bath schools with a membership of 1,359,427. "The Sabbath school, when rightly man- of our first mission ship. Moving onward May all our Sabbath schools be even more aged, possesses marvelous power, and is from those early efforts, "our Sabbath schools diligent in improving and enlargi n3 the adapted to doing a great work, but it is have contributed enough to advance many church. L. L. MOFFITT 10 REVIEW AND HERALD fare against sin. "Paul's patience and cheerfulness during his long and un- just imprisonment, his courage and faith, were a continual sermon. His spirit, so unlike the spirit of the world, bore witness that a power higher than that of earth was abiding with him."— Ibid., p. 464. FOR SABBATH, FEBRUARY 16, 1957 The beautiful wish of the apostle Paul in 2 Thessalonians 3:5 is capa- ble of several inspiring interpreta- Patience and Forbearance tions: "And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ." "Into [This Lesson Help is a running comment on the lesson presented in the Sabbath School Quarterly and 53:7). "The prominent feature of the the love of God" may be either God's should be read in connection with it.] description is the meek and submis- love or our love of Him. Most authori- sive demeanour of the Servant under To the Christian, patience would ties adopt the former or subjective his undeserved sufferings."—SKINNER, characteristic of God, though it is not be important if only for the reason The Cambridge Bible;on Isa. 53:7. that Jesus commanded it: "In your possible to separate God's love of His patience possess ye your souls" 5. It is manifested actively in do- people and their love of Him. (Luke 21:19). The context deals with ing good: "To them who by patient The last phrase is rendered thus by tribulations, as does also Matthew continuance in well doing seek for Robertson and by several other au- 24, where the reward of patience is glory and honour and immortality, thorities: "Into the patience of given: "He that shall endure unto eternal life" (Rom. 2:7); in bearing Christ." The Revised Standard Ver- the end, the same shall be saved" fruit, as in the case of those who sion gives, "to the steadfastness of (verse 13). "bring forth fruit with patience" Christ." As love is a characteristic of Of the two Greek nouns rendered (Luke 8:15), and of those who "run God, so patience is of Christ, and with patience the race that is set be- God's people must be Godlike in both in English as "patience" the most fre- fore us" (Heb. 12:1). quent (hupomone) comes from two respects. words, hupo meaning "under," and The Importance of Christian In 1 Thessalonians 5:14, 15 Paul meno meaning "to abide." Almost in- Patience enjoins certain duties on the believ- variably this word, meaning "to abide ers: "Warn them that are unruly, com- Once we differentiate between fort the feebleminded, support the under," is rendered "patience." Pa- Christian patience and unintelligent, tience grows under pressure, and is weak, be patient toward all men." The passive compliance with existing con- unruly were infringers of good dis- used often in a passive, though not ditions, we can grasp the importance compliant, sense. cipline, such as those who walked dis- of patience in Christian theology. orderly, "working not at all, but are Meaning of Word "Patience" In James 1:4, patience is said to busybodies" (2 Thess. 3:11). The 1. It applies to trials in general, as perfect Christian character: "Let pa- feeble-minded may have been faint- in Matthew 24:13 and Luke 21:19, tience ["steadfastness," R.S.V.] have hearted in view of persecutions, or the and in such exhortations as: "Re- her perfect work, that ye may be per- little-minded, or overburdened with patient in tribula- fect and entire, wanting nothing." It sorrow, or just weak in general. To joicing in hope; was this steadfast adherence to prin- tion; continuing instant in prayer" hold these classes in line called for the (Rom. 12:12); "Blessed is the man ciples in the personal life that al- exercise of the positive virtue of pa- that endureth temptation: for . . . he lowed Christians, like their Master, tience. "What a wonderful ideal Paul shall receive the crown of life" (James to endure patiently even while fight- here holds up for church leaders!"— ing against evils they abhorred. It was ROBERTSON, 1:12). Word Pictures, vol. 4, this that enabled a doughty warrior p. 37. 2. It is used also of afflictions in- like Paul to mingle the martial terms It is not without significance that cident to gospel service: "In all things with the saintly in talking of the in studying patience and forbearance approving ourselves as the ministers Christian life. In 1 Corinthians 9:26, in the Bible we find ourselves in the of God, in much patience, in afflic- he says: "I therefore so run, not as un- intrepid company of Moses, the meek- tions, in necessities, in distresses" (2 certainly; so fight I, not as one that est of men, who "became eloquent, Cor. 6:4). In 2 Timothy 3:10, 11, Paul beateth the air," but in 2 Corinthians hopeful, self-possessed and well lists patience as a characteristic of his 6:4: "approving ourselves . . . in much fitted for the greatest work ever given lite along with purpose, faith, long- patience." to man" (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. suffering, charity, persecutions, afflic- This was a strange admixture of 255); of Job, of whom God said there tions, et cetera. aggressiveness and patience, but it was "none like him in the earth, a per- 3. It refers to discipline or chastise- spoke eloquently of divine power. fect and an upright man, one that ment coming from the Father's hand: When the early Christian churches feareth God, and escheweth evil" "If ye endure chastening, God deal- heard of Paul's plan to visit Rome, (Job 1:8); of David, who passed un- eth with you as with sons" (Heb. they felt sure that this warrior-apostle der the rod of divine discipline and 12:7). would overturn things and produce was "never . . . more truly great in 4. It is sometimes used of the pas- "a signal triumph of the gospel in the sight of heaven than at this sive endurance of unmerited afflic- that city. . . . But their hopes were hour of his deepest outward humilia- tion: "But if, when ye do well, and crushed by the tidings that Paul had tion (ibid., p. 738); and, above all, suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this gone to Rome as a prisoner."—The of our blessed Lord Himself, who is acceptable with God" (1 Peter 2: Acts of the Apostles, pp. 463, 464. could wait patiently against a cruel 20). Under this category we have our They then learned, as the world world because He "did not consider Lord's experience: "He was op- has ever since, that his Christian pa- heaven a place to be desired while we pressed, and he was afflicted, yet he tience and fortitude under suffering were lost" (The Ministry of Healing, opened not his mouth," et cetera (Isa. were an important part of the war- p. 105). JANUARY 31, 1957 11 CONDUCTED BY PROMISE KLOSS SHERMAN

ple are more important than things. "What Have They Seen in Houses where people are given con- • sideration show marked improvement over the first kind. Thine House ?" Things exist for people, and not people for things. Nevertheless it is By S. J. Schwantes common to see women who are slaves to their houses. They wear out them- selves and others in order that their The question, "What have they living God, who had miraculously houses may always be immaculate and seen in thine house?" directed by the healed King Hezekiah, not just to see trim. Woe to the children that enter prophet Isaiah to King Hezekiah was things. Hezekiah failed them, and such homes with muddy feet! not a casual one. It was a probing failed God in this unique opportunity Wives sometimes forget that hus- query in order "to try him, that he given him to witness for Heaven be- bands are more interested in the shine might know all that was in his heart" fore those foreign ambassadors. in their wives' eyes than in the shine (2 Chron. 32:31). He who shows his What do visitors see in our houses? on the floor. A house and all it con- house, unwittingly exposes his heart. Some of us take particular pride in tains never should be worth more There was, therefore, no need of fur- the furniture or tapestry; others in to a wife than her husband and chil- ther questioning on the part of the the latest domestic appliances; still dren. How often, though, an over- prophet to know what was in Heze- others in art collections, or the li- meticulous wife wears herself so com- kiah's heart. brary. But poor indeed is the house pletely out with the care of the house Suppose God should ask us the where there is nothing more to be that not a spark of joy lightens her same question every time visitors seen than things. Museums would be face when her husband comes home leave our homes. What answer would a better name for them. And the at- from work. we give? mosphere inside may be just as stuffy. Happy the child who finds himself Houses may be divided into three At best, things are destined to per- welcome at home! No doubt this was groups in respect to what may be seen ish. And perish shall all those also who the kind of home in which Timothy in them. First, there are the houses attach themselves to them. "While we was reared. It may have been very where things are most conspicuous. look not at the things which are seen, humble for all we know, but Paul This was the case with Hezekiah's but at the things which are not seen: could not forget it even amid the house. A note of proud satisfaction is for the things which are seen are tem- hardships of his last trial in Rome. evident in his reply: "All the things poral; but the things which are not How could he when such outstand- that are in mine house have they seen: seen are eternal" (2 Cor. 4:18). ing personalities had lived there: there is nothing among my treasures Timothy, his grandmother Lois, and that I have not shewed them" (2 People More Important Than Things his mother, Eunice (2 Tim. 1:5; 3: Kings 20:15). The second kind of houses are 15)? There is no mention of things, His heart was set on things, and where people, not things, are in prom- but of faith and Christian nurture. • Hezekiah made no attempt to conceal inence. As life is "more than meat, The boy Timothy was reared as a the pride he felt in them, In fact in and the body than raiment," so peo- candidate for heaven, and neither his such circumstances it mother nor his grand- would have been hard for mother were disappointed him or anybody else to in him. The boy was im- conceal his true feelings, portant enough to receive "for where your treasure their best attention, and is, there will your heart their names were even- be also" (Matt. 6:21). tually perpetuated We can imagine the dis- through the child they appointed look on the loved so much. In surh a faces of the visitors from house what impressed vis- Babylon as Hezekiah fin- itors most were not things, ished his display. The best but people outstanding the king could muster was for their piety. meager compared to their Roman history has pre- own art treasures in Baby- served a touching little lon—then the cultural story concerning Cornelia metropolis of the world. and her two sons, Caius And after all, that was not and Tiberius Gracchus, the prime aim that had later leaders in the cause led them to undertake of equal opportunities for such a hazardous journey. all. While they were young she paid a visit to They had come first of all AFTER SOABI to know more about the Cornelia looked upon her two sons as her jewels. a wealthy friend who 12 REVIEW AND HERALD lived in a villa. After the customary (Ps. 127:3), but woe to the house Walsh remarks, "This form of reli- compliments and social chatter, her where they become lords. As children gion . . . delights the Devil more than friend brought for her admiration her they are a blessing, but as lords they any amount of atheism. He agrees casket of jewels. They were gorgeous, become a curse just as truly as did with the Bible, which solemnly warns and had made many a lady's heart the sons of Eli. It is all too common to time and again against idolatry, but flutter. see homes where children have been is almost silent in regard to atheism." After the display of exquisite pend- enthroned as little idols by infatu- —Behold the Glory, p. 117. ants and necklaces, rings and dia- ated parents. And from idols to ty- The idolatry between two marriage dems, Cornelia, with quiet dignity, rants there is but a short step. All partners easily perverts itself into a placed her hands on the shoulders of may seem wonderful at first, but with sort of tyranny when one of the mates her two boys and said with all the the passing years the yoke such par- habitually assumes the air of a demi- pride of a mother's heart: "These are ents have to bear becomes galling. god in the domestic scene. One safe- my jewels." Even in a pagan society Through their blind idolatry they guard easily suggests itself against there were people who had a proper have wrecked their happiness as well such a danger: Give God first place sense of values. They put persons as that of their children. in the home, and everybody else will above things. Even the beautiful relationship be- find his rightful place. Houses where people and not tween wife and husband may develop This brings us to the third class of things matter most show a decided into a kind of idolatry. This is the pe- houses: those where the presence of superiority over the other kind, but culiar temptation that faces newly- the Invisible One is most conspicu- there is danger that even people may weds. In their exuberant love for ous. There is something tangible be given undue importance. "Chil- each other they begin—quite literally about God's presence. A heavenly at- dren are an heritage of the Lord" —to idolize each other. As Chad mosphere pervades the home when God occupies the center. Those who are privileged to visit such homes feel way for these godless soldiers of a godless it, and don't easily forget it. No words king to treat the prophet of the Lord. can adequately describe it. It is just THE I "If I be a man of God," he said, "then as ineffable as the peace of God, let fire come down from heaven, and con- "which passeth all understanding." sume thee and thy fifty." A moment later there was a flash of light Heavenly Atmosphere in the Home as fire fell from heaven and the men van- Fate of the Three Captains ished. Moses certainly knew what it meant When the king heard what had happened, to be reared in a home where God's By ARTHUR S. MAXWELL he was outraged and sent a second captain presence was ever felt. The Christian with another fifty men to capture Elijah nurture of those early years braced After Ahab's death his son Ahaziah be- and bring him to court. him for the trials of later life when, came king of Israel. Sad to say, he was no Elijah was still on the hilltop, quite un- fearless of "the wrath of the king . . . better than his father or his mother, and disturbed. he endured, as seeing him who is in- "served Baal, and worshipped him, and "Come down quickly!" ordered the captain visible" (Heb. 11:27). provoked to anger the Lord God of Is- of the second fifty. "King's orders!" rael." Once again Elijah said, "If I be a man The secret of the divine power that One day he met with a serious accident, of God, let fire come down from heaven, attended the life of the Wesley broth- falling out of an upper window in the and consume thee and thy fifty." Again fire ers and many others of equal stature palace. It seems that the wooden lattice must fell from heaven, and the captain and his is to be found mainly in the heavenly have given way as he leaned against it. men were consumed. atmosphere they breathed in their How badly he was hurt we are not told, When news of this reached Ahaziah he homes during their formative years. but it was serious enough to make him sent a third captain with fifty men to take I believe that is what Joshua meant wonder whether he would ever get better. Elijah. This captain, however, had learned when at a turning point in Israel's his- Anxious to learn his fate, he sent mes- something from the sad fate of his friends. tory he said, "But as for me and my sengers to inquire of Baalzebub, the god of When he came to the hill where Elijah Ekron, just as if this wooden idol would was sitting he "fell on his knees before house, we will serve the Lord" know what was going to happen to him. Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, (Joshua 24:15). Joshua gave God first On their way the messengers met Elijah, 0 man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and place in the home. He well knew that though they did not recognize him. He the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in no other way could he keep safe the asked them sternly why they were going to in thy sight." spiritual heritage of his children. seek help from Baalzebub rather than the God appreciated the humble attitude of "What have they seen in thine God of heaven. Then he ordered them to this man, and the respect he paid to His house?" Many visitors today are turn back and tell Ahaziah that he was going prophet. "Go down with him," He told moved by the same desire that brought to die. Elijah; "be not afraid of him." some visitors to Jerusalem in days of So frightened were they by the old prophet So Elijah went with this captain and his old: "We would see Jesus" (John 12: ,hat they obeyed him. fifty men and came to the palace, where Ahaziah was surprised to see them back Ahaziah was lying in bed. 21). Dare we fail God and our visitors so soon. When they told him what had hap- Elijah showed no fear of the king, though as Hezekiah did? pened, he asked them to describe the man he was now within his power and could so In a house ordered according to who had spoken to them. easily have been clapped in a dungeon. Nor the divine pattern, things will have "He wore a garment of haircloth," they did he change his message. Instead, he told their place, but not first place. Ev- said, "with a girdle of leather about his the king, as he had already told his mes- ery member of the household will feel loins." sengers, that because he had sent for help himself accepted and loved, but no They did not need to say more. to Baalzebub the god of Ekron, rather than one will dominate the scene. Such "It is Elijah the Tishbite!" said Ahaziah. to the God of heaven, he would not re- homes will be known not by their dis- Then he sent one of his captains with fifty cover from his sickness, but would surely men to seize Elijah and bring him to Sa- die. play of things, not by the imperti- maria. And die he did, just as Elijah had said. nence of the children, the caprice of The captain found the prophet sitting on Not only, of course, because he had sent to the mother, or the domineering atti- a hilltop. "Thou man of God," he cried, inquire of Baalzebub, but because all his tude of the father, but by an atmos- "the king hath said, Come down!" life—just like his father and mother—he phere of genuine love sanctified by Elijah refused. He felt that this was no had hated Jehovah and served other gods. the presence of God. JANUARY 31, 1957 13 The young recruit retorted, "Boy, I'd like that." Then a long pause. "I get off at the next road on the right." "But I have one more assignment for you," the persistent challenger went on to his captive rider. "Be dif- ferent. Respect the girls. Be a gentle- man of the highest order. Live above Tough Assignment regrets. Tough assignments are al- ways rewarding." By Robert A. Tyson The Ford came to a stop. The boy was transfixed, thinking fast, his body motionless, cigarettes forgotten. The "I need a tough assignment to the inquisitive driver went on, "What dynamic power of a new challenge straighten me out," said the seven- year of school are you in?" controlled him. "Oh, this is my cor- teen-year-old youth. He had just left "Junior, in Forest Park High." ner," he murmured, hardly conscious the Army recruiting office, and was "Like it?" that we were already stopped at his riding with a kindhearted driver who "Oh, so, so—but I'm quitting." road. He turned down his lane had seen him hitchhiking and had "You do need to be straightened thrilled with the challenge of his new picked him up. out." A friendly smile softened this assignments. The driver drove on in "You do, eh?" responded the driver. punch. "Do you want another tough peace to an MV meeting. The blond, vigorous young man job?" slapped his shirt pocket, characteris- Youth in the Jet Age A questioning look, as if silence tically, as he reached for a smoke. The thoughts of the road are many. "Wait a minute," continued the were asking who this stranger might be, then an affirmative shake of his Seventeen! What an age! Youth in driver, using a bit of courage, as he the jet age! The age of climaxing placed his hand on the arm of the tousled head. "This is it. Dig in. First, finish prophecy! How dangerous is an un- youth whose permissive training had guided missile! never acknowledged restraint. "Didn't your high school. Then pick out a col- you say you wanted a tough assign- The government is spending bil- ment?" lions on guided missiles. The church Wondering what was coming and is spending its best efforts on guided with hand still over his "cigarette youth. The greater the thrust the pocket," the youth replied, "Yes, I smaller the wings of a jet. Youth, pro- did." pelled upward and forward by a com- "Are you ready for your first one?" pelling conviction, ought not to have "I guess so." questionable pursuits to hinder them. "Here it is. Tell yourself, and mean Theirs is the realm of the spirit, of it, that you will never smoke another visions, of pure atmospheres, of new cigarette as long as you live." records. "Whew-w-w-w-w! That is a tough It is the living flame, properly one!" housed and unhampered, that defies "You'll need good healthy lungs in Many youth have ambitions to fly swift planes and the barriers of sound, time, and space. do other difficult assignments. Equally challenging The rocket without the flame—junk order to pass your physical." are many aspects of character development. They drove by a few traffic lights, iron. "If any man have not the Spirit a trolley, and several cars, then of Christ, he is none of his" (Rom. turned north on U.S. No. 1. lege. After two years there, choose a 8:9). "Which branch of the service do major. Shoot for the top. You have The modern pilot, anticipating you prefer?" what it takes." A pause—"No sale?" stratospheric flight, goes through a Looking straight ahead, the youth rigorous training. He must demon- He Preferred the Special Forces half smiled, revealing a great person- strate that he will not black out eas- "I'm trying to get into the new ality unfolding. The perverse 49 per ily. "Superiority lies with him who is Army outfit, the Special Forces— cent of his mind was outvoted. The reared in the severest school," said tougher than the Marines." He held other 51 per cent—the worth-while Thucydides. "I have written unto up a colorful propaganda leaflet part—took over. Its curiosity was so you, young men, because ye are showing the Basque beret and the par- great that he blurted out, "Who are strong," said the apostle John (1 John aboots, and telling about the moun- you? Why?—" 2:14). tain climbs, the tough team, the dis- "Never mind that, you asked for as- Never underestimate the power cf ciplined life. signments. I want to tell you that real purpose. Speeding bicycles do not "So you think you need straighten- living is clean living, daring living. fall over. Mosquitoes do not bite jet ing out?" When I was just a bit older than you pilots. A drifting ship will be bat- "Yep" I went as a salesman in a canoe clear tered by the storm. A plow whose "Suppose this outfit won't take you, around the Alaska Highway. Made point is not turning sod is a dangerous then what?" my own way selling books and maga- weapon. The youth who seizes a God- "Well, I'll get a job here in Balti- zines, and sent home enough money appointed objective will never be more. My uncle's a road builder." to enable me to go to college for a seized for lawlessness. Speeding tires "Don't you want good, healthy semester. How would you like to go can best be guided while digging in lungs even if you don't do anything as far as from here to San Francisco with power. Tackle your task—the but walk the streets you help to in a canoe? My buddy and I went tougher the better. It will straighten build?" three thousand miles in one summer. you out. "Sure, I do." The tougher it got the better we liked Youth love the challenge of a tough A hill, a bridge, a crossroad, then it." assignment. 14 REVIEW AND HERALD

faced. In ancient times there was a many lessons from them, can't we? Roman god known as Janus. The The red-bellied black snake, which month of January was named after is the common black snake of East him. Idols of Janus always had two Australia, is—unlike the harmless faces, one looking each way. He was American variety—a poisonous crea- the god of beginnings, with two sides ture. He is an odd-looking type that like a door. Don't you ever be like I don't think I had ever seen before. Visit to a Snake Farm-3 that. One face is enough. Be yourself He is a strange creature. So with sin always. Don't do one thing in public —it is a strange thing. May we always By D. A. Delafield and another thing in private. avoid it, Juniors. And with this I Snakes may not be very pleasant think we've written enough about From our past two talks you can things to look at, but we can learn snakes. see there is much to learn from snakes. Take the Gaboon viper, for example. This snake is about five feet long, and its scaly back is covered with squares THA!' L' T ME Arq and triangles. It gives birth to as many ...IY'r.)F7-,'T LESSON as fifty baby snakes at one time. This viper is very heavy. Never did I see an animal so dangerous looking. Its long, heavy fangs and highly toxic Edie ea Pteaaa venom poison not only the blood of its victim but the nerves as well, re- By H. W. LOWE, Associate Secretary sulting in death. Sabbath School Department, General Conference The apostle Paul wrote of the sting of death. Well, the Gaboon viper has During World War I a small group Eventually I spoke to him through a nar- the sting of death all right. But Paul of Adventist young men ran into unex- row space between the wall and the floor also wrote that the sting of death is pected trouble over Sabbathkeeping. I in one corner. He was a fellow Adventist. sin. You see, sin is like the venom of was among them. We were in a foreign I said I wished I had my Bible to fight snakes. Our only hope for deliverance country on active service, under the off the menacing mental torture. He had is to look to Jesus. He alone has the charge of a mature officer who was some- a small pocket New Testament which antidote for sin. (Please read Num. thing of a Christian gentleman. He gave had not been detected when all our pos- 21:6-9; John 3:14-17.) us every freedom on the Sabbath. sessions were taken from us. To me the most interesting exhibit But suddenly he was recalled, and an That night when the irons were re- at the San Diego zoo was the Dudley ambitious, godless young man took his moved, he tore up that New Testament Duplex. This brown and yellow snake, place. All our Sabbath privileges were and slipped a portion through the crack a king snake, was captured during Oc- withdrawn, and we received orders to to me. Next day when the guard put tober, 1953, in a nursery in Lemon- work on the Sabbath. This we could not my irons on, I had that New Testament grove, California. It is called a du- do. portion concealed under my boot. plex because it has two heads. Yes, We were placed in a prison for tough Left alone, I knelt down with wrists and this freak of nature is not dead, military prisoners, many with a criminal locked in irons tightly behind my back, but alive. Both heads function per- background, and were given heavy sen- and began to read. I read each page sev- fectly, but the right head is dominant. tences of hard labor. The severe physical eral times, then stood up and paced Once a week they feed this creature labor, useless and punitive in nature, round the cell. But now there was a dif- a dead mouse, and the right head was difficult enough to bear. But another ference. eats it. Sabbath drew on, and refusal to work Instead of counting-1, 2, 3, 4—on into The Dudley Duplex is not a very while surrounded by armed guards was the hundreds, instead of saying help- big snake, but it is really a fascinat- an appalling anticipation. When it came, lessly, "You're going crazy!" I was saying, ing sight. I was reminded of the many- we were driven into solitary confinement "In the beginning was the Word, and the headed monsters of Bible prophecy, in irons. Word was with God, and the Word was which God used to describe some of After the first shock, I could do noth- God," et cetera. I memorized many chap- the great evil nations of the world. ing but think of the hopelessness of it ters in this way. Then I tried to think These heads represented the kings all. Then my mind grew weary of try- my way through the deep doctrines in who were dominant for a time, and ing to figure it out, and I could do noth- John's Gospel, and the result was a com- who did the will of Satan in the earth. ing but pace around in that small, dark plete uplift in my thinking. We do not hear people described cell. I fell to counting the pebbles in John wrote to convince me that Jesus as two-headed, but sometimes as two- the concrete floor and the nails in the was the divine Son of God. I conceived iron walls. Countless times I went over that to be the greatest of all doctrines, this, till I felt I would go crazy. It was and the one against which Satan has demoralizing. built up more heresy and hurled more F Trying to get a grip on myself, I hatred than against any other Christian .11 1 OR011 repeated all the Bible texts and the good doctrine. Without a divine Saviour, man literature I had memorized—all the time would be at Satan's mercy. walking like an animal in a cage. Then The majestic teachings of John's Gos- When your associates urge you into paths back to counting pebbles and nails in pel lifted me up to sit with Christ in of vice and folly, and all around you are a rhythmic nightmare hour after hour. heavenly places, and while fighting life tempting you to forget God, to destroy the I was astonished at how little of the with the mind renewed with God's Word, capabilities God has intrusted to you, and Bible I had really memorized, and wished I knew that the present circumstances to debase all that is noble in your nature, I had a Bible there to read. By now I must give place to victory in the future. resist them. Remember that you are the Lord's property, bought with a price, the began to say in my restless pacing, "You're A few months later we were released suffering and agony of the Son of God.— going crazy! You're going crazy!" suddenly, and I went back to civilian Mrs. E. G. White in The Youth's Instructor, One day I heard a man in the next life. I had a new appreciation of the im- Jan. 5, 1887. cell also tramping round and round. portance of God' . Word in the life. JANUARY 31, 1957 15 T WAS harvesttime as I bumped sudden storm can quickly devastate along over the dusty, and some- their crops. But when I had finished I times very muddy, roads toward and sat down, the pastor announced Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. I could see that we would hear the choir sing the harvesters busy in the fields reap- (and, oh, how wonderfully they did ing the wheat with old-time threshing sing!) and then the meeting would machines. I almost felt as if I were continue. in America out in the Midwestern "But they surely don't want to hear wheat fields, but with the clock turned me again," I remonstrated. "Why, back fifty years. The only exception brother," the pastor said, "these peo- might have been the gray scarves with ple are prepared to stay here until which the women and girls covered ten o'clock tonight! They wouldn't their heads. They were pitching bun- think of going home until then." dles and driving the horses right I was amazed, yet thrilled, at their along with the men. eagerness to hear what was going on Here in this picturesque country in other parts of the world. I preached I was to hold a series of evangelistic three sermons, one right after the meetings. I could not help shaking other, until they finally led me off to my head when I learned that I was a wonderful supper. to speak in a country church on a "Now," I thought to myself, "What weekday, first from nine o'clock in the am I going to preach about tonight?"

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morning until noon, and then from At such a pace, sermon material can two o'clock in the afternoon until as be used up very fast. But, I find that late as possible at night. Since it was old and young never tire of hearing harvest season, I felt I would be lucky the wonderful stories of God's provi- if I had even a few women and girls dence to His children around the attend, for most of them were help- world. Then they sang with me some ing to bring in the precious crop that of our most cherished choruses that means the difference between a well- we sing back in the States. By ten filled larder and empty stomachs dur- that night I could hardly speak an- ing the long, cold winter. other word. However, when I arrived at the As I shook hands at the door I church at nine o'clock I found it al- asked one of the good farmer breth- ready full of eager young people with ren who grasped my hand in his their parents. It was the same as I viselike grip, "How do you dare de- journeyed from place to place. I lay getting in your harvest like this? found the churches always crowded, Aren't you afraid a storm will ruin it even in the country, as hungry souls before you get it in?" The tall, mus- were waiting to hear the message. I cular, red-faced young tiller of the marveled at the large congregations. soil stood there fingering his worn Men, women, and children were so cap as he listened to the translation closely packed into the entrance and of my question. Then his face was aisles of the church that it was ex- serious as he answered, "Brother, we tremely difficult for me to make my want to know how the message is way to the platform. From every win- going. We want to know how long it dow I could see a sea of heads, all will be before Jesus can come. Our trying to look in and listen to the harvest can wait, but we must know." message. So long have they been cut off from At first I tried not to preach too the outside world, so long have they North African Adventist youth in Alps of Southern long, for I thought the farmers would toiled under the most primitive cir- France, 1956. be eager to get back to their fields. A cumstances, that those dear people, 16 REVIEW AND HERALD many of whom have suffered persecu- tion for their faith, trust to the Lord to take care of them. Their faith has been proved. Now they want to know how the work is going. They long for the return of Jesus. At Our Youth Camp in Greece A few days later our car bounced over the Macedonian road to Greece. The year 1956 marked a milestone for our work in Greece, for it was the first year that a junior camp had been held there. It was truly thrilling to see a fine group of youngsters gath- ered together under the trees in the early morning hours having their morning watch, and kneeling for prayer. It was especially wonderful to me to learn that most of the juniors Yugoslavian Adventist youth orchestra assisted in youth meetings held in the summer of 1956. came from non-Adventist homes. have that shot. So the counselors met he would not like to pray before together and decided that regardless going to bed that night. He hesitated, he must have the shot, since it could then haltingly this young Greek boy mean the difference between life and prayed: "Dear Saviour, You know death. Gently but firmly he was led to that I am a very bad boy. You know the first-aid tent. The boy screamed that I have had a hard heart. When and threatened, and it was necessary they wanted to help me I wouldn't for some of us to hold him down. let them. Give me a good heart and But while he was thus screaming, the make me more like You. Amen." shot was administered and we let him From that moment on he was a up. changed youngster. No longer did he "When are you going to give me want the biggest and best. The next that shot?" he screamed. morning we asked him, "Are you go- "We've already given it to you!" ing home?" "Oh, no," he answered, n Europe answered the nurse. "I like it here. This is the best place "I didn't feel it. But I'm mad any- on earth!" Who knows how far and way!" he announced. "Tomorrow I'm lasting will be the results when that By JAMES J. AITKEN going home and tell my parents that boy returns to his home courteous you've been mean to me!" and considerate of others. Best of all, That night after the last meeting he has learned to pray, and he knows we all gathered in groups to pray. We Jesus can help him. What an effective method of evange- asked God to help this youngster to African Youth Camp in France lization our youth and junior camps enjoy the remaining days of camp. can be!. The director of the camp, N. Poulos, In the Alps of France along a rag- One young boy who sat next to me took the boy with him and prayed ing mountain river I visited a camp at the table every day especially in- with him. Then he asked the boy if (Continued on page 24) terested me because I knew that he came from a non-Adventist home. I noticed that he was quite a greedy boy. He always saw to it that he had the biggest and best of everything. "I wonder," I thought to myself, "whether he will be the same when comp is over." One afternoon as we were hiking through the small forest this young- ster cut his arm on a rusty tin can that was tied to a tree to collect the resin, which was dripping out of a long gash in its trunk. We took him immediately to the first-aid tent, then to the village doctor, who said that by all means he must have a tetanus shot. As soon as the boy heard it he became very angry. "Nobody is going to give me a shot!" he cried. "I'm going to pack my bags and go back home." All the counselors and the camp director tried to reason with him, but Brethren Aitken and Stralumic at evangelistic meeting in Yugoslavia. Notice open Bible pointing to Matthew to no avail. He simply would not 24 painted on the wall. JANUARY 31, 1957 17 lence of the Scriptures concerning them has led commentators to pro- pose various explanations of their actual relationship to Jesus, but it must be remembered that such ex- planations are mere conjectures.

The Message of Joel Flight From Jerusalem Desire of Ages [1940], p. 713) had been Please explain the meaning of Joel accepted. 2:1-11. On what day of the week, and in Aside from this personal encounter what season of the year, did the Chris- with the risen Lord it is almost cer- The date of the book of Joel is tians flee from Jerusalem at the time tain that Peter was with the other uncertain, but it has been suggested of the Roman siege in A.D. 69-70? disciples upon each of the various oc- that the prophet bore his message a casions when He appeared to them few years before the kingdom of The flight here referred to was fore- as a group—twice in the upper room Judah fell to the armies of Babylon told by our Lord shortly before His at Jerusalem, twice in Galilee—by the under Nebuchadnezzar in 605 B.c. It crucifixion (see Matt. 24:15-20; cf. sea and on a mountain—and at the was a time of apostasy and spiritual Luke 21:20-24), but the historical ful- ascension, on the Mount of Olives. crisis for God's chosen people, yet fillment of this prediction is not re- one in which divine love and mercy corded in Scripture. besought them to repent and return The contemporary Jewish historian Jesus' Brothers to the Lord (ch. 2:12, 13). Certain Josephus describes the siege and fall divine judgments had already fallen of Jerusalem at considerable length Were Jesus' brothers older or younger than He? upon the land (ch. 1:2-20), but per- (War ii. 19). In his account Josephus verse and persistent impenitence was notes that the Roman general Cestius, This question is one to which the hastening the coming of "the day of who had placed the city under siege, gospel record provides no clear-cut the Lord" (chs. 1:14, 15; 2:1, 2), retired by night with the major part answer. In fact, the Bible writers had which in the immediate historical of his army, but left 400 of his men very little to say about the brothers setting of the book of Joel referred to behind in the hope of deceiving the and sisters of our Lord, who are men- the utter desolation of the land by an Jews into thinking that his entire army tioned briefly in Matt. 12:46, 47; 13: invading army, as ch. 2:1-11 makes was still there. In the morning the 55, 56; Mark 3:31, 32; 6:3; John 2: evident (see SDA Bible Commentary, Jews discovered the subterfuge, slew 12; 7:3-5; Acts 1:14; 1 Cor. 9:5; Gal. on Joel 2:1-11). the men left behind, and pursued 1:19. Matthew (ch. 13:55) gives the In the Hebrew Bible the passage Cestius. They failed to overtake him, names of the brothers as James, Joses, under discussion is in poetic form, but did slaughter 5,680 Romans. Simon, and Judas, but does not give and may therefore be considered a Josephus assigns this incident to the names of "his sisters." John ob- poetic description of events connected the eighth day of Marheshvan, in the serves, within about six months of the with "the day of the Lord." The twelfth year of the emperor Nero crucifixion, that His brethren did not horror and desolation of that day is (War ii. 19. 9). Unfortunately it is "believe in him" (ch. 7:5). However, described in vs. 2, 3. The remainder impossible to determine the precise it appears that sometime before Pen- of the passage represents the invading day in terms of our calendar, on the tecost they were converted, for Luke army—the rod of divine judgment (cf. basis of currently available informa- mentions them as being among the Isa. 10:5; Jer. 51:20)—in the process tion, though the event is known to company of believers assembled in of overrunning the land, and closes have occurred in the month of Oc- the upper room in Jerusalem (Acts with the declaration that it is'the arm tober, A.D. 69. The precise date and 1:14). of the Lord (Joel 2:11). day of the week are alike unknown, The fact that Jesus committed His In a poetic description such as this, either of the Jewish victory over the mother to the care of John (see John attention should be focused upon the Roman forces or of the Christian 19:26, 27) implies that Jesus' general import of the message. The flight from the city. "brethren" (and sisters) were not details have meaning only as they actually Mary's own children. That contribute to the central idea the pas- Peter's Contacts With these brothers were older than Jesus sage was intended to convey (see is suggested by their attitude toward, SDA Bible Commentary, on Eze. 1. Christ and relationship to, Him. They tried 10), in this case the imminence and What contacts did the apostle Peter to restrain Him (see SDA Bible Com- fearful consequences of "the day of have with his risen Lord? mentary, on Mark . 3:21), they spoke the Lord" upon Judah. For a discus- taunting words to Him (see John 7: sion of the expression "day of the Peter's first personal encounter 3, 4), and otherwise interfered with Lord" see SDA Bible Commentary, with the risen Christ is referred to in His conduct (cf. Mark 3:31), as only on Isa. 2:12; 13:6. Luke 24:34; 1 Corinthians 15:5. It oc- brothers who were older would dare The book of Joel also has a mes- curred on the resurrection day, appar- to do in those days, in an Oriental sage, a most important one, for God's ently in the vicinity of Jerusalem, land. To one familiar with life in people today (cf. 1 Cor. 10:11). The but nothing is known as to the pre- Bible lands this argument would ap- great day of the Lord soon to come cise time, place, or circumstances. pear to be conclusive. See The Desire upon the whole earth will be infi- Probably the Lord honored Peter of Ages, pp. 86, 87, 90, 321, 326; SDA nitely more fearful than any visita- with His first appearance to any of Bible Commentary, on Matt. 1:25; tion of divine judgment upon Judah the Eleven in order to assure the im- Acts 1:14. in days of old. God calls upon His peo- petuous disciple that the denial two From ancient times it was com- ple to turn to Him with their whole days before had not alienated his monly believed that the brethren of heart, and prepare for the great events Master's affections, and that his our Lord were children of Joseph by soon to transpire upon the earth (vs. brokenhearted repentance (see The a former marriage. The relative si- 12, 13). 18 REVIEW AND HERALD son read it and cherished the book. Time of Reaping in South America Recently, through the Voice of Prophecy, he came in contact with our people and was baptized Decem- By R. R. Figuhr, President ber 17, with his wife and six others General Conference he had won. The story of the beginning of our work in South America is thrilling. After an absence of seven years, it be a God, let Him manifest Him- As one reads of the early history of is most encouraging to return to self." A few moments later he picked the work on this continent, he sees South America and see how wonder- up a torn sheet of the Bible, and how God led when the time came to fully God has blessed His work. The his eyes fell on a text that seemed to proclaim the truth here. Today, as church membership has steadily in- answer his challenge. He was aston- one watches the onward sweep of the creased during these years. By the ished, and the words went directly message, as one looks at our fine insti- end of 1956 it should not be far from to his heart. This led to his conver- tutions, our overflowing schools, many 90,000, and the brethren believe that sion, and he is now preparing for representative churches, and the de- by General Conference time in 1958 baptism. voted group of national workers, as the membership will have reached The chief problem in our publish- well as the thousands of earnest Ad- 100,000. Truly in these Catholic lands ing work is that of supplying the col- ventist believers, he is led to thank of South America God is calling out porteurs with literature. In Brazil God for the conquests of the three a host of faithful ones to obey and four hundred students are out work- angels' messages in South America. serve Him. Evangelism is strongly ing for scholarships. The publishing The work is firmly established here emphasized, and yearly the number of house is running twenty-four hours a and is prospering under the blessing baptisms grows. The year 1956 prom- day. In the Spanish-speaking area the of God. ises to be the best yet in soul winning. situation is much the same. The cheer- A seven-year absence from a divi- The president of one mission field, ing part is that the literature sold sion like South America is not very appointed only seven months ago, has over the years is yielding results. long; yet it is long enough to enable himself held two large evangelistic Twenty years ago a colporteur can- one to note that the continual bless- efforts already, with excellent results. vassed a man who wanted the book ing of God and His directing hand This emphasis on public evangelism but who had no money. The resource- have been upon His work in this is bound to bring gratifying results. ful colporteur persuaded the man to place. The pioneers sowed in faith. Developments in certain countries trade him one of his chickens for We today reap with joy from their in recent years have opened many Life of Christ, by Sister White. The sowing. doors of opportunity hitherto largely closed. There is more interest in, and opportunity to proclaim, our message now than ever before. In one of the Sabbathkeeping Group Discovered large cities of Argentina, where our church membership has been hover- ing around forty for years, the mem- in Brazil bership this year trebled. In another place, where the leader of another By SesOstris Cesar, Principal church was causing disturbances in Rio Grande do Sul Academy our evangelistic meetings, the police officer deputized our evangelist, em- powering him to make any arrests It is almost incredible that for over The leader, Idalino Jose Coelho, a necessary. Of course he did not exer- ten years a group of more than thirty patriarchal type of father, gathered cise this authority, but evidently the people, living near the Rio Grande the group together, read a scripture, knowledge of it kept the disturbers do Sul Academy in Taquara, Brazil, and interpreted it as he thought cor- \ and the meeting continued to have been keeping the Sabbath with- rect. a successful conclusion. Under pre- out anyone's being aware of it. I was curious to know the origin of vious conditions the police would The first person to have contact this group, so I asked the leader how have stopped our meetings, saying it with this group was our treasurer, he came to a knowledge of the truth. was necessary to do so in the interest W. M. Rosa. Traveling to Taquara He then related the following story. of maintaining peace. from Porto Alegre by bus, he began "My grandfather had a Bible. Be- A sailor in Argentina returned to to converse with a boy about land, fore his death he left this Bible with his home drunk one evening and farming, et cetera. Finally the con- my father, who read it to his children. found his wife reading the Bible. She versation turned to religion. Our pro- In my grandfather's old Bible we had been attending our meetings. fessor was greatly surprised when he discovered that the true day of wor- Angry, the husband grabbed the discovered that he was speaking with ship was the Sabbath. Then we began Bible from her hand and tore it to a boy who belonged to a group of to observe it. pieces, throwing the pieces on the Sabbathkeepers. "My father," he continued, "was a floor. He claimed to be an atheist. Later, Professor Rosa and I visited just man, honest and upright. He Raising his hand, he said, "If there this group. We found six families. faithfully followed the Word of God, JANUARY 3 1 , 1957 19, Challenge and Response in Indonesia By W. R. Beach A 482-mile flight from Singapore southward across the equator landed us in Jakarta, capital of the spice islands Columbus was seeking when he discovered America. Our plane was seldom out of sight of land as we flew over luxuriant jungles and plantations, almost every shade of blue and green brightening the earth beneath us. Countless islands dotted the sea. Some 3,000 of them have been bound together in a great com- monwealth called the Republic of Administration Building of the Rio Grande do Sul Academy with carloads of students and teachers leaving Indonesia. From Sumatra, in the west, for Sabbath afternoon missionary work. to Timor, in the east, these stepping- stones between Asia and Australia and before he died he gathered his the passage in the Bible that says, stretch for 3,000 miles along both children and said, 'My children, fol- "The harvest truly is great, but the sides of the equator. low the Word of God and this reli- labourers are few," should read, "The Many of these spice islands are gious truth. This is the only inherit- harvest is great, but the labourers are small, but some of them are very ance I leave you.' " negligent." large. The island of Sumatra is more The Lutherans knew of the exist- We have, today, in this place called than 1,000 miles long, with a total ence of this group and went to in- Fialho Farm, a group of more than area greater than that of California. doctrinate them. The Lutheran pas- thirty people studying each Sabbath, Just eastward lies Java, 650 miles tor did everything to win them to and preparing themselves for baptism long, with a population of 50 mil- Lutheranism. He tried many ways to under the direction of Isaias Dornelles. lion. It is almost the exact size of Ala- convince them. Finally, after agitated We expect that fifteen persons will be bama. Java, with an average of 1,000 debates, the leader of the group said buried with their Lord at the first people to each square mile, is the to him, "Pastor, if your religion ob- baptism. most densely populated area in the serves the seventh-day Sabbath, we \\Te have about six missionary bands world. Total population of the is- will unite with you, for we will follow at the academy. Each Sabbath, stu- lands in this amazing amphibious re- only a religion that keeps the Sabbath dents and teachers go out to work. public is more than 80 million peo- according to the Bible." The pastor, There are many interested people. ple. seeing that his efforts were of no avail, Recently we received a message from Jakarta is a magic name in the Sev- left. a rich man who requested a pastor to enth-day Adventist program. Hun- Soon a Baptist minister came. He come to his house. He wanted to study dreds of missionary stalwarts have struggled without results, and after the truth. With the help of God we passed through this port to their sta- giving advice of a moral nature, he hope to have a large harvest. It is in- tions of service in the churches, also left. teresting to note that this work began schools, and medical units through- Later, the Jehovah's Witnesses ar- exactly on the day in which we began out the field. It is a growing center rived. They, too, worked without re- to pray at mealtime for missionary of activity today with its nine or- sults. work. ganized churches and companies. Finally the pastors of the Congre- gational Christians of Brazil arrived, thinking they would have a good harvest of souls. They left when the group remained steadfast on the side of the Sabbath truth. To everyone the leader said, "We will follow only a religion that is in harmony with the Word of God and keeps the Sab- bath and the law of God. When we find a people doing this, we will fol- low them. If you do not keep the law of God, do not waste time with us." About this same time this man bought a radio and began to hear the Voice of Prophecy. He discovered that the religion of this program was the truth. For almost forty years these peo- ple had waited for someone to carry them the message. If our professor had not talked with this boy on the bus, perhaps today we would not Recently discovered group of Sabbathkeepers at Fialho Farm, in the Rio Grande do Sul Conference. The know of this group. I remember hear- discovery of this new company of Sabbathkeepers has inspired the faculty and students of the Rio Grande do ing Pastor Boehm once state that Sul Academy to do greater missionary work for the Lord. 20 REVIEW AND HERALD The most thrilling report of the work in Jakarta concerns evangelism in the famous Tjipinang Prison. The Voice of Prophecy has enrolled some 190 prisoners in the Bible correspond- ence course. Recently, 175 of these enrollees were in attendance at a se- ries of Bible studies. More than 50 have now joined the baptismal class and are preparing for church mem- bership. The headquarters of the Indonesia Union are located at Bandung, some 60 miles inland and some 2,500 feet above sea level. The trip up into the hills leads through a countryside of fabulous beauty. Thousands of well- kept rice fields follow one another in crazy-quilt fashion. In the hills, every foot of land, many times right to the summit, is terraced for well- watered rice fields. The black soil is some of the most fertile in the world, and explains the ability of this area to provide subsistence for so many crowded millions. Bandung, in this land of endless summer, has an enviable climate. Temperatures range, night and day, from 68° to 83° Fahrenheit. With each 300 feet elevation the temper- Singapore Students Conduct Week of Devotion ature descends approximately one degree. Comfortable lodgings, both Malayan Union Seminary, Singapore, conducted its first student Week of Devotion recently with the fourteen young people pictured above as the speakers. The young women led out in the evening meetings and the European and national style, dot young men in the morning meetings. All are students in the junior college division of the Malayan Union these hills. Providential openings Seminary. have made it possible to provide ade- quate housing for our 15 overseas families and single workers. of 1956 Indonesia's colporteur evan- East Java alone in 1955. This year an The four-day annual session of the gelists sold $147,000 worth of lit- additional 45 Moslems have been Indonesia Union Committee brought erature, which equals the total for the received into the church. Baptisms us face to face with the tremendous whole year of 1955. In the month of have also occurred in other fields. challenge to our work in this great November was recorded the largest This is just a beginning, but it is felt country where 90 per cent of the peo- single sale by a regular colporteur. A that the beginning offers very encour- ple are Moslems. After 55 years of la- former student of one of our mission aging prospects. bor we have more than 15,000 church schools sold the Health Department A recent Moslem convert now liv- members in the nine local organiza- of the Indonesia Government in Ja- ing in South Sumatra has prepared tions. However, only one Indonesian karta 5,200 booklets. The total order a very interesting manuscript for pub- in every 5,000 of the population to- cost the government $9,316. As sales lication. It has been put out in book day is a Seventh-day Adventist. Our increase, so do baptisms. form under the title Isa Tidalam Al- work is firmly established in its vari- One of the most encouraging de- Quran ("Jesus in the Koran"). This ous phases. velopments that I have witnessed any- booklet brings a new and appealing The Indonesia Union Training where is the growth and progress of approach to the Moslem people to School is 13 miles from Bandung in the Bandung medical institution. The accept Christ as their Saviour. Ten Weal farming country. It has 250 stu- faith and hard work of our doctors thousand copies of this 50-page book- dents in attendance, 48 of whom are and nurses have made this institu- let have been printed and are ready enrolled in the junior-college classes. tion what it is today. It started in a for circulation. Twenty-four Voice of Adequate dormitory space will be large city dwelling and is still oper- Prophecy lessons have also been pre- provided when the work on the boys' ating in cramped quarters. The 70 pared for the specific needs of Mos- dormitory, now under construction, beds are never sufficient to take care lems. At present some 300 Moslem is completed. Teacher housing has of the needy applicants. A successful students are enrolled in the Voice been provided for. The one outstand- nurses' training school is conducted. of Prophecy Bible Correspondence ing need now is for an administra- This year the graduating class has ten School. tion and classroom building. members. These young people are the Many items of interest crowd my Two other denominational institu- hope of our medical work in Indo- mind as I think back over the days tions are situated in the Bandung nesia. However, more beds must be spent in council with the brethren area. The new Indonesia Publishing provided in the hospital so that the in Indonesia. Clyde C. Cleveland and House, five miles from the center school can be accredited with the gov- his associates are making soul-win- of the city, is operating at full capac- ernment. Accreditation will require ning activity the center of their la- ity. The last of the new equipment a minimum of 100 beds. bors. Our national and overseas work- has been received and installed, and The great need in Indonesia is to ers are directing the church into new we are now printing all of our own reach the 70 million Moslems. There paths of conquest. publications. In the first ten months were 65 of these people baptized in Out in Timor the home mission- JANUARY 31, 1957 21 ary department is writing a new page join the saints on the sea of glass. nite plans were laid for the continua- in apostolic achievement. Ten prom- Our workers trust God to bring this tion of large city efforts and the estab- ising laymen from the various sec- to pass. It is our glorious privilege lishment of evangelistic centers wher- tions of that field were selected and to have a part in the work and a share ever possible. given two weeks' training based on in the victory. The capital city, New Delhi, will the book Training Light Bearers, soon witness the erection of a repre- which is now available in the Indo- sentative hospital in a prominent sec- nesian language. These laymen are Southern Asia Division tion of the city, where the best and now hard at work. Two on the island Council most influential classes will feel its of Alor have labored faithfully, and influence and be able to take advan- it is reported that 2,000 nominal By L. K. Dickson tage of its facilities. This will mean Christians are awaiting further in- Vice-President, General Conference a great advance step in the work in struction in God's last messages to Northwest India. mankind. In a small village on Timor The Southern Asia Division Coun- The writer had the privilege of vis- a lay worker has been responsible for cil met in Poona, India, December iting much of our work in the divi- the baptism .of 66 persons in less 7-15, with a full attendance of the sion and of seeing the growth that is than two years. division committee. Joining with being made. A fine army of young- In Bandung, evangelism of a new them from the General Conference people is being trained throughout kind is in progress. This new method were R. H. Adair, assistant treasurer; the division in our schools in prepara- has been designed to reach and to L. R. Rasmussen, associate secretary tion for carrying on the work of God. hold the interest of the Indonesian of the Department of Education; Lois Splendid nurses are constantly being young people of secondary and col- D. Burnett, associate secretary of the prepared to take up the work of al- lege age. The Indonesia Union Min- Medical Department, and the writer. leviating the suffering all about them. isterial Association secretary is pre- The Lord greatly blessed this im- During the period of the council senting a 36-lesson illustrated Bible portant gathering as the council con- there was a day-by-day program to course with a fitting diploma for sidered problems of outstanding im- lift the spiritual tone of the lives of graduates. Average attendance at this port to the task of finishing God's our leaders. The ready response to course is 125. Twenty-five students work among the more than 385 mil- the spiritual appeals given were most are Moslems and another 35 are uni- lion souls of Southern Asia. Encourag- heartening, and revealed the fact versity students. Some 118 students ing reports of what had been accom- that God is setting His hand to finish are looking forward to receiving their plished during the past year were the work through the lives of our diplomas. rendered. These showed much prog- faithful workers and leaders in these There is much to perplex and har- ress in soul winning, financial gains, needy lands. ass the work of God in the spice is- and the opening up of new sections Under the leadership of A. E. Raw- lands. However, the future is bright. to the light of the gospel of Christ. son, the Voice of Prophecy radio and From the Battaks and the Dyaks and Every field reported gains in bap- correspondence school work is being some 200 other distinct peoples that tisms, in the establishment of branch carried on in many places throughout make up the Republic of Indonesia, Sabbath schools, and in the number the division. The reports that came God will bring out a multitude to of lay evangelistic efforts held. Defi- in revealed that excellent results are being obtained through this branch of our evangelistic program. There is scarcely a section of the division where these very effective Bible schools are not being carried on. Thousands of new names are con- tinually being added to the student lists, and a large proportion of the baptisms reported at the council came as a result of the Voice of Prophecy work. Throughout this important council it was evident that 0. 0. Mattison, the president of the division, with his associate officers, is giving strong leadership to the work in this divi- sion. A splendid cooperativeand brotherly spirit prevails throughout the working force, -the results of v, hich are being seen in the onward move- New Office for Washington Conference ment of the work in all lines. A helpful and successful educa- The new Washington Conference office proposing an automobile freeway that will tional council, led by L. R. Rasmus- building was formally opened and dedicated run right through our old property. sen and 0. A. Skau, was held just on Wednesday, September 5, 1956. The main In erecting the new office, provisions were prior to the division committee meet- speaker was C. A. Scriven, president of the made for the future growth of the confer. ing. North Pacific Union Conference. In addi- ence. Enough space has been provided so Although the work in these fields tion to the entire conference working force, that the office can serve a much larger mem- many friends and workers from other fields bership. The loyal, Seventh-day Adventist of great darkness and need is not were present for the occasion. architect, Robert Burman, provided us with easy, and much of it is beset with This new building was necessary for two a building that is economical, simple, ef- obstacles, yet the Lord is giving strong reasons. First, the old building was not large ficient, and beautiful. evidences that He is going before His enough to properly house the growing con- THEODORE CARCICH, President church as it moves into this great ference office staff. Second, the State is Washington Conference hour of triumph. 22 REVIEW AND HERALD Church in Hyattsville, Maryland, Celebrates Twenty-fifth Anniversary By H. B. Weeks In a few brief hours of a series of twenty-fifth anniversary services on the final weekend of 1956, members and friends of the Review and Herald Memorial church, at Hyattsville, Maryland, relived years of labor and sacrifice, devotion and victory. Those who built the church raised the funds during the grim years of depression. They were impelled on- ward by the force of fellowship and holy determination that had begun in an evangelistic campaign of their own. When the congregation moved into its new church on the first Sabbath of 1939, the seating and other equip- ment had been installed, even the landscaping was complete—and every Review and Herald Memorial Church, Hyattsville, Maryland. bill was paid. The church was theirs. It has prospered. In 1942 there was teered to assist in the meetings. The Worthington Foods erected nearby a two-story medical publishing house itself contributed welfare building. The laymen f the toward the project. Sales Conference church, in the same spirit that led The meetings began in the autumn By Wesley Amundsen them to begin the work in Hyatts- of 1931 in the Masonic Hall in Hy- ville, have gone out to raise up like attsville. Church services began in the The name Harding Sanitarium is memorials elsewhere—a group of same hail in January, 1932, and in well known among Seventh-day Ad- them joined with others to start the May of that year a church was or- ventists. This institution at Worthing- church in nearby Spencerville, Mary- ganized. Appropriately it was named ton, Ohio, was incorporated thirty- land. the Review and Herald Memorial six years ago, and although not de- In one year the members were con- church. nominationally owned, it operates in ducting four evangelistic efforts simul- As the depression began to tighten full harmony with Adventist princi- taneously. its grip upon the country the mem- ples of health reform and medical In 1948 the Hyattsville group bers began the toil of raising their practice. raised funds and built another church building fund. In the year 1939 the owners and about three miles away, in Decatur Having shared the labors of love operators of the Harding Sanitarium Heights. Forty-nine members from of that trying period, the challenges decided to establish a health-food the parent congregation joined the of growth and evangelism during the manufacturing concern, now known new church for its initial services on intervening quarter century, and the as Worthington Foods, Inc. It has the first Sabbath in 1949. joys of a measure of success in God's grown, and its influence has been felt Pathfinders of Hyattsville dis- service, Hyattsville members were not throughout the denomination. The covered a good interest in nearby ashamed to shed a tear as they met board of directors consists of J. L. Beltsville. On the first Sabbath of with friends and neighbors in their Hagle, president; Harrison S. Evans, 1955 the first services were held for a twenty-fifth anniversary services. M.D.; George T. Harding II, M.D.; new congregation in that community. And everyone viewed, as with sym- George T. Harding III, M.D.; and During the twenty-five years since bolic meaning for the years ahead, Allan R. Buller, general manager. the first Sabbath service was held in the charge given by the church's early Worthington Foods, Inc., was one Hyattsville, 301 souls have been bap- guiding spirit, Elder Nichol, to its of the charter members of the Associa- tized. Five young men who were bap- present pastor, J. R. Loor. Brother tion of Self-supporting Institutions, tized in this church have since be- Loor grew up in Hyattsville from and is still an active member of this come ministers. Thirteen members the tender days of kindergarten— organization. have gone into foreign mission fields. when his mother was brought into From December 9 to 11 it was my Here is the background of the the church. Baptized by Elder Nichol privilege, as secretary of the associa- church. In the summer of 1931 a de- in 1941, he is one of Hyattsville's tion, to attend a sales conference with sire that had been stirring in the own. He knows the power of conse- some of our Seventh-day Adventist hearts of many of the workers at the crated laymen in action, and is dedi- Christian businessmen whose work Review and Herald publishing house cated to leading them in ever more centers in the Worthington Foods to do evangelistic work, was realized active service for God during the years health program. Certain regional sales under the leadership of F. D. Nichol. ahead. representatives from various parts of When the idea that an evangelistic Former pastors of the Hyattsville the United States were present. One effort be conducted in Hyattsville church include: F. D. Nichol, 1932- thing that impressed me greatly was was presented at a publishing house 1942; R. Quackenbush, 1942-1950; the fact that every one of the field rep- chapel service, there was a spontane- J. C. Dean, 1950-1952; M. E. Munger, resentatives present at the roll call ous response. Money was pledged to 1952-1953; T. K. Ludgate, 1953-1955; the first day was also a local elder in meet the expenses, and many volun- and W. H. Coffman, 1955-1956. his home church. JANUARY 31, 1957 23 In his opening remarks, J. L. Hagle, with a young man who is changing president of the food company, and his whole career. Pedro was a young administrator of the Harding Sani- Spanish boy who from his earliest tarium, asked the question: "What is years could think of nothing else than the most important thing regarding DESCRIBED EY H. M TIPPETT learning to be a first-class bullfighter. our work?" Then he summed up, to The bullfights interested him more a certain extent, the reason for their and more, and he could not seem to existence: "Seventh-day Adventist The Miracle of Wu-pao and keep away from them. His youthful Church principles are the very reason Other Stories mind clung to the idea that the most for our being engaged in this work. wonderful thing to be in this world We recognize the importance of die- Review and Herald Publishing Assn., $2.50. was a matador—not just an ordinary tetic reform, and therefore have one, but one of the greatest. He put thrown our energies into this pro- Who is there that cannot recall stories himself into this profession with all he has read or heard told that never lose gram in order to help the church as their interest? Again and again we reread of the energy in his young life. a whole in this great and important certain experiences that have thrilled our One day just as he was drawing health education program." hearts with the imperishable impressions they near the end of his apprenticeship All through the convention the have left on us. Here is a compilation of and had begun his career in the ring, spiritual side of health education, as stories from our youth publications in years he fell ill with tuberculosis. For days, well as the manufacture and distribu- gone by that have stood out among many weeks, and months he lay in the hos- tion of nutritional health-food prod- for their inspiration to faith and good works. pital wondering when, if ever, he ucts, was stressed. All agreed that The title story is about a Chinese Christian would re-enter his beloved profession. their relationship to the church, the who triumphed over persecution to become However, the days were lotig and ministers, the people, the retail sales a modern evangel for God. The second story tells of divine interposition at an auction weary for him, and with this dread outlets, the competitors, the develop- sale that enabled a church and school to be sickness he did not know what the ment of better products, and the established instead of a roadhouse tavern. future would hold. means of providing for a broader And what reader could live through the ex- Then one day a group of Mission- health education program, should perience of Larry and Patricia in "The ary Volunteers from our church vis- have as its object that of helping to Land of Beginning Again" without scanning ited him. They spoke words of cour- prepare a people to be ready to meet the lines through a mist of tears? These age and left him some reading ma- the Lord at His coming. stories are of the kind that chasten the terial. Pedro was not much interested May the Lord continue to raise up heart and fortify the spirit, that banish at first, but he had nothing else to Christian businessmen, who seek to doubt about God's overruling providences and convince the soul that He stands unseen do, so he read. Every week they came, follow the counsel given to the rem- in life's shadows "keeping watch above His and he found he was getting ac- nant people. own." The book is dedicated to "Sharing the quainted with some of the best friends faith of our fathers," and if once opened he had ever had in his life. CME Participates in and read, it will be opened again and again One day Pedro learned that he must for the examples it furnishes of the joy of a have an operation; the doctor said it United Charity Drive life dedicated to God and His service. was serious. He began to think. By John Shull Would the Lord spare his life for the bull ring? Finally he decided, "If the General Business Manager Lord sees fit to spare me, I shall give College of Medical Evangelists Evangelism in Yugoslavia up my profession and serve Him the Reaffirming their belief in the rest of my days." Master's words, "Inasmuch as ye have (Continued from page 17) The Lord did spare Pedro, and to- done it unto one of the least of these day he is training to lead other youth my brethren, ye have done it unto of 115 French youth from North Af- to the Saviour. Now he thinks no me," personnel of the College of Med- rica. For two years these young peo- more about the bull ring. But when ical Evangelists—the church's largest ple had not been able to have camps someone asks him if it is hard to give single institution—participated re- in North Africa because of the un- up the cheers and applause of the cently in the United Charity Fund settled political situation there. They crowd, he merely shrugs and says, Drive. might have been murdered in their "I would rather have the approval of The drive followed the voluntary beds by terrorists had they tried camp- God than to engage in such a use- contribution plan. The latest grand- ing out. So these plucky young folks less occupation." total figure for both campuses is took their tents, stoves, kettles, bed- Over the dry, brown plains of $5,313.73. The Los Angeles campus ding, and personal belongings on their Spain; past the threshing floors where gave $3,213.73, and the Loma Linda backs, and boarded boats out of Phil- donkeys tread the wheat; past primi- campus donated $2,100. This was the lipville, Oran, and Algiers. They all tive villages, lay the route along which fourth consecutive year that each crossed the Mediterranean and met in I drove on to Portugal—to the country campus and the college as a unit were Marseilles in southern France, then where all the houses are white, and able to exceed the previous year's made their way up into the Alps. the women carry everything on their mark. The remarkable thing about this heads. And here too, in this beauti- Harold Ermshar, business adminis- camp was that in spite of the fact ful little country, God has a multi- trator for the Los Angeles campus, that there is hostility between the tude of His chosen ones. directed the United Charity Drive for Arabs and French in North Africa, In our well-organized Missionary CME. He congratulated employees for these French youth had brought with Volunteer camp in Portugal a young the "continued support of these char- them four young Arabs, who sang our man came forward in response to my ities which benefit many persons less gospel songs along with us and joined call for those who wished to be bap- fortunate than ourselves." Assisting in the prayer groups. It is truly won- tized. Then twenty-three other young Mr. Ermshar were Oliver Jacques, derful what the love of Jesus can do. people came forward and signed their community relations officer for the Sitting near the blazing campfire names, signifying that they wished to Los Angeles campus, and Frank Rob- by the side of a beautiful, moonlit study in a baptismal class. inson, of the Loma Linda campus. lake in Spain, I became acquainted The first young man was eighteen 24 REVIEW AND HERALD years old, and he stood a little apart. Joseph Dobias, who continues as pastor Olympian and Governor hotels of that When the others had gone he timidly of the Pittsburgh Slovakian church and city. came up, but when a pencil was of- the McKeesport church. Elder Hoffman • After counsel and prayer with each fered him he shook his head. "I have also serves the Uniontown and Mount candidate, Torn E. Spindle baptized 25 Braddock churches. never been to school," he said sadly. youth in the Auburn, Washington, dis- "I do not know how to write my • John E. Loor, former pastor of the trict on November 24. This climaxed a name, but I do want to be baptized. Stanley, Virginia, church, has taken up Week of Prayer held earlier. Would you write my name for me?" his new duties as pastor of the Hyatts- ville, Maryland, church in the Potomac Pacific Union And so as he drew an "x" on our Conference. register of honor for those who had • B. H. Matthews reports that the Og- made their decisions that day, we • A series of public evangelistic meet- den, Utah, church, has a new building. The structure has a main auditorium signed his name beside it. ings has been started in Canton, Ohio. C. L. Duffield and H. V. Shafer make up upstairs, with a recreation room, chil- How thankful I was that in the the evangelistic team. dren's departments, Dorcas room, kitchen, two and a half months of summer and two classrooms for the elementary in southern Europe more than 135 Lake Union school in the basement. young people made this most impor- • The Ingalls church is the first church • Literature evangelists in Arizona de- tant decision. in Indiana to reach the 1957 Ingathering livered $66,370.77 worth of truth-filled Minute Man goal. The church at Cicero literature in 1956, a gain of $14,197.94 is the first of the larger churches in the over 1955. C. W. Mangold, publishing conference to announce attainment of secretary in Arizona, gives these addi- this same goal. This church has more tional figures: 16 souls baptized, 2,934 than 200 members, and since its territory enrolled in the Bible correspondence is very limited this represents a real course, 14,259 pieces of free literature achievement. placed in homes where no sale was made, and 59 former Adventists contacted. • Members of the Broadview Academy temperance chapter have not only dis- • The Detamore-Holly-Turner evange- Atlantic Union tributed nearly 2,000 bumper stickers to listic team opened a three-week intensive • The Wayland District (Arthur E. police authorities, at a cost of about $300, campaign in San Gabriel, Southern Cali- Wade, pastor) was the first in the New but they have also been active in radio fornia Conference, on January 6. York Conference to go over the 1957 work and setting up billboards along the • The Pine Grove, California, church- Minute Man goal. highway. H. M. Lodge, temperance secre- and-school building was completely de- tary of the Illinois Conference, invited stroyed by fire recently. • The Southern New England Confer- them to give a report to the Illinois ence has leased a building in an excellent workers. As a result they have been in- • Harvey Retzer, pastor of the Shafter, location in Brockton, Massachusetts, for vited to give temperance programs in a California, church, reports the climax of seventeen weeks, for an evangelistic cam- number of Illinois churches. a ten-week series of evangelistic meetings paign to be conducted by Daniel Harris, in that church and the nearby community assisted by Ernest Wheeler, L. 0. Cum- North Pacific Union of Buttonwillow. Harry Reile, principal mings, Wylie Fowler, Kenneth Hutchins, of Kern Academy, and Kenneth Pitts, Donald Wright, and Helen Weston. • During the caroling season some 175 youth leader of the Kern region, assisted members and friends of the Central and • The Acadettes of Greater Boston with the music. Twenty-four have already Academy, under the direction of Richard North Side churches covered the city of been baptized and a number of others are Spokane, Washington, in a house-to- interested in further Bible study. Hammond, gave a program of sacred house Ingathering campaign. As a result carols in a number of places during the more than 15,000 Ingathering leaflets were • The mothers of the dormitory girls Christmas season. given away, hundreds of cans of food at Lodi Academy, California, were hon- • The Union Springs Academy Choir, were obtained for the Dorcas supply, 3 ored at a banquet held December 19. An directed by Robert Pound, sang at the Bible studies are under way, and a total interesting program was presented, at Presbyterian church in Auburn, New of $4,340.28 was raised in cash. The first which Lavonne Miller, girls' club presi- York, one Sunday in December. night more than 100 people were present dent, presided. to go caroling, and an average of 11 carol- • Students and faculty of Pacific Union Columbia Union ing units were used each night for 11 College and Angwin community residents nights. • During the second week of this month are joining forces to bring two Hungar- the literature evangelists of the Columbia • Saturday night, December 8, members ian refugee students to the campus. The Union met for their annual convention of the Snoqualmie, Issaquah, and Carna- college has offered two full tuition scholar- in the Takoma Park, Maryland, church. tion churches met for a farewell for Elder ships to the students, and at least $1,000 Directing the meeting was J. F. Kent, and Mrs. E. N. Sargeant. Elder Sargeant has been donated toward living expenses union publishing secretary. retired December 31 after 50 years of for them. continuous preaching. The Sargeants • The public relations department of will spend the winter in Bakersfield, Cali- the Cnesapeake Conference is sending a fornia, where their son, Dr. Donald Sar- copy of The Desire of Ages to every Protes- geant, is located. tant mi,,ister in their territory. Accom- panying the book is a letter written by • Youth groups throughout the Oregon C. V. Anderson, president, and D. G. Conference made a great, final surge to Fleagle, public relations secretary. end 1956 successfully with its "Operation Desire" campaign. During the closing BECKNER.—George Thornton Beckner, born Oct. • C. W. Guenther, pastor of the Pitts- 11, 1879, in Stafford County Kans.; died in Clinton, days of the year Columbia Academy and Mass., Dec. 18, 1956. For 69 years he was a church burgh Shadyside church in the West Laurelwood Academy youth raised nearly member. He attended school in Keene, Tex., and in Pennsylvania Conference, has accepted 1901 married Mary Brown. That same year they went $600. MV Societies at Eugene and Grants as missionaries to Tahiti and Raiatea of the Society an invitation from the Southern New Pass each ordered some 500 more copies Islands of the South Pacific, where they served for 6 England Conference to become pastor of of The Desire of Ages for 1957. The years. Surviving are his wife, 4 children, 14 grand- the Sanitarium and Lynn churches in children, 3 great-grandchildren, 1 sister, and 1 brother. Portland Sylvan Nature Club sponsored a SHULL.—Claude A. Shull, born April 5, 1890, in Massachusetts. Christmas program and raised an addi- Battle Creek, Mich.; died in San Jose, Calif., Aug. 9, 1956. He taught at Lodi Academy from 1908 to • John E. Hoffman, former pastor of tional $70, bringing their total to nearly 1910. From 1910 to 1913 he headed the business de- the Huntington church in the West 150 books placed by this group. In the partment at Walla Walla College. Next he was called to be professor of history at Atlantic Union College, Virginia Conference, is now located in Washington Conference, members of the serving until 1921, when he became principal of Washington, Pennsylvania, replacing Olympia church placed 235 copies in the Union Springs Academy in New York. From 1925 to

JANUARY 31, 1957 25 1928 he served as principal of Auburn Academy. Dec. 4, 1956. In 1907 she was united in marriage to daughters, 4 grandchildren, and 1 sister. [This obituary Auburn, Wash., and from 1929 to 1930 as educational Theodore H. Fohl. She was a church member for 65 notice was received on Dec. 13, 1956.—EniToRs.] superintendent of the Eastern Washington Confer- years. Shortly before his death, her husband built WEBSTER.—Esta Eleanor Landis Webster, born in ence. In 1930 he entered Stanford University, from the Orofino church and dedicated it in her honor. Lone Elm, Kans.; died in Lodi, Calif., Nov. 19, 1956. which he received his master's and doctorate degrees. Left to cherish her memory are a stepson, 3 sisters, She was baptized at 12 years of age. For 3 genera- From 1933 to 1956 he served on the faculties of and 2 brothers. tions her family were Adventists. Her grandfather, Golden Gate Junior College, San Francisco State GANT.—Ella May Ketchum Gant, born May 4, Andrew Coldwell, was baptized in 1874 by S. H. Lane, College, and San Francisco City College. Dr. Shull 1872, in Gentry, Ark.; died at Atascadero. Calif., a pioneer minister. The family record covers the is survived by his wife, Adeline; 3 sons. Robert C. Nov. 11, 1956. She was married to Benjamin B. entire period of the missionary endeavor of our of Saratoga, Calif., Douglas E. of San Jose, Calif., Gant in 1890. Shortly after her marriage she accepted church, as J. N. Andrews was sent to the mission and Harold, now serving in our mission work in the truth. She is survived by 2 sons, Elder Kenneth field in 1874. The family of Grandfather Coldwell Korea. [This obituary notice was received on Dec. 4, Gant and Dr. Julian C. Gant; 2 daughters, Dr. Ola has sent missionaries to all parts of the world. Esta's 1956.—EDITORS.] Gant and Mrs. Leah Wells. She also leaves 7 grand- brother. Dr. Landis. and family went to China; her EDWARDS.—Gertrude Christian Edwards, born children and 9 great-grandchildren. sister, Mrs. Mayte Anderson, and family also went March 17, 1876, in Talladega, Ala.; died in Orlando, to China; and another sister. Mrs. Wilma Warren, Fla., Oct. 17, 1956. She accepted the truth in 1912. HELQUIST.—Alvin Helquist, born Oct. 3, 1913, and family are now in Formosa. Just a month before Soon thereafter she was employed as a Bible worker in Willman, N. Dak.; died Nov. 17, 1956. He was her death our sister saw her youngest son, Dr. James in the Southern Union, where she served 6 years. baptized in 1951. In 1952 he was married to Frieda Webster, and family leave to become medical mis- Later she was connected with the Florida Sanitarium Sanders. He is mourned by his widow, 3 stepsons, 1 sionaries in Bangkok, Thailand. Esta was united in as hostess and then as a practical nurse for 18 years, stepdaughter, his parents, 3 brothers, and 4 sisters. marriage to James L. Webster in 1913. Those left Left to mourn are a sister and 2 brothers. [This to cherish her memory are her husband; 3 children, obituary notice was received on Dec. 4, 1956.— HOGUE.—Grace Hill Hogue, born Feb. 4, 1879, Warren, Wilma, and James; 10 grandchildren; 3 in Port Washington, Ohio; died at Clinton, Mass., brothers, and 2 sisters. EDITORS.] Nov. 16. 1956. In 1902 she was united in marriage EINGLEHARD.—Louis H. Englehard, born May with Claude Harris Hogue, and 13 years later they ZWEEMER.—Esther Clark Zweemer, born June 25, 1860, in Sachsenberg, Germany; died in Glendale, both accepted the message. Surviving are her daugh- 9, 1898, in Gardena. Calif.; died in Indio, Calif.,. Calif., Nov. 5, 1956. He came to America in 1883. ter and son-in-law, Prof. and Mrs. Harold Lease, of Dec. 1, 1956. Our sister was baptized at an early age. In 1886 he was married to Ida M. Giruni. He ac- South Lancaster Academy; a son, Gail Hogue, and She leaves to mourn their loss her husband, Everett, cepted the truth in 1900 and soon became a col- a grandson. and 4 sisters. porteur. Our brother is survived by his daughter, JACKS.—Grace Gertrude Howard Jacks, born July Mrs. Ida E. Booth Waretassen of New Jersey. 11, 1872, in Napa, Calif.; died in Carmichael, Calif., NOTICES MATTSSON.—Maria Charlotta Haglund Mattsson, Nov. 17, 1956. As a young woman she accepted the born June 13, 1878, in North Sweden; died in truth. Her husband, Fred Sidney Jacks, preceded her Literature Requests Dinuba, Calif., Dec. 26, 1956. Sister Mattsson taught in death. Besides her daughter, those left to mourn are 2 grandchildren. school for many years both in our academy in WANTED: Signs, Instructors, Little Friends, old Sweden and also at Broadview College in Illinois. JACKSON.—Schuyler H. Jackson, born in 1891 Bibles, small pamphlets and books, as well as Reviews Mourning their loss are her husband, Karl Mattsson, in Tunkhannock, Pa.; died Nov. 28, 1956. He was to be used in a lending library by Mrs. D. E. John- a daughter, and a brother. baptized in 1918 and for more than 20 years the son, 225 Napa Ave., Fresno 1, Calif. RITTENHOUSE.—Alice Estella Owen Rittenhouse, church services were conducted in his home. He C. H. Parchment, "Twin Willows," St. John's P/A, born Oct. 4, 1879, in Battle Creek, Mich.; died in leaves to mourn, his wife, Olive, 1 daughter, and 3 Jamaica, B.W.I., requests old papers, used Bibles and San Bernardino, Calif., Dec. 2. 1956. She graduated grandchildren. songbooks, for missionary purposes. from Battle Creek College in 1906. In 1907 she ac- MECKLING.—Frank Meckling. born Jan. 12, 1874, cepted a position as teacher at Walla Walla College, Shirley Wright, 1406 Victory St., Greensboro, N.C., in Grinizy, Austria; died in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. and Washington. In 1911 she married Charles H. Ritten- 7, 1956. In 1893 he came to the United States, and desires copies of These Times, Life and Health, house, a minister. Together they conducted evange- in 1898 he was united in marriage with Emma other periodicals to be used in hospitals and other listic meetings in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, Schaile. He accepted the truth in 1920. He is sur- institutions, for missionary purposes. and later in South Carolina. Left to mourn is one vived by his wife, 2 sons, Fred and Frank (who is a Helpful books for young people, religious periodi- sister. professor in Walla Walla College), 1 grandchild, and cals, tracts. Bibles, and songbooks are requested by WEAVER.—E. P. Weaver, died Nov. 9, 1956. Our 1 sister. E. R. Baisden. 117 St. George Street, Savanna-la-mar, brother was mill superintendent of the Adelphian MILLER.—George Baker Miller, born Jan. 13, Jamaica, B.W.I. Academy, Holly, Mich., and had been employed there 1875, in Battle Creek, Mich.; died at La Sierra, Mrs. I. N. Langley, St. Catherine, Watermont P.O., for the past 22 years. The E. P. Weaver Auditorium Calif., Oct. 28. 1956. He attended school at Battle Jamaica, B.W.I., desires tracts for missionary distri- at the academy has become his memorial. Creek and Healdsburg College. Following his gradu- bution. ation he taught piano and organ at Healdsburg, and ACKERSON.—Everett C. Ackerson, died Dec. 5, later taught in the music department of Walla Walla H. S. Bayliss, 19782 Philips Ave., R.R. 7, Lang- 1956, in Chicago. He is survived by his wife, Esther. College. In 1900 he was married to Delpha R. Sheffer, ley, B.C., Canada, thanks all contributors of litera- who survives him. He is also survived by 2 sisters. ture. More can be used regularly except union papers, HANSON.—Hannah Hanson died Dec. 1, 1956. She Reviews, and Workers. The Health and Welfare was a magazine colporteur in Chicago for many years. NEHRING.—Fred W. Nehring. born Feb. 10, 1883, Society especially desires Little Friends and Junior Her husband, Elder John E. Hansen, was killed in a in Dupont, Wis.; died in La Sierra, Calif., Nov. 20, Guides. truck accident while laboring in the Poughkeepsie 1956. He is survived by his wife, Carrie. district of New York. Literature in the following languages only—Italian SHEPARD.—Laura Kern Shepard died Nov. 26, mostly, Spanish. Arabic, Jewish, Chinese—is desired ANDERSON.—Mary Freda Ghelm Anderson, born 1956, at Oceanside, Calif. In 1940 she was baptized. by Minka L. Schult, Edifino Filipo, Apto. 17, Piso Feb. 6, 1861, in Gottenberg, Sweden; died in West Left to mourn are 2 sons, 4 grandchildren, and a 3, Ave. Alma Mater, Usb. Chaguaramos, Caracas, Arcadia, Calif., Dec. 1, 1956. She was a church mem- sister. D.F., Venezuela. ber for 62 years. Left to mourn are a son and 3 daughters. PALMITER.—Otis Palmiter, born in Allendale, Liberty, Guide, Little Friend, Instructor, Review, Mich., Feb. 4, 1874; died in Michigan, Dec. 7, 1956. songbooks. Memory Verse Cards, and other litera- BOLEN.—Eva Bolen, born Sept. I. 1893; died in In 1898 he was married to Jennie Sheets, who pre- ture is desired by Virgie Alipoon, Kabankalan Sub- Sapulpa, Okla., Dec. 4, 1956. In 1922 she accepted ceded him in death in 1952. To this union 3 children division, Kabankalan, Negros Occidental, P.I. the truth. Her life was spent in giving treatments to were born. Harold, Ival, and Dula. He was a church the ill. Surviving are her husband, 3 daughters, and member for more than 42 years. He was remarried, Lydda Bartolome, Cartes, Iloilo, 59 Malvar St., 2 grandsons. to Mrs. Vance Palmiter, who survives; also his 2 P.I., desires Guides, Little Friends, other magazines, songbooks, and Picture Rolls. SOLING.—Howard Vincent Boling, born Dec. 20, sons, Harold and Ival, mourn their loss. 1888, in Tarkio, Mo.; died in San Bernardino, Calif., PRINCE.—Irene Hurst Prince, born Oct. 4, 1886, Dec. 11, 1956. He accepted the truth while employed at Hurst Settlement, Ont., Canada; died in Red- Requests for Prayer in the clinical laboratory at Battle Creek Sanitarium. lands, Calif., Nov. 11, 1956. In 1912 she was married In 1921 he graduated from Los Angeles College of to M. Webster Prince, a dentist. He is now dean of A sister in the South requests prayer that God will Chiropractic with N.D., D.C., and Ph.C. degrees. In the School of Dentistry, College of Medical Evange- bless spiritually and physically her son-in-law, who 1926 he was married to Eva Rose Vincent. Surviving lists, and in her memory the Irene Hurst Prince Fund is addicted to drink; also that her daughter and are his wife, 2 daughters, a son, and 2 grandchildren. has been established to provide loans for students grandson will be converted. BANKER.—Ada V. Banker, born in June, 1885; at the CME School of Dentistry. A son also survives. A youth who has been forced to drop out of col- died in Denver, Colo., Aug. 20, 1956. She had been REICH.—Awald Henry Reich, born Oct. 21. 1897, lege because of ill health requests the prayer- of a church member for many years. Left to mourn are in Chicago, Ill.; died at Takoma Park, Md., Dec. 9, God's people that his health may be restored if it is 2 sons and a daughter. [This obituary notice was 1956. He accepted the third angel's message at Para- God's will so that he may continue his education. If received on Dec. 28, 1956.—Enrroas.] it is not God's will to heal him. he desires prayer dise, N. Dak. that he may remain faithful and be a blessing to his CORSON.—Clifford M. Corson, born Sept. 9, 1886, SHAFFERMAN.—Pearl Bertha Shafferman, born fellow men. at Sidney, Maine; died Oct. 29, 1956. In 1937 he April 20, 1884, in Grafton, W. Va.; died Nov. 17, accepted the message. He is survived by his widow, 1956. She was an isolated member in the West Vir- A sister in the Midwest asks prayer that her hus- Marion. ginia Conference for many years, but because of her band who is critically ill may be converted. DOWER.—James Edward Dower, born April 4, many requests and prayers, meetings were held in 1868, at Conche, Newfoundland; died at Takoma Grafton in 1952, and a church of 40 members was Park, Md., Nov. 30, 1956. As a young man he mar- organized. She is survived by 3 sons, 3 daughters, 14 ried Emmeline Strong. Becoming acquainted with grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren. European Emergency Relief Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell, he was appointed captain SPOHN.—May Butterfield Spohn, born Aug. 27, of his welfare ship. His friendship with Dr. Gren- 1874; died in Mount Vernon, Ohio, Oct. 20, 1956. Fund fell ended only upon the death of the doctor. For In 1892 she was united in marriage to Herbert Hiram many years he has been a church member. He leaves Butterfield. To this union were born 7 sons and a his wife and 6 children, namely: Mrs. Bertha D. daughter. Some years after her husband's death she Following is a list of contributions received Decem- Martin, Harold I., Clifford H., Roland M., Gertrude was married to Henry Spohn, who preceded her in ber 30, 1956, to January 3, 1957, inclusive: D. Wolohon, and Elder N. Reginald Dower; also a death. Among her survivors are 15 grandchildren and sister. Mrs. Anna Aalborg $ 10.00 2 great-grandchildren. [This obituary notice was re- Isabelle W. Adams 10.00' EHLERS.—Rebecca Rachel Lindley Ehlers, born ceived Dec. 9, 1956.—EDITORS.] Dr. and Mrs. Gustav A. 100.000 in Denver, Oct. 1, 1867, in Hamburg, Iowa; died THOMSON.—Mary Ann Moore Thomson, born Mrs. A. G. Anderson 15.00 Colo., May 22, 1956. In 1884 she was united in mar- Dec. 31, 1873, in Port Byron, Ill.; died at Jackson- J. Wilton Ashton 15.00 riage to Henry Elders. In 1908 our sister and her ville, Fla., July 22. 1956. In 1904 she was married to Mrs. J. B. Ashurst 5.00 husband joined the church. Mourning their loss are Raymond C. Thomson. As a young woman she be- Mrs. M. G. Bachelder 5.00 4 sons, 4 daughters, 2 grandchildren, and 3 great- came an Adventist. She attended Illinois State Nor- Henry D. Baldwin 43.80 grandchildren. [This obituary notice was received on mal College and took nurses' training in Battle Margaret Barn 5.00 Dec. 2, 1956.—Entroas.] Creek, Mich., and Nashville, Tenn. She and her Lillie Beeson and Ethel Beeson 10.00 FOHL.—Madge E. Weseman Fohl, born Dec. 25, husband operated treatment rooms in Jacksonville, Mrs. B. Berglund 2.00 1881, at Verndale, Minn.; died in Orofino, Idaho, Fla. Left to mourn her passing are her husband, 2 Mr. and Mrs. Martin Beusekamp 10.00 26 REVIEW AND HERALD Mrs. S. Biheller & Mrs. M. Riley 2.00 Mrs. H. M. Sonnichsen 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Norman 10.00 Dr. Linnie K. Black 100.00 Pauline Templeman and Grace Elder and Mrs. H. 0. Olson 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. John S. Blue 10.00 Parker 10.00 Vittor Parents 8.00 Mildred Bowler 10.00 Dr. Henry Edmonds 5.00 Ella B. Park 10.00 Elder and Mrs. C. W. Bozarth 10.00 F. W. Kourzelmann 25.00 Mrs. Emma M. Peterson 5.00 Dr. R. J. Brines 100.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Tamboury . 11.00 Mildred Plummer 10.00 Helen Buell 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Towne 6.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. Pollak 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Calkins 12.00 Don and June Strong 15.00 Mrs. Cora Pooler 5.00 C. A. Carlson 30.00 Jennie Thompson 5.00 Mrs. J. F. Piper 10.00 Mrs. F. D. Chauncey and Mrs. Dr. and Mrs. LeRoy Thompson ... 500.00 Red Bluff, Calif., SDA Church 53.12 Nora L. White 4.00 G. A. Thompson 10.00 Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Rittenhouse 15.00 Elder and Mrs. W. J. Christensen 10.00 Van Nuys, Calif., SDA Church _ 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Rixner _ 10.00 Elder and Mrs. N. H. Conway ..._ 10.00 Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Vollmer 10.00 Roaring Branch, Penna., SDA Robert K. Cooper 10.00 Elder and Mrs. David Voth 15.00 Church 5.00 Milton A. Corwin 25.00 Goldie Waschow 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roose 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cox 10.00 Weiser, Idaho, SDA Church 31.47 T. E. Rosenbalm 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Craig 5.00 Williston, N. Dak., Dorcas Society 20.00 Mr. and Mrs. Dale Schuler 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Curry 10.00 W. R. White 50.00 Lester G. Sevener, M.D. 100.00 Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Curry 10.00 Amelia and George Whitley 50.00 Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Siemsen 10.00 Mr. and Mrs, Delmer L. Curtis ___ 25.00 Mrs. Irene Wensel _____ ..... 10,00 Mrs. Ernest Smith 25.00 Florence W. Davis 5.00 W. A. White 15.00 James H. and Margaret Smith . 25.00 Mrs. R. M. Dower 50.00 Mrs. F. Wiesner 25.00 Norma V. Smith 5.00 Mrs. Annie M. Winchell 5.00 F. and S. Soarinen 5.00 Mrs. 0. L. Dart 10.00 George W. Spence William R. Dickson 25.00 Chippewa Falls, Wis., Dorcas 50.00 25.00 Lucille Nolda 8.10 Mrs. Lena Stubel 5.00 Paul and May M. Driver 50.00 Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Swartz 4.00 Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Davidson 5.00 Elsie H. Ziprick 12.40 Miscellaneous 631.00 Glenn D. Swingle 5.00 Ethel K. DeMerest 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Taft 15.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Ellington 50.00 Total for the week Mrs. Jessie M. Thurston 10.00 Pastor and Mrs. Vernon W. Em- $ 3,812.33 Myrtle I. Tinkham 25.00 merson 10.00 Previously reported 16,258.26 Mrs. Edgar M. Tuck 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fore 20.00 Sadie A. Tuttle 10.00 Mrs. J. E. Fuhrer 100.00 $20,070.59 Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Thrasher .... 10.00 Elizabeth Forsman 5.00 Gabriel Vas 10.00 Gainesville, Ga., SDA Church 20.00 H. Stanley Watkins 10.00 Hazel V. Gregoire 10.00 H. L. Warnecke 20.00 Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Grieshaber 25.00 Funds Received January 4 through January 9, 1957 Ruth W. Webb 10.00 Dr. Cornell Greavu 50.00 Elder and Mrs. H. B. Westcott 10.00 Louise Grose 10.00 Virginia L. Allen $ 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Wescoatt 10.00 Ralph Grose 5.00 Almond, Wis., Dorcas Society 10.00 Lettie F. White 10.00 Ruby E. Harms 5.00 George Anderson 22.00 Mrs. Emma Wilke 10.00 Ida and LaVanne. Hazelton 25.00 Irving E. Baker 5.00 Mrs. L. F. Woodworth 100.00 Mrs. M. Hansen, Bethel Sani- Mr. and Mrs. Paul Barnett 5.00 Yucaipa, Calif., Dorcas Society 15.00 tarium 10.00 Mrs. Bruce Belsh 10.00 Gnatz and Mary Zawada 2.00 Mrs. J. P. Hansen 20.00 E. Baird 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Lovell 10.00 Genevieve E. Hansen 25.00 Mr. and Mrs. John T. Bennett 10.00 Mrs. Ida Chaney 5.00 Rose E. Herr 10.00 Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Bolton 20.00 Mrs. 0. J. Crandall 5.00 Floyd E. Hills 10.00 Mrs. L. B. Bowie 100.00 Franklin, N.J., Dorcas Society 15.00 Guy F. Holmes 100.00 Mrs. M. L. Brooks 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. E. C. McGinnis 30.00 Allie Howorth 10.00 Earl P. Bruce 10.00 Miscellaneous 90.00 Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Huenergardt 20.00 Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Buller 25.00 Elmer M. Johnson 20.00 Mrs. W. M. Cagwin ...... 10.00 Total $ 2,238.17 Dr. Adrian E. Clark 30.00 Jessie B. Johnson 10.00 Previously reported 20,070.59 M. H. Johnson 5.00 Bertha Carbon 5.00 Chicago, Ill., North Side Church 90.75 Florence M. Kidder 10.00 Total $22,308.76 Florence G. Kimmel 5.00 Cleveland, Ga., SDA Church 25.00 Elder and Mrs. W. H. Clark 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kamberg 10.00 Checks and money orders should be sent to: General 10.00 Mrs. Verna Clough 5.00 A. L. Kiehnhoff Homer C. Clouse 5.00 Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, 6840 Eastern Drs. Clarence and Isabel Ing 25.00 Willa Collins 10.00 Ave., NW., Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. Mr. and Mrs. George Leno 50.00 Mrs. A. V. Cook 20.00 Mark contributions: European Emergency Relief Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Leonard 50.00 Imogene C. Conger 10.00 Fund. C. W. BOZARTH Elder and Mrs. H. W. Lowe 10.00 Winifred Coulbourn 10.00 La Sierra, Calif., Junior S.S. 11.00 Elder and Mrs. 0. J. Dahl 5.00 Marion, Ind. SDA Church 5.00 Bowman A. Deal 10.00 Ella S. McClenahan 10.00 Jennie DeYoung 10.00 Harold Messinger ... ...... 5.00 Mrs. John F. Duke 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. W. B. McVicker 5.00 Mrs. D. W. Dunbar 5.00 Elder and Mrs. Merle L. Mills 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. William H. Dye 3.00 ff Nil Mt. Jewett, Penna., SDA Church 20.00 Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Eck 5.00 Richard J. Morrow 5.00 Clara Edmunds 6.00 C. E. Monroe 5.00 Ruth C. Erikson 10.00 FOR 1957 Bertella Morgan ...... ... 5.00 Mrs. Edith Ellyson 5.00 Violet Murphy 10.00 Anna P. Edwardson 10.00 Ida McMullen 10.00 Dr. H. F. Fischer ...... 25.00 Christian Home and Family Altar Feb. 2 Green Lake, Wash., Dorcas . 75.00 Elder and Mrs. J. F. Fulfer 5.00 Home Missionary Offering Feb. 2 Walter S. Muir 10.00 Mildred Gapoff 50.00 Signs of the Times Campaign February Eric H. Nelson 50.00 Thomas E. Gilson 25.00 Visitation Evangelism-Home Visitation March 2 J. A. Neufeld 6.00 Curtis Green 5.00 Home Missionary Offering March 2 Robert Newberg 10.00 Elder and Mrs. Anol Grundset .... 10.00 Missions Advance Offering March 9 Frances E. Oney 2.00 Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Hagen 45.00 Missionary Volunteer Week of Prayer March 16-23 Parkersburg, W. Va., Jr. Acad- Florence L. Hanson 25.00 13th Sabbath Offering (Middle East Div.) March 30 emy 20.00 Elder and Mrs. D. P. Harder 10.00 Ingathering Rally Day April 6 Frances Payne 2.00 Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Harrigan 100.00 Ingathering Campaign April 6-May 18 George A. Perrine . 10.00 R. C. Hettenbaugh 25.00 Home Missionary Offering April Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Phillips 15.00 Mrs. Sally Hillier 25.00 Spirit of Prophecy Day April 13 H. Peterson 25.00 Sam and Daisy Hinckley 5.00 Dorcas & Welfare Evangelism May 4 Mrs. Grace Potter 5.00 Ernestine P.. Hochschorner 10.00 Home Missionary Offering May 4 Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Pixley 10.00 Ruth G. Hopkins 10.00 Disaster & Famine Relief Offering May 25 John C. Pierce 2.00 Frank and Elsi Hutchinson 20.00 Literature Evangelism une 1 Mrs. F. C. Rand, memory of Inglewood, Calif., SDA Church 25.00 Home Missionary Offering June 1 C. L. Chasewood 10.00 Martin P. Jensen 5.00 College of Medical Evangelists Offering June 8 Miss Edna Ragsdale . 10.00 Mrs. Anna Johnson 5.00 13th Sabbath Offering (Far Eastern Div.) June 29 Elder and Mrs. Leon Robbins . 5.00 Ethel L. Johnson 5.00 Medical Missionary Day July 6 Rapid City, S. Dak., Dorcas So- Aletta E. Kanio 2.00 Home Missionary Offering July 6 ciety 10.00 William D. Kimble 25.00 Midsummer Missions Service & Offering July 13 Mrs. Lenora Richardson 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kitchen 55.00 Enlightening Dark Counties Aug. 3 Pearl M. Roese 10.00 Konnarock, Va., JMV Society 7.30 Home Missionary Offering Aug. 3 Mr. and Mrs. Emerald E. Rogers 50.00 Sadie Koskela 10.00 Educational Day & Elementary School Mrs. Susan Robertson 5.00 Mrs. L. A. Leeper 20.00 Offering Aug. 17 Miss Jennie Myers 5.00 Mrs. Anna Lodge 25.00 Oakwood College Offering Aug. 31 Mrs. Effie Robinson 5.00 Gerry Lohike 17.00 Literature Evangelist Rally Day Sept. 7 Elder and Mrs. J. W. Rowland 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Eric Lundquist 5.00 Home Missionary Offering Sept. 7 Sand Lake, Mich., SDA Church._ 15.00 Eddie Lundquist 1.00 Missions Extension Day & Offering Sept, 14 Mr. and Mrs. Claude Scharff 4.00 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Lutz, Sr 20.00 MV Pathfinder Day Sept. 21 Wm. Siebert 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. R. K. McAllister 15.00 Sabbath School Rally Day Sept. 28 Fannie Skadsheim 10.00 Elsie C. McBride 25.00 13th Sabbath Offering (Southern Asia Div.) Sent. 28 Mrs. Rose Soash 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. Omer McCalment 5.00 Neighborhood Evangelism Oct. 5 Sonora, Calif. SDA Church 38.56 Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Macaulay, Sr. 25.00 (Bible school enrollment) Mrs. Mary E. Spaulding' 10.00 Mrs. Jean Martin 15.00 Home Missionary Offering Oct. 5 Mrs. Harold E. Stevens 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. Gardner W. Voice of Prophecy Offering Oct. 12 Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Spence 10.00 McClafiin 25.00 Temperance Day & Offering Oct. 26 Mr. and Mrs. Henry Steensman 10.00 Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Medanich . 5.00 Message & These Times Campaign October 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Miller 25.00 Witnessing Laymen Nov. 2 Mr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Stober Home Missionary Offering 100.00 Monticello, Ind., SDA Church , 15.00 Nov. 2 Sacramento. Calif., Senior Dorcas Mrs. T. R. Muir 10.00 Review and Herald Campaign Nov. 2-23 Rebecca and Anna Staal 10.00 Mrs. C. C. Neely 2.00 Week of Prayer & Sacrifice Nov. 16-23 Mr. and Mrs. Chris S. Stephens 3.00 Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Neely 5.00 Week of Sacrifice Offering Nov. 23 Mr. and Mrs. S. Sandstrom 10.00 Dr. Roger T. Nelson 50.00 Home Missionary Day & Offering Dec. 7 Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Strand, Jr 5.00 Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Ni 5.00 13th Sabbath Offering Dec. 28 Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Stuckey 20.00 Kerns J. Nock 5.00 (Northern European Div.) JANUARY 31, 1957 27 Who Waits in Faith The Indispensable Man By H. M. TIPPETT By H. M. S. RICHARDS A delightfully written book with A collection of 13 highly interest- special appeal for those who ing and spiritually refreshing feel defeated in accomplish- sermons by the popular ments or frustrated in speaker of the Voice of God Crowns reaching cherished goals: Prophecy. Speaks and Crosses Serm (Melte Series Sermonette Series to Modern Man Price, $1.75 Price, $1.75 By By ARTHUR E. LICKEY MARJORIE LEWIS LLOYD A compact full-message vol- ume arranged in an inviting In this beautiful gift book the topical sequence—written in a meaning of Calvary in every- compelling, persuasive, easy- day living is made vivid with to-read style. appealing stories that convict Christian Home Library Ed. the heart. cloth, $2.50; de luxe, $3.50 Serrnonette Series, $1.75 morocco, $10.00

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:1 N U It Y 3 1 , 1 9 5 7 31 Public Relations Meeting here on the Post the other day and greatly encouraged with the results to noticed the sign, 'Seventh-day Ad- date. ELMER R. WALDE Held in New York ventist, Saturday 0930.' He related to From January 14 to 17 there was us as he joined us in Sabbath devo- held in New York City the first North tions that he was startled to read such Missionary Book Given American Division-wide meeting of a sign. He had never dreamed that our Public Relations secretaries. Seventh-day Adventists were around, Wide Circulation much less a Seventh-day Adventist These secretaries, a total of more than During 1956 the missionary book of 100, represented most of our confer- chaplain. After the Sabbath service he laid his cigarette and lighter on the the year was The Desire of Ages. This ences and many of our major institu- wonderful volume on the life of our tions. There were also a few secretaries table, saying: 'God helping me, I am through with these things. You keep Saviour has received a tremendous re- present from overseas. ception in the field. Outstanding work The meeting was held at our new them until I call for them.' "He has never called for them. They has been done by a number of fields. evangelistic headquarters known as In a recent letter received from Theo- the New York Center. This was a most are still in my desk. Our business is to serve and sow; the fruitage is God's dore Carcich, president of the Wash- fitting place for the meeting. The Cen- ington Conference, he writes: ter represents a new and daring at- part, be it large or small. One thing I tempt to do great things for God in a do know, God has worked for me here, "We have just compiled the 1956 very great city. The Public Relations and I am sure He will continue to Desire of Ages distribution for the secretaries represent a relatively new to do so." Washington Conference. It amounts and rapidly growing group of workers WM. H. BERGHERM to 40,498 copies. This campaign was who are employing the public press sponsored entirely by R. L. Walin, our and related facilities to publicize the Book and Bible House manager. He Adventist beliefs and way of life to European Emergency Relief organized the project and saw it the great multitudes of North America through to a successful completion. I and lands beyond. Receipts for the European Emer- think this is a denominational record —6.8 books per member." The meeting was ably conducted by gency Relief Fund have now passed H. B. Weeks, secretary of the General the $25,000 mark, and gifts continue Think of the influence for good that Conference Bureau of Public Rela- to come in. Lists of donors have been these inspired writings will have tions. In this Bureau and its alert per- published in the REVIEW from week throughout this conference, and in sonnel throughout the field we see to week, and the General Conference every field where these seeds of truth increasing possibilities for the procla- Relief Committee is happy for the have been planted! Pray that God's mation of the message we are commis- hearty response of our people in pro- Spirit will impress hearts and minds sioned to give to all men. viding assistance for the unfortunate as these pages of truth are read. peoples of some sections of Europe. GEORGE A. HUSE The list appearing elsewhere in this With Our Servicemen issue includes the names of contrib- in Eastern France utors to this fund received up through From Home Base to January 9. Any gift received up to and Front Line For Adventist soldiers an assign- including February 15 will be pub- ment in eastern France is often lonely. lished in the REVIEW, but funds re- Elder and Mrs. W. J. Hackett and Time passes slowly because there are ceived after that date will be acknowl- two children, returning after furlough so few proper diversions. edged only by mail. It is hoped that left San Francisco, January 7, en route Serving among the scattered units the fund will pass the $30,000 mark to the Philippines. Brother Hackett is of this area is Chaplain Carl Holden, by that date. C. W. BOZARTH president of the North Philippine his wife, and their two sons, who are Union Mission. now attending our Seminary at Col- Mr. and Mrs. Royce C. Thompson, longes, France. Chaplain and Mrs. First Faith for Today of Brookfield, Illinois, left Miami for Holden's home, in the village of Toul, Telecast in Australia Puerto Rico on January 4. Brother has become a rendezvous for the Sev- Thompson will serve as treasurer for enth-day Adventist young men of that Faith for Today was among the first the Bella Vista Hospital, at Mayaguez. area. One young man wrote that he television programs released on Aus- obtained a transfer to Toul so that he tralia's television stations. N. C. Na- Marjorie Whitney, of Loma Linda, could be nearer to a Seventh-day Ad- den, secretary of the Australasian Divi- California, left Los Angeles for Nica- ventist chaplain. He said that his sion, writing concerning its reception, ragua on January 7. Miss Whitney period of service in Europe had been states that a well-known publicity served previously in the Montemorelos made so much more pleasant by his man, Bill Gordon, of Melbourne, back Hospital in Mexico and the Andrews contacts with Chaplain and Mrs. Hol- from a short stay in Sydney, stated that Memorial Hospital in Jamaica for a den. the best TV program he saw there was number of years. She will at this time Recently Chaplain Holden wrote a religious one produced by Seventh- take up work as a director of Nursing us the following experience: "One day Adventists—Faith for Today. Pas- Service in the Puerto Cabezas Clinic. young man was walking by the chapel tor Naden says further that they are H. T. ELLIOTT