GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Vol. 109 Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., January 1932 No. 1

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ERASTUS OF CORINTH. In the clos- great public buildings is a very fine We are of the conviction that if the ing chapter of the epistle to the Ro- pavement. Impressed in one corner opening chapter of the Bible had read mans is found this sentence : "Erastus is an inscription which, translated, on this wise : That in the beginning, the chamberlain [R. V., the treasurer] reads : "Erastus, Procurator and hot ashes collected in pools of warm of the city saluteth you." The state- 2Edile, laid this pavement out of his water, producing chemical changes ment is brief, and woven into a whole own private funds." Professor Wal- that brought forth life—we repeat, series of salutations from various be- ter Miller says of this discovery : that if such had been the opening lievers, but it really tells a remarkable "This pavement was surely laid about words of Genesis, the skeptics would story. It reveals that the gospel was the middle of the first century A. D. And have risen up from every side to point already reaching the hearts of men the inscription tells us that Paul's friend out how unreasonable, how opposed Erastus was 'administrator of the city who held places of trust and respon- of Corinth in charge of all public build- to science, was such a foolish theory. sibility in important cities. Paul was ings Wile) and public streets and They would remind us that science writing the epistle to the Romans from squares.' It tells us further, by impli- has never been able to find any ground the important city of Corinth, and it cation, that he was a man of wealth; for for believing that life can come from no man of ordinary means could have was this city, therefore, of which paid for that magnificent pavement out dead matter; that, on the contrary, Erastus was the treasurer. of his own pocket, as Erastus did. As life can come only from life. But To skeptics, the very idea that the Roman procurator of a great city like behold, when the Bible sets forth an despised sect of the Christians should Corinth, Erastus stood next in rank in explanation of the origin of living the province of Achaia to Gallio, the pro- so speedily win the hearts of men who consul, who was also a friend to Paul. things on our earth that is absolutely held positions like that of Erastus, To have held the double office of proc- in harmony with this established fact doubtless has seemed incredible. If urator and wdile, Erastus must have of science,—for the Bible explains asked concerning this particular pas- been a man of both wealth and influence in that life on our world came from the sage, they would doubtless reply that the Roman Empire."—Bibliotheca Sacra, ever-living God,—skeptics who preen there was no such man as Erastus, July, 1931. Again is it true that the very stones themselves as disciples of science the treasurer of Corinth, in the first turn away from this simple and only century ; that Paul or some later cry out in defense of the accuracy and the truthfulness of the Book of God. reasonable explanation, in favor of writer simply wove in a fictitious fantastic theories like that of hot character to bolster up the cause of ORIGIN OF LIFE. Every now and volcanic ash. Christianity. That has been the rou- then some scientist breaks into print And most singular of all, such per- tine way that scoffers have endeavored with a new theory concerning the ori- sons think that they are resting their to explain away Bible statements. gin of life on our earth. The latest beliefs on sound, substantial evidence, From time to time their false view has been relayed by the Asso- and that we Bible believers are dis- charges against one passage or an- ciated Press, and sets forth the theory playing blind faith or credulity in other in the Scripture have been ex- of a Swedish geologist, that "life may holding to the Genesis story. We ad- posed as a result of the unearthing of have originated from nothing more mit it does take some faith to grasp some ancient monument or inscrip- complicated than hot-water puddles the thought of how a mighty, ever- tion. One after another of the hia'- formed after the world's first rain." living God exercised His power to torical references in the Bible have This view, we are informed, is in- impart a measure of His life to lowly been verified by this means, until it corporated in all solemnity and se- creatures on this earth, that they also may truly be said that, viewed simply riousness in the current annual re- might live and move and have their in terms of its reliability as a chron- port of the Smithsonian Institution. being. But to believe that a mixture icle of ancient history, the Bible Doubtless there is as good reason for of volcanic ash and warm water cold stands as the best authenticated docu- including it as any other of the ultimately prodUce the varied forms ment that has come down to us from numerous theories that have found of complex life today—ah ! that calls the past. In the very area where their way into scientific journals. for a measure of faith, credulity, and the Bible has been most attacked, that The learned gentleman, so the news- gullibility combined of which we Bible of its reliability as to statements of paper story informs us, "believes believers are incapable. The trouble fact, the archeological finds of re- [that] the water, collecting in pools with us is that we don't have enough cent decades have most fully vindi- in the hot volcanic ash that then credulity to accept evolutionary the- cated it. Not one discovery has given covered the earth, was heated and ories. When we exercise faith as to the lie to a historical reference in the acted chemically on the ash in such the origin of things, we make very Good Book. a way as to produce the first forms sure that we are reposing that faith These convictions as to the depend- of life." in a Cause logically and rationally ability of statements in the Bible A man who makes sport of the sufficient to produce the marvelous grip us with new meaning as we read Bible, with its simple, yet reasonable and intricate effects represented by of a recent discovery that throws light explanation of the origin of life, will the complex life in our world. If the on Erastus, chamberlain of the city turn to such a theory as this, and skeptics are willing to build their of Corinth. Over in that city arche- accept: it without a question, because, faith on volcanic ashes and warm ologists have been working for years. forsooth, it is expounded by a very water, we would not say them nay. In front of the ruins of one of the learned scientist ! F. D. N. HERE ARE THEY THAT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD,

Vol. 109, No. 1 Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., January 7, 1932 One Year, $2.50

Published by the Seventh-day Adventists. Printed every Thursday by the Review and Herald Publishing Association, at Takoma Park, Washington, D. C., U. S. A. Entered as second-class matter, August 14, 1903, at the post office at Washington, D C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879 The Development of a Movement Changes Through the Years in Plans and Organization In Two Parts—Part One By THE EDITOR ISRAEL of old was exhorted by affliction for their faith. Some of work in the home field. Several years Moses, 'their visible leader, "Remem- them had been cut off from com- previous to this, in counsel with the ber all the way which the Lord thy munion with their former brethren servant of the Lord, there had been I God led thee." It is well for Israel because of their belief in the near developed in the Australasian field today to review often the history of coming of the Lord. They felt, there- a system of organization which rec- the past, and to recount the provi- fore, that these creed-bound organiza- ognized not alone the local confer- dential leadings of the Lord in con- tions did not make for Christian lib- ence, but also the union conference, nection with the second advent move- erty. In consequence, there existed with definite responsibility for each ment. This is particularly helpful in in many minds a prejudice against in its respective field. an hour like this, when we are con- church organization. In 1901 Elder A. G. Daniels was templating other changes in plans and But soon a need for greater system called to the presidency of the Gen- organization. in the carrying forward of the work eral Conference. Blessed of the Lord When one looks• over the work of became apparent. As the believers with excellent organizing ability, this church during the last half cen- increased, they came to see that or- Brother Daniells began, in counsel tury or more, he is strongly impressed ganization was necessary in order to with his brethren, the work of placing with the manifest leadings of God in protect them against deception by im- the church in the North American the development of the movement. postors and for the successful carry- field upon a more systematic and or- These leadings are• evident not alone ing on of the gospel message to the ganized basis. Closer attention was in the development of the system of world; but for several years there paid to the organization of local con- doctrine which we hold, but in the de, was considerable divergence of opin- ferences. The plan followed in Aus- velopment of the organization as well. ion in the church over the question. tralasia, recognizing the union as well While the years have brought some When we go back to some of the as the local conference organization, changes in denominational belief as early numbers of our church paper, was adopted for the North American relates to minor details of Biblical we find articles pro and con regard- field. Many changes in territorial exposition, the denomination has held ing this subject. boundaries were effected. The work through the years very closely to the Churches began to be organized in of the church, in both the local and same great fundamental principles. 1861, and the first conference organ- the union conference, was divided Marked changes, however, have ization was effected the same year. into departments, with a responsible been seen from time to time in the The first General Conference was held secretary over each department. The shaping of the plans governing de- in the year 1863. It is interesting to unit in the organization, of course, nominational activities. This has learn, as we study this past history, was the church. The church was un- been necessary because of the growth that in a very short time, in the course der the counsel of the local conference, of the movement, and in order to meet of several years, some of those who the local conference in turn was under the changing conditions which have strongly opposed organization, had the counsel of the union conference, constantly been taking place in the come to be its hearty advocates, and and the union conference in its turn world. Such changes are necessary we find no discordant note being was under the counsel of the General in the onward march of every pro- sounded against the steps that had Conference. gressive movement, and the second been taken. The reorganization which was soon advent movement is no exception to The Reorganization of 1901 effected gave added efficiency and im- the rule. The year 1901 marked another ad- petus to the work in the homeland, The Question of Organization vanced step in the organization of and prepared the church here to enter There was a time in the early be- our work. Previous to 1901 the upon an enlarged and extensive cam- ginnings of our work when no regu- work in North America had been paign in the prosecution of the work lar, systematic denominational organ- organized into General Conference in the field abroad. ization existed. The early pioneers districts, and certain members of the But not all could grasp the vision. of the movement had come largely General Conference Committee were A few there were, as in the changes from other churches. Their experi- assigned to the oversight of these dis- of the past, who saw probable fail- ence in these churches was in many tricts. This year marked a great ure in the plans that were proposed. ways unfortunate. They had suffered change in the organization of the It seemed to them that the work was

4 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1 taking a backward step. But we are Division Organization of the work are upon a fee member- glad that, as in the past, these con- Later, as the. work developed ship basis, but embrace all in the servative brethren were soon com- abroad, there came, as a natural se- church who will voluntarily engage pelled to see, by the, more rapid ad- quence, the formation of. division or- in this service. vancement, that God had indeed led ganizations. ,Our: operations in the Our institutions, such as the Re- in the plans that had been adopted. world had become so enlarged and in- view and Herald, were originally or- volved so many details, that it was ganized on a nondividend paying Conference Funds to Missions found that the parent organization stock basis. This stockholder plan of The rapidly increasing missionary in America could not efficiently direct control was abandoned many years program made earnest demands upon the work in detail from one center, ago, the church, through its chosen the homeland for mission funds. that just the Same as union con- representatives, becoming • the con- Earnest and concerted efforts were ferences had been formed in the North stituency behind our colleges, pub- put forth for the raising of the American field, so there should be or- lishing houses, and sanitariums, the amount needed. First there came ganized in other countries where the same as for our conference organ- the raising of lump sums, such as the membership warranted, union mis- izations. $100,000 fund. Then it was recog- sions or union conferences, and that For some years the Mission Board nized that a more definite plan must these should head up under a divi- operated separate and apart from the be arranged, and the believers were sional organization. It required time General Conference Committee, to di- asked to donate from their income, to enable all to see, by the actual rect the work in foreign fields. It as freewill offerings to missions, 10 accruing benefits, the wisdom.' of this was found impracticable to continue cents a week. Later this was in- advance move. And yet we are safe this organization. It was an unneces- creased to 15, to 25, and then to 50, in saying that today no one questions sary committee, seeking to do the and now the conference quota which for a moment the wisdom of the plan work that belonged to the General each conference in the homeland is of division organization, any more Executive Committee. We refer asked to raise is an equivalent of 60 than he questions the wisdom of union sometimes now to our Mission Board, cents a week per member. This has conference organization. but the Mission Board of, the Seventh- brought a regular and increasing in- day Adventist denomination at the come to the mission treasury, without Other Important Changes present time is, as it has been for which all our missionary operations Other changes in the operation of many years, the Executive Committee throughout the world would have our work might be cited. We will of the General Conference. been greatly crippled. briefly mention several of them in The Past Gives Confidence for the Future But even this system was found this connection. insufficient to meet the requirements. There was a time when we had in We might mention several other 4 Accordingly, it was decided to ask each conference a separate tract so- changes that have been made in plans our local conferences to give a certain ciety organization, based, not upon and organization, but these are suffi- per cent of their tithe, graduated ac- cient to show that 'we are' connected the membership of the church, but cording to the size of the conference upon a fee membership. We also with a movement which has marked A and its income, for the support of mis had, operating in the same way, a a gradual development through the sionary operations in fields abroad. Religious Liberty Association based years to its present status. This plan, while readily agreed to on on a fee membership. The Sabbath We well recall when some of these the part of the large majority, was re- school was an organization quite in- independent associations and organ- garded with apprehension on the part dependent of the regular conference izations were dispensed with. It of a few. It was hard for them to organization, although of course pos- brought sorrow of heart to some who lOok beyond conference boundaries. sessing the same constituency, an as- felt that instead of this being a change They failed to recognize, in the words sociation being formed in each con- for advancement and progress, it of the Saviour, that their field was the ference with a full complement of meant only retrogression and failure world. Their burden was to finish the officers, and heading up in what was for the future. But time has demon- work in their particular' locality. known as the International Sabbath strated that our denominational ac- They believed also that the giving of School Association. Likewise, there tivities were greatly advanced and a portion of their regular conference was a Health and Temperance Asso- furthered because of the adjustments funds for work in the regions beyond ciation, with a full staff of officers in which were made. would greatly curtail the work at many conferences. These headed up This, remarkable• fact stands out home. It required several years of in the International Health and Tem- clearly in relation to the changes that earnest labor in behalf of these good perance AssoCiation. These associa- have been' made through the years. brethren to overcome this prejudice. tions all did good work in their par- While some of them have been far- But later a full concord of action ticular lines. reaching in their consequences, and was secured, and our conferences to- In; the development of the move, they were made, on the part of some, day are a unit in this plan. And who ment, however, it was seen that the with hesitation as to their final out- now would argue for a moment that church, as •a church, was constituted come, yet they contributed, under the the work has been curtailed in the to perform the service represented by blessing of Heaven, to 'the further- homeland as a result of this plan these vations 'organizations. Hence ance of this movement with which we Indeed, the knowledge: that a portion they were Merged' into the present are connected. This second advent Of their tithe was to go for the'worl& arrangement. Today we recognize movement, through the "years, has wide work, has hea,rtened ;on/. ,people the Sabbath :school as thechurch at taken' no backward turns. The flight 41 in every home conferenee ," It" has study, the missionary society: as the of the angel •symbolizing this move- been their inspiration to greater faith4 church at work, the Religions Liberty ment in Revelation 14; has been on- fulness,_and -tindo-fibtedly many more ASsOciation as' the churbh giving to ward; ever onward. This does not thousands of :dollars :have been paid the - world: the Principles of the third argue that no mistakes have been made as tithelnto our conferencetreasnries; angel's: message: [: Our health and by the human agents connected with because of this very ,diVision of the temperance Work is part of the gospel the work. But God, hi His great funds. message. None of these departments mercy, has overruled these mistakes L January 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 5 •

so that IIis work has not greatly suf- amount to but little, except as they abroad in this time of refreshing, we fered in consequence. And this lead- represent a high and holy purpose, may expect anywhere to have stran- ing of the past gives us confidence in the purpose inspired and directed by gers drop in to our meetings, inter- the leading of the future. the Spirit of the living God. "Not by ested to see• the spirit and nature of might, nor by power, but by My our worship. Let us make sure they The Spirit in the Wheels Spirit, saith the Lord," is the work find that we are glad to have them We have spoken of the value of to be accomplished. come. W. A. S. organization, but we would not repre- But regardless of the changes and sent this by any means as the great the heartaches which all these adjust- motive power in the carrying forward ments through the years imposed, the Hard Times in the Early Days of the work of the denomination or sincerity and faithfulness of the be- in the giving of the gospel. The or- lievers were demonstrated in the loy- IN the first years of the advent ganization itself is valuable only as alty they gave to the new order of message it was hard times all the it becomes the vehicle through which things and the spirit of unity and time ; it was amid privation that the the power of God may operate. brotherly love which characterized believers launched the first activities Ezekiel saw a wonderful mechanism their relationship as brethren. Per- of this movement, the publishing and of wheels, wheels within wheels, but sonal considerations and interests the preaching. Then came better he points our attention particularly were sacrificed for the common good, times. But as they were struggling to the spirit of the living creature and Heaven blessed this consecration. to get their first steam power press which was in the wheels, directing This spirit affords a commendable ex- and their first meeting house for gen- their movements. While we thank ample to the believers at the present eral meetings at the mew headquarters God that there has been perfected time. Next week we shall consider in Battle Creek, in 1857, they were such a fine organization, constituting some of the changes in plans and or- again passing through times of de- the framework of this movement, let ganization which we face at the pres- pression. The finances of the whole us realize its utter inability, of itself, ent time in consequence of the recom- country were in confusion. There to do the work that needs to be ac- mendations of the recent Autumn was good money and depreciated complished. Plans and resolutions Council. money in circulation. James White told of their need for a printing press, for a church building, and for publishing funds, and asked the Leaving Infirmities in the Baptismal Waters brethren coming to the General Con- ference to bring their gifts as they LOOK through the word of God any- deaf brother came up from the water came to the meeting. He said where, and from every •age comes the to hear for the first time in years a "These are hard times, brethren, lesson that the Lord does not neces- song that the congregation had begun but come prepared to do something sarily work in just one way. That is to sing when he was buried with his as the Lord hath prospered. We will the mistake often made when people Lord; from Europe, where a brother take gold, silver, good bills, wheat, set out to bring the Lord to working arose from baptism to walk for the corn, oats, butter, cheese, deerskins, in a set way. It appears through all first time in years; and from other or good promises of help soon." revelation and through all experience lands have come these stories showing All hands rallied to the call, and that the Lord loves to do things in how the living God wrought. ever the cause of God moved forward. this way, and that way. But the Holy But the greatest miracle of all in W. A. S. Spirit is ever at work distributing baptism is the washing away of sin experiences severally as Ile will, just as faith follows in obedience to the as He distributes gifts in the church. Lord's command. Let us recognize Ous statistics show how wonder- Here and there brethren report God's hand in all these experiences fully the Lord' is giving power to cases of healing in the baptismal serv- that show His presence as the living His word that says, "Come out of her, ice. Pastor Roda, of the Philippines, God, but let us not seek to prescribe My people." The time has come, and tells of one experience: just how His power shall be mani- they are coming out by the thousands. "A woman who was seriously ill of- fested. W. A. S. Here is a word from one of these thou- fered herself for baptism. The visit- 394 9V 4V sands. It shows how the light breaks ing minister hesitated to baptize her in. M. H. Wentland, of Czechoslo- in her condition. But she insisted. Don't Wait for Introductions vakia, sends a letter from the reader She had to be carried in a chair from LET us resolve, that no stranger of one of our books. This new be- her house to the middle of the river shall come to our churches and go liever wrote : to be buried in baptism. The next away without a handshake from some day she was around the house and "I must say that I was greatly moved one, and a word of welcome and a as I ,read this book. Never before had I cleaning the yard, with no sign of show of interest. There is more in thought of God as I have been led to sickness upon her. this than one might think. think of Him since reading the book. "Another case is that of a man who Within the last two or three years I borrowed a Catholic, Bible, and found the Holy Scriptures to be the true word had had an issue of blood for three I have come across the report of four of God, to which my heart could but years. He was already very thin, cases in which traveling • Sabbath respond. With great sorrow and dismay with no prospect of help. He became keepers, timidly hoping for fellow- I saw that the Roman Catholic Church interested in the teachings of, the ship and help, have gone to our does not hold to the word of God, that Bible, and began to obey the Sabbath churches and been chilled by appar- it teaches error, placing man-made com- mandments• above the commandments of and kindred truths, and finally was ent inattention and unconcern. Peo- God. I will no longer remain in that baptized. With his baptism his issue ple were not unconcerned, of course, against which my heart strives; I will no of blood ceased, and now he is strong but evidently each one thought some longer sin against my God and Father, and is working for the support of his one else would greet the stranger. but I will follow His word and com- mandments. I with my two children will family." With the scattering of, our publica- sever all connection with the Catholic From the West Indies, where a tions, and the spirit of inquiry, shed Church." • 6 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. I The Great Disappointment By EVERETT DICK THE morning of October 22 dawned they could find no encouragement four main groups : The Advent Chris- bright and clear at Rochester, with from a further examination of the tians, the Evangelical Adventists, the every indication of a pleasant day. prophecies. Hope failed and courage Life and Advent Union, and the Sev- The Adventists met at an early hour died within their souls. Elder Luther enth-day Adventists. and continued in prayer most of the Boutelle, in his reminiscences, speaks day. The forenoon dragged slowly of the sad experience: The Growth of Our Movement on in a quiet, solemn way. "The "All was still. No Advent Herald; Our own denomination is by far last hours of time," "last moments no meetings as formerly. Every one felt the largest of the four groups today. of time," and like phrases were com- lonely, with hardly a desire to speak to This group, led by James White, any one. Still in the cold world ! No mon expressions on the lips of the deliverance—the Lord not come! No Mrs. E. G. White, and Joseph Bates, zealous worshipers. Many expressed words can express the feelings of disap- arose from the ruins of the 1844 themselves as being at peace with all pointment of a true Adventist then. movement during the perplexing time men, and without a single sin uncon- Those only who experienced it can enter following the great disappointment. fessed. Elder Joseph March said his into the subject as it was. It was a humiliating thing, and we all felt it alike. These sturdy leaders, confident of work was done, and he could only All were silent save to inquire, 'Where God's leadership, visited the bewil- wait to be called home. are we"?' and, 'What next"?' All were dered bands of believers, bringing housed and searching their Bibles to learn hope and courage. Gradually new The Afternoon Meeting what to do. . . . "Not quite content with being housed light came to the group along several - The meeting in the afternoon was after such stirring times, I went to Boston. lines. The Sabbath was accepted and one of great excitement. A young Found the Advent Herald office closed, proclaimed. Healthful living was man in the congregation announced and all still." adopted. Before many years the Sev- in very earnest language that he had Elder Boutelle had good reason for enth-day Adventist denomination re- been converted, and in a few minutes his remark, "Still in the cold world ! ceived light on the duty of Christians about half the congregation pro- No deliverance," for a torrent of per- to give the gospel to all the world. ceeded to the river to immerse the secution had broken out just prior to As a. result of their whole-hearted ac- convert. The remainder of the group the twenty-second, and continued for sang the hymn which begins : ceptance of this responsibility, they some time after. It was a cold world have today become the outstanding "Now is the hour of Time's farewell, indeed, with neighbors jibing, ac- missionary denomination of the - And soon with Jesus we shall dwell, quaintances taunting, and friends or world. From a few demoralized be- The speeding moments hasten on, relatives reminding the disappointed And soon they'll all be gone. lievers in 1844, our denomination has CHORUS : ones that they were still on earth—a grown until it numbers 300,000 "We're going! We're going! thing of which they were all too con- throughout the world. We're on our journey home! scious. We're traveling to a city just in Although the pioneers of the 1844 sight." New Time Set by Some movement were mistaken in their ex- And thus it was all over the land The disappointment was a terrible pectation at that time, there is much on that beautiful October day. Sober, blow to the believers. All was con- in the spirit of those faithful ones intelligent men and pious women had fusion, as they groped in dense dark- that should be emulated today. One left workshop and household, laid ness and floundered for a firm foot- hundred years have passed since the message was first proclaimed. We down their tools and domestic cares, ing. A great variety of views was to publish the marvelous news to a brought forward and strange distrac- are one hundred years nearer the careless and unbelieving world that tions appeared. Some felt that the coming of Christ. In many ways we they might startle them into prepara- Bridegroom had shut the door, and have lost the vision and self-sacrific- tion for the day of God. And now, that this act had closed the probation ing spirit of those pioneers who laid resting from their labors, these anx- of all who had not been prepared on their lives, their property, their all, ious ones waited, for the fulfillment the tenth day of the seventh month. on the altar at the• proclamation, "Be- of God's promise. Within a few These felt that it would, be only a hold, the Bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet Him !" hours the heavens would roll together matter of days or hours until the Sav- as a scroll and the elements melt with iour would invite them in to the mar- Faith led men to sell their property fervent heat. The wailings of the riage. Others felt that Christ had and use their earnings of a lifetime lost and the songs of rejoicing of the come in some miraculous manner, but to carry the message of the hour to glorified would be heard. Solemn that He was not visible. Still others a doomed world. One hundred years moment, as they stood on the brink decided that inasmuch as the Saviour later, one hundred years nearer the of eternity! had not come, the computation must great day of God, we are facing a have been incorrect. This led to set- crisis in God's work. The far-flung The Close of the Day ting new dates. These people were lines of the Christian army face the October 22 passed, and the believers called "Titheists" by Elder Storrs. prospect of retreat. As soldiers of returned to their homes worn out Before the disappointment, a com- the cross let us rally to the support with their anxious vigil. No one ex- mon burden to carry the message to of the ranks. May we never allow cept those who passed through this the world and a bond of brotherly the bugle to sound retreat. May the terrible disappointment will ever real- love existed. Now the divergent opin- banner of Prince Immanuel never ize the awful blow which these be- ions and intolerance of one another's trail in the dust. From our abun- lievers suffered. So certain had they views broke the body of Adventists dance let us stand ready to sacrifice, been of their calculations and so into factions, and bitter internecine to give, not our bit, but our all, that steadfast was their faith that they controversies broke out. After a pe- the work of God may go forward until would see the Son of man appear in riod of about ten years of dissension, it is finished in all the world. the clouds of heaven at this time, that the advent believers divided up into Lincoln, Nebr. January 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 7

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On Tithing The same thought stands out very Instead of the present being a time A sum of money that had been prominently in Jeremiah 10 : 11, 12: when men are left free to turn their owed me for some time has been paid, "The Lord is the true God, He is the backs upon the Sabbath and upon its and so a grocery bill can now be paid. living God, and an everlasting Kling: at Author, we live in a day when God His wrath the earth shall tremble, and is calling upon men everywhere to Should the grocery bill be paid before the nations shall not be able to abide His the money is tithed, or should I tithe indignation. Thus shall ye say unto repent, and to bring forth fruit meet first? H. L. H. them, The gods that have not made the for repentance. heavens and the earth, even they shall As we understand it, the Lord's perish from the earth, and from under tithe should be paid first. Even if these heavens." John 14:1-3 and 18-28 the sum is not sufficient to meet both Turning to the New Testament, we Do not John 14: 1-3 and verses 18- obligations, the Lord should be the find in Acts 14 : 14-17 the apostle 28 refer to the same coming? If so, preferred creditor. In case the mis- Paul appealing to the people of then does not Joel 2: 28 have direct take has been made of borrowing the Lystra to turn from dumb idols to reference to Christ's second coming? 11) Lord's money, so that there is quite serve "the living God, which made H. W. A. an accumulation of back tithe, some heaven, and earth, and the sea, and These scriptures have not been so adjustment may be necessary, so that all things that are therein," etc. (See understood by Seventh-day Advent- while an honest tithe is eventually also Acts 17 : 22-28.) ists. John 14 : 1-3 seems to be unques- paid, the reproach of failure to pay So the Sabbath, the definite sev- tionably a promise of Christ's return bills would not be held against the enth day, stands forth in both Testa- to take His people to Himself. Some cause we all love. If borrowing from ments as the memorial of the God who others, however, think that He comes the tithe is involved, see the REVIEW created all things; and never was it to each believer at death ; but for such of May 28, 1931, page 14. If that is more needful for that purpose than a view there is no Scriptural warrant; not involved, and the sum in hand is it is today, when, as at no time in the quite the contrary. Writing to the not sufficient to pay both in full, it past, even the very existence of a per- Thessalonians, the apostle Paul sets would seem to us that the tithe should sonal God is being challenged, while forth this: be paid, and the remaining nine creation is ascribed to the blind forces "This we say unto you by the word of tenths be paid on the grocery bill. of nature. It is this situation, this the Lord, that we which are alive and re- If the money paid you was tithed recurrence of idolatry, this worship main unto the coming of the Lord shall before being lent, it would not now be of the blind, unreasoning forces of not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord Himself shall descend from subject to tithe. If part of it is in- nature instead of the all-wise Creator, heaven with a shout, with the voice of the terest, that part should be tithed. that demands now, as never before, Archangel, and with the trump of God: that we honor the Sabbath, the sym- and the dead in Christ shall rise first: IV 94 bol and memorial of the work of then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the creation. clouds, to meet the Lord in The air : and Why the Sabbath? All this gives point and poignancy so shall we ever be with the Lord." Why was the Sabbath given? and (the latter to those who deny the be- 1 Thess. 4: 15-18. what difference does it make whether ing of a personal God) to the claims To the disciples, who on the occa- I keep the seventh day of the week of the original Sabbath, the seventh sion of the ascension stood looking or the first day, so long as I keep one day of creation week, which has come steadfastly toward heaven as their or the other, or a seventh part of down to us without change from time Lord went up, the angels said : time? Honest Inquirer. immemorial. It is this directness and "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye ga-z- poignancy of the Sabbath law that ing up into heaven ? this same Jesus, Creative power has always been the stirred the wrath of the dragon which is taken up from yoij into heaven, mark of the true God as contrasted shall so come in like manner as ye have against the Sabbath-keeping Walden- seen Him go -into heaven." Acts 1: 11. with all false gods. This fact stands sians and Albigenses in the Middle out prominently and clearly, not only Ages. No, clearly John 14: 1-3 and 18-28 in the Old Testament, but in the New God has never been without living do not refer to the same coming. as well. In the Old Testament we witnesses, loyal to His Sabbath; and John 14 : 1-3 refers to the personal, find the fact that God is the Creator, as indicated in the message of Revela- visible, literal return of the Lord, as not only set forth in the story of crea- tion 14: 6, 7, its claims are borne on described in 1 Thessalonians 4 : 14-16 ; tion in the first chapter of Genesis, the very forefront of the great advent while the latter part of the same chap- but strongly emphasized in the Sab- message : ter refers to the coming of the Com- forter, the Holy Spirit, to be Christ's bath commandment itself, thus : "I saw another angel fly in the midst "Six days shalt thou labor, and do all of heaven, having the everlasting gospel representative during our Saviour's thy work: but the seventh day is the Sab- to preach unto them that dwell on the personal absence from the earth. bath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt earth, and to every nation, and kindred, In regard to Joel 2: 28, it may suf- not do any work : . . . for in six days and tongue, and people, saying with a fice to say that that text clearly refers the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to and all that in them is, and rested the Him; for the hour of His judgment is to the gift of the Holy Spirit in the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed come: and worship Him that made heaven, latter rain to ripen the harvest of the the Sabbath day, and hallowed it." Ex. and earth, and the sea, and the fountains earth preparatory to the return of our 20: 9-11. of waters." Lord as promised in John 14: 1-3. THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1 ISSION LANDS ,FOR THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY TO HARVEST. JOHN 4:35 GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD, AND PREACH 7:

habits, the customs, of the people, and Tent Efforts in Japan become conscious of the discouraging By V. T: ARMSTRONG difficulties of mission activity. When DURING 1931 the Japan Union Mis- Our longest tent effort was the they come back on their first fur- sion planned definitely for more tent union meeting in Tokio. H. Kuniya lough, many things appear in a new and hall meetings, and to run these and the writer conducted this effort. light, especially as they meet their meetings for a longer time than we From the first our church members loved ones and friends once more. had formerly done. Tent efforts were gave loyal support. Five have been Then the question of their return held in Nagoya, Hiroshima, Mito, baptized, and others are preparing for arises. There are many urges to re- and Tokio. The tent effort in Tokio this ordinance. One has joined on main. They find the friends of their was financed and manned by the profession of faith. One person who youth doing well. If they are medical union. The others were carried on attended this nine weeks' meeting reg- missionaries, they meet classmates in by the local missions. Good results ularly has already paid to the mis- private practice living in comfort and have come in each place. sion in tithe and offerings more than earning money—no school debts, no In addition to the tent efforts, hall the total cost of the effort. bother with any mission board. If and chapel efforts have been con- Two young men who took their they are teachers, they find fellow ducted in thirteen other large cities. stand have entered our Japan Junior students, some' of them, perhaps, as Our evangelists have worked dili- College. We thank the Lord for they thought, none too brilliant, yet gently to make these meetings success- the blessings showered upon our work now occupying places of honor and ful in winning souls. Our baptisms, and workers in Japan during the past usefulness, possibly as professors of we believe, are going to exceed those season and for the courage and hope something in some school. If they of former years. we have today in the message. are in evangelistic work, they wonder whether they have an opportunity to grow into strong preachers in the mission fields as other men of their The Test of the Second Tour own age do at home. Often their par- By L. H. CHRISTIAN ents who have grown older need their THE acid test of a mission call often First Tour Not the Test help. Then comes the question of the education of their little ones, with comes with the beginning of the sec- Yet the real test of a mission call other considerations which speak omt tour. In view of our heavy mis- does not come when one goes out the against their returning. sion interests ' and duties, this 'fact first time. There is something ro- is ,One which merits careful, sympa mantic about this early trip. Only The Acid Test thetic, and impartial study. Without gradually the thought comes of a That is the time of the acid test boasting or exaggeration, it may be great, serious duty. The task of for- of a mission call. Shall they give said that the 'Seventh-day Adventist eign missions grows clearer, and their lives to the work abroad? Shall Church, has become the greatest for- finally looms up into a momentous they be content to let their children eign mission people of all ages. Truly call for life. It is in no sense any grow up under forbidding surround- we have in the fullest sense made more an adventure or an experiment. ings and miss the opportunities of missions our highest soul objective, It is a divine conviction that God has the homeland? Shall they themselves with mission , questions our lead, called one to witness for Christ among sacrifice all that others are gaining ? ing :church problem and care. The the heathen of earth. • Shall they remain loyal to the early homes, the Sabbath schools, the During the first term of service, the call? Some others stay at home after young people's societies, the acad- missionaries study the language, the one tour, ostensibly for health rea- emies and colleges, train our youth to love and believe in missions. Many of them look forward with the yearn- Ing and enthusiasm of early life to heroic service in lands afar. The mission call has become glo- rified and exalted. When the call to go abroad comes to our young people, they and their parents are deeply stirred. It is a life dream come true. It'.is „`secret prayer answered and fondest hopes realized. It means a new consecration. It means the giv- ing' up 'Of 'eVery, cherished career at hoine. It means, the trying good-by to: `_the deareSt onearth. That first going away' froin our beloved home- lancl:Sonaehow leaves memories that Those Who Joined the Baptismal Class at the Close of the Tokio Tent Effort, remain thren0 "life:: Held May 20 to July 20, 1931 January 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD sons; in part, too, prompted by other motives. Why should not they do likewise? These thoughts press in thick and fast and hard. Second Tour Weds Missionary to Work We are surely sympathetic with our missionaries as they face their first return to the mission field. The homeland does seem agreeable and the thought of leaving is hard, for the ties that would hold them back are many and strong. We know, too, that the second tour is final and decisive. It should be, surely. If missionaries return once for another long stay in the region beyond, their lives become so wedded to foreign missions that all J their best years will belong to mis- Seventh-day Adventist Foreign Workers and Their Families in Japan, March 30, 1930 sions. It is, indeed, of the utmost im- But continuity of service means a1- Sister Delhove secured her training portance that this be so. It is not most infinitely more abroad than at in the Gland Sanitarium, Switzer- too much to say that the very life and home. The oftener we visit the hea- land. It was only two weeks before future fate of our missions depend then world, the more keenly we see our arrival that her father with the on men who successfully, in the fear the untold value of steady, long,years family moved to the Songa Mission of God, pass this acid test of the sec- at the same kind of work. Mission- to take charge as director. Prior to ond tour. The first stay in the mis- aries should very seldom be changed that time, V. Norcott, the, outsehool sion, field is more or less an initial unleSs they fail. To transfer them inspector, had been tarrying the -work investment. The real fruitful, profit- frequently, is a great mistake. This as ,director since Dr. J; II. Sturges, able work of a missionary begins is ,doubly , true if, a new language area who was formerly in charge, left. Dr. when he has been in the field a num- is involved. A knowledge of a lan- Sturges is now connected with the ber of years, the more the better. guage is a great treasure. Then, too, 'medical work in the Central African As to years of service, there is a it takes time for nationals to become Union. difference in kinds of work and work- acquainted with these strange for- On our arrival in Europe;, we 'had ers. Evangelists do well to change eigners from Europe or America. the privilege of meeting Dr.'and Mrs. frequently from city to city, and even Gradually they learn to look up to Elton Morel, in Brussels, :Belgium, from one, conference to another. Offi- them ras fathers and guides, and to where he is taking some special work cials, such as conference presidents, trust and love them. The longer the and securing Belgian recognition be- departmental leaders, and others, missionaries stay in the same field, fore going on to the' Congo, He will should not remain too long in one though not necessarily on the same be in charge of the hospital and med- place. On the other hand, doctors, station, other things being right, the ical work. at Songa upon his arrival, editors, college presidents, and teach- more good they can accomplish. The and Miss Delhove will be associated ers often do better work the longer advent cause today needs more life- with him as nurse. ' long missionaries. This need has be- they stay. Their position is almost a About a half mile away a new three- life tenure. come present, urgent, and vital. room hospital building has been erected 'for leper work, where-a leper colony will be established upon 'the Oar Work in the Congo arrival of Dr. Morel. By 0. MONTGOMERY In additiOn to these buildings, :there WE arrived at Elizabethville in the ent at the camp meeting, which con- are two bungalows, one for the doe- Belgian Congo at 3 P. M., Monday, tinued for three days at this mission. tor, the other fot the Mission 'director, August 3, with Brother Wright. C. It was a pleasure to meet the workers and quite a large church and school W. Curtis, superintendent of the and to learn something of what: has building which was laige 'enough to Congo Union Mission, met us at the been accomplished through the ac- 'accommodate the whole: 600 who were train and took us out four miles into tivities in connection with this mis- in attendance at' the camp meeting. the country to the Katanga Mission, sion center. Before the baptism in In connection With the Songa Mission where we were entertained in the connection with this meeting which there are 'thirteen outsehools with home of Brother and Sister W. R. we attended, there were 217 members eleven teachers and. two native min- Vail. Sister Curtis and the, family in the church. There are over 600 isters A baptismal Service was con- were down at Cape Town on their Sabbath keepers in this district, with ducted in the river that runs through 'coastal furlough. The next afternoon a Sabbath school membership of the mission: property. Fifty:eight we took the train with Brother Cur- nearly SOO. were baptized. tis for Kamina, a twenty-four-hour This is a' comparatively new work, Inasmuch' as there is only one train run, where we were met by D. E. and in recent years, since emphasis a week each Way betWeen Elizabeth- Delhove with his auto, who took us has been placed upon evangelism, an ville and Kamina, our visit' had to sixty Miles to the Songa Mission. excellent ingathering of souls has been synchronize With the train Schedtile. Like Nyasaland, the Congo has ex- the result. A fine little hospital build- Brother Delhove drove us into Ka- •cellent dirt auto roads. It was long ing of four rooms, with a dispensary mina Sunday morning, and we ar- after night when we arrived at the building just hack of it, has been in rived back in, Elizabethville Monday Songa Mission, but we greatly enjoyed charge of Miss L. M., Delhove for afternoon. Brother Wright liOWev,er, -the auto trip during the evening, the last eighteen months. From forty stopped off at Bukaina, which 'is the There were about 600 natives pres- to sixty patients are treated each day. point where the railway crosses the 10 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1

Congo River. He had to wait there mission station is north, in the district year, 1,488 Sabbath keepers, and 1,- three days for his boat to take him of Stanleyville, and is called the Ki- 674 members of the Sabbath school. north on the Congo to where he could rundu Mission. This station is in We believe there is a bright future catch a train for Albertville on Lake charge of R. L. Jones. At this mis- for the work in the Congo. Brother Tanganyika, en route to the Central sion there are twenty-five church Curtis and his fellow workers are of African Union Mission, which is com- members with 121 Sabbath keepers. good courage, and are looking for- prised of Ruanda and Urundi. In the whole Congo Union Mission ward to a rich harvest of souls as they Our association with Brother field there are 572 baptized members, push the work in this very interesting Wright had been unbroken from the including the baptisms of the present field. time of the Bloemfontein meeting the last part of May. We had greatly enjoyed our associations with him, Peruvian 'Mission, South America and it seemed almost like parting By A. H. FIELD from one of our own family to leave I AM at present in Huancayo. I the chapel for worship. They sit very him on the platform at Bukama with expect to get home one week from quietly, and when service is over they all his baggage on the head of a native, tomorrow, if all goes well. I shall all march out in order. It is wonder- headed for the boat that was lying have been away from home just one ful to see the change that has come down below in the river, while our month, and shall be home only three over these people who, a few years train pulled out for Elizabethville. or four days, and then be off again. ago, were savages and killed people The camp meeting at the Katanga On this trip I have seen some new for a pastime. Mission, just outside Elizabethville, things. I was down in the jungle, Going back up the river was not so began on Thursday. This gave us and saw our work among the savages. easy. It took two days to go as far two days in which to catch up with There is now an auto road to within as we did in a few hours going down. correspondence and attend to other a few hours' ride of the mission sta- The first night we stayed in the hut important matters, which we were tion. After coming to the end of the of a savage Indian. Three or four glad to do. The Katanga Mission road, we walked about a league to the families lived there together. Men, consists of two dwelling houses,—one river bank, when our real experiences women, and children had their faces large one in which the director, began. painted in stripes of bright red. One Brother Vail, and his family live, At the river the Indians were wait- old woman had a silver ornament and another smaller one in which the ing for us. They had caught a few hanging from her nose. Every one assistant, Brother Hiten, and his wife fish and had made fish soup and has holes in the ears and nose and live. There is a good brick church roasted some yuca. They were busy around the mouth from which some building with a wing on each side, eating breakfast. They invited me ornament may dangle, or at least a one of which is the school principal's to partake, and I could not refuse, stick be thrust through. The holes office, and the other the union mis- because that would be bad manners. in the lower lip go through the lower sion office. Across the stream that The chief, with his dirty hands, jaw between the roots of the teeth. runs through the property, is the na- picked a fish out of the soup and Little paddles, three or four inches tive compound where the native teach- broke off the tail end for me. I long, are worn, the slim end being ers and students live. All of the south picked up a piece of yuca, and ate thrust into these holes. part of the Congo basin is wonder- some of both the fish and the yuca. We had a baptism at Brother Shef- fully watered, with many clear, beau- Brother and Sister J. T. Thompson flees mission, seventy-three being tiful streams. The small stream flow- came, but arrived at the river too late baptized. I baptized one man who ing through the mission property to get much to eat. had seven holes in his lower lip. makes it possible to irrigate large gar- After breakfast the log canoes were Nearly every person had tattoo marks dens, which yield an abundance of made ready, and the chief offered a on his face. This is practiced by both vegetables and fruit, which are a prayer, asking God to bless us and men and women, but the little chil- great blessing to the mission workers. give us a safe trip. Brother and dren growing up on the mission will The union training school is lo- Sister Thompson and Brother Sheffier, have clean faces. cated here, and is doing excellent director of the mission station, got work in training workers for this field. in the larger canoe and I in the other Marriage in Peru There are quite a number of students one. The head chief sat at the stern Brother Thompson married five who come from Northern Rhodesia, to guide their boat and the second couples in Brother Shelfier's mission and who, upon completing their work, chief sat at the stern of our boat. and four at Metraro, where Brother return to their native villages; so the Stahl used to be. Peru has no legal Congo training school trains students Shooting the Rapids jurisdiction over the savages; they for Rhodesia as well as for the Congo. It was great fun going down the are a law unto themselves. So when These are the only two missions river. I took a paddle and helped. a young man wants to get married, which we had the privilege of visiting It was thrilling, shooting through the he talks it over with the girl, and in the Congo region. There are three rapids. I knew nothing about the when he has her consent, he tells the other mission stations,—the Chikamba rapids, so kept my paddle out of the chief. The chief investigates the mat- station, which is just a little west of water on such occasions. After about ter, and if he feels that everything is Kongolo, an important town on the eight hours' run we landed and went all right, the matter is carried to the Congo River, and Bikobo Hill, which ashore. pastor, who performs the ceremony. is about an equal distance east of Brother Sheffier has a well-ar- The rite is simple. In this instance Kongolo toward Lake Tanganyika. ranged city where all his members all the couples stood in a row before Both of these stations are under the live. All who wish to become Chris- the platform, and bride and groom direction of R. P, Robinson, who, with tians come and live on the mission, held hands while the pastor offered his family, has spent many years in and each one has a place given him prayer, asking God to make them hus- pioneer mission work in Africa. In for his house, also a piece of land to band and wife. They then returned this district there are approximately clear and plant. to their places, the men to their seats 1,600 Sabbath keepers. The other Morning and evening all meet in and the women to theirs. January 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 11 I RCLE 7 7-," IT EVERBE SO HUMBLE, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME"

Conducted by Promise Kloss A Stirring Appeal to Parents By R. S. GREAVES PERHAPS never before in our de- doing it. In long arguments they can take the place of proper disci- nominational history have we faced often gain on all points, so they have pline. so serious a condition in the world as learned that it pays to be persistent. When such children go to school, that which now confronts us. We have Some parents are even persuaded that it is not long before they run up reached a crisis that will take the co- their own ways are old-fashioned, and against the rules, and if they should operation of every wise and loyal Sev- that after all perhaps the children are be suspended or expelled, the parents enth-day Adventist to stem the tide right. find fault with the teachers and think of worldliness that is threatening the It is a common thing for a mother, they have not understood their chil- I church from every quarter. in the presence of her children, to dren. As a rule the teacher under- I Most of my years of service have confess to some friend that the chil- stands such children the first few been spent in the mission fields, but dren are quite beyond her control. days they are in school, and knows since my return I have seen a state Tommy may often hear his mother just where the trouble lies. of things in some homes that formerly say she can do anything with him by Because the help of some boy who we never dreamed of. Those who coaxing, but that he just cannot be threatens to leave home is needed, have grown up with the situation driven. He has begun to believe it is many a father allows his son to dic- are more accustomed to it, though just really true, and acts accordingly. He tate terms; and soon the boy knows w as fearful of the awful conditions. stipulates just the amount of candy no authority but his own will, even Among other noticeable things is or ice cream he must have before to the smoking of cigarettes in the the state of our young people. Some- doing an errand, and after making home. The father sighs and thinks thing helpful is being done by having his mother yield, he is rather pleased he must yield, or else the boy will go young people's leaders and societies; to hear her call him a good boy, even to the bad and be lost. The boy is al- but it seems to me we have not though his conscience does upbraid ready lost, and under such conditions reached the root of the trouble, and him a little. Some such mothers perhaps never will be reclaimed. Had never will until parents sense their think how well they manage things, the father been firm, it might have responsibility. In some cases the pa- but they are surely mistaken in think- meant that the bad boy would leave rental authority in the home has ab- ing a piece of candy or chewing gum home ; but some do not find the world solutely broken down, and about the as pleasant or comfortable as their only obedience that is rendered is by parental roof, and like the prodigal the parents to the children. There son, are glad to return. The other are times when these parents offer a children learn that father can be firm, feeble remonstrance, something as Eli and are less liable to follow their r did when he said, "Why do ye such elder brother. things ?" and with this faint rebuke It is unfortunate, in dealing with think their duty is ended. Some day youth, to dwell too much on the what an awakening they will have changed conditions in the world, and when their children, like those of Eli, the many temptations the children are doomed to destruction. have to meet which their parents did Some parents seem to have no back- not have. Some young people are bone, and the only firmness in the quick to grasp at this, and hold it home is that of the children, who in- up to their parents as an excuse for sist on having their own way. It is their delinquencies. They are too a shameful condition when girls in quick already in finding excuses, their early teens decide as to the and need no help or suggestions from length and cut of their dresses, and their elders. What ought to be held when boys of the same age go where Gon's plans, like lilies pure and white, un- fold; before them is that where sin they wish and return any hour that We must not tear the close-shut leaves abounds, grace does much more suits them. apart, abound. The world has changed to Are fathers and mothers in Israel Time will reveal the calyxes of gold; both young and old, but the real fact And if through patient toil we reach the willing to relinquish all control of land is that never before have young peo- their children, and be satisfied simply Where tired feet with sandals loosed ple had so many advantages. Never because they have warned them ? may rest, has it been so easy to get an educa- Even very young children, educated Where we shall clearly know and under- tion, and never have there been so in such homes, are only waiting the stand, I think that we shall say, "God knew many opportunities to enter the time when they also can do as they the best." Lord's work and be useful in His please, and in some eases are already —Anonymous. vineyard. 12 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No, 1 411i'

A crisis is before us. All are -day. If some of the older aware of it. The question is, How have really passed beyond your con- are we going to meet it ? What is trol, do what you-can for the younger the remedy V and how can our young ones. V HYME AND people be, helped? Parents are going As long as a boy or girl is sup- IDDLE to see their children either saved or ported by the, parents, ;Such parentk lost. They are going to- see them a have, a right to control, and ought to blessing to the neighborhood arid the insist on it, especially with those who church, or a disgrace. -remain in the home. - It may - mean- a Bible Cruses Fathers and mothers, wake up, great deal of firnariesS,'but think of wake up ! Are you controlling your the issue. Have parental stamina, ThouGn scant the store I held, And lessening day by day, children, or are your children con- and don't let all the firmness be on My owner heard the hungry cry, trolling you ? Who rules in the the side of the children. The daw.: of Nor bade him turn away. home ? Who ought to rule ? Show God is on your side, for children are Then, being blessed of God, love, companionship ; but don't forget commanded to honer obey their Replenished was my store, The widow and her house did eat to show firmness. If necessary, 'use parents. Pray to God ,for wisdom, Of me a year or more. the rod. I know that a good many and be reasonable, but; be firm-. Don't will shake their heads, but I ha-ve•the be cowards; face the issue' boldly, and I stood beneath a tree 4 authority of the dear Old Book to do; your part to stem the tide :of iniq- Beside a sleeper's head, back me up. Among the paSsages are , When And, with me, baked, upon the coals, riity. right in your own home. There lay a cake of bread. these: "The rod and reproof give wis- you face ;it at honie, you will haYe 'Arise and eat." Above dom : but a child left to himself more power to face it in other homes, The man an angel bent; bringeth his mother to Shame‘" Prov. and. more. influenee- in helping 'and He ate and drank, and in that Strength 29 : 15. "Chasten thy son while there advising; ethers,: For forty days he went. is hope, and let not thy soul spare for -; any casasonie will be lost, but The hosts of Israel his crying." Prov. 1;9 : 18. if parents Will take the right attitude, Lay sleeping all around ; ' In the mission fields we have helped -many, very 'many; will be saved, and I stood beside the king, his spear to train a good many children, and a cause' of reproach- ;will be rolled: Stood upright in the ground. Then softly came a man, , the greatest success has come when back from our ch-drehes. 'Measure, up He whom,my master sought; love and firmness have been• combined. to the standard reqUired,, and. be the He stole the spear,'he stole the cruse, Some parents have lacked firmness, right ;kind of 'help' to the young, Who The king he injured not. and, now, see their mistake. Don't be 'have a right to expect Us to 'guide WATERS discouraged ; begin where you are to- them. 1,. What is the largest body of water mentioned iri the Bible ? 2. How many instances are given A Lonesome Boy of water being divided to let people THE boy sat huddled so Close to the gets tired and wants to go some place pass through ? woman in gray that everybody felt and get rested up, she sends me over 3. When did a man refuse to sure he belonged to her; so when. he to stay with; Aunt Anna. I am going drink water brought him ? unc9nsciously dug his muddy, shoes up there now. Sometimes . I don't 4. Tell how bitter water was into the broadcloth skirt of his left- find Aunt Anna at home, but :I hope sweetened on two different occasions. hand neighbor, she leaned over and she will be at 'home today, because it 5. Tell how water was miracu- said : "Pardon me, madam, will you looks as -if is going to rain, and I lously provided on five different oc- kindly make your little boy square don't filie to hang around in the casions. himself around ? He is soiling my street in the 'rain." 6. Tell.how two men were healed skirt with his muddy shoes." The woman felt- something uncom- by washing. The woman in gray blushed a little fortable in her throat, and. she said 7. What two men were, rescued and nudged the boy away. rather :Unsteadily : "You are a very from drowning? "My boy?" she said. "My good- little boy 'to be -.knocked about this 8. What prophet in Vision waded neSs, he isn't mine." through a remarkable river? The boy squirmed uneasily. He "Oh; I don't mind," he said. "I 9. Over what waters was there 'was such a little fellow that he could never get, lost. But I 'get lonesome contention ? not touch his feet to the floor, so he sometimes on the long -trips, and when 10. On what 'two occasions were stuck them out straight in front of I see anybodY that I think I would large companies drowned ? him' like pegs to hang things on, and like td belong. to, I scrouge up close ANSWERS FOR DECEMBER 24 looked at them deprecatingly. to her so I can make:believe: that I "I am sorry I got your dress dirty," really :-do belong to her. ThiS morn- Word Groups he said to the woman on his left. "I ing I was playing that I belonged to 1 Kings 13 : 23, 24. 2 Kings 5 : 5, 6. hope it will brush off." that lady on the other, side of me, prophet leper "Oh, it doesn't- matter," she said. and I forgot all about my. feet.' That lion letter Then, as his eyes were still fastened is why I got your dress dirty." ass king upon hers, she added : "Are you going The woman put her 'arms around Gen. 7:7. 1 Samuel 6:10-16. uptown alone ?" the , tiny chap and : "Serouged" him boat cattle "Yes, ma'am," 'he said. "I always up so close that she hirit him, and fathily ark ga alone. There isn't anybody to go every other woman who had heard water stone with me. Father is dead and mother his artless confidence looked as if 1 Samuel"1: 9L 28. John 5:2-9. is dead. I live with Aunt Clara in she Would not only let him wipe his priest pool Brooklyn; but she says Aunt Anna _shoos: on her best, gowri, but :would :woman invalid ought to, help do something for me, rather he did it iliairriot,,F--:New York baby ' bed so once or twice a week, when she Times. ' Riddle. Matt. 17 : January 7; I 9 3 2 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD

FIELD THIS GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS; AND THEN SHALL THE END COME. MATT.24•14

Whitemouth, Manitoba By D. E. REINER ANOTHER milestone was erected in In this trying year our brethren or, the House when it comes up for our conference when, on November erected this very suitable building, public discussion and consideration. 15, a nice little church was dedicated with room for 125 without crowding, Therefore we are exceedingly anx- to the worship of God and the telling and presented it all paid for at the ious for the co-operation of our peo- of the story of our coming King time of the dedication. It might in- ple in this fight in defense of reli- Two years ago a German church terest some to know how this was pos- gious liberty. If this bill is enacted was organized near Whitemouth, sible. Well, our brethren went; into into law, it will be the first Sunday Manitoba, as a direct result of a the forest and hauled out logs. These law ever enacted "by Congress, and summer's tent effort by B. A. Reile. were cut by a friend without cost to will establish a very dangerous legal New members have come in since, so us. Some gave time, some cash, one precedent. The exemption in it, for that now the membership stands at gave land, others offered 'materials. those who rest "on Saturday solely be- S twenty-one. A number. are still on Business friends and neighbors cause of religious beliefs," shows that the waiting list. The interest is being helped 'in many other ways. 'It re- the bill is clearly a religious measure. fostered by our faithful members and minded one of the days of Nehemiah. A similar exemption was in the bill friends. Even our enemies give pub- Surely God was with us. We hope introduced by Senator Copeland at licitY to •the work, so that many must this new church will stand as a bea- the last session, but it was eliminated collie to 'see for themselves; We are con light in a large settlement, point- from the bill at the time it was passed hoping 'to be able to place 'a:minister ing the way home to many a pilgrim by the Senate. What they can grant in the field to finish off the work; on life's journey. at their pleasure, they can deny at any time they see fit, so the exemption does not amount to anything but an New Sunday Bill Before Congress attempt to silence the opposition for By C. S. LONGACRE the time being. The bill aims to destroy "compe- SENATOR COPELAND, Of New York, day in any such establishment; but noth- tition," which in itself makes the introduced his Sunday observance bill ing in this Act shall be construed to apply to persons who actually refrain from the measure unconstitutional. It is dis- into the United States Senate on practice of such occupation or trade on guised as a health measure in order December 9, the third day after the Saturday solely because of religious be- to secure its passage, when the very Seventy-second Congress was opened. liefs. Any person violating any of the wording of the bill itself shows it is ThIS bill reads as follows: provisions of this Act' shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon con- religious legislation. "S. 1202 viction thereof, shall be punished by a Undoubtedly the author of this bill "In the Senate of. the United States fine not in excess of $20 or by imprison- will attempt to secure an early pas- "December 9, 1931 ment for not more than sixty days, or both." sage of the measure by the Senate. "A BILL We urge our people to get 'busy at , We are facing a really critical sit- "Providing for the closing of barber once, and secure as many signatures uation in Congress relative to this shops on Sunday in the District of to petitions as possible, and send them Columbia. bill. It is a bill similar to the one "WntnEAs, In the District of Colum- directly to one or the other of their introduced by Senator Copeland dur- Senators in Congress. bia persons engaged in the occupation of ing the previous session of Congress, barbering are required 'to work seven days The following is a suggestive pe- which was favorably reported by the a week in order to meet competition and tition form which can be readily cop- Senate District Committee, and was conform to custom; and, ied on a typewriter for use: "WHEREAS, The health of such persons passed by, the Senate on the unani- is endangered and often impaired by the mous'consent calendar. It' was then PETITION TO CONGRESS working conditions peculiar to their oc- PROTESTING AGAINST COMPUL- cupation; and, favorably recommended by the House "WHEREAS, The protection of the health District Committee, and came very SORY SUNDAY OBSERVANCE of such persons will tend to protect the near being passed by the House of To the Honorable, the Senate and `health of the general public by guarding Representatives during the closing House• of Representatives of the United against the spread of infectious diseases; days of the last session of the Seventy- States; Therefore, "Be it enacted by the Senate and House first Congress. The present chairmen 'Believing. (1)' in civil and religions of Representatives of the United States of both the Senate and House District freedom and the American principle of 'a of America in Congress assembled, That Committees were favorable to this complete separation of church and state; hereafter in the District of Columbia legislation during the last session of (2) That Congress is prohibited by the it shall be unlawful :(a) for any person 'First Aniendment to the Constitution to maintain on Sunday any establishment Congress, and it looks now as if there from enacting any 'law enforcing .the!ob- wherein the occupation or trade of bar- is no possible way of holding this servance of Sunday or Saturday as pro,- bering or'hair dressing (including the bill in the committees, of either the posed in Bill S. 1202 "solely because of 'cutting. or singeing' 'of hair, shaving, Senate or, the House, and that our religious beliefs," or any measure looking shampooing, massaging, or manicuring) toward gOvernment control of religion; :is pursued, pr, for any person to only hope of defeating the measure (3) That it is not the prerogative of the pursue such occupation or trade on Sun- will be on the floor of either the Senate Federal Government to destroy "conipe- 14 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1 tition" in Any "occupation of trade" on of State of constituencies represented by them in Sunday or on any other day; earnestly and respectfully petition your council assembled, will be held in re- (4) That such legislation is opposed to Honorable Body not to pass the com- membrance by me as yet another evi- the best interests of both church and pulsory Sunday Observance Bill, S. 1202, state, as well as the public welfare; entitled, "A Bill Providing for the Clos- dence that through the agency of the (5) That all such legislation by Con- ing of Barber Shops on Sunday in the Holy Spirit men brought together in gress establishes a dangerous legal prece- District of Columbia," or any other com- committee councils are blended into dent, fraught with tremendous conse- pulsory religious measures that have been oneness of purpose. I have seen this quences for evil, and should be opposed or shall be introduced. by every lover of liberty of conscience same miraculous blending of spirit in the councils of Japanese, British, and the voluntary exercise of religion; NAMES ADDRESSES therefore, American, and other dominant races. We, the undersigned, adult residents The cause of- present truth has indeed a subduing and sanctifying influence over heart and mind; and in our Glimpses of Homelands committee councils everywhere the By G. C. CRISLER phrase, "All ye are brethren," is won- drously exemplified. SINCE the close of our biennial ses- rial Africa, Madagascar, Mauritius, sions in the China Division, I have and several other lands. My heart goes out after my breth- had opportunity to visit anew some If Father J. N. Andrews, our pio- ren of the Central European Division, of the homelands; and what I have neer worker in Southern Europe, now where from the Berlin headquarters seen among our church members has sleeping in Jesus, could have heard extends a far-reaching mission work strengthened my faith in the stabil- during the Autumn Council A. V. covering the Netherlands East Indies, ity of the rank and file of both laity Olson's recital of marvelous ingather- the Balkans and the Levant, Persia, and laborers. ings of souls being seen in Rumania, Mesopotamia—Moslem all; and sec- Leaving Harbin, Manchuria, in in Madagascar, in Catholic Belgium tions of Africa, including Egypt and June, by the Trans-Siberian Express, and France, and in the heart of Af- Liberia. May God bless the home- I I was soon made to feel quite at home rica, how comforted he would have lands of the Central European Divi- among the Russian people. During been ! And how he would have re- sion ! our general meetings in Harbin we joiced, also•, to learn that the early Great Britain have always had precious seasons of seed sowing in which he had a part The next base of missionary ac- refreshing; and now as I entered in the late seventies in Italy, is now tivity touched during this brief visit Russia through Siberia, I was glad to bearing annually a substantial fruit- on my way to the Autumn Council at find that the same traits of kindliness age of souls! How glad, too, he would Omaha, was Great Britain. L. H. and of spiritual-mindedness so appar- have been could he have accompanied Christian and his associates have their ent among the Russians outside, are me to the French house of publication modest headquarters in Edgware, out to be found within the Soviet Re- in the valley of the Marne south of a little way from the heart of Lon- public. Paris, where he would have found don, yet within the metropolitan area The stately forests of Siberia are as editor-in-chief the selfsame Jean known as Greater London. In their gradually giving way before the in- Vuilleumier whom as a youth he had plannings, it almost seems that not coming settlers. Already extensive encouraged to give himself to writing! merely "all England," but "all the areas are under cultivation, and there Little did Brother Andrews realize world" is their parish. They think is every evidence of intense activity during his lifetime that in the train- and plan and execute in world terms. in further development of the re- ing he was giving youth of promise Their division territory, the Northern sources of the country. in the Basel office, he was laying foun- European, includes the Scandinavian In Southern Europe dations sufficiently broad and deep to countries, the Baltic Provinces, and endure until the work of warning all Poland ; and these many constitu- After short visits to our denomina- the Latin races and their colonial encies, of diverse races, form a series I tional headquarters in Warsaw, Po- possessions should be completed. As of home bases blended into one mis- land, and in Vienna, Austria, where I stood by the grave of Brother sionary organization for the evangel- many interests center, I reached Andrews in the lovely cemetery at izing of their own homelands and also Switzerland, where the advent mes- Basel, and reflected on the far-reach- of more than a third of the African sage was first proclaimed through ing results of his fidelity in making continent. Large gains are being representatives sent abroad by 'the unmistakably plain the divine pattern made in East Africa. Good begin- General Conference in America. It of truth, I pledged myself anew be- nings have been made in West Af- was my happy privilege to meet in fore God to continue uniting with rica. Abyssinia is providentially Geneva some of the early Swiss be- my associates in China in outlining opening up. In Central Africa the lievers who have been stanch support- plainly the true pattern that makes missionaries have penetrated far in- ers of this cause for upwards of fifty for strength in matters of faith and land. years. practice in our world-wide advance. 'And while distant lands are being The work here is now organized as supplied by Northern Europe with Central Europe the Southern European Division, with recruits and with medical and educa- headquarters at Bern, Switzerland. The same stability that I found in tional facilities, old London is being This division embraces in its activities Switzerland and Italy and France, I entered anew with evangelists whose the whole of Spain and Portugal, all later found in Germany, where H. F. slogan is, "A thousand additional be- of Italy, Rumania, and Jugoslavia; Schuberth stands at the head of our lievers in London," Marked success the great republic of France ; also work. For ten days, by invitation, I is attending the labors of Pastor An- Belgium, where it was my privilege to met with the Central European Divi- derson and his coworkers in the met- meet with churches at Brussels, Ant- sion executive committee in one of ropolitan area. Manchester, also, is werp, and Liege. The outer missions their annual councils at Friedensau; being entered in a special way, with of the Southern European Division and I must testify that the revelation substantial returns. include Northern Africa, Senegal, the of brotherly love shown by all toward The British Union training school southern section of French Equato- their fellow workers and toward the has been removed from Watford to January 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 15

a spacious country estate near Rugby, tions of academie grade; many are tribes people of the west and south- in central England. The Watford serving as evangelists, as physicians, west of China, and are having ex- Sanitarium has been enlarged; the as graduate nurses, as colporteur cellent success in these isolated re- British Publishing House is holding leaders, as departmental secretaries. gions ; and thus the outflow of work- its own financially, even in these Our baptized constituency, already ers from the more settled districts of hard times. In Scandinavia and more than ten thousand in number, China is already under way. Poland there are encouraging gains; is being added to at the net rate of May God go before the workers in similar progress is reported from the considerably more than a thousand a China, and in every other land, as Baltic Union. We have every reason year. Soon China herself may be we strive to add to the number of for encouragement in the condition reckoned as one of the strategic home that family of heaven here upon earth of the work in the homelands of the bases of supply from which workers who will at last be taken by the Lord Northern European Division. and at least some funds will be going of us all into our eternal homeland, North America out into the regions beyond. Some made up of every nation, kindred, have already entered upon missionary tongue, and people, who with gladness I had imagined I would feel most labors in Mongolia; yet others have and singleness of heart "keep the at home after entering the United gone to the Tibetan borderland; sev- commandments of God, and have the States, my native land ; but this was eral have volunteered for labor among faith of Jesus." not really so, for all the way along the Miao, the Tai, the Nosu, and other At sea, nearing China, Nov. 21, 1931. I had been feeling very much at home among our brethren and sisters in the various division fields. In Siberia Pacific Union College and Russia, in Southern, Central, and By A. T. ROBINSON Northern Europe, all seemed to me to be much the same as those met in the PACIFIC UNION COLLEGE is one of The college owns 2,000 acres of United States during the six weeks the oldest and strongest educational land, from which they cut 1,000 cords 11 I had the privilege of spending in institutions operated by Seventh-day of wood each year, which is consumed this, the last of the homelands en- Adventists. The college was first for heating, lighting, and power pur- tered on this journey. We are indeed opened in Healdsburg, and was re- poses. one people, with one message, one moved to Angwin in the year 1909. The farming land comprises 120 great purpose. From every home From St. Helena a mountain climb acres. Twenty tons of dried prunes, base there is constantly being fostered of nearly 1,600 feet by way of a 1,200 bushels of apples, a large and promoted a world-wide mission- fairly good automobile road, with its amount of small fruits, vegetables of ary advance. And this spirit of one- 200 sharp curves, more or less, brings various kinds, and hay enough to feed ness of sentiment and endeavor is one to Angwin. Making this ascent sixty-nine head of cattle and eight taking possession of constituencies seventeen years ago, as did the writer, horses, besides some for market, were still thought of by some as "foreign one could but wonder at the spirit grown last year. The college has a fields ;" and before we realize it, many of adventure on the part of those who dairy of pure-bred Holsteins, milk- a distant land will be included in the first selected this location for a col- ing on an average the year round, growing list of homelands from which lege. twenty-five cows. The farm, dairy, workers and means are sent out to re- W. E. Nelson is serving his eleventh poultry, and fruit orchards are under gions beyond. year as president of the college. Un- the successful management of 0. C. At the Autumn Council I met the der his administration many wisely Baldwin, a former student and grad- same spirit of love and brotherly planned improvements have been uate of the college. union that I had found prevailing on made. Last year a location was liter- A well-equipped printing plant is the Continent and in Great Britain. ally dug out of the side of Howell operated, the commercial department The Adventist people are one family. Mountain, on which a science hall was of which is under the management of With us, there is no East, no West, erected, at a cost of $30,000. At M. E. Ellis. Above $25,000 of com- no North, no South ; we are all breth- present writing the excavation is be- mercial printing was done last year. ren and sisters in Christ Jesus. How ing made for a music hall, at an es- G. H. Jeys conducts four classes in sweet is the fellowship we enjoy and timated cost of $41,000. printing, in which twenty-nine stu- what courage this sense of united fel- The faculty at the present time dents are enrolled. lowship begets! I feel the need of numbers thirty, with a student en- The village of Angwin has a resi- this courage as I again find my way rollment of 430. Twenty-five States dent population of around 300, al- by fast steamer to my adopted "home- and eighteen foreign countries are most exclusively Seventh-day Advent- land"—China, with its fourth of the represented in the student body. ists. The church, owing to students human race. Seventy-two students were graduated coming and going, has a fluctuating China is rich in potential wealth from the various departments last membership ranging around 400. All to our denomination. It is especially school year. departments of church work are well rich in the possibilities wrapped up Last year there was paid out for organized and carried forward under with the training and development of student labor $66,167.15. All the fur- strong leadership. The church and its youth for Christian service. Al- niture used in the college buildings, school are so linked together that their ready, young as we are as a mission except chairs, is manufactured in the work is blended in many ways. B. P.. field, we have in China as many or- woodworking department of the col- Hoffman, pastor of the church, also dained Chinese ministers as we have lege. All the work in the erection of heads the Bible department of the foreign ordained ministers. And as new buildings has been done by stu- college. It is gratifying to note that these grow into spiritual strength dent labor, with the exception of plas- of the twenty-three who were grad- and leadership, they bear increasingly tering and plumbing and the employ- uated from the four-year college heavy burdens in the cause. Several ment at times of four skilled work- course last year, a larger number are standing at the head of provincial men. Under the supervision of a were from the Bible department than missions ; others are heading up our matron, all the cooking, including from any other course of study. higher primary schools and institu- baking, is done by students. The presence of the student body 16 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1 makes Angwin a lively little village lege is worthy of note. The A Capella encouraged by being able to report during the school year, while their Choir, through programs rendered, that already approximately a $2,000 exodus at vacation time leaves the comes in touch with various organ- overflow is on hand, and our respon- place rather dull and quiet. The col- izations throughout the State of Cali- sible district leaders have pledged to lege conducts a well-appointed gen- fornia. raise, before the campaign closes, ad- eral store, which does quite a large The spiritual atmosphere of the ditional amounts that will make it I business under the management of school is encouraging. A large num- possible to present to our mission H. W. Emmerson, a former student ber of young men and women seem fields an Ingathering overflow gift of the college. The cash turnover of to be developing strong and steady approximating $4,000. the store last year was above $86,000. Christian characters. The recent au- In humble dependence upon The post office is a third-class office, tumn Week of Prayer was a truly re- Heaven's help, we recognize that the carrying money order and savings de- freshing season, which it is believed power is all of God, and therefore the partments, and is in charge of J. K. will deepen the religious life of the honor and praise are His. Batton, a former graduate of the col- student body, as well as that of mem- 9s lege. bers of the community who were in The music department of the col- attendance. South Texas Conference BY G. F. EICHMAN ABOUT a year ago the writer re- Harvest Ingathering in New Jersey ceived a letter from J. L. McElhany, Bg MILTON G. CONGER the president of the North American Division, inclosing a letter he had AGAIN and again it has been demon- have ably and amply demonstrated received from a sailor boy who was strated that the excellent spirit of our again this year that "Newark Knows converted in the Navy, and who had New Jersey people has had a far How." been sending literature to his friends greater influence upon the results of With faith and confidence our con- and relatives at Luling, Tex. The this 1931 Ingathering campaign than ference workers set large individual sailor boy was very anxious that a the difficult times or the depressed goals for themselves, and were abun- minister be sent to Luling. Elder financial conditions. dantly blessed in realizing them. The McElhany urged me to investigate, In reviewing the salient features of brethren shared the good spirit and and send a worker if possible. At our the campaign, we note that through- honors with their wives, who also camp meeting our committee voted out the State a right spirit and a good worked untiringly throughout the to send Elder and Mrs. 0. J. Corwin morale prevailed. Inasmuch as it was entire campaign. Some of the valiant to Luling, to hold a tent effort. an unusual year, unusual effort was lay members personally sacrificed About three weeks after camp meet- concentrated to the task, and "a many hours of time and solicited ing Elder Corwin pitched a tent in double portion of the Spirit" of God large amounts of money. Even the Luling and held a series of meetings was sought. Getting off for an early children caught the helpful spirit, covering a period of weeks. As a re- start in the month of August, a few and enthusiastically raised their sult of this effort and the literature of our coast and northern churches goals. One little four-year-old so- sent into that field, it was the writer's worked the shore and lake resorts licited on the "Boardwalk" of one privilege to organize a church on No- with good success. From the world- of Jersey's shore resorts, gathering vember 21. The members are all famous Steel Pier in Atlantic City, in more than $35 in portions of one adults, except one. A full corps of N. J., to northern New Jersey's met- week ! One of our public school- officers was elected and assigned to ropolitan area, a stone's throw from teachers devoted her week-end time their post of duty. The members of New York City, indefatigable work- to leading a class of eight juniors, this church rejoice in the new-found ers, "fervent in spirit," successfully every one of whom solicited not less faith. They are all filled with enthu- labored in the name and for the work than $15. The total receipts from siasm, and have a great desire to give 111 of God. As hundreds of self-sacri- this small band amounted to over the truth to others. ficing believers joined together in the $150. Just recently the church board met, personal house-to-house work with the It is worthy of note that at the and voted to build a church. The Ingathering magazine, God granted end of October, in addition to all church building will soon be up and favor with the people, and thousands other funds, our conference treas- ready for service. It will then be of small offerings and hundreds of urer was able to pass on to the dedicated free of debt, as they have more liberal gifts were received. Spe- General Conference. Mission Board the money in sight already. We wel- cial permissions for special methods through the union conference office come the Luling church into the sis- of work were secured from many New almost $10,000 for missions alone, terhood of our conference churches. Jersey officials, and our able street which is the largest amount for mis- This is the third church that as been workers solicited with the cans at in- sions ever passed on, in any one organized in South Texas since Jan- tersections and on the streets of busy month, in any year, in the entire his- uary 14. The Lord has wonderfully downtown sections in approximately tory of the New Jersey Conference ! blessed. Although we have been pass- twenty-five cities throughout the A few days after the close of Octo- ing through a severe financial crisis, State, gathering in totals that spelled ber, or by Sunday night, November more souls have been won to Christ good success. The New Jersey young 8, our local conference passed the than in any like period before. people, talented, loyal, energetic work- large General Conference assigned The workers of the South Texas ers, .dedicated their evening hours to goal of $17,740. 'Conference are of good courage. Dur- God, and in a dozen singing bands Not content to reach the bare mini- ing the months of June and July we they nightly gathered in encourag- mum amount, workers and members had seven efforts going at the same 41 ing sums, repeatedly ranging from continued their efforts. As I write time. As a result of the efforts of $15 to $33, and as high as $38 for one this article in the early part of De- our lay brethren throughout the en- band in one evening's effort. The cember, immediately following the tire conference we have had a net in- Newark young people, an outstand- last scheduled conference workers' crease of membership of 150 since the ing group of youthful Ingatherers, meeting of the year, we are further first of the year. January 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW ,AND SABBATH HERALD 17

When I Was a Boy This is a wonderful opportunity for all, young or old, who want to ad- By W. E. HOWELL vance their education but cannot at- WTTEN I was a boy going to a our schools, and many more must tend a resident school The subjects country district school, all the pupils stay at home for necessary reasons. offered cover a wide range. The ex- were in practice divided into two But staying at home need not mean pense is very moderate. The teach- claSses,—those who took their books staying out of school. At our head- ers are thorough, but very sympa- home to study their lessons for the quarters in Washington, D. C., we thetic, conscientious, and patient in next day, and those who left their have a well-organized school, all the insquction they give. The serv- books lying idle in the desk till they equipped to bring the privileges of ice is prompt. You can keep your came to school on the morrow. I study under guidance to your very private school going the year round. have often wished I had had fore- door. Seventh-day Adventist teach- You can take all the time you need sight enough as a lad to keep a list ers, each expert in his line, direct in preparing your lessons. Every of the boys and girls in each of these your study at home, correct your in- point in the lesson comes under the two classes, that I might observe what dividual lessons as you send them in, eye of a trained teacher, and you can became of them in later life. and answer any questions you need tarry with each lesson till you are Of the thirteen that I can now to ask on the study theme. The presi- master of it. You can have the thrill recall who took their books home to dent of this school, M. E. Olsen, is of making progress in self-improve- study, four became teachers, two be- a man of Christian character and ment on time that others waste. came Bible workers, one a college scholarly attainments, who has had a Why not decide right now to set president, one a sanitarium matron, wide range of experience in educa- your hand and heart to take advan- one a foreman in a leading Seventh- tional and other work for young peo- tage of the efficient facilities held out day Adventist publishing house, one ple. He conducts the, work of the to you by the Home Study Institute, a successful fanner, one an apiarist, school on a thorough basis of spirit- and be one of many hundreds who one a telegraph operator, and one a uality and scholarship, and has the are engaged in the profitable and de- train dispatcher. confidence of our other college and lightful work of progressive self- Among pupils who left their books academy educators. improvement ? idle in their desks overnight, I can recall these : one is a rolling stone, with wife and children, one is living Central Argentine Conference, Austral Union in a backwoods shanty, one a loafer By N. Z. TOWN with an occasional job, one a fiddler 0 FROM September 23 to October 10 ized into churches. This year there at country dances, one a horse thief. four local general meetings were held were over 500 present in the meeting Manifestly, those who appreciated in the Central Argentine Conference, on Sabbath. At the evening services education enough to study at home two among the German-speaking mem- there was also a good outside attend- found an honorable career and a place bers in the province of Entre Rios and ance. of usefulness, either in the cause of two in Santa Fe Province. From Crespo Elder and Mrs. J. H. God or in the world at large, while The first of these meetings was held Meier, N. P. Nelsen, and the writer the less studious led a wandering or in the town of Crespo, a half hour's drove 120 kilometers by auto to Ga- shiftless life. ride by auto from the River Plate larza for the second meeting. Here, About the only way of studying at training school. It was to their fel- as in Crespo, the brethren are farm- home in those days was to sit around low countrymen, a German-Russian ers, some living several leagues from the family hearth in the light of a colony near Crespo, that Oswald the town where the meetings were common lamp or an open grate, and Frick and George Riffel came from dig things out for ourselves, with per- held. Our brethren have a nice little Kansas to bring the truth. Reinhardt haps a lift now and then from mother church in Galarza, but this was too il Hetze, brother of G. Hetze of Okla- or big brother. Nevertheless it small for the meeting, so they hired homa, received these brethren into his helped us much in the recitation or a theater. At the evening meetings home,, listened to their message, and spell-down next day. The principle about 300 were present. In Crespo kept the next Sabbath with them. of using our spare time at home to the visiting workers stayed at a hotel Brother Riffel has passed to his rest, some purpose had a great influence during the meeting, but here we but Brethren Frick and Hetze were on our future. shared the generous hospitality of with us in the meeting in Crespo. the brethren and sisters. The Lord The Home Study Plan After the arrival among these colo- richly blessed in the Bible studies, But how is it today? The home nists of F. H. Westphal, in 1894, the and the brethren returned to their study plan has really grown into a number of believers increased stead- homes with new courage. service of high value. Wide-awake ily. The writer vividly remembers October 3 we went to Santa Fe, educators have worked out a system the enthusiastic general meeting held where our next meeting was held, and of teaching successfully by corre- among these German-speaking believ- where there is a small church of spondence those who have spare time ers in 1896, and with what joy and Spanish-speaking members. In the and ambition to make something more earnestness they took part in the or- first two meetings, whether one spoke of themselves than earlier circum- dinances of the Lord's house. Four in English or Spanish, it had to be stances may have allowed. Seventh- years later, in 1900, when the Colegio translated, but here some of us could day Adventists have, for the most Adventista was started, there were talk directly to the people in their part, always been a studious people. 106 of these German-speaking church own tongue. On Sabbath quite a 10 Acceptance of the great gospel truths members in Entre Rios. Our general number of the brethren drove in from for this, time stimulates a desire to meetings in those days were small. the country, so we had a good con- study and improve, and have a part But now there are nine German-speak- gregation. Santa Fe is a city of 130,- in the closing work of the great plan ing churches among these colonists, 000 where comparatively little work of salvation. with a membership of more than 1,000, has been done. At present there is Many can leave home and, attend besides several groups not yet organ- no worker located there. 18 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1 Rosario, a city of nearly 500,000, hope some day to have a church. of our best colporteurs were sent to called the Chicago of South America, Please pray for Brother Gil as he con- the Azores. Though they have been was the place of our last meeting. In tinues to labor alone in that large city. there but a short time, they are sell- this city there is a membership of In all these meetings the Bible ing about 2,000 escudos' worth of eighty. Camilo Gil, one of the or- studies given by Elder Neilsen were literature a week. And so the mes- dained ministers of the conference, greatly appreciated. One helpful sage spreads. I and his family are the only workers feature was the question box each day. These colporteurs found a Seventh- in this large city. Their meeting The members got real help on many day Adventist there who never had place is a large room in a. private questions that had puzzled them. We changed his membership from the house..Here they have met for eight were all glad that Elder Neilsen could church in North America where he years. A. lot has been bought in a be with us in this series of confer- had been baptized. The old man has good section of the city, on which they ence meetings. been true to the message, and re- joiced to see these colporteurs come. Another North American who was in- Workings of God in Portugal terested joined himself to the little By J. MINAN group. He had been keeping the WHEN I accepted the call to Por- and twenty persons await baptism. Sabbath and loved the Lord, though tugal in December, 1928, to act as In January, 1930, J. G. Silva, who unaware that any Seventh-day Ad- field missionary secretary, the mission is over sixty years of age, came to ventists were on the islands. These was without superintendent, colpor- Lisbon from Honolulu. He had a men met with the colporteurs and a teurs, or books. It was sad to think burning desire to give the message Sabbath school was established there. of a country of six million people to the people of Madeira, his native ,Hence, two new fields, pioneered with hardly enough literature to be- island We went there and started by our faithful colporteurs, can now gin the work. the colporteur work in Funchal. More be added to the list of our General But beginning 1928 with a smile, than 10,000 escudos' worth of books Conference territory. We solicit the we set to work with faith and deter- have been sold there. This island is prayers of the readers of the REVIEW mination. God heard our prayers, called the "Pearl of the Atlantic." for this needy field. and gave us access to the hearts of On the 8th of June, this year, two Lisbon, Portugal. the young people. Two of them soon entered the work, and are still there. The number grew to twenty-three by Canadian Junior College the end of the year, and we were able By W. I. SMITH to report sales amounting to 113,000 escudos. THE Canadian Junior College is newed zeal and energy erected an im- This shows what the blessing of our northernmost institution of higher posing institution over the ruins of God can do through His people. education in America. It is located the former plant. A new administra- Portugal is a small country, about at College Heights, near Lacombe, in tion building and a women's dormi- the size of Maine, very poor, Catholic central Alberta. Through its pre- tory, both of fireproof construction in the extreme, and more than one paratory and junior college depart- tastily decorated, together with a re- fourth of the people are illiterate. ments it serves the entire Western modeled men's dormitory in the same We can say with Samuel: "Hitherto Canadian Union, with its constituency finish, constitute a trio of structures hath the Lord helped us." 1 Sam. of approximately 4,500 members for that are a fitting monument in the 7 :12. grades nine to fourteen. The institu- far Canadian: West to the beautiful In 1930 we set our goal at 200,000 tion had its beginning in 1909, serv- ideals of Christian education. escudos, about twice the sale of 1929. ing for a number of years as the In order to centralize and stabilize In spite of ill health on the part of academy of the Alberta Conference. our educational work in the new col- the writer and his wife, we were able As its sphere of influence and its lege, the Battleford Academy has been 1 to render a good report at the annual enrollment grew, it seemed advisable closed, the students from that school gathering. We lacked only 3,000 to have the school designated as the being invited to attend at College escudos of reaching our goal. In college center for the Western Cana- Heights. The Canadian Junior Col- 1931 our aim is to sell 250,000 escudos' dian Union Conference, and official lege can efficiently care for approxi- worth of books, though for nearly action was taken in 1919 transferring mately 300 students, and while at the half the year our literature supply the control of the school from the present time the enrollment is very has been very short. We now have local to the union conference, at the small, it is confidently anticipated twenty-seven colporteurs in the field, same time providing for the first two that with the return of normal prices more than 10 per cent of the member- years of college training. For eleven for farm products and with a vigor- ship of the Portuguese Mission. years the history of the college was ous field campaign promoting Chris- Souls have been won to the truth. one of growth and progress. New tian education, the institution can be More than 14,000 books were scat- courses were added from time to time, filled to capacity. tered over Portugal in 1930. A num- strengthening both the academic and C. 0. Smith and his faculty of loyal ber of the people baptized were di- the industrial phases of its work. coworkers are earnestly endeavoring rectly or indirectly the fruits of the In 1930 the former administration to maintain the high intellectual and book work, and at least fifteen of building and the boys' dormitory, spiritual standards that have char- `them are in the colporteur work now. both frame structures, were com- acterized the work of the school dur- In August, 1930, the writer held pletely destroyed by fire. The pros- ing many years past. The students the first series of meetings in Funchal, pect was indeed discouraging to our are industrious and aspiring. Com- Madeira Island. From here came the constituency of believers in Western ing largely from farms and small nucleus of the first Seventh-day Ad- Canada. True, however, to the in- villages, they are simple in manner, ventist church in Madeira. E. P. trepid spirit of the sturdy pioneers modest in desire, and purposeful in Mansell, who recently came from of the great Northwest, our brethren spirit. They constitute the sort of Brazil, is following up the work now, took counsel together, and with re- raw material out of which good mis- January 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 19 sionaries and workers can be made. for your kind consideration of me, ber, we postponed the baptism till the We are glad for the hopeful, and for the opportunity that the in- first of November. However, it so courageous spirit of the leadership in terneship plan has offered. The plan happened that his coming was de- this Canadian field, and we earnestly is indeed a blessing to young men, and layed at this date also. pray that under the blessing of God an incentive to greater endeavor in Therefore, on Sunday morning, p success may crown the efforts of the the Master's service." November 1, at the Eastern Fort, in Canadian Junior College as it fosters The conference president writes front of the Montague Hotel, a large and encourages the program of Chris- that this interne's work has been very crowd of people assembled to witness tian education in the Canadian West. satisfactory, and in answer to a ques- a baptism conducted by the Seventh- tion about his qualifications for for- day Adventists. Many were there, A Ministerial Interne eign service says: "I can heartily not out of curiosity only, but because recommend him and his wife for for- of their interest in the message. It BY M. E. KERN eign mission work. They are a fine had been raining throughout the EVANGELISM is the call of the hour, couple, and are adapted for the very night, until some time after 7 A. M., and we are glad to see a number of work they are`in. She is a good Bible while the hour for the baptism was strong young men entering the min- worker, and has had a lot of business 7: 30 A. M. The rain then ceased and istry. We only wish we had the money experience and knows how to meet the service began. to put hundreds in the field where we people. She is very good in the Har- The writer, by the aid of the Holy are employing only a few. vest Ingathering work. He is a fine Spirit, presented to that large gather- One young man who has served a speaker, a good evangelist, and has ing at the ocean front the reason why successful interneship and cannot con- a pleasing personality." he was a Seventh-day Adventist, and tinue in the conference because of I am glad to pass on such items to why others from every rank and sta- shortage of funds, is conducting an our people as an encouragement to tion in life, the world over, are ac- effort this winter without any support all, and as an example to other young cepting the gospel as taught by Sev- from the conference. Like the apostle men to press into successful soul- enth-day Adventists. This was also Paul, he feels, "Woe is me if I preach winning endeavor. publicly demonstrated, as this num- not the gospel." ber (twenty-two) went forward in Here is a letter from another young baptism with their crucified, risen, man who has just finished his year as Out of Deep Grief and soon-coming Lord. We had forty-one names enrolled a ministerial interne : BY INEZ BRASIER "I wish to take this opportunity to in the class. Of this number twenty- OuT of deep grief to Thee I cry, two were baptized and three were re- thank the brethren of the interneship Who comfort hast for those who mourn, ceived into the church on profession committee for accepting my name cm But lay Thy hand upon my heart, the interneship plan at the recom- Teach ,me to bear as Thou hast borne. of faith. There is still a class of six- teen, which will mean another bap- mendation of my conference presi- tism very soon. dent. The past year has been a very So dark the day and long the night, And I am weary, spent with grief. I am confident that a richer harvest active one. I have had three efforts Oh, strengthen me but with Thine own, of souls is awaiting our efforts in of my own and one with another And to my spirit send relief; Nassau, and in all the Bahamas, the young man. Just now my wife and I For I would feel Thee close beside, cradle of America, as it has been truly are holding a tent effort. We have And know the healing peace can bring. called. sixty names of interested people ; So shall I, Lord, in others' woe Nassaw, Bahamas. some have already begun to keep the Bid them look up to Thee and sing. Sabbath. We plan to go into a hall effort just as soon as this one closes. The Lord is greatly blessing the work Another Effort in the Bahamas OUR life is to be bound up with the here. The tent is well filled each life of Christ ; we are to draw con- night. BY 0. P. RUA stantly from Him, partaking of Him, "During the past year twelve were THE effort in the Grant's Town the living bread that came down from baptized at one effort, twenty-four at church, Nassau, started on the 5th of heaven, drawing from a fountain ever another (another young man and I July and continued for six weeks. fresh, ever giving forth its abundant worked together at this place), and The attendance was better than we treasures. If we keep the Lord ever seven signed the covenant at the third had ever had before. We were also before us, allowing our hearts to go place. As yet I cannot say what the favored with the presence of A. R. out in thanksgiving and praise to results will be here, but judging from Ogden, who remained with us two Him, we shall have a continual fresh- the attendance and the interest, we weeks and helped greatly in the meet- ness in our religious life. Our pray- hope to build up a strong company. ings. His labor was much appreci- ers will take the form of a conversa- There are only two Adventists in the ated, and I am sure that he will share tion with God, as we would talk with city at present. in the fruitage of the effort. a friend. He will speak His mysteries "The past year has taught me,many He left us in August for the States, to us personally. Often there will lessons. The most important one is but on his way back to Havana, Cuba, come to us a sweet, joyful sense of the prayer. I Spend an hour in prayer we had him with us again for another presence of Jesus. Often our hearts each evening before going on the ros- week. This week was occupied by will burn within us as He draws nigh trum, and the Lord blesses. I love him and the writer in an effort in the to commune with us as He did with the work, and would gladly give up East Sherley Street church. We Enoch. When this is in truth the ex- ten such positions as I had prior to were only too sorry that his stay could perience of the Christian, there is seen P entering the Lord's work. The joy of not have been longer. We hoped that in his life a simplicity, a humility, seeing souls accept the truth is what he and Elder Sype and his family meekness, and lowliness of heart, that spurs me on to new heights. could be present for the baptism, show to all with whom he associates "Now that my year of interneship which was planned for the middle of that he has been with Jesus and is up and the conference has voted October. Hearing that Elder Sype learned of Him.—"Christ's Object to keep me on, I want to thank you would be here near the end of Octo- Le,ssans," pp. 129, 130. 20 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. I

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177111TMITTT1TTITTITITMIT1TRIMMT Revealed Truth on Healthful Living By OWEN S. PARRETT, M. D. Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, D. C. WE are living in times of unusual by McCollum of Johns Hopkins, Ever Learning, but Never Attaining stress and strain. The results are called "The Newer Knowledge of Nu- Last week at Johns Hopkins in the seen on every hand in the increas- trition." It sounded up to date, but dental clinic I noticed an illustrated ing amount of sickness and premature on reading the author's preface I poster recommending more fruit, veg- physical breakdown of persons unable noticed that he stated that it had been etables, and bread' for building better to keep up the pace. necessary to revise it because the pre- teeth. The bread pictured was pure Ancient Israel stood as a beacon vious edition was three years old. My white bread, which, together with light to the surrounding ,nations, and copy was six years old, so I felt a bit sugar, is more responsible than any so perfect were their laws of health doubtful about keeping it. Thus it is other single factor for 96 per cent and hygiene that in no modern text- with the wisdom of man. It never of our school children's having defec- book will you find any improvement finds a permanent and fixed place to tive teeth. Experiments in this same on the health program laid down for rest. university by McCollum have shown that people. We still consult Moses for The world with its science never the utter lack of white flour as a many facts relating to healthful liv- seems to arrive. To illustrate my proper food, but somehow medical ing. God gave them laws regulating meaning, let us take the field of diet. science never seems able to put to a their hygienic program, and who has The Spirit of prophecy seems to em- practical use the knowledge which it not had his heart thrilled by reading phasize the following as among the digs out. Referring to these very the simple statement, "There was not most important rules of proper diet: matters, Dr. Will Mayo recited this one feeble person among their tribes" No meat, tea, or coffee, very little Persian proverb at a large medical sugar or white bread, with nothing at Few Books Stand the Test of Time convention : all between meals, and the eating of "He who learns and learns, yet does not God in His goodness began giving smaller amounts. I challenge any one what he knows, the Adventist people simple but won- to show a book written by the recog- Is one who plows and plows, yet never derful health knowledge nearly three nized authorities on medicine in which sows." quarters of a century ago. These one or all of these factors are scarcely Neither Dr. Charles nor Dr. Will truths came to us largely by revela- mentioned unless it be to recommend Mayo uses tobacco. They give, as the tion. Time has permitted their crit- them. The world feeds its children reason, their desire to keep physically ical testing. How wonderful that not between meals, making it compulsory fit for the sake of their patients. Dr. one statement of fact has been upset in some schools. Dietetics which Lahey, of Boston, an outstanding sur- by the discoveries of science covering leaves out these matters is scarcely geon, recently told me that he did not a period of more than sixty years! worthy of the name. use tobacco for the same reason. It On the other hand, they have shone is refreshing to find great men in the I with increasing luster as science, profession willing to deny themselves groping more or less blindly and Keep Me Steady, Lord in order to rise above the common sometimes retracing its steps, has te- standard. Sad to say, these cases are diously added fact to previous knowl- BY BERTHA MORRIS-WILKINS all too rare, and most medical con- edge. ventions are characterized by the blue KEEP me steady, Lord, Recently, in moving across the con- Though wild the winds of idle doctrine and nicotine-laden atmosphere which tinent, I had to decide what books I blow. often obscures a perfect view of pic- should ship. Most of my medical Keep my vision clear, tures being thrown on the screen. books over ten years old were segre- My eyes on Thee, God has been very gracious to us That I Thy truth, Thy wondrous truth gated, and more than half my library may know. as a people, not only in giving us was thus consigned to the flames. I health facts, but in building up a sys- came to one book forty-one years old, Though I may differ, tem of sanitariums and a medical col- in fact it was the oldest medical book May it be with spirit firm and kind; lege where exPerts can be trained to May I endeavor in my library. I placed it among the To lead some one help our own people and carry God's books to be saved, not because it was To the light," Thy glorious light. ministry of 'healing to a dying world. a curio, but because it contained the Time was when every Adventist I wisdom of the living God. It will Give me greater. love, preacher carried with him a health never need revision, for it states no Love that deeply feels, better understands; chart, and talked to the people on And give me grace, untruths, and also quite covers the Keep me true and calm, these important Matters. In recent field of practical hygiene. It is 'called That I, with steadfast purpose; years I fear we have grown careless "Christian Temperance and Bible May go on and on till Jesus comes. if not indifferent to these great prin- Hygiene." Instead of decreasing in ciples, and as a denomination have The truth knows no delay; value, it has gone up, so that today I 'Tis, hastening on suffered a distinct loss thereby. Per- would not part with it for a. hundred- To that glad day; haps we medical people are somewhat dollar bill. I picked up another book, Keep me steady, Lord, I pray. to blame. Janu'a'ry' 7, 1932 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD 21

Evangelism and Medical Work United THE LAKE UNION CONFERENCE -ASSOCIA- mation along the lines of healthful TION OF SEVENTH, living What untold suffering might DAY ADVENTISTS In view of the times, should we not The fourth quadrennial session of the Lake seek to bring about a closer co-opera- be avoided ! How much might be Union Conference Association 'of Seventh-day Adventists will convene in Battle Creek, Mieh., tion between our medical workers and saved in keeping missionaries at their in connection with the Lake Union Conference post! As medical workers we can constituency meeting, Jan. 13-23, 1932. The our evangelists ? What would it not first meeting of this session will be held at mean to the denomination if our rank often trace from cause to effect among 8 p. m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1932, for the pur- our people, both at home and in for- Pose of electing trustees for the ensuing term, and file would intelligently undertake and for the transaction of any other business to practice a real health program? eign fields. All about us lies a world that may properly come before the association. hungering and thirsting for both 'the The legal constituency of this association is the The Spirit of prophecy says we would duly elected delegates of the Lake Union Con- indeed be a spectacle to men and spiritual and the physical truths ference of Seventh-day Adventists, unincor- which have been bequeathed to us. porated. W. H. Holden, Pres. angels. L. W. Foote, Sec, Recently I watched a group of our Every Seventh-day Adventist home own people purchasing groceries at a should be a little medical missionary unit which would break down preju- PUBLICATIONS WANTED store. Most of them called for and The persons named below desire late, clean dice and open up opportunities for copies of our publications, sent postpaid, for carried away white bread when they use in missionary work. In sending publications, might have purchased entire wheat. missionary work, If we live the care should be exercised to select only such as are free from soil and disfigurement. We have I thought of the text which says, truth, it will mean more than simply been credibly informed that some who oppose talking the truth. Thus we may be this movement and the truths which it repre- "Wherefore do ye spend money for sents, answer these requests for literature, and "living epistles," "known and read of are sending to our brethren and sisters in that which is not bread?" various parts of the country tracts and papers Some one may say he cannot eat all men." representing their opposition. Our workers should be careful not to confound this litera- entire-wheat bread because of its ture with our denominational publications, and thus unwittingly become agents in sending out roughage. That may sometimes be matter not printed in the interests of the cause The editors of the REVIEW have of truth. true. Health reform makes allow- kindly offered space in our church These publications are not to be used by the recipients for soliciting money, but wholly for ance for persons with diseased organs paper for medical questions and an- free missionary work. We shall esteem it a who must gradually build up to a favor if any of our friends will report to us the swers. As medical workers we are names of any using free literature for personal point where they can tolerate natural anxious to help our people with their gain or advantage. foods. health problems. Brethren, let us Mrs. E. M. Taylor, 1073 Boulevard, Shreve- What a blessing health really is! port, La, Literature for distribution. unite to help revive an interest in Margaret Locke, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Rt, 1, Money is nothing when placed against these matters which mean so much to desires late, clean copies of Norwegian papers. the sorrow and suffering and useful our health and happiness. If those Mrs. J. W. Neece, Dallas, N. C. Review, Signs, Watchman, and Youth's Instructor, for lives cut short by disease. Look at who have questions they wish an- missionary your little child at play. He will not work. swered will address me at the Wash- C. B. Smith, 222 S. Depront St., Bellefon- walk if he has a chance to run. His ington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, taine, Ohio, desires an unlimited supply of tissues are highly alkaline, and he D. C., I will gladly do my best to papers for missionary work. Mrs. Mary Bayersdoerfer, 1509 Oak St., feels so good he can hardly stand it! answer these for the good of all our Murphysboro, Ill., thanks those who have sent Few reach adult age with this splen- readers. Questions of a private na- literature and wishes them to continue. did health, and very few carry it into ture should be accompanied by a self- Howard Patton, Pelham, Tenn. Our Little Friend, Life and Health, Watchman, Present advanced years. addressed and stamped envelope. Truth, and small books for missionary work. Gladstone was past eighty when he Mrs. M. Sype Atteberry, Box 356, Nassau, made his monumental address before Bahamas. Any denominational literature for free distribution, especially Review and In- the British Parliament. He kept his appointittenN anb structor. mind and body vigorous and enjoyed Mrs. Charles H. Holman, Gold Hill, Boulder life to a ripe old age. We see exam- Co., Colo., desires 150 or 200 copies of the Week gotice5 of Prayer number of the Review, Nov. 6, 1931, ples of this among our own people for work in summer resorts next summer; also small books. occasionally. I think of dear Brother WASHINGTON MISSIONARY COLLEGE W. H. Hall, past ninety and a regular CONSTITUENCY MEETING Mrs. Gertrude Chambers, Box 312, , Conde, S. Dak. Continuous supply of Present Truth, attendant at our Pasadena church. Notice is hereby given that the next biennial Watchman, Life and Health, Youth's Instructor. meeting of the Washington Missionary College and other literature for a reading rack and He enlisted seventy years ago in the Corporation will be held at Washington Mis- other missionary work. sionary College, Takoma Park, Md., at 10 a. m., Civil War as one of 112 men in his Feb. 23, 1932. The object of the meeting is Mrs. 0. Peterson, 2231 Benjamin St., N. E., company. Today just two of this to elect trustees, and to attend to other matters Minneapolis, Minn., desires the Instructor, which should properly come before the member- Present Truth, Signs, Little Friend, and picture company are alive, and both old vet- ship of the association. cards, for missionary purposes. The children's erans are Seventh-day Adventists. The members of this corporation consist of papers are especially for a home Sabbath school the executive committee of the Columbia Union held with outside children. Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the exec- J. H. Downes, 10 Throgmorton Avenue, Lon- Possibilities in Health Reform utive committees of the conferences in the don, E. C. 2, England. Continuous and un- territory of the Columbia Union of Seventh- limited supply of Signs, Life and Health, Our day Adventists, the executive committee of the Mentally subscribing to the truths Little Friend, and any Seventh-day Adventist Southern Union Conference of Seventh-day Ad- books or papers for missionary purposes. Mrs. we hold may not advance one's life a ventists, the executive committee of the South- E. G. White's writings specially desired. single day, whereas putting into prac- eastern Union Conference of Seventh-clay Ad- ventists, the resident Members of the General H. G. Bayliss, 1525 Clawthorpe Ave., Vic- tice both spiritual and physical truths Conference Committee, the board of directors of toria, British Columbia, Canada, wishes to thank will fit a man to live the longest time Washington Missionary College, the 'faculty of all who have sent papers, and requests those Washington Missionary College, and three other who can to save the serial stories in the Youth's possible in this world, with a promise members, at large, chosen by the other members. Instructor and Signs, and when complete, send . F. II. Robbins, Pres. to him, and he will have them bound into of a life to come. No man will be books for hospitals. saved because- of healthful living, but R. L. Wolin, Sec. 9,4 • 91 many will be lost for lack of it. Sev- PRAYER FOR HEALING enth-day Adventists do not believe in EMMANUEL MISSIONARY-. COLLEGE Notice is hereby given of the quadrennial Though widely separated from one another, of Emmanuel Mis- the followers of our Lord and Master can meet life insurance which pays you for dy- meeting of the constithency, in spirit daily at the throne of grace. In our ing, but God has given us something sionary College, Incorporated. The first meet- devotions let us remember our brethren and ing wilt be=held in the, Tabernacle, Battle Creek, sisters who are in affliction. Says, the apostle: infinitely better in the way of knowl- Mich„ on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1932, at 8:30 "Remember them that are in bonds,, as bound M. The oonstitueney of the association shall with them; and them which suffer adversity, as edge to keep us from dying prema- be the delegates, regularly elected or appointed being yourselves also in the body." We our- of the Lake Union Con- selves shall share in the blessings we seek for turely. to the regular session' others. "The Lord turned the captivity of Job ference of Seventh-day.-Adventists: when he prayed for his friends." Wo suggest What might it not mean to our work • H. Holden, 'Pres. the noon hour as an appropriate time for remem- if we could see a revival and a refor- Earl: Beaty, Sec. bering these special requests. 22 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1

A sister in Nebraska requests prayer for the DR. JOHN E. FROOM Magnus.—Carl Mhgnus was born in Karl- restoration of her husband's health. shann, Sweden, March 7, 1879; and died Nov. Dr. John Edwin Froom was born in Belvedere, 4, 1931. He was senior deacon in the Brooklyn Prayer for the restoration of her husband's Ill., Feb. 19, 1867; and died in Orlando, Fla., Dec. (N. Y.) church. Hp leaves his wife, one son, health and for his conversion is requested by 2, 1931. At the age of fourteen he, with his and four daughters to mourn. a sister in Montana. mother and older sister, accepted this advent faith, and was baptized, remaining unwaveringly Sage.—Mrs. !Marguerite Selma Sage, née The restoration of her father's sight and true to that confession of faith until conscious- Zachrison, was born at Quilaselle, Wash., May hearing, and of her mother's health is the bur- ness ceased a few hours before his decease. 6, 1905; and died at Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 5, den of a sister in Illinois. Desiring to give his life in service to his 1931. Her husband, father and mother, brothers, Lord, he early entered the colporteur work, and sisters are left to mourn. A Wisconsin sister desires prayer for healing and because of recognized ability and leader- Byerrum.—Mrs. Bessie Hattie Byerrum, née of a long-standing, chronic disease that is con- ship, was advanced in responsibility until he sidered hopeless, that she may be spared to became leader of the colporteur forces in the McClure, was born in Missouri, Dee. 17, 1889: and died at St. Helena, Calif., Nov. 9, 1931. train her little girl. Lake Union district. In 1888 he was united in marriage to Chris- She leaves her husband, five daughters, two tina Neilsen, then a Bible worker in Illinois. sons, two sisters, and a brother to mourn. To this union was born one son, LeRoy, at CHANGE OF ADDRESS present associate secretary of the Ministerial Smith.—Jessie Marie Smith, eldest daughter Association of the General Conference. of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Smith, was born in L. H. King, for seventeen years a laborer in Medical workers being few in number in South Lancaster, Mass., Aug. 25, 1910; and the New York Conference, the last five of which those earlier days, he was encouraged to study died in Mount Vernon, Ohio. She leaves to were in Buffalo, is now pastor of the Pittsburgh medicine, which course he began at the Uni- mourn, her father and mother, one brother, (Pa.) No. 1 church in the West Pennsylvania versity of Michigan, and completed at the and two sisters. Conference, and can be reached by mail at American Medical Missionary College, graduat- 7157 Meade St., Pittsburgh, Pa. ing in 1899. His companion having taken the Brink.—Mrs. Adelaide Lillian Brink, née nurses' course in the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Overacker, was born in Washington, D. C., together they founded the Tri-City Sanitarium Feb. 18, 1899; and died in Takoma Park, Aug. at Moline, Ill. 18, 1931. She is survived by her husband, Meantime the headquarters of the movement one daughter, her father and mother, two sis- were transferred to Washington, D. C., and ters, and one brother. OBITUARIES in 1904 Dr. Froom was called to Washington "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death to organize the Medical Department of the Mocdy.—Frank Moody and his son Oliver of His saints." "Blessed are the dead which die General Conference, and the next three years were drowned at Dillingham, Alaska, Oct. 20, in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the he spent largely among our various sanitariums 1931, Brother Moody was born in Duluth, Spirit, that they may rest from their labors: and physicians in North America, promoting Minn.. Oct. 1, 1888; and Oliver in Kamilehe and their works do follow them." "I [Jesus) the interests of our denominational medical am the resurrection and the life: he that be- Valley, Wash., June .20, 1913. Brother Moody work. is survived by his wife, two sons, and a daughter. lieveth in Me, though he were dead, yet shall An emergency in the Portland (Oreg.) Sani- he live." tarium called him to its superintendency for Leonardi.—Mrs. Concita Leonardi, of Denver,, a period, after which he entered private prac- Colo., was born in Italy about sixty-six years tice in Boise, Idaho, continuing there until We regret that the large number of deaths ago. She came' to Colorado about twenty-five reported from our rapidly growing church mem- failing health forced his abandonment of medical years ago. Thirteen years ago she became a bership throughout the world necessitates a re- Practice. A year and a half ago he moved to charter member of the Italian church in Denver. duction of obituary notices to the simple recital the milder climate of Florida. In Boise he of date and place of birth and death. Photo- She is survived by her husband and four graphs cannot be used. Exceptions will be made was highly regarded by both the medical fra- daughters. to this rule only in the cases of older field work- ternity and the community at large, and was ever active in local church work. ers or others whose life and labors have made Cottrell.—Mrs. Lucy Cottrell, née Taylor, them known throughout the denomination. In 1918 his faithful companion died. Later Fuller notices should find publication in local he was joined in marriage to Mabel Boletta was born near Suspension Bridge, Ontario, papers. Thiel, one of the supervisors of nurses in the Canada, Aug. 11, 1847; and died at Glendale, Loma Linda Sanitarium. Calif., Nov. 2, 1931. ' In 1872 Miss Taylor was Those who knew the doctor longest and most united in marriage to James U. Cottrell, son intimately will ever cherish as the outstanding of the pioneer minister, Roswell F. Cottrell. Sclifo.—Mary Sclifo died at Sacramento, memory his unwavering faith in God, his high Of the four children who gladdened this home, Calif., Oct. 14, 1931. personal integrity, and his undeviating devo- two died in infancy. After the death of her tion to the right. His personal prayer life and husband in 1909 Sister Cottrell made her home Hatton.—Anna Frances Hatton was born spiritual fervor was an inspiration to all who with her two sons, part of this time being March 19, 1915; and died in Takoma Park, came into contact with Min. spent with them in China. She leaves two sons, M(1,, Oct. 14, 1931. The body was committed to its final resting four grandsons, three brothers, and a wide circle place here in Orlando, Fla., and the funeral of other relatives and friends to mourn her loss. Hefferman.—Laura May Heffernan was born services were conducted by the writer, assisted and died in Fish Creek, Mont., May 16, 1885; by H. M. Kelley. A. S. Booth. Everett.—Amos E. Everett was born near in Bellingham, Wash., Nov. 12, 1931. Princeton, Mo.; and died in Georgia. He at- Linscott.—William Edward Linscott was born tended Battle Creek College in 1899 and 1900. Stimac.—Mrs. Julia Emma Stimac, née Shir- After leaving college he went to Georgia to key, was born in Budapest, Hungary, May 25, at Brownfield, Maine, March 8, 1897; and died at Northampton, Mass., Nov. 25, 1931. His canvass. He acted ai secretary of the Sabbath 1871; and died in Edmonton, Canada, June 29, school and educational departments of the con- 1931. mother, one brother, and three sisters are left to mourn. ference. Later he returned to Montana, where he carried the work of secretary-treasurer of Almeda Hutchins South- Southworth.—Mrs. that conference until 1911, when he took up worth was born April 23, 1849; and died at Schwab.—Charles Theodore Schwab was born the same work in Maine, continuing until 1914. Palouse, Wash., Nov. 30, 1931. in Dunreith, Ind., June 6, 1873; and died in While here he lost his wife, Jessie Lee Board- Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 16, 1931. His wife, one man, in 1912. 'After leaving Maine he went to Mary Laretta Trickett, née Trickett.—Mrs. son, and three daughters are left to mourn. North Carolina, where he met Irma Venson, Naives, was born near Monongahela City, Pa., and they were married. They assisted in a Dee. 4, 1856; and died at Knoxville, Iowa, Oct. Mundy.—Mrs. Amelia B. Mundy was born tent effort in 1916, returning to Montana be- 23, 1931. in Alexander, N. Y., Jan. 28, 1842; and died cause of failing health. Brother Everett was in Vickeryville, Mich., Nov. 23, 1931. One a most devout man. Nasboro.—Mrs. Mary Alice Nasboro, née daughter, two sisters, and one brother remain Luther, was born in Shelby County, Indiana, to mourn their loss. Aug. 11, 1854; and died at Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 30, 1931. Trask.—William George Trask was born in Honolulu, Nov. 23, 1891; and died in Brooklyn. The Advent Review Fuller.—Mrs. Clara Bell Fuller, née Luther, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1931. His wife, two children, was born in Shelby County, Indiana, July 3, three brothers, and three sisters are left to 1861; and died at Los Angeles, Calif., May. 15, mourn. and Sabbath Herald 1931. Zinser.—Mrs. Almira Zinser was born in GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Olsen.—Mrs. Niels P. Olsen, nee Mary Chris- Pulaski, Iowa, May 28, 1875; and died in Den- ver, Colo., Aug. 29, 1931. She is survived by tine Jorgensen, was born in Sjelland, Denmark; Devoted to the Proclamation of " the Faith and died at New Hartford, Iowa, Nov. 27, 1931, her husband, two sons, her mother, three which was once delivered unto the saints." in her sixty-first year. brothers, and one sister. VoL. 109 JANUARY 7, 1932 No. 1 BriIthart.—Mrs. Luvina C. Brillhart, nee Lu- Kalberer.—George Mike Kalberer was born in ther, was born in Dearborn County, Indiana, Denver, Colo., Oct. 18, 1896; and died in Sheri- Nov. 17, 1847; and died at Indianapolis, Ind., dan, Wyo., Nov. 4, 1931. 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Order today. Your Book and Bible House has them in stock. REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION TAKOMA PARK, WASHINGTON, D. C. 24 THE ADVENT REVIEW AND SABBATH HERALD Vol. 109, No. 1 understanding, that we shall possess a joy Publicity in New Zealand not dependent upon environment or tem- poral or physical conditions. These are AN encouraging word has just been re- times that try men's souls. In this world's ceived from H. E. Piper, president of crisis let us be brave and true and strong; the North New Zealand Conference, tell- WASHINGTON, D. C., JANUARY 7, 1932 let us be pure in heart and noble in life. ing of the value of newspaper publicity Let us stand loyally for the right, and in EDITOR FRANCIS MCLELLAN WILCOX in that part of the world, and the way distrust of our own wisdom and strength, a ASSOCIATE EDITORS in which it helps to advertise the cause but in holy confidence in the Mighty One, of God. He says: W. A. SPICER F. D. NICHOL C. P. BOLLMAN seek to do strong, unselfish, faithful serv- a SPECIAL CONTRIBUTORS "I am very definitely impressed with ice for God and for our fellow men. the importance and the great advantage A. G. DANIELLE, C. H. WATSON I. H. EVANS F. M, W. 0. MONTGOMERY W. H. BRANSON J. L. SHAW there is in usinc, the public press, and I C. K. MEYERS M. E. KERN E. KOTZ sPg am happy to tell you that wherever we J. L. MCELHANY E. E. ANDROSS I.. H. CHRISTIAN can, we use the newspapers. In this con- A. W. CORMACK N. P. NEILSEN H. F. SCHUBERTH Another Sunday ,Bill Before ference just now we are, operating seven A. V. OLSON H. W. MILLER F. GRIGGS Congress evangelistic missions, and in the majority W. G. TURNER J. F. WRIGHT of them we have beep granted good space CIRCULATION MANAGER CLARENCE LAWRY WE trust all will read. Elder Longacre's for reports of our meetings. In one place article in this week's REVIEW, ,"Another particularly the newspaper has been very This paper does not pay for articles, and be- Sunday Bill Before Congress," and will cause of the large number of contributions con- helpful in creating an interest, so that stantly received for publication, we cannot under- realize the necessity of • getting 'busy at our evangelist in that district is now very take either to acknowledge their receipt or to once in sending petitions as rapidly as return manuscripts. Duplicates of articles or re- welcome in many homes of the people in ports furnished other papers are never acceptable. possible to their United States Senator* the town and district. I think this could protesting against this bill. Early aetion All communications relating to the Editorial also be said of other missions that we Department, and all manuscripts submitted for is anticipated on this bill, as many pow- are now operating. publication, should be addressed to Editor Review 'erful forces are back of it. We ate' con- and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington, D. C. "We stand very definitely for using the fident that our people will rally to this newspapers all we can, and we pray that call. The King's business demands haste. all our workers throughout the world H. K. MARTIN, of the Australasian Mis- sv field may be thoroughly alive to the op- sionary College, under date of November portunities given through this avenue." 12, sends in an excellent poem, written by The Work of "Present Truth" W. L. BURGAN. a one of his students, for publication in the REVIEW. He adds this word : THE following letter came from a col- "We are closing school this week, and porteur Dec. 11, 1931: have had a very good year. Although the "Something unusual is stirring the peo- Calendar Reform depression is striking this country very ple in this place.. I carpe to a home yes- severely, somehow the Lord's work has terday and found a lady very much in- Statement Issued by U. S. Department of not been hindered to the extent that other terested. She quickly gaiie me an order Commerce on Calendar Reform lines of work have been. We know what with' a deposit for 'Our Day.' A police- man lived in the next house. He imme- THE United States Department of Com- is His promise to us, and if we are faith- merce issued the following statement from diately gave me an order. The lady at ful to Him, we shall have a part in the Dr. Marvin, Dec. 10, 1931, on the subject triumphal finish of this work." the next house was as interested a per- son as I have seen for a long time. She of the revision of the calendar and the will surely come into the' truth. An or- ,stabilization of the date of Easter. der was a foregone conclusion. She re- "Definite action to simplify the calendar Facing .the Future With vealed the reason for the unusual interest is generally anticipated before 1939, the Courage I had found in that place,—these people chief of the United States Weather Bu- had all been reading Present Truth for reau stated upon his return to Washington As we enter upon another new year, let a whole year. after attending,, as a technical representa- us do so with faith and courage. We can- "Think of it, three orders in one hour! tive of this country,' the meeting of the not read the future. It is well that we It almost seems like old times. Let me League of Nations Committee on Commu- cannot. But we have this assurance, that tell you I am glad to work in territory nications and Transit, which considered our heavenly Father knows the future, that has been prepared by Present Truth. the reform of the calendar. Though dis- even as He knows the past, and if we will Orders come in spite of the depression as turbed conditions at the present time were but commit the keeping of our souls unto well as they did in good times, where the deemed to render general simplification of Him, walking faithfully before Him from ground has been so prepared. People in the calendar inopportune, it is anticipated day to day, He will permit no experience this way will buy who never would have that some definite action will be taken by to come into our lives but that will work bought in normal times." 1939, which year begins on a Sunday. for our eternal good. We serve a God of This is only one of many other similar "That the stabilization of the date of love, one who is too wise to err and too reports giving added proof of the value Easter is of great social and economic good to be unkind. The same infinite of preparing the way for the colporteur importance was agreed by the committee. mercy and goodness which have been by the systematic delivery of Present It is proposed to the churches that this round about us in the years that are Truth. D. W. REAVIS. date be set as the Sunday after the second gone, will go with us in the year to come. Saturday in, April. The meeting con- The outlook may be dark and depress- cluded that the world is likely to benefit ing; indeed, it is, as we view conditions in SENDING a report of his work in' Raro- from fixing the date of Easter, which now the world, but the uplook is bright with tonga, Cook Islands, H. B. ' P. Wicks varies over a period of thirty-five days. promise. The economic situation that ex- writes under date of November 25: Business, especially would be aided, it is ists is a call on the part of every one "I am waiting for the opportunity of. believed. A note was drawn up which was of us for renewed consecration to God, visiting the island of Mangaia, so that I designed for the various governments to thanking Him for the blessings that we can spend several days there, as some are send 'to representatrves of the churches." share, the food and raiment and shelter desiring baptism. I have been waiting for This statement, issued by Dr. Marvin, which are ours to enjoy, and expressing over a year to go to this island, but so far the American representative to the League our appreciation for His love in sharing there has been no opportunity, and now of Nations on calendar revision, clearly with others the blessings He has bestowed there will be no other ship calling there shows that the, blank-day calendar advo- upon us. Let us reach out our hands as until about the fourth month of next year. cates have; by no means abandoned the far as possible in help to the poor and "Then I have been hoping for an op- blank-day idea, and are definitely plan- needy, to the sick and suffering, recogniz- portunity of visiting the island of Puka- ning to bring the matter again before the ing that the Master counts this service as puka, but in four years there has been no League for consideration at the quadren- done unto Himself. There is no joy so ship to visit there' from this group. So' nial session on Communications and Tran- great as the joy of rendering service to you see this is a far-flung field. How- sit in 1935, so it may become effective "by those in need, whether it be in a spiritual ever, this message is finding its way to all 1939, which year, begins on a Sunday." or a temporal way. these islands, and we have companies on This means that we must not slacken our Even in the darkness let us keep a song eight of the eleven inhabited islands. It efforts to enlighten the public mind on in our hearts, relating ourselves to the is certainly inspiring to be connected with the evil consequences involved in such a Comforter in such a way that we shall a message that we know will triumph in Heaven-defying scheme. know the peace of God that passeth all every language and for every people." C. S. LONGACRE.