»),»»»» GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS acc«Ec-c-K-c- 101 ftw,111PAKIII01.a. V101..S.7.-5.....EF2.7.-71. 311.7- sasi • 01 AA AAA A0 444Arl4 A0 444 AAA 444 AAA Christian Education for Adventist ohs Or 44,4 Youth Vy By E. E. Cossentine OV A44WPA Secretary of the General Conference Department of Education plo AAA AAA HE most valuable heritage of the church is its youth "rightly trained." Its or AAA future lies in their hands. We believe that true education "is the harmonious rot AAA Tdevelopment of the 'physical, mental, and spiritual powers. It prepares the AAA 0144A00 student for the joy of service in this world, and for the higher joy of wider service 44v 000 OVI 0ilt0 in the world to come."—Education, p. 13. Too often in the past this fact has been passively- taken for granted. Individual churches and church members have not 4 always entered into an educational program to rightly train the youth, and as -re 00 a result many are lost. Today as never before we realize the need of "rightly trained" workers, conse- Or kit crated to the task of finishing a world-wide work, preparing a people to stand in Or AAA the great day of God. There must be a strong army of youth to accomplish this. Or AAA It is our responsibility. Or AAA The first step in preparing youth for service starts in the Christian home, where Or Ov AAA God's Word is the standard and the living out of its teachings the aim of each Or AAA member of the family. , Children from such a home enter school with young 440 hearts responsive and receptive to the influence and teachings of their instructors. r How important then that it is a church school! And that their advanced education is received in a Christian college. ALA AA In this last great hour of earth's history, crises all about us challenge the in- A44AO terest and energies of our youth. Many who are not rooted and grounded in the Or faith will be undermined. The youth of the world make its history, good and Or AAA Or 44AAA4 bad. We must first make certain that we have schools, and then that our young 014 14 people attend them. The only safe school is one where religion and Christian liv- Or ing are taught, and the results should be sound bodies, disciplined minds, and Ov 144 right characters. True education puts the hand of youth into the hand of God. 44 Then as the youth go out into darkness of the world, they have the light of rOl truth in their lives, and confidence in their hearts that knows victory. "With such .144 AAt an army of workers as our youth, rightly trained, might furnish, how soon the AAA message of a crucified, risen, and soon-coming Saviour might be carried to the AAA A4AAA whole world! How soon might the end come,—the end of suffering and sorrow Or and sin!"—MRS. E. G. WHITE, in Education, p. 271. AAA JYY AAA r4 A44A0 Ov iV AAA 4404 111 Illeigrai01-.111.11.1,4060VAL,111.1r4060.1Ltallairdear4r0-,111,41ralragritilentaragtVLVIMING.V[Inll$11=10501L-Akikirdrea.ICAL,WEIIPIWItgrlrlIPIPS.W.1.4.4060.1.11LOLVAOL-11‘41. .......... .11Ik now....trecill,Prilrac.. ....mrotroc=aMituroa, r.lear.... VOL. 125, NO. 8 FEBRUARY 19, 1948 tion or the National Temperance League. This change, it was learned, was urged by younger members, who said they can In This Issue carry on the "fight against liquor" better under a new name. FRONT COVER - The Gospel in Medical Practice ¶ PLANS for the inauguration of spiritual-healing clinics and EDITORIAL - - Page 3 the establishment of a Third Order, similar to Catholicism's Are You Making Excuses for Sin?—The Measure of Divine Third Order of St. Francis, were announced in Baltimore, Love—Christian Consecration—We Work by the Light Maryland, by Dr. Albert E. Day. In the first interview he has• of a Burning World given since his return as pastor of the Mount Vernon Place GENERAL ARTICLES - - - - Page 7 Methodist church after an absence of ten years, Dr. Day said The Washing of Baptism—The Test of Loyalty—Wise his plans were an essential part of the purpose of the Christian Counsel for a Day Like This—Out of the Cities—The church—a ministry to the entire man, physical, mental, and Hour Is Late—God's Promises Are for Me—Especially for spiritual. Dr. Day, head of the New Life Movement of the Youth—The Alcohol Problem Today Methodist Church, said the proposed spiritual-healing clinics would be established in co-operation with physicians in rec- THE ADVENTIST HOME CIRCLE - - - Page 13 ognition that all means of healing are divine in source. Such Games Before Supper—The Snows of Winter—Our Gar- clinics, he said, would seek the spiritual rebuilding of the en- den in Retrospect tire man. REPORTS FROM ALL LANDS - - - - Page 15 ¶ DURING 1947 Methodists of the United States gave a total Greetings From the Ivory Coast—Philippine Union Prog- of $164,138,457 for all church causes, the Rev. Albert S. ress—A New Florida Sanitarium Opens Its Doors—Out of Hoover, chief statistician of the church, reported in Chicago. Darkness Into Light—Work Among the Colored People Of this amount $31,076,049 was given for World Service mis- of South Africa—When Can We Have a Missionary?—• sionary and educational work and other benevolences. Mem- Work in a Mohammedan Stronghold—Fruitage in China bership of the church now totals 8,567,724. —Radio Work in Mexico—General Conference and Over- seas Spot News—North American Spot News—Church ¶ MANY a minister in Akron, Ohio's, smaller churches gets Calendar to his pastoral duties after finishing a shift in the big tire mak- ing shops in Akron. How many of these "part time parsons" Copyright 1948, Review and Herald Publishing Association, Washington 12, D.C. there are can't be determined exactly. Some of them haven't told the factory bosses about their activities on the outside. They're modest about it.' But a check of the records on the ITEMS OF INTEREST • ones the companies know about shows that the figure runs into dozens. They have to work because they're faced with [The Review subscribes to Religious News Service, the well-known interde- the fact that their small congregations, made up mostly of nominational news gathering organization. Many of the items below are taken other rubberworkers and their families, can't support them directly from this service.] entirely. ¶ WITH clergymen and church groups among those actively participating in the movement, an increasing number of States are seeking a more effective and scientific approach to the problem of alcoholism, a survey reveals. In efforts to deal with an estimated 750,000 alcoholics in the country, plus some 3,250,000 "excessive drinkers," growing emphasis is being 1873 placed on the premise that alcoholism should be treated as a ¶ CONCERNING the background of the Advent Movement, disease rather than a crime. Studies or activities aimed at James White writes: "Seventh-day Adventists still love the Ad- curbing alcoholism are currently under way or projected in vent name, and hold it very dear to them. And while they at least 11 States, largely as a result of 1947 legislative action, hold .the name, consistency would lead them to cherish, and with the issue being raised in additional State legislatures also hold dear, the very means that made them Adventists. this year. When Seventh-day Adventists can no longer honor the great second-advent movement, and feel called upon to confess to ¶ THIRTY-SEVEN Baptist missionaries were greeted by Presi- the world that the pioneers of the cause were mistaken on the dent Truman in Washington, D.C., as "frontier purveyors of very calculation that shook the world, and which resulted in peace." The President praised them for carrying the message making Adventists a separate people, then they will drop of American good will throughout the world. The mission- aries, in Washington to address various Baptist groups, were `Adventists' from their name, and pass for simply Sabbatarian told by Mr. Truman, who spoke extemporaneously, that there Christians." were thousands of agreements in world history which were 1898 temporarily expedient, but "treaties are no good unless they THIs encouraging word from Argentina is sent by F. H. are backed up by the hearts and minds of the people." Westphal: "In Buenos Ayres some souls have begun to obey "THE basic problem of the church today is to produce men the truth under peculiar trials. Biutlier and Sister Snyck and women whose religion is intimately and intensively per- are working among the Spanish-speaking people ... with some sonal," according to Dr. Frank Jennings, executive secretary prospect of success, as some have already embraced the truth. of the Massachusetts Council of Churches in Boston. "There Sister Post has a wide circle of acquaintances among the Scotch are now and have been in the past -plenty of people who people, and is working earnestly for them. The Lord has recogriiie the social values of religion but to whom it has blessed the labors of Brother Oppegard. The message is on- meant lit a or nothing as an inner, life-thanging experience," rd he said. 1923 ¶ THE president and general superintendent of the Anti- ¶ A REPORT made by Flora H. Williams shows that there are Saloon League of America said in Pittsburgh that they plan now forty Young Mothers' Societies organized in twenty-one to resign, leaving the way open for "young blood" in the or- States, with 389 members.