C.) U NORTHWEST ta44,;w A4t, TERRITORIES d i St ' .4 0 or z • 40) • Ac eg 0 • i asp GC • ! i 0 o I m • z t-a i i - 2 i • i 2 kiii% 0 r Z va MESSENGE 0 .t Vol. XXXI Oshawa, Ontario September 12, 1962 No. 19 President Nelson Retires It is known quite generally among the workers and members here in Canada that I am retiring this month from the presidency of the Canadian Union Conference. It was a little more than twelve years ago when we entered upon the work in this wonderful field. These years have been busy ones. Working with workers in all of our conferences and institutions and associating with our members all across Can- ada has made our work and associations the very happiest. We have a wonderful people in Canada who are burdened for the work in their own communities, in their own conferences, in all of Canada, and for the world-wide mission programme as well. With an ever-changing corps of workers connected with our various organ- izations, yet there has always been the same spirit of earnestness, consecration and dedication to the interests of the Cause of God. President and Mrs. W. A. Nelson Through all these years, my wife and I have looked upon our workers and members as personal friends. These ties of friendship will always be interwoven with our constant recollections and reflections upon the work in Canada and our long years of service in this country. We leave Canada with the assurance that the best years of the work are just before us. I know that you will give the newly-appointed president who is to be selected this week the same wholehearted co-operation and support that you have given through these happy years that have so speedily come and gone. The Lord keep each of you true and faithful to the Cause of Truth and may the coining of the Lord be a bright hope within all of our hearts that we may meet again in the Kingdom of our God. W. A. NELSON, President Canadian Union Conference J. W. Bothe Elected As New Union President years in that capacity and over forty- and more recently as president of the Al- eight years as a minister of the Seventh- berta Conference where he also was the day Adventist Church. vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees The members of the Executive Com- of Canadian Union College. mittee of the Canadian Union Confer- The new president of the Canadian ence have just concluded a special meet- Union was born at Punnichy, Saskatche- ing in Oshawa where, after very careful wan, educated at Regina, Canadian Un- and prayerful study they voted unani- ion College (Class of 1938) and gradu- mously to name Pastor J. William Bothe, ated with a Bachelor of Theology Degree president of the Alberta Conference, as from Atlantic Union College in 1942. the new president of the Adventist His parents are members of the Chilli- Church in Canada. wack, B.C. Church. Pastor Bothe brings to this important His wife, the former Anita Moyst of post a wide background of pastoral and Corner Brook, Newfoundland, along J. W. Bothe, newly-elected President of the administrative experience. He entered with their two daughters Nancy and Syl- Canadian Union the ministry of the Church in 1942 and via and a son Larry will soon move to was ordained in 1948. He has served as Oshawa where they will now make their Members of the Seventh-day Adventist the secretary-treasurer of the Newfound- home as Pastor Bothe assumes the heavy Church in Canada will be sorry to learn land Mission Conference, as secretary- responsibilities of leadership that will re- of the retirement of Pastor Walter A. treasurer and later president of the Mari- quire the earnest prayers and loyal sup- Nelson as president of the Church in time Conference, then as president of port of every Seventh-day Adventist in this Dominion after serving for twelve the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference Canada who desires to see the Church triumph in the accomplishment of its the wholehearted confidence and sup- growth and development of the Church Divine mission. port of he world headquarters staff of both in North America and in the World Speaking for the General Conference the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Un- field. it can be said without hesitation that der his leadership, as under that of Pas- THEODORE CARCICH, Vice-President Pastor Bothe enjoys, along with the tor Nelson, Canada will continue to play General Conference members of the Executive Committee, a most significant role in the future North American Division Have the Windows of Heaven claimed. These items are now in the Pa- Been Shut? cific Union Conference office, and among them are three watches, a pair of binocu- From the treasurer's report for July of Literature Evangelist lars, several Bibles and other miscella- this year I see that the tithe for North neous items. If you lost anything while America, January-July, a m o u n t e d to attending the General Conference Ses- Institute $26,330,443.00. This is an increase of sion, please write to the Pacific Union 5.8% over the same period in 1961. Conference, Box 146, Glendale 5, Cali- The Annual Literature Evan- Surely God has fulfilled His promise to fornia, giving a description of the lost gelist Institute for the three us and has opened the windows of heaven item; and if it is in the material on hand, western conferences will be and poured out His blessing upon us. it will be sent to you. held at Canmore, Alberta, Sep- BUT Several items were lost that were not tember 25-29, 1962. To make from the same report 1 see that our turned in to the "Lost and Found" de- arrangements for attendance Sabbath School offerings increased only partment. Among these was an Omega at this important meeting 2.8%! It is not because the windows of wristwatch with the name Douglas on the please write to your publish- heaven are shut and I am sure it is not face. Other items that came to our atten- ing secretary. because we love the Lord any less! It tion were traveller's checks, Bibles, can only be because we give our Sabbath purses, etc. If you found anything at the Marvin Suiter School offerings in bills and coins and General Conference Session, and do not Box 10 keep on giving bills and coins every week. know where to return it, please notify Mission City, B.C. the Pacific Union Conference at the same WHY NOT W. E. Bergey sit down and figure 3% of your income, address as given above. 201-16th Ave. N.E. w. then give in Sabbath School offerings a J. BLACKER, Secretary-Treasurer Calgary, Alberta percent of the blessings which God so Pacific Union Conference R. L. Bergey abundantly pours upon us. If we would 1004 Victoria Ave. do this we would change the picture ma- Saskatoon, Sask. terially and when the tithe increased 5.8% our Sabbath School offerings would On The Air also increase 5.8%. I will. Will you? World Conference on Church Unity ERIC B. HARE, Assoc. Secretary Planned at Montreal in 1963 G.C. Sabbath School Department Plans for a world study conference de- voted to church unity were announced in oade.„,,,ezim Paris at a meeting of the Central Com- d Audio Reports of the mittee of the World Council of Churches General Conference Session by Dr. Robert S. Bilheimer, director of ESSENGER Tape recordings of the General Con- WCC's Division of Studies. Dr. Bilheimer ference Session are now available. One said that more than 500 leading Protes- tape for each day, making a total of ten tant, Anglican and Orthodox theologians Official Organ of the CANADIAN tINION CONFERENCE recorded REPORTS, is available through from throughout the world are expected of Seventh-day Adventists your local Book and Bible House. The set to attend the faith and order study con- Issued Biweekly is priced at $47.25, or individual daily ference which will be held in Montreal, Subscription Price $1.00 a year tapes are priced at $5.25 each. (Prices Authorized as second class mail, Post Office De- Que., July 12-26, 1963. The conference partment, Ottawa. Printed by Maracle Press Ltd., higher in Canada). Mission pageants, will deal with the theological and organ- Oshawa, Ont. Sabbath services, morning devotionals, izational barriers to Christian unity. E L. Green - Editor Associate Editor evening meetings and all division reports New Teen-age Magazine Planned Pearl I. Browning are included. For Youth For Christ International PAUL S. DOUGLAS, Assoc. Manager Youth for Christ International officials Periodical Department Canadian Union Conference have announced plans for a new maga- Review & Herald Pub. Assn. Box 396, Oshawa, Ontario zine for teen-agers. The new magazine, called Teen Scene will release its first is- President Walter A. Nelson sue on September 18. Four issues will Secretary-Treasurer E. L. Green "Lost and Found" at be, published during the school year. The DEPARTMENTAL SECRETARIES General Conference Session magazine will present Christ to teen-agers Sabbath School and Home Missionary J. M. Hnatyshyn A number of items that were lost dur- in all areas of society and will be suit- Publishing 0. A. Botimer ing the time of the General Conference able for distribution by any civic or re- Missionary Volunteer, Educational and Session in San Francisco were found and ligious group. It will contain 32 pages Temperance F.