ORGAN OF THE BRITISH UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Volume 76 • Number 20 • September 24, 1971 Division and Multiplication Report by Pastor George E. Bryan HAT'S new in Birmingham? all earnestly led by Brother Richardson. asked a well-known personality Birmingham Minister We confidently expect fine fruit from W in the Division office. this new vineyard of the Lord. Do write and let the MESSENGER of ourselves to the enlargement of Two years ago the Camp Hill mother hear about these happenings suggested God's work. Members had donated £90 church began the north Birmingham former North England President Don towards the launching of this new WARD END church. Today, ably led Lowe. We purposely write only seldom, church venture for Christ. We wish by their elder, Brother T. McGowan, in order to leave news-space for others; God's speed and blessings upon Brother this fine body of believers sometimes but as has been suggested, we who and Sister Ashley Smith and fellow with visitors numbering a hundred' and give God glory for our increases and officers as, under God, they establish never less than fifty each Sabbath, blessings, ought to let our members themselves and give proof of their high has grown in grace, size, and experience. know just what is happening. calling. Our prayers are for them and In this their second year they collected The Camp Hill church has just had our eyes upon their self sacrificing £700 Ingathering and with more souls its fourth healthy offspring! On Sabbath, efforts. who will be soon ready for baptism. August 21st, an enthusiastic group of Three months earlier, another off- It is with special affection and anticip- members met in the Congregational spring began throbbing with life as ation that I look forward to the return church at the corner of the Causeway overspill west Birmingham suburb, of Pastor and Mrs. Lloyd Antonio who and Church Road, YARDLEY. More than CHELMSLEY WOOD, saw a new Adventist will now take over the responsibility fifty of us began our first Sabbath group begin regular Sabbath meet- of these three suburban churches of school and Divine Service in that south ings in the Craig Hall, Hedingham Ward End, Chelmsley Wood, and Birmingham suburb. The writer led in Grove, Area 6, and this with a fair Yardley, knowing that under God's the election of officers and dedication proportion of as yet unbaptized believers Spirit, and the new minister's care to- "LIGHT THE WORLD WITH LITERATURE" Delegates who attended the Tri-Division Publishing Council in Huskvarna, Sweden, in August. The General Conference was fully represented, and in- cluded Pastor R. H. Pierson (centre, front row) the General Conference President, who stressed the paramount importance of literature in finishing the work committed to the Church. Eleven British delegates—some with their wives—attended. Council slogan repeated the Spirit of Prophecy slogan: "Light the World with Literature." gether with the members' enthusiasm ment to be concluded during the next evangelistic Bible Festival thereby en- for this great truth, we shall yet see five years. deavouring to win new souls for God greater evidence of God's power in these I must give credit to the Senior as we discover in a novel way the central areas of advance. Elder, Brother J. Saxby, and the many Gospel themes. Just prior to the beginning of the officers and members, for their faithful On the planning board too, is a Ward End church we ventured into work. As their minister I have so often somewhat similar public campaign for the renowned town of STRATFORD- felt concerned because of only being the new year in distant WEST BROM- UPON-AVON, some twenty-seven miles present and taking services one Sabbath wicH. Constant is the help that one re- from Birmingham. The leader of the in four, surely not enough for such a ceives from the youth of the church, no company, Brother J. Coles with un- membership, yet such have been the report would be accurate without giving assuming yet sincere persistence has needs and pressures of surrounding praise indeed to Camp Hill Pathfinders helped inspire these dear members churches and evangelism. What a this year who have proved to be an in constantly devising new ways of tremendous need for more dedicated inspiration to all. We give praise to witness and action. With only just about young men and women to give them- consistent leaders like Brother A. a dozen in number they collected some selves to God's full-time work, to be Hutchings and Brother G. Fox (now in £400 Ingathering. They just long for accepted into Newbold, graduate into Canada). There are some very wonder- the time when workers and cash can be the ministry and work in this exciting ful people who uncomplainingly give spared for large-scale public evangelism. city of opportunity. many hours of faithful work in all They meet in the fine Stratford-upon- Last year we were thankful for the departments of this church, whose names Avon Youth Centre, Tyler Street, but arrival of Pastor and Mrs. Clifford have been unmentioned here because with a growing yet still very deficient Smith whose loving ministry has helped of lack of space, but whose record is building fund, they among so many relieve us of an extra church at surely found in the courts' of heaven. long for a representative building of ERDINGTON. This pretty little church Without their love and devotion the their own. You just cannot beat the is again seeing a fruitful baptism. church would not progress. spirit of the Stratford members, so, if By the grace of God, with the aid of Please pray for me, my wife and you live within fifty miles why not join the unsurpassed members, and by means family, for Brother G. Harris, my them? of public evangelism, it was my pleasure assistant, and Sister 0. McIntyre our Now for news of the mother church to take some fifty-nine souls through part-time assistant. We have sighed for of them all, CAMP HILL. So near to the waters of baptism last year at Camp new workers with so much of this part the city centre, this fine church building Hill and about thirty so far this year. of the world yet to conquer. Now we is yet situated in an area now being What a challenge this church is, and ask for your further prayers as Brother demolished to make way for new con- when right doctrines are propounded and Sister Paul Clee come and join our struction. With the new six-lane flyover then God blesses, and this in many happy worker team. We extend a very motorway to be erected nearby we shall ways—as a record faithful tithe, and warm welcome to them, confident that be even more in the public eye. We a wonderful total of £4,000 Ingathering they will greatly help both in the shall also, we pray, be released from the shows. How necessary heaven-blessed evangelistic, pastoral, and young peo- burden of being in a low-tone district— money is! Camp Hill now needs a ple's work in this great industrial heart at least, such is the plan of the govern- complete redecoration, then we plan an of England. a courage Pastor Graham observed that would be an expression of the feeling Newbold's 71st derived from the divine whisper, "My of faculty and student alike that the grace is sufficient for you." hand of our God would be over us session begins Mr. Dennis Porter of the Bodleian for good during 1971-2. Library, Oxford, delivered the inaugural address. He recalled vividly the aspidis- SALISBURY HALL was comfortably filled INDUCTION OF R. E. GRAHAM AS tra and lace-curtained bourgeois security with 200 of the 240 enrolled students PRINCIPAL OF NEWBOLD COLLEGE who had registered during the day for and self-satisfaction of the Upper their term's work as the opening service Holloway of 1901 and identified two September 1, 1971 of the 71st session of Newbold College influences from that same North London began on September 1st. Twenty-nine suburb that largely destroyed that happy, THE CHARGE lands from Iceland to Brazil and from horse-omnibus and bicycling age. They Principal Graham: The Northern Europe— the United States to Australia were had left physical reminders behind in West Africa Division has called you to represented in that congregation which Marx's grave in Highgate Cemetery and the leadership of its senior college. provided an eloquent testimony to the also in the nearby Alexandra Palace As principal of Newbold College you uniting influence of Christ. Dr. B. B. from which television made its first follow in the footsteps of worthy pre- Beach represented the Northern Europe— transmission. "Will the influence planted decessors. Since the turn of the cen- West Africa Division and formally in- also in North London by Homer tury this college has held high the ducted Pastor Roy E. Graham, newly Salisbury, when he began a modest torch of Christian education by training appointed as principal, into his latest little training college in Duncombe Seventh-day Adventist young people for responsibility. Dr. Beach also welcomed Hall in 1901, prove more lastingly the service of God and man through the body of students to the college and effective than the other two?" was the the instrumentality of the Church. on behalf of the host union conference, searching question he left his hearers On your shoulders now rests the Pastor E. H. Foster, British Union to turn over in their minds.