the lake u ;NOB L OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE LAKE UNION CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS May 22, 1973 Volume LXV, Number 20 the lake union Mission Work Imperiled by F. W. Wernick HEFifiLD President, Lake Union Conference OF F ICIAL ORGAN OF THE LAKE UNION CONF E RE NCE OF SEVENTH DAV ADVENTISTS committee as it sought to overcome May 22, 1973 Vol. L XV, No. 20 the effects of the first devaluation which had reduced the staff by several GORDON 0. ENGEN, Editor LAURA HEDDEN, Assistant Editor persons. It becomes most difficult RICHARD DOWER, Layout Editor JEANICE WEHLING, Circulation Services when personnel badly needed cannot indexed in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index. be employed. The members of that EDITORIAL COMMITTEE: F. W. Wernick, Chairman; W. L. Murrill, Vice-Chairman, Gordon Engen, Secretory; F. L. committee contended with the needs Jones. CORRESPONDENTS: Jock Martz, Illinois; Cliff Hoffman, of unentered territories for which no Indiana; Fred Williams, Lake Region; Ernest Wendth, Michigan; Glenn Aufderhar, Wisconsin; David Bauer, budgets were available as well as needs Andrews University; Joyce Griffith, Hinsdale Sanitarium and Hospital. of established work. Now, with NOTICE TO CONTRIBUTORS: All articles, pictures, obitu- aries, and classified ads must be channeled through your another devaluation, the strain on local conference correspondent. Copy mailed directly to the HERALD will be returned to the conference involved. personnel will become very acute. MANUSCRIPTS for publication should reach the Lake Union Conference office by Thursday, 9 a.m., twelve days When one multiplies these problems before the dote of issue. The editorial staff reserves the right to withhold or condense copy depending upon space available. by several other divisions, the magni- NEW SUBSCRIPTION requests should be addressed to the treasurer of the local conference where membership tude of the need becomes staggering. is held. The special offering, May 26, will help COPY DEADLINES: Announcements for to alleviate this need. Now is the time dates at left should be in local conference The recent devaluation of United to put into the Lord's treasury the offices by dates at right. States currency added to a similar money we may have been waiting to June 23 May 24 devaluation last year has placed our give for such emergencies. June 30 May 31 July 7 June 7 overseas mission work in distress if not Recently, openings have occurred in July 14 June 14 in actual jeopardy. several unentered countries of the Since approximately 80 percent of Middle East. Twelve new budgets will Conference Directories LAKE UNION CONFERENCE the funds for our overseas work is paid be needed to take advantage of these Box C, Berrien Springs, Mich. 49103 for by United States dollars, the openings. Unless real assistance is given (616) 473-4541 President F. W. Wernick devaluation of U.S. currency has an to offset the problems of devaluation, Secretory, Sabbath School Sec. F. L. Jones Treasurer W. L. Murrill immediate impact. In simple terms, it such openings will probably go Assistant Treasurer Charles Woods Auditor Arthur Opp means less money for overseas mission unentered. Educational Secretory Fred Stephan Lay Activities Secretory A. W. Bauer work. To meet this emergency, every Every church and conference has Public Affairs Secretary Public Relations, Radio-TV -1, Gordon Engen church is asked to take a devaluation current needs that must be met. We Religious Liberty, Ind. Rel. ) Publishing Secretory J. W. Proctor offering, Sabbath, May 26. also know there are other offerings to Missionary Volunteer Secretary I Ed H. Webb National Service Organization Sec. I One million dollars is needed from be taken. The appeal, May 26, should Stewardship t D. A. Copscy A.S.I. Secretory / North America in this offering if the not detract from these but be some- Health Secretary I R. E. Barron Temperance Secretory I needs of our overseas work are to be thing extra and beyond. The Lord will Trust Services H. Reese Jenkins ILLINOIS J. L. Hayward, president; Elton Dessain, secre- met. The Lake Union Conference impress each what to give, but some tary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Fri., 8,30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Office Address: 3721 share is $100,000 which is an average will want to give thousands, others Prairie Ave. Mail Address: Box 89, Brookfield, III. 60513. Phone: (312) 485-1200. of a little more than two dollars per hundreds, and still others tens or ones. INDIANA: R. L. Dole, president; R. R. Rouse, secretory- treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.-12:15 member. To reach this, every member Each can give as God has blessed and if p.m ; 1-5:00 p.m.; Fri., 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Office and Mail •Address: 1405 Broad Ripple Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. 46220. Phone: (317) 251-9292. will need to give liberally as God has done cheerfully, the gifts will be LAKE REGION: .1. R. Wagner, president; R. C. Brown, blessed and we will know that our gift secretary; Isaac Palmer, treasurer. Office Hours: Mon- blessed him. Thurs.,8 a m.-5.15 pm.; Fri., 8 a.m.-I2:30 pm. Office and ail Address: 8517 S. State St., Chicago, III. 60619. While visiting the Annual Council of is laid up as treasure in God's eternal Phone: (312) 846-2661. MICHIGAN: R. D. Moon, president; Charles Keymer, sec- the Far Eastern Division last year, I treasury. Please remember this special retory; L. G. Wortzok, treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.- Thurs., 8:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.; Fri., 8:00 o.m.-12:30 p.m. observed the struggle of the finance offering, Sabbath, May 26. Office Address: 320 W. St. Joseph St. Mail Address: Box 900, Lansing, Mich. 48904. Phone (517) 485-2226. WISCONSIN: K. J. Mittleider, president; G. H. Crunsley, secretary-treasurer. Office Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.; Fri, 8:00 a.m.-1,00 p.m. Office Address: sunset tables 802 E. Gorhom St. Mail Address: Box 512, Madison, Wis. 53701. Phone, (608) 257-5696. COVER May 25 June 1 A MOMENTOUS MILESTONE— Entered as second-class matter in the Post Berrien Springs, Mich. E.D. 9:08 9:14 graduation—and a solid stepping Office, Berrien Springs, Mich. Printed weekly, Chicago, Ill. C.D. 8:13 8:18 stone—Christian education—are 50 times a year (omitting the weeks of July 4 Detroit, Mich. E.D. 8:57 9:03 depicted by these Andrews Univer- and December 25) by the University Press, Ber- sity Academy graduates. See story rien Springs, Mich. Yearly Indianapolis, Ind. E.S. 8:01 8:07 subscription price, on page 4. $4.00. Single copies, 10 cents. LaCrosse, Wis. C.D. 8:34 8:40 Postmaster: Send all notices to Lake Union Lansing, Mich. E.D. 9:03 9:09 Herold, Box C, Berrien Springs, MI 49103. Madison, Wis. C.D. 8:24 8:30 Springfield, Ill. C.D. 8:15 8:21 Page 2 — Lake Union Herald — May 22, 1973 people with the opportunities for rewarding careers in newsline agriculture, landscaping, and related professions. Bernard Andersen, Dave Hodge, Ed Roy, and Ben Nutt attended SECOND COMING SUBJECT POPULAR from Andrews University. Second Coming, Incorporated, is one of the latest TAX-EXEMPT DOLLAR AIDS SOCIETY manifestations of a growing interest in the return of The tax-exempt dollar is returned to society in greater Jesus Christ. Its founder is a familiar figure to many proportion than if channeled through government agen- students of Bible prophecy. He is Salem Kirban, whose cies, said Roland R. Hegstad, editor of Liberty, before books about the last days have become evangelistic the House Ways and Means Committee in behalf of best-sellers in recent years. Kirban titles such as Guide to charitable gifts exemptions from internal revenue taxing. Survival, Your Last Goodbye, and 666 have been Hegstad pointed out that "religious charity returns to published by Tyndale House of Wheaton, Illinois. He is society with added elements of personal concern and working on a new volume about the millennium, to be mission." called One Thousand. The Lebanese-born writer is now He warned, "Touch tax-exempt funds too heavily and traveling around the U.S., giving lectures on the second the First Amendment right to free exercise of religion— coming and discussing his books. recognized to include the right to operate a private IS CHARISMATIC MOVEMENT school system—may become financially prohibitive." COUNTERFEIT? Hegstad took Loma Linda University, which has graduated more physicians than any other California A warning that the current charismatic movement may university, as an example, stating that funds to finance be counterfeit has been sounded. Herbert E. Douglass, this school were dependent on gifts which were tax associate editor of the Review and Herald, made the charge in his editorial. He pointed out that "the last-day exempt. counterfeit will come down the track of established "Should there be any material diminution in the income, estate, and gift tax incentives," he declared, Christianity, from the pulpits of unquestioned ortho- "the programs of the university to meet education, doxy, framed in words that all Christians are tuned to." People will be confused by it, he says, because "its medical, and health needs locally, nationwide, and remarkable train of apparent blessings will seem to be worldwide—even its research programs on heart disease the long-sought-for answer to church disunity, political and cancer—would be in serious jeopardy." strife, and personal meaninglessness." To avoid decep- Hegstad pointed out that even a period of "protracted tion, the editor adds, "Read your Bible and become uncertainty" as to the position of the government in thoroughly familiar with the characteristics of the relation to tax-free gifts, "was devastating." He cited worldwide counterfeit that will attempt to blunt the comparative figures as an example—"In the years imme- impact of God's genuine last-day call." diately prior to 1969, it was common to establish some 300 or more new trusts and deferred giving arrangements each year for the benefit of the university.