March 17, 1960 Dark Journey by Harry Silbaugh He who sees no beauty In God's earth or skies Is taking a blind man's Journey through paradise. GENE AHRENS S. S. Lesson Help for April 2 Vol. 137. No. 11 Vol. 137, No. 11 March 17, 1960 Ce 4 LP /j '4 [These news items are taken from Religious News Service, Ecumenical News Service, and other sources. We do not necessarily concur in statements made in these items. We publish them simply to give our readers a picture of current COVER Dark Journey religious developments.] EDITORIALS Page 3 The Vital Need for Doctrine—The Gathering Storm, New Malta Stamps Mark Saint Paul's Shipwreck The Measured Stride—Echoes From Outer Space— Postal authorities in the small Mediterranean island of Good Advice—The Virtue of Agonizing Honesty Malta issued a set of six postage stamps to commemorate the GENERAL ARTICLES Page 6 nineteenth centenary of the shipwreck of Saint Paul there in A.D. 60. The denominations of the stamps, which will be on Our Father's Gracious Gift—The Incarnation—Our Work in the South Today—Full of Years—Enochs in sale up to July 31 unless stocks are exhausted, are in the British Our Day equivalents of 2-, 4-, 7-, 9-, 14-, and 35 cents. TO YOUR HEALTH Page 11 POAU Head Sees Free Institutions Threatened Good Teeth: Parents Reveal Reasons V Dr. Glenn L. Archer, executive director of Protestants and OUR HOMES Page 12 Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Home School Has a Program—Does a Christian Edu- declared in Boston that the "threat to free institutions is di- cation Pay?—The Wedding Nobody Went To verse and complex and it can come from the most respectable Page 14 sources." Addressing POAU's annual national conference, he FOR ADVENTIST YOUTH asserted that "some feel the destruction of freedom is proper if First Things First—Saints!—Youth in the News it is done in the name of God." "We are sometimes accused of MISSION STORY OF THE WEEK Page 16 being an 'anti-Catholic' organization," he told the delegates. "If it is true that 90 per cent of our effort has had to be directed Wesley and Joan Pay the Supreme Price of Mission against Roman Catholic power, there is a simple explanation- Service 90 per cent of the threat to church-state separation comes from NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD Page 18 its determined drive to change the American system." Earthquake Relief in Arequipa, Peru—The Light That Would Not Go Out—Hadley Memorial Hospi- Protestants Urged to Call Ecumenical Council tal, Washington, D.C.—West Jamaica Conference Ses- sion—Broadcasting in Ukrainian—From Home Base vi An appeal to all Protestants to call a "true, worldwide ecu- to Front Line—The Liquor Store That Never Opened menical council which would not exclude the Roman Catholic —Jail Evangelism in Cebu City, Philippine Islands Church or any other church" was sounded in Boston by a Bap- —In Brief—Faithful Witnessing Bears Fruit —A tist editor. Dr. Benjamin P. Browne of the Baptist Leader, Heathen Pays Tithe—Sabbath School Activities—No- Philadelphia, told the National Conference of Protestants and tices—Church Calendar for 1960 Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 27 (POAU) that all invited to the council should sit "as equals around the conference table in an assembly that would electrify The Divine Purpose in Captivity (Lesson for Sabbath, the entire world." April 2) POETRY Israeli Cave Yields Biblical Scroll Fragments I Love Light, p. 6; Keep Me Sweet, p. 10; Daffodils, v.' Israeli archeologists announced in Jerusalem the discovery P- 12; Flowers of two fragments of ancient Biblical scrolls in caves overlooking the Dead Sea. Dr. Yohanan Aharoni, a lecturer at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, who led the expedition, said he believes TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS there are more such writings nearby. 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With commendable zeal they know that man is mortal; that eternal life is available have presented the fundamental truths revealed in God's only through Christ; that death is a sleep. They must Word. They have decried the growing tendency in know that the second coming of Christ is the hope of Christendom to de-emphasize doctrine, declaring this the church; that the world is filled with signs which show trend to be a latter-day fulfillment of Paul's prediction this event to be near; that the judgment now going on in in 2 Timothy 4:3: "The time will come when they the heavenly sanctuary will soon be complete. [insincere Christians] will not endure sound doctrine." Life Shaped by Beliefs Recently Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, editor of Christianity Today Doctrines such as these give the Christian something and well-known Protestant theologian, voiced his solid into which he can sink his mental and spiritual protest against current indifference toward doctrine. In teeth. They are energy-packed nourishment on which a new book of essays by distinguished Wheaton College the soul may feed. While it is not necessary for the graduates, Dr. Henry declares that "the most disturbing average layman to be a theologian, it is necessary that his feature of the present theological revival" is its flippant religion have substantial intellectual content, else it attitude toward doctrine. He laments "its refusal to becomes mere sentimentality and emotionalism, without wrestle earnestly with revealed doctrines of Scripture." power to change the life. Let us not forget that it is "This criticism applies in some measure to evangelical no through the mind that God reaches men; it is what a less than to more speculative thinkers," he affirms. "Un- man believes that makes him what he is. The doctrines fortunately, contemporary Protestant preaching, not only he embraces govern his outlook on life; they shape his by itinerant evangelists but also by established pastors, attitudes, determine his objectives, and regulate his often proclaims the realities of sin and redemption in actions.