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By Taylor G. Bunch
[We believe that all our people who have been recipients of papers, pamphlets, and letters harshly critical of the
church, will appreciate this excellent article.Erwrons.]
N HIS parable of the shepherd and his sheep Jesus my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and
1 declared that "he goeth before them, and the sheep the truth shall make you free" (John 8:31, 32). Sincere
follow him: for they know his voice." In explanation Christians who are students of the Word of God will be
He not only said, "I am the door of the sheep," but also able to recognize the voice and writings of an apostate,
"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am or would-be leader, in contrast to that of the Good
known of mine." "My sheep hear my voice, and I know Shepherd, and will therefore not be deceived. With an
them, and they follow me." "And I give unto them intelligent knowledge of "the truth as it is in Jesus," one
eternal life; and they shall never per- only needs to hear a few words or read
ish, neither shall any man pluck them a few lines to determine the source
out of my hand" (see John 10:1-28). of the message. The chief determin-
Here it is made clear that the safety ing factor is in the tone of the voice
of the sheep depends on their ability or in the spirit of the writings, rather
to recognize the voice of their shep- than in what is said or written.
herd. Only when they fail in this re- The reason the contents must some-
spect are they in danger of being led times take a secondary place in the de-
astray by false shepherds. Jesus then cision is because the message may be
makes the application to Himself as made up chiefly of scriptural and
the Shepherd, and to His followers as Spirit of Prophecy quotations that are
the sheep of His fold and flock. true in themselves but may at the
It is not difficult to recognize the same time be deceiving because of
voice of an intimate friend, whether their false setting and application.
it is heard audibly over a telephone or The devil quoted the Scriptures in an
heard through a letter, article, tract, effort to deceive Jesus, but He recog-
or book. Diligent students of the Bible nized the voice as that of the great
become so well acqainted with its deceiver.
great Author, as well as with the Let us never forget that counterfeit
prophets and apostles who did the money is dangerous in proportion to
writing through the prophetic gift, its likeness to the genuine, and the
that they learn to recognize their same is true of false teachings. This
voices. In fact it was largely on this A. SOORD. ARTIST
fact should put us on our guard even
basis that those who made up the more diligently 'when the teachings
canon of Scripture were able to eliminate the apocryphal contain a large amount of truth. A multiplicity of quo-
booksthey lacked the necessary internal, self-authen- tations from sources we accept as of divine origin should
ticating proof of being divinely inspired. arouse our suspicions that the message might be counter-
In discussing this subject, Simon Greenleaf, the noted feit. Since we possess these truths in their original and
legal authority on the law of evidence acceptable in approved forms, it is unnecessary to read and study them
courts, declared that it is impossible for an impostor to in a questionable literary setting, even when the false
succeed in imitating the writings of another when they claim is made that the writer has quotations others do
are subjected to the test of scientific and historical in- not possess.
vestigation. See his book, Testimony of the Evangelists, In the light of these facts the following warnings are
pages 28-54. to the point: "There will be messages of accusation
Jesus said: "If ye continue in my word, then are ye against the people of God, (Continued on page 10)
S. S. Lesson Help for April 23 Vol. 137, No. 14
Vol. 137, No. 14 April 7, 1960
[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 The Voice of the Good Shepherd religious developments.]
THE PRESIDENT'S PAGE Page 3
Average Minnesotan Spends $183 Annually for Liquor
EDITORIALS Page 4
High Membership, Low LivingEating Our Way to vo The average adult Minnesotan who drinks spent $183.38
the CemeteryOperation Stragglers for alcoholic beverages in the year ending June 30, 1958, the
Pastors' Action group in Minneapolis was told. Jack Puter-
GENERAL ARTICLES Page 7 baugh, State liquor control commissioner, said the per capita
Right Objectives in Seeking the Holy SpiritRecon- expenditure was based on retail sales of liquor, wine, and
ciliation Through ChristFull of YearsParents' beer totaling $245,356,906 for that year. During the 12-month
Fellowship of Prayer period, Minnesotans consumed 4,088,175 gallons of distilled
Page 12
spirits, 1,542,655 gallons of wine, and 1,701,641 barrels of beer,
OUR HOMES he said, for a total of 7,232,471 gallons, or an average of
Springs of HappinessOn Keeping House"We three and a half gallons for every man, woman, and child in
Never Have Worship"Two Boys and Their Dad the State.
FOR ADVENTIST YOUTH Page 14
Deception BeginsYouth in the News Sees Christianity Losing Ground in Asia
FEATURE ARTICLE OF THE WEEK Page 16 to' Pastor Erik Nielsen, general secretary of the Danish Mis-
. . . Everywhere Preaching the Gospel sionary Society, a Lutheran organization, declared in Copen-
hagen that Christianity is rapidly losing ground in Asia "be-
NEWS FROM HOME AND ABROAD Page 18 cause missionary work there is often regarded as a form of
Australasia Holds Three Laymen's CongressesPeace imperialism." Mr. Nielsen made the statement after return-
River, Alberta, BaptismOrdination in Saskatchewan ing from a tour of Japan, India, Ceylon, and Indochina. He
East Jamaica Conference SessionIngathering and said his opinion was that Western missionaries would have
Evangelism in the Central StatesWelfare Work at to be withdrawn from many Asiatic countries and their work
Korean Union Training SchoolAnnual Meeting of transferred to the Asiatic churches. "The old form of mis-
the Lebanon MissionKanye Medical Mission Hos- sionary work cannot continue," he said. "A growing tension
pital, Bechuanaland Medical-Ministerial Fellowship between European missionaries and the Asiatic churches has
at Hoberg's ResortWilliamston, Michigan, Church been noted in many countries."
DedicationNew Elementary School, Glendale, Ari-
zonaFargo, North Dakota, Church DedicatedSev-
entieth Anniversary of Union CollegeScholarship Tucson Survey Discloses 74,000 Unchurched
Fund Set Up at Blue Mountain AcademyAdventist
Literature Reaches the Dalai LamaIn BriefA ko In a Southern Baptist survey of Tucson, Arizona, research-
Brand From the BurningSabbath School Activities ers found 74,000 out of a total 185,500 persons without church
Church Calendar for 1960 affiliation. Nearly 34,000 of the unchurched were found to be
SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON HELP Page 27 non-Christians over nine years of age. According to survey
findings, Tucson has 41,601 Roman Catholics, 18,580 Bap-
The Rebuilding Hindered (Lesson for Sabbath, tists, 12,538 Methodists, 7,736 Presbyterians, 7,098 Lutherans,
April 23) and 6,646 Jews. The study showed a need for 15 missions,
POETRY which State and city Baptist leaders plan to start by 1964.
A Sabbath Prayer, p. 7; Spring Tidings, p. 8
Catholic Church Charged With "Political Interference"
TO OUR CONTRIBUTORS 1.0 Senator Claro M. Recto charged in Iloilo City, Philippines,
As the chronicler of the history of the church the REVIEW is always interested that the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines was "plot-
in prompt reports with pictures of important happeningschurch dedications, ting through political interferences to acquire control of public
camp meetings, evangelistic meetings, and other newsworthy events. An out-of-
date report is not news, and is not acceptable. Also, the REVIEW is interested affairs and establish a theocratic state." The senator made the
in articles. Copies of manuscripts sent to other journals cannot be used. Lay indictment in a speech accepting an honorary degree of doctor
members should identify themselves by giving the name of the church they at-
tend and the name of their pastor or local elder. of humanities conferred on him by Central Philippine Uni-
All manuscripts should be typed, double spaced, and with adequate margins. versity, a Protestant institution. He warned that unless the
Use only one side of paper. Carbon copies are never acceptable. Unsolicited
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with them. The REview does not pay for unsolicited material. ally find itself sucked into the maelstrom of a religious-
All communications relating to the editorial department should be addressed
to: Editor, Review and Herald, Takoma Park, Washington 12, D.C. political war."
GENERAL CONFERENCE
PRESIDENT
SPEAKS TO THE
CHURCH
EVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS have, through the This is no attempt to argue with the author's con-
S years, been attacked, criticized, misrepresented, and,
at times, ridiculed by writers and speakers alike. We have
clusions, though we must say there is much to argue
about. In our opinion, he dealt with facts at so close
grown accustomed to such treatment. But recently a range as to be oblivious to larger overshadowing truths.
bookThe Truth About Seventh-day Adventism, by An instance of this is his evaluation of Mrs. White and
Walter Martinhas come out, written in an entirely dif- her work. His repeated declaration that she was an hon-
ferent vein. The author has endeavored to discuss Ad- est, upright, and sincere Christian is gratifying. A fair
ventists and their beliefs in a calm, friendly manner, evaluation of her can hardly lead to less than such a
even though not agreeing with them on many points of conclusion, especially as her vivid and tender depictions
their teaching. of her loved and honored Lord are portrayed in such of
Some time back he undertook an assignment of writ- her writings as The Desire of Ages and Steps to Christ.
ing on the so-called cults. Adventists were classed among Sister White lived a long and very active life of nearly
them. Investigation on his part, however, as well as per- 88 years. During her lifetime, from her first vision in
sonal contact with representatives of our church, led 1844, 71 years were devoted to public labors. In this
him to take Adventists out of this class. He came to the period of three score and eleven years, she gave many
conclusion that Seventh-day Adventists are true Chris- thousands of public addresses, and produced thousands
tians; that they and their teachings have been misrepre- of pages of manuscript, much of which then and later
sented and unfairly treated by many former writers. A appeared in our periodicals and books. The author of
series of pointed questions in written form were asked us The Truth About Seventh-day Adventism dwells at
about our doctrines. We, in turn, gave written replies. length on a few passages of what he describes as her
(These questions and answers now appear in the book "mistakes," and thus makes a faulty evaluation of her
Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine.) and her work. Let us remember that often Peter and
The author's evaluation of a number of our doctrines others had a difficult time with beloved Paul's literary
can hardly be expected to be acceptable to Seventh-day contributions, which the apostle states were difficult to
Adventists. This should come as no surprise, for he did understand and twisted by some to their destruction.
not set out to defend Adventist beliefs, but to state The author has overlooked one all-overshadowing
frankly what they do believe and to give his opinion of fact, which seems to us weighty, namely, that few authors
them and their teachings. have written so widely, so well, and on such a great
We had nothing to do with his undertaking to write variety of important subjects as did Mrs. White. Only in
a book about Seventh-day Adventists. It was part of a the light of her over-all contribution to all phases of our
larger plan of the author's. But we do appreciate his denominational activity can her labors be correctly
sincere endeavor to correctly set forth our teaching. (Continued on page 6)
APRIL 7, 1960 3
High MembershipLow Living why their editors should not accept the free travel, free
liquor, free entertainment offered by public-relations
The Saturday Evening Post, in common with a great firms in pursuit of favorable mention for their clients.
host of journals, has taken note of the TV quiz scandal, Some angle their editorial content with the advertiser,
not the reader, in mind."
but it uses this seamy revelation simply as a text for a Mercilessly it adds: "And all of usnewspapers and
sermon on the general moral state of the country. In a magazines alikeare wide open to the charge that we
remarkable editorial, which fills a whole page, the Post have abetted the national delinquency by helping to fos-
describes the quiz scandals as only a symptom"a symp- ter a phony value system in our country. By glamorizing
tom of the declining standards of moral behavior in the sports we so inflated the football star that colleges felt
United States, that twinge in the national belly that justified in buying him to fill the stadium that costs more
warns of deep-seated malignancy in the body politic." than the physics building. By our preoccupation with the
December 12, 1959. bosomy starlet, the sweetly smiling faces of television,
The editorial immediately adds: "The issue before the we encouraged our readers to accept phony standards of
republic, therefore, is not merely how to police the air- success, helped the creatures of publicity to rewards that
ways. . . . Ours is a far more difficult task. The first stone their contributions do not merit."
has been cast. Now all of our treasured institutions are
called to account for their stewardshipeach determin- Most Evident Comment
ing for itself how riddled with the cancer of moral in- The first and most evident comment to make on this
difference it may be." extended editorial is that there is little comment left for
Then the Post begins to cite cases: "In our colleges us to make on the moral state of the country. To say the
responsible educators now estimate that perhaps as many least, there must be something sorely the matter with
as one third of all students cheat 'rather regularly' on society when withering strictures like these can be made
their examinations." The Post thinks this not strange, in without the writer feeling it necessary to provide much
view of the fact that "their more celebrated .classmates, documentary proof for his statements. He knows that his
the football team," were probably recruited by some ques- indictments will hardly be questioned, the facts are too
tionable methodsquestionable at least as far as scholas- evident.
tic standards go. Does our memory deceive us, or do we recall that in
"On the labor front we are assailed by the dismal the years of our youth religious leaders in general were
memory of Dave Beck and the spectacle of a Hoffa tri- sure that progress, morally and spiritually, as well as
umphant over the majesty of Federal authority. We see scientifically and every other way, was steadily being
featherbedding and thuggery upheld in cynical disregard made! No, we are sure that our memory has played no
of the national welfare." tricks. The record is in black and white. Well, if the
Learned Professions Indicted development that has taken place in society through the
decades is to be described as progress, may we be deliv-
Nor do the learned fraternities escape indictment: ered from any more of it!
"Medicine? After years of tongue-clucking by the Ameri- But there is another aspect of this matter even more
can Medical Association, fee splitting goes on as always." startling. We have been assured by many religious publi-
The Post declares that health-insurance plans continue cations and sometimes by the secular press, that America
to increase in cost because, among other reasons, "doc- has experienced a religious revival. And, of course, each
tors and patients conspire to chisel on the terms of the year religious spokesman have noted with great satisfac-
contracts." "Alongside the honest attorneys slinks that tion the rather rapidly rising curve of church member-
grimy fringe of ambulance chasers, shysters and mouth- ship in the country. Today, church membership is at
piecesthe flouters of justice whose special skill is to the highest percentage in relation to population in all
teach the willing pupil how to beat the law." the history of America. Not only is the church member-
And what about the income tax? "Cheating on it is ship rising rapidly but also the Sunday school member-
now a national game. New loopholes are greeted with ship.
hosannas, passed from willing lip to eager ear. Executives But why is it that the country experiences such a high
openly boast of living off their expense accounts." church membership and such low-level living? Would
As a climax to the exhibit, the editorial focuses on anyone be so foolish as to affirm that all the sorry moral
the city of Washington. The attitude under two adminis- picture, such as the Post presents, is confined to the
trations that has made famous "the home freezer," "the steadily decreasing per cent of the population who are
mink coat," "the vicua coat," "the Goldfine rug, the nonchurch members? We hardly think so. This strange
innocent phone calls of Sherman Adams, the Congres- situation seems to fit startlingly the forecast of the apostle
sional payrolls stuffed with relatives." And for good meas- Paul, who said that in the last days men would have a
ure the question is asked: "And how many members of form of godliness but deny the power thereof.
Congress, accept campaign contributions from donors
whose obvious, if unspecified, purpose is to compromise What Kind of Preaching?
the vote of the successful candidate?" We do not doubt the validity of religious statistics that
The Post doesn't even spare its own profession, the show such a high percentage of church membership in
public press: "Some of the publications that trumpeted the country. Instead, we feel we should doubt the quality
television's derelictions most loudly are themselves guilty of the religion imparted to these members in their
of questionable practice. . . . Some see no ethical reason churches. This is the only conclusion that it seems rea-
4 REVIEW AND HERALD
sonable to reach. If religion is to have power to fortify cedes, but adds that it is bad for nearly everyone else
men against low-level living, it must stress, before all else, except the undertaker. In particular, he blames such
that there is a great, a personal God, Author of our lives, items as sugared and carbonated drinks, rich foods, rich
who placed us here in this earth and who will, at a last desserts, and between-meal snacks.
great judgment hour, call us to account for the deeds To make matters even worse, while young America's
done in the body. Coupled with that must be a clear caloric intake has been increasing by leaps and bounds,
presentation of the truth that there is such a thing as opportunities for strenuous work or play now scarcely
sin, a violation of God's moral standards, and that it is exist for millions of youth in our crowded cities. Dr.
sin that will bring us into condemnation before God. But Garn reasons that the nation should consider overweight
an effective religion must go one step further and make juveniles as being "of more than passing importance"
clear and real to men the gospel, the power of God unto to the nation because heart and artery diseases, particu-
salvation to everyone that believeth. larly the hardening of the arteries, "far from being ex-
Man must never be left in the mood that there is clusively adult predispositions, actually begin with over-
nothing he can do about his sorry state. Such a mood can weight in childhood." In a diet where as much as 35 per
lead only to his condoning and excusing his evil ways. cent of the caloric intake comes from fat in one form or
True Christianity endeavors to do two things for man: another, junior may be preparing for a coronary occlu-
first, to bring him into the presence of a holy God that sion while he is still in nursery school. Dr. Garn's sober
he may see how vile he is; then to show him the way of recommendation is, "Keep the six-year-old from eating
salvation, the gospel of Christ that will cleanse him from his way into a premature grave at 60, even if it means
sin and empower him to lead a holy life in the future. making life less joyous in the childhood period."
Now, it is one of the sad facts of religion in modern Inspired Counsel
times that it has become warped in its view of God and of
man as a result of wrong theories concerning the origin It is worthy of comment that, on each of the points
of man and wrong theories concerning the whole opera- concerning which Dr. Garn sounds a note of warning,
tion of natural law. God has been pictured more and inspired counsel began coming to Seventh-day Advent-
more as a Being entangled in the whole evolving process ists nearly a century ago. For instance, we are reminded
of the universe. Many make bold to say that God could of statements such as these:
not even work a miracle, because that would violate "Far too much sugar is ordinarily used in food. . .
natural lawsas though God were the servant of the Especially harmful are the custards and puddings in
laws of the universe, rather than their Author. Men do which milk, eggs, and sugar are the chief ingredients. The
not long feel the need of fearing or obeying such a God. free use of milk and sugar taken together should be
Indeed, the very idea of a personal God soon disappears. avoided."Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 113.
Again, sin has been increasingly pictured as a kind of "All mixed and complicated foods are injurious to the
residual savagery that we have not yet been purged from health of human beings. . . . The richness of food and
in the evolutionary cycle upward. Hence, we need not complicated mixtures of food are health destroying."
become too concerned about it. What is more, the very Ibid.
idea of a final judgment day seems archaic to most people "Regularity should be the rule in all the habits of
today. How could it be otherwise when so many religious children. Mothers make a great mistake in permitting
leaders, as their conception of the supernatural has them to eat between meals: The stomach becomes de-
waned, have described heaven as a condition rather than ranged by this practice, and the foundation is laid for
a place. The net result is a blurring of all sense of moral future suffering."Ibid., p. 242.
values and of the conviction that we must stand before "Children are frequently indulged in eating what they
God in the judgment day to answer for all of our deeds, choose and when they choose, without reference to
deeds that are indeed sins and not merely a holdover of health. There are many children who are educated gor-
some evolutionary process. mands from their babyhood. Through indulgence of ap-
Stained-glass windows and harmonious choirs cannot petite they are made dyspeptics at an early age. Self-
make men holy, or ward off the forces of evil that would indulgence and intemperance in eating grow with their
ever press in upon them. It is the message that comes growth and strengthen with their strength. Mental and
from the pulpit that determines whether church mem- physical vigor are sacrificed through the indulgence of
bership leads men upward from the valley of low living. parents."Ibid., p. 235.
F. D. N. "Many a mother sets a table that is a snare to her
family. Flesh meats, butter, cheese, rich pastry, spiced
foods, and condiments are freely partaken of by both
old and young. These things do their work in deranging
Eating Our Way to the Cemetery the stomach, exciting the nerves, and enfeebling the
intellect."Ibid., p. 236.
In volume 2 of The Nation's Children, a publication "They That Be Wise"
prepared for the 1960 White House Conference on Chil-
dren and Youth, March 27 to April 1, Dr. Stanley M. It was less than 50 years ago that the modern science
Garn, of Antioch College, an authority on physical of nutrition was born, and that even the medical pro-
growth, comments dismally that contemporary Ameri- fession began taking serious interest in the vital relation-
cans begin eating their way to the cemetery while still in ship between diet and health. But over the past half
the crib and perambulator. Reviewing the typical diet century science has been confirming, point by point, the
of American teen-agers, Dr. Garn was struck by its close validity of the inspired counsels God graciously sent us
resemblance to the diet prescribed in research labora- long before scientific investigation had advanced to the
tories for creating obesity in rats. The nation's caloric point of being able to demonstrate their validity.
intake, he says, is at an all-time high, and as a result an Sometimes there is a tendency to look upon the prin-
increasing proportion of our juvenile population is grow- ciples of health reform set forth in the Spirit of Prophecy
ing fat, soft, and more prone to disease. as more or less arbitrary restrictions that have, at best,
Young America, Dr. Garn warns, is now gorging it- only an indirect bearing upon one's physical, mental, and
self on a diet some have called "one great big milk spiritual welfare. But such an attitude now stands sci-
shake." Such a diet may be good for the farmer, he con- entifically condemned as sheer folly. "They that be wise"
APRIL 7, 1960 5
all who are seriously preparing for heavenwill seek Let us, then, not give up the pursuit of perfection in
to glorify their Creator in what they eat, in what they Christ. Nor let us become discouraged if hitherto-un-
drink, and in all that they do. The counsel that has known sin stragglers are discovered in our life's island.
come to us is for our good, and if heeded will, even in With the apostle Paul, let us say, "This one thing I do,
this world, make it possible for us to enter upon the more forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching
abundant life the Saviour promised. "Come, let us walk forth unto those things which are before, I press toward
in the light of the Lord" (Isa. 2:5, R.S.V.). the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in
"True temperance teaches us to dispense entirely with Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:13, 14). K. H. W.
everything hurtful, and to use judiciously that which is
healthful. There are few who realize as they should how
much their habits of diet have to do with their health,
their character, their usefulness in this world, and their The President's Page
eternal destiny. The appetite should ever be in sub-
jection to the moral and intellectual powers. The body (Continued from page 3)
should be servant to the mind, and not the mind to the evaluated. We might almost say that no other religious
body."Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 562. R. F. C. body carries forward more lines of religious activity, and
all so smoothly integrated, than do Seventh-day Advent-
ists. The inspiration and guidance for all of this has
Operation Stragglers largely been Mrs. White. When still active, she continu-
ously spoke and wrote, giving advice here and counsel
Newspapers late last year carried the surprising word there, as situations demanded. Now that she has passed
that several Japanese soldiers in the jungles of Lubang to her rest we search and give heed to the writings left
Island, Philippines, apparently had not yet heard that us as we make ever-larger plans for the prosecution of
World War II ended 15 years ago. Various attempts had the work she so devoutly assisted in nourishing in its
been made to contact the holdouts and persuade them to humble beginnings.
surrender, but without success. Once last year officials of We can but briefly mention here some fields in which
the Japanese Embassy in Manila tried to locate the men she wrote. Though practically without formal educa-
from a helicopter, and appealed to them over a powerful tion, she nevertheless wrote much upon the subject of
loud-speaker. Still no results. education in its varied aspects. The great principles she
In December the Japanese Ministry of Welfare in To- outlined have been to Seventh-day Adventists a blue-
kyo and the Philippine constabulary launched Opera- print for educational planning and activity that, in many
tion Stragglers, a joint effort to effect the peaceful sur- lands, have evoked admiration and commendation from
render of the holdouts. The plan called for sending a educators. They have spoken in the highest terms of her
searching party into the jungles. In the group were to be educational philosophy. Space forbids going into detail,
psychological warfare experts and a woman radio an- but the same can be said of her influence in our publish-
nouncer whose voice resembled that of "Tokyo Rose," ing work. Here she has given counsel on the actual run-
familiar to so many during the war. ning of publishing houses and has also outlined in amaz-
Whether this latest attempt to persuade the soldiers to ing detail how to attain success in the circulation of the
surrender was successful, we do not know. We are rather finished product. She has also written extensively on
certain, however, that if not, continued efforts will be health, and on the home. She has given valuable counsel
made until the island is clear of holed-up holdouts. to pastors, to evangelists, to temperance and Sabbath
school workers, as well, on the general features and con-
The Christian's Problems duct of our work. What a wealth of material has come
The problems for the authorities, created by these from her pen to this people!
left-over soldiers from the war, are not unlike those that Not long ago I was in conversation with a retired
face the Christian. Though the enemy may have been minister of another church. He called my attention to
defeated by Christ at Calvary, though one may have sur- the fact that his church and ours began about the same
rendered his heart to Christ, though public announce- time. "We," he said, "have now about 60,000 members
ment of victory may have been made by baptism, strag- here in America. We have practically no institutions.
glers and holdouts often remain in the lifeevil traits You have members around the world, with fine institu-
of character that must be rooted out one by one, often tions of various kinds." His explanation was that, in his
with great effort. The "straggler" of some Christians may opinion, we had better trained workers and leaders. The
be an evil temper; of others, a tendency to dishonesty; real answer, as every Seventh-day Adventist well knows,
still others may be troubled by jealousy or evil surmising. is the instruction, guidance, and inspiration given this
These remnants of the old life of sin may plague one people through the messenger of the Lord, Sister White.
for years, but the true Christian will not be satisfied until So while we sharply disagree with Mr. Martin in a
the last one has yielded to the power of Christ. He will number of his evaluations of our doctrines and believe
put forth constant effort throughout life, if need be, to him to be mistaken in his conclusions, we nevertheless
clear the soul of evils. "Wrongs cannot be righted, nor welcome this new spirit of friendliness in disagreement
can reformations in character be made, by a few feeble, that he has introduced. It is something new and certainly
intermittent efforts. Sanctification is the work, not of a Christian.
day, or of a year, but of a lifetime. The struggle for con-
quest over self, for holiness and heaven, is a lifelong
struggle. Without continual effort and constant activity,
there can be no advancement in the divine life, no attain-
ment of the victor's crown. . . . It is by unceasing endeavor
that we maintain the victory over the temptations of
Satan."Testimonies, vol. 8, pp. 312, 313.
Salvation is a free gift of God. Divine grace and power
are available to give us victory over sin. But character is
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not a gift. It is not inherited. It is not free. It is developed
only by struggles, battles, and tests.
6 REVIEW AND HERALD
The Promised Blessing-3 will govern our every activity in har-
mony with His Word of truth.
This is the experience every Sev-
enth-day Adventist needs and may
have. Paul's formula was: "I am cruci-
APRIL 7, 1960 13
of early apples in the kitchen she was
going to use for sauce and pies. There
were three hired men now, and they
ate a lot. A neighbor girl was in the
kitchen cleaning up from dinner. In
the bedroom Molly leaned over the
washbowl, threw water on her eyes,
and patted them dry on a snowy wed-
She Learned Too Late-3 ding-present hand towel. All around
her were the signs of opulence, even
elegance. The bedspread was of heavy
Deception Begins brocade. The pitcher-and-bowl set
was of imported china. John's things
on the chiffonier were of ebony, and
By Josephine C. Edwards very expensive.
Molly thought of her room at
home, only six miles away, and of how
Against her parents' wishes, Molly married John, a
young man not of her faith. John's parents, the Car-
She was born with the sense of a happy she had been in the plain wal-
locks, were well off financially, and after the wedding goose. I've never listened to her in my nut bed, with its homemade sheets
gave the young couple a farm of their own. Un- and pieced quilts, and comfortables.
fortunately, the Carlocks were domineering and re- life."
fused to let Molly make any decisions. They even
picked out the furniture for the house. Mrs. Carlock
Molly sat up, and dabbed at her "It's not things that make a person
was determined that Molly would give up her pe- swollen eyes. happy," she philosophized, feeling
culiar religious beliefs, being particularly unpleasant
over Molly's aversion to theater attendance. She "John, you'll have to promise you very, very old, as she descended the
started an argument on the subject. won't talk that way about your stairs.
OHN had come into the room mother," she said. "It makes me sick The first Sabbath in her home
to hear you. I just wonder how long it Molly got up early. She had had the
J now, and the subject being dis-
cussed was evident to him at once.
As his mother began ridiculing again,
will be till you talk that way to me.
John, she's your mother, and you owe
girl help her the day before, so the
cooking for the hands had all been
he spoke to her sharply. Molly was her respect. It's not right to talk that done. She had told the girl to take it
shocked at the hateful way he talked way. I never talked to my parents that easy, and she would help her, to make
to both his mother and his father. way in my life." the Sabbath work as light as possible.
There was no attitude of respect, or "Yes, but you don't have the kind She was going to church, and she
even liking, in his tone of voice, and of parents I have," he countered, his would be back in time to take care of
certainly not in his harsh words. arms around her, pushing back her the dishes or help clean up the
"Mind your own business, Mother. hair, and kissing her small, shell-like kitchen.
I've told you to keep your nose out of ears. "Honey, you'll have to let me Hilda, the hired girl, laughed. "I'll
my affairs. Now, you do it." deal with them in my own way. If I do it all, Miz Carlock. You made it
"John, to your mother!" Molly was didn't take mother in hand, she the easiest Sat'day I ever had as 'tis. I
fairly trembling. Such rude words she would be in here telling you where to ain't ever had no one as nice as you.
had never heard, much less between a hang your frying pan. She may try it You just go on to church. I been to
mother and son. The tears welled up anyway. But I'll handle her." that church afore now, myself, and
in her eyes. But she need not have He had to go then, for the farm- wish I could go with you. Is Mr. Car-
been distressedthe old woman work was heavy. Molly had a bushel lock goin' with you?"
could feign injured innocence as well "No, Hilda, he doesn't belong to my
as anyone. She got up, and pressed a church," Molly answered crisply.
red silk handkerchief against her "I call that a burnin' shame, you
sunken eyes. agoin' off alone, and you a bride like
"That's the way I'm treated," she that. And you didn't go on a weddin'
whined. "You raise up a child, and journey. We all thought you might
you toil and moil, and you fend for it, go to Niagary Falls, where so many
and when you're old it shouts you newlyweds go."
down." Then she whirled around on "We're going as soon as the crops
John, angrily. are laid in, in the fall," she told the
"All right. Don't say I didn't warn girl, as she put on her pretty hat over
you. I told you you'd rue thisI" her shining pompadour. "I was the
"Mother," shouted John. "Mother, one who told John we hadn't ought
go home and don't insult my wife any to go, with the season as advanced as
more. Do you want to spoil every- it is. You have to be sensible, even
thing?" when you're starting life together,"
Molly had gone to the bedroom. she added, in her sweet, dignified way.
Her first week in her new home. She went to get her umbrella, and
Mother Carlock had come by on her told the girl to see if John had her
way to town and had brought a bun- buggy hitched up, as he had said he
dle of quilts she said she wanted John would do, at breakfast.
to have. That was why she had Hilda soon came back with a sheet
stopped in. When she went raging out of paper torn out of the front of the
of the house Molly noted that she did account book John always carried in
not leave the quilts, and she was glad. his shirt pocket.
She did not want them. She cried for "Honey," he had scrawled, "Bill
a long time, and John sat on the side Molly stood there a long time and looked at the note, Hensley just came by, and I had to
of the bed to comfort her. and wondered. Surely JohnJohn who loved her take the buggy and go see his Morgan
would make no underhanded plans to keep her
"Don't mind the old fool, Molly. from going to church. horse I wanted to buy. I'm terribly
14 REVIEW AND HERALD
sorry. You just rest at home, and I Hensley?" she asked. "He said he was dress goods as there is anywhere. You
won't let this happen again." It was going. He said Mr. Hensley was, here, won't have to get out, sugar," he said.
signed, "Love, from your John." and he wanted to see about a horse." "You just stay in the rig or go over to
She stood there a long time and Hilda looked indignant. In her mother's, and I'll get my affairs done
looked at the note, and wondered. heart a battle was raging. Should she as fast as I can and bring you back
Surely JohnJohn who loved her tell her new mistress what she knew? home. I hate to go to town the first
would make no underhanded plans to Or should she cover up for Mr. Car- time without my pretty wife."
keep her from going to church. Why lock? "Why, John, I can't," she said, hor-
did he want to keep her from seeing The words spilled out in spite of ror in her pretty eyes. "Not on the
her mother and father, and miss her better judgment. "He cheated Sabbath. It's bad enough that I didn't
church? She hadn't missed church for you, Miz Carlock, and I'm pure mad go to churchbut to go to town"
as long as she could remember. Molly about it. He just didn't want you to "All right, sugar," he conceded
loved the Sabbath, and attending go to church, he didn't. I heard him graciously enough, "but I can't see for
church. and his pa talkin'." the life of me what harm it would do
"Now, I can't go," she whispered "Why Hilda, what do you mean?" for you to take a ride with your hus-
to herself. "I can't go, and they'll be "I heard his pa tell him he'd give band. You're not working; you're not
waiting for me and expecting me. him a five-dollar bill if he could keep doing a thing but just riding along. I
Mother'll watch the door, and father you away from church, and I heard think it's a little fanatical myself, but
will go and look out every little bit. Mr. John take him up on it." you do as you think best."
Oh, I can't stand it. John can't know Molly went to her room again, The next Sabbath John pleaded a
how much it means to me, or he slowly undressed, and put on a cool headache, and didn't even go to the
wouldn't do this to me!" afternoon dress. Surely, she was not field. He went and lay down on the
It was her first Sabbath in her own going to have to face this duplicity in lounge in the living room, with a wet
home. She thought more than once her husband; surely not. How could cloth over his eyes. Molly wondered
that day of what her mother had said, she let John know she knew without whether he was really sick, or if this
and how it had irritated her. "Unless involving Hilda, and turning John's was just another ruse. It was terrible
you would have a home where the anger against her? Her heart was in a to be suspicious, but she couldn't help
shadows are never lifted, do not unite turmoil. it after he had lied to her the week be-
yourself with one who is an enemy of She could hear the shouts of the fore. He kept asking her to keep the
God." men in the potato field. The wet field cloth cold, and to bring him drinks of
She went up to her room and sat was almost all plowed. They all said water. He hadn't eaten a bite of
down. She couldn't go and do the they would knock off at noon, and she breakfast, only drunk a cup of hot
kitchen work just as on any other day. had been happy about that, for she coffee.
She was determined that this mar- had told John she would stay at "Do you have these headaches
riage would not do what they had mother's and he could come over. He often, John?" she asked.
said it would dolead her away from had agreed, but she remembered he "Not often," he murmured, hold-
God. She would show them she could had not said much. He probably did ing tightly to her hand.
be a good Adventist and still be mar- not intend to do it when he promised. "Do you think it was the sun?" she
ried to an unbeliever. It would be a Then, in her innocence and love for asked worriedly.
struggle, a hard one, but she would her young husband, she decided it "Could be. I can't take the sun,
be strong; she would. was his father and mother who were that is, too much of it," he answered
In spite of herself Molly thought of making him different, and if they vaguely.
the many things her mother had said would stay away, John would be as he (To be continued)
even about that. She had said that was before she married him. There
the path to eternal life is steep and was nothing he would not do for her
rugged, and if she took on unneces- then.
sary weights, they might make her When John came in he acted con-
fall; they might retard her progress. trite, and tried to tell her that he had
to go with Mr. Hensley; but some-
Resolving to Be Faithful thing about the look on Molly's face
She picked up her Bible that lay stopped him in the middle of his ex- Young people from the northern West
on the small table by her bedside. A planation. Virginia area not long ago took an in-
determination crystallized in her "You didn't go, John, and I know tensive Pathfinder Leadership Course at
it," she said, the tears starting to the Clarksburg, West Virginia, church.
mind. No matter how hard she might
have it, no one would know. She trickle down her cheeks. "You did this For many months Middle East College
would keep her troubles to herself. So to keep me from going to church, and students have been going with Brother
it's hurt me more than I can tell you." George Gott in his car to visit people
she sat and read in her Bible for an in a mountain village and the surround-
hour or so, and then went to the book- "Oh, honey, I just didn't want you ing area. They have held Bible studies
case to get the copy of Early Writings chasing off to your folks the first week- and shown pictures. Now one woman has
her mother had given her. As she be- end we were married. I'm selfish, I made her decision to keep the command-
gan reading, a message came up from guess, but I want my wife near me, ments and become a member of the Ad-
the fields for her to bring some water and IIwell I ventist family. Others are in the valley
or cold buttermilk out to the men. It "John, I want to believe you. I of decision.
always took both her and Hilda to do don't want to have to be wondering Student Religious Emphasis Week
it, for there were two jugs and they whether the things you say are so or was held February 8-12, 1960, at Atlantic
were heavy. Hilda came and said, not. Oh, John, I thought I would die Union College, according to James Lon-
"You just stay right here, Miz Car- when I saw you didn't go. I have been dis, Student Association spiritual vice-
lock. I'll make the two trips. Mr. John taught that no life can be based on president. "Grow in Grace" was the
has forgot it's your Sabbath; I know any other foundation than truth." theme of the series. Some of the speakers
were Edmond Cassano, Nelson Evans,
he has!" He kissed her then and told her he Christof Kober, James North, Ronald
Molly looked up quickly. was sorry. "If you ride to town with Halversen, Norman Frost, Fred White,
"Why, didn't he go away with Bill me, I'll get you as pretty a piece of and Mario Collins.
APRIL 7, 1960 15
Eoetvatitere
Preaching
the Gospel
By W. R. Beach
Secretary, General Conference
APRIL 7, 1960 17
first Adventist church, in Washing-
Australasia Holds Three ton, New Hampshirehe lighted the
torch of the home missionary secre-
tary of the Australasian Division.
Laymen's Congresses The division secretary lighted the
torch of the union president, the un-
By C. C. Weis ion president that of the union home
Secretary, Home Missionary Department missionary secretary, the union home
Australasian Division missionary secretary those of all the
local presidents in his union, the local
presidents those of their home mis-
sionary secretaries, and they in turn
T HE three laymen's congresses
conducted in the Australasian
Divisionone in New Zealand, an-
members in the Australasian Division
could have been present at one of the
three congresses. Perhaps the greatest
the torches of their pastors, the pas-
tors those of their church elders, the
other in Brisbane, and the last one in moment of inspiration was in the clos- elders those of the deacons, and the
Melbourneare now history. No one ing service, when Pastor Edwards deacons those of everyone else. In less
who attended these congresses will lighted the torch and handed it down than two minutes there was a daz-
ever forget them. As J. E. Edwards, from the General Conference to the zling brilliance of light.
home missionary secretary of the Gen- division, to the union, to the local After the closing prayers of dedica-
eral Conference, brought the last con- conference, then to the pastor, church tion by a number of laymen and the
gress to a close he said, "This is the officers, and laymen. As the torch was division home missionary secretary,
greatest meeting that has ever been handed down, Pastor Edwards chal- church members, with their hearts
held in the Australasian Division," lenged every layman to go back to his solemnized by the Spirit of God and a
and a chorus of hundreds of Amens church to light the torch of every greater determination to do their part
assented. T. C. Lawson and David other layman. in the finishing of the work of God,
Sibley, who spoke at the final meet- Using the large torch which Pastor returned to their homes with eager
ings held in their areas, expressed Edwards had brought with him from anticipation to put into practice the
similar thoughts. Americathe torch made from the things they had learned at the con-
I wish that every one of our church branch of a tree standing next to the gresses.
By F. L. Peterson
Secretary, General Conference Regional men. The delegates voted unani- converted while in the Army also
Department took part in Ingathering and won the
mously to return to office E. H.
The fifth biennial session of the Schneider, president, and V. T. Boyce, Jasper Wayne award. From St. Louis
East Jamaica Conference was held secretary-treasurer. An executive com- came the Whitesfather, mother, and
December 4-8, 1959, in the Temple mittee also was elected to give com- three children, who I am told raised
church in the city of Kingston. More petent assistance to the officers in the more than $500. One of the most
than 300 delegates came together rep- work of the conference. notable examples of Christian serv-
resenting 120 churches with 13,979 The officers, workers, and members ice was that of Sister Ida Lucas, of
members. Eager interest was mani- of the East Jamaica Conference are of Wichita, Kansas, who is 102 years old.
fested by the delegates, and a spirit good courage and in faith they go Taking an active part in the cam-
of unity was evident. forward challenged by the motto of paign, she raised more than $130.
Six new churches were voted into the conference session: "Someday He The highest amount raised by any
the sisterhood of churches. In addi- Is Coming; Let Us Help Make It district in the conference was that of
tion to the 69 workers in the confer- Soon." St. Louis. Directed by C. S. Myles,
ence a large number of laymen were the members raised a total of $6,500.
reponsible for these new churches and In the larger cities the highest per
the 2,611 persons baptized during the Ingathering and Evangelism capita was reached in Wichita, Kan-
biennium. in the Central States sas, $27.11; and in the smaller cities by
The tithe showed a substantial Sikeston, Missouri, with a per capita
increase over the previous biennial By W. E. Murray of $28.07.
period. More than 81,928 of tithe General Vice-President, General Conference Expressions of gratitude to God for
was received and over 21,518 in mis- the blessings of the campaign were
sion offerings. Conference workers and laymen of given by local workers, laymen, and
The educational work in the con- the Central States Conference cele- guest speakers. Many rejoiced for the
ference is providing Christian edu- brated an interesting and inspiring opportunity of bringing funds into the
cation for a large number of young Ingathering victory in Kansas City, treasury to support our foreign mis-
people. Seven church schools are be- Missouri, on the evening of January sion endeavors unto "the uttermost
ing operated, with an enrollment of 18, 1960. As a missionary effort the part of the earth."
1,215. Kingsway High School provides recent campaign brought great re- On January 19 and 20, in the same
for the secondary needs of 405 young wards to those participating and to location, the Central States Confer-
people. The school's facilities are too the churches as a whole. The total ence conducted a ministerial institute.
limited to accommodate all who wish raised was $30,149.24, compared with Theodore Carcich, P. M. DeBooy,
to attend. $17,132.14 the year before. J. F. Kent, and D. E. Reiner, all of
The MV department has a well- P. C. Winley, conference home mis- the Central Union, were in attend-
organized program for the children sionary secretary, furnished a list of ance, as well as J. E. Dykes, newly
and youth. Pathfinder Clubs and 36 workers and laymen who had won appointed editor of the Message Mag-
Voice of Youth evangelistic efforts are the Jasper Wayne award. Twenty- azine, and Eric Ward from the South-
being conducted. A seven-acre plot of three of these were present, including ern Union. M. E. Loewen and the
land with a 50-foot sea beach has been four ministers: D. B. Reid, C. A. writer were present from the General
purchased for a camp site, and the Lynes, G. H. Taylor, and W. C. Conference.
money is in hand with which to erect Scales; and three wives of workers W. W. Fordham, president of the
a pavilion. Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Meyers, and Mrs. Central States Conference, led out in
Every department of the conference Scales. the meetings, assisted by H. T. Saulter,
is headed by capable, God-fearing A young man who was recently treasurer, and the departmental sec-
APRIL 7, 1960 19
begin to aid those that are outside
the church fold. This work is in its
infancy. Please pray for its success.
Seventieth Anniversary of be advisable for a number of confer- Although the new college was to be
ences to unite in starting one school. owned by the General Conference and
Union College As he traveled from camp meeting to the construction and direction of the
By Everett N. Dick camp meeting, the idea grew. Mrs. work was largely in the hands of men
Professor of History E. G. White, who was present at the from headquarters, the board of trus-
Ottawa, Kansas, camp meeting, was tees elected by the General Confer-
The seventieth anniversary of the very emphatic in her counsel that ence was to select four of its seven
decision of the locating committee to through a union of effort all the con- members from the conferences in-
establish Union College at Lincoln, ferences between the Mississippi and volved. The plant was to cost $50,000,
Nebraska, was celebrated at a special the Rockies should join their energies of which the General Conference was
convocation at that institution, Janu- in support of one school. With the to furnish $20,000 and the conferences
ary 28, 1960. initial step taken at these preliminary involved the remainder.
Union, the oldest Seventh-day Ad- meetings, the General Conference The locating committee named by
ventist college operating under the Committee on July 12, 1889, recom- the General Conference met January
same name on the original site, was es- mended "that the conferences in Iowa, 13, 1890, at Des Moines, Iowa. By this
tablished by the General Conference. Minnesota, Dakota, Kansas, Colo- time word had spread that a college
Seventy years ago there were two rado, Nebraska, Missouri, Texas, and was to be started, and a number of
colleges in the denomination, Battle Arkansas unite together and establish cities sent delegations to present in-
Creek, the parent educational institu- a school at some convenient location." ducements to locate in their areas.
tion with an enrollment of 534, and This action was affirmed and ex- Among others, Lincoln, Nebraska,
Healdsburg in California, supported panded at the General Conference ses- sent a delegation of six men, among
by a very small constituency on the sion on October 30 of the same year. whom was one of the professors from
West Coast and enrolling 223 students. At this time there were no union the University of Nebraska. These
The area between the Mississippi conferences in the world field. The men, by means of charts, pictures, and
River and the Rocky Mountains was association thus formed to launch the graphs, effectually impressed the com-
experiencing a rapid growth and the college has continued through these mittee with the merits of their locality.
conferences were anxious to develop seventy years to support the college. When the six men left, they offered to
schools for the benefit of their young Later, when union conferences were pay the fare of the group to Lincoln
people. established, these fields together with to look over their proposition.
During the summer of 1889, Prof. the missions of North Dakota, Okla- The Lincoln citizens made this
W. W. Prescott, the educational sec- homa, and Wyoming were organized proposition: A number of farmers
retary of the General Conference, held into the Northern, Central, and South- would each give a tract of land to the
a series of meetings with the brethren western unions, and continued their college. The college could then in-
in the trans-Mississippi area and sug- joint support of Union College. The vite families who had children to edu-
gested that instead of dissipating the college, in fact, has been a unifying cate to move in and form a town
strength of the field by supj orting a influence in this great area over the about the institution. The donated
school in each conference, it would years. land when cut up into lots would
22 REVIEW AND HERALD
bring enough money to build the col- The net profit
lege. The donors would reap bounti- from the sale of
fully, however, since the remainder the property to-
of their land would be so enhanced in taled $56,134.53.
value that it would sell for much more Of this amount
than it would as rural land. $25,000 was used
J. H. Morrison of Iowa was chair- to create the Alvin
man of the committee. The General Wetzel Blue Moun-
Conference was represented by W. W. tain Academy
Prescott, the educational secretary; Scholarship Fund.
0. A. Olson, president of the General The balance of
Conference; and A. R. Henry, treas- $31,134.53 was
urer of the Review and Herald. placed in the Acad-
On a snowy day in January the com- emy Building Fund
mittee visited Lincoln, and the recep- and will aid in the
tion committee took them in two- erection of an ade-
seated sleighs five miles out into the quate administra-
country from Lincoln. On the way as tion building to be
they crossed a creek, the leading cut- started this year.
ter plunged off the bridge into the The scholarship
stream bed below, throwing out the fund is to aid wor-
occupants and demolishing the vehi- thy and promising
cle. A. R. Henry, the financial ad- students who are T. E. Unruh (left) former president of East Pennsylvania, accepts a check for
viser, was so severely hurt that he had orphans, or who $56,134.53 from Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Wetzel of Philadelphia. This large
contribution is to be used to set up the Wetzel Scholarship Fund for Blue
to be taken back to Battle Creek Sani- come from broken Mountain Academy and to aid in construction of a new administration
tarium for treatment and did not take homes, or whose building. At right is V. A. Fenn, secretary-treasurer of East Pennsylvania.
further part in the location of the in- parents are phys-
stitution. ically handicapped so that they can- ing a number of issues of the Signs of
Arriving at a hedge fence near the not assist financially in the Christian the Times.
present site of the college, the men education of their children. Eligible From him they learned that shortly
crawled through the fence and walked young people must be consecrated after the arrival of the Dalai Lama,
across a cornfield to the top of an youth who desire to prepare for God's members of his household and Tibet-
eminence. There at a spot near a row service. They must seek to be self- ans in his immediate group visited
of cottonwood trees, L. A. Hoopes dependent to the extent of their abil- this shop to purchase supplies. They
(later president of the college) stuck ity to take advantage of work oppor- noticed some of our literature on a
his heel into the snow and said: "Here tunities offered by the academy, con- table in the shop and mentioned to
is where the southwest corner of the sistent with good scholarship. Their the shopkeeper that they would like
college building should be." Never schoolwork must be satisfactory and to read some of these periodicals. The
spoke man more truly, for there it is their conduct conform to the stand- shopkeeper quickly responded, "Cer-
today. ards of the school. tainly, take them along. Take all you
These founders built substantially It is the purpose of Brother and wish."
with an eye to the future. Within fif- Sister Wetzel to add to the fund as Some days later these customers
teen months, four large brick build- they have opportunity to do so. The from the Dalai Lama's retinue re-
ings rose out of that cornfield, and money is to be invested, and the in- turned to the shop and mentioned that
the second school year the enrollment come used to aid the students. they had enjoyed reading the maga-
reached 607. In seven decades 35,000 It has brought great personal satis- zines. They wanted to know if he had
students have passed through Union's faction to counsel with Brother and more copies of the same. He looked
doors, and more than 700 have served Sister Wetzel in the establishment of around and found a few more copies.
as missionaries in overseas fields. this worthy plan. The governing Then they remarked that the Dalai
board of Blue Mountain Academy, Lama also enjoyed reading this mate-
the entire constituency, and the stu- rial, and suggested that if more of
dents who will benefit from the fund, these magazines were available, they
Scholarship Fund Set Up at are greatly indebted to them. would be glad to see that the Dalai
Blue Mountain Academy Lama received them.
When our students visited the shop-
By T. E. Unruh keeper the next time, he told them of
President, Indiana Conference (Formerly Adventist Literature the Dalai Lama's desire. Our students
of East Pennsylvania) Reaches the Dalai Lama responded by leaving several of our
The Alvin Wetzel Blue Mountain books, asking the shopkeeper to pass
By M. E. Kemmerer them on to the Dalai Lama's repre-
Academy Scholarship Fund was estab- Treasurer, Southern Asia Division
lished May 29, 1959, by Alvin and sentatives.
Grace Wetzel. The funds resulted Some weeks ago while a group of We do not know the effect of read-
from the sale by the East Pennsylva- our students and one of the teachers ing this good message-filled literature,
nia Conference of 30 acres of indus- of our Vincent Hill School, near Mus- but we know that God's Word will
trial property, the profits of which soorie, India, were doing Uplift work not return to Him void. We believe
had been dedicated by Brother and (Ingathering), they visited one of the it was in the providence of God that
Sister Wetzel to the cause of Christian shopkeepers in the area near where our books reached this very influen-
education. A trip to the Inter-Ameri- Tibet's refugee Dalai Lama now lives. tial person in this way. While he was
can mission field impressed their The shopkeeper is an Indian Roman living in the forbidden city of Lhasa,
hearts with the need of consecrated Catholic and had been receiving some away in the heart of Tibet, it was im-
workers for the vast areas of earth of the literature that the students had possible to reach him personally, but
where God is not known. handed out at different times, includ- God has permitted events to place
APRIL 7, 1960 23
him now within reach of our truth- Elder and Mrs. Andrew Peters and two children, Mrs. Orson I. Fields, of Pasco, Washington, to
of Lynwood, California, to Singapore. Nyasaland.
filled literature. In recent months sev- Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Christoph and two children, Elder and Mrs. Edward H. Schneider and daugh-
to Ghana (returning). ter, to Jamaica (returning).
eral of our brethren have had oppor- F. Ruth Mitchell, to West Pakistan (returning; Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Pifer and daughter, of
tunity to meet him personally and talk previously served in Iraq). Takoma Park, Maryland, to Tanganyika.
Elder and Mrs. W. G. Jenson and three children, to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Banks and daughter, of Osh-
to him in his temporary home here in India (returning). awa, Ontario, to India.
Elder and Mrs. Reinhold R. Widmer and two chil- Evelyn Platt, of South Lancaster, Massachusetts, to
Mussoorie. dren, of Silver Spring, Maryland, to Jamaica. Guam.
Two of our students asked to see Ellen Lorraine Carter, to West Pakistan (return-
ing).
Elder and Mrs. Audra M. Hillman and daughter,
to South America (returning).
the Dalai Lama and were granted a Barbara Jean McDonald, to Puerto Rico (return. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan R. Toews and two children, of
ing). Glendale, California, to Pakistan.
half-hour interview. The Dalai Lama Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Cole and three children, Elder and Mrs. L. E. Tucker and three children, of
was most pleasant and hospitable. He to Costa Rica (returning). South Lancaster, Massachusetts, to the Philippines.
Patience May Crump, to Nigeria (returning).
welcomed the boys through his inter- August Mrs. R. F. Mattison and two children, to Mexico
(returning).
preter and invited them to ask ques- Elder and Mrs. R. M. Reinhard, to Southern Rho- November
tions. They talked on various subjects, desia (returning).
Elder and Mrs. M. T. Battle and two children, to Elder and Mrs. 0. W. Lange, to India (returning).
then the two boys presented the cur- Ghana (returning).
Mr. and Mrs. Darel E. Courser and three children,
Elder and Mrs. Henry Baerg, to Peru (returning).
rent colorful issue of the Signs of the Ursula Ruth Leichnitz, Ontario, Canada, to Uganda.
of Portland, Oregon, to Nigeria. Elder and Mrs. Ray L. Jacobs, to Cuba (returning).
Times to him with the suggestion that Mr. and Mrs. Robert R. Greve and two children, Dr. and Mrs. Ronald D. Van Arsdell, of Bourbon,
of Holly, Michigan, to Guam. Missouri, to Thailand.
he might like to have his name added Dr. and Mrs. Robert F. Gloor and family, of
Corinna, Maine, to Guam.
Dr. and Mrs. George C. Bergman, Jr., of Monte-
to its mailing list and receive it reg- bello, California, to Ethiopia (short term).
Dr. and Mrs. Alfred R. Twiss and two children, of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene W. Rau and two children, of
ularly. He consented and appeared Chehalis, Washington, to Korea (short term). La Crescenta, California, to Singapore.
Elder and Mrs. Ivan T. Crowder and two children, Elder and Mrs. Joseph N. Hunt and two children,
pleased at the thought of receiving of Takoma Park, Maryland, to Trinidad, West Indies.
Mrs. Ralph E. Potterton and three children, of
to South Africa (returning).
future issues. Elder David H. Hughes and child, to West Nigeria
Ceres, California, to Puerto Rico. (returning).
Sheila W. Robertson, of Hinsdale, Illinois, to East
At present the Signs is going Africa.
Mrs. Alma Wiles, of Takoma Park, D.C., to Ni-
geria.
monthly to the Dalai Lama, being Dr. and Mrs. Lawrence D. Longo and two children,
of Monterey Park, California, to West Nigeria.
Dr. and Mrs. Louis R. Erich and two children, of
sent to him through the Literature Bakersfield, California, to Korea.
Shirley Pauline Spain, of Spokane, Washington, to Elder and Mrs. C. D. Christensen, to Curacao
League of our Vincent Hill School. Jamaica. (returning; previously served in Panama and Mexico).
Elder and Mrs. Robert R. Drachenberg and two Elder and Mrs. Harold Paul Bohr and four chil-
Three men particularly close to him, children, to Canal Zone (returning).
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. McGhee and child, of dren, to Venezuela (returning).
his aides and interpreters, also are re- Arlington, California, to Tanganyika. Julia Hod, to Belgian Congo (returning).
Elder and Mrs. Leclare E. Reed and daughter, of
ceiving the Signs. One of them re- Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thomas and four children, of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Hong Kong, China.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Korea. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. L. Astleford and three chil-
quested that the paper be sent him, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Curry and three children, to
Hong Kong (returning). dren, of Forest Hills, New York City, to Kenya, East
after seeing it in the hands of one Mr. and Mrs. Berthold H. Stickle, of Oshawa, On- Africa.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd D. Cleveland and small son,
of the students. Two new books were tario, to India. of Denver, Colorado, to Paraguay.
Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Owens and two children, of Drs. Harry and Velda Weber, of Berrien Center,
presented to the Dalai Lama at the Warm Springs, Oregon, to Nigeria.
Elder and Mrs. Clinton L. Shankel and two chil- Michigan, to Puerto Rico.
time of this visit, namely, God Speaks dren, of Elma, Washington, to Indonesia.
Elder Orson I. Fields, of Pasco, Washington, to December
to Modern Man and What Jesus Said. Nyasaland.
Elder and Mrs. John W. Popowich, of College Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Sheldon and two chil-
Heights, Alberta, to India. dren, of Takoma Park, D.C., to Korea.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Tetz and two children, of Mis- Elder and Mrs. William L. Fitch and two children,
to Venezuela (returning).
. . . Everywhere Preaching sion City, British Columbia, to India.
Bertha A. Shollenberg, to West Pakistan (return- Elder and Mrs. B. A. Larsen, to Peru (returning).
Elder and Mrs. Wm. T. Collins, to Colombia (re-
ing; previously served in Ethiopia).
the Gospel Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Blanford and two children, of
South Lancaster, Massachusetts, to Taiwan.
turning).
Anna May Vaughan, to Nyasaland (returning).
Margaret Benedict, to Nyasaland (returning).
(Continued from page 17) Elder and Mrs. R. C. Darnell and son, to Lebanon
(returning). D. Lois Burnett, of Takoma Park, Maryland, to
September the Philippines.
Carrie J. Robbins, M.D., and daughter, to West Dr. and Mrs. Leif Kr. Tobiassen, of Lincoln, Ne-
Pakistan (returning). Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. Bullock and three chil- braska, to Jamaica.
Jacquelyn Adams, of Moscow, Idaho, to Brazil dren, of Arlington, California, to Java. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas C. Robertson, of Takoma
(visit to parents). Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Barber and two children, of Park, Maryland, to Puerto Rico.
Mrs. A. G. Zytkoskee and daughter, of Willowdale, Honolulu, Hawaii, to Indonesia.
Ontario, to Egypt. Elder and Mrs. A. J. Johanson, of College Place,
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Henrickson and daughter, to Washington, to India.
West Pakistan (returning). Dr. and Mrs. G. R. Rigsby and three children, of
Florentino Aguilar, recently of Takoma Park, D.C., Takoma Park, D.C., to Ethiopia.
to Philippines (a national returning to his homeland). Elder and Mrs. Alfred Fossey, to Jamaica (return-
Dr. and Mrs. M. H. Schaffner and four children, ing; previously served in China and Southern Asia
to Belgian Congo (returning). Divisions).
Mrs. R. M. Milne, to Hong Kong (returning). A. Ruby Williams, to Beirut, Lebanon (returning).
Elder Reginald F. Mattison, to Mexico City (re- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kloosterhuis and two chil-
turning). dren, to Haiti (returning).
Dr. and Mrs. Waldo E. Crane and three children, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Kozachenko, of College
of Lodi, California, to Puerto Rico. Place, Washington, to Southern Rhodesia.
Elder and Mrs. Donald J. von Pohle and two Elder and Mrs. Willis G. Lowry, to India (return-
daughters, to Cuba (returning). ing).
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn H. Wheeler and son, of
July Shelton, Nebraska to Jamaica. OVERSEAS
Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Wright and son, of Web-
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Avila and two children, re- ster, Massachusetts, to Taiwan.
cently of Arlington, California, to Brazil (nationals Elder and Mrs. Elton H. Wallace and two children, Middle East Division
returning to their homeland). to the Philippines (returning).
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Baker and two children, of
Richardson, Texas, to Southern Rhodesia.
Mr. and Mrs. James W. Zackrison and three chil-
dren, of Takoma Park, Maryland, to Aruba, Nether-
In the Kingdom of Jordan two gen-
Mrs. Philip F. Lemon and three children, to Bel- lands Antilles. erals and eight other high-ranking mili-
gian Congo (returning).
Dr. and Mrs. Neal C. Woods and son, of Lakeport,
Shake Nalkranian to Ethiopia (returning). tary officers attended a temperance rally
Mr. and Mrs. Mario N. Soto and three children,
California, to Japan (short term). of Arlington, California, to Argentina (nationals re- conducted by the officers and workers of
Elder and Mrs. Roger W. Coon and daughter, to
West Nigeria (returning).
turning to their homeland). the Jordan Mission of Seventh-day Ad-
Dr. and Mrs. Marshall A. Rockwell and daughter,
Mrs. G. M. Ellstrom and two children, to West of Everett, Washington, to India. ventists. They were so impressed with the
Nigeria (returning).
Elder and Mrs. Roger A. Wilcox, to Beirut, Leba-
Prof. and Mrs. Gustave Wm. Streifling and four temperance films that they have arranged
children, of Kelowna, British Columbia, to Nigeria.
non (returning; previously served in South America). Elder and Mrs. D. Louis Venden and three chil- for ten large showings to be given in
Carolyn Jean Sibley, of College View, Nebraska, to dren, of Manteca, California, to Japan. camps on both sides of the Jordan River.
Uruguay. Elder and Mrs. Daniel Chavez and two children, of
Ulla Maria Sundell, to East Africa (returning). Wilmington, California, to Cuba. Pastor Wayne Olson is visiting our
Mr. and Mrs. Donald C. Hunt, Jr., and three chil- Mr. and Mrs. James Wendell Lacy and two chil-
dren, of Charlotte, North Carolina, to East Africa. dren, of Takoma Park, Maryland, to Colombia. workers in Egypt and Libya. He has just
Petra Sukau, of Madison College, Tennessee, to Mr. Peter Cooper, of Reading, Pennsylvania, to completed an evangelistic effort in the
Burma. India.
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Paul and two children, of Lan- October Beirut Center. Meetings continue on Sun-
sing, Michigan, to Indonesia. day nights at the Center, and soon an-
Celeste Virginia Lewis, of Los Angeles, California, Mary Jane Bruce, of Escondido, California, to Sing-
to Nigeria. apore. other full-scale series will be opened.
Hallie L. Thomas, to India (returning). Elder and Mrs. L. B. Mitchell, of St. Joseph, Mis-
Mildred Evelyn Berggren, of Lakeland, Florida, to souri, to Liberia. Two of the division officers, R. A.
Viet Nam. Celia Marie Clark, of Sedgwick, Kansas, to Guam. Wilcox and R. H. Hartwell, recently
Lila Rae Frederick, to Singapore (returning). Mr. and Mrs. George Ray Burgdorff and three chil-
Glenn F. Henriksen, to Venezuela (returning). dren, of Arlington, California, to Bolivia. spent about a week in Iran. The Iran
24 REVIEW AND HERALD
Training School has plans for accepting at a special convocation March 23 in the Two faculty members of Washington
some girls as students in the future. Plans Sligo church, Takoma Park, Maryland, Missionary College were granted Doctor
are also under way for improving and when Dr. C. B. Hirsch, the ninth presi- of Philosophy degrees recently from the
enlarging the school. Special attention dent of Washington Missionary College, University of Michigan: Edith Stone,
was given to arrangements for the open- was formally inducted into office. Pre- chairman of the department of English;
ing of physiotherapy treatment rooms in siding at the meeting was L. E. Lenheim, and Stephen S. Hiten, chairman of the
the city of Teheran. chairman of the board of trustees, and department of speech.
president of the Columbia Union Con- Leslie Hardinge, chairman of the
Brother Salam Aboujawdi has shipped ference.
his household and personal belongings WMC department of religion, will go to
to Mosul, Iraq, some five miles from old Members of the Sligo church in the Newbold College, England, in Septem-
Nineveh. Brother Aboujawdi is a ministe- Potomac Conference raised $9,105.16 in ber. He will serve a two-year term there
rial intern, and he will be the pastor of the Sabbath school Investment program and then will return to Washington Mis-
the Mosul church. Once before he was a in 1959, reports E. F. Willett, Investment sionary College. He is the fourth faculty
missionary outside of his own country secretary of the Sligo church last year. member to serve on the faculty of New-
when he responded to an urgent call to During the past six years members have bold, which has an affiliation with Wash-
go to Cyprus for eight or nine months as contributed a total of $50,772.17 to the ington Missionary College.
pastor of the Nicosia church. Investment Fund.
Pastor Manoug Nazirian, who recently Station WWOD, Lynchburg, Virginia, Lake Union
assisted with Elder Walter Schubert's recently began broadcasting the Voice Fred Lee, a junior religion major,
evangelistic meetings in Milan, Italy, has of Prophecy radio program. won first place in the annual American
reported six baptisms in his Beirut Ar- Two young men are being sponsored Temperance Society oratorical contest at
menian church in the brief period since by the Ohio Conference at the Theo- Emmanuel Missionary College, February
his return home. logical Seminary. They are Clifford Black 21. Daniel Russell, a freshman premedical
and Robert Thompson. They will join student, took second place. Barbara John-
NORTH AMERICA the ministerial force in the Ohio Con- son, a sophomore speech major; James
ference upon completion of their studies. Purple, a freshman religion student; and
Central Union John Sholly, a sophomore religion major,
tied for third place. Among the judges
Connie Wells, a member of the 1960 were Lieut. J. E. Van Antwerp, com-
Union College graduating class, will be mander of the naval reserve division,
the new dean of girls at Enterprise Acad- Benton Harbor; Probate Judge Julian E.
emy at Enterprise, Kansas, this fall. Hughes; and Robert L. Hammond, ex-
During the month of February 38 per- DESCRIBED EY H. M. TIPPETT
ecutive director of the Michigan Tem-
sons were baptized by 4 Nebraska district perance Foundation, as well as prominent
pastors. Those having the baptisms were educators in the area.
M. W. Deming, W. H. Elder, E. V. The North Street Seventh-day Advent-
Schultz, and R. G. Wertz. A Brand From the Burning
ist church in Flint, Michigan, was dedi-
The Nebraska MV Department held By Alcyon Ruth Fleck cated, Sabbath, February 13, in a service
a four-district youth rally, March 18 and Pacific Press Publishing Assn., $4.50. conducted by the pastor, Russell W.
19, in the Scottsbluff church. R. A. Ty- Bates. Jere D. Smith, president of the
son, newly elected MV secretary, led out The early chapters in this biography Lake Union, delivered the dedicatory
in the rally. He was assisted by Paul M. of a Roman Catholic priest who became sermon, and F. N. Crowe, secretary-treas-
De Booy, of the Central Union office. an Adventist are redolent with the ro- urer of the Lake Region Conference, of-
J. L. Dittberner, conference president, mance of Old Spain, the boyhood home fered the dedicatory prayer. The guest
and Reuben Beck, Book and Bible House of honor was W. D. Forde, a former pas-
manager, also took an active part in the of Andres Diaz, about whom the story tor, now retired. A. L. Kirk, who pastored
weekend rally. is written. Reared in a happy home under the church during the time the super-
the loving watchcare of a devout Cath- structure of the church was put up, and
In February, 0. F. Locke, pastor of olic mother, Andres was sent, at an early
the Denver South district, held a bap- 0. E. Gordon, under whose ministry the
tism for those who decided for Christ as age, to a training school for novitiates debt was liquidated, also were present.
the result of the It Is Written series of preparing for the priesthood. After five A dedicatory service was held for the
meetings held by George E. Vandeman. As years here under the strictest of dis- new $150,000 church at Waukegan, Illi-
Reuben Schneider, conference evangelist, ciplines, he spent another six years in a nois, toward the latter part of 1959. The
Elder Locke, pastor, and Richard Fahl, seminary, leading up to his consecration dedicatory sermon was given by Jere D.
Bible instructor, visited these families, as a priest. His experiences provide a Smith, president of the Lake Union, and
they found that varied avenues had led firsthand glimpse into the almost incred- the dedicatory prayer was offered by the
these persons to attend the meetings. ible austerities endured by these young late W. B. Hill, at that time president
Our TV programs were a big factor in of the Illinois Conference. This church
creating the first interest in several. acolytes of the Roman Church, yet all is operates a ten-grade school, and a Vaca-
Medical ministry work started the first presented with such charity that the read- tion Bible School in the summer. During
interest for some, and others formerly er's sympathy is aroused rather than ab- 1959, 13 members were added by bap-
were church members who were desirous horrence of the injustices. As a full-fledged tism, thus making their membership now
of making a new start. priest Andres is sent to China as a mis- 171.
sionary, where he endears himself as a Northern Union
Columbia Union true pastor to his people. A brief visit A. M. Matar has accepted a call to the
Dr. Delbert Dick has been elected new home in Spain provides only an interlude Montana Conference. He has been pas-
medical secretary of the Potomac Con- to his next appointment, to Costa Rica tor of the Fargo, North Dakota, district
ference. Associates in the department are and then to Guatemala. Read how he for four and one-half years, and is now
Dr. Glenn Reynolds and Dr. Walter Dorn. preached sermons from Steps to Christ, stationed at Butte, Montana.
Dr. Dick is a graduate of Washington long before he became an Adventist. His
Missionary College and the College of The nine members of the Beavers,
Medical Evangelists. Election took place great struggle to leave the communion Pathfinder group of Burlington, Iowa,
at the conference biennial constituency in which he was trained and identify won second place with their float during
meeting held at the Takoma Park, Mary- himself with the remnant church is a saga the city's holiday parade. They chose the
land, church. of spiritual triumph. Dramatic in treat- theme, For the Needy.
Dr. Lawrence Derthick, United States ment, compelling in human interest, this A. R. Klein has accepted a call to the
Commissioner of Education, Department book will fascinate all who peruse its Iowa Conference to take charge of the
of Health, Education, and Welfare, spoke pages. Fort Dodge district. He has been publish-
APRIL 7, 1960 25
ing secretary of the Minnesota Confer- Kretz as music director and Bible in- ber of Southeastern California Confer-
ence. structor. On March 20 they began a series ence churches during the week of March
Delbert Snow has joined the evan- of evangelistic meetings at Toledo, Ore- 16 to 26.
gelistic crusade at Mobridge, South Da- gon, while at the same time following I. F. Minick, formerly of Kingman,
kota, assisting R. M. Whitsett as music up the interest at Newport. Arizona, has joined the Thunderbird
leader. He was a recent convert in similar New workers in the Upper Columbia Academy staff to serve in the maintenance
meetings held in Des Moines, Iowa. Conference include Don Gray and his department.
On January 2 the first Sabbath service family, from the Theological Seminary
was held in the youth recreation room in Washington, D.C., who have located
of the new Minot, North Dakota, church. in Kennewick, Washington, and will open
R. G. Lucht, pastor, reports that the an evangelistic series there early in April;
church is nearing completion. Since the and G. D. O'Brien and his family, from
beginning of the year the church school Little Rock, Arkansas, who have located
has been conducted in the new building. in Spokane. On March 5 Elder O'Brien
opened an effort in Colfax.
Alfred Bernhardt is the teacher at the Dr. John 0. Waller, of the Walla Walla
20-student Red Shirt Table mission College faculty, has accepted a position Signs of the Times, These Times, Message
school in South Dakota. He also helps Magazine Campaign (Special prices dur-
as professor of English at Potomac Uni- ing April and May) April 1-30
in pastoring the two churches for our versity and Emmanuel Missionary Col- Dorcas and Welfare Evangelism May 7
Church Home Missionary Offering May 7
Indian members in this district. Recently lege. Servicemen's Literature Offering May 14
he was able to get some new-type desks Spirit of Prophecy Day May 21
for our school from the Government Pacific Union College of Medical Evangelists' Offering May 28
Church Home Missionary Offering June 4
school. Mrs. Bernhardt prepares the noon C. S. Bendrell has transferred from
Offering for the Blind June 18
meal for the children. Thirteenth Sabbath Offering June 25
the Southeastern California Conference Medical Missionary Day and Church Medi-
cal Missionary Offering July 2
North Pacific Union to the Central California Conference, Midsummer Missions Service and Offering July 9
W. D. Bresee, a minister in the Illi- where he is pastor of the Bakersfield Span- Enlightening Dark Counties
Church Home Missionary Offering
August 6
August 6
nois Conference, recently joined his ish church, replacing Frank Martinez, Educational Day and Elementary School
brother Floyd Bresee for evangelism in who accepted a call to the Texas Confer- Offering
Oakwood College Offering
August 13
August 27
the Oregon Conference. At present the ence. Literature Evangelist Rally Day September 3
Church Home Missionary Offering September 3
latter is holding an effort at Cedar Creek, The Walter Brothers evangelistic Missions Extension Day and Offering September 10
JMV Pathfinder Day September 17
near Woodland, Washington, assisted by team, of Arizona, recently concluded Thirteenth Sabbath Offering September 24
Mrs. Etta Gage, as Bible instructor. Fol- meetings in Buckeye and Coolidge, with Neighborhood Evangelism October 1
low-up meetings are also being conducted Church Home Missionary Offering October 1
good results. On April 16 they plan to be- Voice of Prophecy Offering October 8
in Kelso-Longview, where a substantial gin a series of meetings in Yuma, Arizona. Sabbath School Visitors' Day October 8
interest has continued since last fall. In Review and Herald Campaign
October 15-November 12
April a concurrent two-week series of The Newbury Park Academy dairy, Temperance Day Offering October 29
meetings will be held at Meadow Glade. under the direction of Earl E. Dupper, Witnessing Laymen
Church Home Missionary Offering
November 5
November 5
manager, and Dale Anderson, assistant Week of Prayer November 12-19
On February 20, nine people were manager, provides valuable work experi- Week of Sacrifice Offering November 19
baptized in Newport, Oregon, thus bring- ence for 16 boys. Ingathering Campaign for 1961
November 26, 1960-January 14, 1961
ing the total to date to 11 as the result Home Missionary Day December 3
of the evangelistic effort held by R. L. F. A. Mote, general field secretary of Church Home Missionary Offering December 3
Thirteenth Sabbath Offering (Christmas
Kretz. Recently Monty Jones joined Elder the General Conference, spoke in a num- Offering) December 24
Yes, the Word of God is open in Ethi- the people are seated, either on low
SABBATH SCHOOL opia but, as already stated, very few of benches or on the clay floor. The order
the people are able to read. They have of the Sabbath school is exactly the same
no Bibles, no Sabbath School Lesson as in the homelands. The people are
Quarterlies. Only the workers and elders very quiet and reverent, but all are eager
and a few others are able to read and to take part in the study of the lesson.
understand Amharic. Nevertheless, these They have no pulpit, no pictures, no
Sabbath School in Ethiopia folks are studying the Sabbath school windows. However, the Word of God is
In the southern part of Ethiopia, about lesson and are drinking in the Word of the same and their needs are the same.
2,000 baptized and unbaptized believers God. From their experience the signifi- These people love the Sabbath school
faithfully attend Sabbath school from cance of the words of John in Revela- because here they find food for their
week to week. Each Sabbath morning the tion, "Blessed is he that readeth, and souls.
characteristic antiphonal singing ascends they that hear the words of this proph- Is there anything more important in
to heaven from' scores of small and large ecy," has taken on new meaning for me. the Sabbath school than to teach the
Sabbath school groups scattered over the These people know how to listen and love of Christ and to turn sinners to the
gently rolling mountain slopes. The peo- have wonderful memories in which to Saviour? When the Sabbath school does
ple have no hymnbook in their own store up the truths of the Bible. In many this, it is a successful Sabbath school. Let
language, and most of them are not able places among these primitive believers, us ever remember that "the object of
to read. What are they singing this Sab- the Sabbath school is the only source of Sabbath school work should be the in-
bath morning? regular and systematic instruction in the gathering of souls."Counsels on Sab-
Advent message. bath School Work, p. 61. "The influence
"The Word of God is open, Let us enter into one of the round growing out of Sabbath school work
You have opportunity to go in. hut-churches. There are many of them should improve and enlarge the church."
If you do not go in, scattered among the banana groves on Ibid., p. 9.
You might never go in." the mountainside. They are built of This is what the Sabbath schools have
Simple words, but ones that express a sticks and mud, and thatched. Two low done for thousands of souls in Ethiopia.
great fundamental truth in our Sabbath doors, one for men and one for women, A. VARMER, President
schools. lead into the half-lighted room where Ethiopian Union Mission
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Death of Dr. Winton H. Beaven, dean of This overflow will bring great re-
Washington Missionary College, and joicing to thousands of our people
Frank Frederick Oster associate secretary for the National who worship under trees, under hum-
The hand of death has snatched Committee for the Prevention of Al- ble thatched sheds, or crowded into
away Frank Frederick Oster, who coholism, will again serve as director some little room of a private home.
gave many years of devoted and sacri- of the institute. Herbert H. Hill, ex- It will also bring physical relief to
ficial work in the cause of God over- ecutive director of the Alcohol Prob- thousands who would not receive re-
seas. After receiving his education lems Association of the State of lief were it not for your sacrifice. To
and training in the United States and Washington, will be associate director. all we say Thank You!
in Germany, in 1911 Elder Oster was For an announcement, an application 0. 0. MATTISON, President
called to pioneer our work in Persia. form, and further information, write Southern Asia Division
He continued in that land as the to National Committee for the Pre-
leader of our cause until 1938 when vention of Alcoholism, 6840 Eastern
he was asked to take charge of our Avenue NW., Washington 12, D.C. Publishing Progress in
work in Turkey. He served there until W. A. SCHARFFENBERG Viet Nam
1943 when he was returned to the
United States, his homeland. Elder In a recent letter Le Cong Giao,
India VOP Spurs Demand manager of our Viet Nam Signs Press
Oster spent many years abroad with-
out a furlough to his home country. for Bibles in Saigon, writes:
Many in the lands in which he la- "The year 1959 produced the best
In unprecedented numbers, Bibles report of the publishing work in the
bored remember him and his family were in demand in the central area
with gratitude and high esteem. history of literature evangelism in
of South India. Seeking the reason, Viet Nam. For the first time our col-
ERWIN E. ROENFELT officials of the India Bible Society porteurs were able to enter into prac-
wrote to various Christian organiza- tically every army camp and govern-
L. L. Bock Elected President tions. Someone replied that the Sev- ment office. In those places our colpor-
enth-day Adventists were promoting
of Maritime Conference a plan of Bible study by correspond-
teurs harvested good results in soul
winning as well as in literature sales.
Word has been received that L. L. ence. Thereupon a representative of We have received many wonderful
Bock, home missionary and Sabbath the Bible Society visited our Banga- letters from army officers and soldiers
school secretary of the Ontario-Quebec lore Voice of Prophecy office, where expressing their great interest in the
Conference, has been elected presi- he found a well-organized program of Adventist message. We are indeed
dent of the Maritime Conference. Bible teaching on a massive scale. Les-
thankful for the many faithful col-
This fills the vacancy created when sons by the thousands, in three lan- porteurs we have here in Viet Nam.
Philip Moores was elected president of guages, were being graded, and re- We are of excellent courage in spite of
Manitoba-Saskatchewan. We believe turned with new lessons, to interested
the many difficulties we are contin-
that Elder Bock will serve the confer- Hindus, Moslems, Christians, and
ually facing."
ence well, in view of his excellent rec- those of no faith. Upon leaving he
In this country six of our regular
ord in evangelism and departmental exclaimed, "Now I know why there
colporteurs have lost their lives while
activities. W. B. Ocris is a greater demand for Bibles than
in the line of duty. May the gospel
ever before." JAMES E. CHASE
seed that they have sown be watered
[In a back-page note last week reporting the elec- by their sacrifice and bring forth
tion of Philip Moores as president of the Manitoba-
Saskatchewan Conference, we stated that George 0.
Adams had taken Elder Moores' place as president
Southern Asia Says abundant fruit for the kingdom. Pray
of the Maritime Conference. This statement was in for our consecrated literature evan-
error. Elder Adams is president of the British Colum- "Thank You!" gelists.
bia Conference, having been elected to that office
upon the retirement of the former president, R. Allan Early this month I received the good GEORGE A. HUSE
Smithwick.EDITORS.]
news from Brother E. B. Hare [of the
General Conference Sabbath School
Loma Linda Institute of Department] that the 13th Sabbath Ohio Conference Biennial
Scientific Studies overflow for the fourth quarter of 1959 Constituency Meeting
was the largest that has ever been
The eleventh annual session of the given in the history of our Sabbath At the twenty-second biennial con-
Loma Linda Institute of Scientific school work by at least $8,000. Since stituency convention of the Ohio Con-
Studies for the Prevention of Alcohol- this overflow comes to the Southern ference, held in the Mount Vernon,
ism will be conducted at Loma Linda, Asia Division to assist in meeting Ohio, church on Sunday, March 27,
California, July 11-22. Dr. Andrew C. some of our most pressing needs, such all conference officers were re-elected
Ivy, distinguished physiologist from as the construction of churches and for another two-year term.
the University of Illinois, will again the strengthening of our medical pro- Reports given by the officers and
be one of the featured lecturers. Dr. gram, I desire to take this opportunity other staff members indicate the
Thomas J. Shipp, who has been suc- to express the deep appreciation of the Lord's blessings in the past two-year
cessful in salvaging at least 250 alco- workers and believers of Southern period. May God continue to bless
holics, will give a number of lectures Asia to all of you who have made this large conference.
on "Counseling the Alcoholic." this wonderful overflow possible. L. E. LENHEIM