March 14, 1968
Vol. 145
No. 11
REVIEW AND HERALD • GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
By ARTHUR S. MAXWELL
Editor, Signs of the Times
"The hour has come, the hour is striking, and striking at you, the hour and
the end!" (Eze. 7:5, 6).*
M
ANY times over the past 50 years
I have stood on Capitoline Hill
in Rome looking down at the
ruins of the ancient Forum, conjuring
up the glories of the Roman Empire of
which only these ruins remain. I have
stood in the majestic temple of Karnak
in Upper Egypt, marveling at the riches
and talents of the ancient civilization
that once erected this mighty building.
I have stood on the Acropolis in Athens,
viewing the ruins of the magnificent edifices erected during the golden age of
Greece.
All over the world you will find relics
of the past such as these—the pyramids
of Egypt, the columns of Baalbek, the
Aztec monuments in Mexico, the Angkor
Wat in Cambodia, the Zimbabwe Temple
in Rhodesia—all of which tell of longfaded glories and of the end that came
to cities, countries, empires, and civilizations in the long ago. No matter how
great and powerful
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[Sermon preached at Mountain View, California„January 13, 1968. (Based on the new Book of the Year, This
Is the End!)]
*From The Bible: A New Translation by James Moffatt.
Copyright by James Moffatt 1954. Used by permission of
Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated.
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What's Wrong
T
HE voice crying in our modern world "What's wrong with
premarital sex?" sounds
strangely familiar. It is an echo of a
similar question raised millenniums
ago: "What's wrong with the fruit of
the tree of knowledge of good and
evil? It is very pleasant. It will make
one wise. It will help one 'attain to a
more exalted sphere of existence, to
enter a broader field of knowledge.' "
These same virtues are extolled for
premarital sex, and incidentally, both
carry the sting of the serpent.
Yes, sting is the proper word, for
someone always gets hurt whenever
there is sex outside of marriage. For
example, in the white population of
America there are four illegitimate
births out of every 100 births and in
the nonwhite population there are
26.3 per 100. Think of the suffering
of these children, first as babies, later
as confused adolescents, as they grow
up without proper, adequate family
relationships. The situation is bad
enough when finances are adequate
and worse when they are not.
This is not the whole story. It is
only one phase. There is a tremendous
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amount of maternal suffering. Devoted to their progeny, many of these
women will make every sacrifice to
try to give their babies a normal life.
Some, ridden with guilt, to get the
child a home, will make unhappy
marriages, one, two, or more times,
spreading their misery through many
families. Then there are those who
shift the responsibility to parents, to
welfare, to aid to dependent children,
so the child will live first in one,
then in another, and then in still another foster home. I have cared for
many such children.
Even when premarital sex does not
result in conception, someone gets
hurt. For example, in those couples
who indulge and soon marry, even
though neither party has been promiscuous, circumstances arise that
suggest doubts about the fidelity of
the one spouse to the other. The
memory of the previous behavior increases the lack of trust and confidence and leads to quarreling, incrimination, and too often to divorce,
with its attendant disruptions of the
family and quota of disturbed children. Perhaps it doesn't go this far,
but guilt feelings may bring women
to a doctor, a pastor, or to a mental
breakdown and hospitalization.
Sex is talked about so freely at present that even mere children are amazingly well informed about anatomical
facts, and most adolescents believe
this is the whole story, blissfully ignorant of what constitutes a mature
understanding. Young people of high
school and college age who see adults
seemingly doing as they please and
getting what they want, equate freedom with absence of restraint. They
often are led to seek no higher control for themselves than their feelings.
But feelings are temperamental,
changing from minute to minute,
variable according to circumstances.
Action on this basis is not freedom
nor a "new freedom." It is the old
slavery to passions, leading to destruction of all that makes life here worth
while and life hereafter possible.
Mature Relationships
As men mature they develop the
capacity to give. Maturity in sexual
relationships is present when the giving of satisfaction is much more important than receiving it. Whenever
sex behavior fails in giving and is interested only in getting satisfaction, it
lacks maturity and is a manifestation
of self-indulgence. Sex behavior outside of marriage always has the quality of self-indulgence. On the part of
the braggart who tells of his conquests of unsuspecting and not-so-innocent girls, it has the quality also of
self-aggrandizement. There is much
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
By HARLAND P. KAHLER, M.D.
With Premarital Sex?
written today on "sex freedom," "fun
morality," and pornographic literature is flooding the markets. But all
of this is leading many to slavery.
When sex is motivated by any consideration other than a giving to another, a form of caring, it becomes
manipulative. For example, sex can
be motivated by the anxiety of loneliness, by the wish to conquer or to be
conquered, by vanity, or by the wish
to hurt or even destroy. When it is
motivated by any of these rather than
by true love, the sexual act becomes
manipulative and this can happen
either inside or outside a marriage relationship. Premarital sex usually
falls into manipulative behavior and
is engaged in only for the immediate
pleasure, ulterior design, or physical
satisfaction of one or both of the
partners.
An Empty Hoax
Even if one were to lay aside the
traditional religious emphasis, the
threat of venereal disease, and the
statistics quoted above, he would still
come up with the answer that premarital intercourse is not good. This
is illustrated by the attitude of men
who say, "It's O.K. for me to sleep
with your sister, but it's not O.K. for
you to sleep with mine," or "I hope
to get straightened out and marry a
nice girl and have a good family," as
was stated to me recently by a young
philanderer. Two people who talk
over the problem and decide "It's all
right if nobody gets hurt" forget that
the answer to whether someone gets
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hurt is future, so no action can be
based on such a supposition. It's totally impossible to base a sound, true
conclusion on such an "if" premise.
Some of the advocates of premarital relations answered the following
question with an "if." "If you were
the father of a teen-age daughter who
asked permission to engage with her
lover in premarital intercourse,
would you say for her to go ahead?"
They said, "If it would make her
happy, I would." Their answer shows
the argument to be fallacious, since
no one can certainly predict such happiness. The action is to be now—the
happiness, if ever, in the uncertain
future. Many, both men and women,
who have fallen into the trap of premarital sexual experimentation find
the happiness they thought would
come with marriage to be an empty
hoax. I think of a couple I counseled
who had been married 22 years and
whose children were grown. Quarreling and nagging ultimately brought
divorce because the relationship after
marriage was not as it had been premaritally. It has been demonstrated
that as a test of suitability premarital
intercourse tells us nothing of significance that cannot be discovered in
other ways. And what it may appear
to tell us is more likely to be misleading than helpful.
It has also been observed that playing with sex in premarial sexual experience has little relation to sex
strictly speaking; it is based on curiosity, vanity, and desire for attention.
The idea that premarital sexual ex-
perience is necessary and desirable is
part of "sales talk" of men who are
trying to seduce women. It is contradicted by every study ever made.
When pressured by the group to give
up her virginity, one girl answered,
"I can make that choice any time I
want to. You no longer have a choice,
only to live by the consequences of
your actions."
Some girls choose premarital sex as
a way of showing the world they are
free of their parents or of their religion, not realizing that someone is going to get hurt. Free love is advocated
as a desirable way of life, but sexual
intercourse without commitment is
promiscuity. Sexual intercourse in
these circumstances is not the real
sharing that human nature seeks, the
complete surrender of each to the
other, the merging of both in a relationship that is bigger than either
one of them. A real neurosis may be
the result of these experiments, which
may make successful adult adjustment
to sexuality impossible without long
psychological re-education. (See Paul
Popenoe, Are Virgins Out of Date?
The American Institute of Family
Relations, Publication 28.)
Another area that needs attention
is "permissiveness with affection" that
some advocate; but it raises more
questions. How much permissiveness?
How much affection? The distinction
depends on knowledge and perception of adult motivation and emotional reaction toward which the
teen-ager is striving. This comes with
maturity and is not easily taught, so
permissiveness becomes sexual exploitation. In short, heavy petting
leads to sexual exploitation. Extramarital sex as advocated by a number of writers arguing for "varietism"
is also specious, though made to appear desirable; in a society where infidelity prevails, children are deprived
and hurt and marriage is insecure.
It is from the standpoint of health
—emotional health, physical health,
spiritual health—that I submit the
desirable ideal is premarital chastity.
It makes for self-esteem and respect.
Continence is possible and is not detrimental to the mental or physical
health of either the male or the female. Continence for the sake of a
future good assists in the achievement
of emotional and sexual maturity.
The Scriptures repeatedly condemn all types of extramarital sex.
Fornication (Greek porneia) is an
inclusive term (see Eph. 5:3; 1 Cor.
5:1; Col. 3:5). Fornication is sin
(Gal. 5:19). Unless they truly repent
and turn from their sins, those who
engage in extramarital sex will not
enter the New Jerusalem (Rev. 22:
15). "Blessed are the pure in heart:
for they shall see God" (Matt. 5:8).
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Time to Seek the Lord-6
Prevailing Prayer
By JOE ENGELKEMIER
ONCERNING the prayer experiences of the disciples during
the days preceding Pentecost,
we read: "They knew that they had
a friend at the throne of God, and they
were eager to present their requests to
the Father in the name of Jesus. In
solemn awe they bowed in prayer, repeating the assurance, 'Whatsoever ye
shall ask the Father in My name, He
will give it you. Hitherto have ye
asked nothing in My name: ask, and
ye shall receive, that your joy may be
full.' John 16:23, 24. They extended
the hand of faith higher and higher,
with the mighty argument, 'It is
Christ that died, yea rather, that is
risen again, who is even at the right
hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.' Rom. 8:34. And Pentecost brought them fullness of joy in
the presence of the Comforter, even
as Christ had promised."—The Desire
of Ages, p. 833.
In another passage it is stated this
way: "They claimed the endowment
of power that Christ had promised.
Then it was that the Holy Spirit was
poured out, and thousands were converted in a day."—Ibid., p. 827.
Notice several instructive points.
First of all, prayer was entered into
eagerly, and with solemn awe. Second, divine promises became mighty
arguments of faith. Third, as they
claimed these promises, the presence
of the Holy Spirit was manifested.
So it needs to be today. We have
every reason for entering into prayer
just as eagerly as did the disciples.
We, too, have a Friend at the throne
of God. We are urged to "come boldly
unto the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy, and find grace to help
in time of need" (Heb. 4:16).
It was thrilling to read in the REVIEW last summer the story of how, in
response to a day of prayer and fasting, the Lord sent rains to the State
of Kansas. From September, 1966, to
mid-March, 1967, there had been
practically no moisture. The Statewide day of prayer and fasting was
held on Sabbath, March 18. The fiveday forecast on the previous day had
indicated that there was no rain in
sight through the following Wednesday. But on Saturday night there
was some rain in the eastern half of
the State. On Sunday there was more
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rain. On Tuesday a prolonged and
gentle rain fell over the State. Elder
S. S. Will, president of the Kansas
Conference, reported that by midJune rainfall was eight inches above
normal.
If the Lord will give rain for our
physical needs, will He not grant just
as generous an outpouring of the
Holy Spirit for our spiritual needs?
The above experience reminds us of
the promise, "Ask ye of the Lord rain
in the time of the latter rain; so the
Lord shall make bright clouds, and
give them showers of rain" (Zech.
10:1).
"At every meeting we attend our
prayers should ascend, that at this
very time God will impart warmth
and moisture to our souls. As we seek
God for the Holy Spirit, it will work
in us meekness, humbleness of mind,
a conscious dependence upon God
for the perfecting latter rain. If we
pray for the blessing in faith, we shall
receive it as God has promised."—
Testimonies to Ministers, p. 509.
Mighty Arguments of Faith
This brings us to the second point
—in the experience of the apostles
divine promises became mighty arguments of faith. In this connection we
should review the conditions for answered prayer, as brought out so
clearly in Steps to Christ in the chap-.
ter entitled "The Privilege of
Prayer." These conditions are (1)
that we feel our need, (2) that we
not cherish iniquity in our hearts,
(3) that we have a spirit of love and
forgiveness, (4) that we have faith,
and (5) that we be persevering in
prayer.
We have not space to discuss all of
these. But we would emphasize the
importance of sensing our need as
we pray for the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit and point out again how
the disciples, before Pentecost, "felt
their spiritual need and cried to the
Lord for the holy unction that was to
fit them for the work of soul-saving."
—The Acts of the Apostles, p. 37.
What would happen if, with a deep
sense of need, hundreds of thousands
of Seventh-day Adventists would
unite in seeking the outpouring of
the Holy Spirit the way the disciples
did there in the upper room? Would
the Lord not respond as graciously
now as He did then?
Faith and perseverance are a vital
part of claiming God's promises. Elijah exemplifies the course we should
follow. We are familiar with the story
of the perseverance with which he
prayed for rain at Mount Carmel. "As
he prayed, his faith reached out and
grasped the promises of Heaven; and
he persevered in prayer until his petitions were answered. . . . Faith such
as this is needed in the world today—
faith that will lay hold on the promises of God's word and refuse to let go
until Heaven hears."—Prophets and
Kings, p. 157.
This kind of faith is closely related
to submission to God's will. "Christ
says, 'What things soever ye desire,
when ye pray, believe that ye receive
them, and ye shall have them.' Mark
11:24. He makes it plain that our asking must be according to God's will;
we must ask for the things that He has
promised, and whatever we receive
must be used in doing His will. The
conditions met, the promise is unequivocal."—Education, pp. 257, 258.
The servant of God then assures us,
"For the pardon of sin, for the Holy
Spirit, for a Christlike temper, for
wisdom and strength to do His work,
for any gift He has promised, we may
ask; then we are to believe that we
receive, and return thanks to God
that we have received."—I bid., p. 258.
The gift of the Holy Spirit is mentioned. No greater gift could be
sought. "This promised blessing,
claimed by faith, brings all other
blessings in its train."—The Desire of
Ages, p. 672.
We call to your attention again the
encouraging promise upon which we
focused attention in the first article of
this series. "The descent of the Holy
Spirit upon the church is looked forward to as in the future; but it is the
privilege of the church to have it now.
Seek for it, pray for it, believe for it.
We must have it, and Heaven is waiting to bestow it."—Evangelism, p.
701.
Claiming the Promises
"Seek for it, pray for it, believe for
it." Note the repeated emphasis in
the Spirit of Prophecy writings upon
believing, upon claiming the promises. Having fulfilled the conditions
discussed in earlier articles, we can
claim specific promises concerning
the outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
and expect these promises to he fulfilled.
In Christ's Object Lessons is found
a chapter entitled "Asking to Give."
It is based on Luke 11:1-13, the con-
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cluding thought of which is, "If ye
then, being evil, know how to give
good gifts unto your children: how
much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask him?" It would be appropriate to
turn to this verse almost daily, claiming it in prayer. In this connection it
would be well to read the above mentioned chapter, "Asking to Give."
Urging us to present our petitions
before the Lord, the author says,
"Plead for the Holy Spirit. God stands
back of every promise He has made.
With your Bible in your hands say,
I have done as Thou hast said. I present Thy promise, 'Ask, and it shall
be given you; seek, and ye shall find;
knock, and it shall be opened unto
you.' "—Christ's Object Lessons, p.
147.
Paul points out that God "is able to
do exceeding abundantly above all
that we ask or think, according to the
power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3:
20). Note the graduated emphasis.
God is able to do all that we ask . . .
all that we ask or think . . . above all
that we ask or think . . abundantly
above all that we ask or think . . . exceeding abundantly above all that we
ask or think.
Let us strengthen our faith by recounting two recent fulfillments of
this promise.
November, 1966, the Voice of Prophecy was $100,000 behind on its budget
—the result of a $50,000 drop in the
summer offerings, and a $50,000 decrease in the October offering taken
in the churches. At the same time
plans had been developed to expand
the Voice of Prophecy radio coverage
through the use of Nite Owl broadcasts. It appeared that this plan
would have to be dropped.
On November 30 the whole Voice
of Prophecy staff met for a special
prayer service. After the service it was
decided to send out a special letter,
in which Elder Richards would
frankly explain the problem and the
need. In the letter he quoted the
above text from the Amplified New
Testament, which puts it that God is
able to do "super-abundantly" above
all that we dare ask or think.
This letter went out on December
11. Meanwhile the staff continued to
pray most earnestly. Others were
praying too.
By December 31 such an avalanche
of mail had poured in that the staff
needed extra help just to write receipts. When it was finally all tabulated, the December offerings received through the mail amounted to
an unprecedented $330,000—almost
$200,000 above the previous December. The $100,000 deficit was removed, and the Nite Owl programs
were assured. On September 3, 1967,
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the Voice of Prophecy went on their
seventh 50,000-watt clear channel station with the Nite Owl broadcast,
sending the gospel out to the nearly
32 million Americans who are up at
night.
Dave Hartman, the Voice of Prophecy treasurer, said they were especially impressed by the letters that accompanied the gifts. One elderly
couple, upon receipt of Elder Richards' letter, prayed about it and decided to take $1,000 out of their savings and send it. The next morning
they felt impressed that the gift
should be larger, and they sent half
of their $5,000 savings. The letters accompanying many of the gifts, both
large and small, showed the same
spirit of sacrifice.
As the Spirit of God moved upon
many hearts, the promise that God is
able to do exceeding abundantly
above all that we ask or think was indeed fulfilled.
The young people of southern California were involved in a food-collecting project for the Navajo Indian
work. The drive was launched in
Glendale on Halloween, 1966, when
about 100 academy students brought
in approximately two tons of canned
goods. The student leaders had set a
goal of 15 tons. As I looked at the
stacks of food it took to make two
tons, and thought of the 13 more tons
still needed, I concluded that their
goal was terribly unrealistic. Some
food would come in from Pathfinder
groups, and some from other academies—but not 13 tons!
Several times in our voluntary
prayer bands students would suggest
that we remember the Navajo project
as a special request. I was grateful
for this interest, but still could not
envision 15 tons of food ever being delivered.
Early in December an 11-ton load,
of which about seven tons was food,
was hauled to Monument Valley in a
truck donated by the American Red
Ball Transit Company. The western
manager of this company, when contacted by a ninth-grade student on
Halloween, had volunteered the free
transportation and had also suggested
to us several contacts where food donations might be received. As a result, a few weeks later a truckload of
18,000 pounds of canned goods was
delivered to the Holbrook Indian
Mission School near Holbrook, Arizona. And at the time of this writing
a subsequent donation of another 18,000 pounds is being delivered to the
Holbrook school for use during the
1967-1968 school year.
The grand total of canned goods
brought in by this project was about
25 tons!
If the Lord will answer the prayers
of His people so abundantly in sending rainfall to Kansas, in sending
funds to the Voice of Prophecy, in
helping bring in food for the Navajos,
how much more abundantly will He
answer our prayers as we seek the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in order
to share our hope with others.
We must seek, pray, believe. "Pray
without ceasing, and watch by working in accordance with your prayers.
As you pray, believe, trust in God. It
is the time of the latter rain, when
the Lord will give largely of His
Spirit. Be fervent in prayer, and
watch in the Spirit."—Testimonies to
Ministers, p. 512.
Seven and Seven
During last school year, as an outgrowth of a Bible conference and
other spiritual activities, some of the
youth of the Pacific Union formed
what they have called the Seven and
Seven prayer group. The idea is that
at seven o'clock each morning and
seven o'clock each evening, or as close
to that time as practical, young people will pause for a few moments of
prayer, requesting two specific things
—that God will bless the youth on
Seventh-day Adventist campuses
around the world, and that He will
finish His work through the promised
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
During the Pacific Union Bible
conference for student leaders during
September, 1966, delegates from more
than 20 academies, from La Sierra
College and Pacific Union College,
and from Loma Linda, all were introduced to this plan. Many student
leaders are currently promoting it on
their campuses.
Will you join these young people?
Pray for all of God's youth. Never
have the influences of sin been more
alluring, and if we ever needed to
pray that God will establish a hedge
about His young people, it is now.
Some are catching a vision of finishing God's work through the power of
the Holy Spirit. But there are still
many scores of thousands who have
not committed themselves to Christ.
Pray for them. Send up a silent prayer
every time you have an opportunity,
praying that the conditions for the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit will be
fulfilled so the work may be finished.
Thus can be brought to pass the
events the servant of God foresaw
when she wrote: "I have been deeply
impressed by scenes that have passed
before me in the night season. There
seemed to be a great movement—a
work of revival—going forward in
many places. Our people were moving into line, responding to God's
call."—Selected Messages, book 2, p.
402.
Isn't it time—now?
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they were in their heyday, because of
internal weakness judgment came
upon them, leaving but memories of
vanished glory.
Now it is our turn; and this time
the whole world is involved. Not one
country or one race or one people,
but all. The hour of God's judgment
is come upon the entire population of
this planet. This is the end! As our
text says: "The hour has come, the
hour is striking, and striking at you,
the hour and the end!"
This is the supreme fact of our time
—more important than war in Southeast Asia, or the explosive situation
in the Near East, or the worldwide
racial tensions. And no greater task
confronts us as Adventists than warning mankind of its imminent doom.
Our medical work, our welfare work,
our educational work, all are essential. But we must never forget that
God raised up this Advent people for
one supreme purpose—to proclaim,
"The hour of his judgment is come."
I am aware that some are saying,
"My lord delayeth his coming," and
asking, "Where is the promise of his
coming?" These are the ones who advocate that we should confine our activities to welfare and relief work and
not bother to send out missionaries
any more. But this philosophy is not
only false, it is suicidal. We have
been chosen and appointed by God
for one majestic purpose—to herald
the soon coming of the Lord to every
nation, kindred, tongue, and people.
All heaven is depending on us to perform this task.
When choosing This Is the End! as
the title for one of the volumes in the
1968 Book of the Year package, I was
suddenly pulled up short with the
Question, Do I believe it? And then,
Does the church believe it? For it is
one thing to say, "Time is running
out," or "Christ is coming soon," and
quite another to declare with sincere
conviction, "This is it. There is no
longer any doubt. The end is upon
us!"
I use the phrase as it was used on
various occasions by Bible prophets.
For instance, about 760 B.C. Amos
wrote: "The end is come upon my
people" (Amos 8:2). He was referring
to the kingdom of Israel, but he did
not mean that it would pass away next
morning, or even next week. Actually
more than 30 years elapsed before the
Assyrians captured Samaria. But Amos
saw catastrophe coming. He recognized the signs of approaching disaster. He warned his countrymen that
the end time had arrived. Unless the
nation changed its ways its doom was
inevitable.
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Likewise, when the fall of Judah
was still 25 or more years away, Zephaniah declared, "The great day of
the Lord is near . . . and hasteth
greatly" (Zeph. 1:14).
About 595 B.c., when Babylon was
at the height of its power, the prophet
Jeremiah said, "Thine end is come,"
though the Medo-Persians did not
overthrow it for another 40 years
(Jer. 51:13). What the prophet meant
was that the judgment of Babylon was
certain, irrevocable, and imminent.
And he was right.
Now another end time has arrived.
Only now when we declare, "This is
the end!" we mean that the end of
human history is upon us; the end of
our civilization; the end of the world.
It is the end of which the disciples
spoke when they asked Jesus, "What
shall be the sign of thy coming, and
of the end of the world?" (Matt. 24:3).
It is the end to which Jesus referred
when He said, "This gospel of the
kingdom shall be preached in all the
world for a witness unto all nations;
and then shall the end come" (verse
14). It is the hour of judgment for all
mankind that has come upon us. This
is the hour that is striking, and striking at you—the hour of final consummation.
I recognize that this is a stupendous
claim to make. I realize that it may
be challenged. Some will say that such
an end is impossible; that because our
civilization is the most wonderful that
mankind ever achieved it is indestructible. But God's prophetic word to
Babylon comes ringing down the ages
to our generation: "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.
. Thou art weighed in the balances,
and art found wanting" (Dan. 5:26,
27).
Is the evidence sufficient to warrant
such dramatic statements? Or have the
signs of Christ's coming grown old and
tired and faded during the 125 years
that the Advent Movement has been
in existence?
Today the signs are clearer, more
certain, more global than ever. Evidences of the onrushing end grow
more vivid, more unassailable, from
year to year. They are like tidal waves
roaring up the beaches of every land
on earth.
End of History
Jesus said that before He returns
men will "faint with terror at the
thought of all that is coming upon the
world" (Luke 21:26, N.E.B.).t That
time is here. Never was there such
fear of the future. For the first time
since man was placed on this planet
The Bible texts in this article credited to N.E.B.
arc from The New English Bible, New Testament.
© The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and
the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961.
Reprinted by permission.
he possesses the power to destroy himself. The manufacture of plutonium
proceeds apace. By 1970 two dozen
nations may be in possession of nuclear weapons and it will take only
the explosion of one small atom bomb,
in some remote part of the world, to
start a world war, to set off a chain
reaction of destruction—swift, terrible, and total—from one end of the
earth to the other. The end of history
is upon us.
When the end time comes, Jesus
also said, the world will become as it
was in the days of Noah. We have
but to turn back to the book of Genesis to discover what He had in mind.
Evil was then predominant. So much
so that "every imagination of the
thoughts of his [man's] heart was only
evil continually" (Gen. 6:5), and "the
earth was filled with violence" (verse
11). The days of Noah are here again.
Toward the end of March, 1967,
the Torrey Canyon, one of the largest
oil tankers ever built, went aground
on a reef off Land's End, England.
From holes in her bottom and sides
poured thousands of gallons of oil,
which wind and tide soon wafted toward Cornwall's beautiful beaches and
across the channel to France. As the
dark-brown tide swept onward it
spread slimy ooze over picturesque
harbors, lovely rock pools, and miles
of silver sand beaches. Likewise, a
dark, ugly tide of lawlessness is sweeping over the world, destroying every
beautiful thing in its path and defying
the best efforts of law enforcement
agencies to stop it.
It is one of the paradoxes of history
that the space age, replete with incredible wonders, and supposedly the
most enlightened period in the annals
of man, should have spawned the
worst lawlessness since the Flood.
Crime is growing six times as fast as
the population. Since 1960 it has increased 47 per cent. We are on the
verge of anarchy, with city after city
beset with riots and looting, rape and
murder. No one is safe on the streets
any more.
As Billy Graham was about to start
his Greater London Crusade in December, 1966, Sherwood E. Wirt, editor of Decision magazine, published
these reasons why the campaign was
imperative: "Crime of every kind has
skyrocketed. . . . Sixty per cent of
criminal cases go unsolved. Only one
crime in 12 reaches a court sentence."
The same could be said of almost
every city around the globe. Everywhere immorality, drunkenness, drug
addiction, violence, grow by leaps and
bounds.
It was just such widespread moral
decay which brought the flood of
Noah's day, which led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
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later brought Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, and Rome to ignominious defeat and ruin. The same decay, now
universal, is about to bring destruction
upon the whole world. The judgments
of God are hanging suspended, like
the sword of Damocles, over the head
of this generation. This is the end!
End of Hope
The UN has long been widely acclaimed as man's last best hope, the
only way of escape from World War
III and the total destruction such a
conflict would involve.
Now the utter helplessness of the
UN has become obvious to all. Its lack
of unity, its inability to solve even the
smaller international problems, its
lack of authority over its own members, has reduced it to a vacuity, a
noble facade of impotence. In a very
special way it fulfills the word of the
Lord, "On earth nations will stand
helpless, not knowing which way to
turn from the roar and surge of the
sea" (Luke 21:25, N.E.B.).
There are other signs equally ominous and equally convincing. The
book of Revelation clearly suggests
that the freedom that millions enjoy
today will not endure. By one means
and another it will be eroded, until at
last tyranny will return, with restrictions mounting to the place where at
last no one will be able to buy or sell
unless he has a certain mark or number upon him. We are rapidly racing
toward this time.
Already it has been suggested that
every child born in the United States
should be given a number that he will
carry all his life, for income tax, Social Security, and other purposes.
Congress is also considering setting
up a national data center, which will
contain detailed information about
every citizen. This means that George
Orwell's 1984 is not as far-fetched as
some might think. It could even come
upon us ahead of time. The lamblike
creature of Revelation is getting ready
to speak like a dragon.
End of Resources
Said Jesus, "Nation shall rise against
nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be
in divers places, and famines, and pestilences" (Luke 21:10, 11). We have
tended to overlook the famines and
pestilences. They have seemed impossible in view of our overflowing supermarkets. But the fact is that the world
has almost reached the end of its resources.
Not long ago Ralph Bunche, United
Nations Undersecretary for Political
Affairs, told the Commonwealth Club
at San Francisco: "We are moving toward a situation where there will be
more life on the planet than it can
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A Plea for Loved Ones
•
By ALMA L. CASE•
0 God, our hearts are grieving tonight
•For dear ones who've gone astray,
Confused, deceived by the wily foe
And lured from the upward way.
Oh, what can be done for these precious ones
To break the enemy's spell
•
And. show them the pitying love of Christ
More wond'rous than words can tell?
Perchance our faulty lives have binned
The light of the Saviour's love.
Perchance we're to blame that they forget
The beautiful home above.
Forgive, we pray, and thoroughly cleanse
And fit us, every one,
That 'we may help them by life or by death,
0 God, may Thy will be done.
possibly sustain. With an annual population growth of 2 per cent the world
will have more than 8.7 billion people
in the year 2000—just 32 years from
now. . . . People, governments, and
the United Nations are not yet alerted
to the magnitude of the danger. . . .
There is very little time left."
One of the most significant facts of
our day is that the world is running
out of living space and of food to feed
its rapidly growing population. Raymond H. Ewell is reported to have predicted that the worst famine in history
is at hand and that more than a billion persons in Africa, Asia, and South
America face starvation. He also has
predicted serious famines in China,
India, and Pakistan by the 1970's, extending ultimately to other nations.
Famine will dwarf all other problems
we face and will be "the most colossal
catastrophe ever to befall mankind."
(See John Nuveen, "The Facts of
Life," in The Christian Century, Aug.
10, 1966, p. 984.)
Last and greatest of all the signs is
the arrival on the world scene of God's
remnant people in this hour of consummation. Marvelously they appeared at the right moment in history.
Miraculously they have spread to every
continent and island. Never minimize
the origin, the purpose, the potential,
the destiny, of this great Second Advent Movement. Providentially and
unmistakably it is now being thrust
into the forefront of the religious
world as the last great champion of the
Christian faith and of those basic principles of righteousness and truth which
mankind has despised and discarded.
With wondrous converting power it
moves triumphantly into every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people, bearing
the name of God, the honor of God,
the mercy of God, to a godless and
decadent generation.
"Prepare to Meet Thy God"
Swiftly, by printed page, by radio,
TV, and Telstar—in a thousand
tongues—its message is reaching into
every home on earth, pleading with
every soul, "Prepare to meet thy God!"
This is the dramatic climax Jesus envisioned when He said that the good
news of His kingdom would be
preached in all the world as a witness
unto all nations and "then shall the
end come."
This is where we are in history. The
end of time is upon us.
Looking ahead there is one ray of
light, one glorious hope—the return
in glory and majesty of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ. This is the hope
that will carry us through the crisis
before us. And it is this hope which,
above all else, we should be giving to
mankind today.
A hope such as this and a task such
as this are the supreme reasons for our
existence as Seventh-day Adventists—
to proclaim not only the evidences of
the end but the certain hope of a new
beginning, the coming of that glorious
day when all suffering, sickness, and
misery shall be over, and man shall
not make war any more.
In this sublime moment of history
let us rededicate ourselves to this
thrilling task, urging all men, by our
fervent words and noble lives, "Fear
God, and give glory to him; for the
hour of his judgment is come."
7
A grocery store employee writes a firsthand report of
What Meat Buyers
Should Know*
By ADELINE THOMAS
I
HAVE worked in more than 20
grocery stores in one of America's
largest cities during the past 15
years. (Chain stores make it a practice to shift their girls from store to
store.) All of the meat departments
are operated about alike. I know all
the practices used by these stores to
market their products.
When hams are first delivered, they
are weighed and put in display counters. After a month or so, flecks of
mold appear on them. This mold
doesn't harm smoked meats, but the
hams are put in deep sinks and given
a hot-water bath. The mold is
scrubbed off with a brush. Often the
hams are left in this hot water for a
good share of the day while employees are tending to more urgent work.
The water cools, and grease floats on
the top. If there is blood from cutting
liver, or ice from chickens—even
scrub water—it is dumped in the sink
on top of the ham.
Eventually the ham is removed
from this filthy liquid, and wiped off.
Then it is wrapped, weighed, and put
back in the counter for sale. The ham
stays there until someone buys it or
mold appears again. If it gets moldy
it is given the water treatment again.
A week later, if still unsold, the ham
is ground up with a little pork that is
too spoiled to sell any other way. Hot
spices and a dry barbecue powder
are added and mixed with it.
This mixture is formed into a loaf
and covered heavily with the barbecue powder to conceal the green color
and the odor. Then a slice of pineapple and a cherry are laid on the top.
This loaf is then wrapped and priced
at about 69 cents a pound. Likely it
will be given a fancy name like, "Ed's
De Luxe Ham Loaf." Perhaps it also
will be given a sticker saying, "Oven
Ready."
[. This article was written and submitted to the
REVIEW by a Lutheran unacquainted with Adventist
dietary teachings and practices. Part of it has no
relevance to our readers, as all will recognize. We
publish it to strengthen the convictions of those who
have adopted a nonflesh diet, and to acquaint others
with dangers involved in meat purchases and preparation. See also editorial on page 13.—EmTons.]
8
Any customer who sees spare ribs,
pork steaks, chops, or any meat coated
with barbecue powder, and perhaps
labeled, "Delicious for Barbecue,"
will do well to leave it alone. The
only reason barbecue powder is put
on this meat is that the color, odor,
and taste of it need to be disguised.
In some stores whole fryers are sold
in two kinds of plastic bags. One bag
is plain with nothing on it but the
price tag. The other is brightly colored. On it is printed, "The chicken
in this bag was scientifically fed, bred,
and housed to give you more tender
meat per pound." The chicken in the
colored bag is priced from five to ten
cents higher than the one in the plain
bag.
In the same counter may be cut-up
fryers. Some are in plain wrappers
and some in colored ones, with the
same advertisement as on the whole
fryers.
Chickens Are Alike
How are these chickens selected to
be wrapped and priced? The butcher
brings about four to six cases of
chickens from the cooler and dumps
them all together in the big deep
sinks. A clerk then takes a stack of
plastic bags and places the chickens
in them, one at a time. She ties each
bag shut with green paper-covered
wires. When she decides she has
enough chickens in the plain bags,
she takes a stack of colored bags and
fills them. The chickens are all alike
and have the same grade.
The cut-up chickens are selected
and prepared in the same way. We
call the higher-priced chickens "sucker
chicks." Customers often tell us that
the "sucker chicks" are much better
than the other ones. Imagination
plays a large role in the taste buds of
some people. (I understand that the
use of colored wrappings for chickens
is outlawed in some States. Not all the
stores I've worked for used this colored paper either, but it's a good
thing to know about.)
When the whole chickens don't sell
fast, they are taken from the counter,
after lying there three or four days,
and made into cut-up chickens, split
broilers, chicken parts, or whatever is
selling faster. Then they're put back
in the counter. Sometimes the prices
are higher this way because cut-up
chicken and parts are more expensive.
At times, chicken and spare ribs
become so spoiled that they just can't
be sold in the counter. So they're put
in cold, heavily salted water. They're
left there to soak for several hours
and then are rinsed off. The salt water
draws the smell out of them. Then
the chickens are put on spits, covered
with barbecue powder and cooked in
the rotisserie oven. Usually someone
will buy the barbecued chicken or
ribs for a quick supper. After it's
cooked and covered with spicy powder
it's impossible to tell by taste that the
meat is spoiled. I have never seen
a fresh, wholesome piece of meat
cooked in one of these rotisserie
ovens.
Not Fresh
Now, a word about hot dogs. No
one should try to save money by buying the bulk hot dogs that have been
wrapped in red paper and put in a
container like the other fresh meats
are put in. Sometimes they will carry
a bright yellow or red sticker, saying,
"Packed Fresh in This Store Daily."
They may be packed in fresh containers and have fresh paper and advertisements on them, but except in rare
cases the hot clogs are not fresh.
When name-brand hot dogs get
slimy and sticky with age, they're
taken out of the original wrappers,
washed in hot water, and rewrapped
in different containers. The price is
usually 49 or 59 cents a pound, or less,
depending how eager the store is to
sell them. The smoked sausage,
knockwurst, polish sausage, ring
bologna, slab bacon, bacon squares,
and cottage butts all get the hot-water
bath when they get moldy and sticky.
Perhaps the colored paper, here
again, is a local custom, but whenever
a customer sees such products rewrapped without a brand name on
them, it is wise to leave them there.
At times you may see a product
called "homemade sausage." What
is this? The meat cutters take pork
that is almost too spoiled to sell, grind
it, add plenty of spices and water,
mix it up, and call it sausage. Naturally, the more spoiled it is, the more
spices they add to it, and the lower
the price will be.
Another thing that sometimes is
featured is "Mock Chicken Legs,"
"City Chicken Legs," or "Lamb Patties." Whatever they are called they
look about the same. They are ground
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meat, rolled in corn-flake crumbs or
corn meal, with a wooden stick in
them for a handle. Sometimes they
are made into patties. They can be
veal, pork, lamb, or a combination of
meats—actually, whatever the butcher
wants to sell quickly.
Seller's Interest
Beef, like other meats, is marketed
with the seller, not the consumer, in
mind. For example, the only difference between ground round and
ground chuck is the price. The meat
is all ground in one big grinder at the
same time. First, the butcher takes
one container in such a way as to
catch the meat in it with a little hole
in the center. We put a sprig of parsley in the hole to decorate it. This is
ground round. When he has enough
to last half a day, he gets a differentshaped container and puts the
"ground chuck" in it. He takes the
meat out of the grinder so it will look
different from "ground round."
Many people say there is a big difference in the taste of ground round
and ground chuck. This is amazing,
for I have yet to work in a store where
they are prepared separately. There
is, however, a big difference in the
regular hamburger and the ground
round or chuck. Ground meat, sometimes called "chopped sirloin," is the
same as ground round, ground chuck,
extra lean, or sirloin patties. The
usual price is about $1.09.
A favorite sales device of some
stores involves frozen-meat orders.
When a customer orders steaks to be
done in freezer paper, the butcher
picks the old ones out of the counter,
takes them out of their containers,
and puts them in freezer paper. Once
they're frozen, no one can tell if they
were fresh or were ready for the bone
barrel.
Meat Inspection
Many of my readers will find this
article hard, if not impossible, to believe. They'll say, "What about meat
inspectors? What about the States
where it's mandatory that the cutting
rooms be open to the buying public?
What about the places where the
wrapping is done only a few feet from
the ultimate customer?"
Even open-to-inspection cutting
rooms wouldn't keep stores from selling doctored-up or spoiled meat. Remember, the employees work several
hours before the store opens. When
the customer sees the meat being
wrapped, he doesn't walk behind the
counter and smell the ham loaf, or
feel the pork or chicken. Further, few
would know why chickens or spare
ribs were soaking in cold water.
Of course the meat is inspected before it's released to the store for sale,
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it by throwing meat away in a bone
barrel. He finds every way of selling
it that he can, even if he wouldn't
take it to his family. I've seen butchers put pork loin roasts in the counter
for sale after removing worms a quarter of an inch long in them. The girls
who cleaned and wrapped the roasts
handled them with rubber gloves so
they wouldn't have to touch them
with their bare hands. But they still
put them in the counter for sale!
I'm not trying to turn the population into vegetarians. I'm just trying
to ease my conscience by telling others
what to look out for. Customers have
a right to know what they're buying.
but the inspector doesn't follow it until it appears on someone's table.
If something is reported to the
health department, they'll investigate
it. Usually, when a health officer
walks in, he sees to it that all health
cards are up to date, that the help
have hair properly covered, and that
the room is fairly clean. He checks
carefully to see that no one is smoking in the preparation room. Now
and then he'll look inside the saw or
cuber to see that they're clean. I've
never seen a health officer take any
test on the meat.
A meat manager has to look out
for his gross profit, and he can't get
The art of livi
One of the most difON
ficult people to cope
SELFDEPRECIATION with, as far as I'm
concerned, is the person who continually minimizes himself.
Almost the moment you contact a person
of this kind, he launches into a campaign
of self-depreciation. No matter what subject you hopefully introduce, thinking to
distract him, you'll be the unwilling listener to torrents of self-hatred—or, if
that's too strong a word, torrents of selfdislike.
"I'm just not efficient like all the rest
of my friends."
"I can't everseem to get anything
done . . ."
"I always say stupid things, and make a
fool of myself . . ."
"I don't know why anyone bothers with
me anyhow . . ."
"I'm just a mess . . ."
It's perfectly natural, I think, for every
human being occasionally to have strong
feelings of dissatisfaction with himself
and with his performance in life's arena.
The larger one's vision the stronger his
dissatisfaction, because ahead of him and
quite unattainably above him he sees the
elusive form of the ideal—in being and
in action. And this is good. I've always
agreed with Robert Browning that "man's
reach should exceed his grasp." I think,
though, that Browning did not have in
mind that the reachers and the graspers
should loudly bewail their ineptitude.
From the purely practical standpoint
I should like to suggest that the shortcomings of others are obvious enough
without their being pointed out by the
shortcomer. Fortunately, though, most
people aren't looking for flaws in others,
nor do they dwell on them; they're willing, even eager, to emulate the sundial in
its positive approach to living. After all,
people don't base their regard for others
on the idea that they must be perfect or
it's "no sale"! Sometimes people are loved
as much (or more!) for their weaknesses
as for their strengths.
If, however, self-abasers are uncommonly vociferous, their listeners are
placed in the miserable position of having
to reassure them—and reassure them:
"Oh, but you are!" "Oh, but you aren't!"
—depending upon the turn which the selfdepreciation has taken. It's so physically
wearying, to say the least.
Before I learned a few bruising lessons,
I sometimes used to transfer from reassurance to brisk suggestions as to how the
various deficiencies might be summarily
remedied, or, at least, alleviated. Always
an activist, I saw what I thought was my
clear duty, my clear assignment. Alas for
my misguided efforts; people who are
dedicated to running themselves down
aren't about to be deprived of this doubtful pleasure. They don't want solutions;
they want to wallow in the warm comfort
of being avowedly inferior. It's a rather
pleasant gambit for those who like it—
at least they're spared having to put forth
a positive effort to improve!
A corollary to the whole problem is, I
think, the terrible self-absorption in
which these people are involved. They're
so busy thinking about themselves and
their shortcomings and their reactions and
their inabilities that they never have the
exhilaration of throwing themselves into
"the furrow of the world's need."
People who constantly minimize themselves really ought to give some serious
thought to this area of the art of living.
When the apocryphal Dutch boy was
holding his finger in the dike, it's a sure
thing he had bigger problems than
whether he was as efficient as another
boy, or whether his finger was as wellshaped! Personally, I'm for a minimum
of self-minimization.
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O THIS is being a missionary!
my thoughts exploded as I
fiercely squirted insecticide.
My three-year-old had awakened
that morning with blotchy bites over
her body. "Mosquitoes," I cried out,
eying the unscreened windows. But a
little later I discovered the servant
crushing a mysterious something between her fingers as she made the children's beds. So I examined the mattresses and what my horrified eyes
identified bounced me to the spray
can, determined to attack and destroy. Bedbugs!
When that job was done, I entered
the kitchen. Kitchen? I would prefer
never to enter that narrow, cupboardless room with an open drain. But because I serve fifty or so meals a month
to visitors (travelers, missionaries,
friends) as well as the daily nourishment for a family of six, well, I have
to go in, even though there is only
a packing-case top to work on. If I
am ever tempted to be discontented or
pine for the sparkling new kitchen 1
left in the homeland, I need only to
glance out the window. (The union
has voted recently to renovate the
kitchen.)
When I hung up the drapes that I
had laundered the previous day, my
daughter gasped, "They've shrunk!"
I remembered I had been cautioned,
"The available cloth usually shrinks."
So now I shrugged nonchalantly.
"They don't look too bad. Anyway, it
won't be long till I have to wash them
again. You know how the dirt from
the street blows in. No sense getting
excited about it."
Bedbugs and Rats
Only little things such as bedbugs
could do that to me. Or the cockroaches, big ones, or maybe the rats
that scuttle in; or perhaps the alley
cats, half crazed with hunger, that slip
in between the bars of the kitchen
window to steal what food they can
find.
Nine o'clock. Time to teach my
three school-age children and at the
same time keep three-year-old Miss
Busybody occupied. When I trained
as a teacher little did I know that the
Lord was preparing me one day to
teach my own family in a strange
land. Most days our school goes
smoothly and we have fun, but sometimes—well, my brain is doing gymnastics as I go from measuring angles
10
By MARYE TRIM
with the seventh-grader to dictation
with the third-grader, and then stop
to help first-grader find the pencil to
which Miss Three has helped herself.
My husband works with the people,
leading them to live and work for
Jesus. Someday, maybe sooner than we
realize, the cause of Christ in this
country will be led by trained, national witnesses. So I feel that my minister-husband is doing the work of a
real missionary.
But what do I contribute? The
thought is an active volcano in my
mind—busy, busy, busy. Yet how infinitesimal my accomplishments
against the task! Some branch Sabbath
school teaching and Dorcas work;
some literature given away and gospel
songs sung; meals prepared, school
taught, washing done—all in a day's
work. But as I see the multitudes that
daily pass along our street, I sadly
: "The husband in, the open missionary: field may receive, the honors of
men, while the home toiler may receiVe
no earthly credit for her labor. But if:
she works for the best interest of her
family, seeking to fashion their characters after the divine Model, the recording angel writes her name as one
of the greatest missionaries in the:
world.!'—Testiniony. Treasures, vol: 2,.
p. 236
wonder just how much day is left.
There are many items on our blessings account: travel, adventure, assurance of God's leading, and everyday blessings such as simple food
and water when there is famine all
about. (Our wheat, sugar, and rice
are rationed. We cannot buy white
flour.) There is also electricity that
keeps the refrigerator going; the smile
from a puny child when I give her a
clean, crisp dress; a glimpse of green
leaves. Truly, we are millionaires!
On the footpath opposite live a
snowy-haired man, his wizened wife,
four children, their black dog with a
tail like a question mark, and two
dusty hens. Home to this family is a
tiny crude shelter of sacking and plastic that leans against the wall of a
wealthy man's house. The pavement
and drain are their bathroom and
kitchen. This is what I see from my
kitchen window.
The father, squatting on the street
corner, sells homemade sweets and
kites for a living. I have heard that he
was a leper. Perhaps so. Lepers, blind
and limbless, emaciated sufferers from
tuberculosis are as plentiful as shells
along our seashore.
On the second corner from our mission compound lives a mentally disturbed woman in the middle of a
traffic island, surrounded by her rags
and rubbish. On the corner beyond
her, red-eyed and raving, is a man my
children call the "ek anna man" because he is always demanding ek anna
("one penny"). 0 for the shadow of
the Man of Nazareth to fall on such
as these!
During school the door buzzer
sounds frequently. That's all in a
day's work. First comes Dorothy to
select and practice a solo for the Sunday night evangelistic service. Her
clear soprano voice wafts into the
street as I play, "My heavenly Father
watches over me."
Abraham, our song leader and Sabbath school superintendent, hears the
beautiful melody and comes in to listen. "Would you help me with some
songs too?" he asks.
"Sure," I smile. Just another phase
of the program. I could not do it at
all unless I knew that my plea at dawn
was answered. (I hope that someone
in the homeland is praying for missionary wives too.)
I have discovered it is best not to
expect to keep a rigid routine. Each
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day and night is too different for that.
Instead, I try to take each project in
order of importance or urgency: write
letter to mother, sew pajamas, grind
wheat for bread, bake granola.
But those bedbugs and lizards that
share the apartment with us, and the
perpetual squalor and ripe odor so
close to our windows! Is this what
goes with being a missionary? Why
did no one tell us before we came?
Why did not someone warn us that
when it is not hot and humid, it is
more humid and hotter? What about
prickly heat? What about hookworm
and other tropical diseases? What
about living in an apartment building with no playground for our four
children? Nobody told us.
Family Togetherness
But neither were we told that our
family togetherness would grow and
enrich because as a family we are envoys for the King of kings. Neither did
we know that the children's faith
would root deeply and strongly; nor
that they would develop dependability as a result of their parents' being
occupied with other people's needs.
Sabbath afternoons the children
run their own branch Sabbath school
with a dozen children present. At
church they learn to sit quietly while
mother is at the organ and daddy is
preaching.
"I'm going to be a Sabbath school
teacher when I grow up," declares our
eight-year-old as she traces and cuts
out children of the world to add to
her collection of teaching aids.
"I'd like to be a preacher best of
all," affirms the boy.
Miss Three chirps, "I want to be
a missionary 'nurch.' " Cornflowerblue eyes roll in emphasis.
It is the mission field that has
opened their eyes and hearts to the
need of dedication.
It is night now—a purple-black
tropical night studded with stars.
Crowds of people still tread the street,
but my children are sleeping. A beam
of light from the rich man's house
opposite lingers on their freshly
scrubbed cheeks. Jenny, the eldest,
smiles as she dreams of the dainty doll
dress she sewed today—or perhaps she
is dreaming of the boarding school a
thousand miles away that she may attend next year. The other three, with
teddy bears, are relaxed after story
and prayers.
Outside my window there are the
wail of a naked child who sleeps on
the pavement, the echo of a clanging
prayer gong in a shrine, and the droning of prayers to Allah. Yes, there is
much work to do—much work, while
it is day.
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
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MEN
THE MACHINE Two features of our
IS THE THING age tend to rob us of
our humanity, and
the male more than the female is susceptible to their influence.
The first feature is, paradoxically, closeness. A hundred years ago on the farm,
with houses a long trudge between, neighbors knew each other; neighborliness was
a dimension of living rather than a definition of loss. In this day of population
explosion (the specter of being squeezed
to death is now sharing top billing with
the fear of being blown apart), of vast
urban complexes filled with too-close
apartments with too-thin walls, our very
proximity cultivates a remoteness, an impersonalized relationship divested of concern and devoid of compassion.
The second feature is a subtle materialism based on science. Charles Lindbergh, once a worshiper in the shrine of
science, draws the picture: "Living in
rented apartments, jamming roads and
subways, punching time clocks, sitting
paunchily at desks, cramming the minds
of his children with technical knowledge,
modern man sacrifices health of body and
freedom of spirit to the scientific idol of
his time. On its altar go the smell of
earth, the feel of wind and weather, vision
of fields and rivers, warmth of friendship,
understanding of children, even the contemplation of God; all these are given
over to a metallic intellectual existence."
WOMEN IN THE NEWS
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By SHIRLEY BURTON
Men should be particularly alert to
these influences, for the male more than
the female is susceptible to dehumanization. Psychologists and sociologists agree
that the greatest single distinction between male and female lies in this: that
woman's number one concern throughout
her existence is with people and life,
while man's chief preoccupation is with
objects. "Understand this fact," writes
Lester David, "and a lot of things start
becoming very clear. It explains, for example, why you are entranced by the latest lawn-mowing gadget, while she throws
it a cursory look and concentrates on her
flowers. The machine is the thing, but the
flowers live."
In more than one sense, the machine is
the thing. From the time a little boy first
sees his father behind the wheel of a
two-ton, two-tone, automatic-gadgeted,
chromed-up sublimator, the machine is
the thing. The point is not that interest
in, and knowledge of, the workings of an
internal combustion engine—or lawn
mower or stereo or electric can opener—
are undesirable, but rather that we must
resist the subtle materialism and urbanization of our day. Awareness of our masculine tendency to give objects priority
over beings is vital, for we are to cooperate with Christ in demonstrating
Heaven's concern for even one human
soul.
The next time your wife suggests that
you concern yourself with the spiritual
barometer of a neighbor, concede to the
gentle sex another trait worthy of emulation and cultivation—concern with people
and life. Then put the lawn mower back
together and try mending lonely hearts.
It's the way of discipleship.
As a climax to the educational hour at
the Gladstone, Oregon, camp meeting, the
General Conference Educational Department awarded Miss Enid Sparks a bronze
medallion struck especially for her in recognition of her more than 50 years of
teaching.
Veteran teacher of the Northwest, Miss
Sparks retired at Longview, Washington,
in her fiftieth year of teaching, because of
a broken hip. However, within two years
she was back in service, teaching first- and
second-graders at Tillamook, Oregon,
from her wheel chair.
Miss Sparks is the fourth church school
teacher in the denomination's 95-year history of church schools to merit the award.
The award was featured on Portland
television. More than a hundred former
students gathered around her chair following the presentation. Her children's
stories appeared from time to time in Our
Little Friend, the REVIEW (Stories for
the Younger Set), and secular magazines.
C. B. Hirsch, secretary of the General
Conference Department of Education
(right), made the presentation, assisted by
H. R. Nelson (left), secretary, Oregon Conference education department, and T. W.
Walters (center), secretary, North Pacific
Union education department.
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Two Capable Nurses
By LOIS C. RANDOLPH
WHEN a mother takes care of two sick
boys, that does not seem unusual. But
when two strong sons take care of a sick
mother for years, that is unusual. Two
Colorado boys, whose parents were both
Battle Creek nurses, had that privilege.
Their wonderful mother suffered a stroke
when Haskell was eight and Cecil eleven
years old.
When the father realized that mother
could no longer act her part as the chief
homemaker, he called his two sons together for a man-to-man conference.
"Loving mother as we do, we want her at
home with us so that we can take good
care of her. Besides, we don't have the
money needed to keep her in a hospital."
Stunned, the boys asked, "You mean
that mother can no longer cook, wash,
iron, and clean the house?"
"Boys, that's just what I mean. Let's
be thankful it is her walking and not her
speech that is affected."
Haskell added, "How can Cecil and I
care for mother when we have to go to
school?"
"That's the problem God will help us
solve," replied father. "Perhaps you could
take turns attending school, and study at
home on the days when you care for
mother." Father's courage filled the boys
with hope.
Soon father put on his coat and hat.
"Where are you going?" the boys wanted
to know.
"I'll tell you when I get back." And
dad was gone.
An hour later their father returned,
smiling as if he had just heard good news.
"I have had a visit with your school principal. He is willing to cooperate. He assures me that the teachers will do the
same. If you boys can attend school three
days a week, he believes you can make
your grade. For the two days a week you
are absent, you can hand in written work.
I'm glad you are good students."
Four years they worked this plan. Each
boy attended school three days a week
and stayed home two days. On the day
when they were both in school mother
would either stay with one of the neighbors or someone would come in to care
for her in the home.
Under the loving care of her three
"men" mother thrived. She could walk a
little with help from one of them. Sometimes she could assist with some easy
task, such as peeling potatoes or shelling
peas. On Sunday the three washed,
ironed, and cleaned the house thoroughly, singing as they worked. That was
the only day besides Sabbath when father did not work as a salesman. The
family had to have a steady income to
meet expenses. Often daddy would say,
"Who has more wonderful sons than
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mother and I? Suppose we had had no
children to help us out in this trouble."
Willingly the teachers helped the boys
with what they missed by their "regular"
absences. Faithful in their assignments,
they made good grades the entire four
years on the alternate-day attendance
plan.
Cecil still recalls some of the amusing
experiences in their housekeeping ventures. One clay when he had all his lessons prepared, he decided to surprise his
father and brother with homemade bread
for supper. "Mother, tell me what all goes
into bread?"
"Flour, yeast, water, salt, oil, and some
sweetening—sugar, molasses, or honey,"
she told the new baker, and gave him the
proper proportions of each.
Cecil put them in, and kneaded the
dough thoroughly. After two or three
hours it had not doubled in size as he expected, but he decided that the bread
would probably rise in the oven and be
all right.
Imagine his disappointment when he
took out loaves as hard as rocks and no
larger than they had been at first. Father
asked, "Did you put in everything that
mother mentioned? For instance, the
yeast?"
"That's my whole trouble. I forgot the
yeast."
"Never mind, son. We can cut up
these hard loaves, toast the slices thor-
oughly, arid then grind them. We'll have
something like granola. From Battle
Creek I remember how that was made."
After that Cecil made delicious bread
each week—always with yeast.
Haskell too learned by the trial-and-error method when he washed mother's red
flannel petticoat with the white tablecloth
until the latter had a color never seen
before. Before long the boys' housekeeping was the marvel of the neighbors. How
they admired the boys for helping their
parents out in such a difficult situation.
Once the church people decided to surprise Cecil on his birthday. Haskell had
been sworn to secrecy. But the Sunday
they were coming he had to work on a
new job. Before leaving, he whispered,
"I hate to tell you, but tonight there is to
be a surprise party for you here. Maybe
you will want to straighten up the house
arid be ready. Act surprised anyway. You
won't know who or how many are coming."
At seven the young people of the
church arrived, loaded with good things
to eat. In order to appear as surprised as
possible Cecil was still wearing his work
clothes.
Later in life, as foreman on the eightmile tunnel project near Loveland, Colorado, Haskell was rated an outstanding
worker. Cecil, as my husband for thirty
years, has lightened my burdens many
times with his housekeeping skills.
Lamentations of a Church Hymnal
By CLIFTON CAL.KINS
I am a Church Hymnal and have been in service in a Seventh-day Adventist
church for about live years. When I came here from the Book and Bible House I was
attractive and felt that I could proudly represent the truth the church leaches. But
you should see me now!
My end sheets are cohered with the scribbling of children whose thoughtless parents
have allowed them to use me for a paper rest. I have been dropped so many times that
my corners are crushed. The book well in which I am kept is not padded, and my
edges and (milers are worn through by my being dropped week alter week onto the
hard bottom. Sereral lists of numbers hate been written on my end sheets by song
leaders. Many of my page corners are turned back as bookmarks. The inside of my
back cover has been spoiled by Scotch tape used to insert a loose-leaf poem. On several
of my pages appear witty sayings of young people.
I know I am a disgrace to the cause I represent. My only hope now is that someday
my church will realize this and send me to a bindery where I can have my (ovens
renewed, my end sheets replaced, my pages mended and cleaned. I hope that once
again I can be a respectable hymnbook and assist in attracting people to the truth,
rather than in driving them from it as I feel I am now doing.
I would like to make some suggestions, which, if followed, will double my life
and keep me attractive when I come back from the bindery.
1. Do not let small children handle me under any circumstances.
2. Be SUIT the bottoms of book wells into which I will be placed arc padded.
3. Never make a list of songs to be used in song service on my end sheets.
4. Never turn the leaves back to mark a hymn to be used later.
5. Do not paste a poem or song for a special meeting On my covers or fly leaves.
6. Do not mend torn pages with heavy Scotch tape. Use a proper light transparent
tape made f o r that purpose.
7. Do not take your Chinch Hymnal out on singing bands.
8. Teach young people to respect the Chinch Hymnal so they will never maliciously
write in it.
9. When you finish using a hymnal, place it in the book well right side tip with
the title facing you.
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ADVENTIST YOUTHTODAY'S "THREE HEBREWS"
THOMAS DUNBEBIN, ARTIST
"We will not serve thy gods, nor worship the
golden image which thou hest set up" (Dan. 3:18).
approximately 100 years has proclaimed a health message. It has set forth a positive program with the aim
of helping its members enjoy optimum health. It has
warned against the use of alcohol, tobacco, and stimulants. It has advocated a balanced program of rest and
recreation. It has encouraged adoption of a nonflesh diet
wherever a wide choice of wholesome food is available.
This program has been a great blessing. Doubtless it
has spared Adventists considerable disease and suffering.
It also has contributed to a greater life expectancy.
Increasingly these teachings have been vindicated by
demonstration. Certainly this is true in the matter of
smoking. Now supporting evidence is coming, to a certain extent, in the area of diet.
At the turn of the century Ellen G. White wrote:
"Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it
will not be long until animal food will be discarded by
many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods that are
healthful and life-sustaining are to be prepared, so that
men and women will not need to eat meat."—Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 124.
Again she wrote, "I am instructed to say that if ever
meat eating were safe, it is not safe now."—Counsels on
Diet and Foods, p. 384.
Disease among animals prevails everywhere, and even if
meat is inspected carefully, one can hardly be sure that
he is purchasing the flesh of healthy animals. "The animal creation is diseased, and it is difficult to determine
the amount of disease in the human family that is the
result of meat eating. We read constantly in the daily
papers about the inspection of meat. Butcher shops are
continually being cleaned out; the meat being sold is condemned as unfit for use."—Ibid., p. 413.
Sounds Up to Date
"EAT . . . TO THE GLORY OF GOD"
Seventh-day Adventists believe that Christianity is not
merely a philosophy; it is a way of lite. The teachings of
Christ are relevant not merely on the Sabbath but on
every day of the week. They are not merely to guide the
Christian in making moral judgments, but are to influence all his relationships with both God and man. They
even help him decide what he shall eat and drink.
Relationship of Mind and Body
This broad concept is rooted in a holistic philosophy
of man. The Christian is not merely a mind, he is a
body. The teachings of the gospel are to affect not merely
the mind but also the body. The body and the mind are
so closely interrelated that the interests of the two are essentially one. What affects the mind affects the body,
and vice versa.
This all-embracing, demanding concept of the Christian life is well set forth by the apostle Paul when he says,
"Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy
Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye
are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which
are God's" (1 Cor. 6:19, 20). "Whether therefore ye eat,
or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God"
(chap. 10:31).
In line with this philosophy the Adventist Church for
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The latter statement was written seventy years ago, yet
it sounds as up to date as today's newspapers and magazines. The December 4, 1967, issue of Newsweek contained the following report: "Some of the dirtiest stories
in government files concern the nation's approximately
15,000 intrastate meat plants. Federal inspection reports
reek with tales of filthy premises, unclean equipment
and worse. In Brooklyn, an inspector found wooden debris in the salted meat of a kosher processor. In Georgia,
workers in a fly-ridden plant were slicing pork bellies on
meat blocks encrusted with blackish-green mold and accretions of ancient blood. In Omaha, a processor was curing pork jowls in tubs tainted with half-inch corrosion
before sending the food to market in packages labeled:
`Sausage products with that old world taste.' In the annals of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, tales like
this have been commonplace for years."
A staff writer, in the Washington Evening Star of August 15, 1967, documented atrocious conditions in a number of slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants in Maryland, Virginia, and other States. One inspector found
"employes smoking cigarettes while working directly over
exposed products . . . observed cigarette ashes fall into
meat going into grinder." One government inspector
"observed two beef livers that had small abscesses on
them, also one abscessed and one parasitic pork liver."
This was in a Virginia meat plant.
A report on a Colorado meat-packing firm said: "Meat
was being broken on an open dock by a dirt road in 95
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degree weather. There were flies on the meat and there
was no attempt to keep flies out of the plant. Drums of
bone and meat scrap were covered with maggots. I picked
up a used meat box and a large cockroach flew right into
my face."
Protests and denials have come from some States,
charging that reports are false and have been fabricated.
But in the main, inspectors' testimony seems well documented.
The November 20, 1967, National Observer reported
on testimony furnished to Capitol Hill legislators working on a meat inspection law. Among the items reported:
"Garbage from a California tuberculosis sanitarium being sold as feed to pigs. A North Carolina packing house
where workers told of 'snuff spit on the floor, sausage
meat fallen on the same floor, which was then picked up
and shoved into the stuffier.' Packing houses in an unnamed state, which were 'covered with mire, grease, and
rotting meat. Rats, roaches, and flies abounded. Filth,
vermin, and even parts of rats became part of products
to be consumed by human beings.' "
According to the news report, "A Senate Agriculture
subcommittee learned that these examples were not extreme and isolated excesses, but part of a broad evidence
of a lack of strong regulations, neglect of enforcement
of existing regulations, and general abuse of meat-inspection laws." Minnesota Senator Walter F. Mondale
"warned that the housewife cannot be sure of buying
clean meat even when she shops at major supermarket
chains."
Not Just Filthy Conditions
Filthy conditions of this kind are only part of the hazard faced by meat buyers. Less than three years ago a
meat producer in New York precipitated a scandal when
it was discovered that "meat found in the company's
plant . . . came from crippled and diseased cattle, from
horses, and from cattle that had died instead of being
slaughtered." The company was indicted on charges of
conspiring to use more than 120 tons of meat unfit for
human consumption in sausages, frankfurters, and salamis.
The same Chicago newspaper that reported the New
York scandal carried a story headlined, "Illegal Meat
Confiscated by Oak Park Authorities." The meat found
in a butcher shop of this Chicago suburb contained sodium sulphite, an illegal preservative known as "dynamite" in the meat industry. Sulphite, according to the
chemists investigating the scandal, "is used to give the
meat an attractive red color and to eliminate odors of
decomposition."
The Associated Press reported a case in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, where, during a five-and-a-half-year period, two
meat firms had conspired to "unlawfully acquire, process and transport in uninspected vehicles meat carcasses,
or meat products of animals which had died of natural
or unnatural causes, including disease."
Inspection Laws
Conditions of this kind aroused such public indignation that during its recent session Congress passed a meat
inspection bill. On December 15, 1967, President Johnson signed the bill saying that he hoped it would force
dirty packing houses to "clean up or close down."
Whether this bill will accomplish its purpose is problematical, even doubtful. Twenty-nine States already have
meat inspection statutes, but some of the worst violations
have been found in these States. Eight States have no
meat inspection laws, and another 11 have only voluntary meat inspection regulations.
We have already pointed out that even if animals are
healthy when they are slaughtered, even if meat-packing
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processes are sanitary, the consumer cannot be sure that
the meat he buys is fresh. Why?
During recent hearings, Ralph Nader, self-appointed
advocate of the consumer, pointed out, "Seasoning agents,
preservatives, coverup doses of antibiotics and coloring
agents are put to work as profound cosmetics that effectively mask the true condition of the products. The meanest deception of all is thereby achieved—that of rendering inoperable the natural detection processes of human
beings: seeing, smelling, and tasting."
At the beginning of this editorial we pointed out that
"health reform" is a blessing. It has been given for our
benefit, that we may enjoy better health and thus return
glory to God. Surely the testimony that we have presented
from current news media provides massive support for
Sister White's warnings about the dangers of including
flesh foods as a part of one's diet.
But let us remember that Sister White's indictment of
meat is based not merely on the fact that flesh food may
be diseased or unsanitary. It is grounded in the fact that
"flesh foods are injurious to the physical well-being"
(Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 156). This phase we shall examine
next week.
K. 11-1. W.
THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES
AND THE CANON
A reader inquires, Why is the book of Ecclesiastes included in the canon of Scripture? He feels that the statements in the book sound more like the thoughts of a
worldling than those of a Christian. He mentions a certain minister expressing similar perplexity.
We are sure others share the perplexity of our reader.
The writer of Ecclesiastes expresses a mood throughout
much of the book that appears altogether too pessimistic.
At least we have been led to believe that a much happier
mood is expected of a devoted follower of the true God.
Listen to his cynicism: "Vanity of vanities, saith the
Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity" (Eccl. 1:2).
"I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;
and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit" (verse
14).
"Therefore I hated life; because the work that is
wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is
vanity and vexation of spirit" (chap. 2:17). "The day of
death [is better] than the day of one's birth" (chap. 7:1).
"My soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a
thousand have I found; but a woman among all those
have I not found" (verse 28).
What are we to make out of these sentiments? Are they
recorded for our guidance? Are the negative attitudes and
cynicisms so prevalent in the book set down as a pattern
for the Christian to emulate?
We think not. Why, then, are they included in the inspired revelations of God to men?
The secret unlocking our problem is in the following
statement: "By the spirit of inspiration the king recorded
for after generations the history of his wasted years with
their lessons of warning."—Prophets and Kings, p. 79.
Notice the phrase "history of his wasted years." This
history is what we have in the book of Ecclesiastes. The
book is a record of Solomon's attempt to find happiness
apart from God. But whatever he attempted turned to
frustration.
"I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee
with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this
also is vanity" (chap. 2:1).
"I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine . . . ;
and to lay hold on folly" (verse 3).
"I made me great works; I builded me houses; I
planted me vineyards:... I gathered . • . silver and gold.
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. . . Whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them.
. . . Then I looked on all the works that my hands had
wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do:
and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and
there was no profit under the sun" (verses 4-11).
While reviewing the history of his wasted life, Solomon shared with us his thoughts during the periods of
his apostasy and his adjustment. His perverted philosophies, therefore, while he was separated from God, are
portrayed in the book. But they must not be regarded as
divine guidance for us; they must be regarded as patterns
of thought to be shunned. They stand as a warning to
all who would pursue a similar course.
"The king ... wrote out for the benefit of after generations a record of his folly and repentance"—Ibid., p. 85.
But along with the record of his folly Solomon recorded
also "lessons of warning." These he interspersed throughout the book. Admittedly because of this mixture, it becomes difficult at times to know where the records of
fallacious thinking and unseemly acting end, and where
the warnings and counsels begin. It is obviously this
intermingling that perplexes our reader. We sympathize
with him, but believe that when the nature of the book
is understood and its purpose is discerned it rightly de-
SABBATH WORK
EDITORS: Re the editorial on the problem
of working in hospitals on Sabbath:
Many Seventh-day Adventists are working
in non-Adventist hospitals, and all feel they
are doing a good work. In the book The
Desire of Ages, page 207, we read: "The
law forbids secular labor on the rest day of
the Lord; the toil that gains a livelihood
must cease; no labor for worldly pleasure or
profit is lawful upon that clay; but as God
ceased His labor of creating, and rested upon
the Sabbath and blessed it, so man is to
leave the occupations of his daily life, and
devote those sacred hours to healthful rest,
to worship, and to holy deeds. The work of
Christ in healing the sick was in perfect accord with the law. It honored the Sabbath."
Christ did not do this for a livelihood, or
profit.
I have talked with many of our people
about this. Many of them have never asked
for Sabbath privileges, yet others asked for
the Sabbath, from sunset Friday to sunset
Saturday, and it was granted.
I feel our leaders should make some definite recommendation and urge our people
not to work Sabbath unless there is an
emergency.
MARGIE STEWART
Rye, New York
BIBLE TRANSLATION
EDITORS: The editorial "Bible Translation
Methods Examined" (November 30 REVIEW)
states principles that every Bible teacher
ought to know, particularly now when there
are so many new translations. I especially
appreciated it because for several weeks I
have been presenting a verse-by-verse study
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serves a place alongside the other books that constitute
the Old Testament canon.
The lessons are precisely those that modern materialistic-minded man needs. In his mad search for happiness
in the accumulation of wealth, comforts, and security he
will be no nearer achieving the desired goal than was
Solomon some three millenniums ago.
Our reader cautions against using texts from Ecclesiastes to prove points of doctrine. His caution is well placed.
Certainly we should not quote as the utterances of God
those sections in which Solomon sets forth his perverted
philosophies. This is an obvious principle that applies
to all Scripture, for in the Bible we have recorded not
only the messages of God's spokesmen, but those of false
prophets, apostate kings, and even the devil himself.
There is not the slightest implication that these messages
should be heeded simply because God saw fit to include
them in the Sacred Canon.
Our reader's observation that parts of the book of Job
are similar to Ecclesiastes is well taken. We need to be
careful lest we quote as messages and counsels from God
citations from the friends of Job of which God did not
approve, for God was not pleased with much of what
these comforters said.
D. F. N.
of the Epistles of Peter in the church here
and use the N.E.B. along with the K.J.V.
It was a timely reminder to have a care in
the use of the various versions.
In one of my studies there was a particular example of dynamic equivalence in 2
Peter 3:3, where the K.J.V. has "walking
after their own lusts" and the N.E.B. has
"live self-indulgent lives." Another example
that appeals to me is in Romans 1:17 where
the K.J.V. has "the righteousness of God"
and the N.E.B. has "God's way of righting
wrong."
I notice that J. B. Phillips in his book
The Ring of Truth, A Translator's Testimony, says that "any man who has sense as
well as faith is bound to conclude that it is
the truths which are inspired and not the
words which are merely the vehicles of
truth."—Page 15. The context of this passage needs to be read but the soundness of
his observation seems to be justified by the
dynamic equivalences I have quoted above.
R. BOLTON
Bath, England
WILL POWER AND GOD'S POWER
EDITORS: The article "Will Power" (January 11 REviEw) brought to my mind the
illustration of a portable radio. The portable
radio starts out its useful life with charged
batteries ready to give good performance. It
may render good performance for many
hours, then it begins to tire of doing well
and begins to weaken. It keeps weakening
until it fades away and finally stops altogether. You may recharge the batteries and
it will run again on this power for a while,
but it will again tire of doing good, and
stop. Try as you may you cannot make it
play any more. If you plug is into the electric power it will go beautifully again as
long as it is connected with the source of
power, but if you unplug it from this power
it will not perform at all.
Isn't that very much like our Christian
experience? When we accept Christ and are
baptized we are just beginning our Christian
life of usefulness. Our battery (or will
power) is well charged and ready to give a
good performance of Christian living and
witnessing. But too many of us have our
batteries charged merely with enthusiasm
and we forget the real Source of our
strength. We do well on our own power,
but before long we begin to tire of well doing and fall back more and more in our
Christian performance. We may attend a
good revival meeting which will charge our
batteries again, and we go off to do well as
before, but finally run down, some completely losing faith and dropping out of the
church and away from God. Others wait
for another revival to charge up their batteries again.
But, thank the Lord, we may learn early
in our Christian life that our power, our
own power, is not enough to keep us going.
We must plug into the true Source of power.
Once we give up trying to go ahead on our
own, and slow up long enough to be sure
we are plugged into the true Source of everlasting power, take time to study the Word
of power, take time to talk with that true
power, God, through prayer, then will we
have a successful Christian experience and
one day come into "face to face" contact
with that true Source of power. 0 what a
wonderful day that will be!
MARILYN HOBART
North Jay, Maine
PRAYER WHEELS
EDITORS: The editorial "Prayer Wheels for
Missionaries" (November 30 REVIEW) impressed me deeply because I am the mother of
a missionary and an aunt to another. Every
time I hear the sentence, "Lord, bless our
missionaries and workers all over the world,"
during a prayer, even though I know it is
meant sincerely, I always wish specific needs,
problems, and missionaries would be mentioned. I am sure the missionaries would be
greatly strengthened, as well as the work,
if they knew that at least their home
churches and colleges were praying for them.
CORA LYNN MILLER
Junction City, Oregon
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Governor's Son Faces
Hardship After Baptism
By ANASTACIO B. GAYAO
Dean of Students
Mountain View College, Philippines
The Honorable Omar Giouda, minister of health for Libya, speaks at the dedication services of the new Benghazi Adventist Hospital, which has 42,000 square feet of floor space.
Official Opens Eibyan Hospital
President
Middle East Division
By F. C. WEBSTER,
Early this year a modern new Adventist hospital in Benghazi, Libya, was dedicated—as the cornerstone inscription
reads—"to the glory of God and the service of humanity."
About six years ago plans began to be
formulated that led to the dedication on
January 17 of this new and modern 60bed medical facility at the perimeter of
the fast-growing city of Benghazi. Present
to participate in the dedication ceremonies were high government officials,
military personnel and regional leaders,
members of the diplomatic and consular
staff of various nations, and a host of
friends and well-wishers. Chief among the
dignitaries and principal speaker was
Omar Giouda, minister of health. He
came as a special representative of His
Majesty King Idris I, beloved ruler of
Libya.
Representing the General Conference
were F. L. Bland, vice-president, and
A. E. Gibb, associate secretary. A sizable
group of the Middle East Division personnel were also present.
Dr. D. C. Ludington, medical director,
and Cleo V. Johnson, business manager,
and the hospital staff had carefully
planned all details of the opening ceremonies, which were executed with a
Christian dignity and warmth of which
the Adventist family around the world
can be justly proud.
Those who attended could not fail to
recognize the high place that our hospital
holds in the hearts of the Libyan people
and of the foreign residents of the country. An indication of that feeling was the
surprise announcement made by the
minister of health during his address,
that he brought with him as a gift from
His Majesty King Idris I a personal check
for £10,000 (U.S. $28,000) for hospital development.
Plans and design for this new hospital
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and arrangements for construction were
the work of Roger Wilcox and Vincent
Fenn, the previous administrators of the
Middle East Division. These men, together with hospital leadership, also
worked out arrangements for a group of
petroleum companies operating in Libya
to bear much of the cost of construction.
This hospital is modern in design and
functionally efficient in the application
of the up-to-date equipment that has
been installed. These tools for healing in
the hands of a consecrated and welltrained staff make certain to the people
of Libya the excellence for which Adventist hospitals around the world have
become famous.
Since its establishment in 1956 many
have cooperated in the operation and
development of this institution. Dr.
Roy S. Cornell was the first medical director, then came Dr. Jay P. Munsy and
Dr. William Wagner, and today Dr. D. C.
Ludington, a third-generation missionary, serves the institution.
The Benghazi Adventist Hospital was
opened as the pioneer Adventist endeavor in the North African country of
Libya. To accommodate that new endeavor a hotel building, centrally located
in the city, was secured. Though the
building served well during the pioneer
stages, the facilities were poorly adapted
to efficient hospital operation.
The total value of the new hospital is
£500,000 (U.S. $1.4 million). It contains
42,000 square feet of floor space and onehalf mile of hallways. The building has
the latest in equipment, and the hospital
personnel assures the high professional
services of a modern hospital. Dr. Ludington, C. M. Johnson, business manager,
and their staff of 105 dedicated doctors,
nurses, and technicians are committed to
bring health through loving service to the
Libyan people.
Much Bible study and a hard struggle
took place before Fidel Damasco, his
wife, and five children decided to be baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist
faith. And their troubles are not over.
Fidel is the eldest son of Lope Damasco, who for three terms was governor
of Bukidnon in the Philippines, where
Mountain View College is situated. In
1950 Dr. Andrew Nelson was working to
acquire the site where the college now
stands and spent a night in the governor's home. This was Fidel's first contact
with Seventh-day Adventists. A close
friendship developed between Dr. Nelson and the governor, but the family remained indifferent to the faith. Their
satisfaction with their present religion
and the influence of associates were
strong deterrents to their interest in Adventism.
The next contact Fidel's family had
with the Adventists was through Pastor
Praxedes Ramos and his team of ministerial students from Mountain View College, who conducted an evangelistic campaign in 1964 in Malaybalay, where Fidel lived. His children attended the meetings and took the Voice of Prophecy
Bible course, but Fidel and his wife remained uninterested. However, they did
listen to some of the Bible studies that
were given to their children.
After the evangelistic meetings the family moved to the farm and eventually lost
contact with the Adventists, but the Lord
did not abandon them. Two years later
Mariano Abesta, ranch supervisor of
Mountain View College, with some ministerial students contacted Fidel. Mr.
Abesta was delighted when Fidel said, "I
would like you to give Bible studies to
my family and me. I want you to give
them to us because you are elderly. You
do not argue or enter into controversy."
The studies were begun at once by
Mr. Abesta, and the family accepted every message and made the necessary
changes in their lives. Fidel stopped keeping company with his liquor-drinking
friends, refrained from Sabbath work,
and abandoned his smoking habit. Eventually he requested to be baptized with
his family.
This news stirred his father and other
government officials to action. As an allurement they visited Fidel with extremely attractive job offers. He could be
the principal of either one of two schools
near his home. Another position was
made available in the provincial engineering department at a good salary.
These offers were tempting, especially
since he needed money to support his ten
children, seven of whom were in school.
However, his decision to follow Christ
was firm. He said, "I would rather stay
on the farm and be a good Seventh-day
Adventist Christian than to accept a job
that will take me back to my old companions and expose me to trials and
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
temptations while I am still young in the
faith."
On September 2, 1967, Fidel and his
family accepted Jesus fully and were baptized at Mountain View College.
His father and other members of the
family called him for a conference. He
was told that the small lot of land where
he was to build a home for renting as a
source of extra income was already sold.
Now he must remove his house from the
land. This was a shock to the newly baptized family, for this was an indication
that they were being disowned by the
father. It posed another serious problem
—there were renters in the house. Where
could he move them to? The property
was providing the cash to keep his children in school, so they dropped out and
joined their parents on the farm. But
even the farm could be taken from them,
because it belonged to the senior Damasco
family.
The two older girls have now applied
for work at Mountain View College,
where they hope to complete their studies
and be of service to God's cause.
In some ways Fidel and his family are
in a state of uncertainty as to the future,
but in God's hands they are secure, for
Christ the Sun of Righteousness is
their guide, protector, and provider.
New Veracruz Church
a Memorial to Early
Mexican Book Work
By CHARLES R. TAYLOR
Departmental Secretary
Inter-American Division
A beautiful church full of happy people will be one of the surprises awaiting
Victoriano Calvo when in the earth made
new he will discover how the gospel seed
he had sown bore fruit after his death.
On January 6, 1968, while 400 people
gathered to inaugurate a $25,000 church
three blocks from the waterfront in Veracruz, Mexico, Mr. Calvo was resting in a
hillside grave 80 miles away.
The joy Victoriano felt when he ac-
cepted Christ almost a half century ago
was clouded when the publishing secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist church
urged him to become a literature evangel.
ist. He could not see himself selling books
from door to door! But he found mental
peace, as had William Miller almost a
hundred years before, by asking God for
a sign he considered impossible of fulfillment. If God sent him someone to buy
his barber's chair and other equipment
he would become a colporteur!
With a sigh of relief he went about his
work. To his surprise, in less than 24
hours two men came to his door offering
to buy his business for cash, and soon
he found himself not only a colporteur
but the leader of a team of four literature
evangelists in the port of Veracruz.
When one of them took sick one day,
Victoriano went to the market place to
buy an earthen jar in which to mix the
medicine. There he found the woman in
the pottery stall so absorbed in reading a
book that she did not notice him. When
he saw that the book she was reading was
the Bible, his barber's instinct for drawing people into conversation came into
play.
Tapping on an earthen jar, he asked,
"Lady, aren't you going to wait on your
customers? What's that you're reading?"
Arising slowly, she answered, "It's the
Bible."
"That's a bad book, isn't it?" he suggested.
"Oh, no, this is the Word of God."
"Well," he continued, "I have a copy
of the Holy Scriptures, but it doesn't look
like that."
"There are many versions," she replied, "but their truth is the same."
"I'm sure your Bible doesn't say the
same as mine. Here, read me from the
book of Exodus, chapter 20, verses 8 to
11 ."
And so began the opening of her eyes
to the contents of a book she already
loved. Mrs. Aguilar, of the pottery stall,
became the first member of the Veracruz
SDA church. When her son returned from
military service he found that his mother
belonged to a church he had never
heard of.
Sabino Aguilar, now an old man, stood
with other veteran members when the
Veracruz church building was dedicated
the first Sabbath of 1968. From all corners
of the Mexican Union 175 ministers, leaders of the 36,000 baptized Mexican Adventists, were also present to share the
beautiful monument God has given Victoriano Calvo instead of his barber chair.
Prisoners Converted
by Venezuelan Laymen
By ALFREDO GAONA BELTRAN
Departmental Secretary
West Venezuelan Mission
Two dynamic lay workers from Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Facundo Ardila
and Jose Arrieche, recently took the initiative to visit the San Felipe penitentiary to present the good news of the
gospel. Using the My Bible Says plan,
they enrolled more than 60, among whom
were some of the employees and guards
also. Already a great transformation is
seen in the lives of some of the men.
Sabbath after Sabbath the laymen
held meetings, and after a few weeks of
Bible studies more than a dozen persons
received their diplomas. The enthusiasm
and interest grew more and more; so did
the admiration and gratitude of the
prison directors.
The Holy Spirit softened the harsh
character of five prisoners, and they manifested a desire to give their hearts to
Jesus Christ and become members of the
true church. On Sabbath, December 2,
one of these prisoners who obtained his
freedom was baptized. The next Sabbath
the other four, who must still remain behind bars, were given permission to leave
the prison and be baptized in an improvised pool.
When Victor Urbina spoke before the
service of the power of the gospel to
transform, the assistant director of the
prison, who witnessed the baptism, said:
'This is the truth! Those men were impossible, but for the past few months they
have been model prisoners."
Only standing room was available at the inauguration ceremonies of the new Veracruz, Mexico, church—a monument to Victoriano Calvo.
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
DATELINEWASHINGTON
Vatican Library Accepts
Bible Story Volumes
By B. BENJAMIN RIFFEL
Pacific Press Publishing Association
By Arthur R. Roth
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BIG LITTLE MISSIONARY PERIODICAL. Generally the denomination's missionary periodicals are edited at the publishing houses where they are printed.
However, Israelite, a small but growing
missionary periodical designed to bring
the message of Jesus the Messiah and His
second coming to the Jewish people, is
edited in the offices of the General Conference.
R. L. Odom, editor, writer, and evangelist of long experience, has the responsibility for this periodical. A Jewish professor of a Hebrew school in Paris said
about Israelite: "You are the only Christians who could establish a fruitful contact with Judaism. I wish to have all the
information and documents available in
order to talk about your faith with my
colleagues." Israelite, in part, responds to
the counsel urging that "special efforts
be made for the enlightenment of the
Jews."
GENERAL CONFERENCE WORSHIP.
Every working day at eight o'clock, before staff members take up their activities,
they gather in the General Conference
chapel for worship, usually under the
guidance of personnel director C. D.
Forshee. At this time they pray for those
who have made special requests and for
the church in the world field, particularly
for those areas where our people are under extraordinary distress. At these worship periods the staff has opportunity to
hear messages and reports from visiting
speakers or from fellow staff members
who have returned from extensive itineraries. These worship periods are high
points to the staff. In recent weeks inspirational messages and reports have been
given by W. M. Starks, A. A. Esteb, E. L.
Minchin, Theodore Carcich, A. E. Gibb,
and D. W. Holbrook.
STAFF MEMBERS. Three new members
have joined the General Conference staff.
Paul M. DeBooy, formerly Missionary
Volunteer leader in the Central Union,
has joined the Missionary Volunteer Department as an associate secretary. P. G.
Smith has come from the Ohio Conference to become associate secretary in the
Stewardship and Development Department. R. M. Reinhard, who for the past
ten years has been treasurer and auditor
of the Trans-Africa Division, has accepted the call to be an associate auditor.
To these men and their families the Gen18
Conference id •
ers
eral Conference staff extends arms of
fellowship and welcome.
1968 YEARBOOK. As I prepare these
notes for Dateline, statistical secretary
J. 0. Gibson has brought to our desks the
new 704-page, blue-bound Yearbook for
1968. This volume furnishes us with important information about the church:
the General Conference, its departments,
services, corporations, legal associations,
and world divisions; the union and local
conferences; missions; educational institutions; hospitals; sanitariums; publishing houses; food factories; old people's
homes; and orphanages. It gives us the
names and addresses of some 28,210 denominational workers (not including licensed missionary workers, though some
of these workers are listed under their
respective organizations).
The Yearbook also catalogs the many
periodicals published by Seventh-day Adventists in numerous languages of earth;
it provides a copy of the General Conference constitution and bylaws; it gives the
church calendar and special days for
1968 and 1969; it states briefly the fundamental beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists; and closes with a general index to
organization.
VISITING BRETHREN. During the
early weeks of 1968 people from several
countries visited church headquarters—
Australia: Dr. Eric Magnusson and the
the Clapham family from Avondale College, Cooranbong, and Pastor and Mrs.
Bill Otto from Queensland; Costa Rica:
Martha Argueta and the Misael Mastrapa
family from Colegio Vocacional de America Central, Alajuela; England: John Fortune from Birmingham; Uganda: Rebecca
W. Kigiri and Seth Lubega from Kampala.
MISSIONARY VOLUNTEER WEEK.
Plans and preparation for Missionary
Volunteer Week program series, "Steps
to Christ," were made by our Missionary
Volunteer Department leaders months
ago. A new feature this year is the prayer
list (Review, February 29). In united
purpose the Missionary Volunteers
around the globe will pray each day for
their fellow youth in one or two of the
world divisions. The MV Department has
a conviction that, coupled with prayer,
there should be a mighty evangelistic
program to keep our youth occupied in
the work of God.
The old walls of the Vatican library in
Rome keep many a treasure—among them
the famous Codex Vaticanus, a manuscript of the Bible written in Greek,
which dates from the fourth century A.D.
It now houses a new "treasure," the Adventist collection of Las Bellas Historias
de la Biblia ("The Beautiful Stories of
the Bible") in ten volumes. As far as we
know, these are the first Adventist books
to be placed there.
Dr. Gianfranco Rossi, director of public relations of the Italian Union, Andres H. Riffel, director of lay activities of
the Inter-American Division, and I took
this set, published by the Pacific Press, to
the Vatican. The president of the library,
Monsignor Raes, was attentive and
friendly. We talked with him in German,
one of the seven languages he has mastered. On receiving the books, he praised
them generously, and wrote in the prospectus the following testimony, which he
signed and sealed:
"Many thanks for the generous gift of
the ten volumes of the Stories of the
Bible. I sincerely wish you the good
fortune of a large distribution of this appreciated work."
Missionary Directs Help
to Borneo Villagers
By D. A. ROTH
Assistant Secretary
Far Eastern Division
The combined efforts of Seventh-day
Adventist missionaries and the helicopter
crews of the Royal Air Force of Great
Britain recently prevented death by starvation in two isolated villages in Borneo.
The twin kampongs of Ibol and Mu-
Four Royal Air Force helicopters airlift
relief food to starving villagers in Borneo.
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
ding are eight hours by motorboat from
Borneo's coastline city of Kuching, Sarawak. The only way supplies can be
brought into this interior area is by boat.
Lack of rain over a period of weeks
dried up the river and made it impossible
for any supplies to be brought to the villages. As the days went on, the supply of
rice and other food dwindled to almost
nothing. Soon some were starving to
death.
When the situation became desperate,
a message was sent by foot courier to an
Adventist village that had radio contact
with Richard Hall, president of the Sarawak Mission, in Kuching. When he heard
the plight of the people in these areas
he went into action. Soon bags of rice
and other food stacked up at the airport.
Pastor Hall discovered that the heavy
bags were too much for his Cessna 180 to
handle in an emergency situation, so he
appealed to friends in the Royal Air
Force.
The helicopter crews agreed to take
the food to the villages as part of a
training exercise. Soon four of the big
craft winged their way to the interior and
within 30 minutes they settled down in a
clearing close to one of the villages.
The residents of the villages looked on
with awe as they saw the helicopers land.
When they saw the rice and wheat they
shouted and leaped for joy.
afea‘meiee,ag
Two Schools Benefit Frortr Overflow
The Assam Training School extension is now well on its way and can soon be
finished because of the large Sabbath school offering overflow last September. Also,
Kellogg.Mookerjee High School in East Pakistan has its new location chosen and
purchased and can now= start its building program. Both Mete htstitotion4still then
be better equipped to accomplish their purpose.
The bulletin board in the office of the Southern Asia Dirhiou expresses our
appreciation for this offering, of friendship.
At the bulletin board arc W. F. Storz, secretary,. and. Mist _Gloria Thomas,
assistant, Sabbath sr.hotd .13epartatent,-.,-Southcru •
Vivhdou.
F.. STOW.
Wales Launches VBS Program
Under the leadership of ministerial intern Stuart Ware, the first Vacation Bible
School in Wales was held late in December in the home of a member in Barry.
Eight non-Adventist children attended
the first day. Within a few days the eight
had increased to 18, and these remained
to the close. Twelve of the 18 came to
the regular Sabbath school, and six of
the older children asked to stay for the
divine worship.
This VBS followed the recent visit of
G. R. Nash, of the General Conference
Sabbath School Department, who awakened a decided interest in Vacation Bible
Schools in the British Union.
Encouraged by this start in Barry, the
Welsh Mission is making plans for a number of Vacation Bible Schools next summer.
KENNETH H. GAMMON
British Union S.S. Secretary
not an easy one, for Finland was then
under the rule of Czarist Russia. During
the fateful years of World War I, after
which Finland emerged as an independent republic. Mr. Hoglund guided his
small but courageous group of light bearers to ever-increasing victories.
After 21 years of devoted service, Mr.
Hoglund retired from his position as publishing secretary of Finland, but he did
not cease working as a literature evangelist. During the subsequent 21 sustentation years he averaged 1,716 working
hours a year.
When GC president Robert H. Pierson visited Finland Publishing House and
Pioneer Literature Evangelist
of Finland Worked 52 Years
Otto Hoglund, pioneer literature evangelist and publishing secretary in Finland, died recently a few weeks short of
his ninetieth birthday. He had been in
the literature work since shortly after his
baptism in 1902.
In 1912 Mr. Hoglund was called to be
union publishing secretary. The task was
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
Elder Pierson greets veteran Otto Hoglund.
the adjacent denominational old people's home in December, 1966, he met
Mr. Hoglund and paid tribute to his
service to the cause. Mr. HOglund leaves
the younger generation an example
of faithful devotion, heroic perseverance, and active faith in the Saviour,
whose second advent he was called to
proclaim.
AAREN UNHOLA, Manager
Finland Publishing House
Spirit of Prophecy Speaker
Visits Philippine Institutions
During his visit to the Far East, D. A.
Delafield, of the White Estate, Washington, D.C., conducted a series of Spirit of
Prophecy lectures at Mountain View College, Malaybalay, Bukidnon, and at Philippine Union College in Manila. He also
had speaking engagements at sanitariums,
publishing houses, and academies.
Elder Delafield's sermons, counsel, and
instruction on the gift of prophecy, given
at special meetings and rallies, buoyed up
the courage of the people and established
more firmly their faith and confidence that
"we have nothing to fear for the future,
except as we shall forget the way the Lord
has led us, and His teaching in our past
F. M. ARROGANTE
history."
Departmental Secretary
Central Philippine Union Mission
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Rallies and Displays in Britain
Lead Way in Literature Growth
Twenty-one publishing rallies were
held in Great Britain during the last
three months of 1967, according to John
Arthur, publishing secretary for the British Union Conference.
Classes were conducted at Swansea, Belfast, and Glasgow; the work of literature
bands has been consolidated; members
have become acquainted with the wide
range of literature produced by the Stanborough Press through mobile displays in
the churches; and many new members
have launched out in a house-to-house pro-
gram to find 21,500 regular readers of Our
Times. The publishing department aims
to increase this to 50,000 for the March,
1968, issue, when they will launch a missions extension campaign to raise funds
for a new school dormitory at Yele Secondary School, West Africa, and a new mission station in Ethiopia.
In one field, the North England Conference, auxiliary literature evangelists
doubled their sales during the first ten
months of 1967, compared with the same
period in 1966. They sold £4,510 ($10,800) worth of literature.
VICTOR H. COOPER
Secretary, British Union
The King's Busine s
By W. P. BRADLEY
THE CHURCH It happens that I beBOARD
long to a rather large
church; in fact, it is
one of our denomination's largest. When
the local church approaches or passes a
membership of 3,000, it must have careful, even expert, leadership and a good
organization. Aside from the spiritual
forces at work in a church, there is hardly
any factor that can give strength like
good organization. And these two
strengths, the spiritual and the organizational, are not opposed to each other.
Happy the situations where they are
blended in balanced measure, to the blessing of the members, to the credit of the
leaders, and to the glory of God.
New church officers, and even old ones,
ought to become well acquainted with
the references to the work of the church
board in the Church Manual. If one summarizes this material it comes out something like this:
Board Members: Elder(s), head deacon
and deaconess, clerk, treasurer, lay activities leader, lay activities secretary, Sabbath school superintendent, Dorcas Welfare Society leader, MV leader, press relations secretary, and such other members as the church may elect at the annual elections.
Chairman: The pastor. If he prefers not
to serve as chairman, he arranges for an
elder to preside.
Meetings: Monthly, at least. Best to
have them at a regular time, for example,
the first Tuesday night of each month.
Special meetings are called as needed.
Quorum: The minimum number of
board members authorized to do business
should be specified by the church in a
business meeting.
Business: All details of church business
are appropriate. The board co-ordinates
the work of all church departments. Any
department planning a special activity
should seek counsel of the church board
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so as to secure the cooperation of others
involved.
The board may appoint subcommittees
to work on specific projects such as building, decorating, organ, et cetera. All committees report to the board.
The treasurer reports monthly on
church finance; other officers report regarding their responsibilities.
The state of the church roll is studied.
Requests for church letters and requests
for admission to the church are considered, and recommendation made to
the church. Inquiry may be made into
the spiritual standing of any member and
appropriate action recommended. Plans
should be set in motion to help the sick,
the discouraged, the backslidden.
The board should be interested always
in enlisting all members in active missionary service. Especially at times when
evangelistic meetings are being held in
the church or in the vicinity, the board
steps up plans to enlist the cooperation
of all.
Restrictions: The church board cannot
receive or dismiss members or grant letters of transfer; it can only make recommendations to the church.
New members: Candidates for baptism
should be examined publicly before the
church, the church board, or a special
committee appointed for that purpose.
The board should plan for the welcoming of new members and bringing them
into active participation of the church's
activities.
To summarize the church board's work:
"The church board functions as the governing committee for the church, dealing
with all questions of activities and business matters that normally face a church.
It should be recognized, however, that
many of its actions will be recommendatory."—Church Manual, p. 128.
(Next: Special to Delegates.)
SOUTH INDIA UNION
D. P. THOMAS, of Koilpatty, reports
that 16 persons have been baptized as a
result of his work in Meenachipuram.
He expects that the whole village will
turn to worship Christ. Twenty-three
were baptized during the first 11 months
of 1967; more than that number may
soon follow.
SINCE moving to Mayavaram last May,
N. Y. Ponniah has baptized 17 people.
One of these was a young man who was
on his deathbed. One of our laymen, Mr.
Abraham, prayed for him and the boy
was wonderfully restored and became
one of the first fruits of their work there.
Three more were baptized at Santhankudi, making a total of 20.
AT THE beginning of 1967, A. Dason,
working with his lay-preacher father,
Y. Asirvatham, and the church members
set a goal to win 50 converts before the
end of the year. When on September 17
eight persons were baptized by Pastor
D. Gnanasundram on behalf of Mr.
Dason, he reached his goal.
D. R. WATTS, Correspondent
SOUTH CHINA ISLAND UNION
SEVENTY delegates from all corners of
the South China Island Union Mission
met recently for the ninth biennial session. Co-ordinated evangelism was an important part of the plans laid for this
field, with its population of 18 million.
Every worker dedicated himself to having
a part in this evangelism thrust.
L. R. COLISURN, Correspondent
FAR EASTERN DIVISION
A NEW library and auditorium building
is under construction in Singapore for
the Southeast Asia Union College. Part
of the funds for the building were solicited
in the city by special teams of Ingatherers.
THE first Adventist-sponsored television
series for Japan has now been presented
in Tokyo, the largest city in the world.
Unable to purchase time for a religious
series, the radio-TV department of the
Japan Union Mission negotiated for a
series of weekly medical programs. It was
directed by Paul Nelson, former radioTV secretary of Japan.
SPECIAL weeks of emphasis on the Spirit
of Prophecy for youth have been conducted throughout the division by D.
Arthur Delafield, associate secretary of
the Ellen G. White Estate. He visited
Japan Missionary College, Korean Union
College, Taiwan Missionary College,
Philippine Union College, Mountain
View College, Southeast Asia Union College, Indonesia Union College, and Mount
Klabat College. This is the first time that
a representative of the White Estate has
visited the Far East.
D. A. ROTH, Correspondent
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
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+ At the Ingathering victory banquet at
Springfield, Massachusetts, Mrs. Emily
Anderson was honored for soliciting $1,147.06 during the recent campaign. Mrs.
Anderson is more than 70 years of age
and has been a church member for only
three years. She learned of the third
angel's message from a pamphlet left at
her door. Pastor Arthur M. Moyer also
honored Mrs. Aurore Gemme, who solicited more than $300. Marcus E. Payne,
lay activities secretary of the Southern
New England Conference, was the banquet speaker.
+ As a result of the witnessing of Albert
Schwab and his wife, members of the
Pittsfield (Massachusetts) church, David
Dixon, his wife, and their two boys, Malcolm and Stewart, were baptized on December 16, 1967, by Arthur Harms, Southern New England Conference secretarytreasurer. Richard Coffen is pastor of the
Pittsfield church.
+ A successful Five-Day Plan to Stop
Smoking series, with 260 in attendance,
has recently been completed in the Garden City Junior High School auditorium.
Leading out in the session were Dr. Dunbar Smith, J. R. Hoffman, and Austin
Butler. Sponsors included the ParentTeacher Association, American Heart
Association, and the American Cancer
Society.
+ John Carlos, Jr., a member of the Linden Boulevard church in St. Albans, New
York, and a senior student in the School
of Physical Therapy at Loma Linda University, has recently been elected president of his class. He was the recipient of
a $1,200 scholarship awarded by the Veterans' Rehabilitation Administration. Mr.
Carlos completed his undergraduate studies at Atlantic Union College in 1960,
after two years of study at Oakwood College. He worked for six years as an assistant research technician at the New York
State University in cardiovascular research and development before going to
Loma Linda University.
+ Senator Edward M. Kennedy addressed
the student body of Atlantic Union College on Monday, February 12, the first day
of Negro History Week. Senator Kennedy
gave a 30-minute talk in which he discussed his concern for civil rights and the
southeastern Asia situation. A questionand-answer period followed his address.
+ The ministers and their wives in
Northern New England met in Portland,
Maine, January 14-16 for a three-day workers' meeting and Ingathering victory banquet. Lawrence Nelson, General Conference MV associate secretary, led out in
the meetings.
Carl P. Anderson, president of the conference; W. W. Menshausen, conference
lay activities and Sabbath school secretary;
and K. W. Tilghman and W. E. Peeke,
Atlantic Union Conference secretary-treasurer and lay activities secretary, respecREVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
tively, also participated in the program.
Plans were made for 12 revivals and 15
evangelistic campaigns during 1968, with
a goal of more than 300 baptisms. The
amount of Ingathering reported at the
victory banquet was $68,360.61. This is an
increase of $4,000 over last year.
EMMA KIRK, Correspondent
+ Osborne Lee, pastor of the Sydney and
North Sydney churches in Nova Scotia,
has been elected president of the Protestant ministerial association for the Cape
Breton area.
+ The Oliver, British Columbia, church
was dedicated on December 2, 1967. J. W.
Bothe, Canadian Union president,
preached the dedicatory sermon. Mentioned in the historical sketch of the
church were many of the members who
had helped to make the new church possible by their support through the years.
Among the early members present were
Mrs. E. Klatt, Mrs. A. Gibson, and Mrs.
R. Sprosson.
+ Gordon Madden, a member of the
Paris, Ontario, church, was recently
awarded a Silver Centennial Medal by the
Secretary of State in recognition of his
service to the nation. The newspaper
stated: "When a family has been bereaved
and temporary financial help has been
needed, he has gone to the rescue quickly.
When food, furniture, or clothing has
been a problem, Mr. Madden has rounded
up the articles, and where children have
been involved he has been particularly
interested. On a number of occasions he
has helped students through college."
PEARL BROWNING, Correspondent
+ Charles Phillips, a Missouri Conference
literature evangelist, sold $1,112 worth of
books in one week during the month of
January.
+ Twenty-two persons were baptized as
the result of evangelistic meetings held in
the San Luis Valley in Colorado by Ben
Z. George, conference evangelist, and
Wayne Anderson, district pastor.
+ The Casper, Wyoming, church members
are financing a radio program to run for
several weeks. Evangelistic meetings are
planned as a follow-up to this program.
+ The Missionary Volunteers of the Nebraska Conference have launched a campaign for 100,000 dimes by May 12, 1968,
to furnish and equip the kitchen-lodge to
be constructed at Camp Arrowhead. The
youth hope to have enough dimes to
"sink a canoe."
+ The final Ingathering total for the
Kansas Conference was $88,604.20, as reported by N. K. Harvey, conference secretary-treasurer. This represents a per capita
of $23.86.
+ C. J. Owens, Kansas Conference educational secretary and youth leader, reports
that the elementary school children
gathered $7,036.25 during the Ingathering
campaign. This amount almost doubled
their goal of $3,593.25.
CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent
First Nursing Class Receives
Caps at Kettering College
Kettering College of Medical Arts held
its first department of nursing capping
ceremony on February 4, 1968, with 74 students receiving their nurse's cap.
Gladys Duran, director of nursing services at the Kettering Memorial Hospital,
gave the challenge to the students. Mrs.
Duran said, "Upon you the heritage of
this school will be founded. May it be a
rich heritage, marked by your vigilance."
Harvey Hahn, pastor of the Otterbein
Evangelical United Brethren church, offered the dedicatory prayer. To conclude
the program the students took the nurse's
pledge of service, led by Anna May
Vaughan, chairman of the department of
nursing.
Diane Calfee, Curt Carr, Jr., and a
string ensemble provided music. In honor
of the nursing students, relatives and
friends after the capping attended a reception in the residence-hall lobby.
DAVID BAUER
Director of Public Relations
Kettering Memorial Hospital
+ The CUC concert band recently presented a series of sacred concerts in Pennsylvania. Included were programs at Reading, Philadelphia, and Blue Mountain
Academy. Adell Haughey is director.
+ Radio station WGTS-FM, the voice of
Columbia Union College, scored a "scoop"
on Washington area news media recently
by carrying the first announcement of the
settlement of the Montgomery County
teachers' strike. Inaugurating a new public service program, Listen Here, the station had as guests Morris Jones, from the
Maryland Teachers Association, and Dr.
Howard Housemen, representing Montgomery County. At the conclusion of the
hour-long program the two men made the
first announcement of the strike settlement. Dr. Stephan Hiten, head of the college speech department, is the coordinator
of the new series, and the guest interviewer was Dr. Delmer W. Holbrook,
president of Home Study Institute.
+ Twelve years of faithful work on the
part of laymen in the Trenton, New Jer21
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sey, area has resulted in the baptism of
seven prisoners at the New Jersey State
Prison. Gordon Barnes, New Jersey literature evangelist, began the work, which has
since been carried on by other local laymen, including Fred Zimmerly and John
Hood. At the present time 14 prisoners
are attending the branch Sabbath school,
which is held each week.
+ B. H. VanHorne, Ph.D., has joined the
staff of the Kettering Memorial Medical
Center to participate in the development
of a research program. In addition to being professor of physics and mathematics
at Kettering College of Medical Arts, Dr.
VanHorne will be engaged in biomedical
research and statistical analysis. For the
past ten years Dr. VanHorne has been
engaged in instrumentation research with
the Dow Chemical Company, Midland,
Michigan.
MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent
Lake au'otic
a plaque signifying that in 1967 Illinois
led the North American Division in sales
of Life and Health subscriptions per
capita.
Gary Bevins, literature evangelist, was
awarded a trophy by Mr. Okuno for leading the conference in sales of Life and
Health. He sold enough subscriptions to
supply one family for 672 years, a total
of $3,696. He was top in the union for
total sales in books and magazines, with
$37,451.80 for 1967.
ESTON L. ALLEN
Departmental Secretary
Illinois Conference
+ The Rockford Seventh-day Adventist
youth always have been an enthusiastic
Ingathering group, but this year was exceptional. Nine children raised $2,700.
Greg Smith, a seventh-grader, was the top
solicitor. He went Ingathering every night
during the campaign and collected $450.
The church goal was $8,600. The church
raised in excess of $10,350. L. J. Marsa is
pastor.
MILDRED WADE, Correspondent
Illinois Bookmen Meet:
Sales Leaders Recognized
The Illinois Conference had 26 book
specialists placing Christian literature in
thousands of homes in 1967. Like their
fellow literature evangelists all over the
world, they diagnose the world's ills and
treat them, not with an injection, but
with Christian books and magazines.
They sold $307,883.39 worth of books
in 1966 and $360,481.58 in 1967, and
have set their goal for $500,000 in 1968.
At their annual literature evangelist
rally January 27, 28, R. L. Chapman, conference publishing department secretary,
reported a total of 12 known baptisms for
the year, 18,051 pieces of literature given
away, 4,343 Bible enrollments, 192 people
taken to meetings, 59 former SDA's contacted, 2,893 prayers offered in homes,
and 246 Bible studies given.
J. W. Proctor, Lake Union publishing
director, shared with them publishing
news and methods being used around the
world. Clifford Okuno, field representative of the Review and Herald Periodical
Department, presented to Elder Chapman
+ W. R. Hunker, a 1967 graduate of Pacific Union College, has accepted a call
to be head of the new audio-video department of Portland Sanitarium and
Hospital. Initial plans for the video installation include a studio and control
room. The program will be used in nursing education for the hospital's school of
practical nursing, Walla Walla's school of
professional nursing, and the hospital's
in-service education department.
+ Walla Walla General Hospital is setting
up a new laboratory facility, and has employed Robert Hessong, registered medical technologist, to head the department.
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+ Walla Walla College became a member
of the American Association of Colleges
for Teacher Education by formal vote of
the organization February 16, according to
J. V. Peters, chairman of the department
of education.
IoNE MoRGAN, Correspondent
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+ Mavis Jacobson, Oak Park Academy
senior, was named Homemaker of Tomorrow as a result of her test score in the
Betty Crocker Homemaker Examination.
+ The Iowa Conference raised $20,805.66
for Investment in 1967, a per capita of
$5.91.
+ Four Council Bluffs, Iowa, church members attended a civil defense training
course. The director gave public recognition to Seventh-day Adventists for their
help in disasters.
+ In an effort to reach the surrounding
area, the Minnetonka, Minnesota, church
has presented the following areas of activity to the church members.
1. Project Community Task Force-5,000 visitation leaflets to be distributed.
2. Project Fireside—Sunshine and Singing bands.
3. Project Mercy—aid in time of disaster.
4. Project Intercession—prayer for the
success of the work.
5. Project Remembrance—placing of
flowers in hospitals and rest homes on
Sabbath afternoons.
The members have indicated the areas
in which they will become involved.
L. H. NETTEBURG, Correspondent
+ A. C. Fearing and Archa 0. Dart, from
the General Conference, held meetings in
the Washington Conference recently.
Elder Fearing held evangelistic meetings
in Olympia; Elder Dart, in the Seattle
area, spoke on the home and its influence.
+ By delivering $1,089 during the week
ending February 3, Kenneth Thompson
became the first literature evangelist in
the Washington Conference to join the
$1,000 Club for 1968. In the 11 months
he has been a literature evangelist he has
delivered $11,456 worth of books.
+ Attending a three-day annual Academy
Bible Conference in February were 144
delegates from the Oregon Conference
academies and churches. Guest speaker
was Graham Maxwell, chairman of the
Department of Religion at Loma Linda
University.
C. Okuno and G. Bevins displaying trophy.
and has moved to the College Place campus, where she will assume direction of the
program of psychiatric nursing.
+ Mrs. Lloyd Hazelton, who has been a
member of the WWC School of Nursing
faculty since January, 1966, recently completed work for the Master of Nursing
degree at the University of Washington
+ Appearing weekly in the Pacific Union
Recorder is a series of articles on Seventh-day Adventist pioneers and the beginning of Adventist work in the West, as
part of the union's celebration of its centennial year. Compiled by Ernest Lloyd,
retired minister and pioneer in his own
right, the articles feature reminiscences
about workers such as J. N. Loughborough
and D. T. Bourdeau and descriptions of
early facilities of the church, compiled
from personal recollections of elderly
church members.
+ The Barron-Turner evangelistic team
is holding Crusade for Christ meetings in
Long Beach, California, nightly, March 2
through 24.
+ A special Bible course for members of
the Mormon faith, called Gospel Salvation
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
Bible Course, has been developed by the
Voice of Prophecy. Application cards and
information on the course may be obtained from Box 17174, Salt Lake City,
Utah 84117.
+ Spanish-speaking residents of Delano,
California, were special guests during
evangelistic services of the local Adventist
church, and 23 persons made decisions for
Christ. Domingo De Leon, local church
school teacher, served as master of ceremonies and translator for speakers at the
meetings, which were a follow-up to the
branch Sabbath school program he and
his wife had previously launched in Delano.
+ The Arizona Conference believes in
advance education of its top State administrators, legislators, judges, city mayors,
and other county, community, and State
leaders regarding the Seventh-day Adventist position on Sunday laws. Five
hundred copies of Dateline Sunday, U.S.A.
are being distributed by the conference
to these officials, with many warm responses having been received from the
recipients.
+ Robert Whitsett, pastor of the Van
Nuys, California, church, is conducting
Search for Truth meetings through April
6 at his church, assisted by John Alspaugh,
associate pastor. Dr. Lance Judkins, physician and chairman of the church board of
elders, is presenting travelog lectures on
various Middle East countries during the
series.
+ Pacific Union Missionary Volunteer
secretaries and civilian chaplains of the
Pacific Union got a firsthand look at the
military, as well as a closer acquaintance
with the program of help given Adventist
young men in their early military service,
as they recently visited Fort Ord, California, under the guidance of Adventist
Chaplain Joseph T. Powell.
+ Operation Cookie, sponsored by the
Yuba City Adventist church in Northern
California, is sending three-pound metal
cans of cookies, baked by members and
friends, to servicemen of the Sutter and
Yuba City communities now serving in
Vietnam.
+ Australian Evangelist A. Geoffrey Ratcliffe will conduct evangelistic meetings
at the Scottish Rite Temple in Stockton,
California, beginning March 2. The sevenweek series will include Bible and archeology lectures, which will be illustrated by
color slides.
+ Five hundred dozen cookies, a surprise
gift from the campus Pioneer Memorial
church to Andrews University dormitory
students, were distributed February 14
by church deacons and deaconesses. Preparation for the project began about two
months ago, and the cookies were donated
by community women.
Jasper Wayne Band
James Cromwell's caroling band at
Tucson, Arizona, reached their Jasper
Wayne goal in the Ingathering campaign
just closed. Front (from left to right):
Connie Rasmussen, Teddy Cromwell, and
Sherrie Rasmussen. Second row: Dr. Nels
Rasmussen, Jr., Mrs. Nels Rasmussen, Jr.,
Mrs. Leonia Demas, James Cromwell,
and Elmer Volk. Mrs. Fred Dotson, Jr.,
also in the band, is not in the picture.
Mrs. Demas, who has solicited Tucson
merchants for the past 30 years, has
consistently received from $250 to $350
yearly for Ingathering.
Not pictured is Mrs. Ruth Grounds, an
84-year-old member, who writes letters for
her contribution since arthritis confines
her to her chair and walker. This year
her letters brought in $115.
CECILE MC CAMEY
Church Public Relations Secretary
+ The "It Is Written" telecast is again
being shown in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
It began February 11, over WBAP-TV,
channel 5. The re-showing is in connection
with an area-wide evangelistic campaign
by Elden Walters in the Dallas Central
Seventh-day Adventist church, which began February 17.
+ Fifth-grade AU elementary school pupils recently displayed 25 floats depicting
the States and countries represented in
the room personnel (20 States and seven
countries). The diversity of home bases
was occasioned by the fact that many of
the parents, who are attending the AU
School of Graduate Studies and Seminary,
come from various countries.
+ AU Civil Defense Coordinator Gordon
Prenier states that on campus there are
seven shelter areas stocked with survival
rations enough for 1,426 persons. Three
more areas are soon to be surveyed and
stocked, which will furnish shelter for an
added 500 persons. These are established
by the Army Corps of Engineers and are
supplied with enough food to last each
person for 14 days.
+ The ministers of the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference have pledged themselves
to conduct 61 evangelistic crusades during
1968.
+ A new church building has been purchased in Hamburg, Arkansas. W. D.
Welch and M. D. McIntosh will be conducting a series of meetings in this church
in the near future.
+ Thirty-eight visitors attended the
Chino, California, Spanish church on Visitors' Day, some of whom found a church
home. The 80-member church now rejoices in missing members returned to
fellowship, six new Sabbath school members, and two persons attending the pastor's Bible class.
+ Eleven persons were baptized in the
Arkansas-Louisiana Conference in 1967 as
the result of contacts made by literature
evangelists.
+ Teen Time, new open-forum discussion
meeting for youth of the Riverside, California, area, has been initiated by the La
Sierra church. Plans are to hold the forum
bimonthly, according to youth pastor
D. D. Devnich.
HERBERT FORD, Correspondent
+ While on his way to work, John A.
Sinksen, assistant in the Arkansas-Louisiana Book and Bible House, was fatally
injured in an automobile accident, January 30. His wife, Ruth, is employed by
the conference as an accountant.
J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14. 1968
+ On display in the James White Library
exhibit room at Andrews University during the month of February were approximately 40 art works by members of the
art department faculty. The exhibit featured works by Peter D. Erhard, Gregory
Constantine, and department chairman
Irvin Althage. Individual creations varied
in form, ranging from woodcuts and
etchings through cloth-over-plywood works
and sculpture. The works also varied in
subject matter. Biblical themes were the
basis of paintings such as "Lay Not Up for
Yourselves Treasure," and "Lazarus, Come
Forth." Current events found artistic reflection in "A Little War Far, Far, Far
Away," and poetry was made visual in a
sculptured portrayal of "Abou ben Adhem." Of special interest in the exhibit
were woodcuts of two assassinated United
States presidents, Abraham Lincoln and
John F. Kennedy.
+ A weekend of foreign mission emphasis on the La Sierra campus was held recently. Visiting speaker was David H.
Baasch, associate secretary of the General
Conference. The final service featured a
film, Behold the Dreamer.
+ University President David J. Bieber
left March 11 for a three-week tour of
schools abroad affiliated with Loma Linda
University: Middle East College, Beirut,
Lebanon; Seminaire Adventiste, Collonges-sous-Saleve, France; Seminar Marienhoehe, Darmstadt, Germany; and Bogenhofen Seminary, Austria.
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GENERAL NEWS
A Relief Doetor Reports
By DAVID H. UNSELL, M.D.
[Dr. Unsell, a Montana physician, accepted an invitation to serve as a relief doctor to West Africa in
1967. At various times he and his wife wrote to the
General Conference. These excerpts from their letters
were selected by R. R. Frame, associate secretary of
the General Conference.]
DEAR ELDER FRAME:
Now I am home and soon will be back
in my old routine again, but my thoughts
and no small part of my heart are far
away.
Thank you for inviting me to go as a
relief physician to the Kwahu Hospital,
in Ghana. After spending three months
at Kwahu, I served for two months as
relief physician at the Jengre Hospital,
Northern Nigeria, at the invitation of the
West African Union. This has been a
great experience.
Every day we worked in Jengre was a
new thrill. Just to be with our dear chil-
AVENUES TO /el
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1).a.ote4e
By H. M. TIPPETT
Amos R. Wells, for half a century active in religious journalism, out of his
wealth of reading experience wrote a
poem on books. From it we quote a
stanza with this stimulating thought:
"Before you read a book and make it
yours,
Bethink you of the parable of seeds:
You are the book's more than the book
is yours.
Not openly but inwardly its roots
Will pierce and thrive. Preparing in the
dark,
Some day its pallid shoot will break the
mold,
Some day the book will show itself
abroad
And make a garden of your face, your
hands,
Your tongue and eyes, the very life you
live.
For all the elements conspire with books,
To make them grow; you cannot keep
them down."
We are devoting our column this week
to one very important book just off the
Review and Herald press: Vatican II—
Bridging the Abyss, by B. B. Beach. 352
pages, $6.95.
The following evaluation of this momentous hook is by Andrew Fearing of
the General Conference Ministerial Department:
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dren and darling grandson, Davy, to eat
together, to go to church and Sabbath
school with them in our mission church,
was a wonderful experience.
The people in Africa are very precious,
and I felt sad to leave them, for I felt
they needed me. The day we left for
home a pretty Hausa woman who has
eight children came running to bring
Mrs. Unsell a present to take home to
America. It was a dozen eggs. She could
not speak a word of English, but Ken
told her that we could not take eggs with
us on the plane, for it was too far to our
house in America. She looked so disappointed and tears were running down
her face as she told Mrs. Unsell good-by.
My wife cried too, for she really loved her
and will be looking forward to seeing her
in God's kingdom.
"I have just finished reading a book
that in my opinion should be thoughtfully
studied by all Seventh-day Adventists. It
is not an ordinary work but a unique,
comprehensive analysis of present-day
Catholicism in the light of the recent
Ecumenical Council of the Catholic
Church, known today as Vatican II.
Seventh-day Adventists would be wise to
give scholarly consideration to the actions of this council and its subsequent
developments in the light of the gospel
commission and from a Biblical and
prophetic standpoint.
"The world is faced with a remodeled
Catholic Church with some changes in
attitudes and procedures. Only by becoming fully acquainted with the decisions
and the possibly far-reaching results of
Vatican II can a person arrive at a correct assessment of present-day Catholicism. The gulf between the Vatican and
Protestantism is steadily diminishing as
friendly hands are crossing both ways
with a view of hastening reunion through
various bridge-building endeavors.
"Are we prepared, are we in a position
of knowledgeable strength, to deal fairly
and intelligently with the new Rome in
such areas as ecumenism, Bible scholar.
ship, historical reliability of the Bible,
universal judgment, second coming of
Christ, church history, calendar reform,
religious liberty, Mary as mediatrix, salvation, social problems, birth control,
poverty, culture, war, hunger, peace, evangelism, proselyting, divine origin of the
week, worship, and many other council
considerations?
"Dr. Beach's book, Vatican II—Bridging the Abyss, will be welcomed by every
serious student of current religious
trends."
I had a firsthand insight into mission
work and the life of a primitive people
and the opportunity to see strange diseases that would never be seen in the
United States—an insight that can be obtained only by being there, an experience that cannot be weighed in dollars
and cents. If I have been of some service
in filling the gap and in upholding the
hands of our devoted missionaries, I shall
feel well repaid for my venture.
During this time I examined more
than 3,000 patients, performed 175 operations (112 majors and 63 minors),
representing 23 different major procedures and 17 different minor procedures.
Aside from the cultural advantages and
the professional medical interest in this
experience, there is a spiritual tugging
at your heart when you leave people who
seem to be benefited by your presence
and who beg you to stay, like one Fulani
man who said to me, "When you left one
year ago I never expected to see you
again [Dr. Unsell visited Nigeria in
1966]. Many times I would see you in
my sleep, but always when I woke up
you were not there. Now you are back
again. I am glad. Now you say you are
soon leaving. I won't see you any more.
I want you to stay 20 years, maybe 30.
I don't want you to go away. I cry too
much!"
This part of the world cannot be compared to the homeland. Would you like
to hear the jungle come to life as darkness drops like a curtain over the tropics,
and hear the throaty bark of the giant
fruit bat three blocks away, or stand in
the dark where he hangs in a tree 15 feet
above you, or listen to the babylike cry
of the tree-bear that echoes through the
forest for one third of a mile, or hear the
distant beating of the talking drums or
the wailing for the dead by people who
have no hope in God?
Would you like to see and hear all
these things? Then come with me to a
land where you walk and work among a
people so primitive that their only clothing is a bunch of leaves, their only farm
tools a hoe and a knife; who live in the
open or at best in mud huts; who eat rats
and bats and ants; who die suddenly from
the witch doctor's poison or the deadly
cobra or viper, or more slowly from
malaria, tetanus, meningitis, typhoid, tuberculosis or cancer; where leprosy and
blindness from onchocerciasis are common; where nearly everyone has either
microfilaria, or schistosomiasis, or hookworm, or tropical ulcer. Yet with all of
this, they can laugh and sing and dance
to the rhythm of their drums, or hurry
to the market or their fields of guinea
corn or maize or millet or groundnuts
with their tools or baskets of produce or
jugs of water balanced on their heads.
Come with me to the land of ivory and
gold and cocoa, of mahogany and precious woods; where bananas, mangoes,
guavas, pawpaws, and palm oil are plentiful; where people chew sugar cane for
candy, and betel nut for gum, and drink
palm wine for fun. Remember that it is
the land of the deadly anopheles mosquito, the black gnat, and the tsetse fly.
Be sure to take your mosquito net along,
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968
Dr. David Unsell (right), who served as relief doctor in West Africa, along with Dr. J. A.
Lennox, medical director of Kwahu Hospital at Mpraeso, Ghana, and two Nigerian nurses.
and don't forget your daraprim or chloroquine, lest you not come back.
This land is the white man's grave and
also the black man's grave. Men and
women are dying of malaria, tetanus,
snake bite, tuberculosis, typhoid, meningitis, poisoning. Women who are pregnant cannot deliver. People have spleens
that fill half the abdomen and livers that
are two or three times their normal size.
If you are past 60 years old, and the
pace of life is becoming monotonous and
seems to be losing some of its charm, then
come. Drop your scalpel or ledger sheet,
hammer or dishcloth. Close your doors,
leave the "rat race," and come where you
will see new places and new faces, share
new problems, face new challenges;
where the service you give would not be
given but for you. This will give you a
thrill you could never know if you stay
where every day is much the same as it
has been for 35 years; and you will agree
with me that life can begin after 60. If
you would do all this, you should have
been with me; for all of these things have
been mine during my service as relief
doctor.
R. L. Kretz, lay activities, Sabbath
school, and public relations secretary
(Minnesota), formerly same position
North Dakota.
Gene Gerdts, pastor, Bucyrus-GalionMarion-Upper Sandusky district (Ohio),
formerly chaplain, Porter Memorial Hospital.
George Kiyabu, pastor, Denver Japanese church (Colorado), formerly pastor
(Hawaii).
T. F. Wick, youth pastor, Pacific Union
College, formerly youth co-ordinator
(Colorado).
Robert E. Reynolds, president, Walla
Walla College, formerly president, Atlantic Union College.
Milton Hallock, intern pastor, Portland
district (Northern New England), from
South Lancaster, Massachusetts (Southern
New England).
Robert Edwards, field secretary of conference association and church development secretary (Northern New England),
formerly leader of Manchester, New
Hampshire, district.
Richard C. Valle, biology teacher, At(Continued on page 30)
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GENERAL NEWS
ANSWERING THE CALL
(Continued from page 25)
lantic Union College; he will receive
Doctor of Philosophy degree in zoology
from Syracuse University later this year.
Laurence A. Skinner, association field
representative (Southeastern California),
formerly corporation secretary (Washington).
Alfred M. Matar, pastor, Reno, Nevada
(Nevada-Utah), from Missoula, Montana.
(Conference names appear in parentheses.)
From Home Base to Front Line
Australasian Division
Miss S. Barnard (Sydney Sanitarium
and Hospital), to be nurse, Togoba Hansenide Colony, Goroka, New Guinea, left
Sydney, Australia, January 10. Miss Barnard is a daughter of Pastor L. H. Barnard.
Mr. and Mrs. Glyn Lock, teachers, Betikama School in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, left Sydney, Australia,
January 11.
Beverley Brown, staff member, Jones
Missionary College, Kambubu, near
Rabaul, New Britain, in the BismarckSolomons Union Mission, arrived January
17.
Milton Krause, to be teacher, Helderberg College, South Africa, Mrs. Krause,
and three children sailed on the Southern
Cross from Australia on January 17.
John McMahon, to be teacher, Jones
Missionary College, Kambubu, in the
Bismarck-Solomons Union Mission, and
Mrs. McMahon left January 17.
Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Dever, to be teachers, Jones Missionary College, Kambubu,
New Britain, left North Queensland,
January 22. Mr. Dever is a son of John
Dever, who previously served as a missionary in the Bismarck-Solomons Union
Mission.
Valmai Buxton, worker at Jones Missionary College, Kambubu, New Britain,
arrived January 23.
Anne Blaxell, to be teacher, Jones Missionary College, left Sydney, January 24.
Beverly Wallace, to be teacher, Kabiufa
College, Goroka, New Guinea, arrived
January 22.
M. J. Ward, returning as principal,
Betikama School, Honiara, British Solomon Islands, Mrs. Ward, and four children, sailed January 28.
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This Is the End is the dramatic title of
Arthur S. Maxwell's article beginning on
our cover. The article is based on his 1968
Book of the Year by the same title. With
reference to the end, Elder Maxwell raises
the significant query, "Do I believe it?
Does the church believe it?"
Elder Maxwell was born in London,
England, and attended Stanborough College. From 1920 to 1936 he was editor of
Present Truth at Stanborough Press in
England and from 1925 to 1932 was also
manager of the press. In 1936 he and his
family came to the United States where
he has been editor of Signs of the Times
from 1937 till the present.
Elder Maxwell is the author of many
books and is the Uncle Arthur of the
Uncle Arthur's Bedtime Stories (20 volumes).
Widely discussed these days is the subject of moral standards. Many have
adopted a so-called new morality, which
claims to grant men new liberties. What
voice do Seventh-day Adventists raise in
the wilderness of moral confusion? What
is wrong with premarital sex? For the
answer read Dr. Harland P. Kahler's "The
Case for Purity" (page 2).
Revzew
Born in Oregon, Dr. Kahler is a graduate of Loma Linda University (1933).
He also holds degrees (Bachelor's) in science and modern languages. After years
of private practice he became psychiatrist
in Eastern Oregon State Hospital in
Pendleton, Oregon. Since June, 1966, he
has been senior psychiatrist at Patton
State Hospital, Patton, California.
This week Marye Trim speaks to the
Adventist Woman (page 10). Mrs. Trim is
a missionary's wife working in Bombay,
India. Her husband, John, is Sabbath
school, lay activities, and temperance secretary of Western India Union. She describes
one of her typical busy days and then
ponders the questions, "What does a missionary's wife contribute? What are the
pluses and minuses of being a missionary?"
If an abused Church Hymnal could talk,
what would it say? Clifton Calkins tells
us on page 12. Mr. Calkins is a book
binder of many years' experience and has
operated the binderies in six of our denominational schools. Having rebound
hymnals for hundreds of our churches, he
feels that there is a desperate need for improvement in the way hymnals are handled. His suggestions are worth putting
into practice.
We are happy Adeline Thomas, a
Lutheran, decided on the REVIEW when
she debated as to where to send her article
on the handling of meats in retail outlets. Having worked in several stores, she
felt meat eaters had a right to know what
they were buying. See page 8.
dEsAra_a_
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Atlantic Union College
Board Elects New President
The board of trustees of Atlantic Union
College has elected Dr. Herbert E. Douglass president of the college.
An AUC alumnus, Dr. Douglass succeeds Robert L. Reynolds, who has accepted the presidency of Walla Walla
College. During the current school year
Dr. Douglass has been the acting president
in the absence of Professor Reynolds, presently on graduate study leave.
The newly elected president previously
served as chairman of the department of
religion, later as academic dean. Before
coming to AUC, he taught religion and
theology at Pacific Union College.
CHARLES B. HIRSCH
Michigan Studies Over-all
Academy Development
The size and progress of Michigan's
academy-development program were discussed at the conference constituency
meeting February 25 at Battle Creek. The
delegates considered how to meet the educational needs of all conference youth.
One phase of this program is to be the
discontinuance of Grand Ledge Academy
as a boarding academy at the end of this
school year. Meanwhile, the conference
committee is to give careful study to
operating it as a day academy.
This 12-grade school, now In its tenth
year, is situated on the conference's camp
W. P. BRADLEY
grounds.
Former New York Treasurer
Appointed to Trans-Africa
Vincent A. Fenn has been appointed
treasurer and auditor of the Trans-Africa
Division. He succeeds R. M. Reinhard,
who has joined the General Conference
staff as one of the associate auditors.
Elder Fenn has previously worked as
treasurer of the East Pennsylvania and
New York conferences and of the Middle
East Division. At the time the action was
taken appointing Elder Fenn to this responsibility, he was on his way back to
the mission field to serve as secretary-treasurer of the Central African Union of the
Trans-Africa Division.
A. E. GIBB
3,000 Interested Persons
Found at Haiti Crusade
An estimated 5,000 were present on
the first and second Sunday nights (February 4 and 11) of the evangelistic crusade conducted in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
COMMITTEE MEETS TO STUDY PROBLEMS OF YOUTH
"I want to thank you and your committee for making me a part of this wonderful
meeting today. It was without doubt one
of the most tremendous opportunities I've
ever had.. . .
"It hardly seems possible that you men
in the General Conference could be interested in what we young people have to say.
You were not only interested, but you were
acting on our suggestions."
So wrote a young person from one of
our colleges after attending the Youth
Challenge Committee in the General Conference office February 27.
Seventh-day Adventist
youth today face knotty
problems; they are also
eager to be involved in
the life of their church.
TO
To explore ways and
means of increasing this
involvement and to
search for answers to existing problems, a study
group was appointed by the General Conference officers to meet at GC headquarters February 27. Included in the group
were young men and women from our
universities and colleges across North
America, ministers, departmental leaders,
and administrators on several levels of
church administration.
We spent the day in general discussion
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and in subcommittees, studying problems
of both spiritual and social significance.
We discussed the possibility of enlarging
the present student missionary program,
of the introduction of an Adventist volunteer service corps for service at home and
abroad. We considered denominational
periodicals, church services, Sabbath school
lessons, and MV programs. We talked
about and planned for more involvement
in needed work in the inner cities of North
America, of opening more channels of
communication between youth and oldsters in an endeavor to bridge the "generation gap." The subject of witnessing
more effectively for Christ both on Seventh-day Adventist and non-Adventist
campuses was explored.
We did not expect to solve all the problems, and we did not solve all the problems. We did have free, frank, helpful
discussions, and the committee has prepared a series of recommendations that
will be submitted to the General Conference officers for consideration. These will
be given careful study, and we are hopeful that some new plans for youth involvement will emerge. We also hope that similar meetings of youth and youth leaders
may convene in the future so that we may
plan more solidly for youth participation
in the finishing of the work.
ROBERT H. PIERSON
by W. W. Fordham, associate secretary of
the General Conference Regional Department. More than 1,000 were in attendance
during week nights. In two weeks' time
the list of interested has grown to nearly
3,000. Associated with Elder Fordham
are a number of Haitian workers, with
whom a daily class on evangelism is conducted.
H. D. SINGLETON
Ekamai Students Conduct
Youth Campaign in Bangkok
As the result of a Voice of Youth series
of meetings and the Week of Prayer at
the Ekamai Adventist School in Bangkok,
Thailand, 204 students made their decision for Christ. This school is comprised
of some 900 students, of whom only 10
per cent are Adventists. Two of the nonSeventh-day Adventist speakers decided
to become Christians. One was the president of the senior class. Of the 204 students, 113 were from the upper grades
and 91 from the lower grades. This is a
great victory for God in this land of
Buddhism.
The Voice of Youth services, under
the direction of John Harris, pastor and
teacher, were held during the Sabbath
school period each week, because the students are not required to attend the
church services.
After the Voice of Youth series, Gil J.
Bertochini, MV secretary of the Far Eastern Division, conducted a Week of Prayer
at the school. For the first time in the
history of the school, a testimony service
was conducted on Friday evening, in
which the youth testified of their acceptance of Jesus. So great was the response
that again on Sabbath morning scores
more publicly acknowledged Christ as
their Saviour.
From every country of the world similar thrilling stories come to our world
headquarters revealing the ever-increasing tempo of MV TARGET evangelism.
LAWRENCE NELSON
Thousands Attend Meetings
in Stockholm, Sweden
Between 7,000 and 8,000 people attended the opening services of a citywide evangelistic campaign conducted by
J. F. Coltheart in Stockholm, Sweden.
This is good news, for in Sweden it has
been difficult to get people to listen to
the preaching of the gospel. Prospects
are bright for a good ingathering of
souls. Pastor Coltheart is the evangelist
for the Northern European Division.
N. R. DOWER
South American Bookmen
Report $2.6 Million Sales
South American literature evangelists
sold $2,617,703.61 worth of Christian literature during 1967, according to P. S.
Camacho, division publishing secretary.
The previous year's sales were $2,533,112.86. This advance in sales is a part of
the $10 million goal for this quadrennium
in the South American Division.
R. A. WILCOX
REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968