Our heartfelt thanks as the PoH team for all the emails with encouraging words that we con- tinue to receive and we continue to pray that you will pray for this ministry and that we may provide the saints of the Living God with solids.
As some of you may be aware, we have not been able to distribute copies of this newsletter at
church after the initial distribution that we did outside church grounds. The over-arching reason
is that we were given a stringent set of rules, grievous to be borne, under which we would be
allowed to distribute the newsletter. One of them included handing over editorial rights of the
newsletter to the elders who would then decide on what could be printed and what not, as well
as allowing them the right to shelve an entire issue; all this without a right to appeal their deci-
sion. While they have their reasons for the demands, which we must respect, we could not with
clear conscience acquiesce to their desires of dictating content to us and hence our restraint
from handing out the newsletter and choosing rather to email it to you.
One of the issues that haunted us with the decisions taken was that we have a contingent of
church members that do not have access to the internet who were thus being deprived of a
chance to read this newsletter. However, we are glad to let you know that God has answered
our prayers. A friend from America made a donation to Prisoners of Hope which has allowed
us to top up and purchase a color printer for the ministry. This generous donation will also al-
low us to post a number of copies of this newsletter to people that do not have access to email.
We therefore appeal to you dear readers, to please email us the names and physical addresses
of Adventists that do not have access to email whom you would like to receive copies of this
newsletter and we will endeavor by faith to post copies of the newsletter to all of them. We
once again ask that you keep us constantly in your prayers.
Have you ever found yourself in what is for many of us an awkward position of having to ex- plain to someone why it is that you believe that the God that you serve is the true God and that the others are imposters? Have you ever found yourself having to answer to the question as to why you believe that the Bible is true in every particular and why it should be held in higher esteem than other religious blueprints such as the Quran? If you have found yourself in such a position, how did you respond? Did you have a ready answer on your lips? Did you stutter and mumble a response and later kick yourself for missing out on a valuable witnessing opportu- nity? If you have not been asked those questions, what responses went through your mind as you read the question?
Unfortunately, far too many of us do not truly know nor understand why we believe what we
believe. Unfortunately too many of us do not ask ourselves the probing questions that we
should. Unfortunately too many of us cannot even begin to give a semblance of a defense for
our core doctrines. I found myself having to respond to these questions in the last month and
they really set my brain in motion. Unfortunately, to discover my advice on handling these
challenges you will have to wait for the next newsletter but I encourage you to in the meantime
ask those questions of yourself and fashion a ready response lest it be required of thee.
even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. H usbands, love your wives, even as
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to him- self a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself. For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord
and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined
meek yet st r ong. H e was never forceful or domineering, never churlish, never critical and
act towards your wives the same way Jesus would? Or do you lord it over them until there is nothing Christ- like in your bearing? Would Jesus ever shout and rant
was never proud, never desired to force people to ac- cept Him and His views. When about to be stoned to death, H e just disappeared from the scene, even
H usbands, when your children anger you, how do you respond? Do you punish in anger, or do you kneel and pray with them, showing them where they have erred and how it affects their relationship with their true
Father; and only then discipline with love? Can your
children come to you with any problem, knowing that
you care and will do anything to help them? Do your
nance and pleasant tones with which he has all day greeted visitors and
strangers. Let the wife feel that she can lean upon the large affections of her hus- band,--that his arms will
minds us to be sunshiny Christians, to spread the at mospher e of heaven
to violate God's holy day by playing in the house or out of doors. You may just as well break the Sabbath your- selves as to let your children do it, and when you suffer your children to wander about, and suffer them to play upon the Sabbath, God looks upon you as Sabbath-
their law. Will not parents wake up to their duty be-
fore it shall be too late, and take hold of the work in
earnest, redeem the time, and make unsparing efforts
to save their children? RH 09-19-54
Are the children
not his as well as
hers
us, religion has not been made as cheerful as it is. The gospel is in itself GOOD news. But children tend to be browbeaten into it, and as a result, the pure truths of
the Sabbath, there is time for the Father to read Bible sto- ries to the young child, to go over the Sabbath school les- sons with the older child. There is time for the family to raise their voices in praise to the Lord of the Sabbath.
ent and Spirit- filled worship, morning and
our youth are becoming infidels at heart, because of the lack of devotion in their parents. The law of God should be the law of the household
cause contention and debate among those who discuss the topic and yet such clear counsel is given on the mat- ter that no person should be left confused. Not only
animals? The answer, from the light that God has given is, No, decidedly No. Health reform institutions should educate on this question. Physicians who claim to un- derstand the human organism ought not to encourage their patients to subsist on the flesh of dead animals.
cause contention and debate among those who discuss the topic and yet such clear counsel is given on the mat- ter that no person should be left confused. Not only
rious question. Shall human beings live on the flesh of dead animals? The answer, from the light that God has given is, No, decidedly No. Health reform institutions should educate on this question. Physicians who claim to understand the human organism ought not to en-
that very few animals are free from disease, and that the pr act i ce of eat i ng lar gely of meat i s contr act i ng di seases of all kinds,-- cancers, tumors, scrofula, tuberculosis,
the cause of their illness. Visitations to various doctors will be made numerous times and yet all that they will do is remove the symptoms instead of the cause of the
