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 EDITOR'S VIEWPOINT
Changes Follow Surrender
TRUTH that needs to be repeated over and
over is that man is saved only by accept-
ing Jesus Christ. "As many as received
him, to them gave he power to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on his name"
(John 1:12). To be saved, a person must be con-
fronted by Christ. He must accept His sub-
stitutionary death. He must surrender to His will.
He must accept His righteousness, by faith.
In this respect the current emphasis by youth
and others on the concept "Preach Christ" is
commendable. It is in harmony with Ellen G.
White's counsel: "Christ crucified—talk it, pray it,
sing it, and it will break and win hearts. This is
the power and wisdom of God to gather souls for
Christ."—Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 67.
What the Bible Teaches
But unfortunately some do not understand what
it means to "preach Christ." If anyone suggests
that commitment to Christ calls for drastic changes
in the life—breaking bad habits, changing one's
diet, modifying one's appearance, making new
friends; in short, developing a totally new life
style—they protest. They argue that how one eats,
dresses, or spends his money is "a personal
matter"; that anyone who urges changes in these
phases of life has "stopped preaching and has
started meddling," or has become legalistic.
What does the Bible teach on this question? At
Pentecost when the disciples rehearsed the wonder-
ful story of Christ's birth, life, death, and res-
urrection, the listeners asked, "Men and brethren,
what shall we do?" (Acts 2:37). They recognized
that something was called for on their part.
Immediately Peter responded, "Repent, and be
baptized" (verse 38). Action was called for, and
the first step of that action was repentance.
The Greek word for repent means literally, "to
think differently after." It involves a change of
mind, a new direction of the will. (See The SDA
Bible Commentary, on Matt. 3:2.) A change as dras-
tic as this is bound to affect the life. It involves much
more than mere verbalization of commitment to
Christ. It calls for crucifixion of the old man of
sin (Rom. 6:6).
Like the hearers at Pentecost, when Saul met
Christ on the Damascus road, he asked, "Lord,
what wilt thou have me to do?" (Acts 9:6). Saul
knew that confrontation with the Lord could not
but result in great changes in his life.
Let us be quite specific. Religion is worthless if
confined either to the intellect or to the emotions.
It is counterfeit if merely verbalized and not trans-
lated into the minutiae of everyday living. "The
greatest deception of the human mind in Christ's
day was that a mere assent to the truth constitutes
righteousness. . . . The same danger still exists.
Many take it for granted that they are Christians,
simply because they subscribe to certain theo-
2 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
logical tenets. But they have not brought the truth
into practical life. . . . The righteousness which
Christ taught is conformity of heart and life to the
revealed will of God."—The Desire of Ages, pp.
309, 310.
The early church recognized that Christianity
deals with the details of everyday living. When
some Judean brethren declared that the law of
Moses was still binding, and that all its command-
ments and rites must be observed, including cir-
cumcision, the church called a council to discuss
the question. After due consideration it decided
that believers needed only "to abstain from meats
offered to idols, and from blood, and from things
strangled, and from fornication" (Acts 15:29).
The members understood full well that Christian-
ity deals with all aspects of a person's life. Christ
has something to say on even the smallest details
of living.
At Corinth those who heard Paul preach,
cleaned up their libraries. They recognized that
some kinds of literature are incompatible with
commitment to Christ. Therefore they "brought
their books together, and burned them before all
men" (Acts 19:19). Paul "preached Christ," but
his preaching produced drastic changes in the
lives of his hearers.
"What Would Jesus Do?"
That Christianity insists on regulating one's
conduct should be clear to anyone who has read
the Ten Commandments. Succinctly but compre-
hensively God's law spells out the do's and don'ts,
the specifics, of the Christian life. "Don't worship
idols; don't take God's name in vain; do keep the
Sabbath; do honor your parents; et cetera." The
entire life of Jesus was a fulfillment of the law, a
manifestation of what it means to accept the entire
revealed will of God. Therefore, when a person
truly accepts Christ, he at the same time accepts
His law. Christianity is Christ, and Christ is
Christianity; therefore when one accepts Christ He
accepts the totality of what Christ was. He accepts
Christ's will, His attitudes, His character, His
principles, His goals. In every decision of life he
finds it appropriate to ask, "What would Jesus
do?"
Revival is popular today. Conversation about
religion is popular. Talking about Christ is pop-
ular. This is good. At the same time we must watch
for the superficial and counterfeit. Today, as ever
in the past, anyone who truly wants to be saved
will turn a deaf ear to those whose siren song
carries the refrain, "Just preach Jesus; keep
salvation on the comfortable, abstract level." In-
stead they will listen to the true Shepherd, who
said: "If any man will come after me, let him
deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow
me" (Matt. 16:24).
K. H. W.
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WORLD METHODISM TO TAKE
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WESLEY CHAPEL
HARROGATE, ENGLAND—A special
commission will survey the future of
Wesley's Chapel—sometimes called the
"cathedral of Methodism"—in London's
City Road in the heart of the capital.
Wesley's Chapel, in whose preservation
American and Ghanaian Methodists are al-
ready reported showing interest, was built
by John Wesley in 1777. On the site his
body is entombed and, adjoining, is the
house (now a museum) where he spent
the last 12 years of his life.
Reporting on its condition to the Con-
ference here, the Chapel Committee said
heavy expenditure on structural repairs
had brought the situation to a head.
"The truth is that an effective member-
ship of about 50 people, many of them
elderly and poor, cannot carry the full
burden of maintaining in a fitting manner
the aging fabric of the Mother Church of
World Methodism."
POPE CALLS FOR PROTECTION
OF JERUSALEM
NEW YORK—Commenting on Pope
Paul's call for the protection of Jerusalem
by "a special statute guaranteed by an
international treaty," the president of the
American Jewish Committee said his
agency wondered "why there is a need to
raise these issues at this time."
Philip E. Hoffman said that "objective
Christian and non-Christian observers have
publicly testified . . . that free access to the
Holy Places has never been as secure to
Christians, Muslims, and Jews as it has
been ever since coming under Israeli juris-
diction."
In an address to the College of Cardi-
nals and other Curia leaders June 24, Pope
Paul asked for the special protection for
ts. Jerusalem, stating that the city enjoys "a
a
unique and mysterious destiny," and assert-
ing that it "should thus better be able
O to become no longer an object of impla-
cable controversy and endless dispute, but
a meeting place of peace and faith."
THREE-WAY MERGER OF
DENOMINATIONS IN BELGIUM
BRUSSELS—The. Protestant Church of
Belgium has officially voiced "its intention
to unite" with two other denominations in
this predominantly Roman Catholic coun-
try.
The 20,000-member Protestant Church
was constituted after a 1969 merger of the
Evangelical Church and the United Meth-
odist Church in Belgium.
Other parties in the present three-way
talk are the Gereformeerde Kerken, a Re-
formed denomination, and the Eglise Chre-
tienne Missionaire Beige, which comes from
Swiss and French Protestant traditions.
BRITAIN'S CHURCHES GO "ALL
OUT" FOR PAKISTANI REFUGEES
LONDON—All records for Christian aid
are being broken in Britain as charities and
relief organizations speed ahead with mas-
sive support in cash and kind for the mil-
lions of cholera-menaced East Pakistani
refugees in India.
Leaders of the Anglican and Roman Cath-
olic churches issued stirring appeals, but
before these were in print many thousands
of dollars were donated and vaccines, med-
icines, money, and materials were on their
way to the stricken subcontinent.
The biggest individual relief operation
was an India-Pakistan Relief Fund launched
by the Disasters Emergency Committee, a
permanent body representing Oxfam, Chris-
tian Aid, War on Want, the Red Cross, and
the Save the Children Fund.
Within three days of its launching, this
fund was officially stated to have received
$1.2 million. In 24 hours alone its London
headquarters received 28,000 letters of sup-
port. But this was in addition to many thou-
sands of other dollars raised by dozens of
smaller charities and church organizations
throughout the country.
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Although photo and art credits usu-
ally appear at the bottom of this column,
we want to make an exception this week
in order to give a bit more mention to
our cover artist, Ray Dabrowski. Ray is
a journalism intern who is on the RE-
VIEW staff this summer. Other credits
appear below as usual.
The Review and Herald journalism
internship program began the summer
of 1967 when Pat Horning became its
first intern to work on the church
paper. At the end of the summer Pat
returned to Southern Missionary Col-
lege where she graduated with honors
and then joined the staff of Liberty
magazine. After a little more than a
year at Liberty, she was appointed to
help start the new youth paper, Insight,
as associate editor. She was a worthy
first intern.
Since that time there have been five
other interns on the staff of the church
paper, including Ray this summer. Two
former interns are at overseas publish-
ing houses in editorial capacities. Ray,
who is from Andrews University com-
pleting a Master's degree in journalism,
is preparing to return to his native
Poland, where he will be involved in
the publishing work.
Also briefly involved in the REVIEW
internship program this summer was
James R. Gallagher, from Columbia Un-
ion College. Although the majority of
his time was spent in the Insight office,
he spent two weeks with the REVIEW.
Now, with his internship completed,
James has been employed as a part-time
worker on the Insight editorial staff.
In about three weeks school will open.
Christian teachers are already preparing
for the school year. They need our
prayers as they plan to train young
people who will lead this church.
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N.E.B. are from The New English Bible. © The
Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the
Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1970.
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In these permissive days when private education
is in deep trouble, we may well ask a vital
question—

WHITHER
Seventh-day
Adventist
Education?
By ROBERT H. PIERSON

T
HE chief thing aimed at in
this college is to teach and
engage children to know
God in Jesus Christ, and to love and
serve Him with all sobriety, godli-
ness, and richness of life, with a per-
fect heart and a willing mind: and
train them in all virtuous habits,
and all useful knowledge . . . useful
to the public weal."'
Believe it or not, these words are
part of the statement of purpose of
King's College, one of the schools
comprising Columbia University
when the college was founded in
1754.
Columbia University has come a
long way since those words of faith
were written! Not many months ago
its campus was a kaleidoscope of
protest, violence, and vandalism.
Burning, beating, and defiance were
the order of the day. Had the found-
ing fathers of this once-Christian in-
stitution miraculously returned to
their campus during these demon-
strations they would have been
shocked to see their school, once
Robert H. Pierson is the president
of the 'General Conference of Sev-
enth-day Adventists.
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dedicated to godliness, sobriety, and
richness of life, wrapped in flames
and rocked by godless violence.
The prophet Hosea aptly de-
scribed what is happening on too
many formerly Christian campuses
today: "They have sown the wind,
and they shall reap the whirl-
wind." Z When a Christian school,
whether it be Columbia University
or any other such institution, turns
its back upon God, divests itself of
the last vestiges of the Christian
faith, and ridicules God's law, it
should not be surprised when trou-
ble comes and violence takes over.
Campuses Aflame
Columbia University is an illus-
tration of what has happened in
many formerly church-oriented col-
leges across North America. Harvard,
Dartmouth, Yale, Princeton, and a
host of other centers of learning
founded upon Christian principles
have proclaimed their independ-
ence from the churches that gave
them birth.
We have seen the results of such
"emancipation." During the past
few years American campuses have
been awash with protest and vio-
lence. Taxpayers are callously sad-
dled with multiplied millions of
dollars to pay for the damage ex-
tremists have wreaked upon centers
of learning.
A widely read Christian journal
neatly wraps up what is happening
throughout the Christian educa-
tional system of America today in
an editorial: "Born in the womb of
the Christian faith, institutions of
higher learning were formerly the
friends and fearless advocates of
that faith. Today they often stand
as the enemies and assailants of his-
toric Christianity. Faster than the
pulpits of the land can attract
young people to Christ the colleges
turn them out as skeptics and ag-
nostics."
What Has Brought About
These Conditions?
To answer fully the question,
What has brought about these con-
ditions on campus? would be a sep-
arate treatise. A brief answer would
include socio-economic pressures, fi-
nancial demands, organizational
weaknesses, intellectual factors, the-
ological problems, and perhaps an
understanding of international poli-
tics.
The theological aspects of the
problem are most closely related to
our discussion today. The evolu-
tionary hypothesis made deep in-
roads into the spiritual life and
thought of these campuses. There
has been a subtle, and sometimes
not so subtle, denial of the full au-
thority and inspiration of the Bible.
This has been coupled with a rejec-
tion of the basic beliefs of the Chris-
tian faith—a seven-literal-day-fiat
Creation, the binding claims of the
law of God, the virgin birth of Jesus
Christ, the miracles, the vicarious
atonement, and the physical resur-
rection of our wonderful Lord and
Saviour.
Secularism, humanism, determin-
ism, liberalism, have moved in to
fill the vacuum. The results? When
God is dismissed, when His law is
flouted, when Christ is repudiated,
there is nothing left as far as a
stabilizing Christian faith is con-
cerned. The result is spiritual
chaos, and, in many cases, physical
chaos as well.
What About Seventh-day Adventist
Schools in Such an Age?
The logical questions, then, are:
What about Seventh-day Adventist
Christian education in such a faith-
less and permissive age of denial?
Will Seventh-day Adventist schools,
planted by God, be anesthetized or
smothered by a godless secularism,
as so many other Christian schools
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
before ours have been buried?
These are vital questions. We dare
not brush them aside as irrelevant.
We must face them honestly and
courageously.
It is my purpose in this message
to tell you why I believe Seventh-
day Adventist schools, with the
help of God, will not succumb to
the ungodly miasma that has been
ut one thing is o f even more importance—
winning and holding our youth
for Christ and His task!
•
fatal to so many formerly Christian
centers of learning. I present here
ten observations on the basis of
which I am full of faith for the fu-
ture of Seventh-day Adventist edu-
cation in this faithless age.
1. The Seventh-day Adventist
Church is not just another church
—one among hundreds. We are here
as a people of prophecy with an as-
signed mission—to proclaim a mes-
sage that will prepare a people for
the literal return of Jesus in our
day. Seventh-day Adventist schools
are not just another parochial
school system appending another R
—religion—to "reading, 'riting, and
'rithmetic!" Our school system—
from kindergarten through graduate
school—is the church in prepara-
tion or, if you please, the church at
work. The work of our schools and
the work of the church cannot be
separated. They compose a unit.
This concept presents a formidable
defense against the permissive
forces of spiritual decadence and
destruction.
2. I have confidence in the God
who called this church, this move-
ment, and its school system into
existence. God has not called this
people or its educational system to
failure! Of course, there will be
problems to meet and battles to
fight. There will be heartaches,
frustrations, and perhaps apostasies,
but failure never! The God who di-
rected in the establishment of Sev-
enth-day Adventist schools will not
forsake them. This is His work and
these are His schools even more
than they are ours! He will assure
that they fulfill His purpose for
them.
3. Seventh-day Adventism is
firmly established upon a Christ-
centered, Bible-based theology.
Christ is our daystar. The pure
Word of God is our strong tower.
Such a solid stance with its deeply
rooted tenets of faith presents a bul-
wark against the attacks of the secu-
larism, humanism, determinism,
and liberalism that have shattered
faith in schools having less certain
confidence.
Firmly Rooted in Christ
The Advent message is firmly
rooted in Christ. He is first, last,
and best in everything! We accept
Christ as our Creator, our Lawgiver,
our Righteousness, our Example,
our one Lord, our High Priest, and
our coming King. Such a stance
leaves scant room for erosion of
faith by default.
When one abolishes the law of
God and repudiates the Lawgiver,
violence and anarchy on campus
should come as no surprise!
Through the centuries the law of
God has been the focal point of Sa-
tanic wrath. One religious system
early sought to change the Ten
Commandments; a few centuries
later a large segment of Christen-
dom sought to abolish the law of
God. Today situation ethicists are
5
seeking to neutralize it by making it
adaptable to every conceivable cir-
cumstance. When God's law is
abrogated the next step is to disre-
gard man's law—and anarchy re-
sults!
Some people tell us doctrine
doesn't matter. "Just talk to us
about Christ; this is sufficient." But
it has not been sufficient in the past,
nor will it prove sufficient in the
days ahead. Christ-centered, Bible-
based, practical, applied theology
has made Seventh-day Adventists a
people—a people with a system of
education that is different. Only
such a theology, under God, will
hold our schools for Him!
4. Seventh-day Adventists believe
in something, and they are willing
to pay for what they believe! Some
church-related schools are in deep
financial trouble today. With their
faith gone, financial support has
diminished to the danger point.
Seventh-day Adventists, with
their abiding confidence in God and
His leadings in our history, are will-
ing to sacrifice to keep their schools
what God intended them to be—
different from the faithless educa-
tion offered by many schools in the
land.
What under God has made our
unique educational system possible?
Where have the multimillion-dol-
lars' worth of investments come
from? Do these dollars come pri-
marily from wealthy constituents?
From rich endowment funds? From
government aid? You know the an-
swer. Basically the money required
to build and operate Seventh-day
Adventist schools comes from men
and women generally of very modest
means.
Money From Committed People
But—and never forget it—this
money comes from committed men
and women who believe in some-
thing. They believe in the Advent
message—in the return of Christ in
our day. They are possessed with
more than a dream—they are a peo-
ple with a blessed hope and they
are willing to give and give and give
to assure the early fruition of that
hope!
This blessed hope has made us a
people—a different people—a pe-
culiar people, as the apostle Peter
declares. It has made us a people
with some standards, a people who,
with God's help, are determined to
keep our schools different.
Don't let anyone tell you doctrine
doesn't matter! Let these Christ-
centered doctrines and these stand-
ards be taken away, diminish their
urgency, sow seeds of doubt con-
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cerning their importance, and you
will have church-related schools
rapidly slipping into the pattern of
schools of the world about us, with
indifferent financial support.
5. One of the distinguishing
marks of the church of the remnant
is the gift of prophecy God has
placed in our midst. We understand
well why this gift, along with others,
has been bestowed.
"And he gave some, apostles; and
some, prophets; and some, evan-
gelists; and some, pastors and teach-
ers; for the perfecting of the saints,
for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ: till
we all come in the unity of the
faith, and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of
the fulness of Christ: that we hence-
forth be no more children, tossed to
and fro, and carried about with
every wind of doctrine, by the
sleight of men, and cunning crafti-
ness, whereby they lie in wait to de-
ceive."
A Deciding Role
Note well the apostle's words:
"for the perfecting of the saints,"
"for the edifying of the body of
Christ," "till we all come in the
unity of the faith," "that we hence-
forth be no more children, tossed to
and fro, and carried about . . . by
the sleight of men."
God has greatly blessed this
church with such a gift! This gift, if
rightly utilized, will play a deciding
role in holding our schools for Him!
6. Through the gift of prophecy
the Lord has given this people a
philosophy of Christian education
that can hold our schools for God
in a permissive generation.
"We are under solemn, sacred
covenant to God to bring up our
children, not for the world, not to
put their hands into the hands of
the world, but to love and fear God,
and to keep His commandments.
We are to instruct them to work in-
telligently in Christ's lines, to pre-
sent a noble, elevated Christian
character to those with whom they
associate. For this reason our
schools have been established, that
youth and children may be so edu-
cated as to exert an influence for
God in the world."
Notice well those words, "For this
reason our schools have been estab-
lished." "Not for the world, . . . but
to love and fear God." Here is the
basic reason Seventh-day Adventist
schools have been called into exist-
ence. This is the mission of our edu-
cational system! Professional excel-
lence we must have. But one thing
is of even more importance—win-
ning and holding our youth for
Christ and His last-day message!
"The knowledge of God and of
Jesus Christ expressed in character
is the very highest education."
What a heritage—to have schools in
which the very highest type of edu-
cation (character education) is be-
ing taught to our youth! The ser-
vant of the Lord further declares
that our schools are to be cities of
"refuge for the tempted youth."
They are to "fortify the youth
against the temptations of the
enemy." 8 Not only are our schools
to shield from temptation, they are
to bring the youth "directly under a
saving influence," ° and to safeguard
them against "infidel sentiments.'
No other educational system since
the schools of the prophets has of-
fered such a bulwark. Further, our
schools are to educate youth as ac-
tive workers for Christ,' to qualify
them for "usefulness in this life and
for the service of God throughout
eternity."
We may succeed in filling the
minds of youth with facts—and
facts are important; we may pre-
pare them as useful citizens in this
life—and surely this must be one of
our objectives; but we can do this
and fail as Seventh-day Adventist
Christian educators unless we do
more! Our first work is to bring
boys and girls, young men and
young women, face to face with the
Lord Jesus Christ and His last-day
message, to develop them into loyal,
born-again Christian youth com-
mitted to the preaching of the Ad-
vent message to every kindred,
tongue, and people in this genera-
tion.
We Must Not Fail
This is the divinely appointed
mission of Seventh-day Adventist
schools! We must not fail to keep
this mission clearly and truly before
us every hour of every day! These
goals and purposes must be the goals
and purposes of each educator. Our
God and our church expect no less
of every educator, every board mem-
ber—yes, of every member of God's
remnant church.
7. The Seventh-day Adventist
Church has a closely knit system of
organization that will be used of
God to' hold us together. Some
churches that have failed to hold
their schools have followed the con-
gregational type of organization.
This loosely knit form of church
polity tends to weakness in theolog-
ical unity.
The Seventh - day Adventist
Church organization is closely knit.
Conference presidents serve on
union college boards, with the
union president as chairman. Local
pastors and other responsible work-
ers serve on local conference institu-
tional boards. The way in which
other personnel of our school
boards are appointed also helps tie
institutions closely to the sponsor-
ing organization, thus assuring
unity. Lay members, including
women and minority groups, are
also represented. This is certainly
God's plan.
8. I have confidence in the com-
mitted educational leaders in our
church. My association with secre-
taries of education on all levels of
administration, our university lead-
ers, our college presidents and acad-
emy principals, our school princi-
pals, leads me to believe they love
this message as much as I do. They
are eager to follow the blueprint of
Christian education. It would be
strange indeed if among our hun-
dreds of educational leaders and
thousands of teachers there were
not some who would lean toward
the world and disappoint us. But
by and large we have a team of
educators who will give their all in
carrying on the kind of institutions
the Lord would have Seventh-day
Adventists operate today.
Youth Love the Church
9. I have confidence in the main-
stream of Seventh-day Adventist
young people in our schools. There
may be some protesters and rebels
among the thousands who attend
our schools, and we should always
listen to the complaints of youth,
but I believe most of our young peo-
ple, even those who protest, love
the church and want to serve the
Lord.
10. Finally, I believe that Sev-
enth-day Adventist schools will not
succumb to the wiles and the pres-
sures of a secular society, because
,God has promised His leaders all
the help they need to hold these
institutions for Him. He assures us:
"Lo, I am with you alway, even
unto the end of the world," and
that "where sin abounded, grace
did much more abound." And
God assures every worker that
"when a burden bearer desires wis-
dom more than he desires wealth,
power, or fame, he will not be dis-
appointed. Such a one will learn
from the Great Teacher not only
what to do, but how to do it in a
way that will meet with the divine
approval,"
"When God sees us doing all we
can on our part, then He will help
us. Angels will aid us, and we shall
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
be strong through Christ strength-
ening us." "
These are wonderfully reassuring
promises to those who are cast in
the role of educators, board mem-
bers, and parents interested in hold-
ing our schools for God.
Read these words over and over
again. They contain a precious
promise of ultimate victory: "Our
institutions of learning may swing
into worldly conformity. Step by
step they may advance to the world;
but they are prisoners of hope, and
God will correct and enlighten
them, and bring them back to their
upright position of distinction from
the world." "
With these precious promises
ringing in our ears, we may press
FOR THE YOUNGER SET
Weeds in the Corn Patch
By ELLA RUTH ELKINS
FREDDIE groaned aloud as he drew
his sleeve across his sweaty forehead.
He bit his lips to keep from crying.
They tasted salty and felt gritty with
dust.
"Why didn't I do this job last week?"
He looked up at the sun slanting to-
ward the western sky. "I thought for
sure it'd be all right if I didn't hoe this
corn then. When dad thought I was
hoeing corn I was over at Larry's play-
ing ball. Then I got that scolding when
I came home and I promised to do the
weeds this week instead. Now just
look!" Freddie banged on the ground
with his hoe. "I hate corn! When I
grow up I'll never have corn. I hate
weeds, too. When I grow up I'll never
have weeds either! I'll buy good land—
land without weeds." He gave a few
wild blows at the base of a cornstalk.
The stalk fell to the ground.
"What'd you say, son?" It was
mother. She was picking corn for sup-
per. Freddie didn't know she was in
the field so near him. He had thought
he was alone. He blushed at the fallen
cornstalk and hoped that she hadn't
seen what had happened, nor heard
what he'd said.
"Oh, I didn't say anything much. I
only wish these weeds weren't so big. I
can't seem to get them all out. I can't
even pull them out without getting
sandburs in my hands, and some of the
weeds are too tough to chop. Oh, why
did we have to grow corn anyway? Now
I can't play ball today."
"You always used to have time to
play ball after weeding the corn. Why
can't you now?"
"Because! just because!" He didn't
want to have to remind her of his
neglected duty last week.
"Well, hoeing the corn just once a
week shouldn't be such a tough job."
Mother had enough corn for supper,
forward courageously. Vigilance
will be the price of the spiritual
victory that must and will be ours.
This is no time to drift, or to relax.
We face a persistent foe, but we
lead our forces under the banner of
Prince Emmanuel and with Him
there is no failure! ++
Quoted by Safara A. Witmer, Ph.D., in Chlis-
tianity Today, May 11, 1959.
" Hosea 8:7.
"Christianity Today, Sept. 11, 1961.
4 Eph. 4:11-14.
'Fundamentals of Christian Education, p. 289.
"Counsels to Parents and Teachers, p. 37.
Education, p. 293.
"Counsels to Parents and Teachers, p. 495.
Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 295.
10 Counsels to Parents and Teachers, p. 45.
n Ibid., p. 493.
-12 Ibid., p. 495.
'" Matt. 28:20.
14 Rom. 5:20.
"Prophets and Kings, p. 31.
16 Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 663.
Fundamentals of Christian Education, p. 290.
and she turned and went back into the
house.
No, thought Freddie, hoeing corn
just once a week wasn't anything com-
pared to this. In his heart he knew the
reason. It was because the weeds were
two weeks old and were almost full
grown. Their root had anchored deep
and strong into the soil. Weeds, like
wrong habits, are much easier to keep
down if they are taken care of when
first noticed. Maybe it wasn't such a
good idea to hoe weeds only once a
week, either.
As much as he would have liked to,
Freddie didn't give up. He kept on
hoeing, hour after hour. His back
ached, his arms ached, his hands
burned from blisters, and his eyes
smarted.
Must be that cornsilk bothering my
eyes again, he thought. Sure is itchy.
But on and on he worked. Pretty
soon his stomach began to growl and
feel empty. The long shadows told him
it must be nearly six o'clock, and he
wasn't quite through yet. He went to
the water pump and took a long drink,
then washed his face and neck. He took
his shoes and socks off and ran the cool
water over his feet. After a bit he re-
turned to the weeds again. They didn't
look so discouraging after a cool drink
of water and a clean face. He picked
up the hoe and went at them again
faster than ever. It would soon be sup-
pertime, and he wanted to be able to
tell his parents the weeds were all done.
He could enjoy his supper better, too.
At last a weary, but relieved, Freddie
dragged himself to the back-porch
door. He leaned the hoe against the
side of the house and went in to clean
up for supper. It was a good feeling to
have that hard job behind him. Never
again would he let weeds get ahead of
him.
7
Messages of the Old Testament Prophets-17
Habakkuk,
a Free Thinker
By DESMOND FORD
F1 VERY agonizing "why" that
pierces the heart of the
twentieth-century Christian
is but an echo of similar cries ut-
tered by the inspired writers of
Scripture. "There is nothing new
under the sun" and the temptation
to doubt is as old as the world.
Habakkuk lived in the latter part
of the seventh century B.C. when
the world was dark with ignorance
of God, and totalitarian powers of
unimaginable cruelty exercised des-
potic sway. At that time the light
of special revelation entrusted to
little Judah flickered, and was al-
most extinguished. The 55-year
reign of Manasseh had left the
chosen people in a pitiable plight.
Crime and blasphemy filled the
land. Josiah's reforms, though well
intentioned, accomplished only su-
perficial improvements. To the
godly the outlook was dim and dis-
couraging. At such a time God
spoke to Judah and the human
hearts in all succeeding generations.
Free Thinker
Habakkuk has been called the
free thinker among the prophets.
His heart was tortured with doubt
and near despair, for he could not
square his belief in a good and
righteous God with the facts of life
as he saw them. Frankly and fear-
lessly this prophet poured out his
fears and questions before God, and
in reply came a message that has
thrilled and strengthened wavering
believers ever since.
The book of Habakkuk falls into
Desmond Ford, Ph.D., is chair-
man of the theology department at
Avondale College, Australia. He is
now on advanced study leave at
Manchester University, England.
8 REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
three clearly marked divisions cor-
responding to its chapters. Chapter
one could be entitled "A Burden";
chapter two "A Vision"; chapter
three "A Prayer." In the first chap-
ter we have faith sighing, in chap-
ter two faith seeing, and in chapter
three faith singing.
Let us consider first the prophet's
words of perplexity as he seeks to
unload his burden upon the Lord.
"0 Lord, how long shall I cry, and
thou wilt not hear! even cry out
unto thee of violence, and thou wilt
not save! Why dolt thou shew me
iniquity, and cause me to behold
grievance? for spoiling and violence
are before me: and there are that
raise up strife and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and
judgment doth never go forth: for
the wicked doth compass about the
righteous; therefore wrong judg-
ment proceedeth" (Hab. 1:2-4).
How can God be silent and inac-
tive? Why is He so apparently un-
concerned when violence and law-
lessness abound?
God's initial reply is to the effect
that He is about to punish Judah
by the pagan armies of Babylon.
"Behold ye among the heathen, and
regard, and wonder marvellously:
for I will work a work in your days,
which ye will not believe, though it
be told you. For, lo, I raise up the
Chaldeans" (verses 5, 6). This re-
ply only further compounds the dif-
ficulties of the prophet. How can
the pure and holy God use a people
far more wicked and ruthless than
the Jews themselves? Meditating on
this additional problem, Habakkuk
declared, "I will stand upon my
watch, and set me upon the tower,
and will watch to see what he will
say unto me" (chap. 2:1).
Now we have come to the heart
of this book, and the central mes-
sage of all Holy Writ. Because of
the divine reply here recorded,
"The just shall live by his faith,"
Habakkuk has been called the
grandfather of Protestantism. His
words were taken up by Paul, and
occur three times in the New Testa-
ment (Rom. 1:17; Gal. 3:11; Heb.
10:38).
God's message to Habakkuk is ad-
dressed to every puzzled child of
His. We are to trust God where we
cannot trace Him, looking to the
glory beyond the gloom. We are to
live above grief and disappoint-
ment through the exercise of faith.
In the Middle Ages, legends
abounded regarding the mystic
philosopher's stone. This admoni-
tion in the book of Habakkuk pre-
sents the Christian philosopher's
stone — faith, a medium whereby
the experiences of life that are bit-
ter may be made sweet, the disap-
pointments changed into His ap-
pointments, tragedies recognized as
blessings, and problems made a
source of strength.
Trouble and doubt are universal
experiences, and the Christian is
not exempted from such disciplines.
In every life there are perplexities
which test the soul, and griefs that
smother the lighter emotions of the
heart. "Man is born unto trouble,
as the sparks fly upward" (Job 5:
7). The workings of Providence are
mysterious and often incomprehen-
sible—inevitably so for beings as fi-
nite as we. When we recall that we
do not understand one millionth of
God's ways in Creation should we
expect to fathom more fully His
ways in providence?
Faith affords us a confident as-
surance that events enigmatic to us
are nevertheless, for the faithful,
working out in man's best interest.
By exercising this faculty we ex-
perience the conviction that God's
unseen purposes of love toward us
are being realized through those
very occurrences which might be-
token the contrary. It is God's de-
sign that through faith in His good-
ness men may recognize in life's
perplexities the same Hand guiding
them that was nailed to Calvary's
cross for them.
It has truly been said that he who
has never doubted has never half
believed. Very often those who be-
gin with certainties may end with
doubts, but there are times when
beginning with doubts may lead to
certainties. The great principle that
the Christian must apply in times of
doubt is to believe his beliefs and
doubt his doubts, not doubt his be-
liefs and believe his doubts.
 The gospel can be summed up
in two words. Objectively the whole
of the gospel is "Christ." But sub-
jectively the whole of the gospel is
"faith." Read again the famous
eleventh chapter of Hebrews of
those ancient worthies, "who
through faith subdued kingdoms,
wrought righteousness, obtained
promises, stopped the mouths of
lions, quenched the violence of fire,
escaped the edge of the sword, out
of weakness were made strong,
waxed valiant in fight, turned to
flight the armies of the aliens"
(verses 33, 34).
We do not walk alone; God is as
verily with us today through the
third person of the Godhead, as
Christ was with His disciples
through the days of His earthly
ministry. The promise is true
SPEAKING OUT
Why Are You So "Peculiar"?
By WILMA DOERING MC CLARTY
In this age of conflict and uncertainty,
can you afford to hide behind the ec-
clesiastical skirts of Mother Church?
In times like these, when denomina-
tional "peculiarness" more and more
often demands defense, how should you
"be ready always to give an answer to
every man that asketh you a reason of
the hope that is in you with meekness
and fear" (1 Peter 3:15)? For in-
stance . . .
Have you ever been encouraged to
get a clergyman's sanction for a fu-
ture transgression?
EMPLOYER: "Mr. McComb, I realize
you usually don't work on Sabbath,
but this weekend is a company emer-
gency."
EMPLOYEE: "I'm sorry, sir, but Sat-
urday is God's holy day and—"
EMPLOYER: "I won't ask you to do it
again, but please, just this once! Can't
you go to your priest or someone and
get his O.K.? After all, an emergency is
an emergency."
EMPLOYEE: "I just can't do it, sir.
My church is very firm in its belief that
...
And so the issue is dropped, with
Mr. McComb's righteous wrath wrought
up at the very thought of a church
where one could secure human dispen-
sation for violating divine commands.
A week and a half later during a
Sabbath school lesson discussion, Mr.
McComb has occasion to testify re-
garding his steadfastness to truth.
"Just imagine," he concludes, "a
church where a member can have a pay-
now-and-sin-later plan!" His humor is
appreciated. Several arrange their rags
of self-righteousness snore comfortably
about them and settle back for the rest
of the class.
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
that He will never leave us nor for-
sake us. Faith counts the promises
as Heaven's legal tender, a wealth
sufficient to solve every earthly
problem. The promises of Christ
are leaves from the tree of life for
the healing of our tired and sin-sick
souls.
The third division of Habakkuk
is the section of vision. It is the
song of one whose fears have been
put to flight because of the riveting
of the gaze of faith on the God of
love and might.
Particularly stressed in this
paean is the certainty of God's suf-
ficiency for His people in the time
of trouble. Note the following
verses: "Thou didst march through
the land in indignation, thou didst
thresh the heathen in anger. Thou
wentest forth for the salvation of
But just a moment, Mr. McComb.
Maybe there was no humor.
Maybe your answer was invalid.
Maybe you erred where he did.
Perhaps Mr. Stykes did imply that a
man's O.K. could cancel a God-given
order.
Perhaps Mr. Stykes did imply that
premeditated sin could be forgiven in
advance.
Perhaps Mr. Stykes was wrong, Bibli-
cally wrong, on both implications.
But how about your answer, Mr. Mc-
Comb?—"I just can't do it, sir. My
church is very firm in its belief that ..."
Is it possible that you implied your
church could cancel out a God-given
order, but in this particular case they
were "very firm"?
Is it possible that you implied your
church programmed your conscience,
you being nothing more than a re-
ligious robot?
And worse yet, is it possible that
your reaction to God's requirement was
governed only by a Thus saith the
church?
Next time, Mr. McComb, that you
are asked to defend your denomina-
tional peculiarness, respond as a man
who himself has searched the Scrip-
tures; respond as a man who belongs
to the SDA Church because you sincerely
believe its doctrines are in accord with
the Bible; respond as a man whose
first answer is a Thus saith the Lord.
When one becomes a man, he must
put away childish things. So once again
the question: In this age of conflict and
uncertainty, can you afford to hide be-
hind the ecclesiastical skirts of Mother
Church as the best method for defend-
ing your personal obedience to God? I
think not.
thy people, even for salvation with
thine anointed. . . . When I heard,
my belly trembled; my lips quiv-
ered at the voice: rottenness entered
into my bones, and I trembled in
myself, that I might rest in the day
of trouble: when he cometh up
unto the people, he will invade
them with his troops" (Hab. 3:12-
16).
Gospel Is All-sufficient
The gospel of faith seems so all-
sufficient regarding the perplexities
of the present and the future that a
warning "rider" needs to be added.
Two dangers constantly threaten
the Christian. One is to neglect to
take hold of the promises, and the
other is to take hold of the promises
without fulfilling the conditions.
All should remember that it is only
the just who can live by faith. It was
because Christ could say, "I have
kept my Father's commandments,"
that He could add "and abide in
his love" (John 15:10). He knew
that He was surrounded by His Fa-
ther's presence, and . that therefore
whatever came to Him was per-
mitted for the good of the world.
It is perfectly true that all things
work together for good to them that
love God. But to expect the fulfill-
ment of God's promises while fail-
ing to fulfill His appointed condi-
tions of obedience is not faith—it is
presumption. Christ says, "If ye
keep my commandments, ye shall
abide in my love" (John 15:10).
The saints who will be delivered in
the time of trouble will be those
concerning whom Heaven can say,
"Here are they that keep the com-
mandments of God, and the faith
of Jesus."
Through all the varied hues of
life's experiences it is the privilege
of those who have been accounted
just by their submission to Christ,
to sing the song of faith with which
Habakkuk closes his book. It is the
song of "although" and "yet." "Al-
though the fig tree shall not blos-
som, neither shall fruit be in the
vines; the labour of the olive shall
fail, and the fields shall yield no
meat; the flock shall be cut off
from the fold, and there shall be no
herd in the stalls: yet I will rejoice
in the Lord, I will joy in the God
of my salvation" (Hab. 3:17, 18).
The closing words, "the God of
my salvation," have been rendered
by some "God my Jesus" (Augus-
tine, et al.). Faith has good grounds
for its confidence. It is riveted in
One who in adopting humanity has
become our Brother, and yet who
by His own divine right rules on
the throne of the universe. ++
9

I N 1502 Christopher Columbus
had behind him his experience
of St. Marie, Guadeloupe, where
he landed in a flurry of Carib arrows.
He thoroughly chastised the inhabit-
ants for their unfriendly reception.
At Carbet, Martinique, he received
such a fierce reception from the
Caribs that he beat a hasty retreat
without even naming his latest dis-
covery. So the Carib name, Madi-
nina, stuck and eventually was Gal-
licized as Martinique.
On the island of Martinique hi-
biscus, bougainvillea, wild orchids,
and countless other exotic blooms
are much in evidence. Writing to
the queen of Spain, Columbus
called the island "the pearl of the
Antilles." The terrain ranges from
soft fields and barren rock to ver-
dure-clad slopes and luxuriant rain
forests, and is sufficiently fertile to
support a population of more than
300,000, one third of which live in
Fort-de-France, the capital city. The
island is about 50 miles long and
some 22 miles wide.
The French colonization began
in 1635. Soon there developed a cer-
tain mood of grandeur and history
that made nineteenth-century Mar-
tinique the social and cultural cen-
ter of the Caribbean. Everywhere
there was a touch of Paris. This cul-
tural background is reflected, I
think, in the bearing of the people.
So many are spice-colored Creoles
in which the mingling of African
and French blood has produced a
special type of complexion.
On the female side French co-
quetry and the languor of the is-
lands combine to create gracious
and utterly feminine personalities.
As for the men, they still conform
to the words of an explorer who
said they were as "straight as palms,
supple and tall with a dignified car-
riage and easy elegance of move-
ment."
Walter Raymond Beach became a
general field secretary of the General
Conference in 1970. Prior to that
he was for 16 years the General Con-
ference secretary.
10
GBANDEUI
The nineteenth-century Marti-
nique centered on St. Pierre, the
first capital. But on the morning of
May 8, 1902, Mount Pelee erupted
in perhaps the worst volcanic disas-
ter on record. Within seconds a wall
of fire was rushing down the moun-
tainside. Within two minutes the
devastation was complete. The
grand colonial city was reduced to
ash, and all but one (a prisoner in
an underground jail cell) of her 40,-
000 inhabitants were burned alive.
Another series of eruptions took
place in 1929. On an earlier visit to
Martinique we drove down to the
reconstructed St. Pierre and visited
the pitiful remains of those by-gone
years. Mount Pelee (4,554 feet) still
stands as a volcanic giant.
Effigy of Empress Josephine
The Square of the Savane at Fort-
de-France is still dominated by the
white marble effigy (by Vital De-
bray) of the Empress Josephine. It
is a very short distance to the vil-
lage of Trois Ilets, where this lady
was born as Marie Rose Josephine
Tascher de la Pagerie. Her child-
hood home, though destroyed by a
hurricane, has been restored. Her
mother is buried in the little
church cemetery. This girl reigned
as Queen of France with Napoleon
Bonaparte for five years. The little
museum in the kitchen of her fa-
ther's sugar estate houses a number
of personal effects. Another Marti-
nique girl also went to France and
notoriety. She became Madame de
Maintenon. Finally she was the
morganatic wife of Louis XIV.
Another Martinique hero I
should mention was a down-to-
earth Alsatian (East France) by the
name of Victor Schoelcher. A dep-
uty in the French parliament, he
was instrumental in freeing the
slaves of the French Indies in 1794.
One of the shopping streets of Fort-
de-France is named after him. So is
a west-coast town. On the Savane
one finds the Schoelcher Library,
which honors his memory, as does
his statue in front of the Cour de
Justice building. Of course Paul
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
Gauguin's presence is also evident
in Martinique. He became famous
in Tahiti by evoking with his talent
and brush local scenes. The un-
trammeled views of nature here led
him probably to yet greater heights.
His productions are now priceless
around the world.
As with Columbus, Seventh-day
Adventists' first visit to Martinique
came after the contact with Gua-
deloupe. The heroes were Philip
and Louisa Giddings. Sometime
before November, 1919, Philip re-
ported winning one convert and
interesting another man on Marti-
nique. Then he reported a second
visit during which the interested
man accepted the seventh-day mes-
sages. In 1924 he established his
home at Fort-de-France. A few years
later a Sabbath school was organ-
ized and the first four converts were
baptized. The Giddingses went from
house to house selling and teaching,
distributing Bibles and books, and
holding cottage meetings.
They left for Haiti in 1928. The
first church organization came after
the arrival of Michel Nord Isaac, a
worker from Haiti who established
the first church in Trinite. That
was in 1929. The same year a sec-
ond church was organized at Fort-
de-France. Before the year was out
the French West Indian Mission
(comprising the territories of Mar-
tinique and Guadeloupe and de-
pendencies) was organized with two
churches, 48 baptized members, and
one ordained minister.
Advance of God's Work
Since those days of heroic begin-
nings the work of God has advanced
as He has blessed the faith of dedi-
cated men and women. A number
of qualified workers have been resi-
dent on Martinique. Two well-
known nationals are still active in
the church. A. H. Linzau, who was
involved with the beginning of our
work in French Guiana, has served
on the Franco-Haitian Union staff
as departmental secretary. His son,
Maurille, now follows his footsteps
to French Guiana as secretary-treas-
4N1) WORLD'S END
By WALTER RAYMOND BEACH
urer of the mission. A second name
in the story from the start is Eugene
Berle. This man also has been to
French Guiana and back. Through
the years he has worked effectively
and still speaks to his brethren with
the authority arising from a sur-
rendered life and long years of qual-
ified service. The snows of time are
beginning to accumulate on his
head.
The first two churches have
now become 34, and the total bap-
tized membership soars above 4,000.
The recent Martinique Mission ses-
sion accepted three new churches
into the mission sisterhood and set
a goal of 7,000 baptized members by
1973, the time of the next full ses-
sion. We are confident as we have
listened to both experienced and
youthful laborers and to our sturdy
church elders that this goal will be
reached and surpassed.
The work in Martinique Mission
is well organized and led by Roy
Perrin, president, and Thomas La-
betant, secretary-treasurer. Strong
planning in every section of the
work is the order of the day. Special
emphasis is being laid on the educa-
tion program, and it is successful. A
good percentage of our students
pass the state examinations with
honor. Every spiritual and financial
nerve is being strained to bring to
pass the plan for a new Seventh-
day Adventist secondary school.
The third quarter Sabbath school
overflow of 1970 supported this
project. I hardly could imagine a
more deserving one.
Christian Education Given
Top Priority
The church on Martinique is
rallying wholeheartedly to the pro-
motion of Christian education. This
has top priority. In fact, I listened
to one of the finest, most earnest
statements on Christian education
and the salvation of our youth that
I ever have heard. It came from the
mouth of a loyal local church elder.
"How could we ever expect God's
blessing," he said, "were we to fall
short of His instructions in the edu-
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cation of our Adventist children?"
I think I should mention that, fi-
nancially speaking, the Martinique
Mission (and this applies to all the
French West Indies and Guiana) is
sound and strong. This has been
evident in the financial reports. Out-
side the dollar area these French
territories have the highest per
capita tithe and offerings of any
fields in the Inter-American Divi-
sion. Now the stewardship-and-de-
velopment program is taking hold
in Martinique and is adding
strength. Already four churches
have been able to complete build-
ings, improve facilities, and pur-
chase land through this common
Money in Bible Times-8
THE PENNY
By KENNETH L. VINE
THE penny of our English Bible
I (K.J.V.) is the denarius of Rome.
It is a small silver coin and represents
the wages received by a soldier or a
laborer for one day's work (see Matt.
20:2, 9, 10). The denarius was first
minted about 187 B.C. and is the coin
from which the modern English penny
is derived, thus the reason for the "d"
as the symbol for an English penny.
The good Samaritan's "two pence"
(Luke 10:35) therefore represented
two days' wages—a generous gift to
bestow upon an enemy stranger! If
Judas was right in his estimate of the
value of the "alabaster box of oint-
ment of spikenard" (Mark 14:5; John
12:5) used by Mary to anoint Jesus,
it was worth almost a year's wages.
One can also begin to see the great-
ness of the miracle of the five loaves
and two fish in monetary terms when
one realizes that "two hundred penny-
worth of bread is not sufficient" for
the 5,000 (Mark 6:37; John 6:7).
This meant that the wages of one man
for about seven months would not be
able to purchase sufficient food to
feed the crowd.
But I suppose the most frequently
quoted passage of Scripture using the
commitment of Adventist financing.
On my recent visit to Martinique
we went once more to St. Pierre. As
we looked again at the ruins, the
broken statues toppled from the
villa gardens, the boulevards hid-
den beneath the tangle of tropical
growth, we had an eerie feeling of
seeing enacted final scenes from the
book of Revelation. Again we heard
the revelator's words, "Behold, he
is coming" (Rev. .1:7, R.S.V.). Yes,
it just could be that the presence
nearby of St. Pierre and the disaster
that befell its 40,000 inhabitants in
May, 1902, provide a backdrop to
enhance the force of God's last mes-
sages to Martinique. ++
penny is Matthew 22:19 (Mork 12:
15; Luke 20:24) dealing with the trib-
ute penny, when Jesus was asked, "Is
it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar?"
When Judea was reduced to a
province by Rome in A.D. 6, all males
between 14 and 65 and females be-
tween 12 and 65 years had to pay a
tax to Rome of a denarius. The coin
showed to Jesus would undoubtedly
have been the denarius of Tiberius,
which had the portrait of Tiberius on
the obverse with the inscription "Ti-
berius, Caesar Augustus, Son of Divine
Augustus" in Latin, and on the reverse,
a seated female, probably Livia the
mother of Tiberius, and the inscrip-
tion "High Priest" in the Latin.
The denarius pictured was minted
by Titus during Vespasian's reign, very
near to the time when Jerusalem was
destroyed by Titus in A.D. 70.
Penny of Titus
11
 1Fam airs lv Living
and trucks. I was positively glowing
as I made the beds and started my
day's activities.
Then something unforeseen hap-
pened.
"Come see this pretty picture I
colored, Mommy!" That wasn't in
my plan. I was baking cherry al-
mond balls and I didn't want to be
interrupted.
"Come see this fancy tunnel I
built with my blocks." That wasn't
in my plan either. I was washing
and ironing clothes.
"Mommy, I want to go outside.
Please get my coat." All these mad-
dening interruptions.
By lunchtime my beautiful day,
which had started out with such
great promise, was only a memory.
I was cross. The children were cry-
ing. The house was a shambles. The
boys wouldn't eat. I threatened. I
shouted.
Calm Settles
Then naptime for two tired boys.
A peaceful calm settled over the
house after the irritable storm. If
they sleep a couple of hours maybe
I'll accomplish all my activities
after all, I thought.
The boys awoke to hugs and
kisses from me and a much calmer
mother than the one they had had
before their naps. Soon they de-
cided to "play house" in their room
with their two teddy bears. For a
few moments all was serene. Then
their voices became louder and
louder. Suddenly, the noise coming
from the bedroom reached epic pro-
portions.
"Eat your lunch, you naughty
bear! Do you want a hard spank-
ing? Won't you do anything right?
What's the matter with you?"
Immediately I wondered, Where
did my children learn to use such
an angry, accusing tone of voice?
Then I remembered and blushed
with shame. To make things worse,
I remembered being a "beautiful
By JANET FAYE MINESINGER lady" to them only a few hours
earlier.
The morning started out beauti- I prayed right there beside the

I
T WAS barely dawn. But into
my room tiptoed two-year-old
Christopher. I pretended I was
still sleeping. I felt a moist, little
kiss on my cheek and heard a baby
voice say, "Ha-wo, bootiful yady!"
I "awoke" to this magic moment.
Nothing could spoil a day with that
kind of reveille.
Janet Faye Minesinger is a home-
maker and free-lance writer in Silver
Spring, Maryland.
fully. At breakfast there was happy
chatter from both boys. And no
complaints about the kind of cereal
or the kind of jelly on their toast.
Surely this was another indication
that this was going to be a great day.
During the early morning hours
the little boys built wondrous
"buildings" with their blocks. Cas-
tles, airport towers, monuments!
They were generous with each
other and happily shared their cars
kitchen sink and asked the Lord for
patience. I prayed for "all-day pa-
tience." It's so easy to be patient
when all is serene and there's noth-
ing to be impatient about.
I've often thought about that
morning when Christopher called
me a beautiful lady. But I've
thought even more about what hap-
pened later in the day. It's made me
determined to be a beautiful lady
to my little boys—all day long. ++

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EApectoteg
FOR MIEN
By Roland R. Hegstad
THE BIRDS, Never before have
THE BEES, youth had readily avail-
AND DAD able so much (mis)in-
formation on sex. Re-
cently a national magazine explored
(maybe "exploited" would be a more
accurate assessment) the selling of sex
via pornographic films, lewd paper-
backs, and all the other et ceteras that
document today's permissiveness. To
show the amount of obscenity packed
onto a single page of a typical "bedside
reader," the editors reproduced a page,
on which they then blue-penciled the
words not printable in a family-type
magazine. Of the 224 words on the
page, only 112 survived.
Today virtually every neighborhood
supermarket and drugstore carries pa-
perbacks containing prose that makes
Shakespeare's purple passages read like
faded Valentine greetings. Every sexual
perversion is paraded with a brazen-
ness that makes Jezebel seem like a Girl
Scout. Monthly the most popular of
men's magazines tells an estimated 18
million readers that extramarital sex
is acceptable, and that pleasure is the
greatest good in life.
Vance Packard asked 878 U.S. stu-
dents who should set standards for male-
female intimacy. "Parents" received the
highest vote-40 per cent, with 29 per
cent saying "adults," 20 per cent "youth-
ful peers," 6 per cent "schools," and
only 5 per cent "churches." Many par-
ents, however, neither set moral stand-
ards nor discuss sex with their children.
Fifty-two per cent of a group of South-
ern Baptist youth interviewed said they
had never discussed sex frankly with
their parents. Frankly is the key word.
There was a time when platitudes about
the birds and the bees constituted an
advanced course in sex education. Such
instruction has about as much value
today as an astronomy course based on
the children's jingle, "Twinkle, twinkle,
little star."
It is not lack of interest on the part
of youth that produces a communica-
tion gap. Of three thousand teen-agers
who were asked what kind of help they
would like to receive from their
churches, one out of three ranked
counsel on sexual problems first. A sim-
ilar survey by the Lutheran Church
found instruction on Christian views of
sex, courtship, and marriage ranked
first among 40 items.
The consequences of misinformation,
or noninformation, are endemic. More
than 1.5 million American youth mort-
gaged their future last year because
they were ignorant of, or would not
face the fact that sexual intercourse
produces babies. Illegitimate births last
year hit a new peak — more than
300,000. In one large city school sys-
tem, teachers now receive routine train-
ing in how to deliver babies.
Gonorrhea and syphilis now rank
first and fourth among communicable
diseases in the U.S. More than 1.7 mil-
lion cases of gonorrhea were reported
last year by the American Social Health
Association. Syphilis, with 70,000 to
80,000 reported cases, is up 8 per cent
over the same period. And, according
to reliable sources, physicians report
only 12 to 19 per cent of the infectious
syphilis they treat and 11 to 17 per
cent of the gonorrhea.
Sexual permissiveness exacts still
other penalties. Premarital sex relations
have "greatly increased the number of
young people in mental hospitals," re-
ports Dr. Francis J. Braceland, editor
of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Another psychologist, Dr. Lofton Hud-
son, reports that sexual promiscuity is
leading to a kind of sexual superficiality.
Promiscuous people, he reports, "don't
know what it means to love. They have
loved superficially so long they just
can't form a deep attachment and can't
feel deeply toward anyone."
Sex education in schools is not the
panacea. Because of our pluralistic
society, moral values are not often in-
cluded with traditional academic instruc-
tion in the public school system; even
in Christian schools varying levels of
individual maturity make the task im-
possible. The home is still the best
training ground, and dad and mother
the best instructors.
The church can help. If I were a
pastor, I would see . that my church
library contained useful books and
filmstrips (those used in Lutheran
church schools are generally excellent),
and I would offer, once a year, a sex-
education seminar for parents. (For
those who may not want to wait for the
pastor, most Book and Bible Houses
can recommend one of several books
in stock.)
The church cannot impose its morals
on the community, but it surely can
help its parent members learn how to
instruct their children in a correct the-
ology of sex.

WINDOW WASHING
By VIVIENNE C. MURDICK
Late one night a bus wound its way down a long narrow artery and
stopped in front of a-dark-deserted building. The sleepy passengers stretched
and yawned as they staggered off in search of a more comfortable place in
which to spend the rest of the night. Since the first busload of enthusiastic
juniors was to arrive Sunday noon, Thursday began early for the newly ar-
rived counselors and staff members at Camp Au Sable. For two and a half days
the swishing of brooms on they sidewalks, the, driving of tent stakes, and the
roaring of the tractor sent little woodland creatures scampering deeper into
the woods with a whatin-the-World's-going-on-anyway expression.
Supplied with buckets of water, soap, and dry towels, my friend and I
began erasing the gray smudges from the long-neglected dining hall windows.
"Those windows were so dirty I didn't realize how brightly the sun was
shining!" exclaimed my friend as she Made, a few last swipes with the towel
before going on to the next pane.
Perhaps every day would look brighter if .we kept the windows of our
souls freshly washed. The streaks of impatience, the smudges of intemperance,
and the gray coat of pride blind us to the sunshine of God's face. But they
too can be removed by the cleansing blood of Christ, who is able to cleanse
us from all sin and unrighteousness if we will only ask Him (1 John 1;7, 9).

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 From the Editors
CAN ONE LEAVE THE CHURCH
FOR THE WORLD AND BE HAPPY?
Is it possible for a person to have been a professing
Christian for years, and then give it all up, throw the
whole thing overboard, and truthfully claim that he
has never been so happy in his life before?
We know of several people who left the church and
made just such a claim. In each case the decision was
made totally to repudiate Christianity, to drink, smoke,
dance, to indulge freely and with more or less abandon-
ment in practices that are not sanctioned by the church.
And then they claimed that never in their lives had
they enjoyed themselves as they did after they left the
church.
Can this be truly so? "Happy is the man who does
not take the wicked for his guide nor walk the road
that sinners tread," wrote the psalmist (Ps. 1:1, N.E.B.),
suggesting that the one who does is unhappy. "The
wicked," wrote Isaiah, "are like the troubled sea, when
it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
There is no peace [hence, no happiness], saith my God,
to the wicked" (Isa. 57:20, 21). If the Scriptures indicate
that those who walk in the way of sinners are not happy,
how can one leave the Christian way and claim to be
happy?
Or are those who claim they do find happiness when
they leave the church being untruthful, or rationalizing?
If they do find happiness outside of Christianity, does
it mean that religion is not adequate for their needs?
That Christianity was too narrow and confining, that
they were trammeled and limited, but then became free
and happy upon repudiating it?
Let us go back and ask our original question once
more: Can a person leave the church and then truth-
fully claim that he is happier than he was in the church?
We believe, and psychology testifies, that the answer
could be Yes, a person could find temporary happiness
by leaving the church.
How can this be?
There are always two classes of people in the church:
those who are truly converted and those who are not.
The unconverted may at one time have had a close
fellowship with Jesus, and lost that experience. Or they
may never have experienced a true heart conversion,
but came into the church on an intellectual or other
basis. And there are those who were born into families
belonging to the church and have habitually attended
Sabbath school, church, and other religious services,
and done all that the church requires. But they never
really got to know Him around whom all those things
revolve.
Many of this latter group may not really know that
they have not been born again. They have always been
morally good, have always fulfilled their church obli-
gations, and have been regarded by fellow church mem-
bers as good people.
Outward Success, Inward Defeat
In the case of each of the above groups the outward
life is arranged—or rearranged—after the order of
Christianity. But the inward change is not as it must
be. "If any one is in Christ, he is a new creation;
the old has passed away, behold, the new has come"
(2 Cor. 5:17, R.S.V.). But the people under consideration
are not recreated in Christ.
A person in this group may sincerely strive to meas-
ure up to what he knows he should be. And outwardly
14
he may succeed. But inwardly he knows he is not measur-
ing up. A force that he has no power to resist keeps
snatching the reins from his hands. And so he expe-
riences guilt, tension, frustration, inward anger, rebel-
lion, and unhappiness. As someone has remarked: He
"knows good without the power to do it; [he knows]
evil without the power to avoid it." He begins to ques-
tion his experience, begins to have doubts about the
power of Christianity to save, begins to have doubts
about himself.
It could be no other way. For unless one has ex-
perienced the new birth, he walks "according to the
flesh" (Rom. 8:5, R.S.V.); the direction, the tendency,
of his life is determined by that nature with which he
was born and which tends toward sin. "The mind that
is set on the flesh is hostile to God; it does not submit
to God's law, indeed it cannot; and those who are in
the flesh cannot please God" (verses 7, 8, R.S.V.).
Consequently, the unconverted person who tries to
obey God and keep His law is working against the
inherent tendency of his own nature. He is going against
the natural grain. He is pulling against the law of gravity
of human nature, which draws him steadily earthward
instead of heavenward.
The Answer
It is in this situation that we find the answer to our
question.
Imagine the experience of a hypothetical unconverted
person who recognizes his obligations to God and tries
to fulfill them. While he tries to keep God's law because
of a sense of obligation or propriety or fear or upbring-
ing or for any other reason, he finds within himself
an urge and an attitude that militates against this
obedience.
He finds that his attitude toward God and his fellow
men is not what it should be. He recognizes that he
puts many things before God in his life. He senses
that in numerous ways he takes God's name in vain.
He knows that he does not honestly love, or inwardly
keep, the Sabbath. Lustful thoughts persist in crowding
into his mind.
The more he understands the implications of the
commandment against covetousness, the more he realizes
he is breaking it. And no matter how much he tries
to improve, he recognizes that he succeeds very poorly.
But doggedly, perhaps desperately, he keeps on trying,
because he feels that he must. And all the time the
stress increases, the sense of failure grows, the strain
becomes greater, and the moral and spiritual muscles
become more and more tired.
Soon
a day
that has no end
will break
Soon a Day in glory
bright,
and forever
By THAIS COLE gone
will be
this fleeting
tomb
of night.
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 There are some who remain with the church under
these circumstances, quietly living desperate and de-
feated lives, unhappy, but plodding on in spiritual
dreariness, hoping that somehow God will understand
and save them.
But for those we have referred to at the beginning
of our editorial, there comes a breaking point. They
decide, "What's the use? Why should I go on like this?
I am not succeeding in being a Christian, and I am
not happy. I'm not going to make it to heaven anyway,
so I might just as well enjoy life."
Once the decision is made, a sense of relief is ex-
perienced. A burden is gone. The fight is over. The years
of stress and frustration are done. Thus they have a
feeling of happiness.
But it is a happiness that does not last. Like a bubble
on a stream, it soon bursts and is gone, and the unhap-
piness is as deep as—and deeper than—before. For in-
deed, true happiness comes only from God; any other
happiness cannot last. And, in time, the sense of guilt
and frustration and the feeling of emptiness weigh on the
soul once more.
T. A. D.
(To be continued)

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TIMELY URGENCY
Recent articles on current revivals,
Old Testament prophets, and the sanctuary
have been such a help to me. Many others
agree with me that, although some of us
have been "in the truth" a long time, we,
like Israel, need the message of Amos, "Pre-
pare to meet thy God, 0 Israel." Especially
keep those timely editorials coming.
MRS. WILLIAM M. ROBINSON
Riverside, California
NO HESITANCY
"Amen" most heartily to "The
Newsweek Story" [July 1]. We do need to
have better communication with the world
and we must never be hesitant in present-
ing our message more clearly.
MRS. C. E. MOON
Cala, South Carolina
INSTANT GRANDPARENTS
My Bible tells me, "By their fruits
shall ye know them." Christian behavior
will distinguish a Christian regardless of
what church he is a member or what he
wears.
When was the last time you—a Seventh-
day Adventist—"made" time for an elderly
person or an orphan who might like a
change of scenery and an outing from the
nursing home or foster home where he
lives? Even one day a month to have lunch
at your house and perhaps a stroll in the
yard or a park would mean so much. It
may be a means of helping a family mem-
ber who has a heavy responsibility for an
elderly person.
When is the last time you took a group
of orphans or a few retarded children to
the zoo and a lemonade treat? Or even your
own child and his friends on a special
tour—a bakery, a bottling company, to
sing for the shut-ins?
Jesus asks, Where were you when I was
cold and you clothed Me not, in prison
and you visited Me not, hungry and
thirsty and you fed Me not?
Too often the Dorcas or MV Sunshine
Bands are looked upon as meeting the
Adopt yourself a grandparent or two for
special days. Or be a special parent or
grandparent to some children.
Surely we have an hour or so a week,
or a day or two a month, for this type of
witnessing. WANDA BELL
Fort Worth, Texas
HAPPY, HEALTHY, HOPEFUL
The letter "Easy Entry" [June 24]
reminded me of a slogan that occurred to
me recently when I heard several statistics
showing that Seventh-day Adventists live
longer. One that impressed me was that
if you are an Adventist you have twice the
chance of reaching age 85 as does a non-
Adventist.
So many non-Adventists, and occasion-
ally even our own people, think only in
the negative, what we cannot do, and do
not realize the many blessings we have.
Think of the wonderful health message
and spiritual light that we have been
given, and how proud we ought to be to
be Seventh-day Adventists.
I suggest a positive slogan for our min-
isters, our broadcasts, and our members—
"Live Longer, Liye Happier, Live Better,
Join the Adventists." Is not that true?
Many more would join our church if they
could get the idea that we enjoy life, that
our lives have meaning, and that we have
many answers to today's confused world.
STANTON B. MAY, M.D.
Glendale, California
A BEAUTIFUL WAY
Re "MISSION '72 for North Amer-
ica" [July 1]. We as Seventh-day Advent-
ists are fortunate indeed to have an under-
standing of Daniel and Revelation. These
books contain the very essence of Advent-
ism.
For all of us who really want to see Jesus
return in our day, the program suggested
in "MISSION '72" is a beautiful way to get
started, I pray God that all laymen will
see the importance of getting involved
actively in preparation for this task.
THOMAS E. PUTT
Orlando, Florida
PRACTICAL MATURITY
While reading "A Time for Matu-
rity" [June 17], I thought of the meals
served at camp meetings and the maturity
of some of our church institutions. In
many ways the meals served are not in
harmony with instruction that has been
given to us. For instance, so much of the
food served is fried that some days it is
impossible to get something warm for
breakfast, dinner, or supper, without eat-
ing foods that are indigestibly fried.
We are told that "at general meetings
and camp meetings we should have good,
wholesome, nourishing food, prepared in
a simple manner."—Counsels on Health,
p. 121. "Light has been given me in re-
gard to the foods provided at our camp
meetings. Foods are sometimes brought
onto the campground which are not in
keeping with the principles of health re-
form."—Counsels on Diet and Foods, p.
329.
"Years ago I had a testimony of reproof
for the managers in our camp meetings
bringing upon the ground and selling to
our people cheese and other hurtful things,
and presenting candies for sale when I was
laboring to instruct the young and old to
put the money they had expended for
candy in the missionary box and thus
teach their children self-denial."—Ibid.
OLIVE WILLHELM
DeKalb, Illinois
AT LEAST, A WELCOME
One Sabbath after I had greeted
many people in the foyer I felt I had done
my best to help people feel at home. Walk-
ing out to the sidewalk, I noticed a man
looking at each one who came out. I greeted
him, especially because he looked so lonely.
He said to me, "Do you know, lady, you
are the only one that has noticed me or
spoken to me this morning." I apologized
for our people but felt bad that a man
could go away saying the people didn't
seem to care whether he came back again.
More than ever now I feel each person
should make it a personal responsibility
to notice who the new ones are and greet
them if we want strangers to know we are
a friendly, soul-loving church.
MRS. B. BETH BRISTOL
Fullerton, California
THE BEST EVER
I have just read H. E. Rice's "How
to Live With the Saints," in the June 17
issue of the REVIEW and regard it as the
best article I have ever read in the REVIEW.
Yes, the best!
There are many knowledgeable, many
scholarly, many devout men in this world.
There are not very many wise men. Over
the years Mr. Rice has become one.
REO M. CHRISTENSON
Oxford, Ohio

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 How Serious Is
Your Respect for Life?
By FELIX A LORENZ, JR.
I IFE
I is more than body and blood and bones. When
we sing, "I love life and I want to live" we refer
not to mere physical life, but rather to the total
experience of existence. "That's living" is a phrase we use
with absolutely no reference to physiology or anatomy. It
doesn't take long before we realize that real living in-
involves other people and a healthy respect for life
on all levels. It may even pervade our eating habits.
More on that later.
Human relations are basic to satisfying experience.
When we enjoy something—music, painting, good news,
a delicious meal—we spontaneously share that joy—
"How beautiful! How delicious! How lovely!"
Why do we not simply stand on the edge of the Grand
Canyon and silently drink in the scenery? Why are we
compelled to say to a companion, or to a stranger, for
that matter, "Isn't it thrilling?" Why is it next to impos-
sible to sit stolidly at a concert? We smile, we sigh, we
almost shout out our approval of a lovely voice or a
brilliant violinist. Why?
The very nature of life is communication. From a
comparison of animal psychology and human relations
we infer that humans have a unique capacity to enjoy
life because of their capacity to share, to communicate
more effectively. It seems to be almost impossible for
us to experience a satisfying emotion in complete soli-
tude.
Even if one is alone when a very pleasant emotion
is experienced, its richness is complete only when the
experience is later shared.
When I taught school in Minnesota some years ago,
I lived alone on a farm. There was no one within
shouting distance. I liked it. I could play my cornet,
trombone, violin, or even my drums, in the middle
of the night. I could turn my record player to full
volume any time of the day or night. I enjoyed the
freedom of expression and experience, but I knew I
was missing something. I was missing that vital experi-
ence of communion with others who could share my
Felix A. Lorenz, Jr., is a public relations consultant,
musician, and high school teacher in Northville, Michi-
gan.
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pleasure. Consequently, I frequently had company.
Eventually, of course, even this was not enough. I found
a young lady who seemed to enjoy many of the same
experiences of life. I married her, that we might share
fully the experiences of life.
So, life is communication. Death, as the antithesis
to life, is not merely physiological. We Christians expect
to meet our loved ones again, in a state of permanent
existence. Yet we mourn the death of those loved ones.
Why? Because we have lost communication with them!
The fellowship has been broken. We can't talk to them.
We can't share with them.
My mother died a few years ago. A few months after
she died something especially good happened to me.
But I remember vividly how very depressed I felt be-
cause I could not share this news with my mother. It
hurt me for many months.
Now, if life is indeed communication, the failure
to communicate adequately with others is a transgression
of life. Dr. John Primus writes, " 'Thou shalt not kill'
does not simply mean, 'thou shalt not put a stop to
another's heartbeat and to his breathing!' But it means,
'thou shalt not cut him from thy fellowship! Thou shalt
not shun him, scorn him, ignore him, ostracize him.' "
Reverence for life (to borrow a phrase from Albert
Schweitzer) as a concept and as a conviction makes us
more sensitive to existence and to experience. When
you feel a satisfying communication with others, you're
living! Adequate communication begets trust and then
love. And love begets even more meaningful communi-
cation. We love what and whom we know best. The
better you know a person, the more you love him.
The more you know about mathematics, the more you
enjoy it. The more familiar the neighborhood becomes,
the more fondly you will remember it.
This is basic. We love what and whom we know,
without much regard for worth or value. You love your
children, your parents, your friends, even though ob-
jective evaluation may tell you they are not always
worth your respect and admiration.
You love the dog or cat or bird that is your pet.
He may be a cur, but you love him as much as if he
were a pure-bred dog. The longer you have him, the
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more complete is your communication, and your love
for him.
The more abundant life must be shared. Those who
really live communicate on many levels.
Good News Demands Sharing
My brother served in the armed forces during World
War II. He was wounded, but we did not know how
badly. When word finally came that he would live,
my mother called us all to tell us the good news. When
he came back to America she called again. Telling all
her friends and loved ones did not speed his recovery.
So why did she call everyone (and at considerable
expense)? Because good news demands sharing!
When you especially enjoy a concert, a painting, a
scene, a book, or whatever, you find yourself exuberating
with enthusiasm to others. You want to share. Of course,
the most obvious example is the new parent or grand-
parent. He can hardly wait to share his good news.
So without communion and communication life is
simply not life.
This ought to cause us to think seriously about some
current social issues. For example, too often prejudice
dictates who can live where, or who goes to what school,
or who can join what club. Isn't prejudice a breach
of communication, a branch of hate? Hate is murder!
Jesus said so.
One who destroys the life of a fellow human is mentally
ill, emotionally immature, morally abnormal. But to take
the life of a bird or an animal as a sport, or to satisfy
the appetite—how about that? When a man unneces-
sarily kills a deer, a pheasant, or a steer, is he revealing
an emotional inadequacy? Are you too sensitive to par-
ticipate in the killing—but willing to eat the flesh
of the animal killed? Are you at all responsible for
such killing?
Many great thinkers have suggested that to eat flesh
is a sign of emotional or moral immaturity. Such was
the belief of men such as Plato, Aristotle, Socrates,
Pythagoras, Seneca, Diogenes, Plutarch, Tertullian,
Chrysostom, St. Francis of Assisi, George Bernard Shaw,
and many modern thinkers.
How does a vegetarian feel when he sits down to
eat with others who are eating flesh? I am frequently
asked this question and have tried to profit by the
attitude of Plato, Socrates, and many modern-thought
leaders—they considered flesh-eating contrary to reli-
gion, morals, health, economy, peace, civic and spiritual
virtue, but they were willing that their peers and their
students should disagree with them until they too were
convinced of the wisdom of refraining from eating flesh
foods.
Reasons for Vegetarianism
I love life. I am grateful to God for it. This is the
primary reason I am a vegetarian. But there are two other
important factors.
First, the factor of health as an important aspect
of "really living" is essential. Scientists have established
that vegetarians have measurably more endurance, and
that flesh-eating adds to the probability of heart attack,
cancer, and other diseases. Is it good logic, then, to
gamble away your life when the odds are against you?
Second, the facts of economics affect the quality of
life everywhere, especially in the last half of the twenti-
eth century. We are told by authorities that the world
faces serious problems of food and space in relation
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
to its growing population. Even now there are millions
of starving people on earth. More than half the people
of the world go to bed hungry every night. Is it good
logic to put up to eight nutritional units into the cow
to make one unit of steak? Ecologically, vegetarianism
is sound economy. Financially, it makes sense in a world
that should consider waste as a sin and as a prime
example of an inhumane society.
These last two factors are significant arguments in
favor of vegetarianism, either of them sufficient reason
for us to exclude flesh from our diets. However, the
issue of reverence for life is, to me, far more significant.
My reverence for life is the answer I give to non-Ad-
ventists who so often ask why I am a vegetarian. And the
explanation seems satisfying to most. However, there
are a few additional reasons why I am a vegetarian—
Seventh-day Adventist reasons.
Often, when the topic of vegetarianism is discussed,
church members suggest that "this is a personal matter.
Each person has to decide for himself." True, each must
"decide for himself," but does this apply also to drinking
alcoholic beverages moderately? Some feel that a stronger
case can be built from Scripture for vegetarianism than
for total abstinence from alcoholic beverages. One must
decide intelligently, on the basis of principle.
More Than Personal Opinion
Several years ago I visited with a former classmate,
now a physician. He said, "Felix, you don't sound well.
Let's listen to your chest." After a diagnosis he told
me I had pneumonia. He told me to go to bed imme-
diately and take a certain medicine.
Suppose I had replied, "But Don, that's a personal
matter! You have no right to tell me how to live."
Imagine again if I were seated in my car, engine
idling, when a friend came by to inform me that my
engine had a knock in it and that I had better get
to a garage immediately. "But Harold, that's a personal
matter. It's my car. I can run it as I please." Such
responses are foolish indeed. A study of the Bible and
the writings of Ellen G. White reveals that in most
countries flesh is not the best food available. We should
choose the best.
All Seventh-day Adventists are familiar with the Bib-
lical accounts of Israel's desire for the fleshpots of
Egypt and the example of Daniel and his companions.
Perhaps equally aware are Seventh-day Adventists re-
garding the following advice: "Flesh foods are injurious
to the physical well-being, and we should learn to do
without them. Those who are in a position where it is
possible to secure a vegetarian diet, but who choose to
follow their own preferences in this matter, eating and
drinking as they please, will gradually grow careless of
the instruction the Lord has given regarding other phases
of the present truth."—Testimonies, vol. 9, pp. 156, 157.
"The liability to take disease is increased tenfold by
meat-eating. The intellectual, the moral, and the phys-
ical powers are depreciated by the habitual use of flesh
meats. Meat-eating deranges the system, beclouds the
intellect, and blunts the moral senitivities."—Ibid.,
vol. 2, p. 64.
I love life. I am grateful to God for life and for
all His instructions as to how to make the most out of
my life. I want Jesus' promise to His followers to be
fulfilled in my life: "I am come that they might have
life, and that they might have it more abundantly"
(John 10:10). ++
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The calm of a Cape farm against a mountain backdrop typifies South Africa's charm.
The Work of Seventh-day
Adventists in Captivating Africa
(First of Two Parts)
By E. W. PEDERSEN
E RICA is a captivating continent.
Many have tried to explain her
fascination. They have extolled
her majestic mountains, vast plains,
and great jungles. They have written of
the richness of her fauna and the beauty
of her flora, caressed her gold, flashed her
diamonds, and eulogized her primitive-
ness. They have probed into her history,
cultures, and customs and have lifted
somewhat the veil to hidden mysteries
rooted in fear and superstition.
To the Seventh-day Adventist mis-
sionary Africa is interesting for all of
these things. But she is interesting for
much more. For him primarily it is
people, colorful people, captivating peo-
ple, lovable people, people desperately
in need of the saving gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ that attract.
I sensed it again; this strange, inde-
finable feeling of mission and belong-
ing, as I once more set foot on African
soil, and smile was greeted by smile.
It was the same Africa. It was a dif-
ferent Africa. How much the same I
realized again as I sat in councils and
committees and traveled to our mis-
E. W. Pedersen is a general field
secretary of the General Conference.
He was a missionary to Africa for 16
years, from 1937 to 1953.
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sion stations. How different was espe-
cially evident in the cities. It was strik-
ingly demonstrated by a large notice
prominently displayed in the waiting
room at Blantyre Airport, Malawi:
NOTICE TO VISITORS
Ladies Please Read Carefully
In Malawi it is traditional for women
not to appear in public in dresses that
expose any part of the leg above the
knee.
Accordingly, there is a restriction
in Malawi on the wearing in public
of dresses and skirts that do not fully
cover the kneecap when the wearer
is standing upright. Also restricted for
women are shorts and trousers worn
in public.
These two limitations apply to visi-
tors, as well as to residents, but do not
apply when the wearer is engaged in
any form of sport for which short skirts
and dresses or shorts or trousers are
required. The ruling on trousers also
does not apply to those Asian ladies
who traditionally wear such apparel.
Thoughtful and courteous visitors
will respect our local customs and avoid
any possibility of embarrassment by
conforming with our conventions on
female attire.
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
Some European women who ignored
the message had to learn the hard way
that President Banda's standards were
not to be trifled with: they were sent
out of the country.
The main reason for our being in
Africa was to attend the quadrennial
council of the Trans-Africa Division.
Robert H. Pierson, president of the
General Conference, and I had ar-
rived in Africa for the council and
the year-end committee meetings of the
Trans-Africa Division, after which
Elder Pierson would return to Wash-
ington while I would attend union
sessions and committees. The division
meetings were held at Blantyre, Malawi,
under the leadership of Merle L. Mills,
president of the division.
"Always Something New"
Many Seventh-day Adventists are ac-
quainted with the general procedure
of Adventist councils and business meet-
ings. Committee routine is often a dull
affair, but Africa isn't, and that made
the difference at Blantyre. "There is
always something new from Africa,"
wrote that ancient Roman, Pliny the
Elder. His observation is still germane,
not less with our work any more than
with other phases of African life and
activities.
The reports rendered were interest-
ing and thought provoking. A gain in
membership of 24 per cent, or almost
96,000, for the quadrennium testifies
to the strong emphasis the 3,647 work-
ers had given to evangelism. Signifi-
cantly, more than 40,000 of the converts
were young people. Division Secretary
R. E. Clifford pointed out that the
equivalent of a new church of 100 mem-
bers was added every seven and a half
days. The total baptized membership
of the division stands at 233,182, exclu-
sive of East Africa. No fewer than
473,506 are members in the Sabbath
school.
Division Treasurer V. A. Fenn re-
ported a tithe increase of R$1,631,034
(US$1,165,000) and a gain in mission
offerings of R$500,996 (US$357,854).
As in the past, it was forcefully
brought home to me that Africa has
special problems and special needs that
merit special consideration.
African missionary work is seldom
self-supporting. Consequently, the more
people we win for Christ the greater
our difficulties in properly caring for
them. Perhaps past policies and prac-
tices are partly to blame for this.
The problem of adequately meeting
the demands of a constantly expanding
work is nothing new to Africa. Nor is
Africa the only place where we face
the problem. The question is: Can we
do anything about it?
One living in the congenial finan-
cial climate of North America who visits
Africa is bound to make comparisons
between the two Adventist communi-
ties. And comparisons do generate an
uncomfortable feeling of great inequal-
ity. Some of this inequality is to be
expected. However, when all due al-
lowance has been made, a pertinent
question still remains: Is our ever-in-
creasing demand or craving for larger would come out and stick by the job God during the present quinquennium.
and larger institutions, for more and to maintain a continuous program. And Interesting features of the anniver-
more elaborate and luxurious build- apparently they had not succeeded in sary celebrations at Blantyre and the
ings, for more expensive facilities and training an African to do it. Cape were colorful films, historical
for costlier modes of operating in the This situation is naturally reflected pageants, and tableaux arranged by A.
homeland, really proper when in other in the work in general, although the Cook depicting our work from the time
parts of the Lord's vineyard the very workers are dedicated men doing their of the Wessels family to the present.
essentials for the efficient and success- best. The Trans-Africa Division is In drama the Advent story of mis-
ful prosecution of the work are sadly keenly alive to the situation and has sions in Africa is second to none. It is a
inadequate or nonexistent? Should not a six-year program for educational ad- story of divine providences, of high ad-
the necessities in other fields take pre- vance in the Congo and Central Afri- venture and dedicated resolve—the
cedence over the luxuries and unneces- can unions, but God's people in other story of men and women for whom the
sary conveniences we could well do lands must come to their aid. challenge of the gospel commission be-
without at home? came a consuming passion. It is the
Consider the predicament of one Fifty Years of Adventism story of Heaven's benediction on con-
African union, brought on because of In connection with the division coun- secrated toil and tears, apparent de-
a lack of funds. This union baptized cil and year-end meetings, the Trans- feats and glorious triumphs. And it is
more than 36,000 during the quadren- Africa Division celebrated its fiftieth the story of small beginnings escalat-
nium and lost more than 18,000 by anniversary, first at Blantyre over the ing into great achievements, the trick-
apostasy alone in the same period. And weekend of November 21 and the fol- ling stream that swells to a mighty
the lack of trained men to nourish lowing week at the Cape, where multi- river.
these babes in Christ Jesus into Chris- racial meetings were held; The main Thirty-four years had passed since
tian manhood and womanhood seems speaker, Robert H. Pierson, president the seed of present truth was first sown
to be a major reason for the losses. of the General Conference, raised our in African soil when, in 1920, W. H.
When we consider situations such as vision to new heights of Christian ex- Branson welded the 2,705 believers and
this, do we not wonder whether we perience and still greater exploits for their 44 churches into a division and
might have done without some of our
nonessentials, that some of these
lost ones might have been preserved?
A Desperate Educational Need
At the division council, as well as
at the meetings of the Congo and the
Central African unions, the almost des-
perate educational need of the French-
speaking territories in the division was
strongly presented. In these territories,
where we have a constituency of some
100,000 baptized members, we are edu-
cationally years behind other parts of
Africa.
We do not operate a single full sec-
ondary school in these French-speaking
lands. Yet the Congo alone has 17,000
young Seventh-day Adventists for
whom such secondary education should
be provided by the church. It is not
merely a matter of education as such,
important as that is. It is a matter of
preserving our youth and training them
for service. It is a matter of finishing
the work.
At the Congo Union session we wres-
tled with this vexing problem for hours.
Finally it was decided to give funds so
that the Songa Adventist Seminary
could offer additional secondary classes
next year. But it was done by bor-
rowing from another school, and with
the understanding that Songa would
have to be cut back the following year
unless extra funds are forthcoming.
Very little has been done for girls'
education in these French-speaking
lands of Africa. Years ago we discovered
that we could not build good Adventist
homes and communities without edu-
cated and trained wives and mothers.
A literate wife is as necessary for. an
African worker as for a European.
In 1940 in the Central African Un-
ion I saw at Rwankeri Mission in
Rwanda a fine girls' school successfully
operated by the late Miss L. Delhoe.
When I revisited Rwankeri earlier this
year I saw empty buildings and no
girls. The school was closed. I was told Top: Whitecaps break on the beaches of Muizenberg, 12 miles from Cape Town on the
that the union found it impossible to shores of False Bay. Bottom: Delegates to the Trans-Africa Division session which
find an overseas girls' worker who convened at Blantyre, Malawi. The division has a membership of more than 233,000.

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WORLD NEWS
became its first president. In gratitude
to God for the past and as an act of
dedication for the future, 1971 was de-
clared Anniversary Year. A goal of 50,-
000 baptisms was set for the year.
By means of our prayers, offerings,
and for some, our sons and daughters,
God's people throughout the world
may have a part in our mission pro-
gram in Africa. Ours it rightfully is to
join in this anniversary, rejoicing over
what God hath wrought. But ours it is
also to realize that anniversaries for the
remnant church are not really so much
occasions for celebration and rejoicing
as for heart-searching. Have we not
been told through divine inspiration
that we could and would have been in
the kingdom ere now had we been what
we ought to have been and done what
we ought to have done? Hence, the
more anniversaries we celebrate and
the more impressive the figure we at-
tach to them, the less reason we have
for rejoicing, the less satisfied we
should be with ourselves and our ac-
complishments.
The newly elected presidents of the
Zambesi and the Congo unions, C. Cur-
rie and P. Lemon, respectively, were
obviously not able to be on hand for
the meetings of their unions. But vet-
eran missionaries H. W. Stevenson,
vice-president of Zambesi, and T. W.
Staples, secretary-treasurer of the
Congo, had everything well prepared,
and they chaired sessions, workers'
meetings, and committees with effi-
ciency and keen insight into our Afri-
can work and problems.
Emphasis on Evangelism
A great emphasis is being given to
evangelism by the leaders of the Trans-
Africa Division. This emphasis is seen
all the way down to the local church,
group, branch Sabbath school, and in-
dividual member.
One of those inspired to work for
converts was F. Nditigira, businessman
of East Congo. Mr. Nditigira became a
great soul winner when Jesus got hold
of him. Leaving his place of business,
he moved into an area where there
were no Adventists, built a hut and
shop, and started business for himself
and for God.
One day some time later Pastors Jo-
nas Mbyirukira and T. W. Staples hap-
pened to pass along the road where his
shop was. After the usual exchange of
greetings, Mr. Nditigira said, "Do you
know that there are some people here
who have accepted the message?"
"No, we don't know that."
"Well, there are a few." And there
were.
Mr. Nditigira's business grew, and he
employed two men to work for him.
When he had won them for the church
he said to them, "Would you like to
earn two salaries?"
"Why, sure! But how?" they asked.
"Quite simple," replied their boss.
"You work half time for me for full
pay. Then you work half time for
Jesus, preaching in the villages and on
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the mountains, for which I will pay
you another full salary."
The men thought that was an excel-
lent idea. And it worked. Today we
have a church of more than 200 mem-
bers with their own church building in
that place, and it hasn't cost the mis-
sion a penny.
(To be continued)
MISSISSIPPI:
Bass Memorial Academy
Burns Mortgage
Bass Memorial Academy, Lumber-
ton, Mississippi, marked its tenth an-
niversary with the burning of a $70,000
mortgage note and a dedication of the
entire school plant. Funds for retire-
ment of the last capital indebtedness
were provided in a $104,000 offering
given by the churches in the Alabama-
Mississippi Conference and reported
during the celebration ceremonies. The
overflow from the offering will be used
for conference evangelism.
Nearly 2,000 persons packed the au-
ditorium for the celebration held on
May 29, which coincided with the first
weekend of camp meeting. Special
guests were Leroy J. Leiske and Oscar
L. Heinrich, who were president and
educational secretary, respectively, of
the Alabama-Mississippi Conference
during the time the school was built.
The mortgage was burned by Norman
E. Brown, academy treasurer, Alvin
J. Hess, conference treasurer, and T.
Henson Whitehead, treasurer of the
Southern Union Conference.
Plans for the academy were con-
conceived when the late I. Houston
Bass offered to donate approximately
356 acres of his property near Lumber-
ton, Mississippi, to Seventh-day Ad-
ventists for the erection of a school.
The site included a 20-acre pecan grove
with the remainder in cleared land
and pine timber.
Raising funds began soon after re-
ceiving the land on August 5, 1957.
The churches in the conference under-
The auditorium, Bass Memorial Academy, where the recent anniversary was celebrated.
took separate fund-raising projects.
Some churches provided funds for erec-
tion of entire buildings, while others
raised money for building specific
rooms.
A "Million Penny Campaign" for
the administration building culmi-
nated on April 5, when 1,242,221 pennies
were brought to the academy. National
guardsmen shoveled the four tons of
coins into buckets before loading them
onto a truck for deposit in the New
Orleans Federal Reserve Bank.
Actual construction of the school
required 24 months, and the doors were
opened to 136 students on September
10, 1961. Elder Heinrich supervised
the construction, and Mrs. Heinrich
planned the interior decorating. Their
son Jerry did most of the architectural
drawing.
L. A. Stout, present principal of the
academy, reported 312 students have
been graduated by the school during
the past ten years.
WAYNE A. MARTIN
Assistant Secretary
GC Bureau of Public Relations
ILLINOIS:
More Than 400 Attend
Spanish Camp Meeting
More than 400 people attended the
first Spanish-language camp meeting
in the Illinois Conference, which was
conducted June 11 to 13 at Broadview
Academy, LaFox, Illinois.
The theme for the session was
"En Los Portales del Reino ("In the
Portals of the Kingdom")." Raul Vil-
lanueva, East Puerto Rico Conference
evangelist, was the guest speaker for this
special occasion.
It is planned to conduct a two-week-
end camp meeting next summer.
Illinois Conference president John
Hayward has promised to provide a
large tent for the large group that
is expected to attend.
L. M. DIAZ
Pastor, Bensenville, Illinois

E. Denkert, president of West German Union Conference, addresses the audience at-
tending the fiftieth anniversary of the Neandertal Old People's Home, held June 5.
WEST GERMANY:
Old People's Home
Celebrates Fiftieth Year
On June 5 the fiftieth anniversary
of what is presently the Neandertal
Old People's Home, Mettmann, West
Germany, was celebrated. 0 Gmeh-
ling, retired Central European Division
president, preached the special sermon.
The institution which was purchased
in 1921 by P. Drinhaus, at that time
president of the West German Union,
was first used as a ministers' training
school, the Neandertal Missionary Sem-
inary. Many of the graduates of that
school have served the church in Ger-
many and in other lands.
In 1952 the seminary was transferred
to the vicinity of Darmstadt. This in-
stitution is known as the Marienhohe
Missionary Seminary. The Mettmann
institute then became the Neandertal
Old People's Home.
E. KOEHLER
Editor, Hamburg Publishing House
TEXAS:
Spanish Church Is
Organized in Cleburne
A new Spanish church of 34 charter
members was organized in Cleburne,
Texas, on March 27. Charles Dart,
Texas Conference president, led in the
organizational service. The company
was first formed when several Spanish-
speaking families from Keene and
Cleburne, with some Spanish students
from Southwestern Union College,
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t,_
joined as a group. Members of this
group, under the leadership of Alvaro
Castro, shared their faith with others,
which resulted in the baptism of 12
persons. Plans are being made to build
a sanctuary. B. L. Roberts, a former
missionary to Latin America, is pastor
of the Dallas-Cleburne Spanish district.
C. H. LAUDA
Secretary
North American Missions Committee
NIGERIA:
Condemned Prisoner Is
Baptized in Prison
Job Sunday Tom had committed a
serious crime for which he was im-
prisoned. In prison he became ac-
quainted with Adventist teachers and
students from the Adventist College of
West Africa, in West Nigeria, who vis-
ited the prison. When Sunday heard
the Advent message he decided to en-
roll in a Bible class with other prison-
ers. He also became acquainted with
some Adventists in prison, who had
been baptized there.
As Sunday studied the Bible lessons
he decided to be baptized. A date was
set for him and ten other prisoners.
In the meantime, Sunday was found
guilty by the court and sentenced to
death.
Since there was no gallows at the
Ijebu Ode prison, where Sunday was,
he was sent to the prison at Abeokuta,
about 50 miles away. Before he left,
he called me and said: "Pastor, I am
condemned to death, and I will be
executed very soon. Please see that I
am baptized before I am executed."
Greatly moved, I returned to the
college campus and told the story to
K. F. Mueller, theology instructor at
the Adventist College. The following
morning we drove to Abeokuta to ar-
range for the baptism.
Sunday Tom was baptized and wel-
comed into the church. At the time of
this writing he has not been executed.
G. A. SOLADEMI
Pastor and ACWA Student
AMERICAN SAMOA:
Land Valued at $25,000
Donated by Chief
A Samoan village chief, who is leader
of a company of Seventh-day Advent-
ists, has donated to the church a piece
of land valued at $25,000.
Land is scarce and jealously guarded
in the U.S. Trust Territory of Ameri-
can Samoa. Tutuila, the main island,
which is a mere 52-square-mile speck
in the Pacific Ocean, is mountainous,
with only a few square miles of flat
land.
The Adventist mission compound is
perched on the side of the harbor with
scarcely enough room for the church,
director's house, and elementary
school. Recognizing the need for relo-
cation, Aumavae Toloumu, chief of the
'Ili'ili village and leader of the 'Ili'ili
company of Adventists, decided to do-
nate 4.2 acres of flat land near the in-
ternational airport to the mission. The
current value of the land is $25,000.
Our church members in American
Samoa had been planning to relocate
the school on the new site when the
American Administration announced
that the substandard school buildings
had to be rebuilt by September, 1971,
or closed down.
Because of a lack of funds, this has
placed an unexpected burden on our
members in American Samoa. But the
believers there want their children to
be educated in our own schools. They
solicit the prayers of the world church
that the educational work will not be
closed in September, but will be al-
lowed to continue until facilities can
be erected on the new land.
G. K. SATCHELL
Director, American Samoa District
Samoa Mission
Aumavae Toloumu, the chief who gave the
land, with his sister and his daughter.
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WORLD NEWS
SPAIN:
Stewardship Workshop Is
Held in Madrid
A stewardship workshop was con-
ducted in Madrid by Leonard L. Ayers,
stewardship secretary of the Trans-
Mediterranean Division, during the
first part of February. Salvador Iserte,
editor in chief of the Spanish Pub-
lishing House, acted as translator.
The first few days of the workshop
consisted of study, followed by a day
of discussion of the meaning, privileges,
and obligations of stewardship.
During his stay in Madrid, Elder
Ayers preached in each of Madrid's
three churches. Following the steward-
ship workshop he visited Zaragoza and
preached to our people in that city.
A. CODEJON
President, Spanish Church
Principal participants in the Sydney cam-
paign. From left: E. E. Cleveland, Ken-
neth Mead, and Singer T. Marshall Kelly.
AUSTRALIA:
Evangelistic Campaigns
Held in Two Cities
For about two months early this year
I had the privilege of conducting evan-
gelistic campaigns in Sydney and Mel-
bourne, Australia, as well as preaching
to large audiences in other cities. As-
sociated with me as singing evangelist
was T. Marshall Kelly, one of our
pastors of the Lake Region Conference,
United States.
A three-week series was conducted
in Sydney in a seven-pole tent. Thou-
sands attended the series, more than
200 testified to having accepted Christ
for the first time, and 142 requested
special studies.
The singing of Elder Kelly did much
to make the meetings successful.
A school of evangelism, carried on
in connection with the meetings, was
attended by 60 Australian ministers.
Offerings totaling $6,400 were re-
ceived during the Sydney campaign. In
addition, $11,000 had been raised pre-
viously to help finance the meetings.
Much favorable newspaper publicity
was given the meetings. It was also
22
our privilege to appear on two popular
radio programs, one conducted by a
Methodist minister and another by a
woman reporter.
The three-week Melbourne cam-
paign was held in the spacious Dallas
Brooks Hall in the center of the city.
Thousands attended the meetings, and
more than 100 people joined a bap-
tismal class that is being conducted
by Australian Evangelist Austin Cook
in connection with a follow-up program.
The sum of $9,500 was given by
the attendants at the Melbourne cam-
paign. An additional $13,000 had been
raised previously. Both campaigns were
adequately covered financially.
Kenneth Mead, MV secretary of the
Trans-Tasman Union, was coordinator
of both the Sydney and the Melbourne
campaigns. Ean Giller was associated
with him at the Melbourne campaign.
During our stay in the Australasian
Division, Elder Kelly and I were priv.
ileged to conduct well-attended meet-
ings in Brisbane and in the city of
Hobart, Tasmania. We were also able
to visit Port Moresby, Goroka, Wabag,
Lae, and Rabaul in New Guinea.
In the hills of New Guinea we saw
Adventist medical centers manned by
youthful Adventist doctors and nurses.
We were interested to learn that much
of our mission work in the South Pa-
cific is financed through the profits
of the Sanitarium Health Food Com-
pany. This company provides approxi-
mately 90 per cent of the division's mis-
sion funds.
Looking back on our visit to Aus-
tralia, I must say that we received the
full cooperation of our leaders, work-
ers, and lay people in that country.
In addition, the genuine warmth of
the man in the street combined to
make the visit, for Elder Kelly and
me, a memorable one.
E. E. CLEVELAND
Associate Secretary
GC Ministerial Association
Left: A Times Square Center church member visits with two hippies in Central Park.
Right: Pastor S. H. Roseman and church member talk to an interested Jewish youth.
NEW YORK:
Park Evangelism Makes
Contacts for Church
Members of the Times Square Cen-
ter church, New York City, joined by
youth from other Adventist churches
in the metropolitan area, are reaching
out into the community to contact and
help people. In making the contacts,
they are offering health and religious
literature, a stop-smoking clinic, and
free health and Bible correspondence
courses. As a result of their neighbor-
hood evangelism, they have met people
of many classes who are looking for
truth.
Central Park is the locale for many
of their mission endeavors. On Sabbath
afternoon the group, under the direc-
tion of lay activities leader Hubert Be-
lisle and assistant Sabbath school su-
perintendent Jeff Needle, set up a
large folding table in the park, and set
out a display of a health book, samples
of a health course, and of a smoking-
control course, as well as religious
literature. On a wall they place an-
nouncements of what they have to of-
fer.
While two or three help those who
stop at the table, others approach the
people in the park with a health-and-
religious survey. Those interviewed are
directed to the table and are invited to
attend Sabbath services and lectures at
the Times Square Center. On Wednes-
day evenings members of the group
meet to mail the health and Bible
courses requested by those contacted.
At the present time church members
are giving 35 Bible studies, and a
branch Sabbath school of 15 youth is
being conducted by one of the local
church elders and his wife. S. H. Rose-
man is pastor of the Times Square
church. MIRIAM YOHAI
Communications Secretary
Times Square Center Church
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BRAZIL:
Pastor Baptizes 440
in One Year
District Leader Raimundo P. Lima,
of Maranhao, Brazil, spearheaded a
program of evangelism during 1970 in
which 440 persons were baptized. He
accomplished this by teaching church
members how to work and by coordi-
nating group efforts in a concerted
laymen's thrust.
Pastor Lima began his work in the
two churches of the capital city of
Maranhao early in the year. "We had
the blessing of gaining the sympathy
of the majority," he reports. "I started
to preach Christ-centered sermons.
Then youth leaders and local church
elders continued the work."
He held classes for lay preachers,
studying subjects such as justification
by faith. Classes in family life and prac-
tical godliness were developed.
One of the most spectacular con-
versions was that of a spiritualist who
worked for 23 years as a medium.
"The laymen were the ones who won
the 440," Pastor Lima declares. "We
only gave them the orientation."
D. A. DELAFIELD
Associate Secretary, White Estate
CAMBODIA:
Mission Work Resumed
After Six Years
Recent events in Cambodia have per-
mitted Adventists to reopen mission
work there after a lapse of about six
years. Church and mission property in
the country has been secured after re-
maining in the hands of refugees for
more than ten months.
Johan C. R. Adam, an Indonesian of
Chinese ancestry, and his wife arrived
in Phnom Penh from Indonesia No-
vember 10, 1970. They are studying
the Cambodian language and locating
Chinese members.
One of Pastor Adam's most impor-
tant duties since his arrival has been
overseeing the extensive repairs to the
Phnom Penh church. During the pe-
riod of refugee occupancy windows were
broken, pews and pulpit were scarred.
The entire church must be refurbished
and repainted.
We have only a few members in
the church in Cambodia at present,
all of Chinese descent. The only Cam-
bodian, a young man, is beginning
his second year of theology study at
Southeast Asia Union College in Sin-
gapore.
A school is needed, and if possible,
a clinic will be set up. There is no
budget for missionaries and no Bibles
for evangelism. But at least the work
has resumed in this war-torn nation.
V. L. BRETSCH
Assistant Superintendent
GC Transportation Bureau
24
dateline
WASHINGTON
A MONTHLY ROUNDUP OF HAPPENINGS AT GENERAL CONFERENCE HEAC/OUARTERS
MISSION '72 committees that have
been working for nearly a year to de-
velop the coordinated outreach of MIS-
SION '72 are now beginning to see the
outcome of their careful planning. The
Worker's Kit containing the basic ma-
terial for this endeavor has now been
completed and is available for distri-
bution throughout the field. Four sec-
tional meetings throughout North
America, involving conference and un-
ion Ministerial secretaries and field ad-
ministrators, were held recently to final-
ize on strategy and make certain that
preparations are moving smoothly for
the concerted implementation of MIS-
SION '72 across the continent. MIS-
SION '72 is no longer merely North
American in scope. We reported previ-
ously that the idea had spread to Aus-
tralia.
We can now happily report that it is
becoming an integral part of planning
for all of the European area and the
Inter-American Division. Not only is
it expected that MISSION '72 will be a
forward thrust in evangelism for that
year (in some areas it will be in 1973)
but it is contemplated that it will begin
a public thrust and a personal witness
that will extend farther and farther
and grow stronger and stronger until
the day Jesus comes to gather the re-
deemed from all corners of the earth.
This is a program that is to involve not
only the ministry but every member of
the church that the mission of the
church may be fulfilled quickly and
Christ come again.
COMMITTEE ON LITERATURE
IN SDA SCHOOLS. One of the impor-
tant committees sponsored by the Gen-
eral Conference, which met in Takoma
Park recently, was one called to study
the philosophy, the goals, and the role
of literature in the entire Adventist
school system — elementary through
graduate levels. Topics for discussion
included sequence of courses, problem
areas in literature, literature for mi-
nority groups, and contemporary lit-
erature. After reports and recommenda-
tions from this committee have been
accepted they will be sent to all educa-
tional secretaries serving the denom-
ination.
CHANGES IN PERSONNEL. After
five years of efficient and greatly appre-
ciated service in the General Conference
Treasury Department as assistant super-
intendent of the Transportation Bu-
reau, Charles Christensen has accepted
a call to be secretary-treasurer of the
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
By F. C. Webster
Antillian Union, with headquarters in
San Juan, Puerto Rico. Having been
reared in South America, Elder Chris-
tensen speaks Spanish as fluently as
English. This, together with experience
in church administration, makes him
highly qualified for this assignment.
V. L. Bretsch, who recently returned
from overseas service in Southeast Asia,
where he served in several capacities,
most recently as president of the South
Vietnam Mission, is replacing Elder
Christensen.
YOUTH. Ernest Edward Zinke
joined the General Conference early in
July as assistant to Dr. Gordon Hyde,
secretary of the Department of Biblical
Research. Mr. Zinke recently received
his Master of Divinity degree (cum
laude) and his Master of Arts in Old
Testament Theology from the Seventh-
day Adventist Seminary. He comes to
the General Conference from the
Arkansas-Louisiana Conference, where
he was engaged in ministerial work.
Mr. Zinke, 26 years of age, is another
example of the important place that
youth with consecrated heart and well.
trained minds can have in fulfilling the
mission of the church.
VISITORS. Visiting the General
Conference headquarters recently were
Ward Ehrhart, a devoted layman from
the Azure Hills church in Colton, Cali-
fornia; Dr. Paul Genstler, a staff phy-
sician from Youngberg Hospital in Sin-
gapore, on furlough; Ralph Watts, Jr.,
president of the Southeast Asia Union
in the Far Eastern Division, also on fur-
lough; Bruce Papendic, a student from
Walla Walla College; William H.
Hodde, layman from Cincinnati, Ohio;
H. E. Davis, pastor of the Asheville,
North Carolina, church; Robert Walker,
recent graduate of Middle East College
in Beirut; Elder and Mrs. H. E. Walker,
of Sao Paulo, Brazil, where Elder
Walker is head of the department of
education at Brazil College. Elder and
Mrs. Walker were in Washington to
attend the marriage of their daughter
Jean to Gregory A. Steen.
NEW MISSIONARIES. Ken Jeffers,
who has been associated with the Gen-
eral Conference printing plant for the
past three and one-half years, and his
wife have accepted a call to the Trans-
Africa Division to serve in the Sentinel
Publishing House. We wish these mis-
sionary recruits the abundant blessing
of God as they take up their new work
in South Africa.
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BRIEF NEWS
Four Ordained at Potomac Conference Camp Meeting
Four men were ordained at the Potomac Conference camp meeting in New
Market, Virginia, June 12. From left: Donald A. Eckenroth, Jess W. Dixon, W.
Clarence Schilt, and Denny B. Mitchell, the four ordained men, visit with Fenton E.
Froom, Potomac Conference president, and Cree Sandefur, Columbia Union Con.
ference president.
MutleeQiaadiotd
N. EUROPE-WEST AFRICA
DIVISION
+ A. McIntyre, literature evangelist
from Wales, sold £1,700 (US$4,100)
worth of literature in two successive
weeks. In 1970 eight of the literature
contacts that he made were baptized.
+ Seventeen young people graduated
May 30 from the Adventist College of
West Africa, Nigeria. The class of 16
men and a woman were awarded degrees
and diplomas in theology and general
business on the college level and certif-
icates in ministerial and Bible instruc-
tors' courses on the secondary and pro-
fessional training level.
PAUL SUNDQUIST, Correspondent
SOUTHERN ASIA DIVISION
+ M. E. Cherian, president of Spicer
Memorial College, Poona, India, and
K. J. Moses, business administrator of
the college, represented the college at
the second All India Convention of the
India Society for Training and Develop-
ment held recently in Bombay. The
convention was attended by business
executives and management and train-
ing experts from all over India.
+ The first in a series of story-sermon
tapes prepared in the Karen language
by Eric B. Hare for Burma has been
received at the division office. Elder
Hare is the only living Seventh-day Ad-
ventist missionary able to preach in the
26
JOHN MC GRAW
PR Secretary, Potomac Conference
Karen language. Total membership of
the Burma Union is now 5,114.
+ Fifty-five per cent of those who enroll
in the Bible Highlights course of the
Poona Voice of Prophecy school gradu-
ate from the school.
A. J. JOHANSON, Correspondent
+ Five Atlantic Union College students,
David Coleman and Carol Young, of
New York; Jacqueline Tibbetts, of Ber-
lin, Massachusetts; and Susan Downing
and David Gray, of South Lancaster,
have left for Korea to serve for a year
as teachers of English at a language
school in Seoul.
+ Nine people were baptized at the
Times Square Center, New York City,
on Sabbath, June 19, by J. M. Hoff-
man, of Escondido, California. This
brings to 34 the New Yorkers baptized
by Elder Hoffman since the fall of
1970. He has been on loan from the
Southeastern California Conference,
where he is engaged in evangelism.
Before moving to California he led out
in the work for the Jewish people of
New York City for some 20 years.
+ Seven persons were baptized by
Horace Walsh, Jr., at Brockport, New
York, on May 29.
+ The Northeastern Conference com-
mittee recently divided the Missionary
Volunteer Department of its conference
into senior and junior, and Pathfinder
REVIEW AND HERALD, August 12, 1971
departments. R. P. Peay, formerly Mis-
sionary Volunteer secretary for the
South Central Conference is the senior
MV secretary. He succeeds Owen Troy,
who accepted a call to mission service.
George Timpson, formerly pastor of the
Brooklyn Temple, New York, heads the
junior and Pathfinder departments.
+ George Peterson, former publishing
secretary of the Southern New England
Conference, is now devoting his time
in Southern New England to the promo-
tion of Listen magazine. This past year
he has contacted 150 schools and reg-
istered more than 9,000 subscriptions.
EMMA KIRK, Correspondent
+ For the next 12 months emphasis is
being placed on renovation and repair
of campus buildings and faculty homes
at Canadian Union College. An esti-
mated $120,000 is being expended on
new sidewalks, new roofs on all build-
ings, new lighting, and redecorating.
+ From January through June of this
year evangelistic campaigns have been
held in Dauphin, Regina, Moose Jaw,
Biggar, Winnipeg, Crooked River, and
Blaine Lake in the Manitoba-Saskatche-
wan Conference. From July through De-
cember evangelistic campaigns are sched-
uled for 11 other places.
+ Fifty-six people have been baptized,
and others are preparing for baptism
as a result of an evangelistic campaign
conducted in Toronto by J. C. Palmer,
of Jamaica, West Indies.
• Matthys Weststrate and John Rusk
were ordained during the Canadian Un-
ion session, which was held in Calgary,
Alberta, recently. N. R. Dower, Minis-
terial Association secretary of the Gen-
eral Conference; Neal C. Wilson, vice-
president of the General Conference
for the North American Division; L. L.
Bock, an associate secretary of the Gen-
eral Conference; and J. W. Bothe,
president of the Canadian Union, par-
ticipated in the service.
THEDA KUESTER, Correspondent
Carnal Him
+ A congress for Sabbath school and
lay activities personnel was conducted at
Platte Valley Academy, Shelton, Ne-
braska, August 6-8. Daniel R. Guild, of
the Voice of Prophecy; R. Curtis Barger,
associate secretary of the Sabbath School
Department of the General Conference;
and Lawrence Maxwell, editor of the
Signs of the Times, were the guest speak-
ers.
+ The laymen of the Kansas Confer.
ence gave $34,000 for evangelism, N. K.
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Harvey, secretary-treasurer of the Kan-
sas Conference, reported to the con-
stituency on Sabbath, June 5. These
funds were raised prior to camp meet-
ing. Almost $5,000 of this amount was
donated by the ministers of the con-
ference.
CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent
+ George L. Braxton, pastor of the
Willow Grove and Norristown, Penn-
sylvania, churches, was ordained on the
first Sabbath of the Allegheny East camp
meeting held recently at Pine Forge,
Pennsylvania.
+ Anna Stout, of Stephens City, Vir-
ginia, has been chosen Potomac Confer-
ence Layman of the Year for 1971. Mrs.
Stout is a member of the Winchester,
Virginia, church. Fenton E. Froom, Po-
tomac Conference president, and R. A.
Bata, lay activities secretary for the con-
ference, recently presented an award to
Mrs. Stout.
+ Parkersburg, West Virginia, youth
have "adopted" a French girl, Nadia
Dunajewski, the unfortunate victim of
a broken home whose mother is unable
to provide for her. The youth send $12
a month to the Christian Children's
Fund, Inc., for her support. Mrs. Susan
McHenry, youth leader for the Parkers-
burg church, is piloting the project.
MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent
+ Eleven people were recently baptized
in Superior, Wisconsin, as a result of a
series of meetings conducted by Confer-
ence Evangelist Lynn Martell. He was
assisted by Ted Green, the local pastor.
+ Laymen of the Harvey and Chicago
Heights, Illinois, churches assisted V.
W. Esquilla in a Voice of Prophecy cru-
sade in May. Seventeen people were
baptized as a result of the meetings.
+ Andrews University's teacher-training
program has been granted full accredi-
tation by the National Council for the
Accreditation of Teacher Education.
The new accreditation allows gradu-
ates of the university's education depart-
ment to be granted certification in a
large number of States even though not
meeting the regular certification require-
ments of those States.
GORDON ENGEN, Correspondent
+ The Yankton, South Dakota, church
members recently joined their pastor,
J. C. Parmele, in a series of evangelistic
meetings in their church.
+ South Dakota members gave and
pledged almost $13,000 for evangelism
at the recent South Dakota camp meet-
ing.
+ Sales for the South Dakota Book and
Bible House hit an all-time high during
this year's camp meeting week. A total
of more than $7,000 is reported by G. C.
Mowry, Book and Bible House man-
ager.
L. H. NETTEBURG, Cor.respondent
+ Bible studies given by laymen of the
Carolina Conference have increased by
one-third thus far this year. The Hen-
dersonville, North Carolina, church
members reported 423 studies for the
second quarter of 1971.
+ New Community Service centers
have been opened in Clinton, Union,
and Spartanburg, South Carolina.
+ On June 12 D. W. McNutt and
Stewart J. Crook, both of Mount Pisgah
Academy, and B. G. Ulloth, pastor of
the Sumter-Camden district in the Caro-
lina Conference, were ordained during
an ordination service conducted at
Mount Pisgah Academy, Candler, North
Carolina.
OSCAR L. HEINRICH, Correspondent

+ Several changes have taken place in

the Southwestern Union Conference of-
fice staff recently. E. C. Wines, former
president of Southwestern Union Col-
lege, has been appointed educational
secretary of the union; W. P. Thurber,
former educational department secretary,
has accepted the position of MV depart-
ment secretary, and LeRoy Leiske,
former MV secretary, has been elected
to the presidency of Southwestern
Union College.
+ One hundred and three young peo-
ple recently attended the friendship
camp of the Arkansas-Louisiana Confer-
ence, conducted at Yorktown Bay near
Hot Springs, Arkansas. More than 50
youth requested the Bible course lessons.
+ Three radio stations are currently
carrying the Hour of Prophecy radio
Indio, California, Spanish Adventists Purchase Landmark broadcast with Bob Thrower and Cyril
Miller as the speakers. Mail in response
as New Church Sanctuary to the broadcast is being received from
Spanish Adventists at Indio, California, celebrated the opening of their new many States in North America. More
church in an inauguration service May 29. The building, a colonial-Mexico style than 3,000 names were recently sent to
such as was current about 300 years ago, is a landmark in Indio. It was purchased local pastors for follow-up.
from the Indio Women's Club. Plans call for construction of a bell tower in which + The presidents of the five local con-
antique bells from Mexico will be installed. Members contributed approximately ferences met with the leaders of the
$7,000 worth of work in redecorating the structure. Southwestern Union Conference in
Melvin Lukens, Southeastern California Conference president, was the speaker Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 1-6 to lay
for the inauguration ceremony. Jose A. Fuentes is pastor of the church. plans for various phases of evangelism
C. E. PLATNER within the union.
PR Secretary, Southeastern California Conference J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent

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GENERAL NEWS
SDA Military Chaplains
Serve in Many Areas
John K. Umeda, formerly a pastor in
the Northern California Conference,
reported for duty June 27 as a chap-
lain in the Veterans Administration
Extended Care Hospital in Los Angeles.
Chaplain Umeda has prepared himself
for this specialized ministry and is the
first Seventh-day Adventist minister to
be given ecclesiastical endorsement for
this particular work.
Chaplain (1LT) Raymond D. Rud-
dle, pastor of the Tracy church in the
Northern California Conference, has
been commissioned as a reserve chap-
lain in the United States Army. In
1973 three Adventist chaplains will re-
tire from the Army, and Chaplain Rud-
dle will be in a position to take one of
their places in this challenging minis-
try.
As one Adventist military chaplain
returns from Vietnam another one pre-
pares to go there. Chaplain (MAJ)
Ralph Workman left Vietnam July 24
for assignment at Fort George Meade,
near Washington, D.C. At about the
same date LT Herman Kibble, CHC,
USNR, Adventist Navy chaplain re-
cently stationed at the Marine Corps
Recruit Training Depot in San Diego,
finished his assignment there and will
report to his new duty station at the
Naval Support Activity in Saigon in
late August. Chaplain (CPT) Robert
Roberts, with the First Cavalry Divi-
sion in Vietnam, will be there until
November 15 under existing condi-
tions.
Present addresses of Adventist mili-
tary chaplains are as follows:
US Air Force
Ch (LTC) William S. Hall
Installation Chaplain
86 Combat Support Group
APO New York 09860
Ch (LTC) Wayne C. Hill
21 Air Base Group
APO Seattle 98742
Ch (CPT) James J. North, Jr.
PSC Box 5726, AFCHSC H
Maxwell AFB, Alabama 36112
US Army
Ch (LTC) Glenn I. Bowen
Chaplains Office
USAHSTF
Fort Ord, Calif. 93441
Ch (LTC) John E. Keplinger
USASAFS
APO New York 09352
Ch (CPT) J. Paul Monk, Jr.
United States Army Garrison
(5A-WOVHAA)
Fort Carson, Colorado 80913
Ch (LTC) Joseph T. Powell
US Army Personnel Center
Fort Dix, New Jersey 08640
Ch (CPT) Robert Roberts
Chaplains Office
1st Bn, 7th Cav, 1st Cav Div (AM)
APO San Francisco 96490
Ch (LTC) Richard Sessums
Office of the Post Chaplain
Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234
Ch (CPT) Richard 0. Stenbakken
Office of the Chaplain
1st Bde USATC
Fort Lewis, Washington 98433
Ch (MAJ) Ralph Workman
US Army Garrison
Fort George Meade, Maryland 20755
(Address after 31 August)
US Navy
LT Harold H. Eslinger, CHC, USNR
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Office of the Chaplain
1st Mar Div, FMF
Camp Pendleton, Calif. 92055
LCDR Norman Goodwin, CHC, USNR
3 MAW, MCAS
El Toro, Santa Ana, Calif. 92709
LT Herman Kibble, CHC, USNR
US Naval Support Activity
APO San Francisco 96626
(Address after 31 August)
CDR Robert L. Mole, CHC, USN
Religious Activities Dept.
National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda, Maryland 20014
VA Administration
John Katsunai Umeda
VA Extended Care Hospital
Los Angeles, California 90073
CLARK SMITH
Associate Secretary
GC Missionary Volunteer
Department
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(Conference names appear in parentheses.)
Bruce Babienco, pastor, Milwaukee, Wis-
consin, formerly pastor (Northern Califor-
nia).
John R. Loor, ministerial secretary (Mich-
igan), formerly pastor, Collegedale, Tennes-
see.
From Home Base to Front Line
North American Division
Edwin A. Noyes, M.D. (WWC '55; LLU
'59), to be relief physician in the Thailand
Medical Institutions, Bhuket, Thailand,
Mrs. Noyes, nee Emma R. Vaselenko, and
two children, of Forest Grove, Oregon, left
San Francisco, California, June 22.
John Clarence Pitts (Ohio State Univer-
sity '57), to be business manager in Masanga
Leprosarium, Magburaka, Sierra Leone,
Mrs. Pitts, nee Sara Ruth Cole (HS&H
School of Nursing '57), and two children,
left New York City, June 22.
Adventist Volunteer Service Corps
and Other Workers
John Thomas Durichek, to be construc-
tion worker Nicaragua Mission, Managua,
student missionary (SMC), of Collegedale,
Tennessee, left Laredo, Texas, June 6.
Robert L. Barker, to teach in Osaka
Evangelistic Center, Japan, student mis-
sionary (AU), of Berrien Springs, Michigan,
left Los Angeles, California, June 7.
John Cameron M. Cox, to teach in Ko-
rean Union Mission, Seoul, Korea, student
missionary (LLU-LS Campus), of Riverside,
California, left Los Angeles, California,
June 7.
Clifford Earl Munroe, to teach agricul-
ture, Surinam Mission, Paramaribo, student
missionary (LLU), of Riverside, California,
left Los Angeles, California, June 7.
Robert K. Nakamura, to teach in Japan
Missionary College, Tokyo, student mis-
sionary (PUC), of Angwin, California, left
San Francisco, June 7.
Peter Allan Okimi, to teach in Osaka
Evangelistic Center, Japan, student mission-
ary (Kingsway College), of Mount Hope,
Ontario, Canada, left Los Angeles, Califor-
nia, June 7.
Dan A. Dunn, to be general auxiliary
nurse in North Coast Mission, Fortaleza,
Ceara, Brazil, student missionary (WWC),
of Portland, Oregon, left Miami, Florida,
June 8.
Gisela I. Geissler, to teach in English
Language Institute, Seoul, Korea, student
missionary (AU) of Berrien Springs, Mich-
igan, left Los Angeles, California, June 8.
Evonne Marie Lewis, to be office secretary
Central American Union Mission, Guate-
mala, student missionary (WWC), of Col-
lege Place, Washington, left Los Angeles,
California, June 8.
Delmar N. Schacht, to teach in Thailand
Mission, Bangkok, student missionary (AU),
of Berrien Springs, Michigan, left Los An-
geles, California, June 8.
Patsy R. Gott, to teach in English Lan-
guage Center, Seoul, Korea, student mis-
sionary (PUC), of Angwin, California, left
San Francisco, California, June 10.
Holly Jean Hopkins, for evangelism in
Central American Union Mission, Guate-
mala, student missionary (AU), of Berrien
Springs, Michigan, left Miami, Florida,
June 1 I ,
Mary K. Wohlers, to teach in Japan Mis-
sionary College, Tokyo, student mission-
ary (SMC), of Collegedale, Tennessee, left
San Francisco, California, June 11.
Brian Robert Fenton, worker in Mission-
ary Volunteer camps East and West Puerto
Rico Conference, to be located in Antillian
Union Mission, Villa Capri, Rio Piedras,
Puerto Rico, student missionary (Kings-
way College), of Oshawa, Ontario, Canada,
left Toronto, June 13.
Diana Elaine Walker, to work with evan-
gelistic team in British Honduras Mission,
Belize, student missionary (SWUC), of
Keene, Texas, left New Orleans, Louisiana,
June 13.
C. 0. FRANZ
CAMP MEETING SCHEDULE
1971
Lake Union
Illinois
Little Grassy Lake (Southern Illinois)
Makanda August 11-14
Pacific Union
Central California
Soquel August 5-14
Southern California
Lynwood convocation September 15-18
Pomona convocation October 8, 9
Antelope Valley convocation, Lancaster
October 22, 23
etvuutek
Oakwood College Offering August 14
Bible Correspondence School Evangelism
Day September 4
Church Lay Activities Offering September 4
Missions Extension Offering September 11
Review and Herald
Campaign September 11-October 9
Bible Emphasis Day September 18
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_ WORLD NEWS AT PRESS TIME

Day of Prayer Designated
for Project Radio-Europe
Sabbath, October 2, has been desig-
nated by the General Conference Com-
mittee as a day of prayer for the church's
Radio-Europe broadcast. Initial plans
call for weekly broadcasts in Arabic,
Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French,
German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian,
Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian,
Serbian, Slovakian, Spanish, Slovene,
and Ukrainian.
Church members everywhere are in-
vited to pray and give for this evangel-
istic endeavor.
THEODORE CARCICH
Australasia Benefited by
S.S. Offering Overflow
The Thirteenth Sabbath Offering
overflow for the first quarter of 1971
slated for two projects in the Australa-
sian Division totaled more than $103,-
000.
R. R. Frame, president of the Austral-
asian Division, writes: "Our mission
program in the Coral Sea Union will be
given great impetus as this -gift is used
in the rebuilding of the Bautama Ad-
ventist School in Central Papua, and
also in building an addition to the
Omaura Bible Workers' Training
School in New Guinea.
"Will you convey the grateful thanks
of the church membership in Austral-
asia to the Sabbath school members
around the world. They gave us a won-
derful offering, and we verily believe
that their sacrificial giving will tell for
eternity." FERNON RETZER
Disaster Relief Offering
Shows Marginal Gain
The contributions given to Disaster
and Famine -Relief in May and June,
1971, totaled $365,400.00. This exceeds
by $22,000 the offering for the same
period in 1969. It is the largest amount
ever contributed for this purpose, al-
though it represents a per capita increase
of only one cent.
Members are reminded that they can
contribute toward the disaster fund at
any time by simply using a tithe enve-
lope and marking the gift "Disaster."
THEODORE CARCICH
C. E. GUENTHER
ASI Convention to Study
Denominational History
The national convention of the Asso-
ciation of Privately Owned Seventh-day
Adventist Services and Industries (ASI),
scheduled for September 28 to October
5, 1971, in Boston, Massachusetts, will
be guided in a study of denominational
history by Arthur L. White of the Ellen
G. White Estate.
A tour will include historic Concord
and Lexington, Massachusetts, Atlantic
Union College, New England Memorial
Hospital, and Washington, New Hamp-
shire, where a special plaque will be
placed in the first Adventist church. On
Sabbath Elder White will speak in the
old church Ellen White used to attend
in Portland, Maine.
The regular program includes many
practical and attractive features with
timely subjects and interesting guest
speakers. All members of ASI are in-
vited to attend this annual convention.
Prospective members will also be join-
ing the group.
Plans for the last few days of the con-
vention are to engage in a mission work-
shop in Bermuda. Similar trips to other
countries in the past two years have fos-
tered increased mission giving.
CARIS H. LAURA

IN BRIEF

4- From strife-ridden Pakistan comes

word that the Gopalganj Clinic is in
operation with L. N. Powrie in charge;
Kellogg-Mookerjee High School, Jalir-
par, has sustained no harm; Seventh-day
Adventist schools in East Pakistan are
expected to reopen soon; and Sabbath
services are being held regularly in the
Dacca church.
+ New Position: Carson Adams, asso-
ciate manager, book department, Pacific
Press Publishing Association, formerly
associate secretary GC Publishing De-
partment.

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Marienhoehe Seminary Graduates 16

About 600 church members and visitors attended graduation exercises at Marien-
hoehe Seminary, Darmstadt, June 5. Of the 16 graduates who received diplomas,
ten are entering the organized work immediately. Two plan to attend Newbold
College, England, for one year to improve their English, and two are going to
Andrews University. All four intend to enter ministerial work in Germany. One
young woman will take up work at the Bible Correspondence School of the Voice
of Prophecy in Germany; another is going to Canada. N
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At the graduation the division president, H. Vogel, presented the address, using
Luke 22:61, 62 as his text. The male choir, accompanied by the orchestra, sang, a
under the leadership of Hans Joachim Scheithauer, "The Heavens Declare the Glory
of God."
ARTHUR STRALA
Ministerial Association Secretary
Central European Division

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