February 1, 1968
No. 5
Vol. 145
REVIEW AND HERALD • GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

"Come now, and let us reason
together, saith the Lord: though
yours sins be as scarlet, they shall
be as while as snow; though they
be red like crimson, they shall be

as

F. D. 'SILKEY

wool,"---Isaiah

1:18

By DON HAWLEY
Departmental Secretary, Greater New York Conference

,g) 19:+Y BY REVIEW AN HERALD

ChnkLES ZINGARO, ARTIST

When the wily serpent tempted Eve, he was appealing to her sense of pride.
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OST of us at some time or
another have come into cony V 1, tact with an egotist. It was
not a pleasant experience. We probably got the impression that he considered himself the center of the universe and believed that all things exist
merely to cater to his every whim.
But pure egotists are relatively
rare. Many people so labeled are
really suffering from strong feelings
of inferiority. They talk continually
about their great achievements because they feel a need to convince
themselves that they have done something worth while. They watch for
opportunities to grind down their fellows, apparently thinking that this
will result automatically in an elevation for themselves. Like the pure
egotist, these people are unpleasant
to be around, and they precipitate
trouble wherever they go.
Now what about the Christian?
What should be his attitude concerning himself? Is "ego" always a bad
word?
Again and again Scripture informs
us that we should love our fellow men
as we love ourselves. Is it possible that
it is entirely proper for a Christian to
exercise a certain type of self-love?
First of all, let us remind ourselves
that pride is a "fearful trait of character" (Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 377).
Pride was the sin that caused Satan
to be banished from heaven. When
the devil promised Eve that she would
become like God if she ate the forbidden fruit, he was appealing to her
sense of pride. Of pride it has been
said, "Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most incurable" (Christ's Object Lessons, p. 154).
The Bible upholds the virtue of
humility. We all know how pleasant it
is to be associated with one who has
a truly humble spirit. Yet even here
the charade of life sometimes comes
into play. Perhaps the worst form of
pride in all the world is the "pride of
humility." Did you ever meet someone who was constantly glancing upward in full expectation of catching
a glimpse of his own halo? When a
person becomes proud of his humility, there is little anyone can do to
help him.
Selfishness is basic to evil. It is the
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"Bo You Love
Yourself?"
"root of all evil" (Education, p. 226).
Therefore, "if we represent the character of Christ, every particle of selfishness must be expelled from the
soul" (The Adventist Home, p. 370).
It is no wonder then that Ellen G.
White speaks in a derogatory way concerning:
self-admiration
self-advancement
self-aggrandizement
self-assertion
self-assurance
self-caring
self-centeredness
self-complacency
self-conceit
self-esteem
self-exaltation
self-glorification
self-gratification
self-importance
self-inflation
self-love
self-recognition
self-righteousness
self-satisfaction
self-supremacy
and holds up for emulation
self-abasement
self-abnegation
self-forgetfulness
In what category does she place
self-confidence? Usually she speaks of
it in a derogatory sense, but in one
instance she encouraged a certain
man to help cultivate self-confidence
in his wife (Testimonies, vol. 2, p.
299). Then again she speaks of blind
self-confidence, too great self-confidence, inordinate self-confidence, and
large self-confidence. This would
seem to indicate that while too much
self-confidence is a dangerous thing, a
certain amount is proper.
Perhaps a better term for the desirable aspect of self-confidence is selfrespect. Always when Mrs. White
mentions self-respect she holds it up
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as something to be desired. She says it
"must be firmly and constantly cherished." When a person loses respect
for himself, he finds it almost impossible to respect others.
So then unless we love ourselves in
the proper sense we cannot love our
fellow men. If we hate ourselves, we
will tend to dislike others. If we feel
that we are failures, we will be envious of our brother's success. There
is much truth in the old saying that
what we condemn in others is often
merely a reflection of what we hold in
our own heart.
The effects of lost confidence in
self are reflected in the following statement: "You distrust yourself and
imagine that everyone else distrusts
you. You are jealous of yourself and
imagine that jealousy exists in other
hearts toward you. You have not confidence in yourself and imagine that
your brethren have not confidence in
you. . . . You seek to make your
brethren responsible for your conflicting feelings and doubts and jealousies; you feel that they are at fault,
that they do not give you attention.
The trouble is with yourself."—Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 90.
When Jesus came to this world and
shed His blood for us, He showed us
to be more precious than the gold of
Ophir. When we accepted Him as
our personal Saviour, we became
members of the royal family. God has
entrusted us with the most important
message in all the world today. Without engaging in vainglory or pride,
we may lift up our heads in a proper
sense of self-respect.
The acceptable form of self-confidence may better be termed Christconfidence. Of ourselves we can do
nothing, and any talent we may possess is after all a gift from Him. We
may face life unafraid because of what
He has already done for us, what He

will do for us today, and what He
has promised to do for us tomorrow.
The knowledge that He loves us
dearly imparts to our hearts a sense
of warmth that we can in turn radiate
into the lives of others.
How do we lose this self-respect
that is essential for living the consistent Christian life? Specifically mentioned in the Spirit of Prophecy are
wrong habits, and hasty, thoughtless
words, but perhaps it can all be
summed up in that one word "sin."
Wrongdoing produces feelings of
guilt, which in turn are highly corrosive to our sense of self-respect.
If sin has deprived us of respect for
ourselves, how may proper respect be
regained? Notice the case of the
woman who was brought to Jesus having been taken in adultery. Trembling, she stood in the midst of the
jeering crowd, unable even to lift her
eyes. Whatever self-respect she had
ever had was now crushed and nearly
extinguished. But after dealing with
her accusers, Jesus restored her sense
of worth by saying, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."
When Satan has been successful in
leading us into wrongdoing, we must
not fall into despondency and engage
in self-depreciation. In spite of our
error, God's love for us is still constant and He is ready to lift us up
again.
"While the Christian's life will be
characterized by humility, it should
not be marked with sadness and selfdepreciation. It is the privilege of
everyone so to live that God will approve and bless him. It is not the will
of our heavenly Father that we should
be ever under condemnation and
darkness. There is no evidence of
true humility in going with the head
bowed down and the heart filled with
thoughts of self. We may go to Jesus
and be cleansed, and stand before the
law without shame and remorse.
`There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ
Jesus, who walk not after the flesh,
but after the Spirit.' "—The Great
Controversy, p. 477.
May the Lord help us to shun
pride, and cultivate that self-respect
that will permit us to approach our
fellow men with godly love.
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Letters From South America-4

The Seventh-day Adventist
Began Here
Villa Libertador San Martin

T

RAVEL to the Entre Rios (between the rivers) Province,
situated to the north of Buenos Aires, like all travel in Argentina,
is via Buenos Aires. A little later we
shall visit that great sprawling capital
with a good proportion of the 23 million inhabitants of the Argentine.
Then we shall report on the work in
general in this country. Argentina is
the eighth largest country in the
world, the fourth largest in the Americas, and the second largest in area and
population in South America.
The Entre Rios Province is deserving of a special report, for it was here
that the Seventh-day Adventist saga
really began. Nor is Entre Rios without importance in the Argentinian
Republic. Parana, the provincial capital (population 165,000), is the port
for the great grain, cattle, and sheep
area to the east. From 1853 to 1862
the city was the capital of the Repub-

lic, and it still is one of the most
handsome cities in Argentina, with
its fine plaza San Martin, where fountains play and a fine statue to the
liberator lends majesty.
Across the river, some 20 miles
away, is Santa Fe (population 275,000), a provincial capital founded by
settlers from Ascuncion, Paraguay, in
1573. It is one of Argentina's oldest
towns. It was in the cabildo (town
hall) that the constitution of the Republic was adopted in 1853. Significantly, the oath of allegiance was
taken before the crucifix in the
sacristy of the remarkable San
Francisco church, which was built
from materials floated down the river
from Paraguay. Really, the 20 miles
that separate Santa Fe and Parana
constitute the Parana River bed. Most
of this territory is under water during
the rainy season. The main stream of
the river measures nearly two miles

The administration building of River Plate College, situated in Entre Rios, Argentina.

in width and is crossed by a ferry boat
service that aims to be regular (it
wasn't the night we used it).
Then we come to Parana, 25 miles
of road remain. At the time of the
Seventh-day Adventist beginning,
there was no transportation. The railway came later and the roads were
country trails, which during the rainy
season became treacherous and impassable. Today, Argentine Airlines
has a flight to Santa Fe and from
Parana to this Adventist center a
paved road is nearly completed. Not
so long ago the isolation of Villa Libertador San Martin was such that the
work suffered real handicaps. Now
this has been changed and the hopes
of the pioneers have been largely substantiated.
The beginnings of our work always
are of towering importance. Of
course, a long time before Seventhday Adventists entered Argentina, a
book on the second coming of Christ
(The Coming of the Messiah in Glory
and Majesty, by a Chilean Jesuit,
Manuel Lacunza, 1731-1801) had
been circulated. General Manuel Belgrano, creator of the Argentinian
flag, assumed the expense of an early
edition of Lacunza's book in 1816.
Among those who read this book and
were influenced by it was another
Argentinian patriot, Francisco Ramos Mexia, who kept the seventh-day
Sabbath, having learned of it through
reading the Bible. Many Indians
joined Mexia on his estates in observing the Sabbath.
By 1889 there were two groups of
Sabbathkeepers in Argentina, one at
the colony of Esperanza and the other
at a colony near Reconquista, both
in the Santa Fe Province across the
Parana River. By 1892, Seventh-day
Adventist contact with these groups
was well-established. The members of
both groups were baptized into the
Seventh-day Adventist Church in
1896 by Jean Vuilleumier, of Switzerland, and Frank H. Westphal.
But before this took place, four
Seventh-day Adventist families comprising a total of ten persons came to
Diamante, Entre Rios, from Tampa,
Kansas, and formed a colony at
Crespo, some ten miles from here.
These were German farmers who had
been colonists in Russia and had become Seventh-day Adventists while
in the United States. Jorge Riffel, the
head of one of these families, had
been in Argentina several years before, and he was returning to Entre
Rios to share his faith with his neighbors.
The day after the arrival in Crespo,
the first Sabbath school service in

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South America was held. About the
same time, the General Conference
assigned funds for beginning the work
in South America and named a commission to study methods for beginning the work. On September 9, 1894,
the first Seventh-day Adventist
church was organized in Crespo with
36 members—and the work was on its
way.
A story about the beginning at Reconquista is interesting, as told by
Jean Vuilleumier, in 1896. Apparently, a Peverini family was at the
origin of this Sabbath-observing
group. The husband was a Catholic
but had embraced the Sabbath truth
several years before after his wife (a
Waldensian) had sent for Les Signes
(published in Basel, Switzerland).
He had seen a mention of Les Signes
in the religious organ of the Waldenses. The Waldensian journal was opposing the work of D. T. Bourdeau
and Ellen G. White in the Piedmont
valleys. A copy of Les Signes (French
Signs of the Times) came and as a result Daniel Rostan, who lived 18
miles farther north, also began to
keep the Sabbath.
River Plate College
Following the organization of the
church and the initiation of a
stronger program under the sponsorship of the General Conference, the
first thought, naturally, was to establish a school. The decision to start was
made on September 26, 1898, in
Crespo. N. Z. Town started classes
the following year. By 1900 there
were 23 students. Now this institution has developed to the status of a
senior college offering some graduate
work.
From the beginning, the college
has operated student industries. The
dairy, opened in 1901 with one heifer,
has grown into a first-class Holstein
dairy known as the Establo Modelo.
The farm has indeed become a model
in the area and has won a number of
prizes. It was in his line of duty as
farm manager that C. J. Weber met
his death August 20, 1955, through
the vicious attack of a prize-winning
Holstein bull. I visited the quiet little cemetery at Villa Libertador San
Martin where Brother Weber rests
with a number of noble pioneers and
workers.
This last weekend was commencement at River Plate College. It was a
privilege to exhort the fine young people and to participate in the granting
of diplomas and degrees to 50 graduates. Some weeks earlier 40 nurses received diplomas after completion of
training at the adjoining sanitarium and hospital. Jose Tabuenca,
president of the college since 1962,
and his efficient colleagues have seREVIEW AND HERALD, February 1, 1968

HEART to HEART
Dear Adventist Husbands and
Wives Around the World:
This message is dedicated to my wife,
Donis Mae Pierson. On September 2, 1931,
we were married in Ocala, Florida. Within
a week we were settled in our new home
and had become immersed in a heavy
work-and-study program in Collegedale,
Tennessee.
On the occasion of the 1967 Southern
Missionary College baccalaureate I told
the graduating class and their friends
about those happy days. "We had a wonderful apartment here on the campus," I
explained. "It had a living room, a dining
room, a kitchen, two bedrooms, and a
study—all in one room. Furthermore, we
had a private bath—for all 19 of us who
lived on the second floor of the normal
building."
You have guessed it—I want to visit
with you today about happy Christian
homes, and I am dedicating this message
to the one who, for more than 36 years,
has contributed more than her share to
making ours a truly happy Christian
home.
"First . . . shew piety at home" (1 Tim.
5:4), Paul writes. Religion, like charity,
should begin at home. "Those who are
Christians in the home will be Christians
in the church and in the world" (Child
Guidance, p. 481). The greatest test of
true Christian living is how we live out
in our own home the precepts we profess
and teach.
"Sanctification," the Lord's messenger
writes, "begins in the home" (ibid.). Usually people associate sanctification with
the church. The Lord reminds us that the
process begins in the home. This "work
of a lifetime"—this lifelong approach to
Christlikeness—begins within the four
walls of our own dwelling.
"How many dishonor Christ and misrepresent His character in the home circle!
How many do not manifest patience, forbearance, forgiveness, and true love!"
(The Adventist Home, p. 178). How do
you measure up, friend of mine? Does
your home life honor or dishonor your
Saviour?
"Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ" (Eph. 5:21, N.E.B.)*
the apostle admonishes. "If Christ indeed
is formed within, the hope of glory, there
will be union and love in the home. Christ
abiding in the heart of the wife will be

at agreement with Christ abiding in the
heart of the husband. They will be striving together for the mansions Christ has
gone to prepare for those who love Him"
(My Life Today, p. 84).
Reverence for Christ makes husbands
and wives unselfish, kind, and loving.
When love for the Saviour motivates every
thought and action, families will be drawn
together.
I like Ellen G. White's illustration: "Picture a large circle, from the edge of which
are many lines all running to the center.
The nearer these lines approach the center, the nearer they are to one another"
(The Adventist Home, p. 179).
As husbands and wives, we have a most
important role to play in making home
a happy place. "A home where love dwells
and where it finds expression in looks,
in words, in acts, is a place where angels
delight to dwell."—Counsels to Teachers,
p. 115. (Italics supplied.)
What about exposing the faults of
loved ones to others? This inspired counsel is both clear and practical: "The
heart of his wife should be the grave for
the faults of the husband, and the heart
of the husband the grave for his wife's
faults" (The Adventist Home, p. 177). I
have seen homes that were broken largely
because these words had not been heeded.
A happy Christian home must be built
upon utmost loyalty on the part of both
husband and wife. "There is a sacred circle around every family which should be
preserved. No other one has any right in
that sacred circle. . . . Friends and acquaintances we may have, but in the home
life they are not to meddle" (ibid.).
Love—the love of Christ—expressed in
looks, words, acts, and loyalty will make
your home and mine happy Christian
homes.
Yours for more
"little heavens on earth,"

* From The New English Bible, New Testament.
© The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and
the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961.
Reprinted by permission.

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cured an enviable reputation with
the academic and governmental authorities and have given this institution the standing it deserves in the
training of Seventh-day Adventist
youth.
Before turning to the medical institution, let me mention a real first at
River Plate College: the development of what is called an Experimental School of Missionary Volunteer Leadership. The Austral Union
committee, the River Plate College
board, and the local church have cooperated in sponsoring this activity.
The school occupies a physical plant
in which academic and instructional
work is provided by the college. The
objective is to train leaders for the

army of youth and children. The
long-range program calls for the development of training for leaders in
lay activities, Sabbath school, administration, and other branches of the
work. Short, intensive courses, as well
as regular courses, are taught by the
professors of the college and other
specialists, including church departmental secretaries as well as administrators.
It was my privilege to address a
large group of Missionary Volunteers
and college and church leaders on the
occasion of the laying of the cornerstone for the second building erected
for the Experimental School of Missionary Volunteer Leadership. The
thinking behind this enterprise is that

The art of livi

HOW TO Last week we were discussDECIDE— ing the importance of dePart 2
cision-making in the art
of living. We'd established
(I hope) that the first step is to square
potential decisions against a clearly defined set of principles. If the decision to
be made isn't so clearly in the moralethical realm, the following steps may be
helpful: Review mentally similar circumstances you have faced in the past. Were
you satisfied with the results of your decisions? Do you recall declaring soon
after your decision, that "if I had it to
do over again, I'd . . ."? In that case,
your problem is solved.
Try to envision the consequences of first
one course of action, then the other. Life
isn't so mysterious, so complicated that an
intelligent, sincere young person can't
pretty well predict possible outcomes of
a given decision. Neither projected outcome may be disastrous, but you may find
that you're a great deal happier with one
mental picture than the other.
Ask yourself whether anyone else will
be involved in the possible consequences
of your decision. When we're young we're
rather fiercely dedicated to the philosophy
of "It's my life" and "I'll do what I want
to do" and "It's nobody's business but my
own." Were all this true, or practical, I
can assure you that everything would be
a great deal simpler. Unfortunately, there
is almost no one in the world whose life
isn't interlocked with someone else's
(many lives, usually), and other people
have to make his business their business.
If you insist on hanging by your toes over
a 1,000-foot precipice in order to pick that
elusive daisy, a rescue team may have to
lower themselves to the bottom, at great
personal risk, to retrieve your crumpled
body. (You really deserve to be left there
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—but people are endlessly kind to decision bunglers.)
Do a quick calculation on the law of
averages as applied to this particular situation. You've lived long enough to
know that a runner who has his feet tied
together might win the race against unfettered runners—but it's highly unlikely!
Put your near-decision to the test as to
whether it is a sensible course of action.
This, I think, is rather closely related to
the apostle Paul's "lawful but not expedient" philosophy. Though one may wish
it otherwise, the balanced, rational life
must be founded on what makes the best
sense.
If you're still, after all this, wrestling
against what you know to be willfulness
and namby-pamby weakness, visualize the
person you admire most. Picture this individual being confronted by the necessity
for decision, and ask yourself just what
he or she would do. Granted that the
person you've chosen is worthy of both
your admiration and emulation, you're
almost certain to see immediately before
your eyes a very clear path, indeed.
Finally, if you're still sitting on that
uncomfortable perch, "the horns of a
dilemma," I'd suggest that you close your
eyes and conjure up a picture of what
you'd really like to be. You, in all your
splendor and glory. You, clothed in selfdiscipline, maturity, reason, achievement.
Each decision brings you closer to this
ideal, or further from it.
Does all this seem unbearably complicated? Actually, it isn't. Successful people
use one or more or all of these steps every
day of their lives.
On second thought, though, I believe
that I can simplify the process of good
decision making by suggesting that you
ask yourself, "What would Jesus do?"

great ideals and principles do not live
from generation to generation simply
because they are right. Ideals and
principles continue only when they
are built into the hearts of the young
by inspired, qualified, and dedicated
leaders.
Some ten years after the college
came the River Plate Sanitarium and
Hospital. It is situated on the same
campus a few hundred feet to the
northeast. The medical work was begun in 1908 by Robert H. Habenicht,
M.D., who had settled in the area in
1903. At the time many towns had no
physician or hospital facilities, and
the Habenicht family began by receiving patients into their home. Sometimes the children gave up their beds
for patients urgently needing them.
Using his own means and donations
from neighboring farmers, Dr. Habenicht opened a six-bed hospital in the
original school building of River
Plate College. With Dr. Habenicht,
Lillian Vooris, the first nurse,
is highly honored here.
Growth was slow until 1950. In
fact, the depression years threatened
to close the institution. Many thought
a more favorable site would facilitate
the work. Yet, the vision of the pioneers lived on. Now a two-story brickand-concrete building houses the hospital with a bed capacity of 136. A
new administration building accommodates medical offices, the X-ray department, laboratory, the administration offices, and other services. During
this time, Dr. M. A. Hammerly and Dr.
P. D. Tabuenka have had the skillful
guidance of E. E. Bietz, the general
manager, one of the three overseas
worker families on this campus. The
nurses' training school, opened in
1908, has graduated some 450 nurses,
most of whom have been employed in
SDA medical institutions throughout
the South American Division.
This, indeed, is hallowed ground.
The seed was sown faithfully and
watered with the tears of those who
have done so much for God's cause.
The institutions at Villa Libertador
San Martin keep their vision clear.
The local church has nearly 1,000
seats. It is now necessary to hold two
meetings, Friday evening and Sabbath,
to accommodate the believers. Along
with the arts and sciences spiritual
values are in honor on this campus.
A baptismal class functions permanently, and this year some 50 non-Adventists were baptized into church
membership.
Of one of the pioneers resting in the
Villa Libertador San Martin cemetery, it is written, "He Came, He Saw,
He Served—Faithful Unto Death."
This tells the story of Puiggari, and it
does honor to God's church.
W. R. BEACH
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On the Trail of the Great Missionaries
By LEONARD NELSON
English Instructor, Solusi College

BOUT a year and a half ago we
accepted a call to Solusi College in the Trans-Africa Division. Because of immigration barriers, my departure from Massachusetts for Rhodesia was delayed almost
seven months. During that waiting period I spent several weeks working in
the SDA Transportation Office in
New York.
In the large warehouse at 39th and
Crescent, Long Island City, we made
boxes and crates for shipping missionaries' household furnishings overseas.
While working there I became acquainted with many missionaries and
learned how they live and travel. I
remember a family dividing up a
large package of figs into small bundles to fit the holes in their baggage,
meanwhile munching on them and
passing them around. Another missionary's goods we packed in an iron
trailer, which was transported to the
ship by truck and lowered into the
hold with a crane. All the pieces for
that shipment were in it, and they
would all be unloaded at one time
too.
Furniture and household goods,
suitcases, trunks, and barrels usually
came to the warehouse by truck. Many
times the items were not very well
packed, or not packed at all, and it
was our duty to see that all appliances and furniture were boxed securely and labeled with the correct
address. We placed the smaller items
in boxes we had made, which were
lined with waterproof paper. If any
package had a rattle in it we unpacked it and silenced the rattle. We
packed dishes, glassware, typewriters. There was no telling what a missionary would choose to take along.
One consignment included a canoe
and a ton of Loma Linda foods.
And whenever there was an open
place in the crate or carton we
stuffed it full of Dorcas clothing—to
stop the rattles, yes, but more to
supply clothes that are so welcome
overseas.
The men who pack the missionaries' goods develop a deep personal
interest in each shipment. If the
goods arrive at their destination in
good condition, they feel elated. But
if the stevedores drop a piano from
the ship to the dock and break it to
pieces, they feel like crying. We were
often deeply troubled to see family

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possessions that had only sentimental
value being sent around the world.
But now that I am 13,000 miles from
home, I have found that there is a lot
of comfort in such dear possessions.
The workers in the Transportation
Office took a personal interest in the
welfare of their missionaries also.
They prayed for them every morning,
often by name. I was there the morning they got word that E. R. Reynolds
had been shot in Pakistan. We all felt
and shared a deep sorrow. Such news
comes close home to one about to
leave the shores of his homeland. The
workers told me of missionaries who
had gone out and renounced their
citizenship, planning to stay all of
their lives. That reminded me of
Grandma Hartman, who, with her
husband, went to South America
years ago; she told me that they never
planned to come back. They were going to stay until the Lord came.
In the warehouse I saw boxes and
trunks belonging to friends who, I
knew, had been overseas for at least
30 years. When I got to Solusi I found
out why those boxes were in the New
York warehouse. Because raids, looting, and terrorism were ever a possibility, missionaries had sent some
things back to New York in case their
home was damaged or destroyed.
It is a moving experience to see the
missionaries gather in the Transportation Office on the morning they are

to sail or fly, sometimes with wee babies. Thus went one family who took
six-week-old twins to Rhodesia, and
did not know when they left that they
were going to a station where they
would be the only overseas workers.
We quickly load the missionaries'
simple possessions into a car for transport to the docks or airport; then they
are moved off by ship or plane to a
land where they will stay for years.
It may be a land where war, revolution, road blocks, and terrorism are
common. Yet bravely they turn their
backs on worldly gain, promotion,
security, and the companionship of
family and friends.
About March 1, after my friends
had despaired that I was ever going,
I got the permit. The Atlantic Union
College Yearbook staff had bought me
a little farewell gift about Christmas
time, but had not given it to me because they wanted it to be for a missionary who was actually leaving.
Now they presented it to me, and to
Mrs. Nelson they gave a farewell
corsage. However, she would not be
able to go until her school was out.
Many of the church members wished
us well on Sabbath, and Sunday night
I left from Boston.
This was the first time I had flown
and the first time I had been outside
of the United States. I left at night
and flew above the clouds so that I did
not see the Atlantic Ocean at all. Fly-

LOVE
By MARGARET C. MARTIN
"Why don' you wuv me now?" she sobb
As round her mother's skirt she threw
Her arms and cried so brokenly.
"But, Doll, X do. That's why I ppp#It
you!"
Ere Sabbath school'd begun, she'd playett
She was the teacher. "Sing dis song,
"Now do dis findjer play!" I did nct
Her later do her childish wrong.
L

knew that mother loved her child,
And would not hurt her needless'
Why question, then, Infinite Love
If He designs to chasten me?

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ing rapidly eastward, I was in England soon after I had finished supper.
I remember the exhilaration I felt as
we flew into the dawn. Somehow I
thought, as we met the glory of the
morning sun, that this is how it will
be when we meet God face to face.
London is an interesting city. Everything seemed much more elaborate
than I had expected. It was as though
people had been bringing their treasures to London for years, for centuries. I spent an afternoon at Oxford
and took several guided tours in London. But I was impressed most by the
tomb of David Livingstone in Westminster Abbey. Not the tomb itself—
it is but a smooth place on the floor—
but its position in the center of the
nave. Ranged around him are kings,
generals, poets, orators, and statesmen. I drew the conclusion that Missionary David Livingstone was being
honored as the noblest man that Great
Britain had ever produced. I know
that Livingstone has been denigrated
in recent years by critics who cannot
understand his long absences from
home. But how can anyone who reads
his Journal, telling of Mary's death of
fever while her doctor-husband tried
in vain to save her life, question his
concern for her? He wrote, "This is
the first time in my life that I have
been willing to die." Modern man
knows much about family trouble,
alienation, and separation, but he still
has something to learn about dedication.
Livingstone set his heart to break
the slave trade and that he did, though
he did not live to see the break. And
his son died at Gettysburg in the
struggle to free the slaves. One might
say that Livingstone and Lincoln
ushered slavery out of the civilized
world.
I suppose it was because I was going to Livingstone's country that I
was so moved by the tribute the English people paid to him. I thought of
his being surrounded year after year
by people of another race and language, of his waiting a whole year at
a time for mail, and then finding that
enemies had destroyed it (I get mail
almost every day). After Mary died,
Livingstone did not choose to go
home, even though he was invited to
go and was sent for. However, when
one has been a missionary and has
traveled and moved around all of his
life there is no longer any place that
appeals to him as home, nothing calls
him except his work. There are still
people like that. Such people do not
count earth their home; they are
strangers and pilgrims here.
Farther along the way to Solusi I
visited both Rome and Athens. Of
course, there were numberless things
to see in these cities, but everything
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else faded away when I got sight of
the work of Missionary Paul. Late
one afternoon in Athens I took the
city bus to visit the Areopagus. It is
mostly a stone pile now, but there
was a day when clever and able men
convened in that Forum. This was the
place where the Greeks listened to
new ideas, and where one day Missionary Paul came striding up the
hill to accept their challenge. No one
had ever brought them an idea such
as Paul presented. His assertion that
the dead would live again broke up
the meeting.
I used to discount the significance
of Paul's witness in Athens. But there
before me that day, blazing in the late
afternoon sun, was a copper plaque
memorializing Paul's words. It
dawned on my. understanding that
Paul had put a mark on Athens that
the city has never been able to erase.
Not long afterward Paul made another trip, this time to Rome. For a
long time he had hoped to go there,
but ironically he made the trip in
chains. He was restrained from meeting the Roman wise men in the
Forum, nevertheless he put his mark
on Rome. I saw it in the catacombs,
in the Mamertine prison, and in the
ruins of the Imperial City.
Approaching the Temple of Heathendom, Missionary Paul was like

The Crooked Shrub
By ESTHER LAU
"I WISH that telephone man were a little more careful. Did you see what he
did to one of my shrubs?" Mother complained to dad as her two boys listened
quietly in the next room.
"Evidently he knocked it over when
he backed out of the driveway," mother
continued.
The Bloomfields had just moved into
their new home. Mother had already
planted some beautiful shrubs and
flowers. That evening as she went out to
water her plants she noticed that somehow one of the shrubs was leaning toward one side. When she got closer she
saw that it was actually broken off at
the base, and someone had just stuck it
back into the dirt.
"I'm going to call the telephone company the first thing in the morning. They
ought to pay for the damage," mother
declared.
"Dear, wait a minute," dad interrupted, "are you sure the telephone man
did it?"
"Well, who else could have done it?

Samson. Placing his arms around the
two pillars of classical antiquity, Athens and Rome, Paul tugged and
pulled with all of his might till the
pillars tipped and bent, till the pantheon of false gods swayed on their
pedestals. He finally cracked the
framework of paganism, causing it,
eventually, to fall down of its own
weight.
In time I reached Solusi, this city
set on a hill, in heathendom. I found
a well-planned physical plant and
noted that the old problem of water
supply seemed about solved. Students
are again being allowed to come to
Solusi from other countries. But the
work here is not finished. There is
still much to do. Everyone knows that
there is much trouble and unrest in
Africa. But there are many opportunities as well.
Lest we should be tempted to feel
that the preaching of the gospel here
has been hindered, or that the task is
too formidable for men to accomplish, let us remember that God
brought His people out of Babylon
without any effort on their part, and
out of Egypt likewise. We do not
know whether God will break down
the kingdoms that oppose Him, or
make them preach the Word themselves. But this we know, His kingdom will triumph.

The telephone man was here this morning to install our telephones. I know he
did it," mother said.
David and Jerry felt somewhat uneasy
as they listened from the next room. "We
better not let mom call the telephone
company," David whispered.
"Yeah, I know," Jerry whispered back.
Soon the boys got enough courage and
came into the room where mother and
dad were. They told them how they had
become careless that morning while
playing with an old car tire and had
knocked over the shrub.
"Why didn't you boys tell us sooner?"
mother asked.
"Well, we were hoping that you would
blame the dog for doing it," David confessed.
"Yeah, but we didn't want you to
blame the telephone man though," Jerry
added.
"Now, boys," dad said, "we are happy
that you decided to tell us the truth. I
know you didn't want us to place the
blame on the telephone man, because he
would explain to us that he didn't do it;
but, you know, we should not place the
blame on the dog either, even though he
couldn't talk."
David and Jerry knew what dad said
was right. One should also be honest to
the animals, especially since they cannot
defend themselves; and above all, one
should be honest with himself.
It was then decided that David and
Jerry should pay for the shrub. They
both accepted the agreement willingly.
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7. Whom
By ERNEST LLOYD

N THE sixth chapter of John's
Gospel is the record of a
crowd of hungry people who
were following the Lord Jesus and
His disciples on a certain day to be
healed and fed. They had fond political hopes for this wonder-working
Teacher, but they discovered that
while they were seeking earthly benefits, He was concerned for their spiritual and eternal welfare. They
turned away disappointed, and followed Him no more.
Wearily and wistfully the Master
turned to His twelve disciples, asking,
"Will ye also go away?"
Then Peter, the ready speaker,
voiced the thought of the others, and
answered, "Lord, to whom shall we
go? thou hast the words of eternal
life" (John 6:68).
This question, or its equivalent, is
one of the oldest among men. It is
the question that every person, young
or old, raises at one time or another.
The question implies a great truth,
and it is this: Man must have someone to whom to go for help, guidance,
and comfort. The human soul not
only desires but demands and must
have, not something, but someone
as an ideal example to admire and
love and serve.
In Peter's question we find three
things for our earnest consideration:
(1) The fact that we need someone
to go to; (2) the question, To whom
shall we go? and (3) the answer—that
only the Lord Jesus can really satisfy
our needs because He alone can satisfy
the human heart.
1. The fact. Man cannot live happily without a master, without a guide,
without a comforter. God made it natural for us to desire and long for the
companionship of a greater one, a
superior person who can help us especially in times of trouble and distress.
And man, we must remember, is also
a servant. No one can escape service.
And so it simply becomes a matter of
choice—whom shall we serve? "To
whom shall we go"?
In his book On Seruice With the

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King," Dr. G. T. Candlin mentions
a great truth that we do well to remember: "There is a deep law of our
nature which reveals a sense of our
need, a consciousness of dependence.
In every age, in every country, this is
what man has keenly felt. . .. We must
have leaders whom we can follow,
else no progress is made. . . . We want
a stronger and wiser one to whom
we can look, who shall be our highest example, whom we can reverence,
obey and exalt."
We need someone to whom to go
for our ideals. There is a story of an
eminent painter who kept always in
his studio a set of precious stones. He
said he needed them to refresh his
jaded sense of color. Back to them he
would often turn when he had lost
the vivid sense of blue or crimson.
And thus he never failed to find new
tone and beauty. So we need someone
to give us the glory of lost ideals,
someone who can renew our vision of
the life we were meant to live, who
can make us new creatures, new men
and women, with new purposes and
new hopes.
2. The question. "To whom shall
we go?" Not to what shall we go, but
to whom. It is not a question of choice
between Christ and something else,
but between Christ and someone else.
And what Peter wanted, and what we
all want, is someone who can raise us
above circumstance. The majority of
the human family are so placed as to
be in perpetual depression. Circumstances, we say, are against them. Poverty, poor health, frustration, worry,
anxiety, defeated hopes, and countless other circumstances depress the
human soul. Hence, there is the primal necessity of our being, that we
should find one who is able to lift us
above circumstance.
And we need someone who can lift
us above sin. No human want is
deeper than this. Sin is the greatest
misery maker in our world. Ethics,
science, philosophy, cannot cure this
misery. Within the unhappy hearts of
millions is the longing for release

from shame and fear, and a yearning
for peace and goodness. The situation requires divine aid.
A large share of humanity has succumbed to an abject materialism:
"Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow
we die." What a vanity fair is modern
social life! Multitudes are trying to
drown their bitterness and aches in
deeper cups of pleasure and riot. Men
and women sometimes call the doctrine of Jesus "hard." "But how
much harder," wrote Tolstoy, "is the
doctrine of the world! In my own life
I can reckon up as much suffering
caused by following the doctrine of
the world as many martyrs have endured for the doctrine of Jesus." Tolstoy was right. The modern martyrs
are not in the church; they are in the
world. For real martyrdom today,
name the frenzies of contemporaneous business and social life. Men and
women everywhere bowing in slavery
to materialism. Young men and young
women crucifying themselves on the
altars of fashion, sport, intemperance, and riotous living, seeking
satisfaction at the poison pools of
modern life, but finding ruin and
death at the last.
3. The answer. None but Christ
can satisfy. Peter was convinced not
only that the Lord Jesus Christ had
eternal life to give to others, but that
no one else had. He knew for himself
that it was useless to seek for life anywhere else than in the Lord Jesus.
And where but in Him do we find
power and peace for mind and soul?
To put anyone alongside of the Lord
Jesus as a revealer of God, as a pattern of virtue, as a true Saviour of
men, is absurd. There is that in Him
which we recognize as not only superior, but of another and higher
kind. The basis of Christian faith in
the divine person of the Lord Jesus
Christ is His works, His words, and
His character; what He did, what He
said, what He was, and what He is
now. For He is "the same yesterday,
to day, and for ever." He is "alive for
evermore." His "words" are just as
full of life and power today as when
they were spoken in old Galilee. And
these are the words to live by.
"Thou hast the words of eternal
life." The words interpret and explain all the rest. Christ's words of
eternal life were words about the nature of that life which He came into
the world to proclaim, a life begun
in the soul by faith while we live in
the world, and perfected when we live
in the earth made new. They were
words about the comforts and encouragements along the way, even His
daily help, sympathy, guidance, and
care. How grateful we are for the
preservation of those life-giving words
in the New Testament!
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PITHY EMMERSON

W

HEN the clock on the fireplace bonged out midnight,
Jerry jumped on the coffee
table and with all the unharnessed
energy of his four years and forty-five
pounds, bounced up and down, trying
to reach the chandelier.
I sighed. All day this child, .a guest
in our home, had created havoc. He
didn't walk through the rooms. He
ran. He didn't ask for a drink of water.
He screamed.
Turning to our weekend guests I
suggested, "Wouldn't your son like to
go to bed now?"
His mother sighed too. "Oh, no.
Jerry never goes to bed until we do!"
"Never?" I echoed.
"No. He's been like that since he
was born."
Translating my shocked silence, she
tried to justify herself. "He's just a
child. When he goes to school the
teacher will be able to take care of
him. I just can't do a thing with him."
That's when the teacher in me rebelled. It was easy to visualize that
victimized teacher turning in her
credentials after a term with Jerry.
His mother, who for four years had
shirked her responsibility in child discipline, was ready to pawn him off to
a total stranger.
Could the teacher train him?
My memory of another boy, Denny,
was vivid. I was teaching the fifth
grade when he came to the class. Every
one of his previous teachers warned
me, "He'll keep your class in constant
disruption."
But this was my first year of teaching. I refused to take them seriously.
Assuring myself smugly, I responded
to their grim prediction, "No, he
won't, because I'm going to train
him." Hadn't I had enough child psychology courses?
But nothing in the child psychology books seemed to work with
Denny. Even the firm-but-kind Christian method failed. He did what he
wanted to when he wanted to.
When a flower grew through the
school-ground pavement and the
principal asked the children to be
careful not to break it, since a photographer would take a picture, everyone showed respect. That is, except
Denny. One morning, deliberately, he
stepped on the flower and crushed it.
The wrath of that public school
principal still makes me want to hide.
After all, he was in my class.
What was wrong? Why couldn't
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For Beauty at Maturity,

Bend the Tiny Twig . . . Right
By VINNIE RUFFO

Denny be made to obey and respect
the property of others? Denny's
mother and father had not taught
him to obey. That's what was wrong.
Now teacher after teacher and classroom after classroom reaped the results of their negligence.
"Wrong habits are left to
strengthen until they become second
nature. The children grow up without restraint, with traits of character
that are a lifelong curse to them and
are liable to be reproduced in others."—Child Guidance, p. 231.
When to Begin
When should child discipline begin?
"The first three years is the time
in which to bend the tiny twig."—
Ibid., p. 194.
"It is during the first years of a
child's life that his mind is most susceptible to impressions either good or
evil."—Ibid., p. 193.
"The moment that the child begins
to choose his own will and way, that
moment his education in discipline is
to begin. . . . She [the mother] is to
lay the foundation of an education
that will help the child to develop a
strong, symmetrical character. —
Ibid., p. 230.
During World War II a Baptist missionary mother and her six children
were passengers aboard an Egyptian
ship bound for Africa. There they
hoped to join the father at his mission post.
Midway in the ocean enemy guns
shelled the ship. Amid the panic the
mother managed to keep her children together. Eventually she guided
them down the ropes into a lifeboat,
not knowing that this lifeboat too had
been shelled. As soon as the boat
filled with passengers it began to sink,
spilling all of them into the water.
As the children bobbed around in
the water, she took control, "John,
Betty, Chris, Anne, Mary," she commanded, "all of you float."

Not one of them whined or cried,
"No, Mommy, the water's too cold,"
or "I can't," or "I don't want to
float."
Every child, having been taught
strict obedience, floated. The children ranged from fifteen years to a
baby in arms. Keeping the baby in
the circle of her arms, the mother
paddled around, encouraging and
commanding them, until she had
them in a circle. Now she could
watch each one and keep strict control.
"Now, let's sing," came the next
command. Above the bone-chilling
water, and amid the terror of the
scene, the children obeyed. Their
voices rose in song, "Jesus Loves Me,
This I Know" and "God Will Take
Care of Me."
And God did take care of the Godfearing Christian mother and her six
obedient children. A German raider
boat took pity on them and took them
all aboard.
What had saved the lives of that
mother and the children God had entrusted to her care? The mother had
taught each child strict obedience.
"Parents should have perfect control over their own spirits and, with
mildness and yet firmness, bend the
will of the child until it shall expect
nothing else but to yield to their
wishes."—Ibid.
Postponement Dangerous
Do not postpone this work. "Many
neglect their duty during the first
years of their children's lives, thinking that when they get older, they
will then be very careful to repress
wrong and educate them in the right.
But the very time to do this work is
when the children are babes in their
arms."—Ibid., p. 194.
Suppose this training has been
postponed? Is it too late to begin?
"If you have waited until your children were three years old to begin to
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ence, seek to do it now, even though
it will be much harder."—Ibid.
Discipline, however, should not be
a mere exercising of authority. It
should not be administered simply to
show a child who's boss! Early discipline should have a purpose:
"The object of discipline is the
training of the child for self-government. He should be taught self-reliance and self-control."—Ibid., p. 223.
When many miles and many years
from home, Joseph had to make a
history-making decision. When the
governor's wife came to him, inviting
him to commit adultery, what would
the story have been had not the most
early impressions of his childhood at
the hands of his father, Jacob, been
most indelibly impressed on his heart?
Could he have found the will to say,
"How can I do this great wickedness
against God?"
Joseph's early training had taught
him self-government and self-control,
even among the greatest temptations.
"Obedience to God's commandments is the price of heaven, and obedience to their parents in the Lord
is the all-important lesson for children to learn."—Ibid., p. 224.
"God will bless a just and correct
discipline."—Ibid., p. 232.
Begin your child discipline at once.
If you want your children to eat of
the tree of life, bend the tiny twig.

Keeping House
IN FEBRUARY :1

By CAROLINE E. KEELER

T

O BE TRULY successful any
business must be well organized. Since our homes are our
big businesses, let us look well to
them this year.
First, are we giving to important
things the place they deserve? Are we
setting aside time each day for morning and evening worship so that we
begin the day with God and end it
with Him? In family worship all the
family should take part, in reading
the Scriptures or a good book and in
talking to God. Do not let worships
become so dry and monotonous that
the family will want to get over with
them quickly so they can get about
the work of the day. "Take time to be
holy" is something to be lived as well
as sung. It takes time and planning to
have worship periods to which members of the family will look forward,
but it is rewarding.
Do we have a special place in our
homes in which to keep our Bibles,
our lesson quarterlies, our church
paper, and our missionary papers to
be distributed? The Bible, of course,

WOMEN IN THE .14EWS

Handicap
or
Blessing?

By
RICHARD J. BARNETT

From an iron lung in the New Britain
Memorial Hospital in Connecticut, Miss
Joan Herman administers a humanitarian organization aimed at providing a
more abundant life for those who are
permanently handicapped. A victim of
bulbar polio, she serves as chairman of
the board of New Horizons, Inc., a dynamic, nonprofit organization of 550 members, representing 40 States and several
foreign countries.
Joan contracted polio in 1942 and spent
the next four years in various respiratory
centers until she was transferred to New
Britain Memorial Hospital. Here, at 22
years of age, she found there was nothing
for the handicapped young adults with
alert minds to do.
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As a result, Joan began fostering the
idea of a home for the seriously handicapped, and in 1955 New Horizons, Inc.,
became a reality. The objective of this
organization is to maintain a community
home where the permanently handicapped
will have opportunities for growth, selfexpression, and gainful employment.
Joan's search for truth led her to the
third angel's message. In 1964 she joined
through baptism the Hartford, Connecticut, SDA church. Soon she organized a
branch Sabbath school at the hospital.
A visit to Joan Herman's room is an
inspiring experience. Confined to an iron
lung for 21 years, she regards her physical condition not as a handicap but as
a blessing.

should have a very special place, and
nothing should be placed on top of it.
To show respect for God's Word is a
part of worship. And it is good to
have a special place for such magazines as Listen, Life and Health,
Liberty, These Times, Signs, Instructor, and the Guide, to avoid a hurried and topsy-turvy searching for
something. It takes so little time for
papers to assume a pile-high stature.
If they do not contain some special
articles or stories you wish to preserve
for future inspiration or use, pass the
papers along to someone who does
not have them to enjoy. A convenient
magazine rack on a wall or a door
may be readily designed. We made a
wall bookcase reaching from the floor
to the ceiling hoping to put the books
on specific subjects together.
We do have a special shelf—the
most prominent one—for the nine
volumes of the Testimonies, and for
the Conflict of the Ages Series. We
keep these books in order so that any
volume is easy to find. Some of our
categories are poetry, history, nature
study, and mission stories. Besides the
books on poetry by Grace Noll
Crowell, I have my Cheerio's Book of
Days, a treasured volume given to me
by a dear friend. It has a whole page
of verse and poetry for each day of
the year. I can read it over every year
and find fresh inspiration in it.
We like to keep Peterson's Field
Guide to the Birds in a certain easyto-find place, where it can be quickly
consulted when we see an unfamiliar
bird.
And by all means keep your
pamphlet on first aid where it can be
found quickly.
Where are your important papers
such as deeds, birth certificates, account books, monthly payment books,
and where do you keep monthly bills,
such as those for gas, electricity, and
telephone? To remember bills other
than the monthly, such as taxes, we
keep a big wall calendar on which
we mark each date certain bills become due. We use a monthly pocket
calendar to hold the bills.
I know one thing: this new year I
must be better organized. Too often
the very thing I want and must have
I cannot find. Then I commandeer
the whole family to search for it until
it is found. A file cabinet is a convenient device in which to file materials under subjects. But beware of
filing everything under "Miscellaneous."
I don't save string too short to be
used, but I do let things pile up on my
desk until it is—yes, a mess. And then,
well, you know what happens. Let's
be better organized.
Now where did I put that book on
first aid?
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HEAVEN-BOUND AND HAPPY
The trouble with eternal life, according to a recent
newspaper editorial, is that a person has to build such
a thick shield against "the ills of the flesh" that life is not
worth living.
The basis for the editorial, a little whimsical item at the
bottom of the page, was a news release from the National
Geographic Society about the seemingly eternal giant
sequoia trees of California. Scientists, according to this
item, "have yet to find a Sequoia dead or dying of natural
causes." These trees "firmly resist disease, rot and insects
. . . by means of tannin and by means of their bark,
which often grows two feet thick."
The editorial writer, tongue in cheek, concludes: "And
that, of course, is the trouble with eternal life. You can
only get it by developing armor so thick that you are
impervious—not only to the ills of the flesh—but also
to all the things outside that make life worth living
on any scale."—Washington Star, Dec. 31, 1967.
What a clever way this is to demean God's gift to humanity and to suggest that holiness is a do-it-yourself
project! For a long time Satan has been facetiously pictured as a bushy-eyebrowed, pointed-chinned magician
with horns and forked tail. As such a ludicrous character
he has been the subject of irreverent jokes until most
people have dismissed entirely the idea of a real devil
who embodies evil and seeks to destroy the human race.
Now by the witty pen of an editorial writer eternal life
is consigned to the same fate—dismissal by jest.
Is there any truth in what this writer has said? In a way,
there is. Anyone who has been taught that eternal life
is earned by acts of mercy and penance, by special prayers
and solemn services, may be guilty of trying to build a
sinproof sheath around himself. But the one who believes
what the Bible says about eternal life knows that the
defense against sin is not in man's hands—it is in Christ's.
Both victory over sin and eternal life are gifts.. Without
Christ neither is possible. His power, linked with the
human will, makes both a reality. The righteousness that
is ours through Christ is a robe, not a two-foot-thick
strait jacket.
Reward in This Life Too
The fact that eternal life is a gift does not release
us to do as we please. " 'The man who loves himself is
lost, but he who hates himself in this world will be kept
safe for eternal life' " (John 12:25, N.E.B.).* There is
much to give up, much to sacrifice. But the present life
is not left bleak and monastic. Jesus said, " 'There is no
one who has given up home, or wife, brothers, parents,
or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who
will not be repaid many times over in this age, and in the
age to come have eternal life' " (Luke 18:29, 30, N.E.B.).
Many are not called upon to give up so much, but if they
are, they have a reward in this life, as well as in the life
to come.
"The trouble with eternal life," the man wrote. The
trouble is not with eternal life or the One who offers it,
but with man's idea of it. The truth of the matter is that
those who are busy preparing for eternal life, according
to the instructions of Scripture, are getting far more out
of life now than anyone else. "The victory we gain over
our own evil hearts and over the temptations of Satan
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will cost us strong effort, constant watchfulness, and persevering prayer; and we shall then not only reap the
reward, which is the gift of eternal life, but shall increase
our happiness on earth by a consciousness of duty performed, and by the greater respect and love of those about
us."—Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 39.
F. D. Y.
* The Bible texts in this editorial credited to The New English Bible, New
Testament are used by permission of Oxford University Press and the Syndics
of the Cambridge University Press 1961. Reprinted by permission.

Who Is the Antichrist?-3

VARIOUS VIEWS ON ANTICHRIST
In our earlier editorials on the antichrist, we set forth
the Biblical use of the term and the early church teachings concerning the antichrist.
In the Middle Ages the view was developed that the
Papacy is the antichrist. The view so dominated Protestant interpretation for centuries that it became known
as "the Protestant" interpretation. Among its supporters
were the Waldenses, the Hussites, Wyclif, Luther, Calvin,
Zwingli, John Gill, the martyrs Cranmer, Tyndale,
Latimer, and Ridley.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967) commenting
on this Protestant interpretation declares, "A terrifying
weapon during the great religious controversies of the
16th century, the idea of the papal Antichrist had been
used effectively by John Wyclif in England and John Hus
in Bohemia. One of the dynamisms of Martin Luther's
thinking, the idea was even incorporated into the
Schmalkaldic Articles."—Volume 1, p. 618.
It has been said that Luther made two great discoveries,
Christ and antichrist.
Naturally the Catholics came up with a counterinterpretation. Concerning this the New Catholic Encyclopedia says, "St. Robert Bellarmine refuted the exegesis
by which the beast of the Apocalypse was identified with
the papacy."—Ibid. The encyclopedia admits, however,
that "nevertheless, papal Antichrist theory persisted
into the 19th century" (ibid.).
Also active in refuting the Protestant interpretation
was the Spanish Jesuit Ribera. Summarizing Ribera's
teachings in the context of a discussion of the rise of
futurism, George Eldon Ladd says, "Ribera applied all of
Revelation but the earliest chapters to the end time
rather than to the history of the Church. Antichrist would
be a single evil person who would be received by the
Jews and would rebuild Jerusalem, abolish Christianity,
. . . rule the world for three and a half years. On one
subject, Ribera was not a futurist: he followed the Augustinian interpretation of the millennium in making it
the entire period between the cross and Antichrist. . . .
A number of Catholic scholars espoused this futuristic
interpretation of Antichrist, among them Bellarmine,
the most notable of the Jesuit controversialists and the
greatest adversary of the Protestant churches."—The
Blessed Hope, pp. 37, 38.
One of the most astonishing developments, in the
light of this background of interpretation regarding the
antichrist, is the abandonment on the part of a segment
of Protestantism of the historical Protestant interpretation and the acceptance of a futuristic interpretation of
antichrist. Concerning the futurist school of interpretaREVIEW AND HERALD, February 1, 1968

tion Ladd said: "Out of this [early nineteenth-century]
revival of interest in prophetic truth came two new
interpretations: futurism and `Darbyism.' . .. Essential to
[original futurism] is the teaching that the Antichrist
will be a satanically inspired world-ruler at the end of
the age who would inflict severe persecution upon the
Church during the Great Tribulation. At the end of the
Tribulation, Christ would return to deliver the Church,
punish Antichrist, raise the righteous dead, and establish
His millennial kingdom. Darbyism modified this outline
of truth by teaching a coming of Christ to rapture the
Church before the Tribulation and before His coming
. . . to establish the millennial kingdom."—Ibid., p. 37.
The extreme futurists are the Darbyite dispensationalists. Their views are represented in the notes to the
"Scofield Bible." They believe that the 69 weeks of Daniel
reach to the first advent of Christ. They hold that at that
time the prophetic clock stopped. The seventieth week
they believe is yet to be fulfilled. According to Albertus
Pieters these dispensationalists hold that during the
seven years of this seventieth week "the Antichrist will
rule. The Jews being then restored to Palestine, he will
make a covenant with them for the restoration of their
worship, for seven years. The temple will be rebuilt at
Jerusalem, the Ten Tribes regathered, and the sacrificial
system reinstituted. In the meantime, although all true
believers were taken from the earth at the 'Rapture,'
that startling event will result in many real conversions of
those left behind. These believers in Christ will eventually
be saved, but they form no part of the 'church,' the body
of Christ, properly speaking. They are called, in the
literature of this group, the 'tribulation saints,' because
they pass through the tribulation caused by the bad
faith of the Antichrist, who will break his covenant
with the Jews at the end of three and a half years, and
will demand to he worshiped. The refusal of the true
Christians and of faithful Jews, although not Christians,
will bring upon them this terrible period of persecution.
At the end of it, when they are almost overwhelmed, will
occur the public manifestation of Christ, the second
stage of the Second Advent. He will then destroy the
Antichrist and establish his visible earthly kingdom,
which will continue fora thousand years."—Studies in
the Revelation of St. John, p. 56 (1950).
Other futurists hold modified forms of the dispensationalist view.
The so-called amillennialists, who believe in a spiritual
or heavenly millennium, do not have two stages to the
coming of Christ separated by seven years. They expect at
the end of the present age "the forces of evil to head up
in a powerful combination of political, economic and
religious power led by the Antichrist. At the close of
the reign of the Antichrist or Man of Sin, he institutes a
terrible persecution against the Christian Church (not
against the Jews as some premillennialists assert). In this
terrible tribulation vast numbers of Christians are killed,
but at the climax, when the hosts of Satan seem to be on
the point of complete victory, during the battle of Armageddon, Christ appears in the Shekinah glory, the resurrection of all men takes place, and the transfigured bodies
of the dead and living saints are caught up to welcome
their Saviour. Then, as a terrible outpouring of the
wrath of God occurs, smiting the unbelieving nations of
the world into destruction, the Jewish people look 'on
Him whom they pierced,' repent and believe instantaneously in their Messiah. Simultaneously with their conversion and regeneration by the Holy Spirit, as they see
Christ coming on the clouds, they too are transfigured
with the living Church of Christ, and join in the rapture
of the united body of the elect church of Christ of the
ages."—Flovn E. HAMILTON, The Basis of Millennial
Faith, p. 36 (1942).
REVIEW AND HERALD, February 1, 1968

Thus we see how closely tied in with the teachings of
many Protestants is the doctrine of the antichrist. Seventhday Adventists should be familiar with the broad outlines
of these teachings, for in their witness to Christ they will
meet many who hold these views. An intelligent understanding of the other person's views will help them to
present Biblical truth more effectively, and will also
prevent them from shooting at straw men, that is,
attempting to demolish arguments that do not even exist
in the mind of the ones with whom they are studying the
Bible.
Next week we will return to the Seventh-day Adventist
n. F. N.
view of the antichrist.
(Continued next week)
The Church and Heresy-3

THE CHURCH'S RESPONSIBILITY
The Scriptures make clear that there is such a thing
as heresy, and that God expects the leaders of His church
to resist all efforts to corrupt the truth and deceive those
who are weak in the faith.
"The church is Christ's fortress in a revolted world,
and it must be strictly guarded against the enemy's wily
arts. . . . Those whom God has set as watchmen are not
to look on quietly while efforts are being made to lead
men and women away from the truth into false paths.
Careful watch is to be kept against seducing spirits and
doctrines of devils. . . The severe denunciations that
Christ uttered against the Pharisees for teaching for doctrine the commandments of men show the necessity for
guarding against all theories that are not in harmony
with the truth of God's word."—Medical Ministry, pp.
89, 90.
Last week we mentioned the heresy of pantheism that
early in this century Satan endeavored to introduce into
the church through Living Temple, a book by Dr. J. H.
Kellogg. Perhaps no more dramatic scene was ever presented to Ellen G. White than the one that pictured the
church meeting this heresy crisis. One night she was
shown a vessel proceeding through a heavy fog. "Suddenly
the lookout cried, 'Iceberg just ahead!' There, towering
high above the ship, was a gigantic iceberg. An authoritative voice cried out, 'Meet it!' There was not a moment's
hesitation. It was a time for instant action. The engineer
put on full steam, and the man at the wheel steered the
ship straight into the iceberg. With a crash she struck
the ice. There was a fearful shock, and the iceberg broke
into many pieces, falling with a noise like thunder to the
deck. The passengers were violently shaken by the force
of the collision, but no lives were lost. The vessel was
injured, but not beyond repair. She rebounded from
the contact, trembling from stem to stern, like a living
creature. Then she moved forward on her way."—
Selected Messages, book 1, pp. 205, 206.
The leaders of the church, under the direction of God,
courageously and decisively met the challenge posed by
Dr. Kellogg, with the results suggested in this illustration.
The shock of the confrontation was felt throughout
the church, but its effects soon subsided and the Advent
Movement went forward to carry out its mission to the
world.
Another Illustration
The experience of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, recorded in Numbers 16, provides another illustration of
the decisive way the church must at times meet false
teachers and their challenge to divinely appointed leadership. Not only did God destroy the three men and their
families who organized the insurrection, He sent fire to
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consume a large number of their misguided sympathizers.
Some may wonder why it was necessary to deal so
harshly with those who were disseminating false ideas
and endeavoring to attract followers. They may feel that
God was too severe in the action He took. But whatever
else the experience may show, it reveals that God takes
a very serious view of offshoot movements, with their
strange interpretations of Scripture, their criticisms of
duly constituted ecclesiastical authority, and their efforts
to create disunity and dissatisfaction among fellow believers.
Here let us note a strange phenomenon. Experience
testifies that it is easier to obtain sympathizers for people
who are in the wrong than it is to obtain loyal support
for those who are in the right, doing their God-given
duty. Moses had acted "as a tender father, a patient
shepherd" to the people (Patriarchs and Prophets, p.
399). The people knew this, yet because Korah, Dathan,
and Abiram portrayed him "in the blackest character
of a tyrant and usurper" (ibid.) they sympathized with
the troublemakers. Manifestly, this was unfair, yet their
reaction was rather typical.
We assume that one reason some tend to sympathize
with those who oppose leadership or advocate heresies
is that most people have a natural urge to side with the
apparent "underdog." Ignoring the fact that the cause of
truth is at stake and that God has appointed church leaders as defenders of the faith, people tend to look upon
the church, large and strong as it is, as a giant "picking
on" a small opponent. But leaders are not in a popularity
contest. They must do their work conscientiously, regardless of the risks of being misunderstood. Wrote Ellen G.
White, "I must bear a decided message to our brethren.
Let there be no compromise with evil. Meet boldly the
dangerous influences that arise. Do not fear for the results
of resisting the powers of the enemy."—Selected Messages, book 1, p. 169.
Dangerous Though Small
The fact that at times false teachings must be met when
they seem minor and apparently harmless, makes the
problem even more difficult for church leaders. People
may think that the leaders are taking too serious a view
of the situation, and are overreacting. But when is the
best time to take a serious view of smallpox? Is it not
the moment that symptoms are detected in the first patient? Should not the patient be quarantined at once
rather than wait until a whole city is infected? When is
the best time to remove a bad apple from among others
in the bushel basket? When spoilage is first detected or
after all of the apples start to rot?
The following statement seems to clarify the issue:
"In these days many deceptions are being taught as truth.
Some of our brethren have taught views which we cannot
endorse. Fanciful ideas, strained and peculiar interpretations of the Scripture are coming in. Some of these teachings may seem to be but jots and tittles now, but they
will grow and become snares to the inexperienced."—
Ibid. Even "jots and tittles" in the area of false doctrine, if permitted to grow, will destroy souls. They
should be dealt with as early as possible.
Some may appeal to the parable of the Wheat and
Tares, recorded in Matthew 13, in support of the view
that church leaders should take no decided stand against
dissident groups or teachers of heresy. In this they attempt to make the parable say too much. The parable
teaches that the work of judging character and motive
has not been committed to men. Wheat and tares look
very much alike in their early stages, hence if men were
to uproot the tares before the harvest, they might misjudge and uproot wheat instead of tares. Thus the parable
says "let both grow together until the harvest."
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But the parable does not say that those who persist
in open sin should be permitted to continue in the church.
Nor does it say that a truce should ever be called in
the battle against false ideas. Church leaders must do
everything possible to help misguided members see the
error of their ways—both their sins and their false beliefs. They must do this kindly, patiently, and tactfully.
If, however, it becomes clear that an erring brother or
sister loves error rather than truth, desires to create division rather than encourage unity, and endeavors to gather
around him those whom he can inspire with his own disaffection, then firm, decided action is necessary. To
fail to act would prove leaders unworthy of the responsibilities placed upon them by God.
Problem Is Complex
If at times it seems difficult to justify or explain easily
the way the church deals with false teachings, let us
remind ourselves that the problem of heresy is exceedingly
complex. Seldom can those at a distance analyze the soil
from which the heresy springs. Sometimes it contains
jealousy. Sometimes it contains a frustrated desire for
leadership and authority. Sometimes it contains an overactive imagination. Sometimes it contains a wounded ego.
Sometimes it contains a defective method of Scripture
exegesis.
Human beings are singularly incapable of judging
motives, and seldom can be sure how a heresy begins,
but the Bible provides an unerring test by which we may
know whether a man and his message are of God—"by
their fruits ye shall know them." A person may claim that
he has wonderful light, but his claim is false if his teaching does not harmonize with already-revealed truth, and
if it does not lead to a higher level of Christian living.
When "new light" results in disrupting church unity,
weakening confidence in its leadership, and eroding personal spirituality, manifestly it is not of God; it is of the
enemy. "Such work has been carried on in the past by persons claiming to have wonderful light, when they were
deep in sin. Heresy, dishonesty, and falsehood were all
blended in them."—Selected Messages, book 2, p. 79.
One of the saddest aspects of the problem of heresy
is that false teachers, step by step, decision by decision,
may become so thoroughly deceived that "while endeavoring to destroy the confidence of the people in the men
of God's appointment, they really believe that they are
engaged in a good work, verily doing God service"
(Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 404). Moreover, "by persistently reiterating falsehood, and that against all evidence,
they at last come to believe it to be truth" (ibid.).
The fact that false teachers apparently believe their
message wholeheartedly is no evidence that it is true,
nor is the zeal with which they endeavor to disseminate
their teachings evidence that their "new light" is of God.
"False teachers may appear to be very zealous for the
work of God, and may expend means to bring their
theories before the world and the church; but as they
mingle error with truth, their message is one of deception, and will lead souls into false paths. They are to be
met and opposed, not because they are bad men, but
because they are teachers of falsehood and are endeavoring to put upon falsehood the stamp of truth."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. 55.
Clearly, the church is not only within its rights in attempting to prevent false teachers and heretical teachings from insinuating themselves among God's people;
it has a sacred obligation to do so. It must do all it can
to protect God's sheep from Satan's wolves.
But not all the responsibility rests upon church leaders.
Each individual has a part to play in strengthening his
own soul's defenses. This we shall discuss next week.
K. H. W.
REVIEW AND HERALD, February 1, 1968

LETTERS
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a boy. This in no way detracts from the
beauty of the King James Version.
ALVIN D. JOHNSON
Sanitarium, California

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FOR "ADVENTIST" IN HOSPITAL NAMES

EDITORS: It seems to me it is time that we
"label" our hospitals so that it doesn't take
a Philadelphia lawyer to find out who owns
and operates the hospitals and, mainly, why.
I would like to commend the plan of the
Glendale Adventist Hospital to all of our
denominationally owned institutions so that
the "right arm of the message" will no longer
be put in a cast and hung in a sling. The
Glendale community welcomes the new
terminology as I am sure other cities would
where Adventist hospitals are located. Sister
White has told us that there is a certain revealing of the message in our name. Let's put
it to the forefront. We don't have to guess
when we see a Catholic hospital or a Lutheran hospital or a Baptist hospital or a
Jewish hospital. Let's quit expecting people
to guess about Seventh-day Adventists.
CLARENCE C. Korr
Glendale, California
DEFEND K.J.V.

EDITORS: The November 30 REVIEW carried
a letter regarding the King James Version.
It appears to me that if an indictment is
to be brought against the King James Version
because it is dated 1611, and therefore can't
be appreciated by young people and children, we ought to give thought to some
other things. For instance, I am wondering
if the letter writer would promote a modern "lingo" for Shakespeare, Wordsworth,
Tennyson, et cetera? Does he object to youth
studying the literature of the classics because they happened to be authored a few
centuries ago? Would he take the position
that this literature could not be understood
because of the date it was written?
Certainly the aim in Bible teaching should
be to lead people to a friendship with God.
The King James Version, I believe, stands
without a question as the version that has
done that more than any other translation
or book ever published.
G. E. HUTCHES
Berrien Springs, Michigan
EDITORS: A letter writer in the November 30
REVIEW stated, "Church school students today use a version of a Book translated three
and one half centuries ago, filled with language that is absurd to today's generation,"
and, "An administration that continues to
support an antiquated text will have to
shoulder the blame for the resulting continual disinterest in Bible study."
Can it be that it is the absurdity of today's generation that is at fault, rather than
the language of the Book? Our youth today
are faced with dissension in many forms,
which need not be enumerated here. I should
like to ask, Is it wise to ask our educational
administration to "shoulder the blame"? The
Book, having survived for three and one half
centuries, speaks well.
Language choice might well be a matter
of personal opinion. I find pleasure from a
Swedish translation—a language I learned as
REVIEW AND HERALD, February 1, 1968

EDITORS: In his remarks about the 1611 translation of the Bible a recent writer in this column (Nov. 30) made a good and important
point. However, there is more to be said,
and his analogies need correction. He compares an antique Bible translation to an
out-of-date book of geography, arithmetic, or
history. These textbooks become out of date
because of change in subject matter, not
language. His objection to the KJV is that
the language is antique, not the subject
matter.
A better comparison would be to the poetry
of Shakespeare or Milton. I never heard of
a "modern version" of these. Would it be
an improvement to change
"How sweet the moonbeam sleeps upon this
bank" to
"Isn't the moonlight pretty"?
or "Absent thee from felicity awhile" to
"Leave the happy scene awhile"?
or "Lap me in soft Lydian airs,
Married to immortal verse" to
"Sing me a song with sweet music and good
words"?
Until such changes are accepted by people
of taste, the 1611 translation of Scripture will
retain a place in religious services. In the
classroom and the study the modern versions
are appropriate and much used.
This is, of course, a matter of taste in the
sound of oral reading. Educated people of all
ages have learned to appreciate the cadences
of the antique language. (Incidentally, contrary to the suggestion of the letter writer,
1611 isn't exactly medieval!) By the same token many Christians, old and young, have
attuned their ears to the antique "thee" and
"thou" of public prayer. There is no reason
for using these words, but they sound pleasing and appropriate.
The abandonment of these traditional public forms is, I should think, well down on the
priority list of changes needed for the benefit
of the younger generation.
RICHARD B. LEWIS
Loma Linda, California
EDITORS: Shakespeare used the expression
"much ado about nothing." I have thought of
this as I have read comments on the various
translations of the Bible. All translations have
their value. But no version can ever supersede the King James. It is fully understandable and is absolutely reliable. Possibly one
tenth of one per cent of its language is archaic, but most people have enough gray
matter to figure out the meaning. The other
translations can be given their proper importance without downgrading the wonderful
King James Version, which surely served as
the foundation version of our message and
movement.
A. E. HACEN
Brooksville, Florida
EDITORS: Re the letter on the KJV (Nov. 30
REvIEw): I would be interested to know how
the Jameses and Johns of 50 to 100 years ago
could be reared and educated to become
staunch SDA Christians and powerful workers in God's cause on a steady and exclusive
diet of the KJV of the Bible. At the family
altar, in Sabbath school and church, and at
camp meeting the KJV was it. In 1900 that

version was 289 years old; 67 years later it
is only 356. The "idiom" of 67 years ago
wasn't enough closer to that of 1611 to make
it appreciably more comprehensible than it
is today.
The "idiom" of today, tainted with LSD
and hippie jargon, seems to be quite readily
understood and absorbed by the youth as
rapidly as it is coined. Can it be that much
easier to comprehend than the language of
the KJV?
We find the newer versions interesting and
helpful in Bible study, but until they became popular we did not hear the youth and
some older people addressing Deity with the
familiar "you" as if He were such a one as
ourselves.
The Spirit of Prophecy mentions many and
varied causes of backsliding and apostasy, but
nowhere have I found the KJV mentioned. I
believe we shall have to look further than
our schools and their administrators in their
use of that version for the reason so many
of our precious young people go off the deep
end. Could one reason be that parents permit
children to absorb the "idiom" of the day
on TV by the hour? It simply does not mix
with any version of God's Word.
MILDRED KUP TIAN
Hendersonville, N.C.
LAODICEANS AND PHILADELPHIANS

EDITORS: Re the article entitled "The Triumph of Laodicea" (Oct. 19 REVIEW), the
author writes, "According to prophecy the
church of Laodicea will triumph." This
I question. Elder James White, Stephen
Haskell, and Uriah Smith believed and
wrote that the churches of Laodicea and
Philadelphia were coexistent but the promise of protection in the time of trouble
(Rev. 3:10) and the sealing (verse 12) were
addressed to the Philadelphian condition
and decidedly not to the self-satisfied Laodiceans.
Those Laodiceans who purchase and apply
the remedies recommended by the Great
Physician for His sick church will recover
their spiritual health and graduate from
the lazar-house of inactive carnal security
to the love and zeal of the Philadelphian
condition. They then are qualified to receive the blessings promised to Philadelphia.
Will modern Adventist theology hold out
the false hope that the Laodicean somehow,
by a miracle in which he plays no active
part, is to be fitted for and received into
the presence of Jehovah?
WARD P. HILL
Lodi, California
PRAYER FOR MISSIONARIES

EDITORS: I was pleased with the idea of praying for specific missionaries, expressed in the
editorial "Prayer Wheels for Missionaries"
(Nov. 30).
Today I saw a daily devotional guide of
another denomination that has a short prayer
list at the bottom of each page. This list
with about five or six entries states the
name of each missionary and the country
in which he is working, with the request
that the group be upheld in prayer for that
day.
Perhaps an adaptation of this idea could
be used in our daily devotional books.
PETE C. REYNARD
Takoma Park, Md.
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Workers Dedicated to Evangelize South America
By M. E. KEMMERER
Assistant Treasurer, General Conference
"The greatest year for evangelism on
this continent in the history of our
work." So declared R. A. Wilcox, president of the South American Division,
in the opening meeting of the 1967 yearend division committee held November 28.
From six rapidly growing union fields
and several institutions the committee
members came to Montevideo, Uruguay,
at the mouth of the Plate River, where
division headquarters are located. They
came for serious and prayerful study of
the plans and goals of the church in a
land of opportunity. Also present were
representatives from the General Conference: W. R. Beach, general secretary;
R. E. Adams, associate secretary of
the Temperance Department; Herbert
White, associate secretary of the Publishing Department; and M. E. Kemmerer,
assistant treasurer of the General Conference.
The motto "United to Evangelize
South America," placed over a brightlycolored map of the South American continent, reminded us constantly of this
all-important goal that speaks to every
department, every field, every institution, every lay member, worker, and
leader in this division.
The secretary, M. S. Nigri, reported
that the division's territory—all of South
America except Colombia, Venezuela,

and the Guianas—now has a membership approaching 200,000 and a population of more than 140 million. This
means one baptized church member to
every 700 persons. It places a responsibility on each member to reach out on
the average to 699 others and share our
message. South America has accepted the
aim of baptizing 34,000 persons in 1968
and to pass the 300,000 membership
mark by 1970.
This unusual membership growth is
also reflected in the organization of
churches, which now total 852. At present approximately 400 church buildings
are under construction and many more
are in the planning stage. In Sao Paulo
recently, five churches were dedicated in
one day. The largest share of funds for
these houses of worship comes from the
faithful members themselves, but there
are still many areas where some help is
needed.
Our young people in South America,
some 81,301 strong, are in the forefront
of God's army. These young people,
many trained in our own schools, are
one of the strongest evangelistic forces.
Recently, 4,127 youth were baptized in a
single day throughout the division. An
interesting story was told of a young
woman who was found and brought to a
decision by one of our youth evangelistic
groups. She was prominent in the popu-

South American Division committee members as they met recently in Montevideo, Uruguay.

lar church, in fact, a lay leader and
catechist. The day after her baptism she
had an interesting dialog with her former priest:
"So, you have decided to abandon the
church of Peter?"
"No, sir, I am joining the church of
Peter, because he was an Adventist."
"You must know you are giving up
the truth."
"No, sir, I am accepting the truth. Because in two weeks I learned from those
young people that which the clergy was
unable to teach me in 20 years."
Every department reported enthusiastically of progress, and all are in the
forefront of soul winning. For example,
the publishing department, with 1,107
regular literature evangelists at the present time, has set for itself a goal of 2,000
workers by the close of 1968. The publishing houses are really humming to
produce the literature these bookmen
require. The majority of books sold are
ones such as The Great Controversy,
The Desire of Ages, and Bible Readings,
books which give our full message.
The Gift Bible Plan also is spreading
like a brush fire. It was voted to distribute one million Bibles each year for the
next three years, or a possible outreach
to 3 million families. It is the plan that
each church member on the average will
pay for five copies, while the various organizations—local, union, and division—
will share the cost of Bible lessons and
other supplies. Think what this will
mean in potential soul-winning activity
throughout the division.
Another unique report for this division is the transportation equipment provided by the church and available to
carry the gospel message. Fifteen river
launches, eight airplanes, and three mobile vehicles are now operating throughout the field. Men with special training
combine mechanical talents and leadership with the art of healing, teaching,
and preaching to make these facilities
effective soul-winning agencies.
J. I. Hartman, the division treasurer,
reported a substantial increase in tithe
from a growing membership, but even
with all available funds it is difficult to
meet all the needs, especially as we face
the situation of changing economic values and low currencies in some countries.
The story of our work in South America continues to be thrilling. Leaders
and workers are united under God to
move forward to finish the work soon.
On Sabbath, December 2, in the Central
church of Montevideo, the division president led all those present, workers and
lay members, in a special service of dedication and a pledge to make 1968 the
greatest soul-winning year in the history
of this division.

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Week of Witnessing
at Marienhoehe Seminary
By A. STRALA
Director, Ministerial Course
Marienhoehe Seminary, West Germany
The college faculty of Marienhoehe
Missionary Seminary in Germany decided that during the Week of Prayer
last fall students and teachers should
visit the residents of Darmstadt, bringing to them our gospel literature. Some
literature evangelist leaders promised to
help with this campaign.
As we went out we identified ourselves
and said that we were visiting our neighbors in order to get acquainted. We said,
"We thought it good to come and see
you, if you don't mind."
We were surprised how well this
worked. We were always asked to enter
the home, Then we turned our conversation to topical subjects, such as the
tense political world situation, population explosion, disaster, and famine, and
before long we discussed the signs of the
times and the soon return of the Lord
Jesus. With Daniel 2 we succeeded usually in getting the people's interest in
the Holy Scriptures, and most of them
enrolled in the Bible correspondence
course.
We were able to pray with some of
the neighbors. They showed deep appreciation and gratitude for our visit,
and allowed us to keep in touch with
them.
One student reported: "With gratitude
in my heart, which springs from the conviction of being redeemed, I went to the

French Workers Ordained
Two newly ordained ministers in
France (from left): Elder and Mrs.
Ermanno Garbi (he is pastor in Lille,
northern France), and Elder and Mrs.
Maurice Halna (he is pastor in the ancient city of the kings of France, Versailles).
S. MONNIER
Departmental Secretary
Southern European Division
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people of our neighborhood. At one
house I found a man who, since the end
of the second world war, has been a
wheel-chair invalid.
" 'Testify,' I say to myself quietly.
'God has prepared the people to whom
He has sent you today.'
"We studied the history of the world
according to Daniel 2, the signs of the
times, and the soon return of our Lord
Jesus Christ. The message touched the
heart of this gentleman and his wife.
Gratefully they agreed to study the Voice
of Prophecy course. I asked, 'May I come
back and study the first two lessons with
you?'
" 'Yes,' the woman replied, 'come this
afternoon.' "
Many such testimonies were given,
proving a blessed week. With the help of
God we were able to find about 60 interests for the Voice of Prophecy course;
to sell literature for more than 9,000
German marks [$2,250]; and to arrange
Bible studies in a number of homes.
Often we heard expressions such as,
"You will come again, won't you?"
At the end of this week we had a
service of thanksgiving in the church.

Adventists Participate
in Bible Society Event
By VICTOR H. COOPER
Secretary, British Union
The British and Foreign Bible Society
recently celebrated the completion of a
modernization program at their 100-yearold premises on Queen Victoria Street,
London. After an address by Dr. M. G.
Sullivan, the newly appointed dean of
St. Paul's, Mrs. Sullivan received, in an
Ethiopian breadbasket, gift envelopes
from the visitors. On behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Britain,
B. E. Seton, president, presented a
cheque for £250 ($600).
In his address Dr. Sullivan praised
those who were devoted to the study,
translation, printing, and distribution of
the Scriptures. He mentioned Henry Williams, who had translated the Bible into
Maori, and Charles Fox, who had lived
among and translated the Bible for the
Melonesians in the British Solomons
Protectorate. On the 450th anniversary
of Luther's protest the dean urged the
more intensive study of a book we need
never be doubtful about. "Every reformation we have had," he said, "started
with a study of the book of Romans."
The society's needs are tremendous.
Members have the will and skill to give
everyone a Bible in a language he can
understand. The speed of completing
this operation is naturally governed by
the availability of funds.
By the close of 1966 the United Bible
Societies completed translation of and
began printing 240 versions. In addition,
301 New Testament translations and
739 single-book translations make a total of 1,280 languages. But there still remain about 2,000 languages and dialects
waiting for Scripture translation.

Hardship Brings Growth
to India's Mizo Hills
By GERALD J. CHRISTO
President, Northeast India Union
Twice S. John, union treasurer, and I
had attempted to visit the school and
headquarters in the troubled Mizo Hills of
Eastern India. No one from either the
local or the union office had been in Aijal
since trouble broke out early in 1966.
The first time, our flight was terminated
at the halfway point, Agartala, because
of stormy weather. Our second attempt
ended when a massive landslide washed
out the road between Silchar and Aijal.
Now, after a two-hour flight from Calcutta, we were at Silchar waiting for C. J.
Gorde and K. S. D. Charles of the Assam
Section.
When would the convoy leave for Aijal
and how many days would it take us to
travel the 120 miles? The previous convoy
had made a record for 1967, for it had
made the usual 14-day trip in six days.
Our first question was answered by a
telephone inquiry to the deputy commissioner's office. The convoy would leave in
two days. The state transport service officials informed us that they had discontinued their buses because of bad roads.
The local Mizo Ex-servicemen's Union reported only one vehicle operating, and it
was on its return journey. We requested
the assistant commissioner to find us seats
in his transport vehicles but were told that
he had no accommodation for private
persons. The convoy was to leave at 6:00
A.M. and we had found no seats. We decided to go to the convoy ground at three
in the morning and take our chances on
finding seats.
We discovered that a number of seats
were vacant in the deputy commissioner's
vehicles but were told these were allotted
by the supervisor of the civilian convoy.
At five-thirty we found the gentleman,
who willingly offered to find us places
when he found that we were Christian
missionaries.
At this moment, without any prior notice, two military policemen drove up
on their motorcycles and announced that
civilian vehicles would not be going with
the convoy that day. Back we went to the
hotel for another wait.
Fortunately, we found that our convoy
would leave the next morning. Seats had
been arranged for three of us, so Pastor
Charles climbed into the back of one of
the trucks to keep company with several
men and women and a few chickens. We
arrived at the halfway point, Kolosib, in
six hours, and we hoped that we would
reach our destination that evening. Instead, after a couple of hours we were told
that Kolosib would be our stopping place
for that day.
Military personnel, armored vehicles,
military camps, guns, and fences were
everywhere. The government has endeavored to regroup all villages in centers
along the main highway to save the villagers from being harassed by the underground forces. We found a newly built
unfinished bamboo hut and decided to
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spend the night there, but the driver of
one of our trucks insisted that he find us
a home in which to spend the night. We
spent an enjoyable evening with a Presbyterian family. They did not know English
or Hindi, and we did not know Lushai,
but we sang and prayed together. They
shared their one room and their pumpkin
curry and rice with us.
We were up again at three in the morning. Our convoy left at five. The road
from Kolosib to Kwanpuing was like a
verticle paddy field in several places and
took us five hours to cover. It was Friday
and we were hoping to get to Aijal before
the Sabbath but were held up for another
two hours in one place and came to
another regrouping center at four in the
evening.
We were disappointed when we were
told that we would spend the night there
and go on in the morning. Our driver
found another home for us and we were
just about bedded down when the whistle
blew for the convoy to proceed. We
scrambled onto the trucks and were surprised when we were told we were going
to Aijal that night. We arrived in Aijal
at 11:00 P.M. and slept in the trucks. We
had created a new record—only two days
to Aijal. Early next morning we took a
jeep and went out to our school and
headq uarters.
Sabbath was a busy day. Nearly 90 came
for Sabbath school. The singing was beautiful. Several songs had been composed by
the young people of the hills. At the
church service five children were presented for dedication.
Sunday we spent in auditing books,
while Pastor Charles led out in a one-day
literature evangelists' institute. Political
and economic difficulties have caused a
real longing for the Word of God. Our
literature evangelists have sold thousands
of rupees' worth of religious literature.
Mr. Gorde, the book depot manager
and treasurer of the Assam Section, wrote
recently: "You cannot imagine the rate
at which the books are going. A week ago
we received 10 sets of Modern Ways to
Health; today we have none. Five hundred
copies of Patriarchs and Prophets were
sold in 15 days. Fifty sets of Bible Stories
cleaned out in 10 days. Footprints of Jesus and Bedtime Stories are gone as soon
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as the cases are opened. In fact, people
fight over these books, just as in the fish
market.
"Boys and men who cannot speak two
sentences of English straight, cannot count
money, and shiver when they approach
people, are selling at least one set of Bible
Stories a week."
Monday morning we visited the deputy
commissioner and requested permission
to go to Zamabawk, a regrouping center
about 10 miles away, where 19 Adventist
families were living. We found them
building a church with materials they had
carried from one of the disbanded villages. The elder of the church, Lalzinga,
had just returned from a lay missionary
trip to the South Mizo Hills with the director of our work, Pastor Saikhuma. He
had brought home with him a 15-year-old
boy, Lalvuana. Our lay movement in this
area is known as the Daniel's Band. Lalvuana's parents were professed Christians.
He first heard about our teachings from
one of the Daniel's Band evangelists.
When he started keeping the Sabbath his
clothes were taken away, he was beaten
and sent away from home. He is preparing for baptism and hopes to attend our
training school in Jowai near Shillong.
Our believers in the Mizo Hills are
caught between conflicting loyalties. By far
the majority have demonstrated their desire to stay out of this feud, yet they have
many difficulties. They cannot leave their
villages without permits, they cannot be
out of their homes after five in the evening, and they have been uprooted from
their original homes and regrouped into
centers, yet our work in this area of the
Northeast Union is growing faster than
in any other section. Nearly 150 were baptized during the first nine months of 1967.
The dedication of our people is demonstrated in the experience of a lay evangelist, Laltlana. He was asked by a political
group to join their cause. His reply was,
"If I had two lives, maybe I would be
tempted to help in your work, but I have
only one life, and that life I have already
given to my Lord Jesus Christ, to further
His kingdom. Sorry, gentlemen, I can do
nothing else."

SOUTHERN EUROPEAN DIVISION
ELDER AND MRS. HANS SALZMANN and
three of their children have returned to
their work on the island of Madagascar.
Elder Salzmann first left Switzerland in
1945 as a young missionary to the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. In
1952 he moved to Madagascar, and in
1963 he went to the island of Mauritius
as president of the mission. He is now
president of the Indian Ocean Union
Mission.
WHEN Elder and Mrs. Aime Cosendai
were sent to Cameroun 30 years ago there
were 131 baptized members in this field.
Today there are 10,555. After M. Fridlin,
president of the field at that time, had
been called to the division office in Bern,
Switzerland, Elder Cosendai took over the
leadership of the Cameroun. Now their
son, Jean-Paul, is also employed in that
same mission field. Since 1966 he has been
teaching in the Cameroun Training
School at Nanga-Eboko.
GRETLY KREBS, Correspondent
BRITISH UNION
ALL Adventist broadcasts to the British
public ceased on August 14, when the
government banned all off-shore commercial radio stations, but church members
rallied to the distribution of Voice of
Prophecy Bible School cards. During the
first two weeks of September alone, 1,500
new student enrollments came in.
ROY E. GRAHAM, union educational
secretary, organized a unionwide conference on education (the first since 1959)
at the church headquarters on Stanborough Park, Watford. Held October 20, it
was attended by 70 teachers and trainee
teachers. Speakers included B. E. Seton,
union president; G. L. Caviness, principal,
Newbold College; and A. J. Woodfield,
head of department of English, English
language and speech, Newbold College.
While in conference the teachers expressed
determination to increase the effectiveness
of the evangelistic aspect of church schools.
At present, one secondary and six primary
schools in Britain are providing a Christian education for 591 pupils through the
efforts of 39 Adventist teachers.
VICTOR H. COOPER, Correspondent
SOUTH INDIA
S. ANBIAH, recently transferred to Salen, reports that he has been visiting
backslidden members and other interests.
Six persons have already been baptized
and six more are now ready for baptism.

The convoy wound its way up the 120mile trail from Si!char to Aijal, Assam.

S. SEENIVASAGAM has again conducted
gospel meetings at Mylodai, where ten
were baptized in 1966. Already seven
more persons have been baptized, and
another group of six is now preparing
for baptism.
D. R. WATTS, Correspondent
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atie,,egeiee"
After 30 Years, Mission Work
Reopened on South Sea Island

Danish Firm
Donates Equipment
"It is a life and, death matter that anesthetic equipment be of the highest quality
in surgery," says Dr. G. R. Rigsby (right),
medical secretary of the Ethiopian Union
Mission, as he gratefully accepts a complete anesthetic unit for the Empress
Zauditu Memorial Hospital in Addis
Ababa.
The donor, A. F. Schramm (center),
managing director of a well-known Danish
firm manufacturing anesthetic apparatus
and equipment for oxygen therapy, discusses some features of the equipment with
Dr. Rigsby, at the time of Dr. Rigsby's
visit to Copenhagen, Denmark. With
them is Gebra Michael, Ethiopian nurse
who is taking a course in dietetics at
Skodsborg Sanitarium in Denmark.
This donation sprang from Mr.
Schramm's contact with one of the
church's representatives in the Ingathering for Missions appeal.
PAUL SUNDQUIST
Departmental Secretary
Northern European Division

Unusual Experiences
Occur in East Brazil
By JUANITA KRETSCHMAR
A number of persons in the BahiaSergipe Mission of eastern Brazil have
had supernatural experiences calling their
attention to the second advent of Christ.
Lourdes is an attractive 21-year-old
whose greatest interests lay in worldly
pleasures; she and her sister drank and
smoked. A few months ago she was deeply
disturbed by a dream in which her attention was called to brightly burning stars
falling into a foaming sea. In the dream,
after seeing the starry sight, she continued preparations for the evening meal.
A voice spoke to her: "How can you continue in everyday occupations when the
world is coming to an end and you have
unconfessed sins?"
Lourdes had chatted once with an Adventist neighbor, but was not seriously
concerned with spiritual matters until a
few weeks later, when she had a second
disturbing dream. In it she again seemed
to be looking at the heavens when fiery
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When I visited the primitive people of
Sakau on Santo in the New Hebrides in
1967 I met a very old woman who desires
to give a portion of land for a school for
her people. A number of the people want
our work to be established there.
We had opened up work there 30 years
ago. In the late 1930's the high chief of
Sakau was murdered by his son because
of the father's opposition to the people
wishing to join the Adventist mission. The
whole area erupted into a state of turmoil,
and mission work was discontinued.

Visiting did not begin again until 1961,
when I was president of New Hebrides.
Finally, in the latter half of 1966, while
in New Hebrides working on the mission
ship Fetu Ao from the Gilbert Islands,
I visited this area on three occasions, and
mission work was reopened. The gift of
land will strengthen our work there.
ALEC C. THOMSON
Director, Angoram District
Coral Sea Union Mission

Worker Continues Evangelistic
Task Despite Loss of Sight

Seated in the jungle, an elderly bushwoman
discusses her desire to donate land for
mission work to be begun among her people.

Hundreds of children run the streets
of Porto Amazonas, Parana, Brazil, with
nothing to do. When I began evangelistic
meetings there not long ago, many of
them came. As a result of the meetings 50
persons are studying the Scriptures and
attending Sabbath school, and more than
200 children are expected to attend a Vacation Bible School now being planned.
The opening to conduct meetings in
that city came, in a way, as the result of
an accident. Dalcio Anunziatto, a worker
in the state of Parana for five years, lost
his sight in a home accident. However, he
and his wife, Eliza, went on canvassing
in Nino Amazonas. Although there were
no other Adventists in the city, they decided to build a church. Plans were made,
and they set out to secure money, workmen, and materials for the job.
When the church was completed I began my meetings. Interest was high from
the beginning. Soon there will be a congregation to fill that church, thanks to a
brave man who lost his sight but not his
vision of a completed task.
LEO RANZOLIN
Departmental Secretary
Paranci Conference

letters were written across the sky in
Portuguese: "Repent ye, for the kingdom
of heaven is at hand." As she told the
dream the next morning, her sister stated
that she too had had an identical dream
the previous night.
Lourdes turned to her Adventist neighbor and begged for an explanation of
her dreams. The neighbor took her to
the hall where our small group meets. A
worker from the mission office was visiting, and he patiently opened his Bible
and explained many of the prophecies of
Christ's soon return. Lourdes confessed
her sins and begged for help in following the Lord.
The worker sent her to his home in
Salvador, and she was later sent to me.
Lourdes was thrilled with every Bible
story, and her spare minutes were spent
in prayer or Bible study.
She attended a Voice of Youth series in
a nearby suburb and for 23 nights sat on
the front row. The change in her dress
and appearance came without counsel
from others. With these changes came
another change—her attitude toward life.
A conviction grew within Lourdes that
she should return to her old companions,

her parents, and her sister and tell them
of the peace and joy of her new-found
hope. She was baptized and soon returned
to her home to witness to her family.
Claudimiro, his wife, and family were
active members of a Protestant church in
a suburb of Salvador. Claudimiro was
especially involved in working with the
children's department.
One night he awakened from an impressive dream and wrote what he had
observed. Droning airplanes seemed to
be passing over his home. Since Claudimiro is a policeman, he immediately
thought that surely this must be a sign of
war. When one plane approached his
home he was afraid. A voice told him
that this was not war but rather a worldwide program being focused on his city.
In the dream he tried to hide, telling his
wife that if anyone began looking for
him, she should not disclose his hiding
place.
In recounting the story later, Claudimiro said that a very tall, commanding
stranger and two or three women alighted
from the craft. The man told Claudimiro's wife to call her husband. Still convinced that he would soon be a war
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prisoner, he was hesitant to give his name
or any other information to the woman
who was filling out registration cards.
Claudimiro recalled that the man in
his dream had the kindest voice he had
ever heard. The stranger told him that
the end of the world is near but not to be
afraid. He was told to take note of various Bible texts and hymns. Repeatedly
the kind stranger used the expressions,
"Take note of this," "Note well," "Pay
close attention to this." Claudimiro related to his family and neighbors his unusual dream.
Later when three young women appeared in his street with registration
cards identical to those in his dream, his
friends reminded him of his dream. He
and his wife filled out the cards and began attending the meetings. They did
not miss a lecture. Preacher Jose Carlos'
favorite expressions were "Take note of
this," "Note well," "Pay close attention

to this"—the very words of the stranger
in the dream. As point after point was
proved from the Bible, Claudimiro indicated that he and his family wanted to
be baptized.
But his former church affiliation was
not to be broken easily. He had been a
great blessing in the church, and its members begged him not to leave them or
abandon his work with their children.
Claudimiro was faced with a dilemma:
what did God want him to do? So he
turned to God for the answer.
Each night as the worshipers entered
the tiny meeting hall, they were handed
a Bible. The final night all who had attended a minimum number of times
would receive a gift Bible; 100 Bibles
were to be given away. Claudimiro arrived early two nights before the final
meeting and opened the Bible he was
given to the story of Gideon and the
fleece. He asked God to give him a sign,

too. He decided that God did care about
him, or He would never have given him
the dream directing him to the meetings.
Claudimiro made a mark in the Bible
he held that night. He also prayed that if
God wanted him to leave his church and
join the Seventh-day Adventists, He
would cause him to receive that same
Bible the final night.
With only a 1-in-100 chance, from a
human standpoint, that he would receive
the same Bible, Claudimiro confidently
waited—telling no one of his prayer. The
Bibles were handed out at random, and
he was one of the last to receive one.
When his name was called, he went forward with faith. Returning to his chair,
he opened the Bible and found it to be
the one he had marked two nights previous! Claudimiro, his wife, and three
children were baptized recently. He is
already helping the youth in the newly
formed company.

Avondale College Grows
as Australasia Grows
By V. W. SCHOEN
Associate Secretary
GC Lay Activities Department
What would S. N. Haskell, I. 0. Corliss,
M. C. Israel, H. L. Scott, William Arnold,
and their families have felt and said if
they could have attended the 1967 graduation at Avondale College in Australia,
observing thousands of God's people as
they streamed into the large college auditorium to witness the graduation of 100
young men and women? What has happened in the decades since 1885 is indeed
impressive.
The new administration building, the
modern library, and the cafeteria are
recent additions to this educational center.
Prominent on the campus is the four-story
men's residence, Watson Hall. Other signs
of progress are new courses added to the
curriculum and the constantly increasing
student enrollment.
The future is bright for Avondale—the
powerhouse for Australasia.

Avondale's new circular library (above) is
prominent in the air view (left), as is the
modern men's residence, Watson Hall (the
"T" building), seen from the drive (below).

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NORTH AMERICAN NEWS

Seaside Baptism for 150 in Bermuda
More than 150 persons were baptized recently in three services off the south
shore of Bermuda. They were the fruitage of nine weeks of nightly meetings conducted
by George H. Rainey, associate ministerial secretary of the Atlantic Union Confer.
ence, and his evangelistic team.
Part of that team can be seen here: with arms raised (left to right) are William
E. Carpenter, departmental secretary and pastor of the Warwick and St. George's
churches; Beryl T. Rivers, pastor of the Southampton church; and Russell R. Adams,
mission president and pastor of the Hamilton and Midland Heights churches. Assisting Elder Carpenter is Theodore Modell, associate pastor of the Hamilton church.
Elder Rainey is in the group at the left, directing the baptism from the shore.
The Bible instructors were Mrs. Rainey, wife of the evangelist; Mrs. Alice E.
Brantley and Mrs. Mary Holyfield, of the Northeastern Conference; and Mrs. Joan
Page, of St. George's, Bermuda.
This large accession brings the total membership to nearly 1,000.
WILLIAM E. CARPENTER

Brunswick, church, 37 were baptized. "We
are planning another baptism in the near
future," said John W. Popowich, conference evangelist of the Maritimes. Laymen
are helping to prepare a large number of
prospective candidates.
PEARL BROWNING, Correspondent

BRIEF NEWS
ELDER AND MRS. L. H. DAMES have recently retired from active service. They
served in various capacities all across
Canada. Elder Davies' final post was that
of secretary-treasurer of the British Columbia Conference. He also served for several
years as secretary-treasurer of the North
China Union. They will be living at Sidney, British Columbia.
A MAJOR expansion program is under
way at Sunnyside Nursing Home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Plans provide for
three additions: a third nursing wing to
house 35, a solarium and an employees'
lounge; and a 1200-square-foot chapel,
with a chaplain's office, an additional administration office, and storage space.
With these additional facilities Sunnyside will have room for 101 patients.

PASTOR JOSEF GREIG is keeping the
members in Sheridan, Wyoming, busy.
The adults placed Gift Bible cards in
the Ingathering pamphlets given away
during the campaign. To date 35 of these
cards have been returned. Pathfinders go
to shut-ins to sing and also sang for Ingathering. Before cold weather members
held an old-fashioned building bee, putting a new roof on a house.

AT THE end of an eight-week series of
meetings in the new Barnesville, New

THE Nebraska Conference held a medical-ministerial meeting in North Platte,

REVIEW AND HERALD, February 1, 1968

BRIEF NEWS

Nebraska. Graham Maxwell, of Loma
Linda University, was a guest speaker.
COLORADO church officers met with the
pastors and conference personnel at Estes Park, January 19-21. W. M. Adams,
of the GC Religious Liberty Department, and W. R. L. Scragg, of the GC
Radio-TV Department, assisted.
BRUCE AALBORG, Campion Academy
senior, won first place in the Freedom's
Challenge oration contest conducted by
Campion Academy, Loveland high school,
and Berthoud high school—all in Colorado. Freedom's Challenge is a national
contest designed to promote patriotism
and an interest in the nation's welfare.
E. E. HAGEN and C. V. Brauer conducted
special Sabbath school training meetings
in two areas in the Colorado Conference.
These included the teacher's training
course and an idea-exchange meeting for
workers in the lower divisions.
MEMBERS of Allon Chapel in Lincoln,
Nebraska—including several college students—this year set an Ingathering record
by reaching their goal in one week. Their
pastor is Donald Crowder.
DEDICATION services for the Hillcrest
Junior Academy, in St. Louis, Missouri,
were held January 13. G. F. Cherry, pastor of the St. Louis Central church, was
in charge. R. H. Nightingale, president
of the union, and A. V. McClure, Missouri Conference president, assisted in the
services.
CLARA W. ANDERSON, Correspondent

Takoma Park Sabbath School
Turns in $10,500 Investment
Under the leadership of James V.
Scully, Theodore Carcich, and Harry
House, the members of the Takoma
Park, Maryland, Sabbath school brought
in $10,500 for Investment during 1967—
an increase of 20 per cent over 1966.
Mrs. Bonnie Westberg and Roy Rubottom led the juniors in raising $3,000
through special dinners, white elephant
sales, and other projects. The primary
department, led by Mrs. Irma Ritchie,
brought in $2,400. The boys and girls
corrected a printing mistake in 65,000
booklets and received $1,100. The kindergarten leader, Mrs. Evelyn Herrmann, led her children in gathering
$400. Mrs. Juanita Hodde and the cradle
roll children brought in $100, and even
the nursery under Mrs. Irene Hackleman's leadership turned in $250.
FENTON E. FROOM
Pastor, Takoma Park Church
BRIEF NEWS
THE Cincinnati, Ohio, First church
raised more than $1,000 for Ingathering
on a recent Saturday night. Gregg and
Timothy Barrier, ages 12 and 15, invited
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needs in the church-operated orphanages
from Dr. G. E. Kim, recently from Korea
and now with Leland Memorial Hospital
in Riverdale, Maryland. The sixth-grade
room, with Mrs. Charles L. Brooks as the
teacher, brought in the highest amount,
$260. The entire program was under the
direction of William Seth, principal.
ELEVEN major evangelistic campaigns
were conducted in the Allegheny West
Conference during the summer of 1967,
according to Donald B. Simons, president.
As the result of these meetings, 466 persons were baptized.
MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent

Pulmonary Test Used
With Five-Day Plan
at Kettering
The most recent Five-Day Plan to Stop
Smoking offered by the Kettering Memorial Hospital concluded December 5. It
utilized a pulmonary-function test to lend
incentive to long-term smokers by visualizing air-flow measurements. After only
five days of nonsmoking, improvement of
lung function could be graphically illustrated.
In the picture Dale Boyington, pulmonary-function head technician, records
results for one clinic participant while
a second prospective nonsmoker watches.
Since the first program was conducted
in 1964 more than 2,000 people have attended 18 clinics, with an average of 75
per cent of them breaking the habit by
the end of the fifth day.
This community service is coordinated
by Chaplain Dieter Hain, assisted by
members of the medical staff. Several
outstanding thoracic surgeons, cardiologists, and throat specialists have been
guest lecturers.
DAVID BAUER
PR Director

joyed the caroling and soliciting so much
that he continued for several nights, raising $100.
THE membership of the Chesapeake
Conference now stands at 4,550. An intensive soul-winning program should send
it well over 5,000 in 1968.
FOUR new churches were raised up in
Chesapeake this past year: Glade Valley,
Northwest Baltimore, Triadelphia, and
Clinton. All are doing well. Triadelphia
has almost outgrown its rented building.
On a recent Sabbath there were 33 in
the junior-youth department.
AN EVANGELISTIC campaign is being conducted in Charleston, West Virginia, by
the Bornstein-Lemon evangelistic team.
The wives provide the music for the series.
STUDENTS of the Sligo elementary school
in Takoma Park, Maryland, raised $1,000
as a Christmas gift to Korean orphanages.
Each classroom had individual projects.
Students heard a firsthand report of the
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BRIEF NEWS
AN EARLY morning fire at Adelphian
Academy recently destroyed a large barn
and its contents of stored material belonging to the school mill. This was the
second fire to affect the school and its
wood shop during 1967. Early in July fire
damaged five trailers loaded with. lumber
and scorched a portion of the section of
the mill where the trailers were parked.
Loss from the two fires was under $50,000. Some authorities suspect arson.
THE new Ex-Smokers Club of the Chicago area is assisting Hinsdale Sanitarium
and Hospital's Five-Day Plan team in an
organized campaign to interest others in
signing up for future clinics. Club members helped to address literature about
the clinic scheduled at the hospital February 4-8. They have sent some 6,000 invitations to residents in western suburban
areas of Chicago to come to the free
group-therapy clinics and to tell others
about the program. Twenty-seven of the
stop-smoking clinics have been conducted
by the Hinsdale team since March, 1963.
EIGHTEEN were baptized recently at
Hinsdale, Illinois. The church pastor,
S. K. Lehnhoff; the Sanitarium chaplain,
W. C. Graves; and Paul Matacio officiated.
As A result of interest awakened
through the Essex branch Sabbath school
in Detroit, Michigan, about 100 families
have been enrolled in the Family Bible
Plan. The Sabbath school is sponsored
by the Burns Avenue church and has
the help of members of the City Temple
church.
HERBERT MAYS, one of the Lake Region Conference laymen of the year, is
doing personal evangelism at Orleans,
Indiana. The small group of about 20
believers have now purchased a small attractive church building and are engaged in several types of missionary endeavor.
THE Downers Grove, Illinois, church,
celebrating its seventh anniversary, is
now completing a new church home.
This structure will seat 425 and will be
ready for occupancy early this year. C. L.
Turner is pastor.

THE walls of the Hinsdale Sanitarium
child care unit are now decorated with
a menagerie of animals. These whimsical
murals make the 30-bed unit look more
like a storyland than a hospital ward.
M. J. Blair, the administrator, engaged
Duane L. Perrigo, of Theo. Ebert Sc Co.,
a Chicago firm, after seeing his work in
an area restaurant. This job has opened
a new vista for Mr. Perrigo and other
artists—murals in hospitals. He stated
that he never enjoyed any project more
than this one.
THE Kalamazoo, Michigan, church,
under the leadership of its pastor, James
Ward, reached its Vanguard Ingathering
goal of $7,820 in one week.
DR. RALPH HOWARD, leader of the
youth Sabbath school in Battle Creek,
Michigan, originated the idea of spending a ten-day working vacation in Haiti
with Battle Creek young people. He
wanted them to see the value of doing
something for people in need. In December Dr. and Mrs. Howard, Dr. and Mrs.
Walter Thompson, and Dr. and Mrs.
Duane Wacker made the trip to Haiti
with 13 young people. While there the
group operated a clinic for those needing medical, dental, or optometric help.
The youth all earned their own travel
expenses.

OPENING services were recently held in
the new church at Dowagiac, Michigan,
where E. F. Herzel is pastor. The Michigan Conference president, R. D. Moon,
spoke at the Sabbath service. Construction
of this building, which cost $100,000, was
begun last April.
MILDRED WADE, Correspondent

Walla Walla Church Sends
Gospel Emissary to Japan
John Kotoaka, of Japan, a sophomore
engineering student at Walla Walla College, became the College church's student missionary last fall when he flew to
the bedside of his mother, incurably ill
with lung cancer at Kochi City Hospital.
John, who had come to the United
States with the Japanese Missionary College Choir in the summer of 1966 and
remained to study at WWC, received the
message of his mother's illness and
longed to "tell her of Jesus." There was
the matter of the plane fare, however.
When Pastor Richard D. Fearing told
of the need, members rallied to send a
Christian youth to an unbelieving
mother and other members of his family.
When he hesitated to accept financial
aid, Pastor Fearing asked, "Can you
think of anyone better to go to tell the
story of Christ to your mother than you?"
"I'll go," he responded.
Desperately ill since midsummer, the
mother had given up hope of recovery
and refused medication. Buoyed up by
the hope of seeing her son, however, she
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was dressed and waiting for him in her
hospital room. In the brief week's stay
John told her the story of Jesus, stayed
with her, and prayed for her. She
learned that Jesus can help, accepted
Him as her personal Saviour, and asked
the SDA pastor to tell the heathen priest
not to come any more. Other relatives
were favorably impressed.
On his return from the week's visit in
his homeland, John shared with College
church members his joy in seeing his
mother converted.
MAE MACKLIN LAY
College PR Director
BRIEF NEWS
ABOUT 150 persons met at Richland,
Washington, November 11 for the organizational meeting that made Richland the
seventy-third church in Upper Columbia.
R. C. Remboldt, conference president,
officiated. From the 83 charter members
a full slate of officers was elected, including as elders Drs. Wilder Eby, Merlynd
Nestell, Duane Thompson, and Roy
Kruiger. Paul Cole is pastor.
FORTY-SEVEN sophomore nursing students were capped at the College church
at College Place, Washington, December
15. Wilma Leazer, dean of the school of
nursing, was in charge.
ARCHA 0. DART, editor of The Adventist
Home and School magazine, is holding a
series of meetings February 3-10 in the
Volunteer Park church in Seattle, Washington.
OFFICERS of the 201-member senior class
at Walla Walla College were elected January 4, with President William H. Shephard presiding: class president, Paul Jensen; vice-president, Becky Brown; secretary, Darlene Barnhart; treasurer, James
Perry; chaplain, Fred Christensen; sergeant at arms, Ken Lauren. Donald Rigby,
chairman of the department of biology, is
class sponsor.
IONE MORGAN, Correspondent

BRIEF NEWS
THE Des Moines, Iowa, church raised
$200 for Investment at a food and merchandise festival at the new community
center and school.
A BAPTISM of five was held in Butte,
North Dakota, at the close of a series of
evangelistic meetings held by Sieg Roeske
and S. A. Reile.
Two Sheyenne River Academy staff
members have been asked to serve on
committees for curriculum workshops
sponsored by the General Conference.
Mrs. Harriet Lange is a member Of the
home economics committee and Gordon
MacDonald is a member of the physical
education committee.
THE Bartron Clinic in Watertown,
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South Dakota, donated $1,500' in medicines to Gordon Rhodes, pastor, for the
mission program of the church. This gift
followed a World Service Appeal contact made in September. Dr. Bartron, a
State Senator from the Watertown area,
said there would be more.
L. H. NETTEBURG, Correspondent

BRIEF NEWS
NUTRITIONIST Dorothea Van Gundy
Jones, of the Loma Linda Foods International Nutrition Research Foundation,
presented a better-living cooking school
at the Sunnyvale church in the Central
California Conference January 7-10.
STUDENT members of the Kalindha Club,
a Loma Linda University women's residence hall organization, recently contributed $400 during their Week of Sacrifice
for special needs of the Iquitos Clinic in
Peru, the Malamulo Hospital in Africa,
and the LaVida Indian Mission School at
Farmington, New Mexico.
ABOUT 60 students at Thunderbird
Academy, Scottsdale, Arizona, recently
spent 19 hours and 53 minutes in reading
the New Testament through without stopping. Participating students read from the
J. B. Phillips translation of the Bible in
15-minute shifts.
MEMBERS of the Sunnyslope church in
Arizona are helping strengthen work
begun a year ago, at Wickenberg, Arizona,
and in operating a mission for the Maricopa Indians. A series of public meetings,
with Sunnyslope church members cooperating, began in Wickenberg January 5.
Go TELL rallies in the Southeastern
California Conference during January
and early February are featuring speakers
from the local, union, and General conferences: John Osborn, president of the
Southeastern California Conference, at
Brawley; R. R. Bietz, union president, at
San Diego; R. H. Pierson, General Conference president, at San Bernardino; and
David L. Olsen, union lay activities secretary, at Riverside.
THE year 1968 opened on a note of
intensive evangelistic activity in the Southern California Conference. January 6,
W. A. Fagal, director of Faith for Today,
spoke at a rally in the White Memorial
church in Los Angeles, forecasting a series
of evangelistic meetings he will be holding
in the early spring. Richard Barron spoke
at a rally in San Gabriel, January 5, previewing a series that was to begin January
13 in the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.
YOUNG people of the Greater Fresno,
California, Youth Association conducted
Sunday services at the Madera Juvenile
Hall during November. At the close of
the month a number of the youth at the
hall were enrolled in a Bible course.
HERBERT FORD, Correspondent

BRIEF NEWS
THE new administration building at
Highland Academy was recently named
in honor of one of the long-time staff
members, W. F. Ray, who has been a
faculty member of the school since 1931,
serving as principal during part of the
tenure.
THE science building at Madison Academy, Madison, Tennessee, was totally
destroyed not long ago by a fire of undetermined origin. Total loss to building
and equipment is estimated at $500,000.
THE annual convention of the union's
literature evangelists was held in Atlanta,
Georgia, December 29 and 30. Total 1967
sales for the union was reported to be
more than $2.5 million. Special trophy
awards were presented to all literature
salesmen with deliveries of $10,000 or
more and to all women with $7,000 or
more. Linwood Purvis and Mrs. Edith
Cain, both of the Carolina Conference,
were the top man and woman in total
deliveries for the year. The AlabamaMississippi Conference led the union with
highest deliveries—$424,786.84--and received the trophy cup for the second time.
W. E. Miller is publishing secretary of that
conference.
THIRTEEN people were baptized as a result of a series of evangelistic meetings
held by H. V. Leggett in Wilmington,
North Carolina, just before the Christmas
holidays. Groundwork had been laid by
D. P. Herbert, local pastor.
OSCAR HEINRICH, Correspondent

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BRIEF NEWS
GLENN L. ARCHER, veteran director of
POAU (Protestants and Other Americans
United for the Separation of Church and
State), spoke to the citizens of southwestern Michigan on the afternoon of January 20 in the Andrews University Pioneer
Memorial church.
GENERAL CONFERENCE President Robert
H. Pierson spoke at both morning services
at the campus church January 20. Recently returned from Vietnam, Elder Pierson discussed ways in which the church
can be of the greatest service to God and
man in all parts of the world.
YUERGEN STRUNTZ, a ministerial student
at Andrews University, has delivered
$13,294.44 worth of literature during the
past five summers. Thus far he knows of
six people who have joined the church as
a result of his work. Last summer he spent
four weeks in Detroit. His biggest week
was during the riots, when he delivered
$1,157.50 worth of literature.
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Charles Lickey, pastor Dallas Central
(Texas), formerly pastor, Minneapolis
(Minnesota).
Larry Kromann, assistant pastor, San
Francisco Tabernacle district (Central
California), from Andrews University.
Mrs. Dorothy McWright, dean of girls
and teacher, Jefferson Academy (Texas).
Robert Hamilton, industrial education
teacher, Jefferson Academy (Texas), from
Southwestern Union College.

Grace Hayashi, assistant director of food
service, Kettering Memorial Hospital (Columbia Union), a graduate of Loma Linda
University.
Richard Wenger, assistant chief respiratory therapy technologist, Medical Chest
Department, Kettering Memorial Hospital; a graduate of Yale University School
of Inhalation Therapy.
Adolphe Kinder, president, Senegal
Mission (Southern European Division),
from nine years of mission service in Cameroun.
John R. Loor, Sr., pastor, Collegedale
church (Georgia-Cumberland), formerly
pastor, Arlington church, Riverside
(Southeastern California).

ANDERSON, Gertrude Marie-born Jan. I,
1910, at Muscatine, Iowa; died Nov. 9, 1967, at
Paradise, Calif. She served as a nurse aid in the
Feather River Hospital. Survivors are her husband,
Daniel; son, Richard Knox; and stepson, Gordon
Anderson.
ANDERSON, Herthel B. Martz-born Jan. 31,
1903; died Oct. 29, 1967, at Nashville, Tenn. Her
husband, Ralph, and four daughters and two sons
survive.
CLAWSON, William Brooke-born Feb. 29, 1884,
in Indianapolis, Ind.; died at San Diego, Calif.,
Dec. 4, 1967. Survivors are a son and daughter.
BUNTON, Emma-born Aug. 1, 1880, at Clarence, Mo.; died Dec. 3, 1967, at Marceline, Mo.
Surviving are two sons.
CLABAUGH, Pearl L.-born Aug. 25, 1898; died
Nov. 18, 1967. Her husband, Charles, and two sons
and one daughter survive.
CONGER, Alpha-born Jan. 13, 1891, at Ishpeming, Mich.; died Oct. 25, 1967, at Marquette,
Mich.

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COTTRELL, Myrtie Ball-born Oct. 10, 1879,
near Ellicottville, N.Y.; died at Loma Linda, Calif.,
Nov. 5, 1967. In 1902 she married Roy F. Cottrell,
and they labored in New York State, at South Lancaster Academy, in China, and in southern California. She was privileged to see Mrs. E. G. White
in vision at Salamanca, N.Y. In 1908 Elder and Mrs.
Cottrell went as missionaries to China, where they
spent 12 years. First they served in the province of
Hunan and later in Hankow. Then they served
the newly organized Asiatic Division in Shanghai.
This division included China and India. She was
the Sabbath school secretary of the division. For a
time they worked in Peking. Survivors are her
husband; brother, Charles; and nephews, Elder
Raymond F., and Leland and Kenneth Cottrell;
also a cousin, Blanche Frank.
CRAIN Hazel H.-born Sept. 12, 1897; died
Oct. 5, 1467, at Van Nuys, Calif. She is survived by
five daughters and three sons,
CRANDALL, Lottie May-born July 23, 1886, at
Morley, Mich.; died Nov. 24, 1967, at North Hollywood, Calif. One daughter and three sons survive.
DESOE, Harlan Joseph-born Aug. 20, 1882;
died Oct. 28, 1967.
DOW, Rose Ann-born Dec. 27, 1879, in
Greenup County, Ky.; died Oct. 30, 1967, at Saginaw, Mich.
EARLE, Joe Alan-born Feb. 23, 1951, at Port
Allegany, Pa.; died Nov. 9, 1967. His parents and
two brothers survive.
EASLEY, Daisy K.-born Nov. 11, 1900, at
Sedalia, Mo.; died Dec. 14, 1967, at Loma Linda,
Calif. In 1924 she graduated from the nurse's
course at Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital. She
was superintendent of nurses at the Iowa Sanitarium for a number of years; then she held the
same position at the Walla Walla Sanitarium. In
1936 she married William D. Easley, who survives.
Other survivors are a son, Jack, of Pendleton, Oreg.;
daughter, Elaine, of Loma Linda; two grandchildren; and three brothers, Dr. C. E. Randolph, of
Loma Linda, Dr. Harry Randolph, of Ontario,
Calif., and C. A. Randolph, of Granger, Wash.
FLETCHER, Mimic MacWheller-born May 12,
1883, in Wabaunsee County, Kans.; died at Sacramento, Calif., Nov. 13, 1967. In 1905 she married
Elder John M. Fletcher and they served the cause
for many years. For some time she was Sabbaths
school secretary of the Kansas Conference. Survivors are three sons, Dr. Marion L., of Winston,
Oreg., Dr. John D. of Aberdeen, Wash., and Lyman, of Los Angeles, Calif.; and two daughters,
Alma Sonnenberg, R.N., of Loma Linda, Calif.,
and Eva Brown, R.N., of Sacramento, Calif.
FOLKENBERG, Edith Olive-born Dec. 21,
1890, in Pittsburgh, Pa.; died Oct. 19, 1967, at
Paradise, Calif. In 1910 she received her R.N. from
the Portland, Oregon, Sanitarium. She has served
with her husband, Elder L. E. Folkenberg, since
1911. Survivors are her husband; two sons, Stanley L., president of Colombia-Venezuela Union
Mission, and Elman J., secretary of the Temperance Department of the General Conference; three
grandchildren; one great-grandchild; three sisters,
Gertrude Ash, Mary Green, and Alice Baldwin; and
a brother, Norman.
FRANCIS, Laurel E.-born Nov. 10, 1900, at
Clyde, Ohio; died Nov. 30, 1967, at Fremont, Ohio.
His wife, Marian, and two sons and two daughters
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Waukon, Iowa; died Nov. 12, 1967, near Seaton,
Ill. His wife, two sons, and five daughters survive.
GIBBONS, Paul W.-born May 23, 1907, in
Missouri; died Oct. 6, 1967, at Lynwood, Calif. He

is survived by his wife, Naomi, and a son and

KLESA, Lydia Guenter-born Aug. 21, 1890, at
Coudersport, Pa.; died Nov. 27, 1967, at Coudersport, Pa. Survivors are her husband, Fred, two
sons, and one daughter.

GRAVES, Mars Crawford-born April 20, 1890,
at Protection, Kans.; died Oct. 19, 1967, at Yuba
City, Calif. He served as a literature evangelist.
Survivors are his wife, Mildred B. Graves, of
Rackerby, Calif., and one son, Roy Embanks.

LAWRY, Maude Henry-born July 2, 1881, in
Cincinnati, Ohio; died Nov. 22, 1967, at Takoma
Park, Md. She was a secretary in the General Conference office when she married Clarence Lawry.
They later labored in New Jersey, South Dakota,
and Florida. He worked at the Review and Herald
for many years. Among the survivors is her daughter, Margaret Eckenroth, of Takoma Park, Md.

GUNDERSON, Jeannette B. Franklin-born
Nov. 16, 1884, at Stearling Center, Minn.; died at
Loma Linda, Calif., Oct. 8, 1967. She graduated
from Maplewood Academy in 1913 and then attended normal school. For a time she taught at
Maplewood Academy, following which she was a
Bible instructor in Minneapolis, Minn, In 1917
she married Peter G. Gunderson. Survivors are her
husband; a son, Vernon; two daughters, Marion
Simoneau and Joyce Aithage.

MARTIN, Julia Mae-born April 28, 1878, at
Roundhead, Ohio; died Dec. 8, 1967, at Azusa, Calif.
She was a friend of Mrs. E. G. White and once saw
her in vision. Her husband, John L. Martin, helped
erect the first buildings at Emmanuel Missionary
College, at Loma Linda, the Glendale Sanitarium,
and the White Memorial Hospital. Survivors are four
children: Lester Martin, Irene Davis, Bessie Jones,
and Helene Martin. Her grandson, Charles Martin,
is associate MV leader of the General Conference.

HARPER, Edith P.-born April 7, 1920, at Quinton, Va.; died Dec. 10, 1967, at Takoma Park, Md.
In 1944 she married Richard B. Harper, and since
1962 has been employed as an office secretary at
the General Conference. Survivors are her husband;
son, Philip D. Harper; daughter, Carolyn Sue; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clinton J. Pomeroy; brother,
Clinton J. Pomeroy, Jr.; and three sisters, Irene
Starkey, Helen Fiore, and Annie Lou Eberhardt.

MATTER, Alfred-born May 19, 1886, in Gottingen, West Germany; died Sept. 17, 1967, at
Neanderthal, Germany. He attended the seminary in
Fricdensau and was baptized in 1912. After his
marriage to Elisabeth Nawrotski, a nurse, they
were called as missionaries to Kenya, Africa. He
pioneered among the Luo people near the VictoriaNyanza Lake. During World War I he was interned.
After spending seven years in East Africa, he was
called to pioneer in Rwanda-Burundi. Eight years
later he helped open the Ngoma Mission Station
and Hospital. After this he worked at several other
stations and helped pioneer the work in the northeast Congo mountains. After retirement he still
continued to serve, and remained in the Congo
during the days of revolution. Survivors are his
wife; two sons, Alfred A., who is a pastor in
Switzerland after being a missionary for 25 years;
and Gerhardt L., of Rwanda; and daughter, Tabea E.
Matter, now in West Germany, after spending 20
years as a missionary in Rwanda.

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HELDENBRAND, Doris G.-Born Nov. 20, 1899;
died Nov. 14, 1967, at Mansfield, Ohio. Her husband, Thomas A., survives, as well as a daughter,
and two brothers, one of whom is Elder H. E.
Bisel, of Three Rivers, Mich.
HEYWOOD, Everett Donald-born April 1, 1892,
at Pillager, Minn.; died Nov. 2, 1967, at Sanitarium,
Calif. His wife, Hetta, two sons, and one daughter
survive.
INNIS, Marguerite-horn Aug. 28, 1903, at Grants
Pass, Oreg.; died at Newhall, Calif., Nov. 26, 1967.
Her husband, Dr. E. C. Innis, a son, James, and a
daughter, Carolyn, survive.
JOHNSON, Elmer M.-born Sept. 22, 1886, at
Bark River, Mich.; died Oct. 30, 1967. His wife,
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Mich. Her husband, Worth E., and two daughters
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In 1923 he graduated from Union College, and in
1925 he married Gertrude Steen. They were connected with the Plainview Academy. After his wife's
death, in 1933 he married Lola Garrett, and they
labored in the Wyoming Mission. In 1939 he became pastor of the College View church, Lincoln,
Nebr., where he remained for four years. Later
he labored in South Dakota and Missouri. Survivors
are his wife, of Lincoln, Nebr.; and his daughter,
Carleyn Hartgrove, of Madison, Tenn.
MURAVIOV, Tatiana I.-born in 1885, in Russia;
died Oct. 28, 1967, in Los Angeles, Calif. Three sons
and four daughters survive.
OLSEN, Clarence Leroy-born June 10, 1898, in
Wayne County, Nebr.; died Nov. 24, 1967, in Los
Angeles, Calif. One son and one daughter survive.
O'MALIA, Lillian E.-born April 12, 1903, at
Exira, Iowa; died Nov. 10, 1967, at San Gabriel,
Calif.
OSS, Myrtle Ruth-born July 2, 1927, at Watertown, S.Dak.; was laid to rest Nov. 19, 1967, at Loma
Linda, Calif. One sister, Florence Doss, of Blantyre,
Africa, survives.
PEMBER, Lowell Lindsey-born May 29, 1892,
at Pemberville, Ohio; died Nov. 2, 1967. He is survived by his wife, Ethel, who has been a Bible
instructor in the Lakewood, Ohio, district for many
years, two sons, and one daughter.
RAMPSON, Alice C.-born Aug. 23, 1902, at
Brooklyn, N.Y.; died May 19, 1967, at Loma Linda,
Calif. She attended Clinton Theological Seminary,
and completed nurse's training at Washington Sanitarium and Hospital in 1927. She graduated from
Washington Missionary College (now Columbia Union College) in 1930. After supervising at Washington Sanitarium and Hospital, she transferred to the
Loma Linda Sanitarium and Hospital and remained
there until her retirement in 1964. She is survived
by her mother and a sister, Erna A. Rampson, of
Loma Linda, Calif. [Obituary received Nov. 10, 1967.
-Ens.]
RENDEL, Dennis Paul-born July 21, 1948, at
Alma, Mich.; died Nov. 11, 1967, near Ithaca, Mich.
His parents, one brother, and two sisters survive.

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GENERAL NEWS
IN REMEMBRANCE
(Continued front page 27)
RHOADS, Bert-born Aug. 21, 1871, at State
Center, Iowa; died Dec. 1, 1967, at Morgan Hill
Calif. He was principal of Elk Point Academy and
educational secretary of the South Dakota, Iowa,
and Kansas conferences. Survivors are his daughters, Norma Youngberg, Leona Belle Minchin, and
Mildred Bennett; son, Elder James H. Rhoads;
and a sister, Blanche Spriggs.
ROBERTSON, John Lyman-born Jan. 30, 1900,
at Stockton, Calif.; died Oct. 17, 1967, at Glendale,
Calif. His wife, Glenna, two sons and one daughter
survive.
ROSS, Lelia Mae Ijams-born June 21, 1895,
near Scheel City, Mo.; died at Winter Park, Fla.,
Sept. 19, 1967. For a number of years she served
with her husband, James B. Ross, as a member
of the W. E. Barr Medical-Evangelistic Campaign
Company in various cities of the Southwestern
Union and in Scranton, Pa. The Rosses also were
missionaries in Colombia from 1929 to 1937. Her
active participation in conference work ended in
1949, but she continued lay soul-winning activities.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by three
adopted daughters, Betty Claire Post, Marta Genelia
Hunter, and Laura May Dill.
ROWLAND, Hilda-born Dec. 25, 1872, at Stavanger, Norway; died Nov. 29, 1967, at Redmond, Wash.
RUEB, Fred A.-born Dec. 19, 1889; died at Loveland, Colo., Dec. 5, 1967. His wife, Lizzie, four
daughters, and three sons survive.
SHANDOR, Lois-born in 1907; died Oct. 20,
1967, at Ridgecrest, Calif., after teaching for 23
years in denominational schools. Among the survivors are her husband, Louis, and a son, Mervin.
SHOCK, Clarence Vernon-born Aug. 31, 1890, at
Eaton, Ohio; died Nov. 3, 1967, in Sarasota, Fla.
He is survived by his wife, Catherine, two daughters, and one son.
SILSBEE, Maybelle-born Nov. 25, 1880, at Nevada City, Calif.; died at Napa, Calif., Dec. 10,
1967. Her husband, LeRoy A. Silsbee, survives.
SLADE, Daisy Belle-born Sept. 22, 1881, at
Adrian, Mich.; died Dec. 3, 1967, at Saginaw, Mich.
A son, Dr. H. M. Slade, and a daughter, Mrs.
William R. Dickson, survive.
THAYER, Nona 0.-born Feb. 18, 1895, at East
Leroy, Mich.; died Nov. 8, 1967, at Battle Creek,
Mich. Her husband, Clarence, survives, also one
son and stepson.
VAN VOORHEES, Catherine-born Aug. 18, 1879;
died Oct. 26, 1967, at Saginaw, Mich. In 1907 she
graduated from nurse's training at the Battle Creek
Sanitarium. For a time she was housemother at
Laurelwood Academy, in Oregon; and she was director of nurses in various of our hospitals. She is
survived by a sister, Gertrude Biggins, of Idaho.
WARNER, William Arthur-born Aug. 22, 1897,
in Des Moines, Iowa; died Oct. 5, 1967, at Gardena,
Calif. His wife, Ethel, survives, also two sons and
two daughters.
WATSON, Esther Matilda-born May 28, 1889;
died Nov. 1, 1967, at Santa Monica, Calif. One sister
survives.
WILLIAMS, George Roy-born Jan. 12, 1885, in
Dade County, Mo.; died at Lakewood, Colo., Nov.
19, 1967. His wife, Gladys, and four sons survive.
WOLF, Olive Smith-born Dec. 10, 1905, at Mt.
Forrest, Mich.; died Nov. 10, 1967, at Tecumseh,
Mich. She attended Cedar Lake Academy and Emmanuel Missionary College. For a number of years
she taught church school. In 1932 she married Harold W. Wolf. Among the survivors are her husband; daughter, Nancy Curry; and son Herbert.

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Mucefleahts...
This week Don Hawley asks the penetrating question, "Do You Love Yourself?"
(see page 2). Raising the query, "Is it
possible that it is entirely proper for a
Christian to exercise a certain type of
self-love?" he proceeds to show that selfrespect is enjoined and is necessary in
the development of a mature Christian
experience.
Elder Hawley is director of communications in the Greater New York Conference. He was born in 1923 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, and graduated from Union
College in 1950. He has taken advanced
work at Andrews University and at Michigan State University. He began work
for the denomination in 1950 as assistant
manager of the Nebraska Book and Bible
House in Lincoln. After serving as a district leader in the Nebraska Conference
from 1951 to 1956 he went to Pakistan,
where he worked in the Karachi Hospital
as chaplain and pastor. Returning to the
United States, he was director of public
relations of the Hinsdale Sanitarium and
Hospital in Hinsdale, Illinois, from 1961
to 1963 and of the Michigan Conference
from 1963 to 1966.
In our section The World of the Ad-

lEte-sTi_b 4 -siv- alma_ 1111iriatici_
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they also published five issues of The Advent Review. Later that year, in November, these two papers merged
under the name Second Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, now titled simply REVIEW AND HERALD. Its editorial
objective remains unchanged-to preach "the everlasting gospel" in the context of the Sabbath, the Second
Advent, and other truths distinctive of the Advent Movement.

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WRIGHT, Ralph-born March 16, 1890, at Keithsburg, Ill.; died Dec. 4, 1967. His wife, Gola May,
three daughters, and two sons survive.
YARNELL, Anna Baltzheiser-born June 17, 1884,
at Oakland, Calif.; died at Sierra Madre, Calif., Nov.
13, 1967. Three sons and one daughter survive.

Bible Evangelism Crusade
February 3
Church Lay Activities Oil ering
February 3
Faith for Today Offering
February 10
Christian Home and Family Altar Day February 17
Listen Campaign
February 24
Visitation Lvangelism
March 2
Church Lay Activities Offering
March 2
Sabbath School Rally Day
March 9
Spring Missions Offering
March 9
Missionary Volunteer Day
March 16
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ventist Woman (see page 10) Mrs. Vinnie
Ruffo this week begins a series of three
articles on child training. Her first article,
"For Beauty at Maturity, Bend the Tiny
Twig . . . Right" stresses the importance
of early training.
Mrs. Ruffo was born in 1928 in Rome,
New York, and was reared a Catholic.
She was employed as a secretary to a
priest when the third angel's message
found her. She studied teacher training
and religion at La Sierra College and
obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in
general elementary education in 1953
from San Jose State College. After teaching a year in Santa Clara, California, she
reduced her load to substitute teaching
because, as she said, "I wanted to raise my
own children and not leave them to babysitters." She is now teaching in an Adventist church school. Her husband, Paul
D. Ruffo, to whom she was married in
1953, is a general building contractor.
Mrs. Ruffo enjoys writing and is studying article writing at San Mateo City
College. She has written Behind Barbed
Wire, a 1967 Pacific Press book, and has
contributed numerous articles to journals.
In our January 4 issue we incorrectly
listed the position of Lucile H. Jones,
author of the series "Why a Health Message," as associate professor of nursing
education. This should have read associate professor of health education. She
is currently teaching in the health and
physical education department at Walla
Walla College.

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Third-Quarter Overflow
Sends $98,000 to S. Asia
The Thirteenth Sabbath Offering overflow for the -third quarter, 1967, was the
highest on record for a third quarter.
The Assam Training School, in the
Assam Hills of India, and the KelloggMookerjee High School, in East Pakistan,
will receive $98,422.92.
Everyone who gave will rejoice that
these educational institutions in Southern
Asia are benefiting from this support.
R. CURTIS BARGER

Disaster Victims in Sicily
and Turkey Aided by SAWS
The Seventh-day Adventist Welfare
Service (SAWS) voted January 18 to send
$21,000 worth of disaster relief to earthquake victims in Sicily.
The aid includes ten tons of blankets
and winter clothing, and $1,000 in cash.
The cash will be matched by the Southern
European Division and the Italian Mission.
SAWS is also sending 2,000 CARE food
packages and $5,000 worth of clothing to
Turkey.
W. E. PHILLIPS

Washington Servicemen's
Center Opens This Month
Adventist servicemen of the Washington, D.C., area will soon be using their
new center. Several have donated their
services in completing the brick-and-stone
building in Takoma Park, a suburb of
Washington. Official opening date is February 28.
This modern facility overlooking Long
Branch Park provides a large lounge with
rock fireplace, adjoining devotional library, a recreation area, snack bar, sleeping accommodations for 60 men, and four
guest rooms. There are also apartments
for the director of the center and for the
custodian.
The opening program will be highlighted by a ribbon-cutting ceremony and
a tour of the building. Military and church
officials are expected to attend. Many of
the 175 Adventist men of Project Whitecoat, stationed at Fort Detrick and Walter
Reed Army Hospital, will be present.
The first regular meeting to be held in
the Washington Servicemen's Center is
the National Service Organization field
school, February 5-8. This school for MV
secretaries, civilian chaplains, and service
pastors will be the first of three to be held
across the country during February; the
second will be held in Kansas City, and
the last, for the West Coast, in San Francisco. Each school will provide instruction
in Selective Service matters and in the
handling of servicemen's problems.
The NSO school in the Washington
Servicemen's Center is only one of the nu32

merous activities that are planned for
this new building. Civilian Chaplain
Thomas Green foresees a complete program of service-related activities for the
center.
C. D. MARTIN

Georgia-Cumberland Sets
1968 Baptismal Goal at 900
The Georgia-Cumberland Conference
has had its greatest year in evangelism:
710 baptisms were reported in 1967.
Desmond Cummings, president, and
Everett Cumbo, ministerial secretary, report that "ministers and laymen join the
world field in gratitude to God for His
blessings and join in deep dedication for
1968."
This year's goal is for 900 baptisms. In
1966 the conference reported 491 new
members added through baptism and profession of faith.

Ministerial Group Sponsors
Military Chaplains' Fellowship
Adventist ministers of the Honolulu
area had 20 chaplains as their guests for
a luncheon and program November 14.
The occasion was arranged by Robert L.
Chism, Adventist civilian chaplain, and
was for senior-ranked chaplains of the
various military commands in Hawaii.
Such meetings bring about understanding of the conscientious beliefs of Adventists in uniform and help in solving
problems brought on by these beliefs.
For many years a similar annual occasion for military chaplains of all faiths
who are assigned to the San Diego area
has served to acquaint them with Seventhday Adventists. It is hoped that the Honolulu meeting will become an annual
event.
CLARK SMITH

Vacation Bible Schools Gain
More than 70,000 boys and girls were
enrolled in 1,041 Vacation Bible Schools
in North America during 1967. Of these,
40,317 were from non-Adventist homes.
This is an increase of more than 60
schools and more than 3,000 pupils above
the totals for 1966. To date there have
been at least 29 baptisms reported as a
result of 1967 Vacation Bible School evangelism.
FERNON D. RETZER

Officer Changes Involve
GC, Trans-Africa, SE. Asia
In a recent action of the General
Conference Committee, R. M. Reinhard,
treasurer and auditor of the Trans-Africa
Division, was elected associate auditor of
the General Conference. Elder Reinhard,
who has served the Trans-Africa Division

for fifteen years, is presently in the process of transferring from Africa to the
United States.
In terms of membership Trans-Africa
is the largest of the overseas divisions of
the church and the office of division treasurer is no small responsibility. A man is
needed who has had wide experience in
administration and who understands the
complexities of international currency exchange.
On January 18 the General Conference
Committee voted to elect G. 0. Bruce,
presently serving as secretary-treasurer of
the Southeast Asia Union in the Far Eastern Division, as treasurer of the TransAfrica Division. Elder Bruce has served as
a denominational worker for more than
eighteen years, most of this time in treasury capacities. He began his service at
the Southern Publishing Association, later
served in the Oklahoma Conference, and
for thirteen years has served in the Far
Eastern Division as secretary-treasurer of
three union missions and as assistant division treasurer.
CLYDE 0. FRANZ

Loma Linda University Joins
Association of Colleges
At its recent meeting in Minneapolis,
the American Association of Colleges,
which has a membership of some 900 institutions of higher education, granted membership to Loma Linda University as a reorganized institution following its merger
with La Sierra College. LLU joins the
family of SDA liberal arts institutions
that for some time have been active members of this national organization.
The Adventist Colleges Abroad Committee, meeting at the time of these sessions, re-elected John T. Hamilton, of
Loma Linda University, as director for
the next two years.
The ACA currently is operating studyabroad programs through Adventist
schools in Austria, France, and Germany.
Plans include the possibilities of a Spanish program in South America, as well as
one for theological students in the Middle
East.
CHARLES B. HIRSCH

N.A. Ingathering Report-9:
Year's Objective Surpassed
North American Division objective for
the current campaign: $6,500,000.
Report as of January 13: $6,546,868.22.
Objective surpassed.
Greater New York became the sixteenth
conference to join the Silver Vanguard
list. Seven unions have already surpassed
last year's February 28 totals.
Requests for information and Bible
courses now number 22,990.
The Pacific Union joins the Southern
and Columbia unions as "millionaire"
fields.
REVIEW AND HERALD, February 1, 1968