March 14, 1968 Vol. 145 No. 11 REVIEW AND HERALD • GENERAL CHURCH PAPER OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

By ARTHUR S. MAXWELL Editor, Signs of the Times

"The hour has come, the hour is striking, and striking at you, the hour and the end!" (Eze. 7:5, 6).*

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ANY times over the past 50 years I have stood on Capitoline Hill in Rome looking down at the ruins of the ancient Forum, conjuring up the glories of the Roman Empire of which only these ruins remain. I have stood in the majestic temple of Karnak in Upper Egypt, marveling at the riches and talents of the ancient civilization that once erected this mighty building. I have stood on the Acropolis in Athens, viewing the ruins of the magnificent edifices erected during the golden age of Greece. All over the world you will find relics of the past such as these—the pyramids of Egypt, the columns of Baalbek, the Aztec monuments in Mexico, the Angkor Wat in Cambodia, the Zimbabwe Temple in Rhodesia—all of which tell of longfaded glories and of the end that came to cities, countries, empires, and civilizations in the long ago. No matter how great and powerful (To page 6) [Sermon preached at Mountain View, California„January 13, 1968. (Based on the new Book of the Year, This Is the End!)] *From The Bible: A New Translation by James Moffatt. Copyright by James Moffatt 1954. Used by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Incorporated.

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HE voice crying in our modern world "What's wrong with premarital sex?" sounds strangely familiar. It is an echo of a similar question raised millenniums ago: "What's wrong with the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil? It is very pleasant. It will make one wise. It will help one 'attain to a more exalted sphere of existence, to enter a broader field of knowledge.' " These same virtues are extolled for premarital sex, and incidentally, both carry the sting of the serpent. Yes, sting is the proper word, for someone always gets hurt whenever there is sex outside of marriage. For example, in the white population of America there are four illegitimate births out of every 100 births and in the nonwhite population there are 26.3 per 100. Think of the suffering of these children, first as babies, later as confused adolescents, as they grow up without proper, adequate family relationships. The situation is bad enough when finances are adequate and worse when they are not. This is not the whole story. It is only one phase. There is a tremendous 2

amount of maternal suffering. Devoted to their progeny, many of these women will make every sacrifice to try to give their babies a normal life. Some, ridden with guilt, to get the child a home, will make unhappy marriages, one, two, or more times, spreading their misery through many families. Then there are those who shift the responsibility to parents, to welfare, to aid to dependent children, so the child will live first in one, then in another, and then in still another foster home. I have cared for many such children. Even when premarital sex does not result in conception, someone gets hurt. For example, in those couples who indulge and soon marry, even though neither party has been promiscuous, circumstances arise that suggest doubts about the fidelity of the one spouse to the other. The memory of the previous behavior increases the lack of trust and confidence and leads to quarreling, incrimination, and too often to divorce, with its attendant disruptions of the family and quota of disturbed children. Perhaps it doesn't go this far,

but guilt feelings may bring women to a doctor, a pastor, or to a mental breakdown and hospitalization. Sex is talked about so freely at present that even mere children are amazingly well informed about anatomical facts, and most adolescents believe this is the whole story, blissfully ignorant of what constitutes a mature understanding. Young people of high school and college age who see adults seemingly doing as they please and getting what they want, equate freedom with absence of restraint. They often are led to seek no higher control for themselves than their feelings. But feelings are temperamental, changing from minute to minute, variable according to circumstances. Action on this basis is not freedom nor a "new freedom." It is the old slavery to passions, leading to destruction of all that makes life here worth while and life hereafter possible. Mature Relationships As men mature they develop the capacity to give. Maturity in sexual relationships is present when the giving of satisfaction is much more important than receiving it. Whenever sex behavior fails in giving and is interested only in getting satisfaction, it lacks maturity and is a manifestation of self-indulgence. Sex behavior outside of marriage always has the quality of self-indulgence. On the part of the braggart who tells of his conquests of unsuspecting and not-so-innocent girls, it has the quality also of self-aggrandizement. There is much REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

By HARLAND P. KAHLER, M.D.

With Premarital Sex? written today on "sex freedom," "fun morality," and pornographic literature is flooding the markets. But all of this is leading many to slavery. When sex is motivated by any consideration other than a giving to another, a form of caring, it becomes manipulative. For example, sex can be motivated by the anxiety of loneliness, by the wish to conquer or to be conquered, by vanity, or by the wish to hurt or even destroy. When it is motivated by any of these rather than by true love, the sexual act becomes manipulative and this can happen either inside or outside a marriage relationship. Premarital sex usually falls into manipulative behavior and is engaged in only for the immediate pleasure, ulterior design, or physical satisfaction of one or both of the partners. An Empty Hoax Even if one were to lay aside the traditional religious emphasis, the threat of venereal disease, and the statistics quoted above, he would still come up with the answer that premarital intercourse is not good. This is illustrated by the attitude of men who say, "It's O.K. for me to sleep with your sister, but it's not O.K. for you to sleep with mine," or "I hope to get straightened out and marry a nice girl and have a good family," as was stated to me recently by a young philanderer. Two people who talk over the problem and decide "It's all right if nobody gets hurt" forget that the answer to whether someone gets REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

hurt is future, so no action can be based on such a supposition. It's totally impossible to base a sound, true conclusion on such an "if" premise. Some of the advocates of premarital relations answered the following question with an "if." "If you were the father of a teen-age daughter who asked permission to engage with her lover in premarital intercourse, would you say for her to go ahead?" They said, "If it would make her happy, I would." Their answer shows the argument to be fallacious, since no one can certainly predict such happiness. The action is to be now—the happiness, if ever, in the uncertain future. Many, both men and women, who have fallen into the trap of premarital sexual experimentation find the happiness they thought would come with marriage to be an empty hoax. I think of a couple I counseled who had been married 22 years and whose children were grown. Quarreling and nagging ultimately brought divorce because the relationship after marriage was not as it had been premaritally. It has been demonstrated that as a test of suitability premarital intercourse tells us nothing of significance that cannot be discovered in other ways. And what it may appear to tell us is more likely to be misleading than helpful. It has also been observed that playing with sex in premarial sexual experience has little relation to sex strictly speaking; it is based on curiosity, vanity, and desire for attention. The idea that premarital sexual ex-

perience is necessary and desirable is part of "sales talk" of men who are trying to seduce women. It is contradicted by every study ever made. When pressured by the group to give up her virginity, one girl answered, "I can make that choice any time I want to. You no longer have a choice, only to live by the consequences of your actions." Some girls choose premarital sex as a way of showing the world they are free of their parents or of their religion, not realizing that someone is going to get hurt. Free love is advocated as a desirable way of life, but sexual intercourse without commitment is promiscuity. Sexual intercourse in these circumstances is not the real sharing that human nature seeks, the complete surrender of each to the other, the merging of both in a relationship that is bigger than either one of them. A real neurosis may be the result of these experiments, which may make successful adult adjustment to sexuality impossible without long psychological re-education. (See Paul Popenoe, Are Virgins Out of Date? The American Institute of Family Relations, Publication 28.) Another area that needs attention is "permissiveness with affection" that some advocate; but it raises more questions. How much permissiveness? How much affection? The distinction depends on knowledge and perception of adult motivation and emotional reaction toward which the teen-ager is striving. This comes with maturity and is not easily taught, so permissiveness becomes sexual exploitation. In short, heavy petting leads to sexual exploitation. Extramarital sex as advocated by a number of writers arguing for "varietism" is also specious, though made to appear desirable; in a society where infidelity prevails, children are deprived and hurt and marriage is insecure. It is from the standpoint of health —emotional health, physical health, spiritual health—that I submit the desirable ideal is premarital chastity. It makes for self-esteem and respect. Continence is possible and is not detrimental to the mental or physical health of either the male or the female. Continence for the sake of a future good assists in the achievement of emotional and sexual maturity. The Scriptures repeatedly condemn all types of extramarital sex. Fornication (Greek porneia) is an inclusive term (see Eph. 5:3; 1 Cor. 5:1; Col. 3:5). Fornication is sin (Gal. 5:19). Unless they truly repent and turn from their sins, those who engage in extramarital sex will not enter the New Jerusalem (Rev. 22: 15). "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" (Matt. 5:8). 3

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Prevailing Prayer By JOE ENGELKEMIER ONCERNING the prayer experiences of the disciples during the days preceding Pentecost, we read: "They knew that they had a friend at the throne of God, and they were eager to present their requests to the Father in the name of Jesus. In solemn awe they bowed in prayer, repeating the assurance, 'Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name, He will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.' John 16:23, 24. They extended the hand of faith higher and higher, with the mighty argument, 'It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.' Rom. 8:34. And Pentecost brought them fullness of joy in the presence of the Comforter, even as Christ had promised."—The Desire of Ages, p. 833. In another passage it is stated this way: "They claimed the endowment of power that Christ had promised. Then it was that the Holy Spirit was poured out, and thousands were converted in a day."—Ibid., p. 827. Notice several instructive points. First of all, prayer was entered into eagerly, and with solemn awe. Second, divine promises became mighty arguments of faith. Third, as they claimed these promises, the presence of the Holy Spirit was manifested. So it needs to be today. We have every reason for entering into prayer just as eagerly as did the disciples. We, too, have a Friend at the throne of God. We are urged to "come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need" (Heb. 4:16). It was thrilling to read in the REVIEW last summer the story of how, in response to a day of prayer and fasting, the Lord sent rains to the State of Kansas. From September, 1966, to mid-March, 1967, there had been practically no moisture. The Statewide day of prayer and fasting was held on Sabbath, March 18. The fiveday forecast on the previous day had indicated that there was no rain in sight through the following Wednesday. But on Saturday night there was some rain in the eastern half of the State. On Sunday there was more

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rain. On Tuesday a prolonged and gentle rain fell over the State. Elder S. S. Will, president of the Kansas Conference, reported that by midJune rainfall was eight inches above normal. If the Lord will give rain for our physical needs, will He not grant just as generous an outpouring of the Holy Spirit for our spiritual needs? The above experience reminds us of the promise, "Ask ye of the Lord rain in the time of the latter rain; so the Lord shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain" (Zech. 10:1). "At every meeting we attend our prayers should ascend, that at this very time God will impart warmth and moisture to our souls. As we seek God for the Holy Spirit, it will work in us meekness, humbleness of mind, a conscious dependence upon God for the perfecting latter rain. If we pray for the blessing in faith, we shall receive it as God has promised."— Testimonies to Ministers, p. 509. Mighty Arguments of Faith This brings us to the second point —in the experience of the apostles divine promises became mighty arguments of faith. In this connection we should review the conditions for answered prayer, as brought out so clearly in Steps to Christ in the chap-. ter entitled "The Privilege of Prayer." These conditions are (1) that we feel our need, (2) that we not cherish iniquity in our hearts, (3) that we have a spirit of love and forgiveness, (4) that we have faith, and (5) that we be persevering in prayer. We have not space to discuss all of these. But we would emphasize the importance of sensing our need as we pray for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and point out again how the disciples, before Pentecost, "felt their spiritual need and cried to the Lord for the holy unction that was to fit them for the work of soul-saving." —The Acts of the Apostles, p. 37. What would happen if, with a deep sense of need, hundreds of thousands of Seventh-day Adventists would unite in seeking the outpouring of the Holy Spirit the way the disciples did there in the upper room? Would

the Lord not respond as graciously now as He did then? Faith and perseverance are a vital part of claiming God's promises. Elijah exemplifies the course we should follow. We are familiar with the story of the perseverance with which he prayed for rain at Mount Carmel. "As he prayed, his faith reached out and grasped the promises of Heaven; and he persevered in prayer until his petitions were answered. . . . Faith such as this is needed in the world today— faith that will lay hold on the promises of God's word and refuse to let go until Heaven hears."—Prophets and Kings, p. 157. This kind of faith is closely related to submission to God's will. "Christ says, 'What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.' Mark 11:24. He makes it plain that our asking must be according to God's will; we must ask for the things that He has promised, and whatever we receive must be used in doing His will. The conditions met, the promise is unequivocal."—Education, pp. 257, 258. The servant of God then assures us, "For the pardon of sin, for the Holy Spirit, for a Christlike temper, for wisdom and strength to do His work, for any gift He has promised, we may ask; then we are to believe that we receive, and return thanks to God that we have received."—I bid., p. 258. The gift of the Holy Spirit is mentioned. No greater gift could be sought. "This promised blessing, claimed by faith, brings all other blessings in its train."—The Desire of Ages, p. 672. We call to your attention again the encouraging promise upon which we focused attention in the first article of this series. "The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the church is looked forward to as in the future; but it is the privilege of the church to have it now. Seek for it, pray for it, believe for it. We must have it, and Heaven is waiting to bestow it."—Evangelism, p. 701. Claiming the Promises "Seek for it, pray for it, believe for it." Note the repeated emphasis in the Spirit of Prophecy writings upon believing, upon claiming the promises. Having fulfilled the conditions discussed in earlier articles, we can claim specific promises concerning the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and expect these promises to he fulfilled. In Christ's Object Lessons is found a chapter entitled "Asking to Give." It is based on Luke 11:1-13, the con-

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cluding thought of which is, "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" It would be appropriate to turn to this verse almost daily, claiming it in prayer. In this connection it would be well to read the above mentioned chapter, "Asking to Give." Urging us to present our petitions before the Lord, the author says, "Plead for the Holy Spirit. God stands back of every promise He has made. With your Bible in your hands say, I have done as Thou hast said. I present Thy promise, 'Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.' "—Christ's Object Lessons, p. 147. Paul points out that God "is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us" (Eph. 3: 20). Note the graduated emphasis. God is able to do all that we ask . . . all that we ask or think . . . above all that we ask or think . . abundantly above all that we ask or think . . . exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think. Let us strengthen our faith by recounting two recent fulfillments of this promise. November, 1966, the Voice of Prophecy was $100,000 behind on its budget —the result of a $50,000 drop in the summer offerings, and a $50,000 decrease in the October offering taken in the churches. At the same time plans had been developed to expand the Voice of Prophecy radio coverage through the use of Nite Owl broadcasts. It appeared that this plan would have to be dropped. On November 30 the whole Voice of Prophecy staff met for a special prayer service. After the service it was decided to send out a special letter, in which Elder Richards would frankly explain the problem and the need. In the letter he quoted the above text from the Amplified New Testament, which puts it that God is able to do "super-abundantly" above all that we dare ask or think. This letter went out on December 11. Meanwhile the staff continued to pray most earnestly. Others were praying too. By December 31 such an avalanche of mail had poured in that the staff needed extra help just to write receipts. When it was finally all tabulated, the December offerings received through the mail amounted to an unprecedented $330,000—almost $200,000 above the previous December. The $100,000 deficit was removed, and the Nite Owl programs were assured. On September 3, 1967, REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

the Voice of Prophecy went on their seventh 50,000-watt clear channel station with the Nite Owl broadcast, sending the gospel out to the nearly 32 million Americans who are up at night. Dave Hartman, the Voice of Prophecy treasurer, said they were especially impressed by the letters that accompanied the gifts. One elderly couple, upon receipt of Elder Richards' letter, prayed about it and decided to take $1,000 out of their savings and send it. The next morning they felt impressed that the gift should be larger, and they sent half of their $5,000 savings. The letters accompanying many of the gifts, both large and small, showed the same spirit of sacrifice. As the Spirit of God moved upon many hearts, the promise that God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think was indeed fulfilled. The young people of southern California were involved in a food-collecting project for the Navajo Indian work. The drive was launched in Glendale on Halloween, 1966, when about 100 academy students brought in approximately two tons of canned goods. The student leaders had set a goal of 15 tons. As I looked at the stacks of food it took to make two tons, and thought of the 13 more tons still needed, I concluded that their goal was terribly unrealistic. Some food would come in from Pathfinder groups, and some from other academies—but not 13 tons! Several times in our voluntary prayer bands students would suggest that we remember the Navajo project as a special request. I was grateful for this interest, but still could not envision 15 tons of food ever being delivered. Early in December an 11-ton load, of which about seven tons was food, was hauled to Monument Valley in a truck donated by the American Red Ball Transit Company. The western manager of this company, when contacted by a ninth-grade student on Halloween, had volunteered the free transportation and had also suggested to us several contacts where food donations might be received. As a result, a few weeks later a truckload of 18,000 pounds of canned goods was delivered to the Holbrook Indian Mission School near Holbrook, Arizona. And at the time of this writing a subsequent donation of another 18,000 pounds is being delivered to the Holbrook school for use during the 1967-1968 school year. The grand total of canned goods brought in by this project was about 25 tons! If the Lord will answer the prayers

of His people so abundantly in sending rainfall to Kansas, in sending funds to the Voice of Prophecy, in helping bring in food for the Navajos, how much more abundantly will He answer our prayers as we seek the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in order to share our hope with others. We must seek, pray, believe. "Pray without ceasing, and watch by working in accordance with your prayers. As you pray, believe, trust in God. It is the time of the latter rain, when the Lord will give largely of His Spirit. Be fervent in prayer, and watch in the Spirit."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. 512. Seven and Seven During last school year, as an outgrowth of a Bible conference and other spiritual activities, some of the youth of the Pacific Union formed what they have called the Seven and Seven prayer group. The idea is that at seven o'clock each morning and seven o'clock each evening, or as close to that time as practical, young people will pause for a few moments of prayer, requesting two specific things —that God will bless the youth on Seventh-day Adventist campuses around the world, and that He will finish His work through the promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit. During the Pacific Union Bible conference for student leaders during September, 1966, delegates from more than 20 academies, from La Sierra College and Pacific Union College, and from Loma Linda, all were introduced to this plan. Many student leaders are currently promoting it on their campuses. Will you join these young people? Pray for all of God's youth. Never have the influences of sin been more alluring, and if we ever needed to pray that God will establish a hedge about His young people, it is now. Some are catching a vision of finishing God's work through the power of the Holy Spirit. But there are still many scores of thousands who have not committed themselves to Christ. Pray for them. Send up a silent prayer every time you have an opportunity, praying that the conditions for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit will be fulfilled so the work may be finished. Thus can be brought to pass the events the servant of God foresaw when she wrote: "I have been deeply impressed by scenes that have passed before me in the night season. There seemed to be a great movement—a work of revival—going forward in many places. Our people were moving into line, responding to God's call."—Selected Messages, book 2, p. 402. Isn't it time—now? (Concluded) 5

THIS IS THE END (Continued from page /) they were in their heyday, because of internal weakness judgment came upon them, leaving but memories of vanished glory. Now it is our turn; and this time the whole world is involved. Not one country or one race or one people, but all. The hour of God's judgment is come upon the entire population of this planet. This is the end! As our text says: "The hour has come, the hour is striking, and striking at you, the hour and the end!" This is the supreme fact of our time —more important than war in Southeast Asia, or the explosive situation in the Near East, or the worldwide racial tensions. And no greater task confronts us as Adventists than warning mankind of its imminent doom. Our medical work, our welfare work, our educational work, all are essential. But we must never forget that God raised up this Advent people for one supreme purpose—to proclaim, "The hour of his judgment is come." I am aware that some are saying, "My lord delayeth his coming," and asking, "Where is the promise of his coming?" These are the ones who advocate that we should confine our activities to welfare and relief work and not bother to send out missionaries any more. But this philosophy is not only false, it is suicidal. We have been chosen and appointed by God for one majestic purpose—to herald the soon coming of the Lord to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. All heaven is depending on us to perform this task. When choosing This Is the End! as the title for one of the volumes in the 1968 Book of the Year package, I was suddenly pulled up short with the Question, Do I believe it? And then, Does the church believe it? For it is one thing to say, "Time is running out," or "Christ is coming soon," and quite another to declare with sincere conviction, "This is it. There is no longer any doubt. The end is upon us!" I use the phrase as it was used on various occasions by Bible prophets. For instance, about 760 B.C. Amos wrote: "The end is come upon my people" (Amos 8:2). He was referring to the kingdom of Israel, but he did not mean that it would pass away next morning, or even next week. Actually more than 30 years elapsed before the Assyrians captured Samaria. But Amos saw catastrophe coming. He recognized the signs of approaching disaster. He warned his countrymen that the end time had arrived. Unless the nation changed its ways its doom was inevitable. 6

Likewise, when the fall of Judah was still 25 or more years away, Zephaniah declared, "The great day of the Lord is near . . . and hasteth greatly" (Zeph. 1:14). About 595 B.c., when Babylon was at the height of its power, the prophet Jeremiah said, "Thine end is come," though the Medo-Persians did not overthrow it for another 40 years (Jer. 51:13). What the prophet meant was that the judgment of Babylon was certain, irrevocable, and imminent. And he was right. Now another end time has arrived. Only now when we declare, "This is the end!" we mean that the end of human history is upon us; the end of our civilization; the end of the world. It is the end of which the disciples spoke when they asked Jesus, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?" (Matt. 24:3). It is the end to which Jesus referred when He said, "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come" (verse 14). It is the hour of judgment for all mankind that has come upon us. This is the hour that is striking, and striking at you—the hour of final consummation. I recognize that this is a stupendous claim to make. I realize that it may be challenged. Some will say that such an end is impossible; that because our civilization is the most wonderful that mankind ever achieved it is indestructible. But God's prophetic word to Babylon comes ringing down the ages to our generation: "God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. . Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting" (Dan. 5:26, 27). Is the evidence sufficient to warrant such dramatic statements? Or have the signs of Christ's coming grown old and tired and faded during the 125 years that the Advent Movement has been in existence? Today the signs are clearer, more certain, more global than ever. Evidences of the onrushing end grow more vivid, more unassailable, from year to year. They are like tidal waves roaring up the beaches of every land on earth. End of History Jesus said that before He returns men will "faint with terror at the thought of all that is coming upon the world" (Luke 21:26, N.E.B.).t That time is here. Never was there such fear of the future. For the first time since man was placed on this planet The Bible texts in this article credited to N.E.B. arc from The New English Bible, New Testament. © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961. Reprinted by permission.

he possesses the power to destroy himself. The manufacture of plutonium proceeds apace. By 1970 two dozen nations may be in possession of nuclear weapons and it will take only the explosion of one small atom bomb, in some remote part of the world, to start a world war, to set off a chain reaction of destruction—swift, terrible, and total—from one end of the earth to the other. The end of history is upon us. When the end time comes, Jesus also said, the world will become as it was in the days of Noah. We have but to turn back to the book of Genesis to discover what He had in mind. Evil was then predominant. So much so that "every imagination of the thoughts of his [man's] heart was only evil continually" (Gen. 6:5), and "the earth was filled with violence" (verse 11). The days of Noah are here again. Toward the end of March, 1967, the Torrey Canyon, one of the largest oil tankers ever built, went aground on a reef off Land's End, England. From holes in her bottom and sides poured thousands of gallons of oil, which wind and tide soon wafted toward Cornwall's beautiful beaches and across the channel to France. As the dark-brown tide swept onward it spread slimy ooze over picturesque harbors, lovely rock pools, and miles of silver sand beaches. Likewise, a dark, ugly tide of lawlessness is sweeping over the world, destroying every beautiful thing in its path and defying the best efforts of law enforcement agencies to stop it. It is one of the paradoxes of history that the space age, replete with incredible wonders, and supposedly the most enlightened period in the annals of man, should have spawned the worst lawlessness since the Flood. Crime is growing six times as fast as the population. Since 1960 it has increased 47 per cent. We are on the verge of anarchy, with city after city beset with riots and looting, rape and murder. No one is safe on the streets any more. As Billy Graham was about to start his Greater London Crusade in December, 1966, Sherwood E. Wirt, editor of Decision magazine, published these reasons why the campaign was imperative: "Crime of every kind has skyrocketed. . . . Sixty per cent of criminal cases go unsolved. Only one crime in 12 reaches a court sentence." The same could be said of almost every city around the globe. Everywhere immorality, drunkenness, drug addiction, violence, grow by leaps and bounds. It was just such widespread moral decay which brought the flood of Noah's day, which led to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

later brought Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome to ignominious defeat and ruin. The same decay, now universal, is about to bring destruction upon the whole world. The judgments of God are hanging suspended, like the sword of Damocles, over the head of this generation. This is the end! End of Hope The UN has long been widely acclaimed as man's last best hope, the only way of escape from World War III and the total destruction such a conflict would involve. Now the utter helplessness of the UN has become obvious to all. Its lack of unity, its inability to solve even the smaller international problems, its lack of authority over its own members, has reduced it to a vacuity, a noble facade of impotence. In a very special way it fulfills the word of the Lord, "On earth nations will stand helpless, not knowing which way to turn from the roar and surge of the sea" (Luke 21:25, N.E.B.). There are other signs equally ominous and equally convincing. The book of Revelation clearly suggests that the freedom that millions enjoy today will not endure. By one means and another it will be eroded, until at last tyranny will return, with restrictions mounting to the place where at last no one will be able to buy or sell unless he has a certain mark or number upon him. We are rapidly racing toward this time. Already it has been suggested that every child born in the United States should be given a number that he will carry all his life, for income tax, Social Security, and other purposes. Congress is also considering setting up a national data center, which will contain detailed information about every citizen. This means that George Orwell's 1984 is not as far-fetched as some might think. It could even come upon us ahead of time. The lamblike creature of Revelation is getting ready to speak like a dragon. End of Resources Said Jesus, "Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences" (Luke 21:10, 11). We have tended to overlook the famines and pestilences. They have seemed impossible in view of our overflowing supermarkets. But the fact is that the world has almost reached the end of its resources. Not long ago Ralph Bunche, United Nations Undersecretary for Political Affairs, told the Commonwealth Club at San Francisco: "We are moving toward a situation where there will be more life on the planet than it can REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

A Plea for Loved Ones •

By ALMA L. CASE•

0 God, our hearts are grieving tonight •For dear ones who've gone astray, Confused, deceived by the wily foe And lured from the upward way. Oh, what can be done for these precious ones To break the enemy's spell • And. show them the pitying love of Christ More wond'rous than words can tell? Perchance our faulty lives have binned The light of the Saviour's love. Perchance we're to blame that they forget The beautiful home above. Forgive, we pray, and thoroughly cleanse And fit us, every one, That 'we may help them by life or by death, 0 God, may Thy will be done.

possibly sustain. With an annual population growth of 2 per cent the world will have more than 8.7 billion people in the year 2000—just 32 years from now. . . . People, governments, and the United Nations are not yet alerted to the magnitude of the danger. . . . There is very little time left." One of the most significant facts of our day is that the world is running out of living space and of food to feed its rapidly growing population. Raymond H. Ewell is reported to have predicted that the worst famine in history is at hand and that more than a billion persons in Africa, Asia, and South America face starvation. He also has predicted serious famines in China, India, and Pakistan by the 1970's, extending ultimately to other nations. Famine will dwarf all other problems we face and will be "the most colossal catastrophe ever to befall mankind." (See John Nuveen, "The Facts of Life," in The Christian Century, Aug. 10, 1966, p. 984.) Last and greatest of all the signs is the arrival on the world scene of God's remnant people in this hour of consummation. Marvelously they appeared at the right moment in history. Miraculously they have spread to every continent and island. Never minimize the origin, the purpose, the potential, the destiny, of this great Second Advent Movement. Providentially and unmistakably it is now being thrust into the forefront of the religious world as the last great champion of the Christian faith and of those basic principles of righteousness and truth which mankind has despised and discarded. With wondrous converting power it

moves triumphantly into every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, bearing the name of God, the honor of God, the mercy of God, to a godless and decadent generation. "Prepare to Meet Thy God" Swiftly, by printed page, by radio, TV, and Telstar—in a thousand tongues—its message is reaching into every home on earth, pleading with every soul, "Prepare to meet thy God!" This is the dramatic climax Jesus envisioned when He said that the good news of His kingdom would be preached in all the world as a witness unto all nations and "then shall the end come." This is where we are in history. The end of time is upon us. Looking ahead there is one ray of light, one glorious hope—the return in glory and majesty of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This is the hope that will carry us through the crisis before us. And it is this hope which, above all else, we should be giving to mankind today. A hope such as this and a task such as this are the supreme reasons for our existence as Seventh-day Adventists— to proclaim not only the evidences of the end but the certain hope of a new beginning, the coming of that glorious day when all suffering, sickness, and misery shall be over, and man shall not make war any more. In this sublime moment of history let us rededicate ourselves to this thrilling task, urging all men, by our fervent words and noble lives, "Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come." 7

A grocery store employee writes a firsthand report of

What Meat Buyers Should Know* By ADELINE THOMAS

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HAVE worked in more than 20 grocery stores in one of America's largest cities during the past 15 years. (Chain stores make it a practice to shift their girls from store to store.) All of the meat departments are operated about alike. I know all the practices used by these stores to market their products. When hams are first delivered, they are weighed and put in display counters. After a month or so, flecks of mold appear on them. This mold doesn't harm smoked meats, but the hams are put in deep sinks and given a hot-water bath. The mold is scrubbed off with a brush. Often the hams are left in this hot water for a good share of the day while employees are tending to more urgent work. The water cools, and grease floats on the top. If there is blood from cutting liver, or ice from chickens—even scrub water—it is dumped in the sink on top of the ham. Eventually the ham is removed from this filthy liquid, and wiped off. Then it is wrapped, weighed, and put back in the counter for sale. The ham stays there until someone buys it or mold appears again. If it gets moldy it is given the water treatment again. A week later, if still unsold, the ham is ground up with a little pork that is too spoiled to sell any other way. Hot spices and a dry barbecue powder are added and mixed with it. This mixture is formed into a loaf and covered heavily with the barbecue powder to conceal the green color and the odor. Then a slice of pineapple and a cherry are laid on the top. This loaf is then wrapped and priced at about 69 cents a pound. Likely it will be given a fancy name like, "Ed's De Luxe Ham Loaf." Perhaps it also will be given a sticker saying, "Oven Ready." [. This article was written and submitted to the REVIEW by a Lutheran unacquainted with Adventist dietary teachings and practices. Part of it has no relevance to our readers, as all will recognize. We publish it to strengthen the convictions of those who have adopted a nonflesh diet, and to acquaint others with dangers involved in meat purchases and preparation. See also editorial on page 13.—EmTons.]

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Any customer who sees spare ribs, pork steaks, chops, or any meat coated with barbecue powder, and perhaps labeled, "Delicious for Barbecue," will do well to leave it alone. The only reason barbecue powder is put on this meat is that the color, odor, and taste of it need to be disguised. In some stores whole fryers are sold in two kinds of plastic bags. One bag is plain with nothing on it but the price tag. The other is brightly colored. On it is printed, "The chicken in this bag was scientifically fed, bred, and housed to give you more tender meat per pound." The chicken in the colored bag is priced from five to ten cents higher than the one in the plain bag. In the same counter may be cut-up fryers. Some are in plain wrappers and some in colored ones, with the same advertisement as on the whole fryers. Chickens Are Alike How are these chickens selected to be wrapped and priced? The butcher brings about four to six cases of chickens from the cooler and dumps them all together in the big deep sinks. A clerk then takes a stack of plastic bags and places the chickens in them, one at a time. She ties each bag shut with green paper-covered wires. When she decides she has enough chickens in the plain bags, she takes a stack of colored bags and fills them. The chickens are all alike and have the same grade. The cut-up chickens are selected and prepared in the same way. We call the higher-priced chickens "sucker chicks." Customers often tell us that the "sucker chicks" are much better than the other ones. Imagination plays a large role in the taste buds of some people. (I understand that the use of colored wrappings for chickens is outlawed in some States. Not all the stores I've worked for used this colored paper either, but it's a good thing to know about.)

When the whole chickens don't sell fast, they are taken from the counter, after lying there three or four days, and made into cut-up chickens, split broilers, chicken parts, or whatever is selling faster. Then they're put back in the counter. Sometimes the prices are higher this way because cut-up chicken and parts are more expensive. At times, chicken and spare ribs become so spoiled that they just can't be sold in the counter. So they're put in cold, heavily salted water. They're left there to soak for several hours and then are rinsed off. The salt water draws the smell out of them. Then the chickens are put on spits, covered with barbecue powder and cooked in the rotisserie oven. Usually someone will buy the barbecued chicken or ribs for a quick supper. After it's cooked and covered with spicy powder it's impossible to tell by taste that the meat is spoiled. I have never seen a fresh, wholesome piece of meat cooked in one of these rotisserie ovens. Not Fresh Now, a word about hot dogs. No one should try to save money by buying the bulk hot dogs that have been wrapped in red paper and put in a container like the other fresh meats are put in. Sometimes they will carry a bright yellow or red sticker, saying, "Packed Fresh in This Store Daily." They may be packed in fresh containers and have fresh paper and advertisements on them, but except in rare cases the hot clogs are not fresh. When name-brand hot dogs get slimy and sticky with age, they're taken out of the original wrappers, washed in hot water, and rewrapped in different containers. The price is usually 49 or 59 cents a pound, or less, depending how eager the store is to sell them. The smoked sausage, knockwurst, polish sausage, ring bologna, slab bacon, bacon squares, and cottage butts all get the hot-water bath when they get moldy and sticky. Perhaps the colored paper, here again, is a local custom, but whenever a customer sees such products rewrapped without a brand name on them, it is wise to leave them there. At times you may see a product called "homemade sausage." What is this? The meat cutters take pork that is almost too spoiled to sell, grind it, add plenty of spices and water, mix it up, and call it sausage. Naturally, the more spoiled it is, the more spices they add to it, and the lower the price will be. Another thing that sometimes is featured is "Mock Chicken Legs," "City Chicken Legs," or "Lamb Patties." Whatever they are called they look about the same. They are ground REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

meat, rolled in corn-flake crumbs or corn meal, with a wooden stick in them for a handle. Sometimes they are made into patties. They can be veal, pork, lamb, or a combination of meats—actually, whatever the butcher wants to sell quickly. Seller's Interest Beef, like other meats, is marketed with the seller, not the consumer, in mind. For example, the only difference between ground round and ground chuck is the price. The meat is all ground in one big grinder at the same time. First, the butcher takes one container in such a way as to catch the meat in it with a little hole in the center. We put a sprig of parsley in the hole to decorate it. This is ground round. When he has enough to last half a day, he gets a differentshaped container and puts the "ground chuck" in it. He takes the meat out of the grinder so it will look different from "ground round." Many people say there is a big difference in the taste of ground round and ground chuck. This is amazing, for I have yet to work in a store where they are prepared separately. There is, however, a big difference in the regular hamburger and the ground round or chuck. Ground meat, sometimes called "chopped sirloin," is the same as ground round, ground chuck, extra lean, or sirloin patties. The usual price is about $1.09. A favorite sales device of some stores involves frozen-meat orders. When a customer orders steaks to be done in freezer paper, the butcher picks the old ones out of the counter, takes them out of their containers, and puts them in freezer paper. Once they're frozen, no one can tell if they were fresh or were ready for the bone barrel. Meat Inspection Many of my readers will find this article hard, if not impossible, to believe. They'll say, "What about meat inspectors? What about the States where it's mandatory that the cutting rooms be open to the buying public? What about the places where the wrapping is done only a few feet from the ultimate customer?" Even open-to-inspection cutting rooms wouldn't keep stores from selling doctored-up or spoiled meat. Remember, the employees work several hours before the store opens. When the customer sees the meat being wrapped, he doesn't walk behind the counter and smell the ham loaf, or feel the pork or chicken. Further, few would know why chickens or spare ribs were soaking in cold water. Of course the meat is inspected before it's released to the store for sale, REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

it by throwing meat away in a bone barrel. He finds every way of selling it that he can, even if he wouldn't take it to his family. I've seen butchers put pork loin roasts in the counter for sale after removing worms a quarter of an inch long in them. The girls who cleaned and wrapped the roasts handled them with rubber gloves so they wouldn't have to touch them with their bare hands. But they still put them in the counter for sale! I'm not trying to turn the population into vegetarians. I'm just trying to ease my conscience by telling others what to look out for. Customers have a right to know what they're buying.

but the inspector doesn't follow it until it appears on someone's table. If something is reported to the health department, they'll investigate it. Usually, when a health officer walks in, he sees to it that all health cards are up to date, that the help have hair properly covered, and that the room is fairly clean. He checks carefully to see that no one is smoking in the preparation room. Now and then he'll look inside the saw or cuber to see that they're clean. I've never seen a health officer take any test on the meat. A meat manager has to look out for his gross profit, and he can't get

The art of livi

One of the most difON ficult people to cope SELFDEPRECIATION with, as far as I'm concerned, is the person who continually minimizes himself. Almost the moment you contact a person of this kind, he launches into a campaign of self-depreciation. No matter what subject you hopefully introduce, thinking to distract him, you'll be the unwilling listener to torrents of self-hatred—or, if that's too strong a word, torrents of selfdislike. "I'm just not efficient like all the rest of my friends." "I can't everseem to get anything done . . ." "I always say stupid things, and make a fool of myself . . ." "I don't know why anyone bothers with me anyhow . . ." "I'm just a mess . . ." It's perfectly natural, I think, for every human being occasionally to have strong feelings of dissatisfaction with himself and with his performance in life's arena. The larger one's vision the stronger his dissatisfaction, because ahead of him and quite unattainably above him he sees the elusive form of the ideal—in being and in action. And this is good. I've always agreed with Robert Browning that "man's reach should exceed his grasp." I think, though, that Browning did not have in mind that the reachers and the graspers should loudly bewail their ineptitude. From the purely practical standpoint I should like to suggest that the shortcomings of others are obvious enough without their being pointed out by the shortcomer. Fortunately, though, most people aren't looking for flaws in others, nor do they dwell on them; they're willing, even eager, to emulate the sundial in its positive approach to living. After all, people don't base their regard for others

on the idea that they must be perfect or it's "no sale"! Sometimes people are loved as much (or more!) for their weaknesses as for their strengths. If, however, self-abasers are uncommonly vociferous, their listeners are placed in the miserable position of having to reassure them—and reassure them: "Oh, but you are!" "Oh, but you aren't!" —depending upon the turn which the selfdepreciation has taken. It's so physically wearying, to say the least. Before I learned a few bruising lessons, I sometimes used to transfer from reassurance to brisk suggestions as to how the various deficiencies might be summarily remedied, or, at least, alleviated. Always an activist, I saw what I thought was my clear duty, my clear assignment. Alas for my misguided efforts; people who are dedicated to running themselves down aren't about to be deprived of this doubtful pleasure. They don't want solutions; they want to wallow in the warm comfort of being avowedly inferior. It's a rather pleasant gambit for those who like it— at least they're spared having to put forth a positive effort to improve! A corollary to the whole problem is, I think, the terrible self-absorption in which these people are involved. They're so busy thinking about themselves and their shortcomings and their reactions and their inabilities that they never have the exhilaration of throwing themselves into "the furrow of the world's need." People who constantly minimize themselves really ought to give some serious thought to this area of the art of living. When the apocryphal Dutch boy was holding his finger in the dike, it's a sure thing he had bigger problems than whether he was as efficient as another boy, or whether his finger was as wellshaped! Personally, I'm for a minimum of self-minimization. 9

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O THIS is being a missionary! my thoughts exploded as I fiercely squirted insecticide. My three-year-old had awakened that morning with blotchy bites over her body. "Mosquitoes," I cried out, eying the unscreened windows. But a little later I discovered the servant crushing a mysterious something between her fingers as she made the children's beds. So I examined the mattresses and what my horrified eyes identified bounced me to the spray can, determined to attack and destroy. Bedbugs! When that job was done, I entered the kitchen. Kitchen? I would prefer never to enter that narrow, cupboardless room with an open drain. But because I serve fifty or so meals a month to visitors (travelers, missionaries, friends) as well as the daily nourishment for a family of six, well, I have to go in, even though there is only a packing-case top to work on. If I am ever tempted to be discontented or pine for the sparkling new kitchen 1 left in the homeland, I need only to glance out the window. (The union has voted recently to renovate the kitchen.) When I hung up the drapes that I had laundered the previous day, my daughter gasped, "They've shrunk!" I remembered I had been cautioned, "The available cloth usually shrinks." So now I shrugged nonchalantly. "They don't look too bad. Anyway, it won't be long till I have to wash them again. You know how the dirt from the street blows in. No sense getting excited about it." Bedbugs and Rats Only little things such as bedbugs could do that to me. Or the cockroaches, big ones, or maybe the rats that scuttle in; or perhaps the alley cats, half crazed with hunger, that slip in between the bars of the kitchen window to steal what food they can find. Nine o'clock. Time to teach my three school-age children and at the same time keep three-year-old Miss Busybody occupied. When I trained as a teacher little did I know that the Lord was preparing me one day to teach my own family in a strange land. Most days our school goes smoothly and we have fun, but sometimes—well, my brain is doing gymnastics as I go from measuring angles 10

By MARYE TRIM

with the seventh-grader to dictation with the third-grader, and then stop to help first-grader find the pencil to which Miss Three has helped herself. My husband works with the people, leading them to live and work for Jesus. Someday, maybe sooner than we realize, the cause of Christ in this country will be led by trained, national witnesses. So I feel that my minister-husband is doing the work of a real missionary. But what do I contribute? The thought is an active volcano in my mind—busy, busy, busy. Yet how infinitesimal my accomplishments against the task! Some branch Sabbath school teaching and Dorcas work; some literature given away and gospel songs sung; meals prepared, school taught, washing done—all in a day's work. But as I see the multitudes that daily pass along our street, I sadly

: "The husband in, the open missionary: field may receive, the honors of men, while the home toiler may receiVe no earthly credit for her labor. But if: she works for the best interest of her family, seeking to fashion their characters after the divine Model, the recording angel writes her name as one of the greatest missionaries in the: world.!'—Testiniony. Treasures, vol: 2,. p. 236

wonder just how much day is left. There are many items on our blessings account: travel, adventure, assurance of God's leading, and everyday blessings such as simple food and water when there is famine all about. (Our wheat, sugar, and rice are rationed. We cannot buy white flour.) There is also electricity that keeps the refrigerator going; the smile from a puny child when I give her a clean, crisp dress; a glimpse of green leaves. Truly, we are millionaires! On the footpath opposite live a snowy-haired man, his wizened wife, four children, their black dog with a tail like a question mark, and two dusty hens. Home to this family is a tiny crude shelter of sacking and plastic that leans against the wall of a wealthy man's house. The pavement and drain are their bathroom and kitchen. This is what I see from my kitchen window. The father, squatting on the street corner, sells homemade sweets and kites for a living. I have heard that he was a leper. Perhaps so. Lepers, blind and limbless, emaciated sufferers from tuberculosis are as plentiful as shells along our seashore. On the second corner from our mission compound lives a mentally disturbed woman in the middle of a traffic island, surrounded by her rags and rubbish. On the corner beyond her, red-eyed and raving, is a man my children call the "ek anna man" because he is always demanding ek anna ("one penny"). 0 for the shadow of the Man of Nazareth to fall on such as these! During school the door buzzer sounds frequently. That's all in a day's work. First comes Dorothy to select and practice a solo for the Sunday night evangelistic service. Her clear soprano voice wafts into the street as I play, "My heavenly Father watches over me." Abraham, our song leader and Sabbath school superintendent, hears the beautiful melody and comes in to listen. "Would you help me with some songs too?" he asks. "Sure," I smile. Just another phase of the program. I could not do it at all unless I knew that my plea at dawn was answered. (I hope that someone in the homeland is praying for missionary wives too.) I have discovered it is best not to expect to keep a rigid routine. Each REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

day and night is too different for that. Instead, I try to take each project in order of importance or urgency: write letter to mother, sew pajamas, grind wheat for bread, bake granola. But those bedbugs and lizards that share the apartment with us, and the perpetual squalor and ripe odor so close to our windows! Is this what goes with being a missionary? Why did no one tell us before we came? Why did not someone warn us that when it is not hot and humid, it is more humid and hotter? What about prickly heat? What about hookworm and other tropical diseases? What about living in an apartment building with no playground for our four children? Nobody told us. Family Togetherness But neither were we told that our family togetherness would grow and enrich because as a family we are envoys for the King of kings. Neither did we know that the children's faith would root deeply and strongly; nor that they would develop dependability as a result of their parents' being occupied with other people's needs. Sabbath afternoons the children run their own branch Sabbath school with a dozen children present. At church they learn to sit quietly while mother is at the organ and daddy is preaching. "I'm going to be a Sabbath school teacher when I grow up," declares our eight-year-old as she traces and cuts out children of the world to add to her collection of teaching aids. "I'd like to be a preacher best of all," affirms the boy. Miss Three chirps, "I want to be a missionary 'nurch.' " Cornflowerblue eyes roll in emphasis. It is the mission field that has opened their eyes and hearts to the need of dedication. It is night now—a purple-black tropical night studded with stars. Crowds of people still tread the street, but my children are sleeping. A beam of light from the rich man's house opposite lingers on their freshly scrubbed cheeks. Jenny, the eldest, smiles as she dreams of the dainty doll dress she sewed today—or perhaps she is dreaming of the boarding school a thousand miles away that she may attend next year. The other three, with teddy bears, are relaxed after story and prayers. Outside my window there are the wail of a naked child who sleeps on the pavement, the echo of a clanging prayer gong in a shrine, and the droning of prayers to Allah. Yes, there is much work to do—much work, while it is day. REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

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THE MACHINE Two features of our IS THE THING age tend to rob us of our humanity, and the male more than the female is susceptible to their influence. The first feature is, paradoxically, closeness. A hundred years ago on the farm, with houses a long trudge between, neighbors knew each other; neighborliness was a dimension of living rather than a definition of loss. In this day of population explosion (the specter of being squeezed to death is now sharing top billing with the fear of being blown apart), of vast urban complexes filled with too-close apartments with too-thin walls, our very proximity cultivates a remoteness, an impersonalized relationship divested of concern and devoid of compassion. The second feature is a subtle materialism based on science. Charles Lindbergh, once a worshiper in the shrine of science, draws the picture: "Living in rented apartments, jamming roads and subways, punching time clocks, sitting paunchily at desks, cramming the minds of his children with technical knowledge, modern man sacrifices health of body and freedom of spirit to the scientific idol of his time. On its altar go the smell of earth, the feel of wind and weather, vision of fields and rivers, warmth of friendship, understanding of children, even the contemplation of God; all these are given over to a metallic intellectual existence."

WOMEN IN THE NEWS

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Men should be particularly alert to these influences, for the male more than the female is susceptible to dehumanization. Psychologists and sociologists agree that the greatest single distinction between male and female lies in this: that woman's number one concern throughout her existence is with people and life, while man's chief preoccupation is with objects. "Understand this fact," writes Lester David, "and a lot of things start becoming very clear. It explains, for example, why you are entranced by the latest lawn-mowing gadget, while she throws it a cursory look and concentrates on her flowers. The machine is the thing, but the flowers live." In more than one sense, the machine is the thing. From the time a little boy first sees his father behind the wheel of a two-ton, two-tone, automatic-gadgeted, chromed-up sublimator, the machine is the thing. The point is not that interest in, and knowledge of, the workings of an internal combustion engine—or lawn mower or stereo or electric can opener— are undesirable, but rather that we must resist the subtle materialism and urbanization of our day. Awareness of our masculine tendency to give objects priority over beings is vital, for we are to cooperate with Christ in demonstrating Heaven's concern for even one human soul. The next time your wife suggests that you concern yourself with the spiritual barometer of a neighbor, concede to the gentle sex another trait worthy of emulation and cultivation—concern with people and life. Then put the lawn mower back together and try mending lonely hearts. It's the way of discipleship.

As a climax to the educational hour at the Gladstone, Oregon, camp meeting, the General Conference Educational Department awarded Miss Enid Sparks a bronze medallion struck especially for her in recognition of her more than 50 years of teaching. Veteran teacher of the Northwest, Miss Sparks retired at Longview, Washington, in her fiftieth year of teaching, because of a broken hip. However, within two years she was back in service, teaching first- and second-graders at Tillamook, Oregon, from her wheel chair. Miss Sparks is the fourth church school teacher in the denomination's 95-year history of church schools to merit the award. The award was featured on Portland television. More than a hundred former students gathered around her chair following the presentation. Her children's stories appeared from time to time in Our Little Friend, the REVIEW (Stories for the Younger Set), and secular magazines. C. B. Hirsch, secretary of the General Conference Department of Education (right), made the presentation, assisted by H. R. Nelson (left), secretary, Oregon Conference education department, and T. W. Walters (center), secretary, North Pacific Union education department. 11

Two Capable Nurses By LOIS C. RANDOLPH WHEN a mother takes care of two sick boys, that does not seem unusual. But when two strong sons take care of a sick mother for years, that is unusual. Two Colorado boys, whose parents were both Battle Creek nurses, had that privilege. Their wonderful mother suffered a stroke when Haskell was eight and Cecil eleven years old. When the father realized that mother could no longer act her part as the chief homemaker, he called his two sons together for a man-to-man conference. "Loving mother as we do, we want her at home with us so that we can take good care of her. Besides, we don't have the money needed to keep her in a hospital." Stunned, the boys asked, "You mean that mother can no longer cook, wash, iron, and clean the house?" "Boys, that's just what I mean. Let's be thankful it is her walking and not her speech that is affected." Haskell added, "How can Cecil and I care for mother when we have to go to school?" "That's the problem God will help us solve," replied father. "Perhaps you could take turns attending school, and study at home on the days when you care for mother." Father's courage filled the boys with hope. Soon father put on his coat and hat. "Where are you going?" the boys wanted to know. "I'll tell you when I get back." And dad was gone. An hour later their father returned, smiling as if he had just heard good news. "I have had a visit with your school principal. He is willing to cooperate. He assures me that the teachers will do the same. If you boys can attend school three days a week, he believes you can make your grade. For the two days a week you are absent, you can hand in written work. I'm glad you are good students." Four years they worked this plan. Each boy attended school three days a week and stayed home two days. On the day when they were both in school mother would either stay with one of the neighbors or someone would come in to care for her in the home. Under the loving care of her three "men" mother thrived. She could walk a little with help from one of them. Sometimes she could assist with some easy task, such as peeling potatoes or shelling peas. On Sunday the three washed, ironed, and cleaned the house thoroughly, singing as they worked. That was the only day besides Sabbath when father did not work as a salesman. The family had to have a steady income to meet expenses. Often daddy would say, "Who has more wonderful sons than 12

mother and I? Suppose we had had no children to help us out in this trouble." Willingly the teachers helped the boys with what they missed by their "regular" absences. Faithful in their assignments, they made good grades the entire four years on the alternate-day attendance plan. Cecil still recalls some of the amusing experiences in their housekeeping ventures. One clay when he had all his lessons prepared, he decided to surprise his father and brother with homemade bread for supper. "Mother, tell me what all goes into bread?" "Flour, yeast, water, salt, oil, and some sweetening—sugar, molasses, or honey," she told the new baker, and gave him the proper proportions of each. Cecil put them in, and kneaded the dough thoroughly. After two or three hours it had not doubled in size as he expected, but he decided that the bread would probably rise in the oven and be all right. Imagine his disappointment when he took out loaves as hard as rocks and no larger than they had been at first. Father asked, "Did you put in everything that mother mentioned? For instance, the yeast?" "That's my whole trouble. I forgot the yeast." "Never mind, son. We can cut up these hard loaves, toast the slices thor-

oughly, arid then grind them. We'll have something like granola. From Battle Creek I remember how that was made." After that Cecil made delicious bread each week—always with yeast. Haskell too learned by the trial-and-error method when he washed mother's red flannel petticoat with the white tablecloth until the latter had a color never seen before. Before long the boys' housekeeping was the marvel of the neighbors. How they admired the boys for helping their parents out in such a difficult situation. Once the church people decided to surprise Cecil on his birthday. Haskell had been sworn to secrecy. But the Sunday they were coming he had to work on a new job. Before leaving, he whispered, "I hate to tell you, but tonight there is to be a surprise party for you here. Maybe you will want to straighten up the house arid be ready. Act surprised anyway. You won't know who or how many are coming." At seven the young people of the church arrived, loaded with good things to eat. In order to appear as surprised as possible Cecil was still wearing his work clothes. Later in life, as foreman on the eightmile tunnel project near Loveland, Colorado, Haskell was rated an outstanding worker. Cecil, as my husband for thirty years, has lightened my burdens many times with his housekeeping skills.

Lamentations of a Church Hymnal By CLIFTON CAL.KINS I am a Church Hymnal and have been in service in a Seventh-day Adventist church for about live years. When I came here from the Book and Bible House I was attractive and felt that I could proudly represent the truth the church leaches. But you should see me now! My end sheets are cohered with the scribbling of children whose thoughtless parents have allowed them to use me for a paper rest. I have been dropped so many times that my corners are crushed. The book well in which I am kept is not padded, and my edges and (milers are worn through by my being dropped week alter week onto the hard bottom. Sereral lists of numbers hate been written on my end sheets by song leaders. Many of my page corners are turned back as bookmarks. The inside of my back cover has been spoiled by Scotch tape used to insert a loose-leaf poem. On several of my pages appear witty sayings of young people. I know I am a disgrace to the cause I represent. My only hope now is that someday my church will realize this and send me to a bindery where I can have my (ovens renewed, my end sheets replaced, my pages mended and cleaned. I hope that once again I can be a respectable hymnbook and assist in attracting people to the truth, rather than in driving them from it as I feel I am now doing. I would like to make some suggestions, which, if followed, will double my life and keep me attractive when I come back from the bindery. 1. Do not let small children handle me under any circumstances. 2. Be SUIT the bottoms of book wells into which I will be placed arc padded. 3. Never make a list of songs to be used in song service on my end sheets. 4. Never turn the leaves back to mark a hymn to be used later. 5. Do not paste a poem or song for a special meeting On my covers or fly leaves. 6. Do not mend torn pages with heavy Scotch tape. Use a proper light transparent tape made f o r that purpose. 7. Do not take your Chinch Hymnal out on singing bands. 8. Teach young people to respect the Chinch Hymnal so they will never maliciously write in it. 9. When you finish using a hymnal, place it in the book well right side tip with the title facing you.

REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

ADVENTIST YOUTHTODAY'S "THREE HEBREWS"

THOMAS DUNBEBIN, ARTIST

"We will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hest set up" (Dan. 3:18).

approximately 100 years has proclaimed a health message. It has set forth a positive program with the aim of helping its members enjoy optimum health. It has warned against the use of alcohol, tobacco, and stimulants. It has advocated a balanced program of rest and recreation. It has encouraged adoption of a nonflesh diet wherever a wide choice of wholesome food is available. This program has been a great blessing. Doubtless it has spared Adventists considerable disease and suffering. It also has contributed to a greater life expectancy. Increasingly these teachings have been vindicated by demonstration. Certainly this is true in the matter of smoking. Now supporting evidence is coming, to a certain extent, in the area of diet. At the turn of the century Ellen G. White wrote: "Animals are becoming more and more diseased, and it will not be long until animal food will be discarded by many besides Seventh-day Adventists. Foods that are healthful and life-sustaining are to be prepared, so that men and women will not need to eat meat."—Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 124. Again she wrote, "I am instructed to say that if ever meat eating were safe, it is not safe now."—Counsels on Diet and Foods, p. 384. Disease among animals prevails everywhere, and even if meat is inspected carefully, one can hardly be sure that he is purchasing the flesh of healthy animals. "The animal creation is diseased, and it is difficult to determine the amount of disease in the human family that is the result of meat eating. We read constantly in the daily papers about the inspection of meat. Butcher shops are continually being cleaned out; the meat being sold is condemned as unfit for use."—Ibid., p. 413. Sounds Up to Date

"EAT . . . TO THE GLORY OF GOD" Seventh-day Adventists believe that Christianity is not merely a philosophy; it is a way of lite. The teachings of Christ are relevant not merely on the Sabbath but on every day of the week. They are not merely to guide the Christian in making moral judgments, but are to influence all his relationships with both God and man. They even help him decide what he shall eat and drink. Relationship of Mind and Body This broad concept is rooted in a holistic philosophy of man. The Christian is not merely a mind, he is a body. The teachings of the gospel are to affect not merely the mind but also the body. The body and the mind are so closely interrelated that the interests of the two are essentially one. What affects the mind affects the body, and vice versa. This all-embracing, demanding concept of the Christian life is well set forth by the apostle Paul when he says, "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Cor. 6:19, 20). "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (chap. 10:31). In line with this philosophy the Adventist Church for REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

The latter statement was written seventy years ago, yet it sounds as up to date as today's newspapers and magazines. The December 4, 1967, issue of Newsweek contained the following report: "Some of the dirtiest stories in government files concern the nation's approximately 15,000 intrastate meat plants. Federal inspection reports reek with tales of filthy premises, unclean equipment and worse. In Brooklyn, an inspector found wooden debris in the salted meat of a kosher processor. In Georgia, workers in a fly-ridden plant were slicing pork bellies on meat blocks encrusted with blackish-green mold and accretions of ancient blood. In Omaha, a processor was curing pork jowls in tubs tainted with half-inch corrosion before sending the food to market in packages labeled: `Sausage products with that old world taste.' In the annals of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, tales like this have been commonplace for years." A staff writer, in the Washington Evening Star of August 15, 1967, documented atrocious conditions in a number of slaughterhouses and meat-packing plants in Maryland, Virginia, and other States. One inspector found "employes smoking cigarettes while working directly over exposed products . . . observed cigarette ashes fall into meat going into grinder." One government inspector "observed two beef livers that had small abscesses on them, also one abscessed and one parasitic pork liver." This was in a Virginia meat plant. A report on a Colorado meat-packing firm said: "Meat was being broken on an open dock by a dirt road in 95 13

degree weather. There were flies on the meat and there was no attempt to keep flies out of the plant. Drums of bone and meat scrap were covered with maggots. I picked up a used meat box and a large cockroach flew right into my face." Protests and denials have come from some States, charging that reports are false and have been fabricated. But in the main, inspectors' testimony seems well documented. The November 20, 1967, National Observer reported on testimony furnished to Capitol Hill legislators working on a meat inspection law. Among the items reported: "Garbage from a California tuberculosis sanitarium being sold as feed to pigs. A North Carolina packing house where workers told of 'snuff spit on the floor, sausage meat fallen on the same floor, which was then picked up and shoved into the stuffier.' Packing houses in an unnamed state, which were 'covered with mire, grease, and rotting meat. Rats, roaches, and flies abounded. Filth, vermin, and even parts of rats became part of products to be consumed by human beings.' " According to the news report, "A Senate Agriculture subcommittee learned that these examples were not extreme and isolated excesses, but part of a broad evidence of a lack of strong regulations, neglect of enforcement of existing regulations, and general abuse of meat-inspection laws." Minnesota Senator Walter F. Mondale "warned that the housewife cannot be sure of buying clean meat even when she shops at major supermarket chains." Not Just Filthy Conditions Filthy conditions of this kind are only part of the hazard faced by meat buyers. Less than three years ago a meat producer in New York precipitated a scandal when it was discovered that "meat found in the company's plant . . . came from crippled and diseased cattle, from horses, and from cattle that had died instead of being slaughtered." The company was indicted on charges of conspiring to use more than 120 tons of meat unfit for human consumption in sausages, frankfurters, and salamis. The same Chicago newspaper that reported the New York scandal carried a story headlined, "Illegal Meat Confiscated by Oak Park Authorities." The meat found in a butcher shop of this Chicago suburb contained sodium sulphite, an illegal preservative known as "dynamite" in the meat industry. Sulphite, according to the chemists investigating the scandal, "is used to give the meat an attractive red color and to eliminate odors of decomposition." The Associated Press reported a case in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where, during a five-and-a-half-year period, two meat firms had conspired to "unlawfully acquire, process and transport in uninspected vehicles meat carcasses, or meat products of animals which had died of natural or unnatural causes, including disease." Inspection Laws Conditions of this kind aroused such public indignation that during its recent session Congress passed a meat inspection bill. On December 15, 1967, President Johnson signed the bill saying that he hoped it would force dirty packing houses to "clean up or close down." Whether this bill will accomplish its purpose is problematical, even doubtful. Twenty-nine States already have meat inspection statutes, but some of the worst violations have been found in these States. Eight States have no meat inspection laws, and another 11 have only voluntary meat inspection regulations. We have already pointed out that even if animals are healthy when they are slaughtered, even if meat-packing 14

processes are sanitary, the consumer cannot be sure that the meat he buys is fresh. Why? During recent hearings, Ralph Nader, self-appointed advocate of the consumer, pointed out, "Seasoning agents, preservatives, coverup doses of antibiotics and coloring agents are put to work as profound cosmetics that effectively mask the true condition of the products. The meanest deception of all is thereby achieved—that of rendering inoperable the natural detection processes of human beings: seeing, smelling, and tasting." At the beginning of this editorial we pointed out that "health reform" is a blessing. It has been given for our benefit, that we may enjoy better health and thus return glory to God. Surely the testimony that we have presented from current news media provides massive support for Sister White's warnings about the dangers of including flesh foods as a part of one's diet. But let us remember that Sister White's indictment of meat is based not merely on the fact that flesh food may be diseased or unsanitary. It is grounded in the fact that "flesh foods are injurious to the physical well-being" (Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 156). This phase we shall examine next week. K. 11-1. W.

THE BOOK OF ECCLESIASTES AND THE CANON A reader inquires, Why is the book of Ecclesiastes included in the canon of Scripture? He feels that the statements in the book sound more like the thoughts of a worldling than those of a Christian. He mentions a certain minister expressing similar perplexity. We are sure others share the perplexity of our reader. The writer of Ecclesiastes expresses a mood throughout much of the book that appears altogether too pessimistic. At least we have been led to believe that a much happier mood is expected of a devoted follower of the true God. Listen to his cynicism: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity" (Eccl. 1:2). "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit" (verse 14). "Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit" (chap. 2:17). "The day of death [is better] than the day of one's birth" (chap. 7:1). "My soul seeketh, but I find not: one man among a thousand have I found; but a woman among all those have I not found" (verse 28). What are we to make out of these sentiments? Are they recorded for our guidance? Are the negative attitudes and cynicisms so prevalent in the book set down as a pattern for the Christian to emulate? We think not. Why, then, are they included in the inspired revelations of God to men? The secret unlocking our problem is in the following statement: "By the spirit of inspiration the king recorded for after generations the history of his wasted years with their lessons of warning."—Prophets and Kings, p. 79. Notice the phrase "history of his wasted years." This history is what we have in the book of Ecclesiastes. The book is a record of Solomon's attempt to find happiness apart from God. But whatever he attempted turned to frustration. "I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity" (chap. 2:1). "I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine . . . ; and to lay hold on folly" (verse 3). "I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:... I gathered . • . silver and gold. REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

. . . Whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them. . . . Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun" (verses 4-11). While reviewing the history of his wasted life, Solomon shared with us his thoughts during the periods of his apostasy and his adjustment. His perverted philosophies, therefore, while he was separated from God, are portrayed in the book. But they must not be regarded as divine guidance for us; they must be regarded as patterns of thought to be shunned. They stand as a warning to all who would pursue a similar course. "The king ... wrote out for the benefit of after generations a record of his folly and repentance"—Ibid., p. 85. But along with the record of his folly Solomon recorded also "lessons of warning." These he interspersed throughout the book. Admittedly because of this mixture, it becomes difficult at times to know where the records of fallacious thinking and unseemly acting end, and where the warnings and counsels begin. It is obviously this intermingling that perplexes our reader. We sympathize with him, but believe that when the nature of the book is understood and its purpose is discerned it rightly de-

SABBATH WORK

EDITORS: Re the editorial on the problem of working in hospitals on Sabbath: Many Seventh-day Adventists are working in non-Adventist hospitals, and all feel they are doing a good work. In the book The Desire of Ages, page 207, we read: "The law forbids secular labor on the rest day of the Lord; the toil that gains a livelihood must cease; no labor for worldly pleasure or profit is lawful upon that clay; but as God ceased His labor of creating, and rested upon the Sabbath and blessed it, so man is to leave the occupations of his daily life, and devote those sacred hours to healthful rest, to worship, and to holy deeds. The work of Christ in healing the sick was in perfect accord with the law. It honored the Sabbath." Christ did not do this for a livelihood, or profit. I have talked with many of our people about this. Many of them have never asked for Sabbath privileges, yet others asked for the Sabbath, from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday, and it was granted. I feel our leaders should make some definite recommendation and urge our people not to work Sabbath unless there is an emergency. MARGIE STEWART Rye, New York BIBLE TRANSLATION

EDITORS: The editorial "Bible Translation Methods Examined" (November 30 REVIEW) states principles that every Bible teacher ought to know, particularly now when there are so many new translations. I especially appreciated it because for several weeks I have been presenting a verse-by-verse study REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

serves a place alongside the other books that constitute the Old Testament canon. The lessons are precisely those that modern materialistic-minded man needs. In his mad search for happiness in the accumulation of wealth, comforts, and security he will be no nearer achieving the desired goal than was Solomon some three millenniums ago. Our reader cautions against using texts from Ecclesiastes to prove points of doctrine. His caution is well placed. Certainly we should not quote as the utterances of God those sections in which Solomon sets forth his perverted philosophies. This is an obvious principle that applies to all Scripture, for in the Bible we have recorded not only the messages of God's spokesmen, but those of false prophets, apostate kings, and even the devil himself. There is not the slightest implication that these messages should be heeded simply because God saw fit to include them in the Sacred Canon. Our reader's observation that parts of the book of Job are similar to Ecclesiastes is well taken. We need to be careful lest we quote as messages and counsels from God citations from the friends of Job of which God did not approve, for God was not pleased with much of what these comforters said. D. F. N.

of the Epistles of Peter in the church here and use the N.E.B. along with the K.J.V. It was a timely reminder to have a care in the use of the various versions. In one of my studies there was a particular example of dynamic equivalence in 2 Peter 3:3, where the K.J.V. has "walking after their own lusts" and the N.E.B. has "live self-indulgent lives." Another example that appeals to me is in Romans 1:17 where the K.J.V. has "the righteousness of God" and the N.E.B. has "God's way of righting wrong." I notice that J. B. Phillips in his book The Ring of Truth, A Translator's Testimony, says that "any man who has sense as well as faith is bound to conclude that it is the truths which are inspired and not the words which are merely the vehicles of truth."—Page 15. The context of this passage needs to be read but the soundness of his observation seems to be justified by the dynamic equivalences I have quoted above. R. BOLTON Bath, England WILL POWER AND GOD'S POWER

EDITORS: The article "Will Power" (January 11 REviEw) brought to my mind the illustration of a portable radio. The portable radio starts out its useful life with charged batteries ready to give good performance. It may render good performance for many hours, then it begins to tire of doing well and begins to weaken. It keeps weakening until it fades away and finally stops altogether. You may recharge the batteries and it will run again on this power for a while, but it will again tire of doing good, and stop. Try as you may you cannot make it play any more. If you plug is into the electric power it will go beautifully again as long as it is connected with the source of power, but if you unplug it from this power it will not perform at all. Isn't that very much like our Christian experience? When we accept Christ and are baptized we are just beginning our Christian life of usefulness. Our battery (or will

power) is well charged and ready to give a good performance of Christian living and witnessing. But too many of us have our batteries charged merely with enthusiasm and we forget the real Source of our strength. We do well on our own power, but before long we begin to tire of well doing and fall back more and more in our Christian performance. We may attend a good revival meeting which will charge our batteries again, and we go off to do well as before, but finally run down, some completely losing faith and dropping out of the church and away from God. Others wait for another revival to charge up their batteries again. But, thank the Lord, we may learn early in our Christian life that our power, our own power, is not enough to keep us going. We must plug into the true Source of power. Once we give up trying to go ahead on our own, and slow up long enough to be sure we are plugged into the true Source of everlasting power, take time to study the Word of power, take time to talk with that true power, God, through prayer, then will we have a successful Christian experience and one day come into "face to face" contact with that true Source of power. 0 what a wonderful day that will be! MARILYN HOBART North Jay, Maine PRAYER WHEELS

EDITORS: The editorial "Prayer Wheels for Missionaries" (November 30 REVIEW) impressed me deeply because I am the mother of a missionary and an aunt to another. Every time I hear the sentence, "Lord, bless our missionaries and workers all over the world," during a prayer, even though I know it is meant sincerely, I always wish specific needs, problems, and missionaries would be mentioned. I am sure the missionaries would be greatly strengthened, as well as the work, if they knew that at least their home churches and colleges were praying for them. CORA LYNN MILLER Junction City, Oregon 15

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Governor's Son Faces Hardship After Baptism By ANASTACIO B. GAYAO Dean of Students Mountain View College, Philippines

The Honorable Omar Giouda, minister of health for Libya, speaks at the dedication services of the new Benghazi Adventist Hospital, which has 42,000 square feet of floor space.

Official Opens Eibyan Hospital President Middle East Division

By F. C. WEBSTER,

Early this year a modern new Adventist hospital in Benghazi, Libya, was dedicated—as the cornerstone inscription reads—"to the glory of God and the service of humanity." About six years ago plans began to be formulated that led to the dedication on January 17 of this new and modern 60bed medical facility at the perimeter of the fast-growing city of Benghazi. Present to participate in the dedication ceremonies were high government officials, military personnel and regional leaders, members of the diplomatic and consular staff of various nations, and a host of friends and well-wishers. Chief among the dignitaries and principal speaker was Omar Giouda, minister of health. He came as a special representative of His Majesty King Idris I, beloved ruler of Libya. Representing the General Conference were F. L. Bland, vice-president, and A. E. Gibb, associate secretary. A sizable group of the Middle East Division personnel were also present. Dr. D. C. Ludington, medical director, and Cleo V. Johnson, business manager, and the hospital staff had carefully planned all details of the opening ceremonies, which were executed with a Christian dignity and warmth of which the Adventist family around the world can be justly proud. Those who attended could not fail to recognize the high place that our hospital holds in the hearts of the Libyan people and of the foreign residents of the country. An indication of that feeling was the surprise announcement made by the minister of health during his address, that he brought with him as a gift from His Majesty King Idris I a personal check for £10,000 (U.S. $28,000) for hospital development. Plans and design for this new hospital 16

and arrangements for construction were the work of Roger Wilcox and Vincent Fenn, the previous administrators of the Middle East Division. These men, together with hospital leadership, also worked out arrangements for a group of petroleum companies operating in Libya to bear much of the cost of construction. This hospital is modern in design and functionally efficient in the application of the up-to-date equipment that has been installed. These tools for healing in the hands of a consecrated and welltrained staff make certain to the people of Libya the excellence for which Adventist hospitals around the world have become famous. Since its establishment in 1956 many have cooperated in the operation and development of this institution. Dr. Roy S. Cornell was the first medical director, then came Dr. Jay P. Munsy and Dr. William Wagner, and today Dr. D. C. Ludington, a third-generation missionary, serves the institution. The Benghazi Adventist Hospital was opened as the pioneer Adventist endeavor in the North African country of Libya. To accommodate that new endeavor a hotel building, centrally located in the city, was secured. Though the building served well during the pioneer stages, the facilities were poorly adapted to efficient hospital operation. The total value of the new hospital is £500,000 (U.S. $1.4 million). It contains 42,000 square feet of floor space and onehalf mile of hallways. The building has the latest in equipment, and the hospital personnel assures the high professional services of a modern hospital. Dr. Ludington, C. M. Johnson, business manager, and their staff of 105 dedicated doctors, nurses, and technicians are committed to bring health through loving service to the Libyan people.

Much Bible study and a hard struggle took place before Fidel Damasco, his wife, and five children decided to be baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist faith. And their troubles are not over. Fidel is the eldest son of Lope Damasco, who for three terms was governor of Bukidnon in the Philippines, where Mountain View College is situated. In 1950 Dr. Andrew Nelson was working to acquire the site where the college now stands and spent a night in the governor's home. This was Fidel's first contact with Seventh-day Adventists. A close friendship developed between Dr. Nelson and the governor, but the family remained indifferent to the faith. Their satisfaction with their present religion and the influence of associates were strong deterrents to their interest in Adventism. The next contact Fidel's family had with the Adventists was through Pastor Praxedes Ramos and his team of ministerial students from Mountain View College, who conducted an evangelistic campaign in 1964 in Malaybalay, where Fidel lived. His children attended the meetings and took the Voice of Prophecy Bible course, but Fidel and his wife remained uninterested. However, they did listen to some of the Bible studies that were given to their children. After the evangelistic meetings the family moved to the farm and eventually lost contact with the Adventists, but the Lord did not abandon them. Two years later Mariano Abesta, ranch supervisor of Mountain View College, with some ministerial students contacted Fidel. Mr. Abesta was delighted when Fidel said, "I would like you to give Bible studies to my family and me. I want you to give them to us because you are elderly. You do not argue or enter into controversy." The studies were begun at once by Mr. Abesta, and the family accepted every message and made the necessary changes in their lives. Fidel stopped keeping company with his liquor-drinking friends, refrained from Sabbath work, and abandoned his smoking habit. Eventually he requested to be baptized with his family. This news stirred his father and other government officials to action. As an allurement they visited Fidel with extremely attractive job offers. He could be the principal of either one of two schools near his home. Another position was made available in the provincial engineering department at a good salary. These offers were tempting, especially since he needed money to support his ten children, seven of whom were in school. However, his decision to follow Christ was firm. He said, "I would rather stay on the farm and be a good Seventh-day Adventist Christian than to accept a job that will take me back to my old companions and expose me to trials and REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

temptations while I am still young in the faith." On September 2, 1967, Fidel and his family accepted Jesus fully and were baptized at Mountain View College. His father and other members of the family called him for a conference. He was told that the small lot of land where he was to build a home for renting as a source of extra income was already sold. Now he must remove his house from the land. This was a shock to the newly baptized family, for this was an indication that they were being disowned by the father. It posed another serious problem —there were renters in the house. Where could he move them to? The property was providing the cash to keep his children in school, so they dropped out and joined their parents on the farm. But even the farm could be taken from them, because it belonged to the senior Damasco family. The two older girls have now applied for work at Mountain View College, where they hope to complete their studies and be of service to God's cause. In some ways Fidel and his family are in a state of uncertainty as to the future, but in God's hands they are secure, for Christ the Sun of Righteousness is their guide, protector, and provider.

New Veracruz Church a Memorial to Early Mexican Book Work By CHARLES R. TAYLOR Departmental Secretary Inter-American Division

A beautiful church full of happy people will be one of the surprises awaiting Victoriano Calvo when in the earth made new he will discover how the gospel seed he had sown bore fruit after his death. On January 6, 1968, while 400 people gathered to inaugurate a $25,000 church three blocks from the waterfront in Veracruz, Mexico, Mr. Calvo was resting in a hillside grave 80 miles away. The joy Victoriano felt when he ac-

cepted Christ almost a half century ago was clouded when the publishing secretary of the Seventh-day Adventist church urged him to become a literature evangel. ist. He could not see himself selling books from door to door! But he found mental peace, as had William Miller almost a hundred years before, by asking God for a sign he considered impossible of fulfillment. If God sent him someone to buy his barber's chair and other equipment he would become a colporteur! With a sigh of relief he went about his work. To his surprise, in less than 24 hours two men came to his door offering to buy his business for cash, and soon he found himself not only a colporteur but the leader of a team of four literature evangelists in the port of Veracruz. When one of them took sick one day, Victoriano went to the market place to buy an earthen jar in which to mix the medicine. There he found the woman in the pottery stall so absorbed in reading a book that she did not notice him. When he saw that the book she was reading was the Bible, his barber's instinct for drawing people into conversation came into play. Tapping on an earthen jar, he asked, "Lady, aren't you going to wait on your customers? What's that you're reading?" Arising slowly, she answered, "It's the Bible." "That's a bad book, isn't it?" he suggested. "Oh, no, this is the Word of God." "Well," he continued, "I have a copy of the Holy Scriptures, but it doesn't look like that." "There are many versions," she replied, "but their truth is the same." "I'm sure your Bible doesn't say the same as mine. Here, read me from the book of Exodus, chapter 20, verses 8 to 11 ." And so began the opening of her eyes to the contents of a book she already loved. Mrs. Aguilar, of the pottery stall, became the first member of the Veracruz SDA church. When her son returned from military service he found that his mother belonged to a church he had never heard of.

Sabino Aguilar, now an old man, stood with other veteran members when the Veracruz church building was dedicated the first Sabbath of 1968. From all corners of the Mexican Union 175 ministers, leaders of the 36,000 baptized Mexican Adventists, were also present to share the beautiful monument God has given Victoriano Calvo instead of his barber chair.

Prisoners Converted by Venezuelan Laymen By ALFREDO GAONA BELTRAN Departmental Secretary West Venezuelan Mission

Two dynamic lay workers from Barquisimeto, Venezuela, Facundo Ardila and Jose Arrieche, recently took the initiative to visit the San Felipe penitentiary to present the good news of the gospel. Using the My Bible Says plan, they enrolled more than 60, among whom were some of the employees and guards also. Already a great transformation is seen in the lives of some of the men. Sabbath after Sabbath the laymen held meetings, and after a few weeks of Bible studies more than a dozen persons received their diplomas. The enthusiasm and interest grew more and more; so did the admiration and gratitude of the prison directors. The Holy Spirit softened the harsh character of five prisoners, and they manifested a desire to give their hearts to Jesus Christ and become members of the true church. On Sabbath, December 2, one of these prisoners who obtained his freedom was baptized. The next Sabbath the other four, who must still remain behind bars, were given permission to leave the prison and be baptized in an improvised pool. When Victor Urbina spoke before the service of the power of the gospel to transform, the assistant director of the prison, who witnessed the baptism, said: 'This is the truth! Those men were impossible, but for the past few months they have been model prisoners."

Only standing room was available at the inauguration ceremonies of the new Veracruz, Mexico, church—a monument to Victoriano Calvo. REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

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BIG LITTLE MISSIONARY PERIODICAL. Generally the denomination's missionary periodicals are edited at the publishing houses where they are printed. However, Israelite, a small but growing missionary periodical designed to bring the message of Jesus the Messiah and His second coming to the Jewish people, is edited in the offices of the General Conference. R. L. Odom, editor, writer, and evangelist of long experience, has the responsibility for this periodical. A Jewish professor of a Hebrew school in Paris said about Israelite: "You are the only Christians who could establish a fruitful contact with Judaism. I wish to have all the information and documents available in order to talk about your faith with my colleagues." Israelite, in part, responds to the counsel urging that "special efforts be made for the enlightenment of the Jews." GENERAL CONFERENCE WORSHIP. Every working day at eight o'clock, before staff members take up their activities, they gather in the General Conference chapel for worship, usually under the guidance of personnel director C. D. Forshee. At this time they pray for those who have made special requests and for the church in the world field, particularly for those areas where our people are under extraordinary distress. At these worship periods the staff has opportunity to hear messages and reports from visiting speakers or from fellow staff members who have returned from extensive itineraries. These worship periods are high points to the staff. In recent weeks inspirational messages and reports have been given by W. M. Starks, A. A. Esteb, E. L. Minchin, Theodore Carcich, A. E. Gibb, and D. W. Holbrook. STAFF MEMBERS. Three new members have joined the General Conference staff. Paul M. DeBooy, formerly Missionary Volunteer leader in the Central Union, has joined the Missionary Volunteer Department as an associate secretary. P. G. Smith has come from the Ohio Conference to become associate secretary in the Stewardship and Development Department. R. M. Reinhard, who for the past ten years has been treasurer and auditor of the Trans-Africa Division, has accepted the call to be an associate auditor. To these men and their families the Gen18

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eral Conference staff extends arms of fellowship and welcome. 1968 YEARBOOK. As I prepare these notes for Dateline, statistical secretary J. 0. Gibson has brought to our desks the new 704-page, blue-bound Yearbook for 1968. This volume furnishes us with important information about the church: the General Conference, its departments, services, corporations, legal associations, and world divisions; the union and local conferences; missions; educational institutions; hospitals; sanitariums; publishing houses; food factories; old people's homes; and orphanages. It gives us the names and addresses of some 28,210 denominational workers (not including licensed missionary workers, though some of these workers are listed under their respective organizations). The Yearbook also catalogs the many periodicals published by Seventh-day Adventists in numerous languages of earth; it provides a copy of the General Conference constitution and bylaws; it gives the church calendar and special days for 1968 and 1969; it states briefly the fundamental beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists; and closes with a general index to organization. VISITING BRETHREN. During the early weeks of 1968 people from several countries visited church headquarters— Australia: Dr. Eric Magnusson and the the Clapham family from Avondale College, Cooranbong, and Pastor and Mrs. Bill Otto from Queensland; Costa Rica: Martha Argueta and the Misael Mastrapa family from Colegio Vocacional de America Central, Alajuela; England: John Fortune from Birmingham; Uganda: Rebecca W. Kigiri and Seth Lubega from Kampala. MISSIONARY VOLUNTEER WEEK. Plans and preparation for Missionary Volunteer Week program series, "Steps to Christ," were made by our Missionary Volunteer Department leaders months ago. A new feature this year is the prayer list (Review, February 29). In united purpose the Missionary Volunteers around the globe will pray each day for their fellow youth in one or two of the world divisions. The MV Department has a conviction that, coupled with prayer, there should be a mighty evangelistic program to keep our youth occupied in the work of God.

The old walls of the Vatican library in Rome keep many a treasure—among them the famous Codex Vaticanus, a manuscript of the Bible written in Greek, which dates from the fourth century A.D. It now houses a new "treasure," the Adventist collection of Las Bellas Historias de la Biblia ("The Beautiful Stories of the Bible") in ten volumes. As far as we know, these are the first Adventist books to be placed there. Dr. Gianfranco Rossi, director of public relations of the Italian Union, Andres H. Riffel, director of lay activities of the Inter-American Division, and I took this set, published by the Pacific Press, to the Vatican. The president of the library, Monsignor Raes, was attentive and friendly. We talked with him in German, one of the seven languages he has mastered. On receiving the books, he praised them generously, and wrote in the prospectus the following testimony, which he signed and sealed: "Many thanks for the generous gift of the ten volumes of the Stories of the Bible. I sincerely wish you the good fortune of a large distribution of this appreciated work."

Missionary Directs Help to Borneo Villagers By D. A. ROTH Assistant Secretary Far Eastern Division The combined efforts of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and the helicopter crews of the Royal Air Force of Great Britain recently prevented death by starvation in two isolated villages in Borneo. The twin kampongs of Ibol and Mu-

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ding are eight hours by motorboat from Borneo's coastline city of Kuching, Sarawak. The only way supplies can be brought into this interior area is by boat. Lack of rain over a period of weeks dried up the river and made it impossible for any supplies to be brought to the villages. As the days went on, the supply of rice and other food dwindled to almost nothing. Soon some were starving to death. When the situation became desperate, a message was sent by foot courier to an Adventist village that had radio contact with Richard Hall, president of the Sarawak Mission, in Kuching. When he heard the plight of the people in these areas he went into action. Soon bags of rice and other food stacked up at the airport. Pastor Hall discovered that the heavy bags were too much for his Cessna 180 to handle in an emergency situation, so he appealed to friends in the Royal Air Force. The helicopter crews agreed to take the food to the villages as part of a training exercise. Soon four of the big craft winged their way to the interior and within 30 minutes they settled down in a clearing close to one of the villages. The residents of the villages looked on with awe as they saw the helicopers land. When they saw the rice and wheat they shouted and leaped for joy.

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Two Schools Benefit Frortr Overflow The Assam Training School extension is now well on its way and can soon be finished because of the large Sabbath school offering overflow last September. Also, Kellogg.Mookerjee High School in East Pakistan has its new location chosen and purchased and can now= start its building program. Both Mete htstitotion4still then be better equipped to accomplish their purpose. The bulletin board in the office of the Southern Asia Dirhiou expresses our appreciation for this offering, of friendship. At the bulletin board arc W. F. Storz, secretary,. and. Mist _Gloria Thomas, assistant, Sabbath sr.hotd .13epartatent,-.,-Southcru • Vivhdou. F.. STOW.

Wales Launches VBS Program Under the leadership of ministerial intern Stuart Ware, the first Vacation Bible School in Wales was held late in December in the home of a member in Barry. Eight non-Adventist children attended the first day. Within a few days the eight had increased to 18, and these remained to the close. Twelve of the 18 came to the regular Sabbath school, and six of the older children asked to stay for the divine worship. This VBS followed the recent visit of G. R. Nash, of the General Conference Sabbath School Department, who awakened a decided interest in Vacation Bible Schools in the British Union. Encouraged by this start in Barry, the Welsh Mission is making plans for a number of Vacation Bible Schools next summer. KENNETH H. GAMMON British Union S.S. Secretary

not an easy one, for Finland was then under the rule of Czarist Russia. During the fateful years of World War I, after which Finland emerged as an independent republic. Mr. Hoglund guided his small but courageous group of light bearers to ever-increasing victories. After 21 years of devoted service, Mr. Hoglund retired from his position as publishing secretary of Finland, but he did not cease working as a literature evangelist. During the subsequent 21 sustentation years he averaged 1,716 working hours a year. When GC president Robert H. Pierson visited Finland Publishing House and

Pioneer Literature Evangelist of Finland Worked 52 Years Otto Hoglund, pioneer literature evangelist and publishing secretary in Finland, died recently a few weeks short of his ninetieth birthday. He had been in the literature work since shortly after his baptism in 1902. In 1912 Mr. Hoglund was called to be union publishing secretary. The task was REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

Elder Pierson greets veteran Otto Hoglund.

the adjacent denominational old people's home in December, 1966, he met Mr. Hoglund and paid tribute to his service to the cause. Mr. HOglund leaves the younger generation an example of faithful devotion, heroic perseverance, and active faith in the Saviour, whose second advent he was called to proclaim. AAREN UNHOLA, Manager Finland Publishing House Spirit of Prophecy Speaker Visits Philippine Institutions During his visit to the Far East, D. A. Delafield, of the White Estate, Washington, D.C., conducted a series of Spirit of Prophecy lectures at Mountain View College, Malaybalay, Bukidnon, and at Philippine Union College in Manila. He also had speaking engagements at sanitariums, publishing houses, and academies. Elder Delafield's sermons, counsel, and instruction on the gift of prophecy, given at special meetings and rallies, buoyed up the courage of the people and established more firmly their faith and confidence that "we have nothing to fear for the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and His teaching in our past F. M. ARROGANTE history." Departmental Secretary Central Philippine Union Mission 19

INTERNATIONAL NEWS Rallies and Displays in Britain Lead Way in Literature Growth Twenty-one publishing rallies were held in Great Britain during the last three months of 1967, according to John Arthur, publishing secretary for the British Union Conference. Classes were conducted at Swansea, Belfast, and Glasgow; the work of literature bands has been consolidated; members have become acquainted with the wide range of literature produced by the Stanborough Press through mobile displays in the churches; and many new members have launched out in a house-to-house pro-

gram to find 21,500 regular readers of Our Times. The publishing department aims to increase this to 50,000 for the March, 1968, issue, when they will launch a missions extension campaign to raise funds for a new school dormitory at Yele Secondary School, West Africa, and a new mission station in Ethiopia. In one field, the North England Conference, auxiliary literature evangelists doubled their sales during the first ten months of 1967, compared with the same period in 1966. They sold £4,510 ($10,800) worth of literature. VICTOR H. COOPER Secretary, British Union

The King's Busine s By W. P. BRADLEY THE CHURCH It happens that I beBOARD long to a rather large church; in fact, it is one of our denomination's largest. When the local church approaches or passes a membership of 3,000, it must have careful, even expert, leadership and a good organization. Aside from the spiritual forces at work in a church, there is hardly any factor that can give strength like good organization. And these two strengths, the spiritual and the organizational, are not opposed to each other. Happy the situations where they are blended in balanced measure, to the blessing of the members, to the credit of the leaders, and to the glory of God. New church officers, and even old ones, ought to become well acquainted with the references to the work of the church board in the Church Manual. If one summarizes this material it comes out something like this: Board Members: Elder(s), head deacon and deaconess, clerk, treasurer, lay activities leader, lay activities secretary, Sabbath school superintendent, Dorcas Welfare Society leader, MV leader, press relations secretary, and such other members as the church may elect at the annual elections. Chairman: The pastor. If he prefers not to serve as chairman, he arranges for an elder to preside. Meetings: Monthly, at least. Best to have them at a regular time, for example, the first Tuesday night of each month. Special meetings are called as needed. Quorum: The minimum number of board members authorized to do business should be specified by the church in a business meeting. Business: All details of church business are appropriate. The board co-ordinates the work of all church departments. Any department planning a special activity should seek counsel of the church board 20

so as to secure the cooperation of others involved. The board may appoint subcommittees to work on specific projects such as building, decorating, organ, et cetera. All committees report to the board. The treasurer reports monthly on church finance; other officers report regarding their responsibilities. The state of the church roll is studied. Requests for church letters and requests for admission to the church are considered, and recommendation made to the church. Inquiry may be made into the spiritual standing of any member and appropriate action recommended. Plans should be set in motion to help the sick, the discouraged, the backslidden. The board should be interested always in enlisting all members in active missionary service. Especially at times when evangelistic meetings are being held in the church or in the vicinity, the board steps up plans to enlist the cooperation of all. Restrictions: The church board cannot receive or dismiss members or grant letters of transfer; it can only make recommendations to the church. New members: Candidates for baptism should be examined publicly before the church, the church board, or a special committee appointed for that purpose. The board should plan for the welcoming of new members and bringing them into active participation of the church's activities. To summarize the church board's work: "The church board functions as the governing committee for the church, dealing with all questions of activities and business matters that normally face a church. It should be recognized, however, that many of its actions will be recommendatory."—Church Manual, p. 128. (Next: Special to Delegates.)

SOUTH INDIA UNION D. P. THOMAS, of Koilpatty, reports that 16 persons have been baptized as a result of his work in Meenachipuram. He expects that the whole village will turn to worship Christ. Twenty-three were baptized during the first 11 months of 1967; more than that number may soon follow. SINCE moving to Mayavaram last May, N. Y. Ponniah has baptized 17 people. One of these was a young man who was on his deathbed. One of our laymen, Mr. Abraham, prayed for him and the boy was wonderfully restored and became one of the first fruits of their work there. Three more were baptized at Santhankudi, making a total of 20. AT THE beginning of 1967, A. Dason, working with his lay-preacher father, Y. Asirvatham, and the church members set a goal to win 50 converts before the end of the year. When on September 17 eight persons were baptized by Pastor D. Gnanasundram on behalf of Mr. Dason, he reached his goal. D. R. WATTS, Correspondent SOUTH CHINA ISLAND UNION SEVENTY delegates from all corners of the South China Island Union Mission met recently for the ninth biennial session. Co-ordinated evangelism was an important part of the plans laid for this field, with its population of 18 million. Every worker dedicated himself to having a part in this evangelism thrust. L. R. COLISURN, Correspondent FAR EASTERN DIVISION A NEW library and auditorium building is under construction in Singapore for the Southeast Asia Union College. Part of the funds for the building were solicited in the city by special teams of Ingatherers. THE first Adventist-sponsored television series for Japan has now been presented in Tokyo, the largest city in the world. Unable to purchase time for a religious series, the radio-TV department of the Japan Union Mission negotiated for a series of weekly medical programs. It was directed by Paul Nelson, former radioTV secretary of Japan. SPECIAL weeks of emphasis on the Spirit of Prophecy for youth have been conducted throughout the division by D. Arthur Delafield, associate secretary of the Ellen G. White Estate. He visited Japan Missionary College, Korean Union College, Taiwan Missionary College, Philippine Union College, Mountain View College, Southeast Asia Union College, Indonesia Union College, and Mount Klabat College. This is the first time that a representative of the White Estate has visited the Far East. D. A. ROTH, Correspondent REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

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/Mudd U + At the Ingathering victory banquet at Springfield, Massachusetts, Mrs. Emily Anderson was honored for soliciting $1,147.06 during the recent campaign. Mrs. Anderson is more than 70 years of age and has been a church member for only three years. She learned of the third angel's message from a pamphlet left at her door. Pastor Arthur M. Moyer also honored Mrs. Aurore Gemme, who solicited more than $300. Marcus E. Payne, lay activities secretary of the Southern New England Conference, was the banquet speaker. + As a result of the witnessing of Albert Schwab and his wife, members of the Pittsfield (Massachusetts) church, David Dixon, his wife, and their two boys, Malcolm and Stewart, were baptized on December 16, 1967, by Arthur Harms, Southern New England Conference secretarytreasurer. Richard Coffen is pastor of the Pittsfield church. + A successful Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking series, with 260 in attendance, has recently been completed in the Garden City Junior High School auditorium. Leading out in the session were Dr. Dunbar Smith, J. R. Hoffman, and Austin Butler. Sponsors included the ParentTeacher Association, American Heart Association, and the American Cancer Society. + John Carlos, Jr., a member of the Linden Boulevard church in St. Albans, New York, and a senior student in the School of Physical Therapy at Loma Linda University, has recently been elected president of his class. He was the recipient of a $1,200 scholarship awarded by the Veterans' Rehabilitation Administration. Mr. Carlos completed his undergraduate studies at Atlantic Union College in 1960, after two years of study at Oakwood College. He worked for six years as an assistant research technician at the New York State University in cardiovascular research and development before going to Loma Linda University. + Senator Edward M. Kennedy addressed the student body of Atlantic Union College on Monday, February 12, the first day of Negro History Week. Senator Kennedy gave a 30-minute talk in which he discussed his concern for civil rights and the southeastern Asia situation. A questionand-answer period followed his address. + The ministers and their wives in Northern New England met in Portland, Maine, January 14-16 for a three-day workers' meeting and Ingathering victory banquet. Lawrence Nelson, General Conference MV associate secretary, led out in the meetings. Carl P. Anderson, president of the conference; W. W. Menshausen, conference lay activities and Sabbath school secretary; and K. W. Tilghman and W. E. Peeke, Atlantic Union Conference secretary-treasurer and lay activities secretary, respecREVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

tively, also participated in the program. Plans were made for 12 revivals and 15 evangelistic campaigns during 1968, with a goal of more than 300 baptisms. The amount of Ingathering reported at the victory banquet was $68,360.61. This is an increase of $4,000 over last year. EMMA KIRK, Correspondent

+ Osborne Lee, pastor of the Sydney and North Sydney churches in Nova Scotia, has been elected president of the Protestant ministerial association for the Cape Breton area. + The Oliver, British Columbia, church was dedicated on December 2, 1967. J. W. Bothe, Canadian Union president, preached the dedicatory sermon. Mentioned in the historical sketch of the church were many of the members who had helped to make the new church possible by their support through the years. Among the early members present were Mrs. E. Klatt, Mrs. A. Gibson, and Mrs. R. Sprosson. + Gordon Madden, a member of the Paris, Ontario, church, was recently awarded a Silver Centennial Medal by the Secretary of State in recognition of his service to the nation. The newspaper stated: "When a family has been bereaved and temporary financial help has been needed, he has gone to the rescue quickly. When food, furniture, or clothing has been a problem, Mr. Madden has rounded up the articles, and where children have been involved he has been particularly interested. On a number of occasions he has helped students through college." PEARL BROWNING, Correspondent

+ Charles Phillips, a Missouri Conference literature evangelist, sold $1,112 worth of books in one week during the month of January. + Twenty-two persons were baptized as the result of evangelistic meetings held in the San Luis Valley in Colorado by Ben Z. George, conference evangelist, and Wayne Anderson, district pastor. + The Casper, Wyoming, church members are financing a radio program to run for several weeks. Evangelistic meetings are planned as a follow-up to this program. + The Missionary Volunteers of the Nebraska Conference have launched a campaign for 100,000 dimes by May 12, 1968, to furnish and equip the kitchen-lodge to be constructed at Camp Arrowhead. The youth hope to have enough dimes to "sink a canoe."

+ The final Ingathering total for the Kansas Conference was $88,604.20, as reported by N. K. Harvey, conference secretary-treasurer. This represents a per capita of $23.86. + C. J. Owens, Kansas Conference educational secretary and youth leader, reports that the elementary school children gathered $7,036.25 during the Ingathering campaign. This amount almost doubled their goal of $3,593.25. CLARA ANDERSON, Correspondent

First Nursing Class Receives Caps at Kettering College Kettering College of Medical Arts held its first department of nursing capping ceremony on February 4, 1968, with 74 students receiving their nurse's cap. Gladys Duran, director of nursing services at the Kettering Memorial Hospital, gave the challenge to the students. Mrs. Duran said, "Upon you the heritage of this school will be founded. May it be a rich heritage, marked by your vigilance." Harvey Hahn, pastor of the Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren church, offered the dedicatory prayer. To conclude the program the students took the nurse's pledge of service, led by Anna May Vaughan, chairman of the department of nursing. Diane Calfee, Curt Carr, Jr., and a string ensemble provided music. In honor of the nursing students, relatives and friends after the capping attended a reception in the residence-hall lobby. DAVID BAUER Director of Public Relations Kettering Memorial Hospital + The CUC concert band recently presented a series of sacred concerts in Pennsylvania. Included were programs at Reading, Philadelphia, and Blue Mountain Academy. Adell Haughey is director. + Radio station WGTS-FM, the voice of Columbia Union College, scored a "scoop" on Washington area news media recently by carrying the first announcement of the settlement of the Montgomery County teachers' strike. Inaugurating a new public service program, Listen Here, the station had as guests Morris Jones, from the Maryland Teachers Association, and Dr. Howard Housemen, representing Montgomery County. At the conclusion of the hour-long program the two men made the first announcement of the strike settlement. Dr. Stephan Hiten, head of the college speech department, is the coordinator of the new series, and the guest interviewer was Dr. Delmer W. Holbrook, president of Home Study Institute. + Twelve years of faithful work on the part of laymen in the Trenton, New Jer21

NORTH AMERICAN NEWS sey, area has resulted in the baptism of seven prisoners at the New Jersey State Prison. Gordon Barnes, New Jersey literature evangelist, began the work, which has since been carried on by other local laymen, including Fred Zimmerly and John Hood. At the present time 14 prisoners are attending the branch Sabbath school, which is held each week. + B. H. VanHorne, Ph.D., has joined the staff of the Kettering Memorial Medical Center to participate in the development of a research program. In addition to being professor of physics and mathematics at Kettering College of Medical Arts, Dr. VanHorne will be engaged in biomedical research and statistical analysis. For the past ten years Dr. VanHorne has been engaged in instrumentation research with the Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan. MORTEN JUBERG, Correspondent

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a plaque signifying that in 1967 Illinois led the North American Division in sales of Life and Health subscriptions per capita. Gary Bevins, literature evangelist, was awarded a trophy by Mr. Okuno for leading the conference in sales of Life and Health. He sold enough subscriptions to supply one family for 672 years, a total of $3,696. He was top in the union for total sales in books and magazines, with $37,451.80 for 1967. ESTON L. ALLEN Departmental Secretary Illinois Conference + The Rockford Seventh-day Adventist youth always have been an enthusiastic Ingathering group, but this year was exceptional. Nine children raised $2,700. Greg Smith, a seventh-grader, was the top solicitor. He went Ingathering every night during the campaign and collected $450. The church goal was $8,600. The church raised in excess of $10,350. L. J. Marsa is pastor. MILDRED WADE, Correspondent

Illinois Bookmen Meet: Sales Leaders Recognized The Illinois Conference had 26 book specialists placing Christian literature in thousands of homes in 1967. Like their fellow literature evangelists all over the world, they diagnose the world's ills and treat them, not with an injection, but with Christian books and magazines. They sold $307,883.39 worth of books in 1966 and $360,481.58 in 1967, and have set their goal for $500,000 in 1968. At their annual literature evangelist rally January 27, 28, R. L. Chapman, conference publishing department secretary, reported a total of 12 known baptisms for the year, 18,051 pieces of literature given away, 4,343 Bible enrollments, 192 people taken to meetings, 59 former SDA's contacted, 2,893 prayers offered in homes, and 246 Bible studies given. J. W. Proctor, Lake Union publishing director, shared with them publishing news and methods being used around the world. Clifford Okuno, field representative of the Review and Herald Periodical Department, presented to Elder Chapman

+ W. R. Hunker, a 1967 graduate of Pacific Union College, has accepted a call to be head of the new audio-video department of Portland Sanitarium and Hospital. Initial plans for the video installation include a studio and control room. The program will be used in nursing education for the hospital's school of practical nursing, Walla Walla's school of professional nursing, and the hospital's in-service education department. + Walla Walla General Hospital is setting up a new laboratory facility, and has employed Robert Hessong, registered medical technologist, to head the department.

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114 1110.406 + Mavis Jacobson, Oak Park Academy senior, was named Homemaker of Tomorrow as a result of her test score in the Betty Crocker Homemaker Examination. + The Iowa Conference raised $20,805.66 for Investment in 1967, a per capita of $5.91. + Four Council Bluffs, Iowa, church members attended a civil defense training course. The director gave public recognition to Seventh-day Adventists for their help in disasters. + In an effort to reach the surrounding area, the Minnetonka, Minnesota, church has presented the following areas of activity to the church members. 1. Project Community Task Force-5,000 visitation leaflets to be distributed. 2. Project Fireside—Sunshine and Singing bands. 3. Project Mercy—aid in time of disaster. 4. Project Intercession—prayer for the success of the work. 5. Project Remembrance—placing of flowers in hospitals and rest homes on Sabbath afternoons. The members have indicated the areas in which they will become involved. L. H. NETTEBURG, Correspondent

+ A. C. Fearing and Archa 0. Dart, from the General Conference, held meetings in the Washington Conference recently. Elder Fearing held evangelistic meetings in Olympia; Elder Dart, in the Seattle area, spoke on the home and its influence. + By delivering $1,089 during the week ending February 3, Kenneth Thompson became the first literature evangelist in the Washington Conference to join the $1,000 Club for 1968. In the 11 months he has been a literature evangelist he has delivered $11,456 worth of books. + Attending a three-day annual Academy Bible Conference in February were 144 delegates from the Oregon Conference academies and churches. Guest speaker was Graham Maxwell, chairman of the Department of Religion at Loma Linda University.

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and has moved to the College Place campus, where she will assume direction of the program of psychiatric nursing.

+ Mrs. Lloyd Hazelton, who has been a member of the WWC School of Nursing faculty since January, 1966, recently completed work for the Master of Nursing degree at the University of Washington

+ Appearing weekly in the Pacific Union Recorder is a series of articles on Seventh-day Adventist pioneers and the beginning of Adventist work in the West, as part of the union's celebration of its centennial year. Compiled by Ernest Lloyd, retired minister and pioneer in his own right, the articles feature reminiscences about workers such as J. N. Loughborough and D. T. Bourdeau and descriptions of early facilities of the church, compiled from personal recollections of elderly church members. + The Barron-Turner evangelistic team is holding Crusade for Christ meetings in Long Beach, California, nightly, March 2 through 24. + A special Bible course for members of the Mormon faith, called Gospel Salvation REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

Bible Course, has been developed by the Voice of Prophecy. Application cards and information on the course may be obtained from Box 17174, Salt Lake City, Utah 84117. + Spanish-speaking residents of Delano, California, were special guests during evangelistic services of the local Adventist church, and 23 persons made decisions for Christ. Domingo De Leon, local church school teacher, served as master of ceremonies and translator for speakers at the meetings, which were a follow-up to the branch Sabbath school program he and his wife had previously launched in Delano. + The Arizona Conference believes in advance education of its top State administrators, legislators, judges, city mayors, and other county, community, and State leaders regarding the Seventh-day Adventist position on Sunday laws. Five hundred copies of Dateline Sunday, U.S.A. are being distributed by the conference to these officials, with many warm responses having been received from the recipients. + Robert Whitsett, pastor of the Van Nuys, California, church, is conducting Search for Truth meetings through April 6 at his church, assisted by John Alspaugh, associate pastor. Dr. Lance Judkins, physician and chairman of the church board of elders, is presenting travelog lectures on various Middle East countries during the series. + Pacific Union Missionary Volunteer secretaries and civilian chaplains of the Pacific Union got a firsthand look at the military, as well as a closer acquaintance with the program of help given Adventist young men in their early military service, as they recently visited Fort Ord, California, under the guidance of Adventist Chaplain Joseph T. Powell. + Operation Cookie, sponsored by the Yuba City Adventist church in Northern California, is sending three-pound metal cans of cookies, baked by members and friends, to servicemen of the Sutter and Yuba City communities now serving in Vietnam. + Australian Evangelist A. Geoffrey Ratcliffe will conduct evangelistic meetings at the Scottish Rite Temple in Stockton, California, beginning March 2. The sevenweek series will include Bible and archeology lectures, which will be illustrated by color slides.

+ Five hundred dozen cookies, a surprise gift from the campus Pioneer Memorial church to Andrews University dormitory students, were distributed February 14 by church deacons and deaconesses. Preparation for the project began about two months ago, and the cookies were donated by community women.

Jasper Wayne Band James Cromwell's caroling band at Tucson, Arizona, reached their Jasper Wayne goal in the Ingathering campaign just closed. Front (from left to right): Connie Rasmussen, Teddy Cromwell, and Sherrie Rasmussen. Second row: Dr. Nels Rasmussen, Jr., Mrs. Nels Rasmussen, Jr., Mrs. Leonia Demas, James Cromwell, and Elmer Volk. Mrs. Fred Dotson, Jr., also in the band, is not in the picture. Mrs. Demas, who has solicited Tucson merchants for the past 30 years, has consistently received from $250 to $350 yearly for Ingathering. Not pictured is Mrs. Ruth Grounds, an 84-year-old member, who writes letters for her contribution since arthritis confines her to her chair and walker. This year her letters brought in $115. CECILE MC CAMEY Church Public Relations Secretary

+ The "It Is Written" telecast is again being shown in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. It began February 11, over WBAP-TV, channel 5. The re-showing is in connection with an area-wide evangelistic campaign by Elden Walters in the Dallas Central Seventh-day Adventist church, which began February 17.

+ Fifth-grade AU elementary school pupils recently displayed 25 floats depicting the States and countries represented in the room personnel (20 States and seven countries). The diversity of home bases was occasioned by the fact that many of the parents, who are attending the AU School of Graduate Studies and Seminary, come from various countries. + AU Civil Defense Coordinator Gordon Prenier states that on campus there are seven shelter areas stocked with survival rations enough for 1,426 persons. Three more areas are soon to be surveyed and stocked, which will furnish shelter for an added 500 persons. These are established by the Army Corps of Engineers and are supplied with enough food to last each person for 14 days.

+ The ministers of the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference have pledged themselves to conduct 61 evangelistic crusades during 1968. + A new church building has been purchased in Hamburg, Arkansas. W. D. Welch and M. D. McIntosh will be conducting a series of meetings in this church in the near future.

+ Thirty-eight visitors attended the Chino, California, Spanish church on Visitors' Day, some of whom found a church home. The 80-member church now rejoices in missing members returned to fellowship, six new Sabbath school members, and two persons attending the pastor's Bible class.

+ Eleven persons were baptized in the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference in 1967 as the result of contacts made by literature evangelists.

+ Teen Time, new open-forum discussion meeting for youth of the Riverside, California, area, has been initiated by the La Sierra church. Plans are to hold the forum bimonthly, according to youth pastor D. D. Devnich. HERBERT FORD, Correspondent

+ While on his way to work, John A. Sinksen, assistant in the Arkansas-Louisiana Book and Bible House, was fatally injured in an automobile accident, January 30. His wife, Ruth, is employed by the conference as an accountant. J. N. MORGAN, Correspondent

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+ On display in the James White Library exhibit room at Andrews University during the month of February were approximately 40 art works by members of the art department faculty. The exhibit featured works by Peter D. Erhard, Gregory Constantine, and department chairman Irvin Althage. Individual creations varied in form, ranging from woodcuts and etchings through cloth-over-plywood works and sculpture. The works also varied in subject matter. Biblical themes were the basis of paintings such as "Lay Not Up for Yourselves Treasure," and "Lazarus, Come Forth." Current events found artistic reflection in "A Little War Far, Far, Far Away," and poetry was made visual in a sculptured portrayal of "Abou ben Adhem." Of special interest in the exhibit were woodcuts of two assassinated United States presidents, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy.

+ A weekend of foreign mission emphasis on the La Sierra campus was held recently. Visiting speaker was David H. Baasch, associate secretary of the General Conference. The final service featured a film, Behold the Dreamer. + University President David J. Bieber left March 11 for a three-week tour of schools abroad affiliated with Loma Linda University: Middle East College, Beirut, Lebanon; Seminaire Adventiste, Collonges-sous-Saleve, France; Seminar Marienhoehe, Darmstadt, Germany; and Bogenhofen Seminary, Austria. 23

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A Relief Doetor Reports By DAVID H. UNSELL, M.D. [Dr. Unsell, a Montana physician, accepted an invitation to serve as a relief doctor to West Africa in 1967. At various times he and his wife wrote to the General Conference. These excerpts from their letters were selected by R. R. Frame, associate secretary of the General Conference.]

DEAR ELDER FRAME: Now I am home and soon will be back in my old routine again, but my thoughts and no small part of my heart are far away. Thank you for inviting me to go as a relief physician to the Kwahu Hospital, in Ghana. After spending three months at Kwahu, I served for two months as relief physician at the Jengre Hospital, Northern Nigeria, at the invitation of the West African Union. This has been a great experience. Every day we worked in Jengre was a new thrill. Just to be with our dear chil-

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dren and darling grandson, Davy, to eat together, to go to church and Sabbath school with them in our mission church, was a wonderful experience. The people in Africa are very precious, and I felt sad to leave them, for I felt they needed me. The day we left for home a pretty Hausa woman who has eight children came running to bring Mrs. Unsell a present to take home to America. It was a dozen eggs. She could not speak a word of English, but Ken told her that we could not take eggs with us on the plane, for it was too far to our house in America. She looked so disappointed and tears were running down her face as she told Mrs. Unsell good-by. My wife cried too, for she really loved her and will be looking forward to seeing her in God's kingdom.

"I have just finished reading a book that in my opinion should be thoughtfully studied by all Seventh-day Adventists. It is not an ordinary work but a unique, comprehensive analysis of present-day Catholicism in the light of the recent Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, known today as Vatican II. Seventh-day Adventists would be wise to give scholarly consideration to the actions of this council and its subsequent developments in the light of the gospel commission and from a Biblical and prophetic standpoint. "The world is faced with a remodeled Catholic Church with some changes in attitudes and procedures. Only by becoming fully acquainted with the decisions and the possibly far-reaching results of Vatican II can a person arrive at a correct assessment of present-day Catholicism. The gulf between the Vatican and Protestantism is steadily diminishing as friendly hands are crossing both ways with a view of hastening reunion through various bridge-building endeavors. "Are we prepared, are we in a position of knowledgeable strength, to deal fairly and intelligently with the new Rome in such areas as ecumenism, Bible scholar. ship, historical reliability of the Bible, universal judgment, second coming of Christ, church history, calendar reform, religious liberty, Mary as mediatrix, salvation, social problems, birth control, poverty, culture, war, hunger, peace, evangelism, proselyting, divine origin of the week, worship, and many other council considerations? "Dr. Beach's book, Vatican II—Bridging the Abyss, will be welcomed by every serious student of current religious trends."

I had a firsthand insight into mission work and the life of a primitive people and the opportunity to see strange diseases that would never be seen in the United States—an insight that can be obtained only by being there, an experience that cannot be weighed in dollars and cents. If I have been of some service in filling the gap and in upholding the hands of our devoted missionaries, I shall feel well repaid for my venture. During this time I examined more than 3,000 patients, performed 175 operations (112 majors and 63 minors), representing 23 different major procedures and 17 different minor procedures. Aside from the cultural advantages and the professional medical interest in this experience, there is a spiritual tugging at your heart when you leave people who seem to be benefited by your presence and who beg you to stay, like one Fulani man who said to me, "When you left one year ago I never expected to see you again [Dr. Unsell visited Nigeria in 1966]. Many times I would see you in my sleep, but always when I woke up you were not there. Now you are back again. I am glad. Now you say you are soon leaving. I won't see you any more. I want you to stay 20 years, maybe 30. I don't want you to go away. I cry too much!" This part of the world cannot be compared to the homeland. Would you like to hear the jungle come to life as darkness drops like a curtain over the tropics, and hear the throaty bark of the giant fruit bat three blocks away, or stand in the dark where he hangs in a tree 15 feet above you, or listen to the babylike cry of the tree-bear that echoes through the forest for one third of a mile, or hear the distant beating of the talking drums or the wailing for the dead by people who have no hope in God? Would you like to see and hear all these things? Then come with me to a land where you walk and work among a people so primitive that their only clothing is a bunch of leaves, their only farm tools a hoe and a knife; who live in the open or at best in mud huts; who eat rats and bats and ants; who die suddenly from the witch doctor's poison or the deadly cobra or viper, or more slowly from malaria, tetanus, meningitis, typhoid, tuberculosis or cancer; where leprosy and blindness from onchocerciasis are common; where nearly everyone has either microfilaria, or schistosomiasis, or hookworm, or tropical ulcer. Yet with all of this, they can laugh and sing and dance to the rhythm of their drums, or hurry to the market or their fields of guinea corn or maize or millet or groundnuts with their tools or baskets of produce or jugs of water balanced on their heads. Come with me to the land of ivory and gold and cocoa, of mahogany and precious woods; where bananas, mangoes, guavas, pawpaws, and palm oil are plentiful; where people chew sugar cane for candy, and betel nut for gum, and drink palm wine for fun. Remember that it is the land of the deadly anopheles mosquito, the black gnat, and the tsetse fly. Be sure to take your mosquito net along, REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968

Dr. David Unsell (right), who served as relief doctor in West Africa, along with Dr. J. A. Lennox, medical director of Kwahu Hospital at Mpraeso, Ghana, and two Nigerian nurses.

and don't forget your daraprim or chloroquine, lest you not come back. This land is the white man's grave and also the black man's grave. Men and women are dying of malaria, tetanus, snake bite, tuberculosis, typhoid, meningitis, poisoning. Women who are pregnant cannot deliver. People have spleens that fill half the abdomen and livers that are two or three times their normal size. If you are past 60 years old, and the pace of life is becoming monotonous and seems to be losing some of its charm, then come. Drop your scalpel or ledger sheet,

hammer or dishcloth. Close your doors, leave the "rat race," and come where you will see new places and new faces, share new problems, face new challenges; where the service you give would not be given but for you. This will give you a thrill you could never know if you stay where every day is much the same as it has been for 35 years; and you will agree with me that life can begin after 60. If you would do all this, you should have been with me; for all of these things have been mine during my service as relief doctor.

R. L. Kretz, lay activities, Sabbath school, and public relations secretary (Minnesota), formerly same position North Dakota. Gene Gerdts, pastor, Bucyrus-GalionMarion-Upper Sandusky district (Ohio), formerly chaplain, Porter Memorial Hospital. George Kiyabu, pastor, Denver Japanese church (Colorado), formerly pastor (Hawaii). T. F. Wick, youth pastor, Pacific Union College, formerly youth co-ordinator (Colorado). Robert E. Reynolds, president, Walla Walla College, formerly president, Atlantic Union College. Milton Hallock, intern pastor, Portland district (Northern New England), from South Lancaster, Massachusetts (Southern New England). Robert Edwards, field secretary of conference association and church development secretary (Northern New England), formerly leader of Manchester, New Hampshire, district. Richard C. Valle, biology teacher, At(Continued on page 30)

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GENERAL NEWS ANSWERING THE CALL (Continued from page 25) lantic Union College; he will receive Doctor of Philosophy degree in zoology from Syracuse University later this year. Laurence A. Skinner, association field representative (Southeastern California), formerly corporation secretary (Washington). Alfred M. Matar, pastor, Reno, Nevada (Nevada-Utah), from Missoula, Montana. (Conference names appear in parentheses.)

From Home Base to Front Line Australasian Division Miss S. Barnard (Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital), to be nurse, Togoba Hansenide Colony, Goroka, New Guinea, left Sydney, Australia, January 10. Miss Barnard is a daughter of Pastor L. H. Barnard. Mr. and Mrs. Glyn Lock, teachers, Betikama School in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, left Sydney, Australia, January 11. Beverley Brown, staff member, Jones Missionary College, Kambubu, near Rabaul, New Britain, in the BismarckSolomons Union Mission, arrived January 17. Milton Krause, to be teacher, Helderberg College, South Africa, Mrs. Krause, and three children sailed on the Southern Cross from Australia on January 17. John McMahon, to be teacher, Jones Missionary College, Kambubu, in the Bismarck-Solomons Union Mission, and Mrs. McMahon left January 17. Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Dever, to be teachers, Jones Missionary College, Kambubu, New Britain, left North Queensland, January 22. Mr. Dever is a son of John Dever, who previously served as a missionary in the Bismarck-Solomons Union Mission. Valmai Buxton, worker at Jones Missionary College, Kambubu, New Britain, arrived January 23. Anne Blaxell, to be teacher, Jones Missionary College, left Sydney, January 24. Beverly Wallace, to be teacher, Kabiufa College, Goroka, New Guinea, arrived January 22. M. J. Ward, returning as principal, Betikama School, Honiara, British Solomon Islands, Mrs. Ward, and four children, sailed January 28. W. R. BEACH

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Born in Oregon, Dr. Kahler is a graduate of Loma Linda University (1933). He also holds degrees (Bachelor's) in science and modern languages. After years of private practice he became psychiatrist in Eastern Oregon State Hospital in Pendleton, Oregon. Since June, 1966, he has been senior psychiatrist at Patton State Hospital, Patton, California. This week Marye Trim speaks to the Adventist Woman (page 10). Mrs. Trim is a missionary's wife working in Bombay, India. Her husband, John, is Sabbath school, lay activities, and temperance secretary of Western India Union. She describes one of her typical busy days and then ponders the questions, "What does a missionary's wife contribute? What are the pluses and minuses of being a missionary?" If an abused Church Hymnal could talk, what would it say? Clifton Calkins tells us on page 12. Mr. Calkins is a book binder of many years' experience and has operated the binderies in six of our denominational schools. Having rebound hymnals for hundreds of our churches, he feels that there is a desperate need for improvement in the way hymnals are handled. His suggestions are worth putting into practice. We are happy Adeline Thomas, a Lutheran, decided on the REVIEW when she debated as to where to send her article on the handling of meats in retail outlets. Having worked in several stores, she felt meat eaters had a right to know what they were buying. See page 8.

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Atlantic Union College Board Elects New President The board of trustees of Atlantic Union College has elected Dr. Herbert E. Douglass president of the college. An AUC alumnus, Dr. Douglass succeeds Robert L. Reynolds, who has accepted the presidency of Walla Walla College. During the current school year Dr. Douglass has been the acting president in the absence of Professor Reynolds, presently on graduate study leave. The newly elected president previously served as chairman of the department of religion, later as academic dean. Before coming to AUC, he taught religion and theology at Pacific Union College. CHARLES B. HIRSCH

Michigan Studies Over-all Academy Development The size and progress of Michigan's academy-development program were discussed at the conference constituency meeting February 25 at Battle Creek. The delegates considered how to meet the educational needs of all conference youth. One phase of this program is to be the discontinuance of Grand Ledge Academy as a boarding academy at the end of this school year. Meanwhile, the conference

committee is to give careful study to operating it as a day academy. This 12-grade school, now In its tenth year, is situated on the conference's camp W. P. BRADLEY grounds.

Former New York Treasurer Appointed to Trans-Africa Vincent A. Fenn has been appointed treasurer and auditor of the Trans-Africa Division. He succeeds R. M. Reinhard, who has joined the General Conference staff as one of the associate auditors. Elder Fenn has previously worked as treasurer of the East Pennsylvania and New York conferences and of the Middle East Division. At the time the action was taken appointing Elder Fenn to this responsibility, he was on his way back to the mission field to serve as secretary-treasurer of the Central African Union of the Trans-Africa Division. A. E. GIBB

3,000 Interested Persons Found at Haiti Crusade An estimated 5,000 were present on the first and second Sunday nights (February 4 and 11) of the evangelistic crusade conducted in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,

COMMITTEE MEETS TO STUDY PROBLEMS OF YOUTH "I want to thank you and your committee for making me a part of this wonderful meeting today. It was without doubt one of the most tremendous opportunities I've ever had.. . . "It hardly seems possible that you men in the General Conference could be interested in what we young people have to say. You were not only interested, but you were acting on our suggestions." So wrote a young person from one of our colleges after attending the Youth Challenge Committee in the General Conference office February 27. Seventh-day Adventist youth today face knotty problems; they are also eager to be involved in the life of their church. TO To explore ways and means of increasing this involvement and to search for answers to existing problems, a study group was appointed by the General Conference officers to meet at GC headquarters February 27. Included in the group were young men and women from our universities and colleges across North America, ministers, departmental leaders, and administrators on several levels of church administration. We spent the day in general discussion

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and in subcommittees, studying problems of both spiritual and social significance. We discussed the possibility of enlarging the present student missionary program, of the introduction of an Adventist volunteer service corps for service at home and abroad. We considered denominational periodicals, church services, Sabbath school lessons, and MV programs. We talked about and planned for more involvement in needed work in the inner cities of North America, of opening more channels of communication between youth and oldsters in an endeavor to bridge the "generation gap." The subject of witnessing more effectively for Christ both on Seventh-day Adventist and non-Adventist campuses was explored. We did not expect to solve all the problems, and we did not solve all the problems. We did have free, frank, helpful discussions, and the committee has prepared a series of recommendations that will be submitted to the General Conference officers for consideration. These will be given careful study, and we are hopeful that some new plans for youth involvement will emerge. We also hope that similar meetings of youth and youth leaders may convene in the future so that we may plan more solidly for youth participation in the finishing of the work. ROBERT H. PIERSON

by W. W. Fordham, associate secretary of the General Conference Regional Department. More than 1,000 were in attendance during week nights. In two weeks' time the list of interested has grown to nearly 3,000. Associated with Elder Fordham are a number of Haitian workers, with whom a daily class on evangelism is conducted. H. D. SINGLETON

Ekamai Students Conduct Youth Campaign in Bangkok As the result of a Voice of Youth series of meetings and the Week of Prayer at the Ekamai Adventist School in Bangkok, Thailand, 204 students made their decision for Christ. This school is comprised of some 900 students, of whom only 10 per cent are Adventists. Two of the nonSeventh-day Adventist speakers decided to become Christians. One was the president of the senior class. Of the 204 students, 113 were from the upper grades and 91 from the lower grades. This is a great victory for God in this land of Buddhism. The Voice of Youth services, under the direction of John Harris, pastor and teacher, were held during the Sabbath school period each week, because the students are not required to attend the church services. After the Voice of Youth series, Gil J. Bertochini, MV secretary of the Far Eastern Division, conducted a Week of Prayer at the school. For the first time in the history of the school, a testimony service was conducted on Friday evening, in which the youth testified of their acceptance of Jesus. So great was the response that again on Sabbath morning scores more publicly acknowledged Christ as their Saviour. From every country of the world similar thrilling stories come to our world headquarters revealing the ever-increasing tempo of MV TARGET evangelism. LAWRENCE NELSON

Thousands Attend Meetings in Stockholm, Sweden Between 7,000 and 8,000 people attended the opening services of a citywide evangelistic campaign conducted by J. F. Coltheart in Stockholm, Sweden. This is good news, for in Sweden it has been difficult to get people to listen to the preaching of the gospel. Prospects are bright for a good ingathering of souls. Pastor Coltheart is the evangelist for the Northern European Division. N. R. DOWER

South American Bookmen Report $2.6 Million Sales South American literature evangelists sold $2,617,703.61 worth of Christian literature during 1967, according to P. S. Camacho, division publishing secretary. The previous year's sales were $2,533,112.86. This advance in sales is a part of the $10 million goal for this quadrennium in the South American Division. R. A. WILCOX REVIEW AND HERALD, March 14, 1968