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1 ever, these followers of the rsen Chrst dd not say, <twell, we are sorry that we have been separated from the home church. We wll mss the brethren and we wsh them well. We wll vst them when the persecuton s over, or f we have a vacaton. We are sorry that t s necessary to move where we cannot attend church or tran our chldren n the fath." No ndeed; far dfferent was ther reacton. Acts 8: 4 says, "Now those.who were scattered went about preachng the word." They carred' ther fath wth them. And the sprt of ther Chrstan experence caught fre wherever they went, wth new groups of followers of Jesus sprngng up and new churches beng establshed. So t developed that ther persecuton and dsperson were responsble for the frst great outreach of the evangel message and the Chrstan cause. beleve ths experence apples to us today. We cannot be followers of Jesus only whle n the home town of chldhood, or as long as Mother and' Father are lvng. f we beleve n a unversal God, who s personally mmanent. everywhere, ths fath wll be shown n our own reacton to lfe everywhere, too. f Jesus Chrst has become a real lvng person for us, then our conduct wll be guded by Hs precepts, and' our lves wll be "hd n Hm" wherever we happen to resde, or whatever the customs or morals of the people n our present envronment. f we accept the Sabbath of the Bble as God's holy Sabbath day whle we are near other Sabbathkeepng Chrstans or locally afflated wth a Seventh Day Baptst Church, then God's Sabbath wll be real and holy for us even f we fnd t necessary to move to a new communty. And f we possess the knd of Chrstan experence the Early Church had,. we wll carry the message of our fath wth us. Let each of us thoughtfully re-examne our ndvdual fath, lest we be gulty of a lmted concept of God : lest we, too, be sufferng from a Jerusalem complex Let the words of saah 40 speak agan to our tme: Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord s the everlastng God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not fant or grow weary,. hs understandng s unsearchable. He gves power to the fant, and to hm who has no mght he ncreases strength. Even youths shall fant and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted but they who wat for the Lord sh;l renew ther strength, they shall mount up wth wngs lke eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not fant. <tas a loyal follower of Chrst must treat the Sabbath as He has shown me, by example and precept. When t ceases to be true that Chrst kept the Sabbath and taught Hs followers thus to do, can cease to keep t; not untl then." " am a Seventh Day Baptst because accept the.bble as the supreme and only rule of fath and practce n matters of relgon. Chrst rejected the "nferences' and "tradtons' whch Judasm had' added to the plan commandments of the Old Testament. He condemned those who ma~e " Th.e. law of none effect' through thetr tradlto~s. The ~ame authorty compels me to reject the nferences and tradtons w:hch have come to us through the perverson of Chrstanty by pagansm." "There s no nstance of the acceptance of unfounded tradton and llogcal efforts at argument more promnent than the assocaton of the observance of Sunday and the change of 'the Sabbath wth the. resurrecton of ~hrst. t s entrely unscrtptural. The Scrtptures never assocate Chrst's resurrecton wth the observance of any day, or wth the abrogaton of the Sabbath." "As we have already stated, the prmary purpose ~f the Seventh Day Baptsts s?ot to gan members unto themselves; t S r~ther to sp~ead truth patently and persstently, calltng the attenton of the church to ts dangers and seekng to nduce Sabbath reform upon the permanent bass of God's dvne law." "Two alternatves le before the church: to yeld all Sabbathsm and go down n the tde of holdaysm now ganng so rapdly; or to return, wthout compromse, to the frm foundaton of God's law. Here the Seventh Day Baptsts make ther stand. On ths ground they are wllng to awat the verdct of comng years." J.~ t ' 7'.. f l Lr.. c.. "...,-~""-~ " <>".. ~--...,",.-<--", ".,_.", ,' '_,,'.',..,..-,.,... :._ _--,,_~ --" t., :., Camp Harley near Alfred Staton where mns~'ers ate barbecued chcken and held an afternoon sesson -= ~---~..: /,.~... /. ~,.'...,. /'. ~" ". ~--. ~. G ' ~_._\(~ /(~/.; '.. ' ---'-._ L-... =>.,,- l Sabbath mornlnq '-' congregaton at Alfred Staton leaves ch u rch after hearng guest mnster ~ \,--/ ~-

2 ldo~. ~mllllmtlb ll CB C]) Pc[l? Frst ssua.ljun0 3.. BM A Magazne for Chrstan Enlghtanmenll and nsporclton Member of th0 AssocateCl Church ~'OSS REV. LEON M. MALTBY, ~dtol7 Contrbutng Edtolm: MSSONS Everen Y. Hlarrs, O.D. o~women's WORE{... _... _.;.. Mrs. A. aussall Maltson CHRSTAN EDUCATON... _ ReJ: E. Zwabel. S.A., ~.D. o Yerms of Subscrpton ~av Year _... $3.00 Snglo Copas _... 0 c0ntn Specal rates for students, r0tred Savonth Day Baptst mnsters, and servcemen. o Postage to Canada and forsgn countres SO csntn per year addtonal.. Gft and nswlywed subscrptons wll be dscontnued at date of sltpraton unless 70- newed. All subscrptons wll be dscontnued slt monthn after date to whch payment s made unlass ranswsd. Yhe Sabbath Recorder cannot pay for contrbuted artcloo but wll send the wrter, upon request, up to 0 'reo copes of the ssue n whch an artcle appears. Publshed weekly (except August when t s publshed b-weekly) for Ssvsnth Day Baptsts by the Amercan Sabbath Tract Socety, 50 Watchung Avs Planfald, N. J. Second class mal prvlages authorzad at Planfeld, New Jersey. The Sabbath Recordsr does not necessarly endorse sgned artcles. All communcatons should be addressed to the Sabbath Recordar, Planfeld, N. J. PLANFELD. N. J., MAY 8, 959 Vol. 66, No. 20 Whole No lln fho J UE Edtorals: The March of Sprng..._..._..._......_..._... 2 Freedom n taly, 'Why Not n Span?..._ 3 Dr. Nolde Speaks Out..._..._..._ Be Not Deceved..._..._......_..._..._..._....._ 4 N~w Decalogues..._..._..._..._..._..._..._ lpeatuues: Presdent" s Message......_..._..._..._..._..._..._..._ 5 Sdewalks of New York....._..._..._..._... 6 The Holy Sprt and the Church _..._..._... 6 The Sabbath Durng the Reformaton-... _ 7. Th~ology Students Assst R.. Churches.._. 9 y outh News..._..._..._..._..._..._..._..._..._..._... 9 News of Mnsters..._..._..._..._..._..._ Slver Annversary of Church Dedcaton An Outpourng of the Sprt..._..._......_... 5 A Busy Schedule _..._..._..._..._..._..._..._..._..._... 0 Mssonary Pastors Report..._..._..._..._..._... 0 Work Progresses at Twn Ctes..._..._..._... 3 Womell 9 s Work: Devotonal Program for June..._..._..._... Chrstallll Educaton: Vacaton Church School..._..._..._... 2 Young Adult Retreat..._._.._..._..._..._..._... 2 New Board Presdent..._..._..._..._..._ Accessons.-Brths.-Obtuares... Back Cover J[l={~ ~~<e/}=l}~ P $[p~u~@ Day unto day uttereth speech and nght unto nght showeth knowledge. One who s nsensble to the voce of God n creaton may also hear amss the voce of God n revelaton. Nature speaks sometmes wth awesome sounds but more frequently wth a soft voce and wth a message more easly grasped wth the eye than wth the ear. God's specal revelaton, 'too, comes more clearly by way of the rustlng leaves of Hs Book than by a voce n the external organ" of hearng. Each year we stran to hear the soft tread of sprng as t marches up from the South n ts newly talored unform so galy decorated wth the campagn rbbons whch have come to be ts. dentfyng marks. One needs to travel a lttle to fully apprecate ths advance of the hosts of sprng. Trees, lke posted sentnels, have stood mute and expressonless these many months. The warmth of sprng rolls up and recedes lke waves of the sea. We thnk the season of flowers has come but t comes not wthout struggle. cy wnds blow once more and we wat mpatently for the change to come. Snce vernal beauty advances upon a gven localty stealthly or by waves we need to run ahead of t and come back to meet t n order to fully perceve ts forward strdes. Ths year we reluctantly left behnd the swellng buds of our backyard cherry tree to go a day's journey north to the Mnsters Conference. Upon our return a week later that tree was n full bloom and ts leaves were thrustng out to clothe the branches when the petals fell, as the manner of cherry trees s. Cool days came but they could not hold back the God-apponted transformat~n that had begun. Agan a weekend trp was made to New England n whch we outran the quet march of sprng. Returnng, we were once more struck wth what God had wrougt., Lookng back three weeks t becomes hard to remember that n such a. short space of tme the whole face of nature has changed. A velvet carpet s spread over the land. Countless famles on a Sunday afternoon are enjoyng the cty parks or countrysde beauty spots. The flowerng shrubs for whch our secton s famous have burst nto glory far more spectacular than an, l r atom bomb and, of course, more pleasant to contemplate. The thngs of man change not wth the seasons. Buldngs and offces retan ther same dull colors except as brghtened by the handwork of God brought n from feld and garden. n spte of all the joy we can get from the speech that "day unto day utters," accordng to the 9th Psalm, or the knowledge that "nght unto nght shows," there are joys that are greater. We do not worshp nature or lsten to the quet sounds of the march of sprng as f t were the most effectve way God could speak to us. We are remnded that our Creator speaks to us through 'Hs Word and, as we read n' Hebrews, He "hath n these last days spoken unto us by hs Son... by whom also he made the worlds." The Holy Sprt also speaks wth ntercedng and wth pleadng voce drectly to the hearts of those who are wllng to lsten. Far and wde that voce ranges to every church, to every msson feld. We rej oce to hear of spectacular, unexpected conversons of adults, of the tender yeldng of growng chldren, of the strong decsons of resolute youth. We beleve that there are far more notable transformatons ths year n the hearts of people than n the face of nature. We pray that ths yeldng to the love of God n Chrst Jesus may become more and more manfest - lke the marchng of sprng across the land. fll HU'@OVfl ~"~ecdk )Tfl WlhW lnj@l Oll $~ Dfll? t s nterestng and encouragng to read that the resstance of local authortes to the buldng of a Baptst church at Sant' Angelo, taly, was broken down when the Rev. Grazano Cannto, pastor of the 278- member church, appealed to taly's hghest admnstratve authorty, the Councl of State n Rome. The latter agreed that th'e Baptst congregaton had a "fully recognzed" rght to buld a church. Ths decson caused rejocng among all evangelcal churches n taly. n Span no such prvleges are granted because of a concordat wth the Vatcan. The queston mmedately comng to mnd MAY 8, 959 s why there should' be such 2. dfference bernreen Span and Rome when Sp2n s only followng the '\vshes of RonH:. Doubtless there s an answer, thouph t mght be a lttle conplc2.ted. \Xe.fe stll left wth the contenton th2.t far words and flmsy excuses for the ntolerance- of relgous convctons n Sp2.n ~lfe :t poor substtute for b2.sc hurnan rl~hts, :ln()~., < \vhch s the rght to worshp God,HcorJng to the dctates of one's ()wn cnn SCence. Hstory seelns to pro\'c th.lt <..-oercon uf mnortes n relgous n:ltters, tou,l.:h t may seem to buld a strong church, docs not really help the church to th<: extent ntended. True Chrstalltv thr\'es when based on persuason rather 'than force. The Apostle Paul \vrote of that knd of Chrstanty n these \vords " know W0f have beleved and am persu2.dcd..." Drr. NOLde Speaks OUt> No fgure s nlore prollncnt n relgous crcles than Dr. O. Frederck Nolde when t comes to v.rorkng for pe;lcef u settlement of nternatonal dfferences. -e s drector of the Conmsson of the Churches on nternatonal Affars. The:rc have been tnles when sonc of those nterested n ecumencal aff2.rs have \vshed that he would take a stronger st2.nd. n the recent quellng by harsh force of the effort of the Tbetans to acheve f reedon wthn ther treaty rghts, Dr. Nolde has spoken out. Here are some of the statements. "The tragc developments n Tbet shock the conscence of manknd," he: says, ctng the thousands '\l.rho have been persecuted and put to death and other thousands who ha\-c fled the "regn of terror" n ther country. "No progress tow~lrd world peace and order can be rnadc so long as governments flout ntcrnaton3. moralty and law by volent suppresson of a people and' ts culture... \Xf e are convnced that the best nterests of all governments are called upon to heed the demands of common decency and to Ce:t the: oblgatons - legal, hunane, 3.nd n0[;: - mposed upon those v.rho carn pbcc n the world communty. Publc opnon around the globe must condemn \vhat h2.5 happened n Tbet."

3 Not everythng that gets on the news ~ta?ds of tl).,e ~aton s '"Gospel truth" even f t appe"rs n such respected magaznes as Tme. Such s the case wth the enormous buld-up gven to Professor Oscar Cullman's lecture on the Coptc manuscrpt enttled "The Gospel of Thomas." nez Robb, n a natonally syndcated column, also went far beyond the scholars when she stated that the "world awats the publcaton of ancent document wth htherto unknown sayngs attrbuted to the Savor" and called the forthcomng. publcaton of t "one of the major events of modern tnes." Robert G. Bratcher, of Lousvlle, Ky., n the leadng artcle of a Baptst weekly Western Recorder (Aprl 30, 959), presents a scholarly answer to ths overdong of publcty over a relatvely unmportant, though ancent, lttle document. t s so easy for people to become excted over somethng lke ths and never check what the scholars actually say about t. The tendency may well be to dscount the nfntely greater treasure whch can be purchased for a few cents n any Bble store. Great arch~eologcal dscoveres are exctng f they shed even a tny bt of addtonal lght on the Scrptures. We would not for a moment make lght of ths partcular fnd of 945 whch s now beng publczed. t has ts place but t s not a new gospel by any stretch of the magnaton. n the artcle by Bratcher, whch we would commend to ou" readers, t s ponted out that ths so-called '"Gospel of Thomas" has prevously heen photostatcally reproduced and comm'ented on by theologcal journals. t appears to be the. product of the fertle magnaton of Gnostc wrters of the fourth 0' perhaps thrd 'centures. t contans just a few sayngs attrbuted to Jesus whch have not prevously been known to Engls4 readers, most of whch are, accordng to Dr. Bratcher, "qute far from the sprt and method of Jesus as manfest n the Synoptc Gospels." Cullman hmself warned n the lecture mentoned above that "whle ths document - and others lke t whch may yet turn up - may enrch and further our understandng of the canoncal Gospels, t contans no new revelaton of the teachngs of Jesus. The Gospels are and contnue to be our source for the knowledge of the lfe and teachng of Jesus." N@w [Q)@«:@D@@)M@$ The Ten Commandments, or Decalogue, delvered to Moses at Mount Sna s a code of laws whch has through these mllennums clearly lad before man hs responsblty to God and to hs fellow men. n every generaton there have been those who have known the all-embracng character of these laws and have sought to modfy them, enlarge them, rephrase them, paraphrase them, make lght of them, and annul them. There have been ndvdual and concerted efforts to evade and dsobey the dvne law. Sometmes one wonders f the attempts to wrte takeoffs on the Ten Commandments have not consumed more energy than attempts to obey them. Two church bulletns recently receved quoted so-called "Ten Lommandments Jor Parents." The thoughts n both cases were good but were absolutely dfferent. t would be nterestng to know how many such lsts are n prnt. The number would doubtless be legon. Notng the dssmlarty r.emnds us that they represent experences and backgrounds that are far less than unversal. t s to be observed also that these so-called commandments are seldom wrtten around any of the frst f our n the revealed lst - w hch have to do wth oblgatons to God. Why s t? Perhaps there s hestancy to make lght of any porton of such oblgaton by addng to or subtractng from the wrtten Word. But agan, countless words have been wrtten by less than careful thnkers to the effect that the Fourth Commandm,ent s no longer God's wll for man. So we leave the m,atter where we pcked t up, "God spoke all these words sayng,..." The "ten commandments" men have wrtten do not compare wth those of the. Bble. Probably they were never meant to. r?9~3't"~ ~~~ " rro [Q)@')f orru vroe $ cllc ~o Recently a professor n our county ordered a hgh school Junor to leave the gymnasum due to bad conduct. The student refused and the teacher knocked hm down. n the Mdwest a student struck a teacher and broke hs jaw. n dscussng these ncdents wth a farmer n our area, he sad, "What the young people need today s about ten hours a day n the sadde." Mother Greene puts t a dfferent way. She says, "What chldren need s the old-fashoned chores to do each day." We seem to have an ncreasng number of parents who make the mstake of concludng they are dong ther chldren a great servce by provdng them a lfe of lesure. The parents desperately wanted somethng n ther own chldhood' they could not have; so they work and slave to provde ths for ther chld. Bll Stemple, an extenson agent, told of wantng a pony ~ when he was a boy. When he grew up, he boughf hs son a nce pony, a saddle, and a cart. When he asked the boy how he lked t, he was crushed wth the reply: "But, Dad, ddn"t want a pony, ( wanted a bcycle" Few thngs are more revoltng to me than to see a father and a mother spend full tme workng so ther chldren can spend full tme drvng a car, fshng or huntng, and gong to partes. Stewardshp must start at a very tender age. Mothers play a key role n teachng stewardshp of tme. have known a few mothers who absolutely refused to permt ther daughters, much less ther sons, to do,any cookng n ther ktchens because they leave such a mess. A sense of accomplshment must be taught early n lfe - prde n a job well done. My wfe used to pay the chldren for dong the dshes. When they receved ther wages t offered an opportunty to teach them how they mght save for the future and pay ther oblgaton to ther heavenly Father. Chldren who are gven responsblty and have challengng work to do assume responsblty. A youngster who s nterested n hs work and' s physcally tred at the end of a day s seldom plottng how he can "outsmart'" hs teacher or parents; or ho\',. he can mam hs playmates. t has been very dsappontng to sec the rather large percentage of h.sh school graduates 'who start adyanced tranng that come drftng home after a few ",;eeks or months. They are smply unable to lakc the self-dscplned adjustments nec(."ssar-y to get the job done. s ths the result of H too fev hours n the saddle" durng the eady formatve years? Let no one deny that our young collc:gc: students are confronted v.lth real pressures. Deane W. l\{alott, presdent of Cornell Unversty, sad n hs annu;d report: t s clear that just 3S educators tod;.), ;.fc confronted wth problems v,,'hch z[c src;.tcr n dmenson than those of P:st tmc:s, SO ::re today's students, at Corncll and dscwhcrc, faced wth more and grc:tcr problcms th~n ther predecessors and both thc unycrsty ;.nd the students are' subject to prc=.;surcs 7,,,-thn the campus and wthout, thac :re v, chouc par.jel n the Pa:t. f we parents are to adequately prepare our young people for these problens, \ve must certanly waste no tme n tc2.chng them the qu2..ltes of responsblty 3.nd stewardshp. beleve these C3.n best be taught n a truly Chrst-centered home. AJ'U u'gter 5UlSerc:lll [SSUC LauTchccl Regular subscrbers receved ther 2-- page May specal ssue of the S;;.bh3.th Recorder on tme (f there,vere no postal delays). The bulk orders for addtoo::d copes were maled on l\fay and should now be n the hands of pastors 3.nd Tract Commttee charmen for d'strbuton. The ntal enthusasm of subscrbers should be translated mmedately ota ~:.s wdc.: scale sharng \vth others as the ntcd number avalable wll 'warr~nt. Comnc.:nts on the value of ths partcular ssue arc solcted. t should be remembered th:l.t Rev. (ennethsmth has_ OO\V n0ved to the new Denver parsonage at 230, \\:l::.dsworth Blvd., Lake\\~ood, Colo. f read'ers who faled to send n :l.dv2.oce orders now wsh they h3.d done so, th<.:re s stll a possblty that orders can be flled f, acton s taken quckly. The s u r plus was consderably depleted by one ndvdual n New York Cty s,,'ho \YJ.nted 200 for a specal dstrbuton on \{rry 0. THE SABBATH RECORDER MAY 8, 959 5

4 @{? There are places n New York where there s no other way to look than up. Even so t s dffcult to see any consderable porton df the frmament above. Roger Cazzol, newest member of the mssonary teachng staff n Jamaca, and Mrs.R. T. Fetherston, Seventh Day Baptst executve secretary, face the towerng buldngs of md-manhattan on Aprl 24 a few days before Mr. Cazzol resumed hs plane flght from Ghana, Afrca, to hs new feld of servce. The cameraman kneelng n the street n front of the great Unted Natons Plaza fals to enclose the top of the towerng UN buldng n the background. The all-glass face of ths buldng has become a landmark ~nd a symbol to the world. The vstng party walkng around and wthn ths symbol of nternatonal cooperaton entered the tny chapel on the frst floor. Not n the orgnal plan, ths lttle room s open daly for moments of medtaton. ts bare, oddly-shaped' altar unfortunately suggests a type of worshp that s other than Chrstan. He who medtates here must brng hs relgon wth hm. The upturned faces pctured above may well symbolze the upward and forward look of our people at home and abroad. Wth determnaton and wth antcpaton of the smle of God upon our efforts we 6 should look out upon the great whte harvest felds conscous that we are slhoutted aganst our own symbols of unty n acton. 'Y}{J ~ }{J@[L f ~ ~D ~D'Y ~A[J lq) 'Y}{J ~ ~lxlluj ~(6[}=:J ~ {fl[@'l'l {f}u~ [?l[@sc {fl}u@ W@l[U<cl ~}uqd'(5fu~s {f@f P@l'lfr (5@sfr, hw<9jv ~ J-:r The Holy Sprt has created the Church. The Holy Sprt s the lfe of the Church today. As we pray that the Holy Sprt may come nto our own lves, we pray at the same tme that we may become lvng members of the one Body of Chrst. The Holy Sprt s the Sprt of unty, whch s constantly at work to heal the dvsons whch obscure the wonderful truth of the oneness of Chrst's Body and whch gathers all the baptzed together nto the one famly of God. The Holy Sprt s the Sprt of renewal, whch overcomes the dmness of our vson, the routne of our pety, our easy acceptance of the ways of the world, and gves new lfe to the congregatons and ther members who open ther hearts and mnds for the gfts of the Sprt. The Holy Sprt s the Sprt of wtness and msson whch urges us to cease beng preoccuped wth ourselves and send's us out nto the world wth ts cryng sprtual and materal needs n order to proclam by word and deed that humanty s surrounded by the love of God n Chrst. The Holy Sprt s the Sprt of reconclaton whch overcomes msunderstandng and estrangement among the churches and enables them to become a force for peace between natons and races. Let us, therefore, rej oce n the presence of God's Holy Sprt. Let us wtness anew to Hs all-transformng power. Let us glorfy God and enjoy the fruts of Hs Sprt who has come to lead us to greater fullness of lfe, ths day and evermore. *The presdents of. the W ord Councl of Churches: Dr. John Bale, Ednburgh, Bshop Otto Dbelus, Berln, Bshop S. U. Barber, Buenos Ares, Metropoltan Juhanon Mar Thoma, Truvella, Bshop Henry Knox Sher" rll, Boxford, Mass. THE SABBATH RECORDER The last secton of a paper presented to the fvl nsters Conference V~~ $(ff'&-~ Hessey, n the Bampton lectures of 860, makes clear the opnon of the Contnental Reformers and ther lack of dvne authorty for Sunday observance. He says: Wth one blow as t were, and wth one con' sent, the Contnental Reformers rej ected the Legal or Jewsh ttle whch had been set up for t; the more Jewsh ceremones and restrctons by whch, n theory at least, t had been encum' bered; the army of holy,days of oblgaton by whch t had been surrounded. But they dd more. They left standng no sancton for the day tself whch could commend tself power' fully to men s conscences. They dd not per' ceve that, through the Apostles, t was of the Lord"s foundng. They swept away together wth the upper-works whch were Dot the Lord's the underworks whch were the Lord's. And when they'\.dscovered that men, that human nature, n {act, could not do wthout t, they adopted the day, ndeed, but wth ths reser' vaton expressed or mpled: ~~The Lord's Day s to be placed n the category of ordnances whch, beng matters of ndfferen~ any partcular or natonal church hath authorty to ordan, change or abolsh; n By Kenneth E. Smth or, whch was worse stll, they made t a purely cvl nsttu' ton, dependent f not for ts orgn, at least for ts contnuance. on the secular power. Hessey seems to agree wth Rchard Baxter (The Dvne Appontment page 27) who says n a most patronzng tone of Calvn and Beza: "You must remember that they came newly out of Popery" and, not observng the dfference between Sunday and Papst's ceremones, they brought forth "too undstngushng and naccurate a reformaton." Ths brngs us to merry old England and a vew of the Sabbath whch s assocated wth the Purtan movement. Coleman, wrtng n 852, says, "The dvne authorty of the Sabbath nether was recognzed by the ancent fathers; nor by Luther or Calvn; nor by the early Reformers. t was reserved for the Purtans, to ther mmortal honor, frst to expound and enforce the law of the Chrstan Sabbath, MAY 8, 959 based on the authorty of God's \'( 0 rd. They better read the la,v of the Lord our God on ths subject..." Then he b(: comes qute eloqucnt as he says, "Th<.: nfluence of the sun n th<.: hc:,\'c:ns s no more clear or genal than s tlllt of th<.: Chrstan Sabbath upon the who<.: En.~ sh race \vhercycr found. The:y and they alone have a Sabbath, a Chrstan S:lbb~~th, holy unto the Lord, by God"s conunand. Wth all else throughout Chrstcndon the: Sabbath s a holday, a festy:d, obsc:rycd by common consent, lkc other Sant's days and festvals of thc calendar." (Ancent Chrstanty Exemplfcd n the Lf <: of the Prmtve Chrstans, Phl. S 52.) Coleman s correct n one mportant observaton, namely, that no S?rOU5 attunpt was made by any onc pror to the Englsh Purtans to gve Bblcal authorty to the observance of Sunday as the S:lbbath. ndeed, we ffay be more specfc not untl n 606 and the publcaton of. book by Ncolas Bound, D.D., a clergyman at "-Jorton, n Suffolk. was the opnon ever wdely held that the sanctty and authorty of the seventh-day Sabbath Vlcre transfcrred to the frst day of the \vc~~k. The 0P.ortance of Bound's work n understand 09 contemporary popular opnons regardng the observance of Sunday cannot be overem phaszed. The ttle of the book, f not bref, s ::.t least suggestve of hs thess: S2.bbathurn Veters et Nov Testament: or, "The True Doctrne of the Sabbath, held and pr2.ctced' of the Church of God, both bef 0 rc and under the law, and n the tnc of the: Gospel: Planly lad forth and soundly proved by testmones both of the Holy Scrpture, and also of old and nev.' ~cclesastcal Wrters, Fathers.and Councls, and LaVS of all sorts, both cvl, Gl.oon, and common. Declarng frst from \vhat

5 thngs God would have us stratly to rest upon the Lord's Day, and then by what means we ought publcly and prvately to sanctfy the same. Together wth the Sundry" abuses of men n both these knds, and how they ought to be reformed. Dvded nto two books by Ncolas Bound, Dr. of Dvnty: And now' by hm the Second Tme Perused, and Enlarged wth an nterpretaton of sundry ponts belongng to the Sabbath, and' a more ample proof of such thngs as have been gansad or doubted of by some Dvnes of our tme, and a more full answer unto certan objectons made aganst the same: wth some other thngs not mpertnent to ths argument." London, 606. The book could not have been publshed at a better tme for a favorable reacton from the Englsh publc. Because of poltcal ntrgue and hgh-handed regulatons, the Church of,england had lost much support, a fact whch the Purtans used' to full advantage. Bound's book, wth ts legalstc restrctons on Sunday (O~$~o ance, seemed an attack on both the Church and the Government whch had recently publshed' opnons regardng Sunday conduct. The poston taken by the state church was much lke that of Luther and Calvn, and Sunday was not to be regarded n a Sabbatcal sense. An earler edton of Bound's book was' suppressed by Archbshop Whtgft n 599 and that was the spark whch touched off ts enormous popularty.we are told that wthn a few years'of the publcaton date, the Englsh observance of Sunday underwent consderable change. Those who opposed Bound's vews were hestant to take up the pen, but fnally the contnental vews were reaffrmed by the offcal church, and the ssue was very much a lve one. From , we have a Sabbath' controversy whch for heat and ntensty s. unque.. t was durng ths perod that Traske (620) and Brabourne (628) entereq the fray on the sde of the contnung, sanctty' of the seventh-day Sabbath. What dd Bound say to create such an upheaval 'and change the obsfrvance of E~gl~ Protestantsm?' ~:e 'YUL attenpt. a bref. o,utl,ne., '..' '" t.. L' '.The_ s~yenth::day,.sal?b~~ was,gven:at ~:)-. creaton: befo're-;r' was "gven:. o:tl~sga:~ 2. The Gospel has not abolshed the observance of the Sabbath. The Sabbath s not Jewsh ether n orgn or ntent. 3. The Sabbath s upon the seventh day, and no other. The Lord' has gven no authorty to the church to change the da.y from the seventh to any other. God hath set down ths "very Seventh Day." 4. Only God has the authorty to sanctfy. 'low ho~ does Bound escape the nevtahle logc of these assertons? Watch hm closely, for a shadow forms over hs prevous clarty: "The Sabbath day must needs be upon the seventh day as t always hath been, and upon ths seventh day that we now keep. But concernng ths very ~pecal s~venth day, th:.t now we keep n the tme of the gospel, that s well known that t. s. not th~ sa\e t was from the begnnng whch God hm ~lf ~d sanctfy, and whereof he speaketh n.ths commandment, for t was the day gong before ours, whch n Latn retaneth hs ancent name, and s called the Sabbath, whdl we also grant, but so that we confess, t must always reman, never to be changed anymore, and that all men must keep holy ths seventh day and none other, whch was unto them not the seven~,,?ut, the frst day of ~h~ week, as t s so called many tmes n the New Testament, and so t stll st2.ndeth n force that -, we are bound' unto the. seventh day, though, not unto the very seventh. Con~ cernng the'tme and the persons by whom. and when the day was changed, t appeareth n the New Testament that t was done n the tme of the Apostles, and by the Apostles themselves, and that together wth the day, the name was changed, and was n the begnnng called the frst day of the week, afterwards the' Lord's Day." Surely by all the laws of logc t, s smply mpossble to understand' that crucal paragraph. t s what A. H. Lews called a "boomerang of retro-actve logc" Just to be sure that we dd not 'msunderstand Dr. Bound, let us quote from an earler secton: " do not see... where the :J;.ord hath gven any authorty to hs ~hurch ord~narly and perpetually to sanc ~lfy.a:ny 'day; except that whch, he hath sanctfed 'hmself. '~:. and so' we see that ' ~ ~... '(,Contnued' on. p'age ' 4) 'Jhl@@fl ~V $U'lYJdl@UJfrn b\2)sdsfr ~hl@cdjg: lsh@'lcdj <e~ml"<:~~ By Albert N. Rogers A team composed of four students of the Alfred Unversty School of Theology and Dean Albert N. Rogers spent a long weekend, Aprl 24-27, assstng the Rev. Neal D. Mlls and leaders of the Rockvlle a~d Second Hopknton Seventh Day Baptlst Churches n a program of vstaton evangelsm. J. Paul Green, pastor of the Alfred Staton Seventh Day Baptst Church Paul Zelnka of Stephens Mlls, N. Y.: Roy McCaffery of Hornell, N. Y., and Gary Hakes of Knoxvlle, Pa., were the student mem>ers of the team. The last three are student pastors of Methodst churches as wej as_theologcal students. The program opened wth supper n the Rockvlle parsh house, where women of the host churches served the team members and local gudes who were sharng n the vstaton. A servce of fellowshp and prayer folowed n the Rockvlle Church at whch tme each member of the team spoke on hs Chrstan experence and call to the mnstry. Seventy-two calls were made on Sabbath day and Sunday, n addton to sharng by the team members n the Sabbath servces of the Rockvlle and Second Hopknton congregatons. nactve members and unchurched famles were vsted and reactons found, vared all the way from hostlty and ndfference to sncere nterest and deep apprecaton for what the church stands for. Suggestons were made to local leaders for follow-up work and counselng n the next few weeks.. A communty servce held on Sunday nght closed the weekend msson wth Dean Rogers summarzng the. fndngs of the team and ts proposals for further church endeavor. Musc was furnshed at each servce by group sngng, and by Mr. Zelnka as organst. The Rockvlle trp marked another n the seres of feld work projects whch are planned each year to acquant students wth problems and possbltes f:l the local parsh.. Prevousstudes have been carred on n Westerly, R.., and n Verona, Adams Center, and Owego, N. Y. ' From Jamaca, W.., comes news [ron one of the campers lvng only a f<.:\v rnles from Maden Hall that the young people of the Jamaca Conference are plannng an outng at Maden Hall - sonethng of a follow-up of the camp held there about the frst of Aprl. To rcnc\v and r<.: capture past experences s one of the joys of campers n Jamaca as \\'ell as n ths country. Letters from campers ndcate that ther hearts and mnds arc stll full of the songs that became precous to thcf at Maden Hall. Now the Jamacan young people have a place they can thnk of :$ ther own - a place assocated wth mountan-top memores. From Shloh, N. J., '\vord comes Vl~l the church bulletn that the Permanen t Carn p Commttee s ready to recomn<.:nd the purchase of a camp ste at l\fasl:::ell's l\fll Pond. What the church busness ncctn gs decde wll doubtless be reported bt~r. Those who have had experence n the development of church or Assoc:torl camp stes n other places speak n glo\vng terms of the values receved '-from workng together for somethng permanent of ths sort. t brngs blessng to the adults as,yell as to changng Cln per generatons. AnnuczB \'lconng or- Hsrodccd SOctcfy The annual meetng of the Seventh D.:l Baptst Hstorcal Socety wll be hc:d o~ Sunday, May 3, 959, at J..n., n the Seventh Day Baptst Buldng, 50 \,l:ltchung Avenue, Planfeld, N. J. Frederk J. B~kkcr, Secy. -. SABBAT- SCHOOL LESSON for Vray 30, 959 Not Alone n the F~th Scrpture Lesson: <::ngs 9: 9- S. 9

6 MSSONS - Sec. ~verett Y. Harrs ~ ~{l)$w ~~[}uooqljo The Rev. Davd Pearson's report as head of the Makapwa Msson for the quarter endng March 3, 959, brngs to us anew a sense of the busy schedule of our msson workers n Nyasaland. Pastor Pearson reports havng made vsts to sx churches, held twenty-four prayer meetngs, and delvered tlen sermons. The average church attendance s gven as 233. Besdes these actvtes he has wrtten the adult quarterles for the quarter and carred 7 classes a week n the school. Pastor Pearson's report brought a realzaton of the heavy load of work also carred by Mrs. Bette Pearson. She has served as actng prncpal of the school fr6m July, 957, to the present date. Snce 955 she has been wrtng and duplcatng the lesson helps for teachers of chldren's Sabbath School classes. The report contnues: "She also wrtes a seres of lttle lessons whch are prnted on the backs of chldren's pctoral cards, whch are suppled by aonors. Pastor Beebe furnshes these from the Standard Publshng Company' and mals them to us. Besdes ths, Bette has carr'ed the bulk of the prncpal's dutes and has carred a teachng load of about 5 classes per week:' A,s we can see from ths report, when the Pearsons leave for ther year of fur lough n the States early n June, ther absence wll be felt n more than one way bx our other fathful msson workers at MaCapwa.. MO$$o@Tl@rrw P@5fr@lf$ ~@[?)@lffr Several mssonary pastors attended the Seventh Day Baptst Mnsters Conference at Alfred, Aprl 3-8. The Mssonary Board's proffered assstance on travel expenses was accepted n some nstances. Several pastors report helpful ad' receved through the Rhode sland Blue Cross and Physcans Servce Group nsurance durng the past quarter. Pastor Elzabeth F. Randolph wrtes from Washngton, D. C., uwe surely apprecate the arrangements that have been made for the Rev.C. Harmon Dcknson to assst n meetngs June 9-2 and long- er f God lead's, n connecton wth both the People's and the Washngton Churches." Pastor Randolph also reports that several youth meetngs ha~e been. held. at Manassas wth presentaton of ftmstnps. There was an average attendance of eghteen. Pastor Don Rchards reports he has vsted a "very needy group at Crtes Mountan, near Sutton, W. Va." He wrtes, "More of ths type of vstaton should be done wthn these areas and others." Pastor Rchards suggests that nterest n the areas of the Mddle sland and Berea Churches wll ncrease as weather condtons mprove. Summer and fall plans, of the two churches are presently beng consdered. Shepherdng Pastor Maron Van Horn wrtes concernng the hopes and plans of the Lttle Rock Fellowshp whch looks toward organzaton as a Sevent~ Day Baptst church n the near future. t.ls possble that ths wll be delayed unttl after Conference so as to relate these plans wth those of the fellowshps at Metare and Walker, La. Denomnatonal lead'ers mght then attend several consecutve organzatonal servces n the Southwestern area. Pastor Herbert Polan reports that durng the last thrteen weeks of servce at Daytona Beach, Fla., he preached th~teen tmes, made 9 calls, held a bapttsmal servce for 2, and added 6 to the church. Pastor and Mrs. Polan planned to return to ther home. n Battle Creek early n May. Pastor Lester G. Osborn wrtes from Schenectady that nclement weather and bad roads have cut down attendance durng the wnter months. Sabbath eve servces whch had been dscontnued were started agan on Aprl 3. He wrtes, "We go to Gallupvlle to the Burns Nursng Home the second Sabbath n each month, f weather and roads permt." Evangelst Loyal Hurley s plannng to spend a few days wth the Whte Cloud', Mchgan, Seventh Day Baptst Church followng the specal servces at Jackson Center, Oho, held as a part of the Northern Assocaton program. Mr. Hurley's. decson to retre as our feld evangelst : ;j., ;j j : :, U. H : : 'j, ~ : :j ;J,., j q, as of September 30, 959, was announced to the Mssonary Board meetng. t s expected that he wll complete hs present schedule of servces before retrement. Ths ncludes plans for. assstance at Lttle Genesee, N. Y., n September. Tentatve plans have been dscussed lookng toward assstance n the Dodge Center - Twn Ctes area. Pastor Ted Hbbard has wrtten regardng tentatve plans for the Walker Fellowshp to be organzed as a Seventh Da.y Baptst church n comng months. WOMEN'S WORt' - /lj)~v Tn NA. Mr>. A. Run:.ell Mc;t;on rr ~ JJ l"d NH: By Mrs. Alena Bond Nortonvlle, Kansas Topc: Work Wllngly for a Wllng God Scrpture: Hebrews 6: Medtaton: Our Master has taken Hs journey To a country that's far away; And left us the care of Hs vneyard, To work n t day by da.y. There's a work for me and a work for you, Somethng for each of us now to do. When we look about us at the condtons n the world today, we cannot but see the overwhelmng need of work to be done. Often we feel so nadequate to meet these needs. We, should remember Paul's words n 2 Cornthans 8: 2, "f there be frst a wllng mnd t s accepted accordng to that a man hath, and not accordng to that he hath not," and we may fnd that the Master can take our small but wllng offerng, whetht.r t be of our money, our tme, our work, or our prayers, and brng great blessngs out of t, lke the boy's lunch that fed the multtudes. Recently heard a speaker on the rado remark that prayng, real prayng, s work, hard work. That s somethng that we can each one do, and can do more and more effectvely as we practce t. When Moses began to buld the tabernacle for worshp as we read n Exodus 35: 29, "The chldren of srael brought MElv:0RY TE:X:T Brethren, be not chldren n understandng: howbet n malce be )'e chldren, but n understandng be Dlen. Cor. ': 20. a v/llng offerng unto the Lord, eyer)" man and woman,... hose heart nl:lde the.:rn,wllng to brng, for all anner of,vurl::, whch the Lord had cornlandeo to be made by the hand of \0se:s." \'('e: so oftcn hear quoted from 2 Cornthans 9: 7 tlut "God loyeth a cheerful gye:[." The.: Ne.:w World translaton says, :'Let e.:;ch one do just as he has rcsol\"cd n hs h<:art, not grudgngly or under cornpulson, for C;lld loves a cheerful oycr." Ne.:he.:rnah.~ld the: people \vth hr: succeedej n rd~~ n,,': the walls of Jerusalenl because: the.: PCO[,,[c had a mnd to work." l\foffatt S;lYS, "The heart of the people was n the; wurk." We work out 'what God works n, Rc:."J Phlppans 2: 2, 3. CO [,-GPJ4. TULA T[O[\S~ An nterestng bt of news cornes out of the last quarterly neetng of the: Board of Trustees of the Seventh DarB;)' ft st Memoral Fund. n November, 923, the Old Stone.: Fort Seventh Day Baptst Church ~t Stone.:fort,., borro\ved $2,000 from the "Ge.:orge H. Babcock Feeble Church Fund" to hc:l p them n buldng a house of worsh p, Over the ntervenng YC:lrs ths church has been sendng n small arnounts untl n January t made the fn~d paync:nt of $245.93, cancelng the nortg~l.g<:. t all goes to shov.,r that " wh<.:[<: therc s a wll there s a Vo,ray," and thc Old Stone.: Fort Church s to be con~ratubt<.:d on beng able to clear off ths '-ndcbtnc:ss, L.. N. What s Conscence? For most of us, conscence s a hghly ntmate and personal thng, a 0 r.d weathervane at the very ctadel of the self. But for the Catholc, consccnce means smply the teachngs and drectyes of hs church. The Catholc \vho accepts hs church's dogma all the way bas, properly speakng, no conscence of hs own at all Church and Stat<:. 0 MAY 8, 959

7 :, CHRSTAN leducarbon - Sec. ~elt (C. ZwelbleO ~ ~~YO ~ ~[]={]lw~~[]={] ~~Xl@ [b The Vacaton Church School (Vacaton Day Bble School) has developed from a twofold concern of Chrstan educaton: () to' reach chldren O'utsde the church's Chrstan educaton pro'gram, and, (2) to provde addtonal tme for a mo're effectve pro'gram wth the chldren already enrolled n Sabbath School. t s becomng ncreasngly apparent that the church needs to provde churchsponsored summer programs for boys and grls for longer perods of tme and to provde such relgous programs as wll enable the character buldng forces of the church to be ncreasngly effectve n the lves of the chldren of the communty. Therefore, the bggest task to whch Chrstan workers can gve themselves ths summer s to lve, work, play, and worshp wth boys and grls so that they shall corne to understand better what t means to be a Chrstan. That opportunty s the essence of the Vacaton Church School. Take that group of lvely boys and' grls n your communty, add 0, 5, or 20 summer days~ str n some consecrated Chrstan. teache~s who have made care.ful preparaton. MX them all together ln Chrstan-lvng relatonshps where chldren and leaders work together and worshp God; where they study the Bble, seek to know what God' s lke, a.nd learn to work together wth Hm n servng others; 'where they enjoy themselves n work and playas well as fndng fellowshp wth new frend's and the Father God. The result ~s a Vaca~on Church School that s carrylng through the program emphass for 959. Let your Vacaton Church School become~he center of your June and/or July educatton program. Help the chldren of your church and your communty to broaden ther horzons and have "opportunty to.grow as Chrsta~s ~hrough fndng ther places as contnbutng members n ther own group and through learnng to apprecate the worth of every other ndvdual: Let ths be your church's opportunty to relate, permanently, unreached youngsters to the' church through satsfyng personal and group relatonshps begun n the Vacaton Church School. ~@]{J)n\f T& Young Adults of the Seventh Day Baptst churches are urged' to plan now to attend the frst annual Young Adult Retreat whch wll be held the week before General Conference n West Vrgna. As soon as a place to hold the Retreat s found, the amount of fee along wth other pertnent nformaton wll be forwarded. The fee wll be n the neghborhood of $2 per person. The dates wll be August 2-6, 959. Nk~w [D@@[J'@ J>[J'@g@]@rJ)ll At ts Aprl quarterly meetng George Potter was elected to serve as presdent of the Seventh Day Baptst Board of Chrstan Educaton for the balance of the fscal year. Mr. Potter succeeds the Rev. Delmer E. Van Horn who resgned effectve Aprl 9, 959. The son of Mr. and Mrs. ClfFord Potter, the new presdent s a professor n the State Unversty of New York Agrcultural and Techncal nsttute n Alfred, N. Y. Hs wfe, Ogareta, s the daughter of the late Rev. A. Clyde Ehret. Mr. Potter s also presdent of the Frst Alfred Seventh Day Baptst Church. Besdes beng elected presdent of the board, t was also voted that he represent the board on the. denomnatonal Coordnatng Commttee. Other matters of busness at the quarterly meetng of the board ncluded reports from all the commttee charmen. The Hgher Educaton Commttee reported that many who attended the annual Mnsters Conference had expressed satsfacton wth the program. The Publcatons Commttee reported 5 chapters of the book "You and Your Church" (Manual for Church Membershp) have been wrtten, wth more to come. The chapters wll be edted, and publcaton s planned early n the next denomnatonal year. The Youth Work Commttee reported the employment of Mss Helena Knox to represent the commttee as she works among our summer 'camps and Assocatons. A vote of confdenge by the board was gven to Mss Knox'. Mrs. R. T. Fetherston, executve secre-. l j, l j tary of the General Conference, was ntroduced, and spoke regardng the work of the Board of Chrstan Educaton n relaton to the proposed program of growth and extenson of Seventh Day Baptsts. Other guests present were Mr. and Mrs. Rene Mauch and Roger Cazzo... Board members n attendance were: Rev. and Mrs. Delmer E. Van Horn, Dr. Hurley S. Warren, Dr. Melvn G. Nda, Rev. A. N. Rogers, Pastor J. Paul Green, Ernest Bee, Presdent George Potter, Treasu.rer L. Eugene Reynolds, Phlp Post,' \.rs. Madge Sutton, Mrs. Helen Ogden, Mrs. Elzabeth Pearcy, Secretary Mabel F. Reynolds, and the executve secretary, the Rev. Rex Zwebel. ",.'\SSONS - Sec. Everett T. Harrs W@rr~{ ~rr@9jl"es5es (QV V'JDU'l eves Pastor Kenneth Van Horn has been spendng two or three days a week callng among the Twn Ctes Church members and prospectve members. He now conducts Sabbath servces regularly on the ' frst and thrd Sabbaths of each month. Vstors passng through the cty over these weekends are nvted to attend Sabbath servces held at St. Anthony Methodst Church, Hllsde and Como Ave., St. Paul. Pastor Van Horn tells of one of the nterestng contacts he had made. t came about ths way, accordng to the account he has gven. Whle we were at su pper n Mrs. Leonard's apartment n Mnneapols a few months ago, saw the name of Mrs. W. T. Grant n the Sabbath Recorder. t was n the "Brths" column. She had a son born to her. The notce gave the nformaton that she was formerly Mary Fogg of the Shloh, N. J., Church. Here was-someone whom we mght contact. Fndng only two W. T. Grants n the Mnneapols Telephone Drectory, we fgured that we could not mss, or at least had a chance on the frst call. We mssed on the frst call but on the second we made contact. After a nce vst by phone we extended an nvtaton to her and her husband to come to our church servces. She has done so, attendng wth some regularty. She seems to enjoy fellowshp wth folks of lke fath. The Rev. Don A. S;~nford ;rnd the \\/htc Cloud, Mch., Church 3.\'e ~~nnolnc(:j th;~t he has accepted a call to serve th::t church, He ".v leave the Ne\\' Auburn. \\js., r'.~storate and move to \vhtc Cloud ;ll;out September. Alvn Huntngton \",0 hdd ~~ bref pastorate at \X7hte Cloud LlS n:t U fned wth hs famly to the Los J\.ngcles, C.tf., area where he has sccuru unployrnc:nt, The not e n the \Xl ht e.: C lou d b'u le t states that the Huntngton Llmlv "','.LS stayng n the honle of Albyn \:ld:'ntosh untl they could fnd a house.:, The Rev. Herbert L. Polan and hs wfe have return<:d to the.:r horne o bttk Creek, l\ch., after se:rvn. the D.n'tun.: Beach Church durng the: ~';nter n~nth". As prevously noted, the Re\". -. Ell c;cnc: Davs, veteran Chna nlssonary. \.-a; the only retred mnster attendng the?\ln~ters Conference at Af rcd. Le :q'p:.:.ncd n good health although he [eluct::nthaccepted a lttle help... n gdtnf. [ror; place to place. Another veteran nssonary ;Lld P:l,,(Uf s the Rev. Jay \XT Crofoot who rn.lkes hs home wth hs daughter, '.'rs. L. -. North, of Planfe2. He, too, s n c:ood he. t for hs age and rernans act\'~ n chu rc"h and Sabb::tth School work. He rcecn tl \' celebrated hs eghty-ffth brthd::.y,. Speakng of c:der y f n ste [S. ts nterestng to note that tb<: Rc\'. El F. Loofboro, retred for many Y(.':lrS ~Lt \\:(:~tery, R.., stll drves hs car and f(:rt;~ns an actve member of the l\fssonary Bo:: rd n addton to hs other church :l;h cl\'c nterests. Confned for nlany ye:lfs by : r:ldytc stroke :lnd un:bc to Ldk. th::.: Re\,. Ccor;:c B. Sha\v, of Alfred, N. Y.. looks wd ::;( takes a keen nterest n vstors. There are other retred mnst<:rs who fnd m portan t places of se n' cc: n t h(: churches ncar whch the\, lve. 'rh<.: wrter does not have up-to-d~lt(: 'n[ orrn:ltotl.j ' out all of them. t s to be noted th~t O(~ of these, the Re\. Ero E. SLtton of Boulder, Colo., had a [CttU[C :lrtcle on "Salty Chrstans" n the: splc:d ssue of the Sabbath Recorder rc.:l<:~:.scd on "l\l~ \'. 2 THE SABBATH RECORDER MAY 8, 959 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~L. --~------~ ~ 3

8 ~o {f cel}ucwrr«:}u By Marjor,e J. Burdck A beautful Sabbath, Aprl, 959, s dra"\vng to a close. The members and frends of the Mlton Seventh Day Baptst Church have had a heart-warmng experence. Twenty-fve years ago our beautful church buldng was dedcated. Today we have had a re-dedcaton servce. The mornng servce followed the pattern of the servce held Aprl 4, 934. Mss Elzabeth Daland played peces used by Mrs. Kathryn Rogers, who was organst at that tme. The Choral Call to Prayer, "Seek Ye the Lord," was one wrtten by Mrs. Rogers. Two anthems sung by the chor were us-ed twenty-fve years ago:."buld Thee More Stately Mansons," and "How Lovely s Thy Dw,ellng Place.." Kenneth Babcock sang, "How Lovely Are Thl~ $ Jb>'Q)( ]~hl [Q)lYl7'Dl'~ ~hle l%e*@7'tl l~o@f) (Contnued from page 8) the Sabbath must needs be stll upon the seventh day as t has always been." t s smply mpossble to reconcle these statements, whch are repeated frequently, wth the frst paragraph quoted. The church has not been gven authorty to change the day, he ass erts, but the apostles dd' change the day, and apparently wth Dr. ;Bound's blessng. Here, then, s a lengthy work (479 pages) whch holds that the Sabbath must never be changed or abrogated, but bures n a mysterous para-. graph, the admsson that t has been changed from the very seventh day to ths very seventh day. n every other respect the author shows hmself to be a learned' scholar and a lucd wrter, hence one can only conclude that he got nto dffculty by hs consstency wth the facts and got out of dffculty by a momentary lapse nto obscurantsm. All of ths mght be amusng but for the fast that Bound set the pattern for a naton and a culture n regard to a day of rest. Unlke the reformers of Germany, Swtzerland and France, he nssted upon Sabbath ~bservance for Sunday. The use of Thy Dwellngs," whch he sang at the orgnal servce. n the pews, the new hymnals had been replaced by the old, and the sa'me hymns and responsve readng were used. Pastor Randolph based hs sermon, "The House of God," on the Scrpture, Psalm 73. As the Psalmst of old, we need a sanctuary to whch we can go n our wearness, that we may gan an understandng of the m.eanng of lfe and our relatonshp to t. He spoke of the many uses of ths sanctuary through the years, for s-ervces of worshp, church group meetngs, weddngs, funerals, and for fellowshp wth other groups. Through all of these, the supreme queston s, "What has happened to the people who have been n these groups? Has Chrst entered ther hearts and buded there a temple - a buldng from God, eternal n the heavens?" the term Sabbath for Sunday s our hertage from Ncolas Bound and the Purtan movement. Perhaps these voces from the past help to explan the varety of opnon regard' ng the Sabbath whch s evdent n the Unted States. As a meltng pot of natons we are aware of three major opnons on ths ssue:. The Englsh nfluence, partcularly the free-church, comng by way of Colonal New England has been a transference of sanctty and authorty from Sabbath to Sunday. Ths group s most lkely to call Sunday the Sabbath and s most partcular about ts observance. 2. The European Protestants clam that all days are sacred and are qute ndfferent about the observance of Sunday. 3. The Roman Catholc Church element has found authorty for Sunday observance n ther doctrne of the Church. Thus, the Catholc agrees wth the Purtan that t~e Sabbath s transferred', but the Catholc has the easer poston to mantan snce he can demonstrate that the Church made the transferal. The Purtan, clamng Bblcal authorty, has nothng more substantal than Dr. Bound's mysterous paragra ph. (End.). : ;, :\ : : : As the congregaton read together ther affrmaton of re-dedcaton, patterned after the orgnal act of worshp, there was a sncere feelng wth the Psalmst, "t s good for me to draw near to God" n our beautful sanctuary. The afternoon servce followed the Meal of Sharng. Professor L. H. Strnger drected a group of some twenty-fve men n the sngng of such favortes as "Take Tme To Be Holy" and "Rock of Ages." Professor D. N. ngls led devotonals, readng from the large Bble gven for use at the tme of the dedcaton. t rested on a small table used as a pulpt by the frst pastor of ths church, the Rev. Stllman Coon. Professor W. D. Burdck, presdent of the church at the tme of the dedcaton, pad trbute to the leadershp and untrng work of tge late Dean J. N. Daland, who was presdent through the tryng tmes and dffcult days of the depresson when the buldng was beng erected. The loss of the former church buldng by fre came when the church was wthout a pastor, but the Rev. and Mrs. Carroll Hll were called and took up the pastorate about the tme the work was started on the excavaton. Hstorcal thoughts on "Buldng a Church" were gven by Mr. Hll who was nvted back to Mlton for the occason. He revewed the work of a labor of love n those years when jobs were few and money was scarce. The cost of the buldng was $29,000, but ths does not reveal the vast number of hours of labor for whch no money was pad. He mentoned gfts of memoral wndows, the work of women n furnshng and equppng the ktchen, the d-:=sgn ~nd constructon, and many other nterestng thngs, nterspersed wth anecdotes that often brgught a smle or chuckle as they were recalled by many n the audence. Vctor Hurley and Mrs. Gladys Drake, representng the Buldng Commttee of 934, told of ther experences and pad trbute to some who served and helped so much n ths work. Attorney Grant Davs, Dr. George Post, and Dr. H. L. Hulett were mentoned. Mrs. Drake spoke of the work of the three women's organ- zatons of that t nc J.n J the: r (orn bn e:d efforts. Vstng and lookng at old pcturz::-. 0; dsplay kept many th~r<: long after.the: servce. As the da v close:d, the: w rr t c: r thought many tnc; of the words of ;l lttle fve-year-old grl, just ~:. f e:w wc:cks ago, as she looked up nto t.he: hphvaulted celng, "t ust h;\ <.: taken.: Jut of tme and a lot of n0ne:y to h.\'(: l)ult ths church." \v'e all ha\"t: ~l de:t:;e:r ~~pprecaton and lovc for our church be.:clu<;c we have spent ths Sabbath n re:fcmbrance and re-dedcaton. An Out pournng or the Sprl-{' At Pant Rock, Ala., C,~rlton \Vlsul. the nterm pastor (rorn Phbdclph.l. wtnessed an outpourng of the Sprt 0 March 29 such as s not often dllpll ~~tcd. Wrtng that sartc: nght, be dcsc;bcs h:, dsa ppon tmen t when on y sc\ ~ n ~ C'-.: l.:.l C to the Sunday c:venng evangelstc SerVCe. He had pra~ed much about t~c: ~;~,l\,,~t on message \VhlCh the Lord :<.. L(. u ron hs heart. t appc:j.red that the: cornrnunt\ was not very nterested. The pastor delvercd tht: JnCSS;l~C :u the seventeen people 'who werc pr<-"~ent. confdent that the Lord could bless hs effort for a fev.: as \vc as for n.:ny. Out of that lttle group he reports th~lt ~c\ Cfl gave ther he'arts to the Lord ;lnd cc.llc fonvard for prayer. He speaks of h;~ \' n,~ 'had n the after meetng "one.: of those alorous tmes n the Lord." The ktkr b goes on to say that these young converts went to work for the Lord at once, "Lyng for others \\'ho had requc:stcd pr:lycr. Such results arc not ever),-d,;), occurrences as they \vere at Jerus:llern follownp the day of Pentecost, but wh<.:n the Lord> voce s heeded n such Ltshon the fc J S great rejocng. Thus t v,'as w hcn Ph. P preached the Gospel n ~ ctr of S~lna.rr;~; "And there was great JOY n tja t C t Y ( Act s 8: 8). /- Resul ts of prevous Su ndj. y cn:n n g Sc fvces n the Pant Rock Seventh );.)" B:q"ltst Church have not been lke ths :lnd t s probable that subsequc.:nt c.:v:lngcls:c preachng dd not fall u pon ~uch wcl - prepared sol, but v;c arc [(:fn<.l.:. th:lt "the Lord's hand s not shortened tb;~t t cannot save." The changng of nc.:n's L.. L 4 THE SABBATH RECORDER ~----~~ ~ ' MAY 8, 959 ')

9 hearts s a mystery and a mracle. lt s not n the hands of men but of God. But when sous respond to the call of the Lord,there s rejocng on earth as well as among angels. L. M. M. Wlll@l'@ Jw \lll@ lo')@ "Real and' wse tolerance s based on convcton, but when tolerance becomes superfcal so that we lose sght of our own convctons and half-heartedly try to accept the convctons of another, tolerance has turned to ndfference, and t s tme to draw the lne.... t s requred of the Chrstan that he be gentle and forgvng, but when forgveness leads to moral compromse and destroys the sense of Chrstan justce, t s tme to draw the lne." Rex Zwebel. By Baptsm: WHam Baum, Jr. Chrstne Furseth Crag Furseth Floyd Schock AH"ed Staton, N. Yo By Baptsm: Ralph Colgrove Alan Van Horn By Baptsm: Nel Aken Mhon, Wg. By Letter: Mrs. Herbert C. Van Hom MlttolDl JJunctolDll) Ws. By Baptsm: Sandra Barker Jane Leach (Mrs. Lawrence) Lawrence Leach Jean Wrght PaJJmjfed, N. JJ 0 By Letter: Everett T. Harrs, Jr. Barbara Warren Harrs (Mrs. Everett T., Jr.) By Baptsm: Cela May Armstrong Nancy Jean Thompson Mervn Joseph Dcknson Colle. - A. son, Clfford Don, on March 6, 959, to Sandford and Joy Mars Cole, of Westbury, L.., N. Y. Drake. - A daughter, Gal Lee, to Donald and June Drake of Mlton, Ws., on February 22, 959, at Homestead, Florda. lb2yea. - Harret Elzabeth, daughter of Lang.. ford and Anna M. Pettbone Whtford, was born n Hartsvlle, N. Y., January 2, 86, and ded at the Angelca nfrmary, Angelca, N. Y., February 22, 959. As a young grl she joned the Hartsvlle Seventh Day Baptst Church. Upon movng to Alfred she unted wth the local church by let.. tee July 29, 893. She also belonged to the Lades~ Ad and Evangelcal Socetes ot" the Alfred Church, and to the Amandne Club. She was marred to Lews Smth Beyea n 879. To ths unon was born one son, Ernway Langford Beyea. Survvors nclude two grandchldren, Mss Grace Elzabeth Beyea, Alfred, N. Y., and Rchard S. Beyea. Dallas. Tex., and two great.. grandchldren. Memoral servces were conducted by the Rev. Albert N. Rogers, dean of the School of Theol.. ogy, at the Alfred Church on Tuesday, February 24. nterment was n Alfred Rural Cemetery. - H.S.W. Casso - Hubert C., son of Danel and Mary Corwn Cass, was born August 4, 882, n Frendshp, N. Y., and ded as the result of burns suffered whle fghtng a grass fre on Aprl 6, 959. A member of the Frendshp Seventh Day Baptst Church for many years, he recently joned the Rchburg Church. He s survved by two sons, Wllard, of Frendshp, and Glover, of Buffalo; two daugh, ters, Mrs. Earl Baker, KOoSsuth, and Mrs. Clf.. ford Dawley, Port Allegany, Pa.; two ssters. Mrs. Ralph Colgrove, Alfred Staton, and Mrs. WlHs Burdck, Rochester. Memoral servces were conducted by hs pas' tor, Doyle K. Zwebel, at the Davs Funeral Home n Frendshp. nterment was n Mt. Hope Cemetery. - D.K.Z. Perrn. - Clfford Eugene, son of Wllam D. and Mary Duro Perrn, was born n North Stonngton, Conn., Dec. 26, 883, and ded at the Westerly Hosptal, Westerly, R.., Aprl 27, 959. Mr. Perrn worked fathfully n the Frst Hopknton Seventh Day Baptst Church for many years and was hghly respected as a good ctzen and busnessman, and n the feld of poltcs. He s survved by hs wfe, Anne; a daugh, ter, Mrs. John Bradshaw; two sons, Clfford E., Jr., a~d Glendon D.; and a sster, Mrs. Arthur Portmore. Funeral servces were conducted n the Schl, ke "Funeral Home, Westerly, R.., by hs pas' tor, the Rev. Edgar F. Wheeler, asssted by the Revs. Harold Crandall and Everett,T. Harrs. nterment was n North Stonngton Cemetery. E.P.W. We need to thnk more of God, and less 9f self. "How can honor the day so that. can honor God who set t a.part, and Jesus Chrst, who s ts Lord?" L.G.O.,(.;.., J froj o ~- r,.,,{"... 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