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HE ODDITIES OF MY TRAVEL SCHEDULE HAVE TAKEN ME TO THREE OF THE WORLD S GREAT CITIES IN THE LAST DAYS 3áO 0AULO 3EOUL AND .EW 9ORK #ITY ARE ALL RECEDING INTO SNAPSHOTS NOW 4HE FRESH AND URGENT SENSE OF EACH METROPOLIS IS FADING INTO MEMORY "ESIDES THE TASTES THE COLORS THE VIBRANT SOUNDS OF EACH ) REMEMBER THE ALMOST NUMBING SENSE OF THEIR SHEER SIZE AND DENSITY THE ROLLING SINGLE STORIED FAVELAS OF 3áO 0AULO THE THICKET OF SUBURBAN APARTMENT TOWERS IN 3EOUL THE FACELESS BACKYARDS OF .EW 9ORK AS MY TRAIN ROLLS TOWARD HOME 7HO WILL TELL THESE PEOPLE THAT A 3AVIOR LOVED AND LIVED FOR THEM 7HO WILL BRING (IS DEATH TO LIFEˆIMPRESSING ON MILLION MINDS THE NEED TO BE MADE RIGHT WITH 'OD 7HO WILL PENETRATE THE GATED NEIGHBORHOODS THE LOCKED HIGH RISES THE UNFENCED BUT UNFRIENDLY SUBURBS WHERE MILLIONS NOW ACCEPT ONLY WHAT COMES AT THEM VIA TELEVISION OR COMPUTER SCREENS
!DVENTIST IMAGINATION IS REQUIRED NOW AS NEVER BEFORE /UR WITNESS MUST GO WHERE OUR FEET MAY NOT BE ALLOWED TO GO AND WE ARE UNDER NO LESS OBLIGATION TO TELL THE WORLD BECAUSE THE TELLING OFTEN CAN T BE DONE IN PERSON 4ELEVISION RADIO PRINT MEDIA THE )NTERNETˆEACH WILL WIN ITS SHARE AND ALL MUST BE EMPLOYED 7E DARE NOT SHAKE THE DUST OF ANY OF THE WORLD S GREAT CITIES OFF OUR FEET UNTIL WE lND OURSELVES KNEELING AT THE FEET OF THE COMING /NE *ESUS WEPT OVER *ERUSALEM A CITY lLLED WITH PEOPLE WHOM (E LOVED .OW AS NEVER BEFORE IT S TIME FOR !DVENTISTS TO WEEP AND PLEAD BEFORE THE ,ORD FOR THE GREAT CITIES OF OUR GLOBE 7E MUST CRY OUT FOR GREATER VISION GREATER IMAGINATION IN DOING THE WORK OF WITNESS AND FOR THE STAMINA THAT WON T GIVE UP WHEN RESULTS SEEM MEAGER OR THIN h'IVE ME 3COTLAND OR ) DIE v *OHN +NOX DEMANDED OF THE ,ORD YEARS AGO 4ODAY A SIMILAR AUDACITY MUST lLL THOSE WHO CARRY 'OD S PRESENT DAY MESSAGE OF REFORM AND RESTORATION h'IVE US THESE CITIES EVEN IF WE DIE IN THE PROCESS v 'OD S SAINTS NOW WHISPER ON THEIR KNEES )T IS A PRAYERˆ AND A PROMISEˆTHAT (E CANNOT REFUSE TO ANSWER ˆ "ILL +NOTT
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,EFT #/--%.$!4)/. 'ERALDO !LCKMIN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE AND FORMER GOVERNOR OF 3ÃŽO 0AULO AND HIS WIFE ,U COMMEND !DVENTIST #HURCH MEMBER 3ERGIO !ZEVEDO WHO CREATED h#HRISTMAS -UTIRÃŽOv YEARS AGO 4HE PROGRAM RAISED TONS OF FOOD THIS YEAR FOR LOCAL FOOD BANKS TO HELP "RAZILIANS IN NEED 4OP #/-0!33)/. !DVENTIST WORLD CHURCH PRESIDENT *AN 0AULSEN AT THE "OTAFOGO !DVENTIST #HURCH IN 2IO DE *ANEIRO THANKED VOLUNTEERS AND CHURCH MEMBERS FOR THEIR hCOMPASSIONv AND COM MITMENT TO SERVING THE COMMUNITY 7ILLIAMS #OSTA *R LEFT AN ASSOCIATE COMMUNICATION DIRECTOR FOR THE !DVENTIST #HURCH TRANSLATES 0 ( / 4 / 3 " 9 2 ! * - 5 . $ $ ! " 2 / 7 3 + ) ! . .
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7/2,$ 2%0/24 3HARING (OPE v THE YEAR OLD JOINT ACTION OF THOUSANDS OF VOLUNTEERS IN LOCAL !DVENTIST CHURCHES ACROSS 3OUTH !MERICA S LARGEST NATION 4HE EVENT WAS BROADCAST FROM 2IO DE *ANEIRO S "OTAFOGO !DVENTIST #HURCH TO AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE ON THE CHURCH S (OPE #HANNEL 4HE CELEBRATION OF LOCAL COMMUNITY ACTION ACROSS THE COUNTRY INVOLVED TEAMS OF VOLUNTEERS IN LOCAL CONGREGATIONS COMPETING IN THREE AREAS WRITING AND PERFORMING A BRIEF #HRISTMAS PAGEANT CHOOSING A SERVICE PROJECT IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND COLLECTING FOOD FOR LOCAL !DVENTIST $EVELOPMENT AND 2ELIEF !GENCY FOOD BANKS ! JURY COMPRISING COMMUNITY LEADERS AND HOUSEHOLD NAMES FROM GOVERNMENT BUSINESS AND ENTERTAINMENT WAS ON HAND ALONG WITH CHURCH LEADERS TO SERVE AS THE EVENT S JUDGES !MONG THOSE WAS PRESIDENT OF THE !DVENTIST WORLD CHURCH 0ASTOR *AN 0AULSEN h7HAT A WONDERFUL ACHIEVEMENT WE ARE CELEBRATING TONIGHT v 0AULSEN SAID OF THE #HRISTMAS -UTIRรกO h7HAT A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF WORKING TOGETHER WITH A SHARED VISION FOR MAKING OUR COMMUNITY A BETTER PLACE v
-UTIRรกO IS A "RAZILIAN 0ORTUGUESE EXPRESSION USED TO DESCRIBE A COLLECTIVE SERVICE PROJECT h&OR US THE REWARD IS SEEING THE SMILES OF THESE FAMILIES AND CHILDREN WHEN WE GIVE THEM THE FOOD v SAID "ENIVALDO 2AMOS A TEAM LEADER AT THE "OTAFOGO !DVENTIST #HURCH h&OR SOME FAMILIES IT MAY BE THE ONLY QUALITY FOOD THEY HAVE ALL YEAR /UR REWARD IS GIVING THEM A #HRISTMAS WITHOUT HUNGER v 4HE JURY RECOGNIZED A COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT IN THE "ABILONIA AND #HAPยฃU -ANGUEIRA SLUMS IN 2IO DE *ANEIRO 4HE INITIATIVE HAS BEEN TESTED AND IMPLEMENTED WITHIN THE PAST FEW MONTHS AND INVOLVES PROMOTING NUTRITION AND SEEKING THE IMPROVEMENT OF QUALITY OF LIFE ! PRESENTATION OF THE 2IO 9OUTH #HOIR JOINED BY THE CHILDREN OF THE NOTORIOUS AND FAMED 2OCINHA FAVELA IN 2IO DE *ANEIRO INTRODUCED A SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROJECT INVOLVING CHILDREN REACHING OUT TO CHILDREN 4HE PRESENTATIONS RESONATED WITH 0AULSEN WHEN HE COMMENDED THE CHURCH h#HRISTIANITY WITHOUT COMPASSION IS EMPTY 7ITHOUT COMPASSIONย THAT DEEP MOTIVATING COMPASSION OF OUR ,ORDย OUR RELIGION IS NOTHING v 4OP TO "OTTOM #(/)2 ! CHIL DREN S CHOIR COMPRISING MEM BERS OF THE 2IO 9OUTH #HOIR AND CHILDREN OF THE 2OCINHA FAVELA DISTRICT PERFORM FOR THE $ECEM BER CELEBRATION BROADCAST INTERNATIONALLY ON THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH S (OPE #HANNEL #%,%"2)4)%3 .ATIONAL "RAZILIAN CELEBRITIES PARTICIPATED IN THE !DVENTIST #HURCH S INITIA TIVE TO RAISE DONATIONS FOR FOOD 2 ! * - 5 . $ $ ! " 2 / 7 3 + ) ! . .
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h4HE MOST EFFECTIVE #HRISTIANS ARE MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE STREETS OF THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS THAN WITH THE PEWS OF THEIR CHURCH v HE SAID 4HE CELEBRATION BROADCAST BROUGHT NUMEROUS DECLARATIONS OF SUPPORT PLEDGES OF DONATIONS AND ENDORSEMENTS FOR THE PROJECT !ZEVEDO THE PROGRAM S CREATOR INTRODUCED EACH JUROR INVITING THEM TO SHARE HOW THEY HAD PARTICIPATED 'ERALDO !LCKMIN FORMER GOVERNOR OF 3รกO 0AULO AND PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN RECENT ELECTIONS WAS JOINED BY HIS WIFE ,U AND SAID THE INITIATIVE OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS IS AN EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP RESPONDING TO POVERTY IN "RAZIL %NTREPRENEUR AND PHILANTHROPIST -ILTON !FONSO ALSO PARTICIPATED ! CONTINGENT OF lLM AND THEATER STARS INCLUDING TELEVISION ACTRESS AND COMEDIAN (ELGA .EMECZK WAS WARMLY WELCOMED BY THE AUDIENCE 3HE BURST INTO TEARS DURING HER TESTIMONY WHICH INCLUDED AN A CAPPELLA #HRISTMAS CAROL AND AN ADMISSION OF HAVING AN !DVENTIST HERITAGE AND BEING PROUD OF hHERv CHURCH MAKING A STAND FOR THE POOR 4HIS YEAR S #HRISTMAS -UTIRรกO INCLUDED CHURCH LEADERS FROM SEVERAL 3OUTH !MERICAN COUNTRIES INCLUDING 0ERU !RGENTINA AND %CUADOR #HURCH LEADERS FROM THE FORMER 3OVIET 5NION ALSO PARTICIPATED ย 2AJMUND $ABROWSKI DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE OF 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS $/-).)#!. 2%05",)# !DVENTISTS -EET .ATION S 0RESIDENT N 4OP 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST LEADERS RECENTLY MET WITH THE $OMINICAN 2EPUBLIC S PRESIDENT ,EONEL &ERNANDEZ 2EINA TO DISCUSS THE CHURCH S WORK ON THE ISLAND AND WORLDWIDE 4HE ONE HOUR PRIVATE MEETING AT THE .ATIONAL 0ALACE WAS THE lRST SUCH MEETING
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UKUKU #LINIC AN ISOLATED 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST HEALTH CARE CENTER IN THE 3OLOMON )SLANDS IS THE POSTER CHILD FOR A NEW INITIATIVE BY THE (EALTH -INISTRIES $EPARTMENT IN THE !DVENTIST #HURCH S 3OUTH 0ACIlC REGION &IVE YEARS AGO THE THEN MEAGERLY STAFFED AND SUPPLIED CLINIC lRST RECEIVED FUNDING FROM CHURCH MEMBERS AT THE (ILLVIEW !DVENTIST #HURCH IN -ORISSET .EW 3OUTH 7ALES !USTRALIA 4ODAY THE CLINIC IS CLEAN EFlCIENT AND FULLY CONTRIBUTES TO THE CHURCH S MEDICAL OUTREACH WORK IN THE REGION "UT UNLIKE +UKUKU #LINIC MOST OF THE HEALTH CLINICS OPERATED BY THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH IN THE 3OUTH 0ACIlC ARE REPORTEDLY IN NEED OF MORE EMERGENCY CARE THAN THE PATIENTS THEY SERVE 3OME PERCENT DON T HAVE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TO CHECK BLOOD PRESSURE LOCAL CHURCH HEALTH OFlCIALS DISCOVERED DURING A THREE MONTH EVALUATION EARLIER THIS YEAR 4O REVIVE THE AILING HEALTH CARE CENTERS !DVENTIST HEALTH OFlCIALS IN THE REGION ARE LAUNCHING !DOPT A #LINIC A PROGRAM TO TEAM EACH !DVENTIST CHURCH IN !USTRALIA AND .EW :EALAND WITH ONE OF THE REGION S CLINICS WHICH RANGE FROM BUSH HUTS TO MODERN STYLE BUILDINGS #O N T I N U E D N E X T P A G E
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BETWEEN NATIONAL LEADERS AND A NON 2OMAN #ATHOLIC RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION !DVENTIST LEADERS SAID h7E HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH 0RESIDENT &ERNANDEZ AND TELL HIM ABOUT THE !DVENTIST #HURCH S WORK IN EDUCATING YOUTH STRENGTHENING FAMILIES SERVING THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS ITS MEDICAL WORK v SAID 3ILVESTRE 'ONZALEZ EXECUTIVE SECRETARY FOR THE CHURCH IN THE #ARIBBEAN NATION OF MORE THAN MILLION WHICH OCCUPIES ONE HALF OF THE ISLAND OF (ISPANIOLA (AITI IS ITS NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR ON THE ISLAND 0RESIDENT &ERNANDEZ THANKED THE NINE CHURCH LEADERS FOR THE MEETING h7E ARE SO BUSY IN OUR WORK THAT SOMETIMES WE FAIL TO SEE THAT THERE ARE VALUABLE GROUPS LIKE YOU THAT CAN DO SO MUCH FOR SOCIETY FOR THE BENElT OF OTHERS v HE SAID #ESARIO !CEVEDO PRESIDENT OF THE CHURCH IN THE $OMINICAN 2EPUBLIC GAVE WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT TO &ERNANDEZ AND OFFERED A PRAYER FOR THE LEADER AND HIS GOVERNMENT 4HE !DVENTIST #HURCH WITH ITS MORE THAN MEMBERS IN THE $OMINICAN 2EPUBLIC OPERATES ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS ONE UNIVERSITY SIX RADIO STATIONS AND ONE HOSPITAL ˆ,IBNA 3TEVENS )NTER !MERICAN $IVISION WITH !DVENTIST .EWS .ETWORK
+%9 ,/#!4)/. ,OCAL !D VENTIST HEALTH OFlCIALS SAY THE CHURCH OPERATED +UKUKU #LINIC IN THE 3OLOMON )SLANDS IS A KEY HEALTH CARE CENTER FOR THE ISOLATED REGION DUE IN PART TO lVE YEARS OF SUPPORT FROM THE (ILLVIEW !DVENTIST #HURCH IN -ORISSET .EW 3OUTH 7ALES !USTRALIA #HURCH LEADERS IN THE REGION ARE MODELING THE !DOPT A #LINIC PROGRAM AFTER THE +U KUKU (ILLVIEW PARTNERSHIP
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4UCKED BETWEEN THE "ALTIC AND "LACK 3EAS "ELARUS WAS SETTLED BY %ASTERN 3LAVS DURING THE SIXTH CENTURY 4HE %ASTERN 3LAVS JOINED FORCES WITH "ALTIC 3LAVS AND 3CANDINAVIANS TO FORM +IEVAN 2US 4HIS EARLY POLITY RULED THE REGION FOR SOME YEARS !FTER THE FALL OF +IEVAN 2US "ELARUS WAS DIVIDED BETWEEN SEVERAL NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES CHIEmY 2USSIA AND 0OLAND &OR ONE YEAR FROM UNTIL "ELARUS WAS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY THAT ULTIMATELY BECAME PART OF THE 5NION OF 3OVIET 3OCIALIST 2EPUBLICS 5332 )N "ELARUS ALONG WITH 2USSIA BECAME A CHARTER MEMBER OF THE 5NITED .ATIONS 7HEN 3OVIET #OMMUNISM FELL IN "ELARUS DECLARED ITSELF AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY AND FORMED A PRESIDENTIAL REPUBLIC %THNIC 2USSIANS HAVE LONG LIVED IN "ELARUS BUT IT WASN T UNTIL THE END OF 7ORLD 7AR )) THAT THE 2USSIANS SUBSTANTIVELY MOVED INTO THE REGION -OST 2USSIANS HAVE INTEGRATED INTO "ELARUSIAN SOCIETY BUT HAVE KEPT THEIR OWN NATIONAL CULTURE AND LANGUAGE 2USSIAN IS NOW CONSIDERED ONE OF "ELARUS NATIONAL LANGUAGES 4HIS LANDLOCKED NATION BORDERS 2USSIA ON THE EAST 0OLAND ON THE WEST
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HAVE EXPERIENCED VARIOUS KINDS OF OPPRESSION INCLUDING ARSON AND THREATS ON PASTORS PERSONAL SAFETY !CCORDING TO POLICE REPORTS lRST MADE PUBLIC IN THE S AT THE 3T 0ETERSBURG 4SARIST LIBRARIES IN THERE WAS AN !DVENTIST CHURCH IN -INSK WITH MEMBERS AND ANOTHER IN -OGILYEV WITH MEMBERS (OWEVER THE lRST OFlCIAL !DVENTIST COMPANY IN "ELARUS WAS ORGANIZED IN IN :HOEKINO A VILLAGE IN THE "REST REGION 7ITHIN lVE YEARS "ELARUS HAD A TOTAL OF SIX CHURCHES AND !DVENTISTS "Y SOME !DVENTISTS LIVED IN "ELARUS BUT THE CHURCH WAS NO LONGER OFlCIALLY ORGANIZED )N THE CHURCH WAS REORGANIZED 4ODAY THE !DVENTIST #HURCH IS SLOWLY GROWING IN "ELARUS WITH SOME MEMBERS WORSHIPPING IN CHURCHES AND COMPANIES 4HE "ELARUS #ONFERENCE IS PART OF THE %URO !SIA $IVISION &OR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT !DVENTIST MISSION IN "ELARUS AND ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD VISIT WWW 'LOBAL -ISSION ORG
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OUR VALUES !ND FOR SOME THESE ISSUES ARE DIFlCULT TO EVEN TALK ABOUT COHABITATION WHAT CONSTITUTES MARRIAGE THOSE WHO ESTABLISH RELATIONSHIPS WITH A SAME SEX PARTNER ;3EE h3AFEGUARDING -ISSION IN #HANGING 3OCIAL %NVIRONMENTSv AT WWW ADVENTIST ORG BELIEFS OTHER?DOCUMENTS SAFEGUARDING HTML = 7E HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE CHURCH EXISTS IN THE WORLD WE CANNOT STEP OUT OF IT 7E LL ENCOUNTER MANY DIFFERENT POINTS OF VIEW MANY THINGS WE MAY NOT LIKE !ND SO AT THIS !NNUAL #OUNCIL WE NEEDED TO lND LANGUAGE THAT COULD CARRY THE SAME STANDARDS BACK INTO EVERY PART OF THE WORLD CHURCH INTO EVERY CULTURE !ND DO IT WITH SENSITIVITY TO THE WILL OF 'OD AND TO THE FRAILTY OF HUMANITY 4HE PROCESS OF VOTING THIS STATEMENT BECAME A TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF OUR GLOBAL CHURCH WHICH ENCOMPASSES HUGE CULTURAL DIFFERENCES LOOKING AT A SENSITIVE ISSUE AND lNDING A WAY TO EXPRESS A SHARED UNDERSTANDING !ND THAT IN A WAY IS THE CHURCH AT ITS lNEST )T S AN EXAMPLE OF MOVING PAST A STRICTLY DEMOCRATIC PROCESS TO ONE THAT REmECTS THE NATURE OF THE CHURCH AS A 3PIRIT LED ENTITY 9OU CAN WIN A VOTE BUT DAMAGE UNITY AT THE SAME MOMENT 9ES !T !NNUAL #OUNCIL WE DO SOMETHING THAT NO OTHER CHURCH DOES 7HEN WE MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT CORE ISSUESˆWHETHER THEY ARE POLICIES POSITION STATEMENTS OR THE SHARING OF RESOURCESˆWE COME TO AGREEMENT AS A WORLDWIDE FAMILY 7E PRAY TOGETHER AND WE LOOK AT THE AUTHORITATIVE DOCUMENTSˆTHE 3CRIPTURES THE WRITINGS OF %LLEN 7HITEˆAND WE SEARCH OUR OWN HEARTS !ND THEN WE AFlRM WHERE WE ARE AS A GLOBAL CHURCH ! FEW YEARS AGO WE MADE A DECISION TO CHANGE THE TIMING OF !NNUAL #OUNCIL SO WE WOULD ALWAYS BEGIN BY CELEBRATING THE 3ABBATH TOGETHER 4HIS IS NOT MERELY AN hINTRODUCTIONv TO !NNUAL #OUNCIL /UR lRST AND MOST
0ERHAPS IN TIMES PAST SOME HAVE FELT !NNUAL #OUNCIL HAS BEEN PRIMARILY DRIVEN BY lNANCIAL ISSUES "UT ARE YOU SAYING THIS NEW AGENDA REmECTS OUR MOST BASIC CONCERNˆMISSIONˆAND THAT CHURCH lNANCES TAKE THEIR PLACE MERELY TO SUPPORT THIS 9ES BOTH DURING !NNUAL #OUNCIL AND IN OUR PREMEETINGS WITH DIVISION LEADERSHIP WE CONSTANTLY ASK (OW DO WE MAKE SURE THAT OUR USE OF RESOURCES REmECTS OUR MISSION PRIORITY 4HIS YEAR WE WERE PRESENTED WITH AN UNUSUAL SITUATION 4HE CHURCH RECEIVED A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEYˆFUNDS THAT WERE GIVEN VERY SPECIlCALLY FOR THE MISSION WORK OF THE CHURCH (OW SHOULD THESE RESOURCES BE USED 7E RE NOW IN THE PROCESS OF CONSULTING WITH EACH OF THE WORLD CHURCH DIVISIONS TO DEVELOP A LIST OF CORE MISSION ACTIVITIES ) USE THE WORD hCOREv BECAUSE WE ARE NOT THINKING OF hNOVELTIESvˆPLANS WE MIGHT TRY OUT FOR A WHILE BUT THEN DISCONTINUE 7E ARE TALKING INSTEAD ABOUT WHAT FOR LACK OF A BETTER EXPRESSION IS THE hBREAD AND BUTTERv OF THE CHURCH S MISSION THINGS WE HAVE BEEN CALLED TO DO 7E MUST BE MORE EFFECTIVE IN REACHING INTO THE h WINDOWv ;A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION THAT STRETCHES FROM 7EST !FRICA THROUGH THE -IDDLE %AST AND INTO !SIA= 7E MUST DEVELOP THE RESOURCES THAT WILL ALLOW US TO GO INTO THESE REGIONS WHERE SO FEW PEOPLE HAVE HEARD ABOUT #HRIST !ND THERE ARE OTHER PLACES OUTSIDE THE WINDOW WHERE WE RE ALSO VERY THIN ON THE GROUND ) WOULD INCLUDE IN THIS THE LARGE CITIES OF THE WORLD WHERE MORE THAN PERCENT OF THE WORLD S POPULATION LIVES AND WHERE THE CHURCH DOES NOT HAVE A STRONG PRESENCE 4HERE WAS AN EXPRESSION THAT %LDER "OB ,EMON ;'ENERAL #ONFERENCE TREASURER= USED IN REGARD TO THESE FUNDS h)T WILL MOVE THE MISSION OF THE CHURCH AHEAD BY HALF A GENERATION v ) ASKED HIM TO UNPACK THAT AND HE SAID h4HERE ARE PLANS WE VE HAD ON THE DRAWING BOARD WHICH &EBRUARY \ !DVENTIST 7ORLD
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MISSION IMPACT OF THE CHURCH AROUND THE WORLD 4HESE TITHES HAVE COME TO US AS THE EXPRESSION OF SOMEONE S FAITHFULNESS TO 'OD AND IN OUR USE OF THESE RESOURCES WE WILL DEMONSTRATE THAT SAME FAITHFULNESS TO 'OD !NNUAL #OUNCIL ALSO VOTEDˆBY AN OVERWHELMING MAJORITYˆSOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WOULD SEEM TO HAVE FAR REACHING CONSEQUENCES FOR CHURCH STRUCTURE 7HAT WAS THE SIGNIlCANCE OF THIS 4HIS MARKS AN IMPORTANT CHANGE IN OUR MINDSET (ISTORICALLY WE VE DElNED CHURCH STRUCTURE IN A SOMEWHAT WOODEN INmEXIBLE MANNER 4HE WALLS HAVE BEEN lXED AND VERY SPECIlC THE LOCAL CHURCH THE LOCAL CONFERENCE THE UNION AND THEN THE DIVISIONS AND THE 'ENERAL #ONFERENCE 7HEREVER YOU ARE YOU lT INTO ONE OF THESE hPREDElNED SLOTS v 7HILE WE HAVEN T DONE AWAY WITH THESE SLOTS WE RE NOW SAYING TO CHURCH LEADERSHIP %XAMINE YOUR NEEDS YOUR RESOURCES YOUR CAPACITY THE MISSION BEFORE YOU AND WHAT MAKES SENSE WITHIN YOUR BOUNDARIESˆWHETHER THEY ARE NATIONAL LANGUAGE OR CULTURAL BOUNDARIES !ND THEN ASK YOURSELF h(OW CAN WE BEST DO MISSION 7HAT STRUCTURES WILL BEST SERVE THE CHURCH WHERE WE ARE v 4HIS IS
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HEN SHARING WITH (IS DISCIPLES THE PROPHETIC MESSAGE RECORDED IN -ATTHEW AND *ESUS WAS FULLY AWARE OF THE TRAGIC EVENTS SOON TO COME UPON (IM (E ALSO EXPRESSED MANY CONCERNS FOR THE FUTURE OF (IS BELOVED CHURCH IN A DISINTEGRATING WORLD 3URPRISINGLY HOWEVER (E SEEMS TO DOWNPLAY THESE CATASTROPHIC MOVEMENTS AND ASKS (IS FOLLOWERS NOT TO BECOME OBSESSED WITH THEM !GAINST THE DISHEARTENING BACKGROUND (E RAISES (IS VOICE TWICE IN TRIUMPHANT TONES WHEN GIVING US ASSURANCES OF THE COMPLETE VICTORY OF THE GOSPEL )T hWILL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLDv (E SAYS AND IT WILL PRODUCE A WORLDWIDE HARVEST TO BE GATHERED BY ANGELS hFROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHERv *ESUS )S .OT AN !LARMIST
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UNPARALLELED TIME OF TRIBULATION AND EVEN INFORMS US THAT THAT TIME IS GOING TO BE SHORTENED VERSES (E THEN DESCRIBES THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF (IS TRUE COMING VERSES AND THEN REACHES A NEW CLIMAX OF (IS PROPHETIC MESSAGE WITH VERSE ECHOING WHAT (E HAD SAID IN VERSE )N VERSE (E D SAID THAT THE GOSPEL WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD AND NOW WE LEARN THAT THERE WILL RESULT A WORLDWIDE HARVEST AND THAT h(IS ELECTv WILL BE GATHERED hFROM ONE END OF HEAVEN TO THE OTHERv 7HAT STRANGE WONDERFUL WORDS FOR (IM TO UTTER THERE ON THE -OUNT OF /LIVES REJECTED AND DESPISED AS (E WAS BY THE LEADING MEN OF THE NATION AND WITH SUFFERING AND SHAMEFUL DEATH JUST AHEAD OF (IM h(E WILL SEND (IS ANGELS v 4HEY ARE (IS FOR (E (IMSELF IS 'OD 4HE VOICE OF THE TRUMPET AT -OUNT 3INAI WAS EXCEEDINGLY LOUD (OW MUCH LOUDER AND MORE AWFUL WILL BE THE TRUMPET CALL THAT WAKES THE DEAD AND SUMMONS THE LIVING AND THE DEAD ALIKE BEFORE (IS THRONE 4HE ANGELS ARE (IS THE ELECT ARE (IS THEY ARE #HRIST S BOUGHT WITH (IS PRECIOUS BLOOD (IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN MADE hELECT ACCORDING TO
THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF 'OD THE &ATHERv 0ETER AND GIVEN TO THE ONLY BEGOTTEN 3ON 4HEY ARE (IS AND NONE CAN PLUCK THEM OUT OF (IS HAND (IS ANGELS WILL GATHER THEM FROM THE FOUR WINDS .OT ONE OF THEM WILL BE LOST WHEREVER THEY MAY BE IN THE REMOTEST CORNERS OF THE EARTH OR LYING IN LONG FORGOTTEN GRAVES 4HE ANGELS WILL GATHER THEM ALLˆFROM THE COTTAGE AND FROM THE PALACE FROM THE CROWDED CITIES OF !SIA AND FROM THE ALTIPLANO THE COLD HIGHLANDS OF 3OUTH !MERICA FROM THE SOPHISTICATED CENTERS OF LEARNING IN 7ESTERN %UROPE AND .ORTH !MERICA AND FROM THE HUTS OF THE WORLD S WAR REFUGEES 4HE ANGELS WILL BRING EVERY ONE OF 'OD S ELECT SAFE TO THE ,ORD WHO LOVED THEM AND DIED FOR THEM IN WHOM THEY HAVE BELIEVED AND WHOM THEY HAVE LOVED AND TRUSTED EVEN UNTO DEATH %XCITING 0REDICTIONS
,ET S NOW RETURN TO VERSES AND (ERE WE HAVE SIDE BY SIDE TWO GLORIOUS PREDICTIONS OF THIS END TIME MESSAGE OF #HRIST ONE ON THE STEADFASTNESS OF (IS FOLLOWERS AND THE SECOND ON THE UNIVERSALITY OF THE GOSPEL PROCLAMATION
4HEY RE PRESENTED TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY BELONG TO EACH OTHER 3TEADFAST PATIENCE PERSEVERANCE IN OUR ALLEGIANCE TO #HRIST IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO THE PROCLAMATION OF THE GOSPEL MESSAGE !ND WHO ARE THOSE WHO ARE GOING TO RESIST EVERY ATTACK ON THEIR FAITH AND LOVE 7HAT MAKES THEM SO UNSHAKEABLE !RE THEY NATURALLY STRONG DElANT AND INSENSITIVE TO PHYSICAL PAIN OR EMOTIONAL DISTRESS 0ROBABLY NOT 2ATHER IT S BECAUSE THEY HAVE HOPEˆTHEY VE TRUSTED THE PROMISES OF THEIR 3AVIOR AND MADE THEM THE CENTER OF THEIR LIVES ) M ASTONISHED WHEN ) SEE THE PROGRESS THE GOSPEL IS MAKING WITH THE SUPPORT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY 7E HAVE PREACHED THAT IN THE TIME OF THE END hMANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL INCREASEv $AN !ND THE RESULTS ARE AMAZING -ODERN TRANSPORTATION AT AFFORDABLE PRICES WORK EMIGRATION PEACE IN PLACES PREVIOUSLY KNOWN FOR PERMANENT TROUBLES DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND RELATIVE PROSPERITY IN PLACES WITH NO HISTORY OF SUFlCIENCY !LL THESE STIMULATE YOUNG AND OLD TO GO EVERYWHERE FROM THE MOST FAMILIAR PLACES TO THE MOST UNREACHED TERRITORIES
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THOUSANDS OF HOMES ADDED TO OUR LIST OF POTENTIAL VIEWERS FOR 3PERANTA 46 THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE (OPE #HANNEL FAMILY .OW WE COUNT ON ALMOST MILLION HOMES BY CABLE AND $4( ˆNOT TO MENTION THE )NTERNET )N lVE MONTHS THERE HAVE BEEN MILLION VISITS TO OUR 7EB SITE WHERE PEOPLE CAN WATCH US LIVE )T S INCREDIBLE 7E STARTED THE USE OF SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO WITH .%4 AND .%4 AND THEN )T )S 7RITTEN S !#43 PROJECT IN "UCHAREST 2OMANIA AND NOW ONLY A FEW YEARS LATER WE HAVE A 2OMANIAN PROGRAM ENTERING MILLIONS OF HOMES ACROSS %UROPE 4HE OTHER DAY ONE OF OUR TECHNICIANS WAS CALLING A COMPANY TO ORDER A PRODUCT 7HEN HE GAVE HIS E MAIL ADDRESS THE MAN ASKED h2EALLY $O YOU WORK FOR 3PERANTA TV ) LIKE IT VERY MUCH #ONGRATULATIONS v ) JUST RECEIVED A MESSAGE FROM A VIEWER WHO IN THE BEGINNING WAS SO UPSET THAT HIS CABLE COMPANY HAD ADDED OUR PROGRAM TO THE MENU THAT HE
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)N THE END HOWEVER SUCCESS WILL NOT BE DECIDED BY WHO HAS THE BEST TECHNOLOGY OR WHO IS MANAGING THE lNANCIAL RESOURCES IN THE MOST EFlCIENT MANNER 4HE GOSPEL WILL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD *ESUS SAID BY THOSE ONLY WHO ENDURE !ND THE ONLY REASON TO ENDURE AND REMAIN UNSHAKEN IS HOPE 3OMETIMES THE TESTIMONY OF THE PEOPLE OF HOPE COMES IN UNEXPECTED
WAYS UNDER THE DISGUISE OF APPARENT WEAKNESS AND DEFEAT 4HE IMPACT IT MAKES ON PEOPLE OFTEN IS BROUGHT TO LIGHT ONLY AFTER LONG DELAYS AS EVIDENCED BY THE FOLLOWING STORY WHICH ) TAKE VERBATIM FROM A 2OMANIAN NEWSPAPER WITH THE HIGHEST CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTRY 7RITTEN BY A JOURNALIST ) VE NEVER MET IT WAS PUBLISHED ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF A TIME WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS lERCELY DEBATING CERTAIN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ISSUES SURROUNDING THE REMOVAL OF /RTHODOX ICONS FROM 2OMANIAN CLASSROOMSˆICONS THAT HAD BEEN INSTALLED AFTER THE FALL OF #OMMUNISM %NTITLED h&ORGIVE -E "EATRICE v THE STORY RAN AS FOLLOWS h!BOUT A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO ) WAS A SEVENTH GRADE SCHOOLBOY IN A WORKERS SECTION OF "UCHAREST ) HAD A SCHOOLMATE CALLED "EATRICE 3HE WAS SHORT BEAUTIFUL AND SMART 3HE WOULD SIT ON THE SECOND BENCH THE MIDDLE ROW 3HE WAS THE BEST IN THE CLASS 3HE WOULDN T SPEAK WITHOUT PERMISSION !ND SHE WAS DRESSED IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS )N SHORT SHE WAS A DREAM CHILD COMPARED WITH THE REST OF USˆNOISY NASTY AND REBELLIOUS h&OR THE WHOLE CLASS "EATRICE WAS
4HE GOSPEL WILL BE PREACHED IN THE WHOLE WORLD BY THOSE ONLY WHO ENDURE !ND THE ONLY REASON TO ENDURE AND REMAIN UNSHAKEN IS HOPE A MYSTERY 7E ALL FELT A STRONG ENVY OF HER !T THAT TIME IT WAS SOMETHING UNBELIEVABLE FOR A SCHOOL CHILD TO MISS ONE FULL DAY OF CLASSES EVERY WEEK "ESIDES MISSING ALL 3ATURDAY CLASSES "EATRICE WOULD ALSO LEAVE BEFORE THE LAST CLASSES ON &RIDAY 7E ALL HAD CLASSES IN THE AFTERNOON SO AS SOON AS THE DUSK WOULD COME SHE WOULD GATHER HER THINGS AND DISAPPEAR 3HE WAS LIKE A #INDERELLA HASTILY LEAVING THE BALLROOM BEFORE MIDNIGHT h"EATRICE WAS A DAUGHTER OF PHYSICIANS AND HER FAMILY BELONGED TO THE 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTIST #HURCH %VERY 3ATURDAY SHE WAS REPORTED AS MISSING WITHOUT REASON 4HE PRINCIPAL OF THE SCHOOL AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATION WERE ALWAYS ASKING HER PARENTS TO COME TO THE SCHOOL WHERE THEY WERE BLAMED HUMILIATED AND THREATENED "EATRICE HERSELF WAS DISCUSSED AND CRITICIZED IN EVERY SCHOOL MEETING SCOLDED AND DESPISED FOR HER FAITH h/NE &RIDAY AFTERNOON WE HAD A HISTORY CLASS 4OWARD THE END lVE MINUTES BEFORE RECESS THE TEACHER SUGGESTED TO THE CLASS TO PREVENT "EATRICE FROM LEAVING @)T S TIME TO PUT AN END TO THIS SPECIAL TREATMENT SHE SAID @) WILL
ASK YOUR SCHOOLMATES TO KEEP YOU HERE IN CLASS !ND ) WILL REMAIN HERE UNTIL THE NEXT TEACHER COMES h"EATRICE UNDAUNTED BY THREATENING QUIETLY STARTED TO GATHER HER POSSESSIONS 4HE TEACHER CALLED US TO INTERVENE 3OME BOYS INCLUDING MYSELF JUMPED TO THE DOOR KEEPING IT CLOSED /THERS SURROUNDED HER TRYING TO CONVINCE HER TO GIVE UP "EATRICE SAT BACK ON HER CHAIR !FTER A FEW MINUTES OF LISTENING TO OUR SENSELESS INSULTS SHE COVERED HER EARS AS IF TO PROTECT HERSELF AND BEGAN WEEPING 4EARS RAN DOWN HER CHEEKS LIKE TWO RIVULETS lNDING THEIR WAY TO DAYLIGHT 7E WERE IN SHOCK AND POWERLESS 4HERE WAS PERFECT SILENCE AS IF IN THAT SAME INSTANT THE WHOLE CLASS HAD A REVELATION 7E ALL WERE ASHAMED OF OURSELVES h.OT PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE PROTESTS OF OUR TEACHER WE ALL RETURNED TO OUR PLACES HUMBLE AND PENITENT "EATRICE WENT OUT TEARS STILL RUNNING DOWN HER BEAUTIFUL FACE !BOVE US REIGNED THE ONLY ICON ALLOWED IN SCHOOLS IN THOSE YEARSˆFEATURING #OMRADE .ICOLAE #EAUSESCU h&ROM THAT DAY ON "EATRICE NO LONGER HAD PROBLEMS WHEN THE TIME
WOULD COME TO LEAVE FROM SCHOOL ! MYSTERIOUS SOLIDARITY DEVELOPED AMONG US 7E ACTUALLY HELPED HER GOˆWE SURROUNDED HER AND WALKED WITH HER OUT IN THE CORRIDORS TO PREVENT TEACHERS FROM OBSERVING HER 7E SHARED OUR NOTES FROM 3ATURDAY CLASSES AND WE EVEN WHISPERED TO HER WHEN EXAMINEDnEVEN THOUGH SHE NEVER WAS IN A NEED FOR THAT 4WO YEARS LATER SHE EMIGRATED WITH HER FAMILY ) DON T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HER SINCE THEN h)N A NORMAL SOCIETY IF THERE IS JUST ONE SCHOOL WITH JUST ONE STUDENT COMING FROM A FAMILY WITH A DIFFERENT FAITH ICONS SHOULD BE TAKEN OUT FROM CLASSROOMS /THERWISE COHORTS OF CHILDREN WILL LIVE AGAIN AND AGAIN THE PAINFUL STORY OF "EATRICE v 9OU SEE YEARS LATER THIS MAN WAS SPEAKING OUT (IS ENCOUNTER AS A OR YEAR OLD SCHOOLBOY WITH A TINY !DVENTIST 3ABBATHKEEPER HAD CHANGED HIS UNDERSTANDING AND GIVEN HIM YEARS LATER THE MORAL COURAGE TO TAKE AN UNPOPULAR STAND !N EMOTIONAL ENCOUNTER WITH A STEADFAST #HRISTIAN GIVING A TESTIMONY OF HER FAITH HAD STARTED A PROCESS THAT EVENTUALLY BORE FRUIT "UILDING (OPE
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3PECIES EVENTUALLY PUBLISHED IN 3HORTLY AFTER THE BOOK S PUBLICATION $ARWIN CARRIED ON A LONG CORRESPONDENCE WITH HIS FRIEND AND COLLEAGUE !SA 'RAY SHARING HIS DOUBTS AND HIS SENSE OF CONFUSION ABOUT THE END AND ULTIMATE DIRECTIONS OF EVOLUTION h) AM CONSCIOUS THAT ) AM IN AN UTTERLY HOPELESS MUDDLE v HE CONFESSED h) CANNOT THINK THAT THE WORLD AS WE SEE IT IS THE RESULT OF CHANCE AND YET ) CANNOT LOOK AT EACH SEPARATE THING AS THE RESULT OF DESIGN v WWW DARWINPROJECT AC UK DARWINLETTERS CALENDAR ENTRY HTML 4HE CONFUSION $ARWIN EXPRESSED CAME AS HE TRIED TO CONNECT ALL THE WONDERS OF THE NATURAL WORLD THAT HE OBSERVED WITH ALL THE HARSH THINGS HE SAW EXISTING ALONGSIDE THAT BEAUTY "ECAUSE OF ALL THE DESTRUCTIVE FORCES HE WITNESSED HE CHOSE TO REJECT 'OD RATHER THAN SEEK A BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION OF THOSE DISTORTIONS
'OD IS #REATOR OF ALL THINGS AND HAS REVEALED IN 3CRIPTURE THE AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF (IS CREATIVE ACTIVITY )N SIX DAYS THE ,ORD MADE hTHE HEAVEN AND THE EARTHv AND ALL LIVING THINGS UPON THE EARTH AND RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THAT lRST WEEK 4HUS (E ESTABLISHED THE 3ABBATH AS A PERPETUAL MEMORIAL OF (IS COMPLETED CREATIVE WORK 4HE lRST MAN AND WOMAN WERE MADE IN THE IMAGE OF 'OD AS THE CROWNING WORK OF #REATION GIVEN DOMINION OVER THE WORLD AND CHARGED WITH RESPONSIBILITY TO CARE FOR IT 7HEN THE WORLD WAS lNISHED IT WAS hVERY GOOD v DECLARING THE GLORY OF 'OD 'EN %X 0S (EB
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WITHIN THE CREATED WORLD 4HE SAME DILEMMA FACES EVERY ONE OF US AS WE STRUGGLE TO UNDERSTAND ORIGINS 7E CANNOT HELP ASKING QUESTIONS SUCH AS h7HERE DID ) COME FROM v h(OW DID ) GET HERE v AND h(OW DO ) ASCRIBE MEANING TO MY EXISTENCE v $ARWIN ULTIMATELY ADOPTED AN ATHEISTIC THEORY OF ORIGINS )N OTHER WORDS HE LEFT 'OD OUT OF THE PICTURE ALTOGETHER 4HEISM ON THE OTHER HAND OFFERS AN EXPLANATION OF ORIGINS THAT TAKES 'OD INTO CONSIDERATION "ECAUSE NONE OF US WERE ACTUALLY THERE TO PERSONALLY WITNESS HOW EVERYTHING BEGAN WE HAVE TO EXAMINE THE AVAILABLE EVIDENCE AND MAKE UP OUR OWN MINDS !SSUMPTIONS OF %VOLUTION
%VOLUTION IS BASED ON CERTAIN ASSUMPTIONS OUTLINED AS FOLLOWS BY THE LATE ' ! +ERKUT OF THE 5NIVERSITY OF 3OUTHAMPTON IN %NGLAND )MPLICATIONS OF %VOLUTION ;0ERGAMON = N .ONLIVING THINGS GAVE RISE TO LIVING MATERIAL N 4HIS SPONTANEOUS GENERATION OCCURRED ONLY ONCE N 6IRUSES BACTERIA PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE ALL INTERRELATED N 4HE ONE CELLED ORGANISMS GAVE RISE TO MANY CELLED ORGANISMS N !LL THE ORGANISMS WITHOUT VERTEBRAE ARE INTERRELATED
4 HOSE ORGANISMS WITHOUT VERTEBRAE GAVE RISE TO ONES WITH VERTEBRAE N & ISH GAVE RISE TO AMPHIBIA THEN REPTILES THEN BIRDS AND lNALLY MAMMALS ) LEAVE READERS TO MAKE THEIR OWN CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE PROBABILITY OF THESE ASSUMPTIONS ACTUALLY OCCURRING 4HE "IBLE HOWEVER GIVES US COMPELLING EVIDENCE TO HELP US DRAW OTHER CONCLUSIONS CONCERNING OUR ORIGINS 4HE APOSTLE 0AUL RIGHTLY SAYS THAT ALL HUMAN BEINGS KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT 'OD THROUGH NATURE EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE OF 3CRIPTUREo h&OR SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD 'OD S INVISIBLE QUALITIESˆHIS ETERNAL POWER AND DIVINE NATUREˆHAVE BEEN CLEARLY SEEN BEING UNDERSTOOD FROM WHAT HAS BEEN MADE SO THAT MEN ARE WITHOUT EXCUSEv 2OM 7E MAY NOT KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT 'OD FROM STUDYING NATURE 0AUL SAYS BUT THERE ARE TWO THINGS WE CAN KNOW ABOUT (IS INVISIBLE QUALITIES 4HE lRST IS THAT (E IS ETERNALLY POWERFUL AND THE OTHER IS THAT (E IS DIVINE $ARWIN MAY NOT HAVE CHOSEN TO ALIGN THE POWER GOVERNING HIS hNATURAL SELECTIONv WITH THE 'OD OF THE "IBLE BUT HE STILL DESCRIBES IT AS ETERNAL AND IN TERMS EQUIVALENT IN ESSENCE TO DIVINITY (IS DEITY WAS IN SOME SENSE UNKNOWN 4HE "IBLE DECLARES THE REAL NATURE OF THAT hUNKNOWNv 'OD WITHOUT APOLOGY h4HE 'OD WHO MADE THE WORLD AND EVERYTHING IN IT IS THE ,ORD OF HEAVEN AND EARTHx (E HIMSELF GIVES ALL MEN LIFE AND BREATH AND EVERYTHING ELSE &ROM ONE MAN HE MADE EVERY NATION OF MEN THAT THEY SHOULD INHABIT THE WHOLE EARTHx @&OR IN HIM WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING x &OR HE HAS SET A DAY WHEN HE WILL JUDGE THE WORLD WITH JUSTICE BY THE MAN HE HAS APPOINTED (E HAS GIVEN PROOF OF THIS TO ALL MEN BY RAISING HIM FROM THE DEADv !CTS N
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4HE QUESTION OF ORIGINS IS DECIDED BY WHETHER OR NOT WE ACCEPT THE RESURRECTION OF *ESUS AND (IS CLAIMS TO BE THE #REATOR OF EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS AND AS SUCH OUR ,ORD SEE *OHN 7HEN IN THE 'OSPEL OF *OHN *ESUS IS CALLED THE h7ORDv WHO HAS NEVER HAD A BEGINNING THE /NE WHO IS JUST AS MUCH 'OD AS THE &ATHER AND WHO MADE EVERYTHING THAT EXISTED WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHETHER THAT IS AUTHENTIC OR A DELUSION 4HE 'ENESIS STORY OF #REATION DESCRIBES THE 7ORD SPEAKING THINGS INTO EXISTENCEˆIN THE OFT REPEATED STATEMENT h!ND 'OD SAIDx v !ND
h'OD SAW ALL THAT HE HAD MADE AND IT WAS VERY GOODv 'EN 4HERE WAS NOTHING IN ALL OF CREATION THAT REmECTED THE DESTRUCTION THAT CONFUSED $ARWIN %VERY ANIMAL EVERY PLANT EVERY ASPECT OF THAT FRESHLY CREATED PLANET REmECTED THE GLORY OF 'OD AND (IS BENEVOLENT PURPOSE FOR (IS CREATURES )T IS NOT UNTIL HUMANITY REJECTED THAT LIFE GIVING WORD OF *ESUS THEIR #REATOR THAT THE EARTH BROUGHT FORTH THISTLES AND EVERYTHING ELSE WAS CURSED SEE 'EN 4HIS UNDERSTANDING HELPS US MAKE SENSE OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE EARTH AND EVERYTHING IN IT "UT THE SAME CREATIVE ,ORD WHO ORIGINALLY SPOKE THE WORLD INTO BEING SAYS h) WILL CREATE NEW
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WORLD AS WE SEE IT IS THE RESULT OF CHANCE v ˆ#HARLES $ARWIN
IT CLAIMS THAT THAT WHICH DID NOT PREVIOUSLY EXIST SUDDENLY CAME INTO EXISTENCE 4HERE IS AN INTANGIBLE QUALITY IN THE NATURE OF #HRIST S SPOKEN WORDS THAT INTRINSICALLY BROUGHT LIFE )N THE PRESENCE OF A MAN WHO D BEEN DEAD FOR FOUR DAYS AND WHOSE BODY WAS DECOMPOSING *ESUS CALLED IN A LOUD VOICE h@,AZARUS COME OUT ;AND= THE DEAD MAN CAME OUTv FULL OF LIFE AGAIN *OHN 3OMEONE SAID THAT IF *ESUS HADN T LIMITED THAT COMMAND TO ,AZARUS ALONE EVERY DEAD PERSON IN THE GRAVE WOULD HAVE COME FORTH AT (IS WORDS 7HAT $ARWIN 3AW 7ASN T !LWAYS 3O
%VEN A CASUAL READING OF THE 'ENESIS ACCOUNT OF #REATION REVEALS THE HEART OF 'OD FOR (IS CREATURES AND (IS CREATION
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4HIS ARTICLE IS A SHORTENED AND SLIGHTLY EDITED VERSION OF A PIECE THAT APPEARED IN 3IGNS OF THE 4IMES !USTRALIA 3EPTEMBER 5SED BY PERMISSION !LL SCRIPTURAL PASSAGES ARE FROM THE .)6
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#HRIST SAYS TO (IS FOLLOWERS h9E ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD v 4HEN LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE FORTH IN CLEAR STEADY RAYS $O NOT WRAP ABOUT YOU A CLOUD OF DARKNESS #EASE TO SUSPECT OTHERS "Y GOOD WORKS REPRESENT THE CHARACTER OF #HRIST 7HEN YOU ARE TEMPTED TO YIELD TO DESPONDENCY LOOK TO *ESUS AND TALK WITH (IM 9OUR %LDER "ROTHER WILL NEVER MAKE A MISTAKE (E WILL JUDGE RIGHTEOUSLY (E WILL GUIDE YOU ARIGHT 'OD IS NOT WELL PLEASED TO SEE (IS CHILDREN WRAPPED IN GLOOM AND SADNESS (IS ARM IS MIGHTY TO SAVE ALL WHO WILL LAY HOLD ON (IM (E DESIRES US TO BE CHEERFUL BUT NOT TRImING (E SAYS TO EACH ONE OF US h!S HE WHICH HATH CALLED YOU IS HOLY SO BE YE HOLY IN ALL MANNER OF CONVERSATION v 'OD WANTS US TO BE HAPPY (E DESIRES TO PUT A NEW SONG IN OUR LIPS EVEN PRAISE TO OUR 'OD (E WANTS US TO BELIEVE THAT (E FORGIVES OUR SINS AND TAKES AWAY OUR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (E WANTS US TO MAKE
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4HE HOPE SET BEFORE USˆWHAT IS IT ˆ4HE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE .OTHING SHORT OF THIS WILL SATISFY THE 2EDEEMER AND IT IS OUR PART TO LAY HOLD OF THIS HOPE BY LIVING FAITH IN (IM )F WE ARE PARTAKERS WITH (IM IN (IS SUFFERINGS WE SHALL BE PARTAKERS WITH (IM IN THE GLORY WHICH WILL BE (IS FOR (IS MERITS HAVE PURCHASED FORGIVENESS AND IMMORTALITY FOR EVERY SINFUL PERISHING SOUL 4HIS HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR TO THE SOUL BOTH SURE AND STEADFAST /UR TRUST IN THIS HOPE PURCHASED FOR US BY THE ATONEMENT AND INTERCESSION OF #HRIST IS TO KEEP US STEADFAST AND UNMOVEABLE IN EVERY HOUR OF CONmICT 7ITH SUCH A HOPE AS THIS BEFORE US SHALL WE ALLOW 3ATAN TO CAST HIS SHADOW ACROSS OUR PATHWAY TO ECLIPSE OUR VIEW OF THE FUTURE #HRIST VALUES HUMAN BEINGS WITH A VALUE THAT IS BEYOND ANY HUMAN COMPUTATION 4HEN LET US ENCOURAGE
HE WILL NOT BE DRIVEN UPON THE ROCKS OR DRAWN INTO THE WHIRLPOOL (IS SHIP WILL OUT RIDE THE STORM 4HE ,ORD DESIRES TEMPTED SOULS TO STAND lRM AND UNMOVEABLE ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF 'OD 4O THE SINKING 0ETER #HRIST SAID h7HEREFORE DIDST THOU DOUBT v /FTEN LIKE 0ETER WE DISHONOUR 'OD BY OUR LACK OF FAITH 4HE MIGHTIEST POWER IS VOUCHSAFED TO US THAT WE MAY STAND lRM ,OOKING UNTO *ESUS IT IS OUR PRIVILEGE TO SAY BOLDLY AND YET HUMBLY 4HE ,ORD IS MY HELPER ) SHALL NOT BE MOVED FROM MY STEADFASTNESS -Y LIFE IS BOUND UP WITH THE LIFE OF #HRIST "ECAUSE (E LIVES ) SHALL LIVE ALSO #HILDREN OF (OPE
#LOSE THE DOOR OF THE HEART TO DISTRUST AND THROW IT OPEN TO THE HEAVENLY 'UEST 0UT AWAY ALL FRETTING AND COMPLAINING FOR THIS IS THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL ,ET US MAKE A PLEDGE
,IVING AS 0EOPLE "Y %LLEN ' 7HITE
MELODY IN OUR HEARTS TO (IM )N #HRIST OUR HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE IS CENTERED /F THIS 0AUL DECLARES h'OD WILLING MORE ABUNDANTLY TO ;SHOW= UNTO THE HEIRS OF PROMISE THE IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL CONlRMED IT BY AN OATH THAT BY TWO IMMUTABLE THINGS IN WHICH IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR 'OD TO LIE WE MIGHT HAVE STRONG CONSOLATION WHO HAVE mED FOR REFUGE TO LAY HOLD OF THE HOPE SET BEFORE US WHICH HOPE WE HAVE AS AN ANCHOR TO THE SOUL BOTH SURE AND STEADFAST AND WHICH ENTERETH INTO THAT WITHIN THE VEIL WHITHER THE FORERUNNER IS FOR US ENTERED v (EBREWS
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FAITH 4AKE YOUR EYES OFF YOURSELF &AITH AND HOPE ARE NOT TO BE CENTERED IN SELF 4HEY ARE TO ENTER INTO THAT WITHIN THE VEIL WHITHER OUR &ORERUNNER IS FOR US ENTERED 4ALK OF THE BLESSED HOPE AND GLORIOUS APPEARING OF OUR ,ORD AND 3AVIOUR *ESUS #HRIST 7E ARE EXPOSED TO GREAT MORAL DANGER AND IF WE TRUST IN SELF LOOKING NO HIGHER WE SHALL MAKE SHIPWRECK OF THE FAITH $O NOT FAIL OR BE DISCOURAGED (OPE IS AN ANCHOR TO THE SOUL BOTH SURE AND STEADFAST WHEN IT ENTERS INTO THAT WITHIN THE VEIL 4HUS THE TEMPEST TOSSED SOUL BECOMES ANCHORED IN #HRIST !MID THE RAGING OF TEMPTATION
BEFORE 'OD AND THE HEAVENLY ANGELS THAT WE WILL NOT DISHONOR OUR -AKER BY CHERISHING DARKNESS AND UNBELIEF BY SPEAKING WORDS OF DISCOURAGEMENT AND MISTRUST ,ET EVERY WORD WE UTTER EVERY LINE WE WRITE BE FRAUGHT WITH ENCOURAGEMENT AND UNWAVERING FAITH )F WE LIVE FAITH WE SHALL TALK FAITH 4HINK NOT THAT *ESUS IS THE 3AVIOUR OF YOUR BROTHER ONLY (E IS YOUR PERSONAL 3AVIOUR )F YOU ENTERTAIN THIS PRECIOUS THOUGHT YOU WILL BEAT BACK THE CLOUDS OF DESPONDENCY AND GLOOM AND MAKE MELODY TO 'OD IN YOUR SOUL )T IS OUR PRIVILEGE TO TRIUMPH IN 'OD )T IS OUR PRIVILEGE TO LEAD OTHERS TO SEE THAT THEIR
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ONLY HOPE IS IN 'OD AND TO mEE TO (IM FOR REFUGE h&ORASMUCH THEN AS #HRIST HATH SUFFERED FOR US IN THE mESH ARM YOURSELVES LIKEWISE WITH THE SAME MIND v 3TAY YOUR SOUL UPON 'OD 7E ARE SAVED BY FAITH IN #HRIST 4O THOSE WHO REALIZE THIS IT IS DAY BY DAY A SOURCE OF INlNITE COMFORT %VERY ACT OF CONSECRATION TO 'OD BRINGS US JOY FOR AS WE APPRECIATE THE LIGHT (E HAS GIVEN US MORE AND GREATER LIGHT WILL COME 7E MUST BANISH THE SPIRIT OF COMPLAINING AND OPEN THE HEART TO THE BRIGHT BEAMS OF THE 3UN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 4HERE IS PEACE IN
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PERFECT SUBMISSION 0EACE FOLLOWS GRACE 4HEY WORK IN PERFECT HARMONY AND ARE MULTIPLIED IN PROGRESSION 7HEN THE HAND OF FAITH TAKES HOLD OF THE HAND OF #HRIST THE EXPRESSION OF THE HEART IS h"LESSED BE THE 'OD AND &ATHER OF OUR ,ORD *ESUS #HRIST WHICH ACCORDING TO HIS ABUNDANT MERCY HATH BEGOTTEN US AGAIN UNTO A LIVELY HOPE BY THE RESURRECTION OF *ESUS #HRIST FROM THE DEAD TO AN INHERITANCE INCORRUPTIBLE AND UNDElLED AND THAT FADETH NOT AWAY RESERVED IN HEAVEN FOR YOU WHO ARE KEPT BY THE POWER OF 'OD THROUGH FAITH UNTO SALVATION READY TO BE REVEALED IN
THE LAST TIME 7HEREIN YE GREATLY REJOICE THOUGH NOW FOR A SEASON IF NEED BE YE ARE IN HEAVINESS THROUGH MANIFOLD TEMPTATIONS THAT THE TRIAL OF YOUR FAITH BEING MUCH MORE PRECIOUS THAN OF GOLD THAT PERISHETH THOUGH IT BE TRIED WITH lRE MIGHT BE FOUND UNTO PRAISE AND HONOUR AND GLORY AT THE APPEARING OF *ESUS #HRIST WHOM HAVING NOT SEEN YE LOVE IN WHOM THOUGH NOW YE SEE (IM NOT YET BELIEVING YE REJOICE WITH JOY UNSPEAKABLE AND FULL OF GLORY RECEIVING THE END OF YOUR FAITH EVEN THE SALVATION OF YOUR SOULSv 0ETER /PEN THE WINDOWS OF THE SOUL HEAVENWARD AND LET THE RAYS OF THE 3UN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IN $O NOT COMPLAIN $O NOT LOOK ON THE DARK SIDE ,ET THE PEACE OF 'OD REIGN IN YOUR SOUL 4HEN YOU WILL HAVE STRENGTH TO BEAR ALL SUFFERING AND YOU WILL REJOICE THAT YOU HAVE GRACE TO ENDURE 0RAISE THE ,ORD TALK OF (IS GOODNESS TELL OF (IS POWER 3WEETEN
/UR ASSURANCE OF ETERNAL LIFE IS CENTERED IN *ESUS THE ATMOSPHERE WHICH SURROUNDS YOUR SOUL $O NOT DISHONOR 'OD BY WORDS OF REPINING 0RAISE (IM WITH HEART AND SOUL AND VOICE ,OOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE 0RAISE (IM WHO IS THE HEALTH OF YOUR COUNTENANCE AND YOUR 'OD
4HIS ARTICLE WRITTEN WHILE %LLEN ' 7HITE MINISTERED IN !USTRALIA lRST APPEARED IN THE "IBLE %CHO ON 3EPTEMBER 3EVENTH DAY !DVENTISTS BELIEVE THAT %LLEN ' 7HITE EXERCISED THE BIBLICAL GIFT OF PROPHECY DURING MORE THAN YEARS OF PUBLIC MINISTRY
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h4HOMAS 4HE DOGS ARE BARKING ,OOK A WOLF /H MY BABY v +ATHERINE SCREAMED 'RABBING A PITCHFORK 4HOMAS OUTRAN HIS WIFE TO WHERE THEIR BABY DAUGHTER LAY SLEEPING 4HAT MORNING THE PARENTS HAD BUNDLED UP LITTLE +ATIE LAID HER ON THE GRASS AND BADE THEIR TWO FAITHFUL DOGS TO KEEP GUARD WHILE THEY WORKED SOME DISTANCE AWAY SHOCKING HAY ! HUGE WOLF HAD EMERGED FROM THE WOODS TO CHALLENGE THE DOGS WHO HELD HIM AT BAY h/H THANK 'OD 3HE COULD HAVE BEEN CARRIED OFF AND EATEN v THE MOTHER REJOICED %ARLY 4RAINING
4HE ,INDSAYS HAD RECENTLY EMIGRATED FROM 3COTLAND AND SETTLED ON A WOODED CLAIM IN CENTRAL 7ISCONSIN NEAR ,AKE -ENDOTA 4HEY BUILT A STURDY LOG CABIN FOR PROTECTION AGAINST WOLVES BEARS AND THE 7ISCONSIN WINTER !S +ATIE GREW OLDER SHE NOT ONLY HELPED CARE FOR HER SEVEN YOUNGER BROTHERS AND SISTERS BUT ASSISTED WITH THE FARM WORK AS WELL &ROM THE TIME SHE lRST LEARNED TO READ SHE DEVELOPED AN INSATIABLE APPETITE FOR BOOKS 4O ATTEND A LITTLE LOG SCHOOLHOUSE MEANT A FOUR MILE WALK THROUGH THE WOODS WITH ITS EERIE WILDLIFE NOISES "UT BOOKS AND SCHOOL WERE HER LIFE (ER DESK HAD BEEN MADE FROM A LOG SPLIT IN HALF WITH THE SMOOTH SIDE UP (ER SLATE PENCIL WAS A LONG POINTED STICK AND HER lRST SLATE A LEVEL SPOT IN FRONT OF THE SCHOOLHOUSE !FTER READING A BOOK ABOUT &LORENCE .IGHTINGALE SHE BEGAN TO THINK OF NURSING AS A CAREER h4HE ,ADY OF THE ,AMP v AS SHE WAS KNOWN HAD SPENT ENDLESS HOURS CARING COMPASSIONATELY FOR THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS OF THE #RIMEAN 7AR +ATE RECALLED THE DEATHS OF FOUR OF HER YOUNGER BROTHERS AND SISTERS FROM CHILDHOOD DISEASES )F ONLY SHE HAD KNOWN WHAT TO DO TO SAVE THEIR LIVES )N .OVEMBER %LDER )SAAC 3ANBORN PICKED (UNDRED -ILE 'ROVE NORTHEAST OF -ADISON FOR HIS NEXT LECTURE SERIES 7HEN THE TRAIN IN WHICH HE WAS RIDING WAS BLOCKED BY SNOWDRIFTS HE SIMPLY PICKED UP HIS LUGGAGE AND PLODDED ON THROUGH THE DEEP SNOW (E INQUIRED FOR A SCHOOLHOUSE THEN ANNOUNCED NIGHTLY MEETINGS )N HIS AUDIENCE SAT THE ,INDSAY FAMILY AND THEIR NEIGHBORS THE 2ANKINS WITH THEIR EIGHT REDHEADED DAUGHTERS +ATE AND HER FAMILY ACCEPTED THE "IBLE BASED !DVENTIST TEACHINGS 7HEN THE NEED FOR A MEETINGHOUSE AROSE 4HOMAS ,INDSAY OFFERED A HALF ACRE OF GROUND AND NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR !LEXANDER 2ANKIN DID LIKEWISE ! CHURCH SOON APPEARED STRADDLING THE BOUNDARY LINE OF THE TWO PROPERTIES )T BECAME KNOWN AS THE (UNDRED -ILE #HURCH AND STOOD FOR NEARLY A CENTURY /NE DAY +ATE HURRIED INTO THE KITCHEN EXCITEDLY WAVING THE LATEST CHURCH PAPER THE 3ECOND !DVENT 2EVIEW AND 3ABBATH (ERALD h,OOK )T SAYS THAT "ATTLE #REEK HAS OPENED A SMALL HOSPITAL CALLED 7ESTERN (EALTH 2EFORM )NSTITUTE 4HAT S WHERE ) MUST GO AND LEARN HOW TO HELP SICK PEOPLE
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) D REALLY LIKE THAT KIND OF WORK ) COULD BECOME A NURSE OR MAYBE EVEN A DOCTOR v +ATE HAD A MIND OF HER OWN 3HE WOULD MANAGE TO GET TO "ATTLE #REEK SOMEHOW HER ASPIRATIONS FOR HELPING THE SICK COULD NOT BE SQUELCHED ! FEW MONTHS LATER A DETERMINED +ATE ,INDSAY LEFT HOME AND HEADED FOR THE NEW (EALTH 2EFORM )NSTITUTE
4HROUGH HER PERSISTENT EFFORTS A SCHOOL OF NURSING WAS INAUGURATED (ER TEXTBOOKS WERE PAMPHLETS COMPILED FROM HER EXTENSIVE NOTES 0UNCTUALITY SHE CONSIDERED A VIRTUE AND SHE EXPECTED IT OF EVERY STUDENT 3HE WAS OFTEN SEEN BETWEEN CLASSES CARRYING A BIG ALARM CLOCK IN ONE HAND AND AN ATTENDANCE RECORD IN THE OTHERx 4RAINING /THERS
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$USTING SCRUBBING MOPPINGˆHER lRST ASSIGNMENTS WEREN T A BIT EXCITING BUT SHE WAS WHERE SHE WANTED TO BE (ERE IN A HOSPITAL ATMOSPHERE WERE A FEW PATIENTS WITH WHOM SHE COULD SHARE COMPASSION AND A DOCTOR MENTOR FROM WHOM SHE COULD LEARN MUCH 3TRANGELY NOT ONE TRAINED NURSE COULD SHE lND 3HE DETERMINED THAT SOMEDAY SHE WOULD BE ONE HERSELF THEN TRAIN MORE +ATE HAD HEARD OF THE GROWING NUMBER OF hWATER CUREv INSTITUTIONS WHERE PATIENTS BENElTED GREATLY FROM HYDROTHERAPY TREATMENTS INSTEAD OF THE USUAL POISONOUS DRUGS /NE OF THE MOST PROMINENT WAS CONDUCTED BY $R 4HATCHER 4RAIL IN &LORENCE (EIGHTS .EW *ERSEY !S SOON AS SHE WAS ABLE TO SCRAPE TOGETHER A FEW DOLLARS SHE LEFT FOR A TWO YEAR NURSES TRAINING AT $R 4RAIL S 2ETURNING TO "ATTLE #REEK IN THE FALL OF SHE WORKED FAITHFULLY AS A NURSE BUT NEVER LOST SIGHT OF HER GOAL OF MEDICAL DOCTOR 7HEN THE 5NIVERSITY OF -ICHIGAN -EDICAL #OLLEGE AT !NN !RBOR OPENED ITS DOORS TO FEMALE STUDENTS +ATE ENROLLED IN THE STUDY OF MEDICINE .OT WITHOUT MISGIVINGS DID !NN !RBOR AGREE TO WOMEN STUDENTS h! DOUBTFUL EXPERIMENTv IT WAS LABELED &EMALE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WERE EYED WITH CURIOSITY BY THE CITIZENS OF THIS SMALL CITY 4HEY WERE POINTED OUT RIDICULED AND HISSED AT "OARDINGHOUSES HESITATED TO ADMIT THEM /N THE STREETS +ATE AND HER COMPANIONS WERE ALERT TO THE MANY REMARKS PURPOSELY INTENDED FOR THEIR EARS h4HE FEMININE MIND CANNOT GRASP THE TEACHING OF PROFESSIONAL SUBJECTS v h4HEIR HEALTH WILL BREAK DOWN UNDER THE STRAIN v h)T APPEARS TO BE SHEER FOLLY v h)T WILL RUIN THE INSTITUTION BECAUSE THE FORCE OF PUBLIC OPINION WILL SOON BREAK DOWN THE POLICY v x &INALLY IN THE GLORIOUS DAY ARRIVED WHEN +ATE RECEIVED HER DEGREE IN MEDICINE FROM THE 5NIVERSITY OF -ICHIGAN 3HE RETURNED TO THE "ATTLE #REEK HEALTH INSTITUTE NOW LABELED "ATTLE #REEK -EDICAL AND 3URGICAL 3ANITARIUM AS A FULL mEDGED PHYSICIAN UNDER $R * ( +ELLOGG CHIEF OF STAFF $R ,INDSAY WAS ASSIGNED TO HEAD THE $EPARTMENT OF /BSTETRICS AND 0EDIATRICS 7HILE THERE SHE SACRIlCED HOME COMFORTS BY SLEEPING IN A ROOM ADJOINING HER OFlCE SO THAT SHE MIGHT BE AVAILABLE FOR NIGHT CALLS 3HE RARELY USED THE ELEVATOR BECAUSE SHE CONSIDERED WALKING THE STAIRS MORE HEALTHFUL 3HE PLACED GREAT EMPHASIS UPON THE USE OF NATURAL REMEDIES 3HE WAS A THOROUGH ADVOCATE OF FRESH AIR AND OPEN WINDOWS AT NIGHT AS WELL AS LOTS OF WATER FOR DRINKING AND BATHING
$R ,INDSAY S PHILOSOPHY OF NURSING IS EXPRESSED IN HER ADDRESS TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF .OVEMBER h)T IS UNFORTUNATE THAT THE WORLD DID NOT SOONER CONSIDER THAT THIS WORK REQUIRED CAREFUL STUDY AND PREPARATION *UST AS IT HAS BEEN THOUGHT THAT A WOMAN KNEW BY HER INTUITION ALL THAT WAS NEEDFUL TO FULlLL HER DUTIES AS A MOTHER SO IT HAS BEEN CONSIDERED THAT A WOMAN COULD NURSE BY INTUITION /NLY LATELY HAS IT BEEN DISCOVERED THAT THE PROFESSION OF NURSING REQUIRES SUCH EDUCATION AND SUCH PAINSTAKING CARE THAT THE MOST HIGHLY CULTURED MIND MAY lND IN IT EXERCISE FOR ALL ITS FACULTIESx h4HE NURSE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT EACH SICKROOM IS A lELD FOR MISSIONARY EFFORTS 4HE CONSOLATION OF RELIGION IS NEVER SO PRECIOUS AS WHEN ONE IS SICK AND SUFFERING AND WHEN PERHAPS THE THINGS OF THIS LIFE ARE SLIPPING AWAY .O ONE ELSE IS FOR THE TIME SO CLOSELY ALLIED TO THE SUFFERER AS A NURSE 4HE MINISTER AND THE DOCTOR MAY MAKE PERIODICAL CALLS BUT THEY CANNOT STAND IN SUCH CLOSE CONlDENTIAL RELATIONS TO THE PATIENT AS THE NURSE h2EMEMBER EACH OF YOU THAT YOUR MISSION IS TO DO GOOD TO YOUR FELLOWS TO HEAL THE SICK AND TO ALLEVIATE SUFFERING )N THIS WAY YOU WILL BE FOLLOWING DIRECTLY IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE -ASTER v
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US TO UNDERSTAND IT AS MEANING #HRIST ASSUMED THE FULL RESPONSIBILITY AND PENALTY FOR OUR SINS IN ORDER TO FREE US FROM BOTH (E 7AS -ADE 3IN !CCORDING TO 0AUL IN #ORINTHIANS 'OD hMADE (IM WHO KNEW NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US THAT WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF 'OD IN (IM v 4HE lRST THING TO NOTICE IS THAT #HRIST BECAME SIN FOR US VICARIOUSLY MEANING THAT EVEN THOUGH (E WAS INNOCENTˆ(E KNEW NO SIN AND DID NOT DESERVE TO DIEˆ(E BECAME SIN FOR US 3ECOND IN THE "IBLE THE WORDS FOR SIN DESIGNATE NOT ONLY THE SIN COMMITTED BUT ALSO THE CONSEQUENCE OR PENALTY THAT FOLLOWS THE SIN !FTER #AIN KILLED !BEL THE ,ORD ANNOUNCED TO HIM THE PENALTY FOR HIS SIN AND #AIN EXCLAIMED h-Y PUNISHMENT SIN IS TOO GREAT TO BEAR v SEE 'EN 4HUS WHEN IT IS SAID THAT #HRIST BECAME SIN THE EMPHASIS IS NOT SO MUCH ON THE SINFUL ACTS THEMSELVES BUT ON THE GUILT THE CONSEQUENCE THE PUNISHMENT FOR OUR SINS 4HIS IDEA IS EVEN CLEARER IF WE TRANSLATE THE PHRASE "Y !NGEL -ANUEL hBECAME SINv AS hBECAME 2ODR¤GUEZ A SIN OFFERING v )N THE /LD 4ESTAMENT THE SIN OFFERING BORE THE SIN OF THE )SRAELITE AND DIED IN PLACE OF THE SINNER I E EXPERIENCED THE PENALTY FOR THE SIN (E "ECAME A #URSE 0AUL ALSO WROTE h#HRIST HAS REDEEMED US FROM THE CURSE OF THE LAW HAVING BECOME A CURSE FOR USv 'AL 4HIS PASSAGE CONTAINS SEVERAL IDEAS THAT NEED BRIEF COMMENT &IRST THE VIOLATION OF THE LAW BRINGS WITH IT A SPECIlC PENALTY CALLED HERE hA CURSE v 3ECOND THIS IS CONSIDERED A VALID CLAIM THAT NEEDED TO BE DEALT WITH (UMANS NEEDED TO BE FREED FROM THAT CURSE 4HIRD THE LEGAL DEMAND OF THE LAW WAS MET BY *ESUS WHO TOOK UPON (IMSELF THE CURSE THE RESULT AND PENALTY FOR OUR VIOLATION OF THE LAW AND THUS REDEEMED US /UR PUNISHMENT AS SINNERS WAS APPROPRIATED BY #HRIST OUR SUBSTITUTE ) HOPE THIS EXPLANATION IS USEFUL TO YOU IN YOUR #HRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
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(OW DID 'OD ILLUSTRATE THE IMPORTANCE OF REST AT #REATION 7HAT DID (E DO (IMSELF 2EAD THE TEXT BELOW AND WRITE YOUR ANSWER ON THE LINE h!ND ON THE SEVENTH DAY 'OD ENDED (IS WORK WHICH (E HAD DONE AND (E RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL (IS WORK WHICH (E HAD DONEv 'EN !T CREATION 'OD REVEALED THE IMPORTANCE OF REST BY ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL (IS
$ID 'OD INTEND THE 3ABBATH REST BE (IS ALONE 2EAD THE TEXT BELOW AND CIRCLE TWO WORDS THAT INDICATE 'OD S PURPOSE FOR (IS PEOPLE ON 3ABBATH h4HEN 'OD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY AND SANCTIlED IT BECAUSE IN IT (E RESTED FROM ALL (IS WORK WHICH 'OD HAD CREATED AND MADEv 'EN
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4HE FOURTH COMMANDMENT COMMANDS US TO hREMEMBER THE 3ABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT HOLYv %X 7HY DO YOU THINK 'OD MADE THIS COMMAND 2EAD THE TEXT BELOW AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS h&OR IN SIX DAYS THE ,ORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH THE SEA AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM AND RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY 4HEREFORE THE ,ORD BLESSED THE 3ABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED ITv %X 'OD GAVE THE 3ABBATH COMMAND TO
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