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Biola says thank you to Dr. G. Archer Weniger, Pastor, Foothill Blvd. The Foothill Blvd. Baptist Church of Oakland is one of the noted evangelical churches of the San Fran cisco bay area. The pas tor is not a graduate of Biola, but like so many other evangelical pastors he’s a staunch friend of this Christian training center. We have received a copy of this church’s publication, Blu-Print, containing the following: "W e wish to pay trib ute to the faithfulness of this great school —- Biola. This combination of several schools actually constitutes a Christian University which has not been blown about by every wind of doctrine and religious fad. Its theological position today is exactly what it was when it was founded by T. C. Horton. It deserves the whole- souled support of God’s people everywhere as it not only trains youth for Christian service but exercises a wholesome influence over the churches , on the Coast . . . ” * * * Biola is made up of four schools: Bible In stitute, School of Mis sionary Medicine, Talbot Theological Seminary and Biola Bible College. Applications are now being considered for the fall semester. BIOLA 55 8 S. Hope St. Los Angeles 17, Calif. Baptist Church, Oakland, Calif.
a position to appreciate the truths you have written. We heartily agree with your charges. An Adventist of ficial has advised me that “we are not changing our doctrines . . . but . . . clarifying them.” This is a terrible statement and refutes entirely what they have told Bamhouse, Martin, Eternity and Time. Today they have one message they tell the public, one other message they preach to their church members and a third message they teach the natives, who know nothing of the investigative judgment, etc. Our unbiased study of Galatians and Colossians has opened to us the won derful blessings of the finished work of Christ, and we are reveling in our freedom from legalism. The Holy Spirit was given to convict the world of sin and to guide into all truth. It did not take me long to clarify my position, once I started to investigate and the same Spirit would have guided the Adventists, had they asked. The Seventh-day Adventist churches down here are rocked over what has already happened and some more of your literature would help to rock some more. You see, we were so blind ed that we could not imagine Sunday- keepers could have any truth. Now our eyes are opened, I am really amazed at the wealth of literature that is put out . . . . We are brands plucked from the burning and we want to help the many honest-hearted Seventh-day Adventists out of bond age too. Henderson, New Zealand Herbert E. Whitford Word keeps reaching us o f the shake-up in the Seventh-day Advent ist circles and churches in New Zea land as a result o f the dismissal from his leadership last year o f R. A. Grieve, form er president o f the North New Zealand Conference. He was ousted after 30 years’ service with this sect for teaching what the Seventh-day Adventists branded as doctrinal error: the sinlessness o f Christ and the fu ll atonement at the cross, and for ques tioning the i n f a l l i b i l i t y o f Mrs. W hite’s writings. Grieve is now run ning a business in Australia. Another Adventist (Pastor Drain) was dis missed after 16 years’ service for preaching against the investigative judgment and Mrs. W hite’s teachings. T h e City Mission at Auckland City closed when certain staff members repudiated SDA, and we have been informed o f the disintegration o f some SDA churches. W e w ill have a more detailed report in the future. — ED.
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Sirs: Won’t you please let your readers know what happened to Althea M il ler’s son Bob? W ill he be permanent ly blinded? Central Valley, Calif. Mrs. M. E. White Between the writing o f last month’s column and this month’s, Mrs. M iller’s 20-year-old son Bob died. See “Under the Parsonage Roof,” page 7.— ED. For Men Only Sirs: “Those Foreign Cars” [for-men-only feature, April, K.B.] would make a wonderful tract. Many would read it as such who would not open a Christian magazine. If you decide to publish this article in tract form I could use at least 100. Encinitas, Calif. Dr. Alberta Thomas W e are sorry but this article is not in tract form. For this month’s for- men-only article see page 11. — ED. John Brown Sirs: I have especially appreciated the article about John E. Brown by Mar tha S. Hooker in the April issue. As a boy I was saved in one of his meet ings many years ago. Alameda, Calif. Hubert Reiss, M.D. Seventh-day Adventists (cont'd) Sirs: I was hoping that someone would have the courage and daring to answer the misleading statements in Eternity concerning the Seventh-day Advent ists. And you certainly did! More power to you with the truth! Harrisburg, Pa. Dr. Charles R. Beittel Otterbein Evangelical United Brethren Church Sirs: I am a missionary on furlough under The Christian & Missionary Alliance and have served a little over 40 years in Argentina, Ecuador, Co lombia and Puerto Rico. In all of these fields the Seventh-day Adventists have done great harm in several of our congregations. I and some of my brethren with whom I have consulted deeply regret that a magazine like Eternity, so highly respected among evangelicals, should ever have pub lished such articles. Glendora, Calif. Emanuel A. Prentice Sirs: You are doing a notable work. Long Beach, Calif. Dr. Charles Mayes, Pastor First Brethren Church Sirs: After 32 years’ membership with the Seventh-day Adventists, we are in
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