By E. L. MINCHIN - Seventh-day Adventist - BUC Historical Archive

Nor$h EnglandCoderemceePresident: Pastor 0. M. DorlandOffice Address: 22 Zulla Road,Mapperley Park, NotttnghamTelephone: Nottingham 66312Youth Convention inManchesterTHE burden of the messagesthat came to us at the YoungPeople's Convention in Manchesteron Sabbath March 22nd, wasthat upon the youth of this movementthe finishing of our worldwidetask will fall.From 9.30 until 10 a.m. PastorE. R. Warland had charge of ateachers' meeting. Sabbath-schoolunder the leadership of localofficers continued until about11.15 a.m. Pastor H. K. Munsonwas there from Oldham, and tookthe review of the lesson; PastorG. W. Baird made the lesson livefor us as he gave the lesson studyfrom the desk; Pastor Warlandthrilled us when he led us to missionfields in his missions appeal.He told us of the a'mzement ofthe scientist Charles Darwin atthe results of the Gospel in thehearts of the savages of the tip ofSouth America. It pays rich dividendsto give to the cause ofmissions.The sermon in the devotional, hour was preached by Pastor E. B.Rudge. His theme was the story' of Esther. She became queen ofPersia in a time of crisis for thepeople of God. Prior to this allhad seemed secure for them. Welive in similar times. The onlyway we shall triumph is the wayshe did, and that is, to destroyselfishness by self-sacrifice.Scientists and statesmen arejoining the Adventist preachers inannouncing that the end of allthings is at hand. They offer noway out of the impasse, but wehave the message of Revelationfourteen calling men to the worshipof the Creator because JesusChrist is coming back to the earth.There is a dearth of labourersin the vineyard and the youngpeople of this cause must fillup the ranks. Young men andwomen are hearing the call andanswering it all over the world. A6young man of seventeen who hadspent only one year in our trainingschool when the war came,was caring for a group of commandosin a South Sea island,when he was betrayed by a missionboy of another cause.The Japanese in order to forcehim to tell their whereabouts,extracted his fingernails one byone. They made him dig a gravewith his lacerated hands, tied himto a tree, buffeted him and finallyin desperation smashed him onthe head with a rifle butt. Thenthey flung him into the opengrave, but the Lord saved him andhe was taken back to the hide-outby fellow Christians.Those tough commandos weptover him, bound up his fingersand offered him rewards. He replied,"Me no do it for reward,me do it for Jesus." A mightytask is before us. Who will answerthe challenge?All stood to their feet at theconclusion oi the address, andPastor Baird offered a prayer ofreconsecration for us.Brother E. A. Butters went tothe platform at 2 p.m. and led usin the singing of some oldfavourite hymns.The next part of the programmewas an open discussionin which six young people ledout in the three themes-"Youthin Fellowship," "Youth in Training,"and "Youth in Service,"This was a profitable hour notonly for the youth present, butalso for the leaders. 0Pastor Rudge spoke again in theafternoon Bible study, the topicbeing: "How we can keep ourchildren in the church." We arethe people of prophecy, thereforeour children must be the childrenof prophecy. They are likened toarrows, but they must besharpened and rightly directed orelse they will be dangerous tothemselves and to others.Children are admonished inEphesians to obey their parents,but fathers are urged not to provoketheir children to wrath. Twopersonal experiences helped usbetter to understand these verses.We must teach our children aboutGod from a two-fold setting : thatHe is a merciful God, but alsothat He will in no wise "clear theguilty." Finally, we must teachour children from their veryearliest years to pray.A very happy day came to anend with the showing of somemoving films entitled : "TwoThousand Years Ago," and"Zambesi Days." It was a daythat will long be remembered bythe young people of Lancashire.We offer our heartiest thanksto the sisters of the Parkfieldchurch for the hot drinks thatwere provided both during thelunch hour and at suppertime.E. A. BUTTERS.of sending Food, Clothing, etc., to Distressed ~ernbhrsin Germany and EuropeWE have just received word inthe Union from the Social Secretaryof the Central EuropeanDivision at Berlin, stating thatthe Adventist denomination inGermany still amounts to nearly30,000 believers. Of this number,there are at least 8,000 displacedpersons from the eastern provinces,and there are another6,000 of the believers vtrho werebombed out and have lost theirhomes and clothing, in fact allthey have. Then there are atleast 3,000 members who are oldand sick and poverty-stricken.These figures really mean thatmore than half of the total existingAdventist membership inGermany are in real need.The writer of the letter alsostates that when we consider theinterests of food and clothing, wecan say that all our German believersare in want of help.Then they did ask a favour ofus in connection with the needsof their young mothers, so if anyAdventist believers in Englandare able to send clothing or foodto our brethren and sisters inGermany, it will be accepted withthe deepest gratitude. It may be