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When we accepted a call to evangelistic work with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Iran, many of our friends and relatives in the U.S. expressed concern that we would be living in the gunsights of the aggressor. Now it is our turn to be concerned. They are obviously closer to and in more danger of trouble than we are here...
...delegates from 102 countries gathered for a World Conference of the Seventh-day Adventists in San Francisco last week, there was a note of gentle irony in their choice of one of their meeting places−the Cow Palace. Vegetarians by conviction, almost all Adventists abstain from meat. They tend to abstain from alcohol, nicotine, coffee, tea, cosmetics, jewelry, dancing, card playing, movies, the theater, and "sensational" TV shows...
Some of these aversions they share with other strongly fundamentalist and austere Protestant groups. What sets the Seventh-day Adventists strikingly apart from their fellow Protestants is two major points of doctrine. One is that the Adventists honor Saturday as the Sabbath, the Biblical seventh day. The other is the belief that the second coming of Christ is premillennial and imminent: "The time is not known but near...
...Christian Practice? Paradoxically, the color question stirred up the one breath of dissidence at the San Francisco conference. "The religion of the Bible recognizes no caste or color," said third-term Adventist World President Reuben R. Figuhr, reiterating the historical position of the Seventh-day Adventists. But militant Negro Adventists, banded together in the Laymen's Leadership Conference, charged that church practice is "unChristian" compared with officially stated policy. Case in point: Burrell Scott, 38, building contractor and leading lay official of the Negro Adventist Church of Oberlin, Ohio, journeyed to San Francisco to register a protest that...
Except among Mormons, Seventh-day Adventists and a few fundamentalist churches, which follow the traditional practice to the letter, today's approach to tithing is more flexible. A number of Catholic parishes with parochial schools attached split the tithe-5% to the rectory, 5% to the school. Many Protestant ministers believe that other charity can be counted in. "The tithe should be a means of free expression of thankfulness to God-with the accent on freedom," says Episcopal Canon Rudolf Devik, of Seattle's diocesan stewardship department. "Charity may include anything the person feels is the work...