Hartland Institute

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them.” Rev.14:13.

It can be said of Russell: “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.” 2 Tim. 4:7, 8.

Even at the Door

November 1951, I graduated from the Theological Normal Course (The Christian Education Course) at Avondale College. As a mere lad of eighteen, I was launched into the Lord's service. Well I recall the hopes and the fears that I had as I said goodbye to my father and boarded the train for my long journey to the far north coast of New South Wales, Australia to take up my first teaching appointment. I had a class-room of fourteen children. So remote was the school that there was no electricity or telephone. But there was a group of SDA banana growers who had accepted the Lord's instruction to take their families to the country, whose children I was to teach.

Fifty Years Later in Adventism

A devastating u-turn re-examined.
Fifty years ago our beloved church took a devastating u-turn. The General Conference agreed to answer Evangelicals’ questions about the Seventh-day Adventist faith. Dr. Donald Barnhouse, then pastor of the Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia and editor of one of the most-read Evangelical magazines of that era, and Dr. Walter Martin, a leading Baptist theologian, led the inquiry. Elders LeRoy Froom, Roy Allen Anderson, and W. Reid of the General Conference provided the answers.