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Good afternoon and welcome to
the Sabbath afternoon program at
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the 70th ASI. We're delighted
that you're here this afternoon.
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This afternoon's program will
be one in which we're going to
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focus on the history of ASI and
lay movements throughout history
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that have impacted the world
and impacted the Seventh-day
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Adventist church. We'll talk
about where ASI has come from
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where we are going in the future
and where we are today. So
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Teenie pray for us.
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Shall we bow our heads in prayer
Our wonderful, most loving, kind
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heavenly Father: We thank you
first of all for who you are.
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Such a great and awesome,
loving and unselfish God. You've
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done so much for each of us and
we thank you for that. We thank
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you for the way that you have
loved us and cared for us and
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guided us. And so we thank
you for everything that you have
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done. And now Father I pray that
you would bless this meeting
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this afternoon and each
participant, each one I pray you
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will give your power and Holy
Spirit to. And Father we ask for
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your presence here. We know that
the Holy Spirit has been here
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and is here this afternoon but
we pray again for the outpouring
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of your Spirit. So Father we
will give you the glory and the
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praise for everything also that
ASI has done. We thank you for
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the ministries of ASI. We
know that it takes more than one
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ministry, more than one person.
It takes all of us working
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together to really be unified
to finish your work. So we pray
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that you'd give us wisdom and
power and your presence as we
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worship again this afternoon
with you. So thank you. We
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praise you, we honor you,
we love you and we look forward
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to that great day when you
will come again in the clouds of
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heaven. Keep us faithful to that
end, we pray in Jesus' precious
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name, Amen.
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This year is the 70th
anniversary of ASI and
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the 500th year celebrating the
reformation. It was in 1517 that
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Martin Luther nailed the 95
theses on the castle church wall
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in Wittenberg. What do those two
events have in common? What does
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things that ASI has in common
but there is one that I'd like
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to focus on. The truth
that dawned on the minds of many
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during the reformation is found
in 1 Peter chapter 3 or chapter
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2 rather. Certainly
the reformation focused on
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salvation by grace,
justification. Certainly it
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focused on the authority
of the scripture as above the
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authority of priests
and prelates and popes.
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Certainly it focused on faith.
But there was another aspect of
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the reformation that dawned
upon the minds of men and women,
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another aspect that burst upon
their consciousness and we find
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that in 1 Peter chapter 2 and
verse 9. The Bible says: But you
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are a chosen generation, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, his
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own special people that you may
proclaim the praises of him who
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called you out of darkness into
this marvelous light. The great
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truth of the reformation was
that priests and prelates and
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popes were not the custodians
of the gospel but that God had
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blessed average men and women
with the knowledge of his grace
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and the marvels of his love and
that every Christian was to be a
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witness. Every Christian
was to be a priest of God. Every
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Christian was to be
an ambasador for Christ.
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Witnessing is not a spiritual
gift. Witness is the calling of
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every Christian who God equips
with spiritual gifts to witness.
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God has blessed down through the
generations and centuries lay
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people. Matthew was a tax
collector called by God who
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chronicled the gospel. Peter and
John were fishermen called by
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God. And think of Peter's great
sermon in Acts chapter 2 where
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3000 were baptized after that
prophetic sermon showing that
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Christ was the Messiah. Peter
was a lay person. Luke was a
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physician, a lay person, called
by God and joined Paul. Paul was
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the first ASI member because
when you look back you remember
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in Acts chapter 18 verse 3
that the apostle Paul was a tent
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maker in Corinth. Why was
Paul a tent maker in Corinth
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incidentally? Why did he join
Aquilla and Priscilla there.
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They were expelled from Rome
when the Jewish persecution came
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They were tent makers. Why did
they go to Corinth. It was 51 AD
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The ispanian games were coming
in 52 AD. They had no hotels to
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stay in. So Paul entrepreneurial
tent maker began making tents
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for the thousands that would
come to the games so he could
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make some money to support his
ministry. Paul was an ASI member
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an entrepreneur and he lit the
world with the gospel. Thank God
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for ASI members who like
Willian Carey. You remember what
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William Carey said? He said
I cobble shoes to pay expenses
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but soul winning is my business.
The true spirit of ASI is one
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who indeed set him
self- supporting to do mission
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for Christ. Time went on. Church
and state united. The dark ages
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came and the church had a
different philosophy. It's
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philosophy was this: Lay people
are to simply pray, they are to
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pay and they are to obey.
But then the light of the gospel
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broke through in the middle ages
and as it did Martin Luther and
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other reformers began to
share the glorious truth of the
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priesthood of the believers. Lay
people again rose to preach the
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gospel and out of that
reformation as heirs of the
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reformation the Adventist church
grew and those early Adventists
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often were lay people. William
Miller, not an ordained preacher
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but called by God as a godly
lay person rose to preach the
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gospel. Think of for example
the Joseph Bates, a sea captain,
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called of God. God has
been calling men and women down
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through the ages who are lay
people, touching them with the
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spirit of the gospel, changing
their lives. Mission is part of
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the DNA of lay people in the
Seventh-day Adventist church.
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Mission identifies who we are
and mission was part of a lay
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movement in our early history
and young people propelled by
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mission went forward to
preach the gospel Charles.
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That's right Elder Finley.
Mission has been the very
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driving force behind our church
and we have found that in the
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early portion of our church it
was very intentional. It wasn't
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accidental, it was very
intentional what our leaders did
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What do you mean it was
not accidental but intentional?
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They very much infused their
young people with a sense of
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mission. The fact that they
were on earth for a purpose and
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that purpose was to share
Christ and his soon coming
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with the world.
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And that's the spirit of ASI.
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That's exactly the spirit of ASI
ASI is patterned after that very
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attitude and that attitude
was probably best embodied and
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exemplified in the person of
E.A. Sutherland. Who was E.A.
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Sutherland. Why don't you tell
us a little bit about that man
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that was so fundamental, so
basic in the foundation of ASI.
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It will be my pleasure to
do that. Thanks for letting me
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share. E.A. Sutherland grew up
in rural Iowa not far from the
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Minnesota border and he learned
hard work at a very early age.
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You see even when he was a
very, very young man, he and his
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sister herded cows for an entire
summer for a total of 35 cents.
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He managed to hang on to that
35 cents over the winter and
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with his father's encouragement
he invested that 35 cents in
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some onion sets and he tended
those onions through the year,
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sold them for a tidy profit at
the end of the year and that was
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his first, if you would, ASI
business venture. You see, the
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year after he graduated
from high school he took a job
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teaching in a nearby school
house. He rode his pony Mouse
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back and forth throughout the
winter. In addition to teaching
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many lessons, he learned
one lesson that was critically
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important and that critically
important lesson was that God
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called him to reach young people
for Jesus through education. He
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felt that he was poorly equipped
however and he determined to go
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and get additional college
training to remedy that short
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coming. Now his family, his
father in particular, did not
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agree with his college
aspirations and he offered him
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no support. So Ed Sutherland
sold his pony Mouse so that he
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would be able to make the trip
to Battle Creek. He went there
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to live with a couple of Aunts
and he wasn't immediately ready
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to enter college and so he spent
a year studying rhetoric and
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English with Professor Goodloe
Bell. Professor Bell had some
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rather different ideas
about education. For example,
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Professor Bell thought that the
Bible should be the foundation
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of all the principles that we
communicate. He also felt that
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in addition to head learning
that we should be learning
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practical things. So he and
Ed spent half of each day out in
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physical labor. Now in spite of
his family's disapproval of his
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pursuit of college, Ed
determined that he should go
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home and help his father on the
farm the first summer after he
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was in college. His muscles were
soft, the work was hard and his
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father was harder. Against the
protests of his mother and the
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rest of the crew, his father put
him in the toughest job in the
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harvest. It was called the straw
monkey. But Ed sang and prayed
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his way that harvest season
without any complaint. The next
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summer Edward spent
colporteuring. He went to
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Minnesota and he stayed in
the home of Josephine Gotzian.
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Josephine Gotzian put
colporteurs up in her home
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and some of the young men that
had been there didn't have a
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really good experience. Ed
determined that he was going to
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have a better experience with
his benefactoress and so he went
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out of his way to take care of
her home and her carriage horse.
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And he wouldn't know what
benefits this friendship would
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have in the future. Now when Ed
returned to Battle Creek it was
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for his junior year in 1888 and
he met a new friend there. The
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new arrival was Percy
Magan. Percy Magan arrived from
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Ireland and he had been invited
to live in the home of the now
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widowed Ellen White. Ed began
spending more time with the boys
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excuse me with Percy in
Ellen White's home. Ellen White
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referred to Ed and Percy as the
boys. Ed and Percy referred to
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Ellen White as Mother White as
a term of endearment that they
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used throughout their lives and
it was no accident that placed
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Ed Sutherland, Percy Magan
and Ellen White together in 1888
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This, as you recall, is when
there was a renewed emphasis in
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our church on righteousness
by faith, what Mother White
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referred to as the third angel's
message in verity. Though
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younger than Edward Percy had
a number of things that he was
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going to teach him. One of
those things was the religious
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experience that he enjoyed.
Little by little Percy led
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Edward into the same close
walk with Jesus that Percy had
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already enjoyed. The visits with
Mother White and the long talks
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with Percy brought Ed into that
same relationship and Ed and
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Percy were rooted and grounded
in Jesus Christ. Through that
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winter the boys also observed
Mother White closely. They
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learned to value the marvelous
gift to the remnant that the
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gift of prophecy bestowed by
God on this gentle woman was and
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they came to the conviction that
those revelations were direct
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from God and they needed to
follow that guidance. They did
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through the rest of their lives.
In addition to his studies Percy
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took a job in the college bakery
He was soon the head baker and
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in his spare time he went over
to the machine shop to learn how
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to use the tools that were found
there. Ed, on the other hand, in
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his spare time, played football
and baseball. When Ed attempted
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to recruit Percy to the baseball
team Percy responded, I can't
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regard any activity as
recreation suitable for me
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unless it confers benefit on
someone else. Ed pondered his
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friend's position and eventually
he came to believe the same as
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his friend. Around this time
Ed noticed also a certain young
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lady. Her name was Sally
Gruillard. She was from Iowa
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also. She was talented. She was
educated in languages. She was
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artistic. She had sterling
character and they both wanted
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to teach. The faculty gave their
permission so that they could
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date and at the end of
the following summer they were
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married. Ed and Sally took
a call to Minnesota. Percy was
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asked to interrupt his studies
because the college had a
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desperate need for a history
teacher. Then they connected at
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the end of that next
school year at a conference, an
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educational conference that was
being held in Harbor Springs,
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Michigan. The Seventh-day
Adventist church educators were
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getting together to finally
consider the counsels that
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Mother White had been sending
on education. While they were
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there Ed suggested they
go fishing. Percy responded
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vegetarian and before the
day was over Ed and Sally were
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vegetarian as well. Also while
in Harbor Springs Ed was asked
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to teach history, but this time
at Battle Creek College. Before
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he could even start teaching
they changed the subject on him.
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They gave him Old Testament
Bible and he figured the best
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place to start Old Testament
Bible is in Genesis. You now you
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don't have to go to far in that
book and you start finding out
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what the original diet was and
soon the students were asking
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for a vegetarian option in the
cafeteria. It wasn't two years
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later and Battle Creek was a
vegetarian campus. After only
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one year at Battle Creek Ed was
asked to go and be the principal
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of a new college. It's a place
out in Washington State called
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Walla Walla. The president for
the college lived in Michigan so
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for practical purposes it was
up to Ed the get the school year
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started. In his first five
months he needed to attend camp
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meeting in Seattle, create
a curriculum for the college,
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produce a catalogue, find and
hire qualified teachers, recruit
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some students, oversee the
construction workers so that the
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building got built and on
December 7, 1892 they opened
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school with 91 students,
10 teachers. By the end of the
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school year enrollment was over
160. Now by contrast I want you
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to understand: The University
of Washington had already been
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in operation for 30 years
but only had 42 students. Things
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were a bit rough however. The
building wasn't finished when
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school opened. Construction
only progressed as funds were
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available. Ed was insistent that
they not be going into debt. The
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only heat in the building
was two stoves; one was a pot
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bellied stove in the chapel and
the other was a borrowed range
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in the kitchen, which it turned
out did not work when they first
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tried to fire it. There was
only one bathroom and one tub in
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each dormitory. The staff
wrote to the General Conference
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describing the situation and
asking for help. The reply that
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came back was a set of detailed
instructions on how you could
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take a bath in a basin of water.
The school promptly purchased
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basins for the new dormitory.
Ed was very intentional about
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educating his staff. He held
staff retreats where they would
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study the testimonies that
were coming from Mother White in
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Australia where she was starting
Avondale. The testimonies were
00:19:14.75\00:19:18.65
a constant topic of conversation
on campus. The fundamental
00:19:18.69\00:19:21.12
question with every new letter
of counsel was what is this
00:19:21.16\00:19:25.69
going to look like on our campus
How will we implement this
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principle. The second year Ed
was given the title of president
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and there was also a new
staff member that came. Bessie
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DeGraw interrupted her studies
at Battle Creek very much
00:19:39.67\00:19:42.81
like Percy had done and traveled
to the Walla Walla to help out.
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She proved to be a dynamo.
She wound up working with Ed
00:19:47.95\00:19:53.82
Sutherland for the rest of her
life. That winter Ed presented a
00:19:53.86\00:20:00.00
report of what was happening
at Walla Walla to the General
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Conference. The conference also
heard reports from Battle Creek,
00:20:02.23\00:20:05.63
which was struggling at the
time with a debt of about 90,000
00:20:05.67\00:20:09.54
dollars. In today's currency,
that would be about 2.6 million.
00:20:09.57\00:20:14.08
Clearly God had been able to
bless Ed's leadership at Walla
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Walla and so the General
Conference voted to move that
00:20:18.58\00:20:22.48
leadership to Battle Creek,
to the flagship educational
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institution. At the age of 32,
Ed with Sally and Bessie joined
00:20:26.42\00:20:30.99
Percy back at Battle Creek. Now
Battle Creek was located on only
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seven acres of property in the
middle of the city. Ed and Percy
00:20:35.70\00:20:40.14
desperately wanted to move the
college out into the country to
00:20:40.20\00:20:44.61
be in compliance with
Mother White's counsel, but her
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personal counsel to the boys was
wait, the time is not yet right.
00:20:48.84\00:20:54.88
So they did. They waited but
they weren't idle. While they
00:20:54.92\00:20:58.75
were waiting Percy started
a debt relief organization. Ed
00:20:58.79\00:21:02.62
wrote a sizable book on
educational history. Ed and
00:21:02.66\00:21:06.09
Percy went out and plowed
up the tennis courts and the
00:21:06.13\00:21:09.50
baseball field to provide garden
space. There was a great deal of
00:21:09.53\00:21:14.54
opposition to the reforms among
the students, but there was a
00:21:14.57\00:21:19.54
great deal of support and
a revival swept through the
00:21:19.57\00:21:22.84
college. Ed was getting letters
from several churches requesting
00:21:22.88\00:21:28.02
teachers for children. He went
to the chapel meeting with the
00:21:28.05\00:21:32.25
students with three letters
of request and he asked if there
00:21:32.29\00:21:35.89
might be any students williing
to interrupt their studies to go
00:21:35.92\00:21:41.80
and help these churches. No one
replied. So the next day he made
00:21:41.83\00:21:47.57
the same inquiry and first one
and then two more young ladies
00:21:47.64\00:21:53.27
stood up. By Christmas there
were seven schools in operation
00:21:53.31\00:21:58.61
with students that volunteered
to lead out. By March there were
00:21:58.65\00:22:03.95
13. During the next year 57
schools were organized. By the
00:22:03.99\00:22:09.02
fall of 1900, just two years
later, almost 150 church schools
00:22:09.06\00:22:14.80
were in operation. In 1900,
Mother White also unexpectedly
00:22:14.83\00:22:19.53
announced her return from
Australia. She determined that
00:22:19.57\00:22:24.21
she would attend the February
1901 General Conference meeting
00:22:24.24\00:22:27.51
in part because of things
revealed to her about problems
00:22:27.54\00:22:31.01
that needed to be met very
firmly here in America. She
00:22:31.08\00:22:34.48
addressed that conference on
several subjects and among them
00:22:34.52\00:22:38.65
was the relocation of Battle
Creek. After her comments on
00:22:38.69\00:22:42.02
that subject the General
Conference committee voted to
00:22:42.09\00:22:45.36
purchase rural property so that
they could move the college. Now
00:22:45.39\00:22:49.30
Ed and Sally and Percy,
they'd already been scouting out
00:22:49.33\00:22:52.47
properties and they knew just
where they wanted to go. The
00:22:52.50\00:22:56.27
next year school started in
a new location, a place called
00:22:56.30\00:23:00.51
Berrien Springs, Michigan and
the new location called for a
00:23:00.54\00:23:05.11
new name, Emmanuel Missionary
College. Since there were only a
00:23:05.15\00:23:08.82
few small buildings on the new
campus classes that first year
00:23:08.85\00:23:12.52
were held in the recently
vacated court house and jail.
00:23:12.55\00:23:18.19
Percy's wife gave her entire
inheritance to help start the
00:23:18.23\00:23:23.43
construction on campus. Progress
on the campus was obvious and
00:23:23.47\00:23:28.60
rapid but opposition to
educational reform was also
00:23:28.64\00:23:32.87
strong. Percy's wife Ida
had always been rather frail and
00:23:32.91\00:23:36.88
she took ill, in part from the
stress over the criticism that
00:23:36.91\00:23:40.98
her husband was receiving. She
dies during the union conference
00:23:41.02\00:23:45.05
meetings that May of 1904
leaving Percy with two small
00:23:45.09\00:23:51.13
children. Percy and Ed had
had enough. They tendered their
00:23:51.16\00:23:57.90
resignations and they headed
south. Ed met Mother White on
00:23:57.93\00:24:03.07
Edson White's paddle wheel boat
called the Morning Star. They
00:24:03.10\00:24:06.98
started up river to pick up
Percy but they had mechanical
00:24:07.04\00:24:10.65
problems along the way. Ed
recognized the place. It was
00:24:10.68\00:24:14.15
Neemly's Bend near Larkin
Springs not far from Nashville.
00:24:14.18\00:24:17.89
Mother White wished to see
a farm that was nearby. Ed had
00:24:17.92\00:24:22.06
already seen it. He was not
interested, but he agreed to
00:24:22.09\00:24:25.96
accompany Mother White. The
place looked worse than Ed had
00:24:25.99\00:24:29.76
remembered. Mother White seemed
enamored with it. It looks like
00:24:29.80\00:24:34.50
a place I've seen in vision and
Ed's heart sank. No sooner had
00:24:34.54\00:24:39.17
they picked up Percy than Mother
White called Ed and Percy to her
00:24:39.21\00:24:43.04
cabin. Well Brother Magan I saw
your farm today and I walked all
00:24:43.08\00:24:47.22
around it. I am convinced God
wants you and Ed Sutherland to
00:24:47.25\00:24:51.02
have that place. It's the kind
of place that's been shown to me
00:24:51.05\00:24:56.02
in vision. What do you think of
it? I think of it as little as I
00:24:56.06\00:25:01.20
can. It's too big. It's all run
down. We don't have the money.
00:25:01.23\00:25:06.84
Well I'm sorry because it seems
to me the Lord intends you to
00:25:06.87\00:25:12.34
have that place. A few days
later Ed and Percy did return to
00:25:12.37\00:25:17.75
the farm. Ed shared with Percy
Oh I wish we had some honorable
00:25:17.78\00:25:21.68
and Christian way to get out of
the whole thing without showing
00:25:21.72\00:25:25.62
a lack of faith in the
testimonies. They wrestled with
00:25:25.65\00:25:29.59
their decision for the rest of
the day. But before the day was
00:25:29.62\00:25:35.20
out Percy summed it up like this
Ed, we're in it and we're in it
00:25:35.23\00:25:41.20
voluntarily. Mrs. White is with
us, God is leading us and he
00:25:41.24\00:25:47.18
will show us the way.
They shared their decision with
00:25:47.21\00:25:51.38
Mother White and she showed
great pleasure. She said, I'll
00:25:51.41\00:25:55.68
do anything I can to help
you. You tell your story to the
00:25:55.72\00:25:59.89
people and they will help and I
will recommend your work and if
00:25:59.95\00:26:05.36
you wish I'll come on your board
Now that last statement bore
00:26:05.39\00:26:11.43
great significance. It was the
only board that Ellen White ever
00:26:11.47\00:26:17.17
served on and she served on it
until the year before she died.
00:26:17.21\00:26:22.88
Right away Ed went north
to consult with his aunt Nell.
00:26:22.91\00:26:26.21
Nellie Druillard was know
by most as Mother D. She was a
00:26:26.25\00:26:29.55
firey red head but more
importantly she was a keen
00:26:29.58\00:26:31.45
business woman. They took the
next train that they could back
00:26:31.49\00:26:35.79
to Nashville. A welcoming party
met them at the train station
00:26:35.82\00:26:40.03
and that included Mother White.
When Ed and Mother D heard that
00:26:40.06\00:26:44.43
the price had been raised on the
farm by another thousand dollars
00:26:44.47\00:26:48.84
Mother D said well I'm
glad we're not going to take it.
00:26:48.87\00:26:53.91
Glad, glad said Mother White, do
you think I'd let the devil beat
00:26:53.94\00:26:58.78
me out of a place for a thousand
dollars. It's cheap enough. She
00:26:58.81\00:27:04.82
then turned to Mother D. Nell,
you think that you're old enough
00:27:04.85\00:27:09.82
to retire, but if you'll cast
your lot in with these boys, if
00:27:09.89\00:27:13.73
you'll look after them and guide
them and support them in what
00:27:13.76\00:27:18.07
the Lord wants them to do, the
Lord will renew your strength
00:27:18.13\00:27:22.40
and you'll accomplish more in
the future than you've done in
00:27:22.44\00:27:27.88
the past. Mother D immediately
provided the down payment.
00:27:27.91\00:27:33.25
The signatures for the property
were obtained that day, a fete
00:27:33.31\00:27:37.29
about which Mother White later
would tell the boys, You will
00:27:37.35\00:27:43.19
never know how many angels it
took. The owners didn't vacate
00:27:43.22\00:27:47.73
the property immediately.
People had to stay wherever they
00:27:47.76\00:27:52.23
could find. The servant's
quarters above the carriage
00:27:52.27\00:27:54.50
house were dubbed probation hall
If you could endure it's riggers
00:27:54.54\00:27:59.97
you could handle anything
Madison was going to give you.
00:28:00.01\00:28:04.08
Until the Fergusons left the
downstairs household servant's
00:28:04.11\00:28:09.02
quarters held mules and horses
and smoked hams and mice and
00:28:09.05\00:28:14.29
rats and flies and other vermon.
The place was cleaned up and
00:28:14.32\00:28:18.49
over time all of the pioneers
took their turns living in the
00:28:18.53\00:28:23.80
upstairs bedroom. The incoming
students also frequently spent
00:28:23.83\00:28:29.47
time in there. The faculty
voted themselves a stipend of 13
00:28:29.50\00:28:35.04
dollars per month. Ten years
later they would go on record to
00:28:35.08\00:28:40.18
say that they had been richly
blessed to still be getting 13
00:28:40.22\00:28:45.09
dollars a month even though that
13 dollars had depreciated in
00:28:45.15\00:28:49.99
value by about 20 percent.
Following the pattern of what
00:28:50.03\00:28:54.23
had been done in Michigan by
1909 Madison sent out scores of
00:28:54.30\00:28:58.53
students into the south to
propagate the education and
00:28:58.57\00:29:01.80
health outreach that had been
begun on that campus. It was
00:29:01.84\00:29:05.04
decided to
invite representatives
00:29:05.07\00:29:06.47
from each of what they called
units to come to Madison and
00:29:06.54\00:29:09.81
share in the work that was going
on there. It was such a success
00:29:09.84\00:29:12.91
that they resolved to continue
to do that practice. By 1910
00:29:12.95\00:29:16.79
they had survived the worst
of it. Ed and Percy went back to
00:29:16.85\00:29:20.66
school to get their medical
degrees and then Percy was
00:29:20.69\00:29:24.93
called to the College of Medical
Evangelists. Ed said this is
00:29:24.96\00:29:28.83
like tearing asunder bone and
marrow, but as Percy was leaving
00:29:28.86\00:29:33.54
Lida Funk Scott joined the
Madison family. For more of the
00:29:33.57\00:29:37.14
stories of God's providence I
would love to be able to share
00:29:37.17\00:29:41.44
them now but our time is running
out and what you can do is you
00:29:41.48\00:29:45.08
can get the book Madison, God's
Beautiful Farm. For those of you
00:29:45.11\00:29:48.48
who are here at the conference
it's available in the exhibit
00:29:48.52\00:29:51.89
hall at the ASI booth or
at the Madison or the EASea
00:29:52.45\00:29:56.19
booths. No one wants to be
the bearer of bad news but I'm
00:29:56.22\00:29:59.53
afraid I have to just as an
amateur historian set the record
00:29:59.56\00:30:02.86
straight. While technically
correct this is the 70th
00:30:02.90\00:30:05.57
anniversary of ASI, but since
1909 the units have been meeting
00:30:05.60\00:30:11.34
every year to encourage each
other in service and this marks
00:30:11.37\00:30:18.41
the 119th gathering of ASI. ASI
was formally organized in 1947
00:30:18.45\00:30:25.45
and was expanded and renamed
to include the individually
00:30:25.49\00:30:30.53
operated ministries and
businesses and Elder Finley
00:30:30.56\00:30:35.53
the units are still getting
together as is evidenced right
00:30:35.56\00:30:40.17
here by ASI.
00:30:40.20\00:30:41.54
Thank you so much. You know one
of the things that has deeply
00:30:41.57\00:30:48.01
impressed me about ASI is
the sacrifice and the commitment
00:30:48.04\00:30:53.25
that ASI members have made as
they travel the world to witness
00:30:53.28\00:30:57.95
for Christ. You know a number
of years ago I was on one of our
00:30:58.02\00:31:01.76
self-supporting campuses and
there were a number of broken
00:31:01.79\00:31:05.43
down cars there. So I was
complaining a little bit to the
00:31:05.49\00:31:09.06
administer, look at all these
broken down cars on your campus.
00:31:09.10\00:31:12.47
And he got this big smile and he
said we like it that way. I said
00:31:12.50\00:31:15.84
what do you mean? He said
when our students go out to the
00:31:15.87\00:31:18.74
mission field they're going
to need to learn how to repair
00:31:18.77\00:31:21.58
broken down cars.
That's right, yeah.
00:31:21.61\00:31:23.75
And you know it's that spirit
of sacrifice and commitment that
00:31:23.78\00:31:27.32
has always impressed me. When
you think of the thousands and
00:31:27.38\00:31:31.25
thousands of workers that
have gone out to the ends of the
00:31:31.29\00:31:34.59
earth, heaven is going to be
a wonderful testimony of that
00:31:34.62\00:31:37.89
sacrifice. That's
absolutely right and
00:31:37.93\00:31:42.13
self-supporting workers, those
who have in some way learned how
00:31:42.16\00:31:46.47
to supply their own means and
the Lord has blessed, they have
00:31:46.53\00:31:50.21
been instrumental in bringing
literally thousands of people
00:31:50.24\00:31:54.41
into this precious advent
message. It's amazing how ASI
00:31:54.44\00:31:58.55
has spread all over the world.
Just next month I'll be in ASI
00:31:58.58\00:32:03.89
Europe for their convention in
Novosad in Serbia. I mean it's
00:32:03.92\00:32:09.16
a movement that is
absolutely heaven born.
00:32:09.22\00:32:12.29
You have the fascinating
background with ASI particularly
00:32:12.33\00:32:17.17
with Madison. Would you like
to share that with us? It's a
00:32:17.20\00:32:21.00
fascinating story and I'll
try and do it in the six minutes
00:32:21.04\00:32:24.84
that I have. If we can show the
first slide. I want to talk to
00:32:24.87\00:32:31.61
you about William Henry Wilson
and Isabella Scott Wilson. Now
00:32:31.65\00:32:37.59
like many people in the United
States their origins were in
00:32:37.62\00:32:43.49
Ireland. In fact, they came from
Donegal County. They immigrated
00:32:43.53\00:32:48.43
to the United States, got
married in North America and
00:32:48.46\00:32:53.97
found their way ultimately out
to the northern California area.
00:32:54.00\00:33:00.71
William was not a Seventh-day
Adventist but Isabella, my great
00:33:00.74\00:33:07.42
grandmother, and great
grandfather, of course,
00:33:07.45\00:33:09.55
Isabella became an Adventist and
I want to tell you probably why.
00:33:09.58\00:33:15.69
She became very closely
connected and so did William
00:33:15.72\00:33:19.93
with a wealthy dairy farming
couple. Emilene and Nathaniel
00:33:19.96\00:33:29.00
Hurlbutt. They were visited in
1908 by Ellen White, that's the
00:33:29.04\00:33:38.05
Hurlbutts who were quite
wealthy. They were visited in
00:33:38.11\00:33:43.52
1908 by Ellen White, Willie
White, E.A. Sutherland, Sarah
00:33:43.55\00:33:48.92
Mclntefer, the secretary
of Ellen White and another
00:33:48.96\00:33:51.49
individual and they were
urged to move from California to
00:33:51.53\00:33:56.90
Georgia and to start a self-
supporting institution. This
00:33:56.93\00:34:02.27
burned in the hearts of the
Hurlbutts and they enlisted the
00:34:02.30\00:34:07.64
help of certainly my
great grandparents but my great
00:34:07.68\00:34:13.95
grandparents' children. The had
four sons. The Hurlbutts were
00:34:13.98\00:34:20.42
very instrumental in the Wilson
family and in fact Mrs. Hurlbutt
00:34:20.46\00:34:26.63
was called Grandma Hurlbutt.
They eventually moved to Georgia
00:34:26.66\00:34:32.70
Interesting the very place
that they moved was in Reeves,
00:34:32.73\00:34:38.74
Georgia. Reeves has now become
basically Calhoun, Georgia. The
00:34:38.77\00:34:43.31
property that the Hurlbutts
started their special farm,
00:34:43.35\00:34:51.12
Hurlbutt Farm and Institute was
patterned after Madison as were
00:34:51.15\00:34:55.59
many of those institutions in
the south of the United States.
00:34:55.62\00:35:00.00
My oldest great uncle who
was the senior brother of my
00:35:00.06\00:35:06.37
grandfather, Nathaniel Carter
Wilson. In fact, Nathaniel
00:35:06.40\00:35:12.67
Carter Wilson, the first N.C. My
father, my grandfather and I all
00:35:12.71\00:35:17.38
have these initials but
different names. Nathaniel
00:35:17.45\00:35:19.95
Carter was named for Nathaniel
Hurlbutt and Emilene Carter
00:35:20.02\00:35:26.39
Hurlbutt. These people had
profound influence and certainly
00:35:26.42\00:35:32.76
an interested was generated in a
great way in our family. Now the
00:35:32.79\00:35:36.70
picture that you just saw, if
we can go back to that picture
00:35:36.77\00:35:42.00
is my grandfather Nathaniel
Carter Wilson who with his new
00:35:42.04\00:35:48.78
bride Hannah, my grandmother,
went on their wedding night on
00:35:48.84\00:35:55.65
a train to Reeves, Georgia
to join his older brother in the
00:35:55.68\00:36:02.46
work. In reality he was
following up on what his
00:36:02.49\00:36:08.26
older brother had done because
his older brother died of
00:36:08.30\00:36:11.27
tuberculosis. So there they were
working in the self-supporting
00:36:11.30\00:36:16.17
institution in Reeves, Georgia
for probably about 10 months or
00:36:16.20\00:36:20.04
so. Family matters called them
back to Lodi, California where
00:36:20.08\00:36:26.25
my great grandmother was living.
From there in 1922 the two of
00:36:26.28\00:36:33.96
them went to Madison College
along with my father and with
00:36:33.99\00:36:41.56
my aunt. There they spent about
three years at Madison College.
00:36:41.60\00:36:47.10
My grandfather was the
Bible teacher, he was the church
00:36:47.14\00:36:52.17
pastor and he was ordained
as a gospel minister at Madison
00:36:52.24\00:36:58.15
College. They left for Africa
after that and then on to India
00:36:58.18\00:37:03.49
and to a great extent Madison
put its huge imprint on the
00:37:03.52\00:37:08.76
Wilson family. If we go now and
jump a few years, when they came
00:37:08.79\00:37:15.23
back from mission service at
that point, because they went
00:37:15.26\00:37:18.27
back again... If we can show the
next slide. This is a picture of
00:37:18.30\00:37:24.04
my grandfather approximately
at the time when he became
00:37:24.07\00:37:28.98
president of the North American
Division. In fact, my father has
00:37:29.01\00:37:32.81
served in that capacity. My
grandfather has served in that
00:37:32.85\00:37:35.95
capacity. At that time, he was
elected in 1946, in 1947 or just
00:37:35.98\00:37:42.62
before that, I should say,
he was elected also as the board
00:37:42.66\00:37:49.20
chair of Madison College. So
he came full circle. He was then
00:37:49.23\00:37:55.74
the chair of that particular
institution that was 180
00:37:55.77\00:38:01.14
patients strong, 500 students,
food factory, farm, etc., etc.
00:38:01.18\00:38:06.55
The next year in 1947,
March 4-5 in Cincinnati, Ohio 50
00:38:06.58\00:38:14.29
representatives and leaders from
self-supporting instutitions
00:38:14.32\00:38:19.76
gathered and they forged greater
ties to work together. Out of
00:38:19.79\00:38:25.03
that, 25 institutions formed
the first Association of Self-
00:38:25.07\00:38:30.57
Supporting Institutions under
the leadership of my grandfather
00:38:30.61\00:38:35.78
who had been so influenced by
Madison College. My grandfather
00:38:35.81\00:38:41.18
is quoted as saying, it is a
great day in the history of the
00:38:41.22\00:38:46.59
church, the Association
of Seventh-day Adventist
00:38:46.62\00:38:49.26
Self-Supporting Institutions.
Two years later in 1949, as I
00:38:49.29\00:38:55.26
have it, in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, Dr. E.A. Sutherland
00:38:55.33\00:39:00.24
was elected president of
ASI and Dr. J. Wayne McFarland
00:39:00.27\00:39:04.21
who many of us know as the
cofounder of the 5-day plan to
00:39:04.24\00:39:09.58
stop smoking was elected as
the secretary. ASI's history is
00:39:09.61\00:39:14.88
rooted in Madison College and in
so much of the outgrowth of that
00:39:14.92\00:39:19.55
incredible institution. Of
course, in 1979, it was renamed
00:39:19.59\00:39:24.59
Adventist Laymen's Services
and Industries, expanding it's
00:39:24.63\00:39:28.80
activity. I'd like to show
you the next picture and it's a
00:39:28.83\00:39:33.00
picture of my grandparents
in their later years.
00:39:33.03\00:39:36.74
My grandfather was the presedent
of the Georgia-Cumberland
00:39:36.77\00:39:42.41
Conference in the early 1960s
and just the change of that
00:39:42.44\00:39:47.22
decade and in 1959 while he
was president of that conference
00:39:47.25\00:39:51.25
they had a session at the
camp meeting that empowered the
00:39:51.29\00:39:55.19
Conference to work out details
for the purchase of the Hurlbutt
00:39:55.22\00:40:00.56
farm from the Laymen's
Foundation and that later became
00:40:00.60\00:40:05.37
the Georgia-Cumberland Adventist
Academy. So my grandfather was
00:40:05.40\00:40:11.91
so involved in so much of this
that was all founded in Madison.
00:40:11.94\00:40:18.38
You know Elder Wilson, as
we look back at our backgrounds
00:40:18.41\00:40:22.65
these early experiences shape
our lives. They help to shape
00:40:22.68\00:40:26.92
who we are in ministry. They
help to shape us in who we are
00:40:26.96\00:40:31.36
in Christ and in witness. In
a sentence or two how did this
00:40:31.39\00:40:35.76
background shape your life?
00:40:35.80\00:40:37.87
Madison College, the connections
my great uncles working there.
00:40:37.90\00:40:42.90
Another wonderful person within
our family, Billy Wilson, some
00:40:42.94\00:40:47.94
of you may know him.
These individuals have helped to
00:40:47.98\00:40:53.18
create in my life a very
profound understanding as to
00:40:53.21\00:40:58.35
what ASI and Madison College
can do. I'll show you the next
00:40:58.39\00:41:03.09
picture of my parents and many
of you will remember my parents.
00:41:03.12\00:41:07.80
They were tremendously
influenced by ASI and Madison
00:41:07.83\00:41:14.54
College. This heritage will live
in the hearts of people and in
00:41:14.57\00:41:20.54
the mission
outreach until Jesus comes.
00:41:20.58\00:41:24.08
You know, just as you have
been somewhat influenced by ASI,
00:41:24.11\00:41:29.32
self-supporting institutions
early in my ministry I had a
00:41:29.38\00:41:34.59
great influence in that area.
00:41:34.62\00:41:35.96
In fact, I'm not the only one
with a story, Mark, because you
00:41:35.99\00:41:40.23
have been so influenced by
this connection with especially
00:41:40.26\00:41:44.80
Wildwood. Tell us what happened.
00:41:44.83\00:41:47.34
Well in the late 1960s I was
a ministerial intern. I had been
00:41:47.37\00:41:52.61
in ministry for two years and
I met Elder W.D. Frazee who was
00:41:52.64\00:41:57.25
the president of Wildwood at
the time. My wife was teaching
00:41:57.28\00:42:01.22
elementary school in Hartford,
Connecticut, I was a young
00:42:01.25\00:42:05.12
ministerial intern in Hartford
and Elder Frazee came to have a
00:42:05.15\00:42:10.26
series of meetings on the
sanctuary, the Lamb of God in
00:42:10.29\00:42:14.36
the Sanctuary, the Lamb who dies
the priest who lives. Jesus'
00:42:14.40\00:42:18.83
ministry in the sanctuary. And
I remember we were going through
00:42:18.87\00:42:23.24
that series and I was deeply
impressed by the spirituality
00:42:23.27\00:42:28.71
of his meetings. Elder Frazee
was not a preacher that was
00:42:28.74\00:42:34.58
bombastic or fascinating. When
he got up to speak you sensed
00:42:34.62\00:42:40.46
that the Spirit of God was
speaking through him. I had
00:42:40.49\00:42:43.93
never been in meetings before
that I walked in and I sensed
00:42:43.96\00:42:47.86
that the lives of people were
being changed. People were being
00:42:47.90\00:42:51.73
touched by the Spirit. As
a young preacher I was really
00:42:51.77\00:42:54.60
impressed by that. I thought to
myself, I don't want my messages
00:42:54.64\00:42:58.21
simply to entertain people. I
don't want to be a fascinating
00:42:58.27\00:43:01.41
preacher. I want the Spirit
of God to come down. I want some
00:43:01.44\00:43:04.78
heart to be touched, some
life to be changed, somebody be
00:43:04.81\00:43:09.02
moved upon by the Spirit. I
remember it was in February and
00:43:09.08\00:43:13.39
the snow was coming and I
said to Elder Frazee and to our
00:43:13.42\00:43:16.69
senior pastor O.J. Mills, I
don't know if we should have the
00:43:16.73\00:43:19.79
meeting tonight because every
report is that it's going to
00:43:19.86\00:43:24.13
snow and snow and snow. And
that Godly man simply said, my
00:43:24.17\00:43:28.37
brother let us pray. God is the
God of the weather. And you know
00:43:28.40\00:43:32.91
there are some things that
are indelibly etched on the
00:43:32.97\00:43:36.81
consciousness of your mine
forever. Elder Frazee and Elder
00:43:36.85\00:43:40.28
Mills and I got down and
he prayed. He prayed a simple
00:43:40.32\00:43:43.69
prayer. Dear Lord, you know
those people and they need to
00:43:43.75\00:43:46.89
hear this message tonight and
I pray you'd put your hand over
00:43:46.92\00:43:51.66
this city. It snowed that night
all around us and it did not
00:43:51.69\00:43:55.96
snow in Hartford, Connecticut.
All around us the roads were
00:43:56.00\00:44:01.04
icy. I said to myself here
is a man that knows God and I
00:44:01.10\00:44:06.07
remembered what Dwight L Moody
said when he said, the world has
00:44:06.11\00:44:10.95
yet to see what God will do in
and through and by and for and
00:44:10.98\00:44:15.12
with a man that is consecrated
to him. I want to be that man.
00:44:15.15\00:44:19.45
A number of months later Elder
Frazee gave me an invitation to
00:44:19.49\00:44:23.99
become his associate. He said to
me if you come to Wildwood I can
00:44:24.03\00:44:28.03
offer you nothing. I can't offer
you a salary because we don't
00:44:28.06\00:44:32.07
have one. I can't offer you
housing because I don't know
00:44:32.10\00:44:34.14
where you're going to live at
this point; we'll have something
00:44:34.17\00:44:37.21
when you come. I can't offer you
prestige but what I can offer
00:44:37.27\00:44:41.04
you is myself. I will share
with you everything I know in
00:44:41.11\00:44:44.85
ministry. So I came to Wildwood
as a young preacher. I watched
00:44:44.88\00:44:48.45
him make an appeal and I learned
how to make them. I watched him
00:44:48.48\00:44:52.05
with testimony meetings and
I saw the power of God change
00:44:52.09\00:44:55.12
people's lives and I learned how
to have testimony meetings. I
00:44:55.16\00:44:58.29
watched him as he prayed with
people after the meetings and
00:44:58.33\00:45:01.43
it was indelibly written upon my
mind. One day, it was October 22
00:45:01.46\00:45:07.74
and Elder Frazee said to me...
We often preached together.
00:45:07.77\00:45:10.87
He said, Mark you preach the
first 20 minutes of the sermon
00:45:10.91\00:45:14.64
and whenever you finish I'll
get up and I'll take up where
00:45:14.71\00:45:18.38
you left off and I'll preach the
rest of the sermon. So I would
00:45:18.41\00:45:22.65
preach 20 minutes and he would
preach 20 minutes. We'd choose
00:45:22.68\00:45:25.75
the topic together. He said
Mark I want you to preach, it's
00:45:25.79\00:45:28.76
October 22, I want you to preach
on the sanctuary. You preach on
00:45:28.79\00:45:33.06
the fact that of the 70 weeks,
you nail down the facts of 27
00:45:33.09\00:45:38.23
AD, 31 AD - Christ's crucifixion
you deal with the 69 weeks and
00:45:38.27\00:45:43.41
so forth. Now I was a young
preacher and I thought about
00:45:43.44\00:45:47.11
that and thought about that.
He said after you preach on the
00:45:47.14\00:45:50.95
sanctuary and you show that
after 1844 Jesus want into the
00:45:50.98\00:45:54.18
Most Holy Place, then I will
get up and say what is Jesus
00:45:54.22\00:45:57.35
doing now and I'll explain his
ministry up there. Well the more
00:45:57.39\00:46:00.69
I thought about it the more I
thought I've only got 20 minutes
00:46:00.72\00:46:03.99
to do that, I'm going to
get confused. So I went to Elder
00:46:04.03\00:46:06.93
Frazee and said I don't think
I can do this. You know that old
00:46:06.96\00:46:12.07
preacher at the time repected
this young preacher. He said
00:46:12.10\00:46:15.30
Mark if your uncomfortable with
it this is what I want you to do
00:46:15.37\00:46:17.17
I went to him on a Friday
morning. We were supposed to
00:46:17.21\00:46:19.37
preach Friday night. He said,
this is what I want you to do.
00:46:19.41\00:46:23.48
I want you to take your Bible
and you go out today under the
00:46:23.51\00:46:27.12
trees and you pray all day and
let God give you a message. I'm
00:46:27.15\00:46:32.82
going to do the same thing and
you meet me tonight at 6:30 here
00:46:32.85\00:46:35.12
Our meeting starts at seven.
We'll compare our notes. We
00:46:35.16\00:46:37.63
won't preach on the 2300 days
but you go pray all day, I'll
00:46:37.66\00:46:40.60
pray all day. We'll come back.
So I go out and pray all day.
00:46:40.66\00:46:43.47
About half way through the day
I look at Philippians 2 and I
00:46:43.50\00:46:46.77
said, hey, I'm going to preach
on Philippians 2. Came back to
00:46:46.80\00:46:51.84
Elder Frazee. It was about 6:30
at night and I look at him and I
00:46:51.87\00:46:56.51
say Elder, I'm going to preach
on Philippians 2, the humility
00:46:56.54\00:47:01.55
of Christ. He said, Go over your
sermon notes. I went over my
00:47:01.58\00:47:06.02
sermon notes. He sat there like
this, praise God, praise God,
00:47:06.05\00:47:10.16
praise God. He handed me his
sermon notes. We hadn't talked
00:47:10.19\00:47:14.70
all day and he had developed a
sermon starting where my sermon
00:47:14.73\00:47:19.20
ended on Philippians the
2nd chapter. We knelt and prayed
00:47:19.23\00:47:24.34
together and that night
the Spirit of God came down.
00:47:24.37\00:47:27.04
Incidentally if you want to hear
that sermon it's called There's
00:47:27.08\00:47:30.28
Room at the Top and you can
get it from Wildwood Recordings
00:47:30.31\00:47:34.05
today. I preached the first 20
minutes, he preaches the second.
00:47:34.08\00:47:37.75
Elder Wilson, what impressed me
early in my ministry in my time
00:47:37.79\00:47:41.52
at Wildwood was that I needed
to be a man of God. I could not
00:47:41.56\00:47:45.69
waste people's time in preaching
In associating with Elder Frazee
00:47:45.73\00:47:49.83
listening to him make strong
appeals for Christ changed my
00:47:49.86\00:47:53.50
life. Amen, and
you know what really
00:47:53.54\00:47:56.67
marks the incredible aspect of
the imprint from self-supporting
00:47:56.71\00:48:02.88
institutions and Madison College
is sacrifice, sacrifice for
00:48:02.91\00:48:07.65
Jesus. That same sacrifice
is going to be manifested at the
00:48:07.68\00:48:12.39
very end of time.
00:48:12.42\00:48:13.76
It is and there are plenty other
stories as well that are so
00:48:13.79\00:48:18.53
similar to your story and to
my story. Elder Wilson, I think
00:48:18.56\00:48:23.67
Charles had some
other stories for us.
00:48:23.70\00:48:26.53
There are several stories that
I think would be helpful for our
00:48:26.57\00:48:29.67
ASI family but we only have time
for a few. The first I want to
00:48:29.70\00:48:33.98
share with you is about Elmer
Brink. Now when the team began
00:48:34.01\00:48:38.71
to assemble on the old Ferguson
farm, the program was far from
00:48:38.75\00:48:43.08
being a large and well-oiled
program. In addition to a few
00:48:43.12\00:48:46.79
students there were only a few
dedicated faces one of which I
00:48:46.82\00:48:50.43
cannot even show you and
that one, mostly unknown, but
00:48:50.49\00:48:54.86
critically important is Elmer
Brink. You see everyone had
00:48:54.90\00:48:59.20
their task to do on the place
to get it up and running. Mother
00:48:59.23\00:49:03.94
D ran the skillet and the broom.
Percy ran the farm. Ed ran the
00:49:03.97\00:49:08.18
butter churn. Bessie took the
butter into town and sold it to
00:49:08.21\00:49:12.41
get a little bit of cash. But
if it wasn't for Elmer taking
00:49:12.45\00:49:17.72
care of the cows that produced
the milk that made the butter
00:49:17.75\00:49:22.59
that produced the cash they may
not have made it through that
00:49:22.62\00:49:27.40
first year. What we know of now
as Madison may never have come
00:49:27.43\00:49:32.17
to be. Elmer represents a
multitude of dedicated skilled
00:49:32.20\00:49:36.57
workers that each sacrificially
plyed their gifts and their
00:49:36.60\00:49:40.68
talents that God has given in
whatever place of ministry God
00:49:40.71\00:49:44.95
has placed them. Undeterred by
challenges that might arise they
00:49:44.98\00:49:49.18
faithfully do day by day
the things that bring success to
00:49:49.22\00:49:53.72
ministry. Usually
allowing others to step into the
00:49:53.76\00:49:57.33
spotlight, they're content to
know that they've been faithful
00:49:57.36\00:50:02.70
in their place and that God has
led them. This likely describes
00:50:02.76\00:50:08.14
the majority of ASI, whether an
individual or an institutional
00:50:08.20\00:50:13.17
ministry. And you might remember
that Ed Sutherland met Josephine
00:50:13.21\00:50:17.58
Gotzian when he was in her home
canvassing. Well after spending
00:50:17.65\00:50:21.48
some time in California helping
Ellen White to get the medical
00:50:21.52\00:50:25.35
work off the ground there,
including helping to fund the
00:50:25.39\00:50:28.52
original purchase of the
Paradise Valley Sanitarium
00:50:28.56\00:50:31.29
she made donations to the
College of Medical Evangelists
00:50:31.33\00:50:35.56
and then she moved east to
Tennessee. Her home was made
00:50:35.60\00:50:39.73
there at Madison and her house
also housed the first sanitarium
00:50:39.77\00:50:44.21
patients. She provided the means
for the contruction of some of
00:50:44.24\00:50:48.64
campus buildings and lived there
at Madison until her death.
00:50:48.68\00:50:53.35
Aunt Nellie Druillard was a keen
business woman and she did look
00:50:53.38\00:50:58.49
after the boys. She did not only
dedicate the rest of her life to
00:50:58.55\00:51:03.63
the development of this God
inspired school but she comitted
00:51:03.66\00:51:07.06
her personal financial resources
to the down payment and to the
00:51:07.10\00:51:10.47
infrastructure of the place.
Lida Funk Scott that we only
00:51:10.50\00:51:14.87
briefly mentioned earlier was an
heiress to the Funk and Wagnalls
00:51:14.90\00:51:18.51
Encyclopedia fortune. After
spending some time at Battle
00:51:18.54\00:51:21.81
Creek she thought she'd go south
to see a school that she'd heard
00:51:21.84\00:51:25.51
about down there and she liked
what she saw at Madison and
00:51:25.55\00:51:29.15
decided to stay. Though a
wealthy woman she adopted the
00:51:29.18\00:51:32.75
very simple life style
of Madison. She poured her
00:51:32.79\00:51:36.36
inheritance into the development
of ministries like Madison and
00:51:36.39\00:51:40.13
Loma Linda and her personal
outreach was encouraging the
00:51:40.16\00:51:44.77
units that were springing
up from Madison by lending her
00:51:44.80\00:51:49.34
presence and her advice and her
means. In 1927, she invested her
00:51:49.40\00:51:55.28
resources to establish the
Layman Foundation to carry on
00:51:55.31\00:51:59.95
that mission and the Layman
Foundation in turn launched the
00:51:59.98\00:52:05.12
E.A. Sutherland Education
Association. It started in 2002
00:52:05.15\00:52:10.36
and it continues much of
that work of encouragement and
00:52:10.39\00:52:15.26
support of the lay operated
educational units. Now if you
00:52:15.33\00:52:19.53
were to try and measure in
today's currency each one of
00:52:19.57\00:52:24.01
these ladies contributed
hundreds of thousands of dollars
00:52:24.07\00:52:28.48
toward the establishment
of Seventh-day Adventist
00:52:28.51\00:52:32.38
denominational and lay operated
ministries and I believe these
00:52:32.41\00:52:38.55
ladies represent those here in
ASI who contribute or manage the
00:52:38.59\00:52:44.69
resources that God has
provided and that are critically
00:52:44.76\00:52:49.43
necessary to establish
and to move ministry forward.
00:52:49.46\00:52:54.10