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I am saddened to hear of his demise. He had not been in good health for the past couple of years or so from what I heard.The last time I saw and talked to him was at the home of Elton and Evelyn Wallace the day before Elton passed away in [?] 1998. I think they were in the same graduating class in PUC [Angwin], 1943[?]. It was alumni weekend in PUC. The scheduled Hour of Worship speaker did not make it for reasons I do not know, but AGM graciously accepted the challenge to deliver the sermon. He came tothe Wallace home that afternoon.I had the privilege of introducing him as our guest speaker during a WUSAC [became WESNAC, now AWESNA] convention in Montclair in the 1980s. In my introduction, I said that I date my Bible reading/studying as "AM and PM: ante-Maxwell and post-Maxwell". You see, he was my Biblical Philosophy professor at PUC when I was a freshman there schoolyear 1959-1960. He alwaysemphasized that when we read the Bible, we should always consider the context of any passage and the words used when it was translated. After the meeting, he grinned telling me he liked the "AM and PM" bit. [I think Ritchie Carbajalalso spoke some words about him.] One of the EGW passages he required us to memorize is the one that says "When the character of Christ is reproduced in his church, then he shall come to claimthem as his own" [may not be verbatim; SC p69, I think]. AGM was a superb teacher. His style of preaching was different, like conversational. He tolerated freshmen antics. He was born and raised in England, but I remember once in class, a couple of guys were listening to a play by play broadcast of a baseball game [not an English game] between the SanFrancisco Giants and LA Dodgers via a transitor radio. Instead ofreprimanding them, he asked them to turn the volume up so he and the whole class can also listen. Another instance of his tolerance of freshmen antics was during the trial of Caryl Chessman, the so-called "Redlight Bandit" who serially raped prostitutes in red light districts. Some guys were listening to the proceedings via transistor radio. Again, instead of reprimanding them, he asked to have the volume turned up so all of us heard the live broadcast. [It may have been the verdict or penalty phase of the trial; I do not remember now.]Onie[Honesto C. Pascual, Jr.]
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I am saddened to hear of his demise. He had not been in good health for the past couple of years or so from what I heard.
The last time I saw and talked to him was at the home of Elton and Evelyn Wallace the day before Elton passed away in [?] 1998. I think they were in the same graduating class in PUC [Angwin], 1943[?]. It was alumni weekend in PUC. The scheduled Hour of Worship speaker did not make it for reasons I do not know, but AGM graciously accepted the challenge to deliver the sermon. He came to
the Wallace home that afternoon.
I had the privilege of introducing him as our guest speaker during a WUSAC [became WESNAC, now AWESNA] convention in Montclair in the 1980s. In my introduction, I said that I date my Bible reading/studying as "AM and PM: ante-Maxwell and post-Maxwell". You see, he was my Biblical Philosophy professor at PUC when I was a freshman there schoolyear 1959-1960. He always
emphasized that when we read the Bible, we should always consider the context of any passage and the words used when it was translated. After the meeting, he grinned telling me he liked the "AM and PM" bit. [I think Ritchie Carbajal
also spoke some words about him.]
One of the EGW passages he required us to memorize is the one that says "When the character of Christ is reproduced in his church, then he shall come to claim
them as his own" [may not be verbatim; SC p69, I think].
AGM was a superb teacher. His style of preaching was different, like conversational. He tolerated freshmen antics. He was born and raised in England, but I remember once in class, a couple of guys were listening to a play by play broadcast of a baseball game [not an English game] between the San
Francisco Giants and LA Dodgers via a transitor radio. Instead of
reprimanding them, he asked them to turn the volume up so he and the whole class can also listen. Another instance of his tolerance of freshmen antics was during the trial of Caryl Chessman, the so-called "Redlight Bandit" who serially raped prostitutes in red light districts. Some guys were listening to the proceedings via transistor radio. Again, instead of reprimanding them, he asked to have the volume turned up so all of us heard the live broadcast. [It may have been the verdict or penalty phase of the trial; I do not remember now.]
Onie
[Honesto C. Pascual, Jr.]
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