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"Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." Matthew 13:13

"Jesus ["the prince of teachers"] desired to awaken inquiry... Christ had truths to present which the people were unprepared to accept or even to understand. For this reason ... He taught them in par-ables. By connecting His teaching with the scenes of life, exper-ience, or nature, He secured their attention and impressed their hearts." Comment on Matthew 13:13-15, Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 20, 21.

"The Revelation was not written without tears; neither without tears will it be under-stood." Benson

"Despise not proph-esying [of which par-ables are often a part]. Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." 1 Thess 5:20, 21

"There is no neutral ground in the universe: every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan." C.S. Lewis, Christian Relations, p. 33

"Now faith is the sub-stance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ... But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those that diligently seek him." Heb 11:1-6

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common." John Locke, Essay on Human Under-standing.

About Ourselves

VADA KUM YUEN Hello! I was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1940 but have spent most of my life in Australia. I lived for four years as a child in Tahiti. My father, Ron Heggie (now deceased), was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, as were three of my mother’s brothers (all now deceased). I am a committed Christian, and a much more informed one since I have studied the Bible meaning of the elements of the Chamberlain drama.

I was a member and office-bearer of the Darwin Seventh-day Adventist Church at the time of the Chamberlain trial. In that capacity I (as also my husband, Darryl) fellowshipped with the Chamberlains, and several times visited Lindy in gaol. I attended most morning sessions of the court proceedings in September-October of 1982.

I have taught as a primary school teacher in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

No, I am not a trained theologian. But I love the Bible and know God is no respecter of persons. He speaks to all who are listening for His voice. I regard truth as the Pearl of Great Price, something, Someone to be sought, found and treasured.

I am the chief writer on this website. I thank God my husband can manage the technological challenges of constructing these web pages, for it is all a frustrating mystery me.

Darryl makes me laugh when I am in danger of taking some matters too seriously. Bless him!

DARRYL KUM YUEN Hello! Yes, I am of Chinese ancestry. But I am a third generation Australian. I was born in Sydney, and raised in Cairns, Far North Queensland. I taught High School for three years in Melbourne; was on the science faculty of Avondale College, NSW, for four years (1973-76); and was a Maths lecturer for nearly ten years (1977-86) at Darwin Community College (later Darwin Institute of Technology). Then we moved back to the Cairns district to be near my aging parents, do some country living, home school our son, and achieve other work goals.

I, too, am a committed Christian, subscribing to the Seventh-day Adventist faith.

Though he was doing Theology and I was studying Education, Michael Chamberlain and I were students together for several years at Avondale College.

I met Vada while student-teaching in Warburton, Victoria, where she was a primary school teacher. We were married at the Nunawading SDA Church in Melbourne, and have been happily married for nearly thirty-six years. We have a great son and a wonderful daughter-in-law.

I have been Vada’s sounding board on the subject matter of this website since 1993. Since the mid 1980's neither of us had talked about the subject too much. At first I was skeptical. She was, too. But as we have repeatedly seen Providence move to meet and acknowledge every forward move to tell about "the parallels", I have been forced to agree with her that something more than chance has been in operation in the shaping of the Chamberlain drama. We will never believe it is God who is author of the bad things that happen to people. But sometimes He lets them happen, then over-rules for His own purposes of good. Looking back, reading the history of this planet in the Bible, studying the prophecies, we can better understand, and we can find reason for hope.

I was one of other chauffeurs for Michael in Darwin, especially at the time of Kahlia's birth. That was a very emotionally charged time. It ended, temporarily, as one of great joy. Lindy was released to go home with her baby and family, free on bail, pending the High Court Appeal. My joy was the greater, because I was one of a handful of church members who was with Michael on that Sabbath morning, 30 October 1982, when he left for the Darwin Courthouse to receive his own sentence. The night before, his pregnant wife had been sentenced to gaol for life. His two little boys were waiting at Avondale, NSW, for their Mum and Dad to come home. We all knew Michael also might be sentenced to serve time in gaol, and the next time we met he could be behind bars also. We thought of Jesus' crucifixion. I rarely cry. I did then. That moment is deeply, indelibly, etched in my mind.

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Early Providences

The following is a brief account of one of the earliest sets of providences which later pointed and held me to the task of studying and writing up the parallels case as in this website. My book tells of other sets of providential happenings, and their are further ones still. They may be nothing to you, but they were happenings in our family's experience, so that we and those looking on have had to consider what Providence was trying to say to us.

Two griefs have been firmly linked together in our family's experience.

Friday, 29 October 1982. I flew out of Darwin with our young son, for Brisbane, en route to Cooranbong in New South Wales. My father was dying of cancer in the Charles Harrison Hospital, located near the entrance to Avondale College, in Cooranbong. The Chamberlain home at that time was on the Avondale College property.

The Sabbath, according to Bible reckoning of time, commences at sunset Friday evening, and ends at sunset on Saturday evening. Just after sunset on Friday evening, 29 October 1982, Lindy Chamberlain received her sentence of life imprisonment and was escorted to Darwin's Berrimah Gaol. Michael and Darryl, both separated from their wives by circumstances beyond their control, both ended up sleeping over at John and Liz Parry's home that night.

Saturday, 30 October 1982. Michael received his suspended eighteen months prison sentence, for his alleged involvement as accessory after the fact.

Friday, 5 November 1982. My father passed away one week after Lindy was escorted to gaol. This was the deepest grief I had experienced in my life to that date. I don't know whether or not he heard, but my last words to him concerned our hope in the resurrection morning, and the fact of the Chamberlain story--associated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church name which he loved so well--being all over the news in Australia. I said we did not understand why the negative publicity, but somehow God was speaking, and would in His own time make all things plain. At the funeral a few days later, in the Avondale Memorial Church, Lindy's mother attended. Lindy's father was Pastor Cliff Murchison, also an SDA minister. Mrs Murchison had a few comforting words for me in my grief at the loss of my dearly loved father. I tried to say a few kindly words to her, concerning the plight of her dearly loved daughter in Darwin.

For the five years, 1955-59, my Dad had been Dean of Men ("Preceptor" they called it back then) at Avondale College (then Australasian Missionary College). In 1976, at a meeting before the Biblical Research Committee of the South Pacific Division of SDA's, my father was one of a group of other older (mostly) pastors, evangelists and laypersons who took issue with some of the teachings of Dr Desmond Ford, Head of the Theology Department at Avondale College for many years. See the book, Here We Stand, by Dr Samuel Koranteng Pipim, advertised on the website:- www.AdventistsAffirm.com

In the doctrinal controversy which was rocking the Seventh-day Adventist Church at this time, especially in Australia and New Zealand, my father and Michael Chamberlain were firmly entrenched on opposite sides. But, whatever the doctrinal position, most Adventists were united in their compassion for and belief that the Chamberlains were innocent of all criminal charges. My concern to make an objective and informed decision as to the Chamberlains guilt or otherwise, was what motivated me to attend the morning sessions of their Darwin trial in 1982. As I sat in that Darwin courthouse morning by morning, I was overwhelmed with a consciousness that this trial, this time affecting the public in a more direct and obvious way, bore many similarities to the 3-4 February 1976 trial of the older pastors (that is what it became) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. (The SPD backed Dr Ford at this stage.) When I said good-bye to my Dad on the Friday just after the Friday Lindy was sent to gaol for life, I remembered this background. I believe God did, too.