Official Journal of the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists

VOLUME XXXV JANUARY, 1962 No. 1

Editor IN THIS ISSUE ROY ALLAN ANDERSON EDITORIAL A Preacher©s New Year Resolve ____ R. A. Anderson 3 Associate Editor . Into the New Year ______A. C. Fearing 6 ANDREW C. FEARING ARTICLES Principles of Biblical Interpretation (Part 1) Managing Editor R. F. Cottrell 9 HARRY W. LOWE The Days of Our Years ....______...... L. C. Kleuser 11 Great Words of the Bible No. 6 The Kingdom Assistant Editors R. E. Loasby 13 Biblical Languages Are They Necessary? _. N. Germanis 16 E. EARL CLEVELAND The Incarnation and Nature of Christ _ A. V. Olson 18 WALTER SCHUBERT How God Prepares a Minister ______J. L. Shuler 27

Copy Editor REGULAR FEATURES EVANGELISM: Large Baptism in Menado, North J. INA WHITE Celebes, Indonesia ______P. Sitompul 22 A Parable on Evangelism ...... ___..___ E. K. Walter 23 Consulting Editors Report of the Los Angeles Campaign and Field REUBEN R. FIGUHR, WALTER R. BEACH, School _____._._... _...... _.__.__ E. E. Cleveland 24 EDWARD HEPPENSTALL, LOUISE C. RESEARCH: The Cleansing of the Sanctuary G. D. Keough 30 KLEUSER, W. B. OCHS, R. HAMMILL HEALTH EVANGELISM: Sabbathkeeping in Our Medical Institutions ...... __ H. C. Ray 33 Art Editor LITERATURE EVANGELISM: "What You Dare to T. K. MARTIN Dream, Dare to Do" ....._ ...... H. W. Petersen 36 SHEPHERDESS: Candles in the Night No. 5 Circulation Manager L. C. Kleuser 38 BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY ______42 WALTER SCHUBERT NEWS ___...... _...-___.__...... _ 44 E. EARL CLEVELAND, Assistant PULPIT POINTERS FOR PREACHERS ______48

Overseas Contributors POETRY Light for the New Year ______J. F. Hilliard 8 GEORGE BURNSIDE Australia A New Year©s Prayer ______.____ M. E. Brooks 26 ERWIN BERNER Central Europe J. R. SPANGLER Far East H. J. WESTPHAL Inter-America Our Cover WAYNE E. OLSON Middle East Northern Europe This reflection in Spirit Lake has been seen by multitudes. ODD JORDAL It suggests reflections of another kind. ENOCH OLIVEIRA South America Thomas a Kempis once remarked that the reflections on a S. G. MAXWELL Southern Africa day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than a J. F. ASHLOCK Southern Asia thousand triumphs. Southern Europe Richard Sheridan, Irish man of letters, said, "They only G. CUPERTINO babble who practice not reflection. I shall think; and thought is silence." The poet-philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge declared that every man should master the art of reflection, and he Editorial Office: 6840 Eastern Avenue, NW. proceeded to set high standards in this challenging ques Washington, D.C. tion: "If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are Printed and published monthly for the Min you a man at all?" isterial Association of Seventh-day Adventists On what shall we reflect? "All that is true, all that is noble, all that is just and pure, all that is lovable and gra by the Review and Herald Publishing Associa cious, whatever is excellent and admirable fill your thoughts tion, Washington, B.C., U.S.A. $4.00 a with these things" (Phil. 4:8, N.E.B.).* year; 40c a copy. Add 25c for yearly subscrip tions to countries requiring extra postage. * The New English Bible. The Delegates of the Oxford University Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961. THE MINISTRY Gt ^Preachers /lew L/efear

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H©I EW YEAR is a time for re Source of all wisdom, how can they have flection and re-evaluation; any real wisdom? To know truth we must a time when it seems easier to come as little children, in humility. take inventory of ourselves Bishop Fulton Sheen has wisely said: "It and our service. At this season is only by being little that we ever discover a wise minister maps out his anything big." We cannot always be child work for the ensuing months. like physically, but spiritual growth de And every assignment has but pends upon our being childlike in humil one purpose the advancement of the king ity. Only the humble can see the greatness dom of God. Bringing from the Scriptures of our God. It is not childishness, but child- new revelations of our Lord will do more likeness we need. Jesus said, "Except ye be to inspire unselfish service and holy living converted, and become as little children, than anything else. ye shall not enter into the kingdom of Man©s penetration of outer space has heaven" (Matt. 18:3). certainly challenged the thinking of our When the God of eternity came from the generation. But more, it has inflated hu courts of glory to become an outcast on man ego. Where will be the stopping place one of the meanest of the planets, angels in this new adventure? More and more, people are losing their sense of a personal God. With many, the more they know about the universe the less they know about God. The Creator is be ing lost in the cosmos. A certain type of scientist says with a sneer that our telescopes and microscopes Ministerial have given not even the slightest trace of anything like a "Friend behind the phe nomena," or a "God who cares." Of course association not, for God cannot be discovered by re search; we can know Him only by revela jerg Header tion. He has revealed Himself in three ways: in the book of nature, where the de vout scientist can trace His hand; in the 004©* Book of truth, where the student can read His purpose; and finally in Jesus Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the life. Hichest JBteings Our generation has witnessed an abun dance of research, yet we have so little in knowledge of real truth; "so many wise men, yet so little wisdom." Why? Because "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." If men turn willfully from the JANUARY, 1962 announced His birth. The heavenly choir comes from a stable in Bethlehem, not burst forth in praise for this unspeakable from the hide-out of a Homo sapien; His Gift. The story of His coming to earth is as name, not Pithecanthropus, but Jesus significant as it is beautiful. And it is sig Christ. And the light in His eyes is the light nificant that only two types came to visit of God shining amid the darkness of a lost the holy family the shepherds and the race, not the dawn of reason illumining the wise men; the simple and the learned. It mind of an evolving beast. will ever remain a mystery that the Eternal The New Testament declares that "when God could be born among common peo the fulness of the time was come, God sent ple in a common stable in the tiny town of forth his Son, made of a woman, made Bethlehem. But He came to make His under the law" (Gal. 4:4). He came as a home with men, to take upon Himself the member of the Godhead. That was the most sins of men, so He might share the common momentous event in all human history. lot of men. "Simple souls such as shepherds find God because they know they know Man Individually Responsible to God nothing; learned souls like the wise men The concept of man©s individual re find God because they know they do not sponsibility to a personal God is becoming know everything." less and less popular. Restraint is not a popular word these days. Little wonder The Missing Link we find ourselves unable to solve our prob For more than a hundred years men have lems. The study of social science gives little been searching diligently for the missing encouragement to hope that the nations link. Convinced that the human species is can find their way out of our present di a development through successive stages lemma, for a backward glance over the mil from mud and slime, up through fish and lenniums of the past reveals a sad but con reptiles, to animals and men, certain stant struggle man fighting with his fel schools of philosophy continue to main lows for place and power. This has given tain that civilization as we know it today rise to the thought that man at heart is only is the outgrowth of brute force and con a beast; that civilization has developed quest. In fact, they declared that the long- by the gradual ascent of this beast instinct, hoped-for Utopia would be ushered in by and that whatever we are has been at the process of evolution. True, there was a tained by our own effort. missing link, but men were sure it would Darwin declared that "man is developed soon be found. The embarrassing thing from an ovule about 1/125th of an inch in about it all, however, is that despite the diameter, which differs in no respect from diligence of the searchers, the missing link the ovules of other animals." His philos is still missing. ophy, though now much discredited, Strange that men should be so concerned gripped his generation and has influenced about a link that binds man to beast, and every generation since. While recognizing yet so unconcerned about the link that his place in the scientific world, no authen binds them to God; seek the iron chain that tic scientist today, Christian or non-Chris tethers them to the dust, and yet be so tian, agrees with Darwin in all of his con apathetic about the golden chain that con clusions on comparative anatomy. His sup nects them with heaven! Actually there is positions appear foolish in the light of re nothing in common between a holy God cent investigation. He knew nothing of and sinful man, for by his willful disobedi genes and chromosomes. ence man really cut himself off from the To be logical, Darwin would have to Creator. But grace bridged the gulf when claim that the California redwood in all God became man. its stately magnificence has developed from The devil promised Eve that she would a tiny seed differing in no respect from the "be like God" (R.S.V.), but such a thing seed that produces a ragweed. Although could never be. Instead of becoming like modern science renounces many of the God, mankind soon learned that sin had nineteenth-century concepts, much of Dar severed us from God. As a branch cut from win©s original premise is retained. The fol a tree withers and dies, so we are a dying lowing statement sums up his basic belief: race. But there is a link that binds us to Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy God©s throne, and that link is the God-man. which feels for the most debased, with benevolence Call Him the cave man if you will. He which extends not only to other men but to the THE MINISTRY humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect, polytheistic; that the concept of the one which has penetrated into the movements and con God is much older than the corrupt idea stitution of the solar system with all their exalted of many gods. This statement by a recent power man still bears in his bodily frame the in authority is much to the point: delible stamp of his lowly origin. (Italics supplied.) J. G. Frazer, whose Golden Bough so delightfully Someone has suggested that a primitive purveys third-hand information, the so-called "com native wandering over the hills of his home parative method," is utterly discredited, for there is land might come suddenly upon the wreck no simple pattern of the stages of man©s develop age of a great airplane. He begins to exam ment. ine various pieces, picking up bolts and It has been abundantly proved that nuts and some broken sheets of aluminum. man©s cultural progress can be either grad Of course, he has no conception of their use, ual or cataclysmic, backward or forward. for he is entirely uncivilized. Gazing in Therefore the rigid evolutionary formula tently at the remains of the intricate panel of a few decades ago has had to be discred board, he cannot possibly understand what ited. We would not linger on these nega that could ever be. Now he looks at the tives, but in order to understand the in great wingspread. "What is this?" he says roads modern thought has made upon the to himself. Then suddenly he hears a roar. Christian message we should notice at Looking up, he sees a great jet liner streak least one more recent writer. ing across the sky. Picking up a handful of Bertrand Russell, one of the world©s fore the wreckage he begins to make compari most philosophers of our day, in his book sons. "Now I understand it all," he says. A Free Man©s Worship, declares: "That mighty machine traveling so swiftly, Man is the product of causes which had no pre with almost the speed of sound, bears in it vision of the end they were achieving; that his self the indelible stamp of its lowly origin. origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves From bits and pieces like these it has come and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental to be what it is." collocations of atoms; . . . that all the labor of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the Ridiculous, you say? Of course; but no noonday brightness of human genius are destined more so than many of the foolish claims to extinction in the vast depth of the solar system. sometimes made in the name of science. And the whole temple of man©s achievement must Man did not begin in a jungle, much less inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a uni in a pool of slime. Is it not more reason verse in ruins. able and sensible to accept the revelation Brilliant oratory, but bleak philosophy! of God that the human race as we see it How refreshing to turn from such empty today is but the wreck of what was orig rantings and read the Book of God! Man inally the magnificant creation of God? is not just a cosmic accident in an alien Evolutional Philosophy universe. He was created to be a son of God, a member of the family of heaven. Our in The study of comparative anatomy set a terest in one another is not just "the in- pattern for other comparative studies, such as the study of comparative religions, in (Continued on page 46) which Christianity is declared to be but the capstone of the whole pantheon of faiths. Many books have appeared during the last Notice century, such as Frazer©s classic, The Golden Bough. While presenting a fasci In the March, 1961, issue o£ The Ministry we nating picture, yet it is but a collection of published a little item sent in by G. Arthur Keough entitled "An Unusual Calendar." He has had the follies of the human race in the field of several requests for the calendar since then, and religious thought. To depict the crudest he thinks most evangelists would find it useful. forms of heathenism as man©s endeavor to We understand the calendar is printed in Arabic commune with the Infinite is tragic. History and Italian (the Latin may be easier for Westerners reveals clearly that polytheism is not the to follow) and costs approximately $1.00. root of all worship. Anyone wishing this unusual calendar may send Schmidt, of Vienna, in his recent four- their request to: volume work, Urstrung der Gottesidee, G. Arthur Keough P.O. Box 2020 considered by scholars the last word in its Beirut, Lebanon field, ably demonstrates that the oldest re ligions of the world were monotheistic, not JANUARY, 1962 EDITORIAL

Into the New Year

IE ARE living in a violent fluence for the salvation of mankind. W:age, a cold peace, an un What type of workers does the age de certain future. As we med mand? "God©s cause at this time is in spe itate on the new year we cial need of men and women who possess sense the tremendous chal Christlike qualifications for service, execu lenge it brings to Seventh-day tive ability, and a large capacity for work; Adventist ministers. The who have kind, warm sympathetic hearts, world seems to be one deadly sound common sense, and unbiased judg bomb with thousands of fuses jutting out ment, who will carefully weigh matters be here and there. Irresponsible men seem to fore they approve or condemn, and who be running to and fro among these fuses can fearlessly say No, or Yea and Amen; with lighted matches of distrust, hurling who, because they are sanctified by the withering sarcasms, false accusations, greedy Spirit of God, practice the words, ©All ye demands, and threats at one another. It are brethren.© striving constantly to uplift seems the spirits of devils have made them and restore fallen humanity." Ellen G. drunk with scientific miracles and simulated White Manuscript 156a, 1901. power. Can they not see? Can they not The new year is before us. Time is im understand where all this selfish hatred is portant. We are a people of prophecy, of leading the human race? conviction, of purpose. We are children of John F. Kennedy, President of the God©s living concern and are given each United States, observed recently, as he day, each month, of this golden period of spoke before the United Nations, that the time in which we may grow into the like events of the next ten months may well af ness of Him who made us. Shall we not fect the future of mankind for the next then cherish every moment of our precious ten thousand years. Mankind must put an opportunities for our personal spiritual de end to war or war will put an end to man velopment? kind. He pleaded that we put an end to Let us resolve to face the new year with terror and invoke the blessings of peace. courage. When God©s people faced a flow Speaking to more than one hundred of the ing Jordan, walled fortresses, and mighty world nations he said, "Together we shall giants in the land whither they were to go, save our planet or together we shall perish He commanded them to be strong and of in its flames." good courage. Across the pages of time As we face such a year there must be an since the disciples returned from the urgency in our living, our witnessing, and Mount of Ascension, legions of men, our preaching. We cannot play at little women, and children a brave, bold cara things. We cannot waste precious moments van of witnesses to truth have told their with nonessentials. We must be giants of story with unswerving devotion. These spiritual power, true interpreters of pres have learned the secret that the psalmist ent truth, and a positive, compelling in discloses in the words, "Be of good cour- THE MINISTRY age, and he shall strengthen your heart, road. Our companions are not particularly all ye that hope in the Lord" (Ps. 31:24). interested in our aches and pains, the As we face the tragic happenings that may stones on our highways, the thorns in our fill the weeks and months of this coming bushes. These things are not important to year and as we meet the tests and trials another, and what is more, if we do not that may await us, we, too, need to be dwell upon them, they will not seem strong and of good courage. nearly so important to us. Let us approach Let us resolve to face the new year with the positive side of tomorrow©s circum faith. God has not forsaken the world. He stances and do all we can to dispense cheer may not yet be ready to show the power of ful, hopeful convictions to those who as His might or to deliver His children from sociate with us along the way. suffering or death, but His spiritual arm is Let us resolve to be health conscious. To still stretched out to steady us in our daily enjoy success we must have health. Health, walk, and He will be with us even unto the happiness, and success are intimately as end of the world. Let us remember that in sociated. A famous doctor was asked one shadow as well as in sunshine God is pre day to give some advice to a group of ciously near to those who serve Him. young theological students. Among other Let us face the new year with love. Let things he said was this: "If I were young us rid ourselves of every root of bitterness, again, I wo.uld take such good care of my every remnant of animosity or hatred. Let health that when the years of great tasks us enter the new season with love filling and opportunities would come to me in our hearts, ready to overflow in thoughts later life, I would have a sound constitu and deeds of sympathy and tenderness. tion, steady nerves, and a healthy mind to May we always be alert to feel sympathy accomplish them." Begin today with me with another in sorrow or be willing to ticulous care to guard our health and express appreciation of good work done strengthen our body. by another. May our lives and words have Let us resolve to face the new year with the glow of "Thank you" in all that we our records clear. Many experiences of the say or do. old year we will want to cherish. We will Let us resolve to keep our friendships not want to forget the encouraging words, in good repair to be more understanding, the hand that strengthened us, the kind more tolerant, more forgiving, more slow nesses shown, the flowers along the way, to take offense. Let us determine to make the mercies of God, and the way He has our minds a graveyard for any gossip that led us. Nor will we want to forget our may drift our way. And let us pray that vows to God and to man, nor any wrong our heavenly Father will enable us to have or pain we may have brought upon an such control over our lips that never a other. There are some things, of course, word will pass through them which will we will want to forget any injuries, sor hurt another. rows, or losses that we have suffered. The Let us resolve to face the new year with blunders and failures of yesterday we will zeal. There is so little time in which to do want to lay them aside as we press toward all that must be done. Along the way there the mark of our high calling. There is much will be difficulties, but a warm and glorious ahead for us the glorious privilege of min welcome awaits us at the end of the road. istry for the Master, fellowship with Jesus Let us hasten with our task. We may soon Christ, a home and eternity. have it completed if there is zealous, Some people have likened the new year united, and consecrated action. What to a page, a chapter, or a book. How true might the church not do in the course of this is with our lives fully committed to one short year to hasten the coming of the the Master. If given a chance, He will Lord if even a Gideon band went forth write upon these new pages events that under the blessing of the Holy Spirit and are full of interest, full of meaning, rich with holy zeal to prepare men and women in service. We are an epistle, a letter, au for the glorious appearing of our Saviour! thorized by God. May all who read us be Let us face our responsibilities seriously amazed at what our heavenly Father is do and do some real heart searching and re ing day by day to redeem, to rebuild, to solving at the beginning of this new year. restore in us the beauty of the original Let us resolve to be silent about our creation. Then one day in that great li own personal difficulties along the 1962 brary where the books are gathered for all JANUARY, 1962 the universe to see we will know that the road upon which we have set our feet on shallow trash which might have been on the first day of the year. This road leads our pages has been covered by the precious we know not exactly where, but one thing blood of Jesus Christ. And that which is we do know, God has not planned this revealed will be the righteousness of Christ highway to lead us to disappointment and lived out in us. failure, but to victory and success. As we To many this new year may be likened face the new year we can have confidence to a room with four white walls, a ceiling, in the promise, "My God shall supply all a floor, a window, and a door but with your need according to his riches in glory nothing in it. Then every thought we think by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19). and every deed we do changes that room, Whatever 1962 may be for us a page, a either little or much the tint upon its room, a highway, or just another period of walls, the view from its windows, the furni time it is something new and clean ture we place within. This is the room in placed into our hands to use. Let us re which we will live, if God is willing, for solve to take more time for prayer, intro 365 days. Let it be uncluttered, simple, spection, and Bible study, and allow the and beautiful. Perhaps a shelter for one illumination of the Holy Spirit to give us who is weary and discouraged or a pin a vision not only of our own characters nacle to stimulate and inspire. May we but of the great work that needs to be ac draw into the room the magnificent, spir complished. May we desire a deeper spir ited, glorious truths of the Word of God, itual life and a stronger faith in the mes colored with sufficient grace to live the sage. May there be a sweet warmth and Christ life in our daily walk, and may we Christian love in our hearts, which will have wisdom to know how to do more ef bind us closer to one another and be a ficiently the work that He has given us drawing power in our labors for others. to do. May we possess power from heaven suf Perhaps an untraveled road might suit ficient to meet the challenge of the com us better as a simile for the new year a ing year. A. c. F.

Light for the New Year

Oh, let me hold it high for all to see, The lamp of faith, as it was held for me. Oh, help me keep its shining flame aglow, Its chimney polished, and its oil from running low. Oh, give me steady hands and an unfaltering heart; Help me prepare, that I may do my part When some lost soul, praying for light to see, Shall see it shine upon the way to Thee. There was a night so dark, when faith burned low, The brightest star had flickered out; no other glow Remained to mark the last dream©s ebb. My silent cry Was heard, and then a lamp was lifted high; And there within, another©s life revealed God©s living Word That I might see; so< true a light, the path to Thee, restored, Was sure again. There is no way I can repay this healing gift Except to hold the lamp for other souls adrift. Oh, let me hold it, too, as it was held for me, I pray, the lamp of faith, that other souls may see The way to Thee, O Lord, as on that one dark night Another©s lifted lamp made such a lovely light! JULIA FEILING HILLIARD THE MINISTRY Principles of Biblical Interpretation© Part I. The Continuing Quest for Truth RAY F. COTTRELL Associate Editor, Review and Herald

HE commission of the Holy the Scriptures, and to avoid discussion. Spirit to guide the church Aware of this danger, Seventh-day Advent- Tinto all truth is as valid today ists have refrained from freezing the meas as it was in apostolic times. It ure of truth Heaven has entrusted to them is our favored privilege and into the rigid shape of a church creed, im sacred duty to accord Him the plying infallibility and finality. As a people opportunity to perform for we are called individually to be students of us in this generation His ap the Word of God, and as such to move for pointed task of leading men onward in the ward to receive the increased and ever-in quest for a more perfect understanding of creasing light He desires to impart to us. the character, will, and ways of the Infinite Every great advance of the gospel in ages One as set forth in His Holy Word. God past has been preceded and ushered in by calls today for consecrated men to follow the most earnest study of the Scriptures. on in the footsteps of Habakkuk, Daniel, Darkness inevitably flees in the face of ad John, and Paul, hearts aglow with ardent vancing light; nothing so effectively dispels longing for an ever-clearer concept of truth darkness as the admission of light. If, in the that they may cooperate more effectively past, a limited measure of truth has proved with the agencies of heaven in the proclama effective in setting men free from the king tion of the message ordained for earth©s dom of evil and winning them for the king crisis hour. This summons calls, first, for dom of heaven, more truth will inevitably the most careful review of known truth, effect greater freedom by leading men yet and second, for consecrated expeditions of closer to the character and will of the great discovery into the vast unexplored regions Author of truth. Inspiration assures us that of revelation that lie beyond. the most diligent searching of the Word The foundations of the temple of truth will, in the providence of God, yet prepare rest firm and immovable, its pillars rise in the way for that glorious hour of destiny, majesty. Shall we cease from our labors to the loud cry of the third angel. We have gaze in pride and satisfaction upon the much to learn before we are ready to join beauty of an unfinished structure? God for with the angel of Revelation 18 in setting bid! Truth "present truth" in particular the earth ablaze with the glorious light of is not static, for the instant it ceases to the gospel message for this generation. If grow it begins to wither and die. The we are to proclaim the truth more fully church has ever been in danger of pro then, it is incumbent upon us to search the claiming itself rich and increased in spir Scriptures with increasing diligence now, itual goods, oblivious to the need of keep as we see that day approaching. ing pace with the ever-advancing light God would impart to it. Neglect to go forward Advance in the Knowledge of the Truth with advancing light has left in darkness Whenever the people of God are growing in more than one reformatory movement that grace, they will be constantly obtaining a clearer set forth with the blazing torch of truth in understanding of his word. They will discern new its hands. Its spiritual life gradually deteri light and beauty in its sacred truths. This has been orated into a form of godliness without true in the history of the church in all ages, and the power thereof, and this was accom thus it will continue to the end. But as real spir itual life declines, it has ever been the tendency to panied by a tendency to become conserva cease to advance in the knowledge of the truth. tive, to discourage further investigation of Men rest satisfied with the light already received from God©s word and discourage any further investi * Taken from Problems in Bible Translation, Review and Herald Publishing Association. gation of the Scriptures. They become conservative JANUARY, 1962 and seek to avoid discussion. Testimonies, vol. 5, truth, a message of God to the people of that gen p. 706; Counsels to Writers and Editors, pp. 38, 39. eration. The old truths are all essential; new truth Investigation of every point that has been re is not independent of the old, but an unfolding of ceived as truth will richly repay the searcher; he it. It is only as the old truths are understood that we will find precious gems. And in closely investigating can comprehend the new. . . . He who rejects or neg every jot and tittle which we think is established lects the new, does not really possess the old. For truth, in comparing scripture with scripture, we him it loses its vital power, and becomes but a life may discover errors in our interpretations of Scrip less form. Christ©s Object Lessons, pp. 127, 128. ture. Christ would have the searcher of His word sink the shaft deeper into the mines of truth. If the The Importance of Sound Principles search is properly conducted, jewels of inestimable Sound principles of interpretation con value will be found. Review and Herald, July 12, 1898. sciously, conscientiously, and consistently Let none think that there is no more knowledge followed are essential to the discovery of for them to gain. The depth of human intellect may Bible truth. The inevitable alternative to be measured; the works of human authors may be personal acceptance of the limitations im mastered; but the highest, deepest, broadest flight posed by a code of sound principles is to of the imagination cannot find out God. There is in accord every man the dubious privilege of finity beyond all that we can comprehend. We have interpreting Scripture as may seem right seen only the glimmering of divine glory and of the in his own eyes. In large measure the major infinitude of knowledge and wisdom; we have, as it doctrinal barricades that divide Christen were, been working on the surface of the mine, when rich golden ore is beneath the surface, to re dom, as well as minor differences of opin ward the one who will dig for it. The shaft must be ion between brethren, are due to the unin sunk deeper and yet deeper in the mine, and the hibited exercise of this privilege. Alto result will be glorious treasure. Through a correct gether too often Bible study has been con faith, divine knowledge will become human knowl ducted as if it were a game in which each edge. Christ©s Object Lessons, p. 113. player considers himself free to make up In searching the field and digging for the pre his own rules as the game progresses, or to cious jewels of truth, hidden treasures are discerned. play without rules if and when he chooses Unexpectedly we find precious ore that is to be to do so. gathered and treasured. And the search is to be con tinued. Hitherto very much of the treasure found Two pilots of equal experience, provided has lain near the surface, and was easily obtained. with identical flight instructions and in When the search is properly conducted every effort control of similar craft equipped with com is made to keep a pure understanding and heart. parable navigational aids, may be expected When the mind is kept open and is constantly to reach the same destination, though it be searching the field of revelation, we shall find rich but a tiny coral atoll lost in the far reaches deposits of truth. Old truths will be revealed in new of the vast Pacific. But those who presume aspects, and truths will appear which have been to launch out into the deeper things of overlooked in the search. MS. 75, 1897; MINISTRY, God©s Word without the requisite naviga June, 1953, p. 26. tional aids will inevitably find themselves at sea, bound for an endless assortment of fantastic destinations. Electronic engineers The book to read is not the one which thinks and nuclear physicists must comply with for you, but the one which makes you think. No the laws© that operate in their respective book in the world equals the Bible for that. fields of research if they would achieve McCosh. valid results; likewise, those who set out in the pursuit of eternal truth must recog nize and follow clearly defined principles. There are mines of truth yet to be discovered by Sound principles are our safeguard against the earnest seeker. Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 204. exegetical anarchy, our guarantee of the The words of God are the well-springs of life. certainty of the things we believe, and our As you seek unto those living springs, you will, assurance of a united front as we press for through the Holy Spirit, be brought into commun ward in the proclamation of the Advent ion with Christ. Familiar truths will present them message to all the world in this generation. selves to your mind in a new aspect; texts of Scrip ture will burst upon you with a new meaning, as a In any field the methods of study are flash of light; you will see the relation of other largely determined by the nature and char truths to the work of redemption, and you will acteristics of the subject to be studied and know that Christ is leading you; a divine Teacher is by the qualifications and limitations of at your side. Mount of Blessings, p. 36. those participating in it. The principles by In every age there is a new development of which Scripture is to be studied and ex- 10 THE MINISTRY plained are implicit, and often explicit, in ples of Bible study is thus an objective the Scriptures themselves that is, clearly procedure that must be conducted in ac illustrated if not specifically stated. The cordance with its own inherent principles, laws of interpretation are thus determined and must conform to them. This is neces by the Inspired Word itself. They are in sarily true because of the fact that the prin herent in its very form and content. For ciples are themselves a part of the truth this reason a statement of principles of in whose discovery they are designed to facili terpretation requires for its basis a careful tate. A thorough understanding of the ex study of such matters as the nature, histori plicit statements of the Bible concerning cal background, literary characteristics, itself, and of the principles implicit in its languages, and transmission of Holy Writ. structure, is essential to any serious study The formulation of a code of valid princi (Continued on page 40} The Days of Our Tears Louise C. Kleuser

T THE creation of our mands regarding the Passover, which A world God pronounced was to memorialize their exit from Egypt. His divine purpose for the Israel must learn the depth of Jehovah©s heavenly bodies. He ordained plan regarding their salvation. The pres the sun, moon, and stars to sures of Pharaoh©s program of hard labor mark the seasons the days, and the stunted thinking of the slaves made months, and years and also it necessary for God to make His instruc to serve the world as signs. tions very simple. The new feast was to be Each arrangement of Creation was to bless more than a victory holiday. The Passover mankind; in God©s plan that was "good" would foreshadow things to come. As a re (Gen.l: 14-18). sult of God©s revelation Israel t>egan a new In the course of time God spoke to Moses way of life, establishing at God©s command and Aaron, ancient Israel©s spiritual lead a new calendar to mark the beginning of ers, instructing them regarding a change the new year. in the beginning of the year. At this time the Feast of the Passover was instituted. The Slaying of the Lamb God said, "This month shall be unto you The high point of the Passover feast was the beginning of months: it shall be the the slaying of a lamb "without blemish." first month of the year to you." God was In every Israelitish home the father had leading His people out of Egypt, a heathen the responsibility of leading his family to monarchy that had attempted to thwart the God. This was an act of faith in which the power of God. He was ready to pour out entire household responded in obedience His wrath in the form of dreadful plagues to divine instruction. After their depar in order to save His people from the Egyp ture from Egypt, the Passover became a tians, but in His great mercy He planned yearly "ordinance" until type met antitype a way of escape for His people. Israel had at the appearing of the Messiah, "the lamb suffered greatly under Egyptian authoritar- slain from the foundation of the world." ianism, but more tragic still was the fact The Passover had great significance in that the children of Israel had lost their the ritualism of the Hebrew people. On conception of pure worship. the eve of the original Passover the blood Now Jehovah was establishing a new of the slain lamb was sprinkled on the side order of things and giving explicit com- posts .and upper doorpost of each Israelit- JANUARY, 1962 II ish dwelling. At the time the angel of death associated with the Christian principles was nearing with swift destruction slaying of sincerity and truth. the first-born in each household that had neglected or spurned the dictates of Jeho Pilgrims and Strangers vah. At the time of the original Passover the The Lord Jehovah had commanded Mo Israelites were a nomadic people, carrying ses and Aaron regarding the eating of the the wanderer©s staff in their flight from Passover lamb. "They shall eat the flesh in Egypt. Modern Israelites also are pilgrims that night, roast with fire, and unleavened and strangers in this world, seeking the bread; and with bitter herbs" (Ex. 12:8). promised Canaan. They lift their vision Addressing each Israelite, He continued heavenward, frequently tasting the sym His instruction: ". .. with your loins girded, bolic "bitter herbs" of the Passover meal. your shoes on your feet, and your staff in The Lamb of God is their constant attrac your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it tion; saving earth©s lost, their Christlike is the Lord©s passover. . . . And the blood mission. They find joy in their simplicity shall be to you for a token upon the houses of mind and heart, gladly sacrificing time where ye are: and when I see the blood, I and means to further the interests of the will pass over you, and the plague shall not kingdom. . . . destroy you, when I smite the land of While the New Year season is timely, may Egypt" (Ex. 12:11-13). Then, instituting a our ministers and church leaders through change for the beginning of their year, God out the world guide their flocks into a pronounced, "This month shall be unto deeper religious experience. The sands of you the beginning of months: it shall be time are running swiftly into eternity, and the first month of the year to you" (Ex. 12:2). the conviction of every herald of Bible The New Year feast and the Passover truth should be to make the waiting year became associated religious events in the rich in soul winning. In the following same month. But ancient Israel©s celebra psalm Moses brings to us a sobering New tion of the New Year was in marked con Year©s message. trast with the keeping of heathen holidays! Everlasting Refuge Holy days and holidays have always been sadly confused. One is intended for solemn Lord, Thou has been our dwelling place reflection on man©s shortcomings toward in all generations. God; the other is associated with debauch From everlasting to everlasting Thou art ery and frivolity and a forgetting of God! God. The former inspires separation from the A thousand years in Thy sight are as world; the latter encourages participation yesterday. in the excesses and evils of the world. God©s We spend our years as a tale that is told people have been asked to come out from Yet is their strength labor and sorrow. among them! Teach us to number our days, apply our hearts unto wisdom. The apostle Paul, in his leadership in the Satisfy us early with Thy mercy, that we early Christian church, stresses the fact may rejoice all our days. that God©s true Israel is a blood-bought and Let Thy work appear unto Thy servants, blood-washed people. Paul then contrasted Thy glory unto their children; and let the the genuine experience patterned after beauty Christ with the sinful ways of the Chris Of the Lord be upon us, the work of our tian©s worldly associates. Observe how Paul, hands in 1 Corinthians 5, combines his instruc Yea, establish Thou it. tion with the Passover lamb. How direct is his instruction to purge out the old Psalm 90. Adapted. leaven, representing idolatry, malice, and To all our fellow workers, a blessed New wickedness; the new "lump" is then aptly Year!

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C. Achievement is the yardstick by which the world measures you. Ambition is the standard of measurement used only by our real friends. 12 THE MINISTRY Great Words of the Bible—No. 6 The Kingdom R. E. LOASBY Professor Emeritus, Andrews University

HE feminine abstract noun basileia is much when we fail to recognize that in no Tfound in the New Testament more than case is the church to be regarded, and pre 160 times. The primary meaning is "king sented to the people, as the embodiment ship, royal power, royal rule." We mostly of the kingdom of Christ. The church is think of this term as "kingdom, territory, the sphere within which the basileia, the or the people ruled over by a king." As a royal authority, is demonstrated, and is not matter of fact, this abstract term originally itself the kingdom embodied. meant "the situation, the position, dignity, More than thirty times Matthew speaks and authority of the king." The secondary of "the kingdom of heaven." He is the meaning of "territory, the realm of the only New Testament writer who uses this king, the people over whom he ruled," is precise expression. Five times he uses the not yet the first meaning we should stress phrase "the kingdom of God." The two when we speak of God©s kingdom. expressions are synonymous. The other This New Testament Greek term, by and two synoptics and John use the term "the large, is equivalent to the Old Testament kingdom of God"; so also Luke in Acts, word malekuth. The initial meaning of seven times; Paul in Romans, once; in 1 this ancient Hebrew abstract noun is Corinthians, five times; in Galatians, once; "kingship" in the sense of royal authority. in Colossians, once; in 2 Thessalonians, With both the Hebrew and the Greek once; and John, once in Revelation 12:10. nouns, both meanings of "royal authority" In Ephesians 5:5, Paul has the expression and "a people or territory" are applicable "the kingdom of Christ," and in Colossians today; but unfortunately we tend to ignore 1:13, the phrase "the kingdom of his dear the first and basic meaning when we dis Son." There are also other synonyms for cuss the kingdom. further consideration in the more than 160 Undoubtedly, in the almost 90 times texts in the New Testament that have the malekuth is used in the Old Testament, noun basileia, a wonderful field for a study the references are mostly to the authority of the various truths connected with these and rulership of earthly kings in a secular correlates: "The kingdom of heaven," "the sense. With Daniel, however, there enters kingdom of God," "the Father©s kingdom," the transcendent, eschatological sense that "the kingdom of our Father," "the king goes beyond the purely nationalist hope. dom of Christ," "the kingdom of his Son," The presentation in Daniel 7 must have in "his heavenly kingdom," and others. fluenced the New Testament writers pow As one studies the New Testament bas erfully, and colored their presentation of ileia, it is seen that a number of texts speak the kingdom. of it without any qualification. When used In a number of New Testament texts with qualifications, these very expressions basileia is a designation of power, of royal are used and bound up with the Being authority, of royal power and glory. Fur and activities of the Godhead. These attrib ther, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom utive and predicative qualifications used of God, and the kingdom of Christ are with basileia present a varied picture of the synonymous. The main hope in writing divine attributes exercised for the salva this short introduction to the study of tion of men; and not the least of these syn basileia in the New Testament is to en onymous phrases are the ones that stress courage us to emphasize the basic meaning God©s claims upon men. of this term in all those texts in which the As an example, we give some detail of main thought is the Lord©s royal authority, Matthew 6:33, which, using the present im even though we have not realized it pre perative, literally says, "Be seeking first of viously. This is really essential, and we miss all the kingdom of God and His righteous- JANUARY, 1962 13 ness, and all these things shall be added unto you." Here is a supreme seeking to be LETTERS TO THE EDITOR carried on here and now; it is designated in Matthew 5:6 as "hungering and thirst ing for righteousness," with the definite promise that the ones hungering and thirst Retirement a Problem? ing shall be filled. This is a promise for the present. The verb translated "be filled" As a minister nearing the age of retirement, I is chortazo, used of the feeding and fatten have been reading with interest and some surprise ing of cattle, and of the superabundance the MINISTRY articles on this topic. Perhaps a few of food for men. It is the term in Revelation more years will teach me wisdom, and I shall come to understand the matter differently. But should 19:21 "all the birds gorged themselves." my health and strength remain, from this short dis (N.E.B.*) tance it seems to me that I should speak of the privi The close connection of basileia and lege rather than the problem of retirement. righteousness must not be ignored. To seek May I explain? the kingdom is to become more and more At present I am pastor of four churches. Hence entailed in righteousness, subjection to the my time is of necessity devoted to feeding the flock Father©s royal authority, under His rule of of God, visiting the sick, wooing back the discour grace. Certainly the continual seeking aged or disgruntled, conducting church and school (zeteite) means an expecting, an obtain board meetings, leading out in the half dozen an ing and enjoying. Here are the two key nual church campaigns, plus numerous errands of notes of the Sermon on the Mount: the miscellaneous nature familiar to all of us in active kingdom and the righteousness of the king ministry. Add to all this the greatest responsibility dom, in the pursuit of which all other of all, that of organizing and leading our brethren and sisters into the soul-winning work for which things needful for the present life will be God has raised us up as a church. Couple with this added to us. my own participation in the form of public preach This kingdom of heaven is operating ing and personal visitation and Bible studies, not to now within the persons of all who are justi mention the time I must spend alone with God and fied, spiritually renewed, and progressing in study every day. Retirement a problem? in a developing sanctification. The right Surely not, with a world left to warn! eousness of this kingdom is the character With the complexities of church organization left of the saints developed under the Holy to younger hands, I shall be free at last to visit every Spirit in submission to God©s royal au home within a given area from mine. With a wealth thority. This character is described in chap of literature to meet almost every need, I shall select ter 5:3-16. In the persons of men of faith with discretion that which promises most nearly to today, God establishes His kingdom, justi meet that need, and leave it with responsive souls for a week or two, then pass it on again. Those who fies His royal rule in the lives of men. express their desire to do so shall see on their liv The apostle Luke speaks of the kingdom ing-room wall such films as George Vandeman©s as present: "But if I, in conjunction with "Victorious Living" or R. A. Anderson©s "Four the finger of God, am casting out demons, Beasts of Daniel Seven." I shall lend out marked then the kingdom of God has already copies of The Great Controversy and perhaps call reached you" (Luke 11:20). The adver special attention to the chapter "Aims of the saries accused Jesus of working in conjunc Papacy." When I find sickness in my parish of the unsaved, I mean to visit them, perhaps read a few tion with demons; but He forces the conclu selected paragraphs from The Ministry of Heal sion that He was working with God. The ing or Steps to Christ while doing so. With the miracles were proof of the presence of the blessing of God I expect to start one or more branch Holy Spirit; and the Lord then states that Sabbath schools as a result. the presence and activity of the Spirit are My home church may see little of me until proof that the kingdom had arrived, had enough neighbors have become sufficiently inter reached to and overtaken them, was in their ested to want to attend a series of evangelistic meet midst. The royal power and rule, the de ings there. My pastor and I will then arrange for livering, saving grace of the Godhead, was them. in their very presence. Here is the signifi To such activities there can be no end while cance of the verb phthano, followed by a probation lingers. preposition, as here, meaning "to arrive Retirement a problem? at, to attain." (See Rom. 9:31; Phil. 3:16; God forbid! 2 Cor. 10:14; 1 Thess. 2:16.) O. B. GERHART The apostle Paul regards the basileia as District Leader, Alabama 14 THE MINISTRY an ethical reality bestowing peace, right saving grace is manifested, where His eousness, and joy: "For the kingdom of power to transform is evident in lives sub God is not eating and drinking, but right mitted to Him. eousness and peace and joy in a personal A prerequisite for participation in this relation with the Holy Spirit" (Rom. 14: present kingdom is repentance: "Repent, 17). Very definitely one is forced to realize for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn that worldly concepts of kingdoms are not near" (Matt. 4:17). The apostle tells the applicable to the kingdom of heaven. people to be changing their thinking; and Here we have two action words the act the reason he gives is that the kingdom of of eating and the act of drinking. That is the heavens has approached, using the to say, the kingdom does not consist of perfect indicative tense has come and is human activities, for such activities are to still at hand. I repeat, God©s kingdom is tally insignificant in comparison with right where His power, His sovereignty, His rul- eousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit ership holds sway. The believer today is a a lovely and comprehensive trio that partaker of the kingdom. The revelation means Christian living in harmony with of God©s authority and royal rule made by God©s royal rule. Righteousness means here Jesus Christ was the presentation of the right dealing with both God and man, rec kingdom, thus making the kingdom near titude in its widest sense. Peace is that in Christ. The only way we can enter into blessed state that characterizes one who is it is by repentance and submission to the in accord with God and has concord with authority of God. Thus the Lord speaks of his brethren. Joy is that wonderful emo the kingdom as already come in His own tion that comes with the indwelling of the ministry and Person. The cross and Pente Holy Spirit. These are elements that are cost opened up the way for an outpour part of God©s royal rule among men. ing of the Holy Spirit to be flooded into Again, the apostle characterizes the king the hearts of men to enable them to sur dom as present with us in deeds in harmony render to God©s rule. with, in a carrying out of, God©s royal au There is, then, a sense in which God©s thority: "For the kingdom of God is not basileia means God©s ways in dealing with in connection with mere word, but on the men, His righteous demands, a soteriologi- contrary, is in connection with power" (1 cal concept embodied in the preaching of Cor. 4:20). The apostle is telling us that the Jesus Christ. In this sense, God©s kingdom kingdom of God does not consist of mere coincides with His sovereignty. By the proc talk, fine speeches, but is in the individual, lamation of the gospel setting forth what in the church, as a manifestation of divine God demands of men, what He expects power and sway. Here the kingdom is an of them, His royal sovereignty is present. inward reality that underlies and activates In this way the kingdom of God comes to the external active life of the Christian; men; men should submit themselves to it, and in and through these inwardly ener pattern their lives after it. To enter in the gized activities, the kingdom of Christ real kingdom of God is first and foremost to sur izes and expresses itself. The kingdom is render to His sovereign rule, His royal where God©s authority reigns, where His sway.

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JANUARY, 1962 15 There is, to be sure, another group of come." He is speaking of the surrender of texts that speak of the kingdom of the fu men to God©s rule. Where the will of God ture, a conception that presents the saints holds sway, there is God©s basileia. Where sharing rulership with Christ on His men are fully surrendered to God, there is throne in the life to come (Rom. 5:17); His kingdom. This is the basileia of Christ©s and John speaks of the reign of the re prayer to His followers individuals living deemed upon the earth (Rev. 5:10). Yet in complete subjection to His royal author a prerequisite to sharing the kingdom of ity now. "Thy kingdom come" is explained the future is a full surrender now to the by "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in present basileia of God, namely, His royal heaven." To have part in the future eternal authority. Perhaps a larger stress and fuller kingdom one must be a member of the presentation of this basic aspect would re present one. sult in a much smaller rate of apostasy from the church. It is this primary concept of * The ffeia English Bible, New Testament. The Dele basileia that Christ speaks of in the prayer gates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the He gave to His disciples "Thy kingdom Cambridge University Press 1961. Biblical Languages Are They Necessary? N. GERMANIS President, Greek Mission, Southern European Division

THIIE TITLE of this article languages, especially the New Testament JLma.may bring to many of my Greek. fellow ministers a recollection First, we are a people that base our of the many, many hours teachings and beliefs squarely on the Bible, spent poring over the Hebrew and will not accept the traditions of men. Old Testament and the Greek This fact naturally compels us to study New Testament during col God©s Word constantly, and to know the lege and seminary days. It may reasons for our faith. We can hardly do also bring to remembrance the many dis justice to God©s Word without a knowl cussions about the question, Is the study of edge of the original languages in which it Biblical languages really essential in our was written. theology course? Many asked of what value this knowledge would be to the pastor of a Second, I believe that it is obvious to church or to an evangelist? Many felt then all of us that many of the arguments of that the hours spent in studying the gram Walter Martin in his book The Truth mar, syntax, and vocabulary of the Koine About Seventh-Day Adventism are based Greek were wasted. Was it essential to spend entirely on Greek grammar, syntax, et two and three years studying verbs, nouns, cetera, and he has attempted to show many participles, et cetera, only to forget them times that we did not know or did not use upon finishing the college and seminary our knowledge of the Biblical languages years? properly. Regardless of all that may be said Personally, I am convinced that we are for the King James Version, it is not in the not spending enough time in the study of language that Paul wrote, and it is im these languages, which are so essential to a perative that we become really conversant true comprehension and understanding of with Paul©s letters in the language in which the Word of God. It has been my privilege he wrote them. to be connected with the Greek Mission at Third, someone has said that a little Athens for the past seven years, and I have knowledge is worse than none, and this is had the opportunity to increase greatly my especially so in the field of Biblical lan knowledge of the Koine Greek of the New guages. It would be only fair to say that -Testament. I believe that certain facts many times, through inadequate knowl make it imperative for us to master these edge, we make mistakes and blunders, 16 THE MINISTRY "BREAKTHROUGH" Available Soon

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HE incarnation of Christ is cerns our eternal salvation. But the investi a profound mystery. As de gation of this sacred subject must be en clared by the apostle Paul, tered upon with reverence and godly fear. "Great is the mystery of god We must undertake it in a spirit of great liness: God was manifest in humility, and with earnest and sincere the flesh" (1 Tim. 3:16). prayer. This solemn duty and necessity is How the Son of God who clearly presented in the following lines: had been with the Father from The humanity of the Son of God is everything to eternity (1 John 1:1, 2) and who had been us. It is the golden chain that binds our souls to the active agent in the creation of the heav Christ, and through Christ to God. This is to be ens and the earth (John 1:3; Col. 1:15-17; our study. Christ was a real man; He gave proof of Heb. 1:1, 2) could vanish from His vast His humility in becoming a man. Yet He was God in the flesh. When we approach this subject, we would universe and become a tiny cell in Mary©s do well to heed the words spoken by Christ to Moses womb, there to grow into a perfect babe, at the burning bush, "Put off thy shoes from off thy and in due process of time be born into feet, for the place where on thou standest is holy the world in the form and fashion of a ground." We should come to this study with the child of man, but having a dual nature (a humility of a learner, with a contrite heart. And nature both human and divine) is be the study of the incarnation of Christ is a fruitful yond our finite minds either to compre field, which will repay the searcher who digs deep hend or to explain. Truly, as says the serv for hidden truth. ELLEN G. WHITE in The ant of the Lord Youth©s Instructor, Oct. 13, 1898. Quoted in Ques tions on Doctrine, p. 647. In contemplating the incarnation of Christ in hu manity, we stand baffled before an unfathomable The sincere, persevering student will mystery, that the human mind cannot comprehend. find that the study of Christ©s incarnation, The more we reflect upon it, the more amazing His death on the cross, and His high- does it appear. How wide is the contrast between priestly work in the heavenly sanctuary is the divinity of Christ and the helpless infant in both rewarding and exhaustible. Through Bethlehem©s manger! How can we span the distance between the mighty God and a helpless child? And His divinely inspired servant the Lord as yet the Creator of worlds, He in whom was the full sures us that ness of the Godhead bodily, was manifest in the As the worker studies the life of Christ, and the helpless babe in the manger. Far higher than any character of His mission is dwelt upon, each fresh of the angels, equal with the Father in dignity and search will reveal something more deeply interesting glory, and yet wearing the garb of humanity! Di than has yet been unfolded. The subject is inex vinity and humanity were mysteriously combined, haustible. The study of the incarnation of and man and God became one. It is in this union Christ, His atoning sacrifice and mediatorial work, that we find the hope of our fallen race. Looking will employ the mind of the diligent student as long upon Christ in humanity, we look upon God, and as time shall last." Gospel Workers, p. 251. (Ital see in Him the brightness of His glory, the express ics supplied.) image of His person. Signs of the Times, July 30, 1896. Quoted in Questions on Doctrine, pp. 647, 648. The Pre-existence of Jesus Human reasoning, human philosophy, When studying the subject of the incar can never solve the deep mystery of the nation of Christ it is well to learn first of all incarnation of Christ. God only knows its what God has revealed to us, through His secret. However, in the Bible and in the Word and the writings of His messenger, writings of the Spirit of Prophecy, the Lord regarding Christ©s existence, nature, and has given us information that throws light position prior to His birth in Bethlehem. on certain aspects of this stupendous prob The Bible makes it crystal clear that lem. This information, this light, it is our Jesus was with God the Father, in heaven, privilege, yea, our duty, to study. It is of long before He was born into this world. vital importance that we do so. It con- The gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and 18 THE MINISTRY John show that Christ spoke repeatedly of and who was God (John 1:1) the mighty having been sent by the Father, of having God, the Creator and upholder of all come down from heaven, and of going back things (Heb. 1:3) "was made flesh, and to His Father. For instance, in Christ©s pas dwelt among us" (John 1:14)! Because of toral prayer shortly before His death on the His unfathomable love for lost mankind, cross He said, "And now, Q Father, glorify He left His throne, came down to earth, thou me with thine own self with the glory clothed His divinity with humanity, lived which I had with thee before the world with us as one with us, and died in our was" (John 17:5). And in the first verses stead, that we might have life (John 10:10). of his gospel John declares that Christ Speaking of this wonderful voluntary hu ("the Word," as he calls Him) "was with miliation of the Son of God, the apostle God" "in the beginning"; that "all things Paul says, "Let this mind be in you, which were made by him"; and that "without him was also in Christ Jesus: who, being in the was not any thing made that was made" form of God, thought it not robbery to be (John 1:1-3). Since He was the Creator of equal with God: but made himself of no all, He existed before all. Therefore, be reputation, and took upon him the form fore the creation of the myriads of worlds of a servant, and was made in the likeness that swing in space, and the tiny atoms that of men: and being found in fashion as a float in the sunbeams; before the creation man, he humbled himself, and became obe of angels and men, and of the creatures dient unto death, even the death of the living on the land, in the air, and in the sea, cross" (Phil. 2:5-8). Christ was with the Father. Amazed by this wonderful voluntary hu The Bible also makes it clear that Christ miliation of Christ, E. G. White exclaims: the mighty, glorious being who was with What humility was this! It amazed angels. The the Father from the beginning was God, tongue can never describe it; the imagination can for in his gospel John says, "In the begin not take it in. The eternal Word consented to be ning was the Word, and the Word was with made flesh! God became man! It was a wonderful God, and the Word was God" (John 1:1; humility. Review and Herald, July 5, 1887. Quoted see also Isa. 9:6). Since He was God, He in Questions on Doctrine, p. 56. (Italics supplied.) was essentially the same as the Father. The voluntary humiliation of Christ The following quotations likewise show went farther than to take human nature. that from the beginning Christ was with the It would have been an almost infinite humiliation Father, and that He was God: for the Son of God to take man©s nature, even when In speaking of His pre-existence, Christ carries Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But Jesus ac the mind back through dateless ages. He assures us cepted humanity when the race had been weakened that there never was a time when He was not in by four thousand years of sin. Like every child of close fellowship with the eternal God. He to whose Adam He accepted the results of the working of the voice the Jews were then listening had been with great law of heredity. The Desire of Ages, p. 49. God as one brought up with Him. ELLEN G. WHITE in Signs of the Times, Aug. 29, 1900. Quoted In this citation our attention is called to in Questions on Doctrine, p. 644. the sad fact that sin has had a deteriorating The Lord Jesus Christ, the divine Son of God, effect on the human race. When Adam was existed from eternity, a distinct person, yet one with created he was lofty of stature, with corres the Father. He was the surpassing glory of heaven. ponding strength and vitality. We read: He was the commander of the heavenly intelli As Adam came forth from the hand of his Crea gences, and the adoring homage of the angels was tor, he was of noble h[e]ight, and of beautiful sym received by Him as his right. This was no robbery metry. He was more than twice as tall as men now of God. ELLEN G. WHITE in Review and Herald, living upon the earth, and was well proportioned. April 5, 1906. His features were perfect and beautiful. The Spirit Christ was God essentially, and in the highest of Prophecy, vol. 1, p. 25. sense. He was with God from all eternity, God over all, blessed forevermore. Ibid. Such was not the size, strength, and per In Christ is life, original, unborrowed, underived. fection of the human race when Jesus was "He that hath the Son hath life." 1 John 5:12. The born into the world. Four thousand years divinity of Christ is the believer©s assurance of eter of reckless violation of the divine laws of nal life. The Desire of Ages, p. 530. nature had greatly reduced the size and im Christ©s Voluntary Humiliation paired the strength and perfection of the human body. Nerves and muscles had Wonder of wonders, the majestic being been weakened through centuries of indul who from the beginning was with God, gence. By permitting the law of heredity to JANUARY, 1962 operate in His incarnation, Jesus inherited, 2. Because of Adam©s sin, his posterity from the side of His mother, a body com is born into the world with inherent pro parable in size to that of the bodies of the pensities of disobedience. men of His day, and was subject to the in 3. Jesus Christ the only-begotten Son firmities and weaknesses of other men. of God, and the second Adam came into Thus, speaking prophetically of Jesus the world, as did the first Adam, without an when He was here on earth, Isaiah declares evil propensity. "Do not set Him before the that He was "a man of sorrows, and ac people as a man with the propensities of quainted with grief," that "surely he hath sin." borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows" The blessed truth that Christ came into (Isa. 53:3, 4). Referring to this declaration, the world without a taint of sin upon Him Matthew says of Jesus: "Himself took our is emphasized in the following quotations: infirmities, and bare our sicknesses" (Matt. "He was born without a taint of sin, but came 8:17). Weymouth©s translation reads: "He into the world in like manner as the human fam took on Him our weaknesses, and bore the ily." Letter 97, 1898. Quoted in Questions on Doc burden of our diseases." * Thus in this trine, p. 659. sense the second Adam was not physically He [Christ] was to take His position at the head identical with the first Adam. It was also of humanity by taking the nature but not the sin- fulness of man. The SDA Bible Commentary, Ellen in this sense of depreciation in size and G. White Comments, on Heb. 2:14-18, p. 925. vitality that Christ by the law of heredity is He was a mighty petitioner, not possessing the said to have taken upon Himself our "fallen passions of our human, fallen natures, but com nature" (The Desire of Ages, p. 112), "our passed with like infirmities, tempted in all points nature in its deteriorated condition" (Signs even as we are. Testimonies, vol. 2, p. 509. (Italics of the Times, June 9, 1898). supplied.) He is a brother in our infirmities, but not in pos Christ Sinless sessing like passions. Ibid., p. 202. (Italics sup plied.) Because Christ clothed His divinity with Not a taint of corruption was upon Him. humanity and bore the physical infirmities Quoted in Questions on Doctrine, p. 61. and weaknesses of mankind, some are in clined to believe that He came into the This all-important fact that Christ was world with the propensities of sin, like all holy and sinless from His birth is clearly the sons and daughters of Adam. This, we taught in the Bible. In announcing to Mary believe, is contrary to the information the birth of Jesus, the angel Gabriel called given us in the Bible and in the writings of Him "that holy thing which shall be born the Spirit of Prophecy. Note carefully the of thee" (Luke 1:35). The apostle Paul de following statement from the inspired pen: clares that Christ "knew no sin" (2 Cor. Be careful, exceedingly careful, as to how you 5:21), and that He was "holy, harmless, dwell upon the human nature of Christ. Do not set undefiled, separate from sinners" (Heb. 7: Him before the people as a man with the propen 26). Peter speaks of Him as "a lamb with sities of sin. He is the second Adam. The first Adam out blemish and without spot" (1 Peter was created a pure, sinless being, without a taint of 1:19). And Jesus Himself said, "Which of sin upon Him; he was in the image of God. He you convinceth me of sin?" (John 8:46). could fall, and he did fall through transgressing. Be Had Jesus come into the world with a cause of sin his posterity was born with inherent stain of sin upon Him, with inclinations propensities of disobedience. But Jesus Christ was the only begotten Son of God. He took upon Him and propensities to evil, He would have self human nature, and was tempted in all points been, like all the children of Adam (see as human nature is tempted. He could have sinned; Rom. 5:12), under the condemnation of He could have fallen, but not for one moment was death for His own deplorable condition, there in Him an evil propensity. He was assailed and in need of an atonement. Thank with temptations in the wilderness, as Adam was as God, this was not the case! sailed with temptations in Eden. The SDA Bible Christ took upon Him the form of sinful man, Commentary., Ellen G. White Comments, on John clothing His divinity with humanity. But He was 1:1-3, 14, p. 1128. holy, even as God is holy. He was the sin-bearer, There are several thoughts in the above needing no atonement. Had He not been without spot or stain of sin, He could not have been the quotation that stand out in bold relief: Saviour of mankind. One with God in purity and 1. The first Adam was created a pure, holiness, He was able to make a propitiation for sinless being, without a taint of sin upon the sins of the world. ELLEN G. WHITE in The him. Youth©s Instructor, Sept. 21, 1899. 20 THE MINISTRY The expression that "Christ took upon Jesus came into this world without any pro Him the form of sinful man" must not be pensity to sin, someone will ask, "How construed to mean that Jesus came into the then could He be tempted?" The answer world tainted with sin. He had the form is simple: He was tempted the same as and fashion of a man, but, as we have al Adam was tempted. Adam was created pure ready learned, and as the quoted lines and holy, without any inclination to sin, themselves clearly affirm, He was without yet he could be tempted. He was tempted; a stain of sin. and he fell. Jesus likewise could be tempted. Likewise, Paul©s expression "God send So fierce was the temptation that He "re ing his own Son in the likeness of sinful sisted unto blood" (see Hebrews 12:3, 4). flesh" (Rom. 8:3) must not be interpreted But He did not fall. Therein lies our hope to mean that God sent His Son in sinful for eternal life. flesh. A likeness is a resemblance, a similar Commenting on these vital truths, Fran ity, a similitude, a semblance, a form, an cis D. Nichol says: external appearance (see A Dictionary of Adam in Eden had a human nature, which from English Synonyms, by Richard Soul), and the first moment of his existence was capable of sin. not something absolutely the same as an But Adam in Eden was spotless until that day that other thing. A photograph of a person, for he exercised his will in the wrong way and drew instance, is a likeness of the outward ap sin into his bosom. . . . pearance of the person who sat for it, but Our father Adam lost the battle with the tempter, not because he had a "desperately it is not otherwise a likeness of that person. wicked" heart he came from the Creator©s hand So with the flesh of Christ. It resembled perfect but because he wrongly exercised his free the flesh of the men around Him, but it will and drew wickedness into his heart. And we, his was free from the taint of sin. children, have followed in his steps. Christ, the If Jesus had come into the world tainted "last Adam," won the battle with the tempter, and and polluted with sin He could not have we, through His promised forgiveness and power, chosen to return to His Father without dy may also win. Adam could have won, but he lost. ing. The fact that He could have gone back Christ could have lost, but He won. Therein lies the startling contrast. . . . to His Father without dying is evidence Christ won despite the fact that He took on Him that He was pure and holy. This fact is "the likeness of sinful fiesh," with all that that im clearly stated in the following reference to plies of the baleful and weakening effects of sin on Christ in Gethsemane: the body and nervous system of man and its evil ef The fate of humanity trembled in the balance. fects on his environment "can there any good Christ might even now refuse to drink the cup ap thing come out of Nazareth?" portioned to guilty man. It was not yet too late. He In other words, Adventists believe that Christ, the might wipe the bloody sweat from His brow, and "last Adam," possessed, on His human side, a nature leave man to perish in his iniquity. He might say, like that of the "first man Adam," a nature free of Let the transgressor receive the penalty of his sin, any defiling taint of sin, but capable of responding and I will go back to My Father. The Desire of to sin, and that that nature was handicapped by the Ages, p. 690. debilitating effects of four thousand years of sin©s in roads on man©s body and nervous system and en This quotation reveals not only the fact vironment. . . . that Christ had no inborn sin or pollution We feel that we do the greater honor to Christ, for which He had to die but also the fact without charging Him with any taint of sin, by be that Jesus did not have to die for lost hu lieving that though He could have exercised His manity. He could have chosen to return to free will to sin, He did not; that although He felt His Father without dying, and to leave the the full force of temptation, even as we must, He set His will on the side of His Father instead of yield doomed sinners to perish in their sins. But, ing it to the devil. Temptation assailed Him but thank God, He did not choose to do so. Be found no response in His heart. Said He, "The cause of His undying love for His wayward prince of this world coroeth, and hath nothing in children, He chose to assume the guilt of me." John 14:30. He "loved righteousness, and hated their sins, and to die on the cruel cross in iniquity." Heb. 1:9. In that sense was He most truly their stead. He could not save Himself if "separate from sinners." Heb. 7:26. Unreservedly we He wanted to save others. Therefore He accept the words of Holy Writ that Christ "knew no gave His own life in order that others sin." 2 Cor. 5:21. Answers to Objections, pp. 392, might live. It was His own choice. He of 393. fered Himself, dear reader, in order that you and I might live. * Weymouth©s^ New Testament in Modern Speech by Richard Francis Weymouth. Copyright by Harper and Occasionally, when it is pointed out that Brothers. Used by permission. JANUARY, 1962 21 EVANGELISM - Winning Men lor God

Large Baptism in Menado, North Celebes, Indonesia P. SITOMPUL

Ministerial Secretary, Indonesia Union Mission

NE hundred and thirty-three precious it seemed a miracle took place. The people souls were baptized after an eight-week flocked from all parts of the city, and when Oevangelistic campaign held in Menado, they saw the crowds outside the church, Celebes. which had been advertised as "The Hall As public halls were not available we of Hope," they decided to enter anyway in decided the only thing we could do was to spite of the fact that it was an Adventist hold the meetings in our own church. This church. And the result was this wonderful decision was made in spite of the fact that baptism of 133 men and women. we knew the people were prejudiced against At the baptism six pastors officiated, im Adventist meetings, especially when they mersing six candidates at the same time. were held in a Seventh-day Adventist It was the largest baptism ever held in church. Many of our workers and laymen north Celebes, if not in all Indonesia, as were afraid the people would not come. the result of a single campaign. All the can However, we went forward in faith, and didates were from this one city.

During this large baptism six candidates were baptized at the same time by six pastors. 22 THE MINISTRY A scene just before the baptismal service. About 2,000 people witnessed this ceremony.

We praise God for the success of the accomplish this task of winning souls for campaign and for the ability He gave us to His kingdom. A Parable on Evangelism ELDEN K. WALTER

Evangelist, Arizona Conference

CERTAIN farmer was trying scattered fruitage was available. The whole A to increase his profits. He plan proved a dismal failure. noticed that his heaviest expenses You say it was really a ©foolish idea in the involved the planting of the seed first place? True! But do we not often fall and the harvesting of the crop. into the same error in our planning for a har He reasoned that eliminating vest of souls for the kingdom? these large expenditures would The specialized and concentrated work of leave more of his money in the public evangelism is expensive. It requires the bank. So the next year he decided to let the labor of an additional staff. It seems easy to few maintenance men he had do what seeding say, "We can©t afford it; let©s try to get by they could along with their other regular duties. without this additional expense." This greatly reduced his expense at seedtime. But God©s Word is still right: "He who sows Then he followed the same plan at harvesttime. sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who Again, the saving was tremendous. sows bountifully will also reap bountifully" But when all the figures were in, the disap (2 Cor. 9:6, R.S.V.). pointment was overwhelming. The seeding had When we curtail the work of public evange been so meager and irregular that there was lism we don©t save anything we only reduce the not much harvest waiting. The harvesting work harvest. It is not merely a matter of financial had been even less efficient. With their limited loss. It means that some souls will never be time, capabilities, and equipment the main reached with the message of salvation, and tenance men had not been able to gather what thus will be lost forever. JANUARY, 1962 23 The large tent and some of the crowd in attendance during the campaign.

HE Los Angeles evange- materials were put into the decorations and listic campaign and field internal arrangements. Everything that an school, conducted in the city evangelist would want in the conducting of Los Angeles for four months, reached its climax in the baptism of 319 new be lievers with additional rebap- tisms. All of the participants in this vast program are united in giving God full glory for the accomplishments of this campaign. I began my work in association with the pastors of the Los Angeles area following a very serious illness, and had not com pletely recovered from it at the opening night. This threw a heavy responsibility upon the pastors of the area, who proved more than adequate to meet the emergency. Upon my arrival in Los Angeles prac tically all of the necessary preparations for the opening of the campaign had been completed, from publicity to the erection of the tent. The tent in which we held the meetings was 220 feet long and 120 feet wide. This tent is said to be one of the largest ever used by an Adventist minister in an evangelistic E. E. Cleveland speaking to the candidates before campaign, if not the largest. Only the best baptism. 24 THE MINISTRY Report of the Los Angeles Campaign and Field School E. E. CLEVELAND Associate Secretary, Ministerial Association. General Conference

of a public meeting was made available for paling ministers and Bible instructors. Min this campaign by the far-sighted adminis isters taking part in the campaign were: trators of the Southern California Confer Elders J. W. Allison, R. Nelson, R. H. ence, namely the president, Cree Sandefur Robertson, D. Herbert, J. Melancon, Her and the secretary-treasurer, A. G. Munson. man Kibble, Harvey Kibble, C. Pritchett, Nor was their cooperation limited to mere J. Dogette, R. Andrews, A. J. Johnson, budgetary outlay, but both of these officers M. Jones, I. Evans, C. J. Williams, and D. gave their personal support to the cam Black. From Andrews University the fol paign by making frequent appearances in lowing ministerial graduates were assigned

Some of the 319 believers awaiting baptism.

the meetings and at the baptisms. Elder to the effort in our field school: D. Taylor, Sandefur welcomed personally the newly J. Parker, R. Schmidt (from Argentina), baptized believers at each baptism, while H. Bennett (from Jamaica), W. Whaley, Elder Munson participated for one hour S. A. Bushnell, and Pastor Fleetwood (from in the first baptism. Jamaica). Such support from the administration These participating ministers made sac was indeed heartening to all of the partici- rifices that were above and beyond the call JANUARY, 1962 25 A New Year©s Prayer dened the hearts of the Christians who at tended the meetings. While another year is dawning, In connection with the campaign there While its hours and days unfold, was conducted a field school of evangelism Lord, our prayer to Thee arises: under the direction of W. S. Lee, secretary Keep our faith from growing cold. of the regional department of the Pacific May the signs we see around us, Union. The ministers gathered daily to Trying to our trembling faith, listen to the instructions of seasoned experts Make our prayer to Thee more urgent, in their various fields. R. R. Bietz, presi Keep us ever in Thy grace. dent of the union, served as an instructor Though we hear unrestful rumors, in the school. Cree Sandefur, A. G. Munson, War and earthquake, storm and strife, and many others also served, but the one Keep our hearts in Thee abiding upon whom we depended to carry daily Till the dawn of endless life. instruction in our field school and who also M. E. Brooks was active in personal work was Mary These lovely lines by Mabel E. Brooks of England, one of Walsh, of the Pacific Union. She conducted our most faithful Bible instructors and now in the sunset years of her life, reflect the devotion of more than sixty enlightening studies on "The Influence of years of service in the homeland and as a missionary in Catholicism Upon Protestant Thought." Africa. "JCeep our faith from growing cold" is surely an appropriate prayer for every worker in God©s cause. We were unanimous in our conclusion R. A. A. that her ministry had been for us a real blessing. of duty in support of this public campaign. The campaign was conducted in the ex Most of the pastors here listed suspended treme western section of the city of Los their eleven o©clock church services for Angeles and the territory was rather seven consecutive Sabbaths and brought sparsely populated, but the laymen of our their congregations to the tent meeting in Los Angeles churches filled their automo support of the new believers who were 011 biles night after night with interested per their way into the faith. This unusual co sons and brought them to the meetings. operative procedure was highly organized This accounted in a great degree for the so as to prevent large losses in the financial success of the campaign. program of the church, and at the same Noteworthy among the laymen who did time to provide encouragement to the new outstanding service in this connection was believers. Brother Fletcher of the Los Angeles area. Bible instructors serving faithfully and This dear brother not only filled his auto efficiently in the harvesting of this baptis mobile every night, but was in constant at mal result are: Mrs. Celia M. Cleveland, tendance himself with these laymen, ex pianist and Bible instructor, Miss Phipps, plaining those difficult things which they organist and Bible instructor, Mrs. Rice, may not have understood. Also Mr. Gully Mrs. Moss, Mrs. Burns, Mrs. Boyce, Mrs. was very active in this respect. There are Arceneux, Mrs. Bevenue, Miss Bryant, Mrs. scores of others that could be named if Gully, Mrs. Masters, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. Hen- space would permit. These faithful laymen derson, Mrs. Poe, Mrs.. Short, Mrs. Jun- combined their efforts with those of the kin, Miss C. Brown, Mrs. Penniman, and ministry, making possible the results of the Mrs, King. Mrs. Dwight Herbert superin " Los Angeles campaign. tended the nurses who served nightly dur Work in our cities is becoming extremely ing the evangelistic services. difficult, but the most glorious days for Professor Dent was minister of music, the public preaching of the gospel are im having the responsibility of selecting the mediately before us. It is the burden of the special numbers that were rendered each writer that each reader of this article ex night. Our musical program for the first two amine his own heart as it relates to the weeks featured the singing of Charles public preaching of the Word, and may Brooks, of Pine Forge, Pennsylvania. In the it be that the record of this campaign will latter stages of the meeting we were for serve as an inspiration not only to the tunate to secure the services of Joyce Bry hearts of each of its participants but also ant, who finished the campaign with us. to those who have witnessed it in the read These two talented musicians did much ing of this article. May it inspire each to to aid souls who were endeavoring to make go forward in faith in the accomplishment their decision, and their songs also glad- of greater things in the days ahead. 26 THE MINISTRY How God Prepares a Minister* J. L. SHULER

Veteran Evangelist

I F YOU want to know how ers of the gospel. They had this personal God prepares a minister, experience and they taught out of that study Isaiah 6:1-9. This is background. They said, "We saw, we a representative experience. heard, we have experienced. We are His God prepares a minister in witnesses." God isn©t looking for lawyers to the same way that He pre defend Him. He needs none. He needs no pared Isaiah to be His spokes defense. God is looking for witnesses peo man. Ellen G. White, after ple who can tell of His saving grace and quoting Isaiah 6:1-9 in full, says: "This what it has done for them. representation will be acted over and over The apostle Paul was motivated by a again [in the lives of those who are conse twofold vision. First, he had a vision of crated]." A Manual for Canvassers, p. 19. Christ on the cross. He said, "I die daily. It may be enacted in you this very night I am crucified with Christ." It was a per if you will do your part. This experience sonal experience. He wasn©t preaching seems to consist of six successive stages, or theory, he wasn©t preaching theology, he phases, represented by six words revela was preaching from experience. He had tion, self-renunciation, transformation, the cross of Christ erected in his own heart commiseration, dedication, and authoriza every morning, and he kept that cross tion. There seems to be a perfect balance there all day long. in these. Three of these self-renuncia Second, he had a vision of the ransomed tion, commiseration, and dedication rep souls who would stand at last around the resent what you will do for God or toward great white throne of God through his God. The other three revelation, trans labors in cooperation with the Spirit of formation, and authorization represent God. Paul held an evangelistic campaign what God will do for you if you will do at Thessalonica. He raised up a strong the other three. If you do your part, God church. Later he wrote two letters to his never fails. converts there. Notice in 1 Thessalonians The first item in this experience is "I 2:19, 20 "For what is our hope, or joy, or saw also the Lord." This is vision, or reve crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the lation. How important it is that you and I presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His should see Jesus. The Good Book says, coming? For ye are our glory and joy." He "Where there is no vision the people per looked forward to the second coming of ish." It was a vision of Jesus on the Da Jesus when he would join those converts mascus road that marked the turning point who had accepted the gospel through his from Saul, the greatest persecutor, to Paul, labors at Thessalonica. Paul was spurred the greatest apostle. on by this twofold vision. Most of us would The sum total of our task as ministers think that if we were in prison, tied with a and laymen is to reveal Christ to a lost chain to a soldier, it would be time to stop world. But never forget this let this sink preaching. Did it stop Paul? No! He won deep into your inner consciousness you some souls right in Caesar©s household. cannot reveal Christ to any soul until Think of this. The measure of a real Christ is first revealed to you. A revelation man is what it takes to stop him. Paul bore of God to your own soul this is where all witness, although he was a prisoner. To his evangelism begins. Do not attempt to do dying day he was spurred on by a vision of evangelism unless you can begin with this. Christ on the cross, and the vision of having Take the apostles, those mighty preach- as many people as possible stand around the great white throne. I believe that ev ery minister, young and old, ought to be * A sermon preached at Andrews University. dominated by the same twofold vision. JANUARY, 1962 27 It is interesting to notice how Paul with you and you have not known me?" stresses this matter of Christ being revealed How is it with you? Have you followed in him so he could preach Christ. In Ga- Jesus five years, ten years, fifteen years or latians 1:15, 16, he gives us a little informa more, and yet you don©t know Him as you tion as to how he entered the ministry. should? Would Jesus call my name tonight He says, "But when it pleased God, who and say, "John Shuler, have you been a separated me from my mother©s womb, and minister for all these years and yet you called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in don©t really know Me?" To what extent are me." For what purpose did God reveal His you allowing Jesus to reveal Himself in you Son in Paul and to Paul? The apostle every day here on the campus? Are your says, "to reveal his Son in me that I might words, your actions, even your looks, the preach him among the heathen." outliving of this indwelling Christ? No man can preach Christ until Christ Psychologists say that no man can find his is first revealed in him. This is the real basis place in life until he first finds himself. for being a preacher. It is very important Christianity goes away beyond this. Chris that young men starting out in the ministry tianity says that no man can find his place have a correct idea of what it is to be a in life until he first finds God. Life begins preacher. God reveals His Son to you in with God. This is the way it was with Isa your personal experience, so you can iah. Isaiah did not find himself until he preach Him to lost souls everywhere. first saw God. He said, "I saw also the Some young people attend college with Lord." Then what? "Woe is me! for I am out any vision. They find their studies more undone; . . . mine eyes have seen the King." or less drudgery, because a task without a Notice that a revelation of Christ to the vision is drudgery. Some people have plans soul leads to self-renunciation. This is the that are up in the clouds. They never get way it was with Isaiah. Just as soon as he down to earth with something practical. A saw God, then he renounced himself. There vision without a task is only a dream. What is only one way that we can have a true you need while in Emmanuel Missionary knowledge of self. Says Ellen G. White, "In College and in Andrews University is a task one way only can a true knowledge of self with a proper vision, for a task with a be obtained." What is that one way? "We proper vision brings victory. must behold Christ." We must see Christ, Without the proper vision there will be and when we do, "we shall see our own no real soul burden in your service. With weakness and poverty and defects as they out a real soul burden there will be no real really are." Christ©s Object Lessons, p. sacrifice, there will be no wholehearted ef 159. fort. Without sacrifice and wholehearted ef In Testimonies to Ministers, pages 264, fort you will not have true lasting success. 265, we read, "The existence of sin is un- And without true lasting success there can explainable; therefore not a soul knows be no eternal reward. what God is until he sees himself in the The Bible shows that no man or woman light reflected from the cross of Calvary, ever gets the proper moral vision until he and detests himself as a sinner in the bitter or she is brought face to face with the Lord ness of his soul." The life of Jesus Christ is Jesus Christ in actuality. I often think of the mirror of divinity. The character of that last intimate talk that Jesus had with Christ shows us our moral and spiritual de His disciples. You will recall the amazing fects. He is the perfect Pattern. When we request that Philip made. He said, "Show look to Him we see our own moral and spir us the Father and that will suffice." I think itual weakness. I can feel the tug of disappointment in the Every time I contemplate the purity of heart of our Lord when He looked at Philip Jesus, the patience of Jesus, the meekness of and said, "Philip, have I been so long time Jesus, the love of Jesus, then I sense my own

MODERATION.

Q Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be con tent; has learned the science of being happy; and possesses the alchemic stone which changes every metal into gold. T. Dwight.

28 THE MINISTRY undone condition. When I see Jesus in all word of two letters, "Go." The Word of His loveliness, then I am ready to renounce God is powerful. Make no mistake about it. self. This is the way it was with Isaiah. All the power of God is wrapped up in His When he saw the Lord, then he said, "I am Word. He speaks, and it is done. He com undone; . . . mine eyes have seen the King." mands, and it stands fast. He said in the be Notice that self-renunciation leads to di ginning, "Let there be light," and there vine transformation. When Isaiah sensed has been light ever since. his own undone condition and renounced himself, then came the inflow of God©s Send your audience away with a desire for, and transforming grace. The words were spo an impulse toward, spiritual improvement or your ken, "Thine iniquity is taken away, and thy" preaching will be a failure. Goulburn. sin is purged." So it is with you and me. When I see Jesus, so pure, kind, loving, meek, humble, When God says, "Go," to a prepared unselfish, obedient, then I see how far short man or a prepared woman, there is all the I come. Then I reach out to Jesus and say, power that you need in this "Go" to help "Lord, make me clean." "Create in me a you to do what God wants you to do. He clean heart, O God; and renew a right said to the paralyzed man at the pool of spirit within me" (Ps. 51:10). Then comes Bethesda, "Take up thy bed and walk." the inflowing of His transforming grace. "If There was power in those few words to en any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: able that helpless man to do the rising and old things are passed away; behold, all the walking, and to carry his bed. Jesus things are become new" (2 Cor. 5:17). walked up to a tomb where a man had been Notice that this transformation leads to buried four days. He said, "Lazarus, come commiseration. It leads to pity and sym forth." There was power in those three pathy with the lost. It brings a burden to words to cause that dead man to come work for souls. This transforming grace of back to life and to walk forth from the God upon the heart always brings compas tomb. sion for the lost, and like Paul we should The lesson to you, young man, is to be live, not unto ourselves, but unto Him who God©s prepared young man. When He tells died for us. you to go and work in Kalamazoo or give a When Isaiah had the revelation of him Bible study, or conduct a Community Bible self and experienced the transforming School there is power in that "Go" to en grace of God, then he became aware of a able you to do it. voice. "Whom shall I send, and who will go It is by revelation, self-renunciation, for us?" transformation, commiseration, dedication, The first impulse of a renewed heart is to and authorization that God prepares men tell others what a wonderful Saviour he has to be His ministers. The college and the found in Jesus. Evangelism is the first law university are doing an important and of regeneration. "Every true disciple is needful work in preparing men for the born into the kingdom of God as a mission ministry, but unless the men have the ex ary. No sooner does he come to know the perience represented by these six words, Saviour than he desires to make others ac the college cannot make them real min quainted with Him." The Ministry of isters for God. Healing, p. 102. A man who has this kind of an experi The evangelistic urge is synchronous ence can do the impossible. When God with the new birth. Then notice that com says to that man, "Go," all power in heaven miseration, the burden to work for lost and in earth is pledged to enable him to do souls, leads to dedication to the task. When the going for God. If a man has this kind Isaiah sensed the need of the lost, then he of an experience, he can slay a giant with a responded: "Here am I; send me." When few small rocks, as did David. If he has we sense this need, then will come our only a stick of wood, a rod, he can divide dedication and we will say like Isaiah, the Red Sea as did Moses. If he has a band "Here I am, O Lord, send me." of only 300 men and those men do not This kind of human dedication leads to have anything but a trumpet in one hand divine authorization. When thus prepared, and a pitcher in the other with a candle Isaiah dedicated himself to the task, then burning inside it, he can defeat an army of from the Omnipotent God came that little 300,000 as Gideon did. If a man has this JANUARY, 1962 29 experience, he can stand up before the sent a great revival through your servant multitude and preach, and 3,000 souls will John Wesley. I do thank you for what this come home to God in one sermon as in the man has done, the many, many souls that case of Peter. he won, and how he brought revival to A minister one day visited the John Wes- England." As the guide watched, tears be ley home. He was taken over the house, and gan to roll down the minister©s face. Then finally the guide came to the prayer room, he heard him cry out, "Lord, do it again, where this man of God had spent so many and do it in me." countless hours breathing out prayers to We ought to read Isaiah 6:1-9 on our God. The minister asked the guide to leave knees. Then pray, "Lord, do it again, and him there alone for a few minutes. The do it in me." And the Lord is ready to do it. guide did so and closed the door. But he I appeal to every young man and every looked through the keyhole to see what young woman. Wouldn©t you like to tell this man would do. He saw him get down the Lord that you want Him to do this on his knees and heard him say: "Lord, you again and do it in you?

RESEARCH-Theology, History, Science

The Cleansing of the Sanctuary G. D. KEOUGH Bible Department, Newbold Missionary College, England

[This unsolicited article from a veteran Bible teacher will provoke thought on a subject of interest to our readers. "Look that thou make them after their We print it in the interest of objective study in an area pattern, which was shewed thee in the that is at once both vital and, in the hands of the immature student, dangerous. It is therefore to be studied with care mount" (Ex. 25:40), and through Isai©ah and reverence. EDS.] He calls the court where the sacrifices were made "my courts" (Isa. 1:11-13). The very existence of this typical palace of God on "HE sanctuary was God©s earth was a standing invitation and appeal ©. dwelling. place (Ex. 25:8), to all men to come to God for reconcilia God©s palace, the center of tion and healing, and an assurance that His activities and government. their object would be achieved (Isa. 27:5). It was a marvelous revelation There was nothing that God desired more. of God. There was to be seen The services performed in the court, af His power, His glory, and His the altar, were for the forgiveness of sins beauty (Ps. 63:2; 27:4). There already committed, for the removal of the God came, and there He received all who cause of separation between God and men would come to Him (Ex. 29:42). (Isa. 59:2). It was the blood on the altar The sanctuary comprised three apart that made atonement for the soul, because ments the court, the tent of meeting, and of the life (Lev. 17:11), and God had al the Most Holy Place (Exodus 25-27) in ready promised that He would Himself each of which a special service was per provide a lamb. The seeking for forgive formed for the purpose of separating sin ness was a necessary first step (Ter. 3:13), ners from sin (Lev. 16:30, 33), and healing and until this was taken no further prog the disease of the world (Ps. 103:3). ress could be made. The sanctuary comprised t hree apart- When reconciliation had thus been ac instructions was a miniature, a type and complished, there followed the second part representation, of God©s actual palace in of the ministration in the tent of meeting, heaven (Heb. 8:5), as He said to Moses, the second step in separating the sinner 30 THE MINISTRY from his sin. The candlestick burned con not continue to bear the guilt of sinners. tinually (Lev. 24:2-4), representing the It was not His in the first place, but was impartation of the illumination of the voluntarily assumed, and the penalty borne Holy Spirit (Rev. 4:5); the incense was by Jesus. The death of Jesus not only ex burned continually (Ex. 30:8), illustrating piated the guilt of humanity, it also estab how the prayers for help were made doubly lished the righteousness of God and the acceptable through the merits of Jesus, and culpability of Satan. Through the blood the requests granted; and the shewbread of Jesus, God is both just and the justifier (Ex. 25:30), typifying the presence of of him who believes in Jesus (Rom. 3:25, Jesus, by whose ministration alone can 26). It is demonstrated before the universe the Word of God become the bread of that Satan alone is responsible for sin, and life (John 6:48, 63), was ministered daily. "the prince of this world is judged" (John With this threefold continuous help the 16:11). sinner could be kept from falling back into This justification of the sanctuary of sin (Rom. 3:10), enabled to perfect a God and the consequent condemnation of righteous character (Heb. 7:25), and be Satan was illustrated on the Day of Atone presented faultless before the throne of ment, when the high priest placed the God with joy (Jude 24). guilt, from which the sanctuary was This second step must follow the first, cleansed, on the head of the goat for Aza- and must be experienced before the re zel. The sanctuary was cleansed, God©s ac pentant sinner can benefit from the third tions were vindicated, and as concomitant step taken by God on his behalf in the Satan was condemned, the prince of this Most Holy Place, which was the satisfying world was cast out. of justice, or the cleansing of the sanctuary. The word "cleansed," as applied to the During all this time the altar and the sanctuary, suggests defilement that the tent of meeting have accepted the respon sanctuary was defiled by the sins of forr sibility for the sinner©s sin. The sanctuary given sinners (Lev. 16:19); and "justifica (God©s government) substituted for the tion," in the forensic sense, implies some sinner, and his sin was forgiven. The work action on God©s part that needed to be of transformation, the cleansing of the vindicated. What this action was is defi sinner from his sinful nature (Rom. 7:18, nitely stated in Romans 3:25, 26. God for 22, 23), of making him a partaker of the gave the sins of sinners, even before Cal divine nature (2 Peter 1:4), had begun. vary. He took men that were sinners and If the forgiven sinner now availed him restored in them the image of God. The self of all the ministration in the tent of blood of Jesus was God©s justification in meeting, that is, if he walked in the light doing this, and by the death of Jesus he as God is in the light, the blood of the will be justified, and will "overcome when" Victim would cleanse him from all sin (1 he is "judged" (Rom. 3:4). The cleansing John 1:5-7). If he ate of the living Bread of the sanctuary is the vindication of God (John 6:58), and presented his requests to in the judgment. God in the name of Jesus (John 14:14),: Now there is a profanation, a defilement, he would live triumphantly. Then by the of the sanctuary that is done by the sinning blood of Jesus, and because of the real re of men who fail to obtain purification pentance and reformatipn of the sinner, from their defilement (Num. 19:13, 20). the record of his sin would be blotted out In Leviticus 20:2, 3 it is stated that "who the sanctuary would be cleansed and jus soever he be of the children of Israel, or of tified. the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that This third step, taken by God on our giveth any of his seed unto Moloch; he behalf, and on His own behalf, completes shall surely be put to death: . . . because he the work begun by the first step of repent hath given of his seed unto Moloch, to de ance and forgiveness, and it has all been file my sanctuary, and to profane my holy made possible by the blood of Jesus. name." This is simplified in Ezekiel 23: Having accepted the responsibility for 38, 39, which reads: "Moreover this they the sinner©s guilt, and having expiated it have done unto me: they have defiled my by the death of Jesus on Calvary, and hav sanctuary in the same day, and have pro ing transformed the sinner by the services faned my sabbaths. For when they had of the priest in the holy place, re-creating slain their children to their idols, then him in the very image of God, God does they came the same day into my sanctuary JANUARY, 1962 31 to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done So it is with the sanctuary of God. in the midst of mine house." This defile Though defiled by the record of the sins ment was punishable by death with no of the penitent, it is ever pure and spotless. atonement (Heb. 10:28, 29). Its cleansing by the blood of Jesus is the There is also a cleansing that does not justification of the Godhead in having sub imply previous defilement, but has the stituted for sinners, in having willingly same sense as dedication, such as the borne their sins and forgiven the guilty, cleansing of the newly erected altar (Ex. with the natural corollary of the condem 29:36), and of Ezekiel©s temple (Eze. 45: nation and casting out of the prince of 18-20). We are not here speaking of this this world. All who have joined him in cleansing. Our subject is the cleansing, the rebellion and have refused the free offer justification, of the heavenly sanctuary, of pardon and cleansing from sin by the which involves the forgiveness of the sins blood of Jesus will, by their own choice, of men. Satan had denied God©s right to share his fate. do this, but the blood of Jesus made it pos In the type the work of cleansing the sible. sanctuary was entirely separate from the "The sins of Israel being thus trans daily ministration (Lev. 16:17); yet this ferred to the sanctuary, the holy places daily ministration in the court and in the were defiled." Patriarchs and Prophets, tent of the meeting, together with the p. 355. "As the typical cleansing of the special ceremonies of that day as a holy earthly [sanctuary] was accomplished by day and sabbath (Num. 29:7-11), was fully the removal of the sins by which it had performed (Lev. 16:23-25). been polluted, so the actual cleansing of So when Jesus entered the holy place, at the heavenly is to be accomplished by the the end of the 2300 days, "He still pleaded removal, or blotting out, of the sins which His blood before the Father in behalf of are there recorded." The Great Contro sinners," "and forgiveness of sins," the work versy, pp. 421, 422- of the court, "was offered to men through This defilement of the sanctuary by the the intercession of Christ in the most holy." confessed sins of Israel was shared by the The Great Controversy, pp. 429, 430. priest. "Thou and thy sons and thy father©s The cleansing of the sanctuary, in the house with thee shall bear the iniquity of type, was not limited to the most holy the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with place. It included the tent of meeting, and thee shall bear the iniquity of your priest ended at the altar in the court: "And he hood" (Num. 18:1). shall make atonement for the holy place, This bearing of the iniquity of the con because of the uncleannesses of the chil gregation (Lev. 10:17), by the priest into dren of Israel, and because of their trans the sanctuary, was substitutionary. There gressions, even all their sins: and so shall was no intrinsic defilement. Let us illus he do for the tent of meeting. . . . And he trate: shall go out unto the altar that is before But in laying His hand upon the leper, Jesus re the Lord, and make atonement for it. ... ceived no defilement. His touch imparted life-giv And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it ing power. The leprosy was cleansed. Thus it is . . . and cleanse it, and hallow it from the with the leprosy of sin, deep-rooted, deadly, and uncleannesses of the children of Israel" impossible to be cleansed by human power. "The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. (Lev. 16:16, 18, 19. R.V.). From the sole of the foot even unto the head there The cleansing of the sanctuary therefore is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, was the justification of all its three apart and putrefying sores." Isa. 1:5, 6. But Jesus, coming ments and not only of the Most Holy Place. to dwell in humanity, receives no pollution. His This work, being separate from the con presence has healing virtue for the sinner. The tinual ministration, should not be con Desire of Ages, p. 266. fused with the cleansing of the mind or of He stands before the congregation of His re deemed as their sin-burdened, sin-stained surety, the soul temple of the worshipers. That but it is their sins He is bearing. All through His life was the work of the tent of meeting, the of humiliation and suffering, from the time He was daily ministration, and has been carried born an infant in Bethlehem till He hung on the forward by our High Priest ever since His cross of Calvary, and cried in a voice that shook the priesthood began, and is still being accom universe, "It is finished," the Saviour was pure and plished from His place in the Most Holy. It spotless. Ellen G. White Manuscript 165, 1899. is a work that must be done for every in Quoted in Questions on Doctrine, p. 665. dividual who has accepted salvation by 32 THE MINISTRY faith before the cleansing of the sanctuary ting out of the record of sin all through can take place, for the justification of the the death and mediation of our glorious sanctuary is the justification of God in God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. To empha having done this very thing for them. Holi size the justification of the sanctuary to the ness has ever been the requirement and exclusion of the work of the altar, and in provision of God, for without it "no man the tent of meeting, could be just as wrong shall see the Lord" (Heb. 12:14). as to refuse to go beyond the altar, which The doctrine of the sanctuary is not just so many Christians do in their ignorance of its cleansing. It illustrates complete justi the requirements and provision of God. We fication by faith, from the free forgiveness must accept the whole work of God on our of every committed sin, through the com behalf and walk by His grace in the light of pletion of a perfect character, to the blot His countenance. HEALTH EVANGELISM

Sabbathkeeping in Our Medical Institutions© HERMAN C. RAY

Chaplain, Walker Memorial Hospital and Sanitarium, Florida

[T HAPPENED on a Christ during that period special prayer was of I mas evening ninety-six years fered for ten days for Elder White©s recov ago. December 25, 1865, was ery. It was at one of these seasons of the exact day. Our being here prayer on that Christmas evening that the as a group of medical institu Lord sent a very important message to His tion administrators and others people. It is singular, it seems to me, that connected with the medical the instruction given to Sister White in that work can be traced directly vision, one main reason for establishing a back to what took place that evening. medical institution owned and operated by Elder and Mrs. James White and J. N. Seventh-day Adventists, was that in such Loughborough had just spent about three an institution God©s people would not be months at the health institution of Dr. under pressure to violate their conscience James C. Jackson at Dansville, New York. in respect to proper Sabbath observance. Because of the general environment in the From the day that first medical unit institution and Dr. Jackson©s insistence on opened in Battle Creek to the present time, entire rest (with which Mrs. White disa each Sabbath, as it has come from week greed), she decided it would be best to re to week, has been a test both to the indi move Elder White from Dansville. The doc vidual employee and also to the manage tor had serious misgivings but finally ad ment of every Seventh-day Adventist medi vised that if they were determined to go, it cal institution. should not be too far away until it could Let us state in as simple terms as possible be decided what Elder White©s physical what the problem is we are each concerned reaction would be. with. (1) The Lord directed in the pro Rochester was forty-five miles away, and gram of establishing these medical institu the brethren were to have a monthly meet tions, so we are not out of harmony with ing there, so this was selected as a stopping His will as far as the type of work we are place. They were there three weeks, and doing is concerned. (2) Of necessity and * Presented at the Southern Union Administrator©s Coun by the Lord©s direction as well, they are to cil, Orlando, Florida. be operated on a twenty-four-hour, seven- JANUARY, 1962 33 day week schedule. This is not true of most on by a group of Sabbathbreaking, back other types of our institutions. Some can slidden Adventists? If not, when we return be closed down quite completely during the to our posts of duty we ought to look care Sabbath, such as the publishing plants. fully into what is going on in the various Back in the days when we had a large num departments on the Sabbath and immedi ber of cafeterias and health restaurants, ately bring about any necessary changes. they were instructed to close on the Sab The institution has something at stake as bath. Not so a medical unit, for its work well as the individual. We are in our re must never cease. (3) If the work mus*- con spective communities as representatives of tinue during the hours of the Sabbath, God and His final message to mankind. should there be changes made in the The test of that final message is the Sab work program on the Sabbath? If so, what bath. The test of the institution is the up and how? holding of every principle given to this Let us direct our attention now to this people, the Sabbath in particular. God question: Why are we concerned at all cannot, and will not, endorse any enter about this matter? There are two vital rea prise that deliberately disregards His ex sons why we must be deeply concerned. press commands. There may be patients in Perhaps you may think of others. (1} The a building paying their bills so the financial spiritual welfare of the individual. God status of the institution is in order, but that first of all deals with individuals, and that doesn©t ensure Heaven©s approval or nec is where we must tackle the problem at essarily indicate a mark of success. the level of the individual worker. (2} The success of the institution. Perhaps the in dividual should look out for his own wel To see what is right, and not do it, is want o£ fare, but the success of the institution is courage, or ot principle.—Confucius. placed, to a large degree, by the Lord and by the board of directors, upon the admin istrator. Let us deal with these two phases This brings us squarely up against a very separately. Here in plain language is the important question. What duties are right crux of it all as far as the individual em and what are wrong in the running of a ployee is concerned. "A spirit of irrever Seventh-day Adventist medical institution ence and carelessness in the observance of during the holy hours of the Sabbath day? the Sabbath is liable to come into our sani When that question has been successfully tariums." Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 106. The answered, we have a basic starting point key word here is "liable." It means "ex from which to proceed. First let me say that posed to the danger or risk of something this question cannot be answered by devis undesired." This word is well chosen to ing a set of rules. There are enough rules describe the danger. It doesn©t say it is being used now in all medical institutions "prone" to happen, for it isn©t necessarily plus any number that might still be devised the natural outworking of a given situa to cope with the Sabbath work problem on tion. the basis of rules. The Jews tried to solve Now, what makes it "liable" that a spirit the Sabbathkeeping problem with rules of irreverence and carelessness will come and regulations. Anyone who approaches in? "Those who, from whatever cause it from that standpoint alone is doomed to [note how broad that is], are obliged to failure. Certainly we must have regulations work on the Sabbath, are always in peril; in order to carry on any kind of enterprise. they feel the loss, and from doing works of What I am saying is that we cannot depend necessity, they fall into the habit of doing upon rules only to make certain that the things on the Sabbath that are not neces Sabbath is respected as it should be. But sary. The sense of its sacredness is lost, and there is an answer. It can be handled on the holy commandment is of no effect. A the basis of principle. I have a conviction special effort should be made to bring that God overlooks mistakes of judgment about a reform in regard to Sabbath ob that are made when the motive for doing servance." Medical Ministry, p. 215. "The the act is founded upon this principle. Here sanitarium is a place which affords ample it is: "The object of God©s work in this opportunity to backslide from God." world is the redemption of man; therefore Ibid., p. 216. We must face squarely the that which is necessary to be done on the question: Do we want our work carried Sabbath in the accomplishment of this work 34 THE MINISTRY is in accord with the Sabbath law." The Desire of Ages, p. 285. 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Counsels on Health, p. 490. excuse for disobedience. Who is responsi We might profitably spend a few min ble? First of all, his immediate superior and utes thinking about the various depart the one who assigned his work. Then the ments of an institution and see what may responsibility comes back step by step be done to give the workers the benefit of (whatever these steps may be) to the ad worship privileges on the Sabbath or the ministrator, and finally to the governing day free as the case may be. board. "Upon the men of responsibility in 1. Food Service Department. "In our the medical missionary work rests the duty sanitariums, the family of patients, with the of giving instruction to physicians, nurses, physicians, nurses, and helpers, must be fed and helpers in regard to the sanctity of upon the Sabbath, as any other family, with God©s holy day." Testimonies, vol. 7, p. as little labor as possible." Ibid. 106. Brethren, let us recognize this responsi a. At the present time, who is it that is bility and carry out this duty assigned to determining in the food service depart us, which is to see that all our workers are ment what constitutes "as little labor as properly instructed in regard to their work possible"? In counsel there is safety. In all while on Sabbath duty. Would it not be in fairness to the workers and the institution, order for each of us when we return home let us not allow one person to carry this re to plan right away for an Operation Nehe- sponsibility. miah to make a personal survey of every b. In arranging the menu, is the dietitian department to see in detail what is going conscious of the Sabbath, to see that this on during the Sabbath. Check with the menu is the simplest of all the week to pre head of each department. Ask comprehen pare? sive, pointed questions. Then, without a c. The category of persons to be allowed violent eruption, set in motion all that is cafeteria privileges would also have to be necessary to bring about any changes need considered. ful. You mav have to close the gates and see 2. Maintenance. Probably in most insti that the violators do not return. It can be tutions this department does not present done and should be done. This should in too much difficulty. clude the strangers within our gates, for 3. Housekeeping. Here some study they, too, come under the Sabbath com would surely be in order. Is it necessary to mand. go through some motions of cleaning or Every part of the Sabbath program straightening in every room lest the pa should be carefully scrutinized to see if any tients feel neglected? How many clean part can be eliminated without detriment rooms is it necessary to keep in readiness? to the proper care of the patient. We have If the patients check out on Sabbath, why been instructed that elective surgery and could the room service not wait until Sun ordinary treatments should not be per day? Could the nursing staff take the re formed on the Sabbath. sponsibility of doing some of the necessary Inasmuch as most of our institutions are duties ordinarily falling to the housekeep open staff, the problem may be difficult ing department? to manage, but because it is difficult doesn©t 4. Nursing Service. In most instances the excuse us from managing it. Here is a nursing department presents the greatest statement to that point. "We are to heed a challenge. It is possible to work out a sched ©Thus saith the Lord,© even though by our ule whereby those in the nursing service JANUARY,1962 35 can attend Sabbath school and church two to overcome every obstacle, whatever it Sabbaths out of three if all are willing to may be. cooperate. If there has been a tendency to In conclusion, I think the importance let the Sabbath program go along about as of what we have discussed can best be im usual, it will take time to educate doctors, pressed upon our minds and hearts by re patients, and the nursing staff to accept a minding ourselves again that "those who program in harmony with the Lord©s in from whatever cause, are obliged to work struction. But this should challenge us on the Sabbath, are always in peril."

Literature Evangelism "What You Dare to Dream, Dare to Do" HENRY W. PETERSEN

[This is an impressive story of how one of our mission field administrators resigned his position, returned to the©, home sons and I could visit our home commu land, and engaged in literature evangelism in order to see nity in northern Minnesota and bring the his children established in their educational programs.] three angels© messages to our relatives and friends through the literature ministry. H©I ARRY DOEHLA, brilliant This dream was translated into reality a young student planning year ago after the close of school. We went for an engineering career, was off the pay roll and set out for Minnesota, stricken with paralysis at the the State with 10,000 lakes, to work out our age of seventeen. Since that plans. time he has spent his days in We made our headquarters in a town of a wheel chair. For seven years 8,000 population, strongly Scandinavian after his affliction he lived and Lutheran in faith and known for their with defeat. Day after day he was alone be prejudices toward Seventh-day Adventist cause his parents had to leave him that they teachings. Few Seventh-day Adventist be might earn enough to keep him. In his lievers live in the community, and al loneliness he tried one thing after another though there is a church in the town, the to make some money. All failed. Deeper membership has remained small through and deeper he sank into despair. the years. Two Seventh-day Adventist doc Then one day came a suggestion that he tors with their families established a clinic try the seemingly impossible paint Christ a year ago in this town and have been mas cards and sell them! For months his favorably received by the people. These fingers refused to be controlled. It was six young and enthusiastic doctors welcomed months before he sold his first card for five us with open arms and gave us every form cents. Today he is the biggest Christmas of help and encouragement. Their kind card producer in the world. ness will always be remembered. However, Ask him when the turning point came we were under no illusions as to possible and he will tell you that one day there sud difficulties, but we had faith in God©s prom denly came to his mind a sentence spoken ise: "As thou hast believed, so be it done at his high school graduation: "What you unto thee." "What you dare to dream, dare dare to dream, dare to do." Believe in your to do." own powers. Dare to act on that belief. Ac The first week proved a difficult one, for tion is the key to setting our inner powers all of us had much to learn in handling in motion. Jesus said the same thing but the large sets of books, and my three sons in a different way in response to the cen lacked training and experience. Thus only turion©s request to heal his servant, "As one sale was made, but things looked thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee" brighter for the coming week as new leads (Matt. 8:13). were received. However, on Monday eve For several years I had been dreaming ning of the second week LeRoy and Tommy too, looking forward to the time when my were arrested by the chief of police and 36 THE MINISTRY taken in his car to headquarters for ques munities and asking their cooperation. We tioning. He said they had been going from are told that "tact and good judgment in door to door canvassing, which was a viola crease the usefulness of the laborer a tion of one of the city ordinances. After hundred-fold." Gospel Workers, p. 119. proper explanation and identifying them Twenty-seven preachers of other church selves, they were released for the night, but denominations were visited during the told they must appear in the morning for summer. All but three received us cour registration with the police, and in the fu teously. Four bought our books, three ture work only by appointment and not wrote excellent recommendations for our from door to door. Consequently, the next prospectuses, and one invited us to spend morning we all drove to the police station the night with him and asked us to make and registered, promising to abide by the our headquarters at his home while we rules. So far, the outlook didn©t look too were canvassing in his community. Speak encouraging, but we were not disheart ing appointments and programs were put ened, as we remembered the promise that on in four Lutheran churches, one Congre "those who accept the one principle of gational, and one Presbyterian. These were making the service of God supreme, will all by invitation. One pastor even gave us find perplexities vanish and a plain path his church membership list, marking the before their feet." The Ministry of Heal names of families with children and tell ing, p. 481. ing us something of their financial standing. Soon our prospects began to change. On The Lord richly blessed our humble ef Wednesday of the second week, the chair forts and opened the hearts of the people man of the Rotarians invited us to put on who welcomed us to their homes. During a program during the luncheon hour. We a sixty-hour Big Week, sales totaled $1,000 accepted the invitation, and our program, in one day, the best day of the week. All in consisting of music and pictures and a all, the summer©s work proved a wonderful short talk on conditions in Southeast Asia, experience and a delight. Approximately was very well received. The Lions Club invited us the following week. We also re ceived a list of all the officers and mem bers of the clubs and their addresses. Can vassing now became much easier, for these businessmen could hardly refuse us admit tance to their homes when we visited them during the long evening hours. The mayor purchased a set of The Bible Story, and encouraged us greatly. Also the editor of the local paper invited us to his office for an interview. He wrote a good article about our program and mission work over seas and illustrated it with pictures of my sons and me. Canvassing now became a pleasure. Soon Service Clubs, and Farm ers© Union, Parent-Teachers© Association, and church groups were inviting us to put on programs in various towns and churches. Freewill offerings were taken up and given to us to help us meet expenses. These totaled more than $250 for the sum mer. At the conclusion of one Rotarian dinner program, the chairman, a Roman Catholic, appealed to the large number of men present to give liberally to our mission program during our Ingathering cam paign. We also tried another approach by visit ing the ministers of other churches, telling H. W. Petersen with his two sons Lowell and them of our plans to canvass in their com- LeRoy. JANUARY, 1962 37 $11,000 worth of Christian literature was cial light in regard to the canvassing work, sold and delivered by LeRoy, Lowell, and the impression and burden does not Tommy, and myself. This meant scholar leave me. This work is a means of educa ships for the current college and academy tion. It is an excellent school for those year, a blessing indeed. Prayer had been who are qualifying themselves to enter the offered in hundreds of homes, and many ministry." Ibid., pp. 31, 32. had enrolled in the Bible correspondence Whatever vocation we may choose, the courses. We met many fine people and we literature ministry serves as a basis for de are looking forward to meeting them again. velopment of practical lessons needful to With its many lakes, Minnesota pro success in our future lifework. In this day vides unusual opportunities for recreation, with the spirit of nationalism and excite boating, water skiing, and swimming. ment sweeping the world, people must be Hence, the summer wasn©t all work and no approached courteously and in a tactful play. A proper balance was worked out, manner. "Many souls have been turned in which greatly added to the enjoyment of the wrong direction, and thus lost to the the summer©s canvassing program. cause of God, by a lack of skill and wisdom Truly the "canvassing work, properly on the part of the worker." Gospel Work conducted, is missionary work of the high ers, p. 119. Therefore, I can highly recom est order." Colporteur Ministry, p. 6. It mend the colporteur ministry as the best involves "the performance of the highest preparation for development of the ster moral duties" (ibid., p. 12), and is the ling characters so necessary in a frustrated best preparation for success in life. God©s world needing light and guidance. "The servant has given this pointed testimony education obtained in this practical way concerning the colporteur ministry as a may properly be termed higher educa divine plan for students. "I have had spe tion." Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 331.

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Candles in the Night No. 5 .LOUISE C. KLEUSER

HEN considering the usefulness of women language of the world©s national defenders. Win the broader fields of humanitarian serv This was sanctified soldiery. It was also some ice in the world, we observe that the feminine what revivalistic, and developed along with the ministry of the Salvation Army fills a large Wesleyan awakening. However, the Salvation place. Their plan of action is based less on Army capitalized on Protestant hymnody, and theology than philanthropy, but it has followed with banners waving and drums beating it the Wesleyan and Arminian doctrinal pattern. added the popular marching stride to supply Not a full-fledged church endeavor, it has suc rallying incentive. True, its music was a far cry ceeded in reaching the less privileged in soci from the Established Church©s dignified hymns ety, and has helped many who, in the disap of another tempo, but it reached many the pointments of life and struggles for existence, Established Church never would reach. responded to the touch of this organization. It The Salvationist©s power was prayer, and provides applied Christianity. knee drills were to become the order of the day. The Salvation Army developed out of a great Its officers and "lassies" were trained by the need in the middle of the eighteenth century originators of their movement to pray in the when men had grown weary of war and yet re hovels of the poor. It was a common sight to mained conscious of its military pattern. The see drunkards and derelicts in gutters and door founders of the Salvation Army adopted the ways after a night©s debauchery, and the Salva- THE MINISTRY tion Army set out to help them. No service Besides keeping her own children in the cause, was too humble and no case was ever hopeless. she attracted youthful zeal into service for Their commander in chief was Jesus Christ. Christ and glorified the commonplace. She taught her "lassies" more than the universities William and Catherine Booth of the day provided that a Christian woman Catherine Mumford Booth, wife of William is a servant of the poor, a succorer of the needy, Booth, a minister in the Methodist Connection and a comforter in affliction and pain. This in at the time of their marriage in 1855, is the the setting of music, with horns blowing and recognized "Mother of the Salvation Army." tambourines tinkling lightened the lot of the Their eight children formed a battalion of toilers of that generation. Christian soldiers. A humble mission in Lon don©s East End became an induction center. Growth of the Salvationists Today more than four thousand have donned While these beginnings brought continuous the "Army©s" uniform in almost seventy coun reinforcements as the years progressed, the tries. The Army functions in many languages, Booths provided the backbone and the strength but adapts its martial tempo to local needs. of the work of the Salvation Army. And we Catherine Booth had read her Bible through desire to pay tribute to the ministering spirit several times by the time she reached the age of of this organization. We are also aware of the sixteen, and she had a genuine religious experi branch that became known as the Volunteers ence. Afflicted from childhood with a number of America. It evidently found the original or of serious infirmities, she hardly spent a day ganization a little too cramped for its style, without pain, often arising from a sickbed to but that, too, is the way some things have to meet a duty or to face an enthusiastic crowd grow. who regarded her as one of England©s great Adventists and Salvationists preachers. Beginning with their honeymoon William and Catherine had been an evangelis As the Salvation Army has nobly served, it tic team. William, too, was God-directed in his has inspired many other religious groups to co work, and their union doubled in usefulness for operate and expand in Christian service within organizing, preaching, and singing. Catherine, their church groups. Some Seventh-day Advent however, was the main source of courage and ists earlier have been Salvationists. They have creativeness. She was a practical wife and passed wielded a good influence in our own missionary on a few of her formulas for domestic tran societies. Seventh-day Adventists find their true quillity: pattern in Isaiah 58. This inspiring chapter em The first was not to have secrets that affected braces with humanitarian service a return to the their mutual relationship or the interest of their original Sabbath. It is a work of reform and family. The next was not to have two separate restoration. purses. Another was not to argue in the presence We should here mention another worthy of the children.1 example of Catherine Booth as expressed by Catherine©s understanding of her responsibil Edith Deen: ity was that a woman was to participate first of In their self-abnegation, Catherine and William all in her husband©s ministerial work. She was Booth created a monument to the spirit of Christ militant with voice and pen, and William made and against the spirit of Mammon. Like members room for her distinctive contribution. This had of the early Christian community at Jerusalem, its roots in her husband©s leaving the Method they never accepted profits for themselves from such ist Connection in 1861 to face the task of an things as books, hymns or magazines, but placed independent gospel worker. It meant an itiner them in the treasury for the common good. They ant life with no settled home for a growing not only refused money for themselves but taught family. But the Booths had an innate confidence their children not to worship wealth.2 in God and a great vision of the work God had Catherine would suggest enterprises far more entrusted to them. They were a congenial and profitable than hours spent in making fineries powerful team. for church bazaars. She guided national leaders While Catherine was an organizer she was and courts to consider rescue homes for stray not without true feminine traits. In her impro ing girls, and she sponsored other noble proj vised millinery parlor in the whitewashed sta ects. To those who overstressed the second com ble meeting hall, she designed a stunning "Hal ing of Christ doctrine and neglected humanitar lelujah Bonnet," styled after the Puritan head ian responsibilities, Catherine appealed for bal gear of the "plain" Quakers. She also designed anced thinking. She wrote some inspiring and the Army©s uniform, and glamour and appeal practical books to guide the cause. On the occa were not out of the question with Catherine. sion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sal- JANUARY, 1962 vation Army, when 50,000 had gathered, Cath erine gave her last public message. Her moth erly appeal was: NOW... 3 SIZES Love one another. Help your comrades in dark Unbreakable . . . noise-free . . . hours. I am dying under the Army flag; it is yours lightweight . . . boilproof com to live and fight under. God is my salvation and munion glasses ... $1.25 Doz. refuge in storm.3 FREE sample of each size

Many a needy Dorcas Society in our ranks Order from SSS GOODS CO. would grow in strength and usefulness if more your dealer of our sisters exemplified Catherine Booth©s 70 Pearl St. Brookline 46, Mass. spirit of devotion and self-sacrifice. Our mes Dept. G sage has been dignified by women of equal forti tude and creativeness, but there is great need in many denounce as the teaching of the Bible that earth©s closing hours to put first things first in are really false interpretations of Scripture, adopted our lives. More candles must be lighted in the during the ages of papal darkness. Testimonies, gloom and darkness of ignorance and despair. vol. 5, p. 710. How brightly is your candle burning, my Ad- The most valuable teaching of the Bible is not ventist sister? gained by occasional or disconnected study; Its great system of truth is not so presented as to be dis REFERENCES cerned by the careless or hasty reader. Many of its 1 Edith Been, Great Women of the Christian Faith (New York: Harper and Brothers), pp. 238, 239. Used by permis treasures lie far beneath the surface, and can be ob sion. tained only by diligent research and continuous ef 2 Ibid., p. 243. s Ibid., p. 244. fort. The truths that go to make up a great whole must be searched out and gathered up "here a little BIBLIOGRAPHY and there a little." Signs of the Times, Sept. 19, Booth-Tucker, Frederick. Memoirs of Catherine Booth. 2 vols. Westwood, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Co. 1906. Wilson, P. W. General Enangeline Booth. New York: Chas. Some portions of Scripture are, indeed, too plain Scribner©s Sons. to be misunderstood; but there are others whose meaning does not lie on the surface, to be seen at a Principles of Biblical Interpretation glance; Scripture must be compared with Scripture. There must be careful research and patient reflec (Continued from page 21) tion. And such study will be richly repaid. As the miner discovers veins of precious metal concealed of the truths revealed in it. Otherwise, vari beneath the surface of the earth, so will he who ous passages of Scripture are certain to be perseveringly searches the word of God as for hid misunderstood and misinterpreted. treasure, find truths of great value which are con Of equal importance, the searcher for cealed from the view of the careless seeker. Re truth must bring certain emotional atti view and Herald, Oct. 9, 1883. tudes, qualities of mind, and technical skills God calls for "a diligent study of the Scriptures, to the quest for truth. These skills are the and a most critical examination of the positions various techniques and procedures neces which we hold. God would have all the bearings and positions of truth thoroughly and perseveringly sary to the gathering, analysis, and organi searched, with prayer and fasting. Believers are not zation of evidence, and to reaching con to rest in suppositions and ill-defined ideas of what clusions on the basis of that evidence. Also, constitutes truth." Counsels to Writers and Edi man is at best finite and fallible, and must tors, p. 40. know how to work effectively with others We should never allow ourselves to employ argu in his quest for truth. Alone, no man is ments that are not wholly sound. . . . We should sufficient for these things. The following present sound arguments, that will not only silence code of principles therefore considers these our opponents, but will bear the closest and most essential factors in the discovery of Bible searching scrutiny. Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 708. There are those who do not go deep, who are truth as they relate to the research worker, not Bible students, who will take positions de to the Bible as a field for research, to re cidedly for or against, grasping at apparent evi search procedures, and to cooperative ef dence; yet it may not be truth. Counsels to Writ fort in the quest for truth. ers and Editors, p. 76. The Lord would have them [the gems of truth] Apply Sound Principles gathered up and placed in their proper relation. The truths of the Bible have again become ob Review and Herald, Oct. 23, 1894. scured by custom, tradition, and false doctrine. The erroneous teachings of popular theology have Let us leam upon earth those things which can made thousands upon thousands of skeptics and prepare us for heaven.—Jerome. infidels. There are errors and inconsistencies which

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JANUARY, 1962 47 PULPIT - Pointers for Preachers

SWALLOWED BY A YOUNG Nigerian Chris- sulting. . . . From time to time let us feel that we AFFLUENCE! tian was in Europe for are a part of a universal church. Do not frighten study. After five years at us, but give us courage; give us some consolation, close quarters with Western civilization he ceased some help, security, and hope; give us the joy of to attend church. He said he was shocked at the God and of His wonders." Western craze for getting money. It seemed to him This is food for thought for the Adventist to be the one aim of Western life. A few months preacher also. It might be well to take these wants later he stopped to listen to a Christian action of the people into consideration as we preach the group, which was obviously deeply concerned about last message of hope to a dying world. w. s. the suffering of Africans in a certain section of his homeland. He was then convinced that there are GHETTO-MINDED WHEN people criticize the some people who have not surrendered to the aggressive self-assertion of allure of an affluent society. the Jews, they may be told by educated Jews that An American university professor was inter the Gentiles who compelled the children of Abra viewed by a brilliant young man whose career ham to live in ghettos are responsible for the seems destined to bring great monetary reward. situation. In certain geographical areas history The young man and his wife are deeply concerned would confirm the fact that wherever a people over the futility of an existence that is obsessed is despoiled, repressed, confined into economic with acquiring money. These young people, and stringency, they develop acquisitive, self-assertive more like them, says the professor, want to know instincts as a result of their enforced struggle for how they can use their abilities in something more survival. noble and satisfying. Then he commented that in Can the Christian church become ghetto-minded? every such case the parents stand aghast that their Can we shut ourselves up in a too-small world of young people should get such ideas! our own creation? William H. Cohea, Jr., writing in Christians might well note the old lesson that the July-August, 1961, issue of Letter to Laos, makes they cannot preach that the love of money is the this trenchant observation: "The local church in our root of all evil and at the same time become ab time has been ©ghetto© and ©self-preservation© sorbed in acquiring, whether in large or small minded. It has shirked service outside its institu amounts, the riches that choke the soul and belie tional confines. It has built multimillion-dollar the Christian profession. The love of God in Christ buildings to be used once a week for education and Jesus is unselfish and sacrificial. H. w. L. worship, while, around the corner, people live in impossible housing seven days a week. It has pro vided hygienic buildings, programs and curricu WHAT IS EXPECTED G. CUPERTINO was so lum, but failed to take seriously its calling to be a OF A PREACHER? kind as to translate community and to empty itself and serve in a sick a statement that ap world!" peared in La Stampa, Turin, March 17, 1961. It The church can shut itself up in numerous ways. refers to a Gallup poll regarding what the majority Undue concern over unimportant doctrinal and of the German Catholics expect from their priests: prophetic minutiae, pressing personal ideas on our "Speak in the language of today clear, concise, fellows, self-concern to the exclusion of soul burden free from poetry and sentimentality. Be exact when for the lost on every side of us, fussing over "sweet speaking of our work. Eliminate emphasis. Do not nothings," rigidity in legalistic orthodoxy, fighting speak as though you were already perfect. It is among ourselves about minor matters these and a easier for us to believe in a man who admits him hundred other things can shut us up to ourselves self to be in search of something, one who suffers. and away from the real field of battle. Every mem Show your understanding of the daily difficulties of ber of every church should today be evangelistically lay-Christian living in our world today." minded, deeply concerned over the problem of Concerning the substance of the preaching, the warning men and women to "prepare to meet thy investigation has revealed that this should consist God!" of "the substantial bread of God©s Word," and not Let us away with the ghetto mind, the self-preser merely a kind of "pastry." Clear opposition to lan vation of supremely self-satisfied men, the personal guage from the pulpit that is not objective and ambitions that warp the thinking! Let us take the charitable has been manifested. "Don©t speak about whole world into our praying, the whole community politics if not within the limits of your message." into our service for the Lord Jesus Christ! "Place the blame where it should be, without in H. w. L. 48 THE MINISTRY