Official Journal of the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists

VOLUME XXXVI DECEMBER, 1963 No. 12

Editor Roy ALLAN ANDERSON IN THIS ISSUE EDITORIAL Associate Editor The Incarnation and You ______._.. J. R. Spangler 3 ANDREW C. FEARING E. EARL CLEVELAND GENERAL ARTICLES J. R. SPANGLER Confirmed in Service ._....__._._.______R. Fearing 6 "Nothing to Fear for the Future Except . . ." __._____.._ Managing Editor ______A. V. Wallenkampf 8 HARRY W. LOWE The Beatitudes of Revelation ______E. Lloyd 11 Seminary Extension School in Southern Europe _____ Copy Editor ______....______W. G. C. Murdoch 12 J. INA WHITE Great Words of the Bible 24 Tohu and Wabou ______._____.______E. Oliveira 15 Consulting Editors Youth Join Hands With Pastors ______L. Nelson 17 REUBEN R. FIGUHR, WALTER R. BEACH, Some Pulpits I Have Known __.___.R. W. Engstrom 18 THEODORE CARCICH, RICHARD HAMMILL, The History of the Evolutionary Concept (Concluded) ______H. G. Hadley 22 EDWARD HEPPENSTALL, R. LEO ODOM REGULAR FEATURES Art Editor EVANGELISM T. K. MARTIN Evangelism. Among the Spanish People in North Circulation Manager America ______W. Amundsen 24 J. R. SPANGLER It Works! ______._._._.______S. Weiss 25 Evangelism for the Jews in New York City ...______Overseas Contributors __...______.__ .___..______W. Ismond 27 Bible Evangelism in Relation to the Mass Media of GEORGE BURNSIDE Australia Communication (Concluded) ____ G. L. Shafer 29 O. GMEHUNG Central Europe RESEARCH PAUL ELDRIDGE Far East The 1335 Days . ______L. R. Van Dolson 31 DAVID H. BAASCH Inter-America Christ Our Lord (Concluded) _.______._ W. E. Read 33 Middle East WAYNE OLSON SHEPHERDESS Northern Europe E. E. ROENFELT The Charming "First Lady" (Concluded) ______. ENOCH OLIVEIRA South America ______:______E. N. Atchley 37 T. M. ASHLOCK Southern Africa BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY _.______39 Southern Asia INDEX FOR 1963 ______...______41 G. CUPERTINO Southern Europe PULPIT POINTERS FOR PREACHERS ..____.___. 48

Editorial Office: 6840 Eastern Avenue NW. "When they [the wise men] were come into the house, they Washington, D.C. saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, Printed and published monthly for the Min and worshipped him" (Matt. 2:11). isterial Association of Seventh-day Adventists by the Review and Herald Publishing Associa tion, Washington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. $4.00 a year; 40c a copy. Prices slightly higher in Change of Address Canada. Add 25c for yearly subscriptions to "When writing us about your subscription or changing your address, countries requiring extra postage. Second-class please enclose the address label from your copy or from the wrapper in postage paid at Washington, D.C. which you received the journal. THE MINISTRY yond comprehension and connect it with miserable money-making schemes. More than one businessman has said: "If some body abolished Christmas, I would go out of business." In the midst of this hallelujah-hilarious spree it not only is apparent but impera tive for ministers of God to turn the minds of men toward the miracle at Bethlehem two thousand years ago. Did Isaiah Realize? Did Isaiah comprehend the thought con tained in verse 6 of chapter 9? "For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called ©Wonderful Coun selor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace© " (R.S.V.). Surely the church members of his day saw only dimly the overwhelming love and truth embod ied in this statement. Even we who live 2,700 years this side of the prophecy and cJne incarnation 2,000 years this side of its fulfillment can only touch the depth and meaning of this truth with the finger tips of our intellect and emotions. As we study the Incarnation with all the aids available we cannot help exclaiming: "O God, it is impossible for us to grasp the thought it is too great, too overwhelming!©© ana LJou A Son Is Given Many a great mind has stumbled over the term "Son of God." Followers of the Islamic faith mock Christians with the ri diculous question, "Who was God©s wife?" The surrendered mind does not limit or narrow the power of God but understands that concepts must be understood by (IME-STORE divinities, men; otherwise language would have little model mangers, plastic meaning. Let us put ourselves in God©s virgins, shepherd and sheep place a moment and we would be forced to facsimiles, will soon be exclaim: "For my thoughts are not your flanked by Santa Claus cos thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, tumes and Christmas-tree dec saith the Lord. For as the heavens are orations. The incomparable higher than the earth, so are my ways higher revelation of God in human than your xvays, and my thoughts than flesh will lie buried beneath an avalanche your thoughts" (Isa. 55:8, 9). of tinsel, sleigh bells, reindeer, and other The very fact that the Lord Jesus as incongruous objects. Satan©s manipulation sumed the title "Son of God" is evidence of of depraved minds has resulted in sweeping Heaven©s love for man, for a father-son re the inhabitants of the Christian and non- lationship draws from the human heart Christian world alike into the dustpan of feelings of tenderness and love. We need perversion. It is perversion of the worst to ever remember that God used a concept order when a race of beings created in the that not only is understandable by the hu image of God and redeemed at such infinite man race but which commands respect and sacrifice will so defiantly take a theme be- love. DECEMBER, 1963 A Comprehensible God after a son was born to him. Every baby We have stood in the midst of hundreds should remind us that "unto us a son is of heathen temples from Ball to Bombay given." The home, the parent-child rela and watched the incredible take place. tionship, should constantly remind us of Confused worshipers would wade through the Incarnation. But today it is difficult to rites and ceremonies, some most objection stir the minds of people with the Bethle able, in an effort to find their god or gods. hem story. Compare this jumbled, incoherent, con Satan stood in wonder before Bethle fused bell ringing hodgepodge of temples, hem©s manger, but he was not caught off idols, trinkets, and services with our God guard completely. From Eden until now whom we serve and love, "Unto us a son perversion of the marriage relationship is given." What language, what a concept and the breakup of the home is the most a child, a son born into the world! significant part of his vile plan of rebellion. How else could God come to this world? It is another method of his to discredit the Like Santa Claus in a sled pulled by rein glory of the Incarnation. The population deer? Revolting and ridiculous thought! explosion today is a result not of parental What family with a spark of love in their love for children but rather of ignorance hearts would ever choose to have a baby and uncontrolled passion. brought into this world any other way than Respect of man for man has been greatly God has ordained? One of the most remark reduced by irresponsible procreation. In able features of the Incarnation is the way many minds today the death of another God the Son became part of the human human being is about as insignificant as family. He came in such a way that would the demise of a fly. The ever-increasing diet cement Himself directly with the hearts of murder, suicides, and even accidents, and minds of people. He attached Himself dished up by the daily newspapers, is de to the human race in the most sacred and voured by thousands with no apparent tender way possible. shock. The human race has descended deeply into the cold pit of unsympathetic Incarnation Counterfeit feeling when we consider that Adam and Satan©s success in perverting God©s plan Eve mourned more deeply over the falling by destroying the Incarnation concept leaf than men do today over the death of a from the minds of men has succeeded re fellow being. Massive birth rates plus mas markably well. Entire nations have imi sive liquidations of human life have done tated the Incarnation. The ancient Egyp much to nullify the deep feelings and emo tians© belief of the Pharaohs being the sons tions wrapped up in the Incarnation. of Amen-Ra undoubtedly influenced God©s Made of a Woman choice of the tenth plague. The Exodus movement really got started when the To ponder the theme of Christ©s human Egyptians© incarnation theories were ity should ever bring forth fresh thoughts blasted by the death of the first-born. and new revelations of God©s love. "God A twentieth-century counterfeit incarna sent forth his Son, made of a woman" (Gal. tion gave impetus to the Japanese military 4:4). I confess I cannot understand this. regime, which centered on the false prem My mind is too small the best I can do is ise that the emperor was divine and his to accept it. Sometimes I think if the full subjects were the sons of heaven. This is impact of this thought should ever burst just a sample of Satan©s gigantic scheme upon my mind, my brain would explode. to blot from the minds of men the thrilling Every time I study this subject, every time truth that God came in human form. a tiny ray of light opens my mind to how God humbled Himself, I break down and Incarnation and the Population Explosion weep. No wonder Paul wrote: "Thanks be We all love babies. One look through a unto God for his unspeakable gift" (2 Cor. picture-windowed nursery at the wiggling 9:15). We stand before the Bethlehem miraculous object that was my own daugh manger as dumb and unperceptive as the ter immediately brought to me overwhelm oxen that were there that night. ing feelings of joy and happiness. God©s love Step by Step and the Incarnation gripped me as never before. This is the way God intended it to Listen to this intriguing statement: "The be. Enoch©s close walk with God began adorable Redeemer stepped down from the THE MINISTRY highest exaltation. Step by step He hum uttermost, for He stooped to the uttermost! bled Himself."-—The SDA Bible Commen How did the announcing angel of Luke tary, Ellen G. White Comments, on John 2:10-12 feel when he said: "Ye shall find the 1:1, p. 1127. Let us consider a few of these babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying steps. Ever remember that Christ was not in a manger"? If we had been the angel, like God He was God. They were one, perhaps we would have swallowed hard equal in power and authority. It would between the statement: "I bring you good have been a condescension beyond de tidings of great joy. . . . Unto you is born scription for Christ to have assumed hu this day ... a Saviour, which is Christ the man form when the world first stood with Lord," and "This shall be a sign unto you." out blot or blemish. His entrance was made No, the angel flinched not, nor was he em when the magnificence of Eden had been barrassed, but rather overwhelmed at the contaminated with the false philosophy of infinite love of God. From the depths of Satan©s corrupt mind. The moment of His his soul he brought forth in golden tones birth came when darkness covered the this marvelous announcement that the earth and gross darkness the people. Ro Lord Saviour would be born in a stable mans 1 is a forthright description of the and laid in a manger. Greco-Roman world during the time of Do you think the angel was embarrassed Christ. to make this announcement to a group of To have assumed the full and complete hardened, weather-beaten shepherds? It physical stature of Adam would have been would have been far more dramatic to have of utmost humiliation. But Christ came made this statement to splendid-robed after sickness and disease had dwarfed the members of the Sanhedrin gathered in a physical nature of man for four thousand Jerusalem palace or before a magnificent years. Christ as a man was no physical giant, session of the Roman senate. But get the and according to Isaiah 53 those who saw picture! Sheep and shepherds, wide-open Him during His Incarnation would find no spaces what a theater and what an audi beauty that would make them desire Him. ence for the universe©s most glorious chorus Another step down in the ladder of mor and grandest message. No embarrassed an tification was the town in which He was gels were in that heavenly entourage that born. Micah 5:2 emphasizes the insignifi night. cance of Bethlehem. How eager we are to From God to Baby identify our own birthplace with a city of The very least we could expect of God, renown, but Christ forfeited all this. He if we dare expect anything as sinners, assumed human nature in its lowest com would be that our Lord would come as a mon denominator, which would result in fully developed adult. But, no, He encased a cover of salvation for all mankind and Himself in the tiny, defenseless form of a would forever seal the lips of any person baby! Draw from the large stock of adjec from saying that Christ©s experience cannot tives meekness, self-abasement, self-abne touch that of humanity. gation, submissiveness, resignation, mortifi Embarrassed Angels cation, degradation add them all together and they cannot even begin to describe Unbelievable shame was the lot of Christ what your God, and my God, did. Our when we pinpoint His delivery-room con hearts cannot help being melted and our ditions. Born in a barn! How many times minds cannot help being awed as we view this crude expression has been hurled jok the downward stairway that Christ used to ingly or purposely at some person to hu become one with us. God became a baby miliate him. It was no joke with Christ; it a baby in a barn, a barn in a tiny town, a was a reality. The difference between a town in a dictator©s country, and a country barn and a palace is infinitesimal from in a rebellious world. God©s viewpoint, for earth©s most fabu What was the point? Why did God do it? lous mansion in garden setting is nothing Listen: "His glory was veiled, that the maj as compared with heaven. But from our esty of His outward form might not become viewpoint think of the Commander of an object of attraction. He shunned all out heaven and earth, the Prince of the uni ward display. Riches, worldly honor, and verse, the King of kings stepping to the very human greatness can never save a soul from lowest rung of environmental human exist death; Jesus purposed that no attraction of ence. It is no wonder He can save to the (Continued on page 14) DECEMBER, 1963 HE most cogent text I can earlier years or you have worked quite care T think of for our present fully with Lutheran people. You know how discussion is Luke 11:24-26: serious the time of confirmation in the life "When the unclean spirit is of a Lutheran is. It is stressed greatly by gone out of a man, he walk- this Protestant faith. The airline industry eth through dry places, seek uses the term confirmation quite freely. ing rest; and finding none, he When one lands at one©s destination and saith, I will return unto my expects to return on a certain plane one house whence I came out. And when he immediately calls the reservations desk and cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished. confirms the return flight. Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven A minister friend of mine and I had the other spirits more wicked than himself; and privilege of visiting the Federal Aviation they enter in, and dwell there: and the last Authority control tower in the world©s bus state of that man is worse than the first." iest airport, O©Hare International Airport, Here was a hypothetical case of a man in Chicago, just recently. While there we who was no doubt converted and baptized, were given a tour of the radar "shack" but then left high and dry on the shelf. He where several operators sat guiding in be had never been confirmed in service. He tween twelve and thirteen hundred flights was better off in his former state. a day on the radarscope, giving the pilots It would be good for us at this early direction toward the field and setting them point in our discussion to come to a defini down perfectly on the runway. After a tion of the term confirmation. No doubt while we were taken to the visual-control some of you have been Lutherans in your tower on top of the building. The one cor ner of the tower that fascinated me the most was the area called "ground control." The man in charge spoke with the pilot of a plane waiting to be given clearance to taxi into position for the take-off. Before he could give this clearance he had to receive instructions as to the plane©s routing from a station about thirty miles west of the field. Once he received this routing he gave it to the pilot verbally over the inter com system. Then the pilot had to write it down and repeat it to the ground control officer before he was permitted to taxi his plane away from a standing position. In other words he had to confirm all his in structions before being allowed to take off. In summary, "confirmation" means a "seal, a double check, to be established." When we switch into spiritual pathways the term takes on eternal significance and the ministry must be the translators. The great evangelist, Charles G. Finney, has said, "The great object for which Chris tians are converted and live in this world is to pull sinners out of the fire. If they do not effect this they had better be dead." It may be that for our church members, both the neophyte and the veteran, to be con firmed in service means that first they must have highly descriptive language of the worth of a soul. We can find that from an RICHARD FEARING unknown author in a short article entitled, "The Vision of a Lost Soul." For this I Pastor, Walla Walla College Church, Walla Walla am indebted to Elder J. L. Tucker©s little magazine, The Quiet Hour. THE MINISTRY The night was wild, across the midnight sky the whether he be a veteran worker in the rugged clouds sped fast, and the hoarse wind seemed cause of God or a new convert, and asks chanting some weird requiem. Alone I stood, and a you a question concerning his line of mis strange horror thrilled my soul. Above the noise sionary service, refer it tactfully to the of wind crashing limbs of leafless trees, I heard a voice cry out in wild and piercing tones. It seemed questioner. Make him think. Make him afar, but to my spirit©s eye at last the form appeared, think through his own method of service all clothed in mist and wrapped about in mystery. for the Lord. You have preached to him Its wings were luminous, and by this light I saw Sabbath after Sabbath and he has begun to its face. O God, and such a face! writ o©er with have a picture of his own life in relation to agony, a picture composite, and strange, and yet his Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Instead familiar too. At last unto my spirit©s ear it spoke of pontificating your ideas let him confirm wild, awful words that evermore will haunt my his service by his answer to his own ques heart and brain and burn their dreadful lesson tion. there. "Mortal," said he, "Dost thou not know me? Look again and see. I am a human soul that You may give guidance to his answer, thou once didst call by the sweet, sacred name of you may encourage him in service, you may friend. And thou, thou couldst have saved me if help refine his answer, but let the direction thy heart had cared. That Bible which thou takest be his. He may not be able to serve in the for thy guide, that Bible which in life I scanned, exact direction that you would have him to hath said that if thou dost not warn the wicked go. Put yourself in his shoes. Put yourself man, he shall be lost, but at thy hand his blood in his place of work and then ask yourself God will require of thee. Thou couldst have saved me if thy heart had cared, and now I©m lost!" And the question, "How could I witness were I then methought he pointed to my hands, and they in this man©s shoes?" He will still love and were dyed in blood. I dared not speak. My soul respect you as a pastor, but will not lean was guilty in the sight of God. Too well I knew my on you as a post only to topple when you coward heart had failed in friendship true. I leave the church. Your real strength will meant someday to speak. I was too busy here and then be his strength. You will both be con there, and Io! the man was gone. Such was the firmed in service in the Lord as is written story sad of my neglect. By that lost soul accused, by in Galations 6:14: "But God forbid that I my own soul condemned, I turned and fled. O God should glory, save in the cross of our Lord of mercy, teach us ere it be too late, that no man lives unto himself that every saved man must a Jesus Christ, by whom the world is cruci saver be! fied unto me, and I unto the world." Perhaps we can illustrate it this way. You as a gospel minister must be a burn Thomas a Kempis, a fifteenth-century au ing fire as a preacher following carefully thor, has written one of the best-known the admonition of Romans 10:14, 15: religious books of the world Imitation "How then shall they call on him in whom of Christ. In this book the story is written they have not believed? and how shall they concerning a man who found himself per believe in him of whom they have not plexed and confused as to his religious heard? and how shall they hear without a future. One day he flung himself before the preacher? And how shall they preach, ex altar of the church and said, "Oh, if I only cept they be sent? as it is written, How knew if I should persevere." Then a voice beautiful are the feet of them that preach spoke to him saying, "And if thou didst the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings know what thou shouldst do, what wouldst of good things!" Your parishioners must thou do? Go then and do that which thou tell their friends, "Come hear my pastor wouldst do now and thy soul shall be he has been here some time now and secure." And the story ends stating that each Sabbath his messages grow stronger the man arose never more to give himself and warmer." Then, when your people over to an anxious feeling about the future, have come to hear and see you burn in the but doing his duty clearly in Christ Jesus pulpit you switch into your dual role as a day by day. counselor, a gentle friend and companion, and that burning fire now becomes a warm Brethren, if our 435 churches in the Lake glow as you give them information that Union were filled with people certain of will be invaluable in confirming them in their Saviour, growing in happiness and service. service, our sanctuaries would be jammed to the doors. There would be no greener Here is the core of this message. Perhaps pastures for us. Why, if each church had a you could call it a little secret of successful net gain of just five members a year because ministry. When your member comes, (Continued on page 40) DECEMBER, 1963 I lottunQ to (year for the couture (bxcept

ARNOLD V. WALLENKAMPF

Division of Religion, Loma Linda University

WELVE men were sent to spy out the the schools of Egypt, it seemed to Moses a Tland of Canaan for Israel. As these men possible trap. Here they were hemmed in entered the Promised Land they noticed by unscalable mountains on both the north its amazing fertility and its luscious fruit, and south and with the foam-capped waves but they also noted its large cities sur of the Red Sea blocking the exit to the east. rounded with apparently impregnable But in compliance with God©s word, Moses walls. They looked at the inhabitants of led the children of Israel into the place of these cities and realized that they them God©s own choosing. selves were as grasshoppers in their sight. As evening wore on and darkness fell On their return to the camp of Israel all over the camp of Israel the weary people re of them reported the fertility and the tired for needed rest after an eventful day. luscious fruit of Canaan and its mighty Soon they began to hear rumblings from cities. But ten of them still had their eyes the west. Suddenly they realized that these riveted on the impregnable walls and the sounds betokened the approach of the tall people that inhabited that land, and Egyptian army. Terror filled the camp; they they said: "It is impossible for us to cap were sure they were trapped. They saw ture it." But two of the spies, who had like their true plight as a motley array of slaves wise seen the country and the seemingly without hope of escape. Behind them into insurmountable difficulties, had their eyes the opening between the mountains the focused on God. And the report of Caleb vanguards of the Egyptian army were and Joshua was: "We are well able." streaming. Amid the distraught and fearful The conviction of Caleb and Joshua had multitude Moses stood serene. He knew its roots in divinely inspired faith, because God had directed him in leading his people their judgment rested on the promises of to this place. He did not know what was go God. They were personally acquainted with ing to happen, but he knew they were there God and His leadership. Their confidence in compliance with God©s command and he in Israel©s ability under God©s guidance was was confident that God had a way of escape anchored in His miraculous deliverance in for them. Moses trusted in God for deliver taking them safely through the Red Sea and ance from their apparent impasse. providing them with food and water in the Then came God©s command, "Go for wilderness. ward." Through the turbulent waters of the On the memorable event of their deliver Red Sea a way of escape opened up to be ance from Egypt, Israel under the leader wildered Israel. That night God delivered ship of Moses had retired into a defile be His people. When the sun rose the next tween the mountains on the shore of the morning, the Egyptian army was gone. The Red Sea. As Moses observed the spot to soldiers had been drowned in the Red Sea. which God led him and his people, it did But on the shore of the Sinai Peninsula not appear to be the most advantageous the children of Israel stood singing the camping site for a people fleeing from their song of deliverance and praise to God for oppressors. Trained in military strategy in His miraculous salvation. THE MINISTRY As a movement, Seventh-day Adventists the unfavorable reports, which the com have often gone forward in faith under mittee had received from the Government God©s bidding. And as we have taken God personnel. After listening to their report at His word, either through the Bible or Mrs. White calmly said to Elder Daniells His inspired servant, Ellen G. White, we and her son: " ©Is there no God in Israel, have surpassed apparently insurmountable that ye have gone to the god of Ekron for difficulties. In the 1890©s our believers in counsel?©" Her original advice was re Australia under the leadership of Elder newed; namely, that they abide by their in A. G. Daniells were coping with the prob tention of going through with the purchase lem of establishing a school for the educa of the land. She further said: "They have tion of our young people.1 As has often borne false witness against the land." been the case in the onward march of our With this reaffirmation of the divine work, adequate financial means were not counsel through the servant of the Lord, available for the purchase of an expensive the brethren in Australia proceeded with building site. Finally the locating commit the purchase of the site for the erection of tee found a tract of land at Cooranbong our school. Time abundantly vindicated about seventy-five miles north of Sidney. their allegiance to the instruction given This was offered to our denomination at through the Spirit of Prophecy. God©s bless the low price of $3.00 an acre, as compared ing has copiously rested on both field and with |75.00 an acre and up for other desir orchard. able land. "In 1909, twelve years after the opening On May 24, 1894, Mrs. White went with of the school, Professor Irwin, who had the committee to examine the suggested been principal eight years, wrote as follows: property. After doing so, Mrs. White wrote " ©As time has gone on, and we have had in a letter to her son, J. E. White: "There an opportunity to watch the work develop, was perfect unity in making the decision to we can say most assuredly, from our ex purchase the fifteen hundred acres of land perience, that God led in the selection of at the price of four thousand five hundred this place. Everything that has been said dollars." E. G. White letter 82, 1894. about the location of the school in this Soil experts were then consulted regard place has been fulfilled everything. ... I ing the suitability of this tract of land for believe the working out of this has proved agricultural and horticultural purposes. that God©s instruction was true.© " Their reports were discouraging. Under As we face the future we as Israel of old date of June 10, 1894, W. C. White wrote will repeatedly face perplexing problems. to the secretary of the Foreign Mission If we rivet our eyes on these it will be easy Board: "Nearly all of the men of influence for us to grow discouraged. The ten spies with whom we have come in contact, shake were not prevaricating when they informed their heads when we speak of the district. the children of Israel of the walled cities The Department of Agriculture after ex of Canaan. Humanly speaking, they had amining samples of the soil, said it was reason to be discouraged, for it appeared sour, and would require a ton and a half of to be sheer foolishness for a tribe of slaves lime to the acre. Then the Government to attack and capture well-fortified cities! fruit expert was sent up to examine it, and Moses too might have had good reason to his report I will enclose with this. True, it despair when the Egyptians overtook his was a rainy day, and we were short of time, people. He might even have made bold and he did not see the best of the place, and and told God that it was impossible for Is yet, it sometimes makes me feel blue, to hear rael to go forward into the Red Sea as He all of these men who know a great deal, commanded them to do. But Moses did not condemn the place." consult his fears, nor his human reason. Be It was the consensus of all the consulted ing a military leader, Moses might have re experts that our brethren should relin lied on human reasoning he might have quish their hold on the land by forfeiting suggested other ways of extricating his peo the down payment that had already been ple from the trap in which they were ap made. In that crisis hour the faith of the parently caught. But Moses did not; rather, brethren who in counsel with Mrs. White he made God both his strength and his had initially decided to purchase this tract wisdom and obeyed His counsel to go for wavered. Elders Daniells and W. C. White ward into the Red Sea. were delegated to inform Mrs. White about Later, when the children of Israel were DECEMBER, 1963 under the leadership of Joshua, the Gib- with God©s directions to us. In another eonites came to them in the land of Canaan place the servant of the Lord phrases it this and requested that they be allowed to make way: "The kingly power of reason, sancti an alliance with them. Joshua and the eld fied by divine grace, is to bear sway in our ers of Israel looked at their suppliants© lives." The Ministry of Healing, p. 130. molded bread, their rent wine bottles, their If our human reason is not used in con worn garments, and shoes which were old, formity with God©s directions then we in "and the men took of their victuals, and deed become traitors to God! asked not counsel at the mouth of the On the basis of personal experience with Lord" (Joshua 9:14). Joshua and his ad God, Moses told Israel to go forward, and visers made an alliance with the Gibeonites Caleb and Joshua assured them they could according to their own human reasoning capture the Promised Land. As individuals and later regretted it. we have had personal experiences with While we realize that in our own strength God, and as a denomination we have had and wisdom we cannot possibly accomplish historical experiences with God. As we face the tasks that God has set before us, we may the future, we shall need to trust anew in turn to Him and remember His question the Lord and daily commit our fears to "Is any thing too hard for the Lord?" (Gen. Him. Human reason is not a very reliable 18:14). Further, "As the will of man co guide; Israel found that to be so when they operates with the will of God, it becomes made their alliance with the Gibeonites. omnipotent. Whatever is to be done at His Neither is the advice of men who do not command may be accomplished in His know the God of Israel and His instruction strength. All His biddings are enablings." for His people to be a criterion for us. In the Christ's Object Lessons, p. 333. long ago God addressed this question to His The words of the psalmist also reassure professed servant: "Is it not because there us, "What time I am afraid, I will trust in is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire thee" (Ps. 56:3). The Lord©s messenger of Baal-zebub the god of Ekron?" (2 Kings says: "Worry is blind, and cannot discern 1:3). This counsel is applicable also today. the future; but Jesus sees the end from the To the uninitiated, faith may often ap beginning. . . . Our heavenly Father has a pear to be presumption. To the initiated or thousand ways to provide for us, of which the person who is acquainted with God we know nothing. Those who accept the through personal experience, faith be one principle of making the service and comes an exhilarating venture! To some honor of God supreme will find perplexi one who did not know Jesus as did Peter, it ties vanish, and a plain path before their might have been mere presumption to step feet." The Desire of Ages, p. 330. out on the turbulent waters to meet the The argument is often advanced that Master on the angry waves. To Peter it was since God has given us reason, He expects a soul-stirring venture of faith. It was faith us to use it. That argument is correct, but it also that prompted Abraham to respond to has limitations. It is like the statement that God©s call and take his son Isaac to Mount inasmuch as soldiers have been given guns Moriah. Abraham knew his Master©s voice; they ought to use them. In a national army he was acquainted with God, and there soldiers receive guns and other implements fore that act which to others would have of war, but although they have been been sheer foolishness and unadulterated equipped with arms, they are not to turn presumption became an act of faith. those arms against their country or their Where are our eyes today? The ten spies officers. If they do they are traitors. The riveted their eyes on the difficulties and con same is true of the soldiers of God. Indeed, sulted their fears. Joshua and Caleb, in God has endowed us with reasoning pow spite of the difficulties which they also saw, ers, but human reason should not be fol fixed their eyes on God. If our eyes are on lowed if it suggests that we go contrary to Jesus we, like Peter, can do the impossible! our Creator©s instruction, any more than As individuals and as a movement "we military personnel are justified in using have nothing to fear for the future, except their arms contrary to the commands of as we shall forget the way the Lord has led their officers, for "the law of duty is su us, and His teaching in our past history." preme. It should hold sway over human —Life Sketches, p. 196. reason." Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 163. 1 This and the following five paragraphs are based on Reason is only to be used in conformity A. G. Daniells, The Abiding Gift of Prophecy, pp. 310-318. 10 THE MINISTRY A loyal veteran, still active for God with voice and pen, sends us this suggested sermon outline. We cJne ^Beatitudes invite similar contributions from preachers who desire to help their fellows. of u\evelatton

THE Beatitudes in the Ser- ERNEST LLOYD 1 mon on the Mount are well known wherever the gospel story is read. The beatitudes in the book of Revelation desire for ease and softness of situation. We must be always vigilant lest we succumb should be better known. to spiritual drowsiness. The blessing is for They form a golden chain of the watchful, glorious promises, which run 4. "Blessed are they which are called through this wonderful book, and these unto the marriage supper of the Lamb" could be a source of comfort and inspira (Rev. 19:9). What an honor and privilege! tion to all believers. Let us briefly sketch What unspeakable joy in having a part in these Revelation beatitudes. that glorious event! The greatest chorus of 1. "Blessed is he that readeth, and they praise this universe can provide will then that hear. . . , and keep [lay to heart] those be heard. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, things that are written" (Rev. 1:3). These neither have entered into the heart of man, words suggest a congregation or family in the things which God hath prepared for worship, with one reading aloud. All are them that love him" (1 Cor. 2:9). blessed in reading and hearing the words 5. "Blessed and holy is he that hath part of life. The book of Revelation is the only in the first resurrection: on such the second book of the sixty-six in the Bible that con death hath no power" (Rev. 20:6). They tains a declaration of a special blessing to can pass unharmed through the elements the readers and hearers, thereby indicating that will destroy the wicked like chaff. It the extraordinary importance of its con is the holiness of.the Lord which possesses, tents. energizes, and envelops these blessed ones, 2. "Blessed are the dead which die in the as it did the three Hebrews in the fiery Lord . . . , that they may rest from their furnace. This experience is offered to all labours" (Rev. 14:13). They were blessed who walk in His holiness here. in holding fast to their faith and hope. They 6. "Blessed is he that keepeth the say were blessed in the knowledge that they ings of the prophecy of this book" (Rev. would share in the rest remaining for the 22:7). "That keepeth," or "lays to heart" people of God. They are now blessed in to be treasured within. They are to shape resting from their toils. This belief has our thinking, our planning, our living, our brought great comfort to the Lord©s true hoping. "The solemn messages that have followers through the centuries. Being been given ... in the Revelation are to either alive or dead in Christ are but aspects occupy the first place in the minds of God©s of the principle of inner union with Him. people. Nothing else is to be allowed to 3. "Blessed is he that watcheth, and engross our attention." Testimonies, vol. keepeth his garments" (Rev. 16:15). To 8, p. 302. keep persistently awake is the message here. 7. "Blessed are they that do his command In John©s day the Roman guard met with ments" (Rev. 22:14). Obedience is the disgrace if found asleep. The inspector great test. The blessing is upon the doers. would remove the sleeper©s cloak, leaving It is significant that the final blessing of the man exposed to the jests and scoffs of the Book is for the commandment keepers. his fellow guards. They have the right to the tree of life. There should be no lack of alertness, no (Continued on page 46}

DECEMBER, 1963 11 Seminary Extension School in Southern (burope

W. G. C. MURDOCH, Director

summer Extension School of the field of pastoral theology and led the stu 1 Theological Seminary of Andrews Uni dents into the fundamental principles of versity was sponsored by the Southern true worship. He stressed the important European Division and held at the Semi- place of music in approaching God. Alfred naire Adventiste, Collonges-sous-Saleve, Vaucher, the veteran Bible teacher of Eu France. This college is beautifully situated rope, offered a stimulating class in the on the slopes of Mount Saleve near Geneva, eschatology of Calvin. He also gave a series Switzerland. A most capable group of min of lectures at the chapel hour on the history isters were in attendance, coming from four and meaning of the true Sabbath. E. W. teen different countries. Although the lec Tarr, secretary of the Public Relations De tures had to be translated and there was a partment of the General Conference, problem of books for collateral reading, the taught a class in the place of the church in standard of scholarship maintained by the the community and outlined the duty of students was of a very high quality. Many the minister in cultivating good public re followed the discussions of the theological lations. The director of the school, W. G. C. problems in the original Hebrew and Greek, Murdoch, led the class into the inexhaus and this added much to the understanding tible theme of the atonement and the work of the great themes presented. of our great High Priest in dealing with the R. A. Anderson gave a rich offering in the problem of sin.

Interesting chapel services •were held dur ing the time these earnest students were together.

12 THE MINISTRY The student group who attended the Seminary Extension School. Some of the instructors are seated in the front row.

An added feature of this Extension ministers from each country presented the Seminary School was the lectures given trials and triumphs of the message in by certain specialists in their fields. B. E. their various territories. Seton gave a series on the teaching of the We have an efficient group of workers in Bible; Jean Zurcher on the doctrine of the Southern European Division. They man; Norkert Hugede on the koine Greek; carry heavy responsibilities, for many of W. E. Read on Christology; and R. Dederen the lands from which they come have re on ecumenism. strictions and prejudices unknown in other Each Friday evening a symposium of parts of our world field. It was a great priv-

The Doctor of Divinity degree was conferred on veteran Bible teacher A. Vaucher (stand ing, center) at tlie close of the school.

DECEMBER, 1963 13 ilege for the Extension School faculty to serve these consecrated and talented men. They were hungry for the exegesis of the Materials Available to Ministerial Word of God, and their hearts thrilled as Workers we studied together week after week. M. Fridlin, the president of the division, The following printed pamphlets are gave of his efficient leadership, and P. now available to ministers who have to Steiner, the educational secretary, and G. meet certain issues in their public work: Cupertino, from the Ministerial Associa "H. W. Armstrong and His Radio tion, did much in organization to make Church of God," by R. L. Odom, a twelve- this Extension School a success. page printed pamphlet. In these historic lands so steeped in theological controversies, our message is "More About the Teachings of the Radio making steady progress. We believe that Church of God," by George Burnside, a our studying together in this Extension four-page printed pamphlet. School will be a definite contributing factor "The True Israel of God," by H. W. in a great advance in soul winning in these Lowe, a twelve-page printed pamphlet. difficult countries. These three printed pamphlets are sent As the teachers and students gathered postpaid for 25 cents. around the table of the Lord on the last "An Examination of the Claims of the Tuesday evening, there were many expres Sacred Name Movement," by Don Neufeld, sions of appreciation for the helpful time a seven-page printed pamphlet, 15 cents. spent in the classes. At the last chapel hour "How Often Should the Lord's Supper Dr. R. A. Anderson made an appeal for re- Be Celebrated?" by W. E. Read and R. L. consecration, and there was an immediate Odom, a four-page printed pamphlet, 5 and wholehearted response. We all de cents. termined to go back to our tasks with a Apply to the Defense Literature Commit new zeal and a greater desire for the power tee, General Conference. of the Holy Spirit to come upon us so that the work may be quickly finished.

faith. . . . That ye might be filled with all The Incarnation and You the fulness of God" (Eph. 3:17, 19). This final step of the Incarnation chain, which (Continued from page 5) links heaven with earth, is rightly called by an earthly nature should call men to His Paul a "mystery." This defies description. side." The Desire of Ages, p. 43. What a For Christ to make His abode in the yielded sermon on righteousness by faith! We but formerly sinful, rebellious heart is far throw our helpless soul before Bethlehem©s more humiliating than the manger expe manger, forever recognizing that salvation rience. To think that while we were yet sin and the Incarnation are one and the same ners God commended His love toward us! thing. What can we offer to God who has This step of Christ, as He knocks at our done all this for us? Offer Him your money? heart©s door and indicates His willingness Your influence? Your time? Your talents? to enter our lives, surpasses all others. These things would only be insults unless Listen to this remarkable statement: your soul by entire and complete surrender "This idea of incarnation is the central doc to Him has been united in one common trine of all Paul©s teaching. It is his rem bond with the Lord Jesus Christ. edy for sin, his basis of hope for the past and the future. As God was in Christ, so Present-Day Incarnation Christ, by the Holy Spirit, will be in His Could it be that in a certain sense an people, changing their hearts, transforming other incarnation takes place when God their lives, and making them fit for the very makes His home in our hearts. Isn©t this presence of God." ELLEN G. WHITE in "new creature" experience, emphasized in Review and Herald, Nov. 15, 1898. 2 Corinthians 5:17, a result of "Christ in To our knees, fellow ministers, as we you, the hope of glory" (Col. 1:27)? Again, contemplate the words, "For unto us a son "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by is given." J. R. s. 14 THE MINISTRY Great Words of the Bible 24

cJonu ana vi/abou

ENOCH OLIVEIRA

Ministerial Association Secretary, South American Division

HE words that are used as returned the sermons after revising, modi T a title for this article aren©t fying, and polishing them according to the names attributed to gods wor indications suggested. shiped by ancient civiliza "We figured these would be the best in tions; they are Hebrew terms the country," the editor said. However, all that describe an amorphous were rejected. and chaotic situation. Moses "Some were a fair job of writing, but used them in an effort of didn©t have much content," Mr. Gentz said. synthesis to describe the conditions that "Some were fair in content, but were dull." prevailed in the world before Creation: Some were deficient because of being "And the earth was without form, and amorphous, and others weren©t usable be void" (Gen. 1:2). cause of their poor content. We can, then, use the terms tohu and Pastor Gentz, with undisputed authority, wabou to define something confused and speaking of the decline of the pulpit, af without contents, "without form, and void." firmed that ministers don©t spend enough How many times have we heard a ser time preparing their sermons. mon lacking in logic, without unity or a def When the audacious navigator Christo inite purpose! The congregation, after such pher Columbus, at the service of the king an unorganized and empty sermon, leaves of Spain, began his historical trip, he didn©t with a great many vague observations and know where he was going; when he discov uncoordinated ideas. ered a new world, he didn©t know where he In an article published not long ago in was; when he returned to Spain, he didn©t the Religious Information Service, Pastor know how to explain where he had been. William H. Gentz, director of the Augs Some preachers are like the intrepid burg Publishing House in Minneapolis, Genoese navigator. They preach without tells of his restlessness before a symptomatic doing the necessary preparation, relying decline of preaching evident among con on their ability to improvise, and that©s temporary preachers. why they never know where they©re going Inspired by the hope of publishing a to arrive. They enter recklessly into a laby collection of sermons in the form of a book, rinth of words, and then they look desper Pastor Gentz sent more than one hundred ately for a door to escape. To this group letters to the more distinguished preach of preachers belongs that negligent and ers, listed according to a survey of the careless minister who, after his sermon, North American Lutheran Church, asking said to a deacon: them to collaborate for the desired book. "When I started the sermon I didn©t Only twenty-two preachers answered Pas know what I was going to talk about." tor Gentz©s request, sending him the orig The deacon, making good use of the oc inals of some sermons he could include in casion, replied frankly: "And now we don©t the collection he had in preparation. know what you talked to us about." After carefully reading each sermon, Pas Evidently it was an unorganized and tor Gentz returned them, suggesting empty sermon. That poor, improvised ser changes and improvements. Ten preachers mon was reduced to a meaningless chatter, DECEMBER, 1963 15 vexatious repetitions, and ideas without logic, and without clarity. We preach a dis order or nexus. organized and empty sermon. When Charles Lindbergh began his he A minister, says Ellen G. White, "must roic flight to Paris an extraordinary feat not ramble all through the Bible but give of aviation he knew where he was going; a clear, connected discourse, showing that when he arrived at the French capital, he he understands the points he would make." knew where he was; when he returned to Evangelism, p. 181. his country, he knew where he had been. Let us present to our waiting people This same thing must occur with the a discourse that is the product of prayerful preacher. diligence and God-given ideas and which The minister must present himself in the will lead men and women to a desired and pulpit having a definite purpose, following clearly foreseen haven of confidence and a specific course, guided by a sure route joy- prepared in anticipation. This presupposes a disciplined study, hours of meditation and reflection. The sermons that touch the hearts of Youth Join Hands With Pastors those who listen are not improvised mes (Continued from page 17) sages. On the contrary, they are the product ing successful laymen for now and tomor of hours of intense study, persevering prac row can be achieved in teaching our youth tice and prayer. to become soul winners through actual par Raymond Calkins, in his book The ticipation in evangelistic projects. Romance of the Ministry, says: "The mind Within your church there may be youth of the preacher is like the pockets of a who have really never tasted the saving boy ©crammed full of treasures, the major grace of Jesus but who can be reached for ity of which are not suitable: strings, mar Christ through your personal interest in bles, tops, rare shells, little colored rocks, assisting them in these evangelistic projects some old coins without apparent value, as outlined in MV TARGET 3000. The strictly personal treasures of his a chaos following counsel places a tremendous re which the boy happily knows that only he sponsibility on the shoulders of the pastor is capable to convert into a cosmos.© Thus in his relationship to the youth. the preacher, with remnants and fragments When the youth give their hearts to God, our gathered during a considerable period of responsibility for them does not cease. They must time, at last composes his sermons that may be interested in the Lord©s work, and led to see have taken months or years in order to that He expects them to do something to advance ripen." Pages 140, 141. His cause. It is not enough to show how much Actually, the thoughts and the ideas that needs to be done, and to urge the youth to act a are stored in the mind of the preacher, are part. They must be taught how to labor for the almost always as disorganized as the numer Master. They must be trained, disciplined, drilled, ous foreign objects commonly found in a in the best methods of winning souls to Christ. Teach them to try in a quiet, unpretending way boy©s pockets. If we offer such thoughts in a to help their young companions. Let different sermon without classifying them and or branches of missionary effort be systematically laid ganizing them and preparing them before out, in which they may take part, and let them be hand, we preach with insecurity, without given instruction and help. Thus they will learn to work for God. Gospel Workers, p. 210. The MV objective of three thousand baptisms in the North American Division during 1964 is by no means to be lightly considered. It represents the equivalent of THE MINISTRY INDEX an organized conference. When the pastor accepts the extended hand of youth in win is still available at COST price. ning souls, we believe MV TARGET 3000 Order your copy NOW will be a success. It will prove to be the beginning of still greater things. The hour while they last. is late. The coming of Christ is soon to be revealed. It is time for the youth to join hands with the pastor in finishing the work, that Christ may come. 16 THE MINISTRY LJoutn (join (jiana

vvitln LPastors

LAWRENCE NELSON

Associate Secretary, General Conference MV Department

M©I ISSIONARY VOLUN Bible studies, preaching the Word, touch TEERS believe the time ing hearts with their friendship, and in has arrived for God©s youth organizing branch Sabbath schools. We to join hands with the pastors have also discovered that these endeavors, in active soul winning. Years concluded by a special series of evangelistic ago the servant of the Lord meetings conducted by the pastor, bring wrote that there should be large numbers to decisions. This is why the one hundred workers where youth are reaching out their hands to join there is now one. Problems of finance have the pastors in finishing the task. so far made this impossible, but this godly During 1964 each Missionary Volunteer counsel can still become a reality. We be Society is being asked to conduct one of lieve that Sister White was actually calling four recommended evangelistic projects, to for individual church member participa be followed immediately by special meet tion. Now the Advent youth are taking a ings conducted by the pastor, evangelist, or step in the direction of assuming this re conference MV secretary. The four sug sponsibility. gested projects are (1) An MV Voice of 1964 will become a year of great signifi Youth series, (2) Operation Fireside, (3) cance to our youth movement. Through Friendship Teams, or (4) a branch Sab the North American Division MV TAR bath school. An attractive pamphlet titled GET 3000 is being received with tremen MV TARGET 3000, describing every de dous enthusiasm. It is a plan calling for tail of this program, is being sent to each every Missionary Volunteer Society to en pastor in the North American Division, gage in direct soul-winning evangelism this and sufficient copies will be provided for year. One thousand youth evangelistic proj the MV Society leadership. ects are planned, and we are praying that The pastor is always looking for new three thousand baptisms will result. In the methods to develop interest and spiritual world field we anticipate five thousand awakening among the church at large. MV projects with fifteen thousand baptisms. TARGET 3000 has the potential of pro Within the senior youth segment of the ducing an entirely new outlook through church there are thousands of young men out the church. Both young and old can de and women who with the proper counsel velop a new experience in God as they and direction can become mighty soul win strive to help their fellow men prepare to ners. This army of youth could be a great meet the Lord. Many perplexing problems source in producing baptism candidates for of youth discipline within the church will the pastor each year. disappear when the youth are challenged Experience is a good teacher. In working to use their talents and energies in service with our youth we have discovered that for Christ. The greatest program of train- they can become -very successful in giving (Continued on page 16} DECEMBER, 1963 17 Some LPulpits i/ ulave J\nown

R. W. ENGSTROM

Minister, Mountain View. California

SProtestantism, seemed to have be "Don©t preach above people©s heads," come the footstool of a new ruler the says one observer. "The man who shoots Cult of Consultation. The sermon had lost above the target does not prove thereby its character as an Event, either for the that he has superior ammunition. He just preacher or the congregation. It has be proves he can©t shoot." come hardly more than a space-filling Paul intimated that the man is a barbar homily in a highly liturgical or folksay ian who uses languages that the people do impromptu exercise preparatory to the cof not understand. Doubtless referring to this, fee break." 6 Charles G. Finney observes: " ©I have some A message that appeals to the selfish ego times heard ministers preach, even when of the unregenerate heart of one who wants there was a revival, when I have wondered mental peace without being disturbed very what that part of the congregation would much by the sterner attributes of the gos do, who had no dictionary. So many phrases pel, is something we should shun with all were brought in, manifestly to adorn the our hearts. While we, of all men, should discourse, rather than to instruct the peo bring a message of peace, it must never ple, that I have felt as if I wanted to tell the come from any other source than the cross. man, "Sit down, and not confound the peo Another intriguing pulpit I would like ple©s minds with your barbarian preaching, to describe is that they cannot understand." © " s The Wobbly Pulpit The next pulpit I would like to men In mid-Manhattan we searched for a tion is space in which to hold a midweek Bible The Modernistic Pulpit study course in connection with a Sunday evening series, and we found one in a While teaching in an overseas junior col friendly second-floor employment agency. lege, I often preached from this pulpit. In All space was at a premium, and so the remodeling the chapel, the architect had only storage that could be provided was a lavished his most functional ideas on the tiny cupboard, in which we must store all pulpit, and it was, indeed, an example of our materials including a pulpit. Under modern design. I never felt quite at home such conditions the only possible pulpit behind that pulpit, though, of course, there was a folding music stand! Before I became was really nothing wrong with it. But it did accustomed to this one, I had tipped it over set me to thinking about the possibility several times, losing my study notes and of modernism in our pulpits. We shudder Bible in the process. Finally, I learned to think of that, for of all men we are most never to lean on it or to touch it in any fundamental. I am not thinking of yester way but to use it simply as a place on which day©s modernism of Fosdick or Eddy or to keep my lessons. DECEMBER, 1963 19 But it did start me to musing about the tion. We must assure our people when we solidity of the Christian pulpit. Today men come to a new church, that they may bring and women look for a solid pulpit, some their Catholic or Baptist or Methodist thing steadfast in a shaky world. As watch friends and they will hear God©s message at men in God©s pulpit we must give a certain the eleven o©clock hour. sound. People should know exactly where Promotion can be handled in other ways we stand. by the pastoral letter, by the church You may have heard this description of newssheet, by telephone, and other means. modern preaching: "You must repent after Personal experience has shown that cam a fashion, you must be converted in a meas paigns handled with little or no Sabbath ure, or you will be damned, to a certain promotion actually have better results. extent." Today we need a voice of author Now, for one of the most intriguing of ity not of man, but of God©s Word; pulpits all, we shall note that are solid, that will not fold up under pressure; pulpits built on the Rock of Ages. The Wirepulling Pulpit The next pulpit is one that has troubled Some years ago I pastored a church us all perhaps from time to time. We shall whose sanctuary had been purchased from call it a Spiritualist congregation. When the The Promotion-filled Pulpit church was remodeled and the old rostrum We were called to labor in a great East removed, an intricate system of wires and ern city and had entered the empty church pulleys was found, leading from the pulpit to get acquainted. I made my way up front, to the church office. Evidently it was neces sat down where we usually sit to get the sary to assist the "spirits" in this way that feel of the new surroundings. The pulpit they might function properly! was good-looking, solid, well built, but And it was easy to begin to think about from the back I saw something else. Inside wirepulling in the pulpit. Are we ever were two shelves, both heaped high with guilty of that? the most complete collection of promotion One day I talked to a fellow worker who remains I had ever seen. There were In was aspiring to something more glamorous gathering materials, various building fund than his present work. I suggested that ac blanks, literature campaign folders in cording to our philosophy of life God has fact, a complete history of all promotion of a special place for each of us and He will the past few years. guide us into that place if we permit Him. Once more I began to meditate this For we are told that "not more surely is the time about promotion in the pulpit. As a place prepared for us in the heavenly man boy in the twenties, I became an Adventist sions than is the special place designated in the time sometimes referred to as the on earth where we are to work for God."" heyday of promotion, when entire Sabbath In view of this there can be no need of, or morning hours were devoted to projects of purpose in wirepulling. Manipulation for all kinds. Mother and I always hesitated influence in our work is an unfortunate to bring our friends, for we never knew method of seeking advancement. If we have what an eleven o©clock hour might bring found our place and remain surrendered forth. And even today, promotion reigns to Him, what more can we desire? supreme in many pulpits. What is the rem The next pulpit I would like to tell of is edy for all this? Banish all promotion? The fully-equipped Pulpit We can hardly do that and remain in our work. We recognize that, as long as time My church was being remodeled and the lasts, we shall have these campaigns and building committee went all out on the pul projects. What, then, shall we do? pit. I almost felt like a jet-plane pilot We need to plan and pray that promo preaching there. It had every kind of tion may be handled without using the gadget: an electric clock, a red signal com sacred Sabbath morning hour. I appreciate plete with switch at the presiding elder©s a resolution from a recent General Con chair, several microphones, a complete sig ference Fall Council, urging that we safe nal system, and the pulpit was adjustable guard the Sabbath sermon hour. We should for preachers of various sizes. so plan our service that when our people There was nothing wrong about all this, look wistfully to the pulpit at this time, but it did remind me of a trend in our they will hear preaching and not promo- work, the use of gadgets and gimmicks and 20 THE MINISTRY accessories of all sorts that tend to push preaching to the side. Doubtless many of LETTERS TO THE EDITOR these are good, but has this trend weakened the strong central fact that preaching, good straight-from-the-shoulder pulpit work, is "I would like to give a word of appreciation to still most important? the editorial staff for the bountiful inspirational We note: "Evangelistic work, opening material that appears in each issue of THE MIN the Scriptures to others, warning men and ISTRY. It is truly a boon to all young ministers." women of what is coming upon the world, M. H. STEVENSON, South Africa is to occupy more and still more of the time of God©s servants." s Certainly this in dicates a reversal of the trends of today. ence. As hungry worshipers look toward the Now I would like to acquaint you with pulpit, may they see first the cross. Again three pulpits that I like very much. The we are reminded: "No discourse should first one we shall call ever be delivered without presenting Christ and Him crucified as the foundation of the The Pulpit on Fire gospel." 10 My electrician friend had equipped my The final pulpit, one I shall never for pulpit with a rheostat for dimming the get, is church lights during public meetings. It The Life-saving Pulpit worked beautifully, but he had warned me I saw this one once, and preached one ser never to leave the control lever part way mon from it, but it made an unforgettable on, for it would overheat. One prayer impression. We were returning from Eu meeting evening, I walked up to the pul rope, and the ship©s steward requested me pit beforehand, and discovered it was so to preach on shipboard that Sunday morn hot that I almost burned my hand. We ing, which I consented to do. As I stood quickly carried it into the office and opened behind the sacred desk out on the high the pulpit door as a puff of smoke came seas of a stormy Atlantic, I was intrigued out. The pulpit was on fire! by the pulpit from which I preached. It It was only natural to think, Is not that was large and square and solid, but of what just what we need today? Lukewarm pul it was made I could not tell, for it was com pits surely have no place in Adventist pletely covered by a large American flag. churches. It has been said that next to After the service I lingered in the salon; godliness comes enthusiasm. The biggest curiosity got the better of me and I lifted compliment I ever received was when the flag. I discovered that the sailors had someone said: "You preached today as if used a number of square life preservers you really meant it." People will come out piled like bricks, and then covered the to see burning pulpits. whole with the flag. I thought, what better I thought of the words: "Every dis symbol of the pulpit could we possibly find course should be given under a sense of the than this honoring our country and sav awful judgments soon to fall on the world. ing souls for eternity! And I asked myself, The message of truth is to be proclaimed Is my pulpit a lifesaver and a life preserver by lips touched with a live coal from the to my people? Do I bring life to others divine altar." 9 through the work of the pulpit message? Another pulpit I like very much is the Paul aptly says that men are saved, not by foolish preaching, but by "the foolishness of Cross-shaped Pulpit preaching." All about us are earnest people It was used by an evangelist friend for looking wistfully to the pulpit for the public meetings a rustic pulpit made of strength that they need as they struggle on, two logs in the form of a cross, and as the often in the dark. congregation looked toward the preacher May they never be disappointed. they saw first, the cross. It was not a beau REFERENCES 1 Psalm 18:14. tiful, ornate cross, but the old rugged cross, 2 Christ's Object Lessons, p. 336. Italics supplied. 3 Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 146, 147. that somewhat must have resembled the 41 Carlyle B. Haynes, The Divine Art of Preaching, p. 134. original one. And I thought, Is not this the • Ibid., p. 140. « Christianity Today, June 7, 1963, p. 3. supreme purpose of all preaching? To 7 Christ's Object Lessons, p. 327. 8 Evangelism, p. 17. make the pulpit remind our people of the 9 Testimonies, vol. 8, pp. 36, 37. cross is the only true purpose of its exist- « Ibid., vol. 4, p. 394. DECEMBER, 1963 21 cJn of the (bvoluttonary Concept

(Concluded)

H. G. HADLEY, M.D.

Washington, D.C.

OJNE1 great difficulty the sci The interpretations made of these observa entists found was in the tions were an attempt to reconcile the evo question of lost species, as lutionary concept of the geological find they were unwilling to admit ings with the general belief in scriptural that any should become ex inspiration. Thomas Burnet somehow for tinct because that would seem got that the Scripture represented the Del to make the universe imper uge as a punishment inflicted upon man fect.1 Thomas Jefferson was kind and instead attempted to explain that among those who believed that nature©s the whole train of cause and effect was economy could allow no race of animals divinely synchronized with the events of to become extinct.2 human history. He was willing to take Cuvier held the theory that there had any amount of time to accomplish the occurred a series of geological upheavals observed changes. "Take a million, ©tis all where "the thread of operation is broken, one . . . more time, and the same effect the march of nature changed," to com still follows." 7 promise the requirements of science with Because changes of death and decay were traditionalism.3 observed in the earth, it was thought by Newton sought to develop a single phi some that the same must occur in the celes losophy of nature from the two somewhat tial bodies. Hooke thought that there was opposite views of Boyle and Ray, the idea a continual decay tending to a final dis that nature, while a self-contained system solution, "not only of terrestial beings, but of motion and matter, was still created by of celestial, even of the sun, moon and an omnipresent, omnipotent God. As sci stars and of the heavens themselves." 8 The entists attempted to explain the produc notion of perpetual change in nature was tion of new species on earth by chance not at first linked with the idea of per and struggle, it seemed that the uniformity petual progress. Buffon put aside Scripture, in the planetary system also should be al the account of the Deluge, and tried to lowed the effect of choice.4 explain all change by the system of matter Boyle©s theory was that, although the uni in motion. He tried to find the answer in verse was once formed by God and upheld the observed daily workings of nature by Him, all phenomena as seen today were rather than in cataclysmic events. He physically produced by the mechanical thought that natural operation could create properties of the parts of matter.5 Wells, new continents.9 in 1818, thought that nature had fitted each As volcanic action and the forces of water variety efficiently for its geographical hab appeared responsible for the observed dis itation. turbances of the earth, the problem of the Thomas Wright believed that the sun antiquity of the earth was raised. Buffon might be governed by a still more active developed the theory of epochs to explain force and that the "stars themselves are the various changes found in earth©s geo subject to no other direction than that logical strata.10 Arduino believed in the con which moves the whole machine of na ception of the uniformity of nature©s opera ture." 6 While observed changes in the tions in the earth©s surface and that hap heavens were few and difficult of interpreta penings in the remotest ages produced the tion, the changes on the earth©s surface effects seen abundantly in every region of were so marked that Franklin commented the earth.11 The forces of water seemed, to that it was "a wreck of a world we live in." some, to have a greater effect than the forces 22 THE MINISTRY of fire, and Werner held that there must progress without recognizing the moral have been a "mighty inundation which aspects of the power of choice. rose to a height equal perhaps to the Thomas Huxley recognized that those highest mountains." 12 who spoke of the "ethics of evolution" were In the year of Buffion©s death, 1788, Hut- fanatical in thinking that the law of the ton developed the theory of uniformity jungle would result in the "ethical progress which stated that by "examining things of society." 19 It is now realized that war is present we have data from which to reason not evolution, but a disease and a result with regard to what has been." He believed of pathological thinking. that processes formed a regulative and pre serving system of matter in motion and REFERENCES 1 John Ray, Three Physio-Theological Discourses, 3d ed. found "no vestige of a beginning no (London: 1713), pp. 149-154. 2 Thos. Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, III, Member Ameri prospect of an end." 1S He thought there can Academy of Arts and Sciences, pp. 427, 1904. were no powers to be admitted, except those 3 Georges Cuvier, Essay on the Theory of the Earth (New York: 1818), p. 44. of which we know the principle, and that 4 Isaac Newton, Optichs, 4th ed. (London: 1730), p. 376. 5 Robert Boyle, The Excellence and Grounds of the no extraordinary events could be allowed Mechanical Philosophy, 4th ed. (London: 1730), p. 376. to explain common experiences. The 6 Thos. Wright, An Original Theory on New Hypothesis of the Universe (London: 1750), pp. 51, 52. powers of nature could not, therefore, be 7 Thos. Burnet, The Sacred Theory of the Earth, 7th ed. (London: 1759), pp. 47-49. employed to destroy the very object of s Robert Hooke, Posthumous Works, Richard Waller, ed. these powers. Nature could not, therefore, (London: 1705), pp. 435, 436. 9 Comte Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Natural His act in violation of the observed order and tory, trans. Smellie, 3d ed., pp. 365, 366. 10 , Les Epoques de la Nature (Paris: 1780), pp. subvert the purpose to be seen in the system 3, 4. of created things." Kirwan objected to the 11 Giovanni Arduino, Sagio Fisico-meneralogico de Lytho- gonia, e Orognosia (Venice: 1775), p. 201. view of this world as false and imperfect, 12 J. F. d©Aubuisson, An Account of the Basalts of Saxony, trans. P. Neill (Edinburgh: 1814), pp. 239, 240. because that could imply the formation 13 James Hutton. Theory of the Earth, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: of a future earth.15 He had a somewhat 1795), pp. 19, 22. "Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 200, 547. materialistic view of nature, for he con w lbid., vol. 1, pp. 200, 209. 16 Richard Kirwan, Geological Essays (London: 1799). ceived the light in Genesis 1:2 as coming 17 Georges Cuvier and Alexandra Bronquiart, Essai sur from erupting volcanoes.18 la Geosraphie Mineralogique des Environs de Paris (Paris: 1811), p. 253. The theory that the final cause of all the "John Playfair, The Work of John Playjair, James G. Plavfair, ed., vol. 1 (Edinburgh: 1822), rjp. 147, 148. vast revolution on the globe was for the 19 Thomas Huxley, Evolution and Ethics and Other Es purpose of the maintenance of human life, says (New York: 1896), p. 83. met the obstacle of the fact that the means was often entirely out of proportion to the end. Many who attempted to demon strate the presence of a natural system thought they were tracing out means ordained by God to provide a setting for On Putting the "Pro" human activities. However, they actually in Protestant substituted a general force operated by law and considered the findings to be the Some today would interpret the word Protestant as though it meant a protest against, but in its result of the entire system of matter in origin it was a protest for an idea and a cause. motion. This was the natural consequence To be a Protestant means not first of all to ob of limiting themselves to the observation ject; it means to affirm something positive. The of fact.17 They were willing to allow time, good Protestant is constantly witnessing both and thought that the individual who found against falsehood, and for the truth. We Protestants himself limited by the lack of time and need to remember this, and to place a greater em space forgot that the riches of nature phasis upon the positive character of our witness. reject all limitation.18 Pro is a positive prefix. It means to be for some The evolutionary theory, instead of solv thing. To pro-ceed or to pro-gress means to move forward. The second syllable in Protestant comes ing the origin of all things, is actually an from the Latin testari, to affirm, to give witness. We evolution of thought; a mutation of ideas, find the same root in test-ify and tesi-imony. . . . and a natural selection of theory with We as Protestants witness not alone to our distinc adaptation to the philosophy of time. This tive Reformation heritage, but to all of the Word was an attempt to rationalize materialism of God.—The Church Herald. and substitute the laws of matter in mo tion for the laws of God, and resulted from the desire to find a method of permanent DECEMBER. 1963 23 EVANGELISM - Winning Men for God

(bvangeusm Ctmong the Spanish ^People

in I lortn (America

WESLEY AMUNDSEN Secretory, North American Missions

UBLIC evangelism as car in the United States is an exception. Pried on among English- There are large concentrations of these peo language people in North ple in the Greater New York City area and America generally differs in the Southern California and Texas and widely from the evangelistic Texico conferences. approach made to foreign- Recent experiments in the field of Span language people in this world ish-language public evangelism in the division. There is one excep Southern California Conference have tion to this rule the work for the Spanish- proved that this method of soul winning speaking peoples. can be just as successful when conducted It is important that we take note of the along right lines as are similar soul-winning tremendous field in which work must be endeavors in the English-language fields. done for the peoples of other languages in Thanks to the South American Division, this land. For example, there are in the especially the Austral Union, for their will United States 22 million people who read, ingness to allow Evangelist Salim Japas to speak, think, and write in some language remain in the United States for a period of other than English as their mother tongue. time after the General Conference session Add to that 8 million in Canada and we in 1962, for the purpose of demonstrating have a total of 30 million. Most of the work evangelistic methods used in South Ameri done among these people is on a personal can cities. The report that follows, writ contact method. The people of other lan ten by one of our outstanding pastor-evan guages must be sought out practically on gelists in the Spanish work in North Amer the basis of the one-by-one method. Some ica, Samuel Weiss, is indeed thrilling. The are gathered in through radio and Bible methods used in reaching people whose correspondence school activities. This type religious background is usually Roman of evangelism has none of the glamour or Catholic, are new, but the evidence proves publicity that public evangelistic efforts that the third angel©s message can be made for English-language people have. But acceptable to people of all languages and these people must be reached with the persuasions when presented in the right third angel©s message. God©s people will way. be considered negligent if these are passed Upon the conclusion of his work in Cali by as being of little or no account. fornia, Elder Japas spent a week or so with The work of evangelism among 5 or 6 the Spanish - language workers of the million people using the Spanish language Greater New York Conference, instructing 24 THE MINISTRY [Elder Salim Japas, evangelist of the Austral Union of the them in the technique of reaching the South American Division, has just completed a successful masses in that great mission field. The re evangelistic campaign. One hundred and twenty souls have been baptized, right in the heart of the giant city of Los sults of this added assistance to the North Angeles!] American Division will be manifest in the closing months of 1963, inasmuch as one of our Spanish evangelists is now using a simi OW was it done? It was a very simple lar evangelistic approach in one of the H plan that Salim Japas, who is a master densely populated Spanish-language areas in the art of winning souls, carried out. of New York City. First, he secured the cooperation of the God©s messenger wrote the following entire church in attending all the meetings. years ago, but it is just as applicable today Every worker was assigned to a specific task as it was when first written: for the crusade itself. Celestino Roque had "It is well that those in responsibility are charge of the children, and he did an out now planning wisely to proclaim the third standing job. Jose A. Diaz was director of angel©s message to the hundreds of thou visual aids; Chester Robinson and Joel sands of foreigners in America. God desires Sepulveda saw to the physical arrangement His servants to do their full duty toward the of the hall. These two men had the help of unwarned millions of the cities, and espe the Bible instructors and an enthusiastic cially toward those who have come to these group of boys and girls of the church. cities in our land from the nations of Three crusades were held simultane earth." Evangelism, pp. 569, 570. ously. In Temple City, Gonzalo Alva had charge of the meetings, with lay members assisting. Augusto Britton and Angel de la Torre were responsible for the meetings held at the Educational Center next to our Spanish church in San Fernando. Two & Works! meetings each week were held in each loca tion. Another large meeting was held twice weekly at the St. Louis Street Educational Center which belongs to our four central SAMUEL WOSS Spanish churches. On Sunday we had to Pastor, Spanish American Church have two sessions here, since it was impos Los Angeles, California sible to seat all the people who came to the meetings. One month before the campaign began,

S. Weiss and S. Japas (front row) with the workers who participated in the campaign. The Spanish Education Cen ter where some of the meetings were held.

1,500 Spanish Bibles were purchased for religious songs; neither was there prayer. A use in the meetings. For three Sabbath short introductory talk was given on the mornings lay members were instructed in first night by B. F. Perez, the speaker of the every aspect of the campaign. The members Spanish Voice of Prophecy, in which he in were counseled not to use the words "Pas troduced Salim Japas. tor," "Elder," "Brother," or "Sister," but From the start of the crusade the audi to say "Senor," "Sefiora," or "Senorita" in ence was enthusiastic about Elder Japas© stead. presentations. Four introductory lectures At each location every chair was occu were given one on current events; one pied every night. There was no singing of about the home and children; a third about

Some of the new believers who were baptized in Los Angeles. love, courtship, and marriage; and a fourth wanted to be baptized also participated. It on the Bible. At the end of the fourth was a very spiritual meeting, and many de meeting a short prayer was offered; from cisions for Christ were made that evening. that meeting onward prayer was offered be When the time came for Elder Japas to fore and after each meeting. go back to South America, a big meeting On the fifth night each person over was scheduled in Paulson Hall for all the twelve years old was given a new Bible, Spanish churches in the conference. The a card on which was the number of the place was too small; we did not know that Bible, and a red pencil. Each person wrote we had so many Spanish believers. More his name on the card, but not on the Bible. than 1,400! It has been my privilege to The Bible, the speaker said, was only lent continue the meetings since Elder Japas for twenty meetings. If, during that time, left. I have used the same methods plain sixteen meetings were attended, the Bible simple Bible studies. We have had two bap would become the property of the person tisms since then and more are scheduled. attending and the name could be written We are sure that the Bible-marking plan is in the Book. Adventists and non-Advent- God©s plan. The people are responding in ists participated in this plan. All Spanish a wonderful way. Many who never owned a churches contributed funds with which to Bible are now good Bible students and pay for the Bibles. members of God©s remnant church. Yes, it At the next meeting each person gave his works! number and received the same Bible again. If an individual forgot his number, we had the file of cards numbered, so we could look up the name and find the number tbvangeusm for tn there. We also had a list of the name and number of each person, and when he re ceived his Bible, we marked him present, so we knew exactly how each one stood. in The fifth night Elder Japas gave a simple but very interesting Bible study. We printed all the lessons and at the end of I lew Ljorb the meeting they were distributed. Many people confessed that they did not know that the things the Adventists were teach ing were in the Bible. When this type of WOLFE ISMOND study began, the people became enthusias Business Manager, Times Square Center, N.Y. tic and the halls were filled. New people came. Some held a Bible for the first time. Soon we had our first baptism, then the CONCENTRATION of second, and the third. At every baptism A two and one-half million calls were made. At the end of our first Jews living in New York City, baptism, more than one hundred people presents a tremendous chal came forward. The ministers and the Bible lenge and responsibility to instructors had more than they could do. us to bring the last warning More help was secured. Finally, around message to these people who Christmas time, we decided to celebrate the were originally destined to be Lord©s Supper at our evangelistic meeting! kings and priests in the world. But because "Impossible!" said some; "It cannot be of disobedience to God they have reached a done," others added. But Elder Japas, a stage of spiritual declension and indiffer very quiet but firm person, insisted that it ence. Adherence to outdated traditions and would work. "Give me a chance and you customs that are more social than religious will see the Lord will help us get decisions has erected barriers very difficult to over that night." Since it was on a Sunday night come. Antagonism to anything Christian, we had two sessions. Both meetings were though modified considerably because of well attended. Brother Japas explained intermarriage and business and social con how the ordinances were carried out and tacts, still rankles in Jewish hearts. who: should participate. As a result almost Coupled with this are the problems that all the members took part and those who every large city has the many attractions, DECEMBER, 1963 27 distance, radio, television, et cetera. The Gentiles accepted the God of Israel. But task of attracting Jewish people to any re before they could become full-fledged Jews ligious meeting, and a Christian one they had to undergo baptism by immersion especially, is formidable. We have been led as well as circumcision and participation in to use the health message as a main attrac the sanctuary service. tion, appealing to the desire that everyone Christianity is deeply embedded in has for health and peace of mind. For this Judaism. When Jewish people realize the purpose Elder J. M. Hoffman has prepared wonderful link between true Judaism and thousands of beautiful color slides dealing true Christianity, and what is being done with health and diet as well as Bible sub through God©s remnant church, they accept jects. Each meeting is concluded with fully the instruction given through the questions from the floor. messenger of the Lord. The wonderful health message that God God has richly blessed the work here. We has given us causes the people to realize feel that, though we must make many that we have something to offer them that improvements and even changes in our they need. Bible subjects are closely inter methods, we are on the right track in so woven with the health message, such as the far as the work for the Jews is concerned. importance of obeying the health laws of It is gratifying to hear some of our new Moses and the keeping of the Ten Com Jewish believers thank us for bringing them mandments. Before very long these lectures, this wonderful Advent message, as well as using the slides only, create an interest not the peace, health, and happiness they enjoy. only in physical health but in the Bible, The message of the soon coming of Jesus and we are able to reveal the close spiritual is presented later, and the responses to the relationship between mind and body. many altar calls soon give us a nucleus In order to strengthen the interest a for a baptismal class. We take the name and special class was organized, which was called address of each one who responds. Every Health and Peace of Mind Class. This Sabbath afternoon a special class meets in class met an hour before each lecture and which candidates get further instruction the attendance was good. Approximately preparatory to baptism. forty persons attended, half of whom were It appears that large numbers of Jewish Jewish people. In this class we have used people join the Pentecostals, Unitarians, the lessons and questionnaires in the Jehovah©s Witnesses, Christian Scientists, Hebrew Scripture Course and the Home and others, and we believe that with God©s Health Education Series No. 1 and No. 2. help we can win many of them to Christ Two chapters were studied every Sunday, and His message for these last days. Many of the papers were corrected and returned. the Jewish people are searching for the The textbooks used were the three volumes truth. One woman who has been attending of Israel's Heritage. This enabled us to get regularly both our evangelistic meetings a good idea of the thinking and reactions and our Sabbath services has admitted that of the people regarding not only the lessons she loves Jesus and His teachings, but for but the third angel©s message. the time being she must do it secretly. The subject of baptism by immersion has Our courage is good, and we look forward been a problem, for to the average Jew to the fulfillment of the prophecy promised baptism is linked with Roman Catholicism by the Lord©s messenger that in the last and what the Jewish people have suffered days many of the Jewish people will come through the centuries from these professed and join God©s remnant people in numbers Christians. It is interesting to note, how as great as in the days of Pentecost: ever, that baptism by immersion was prac The time has come when the Jews are to be ticed by the Jews for centuries when the given light. The Lord wants us to encourage and heathen accepted Judaism. The nations sustain men who shall labor in right lines for this surrounding the Israelites after they people; for there are to be a multitude convinced occupied the land of Canaan, witnessed of the truth, who will take their position for God. Ellen G. White in Review and Herald, June 29, the wonderfully disciplined and well- 1905, p. 8. organized nation of Israel, their worship of the living God, their civil laws, and the We thank God for all that has thus far Lord©s mighty power revealed through been accomplished, and look forward to the them. Those heathen nations were deeply time when there will be a rich harvest of impressed, and hundreds of thousa©nds of souls from our Jewish people in New York. 28 THE MINISTRY iBtble \bvangeltsm in u\elatton to the 11 lass llteata of Communication

(Concluded)

GLENN L. SHAFER

I ASS evangelism has known to man. It is the cry of the modern proved definitely depend evangelist. The burden of Elijah©s heart as able. The Old Testament he felt his aloneness reaches down to us stresses its value in a hun today and often the evangelist feels that he dred places. The New Testa is the only one who is impelled to pay serv ment repeats its lessons ice to God in the sea of humanity. This throughout the ministry of experience of Elijah has probably strength Christ and the Acts of the ened and encouraged the hearts of religious Apostles." 1 champions who have read this account In the Old Testament, illustrations of from the time of Christ unto this very day. mass evangelism are legion. All the proph Ezra propounded the law to the Jews, ets dealt with the multitudes and delivered and they turned from their ways. Moses, burning messages to great concourses of Joshua, Nehemiah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Eze- people the only effective way, at that kiel, Hosea all were prophets who dealt time, of reaching any considerable number. with the multitudes and utilized to the max But distances had not grown shorter then imum the prevailing methods of mass com as they have in this day of jet travel. Groups munication. Jonah, though reluctant at were kept to the confines of geographically first, sounded the evangelistic cry to the designated areas, and within these areas city of Nineveh and his coverage must have the prophets preached, and did an adequate been total, for we are told that the entire coverage of the then-known territory. city turned from their wicked ways and At Shechem, Joshua admonished the the city was saved (Jonah 3:10). children of Israel to follow the Lord in a The Old Testament records the work manner that potently pointed forward to ings of one of the greatest evangelists, Heze- the thunderous rebukes that were given kiah, whose evangelizing transformed the in the nineteenth century A.D. by Spirit- whole nation of Judah (2 Kings 18). This filled evangelists. The methods were ex must be the inward desire of every man of tremely similar, though they spanned mil God who goes forth to proclaim the mes lenniums of time. sage by whatever means. At Mount Carmel, Elijah felt he was all Hezekiah "put God first." This is the alone, yet he gave the crowd an appeal that true requirement for revival, and there can is timeless; it has reached down through be no revival with individual or group un the years. "If the Lord be God, follow him: til that individual or that group desires to but if Baal, then follow him" (1 Kings put spiritual interests before physical or 18:21). material interests. This is also the first pre This challenge that Elijah hurled to the requisite for the promoter of revival the throng is not out of date. It has been the evangelist. This one precept would do away basis of all the evangelistic appeals made to with many of the criticisms we have previ all the people through all the methods ously mentioned. And without this per- DECEMBER, 1963 29 sonal revival of the individual evangelist, preaching Jesus. "The presentation of the he will not prevail, whatever the methods Christian faith in a world significantly and coverage. shaped by mass media of communication is "It will be all in vain for us to emulate the a task that concerns the whole church." 3 apostolic methods in our day if we have lost the The individual evangelist is concerned apostolic message. Evangelism without words, with with reaching the masses, but he cannot do out a message, is a contradiction. . . . Missionary it by himself. And it is only as the individ boards rightly emphasize the highest physical and ual Christian activates himself in service intellectual qualifications for candidates, but even more strongly insist that they be spiritually quali that the theory of the gospel message is go fied. Only spiritual men are a real acquisition and ing to be seen permeating the conscious reinforcement in the conduct of a spiritual enter ness of the world by demonstration. prise. . . . Not until a man©s life has been trans It might be well to state here that re formed by the power of the message he goes to pre gardless of the high degree of coverage that sent, is he ready to endure the hardship and to be has been achieved by twentieth-century faced with the adversity which is sure to be his ex mass media, and its tremendous influence perience." 2 upon individuals, and despite the empathy New Testament Evangelism that might be achieved between the pre In the New Testament there is no ques senter and the listening audience by a com tion as to the first and foremost evangelist. munication medium, yet there never has John the Baptist filled the country with his been achieved the height of impact that is cry of repentance and salvation (Matt. 3:1- the result of personal communication in 5). We might decry his methods as we look volving a "relationship" of persons, be that upon them from the vantage ground of the a related community or an individual as twentieth century. They might even seem opposed to several thousands of individuals archaic in comparison with the large "mass watching one man, say, on television.4 meetings" of the Old Testament evange This bears out the fact that above and lists, but apparently he knew what he was beyond all the media that have been per doing. The important thing to remember fected, the spoken word is the ultimate, and about the Baptist is that he had a message. as such, every serious evangelist will make This is most important in any age or geo use of this medium in conjunction with the graphical situation. We might say that an utilization of other media. other prime prerequisite (we mentioned "The Apostle Paul stands forth as God©s that of individual, personal revival, or ded prototype for the whole Christian ication) is that there must be a message. church." 5 It is thrilling to read of the evan This is the foremost point that we can gelistic tours of Paul. It is only as we use learn, from a theoretical point of view, the entire scope of our imagination that from the evangelizing of John the Baptist. we can come near to the realization of what People came to hear him. Perhaps this is this man actually did. The word evangelis the lack in the religious atmosphere of tic is not used in the Bible, but what could today. We have to hunt for the people; be more patently evangelistic than the cov they came out to hear John. He had a Sav erage of this man. It is monumental when iour to proclaim; should we proclaim any we think of the communication tools with thing less? which he had to work. If we have previously Jesus, our greatest example, led the way listed as prerequisites for an evangelist in the preparation of laymen and the out those of dedication and message, the study line for the personal work of the visitation of the evangelical Paul would definitely program (Luke 10:1-16). In Winning Men, force us to place compulsion on the list too. J. T. Stone advocates the personal touch. He had a sense of compulsion that even In several chapters of this book he stresses communicates itself to us today after a pe individual relationship, "table talk," per riod of more than 1,900 years. We can un sonal testimony, and individual effort. All derstand that it was this driving compul of these were Jesus© ways of dealing with sion that was the communicative agent that men. made his work a success. We might ask, "What have these to do Paul says "The love of Christ constrain- with ©mass work?" Inestimable is the in eth us" (2 Cor. 5:14), and this is what is fluence that a church on fire for God can gained from a study of the passages of Paul exert. We have the example of the early ine scripture outlining his missionary apostolic church, which went "everywhere" (Continued on page 35} 30 THE MINISTRY RESEARCH-Theology, History, Science

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Assistant Professor of Religion, Pacific Union College L. R. VAN DOLSON

[Opinions presented here are intended to stimulate objective thinking but do not necessarily represent the views of the I began to restudy the 1260-year proph editors.] ecy to see if there could be any way of reshuffling the dates of the prophecies of FEW days ago as I was Daniel 12 so that the period indicated in A studying the question of Daniel 12:12 would end in 1844. I came the chronology of Luke 3 I to the same conclusion as that expressed learned of the possibility of by C. Mervyn Maxwell in his Master of A.D. 26 for the baptism of Arts thesis entitled "An Examination of Jesus. One problem in this the Beginning and Ending of the 1260 Days date was its correlation with of Prophecy with Special Attention Given the 70-week prophecy of Dan to A.D. 538 and 1798." In the abstract of iel. This would necessitate a 458 B.C. date this thesis, as published in The Seminarian for the beginning of the 2300 days, would of July-September, 1952, he states: "The place the baptism of Christ in the fall of coincidence between this reinterpretation 26 and the death of Christ in the spring of the prophecy with the undisputed events of 30, and the conclusion of the 2300 years of history leads inevitably to the conclusion in 1843. For the first three dates there were that, in spite of the spurious nature of some fairly good evidences, and the conclusion of the arguments used to establish 538-1798, of the 2300 day-year prophecy in 1843 nevertheless these dates stand apparently would harmonize with the generally ac acceptable. Indeed they are the only ones cepted dating of the 1335 years of Daniel adequate to satisfy the requirements of the 12:12, which is 508-1843. The major con prophecy." This date for the conclusion tradiction 10 this system is the clear state of the 1260 years is also clearly supported ment in The Great Controversy, page 399, in The Great Controversy, page 356, which which unequivocally states, "Reckoning reads: "This period ended in 1798." from the autumn of 457, the 2300 years Daniel 12 refers to the close of the 1260- terminate in the autumn of 1844." Since year prophecy as marking the "time of the I accept The Great Controversy as divinely end," which would then begin in 1798. inspired, this reference led me to give up There follows in verses 11 and 12 the in any consideration of the 458 26 1843 sys troduction of two more time periods: "And tem, and I then faced the problem of why from the time that the daily sacrifice shall the 1335-day prophecy seeks to identify the be taken away, and the abomination that two prophecies with the same event. Every maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thing I have read on the 1335-year prophecy thousand two hundred and ninety days. seems to identify the two prophecies with Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the same event. Did God make a one-year the thousand three hundred and five and mistake? Of course not. What, then, is the thirty days." explanation of the one-year discrepancy The common dates assigned to these between the two? prophetic time periods by Adventist inter- DECEMBER, 1963 31 preters through correlating the 1290-day year, takes its rightful place with the other period with the ending of the 1260-day feasts, which have definite fulfillments in period is 508-1798 for the 1290 years and point of time as well as in event. 508-1843 for the 1335-year period. There Commenting on the Feast of Trumpets is one substitute system that makes some in his book The Cross and Its Shadow, sense for the 1335-year period. That is a S. N. Haskell states: "It is quite evident 496-1831 scheme of dating that would be that, like the Passover, the Feast of Trum gin with the date of the conversion of pets was both commemorative and typical. Clovis, leader of the Franks in 496, which It came ten days before the day of atone gave the church a strong political ally and ment, the type of the great investigative an effective sword for more than 12 cen judgment which opened in 1844, at the end turies (The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. of the long prophetic period of the twenty- 4, pp. 836, 837). The 1335 years would then three hundred years of Dan. 8:14. In the terminate with the beginning of William type the trumpets were blown throughout Miller©s preaching of the 2300-year proph Israel, warning all of the near approach ecy. However, the 1290-year prophecy does of the solemn day of atonement. In the not fit into this scheme. antitype we should expect some world-wide Therefore, staying with the usual system message to be given in trumpet tones, an of dating from 508-1843, which seemed to nouncing the time near when the great an- be the only acceptable application, I began titypical day of atonement, the investiga to investigate the possibility of reapplying tive judgment, would convene in the heav the interpretation of the event that oc ens. Beginning with the years 1833-34 and curred in 1843. This proved to be a very extending down to 1844, such a message fruitful field of study. was given to the world in trumpet tones, The major prophecies of the Bible seem announcing, ©The hour of His judgment is to be closely related to the Jewish festivals come.© " Page 204. whose antitypes meet their fulfillment at If we accept the ten days separating the specific points of time. This can be illus Feast of Trumpets from the Day of Atone trated as follows: ment as symbolic, as Elder Haskell does,

Feast Day Event Time When Fulfilled Passover Death of Christ Slain between the two evenings of Nisan 14, the very hour the slaying of Passover lambs began. Sabbath o£ Feast o£ Christ rested in "Sabbath became memorial of redemption." The Unleavened Bread tomb on Sabbath Desire of Ages, p. 769. Wave Sheaf Resurrection and appear On very day when wave sheaf offered, Christ became ance before Father first fruit. Pentecost Outpouring of On the Day o£ Pentecost. Holy Spirit Day of Investigative October 22, 1844, as predicted in Daniel 8. Atonement judgment Feast of Rest in new earth Follows completion of investigative judgment. Tabernacles

The Feast of Trumpets, the feast of the we will have to revise his dating from 1843- first day of the seventh month, is omitted 1844 to 1833-1843 in line with the prophecy from this line-up. Why? Should it not, too,, of the 1335 days. The antitypical Day of have an antitypical fulfillment at a specific Atonement in 1844 thus following the pe point in history? If so, when? riod of the blowing of the trumpets. My conclusion is that it does, and that The only information given pertinent to the only time prophecy which identifies the prophecy of the 1335 days in Daniel this fulfillment as to point of time is the 12:12 is "Blessed is he that waiteth, and 1335 day-year prophecy of Daniel 12:12. In cometh" to this time. The SDA Bible Com 1843, type meets antitype, and the Feast of mentary makes the following application: Trumpets, which announced the coming "The time periods of vs. 7, 11, 12 reach of the two final feasts of the Jewish festival (Continued on page 35) 32 THE MINISTRY word begotten is used of Him as opposed to the word created. He is begotten and not created. He is the image, that is the true picture and manifestation, of the in visible God from all eternity. He is that im age in which man was first created as a pat tern of the true, and in which image man after his fall must be renewed. In that JLord sense He is distinct from all mankind, all of whom have sinned. The words "Son" and "begotten" are the only terms which the limitations of human language and (Concluded) concept can find to express the unique re lationship between these two persons of the Trinity. It is beyond human comprehen sion fully to express or fathom. A careful study of the context of Colos W. E. READ sians 1:15 will make this very clear and plain. It will be noted: Former Editor. "Israelite" Magazine 1. He is the first-born from the dead (verse 18). 2. He is the Creator of all things, and also of every creature (verse 16). Some Problem Passages 3. He has pre-eminence in all things (verse 18). 4. He is the fullness of the Godhead HERE are some texts of (verse 19 and 2:9). T Scripture that are used by 5. He is the image of the invisible God certain persons in an attempt (verse 15). to show that our Lord was a 6. He is before all things (verse 17). created being. Three of these 7. He upholdeth all things (verse 17). passages will be considered at It will be seen then, that rather than be this time. ing a creature who was created, He Himself "Who is the image of the in is the one who created all creatures. visible God, the firstborn of every creature" This thought is reflected in some of the (Col. 1:15). English translations as follows: "These things saith the Amen [Christ], Goodspeed "Born before any crea . . . the beginning of the creation of God" ture." (Rev. 3:14). Weymouth "Firstborn of all creation." "That Christ should suffer, and that he 20th Century "Firstborn and Head of should be the first that should rise from all creation." the dead" (Acts 26:23). Cunnington "Firstborn before all crea The first of these, Colossians 1:15, was tion." considered in the second article in this Fenton "The first-born of all creation." series, but we will consider it again from The International Critical Commentary a slightly different angle. has an informative note on this text: There are two particular words in the "The only tenable interpretation of the above texts which should be noted, and a words before us is ©begotten before pasa proper understanding of them will assist krisis'. . . . The only ideas involved are to a clearer view of what is intended by priority in time and distinction." 1 the writers of both Colossians and the Apoc Christ is "the firstborn of all creation," alypse. These words are "firstborn" and which is something quite different from "beginning." saying that He was made or created. If a. Firstborn Paul had wished to express the latter idea, The words "firstborn of every creature," he had available a Greek word to do so, however, could bear the rendering, "begot the word protoktistos meaning "first ten before all creation" and the context created." Actually, however, Paul used the shows that it is this which is meant. The word prototokos, meaning "first-begotten," DECEMBER, 1963 33 which signifies something quite different. "In the beginning was the Word" (John Note the following quotation from Al bert Barnes, which expresses the thought "The same was in the beginning with very well: God" (John 1:2). There can be no doubt that the apostle here "Who is the beginning, the firstborn" has reference to the usual distinctions and honours (Col. 1:18). conferred on the first-born, and means to say that, "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning" among all the creatures of God, Christ occupied a (Rev. 21:6). pre-eminence similar to that. He does not say that, The Father, speaking of Christ, says: in all respects, he resembled the first-born in a "Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid family; nor does he say that he himself was a the foundation of the earth" (Heb. 1:10). creature for the point of his comparison does not turn on these things, and what he proceeds to So Christ our Saviour is the beginning, affirm respecting him is inconsistent with the the Creator of all things. The sense then of idea of his being a created being himself. He that Revelation 3:14, could very well be ex "created all things that are in heaven and that are pressed as some translators have done. in earth," was not himself created. That the apostle R. S. V.: "The beginning of God©s crea did not mean to represent him as a creature, is tion." also manifest from the reason which he assigns Fenton: "The beginner of God©s crea why he is called the first-born. "He is the image tion." of God, and the first-born of every creature, for Knox: "The source from which God©s hoti,—by him were all things created." That is, he sustains the elevated rank of the first-born, or creation began." a high eminence over the creation, because by him Syriac: "The chief of the creation of "all things were created in heaven and in earth." God." The meaning then is that Christ sustains the Weymouth: "The Beginning and Lord most exalted rank in the universe; he is pre-eminent of God©s Creation." above all others; he is at the head of all things. A. T. Robertson©s comment on this is: He is the Son of God. He is the heir of all things. "Not the first of creatures as the Arians All other creatures are also the "offspring of God;" but he is exalted as the Son of God above all.2 held and Unitarians do now, but the origi nating source of creation through whom b. Beginning God works." 3 The Greek text of Revelation 3:14 is On Acts 26:23 "That Christ should he arche tes ktiseos ton theou. This means suffer, and that he should be the first that of God and not by God, which would re should rise from the dead" the reading of quire hupo. Actually the word arche trans the KJV presents a problem. If we take the lated "beginning" carried with it the Paul reading in its obvious sense, we would con ine idea expressed in Colossians 1:15, 16, clude that no one rose from the dead be and signifies that Christ is the origin, or fore our Lord Jesus Christ. But we are primary source of God©s creation. Com faced with the fact that several had already pare John 1:1-3: "All came into existence been raised from the dead, such as: by means of Him; and nothing came into The Shunnamite©s son 2 Kings 4:36. existence apart from Him" (Fenton). The widow©s son 1 Kings 17:23. We should remember also that the Greek The widow©s son at Nain Luke 7:11-15. word arche rendered in this text "begin The daughter of Jairus Luke 8:51, 55. ning" has the idea also of precedence in Lazarus Jonn 11:44. power, sovereignty, being vested with au On this A. T. Robertson remarks: thority, et cetera. It is the element in "arch "Others had been raised from the dead, angel" which certainly involves the idea of but Christ was the first (protos) who arose position and authority. from the dead and no longer dies (Rom. It is the word used in: 6:19) and proclaims light." 4 Jude 6 "first estate" Some of the translations make this plain: Luke 12:11 "magistrates" Syriac "Would become the first fruits Luke 20:20 "power" of the resurrection from the dead." (This Hebrews 5:12 "first principles" is in harmony with 1 Corinthians 15:20, Colossians 2:10 "principality" "But now is Christ risen . . . and become In thinking of the expression "the begin the firstfruits of them that slept.") ning of the creation of God," we should Riverside: "That He, first, by rising from bear in mind the word beginning in other the dead, would proclaim light," etc. places as it relates to Jesus our Lord. 20th Century: "And that he was to be 34 THE MINISTRY the first, by rising from the dead, to bring work as we explore the New Testament on news of light." this subject, for it was this group who were Weymouth (3d ed.): "By coming back partially responsible for the conversion of from the dead was then to be the first to Paul, thus showing the tremendous influ proclaim a message of light." ence and chain-reaction results that can What a blessed truth, that Christ our come from dedicated, compulsive, preach Lord rose from the dead! He came forth ing of a vital message. a mighty conqueror and ascended in glory Peter, John, and the rest of the disciples to the highest heaven. By His glorious res in themselves made a team, of course, al urrection He has forever assured our salva though the Lord had sent them out two tion and has made certain also the resur by two (Luke 10:1). Peter©s preaching in rection to immortal life of all His faithful the city of Jerusalem and the phenomenal children. conversions that followed were the direct REFERENCES result of personal conviction that Jesus was T-International Critical Commentary, on Col. 1:15, p. 122. 2 Albert Barnes, Notes, Expository and Practical, on the the Christ; the results he experienced were Gospels, on Col. 1:15, 18 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1850). undeniably the result of a personalized tes 3 A. T. Robertson, Word Pictures With ffeuo Testament timony. This we may add to our prerequi (London: Harder and Brothers), vol. 6, p. 321. * Ibid., vol. 3, p. 451. sites for powerful evangelizing. Regardless of the media used, regardless of expenditure, regardless of the personal ity of the speaker, without a personal testi mony his theme will be colorless and lack Bible Evangelism ing in vitality that comes only through ac (Continued from page 30) tivation of a personal conviction. Paul said, (evangelistic) journeys. No student of "I know whom I have believed" (2 Tim. evangelism should ever miss the serious 1:12). This is the knowledge that must be experienced. study of the Acts of the Apostles for the REFERENCES finest examples of effective gospel cam 1 Horace F. Dean, Christ for America (Fleming H. paigning. Revell Company, New York and London, 1943), pp. 16, 17. 2 T. T. Stone, Winning Men, p. 69. (Quoting Dr. Zwemer, There has been much said about "or Into All The World.) ganized evangelism." "Some individuals 3 Martin E. Marty, The Improper Opinion, p. 13. 4 Malcolm Boyd, Crisis in Communication, p. 111. have complained about ©too much organ 5 Horace F. Dean, Operation Evangelism, p. 113. c Frank Colquhoun, Harringay Story (Header and Stough- ized religion.© Perhaps certain of those com ton, London, 1955), p. 43. plaints might be justified, for where they come from quarters opposed to religion, their strategy is sound; disorganized reli gion is much easier to meet and contend with!" e The 1335 Days We would put forward by way of meeting this point of complaint the example of (Continued from page 32} New Testament evangelizing which not down to the ©time of the end© referred to only used the "team method" but also was in vs. 4, 9. ©Happy© (see on Matt. 5:3), says organized in pre-evangelistic work and team the angel, is the person who witnesses the campaign, plus the follow-up. dramatic events of the closing scenes of When Paul set out to evangelize Ephesus earth©s history. ... If the 1290 and the 1335 there was a well-organized method of ap days begin at the same time, the latter pe proach. Evangelistic procedures were fol riod reaches to the year 1843, a significant lowed. He sent Aquila and Priscilla ahead date in relationship to the great advent by the space of two years to work with in awakening in America, generally known terested people. Apollos of Alexandria was as the Millerite movement." The SDA then sent to be what we might call public Bible Commentary., vol. 4, p. 881. relations man. Then came Paul, accompa The year 1843, then, becomes significant nied by Timothy, Luke, and others who in the line-up of prophetic dates as that might be called experts in their fields. Paul year which especially marks the climax of had a team of about twenty organized per the antitypical Feast of Trumpets and the sons in the Ephesus campaign. Feast of Trumpets joins the ranks of the We should not overlook the active dis other great festival days that had their ful ciples of Christ and their effective group fillment not only in event, but in time. DECEMBER, 1963 35 by James L. Christensen, who is the pastor of the Central Christian church of Enid, Oklahoma. He is (communication much in demand around the country as a speaker on the varied aspects of ministerial public relations. The last section of the book concerns the broad Reaching Beyond four Pulpit, edited by Frank S. casting of religion on radio and television, written Mead, Fleming H. Revell Co., New York, 1962, by Clifford E. Moore, a pioneer in the production 190 pages, $4.50. of Protestant religious programs. Suffice it to say, your reviewer highly recommends Reaching Beyond The Outsider and the Word of God, James E. Your Pulpit. You will find it fascinating reading Sellers, Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tennessee, and it will show you how to expand your ministry- 1961, 240 pages, $4.00. through your public relations, the press, books, periodicals, radio, and television. These are two valuable books designed to aid the minister in his communications within and with The second book, The Outsider and the Word of out his church. The first book, Reaching Beyond God, is a study in Christian communication by Your Pulpit, is an excellent "how-to" anthology for James E. Sellers. Dr. Sellers was a former news the pastor who desires to broaden the influence of paper editor and assistant editor of youth publica his ministry. It is authored by five men of recog tions with the editorial division of the Methodist nized success in their respective fields of public re board of education. He is a contributing author to lations. Hiley H. Ward, the religious editor of the many periodicals. This work is a study on how the Detroit Free Press, describes the pitfalls, proce church may best reach the vast audience of un dures, and spiritual profits in skillfully using the committed persons, both within and outside its press to reach far beyond his pulpit. In a practical membership. We have more or less steered away way he analyzes the basic procedures for the success from that term "outsider," but Dr. Seller uses it to ful use of the press for local, national, and inter cover all those who turn a deaf ear to the message national coverage. Webb B. Garrison, pastor of of the church. He admits that it is not an ideal the Roberts Park Methodist church in Indianapolis, term, but it does cover the vast multitude beyond suggests that free-lance writing offers more rewards or outside the church who seem preoccupied with than any other avocation or hobby a minister could other voices and other values. He enumerates many adopt. Have you ever wished that your sermon, practical ways of making contact with the outsider inspired of the Lord, could have a wider influence? and suggests how to successfully use mass communi A larger audience is the first and perhaps the most cations in reaching the man in the street. He has important reward to be gained through writing. an interesting discussion on the question "Should we Beyond the satisfaction of knowing that his message use a direct or an indirect approach to the out has brought some blessing to others, the pastor finds sider?" And he ends his book with an urgent appeal that the discipline of preparing the message for pos that the church must and should continue to use sible publication is worth while, even if the manu every media available to man, and should recog script never wins an editor©s approval. Step-by-step nize the need of translating the message of the Bi writing counsel, liberally punctuated with truths ble into phrase symbols drawn from the life of the and cautions, is present in this section. The editors outsider. of THE MINISTRY would like to recommend a care ANDREW FEARING ful study of this chapter, then follow it up with a c:ontribution of merit for the pages of this magazine. Section 3, "So You Want to Write a Book," is THE written by Frank S. Mead, who is widely respected LITTLE GIANT HOTOMATIC as one of the most prominent editors in religious GAS WATER HEATER NO. 3 book publishing today and was a former editor of Will supply all the hot water needed for Baptistries, Church Kitchens, Rest Rooms. the Christian Herald, a homiletic review. The chap Heats 450 GPH, 20 rise in temperature. ter mentioned is a masterpiece. After you have read Inexpensive, too. it you will have a clear insight as to what it means Write for free folder. Dept. M-24. to be an author. 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I HE second part of the "social, same principles should apply here. Without T:emotional you" that is so im being extreme, it is in good taste to keep our portant is your DRESSING hairstyles somewhat up to date, and becoming HABITS. This has a lot to do a beautiful frame for a smiling face. It is also with your self-confidence, too. important to know what is proper to wear, and You know, when you look nice, when, particularly with shoes and gloves. your confidence is stronger and As "first lady," you will often be visiting in your personality much better. the homes of the wealthy. At times you will go Ellen G. White has so many things to say about out to dinner, or to events with such people, proper dressing habits, and I will quote her and you do not want to seem ill-informed or words instead of using my own: careless. Nor do you want to try to dress as Follow the customs in dress so far as they con expensively as they might, but in as good taste. form to health principles. Let our sisters dress The third part of the "social, emotional you," plainly, as many do, having the dress of good, I believe, is your PERSONALITY, which is durable material, appropriate for this age, and let closely tied into your feelings of self-confidence. not the dress question fill the mind. Child Guid I feel that too many people accept feelings ance, p. 414. of shyness, withdrawal, and fear as their natural Christians should not take pains to make them selves a gazingstock by dressing differently from personality, without realizing that perhaps ex the world. Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 458. periences o£ childhood might have forced these Dress neatly and becomingly, but do not make feelings on them. Indeed, they do not have to yourself the subject of remarks either by being over keep this personality all their lives, but with dressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. understanding and God©s help they may emerge, Child Guidance, p. 415. and find a new, thrilling existence, and surely a Those who are careless and untidy in dress are much more useful and fruitful life. Remember seldom elevated in their conversation, and possess the verse in the Bible that says, "Whatsoever but little refinement of feeling. They sometimes thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" consider oddity and coarseness humility. Review and Herald, Jan. 30, 1900. (Eccl. 9:10). To me, this means "entering into, Simplicity of dress will make a sensible woman becoming part of, getting involved with." appear to the best advantage. Ibid., Nov. 17, 1904. Enthusiasm is a delightful part of a charming We really should not have any trouble living personality. In the book Education, Ellen G. up to these instructions today, for our modern White gives the following illustration of en styles are simple and certainly not unhealthful. thusiasm: It is quite easy to dress neatly and becomingly. On this point there is a useful suggestion in a The hair is so important too. And I think the remark once made by a celebrated actor. The arch bishop of Canterbury had put to him the question Talk given to the Evangelines at Columbia Union College. why actors in a play affect their audiences so March 18, 1963. powerfully by speaking of things imaginary, while DECEMBER, 1963 religious exhortations, but we are seeing how God works for mankind down through the ages. GOSPEL TENTS And, as we go back to our work from these STEEL-CUD TABERNACLES "communings" we will find our mind open to SMITH MANUFACTURING CO., DALTON, CA. the mighty Teacher as He gives us suggestions Over 50 Years in Business and impressions on how to do better work, how to talk better, and indeed how to live better. As we look forward to being the "first lady" wherever our husband is called, let us do it ministers of the gospel often affect theirs so little with the determination that we will seek God by speaking of things real. "With due submission to your grace," replied the actor, "permit me to say- first, and with His help, be the loving and lov that the reason is plain: It lies in the power of able Christian "first lady" He wants each one of enthusiasm. We on the stage speak of things imagi us to be. nary as if they were real, and you in the pulpit speak of things real as if they were imaginary." Education, p. 233. Protecting the Christ Child The joy we can know in Christ, the freedom from doubts and fears, the faith that guides our Margaret E. Fowler lives, should promote real enthusiasm, a happy twinkle in our eyes, and a smile for everyone. "But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to be among the clans of Judah, from you Courtesy is a big part of personality. shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler The value of courtesy is too little appreciated. in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient Many who are kind at heart lack kindliness of days" (Micah 5:2, R.S.V.). manner. Many who command respect by their sin cerity and uprightness are sadly deficient in genial "In those days a decree went out from Caesar ity. This lack mars their own happiness, and de Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. tracts from their service to others. Many of life©s This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was sweetest and most helpful experiences are, often governor of Syria. And all went to be enrolled, for mere want of thought, sacrificed by the un- each to his own city. And Joseph also went up courteous. . . . from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, All the real tenderness and courtesy in the world, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, be even among those who do not acknowledge His cause he was of the house and lineage of David, to name, is from Him. And He desires these character be enrolled with Mary, his bethrothed, who was istics to be perfectly reflected in His children. It is with child. And while they were there, the time His purpose that in us men shall behold His beauty. came for her to be delivered. And she gave birth —Ibid., p. 242. to her first-born son and wrapped him in swad dling cloths, and laid him in a manger, because The fourth and last part of our social and there was no place for them in the inn" (Luke 2:1- emotional nature that I want to mention, is our 7, K.S.V.). RELIGIOUS LIFE. It is definitely connected to Thus Micah, many years before the birth of all the others. Indeed, without this part, all the Jesus, foretold the exact place where He, the King others would be of no avail, and we would of kings, would be born, and Luke describes the not even come close to being successful in at fulfillment of his prophecy. Prophets before him taining anything worth while. I believe our had proclaimed that the Messiah would come, but motto in religion should be, "Seek ye first the none of them had given the exact location of the event, only Micah, and he recorded it in the book kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all that bears his name in the Old Testament. these things shall be added unto you" (Matt. How was it, then, that no one in Bethlehem that 6:33). night knew of the Saviour's birth? Could it be As "first lady" in our church, we will often that God planned it so for Mary's protection? have to talk of spiritual things. These things Probably if the place of the Son of God had been must be real to us from our own experience and known beforehand Mary would have been de understanding. If we will set aside a certain time stroyed before she could bring the Child into the each day, a time for reading, prayer, and medi world. The fact that there was no room in the inn tation, we will discover that walking with the could also have been in the providence of God. Who would look for the birth of a king in a stable? King is our daily joy and to talk of Him a In such a humble place He would be safe from His most natural experience. Perhaps to a busy wife enemies. So God threw a heavenly mantle over and mother, reading the Conflict of the Ages the stable in Bethlehem above the cradle of Jesus. Series will be the most rewarding. Here, with Praise be to God in the highest who looks after the overshadowing of the Holy Spirit, we are His own. 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You thorough job of research, and his book is well will enjoy him if you have a pastor©s heart. You documented. might not if you don©t! JOHN J. ROBERTSON The author says that the world©s fastest-growing religion is the Jehovah©s Witnesses. In 1942 they had 106,000 members in 1962 the figure was 884,000, a The Greek-English Analytical Concordance of the gain of 700 per cent. Actually, the membership is Greek-English New Testament, compiled by probably somewhat larger than the figure given. John Stegenga, Zondervan Publishing House, One chapter is devoted to the theology of Grand Rapids, Michigan, 832 pages, $14.95. Jehovah©s Witnesses, but mostly the book is a report The publishers of this volume (Hellenes-English on the organization and methods of work followed Biblical Foundation, Jackson, Michigan, and the by this religious group. Each convert is put to work. Zondervan House as distributors) have rendered a In one year they will spend more than 130 million conspicuous service in providing such an unusual hours in missionary work, propagating their faith. volume from ten full years of prodigious labors To get one convert costs 1,900 hours of preaching by John Stegenga, of Jackson, Michigan. The and witnessing and 400 back calls. author retired from active business to do this work, Combined with the personal witnessing is the wide living for various periods in Bible lands to acquire use of literature. Each day in their publishing Biblical background and linguistic knowledge. house in Brooklyn, New York, 30,000 bound books Nothing can substitute for a knowledge of New are turned out. In 1960 they distributed 125 million Testament Greek, but this volume provides hitherto pieces of literature, including books, magazines, and unavailable help for those with little or no such pamphlets. knowledge. With this volume and an Interlinear By reading this book, we believe each minister New Testament, one can in short time find every will better understand the philosophy behind the case form of Greek verbs, prefixed and compounded Jehovah©s Witness movement and therefore be more words, with a side English analysis, including Eng successful in dealing with these people as he meets lish equivalents used in translations. It claims to them in his work. Also we believe that it will be a meet the needs of those only vaguely acquainted stimulus to putting more of our church members to with New Testament Greek. work in an aggressive missionary program. The The original meanings of Scripture words lie fourteen chapters in this 256-page book will largely in their case form and the use made of prove interesting and helpful reading to every them by the writers of the New Testament. There pastor and church worker. W. A. 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Case Book in Pastoral Counseling, edited by New- man F. Cryer, Jr., and John Monroe Vayhinger, Abingdon Press, Nashville 20, Tennessee, 1962, Confirmed in Service 320 pages, $4.95. (Continued from page 7) This work is a unique collection of fifty-six actual life situations and the ways in which practicing pas of heart-warming preaching and diligent tors thought to solve them. Following each case his and pleasant service by our parishioners tory are criticisms and comments concerning the we would have our 50,000 membership method, approach, and counsel given in each spe quota by the time of the next quadren- cific case. These evaluations are made by leaders in nium. It sounds small but "who hath de the field of pastoral counseling. Some of these cases spised the day of small things?" (Zech. 4: represent effective counseling, and show a whole 10). some result of this skillful endeavor. Others exhibit In summary then, our people will have poor counseling, poor judgment, poor training, and no evil spirits if we confirm them in wor the sad results of this unfortunate combination. Sometimes the counseling pastor himself gives com ship by preaching the warm, deep, and abid ments on his own work, and evaluates his own pro ing love of Christ with moving power. cedures and the results obtained. Their spiritual houses will not only be Each case is prefaced by a brief prologue in clean but they will be filled if we confirm which is described the main participants, the atmos them in fellowship, so that they regard the phere in which the case has unfolded itself, and Advent Movement as the greatest thing on the pastor©s attitude toward the person seeking earth and their brethren as princes to be counsel. Surely pastors and evangelists can study treated courteously and graciously. And with profit these clinical analyses from the experi their end will certainly be better than their ence of others. In this they are using a tool long beginning if we confirm our people in known to physicians, lawyers, engineers, and psychi atrists, all of whom learn from case records col service so that they themselves have their lected and analyzed by others in their respective spiritual radar pointed toward hungry professions. Surely the clergymen can learn one from souls, thus keeping their own minds pre another by comparing counseling experiences both pared for the second advent of our Lord. formally and informally. May this be our immediate experience in The cases discussed in this book deal with one each church in our charge! 40 THE MINISTRY MINISTRY INDEX FOR 1963 By Subject and Contributor

SUBJECT INDEX Handbook of Church Correspondence Unshackled!—March, p. 44. —March, p. 44. Who Was Who in Church History- ADMINISTRATION Handbook of Preaching Resources April, p. 41. From English Literature—March, Tou Can Witness With Confidence— Administrators and Effective Preach p. 44. Sept., p. 38. ing—Nov., p. 7. Harper's Topical Concordance—April, Tour God Is Too Small—Nov., p. 44. Goal of the Church Development p. 42. Service, The—Sept., p. 22. History of Dogma in Four Volumes CHRIST Is Your Church or Institution In . . . Vol. Ill, The Roman Way sured?—Jan., p. 24. of Salvation—Its Origin and Christt Our Lord—AiLord—Aug., p. 25; Sept., Man or Plan—July; p. 48. Development—Nov., p. 42. p. 28; Oct., p. 23; Nov., p. 34; Pastor's Relationship to Church Or Dec.,Dec.,'p. p. 33.33* ganization, The—Jan., p. 22. How to Decorate Tour Church— Gift or a Loan? A—May, p. 20. Nov., p. 44. Incarnation and You, The—Dec., BIBLE John's Wonderful Gospel—Feb., p. 42. p. 3. Beatitudes of Revelation, The—Dec., Keys and the Candle, The—June, "Is Christ God?"—Aug., p. 35. p. 11. p. 42. Ministry of the Word, The—May, Great Words of the Bible (15)—Jan., Letters to the Seven Churches of p. 4. p. 14; (16) Feb., p. 14; (17) Asia, The—Aug., p. 40. Priesthood of Jesus, The—Aug., p. 27. March, p. 18; (18) April, p. 11; Life Is for Living—Oct., p. 42. Protecting the Christ Child—Dec., (19) May, p. 17; (20} July Massacre at Montsegur—Jan., p. 44. p. 38. p. 18; (21) Aug., p. 15; (22) Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Revelation of Jesus Christ, The—Jan., Sept., p. 15; (23) Nov., p. 14; Whole Bible—Feb., p. 44. p. 34. (24) Dec., p. 15. Memoirs of Childhood and Youth— Sinlessness of the Sin Bearer, The— Original Language of the New Testa Sept., p. 38. Oct., p. 17. ment, The—April. D. 16. Memorials of Calvary—July, p. 41. Ten Wonders of the Resurrection— Scriptures for 350.000,000 New Read Mighty Men of God—June, p. 42. April, p. 24. ers by 1966—Nov., p. 17. Minister's Mission, The—Nov., p. 44. Victorious Christ, The—April, p. 14. Mitre and Sceptre—June, p. 42. Word of God, The—March, p. 16. BIBLE INSTRUCTOR Modern King James Version of the CHRISTIAN LIFE, THE Holy Bible, The—Jan., p. 46. Wanted: Bible Instructors—April, p. Monser's Topical Index—Feb., p. 44. "Assembly of Mockers, The"—June, 35. New English Bible, New Testament, p. 48. What the General Conference Session The—March, p. 42. "Be Ye Clean"—Sept.. p. 4. Meant to Me—Feb., p. 38. Mew Look at God, A—Jan., p. 44. Bottomless Pit, The—Jan., p. 48. Why So Few Bible Instructors?— 1,010 Sermon Illustrations From the Candid Advice—Be Cautious—June, Feb., p. 36. Bible—April, p. 41. p. 20. Origin and History of Seventh-day "Essential Sanctity"—May, p. 48. BIBLE STUDIES Adventists—Sept.. p. 39. Fruits of the Holy Spirit, The—May, Oxford Annotated Bible, The—March, p. 35. Christ Our Righteousness—July, p. p. 42. How to Help Others to Overcome— 36. Pastor and His People, The—Nov., Nov.. D. 38. No More Tears—April, p. 28. p. 44. "I Built That Wall"—Dec., p. 48. Overcoming Our Fears—June, p. 36. Practical Methods for Sunday School "I" or "We"?—May, p. 48. Is Your Best Enough?—Aug., p. 3. BOOKS Teachers—.Tune, p. 41. Preachers of Righteousness—July, p. Let's Grow—April, p. 48. Albert Barnes' Notes on the New 42. 1963—A Year of Responsibility—Jan., Testament—March, p. 44. O.uestions God Asks—June, p. 42. p. 4. All About Babies—Oct., p. 44. Religion and the Law—May, p. 40. Organization and Discipline of the And Still He Speaks—Feb., p. 42. Render Unto Caesar: the Flag Salute Mind—Oct.. p. 6. Archaeology and the Bible—Oct., p. Controversy—April, p. 42. Organized Kindness—April, p. 9. 40. Role of the Minister's Wife, The Residual Ex-Christian Ethics—Jan., Armageddon Around the Corner— —Sept., p. 39. p. 48. Dec., p. 39. Ruth and Esther—May, p. 41. Selah—Oct., p. 48. Art of Worship. The—May, p. 40. Saving Life of Christ, The—March, Steps to Success—Nov., T>. 1S. But Corf.'—April, p. 42. p. 42. "Them That Are Bound"—Oct.. p. 2. Characteristics of Jesus—Jan., p. 46. Scripture Sourcebook, The—May, p. Third Mile. The—Oct.. p. 48. Child Prays, A—Nov., p. 41. 40. Those Mothers!—May, p. 48. Children's Bible Story Book, The— Search to Belong—Sept., p. 40. Was Job's Experience Necessary?— Sept., p. 38. Searchlights From the Word—Jan., Sept., p. 17. Christendom—Sept.. p. 38. p. 46. Who Is in the Saddle?—April, p. 6. Church and State in American Law. Sermons From the Psalms—Oct., p. Withered Hand, The—Sept., p. 48. Cases and Material—June, p. 41. 42. Church as a Social Institution, The—• Simple Sermon Outlines Series, The CHURCH, THE Aug., p. 40. —June, p. 41. An Analysis of the Laodicean Message Church at Worship, The—Feb., p. 44. Spiritualism Today and Fellow and Its Significance—Jan.. p. 17. Crying Heart, The—Feb., p. 42. Travelers of Spiritualism—July, Breaking Thought Barriers—Sept., p. Do-it-yourself Flannelgraph Lessons p. 41. 6. Illustrated—June, p. 41. Starlight Talks to Touth—May, p. Church Organization for Soul Win Ellen G. White and the Seventh-day 41. ning—Aug., p. 29. Adventist Church—Nov., p. 42. Storv Sermons for Boys and Girls— Church Program, The—July, p. 6. Expository Preacher's Notebook, An Nov., p. 44. Church Oualifications for Proper —Oct., p. 40. Supreme Court and on Church and Fund Raising—Nov., p. 16. Flesh and Spirit—Aug., p. 42. State, The—April. D. 41. Grand Adventure, The—Dec., p. 48. God Sent a Man—Nov.. p. 42. Teaching Problems and How to Solve Holy Spirit and the Church. The— Golden Object Lessons From Animals Them—Jan., p. 44. Aug., p. 11; Sept.. p. 10. and Nature—June, p. 41. Teen-Age Version of the Holy Bible, "Nothing to Fear for the Future Ex Greek-English Analytical Concord The—Jan.. p. 46. cept . . ."—Dec., p. 8. ance of the Greek-English New These Are My People. The New "State of the Union"—Tuly, p. 48. Testament—Dec., p. 39. Testament Church—April, p. 41. Untapped Source of Power in the Group Dynamics in Evangelism— Thev Were There . . . When They Church—Nov., p. 22. Aug.. p. 40. Crucified M'v Lord—April, n. 42. Handbook of Church Administration Twenty-jour Talks for Sunday School CHURCH HISTORY —July, p. 41. Workers Meetings—Sept., p. 39. Two Israels, The—Feb., p. 17. DECEMBER, 1963 41 DOCTRINES LITERATURE EVANGELISM Pastor's Responsibilities, The—Oct., Baptism for the Dead—June, p. 18. Colporteuring Even Unto Death— p. 31. Doctrine of Baptismal Regeneration, Nov., p. 22. Poor Pastor—June. p. 48. The—Aug., p. 18. God's Adventurers—July, p. 33. Putting All the Members to Work— God; s Plan for the Support of His Minister - Colporteur Evangelism — June, p. 34. Work—Oct., p. 35. April, p. 30. Reaching Men for Christ—Aug., p. 5. History of the Evolutionary Concept, Receiving and Holding Converts— The—Nov., p. 10; Dec., p. 22. MINISTER, THE Oct.! p. 29. Law and Grace—May, p. y. Riding on Asses or Flying in Jets— Salvation Planned Before Creation—• "And It Was Done"—June, p. 4. June, p. 48. Nov., p. 13. "Bull in a Net,"—April, p. 48. Some Pulpits I Have Known—Dec., ' ; Time Is Short, The' 3—Oct., p. 13- Confirmed in Service—Dec., p. 6. p. 18. Untenable Position of the Christian Deadline, The—Feb., p. 5. What If It Had Been YOUR Church? Evolutionist, The—Oct.. p. 9. How About Platform Appearance and —Feb.. p. 30. Manners?—Oct., p. 19. "With a Gift for Teaching"—Feb., EVANGELISM Influence and Image of the Minister p. 28. in the Church and Community, Bible Evangelism in Relation to the The—July, p. 20. POEMS Mass Media of Communication— Introducing the Guest Speaker—Nov., Nov., p. 27; Dec., p. 29. p. 9. Let Me Hear Your Voice in Prayer Bible Marking Plan in Australasian Minister and Local Elder Relation —Jan., p. 13. Division—April, p. 31. ship—April, p. 7. Now Is the Time—July, p. 13. Bombay Institute—May, p. 24. Ministerial Loyalties—April, p. 15. Thou Art Coming to a King—Oct., Central California Field School of Oh, No!—Oct., p. 48. p. 5. Evangelism—Feb., p. 24. One Limb—Sept., p. 48. Value of a Soul! The—April, p. 2. Church as an Evangelistic Center, Philosophy of Speech, A—Feb.. p. 12. The—Oct., p. 33." Should We Lock Our Ministers Out PRAYER Combining the Advantages of the of the Churches?—May, p. 12. Dial-a-Prayer—Jan., p. 2. Long and Short Campaigns— What Should the Congregation Ex Nov., p. 29. Let Me Hear Your Voice in Prayer pect From Its Minister?—May, —Jan., p. 13. Do Short Evangelistic Campaign p. 28. Prayer—March, p. 2. Converts Stay?—July, p. 34. Prayer—Aug., p. 48. Evangelism Among Primitive People MINISTER'S WIFE, THE —May, p. 23. Pray and Plan Revival—March, p. 48. Evangelism and Overpopulation— Charming "First Lady," The—Nov., Slot-Machine Prayers—July, p. 48. March, p. 34. p. 40; Dec., p. 37. Something Wrong With Your Track? Evangelism Field School in Japan— Evangelist's Wife, The—June, p. 38. —March, p. 48. April, p. 32. "Even So, Come, Lord Jesus"— Evangelism for the Jews in New May, p. 37. PREACHER, THE York City—Dec., p. 27. Is a Minister's Wife "Lucky"?— Available Eloquence, The—Aug., p. Evangelism in Southern Asia—June, April, p. 37. 31. p. 22. Place of the Minister's Wife in Come Down, Brother!—Feb., p. 48. Evangelistic Vision—June, p. 26. Church and Community, The— God-centered Preaching—March, p. Golden Age of Evangelism, The— July, p. 38; Aug., p. 37. 48. Jan., p. 28. Responsibilities of the Minister's Grindstone Preachers—Aug., p. 48. Miracles in Miami—June, p. 24. Wife, The—Oct., p. 37. In Our Time—Feb., p. 48. New Approach to Personal Evangel Witnessing Through Music—Sept., p. Itch to Write, The—Aug., p. 48. ism, The—Nov., p. 24. 36. Pied Piper—Dec., p. 48. New Approaches in Evangelism— "Preach . . . the Preaching That I July, p. 32. MISSIONARY Bid Thee"—Feb., p. 3. Seeking His Lost Sheep—Jan., p. Modern Missionary, The—March, p. Preaching that Transforms—June, p. 30,- Feb., p. 33. n. 2. Strengthening the Short Campaign— "Smoother Than Butter"—Jan., p. July, p. 30; Aug., p. 32. MUSIC 48. Ten Commandments for Obtaining Church Music and the Bible—Sept., "What Makest Thou?"—May, p. 48. Personal Decisions—Sept., p. 33. p. 31; Oct., p. 26. That Century Club Again!—June, Famous Hymn Story, A—March, p. PROPHECY p. 6. 23. "The Stars"—Nov., p. 48. Benefits of the Spirit of Prophecy Hymnology in Christian Worship— Day in Our Churches, The— EXTENSION SCHOOLS March, p. 22; April, p. 20; May, Mav, p. 3. p. 31; June, p. 31; July, p. 28. Prophetic Fulfillment in Current Andrews University Seminary Studies Ohio Conference Church Music In Events—March, p. 4. —June, p. 28. stitute—Jan., p. 20. Stone in the Hand of God, A— Seminary Extension School in South Revival in Church Music, A—Jan., July, p. 24. Africa—June, p. 29. p. 19. "Then Look for a Beast!"—Feb., p. Seminary Extension School in South Versatile Singing Evangelist, The— 48. ern Europe—Dec., p. 12. Nov., p. 34. 1335 Days, The—Dec., p. 31. Welcome to Prophetic Guidance GOD ORDINANCES Class, Number 1—Sept., p. 26. Divine Prescience, The—Oct., p. 20; Towel and the Basin, The—April, p. Nov., p. 31. 48. RELIGIONS Thoughts on God's Magnitude—Sept., When Is the Lord's Supper to Be p. 12. Celebrated?—Jan., p. 7. How to Work for Mormons—Jan., p. 36. HEALTH EVANGELISM ORDINATIONS True Israel of God, The—June, p. 9; July, p. 14; Aug., p. 7. Basic Laws for Optimum Health— 1962 Ordinations for North America Why the Recent Growth of the April, p. 22- —March, p. 40. Mormon Church?—March, p. 31. British Union Launches Five-Day 1962 Ordinations for Overseas— Plan—Sept., p. 34. April, p. 39. RELIGIOUS WORLD TRENDS Denver Five-Day Plan, The—June, p. 8. PASTOR, THE "And All the World Wondered . . ." Healing and Preaching—March, p. Camel's Back, The—Aug., p. 48. —July, p. 3. 36. Challenge of the Space Age to the Challenge of Modern Intellectual Hospital Chaplain at Work, A—May, Preaching of the Word, The— Errors, The—July, p. 9; Aug., p. p. 33. Feb., p. 26. 20. Organization of Five-Day Plan Pro Grief in Human Experience—March, Reunion or Rebirth?—Sept., p. 48. gram—June, p. 7. p. 24; Sept., p. 19. Tolerance From the Historically In tolerant—Oct., p. 4. HOME-FOREIGN MISSIONS Ingathering—Methods and Motives— Nov., p. 4. Evangelism Among Spanish People Intern Troubles—Aug., p. 13. SABBATH, THE in North America—Dec., p. 24. New Approach in the Midweek Serv Edenic Origin of the Sabbath, The— It Works!—Dec., p. 25. ice, A—Sept., p. 24. Our Great Need—May, p. 7; June, Feb., p. 20. LAYMEN p. 13. SHEPHERDESS Extracts on Laymen's Work—July, Pastoral Concern for the Flock— p. 21. March, p. 28. "If He Would Excel"—Jan., p. 40. 42 THE MrNiSTRY Climax Your Soul-winning Efforts With the NEW HIS STEPS Decision Series by Fordyce W. Detamore Narration by Elmer R. Walde

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DECEMBER, 1963 Is There Oil in Your Lamp?—March, Bietz, R. R.—The Church Program— Topical Concordance — April; Vio p. 38. July.July, lence and Death—April; The Art of Visiting—Feb., p. 40. Blanco,lanco, J. J.—A Stone In the Hand of Worship—May; Starlight 'folks to God—July. Youth—May; Practical Methods for SPIRITUALISM Brooks, W. L.—The Responsibilitiies of Sunday School Teachers—June; Do~it~ the Minister's Wife—Oct. yourself Ftannelgraph Lessons Il Occult Forces of the East Join Those Brown, H. F.—History of Dogm~ - lustrated—June; Golden Object Les of the West—Jan., p. 10; Feb., Four Volumes—Nov. sons From Animals and Nature— p. 9; March, p. 13. Burnside, G.—Bible Marking Plan i: June; The Simple Sermon Outline Australasian Division—April. Series—June; Questions God Asks~ THEOLOGY June; Mighty Men of God—June; Court, The—Oct., p. 15. Handbook of Church Administration Faith and Works—May, p. 14. —July; Flesh and Spirit—Aug.; "Be "Now Is the Accepted Time"—May, Ye Clean"—Sept.; fou Can Witness p. 26: June, p. 16. With Confidence — Sept.; Twenty- Problem of Divine Revelations The— Garcich, T.—Introducing the Guest Four Talks for Sunday School Workers April, p. 4. Speaker—Nov. Meetings—Sept.; Origin and History Chaney, F. L.—The Revelation of Jesus of Seventh-day Adventtsts—Sept.; UNCLASSIFIED Christ—Jan. The Withered Hand—Sept.; An Ex American Bible Society Sponsors Bible Christensen, O. H.—A Gift or a Loan? pository Preacher's Notebook—Oct.; —May; Does Anti in the New Testa Sermons From the Psalms—Oct., Ad Translation ... in 40 Addi ministrators and Effective Preaching tional Countries—March, p. 9. ment Mean Against?—Nov. An Invaluable Aid to Ministers—Jan., Cleveland, E. E.—"Smoother Than But —Nov.; An Extraordinary Oppor p. 6. ter"—Jan: The Bottomless Pit—Jan.; tunity—Nov.; God Sent a Man— Answers to Questions—April, p- 34. In Our Time—Feb.; Bull in a Net Nov.; The Minister's Mission—Nov.; Architect Assails Construction of —April; Bombay Institute—May; "I" The Pastor and His People—Nov.; "Meaningless" Churches — May, or "We"?—May; "What Makest Story Sermons for Boys and Girls— p. 6. Thou?"—May; "And It Was Done" Nov.; How to Decorate Tour Church Information Service for Ministers—- —June; "The Assembly of the Mock Nov.; Case Book in Pastoral Counsel Feb., p. 10. ers"—June; Poor Pastor—June; Man ing—Dec.; Reachins Beyond Tour Perilous Proliferation—Nov., p. 48. or Plan—July; "State of the Union" Pulpit—Dec.; The Outsider and the Retire to Something—March, p. 27. —July; Is Your Best Enough?—Aug.; Word of God—Dec. Truth That Spurred Him On, The— Grindstone Preachers — Aug.; The Fearing, B. W.—The Place of the Nov., p. 2. 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THE GRAND GENUINE conviction must rest on wall as he sought to flee into West Germany. Who ADVENTURE fact, whether positive or nega built that hate-surrounded wall? Hate-filled men tive. Nor can true love have any who sought to shut people in, and from both other true basis. An assumption of infallibility, his sides hate is hurled over that wall. toric and absolute, for men or organizations is in es Every time men are divided one from the other, sence unjustified optimism. Except in the case of a wall is built. Unspoken or spoken innuendoes, Jesus Christ, there has been no demonstration of bitter words, subtle suggestions, political maneuver absolute perfection in the flesh. Therefore, those ing, polite depreciations, unkind criticisms—these who represent Him must base their hope on what are all walls that separate man from man. He has done, is doing, and will do for us, in us, Every time someone forsakes the path of rectitude, and through us. he is walled off from his fellows. Every time a The Christian church did not suddenly arrive at young Christian loses his faith through the incon its doctrinal conclusions. Nor may the twelve apos sistencies of older men, someone built a wall that tles be said to have possessed truth from the day shut him out from God. they were called. Indeed, they were remarkably The embittered, the cynical, the selfish, the de slow to understand sublimest truth, though taught feated, the sinner—these are all walled-off people. by the Master Teacher Himself. To them, truth But how often it happens that, if the truth were was a progressive revelation. Their conviction of the "known, these shut-off people are there because you truth of their movement lay not in the vain as or I or some other man contributed to their sad sumption that they understood all things fully state. from the start, but rather that they would seek out truth as for hidden treasure—and follow it wher May we never have to confess: "I built that wall!" ever its trail should lead, through whatever trial. H. w. L. This was the spirit of the Reformation. We can plead no more than pursual and acceptance of truth, whatever its demands in terms of previous PIED PIPER THE news is disturbing. There belief and practice. is a preacher shortage. But— We need not blush apologetically if the Christian why? In accounting for this phenomenon some have fathers sometimes drew false conclusions from lim blamed everything but the weather. Unquestion ited information. Nor is there anything to gain by ably, there are many contributing factors, not the denying this. Progressive man learns from his fail least of which is the decline in respect for the ures and successes. It is the Laodicean spirit that clergy, owing to compromises in morals and man proclaims, We have always been right about every ners. The multiplicity of administrative duties also thing—and always will be. The true church has has done little to enhance the image of the ministry. ever been a growing church. It is this spirit that In fact, the concept of the minister primarily as has sparked the grand adventure in search of truth. the mouthpiece of Jehovah, whose message and manner converted sinners and chastened saints, has given way to the image of an urbane solicitor—can in hand—a joke of all trades, whose prayers are "I BUILT A TRAIN going north from the Eng- routine and whose sermons are dull. No wonder THAT lish Midlands brings to the traveler's there is a preacher shortage. WALL" view miles and miles of low, wind Preachers incubate in the heat of revival fires. ing stone walls. Over the hills and Soul-stirring, spirit-filled preaching fires the young far away they run. If you were to examine them you with the desire to preach. Icicle formalism has in would find them mortarless. Dry walls, they call it nothing desirable, and hence does not attract. them. A famous man tells the story of walking You can't start a fire with a snowball. Show me that along a country lane in the English Lake District. pastor whose preaching reflects the concern of his He fell in with a man who turned out to be a heart and I will show you a dozen youngsters un dry-waller. At one spot the man proudly pointed der his influence who want to be like him. Let the to a low, well-built wall, and said: "I built that wall. pastor seek the promised power until his soul And if it's not interfered with, it will last three thrills to his own preaching, and like the fabled hundred years!" Pied Piper of yesteryear, he will lead to the rostrum A year ago we read the story of a boy who was a widening stream of ministerial aspirants. wounded and caught on the top of a now infamous E.E. c.

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