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Behold the Man! Under those arches stood the Son of God, Stood Pilate, and the multitude. Behold Beneath their feet the stones Where Roman soldiers carved Their games of sport Soldiers who watched in wonder as the God the Who made the consciences of men Permitted them to judge Him. Behold the Man! The words bounced hard against those stones Man! And then escaped the arches, speeding into time, To orbit all the ages, Forever circling the souls of men. And trailing them, the question Every man must answer, "What shall I do then with Jesus BY Which is called Christ?" MARJORIE Behold the Man the Man LEWIS At thirty coins of silver priced. LLOYD What will you do today— With Jesus who is called the Christ? REVIEW PICTURES ANTONIO CISERI, ARTIST THE MINISTRY Official Journal of the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Advenlists VOLUME XXXI SEPTEMBER, 1958 No. 9 Editor ROY ALLAN ANDERSON IN THIS ISSUE ARTICLES Associate Editor ANDREW C. FEARING Creative Preaching and Teaching ____ Edward Heppenstall 4 Is Hypnotism Dangerous? __.__.________________ J. A. Buckwalter 8 Spirits Like Frogs ___________________________ James W. Osborn 12 Assistant Editors E. EARL CLEVELAND Ecclesiastical Bird Watching _____ _..__.. Frank M. Weiskel 16 WALTER SCHUBERT Recreation That Re-creates ______..._.._.__ William T. Hyde 27 Copy Editor EDITORIAL INA WHITE The Challenge of Cleveland ___. R. A. A. 17 Consulting Editors REGULAR FEATURES REUBEN R. FIGUHR, WALTER R. BEACH, E. D. DICK, LOUISE C. KLEUSER, W. B. Seminary ______________________________________ Leona Glidden Running 19 OCHS, H. L. RUDY Pastor ____________________________________ Albert P. Shirkey 22 G. Cupertino 24 Art Editor Evangelism ___________________________ Norman L. Krogstad.28 T. K. MARTIN J. L. Shuler 30 Shepherdess ______-_ ____________________ Louise C. Kleuser 35 Circulation Manager Pulpit _______________________________________ Sir James Baillie 37 WALTER SCHUBERT E. EARL CLEVELAND, Assistant Research ______________..____________..._.__._.___. A. P. Salom 39 C. G. Tuland 42 Books ________________-__ _________________..____.___________ 45 Overseas Contributors Pointers to Progress ___________.__.________________________ __ ____ 48 GEORGE BURNSIDE Australia W. MUELLER Central Europe J. R. SPANGLER Far East POETRY H. J. WESTPHAL Inter-America G. J. APPEL Middle East Behold the Man! _____ .__._____. Marjorie Lewis Lloyd 2 C. D. KING Northern Europe Little Children . ....... ... __.. _____ ____._.._ Author Unknown 36 South America S. G. MAXWELL Southern Africa J. F. ASHLOCK Southern Asia G. CUPERTINO Southern Europe Our Cover Printed and published monthly for the Min Like a lighthouse on the shores of the sea, the light of di isterial Association of Seventh-day Adventists vine truth guides the mariners in life©s ocean away from the by the Review and Herald Publishing Associa tion, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. $3.50 a perilous shores into the haven of rest. Our cover photo may year; 35c a copy. Add 25 cents for yearly well symbolize that glorious hour in history when "the earth subscriptions to countries requiring extra post age. Entered as second-class matter December will be lightened with the bright shining of the beams of 19, 1927, at the post office at Washington, His righteousness" (Ellen G. White, quoted in A. G. Daniells, D.C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Christ Our Righteousness, p. 61). SEPTEMBER,1958 Creative Preaching and Teaching EDWARD HEPPENSTALL Professor of Christian Philosophy, S.D.A. Theological Seminary QUESTION of prime and the same time. To value personality A significance for Seventh- is to value self-activity in all persons. If day Adventist preachers and persons are of final worth, then every par educators is: To what extent ticular instance of self-activity has within is the total effect of our it something of unimpeachable validity. methods of preaching and The minister as well as the teacher is an teaching upon the personal educator, and all true higher education has ity and the life of our people its source in God. a genuinely Christian effect? To what ex In a knowledge of God, all true knowledge and tent are developed religious ideals and con real development have their source. The mind victions that furnish the strongest sanctions of man is brought into communion with the mind for sound morals and Christian living? of God, the finite with the Infinite. ... In this com How far is the religion taught a vital ele munion is found the highest education. It is God©s ment in human experience, a dynamic in own method of development. Education, p. 14. fluence in the motivating of conduct and The real objective, then, is to bring the determining of character? about a personal encounter between God Are our methods of imparting truth and the individual, thus establishing a vital, transmissive or creative? The assumption living fellowship between God and man. has prevailed to a very large extent, that the work of the preacher and the Bible The Rightful Place of Doctrine teacher is to transmit a religion; that there This does not mean that we can exist is a body of most important beliefs, a neat without doctrines or that we should quit bundle of foolproof doctrines, a set of in teaching them as thoroughly as hitherto. controvertible dogmas, which are to be This is a time when doctrine is in disrepute. drilled into the memory that the learner It is regarded as sectarian, divisive, con will become conformed to the content that cerned with the minutiae of Christian be we teach. liefs. The liberal position declares that this Creative methodology in the dissemina emphasis on doctrine transformed early dy tion of Christian truth cultivates as the namic Christianity into a system of creeds. prime essential an inner realization and Now liberal Christianity is said to be more transforming experience of God. The concerned with life than with truth as a teacher©s or preacher©s job is to present sav doctrine. This is one of the crucial issues ing truth in such a manner that it enters today. It is said that all that really matters creatively into present everyday experi is conduct, and it does not make much dif ence. The creative principle puts the in ference what a man believes. dividual person at the center rather than This is not our position. We have a hier the content and subject material. The archy of doctrines that we believe are as in teacher or minister is a personal counselor fallible as the Word itself. But doctrines and guide in mutual friendly fellowship are formalized aspects of living faith. The with the individual, inspiring the free spirit Bible was not written to give us a chapter of the learner into a fuller, personal expe on the Trinity, the state of the dead, the rience with God. Creative preaching and sanctuary, the Sabbath, or the second com creative teaching are Christian relation ing of Christ. What we teach is much more ships between persons and not the exercise than mere doctrine; it is a confession of of arbitrary dogmatic powers over others. faith on the part of the people who ven One cannot be reverent toward another tured their lives on these spiritual essen personality and arbitrary toward it at one tials in the Bible. And we are to understand THE MINISTRY and to teach the faith and the experience tional and ministerial methodology is based involved in these great truths of divine- on the assumption that it is intellectual ac human relationships. To believe in God tivity that constitutes the basic material the Father and in Jesus as Lord and Saviour of education and of what is frequently is to stake one©s life on the reality for which called indoctrination. Mere intellectual ex those words stand. ercise is neither education nor conversion We must have doctrine and teach it. For to truth. Consequently, such a view held by unless we do teach and know our doctrines any teacher or preacher results in the logi well enough to keep the faith pure and cal organization of subject matter, and the true to its divine intention, the "faith transmission of that material. The dynam which was once delivered unto the saints" ics of learning, however, have* to do with may be perverted. experience, with the whole being of man, and this demands not only logical organi The Need for Creative Teaching zation of subject matter and the transmis In all His teaching, Christ brought the mind of sion of that material, but spiritual orien man in contact with the Infinite Mind. He did not tation and psychological organization with direct the people to study men©s theories about God, the living person at the very heart of all His word, or His works. He taught them to behold ministerial or educational objectives and Him as manifested in His works, in His word, and methods. The fundamental issue is per by His providences. Christ's Object Lessons, p. 23. sonal participation, purposeful and whole In this statement Mrs. White dis hearted active experience, as well as reflec tinguishes between mere transmission of tive thinking. theories and the divine-human encounter. It is at this point that we, as Christian ministers and teachers of religion, of the It is a little thing to speak a doctrines of the Adventist faith, need to phrase of common comfort, which by examine critically our preaching and teach daily use has almost lost its sense; ing methodology. and yet, on the ear of him who For ages education has had to do chiefly with the thought to die unmourned, it will memory. This faculty has been taxed to the utmost, fall like the choicest music.