APRIL, 1961 The Face of Christ

PINIONS vary as to the Pilate looked at the men who had Jesus in O quality of pictorial art, charge, and then his gaze rested searchingly on and some of us will doubtless Jesus. He had had to deal with all kinds of crim inals; but never before had a man bearing marks never acquire whatever it of such goodness and nobility been brought before takes to appreciate some forms him. On His face he saw no sign of guilt, no ex of art. When it comes to rep pression of fear, no boldness or defiance. He saw resentations of the face of a man of calm and dignified bearing, whose coun Christ, human reactions are tenance bore not the marks of a criminal, but the legion. Perhaps some love them all. Some signature of heaven. Ibid., p. 724. like this one, some that. Others frown on As far as pictures of Christ are concerned, every representation of Christ, as though we know that Mrs. White©s opinion was they were all an infringement of a divine that there was nothing wrong in using them command. discreetly. There is in existence a picture of The fact is that no man can pictorialize Christ on the cross of which Mrs. White is the face of Christ and adequately convey reported (and any reported comment must the multitudinous qualities required in be used carefully) to have said that it the Redeemer of men. looked more like the Christ she had seen It is impossible to paint a satisfactory picture of Christ. The difficulty lies not so much in the artist©s in vision than did any picture she had ever inability to suggest ideal traits as in the many- seen. The picture in question is one of sidedness of the ideal. Christ was the sanest and those old composite scenes with the im most wholesome man that ever lived; he was at the molated Christ in the foreground. On one same time so completely filled with the spirit of side are our first parents leaving Eden, God that the keenest analysis fails to tell where Cain slaying Abel, the priests offering a the human leaves off and the divine begins. He sacrificial lamb, and on the other, the touched life throughout its vast orbit; he entered twelve at the Last Supper. In the distant into all the relationships that men sustain with background is a vision of the Holy City. one another, and that man and God may enter. He knew what work with his hands involved; he Mrs. White actually copyrighted this pic knew the duties of a son, a brother, a wage earner; ture in 1883. Its face of Christ betrays resig he was friend, teacher, physician, wedding guest, nation and agony. It would not satisfy every mourner, father-confessor, preacher, denouncer, taste today. temple-cleanser, pilgrim, fugitive, wonder-worker, An artist planned to paint a picture of prophet, law-giver, social lion, friend of the demi Christ as a masterpiece. He spent years monde, story-teller, reformer, visionary, mystic, collecting the advice of his friends as to Jewish Messiah, martyr, Son of Man, Son of GodI what they would expect in the counte What single portrait can compass this range? The problem reduces itself to the adequate embodi nance of the Lord. Then he decided that it ment of a single trait or two, the presentation of could not be done adequately! It certainly only an aspect of his personality; and we shall find is providential that photography was not ourselves attracted now to this picture and now to discovered in time to convey the exact face that, as our appreciation of life varies and our af of Christ to posterity. We can now envision fections shift with our growing insight and char Him only on the basis of the many and ex acter.* quisite character delineations in Scripture. Adventists will be interested in the only This leaves Him to be envisioned as supra- two direct statements we can find from racial and universally the Saviour of man Ellen G. White on the face of Christ during kind in that He is what every class and con His earthly life: dition of man needs supremely. At the marriage feast she meets Him, the same Our cover picture, recommended by our tender, dutiful son. Yet He is not the same. His worthy art editor, T. K. Martin, is a photo countenance is changed. It bears the traces of His of a sculpture. It may not please every conflict in the wilderness, and a new expression of body, but if it inspires us to think of the dignity and power gives evidence of His heavenly attractive and redemptive qualities of Him mission. The Z>eszre of ^ges, p. 145. who said: "I am the way, the truth, and the life" it will serve its purpose at this resurrec * From The Gos£e( in Art, by Albert E. Bailey, 1916, 1931, 1944. The Pilgrim Press. Used by permission. tion season. H. w. L. THE MINISTRY Official Journal of the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists

VOLUME XXXIV APRIL, 1961 No. 4

Editor ROY ALLAN ANDERSON IN THIS ISSUE EDITORIAL Associate Editor ANDREW C. FEARING Do We Miss the Significance of Christ©s Sacrifice? R. A. Anderson 7 Managing Editor HARRY W. LOWE ARTICLES

Assistant Editors The Face of Christ .__...... _.._.._._.._.__._.... H. W. Lowe 2 E. EARL CLEVELAND Breaking the Seal of Death _.____._.______J. Osborn 4 WALTER SCHUBERT Tame Talk ____._...._..______E. E. Cleveland 9 Walter Martin and the Nature of Man ___. D. E. Mansell 11 Copy Editor Did Christ Stay in the Grave Exactly 72 Hours? R. L. Odom 19 ]. IN A WHITE From TV Screen to Harvest _..._....._....._...._....._...... _.... 24 Some Books I Can Recommend ._. _.. _.._ V. H. Cooper 15 Consulting Editors REUBEN R. FIGUHR, WALTER R. BEACH, REGULAR FEATURES EDWARD HEPPENSTALL, LOUISE C. KLEUSER, W. B. OCHS, H. L. RUDY Research .....__..___.__..______D. Ford 17 Evangelism ______- . ______._____ M. Banque 28 Art Editor Evangelism ______L. C. Kleuser 30 T. K. MARTIN Pastor ______.__.____.__.__.. A. O. Dart 32 Shepherdess ...___...... _...... Mrs. L. Hardinge 34 Circulation Manager Books for Your Library ______42 WALTER SCHUBERT News _- _-_-_.--_-_ -_.--__--_ ..--_-_ _._-_-___.--_.__.._._...... 44 E. EARL CLEVELAND, Assistant Pulpit Pointers for Preachers ...... ______48 1960 Overseas Ordinations ______38 Overseas Contributors GEORGE BURNSIDE Australia ERWIN BERNER Central Europe J. R. SPANGLER Far East H. J. WESTPHAL Inter-America Our Cover WAYNE E. OLSON Middle East ODD JORDAL Northern Europe Pictured on our cover in sculptured stone is the victorious ENOCH OLIVF.IRA South America Christ by the late American sculptor Charles Andrew Hafner S. G. MAXWELL Southern Africa of New York. A student under Daniel Chester French and J. F. ASHLOCK Southern Asia other famous sculptors both at home and abroad, Hafner G. CUJ©ERTINO Southern Europe was a frequent prize winner by his realistic art. This strikingly articulate head, from a beautiful full-figure statue of the Saviour, seems to be saying, with confidence, "I am the res urrection and the life." Editorial Office: 6840 Eastern Avenue, NW. This positive declaration by our Saviour is one of the most Washington, D.C. assuring in the entire Scriptures. Our only means of escape from the inevitable oblivion of eternal death is a firm, un Printed and published monthly for the Min isterial Association of Seventh-day Adventists swerving belief in the risen Saviour, triumphant over death, by the Review and Herald Publishing Associa and hope in His soon return to forever banish the grave and tion, Washington, B.C., U.S.A. $4.00 a its destructive power. T. K. MARTIN year; 40c a copy. Add 25c for yearly subscrip Art Editor tions to countries requiring extra postage. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. Cover Picture: Gair Hafner APRIL, 1961 Breaking the Seal of Death JOHN OSBORN President, Southeastern California Conference

| ROM Nazareth, the home Lord 1961 it could be proved that Christ town of our Lord, there was still sealed in His Palestinian tomb or came to light in the year that His disciples had stolen His body and 1878 a most interesting slab buried it elsewhere. The annual celebra of marble, which contained tion of the resurrection of Christ by the a decree of Caesar. It is now Christian world would be a purposeless in the Louvre, Paris, and it mockery. The faith and hope of millions reads like this: would be a cruel disillusionment. Ordinance of Caesar. It is my pleasure that The apostle Paul reasoned from this graves and tombs remain undisturbed in perpetu viewpoint in his letter to the Corinthians, ity for those who have made them for the cult of relating the far-reaching effects of a dis- their ancestors, or children, or members of their proval of the resurrection story. "If Christ house. If, however, any man lay information that be not risen, then is our preaching vain, another has either demolished them, or has in any other way extracted the buried, or maliciously and your faith is also vain. ... Ye are yet transferred them to other places in order to wrong in your sins. . . . They also which are fallen them, or has displaced the sealing or other stones, asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life against such a one I order that a trial be instituted only we have hope in Christ, we are of all as in respect of the gods, so in regard to the cult men most miserable" (1 Cor. 15:13-19). A of mortals. For it shall be much more obligatory disproval of the resurrection of Christ to honor the buried. Let it be absolutely forbidden would have far-reaching results. The for anyone to disturb them. In the case of contra mighty preaching of the gospel across the vention I desire that the offender be sentenced to centuries would be in vain. Paul©s preach capital punishment on charge of violation of sep ulture. ing on Mars© Hill would have been just as his accusers declared, the idle utterances of The dating of this inscription has been an irresponsible babbler. The great British placed somewhere between A.D. 44 and 50, revival, ignited by the torch of John Wesley, which was during the reign of Claudius would also have been in vain and Wesley Caesar, who was noted for his persecution himself no more than a fanatical firebug. of the Jews (see Acts 18:2). This was not The mighty work of Dwight L. Moody, who many years after the death, entombment, took a continent in each hand and shook and resurrection of Christ. It is felt by some them for God, would have been a waste of scholars that the preaching of the resurrec energy and money. tion had already begun in Rome by this time and that this decree reflected the fact "// Christ Be Not Risen . . ." that the enemies of Christianity had faced If Christ is not risen, then our faith is up to the empty-tomb story. The placing of also in vain. We would find ourselves in the decree on a rock in the little unimpor much the same condition as the disciples tant town of Nazareth, where Jesus was who placed their Lord in the tomb and raised, indicates a possible relationship be saw it closed by a great stone. His death tween the decree of Caesar and the empty severely shook their faith. It was as though tomb of Christ. a sudden impenetrable cloud had passed Whether or not these conclusions are over the sun of their hopes forever, leaving completely accurate, it is a fact that since them without warmth or brightness. Gloom the very day of Christ©s resurrection His and dismal despair settled like a dark blan enemies have put forth every effort to deny ket over their souls. The bottom literally the resurrection story. Fantastic theories dropped out of their lives. The disciples have been propounded to prove the false on the Emmaus road who disappointedly report of the Jewish leaders, "Saying, Say said to the Stranger who accompanied ye, His disciples came by night, and stole them, "We trusted that it had been he him away while we slept" (Matt. 28:13). which should have redeemed Israel" (Luke Let us suppose that in the year of our 24:21) were but echoing the dark thoughts THE MINISTRY of their fellows. If Christ is not risen, there shared in attempting to seal up that tomb would be only a blissful nirvana of future forever. They gathered around the tomb nothingness to which we could look for like a swarm of flies. ward. Worse yet! "If Christ be not raised,... ye Tomb Could Not Remain Sealed are yet in your sins." Without His resurrec No decree of Caesar, no powers of hell, tion there is nothing left but for us to rot no combination of men and devils could in our own moral filth. The crushing load keep the tomb sealed shut. Had mountain of guilt piling up in our souls from day to upon mountain been piled upon it, it could day would finally become unbearable. For not remain shut. One might just as well gotten wrongs, like ugly ghosts, would try to hold back a tidal wave with a linen rise up to haunt us and give us no peace napkin or wrap up an angry tornado in a day nor night. Remorse and regret would paper sack; the gates of hell could not pre take over our sleepless nights. Without vail against Him. Truth cannot be locked hope of any relief to conscience we would, up in a tomb. It will burst asunder all seals. like Pilate, be driven to suicide in an effort It will roll away all stones. It will van to find relief. quish all armed might. Sin is the most devastating experience of On that glorious morning the Son of God the human heart. It lies deep in moral came forth under His own power. He who consciousness where no man can remove it. had power to lay down His life had power It cuts and tears, and sears and crushes un to take it up again (John 10:17, 18). He til the soul cries out, "O wretched man was the only man who ever walked out of that I am! who shall deliver me from the the grave under His own power. He had body of this death?" (Rom. 7:24). If Christ staked His whole gospel on His ability to is not risen, there is no forgiveness; there is raise Himself from the dead. "Destroy this no relief from the burden of guilt; there is no escape from the folly of ourselves. Added to all of this, if there is no resur rection of Christ there is no future in being godly. If there were none, the best and finest of the race "which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished"; the goodness, kind ness, and beauty of personality would end like a dead fly; the triumph of the saints of God at death would be the cruelest mock ery. If there is no hope of a resurrection, the great Paul and all others who have echoed his deathbed words, "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord the righteous judge, shall give me at that day" fell asleep in miser able self-deception. But none of this is true! "Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first- fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrec tion of the dead" (1 Cor. 15:20, 21). There is irrefutable and incontestable evidence to support Paul©s triumphant declaration. Ev ery effort of man and devil to seal up the tomb of Christ has failed. Puny man did his feeble best. He rolled a great stone across the mouth of the tomb. He placed the seal of the world©s most powerful na tion upon it. Crack troops of Rome were posted as sentries. Wicked spirits of devils J. LANBER, ARTIST APRIL, 1961 temple, and in three days I will raise it up" it were of little moment. ©If a man keep (John 2:19). "The Son of Man shall be My saying, he shall never see death.© " The betrayed . . . and they shall condemn him Desire of Ages, p. 787. to death . . . and the third day he shall Death is no longer ihe frightful contra rise again" (Matt. 20:18, 19). diction of our hopes. While disappointing The resurrection of Christ has become and sorrowful, it can also be an occasion of the cornerstone of our salvation. Nothing solemn joy and great triumph. Some years is comparable to it; nothing parallels it. ago I received an urgent call lo return Without it Christianity is unintelligible. home from college because of the critical Because Christ has broken the seal of illness of my grandmother. The family gath death, life takes on new and glorious mean ered about her bed her husband, sons, ing. Our faith is not in vain. Awareness of daughter, and her grandchildren. She had a risen Lord worked miraculous transfor been slipping toward the brink of dealh mation in His disciples. They faced life for several days and had grown sleadily boldly and courageously, going everywhere weaker. On this occasion she requested thai heralding the glorious news of the resur she mighl be propped up on her pillows. rection. They were lifted out of despair into The pallor of death had given way to a rosy radiant hope. It brought new meaning to glow. Her languid eyes look on a new spar their lives. It gave life purpose, rescuing kle. Her face was wrealhed in a quiel smile. them from the bleak monotony of a pur She began lo speak lo us, expressing her poseless existence. Thus it does to the faith gratiiude for all ihe care she had received of every Christian. It brings in a buoyant during her long years of semi-invalidism. optimism that gives us the courage and abil She spoke direcily lo several who were pres ity to face life whatever our lot may be. ent, and gave a brief affirmation of her Because of the resurrection we have the faith. She then requested that she might be assurance of forgiveness of sin and hope of allowed to lie down. Death came shorlly salvation. "If thou shall confess with thy ihereafier. All ihrough her life she had mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe lived in fear of death. When it came there in thine heari lhal God hath raised him was no fear, only a quiet confidence in her from the dead, thou shalt be saved" (Rom. Lord. She knew thai her life was hid with 10:9). It makes Christianity a religion of God in Christ. She fell asleep in ihis assur deliverance. It sets us free from the law of ance of ihe resurreciion hope. sin and death, breaking the bondage of evil in the soul. Through it we are assured A Religion of the Dawn of our justification before God. "Who was The resurrection of Christ makes Chris delivered for our offences, and was raised tianity unique above all other religions. It again for justification" (Rom. 4:25). Life is a religion of the dawn. Il lurns our faces takes on new and richer meaning. The di to the glorious tomorrow and not backward vine image is restored in us. We are no upon an irretrievable past. This was beau longer in our sins. There is for us a glori tifully illuslrated in a funeral service I was ously fresh beginning. "As Christ was raised requested to conduct. The two-year-old up from the dead by the glory of the daughter of a young minister and his wife Father, even so we also should walk in had died suddenly. Her lasl nighi of life newness of life" (Rom. 6:4). Like Chris- found her apparenlly well. Before noon the lian in Bunyan©s Pilgrim©s Progress, we lay next day she became very ill and died. A down our burden of guilt and walk away few days before, I had visited in that home. free. Her winsome personality and warm friend By making common cause with us our liness had drawn me lo her. The news of blessed Lord shattered the darkness of the her passing came as a shock. lomb. His triumph over death assures us of After the funeral service the little casket our triumph over death. "Because I live, was placed on the straps over the open ye shall live also" (John 14:19). The grave. It was again opened at the request earth has been sown thick with ihe graves of the parents. They knelt beside her and of many generations. It has swallowed up took one last fond look at their little dar an immeasurable number. But through the ling, clad in a pretty red dress, red socks, resurrection death has lost its sling and ihe and black patent leather shoes. Opening a grave ils victory. "To the believer, death is box they had broughl with them, they look but a small matter. Christ speaks of it as if out a crib blankel. Il was one that she had THE MINISTRY always taken to bed with her. Many had that has flowed down the furrowed face of been the nights when they had covered her humanity will be dried forever and ever. with it. Now they placed it over her for the Because He broke the seal of death, the last time, tucking it in at the sides and preaching of this sermon is not in vain, bottom with great tenderness. The little our faith is not in vain, we are not left in casket was closed and we all walked back our sins, nor are those who have fallen toward our cars. The parents pointed to a asleep in Christ perished (John 14:19). pond nearby where their little girl, just the Let every spring lily proclaim from her autumn before, had fed the water birds waxen trumpet, He is risen. Let every pa floating on it. They knew that someday gan soldier who guarded the tomb, with she would feed swans again in a land of blanched face confess, He is risen. Let every fadeless day and eternal life, a land where demon of hell in dismay and disappoint there would be no more death, neither sor ment admit, He is risen. Let angels of God row nor crying. Theirs was the resurrection with countenances of the sun, shout for joy, hope. He is risen. Let the church of God in its Because He broke the seal of death, the splendid march across the centuries cry stone has been rolled away, the tomb is out, He is risen. Let every bell in the belfry empty, He is risen. Because He broke the of our souls ring out, He is risen. Because seal of death, the long drip of human tears He lives, we too shall live.

EDITORIAL

Do We Miss the Significance of Christ©s Sacrifice?

HAT actually happened God, why hast thou forsaken me?" He did W:to the thief dying on the not lose His confidence in Deity©s ultimate cross the day our Lord died is, purpose. What was happening was known in a sense, of secondary im to Him, but to none other of the sons of portance. The great thing was men. The devil and his hosts compre what happened to the world, hended the significance of the struggle, and for on that day the world was when Jesus died "Satan . . . knew that his reconciled to God. The fact of kingdom was lost." The Desire of Ages, Christ hanging there, rejected by men and p. 758. Also the rulers of the unfallen seemingly forsaken by God, is indeed a mys worlds knew. And in view of what was at tery. But the marvelous part about the cru the moment taking place, Jesus gave to cifixion story is that while under condem the thief the promise that he would be with nation and dying in agony and loneliness, Him in Paradise. Had Jesus not died victo He was at that very moment upholding the riously, that promise would have been fu moral pillars of the universe. The exclama tile. tion from the cross, "It is finished," was a When confronted with the statement of declaration that the battle was won. our Lord "Today shalt thou be with me in Through those tense and trying hours His paradise" it is altogether possible that we faith never wavered. Even when His Fa see in it little more than an opportunity to ther©s presence was withdrawn, which in defend our position on the great doctrine spired the despairing cry, "My God, my of life only in Christ. Consequently our APRIL, 1961 emphasis is on the matter of punctuation. The punctuation is interesting, but when this becomes the major emphasis we are in danger of losing the significance of the Sav iour©s great accomplishment. But more, we might at the same time drift into a purely legalistic attitude. Our great mes sage does not depend on incidental argu ments, but on the Lord©s atoning death, resurrection, and intercessory ministry, which leads to His second advent. The far-reaching plan that God has for this world and a redeemed race is all related to what was accomplished that day on the cross. Let us take another expression that \ve often use to clinch the argument on the Sabbath, and yet in doing so we might per haps fail to comprehend the real signifi cance of the statement. We read that the women returned and "prepared spices and ointments and rested according to the com mandment" a strong argument indeed to show that there was not a change in the day of worship. We dare not minimize that, but let us not overlook other implications. The fact is tragic that those dear folks who pre pared the spices and ointments had no con cept of what had actually happened. They knew their Lord was dead and they were making preparation to embalm the body of one they loved Jesus of Nazareth. When they reached the tomb on the first day of the week they made the discovery of their lives: the Eternal Christ, the Lord of glory, had burst the bonds of death, broken through the confines of men and PLOCKHORST, ARTIST demons, and had risen from the dead. from work. It was customary; it was right. Moreover, this great redeeming work on But they knew nothing more. Are there the cross gave Him authority to open every not many of our dear people to whom the other grave in the world. Sabbath means no more than merely stop "Thus the death of Christ the very ping work? They go to church, they attend event which the disciples had looked upon Sabbath worship, but they know not the as the final destruction of their hope was greater rest from sin and from anxiety. To that which made it forever sure. While it merely rest according to the commandment had brought them a cruel disappointment, is to be a legalist. Only as we enter into the it was the climax of proof that their belief greater rest that is ours in Christ can we had been correct. The event that had filled rise above all pettiness and fretting. In the them with mourning and despair, was that midst of world perplexity, turmoil, and ten which opened the door of hope to every sion we must lead our dear people to a child of Adam." The Great Controversy, rest greater than merely a cessation from p. 348. toil. To "rest in the Lord and wait pa Before the resurrection His followers tiently for him" is God©s purpose for His knew little more than to "rest according children. to the commandment." The great spiritual Let us care for the details of doctrine by rest into which He had invited them they all means, but in doing so may we not miss had never entered. On that Friday after the significance of our Lord©s sacrifice. noon all they knew was to merely cease R. A. A. THE MINISTRY Tame Talk E. E. CLEVELAND Associate Secretary, Ministerial Association, General Conference

AME talk is excusable in Motion tame times. But these are "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, not tame times. The nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, teeter on the brink of abysmal and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" catastrophe. Decency declines, (Matt. 28:19). This text is all motion: Go, morals collapse, and time- teach, and baptize. The action is continu honored values, like Old Man ous. There is no discharge in this war. The River, lose themselves in the prophet Isaiah questions his Creator con sea. Indeed, so rapid is this change for the cerning the length of his tenure of service: worse that man seeks to break his fall with "And he answered, Until the cities be sleeping pills and pleasure whirls, or to wasted without inhabitant, and the houses drown it all in the cocktail glass. All of without man, and the land be utterly deso this, in a time like this a time when, in late" (Isa. 6:11). addition to the natural consequences of Go! The world is on the go. Everything wrongdoing, the retributive grip of the Cre is in motion. The church of God is a "move ator©s hand tightens on the tide of human ment." Its ministers go visiting, they go affairs. Spasms in nature reveal earth©s soliciting, they go counseling, and they go agony. Earthquake, hurricane, fire, and preaching. flood are Heaven©s voice of warning. In Go preach! This is a command whose pulpits, in homes, in public meetinghouses, fulfillment is now a compelling urgency. voices of God-ordained messengers are The cost of renting halls is becoming pro lifted, voices that give significance to our hibitive. Regulations governing the erec times. tion of tents and tabernacles are becoming increasingly stringent. These and other fac Notion tors render the public proclamation of the It is paradoxical but true, that to the Word increasingly difficult. Preach while living the origin of life itself is a riddle. you can, where you may. Were Christ on To fill what he considers a gap, man has earth in the flesh would He not stand before concocted a fanciful theory of evolution, our darkened, padlocked churches and which at best is an illogical opiate. He has shout: "Let there be light"! Especially on embraced the fiction of natural immortal Sunday night. Sunday night what an op ity. He has declared the law of God null portunity! and void, to quiet his own conscience. To "But you don©t know the people in my him the Sabbath is an annoying inconven area," one man lamely explained, "they ience, and tithing an unbearable yoke. To just won©t come to Sunday night services." day©s Christian is saved by a grace that does And so for him Sunday night is televi not reform. He possesses a love that is ex sion night, as it is with his sleeping parish clusive, and would more willingly hand ioners. Perish the thought! People will God his purse than his heart. He means come to watch a blaze anytime, anywhere. well while doing wrong, and to him the Just catch fire and see! "And be not con song "Jesus Saves" applies to everything formed to this world," saith the Scriptures. but a long-cherished, defiling habit. To him Have the molders become the molded, Paradise is a mist-enshrouded promise, and and the potters become the clay? Circum hell a fiery joke. To this perplexed genera stances did not shape Peter, Paul, or even tion, victims of mistaken notion, God has Martin Luther. In the day of God how shall sent His men with the answers. They are we answer Him who called us? Wasted op men whose messages gain new urgency as portunities, neglected privileges, will rise to sin©s shadows lengthen. This is clearly no haunt the self-indulgent in the day of final time for tame talk. accounting. Go preach! APRIL, 1961 Go baptize! This is more than a com fear of being different. "All things continue mand, it is the natural consequence of as they were from the beginning." We Spirit-filled preaching. God expects it of preach alike, pray alike, and in all of our the minister, the people expect it of him, services there is an unmistakable flavor of and he expects it of himself. Baptism the sameness. This tendency to conform has culmination of spiritual conquest, the ful robbed many a man of his power. The fillment of our Saviour©s marching orders. world is famishing for a fresh revelation And having accomplished this, the man of Jesus Christ, not from lips that parrot of God knows satisfaction like the calm of other lips in calling that sacred name, but the deep sea. from hearts that have responded to His Whether the baptisms are many or few, transforming power. The question: "How there should be baptisms. The man who does Elder do it?" is replaced by a has done his best under God should not be personal concern to represent Christ©s will depressed by small results. Nor should he as an individual. It is upon men of this ever be satisfied with them. Men of God spirit that the fire will fall. must be men of large vision, men who ex We are agreed that in all of our efforts pect great things of God. They are men there should be an identifying imprint. But who settle for less only when compelled let not sameness lead to lameness. While to. There are some who regard large bap we cling to fundamental truth, is there not tisms as being for the gifted few. I have now need for a fresh mode of presentation, on occasion been in touch with some of indeed, a new method of approach? A man these "gifted" brethren and have found preaches with fresh power when the ser some of them less "gifted" than others who mon is of his own construction. Truth per are settling for less. Most of them are men sonally investigated with prayer in one©s who believe that any obstacle can be sur own study, is delivered with an unmistak mounted by faith in God and dedicated able flavor of originality. Such an outline, hustle. They make their "breaks" and capi kissed with the breath of heaven, conveys talize on them. They are surrendered men, its freshness to the heart of the hearer. The willing to sacrifice, sweat, and serve, asking minister himself experiences an enthusiasm only that God give them souls. And in de for his own preaching akin to that of a boy livering their messages they are not con examining a new and cherished toy. In tent with tame talk. Their messages are vigorated himself, the man of God moves "living things." People find such sermons men to repentance. irresistible. When you hurry from one thing to another, when you have so much to do that you cannot Commotion take time to talk with God, how can you expect Under the power of apostolic preaching power in your work? The reason so many of our communities were upset and cities left in ministers preach tame, lifeless discourses is that they allow a variety of things of a worldly nature an uproar. The apostles© messages inspired to take their time and attention. Evangelism, p. such fierce loyalty or determined opposi 80. tion that they were often fortunate to es cape with their lives. Where is the "old- Too busy to study and pray? Then, sir, time" power, the pentecostal power? Acts you are too busy. No emergency, however 17:6 records the testimony of certain ene grave, must interfere with the minister©s mies of Paul. Said they: "These that have study-prayer life. turned the world upside down are come I was traveling a south Florida road by hither also." Verse 5 describes the town automobile. My gas supply was nearly ex as being in "an uproar." "And the whole hausted. I had misjudged my distance and city was filled with confusion" (Acts 19:29). supply. The car suddenly came to a halt. "All Jerusalem was in an uproar" (Acts I was out of gasoline. Noticing the familiar 21:31). Their ministry was one that could sign of a service station farther along, I not be ignored, a power that could hastened thither, confidently expecting that not be contained. These men were heard, my needs would be supplied. Imagine my believed, and resisted. Shall we see this dismay upon arrival at the service station thing again? If so, when? To quote the to learn that they were out of business. The Apocalyptic souls under the altar: "How sign had been misleading. Cruel deception! long, O Lord?" It had led me to expect what it could not Hindering this climactic witness is the supply. 10 THE MINISTRY The world has a right to expect power gives efficacy to your efforts and your ap in a gospel pulpit. Can the growing skepti peals." Evangelism, p. 285. A telling min cism of things religious be due partly to istry for these times will be a tactful minis continued disappointment? Can it be that try. Tact is not compromise of faith. Genu some have approached the fount, seeking ine tact is in essence plain truth spoken to quench their thirst with living water, from a heart of love. Love is tactful. The and have found instead tame talk? tactless are the loveless or uninformed. Let the truth make its own enemies. It will also Communion win friends and influence people. Tactful In all fairness it should be said that pul talk is not tame talk. pit-power and volume are not synonymous We have reached the hour of the great terms. Nor is the distracting gesture a sign consummation. Humanity is on a one-way that the speaker is full of his subject. But, street, rushing to its own end. There is few will deny that to lift up one©s voice desperate need that a voice be raised with like a trumpet produces few congregational a message of hope for the hopeless. In times sleepers. And the timely gesture has ar like these silence is high treason and "tame rested many a drooping eyelid in its de talk" a travesty. To quote an African vil scent. Intensity born of prayerful commun lage woman as she spoke to the mission ion must characterize both message and ary: "Man, if you believe what you©re teach messenger. This heaven-born urgency must ing, say it loud enough for the whole vil show on his countenance. A holy fire must lage to hear!" anoint his utterances. "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice "It is the power of the Holy Spirit that like a trumpet" (Isa. 58:1). Walter Martin and the Nature of Man* D. E. MANSELL Pastor, Southern New England Conference

rOUR Biblical incidents are page 119), the soul or spirit is the "real F;next presented to prove that man," the body a mere integument or shell. the soul is conscious after Thus, according to this view, when Jesus death: The death of Stephen, died, His body was removed from the cross the words of Jesus to the and placed in Joseph©s tomb, but the "real thief, Moses© presence on the man," which Mr. Martin prefers to call the Mount of Transfiguration, "unit" (page 128) or "spiritual entity" and Saul©s experience at En- (page 121) went to be with the Father. If dor. We shall examine each incident sep so, how strange that "three days" later He arately. should explicitly declare, "I am not yet On page 128 the statement is made that ascended to my Father" (John 20:17). Ac Stephen©s committing his spirit (pneuma) cording to Mr. Martin©s theory He had as into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ cended to His Father on Friday afternoon. "establishes the fact that the immaterial We therefore conclude that the spirit nature of man is independent of his body." (pneuma) which leaves the body at death We agree that at death something imma is not the "real man." We believe that it is terial leaves the body, but does this prove the spirit (ruach), or "breath of lives" that this something is a conscious entity? (literal translation) that God "gave" We believe not, for the following reasons: (Eccl. 12:7) man in the beginning, and When Jesus died, He committed His spirit which he gives to every living creature (pneuma) into His Father©s hands. Ac (compare Gen. 2:7 with chap. 7:22 and Ps. cording to the dualistic view of man to 104:29, 30). When a man dies this life princi which Mr. Martin evidently subscribes (see ple "goeth forth" and returns "unto God who gave it," the body returns "to the * Conclusion of an unsolicited article in answer to Walter earth," and "in that very day his thoughts Martin©s criticisms of Seventh-day Adventist belief on the doctrine of the nature of man. [an integral part of consciousness] per APRIL, 1961 il ish" (compare Eccl. 12:7 and Ps. 146:4). fore proved that it was his soul. The dif We see, therefore, that Mr. Martin has no ficulty is that Mr. Martin has not estab scriptural warrant for assuming that the lished that the soul has a conscious exist immaterial part of man, called the spirit, ence after death, and the text under con which Stephen committed into our Lord©s sideration doesn©t even mention the word hands, was a conscious entity. soul. Once again Mr. Martin assumes what On Luke 23:43, Mr. Martin says that is to be proved. Jesus "never qualified" the words "verily, Now, while it is true that Jude 9 does not verily, I say unto you," "because qualifica say that Moses© body was resurrected, it tion was unnecessary" (page 129). Now, it cannot be denied that reference is made to may be true that nowhere else is it re his body. Jude 9 says that Michael "the corded that Jesus ever qualified these archangel" and Satan "disputed about the words, but this does not prove that, there body of Moses," and 1 Thessalonians 4:16, fore, they were unnecessary on the occasion the only other Biblical occurrence of the Jesus spoke them to the penitent thief. We word "archangel," says that the "Lord him believe that they were, owing to the un self shall descend from heaven . . . with the usual circumstances under which they were voice of the archangel. .. : and the dead in uttered. Not only that, but the original Christ shall rise first." We see no reason for text, translated and interpreted in har Paul©s reference to the archangel unless the mony with our view, is not ridiculously archangel is the Resurrector of the dead. Therefore, we conclude that Moses was bodily resurrected at the time Michael the There is more hope for the self-convicted sinner archangel and the devil had their dispute. than for the self-conceited saint. The preponderance of evidence is there fore in favor of the assumption that Moses appeared to our Lord in his resurrected redundant as Mr. Martin makes it out to body. There is no evidence that even sug be. The original text reads, amen lego soi gests that it was Moses© soul. semeron met© emou ese en to paradeisd, In 1 Samuel 28:7-19 is the record of Saul©s and may either be translated, "Verily I say to you, today thou wilt be with me in para dise" or "Verily I say to you today, thou Man cannot live by bread alone, but many try to wilt be with me in paradise." Greek gram get along on crust. mar allows the adverb "today" to qualify either the verb lego, "I say," or, the verb ese [eimi], "thou wilt be." There is no re visit to the woman of Endor, who had a dundancy in either translation. We prefer "familiar spirit." Mr. Martin alleges that to punctuate the phrase with the comma "every instance" in this account "indicates after the adverb "today" so that it qualifies that Samuel in his spiritual nature ad the verb "I say." Mr. Martin evidently pre dressed Saul. Nowhere is it even intimated fers to make the adverb qualify the verb that it was not Samuel, and any attempt to "thou wilt be." We raise no objection to establish what the Hebrew text simply does his right to interpret the passage that way, not allow is evidence of failure to recognize but we do object to his claim that it can the hermeneutic principle of interpreta only be interpreted his way and that there tion governing the process of sound exe fore this is proof that the soul has a con gesis" (pages 130, 131). In the first place scious existence after death. It is not. we believe that a comparison of the ac As for Moses and the Transfiguration, count of Saul©s interview in 1 Samuel with Mr. Martin says that the Adventists have a literal translation of 1 Chronicles 10:13 no grounds for saying that Moses appeared does allow that a "familiar spirit," not on that occasion in his resurrected body, Samuel, addressed Saul. 1 Samuel 28:7 says because Jude does not say that Moses was Saul asked his servants to seek for "a raised from the dead. He concludes that woman that hath a familiar spirit," literally therefore "it is evident that the soul of "a woman who is mistress of a familiar Moses appeared to our Lord" (page 129). spirit" (Hebrew, ©esheth ba©alath ©6V), but This is amazing. In essence Mr. Martin is in 1 Chronicles 10:13 it says Saul "asked of saying that because Jude 9 does not say a familiar spirit, to inquire" (literal trans Moses© body was resurrected, he has there- lation. Hebrew, lish©ol ba©ob lidrosh). The 12 THE MINISTRY original text certainly allows the interpre MINISTRY Index tation that Saul asked of the familiar spirit itself. We believe that this familiar spirit Recently we notified our leaders that we were preparing a complete Index for every article in the impersonated Samuel and that in calling MINISTRY since its inception in 1928. We asked the familiar spirit "Samuel," the writer of those interested to send us a card in order that we 1 Samuel is simply using the language of might decide on the most economical method o£ appearance. production. The number to be prepared vitally af In the second place, 1 Samuel 28:6 says fects the question whether this valuable material that Saul "enquired of the Lord," but 1 should be mimeographed or printed, bound or un Chronicles 10:14 says that Saul "enquired bound. Naturally, the important question of price not of the Lord." It is not reasonable that is wrapped up in these considerations. If you have God, who would answer Saul "neither by not sent us a postal card indicating that you would be interested in the purchase of such an Index, will dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets" (1 you please send it immediately? You need not re Sam. 28:6), would answer him through the gard this as a firm order, because when the Index medium of one who was an abomination is finally prepared, it will be announced with to Him (compare Lev. 19:31; 20:6, 27; price in these columns. We shall take orders, in Deut. 18:10, 11; 1 Sam. 28:3; Isa. 8:19). other words, after we can announce the exact Therefore, we conclude that God was not price. H. W. LOWE answering Saul through the supposed "Sam uel." Saul was not inquiring of the Lord Hebrew and Greek words rendered in our when he spoke to the familiar spirit. version ©eternal© or ©everlasting,© mean In the third place, it is strange that if, duration whose termination is unknown" as Mr. Martin teaches, at death believers (page 131). We also agree with him when go "into the presence of the Lord" (page he says, "When used in reference to perish 128), and unbelievers go "into a place of able things, as when the Bible speaks of the punishment" (ibid.), that Samuel should ©everlasting hills,© they simply indicate in have come "out of the earth" (1 Sam. 28: definite existence to which there is no 13, 14. Compare with verses 11 and 15), or known or assignable limit" (pages 131, that Saul should have gone to "be with" 132). We do not agree with him when he Samuel, after he committed suicide (verse says, without any Biblical proof whatever, 19). It simply doesn©t make sense. that the "human soul" has "unending We believe that a doctrine based on the existence," for the simple reason that the questionable foundation of a forbidden in Scriptures do not say so, even though the terview with an enemy of God, is no proof terms soul and spirit are used more than that "Samuel in his spiritual nature ad 1,600 times in the Bible. On the contrary, dressed Saul." the Scriptures consistently declare that all existence, including conscious existence, is ///. Hell and Eternal Punishment entirely dependent on the sustaining We now turn to the question of whether power of God (Acts 17:28; John 1:3, 4; Col. unbelievers will be tormented endlessly in 1:16, 17; Heb. 1:3; Neh. 9:6; Ps. 36:9; et hell. We agree with Mr. Martin that "the cetera) and therefore we conclude that the thought of a never-ending agony of ra words "eternal" and "everlasting" when tional beings fully realizing their distress applied to man mean existence to which ing plight is so appalling that it exceeds there is no assignable limit. Only God is comprehension" (page 138). It is more eternal in the absolute sense. All things else than appalling; we believe it is unscrip- owe their origin and continued existence tural. to Him. In the case of the righteous, "eter Eternal torment is founded on the as nal" and "everlasting" mean "endless," not sumption that God has given all men, re because they have souls that are "eternal gardless of their characters, souls that He by creation" (page 132), but because they will never reduce to nonexistence. This have "become partakers of the divine na assumption, as we have shown, is un-Bibli- ture" (2 Peter 1:4) by faith in Christ. Un cal, because not once in the entire Bible is believers do not partake of this nature. man©s soul or spirit even remotely associ Viewed in this light, Matthew 25:41 and ated with the idea of endlessness. We can 46 presents no dilemma to the Adventists. not emphasize this point too strongly. When unbelievers are cast into "everlast We fully agree with Dr. Hodge, whom ing fire" they are punished for an indefi Mr. Martin quotes as authority, "That the nite but limited duration. Since they do APRIL, 1961 13 not partake of the "divine nature" they based on this text can mean conscious tor are perishable, and the words "eternal" ment in the intermediate state, he must and "everlasting," when applied to them first establish conscious existence in the in simply mean "duration whose termination termediate state. We submit he has not is not known." On the other hand, since been able to do this. the righteous are partakers of the divine nature that is imperishable, the words IV. Hell and Punishment in New Testament "eternal" and "everlasting" mean endless Greek duration. In this final section Mr. Martin endeav Mark 9:47, 48 presents no problem. The ors to support his belief in eternal torment expression, "Their worm dieth not" is on the basis of the Greek words that are plainly a figure of speech, and we agree used to describe the punishment of unbe with Mr. Martin that "one does not develop lievers. He begins by citing Matthew 5:22 a doctrine from a figure of speech" (page and 10:28: " ©Whosoever shall say, Thou 121); therefore we reject his development fool, shall be in danger of hell [gehenna] of the doctrine of eternal torment on the fire.© " " ©Fear him which is able to destroy basis of this text. [apolesai] both soul [psuche] and body Second Peter 2:9 is cited in support of [soma] in hell [gehenna].©" Mr. Martin the doctrine of conscious punishment of says that gehenna "portrays a place of pun unbelievers in the intermediate state. The ishment for the unsaved," and apolesai context of this passage shows that Peter is [apollumi] which is coupled with it in referring to punishment and deliverance Matthew 10:28, is said to mean " ©to be de in this present life. In the verses that im livered up to eternal misery.© " From this mediately precede the passage under con he concludes that gehenna "symbolizes sideration, the apostle mentions several ex eternal separation and conscious punish amples of divine retribution in this pres ment of the spiritual nature of the unre- ent life, namely, the angels that sinned, the generate man" (page 135). A comparison antediluvians, and the ungodly inhabitants of Matthew 10:28 with this statement shows of Sodom and Gomorrah. It also mentions that Mr. Martin interprets "soul" to mean two examples of divine deliverance in this "spiritual nature." present life Noah and his family and Lot. Our first question is: From what does The apostle then goes on to conclude, the soul, or spiritual nature, eternally sepa "The Lord knoweth how to deliver the rate when the unregenerate man is cast godly out of temptations, and to reserve the into hell? He answers on page 128 that the unjust unto [Greek, eis] the day of judg "immaterial nature of man (soul and ment to be punished." No one will dispute spirit) is separate from the body (Matt. 10:28; Luke 8:55; 1 Thess. 5:23; Heb. 4:12: Rev. 16:3"); that it is independent Religion is meant to be bread for daily use of man©s material form, and departs from —not cake for special occasions.—Mutual that form at death, to go either into Moments. the presence of the Lord (Phil. 1:23) or into a place of punishment (Luke 16)." This makes it quite evident that Mr. the fact that the godly need no deliverance Martin believes that the soul, or spiritual from trial after death, and hence their de nature, separates from the body when the liverance must refer to deliverance in this unregenerate man is "plunged" into "Hell" life. Since the context shows that Peter is (see page 131). The second question is: referring to punishment and deliverance Since apollumi is grammatically and con- in this present life, it seems reasonable to textually coupled with the body as well as conclude that the latter part of verse 9 also the soul, why does Mr. Martin ignore the refers to punishment of the ungodly in this application of apollumi to the body in the present life, not after death. conclusion he draws? We believe that it is Without first assuming conscious exist because the definition "to be delivered up ence in the intermediate state there is no to eternal misery" given apollumi, implies reason for believing that the apostle is re consciousness, and it would have been ab ferring to conscious punishment in the in surd to deliver up the body for eternal terval between death and the judgment. misery if it is eternally separated from the Therefore, before Mr. Martin©s argument spiritual nature, which is supposed to be 14 THE MINISTRY the conscious part of man. He tried to avoid this pitfall by simply ignoring the body. By ignoring this issue he has avoided SOME BOOJS I CAN an inconsistency, but has thereby vitiated his argument. RECOMMEND As for Isaiah 66:24 teaching eternal pun ishment, we repeat that "one does not de velop a doctrine from a figure of speech" V. H. COOPER (Page 121). Ministerial and Radio Secretary, British Union The second text Mr. Martin presents to Conference sustain the doctrine of eternal torment is Prayer, Conscience, Why I Am a Christian, and 2 Thessalonians 1:8, 9. He claims that the Religious or Christian? These are four books by word olethros, translated "destruction" ac Prof. O. Hallesby, Ph.D., Inter-Varsity Fellow tually should be translated "ruination" and ship, 39 Bedford Square, London W.C.I. Price that therefore the wicked are ruined but 7 shillings and 6 pence each. not destroyed. Then he goes on to draw an This author combines a simplicity of style with analogy between a broken light bulb and a penetrating depth of thought which makes his the "destruction" of the wicked, claiming books very attractive. He faces squarely the dif that though the function of the bulb is ficulties of prayer in a modern world, asking: destroyed, the glass remains. The trouble "Does God need our intercessory prayers?" and "Does God answer the prayers of the unconverted?" with this analogy is that Mr. Martin has and the most basic question of all, "If God transposed the elements in it. knows all things, why do we need to pray?" According to his theory the body is ma Keswick©s Authentic Voice, selected and edited by terial, the soul immaterial. In order to be Herbert F. Stevenson, Marshall, Morgan and consistent, the body should be analogous Scott publishers. 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Thus Lang and contains studies in the original Chris we see that Mr. Martin is still working on tian baptism, its history and conflicts, its relation the false assumption that the soul is eternal to a state or national church, and its significance for the present time. This is a scholarly work, by creation. clear in its relationship to the Bible, and contains The Greek word basanizo, found in Rev valuable chapters on the history of Baptist circles elation 20:10 (also Matt. 8:6, 29; Mark both in the Middle Ages and the time of the Ref 5:7; Luke 8:28; Rev. 14:10, 11) is next ormation and later. This is said to be the most presented as evidence that the wicked suf profound and comprehensive work on the orig fer eternal "conscious ©torment© " (p. 137). inal Christian baptism in the German language. Mr. Martin then goes on to declare that by this text "the theory of anni effectively annihilated his claim to have de hilation or, as the Adventists say, the final stroyed our doctrine. destruction, of the wicked is itself annihi There is no need to comment on Mat lated" (p. 137). thew 8:6, 29; Mark 5:7 and Luke 8:28, since It strikes us as rather strange that this there is no question that basanizo means man should speak with such confidence in conscious torment; however, it should be reference to Revelation 20:10 and 14:10, 11, pointed out that this word does not suggest when a few pages before he confesses, "The eternal torment. Since the phrase "for ever Bible does not tell us the nature of Hell and ever" (Greek, eis tons aidnas ton aid- and the lake of fire so vividly recorded in non, or, eis aidnas aionori), like the words the Book of Revelation" (page 131). It "everlasting" and "eternal," are applied to seems to us that by this admission he has the wicked who are not by nature imperish- APRIL, 1961 15 even includes conscious fellowship in the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR passages he claims support his contention. The second group of arguments is based on the Biblical words soul and spirit, which he presents as evidence that man©s "cogni zant, immaterial nature" survives as a con "The Ministry is an inestimable blessing to me scious entity after the death of the body. personally and to our workers. We eagerly devour its pages, which are vibrant with life and energy." In this he has failed because the words DESMOND E. TINKLER, President soul and spirit have many meanings besides Newfoundland Mission Conference "consciousness" or "cognizance," and he does not establish that this is the meaning "The Ministry is a fine journal and I have read in the texts he sets forth as proof for his it with interest and derived inspiration from it contention. since its inception more than thirty years ago." The third and fourth set of arguments R. P. BROWN, Auckland, New Zealand is founded on the assumption that he has "I would like to take this opportunity to express established that the soul is eternal by cre myself in regard to my gratitude and appreciation ation. In this he has signally failed, because of the MINISTRY magazine. I appreciate the the Scriptures invariably teach that man broad scope of the importance and variety of items owes his existence to the sustaining power you publish. Your recent addition of the little of God, and nowhere does the Bible even section on 'Books I Can Recommend' is very good. remotely intimate that the soul or spirit is In connection with this I wish it were possible to eternal, either by creation or because the have a central library where the brethren could power of God maintains its existence eter have these books on a three-week loan." —J. M. MERSHON, Wahpeton, N. Dak. nally. Apart from the scriptural evidence that man does not have an eternal conscious existence, we believe that reason indicates able, we conclude that the expressions in that it would be unwise and unjust to or Revelation relating to the torment of the dain that man must have an endless con wicked are of unknown but limited dura scious existence irrespective of character. tion. Unwise, because in creating man a free The final grammatical point brought moral agent there was the definite possi forth in favor of the theory of eternal tor bility that he might fall. Unjust, because ment is the word abide (Greek, menei) having fallen he is irretrievably condemned found in John 3:36. This text is coupled to eternal torment for the sins of a rela with Romans 2:8, 9 and Revelation 14:10, tively short lifetime. Mr. Martin counters from which the conclusion is inferred that that it is not "proper or reasonable to make God©s wrath continues to operate on the our human sentiments and judgments the wicked eternally. measure of God©s essence and activity," but First of all, the Greek word menei, while we reply that if human beings are capable it may carry the idea of continuous action, of judging between the benefits of eternal does not necessarily carry the idea of eter life and the evils of eternal damnation, we nal continuous action, this obviously is de are not wholly incapable of seeing the gross rived from Revelation 14:10, which as we injustice of consigning rational beings to have pointed out assumes -that the soul is never-ending agony for the sins committed eternal by nature. Therefore, the argument in this brief life. based on John 3:36 is invalid. We believe But we do not rest our case on reason that the wrath of God abides on the wicked alone. The Scriptures make it plain that continually until they have been punished when the struggle between good and evil according to their works. is over God will be "all and in all" (1 Cor. 15:24-28). We cannot imagine God being Conclusion in the wicked, nor could God be "all" if To sum up: Mr. Martin begins his at the rebels against His government are al tempt to establish conscious existence after lowed to live on endlessly blaspheming His death by proving that the righteous have holy name. We therefore conclude that the eternal life. In this he has failed because Scriptures teach that endless conscious ex he does not establish that eternal life always istence is possible only by accepting "eter includes conscious fellowship or that it nal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." 16 THE MINISTRY RESEARCH--Theology, History, Science

The Apocalypse and the Day of Atonement (Concluded) DESMOND FORD Bible Department, Australasian Missionary College

jREDERICK NOLAN, Another writer referred to by Froom is F:noted linguist and theolo John Tudor, one-time editor of the Church gian of the nineteenth cen of England Quarterly Review. Comment tury, asserted in The Time of ing on the pouring out of the last vial, Tu the Millennium that on many dor wrote: occasions the attention of an The temple of God is then opened, and the ark tiquaries and scholars had of his testament seen, xi.19; and the voice issues been drawn to the references from the throne, xvi.17; both expressions equally to the Day of Atonement in Revelation. denoting the holy of holies, which was only en After declaring his belief that the imagery tered once a year, on the day of atonement. This of the seventh seal was derived from the period is therefore our day of atonement, and re quires our particular notice, to know what events great Day of Atonement and the Jubilee, we may expect, answering to the type.2 he stated, "The analogy between this de scription, and the service of the Temple, Elsewhere in speaking of Revelation 8: upon one of the most solemn festivals of 1-5 and 11:19 Tudor affirms that "©all the the Mosaic ceremonial, is so obvious that it imagery in this poem was taken from the has often excited the attention of the anti Day of Atonement© the golden censer, the quary and scholar." He further asserts that incense, the deep affliction, the temple the frequent allusions in Revelation 9 and opened, and the ark seen ©indicating the 15 to "the ark of the tabernacle, the altar, opening of the veil on the day of atone and the incense," refer "not only to the ment.© " 3 daily service but to the ©peculiar solemnity© Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps more than of the services on the ©great day of Atone any other scholar, has stressed the point ment,© performed ©by the high priest, in the that the visions of the book of Revelation holiest place of the Temple,© and celebrated abound with the imagery of the feasts of the in the seventh month." L. E. Froom notes seventh month. Nolan©s view that the Jubilee "commenced Commenting on Revelation chapter 5, on the great Day of Atonement and was Newton declares: ushered in with the sound of Trumpets." It was the custom for the High-Priest, seven Thus to him the "opening of the seventh days before the fast of the seventh month, to con seal" with its allusions to the feasts of Trum tinue constantly in the Temple, and study the pets and Atonement points to "the opening book of the Law, that he might be perfect in it of the millennium, and the Jubilee." 1 against the day of expiation; wherein the service, Joshua Spalding, a contemporary of No- which was various and intricate, was wholly to be lan, was also a writer on the prophecies of performed by himself; part of which service was reading the Law to the people: and to promote the book of Revelation. Like Nolan, he his studying it, there were certain Priests ap held that the feasts of the seventh month pointed by the SANHEDRIM to be with him were symbolic of the final restitution of all those seven days in one of his chambers in the things. Froom gives in some detail the views Temple, and there to discourse with him about of this writer in his third volume of Pro the Law, and read it to him and put him in phetic Faith of Our Fathers. mind of reading and studying it himself. This APRIL, 1961 17 his opening and reading the Law those seven days, that this imagery is associated with ref is alluded unto in the Lamb©s opening the seals.4 erences to the other feasts of the seventh And on chapter 8:1-5 Newton further month, Trumpets and Tabernacles giving says: a combined witness to the latter-day appli The seventh seal was therefore opened on the cation of these typical occasions. day of expiation, and then there was silence in For Seventh-day Adventists, Newton©s re heaven for half an hour. And an angel, the High- marks on the sealing work are especially Priest, stood at the altar having a golden censer; interesting. He quotes Revelation 7:1-3 and and there was given him incense, that he should says: offer it with the prayers of all saints, upon the This sealing alludes to a tradition of the JEWS, golden altar which was before the throne. The that upon the day of expiation all the people of custom was on other days, for one of the Priests to ISRAEL are sealed up in the books of life and death take fire from the great Altar in a silver Censer; (BUXTORF, in Synagoga Judaica, c. 18, 21). For the but on this day, for the High-Priest to take fire JEWS in their Talmud tell us, that in the beginning from the great Altar in a golden Censer; and when of every new year, or first day of the month, he was come down from the great Altar, he took TISRI, the seventh month of the sacred year, incense from one of the Priests who brought it to three books are opened in judgment; the book of him, and went with it to the golden Altar: and life, in which the names of those are xvritten while he offered the incense, the people prayed who are perfectly just; the book of death, in which without in silence, which is the silence in heaven the names of those are written who are Atheists or for half an hour. When the High-Priest had laid very wicked; and a third book, of those whose the incense on the Altar, he carried a Censer of it judgment is suspended till the day of expiation, burning in his hand, into the most holy place be and whose names are not written in the book of life fore the Ark. And the smoke of the incense, with or death before that day. The first ten days of this the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God month they call the penitential days; and all these out of the angel©s hand. On other days there was days they fast and pray very much, and arc very de a certain measure of incense for the golden Altar: vout, that on the tenth day their sins may be re on this day there was a greater quantity for both mitted, and their names may be written in the the Altar and the most holy Place, and therefore it book of life; which day is therefore called the day is called much incense. . . . of expiation. And upon this tenth day, in returning The solemnity of the day of expiation being fin home from the Synagogues, they say to one another, ished, the seven Angels sound their trumpets at God the Creator seal you to a good year. For they the great sacrifices of the seven days of the feast of conceive that the books are now sealed up, and Tabernacles; and at the same sacrifices, the seven that the sentence of God remains unchanged hence thunders utter their voices which are the musick forward to the end of the year. The same thing of the Temple, and singing of the Levites, inter is signified by the two Goats, upon whose fore mixed with the soundings of the trumpets: and heads the High-Priest yearly, on the day of expia the seven Angels pour out their vials of wrath, tion, lays the two lots inscribed, For God and For which are the drink-offerings of those sacrifices. 5 Azazel; God©s lot signifying the people who are We may not agree with all the details of sealed with the name of God in their foreheads; interpretation offered by Newton nor all and the lot AZAZEL, which was sent into the wilder the references that he declares to point to ness, representing those who receive the mark and name of the Beast, and go into the wilderness with the Day of Atonement ceremonial. How the great Whore.6 ever, certain features of analogy between the visions of Revelation and the solemn By this statement Sir Isaac Newton de fast day of Yom Kippur are undeniable. clares his belief that the crisis of Revela All authorities are agreed, for example, tion 13 over the mark of the beast and that a golden censer, such as referred to in also the sealing work described earlier both Revelation 8:3, was used only by the Jew apply to the antitypical Day of Atonement. ish high priest on the Day of Atonement. He places these events in the setting of Revelation 11:19 is a clearer reference still judgment, as typified by Israel©s ancient to another feature of the Day of Atonement, fast day. namely the entrance into the Most Holy It is not only interesting but significant Place and the viewing of the Ark for the that non-Adventist scholars of repute be only time in the year. The fact that many lieved the feasts of the seventh month to be non-Adventist scholars have made such typical of events associated with the quotations as the preceding is conclusive second advent of Christ. These men did that the Bible©s latest book with its proph not believe that the significance of the Day ecies, which relate specially to the last times, of Atonement was exhausted by the use harnesses the imagery of this special day made of it by Paul in Hebrews 9. They be- to express vital truths. It is also significant (Continued on page 18 THE MINISTRY Herbert W. Armstrong and His Radio Church of God—Part II Did Christ Stay in the Grave Exactly 72 Hours? ROBERT L. ODOM Editor of the "Index to the Writings of Ellen G. White"

D Christ die and receive Is that doctrine sound? The vast ma burial on Wednesday jority of Christians have long affirmed that afternoon? Did He stay in the it is not. They allege, on the contrary: (1) grave exactly seventy-two that Christ died and received burial on hours? Did His resurrection Friday afternoon, (2) that He lay in the take place on Saturday after grave during a period involving three cal noon? endar days, and (3) that He rose from the Herbert W. Armstrong, grave early on Sunday morning. Can this leader of the Radio Church of God pro view of Christian people in general be gram broadcast from Pasadena, California, harmonized with the two statements that affirms: (1) that "Jesus was crucified on have been quoted above from Matthew©s Wednesday," (2) that "Jesus was exactly Gospel? three days and three nights three full The best way to solve the problem posed twenty-four-hour days seventy-two hours by the foregoing questions is to weigh all in the grave," and (3) that "the resurrec the evidence, including the testimony of tion of Christ occurred late Saturday after Matthew 12:20 and 28:1-6. In doing this, we noon." 1 Two or three other small religious shall begin by attempting to find out what groups in the United States likewise advo is meant by the expression "three days and cate this theory concerning Christ©s death, three nights" as used in Matthew 12:40. burial, and resurrection. This terminology, if it were used originally The proponents of that doctrine base it by a Western writer today, would naturally primarily on two statements found in the and correctly be understood to mean pre Gospel of Matthew, which are the follow cisely three full days of twenty-four hours ing: each, or seventy-two hours. However, when 1. "For as Jonas was three days and three we read our Bible in the English language, nights in the whale©s belly; so shall the which is a Western tongue, we must remem Son of man be three days and three nights ber that it is a translation of writings that in the heart of the earth." 2 On the basis of were originally penned in Hebrew, Ara that statement by Christ rests the conjec maic, or Greek by Hebrew writers born ture that He stayed in the tomb exactly and reared in the Near East many, many seventy-two hours. centuries ago. It does not necessarily fol 2. "In the end of the sabbath, as it be low, therefore, that any and every expres gan to dawn toward the first day of the sion found in our English Bible must be week, came Mary Magdalene and the other understood, without any exception whatso Mary to see the sepulchre. . . . And the an ever, as expressing precisely the same gel answered and said unto the women, thought that it would convey if the original Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, writer had been born and reared in one of which was crucified. He is not here: for he the leading English-speaking countries of is risen, as he said." s On the premise of this the twentieth century. Hence it behooves statement by Matthew, rests the assumption the careful and prayerful reader of the that Christ rose from the grave late on Sat Word of God to follow the example of urday afternoon. Its advocates simply those noble Bereans who "searched the reckon back seventy-two full hours from scriptures daily, whether those things were that time to late Wednesday afternoon and so."* then allege that this was the day of the The Hebrew writers sometimes enumer week on which Christ died and received ated both the light (day) and the dark burial. (night) portions of the natural day in stat- APRIL, 1961 Notice to Writers in either the original text or in the trans lation of it. The Bible writers were not Inasmuch as publishers must secure permission trying to specify precisely the number of from the owners of copyrighted material to print hours, minutes, and seconds involved in quoted matter appearing in books and periodicals, each historical happening referred to, but those who write for our denominational publica tions should be particular to give the author, the were telling the exact number of calendar book or magazine, the volume and page, the pub days involved in each occurrence. lisher and his address, for every poem or other Furthermore, in Hebrew usage it has material he may quote. Such cooperation will save been a common practice since ancient countless hours in the editorial office. EDITOR. times to count a portion of a twenty-four- hour day sometimes as a whole calendar day in reckoning or stating the number of calendar days involved in the occurrence ing how many calendar days were involved of an event. in certain historical happenings. The earli One of the best and most widely known est example of this is the use of the words Jewish authorities says: "the evening and the morning" in telling In Jewish communal life part of a day is at times us how many calendar days were involved reckoned as one day; e.g., the day of the funeral, in the creation of our world.5 even when the latter takes place late in the after- The expression "forty days and forty noon,1T is counted as the first of the seven days of mourning; a short time in the morning of the sev nights" is employed to state how many cal enth day is counted as the seventh day; circum endar days were involved in the downpour cision takes place on the eighth day, even though of rain when the Flood came,6 in the of the first day only a few minutes remained after stay of Moses \vith God in the mount the birth of the child, these being counted as one on two occasions,7 and in Elijah©s stay at day. Again, a man who hears of a vow made by Mount Horeb.8 We read also that "forty his wife or his daughter, and desires to cancel the days and forty nights" were spent by Christ vow, must do so on the same day on which he in the wilderness of temptation.9 However, hears of it, as otherwise the protest has no effect; the writers of two of the Gospels state it even if the hearing takes place a little time before night, the annulment must be done within that simply as a period of "forty days," 10 show little time.18 ing that the Spirit of Inspiration was not pinpointing precisely the number of hours, Another standard Jewish reference work minutes, and seconds that the Saviour was states: in the wilderness. The expression "seven In religious practices a part of a day is some times counted as a full day. Thus, in the case of days and seven nights" u reveals the num the seven days of mourning, if the funeral takes ber of calendar days that Job©s friends place in the afternoon, the short portion of the stayed with him before they began their day remaining19 is counted as a whole day; in the long discussion. The phrase "three days same way a very short part of the morning of the and three nights" tells how many calendar seventh day is considered to be a whole day. In days were involved in the Egyptian slave©s reckoning the date of circumcision as the eighth going without food and water,12 and in day after birth, even a few minutes of the day Jonah©s internment in the big fish that that remains after the birth has taken place are swallowed him." considered to be a full day.20 The expression "two thousand and three This inclusive counting of a part of a day hundred days" in Daniel 8:14 appears in as a whole calendar day in reckoning or the Hebrew text literally as "evening morn stating how long something happens is very ing two thousand and three hundred."" ancient in Hebrew usage. For example, Hence the angel, in his subsequent refer God said to Noah: "For yet seven days, and ence to this time period, refers to it as "the I will cause it to rain upon the earth." a vision of the evening and the morning." " "And it came to pass after seven days, that Paul tells of having been "a night and a the waters of the flood were upon the day" in the deep.18 In the original text the earth." ~ The marginal reading expresses apostle expresses the thought of that the Hebrew text more accurately, saying phrase in a single Greek word nuch- that it was "on the seventh day." themeron—which literally means "a night- The law concerning the male Hebrew day" or "a night and a day." baby was that "he that is eight days old In all the instances cited above, as also shall be circumcised." * Again: "And in in Matthew 12:40, the word hour is not used the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall 20 THE MINISTRY be circumcised." M And in the case of John When Queen Esther was informed by the Baptist we read that "on the eighth day Mordecai©s messengers that a plot had been they came to circumcise the child." 25 The made to exterminate the Jews in Persia, story of Christ states that "when eight days she "bade them return Mordecai this an were accomplished for the circumcising of swer, Go, gather together all the Jews that the child, his name was called Jesus." x Ac are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me cording to this inclusive counting or reck . . . three days . . . : I also and my maidens oning of time, as used by the Jews and will fast likewise." so And "it came to pass many other peoples of ancient times, the on the third day, that Esther put on her baby boy was to be circumcised on the royal apparel" 31 and courageously went eighth calendar day counted from and in into the king©s throne room to seek his cluding the one on which his birth oc favor in behalf of her people in that crisis; curred, regardless of the particular hour, and she got it. The "three days," in this minute, or second when the birth took case meant three calendar days counting place. from and including the one on which We read in Joseph©s dealings with his Esther sent her message to Mordecai. brothers, that "he put them all together In an effort to frighten Christ into flight into ward three days. And Joseph said unto one day, some Pharisees said to Him: "Get them the third day, This do, and live; for I thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will fear God. If ye be true men, let one of kill thee." To this He replied: "Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the The only way to multiply happiness is to di third day I shall be perfected. Neverthe vide it. less I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following." S2 In the thinking of the people of Bible times "the third day" your brethren be bound in the house of was simply what we think of when we your prison; go ye, carry corn for the speak of the "day after tomorrow," that is, famine of your houses." K Those men were the third calendar day from and including imprisoned three calendar days, but not today. seventy-two full hours, for they were re When some Jews demanded of Him a leased on "the third day" of their confine sign one day, Christ replied: "Destroy this ment. temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Consider the tax issue between King Re- Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was hoboam and his subjects. "He said unto them, Come again unto me after three days. And the people departed." "So Jero Wrestling with one's conscience is not the best boam and all the people came to Reho- spiritual exercise. boam on the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come again to me on the third day." x Another account of this experience reads: "And he said unto them, Depart yet this temple in building, and wilt thou rear for three days, then come again to me. And it up in three days? But he spake of the the people departed." "So Jeroboam and temple of his body." ^ When the Lord was all the people came to Rehoboam the third tried at a later date, a false witness testi day, as the king had appointed, saying, fied: "This fellow said, I am able to de Come to me again the third day." 29 It is stroy the temple of God, and to build it in very clear, therefore, that such expressions three days." 'M Others said: "We heard him as "after three days," "yet for three days," say, I will destroy this temple that is made and the "third day" were understood by with hands, and within three days I will the people of Bible times to mean "on the build another made without hands." s5 third day" that is, on the third calendar While He hung on the cross, His enemies day from and including the one on which revilingly said to Him: "Thou that de- Rehoboam dismissed the petitioners. This stroyest the temple, and buildest it in three is what is called inclusive counting or reck days, save thyself." 36 Also: "Ah, thou that oning of time, without attempting to com destroyest the temple, and buildest it in pute the precise number of hours, minutes, three days, save thyself, and come down or seconds involved in the occurrence. from the cross." 37 And on "the next day, APRIL, 1961 21 that followed the day of the preparation, As the time drew still nearer for Him to the chief priests and Pharisees came to die, Christ said to His followers: "Behold, gether unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remem we go up to Jerusalem; and the Son of man ber that that deceiver said, while he was shall be betrayed unto the chief priests and yet alive, After three days I will rise again. unto the scribes, and they shall condemn Command therefore that the sepulchre be him to death, and shall deliver him to the made sure until the third day, lest his disci Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to ples come by night and steal him away." ^ crucify him: and the third day he shall rise Thus we see that the expressions "in three again." " Another account reports Him as days," "within three days," and "after three saying that "they shall condemn him to days" simply meant "until the third day," death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles: that is, the third calendar day from and and they shall mock him, and shall scourge including the one on which He had been him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill put to death. him: and the third day he shall rise With these facts in mind, let us examine again." 15 The third reports Him as saying closely what Christ said about His death, that "he shall be delivered unto the Gen burial, and resurrection in so far as the tiles, and shall be mocked, and spitefully time involved is concerned. After closing entreated, and spitted on: and they shall scourge him, and put him to death: and the third day he shall rise again." 40 Thus it is made clear again that the "third day," on What you are is God's gift to you. What you which He would rise from the grave, was make of yourself is your gift to Him. the one counted from and including the one on which He was killed. The statement of Matthew 12:40, consid His ministry in Caesarea Philippi, He pro ered in the light of these eight other state ceeded toward Jerusalem, and from "that ments by Christ, shows that in accord with time forth began Jesus to shew unto his Hebrew usage in counting, or reckoning, disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusa time inclusively, three calendar days were lem, and suffer many things of the elders involved in the period from His crucifix and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, ion to His resurrection, without particular and be raised again the third day." M An regard for the exact number of hours, min other writer reports Him as saying that He utes, and seconds thereof. must "be killed, and after three days rise When Peter, at a later date, told Corne again." " A third account reports Him as lius and his household the story of Christ, saying that He must "be slain, and be raised he explained to them "all things which he the third day." " Thus Christ makes it clear did both in the land of the Jews, and in that "the third day" and "after three days" are expressions meaning three calendar days counted from and including the one If you learn from losing you have not lost. on which He was "killed" or "slain." In Author Unknown. other words, He was stressing the fact that the time from His death to His resurrec tion would involve three calendar days, Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on with no pinpointing of the particular hour, a tree: him God raised up the third day, minute, or second when these events would and shewed him openly." K Paul, at a still occur. later date, wrote about "how that Christ Not long after His transfiguration, Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; said to His disciples: "The Son of man and that he was buried, and that he rose shall be betrayed into the hands of men: again the third day according to the scrip and they shall kill him, and the third day tures." 4S This shows that these two great he shall be raised again." "2 Another account apostles understood that "the third day" reports Him as saying that "they shall kill was the one counted from and including him; and after that he is killed, he shall the one on which Jesus died. They at rise the third day." a This also makes it tached no importance to the precise num very clear that the third day was the one ber of hours, minutes, or seconds that oc counted from and including the one on curred between His death and resurrection. which He was killed. John, telling about the crucifixion of 22 THE MINISTRY Christ, says that "it was the preparation of sought Pilate that their legs might be the passover" *9 when it happened. The broken, and that they might be taken preparation of the Passover lamb by killing, away." 5 That was indeed a "high day," for dressing, and roasting took place on Abib it was an instance when a yearly sabbath (Nisan) 14, the first month of the Jewish Abib (Nisan) 15 fell on the weekly Sab year.30 Jewish calendars still mark this date bath day.37 of Abib (Xisan) as the Eve of Passover, or However, "when the even was come, be the day before the Passover Supper is eaten. cause it was the preparation, that is, the Although the Passover lamb was slain in day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arima- the afternoon of Abib (Nisan) 14, it was thaea, an honourable counsellor, . . . went not eaten until after sunset the close of the in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body day or on Abib (Nisan) 15. The Jews of Jesus." s His request was granted, and still speak of Abib (Nisan) 15 as the with the help of others, he buried the "feast of Passover" because this was the date corpse. "And that day was the preparation, on which the lamb was to be eaten. and the sabbath drew on." 39 Inasmuch as He would be nailed to the The followers of Christ, "having witnessed cross on the afternoon of "the preparation His burial, "returned, and prepared spices of the passover," and would be lying in the and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment." Accord ing to the commandment, "The seventh day is the sabbath." ra The time to be nice to people is when you "In the end of the sabbath, as it began to don't have to be.—F. H. Beaumont. dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. . . . And the angel answered and said, . . . Fear not ye: for I know that ye tomb during the evening following it, seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not Christ ate His last Passover Supper with here: for he is risen, as he said." This scrip His disciples some hours earlier than the ture does not say when Christ rose from the Jews in general did. lohn not only says that grave, but it does make it clear that His Christ did this "before the feast of the resurrection occurred prior to the arrival passover," 51 but he adds that when Christ of the women at the tomb. The first ques was taken to Pilate for trial, the Jews tion that we must decide is this: When did "went not into the judgment hall, lest they thev arrive at the tomb? Was it on the Sab should be denied; but that they might eat bath or on Sunday? As it reads in our King the passover." H This makes it very clear James Version, this passage of scripture is that although Christ had eaten His last not clear. The Revised Standard Version Passover Supper with His disciples prior to reads: "Now after the sabbath, toward the His trial before Pilate, the rest of the Jews dawn of the first day of the week, Mary had not yet eaten theirs.33 Magdalene and the other Mary went to see While the Gospels inform us that it was the sepulchre." after the ninth hour 34 (or midafternoon) However, we need not remain in any that Christ died, they do not pinpoint the doubt whatever regarding the meaning of time precisely. However, they do specify the Matthew 28:1, for the testimony of other day of the week on which His death oc New Testament writers speaks of that same curred. On this point they are quite precise. event in unmistakably clear language. Mark He died on the Friday, the sixth day of the declares that "when the sabbath was past, week, which the Jews called "the prepara Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of tion," because it was on this day that prep James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, arations were to be made for observing the that they might come and anoint him. next day;" the Sabbath, which was the sev And very early in the morning the first day enth day of the week. of the week, they came unto the sepulchre The Jews did not want the bodies of the at the rising of the sun." w And Mark also crucified to be on the cross on the Sabbath agrees with Matthew in saying that the day. "The Jews therefore, because it was the angel said to the women: "Ye seek Jesus of preparation, that the bodies should not re Nazareth, which was crucified: he is risen; main upon the cross on the sabbath day, he is not here." GS John says: "The first day (for that sabbath day was an high day,) be- (Continued on page 36} APRIL, 1961 23 [This is the first of a series of three bined experience of the "It Is Written

How the Plan Works walls, or in this case over them, and find the people where they are, in their own palace gar EVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST evangelism in den beside the TV set. S its more than a century of conquest has You are considering the It Is Written plan come up against many walled cities cities both of evangelism for your field. What is it? How literal and figurative. The cities of our nation can you best use it? What can you expect from have been evangelism©s greatest dilemma. it? Against their walls of prejudice and indiffer ence evangelism has thrown its strongest am What Is It? munition. But who will say that the job is more It Is Written is one more tool in the hands of than begun? last-day evangelists, an attempt to find one Now that the city, and country too, has been more approach to the challenge of our unfin swept into an almost continuous cycle of tele ished task. vision watching, the home itself has become the It centers around a series of thirty-minute formidable walled fortress from which men and films prepared in color and planned especially women, unaware of truth though unconsciously for television release, though they will also fit seeking it, cannot easily be attracted to church into other evangelistic needs. They are full- or other meeting place. Evangelism, if it is to message films that not only make favorable con take the city, must, like Cyrus, go in under the tacts for the truth and break down prejudice

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but also share the impact of our distinctive six months to two years© duration, held by way teachings. If men and women in this television- of television. This effort works closely with the minded generation cannot be easily brought layman and leads to careful decision follow-up into the public evangelistic meeting, here is a in the form of group studies and decision meet means of taking the evangelistic meeting to ings. The final link in the plan, a series of deci them. sion films in color, to be used in local reaping, But It Is Written is more than a series of is now ready. The second article in this series films. It is a plan of evangelism that combines will deal with the decision meeting, the third the tremendous potential of mass communica with the use of the new decision films. tion with the fine-tooth comb reaping methods of public evangelism. More than that, it har The Release Hour nesses the army of laymen who years ago were You have decided to give It Is Written a try. visioned by the servant of the Lord as playing How do you go about it? a major part in the final work. "Hundreds and Of first importance, next to the spirit of ear thousands were seen visiting families and open nest prayer that must permeate every successful ing before them the Word of God." Welfare evangelistic endeavor, is your release hour. Re Ministry, p. 104. sults will necessarily depend largely upon the It Is Written is a growing device for reap degree of saturation in your area. For such a ing. In short, it is an evangelistic campaign of saturation you will need the best possible re-

APRIL, 1961 25 lease hour. The more people you reach, the bet sheets, spot announcements, guiding the bicy ter spent are your evangelistic dollars. cling of films from one station to another, work In Fresno, California, the program was on at ing out with the station any problem that may 12:30 P.M. on Sunday, with an estimated audi arise, taking complete charge o£ the newspaper ence of nine thousand. When it was changed to and TV Guide advertising, with your approval 10:30 P.M. on Monday the audience jumped to of the budget for that advertising all is in an estimated 44,000. valuable, and involves a mountain of detail that Therefore it may not be wise to seek a public neither the General Conference office nor the service release, or to be too quick to accept local conference is set up to care for. one. Public service time is usually Sunday morn In one instance, a conference beginning a ing time, when only a small percentage of sets second year©s release with a reduced budget, felt are turned on. it necessary to attempt to get along without the We should keep in mind, however, that it is agency. But it developed that the "reduced becoming increasingly difficult to secure paid rate" they were getting in this way was actually time for religion. More and more stations are about twenty-five dollars a week more than Milt adopting a firm policy against it. Our days for Carlson was able to negotiate for them, provid proclaiming the third angel©s message by tele ing his services along with it. Needless to say, vision are numbered. What we do, especially that supposed economy venture was quickly for our giant cities, we must do quickly. abandoned. 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Since It Is Writ In the matter of probing the possibilities for ten is not simply a set of films but a plan of television release, the value of the Milton Carl- evangelism, you will want to understand that son Company, at 3540 Wilshire Boulevard, Los plan. There is not space in this article to touch Angeles, cannot be overestimated. With the more than the barest high lights. You should company is Ruth Johnson, one of the finest obtain immediately, from the General Confer time buyers in the country. These people have ence It Is Written office, a copy of the brochure invaluable contacts with the stations. They Paths to Decision, which outlines the plan in know how to talk their language. Over and detail. Whether you are a conference officer, a over again they have been able to achieve a worker, or a layman, this brochure of seventy- change in policy or some way to bypass it on five pages tells you what you need to know the part of stations that were closed to us. And about It Is Written. You will be wise to order often they have been able to buy their way into enough copies of Paths to Decision for every choice evening time. layman who will be participating in the plan. A When you first consider the use of It Is Writ large number of capable laymen will be needed ten, the temptation will be to send a local man for regular contacts in the homes. For this to contact the station. This, however, could group you will want to conduct a Paths to De prove to be extremely unwise. In one large city, cision class. for instance, the Carlson agency already had a But first comes thorough penetration of the commitment for us for a very fine release hour area, with announcements of the telecast and on a good station. But that commitment was later with enrollments for Take His Word, the withdrawn following a local contact, and we attractively prepared series of pamphlets that were forced to accept an early morning public take the reader step by step through the full service release on another outlet. message. In such activities penetration, and The services of the Carlson agency cost the always in prayer you will be able to enlist ev- conference nothing. The agency receives its fee ery-member participation. direct from the station, and the conference is Lay the groundwork carefully. Study the not charged extra. Their servicing of the sta plan. Promote it. Organize your forces. Order tions, which includes the providing of cue your supplies. Set up your office. The small 26 THE MINISTRY brochure entitled Office Procedures, also avail able from the General Conference office, will ANNUAL SUMMER WORKSHOP tell you how to set up an office, how to process enrollments, and will list sources of supply. June 19-30, 1961 The brochure Printed Materials will give you LOMA LINDA, CALIFORNIA samples of advertising materials that have been successfully used by other fields. Health Education Leadership Watch the Plan Work on the Church Level But now watch the plan work. The telecasts -^r Ministers have been on for several weeks. Names are -^ Medical arid Health Education coming in. Follow-up must begin at once if Secretaries the value of the films is not to be dissipated. -^T Home Missionary Secretaries Here the layman steps into his real place. The new enrollee receives the first two num This is your opportunity to receive up-to-date bers of Take His Word by mail, along with two information on health topics of current public work sheets, the stubs of which he fills out and interest and to see how this information may be returns to the It Is Written office. Ten days effectively presented in your personal and public later he receives two more. Ten days later he evangelism Only a limited number of students receives a third set of two. But watch! Ten days will be accepted, because of the personalized later a layman calls at his door to deliver Nos. manner in which the workshop is conducted. 7 and 8 personally, along with the processed Qualified students desiring credit for this work work sheet stubs that have been mailed in. shop will be given specialized work. Again Uncle Sam takes over. But Nos. 15 and For further information and application forms write to: 16, Nos. 23 and 24, and the last of the series, Chairman, Committee on Graduate Study No. 27, are also delivered by the same layman. Division of Public Health and Tropical Medicine The spotlight of the entire plan, you see, is College of Medical Evangelists on the layman. He answers questions and Loma Linda, California evaluates interest. He gains the enrollee©s con fidence, builds a lasting friendship, lends ap It is encouraging to be told by those in the propriate literature, calls in the pastor or some industry that It Is Written "is making religious other experienced worker when the time is telecasting history." Both commercial ratings right, and takes the person to church. and careful house-to-house surveys conducted And watch how naturally the layman be by our own laymen indicate what station man comes the Bible instructor, even as early as his agers are calling an unusual acceptance. first visit. For as the enrollee asks for help in To Seventh-day Adventists it is a challenging filling out his work sheets, or as the layman of acceptance. The figures are almost frightening fers that assistance, he finds himself, naturally as we realize the responsibility they carry. How and casually and without fear, giving the Bi shall we follow up 15,000 Take His Word en ble study that he never thought he could give! rollments coming in the first year in one union For what Seventh-day Adventist would not be conference? Are we ready for the sort of evan able to help someone fill out a work sheet? gelistic push needed when mail from one tele When the telecasts have been released for vision outlet has come from 549 cities, towns, six or eight months, and as enrollees near the and communities? Are we as Seventh-day Ad completion of Take His Word, careful plans ventists ready for the gaze of our neighbors are laid to bring as many as possible to deci when in some areas three to five out of ten sion. Personal contacts are more frequent. The homes have viewed the program? minister steps in to help. Bible studies and lit Can we fail to recognize the work of the erature meet specific needs. Decision meetings Spirit of God when in conservative Eastern help many to decide. These decision plans will Canada a decision-meeting audience on Sun be discussed in the next article. day evening consisted of approximately fifty Does It Work? Adventists and six hundred non-Adventists? In At this point, in spite of the reasonableness Bermuda 95 per cent of the island had been of the plan, you have a right to ask, seriously viewing the program, and two thousand came and earnestly, Does it work? For the test of any out the last night of the reaping meetings. Evi evangelistic program is its acceptance with the dently God is opening doors. Are we ready to public, and its tangible results in interest enter them? created and reaped. It Is Written is a plan of evangelism. It will APRIL, 1961 27 work, and does work, wherever it is faithfully sonally followed up. People cannot be baptized executed. But a set of films will not bring re by mail. The plan must be worked if it is to suc sults automatically. There must be a good re ceed. Certain factors must be met, and when lease hour. The laymen must cooperate in pen they are, the Lord will give a satisfying harvest. etration of the territory and in contacts in the homes. The program must be followed up. In An Unfinished Story one city the release hour during much of the The story of It Is Written is unfinished, but campaign was seven-thirty on Sunday morning. it is a thrilling one. It is the story of golfers It is not surprising that results in that city were leaving the golf course to view the program. It disappointing. In another city the films were is the story of Take His Word being delivered put on but never followed up: Tangible results by airplane out in the wide-open spaces of the were lacking, as would be expected. West. It is the story of a viewer who enrolled Nor should results be measured in enroll seventeen of the neighbors in her block as she ments alone. Take His Word is not a corre went from door to door to see if two of her spondence course. It depends upon personal Take His Word pamphlets might have been contacts. It is natural, when enrollments come delivered to them by mistake. It is the story of in in almost fantastic numbers, to be caught up men and women who come face to face with in the enthusiasm and feel that all is well. the claims of Christ and step out fearlessly on But every one of these interests must be per (Continued on page 41}

EVANGELISM-Winning Men for God

Child Evangelism Breaks Down Prejudice Wins Adults! MANUEL BANQUE Secretary-Treasurer, Espirito Santo Conference, Brazil

I©N ANY series of evangelistic When Jesus says, "Forbid them not," or I meetings, children usually "Don©t hinder them," He is telling us to be cause a certain number of sure that we give them proper consideration problems: in the home, the school, the church and 1. They occupy the front the evangelistic meetings, because at times seats. their influence is a decisive factor in dealing 2. The message of the eve with adults. ning is often somewhat be I recently had the privilege of conducting yond their intelligence. a series of evangelistic meetings in Vitoria, 3. Because they do not comprehend the the capital city of Espirito Santo, Brazil. lecture, they are fidgety and consequently The location of the meetings was in a new disturb those around them. suburb where about 10,000 persons live. We 4. The disturbance thus created distracts used the usual methods of advertising, with those who are trying to listen. special emphasis on house-to-house invita Why not use the evangelistic technique tions. Jesus used, as He said in Matthew 19:14, The members of the church were given "Suffer [permit or allow] little children, and the greater share of the work of preparation forbid them not, to come unto me: for of for these meetings. First of all, an entire such is the kingdom of heaven." month was set aside for confession of sin Jesus loved the children, and appreciated and reconsecration. Then groups went out their sincerity and devotion. He frequently and distributed literature, usherettes were used children to illustrate important spirit trained, and the local choir spent much ual truths. time preparing music for the series. It was 28 THE MINISTRY impressed upon the church that the success of these meetings. Requests have been made or failure of the meetings was in their to repeat certain themes. We have been hands. Prayer bands were organized and all asked by the civic authorities to build a during the thirteen weeks of meetings church school in this area the land would every half hour all day someone was praying be donated by the city because they said at his appointed hour for the blessing of they desired to have the same interest shown God and the goal was set for a minimum the children in the meetings continued on of fifty souls. the elementary education level. The chief With this strong rear guard, I, the evan of police and city councilmen expressed gelist, could approach the meetings without gratitude to us for the peace and order that fear, and carry out the plan I was impressed now exists in that district since the meetings to use, of having children break down prej were held there. Certain disorderly mem udice in this locale. bers of the community as well as drunkards An overflow crowd arrived the first night, were told by the police that they should at and an announcement was made that at the tend the services and change their ways next meeting a special service for children and these folks immediately recognized would be held. The parents were told to what meetings they should attend because bring their children an hour early, and their children had been singing the songs leave them in our care at the door. We were and telling them the stories at home. By the overjoyed the next evening to find the hall grace of God, many of them were converted. completely filled with children. All the thrills that we encountered in our Short Bible stories were told, interspersed child evangelism, we do not have space here with simple songs that the children quickly to recount. However, it is necessary to add learned and loved. Each child was presented that certain Protestant churches felt the with a colorful memory verse card as he re need to counteract the effect of our meet luctantly departed. ings. After sending for three prominent The attendance at each meeting grew, preachers from the largest cities in the and as the children learned the songs and country, they found it necessary to conclude stories, they would repeat them at home. their meetings in a little over a week be The parents who were not attending the cause of poor attendance and lack of inter services became interested, and soon it was est. They then stationed certain elders and necessary to begin a third service each eve deacons at the entrance of our hall in order ning after the adult meeting to assist those to prevent entry of their members to our parents who had begun attending late. services. Many of them then became inter Great care was exercised in planning the ested in the program particularly the chil sequence of topics for the adult meetings dren©s program. One of these lay elders, so that interest was aroused in the minds of after being given a cordial invitation to the listeners at each service, and they re come in and sit down, continued coming turned to learn more. and is now, with his family, a happy mem After thirteen weeks of meetings, with ber of our church! three services held each night for three So we now find that in one small suburb nights a week, right up to the final service, where five months ago the work of Advent- the hall continued to be filled and many ists was completely nonexistent, the hall had to stand at the door, in the aisles, and that was used for the meetings has been at the windows, for lack of room. dedicated as a church, the church is organ Two baptisms have already been held ized and active with a Sabbath school mem and forty-one have been buried with Christ. bership of more than two hundred adults, At the altar calls held following the bap not counting the children©s divisions, and tisms, ninety-nine persons signed statements prejudice has been broken down in this indicating their desire to be baptized at the area. I believe that with the blessing of the next baptism. Plans have been laid for bap Lord, our prayers have been heard, and tisms to be conducted every three or four more than one hundred souls will be bap weeks after the close of the series, until suffi tized into His church. cient time has been given for Bible instruc We praise God and His Son, Jesus Christ, tors to adequately prepare the candidates, who taught us the way when He said, along with three hundred other persons "Suffer little children, and forbid them not, who require follow-up visitation. to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom This suburb was shaken with the results of heaven." APRIL, 1961 29 Expanding Methods in City Evangelism LOUISE C. KLEUSER

DVENTISM began in a selves as well-informed Bible instructors A rural setting. From its in who, when the need was urgent, were public ception the Christian home evangelists in their own right. Singing and country living have been evangelists were later supplied; frequently stressed. But after a few dec a musically-minded woman, often a Bible ades specific instruction came instructor, would lead out in the music. for us to hasten the work in the cities. The Lord indicated Modern Methods in Our Cities that ministers would be given special tal Some of our earlier methods in public ents for evangelizing populous cities where evangelism would hardly fill today©s needs. teams of workers should undertake a well- The evangelist must now give much study organized work in which trained laymen to the many counterattractions that tend would assist in house-to-house visiting and to keep the public away from his lectures. Bible work. Besides, we are facing a new world in The importance of the work of women which women must work outside the home. also received detailed emphasis. During this City living requires more than one salary, era dedicated young womanhood came to and many a mother, after an eight-hour the front, and Bible instructors became workday, hastily shops in the neighbor skilled in leading families into the message. hood market to provide the family supper, Young ministers associated with city meet after which the laundry receives attention, ings spent most of their time studying the and the next day©s lunches are prepared. Bible with interested inquirers. Therefore, evenings for Bible study simply The strength of our work in the cities do not fit into such a program. The time may speak for the success of the plan God consumed in transportation to and from had in mind. During this era many a city, work is another problem that has dis large and small, raised up its first memorial turbed the rhythm of an evening series of to the Advent faith by building a modest Bible studies by the home teacher. We church. This accomplished, the evangelist might also include congested housing con would then hasten to another city, taking ditions with television in almost every with him an experienced worker or two, home. Nevertheless, city dwellers must hear and perhaps leaving another worker be God©s last warning message, and so the hind to establish the new Sabbathkeepers. church faces the problem of finding the best methods to alert the people. Emphasis on Personal Workers Evangelists continue experimenting with We were next instructed that New York musical and educational features designed City in particular, and the cities of New to attract, as well as to relax, those who England should become an object lesson for attend their meetings. Hectic living pro evangelizing the cities of the world. The pre duces confused thinking. Single women, paring of suitable literature was urged, and and those from broken homes perhaps, of the training of more colporteurs who would ten shop around to find something that prepare the field the public evangelist was will provide a change from the monotony to enter. An army of colporteur wives were of their daily work. Innovators and charla to follow up their husbands© seed sowing by tans make such lonely souls their prey, giving readings in the homes. From the be while the more religiously inclined follow ginning of our message, the preaching of up every type of church revival, too often the Word was always associated with a failing to come to Christian maturity. group of personal workers. Newly organ When such people become acquainted with ized churches trained young men and our work, the Bible instructor must spend women to assist in other campaigns. Some much time brushing away the doctrinal of the women, though no longer in their confusions before the message can sink twenties and thirties, distinguished them- into the mind. 30 THE MINISTRY Visiting the New York Center ers and their lay assistants soon spot new Recently the writer joined the New faces and make the visitors acquainted York Center staff on Times Square where with others. Attractive tables with appetiz intensive public evangelism is in prog ing food draw many lonely souls into £t ress the year around. We conducted a min profitable fellowship. Next follows a stim isters© Monday class for the Andrews Uni ulating half-hour question period with the evangelist and his doctor associate at their versity, trained a group of laymen on Sab bath afternoons, and held weekly instruc best. A model kitchen is then displayed on the rostrum, where a doctor©s wife, who is tion periods for the staff members. Pastor a registered nurse and a trained nutrition Joseph Barnes, who has been evangelizing ist, demonstrates the science of healthful in New York City for about ten years, is at cookery. This fellowship hour is a most re present the director, evangelist, and pastor laxing event, affording many delightful of the Center. Each is a super responsibility, contacts, and interesting men as well as because this institution, covering six floors, women. It is definitely a soul-winning occa represents more than evangelism. It houses sion. Behind the doors of the roomy Center the conference Book and Bible House, a kitchen, many volunteers, some not yet Ad branch office of the General Conference De ventists, joyfully function. partment of Public Affairs, some doctors© offices, a print shop, a number of rented Changing Methods in Evangelism apartments for workers, and a few accom The personalities of our cities are contin modations for transients and missionaries. ually changing. Too often these changes There is a dearth of personal workers. We are not for the better. Prophecy portends were impressed with the fact that each that the cities of earth will rapidly become worker in the evangelistic team must carry more degraded. The problems with which some added responsibilities for operating our city workers must contend are stagger the plant itself. The Bible instructor is also ing. Unless God rolls a great burden on the the pastor©s secretary, and other workers hearts of dedicated evangelists, who else carry extra assignments. would be willing to face the problems The Central Reading Room found in working for these masses? But when He does cause an evangelist to feel At our city centers the reading room, the weight of lost souls, nothing can pre opened daily to the public, performs a serv vent him from working for the people of ice leading into a more thorough Bible these too-often neglected cities. work. Some good retired people seek the In a metropolis such as New York, we religious knowledge they have neglected in might venture to estimate that every sixth the past. The reading room can also at person we meet in its crowds speaks English, tract the idle and less desirable types. Evan and that usually with a decided overseas ac gelism at such a center is a full-time, seven- cent. The rest may represent almost every days-a-week task, requiring endless counsel nation, race, and language in the world. ing with some who must be brought into These people have not yet been assimilated step with Christians who may help them to lead better-poised lives. Sunday Evening Fellowship Hour Aside from the occasion following the Sabbath service, when the pastor-evangelist and his associates meet Adventists and non- Adventists for a half hour in the down stairs Fellowship Hall, the regular Sunday gathering is a wonderful opportunity for becoming acquainted with visitors. Usually these people first attend the evangelistic service at 4:30 P.M. in the main auditorium. At the close of this lecture the public is in vited to visit with the Center staff in a social setting. At this time a simple snack supper at a nominal cost provides the opportunity for visiting together in groups. The work- Picture of New York Center at night. APRIL, 1961 into the American way of life. But this is has to be adapted to the peoples and the just one of the many problems of a large circumstances. These cities present a chal city. Daily the worker meets crowds of peo lenge for which all heaven is ready to pro ple on whose faces are revealed dissipation, vide the answer. frustration, and futility. Adventism cannot Many young ministers in training should ignore the fact that these people are also look cityward for their future task. It is in God©s children who must hear His last our schools that the vision for city evange warning message. Hopeless as the task may lism should be presented and its spirit appear at times, some workers must labor caught. There a much stronger emphasis in these areas. The promise that there are could be given regarding this field of labor. many human jewels scattered throughout It has been suggested that experienced the rubble of vice and corruption who will evangelists should frequently visit our in receive the message, gives city workers the stitutions of learning, keeping the needs of grace to continue their confining and ar the cities before our future ministry. duous tasks. New methods must speedily be devised Although the trend today is for workers by experienced and ingenious workers. A to accept calls to less strenuous fields, the stimulating fellowship of city evangelists reward of service in earth©s great cities am might well give special study to successful ply compensates for their sacrifices. There city evangelism, which is still one of the is power in the message of the evangelist. greatest problems our denomination has to The message does not change, although it solve.

PASTOR - Shepherding the Flock

A Minister Should Tell the Truth ARCHA O. DART Assistant Secretary, Home and Parent Education, General Conference

AVE you seen my daddy?" felt so lonely and helpless. He did want to be I asked an earnest little four- brave, but where, oh, where was his daddy? At year-old. last he saw a familiar face. Here was a man he "I think he went to town," knew. He ran to him for comfort, but no help replied one of the two men care did he receive. His question was never an lessly. swered; his perplexity was treated as a joke. His "The last time I saw him," anxiety was greatly aggravated by their replies. chimed in the other, "some fel One had said that his father had gone to town, lows were locking him up in the basement." and the other had declared that he was locked With a chuckle the two ministers continued up in the basement. Both couldn©t be right. In on their way to the dining hall, apparently dis asmuch as his daddy soon appeared unharmed, missing the little boy©s anxiety as being none of it proved that both ministers were wrong. Can their concern. Now no stretch of the imagina he believe the next sermon they preached? Can tion could lead one to think that those men he have confidence to go to them the next time had any wicked plan in mind or were bent on he is in trouble? Are all preachers like them? If a evil not at all. child cannot believe a minister, whom can he The little fellow, however, was too young to believe? understand that they were joking. He was facing Teasing can be used in such a way that it adds a very serious problem. He could not find his spice and interest to life, or it can be used to daddy, and he was hungry, and it was dinner bring doubts, fears, and even terror to the time. What could he do? He was in a strange hearts of children. One little lad thought his place with many strange faces around him. He father was the grandest man on earth, and 32 THE MINISTRY didn©t care who knew it. A visiting minister, greatly amused at the child©s exaggerated opin ion of his father, began teasing him by saying, "Your daddy is no good." After a few exchanges of "Yes, he is," with "No, he isn©t," the conversa tion drifted to other subjects and was promptly forgotten by all all except the boy. Long past the time the little fellow was usually fast asleep his mother found him sobbing on his pil low. "Why, darling, what is the matter? Why WE REPRESENT EIGHT OF aren©t you asleep?" she asked. "My daddy is THE WORLD©S LARGEST good, isn©t he, Mother?" burst from his quiver MANUFACTURERS OF ALTAB ing lips. APPOINTMENTS AND The work of the minister is to make people COMMUNION WARE happy, not sad; to strengthen the home, not weaken it; to encourage children to have National • Sudbury greater love and respect for their parents, not International Silver less. Tenderly Jesus reminds us of our responsi Gorham Silver bility to the children by saying, "Inasmuch as Rostand Brass ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Revell-Ware Children and mentally disturbed individuals Kensington should never be deceived in any form or fash St. Louis Silversmiths ion. Of course, Seventh-day Adventist preachers of all people would never deliberately tell a falsehood to anyone, but many a conscientious pastor doing the very best he knows how has been regarded as a deceiver by the mentally ill. For example, symbolic language used so freely by us as a people we are living down in the very toes of the image; this message should be scattered like the leaves of autumn can be very disturbing when taken literally. Although these emotionally disturbed people may use symbolic language very profusely themselves, they can be come greatly confused when we use it. "Give him enough rope and he will hang himself," is interpreted to mean that if I give him a hemp rope he will commit suicide. These people need are taking him to the place where he will re simple, plain truth. ceive the best help for the disease from which he If a member of the church requires treat is suffering. ment in a mental hospital, should the patient It is fortunate if the pastor is able to give be told the facts or "tricked" into going? Would these people a little "first aid," or at least it be advisable to lead a person to believe that knows what to do and what not to do. For ex you are merely taking him out for a little joy ample, when a person has some kind of emo ride in your new car, but instead you take tional problem, it is a waste of time and money him to the hospital? Deceptions of this kind to tell him to quit his job and take a trip and damage the patient and may retard his recovery forget it all. Running away from a problem for weeks or even months. Many mental pa will never solve it, no matter how far he may tients feel so insecure and uncertain that any run or how long he may stay. Encourage him to kind of deception on the part of friends or rela face the facts and accept the inevitable, or find a tives tends to aggravate their condition. Much satisfactory solution. Such remarks as, "That©s better to tell him plainly not roughly, but all in your head," "Snap out of it," "Pull your frankly where you are taking him, and why. self together, man," and "Forget it," are like In a kindly solicitous manner you can explain telling a drowning man, "The water is too that just as a person with heart disease needs deep for you there; go where you can touch bot the services of a heart specialist, so his sickness tom," or "Come up here on dry land where I requires special medical care also, and that you am, and you will be all right." True enough, APRIL, 1961 33 but the victim is doing all in his power to do just fidence in the brethren, who is always finding that thing, and he can©t. He needs help. fault with others, who reveals the sins of the What kind of first aid can the pastor give people. These people are advertising their own that will benefit? Here is a person who has weaknesses and shortcomings. A gossiper sel prayed and prayed for forgiveness of sins but dom talks about the sins and mistakes he does feels they are still recorded against him and will not have himself. Therefore, one who is con be until he has made a public confession of stantly calling attention to those who are seek every secret wrong. We explain very simply and ing office may be an office seeker himself. For definitely that sin is deadly, that no matter proof we might use Romans 2:1. This fact is what form it may take, it is always fatal. In well known to students of psychology. The order to have sin removed from our lives we easiest and best time to acquaint our people must follow the directions of the Great Physi with this knowledge is in a public statement at cian implicitly. Disease is not cured by giving it the beginning of one©s ministry in a district. to someone else. Neither is secret sin cleansed Another fact that our people should know is from the soul by public confession. Public acts of that a Christian is happy, cheerful, contented. disobedience that could affect others must be People who are sensitive, suspicious, envious, publicly confessed, but secret sins must be con jealous, cannot be happy or contented. Those fessed to God alone. After our sins have been who are thinking of others, praying for others, forgiven, God tells us that He will remember working for others, have joy and happiness at them no more; therefore, we do not ask over their command. and over again for forgiveness of sins that have A discouraged person should know that no been confessed. Ministers should inform the discouraging thought ever comes from heaven. people that Satan is the only one who reminds Satan is the father of all discouragement. But us of our confessed sins and mistakes. It is our God is omnipotent. His children will succeed; duty to resist the devil. His kingdom will stand forever. Our people should be told the truth about Yes, the minister is to tell the truth. "The the person who is critical, who has lost con truth shall make you free."

SHEPHERDESS-Her Vital Partnership

The Minister©s Wife and Her Husband* MRS. LESLIE HARDINGE Minister's Wife, Newbold Missionary College, England

I USKIN wrote, "You cannot battle ahead, while her gentle hands and her think that the buckling keen eye inspect his armor and make sure that on of the knight©s armour by nothing is going to come loose, that there is no his lady©s hand was a mere chink through which some deadly spear©s point caprice of romantic fashion. can find its way. It is the type of an eternal To buckle on the armor! Yes, it may make truth that the soul©s armour the difference between life and death to that is never well set to the heart knight. To those of us who are, as Dr. Shirkey unless a woman©s hand has braced it; and it is calls us, "ministers to the minister," it may only when she braces it loosely that the honour mean the difference between spiritual life and of manhood fails." spiritual death as to how we buckle on his spir I like to picture that knight and his lady of itual armor. long ago. I can see him standing there in the How can we make certain that the knight©s vigor of his manhood, his thoughts on the armor is well-buckled in place? The ways are too innumerable to mention * This is the third in a series of four articles. them all: besides, every knight©s armor is of a 34 THE MINISTRY different pattern and needs buckling on in a different way. But let us consider some. How can we best help the ones we promised NOW... 3 SIZES to love and cherish? Unbreakable . . . noise-free . . . lightweight . . . boilproof com 1. By being a good companion. We should munion glasses ... $1.25 Doz. willingly go with him in the same direction • Kct sample of each size heavenward. We had no right to take the marriage vows with him had we not loved Order from BRASS GOODS CO. his Lord, loved his people, as Ruth did your dealer Depf. C. 70 Pearl Street Brookline 46, Mass. Naomi©s. We must share with him his passion for winning souls for the kingdom. We must pray together for the lost, the unhappy, the afflicted, discussion that came up at the ministerial in the tried. stitute, the new book, the mysterious doings in 2. By realizing our responsibility in sharing side the motor of the car. Listen, as intelligently burdens. as you can! A responsibility rests upon the minister©s wife 6. By being cheerful and contented. Perhaps which she should not and cannot lightly throw off. this should have gone first on the list. Sister God will require the talent lent her, with usury. White has more to say on the point of con She should work earnestly, faithfully, and unitedly tentment than on anything else. And I am cer with her husband to save souls. Gospel Workers, tain that more men have been lost to the min p. 202. istry because of their discontented wives than 3. By being companionable. The real min for any other reason. Yes, we do live on small ister©s wife must love her husband©s work. She wages; yes, we do have to move often; yes, we must be the sort of person he wants to tell do have homes which in one sense are not our things to. She must be "safe"; she must not de own. But what are these weighed against the mand to know everything, for there may be advantages? First, I would put the advantage, things it is better for her not to know, but what and that seems a small word for it, of living she does know she must regard as a sacred re with a husband who, above all, places spiritual sponsibility to keep in strictest confidence. values first, a man who is a Christian. Then, be 4. By being a good listener. An article for cause of him, you are in the grandest work, the brides in Good Housekeeping a few years ago, work of soul saving. Because of him, you have entitled "It©s His Homecoming," stressed the many social contacts and often the privilege of fact that when a man comes home he wants to travel. How can we list all the reasons why the come to a refuge, not a "trouble desk." The minister©s wife should be contented? And yet first few minutes he has at home, the writer of often, sad to say, she is full of self-pity. the article says, are the most important. What 7. By being helpful. Again we cannot list the atmosphere do you provide to make him many ways in which a minister©s wife may help feel that home is what he visualized in his ideals her husband in his ministry. For each shepherd before he was married? He may come home in ess they are different. But being helpful in the a variety of moods jubilant because someone more intimate ways is more important perhaps shows signs of accepting the message, full of than doing secretarial work for the church or zeal because his plans for some betterment singing solos. scheme are accepted, thankful because means Learning to listen intelligently to his sermons have been provided, or doubtful because the and offering really worth-while criticism is one way has been hard. Give him those first few of them. Learn to criticize intelligently. minutes, give them to him to be just quiet, to Criticize one thing at a time. pray perhaps, to sink into a welcoming chair, Logic, line or argument. Is it clear? or to talk. Don©t cross-examine, or bring up Balance of illustrations. Are there too many, your news of the clogged drain, the new por- or too few? Are they too long? Do they "fit" tulaca buds in the graden, the impasse with well? your adolescent daughter, the call from Language. Is it pleasing and put together Johnny©s teacher, et cetera. Save that until correctly? later. These are his minutes. Let him savor the Articulation. Is it clear? taste of home, the refuge and sweetness of it. Rise and fall of voice. Does he speak in a 5. By being interested. Know how to listen, monotone? whether it©s the interpretation of a Hebrew Gestures. Are they graceful and natural? word, the latest archeological discovery, the is But while acting as critic in chief, do so sue on the church building committee, the kindly and tactfully. Enjoy his sermons and APRIL, 1961 35 learn from them. Be sure to tell him you do. Did Christ Stay in the Grave 8. By being sympathetic and understanding about books. While wasteful expenditure on Exactly 72 Hours? books is to be condemned, don©t begrudge him (Continued from page 23) useful ones, but do encourage him to think well before buying. Will the book he covets be use of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, ful twenty years hence? when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre." M 9. By being helpful in finding materials, clip Mary Magdalene, finding that the body ping, filing ideas, et cetera. The minister must of Christ was not in the tomb, hastened always be alert for new illustrations of old back to report this to the apostles.65 In the truths. By observing and reading you can be of meantime another group of women, who great help to him in gathering material for this had come from Galilee"6 with Christ and purpose. His apostles, visited the tomb also. "Now upon the first day of the week, very early in 10. By giving him quietness. Please, please, the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, give him quietness. He must think, study, pray. bringing the spices which they had pre You alone can see that he has the place and pared, and certain others with them.""* time for this. And don©t interrupt that time Two angels said to them: "He is not here, at all! but is risen: remember how he spake unto 11. By being sympathetic with his endeavors. you when he was yet in Galilee, saying, The We women tend to be bound by a routine of Son of man must be delivered into the numberless small jobs, but our husbands tackle hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and mountains. When one of these arises in your the third day rise again." * These women path building a new church school, redecorat also hurried away to the city to report all ing or reconstructing, a major evangelistic ef this to the apostles. fort, or maybe a small one, the preparation of a In the meantime, Mary had already in new kind of visual aid, a big visitation program, formed the apostles that Christ©s body was et cetera, accept it and help him with it all you missing from the tomb. Peter and John can. raced with her to the tomb, and when they Be sensibly sympathetic in his frustrations found it empty, they went back to the city and misunderstandings. We©re all human, and to their place of abode.69 Mary remained at some people have the gift of rubbing us the the tomb to weep for her missing Lord. wrong way. Don©t add fuel to the flame of his And it was then that He appeared to her, frustrations. and gave this devoted woman the honor of 12. By watching his physical well-being. It being the first of His followers to see Him means a lot to a man to have the things that are after His resurrection.70 due to him three meals a day, well planned, In this connection, the Bible is very spe well balanced, well set, and well timed. In this cific in informing us what day of the week it modern age it is easy to forget the importance was that Christ rose from the dead. It says: of a real mealtime. Happy the home that can "Now when Jesus was risen early the first have three meals a day when all can gather in a day of the week, he appeared first to Mary relaxed manner together and enjoy the food Magdalene." n The American Standard and one another. Version renders this passage thus: "Now when he was risen early on the first day of 13. By caring for his wardrobe. Don©t let the week, he appeared first to Mary Mag him have to worry about his clothes. Keep them dalene." The Greek text literally reads: clean and repaired and pressed, and don©t ever But having risen early the first day of the let him think it is a burden to you to do so. week, He appeared first to Mary the Mag 14. By keeping a good home. He may not dalene." notice that you polished the brass or cleaned There is still further evidence that Christ the finger marks off the wall, or dusted the rose from the grave on Sunday. When Luke books, but he will be aware that something is tells us that "upon the first day of the week, not right if you don©t do these things; so keep very early in the morning they [the his home bright and shining, even if it has to women] came to the sepulchre," he adds be a little shabby after a few years. that two disciples of Christ "went that same And with all these, be yourself, the sweet girl day to a village called Emmaus, which was that he was attracted to in college, who grows from Jerusalem about threescore fur sweeter with each passing year. longs." T2 As these two disciples walked 36 THE MINISTRY along the road and sadly recounted the re cent happenings in Jerusalem, Christ Him Your Church Picture on Your Bulletins self walked along near them, but they did not recognize Him. When He asked them LITHOGRAPHIC BULLETINS what they were talking about, they replied: Send for FREE Samples "Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, . . . and how the chief priests and our rulers deliv BOX 81 I M ADELPHI, MARYLAND ered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him. But we trusted that it 13 The Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 4, p. 475, col. 1, art. had been he which should have redeemed "Day." (Funk and Wagnalls Co., New York City, 1903.) 19 NOTE. The Jews still reckon the day from sunset to Israel: and beside all this, to day is the sunset for religious purposes as they did in Bible times. 20 The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, vol. 3, p. 493, art. third day since these things were done." ™ "Day." (The Universal Jewish Encyclopedia, Inc., New That same day the first day of the week York City, 1941.) a Gen. 7:4. according to those two followers of Christ 22 Gen. 7:10. 23 Gen. 17:12. was the third day since the Jewish leaders 2*Lev. 12:3. had crucified Christ. 25 Luke 1:59. » Luke 2:21. After weighing all the evidence presented 27 Gen. 42:17-19. 23 2 Chron. 10:5, 12. in the Scriptures on the subject, we have 29 1 Kings 12:5, 12. found conclusively that Christ died and was 3(1 Esther 4:15, 16. » Esther 5:1, 2. given burial late on Friday, the day before 32 Luke 13:31-33. 33 John 2:19-21. the Sabbath; that His followers rested the 31 Matt. 26:61. Sabbath day according to the command ^Mark 14:58. 3«Matt. 27:40. ment, while He lay in the tomb; and that 37 Mark 15:29, 30. 33 Matt. 27:62-64. He rose from the dead early in the morning 39 Matt. 16:21. on Sunday, the first day of the week. His «Mark 8:31. « Luke 9:22. resurrection occurred shortly before the « Matt. 17:22, 23. « Mark 9:31. women came to the tomb and found it «Matt. 20:18, 19. empty. Although He did not stay in the * Mark 10:33, 34. « Luke 18:32, 33. tomb exactly seventy-two full hours, Christ w Acts 10:39, 40. « 1 Cor. 15:3, 4. was in it three calendar days counted from "John 19:14. NOTE. The Babylonian Talmud agrees and including the one on which He was with the New Testament testimony regarding the date of Christ©s death, saying: "On the eve of Passover Yeshu was put to death, as He predicted He would be. hanged. . . . Since nothing was brought forward in his favour he was hanged on the eve of Passover!" Talmud The testimony of Matthew 12:40 and 28: Sanhedrin 43a, Soncino ed., p. 281. 1-6 is in harmony with the other New Testa 50 Ex. 12:2-6; 13:4; 34:18; Lev. 23:5; Num. 28:16; Deut. 16:1-7. NOTE. Leviticus 23:4-44 presents the calendar of the ment writers concerning the time of Christ©s Jewish yearly festivals as appointe_d by the Lord through Moses. The Passover Supper consisting of roast lamb, un death, burial, and resurrection. leavened bread, and bitter herbs was eaten on the night Furthermore, the notion that Christ©s (or forepart) of Abib (Nisan) 15. This date was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, an annual sabbath death, burial, and resurrection involved a on which secular labor was forbidden (Lev. 23:6, 7). si John 13:1. period of four calendar days—that is, Wed 52 John 18:28. nesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 53 NOTE. Although Jesus ate His last Passover Supper earlier than the Jews in general did, He died on the same not only is wholly without foundation in day that the Jews sacrificed their Passover lambs. It was His death, and not His eating of the Passover Supper, that ful the Scriptures but it is also contrary to their filled the type. "For even Christ our passover is sacrificed teaching. for us" (1 Cor. 5:7). Christ, on the occasion of His last Passover Supper, established the Lord©s Supper before the event it commemorates actually happened. REFERENCES » Matt. 27:45, 46; Mark 15:33, 34; Luke 23:44. 53 Mark 15:42; Luke 23:54; Ex. 16:22-26. I Herbert W. Armstrong, "The Resurrection Was Not on » Tohn 19:31. Sunday!" in The Plain Truth, April, 1954, pp. 2, 15. (Radio 57 Lev. 23:6. 7. Church of God, Pasadena, California.) KMark 15:42, 43. 3 Matt. 12:40. a< Luke 23:54. 3 Matt. 28:1-6. 60 Luke 23:56. 4 Acts 17:11. si Ex. 20:8-11. 5 Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31. «2 Mark 16:1, 2. 8 Gen. 7:4, 12. 63 Mark 16:6. 7 Ex. 24:18; 34:28; Deut. 9:9, 11, 18, 25. "John 20:1. 8 1 Kings 19:8. 65 Tohn 20:2. 9 Matt. 4:2. " Luke 23:55. i« Mark 1:13; Luke 4:2. 67 Luke 24:1. II Job 2:13. «s Luke 24:6, 7. "1 Sam. 30:12, 13. 03 John 20:2-10. "Jonah 1:17. "John 20:11-18. 14 See also the marginal reading of the King James Version. 71 Mark 16:9. is Dan. 8:26. « Luke 24:1, 13. w 2 Cor. 11:25. 17 NOTE. In Bible times the day was reckoned from sun 73 Luke 24:19-21. set to sunset, and not from midnight to midnight as is done [The material presented in these two articles will be made today. See Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 31; Lev. 23:32; Neh. 13:19; available in mimeographed form in single copies to ministers, Mark 1:21, 32; Luke 4:40. if requested. EDITORS.] APRIL, 1961 37 1960 Overseas Ordinations

AUSTRALASIAN DIVISION OIKAWA, KICHISHIRO, pastor, North Japan Mission, 164-2 STEED: E.. H. J., 148 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, N.S.W., Onden, 3 Chome, Shibuya Ku, Tokyo, Japan. Australia. WATANABE, TSUNEYOSHI. pastor, South Japan Mission, 2 Kano Cho 2 Chorne, Ikuta Ku, Kobe, Japan. Greater Sydney Conference COOK, W. P., 84 The Boulevarde, Strathfield, N.S.W., Korean Union Mission- Australia. AHN, C. D., pastor-evangelist, Southeast Korean Mission, FOSTER, B. A., 84 The Boulevarde, Strathfield, N.S.W., 62 Kong Pyung Dong, Taegu, Korea. Australia. CHANG, H. S., pastor-evangelist, Southeast Korean Mission, 62 Kong Pyung Dong, Taegu, Korea. New South Wales Conference KIM, C, S., Voice of Prophecy, Korean Union Mission, LOGUE, E. M., P.O. Box S. 78, S. Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. 5 Seoul, Korea. Australia. KIM, E. Y., editor in chief, Signs of the Times Publishing House, Seoul. Korea. North Queensland Conference KIM, S. N., chaplain, Pusan Sanitarium and Hospital, P.O. Box 67, Pusan. Korea. HANKINSOX, J. K., P.O. Box 784, Townsville, Queensland, KIM, S. U., assistant MV secretary, Korean Union Mission, Australia. SeouL Korea. Ko, M. K., pastor-evangelist, Southeast Korean Mission, New Britain Mission 62 Kong Pyung Dong. Taegu, Korea. MARTIN, D. R., Jones Missionary College, Kambubu Private LEE, S. O., pastor-evangelist, Middle East Mission, 50 Im Mail Bag, Rabaul, Territory of Papua and New Guinea. Dang Dong, Kang Neung, Korea. LEE, Y. C., pastor-evangelist, Southeast Korean Mission, 62 South Australian Conference Kong Pyung Dong, Taegu, Korea. WATSON, W., G.P.O. Box 1011-J, Adelaide, S. A. Australia. PAK, C. Y., pastor-evangelist, Central Korean Mission, 99 Hoi-ki-dong, Tong-dai-moon-ku, Seoul, Korea. PAK, S. S., pastor-evangelist; Southwest Korean Mission, 61 Victorian Conference Chang Dong, Kwang-ju, Korea. BOLST, H., 8 Yarra St., Hawthorn, E 2, Victoria, Australia. SHIN, K. S., pastor-evangelist. Southwest Korean Mission, FLETCHER, A. G., 8 Yarra St., Hawthorn, E 2, Victoria, 61 Chang Dong, Kwang-ju, Korea. Australia. HEATON, O., 8 Yarra St., Hawthorn, E 2, Victoria, Australia. North Philippine Union Mission West Australian Conference CARILLO, R. P., pastor-evangelist, Central Luzon Mission, P.O. Box 2494, Manila, Philippines. PRICE, B., 48 Havelock St., Perth. W, A. Australia. LEONES, J. D., pastor-evancelist. Central Luzon Mission, P.O. JORGENSON, A., 48 Havelock St., Perth, W. A. Australia. Box 2494, Manila, Philippines.

CENTRAL EUROPEAN DIVISION South China Island Union Mission CHENG LIAN-CHING, pastor, Taiwan Mission, 26 North MUELLER, KARL, Hinterm Bahnhof 30, (13a) Nuremburg, Chien Kuo Road, Taipei, Taiwan. Germany. TSAO LIEN-GIEH, pastor, Hong Kong-Macao Mission, P.O. Box 310, Hong Kong. West German Union - TSENG KUAN-LUNG, pastor, Taiwan Mission, 26 North KAUFMANN, JOACHIM, Einstrachstr. 55, (21a) Dortmund, Chien Kuo Road, Taipei, Taiwan. Germany. BRUNOTTE, WOLFGANG,, Einstrachstr. 55, (21a) Dortmund, Southeast Asia Union Germany. BENEDICTO, J. H., principal, Sabah Training School, Tamp- South German Union aruli, Tuaran, North Borneo. CHANG, C. W., pastor, Malaya Mission, 166 Bukit Bintang DIETZ, MARTIN, Tizianstr. 18, (13b) Munich 19, Bavaria, Road, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. Germany. CHEAH, H. Y., dean of boys, Southeast Asia Union College, GRAJER, HANS, Hinterm Bahnhof 30, (13a) Nuremburg, 401 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore. Germany. CHEN, W. Y., treasurer, Malaya Mission, 166 Bukit Bintang SCHMID, OTTO, Tizianstr. 18, (13b) Munich 19, Bavaria, Road, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. Germany. CHU, Y. F., pastor, Borneo-Brunei-Sarawak Mission, P.O. Box 34, Jesselton, North Borneo. CHONG, T. K., pastor, Malaya Mission, 166 Bukit Bintang FAR EASTERN DIVISION Road, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. Indonesia Union Mission MARTIN, B. A., secretary-treasurer, Vietnam Mission, Boite Postal 453, Saigon, Viet Nam. DOMPAS, B. J., departmental secretary VOP, Indonesia MILLER, P. G., principal. Southeast Asia Union College, 401 Union Mission, Naripan 63, Bandung, Jaya,_ Indonesia. Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore. HONG, TAN PENG, manager, Bandung Mission Hospital, MUSGRAVE, A. R., educational and pastor, Borneo-Brunei- Kjalan Taman Sari 40, Bandung, Java, Indonesia. Sarawak Mission, P.O. Box 34, Jesselton, North Borneo. MISSAH, E. E., pastor, East Java Mission, Tandjung Anora RATHNAM, P. G., pastor, Malaya Mission, 166 Bukit Bintang 3, Surabaja, Java, Indonesia. Road, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. STIOMPUL, PANGARISAN, union evangelist, Indonesia Union SIBARANI, P. R., secretary-treasurer, Borneo-Brunei-Sarawak Mission, Naripan 63, Bandung, Java, Indonesia. Mission, P.O. Box 34, Jesselton, North Borneo. TOMASOWA, J. P., district pastor, Ambon Mission, Djalan TSAI, SAMUEL, editor, Malayan Signs Press, 399 Upper Urimessing, Moluccas. Serangoon Road, Singapore. WAURAN, M. H., departmental secretary, West Java Mission, WONG, JAMES, departmental secretary, Union of Southeast Naripan 63, Bandung, Java, Indonesia. Asia, 399 Upper Serangoon Road, Singapore. Japan Union Mission South Philippine Union Mission FUCHITA, SAKAE, pastor, North Japan Mission, 164-2 Onden, 3 Chome, Shibuya Ku, Tokyo, Japan. AGUIRRE, O. C., pastor, West Visayan Mission, P.O. Box 241, HARA, TOMOYASU, departmental secretary, North Japan Iloilo City, Philippines. Mission, 164-2 Onden, 3 Chome, Shibuya Ku, Tokyo, ALSAYBAR, D. B., principal, Mindanao Mission Academy, Japan. Manticao, Misamis Oriental, Philippines. HOKAMA, SHINSEI, Bible teacher, Japan Missionary College, ATIL, J. M., principal, Southern Mindanao Academy, Man- Sodegaura Machi, Chiba Ken, Japan. aga, Davao, Philippines. KUROSU, SHINYA, pastor, South Japan Mission, 2 Kano Cho FADRI, N, F.; pastor, West Visayan Mission, P.O. Box 241, 2 Chome, Ikuta Ku, Kobe, Japan. Iloilo City, Philippines. MINAMI. EIYU, pastor, South Japan Mission, 2 Kano Cho FERRER, R. C., union auditor, South Philippine Union Mis 2 Chome, Ikuta Ku, Kobe, Japan- sion, P.O. Box 3, Cebu City, Philippines. MORI, KOJI, pastor, South Japan Mission, 2 Kano Cho 2 GAJE, L. J.. secretary-treasurer, East Visayan Mission, P.O. Chome, Ikuta Ku, Kobe, Japan. Box 119, Cebu City, Philippines. THE MINISTRY GESLANI, F. T., M.D., medical director, Miller Sanitarium and Hospital, P.O. Box 119, Cebu City, Philippines. LAO, F. D., pastor, East Visayan Mission, P.O. Box 119, Cebu City, Philippines. RAMOS, J. K., pastor, Northern Mindanao Mission, Cagayan GOSPEL TENTS de Oro City, Philippines. SINCO, E. A., pastor, Southern Mindanao Mission, P.O. STEEL-CLAD TABERNACLES Box 293, Davao City, Philippines. ZAMORA, M. M., auditor. Northern Mindanao Mission, SMITH MANUFACTURING CO., DALTON, CA. Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines. Over 50 Years in Business

INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION Caribbean Union Mission Swedish Union Conference MULRAINE, LLOYDE E., district pastor, East Caribbean Con LILLBACK, ERNST, MV secretary, Finland Swedish Con ference, P.O. Box 109, St. James, Antigua. ference, Annegatan 7, Helsingfors, Finland, MANDELL. HEINZ, MV secretary, North Swedish Conference, Central American Union Tunnelgatan 25, Stockholm, Sweden. CALDERON, MANUEL. district pastor, Panama Conference, West African Union Mission P.O. Box 2006, Balboa, Canal Zone. CHAVANZ, GUSTAVO, district pastor. Panama Conference, San FRIDLEY, J. B., educational and MV secretary, P.O. Box Andres, Chiriqui, Republic of Panama. 1016, Accra, Ghana, West Africa. MONZON, SALVADOR, district pastor, Guatemala Mission, BARFOOT, F. C., publishing and Sabbath school secretary, Apartado 47, Quezaltenango, Guatemala. P.O. Box 1016, Accra, Ghana, West Africa. OLIVER, WILBERT, district pastor, Nicaragua Mission, Puerto Ivory Coast Mission Cabezas, Nicaragua. Ruiz, IVAN, educational, MV, home missionary secretary, KEMPF, HENRI F., president, Boite Postale 335, Abidjan, Guatemala Mission , Apartado 218, Guatemala City, Ivory Coast, West Africa. Guatemala. East Nigerian Mission Franco-Haitian Union SIMONS, R. W., secretary-treasurer, SDA Mission, Aba, East ABEL, ABDONEL, district pastor, North Haiti Mission, Port- Nigeria, West Africa. de-Paix, Haiti, North Nigerian Mission CHARLES, MAX, district pastor, North Haiti Mission, Casier GAUZA, DAUDA, pastor-evangelist. Postal 28, Cap-Haitien, Haiti. JESSEE, YUNANA, pastor-evangelist, SDA Mission, Jengre, via Jos, North Nigeria, West Africa. Mexican Union ROBERTS, B. A., president, SDA Mission, Jengre, via Jos, BuSTILLOS, SALOMON M., district pastor, Pacific Mission, North Nigeria, West Africa. Apartado 672, Mexicali, B. California. West Nigerian Mission OLUFEMI, T. K., pastor-evangelist, P.O. Box 19, Ibadan, AMIREZ, JL.UIS UARLOS, Bible teacher, racmc Agricultural Nigeria, West Africa. and Industrial School, Apartado 134, Navojoa, Sonora, ADEWOYE, J. E., pastor-evangelist, P.O. Box 19, Ibadan, Mexico. Nigeria, West Africa. GOMEZ y G., RAMON, district pastor, Pacific Mission, Apar MAJOLAGBY, S., pastor-evangelist, P.O. Box 19, Ibadan, tado 338, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Nigeria, West Africa. MADRIGAL, JERONIMO G., district pastor, Southeast Mission, RIESEBERG, H. E., Bible teacher, Konola Academy, Konola Juarez 216, Comalcalco, Tabasco, Mexico. P.O. Box 52, Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa. West Indies Union West Nordic Union DAUGHMA, R. U., district pastor, East Jamaica Conference, CHRISTENSEN, SIGVALD, pastor-evangelist, West Denmark Box 7, Grand Turk, Turks Islands. Conference, Kaigaten 8, Bergen, Norway. DOUCE, HERMAN L., MV secretary, West Jamaica Con NORDNES, HANS. pastor-evangelist, East Norway Conference, ference, Box 128, Mandeville, Jamaica. Akersgaten 74, Oslo, Norway. NAIRN, W. W., secretary-treasurer, Bahamas Mission, Box 356, Nassau, Bahamas. WRIGHT, ERNIE, district pastor, West Jamaica Conference, SOUTH AMERICAN DIVISION March Town, Jamaica. HUNTER, ARTHUR, district pastor, East Jamaica Conference, Austral Union 74 Constant Spring Road, Kingston 10, Jamaica. ALVAREZ, MIGUEL, pastor-evangelist, Casilla 39, Sue. 25 MILLER, VINCENT, district pastor, West Jamaica Conference, (Palermo), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Spaldines, Jamaica. PE-REYRA, RUBEN, pastor-evangelist, Casilla 2-D, Temuco, KIRLEW, WILLIAM, district pastor. West Jamaica Conference, Chile. Falmouth, Jamaica, RODRIGUEZ, PABLO, pastor-evangelist, Casilla 2830 Santiago SALMON, CLARENCE, district pastor, West Jamaica Conferences Chile. Flamstead Gardens, Jamaica. VALLEJOS, RODINSON, pastor-evangelist, Casilla 2-D, Temuco, Chile. MIDDLE EAST DIVISION Inca Union ALANA, Luis, publishing department secretary, Ecuador East Mediterranean Union Mission, Casilla 1140, Guayaquil, Ecuador. AGHASSIAN, ARAM, home missionary secretary, Lebanon Mis HUAYLLARA, JULIO; district pastor, Casilla 85, Puno, Peru. sion, P.O. Box 3715, Beirut, Lebanon. Ruiz CLODOMIRO, district pastor, Casilla 240. Iquitos, Peru. AZAR, NAJEEB, executive committee, Jordan Mission, P.O. TAYLOR, DWIGHT, mission station director, Puerto Bermudez, Box 260, Amman, Jordan. via San Ramon, Peru. MESHNI, NAIM, educational, MV secretary, Jordan Mission, TRIANTAFILO, EFINO, district pastor, Casilla 355, La Paz, P.O. Box 260, Amman, Jordan. Bolivia. NOUJAIM, SALIM, educational and religious liberty secretary, South Brazil Union Lebanon Mission, P.O. Box 3715, Beirut, Lebanon. APLINARIO, PEDRO, professor, Brazil College, Caixa Postal 7258, Nile Union Sao Paulo, Brazil. BERGOLD, EDGAR E., district worker, Parana Conference, FARAG, WADIE, executive committee, Nile Union, P.O. Box Caixa Postal 810, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. 12, Heliopolis, Egypt, UAR. BOELL, GERMANO, district worker. Parana Conference, Caixa WAGNER, WILLIAM, M.D., director of the Benghazi Hospital Postal 810, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. and medical secretary of the Middle East Division, P.O. CONRADO, NAOR, pastor, Caixa Postal 31, Campo Mourao, Box 240, Benghazi, Libya. Parana, Brazil. FEYERABEND, HENRY R., departmental secretary, Santa Cat- arina Mission, Caixa Postal 425, Florianopolis, Santa NORTHERN EUROPEAN DIVISION Catarina, Brazil, GEGEMBAUER, HUGO, secretary-treasurer, Parana Conference, Iceland Conference Caixa Postal 810, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. JOHANSEN, SVEIN B., MV secretary and evangelist, P.O. Box GORSKI, NEVIL, professor, Brazil College, Caixa Postal 7258, 262, Reykjavik, Iceland. Sao Paulo, Brazil. APRIL, 1961 39 HUFS ATALIBA, pastor, Caixa Postal 48, Santa Maria, Rio ZAYA, RANKIN, section leader, Matandani Mission Station, Grande do Sul, Brazil. P.A. Neno, Nyasaland, Africa. MARQUART, ERNESTO, pastoral work, Rio Grande do Sul Conference, Caixa Postal 177, P6rto Alegre, Rio Grande South African Union Conference do Sul. Brazil. OuvEiRA©de, ANTONIO, district worker, Caixa Postal 21081 BIRKENSTOCK, K.. evangelist Cape Conference, P.O. Box Brooklyn Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 1133, Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. RIBEIRO. ISOARDO, pastor, Caixa Postal 44, Itarare, Sao Paulo, BOHME, W., Oranje-Natal Conference, P.O. Box 403, Pie- Brazil©. termaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. RITTER. ORLANDO R., professor, Brazil College, Caixa Postal CAREY, R. A., business manager, Bethel Training College, P.O. Esdabrook, via Butterworth, Transkei, South Africa. 7258,© Sao Paulo, Brazil. ^HARLES, H. P., Indian - ~«i"+ i-.~J a- t> r\ u AM ROQUE, MARIO. director, Sao Paulo Academy, Caixa Postal 572, Campinas. Sao Paulo, Brazil. Pietermaritzburg, Natal, SARLI, WILSON, district worker, Caixa Postal 21081, Brooklyn TNGE, S., evangelist, 40 C Paulista, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Province, South Africa, SILVA, ANTOXIO S. da, district worker, Mato Grosso Mission, PLESSIS, H. S. du, Oranje-Natal Conference, P.O. Box Caixa Postal 146. Campo Grande, Mato Grosso, Brazil. 403, Pietermaritzburg,, Natal, South Africa. SOUZA VALLE, ARTHUR de, district worker, Sao Paulo Con GRELLMAN, F., evangelist, ference, Caixa Postal 21081, Brooklyn Paulista, Sao Paulo, HLWELE, G., publishing department secretary, South Bantu Brazil. Mission, Medina House, 40, Cambridge St., East London. VALIANTE, ELIAS, pastor, Caixa Postal 49, Oswaldo Cruz, Cape Province, South Africa. Sao Paulo. Brazil. MAFFAH, E. M., evangelist, Kolo Mission Station, P.O. VIEIRA, CA©RLOS NUNES, pastor, Caixa Postal 177, Box 83, Wepener, Orange Free State, South Africa. Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. MASINGA, G., evangelist, P.O. Box 4880, Johannesburg, WOLFF, JOAO, educational and MV secretary, Parana Con Transvaal, South Africa. ference, Caixa Postal 810, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil. MKASI, MAC, evangelist, North Transvaal, P.O. Box 61, Orange Grove, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. North Brazil Union MOJOMBOZI, E.. assistant treasurer, North BantUv Mission, P.O. Box 4880, Johannesburg, Transvaal, Soutfi Africa. LESSA, ALVIXO da SJLVA, publishing secretary, Caixa Postal MSELEKU, J. N., Zulu translator, North Bantu Mission, P.O. 822, Belem, Para, Brazil. Box 4880, Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. LIMA, ODILON G. de, pastor, Central Amazon Mission, Caixa MUGQIBISA, H. S., evangelist, Queenstown, South Africa. Postal 243, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. NEUHOFF, J-, field evangelist, South Bantu Mission, Medina House, 40j Cambridge St., East London, Cape Province, South Africa. SOUTHERN AFRICAN DIVISION NHLAPO, RICHARD, educational and temperance secretary, P.O. Box 468, Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Congo Union Mission Africa. ASUMANI, MUSA, district leader, Boite Postale 33, Ruhengeri, RAUTENBACH, J. T., Cape Conference, P.O. Box 1133, Port Ruanda-Urundi, Congo Beige, Africa. Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. HARAYABU, ELEAZARI, district leader, Gitwe, D/S Usumbura, STRYDOM, N., evangelist, CajDe Conference, P.O. Box 1133, Ruanda-Urundi, Congo Beige, Africa. Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa. KAYAEU, ANDREA, district leader, Boite Postale 45, Butembo, Congo Beige, Africa. KUMIAGA, ALOIS, district leader, Boite Postale 33, Ruhengen, Zambesi Union Ruanda-Urundi, Congo Beige, Africa. CHIROBE, MOSES, district leader, P.O. Box 559, Gwelo, MUKECURU, ZAKUYO, district leader, Boite Postale 33, South Rhodesia. Ruhengeri, Ruanda-Urundi, Congo Beige, Africa. MUNYU, A. S.j district leader, P.O. Box 13, Chisekesi, MWANGACUCU, HEZEKIAH, district leader, Boite Postale 33, North Rhodesia. Ruhengeri, Ruanda-Urundi, Congo Beige, Africa. MUYEBA, ELWOO_D, district leader, P.O. Box 13, Chisekesi, RAMAZANI, NICHOLAS, district leader, Boite Postale 449, North Rhodesia. Kamina, Congo Belge,_ Africa. M.ARISA, GIDEON, district leader, P.O. Box 559, Gwelo, South RUKIKA ? BARNABAS, district leader, Boite Postale 33, Ru Rhodesia. hengeri, Ruanda-Urundi, Congo Beige, Africa. NDHLOVU, REWARD, evangelist, P.O. Box 559, Gwelo, South RWANDURANYA. JAPHETE, district leader, Boite Postale 33, Rhodesia. Ruhengeri, Ruanda-Urundi, Congo Beige, Africa. VUGAYABAGABO, ENOKi, district leader, Km. 282, D/S Stanley ville, Congo Beige, Africa. SOUTHERN ASIA DIVISION East African Union Mission CUTHEERT, M. W., secretary-treasurer, Tanganyika Mission, Burma Union P.O. Box 26, Musoma, Tanganyika, East Africa. MURRILL, WILLIAM L-, treasurer, 68 U Wisara Road, Ran DIERO, STEPHEN, pastor, Kenya Lake Mission, Gendia Mis goon, Burma. sion, P.O. Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, East Africa. GREGG, E. J., secretary-treasurer, East African Union, P.O. Northeast Union Box 2276, Nairobi, Kenya Colony, East Africa. ISABIRYE, D. f department secretary, Uganda Mission, P.O. COOPER, PETER, pastor, Calcutta Church, 36 Park Street, Box 22, Kampala, Uganda, East Africa. Calcutta 16, India. KOTZ, S. A., M.D., medical superintendent, Kendu Hospital, KISKU, CORNELIUS, pastor and district leader, SDA Mission, P.O. Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, East Africa. Karma tar, Santal Parganas District, India. MACHAGE, KORNELIO, pastor, Kenya Lake Mission, Gendia NASH, FRED H., principal, Assam Training School, Jowai, Mission, P.O. Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, East Africa. Assam, India. ODERO, EFRAIM, pastor, Kenya Lake Mission, P.O. Kendu NONGTDU, DAPSINGH, secretary, Assam Section, SDA Church, Bay, Kenya Colony, East Africa. Nongthymmai, Shillong, Assam, India. OGUTU, MORDECAI, department secretary, Kenya Lake Mis STREETER, EDWARD A., principal, Raymond Memorial Train sion, Gendia Mission, P.O. Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, ing School, Falakata, Jalpaiguri District, India. East Africa. OJWANG, ISAAC, pastor, Kenya Lake Mission, Gendia Mis South India Union sion, P.O. Kendu Bay, Kenya Colony, East Africa. ANANDAM, GIDALURI AARON, headmaster, 53 Sebastian Road, OTIENO, TOBIAS, chaplain, Kendu Hospital, P.O. Kendu Secunderabad, Andhra, India. Bay, Kenya Colony, East Africa. GNANASUNDARAM, DAVID, evangelist, SDA Church, 23 Veer- abadrasamykoil Street, Negapatam, South India. Ny as aland Union JACKSON, A. DAVID, evangelist, SDA Church, Pathanamthitta, CHARLIE, MARK, section leader, Tekerani Mission Station, Kerala, South India-. P.O. Tekerani, Nyasaland, Africa. JAMES, M. AHIMAAZ, evangelist, SDA Church, M.C. College KUYENDA, WADI, section leader, Lake View Mission Station, Cross Road, Calicut, South India. P.O. Mlangeni, Nyasaland, Africa. LAZARUS, S. SOLOMON, evangelist, SDA Church, Venganoor, KWANGWALA, SAULEN, assistant director, Matandani Mission Kerala, South India. Station, P.A. Neno, Nyasaland, Africa. PRABHUDAS, PITTA, evangelist, SDA Mission, Circlepet, Mas- MATHANGA, GOLD, director, Shire Mission, P.O. Box 51, ulipatam, Krishna District, India. Blantyre, Nyasaland. Africa. RAO, PAGIDIPALLI S. PRASADA, evangelist, SDA Mission, Main MBVUNDULA, MILLS, district director, Zoraba Mission Station, Road, Gudivada, Krishna District, India. Kamania Central School, P.O. Zomba, Nyasaland. Africa. THAVASIMONEY, MONICKAM, evangelist, SDA Church, 13 SAMUEL, MASTER, secretary-treasurer, P.O. Box 12, Mzimba, Ritherdon Road, Vepery, Madras 7, India. Nyasaland, Africa. VEDAMONEY, GNANAKKAN, evangelist, SDA Church, Moolachi, TSOKA, ROY, preceptor, Malamulo, P.O. Box 51, Blantyre, Meikamandapam P.O., via Thuckalai, Kanayakumari Dis Nyasaland, Africa. trict, India. 40 THE MINISTRY SOUTHERN EUROPEAN DIVISION to understand the instruction that it contains. Angola Union Mission "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the CACHILA, FRANCISCO, evangelist, Caixa Postal 33, Luso, An words of this prophecy," God declares, "and keep gola., Portuguese West Africa. CHAVES, VITORINO, president, Namba Mission, Caixa Postal those things which are written therein: for the 3, Nova Lisboa, Angola, Portuguese West Africa. time is at hand." When we as a people under DIETRICH, FRANK, school principal, Missao do Bongo, Lepi, Angola, Portuguese West Africa. stand what this book means to us, there will be MESSELE, ISAIAS, evangelist, Caixa Postal 3, Nova Lisboa, seen among us a great revival. We do not under Angola, Portuguese West Africa. MANUEL. ELIAS, evangelist, Caixa Postal 33, Luso, Angola, stand fully the lessons that it teaches, notwithstand Portuguese West Africa. ing the injunction given us to search and study it.7 MUNUAMALE, JUSTO, evangelist, Caixa Postal 3, Nova Lisboa, Angola, Portuguese West Africa. Study Revelation in connection with Daniel, for SAMUCANDA, ELIAS, evangelist, Caixa Postal 33, Luso, Angola, history will be repeated. . . . We, with all our reli Portuguese West Africa. gious advantages, ought to know far more today Equatorial African Mission than we do know.8 BITORE, SAMUEL, pastor, Mission Adventiste, Bertoua, Cam- eroun. Let no one come to the conclusion that there is NDONGO, MATTHIEU, pastor, Mission Adventiste, Niamvoudou, poste Kobdombo, par Ayos, Cameroun. no more truth to be revealed. The diligent, prayer ful seeker for truth will find precious rays of light Franco-Belgian Union CAZAERCK, GEORGES, pastor, Klissenlaan 18, Berchem Ste. yet to shine forth from the word of God. Many Agathe, Brussels, Belgium. gems are yet scattered that are to be gathered to FREI, WERNER, pastor, 5, route de Rouffach, Colmar, France. LIENARD, LEON, pastor, 11, rue Ernest Allard, Brussels, gether to become the property of the remnant peo Belgium. ple of God.9 RASE, ANTOINE, pastor, 11 , rue Ernest Allard, Brussels, Belgium. 1 L. E. Froom, Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 3, pp. Indian Ocean Union Mission 608-610. 2 Ibid., p. 507. SUPRAMAYEN, MARC, president, Seychelles Island Mission, 3 Ibid., p. 504. P.O. Box 28, Victoria-Mane, Seychelles Islands, Indian 4 Sir William Whitla, Sir Isaac Neivton's Daniel and the Ocean. Apocalypse, pp. 313, 314. John Murray, London, W-l. Mozambique Mission = Ibid., pp. 314, 315. « Ibid., pp. 315, 316. MORGADO, JOAQUIM ALEGRiA, president, Munguluni Mission, 7 Testimonies to Ministers, p. 113. C.P. 26, Mocuba, Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa. 8 Ibid., p. 116. Spanish Church 8 Counsels to Writers and Editors, p. 35. HIDALGO, RAFAEL, pastor, Estape 15, San Cugat (Barcelona) Spain. LOPEZ, JOSE, missionary, Lista de Correos, Santa Isabel (F. Poo) Spanish Guinea. From TV Screen to Harvest SAGUAR, EFRAIM, pastor, Jose Ga. Sanchez 6-3 , Zaragoza, (Continued from page 28} Spain. Yugoslavia the side of truth men and women who write ABRAMOVIC, MICHAELO, Prilaz Jug. Nar. Armije 77, Zagreb, in later, as one did, to say, "How wonderful to Yugoslavia. BOZOMIROVIC, MILOSAV, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. be looking at it all through the eyes of a Sev BRANKO, COKLIN, Novi-Sad, Yugoslavia. CIRIC, SAVO, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. enth-day Adventist!" ILIJEV, IVANKO, Bozidara Adzije 4, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It Is Written is a form of total evangelism for KOVACIC, ZrvKO, Bozidara Adzije 4, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. KUKOLJA, PAVLE, St. Pozega, Yugoslavia. your area that involves every minister and ev SLEZAK, JAKOV. Bozidara Adzije 4, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. VITNER, JAKOV, Petra, Drapsma 13, Novi-Sad, Yugoslavia. ery layman. It is every-member evangelism for VRANCIC, SVETOZAR, Prilaz Jug. Nar. Armije 77, Zagreb, an entertainment-minded generation too ab Yugoslavia. sorbed in television to be reached by anything but television. It is one more way of taking The Apocalypse and the Day of Christ to the millions who will not come to Atonement Him. It is one more path to decision. Personal evangelism is such a natural thing. It (Continued from page IS) is the normal reaction of a heart that has been lieved that the Day of Atonement has a warmed and won and wants to share. special significance for those living in the The familiar story of the little lame dog tells last days of earth©s history. Commentaries it perfectly. A doctor had found a dog with a on the book of Revelation that have dis broken leg. He took him home, put the leg in cerned the allusions of the visions to Old splints, and soon the dog was well. But then Testament ceremonial expressly affirm the he disappeared. "That©s gratitude," thought the foregoing view. In the realm of Adventist doctor, "to run away as soon as he doesn©t apologetics these facts are of tremendous need me." But the next day there was a scratch importance at this time. We cannot but be ing at the front door. There he wras and an reminded of such statements as the follow other little dog was with him. And the other ing, which were addressed to Seventh-day little dog was lame! Adventists more than fifty years ago: The impulse to share is the spirit of evan Let us give more time to the study of the Bible. gelism. The story of It Is Written begins with We do not understand the word as we should. The the television screen. But you, every worker book of Revelation opens with an injunction to us and every layman, write the final chapters! APRIL, 1961 41 BOOKS - For Your Library

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[Unless otherwise credited, the following news been opened in Sydney by the Methodist Church items are taken from Religious News Service-} of Australasia. No liquor is allowed. So popular is «j The World Council of Churches resettled the club that on most nights "House Full" signs nearly 10,000 refugees in the first nine months of have been hung on the door while some 500 youths 1960, it was reported at a meeting of the Adminis "live it up" inside. The boys and girls are allowed trative committee of the Council©s Division of In to dress as they like and they do so in an ex ter-Church Aid and Service to Refugees. Of the tremely odd assortment of clothes. Some dance; total, the U.S. received 5,301 more than any other others just sit at tables and watch. A snack bar country through Church World Service, overseas sells hamburgers, sandwiches, and soft drinks. On relief arm of the National Council of Churches. the main floor are a candle-lighted milk bar and Some 4,000 of those entering the U.S. are Dutch coffee lounge, a television room, and a billiard and ethnic refugees from Indonesia who have been table tennis room. Some of Australia©s most popu living in the Netherlands for the past few years. lar teen-age musicians and singers have been hired Dr. Edgar H. S. Chandler of Geneva, director of to provide the entertainment. the Council©s Service to Refugees, predicted that 5[ An Italian weekly newspaper editor was given the WCC would resettle 14,000 refugees in 1961. The Watchman-Examiner, Dec. 15, 1960. a five-month suspended sentence by a Rome court for asserting in an article that the Vatican had in 1 The New Testament portion of The New terfered in Italian civil politics. Arrigo Benedetti, English Bible has been published by Cambridge editor of the weekly Expresso, was convicted under University Press and Oxford University Press in Article 297 of the Italian Penal Code which pro this country and abroad. A spokesman for the two vides sentences of up to three years for "whoever publishers said that nearly one million copies of on Italian territory offends the honor and prestige the 460-page Testament were released on the pub of the head of a foreign state." Mr. Benedetti lication date in the English-speaking world, includ made the assertions May 22, 1960, while comment ing the U.S., Canada, England, Australia, New ing on the widely discussed statement in the Vati Zealand, India, and South Africa. Translated into can daily Osservatore Romano of four days earlier, current English from the original Hebrew and which upheld the right of the church to guide Greek, the new Bible is the work of an interdenom faithful who are in the field of politics. inational committee of Biblical scholars represent ing 11 major church groups in the British Isles. f Every Sunday, Roland Foo, who runs a dry- Launched in 1947, the completed translation of the cleaning business in the heart of Singapore©s teem New Testament was formally approved by the ing Chinatown, transforms his shop into a church committee on March 23, 1960. Still being translated so that children from poor families can learn to are the Old Testament and the Apocrypha, which love God. A picture of Jesus is placed on the wall; are expected to be published in several years. benches, stools, chairs, and even empty milk boxes are brought into the shop. Some forty Chinese, 1 The first night club for teen-agers only to be most of them children, gather in the "church" operated by any Christian church in Australia has once a week to sing hymns and listen to sermons

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Computers come up with answers to words and boys of Beaumont College on May 15. The partly or totally obliterated in the scrolls through visit will mark the centenary of the college, which analysis of word frequencies, sentences, and con was founded in 1861, and will take place just be texts, it was reported by J. B. Bessinger, associate fore the Queen goes to Rome, where she will be professor of English at the University of Toronto, received by Pope John XXIII. Beaumont College Canada. In emphasizing the importance of such is at Old Windsor, and the boys play Rugby on "mechanical brains," he pointed out that a few the meadows of Runnymede, where King John specialists completed in a year©s time the indexing signed the Magna Charta in 1215. The Jesuit Fa of the complete writings of Saint Thomas Aquinas thers are therefore close neighbors of the royal 13 million words a task that would have taken family in Windsor Castle. They are close neighbors 50 scholars about 40 years. also of Eton College. Relations between the Jesuit College and the castle have always been very cor ^J A three-ton boulder is on its way to Britain dial, but the college has never before had a visit from the hillside at Bethlehem to be made into a from a reigning sovereign. baptismal font for Coventry Cathedral. Destroyed by Nazi bombers in World War II, the Anglican cathedral is being rebuilt at a cost of $3 million and is scheduled to be rededicated in June, 1962. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Frankland Dark, an architect who has done much Advertisements appropriate to The Ministry, appear work in the Middle East, suggested two years ago ing under this heading, eight cents a word for each insertion, including initials and address. Minimum to Sir Basil Spence, architect for the new cathedral charge, two dollars for each -insertion. Cash required here, that it should be linked to the origin of the with order. 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APRIL, 1961 47 PULPIT - Pointers for Preachers

THE SPARK The invisible urge, the spark mean dead preachers! And preachers who are dead THAT POWERS tnat powers the man of God on their feet breed discontent and spiritual death in daily search for sin-sick in the congregation. souls, comes from above. Such ardor cannot be There is no place in the pulpit for the self-indul dampened by external pressures or paralyzed by gent, halfhearted, unfervent. "The efficiency of the internal fears. To find and hold it is to seek it church is precisely what the zeal, purity, self-de constantly. Morale! What a word! It is nothing nial, and intelligent labor of the ministers make more nor less than the spark that powers. Some it." Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 582. have it, others don©t. Do you? Morale is born of If we as ministers enjoy "a fresh conversion confidence. In whom? God. In what? In the move every day" (ibid., vol. 1, p. 699), remembering ment and message. This is enough. But some go that "the mind and heart need culture daily" further. They dare to trust their fellow men. These (ibid., vol. 4, p. 443), then our congregations will are the true movers of mountains. But what if a gather spiritual manna that is fresh every day. colleague proves a traitor? Possessors of the spark They must then be encouraged to pass it on. still carry on with confidence in God, man, move It is vital that, quite apart from professional ment, and message. To such a man, raging debate, study and duty, we keep our souls refreshed and or contrary (to him) vote, carping criticism, and enjoy a deep experience in spiritual things. This, even reduction of responsibilities, are but a part and this alone, is what gives life and spiritual fire of the slow process of refinement and rebirth. to our preaching. "Is not too much at stake to Depressed? About what? A personal shortcoming? preach in an indifferent manner, and without feel Or do others disappoint you? Due to either or both ing the burden of souls?" Ibid., p. 447. of the above factors, some have lost the spark. H. w. L. Still others have retired to Elijah©s melancholy cave of "I only am left." Morale is genuine en WINNOWING THE News out of China thusiasm. It is not contagious. Excitement can be CHURCH comes slowly and stimulated, but not abiding optimism. The latter sparsely today. It is is a trait of character, not fickle emotion. It has to persistently reported that the commune system is be sought for, and when received, cherished. It is unpopular, and that it is being dropped or mod imparted to individuals, individually. It is handed ified in certain places. The disruption of family down, not over or up. Heaven has plenty to spare. ties is a bitter price to pay for economic progress, The "dim view" is both unnecessary and paralyz and in China it may prove to be too bitter. Modern ing, a luxury that few ministers can afford. It was society has not done outstandingly well in strength not without reason that the Master counseled ening home ties. We must not be too smug in "Then, look up." frowning on attempts in other parts of the world The spark that powers. Some have it, others to do by more rigorous methods what we have don©t. Do you? done to the home by our laxity in divorce, our E. E. C. pornographic literature and sexy films, our inor dinate love of money, pleasure, et cetera. FRESH EVERY DAY A preacher was seeking Other news suggests that in China "one has to to impress the necessity search for churches and Christianity with a micro of daily renewal of spiritual experience. He was scope in most towns." This is the reported word eager to use the passage regarding the manna in of a former German missionary who recently vis Exodus 16:16-21, but wanted a more modern and ited her former mission field. Most Chinese pastors refined rendering of verse 20. seem to work in factories or other places full time, Finally, he decided to adhere to the King James and Christians are tolerated as a minority group. Version, realizing that he had a tremendous point Clearly the church is passing through an acid test. in the fact that, like the manna, religious experi There are mysterious providences in the hard ence, as he put it, "stinks when it is hoarded." ships of God©s people, and it is not ours to question That is blunt, but true. It is true of many things the situation we do not understand (see The in the spiritual life besides old and dead experi Great Controversy, pp. 47, 48). When the church is ences. winnowed, the grain and the chaff are revealed. What about old sermons? Some have never even We should be prayerfully mindful of fellow be been refurbished through the years. Hoarded ser lievers everywhere, and we may rest assured that mons gather cobwebs. Obviously the sermons are the purposes of God will ultimately justify them not to blame, but the preachers are. Dead sermons selves. H. w. L. 48 THE MINISTRY