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THE $3.5 MILLION Lord and support His work in this THOSE SMALLER time of crisis. This they have done in ROBBERY the emergency offering of May 26. CHURCHES The General Conference office family quickly pledged more than I HE needs of the Lord's work $19,800 to help fill the gap. In are so many and varied as to almost addition to this a half million dollars f\ DEDICATED lay leader of defy description. Openings are are being taken from reserve funds. one of our small churches writes developing in so many places and We now appeal to our pastors and expressing deep concern for the opportunities are so numerous that other workers to continue to pre work in the small towns and one cannot help but be impressed sent the challenges, opportunities, churches of our vast country. After that this is our day. From the and needs of the world work to all lauding the progressive spirit of Middle East, from Europe and of our people. Let us, as ministers, her town, she adds, "But our Africa, from Southern Asia and the set an example of giving that will beautiful Seventh-day Adventist Latin American countries, from the inspire our members to give more. church has too many empty Far East and Australia, as well as in Let us talk faith and courage and pews." North America, this is our day of enter into a spirit of willing giving Her real inspiration for writing unparalleled opportunity. As re so that no need shall go unmet. Let the letter was in relation to an ported in this issue, the success of us make the following suggestions: experience that occurred on a MISSION '73 in all parts of the 1. Let us personally give more, particular Sabbath. As she drove world assures us that the Spirit of much more, through our Sabbath up to the church she observed that the Lord is being poured out in school offerings. Why not increase parked in front was a large motor unusual measures upon His peo our Sabbath school offerings by home. Before long she learned ple. We are on the verge of great 50 per cent or even double them, that it belonged to a retired things, and the scenes of Pentecost and invite our church members to missionary and his wife. They will soon be repeated and with do likewise? Honestly, it won't were traveling across the country, greater demonstrations of power. hurt, and it will help. and in so doing were contacting as It is only natural that this would 2. Why not contact some of our many of the small churches as antagonize the enemy and the members who have been richly possible "to see how the work church would be brought face to blessed with the Lord's goods, and was holding up." face with problems that seem in ask them to make an especially She writes: "What a wonderful surmountable. These, too, are liberal contribution to His cause message he brought, making us all many and varied and can be met right now, when the need is so so happy by encouraging and only in the wisdom of the Lord. The desperate? restrengthening our hearts." Then situation that has developed over 3. Why not take advantage of our she added, "This missionary was the devaluation of the U.S. dollar contacts with those not of our so happy. He loves God's work so has virtually robbed our overseas faith and invite them to contribute much that 1 don't believe he would fields of about $3.5 million. What to the work of God at this crucial accept a lush carpeted office. He this means to our work is stagger time? Through Ingathering and seems very happy doing field work ing. It could result in the reduction other contacts many would give if for the small churches." of evangelistic endeavors, and in they knew of the need. This woman no doubt expresses limiting our medical and other 4. By our prayers and earnest the feelings of many in our small services that are offered to the preparation for the coming of the churches who, perhaps, see their peoples of other lands. It could Lord, let us give ourselves in full own pastor sometimes as little as mean that the work of the Lord surrender to Christ and consecrate once a month because of the could be retarded atatimewhen He our time, talents, and means to the number of churches in his dis is setting His hand to quickly speedy finishing of His work. trict. finish it. In these ways, as well as many Are there not more among those There is a blessed promise, others, not only can we meet the that have already given long years however, that brings comfort to our current emergency but also make of service who may wish to con hearts at a time like this, "Thy ample provision for the needs of tinue their labor of love, working people shall be willing in the day of the Lord's work until it is gloriously especially among those who are thy power" (Ps. 110:3). And to this finished. Let us do our best to keep often without the help of a text we might add to the word the needs of the world work before minister? Living in a mobile home willing "liberal." This is exactly our people at every opportunity or a motor home and visiting the what is proving to be the case. Our and seek to encourage such a small churches is a way that at church members by the thousands response that every member of the least one family has found most have said, We must not let our church will be fully involved in the rewarding, and their work is overseas work suffer from this wonderful victory soon to be much appreciated. devaluation. We must come to the achieved. N. R. D. O. M. B. 2 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 THE LANGUAGE the voice of the Seventh-day /Adventist ministry / volume XLVI. no.8

PROBLEM Editorial Director: N. R. Dower Associates: E. E. Cleveland, A. C. Fearing

I HAVE been reading an in teresting book entitled Helping 1_ Youth in Conflict by Francis I. CONTENTS IN THIS ISSUE Frellick and published by Prentice- Hall. It describes the problems of EDITORIALS 2 the juvenile delinquent and how ARTICLES Don't miss the lead article the church can help those youth Is Preaching in Trouble? 4 on preaching—it still has with problems. One section deals Arthur N. Patrick power. Spear, evangelist of many years, has some good with the language problem. The Candy-Coated Gospel 7 M. Dean Stephens suggestions on retirement. following paragraph was of utmost You'll be inspired by the interest: Retired or Refurbished 8 B. R. Spear further reports on MISSION '73 "One who knows nothing of the Bible Seminars Build and evangelism around the current specific lingo of the New Congregations 10 world. Dr. Heald and Dr. juvenile may be bewildered often George E. Knowles Palmer share their experience times by the things he hears. He A Doctor©s Letter to the Press 11 in health evangelism in a way may be somewhat further be Donald R. Cibbs that illustrates practical use of wildered if he is subjected to some The Challenge of this approach to evangelism. colorful cursing. Are we now Gospel Seed Sowing 12 Ministers as well as local Vicente Q. Tigno, Jr. church elders will profit from recommending that in order to The "High Place" in the series by Vitrano on the reach the hard-to-reach we must Biblical Archeology Part 1 14 preparation and delivery of affect their vocabularies? Not at Lawrence T. Gerafy sermons. This excellent all. In fact, persons who attempt The Great Need series will run for several to do so often forfeit the respect of the Holy Spirit Part 2 18 months. Local church elders, of those they try to reach by this Ellen G. White this is especially for you. We tactic." The Dating of the Book of know you will appreciate the Daniel Part 2 20 help. How many times I have cringed Desmond Ford while sitting in meetings listening MISSION ©73 World Report 24 to some preacher attempt to reach N. R. Dower the hearts of youthful hearers by Health Evangelism STAFF the use of "slanguage." This A Case Study 26 Roger O. Heald degrading of the gospel never |. R. Spangler wins, but only repels. True, we Doctor-Minister Workshop Editor should avoid any theological jar Conducted in Pacific Union 28 Jerre K. Iversen O. M. Berg, Leo R. Van Dolson Associate Editors gon in dealing with juveniles, but, Restoring the Withered on the other hand, let our lan Right Arm 30 \. Wayne McFarland, M.D. guage be simple and pure even Leo Van Dolson Health Editor as it was in the early church when The Confession of an R. Dederen, H. Habenicht, M.D. the disciples were empowered by Adventist Doctor 32 M.G.Hardinge, M.D. Glenn Rosendahl R.F.Waddeli,M.D. the Holy Spirit on the day of Editors-at-large Pentecost. "Who, Me? ... Walk Myself to Sleep?" 33 loyce McClintock, Shirley Welch Not only did they have the Robert Romanelli Editorial Assistants ability to speak with fluency those A Conference Better Living H. W. Munson languages which they had never Team in Action 36 Art Director previously learned but from that Joyce McClintock G. W. Busch time forth "the language of the Music in the Church Part 3 42 Layout Artist disciples was pure, simple, and Paul Hamel accurate, whether they spoke in DEPARTMENTS their native tongue or in a foreign By His Side 39 Printed monthly for the Ministerial language."— The Acts of the Feedback 9 Association of Seventh-day Adventists by the Review and Herald Publishing Apostles, p. 40. Health Evangelism 26 Association, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., J. R. S. News Briefs 48 Washington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. $6.75 Recommended Reading 44 a year; 60c a copy. Price may be slightly higher in Canada. For each Cover photo: Harry Anderson's portrayal of Shop Talk 46 subscription ordered in the United Hiram Edson's view of the cleansing of the Spotlight on Health 34 States to go to foreign countries other than Canada, ADD 50c postage. Sec sanctuary following the 1844 disappoint The Local Church Elder 23 ond-class postage paid at Washington, ment demonstrates God's leadership dur World of Archeology D.C. Editorial office: 6840 Eastern ing the formative years of the Advent and Science 14 Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. Movement. God forbid that we should for get His guidance in the past and His prom ise of leadership today. AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 3 IS PREACHING

ARTHUR N. PATRICK in 1971, only 40 per cent attended church. 2 If this trend toward defeat continues for the next twenty • REACHING is in trouble. Deep years, preaching in the church trouble. building will be extinct. Or at least Stuart McWilliam, standing be the preacher will be haunted by fore the students of several Scottish the lonely echo of his voice re theological schools to deliver the sounding from empty pews. 1968-1969 Warrack Lectures, con Man's apathy to preaching was fessed "the awareness that there is, being lamented long before 1972, at this time, a widespread suspicion however. Edna St. Vincent Millay, of preaching, a questioning of its born in 1892, penned vivid words value, a loss of confidence in its about preaching, words that seem power." 1 to grow in accuracy each year: Suspicion. Doubt as to its value. Up goes the man of God before Diminishing confidence in its the crowd; effectiveness. Preaching faces these With voice of honey and with siblings, followed into battle against eyes of steel her by their older brother, Indif He drones your humble gospel ference. to the proud. In 1958, 49 per cent of the United Nobody listens. Less than the States population attended a place wind that blows of worship regularly each week. By Are all your words to us you died 1970 attendance declined to 42 per to save. 3 cent. But when the Gallup organi Why is preaching in this deep zation sampled the habits of an trouble? There is no shortage of other representative 7,543 adults experts proclaiming their diag Or is it still noses. possible to Contemporary man is so trans Arthur N. Patrick is just beginning maintain an fixed by the transcient toys his his work with the Greater Sydney audience through Conference of Seventh-day Advent- technology has manufactured that the "foolishness ists, Australia. A graduate of Avon- he fails to look up in recognition of of preaching"? dale College, he holds the M.A. and his omnipotent Creator who M. Div. degrees from Andrews Uni "spoke, and it came to be." 4 Eric versity and the D.M. degree from Mascall describes man's myopia Christian Theological Seminary, In in these words: dianapolis, Indiana, the latter just completed. He served as pastor- The enormous domination of present- evangelist for ten years in New Zea day life by scientific technology has pro duced a psychological climate in which it land and for two and one-half years no longer comes naturally to people to in the Illinois Conference. During attend to those aspects of the world which graduate studies at Andrews Univer manifest it as the creature of Cod. Ourminds sity he did part-time teaching at the have been conditioned to look upon the undergraduate school. world as raw material for human manipula-

4 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 J BYRON LOGAN IN TROUBLE?

tion rather than to contemplate it in an preaching is in jeopardy. But they revealed. Moving to those fea attitude of wonder. 5 feel called to proclaim a challenge tures with greatest applicability for "Liberalism is the villain, not to optimistic notions of the per holding the audience, the evan technology," others declare. fectibility of the human order gelists indicated that a carefully "No," another group shouts, "Neo- through man-made evolution. In planned program that maintains Orthodoxy has vitiated preaching deed, they believe their unique the interest of Seventh-day Ad by an even subtler removal of the commission is described by the ventists is essential. Numerous authority of Scripture." angel John saw "in the midst of ideas were mentioned. But two Men of mass media affirm this heaven, having the everlasting features outweighed all others in era of exploding information has gospel to preach." 8 Further, they significance in maintaining at no room for the monolog of are convinced the consummation tendance: "the visitation "pro preaching. "Let's replace the pulpit demands a "testimony to all na gram" and "Biblical, Christ- with the screen, preaching with tions" through a gospel "preached centered preaching." 10 dialog and discussion, the pew throughout the whole world." 9 The why and the how of effec with the counselor's chair or the tive visitation could well form the psychologist's couch," they cry. Survey Findings basis of another treatise, in that And researchers with cultured 82 per cent of the respondents voices support them by observing During 1971, 105 persons re rated it one of the two most im that objective studies reveal sponded to a "Survey of Methods portant features for maintaining preaching falls short of other Used to Secure and Maintain an the evangelistic audience. But our teaching techniques: Audience in Seventh-day Adventist present concern is the role of Further darkening the name of preaching Evangelism." These replies came preaching within that spectrum of are the psychologists who offer convincing from ministerial leaders in the features that keep people coming. evidence that the speaker-audience rela General, union, and local con Eighty-four per cent of the evan tionship produces the least efficient learn gelists polled rated preaching ing. They tell us that a discussion group is a ferences; from men reaching the better way to learn, or a sound filmstrip, or masses with Faith for Today, It Is (along with visitation) as one of motion pictures. 6 Written, the Voice of Prophecy; the two top options. Or is the threatened demise of and from front-line evangelists Hence it can be simply stated: preaching due to man's growing widely scattered in North America although preaching is in trouble concern with himself? As men deny and Australia. for numerous reasons, it remains special creation, decry super- Section VI of my questionnaire our commission and our single naturalism, inflate the newness probed for the features that "aid most effective means of maintain and deflate the thenness of the most in maintaining an audience" ing the evangelistc audience. Christian message, preaching has during the evangelistic series. It Further, the preaching that keeps little appeal to them. The man in is significant that those polled the evangelistic audience coming the pulpit may be relevant. He may rated "Biblical, Christ-centered will most likely stimulate church even be an expert. But if his theol preaching" as first in importance. attendance also. ogy is really only anthropology, and The Adventist evangelist does Here we have a clear notion of his eschatology merely a word not deny that every effective means where the emphasis in our evan picture of the achievements of a for communicating truth should gelistic work should be placed. global Better Government Asso be employed. Many are the fea Use every legitimate means, but ciation, why bother to listen? 7 tures that attract and help to visit and preach above all things, Seventh-day Adventists admit build the audience, the survey is the directive.

AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 5 Effective Preaching "seen and understood, those who function as a catalyst, creating hold it will work in harmony with change in human nature? Constant Christ to prepare a people to The "role" of preaching is prob visitation enables him to shape stand in the great day of God, and his preaching to the needs, not ably easier to state than the "how" their efforts will be successful." 13 to effective preaching. The brief just of mankind in general, but Herein is an implied promise that suggestions are simply presented to the concerns of the very people the greatest days of preaching are as worthy of consideration. before him. 1. To be effective, preaching still before the Advent Movement This word from the pulpit will as it completes its global procla must be Biblical. It needs to be never embarrass the pew. But it mation. informed by every legitimate ap is so specific, so related to the proach to the understanding of 3. Preaching to be effective satisfaction of real needs, that it the Word of God. After the must be contemporary. It reflects fits the individual listener as preacher has grappled with the upon the deep questions, the though tailor-made for him alone. questions of Biblical introduction, gnawing uncertainties, the defiant On the screen of the preacher's probed for the meaning of his rebellions, the aching doubts, and mind there are constant flashbacks texts with the tools of exegesis, the human needs of man in the to the actual living conditions, examined them in the light of the present tense. Thus, for instance, hopes, fears, and temptations of church's mission and history, then the philosophic mind is met with the people before him. Thus his he is ready to relate this truth to approaches relevant to its frame message is personal, not a one- the whole message of Scripture. of reference. The preacher places to-many, but a one-to-one dialog. Finally, when all this is distilled himself within the thought pat We have tried to say that effec to a clear and urgent truth in his terns of his audiences. He is ac tive preaching springs from a mind, and translated into an ex quainted firsthand with the dom thoroughly informed and experi perience in his own life, at last inant influences that affect their ential knowledge of Scripture and he is ready to be used of the lives. Christ, plus an understanding of Spirit to state this simply and Preaching is not generally ad the men He came to save. Im fervently to his hearers. dressed to some elite segment of pelled by the Holy Spirit, such It is altogether too easy to let the population, but to a cross preaching will maintain the evan the tools of Biblical research rust. section of society. Hence it must gelistic and the church audience. The Hebrew I learned at Avondale meet the concerns of most peo Restless man will listen to one who College was too often forgotten ple. One way of tabulating these remembers his place in the plan under the busywork of the next is to study carefully the major of God, and who with Richard twelve years of pastoral-evan media that are already successful Baxter (1615-1691) can reflect: gelism. At the Theological Sem in securing the interest of the po I preached as never sure to inary, under the inspired teaching tential audience. Of course this preach again, And as a dying man to dying of the late Dr. Alger F. Johns, I does not mean that we will follow purposed never to preach on an their principle of compromise for men. D Old Testament passage without the sake of gaining an audience! first wrestling with the words in Recently I surveyed the con FOOTNOTES which God initially inscripturated tents of one copy each of the fol 1 Stuart W. McWilliam, Called to Preach: The lowing: Reader's Digest, News Warrack Lectures 1968-69 (The Saint Andrew Press, His truth. Edinburgh, 1969), p. vii. But all this detailed Biblical re week, Life, and Time. More than 2 Facts on File, 1972, p. 44. 3 Edna St. Vincent Millay in Masterpieces of search is like the structure of an seventy concepts received stress in Religious Verse (ed. by James Dalton Morrison, ocean liner below the waterline. these media. Some are major Harper and Brothers, 1948, New York), p. 168. 4 Ps. 33:9, R.S.V. It gives stability, direction. But it is human concerns: children, family, 5 Eric Mascall, "The Scientific Outlook and the marriage, security, happiness. Christian Message," in Johannes Metz, ed., The unseen. Woe betide the preacher Evolving World and Theology, Concilium: Theol who tries to infer his cleverness Some are matters that fire the ogy in An Age of Renewal, vol. 26, (Paulist Press, imaginative mind of man: drama, New York, 1967), p. 125. rather than humbly pointing to the 6 William D. Thompson, A Listener's Guide to One mighty to save. space. All have some relevance to Preaching (Abingdon Press, Nashville, 1966), p. 16. the present generation, and all 7 "Preachers today are threatened by a sense of 2. Preaching to be effective departing, or departed authority," according to must be Christ-centered. "In every are in some way treated in the David Waite Yohn, The Contemporary Preacher and His Task (Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, page, whether history, or precept, Word of God. 1969), p. 105. For a comprehensive analysis of or prophecy, the Old Testament If the preacher is to be con continental preaching and its problems, see Hel mut Thielicke, The Trouble With the Church Scriptures are irradiated with the temporary, he must know what is (trans. and ed. by John W. Doberstein, Harper and Row, 1965, New York). glory of the Son of God." 11 This being said in the ivory towers— 8 Rev. 14:6. radiance attains even fuller expli the educational institutions—and 8 Matt. 24:14, R.S.V. 10 The results of the survey are discussed in cation in the New Testament. And how this is being mediated over detail in Arthur N. Patrick, "A Survey of Methods the reason why Seventh-day Ad- the air waves, through literature, Used to Secure and Maintain an Audience in Sev enth-day Adventist Evangelism" (unpublished M. ventists exist is to focus the entire and by the arts, to the men in the Div. thesis, Andrews University, 1972). message of the Bible upon the streets of his city. 11 Ellen C. White, The Desire of Ages (Pacific Press, Mountain View, California, 1898), p. 211. God who is now, in Christ, caus To be contemporary, the 12 Dan. 8:14. The New English Bible. © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the ing His sanctuary to "emerge vic preacher must be a sanctified be Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1970. torious." 12 We are convinced that havioral scientist. How else can Reprinted by permission. 13 Ellen C. White, Testimonies for the Church, the present work of Jesus is a he place himself intelligently un vol. 5, (Pacific Press, Mountain View, California, "grand truth" and that when it is der the direction of the Spirit to 1882), p. 575. 6 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 have we so little power? I want to that without the law there is no suggest one thing that seems to basis for identifying sin: "By the me to be a great part of the prob law is the knowledge of sin" (Rom. lem: the dearth of the preaching 3:20). Without this divine yard of God's law from our pulpits. stick, men have no way to meas At this point many will decide ure their lives against God's that I have been reading too many righteous demands. No wonder Puritan classics and spending too sinners are bored by our proc Coated much time in the damp basement lamation, and we make very little of Calvinism. But the fact remains impact on the world. It is when that the Gospel being preached we get down to particulars that in many churches today is a candy- sinners begin to get restless and Gospel coated Gospel. "Three easy steps look for the nearest exit. to salvation" seems to be the or As an Episcopal priest, I am called der of the day. To hear many upon to instruct potential church pastors and evangelists preach, members in the tenets of the faith M. DEAN STEPHENS you are not sure whether they are in confirmation classes. I have had offering a crucified and risen Lord people threaten not to return to the or a no-down-payment, twelve- class because as we studied the easy-installments way to heaven. commandments they felt God was Evangelical preaching seems to getting too personal in saying have been influenced by the "thou shalt" or "thou shalt not." shallow, neon society in which we When we get down to particulars, live. We make it easy to become a men quickly see that they are Christian; after all, we might lose sinners in need of divine grace. converts and church members if In Today's Gospel—Authentic or we preached too many "thou Synthetic, Walter J. Chantry says: shalts" and "thou shalt nots." After the rich young ruler in Normal evangelical practice is swiftly to run to the cross of Christ. But the cross LOOKING around at the ef Mark 10:17-21 asks how he can means nothing apart from the law. Our forts of evangelical Christians to gain eternal life, Jesus says: Lord's wretched sufferings must be tragic preach the gospel today, one Thou knowest the commandments, Do and senseless in the eyes of any who have might be struck with the almost not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not no reverent esteem for the perfect com mandments. On the cross Jesus was satis heretical thought that maybe, just steal. Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honor thy father and mother. And fying the just demands of the law against maybe, what passes for the Gospel he answered and said unto him, Master, sinners. If sinners are unaware of the deca of Christ in the twentieth cen all these have I observed from my youth. logue's requirements for themselves, they tury is not an exact reproduction Then Jesus beholding him loved him, and will see no personal significance in Christ's said unto him, One thing thou lackest: go broken body and shed blood. . . . Christ of the original article. Perhaps was set forth to be a propitiation (Rom. somewhere along the line some thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have 3:25), i.e., the substitutionary object of thing has been lost. What with treasure in heaven; and come, take up the God's wrath poured out against a violated "pack the pew night," "transpor cross, and follow me. law [Banner of Truth Trust, 1970, p. 37]. tation Sunday" (the one who gets And of course we know the rest: Not until the law is applied in the to church in the oddest way wins "he was sad at that saying, and condemnation of particular sins a prize), big-name athletes and went away grieved; for he had will sinners flee to Christ for mercy. movie stars appearing at the local great possessions." The woman at the well must have church to give their testimonies, Note that Jesus didn't make a had the seventh commandment and other novelties, one may sus general statement about the sin- applied to her condition. Paul pect that evangelical churches fulness of all men as a first step confesses that the law was the have begun to let gimmicks and to leading this young man to faith. schoolmaster that brought him to glamour overshadow the Gospel. The young ruler didn't think he Christ: "I had not known sin but We think of the early Church as had sinned. Most men don't really by the law" (Rom. 7:7). When we the ideal example of church power believe they are sinners, at least have been wounded by the law, and normalcy. Somehow those not bad enough for God to keep then the oil of the Gospel can be early believers turned the world them out of heaven. Our Lord poured on our diseased souls. upside down in a very few years didn't just condemn sin in gen It's time to do away with the without resorting to the use of eral; He condemned it in the par gimmicks and tricks. Let's quit try gimmicks. ticular. The rich young man was ing to attract men to Christ by giving Why do our churches produce an idolater. He loved money more them a candy-coated Gospel, and so little in lasting results? Why than he loved God. Jesus' implica let us restore the law to its rightful tion was clear and convicting. place in the preaching of salvation Christ used the law in dealing by grace through faith. To do this M. Dean Stephens is vicarofSt. Philip's with sinners. Why do we shy will take us a big step toward American Episcopal church in Wil- reproducing the original article.D mington, North Carolina. He received away from it? We go on our way singing, "Free from the law, O the A.B. degree from Bob Jones Copyright 1972 by Christianity Today. Reprinted by University. blessed condition," forgetting permission. AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 7 places with substantial buildings, where only a handful of women and a child or two remain. These situations challenge the most experienced. My wife and I have so many projects laid out we'll never get to them all. Each one has something to do with soul saving. Many of our relatives have been visited in distant lands. Some have been baptized. But too many retire without any plans. If one feels he's through at retirement he certainly will be. Why not project one's self anew into the service of Christ. The field of former members who have become discouraged could alone occupy much of our retired talent.

Community Services "Another nice thing about working for God. He has a great retirement plan." The Community Services de partment of the church offers a special opportunity. President Nixon recently said, "Americans should stop regarding older citizens as a burden, and regard I'M OUTSIDE looking in," he them as a resource." We are said sadly. Our eyes met. His were advised: Retired hurt. "No one notices me," he added. "I'm never invited to sit If you engage in this work of mercy and on the platform or offer prayer." love, will the work prove too hard for you? Will you fail and be crushed under the or So said a capable man who for burden, and your family be deprived of years had faithfully filled numer your assistance and influence? Oh, no; ous conference positions. In Cod has carefully removed all doubts disappointment he passed to his upon this question, by a pledge to you on condition of your obedience. This promise rest early in retirement. What Refurbished covers all that the most exacting, the most might have been had he continued hesitating, could crave. "Then shall thy actively in some special capacity? light break forth as the morning, and thine There he would have felt the warm health shall spring forth speedily." Only B. R. SPEAR heartbeat of people he helped. believe that He is faithful that hath prom ised. God can renew the physical strength. Pleas come from all across the And more, He says He will do it. And the country. "Why don't some of you promise does not end here. "Thy right ministers come and help us? Our eousness shall go before thee; the glory little church is dying for lack of of the Lord shall be thy rereward." 1 experienced leadership." Perhaps Our Community Services pro some of us in retirement ought to gram requires both men and spend a portion of each year women. We read: bringing life into an isolated, I cannot too strongly urge all our church struggling church. There are members, all who are true missionaries, all who believe the third angel's message, all who turn away their feet from the Sabbath, to consider the message of the Beveridge R. Spear, now retired in fifty-eighth chapter of Isaiah. The work of Mentone, California, labored for many beneficence enjoined in this chapter is years in the Pacific Union Conference, the work God requires His people to do at mostly in public evangelism. This in this time.2 cluded ten years on the radio, usually The Dorcas or welfare work is with a daily program. He graduated only a part of what Cod has in from Fowon's Writers' School, West- port, Connecticut, and from a special mind. As a people, it seems, we course in medical evangelism at Loma have not yet seen all the possi Linda University, this in addition to bilities for giving the message studies at Potomac University (now through this channel. Retired men Andrews), Washington, D.C. could successfully promote

8 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 community service among all on the fifty-eighth chapter of I've found chapter 70 in The church members. Much of this Isaiah will change every man's Desire of Ages a great challenge service should be done by men. outlook. And health plus a new to my ministry. Here's just one This could include repairing experience is promised to every statement: furniture, driving trucks and one who enters this field. Notice He represented its decision [the judg mobile units, handling disaster what changes will take place: ment] as turning upon one point. . . . material, setting up relief shelters, Their [our] eternal destiny will be de Nothing can, or ever will, give character termined by what they [we] have done or organizing the men, et cetera. to the work in the presentation of truth to have neglected to do for Him in the person Here some men may do a more help the people just where they are so well influential work perhaps than in as Samaritan work. ... As this class of of the poor and the suffering. 7 their earlier ministry. They can work is done, there will be created an For one to know that he is still entirely different atmosphere surrounding appreciated and still capable of offer service to the sick, the poor, the souls of the workers. 3 the weary, the aged. Bible studies limited service brings a wealth of naturally follow. The delivery of Cod has another important satisfaction into the life. It also clothing and food opens doors revelation that is startling in its helps to keep one young and for giving the message. Souls will import. healthy. D be reached that otherwise would Soon there will be no work done in min FOOTNOTES not be contacted. isterial lines but medical missionary work.4 For their own sake they should, while 1 Ellen C. White, Welfare Ministry, p. 31. they have opportunity, become intelligent 2 Ibid., p. 33. It Will Change Your Life in regard to disease, its causes, prevention, 3 Ibid., p. 132. and cure. And those who do this will find * Ibid., p. 139. Ministers who give careful study a field of labor anywhere. 5 5 Ibid., p. 137. You will never be ministers after the 6 Ibid., p. 139. to the book Welfare Ministry can gospel order till you show a decided 7 Ellen C. White, The Desire of Ages, p. hardly remain the same. Research interest in medical missionary work. 6 637.

THE MUSIC SCENE NO MORE LIMPING I was very interested in your arti I have just finished reading the new Feedback cle, "Today©s Religious Music Scene." Ministry magazine, and my heart Having a double degree in music, I thrills to see what God has wrought in would like to point out some of the im behalf of His church. For years as RENEWAL OF THE ROMANCE pressions I acquire from combining preachers we have limped about with I must ask your pardon for my delay the field of medicine and music. Truly, the three angels© messages, wonder in writing to you after the thrill I ex Satan is creeping into our church ing at times why we did not see real perienced following my perusal of the through the use of undisciplined, care and lasting changes in the lives of our January issue of The Ministry. less music, produced not to elevate converts and ourselves. Can it be that I was immediately attracted by the the mind to God, but almost solely by divorcing the health message from hand-gripping artistic design on the for entertainment. The words may be the messages of the three angels we cover page, and I must confess, ex semi-religious, but the attitude is crippled the program of God? With plosively and enthusiastically appre "look at me"! Our young people and the new Ministry uniting the two I see ciative when I read the introductory our old people are not to live to be a new day for the church by present article. entertained. Christ, while on this ing the health message with the other For a number of years I have been earth, did not devote one moment to Bible doctrines to those for whom we waiting for some announcement from entertainment (F.E., p. 229) and yet labor. our headquarters on the "renewal of these productions we see resemble I found this month©s health feature the romance" of medical evangelism, old-time Hollywood musicals. They ap to be both informative and instruc and thus effect a restoration from the peal not to the heart nor to the frontal tional, and if we pastors apply this "divorce" that cast a shadow over lobes, but to the feet and sex organs. A material in our Bible studies and the vision given to us through the type of mesmerism results, especially evangelism, God will bless us to do a Spirit of Prophecy during the first when there is a continuous beat at much better work. decade of the century. And I want to the same rate. This beat is not con R. E. Barren congratulate you for this marvelous trolled by the higher centers in the Berrien Springs, Michigan breakthrough. brain, but by the lower more animal istic areas of the brain. Thoughtful, Harry K. Christman TERRIFIC! Yucaipa, California disciplined, exact music is under the control of the cerebral cortex and the The new Ministry magazine is ter beat is altered according to thought rific! My spirit soars to the heights. A BIG THANKS patterns and the effect desired. This I was very impressed with the edi Just want to say a big thanks for the is why this careless, loose, Satanic torial that began on the front cover "new" Ministry. I like it. It is a real music is associated with the illicit drug of the January issue, and was further blessing to me. trade and late hours. The notes are satisfied while reading the excellent The new size makes it easy to hold, played in any fashion, the notation in material all through the magazine. read, and fits well into files. itself is inexact, and weird dishar Thank you for the example and im Thanks for a journal so well pre monious chords are used, creating a petus you have given us all in sound pared. chaotic effect on the brain. ing the full third angel©s message. B. E. Jacobs Una Jean Sayles, M.D. Nigel A. Buxton Singapore, Rep. of Singapore Vermilion, Alberta, Canada Willowdale, Ontario, Canada AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 9 The succeeding seminars are held from nine-thirty until noon on Bible Seminars Build Sabbaths. We have found the chain mark ing of doctrinal Bible studies is an attractive feature in a seminar. For New Congregations this activity clear instructions must be given and it is important not to go too fast so that students be come frustrated by their inability to keep up. It is best to do the mechanics of marking without comment on texts and then re view the marked texts and make necessary comments later. Other 5. To gain additional decisions GEORGE E. KNOWLES features include short Bible after an evangelistic crusade. studies and question-and-answer 6. To establish a new congre sessions. gation by combining doctrine and After the first month the format fellowship. followed becomes a little more like Suitable places for a seminar in Sabbath school and church every clude school cafeterias, banquet week. The length of time required halls, and church fellowship halls. for the seminar to evolve into a r\P~TER seeing the outstanding It is desirable to have the partici church will be governed by local success of the Bible seminar plan pants seated at tables for ease in needs and circumstances. used by J. F. Coltheart, Ministerial taking notes and referring to their secretary of the Northern Europe- Bibles. For an all-day seminar West Africa Division, I often won there must be a place where the When Forming a New dered how this plan might benefit noon meal can be served. Congregation our work in North America. We In one instance the conference have found it most helpful in de purchased a church building from When it is the plan to form the veloping a new congregation in another denomination. The need nucleus of a new congregation areas where we have no church was to move the group of inter from the overflow of an existing or an overcrowded church. ested people from a public audi congregation it is desirable to What is a Bible seminar? It is a torium where the evangelistic meet with this group and give whole day or half day devoted to meetings were held to this church them some guidance in the mat intensive Bible study. (See Pastor building which was to become the ter of how to relate to the new Coltheart's article in The Ministry, new church home for many of Adventist and non-Adventist February, 1970.) Reasons for con them. In another case the con group in the seminar. "After in ducting a seminar may include the ference rented a church building dividuals have been converted to following: from another denomination for the truth, they need to be looked 1. To undergird the public use on Saturdays. In both cases after. . . . These newly converted presentation of the Sabbath or the church building had the nec ones need nursing,—watchful at other controversial doctrines by essary facilities and was the logi tention, help, and encourage fortifying the hearers with addi cal place for the seminar. ment."—Evangelism, p. 351. tional information and answers to The seminar is primarily for non- "God's Spirit convicts sinners of objections. Adventists. It is advertised in the the truth, and He places them in 2. To get people accustomed evangelistic meetings where ap the arms of the church. The to attending a meeting on Sabbath plication forms are available. A fee ministers may do their part, but morning. of a couple of dollars per person they can never perform the work 3. To provide the type of meet is charged to cover food and that the church should do. God ing that will appeal to persons with printed materials. requires His church to nurse strong church loyalties who might those who are young in faith and be unwilling to attend regular How to Begin experience, to go to them, not Adventist church services. for the purpose of gossiping with 4. To provide further indoctrina The first seminar is an all-day them, but to pray, to speak unto tion following an evangelistic Sabbath affair. The day is divided them words that are "like apples crusade. into thirty- and forty-five-minute of gold in pictures of silver."— segments with breaks for dinner Ibid., p. 352. and for fellowship. The evangelist The most effective way to George Knowles is associated with the and the pastor usually share the blend the two groups is to have General Conference Radio, Television, time, taking alternating periods. a few of the established members and Film Center as associate director of It Is Written. He served previously At the close of the all-day seminar from the existing congregation as Ministerial secretary of the Oregon the participants are asked if they make the move each week. This Conference and then of the Canadian enjoyed it and if they would like gives the healthy appearance of Union. another one. They always say Yes. a growing attendance at the sem- 10 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 inar. It also enables the seminar group to get acquainted with the other group a few at a time. An important feature of the seminar that has not yet been mentioned is an informal sharing of how the Lord has led during the week in the lives of different ones. Some will tell of victories gained over tobacco or other habits. Others will tell how a Sabbath work problem has been solved. There may be some who will tell of sharing their new- found faith and witnessing for Jesus. These spontaneous, in formal testimonies are a blessing to all. This is a feature that should not be allowed to die after the seminar becomes a regular Sab bath service.

Integrating the New Believers

A midweek Bible study and prayer meeting will be important in the spiritual life of these new believers. They will outdo the long-time Adventists in attend ance at the midweek meeting. The new believers should be given every encouragement to share their faith. They will pro vide some of the most fruitful prospects for on-the-job train ing. The combination of the zeal of the newly converted with the knowledge of the established members makes for effective teamwork. "Have you ever taken a whole day to do something you really enjoy? To work on a hobby? Co on a picnic? Sure you have! An all-day Bible seminar is taking a whole day to study the Bible. You'll really enjoy it and you'll be amazed how much you'll learn. Most people admit they could stand to make up some lost time in Bible study. "We will learn how to chain mark texts on key Bible subjects so you will be able to find sev eral texts one after another. We'll have a Bible survey that will give you a bird's-eye view of what the Bible's all about." That's about what we say and the people are glad to pay for the privilege of spending all day Sab bath studying the Bible. Perhaps the Bible seminar plan can help you to raise up a new congrega tion. It helped us. D The Challenge

VICENTE Q. TIGNO, JR. he replied candidly, "I never took a coffee break because coffee keeps me awake." The moral of the story one can be in the work 1 HE work of seed sowing is not without really working. The proof "peanuts." The sower has to con of a worker©s honest labor is not tend not only with the temper of in a punch card or in a labor re the elements but with all kinds of port. It is rather in the ultimate unpredictable as well as predict fruit or result. The end product able factors. When the Saviour reveals whether the minister has portrayed the gospel work as seed been working hard or hardly work sowing (Matt. 13:3-8), He was both ing. warning and challenging ministers in every age that their task is no The Enemy©s Tares weekend picnic. In all fairness to the clergy, their Anyone who conceives of the work is beset with "tares" (Matt. minister©s role as sitting on a 13:25), commonly known as pit throne of glory, with every eye falls or occupational hazards. riveted on him, is surely day Every day there are< subtle as well dreaming. True, there will be as overt pressures to which the thrones and crowns (Rev. 5:10) but minister is exposed. Daily contact those will be unpacked after the with the woes and the ups and harvest. Meanwhile, there are only downs of human problems is hard the yoke and the plow (Matt. on the mind and nerves. After all, 11:29; Luke 9:62). And the true the minister is also made of clay. seed sower really strains and Every now and then it is manda sweats. His back is drenched by tory for the minister to "be still" the rain and his skin is scorched (Ps. 46:10), to calmly survey the by the sun. harvest field, and be on the look out for the enemy©s tares such as: In the Work or at Work? a. The Popularity Poll, There is There is a joke about a fellow danger that the minister will who was about to be awarded a measure his performance via a certificate of merit for being the spiritual Gatiup poll. There is a only employee who never took a temptation to subscribe to the single coffee break. Queried about ApoUps; Peter,vor Paul syndrome the secret of his "unusual feat," (1 Cor, 1:11, 12). Elijah is a prime exhibit, first, he vfas up there on the mQuntaintop of -physical and ©yicehte Q. TignO, Jr., is in pastoral emotional achievemesiit, savoring Vsprk in the Southern California Con- the ;::|weet nectar li>Sf.c victory. iference. He is a graduate of Philippine tlnioip";. College, wrtiW graduate studies Momentarily, the ©crowjH;cwas on Ijii^p!^ :«4t;,.,xfe,d£gwS;i:t|i§|gejs£fj£. ,He©©fjas also his side, yelling, "The;iiC*rdylhe is \";seeved,::ifiijpasiajsi work in .me Worth :©©Ph© Bibie- teacher at Philippine Union power and glory on h|s | caused Elijah©s spirit t

euphoric cloud of sheer religious zenith, or noontime," is a com vants in the parable, youth wants ecstasy. But as the weight of mon expression. It is at noontime to snatch up the weeds right now human reality began pressing that the sun reaches its apex and (Matt. 13:27, 28). down upon his soul, the poor emits its brightest rays. In SDA Rightly channeled and under preacher was next found cowering parlance it is called "ceiling." That stood, this youthful and surging under the chilling assault of fear is the point where salarywise and energy will yet light the world and and cynicism and the derisive tenurewise, the minister has at set the machinery of progress mockery of a deflated ego tained the maximum. whirling! (chap. 19). This is all excellent except when The minister must constantly noontime becomes an occasion The Good Earth remind himself that as there were for destruction (Ps. 91:6). The gdjfferent types of soil in the par- destruction comes when the It is refreshing to realize that Sifele of the sower and each sample minister succumbs to the on the parable of the sower did not ?a||e|ded a different result, so con- slaught of mental and spiritual end with the thorny ground and are often variable and inertia. That is the juncture where the parable of the tares did not are, often unpredictable. the process of growth grinds to conclude with the weeds. For is a shaky yardstick a standstill. In sports vocabulary, every "wayside" or "stony achievement. Today©s the man is no longer a "hungry" ground" or "thorny place" there might just be the fighter. He merely goes through is a "good ground" that yields a © a "crucifixion" on ©the,-; :|he motions of survival, his "hundredfold." Good seed is csermoos become stale reruns, really never wasted! In the time gi - !: church atmosphere turns: of the harvest there will be abun- b. ©TJjtsjJQuest for Perfect Con- ;dant "wheat." ditionsfify^te in a while, ministers with spiritual complacency, the tci|mpet has lost its distinctive ; ;There will be times, though, like othfefpepple, indulge in some when; the sky darkens, the light- form of wjihftil thinking. "If only note^gnd the poor man staggers amid "every wind of doctrine" ninjg ||ashes, the thunder booms, I had a lafger budget, an affluent © and t;fe? minister buries his face congregation^© ultramodern facili Would to,; God that every SDA in mcintentary discouragement. ties, the proper connections, the There wt|j;be moments when he gift of spellbinding oratory, or minister may be found after the fashion of;;:Moses, that great will be ^©lempted to question a striking personality headlines whether hrS©wdrk is worth all that would be made and marvelous preacher of Cod, who found even at his sunset years that "his eye effort. There:: "vtfill. be occasions things accomplished!" But alas, he when the noise of the "rebels" is jolted back from his reverie and was not dim, nor his natural force abated" (Deut. 34:7). By the grace and the "mixed multitude" will into the stark realization that all goad him to strike the rock in a fit he has is the common garden of his Lord, he didn©t allow the "destruction that wasteth at noon of anger and frustration. There will variety, which "to day is, and to be instances when he reaches the morrow is cast ©into the oven" day" to decimate his physical and spiritual stature. point of pulling out the "weeds" (Matt, 6:30). abruptly. Again, the parable teaches that d. The Impatience of But when he ;raises his head there are no perfect -conditions perience. This is specifically again and snaps but of the fog, and "he that observeth the wind applicable to young and budding his eyes dilate in wonder and shall nbV sow" (Eccl. 11:4). The ministers. Youth is impatient for amazement as he sees before him "f sower must "preach the word; . . . tomorrow. Policies are mere a golden field of waving grain in season,; out of seasph" (2 Tim. "thorns in the flesh." Committees ready for the harvest! r4:2). ; . ", ©<. ©-©: © : © ;. . are often made up c?f a bunch : At last he remembers with holy c. The Destruction That Wastettt of arthritic "mothballs" - whose joy that Paul planted, "Apollos 7M Noonday. Noontime is syjfnbolic lengthy deliberations delay ,; the watered; but God gave the of success. "He has reached ©.-his march to progress. Like the; Ser increase" (1 Cor. 3:6). D A regular feature sponsored by Siegiried H. Horn.

LAWRENCE T. GERATY being Siegfried H. Horn's article, much to the elevation of the site "High Place," in the SDA Bible but rather to denote the entire Dictionary. 1 In this treatment, we installation wherever it was propose to look first at the Biblical located. evidence; then the archeological The Pre-Monarchical Period evidence will be dealt with. The earliest chronological ref VJENERATIONS of Bible stu Etymology of "High Place" erence to such high places is found dents have puzzled over the in the Amorite victory song unfamiliar practices associated The English term, "high place," of Heshbon (Num. 21:28), "A fire with the "high places" mentioned is a translation of the Hebrew went forth from Heshbon, A flame in the Old Testament. What were word, bamah. The Hebrews un from the city of Sihon. It con they and where were they located? doubtedly borrowed the word (as sumed the cities of Moab, En What really went on in mountain- well as the installation) from the gulfed the high places of Arnon." 3 top "groves"? What were the Canaanites, who in turn derived it It was undoubtedly from a similar "asherim"? Were the "pillars" from the common Semitic vocabu high place that Balak and Balaam phallic symbols? Tourists to the lary where (in Akkadian and surveyed the camp of Israel (Num. Holy Land in our own generation Ugaritic) it meant literally, "back," 22:41; cf. Joshua 13:17), during are often fascinated by sites such or "ridge." It is now recognized their passage through Moab. To as Petra and Gezer. When they that it could have the same literal ward the end of Israel's existence, recount their experiences, either meaning in Hebrew. Among the these Moabite high places still in family circles or public meet nearly one hundred occurrences of existed (Isa. 15:2; 16:12; Jer. ings, they often illustrate their bamah in the Hebrew Old Testa 48:35). Just before the Israelites visits to such sites with their ment, at least a dozen of them are crossed over the Jordan to Jericho personal slides and commentary best understood in this literal from the Plains of Moab, Yahweh borrowed from innovative guides. sense. Interestingly enough, each warned Moses of the high places What accurate information do we of these examples occurs in in Cis-Jordan, "You shall dis have concerning the ancient high poetry. 2 possess all the land's occupants place? Prose Usage as you go, and destroy all their No recent comprehensive study carved stones and all their molten exists, though there are several In the majority of Old Testament images . . . and all their high good brief articles in various Bible (mostly prose) occurrences, how places" (Num. 33:52; cf. Deut. dictionaries—one of the best still ever, bamah is correctly translated 7:5).4 by a meaning derived from the Apparently it was what went on original, "back" or "ridge." The at the Canaanite "high places" Lawrence T. Ceraty is professor of term was first applied to the that was proscribed to Israel rather Old Testament Studies at Andrews summits of either natural or than the use of such sites them University. He holds the M.A. and artificial hills or mounds, which selves. At least this is the implica B.D. degrees from Andrews University were set aside for cultic purposes. tion derived from one of the sanc and the Ph.D. from Harvard Univer As the cult at these open air sites tions at the end of the so-called sity. His ministry began with pastoral became more institutionalized, work in the Southeastern California "Holiness Code" in Leviticus Conference. He has participated in shrines were sometimes built 26:30, where Yahweh says, "If you four archeological excavations as a and operated by cultic function don't obey me, then I will destroy field supervisor and was a Fulbright aries. The designation "high your high places, and knock down Fellow to the Middle East, 1970-1971. place" then came to refer not so your incense altars, and throw

Part I The "High Place" in 14 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 your corpses on the memorial dom, Jeroboam I, too, built high and Chronicles include Rehoboam, stelae of your idols, and my spirit places in the north. To prevent Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Je- will loathe you." In any case, the his subjects worshiping at Jerusa hoash, Amaziah, Azariah or Uz- high place seems to have survived lem where he would run the risk ziah, Jotham, and Ahaz. Though as a legitimate site for sacrifice of losing their political alligiance Asa and Jehoshaphat apparently and worship in Israel until, ideally, as well, he encouraged shrines made some effort to stem the tide, the building of Solomon's temple complete with illegitimate priests the first real reform is attributed (1 Kings 3:2, 3), but, in practice, at the local high places, setting up to Hezekiah, who destroyed the till the reforms of Hezekiah (2 calves as pedestals for Yahweh at high places and their appurte Kings 18) and Josiah (2 Kings 23). Dan and Bethel (1 Kings 12:31, nances throughout the land and 32; 13:33). This activity resulted in attempted to centralize the cult The United Monarchy an oracle from an unnamed in Jerusalem. The reform was Judean prophet predicting the short-lived, however, because his Three Israelite high places are overthrow by Josiah of the shrines son, Manasseh, rebuilt the high mentioned by name in connection with their altars at the northern places, equipping them with the with permissible worship: Ramah high places (verses 2, 32). Much customary altars and Asherim. (modern er-Ram) and Gibeath- later, Amos prophesied the des Jeremiah 7:31 (cf. chap. 19:5) adds elohim (Tell el-Ful) both figure olation of these high places that they built the high place of in the account of Saul's quest for (Amos 7:9), and the Bethel high Topheth in the valley of Ben-Hin- Sa'muel in 1 Samuel 9 and 10. place was especially singled out nom, where they sacrificed their Both David and Solomon patron by Hosea as deserving of con children by fire. Obviously, by ized the high place at Gibeon demnation (Hosea 10:8; cf. chap. now "high place" had lost its con (modern el-Jib, though the actual 4:13). In summary, 2 Kings 17:9-12 notation of "height" and connoted high place was very possibly the attributes the fall of the northern instead the standard cultic in nearby Nabi Samwil or the tradi kingdom and the Israelites' stallation. After the captivity, con tional tomb of Samuel) where at captivity in Assyria to the fact that version, and restoration of Ma the "tent of meeting" the priestly "they built themselves high places nasseh, the people continued to family of Zadok sacrificed on an in all their cities . . . and set them sacrifice at the high places, but altar and Solomon burned in selves up pillars and Asherim on only to Yahweh. This reform, too, cense (1 Chron. 16:39; 21:29; 1 every high hill and under every was a fleeting one. It was left to Kings 3:2-4; 2 Chron. 1:3, 13). All flourishing tree and they burned Josiah to effect reforms that would three of the sites are in Benja incense there at all the high places really make an impact on the na min just north of Jerusalem. just as the nations whom Yahweh tion. He purged all the high Neither Ramah nor Nabi Samwil removed from before them; and places from Samaria in the north have been excavated. Though they did evil things . . . and served to Beersheba in the south (includ Gibeah was partially excavated by idols." Even during the exile, ing the Bethel high place in ful Albright and Lapp, only an Israelite however, the high places had their fillment of prophecy), destroying fortress was found. devotees because the Assyrians their altars, incense stands, But Solomon supported not only settled foreigners in the territory Asherim, pillars, carved and the worship of Yahweh, for on the of the northern kingdom who molten images, and slaughtering hill opposite Jerusalem, he built repopulated the high places with their priests. Again, as prophets high places to Chemosh of the priests to officiate in their shrines looked back over the history of Moabites, Molech or Milcom of (2 Kings 17:29-32). Israel, the high places were con the Ammonites, and Astarte of the stantly adduced as primary evi Sidonians (1 Kings 11:7, 8; 2 Kings The Southern Kingdom dence for Yahweh's displeasure 23:13). If not before, then cer with His chosen people (Ps. 78: tainly now, high places became In the meantime, the kingdom 58; Eze. 16:16; 20:28, 29). associated with traditions and of Judah was not free from the practices that tended to degrade same syncretistic practices that Deities Worshiped at High Places Israelite religion. helped to bring the downfall of the north. In the reign of most of The Northern Kingdom the kings, high places were built Though the worship of Yahweh and their cults patronized; those appeared to predominate in many With the division of the king specifically mentioned in Kings periods of Israel's history, syn- Biblical Archeology AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 15 cretistic tendencies were usually present and often fostered by what went on at the high places. Among the other deities wor shiped there was Baal (Jer. 19:5; 32:35), the storm god bringing fertility to the land of the Canaan- ites. His proper name was Hadad, though he was popularly referred to as Baal, meaning "lord." Later he was identified with Greek Zeus Helios (the sun) who in turn was identified with the Roman Jupiter. Child sacrifice by fire, undoubt edly for votive offerings, was prac ticed in his cult. 1 Kings 11:5-8; 2 Kings 23:13 mention the worship of Chemosh, Milcom or Molech, and Ashtoreth. The latter was the chief Semitic fertility goddess who was wor shiped throughout the ancient East, though in Mesopotamia, where she was also an astral deity,5 she was called Ishtar. Later she was identified with Greek Aphrodite and Roman Venus. Palestinian excavations often pro duce images of Ashtoreth that de pict her as a nude woman with her sexual features accentuated; these artifacts are usually referred to as Astarte figurines or plaques (Astarte being the Greek trans literation of Ashtoreth), though it is now thought that this is often a misnomer for archaic figures which actually represented Ash- erah, the supreme Canaanite mother goddess whose memory was obliterated in the Iron Age PHOTO BY ORLEY M. BERG The High Place at Gezer. through the spread of Ishtar's cult due to Mesopotamian influence. Chemosh was the name or prob nunciations from the prophets would then serve the purpose of ably the title of the god of the (Hosea 4:13, 14; Isa. 57:3-10; Jer. being some kind of a reminder. Moabites which (in line 17 of the 3:2; 1 Kings 14:24). From the Biblical point of view, Moabite Stone) is compounded the practice was both permitted with Athtar, the astral deity. Again, Features of a Typical High Place (Gen. 28:18; 31:45-52; Ex. 24:4) Molech or Milcom is probably not and denounced (Deut. 16:22; the name but the title of the na From such references as Leviti 2 Kings 23), depending, of course, tional god of Ammon. From Judges cus 26:30; Numbers 33:52; Deu on the purpose for setting up the 11:24 in the context of Jephtha's teronomy 12:2, 3; 1 Kings 14:23; stone. Though these stones have words to the King of Ammon it is and Ezekiel 6:3-6, we may identify been variously interpreted as apparent that these two deities the essential features of a typical phallic symbols, sacred abodes were actually one. Both, then, bamah which was usually (though of animistic spirits, and idols or were local manifestations of the not always) situated on the representations of deity, a com astral deity, the Venus star, Athtar. wooded heights of a hill or moun prehensive new study of standing Demons as well as deities were tain. stones by Carl F. Graesser, Jr., worshiped at certain high places Standing stones (Heb. masse- suggests that they normally per (2 Kings 23:8). bot, singular massebah, usually form one of four different func In general, one detects a strong translated "pillar") were com tions: 7 1. Memorial, to mark the interest in fertility and the repro monly associated with the high memory of a dead person or the ductive powers of nature at the places. Etymologically, a masse position of his grave (2 Sam. 18:18; high places, and of course it was bah could be any stone that is Gen. 35:20); 2. Legal, to mark a this that called forth strong de- "set up" 6 ; its unnatural position legal relationship between two or

16 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 more individuals, such as bound usually translated as "sun statues" its derivation is uncertain, it is ary and treaty stones (Deut. or, as in the King James Version, usually translated "idols"; 5. mas- 19:4; 27:17; Gen. 31:45-52; Ex. "images." Known from excava kit (plural, maskiyyot), perhaps 24:4; Joshua 24:26, 27); 3. Com tions as small limestone altars with from skh, "to look out" and usu memorative, to commemorate an a "horn" or projection at each ally translated, "carved stone." event and especially to call to corner, their identification was mind its participants (1 Sam. 7:12; finally assured by the appearance Summary 15:12); 4. Cultic, to mark the sa of the word itself on an example To summarize what can be said cred area where the deity might be from Palmyra. 11 Thus the meaning about the high place from the found or even the exact point "incense altar" suits the etymology Bible, we noted that the poetic where the deity is cultically im from the verb, "to be hot, burn," usage of bamah was very close to manent—that is, where worship quite nicely. its etymological derivation as and sacrifice will reach the deity Another essential feature of the "back" or "ridge," but that its (2 Kings 3:2; 10:26, 27; Gen. 28: typical bamah was the 'asherah meaning in prose usage devel 16-18; 35:14). Naturally, the (plural, 'asherim, a term that has oped from "natural or artificial standing stones erected at the high been translated by a variety of height," to include the entire cul- places were most closely associ words, including "grove" and tic installation on that height and ated with this last function. As "sacred pole." Avoiding the prob later, to wherever it was, without Graesser further notes, "Cultic lem altogether, the Revised Stand reference to elevation. Bor stones had a special tendency to ard Version just transliterates rowed initially from the Canaan- assume transferred functions so the term. It has been the subject ites, high places were frequented that for many these stones 'en of a thorough study by William L. throughout the history of Israel— abled' or 'effected' the deity's Reed, 12 who has clarified a num both in the service of Yahweh, as presence." 8 That is why certain ber of difficulties. Basically, 'ashe well as in the service of the dei Biblical writers could consider rah refers either to the proper ties of the surrounding peoples. standing stones to be a variety name for the Canaanite goddess Features of a typical high place of idols (Lev. 26:1; Micah 5:13). of vegetation (the female counter included standing stones, me At times, massebot may even have part of Baal) or the cult object that morial stones, altars for sacrifice been set up to serve as surrogates symbolized her. The latter was and burning incense, cult objects for worshipers themselves who usually found at the high places symbolizing 'Asherah (the mother wished to be continually repre dedicated to Baal (Judges 3:7; goddess of Canaan), along with sented before their deity at the 6:30; 1 Kings 16:32, 33; 2 Kings several other types of images. "high place." 9 23:5, 6). Unfortunately, the form Next month we will take a look at of the cult object and its use at Another object common to the the archeological evidence that the high place is not described high places was the peger (plural, illustrates the Biblical data. D pegarim), usually translated in the Bible, nor has any object To be continued "corpse." There is no doubt that been found in an excavation that one meaning for peger is "corpse" can be confidently called an FOOTNOTES but how such a meaning related 'asherah. But from a study of the Biblical references to the object 1 Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Pub. to the bamah has been enigmatic Assn., 1960, pp. 468-470. till the word peger itself was found it is clear that it was both con 2 2 Sam. 1:19, 25; Micah 3:12; |er. 26:18; Isa. structed and destroyed by man. 14:14; Job 9:8; Amos 4:13; Micah 1:3; Deut. on two Ugaritic stone stelae re 32:13; 33:29; isa. 58:14; Ps. 18:33; 2 Sam. 22: cording a sacrifice to Dagon. David Though it was not a tree it was up 34; Hab. 3:19. 3 The translation is that of P. D. Hanson in Nieman suggests the word refers right and made of wood, or at "The Song of Heshbon and David's Nir," Harvard to the stones themselves and that least contained wood, and could Theological Review 61:3 (July, 1968), pp. 300, 301, 306, 307. In textually corrupt verse 30, Hanson it appears with this meaning in be burned. Reed suggests that as also suggests, "Desolated are the high places of in the case of Dagon (1 Sam. Chemosh." Such high places are known to have such Biblical passages as Ezekiel existed later (in the ninth century B.C.) from 43:7, 9, and Leviticus 26:30. 10 This 5:2-4), it is probable that the cult line 3 of the famous Moabite Stone (Mesha* object—in this case a wooden one Stele): "I made this high place for Chemosh." suggestion allows us to include 4 Translations are directly from the Hebrew "memorial stones" or "stelae" —was an image of the fertility text if not otherwise indicated. goddess, 'Asherah. 13 5 As such, she was undoubtedly the female among the cult objects to be counterpart of the male astral deity, Athtar. found at the "high place." 6 Since it derives from the verb nsb, "to set Finally, there are the various up, erect." Two kinds of altars are often types of images associated with 1 C. F. Craesser, Jr., "Standing Stones in An cient Palestine," Biblical Archaeologist XXXV:2 mentioned in connection with the the high places: 1. pesel (plural, (May, 1972), pp. 34-63. high places. The word mizbeah pesilim), derived from the verb 8 Ibid., p. 37. 9 S. Eugene Stockton, "Stones at Worship," is the commonest designation for psl, "to hew," and usually trans Australian journal of Biblical Archaeology I:3 "altar" in the Old Testament. De lated "graven image"; 2. masse- (1970), pp. 59, 81. 10 D. Nieman, "PCR: A Canaanite Cult-Object rived from the verb, "to sacrifice," kah (plural, massekot), derived in the Old Testament," JBL LXVII (1948), pp. 55-60. it does not further specify the from the verb nsk, "to pour out," 11 G. E. Wright, " 'Sun-Image' or 'Altar of In type of sacrifice made on it. and usually translated "molten cense'?" Biblical Archaeologist 1:2 (May, 1938), pp. 9, 10. Hammanim (a plural) were also image;" 3. selem, (plural, sela- 12 W. L. Reed, The Asherah in the Old Testa altars, but a type used exclusively mim), derived from the verb slm, ment (Forth Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1949), a study which he conveniently sum for the burning of incense at the "to cut," but usually translated marized in "Asherah," The Interpreter's Dic high places. Till fifty years ago, merely "image"; 4. gillulim ap tionary of the Bible, Vol. I (New York: Abingdon, 1962), pp. 250-252. this term was misunderstood and pears only in the plural; though 13 Ibid., p. 251.

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HOLY which the Lord has not advised the terms made by the leading nor instituted? workers, they will not entertain The Lord does not ask permis them, they do not care what sion of those in responsible posi results may follow their injustice. SPIRIT tions when He wishes to use With them it is rule or ruin. God certain ones as His agents for the has not appointed any man to do Part II promulgation of truth. But He will such work. And no human being use whom He will use. He will shall be permitted to prescribe my ELLEN G. WHITE pass by men who have not fol liberty or intrench upon the per lowed His counsel, men who feel fect freedom of my brethren, capable and sufficient to work in without hearing my voice lifted in their own wisdom; and He will protest against it. VJOD has not appointed any use others who are thought by God will move upon men of man guide, nor made any man these supposedly wise ones to be humble position in society, men conscience for another; therefore wholly incompetent. Many who who have not become insensible let human hands be withheld from have some talent think that they to the bright rays of light through restraining His servants who feel are necessary to the cause of God. so long contemplating the light of the burden to enter His vineyard Let them beware lest they stretch truth, and refusing to make any to labor. Let God work with His themselves beyond their measure, improvement or advancement own chosen agents by His Holy and the Lord shall leave them in therein. Many such will be seen Spirit. No human being is to sit their own ways, to be filled with hurrying hither and thither, con in judgment upon his brother. their own doings. None are to strained by the Spirit of God to Neither are any to feel that they exercise their human authority to bring the light to others. The can handle roughly the precious bind the minds and souls of their truth, the word of God, is as a fire pearls for which Christ gave His fellow-men. They are not to devise in their bones, filling them with a life. and put in practice methods and burning desire to enlighten those The pearl, the precious human plans to bring every individual un who sit in darkness. Many, even pearl, was found by Christ. Let der their jurisdiction. among the uneducated, now pro man be warned; be careful how Those who know the truth are claim the words of the Lord. you treat the Lord's "peculiar to be worked by the Holy Spirit, Children are impelled by the treasure." All discourtesy, all and not themselves to try to work Spirit to go forth and declare the pain, all neglect, which these the Spirit. If the cords are drawn message from Heaven. The Spirit souls suffer at your hands, is much tighter, if the rules are made is poured out upon all who will charged against you as inflicted much finer, if men continue to yield to its promptings, and, upon Jesus Christ. They are not to bind their fellow-laborers closer casting off all man's machinery, his be treated in a lordly, command and closertothecommandmentsof binding rules and cautious meth ing manner. men, many will be stirred by the ods, they will declare the truth Laws and rules are being made Spirit of God to break every with the might of the Spirit's at the centers of the work that will shackle, and assert their liberty in power. Multitudes will receive the soon be broken into atoms. Men Christ Jesus. If men would act faith and join the armies of the are not to dictate. It is not for toward their fellow-men as to Lord. those in places of authority to those whom Christ loves, if they Many of those who are pro employ all their powers to sustain would obey the commandment to fessedly followers of the Lord at some, while others are cast down, "love thy neighbor as thyself," the present time do not submit ignored, forsaken, and left to there would be sweet harmony themselves to the guidance of perish. But it is the duty of the among the brethren. His Spirit, but try to harness up leaders to lend a helping hand to How much better it would be if the Holy Spirit, and drive it in their all who are in need. those who claim to be Christians way. All such must abandon their Let each work in the line which would behave like Christians. How self-sufficiency, and yield them God may indicate to him by His much better it would be if all selves unreservedly to the Lord, Holy Spirit. The soul is account would cease speaking of their own that He may work out His good able to God alone. Who can say good works and ways, indulging pleasure in and through them. how many avenues of light have their self-esteem; refrain from the The seven last plagues are about been closed by arrangements putting forth of the finger, im to descend upon the disobedient. agining evil, and using their in Many have let the gospel invita This article was first published in the fluence to weaken, oppress, and tion go unheeded; they have been Review and Herald, July 23, 1895. destroy. If men will not come to tested and tried; but mountainous

18 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 obstacles have seemed to loom up sufficiency is of God." The scheme Let man now cease to trust in before their faces, blocking their of salvation is not to be worked man. While they should respect onward march. Through faith, out under the laws and rules God's plan for unity of action, let perseverance, and courage, many specified by men. There must be all remember that the Holy Spirit will surmount these obstructions no fixed rules; our work is a is molding and fashioning the hu and walk out into the glorious progressive work, and there must man agent in the divine similitude. light. Almost unconsciously bar be room left for methods to be The life that is hid with Christ in riers have been erected in the improved upon. But under the God is revealed through men. We strait and narrow way; stones of guidance of the Holy Spirit, unity are now living in the closing stumbling have been placed in the must and will be preserved. scenes of this world's history. Let path; these will all be rolled away. All the revelations of the past men tremble with the sense of the The safeguards which false bring added responsibilities upon responsibility of knowing the shepherds have thrown around the workers in these last days. The truth. The ends of the world are their flocks will become as naught; past, present, and future are come. Proper consideration of thousands will step out into the linked together. We must learn these things will lead all to make light, and work to spread the lessons from the experiences of an entire consecration of all that light. Heavenly intelligences will other ages. they have and are to their God. combine with the human agencies. If there are any of our brethren There should be no boasting, no Thus encouraged, the church will who think that they have devised seeking for the highest places; but indeed arise and shine, throwing plans by which they can secure a all should be ambitious to do with all her sanctified energies into monopoly of any line of God's fidelity, with an eye single to the the contest; thus the design of work, they are released from all glory of God, the sacred work God is accomplished; the lost such burdens. Individually we which it is our exalted privilege to pearls are recovered. Prophets form a part of the great whole, engage in. The eye should not be have discerned this grand work fulfilling our part in the scenes so constantly looking to man, afar off, and have caught the forseen long ages ago. In the studying the plans which men inspiration of the hour, and traced counsels of God a place was as devise; but rather seeking for a the wonderful descriptions of signed to every person, and each knowledge of the plans which are things yet to be. one is to devote his entire ability, determined by the Source of all Our people have had great light, his influence, the energy of his wisdom. Then there will be no and yet much of our ministerial whole being, in an earnest en danger of having plans for the force is exhausted on the deavor to discharge the respon work contaminated by flowing churches, in teaching those who sibility laid upon him. It is the duty through impure human channels. should be teachers; enlightening of every human intelligence to put Look to God; pray to God; wait those who should be "the light into daily practice the instructions and watch and pray to God; work of the world;" watering those of Christ in the seventeenth chap for God. The weighty obligation from whom should flow springs ter of John by living a practical, of warning a world of its coming of living water; enriching those Christian life. doom is upon us. From every who might be veritable mines of We are to be united to one direction, far and near, calls are precious truth; repeating the another in the bonds of Christlike coming to us for help. The church, gospel invitation to such as should love. This is the path marked out devotedly consecrated to the be scattered to the uttermost parts for all. By following in it, without work, is to carry the message to of the earth communicating the boasting, without self-exaltation, the world: Come to the gospel message of Heaven to many who we may satisfy the high claims of feast; the supper is prepared, have not had the privileges which God upon us. If any are inclined come. The weak must not now they have enjoyed; feeding those to boast of their superior talents, trust in finite men if they would who should be in the byways and let them bear in mind that these be as David, and David as the an highways heralding the invitation, talents are another's, only lent to gel of the Lord. If we have ever "Come; for all things are now them for a season, and that if they importuned God, wrestling for ready." Come to the gospel feast; are not employed in the Lord's His blessing as did Jacob, let it come to the supper of the Lamb; work, they will be taken from be now. "for all things are now ready." them. Make no boasts of your ex God calls to the church to arise Now is the time for earnest tensive knowledge and influence. and clothe herself with the gar wrestling with God. Our voices The great plan of redemption ments of Christ's righteousness. should join with the Saviour's in connects every man with his fel Crowns, immortal crowns, are to that wonderful prayer: "Thy king low-laborer. The influence of the be won. The kingdom of heaven dom come. Thy will be done in past helps to mold the work of the is to be gained. A world, perishing earth, as it is in heaven." Let the present, and that in its turn en in sin, is to be enlightened. The whole earth be filled with His ables us to lay hold of the work lost pearl is to be found. The lost glory. Many may ask, "Who is line after line, upon which we may sheep is to be brought back in safety to the fold. Who will join sufficient for these things?" The carry on the future work. All these in the search? Who will bear the responsibility rests upon every agencies have a close relation, light to those who are wandering individual. "Not that we are not only to time, but to the end in the darkness of error? D sufficient of ourselves to think less ages of the future, reaching anything as of ourselves; but our into eternity. Concluded AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 19 Last month the four principal bases for 24-27 shows that many of the key scholars' rejection of the authenticity of terms found therein are dupli an early dating of the book of Daniel were cated in the prayer of the prophet given. Then we examined the interpreta tion given by those who favor the late, or which precedes (e.g., desolations, Maccabeah, dating. Now we continue city, Jerusalem, transgression, with the critique. sins, iniquity, covenant, right 2. Our second criticism is that eousness, sanctuary). This gives the time periods just do not fit the weight to the presumption that the events suggested by the propo word translated "destroy" means nents of the Maccabean dating. precisely that, for the words of We do not need to argue this Gabriel concern the content of Daniel's previous entreaty. point at length for all interpreters admit the fact. If the seventy Christ, Not Onias III weeks of years commence in 605 B.C. or alternatively in 538 B.C. 4. The great theme of the pas neither the terminus of the 69 sage is Christ and His kingdom, weeks or of the 70 coincides with not antichrist in the form of An the time of Antiochus. The gap tiochus or anyone else. While does not consist of a few years verse 25 literally speaks of "an only but on any calculation in anointed one, a prince," its con volves at least the greater part of a text shows that One who is to be century. For example, we read both an anointed priest and king Part II from one typical expositor: "The is the one who implements the 62 weeks of years, or 434 years, grand promises of the immedi . . . are too many by far; from 538 ately preceding lines, and does to 171 (the next date) is only 367 DESMOND FORD so by being "cut off." This same years." Messiah the Prince "confirm[s] It hardly seems enough to say, the covenant with many for one as is usually suggested, that week." The term "covenant" in knowledge of chronology in the Daniel always applies to a divine Maccabean era was exceedingly arrangement, never a human fragmentary. The same interpre agreement, unless this is the ex ters urge that the intimate knowl ception. Furthermore the Hebrew edge of events displayed by the end of the war desolations are de does not use the usual expres eleventh chapter indicates that termined." In other words the city sion "cut a covenant" but rather the record was written after those is to lie in ruins, and the sanc employs a term meaning "to con events. If then the writer had such tuary likewise. This did not tran firm." Thus the covenant is one intimate knowledge of what had spire in the days of Antiochus. already in existence. The expres happened in the centuries prior In response to this criticism it sion "many" is possibly an allu to Antiochus, was it only in the is usually urged that the Hebrew sion to the "many" spoken of in area of chronology that his knowl word Shachath here translated Isaiah 53, who are to be made edge failed him? This is a possible "destroy" can also mean "cor righteous by the Servant of Yah- situation indeed, but hardly a rupt." The observation is legiti weh. Scholars recognize that likely one. mate, but its application in this Daniel often quotes from the gos Destruction Forecast, Then place is not, because of the ensu pel prophet and this is probably Restoration ing reference to "desolations," one such instance. 2 i.e., ruins. Furthermore, parallel Rejection of the passage as ap 3. The twenty-sixth verse of passages in chapters 8 and 11 use plying to Christ demands an alter chapter 9 forecasts (or apparently terms descriptive of physical vio native position of merit. What is so) the destruction of the city and lence. 1 offered? The usual interpreta the sanctuary as by an overwhelm The context of this passage, tion is that Onias 111 is here ing flood. Even if the latter figure Daniel's prayer, revolves around spoken of. However, at the time is applied to the fate of the in the theme of the ruined city, and of his death Onias III was not a vader there can be no dodging the hope of the pious for its res high priest. Thus he could not be the ensuing words that "unto the toration. A close study of verses spoken of as "the anointed one"

20 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 unless by retrospect. His priest the very event so foretold. Christ in the final act of the cosmic drama seen in hood had ceased years earlier. even uses one of the key words of the book of Daniel. . . . For the import of this solemn declaration by Jesus it is im Similarly, he could hardly be Daniel, "understand" (found material whether the author of Daniel viewed as a prince or king of his over a score of times in the Old lived about 600 B.C. under Jehoiakim in people at the time of his assassina Testament book)—which in its the Babylonian exile, as he says himself, tion. In addition it should be Hebrew equivalent is present in or whether the book was written in the first the prophecy of Daniel 9 (see half of the second century B.C. in the days noted that the Maccabean record of Antiochus Epiphanes. The truth of the of the death of Onias shows Anti- verse 23). (To say, as many do, prophecy does not depend on when it was ochus in an unusually favorable that "let him . . . understand" first announced.5 light. He is represented as being belongs to a parenthesis inserted We may not agree with Heim's upset by the crime, rather than by Mark, is to suggest that this second to last sentence, but we glorying in it. 3 instance is unique in the Gospel would not quarrel with the rest. 5. Many have recognized that record. Nowhere else in the So much for the Maccabean in the narrative sections of Daniel Synoptic tradition do we find terpretation of Daniel 9 and the cast light on the meaning of the Christ's word's thus interrupted alternative Messianic under visions.4 In this instance the ac by commentary.) standing. It is acknowledged that companying narrative presents a There can be no denying that we have not taken the space in righteous prophet who loves his Christ Himself had meditated on this brief refutation to argue every sinful people, interceding for the very passage that now con point that can emerge in a dis them and imputing their sins to cerns us and He did not associate cussion in this area, but we have himself. He pleads for forgive it with the times of Antiochus but endeavored to indicate where the ness and restoration, the fulfill rather projected it to the future. weight of evidence lies. The in ment of the covenant promises. Karl Heim's words regarding the terpretation criticized is ad It is readily seen how this con use of Daniel made by Christ are mittedly, to quote a Maccabean text suits a messianic interpreta particularly pertinent to our study proponent, "a dismal swamp." tion of the prophetic passage of chapter 9:24-27. The alternative is a paradisiac which succeeds the prayer. But it The reply that Jesus gave the High Priest bed of lilies. nowise fits an interpretation that at this moment pregnant of destiny con views Antiochus Epiphanes as the tained in concise form a view into the fu The Four Kingdoms central figure of fulfillment. ture which is of the greatest import. For hereby Jesus clearly confessed himself to be the "son of man" prophesied in the Let us now attend to the exegesis Christ©s Interpretation book of Daniel, that is to say, the Man in which views the four kingdoms of 6. Christ Himself interpreted whom after the end of the four Empires Daniel as Babylon, Media, Persia, (which all have an animal character) true this passage in the only lengthy humanity will fulfill itself and the kingdom and Greece. The following points discourse on prophetic matters will be established. . . . The most impor summarize our case. found in the Gospels. A multitude tant point about this is that at least in its 1. The second century dating of commentators have recog main features Jesus accepts the vision of of the book postulates successive the future of the world given by Daniel. Median and Persian empires, in nized that Christ's Olivet sermon For He solemnly adopts the principal part is based upon Daniel 9:24-27. This the thinking of the author of Dan is the only place in Daniel where iel, but the book itself reveals no the reference to the abomination such belief. Indeed, it shows the of desolation is clearly linked opposite. with the destruction of the Holy In both the historical and pro City. Note the following words HIGH GOALS phetic sections of the book Medo- from Christ: Persia is shown as a dual em "Seest thou these great build You 've hee rd the story of the man pire. In the word play of chapter ings? there shall not be left one Chased by the angry bear. 5:28 the significant word is peres, stone upon another, that shall not Escape his angry claws—his plan indicating that Babylon was to be be thrown down." "When ye To go—he knew not where. succeeded by a power predomi shall see the abomination of deso nantly Persian, not Median. And Before him loomed a sturdy tree lation, spoken of by Daniel the With overhanging limb. in the next chapter we find Darius prophet, standing where it ought This limb—it seemed too high to be. the Mede bound by the law of the not, (let him that readeth under To reach it, hopes were dim. Medes and Persians (see chap. stand,) then let them that be in 6:8, 12, 15). For the same view Judaea flee to the mountains. . . . The charging bear was catching up! point in the prophetic section we For in those days shall be afflic Our man was judgment bound. have chapter 8:20—one animal tion, such as was not from the be He missed that tree limb going up, with two horns. ginning of the creation which God But caught it coming down. Because after Cyrus the rulers created unto this time, neither of the Medo-Persian realm were The point is clear for all to see; shall be" (Mark 13:2, 14-19). Persians it is naturally spoken of Our goals may seem too high. subsequently as the Persian king Christ did not say that the events The Spirit's power will set us free— of which He spoke would be an We'll reach it on the fly. dom but the writer never speaks extra later fulfillment of Daniel's of a separate Median empire. words. But that spoken of by Dan —E. E. CLEVELAND 2. The symbolism itself strongly iel the prophet is here intended— supports the traditional interpre- AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 21 tation. The ram in its clumsy empire we find its distinctive fea gruous indeed to affirm that the firmness has an affinity with the ture in the ten horns, from among four horns of the eighth chapter bear, just as the he-goat which which another little horn emerges, signify the kingdoms that were touched not the ground is remi plucking up three of the ten. How contemporaneous after Alexan niscent of the same agility in the does the Maccabean theory of der's reign and yet also hold that fleet leopard with four wings authorship explain this? It is con the ten horns of the fourth beast spoken of in the preceding chap tended that the Syrian kings are in the preceding chapter represent ter. And if the he-goat and the represented by the horns and ten successive kings of a single leopard represent the identical various enumerations are offered kingdom. power of Greece, the whole Mac- in support. We would not quarrel 7. In addition, the drastic re cabean view disintegrates. with the contrasting lists, for the striction of the meaning of the Similarly, the same concept is traditional interpretation has horns of the fourth beast of conveyed by the bear that raised these also. The significant point Daniel 7 to the territory of Syria itself in order to show two sides, is that none of the lists actually alone, after granting the uni and the ram likewise with its two present us with ten kings but usu versal nature of the dominion of horns indicated the same truth. ally offer us aspirants to the throne the beast possessing the horns, Even a child can readily recognize to make up the number. Ptolemy is a strange exegesis. We would the parallelism of the symbolism. IV and Demetrius Soter are in expect rather that the ten horns In each portrayal the symbol for this category. The three plucked pointed to ten divisions of the the power succeeding Babylon is up are usually submitted as being universal kingdom rather than to a single entity but possessing a Heliodorus, Demetrius, and Se- a succession of rulers in one manifest dualism. And if the bear leucus Philopator. However, An- minor section only of the great and the ram each represent tiochus certainly did not uproot empire. There are some even of Medo-Persia then the leopard, and the first of these. the Maccabean school of in not the nondescript beast of ten terpreters who rank Alexander horns, must point to Greece, and Contemporaneous, Not Successive as the first of the ten horns thus the most dreadful characteriza making him the peer of his suc tion of all in the fourth beast must 5. Next it should be noted that ceeding nonentities although in indicate the Roman Empire. This the passage in Daniel 7 implies chapter eight his kingdom is dis succession alone is consistent that the ten horns represent ten tinctly characterized as superior with the undesirable fact that the contemporaneous kingdoms. to the divisions that followed. 6 fourth kingdom is represented Wherever a successive power is The writer cheerfully confesses as incomparably more powerful intended the symbolism makes that despite his reading of much than its predecessors. that fact plain (see chap. 7:8; of the literature on this subject 8:3, 8). But the Maccabean theory produced in the past fifty years The Leopard and the He-Goat calls for successive kings as ful there are yet many areas where filling the symbolism of the ten he seeks further information. But 3. Again, the number four horns of the fourth beast. Let it to wait for assurance of a particu linked with the leopard (four also be added that if the three lar truth till every objection has wings and four heads) is also plucked up by the eleventh horn been exhausted and every possi linked with the he-goat which is are necessarily his contempo ble support mustered is an im actually named as Greece. It is raries it follows that the seven practical venture. Let us here, as not found in the description of also must be, for together they in other matters, take our stand the last of the beasts in Daniel 7. constitute the ten of the textual on the weight of evidence. And Once more the equivalence of picture. However, the position we as we do so, instead of mentally the leopard and the he-goat is in are contesting calls for seven or publicly castigating those who dicated and grave doubt cast on successive kings, and then three differ, let us seek to win them by the Maccabean scheme of em contemporaneous ones. One that "beauty of holiness" which pires. It is correct to speak of the cannot but feel that here is a case should ever accompany all those Greek world being divided into of "Heads I win, and tails you who love Him who is the truth. D four for a period, but it is not cor lose," a very learned strategem Concluded rect to speak of the Persian realm for having one's cake yet eating in that manner, yet according to it too. FOOTNOTES the Maccabean theory the leopard 6. It should also be considered 1 See James Alan Montgomery, A Critical and with its four heads represents that horns in Daniel represent Exegetical Commentary on Daniel, p. 383; J. Lam- brecht, Die Redaktion Der Markus-Apokalypse, Persia rather than Greece. Ac kingdoms primarily rather than p. 150. 2 See F. F. Bruce, Biblical Exegesis in the Qum- cording to this position the writer kings. The latter are only men ran Scrolls; David Syme Russell, The Method and of the visions has spoken of the tioned as representative of the Message of Apocalyptic. 3 2 Mace. 4:33-38. fourfold division in chapter eight former, but a single horn points 4 See Patrick Fairbairn, The Interpretation of but in chapter seven he has sub to a particular kingdom much Prophecy; Carl August Auberlen, Daniel and the Revelation. stituted a tenfold division. The more than to a particular king. 5 Karl Heim, lesus, the World's Perfection, fourth kingdom can hardly be di Thus, Daniel 8:5, 8 represents the p. 142. 6 For critiques of the critical positions on the vided into both ten and four kingdom of Alexander in con four kingdoms, see such commentators as major sections. Hengstenberg, Pusey, Auberlen, Wright, Bishop trast to the four kingdoms that Newton, Barnes, Young, Price, and The SDA 4. As we consider the fourth succeeded it. Thus, it is incon Bible Commentary. 22 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 ing of the gospel is not only a carelessly behind the pulpit, to What Is communication of truth about God stand in the pulpit for "the fun of and the Christian way of life, but is it." I was taught that it was dan Preaching? a phenomenon, a holy event, in gerous to "fool" with sacred STEVEN P. VITRANO which the same word that is at things, and the pulpit was one of work in the heart is now heard by these. It is from the pulpit that the believer. There is here some God speaks to men. It is in the thing living and vital, something sermons that God and man come wwHAT is preaching all about dynamic and moving. In consid together. anyway? The question has been eration of this some have asserted, In his book, The Art of Illustrat asked again and again, and an as does Robert H. Mounce in his ing Sermons, lan Macpherson tells swered as often in one way or book, The Essential Nature of New the following story which has another. But when you have been Testament Preaching, that in some bearing upon what we are ordained as a local elder and you preaching God reveals Himself, so considering: realize that one of your responsi that it can be said, "Preaching is bilities is to preach a sermon when Picture an old lady living in London revelation"—the revelation of about the middle of last century. Her hero, the pastor is not present on Sab God. we will suppose, is the Duke of Welling bath morning or Wednesday eve We may consider that point in ton, and when we first see her she is sit ning or on other occasions when ting in her drawing room, a copy of his need of some modification be preaching is called for, then quite biography open in her hands. She is read cause of its relationship to the ing the account of the Battle of Waterloo, suddenly the question is your whole doctrine of revelation, but and as she reflects on the role the duke question and it becomes critically we must not lose its force with re played in that famous engagement, and relevant for you. on all that the victory he then won has spect to the importance of preach To begin, let us consider the meant for her as an Englishwoman, she ing. Note what Ellen G. White has "what" of preaching. It is impera is overwhelmed with gratitude and devo written in volume 5 of the Testi tion to him. Every now and again she lifts tive that we do this, because our monies, pages 298, 300: her eyes from the page and looks up at an attitude toward preaching is really etching hanging on a wall of the apart more important than how we Many do not look upon preaching as ment. It is a pen-and-ink drawing of Apsley Christ's appointed means of instructing preach. The "what" should cause House, Wellington's London residence; His people and therefore always to be and as she gazes at it, she says to herself: us to take more seriously and give highly prized. They do not feel that the "How wonderful to think that the great better attention to the "how." In sermon is the word of the Lord to them duke lives there!" Then, all at once, her Paul's first letter to the Thessalon- and estimate it by the value of the truths reverie is broken into by a sharp rap on ians he makes a significant state spoken; but they judge it as they would the door. She rises to respond to it and, the speech of a lawyer at the bar—by the ment as to what preaching is all when the door is opened, there confront argumentative skill displayed and the ing her in living presence is the duke him about: "For you remember our power and beauty of the language. The self! In a flash, book and building—fascinat labor and toil, brethren; we minister is not infallible, but Cod honored ing though they are—are alike forgotten, worked night and day, that we him by making him His messenger. If you for the conqueror meets her face to face! listen to him as though he were not com might not burden any of you, Something far more marvelous than missioned from above you will not respect that frequently happens in a Christian while we preached to you the his words nor receive them as the message church. People go there to listen to the gospel of God . . . ; for you know of God. . . . We are never to forget that reading and exposition of a Book, which how, like a father with his chil Christ teaches through His servants. tells of a triumph immeasureably surpass dren, we exhorted each one of Have we lost this concept of ing Waterloo, or to gaze with rapture on the stately fabric of some glorious cathe you and encouraged you and preaching? Do we still consider dral. And, all at once, there comes a knock charged you to lead a life worthy the sermon the "word of the on the door of their hearts. There before of Cod, who calls you into his own Lord"? Do we believe that in them is none other than the risen Christ kingdom and glory. preaching Christ is teaching His himself! "And we also thank God con people through His servants? Is Will something like that hap stantly for this, that when you the Holy Spirit present and active pen when you preach next Sab received the word of God which in the sermon—do God and man bath? It can. How does that pos you heard from us, you accepted come together? Something won sibility strike you as you prepare it not as the word of men but as derful can happen if preaching is the sermon? Are you motivated what it really is, the word of Cod, God's appointed means of saving to do your best? Do you begin which is at work in you believers" souls. Should we approach the your preparation on your knees? (1 Thess. 2:9-13, R.S.V.). pulpit with the expectation that We are not sufficient for all this. When Paul preached the gospel, it will happen? But God is able. He has called he was not preaching the word I miss the attitude of reverence you, and He wants to use you. It of men but the word of God. for the pulpit I was taught as a is a high honor to be called to This suggests that the preach boy. I was never allowed to walk preach the gospel. D AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 23 WORLD REPORT

• HRILLINC reports are reaching us from the world other school of evangelism is being run in this same field telling of the success of MISSION '73. The city. wonderful part is that at this writing there remains "Recent reports indicate that on the first night seven months of MISSION '73. Every worker will want about five hundred people attended. Within five or six to take advantage of every remaining day of this meetings the audience built up to nine hundred. There important year to lead souls to the Saviour and to pre is an average of about six hundred in attendance night pare them for His soon return. Here are some reports by night. Brother Willmott is once again the speaker. from the field. It is estimated that at least two hundred people will be From the Inter-American Division comes word that baptized in consequence of this effort. the first quarter resulted in 8,399 baptisms, 252 more "The goal for the Madras churches is five hundred than the splendid record of last year. souls in 1973. This really is a new day. It is not going Pastor Earl Meyer of Antillian College in Puerto Rico to be long until we have one thousand members recently stopped by the Ministerial Association office in this city alone." and reported with great enthusiasm the work of A letter from W. H. Mattison, Ministerial secretary seventeen student evangelistic groups who have been of the division, who is conducting the field school in going out from the school under the direction of connection with the meetings in Madras, with forty of Pastor Salim Japas, then director of the theological our men in attendance, writes, "At the moment we department and presently taking advanced studies at have about six hundred coming for our evangelistic Andrews University. meetings. . . . We have set a goal of three hundred Pastor Japas writes of his own experience with these souls and hope to baptize five hundred by the end students over the past few years: "Certainly our stu of the year." dents here enjoyed these last three years holding Pastor Mattison writes also that the Andhra Section evangelistic efforts and helping in many ways in the of the Central India Union has set a goal of 4,000 souls greatest work entrusted to God's children. Our most for 1973, using as their motto, "Every member in recent baptism, held here at the gymnasium, was ACTION for four thousand souls in '73." wonderful as we looked to the seventy souls joining our church. It is really inspiring to see our students Tremendous Response in Central Africa full of faith and enthusiasm." Pastor Alvin E. Cook, Ministerial secretary of the From Southern Asia Trans-Africa Division, gives an enthusiastic report. It reads in part: Pastor R. S. Lowry, president of the Southern "Some information has come in about MISSION '73 Asia Division, writing of the continued work of evan and it would appear that the response has been gelism in Madras, states: "A couple of years ago tremendous. In the Central African Union 180 workers John Willmott was the speaker in connection with a have so far run campaigns and all reports are very school of evangelism that was conducted in this encouraging. West Rwanda Field reported twenty-five large city of South India. In consequence of the hundred converts. President M. L. Mills himself was meetings held at that time, and subsequent efforts, out for two weeks and forty adults took their stand. our small membership grew to three hundred mem Kivoga College staff and students campaigned fifteen bers. These are now situated in six companies, kilometers away in new territory with two hundred which are organized into five churches. We have attending every night and seventy came forward to the four buildings in which these folks meet. Now an- altar call to accept the truth. No doubt the final figures 24 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 The president of the West African Union Mission, Pastor Thorvald Kristensen, reports that about 150 evangelistic campaigns were launched in March, some in big cities and some in villages. Most of the mission presidents were themselves actively engaged in conducting meetings. The union staff is involved in two evangelistic campaigns. Pastor Kristensen also writes, "We have just completed printing 10,000 copies of a new Baptismal Manual and are printing 100,000 copies of a new tract, "It May Startle You." Kwahu Hospital, under the leadership of Dr. N. R. DOWER Sherman N'agel, conducted a very successful evan gelistic campaign with 4,000 presenton opening night. 8,000 Attend Meetings in North Cape Town

From North Cape Town, South Africa, comes the thrilling word of God's blessing upon the suburban evangelistic program conducted there by Pastor Jim Cherry. The opening subject, "Dead Men Do Tell Tales," drew 8,000 eager listeners, only 500 of them from the Central African Union will be most impres being Seventh-day Adventists. For this subject there sive. The people will go into Hearers Classes but there were four sessions on Sunday, two on Monday, two could be some baptisms before the end of 1973. on Tuesday, and one on Thursday. These nine meet "Elder H. Carl Currie in the Zambesi Union is really ings brought 2,500 family names requesting literature. enthusiastic about the response in his territory. It The offering amounted to US$1,350. would seem that everywhere the response has been For the second Sunday there were 6,000 reserva overwhelming. How to care for what is under way is tions. Eight sessions were held, with Daniel 2 as the the problem now. He campaigned in Fort Victoria him subject. For the two late night sessions alone there self and the meetings were crowded all the time. were 3,500 in attendance. Some 4,500 were anticipated The pastor is carrying on. Pastor Warren Hewes ran for the third week, in view of the number of reserva in Victoria Falls where we have only ten African mem tions requested. The scheduled subject was, "Will bers. One hundred and eighty attended every night Christ Come?" We await with interest further reports of his meetings and then the colporteur leader of the of this campaign. union had to move off. The laymen are carrying on." In the British Union, administrators and staff work A New Day for the Northern Europe-West Africa ers are also taking the lead in evangelism. In Scotland, Division President K. A. Elias led out in a campaign in Edin burgh. In the South England Conference, President From the Northern Europe-West Africa Division, Donald Lowe has been associated with Pastors W. J. J. F. Coltheart, Ministerial Association secretary, come Newman and L. A. Hubbard in public meetings at the following news briefs: Lowestoft. Pastor W. Duncan Eva, president of the division, led In the North England Conference, President B. W. out in a very successful campaign in St. Albans, Hert Ball, along with the conference staff and editorial fordshire, England, where our division headquarters staff from the Stanborough Press are all involved is located. in meetings. In the West Nordic Union, Pastor Jens Madsen, Concerning the work in Finland, for which no president, reports a goal for MISSION '73 of ninety- MISSION '73 report had yet been received at the time five campaigns, fifty-two of which had already begun of thewriting, Pastor Coltheart reported, "I know from very early in theyear. Hewrites, "When we take a short my recent visit to Finland just how much interest is look at the situation in Denmark, we must say that generated in the union, for while I was preaching in MISSION '73 has putourchurchonfireforevangelism Helsinki there were no fewer than seven campaigns in many cities." (For the report of Bjtfrge Schantz on all taking place within thirty or forty kilometers. These the Bible exhibit, see The Ministry, June, 1973, page included efforts by the East Finland president, Sulo 14.) Halminen, the Finland Union MV leader, Pekka The East Denmark president, Henning Jacobson, Pohjola, and the East Finland departmental leader, says, "During the past three months we have printed Pekka Tahti." 470,000 new tracts for distribution. Some 325,000 have And so the work goes on. How wonderful to be a been distributed so far and as a result we have re part of the great Advent Movement that is carrying the ceived more than 1,200 new enrollments to our Bible everlasting gospel to the ends of the earth in prepara correspondence school." This president also led out tion for our Lord's return. Let us each, wherever we in an evangelistic campaign at K0ge, about twenty are, redouble our efforts and let us pray for one an miles from Copenhagen. other as we labor in different parts of theworld. D AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 25 Health evangelism Health EvangeLism- ACase Study

ROGER O. HEALD

I WILL not conduct another Roger Heald, Pastor Jonathan Ng, A friendly and informal at evangelistic crusade unless 1 com and Pastor Patrick Ngau. mosphere soon developed during bine the health with the gospel Believing that "it is impossible the health lecture, as Dr. Heald ministry." This statement is being for men and women, while under answered various questions on spoken by more and more minis the power of sinful, health- healthful living. The health ters in the Southeast Asia Union destroying, brain-enervating hab lectures emphasized the marvels as they experience the blessings its, to appreciate sacred truth," 1 of the body and the preventive of holding health crusades. (Ellen the team began early to help peo aspect of health rather than White promises "precious bless ple realize the harmful effects of emphasizing and giving treatment ings" to those ministers who cigarette smoking, which is a very for specific diseases. They were combine the health with the prevalent habit in the city. Just designed to show a better way of gospel ministry.) before and during the first week life through good health habits. I would like to present a case of the crusade, lectures on the There was a free exchange be history of a typical health crusade, harmful effects of smoking on tween the minister and the doctor, one of dozens held throughout health were given to approxi one referring frequently to the the Southeast Asia Union Mission, mately 3,000 students of the other's presentation. conducted recently in the city of secondary school in the area. As we were dealing with a city Miri, Sarawak, on the island of These lectures were received with in which Christianity was little Borneo. a great deal of enthusiasm on the known, a departure from the Miri is a town of about 20,000, part of the students as well as the traditional sequence of evangelis majoring primarily in oil drilling school administrators. Also, a tic topics was made. The first week and refineries. It is about 200 miles Five-Day Plan for smokers was Pastor Damron concentrated on north of Kuching, the capital of held during the first week follow the fundamentals of salvation, of Sarawak. There was no Adventist ing the regular meetings. About man's condition, of his need for church in Miri. The groundwork thirty smokers attended the entire salvation, and a presentation of for the crusade had been laid by five nights and all but one reported Christ as the fulfillment of that our faithful colporteurs, and by success in the battle to stop smok need. An altar call was made, contact with Voice of Prophecy ing. Many of the smokers came therefore, at the end of the first students and graduates. The early to the regular meetings, so a week for a commitment to follow crusade team was made up of close rapport was established be Christ. After this commitment was Pastor Chester Damron, Dr. tween the two programs. made, the audience was then led Overflow crowds of over four into the various steps of the hundred squeezed into the Miri Christian life. Often at the close of Roger Heald is a physician associated community hall for the crusade Pastor Damron's sermon, team with Youngberg Memorial Adventist meetings. During the first week, members felt the audience Hospital, Singapore, and is health sec the meetings began with a health becoming unusually quiet and retary for the Southeast Asia Union. lecture by Dr. Heald on the theme hushed as if by an unseen visitor. He holds the M.D. and M.P.H. de of "Better Living at Your Finger It was gratifying to see the Lord's grees from Loma Linda University and tips." The health talks led into a Spirit at work upon men's hearts. is a member of the American College gospel presentation so that there At the end of three weeks a of Physicians. Since 1958 he has been baptismal class of fifty-five was in mission service in the Far Eastern was no break as Pastor Damron Division, serving in hospital adminis began his lecture. The minister formed, and at this writing there tration and health evangelism in Hong and doctor worked hand in hand is now a company organized in Kong, Taiwan, Manila, and Singapore. to present a unified gospel. Miri, with thirty people in at-

26 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 tendance each Sabbath. be directly related to an evan pathology and disease. In other There are some observations gelistic crusade, this precaution words, he is not holding a clinic about this form of evangelism that may not always apply to less- for five hundred people or at need emphasizing. sophisticated areas of the world. tempting to diagnose or prescribe. First, it was felt that with the It is true that in many of our The doctor should not be afraid altar call coming early in the American cities people are to draw spiritual lessons from the series a firm foundation was made sometimes frightened away from physical laws of life. In this way for following further in Jesus' Five-Day Plans because it seems there will be better integration be steps. Combining the health mes to them to be an Adventist tween the doctor and minister sage seems to prepare the people gimmick used to lure them to a presentation. to accept certain of our doctrines religious meeting. In less-de Finally, the ideal combination in that are characteristically difficult veloped areas, however, the health evangelism is a minister to accept. For example, the state Five-Day Plan has been used quite with a physician or other health of the dead seems less difficult successfully as a part of an evan professional. The absence of a when people understand how the gelistic crusade, and people who doctor, however, does not pre body is put together and how man have just gained a victory over clude a minister's doing health receives the breath of life, God's smoking are more receptive to evangelism. Any minister with own breath, which returns to Him listening to other phases of better careful preparation and study can at death, and that man is a whole living. qualify as a health educator. The entity rather than a compartment Fifth, in preparation for a health minister who is embarking on his alized body, mind, and spirit. crusade, if it is to be a team own in health evangelism should Second, the people were program, the doctor should be prepare himself well by studying eager to come to the meetings able to contribute his ideas on the a good book on health principles, each night to hear more of the methods of evangelism and the such as a college textbook on health message in its relation to presentation. There should be health. He should be thoroughly the spiritual, and the large amount frequent counsel and consultation acquainted with the book The of money often spent on gim between the doctor and the Ministry of Healing and the first micks and gifts to get people to minister. It should be emphasized, three chapters of the book Coun return was not found to be however, that the minister still has sels on Diet and Foods. As far as necessary. the ultimate responsibility and possible, he should read all of Third, there was not the usual authority in conducting the Ellen G. White's health classics. opening prayer, song service, and crusade. The minister should be There are many articles in lay special music, although we always certain of his facts. Nothing seems literature concerning the marvels closed the meeting with prayer. to disturb a scientifically-oriented of the human body; for example, Both the health and the spiritual person more than to hear a dis The Human Body, published by lectures were presented from the tortion or exaggeration of facts. Reader's Digest, American Medical very beginning until people The doctor, on the other hand, Association publications, and identified the doctor and the should keep his presentation others. The book None of These minister as presenting the same simple, easy to understand, and Diseases, by Dr. S. I. McMillan, is gospel in different forms and from should not try to present too many an exceptionally good book on the different aspects. facts in one lecture. He should Bible's answers to the physical and Fourth, while the guidelines present, generally, normal physiol mental ills of today's world. given for conducting a Five-Day ogy and health principles and not There are indeed precious bless Plan stipulate that it should not become too involved in the area of ings for both doctor and minister as they blend their talents in presenting the love of God to a fallen world. "Much of the prej udice that prevents the truth of the third angel's message from reaching the hearts of the people, might be removed if more atten tion were given to health reform. When people become interested in this subject, the way is often prepared for the entrance of other truths. If they see that we are intelligent with regard to health, they will be more ready to believe that we are sound in Bible doc trines." 2 n

FOOTNOTES 1 Ellen C. White, Counsels on Health, p. 21. The Health Crusade Team (I. to r.): Chester Damron, Jonathan Ng, Patrick Ngau, John 2 ————, Counsels on Diet and Foods, Lee, Harry Maja, Sitang Gurumong, Chai Sui Kong, Roger Heald, and John Mongkoi. p. 76. AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 27 Ii F STORIES were ever true about a great gulf between the ministerial and healing profes DOCTOR- sions, that chasm was at least par tially bridged recently during a weekend health-evangelism workshop held at Loma Linda University. More than forty physician-min ister teams from Arizona, Southern California, and South eastern California conferences WORKSHOP attended the three-day workshop. It was coordinated by Miller Brockett, director of Health Services in the Pacific Union CONDUCTED Conference, and by James Crawford, D.D.S., acting chairman of the Department of Health Education at the University's IN School of Health. The series of meetings was MC1HC UNION based on Ellen C. White's in-

JERRE K. IVERSEN

Winton Beaven, Ph.D., academic dean, Kettering College of Medical Arts (stand ing, I.), responds to a statement from a member of the audience at the Sabbath afternoon seminar. He and William Loveless, Ed.D., pastor, Loma Linda University church (standing, r.), dis cussed the role of the doctor-minister team in public evangelism. Pastor Miller Brockett, coordinator of the workshop, is seated behind Dr. Beaven.

28 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 junction in her book, Medical though he does not believe there people have been tested to date, Ministry, that "the gospel of ever has been a "great gulf" about half of them non-Adventists. health is to be firmly linked with between doctors and ministers, He says his department will also the ministry of the word. It is these workshops help to bring soon begin scheduling appoint the Lord's design," she con the two professions closer to ments for the School of Health's tinued, "that the restoring gether. He believes that the two coronary-risk-evaluation pro influence of health reform shall are most effective when working gram, Heartbeat. be a part of the last great efforts together with the workload split Perhaps the most recurring to proclaim the gospel message." equally between them. theme throughout the workshop —Page 259. Dr. Charles Thomas reported was that religion and health During the workshop, delegates on the physical fitness testing cannot be separated. The physical were shown the newest trends program being conducted by the fitness and Heartbeat programs and methods in health evangelism School of Health. This program were just a few of the ways that have been found effective features a series of fitness suggested during the meetings for use by individual church evaluations by highly skilled that local churches could com congregations in their own professionals in the School of bine the talents of both their communities. Pastor Brockett Health. The portable equipment pastoral staffs and the physicians said that the delegates will report and technicians who operate it in the church. Pastor Brockett to each conference's health spend an entire weekend at an emphasizes the value of com secretary so that more doctor- individual church. High light munity health programs that will minister teams could be organ of the program is a community open doors for local pastors to ized within each conference. testing program. Pastor Brockett take their spiritual programs Pastor Brockett says that says more than twelve thousand to their community's residents. D

Bernell Baldwin, Ph.D., associate professor of applied physiology, Loma Linda University, explains a diagram portraying J. Wayne McFarland, M.D., associate the physiology of exercise. secretary, General Conference Department of Health (standing, I.); and Elder J. R. Spangler, associate secretary. General Conference Ministerial Asso ciation (standing, r.), team up for Sabbath Mervyn C. Hardinge, M.D., Ph.D., dean, morning church service at Loma Linda Loma Linda University School of University church. Health, gives keynote address, "Who Touched Me?"

Photos by Jerre K. Iversen

AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 29 kenhearted. This work of restoration is to be carried on among the needy, suffering ones of humanity. God calls not only for Restoring your benevolence, but your cheerful countenance, your hopeful words, the grasp of your hand. Relieve some of God's afflicted ones. Some are sick, and hope the Withered has departed. Bring back the sunlight to them. There are souls who have lost their courage; speak to them, pray for them. There are those who need the bread of life. Right Arm Read to them from the Word of God. There is a soul sickness no balm can reach, no LEO VAN DOLSON medicine heal. Pray for these, and bring them to Jesus Christ. And in all your work, Christ will be present to make impressions upon human hearts. This is the kind of medical missionary work to be done. Bring IIN THE Jewish synagogue serv formity—a withered right arm. the sunshine of the Sun of Righteousness ice of Christ's day it was the prac Today God's people are worship into the room of the sick and suffering. tice for the one who gave the "last ing in the right church and on the Teach the inmates of the poor homes how to cook. "He shall feed his flock like a lesson," or what we would call the right day, but also with a withered shepherd," with temporal and spiritual "sermon," to read two or three "right arm." food.—Ellen G. White manuscript 105, verses from the prophets and then If you are of the opinion that the 1898. lecture or comment on them. "right arm" is the medical work, We are living in a time when On a Sabbath morning late in then you might challenge this Seventh-day Adventists the world the spring of A.D. 29, Jesus was statement. Adventists are known over are beginning to recognize called on to present this part of the the world over for the fine medical that we have not, to a large extent, service in the synagogue at Caper work that we have developed. It's been doing this kind of medical naum. A little while before this, true that our medical work is a missionary work as God intended Jesus had healed a demon-pos part of what we call the "right us to accomplish it, and therefore it sessed man in that same synagogue arm," but not all of it by any is true that we have been laboring on a Sabbath morning. The spies means. The "right arm" passages with a withered right arm. To us that were assigned by the rulers at all seem to follow the pattern of Jesus is commanding, "Go out Jerusalem to follow Jesus and re Testimonies, volume 6, page 327, quickly into the streets and lanes port any wrongdoing on His part which speaks of health reform as of the city, and bring in hither the were watching Him intently on the right arm, and page 229, which poor, and the maimed, and the this Sabbath because there was a reads: "The medical missionary halt, and the blind" (Luke 14:21). man seated in the congregation work is as the right arm to the The September, 1970, Ministry who had a withered right hand. third angel's message which must magazine has an interesting picture "And," Luke 6:7 tells us, "the be proclaimed to a fallen world." on the cover. It shows a left arm scribes and Pharisees watched him, On page 288, and in several and a right arm holding a Bible. whether he would heal on the other passages, the right hand is The left arm is clothed in a dark sabbath day; that they might find included with the right arm as a suit and obviously represents that an accusation against him." figure that represents "medical of a minister, while the right arm The Greek word that is trans missionary work." is clothed in a white professional lated "hand" may also include the It is quite a study in itself to dis smock sleeve and represents that arm; therefore, it is not in anyway cover what the Spirit of Prophecy of a doctor. It is intended to tell of doing violence to this text to sug includes in "medical missionary renewed emphasis in doctor-min gest that this man's right arm, as work." But as you look up these ister cooperation in medical-mis well as his hand, may have been passages, it soon becomes evident sionary evangelism. withered. It is interesting that that much more is intended than Suppose the picture had por Luke the physician identifies which we are accomplishing in our sani trayed the right arm as shorter and hand it was, making a point that it tariums and hospitals. A few pas withered. Would such a represen was the right one. The other syn sages that demonstrate this point tation have been more accurate, optic writers (Matt. 12:10; Mark follow: or would it be a distortion? The 3:1) do not mention this fact. Medical missionary work brings to hu important thing is that today the So we see a man in church on manity the gospel of release from suffering. withered right arm IS being re the Sabbath day with a withered It is the pioneer work of the gospel. It is stored, just as Jesus healed the right arm. He was in the right the gospel practiced, the compassion of man with the withered right arm Christ revealed.—Medical Ministry, p. church on the right day—worship 239. and hand in the synagogue at Ca ing at the same time and place The mission of Christ was to heal the sick, pernaum that Sabbath morning. that Jesus was—but he had a de- encourage the hopeless, bind up the bro After challenging the Jews who

30 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 were sent to spy on Him with the given its place in the councils of the con for reviving His church in the last words, "Is it lawful on the sabbath ference, . . . and in all the household ar days: days to do good, or to do evil? to rangements. Then the right arm will serve and protect the body.— Testimonies, vol. Said the angel, "Abstain from fleshly lusts save life, or to destroy it?" Jesus 6, p. 327. which war against the soul." You have commanded the deformed man, Luke records that those sent to stumbled at the health reform. . . . You are stumbling over the very blessing which "Stretch forth thy hand." spy on Jesus "were filled with God expects us to do more on Heaven has placed in your path to make madness" (v. 11) after He healed your progress less difficult. Satan presents the Sabbath day than to attend the man with the withered right this before you in the most objectionable church and eat a pleasant meal and hand. Mark adds: "And the Phari light, that you may combat that which take a nap. He expects us to follow sees went forth, and straightway would prove the greatest benefit to you, Jesus' example—to do good and which would be for your physical and took counsel with the Herodians spiritual health.—Ibid., vol. 1, p. 546. save life in unselfish ministry for against him, how they might de In the preparation of a people for the others. He is commanding us to stroy him" (Mark 3:6). Lord's second coming, a great work is to stretch forth the atrophied right Whenever we do what Cod be accomplished through the promulga arm and put the right hand to work wants us to do rather than what tion of health principles.—Counsels on in loving service to those in our men sometimes think we should Health, p. 206. own neighborhoods. be doing, conflict and difficulty It is interesting that Luke intro The scripture tells us that the are sure to follow. Satan becomes duces this miracle of the healing of man "did so: and his hand was upset and begins to stir things up the withered right hand just before restored whole as the other" against us. We can expect to be the ordination of the twelve and (verse 10). This is a promise of misunderstood and we can expect the Sermon on the Mount, which what will happen in and for this opposition as we begin to put seems to be Christ's ordination church as we follow Jesus' exam Christ's program of medical-mis sermon for His disciples. ple and command: sionary evangelism into practice. Can it be that ministers in our When the third angel's message is re This is what Satan is afraid of, be church are not fulfilling their or ceived in its fullness, health reform will be cause this is part of Cod's program dination vows unless they incor porate the work of the right arm in their ministry? It may sound like CtENDANIEL an extreme position if we answer in the affirmative, but notice again what the Lord Himself reveals on this point: I wish to tell you that soon there will be no work done in ministerial lines but med ical missionary work. . . . You will never be ministers after the gospel order till you show a decided interest in medical mis sionary work, the gospel of healing and blessing and strengthening. ... I wish to say that the medical missionary work is Cod's work. The Lord wants every one of His ministers to come into line. Take hold of the medical missionary work, and it will give you access to the people. . . . Medical missionary work, ministering to the sick and suffering, cannot be separated from the gospel.—Ibid., pp. 533, 534. The motto of Loma Linda Uni versity, "To Make Man Whole," is also the goal of the ministry. This wholeness, which leads to holiness, includes the physical and mental as well as the spiritual. It is long past time to restore the full ness of the beauty of Christ's min istry of love to a world writhing in the pain of sin, to combine minis try for the physical needs of those about us with our ministry to their spiritual needs, to rise up, as Jesus commanded the man with the withered right hand, and stretch forth the long-neglected right arm so that Christ can not only make us whole again but we can be used by Him "to make man whole." D AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 31 \\

The Confession of an Adventist Doctor

GLENN ROSENDAHL

• OR years 1 have asked my eating too much animal fat and self, "What is the reality, the sugar, imbibing alcohol, are con purpose in my religion? What is sidered wrong because these acts the nature of salvation?" At last are a "sin," not because one can I am beginning to get a concept do real damage to oneself thereby. that satisfies me, that unites my Theology still sees man's goal as a knowledge of medicine with my relationship with God apart from experience of God. Each is striving his body, his world, and the peo to achieve "the whole man." ple in it, rather than as an inte Medicine can analyze the prob grating relationship that causes lems—physical, surgical, and the harmonious interaction of psychiatric—that cause man's mind and body, environment and frustration in his attempts to friends. We still picture the spir achieve "integrity"; but lacks the itual as one of four equivalent and motivating power necessary to mutually exclusive elements of persuade man to make the nec man—spirit, mind, body, and so essary changes. The number of ciety—rather than as the trans doctors who smoke is simple wit cendent element which inte ness to this. Religion, on the grates and completes the other other hand, has been frustrated three. in its purpose because it has Faith in Jesus Christ, as I see it, never precisely defined its ob provides the essential motivating jectives, although it is skilled in power necessary to create men human motivation. Think of the of integrity, men who care for number of times you have been their bodies, their environment, urged to "make a decision for their friends, and their families. Christ" without being told what It has provided an intuitive knowl actions and responsibilities were edge of the actions necessary for involved in the "new way of life." health, long before painful hu Christianity, for too long, has man experimentation could pro been seen as a "religion" con vide the rationale for them. It is cerned with the "spiritual" side essentially a synthesis of the mo of man, to the exclusion of his tivation of "religion" with the physical, mental, and social as aims of modern medicine. pects. Its goal has been a mystical Paul could not stand without state of "salvation," unrelated to Luke, and each presents a pic the health of one's lungs, the ture of the one complete Man— state of one's arteries, the quality Physician and Theologian—Jesus of one's ideas. Smoking cigarettes, Christ. D

32 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 the circulation of the blood is greatly improved." l This advice who, me?... seemed like a directive from heaven for me. And so I continued my walking routines. I walked to the office in the morning. To lunch at noon. Back to the office after lunch. To the bank. To the store. To visit friends living ten blocks away. And during weekends 1 went into WALK the surrounding hills and walked along the rough, outdoor trails. I walked briskly, breathing deeply, holding the head back and MYSELF the shoulders erect, as the Spirit of Prophecy recommends, espe cially after a meal. 2 And it was not long before I noticed the difference in my habits of sleep. TO SLEEP?" I was "sleepwalking," that is, walking myself to sleep. And it worked better than anything else ROBERT ROMANELLI I had ever tried. In twenty minutes my body was usually relaxed and ready for bed. A hot shower applied the finishing touches—and soon I was lost in a world of carefree slumber. people are somnambu drive-in laundries, even drive-in As I studied further the advan lists. They walk in their sleep. That churches! But for me, driving in tages of walking, I came upon has never been my problem. My traffic adds to the day's tension. another eye-opener: "The mus problem was getting to sleep in When I moved from the East cles and veins are enabled better the first place—until a friend of Coast to a new job on the West to perform their work," as a result mine suggested a very simple Coast, I found myself living only of walking. 3 A physiologist told solution. The solution was so sim six blocks from my new office. me why this is so. ple that at first I did not believe it Just "around the corner" were the He explained that in the veins would work. All it involved was bank, the food market, the dry in the legs there is a series of "sleepwalking," that is, walking cleaner, the pharmacy, the bar valves that open and close while myself to sleep! ber shop, and even a small de one is walking. As the muscles To get rid of the tensions that partment store—all within walking contract with each step you take, result from a full day of business, distance. I determined then to your blood is forced heartward you take a nice long walk in the give this "sleepwalking" technique through valves in the veins. Be evening, follow it with a hot the acid test. I would not buy a tween steps the valves close and shower, and go peacefully to car for several months. Instead, I the blood is thus trapped. As you sleep. Too easy, you say? That's would walk—everywhere. And walk, the valves alternately open what I thought. But the answer carry packages, to boot! At least and close. The leg muscles thus lies in making this practice a daily I was certain to get my exercise. force the blood up the leg toward habit. My friend who advised walking the heart—thereby taking some of Most people today do not walk told me that exercise was the an the work load of pumping off the enough. They drive, instead. They swer to eliminating the tensions heart! Walking has its own drive to drive-in banks, drive-in that kept me from getting a good built-in heart helper. groceries, drive-in post offices, night's sleep. He said further that Walking. It's good for the heart. walking is the best exercise. It eliminates tension. It promotes "You mean," I questioned, sleep. No pills. No expensive Robert E. Romanelli is writer and "walking is better than using all equipment. Just your own two copy editor for Life and Health, and those exercise machines and de teaches creative writing and fresh feet. Having trouble sleeping? Try vices in muscle-building gyms?" the remedy I found that really man composition at Loma Linda Uni "Don't take my word for it," works—walking yourself to sleep. versity. A graduate of Columbia Un replied my friend. "You believe in ion College, he holds the M.A. degree D the Spirit of Prophecy, don't you?" from Villanova University, with post I had to answer that I certainly graduate work also at Temple Uni REFERENCES versity. He has taught English at West did. Then my friend pointed me to 1 Ellen C. White, Testimonies to the Church, Chester State College, journalism at some very interesting counsel: vol. 3, p. 78. Antillian College, and has engaged in "There is no exercise that can 2 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 530. 3 Ibid., p. 529. considerable free-lance writing. take the place of walking. By it AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 33 Spotlight on Health

WHAT KIND OF SHORTENING? and to a total vegetarian diet. A fundamental The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act re consideration in planning a good vegetarian diet is quires a food label to bear the food's "common or the selection of a wide variety of foods with a mini usual name, if any there be, and in case it is mum number of refined ones, (journal of the fabricated from two or more ingredients, the com American Dietetic Association 60:253-261, 1973.) mon or usual name of each such ingredient. . . ." If ft ft ft the label declares an ingredient as "shortening" only, either vegetable or animal shortening may be A REMARKABLE KIND OF WATER present, or a combination of the two. The manu facturer may specify the type of shortening used if "Food is largely water, but in the case of fruits and he desires, and such statement must be factual. An vegetables water is all but a small percentage of the ingredient listed as "vegetable shortening" must be edible portion. For example, raw cauliflower is 91% entirely that, and would be no different from one water; carrot 88.2%; cabbage 92.4%; so-called 'dry' designated as "100% vegetable shortening" or onions 89.1%. "pure vegetable shortening." ("FDA Fact Sheet," "Yet the water in fruits and vegetables carries in U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Food solution 94.5% of the vitamin C supply from food; and Drug Administration.) 49.2% of the vitamin A; 42% of the folic acid; 29.9% of the vitamin B 6 ; 19.9% of the iron; 25.7% of the ft it ft magnesium; 18.8% of the thiamin; 16.7% of the VEGETARIAN DIET niacin; and a large part of the trace minerals of all kinds, plus vitamin K. The vegetarian diet is increasingly receiving at "It's a remarkable kind of water. Not only does tention in the scientific and popular press. An it carry a wide spectrum of nutrients, but this water article entitled "Scientific and Practical Considera is germ free. The selection and filtration ability of tions of the Vegetarian Diet," by Dr. U. D. Register plants is such that the water in the cells is virtually and Lydia Sonnenberg, appeared recently in the uncontaminated. It is better than distilled water be Journal of the American Dietetic Association. A cause the distilled product carries no vitamins or review of worldwide studies, including a number minerals, while the liquid in all fruits and vegeta by Loma Linda University investigators, supports the bles makes a contribution to nutrition, and in some adequacy of the properly selected vegetarian diet. cases a large contribution." United Fresh Fruit and Clinical advantages are discussed, especially as Vegetable Association, "Nutrition Notes," February, related to the lipid-lowering effect of plant dietaries. 1973, No. 57, p. 3. In one study reviewed, serum-cholesterol levels and the dietary habits of 466 Seventh-day Advent- ft ft ft ists were studied. Several degrees of nonvegetarian- ism were noted, and the evidence was clear that as TEN-STATE NUTRITION SURVEY the degree of nonvegetarianism increased, the Findings from one of the most comprehensive levels of serum cholesterol increased. In a study of nutrition studies ever undertaken in the U.S. are California Adventists, Drs. Frank Lemon and being evaluated and reported. The purpose of the Richard Walden showed that SDA's suffered their survey was to determine the magnitude of malnutri first heart attack a full decade later than most tion and related health problems, especially among Americans. The incidence of heart disease was only people of low income. Ten States were selected for 60 per cent that of the average population. A num study and the survey cannot be interpreted as ber of recent studies have also suggested that representing the population as a whole. people whose diet is rich in fiber have lower blood- A significant proportion of the population cholesterol levels. surveyed was malnourished or was at high risk of When meat is replaced with a variety of legumes, developing nutritional problems. Evidence of meat analogs, cereals, and nuts, the nutritional malnutrition was found most commonly among composition of the diet is often better than when blacks, less commonly among Spanish-Americans, meat is the main part of the menu. As a nutrition and least among white persons. Although nutrition expert, Dr. Margaret Ohlson, has pointed out: was poorer as income level decreased, there was "Many Americans, particularly adult men, eat diets also evidence that nutritional status was strongly which are poorly balanced because of the large affected by social, cultural, and geographic differ intakes of muscle meat, sweets and fats and almost ences. complete omission of cereals, except as refined The results show that most Americans easily obtain flour entering into the preparation of sweet rolls their calorie needs but frequently fall short of their or desserts. The vegetables and fruits are limited in nutrient needs. There was evidence that many both amount and variety." persons made poor food choices that led to in Recommendations are included in changing from adequate diets and to poor use of the money a nonvegetarian diet to a lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet available for food. For example, there was a heavy 34 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 emphasis on meat in many diets rather than the use and to be free of preservatives, hormones, and of less expensive but excellent sources of proteins antibiotics. There is, however, no legal definition such as the legumes. Among the age groups sur of organic foods. Legislation has been introduced veyed, adolescents between 10 and 16 had the into Congress to define legally "organically grown" highest prevalence of unsatisfactory nutritional and "organically processed" foods. Food advertised status. (Nutrition Today 7: 4-11, Nov./Dec., 1972.) and labeled as organic usually costs more than similar foods produced by regular methods. In one Comment on the Findings of the Ten-State survey a market basket made up of twenty-nine Nutrition Survey organic foods cost $20.30 at the supermarket and Referring to the findings of the Ten-State Nutri $21.90 at the health food store, while the same tion Survey, Dr. Philip White, secretary, Council of basket of regular foods costs only $11 at the market. Foods and Nutrition, American Medical Association, (USDA Family Economics Review, September, 1972.) said:

While I don't believe this can be used as an indictment of our general food supply, it is an indictment of our food habits. The SOME HAZARDS OF EXERCISE food is there if only people would make proper use of it. In part the less than desirable track record can be blamed on snacking Ever since the days when President Kennedy and carelessness in food selection. What I mean is, taste appeal urged citizens to exercise with "vigah" and his and convenience are given more weight in food selection than are overweight press secretary tried it and developed common sense and prior knowledge about nutritious combina tions of foods. ... I think indifference is more of a factor than foot blisters, all sorts of panaceas and methods for ignorance. . . . Motivation to use the information (about nutri obtaining exercise for our affluent and lazy society tion) is the important missing link. Many of our poor food habits have been promoted. One of these is jogging, which can be traced to parental permissiveness. Lack of parents' concern is increasingly giving evidence of being dangerous and supervision permits youngsters to snack their way through for persons not properly conditioned. Medical adolescence. They learn little about the importance of care in food selection. (United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association journals sound warnings about it. Fatalities have Letter, March, 1973, pp. 7, 8.) been reported. Another exercise fad is isometric exercise. In dynamic exercise some sort of useful motion or MORE VEGETABLES, FRUIT, BREAD; LESS MEAT work is performed. In isometrics the muscles pull AND FAT CUT INCIDENCE OF DISORDERS against a stable resistance. One good example is DURING WORLD WAR II sitting in a chair and straining by trying to lift one self. No motion is accomplished. But the effort will "W. Schuphan in Germany has been checking on raise the blood pressure and place a strain on the results of food scarcity during World War II. He has heart. come up with the conclusion that in some respects While this method may have a minor degree of the results were favorable. He says that the diet in usefulness in a few situations, cardiologists are West Germany was short of protein, lipids, canned warning of its dangers. In the very authoritative food, and alcohol. Cigarettes were also scarce. The American Heart Association publication, Modern diet was based on potatoes, vegetables, legumes, Concepts of Cardiovascular Disease for March, 1972, fruit, bread and other flour products. Vegetable we find an article devoted exclusively to this hotpot, rich in vitamins of the B group, ascorbic problem. The article warns that isometric exercise acid, minerals, and trace elements, was popular. "can induce angina pectoris" (pains in the heart "He points out that during the food restriction area due to coronary artery spasm). "Severe iso there were reductions in the incidence of diabetes, metric exercise can be particularly dangerous . . ." arthritis, heart and circulatory trouble, and nonin- Further, "In patients with pre-existing hyperten fectious disorders of the liver and bile. Similar re sion . . . the blood pressure may reach extremely sults were reported in Switzerland. He deplores the high levels." current decline in the use of potatoes, rye bread, Maybe the simple exercises of gardening and and some vegetables." walking, so highly recommended in the Spirit of (Nutrition Aspects of the Preparation and Process Prophecy, have something to recommend them ing of Vegetables and Fruit With Special Reference after all. In our artificial society man is always dream to Experimental and Empirical Findings in Situa ing up something unnatural to take the place of that tions of Scarcity and Excess, Schuphan, Qualitas which is natural and obvious. Plantarum et Materiae Vegetabilis, abstract 6571, Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, 42: No. 3, 1972.) United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, "Nu trition Notes," February, 1973, No. 57, p. 2. INADEQUATE B VITAMINS Nerves that are short of vitamin B complex are often extra sensitive and cause itching out of pro ORGANIC FOODS portion to the cause. These itches are best relieved Today, many supermarkets have sections for by using lots of natural sources of the B vitamins, organic foods and some cafeterias offer organic such as whole-grain breads and cereals, wheat selections. The variety on the market is increasing. germ, rice polishings, and nuts. (G. H. Hoehn, Consumers generally expect organic foods to be M.D., "It's Just an Itch," Life and Health, July, 1973, produced without pesticides and artificial fertilizers p. 29.) AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 35 Dr. Palmer, what is the Chesa five-week, orientation-type course A peake Conference doing in the leading to a certificate in com way of health evangelism? munity health programming. They are known as community health We usually think of health evan Conference programmers, and are able to go gelism in its sense of delivering into a community and program a health-related subjects along with health project for the people. Better Living an evangelist in a public effort, or Eighteen of them came back to the of contributing in the area of pub Chesapeake Conference with me lic education in such things as Team and began a practical demonstra Five-Day Plans, weight-control tion. programs, and programs for die in Action tary control of cholesterol. We are Then is the primary purpose of doing these things. But in our this program to train people to particular field, we are working on work in connection with the practical methods of bringing the churches; that is, to work in the laymen into church service. This is communities, but through the An interview where we think we are moving church? with William Palmer, D.D.S. ahead. Yes. We are told to let every Field Secretary of Health Evangelism church be a training center. And for the Chesapeake Conference You are also director of the Better Living Team program. Is this also to let groups be formed, well emphasis on practical, medical- trained, to go from church to missionary work by laymen the church to teach the people how to type of thing this team was or cook, how to give simple treat JOYCE MCCLINTOCK ganized for? ments, to teach them simple anatomy and physiology, and Yes, it is. You might be inter even finance. ested in how a Better Living program got started in this area. What type of work do the Bet We had an initial group of ter Living Teams do? twenty-four young people who We have several different areas went from eight States and Can where Better Living Team people ada to the Loma Linda University are involved. Some operate a Book School of Health in December of and Bible House. Others work in a 1971. health center. We have a couple People in Loma Linda housed running a health-food store. Some and fed us for the six weeks we are involved in industries at the were there. The School of Health academy at Highland View, such didn't charge any tuition for this as a print shop. We're also bring pilot project. Dr. John Scharffen- ing in an auto mechanics shop at berg, a faculty member at the the school, and later on we'll school, carried the major load of start a health conditioning pro seeing this project through dur gram there. ing his Christmas holidays. The young people went through a Has the fact that the people in

36 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 this program do not receive a school, we attempt to gather the came to this world as the un salary contributed to your ability local women into the cooking wearied servant of man's neces to offer expanded services? school program. Instead of com sity. . . . The burden of disease That's correct. All our labor is ing and putting on a demonstra and wretchedness and sin He volunteer, full time, serving the tion for them and then leaving came to remove. . . . He came to conference structure in whatever town and having them say, "We give them health and peace and area a need arises. Originally we wish we were cooking experts," perfection of character." You will went in with programs such as the we give them a practical part in find that Jesus, and all of us, Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking, the program. should take away three things: dietary control of cholesterol, and When we ran a center in Grand disease, wretchedness (which is cooking schools. Rapids, Michigan, and had cook another word for stress), and sin. We found, however, many ing classes, we had classwork By the grace of God, we are to areas within the conference that from eight to ten in the morning. remove these things from our were unattended because there Then those people would go from society. was no budget for personnel. the classroom into the kitchen and When we take these things out For instance, conference person prepare the meal that we served of society, instead of leaving the nel were skipping their noon meal in the cafeteria that noon. They house empty for seven devils to and one of the reasons for it was stood at the serving counter and move into, we are to bring health lack of restaurant facilities, since dished out their dishes and lis of body, mind, and spirit; peace the conference office is out in the tened to the comments of the peo of body, mind, and spirit: and country. We have several good ple going through line and to perfection of character of body, cooks in our group, and they de their comments after eating. mind, and spirit. cided to cook some meals for the We found that people taught Most of us have a religion of conference committee. When they cooking that way came very ceasing to do evil. Very few of us heard about this the secretaries quickly into service. They may have an experience of learning to said, "Can't we have a couple of never have had any public experi do good. I think we need to learn times a week when we can get a ence in cooking before, but within to bring health as Jesus viewed decent lunch?" We went from a week or two they were very it and not just deliver people feeding about fifteen to feeding good cafeteria cooks. from evil habits. That's what we're trying to do thirty. How else do you see lay people in the Chesapeake Conference— When the time came for the being involved? constituency meeting, the con bring to the people a concept of On page 17 of the book The ference officials asked, "Could total health. Ministry of Healing, it says, "Christ D Better Living feed 150 people?" We did, the next Sunday. Next it was 500 at a conference-wide elders and deacons meeting. Finally, we were asked to han dle the food service for the camp The "New" Life and Health meeting, and served some 7,500 meals, family-style—no waiting in M,liNlSTERS and health professionals alike are finding the "new" line—for one dollar a meal. Life and Health an effective instrument in proclaiming the health What other kind of program message. Factors contributing to its growing popularity are: did you put on at camp meeting? 1. The attractive cover designs are real attention getters. 2. The open, airy interior design leads the reader easily from one We ran a conditioning program article to the next. throughout the camp meeting, 3. Life and Health still adheres closely to basic Adventist philosophy starting at five-forty-five in the on healthful living. Emphasis is toward prevention rather than diagnosis morning with an exercise pro and treatment. Faddism is shunned. Instead of urging people to live gram. We were told that maybe out of pill bottles, Life and Health teaches them how to leave their two would show up—the instruc neighborhood supermarket with produce necessary for maintaining tor and I. We had more than one good health. hundred taking part every morn 4. Life and Health is scientifically accurate. Each article is thoroughly researched and carefully documented. ing. With the health-conditioning 5. Life and Health stays on the growing edge of the field of health program, the lectures, and the education. Articles represent the latest findings concerning that food service, we had over half of particular topic. the time of the camp meeting for 6. Life and Health is written for laymen. Medical jargon is avoided, health emphasis. and great stress is laid on readability. Dr. Palmer, what have you More than ever before, Life and Health is capable of entering doors learned about how the minister otherwise closed to any contact with truth for our time. Enthusiastically received is the beautiful timely supplement on vegetarianism. Its forty- can help church members to be eight pages are attractively designed with full color to present the sub come involved in the type of pro ject in a thoroughly convincing manner. grams you©ve been talking about? This is the time when Life and Health can be a more effective tool Well, when we go into a church than ever before. with a program, say a cooking

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normality cannot be stressed too Healthy Wives Make strongly. Make this, as I do, your birthday present to yourself each year. Through our churches, Better Wives auxiliary chapters, radio and tele Noted Adventist Physician Makes Timely Suggestions vision, service clubs, local news papers, and, not the least, in talking over the fence to our ELISABETH LARSSON neighbor, we should motivate others to have an annual physical. An illustration of the value of these programs is evident in the "Dear friend, I am praying that done. Our years of happiness and following figures from the Cali all is well with you and that your usefulness can be extended by fornia State Board of Health: body is as healthy as I know your careful living and moderation in soul is" (3 John 2, Taylor)^_____ our work, eating habits, and all Death Rate From Cancer of the It is interesting that nearly activities. Cervix in California 2,000 years ago the apostle John One area in which this can be (Per 10,000 women in California) accomplished is to heed the was as interested in the health of 1950 10.7 American Cancer Society's Seven his friend Gaius' body as in that 1960 8.8 Danger Signals for alerting the of his soul. The same principle 1970 5.4 holds true today. Health is some public to signs and symptoms that thing we all covet irrespective of might mean cancer. They are— Another area of particular con age, race, color, creed, gender, or 1. Unusual bleeding or dis cern to women today is the mat profession. charge. ter of overweight. It has been es Nationwide health education 2. A lump or thickening in the timated that one out of every five has made us aware that we as in breast or elsewhere. Americans is overweight. In our dividuals can do much to protect 3. A sore that does not heal. teaching of nutrition, we rightfully our health—that we are to a large 4. Change in bowel or bladder stress the types of food we should degree custodians of our health. habits. eat, but too little is said to em It has been estimated that about 5. Hoarseness or cough. phasize the amount we should 60 per cent of the illnesses that 6. Indigestion or difficulty in eat. Few people are overweight befall us could be avoided if we swallowing. because of glandular imbalances; lived as we should. Our bodies 7. Change in a wart or mole. most overweight is due to over are so efficient and adaptable, and If any of these signals last eating. because the "motor" continues longer than two weeks, we should In the opinion of Weldon J. to run, we often neglect making consult a physician. Walker, M.D., "Overeating is the repairs until permanent damage is There are two films every most serious form of malnutrition woman should see: Time and in the United States today. Weight Two Women, by Prof. Joe E. control is one of the most fruitful Elisabeth Larsson, now retired in Los Meigs, and Breast Self-examina ways of improving health and pro Angeles, is a native of Sweden. She tion, by Dr. Emerson Day. These longing life. Insurance studies migrated to the United States in films are short, each about eigh have long indicated that thin in 1920, where she continued her edu teen minutes viewing time. They cation, graduating from Broadview dividuals live much longer than are available at no charge through Academy and College. She holds the those who are overweight; also, M.D. degree from Loma Linda Uni the American Cancer Society in that weight reduction prolongs versity and is a Fellow of both the most localities. Telephone the the life of overweight persons. American College of Surgeons and society and they will send the Adult-onset diabetes occurs al the American College of Obstetrics films and someone with a screen most exclusively in overweight in and Cynecology. She taught on the and projector to show them. This dividuals. Weight should decrease faculty of Loma Linda University from service is available to any club rather than increase with aging, 1935-1963, at which time she became or group of women. since muscle mass is greater at emeritus clinical professor. In 1961 The importance of yearly physi she was accorded the Honored age 25 years than at age 60 years. Alumna Award by the School of Medi cal examinations, including a High blood pressure and death cine Alumni Association and received pelvic examination and Pap test from cardiovascular disease is the Woman of the Year award from of the cervix, a chest X-ray, a more common in heavy than in the Swedish American Historical proctosigmoidoscopic examina thin persons. Foundation. tion, and treatment of any ab "The health benefits of under- AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 39 dPeMOtutA Mote F/UMK, fauf...- eating," according to Dr. Walker, "are readily demonstrated in the laboratory. The duration of vigor Dear Shepherdesses, ous life can be extended 10 to 20 As we begin our trek east from my husband©s assignment in per cent in rats and mice by simply Canada my heart is full of gratitude for the springtime with its feeding less of the same diet their promise of the resurrection; for God©s protection and care as well-nourished litter mates re we traveled from Montreal to Peace River, Alberta; and for the ceive. Overnutrition results from privilege of meeting old friends and making new ones in this eating more calories than are wonderful Adventist family. burned up during the activities of My husband was guest speaker for the various Dorcas Fed life. Unbalanced crash diets have eration meetings and also held Sabbath services and other meet no place in rational weight con ings. He preached repentance, revival, and reformation across trol, since lifelong eating habits that vast land, using Micah 2:10, the message to ancient Israel, should be established to main as God©s solution to the pollution of sin. "It was not the will of tain ideal weight." 1 God that the coming of Christ should be thus delayed. ... He Overweight women suffer more promised to lead them directly to the land of Canaan, and es cancer of the endometrium (the tablish them there a holy, healthy, happy people." Evangel lining of the uterus). Obesity is a ism, p. 696. Read that page. It is such a parallel to these days. hazard in pregnancy, to both the It was a real privilege for me to meet our ministers and their mother and the child. The over wives who pastor churches and work among the various ethnic weight person is a poor surgical groups. risk because of a tendency to dis We heard and saw the wondrous workings of God in the orders o,f the heart and the blood lives of formerly employed and prosperous Afro-Indians who vessels. were expelled from Uganda. They arrived in Montreal in the The remedy for overweight is winter, were given a warm coat, twenty-five dollars, and trans not reducing pills or fad diets, ported on by the government. Many chose to go to Toronto. but changed eating habits. If we The Adventists and other organizations rallied to their aid there. form proper eating habits while Because of the well-organized way our people gave aid, the we are reducing, and continue Adventists are now operating a center in a government building these habits after we have at by government request. Thus the light of the gospel is pene tained the desired weight, they trating the hearts of these needy people in a most wonderful will become second nature to us. way and the half has not been told. It is well to remember that our There were many reports of helping fire victims. The women need for calories decreases about from Windsor showed "fire packages" they keep on hand to 7.5 per cent for each ten years give to people immediately as they flee from burned homes after we are 25. 2 a plastic bag for each member of the family containing necessary Much has been said in litera items to tide them over their emergency. Each bag contained a ture and in the Bible regarding message-filled tract and a note of sympathy from "your friends, overweight. Solomon in his wis the Adventists." The Windsor Dorcas women have a unique dom said, "Blessed art thou, O way of getting the contents for these packets. In the foyer of the land, when thy . . . princes eat in church they have a poster with a picture of a burning house on due season, for strength, and not it. Underneath is a bucket. The verse says: for drunkenness!" (Eccl. 10:17). Fill the bucket. Fill the bucket. Drunkenness here could be in Not with water. Not with water. terpreted as intemperance or But with combs, soap, towels, et cetera. gluttony. We enjoyed seeing new church buildings, the beautiful mod Even Chaucer knew that over ern new girls© dormitory on the campus of Kingsway College in eating is a curse: Oshawa, the enthusiasm for MISSION ©73, and the desire of "O gluttony, full of cursedness, our people to hasten the coming of the Lord. O cause first of our confusion, I know you will enjoy and I hope take heed to and profit by Dr. O original of our damnation." 3 Elisabeth Larsson©s article this month. Dr. Larssqn has dedicated One minister in Sweden sug herself to helping women to be healthy. Some of you may re gested that we should pray, "Give member the work she and her helpers did at the 1962 General us this day power not to overeat," Conference session and also the meetings "For Women Only" instead of, "Give us this day our at Atlantic City. daily bread." Let us be intelligent in the care we give our bodies that we We Seventh-day Adventists may be a healthy, happy people, and holy too. Could we ask rightfully denounce smoking and for more? drinking, forgetting that intem With love, perance in eating is just as dan Kay gerous to our health. "When are you going to stop smoking?" one overweight minister asked a smoker. "When you stop over eating," was the reply.

40 THE MINISTRY I AUGUST, 1973 The best advice to the obese * From: The Living Bible, Tyndale House Pub cringe at certain things. Cod never lishers, Wheaton, Illinois. Used by permission. person is "think yourself thin by cringes. You or a deaconess or exercising your will power, some sweet mother in Israel must strengthened by the grace of FOOTNOTES so identify with that person that Cod." 4 1 Personal statement made to author upon re quest by Weldon I. Walker, M.D., Col. (MC) you will not expect her to be an The admonition in the Testimo United States Army Ret., presently head of Car- orderly housekeeper overnight dio-Pulmonary Laboratory, White Memorial Med nies (volume 2, page 373) de ical Center, and clinical professor of medicine, but you will, with patience, appeal nouncing eating between meals Loma Linda University. to her in Cod's behalf. God did 2 Norman jolliffe, "Some Basic Considerations (nibbling) has been pretty much of Obesity as a Public Health Problem," Am. I. not stay on His remote throne. He relegated to the wastepaper Pub. Health 43:989-992, August, 1953. 3 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Tale, identified. If God controls YOUR basket by many of us. p. 170. life He will teach you to help oth One more area is necessary to 4 Leo Van Dolson, "Losing With Leo," The Ministry, March, 1973, p. 47. ers. mention in this article. In our en 5 Ellen G. White, The Ministry of Healing, In the book, By His Side [a p. 476. deavor to stay healthy we must Review and Herald Publishing As not forget that "a merry heart sociation paperback], there is a doeth good like a medicine: but chapter on the "Keepers of the a broken spirit drieth the bones" Castle." Use the first two pages (Prov. 17:22). To be happy seems as a guide. Enlarge on it. to be natural for some people, You say there are eight chil but most of us have to cultivate dren. They should be taught to the habit of happiness. Note that help. There is so much in the Spirit happiness is a habit. King David Dear Kay, of Prophecy books to help us. must have had the "blues" when Is there anything that a minis "The approval of Cod rests with he wrote: "Why art thou cast ter's wife can or should do about loving assurance upon the chil down, O my soul? and why art helping some poor families learn dren who cheerfully take their thou disquieted within me?" (Ps. to clean their houses? Some of our part in the duties of domestic 42:11). He answered his own younger wives are appalled as they life." "Life's happiness is bound question by saying, "Hope thou visit in some homes where there up with faithfulness in common in Cod: for I shall yet praise him, is only a path to get in, eight chil duties." Keeping a home in order who is the health of my coun dren, and that sort of thing. What is labor. Every day there is house tenance, and my Cod." do you suggest? work to be done, cooking and The remedy for morning blues Dear Young Wives, washing dishes, sweeping and is found in Psalm 118:24: "This is Accept the challenge of lifting dusting. The rewards of faithful the day which the Lord hath these poor people from their deg ness in home duties are peace and made; we will rejoice and be radation and show them and calmness. glad in it." The day is ours to others what true Christlikeness Teach the mother how to or choose what we want to make of can accomplish. Don't become ganize her work. Tell her to set it. It's up to us to control our discouraged. Teach them the the alarm twenty minutes earlier thoughts. This decision has to be transforming power of Christ, as (but don't tell the rest of the made continuously throughout our missionaries do in the mission family) and let them help her pre the day. fields. You will be rewarded by vent the awful early morning We are told, "We need to be their gratitude as they learn the scramble. Let the father do a ware of self-pity." 5 It is easy to better way and by a "Well done" needed chore, let Tommy empty fall into this habit. The best cure from the Master. The Holy Spirit the trash, let Diane dress the baby for unhappiness is to count our will help you. Don't be afraid to while the mother gets the break blessings. This is more effective talk to the mother. Tell her you fast on the table. The table could than tranquilizers and sleeping love her and want to help her be set the night before as soon as pills. make her home presentable. the supper dishes are done. In summary, in order to enjoy How can we invite the Lord Lunches can be packed the eve life, health, and happiness, re into our homes when we are so ning before. Then send the family member these points: rude as to have them in a state of off with a prayer, a kiss and a You are the custodian of your upheaval? Our own lives set the smile, and dig in! health. rhythm of our homes. If the Through patience and repeti Watch for the danger signals. mother is hectic and harried, so is tion, habits of neatness and order Periodic health examinations the home. If the mother is a can be established. Drawers will pay- messy housekeeper, so will the be closed, towels hung straight, The longer the belt line the son or daughter be messy in their clothing returned to hooks or shorter the life line. dormitory rooms. hangers. Repeat, repeat, repeat Avoid the second helping even Help this mother break the old with loving kindness and when a if the taste buds crave it. patterns by the help of the Holy victory is gained praise and praise. Desserts are unnecessary. Spirit. There must be a together Don't yell and don't tire. Triumph Nibbling is a cardinal sin. ness and patience shown. If you will be achieved and God's name Don't be a food pusher. can't invite her to your home will be glorified. Happiness is a habit that must then go to hers. From a human Try it. Make it your goal. Cod be cultivated. D standpoint some of us will always bless you as you work for Him. D AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 41 with writers of hymn tunes there is a need for hymn writers who know how to present a theme clearly and memorably in a limited space. Those criteria JWusic for hymn writers that were stated earlier in this arti cle are valid guides in writing contemporary hymns. A new hymn of unusual beauty and of real current interest is Barbara Owen's "God of the Green Earth." in the Although stanza one has an evolutionary concept and would therefore not be acceptable for use in our churches unless modified, the other stanzas are Part 3 filled with thoughts that are appropriate and timely: God of green earth, Singing with growing, Lord of the ocean, From which life sprang, Teach us their wisdom, PAUL HAMEL Born at creation When planets danced and Morning stars sang.

Teach us respect for Forests and marshlands, Not to defile them With ignorant greed; But to love the tall redwoods, Crowning the ages; E MUST be alert lest we assimilate into the Love the brown loam and worship service those songs that reflect a weak or Small fertile seed. false philosophy. At the same time, it is important Make us to love all for us to recognize that theological ideas may be ex Our fellow creatures; pressed in new ways that are orthodox, and that They not too humble, there have been changes in composition techniques Nor we too great. for sacred music. We do need some new hymns for Wildcat and beaver, Bee and brown sparrow, our church, for in spite of the fine musical values Have earned equal right to of the traditional hymn tunes, and with all due re This earthly estate. spect to the doctrinal soundness of the words, a lot of history has been written since the last edition of Stay us from killing With arrogant science the Adventist Church Hymnal was published. One Men, beasts and plants we writer expresses himself in these words; Do not understand. Though the twenty-first century looms not far away, the nine With love comes wisdom teenth century church is still far too dominant over the twentieth Compassion and patience; century church. Education, science, literature, art, entertainment, Justice for all things, transportation have all changed with the times, and unless Peace in the land.—Amen3 churches recognize that they must produce a new song for a new New hymns have been written on subjects other period of human experience, they must expect to be overturned or ignored. 1 than ecology and modern science. Brotherly con cern and love is the theme of a hymn copyrighted in In the opening verse of Psalm 149 David suggests 1969 by the Hymn Society of America, "O Lord, The that we "sing unto the Lord a new song." However, Maze of Earthly Ways": each Sabbath we are singing the same old ones. O Lord, the maze of earthly ways These are good songs that represent the accumula Confuses our intent; tion of centuries of song writing—a heritage that Give us thy light to walk aright we do not want to abandon. But people do enjoy Through our bewilderment. new songs with words that have a fresh sound, and with music that reflects contemporary times. Certain The burdened sigh and anguished cry That so disturb and taunt topics presented during Sabbath morning sermons Are sounds of fear through which we hear concern subjects that are unique to this generation, Humanity in want. and there are not many songs currently in use that correlate with them. Give us the heart to do our part, To act the ancient creed, At the Fifth International Church Music Confer Express our care, respond and share, ence, held in Milwaukee on August 27, 1966, the To meet another's need. famous musicologist Paul Henry Lang addressed himself to the question of hymn tunes. "The ob By helping men to live again vious solution," said he, "is to create new music that Most fully, we serve thee; Again today we hear thee say, is more in accordance with the temper of our times. "You've done it unto me." 4 However, this is not a task for amateurs, but for the The Hymn Society of America is active in publish best contemporary composers available." 2 Along ing new hymns—nearly 190 of them within the past Paul Hamel, D. Mus. Ed., is chairman, music department, two decades. Copies of these hymns may be ob Andrews University. tained from the society.

42 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 Another of the new hymns, and one that is time the practice of music to extremes, to make a great less in its appeal, is "O God, the Church Eternal": deal more of music than of prayer. Many souls have O God, the Church eternal been ruined here." 7 So although she believes in Has meaning for this hour, the appropriate use of music, she also warns of the As she goes forth to witness, excessive use of music in sacred services and states: Anointed by Thy power, Help her in days of crisis "Let your hearers understand that you hold meet To venture unafraid, ings, not to charm their senses with music and Proclaiming Thy great message— other things, but to preach the truth in all its solem Undaunted, undismayed. nity." 8 On the other hand, she writes that, "Song Where hatred causes heartache, is one of the most effective means of impressing To spread the healing touch spiritual truth upon the heart." 9 Of love to all the nations, To maintain a balance in the use of church music Who have suffered much; that will impress hearts and yet not charm the senses With darkness all about her, To shed the piercing light requires a degree of thought, contemplation, and Of truth that yet will banish knowledge that is not too much in evidence among The shadows of the night. us. I am not saying that a formal education in the O grant her faith and courage, application of musical value judgments is absolutely That she may never fail; essential, but I do believe that such an education Restrain the force of evil, if given to all levels of church leadership would go a That it may not prevail. Guide her into thy service, long way in solving the problems of church music Make earthly tasks divine: that we are experiencing today. Since her hands serve as thy hands— Finally, whether we sing gospel songs or hymns, Give them the strength of thine! 5 whether the songs have been tried by time or are Music was one of the principal subjects studied contemporary, "let us all bear in mind that in every in the schools of the prophets. I am sure that this assembly of the saints below are angels of God, lis study was not one of theory and performance only, tening to the testimonies, songs, and prayers. Let but one largely concerned with musical judgments. us remember that our praises are supplemented by The history of the Jewish nation from the time they the,choirs of the angelic host above." 10 As a guide entered into the Promised Land is filled with ac in selecting that which is best in all things, including counts of idolatry committed by God's chosen peo music for sacred purposes, "put all things to the ple. Associated with the worship of false gods were test: keep what is good, and avoid every kind of immoral practices and music, primarily of an instru evil." 11 Paul's counsel to the Colossians is of equal mental nature. There is no doubt but that the musi value to the twentieth-century Christian: "Christ's cal practices of the heathen nations were one of the message, in all its richness, must live in your hearts. allurements that enticed the Israelites to become Teach and instruct each other with all wisdom. Sing associated in these various kinds of heathen wor psalms, hymns, and sacred songs; sing to God, with ship rites. It takes an educated discernment to de thanksgiving in your hearts. Everything you do or termine music's proper role and the kind of music say, then, should be done in the name of the Lord to be used in sacred services, and this was taught Jesus, as you give thanks through him to God the Father." 12 in the schools of the prophets. It is my great hope that all of our young people, As we come nearer to the end of time, sacred mu and particularly the pre-Seminary students, become sic will take on new meaning. "Amidst the deepen skillful in the art of making value judgments in the ing shadows of earth's last great crisis, God's light fields of both secular and sacred music. Such judg will shine brightest, and the song of hope and trust ments cannot be made only on the basis of "feel will be heard in clearest and loftiest strains." 13 ing," but have to be based on an education obtained When the faithful are removed to a better land, in the area of music appreciation. Church pastors "they will behold His matchless charms, and, touch are looked upon as capable of giving guidance in ing their golden harps, they will fill all heaven with many areas, including music, but it is a rare pastor rich music and with songs to the Lamb." 14 D who is able to give a judgment founded on anything Concluded more solid than intuition. FOOTNOTES The Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary 1 P. E. Elbin, "Fanny Crosby and William H. Doane Have Had Their Day," The Hymn, January, 1970, p. 12. must offer courses designed to acquaint the theo 2 P. H. Lang, "Hymn Tunes," address at the 1966 Fifth International Church Music Conference, Milwaukee. logical student with great sacred music literature. 3 "Cod of the Green Earth," by Barbara Owen, From The Hymn, copy Much thought and attention should be given to what right 1970 by the Hymn Society of America; used by permission. 4 "O Lord, the maze of earthly ways," Carlton C. Buck, From Nine Mis makes music acceptable and appropriate for a wor sion ef the Church Hymns, copyright 1969 by the Hymn Society of Amer ship service. Classes should also be taught in which ica; used by permission. 5 "O Cod, the church eternal," Carrie H. Hardcastle, From Nine Mission careful study is given to the place and purpose of of the Church Hymns, copyright 1969 by the Hymn .Society of America; sacred music. used by permission. 6 Ellen G. White, Education, p. 167. The writings of Ellen White having to do with 7 ————, Review and Herald, July 24, 1883. 8 ————, Gospel Workers, p. 356. music should be basic to such courses. Music, she 3 ————, Evangelism, p. 500. says, "is a precious gift of God, designed to uplift -, Testimonies for the Church, vol. 66, p. 367, 11 1 Thess. 5:21, 22. From the Today's English Version of the New Testa the thoughts to high and noble themes, to inspire ment. Copyright e American Bible Society 1966. and elevate the soul." 6 But she also says, "It is one 12 Col. 3:16, 17, T.E.V. 13 ————, Education, p. 166. of the great temptations of the present age to carry 141 ————, Evangelism, p. 503. AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 43 Recommended reading

Night Scenes in the Bible, Daniel fames S. Stewart Library: Heralds of signed to deal with the local church March, Kregel Publications, Giand God, 222 pages; The Gates of New youth leader or sponsor. The writer's Rapids, Michigan, reprint 1972, Life, 250 pages; The Strong Name, style and the assembly of the material $5.95, 336 pages. 260 pages; A Message to Proclaim, is organized with enough variety to Many years ago this book came 160 pages. Baker Book House, make it fascinating and informative. into my possession, and it has been a Grand Rapids, Michigan. As an example, there are four ap source of deep spiritual insight to me Every preacher should possess this propriate sections: ever since. I am delighted that it is group of four books. Many years ago Section 1—deals with the contem now reprinted, and I commend it to one of these volumes, Heralds of porary culture, charac teristic thoughts and at our readers. The introductory chapter God, was included in our Ministerial gives us a concept of suffering and Reading Course and our English- titudes. Section 2—the analysis of the qual distress that has few challengers speaking preachers around the world ifications that make insofar as its depth of meaning to the spoke of the wonderful help received youth potentially compe Christian is concerned. After pointing through the reading of this forthright tent leaders. out the dangers, fears, and doubts that challenge. This reviewer visited Dr. Section 3—processes in the ministry often are associated with the night, the Stewart at that time in Edinburgh. that make possible a author reminds us that it was at night Since then we have met on several blend of youth and adults in prayer to His Father that Christ occasions. I have been deeply im toward Christian ma received fresh supplies of grace and pressed with his strong fundamental turity. power. preaching of the message of redemp Section 4—develops programming Dr. March says in one of his choice tion. and structures of the thoughts: "If we see the divine favor Beginning his ministry as a pastor youth ministry. only in the success which crowns our in 1924, he was soon recognized as a Larry Richards is well qualified to efforts, in the health which we enjoy, preacher and teacher of unusual write authoritatively on this topic. He and of the abundance of our earthly ability. For years he served as chap writes out of Wheaton Graduate goods, God may come to us many lain to the queen while in Scotland. School, Wheaton, Illinois, where he times in the greater mercy of loss and In addition to ministering to the large has taught Christian education for disappointment, and we not know of congregation at the Morningside several years. His coming. . . . Church in Edinburgh he also con This in-depth study is a must for When any peculiarly sore and un ducted courses on preaching at the your ministry. As a reference work welcome experience is set upon you, Edinburgh University. this volume should be read by every do not cry out in alarm and bitterness For some years we have been un person involved in youth leadership. of soul, but calmly and trustingly ask, able to procure Stewart's books, for Mike Stevenson 'What new gift has my Father now they have been out of print. But the come to bestow?' Thus the night of Baker Book House has now made sorrow and affliction shall teach more these excellent volumes available and Bible Study Source Book, Donald E. precious lessons than the day of suc at a most attractive price—$9.80. Demaray, Zondervan Publishing cess and joy." Here is excellent material and in House, Grand Rapids, Michigan The author then takes the last night spiration for scores of sound sermons (formerly published in 1964 by of Sodom and presents in an ever- on salvation. Cowman Publishing Co., Inc. as fresh and meaningful way vital truths Roy Allan Anderson Cowman Handbook of the Bible), that can be keenly challenging to the 400 pages. child of God today. Other chapters are: "Jacob's Night at As the name indicates, this volume Bethel," "Jacob's Night of Wrestling Youth Ministry Its Renewal in the is a handbook on the Bible. It is one With the Angel;" "Israel's Last Night Local Church, Lawrence O. Rich that the Bible student will find many in Egypt," "Saul's Night at Endor," ards, Zondervan Publishing House, occasions to consult. Very functional "Elijah's Night in the Desert," "The Grand Rapids, Michigan. in arrangement, it consists of three Night Feast of Belshazzar," "A Night At a time when the American major sections, with each of these With Jesus at Jerusalem," "A Night church youth ministry is in a leader divided into smaller units. These sec of Prayer on the Mountain," "The ship crisis, this appropriately named tions are as follows: Night of Peter's Temptation," "The volume makes the scene. Obviously Part One—"Our Bible: Charting Its Night of Agony in Gethsemane," evangelical in approach, it is de Course." Three subdivisions are: (1) "The First Night After the Resurrec veloped around a Biblical approach to First facts about the Bible. This dis tion," "Midnight in the Prison at a youth ministry for the 1970's. That the cusses the general arrangement of Philippi," "Paul's Night in the Deep," youth ministry must be viewed as the Bible, its revelation and inspiration, and "No Night in Heaven." youth and adults involved together the canon and other interesting facts, Although this book does not exhaust in Scripture study, in a "body of Christ" (2) Ancient manuscripts and versions, all the night scenes of the Bible, it relationship, and in life is the basic (3) English translations to the present. is sufficiently inspiring that it should theme of this book. Part Two—"Our Bible Book by encourage each preacher to take it An abiding impression left on the Book." This section is divided into The from there and go on to the many reader is that the author pulled out Old Testament, Between the Testa other lessons and experiences that are the stops to make this book practical. ments, and the New Testament. With found in the blessed Book. Although I think it will be heavy each book of the Bible are given gen N. R. Dower going in places for some, it is de eral background information, author-

44 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 ship and date, to whom written, key verses, and the general purpose and theme; also, a brief outline of the book. Part Three—"Our Bible: Persons, Places, Things." Under the "Persons" BOOKS I TREASURE MOST section are given thumbnail sketches D. A. DELAFIELD of major Bible personalities, alphabet ically arranged. "Places" gives a brief "Bird's-eye View of Palestine and Bible D. A. Delafield is associate secretary of the lands" followed by a historical sur Ellen G. White Estate. A graduate of Pacific Union vey of its peoples with special empha College, he has taken advanced work at Andrews sis on archeoiogical findings. "Things" University, where he has also taught the prophetic provides illuminating facts relating to guidance course. He pastored churches in Hawaii, the tabernacle, temples, and syn California, and Maryland, was for three years agogue; musical instruments; Jewish associate speaker for the Voice of Prophecy and feasts and festivals; Jewish sects and served for nine years as an editor of Life and parties; the Sanhedrin; plants, ani Health and the Review and Herald. He is the au mals, and birds; time, measures, thor of several books and his writings frequently weights, and money. appear in our church publications. Appendix I presents "Thumbnail Sketches of Significant Personalities in Church History"; and Appendix II offers a suggestive bibliography for HARPER©S TOPICAL CONCORDANCE, compiled by Charles R. Joy, Bible students, including study Bibles, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1940, 478 pages. concordances, Bible dictionaries and There are many vivid texts that elude the pastor's search which might encyclopedias, and Bible geographies, adorn his sermon, so Pastor Joy, substituting for the minister, assembled atlases and customs. these most potential texts in his topical concordance. What a joy to the Also included are charts and chron researcher preparing sermons to find all the relevant texts on a certain ological tables; twenty-two color maps; subject there before him, with not only the references given but the an Index to Persons, Places, Things; scriptures actually quoted. It is extremely useful to me in sermon building, and an Index to Scripture References. and while not exhaustive it is complete enough to be one of my most O. M. Berg valuable tools. If a friend asked to borrow my only copy I think I would require a $20 deposit just to be sure I got it back! CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements appropriate to The Ministry, appearing under this heading, $4.50 for first 2500 BEST MODERN ILLUSTRATIONS, G. B. F. Hallock, Harper & Broth 40 words or less, 5 cents each additional word, including initials and address, per insertion. ers Publishers, New York, 1935. Cash required with order. Address The Min istry, 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, Reverend Hallock was probably the world's best-known compiler of D.C. 20012, U.S.A. experiences, incidents, anecdotes, and gems for illustrative use. He was the editor in charge of Doran Ministers' Manuals for many years. He has THOUSANDS OF "HARD TO FIND" prepared many volumes of the kind under review, but I don't think there THEOLOGICAL BOOKS and sets now is a better one than this. in stock. Write for free catalog. Com plete libraries purchased. Kregel©s Bookstore, Dept. M., P.O. Box 2607, ELLEN G. WHITE MESSENGER TO THE REMNANT, Arthur L. White, Review and Herald Pub. Assn., Washington, D.C., 1969. Grand Rapids, MI 49501. This is a collection of five brochures originally appearing as articles in PERMANENT-PRESSED BAPTISMAL Ministry magazine, 1935, 1936, issues. Pamphlet #5, The Human Interest ROBES full-cut, weighted, zip- Story, relates many fascinating accounts about Ellen White's home life. pered. Six sizes available; ministers© This material will provide inspirational prayer meeting resources. The robes made to order. More than 25 Ellen G. White Books and Prophetic Guidance in the Early Days will colors. Color card sent only if re perhaps be most stimulating to the average reader. The story of how the quested. For details write ROBES, nine volumes of the Testimonies and the five books in the Conflict Series 1017 Westview Terrace, Dover, DE were written is fascinating. And the review of the development of doc 19901. trine in the Sabbath conference of 1848 portrays the actual historical scenes in some depth. The quotations are most useful. This is one of the By most valuable books in the possession of the denomination and in its field Arnold Carl Westphal is a must. All six books $10.00 postpaid ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, Arthur W. •paper^ Spalding, Review and Herald Pub. Assn., Washington, D.C., 1961. Tå.^^L. for 2 samp ) e chapters This four-volume set appeared originally as Captains of the Host and Include stamp Christ's Last Legion, two books dividing the history of the SDA Church at . . the 1900 date, a sort of Adventist A.D. and B.C. There just isn't another And 3 others set of books like it and it should be read through as a story. Source book it is, but it is more than references. Spalding's grand style makes the story VISUAL EVANGELS a brilliant mirror reflecting church life for nearly a century. Each book $2.20 i

AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 45 Shan^H^rtf&K^FUf talk^r^^B^B^WB Shop Talk is for the sharing of ideas for a more effective ministry. Please make contributions or queries brief—but do make them. Materials printed privately or offered through personal addresses are not endorsed by the church. 281 John 1:3 Nothing came into existence WORKING WITH JEHOVAH©S WITNESSES apart from Him. The Erichs found their Jehovah's Witness friends 288 Mark 2:28 He is Lord of the Sabbath. 293 John 14:6 He is the way, the truth, and the turned off when studying with them until they came life. upon the idea of using their own Bible, the New 305 Ps. 78:2 He illustrated the truth with World Translation of the Holy Scriptures. With the Matt. 13:34 parables. help of The Desire of Ages, and by comparing their translation with the King James version, they dis 320 1 Thess. 4:16-18 He will return. 328 Matt. 11:28-30 Jesus bears our burdens. covered more than one hundred texts about Christ 335 Mark 4:41 Even the wind and the sea obey in which the two translations are similar. There Him. after, in using the New World Translation they could 355 John 14:26 His Holy Spirit is our teacher. see the Holy Spirit working upon their hearts in 356 Rev. 5:11 He is surrounded by myriads of angels in heaven. helping them to understand the true nature of Christ. 363 Isa. 9:6 The government will be upon We use the Catholic Bible when studying with His shoulder. Catholics, why not use the Jehovah's Witness Bible 388 1 John 5:11, 12 He that has the Son has life. when studying with Jehovah's Witnesses? 390-391 Gal. 2:20 Christ lives in me. 396 1 John 2:4 We know Him by keeping His Here Mrs. Erich shares with us the texts about commandments. Christ that have been so helpful, giving also the 403 John 20:31 We have life through His name. page reference in The Desire of Ages. 406 Matt. 3:16, 17 God's Spirit was upon Him. 411-412 Matt. 16:16 Peter recognized Him as the Son of the living Cod. Page Text 413 1 Cor. 3:11 He is the sure foundation. 1 Peter 2:4-6 414 19 Micah 5:2 He existed from time indefinite 1 Cor. 11:3 The head of every man is Christ. (from days of eternity). 422 Heb. 9:28 He will appear the second time Matt. 1:23 His name was Immanuel—Cod for those who look for Him. with us. 451 John 6:51 He is the living bread. 20 Heb. 1:2 Through Him, Cod made the 476 John 10:14 He is the shepherd who knows worlds. all His sheep. 21 John 6:54-58 Feeding on Him, we have ever 483 John 10:16 His sheep listen to His voice. lasting life. 488 Acts 1:8 He commissioned His disciples 22 John 3:16 We cannot perish if we exercise to be His witnesses. faith in Him. 493 John 14:17 His Spirit dwells in us. 23 1 Tim. 3:16 He was made flesh and resided 511 Matt. 19:13-15 He blessed little children. among us. 536 John 11:43,44 He raised the dead. 24 John 14:8, 9 He is the express image of God. 569 Zech 9:9 He rode triumphantly into Jeru 25 John 1:14 Cod's only begotten Son. Matt. 21:1-11 salem. 26 Isa. 7:14 The virgin birth. Matt. 1:23 579 Mark 1:24 He is the Holy One of Cod. Matt. 1:21 He will save His people from 600 Rom. 1:4 He is Cod's Son with power. their sins. 659 John 14:27 He gives us His peace. 49 John 3:16 A gift of love. 660 John 6:53 We eat His flesh and drink His 51 John 1:29, 35, 36 He is the slain Lamb. blood. 1 Peter 1:19 661 1 Cor. 11:23-26 He instituted the communion Rev. 5:12 service. 55 Heb. 1:3 He is at the right hand of Cod. 662-672 John 14:13, 14 We are to pray to the Father in 56 Isa. 9:6 He is called Wonderful, Coun Jesus' name. selor, Mighty Cod, Eternal 669 John 14:21 He that loves Him will be loved Father, Prince of Peace. by His Father. Ps. 119:11 675-676 John 15:1, 5 He is the true vine, and we are Matt. 4:4, 6, 10 He knew the Scriptures. the branches. 109 Luke 4:18 Cod's Spirit was upon Him (Isa. 676 John 15:5-8 In union with Christ we bear 61:1). fruit. 119 Matt. 3:17 He pleased Cod. 706 Isa. 53:7 He uttered no word in self-de 131 Rev. 15:2, 3 On the sea of glass we'll sing Mark 14:60, 61 fense. the song of the Lamb. 139 John 1:41 The Messiah is Christ. 721-722 Ps. 41:9 Judas betrayed his Lord. 181 Col. 2:9 In Him is the fullness of God. Zech. 11-.12 198 Heb. 1:2 Cod speaks through Him. Matt. 26:14, 15 209 John 10:30 He is one with the Father. 746 Ps. 22:18 The soldiers cast lots for His gar 213 Deut. 8:15, 17, 18 He was a prophet like Moses. Matt. 27:35 ments. Acts. 3:20, 22 216-217 Isa. 35:5 Jesus rebuked disease. 749 Ps. 22:8 He saved others; not Himself. Matt. 11:5 Matt. 27:42 236-237 Isa. 11:1, 2 The Spirit of the Lord was upon 751 Luke 23:42, 43 He forgave the thief on the cross. Luke 4:16-20 Him. 753 1 John 2:1-4 He was sacrificed for the sins of the whole world. 277 John 14:16, 17 After His ascension He sent His 754 Ps. 22:1 He felt forsaken while on the Spirit to help. Matt. 27:46 cross.

46 THE MINISTRY / AUGUST, 1973 754-755 Ps. 69:21 He refused to drink the vinegar 799 Luke 16:31 The Saviour is revealed in the and gall. Old Testament as clearly as in Matt. 27:34 the New. 757 1 John 2:1 He is our helper in the heaven of 802-807 John 20:19 He brings peace and good will. heavens. 806-808 John 20:24-28 Thomas acknowledged Him as 773 Isa. 53:9 He was buried with the wicked God. Matt. 27:38, 57, 58, 60 and the rich. 819 Matt. 28:18 All authority was given Him. 821 Acts 1:8 His disciples were to have power 785 John 10:17, 18 He possessed power to break to be His witnesses. John 2:19-22 the bonds of death. 827 Acts 1:8 His disciples were filled with His Spirit. 786 1 Thess. 4:14-18 His resurrection is a type of the 829-835 Acts 1:9-12 He ascended from the Mount of resurrection of the righteous at Olives. His second coming. 834, 835 Rev. 5:11-13 He was received into heaven John 11:25 He is the resurrection and the and worshiped. life. John 3:18 Have faith in this name. 794 Luke 24:1-8 He arose from the dead. Acts 4:12 No salvation in anyone else.

Evangelists and pastors would William Collins Sons & Co., do well to keep a supply of these Ltd., is the publisher. The price on hand. Encourage the laymen is $7.95 for the hardbound cover also to use them at appropriate and $4.95 for paperback. times in their soul-winning work. Available through local Ad- ventist Book Centers at 50 cents each. JUNIOR BAPTISMAL MANUAL Pastors will be pleased to learn of the new baptismal manual for AN ECUMENICAL BIBLE junior youth. Prepared by Pastor Lawrence Nelson for the Youth Another Bible, The Revised Department of the church, it is a Standard Version, Common Bible, practical and Christ-centered is now available. This is an booklet. Based on the author's LEADING SOULS TO DECISION "ecumenical edition" of the Re conviction that the junior must vised Standard Version, the result first of all become acquainted Veteran Evangelist J. L. Shuler of long collaboration on the part with Jesus as his personal Saviour, has authored a new 64-page of Protestants and Roman Catho the emphasis is on the funda booklet, When God Intervenes. lics. mentals of conversion. The In ten very readable chapters he FoUowing the RSV Old Testa identifying characteristics of the discusses by vivid illustrations ment there appears what to church and the doctrines that from both the Old and the New Catholics are the "deuteroca- follow are in the setting of the Testaments and from his own nonical" books, accepted by them three angels' messages. rich background of 67 years of as inspired and canonical, along The final section, "Some Ques leading souls to Christ, just how with the rest of the Bible. These tions Answered," lists 26 often- God intervenes in the lives of men are Tobit, Judith, Additions to asked questions concerning the and women to lead them to sal Esther, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, Christian life, together with an vation. Baruch, Additions to Daniel, and swers from the Spirit of Prophecy. This book was written with a 1 and 2 Maccabees. These 64-page manuals are direct purpose in mind—that it After an explanation suitable to available through your local would be instrumental in helping both Catholics and Protestants Adventist Book Center. those that have become familiar there follow the three additional with our message to make the books regarded by Protestants as final decision to be baptized and also Apocryphal, along with the unite with God's commandment- former, and as noncanonical by keeping people. Catholics. These are 1 and 2 Few among us, if any, are better Esdras and the Prayer of Manas- qualified to speak on this im seh. The books of the RSV New portant subject of leading souls to Testament follow. decision. And all of us know many The book of Esther is given twice, who have become acquainted as it regularly appears in Protes with our message but have never tant Bibles and again with extra fully decided to step out in faith parts from the Greek text, among to follow it. The many true-life the deuterocanonical books. illustrations, both Biblical and The extra portions of Daniel— from the author's own experience, Song of the Three Young Men, will speak to the hearts of those Sussanna, and Bel and the Dragon FOR JUNIOR YOUTH who read. —are printed by themselves.

AUGUST, 1973 / THE MINISTRY 47 News briefs Unless otherwise credited, the following news items are taken irom Religious News Service.

Genesis-Evolution "Equal Time" Minneapolis Evangelicals Deplore Holiness Association Delegates Is Now Law in Tennessee "Moral Vacuum" in U.S. Education Told Glossolalia Is of Minor Import A new law requiring biology books The Greater Minneapolis Associa Glossolalia, the phenomenon of in Tennessee schools to give the tion of Evangelicals (GMAE) has de speaking in tongues, was considered Biblical accounts of creation equal plored a "religious and moral vac to be of minor importance by two space with evolution 'went into effect uum" that is developing "in much of speakers at the 105th annual meeting in Nashville. Under the law, all biol our educational system today." At of the Christian Holiness Association ogy books used in public schools, be the same time, it protested the in in Portland, Oregon. Wilber F. Day ginning in 1975, must teach evolu creased attention which it said is be ton, president of Houghton (N.Y.) tion only as a theory of creation. ing given the occult and psychic College, a Wesleyan Church school, Equal space must be given to alterna phenomena in both public and pri and Richard S. Toy lor, professor of tive views, including the Genesis ac vate schools. missions and Christian theology at count. Christians, it said, should avoid Nazarene Theological Seminary, participation in "spiritistic experi Kansas City, Missouri, discussed ments" and oppose instruction in spir speaking in tongues and other gifts New Organization to Combat Anti- itism in the public schools. Where of the Holy Spirit. Catholic Prejudice public schools offer instruction in the A general rule regarding tongue occult, Christians should be given speaking, Mr. Dayton suggested, Taking such organizations as the equal opportunity to teach the Chris "seems to be that when [tongues] Jewish Anti-Defamation League and tian viewpoint with regard to spirit are not sought they are not experi the NAACP as models, a group of phenomena, it declared. enced." He asserted that "the out Catholic priests and laymen have pouring of the Holy Spirit is practically formed an organization designed to never accompanied by tongues in combat anti-Catholic prejudice. Campus Crusade's Goal: modern times except where people Stuart D. Hubbell, a lawyer from Recruit 100,000 by 1980 have been taught to seek and expect Traverse City, Michigan, who will them." In the Bible, the educator serve as part-time executive director, An international missionary effort said, "there is no whisper of tongues said recent judicial decisions had led aimed at recruiting 100,000 men and in the recorded words of Jesus or in to the decision to form the "Catholic women for Christian service by the the four Gospels aside from a passing League for Religious and Civil year 1980 has been launched by reference of uncertain meaning in Rights." "Many Catholics fear that Campus Crusade for Christ Interna the disputed long ending of Mark. . . . these [court] decisions are an expres tional. Called The Agape Movement, In Acts we find the only three re sion of judicial anti-Catholicism," he its initial project involves the training ported historical events of tongues in said. of 1,000 men and women to serve in the New Testament. There is no South Korea at the invitation of that command, exhortation, promise, sug country's government. The mission gestion or evaluation, simply the workers will teach English using the Truck in 33-Vehicle Accident historical statement that people so Bible and Campus Crusade litera Violated Lord's Day Law spoke." ture, and will serve as professional Because it's illegal for trucks and doctors, nurses, and agriculture transport vehicles to be on the road workers. between 10:00 P.M. Saturday and CHANGE OF ADDRESS 10:00 P.M. Sunday, the driver and owner of a truck involved in a 12- ills |0 Embrace of Pope, Patriarch Indicates *" o^ 1 death crash are being charged under C 01 End of Separation -y *J g O C Canada's Lord's Day Act of 1906. On $ ,*• 8 O) 1" tario police reported that a small car Pope Paul VI and His Holiness a < -C _ Ol T went out of control while trying to Amba Shenouda III, Coptic Orthodox < ll u. "« o.Sc £ U if pass another vehicle during a snow O S £;5 . ( C ,. Patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, em i° storm, setting off chain reaction acci TJ _ 2 W N braced in St. Peter's Basilica before g "g C 3o *c dents involving 33 vehicles. a High Mass marking the 1,600th ^__ o James New, 29, who was driving the •QO'C Q. anniversary of the death of St. Atha- — o ^ D S W tractor-trailer loaded -with lumber, nasius, church father and bishop of w"0 v- 3 I _ and its owner, Roily Truchon, of 3 O o* c ^* 5 Alexandria from 328-373. The ges >> >*'~ ^ £ < •^ North Bay, Ontario, have been ture was symbolic of a mutual desire •a .1 1 § | t og charged with operating a commercial to heal 15 centuries of separation be 10 . "~ JP 0 vehicle on Sunday. The driver could tween the Church of Rome and the I? be fined $1 to $40, the owner from Coptic Orthodox Church. The spiritual 1 > I" 4- § o-"§« s- -£ u $20 to $100. Under the Lord's Day leader of the world's 22 million Coptic O C S C 0 Act, only vehicles hauling perishable Christians sat by the Roman Pontiff 0) U TS goods or livestock, under conditions during a two-hour service and joined — « QJ "jj « "^ £$ of "necessity or mercy," may operate the Pope in blessing the congrega OS* 01 I * * -55 on Sundays. tion. 5^5o 2 2 i3 <£

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