Adventists and Politics

The Editor Interviews H. M. S. Richards

What Scientists Can and Cannot Do

Architecture of

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ministry VOL. 49, NO. 10 Begin the Millennium During International Journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Ministry This Quinquennium 4 G. RALPH THOMPSON Editorial Director: Interview With H. M. S. Richards 5 EDITOR N. R. Dower Editor: Parleying With God 8 ROBERT H. PIERSON J. R. Spangler Executive Editors: Adventists and Politics 9 MERVYN MAXWELL O. M. Berg Leo R. Van Dolson Pastors, Know Your Hymnals 12 HAROLD B. H ANNUM Associate Editors: E. E. Cleveland R. Dederen What Scientists Can and A. E. Schmidt Health Editor: Cannot Do 13 LEONARD BRAND J. Wayne McFarland, M.D. Associate Health Editors: Architecture of Participation 18 NEVILLE CLOUTEN Marjorie Baldwin, M.D. Herald Habenicht, M.D. Fifty Years of Summer Mervyn Hardinge, M.D. Allan Magie

Evangelism 22 RON M. WISBEY Editorial Assistant: Marta Hilliard Will Diane Get a Call? 24 ROSALIE H. LEE Editorial Secretaries: Nan Harris Dorothy Montgomery Better Living Evangelism 26 DAVID LAWSON Designer: Gert Busch Long Livers Have Healthy Livers 31 ALLAN R. MAGIE

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Unsolicited manuscripts are 40 Messianic Mileposts 45 Shop Talk welcome, but will be accepted without remuneration and will be returned only if accompanied 46 Recommended Reading 29 Spotlight on Health by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 2/The Ministry/October, 1976 Several letters recently received sug meeting of the board of elders or church gest that the communion services really editorial board after each service to discuss how amount to quarterly desecration serv the next one can be better still. ices. Of all services of the year these 6. Announce, and publicize through should be the most beautiful, the most The the church newsletter, if the church has inspiring, and the most carefully con one, at least two Sabbaths in advance ducted. When handling the emblems of Quarterly when the service will be held, emphasiz our Lord we are indeed dealing with tteseeration ing its importance and urging all to holy things. plan to be present and to prepare their There are two extremes to avoid. On Service hearts for the blessings to be received. the one hand the ritual may be so well As for the emblems used in the com organized and executed as to appear munion service, there should be no rigid and formal. The deacons will march question but that the bread is prepared in goose step with all the finesse of the without leaven and the wine is unfer- military. All they lack are uniforms, mented. Having commented on the un braid, and combat boots. The elements leavened bread and the unfermented are served with such proficiency as to wine, Ellen White states clearly, "These cause members and visitors alike to be emblems Christ employs to represent thoroughly impressed. Needless to say, His own unblemished sacrifice. Nothing the attention is on the performers, not corrupted by fermentation, the symbol on the elements designed to proclaim of sin and death, could represent the "the Lord©s death till he come." ©Lamb without blemish and without The other extreme is much more com spot.© "—The Desire of Ages, p. 653. mon in our churches. In such instances We must also keep in mind that the there is little if any preparation at all. communion service should always be Neither the deacons nor the elders know preceded by the ordinance of foot wash until the last minute what part, if any, ing, except, of course, in those instances they are to have. This usually upsets where it is administered to the sick in a those who are concerned about doing private service. Again, the counsel is their best for the Lord, and so the spirit clear. "This ordinance is Christ©s ap that should characterize the service is pointed preparation for the sacramental marred from the start. Up front the pas service. While pride, variance, and tor and elders fumble and hesitate, not strife for supremacy are cherished, the knowing exactly what routine to follow. heart cannot enter into fellowship with So also the deacons. At the last minute, Christ. We are not prepared to receive perhaps when they are already at the the communion of His body and His front receiving the bread, it is realized blood. Therefore it was that Jesus ap that no decision has been made as to pointed the memorial of His humiliation who will serve the pianist, or the choir. to be first observed." Ibid, p. 650. There is no thought-out plan as to how Great care should also be given to the the trays are to be received, how the em manner in which the foot-washing serv blems are to be served, or how the trays ice is conducted. The deacons and dea are to be returned. conesses need to understand clearly how We recognize that these are extreme they are to serve. Careful instruction situations. Still, the importance of the should be given so that embarrassing or communion service seems to warrant uncouth situations will be avoided such our bringing it to the attention of all. as took place in one service I attended. Even in small congregations, the com Immediately following the service the munion service should be well planned leftover water was thrown out the open and inspiringly carried out. This being window. I was aghast, and then I met my so, the following suggestions may be wife who informed me that the water helpful. used by the women was thrown out the 1. Rehearse periodically, preferably front door of the church toward the before each quarterly service. nearby main street. 2. Each person participating should Wherever they exist, let our desecra be informed well in advance as to ex tion services be changed into the spirit actly what his or her function will be. ual services they are intended to be. 3. Dress appropriately. See "By His Side," Rightly conducted, these precious oc 4. The trays should always be carried pages 38, 39, for casions will do much to elevate the spir with both hands. (This should be true suggestions on ituality of our members. They will also also of the offering plates whenever of enriching the be the best attended of all the services ferings are received.) communion of the year. 5. Have a feedback session in the service. O. M. B. The Ministry/October, 1976/3 created by our multifaceted church Begin theMittennium program. Hasn©t the time come for us as a church to zero in on this neglected area During This of our evangelistic approach? I believe Qnlnqnennlnm that we could easily double our soul- winning results if we concentrated more on following up the interests. No one pastor can ever, of course, do THE CHALLENGE electrified us at all of this. But then again, he is not G. RALPH expected to. The whole church working Annual Council ©75. It has since been THOMPSON passed on to those in attendance at di together on a detailed plan for the com vision, union, and conference year-end munity can do it. In many places the committee and workers© meetings. It is Sabbath school class is becoming the the challenge to a finished work in this basic unit in soul-winning outreach. The quinquennium. This challenge must community is divided up into various reach every member of the Seventh-day sections, and a systematic plan of ap Adventist Church in all the world if it proach is put into operation. is to be more than a mere slogan. In this plan for finishing the work all "Finishing the work" can easily be departments of the church must be in come just a worn-out, hackneyed cliche volved and work together. This is inter or an empty shibboleth of Adventist par departmental, coordinated, every-mem lance, which we bandy about when we ber evangelism. Not everyone can stand gather in various meetings. Or it can in the pulpit and preach a sermon, but become much more than that. everyone is preaching a sermon daily During this quinquennium, under as he or she comes in contact with people God, "finishing the work" must become everywhere. Everyone can and must do the motivating force of our activities, something. the raison d'etre of our existence, the This challenge of a finished work sine qua non of our ministry. necessitates complete dedication on the If we really believe that the Lord is part of every Seventh-day Adventist. coming soon, then as workers together There is both inreach and outreach. with God, isn©t it time for us to be deeply The work must be "finished" in my in earnest about this business of a own heart and life before I attempt to finished work? "finish" it in somebody else©s. We must The challenge that conies to us is to practice what we preach. We must confront every man, woman, boy, and possess what we profess. We can©t share girl on Planet Earth with some aspect what we don©t know. of the Seventh-day Adventist witness If every one of us as workers and during this five-year period. That©s, of church members would really live this course, an impossible task for man. But truth what tremendous results would with God all things are possible. If be seen both in the church and in the every member of this church could be world! The impact of nearly 3 million really involved in a witnessing program Adventists, whose sins have been for for Christ and His message, what tre given and covered by the precious blood mendous results would be seen all over of Jesus Christ, and who are walking the world! What an army of evangelistic daily in close communion with the Lord, workers this would be! They must be would be irresistible. led, directed, and motivated. This pre Our Heaven-directed, Spirit-filled sents a challenge to us as leaders. witness would result in a fantastic Besides the millions who have never evangelistic explosion all over the heard of this blessed message the world, for the world will be convinced commandments of God and the faith of not so much by what the church says, Jesus are many millions more who but by how the church lives. have had some contact with Adventism When there is no longer a credibility but have never been followed up. gap between our proclamation and our Probably one of the most neglected practice, the challenge of a finished areas in our soul winning is that of work will become not just a figment of the imagination, not just an impossible follow-up. We have the interests created G. Ralph by our evangelistic literature, media Thompson dream, not just an exercise in futility, programs, Bible school enrollments, is a vice- but a glorious and thrilling reality chaplains© contacts in hospitals, health president through the power of the indwelling programs, and thousands of Ingathering of the General Christ. Let©s begin the millennium dur contacts, as well as other interests Conference. ing this quinquennium. II 4/The Ministry/October, 1976 as a sweet, old motherlike woman. She had a big floppy Bible, and just as she be gan to talk, it began to rain. You can imagine the noise it made on that iron roof. She had no amplifier, but she did have a tremendous preaching voice. It was just like a silver bell. You could hear it right through all that rain on the iron roof. She talked for about thirty minutes, using more than one hundred texts. She©d turn to the texts in her Bible, but she didn©t stop to look and read. She knew and quoted every text she used. One text just after another. It just came as natural as part of her speech. After about thirty minutes, Willie White came up behind her and said, "Now, Mother, we©ve got a long journey ahead." That was their first stop from California, you see. "You©ve got meet ing, after meeting, after meeting doz ens of towns and long journeys, and we don©t want you to overdo and get tired." She replied, "I don©t want to stop yet. I haven©t prayed yet; I want to pray first." The Editor^ Interviews So she talked for about three minutes more and then knelt down on the plat H. M. S. Richards form and began to pray. Her first words were, "Oh, my Father." She didn©t say "Our Father"; it was "my Father." Within two minutes there was a mighty Q. When you were a boy you saw power that came over that whole place Ellen White personally, didn©t you? a great power. I was afraid to look up for Can you tell me a little bit about her? fear I©d see that God was standing right A. Yes, when my brother and I were What Has the there. She was talking to Him. She©d forgotten all about us. She only prayed little boys she came to Denver and Spirit of talked with Father and Mother. My about five or six minutes at the most, Prophecy but as she prayed there were sobs all brother sat on one side of her and I on Meant in Your the other, and she talked to us, too. I over that audience people weeping don©t remember much about what she Life? over their sins. She wasn©t even looking said, but when I was about 16 we had a at them. She was down on her knees camp meeting in Boulder, Colorado, with her eyes closed while praying, and where the campus of the University of Heaven came down and touched the Colorado is now. There was a big octa earth, and God honored her as His gon building with an iron roof that prophet. seated about 1,000 people. The Advent- Q. That personal experience con ist population of Colorado then was only vinced you that she was a prophet? about 500, and there were probably A. Yes. I know all the arguments about 250 there at that meeting. But that why there should be a prophet, and I be day the building was packed. People of lieve them. But if we didn©t have a single all faiths were interested in seeing the one of them, I©d still believe that she Adventist prophet. was God©s prophet because of what I Q. What year was that? saw. It was one of the turning points in A. It was 1909. She died in 1915. I my life. I©ve never doubted her since. A don©t remember her subject, but I was revival broke out. Those Baptists, Meth one of the boys who put the furniture in odists, Catholics, and Adventists were the tents. all weeping over their sins. You know She wore a long, black silk dress. She she was a great revivalist, but she didn©t wore good material, very plain a little H. M. S. Richards, get up and harangue the crowd. She white around her wrists and around her Sr., is the founder prayed, and men took their stand and throat. On her head was a little motherly of the Voice of some of them became preachers. She cap over her gray hair. I remember her Prophecy. was a humble woman. She kept her The Ministry/October, 1976/5 place as a mother in Israel. She was like Q. Do you have any suggestions as the prophetesses Deborah and Huldah to how a minister should use the in the Bible. Spirit of Prophecy? Sometimes we Q. What you have just said is really are accused of using it as a club. quite impressive because today A. And sometimes we do. Ellen White there are so many attacks on Ellen never used it that way. In fact, she White and questions about her. You warns against such misuse. Let me tell know, for instance, she is accused of you what she told my father. One day plagiarism, of absorbing or selecting when he was pastor of the Denver church the ideas and concepts of others. he got up to preach, and before he even A. Well, what if she did? gave out his text Sister White, Willie, Q. Such charges do bother some and Miss McEnterfer came in. He didn©t people. How do you deal with those even know she was in the country. Fa who raise these kind of questions? ther, of course, welcomed them and in A. I tell them just what Willie White vited Ellen and Willie White up on the said to me, that just like any person who platform and asked her to speak. She was quite sensitive, she could remem answered, "Now, Brother Richards, did ber much of what she felt and heard as you plan to speak today?" He was just a she listened to or read what others had young man then and exclaimed, "Oh, to say. So Ellen couldn©t help using yes, but I didn©t know you were coming." many of the things she was exposed to. "Well, did you ask God to give you some She©s accused of using some of the ma thing to speak about?" "Yes." "And did terial from a book on the life of Paul, you feel that He gave you something? and, of course, she did. But she asked her Did you study and pray about it?" He editors to put in the quotes for her. They answered "Yes." "Why," she said, "I neglected to do so, and she©s been blamed. wouldn©t think of preaching." And she Actually, what we call copyright wasn©t sat right there behind him. Afterward, very closely monitored in those days. instead of picking fault with him and People didn©t think so much about it. criticizing his immature efforts, she After all, you find things written by some took him off to one side and told him that of the Bible writers that were just like the message was a blessing to her. others, don©t you? Then she added, "Brother Richards, Q. Tell us what the Spirit of Proph if you keep using your voice the way you ecy has meant to you in your life and do, you©re going to die." My father had in your preaching? one cold after another and sore throats A. I©ve preached all my life under the all the time. His colds would settle right wonderful conviction that this move down in his chest. I©ve seen him down ment was predicted in the prophecies. on his hands and knees coughing until Part of those predictions is that the last he nearly died. Ellen White took fifteen church should have the Spirit of Proph minutes that day to teach him how to ecy, and I©m a part of the last church, and breathe and how to speak. And Father we have the Spirit of Prophecy. It gives told me, "I©ve learned more from Sister me great confidence. In fact, I wouldn©t White in fifteen minutes than I did in want to belong to a church that didn©t my whole course in public speaking at have the Spirit of Prophecy. Battle Creek College." She told him to Now what has it really done for me? throw his voice out and to use his ab One man who constantly fought and dominal muscles. I learned the same picked at the Spirit of Prophecy was talk thing from my dad, and I©m telling you it ing to my father once, and my father changed everything. You know I haven©t couldn©t seem to help him. He wouldn©t had a cold or a sore throat more than listen to anything but his own loud once or twice in the past twenty years. mouth. Finally, my father said to him, When she had finished her breathing "Well, I guess we can©t agree, but before lesson, my father asked her, "Now, Sister you go, would you please tell me one White, there©s something else that I©d thing and really be honest with me. like to find out. How should I use your When you read these books that you©ve writings in preaching?" She replied, found fault with, what©s the general "Here©s the way to use them. First, ask tendency of them? Is it to make you a God to give you your subject. When you better man or a worse man?" "Oh," he have the subject chosen, then go to the said, "a better man, of course." "Well, Bible until you know for sure what the that©s all I wanted to know. That©s all I Bible really teaches on that point. After care about," my father said. You get the that, turn to the writings and see what point. you can find on the same subject and 6/The Ministry/October, 1976 read that. It may cast light on it or guide meeting when I heard her pray. That you into other scriptures or make some isn©t to say there aren©t things that I point clearer. When you go to the peo don©t understand. There are, of course, ple, however, preach to them out of the but there are also things in the Bible I Bible." don©t understand. You know, when Paul Q. What books or passages on the found that Timothy was having diffi Spirit of Prophecy have meant the culty understanding him, he counseled, most to you? "Consider what I say." A. It©s very hard for me to choose be I heard Brother Andreasen tell how, tween The Desire of Ages and Steps to when he was studying the Bible and the Christ. To my mind, The Desire of Ages Spirit of Prophecy one day, he read in is one of the greatest books ever written. The Desire of Ages that when Jesus came You can©t read it without weeping at near the city of Jericho, Zacchaeus times I can©t. Of course, Steps to Christ climbed up a fig tree. A fig tree, Sister is wonderful. She wrote it long before White says. "Why," he said, "there©s a the majority of our preachers really un contradiction. The Bible says that he derstood righteousness by faith. My fa climbed up a sycomore tree. Now," he ther was a young intern at that time. said, "it looks like I©ll have to give up the That was about 1888-1890. When some second coming of Christ, the state of the say that the church didn©t receive that dead, and the Spirit of Prophecy because message, I know that©s not true. Some Zacchaeus climbed the wrong tree." didn©t, of course. But the church as a Then one day he was reading the book whole did not reject it. There were some of Amos, chapter 7, verse 14. There leaders that were actively against it. Amos says, "I was no prophet, neither Pastor Morrison, the only Ph.D. in the was I a prophet©s son, but... a gatherer denomination then, I believe, was my of sycomore fruit." The margin says father©s president. At first he didn©t ac "wild figs." "Oh, now," Andreasen said, cept it. He thought it was something "they are both right. So I don©t have to like the Holy Rollers. But when he under give up the faith. It©s the same kind of stood what it was really all about a year tree!" or two later he wanted all his ministers Here©s what I base my advice on to who could possibly go to attend the school fellows who find things in the Spirit of for ministers being held that winter at Prophecy that they can©t understand. Battle Creek. There wasn©t room in the I©ve had a number of them that have college so they used the Tabernacle. been cleared up for me. There are some And who were the teachers? Jones, that I don©t understand yet. But I be Waggoner, Prescott, Uriah Smith, and lieve in the gift enough to believe that Sister White. it©s just like the Bible. I believe the Bible My father said he wanted to go, so is God©s word, but I must confess that Pastor Morrison gave him $50 and said, there are things that Paul said that I "When that©s up, I©ll send you some don©t understand. Even Peter said that more. I want you to go if you can." My there were some things hard to under father lived on apples and oatmeal all stand in Paul©s writings that the un winter and attended those meetings. learned twist to their own destruction. He said they had no textbook but the So I don©t want to twist things to my own Bible. Right in the middle of class some destruction. times a revival would break out and Q. Brother Richards, thank you might last anywhere from forty-five for sharing the inspiration of your minutes to four hours. Students and own strong faith with thousands of teachers both confessed their sins. They our ministers around the world field. had wonderful revivals. My father knew Do you have a final word for these Romans backward and forward, and workers? Galatians, too, because he©d been A. It©s only through God that we have through those classes. Sister White the strength to accomplish God©s work. capped it off and placed her approval on Ellen White demonstrated that in her the whole thing. These men went back to life. We should, as preachers, not try to their conferences and carried that mes make big things of ourselves. But we can sage back to the ones who couldn©t go. say with the famous poet Charles Kings- Q. Now let me ask you this. Have ley: "Be good, . . . and let who will be there ever been any doubts whatever clever. Do noble things, not dream them, in your mind about the authenticity all day long: And so make life, death, of the gift of prophecy? and that vast forever, one grand, sweet A. No, there haven©t. Not since that song." II The Ministry/October, 1976/7 until recent years. When we don©t like f©wfl©f/ffff/ "rationalize" or "compromise" shady implications of deviation we talk about "de-emphasizing" certain things. When we wish to gain favor with those With God not of our faith, we begin to de-empha size our differences. "Let©s get closer together." Let©s play down our differ ences. After all, maybe some of these points aren©t so important. We don©t "AND SAMUEL said, What meaneth From One Leader change we just de-emphasize the then this bleating of the sheep in mine to Another sanctuary, the judgment, and some of ears, and the lowing of the oxen which our distinctive truths. I hear?" (1 Sam. 15:14). From a source I can no longer identify The words are familiar to us. God told I read these words on rationalizing: Saul to destroy everything people and "While addressing the World Council livestock, everything that pertained to of Churches in New Delhi in 1961, the the Amalekites. He was to spare noth late Prime Minister Nehru said: ©The ing. But Saul reasoned that it was all politician is constantly inclined to com right to spare Agag the king and some promise. Sometimes this might be all of the best of the cattle. right for him, but once you begin to You remember how Saul rationalized compromise it is a slippery path. Every his deviation from the direct command step seems a small step, and yet it takes of God. He was sure the Lord would not you further away from your basic object to his saving some of the animals Robert H. Pierson position. By contrast, the true man of for sacrifice this was part of worship. religion will stick to the truth as he Having Agag around, Saul reasoned, sees it regardless of the consequences.©" would be a constant testimony to the What sobering words for us to ponder living God and His power to deliver His prayerfully. Dare we hold a lower people. standard than a non-Christian politi The reasoning humanly speaking cian? was fine. The problem was, Saul was not There are some gray areas where the doing what the Lord told him plainly issues are not altogether clear cut. It and specifically to do. He was rational is agonizing to make some decisions. izing! How much we need the wisdom of the According to the dictionary, to ration Lord to help us at such times. alize is "to produce plausible but untrue But let©s face it sometimes it is more reasons for conduct ... to substitute a comfortable to follow the path of least natural for a supernatural explana resistance. Any other course will bring tion." on disagreement, opposition, frustra It is too easy to "explain away" what tion, unpleasantness, or we may be sus God says if we want to do something pected of fanaticism. How we fear that different, or if another way appears to label in this sophisticated age! be easier and does not rock the boat too Then that insidious little demon of much and the consequences are not too rationalization commences his hellish dire. The rationalizing person who does work "Perhaps the servant of the not wish to follow exactly the counsel Lord didn©t mean what she said. Perhaps God gives and yet wishes to "do what there were time and setting factors that God wants him to do" does not deny that influenced her. If she were living today, God has given the counsel he just at possibly she would look at things dif tempts to explain away that counsel. ferently. It is better to have peace and He convinces himself that a way short harmony than to have everything upset of God©s explicit direction is acceptable in disunity. The time hasn©t come yet to the Lord and is really all right to for us to get excited about these things." follow. So we hang another harp on our wil Saul wanted to keep the sheep and low tree. We write another "Ichabod" cattle, so he rationalized himself into over the lintel of God©s glorious house of truth and righteousness. believing there was really nothing Robert H. Pierson wrong in doing so. Do we do the same in is president Instead of the bleating of sheep in our making some of our decisions? of the General ears, let us make His Word and the We speak of "de-emphasis" today in Conference Spirit of Prophecy our court of final stead of rationalization and compro of Seventh-day appeal. "Whatsoever he saith unto you, mise. We didn©t hear much of the word Adventists. do it" (John 2:5). II 8/The Ministry/October, 1976 THE PRESIDENTIAL election has dressed were to pass the word along to C. MERVYN once more made politics a topic of ab MAXWELL all Seventh-day Adventists. sorbing interest in the United States. What reasons are given? Basically, It seems appropriate to take another the article emphasizes that God wants look at Ellen White©s statements about Adventists to eschew politics in order to political activity among Seventh-day spare themselves avoidable controversy Adventists. and improper worldly alliances and to One of these statements, "Special keep themselves free to proclaim the Testimony Relating to Politics," pub third angel©s message. lished in Fundamentals of Christian Was this type of counsel applicable Education, pages 475-484, contains the only to a temporary situation or is it to words, "The Lord would have His peo be taken as representing enduring prin ple bury political questions. On these ciple? themes silence is eloquence." Page Numerous expressions in the docu 475. ment have at least the semblance of This particular testimony is found in permanence. For example: "God calls a compilation on education and begins to His people, saying, ©Come out from with the salutation, "To the Teachers among them, and be ye separate.© He and Managers of Our Schools." Internal asks that the love which He has shown evidence indicates, however, that it was for them may be reciprocated and re intended for a wider audience than ed vealed by willing obedience to His com ucators. The sentence just quoted refers mandments. His children are to sep to "His people." Other phrases like arate themselves from politics, from these occur: "Those who are Christians any alliance with unbelievers." Ibid., indeed . .. will not wear political badges, p. 483. Again: "The Lord speaks of but the badge of Christ" (page 476); those who claim to believe the truth for "All who bear the message for these this time, yet see nothing inconsistent last days . . ." (page 482); and "All who in their taking part in politics, mingling have received Christ, ministers and lay with the contending elements of these members . . ." (page 483). last days, as the circumcised who min The evidence appears to be that this gle with the uncircumcised, and He special testimony was not intended for C. Mervyn Max declares that He will destroy both ministers and teachers alone, or for the well, Ph.D., is pro classes together without distinction. church "as a whole," but for every con fessor of church They are doing a work that God has not secrated church member. The teachers history at Andrews set them to do." Ibid., p. 482. And and administrators to whom it was ad- University. again: "His people are to possess the The Ministry/October, 1976/9 but by the implanting of Christ©s nature in humanity through the work of the Holy Spirit." In 1899, the same year in which the Fundamentals testimony appeared, a testimony to the Battle Creek church exclaimed, "Christianity—how many there are who do not know what it is! It is not something put on the outside. It is a life inwrought with the life of Jesus. It means that we are wearing the robe of Christ©s righteousness. In regard to the world, Christians will say, We will not dabble in politics. They will say de cidedly, We are pilgrims and strangers; our citizenship is above." Testimonies to Ministers, p. 131. Historical perspective may help. When Mrs. White was writing the ma terials quoted here the industrial rev olution was giving birth to America©s urban explosion. Monopolistic enter prises sought cheap labor by luring unskilled workers to the United States with promises of high-paying jobs. The elements of reconciliation. Is it their Poles, Italians, Czechoslovakians, and work to make enemies in the political others who responded found higher world? No, no. ... They are to carry wages all right, but they also found the burden of a special work, a special startlingly higher living costs and al message. . . . God does not call upon us most unbelievable working conditions. to enlarge our influence by mingling Even children were compelled by eco with society, by linking up with men nomic necessity to work twelve-hour on political questions, but by standing days, seven days a week in dangerous as individual parts of His great whole, factories. If a worker missed a day for with Christ as our head." Ibid., p. any reason he was liable to be fired. 479. Injustice bred violence, as in the The testimony under consideration bloody 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chi was written in 1899. The Desire of Ages cago, the Homestead strike of 1892 was published in 1898, one year earlier. (marked by a pitched battle), the Pull A famous passage therein (page 509) man strike of 1894 (when the railroads seems to lay down "enduring principle" from New York to Chicago were illu in the area of politics: mined by burning boxcars), and the "The government under which Jesus Cripple Creek war in the Colorado gold lived was corrupt and oppressive; on fields. every hand were crying abuses ex Leaders in the major denominations tortion, intolerance, and grinding lost confidence in the effectiveness of cruelty. Yet the Saviour attempted no the gospel. Seminaries were depopu civil reforms. He attacked no national lated as ministerial students quit the abuses, nor condemned the national ology to study for social-welfare de enemies. He did not interfere with the grees. Almost every sophisticated pulpit authority or administration of those in in the country demanded legislation to power. He who was our example kept improve working and living conditions. aloof from earthly governments. Not It is said that any book became a best because He was indifferent to the woes seller if its title contained the word of men, but because the remedy did not "social." lie in merely human and external meas Rural poverty at the same time often ures. To be efficient, the cure must reach resembled urban poverty, leading to men individually, and must regenerate Free Silver agitation. Racial injustice the heart. against poor blacks also provoked ex "Not by the decisions of courts or citement. American preachers voiced councils or legislative assemblies, not their convictions in these areas also, by the patronage of worldly great men, demanding politically based reforms. is the kingdom of Christ established, American Seventh-day Adventists. 10/The Ministry/October, 1976 conservative in theology and over God calls us to conditions. Adventists are to manifest whelmingly Republican in political clear the decks the highest degree of social concern sympathies, saw the capital-labor, for action in through medical missionary work, rich man-poor man scene through their the one area broadly interpreted, and, supremely, by interpretation of James 5 and vigor preparing everyone possible for life in ously opposed many of the positions that really the new world where injustice and pov taken by the liberal churchmen of the matters. erty will never appear. Adventists day. Nonetheless, or perhaps, therefore, don't need to get involved directly in they too caught the political fever and ordinary politically based reforms, be it was this that led to the testimonies cause there are people even now work cited here. ing to bring about appropriate legisla tion. (We are told that already God has Not to Proclaim Political Views His agents at work in government to Ellen White encouraged voting under help Him pass good laws. See Testimo certain circumstances (see Selected nies, volume 1, page 203.) Adventists Messages, book 2, page 337), and she ought not to get involved in ordinary did not advise Adventists to ignore po politics, because (a.) party affiliation litical issues entirely. But she warned can block their Christian influence over them to keep their political views to persons of other political parties, (b.) themselves and not to proclaim them party differences within the church "by pen or voice" (ibid., pp. 336, 337). needlessly mute its witness to the uni Does this mean that Adventists fying power of the gospel, (c.) party should stand by and do nothing to re affiliation presupposes unlawful (2 Cor. lieve the conditions of the poor? On the 6) unity between believers and unbe contrary, it seems to mean that God lievers, and (d.) political activity, which calls them to clear the decks for action provides only superficial remedies at in the one area that really matters. best, sidetracks the believer from his "They are to carry the burden of a spe more effective potential. cial work, a special message. . . . God Ellen White seems to be saying that if does not call upon us to enlarge our in Adventists stay out of politics they can fluence by mingling with society, by be assured that the dim torch of social linking up with men on political ques advancement through legislation will tions, but by standing as individual be carried by other men and women; parts of His great whole, with Christ as but, she appears to ask, if Adventists our head." Fundamentals of Christian fail to proclaim the third angel©s mes Education, p. 479. sage with all possible tact and energy The downtrodden of every nation des who will perform this grand service perately need better living and working for the world? fl

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The Ministry/October, 1976/11 The tune is gay and cheerful, even trivial or flippant. Very few, if any, are Pastors^ Know led to think seriously of the judgment and their relation to it when their emo Your IIt/tn mils tions are delighted by the gay music. The solution, of course, is to have both words and music convey the same mean ing. The music should carry the same THREE STATEMENTS often made HAROLD B. or implied concerning church music HANNUM kind of mood or feeling that is expressed need clarification: by the words. This is true in Hymn 1, 1. Our professional musicians can "Before Jehovah©s Awful Throne," and never succeed in educating the masses Hymn 81, "O God, Our Help." There is to like that which musicians call good, no conflict in either of these hymns be worshipful music. tween words and music. 2. The words of sacred music are In the third statement cited, the im more effective than the music. practicability of teaching hymnody to 3. Good hymnody is impractical a few educated in Adventist schools im where there are no persons of sufficient plies that these courses do not take into skill to perform it. consideration the practical aspects as The first statement implies that edu found in our churches. If this is true it cation in worship music is bound not to is unfortunate. Good hymns and good succeed. Does that mean that we should church music are not so because of their all accept the status quo as the best that difficulty, complexity, or simplicity. can be accomplished in this important There are excellent hymns from the area of worship? It is inaccurate to de simplest to the most complex. Difficulty clare that the professional musician is and complexity are not the necessary the one who makes his choice of music characteristics of excellent hymns. good and worshipful. It is not the musi There are many examples of great cian who makes the music good or bad. hymns that are simple and within the He simply is able by his training and reach of all. insight to point out music of superior The solution to this problem is for the value for worship. minister to know his hymnal thor We depend on experts in various fields oughly. He then can lead his congrega to guide us. We trust the opinion of the tion in unaccompanied singing if neces doctor of medicine because he knows sary. For example, a most beautiful more than we do about the matter of hymn is No. 15, "All Glory, Laud, and health. No one is sufficiently knowledge Honor." The melody is simple. If the able in all fields to depend on his own minister knows the hymn there will be judgment. So the professional musician no problem in getting a congregation to (in the area of church music) naturally sing it. There are many hymns of sim is a safer guide for us in matters of good ilar quality within the reach of the most hymnody than an individual with no humble congregation. May the difficulty technical training. Maybe we like our be in a lack of knowledge of the contents own judgment so well that we do not of the hymnal? Or maybe there is an un want to change, even to something bet willingness to learn new hymns? ter. A congregation is at liberty to sing The second statement that word ap any song in the hymnal. There is no peal takes precedence over tune appeal prohibition against the use of any hymn. is true in only some cases. In evangelism Of course, they are not all of equal the words carry a personal message that musical value. A wise congregation will is most important. If the words are as not be satisfied to stay by a few familiar sociated with inferior music, for some songs, but will want to increase the the message of the words may be nulli number of hymns it uses. There should fied by the effect of the music. In the be an advance in knowledge of new and majority of individuals the music better hymns just as there is advance in reaches the emotions before the words all other Christian experiences. reach the mind. Some are not aware of We should avoid the defeatist atti the words being sung, because the pleas tude, that our congregations cannot ure of the music appeals most. Harold B. learn better hymns, or that we should A flagrant example of this conflict is Hannum is profes be satisfied with things as they are. The found in Hymn 538 (Church Hymnal). sor of music at professional musician skilled in church The words are serious, calling attention Loma Linda music can be a great blessing to the to "how shall we stand in the judgment." University. church. fil 12/The Ministry/October, 1976 people whose culture has long since science and religion ceased to exist. As he digs he finds sev Sponsored by Robert H. Brown eral pieces of glass, which look as though Geoscience Research Institute they might be part of a broken vase (Fig. 1). There are no intact vases of this type available for comparison, so if William wants to know what the vase looked like he will have to do his best to reconstruct it from the pieces that he has. These What S<©i<>tilis1s pieces of broken glass are his data— they are the only facts he has about the Can and vase. As long as they are isolated pieces of glass they are of little value, but Wil liam can now start to work on the second Cannot Do phase of his research interpreting the data. He can study the shape of each piece, and try to picture how the pieces could be positioned in relationship to MODERN SCIENCE has accom LEONARD plished marvels that seemed like impos BRAND each other to form part of a vase. In his sible dreams a few decades ago. Albert attempt to reconstruct the original Einstein determined that matter could shape of the vase he must use his imag be converted into energy, and the atomic ination and creativity, combined with all scientists did it. It now seems common he knows about other vases. If all of the place to have nuclear power plants pro pieces fit the finished reconstruction ducing electricity. Science has come up (Fig. 2) it can be accepted as a theory of with the knowledge and technology that how the vase looked. This is William©s made it possible to send men to the moon best estimate of the correct relationship and back, to transplant hearts from one between the isolated pieces of data. person to another, and to cure diseases The degree of accuracy of this theory that have plagued mankind for thou will depend on the skill and creativity sands of years. of William, and also on how much of the With a record like this can we help data is missing, as William must use his but wonder how it is possible for scien judgment to fill in the gaps. tists to be successful in so many lines of research, and yet be wrong in their be Margaret Disagrees lief in evolution? How can a few crea- William publishes the results of his tionists be right and all the rest of the research in a scientific journal so that scientists wrong? In spite of the problem his fellow scientists can benefit from the evident in these questions there are sim work he has done. Another archeologist, ple and logical reasons why we can be whom we will call Margaret, reads his lieve that the Bible teaching of Special publication and doesn©t agree with his Creation is intellectually reasonable. interpretation. How can she disagree? First, it is necessary to understand Wasn©t his work based on scientific how the scientific process works. All of facts? The pieces of glass are the only the various phases of scientific research facts, and she does not disagree with the can be grouped under two headings: (1) facts, or data, but only with William©s collecting data and (2) interpreting data. interpretation of those facts. If we had The conclusion that a scientist reaches all of the pieces of the vase they would from his research is based on the data, only fit together one way, like a jigsaw which is the more objective part of re puzzle. However, when most of the data search, and on his interpretation of what is missing, there will be uncertainty as the data means. Scientific research al to the correct interpretation, and the ways involve data and interpretation; more of the data that is missing, the either one is useless without the other. more room there will be for various in To help us visualize how this works we terpretations of the data by different will consider the relationship between scientists. data and interpretation in a specific re Margaret thinks the vase should be search project. An example from the taller, with two ridges around it instead field of archeology illustrates important Leonard Brand, of one. She successfully develops a re principles common to all fields of science. Ph.D., is chairman construction that fits her idea, and also Let us imagine a hypothetical archeol- of the Department fits all of the data that is available (Fig. ogist named William. He is uncovering of Biology at Loma 3). We now have two interpretations the ruins of an ancient city built by a Linda University. that fit the same data, and the only way The Ministry/October, 1976/13 to determine which is more correct is to our example by the pieces of glass. find more data. William and Margaret Other examples of data in various fields both do more research and are able to would include a set of fossil bones (pal find more pieces. Each one will then eontology), measurement of blood pres compare the new pieces to their theory, sure under various conditions (physiol to see if it fits. One of the pieces fits ogy), or measurements of the speed of Margaret©s theory, but not William©s. falling objects (physics). The other piece does not fit either the ory, so both theories must be revised. Data Must Be Interpreted A new theory is developed that fits all of The scientist must then interpret the the data that is now available (Fig. 4). data, or figure out what it means. Why This theory fits all of the original data are the fossil bones found where they plus the new data, so can we assume are. Why is the blood pressure different that it is correct? No, we cannot, because under different conditions. And why are there is still much missing data. If the objects falling at varying speeds? Margaret and William had access to the Scientific data almost never dictate the original they would see that it actually conclusion directly, but must be inter was different from their attempted re preted by the researcher. The interpre constructions. Actually, it was shaped tation is an attempt to reconstruct the as illustrated in Figure 5. As we com true relationship between separate pare it with the reconstructions we can pieces of data. see that there are some similarities in all Scientists never do their interpreting of them. We can also see that the first in an unbiased vacuum. When they were reconstructions were incorrect in many being trained to be scientists they respects, and that finding more data learned various theories and "laws" helped to correct some of the errors, and that were considered to be true. In the bring the theory closer to the correct pic creative and individualistic process of ture. interpreting data, the scientist consid This same process is involved in all ers everything that he has learned about scientific research. The scientist must previous studies in his field, and decides first collect data. The data are the more how he thinks his data best fits into the objective part of research, illustrated in existing body of information and theory on that subject. The development of this history. If a scientist had been living body of theory has also involved the when the earth, and life on earth, be process of interpretation, and cons- gan, he could be sure of reaching a cor quently it may have errors in it. The in rect conclusion. If he had lived all terpretation of research data is affected through earth©s history and had watched to some degree by the personal opinions the formation of the rocks and fossils he and bias of the researcher. In fact, in would know just how it happened. How some cases two competent scientists ever, a scientist who is living today and may reach opposite conclusions from the is studying earth©s history is at a great same research data. Science indeed is disadvantage, because most of the im a very human enterprise. portant data is lost forever (note Figure In spite of human weakness, science 6). All that is left is a few rocks and does make progress. It tends to be self- bones only limited, circumstantial correcting, because doing more research evidence. Any theory of origins involves and comparing the new research data the study of events that happened in the with existing theory often reveals er past, are not happening now, and thus rors in the theory. cannot be experimentally tested. Can science correct all errors in its theories by this self-correction process? Must Recognize the Difference Not necessarily, because there is an It is important to recognize this dif other factor that affects scientific re ference between experimental science search time. If William had lived at a and the study of past events. The great time when these vases were still being successes of science have been in the made he could have observed them di study of ongoing physical and biological rectly, and thus his theories about the processes. These processes are happen vase would have been accurate because ing now, and a scientist can study them all the data was there. After the civiliza experimentally. He can do his experi tion disappeared there were still a few ments over and over until he has intact vases to be observed, but now all enough data. Because scientists have that is left is a few pieces of broken been so successful in fields such as glass most of the data is lost forever. physiology, physics, and space explora The same is true in studying earth©s tion, many people will also believe

3. A second reconstruct data aistne frst one. whatever scientists say when they talk It is all a proved, it is just as reasonable to have about untestable theories of origins question of faith in Creation as it is to have faith (e.g., evolution), and consequently whom we are in evolution. many are losing faith in the book of "In true science there can be nothing Genesis. Even theologians of many going to trust. contrary to the teaching of the word of churches are accepting evolutionary God, for both have the same Author. A concepts of origins, and uniformitarian correct understanding of both will al geology, partly because they do not un ways prove them to be in harmony." derstand the difference between what Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 258. If we have science can do and what science cannot a correct understanding of how science do. Christians must be more alert than operates what its limitations are, as that! well as its strengths we can have in Science, being a human activity, is creased confidence that harmony really not all good or all bad. Scientific does exist between true science and true theories vary all the way from well- religion. established, thoroughly tested concepts Ellen White was "shown that without to theories that are merely shaky specu Bible history, geology can prove noth lation. That brings us back to the ques ing. Relics found in the earth do give tion that we asked at the beginning of evidence of a state of things differing in this article How do creationists dare many respects from the present. But the think that they are right and all the time of their existence and how long a other scientists are wrong? The answer period these things have been in the is simply that the most important dis earth are only to be understood by Bible agreements between science and the history (Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, p. 93). Bible are in highly speculative fields "The greatest minds, if not guided by that involve the study of events that the word of God, become bewildered in happened in the past, and cannot be their attempts to investigate the rela experimentally tested. Since Creation tions of science and revelation. The is as much in harmony with the evi Creator and His works are beyond their dence as is evolution, or more so, and comprehension; and because these can since neither one can be scientifically not be explained by natural laws, Bible

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Fig. 6. A scientist who lived at A and/or B would have more data available to him, and thus could reach more accurate conclusions than one who lived at C.

16/The Ministry/October, 1976 history is pronounced unreliable." science can be fitted into this sketch. Testimonies, vol. 8, p. 258. It is all a question of whom we are The history of the earth, and of life going to trust. Will our confidence pri on earth, may be represented as a pic marily be in scientists whose conclu ture that is hidden from view. Science sions are based only on the few pieces tries to reconstruct the picture from the of the picture they have uncovered? Or scattered bits and pieces that it is able do we know the God of the Bible well to uncover. The creationist believes, enough to have confidence that the Gen however, that the Bible gives the esis record was inspired by One who not Creator©s own sketch of the whole pic only sees the whole picture but actuall ture, and the scattered discoveries of painted it?

D. A. Skorete «/o/fi.v education and Master of Science in Pub lic Health degree from Loma Linda Uni GC Ministerial versity. Dan is married to the former Elaine Association Staff Gimbel. They have four children, Donna Lee Lehmann, Sherilynne Will, Randall, and Robert. Donna is a registered occu pational therapist whose husband COMING FROM a background rich teaches at Canadian Union College, and in pastoral, departmental, and educa N. R. DOWER Sherilynne just received her M.P.H. tional experience, Daniel A. Skoretz has degree at Loma Linda. Her husband is a been appointed as a member of the Gen second-year medical student. eral Conference Ministerial Association As the newly appointed director of the staff. Skoretz, a Canadian by birth, has Academy of Adventist Ministers, Dan assumed the directorship of the Acad plans to foster special classes utilizing emy of Adventist Ministers. Andrews University and Loma Linda Approximately two years ago Dan was teachers, seminars, workshops, research, asked to develop and direct what is now and other activities that will provide known as the Loma Linda University and inspire an interest in continuing School of Health Off-Campus Degree education for Seventh-day Adventist Teaching Program. Sixty-five physi ministers around the world field. II cians, dentists, ministers, teachers, nurses, and hospital administrators at tended the first such program, held in Alberta, Canada. In the fall of 1975 the North Pacific Union adopted the same program, and plans are being made for the Southern Union also to become in volved in offering these classes, which lead to the M.P.H. or M.S.P.H. degrees. The new Academy director served as a pastor-evangelist in Canada for eight years and for additional years as lay ac tivities, Sabbath school, PR and radio and TV secretary in the Alberta Confer ence and for four years in the Ontario- Quebec Conference. He also served as teacher and chairman in the theology department of Canadian Union College and as associate professor in the Loma Linda University School of Health. The period of service involved in this last- listed responsibility was 1973 to 1976. He has both a Master of Arts degree in

The Ministry/October, 1976/17 In discussing the type of building en visioned by the church building com mittee, we learned that the public would be invited to come to the building to view exhibitions of the worldwide work and mission of the Seventh-day Advent ist Church and other exhibitions of gen eral interest. Operating in conjunction with the exhibition would be a film Architecture theaterette with a wide range of short- duration films on health, welfare, reli gion, and general information. The particular gifts of the Spirit granted to the individual members of the local church dictated evangelistic emphases and methods, and it would be necessary therefore to have adequate facilities planned into the building complex to enable the effective promo tion of the range of generally accepted evangelistic activities (including lec tures, demonstrations, and the Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking) and evangelistic methods directly appropriate to the THE WRITINGS of Dr. Gottfried members in their geographic location. NEVILLE Oosterwal have emphasized the role of CLOUTEN The church wanted to participate in the laity and the importance of each community-sponsored projects and, de church member©s recognizing individual pending upon resources available, there mission responsibility. could be involvement by members in In parallel with mission activity is the counseling services of community the renewing experience of fellowship organizations. or a sharing friendship. Everyone has A worship space was to be designed his calling, his gift of the Spirit to de that would promote fellowship and par velop for the good of the community ticipation. It would be available for (mission), the group (fellowship), and, meditation at all times that the building last, for his own good. complex is open on each day of the week. This aim for the members could be The importance of the Sabbath school facilitated by the design of the church was to be planned into the complex as a building, which may be more than a whole. place of assembly for a few hours each The building committee©s design week. It may become a place in which implied the need for careful planning so the individual church member actually that the programs outlined above would finds himself or herself participating in be capable of being operated by mem mission and fellowship activities. bers of the church in cooperation with An opportunity was recently given the pastor. Additional full-time staff the writer to develop a concept for a might be needed as the work increased, church building along the lines sug but the accent would be on involvement gested. The client was the building com of members in church and community as mittee of the Gold Coast Seventh-day a meaningful service for God. The basic Adventist church, the geographic loca requirements for this church building tion a center for tourism in the temper would be: ate climate of southeastern Queensland, Australia. 1. The building(s) should express the An architectural design process must belief that Christ is the answer to all bring together locational and climatic problems. data of a particular site with analyses of Neville Clouten, 2. The building(s) should reflect the human activities. It is important there Ph.D., currently challenge presented in the mission out is a lecturer in reach of the Seventh-day Adventist fore to have an awareness of these in architectural puts in the design concept that follows. design at the Church. Architectural design is essentially a Faculty of Archi 3. In view of the fact that Adventist synthesis of all available information tecture, Univer churches generally present closed doors built upon the perceptive base of crea sity of Newcastle, to the world for the major portion of the tivity. Australia. week, conventional church solutions 18/The Ministry/October, 1976 needed to be modified to emphasize the 5. Design must relate to the climate willingness of members to witness to the of the specific geographic location. world on the one hand, and to enjoy fel 6. Where compatibility of activities lowship as a group of worshipers on the is evident, economies of space would be other. expected. 4. The building(s) should create an The activities proposed by the church atmosphere that attracts the world, not were summarized in tabular form and repels. then charted as follows:

Activities Brief Architectural Implications Activities Brief Architectural Implications of the Brief of the Brief

Witnessing in Street, agora: individuals Purchasing Commercial space, closed on the world and groups from the world to health foods Sabbath as a witness identify with a sense of place that is compatible with their conditioning. Meeting physical proxim Borrowing and Browsing space with lending ity of persons purchasing books and selling facilities Conversing the exchange and magazines of greetings and ideas Viewing displays in an open- air setting A "coffee shop"- Listening to a small musical Listening to music and type meeting group speech place for young Participating in discussions people All the above implies a slowing-down space.

Vacation Bible Space for listening and par School activities ticipating in worship, and secular and craft activities

Displaying the Enclosed space for: Worship and A space for worshiping, in church as Viewing exhibitions of fellowship of cluding: Christ©s chosen general interest and specifi church members: Fellowship environment vehicle for cally of the good news of Initial provision Prayer or meditation witnessing Christ©s love to all the world for 200 persons, Singing Meeting capacity of 300 Preaching and instructing Conversing Discussing Listening Participating in the com munion service Baptismal activities

Viewing of films Individuals and small groups Auxiliary activi Pastor©s study for counseling to be comfortably seated in a ties relating and meeting with elders space readily darkened for to church and Deacons© room projection Sabbath school Sabbath school evangelistic services activities for all ages

Participating in Involved in cooking demon Recreational Multipurpose space for so healthful living strations cial, cultural, and Pathfinder Listening to health discus craft activities sions Participating in Five-Day Plans

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Development of the Design sanctuary and often lower level or ad An "agora" precinct could be devel jacent hall. Attempts to comply with the oped in a natural way toward an existing basic requirements of the brief have led pedestrian approach to the site. While to the preference of presenting the wor this public entry would be paved, the ship and fellowship activities within the approach of worshipers to their separate over-all mission activities, rather than entry precinct could be across a small providing a traditional church fagade grassed and landscaped park. that would be sought only by, and rele In this particular feasibility study, vant to, individuals from the world al concurrent with an analysis of the site, ready cognizant of a need to identify three-dimensional spaces were allocated with the followers of Jesus Christ. to the activities specified and study mod The activity areas are detailed in the els prepared to explore relationships of plans. The sequence of worshipers from these activities. Plan 2 indicates an the park setting, via the entry precinct openness to the world to invite participa to the foyer, is illustrated in Plan 1. The tion, via a pleasant external space, into a enclosed "protecting" boundaries to this large interior public space. Plan 1 illus precinct are provided by low planting. trates an entry to a more enclosed church Generally the planting form is low precinct, provided for persons who iden ground cover toward the park, rising to tify themselves with the worship and small shrubs adjacent to either the fellowship activities of the church. paved area or the building. Planting The particular study model placed a heightens the emphasis on the entry visual importance on the witnessing ac precinct to encourage worshipers to tivities of the church and, for this rea meet together in this space before and son, the concept was accepted as a basis after worship services. for development. It is recognized that A light-weight folding partition be the building differs from a conventional tween the foyer and worship space is church building with visually dominant accommodated in brick storage walls 20/The Ministry/October, 1976 when not in use. Open planning gives a ities are plugged in, ready for operation. flexibility to the space, the seating ar These activities are enclosed, rather rangement indicated being one of sev than being part of an open plan, for eral possibilities. Pulpit, organ, choir, reasons of sound isolation. The kitchen and seats are designed for ease of move is linked with the "coffee shop" for com ment so that a range of seating plans bined access to a food store and loading would emphasize either preaching (as is bay. indicated, with a diffused light entering The commercial interests of the proj the worship space above the pulpit area), ect are contained in one area, to be closed communion, discussion, or baptismal on Sabbath. Some flexibility of use is activities. The space could be used for provided for at other times. It is planned meditation at other times. that one person serving in the "coffee The main stair adjacent to the foyer shop" could control the sale of books, leads to Plan 2. health foods, and health drinks at times The "agora" public precinct is paved of low public commercial use. Seating beneath trees selected to provide shade, associated with the "coffee shop" is pro and provided with outdoor permanent vided in both an enclosed location and seating. The paving rises slightly as it extend into the exhibition hall. narrows toward the building. An outdoor In all activities the provision of seat paved platform is a little higher and can ing to facilitate discussions is a natural provide a focal point for music and consequence of Christ©s followers© being speech. It is envisaged that certain exhi the "salt" to permeate and influence the bitions could be set up on particular days world. The building provides a venue beneath the trees of the pedestrian ap for individual contact, the initial con proach. tact stemming from the single or collec The enclosed space for viewing exhi tive activities as briefed. A quieter area bitions, listening to music, meeting and of private discussions is located adja conversing, is a natural extension from cent to the stairs leading to the worship the exterior space. Around the central space, again emphasizing the activity activity space the separate lecture, de of two individuals, one a church mem votional, youth, and commercial activ- ber, leading his friend gradually to wor ship and fellowship activities. At the time of the Sabbath school pro gram, children and youth would meet in rooms allocated concurrent with the public use of the building. The evangel istic avenue of the Sabbath school is then facilitated. The multipurpose youth space is de signed to accommodate Pathfinders, Vacation Bible School programs, meet ings, film and social functions, at the same time that lectures, cooking dem onstrations, Five-Day Plans, or other public activities may be held in the lec ture space adjacent to the entry. The primary Sabbath school room may be used as a foyer to the multipurpose youth hall for special occasions, such as a registration area for a Vacation Bible School beginning in the youth hall. The foregoing is one example of a means by which, within the types of urrro-m activities included, the building com ill 111 H plex can be planned to be sufficiently ntziirm adaptive so that newer evangelistic rnutin methods and experimentation can be reasonably provided for. This adapt ability, together with the various indi vidual gifts of the Spirit granted to a group of worshipers at any given time, PLAN 2 enables worship and witnessing to be integrated to a greater degree. tf The Ministry/October, 1976/21 fifty Years of Summer Evangelism

"I HAD so much fun at camp! Every RON M. WISBEY body was so nice and Christlike to me. I remember the first of the week when you said Jesus is your best friend. Please don©t get mad at me, but I thought that he wouldn©t be much fun; but now I think he is fun, and he is my best friend too. (Your my second-best friend. You don©t mind not being first, do you?) "I liked everything, but I liked camp- fire best, and then when in our cabin you turned off the lights and told a story. "I was going to talk all night the first night but after we had prayed and you said alright girls, goodnight, let©s go to sleep, I just couldn©t. "Well, I got to go. I love you so much, "Yours truly, "Gina. "P.S. I am going to be a Christian too." How would you like to get that kind of an enthusiastic response to your min istry as a pastor or evangelist after only one week of meetings? This letter was written to a college-age counselor at one of our conference summer camps and is typical of the hundreds of such re sponses that come in each year. This past summer we celebrated fifty years of Adventist youth camping. It all began during the summer of 1926 at Townline Lake in Montcalm County, Michigan. Eighteen boys under the di ROM Wisbey is rection of Elder Gordon Smith were youth director present for this first camp. A. W. Spald- of the North ing helped pioneer this new phase of the Pacific Union. youth ministry and later gave this clas- sic definition of a junior youth camp: Evangelism is 7. Developing spiritual meanings "The Junior Summer Training Camp the only and values. was, and is, in effect the denomination©s legitimate Number 7 in the list is the very core camp meeting expressed in terms of of the Adventist camping mission. To Junior psychology. Too long the active reason for our accomplish the objective of reaching child and adolescent had been confined spending these thousands of campers who annu to adult forms of religious expression. millions of ally attend our camps, the modern camp Now he was given an interpretation of dollars on is normally staffed by scholarship or life in active physical recreation and camp facilities. volunteer, mature college-age youth vocational pursuits, mingled and in who are able in a very beautiful and fused with spiritual objectives and ex wholesome way to express through daily ercises. This made the camp thoroughly living the abundant life, and in the proc spiritual in all its activities and service, ess to assist their cabin campers to and joy in religion was the keynote. No make decisions, or firm up previous de boy or girl will ever lose the sense of the cisions, to serve Jesus. sacredness of the day that began with The average Adventist camp annually the Morning Watch on the hilltop and has many non-SDA youth in attendance. ended at night with the beautiful awe They attend at the invitation of an Ad of the campfire, a time of song and story- ventist friend or because SDA camps telling and the orders of the day, with have an excellent reputation for quality final prayer." The MV Story, p. 56. programming and responsible leader This same basic philosophy still rings ship. A large number of the North loud and clear throughout Adventist American Adventist camps are also camping. With 366 camps and a 1975 member camps in the American Camp (most recent statistics available) en ing Association, which provides sub rollment of 30,222 and more than 7,500 stantial advertising to the general youth making first-time decisions for public. Many friends for the church and Christ, we begin to see the scope of in decisions for Jesus are made from this fluence that our summer camping pro group each year. grams have on our youth. Need for Adequate Follow-up Evangelism, the Key Word Baptisms would be numerous during Evangelism is the key word in Ad summer camp if the average director ventist camping, and, in fact, is the only and camp pastor would allow such. legitimate reason for the church to However, these interested youth are spend literally millions of dollars on normally referred to their home church facilities that provide sanctuaries in and pastor for further study. Your con quiet areas for our youth to become ac ference youth ministry team strongly quainted with nature, themselves, and urges your continued follow-up in a spir God. itual way of these interests gained dur A young Christian is no different from ing the week or two at camp. You will others in our machine, push-button, probably be amazed at the positive feel computer-run society. Our schools, ings these young people express about homes, and even churches tend to pi their time at camp. geonhole or box up a young person until The average denominational campsite self-identity is lost. Summer camping is used today for far more than just six offers an alternative to all of this and in to twelve weeks during the summer. It the process assists a camper in making also serves year round as a spiritual life decisions in a lasting way. retreat center for church and other The following are goals toward which groups. most camp activities are directed: The conference-owned camp, a com 1. Learning to live outdoors and be mitted director and staff, are another coming acquainted with the outdoor means to assist the pastoral ministry environment. in our mutual goal of presenting Jesus 2. Experiencing individual growth Christ as a total answer to all of life. and development. As we enter the fifty-first year of SDA 3. Learning to live and work to camping, your influence and help is gether. solicited to see that the members of your 4. Practicing health and safety. congregation are made totally aware of 5. Developing new skills and inter the mission of your conference camp. ests and perfecting old ones. After all, don©t the youth of your church 6. Enjoying a recreational experi deserve this kind of an evangelistic ex ence. perience during the summer of 1977? The Ministry/October, 1976/23 11 ?// Diane Get a Call?

LAST YEAR at camp meeting Diane ROSALIE do, a work that reaches the inner life. was a brand-new convert, aglow with HAFFNER LEE They can come close to the hearts of the first-love experience. Providentially, those whom men cannot reach. Their our paths crossed and she expressed her labor is needed." Evangelism, pp. desire to become a Bible instructor. 464, 465. This year at camp meeting we met "There are women who are especially again. Diane was still bubbling with adapted for the work of giving Bible love for Christ, but well-meaning ad readings, and they are very successful visers had dampened her ardor for be in presenting the Word of God. . . . This coming a Bible instructor. "Better choose is a sacred work, and those engaged in it a profession that will afford you security should receive encouragement." Ibid., and a future," they told her. "You can be p. 469. a missionary wherever you go and what "When it is possible, let the minister ever you do." Certainly we would not and his wife go forth together. The wife argue the latter point. But why must we can often labor by the side of her hus persist in discouraging young women band, accomplishing a noble work. She from accepting the most important call can visit the homes of the people and ing any woman can have? help the women in these families in a Ask any of our college Bible teachers way that her husband cannot." Ibid., and they will likely tell you that it is be p. 491. cause those who do train for Bible work But what about the pastors in the are often not hired. Therefore college field? How do they feel about this work? teachers do not feel it is fair to encour We decided to find put for ourselves, so age young women to train for this work we polled the ministers of one of our if their chances for employment are larger conferences. Of the 100 pastors slim. polled, 76 responded to the question Why are we not hiring more Bible in naire. Forty-two of these (55 per cent) structors, either young college gradu never had the experience of working ates or older persons? Is it because pas with a Bible instructor. The other 34 tors are not interested in having Bible had at some time worked with one for at instructors work with them? Is there no least an evangelistic campaign. Twelve demand for their services on the soul- men had worked with a Bible instructor winning team, either pastoral or evan for periods of less than one year, 11 gelistic? Has the Bible instructor profes men had worked with one for periods of sion outlived its usefulness? Has God from one to five years, and only three suddenly given us a new and better way men had been blessed with the services than that outlined in the blueprint? of a Bible instructor for periods of more (One might think so by listening to than five years. some of the discussions currently in How did these men feel about having vogue.) Bible instructors on their team? First, Perhaps the name "Bible instructor" let us look at the 45 per cent who had at has outlived its usefulness and we need some time worked with one: Only one of to think in terms of adopting a new name the thirty-four men in this group felt the that would better describe this work. Re help of a Bible instructor was not valu gardless of name, the role of the woman able, and that one was qualified by a in the ministry has been clearly and dis specific problem situation. tinctly outlined in the inspired counsel To the question, "Would you desire or and leaves no room for confusion as to Rosalie Haffner request the help of a Bible instructor if Lee is a Bible women©s role in the ministry: instructor living one were available?" nearly all re "The Lord has a work for women as in Kalamazoo, sponded in the affirmative, some adding well as for men. They may take their Michigan, and comments such as "Most assuredly!" places in His work at this crisis, and He editor of The "Most definitely!" and "Absolutely!" will work through them. . . . They can Bible Instructor Of the group of forty-two men who do in families a work that men cannot Exchange. never worked with a Bible instructor the 24/The Ministry/October, 1976 Why Must We Persist in Discouraging Young Women From Accepting the Most Important Calling Any Woman Can Have?

question was asked, "How would you What qualifications did these pastors feel about having a Bible instructor on feel were most important to a good Bible your staff?" The responses from this instructor? They were named in the group were unanimously in favor of the frequency of the order listed below: idea and were expressed in enthusiastic 1. Spiritual qualities: dedication, and positive terms. commitment, humility, love for Christ. "Do you feel her work would be an as 2. Grasp of Bible truth and ability set to your program?" To this question to teach it. the men again responded with affirma 3. Pleasing personality. tive adjectives. 4. Soul-winning expertise and ef If these pastors represent a cross sec ficiency in work. tion of pastors in North America, and if 5. Ability to relate to other people. they are typical of hundreds of other 6. Deep love for souls. pastors in the great Advent Movement, 7. Representative in standards, es we would have to admit that their an pecially in dress and appearance. swers significantly support the idea that 8. Professional training (college or pastors do believe in the effectiveness Seminary if possible.) of the Bible instructor on the soul-win 9. Loyalty. ning team. 10. A call from God to the work. Diane is attending college this year. Why Isn©t There a Demand? We have reason to believe that she will Why then do pastors not demand their be encouraged in her desire to become a services? Perhaps it is because they Bible instructor by at least some of her know that so few are available. Perhaps teachers. We believe that she has and it is because they have been led to be can develop the above-mentioned quali lieve, as one man commented on the fications. We trust that there are pastors survey, "Bible instructors are nice if the in at least one conference who would be conference can afford them." (It was one happy to have her services when she of the only two or three negative re completes her education. sponses in the survey.) But the question is, Will Diane receive But if Bible instructors are as effec a call to become a Bible instructor, or tive in soul winning as these pastors will her talents and abilities of necessity seemed to indicate, how can we afford be channeled into some other profession, not to have them? Are our soul-winning while deep in her heart she would like to budgets so tight that we cannot afford be devoting all her energies to the great soul winners? "This question is not for work of soul winning? men to settle. The Lord has settled it. Whatever our reasonings and ration You are to do your duty to the women alizations may have been in the past for who labor in the gospel." Ibid., p. 493. not training and hiring women workers, "The conference should have wisdom isn©t it time for us to awake to the needs to understand the justice of her receiv of a dying world, and the need of the ing wages." Ibid. personal touch in winning men and How did these pastors envision the women to Christ? Isn©t it time for us to role of the Bible instructor? All agreed see the potential in our young people that this work should consist primarily who want to become involved in helping in giving Bible studies, in visitation, to finish the work? Isn©t it time for us to and in leading out in training of laymen. encourage the Dianes in our midst to Some saw the role of the Bible instructor answer the call of God to the woman©s as including teaching Sabbath school part of the gospel ministry? and pastor©s classes, leading out in lay "Again and again the Lord has shown activities in the local church, occasion me that women teachers are just as ally conducting prayer meetings, and greatly needed to do the work to which counseling. Some saw the Bible instruc He has appointed them as are men." tor as an associate or assistant minister. Ibid., p. 493. It The Ministry/October, 1976/25 Better Living Evangelism in Australia

HEALTH PROGRAMS have been have a special segment for a few weeks, used with tremendous success as an en DAVID LAWSON with the use of films, slides and tapes, tering wedge in underdeveloped areas. and cooking demonstrations. I think we Our hospitals, clinics, and such pro should pursue this a little further and grams as Five-Day Plan, Heart Beat, introduce our health message in its and vegetarian cooking demonstrations many phases all through the evangel have also been used to leave impressions istic series perhaps as a fifteen-minute for the truth in the home field and segment from night to night. brought Seventh-day Adventists into I believe there is room also for a favorable light in the community. A straight-out health-oriented approach number of those who have been favor in a public outreach to the community. ably impressed later developed a deep This is most effective when we team up interest in the message we proclaim. with qualified medical men, devoted Our health approach has had, and Christians, who can be encouraged to ever will have, great public relations join us in such an outreach to the com potential as well as demonstrating in munity. Many of these men are able its many phases Adventist concern for speakers and can well take their place the well-being of others. alongside of us on the public platform. Health also is to be an integral part of public evangelism (Medical Ministry, Blended Ministry Team at Work p. 289). But it will not in itself be the On three occasions I have had the answer to all successful soul winning. In cooperation of Dr. Phil Cappe in this the Australasian Division concrete re kind of a health-related evangelistic sults in baptisms from the health ap approach. At first he thought it might proach have not been as large as those be just another "evangelistic gimmick" obtained from the more successful to get a crowd and felt he was just being archeological approach. But there is a used. However, he soon caught the place for it, a definite place. It has spirit, and we worked extremely well proved quite successful in reaching David Laivson, together. Let me share with you the those types and classes of people in the formerly an evan details of the approach that was de community who do not respond to con gelist in the veloped. ventional evangelistic methods. Australasian From the outset we indicated that All of us in Australia give time in a Division, now ours was a program presented by a serves as Minis public program to the health message terial Association doctor-minister team. In the first two some take one Bible lecture on it during secretary for the campaigns in Sydney we followed the the series, while others give two or three Northern Europe- Five-Day Plan idea and announced a addresses and a couple of cooking dem West Africa Di charge of $5 for the series. I feel this onstrations. Some go a little farther and vision. limited our audience. People will pay 26/The Ministry/October, 1976 $5 for a Five-Day Plan to be rid of a reached ultimately by some other specific habit, but apparently they will method. not pay $5 to hear about Better Living. In our third series in Christchurch, we The Meeting Format advertised the program as free, with an Our general format was varied. The expense collection. Eight hundred came atmosphere was relaxed. Usually we from 70,000 leaflets. We offered them followed this type of program: material and a folder for $2 if they First night was introductory and registered at the next meeting. Two designed to get the audience "hooked" hundred registered for this out of a re on the idea. turn audience of 500. We received much Subsequent meetings followed this more in the way of offerings and the $2 pattern: fee than if we had advertised a $5 Registration on arrival. Distribu charge at the outset, and we attracted a tion of previous lecture material for much larger audience. their folders. We sent a few invitations to friends Welcome. of church members and to Five-Day Plan and other health-program con 15-minute world travel feature tacts. One surprising feature was that Better Living with slides. Five-Day Plan contacts brought a poor Evangelism, team 15- to 20-minute talk by Dr. Cappe. (left to right): 15-minute slide-tape feature response. I thought they would flock to K. Deville, G. the meetings. It appears they wanted Roberts, P. Cappe, (Loma Linda health materials). specific help when they came to us for D. Laivson, A. 10-minute exercise-water-diet seg the nonsmoking campaign, but want to Penman, and ment in which the minister led out (to leave it at that. Maybe they will be K. Bland. show he was not there just to push the

The Ministry/October, 1976/27 Bible), with the doctor handy; and one of "The gospel of Minister: "The Answer to the team members demonstrated ex health is to be Our Moral Mix-up" ercises. firmly linked Night 11 Minister only: Pointers to 5- to 7-minute segment of answers Health From the Creator to questions from the box. (Dr. Cappe with the answered medical questions, and I ministry of the Night 12 Doctor: "The Outside Story" answered spiritual questions.) word."— Minister: "An Amazing Pre diction" 20- to 30-minute spiritual talk Medical the spiritual segment. Ministry, p. Night 13 Doctor: "All About Rest" Minister: "A Gift From God" The program was designed to de 259. velop the social, physical, mental, and Night 14 Doctor: "The Fear of Can spiritual aspects of life. cer" Outline of the Series Minister: "Why I Am What I Am" The purpose of this health-related evangelistic outreach was the same as Night 15 Doctor: "I Choose Not to any other evangelistic outreach the Smoke" winning of souls for Christ. Decisions Minister: "Ending Your Fi were made for Christ and His truth in nancial Worries" each of the three campaigns, for which Night 16 Minister only: "The Great Dr. Cappe and I praise the Lord. Memorial of Creation" In order to bring people to decision, the spiritual talks had to progress to Night 17 Doctor: "Simple Solutions embrace the truth, and this we en to Winter Ailments" deavored to do. Minister: "Where Are the Dead?" Night 1 Doctor: "What Am I?" Night 18 Minister only: "God©s Final Minister: "Who Am I?" Call to Mankind" Night 2 Doctor: "Excuse Me, Your Night 19 Minister only: "Baptism of Posture Is Showing" Water and of the Spirit" Minister: "Real Happiness Is" Night 20 Minister only: "Messages From Heaven" Night 3 Doctor: "The Best Things in Night 21 Doctor: "In Conclusion" Life Are Free" Minister: "Finding Truth Minister: "Bridging the Today" Greatest Generation Gap" (The doctor could not be present every Night 4 Doctor: "Overcoming Fear, night. On those occasions we had cook Worry, and Resentment" ing demonstrations, health films, or Minister: "Power Mightier slides and tapes, and guest speakers Than the Atom" such as dentists. The first nine or ten Night 5 Doctor: "How to Postpone a nights it is vital that the doctor-minister Heart Attack" team be there together to establish in Minister: "God Is I Know!" terest and confidence in the program. After that it is not quite so vital.) Night 6 Doctor: "A Trip Through the Digestive Tract" A Few Suggestions Minister: "The Greatest Be simple in the medical approach. Thing in the World" Find a good Adventist doctor and sell Night 7 Doctor: "Stop Poisoning him the idea. Yourself" It is vital that you both be relaxed on Minister: "What a Hope" stage and use a bit of humor. Night 8 Doctor: "Stress and You" Make the program varied. Plenty of Minister: "A Thousand change is good, as people find it hard to Years Ahead" listen to one speaker for a long time. Be bright, breezy, and down to earth Night 9 Doctor: "Nutrition Con in what you both say. cerns You Too" Remember it is not the answer to all Minister: "Why Despair evangelistic outreach, but it is another You Can Make It" effective method. Go out and give it a Night 10 Doctor: "Nutrition and try. God will be with you and will give Weight Control" success. II 28/The Ministry/October, 1976 spotlight on health

"Dr. Kline blames a large part mals. This should be a warning Survey Shows High of the problem on the average to humans to avoid, when possi Schoolers© Use of Drugs physician©s inability to spot the ble, contact with organophospho- on the Rise true signs of depression. Such rus and methyl carbamate in classic symptoms as lethargy and secticides. (N. H. Proctor and J. E. A national study on drugs has sadness are easily recognized. But Casida. Organophosphorus and revealed an "alarming" increase symptoms of anhedonia a to methyl carbamate insecticide in the use of all types of drugs in tal absence of any feeling of teratogenesis: diminished NAD the past two years, especially pleasure are often overlooked. in chicken embryos. Science 190: among young people. "The exhausted housewife, the 580, 581, 1975.) Studies released by the Na bored adolescent, and the occupa tional Institute on Drug Abuse tional underachiever are suffer revealed that experimentation ing from depression just as truly Those Restless Legs with marijuana is beginning at as the suicidal patient,© says Dr. Have you ever noticed your an earlier age and its use among Kline." (Health Matters, Family legs involuntarily twitching at 14- and 15-year-olds has risen Health, July, 1974, p. 9.) night? Do you get leg cramps from 10 per cent to 22 per cent be "Nothing tends more to promote while sleeping? tween 1972 and 1974. health of body and of soul than If you have, the reason for your The $2.2 million Federal study does a spirit of gratitude and condition may be no farther away found that 6 per cent of the na praise. It is a positive duty to re than your favorite hot or cold bev tion©s 3 million high school sen sist melancholy, discontented erage. According to Dr. Elmar G. iors used marijuana on a daily thoughts and feelings—as much Lutz, muscle restlessness, espe basis last year and at least half a duty as it is to pray."—The Min cially at night, is due to increased had tried it. istry of Healing, p. 251. (Empha alertness of the nervous system The study found that one of sis supplied.) caused by caffeine. Caffeine may every five 13-year-olds inter also directly cause contraction viewed had used alcohol. Smoking of muscles. Any of the body mus among 12- to 17-year-olds in Change Your Diet? cles can be affected. creased from 17 to 24 per cent Your Digestive Enzymes The condition is best treated by during 1972-1974. Marijuana use Will Show It eliminating all caffeine-contain in the same age group rose from ing beverages and medications, If a person abruptly changes 14 to 17 per cent during the two- and getting some exercise daily. from a given dietary pattern, the year period. (Medical World News, Dec. 15, digestive enzymes that are found 1975, p. 9.) in his intestines will change too. Leading Untreated Illness After eating half their calories as sugar for five days, seven volun "What©s the leading untreated teer subjects switched to a carbo Less Saturated Fats, illness in the United States can hydrate-free diet for five days. Less Cholesterol cer, heart disease, diabetes? No. A dramatic decrease in their A comparison of serum choles It©s depression, says Dr. Na sugar-digesting enzymes fol terol levels of twenty-five young than S. Kline, director of the lowed. No change was seen in in couples showed that polyunsat- Rockland State Hospital Research testinal cell structure. This indi urated meats and dairy products Center at Orangeburg, New cates that we can adapt to an (animals fed a special diet) re York. Citing a new government entirely new kind of diet within a duced cholesterol an average of report that estimates 20 mil few days. (H. L. Green, et al. 10 per cent. Highest reductions lion adults suffer serious depres Comparison of the adaptive were in those who had the highest sive symptoms each year, the changes in disaccharidase, gly- cholesterol levels at the start of psychiatrist charges that the colytic enzyme and fructose di- the study. When the subjects re lack of treatment for this dis phosphatase activities after in order constitutes a major ©scan turned to the previous diet that travenous and oral glucose in was high in saturated fats their dal.© normal men. Amer. J. Clin. Nutr., cholesterol levels rose signifi "Only a handful of family doc 28:1122-1125, October, 1975.) tors even make an attempt to cantly. treat it, he says. And more often This demonstrates that even than not, their treatment is in Insecticides Cause Malfor people who eat meat can lower effective. Twenty-three per cent mations in Chickens their cholesterol some, and thus of the patients admitted to mental reduce correspondingly their risk institutions and 30 per cent of A number of commonly used of coronary heart disease, if the those admitted to the psychiatric insect poisons have been observed animals they eat are fed a polyun- units of general hospitals are to cause various kinds of birth de saturated fat diet. But how much suffering from depression. . . . fects in chickens and other ani greater the reduction might be The Ministry/October, 1976/29 spotlight on health

if they would eliminate meat al that seems to be indicated. That Recommendation? A peanut-but together and adopt a vegetarian is, the meat part of bologna could ter sandwich! diet! (R. E. Hodges, et al. Plasma be 25 per cent beef and 75 per ("How Good Is the Bologna in lipid changes in young adult cou cent pork and yet be called "beef That Sandwich?" Consumer Re ples consuming polyunsaturated and pork." A third kind of bologna ports, March, 1976, pp. 126-129.) meats and dairy products. Amer. sometimes found in supermarkets J. Clin. Nutr., 28:1126-1140, Oc is labeled "bologna with variety tober, 1975.) meats" or "bologna with by Fair Trade products." It may be made of Death rate from lung cancer is sheep, swine, cattle, or goat meat beginning to slow down the This Bologna Isn©t Phony, and the by-products may be lips, apparent result of a switch to But Is It Safe? ears, and snouts! low-tar filter-tipped cigarettes. 2. Fat. Bologna may contain as This switch has also led to an They didn©t have freezers or much as 30 per cent fat, some of increase in coronary heart disease canners, and meat then, as now, which is in the meat and some among cigarette smokers. began to spoil as soon as slaugh added. Consumer Reports found This trade-off of health hazards tered. What to do? Experience an average content of 27 per was revealed in a study by Dr. taught those ancient Romans that cent. Several slightly exceeded Nicholas Wals at Oxford (Eng if they stuffed their meat into the limit. land) University. The most likely casings consisting of intestines, 3. Water. Water enters the reason for the shift is that al laced it liberally with spices and bologna in the form of ice, which though use of filter-tip cigarettes salt, and smoked it, they could keeps the meat and fat cool dur produces less nicotine and tar, preserve it for use when fresh ing the chopping process. The less air is mixed with the smoke meat wasn©t available. And hence Government allows ice up to 10 given off and more carbon mon the sausage. per cent of the combined weight oxide is formed (an average of 28 Americans have caught on to of all ingredients. Added to the per cent more). Carbon monoxide, this originally European phenom natural moisture of the meat, with other gases in tobacco enon. Frankfurters are a staple of several of the brands had as smoke, has been linked to coro the diet, particularly for picnics much as 62 per cent water. To nary heart disease. ("With Filter- and sporting events, and children charge meat prices for something tips, Cancer Is Down, Heart eat bologna sandwiches in school out of the tap obviously "inflates" Disease Up," Medical World lunches. the product. News, Feb. 23, 1976, p. 80.) But what©s in the bologna? Is 4. Salt and other extras. The it a nutritious food? Is it safe? regulations make no mention of Consumer Reports wanted to salt, so the manufacturers pour it Rocking Chair Is Good know. They conducted an in on! Enough is added to increase Medicine vestigation and concluded that the sodium content of the bologna bologna is high in fat, salt, water, some 15 times. Other additives The old-fashioned rocking chair and additives the same faults include sodium erythorbate, encourages mild physical activity. they found in an investigation of which fixes color, corn syrup or Elderly people who use rocking frankfurters four years previous. dextrose, which sweetens and chairs seem to be in better mental And they were particularly con affects texture, and spices and physical health than those cerned with the additive sodium pepper, garlic, paprika, cayenne, who do not. Remember how nitrite, employed to poison bac allspice, mace, nutmeg, cloves, grandmother and grandfather teria. It is converted to a recog and coriander. used to sit and rock by the hour? nized hazardous cancer-causing Add to this such constituents The rocking chair enables every agent, nitrosaxnine. as numerous bacteria, a low- one but the most feeble to exercise Not that the United States quality source of protein, a high without regard to time or Department of Agriculture hasn©t price, and a few essential nutri weather, and in a dignified man set up certain standards for ents in less than sufficient ner. Use of the calf and forearm bologna. It has. But they aren©t amounts, and you get today©s muscles encourages return of the adequate. For instance: popular lunchbox sandwich blood to the heart and increases 1. Meat. Bologna labled "beef" bologna. cardiac output. Possibility of must contain only beef muscle, Over-all, the report didn©t lung congestion is decreased. with no added byproducts. "Beef think much of the product and Muscle tone is improved. The and pork" or "pork and beef" suggests that your child would rhythmic motion of rocking is bologna must contain both meats, be better off without all that soothing and promotes sleep (Mc- but not in the order of prominence nitrite, salt, and saturated fat. Cleary News). 30/The Ministry/October, 1976 of toxic materials so that they are ren dered harmless to body tissues, that we Long Livers wish particularly to look at in this ar ticle. Have The way a given drug affects your body depends on its effectiveness in pro ducing a response and the length of time HeaUhtj it is present in sufficient concentration to be effective. This is determined to a great degree by the rate at which it is Livers metabolized or broken down by the body tissues. If nothing happened to a drug after it entered the body and reached the tissue or organ for which it was given (called the target organ of the drug) it might continue to act on the body indefinitely. This could easily be NO WONDER the ancients called it harmful. Fortunately, something does the liver so many of our life processes ALLAN R. MAGIE happen: most drugs are transformed are involved in its activities. You could into inert (inactive) substances and live only a few hours if it were removed. excreted through the kidneys. Some Its three pounds of intricate cellular drugs are changed chemically in the mechanisms serve as the primary depot, intestine, some in the skin, kidney, or processing plant, and distribution center lung. But by far the greatest amount of for almost everything that enters the these chemical changes (biotransforma- body through the digestive tract. Prod tions) occur in the liver, which not only ucts of digestion along with other sub inactivates drugs but also most of the stances are absorbed into the blood and foreign chemicals to which the body is carried into the liver, where they are exposed. slowly filtered among the liver cells. Thus the liver is important not only Here nutrients and other materials are in determining the effectiveness of a removed, transformed by chemical reac drug taken to assist the body in recov tions, sometimes stored, and then re ering from illness but also in defending leased into the general blood circulation. the body against an array of potentially Glucose, for example, is converted into toxic chemicals in our environment glycogen and stored, to be converted insect, rodent, and weed poisons; food back into glucose as the body requires; preservatives, dyes, and assorted addi amino acids are made into proteins and tives; a number of materials that are other nitrogen-containing compounds. suspected of causing the development of And drugs and other toxic substances cancer. are detoxified. The liver accomplishes its task of Although its cells are merely micro chemically altering drugs and other scopic dots in size, they do so many foreign substances by several remark things at the same time that one can able enzyme systems (enzymes are or only gaze in awe. You might want to de ganic molecules that accelerate chem- scribe their abilities as incredible. Perhaps miraculous would be a better word. Because of its diverse activities, a sin gle cell could be described as (1) ware house—it stores many valuable nutri ents, such as glycogen (animal starch), iron, and certain vitamins; (2) factory— it manufactures many chemical com pounds used by the body in resisting dis ease, coagulating the blood, and trans porting fat; (3) power plant—it produces considerable heat as it converts and Allan R. Magie, Ph.D., M.P.H.,is an breaks down chemical compounds; (4) associate professor waste disposal plant—it excretes bile of environmental pigments, urea, and various detoxifica health, School of tion products. It is this last function, Health, Loma that of altering the chemical make-up Linda University. The Ministry/October, 1976/31 ical reactions). These organized enzyme The liver ing or even death. Thus it appears that groups can metabolize a wide variety helps defend the ability of the body to withstand the of structurally unrelated chemicals. the body harmful effects of drugs requires a Drugs, toxic agents, and environmental period of time to develop after birth. pollutants gain entrance into the body against toxic For example, young mice treated with primarily through the intestine, but also chemicals in small doses of a hypnotic drug, hexo- through the skin and lungs. our environ barbital, will sleep more than six times The enzyme systems are attached to ment. as long as an adult mouse given ten membranes that fill the interior of the times the dose of the same drug. liver cells. This interconnected network Let©s trace the path of a drug through of tube or bladderlike structures (col the body, assuming it is one taken orally lectively called the endoplasmic reticu- with a glass of water. It is absorbed lum) are found in the fluid portion of through the intestinal wall and travels most animal cells. There are two kinds to the liver via blood. Some of the drug of endoplasmic reticulum, smooth and may be rendered inactive by the liver rough, and they differ in function as cells. The portion of the drug that re well as in appearance. The rough mem mains active enters the general circu branes are covered with small granule- lation and has an effect on the target or- like attachments called ribosomes, which are the sites at which amino acids are joined together in unique sequences to form the particular proteins required Nature©s Detoxification Plant by the human (or animal) for normal "Some grow corpulent because function. The smooth membranes lack the system is clogged; others be these ribosomes. In the liver a major come thin and feeble because function of both kinds of membranes their vital powers are exhausted is to assemble the groups of enzymes re in disposing of an excess of food. quired to chemically change drugs and The liver is burdened in its effort other foreign substances, and then to to cleanse the blood of impurities, provide the site where such reactions and illness is the result." The are carried out. Ministry of Healing, p. 240. There are relatively few kinds of chemical reactions carried out by the liver cells on drugs and foreign com "All that is taken into the stom pounds. However, the effect of each is ach above what the system can essentially the same: substances use to convert into good blood, that are soluble only in fat (lypophilic) clogs the machinery; for it can are changed into water soluble (hydro- not be made into either flesh or philic) compounds. Water soluble sub blood, and its presence burdens stances are more readily removed from the liver and produces a morbid the blood by the kidneys and excreted in condition of the system." Testi the urine. monies, vol. 2, pp. 412, 413. The basic function of these liver cell enzyme systems is to chemically change substances normally produced in the "Every poisonous preparation body that might build up to concentra in the vegetable and mineral tions potentially harmful if unchecked. kingdoms, taken into the system, Such substances include cholesterol, will leave its wretched influence, various hormones, blood pigments, and affecting the liver and lungs, and fatty acids. However, in our Creator©s deranging the system generally." foresight these same protective systems Selected Messages, book 2, p. are capable of coping with drugs and 281. toxic pollutants. It is commonly known that a new born infant is far more sensitive than an "The liver, heart, and brain, adult to many drugs. This is why physi are frequently affected by drugs. cians must exert caution in administer .. . These organs, which should be ing drugs to an expectant mother. Mor in a healthy condition, are en phine (a narcotic) or barbiturates feebled, the blood becomes im (seconal, nembutal, phenobarbital, et pure." Selected Messages, book cetera) given to a woman during child 2, p. 452. birth can be stored in the baby©s tissues and result, after birth, in slowed breath- 32/The Ministry/October, 1976 gan. It eventually returns via the blood Liver cell posed? Many of these have been identi stream to the liver, where more of the enzymes acting fied as chemical carcinogens; that is, they drug will be converted into an inert ma on hydro cause cancerous growths when admin terial. This cycle may be repeated many carbons in istered to laboratory animals. It seems times until the effective drug has been safe to assume that any factor that might completely eliminated by the action of tobacco ac inhibit or enhance the action of the liver liver cell enzymes. The inactive material tually make cells on such substances may affect the may be carried by the bile into the in some of them development of cancers in humans. testines for excretion or removed from more toxic. Among the most widespread carcinogens the blood stream and excreted by the kid are the polycyclic aromatic hydrocar neys into the urine. bons, which include benzopyrene. They Humans vary markedly in their re are present in tobacco smoke, in char sponse to various drugs and combina coal-broiled and smoked foods, and in tions of drugs. Then, too, there is the polluted city air. The particular liver problem that in certain combinations of cell enzyme system that acts on these drugs unpredictable and often undesir compounds sometimes does a strange able effects occur. One drug may inhibit thing. Rather than render them harm or stimulate the action of liver enzymes less it appears to make some of them on another drug. Or it may compete with more toxic. It will be interesting to see it so that excessive concentrations of one what role this reaction may play in the of the drugs remain in the body. development of human cancer. Even Research studies, using animals, have without experimental confirmation, it is shown that a class of insecticides that reasonable to assume that by avoiding includes DDT stimulates the liver cell exposure to such environmental hazards enzyme destruction of drugs and natural we may decrease our risk of serious ill sex hormones. At the level of DDT equiv ness. alent to that commonly found in humans Excuse the pun, but "long livers have the effect of the sleep-inducing drug pen- healthy livers," and as we provide our tobarbital was decreased. livers the best possible environment in And what about the numerous other which to carry out their work, they will chemicals to which we are daily ex- serve us faithfully. II

health news notes Penang Implements Health is offered to English and Bahasa ern Samar; to Tacloban City and Evangelism Malaysia-speaking patients on the Ormoc City on Leyte; and to the recommendation of the attending island of Palawan, where he saw "The conversion of souls is the physician. Also a monthly series hundreds of patients. one great object to be sought for of health talks is being made in our medical institutions. It is available to interested community Stop Smoking Sparked in for this that these institutions are people along with ambulatory ©in- Hong Kong established." Evangelism, p. 537. patients. These talks are adver The implications of this state tised on bulletin boards. The Hong Kong Government ment by Ellen White led to a has blanketed the colony with rethinking of how the Penang Physician Volunteers anti-smoking posters and is even Adventist Hospital could more Service to the Indigent considering introducing smoking completely aid an already strong restrictions in theaters, on public chaplain©s program in soul win Since the arrival of Dr. and transportation, and possibly in ning. As a result, the health evan Mrs. Roy Day in the Philippines, restaurants. With this emphasis by gelism committee was established hundreds of patients with eye the government, the Hong Kong under the chairmanship of John defects have been treated without Adventist Hospital has received a Lai, chaplain. charge. He has performed major as boost to its stop-smoking pro After preliminary brainstorm- well as minor eye surgeries at the grams. Although the hospital has ing, three areas of effort were Calbayog Clinic on the Island of been conducting Five-Day Plans proposed: 1. Staff education in Saniar. on a regular basis, the govern health principles, 2. Patient health Dr. Day makes field trips to ment©s recent campaign has given education, and 3. Community out various places in the Philippines publicity to the hospital. The reach. where he brings sight for the Hong Kong Standard focused one Karen Koh, dietitian, has curable blind. He keeps regular of its editorials on the stop-smok started presenting weekly lessons appointments in Santiago, at our ing programs of the Adventist from the Marvels of Life course to Cagayan Valley Sanitarium and hospital the Five-Day Plan and Chinese-speaking kitchen and Hospital there. He has also made Smoker©s Dial, which is recorded grounds workers. The same course medical safaris to Borongan, East in both English and Chinese. The Ministry/October, 1976/33 Adventist church, met with Roland Lehnhoff and decided that effective plans for preparation must include a week of revival for the local believers. "Preparation for the Team" was the title of the programs for this week. Roland Lehnhoff pointed out that the members of the church comprised the evangelistic team and that he was sim ply there to assist them in their endeavor to reach people for Christ. A good response was evidenced night by night during this preparation week. People came to probe the realities of how to have a deeper experience of knowing Jesus Christ personally and how, through this personal relationship, to make Him known to others by the power of the Holy Spirit. "Looking back upon what began this week and continued in the weeks after," Pastor Herrnstein reports, "I can see that Roland Lehnhoff our ©Preparation for the Team© empha greets couple sis was the key to how and why the coming to meeting. Holy Spirit was able to work in such a powerful way in the public series of meetings that began six weeks later." "New Dimensions of Living Seminar" was the title given to the public series. The church as an evangelistic team did much to personally invite many to come and gave out thousands of printed bro chures. Five hundred posters placed Dimensions throughout the city read: "Now Is the Time To Discover the New Dimensions of Living!" Ten literature evangelists of Living came together for two weeks in Salzburg working from door to door and inviting people to attend the seminar held in the Seminar" Kongresshaus, convention center for Salzburg. On the opening night there was a turn-away crowd. Excellent attendance SALZBURG, AUSTRIA, is a collage continued on succeeding nights many of castles, cathedrals, and quaint dwell World Report evenings with standing room only. After ings artistically set between a variety of six weeks the director of the convention hills and mountains with a beautiful center said, "I never expected such a river flowing through the center. The large attendance for religious meetings city of Mozart is famous for its "sound of to continue for such a long period of music," its classical concerts and tradi time." tional festivities. Would a city such as Night by night it was emphasized that this be responsive to evangelism? the Bible presents a practical, balanced Salzburg was the scene of the first message for optimum fulfillment in the series of evangelistic meetings in Eu spiritual, mental, physical, and social rope conducted by Roland Lehnhoff, dimensions of life. And that a personal evangelist on loan from the North relationship of knowing Jesus is the American Division to the Euro-Africa basis of this fulfillment. Division. Many decisions were made during the The preliminary preparation confer S« seminar to accept Christ and His plan ences held by Pastors Otto Uebersax, If Hi for day-to-day living. At the writing of president of the Austrian Union; Walter ,SIS LEBI this report twenty-five have been bap Shultschik, Ministerial secretary; and tized and many others are attending the Edgar Herrnstein, pastor of the Salzburg pastor©s Bible and baptismal class. II 34/The Ministry/October, 1976 great controversy, others reveal no ex The plicit relation. The parable of the grain of mustard seed, for example, is a par Great Controversy able that treats the growth of the king dom without any apparent reference to the conflict between good and evil. In Theme in her treatment of this parable, however, Ellen White directs our attention to the Parables ever-present struggle between Christ and Satan in the arena of church his tory. On the one hand, she notes the work of John the Baptist, Paul and Silas, Martin Luther, and John Wesley, THE THEME of the controversy be JOSEPH J. whose efforts to advance the cause of tween Christ and Satan is basic to Ellen BATTISTONE truth appeared at the time somewhat White©s study of the parables of Jesus. small and insignificant, but, under the This can be clearly demonstrated by guidance of God, developed into a examining her commentary on the mighty movement. On the other hand, parables in Matthew 13. In each parable she observes the attempts of religious she observes lessons relating to the con institutions to counteract the work of flict between the forces of truth and reform. She ends this historical sketch error. with a reference to the last days: "As in Commenting on the parable of the earlier ages, the special truths for this sower, Ellen White explains how Satan time are found, not with the ecclesiasti works through human theories and cal authorities, but with men and speculations about the Bible to prevent women who are not too learned or too individuals from receiving a saving wise to believe the word of God." Ibid., revelation. Seeds of infidelity are sown p. 79. by ministers of the gospel, she points The parable of the leaven illustrates out, who apply erroneous theories and the penetrating and permeating power faulty techniques in their Bible study; of God©s kingdom in the world. Ellen such tend to undermine confidence in White applies the teaching to the indi the integrity of the Scriptures, and con vidual life and in this way reveals the sequently destroy one©s faith in the relevance of this parable to the theme Bible as God©s word (see Christ's of the great controversy. The evidence Object Lessons, pp. 37-39). of conversion, she points out, is found in Satan, she observes, works through "a reformation in words, in spirit, and other avenues, as well. Textbooks em in character." The leavening process of ployed in educational institutions con truth, she observes, works "secretly, tain "skeptical sentiments" which mis silently, steadily, to transform the lead students by misinterpreting and soul." The parable, in a way, provides perverting scientific data. This is done, the setting for a discourse on character she states, to discredit the truth pro transformation. In this setting Ellen claimed in the Bible (ibid., p. 41). White explains the difference between a Satan employs other tactics to coun profession of faith and the possession teract the seed of truth sown in the of truth. The proof of conversion is heart. In church he seeks to distract the found in the development of one©s worshiper from listening to the ser character, eventually leading to per mon. At home he inspires a critical fection (ibid, pp. 97-102). analysis of the "minister©s character, motives, and actions," in an effort to Clearly Seen in Parable of Hidden obscure or weaken the influence of the Treasure sermon. In this way the homes of pro The importance of the great contro fessed Christians become training cen versy theme in Ellen White©s treatment ters for infidelity (ibid., pp. 44-46). of the parables is clearly seen in her Additional insights relating to the study of the parable of the hidden trea work of Satan are found in Ellen sure. The field in which the treasure is White©s treatment of the parables of the hidden, she explains, is the Bible. The wheat and tares, the grain of mustard Joseph J. Batti- search for the treasure is understood to seed, the leaven, the hidden treasure, stone is associate be the study of the Bible under the the pearl, and the dragnet. While some editor of the guidance of the Holy Spirit. The treas of these parables contain features that Review and ure is the revelation of God©s saving are clearly related to the theme of the Herald. knowledge in the Scriptures (ibid., pp. The Ministry/October, 1976/35 104-106). The theme of the great con The necessity forgiveness, she points out, is to help troversy emerges in connection with her of surrender secure the "fainting, perplexed soul" emphasis on the value of Bible study. ing evil habits against the "attacks of Satan" (ibid., Satan, she points out, attempts to lead pp. 246-250). individuals away from Bible study by is the price we Additional insights into the theme of directing their attention to other fields must pay for the great controversy appear in Ellen of knowledge. The same deceptive eternal life in White©s study of the parables of the reasoning and sophistry that he em Christ. two sons, the wicked tenants, and the ployed in Eden, she notes, is advanced marriage feast (Matthew 21, 22). Com today. mon to these parables is the theme of Mentioning specifically the practice of the response of Judaism to Christ©s some teachers of mingling "the senti person and work and the consequences ments of infidel authors" with their own stemming from that response. Through views, she states that as a consequence out her interpretation of these parables they "plant in the minds of youth Ellen White emphasizes the privileges thoughts that will lead to distrust of and responsibilities of the people of God and transgression of His law." Once God. In the parable of the two sons she the authority of God©s law is disre calls attention to two types of individ garded, she observes, the student ac uals. quires wrong habits, loses self-control, On the one hand, there are those fails to reason correctly about ultimate represented by the Pharisees, whom she issues, and becomes reckless and irra describes as cunningly sophisticated, tional about the care of his mind and self-righteous, and hypocritical. These body. Gradually he is led to self-destruc persons are in a position to lead others tion (ibid., pp. 106-109). to a knowledge of God©s saving grace but Similarly, in the parable of the pearl, because of their "listless, sleepy indo Ellen White calls attention to the hu lence" fail to do so. Through their fail man heart as "the battleground of the ure, she notes, Satan succeeds in gain conflict with Satan." Whereas in the ing control of individuals who might parable of the hidden treasure she otherwise have been led to Christ (ibid., stresses the need for diligent and p. 280). prayerful Bible study, in the parable of On the other hand, there are persons the pearl she emphasizes the necessity who frankly admit their disregard for of surrendering evil habits as the price the law. Their admission, Ellen White one must pay for eternal life in Christ. makes clear, is not at all commendable, The way to Christ is the way of sacrifice but "insulting and defiant, and ap and self-denial. "Unholy ambitions" proaches to blasphemy." In connection and "worldly attractions" will eventually with this point she stresses the danger lead one to moral bankruptcy and spir of spiritual procrastination by focusing itual ruin. Therefore, she concludes, the on the harmful effects of cherished sins. Christian©s only ambition must be to By cherishing sin one weakens his reveal to the world "the likeness of character, strengthens his wrong habits, Christ©s character, and to labor for the and thus permits Satan to gain an ad enlargement of His kingdom" (ibid., vantage. The world is divided into two pp. 118-121). classes those who keep the command In Other Parables, As Well ments of God and those who do not. Such obedience, she points out, pro The great controversy theme in Ellen ceeds from a love relationship with God, White©s study of the parables is not con and constitutes the distinguishing fea fined to her treatment of Matthew 13, ture of those who will be saved at the but can be observed throughout her time of Christ©s coming (ibid., pp. 278- interpretation of other parables, as 281, 283). well. In her commentary on the para The parable of the wicked tenants ble of the unforgiving servant (Mat is clearly a parable of salvation history. thew 18:23-35) she advances insights Israel©s history is depicted by Ellen into the nature of sin, forgiveness, White in connection with her study of mercy, and compassion. The thrust of the parable. It is portrayed as a history the parable is found in the striking of failure. Such failure is described as contrast between God©s tender mercy the result of the nation©s persistent re and man©s callousness. This contrast fusal to represent God©s character in the forms the basis for Ellen White©s appeal world. Her summary of Israel©s history for concern and compassion for the is followed by a sermon on the privi penitent. The ultimate objective of our leges and responsibilities of the church. 36/The Ministry/October, 1976 Once again the theme of the great con Apart from The interest in character perfection troversy conies to the surface: the peo God's saving appears again in her commentary on ple of God are on trial before the uni grace it is the parables of the ten virgins and the verse. The particular question is impossible to talents (Matthew 25). The parable of the whether or not they will be faithful in virgins is about the church awaiting fulfilling their divine calling. Their satisfy the the coming of Christ. The waiting mission is twofold. First, they are to righteous period, she explains, is the period of represent God©s character in the world requirements probation that the church experiences by producing the fruitage of obedience, of the law. before the end time. During this period namely, love, humility, and self-sacri the church is to present the spirit and ficing service. In this way they will re character of Christ to the world by dem pudiate the charges of Satan. Second, onstrating the evidence of God©s trans they are to proclaim to the world the forming grace (ibid., pp. 418, 419). "last merciful message of warning" and The parable of the talents serves as a thus participate in God©s plan to coun warning to the church that at the time teract the evil work of the devil. Her of Christ©s return each will have to give study ends with a general appeal to an account for his use or abuse of the exemplify God©s character as trans- gifts entrusted to him. In the thinking scribed in His law (ibid., pp. 291, 292, of Ellen White, the talents represent 296-299, 302, 304, 305). opportunities for character development A similar concern appears in her leading ultimately to perfection. The treatment of the parable of the mar whole matter of character development riage feast, namely, one that stresses turns on the right exercise of the will the necessity of character transforma an exercise that will determine one©s tion in the followers of Christ. The per destiny. Thus, she so aptly points out, fection of character, in the thinking of the controversy between Christ and Ellen White, is the result of one©s obe Satan is decisively settled in the do dience to the demands of God. Such main of each individual life. In the obedience is possible only when it is an courtroom of human experience the outgrowth of faith. That is, apart from issues in the great conflict are revealed God©s saving grace, which is accessible and resolved (ibid., p. 331). to the believer in Christ, it is impossible Our study of Ellen White©s interpre to satisfy the righteous requirements of tation of the parables, then, has shown the law. Faith in God©s saving grace is, that the controversy between Christ and at the same time, a belief that God can Satan is the central and most important and will deliver one from the power of theme in Christ's Object Lessons. We sin. Such faith, moreover, is an admis also note a fundamental conviction sion that one stands in need of God©s regarding the practical nature and transforming power and a confession value of Bible study. Bible study, to her that he desires to have this power effec way of thinking, is not simply a matter tuate a change in his life (ibid., pp. 315, of becoming informed with facts as 316). important as this may be but a matter of being transformed by saving truth. Perfection—a Basic Feature There is an inseparable relation be The perfection of character, as was tween Bible study and character de shown, is a basic feature in the theme of velopment. An earnest study of the the great controversy. Foremost among Scriptures a study generating from Satan©s charges, Ellen White points out, an attitude of prayer, faith, and humil is the one directed against the law as an ity will lead to a dynamic change in expression of divine love and justice. In the thinking and behavior of the stu attacking the law, she notes, Satan at dent. The tendency to draw attention to tempts to malign God©s character. In the controversy between Christ and order to discredit God©s justice and de Satan, particularly as it relates to the feat His redemptive plan, Satan reasons individual, clearly demonstrates Ellen that the law is impossible for men to White©s own understanding of the prac keep. In her commentary on the parable tical significance of Bible study and, at of the marriage feast Ellen White calls the same time, offers insights into the attention to Satan©s tactics and then ex uniqueness of her prophetic ministry. plains Christ©s earthly mission as one Through her inspired writings we gain designed to counteract Satan©s work. a better understanding of the role of Christ©s life on earth is described as Seventh-day Adventists, collectively a "perfect expression of God©s law" and individually, in the closing stage of (ibid., p. 315). the great controversy. fil The Ministry/October, 1976/37 atmosphere sacred, and the symbolism by his side God has given us is not destroyed. We penitent believers, by partaking Sponsored by Catherine Dower in the communion service, find purifica for the Shepherdess. tion and forgiveness in Jesus. Let us come in humility and obedience so we may be ready for His appearance. Read the chapters in The Desire of Ages entitled "A Servant of Servants" and "In Remembrance of Me." Christ, while "still at the table on which the Dear Shepherdess: Our green Chevy Loaf- paschal supper has been spread," was has really traveled many miles this sum instituting a religious service. mer as we attended several camp meet type Someone wrote that in one church a ings. I have felt especially blessed in checkered red and white oilcloth was visiting with the Shepherdess groups in Com used to replace the pure white cloth usu the different conferences. To see our ally used to symbolize the spotless char ministers and their wives in their Christ- munion acter of our Saviour. The beautiful honoring labors has been an inspiration. Bread white, well-laundered cloth seemed, It is thrilling to hear Christ presented also, to be dignified, as if offering the by the camp meeting speakers as the King of kings our best. only secure foundation in this creaking, Would you seat such an honored Guest tottering old world. at an oilcloth tablecloth if you had a Our lives have been enriched as we lovely white one in the linen closet? make new friends and renew old friend The type of emblems we are to serve in ships with those we have known before. this service are explicit. These emblems At the Nebraska camp meeting, at the typify the broken body of our Lord and very lovely Platte Valley Academy, we His spilled blood, but nowhere, appar met Miss Ruth Whitfield, who has been a ently, does our prophet tell how these food service director in our schools for emblems should be served. many years. We talked of communion "The unleavened cakes [and may we bread, as that subject has been on my stress the word unleavened] used at the mind for several months. I had received Passover season are before Him. The a letter that raised the question. The Passover wine, untouched by fermenta writer states, "I have accepted the posi tion, is on the table. These emblems tion of head deaconess at the College Christ employs to represent His own un church. The students here have asked blemished sacrifice. Nothing [bread or for communion bread in ©loaves© rather wine] corrupted by fermentation, the than the tiny wafers usually used in symbol of sin and death, could represent church. I have been asked whether I had the ©Lamb without blemish and without a good recipe for such a bread and as yet spot.'"—The Desire of Ages, p. 653. have not found one I felt I could recom The bread the Lord broke and served mend. Do you have any? Any help you in the upper room was a round, flat could give me on what ingredients are bread, unleavened, with no yeast or suitable to use and how to use them leavening agent added. We should not would be greatly appreciated." present anything other than this as we Another writer asks, "What kind of partake at the table. bread should be used in the communion May we, in imagination, join our service? What type of table arrange Saviour at the scene of communion in ments?" the upper chamber. It is a real sacra There seems to be a modern trend to ment, sober, holy, happy, dedicated, make the sacred communion service with no disturbing influence to dilute rather commonplace. Our young people the spiritual strength God intended us seem to want to return to primitive to receive. forms in their services. Perhaps this Why shouldn©t we conform to the makes some feel more at ease. It would standards and procedures that have be good to use your influence to help our been adopted by our church, designed to people to conform to the conventional help us become really fulfilled Chris and convenient type of communion tians who "[behold] the Saviour©s match bread the church has found acceptable. less love" and who are "elevated in We are not against change or allowing thought, purified in heart, transformed the use of ingenuity or self-expression in character"? Ibid., p. 661. as long as the service is reverent, the At my request Miss Whitfield has 38/The Ministry/October, 1976 shared a recipe for loaf-type communion 350 . The thin waferlike bread takes bread which she has perfected. This is 10 to 12 minutes to bake. the recipe: Please remember that flours differ. I 1 c. sifted 100% whole-wheat pastry made this bread with regular whole flour wheat flour, as I could not find the pastry 1/2 tsp. salt flour, which is a softer spring wheat 1/3 c. cooking oil type of flour. I found I needed to use a 3 tbsp. ice water temperature of 325 for 30 mintues for Place sifted flour and salt in a bowl. the loaves and also 325 for the wafers, Combine oil and water in a blender and baking 10 to 12 minutes. blend until mixture is white and Another friend and deaconess has creamy. (This process is called emulsify been experimenting with making an ing and makes the product more flaky. acceptable bread. This is Mrs. Martha One may beat the oil and water with a Losey©s recipe: fork to emulsify if a blender is not avail 3 c. whole-wheat pastry flour able.) Then pour the water and oil mix 1 1/4 tsp. salt ture, all at once, into the flour and salt. 3/4 c. oil Lightly cut the moisture into the flour 1/2 c. ice water with the edge of a mixing spoon. Do not Blend oil and water in blender until stir or handle too much. creamy and cut gently into the flour and Take 1/3 of the dough in the hands and salt mixture. Roll out on a teflon baking shape it into an oval loaf 5 inches long by sheet, using wax paper on top. Mark into 2 1/2 inches wide. Prick the top of the small squares and prick. Bake at 350 entire length of the loaf. This recipe for 20 minutes. makes three loaflike cakes such as baked This dough may be placed into an in Arab countries, and which probably eight-inch cake pan. It makes two large was much like the flat loaf Jesus broke loaves. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes. with His disciples in the Upper Room. I would appreciate hearing from those To serve these loaves each participant who may have other good recipes. could break off a piece, or the presiding Let us, as leaders, do our best to help elder might break the loaves into bite- our people accept the conventional com size pieces. munion service adopted by the church, This dough may be rolled thin for the while doing all we can to make it a beau wafer-type communion bread, also, scor tiful, meaningful service of communing ing it into squares before baking. with Jesus. Bake the loaves for 45 minutes at With love, Kay.

SURROUNDED AS we are in this Bi placed their feet on the Massachusetts centennial year with reminders of our Our Door shore, armed with the courage to face country©s past, I asked myself, "What Remains unknown dangers for the sake of free does being an American really mean to dom. I hope a bit of their blood still tin me?" Open gles in our veins. For some reason my mind went in Next, I think of a friend who spent stantly to a Thanksgiving greeting card many months in a concentration camp that my husband, Don, received years JUNE STRONG during World War II. Life was reduced ago from a business acquaintance. In to fear, dysentery, starvation, and loss stead of picturing the usual harvest of hope. There came that day, however, feasting, it showed a small group of Pil when American planes filled the skies grims on a windswept beach, the May and jeeps pulled into the compound. Al flower at anchor in the bay. Some of the most too ill to respond, my friend hud new arrivals were kneeling in the snow; dled listlessly in a corner of the yard. A others stood, heads bowed in prayer. June Strong, of shadow fell across the dust at her feet, Batavia, New Water lapped, cold and green, against York, is a popular and she looked up at an American GI the rocks. Perhaps the artist would be lecturer and the towering over like some mythical god pleased to know we use the card every author of the in his bronzed good health. He grinned, Thanksgiving as a table centerpiece. widely acclaimed and she found a small answering smile I believe we need to think now and book Journal of a flickering deep within, struggling to find then of those men and women who first Happy Woman. its way to her parched lips. The Ministry/October, 1976/39 When he lifted her in his arms as the clever ideas they have for evading easily as if she were a child, the tears of their income tax. I hear other Americans her joy fell unchecked upon his green lamenting the fact that we are "suck fatigues. ers" to help foreign nations, when we Very softly, his own eyes glistening, have grave financial problems of our he said, "Don©t cry, lady. You made it, own. and we©re going home." While I©ll readily admit that some "Never had I understood before what areas of government may well be cor it meant to be an American," she told rupt, that our tax dollars may not al me simply, years later. ways be handled wisely, and perhaps we Sometimes when I look about our own really cannot afford to come to the aid table, I am reminded of another facet of of all the unfortunate around the globe, America. The faces of our assembled I©m still glad to pay my taxes as an family are not all Caucasian. Some of American. I©d . rather live frugally in our six sons and daughters have come this land than luxuriously in any other. out of sorrow and war to these friendly I©m proud we move in with clothing, shores. Though they bear the beauty of food, and medical supplies wherever the Orient, they are now American. disaster strikes, even among our ene May the sounds of battle and dying mies. I©m glad we help countries shat never again be a part of their experience. tered by war to struggle once more to I©m glad the lady with the torch in the their feet. I cannot be concerned with New York harbor has never locked her their appreciation or lack of it. There is gates against a troubled world. a principle involved, a principle that I hear individuals chuckling about Jesus Christ lifted to its ultimate clarity. The day America hugs her riches to herself, closes her doors to the unfortu nate, and looks with cool, indifferent eyes upon the problems of her fellow na tions, I shall know we have betrayed those men and women kneeling on the cold New England shore. Until then, I shall fly the Stars and Stripes with a grateful heart. El

Messianic Mtteposts-Mieah 5:29 3 W. E. READ

In the K.J.V. this passage On verse 3, the Talmud reads In Dr. A. Cohen, the title to this reads: slightly differently instead of section is given as "Prophecy of "But thou, Bethlehem Eph- "she which travaileth" we read: the Messianic King" (p. 174). ratah, though thou be little "The son of David will not come Israel©s "present suffering will among the thousands of Judah, until the wicked kingdom of come to an end when the Messiah yet out of thee shall he come Rome will have spread (its sway) is born" (on verse 2). forth unto me, that is to be ruler over the whole world." "There "Messiah©s power will extend in Israel; whose goings forth have fore will he give them up, until to the ends of the earth" (verse 3). been from of old, from everlasting the time that she which travail "It is possible that this phase [margin "days of eternity"]. eth hath brought forth." (See gave rise to the later Jewish doc "Therefore will he give them Tractate Yoma lOa, p. 44, and trine that the Messiah existed in up, until the time that she which Tractate Sanhedrin 98b, p. 665.) the mind of God from time im travaileth hath brought forth." "Thou didst not make David, memorial. In the Talmud the As with other Messianic texts, the Messiah." Footnote reads name of the Messiah is included there have been in Jewish ranks (No. 7): "Their [the nations among the seven things created varied interpretations of this around them] final defeat ushers before the world was created, be text, but we shall confine our ex in the halcyon days of the Mes fore the world was brought into cerpts to those that support the siah." (See Tractate Sanhedrin being." Page 175, columns 1 Messianic viewpoint. 94a, p. 630.) and 2.

40/The Ministry/October, 1976 As elders we may fulfill our office by the load elder visiting a newly baptized family and inviting them home for dinner, thus strengthening them in their new-found faith. Or we may visit a backslidden person and attempt to reclaim him and restore him to the fold. Or we may visit some sick member in the hospital, and Elders leave an encouraging tract with some one in the next bed. So many good things are done to which we attach the word THERE ARE a number of "depart witness, but we may have done these ments" in the organizational structure CARL COFFMAN acts only to fulfill an obligation placed of the local church. At election time we upon us, which we have taken to be a call them "church offices," and tend to part of our official duties. keep them separate, letting the leaders You ask, Are not the items just men in each office or department carry out tioned tract distribution, Bible stud their own obligations. This is good in ies, visitation of new members, back itself, and actually is necessary if each sliders, the sick all witness? They is to do effective work for the church. may be or they may not be! We have No one can do everything. And a med already hinted at the difference. If we dler is unnecessary, to be sure. do them because our intense love for But when it comes to soul winning, God must be shared they are witness. departmental lines break down. The But if we do them only because we feel leaders and teachers of the children©s obligated to our office, or because we are Sabbath schools are to be soul winners; members of the church and should do also the Community Services depart such things, they are not witness at all. ment, the deacons, the youth groups, the They are then probably being done as elders everyone in the church, office an attempt to gain the acceptance of or no office. Have we to some degree sep God by our own works. arated departments when it comes to Actually, a church member who has soul winning, and deposited the respon not yet formed a personal love relation sibility on the lay activities leaders, ship with Christ cannot witness. He can who in turn must appeal to all other offi do missionary work and fill out his re cers and members to join them in soul port blank, but such is not witness. winning? As soon as we have said this, When we accept Christ genuinely, the it savors of something that isn©t quite very act necessitates that we become correct in terms of who is to finish the witnesses for Him. We do not then wit spreading of the gospel message. ness to gain acceptance or reward. We To put it in another way, the church genuinely witness about the Lord who elder has his work to do on the plat loves all men as He loves us. Christ in us form, in the board meeting, in visitation spills over, just like a glass sitting un of members, in assistance with church der the running water faucet. It is not problems the list is long. And thus he difficult to tell others about the One we could feel justified in permitting the love. So many try to witness without a soul-winning call of the lay activities lifelong "first love" to tell about. In do leader to go unanswered, since his own ing so they find only a trying and pain office demands too much of him and his ful obligation. time. There is, however, great danger One of the clearest Bible examples of in this attitude. real witness can be found in Christ©s Why? Because "witness" in its Bib counsel to the demoniac. "Go home to lical sense, does not necessarily take thy friends," Christ said, "and tell them place when I give out fifteen truth-filled how great things the Lord hath done for tracts in my neighborhood. I could do thee" (Mark 5:19). Luke adds this: "And that simply in order to feel no longer it came to pass, that, when Jesus was re guilty for not doing it. Actually, the turned, the people gladly received him: process of getting it done could be very for they were all waiting for him" (Luke painful to me. But I feel better after 8:40). That man had something, Some ward! If I go out and give Bible studies Carl Coffman is one, to talk about. He went everywhere for the same reason and many do chairman, Depart telling it, and with great results. that, too, might be nothing more than ment of Religion, Ellen White makes the same truth the fulfilling of an obligation rather Andrews Univer clear: "Strive to arouse men and women than witness. sity. from their spiritual insensibility. Tell The Ministry/October, 1976/41 them how you found Jesus, and how clearer minds in order that we might blessed you have been since you gained more fully understand God and His love an experience in His service. Tell them and way so that we might grow more what blessing comes to you as you sit at like Him, that the three angels teach us the feet of Jesus, and learn precious how to truly worship Him and escape lessons from His Word." Evangelism, deceptions about Him we then are wit p. 486. (Italics supplied.) nessing to Christ as we should, regard You may now be asking, Is witness less of the particular phase of the Chris confined to the act of talking to others tian life that is being discussed. Sadly, about Christ and our love for Him? Does many have never learned this vital not one witness when telling others point about genuine witness as they about the commandments, the Sabbath, should have done, in spite of the abun the nature of man, healthful living, the dant counsel given us. remnant, and the three angels© mes Of course, the church must have de sages? Are we not diminishing our em partments, and specialists in each. And phasis on the great doctrinal truths to the church elder should be a specialist in day in favor of just talking about his work. But departments cannot be Christ? compartments, locked off and separated Yes, witness is confined to the act of from one another when it comes to soul talking to others about Christ! But that winning. The lay activities leader is not includes presenting Christ in all of the to be the only one who speaks out for great Bible teachings as we show others help in the soul-winning program of what the Christ life is all about. Think the church. Rather, it is his work to this through carefully if we show that specialize in organizing a church full of the commandments reveal love rela soul winners, made so by rebirth, into tionships, that the Sabbath is to be de the most effective team possible. The voted to further learning about Christ, church elder must be the one who leads that healthful living serves to give us the way. II

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for a fine evening with my family. it; a world smothered with words, To Show Which Side I'm On I used to take my troubles home hungry for one meaningful word; A little old man was seen every to my wife, and often they would a world bombarded with data, Sunday morning walking to the stay with me all night, and I©d rarely capable of sorting out the church of his choice. He was deaf; get up the next morning with a truth; and a world in which we so he could not hear a word of the grouch. can flash messages across the sermon, or the music by the choir, "But no more! I hang them on ocean by way of space, but one in or the hymns sung by the congre the ©Trouble Tree,© and five which we find it difficult to get gation. A scoffer asked, "Why do nights out of six they have all through to each other face to you spend your Sundays in that blown away by morning." face." Roger Schinn, as quoted church when you can©t hear a Quote Magazine. by Footnotes to the Future, a pub word?" He replied, "I want my lication of Futuremics, Inc., 2850 neighbors to know which side Connecticut Avenue NW., Wash I©m on." Gloria Pitzer, Quote. Perfect Health ington, D.C. 20008. Used by per "Love for God is essential for mission. life and health. In order to have Quotes perfect health our hearts must be filled with hope, and love, and Things Which Cannot Be "If you want to soar with the Shaken—Text: Hebrews 12:27 eagles in the morning you can©t joy-" Counsels on Health, p. hoot with the owls at night." 587. 1. Throne of God (Heb. 1:8). Selected. 2. Word of God (Ps. 119:89). 3. Church of God (Matt. 16: "It is not hard work that breaks A World of Communication down ministers, but the toil 18; Heb. 12:22; 1 Cor. 3:11; 2 of working without power." "We are living in a world sat John 2:9, 10). DWIGHT L. MOODY. urated with communication, on 4. Child of God (1 John 2:17). "The world has many religions; the verge of perishing for lack of PHYLLIS BAILEY it has but one gospel." GEORGE OWEN. "Salvation may come quietly, CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Send large self-addressed stamped but we cannot remain quiet about envelope for free brochures. Global it." GLEN WHULER. Advertisements appropriate to THE MINISTRY, Church Films, Box 8003, Riverside, appearing under this heading, per insertion: $10 California 92505. Phone 689-7889. "The most valuable end of gov for 40 words or less, 10 cents each additional ernment is the liberty of the in word, including initials and address; or $10 per DO YOU want to recycle your AS column inch (up to 3 inches) for camera-ready habitants. No possible advantages illustrated ads. Cash required with order. Send PIRE and TAPE OF THE MONTH can compensate for loss of this to: THE MINISTEY, 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., cassettes? Why not send them to Lak- Washington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. privilege." PATRICK HENRY. pahana Adventist Seminary and let "Those who in everything make PERMANENT-PRESS BAPTIS our students enjoy the sermons you God first and last and best, are MAL ROBES: Six sizes available; have benefited from. the happiest people in the world." more than 20 colors to choose from; Seminary Director Messages to Young People, zippered closure; lead weights; minis Lakpahana Adventist p. 38. ters© baptismal robes made to order. Seminary Color card sent only if requested. Rea Mailapitiya, Sri Lanka sonably priced. Write ROBES, 1017 "A Trouble Tree" Westview Terrace, Dover, Delaware 19901. TAPED CARILLON MUSIC A very wise businessman we Cast Bell Rings / Peals / Tolls know has what he calls his "Trou RIFFI MASSAGE MITTENS for ble Tree." It is located about a skin massage, cold-mitten friction. All available for almost any system block away from his house, where Recommended by Five-Day Plan and or stendard tape recorder. he has to pass it every evening on Century 21 for Better Living. Pair his way home. with Rx instructions, $5 prepaid. Ten Cassette • Reel to Reel • Endless Loop "When I reach that tall poplar pair or more, $4. 10 colors. Write TAPE CARILLON SYSTEMS in the evening," he explains, "I RIFFI, 10 Hickory Lane, North Read -from 5399. leave all the troubles and worries ing, Massachusetts 01864. Catalogs on Request of the day right there. ©Let them ILLUSTRATED EVANGELISTIC hang on the branches if they LECTURES AND BIBLE STUDIES A DIVISION OF EDIT RECORDING LABS. INC. want to,© I say to myself, Tin in beautiful 2/2 color slides. Original .O. Bux 24148 • Cincinnati. OH 45224 through with them for the day.© and filmstrips. Reasonably priced. REPRESENTATIVES WANTED And I throw back my shoulders and stir up a grin and get ready The Ministry/October, 1976/43 case you're feeling.

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/ name (please print) I address I city state zip Send to your local Adventist Book Center I This offer expires August 31, 1977 used for a special sermon. I used this with shop talk great effect at a recent camp meeting. A Sponsored by John Rhodes, Ministerial printed key goes with the picture, giving the secretary, Southeastern California Conference. details of the various events taking place at Christ's second coming. Developing the theme with these details, and each person holding the picture in front of him, makes a profound impression upon the mind. j. E. s. Useful Health Compilation Available Four Books of Beauty A neatly bound 140-page compilation en In the June, 1976, issue of MINISTRY, titled Scientific Abstracts that illustrates mention is made of four booklets of se healthful living, produced by Dr. Charles S. lected passages from the writings of Ellen G. Thomas and his students at Loma Linda White, beautifully illustrated with outstand University School of Health, is now avail ing photography, which are ideal for use as able. The seven chapters of this syllabus attractive gifts in one's evangelistic out deal with exercise and physiological effects; reach. Unfortunately, no mention was made optimum health and spiritual effects; stress; as to price or how they may be secured. The the heart, blood pressure, and exercise; four booklets, Evidences, God's Physician, physical fitness for children; physical-fit Nature's Ten Thousand Voices, and These ness education and training programs; and Things of Beauty, sell for 90 cents each and rodent, fowl, and animal experiments. are available through our Adventist Book It is designed to aid those involved in put Centers. ting on health programs who do not have time to do background reading and pick out illustrations that can be used in lectures and talks on healthful living. A handy table of Back Issues of MINISTRY contents at the beginning of each chapter A number of our schools and other insti makes it easy to find materials needed on tutions are interested in obtaining com the topics covered. The syllabus can be or plete sets of back issues of MINISTRY. If you dered through the School of Health, Loma have such a set and would be willing to of Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92354. fer it for such a purpose at a modest cost, The $6.00 price includes postage and please pass this information on to MIN handling. ISTRY.

Five Questions You Need to Ask Preaching From Pictures Yourself This is the title of quite an old book that 1. In an average week, where do I spend has some intriguing ideas, which if used most of my time? may make you a more effective preacher. 2. How do I view my role based on the above This particular minister, along with others, emphasis? has used pictures as the center theme of ser 3. What should my role be? mons. He has small pictures, such as our 4. Where should I devote more of my time Sabbath school picture cards, that he passes to fulfill this role? out to the people and preaches his entire ser 5. To what activities do I need to devote less mon on the pictures. He points out the vari time to fulfill my role? ous details of the picture, thus riveting the (From Campus Crusade for Christ— concepts in the minds of his listeners. course in Church Management) Summary suggestions are as follows: 1. Occasionally use two or three pictures instead of one, which will vary the program. 2. Try different ways of providing the pic tures for changes in program. A slide or Day of Fasting and Prayer slides on the screen, plus miniature prints November 6, 1976 given out during the service, will enhance There are unentered areas every the program. where that must be reached if we are 3. Use an illustrated hymn or scripture to take seriously our challenge to finish during the worship. 4. Have a specially-designed responsive the work. The last Sabbath of the Week reading prepared for some service. The of Prayer (November 6) has been set texts of scripture selected can center on a aside as a day of fasting and prayer, picture. when the Adventist family around the 5. Have a service that is entirely music world will unite in especially remem ally built around the picture. bering the urgent challenge presented 6. The writer suggests the second coming by the unentered areas. of Christ picture available from the General Conference Ministerial Association can be The Ministry/October, 1976/45 recommended reading

Many eulogies of W. F. Al need growth in grace and perfec WILLIAM FOXWELL AL- bright have been published dur tion. BRIGHT—A TWENTIETH- ing the last three or four decades, This trio of communication CENTURY GENIUS; A but in order to obtain a clear and needs of audiences, identified by complete picture of his life and BIOGRAPHY OF THE AC Engel and Norton as proclama accomplishments it is necessary tion, persuasion, and cultivation, KNOWLEDGED DEAN OF to read the book under review, provides the main thesis of their BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLO which can be heartily recom book. GISTS, Leona Glidden Run mended. They say that too often evalua ning and David Noel Freed- Siegfried H. Horn tion of a minister's success has man, The Two Continents been based upon his meeting the Publishing Group, Ltd., Mor communication needs of the sec gan Press, New York, 1975, WHAT'S GONE WRONG ond group only. 447 pages, $15.00. WITH THE HARVEST? The book provides thoughtful James F. Engel and H. Wil- emphasis for Seventh-day Ad- The readers of THE MINISTRY bert Norton, Zondervan Pub ventists. We have been very suc have from time to time had op lishing House, Grand Rapids, cessful in meeting the needs of portunity to read about W. F. Al- Michigan, 1974. the second group and quite suc bright, the most famous Biblical cessful in meeting the needs of archeologist of recent times. An Almost 2,000 years ago Jesus the third group. But only recently article on him appeared in THE exclaimed to His disciples that have we begun meeting the needs MINISTHY, September, 1975, the fields were white and ready of the first group—those to whom written by the first listed author for the harvest. Now, two millen Christ and the Bible are not im of the book under review. Run niums later, the harvest is not portant authority symbols. ning and Freedman are emi yet finished. The book should prove a useful nently qualified to write the bi "What's Gone Wrong With the addition to any minister's library ography of the late Professor Harvest?" is the question asked if only to serve as a catalyst in Albright, since both were his stu and answered by two Wheaton thinking about the differing dents and friends. Leona Running College professors in this book needs of unique individuals was also, for longer and shorter that outlines a communication within his district, both bap periods, his scholarly assistant strategy for the church and world tized members and nonmembers. during the last years of his life. evangelism. The Bibliography at the end of This book, based on his volu What has gone wrong, they say, the book, containing some fifty minous published works, on nu is that the cutting blades are entries, is also useful for anyone merous interviews, and on the missing from the magnificent wishing to do further study in rich private correspondence to harvesting machinery the evan this area. which the authors had access, gelical churches have acquired. Kermit Netteburg contains a full and reliable pic The cutting blades are people; the ture of the man. Born of poor mis harvesting machinery is the pro sionary parents in Chile and be grams of the church. PARABLES OF OUR SAV ing physically handicapped, he Engel and Norton define the IOUR, William M. Taylor, Kre- worked himself up from an ele problem as the desire of church gel Publications, Grand Rap mentary school teacher to a pro men to implement programs ids, Michigan 49501, 1975, 449 fessor in a prestigious university rather than to seek to work with pages, $5.95. on whom eventually honors were the needs and talents of people. showered like confetti—among Their solution is to research and This is a reprint of an old, but others, 30 honorary Doctor's de analyze the needs and abilities of cherished, book. Christ's parables grees, several medals of merit, church workers, church mem have intrigued Bible scholars and Festschriften (=works written bers, and the nonchurched. laymen ever since they were first in honor of him at several of his One of the most useful ideas given. It has been said that there birthdays), and honorary citizen Engel and Norton suggest is the are more books dealing with His ship of Jerusalem. For a decade distinction of three classes of parables than with any other por Professor Albright lived in Jeru audiences to be reached with the tion of Christ's teaching. Al salem, and it was there that as a gospel message. Those who do not though this book was first pub result of his archeological work yet recognize their need of a lished in 1886, it is of lasting he changed from an ultra-liberal saviour; those who recognize their value to the pastor who is ever Biblical scholar to a relatively need of a saviour and want to searching for means of making conservative believer and a de change their condition; those who practical applications of the fender of the historical parts of have accepted the message of a teachings of Scripture. the Bible. saviour from sin but who still J. R. Spangler 46/The Ministry/October, 1976 Phyllis Bailey has spent many years gathering Biblical information for her pastor-teacher husband. 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declare as openly as they could cial temptation to individuals who Mormons Accept their obedience to the Lord, Who have psychic power to make them Two Revelations is inviting us to restore the unity seem greater than they are for the and oneness of His Church," he sake of gain or prestige." SALT LAKE CITY—Members added. of the Mormon Church have ac In his statement, Archbishop cepted as part of their scriptures lakovos said, "The period of Senator Urges Military two "revelations" involving for 'ecumenical romanticism' as well mer Mormon presidents. to Act on Big Rise in as that of 'informal discussion' Alcoholism The vote by the church mem have come to an end. A 'dialogue' bership accepting the revelations with a specific aim: the reconcili WASHINGTON, D.C.—An came at the 146th annual general ation of the Church . . . must be Army survey indicates that 20 conference of the Church of Jesus initiated at once." per cent of its officers and 32 per Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mor cent of its enlisted men are either mon) here. Both visions relate to heavy drinkers or binge drinkers, the afterlife. Church Study of Para and in 1973 duty time (produc The new scriptures will be ar psychology Produces No tivity) lost because of drinking to ranged in verses as part of the "Positive" Results taled $17 million in pay and al "Pearl of Great Price," one of the lowances. authorized holy texts of the Mor EDINBURGH—A two-year These are among statistics cited mon Church. Other authorized study by a national Church of by Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D- scriptures are the Bible, the Book Scotland (Presbyterian) com Conn.), who says heavy drinking of Mormon, and the Doctrine and mittee investigating the phe among American military per Covenants. nomenon of parapsychology has sonnel is more of a problem than One of the revelations is the failed to produce any positive re illicit-drug use, "yet the armed vision of the Celestial Kingdom, sults, according to a report pub forces spend six times more money reportedly received by Mormon lished here for presentation to combatting narcotics than they do Church founder Joseph Smith on the church's General Assembly. to prevent the spread of alcohol January 21,1836, and the other is ism." a vision of the redemption of the The committee admitted fail dead, received by his grandson, ure, it said, despite careful ex amination of some promising Unless otherwise credited, these news items are President Joseph F. Smith, Oc taken from Religious News Service. tober 3, 1918. Presidents of the evidence, including internation Mormon Church are considered ally acclaimed card-guessing ex prophets and revelators, who may periments; well known reports on receive revelations from God. emotions in plants; and the claims of Uri Geller, who claims he can Change of Address bend such things as spoons merely by thought. Greek Orthodox Primate In its report the committee com Sees Pope Challenging All plained of a scarcity of data on the Christians to Unity subject—defined as including NEW YORK—The primate of ESP (extrasensory perception) the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and PK (the ability to produce S. a c * physical effect other than through 3 3 "" » in North and South America says TO &. 3 ft Pope Paul's kissing of the foot of muscular means; for instance, in an Orthodox metropolitan is a fluencing the fall of dice). "challenge addressed to all "Sadly, we have to report," said Christians." the committee, "that as long as we restricted our reading to popular Archbishop lakovos said the 3. S' o "unprecedented gesture should accounts presented by journalists not only be seen as a saint's action our hopes remained high, but I ig: ? or symbolic of his humility . . . when it was possible to go behind but as a step forward, for I don't the popular literature, to the see how else he could ever justify original papers to examine the his prostration." allegedly assured results more "I consider it an official chal closely, we found that, one by one, lenge addressed to all Christians, they have tended to disappear." who in their search for unity, Members of the committee should bow out of the trenches, warned against the danger of confessional and otherwise, and fraud, saying there may be a "spe 48/The Ministry/October, 1976