VOLUME XXIX FEBRUARY, 1956 NUMBER 2 Page 2 THE MINISTRY In This Issue E BELIEVE that you will feel anew the W challenge and privilege of real gospel preaching as you read Dr. Shirkey©s very splen Official Organ of the MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS did sermon, "This Is Our Business." Certainly Editor: in all the pressure of activity and advance we ROY ALLAN ANDERSON must never forget that Christ is the heart of it Associate Editors: all the rightful center of every sermon, and the REUBEN R. FIGUHR, ALBERT V. OLSON incentive to persevere through every hardship. LOUISE C. KLEUSER, GEORGE E. VANDEMAN Eric Syme, on page 10, takes a backward look WALTER SCHUBERT, EARL E. CLEVELAND at 1955 that you will find constructive as well Office Editor; Advertising and Circulation Manager: as restrospective. He points up some criticisms BEN GLANZER of Seventh-day Adventists that come from our Consulting Advertising Manager: friends, and that we might do well to consider. R. J. CHRISTIAN Pastors will be interested in two reports from the recent pastoral counseling institute, appear ing on pages 17 and 18. And pastors© wives will find some constructive suggestions, we think, VOLUME XXIX NUMBER 2 for dealing with the ever-present problem of telephone interruptions in "Ring for Service," AT A GLANCE on page 31. You will want to read Eugene Erickson©s FEATURES ____._.__..__.____._.____..__...___ 4 "Quote, Unquote," on page 35. And might we underline one of his cautions: Please, when This Is Our Business Outstanding Religious Trends of 1955 Engineers as Well as Repairmen Classwork you quote, quote correctly! in Pastoral Psychology Cover Hultafors Sanitarium Church, Sweden EDITORIALS ...... __ .... ___ 18 Pastoral Counseling Institute The Trend to Toler ON A beautiful hill by the sea, ance a few steps from the Hultafors NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ...... _.-..._...._ 20 Sanitarium, is our beautiful church, which was dedicated in PASTOR __... ._....__.._...... __..._... 21 1937. Changing Loyalties After a Long Pastorate Upon The church seats 150 persons, Leaving a Church and when the two wings are MINISTERIAL BOOK CLUB .....__...... 24 used there is room for 250. To the left of the church you can see in the photo SHEPHERDESS ....___...... _.._...... __...... 31 the belfry, which houses a church bell given Ring for Service to the sanitarium in 1938 by a thankful patient. Every Friday at sunset the bell rings for five PULPIT ...... ___..... -...-....-..._..__.....___..__..__.. 33 minutes, the same at the end of the Sabbath. Three Aspects of Gospel Preaching -Quote, Unquote On the Sabbath, when we are on the way to the BIBLE INSTRUCTOR ...... __...... ___ 39 church service, we hear the tolling bell, call The Sanctuary and Its Services ing far down to the valley and telling the people that today is the Lord©s day. NEWS ___..______-.---.-...__.....__...... 41 Every morning at seven o©clock the sanitar ium workers meet in the church to pray to 1955 ORDINATIONS ...... _. 42 the Lord, asking Him for power during the POINTERS _____...... __...... 48 day. "When we enter the church we soon look at the beautiful picture of Jesus Christ, and above Printed and published monthly for the Ministerial Association Him we can read: "Come unto me." Many of of Seventh-day Adventists by the Review and Herald Publish ing Association, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., $2.75 a year; our sanitarium patients visit the worships in 30 cents a copy. Add 35 cents for yearly subscriptions to countries requiring extra postage. Entered as second-class mat the church. ter December 19, 1927, at the post office at Washington, May this, the Lord©s temple, ever be the D.C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. holy place where God meets with souls that search and worship Him in spirit and verity. GUNNAR FORSBLOM, Pastor FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 3 This Is Our Business

ALBERT P. SHIRKEY Pastor, Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church, Washington, D.C.

"N THE nineteenth chap Spanish general who believed in the free ter of the book of Luke dom of Spain, and was determined to rid rand the tenth verse we it of the dominance of the Communistic read these words: "For the rule. In one of the moments in the lull of Son of man is come to seek battle the son of the general got outside and to save that which was the fort. (You can go inside into a little lost." In the whole field of chapel and read the whole story on a evangelism we must come to plaque.) grips with the fact that we cannot think of The Communists captured the general©s Jesus Christ our Lord as beginning His son and telephoned to his father inside the life as all men have begun theirs in this fort. They said, "You must surrender the world. "Before the mountains were brought fort; we have your son." And in order to forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth make it emphatic they put the son on the and the world, even from everlasting to phone. The conversation went something everlasting, thou art God" (Ps. 90:2). "In like this: the beginning was the Word, and the Word "What is up, Son?" was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. "I do not know, Father, but they tell me All things were made by him; and without that unless you surrender the fort they will him was not any thing made that was take my life." made" (John 1:1-3). And God in Jesus Silence. Christ became "flesh, and dwelt among "My son, commend your soul to God. us." Cry ©Viva la Spain,© and die like a patriot. Good-by, my son." So we cannot think in terms of evange "Good-by, Father." lism without centering it in the heart of The general then went into the back God. It is the gift of God in the person of part of the fort and knelt, and let the tears His own dear Son. "For God so loved the stream down between his fingers as he lis world, that he gave his only begotten Son, tened to the shot at the bottom of the hill that whosoever believeth in him should that took his son©s life. That was the price not perish, but have everlasting life" (John he paid for freedom! 3:16). We must come to grips with the price There was another cry. It was in the that God was willing to pay in order that Garden of Gethsemane. His Son might be given for the redemp "What is up, my Son?" tion of all mankind. The only way we can "I do not know, Father, but they tell me measure it is to stand before the cross. that unless You surrender the world they Here we measure the height and the depth will take my life." and the breadth and the length of the love "My Son, commend your soul to Me. of God that passes understanding. Cry ©Long live the world© and die like My Never was I so convinced of what God Son!" did for the world as in an experience that I The cross of Calvary is the height and had in the little town of Toledo, Spain. the depth and the breadth and the length Just as I entered the town, there before us of the love of God, which passes under was the old fort that had been bombarded standing. It represents the price that God for seventy-two days by the Communist was willing to pay for the world©s redemp forces. It was held against all odds by a tion. We cannot understand evangelism until we take it back and place it in the This challenging: address was given before the students and center of the deepest love that God ever faculty at the Theological Seminary in Takoma Park. expressed for His world in the cross. Page 4 THE MINISTRY Why Jesus Came Into the World "Jesus, the name that calms our fears, We are in the business, dear friends, of That bids our sorrows cease, saving people. That is why we have been ©Tis music in the sinner©s ears, called into fellowship with Jesus Christ. "Tis life, and health, and peace." Jesus came into the world for one express The difference between the United purpose. He passed by angels and arch States and Europe is the fact that Europe angels and all the company of heaven. He is divided, whereas the United States has passed by every comfort, though He made one central government. Great statesmen it all. He passed by everything that would have been laboring for centuries to bring elevate Him in any way, to stoop to the about a United States of Europe. We have least, the last, and the lost in order that He here the same kind of cultural differences, might bring them back to the Father. the same kind of language differences, but We cannot understand why Jesus Christ we are held together by one great ideal, came into the world unless we understand one central government. When the soul this little sentence: Jesus came "to seek has one central government in Jesus Christ, and to save that which was lost." That was we shall find all of these broken ends of His main business, and that must be ours. life brought together under the dominance We must be forever in the field of evange of one great ideal in His glorious person. lism, seeking to save those that are lost, or Only Christ can save a man from himself. we do not follow Him. We have no right We are in the business of saving people otherwise to the claim that we are His and before they reach the depths. I tell you, He is ours. We must walk behind Him who brethren, I am tremendously interested in walked with a yearning heart for the lost. an evangelism that can stoop to the people We shall walk sometimes to a cross, as did on Ninth Street [Washington, D.C.], our Lord, in order that they might be where I have my ministry, and pick up the saved, broken pieces of the people who are caught We are in the business, brethren, of sav in the narcotic traffic, and lost in the al ing people from themselves. If there was cohol traffic and in all the other ways. I no other reason in the world why we ought am interested in an evangelism that can to be interested in the field of evangelism, reach down and take these people and re it is because of the deep loneliness, the deem them, but I am far more interested in deep-seated fears, within people©s lives, the an evangelism that will throw its reinforce sense of frustration that is within. When ments around children and youth to keep people do not know Jesus Christ, these them from ever getting there. That is our things are on the inside. If there was no business to keep people from going other reason than this for us to go out into astray, to nurture them in Christian love the highways and hedges to bid people to from infancy to childhood and right come in, this would be reason enough. straight on through life. That is our busi She came to me and asked me to help. ness. I knew she was just beating around the I listened to an editor of one of the bush. She was going everywhere but to the newspapers in Washington who came to center of her trouble. I said to her, "You©re see me about this matter of finding God. I not being honest with me, and I cannot began to talk to him about his life, and he help you unless you are going to be hon said, "All these things have I kept from est." Then she looked at me and replied, my youth." When he went out of my study "I©m just a tired, frightened little girl on I thanked God for the influence of his the inside." Though she was a grown, cul grandmother and grandfather and his fa tured woman, she was beaten and battered ther and mother. I felt grateful for the by fears and frustrations a tired, fright influences that have been thrown around ened little girl. this splendid young writer that kept him so I say to you today with courage and with that he could present all of his powers to confidence, there is only one Name given Jesus Christ, and not just the wasted frag under heaven that can take the frazzled ments of a life that had been spent. Yes, ends of human nature and bring them we are interested in this great theme of together. Only Christ can make a man or a educational evangelism that will reach out woman or a young person a unified, dy and save our children and youth before namic, harmonious individual. they ever go astray. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 5 John Dillinger©s Sunday School Teacher front porch every afternoon and watched We are interested in the business of sav Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow go past ing people from damaging the lives of my door. I knew both of them, knew they other people. When a life does not belong were keeping bad company, getting into to God, just as certain as we live, it is in the wrong group. Often I had the desire the business of hurting other people. The to go down to the front gate and say to people who are damaging influences in these young people, ©Won©t you come up Takoma Park, Washington, and all the on the porch and sit with me and let me other communities in America and in the tell you about a great Friend who can do world, are people who do not belong to something for your life?© But I never did. God. They are in the business of destroying Now, sir, I want you to do something for life rather than building it up. me. I want you to kneel down here beside me and ask God to take the blood of Bon About the time John Dillinger was nie Parker and Clyde Barrow off my hands." killed, I was in Chicago taking some courses at the University of Chicago, trying Later I went to my room, and I knelt to catch the things great liberal teachers and prayed, "Oh, God, take the blood off there had to say. I read the story of his my hands the blood of the boys and the death in the newspaper. Later I referred to girls and the youth and the men and the it in a speech at Wichita, Kansas. After the women I have not reached for Thee. I am responsible." service a man came up to me and said, "I wonder if I can see you and talk with you How much blood do you have on your hands? There are those to whom we have about my dearest friend, who was John never said a word, never written a letter. Dillinger©s Sunday school teacher." We have never said a prayer for them, I told him I did not know that he had never gone out of our way in the least to gone to Sunday school. He said, "Yes, he capture them, yet we know that they are had. He had wild, unruly impulses in his without God and without Christ. Ah, life, uncaptured by Jesus Christ. My friend brethren, there is no way in the world said to John Dillinger one Sunday morn that we can escape it. We need to kneel ing, ©If you cannot act like a boy ought to as this woman knelt, and say, "Dear God, act, you can leave this class.© " in Christ©s blessed name, take their blood He got up and went out, and he put a off my hands." gun in his hand when he did. With it he Our business is to save people from cut a path of blood and horror across damaging the lives of other people. We America that we will never be able to live must reach them so that they may have a down as long as we have an America. All place in the kingdom of our God and of this happened because a man did not Saviour Jesus Christ. We must present love enough, was not patient enough, did them to our heavenly Father for service in not go out of his way enough, to capture the church. They should be put where they for Jesus Christ those unruly impulses in can be channels of blessing for everybody. a boy©s life. Instead, he let them get loose I had two stewards in one of my in the world to hurt and destroy. We are churches. One of these stewards came out in the business of capturing people for of medical school a disappointed, disillu God so that they do not become destroy sioned young man, though a brilliant ing influences in our communities. young doctor. He began to drink. A close I was in the beautiful town of Longview, friend of his would go out to the club and Texas, in a spiritual retreat with a group, get him and take him home in his car, A woman asked if she could meet me when put him to bed, and kneel down and say the service was over. She said, "Do the a prayer for him. This he did for months, names of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow until one day the doctor stood on his feet mean anything to you?" and said, "By the grace of God, I am going I said, "Yes, they do." I remembered that to be a man." He turned out to be just about three weeks before I had read in the front-page headlines of the paper that these young people had been shot by the "Progress, you must admit, always involves State police. She said, "This is where they a certain risk. After all, you can©t steal lived." second base and still keep one foot on And then she told me: "I sat on my first." Page 6 THE MINISTRY that with God©s help. I had the pleasure granted that he was just another lonesome and privilege of making that man the soldier. On the way to my study I passed chairman of my official board in a church him. I noticed a colonel©s insigne on his that had six thousand members. There he arm. "Hello, Colonel," I greeted him. was captured for service by a friend who After I said a few other things to him, I just would not let him go. That is our walked straight up the stairs into my study business. That is why we have been called just off the sanctuary. I hadn©t been there to be fellow workers with Christ. very long when someone knocked on my I stood at Round Top in Northfield, study door. I went to the door and there Massachusetts, at the grave of Dwight L. stood the colonel. Moody. There before us stood Dr. John "What can I do for you?" I asked. R. Mott, one of the greatest Christian "I would like to know how to find God." leaders of our time. At Round Top there "Come on in. I would like to tell you." were other leaders from all over the world, Do you know what I did? It is the most and I was privileged to listen to their testi effective thing we ever do in evangelism. mony. "Had it not been for Dwight L. I told him what Jesus Christ meant to me, Moody," they said, "we might have missed how I met Him, how He changed my life, being captured for the Christian cause." how we had gone through storm and sun shine together all about this growing, "A Million Souls at the Feet of His Lord" wonderful friendship between us. We The setting was beautiful. There beyond talked for hours. He was just twenty-eight us was the Connecticut River winding in years old, a B-29 squadron leader, and and out among the green hills. The eve physically an unusually big man. ning sun caught it and made a golden rib Pointing to a carving of Jesus on the bon out of it. As I listened to the testimony cross, I said, "Bill, look at it. See those of these men I remembered that I had read nailprints in His hands and in His feet. a book by Gamaliel Bradford in which he See where He wore the crown of thorns? said, "Dwight L. Moody put one hand on Listen to me, Bill, that©s what He did for America and another on England and left you as if you were the only person living a million souls at the feet of his Lord." in all the world. How precious you are to This was all because of a man who one God!" He just hung his head. day left his business and went to the back I let that sink in for a moment, then I part of a shoestore in Chicago and laid the said, "Bill, look at Him." I pointed then claims of Jesus Christ upon the heart of to the picture, Hofmann©s head of Jesus. Dwight L. Moody. I would rather have "Look in His eyes, won©t you? Let Him been that man than to have been Dwight look you right straight on through. Look L. Moody. I would rather have been An at that face. Was there ever a face like the drew any day than to have been Simon. face of Christ, tender like a woman©s face, Ah, brethren, perhaps we cannot be the yet strong like that of the strongest man kind of person Dwight L. Moody was. But you have ever seen? Bill, let Him look right we can do a bigger and a better thing we straight through your heart." can capture men like that for Jesus Christ Underneath the picture I had placed the and present them for service in His king words of Phillips Brooks: "The Greatest dom. That©s our business! Man in the World." "Bill," I continued, In one of the churches where I minis "there it is. Why don©t you read it? There tered we had ten thousand soldiers moving is the most eloquent statement I have ever through our service center every month. I read about Jesus. But, Bill, let me tell you got to know many of the men. One morn something. You know how the artists have ing I came through the sanctuary we al centered so much of their art around ways kept the church open and a soldier Christ; men have written about Him; men was sitting in the front pew by himself. He have given so much good music about Him was reading the hymnbook, and I took for to the world. But they say, after they have exhausted all their ability to describe Him, "The half has never yet been told." They can©t say it, Bill, for it is impossible to say "Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to all you would like to say about this Master calumny and defamation." Joseph Addi- of men. son. Bill got the light. He put out that great FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 7 big hand of his and shot it into mine. We are in the business of saving people "I©ll give Him everything I©ve got," he for eternity. They are not all going to live promised. He became the rarest Christian long. Even a lot of young people are not I have ever known. He was the son of going to live to be old. General Hensley. One of the flying fields A man called me from the hotel, and in Dallas, Texas, is named after his father. said, "I want you to come over to see me." At twenty-eight years of age he went back And when I got there he said, "Preacher, into the war, was soon out, and then went I©m going to be honest with you. I©ve been before the bar in Texas to take the exami a waster. At the age of nineteen I felt the nation. He passed with highest honors. He call of Jesus Christ, and I said No to Him, was the most eloquent speaker I©ve ever and gave myself to making money. I©ve heard in the pulpit or out of it. He used made my money I©m going to leave sev the choicest language. His words were like eral million dollars. The doctor tells me jewels strung on a string, sparkling with that I won©t be here but a few weeks. God©s light. What can you do for a man like me?" He soon became a teacher, and a steward "Oh," I said, "my friend, let me read of the church. He became the district at you a story." And I took this precious Book torney in his county. He took one of the and turned to the story of the thief on the most wicked counties in Texas and made cross. I said to him, "Call upon Him, won©t it one of the finest in the State. He would you? Call Him. He will take you just as come into the little chapel sometimes a you are without a plea, just as you are and dozen times a week to pray. Ofttimes he waiting not. He will take you." would ask me to go in with him. And I remember one day he said, "I©ve got the "Will he, Preacher?" biggest problem I©ve ever had. I want you I said, "Yes, sir." He slipped his big to go and pray with me." We always held hand in mine, and I knelt beside his chair, hands as we knelt there at the altar and and we talked to God about it. Soon, having prayed. "I©ve got it," he said, and jumped been comforted by an unfaltering trust, up. "While I was kneeling here I got a he took his last breath, redeemed by the picture of a B-29 coming into the landing blood of Jesus Christ that can stoop to strip, and they were flashing the green redeem to the uttermost. Yes, the last mo light to me. God is giving me the green ments of the last hour of the last day! We light on this thing, and I know it is right." must save men for eternity. He got up and acted on it, and it was right. Are you going to get tired? One of these He was like that, one of the most spiritu days you will not want to do it. The way ally sensitive men I ever knew. is going to be awfully hard, and there will His body now rests in Arlington. On a be lots of obstacles in the way, but you special mission to Korea, having said just cannot stop. For this reason we have good-by to his family and to his friends who been called into life with Christ. gave him a great send-off in Texas, he I had a good friend who had climbed climbed into his jet. No sooner was he off Long©s Peak thirteen times. He invited me the ground than trouble developed. He to make the climb with him. We rode our called the field and said, "I©ll make it." horses up the side of the mountain to And they said, "No, Bill. Keep on flying timber line. I was so tired that I begged around now, and we©ll come out there him to leave me right there. I told him I and get you." And they were waiting for would see them when they came back. him. As he came in he hit a little hill, and "No," he said, "No, you are not going to he was gone. stay here. You are going to go on up to the Wouldn©t it have been tragic had I top of Long©s Peak." missed my opportunity with Bill? This is We started the long difficult climb. I my word to you. If God had never let me hadn©t been going any time at all until I do one thing other than to capture Bill blacked out and fell on the rocks. He Hensley for Christ, it would have been waited until I came to, and standing there worth my whole lifetime. above me, he cried out in the Spanish They are waiting for us, brethren. They tongue, "Adelante" ("Forward"). I gath are all about us. Don©t you ever see those ered up my failing energies and somehow hands reaching out to you? "Come over or other just kept on. I blacked out again and help us," they say. Will you go? and again. He would wait until I came to, Page 8 THE MINISTRY and then looking at me, he would say, try, it©s just too much for me." And do you "Adelante!" know what He has said to me? "Adelante!" Somehow we kept going up until we got The times have come when things have to the cable. We had to climb straight up been so difficult that I knew I just couldn©t the wall by putting our feet against the go another step, and I have stood and rock and holding onto the cable. Do you begged to be allowed complete rest from know what I did? I stood right below the the burden of it all. Then it was I felt His cable and cried. I said to my friend, Judge hands, with those nailprints in them, un Wheeler, "If you put me on that thing derneath my feet, pushing me up as His I©ll drop dead in your arms." voice rang out, "Adelante, Adelante!" He answered, "I©ll be here, and I©ll One of these days by God©s good grace catch you. Go ahead." I want to sign the register, and I©m going I said, "You can©t be serious about this to experience, as you will, His great arm thing." around my shoulder, and He will say to He said, "Yes, I am. Get started and you me, "We made it together, didn©t we?" will make it." Then he put his hands down What a Saviour! underneath my foot, cupped them to Don©t change your position. Don©t bow gether, shoved me up the cable, and said, your heads. Just close your eyes. "Adelante." And somehow or other I (Prayer) It has been very wonderful, scrambled up and got over the rocks. Then our Lord, as we have talked together. The I crawled on my hands and knees for the same thing has happened here that hap rest of the way until we reached the top. pened in the long ago where two or three Long©s Peak is one of the great peaks of gathered together in Thy name. We have the country. It is 14,271 feet high. How did experienced having Thee in the midst of I make it? I crawled up and slid down. I us as they did. Surely our hearts have could show you my overalls and shoes to burned and glowed within us as we have prove it. When we got to the top of the felt Thy presence. No preacher has talked, peak we signed the register. I was so sick but our blessed Lord has been calling to and exhausted I just stood there shaking us. We acknowledge that evangelism is our with weakness and cried some more. As I business. wrote my name in the register Judge There are rooms that we have never Wheeler put his great arm around me and opened to Thee, but we open them now said, "We made it together, didn©t we?" and promise Thee a greater, deeper dedi Ah, dear friends, there have been times cation than we have ever given. When the when I©ve wanted to end the adventure. way gets hard, say to us "Adelante." And And I©ve said, "O God, just let me take the bring us at last, with those whom we have wings of the morning and go to the far won through Jesus Christ, into a kingdom corners of the earth. This job of the minis that never ends. Amen.

GOD©S MINORITIES.

<[ DURING the time Noah was building the ark, he was very much in the minority but he won. When Joseph was sold into Egypt by his brothers, he was a decided minority but he won. When Gideon and the three hundred who followed him with their broken pitchers and lamps, put the Midianites to flight, they were an insignificant minority but they won. When Elijah prayed down fire from heaven and put the prophets of Baal to shame, he was a notable minority but he won. When Martin Luther nailed his theses on the door of the cathedral, he was a lonesome minority but he won. When David, ridiculed by his brothers, went out to meet Goliath, in size he was a lonesome minority but he won. When Jesus Christ was crucified by the Roman soldiers He was a conspicuous minority but He won. The Christian Witness. [From the Minister©s File Service. See ad on page 36. EDITORS.] FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 9 Outstanding Religious Trends of 1955

ERIC D. SYME Takoma Park, Maryland

Revival of Orthodoxy Within the Churches areas of real life where men and women live. Unkind critics of the German philoso D1 WAND, Bishop of phers and humanists of the early eighteenth London, expressed century used to say, "England rules the himself more wittily waves, France the land, and Germany the than wisely when he said that air." This new theology has quite a lot of there were three things wrong the same kind of attributes. It seems to be with the Evanston Conference artificially created, and does not appear to of 1954. "Too much American be based upon a genuine philosophy of money, too much German the life. This may be a hard judgment, but it ology, and too much Dutch bureaucracy." would be fair to ask whether the teachers However, the conference did emphasize and disciples of this concept really believe the current disagreement in the Protestant in a literal creation and fall as taught in the churches between the modernist, activist Scripture. And if they do not, how can they school of thought and the German pre reconcile the apparent contradiction in occupation with what has been called neo- their beliefs? orthodoxy. One is inclined to see in the emergence of this emphasis a prevailing Growth of Hostility Between the Ecumenical dissatisfaction with the humanistic, social Groups and the Fringe Sects ized preaching of our time. It is significant Some prominent churchmen felt that the that it found its lodgment in Germany, most baffling harassment for ecumenical which in recent times has suffered enough, Protestantism lay in the phenomenal and has seen enough of sin in the highest growth of the fringe sects. Some of these places, to feel the need of something more men were fair enough to take note of the authoritative than the speculations of a spiritual ardor, the intimate fellowship, group of socially-minded churchmen. the intense apocalypticism, and the seven- To catch this trend fully, it needs to be day-a-week religion of these groups. set alongside the rather extraordinary Among other things, the excellent finan results that Billy Graham is still securing cial practices and welfare work of Seventh- in various parts of the world. Many rather day Adventists were singled out for praise. inadequate explanations are currently Some writers even went as far as to say that being given for the success achieved by possibly some historian of the future might Evangelist Graham, but the truest would sense a new reformation in some of these seem to be that he is making his appeal to groups. Others felt that it was essential for that large section of the population in the ecumenical church to get to know these every land that looks back nostalgically "new" Christians. However, this attitude to the ardent preaching of such evangelists was not very general. as Gypsy Smith, the Woods brothers, Billy In most practical ways any form of lone Sunday, et cetera. The basic fact is that denominationalism met considerable hostil modernism has failed to satisfy, and the ity from ecumenically-minded churchmen. generation that passed through the stirring In India, which has been the birthplace of events of the second world war is finding early ecumenicalism, Dr. Moses attacked it far too anemic and rather pointless. How the whole question of the missions of ever, there are certain features of the new denominations. He suggested that the German orthodoxy that are suspect. There Indian attitude toward Christianity could is a large measure of truth in the criticisms be eased by the recognition of ecumenicity of the activist type of churchman that this and the proscribing of individual religious new concept has been created in a vacuum. groups that refused to fit into the main It is very doctrinal and very theological, pattern. At the time when the Evangelical but some claim it is far removed from the Lutheran churches in India were discussing Page 10 THE MINISTRY the concept of the Real Presence with the strong combination against the growing other already-merged groups, this was power of the church in labor relations. In particularly significant. The events at France the considerable growth of Com Bandung and the unfortunate relations of munism, particularly in the working classes, Christianity with a discredited and out has offset the historic influence of Catholi worn colonialism illustrate how dangerous cism in that country. The cultural, eco a development the growth of this attitude nomic, and political life of both Belgium in Eastern lands might be. and Holland have been saturated by the religious issues. The struggle concerning The Extension of Roman Catholic religious instruction in the schools of Bel Enterprise and Aggression gium had reached its peak by August, with The Marian Year has been followed by the socialists in power at the time. In nearby an increased stringency of Catholic inter Holland the Catholic National Party and pretation in a variety of areas. During 1955 the Catholic People©s Party came together. Pope Pius XII rebuffed the growth of the The issues were somewhat more clouded ecumenical spirit in the French priesthood, in Germany. The Evangelicals under gave an extremely narrow aspect of Niemoller made common cause with the scholarly freedom in Humanii Generis, Social Democrats against the rearmament and proposed the beatification of Pope plan. In the course of the struggle, Dr. Pius IX. Vatican sources indicated that Heinemann, of Essen, was removed from Pope Innocent XI would be finally beat his office as president of the synod of the ified in the spring. The emphasis upon Evangelical Church in Germany. Both the these two popes at this time is particularly German Evangelicals and the Social Demo significant in view of their historical back crats in West Germany protested against ground. Innocent XI was the pope who the importation of Italian and Catholic struggled against the all-embracing state as labor into the nation. Behind the confused personified by Louis XIV of France, picture it appeared to many German whereas Pius IX faced the rising national Protestants as though Catholic pretensions ism and liberalism of the era of Garibaldi, were far too strong in that hitherto strongly Cavour, and Bismarck. The twentieth Protestant land. The dramatic reversal of century has seen the emergence of the the French Popular Republican Movement totalitarian state in its most complex and vote in the Assembly at the time of the powerful form, so the beatification of debates concerning the German question these two pontiffs illustrates a new attitude highlighted the failure of the scheme of on the part of the Papacy. It demonstrates Archbishop Montini to create a Catholic that she is no longer adapting herself to federation of Western Europe. The pattern the great forces of nationalism and liberal is not completely clear as yet, but the thought in the passive sense. She now picture of Catholic influence and intrigue actively asserts the traditional and un in Europe is continually rising. changing aspects of Catholic doctrine and The Philippine Federation of Christian thought, which both of these popes repre Churches protested concerning the question sented. This same policy has been borne of religious instruction in the schools. By out by interpretive Catholic writing during October a full-scale church-state crisis 1955. Also we have seen attempted loomed in the Philippines. For some scientific vindication of the alleged miracles months the Catholics had been agitating at Lourdes and vigorous promotion of the religious department in the state-owned Marian-type apparitions, the year closing university. Particular stress was laid against with the official announcement that the the showing of the film Martin Luther in present pope has seen a vision of Christ. the Protestant churches of the state, and "Usually reliable sources" also indicate this was done in spite of the fact that a that "the actual bones of St. Peter" may variety of Catholic films had been shown. now have been found! In Latin America the situation was In the political and social sphere the somewhat different. Here the church faced Papacy has assumed her position as the the problem of the rather undeveloped chief and natural opponent of Communism. industrial machine, and in consequence In Australia the church continued her relied much more upon the time-honored struggle to capture the labor unions from linkage with the army. This was particu Communist influence. Dr. Evatt headed a larly evidenced in Argentina during the FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 11 struggle with Peron. By June the dictator tov announced that Russia©s revolutionary had influenced Congress to disestablish the period was over. Though it is true that this church, the church replying with his ex was part of the new Soviet policy of co communication. In July the popular press existence as signified by the recent attitudes in most countries of the world was querying shown at Geneva and in other places, it whether General Peron was headed for was also in tune with a consistency of Canossa, but had come to the conclusion change influencing Russian life for a con that whatever happened, liberal opinion siderable time. The Russian peasant and would not be benefited. Lonardi, Peron©s farmer has never accepted Communism, successor, restored Catholic prerogatives in and neither have the Russian people as a Argentina, but by November his govern whole turned away from the fundamental ment also had toppled. In Chile the Russian preoccupation with matters of Catholic Church was talking plainly of her religion. The Netherlands Ecumenical three major enemies: Communism, Liber Council of Churches sent a delegation to alism, and Protestantism; while in Brazil visit the Soviet Union and found evidences it became the common practice to denounce of a strong religious life there. And Canada Protestants as the agents of "Yankee" im was visited in December by a delegation of perialism. In Colombia the same church the Russian Orthodox Church headed by was persecuting them on the basis of their Archbishop Boris. The Soviet Union is not being agents of Communism. only tolerating religion, but is heaping The problem of apartheid beset all honors upon the Russian prelates. Ob churches operating in South Africa. The viously impressed by the power of the Bantu Education Act threatened the basis Papacy as a political as well as religious of the primary education of the African force in the world, it would seem that the national. Here the Roman Catholic Church Soviet Government is giving some thought contrasted very favorably with the rather to the potential possibilities resident in cowardly and pusillanimous policy of the the great Eastern Church. In August the British Council of Churches. Strongly sup World Council of Churches meeting at ported by her national African teachers, Davos, in Switzerland, sent a letter to the and by British Catholics, she fought the Russian Orthodox Church. Hungary sent act with all means at her disposal. In this an invitation for the next World Council policy she was not alone, for smaller groups to be held at Budapest. Thus attempts such as the Seventh-day Adventists were were being made to bridge the historic gulf trying to maintain their schools on a basis between the churches of the East and of that would afford the greatest possible the West. Some complaints were made that development for the hard-beset national. the Russian Orthodox Church was using In the United States the Roman Catholic occasions of meeting for the promotion of Church maintained a similar position on her teaching rather than to find a basis of the vexing question of desegregation. At unity, but notwithstanding, it does appear New Orleans, as well as in some other that churches are coming together on a places, the church took a disciplinary at global scale. titude regarding some of her own churches that refused to practice the recent decision Continuation of the Ecumenical Movement of the Supreme Court. This consistent During the month of July the Anglican policy balanced her position in South Church was exploring the possibility of Africa, and more importantly, it focused uniting with the British Methodists, while attention on her claim to be the great at the same time possibilities of intercom counterforce to Communism. This was munion with the Russian Orthodox particularly true in those vast areas of the Church were being discussed. In the United world that resent some of the past colonial States the Southern Presbyterians con practices, and that are now discovering tinued to stand aloof from the United their own national genius and destiny. Presbyterians and the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. At the newly formed Atlanta The Russian Orthodox Church and the Radio Center there was unity of effort Soviet Union between the Methodists, the Presbyterian The rulers of Russia have discovered Church in the U.S., the United Lutherans, that the church, like the state, is not going and the Protestant Episcopal group. Even to "wither away." In October, 1955, Molo- among the Quakers the rift of the last Page 12 THE MINISTRY century was healed when the Inward Light quantities of texts drawn from all parts of group and the Evangelical group came the Bible, has given some real validity to together at Philadelphia. The United the second criticism. So frequently these Evangelical and Free Lutheran churches references are quoted without heed being in America continued to push toward unity, given to their context, to the time to which while the Unitarians and the Univer- they refer, or to their setting and relation salists moved toward a full merger. A more ship to each other. No historian could sinister development in this phase of possibly use this method, and there is really church life could be detected in the matter no inherent right given to a theologian to of public contributions to church needs. do so. We have been given the counsel that Churches that continued an individual one text studied in all of its bearings is of policy in asking the public for help came more use to us than the reading of a large in for some degree of ostracism. A healthier section of Scripture. The revival of the sign, however, was evidenced by the criti almost-dead expository method of preach cism directed to the practice of bingo in ing would go far to indicate better methods the churches. of presenting our saving message to the world. An Evaluation of Our Own Position In our use of history the same criticism It is really only fair that, having con is to some extent justified. Although we sidered the position and some of the at have gained some justified reputation by titudes of other churches and movements, the scholarly works that some of our some thought should be given to our own brethren have published, yet our pulpit at the end of 1955. Naturally, anything set use of history has left us open to attack. down here could be classified as personal The strange impasse to which our world opinion. But the impressions of other has come is fast awakening a new interest churchmen concerning our progress and in interpretation. The great success of work have been quite impressive and Arnold J. Toynbee©s work is indicative of pleasing. Even those once hostile to us the new and growing attitude in this re have come to recognize our vigor and keen spect. Probably second only to the need promotional activity. Some reasonably for better methods of Bible study is the valid criticisms have been made, however, need for a much wider reading in the field and if taken note of could be of some real of history. That would give so much added value to us. Excluding those criticisms that power both in our preaching and in our proceed from either misunderstanding or interpretation of the affairs that are vital prejudice, the remainder are chiefly in two to the people of this needy generation. areas: Malachi said of the work of Elijah the 1. The feeling of some that our witness prophet that he would turn the hearts of has not been primarily Christian in its the fathers to the children, and the hearts nature. of the children to their fathers. It is prob 2. The belief that we have a tendency able that the greatest difficulty between two to quote both the Scripture and other generations grows out of the feeling of important facts out of context. fathers that their children are forsaking The first criticism could probably grow the traditional values, and of children that from the practice of approaching a doctri their fathers are hopelessly out of date and nal theme from an Old Testament setting. unaware of new modes of thought. It would It would be certain that much would be indicate that one of our vital needs is a gained by a method of presentation that cementing together of the great doctrinal begins from the teaching of Christ and values of our church and a keen awareness branches out from there. Christ is shown of the great field of interpretive writing in as the central figure in the midst of the historical areas. Then we could justly speak seven golden candlesticks, and the light of "the present truth." shed by each lamp illuminates Him. The Perhaps the outstanding religious trend clearest counsels of the Lord to us are that of our time is toward greater tolerance of Christ must be central in our whole con those who differ in belief, and at the same cept of truth. Evidently some have not time toward a keener appreciation for true received that impression from our pres analysis of what is truth. Thus the world is entations. ripe for the third angel©s message in all its The almost universal method of citing clarity. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 13 Engineers as Well as Repairmen

NEAL BECKER Pastor, Ohio Conference

NATIONALLY known the fundamentalist who has been able to magazine not long ago capture the large crowds. Despite these A claimed that a certain obvious weaknesses of modernism, its solid preacher probably "did more growth and commanding influence are to mold American thinking nothing short of miraculous. You cannot than any other single influ talk with scarcely any person of influence in ence except the Bible." The secular fields but he will reveal the fact that Saturday Evening Post, Jan. he has been influenced to some degree by 22, 1955. Who is this preacher? liberal religious thought. Some people have You might guess that is was Moody or referred to this philosophy as the "Reader©s Finney. Another suggestion might be Digest type of morality." Regardless of Billy Sunday or Billy Graham. To be cor what it is called, it is exceedingly popular rect you would have to try again. The with influential people. We must never preacher credited with the possible dis forget that modernism began in the semi tinction of influencing more people than naries. While the fundamentalists were any other in America outside the Bible is busy spending most of their time in the William Holmes McGuffey. repair shop of humanity changing ideas "Who," you ask, "is McGuffey?" and habits after they had already been McGuffey, we would reply, is the developed, the liberals were in the plan preacher and educator who wrote the ning room with the engineers of man famous McGuffey©s Readers. His little kind inculcating their ideas into the hu books sold more than one hundred mil man family as they developed. The chil lion copies. The moral teachings of this dren of darkness in this generation need man were accepted by the American public not be wiser than the children of light. through the instrumentality of secular edu We can use similar methods. We have a cation. Likewise, it is possible for our right to expect the same results that truth scholars and preachers to use the tools of always has had in competition with error. secular education and influence to advance Fortunately we have not been idle in a knowledge of our teachings before the this field. We have done engineering in world. the area of religious liberty. It has had an Communism and its twin brother social effect on the thinking of leaders every ism have made great advances through where. Lawyers, jurists, and ministers have their influence on the leaders of the educa warm praise for the work we are doing tional world. Although they have not ig along this line. The newly proposed world nored the masses, they have concentrated calendar might well have been universally on the scholars and educational leaders. accepted had we not worked vigorously as These leaders, in turn, have passed on engineers in human thought. their convictions to their students. Our temperance work too shows an en The story of the growth of liberal the gineering side to its work. Through its ology, or modernism, is even more valu program the educators are being educated. able to a discussion of this topic. Modern Our only regret is that Seventh-day Ad- ism by its very nature does not appeal to ventists could not have been the ones who the general public. It tends to find com discovered scientifically the apparent re fort in negations and doubts. It tries to lationship between cancer and tobacco. find hope in intellectual pride and human Could it be that the establishment of the goodness. Such nebulous concepts do not International Nutrition Research Founda appeal to the man on the street. The mod tion, in Arlington, California, or some ernist preachers have not been able to stir such organization might prove to be the the imagination of the average man. It is very means we need to demonstrate scien- Page 14 THE MINISTRY tifically the principles of healthful living? Some Suggestions Evidence that men of influence would ac I should like to make some suggestions cept and pass on to the world could then that some would be able to prove are im be available. We need to realize that with possible to carry out. But I feel that if men in the upper strata of society, science there are enough of us who do not know has to a large degree replaced the Bible that these suggestions are impossible, per as the authority they live by. We must be haps we, like the bumblebee, can follow willing to give chapter and verse from them anyway. At any rate, it is in the their "bible" as well as our own. spirit of the bumblebee that I dare to make Christian people, including Adventists, the following suggestions: have been preaching against the use of 1. Establish a scholarly, scientific journal tobacco for a long time. But it remained to reach the intelligentsia. for science to deal out in one stroke a 2. Provide time and money for our stunning blow that has shaken the tobacco scholars to do research. Many business industry to its foundations. God has blessed firms, such as Du Pont and General Elec my ministry in winning many people be tric, have found it pays to set aside millions cause they were able to understand how of dollars a year for research. It could to get the victory over the tobacco habit. be profitable to us also. But I believe that I could have won 3. Attempt to develop opportunities many, many more souls if my interested whereby our men could be in a position people in their early years had been led to give lectures before learned societies, col by public influences, both religious and leges, and universities. secular, not to smoke at all. 4. Provide time and money, if necessary, Some of our men in their own right to allow our better writers to prepare ar have become guides in the realm of hu ticles on spiritual and moral questions that man thought. We have gained an open would be accepted for publication in pop door in fields like the history of prophetic ular magazines. interpretation, early Adventist history, cre- ationism, and medicine. But this is only a Some Possible Results beginning. Too often we look to our schol 1. Such a program could remove much ars to help us defend our faith. We should prejudice. There seems to be little prej look to them to help us propagate it as udice against Christian Science among the well. Our scholars can do much more than educated classes. What seems absurd in influence our own people and help defend their doctrines is glossed over by these peo us from the attacks of the opponents of ple to a large extent by the solid report truth. They can lead us to attack the ing of the Christian Science Monitor. The enemy at the very gates of the defenders high level of journalism of this newspaper of error. Our men are well trained and has given the whole movement a firm fully competent to set themselves about standing in the world. the task of impressing the scholars of the 2. We could acquire many friends world. Scholars talk, think, and act in a among thinking people. Even if the leaders world all their own. It takes men of similar would not accept our beliefs, they would training to reach them as a group. But be led to respect our thinking. Many of in reaching them we reach thousands these men spend their whole lives attempt through them. Through organized and ing to be fair and unbiased in their search systematic efforts in behalf of the intel for truth. Perhaps these men too, in their lectuals of the world, our learned men own way, know God. The Spirit of proph can do much for God. It is possible that ecy suggests this thought. such a program could set in motion men "Whatever line of investigation we pursue, with and organizations that could help prepare a sincere purpose to arrive at truth, we are brought the stage for the loud cry. in touch with the unseen, mighty Intelligence that In the Sikorsky airplane factory there is is working in and through all. The mind of man is brought into communion with the mind of God, a sign that reads: the finite with the Infinite. The effect of such "According to recognized aerotechnical tests, the communion on body and mind and soul is beyond bumblebee cannot fly because of the shape and estimate." Education, p. 14. weight of his body in relation to the total wing area. The bumblebee doesn©t know this, so he goes 3. Provide adult evangelical opportunity ahead and flies anyway." for our educators. Our men often spend FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 15 years in exhaustive study in order to pre fluence. Soon leaders in the radio, press, pare themselves for positions of trust in and entertainment world were used to ad our educational system. In it all they are vance the ideas of this association. In 1933 often deprived of a most thrilling experi the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. ence in soul winning. It is a joy to win a In just seven short years these men by en young person of less training and maturity, gineering methods reversed a decision it but it is a greater thrill to win someone who took perhaps one hundred years to accom is of equal standing in life. plish by repair-shop techniques. (See The 4. More young men would be led to Amazing Story of Repeal, Fletcher enter the field of teaching. It is not hard Dobyns.) to visualize how the hearts of our young 6. It would enable us to work as Jesus people would be stirred by their teacher©s would have liked to work. Eighteen years account of his soul-winning contacts with before Christ began His ministry of bind some scholar, scientist, or industrialist. Does ing up the brokenhearted, proclaiming all this sound too visionary? Perhaps. But liberty to the captives, and opening prisons there is one thing clear: Such a thing can to them that are bound, He endeavored never happen unless we make a decided to reach the leaders of Israel. During His and organized effort in this direction. visit at the Temple the boy Jesus sought 5. This type of program would enable out these men. We are told that "God us to win more middle-class folks. We was seeking to give light to those leaders need more people of this class in order to in Israel." The Desire of Ages, p. 80. strengthen and solidify our local church Why was He trying to enlighten these leadership. With the constantly rising level leaders? The Spirit of prophecy tells us: of education, this class will become larger "The doctors turned upon Him with questions, every year. This means that the danger of and they were amazed at His answers. With the having fewer of this type attending our humility of a child He repeated the words of public evangelistic services increases with Scripture, giving them a depth of meaning that the the passing of time. Subjective, Bible-cen wise men had not conceived of. If followed, the tered services have their greatest appeal lines of truth He pointed out would have worked on the common level. a reformation in the religion of the day. A deep On the other hand, a full program of interest in spiritual things would have been awak influencing public opinion can do the al ened; and when Jesus began His ministry, many would have been prepared to receive Him." Ibid., most unbelievable. In 1926 a group of pp. 78, 79. (Italics supplied.) leading industrialists decided it would help reduce taxes if they could get this country It is evident from this that God recog to do away with the Eighteenth Amend nized two thousand years ago the value of ment. They joined the Association Against educating the educators. Is it not equally the Prohibition Amendment. They poured clear today that we need to do the same; their money into this project and recruited that we need to be engineers as well as as many as possible of the forces of in repairmen?

FORGIVENESS,

C. A POOR, ignorant old Negro man who had been a slave came to Miss M. Water- bury, a woman missionary among the freedmen, and asked to be taught to pray. She began to teach him the Lord©s prayer, sentence by sentence, explaining it to his entire satisfaction until she came to the one on forgiveness. "What dat mean?" said he. "That you must forgive everybody or God will not forgive you." "Stop, teacher; can©t do dat," and he went away. After vacation he appeared again, saying, "Now go on wid dat prayer; I dun forgive him. Ole massa once give me five hundred lashes, an© hit me wid a crowbar, an© t©row me out fo© dead, an© I meet him an© said, ©How©d ye?© Now go on wid dat prayer." It might be well for many another beside the Negro man to think very seriously of those whom they refuse to forgive before they "go on wid dat prayer." C. L. SEASHOLES. Page 16 THE MINISTRY Classwork In Pastoral Psychology

C. E. WITTSCHIEBE Associate Professor of Pastoral Care SDA Theological Seminary

©"PHE Harding Sanitarium, ference and case presentation, and at a J- in association with the planning and intake conference. Seminary, conducted a four- The session concluded with a panel dis day institute on pastoral care cussing "Mental Hygiene, A Denomina from November 28 to Decem tional Challenge." This crystallized the ber 1 inclusive. This meeting thinking of the participating members and came into being in response gave opportunity for expressing appraisals to a growing need expressed of the institute itself. Since this had been by Seventh-day Adventist teachers, pastors, arranged as a pilot affair to find out and chaplains for an opportunity to study, whether such meetings would be con in collaboration with Seventh-day Advent sidered worth having a free expression ist psychiatrists, how to understand people of opinion was invited. Because of the better and how to establish and maintain a excellent spirit present in the meetings, healthy spiritual and emotional level in members spoke their minds freely. The the church at large. net conclusion unanimously agreed to was Each day©s session began with a devo that such meetings should definitely be tional period. The subjects were an inte planned for the future. An interim com gral part of the whole plan: "Love," mittee was elected to bring in recommenda "Guilt," "Worry and Anxiety," and "Fear." tions. The members are: L. Harold Cavi- The opening meeting began with a talk en ness, M.D., to represent the Harding Sani titled "The Pastor Looks at Mental tarium; C. E. Wittschiebe, to represent the Hygiene." This topic received first atten Seminary; and T. E. Unruh, to represent tion to set the tone for the institute. the ministry in the field. The subjects covered in the four-day The final session reflected the apprecia program were: tion of the members and their deep sense "Viewpoints of a Seventh-day Adventist of brotherhood. One minister said it Psychiatrist" frightened him to think how close he had "Basic Concepts of Psychiatry" come to not being there. Another minister "Mental Mechanisms" expressed happiness in feeling the strong "Personality Development" spiritual pulse in the sanitarium. A psy "Interview Techniques" chiatrist stated that he had gained new "Counseling and Psychotherapy" strength in sensing his oneness with his "Emotional Problems Sometimes Un ministerial brethren. recognized by Ministers" The main burden of the planning was "The Pastor©s Own Reactions to People" carried by Dr. Caviness. Lodgings were "What Is the Psychiatric Team?" provided at minimum cost, and so far as "Survey of Treatment Methods in Psy food was concerned, the members were the chiatry" guests of the sanitarium. The consensus of "The Community Pastor and the Psy opinion was that the sanitarium staff had chiatric Hospital" shown themselves to be ideal hosts. "The Minister as a Referral Agent" "Community Resources and How to Use Them" POSSIBILITIES MICHELANGELO was so great General discussions followed each talk, an artist that in a block of and often there were questions during the rough-hewn marble he could see an angel©s form presentations. In addition, interview tech just waiting for the sculptor©s chisel to be released. nique was demonstrated in motion pictures Similarly Jesus saw all men, not misshapen as they and "live" by some institute members. The were, but in terms of what they might become. sanitarium staff also arranged for the Nothing was so real to Him as their possibilities. group to be present at a hospital staff con- LESLIE BADHAM. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 17 Articles covering some of the phases of the subjects presented will appear in sub sequent issues of THE MINISTRY. Because the importance of this type of instruction to our workers is realized, study is already being given to some plan for further similar councils. The staff of the Harding Sanitarium, in counsel with the Theologi cal Seminary and the Ministerial Associa tion, initiated the planning for this insti tute. The interesting report of C. E. Wittschiebe, of the Seminary faculty, who was one of those participating, appears on page 17. Pastoral Counseling Institute It was a privilege to be present, and we are confident that the carry-over of this > THIS copy goes to press a very inter meeting will reveal itself in an enrichment A esting institute has just concluded at in every line of pastoral and evangelistic Worthington, Ohio. The medical staff at work of those who attended. That con the Harding Sanitarium led out in this viction is what leads us to hope that this project and made a most unusual contribu might be the beginning of a series of such tion in the field of pastoral counseling and institutes. Those who led out were, of psychology. Between forty and fifty course, admirably qualified, and though attended, and all came away convinced they are busy doctors, continually respon that in this area of ministerial work lie sible for the many patients under their limitless possibilities. care in the very institution where we were The Scripture says, "My people are meeting, yet as self-supporting missionaries destroyed for lack of knowledge." How they gave unstintingly of their time and true that is! When we know more about their talent. And under the blessing of the the operation of the human mind it helps Lord the whole program was unique, us to be more sympathetic with poor informative, and inspirational. nerve-wracked humanity. As Jesus looked R. A. A. upon the multitude He was moved with compassion, for there He saw all the pent- up problems of human relationships. To The Trend to Tolerance Him that multitude was no mere mass of ill-bred humanity, but a shepherdless flock, N THE article "Outstanding Religious and His heart went out to them. Psychology I Trends of 1955" in this issue the state and psychiatry were not part of the medi ment is made that one of the outstanding cal vocabulary of those days, but our Lord trends of our time is tolerance of doctrinal understood all the quirks and twists of viewpoints. We would not want to go back human thought, for He knew the working to the tragic years when intolerance was of the human mind. The influences that the order of the day. But there is definite lead people to do the things they do and danger when men become so broad in their say the things they say may be, and often thinking that they fail to recognize a vital are, far removed from the immediate en issue. vironment, sometimes going back into The Religious News Service brings to childhood and even infancy. The minister our notice a vigorous controversy in one or Bible instructor who realizes this is of the Protestant churches of the United equipped to render far more effective States. A certain pastor has recently had service. to stand trial before his own brethren Many subjects were covered during those for his positions on such vital doctrines as four intensive days, but the practical nature the virgin birth, the physical resurrection of it all, together with the fascinating and of our Lord, and other fundamental fea challenging study accompanying the in tures of the Christian faith. This man has struction, gave an environment to the been found guilty of heresy on five counts. presentations that left no one exhausted in Denying the authority of the Bible as the spite of the very heavy daily program. Word of God, it is obvious that this pastor Page 18 THE MINISTRY has been following certain modernistic such an action the Lord of glory is again trends in his preaching, and the trial board crucified and put to an open shame. of this particular denomination recom As we come closer to the great test of mended that he be suspended from his the ages, clarity of the true fundamentals of pulpit. But by secret ballot the congre Christian faith becomes more and more gation rejected by a vote of 197 to 18 the vital. Mere human reasoning is insufficient trial board©s finding and its recommenda to determine what is truth. There must be tion, and requested that this man continue a standard. But when the foundations are as their pastor. removed and the Word of God is denied, We are not concerned with the merits of then where do men turn for authority? this particular case, but it points up some Discussing some very vital features of thing very definite. Had this man©s doc Christian conduct and church polity with trines been found to be in harmony with an outstanding Christian leader of another truth, then we could well understand why persuasion recently, we were interested in the congregation would want to protest his his observation. His reply to our question innocence and retain him. But when on revealed his clear grasp of our wonderful five counts out of six it has been proved heritage. He knew the place that the Spirit that his ideas are heretical, then it certainly of prophecy has in influencing our deci reflects a strange attitude on the part of the sions. He said something like this: "With congregation to demand this man©s con us it would be a much more difficult tinued service. He has evidently won the question to decide some of these issues than hearts of the people, and doubtless his it would be with you people." And we said, personality is both winsome and persuasive. "Why?" His reply impressed us: But after all, that should never become a "You folks have the Bible as your source criterion in an issue of this kind. of Christian doctrine, but on points of One thing is certain: Those vigorous church procedure, and even on the inter souls who led that.branch of the Reforma pretation of your points of faith, you can tion from which this denomination sprang refer to an authority that is recognized by would never have tolerated such blatant every one of your ministers and members denials of the fundamentals of Christianity. in good and regular standing in your Preaching smooth things is never the denomination. You have the writings of attitude of a true reformer. It is as true Ellen G. White, and unless I am mistaken today as it was in the days of Isaiah the that would become the standard for the prophet that people can render lip service settling of an issue of this kind." And as to truth and yet their hearts be far from we replied in the affirmative he closed with God. The prophet was describing a latter this remark: "How fortunate you are." day condition when he spoke about a "re And, fellow workers, we are a fortunate bellious people . . . that will not hear the people. The Lord has greatly blessed us by law of the Lord" (Isa 30:9). He pictures placing in our hands these voluminous the seers and the prophets as those that counsels, and though these writings are, as would be preaching "smooth things" and this good man said, not the source of our actually prophesying deceits. And further faith, nor even the criterion of our belief, more these false witnesses would be urged yet in recognizing them as inspired coun by their congregations to depart from the sels and commentaries on the Word of God, way of truth. we are of all people most fortunate. But the Lord said: "This iniquity shall May God make us wise like the house of be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling Jacob, of whom Obadiah the prophet out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh said, ". . . [they] shall possess their pos suddenly at an instant. And he shall break sessions." R. A. A. it as the breaking of the potters© vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare" (verses 13, 14). In all too many present-day pulpits the A noted writer says: "Character is not what living Christ is being rejected for the fables you say you are—that is profession. Char of men. To the question, "Whom will ye acter is not what you do—that is conduct. Character is not what people think about that I release unto you?" the cry of the you—that is reputation. Character is what crowd is the echo of the centuries: "Release you are—the central self, the man within." unto us Barabbas," caring nothing that by —Our Young People. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 19 The public is health-minded today. Here is an N e w s a nd An n o u n c e m e n ts excellent program to tie in with your local evan gelistic endeavors or public relations project either in your public meetings or by radio. These Times Writers' Contest Full information and a sample tape with which to approach your local radio station manager is PASTORS, Bible teachers, and seminarians are here available by writing to Your Radio Doctor, P.O. Box with invited to enter the second These Times writ 122, Glendale, California. ers© contest which closes April 1. Though the edi tors are offering the following prizes: $150 first prize; $75 second prize; three $25 third prizes; and ten honorable-mention book gifts, they believe that the greatest reward that can possibly come to par Evangelistic and Pastoral Suggestions ticipants will be the satisfaction of having helped FOR some time Fordyce Detamore, Texas Con give our message to several hundred thousand peo ference evangelist, has been receiving requests from ple. (The current These Times paid circulation is our ministers, ministerial students, and lay preachers in excess of 200,000.) on the methods he uses in his short, three-week All articles must be of a doctrinal nature. You campaign as well as in the long campaign. This may submit as many manuscripts as you wish. has been especially true since the series of articles Please enclose return postage if you desire your on the short campaign appeared in THE MINISTRY contribution returned in case of nonacceptance. in 1955. The editors reserve the right to purchase nonprize- Since his frequent appearances at camp meetings winning articles, and to edit all material as may be and workers© meetings in North America, Elder necessary. Detamore has also often had requests for his ma One final hint: Please check all references very terial on pastoral and district work. carefully and be sure to give sources. Participants in last year©s contest are not dis Three mimeographed volumes of instructional qualified from entering the current one. material as well as evangelistic sermons are now May we hear from you? Contest Editor, These available from Elder Detamore at a reasonable Times, Box 59, Nashville 2, Tennessee. price "Evangelistic Methods, Step by Step," de scribing the twenty-two week evangelistic campaign; "Pastoral and District Suggestions"; and the "Three- Week Series of Bible Lectures," including twenty- four sermons and two full calls for surrender re "Your Radio Doctor" Tapes Now corded just as they were given in public by the Available evangelist. Further information may be obtained by writing MANY of our doctors, pastors, and evangelists to Mrs. Fordyce Detamore, 2838 Hemphill, Fort during the past year have been inquiring about the Worth, Texas. taped radio programs produced by Clifford A. Anderson, M.D. These are now available on tape at TI/% inch speed. Each program runs 14 minutes and 40 sec Southern Baptist Sees Danger onds, including organ background during which A SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION official has de local announcements can be made. Each program is introduced by the voice of E. R. Walde, of the nounced as "shocking" a recent statement by repre General Conference TV and Radio Department, sentatives of twelve Protestant denominations serv and is identified with "This specially transcribed ing Alaska, which urged an end to "overemphasis on program is presented to you as a public service by sectarianism." The statement said such overempha your friends, the Adventists," with an invitation to sis resulted in many Alaskan communities being send in to the local station for literature. "greatly overchurched." The programs are synchronized with a series of (Continued on page 46) articles from the pen of Dr. Anderson running in the Signs during 1956. The subjects of the first six radio talks and articles are: 1. "Help Yourself to Health" 1956 YEARBOOK 2. "Be Good to Your Heart" AVAILABLE NOW 3. "The Dreadful Price of Ignorance" 4. "What©s Getting Under Your Skin?" A directory of every denominational or 5. "Give Nature a Chance!" ganization, administrator, and minister. 6. "Are You Tied in Knots?" Over 400 pages. Cloth, $3.00; Paper, $2.50 The series will continue throughout 1956 with a postpaid. Order from your Book & Bible new topic in the Signs and on tape each week. In House or Review and Herald Publishing this way the talks will also be available in printed Association, Washington 12, D.C. form for radio listeners who write in. Page 20 THE MINISTRY A J I O R ^kzpke.td.©mq tke rL&ck Changing Loyalties After a Long Pastorate

FENTON EDWIN FROOM Pastor, Washington Conference

ERHAPS the first question we face in con But we must be most charitable toward these sidering this theme is: How long is long? children who have not been fully clothed with PSpurgeon preached for thirty-five years in the love and power of Christ. Somehow they London. Today some modern clergymen stay have failed to know Him, and so we pray for only a year or two in a charge. Among Ad- them the more. ventist ministers we find that often a "long" Now speculation and concern arises over the pastorate runs from five to seven years. At least new pastor. Often the understanding member for the sake of discussion let us take that period rationally reasons, "Our minister is leaving; of time as a mean in this consideration. another is coming. What will he be like? Will he have the attributes and characteristics of The Problem of the Minister and the our present pastor? How will he be different? Congregation We surely hope he is as good as our pastor and The accepting of a call creates a crisis in the that he will lead the church forward. Yes, we life of a minister. Suddenly he has to take final believe that he will, that God is sending another inventory. Has his ministry to his congrega leader to build us up in the faith." tion in this city been successful? Wherein has And so the congregation begin to adjust them he failed? Did he accomplish what he set out selves for the change. They wish their depart to do? ing pastor God©s richest blessings and begin He has developed a close fellowship with his praying for their new pastor that he will be people from the cradle to the grave. He has God©s man to lead them in God©s ways. How rejoiced with the happy parents of the newborn charitable are the children of God toward His babes and he has sorrowed with the loved ones ministers! as he has officiated in the last service for those tried and true. With each passing day his so The Retiring Pastor journ has endeared him to the hearts of the If he is going to another pastorate in another people he has grown to love. area less problems arise. Some of the good Also he has been looking forward with pas members who love him dearly because he sive anticipation toward that day when the call brought them the truth will find the transi would come. That the spirit of adventure lurks tion more difficult. Yes, they will write. This in the shadows of his heart is a statement of seems to make the hurt less painful. true honesty. And now it is here. What min But if the pastor is retiring and living in gled feelings! the community, that is another problem. It Immediately there are perplexed emotions in takes a lot of grace to sit by and support and the hearts of the parishioners. One says, "He encourage the people to follow their leader. just came." Another, "The church won©t pros If he is still in good health, it is well to turn per without him." And still another, "We just his talents and interests to other churches and can©t give him up!" Yes, there will be genuine activities nearby. This gives his successor full sadness in the hearts of many because they have opportunity to build his work without the learned to love their pastor. He is a man of checking and retarding influence of his retired God. He helped strengthen them in the way. predecessor. The members can more readily He upheld the standards of the church and up adjust their loyalties to the new pastor with lifted Christ at all times. But on the other hand less comparison. his moving along will bring relief for a few. Love covereth a multitude of things. It is They have just tolerated him for a season. well to find out all the good points about your FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 21 successor. Tell the congregation everything kind With the apostle Paul we say, "Peace be to and helpful about their new pastor before you the brethren, and love with faith. . . . Grace leave. Considerate comments coming from you be with all them that love our Lord Jesus will make a lasting impression. It is good pub Christ in sincerity. Amen" (Eph. 6:23, 24). lic relations; it is good Christianity. It is also well to pray publicly for your successor and for his leadership among these people you Upon Leaving a Church will soon leave. Your solicitation of love and JOHN D. RHODES support in his behalf helps to bridge the gap Pastor, Southern California Conference and pays big dividends in Christian fellow ship and unity for the cause we love. OME months ago I took a leave of absence S from my church to attend the Seminary. Attitude Toward Your Predecessor I was to attend for two quarters and then re Speak well of your predecessor. Build on his turn to my same pastorate. I began to do some good foundation. Overlook his faults and dwell thinking. For four years I had been in this on his strong points. His most faithful sup church. Through those years I had been able to porters will become your best workers. En effect certain organizational planning. Would courage the confidence of the members in their all this come to nought when I left? How could former pastor whom they love and in turn the interim pastor take over with the least they will learn to love you and transfer their possible wasted effort? loyalties to you. As I had done on other occasions, I began Always speak well of your predecessor in to describe to the incoming pastor my pastoral any dealings with people of the community in plan. To him this seemed a complex system of all its phases and activities. As ministering organization. Realizing that it might be be brethren we should always present a united wildering to simply tell him of the existing front of loyalty to our people and our fellow plan, I decided to think the church organiza ministers. tion through. I put this in outline form so It is not best to dwell on the success or ac that he could follow it as a guide. tivities of your former pastorate. Some will How often when I had taken over churches shrug their shoulders and say, "So what!" Oth it had taken weeks to become oriented to the ers will perhaps utter, "Who is he trying to existing ways of doing things. I thought after impress?" In other words; this attitude does I had written out this outline, how happy I not wear well. would have been to receive something similar Love the people you now serve. You should from some of my predecessors. always speak well of your predecessor. By God©s Our church had been organized on the com grace apply the best principles of success from mittee plan. We have some nineteen com your former pastorate to your new charge. Of mittees. Most churches probably have a like course you will have to adapt to all new situa amount if they think of some of the various tions. Work harder than ever to glorify God church offices as a committee with a chairman and to lead your people to see Him, and the at the head and a group of laymen under him. Spirit of Christ will crown your endeavors with Each of these committee chairmen were listed true success. on this outline sheet. Also a brief outline of Though the transferring of loyalties is diffi the committee©s work was given. In this way cult for minister and members alike God©s the incoming pastor could put his finger on a grace gives the evangel of the everlasting gospel few leaders and effect his church program. the good sense, good taste, wisdom, and grace Many of these committees help in the planning to move forward at the time of transfer. Above of the special services of the church. all, there is the guiding light of anticipation A second section of this outline listed some that leads us on toward that supreme moment of the church policies. One of those is the of triumph when the Day-star shall arise and memorial fund idea. This is a plan whereby lead His children home. flower money can be diverted to church use, Our earnest prayer is that the people we and yet the person giving the gift can be recog leave, whom we have loved and served, shall nized both by the bereaved and by the church. be saved in His glorious kingdom, and also Information about the church newsletter, time that those whom we now are learning to love of making Sabbath morning announcements, in our new pastorate and to whom we shall bulletin deadline, and a listing of church-owned minister in Christ©s stead will stand with us audio-visual aids were shown in this outline. triumphantly on the sea of glass. So that the new pastor could have a better Page 22 THE MINISTRY financial picture of the church and its accom man (with first elder as assistant). plishments, a list of all the capital investments a. Plan visitation of shut-ins and backsliders on made during my term of service were listed. Communion day. And so that he might be apprised of certain b. Take Communion to shut-ins with new Quar terly and offering envelopes. needed developments, a listing was given of c. Have clerk fill out visitation information cards unfinished projects under study. All we need to and make up special bulletin for shut-ins. Vis watch is lest this become a "black list" and itation cards to be returned to pastor. fall into unauthorized hands. d. Deacons and deaconesses go by twos and threes Also given to the interim pastor, and most to visit. important, was a rather complete listing of all 6. Reception Committee—Miss ————, chairman. prospects for church membership, with a para a. Head of receptionists at the door entries. graph as to their background. A listing of spe 6. Have all visitants sign cards, mail out wel cial Ingathering contacts usually solicited by come letters, hand to all visitors welcome the pastor was given to him, with a paragraph folders. c. Cards handed to pastor for perusal and follow- on the approach to each merchant, and an up of interests. outline of the whole Ingathering campaign or 7. Social Committee—Miss ————, chairman. ganization. a. Plans and executes four church socials each This outline became to the new pastor a year—one each quarter. simple description of the already existing wheels 8. Pathfinder Board—Mr. ————, chairman. of organization. He could soon become oriented 9. MV Council—Mr. -———, leader. to his new job and make such adaptations as 10. Board of Elders—Dr. ————, first elder. Peri he chose, but could in the meantime use exist odic meetings. ing organization to keep his program going. a. Head elder plans rostrum order and assigns elders. b. Assists in counsel on problems not heavy Organization of East Los Angeles enough for church board. Church 11. Board of Deacons—Mr. ————, head deacon. 12. Ushering Committee—Mr. ————, head. Committees 13. Technician's Committee—Mr. ————, head. a. Takes care of sound machines for Sabbath 1. Interim Nominating Committee—Mrs. ————, services. chairman. b. Checks all visual-aid equipment and care of a. Handles transfers of officers and replacements same. needed during year. 14. Flower Committee—Mrs. ————, chairman. 2. Finance Committee—Dr. ————, chairman, a. Buys and arranges flowers for Sabbath services. a. Keeps close check on finance, and heads in b. Secures floral donations from members for setting up of annual budget. days on which they have anniversaries, etc. b. Head deacon, treasurer, one appointee, and 15. Pastoral Staff—Pastor, chairman. chairman, are members. 3. Ingathering Committee—Mr. ————, missionary a. Minister of Music—Mr. ————. b. Pastor's private secretary—Mrs. ————. Hours: leader, head. a. Business district chairman. Thursdays, 9:00 A.M.-2:30 P.M. Available for b. Singing band leaders. dictation, church bulletin, etc. She is also clerk. Makes annual directory, and keeps ad c. MV and Pathfinder leaders. dress stencils up to date. d. Others as appointed. c. Office assistant—Mrs. ————. Does pastor's 4. Summer Activities Committee—Mr. ————, church mailings, promotion mailing for cam chairman. paigns. Does filing for pastor, making up file a. Promotes an every-other-week social-spirit folders. Keeps up slide file and evangelistic ual program for the "young at heart" families file. of the church, from end of school till school d. Office Assistant—Mrs. ————. Available for art begins in fall. work for promotion mimeograph mailing. b. Activities include: One major church social s. Typist—Mrs. ————. planned by social committee, beach outings, 16. Sabbath School Council—Mrs. ————, super nature outings, MV meetings in park, re intendent. arrangement of summer musical program for 17. School Board—Dr. ————, chairman. worship hour, ending with family camp just 18. Home and School Association—Mrs. ————, before school begins, on Labor Day weekend, leader. for all who will go. 19. Building and Grounds Improvement Commit c. Pastor plans three summer prayer meetings tee—Dr. ————, chairman. with potluck suppers, called Family Nights, a. Plans future improvements, gives study to with special program and emphasis for families over-all physical needs of church properties. with children. 5. Visitation Program Committee—Pastor, chair- (Continued on page 29} FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 23 is aacjjio asn

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1914 Church and State, Innes .Preparing to Preach, Breed How to Write, Baldwin The Acts of the Apostles, White Prophets and Kings, White Monuments and the Old Testament, Price 1918 1915 One Hundred Years of Missions, Leonard Medical Science of Today, Evans Effective Speaking, Phillips Gospel Workers, White History of the Ancient World, Goodspeed Back to the Bible, Price The Minister as Shepherd, Jefferson Education, White 1916 1919 History of Western Europe, Robinson Modern and Contem-porary European History, The New Era in Asia, Eddy Schapiro The Ideal Ministry, Johnson Q.E.D., Price The Ministry of Angels, Evans Testimonies for the Church, vols. 1, 2, White 1917 Modern Mission Century, Pierson, or Diplomatic Background of the War, Seymour The Call of a World Task, Murray

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'Page 26 THE MINISTRY 1920 1930 How to Live, Fisher and Fiske Certainties of the Advent Movement, Spicer The Epistles of St. Paul to the Colossians and Cross in Christian Experience, Clow Philemon, Maclaren Christianity and Liberalism, Machen Victorious Life Studies, McQuilkin Fundamentals of Christian Education, White The Desire of Ages, White 1931 1921 Ministry of the Word, Morgan Christ©s Object Lessons, White Meaning of the Cross, Watt Stewardship and Missions, Cook What Is the Gospel? Trumbull Life of George Mutter, Pierson Makers of Freedom, Eddy and Page Many Infallible Proofs, Pierson Patriarchs and Prophets, White 1922 1932 Modern Religious Liberalism, Horsch Geological Ages Hoax, Price The Christ We Forget, Wilson Lectures on Revivals of Religion, Finney Quiet Talks on Home Ideals, Gordon and Gor The Epistle to the Ephesians, Findlay don Counsels to Parents, Teachers, and Students, Our Story of Missions, Spicer White 1933 1923-24 History of the Christian Church, Foakes-Jackson Testimonies for the Church, vols. 3, 4, White The Soul Winner, Spurgeon Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers, Church Manual (Prepared by McElhany) White Patriarchs and Prophets, White Will the Old Booh Stand"? Hastings Reading of Old Testament Chronologically Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians, Law- son 1934 1925 The Spade and the Bible, Prescott A Manual of Church History, vol. 1, Newman. Epistle to the Romans, Moule The Holy Spirit, Branson The Ministry of Healing, White The Desire of Ages, White Scientific Christian Thinking, Johnston Reading of New Testament Chronologically Real Prayer, Cortland Myers 1935 1926 Modern Discoveries Which Help Us to Believe, The Work of the Ministry, Griffith Thomas Price The Person of Christ, Schaff The Atoning Work of Christ, Watson The Epistle to the Galatians, Findlay A Manual of Church History, vol. 2, Newman Steps to Christ, White The Acts of the Apostles, White 1927 1936 The Crises of the Christ, Morgan The Abiding Gift of Prophecy, Daniells Wesley and His Century, Fitchett God©s Challenge to Modern Apostasy, Nichol The Glories of the Cross, Dixon A History of the Reformation, vol. 1, Lindsay Mount of Blessing, White Gospel Workers, White 1928 1937 Every-Member Evangelism, Conant The Answer to Modern Religious Thinking^ Power Through Prayer, Bounds Nichol Progress of World-Wide Missions, Glover Seventh-day Adventists in Time of War, Wilcox Abide in Christ, Andrew Murray Historical Studies, Lawrence Testimonies for the Church, vols. 5, 6, White Testimonies for the Church, vols. 7, 8, 9, White 1929 1938 The Desire of All Nations, Robert W. Smith The Sanctuary Service, Andreasen The Preacher: His Life and Work, Jowett Living Evangelism, Haynes The Coming of the Comforter, Froom China©s Borderlands and Beyond, Crisler The Great Controversy, White The Sanctified Life, White FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 27 1939 1947 ©The Preacher and His Preaching, Evans Counsels to Writers and Editors, White Organization, Crisler Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, Froom Christianity and Politics, Hyma The Lord©s Day on a Round World, Odom Counsels on Diet and Foods, White Spurgeon©s Lectures to His Students, Spurgeon Facsimile Reproductions Present Truth and 1940 Advent Review, James White Public Evangelism, Shuler 1948 The Divine Art of Preaching, Haynes Origin of Sunday Observance in the Christian The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts, Christian Church, Straw The Prose of Our King James Version, Olsen The Faith of Jesus and the Commandments of Reasons for Our Faith, Nichol God, Andreasen Revival Sermons, Richards Counsels on Stewardship, White Heralds of God, Stewart 1941 1949 Spiritual Counseling, Bonnell ©Typical Evangelistic Sermons, vol. 1, Eighteen Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, Froom SDA Evangelists The Bible Instructor, Kleuser Forty Centuries of Law and Liberty, Johns The Witness of Science, Abbott Genes and Genesis, Clark Life Sketches, White 1950 1942 Shepherd-Evangelist, Anderson Temperance, White .©Report of the Evangelistic Council American Freedom and Catholic Power, Blan- Genesis Vindicated, Price shard Pioneer Days of the Advent Movement, Spicer Bridge to Islam, Bethmann Modern Religious Trends, Christian Studies in Creationism, Marsh Early Writings, White 1951 1943 Evangelism According to Christ, Dobbins Typical Evangelistic Sermons, vol. 2, Eighteen Aflame for God (Min. Council, 1950) SDA Evangelists Every-Member Evangelism, Conant Principles of Church Organization and Admin Ellen G. White and Her Critics, Nichol istration, Montgomery 1952 American State Papers (revised) The Shadow of the Broad Brim, Day The Flood, Rehwinkel .Education, White Welfare Ministry, White Spurgeon©s Expository Encyclopedia, vol. 1 1944 Pulling Life Together, Bietz Broadcasting the Advent Message, Forty or 1953 More SDA Radio Evangelists Our Firm Foundation, vols. 1, 2 (Bible Con Sunday in Roman Paganism, Odom ference, 1952) The Story of Our Health Message, Robinson Establishing the Converts, Archibald Alcohol the Destroyer, Hearn The Chronology of Ezra 7, G. C. Research Com The Great Controversy, White mittee 1945 The King©s Highway, Bellah The Midnight Cry, Nichol 1954 Facts of Faith, Edwardson The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 1 Evolution, Creation, and Science, Marsh The American Church, Ferm Spiritual Gifts, vols. 1, 2 (combined), White Problems in Bible Translation, G. C. Committee The Triumphs of Faith, Morgan Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 4, Froom 1946 1955 Evangelism, White Thine Be the Glory (Ministerial Council, 1954) Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 3, Froom The Recovery of Family Life, Trueblood Spiritual Gifts, vols. 3, 4 (combined), White The Adventist Home, White Pastoral Work, Blackwood A Faith to Proclaim, Stewart 'Page 28 THE MINISTRY East Los Angeles Church 5. Church completely redecorated inside and out, including floors. Attic room finished off. Second (Continued from page 25) redecoration over halls and classrooms. Play b. Suggestions made at monthly board meetings, ground floodlighted. Time clock and lighted and all pastor's ideas for improvements chan sign, purchase of office furniture. neled through this committee. 6. New rug for cradle roll room—$250 project. 7. New heating system for classrooms with thermo Memorial Funds stats. Installation of kitchen. All gifts that can be channeled into this fund are placed in a general fund for earmarked projects of Unfinished Projects Under Study the church board. Donor does not specify. 1. Basement room for junior department—because 1. Whereas much money has heretofore been spent it has been crowded out and meets in church for perishable flowers, the idea of a memorial across the street. fund has been established. All in the church are 2. Balcony to furnish more seating—cost $4,000 to to be kept frequently reminded of this plan; $4,500 (includes foyer). and rather than send floral tributes to funeral of 3. New entry way with foyer and tower (cost in friends, a gift of this amount is made to the cluded in above). church. The church then acknowledges same on 4. School—either on new ground, or buy adjoining special letter of appreciation to relatives of de ceased, and acknowledgment is also sent to lots at $25,000, and build school at about esti mated cost of $30,000. donor. Amount of memorial tribute is withheld from relatives. 5. New carpeting—as sanctuary carpeting is grow ing threadbare. Cost about $850. Church Newsletter 6. New acoustical arrangement of choir loft. Cost about $200. 1.This is sent out weekly during campaigns, such as Ingathering, from pastor's office. 2. Sent out periodically for prompting in rever ence, tithing, and to keep address list up to date (3547 reply form used). SOME DAY 3. Called "East Los Angeles Newsbeat." HAZEL HARTWELL SIMON Announcements Some day all loving calls will have been made, 1. Made at 10:55 A.M. from lectern below pulpit, All urgings to repent, all warm appeals; thus dividing business and worship. Then God will thrust aside the heavy veil 2. A red signal light from pastor's study is signal And show the glory that He now conceals. for organist that pastor is coming out. And I am fearful only lest He find 3. Whenever possible, all conference mail promo Some careless one not ready for that day; tion is mailed out with church letters, to avoid My heart is heavy with an awful dread Sabbath clutter. That some, perhaps, have wandered from the way. Bulletin Deadline Unknown to us—but maybe very soon— The time by God appointed will be met; 1. Wednesday at 9:00 P.M. I think of those I love with tenderness, 2. Call church clerk or pastor—special organizer And, oh, my eyes with earnest tears are wet. on pastor's desk to place conference mail, an We have not long to go our thoughtless ways; nouncements to glean for Thursday office day. Should quickly turn, repentant, to His cross; For Christ is coming soon to claim His own, Church Equipment And that which is not gain will then be loss. 1. Custodian of this equipment—Mr. ————. Some fields are harvested, low sinks the sun; a. Church owns two complete Ingathering sing The pledge of God—that time shall end—is ing band sound machines, including battery true; chargers. Oh, cherished daughter, dearly treasured son, 6. Church owns two Viewmaster Bible study pro I pray when Jesus comes 'twill be for youl jectors, and one SVE 300 W. slide projector, as well as one sound movie projector—two tape recorders. CHURCH BULLETINS——————— East Los Angeles Projects 1. Sixty-five new school desks. Scriptural — Artistically Designed 2. Finished paying for Hammond organ. Large Assortment — Self Selection 3. Bought $600 Leslie speaker. Lithographed — Special Days — General Use 4. Bought two tape recorders, $325 mimeograph Be Sure to Get Our Free Catalog and Samples ECCLESIASTICAL ART PRESS machine, new adding machine, used Maas Louisville 12, Kentucky chimes, new robes costing §452. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 29 SIGHS OF THE TIMES

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OUR knuckles in the bread dough, the our attitude in this seemingly routine matter. baby in the bathinette, or your crown of Home duties often prevent the shepherdess Yglory in the washbowl. And it rings! A from doing all she would like to do in the telephone call to serve! church, but through the medium of the tele Young shepherdess, the very telephone ring phone she can perform a very valuable and that punctuates your day so liberally is more acceptable service. than just a telephone call. It is an opportunity Let us check up and see whether we are for service. giving good service. True, it may be merely the dentist's secretary First, let us always answer the telephone pa checking on an appointment, or it may be tiently. Even if this is the seventh time we've someone asking you to think in twenty seconds dragged ourselves up from the basement, where of a song often sung at weddings containing the weekly wash is under way, even if Junior the word "love"—so that you can get a free is just off to sleep and we are afraid the bell photograph of a member of your family. But will awaken him, even if we are lying down if you are a minister's wife, the chances are for a few minutes to ease that excruciating that the telephone call is going to demand headache, we will answer it cheerfully, patiently, much more of you than that. and politely. How do you answer that call? Efficiency Think back on the telephone calls that you have made recently. How have you been an Next, let us be efficient. Many steps and swered? What has been your reaction to the minutes can be saved by having the telephone quick, impatient "H'llo," or the helpful "This installed in a strategic place. Choose the spot is ————. Can we help you?" or the bored, that is nearest to you most of the day. It laconic drawl of a "Hello-o-o"? may be worth while to have an extension in The man or woman at the other end of the stalled, or jacks that enable you to take the wire has the power to make you feel like a telephone to two or more parts of the house. nuisance, a joy, or a bore simply by the tone Do we have everything at hand at the tele of voice he or she employs. phone—pencil and tablet for taking notes, tele How do you make people feel when you phone directory, church directory, a convenient lift the receiver and speak? place to write? A chair? And do we use these As God's representatives in the districts where things? Even if we do pride ourselves on the we are serving, we must be sure even in an excellence of our memories, let us not trust to swering the telephone to reflect the Spirit of them too much, but write down details of the One who has called us. phone messages clearly, concisely, and accu Especially where there is no church office rately. And—just as important—let us be sure the telephone in the minister's home gets little the message reaches its mark! Remembering rest. For a large part of the day the pastor is tomorrow morning at breakfast that there was out, and it is the shepherdess who interrupts an emergency call tonight, can mean a price her routine to answer the calls that follow so less opportunity for soul winning lost. We speedily one after the other. should have a special place in which to park Do we look on the frequent ringing of the these messages—a place where the husband will telephone as an interruption or as an oppor look even though we may have gone to the tunity to help? Our usefulness—and to a large store or already retired when he comes in. A extent, our personal happiness—depend on magnetic bulletin board is ideal for this. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 31 We should always make our identity known Our friendliness must often embrace pa if the caller does not know who is answering tience. In every church there is at least one the phone. If he wishes to speak to the pastor member who calls often and at length. Even and he is not at home, he may wish to tell us if this call means that we won't be able to the nature of his call. It may be that we can finish sewing the buttons on June's new dress give him the necessary information. If he plans or writing out the report we just got such a to call again, the pastor will be glad to know good idea for, this too is a call for service, beforehand the reason for the call. He may and let us be good listeners. It may be that be able to seek out the information needed, the caller is lonely. Our patient listening may consult his appointment book, think or pray send her on her way cheered to an extent over a problem. that would surprise us. A Caution Our response to the ring of the telephone A caution just here. Although there should need not be, "There it goes again!" or "What always be in our voice and manner a friend is it this time?" Instead it can be a silent liness and willingness to help that will en prayer of thankfulness for these many oppor tunities to serve. courage those who call to tell us who they are and what they want, yet we should remember Last night it was a call for prayer for a that there is no quicker way to close the door baby at the point of death. This morning it to many soul-winning, counseling opportunities was someone from the next city asking the than for the minister's wife to insist on know pastor to give a talk. It may be a deaconess who has mislaid the new address of the mem ing who is calling and why. A timid soul in need who wishes to discuss a problem with the ber she wants to visit. It may be a mother whose dear one has been taken to the hos pastor is apt not to call the second time if she is greeted with an attitude of whatever-you-say- pital. Or the printer to say the handbills are to-my-husband-you-say-to-me-first. Always we ready to be picked up. It could be Lucille, to should hold ourselves ready to give friendly say that Jim has left her again. Or the school- teacher, to say that the furnace has gone out. counsel when asked. We are not secretaries Who knows? commissioned to deflect telephone calls from busy men. We are shepherdesses, ever holding May God give us grace to answer these calls: willingly, helpfully, kindly—grace to love these open the door for the sheep. Let us never for interruptions and those who make them. get that the shepherdess must share the shepherd with the whole flock. In all our friendliness we must be careful, of course, about giving information. We do CHURCH FURNITURE not, for instance, give names and addresses and telephone numbers of church members indis criminately. And let us be honest, too. If we sense that postponement can cause no harm, and that the present moment is not convenient for a long chat over the wires, let us be quite frank and say, "Sister Blank, would it be just as convenient if I called you back in a few minutes? We are just having worship," or "I'm just getting Susan ready for school." Then let us be sure that we keep our word and do call back. The need for genuine, sincere friendliness cannot be overestimated. Our love for the flock can be sensed along the telephone wires as easily as through a handshake in the church vestibule. So let our warmheartedness be felt in our tone of voice. If we feel friendly, we This pulpit used at the General Conference cannot help but sound friendly. But we must session was designed, built, and donated feel it. The pastor's wife who inwardly is an by our Seventh-day Adventist firm noyed by telephone interruptions will uncon sciously convey that annoyance to others in BASCOM CABINET WORKS her voice. The need is for a change of spirit, The Best in Church Furniture not a painting over of our inward feelings. PHONE 81 KEENE, TEXAS. Page 32 THE MINISTRY- U L P IT PouttetA jj&t

Three Aspects of Gospel Preaching

ALBERT MEYER Ministerial Association Secretary, Southern European Division

E HAVE not chosen me, but I have prophets and the apostles, following the ex chosen you, and ordained you, that ye ample of Christ, were full of comprehension Yshould go and bring forth fruit, and for their listeners. that your fruit should remain" (John 15:16). A pastor of the Reformed Church wrote the The vocation of the preacher is the most noble following lines thirty-five years ago to a pious there is. "Man of God" in a very definite sense, and sincere member of the church: the preacher should bring to the world the "I ask you to pardon my frankness. But, you see, message of salvation. The present conditions your interpretation of the Scriptures is too uniform. require of him a good general culture, an ex Your point of view is as narrow as Christ is broad. tensive knowledge of the Bible, of history, of You take the accessory for the essential. . . . You archeology, as well as a better preparation for are the best people on the shores of Lake Geneva; evangelism. that is why people come to you for fomentations We may consider preaching under three dif and treatments. But I assure you that you know hydrotherapy better than theology, and gymnastics ferent aspects. better than dialectics. . . . One of the striking things A Science about you is the tendentious usage you make of the Bible: you utilize it incessantly to prove Adventism, The word "science" exerts a magic power much more than to nourish the soul; incessantly to upon the world. All is impregnated with its discover the future, instead of fathoming the work influence. In this age of progress, of discoveries, accomplished by the grace of the Lord." and of inventions man has risen to the highest Then this pastor closes with these words full branches of the tree of knowledge. From this of Christian courtesy: summit he has tried to penetrate the mysteries of life, and often he professes only little pity "Finally, my dear friend, I hope that in the day of judgment we shall meet, and that we shall be at for the ignorance and simplicity of the Chris the right of the Shepherd, whether we have or have tian. It goes without saying that modern con not been Sabbathkeepers; for what is important is ditions impose themselves upon the preacher. to be a new creature." He must be a man well informed on the things of his time, and that agrees with a declaration Undoubtedly these remarks are not without contained in Gospel Workers: prejudice; nevertheless we can profit from them. "Hard study and hard work are required to make The truths that we were almost alone in preach a successful minister or a successful worker in any ing formerly, such as the return of Christ, branch of God's cause. Nothing less than constant baptism of adults, conditional immortality of cultivation will develop the value of the gifts that the soul, tithing, etc., today find defenders God has bestowed for wise improvement."—Page 71. among eminent theologians. We are sometimes accused—and not always Recent archeological discoveries have largely wrongly—of being bound and limited in our contributed to enriching and establishing our Biblical, interpretation by a spirit of system. faith. These works have demanded of those Without doubt the Scriptures have clearly who undertook them unheard-of efforts, to traced the path to follow, and our salvation gether with a vast knowledge. It seems that depends upon not going away from it; but the these magnificent discoveries of different docu ments that come to confirm the Biblical books Translated from Servir, French-language bulletin of the and their divine inspiration have been reserved Southern European Division Ministerial Association, by Leona Glidden Running. for the time of the end. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 33 But what is important in the gospel ministry get that conversions do not operate on an as is the knowledge of the human person, the sembly line, at the wish of our technical means. object of salvation. It is at once the most com Just as nature must have the necessary time plicated and the most delicate, for here we to make plants grow and bring fruits to ma are in the presence of a living reality, and how turity, so also the Spirit of God must have precious it is! A soul, a single soul, has greater time to prepare conversions by His interior value than all the treasures of the world put working. One must never work against the laws together. It can be saved or lost for eternity; of nature, whether they are of the physical or for it, God did not hesitate to give His own the spiritual order. Son. The knowledge of the human soul, of its The preacher should also know how to adapt aspirations, its struggles, its distresses, its hopes himself. "I am made all things to all men, also, is a science that can only be acquired that I might by all means save some," said Paul. through observation, prayer, contact, and ex Time has changed many things, multiplied perience, to which is added a great sympathy. methods and means of action; but in this do Modern science is in the act of "disjoining" main there is no magic formula. Preaching needs the human person to make of it only an auto intelligence, discernment, and great tact. How matic creature, anonymous, deprived of all in desirable it is for preachers to be like those dividuality. However, man created in the image sons of Issachar, of whom it is written that of God still carries his titles of nobility. The they "had understanding of the times, to know science of the preacher consists in knowing how what Israel ought to do"! (1 Chron. 12:32). to bring the human being to his Creator, thus The presentation is also important. The final realizing the beautiful words in Proverbs: "The success depends to a great degree upon a pres fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he entation made with conviction, with a lively that winneth souls is wise" (ch. 11:30). manner, by appropriate illustrations, avoiding But the knowledge par excellence is indeed the extremes of overnicety and harshness. There that of God, the source of eternal life (John must be a logical and harmonious linking to 17:3). By it our thoughts are brought into cap gether of ideas to arrive at a clear conclusion tivity to the obedience of Christ. Thus eternal on the subject, remembering that the arguments life begins already here upon - the earth, to used are like steps that lead us to the top of expand later in the splendor of heaven. Yes, the ladder. The external appearance of the the preaching of the gospel is a noble, great, preacher should be well kept, for negligence and beautiful science because it unites man in this domain reveals disorder also in his closely to God. ideas. Also an Art To science and intelligence one must add the art of persuading. The world today is the For some, preaching is first of all the art of eloquence. It is needful, however, to remember prey of skepticism; it does not easily allow it self to be moved or convinced. On the other that this gift is rather rare; the masters of hand, the material conditions of life singularly words do not abound, and in the church per haps they are fewer than elsewhere. It is use complicate existence; the possibilities for creat less to wish to "walk the straight line," trying ing for oneself an independent situation are above all not to commit any fault, as if elo rarer, and the circle of individual liberty is quence were the principal thing in preaching. narrowing down more and more. Obedience Certainly our language must be correct, well to the commandments of God is rendered diffi shaded, exempt from crudity or weakness and cult, and one must not expect much improve from useless words. Simplicity is always the ment in that direction. Our valiant evangelists best means of being eloquent. have a daily experience of this with the per sons who are interested in present truth. "It is not flowery discourses that are needed, not a flood of words ^without meaning. Our ministers In this great struggle for souls, it is com are to preach in a way that will help people to grasp forting to know that it is the Spirit of God vital truth. My brethren, do ~ot soar where the Himself who assures the victory. "Eternal One, common people cannot follow you, and if they thou didst persuade me, and I let myself be could, would be neither benefited nor blessed."— persuaded! Thou wast too strong for me, I Ibid., p. 154. had to yield" (Jer. 20:7, Moffatt *). We will The methods of preaching are no longer the often have to have recourse to the power spoken same as formerly. Our age is an age of pictures, of in this verse to obtain decisions. of the radio, and of speed. Jet planes and super sonic planes have replaced the first planes, which * The Bible: A New Translation by James Moffatt, Copy right 1922, 1935, 1950-52 by Harper & Brothers. Used by per are now in disuse. However, we should not for- mission. Page 34 THE MINISTRY The Power of Preaching Quote, Unquote Science, that is to say the ensemble of knowl edge acquired, and art are not sufficient in this EUGENE W. ERICKSON important and delicate work of the preaching Pastor, Northern California Conference of the gospel. Just as Zacchaeus, in order to NE of the finest skills taught in the school see Jesus, added the height of the sycamore O of pulpit teachers is the proper handling to his small stature, so it is necessary for the of quotable materials. A vast river of sermons worker to add the power of God to his human has poured from Adventist pulpits for over a weakness and his limitations, in order to do a century, and many of the tributaries feeding work truly worthy of the vocation to which he this mighty stream of thought have found their has been called. source in the numerous springs of noninspired "A minister may be able to present the letter of writings. Quite frequently the student in the the word of God; he may be familiar with all its pew is briskly called to attention as the speaker, commands and promises; but his sowing of the with unqualified certainty, reads a statement gospel seed will not be successful unless this seed from the works of a noted scientist, historian, is quickened into life by the dew of heaven. With or literator, insisting that this or that position out the co-operation of the Spirit of God, no amount of education, no advantages, however great, can is undeniably reliable. This man says so; there make one a channel of light."—Ibid., p. 284. fore it is so. "Those who are under the influence of the Spirit In these last days of doctrinal abandonment of God will not be fanatical, but calm and steadfast, and will-of-the-wisp-do-it-yourself religions, we free from extravagance in thought, word, or deed. welcome the words of "the man with a message," Amid the confusion of delusive doctrines, the Spirit who strikes with telling blows of conviction, of God will be a guide and a shield to those who whose sermons are to the people what the mold have not resisted the evidences of truth."—Ibid., p. 289. is to molten steel, who knows the way, is in the way, and confidently proclaims, "This is the It was in the weakness of the flesh, but lean way," and the people follow. This is most surely ing on God, that Paul went out to preach at the caliber of ministry that is needed now. Corinth. "My speech and my preaching was not Our Lord spoke "as one having authority," with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in that is to say, His teachings were irresistible be demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that cause they were sound, rational, punctuated your faith should not stand in the wisdom of with a God-authenticated persuasiveness. He men, but in the power of God" (1 Cor. 2:4, 5). knew the way. There, in truth, is the program of the preacher. There is the measure of a man of God and an The purpose here is not to discuss, primarily, able minister (2 Cor. 3:3-6). With such a pro what constitutes authority in matters of truth gram his conversions will mount, and one will and dogma, but to warn against the all-too- be able to say of him, "He brings forth much common practice of quoting from the works of fruit, and the fruit remains." To lay well the philosophers, scientists, historians, and other foundation and build with care is to assure the noninspired sources and conveying the impres solidity of the building. sion that these in themselves are the alpha and Then, when the evening comes, the worker the omega of authority. To be sure, this is not will remember with humility and gratitude done intentionally—which in effect only in the words of Christ, "I have glorified thee on creases the evil of the practice. Supporting evi the earth: I have finished the work which thou dences are not decried, but rather encouraged gavest me to do" (John 17:4). Having sought to add color to the design of truth. But they nothing but the glory of God throughout the are color only, and not the design. This must course of his ministry, the preacher will see be constantly impressed upon a faithless genera with joy, love, and gratitude the magnificent tion that has seriously questioned the reliability rays of a setting sun irradiating his activity of our supreme authority—the Bible. Little consecrated to the Lord. wonder that Ellen G. White counseled: "Cold, philosophical speculations and scien tific research in which God is not acknowledged EFFECTIVE ADVERTISING AT LOW COST are a positive injury."—Counsels to Parents, BUMPER STRIPS Teachers, and Students, pp. 423, 424. 4"x15" first 100 $25.00 Let it ever be proclaimed from the housetops Each additional 100 $15.00 that those who are in earnest in the quest of HYLANDALE SCREEN ART, Rockland, Wisconsin the elixir of everlasting life will not stop short of that which has an authentic ring. FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 35 Do We Meed Proof? 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CARRIE TICHENOR Bible Instructor, Southeastern California Conference

The Way of Salvation II. WHY THE NEED OF A SAVIOUR "Such subjects as the sanctuary, in connection 1. Sin caused man to fear God (Gen. 3:9, 10). with the 2300 days, the commandments of God 2. Sin separated man from God (Isa. 59:1, 2). and the faith of Jesus, are perfectly calculated to 3. Sin brought death (Rom. 5:12). explain the past Advent movement and show 4. After sin, man became inherently evil. All what our present position is, establish the faith have sinned (* Rom. 3:23). of the doubting, and give certainty to the glorious 5. The broken law demanded death (* 1 John future. These, I have frequently seen, were the 3:4; Rom. 6:23). principal subjects on which the messengers should III. SYMBOL OF A SAVIOUR dwell."—Early Writings, p. 63. The importance of the study of the sanctuary 1. Promise to Adam and Eve (Gen. 3:15). and its services is here described by the Lord's 2. Cain and Abel understood offerings. Blood messenger. It is a subject almost unknown in most must be shed. Why was Abel's offering ac denominations, but since the study of the sanctu cepted? (Gen. 4:3-5.) ary is in truth the study of the atonement of Christ 3. Jesus the Lamb before earth created (Rev. for man, it is easy to understand why the evil one 13:8). seeks to keep it hidden from the people. "The 4. He died in our place. Slain lamb represented subject of the sanctuary and the investigative Jesus (1 Peter 1:18-20). judgment should be clearly understood by the 5. John testified, "Behold the lamb of God" people of God. . . . The sanctuary in heaven is ("John 1:29). the very center of Christ's work in behalf of men. 6. Patriarchs understood plan of salvation. . . . The intercession of Christ in man's behalf Abraham saw death of Jesus in offering of in the sanctuary above is as essential to the plan Isaac (Gen. 22:7, 8; John 8:56, 58; Heb. 11: of salvation as xvas His death upon the cross."— 17). The Great Controversy, pp. 488, 489. IV. EARTHLY SANCTUARY Thus we see that our aim in presenting the 1. Israel commanded to make a sanctuary (Ex. subject of the sanctuary is to point the people to 25:8, 40). the Lamb of God, who redeemed them, and now 2. Description of earthly sanctuary (Heb. 9:2-5). as their great High Priest is interceding for them. a. Holy place Aim: To impress the reader with the fact that (1) Altar of incense (Ex. 30:1-6). Jesus the Lamb of God, and His atonement, is the (2) Table of shewbread (Ex. 25:23-30). WAY, and the only way, to salvation. Interest approach: "We shall begin a series of (3) Seven-branched candlestick (vs. 31, 32). studies concerning the sanctuary services of the &. Most holy place—ark with mercy seat (vs. 10-22). ancient Jews. "Why did God institute such an c. Court economy, and does it mean anything to us today?" (1) Laver of brass (Ex. 30:17-19). I. INTRODUCTION (2) Altar of burnt offering (Ex. 27:1). 1. David asked, "Teach me thy way" (Ps. 86:11). V. HEAVENLY SANCTUARY 2. After study and prayer David learned that God's way was in the sanctuary (Ps. 77:12, 1. Earthly sanctuary patterned after heavenly 13). (*Ex. 25:40). 3. Jesus said, "I am the way." How did Jesus 2. John saw in vision the temple in heaven become the way? (John 14:6.) (Rev. 11:19). Note: David longed to know God's way. He 3. He saw seven lamps of fire (Rev. 4:5). learned that it was in the sanctuary. The 4. Also saw altar of incense (Rev. 8:3, 4). study of the sanctuary is important, for it 5. Was shown ark of testimony (Rev. 11:19). reveals Jesus as the way of life. (Continued on page 46} FEBRUARY, 1956 Page 39 m CHRISTIAN HOME CALENDAR

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Louise Bordas, 55, three-day meeting was attended by some 400 a journalist, who testified she had been completely priests and 200 lay people, all of them diocesan cured of an acute cancer condition four days after youth directors or workers. she drank a bottle of water that a friend brought "Cadillacs carry more prestige than children, and her from the Lourdes shrine. in a family interested in raising its social status, the former is likely to command more attention «f Members of 21 Dayton area congregations, work than the latter," Dr. Gladwin said. ing together, pledged $742,989 to support their churches in 1956. That's $238,625 more than the If Plans to set up a Museum for the History of same members gave last year in cash through the Religion and Atheism in East Berlin were an offering envelope system. The campaign was a nounced by the Society for Spreading Scientific United Church Canvass demonstration project for Knowledge. This is the Communist organization metropolitan areas. 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Dr. Landis pointed out, however, that the rules dealing with the training and attitude of 1953 figure was worth only about $2,365 in 193& personnel, and qualifications religious workers purchasing power and thus, actually, represented would have to meet if the church is to conduct a decrease. Average for United Presbyterian min summer teaching or recreation programs. At pres isters was $3,490 in 1953 as contrasted to $1,979 in ent, churches are merely required to obtain a 1939 and was equivalent to $2,046 in terms of 1939 city certificate of occupancy covering basic sani purchasing power. Congregational ministers' sala tary and safety regulations. In a memorandum to ries in 1953 averaged $3,484 as compared to $1,769 ministers and church workers, the Protestant in 1939. They were equivalent to $1,809 in the latter Council of the City of New York said the proposed year's purchasing power. code "threatens the separation of Church and State and the free exercise of religion." 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OUR BROTHER'S IN AN article, "Is Civil T)e- our friends recognize our efforts to serve the com JK.EEPER fense the Church's Con munity. In many places we are being thrust into cern?" Ed Mack Miller, the public eye. May the Lord help us to walk writing in the November issue of Information (The worthy of the honor and always to be humble Catholic Church in American Life), gives a forth enough to serve any and all. Our standing in the right challenge to the members of the Catholic judgment will be measured not by our profession 'Church to accept the responsibility for community but our deeds to those we least thought we were •concern. In this article he pays tribute to the serving. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of splendid work being done by Seventh-day Ad- the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto ventists. The whole article is good, and while pay me." R. A. A. ing respect to what officials in the Catholic Church are doing, he says: "The time has come for all of our parish societies to begin to consider Civil Defense as an important THE WARNING DOES your warning win? project. THAT WINS Following an evangelistic "Many of these societies are badly in need of campaign the evangelist new life and new interests. Many others are dying was asked about the results. "I warned three thou on their feet for the want of a downright worthy sand souls," was the proud reply. Sensing that fur project. In every parish we have zealous men and ther interrogation could result in embarrassment, women who have lost interest in parish societies the speaker was kind enough not to ask any further because at their meetings they feel that they are questions. not doing anything or getting anywhere. The time Jonah was probably content to warn, but he did has come to begin to talk and think hard about Civil more—his warning won a city! His dismay at hav Defense, go into the question of survival techniques ing succeeded in bringing a nation to its knees and, beyond that, to work in coordinated teams defies analysis in the light of modern thought. stockpiling defense supplies and building blood He surely holds the record for a successful six-weeks' banks. campaign! "Rest assured that there will be no difficulty in getting expert help who would gladly cooperate To produce God-fearing, church-supporting with any parish director in enlisting aid and sup Christians is the object of all our ministry. We are port in any CD program. called to a higher purpose than merely thundering "We can take a lead from the Seventh-day Ad- the judgments of Jehovah. We, of all people, should ventists. Working closely with federal CD adminis be messengers of His grace. trators and the Red Cross Feather agencies, they The messenger of the Lord has urged that we have set up one of the best national church disaster- should be Christendom's foremost heralds of Christ relief programs to date. They have trained over and His atonement: 20,000 members in first aid; over 1,000 are qualified "Of all professing Christians, Seventh-day Ad instructors. The only religious sect that the Red ventists should be foremost in uplifting Christ Cross has approved to conduct its own first-aid before the world. . . . The great center of attrac training, Adventist churches have stockpiled emer tion, Christ Jesus, must not be left out."—Gospel gency food, clothing and first-aid supplies, joined Workers, p. 156. [See also twenty-six additional heartily in local CD activities, and have conducted Spirit of prophecy statements on this point on pages various experiments in survival techniques. 40 and 41 of last month's MINISTRY.] "Administrator Peterson commended them for It is by the goodness o£ God, the revelation of "maintaining disaster-relief centers, preparing home- His loving-kindness and tender pity, that men are disaster kits and encouraging members to donate led to repentance (Rom. 2:4). Then with all that blood.' Many Adventist churches and institutions Jonah preached about judgment there must also have tied in first aid and casualty care with local have been an appeal. Over and over again in John welfare programs. Thus emergency needs can be Wesley's Journal we read such expressions as, filled in one place. "Tonight I offered Christ to the people." Paul "In the U.S., however, Adventists' hospitals are says, "Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, relatively few compared with our Catholic hospitals. we persuade men." He does not say terrorize them, Preparedness of our hospitals unquestionably could but persuade them. The sermon that depicts God's be a major factor in survival." justice and reveals His love is the warning that It is interesting to see how the activities of Ad wins. ventists are being observed. We are happy to have E. E. c. Page 48 THE MINISTRY