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Why Blame the Church? 5 J. R. SPANGLER International Journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Ministry Courageous Planning 7 ROBERT H. PIERSON Editorial Director: Telephone Evangelism 8 KAUFMANN/MC QUISTAN N. R. Dower Editor: "Years Behind" 11 ALFRED S. JORGENSEN J. R. Spangler Executive Editors: Increasing Baptisms the Easy Way 14 JOHN FOWLER O. M. Berg Leo R. Van Dolson "Knowledge Shall Be Increased" 16 PAUL F. BORK Health Editor: J. Wayne McFarland, M.D. Remedy for Dying Districts 18 JAMES W. ZACKRISON Associate Editors: E. E. Cleveland R. Dedere©n Has God Stopped Creating? 20 R. E. HOEN H. Habenicht, M.D. M. G. Hardinge, M.D. Messianic Mileposts Psalm 2 23 w. E. READ A. E. Schmidt Editorial Assistant: Why E. White Called for Help 24 D. A. DELAFIELD Marta Hilliard Editorial Secretary: 28 Years in an Iron Lung 26 MARK FINLEY Hazel Bowen Designer: One Stick 29 HEALTH STAFF G. W. Busch

Stomachs Need Siestas Too 30 HUBERT F. STURGES

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2/The Ministry/April, 1976 WE HUMAN beings are strange crea Obviously, we cannot expect our con tures. We receive an unexpected "wind editorial gregations to "taste and see that the fall" in money or things, and we©re not Lord is good" as we present our Sabbath satisfied. We want more. We taste some morning sermons and Wednesday eve delicious food and can hardly wait to get ning prayer meeting studies unless our more. But when we receive a small Taste own souls have been deeply fed. Our measure of God©s blessing and power church audiences are "captive" in the we are prone to turn away satisfied, just sense that they are committed to attend as if God could give us no more. and ing week after week, and in most cases The psalmist challenges us, "O taste they will continue to attend and receive and see that the Lord is good: blessed is See. .. some blessing, even though the preach the man that trusteth in him" (Ps. 34:8). ing may be shallow or superficial. The setting of this gracious invitation is But if we expect to reach the general a very interesting alphabetic acrostic public with our message it can be accom psalm. Beginning with aleph, the first plished only through Bible-centered, letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the Christ-centered messages that come writer, David, introduces each verse of from hearts that have discovered for this psalm with a word that begins with themselves that the Lord is good. the Hebrew letter that fits his acrostic. One taste of the good things God has For some reason that is not clear (per provided is not enough. Each day, as we haps a scribal omission) the sixth letter, dig deeper into the inexhaustible treas waw, is missing from the Hebrew al ures of the Bible, we experience new phabetic sequence that forms the basis taste thrills new discoveries of the of the acrostic. The ninth letter of the hidden manna, the deeper truths that Hebrew alphabet is t, the first letter of are placed there for those who are will the word ta©am, "taste." The obvious ing to become involved in more than meaning is "try the flavor of" or "experi merely superficial study. ence." When combined with "see" the In order to be truly successful in this concept involved becomes "find or dis quest we must discover for ourselves the cover for yourself." "truth as it is in Jesus." Every discovery Verses 9 and 11 call the "saints" and must lead us to a deeper experience with the children to revere and worship the and better understanding of the "Pearl Lord. Before the minister can success of Great Price." fully lead his flock into this kind of ex Even old, familiar passages take on perience, he must, of course, "taste" new depths of meaning as we allow the for himself and discover that the Lord is Holy Spirit to help us understand facets good. The surest proof of God©s gracious- of truth that we have never seen in ness, kindness, and concern for us is those verses before. found in our personal experience with There is a tremendous joy and excite Him. ment that comes from discovering the Since the psalmist is choosing a word hidden treasures of the Word of God. that fits the acrostic, we must take into The reward we receive is worth far more consideration this poetic intent in our than the effort it takes to discover it. interpretation of verse 8 and not try to How much we miss if we are unwilling make too much out of a single word. to put forth such effort. Actually, our discovery of God is a grow Think of the stupendous privilege in ing and ongoing experience that deepens volved the privilege of sharing God©s as time goes by. The more we "taste" the truth as He reveals it to us in a way as more we "see." meaningful as if the words recorded It is strange, isn©t it, that so many are thousands of years ago had been placed satisfied with a mere "taste" of what in the Scriptures and preserved for just God has to offer. When we discover that this one moment of time the thrilling which is so "good" how can we subse moment of personal discovery. quently ever be satisfied with less than What a challenge this presents. What this? Why aren©t we inspired to continue an opportunity is ours to "taste and exploring and discovering the even see," to search for, discover, and share greater blessings God makes available? with our congregations deep secrets of Particularly, how can we as ministers truth that come from the very mind of who have so often been blessed in our God truths that He has placed there to study and sharing of the Word of God help us understand how good He is and grow careless about Bible study and that will not only develop but continue communion with the Author of the to daily nourish our spiritual natures. Bible? L. R. v. D. The Ministry/April, 1976/3 A Change in Attitude tongues and healings. In the past few days I feedback have been reading again from book two of In the May, 1975, issue you printed a part Selected Messages. Especially the first sixty of a letter written to you under the title pages are so very clear and I believe of par "An Open Letter to Pastors." There is no ticular importance for our workers at this doubt that this is a subject over which we very time. It would be, it seems to me, very need to be concerned. However, I ana not at much in order to have notices in THE MINIS all sure that the answer to the problem is TRY at times calling special attention to this the one stated in that letter. good counsel. In one church I pastored we had a large Delmar T. Burke group of young people who were attending Hope, Michigan the church under duress. They went because their parents made them go. Their attitude Dangers of Health Emphasis was quite obvious and their unconverted The impetus given to health evangelism state was indicated by their dress also. in MINISTRY this past year has been thrilling When I looked over that pastorate and saw to many of us medical laymen who desire a the situation I determined to preach on cen closer working relationship with our minis tral issues and hoped to turn the minds of terial brethren, and the satisfaction of see these young people from their negative out ing souls won to the message from our medi look to positive values, and preach Christ. cal labors. There are three dangers that may Just a few months later one of the leading accrue as a result of this health emphasis. rebels among this group of young people The first problem concerns the ministers came to speak to me after the Sabbath morn themselves, particularly those new to the ing service. Several other young people were gospel calling. As these young men get "in with her and this is what she said. "Pastor, fected" with the thrill of working as a gos we have been discussing why it was that pel-medical team and see the tremendous you didn©t preach against the miniskirt." interest generated in health evangelistic Naturally I was very eager to hear what approaches, they may have lessened interest their conclusion was. "We decided," she in the more conventional methods of evan said, "that it was because you had more im gelism, coming to prefer this health em portant things to preach about." Then her phasis as they see the potential for city-wide next words revealed the true import of what church influence and ultimate soul winning. had happened in their thinking. As though Even short-term goals and campaigns may asking for the greatest privilege she could diminish in importance as long-range pos think of, she asked, "Pastor, would it be pos sibilities are seen. sible for me to join the baptismal class?" The second danger looms as souls are Needless to say, this basic change in atti brought into the church through health tude completely resolved the problem of her evangelism programs. These new converts previously immodest dress. She hadn©t may well be so grounded in the health mes stopped because she was thundered at. That sage and other reforms we advocate that had only made her more determined in her they may threaten the security of the luke rebellion. But when the beauty of Jesus warm status quo in many churches. They was held up before her she no longer wanted may even become ardent reformers and to rebel. Surely that is the only truly satis agitate the saints in promotion of the Spirit factory reason for modifying our behavior of Prophecy principles and especially the on any issue. health reform. D. C. Uffmdell Finally, we must consider the "hazard" of Watford, England a different contribution from physicians who catch the spirit of health evangelism. They Charismatics may spend so much time working with our Today the so-called Charismatic Renewal ministry, giving health programs, and even is getting attention in many circles. Some becoming more personally involved in their times I very much fear that some of our patients© spiritual needs that their gross in people and even our ministers hardly realize come drops a little. Some may even begin the magnitude of this thing and that it is an asking to work on ministerial salary and actual work of the devil. encourage a re-establishment of the sani When I was in my teens my family joined tarium plan, where a training school and one of the Pentecostal groups. Naturally I health conditioning center can combine in came into very close contact with the Pente- working the cities from rural outposts. costals. What little I knew about the Bible Who knows where this health evangelistic helped me to see that their teachings didn©t emphasis will lead? Perhaps right into the ring true. At the same time I came in touch true revival and Jesus© return, for "when with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the cities are worked as God would have thank God He kept me from deception. It them, the result will be the setting in opera seemed to me that I could see through the tion of a mighty movement such as we have false healings and tongues of the Pente- not yet witnessed." Medical Ministry, p. costals. 304. There are many real good things in the Richard A. Hansen, M.D. Spirit of Prophecy on this subject of false Wilduiood, Georgia. 4/The Ministry/April, 1976 to think so. But no longer do I let the devil fool me on this point. If I fail to II Iff/ study, pray, and meditate, it is my own fault! Certainly the work piles up! Cer tainly there are a thousand details we Btametite think we must take care of! But the facts are, you and I as ministers still have freedom of choice, and if we allow the Church? pressure of work to steal from us our right to spend time with God daily, then who is to blame? I don©t care if the reader is the General Conference presi dent or the youngest intern in Podunk Hollow, you and you alone are responsi ble for your success or failure in this all-important matter of personal devo RESEARCH reports often substan tions, serious study of the Scriptures, tiate the obvious. Another such report J. R. SPANGLER and preparation of powerful, Spirit- has just been released by Andrews Uni filled sermons. versity. Dr. Gottfried Oosterwal, chairman of Two Extremes the Seminary Department, of World The truth of the matter is, we are Mission, recently released the results guilty of two extremes. The majority of of a survey based on more than 3,000 those guilty, in all probability, fall in questionnaire responses from members the extreme of those who engage in lit of twenty-eight churches in the Lake tle or no Bible study. Then there are a Union. Among other conclusions, the few, perhaps more than a few, who may study reveals: be diligent students of the Word, but so 1. Once baptized, members indicate much of their study can be categorized that their spiritual welfare de as the proverbial "hair-splitting" type. pends more upon Sabbath services For instance, at the moment there is and fellowship than on personal much discussion on the nature of Christ, devotions. and so-called righteousness by faith. 2. Half the members responding de Without judging anyone, I wonder rive their prime spiritual uplift whether all the attention and concern from the Sabbath services, and being shown in the continuing dialog where evidence of spiritual growth on these questions is the most profitable of all types is obviously lacking, use of our time? If we were out on the the members, almost unanimously, front lines, wresting souls from the grip list poor performance of the minis of Satan, perhaps some of this study ter in his sermons, leadership, and would be meaningful, but all too often visitation as the primary cause. it is divisive in nature rather than being What was the pastors© response on a deep, earnest searching for truth that this latter point? According to the re not only waters the student©s soul but port, "the pastors granted that they enables him to be a better-equipped were in trouble. Most of their time, they soul winner. said, was absorbed by administrative de The first extreme mentioned, little or tails and by promotion of conference or no Bible study, is not only dangerous union programs. Meeting a bewildering but fatal to spiritual growth now and to array of local problems and conference eternal life later. Anyone, minister or priorities left virtually no time for ser layman, who permits the Bible to gather mon preparation, training the laity, or dust during most of the week has a slim even personal devotions. Many of the chance of growing spiritually. If the pastors indicated that they had done no Scriptures contain leaves from the tree serious study since college or seminary of life, and if the purpose of the tree of and had grossly neglected their families, life is for the healing of the nations, it sleep, and exercise." becomes obvious that true success in the Sounds familiar, doesn©t it? However, ministry is dependent to a large degree if a woman in Scripture symbolizes the on our personal spiritual development church, it fits! "The woman whom thou J. R. Spongier through earnest, Spirit-led Bible study. gavest" is responsible. Is it the woman, is editor of How can we experience death to self the church organization, that is to blame MINISTRY and life in Christ? How can we learn ex for our failure to study the Word? I used magazine. perimentally to ask, "Who is he that The Ministry/April, 1976/5 over come th the world, but he that be- If you want God give us more Latimers, Ridleys, lieveth that Jesus is the Son of God?" to be human Husses, Cranmers, Barneses, Knoxes, (1 John 5:5). How can Jesus be real to howitzers, and Friths, and help us, like them, to us? What keeps us from falling into the effectively lift high the divine authority cruel gears of sin? There is no other way delivering and sufficiency of the Scriptures. than in and through the Word of God! explosive God give us more Jeremy Taylors, the If a minister wants to be a human sermons that kind who will join him in eloquently howitzer and deliver explosive sermons shatter hard declaring, "If thou meanest to enlarge that will shatter hard hearts, then he hearts, you thy religion, do it rather by enlarging must dwell long and earnestly in the must dwell thine ordinary devotions than thine arsenal of God©s armory. extraordinary." long and God can take an ordinary man and do Laity Must Drink for Themselves earnestly in extraordinary things with him if he de Why are the majority of our church God©s arsenal. termines to carve out a portion of each members not drinking for themselves day for spiritual growth. from the fountain of salvation, but God give us more Whites, Bateses, depending upon the minister? Those Andrewses, and Smiths, who loved the ministers who feed the flock properly Word until it held first place in their cannot help seeing a renewed interest in lives and work. The secret, the power of a study of the Word on the part of their the Advent Movement, was found in the members. A converted minister is not long, long hours, both day and night, on an ego-trip, but stands as one who in that our early pioneers spent in search spires his people to see God for them ing the Scriptures on their knees. They selves through a study of the Word. bathed its pages with their tears while God give us Ezras, who, wherever pleading with God for enlightenment they labor, will bring about a revival in and truth. the study of the Word. Why? Because Ezra was "a scribe skilled in the law of Not Scholastic Misers Moses which the Lord the God of Israel They were not scholastic misers who had given" (Ezra 7:6, R.S.V.). We need greedily closeted themselves with their Hilkiahs, who will discover the Scrip books and secreted themselves from the tures hidden among the newspapers and world. No, their study had a twofold magazines on top of the TV sets and purpose. First, to experience the ways then through consistent study will of God, and second, to share their discov preach the word of truth to our congre eries of the gold of truth with others. gations. We need men like King Josiah, Finally, God give us more Robert who himself read "all the words of the Murray McCheynes, men who, like this book of the covenant which was found young nineteenth-century minister of in the house of the Lord" (2 Kings 23:2). the Church of Scotland, advised a young A mighty reformation followed Josiah©s man about Bible reading as related to determination. He solemnly covenanted his own prayer life, "You read your before God to bring about the changes Bible regularly, of course; but do try and necessary, as outlined in the scrolls. understand it, and still more to feel it. Josiah never would have persevered in Read more parts than one at a time. his work of cleansing the land of idol For example, if you are reading Gene atry had it not been for the Scriptures! sis, read a Psalm also; or if you are read Here was his authority, his power, his ing Matthew, read a small bit of an motivation. Epistle also. Turn the Bible into prayer. God give us Pauls Pauls who can Thus, if you were reading the First command modern Timothys to dili Psalm, spread the Bible on the chair be gently study the Word in order rightly to fore you, and kneel, and pray, ©O Lord, handle truth. give me the blessedness of the man; God give us more Luthers. Luther let me not stand in the counsel of the literally lived in the atmosphere of the ungodly.© This is the best way of know Bible. He was a veritable Niagara of ing the meaning of the Bible, and of Biblical thought and writing. Before learning to pray." Luther©s eyes, Christ and His righteous Here was a man who refused to give to ness leaped out of every page of the his people anything that had not cost Scriptures. him diligent application in study, medi God give us more men like Tyndale, tation, and prayer. who will, under the guidance of the Can Adventist ministers living in end Spirit of God, help our members open time be any less diligent in searching the closed Bibles in their homes. the Scriptures? II 6/The Ministry/April, 1976 low may draw strength and courage from our brave example. Courageous Like Israel of old, we may face Red Sea experiences. There may be times when we can see no way through, and Planning only frustration or defeat confronting us. We must trust our God; we must When the talk courage, even though our hearts may be faint. If the leader despairs, the cause is lost. Going At times we must plan when there appears to be no possibility of carrying out our plans. We are commanded by Is Tough One who is our Leader: "Occupy till I come" (Luke 19:13). As one door closes let us be prepared to move into another field. If we are un PAUL WAS under house arrest in From One Leader able to reach one field, let us concen Rome. He faced possible death for his to Another trate on those still open. If there is a faith. He was writing a letter of love and temporary retreat on one front, let us encouragement to his favorite church, advance on another. Let us never permit the believers in Philippi. In speaking of things that can't be done to blind our his difficult circumstances, the apostle vision to the things that still can be wrote: "But I would ye should under done. stand, brethren, that the things which We dare not maintain the status quo happened unto me have fallen out in troublous times. There is no status rather unto the furtherance of the gos quo with God and His last-day move pel" (Phil. 1:12). One scholar translates ment. Let us not only shore up our de the word for "furtherance" as "advance fenses, let us make bold plans to finish ment." In the original Greek it is a the work. At times and in places it may forceful word prokope—used when re be a slow, frustrating advance, but ad ferring to the advance of an army or an vance it must. expedition undertaking some hazardous Robert H. Pierson I have served in difficult fields where mission. response to the gospel was very meager, The verb to which the noun is related and where there was war and political means literally "to cut down in ad upheaval. I know the frustrations and vance." The Greeks used it when they discouragement that confront the spoke of felling trees, clearing away leader. It is not always easy to be strong. underbrush, boulders, or anything that For years I have kept some challeng might hinder advance. Today we might ing words in the front of my Bible. "Man compare it to the work of a giant bull can shape circumstances, but circum dozer that yields to nothing in its path. stances should not be allowed to shape There must be advance under any and the man. We should seize upon circum all circumstances. stances as instruments by which to Paul wished to assure his beloved work. We are to master them, but should converts that nothing should and noth not permit them to master us." The ing would stand in the way of the ad Ministry of Healing, p. 500. vancement of the gospel not even You and I lead God©s church during prisons, chains, confinement, opposi the most crucial, challenging hour in tion, or obstacles. the history of planet Earth. What a So it must be today. Nothing must be staggering responsibility! How much we permitted to thwart the early finishing need Heaven©s help and the enlighten of God©s work. When there are tensions ing power of the Holy Spirit. around us and we dwell in an atmos Let us never forget the words of God©s phere of frustration, Satan may tempt servant: "Our watchword is to be, On us to rest a while, or worse yet, to pro ward, ever onward! Angels of heaven claim a moratorium on active soul-win will go before us to prepare the way. Our ning projects. Never! Robert H. Pierson burden for the regions beyond can never We must be courageous, dedicated is president of be laid down till the whole earth is leaders, worthy of the times, the chal the General lightened with the glory of the Lord." lenge, and of the people we lead. Our Conference of Evangelism, p. 707. hearts and our lips must be filled with Seventh-day This is the measure of our challenge faith and fortitude so that those who fol- Adventists. of leadership in 1976! || The Ministry/April, 1976/7 A New Approach to Telephone Evangelism

ARE YOU FLOODED with names of Facts, or other comparable material. A interests, and floundering not know The layman is chosen to accompany the pas ing how to handle them all? I found it tor on the initial visit when possible. that way, but not anymore. Telephone Easy The layman will often do most of the evangelism changed all that. follow-up work. Remember the days we climbed stairs Way to 4. Our plan is to begin meetings two and fought traffic all day long, only to Contact months from the time we begin phoning. find one or two at home and then some We plan two series of meetings a year. times little or no interest? We tried to Thou Every one listed in our files receives an do something about it, and our ideas invitation by mail to all outreach pro worked. sands grams. During my series of meetings in Du- 5. During the series the better in luth, Minnesota, about ten years ago, I terests will be contacted again by tele began screening my interests by tele phone, in addition to personal visits. phone, making appointments to visit HAEOLD 6. We place the name of each one to those who seemed to be interested. Over KAUFMANN be followed up on a local map to aid in the years we continued to perfect our follow-up. While on the telephone we technique until today the telephone is ask for directions to the individual©s one of the greatest tools at our com home. We also check to make sure we mand. We now contact thousands of in have the correct address. terests annually, a feat never before 7. To avoid duplication, each name is possible. underlined in the telephone book and given a code number (A-l, A-2, etc.). Here is my approach: Names not appearing in the telephone 1. All names of interests are col book are written in the margin. lected. We write to the Voice of Proph 8. Church members are asked to place ecy, Faith for Today, It Is Written, The the names of the folks they are visiting Quiet Hour, Hour of Prophecy, Signs of on their prayer list. Praying for others the Times, These Times, Message, and builds enthusiasm for meetings. others. The guest book in the church As a result, doors that would never foyer is a good source. Ingathering and open before now open to you as to a literature evangelist contacts are prime. friend. You know before you begin your While visiting in the homes of our mem series of meetings, pretty much, who bers I gather the names of relatives, the interests are that will be coming. neighbors, and friends that should be Besides, our members become enthusi worked with. (Often we have gleaned astic when it comes to literature and names in this fashion that we sent on to magazine promotion, because they now other workers.) see the results of their giving. The 2. The names are alphabetized and greatest benefit of all is that the worker recorded with their telephone numbers no longer flounders under the load of a on visitation cards and in a notebook. large interest list he cannot possibly 3. Each home is contacted by tele contact. He can sieve through thousands phone. Appointments are then made to Harold Kauf- of names annually and zero in on those deliver a free bonus gift when good in mann is pastor ready to make a decision. In short, save terest is shown. The free gift is the gift of the Danville, much time. And last, but not least these Bible with lessons, a set of Amazing Virginia, church. days, you save gas. 8/The Ministry/April, 1976 The art of speaking over the phone is This tells you a lot about your prospect©s extremely important. You must sound background. enthusiastic, happy, personable, and If favorable to the message, you may kind. The one you are talking to should wish to ask, "In the light of the Bible be able to discern from your voice that courses you have taken, and your knowl you like them. edge about Seventh-day Adventists, I Anyone who enters this field of ad would like to ask you this question, venture with a feeling of boredom or ©What do you think about the Sabbath with the feeling, I©m just doing my duty, question?© " Let them talk. If favorable, isn©t fooling anybody but himself. Your you may ask, "Do you mind if I pray that first sentence will give you away. It©s the Lord will help you to begin keeping not so much what you say, but how you the Sabbath?" (The prayer is offered pri say it that counts. vately, not over the telephone.) In your telephone conversation you Tell the folks, "I have a special bonus will represent yourself as a representa gift for all our subscribers (or friends). tive of the Voice of Prophecy, Signs of The bonus is absolutely free. I could the Times, or whatever the case may be. bring it by this afternoon. Will you be After introducing yourself, ask about home? Is your address still (check the the product. "Do you like it?" If it is a address on your list)? What is the best journal, ask, "Did you order the paper way to get there? I©m looking forward to or is it a gift?" If a gift, ask, "Do you meeting you. ©Bye for now." know who sent it?" Most often it is sent We gain all the helpful information by an Adventist relative or friend. Let possible in our initial call. It gives us a the prospect expound. Suppose the jour decided advantage. nal came from his or her mother. In Don©t be afraid to get started in tele addition you are told that his or her phone evangelism; as in all other en mother has always been an Adventist. deavors, practice makes perfect. II

Telephone Bible

OBVIOUSLY, our primary function J. KOGER the women of the Bethlehem, Pennsyl as a church is not that of humanitarian MC QUISTAN vania, church, is outlined in the box service, but rather to proclaim the gos on page 10. pel of a soon-coming Lord and how to be As so often happens, the follow-up ready for that day. I am convinced that was the weakest part of the program. the telephone can greatly increase our Within three or four weeks, eight of the effectiveness in hastening that message women discovered that they did not to the world. It can be very productive in have time to continue or felt it just screening interests, thus saving time wasn©t their gift. Four continued on and money running down names. It can faithfully, two of whom became quite be used to set up appointments and successful with the plan. One of the thereby increase efficiency. Finally, it TBI©s carried one interest all the way can be the avenue of communicating the through the Focus on Living course and truth on a one-to-one basis to those who is now coming down to the last few les have been found through visitation and sons on the New Life course put out by telephone screening. Voice of Prophecy. Another of the One thing we discovered as we began TBI©s has involved twelve people regu to use the telephone for follow-up work larly and has taken them through the was the fact that people were willing Focus on Living and is now into the in to take Bible studies over the telephone. termediate course on the Life and We therefore decided to expand this Teachings of Jesus. The third TBI also area of ministry, seeking to perfect it has twelve Bible studies going each and put it to work. week, is taking them through Focus on We formed a Telephone Bible Instruc Living, and has made the transition into tors© band, consisting of twelve women, J. Roger McQuis- the Life and Teachings course. As of held a Sabbath afternoon seminar intro tan is pastor of yet, we have had no one in church nor ducing the plan, and provided some the Bethlehem, have we had face to face contact with training on how to use the telephone. Pennsylvania, the interests. Everything that has been The plan I presented that afternoon to church. done has been by telephone and mail. The Ministry/April, 1976/9 Telephone Bible Instructors9 Plan I. PURPOSE seminar conducted by the pastor in a pub To reach as many people as possible in the shortest lic hall. length of time with the gospel of Jesus Christ, and C. Source of Prospects in so doing help them discover the beauty of the 1. TBI will be calling only those who have had Christian way of life and thus prepare the way for some previous contact with the church the second coming of our Lord and Saviour. through literature, Five-Day Plans, et cetera. II. GOALS 2. Prospects have been obtained from interests A. Conduct a Telephone Bible Class in Bethlehem and all other possible sources. for the next thirteen weeks, beginning the first D. TBI Devote Two to Three Hours Minimum, Be week in April. ginning First Week in April B. Enlist ten to fifteen women to work as Tele 1. Select hours when most people will be at phone Bible Instructors. home. C. Guide the student through a series of studies 2. Be diligent in making calls at the appointed that will ground him in the fundamentals. time. D. Follow-up the Telephone Bible Class with a 3. In time, as people enroll in the Telephone Revelation seminar and Sabbath morning Bible Bible Class, less and less time will be spent class. in calling new names and more time spent E. Compile a list of prospects to work from. in following up interests who are regularly F. TBFs to devote a minimum of two to three hours studying the lessons. a week to the program. 4. Allowing fifteen minutes per study, one G. Contact as many prospects as possible in the should be able to give eight studies a week. month of April to enroll in the class. 5. If one drops out of the class, the time in your H. TBI to spend no more than fifteen minutes in schedule allocated for that student should guiding the student into a study of the lessons. be spent calling new names in an attempt to I. Equip TBI in proper telephone techniques. find a new student to replace the old. J. Equip TBI in telephone Bible study methods. E. Presentation to Be Used by TBI When Calling K. Keep accurate records of all calls and report on Prospects a weekly basis. 1. A specialized approach will be used for each L. Hold regular feed-back sessions. area of interest. 2. These are to be adapted to one©s own per III. PLANS sonality. A. Conduct Telephone Bible Class in Bethlehem 3. They should not appear to those listening as for Next Thirteen Weeks being read. 1. Telephone Bible Class consists of a number F. Format of Fifteen-Minute Telephone Bible Study of interested people studying the Bible over 1. Establish rapport with individual two to the telephone with a TBI, who has received three minutes. some training in the use of the telephone in 2. Correct lessons three to five minutes. the obtaining of interests and the giving of 3. Introduce next two lessons two to three studies using this method. minutes. 2. The course of study is so designed to lead an 4. If the interest wishes to discuss in depth interest through a series of lessons that will some of the questions, one of two things can introduce him to Christ and the basics of be done: Christianity in a thirteen-week period. a. Ask if you can call back after you contact B. Course of Study to Be Used your other students so as not to take time 1. Divided into three series. away from them if you desire to study a. "In the Beginning" (Focus on Living). more deeply with the student. This course is colorful, easy to under b. State that you are not prepared to go into stand, contains nine to eleven lessons and the subject in a deep way but you would be quiz sheets and introduces people to the happy to have someone stop by who would problem of sin and its solution. be happy to discuss this matter more b. "Life and Teachings of Jesus" (The Light fully. of the World Course). This series contains G. Recordkeeping lessons that prove the Messiahship of 1. Record all information on green card. Jesus, it emphasizes Christ©s miracles, 2. It is vital that accurate records be kept for the Sermon on the Mount, the crucifixion evaluation purposes. and the resurrection. It is designed to lead 3. Every Monday fill out Weekly Telephone Re one to commit his life to the living Lord. port form and mail it to the pastor. Lessons contain quiz sheet for easy use. H. Feed-back c. "The Second Coming of Christ" (Series III 1. Periodically, it would be well for all TBI©s based on New Life Course). This series is to come together and discuss the progress of centered around the Second Coming, the their activities. millennium, death, heaven, and hell. It is 2. A good time might be a half hour before designed to create deep interest in proph Sabbath school each week or every other ecy and to lead into a follow-up prophetic week.

10/The Ministry/April, 1976 only to look at the outworking of events in Bible history to see how frequently the high peril to which God©s people were exposed deprived them of the high privilege to which they had been ad Behind" mitted. The Bible, for instance, closes with an account of the New Testament church, established as the New Israel. In I Peter 2:9, 10, the apostle Peter credited to it the same prerogatives that had previously been conferred upon an cient Israel when God had embraced them within His covenant at Sinai (Ex. 19:5, 6). The church, moreover, is recog nized by the writer to the Hebrews as a new-covenant church (chapter 8 and 13:20, 21). In all its institutional essen tials, therefore, the Christian church is seen as the modern counterpart of an cient Israel. This fact is, in itself, deeply signifi cant. For there is a sense in which the IF WE BELIEVE what we affirm and ALFRED S. church is, as the apostle Paul said of claim, there is only one conclusion that JORGENSEN himself, "one born out of due time" may be drawn. (1 Cor. 15:8, K.J.V.). We affirm that we are the fulfillment What do we mean by this strange the correspondence in history of the statement? Simply this: all the bless prophecy of Revelation 12:17, which re ings now enjoyed by the church, includ quires the appearance in the last days ing the new covenant, were intended in of a remnant church that keeps the com the first instance for the restored "rem mandments of God and has the testi nant" of Israel of the postexilic recon mony of Jesus Christ. struction. We claim, furthermore, by parity of reasoning and Scripture correlation, A Nation Divided that God has given us a specific task to All of us are familiar with the broad perform. Our commission, we maintain, outline of Israel©s later history. Follow is to proclaim the three angels© mes ing the united monarchy the "all Is sages of Revelation 14:6-12, to prepare rael" of the illustrious reigns of David a people to stand in the final day of God. and Solomon the nation was divided It follows, therefore, with impeccable into two kingdoms: the northern king logic that, granted the truth of these dom of "Israel" and the southern king statements, the Seventh-day Adventist dom of "Judah." "Israel" came to an end Church is the Israel of God in these last in 722 B.C. at the fall of Samaria (see days! 2 Kings, chapter 17),1 and "Judah" fi Now we do not have to be afraid of nally ground to a halt when the Baby this, or self-conscious about it, or em lonians penetrated Jerusalem, slew barrassed by it. Facts are facts, and we large numbers of those who had sur cannot escape their implications. In vived the siege and famine, and carried deed, in this present case, who of us the rest off to Babylon. Although this would want to! After all, next to the as latter event occurred in 586 B.C., the surance that we are the children of God Babylonian captivity is usually con in Christ, what greater source of joy sidered as having begun in 605 B.C., and satisfaction could we anticipate when the puppet king, Jehoiakim, than the knowledge that we are the rebelled against the Babylonians and people of God, the "remnant" in whom was duly disciplined. the work of God is to triumph glori What is entirely relevant for our ously! present purpose is the intense pro But, by the same token, we also have Alfred S. Jorgen- phetic activity that marked the declin occasion for great concern. For all his sen is the field ing years of both Israel and Judah. For tory and experience demonstrate abun secretary for the convenience, we generally refer to the dantly that high privilege is always at Australasian prophetic messages that were received tended by high peril. In fact, one has Division. at these times as "restoration" prophe- The Ministry/April, 1976/11 cies; that is, predictions concerning the The Spirit of istic predetermination. Daniel was sim end of the Babylonian captivity and of Prophecy ply shown how it would work out not the restoration thereafter of the dis states clearly, how it had to work out. persed exiles and their descendants as a Actually, we might well reflect that nation in the land of Palestine. explicitly, the Exile need never have occurred at To attempt even to list these prophe unequivocally, all! It was certainly not part of God©s cies would be beyond the scope of this that the work original plan, as even the earlier forty present article. But by way of random of God in the years of wilderness wandering was not sampling, one has only to read such pas earth could part of it, either. In fact, this is one of sages as Amos 9:14; Hosea 1:11; Isaiah have been the arguments of the writer to the He 60-62; Jeremiah 3:18; 16:15; 23:1-8; brews, in chapters 3 and 4 of that letter. 29:1-15; chapters 30-33; 50:4, 5; and completed long God had intended (after the forty years Ezekiel 37 to appreciate the principal before this. wilderness wandering became neces projections of the divine plan for the sary) that Joshua should bring His peo postexilic reconstruction. In a word, ple into a permanent rest in Canaan a God©s purpose for the restoration envis rest, which, like the seventh-day Sab aged: (1) the gathering of both "Israel" bath, was to have been a type of the final and "Judah" out of "all the nations" rest of the people of God in the heaven- where they had been dispersed; (2) the lies, in the ages to come (see Deut. returning "remnant" to be "a great 12:9, 10). company" (Jer. 31:7, 8, K.J.V.); (3) the restored nation to live under the "new" Church Is "Years Behind" or "everlasting covenant" (see Jer. 31: Again, we also do well to remind our 31-34; 32:36-41; 50:4, 5, K.J.V.); (4) selves that the Christian church too, the ultimate rule of "a righteous following its establishment as the New Branch," who would not only be Him Israel, failed to enter into God©s rest self, "Jehovah Our Righteousness" (see when it might have done so. While I do Hebrew of Jer. 23:5, 6), but who would not want to belabor this point dogmati also cause Jerusalem to be known by cally, it is difficult to avoid the "thrust" the same name (Jer. 33:14-16). of such passages as Hebrews 1:2; 9:26 Incidentally, attention should also be (cf. Matthew 13:39 where a near paral called to the obvious parallelism be lel phrase is referred to the Second tween Ezekiel 37 and Jeremiah 30-33, Coming); and 1 Corinthians 10:11. for in Ezekiel 37 distinct movements Here, once more, the objection may be are indicated: (1) The return of the ex raised: Did not the prophecies of Daniel iles symbolized by the resurrection of and the Revelation, Matthew 24 and 2 the dead bones in the valley (verses Thessalonians require a long period to 1-10); (2) the reconstitution of the one elapse in which the great apostasy nation illustrated by the putting to would be developed? The answer is gether of the two sticks (verses 11-23); clearly, No; for these prophecies would (3) the rule of the restored people by the never have been given in their present "one shepherd," "My servant David," form if the Lord had foreseen an imme under the terms of the "everlasting diate and faithful response on the part covenant" (verses 24-28, R.S.V.). of His church. Such, indeed, was the blueprint. But Finally, we come down to the rem what was the issue of events? nant church, only to discover that our performance has not been any better! Heartbreaking Restoration For the Spirit of Prophecy writings state In contrast to the glorious dimen clearly, explicitly, unequivocally, that sions projected in such passages as Isa if this church, and the great Second Ad iah 60-62, the actual return from Baby vent Movement out of which it grew, lon was a relatively poor, miserable had matched its glorious God-given op business, a heartbreak both to men and portunities, the work of God in the earth to God, as even a cursory reading of would have been completed before the Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, end of the nineteenth century. and Malachi shows. "If all who had labored unitedly in It will be objected that the prophecy the work in 1844, had received the third of Daniel 9:24, 25 had stated that this angel©s message and proclaimed it in would be so: "It shall be built again . . . the power of the Holy Spirit, the Lord in a troubled time" (R.S.V.). That Daniel would have wrought mightily with their did say this is true. But let us not mis efforts. A flood of light would have been read the intention of his prediction. For shed upon the world. Years ago the in Bible prophecy is not a species of fatal- habitants of the earth would have been 12/The Ministry/April, 1976 warned, the closing work completed, The same sins trance of modern Israel into the heav and Christ would have come for the re have delayed enly Canaan. ... In neither case were demption of His people." The Great the entrance of the promises of God at fault. It is the Controversy, p. 458. unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecra- "The work is years behind. While modern Israel tion, and strife among the Lord©s pro men have slept, Satan has stolen a into the fessed people that have kept us in this march upon us." Testimonies, vol. 9, heavenly world of sin and sorrow so many years." p. 29. Canaan. Selected Messages, book 1, p. 69. Let there be no mistake. Ellen G. These statements, to be sure, en White was not carried away by the en shrine a profoundly important princi thusiasm of some great concern when ple: the effectiveness of the Word of she wrote these words. For as L. E. God is always limited by the measure of Froom, in his excellent assemblage of appropriating faith (which must always materials in Movement of Destiny con be true as long as God extends free will vincingly shows, the task of warning the to His creatures). world in preparation for the coming of This is well illustrated by a giant Christ could have been more readily ac printing press, which is inert until the complished in the 1850©s than now! In power is switched on. Now get the point 1844 there were 100,000 Millerites, with in this illustration. The machine is not some measure of organization and faith; the power by which it is driven is competent men leading them, along not faith. The faith is expressed in the with twenty-eight periodicals publish action of the operator when he presses ing their message. Furthermore, in the switch. In other words, in Christian 1850 world population was little in ex experience faith does not in itself con cess of 1,000 million; today we have tribute anything to the effectiveness of passed the 4,000 million mark! 2 the operation of the Word of God, yet What a mighty force those 100,000 without faith its operation cannot pro Millerites (and remember we did not ceed! reach the same membership till 1911!) Perhaps an even more sophisticated would have been if they "had received illustration would be that of a catalyst the third angel©s message and pro a chemical substance that induces claimed it in the power of the Holy changes in other chemicals, but itself Spirit"! But they didn©t. remains unchanged. All of which is simply to say that Lesson for Today faith is the catalyst of Christian dy Very well; what is the message for us namics. As Hebrews 11, verses 6 and 1 today of all these repeated failures? put it: "Without faith it is impossible to (Failures, be it noted, not of God, whose please" (R.S.V.) God, for "faith gives plans and purposes and promises never substance to our hopes, and makes us fail, but of those to whom great light certain of realities we do not see" and opportunity had been granted.) (N.E.B.).* What went wrong that national Israel was set aside in favor of a predomi A Dangerous Illusion nantly Gentile Christian church? And In 1 Corinthians 10:11 the apostle how has it come about, too, that "the Paul declares: "Now these things hap gates of hell" have so often seemed to pened to them as a warning, but they prevail against the church? Why, more were written down for our instruction" over, did the great Second Advent Move (R.S.V.). ment disintegrate so ingloriously after The history of Israel and the church the great Disappointment in 1844? Why a warning for our instruction! Have has not the Seventh-day Adventist we got the message? Are we aware that Church long before this completed its one of the greatest perils, one of the task? greatest dangers, confronting the rem We refer to Hebrews 4:2 where the nant church today is that it should be writer puts his finger on the cause of come the victim of an illusion the illu all the trouble: "The message which sion that an academic knowledge of the they heard did not benefit them, be Bible possesses a saving efficacy. For cause it did not meet with faith in the that is precisely what the writer to He hearers" (R.S.V.). As Ellen G. White * From The New English brews recognized as having caused the comments: "For forty years did unbe Bible. © The Delegates of the Oxford University failure of Israel. "The message which lief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out Press and the Syndics of they heard did not . . . meet with faith the Cambridge Uni ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. versity Press, 1970. in the hearers." Thus Isaiah could write The same sins have delayed the en- Reprinted by permission. of them: "Hear and hear, but do not un- The Ministry/April, 1976/13 derstand; see and see, but do not per ceive" (Isa. 6:9, R.S.V.). The leaders of Israel its academics, as we would say were massive stu dents of Scripture. But, as our Lord had many an occasion to remind them, they had divorced religion from righteous ness, they had dichotomized creed and conduct; they had compartmentalized what they believed and how they be haved. In a word, they failed to see the necessary connection between the mes sage of God and morality. The utter gravity of this peril for the church today is powerfully under scored by Dr. A. W. Tozer in his book Of God and Men. Increasing "Bible exposition without moral ap plication raises no opposition. It is only when the hearer is made to under MISSION ©76 emphasizes literature stand that truth is in conflict with his evangelism. Every pastor and evangel heart that resistance sets in. As long as ist desires greater and more effective people can hear orthodox truth di assistance from the various evangelistic vorced from life they will attend and agencies of the church. Yet we often support churches and institutions with neglect or overlook the fact that litera out objection. The truth is a lovely ture evangelism is an extremely effec song, become sweet by long and tender tive avenue of soul winning. In Colorado, association; and since it asks nothing however, that blurred picture is being but a few dollars, and offers good music, repainted with scenes of cooperation pleasant friendships, and a comfortable and togetherness. sense of well-being, it meets with no re Our first step in bringing this about sistance from the faithful. Much that was to invite the literature evangelists passes for New Testament Christianity in those areas where public meetings is little more than objective truth were going to be held to meet with the sweetened with song and made palat evangelism committee for an organi able by religious entertainment. zational meeting. We assured the lit "Any man with fair pulpit gifts can erature evangelists of our cooperation get on with the average congregation if in winning their interested people. Also he just ©feeds© them and lets them alone. we promised to help them with sales. Give them plenty of objective truth and The idea of a team effort prevailed, and never hint that they are wrong and we were united in the one great objec should be set right, and they will be tive of winning souls. A simple plan of content. action was put into operation. "On the other hand, the man who First, we developed a special file of preaches truth and applies it to the interested people that literature evan lives of his hearers will feel the nails gelists had contacted. This included and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, paid-out accounts, as well as seriously but a glorious one. May God raise up and casually interested people. Before many such prophets. The church needs the public meetings began, a special in them badly." 3 vitation was sent by the literature evan Tozer was not writing for Seventh- gelist to those on his list, along with a day Adventists, nor would we use his handbill. The expense and work in words as a cudgel to smite the people of volved was cared for by the evangelistic God. But, by the same token, would we team. A letter was also sent by the pub dare to suggest that they do not have lic evangelist to the names on the in any relevance for our contemporary terest list. situation? || Next, a person-to-person invitation is 1 The dates in this paragraph are those of the chronology extended by the literature evangelist. adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary. 2 L. E. Froom, Movement of Destiny (Review and Herald Pub Not only does he personally invite them lishing Association, 1971), chaps. 37 and 38: "Second Advent but he also offers to bring them to the Delayed: Divine Reasons Disclosed No. 1 and No. 2," pp. 561- 603. Re the extent of the Millerite movement in 1844, see page meetings. During the meetings the lit 567 3 Dr. D. A. Tozer, Of God and Men (Harrisburg, Pa.: Chris erature evangelist works as a vital tian Publications, Inc.). part of the public evangelistic team in 14/The Ministry/April, 1976 Baptisms the Easy W w/

visiting those interested and to help able to follow up the work begun with clear up any questions they may have JOHN FOWLER these individuals. God seemed to im and set the truth of God©s Word firmly press us that literature evangelism in their minds. He works closely with would be the perfect way to follow up them as they begin to make decisions to such interests. We decided to give the accept Christ and to unite with God©s idea a chance to prove itself. commandment-keeping people. He also After the public meetings were over becomes the point of contact that en we gave the names of the people who ables the new members to become safely had attended the meetings but who had integrated into the church family. not taken their stand to the literature evangelists. As they call on these people Plan Working Well they introduce themselves as associates This plan is working very well in cer of the speaker of the public meetings. tain areas of Colorado. In one meeting This approach usually gains an en alone, conducted in Pueblo, Colorado, trance into the home. thirty of the sixty people baptized were After getting better acquainted, the won by the literature evangelists. Wher literature evangelist refers to the gen ever this plan is being followed, success uine interest in Bible study the people always results. exhibited in attending the evangelistic You may wonder how the literature meetings. He then offers to share with evangelist can afford to take valuable them a unique Bible study plan that will time from his busy schedule to work in enable them to continue the study begun public evangelistic meetings. Do not his in the public meeting on an individual sales fall off and the necessary funds or family basis. stop coming in during this period? North Ameri He then simply presents the books as While we recognize that God does can baptisms a means of advanced study for the en often perform miracle sales for the lit for 1975 total tire family. Naturally they are also en erature evangelist during the public 33,055 as rolled in a Bible correspondence course. meetings, we also recognize that where compared with What plan of follow-up could be better? there is less selling time the result is Where followed, this plan is working bound to be less sales. We try to compen the 1974 total and the increased sales after the meet sate for this by giving prime names to of 31,471. ings make up for the decreased sales the literature evangelist during the during the public meeting itself. meetings. These people, of course, are Naturally this plan demands a high good prospects for our literature. Christian standard of professional eth However, the real bonus for the litera ics on the part of the literature evangel ture evangelist, in terms of sales, comes ist. However, when we treat the litera after the public meetings are over. Here ture evangelist like the minister of God is probably a new departure in the cor he was meant to be, he usually comes porate work of public and literature John Fowler is up to our highest expectations. This evangelists. There are usually a large Ministerial Asso plan does work, and it can be a mighty number of interested people who at ciation secretary means of building up the churches and tended the meetings but did not take of the Central reaching more quickly the multitudes their stand. Often the churches are not Union Conference. who are thirsting for the water of life. The Ministry/April, 1976/15 from Toulon, France, with a fleet of 328 bibtical archeology vessels, boarding 38,000 men. Accom Sponsored by Lawrence T. Geraty, assistant professor of Old Testament, panying his army were scores of artists Andrews University and scientists to whom he assigned the task of recording the magnificent works of art of ancient Egypt that were rap idly disappearing under the ever-mov ing sands and peoples of the Sahara. On July 2, Napoleon stepped onto ^Knowledge Egyptian soil. There, as he, his soldiers, and his "learned men" began to view the splendors of ancient Egypt, Napoleon is quoted as having said: "Soldiers, forty Shall Be centuries are looking down upon you." In July, 1799, one of Napoleon©s offi cers named Bouchard found the Rosetta Increased" stone near the town of Rashid on the western side of the Nile Delta. Soon it was recognized as an object whose script might be used to unlock Egypt©s ancient forms of writing, as eventually it did. Had this stone been found a century ear lier, no one would probably have paid much attention to it, and it might have AT THE ENTRANCE of the Egyptian been destroyed. But now the time was Gallery in the British Museum stands PAUL F. BORK ripe, and it became a key to unlock a an object that is a significant illustra whole nation©s past. tion of fulfilled prophecy the Rosetta Egypt©s ancient script was hiero stone. This black basalt stone measures glyphic. As the name indicates, this about 3 feet by 9 inches long by 2 feet artistic form of writing was used by the 4-1/2 inches wide. Inscribed on it is a priestly class and was one of the most vote of gratitude passed by the General beautiful forms of pictography. At first Council of Egyptian priests to Ptolemy the Egyptians represented each word V, Epiphanes, king of all Egypt, for his by a picture. Later on, each symbol stood gracious acts. The inscription was re for a sound. But, as is the case so often corded in hieroglyphic Egyptian, de today, the more beautiful has to give motic Egyptian, and Greek. way to the more practical. The common The importance of the stone to stu people, either unable or unwilling to dents of the Bible is not in the content, draw artistically, "slurred" pictures to but in the timing of the find and the gether as they wrote, and this came to three forms of writing used on it. be known as demotic. This was the sec Daniel prophesied that in the time of ond form of writing on the Rosetta the end knowledge would be increased stone. (Daniel 12:4). The context of the passage Both of these forms of writing, in suggests that Daniel was referring to which the Egyptians had expressed knowledge concerning the Word of God. themselves for hundreds of years, were The "time of the end" is pointed out as long forgotten by the time the Rosetta the time after the 1260 day-year pro stone was found in 1799. Thus these phetic period ending in A.D. 1798. No forms of writing could not be read. How other prophetic period is repeated of- ever, they could read the Greek. Even tener. Twelve times Daniel, and John then it took many scholars© cooperative in Revelation refer to this period. work for twenty years to enable them to When God©s time clock struck "1798" decipher the inscriptions. events were already in motion that An English translation of the Greek would eventually bring to light an im text was made by Stephan Weston and mense amount of information regarding was completed in 1802. The first studies the Word of God, information that had of the Demotic text were those of Syl remained hidden for centuries and mil vester de Sacy and Akerblad, a Swedish lenniums. Of all people to be used by Paul F. Bork, diplomat, in 1802. To Thomas Young be God in the accomplishment of His pur Ph.D., is an asso longs the credit of first recognizing that pose Napoleon Bonaparte was perhaps ciate professor of the Egyptian writing consisted mainly the least likely. religion at Pacific of phonetic signs. He also was the first On May 19, 1798, Napoleon sailed Union College. to demonstrate that the ovals, or car- 16/The Ministry/April, 1976 touches, in the hieroglyphic version contained royal names. Jean Francois Champollion (1790-1832) corrected and greatly enlarged on Young©s work, and by the year of his death he had drawn up a classified list of Egyptian hiero glyphs, and formulated a system of grammar and general decipherment that is the foundation whereon all later Egyptologists have worked.* Young and Champollion proceeded on the assumption that the three forms of writing engraved on the stone were saying the same thing. From previous experience they were aware that royal names were usually encircled by a "car touche©^ ). From the Greek trans lation they knew that the name Ptolemy occurred several times. Judging that the name would sound the same way in Egyptian as in Greek, they attributed the sound of each letter in Greek to each sign in hieroglyphic. The assumption proved to be correct, and so they applied Paul Bork points the same principle to other names on It was as though Satan was making to a cartouche one gigantic effort in the eighteenth the stone. This led them to the decoding on the Rosetta and nineteenth centuries to destroy the of the proper names and became the key stone containing reliability of the Bible. To crown these to the decipherment of the rest of the in the name of scription. Ptolemy in efforts of antireligious bias, France Thanks to the arduous work of these hieroglyphic. passed a decree in 1793 to abolish reli scholars, we are able to read what peo gion, a fulfillment, as many view it, of ple were writing in Egypt through Revelation 11:7-11. Old Testament times. As a consequence, This was the general condition in our background knowledge of Biblical which Christians found themselves in stories is tremendously enriched. Europe at the period of time prior to which God promised not only that Denial of Biblical Account knowledge would be increased (Dan. It was during this very time that 12:4) but that the Scriptures would be Christian scholars, especially those on lifted to a high place, and in full view of the European Continent, were being its enemies (Rev. 11:12). hard pressed by higher critics to produce It is marvelous to look back and see evidence for their belief in the veracity the fulfillment of these prophecies as of the Biblical account. The critical the years indicated in the prophecy of views of Jean Astruc concerning the the "time of the end" came. It is gener Pentateuch were gaining rapid accept ally conceded today that Napoleon©s ex ance in Europe in the latter half of the pedition to Egypt in 1798, and the find eighteenth century. His views led to the ing of the Rosetta stone in 1799, led to denial of its authorship by Moses. In the the development of what eventually nineteenth century a brilliant German came to be known as the discipline of scholar, Julius Wellhausen, gave new archeology. Archeology has in turn emphasis to Astruc©s views and he came played a major role in bringing about an to be known as the father of the modern increase in knowledge concerning the critical school. At that point the current Word of God. The confidence of many in thinking was that anything that could the authenticity of the Scriptures has not be proved should be discarded. been strengthened and confirmed by These views along with Darwin©s theory much of what archeologists have uncov of evolution became masterpieces of ered. More has been learned about the delusion that hit directly at the heart Bible in the past century than in all of the Scriptures and their divine in previous centuries of its existence. spiration. They spread rapidly in the And it began in 1798, with Napoleon. scholarly world and are still deeply em bedded in the thinking of many scholars * The Trustees of the British Museum, The Rosetta Stone, today. 1971, p. 3. The Ministry/April, 1976/17 councils are composed of representatives of all churches and companies in the district. They meet at set intervals, de pending on the situation of the district. Some meet once a quarter, others once a forthjintj month. The diagram below illustrates Districts the organizational plan. DISTRICT COUNCIL

First elder of each church Leader of each company Lay activities leader of each church WHAT would you pastors who have JAMES W. MV leader of each church only one church to attend to, or even ZACKKISON Treasurer of each church three or four, do if you had eight or ten (You may want to include the com churches and twenty or thirty com munications secretary) panies to take care of? In some areas of the world pastors do have this many, and, of course, a number of problems arise when this situation exists. In the first place, no one man can adequately take care of even a small RESPONSIBILITIES district without some kind of coordi Organize the preaching schedule nated plan. The organizational struc for the district ture of the Adventist Church runs from Organize and follow up the evan the local conference to the individual gelistic program of the district church. Departmental leaders seem to Organize a systematic program for forget the district pastor in their pro promoting campaigns, etc. motion and may send bulletins to all Coordinate the pastoral program of the district churches informing them the district that Ingathering is starting on X Sab Send recommendations in regard to bath, and the pastor will be there with the plans of the district council the materials. Or the pastor is supposed (to the respective church boards) to promote a certain program in all his Study and care for the advance of churches on the same day, which is, of the work in the district course, physically impossible. Another problem unique to district pastors is that most churches and com panies feel that the church in the town The district council is basically a con where the pastor lives gets more atten sultative body and exercises only as tion than they do, whether this is true much executive authority as is given or not. It is only natural that the pastor to it by the local church boards; espe is more available to the "central" church cially is this true of finances. It is au of the district. thorized to coordinate the plans of the In these, and many other ways, there district. seems to be lack of organizational con cern and understanding as far as the How It Works district pastor is concerned. Because of Specifically, our district councils are this we have been experimenting with a involved in six activities. They: plan to help remedy this condition. So 1. Coordinate the preaching program far it has worked quite well. in the district. Pulpits are assigned to In our particular field, no pastor has James Zackrison elders or visiting ministers so that there fewer than three churches and most is president and is a systematic preaching program in all have from five to seven. One district has Ministerial the churches. On occasion, pastors have seven churches and two schools. We secretary of the worked out a sermon series for the have organized district councils. These Honduras Mission. whole district, studied the material with 18/The Ministry/April, 1976 the elders, and no matter who preached Here is a plan knows where the pastor is and what he in which church on a given Sabbath, all that works. is doing. Post the program for the whole churches heard the same topic. Try it and quarter. 2. Coordinate the evangelistic pro gram. Campaigns, both pastoral and watch your Suggestive Program for Council lay, are coordinated in the council, so district take Meetings that all churches for at least a year in on new life. We use the following program at dis advance are aware of the evangelistic trict council meetings: program of the district. 1. Opening hymn and prayer. 3. Organize district meetings. There 2. "State of the district" message by is nothing that will tie a district to the pastor. gether like periodic mass meetings. Pre 3. Study of the agenda problems, sent the district leaders. Have such plans, et cetera. Each church has equal combined meetings as Dorcas and youth voice and vote. meetings. It is amazing how much life 4. Reports, experiences, et cetera, the district program brings to an other from the various churches. It is amazing wise dead program. Most of our districts how these reports encourage the mem program periodic meetings of the coun bers present. cil in different churches, so the members 5. Final hymn and prayer. get the feel of thinking in terms of "dis trict" and not just "my church." Results of District Council Plan 4. Coordinate a training program. Our pastors report that few ideas Denominational church education and have been as effective as this one. Their training programs such as Charismatic work load is lessened while the district Countdown, New Testament Witness produces more results. The laymen are ing, and Ministry of Healing classes are happy because they are involved in the scheduled by the district council for a organization and administration of the year in advance, so that everyone knows district, and they know what is going what is going on. on. The pastor becomes a real district 5. Establish a district communica leader and not a district driver. Every tions system. This varies according to one is working toward a common goal. the place. The elders should be con Stronger churches help the weaker tacted on a weekly basis. In our area, ones. Speakers and choirs can be inter telephone service is unreliable, if it changed on an organized basis. In some exists at all, so we depend on telegrams cases we have even had families move and messengers. We hope soon to have from one town to another in order to a fixed-frequency radio net set up. strengthen the leadership in a weak 6. Coordinate the itinerary of the church. pastor throughout the district. After this This is a plan that works. Try it and is organized, post a copy on the church watch your district take on new life bulletin boards. That way everyone and spirituality. ||

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The Ministry/April, 1976/19 of seas and watercourses; and creation science and religion of the first living things of earth plant Sponsored by Robert H. Brown life to clothe the land and provide food Geoscience Research Institute in anticipation of the needs of subse quent animal life; letting two great lights appear "in the firmament ... to rule over the day and over the night"; creation of animal life to populate the sea and the atmosphere; then "God Has God made the beast of the earth . . . , and cattle . . ., and every thing that creepeth upon the earth." Last, as the crowning Stopped act of Day Six, "God created man in his own image . ..; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, . . . Have dominion Creating? over . . . every living thing that moveth upon the earth" (Gen. 1:17, 18, 25, 27, 28). To better appreciate the part that the several members of the Godhead acted THE FIRST BOOK of the Bible, in that creative work, we first note that Genesis, is literally an account of ori R. E. HOEN throughout the Genesis account the gins, of beginnings. In it are chronicled Hebrew word translated into English as both the creation of the world and the "God" is the plural 'Elohim. The cor course of history that encompasses the porate plurality of the Deity is likewise birth of the race of people whom God indicated in verse 26, which deals with chose to be His own elect representa the creation of mankind, "Let us make tives before all nations. man in our image, after our likeness." The inspired narrative is introduced As one of the active participants in with the sublime words "In the begin the creative work, "the Spirit of God ning," followed immediately by the moved upon the face of the waters" transcendent name "God," the divine (verse 2). That the divine member who title of the sovereign Majesty of the subsequently was incarnated as Jesus universe. Then follows a statement of Christ, the Son of God and Son of man, the nature of the grand productive ac was the immediate agent in Creation is tivity in which the omnipotent Deity most clearly asserted in the Epistle to "created the heaven and the earth." the Hebrews (chap. 1:2); in Paul©s letter These ten matchless words depict the to the Colossians (chap. 1:13-17); in the whole story of origins: When? In the revelation of Jesus Christ through John beginning, before which there can be no (Rev. 3:14, "the prime source of all God©s prior computed time; Who? God, other creation" N.E.B., and other versions); than whom there can be no greater; Did and in the Gospel of John (chap. 1:1-3, what? created, brought into existence 14). Christ, the eternal Word, the divine that which had no previous tangible Mouthpiece, was the one who spoke the existence; What did He create? the energy-packed creative words. The heaven and the earth, the magnitude of Psalmist assures us that "by the word which achievement surpasses both our of the Lord were the heavens made. . . . comprehension and our most vivid For he spake, and it was done; he com imagination. manded, and it stood fast" (Ps. 33:6-9). Verses 3 through 26 present a sum With this thought in mind, these mary description of the creative acts words in the first chapter of Genesis performed during the first six days of take on renewed meaning: "And God the world©s history. In sequence these said, Let there be light: and there was were: introduction of light to the water- light. . . . And God said, Let there be a covered, erstwhile dark and cloud-en firmament. . . . And it was so. ... And shrouded earth (see Job 38:4, 9); God said, Let us make man. . . ."No establishment of an atmosphere, a R. E. Hoen, Ph.D., fewer than nine times it is recorded that firmament-heaven for control of water is professor "God said." in its liquid and vapor forms, and includ emeritus of In the final survey of all the work of ing gases for the later respiration re chemistry at those six days, He "saw every thing that quirements of living things; elevation of Pacific Union he had made, and, behold, it was very land areas to establish demarcation College. good." Such is the degree of perfection 20/The Ministry/April, 1976 of the handiwork of God the Creator. When God our "work in six days" and during the Within the limits of our feeble human completed His day of rest, of cessation from common ity, we also are admonished to "be . . . planned work labor, to "do good on the Sabbath days." perfect, even as your Father which is in He rested, It is significant that the Hebrew word heaven is perfect" (Matt. 5:48). One out that is translated as "rest" or "cease" is standing feature of that perfection, that ceased and shabath, perhaps most literally mean perfectedness, is completing, finishing, desisted, from ing to "sabbatize." That primary con the tasks to which we are assigned and that productive cept is emphasized in the words of Isaiah dedicated. "Since on the seventh day activity. (chap. 58:13, 14, N.E.B.): "If you cease to God was finished with the work he had tread the sabbath underfoot, and keep been doing, he rested on the seventh day my holy day free from your own affairs from all the work he had undertaken" . . . , if you honor it by not plying your (Gen. 2:2, The New American Bible).* trade, not seeking your own interest or The New English Bible reads: "On the tending to your own affairs, then you sixth day God completed all the work he shall find your joy in the Lord." When had been doing, and on the seventh day we have fulfilled the divine command to he ceased from all his work. God blessed work during the first six days and in the seventh day and made it holy, be that time do all of our secular personal cause on that day he ceased from all the work, we shall be ready to rest, to stop work he had set himself to do" (verses and delight ourselves in the Lord. 2, 3).t Several other translations use either the word ceased or desisted in this Terrestrial Creation Is Not Now context. Going On In common conversation we often em There is another profound lesson re ploy the word rest in the sense of relax vealed in the relation of God©s creative ation or of recuperation from fatigue. work to His resting, or cessation, from However, the basic idea underlying this that activity. One widely espoused be word as it is used in Genesis 2 is to lief held by contemporary philosophers cease, desist, quit, stop. A lawyer rests and likewise by many churchmen is that his case upon completion of presenta creation is a continuing, unceasing tion of pertinent evidence and argu process with no prospect that it ever will ment. A musician pauses at a rest in the attain completion. In the view of such score. A police officer arrests or halts a persons, the realm of nature had no wrongdoer. So when God accomplished, actual beginning its origin simply is ended, and completed the planned work to be dated from an epoch at which of creating this world, with its physical matter in some undefined prior state or features and inhabitants, He rested, condition began to be transformed, or ceased, desisted, from that productive to change itself autogenuously into activity. forms comparable to those which we can In like manner those who are loyal to now observe. It is presumed that at such their Creator are commanded to "re a "beginning," that which was started member the Sabbath day," to "do all" to become what is in accord with a uni-

The Ministry/April, 1976/21 versal evolutionary process acting Creationist count must these capabilities be con throughout the realm of nature. belief recog fused with the presumed ability of a This has resulted in an unreconcilable nizes not only living organism to change its form or difference between the beliefs of cre- structure. ationists and those of materialistic phi an actual Even among a few highly motivated losophers. The creationist concept is beginning but defenders of Biblical creationism, it is that the origin of the entire cosmos, and also a com supposed that living things have been of the world in particular, was achieved pletion of so equipped by the Creator that when completely through the immediate God©s terres ever adverse conditions are encoun agency of a supernatural, omnipotent trial creative tered, a species is able to surmount those Creator, who is ever entirely independ difficulties to the extent of changing its ent of the whole material realm of na activity. structure or form. In collusion with its ture. On the other hand, evolutionists environment, the creature is presumed postulate that the present order of to become a creative demiurge enabling things, both physical and biological, is it to change, modify, or convert its tis the result of inherent, intrinsic tend sues and organs into forms that will encies displayed by primeval matter, better fit it to survive. In this manner, destitute of any identifiable source and it is claimed, a new species is developed. operative through interminable time. And it has been insisted that assent to The well-known paleontologist G. G. such subsidiary creation, or evolution, Simpson summarized it in these words: is a perfectly sound and acceptable ad "Nothing in the recorded history of life junct to creationist doctrine. arises de novo. All is transformed from It is true that tissues and genes may what went before. . . . The problem of be injured or lose their ability to function order is that of uniformitarianism or properly and habits may differ as new of immanence in a special guise. It has conditions arise, but living organisms certain built-in characteristics that have no power to transform their own came we know not whence or why but structures or to devise or originate new that are determinable and have not ones for emergency purposes, either in changed during the course of recover one generation or over a succession of able history." Evolution After Darwin many generations. (University of Chicago Press, 1960), vol. 1, pp. 173, 174. No Emergency With God Christ-centered creationist belief is At the outset the Creator provided more realistic than that, for it recog each creature with means for meeting nizes not only an actual beginning but the normal exigencies that it might en also a real end, a completion of God©s counter. There is no real emergency terrestrial creative activity. Confidence with God. He has foreseen and provided that "his work was finished from the in advance for every need, both physical time he created the world" (Heb. 4:3, and spiritual. T.E.V.)$ at the close of Creation week, is The foresight and forehandedness of a firm bulwark against many of the the omniscient Creator may be illus philosophical delusions now current in trated by an imaginary visit with Adam the world, a few of which have insinu sometime after his exclusion from Eden. ated themselves into the thinking of He could have been taking a walk God-fearing men and women. Some of through a woodland when suddenly he these are particularly insidious because discovered that he had stepped on an they often are couched in apparently ugly thorn or a sharp rock. As he sees sound, unimpeachable language. The the blood flowing freely, he may well subtlety of certain naturalistic phi have said to Eve, "This is getting seri losophies is seldom recognized. ous. I©ll have to do something about it, It must always be remembered that and quickly, or I©ll bleed to death!" But God never endowed any creature with by then it already was too late for him either major or minor primary creative to develop a substance in his blood to ability. Such power lies only with the form a clot that might stem the flow. It omnipotent Creator Himself, else the also was far, far too late for him to en creature would possess the prerogative code a genetic mechanism whereby his of its Creator. Reproductive capability posterity would be enabled to produce was bestowed by Him in abundance such a protective material in their upon all living things. Furthermore, or blood. ganisms were endowed with varying But Adam did not need to concern degrees of capability for adaptation to himself with adapting or changing his changes in environment. But on no ac- structure. The foreseeing Creator and 22/The Ministry/April, 1976 Provider had made provision for such There is a new belated awareness of a need. No crea circumstances when He created man. creation now ture can improve upon the achievement In Adam©s blood He included throm- in progress. of its Creator. bogen, a prothrombin that upon expo The grandest example of God©s fore sure to the air at the site of an injury knowledge and foresightedness is the could produce a clot of blood. That life- plan of redemption from sin through saving biochemical is but one example provision of "the Lamb slain from the of the myriads of Creator-implanted foundation of the world" (Rev. 13:8). substances and functions that are es When God does, something He completes sential for protection and maintenance it. He is the "author and finisher of our of living creatures. Other examples are faith" (Heb. 12:2). There is a new cre digestive enzymes, hormones, healing ation now in progress. It is the prepara agencies, "antibodies," and a complex tion of inhabitants for a new earth sensory system. In addition to all these wherein only righteousness may dwell we possess memory, consciousness, and (see John 14:1-4; 2 Peter 3:10-14; Isa. the ability to honor and obey the Cre 65:17; Rev. 21:1, 2, 5). When soon the ator of so marvelous a system. redeemed share the glories and peace of God planned neither sin nor the in that renewed world the Creator and Re juries occasioned by it, but in His wis deemer will say with finality: "It is fin dom and meticulous design He provided ished! I am the A and the Z the Begin in advance for the needs that Adam and ning and the End" (Rev. 21:6, T.L.B.).§ his descendants would encounter. All this is but one aspect of the finished cre ation achieved solely through the fore * From The New American Bible 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Wash., D.C. All rights reserved. knowledge of an all-wise Creator. God t From The New English Bible. © The Delegates of the Ox does not operate on an ex post facto ford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge Uni versity Press 1970. Reprinted by permission. principle. His plan is in sharp contrast $ From the Today©s English Version of the New Testament. Copyright American Bible Society 1966. to the idea that development and real § From The Living Bible, Paraphrased (Wheaton: Tyndale ization of a. remedy are instigated by House Publishers, 1971). Used by permission.

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"Against the Lord, and against "Memra." The last mentioned and I will give it to thee,© as it is his anointed" (verse 2). text, verse 12, would then read: said, I will tell of the decree, this "The Lord shall have them in "Blessed are all they that put day have I begotten thee." derision" (verse 4). their trust in Memra or the Word Sukkah52 a , p. 247. "Thou art my Son, this day of God." Joseph Klausuer (1874-1965), Jewish scholar and writer, men have I begotten thee" (verse 7). As Seen in the New Testament "Blessed . . . they that put their tions: "Calling the Messiah ©My trust in him" (verse 12, K.J.V.). See Acts 10:33; 4:25, 26; He Son,© is something commonly This has been recognized brews 1:5; 5:5, et cetera. found in ancient Jewish litera ture, and is here not due to Chris through the ages as a Messianic As Seen in Jewish Literature Psalm, both by the faithful be tian influence at all." On Psalm lievers in the period before the David Kimchi (1160-1235), 2:7, in Messianic Idea in Israel, birth of Christ, and the church Jewish grammarian and com p. 354, footnote. since the beginning of the new mentator, wrote: "There are some C. G. Montefoire (1858- ? ), Christian era. We will note the who interpret this Psalm of ... English Jewish scholar and Presi expressions as they appear in the the anointed one [who] is King dent of the Jewish Historical targums. Messiah, and so our teachers of Society, wrote: "The Messiah was blessed memory have interpreted God©s son. Had not the Psalmist As Seen in the Aramaic Tar- (Berakoth 7 b). And the Psalm can . . . [wrote], "Thou art my son; gums be explained this way." Com this day have I begotten thee.©. . . Against his "anointed" is mentary on Psalms, p. 18. Jesus becomes the Son of God, not Meshiha-Mashiach and should In the Talmud we read: "Our merely as the Messiah, but as read "against His Messiah." The Rabbis taught, the Holy One, metaphysically related to the "Lord" in verse 4 and "him" in Blessed be He, will say to the Godhead." The Synoptic Gospels, verse 12, the Aramaic gives Messiah . . . ©Ask of me anything, vol. 1, p. cxviii.

The Ministry/April, 1976/23 face with starvation there. In a letter written in 1894 she wrote, "We purchase Why wood from our brethren who are farm ers, and we try to give their sons and daughters employment. But we need a Etten White large charitable fund upon which to draw to keep families from starvation." — Welfare Ministry, p. 329. flatted Ellen White©s solicitous interest and care for people in situations of destitu tion, poverty, or extreme need are worth foritetp repeating. "Will you please inquire of Brother ____ in regard to the clothing that he requires, and what he needs please fur nish to him, and charge the same to my account. He has not received his trunk, and I fear he may suffer for the want of necessary changes." Ibid. The concept of sacrifice was deeply in grained in the White family and the pioneers of this message. Money was given not simply for the support of the ministry and the building of churches, "Dear Brethren and Sisters: The D. A. DELAFIELD but the early workers sacrificed of their treasury in the Poor Fund, consisting of meager possessions to obtain means clothes, et cetera, for those in need, is with which to help the less fortunate. nearly exhausted. And as there are Listen to this from a letter written in cases of destitution continually arising, 1894: "We live economically in every and one new one has arisen recently, I way and make a study of how every thought it would be well for those who penny is to be laid out. . . . We make have clothing, bedding, or money to over and over our clothing, patching and spare to send it on here immediately. enlarging garments in order to make We hope there will be no delay, for we them wear a little longer, so that we are going to assist some that are needy can supply with clothing those who are as soon as we get things together. Send more needy. One of our brethren in your donations to Sr. Uriah Smith or Ormondville, who is an intelligent car myself ." Welfare Ministry, p. 325. penter, could not go forward in baptism The "Poor Fund," mentioned by Ellen because he had not a change of clothing. White, belonged to the Battle Creek Ad When he was able to get a cheap suit he ventists among whom a simple plan of was the most grateful man I ever saw, organized assistance for needy families, because he could then go forward in the Adventists or not, seems to have been a ordinance of baptism." Ibid., p. 328. tradition. Ellen White did not give away her old Mrs. White©s statement written so clothes feeling that these might help the long ago that "there are cases of destitu poor. She bought new, strong, durable tion continually arising, and one new clothes and placed them in the hands of one has arisen recently," testifies to the the needy. In this way she did not have truthfulness of the words of Jesus, "Ye to give the oldest clothing she had, thus have the poor with you always" (Mark making them feel they could not use the 14:7). What is true of those who are clothing because it was patched and old. chronically poor is true also of the She esteemed others better than herself acutely poor whose property, including and went the second mile in welfare re house, automobile, and all earthly pos lief. sessions, has vanished in a flood, or The spirit of sacrifice and devotion to crumbled literally upon the heads of the needs of human beings, whether in their owners in a disastrous earthquake times of disaster or personal disasters or hurricane. Disaster relief for the that might occur every day, is Christian newly made poor is also a tradition with D. A. Delafteld is in the truest sense. Adventists, and it is basically a Chris an associate tian concept. secretary of the EDITOR'S NOTE: Remember to encourage When Ellen G. White©s work took her Ellen G. White liberal giving for the SAWS Relief Of to Australia in 1891 she came face to Estate. fering on May 8, 1976. 24/The Ministry/April, 1976 sermon spice shelf

of the Bulletin."—B. NELSON, Bul stance of your life. ... I shall not Aim at Heaven letin of the Atomic Scientists: dishonor my Lord by encouraging Hope is one of the theological thirty years of clock-watching. people to come to me for counsel, virtues. This means that a con Science 190:1070-1073, Dec. 12, when they have a standing invita tinued looking forward to the 1975. tion to go to the One who is able eternal world is not, as some How much more should Chris to carry them and all their bur modern people think, a form of tians be compelled to spread the dens." ELLEN G. WHITE, Special escapism or wishful thinking, but "good news" of salvation. The Testimonies, Series B, No. 9, one of the things a Christian is prophetic markers pinpoint us on p. 17. meant to do. It does not mean that the threshold of eternity only we are to leave the present world "seconds" to midnight! Will the as it is. If you read history, you people of the world be consumed What God Can Do Through will find that the Christians who in a nuclear cloud, without hav One Man did most for the present world ing heard of Jesus© love and sac were just those who thought most rifice for them? If scientists are "You seem a very temperate of the next. It is since Christians concerned, should not also the people here," once observed a have largely ceased to think of children of the Heavenly King thirsty pedestrian (who was, in the other world that they will be concerned? deed, none other than the present have become so ineffective in writer) to a Cornish miner; "how this. Aim at heaven and you will did it happen?" He replied sol get earth thrown in. Aim at earth Quote: "When we are willing to emnly, raising his cap, "There and you will get neither. C. S. die on the crosses of other peo came a man amongst us once, and his name was John Weslev." LEWIS. ples© needs, then we are following AUGUSTINE BIRH.ELL, Collected Es in the footsteps of Jesus." says and Addresses, Vol. II. George Digel. . . . "There is one Minutes to Midnight respect in which beasts show real wisdom . . . their quiet, placid en The Bulletin of the Atomic Courage in Adversity Scientists recently celebrated joyment of the present moment." thirty years of continuous pub Schopenhauer. . . . "Pride is the The night John Stuart Mill lication. Founded after Hiro cholesterol that plugs up the free came, pale as death, to tell Car- shima and Nagasaki to warn the flow of the gospel." Jan Doward. lyle that the manuscript of the world away from an impending . . . "A smile increases your face first volume of The French Rev nuclear holocaust, its survival value." Church Bulletin Board. olution, which Carlyle had lent probably indicates a failure of . . . "Worry is faith working back him, had been accidentally scientists and statesmen to eradi ward. You have perfect faith that burned, its author©s first concern cate the threat of nuclear war. everything©s going to go wrong was to relieve Mill©s suffering. Long known for its famous and it does!" Ben Glanzer. "At Carlyle pretended to make light "doomsday clock" logo, the pub $10.00 per hour we all have $5 of the loss. Actually, he did not lication considers itself an ex million worth of hours in a life have the original draft to fall pression of the conscience of the time." A Mathematician. "Men back on. It was at this time that community. The hands of the have attempted to deodorize sin he made the following entry in clock illustrate the editor©s view by squirting it from an aerosol his diary: of how close the world is to the can labeled ©situation ethics.© " "Oh, that I had faith! Oh, that I "midnight" of nuclear conflict. Its Eugene Lincoln, in Hour of had! Then were there nothing too opinion has not changed. Prophecy. hard or heavy for me. Cry silently However, concern of the Bulle in thy inmost heart for it. Surely tin is currently being focused on He will give it thee. At all events, the apathy of the general public The Great Counselor it is as if my invisible schoolmas to its objectives. As stated in an "Frequently I receive letters ter had torn my copybook when I editorial in the thirtieth anniver from individuals, telling me of showed it, and said, No, boy! Thou sary issue: "There is the addi their troubles and perplexities, must write it better. What can I, tional problem of increased public and asking me to inquire of God sorrowing, do but obey obey and insensitivity to the danger which as to what is their duty. To those think it the best? To work again; seemed so apparent and so alarm for whom the Lord has given me and oh! may God be with me, for ing 30 years ago." This "con no light, I have often replied: I this earth is not friendly. On, in stitutes perhaps the most omi have not been appointed by God His name!" J. A. FEOUDE, nous of the various forces pulling to do such a work as you ask me Thomas Carlyle, A History of His the world toward a nuclear holo to do. The Lord Jesus has invited Life in London, Vol. 1, quoted in caust. The puncturing of that you to bring your troubles to One Preaching Resources From Lit apathy is the unfinished business who understands every circum erature. The Ministry/April, 1976/25 to that prayer. Suffering and learning to live with handicaps has helped me to understand people in many situations where I just never would have before. I didn©t understand much about n an healthful living back in 1946. During that summer of hard work we all got up at six o©clock, to be ready to go to Iron Lung work after breakfast. I had a cold all summer and didn©t take care of myself I habitually went to bed late. I weak ened my health, and this made me sus ceptible to the virus, I©m sure. I found myself so tired that it was a real effort to go to work. Then I got a backache but kept on at the job until I couldn©t take TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS in an iron MARK FINLEY lung! That was just about the world©s INTERVIEWS it any longer. Finally the backache, a record. Not exactly a championship to JOAN HERMAN headache, and aching all over indicated volunteer for, but one that Joan Herman that I was really sick, so someone turned into an achievement and a dis called a doctor. I remember their taking tinctive honor. A little while before her the door off its hinges and stretching it recent death, Mark Finley, one of her over two chairs for me to lie on while pastors, interviewed Joannie, as she they gave me a spinal tap. Then they was affectionately called by her many took me to the hospital. There they friends. found that I not only had polio but You just couldn©t talk to Joannie "walking" pneumonia and anemia too. without talking about or at least lis You must have been pretty sick! tening to her faith in God and ap preciation for His blessings. Because For the first three weeks they weren©t that©s what Joannie thought about, it sure I would live, but the Lord brought bubbled out continually, like a clear me through this critical period. spring. So, if you©re allergic to beautiful How about the iron lung? Was it things, like clear, pure spring water, hard to adjust to it? faith, trust, and love better not read this article. Before they put me in the lung, I said, "Oh, what a wonderful invention." Twenty-eight years! What a long And I am even yet more and more im time to live in an iron lung! How did pressed all the time that it is a wonder you get polio, Joannie? ful invention. When I became well Well, the summer I turned 18 I spent enough to be taken out of the lung it at a Quaker camp in East Millsboro, was a very difficult experience. I was Pennsylvania, where college-age stu totally paralyzed from the neck down, dents worked with miners and their and this included my breathing muscles. families. It was a cooperative commu I couldn©t breathe at all. I couldn©t even nity; the miners were to have their own move an accessory muscle. So, when I factory, their own homes and gardens was pulled out of the lung, it was as this way they would not be dependent though I was under water. If you©ve on unscrupulous mine owners for their ever been hurt under water, you can living and for purchasing food and get some idea what it was like. It seemed clothing. For almost two months I dug that panic and terror took over. ditches, cut down trees, and laid cinder The doctor explained to me that ev block. Although I enjoyed it, it seemed erybody can hold his breath for just one as if we were just going through mo minute. So they asked me to come out tions. We weren©t getting close to the of the lung for only that long. I had to people we were trying to help; we be reasonable and remind myself that weren©t relating to them in a meaning in spite of the panic and terror I was ful way. I remember praying that sum feeling it wouldn©t really hurt me to be mer that the Lord would give me an out one minute. So, they would take me understanding of people who were Mark Finley is out several times a day for one minute. really suffering. associate pastor I began to realize that in order to sur My prayer was answered, but in a of the Sterling, vive I would have to build up that one way that I never dreamed of my ex Massachusetts, minute to two, and three, and five perience with polio has been the answer church. minutes. 26/The Ministry/April, 1976 Why did they want you out of the lung? They were thinking of weaning me away from it to a rocking bed, one that rocks up and down like a seesaw at breathing rate, and thus allows the force of gravity to assist breathing. Since I would be the first person ever to do this, they asked for my permission. I agreed. The transfer from the lung to the bed would take more than a minute, so I really needed to learn to be out of the lung longer. It would also be safer. I had a very wise doctor, and she left it to me to build up my own free-breath ing time. I did, with the help of God. Was there anything you could do Joan visits with God©s Holy Spirit taught me the need to keep your mind off your illness? friends in her for self-discipline. I found that my room at New words and thoughts had a very definite I learned how to turn pages so I could Horizons. effect on my physical strength and my read my Bible again every day. I will to go forward, to live, and to over couldn©t even wiggle my big toe, but I come. had learned to turn my head a little bit from side to side. I was getting exer Any other despondency-dodgers? cises and good care and hot packs. Then I discovered how important it was to I came across an old saying, "Go for have regularity in my life; to get up on ward, however small the opportunity." time; to eat on time; to eat well, even if So I began to wiggle my little toe. I I didn©t feel like eating; to do my exer really capitalized on that. I was en cises as I was supposed to; to get in and couraged. out of the lung; to read at a regular The Lord gave me hope, and the Bible time; to get outdoors as much as I promise struck me as truth, "Seek ye could; and to have recreation as I was first the kingdom of God, and his right able to find it. eousness; and all these things shall be Not too long after I had passed the added unto you." "All these things" critical stage in my illness, I wanted to was really quite a few things strength, get dressed in clothes, as everyone else courage, the ability to breathe com was doing. That made me feel so much fortably, to talk while out of the lung, better. even to sneeze and yawn, which I If you are going through a period of hadn©t been able to do. It was also get depression or despondency you must dis ting along better with my nurses. It©s regard your feelings, and go about quite an adjustment from being an your daily duties. You have to push independent, vigorous person, with a yourself I had to push myself. It took a longing to serve others, to becoming tremendous amount of will, and the someone totally dependent on others. Lord gave me that will and courage. Joannie, weren©t you tempted to What kind of books did you read? be overwhelmed with despair and discouragement? I read the Bible or books that would shed light on it, and books on nature, or I surely was. But not at first. The autobiographies Booker T. Washing first thirteen months I was learning ton, George Washington Carver, and how to get over the acute phase of the Oliver Wendell Holmes people whose polio, how to breathe a little bit and lives had counted for much in service to even breathe some alone, and I was be mankind. The books I read and the coming adjusted. I was confident that I thoughts I cherished tended to be what could get well and overcome this chal was constructive and beautiful. They lenge like any other, if I just did my just had to. I couldn©t afford to do other very utmost and cooperated with all I wise, or I could have perished in the was told to do. darkness that crowded around me. Then I got pneumonia and had to go back into the lung and start all over How did you manage to read? again. It was at this point I realized that The Lord gave me strength first to I couldn©t do it alone. I needed the Lord. hold letters in my left hand, then little The Ministry/April, 1976/27 pamphlets, and finally my New Testa 24 acres, a picnic pavilion, and a recrea ment, so I didn©t have to depend on tion area all through the efforts of a others to turn the pages. I learned to group of physically handicapped adults turn the pages with my tongue. and their friends. This recreation area Were you able to get out of your is shared with many other organiza hospital room at all? tions, such as Alcoholics Anonymous. There are more than 500 members, and Dr. Jonas Salk had his laboratories a newspaper, New Horizons, that goes downstairs in the same hospital I was all over the world. That involves a lot of in, and I used to go down and visit with work. I was editor of the newspaper and him and watch him discovering the wrote for it, edited, and published it. polio virus and then a vaccine for it. He later became one of my supporters. Seven years ago when I met you Then, after 2-1/2 years in Pittsburgh, your health wasn©t as good as it is I was fortunate to move out into the today. I am amazed at your improve country. I was first at a rehabilitation ment. Your general health, even home for children out from Leesdale, your complexion, is so much better. Pennsylvania. It was on a large farm What has happened these seven estate, and I enjoyed the flowering trees years? and gardens and cows so much. Since I It was a great wrench at my heart to was not completely confined to the iron have to leave my many friends in New lung, a friend would push me through Britain and my work with New Hori the grounds and this had a healing ef zons. But since the Lord taught me fect on me. principles of health and Bible princi Then, although I was about 20,1 had ples of living, I really believed I needed one wonderful year at the D. T. Watson to be in a hospital where these princi home for crippled children. There I ples were cherished and practiced. The learned to stand up, to walk with a Lord opened the way for me to come to walker, and to feed myself. I was given Wildwood Sanitarium and Hospital, in more breathing equipment because they Georgia. Since I have been here my began to realize it was too much effort health has improved by leaps and for me to breathe just with a rocking bounds. I was in the lung almost full bed. I was also given a chest respirator time when I left Memorial Hospital, and part of the time. And, best of all, I had I©m out of the lung just about all day opportunity to teach history to one of every day now. I rest in it one day a week the high school students there. simply to recharge my battery, so to What was it about having polio speak, so that I will be strong enough that bothered you most? to enjoy the full life I have here. I had always felt, especially when I On my vegetarian diet I have more was sick, that it was essential to try to stamina and strength. I used to get help others. Before I learned how to do five and six colds a year and suffer very this with my limitations it positively much from them. But since I©ve learned made me sick not to be able to. the value of eating only a very moderate amount of sugar, drinking lots of wa So you had to devise ways to do A little over a ter, and getting regular rest and exer this. cise, it©s very seldom I get a cold. I get I believed that I had a contribution to year ago, after exercise with my motorized chair that I make as well as anyone else; it was just the interview drive around myself. a matter of learning how. The first thing took place, I visit my friends, and I type regu was to learn to write well: writing let Joan Herman larly in the mornings. I give Bible stud ters and composing poetry became one developed a ies, and am part of the teaching staff outlet. Another was teaching the stu malignancy that here as an assistant clinical instructor dents at the Watson home Sunnyhill of nursing, a very rewarding and mean it was called. And it was a sunny hill. took her life. ingful experience. As a long-term pa Then, there is New Horizons. Courageous to tient, I©ve learned a lot about good the end, and What is New Horizons? nursing and I can share this with the trusting fully students as they learn my care. Not The vision of New Horizons gradually in God, her last only that, but I can share insights the grew in my mind and heart. It would Lord has given me through my experi be a family home and community for days were spent ence these years. My life has opened physically handicapped adults and in continued up. It is much more abundant, and my their friends. ministry to those appreciation of my heavenly Father and With the help of God, we©ve gotten about her. His love for us grows and grows. II 28/The Ministry/April, 1976 is in no case to be divorced from the gospel ministry. The Lord has specified that the two shall be as closely con nected as the arm is with the body. Without this union neither part of the Stick work is complete. The medical mission ary work is the gospel in illustration." Ibid., vol. 6, pp. 240, 241. This was God©s plan. But grasping selfishness, desire to dominate, an in creasing distance from God brought forth schism divorce, if you please DIVORCE HURTS. It hurts the sepa that has injured the work of God ever rating persons. It hurts the children. It HEALTH STAFF since. hurts relatives and friends. It hurts so Union of the Two Sticks ciety. So it was with Judah and Israel : God had a remedy for ancient Israel. originally one nation, called into exist In one of His graphic representations ence to reflect the glory of God and to be of His will and of the potential for His His agent in winning back the world. chosen nation, He told Ezekiel to take As is the case with so many relation two sticks (Eze. 37:15-28). On one he ships, selfishness, desire to dominate, was to write, "For Judah, and for the and increasing distance from God children of Israel his companions," on brought forth schism and finally out right militant division and even aggres sion. Not only did Judah and Israel suffer, but their relatives and other on- looking nations, and all of society to this day have been hurt. Might there be an analogy with mod ern Israel, God©s remnant church? He brought the church into existence to re flect the glory of God, to call His people out of modern Babylon, and to be His agent in winning back the world to loy alty to Him. He intended to blend into one body the restorative ministries em bodied in Christ, our Great High Priest and our Great Physician. "Christ," we are told, "gave a perfect representation of true godliness by com bining the work of a physician and a minister, ministering to the needs of both body and soul, healing physical disease, and then speaking words that brought peace to the troubled heart." Counsels on Health, p. 528. His church is to follow this example: "From the light that has been given me, I know that an intimate relationship should ever exist between the medical missionary work and the gospel minis try. They are bound together in sacred union as one work, and are never to be divorced." Ibid. Note the statement "are never to be divorced." To this we can add: "Medical missionary workers and workers in the gospel ministry are to be bound to gether by indissoluble ties." Testimo •a nies, vol. 8, p. 46. "Our physicians are to e unite with the work of the ministers of the gospel. . . . Medical missionary work The Ministry/April, 1976/29 the other, "For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions." The prophet was then Stomachs commissioned, "Join them one to an other into one stick; and they shall be come one in thine hand." Need Lest there be any doubt as to the meaning of this union of the two sticks, God said, "I will make them one nation Siestas in the land upon the mountains of Is rael; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two na Too tions, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. ... And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shep herd: they shall also walk in my judg ments, and observe my statutes, and do them" (verses 22-24). "EATING BETWEEN MEALS is bad What a beautiful figure symbolizing for your health," my parents used to tell the healing of the division of Israel and me. Since my father was a physician, I Judah. We suggest that it might also accepted this, along with a number of symbolize the combining of ministerial other rules that made up the pattern of work and the medical missionary phases healthful living my father and mother of modern Israel. taught me. In Genesis 49 the characteristics and Even though I followed the rules, I the respective futures of the sons of was not strongly convinced of the im Jacob are delineated. There Judah is portance of not eating between meals. pictured as the scepter, the lawgiver; My conviction was lessened by the fact Joseph, as a fruitful bough by a well, that I was constantly assailed by an ac sorely wounded but upheld by the hands tive appetite. The availability of snack of God. In 1 Chronicles 5:1, 2 we learn foods didn©t make things any easier. that Judah prevailed above his breth There were nuts, fruit, corn chips, and ren, but the birthright that would cus other things around the house that were tomarily have been given to Reuben used at mealtime and for the lunches was given to the sons of Joseph. In the children took to school. And there Zechariah 10:1, under the reviving in are always boxes of candy on hospital fluence of the latter rain, Judah would wards. be strengthened and Joseph saved. As I listened to patients in my office, Ellen White links Joseph to the heal it seemed there were "benefits" of be- ing ministry. In Testimonies, volume 8, tween-meal feedings. A small snack page 153, written to the medical super would dependably quench the fire in an intendent of a large sanitarium, she acid stomach, and soothe an ulcer if states, "Every institution that bears the present. Many patients discovered that name of Seventh-day Adventist is to be a snack at bedtime was the only way to the world as was Joseph in Egypt, they could "improve their troubled and as were Daniel and his fellows in sleep." Any suggestion that a bedtime Babylon." snack might have caused their "trou It is clearly God©s will that the breach bled sleep" was usually poorly received between Judah and Joseph, between and was difficult to demonstrate. the ministers of the gospel and the From the standpoint of physiology, it ministers of healing, be bridged. The seems that the human body should be two are to become "one stick" in the able to take care of snacks very well. hand of the great Healer. Then God will God has given us, in every organ sys make a covenant of peace with them tem, a tremendous physiologic reserve. an everlasting covenant and will set Each system is designed to function at a His sanctuary in the midst of them f or- peak capacity several times over what is evermore. He will be their God, and needed for ordinary daily living. This they shall be His people. reserve power is also present in the di "And the heathen shall know that I gestive organs. Apparently digestive the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my organs can continue to digest as long as sanctuary shall be in the midst of them food is present, without apparent fa for evermore" (Eze. 37:28). II tigue. 30/The Ministry/April, 1976 For many years gastroenterologists ing. . . . They have no rules by which to have been treating ulcers by giving regulate their diet, but indulge in eat milk or cream every hour on the hour, ing fruit or nuts between their meals, and antacids on the half hour. As the and thus impose too heavy burdens patient improved, this was modified by upon the digestive organs." Testimo allowing a bland, three-meal diet pro nies, vol. 4, p. 416. gram, with milk or a snack between meals to neutralize the acid. These con No Mincing of Words cepts were taught in the classroom, and In these sample quotations there is no by practice in the clinic. It was very mincing of words, no hesitation, no plain to see that acid was neutralized room for compromise. They involve ev by food and by milk, and that by giving eryone, including children and preach these things constantly, acids should be ers. There is a simple, firm, categorical, reduced. and emphatic statement that eating be Yet, there was this advice not to eat tween meals is harmful. between meals. I©m sure my readers are In the light of my observation and familiar with these. Let me just list a training, how should I consider such ad few: vice? There are three possibilities: "I am astonished to learn that, after HUBERT F. 1. This might be categorized as reli all the light that has been given in this STURGES gious dogma, having some ritualistic place, many of you eat between meals! merit, but not related to healthful liv You should never let a morsel pass your ing. Or lips between your regular meals. Eat 2. This could be advice, somehow per what you ought, but eat it at one meal, tinent to times past, but not to the and then wait until the next." Testi present time. Or monies, vol. 2, p. 373. 3. This could be in that broad cate "Regularity should be the rule in all gory of advance recommendations that the habits of children. Mothers make a God has given us as a people, which has great mistake in permitting them to eat not yet been proved scientifically, but between meals. The stomach becomes by which He meant for us to benefit. deranged by this practice, and the foun In talking to patients, as well as to dation is laid for future suffering. Their others who are members of the remnant fretfulness may have been caused by church and who conscientiously follow unwholesome food, still undigested; but its teachings and life practices, I find the mother feels that she cannot spend that many are not fully convinced on time to reason upon the matter and cor this point. Obviously the time is ripe rect her injurious management. Neither for God to show His people again that can she stop to soothe their impatient He meant just exactly what He said. worrying. She gives the little sufferers a Recent research has shown that our piece of cake or some other dainty to previous methods of treating peptic ul quiet them, but this only increases the Hubert F. Sturges, cers have been all wrong. In fact, it has evil." Fundamentals of Christian M.D., is assistant been another demonstration that the Education, p. 150. professor of human body is marvelously resilient, "Our preachers are not particular medicine, Loma and that people with peptic ulcers man enough in regard to their habits of eat- Linda University. age to get well in spite of the methods

Loma Linda School of Health The Ministry/April, 1976/31 leads to a high sustained acid level. There is some speculation that by re peated stimulation the parietal (acid- producing) cells are greatly increased in ability to produce acid, and may in a sense increase the likelihood of develop ing ulcer disease.4 Considering again the advice that Ad- ventists have been given, I am im pressed at how accurately this informa tion has been relayed to us. There are a Normals number of things that we have been told regarding our eating habits, such as overeating, use of milk and sugar, fruits and vegetables together, spices, too much variety at one meal, and other we have been using in trying to treat things. them. Our current approach in treating We have good evidence on some of ulcers is almost directly opposite in these things. The evidence is incomplete some respects to what has been recom or yet to come in on several other very mended for many years (see refer important items. In what category ences). should these be put? Are these advance This change is based on information recommendations that we should begin shown in the accompanying graphs. to benefit from now, or are we going to Figure 1 shows that after a meal is put these into a lesser category and taken the acid in the stomach continues again wait for the world to show us why to be produced for about four hours. they are harmful? Those who have duodenal ulcer disease In my opinion it is God©s will that His produce acid at almost twice the rate of remnant people be an example for the the average normal. world in good health and in joyful liv Figure 2 shows that after a regular ing. The recommendations He has meal the acid is quite adequately neu given are given to us as advance knowl tralized for about an hour or so, then edge that will help us in this direction. rapidly rises for an hour or so until an other meal, when it is neutralized 1 J. S. Fordtran and J. H. Walsh, "Gastric Acid Secretion again. For those who take milk and and Buffer Content of the Stomach After Eating: Results in Normal Subjects and in Patients with Duodenal Ulcer," Jour cream every hour, the acid stays at a nal of Clinical Investigation, 1973, vol. 52. constant high level and is never neu 2 J. P. Bingle and J. E. Lennard-Jones, "Some Factors in the Assessment of Gastric Anti-secretory Drugs by a Sampling tralized. After the last meal in the eve Technique," GUT 1:337, 1960. ning, the acid gradually drops off again 3 J. B. Kirsner, and W. L. Palmer, "The Effect of Various Antacids on the Hydrogen-ion Concentration of the Gastric and is very low during the night. Other Contents," American Journal of Digestive Diseases, 7:85,1940. studies have shown that on the three- 4 J. S. Fordtran, "Reduction of Acidity by Diet, Antacids, and Anti-cholinergic Agents," Gastrointestinal Disease (W. B. meal pattern a person does not need to Saunders Co., 1973), pp. 718-742. go on a special diet. A bland diet is no more effective in reducing acid than a regular normal diet. The most logical approach is to allow patients with a peptic ulcer to eat a nor mal diet of their own choosing, and not try to make limitations that might re sult in a diet that was not as nutritious and as beneficial as the normal diet would be. Since food causes a dramatic and prolonged stimulation of acid secre tion, particularly in patients with ulcer disease, ulcer patients should not take any food late in the evening. Food taken at bedtime causes so much acid to be produced that the person may awaken later at night with pain. Frequent feedings, as opposed to two _,SSS^^IiS8i^'l^i£§fsiS or three meals a day, are illogical. Re 6|Si|8^3fei^siili^^jM^^ peated stimulation of the stomach 32/The Ministry/April, 1976 color slide series is presented as a "Pan Celcbnitv the orama of Health" feature. Don Hawley, editor of Life and Health, and the asso Bicentennial With ciate editor, Dr. Irving Jones, then present "What©s New in Health?" Free copies of the current issue of the na tional health journal are distributed to w The Story the enrollees, and the latest develop ments in the prevention and cure of disease are discussed. of Our Heatth Next we review assigned chapters in the textbook The Story of Our Health Message" Message, using a guidebook that has been prepared to help class members find a sense of direction in their study. The lesson study itself takes about thirty minutes. In connection with the review of this lesson, physicians and nurses are drawn into the discussions to add the weight of their professional knowledge to the subject. The final fea ture of the program is a question-and- answer period. The latest enrollment count totals 335 members, and people are still regis CELEBRATE the American Bicen tering. Enthusiasm runs high, and tennial in your church in 1976 by fol J. WAYNE there isn©t a dull moment, because there MC FARLAND is so much variety in the program. It is lowing the Annual Council recommen and D. A. dation to study the book The Story of DELAFIELD much like the Testimony Countdown Our Health Message, by D. E. Robinson. and Charismatic Countdown programs Through this program you can help that have received such favorable re prepare your members for an expanded ception in recent years. witnessing program by following the Our textbook contains some of the method of Christ. And what was that most fascinating stories the class mem method? "In order to impress upon man bers have ever read. It strengthens one©s his obligations to obey the law of God, faith in the divine guidance of the mes Christ began His work of redemption senger of the Lord, who brought this im by reforming the physical habits of portant phase of healthful living to the man." Testimonies, vol. 3, p. 486. attention of the early believers. Today A pilot program is in full swing at the medical science is upholding what in Washington Adventist Hospital church. spiration revealed years ago. The authors of this article joined a staff It is just possible that you have not of professional teachers in beginning begun your study of The Story of Our this Bicentennial Health Study Project Health Message, but you can catch up on Wednesday night, January 7. Per by doubling up lesson assignments for sonnel from the hospital staff and a couple of months. This book is avail members of the hospital church came to able in a 75 cent newsprint edition along gether to review the history and de with the "Twelve Outline Studies of velopment of Seventh-day Adventist The Story of Our Health Message" (25 concepts of health and medical practice. cents) at your Adventist Book Center. The class meets the last Wednesday Class members may subscribe to Life night of each month and is involved in and Health for $6.75. A new 80-slide answering numerous questions and program and script entitled "Heritage clarifying many provocative issues, J. Wayne McFar- of Health" has been prepared to add in such as the meaning of Adventist land, M.D., is asso terest to this program. It is available health philosophy, How did the unique ciate director through Professional Health Media sanitarium concept get started? and Is of the General Services, P.O. Box 922, Loma Linda, Conference Health California 92354. the sanitarium program out of date? Department. Especially interesting is the study of the D. A. Delafield We never have had a better oppor role Ellen G. White played in the be is an associate tunity to reach people, for the whole ginning and development of health serv secretary of the world has now become health conscious ices in America and around the world. Ellen G. White and is most susceptible to this mes Every class night a twelve-minute Estate. sage. II The Ministry/April, 1976/33 structure which is the American edu cational system; people who seem to Can There have little interest in or understanding of the things we love to talk about, and have long since ceased asking many of Bean the questions to which we continue to address our answers; people whose world views and customs have become Innovative so different that for many of us they have practically ceased to exist. At no time since the first century has Adventism? the church had so great a need for the outpouring of the gift of "tongues," that is, for persons gifted with the ability to communicate this truth in innovative ways and moreover with the courage to do so. Unless we receive and develop IT IS A truism in cultural anthro JACK W. that gift and soon, we may well find our pology that a people becomes increas PROVONSHA selves thrust aside by a world hastening ingly isolated from its neighbors as it to find its own answers in its own way. becomes a prisoner to its language. The worst thing that can happen to a Conversely, isolation is a major factor "voice crying in the wilderness" is that in the development of language. Groups it find itself alone in that wilderness possessing common genetic and cul with no one to listen or to understand. tural ancestry may in the course of Bridge-building must be attempted migration and expansion find them again and again even if one runs the selves cut off from one another by risk of being misunderstood. To keep in natural barriers mountains, deserts, touch with all of that world for which bodies of water. Initially they may con Christ died may tax the creative skills tinue at least limited intercourse, but as of all of us. But it may also call for in their visitations become less and less novation in the realm of ideas. The frequent the separated groups develop words innovation and new, as in "new divergent customs, ways of looking at light," have much in common. In the things, and most important, different words of Ellen White in Counsels to language with which to express these. Writers and Editors, pages 38 and 39: Finally isolation may become virtually "Whenever the people of God are grow total, and a group on one side of a bar ing in grace, they will be constantly rier may come to possess only a hazy obtaining a clearer understanding of and distorted awareness of what is tak His word. They will discern new light ing place on the other. and beauty in its sacred truths. This has This is not only a truism in social been true in the history of the church anthropology, it is a fact of life in the in all ages, and thus it will continue to sociology of religious movements. And the end. But as real spiritual life de this is a fact that a people committed to clines, it has ever been the tendency to a mission "to every nation, kindred, cease to advance in the knowledge of the tongue, and people" would do well to truth. Men rest satisfied with the light ponder. There are many kinds of bar already received from God©s word, and riers, some of them not literal bodies of discourage any further investigation of water and there can exist linguistic the Scriptures. They become conserva isolation even within the same mother tive, and seek to avoid discussion. tongue. There are even generation "The fact that there is no controversy barriers. or agitation among God©s people, should It is important to recognize this. It is not be regarded as conclusive evidence also important for us to be aware of the that they are holding fast to sound doc extent that it may be happening to us. trine. There is reason to fear that they There is reason to believe that many of may not be clearly discriminating us have increasingly come to talk only Jack W. Provon- between truth and error. When no new to ourselves and to others who are very sha, Ph.D., is questions are started by investigation professor of much like us in belief and vocabulary. philosophy of of the Scriptures, when no difference Some give the impression of being virtu religion and of opinion arises which will set men to ally unaware of that growing number of Christian ethics searching the Bible for themselves, to people being spewed out on the other at Loma Linda make sure that they have the truth, side of that gulf by the vast megalo- University. there will be many now, as in ancient 34/The Ministry/April, 1976 times, who will hold to tradition, and Creators need Finally, it is important to recall that worship they know not what." other people as for innovation to contribute to the prog It might also be useful to recall her both positive ress of truth there must be a com statement that at the end of time "the munity. Creative people require a warnings that worldly conformity has and negative community of other minds who become silenced or withheld must be given sounding the shaping context in which the effort under the fiercest opposition from ene boards. becomes fruitful. No one can be sure mies of the faith. And at that time the that his work is truly creative if he is superficial, conservative class, whose forced to carry it out in isolation. Cre influence has steadily retarded the prog ators need other people as both positive ress of the work, will renounce the and negative sounding boards, as well faith and take their stand with its as for encouragement in the effort. The avowed enemies, toward whom their effort requires courage, and courage sympathies have long been tending." feeds on encouragement. Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 463. If the To repeat, what this implies is that church ever loses its capacity for clearer there be a community. And community visions of God, new insights and under presupposes trust. Unless the church standings, it will have betrayed its di can become a collection of people who vine calling. trust one another, who are willing to Perhaps "innovation" is too strong a assume the best until forced to admit word here. It may be that terms such as the worst, that which we so desperately "creative" or "progressive" would be need to complete our common task will more appropriate, for "new light" is an elude us. expression containing two words, the Can there be an innovative Adven- second being light. If light refers to tism? There must be! The world and the truth and truth is a unity, all "new times demand it. The task before us re light" is continuous with what went be quires the utmost in creative effort in fore and belongs to it. There may be every direction including progressive progression and development indeed openness to new ideas and methods, must be but not in discontinuity with and it requires persons with sufficient the past. courage to face up to it. But that does not mean that there Above all, the times demand that a cannot be new ways of stating the truth. community of people draw together in (It is unfortunate that some Christians mutual trust and confidence so that the are more acquainted with the language effort can be that of all of us together. of Christian faith than they are with its Come to think of it, this kind of love and essence and thus do not recognize it in unity might just be the greatest innova unfamiliar dress.) tion of all. H

"Only a Boy Named David," as "Only a little sling"? Actually, it "Only a Boy the children©s song used in our was a long leather strap designed Sabbath schools says? Sometimes it to cast a rock certainly it was not Named DavM" looks very much as though a good a little stone or pebble with kill many of our impressions of these ing force. In the Bible we are told, Royal Sage truly great Biblical stories come "And he took his staff in his hand, more from songs such as this than and chose him five smooth stones from God©s Word itself. out of the brook" (1 Sam. 17:40). "Boy," indeed! He was a full- Probably all of us wish always to grown "youth" or "young man," tell the truth. It may be that the capable of slaying a lion, when he reality of some of these" stories is was anointed to replace Israel©s more than the young should be King Saul, who had become so called on to assimilate, even though wicked. This anointing was even we do live in days of unquestionable before his victory over the giant violence, which reinforce what a Goliath, who was somewhere violent thing sin is. around ten feet tall (1 Sam. 17; cf. Song or no song, these are some Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 637ff.). not all of the facts in the account David was a rugged outdoor youth, of young David©s encounter with around 19 years old at the time. the Philistine champion.

The Ministry/April, 1976/35 threatened to open. Non-Adventists we dubbed "outsiders." They were appro Reaching priate victims for an evangelistic foray of a Sabbath afternoon, but not to be the Spiritually mingled with, or sought out on a social or intellectual basis. In MV Society we reported on "con illiterate tacts" with "outsiders" and pledged our selves to keep the "Morning Watch" lest a sudden dawn assault find us unpro tected. With our campaign maps coded ac cording to Bible Readings for the Home Circle, and heads charged with texts while our pockets bulged with tracts, what could we do but rejoice in the "out sider" who "just looked like an Advent ist"? And so evangelism shaped its strat FORTRESS ADVENTISM seems to WALTER egy around the idea of finding "the be withstanding the assaults from the R. L. SCRAGG honest in heart" who might easily be secular city rather well. Our schools are recruited to swell the numbers inside protecting larger numbers of youth the fortress. Even today our better than ever before. Our churches bulge programs shape themselves around this toward second services. Our colleges and strategy. Success burgeons from Bible- seminaries fashion articulate, erudite marking plans, Gift Bible Evangelism, spokesmen for fundamental, conserva Bible correspondence courses, Bible tive theology standards. Our expeditions crusades. into the territory of the enemy liberate We probably won©t give up the use of more than ever before. this strategy, for large numbers of Yet all is not well within the fortifica people are still spiritually literate, even tions. Desertions sometimes threaten to if not as Biblically literate as they once overtake new recruits. The exhortations might have been. But in the secular city, of our generals leave large segments of stronghold of secular man, different the ranks unmoved. Our captains pon strategies and tactics seem far more der the breakdown in discipline between appropriate. To confine ourselves to the Sabbath parades. There is the suspicion role of switching one set of doctrines for that some shuck their uniforms on work another as we "complete the Reforma days and go AWOL. Often the media tion" may suffice in some cases, but drumbeat of the alien culture seduces takes on the sound of an alien code for the soldiers of the cross to inattention many dwellers in the secular, material and insubordination. istic apartment towers and housing de The pastor, frayed and frazzled cap velopments. tain of the local regiment, wavers be tween retreat into the more secure areas Six-Day Secularists? of the fortress, where many of his mem Even within our own ranks, many bers may not follow, and an advance Seventh-day Adventists switch roles to into new territory where he may find six-day secularists come Saturday night. himself cut off from lines of communi The interface of our lives and the lives cation and the supply trains. Often this of our members is with the secular. We dichotomy strikes at the very heart of mingle with secular man, we partake of the church©s mission. many of his goals, his ambitions, his I was reared within the fortress, prod successes. uct of a second-generation Adventist Walter Scragg is It might well be easier to tut-tut this ministerial home, who saw that the president of the all away as being another sign of the stout walls of church school and college Northern Europe- end time, gather the armaments of surrounded me. Even the language West Africa fundamentalism around us, and fire clanged the gates shut every time they Division. volleys of ire and indignation at a world

36/The Ministry/April, 1976 gone crazy. In doing so we may rally to Jesus sought him! a glutton and a drinker, a friend of the flag the loyal, the devoted, and the to meet the . . . sinners!© And yet God©s wisdom is convicted, but having done that we minds of the proved right by its results" (Matt. 11:19, may well have left the field to satanic N.E.B.j.t At least to a certain extent, recruiters. common in evangelism, Jesus said that the end What we need to know about the for people. justifies the means. His mingling with tress of Adventist belief and practice the lower classes and the irreligious is whether it is stout enough to arm us alienated the Pharisees. They regarded as we venture with our people into the Him as contaminated, as lowering the secular world they inhabit, and, just as standards of righteousness by His ac important, whether the banners we tions; but He retorted that the results wave will attract the belief and loyalty proved His methods right. of new recruits. "We may reflect with profit upon His The elements of a pastoral and evan manner of teaching. He sought to meet gelistic strategy toward the secular city the minds of the common people. His exist. More and more plans and ideas style was plain, simple, comprehensive. are developing among thoughtful pas He took His illustrations from the tors and their laity for reaching secular scenes with which His hearers were man. most familiar." Evangelism, p. 565. Fortunately the church has had to face a pagan world since its overseas Meeting Felt Needs work began in 1874, and the basics Then blessings on the pastor-evangel necessary for confronting a secular ist who knows how his people live the world are similar. six days they are away from church; who reads their newspapers and news maga Bible Strategy zines; who watches television and lis It should come as no surprise that the tens to radio (within the grounds of Bible offers many concepts that will for Christian propriety and standards, of tify the church in its assault on the bas course); who knows the streets they tions of worldly wisdom and indiffer walk; who senses the social pressures ence. Paul and the apostles had to they endure. And if he also knows this succeed in a world much like ours, with about his community and his city, he is its Greek philosophy and Roman ma all the better equipped to meet the chal terialism. lenge of the secular and the indifferent. Paul therefore kept an adaptable Jesus Christ sought to answer the felt strategy as he moved among the sophis needs of the people. He wasn©t passing ticates of the Greco-Roman civilization. out baby clothes to senior citizens, or "I have, in short, been all things to all seeking to fill the bellies of the fam sorts of men that by every possible ished with sermons on Revelation 10 means I might win some to God. I do all and Daniel 11. this for the sake of the gospel; I want to "This work God would have us do. play my part properly" (1 Cor. 9:22, 23, Christ©s example must be followed by Phillips).* those who claim to be His children. Re On Mars Hill, Paul proved that he lieve the physical necessities of your could adapt himself to the intellectuals fellow men, and their gratitude will of his day and conduct a successful evan break down the barriers and enable gelistic campaign. Before Festus and you to reach their hearts. Consider this Felix Agrippa he showed how to use matter earnestly." Testimonies to common ground in order to reach out to Ministers, p. 424. these somewhat cynical government In seeking to answer human need, officers. In his reasoning about wisdom one great danger exists: we may be and the cross he was using concepts that come satisfied with the means and for were familiar to his Greek audience and get the end. "Everywhere men are un hardly Judaic in their origin. satisfied. They long for something to In His search for common ground supply the need of the soul. Only One Jesus fell afoul of the spiritual leaders can meet that want. The need of the of the Jews. "The Son of Man came eat world, ©The Desire of all nations,© is ing and drinking, and they say, ©Look at Christ"—The Desire of Ages, p. 187.

The Ministry/April, 1976/37 Many programs have been developed The world needs Jesus Christ. But does he know in recent years to meet human need. seeks concern, that? And if he suspects it, can he recog The Five-Day Plan to Stop Smoking, nize our concern to genuinely help him the Four Dimensional Key to the Cause not manipu in our approaches to him? of Alcoholism, "coffee shop" ministries, lation. Back to Fortress Adventism for a few inner-city programs reinforce the pastor moments. Need we fear that new ap as he sallies into the heart of the secular proaches and methods will demolish the city. The development of witnessing walls and let the armies of apostasy and techniques that seek to confront the compromise overrun the citadel? Fears Biblical illiterate with the person and like this are expressed whenever some claims of Christ helps prevent the use of one tries a new approach. The Voice of programs for the sake of the program. Prophecy still smarts from wounds re And we need more concepts that take ceived in its foray into the world of the person who is basically pagan in young people with "The Way Out." And thought and deed and bring him to the wounds didn©t come from the con Christ. flict outside. The fiercest darts were Recently John Robertson, of the Voice hurled from within the fort. Yet this of Prophecy, has developed radio spots program has put more than a million that nudge secular man toward the names of non-Adventist youth on the consideration of Jesus Christ as an al mailing lists of the Voice of Prophecy. ternate to the other answers to the In a sense AWARE is just as revolution world©s problems. The "Aware" series ary, though not so controversial because has enjoyed unusual success. Now the it is couched in conservative English. Voice of Prophecy is shaping similar de What many of these new techniques signs for youth and other audiences. are saying is that it is right to meet man "All These Puzzles" offers no Bible where he is with his minimal knowledge studies, doesn©t presume a knowledge of of the Bible; that it is not just our job the Bible, or even of Jesus Christ. It to complete the reformation in the offers Jesus Christ as an answer that minds of the doctrinally literate; that might be considered and might prove we have a responsibility to all men, more effective than the scientific, soci whatever their condition, their knowl ological, and technical answers that edge; that we really have eliminated all seem to have failed. And even then traces of the shut door of our begin Christ usually appears only in the clos nings; that some things ought to be done ing paragraphs of the chapters. regardless of the soul count at the end. In the secular city the pastor and his Still Need the Nets recruits must take a "disinterested" The pond of Biblical knowledge still stance toward human need. Not unin holds many fish, and we still need the terested, but disinterested. So many strong nets of Bible study and doctrinal phonies batten on human need that we analysis to convict and modify belief. dare not raise the suspicion of new ones. But more and more fish swim in other Our disaster vans roll because of people waters. Then we must use other meth in need, not because someone will call ods, other bait. This is why the emphasis the lay activities director to account for found in Century 21 and other health- expenditures in souls won. The world related programs designed for the next seeks concern, not manipulation. And quinquennium has such significance. in this involved but disinterested The quantity of these new programs, stance, the spiritual programs of the the quality of their focus must increase church may succeed even better. if we are to continue to reap in the Jesus told His disciples, "And I, if I 1980©s as we have in the 1970©s. "Re be lifted up, will draw all men unto member: sparse sowing, sparse reaping; me." To lift up Jesus in the heart of the sow bountifully, and you will reap boun secular city means something far dif tifully" (2 Cor. 9:6, N.E.B.). Sowing the ferent than it did fifty or even twenty field of secularism does not so much years ago. It©s the same Jesus, but the demand new kinds of seed as it demands question we must answer is, How can new methods of fertilizing, new plans man best know and understand the for watering and irrigating. If we sow Jesus we are lifting up before them? II only in the methods of Bible course study, or doctrinal tracts, we may pro * From The New Testament in Modern English, © J. B. Phil nounce the field stony and footworn and lips 1972. Used by permission of The Macmillan Company. t From The New English Bible. The Delegates of the Ox unproductive. ford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge Uni We know that the secular citizen versity Press, 1970. Reprinted by permission. 38/The Ministry/April, 1976 seminary news

dents generally find that the "We need a new work that will be Doctor of Ministry Program completion of the research project of enduring value. It would be a Enthusiastically Received requires an additional period of major contribution to the time beyond the four quarters in church." Leaders in theological educa residence. Projects developed in The book will include full docu tion are surprised at the enthusi the context of the minister©s work mentation, sources, bibliography, asm with which the Doctor of setting are encouraged. and appendices. Each chapter is Ministry professional degree pro Organized according to the to be written to stand independ gram has been received. In five generalist professional model, ently and yet blend chronologi years we have moved from only the program emphasizes the tra cally and topically with the rest three programs, enrolling about ditional functions of the practic of the book. 200 students, to more than fifty ing minister in four separate The authors and assigned topics programs with almost 3,500 stu quarter-long emphases: word and are: Gerhard Hasel, "The Sabbath dents in North America. Some worship, pastoral care and nur in the Pentateuch"; W. G. C. Mur observers expect the Doctor of ture, leadership for church doch, "The Sabbath in the His Ministry degree to become, un growth, and church and society. torical and Prophetical Literature officially at least, the standard of Individualization of study of the Old Testament"; Law formal education for the profes needs and interests is arranged rence T. Geraty, " ©Sabbaths© in sional ministry. through elective courses and the the Ancient Near East"; Sakae It should be noted that al student©s doctoral project. Kubo, "The Sabbath During the though a few seminaries offer the Address inquiries for details Intertestamental Period"; Walter D.Min. degree as a part of the regarding the Andrews Uni Specht, "The Sabbath in the New total original academic prepara versity Doctor of Ministry pro Testament"; S. Douglas Water- tion for ministers in an "in gram to: house, "The Seven-day Week in sequence" program, the majority Antiquity"; Samuele Bacciocchi, of the seminaries that offer this Arnold Kutz, Ph.D., Doctor of "Rise of Sunday Observance in degree have tailored programs in Ministry Program the Early Christian Church: So continuing education to meet the Seventh-day Adventist cial and Political Factors"; Theological Seminary needs of the practicing minister James C. Cox, "The Sabbath in what is termed an "in ministry" Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104 in the Post-Apostolic Church"; program. Robert Johnston, "The Sabbath Ordained ministers, struggling and Sunday in the Middle Ages"; to cope with increasing complex Sabbath Book Being Kenneth Strand, "The Sabbath ity of the task of pastoral leader Prepared on the European Continent Dur ship in a world of rapid change, ing the Reformation Era"; Wal are looking to these programs for Eighteen professors at Andrews ter B. T. Douglas, "The Sabbath retooling and for upgrading in University are contributing to a in Puritan England and in the competence for their work. book entitled The Sabbath in New World"; Roy Branson, "The The Andrews University The Scripture and History. Sabbath in Modern Judaism"; ological Seminary has been of This challenging project is C. Mervyn Maxwell, "The Sab fering a study program for the sponsored by the Review and Her bath in Seventh-day Adventist Doctor of Ministry degree just ald Publishing Association, with History"; Hans K. LaRondelle, over two years. It is open to or Kenneth Strand, professor of "The Sabbath and Contemporary dained ministers who hold the church history, as coordinator on Thought"; Raoul Dederen, "Phi M.Div. degree (or its equivalent), the Andrews University campus. losophy and Theology of the Sab who have had three or four years© He anticipates that the book will bath"; and Thomas Blincoe, experience in the practice of be published in 1977. "Principles of Proper Sabbath- ministry, and who have demon Raymond Cottrell, book editor keeping in the Twentieth Cen strated high personal potential of the Review and Herald Pub tury." for the successful practice of lishing Association, plans for the As a companion to the Sabbath ministry. Recent graduates and book to be acceptable to the best volume, the Review is sponsoring present student members of the of Adventist and non-Adventist a book entitled The Advent Hope program include pastors, confer scholars and educated laymen. in Scripture and History, to be ence departmental secretaries, "Pastors, teachers, and laymen written by 14 scholars at Loma and teachers of ministerial stu have lamented the fact that we Linda University. The campus dents in the practical aspects of have nothing of the kind," he coordinator there is V. Norskov ministry. states. Olsen, professor of church history The program requires a mini J. N. Andrews© long-time and president of the university. mum of four quarters of course classic History of the Sabbath Either campus may require work and a written report of a is now out of print and would not more than one volume to amply doctoral research project. Stu serve today©s needs, Cottrell said. cover their subjects, Cottrell said. The Ministry/April, 1976/39 the doctrines, important as they are, but by his side also that Jesus is our personal Saviour. Sponsored by Catherine Dower The resulting joy will not be dependent for the Shepherdess. on things around us or on what people say about us. Our joy will come from within. Such a person cannot be made Dear Shepherdess: A friend of mine miserable. Let us thank God for trials. wrote her thoughts in dialog form one As Barbara Folkenberg says, "Thank day when the going was a bit rough for God for the black packages we receive, her pastor-husband and herself. I©m sure as well as the shiny, beautiful pack many of us have suffered justly or un Ministers© wives ages." We will be brought closer to God, justly at the hands of a well-meaning share their ex who wishes us to be polished and re parishioner and had similar thoughts. periences and fined for the home He is preparing "It is Satan©s studied plan to bring observations on for us. successfully discouragement to us all," but "after working "by his This month we are also sharing with talking to God He gives one strength side." Order from you another talk that was given at the and spirit to meet genuinely any situa your Adventist General Conference session in Vienna tion." Book Center, by Mrs. C. D. Henri, whose husband is Our message will go to the world special price, one of the vice-presidents of the General when we all give our witness not only of 65 cents. Conference. With love, Kay

Me: I don©t want to go to church this Me: I guess it is only one or two, Lord, morning, God. Thoughts that don©t want me there. God: Why not? on Going God: Yes, and maybe they have their Me: I don©t think they want me there. problems of being wanted and God: What makes you think that? to Church loved. Will you go to church for Me: Haven©t you heard the telephone Me? You see, I can©t be in My full ringing and what people are say est presence at church without ing? you. Me: Why not, God? God: What do you mean? BY A MINISTER©S WIFE God: I have chosen that My way be Me: All the things about my loved one known through you, My child. I his sermons are no good, he is have chosen My love to be shown not preaching enough about You, through your smile. I have chosen his ways are not what they want, My joy to be shown through your his eyes do not look at them as happy heart. I have chosen My they want. God, if they do not patient endurance or longsuffering like him, they do not like me, be to be shown by your enduring cause we are of one flesh! trustworthy friendship. I have God: Child, do you remember when I chosen My gentleness to be shown was here on this earth? They through your sweet tone of voice wagged their finger at Me. They in spite of what others may say. I called Me blasphemous. They spit have chosen My goodness to be on Me. How much more do you shown through your treating poor, want Me to remind you of? rich, friend, foe, old, young, as My Me: I remember, Lord. But You had sons and daughters. I have chosen the Father speak to You from My faith to be shown through you heaven. You had John, who loved that I have given you eternal life You so ... and will very soon return for you. I God: Just a minute. You have Danny, have chosen My meekness to be who always says hello and plants shown through you by listening pretty flowers around the church. carefully to those who are talking You have Jeanne and Vie, who to you whether it is kind or un always smile sweetly; you have kind. I have chosen My temper Ben, who always says, "Good ance to be shown through you by morning, Mrs. Pastor. It is nice to your healthy, vibrant body and see you." You have Robert, who is your daily care of it. These are My always kind. You have Richard, gifts to you. Will you now go to who is precious. You have . . . church with Me? II 40/The Ministry/April, 1976 NONE OF US doubts that the return Preparing She would look attractive to sensible of our Lord is imminent, but we prob people, in neatly tailored dresses and ably don©t recognize how soon this cli for comfortable low-heeled shoes. Above mactic event may take place. In view of Chm&tfs all, she would look pleasing to the Lord, this, "What manner of persons ought ye and this is all-important. to be in all holy conversation and godli Return ness, looking for and hasting unto the Ample Provision coming of the day of God" (2 Peter 3:11). God has made ample provision that There is a preparation that is of ut through the mighty power of His grace, most importance as we look forward and the effectual working of the Holy with hope and thanksgiving to the re LORRAINE HENRI Spirit, we can live Godlike lives in this turn of our loving Lord. "For the grace present world. We have to admit that of God that bringeth salvation hath much of the blame and the reason for appeared to all men, teaching us that, our decadent society, our crime-filled denying ungodliness and worldly lust, streets, and our lack of principles and we should live soberly, and righteously, morals rests on the influence of the and godly, in this present world; looking home. Home must be a place where for that blessed hope, and the glorious there is worship and study and prayer. appearing of the great God and our A place where our children can learn Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself from the early years those fundamental for us, that he might redeem us from truths and practices that they should all iniquity, and purify unto himself a see exemplified in us that will enable peculiar people, zealous of good works" them to grow up to be strong, and moral, (Titus 2:11-13; italics supplied). and clean. And it is still true that the To live soberly, righteously, and home to a great extent depends upon godly in this present world! To be a what the wife and mother makes it. peculiar people zealous of good works The inner preparation for Christ©s requires an inward, supernatural, di coming involves absolute and complete vine change in us. Christ longs to give surrender to the will of God, holding us a new heart and to renew a right nothing in reserve. Even for this, we spirit within us. Humanly speaking, it have no human capability, but God in is impossible. In fact, many take as their His mercy and His love provides the reason for living as they do today the motivating power. ancient credo, "Everybody©s doing it!" Actually, the life that we must live What else could so dramatically de has already been lived. Jesus did that termine our foolish, fickle, immodest for us. But we must be willing to ask fashions? Fashion designers manipulate Him to appropriate to us His perfect us like puppets on strings. If the new life of righteousness. He longs to do fashion calls for the short, the tight, the this. He is just waiting to do this, but skimpy, the revealing, we conform. we must decide to let Him do so. It is my conviction that our dress and If we just determine, come what will deportment ought to reflect our status Lorraine Henri is or may, by an act of our will to give our the hostess for as daughters of God. But some may say, the Visitors© selves to Jesus, then there are no temp How would a woman look if she strictly Center at the Gen tations, no powers in heaven or earth followed out these instructions in dress? eral Conference that can cause us to sin. The testimony The answer she would have becoming headquarter* in of the Bible writer is clear, "For I am clothes of good material, modest in color. Washington, D.C. persuaded, that neither life, nor death,

The Ministry/April, 1976/41 nor angels, nor principalities . . . nor World Report things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea ture, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Rom. 8:38, 39). The servant of God tells us, "If you take even one step toward Him in repentance, He will hasten to enfold you in His arms of in Target 8O finite love" (Christ's Object Lessons, p. 206). So you see, it©s an act of our will. on Thrget When once we decide, God will impute to us, give to us, the righteousness of His Son, the life that He has lived to cover our old life of sin. Then through His grace, and the inward working of the Holy Spirit, as we constantly submit ourselves to Him, dying daily, He will impart to us daily the righteousness we THE FAR EASTERN DIVISION is need, the strength that we need, the moving steadily forward under a di grace that we need to live a Christian vision-wide program of evangelism life now in this present world. called TARGET 80. Guidelines for 1976 And so, this inward change will be were sent out by Ministerial Secretary reflected outwardly in our dress, in our R. C. Williams, TARGET 80 coordinator. deportment, in how we react to things, They include the following objectives: and in our speech. Everything about us 1. Every field minister to conduct at will be a proof that Christianity is real, least one evangelistic effort of his own. viable, and beautifully possible. 2. Every worker in an office or insti This experience of complete surrender tution to get involved in conducting a to God affects every aspect of our living. crusade personally or assisting in some It will motivate us to keep our bodies way. in health and in vigor by right exercise, 3. Every willing layman involved for proper eating habits. Because in a new Christ in some way. sense we will recognize that our bodies 4. Thousands of people contacted and are the temple of the Holy Spirit, we interests created through the Voice of will eat right, exercise right, and think Prophecy, schools, medical institutions, right. Proper mental health will also Sabbath schools, and other avenues of be a benefit that results from a right outreach. These must be thoroughly relationship with God. We will make our followed up. A visit or two is not enough. homes little heavens on earth because Follow through means to keep on visit our living will be heavenly. Our chil ing, studying, praying, and urging in dren will know it; our husbands will the Spirit of Christ until a decision is know it; our neighbors will know it be made. cause we have a new, a vibrant, a dif 5. Millions wait in darkness while ferent source of power for our living. Be others enjoy the light. It is urgent that it forever understood, God did not make we move forward to conquer new terri us inferior. He made us equals, and the tory. Let us lay plans and light up these serenity of this knowledge and the dark areas. power of God working within us will en 6. Challenge every church to set a able us to live as Christian women ought specific goal for souls in 1976. Suggest to live. that each church set a monthly or Finally, when Jesus comes we will quarterly baptismal Sabbath through have so fully reflected Him, lived for out ©76. Him, and been prepared by Him, through the working of the Holy Spirit, that He will want us to be with Him throughout the unending ages of eter Laity and Ministry Combine in Ran nity. This is why He is returning to goon Effort gather those who are His. There is only Laity and ministry from four one way we can miss heaven and that churches in Rangoon, Burma, combined is because we will not, by an act of our with union leaders and office personnel will, permit Him to save us. II in a five-week evangelistic campaign 42/The Ministry/April, 1976 bers of the class had already accepted these principles during the health classes. The twelve who were baptized after these sessions included five Moslems, three from other Christian groups, and four adhering to no particular religious belief. RIFAIBURHANUDDIN

Temperance Activities Create Inter est In South America temperance ac tivities have led thousands of our youth and adults to effectively awaken attention, interest, and the desire of the community for the truth. In several cities, local churches have gathered to plan and later execute a temperance march. Dressed in T-shirts with slogans that resulted in forty-one baptisms. Ac Saya Bakhin gave cording to Pastor V. Kipzanang, Minis the sermon on such as "Do not smoke," "Do not drink," terial and lay activities secretary of the "God©s Last "Say yes to life," and "Be honest live Burma Union, this figure represents the Warning Mes without drugs," they parade down the largest number ever baptized from one sage" to the main streets, almost always led by campaign in Burma. capacity crowd police cars or motorcycles with sirens Both lay preachers and ministers that attended a blowing. They carry posters and ban shared the speaking assignments, pre five-week evan ners that carry the same slogans. The gelistic campaign marchers usually assemble finally in senting the theme "Come Unto Me" to a conducted by the nightly audience of 250-300. Weekend one of the central squares where they laity and ministry make speeches, distribute temperance attendance filled the hall, which seated in Rangoon, 500. Health talks and films were fea Burma. pamphlets and magazines, invitations tured, and about 50 people stopped to the Five-Day Plan to be held soon, or smoking as a result. announcements of any other community During the campaign, which lasted service project. from September 28 to October 31, 1975, One young man and his fiancee who 93 signed decision cards indicating took part in one of these marches came acceptance of Christ as Saviour. Among to me the next Sabbath with this happy those baptized were several Buddhists announcement: "At the square we con and one young Moslem man. tacted a lawyer who was a heavy smoker and needed help. We were so happy to be able to help him that we even lost our fear of doing missionary work. This Baptisms Result From Health Edu afternoon we are going to his house to cation study the Bible with him." The baptism of twelve new church When we held the temperance march members in Medan, Sumatra, can be in Belo Horizonte (East Brazil Union) traced directly to a health-education we wrote "ADVENTIST YOUNG PEO program. PLE" in small letters right under the Following the instruction of E. Li- slogans on the banners. During the days wijaya, health secretary of the West that followed, our telephones were Indonesia Union Mission, the Medan never silent. Many wanted to know Adventist Hospital launched a health what Adventist young people did and program designed for people of various what the whole thing meant. In Cocha- beliefs Christian, Moslem, heathen. bamba, Bolivia, four hundred young Nurse Nagari Sembiring conducted people marched through the city streets. health education classes for former pa Afterward, the amazed city authorities tients. After these classes, she requested declared: "Cochabamba will never for a pastor to come and conduct Bible get what happened today. You have classes. When he reached the topics of given us a message of life. We hope our smoking, drinking coffee and tea, and young people have understood." other temperance subjects, the mem- JOSE M. VTANA The Ministry/April, 1976/43 WHATS MISSING?

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They may be a They would simply need to be imprinted little expensive for one pastor to subscribe with your own information. At least, if you to all of them, but maybe pastors in your don©t subscribe to the magazine, ask to be area can divide the subscription list and placed on their mailing list. each one get one and then share the maga Recycle, P.O. Box 12811, Pittsburgh, zines around the circle. Or perhaps the Pennsylvania 15241, $6.50 per year. Ministerial secretary of your conference Recycle is a little paper journal of about could purchase them all and make them four pages of xerox-type written material available on a loan basis to pastors who are of many ideas that are used in various interested. churches. Some of these are too mod for us, In our office, we carry all of the following but many of them are clever and unique and journals for the pastors to look over, and could be utilized by Adventist pastors. 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In his sermon on redeeming the appropriateness the Christian THE TRUE ESTIMATE OF time, Morgan gives an apt illus recognizes differences in music LIFE, G. Campbell Morgan, tration of walking circumspectly. and in audiences. He knows that Baker Book House, Grand He tells of a wall topped with ce a concert audience is a gathering Rapids, Michigan, 1975, 240 ment like many in his native of persons with similar tastes but pages, $2.95. England with sharp .shards of with varied religious beliefs, glass inserted into the cement to while a church congregation is a "A powerful preacher, a prince discourage small boys from gathering of persons with similar among evangelists," says Who climbing over it. But, he says, religious beliefs, but who have a Was Who in Church History. You "You have also seen a cat walk wide difference in musical taste. will find nine of his sermons in The along the top of that wall cir So the church, in choosing music True Estimate of Life. Morgan©s cumspectly. " that is fitting, will seek to avoid ability to take a phrase or passage Looking for good sermon ma being too ©conformed to the world© of Scripture and make it live is terial? Don©t forget Morgan. on the one hand, and being too unsurpassed. Raymond F. Cottrell highbrow or above the average The sermon I like best is built taste of the congregation, on the around Paul©s affirmation, "To other hand. It is possible but not me to live is Christ." Paul©s life easy for the church to attain this and ministry, says Morgan, re CHRISTIAN SEARCH FOR fine balance between pure aes vealed the meaning of Christian BEAUTY, Harold Byron Han- thetic pleasure and suitable re ity as no other. He takes a Bible num, Southern Publishing ligious use of music and art." phrase and extracts scintillating Ass©n., Nashville, Tennessee, Page 58. rays of light from it, like those 160 pages, $5.95. "Some say that they get more from a diamond rotating in a Ministers are frequently chal spiritual good from listening to beam of light. lenged with questions prefaced music such as a Brahms sym Illustrating the meaning of with the words "What©s wrong phony or a Bach cantata than Christian perfection, he writes: with ?" Often the questioner they do from attending a church "Put a child of six months beside may be asking about something service. This is a confusion of a man of 40. What a difference! in the realm of art a literary values. Granted that music is They are both perfect, but the production, a painting, or a thrilling and beautiful, our atti man is perfected with the perfec piece of music. In endeavoring tude toward worship should al tion of maturity, while the child to answer these questions, those ways rate higher in spiritual is not." Later in the same sermon of us who are ministers have value than an artistic experience. occurs the logical admonition: often wished that we were better Religion and religious experience "The moment you are doubtful informed in the field of aesthetics should not be confused with the about a certain course of action, the science of beauty and taste; realm of art. Art may supplement your solemn duty is to cease that knowledge of the fine arts and religion, and should do so, but not action." Sound wisdom indeed! art criticism. It is particularly supplant it." Page 41. Morgan tells the story of a in the field of music that many of A careful reading of Professor young woman out of whose life all us have felt this lack in our Hannum©s book will do more than joy had gone because of a broken understanding. help the minister answer per friendship for which she was at Professor Hannum has taught plexing questions. It will also least partly responsible. "Praise aesthetics at Loma Linda Uni broaden his insight into the God!" Morgan replied. "What versity for years; and, being a meaning and importance of about?" she asked. "That you musician himself, he has given beauty, as is well stated in the in know when it went; because if you particular emphasis to the evalu troduction: know when it went, you know ation of various art forms, es "Have you ever wondered how it went," was the answer. pecially in music. His book is a whether there is a right and wrong He counseled her to write the distillation of years of study, in music or in art? . . . friend a letter. A year later he experience, and observation. "The author hopes to open met her again. "Have you sent Christian Search for Beauty is doors to the Christian whereby that letter?" he asked. "I wrote it not light reading. But for the he may enter some new fields of last night," she replied, adding person who is seriously seeking enjoyment in the fine arts. Too that she had dropped the letter in to understand the place of the many deny themselves the legiti the mailbox at midnight. "And arts especially music in the mate pleasures which the arts as that letter went into the box, life of the Christian, it is helpful afford. If we can open our eyes to heaven came back into my heart." and stimulating. see, and sharpen our ears to hear, Another aphorism that caught The following paragraphs il we will become more aware of the my eye was this: "How eager men lustrate the common sense that values in the arts waiting to en are to give up their brother©s characterizes the entire book: rich our lives." Page 14. idols!" Ah, yes. "In considering fitness and Norval F. Pease 46/The Ministry/April, 1976 1O ways These Times and Message can help change an interest name into a baptism.

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At the same time, Dr. Henry Wide Experimentation commented that "dialog is com Church-State Lawyer With Satanism Found in plicated by the fact of changing Writes Views on Catholics Australia convictions in both arenas. If among Catholics there is growing NEW YORK Declaring that SYDNEY More than half of revolt against papal authority he did not like the "monolithic Sydney©s high school students by laymen (at) such practical lev and authoritarian" pre-Vatican have experimented with "the oc els as birth control and abortion, II Catholic Church when "Pius cult and Satanism," according to and by clergy in respect to celi XII reigned over the Catholic an Anglican Church-sponsored bacy Baptist seminaries, north world and Cardinal Spellman inquiry. and south, have largely compro ruled in the U.S.," a well-known In a report on its findings, a mised the authority of Scripture constitutional lawyer said he commission of the church also as the infallible divine rule of still does not like the church, but said that some students in the faith and conduct." he does not like it "less." major cities of Adelaide and Leo Pfeffer, a veteran of Brisbane were involved in church-state legal battles and an "witchcraft and black masses." avowed foe of public aid to paro Archbishop Marcus Loane, of Agudath Israel Leader Sees chial schools, said that what he Sydney, who set up the commis a Return to "Traditions" does like today about the Catholic sion to investigate the matter, ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Agu Church is that "papal infallibility was quoted in a Sydney radio dath Israel of America, the na is de facto dead," collegiality is broadcast as saying he was tional Orthodox Jewish move the "wave of the future," and the "greatly surprised" by the find ment, has reported that a number Church is "purging itself of its ings. of American Jews are returning extreme anti-communism and The commission©s report rec-© to the "Jewish tradition." ultra-nationalism." ommended a ban on the sale of "While the problems of assimi What seems to bother him con "occult" material, including as lation and intermarriage have by siderably is that the Catholic trology charts. no means diminished, we are now Church is "flirting" with Anglican witness to a new trend in the op and Protestant churches in a posite direction," said Rabbi move toward Christian unity, Catholic-Baptist Shaul Shenker, director of the and he fears "a universal church, Dialog Complicated organizations© Jewish Education even a watered-down one." Program. GARRISON, N.Y. A noted He told the fifty-third National Unless otherwise credited, these news items are evangelical theologian has cau Convention of Agudath Israel taken from Religious News Service. tioned that dialog between Bap here that "thousands of Ameri tists and Roman Catholics is can Jews, for years groping for "complicated by the fact of chang identity, are quietly shifting Change of Address ing convictions in both arenas." gears away from spiritual assimi Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, lec- lation and are returning to Jew Miif turer-at-large for World Vision ish tradition." my- International, gave his thoughts _ - Q© • J on future trends in Baptist-Cath olic relations in an article in the November issue of At/One/Ment, Bible Shipment to the newsletter of the Ecumenical the USSR: 3,000 Volumes Clergy Association. for Estonia The American Baptist theolo © WAKE FOREST The Baptist gian wrote that "there are many World Alliance (BWA) has al if;?:? indications that the noncommuni located $3,000 toward the cost of cation of the past between these 3,000 German-language Bibles two largest Christian movements Ba that will be shipped to the Soviet t_ 3 >rt in the U.S. (Baptists and Cath Union through the United Bible olics) is being overcome by ear Societies. nest conversation and dialog. The C. Ronald Goulding, BWA lines are lowered in neighbor associate secretary in London, 2. "•3 3 hood Bible study meetings, in the said the Department of Religious probing of charismatic possibili Affairs of the USSR has granted ties, in cross-seminary registra permission to send the Bibles B)JP 3 to S^Ss tions, and in informal ecumenical from Brussels, Belgium, to Es STS -. » dialog by the clergy." tonia, USSR. 48/The Ministry/April, 1976