J. R. SPANGLER We need men today who dream gelist seemingly has a magnetic of heaven and work feverishly to attraction for calls into other prepare citizens to inhabit it. We areas of endeavor. If only a caste need an evangelistic leadership system could be inaugurated, mak that will strip itself of less impor ing evangelists untouchables, per tant religious duties in favor of haps our church would advance life-giving activity. We need men far more rapidly than it has! who will stay clear of the fog of This month©s special feature is philosophy and heed Paul©s ad the result of a vision and tenacity monition to Timothy, "Preach that merits our attention. Pastor the word." Men who will move George Vandeman has by the Associate Secretary and not dawdle. Strong men who Ministerial Association grace of God advanced steadily will risk all to bring truth to the General Conference into an area of experiment in public. Men who love souls more than self. preaching the gospel. Shore hugging is not This fierce hour of conflict in which we one of his qualities, for which we are pro live repudiates the weak, scorns the feeble, foundly thankful. He has been ably assisted mocks at the faint heart. Those who dream in the editing of scripts and films by Mar- of sustentation are disqualified for this type jorie Lewis Lloyd, author of Take His of leadership. Word. A premium should be placed upon those The following pages reveal a combined who exchange the fireside easy chair for the potential of mass communication, methods nightly conflict with the enemy of God and of reaping converts, and utilizing the time man. Only the man who has attempted to and talents of our laymen. We have at wrest souls from Satan©s clenched fist tempted to set forth practical material, through public evangelism knows what which if studied carefully should result in this is all about. The man who dares to helping our pastor-evangelists in their own hire halls, print handbills, and claims to evangelistic harness plus catching a vi have a message from God must constantly sion as to what can be done with an It Is fight against doubts, fear of failure, pride Written crusade in their area. of success, and love of relaxation. In recent months perhaps the largest It takes nerve and courage to keep go and most concentrated public evangelistic ing in spite of numerous empty seats. It program our denomination has ever wit requires plenty of endurance constantly to nessed took place in the Los Angeles area. push ahead, attempting by the power of The principles and organization of the It God to reform the deformed. The appeal Is Written program were proved to be of a dictating machine and a travel credit effective on a gigantic scale. Only celestial card at times becomes overwhelmingly statistical secretaries know the full impact strong. The tragedy is that the type of man of this campaign on the hearts and minds who has the qualifications of a public evan- of thousands. The human evaluation is set THE MINISTRY forth in this issue by those who know. evangelism not only is congenial to the In contrast to the application of an It Is modern world but is also of utmost neces Written program to a giant metropolis, un sity to the church in general. If no other der the direct leadership of Pastor Vande- benefits are derived except the all-impor man, we point out what happened in an tant one of quickening the spiritual natures area of small towns with populations rang of the Adventist ministry and laity, it is ing from 3,000 to 34,000 in southern Iowa. worth it! Here, nearly 200 souls were baptized by "In these perilous times we should leave simply tying in the evangelistic program untried no means of warning the peo with the telecast and other features of the ple. We should be deeply interested in ev It Is Written program. erything that will stay the tide of iniquity. We trust as the reports of this spiritual Work on. Have faith in God." •Evange- enterprise unfold that those who have men lism, p. 63. tally consigned mass evangelism to the Let the disease of pessimism find a cure graveyard will experience a new birth of in the optimistic action of fearlessly march conviction and action. Personally, I am ing forth to the public with a message of doubly convinced that New Testament freedom and liberty in the Lord Jesus.

serve you a well-balanced diet of mental food. One innovation we hope will cap ture your attention is VIEWPOINT. This is an abbreviated term for "Let ters to the Editor." Your comments and constructive criticisms are invited. VIEWPO1NT Whether it be praise or disapproval, our only requirement is that it be done in the framework of a Christian spirit. If your comments are negative, we urge you to end up with a positive Variety and change produce inter suggestion as to how the situation est. The editors felt that a new format under consideration can be improved. beginning in 1964 was in order. If you It takes only a particle of intelligence like it, tell others, but if not, tell us! to tear down an idea or program, but One of the main objectives of this it requires infinite wisdom to offer magazine is to serve you. We want to practical and workable suggestions. be a useful tool, not an idle time con sumer. The success of this magazine Whether you live in Maine or is measured by its serviceability. Malaysia, we invite your comments It is no small task to weld together on any material presented in THE material between these covers which MINISTRY, past or present. Please will meet the needs of our ministry. keep them as short as possible and to It is impossible for every article to the point. Address your letters to find a positive response from all cate "Viewpoint," Ministerial Association, gories of workers. Nevertheless, we 6840 Eastern Avenue NW., Washing shall continue to do our very best to ton, D.C. 20012.

THE MINISTRY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY FOR THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. $4.00 A YEAR; 40C A COPY. PRICES SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN CANADA. ADD 25C FOR YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO COUNTRIES REQUIRING EXTRA POSTAGE. SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT WASHINGTON, D.C. EDITORIAL OFFICE: 6640 EASTERN AVENUE NW., WASHINGTON, O.C. 20012. CHANCE OF ADDRESS: WHEN WRITING US ABOUT YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR CHANGING YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE ENCLOSE THE ADDRESS LABEL FROM YOUR COPY OR FROM THE WRAPPER IN WHICH YOU RECEIVED THE JOURNAL. JANUARY,1964 Tailoring Truth to the Task

GEORGE E. VANDEMAN

For eight exciting years of experi if the plan is assumed as a local mentation and growth it has been responsibility and is worked to my privilege to lean at one time the limit, that field will be happy or another on the help and coun with the results. If, however, a sel of our coordinators and pastors conference sits by waiting for mir in practically every conference acles from a few months of unsup across North America. And now ported telecasting, there will be an action has been taken provid genuine disappointment. ing an associate for me in the It Is Written, most fields have work of It Is Written. His choice learned, is not simply a set of has been no easy matter, for the films to be released. It is rather Secretary enthusiastic, loyal dedication of Conference a total plan of reaping evangelism, many men flooded my mind and a package of vital steps and pro became the object of conversations with cedures leading from screen to harvest, the officers of the General Conference. carved out of wide experimentation. Nor will his work be easy. For tailoring In counsel with the General Conference the proclamation of the third angel to a officers and with presidents across the field, fast-moving, cosmic age, and reaching the it has been agreed that It Is Written is not heart of an awakened, troubled, but dis a department. The work of this plan of criminating public, is a task not only chal evangelism involves the activities of several lenging but exhausting. departments. Television yes. Ministerial The basic premise upon which this plan of course. Lay activity through the home has been built makes its development ex missionary department most certainly. In tremely difficult. For It Is Written is in no volvement of youth a failure without it. way to resemble the structure of our estab And the voting and expenditure of budgets lished radio and television groups. Rather involving the direction of workers always it is to be a plan of reaping, an evangelistic a matter of administration. mission by way of mass communication, to The very structure of the plan demands be employed only when a field is able and that the local conference administration willing to take full responsibility for its suc assume responsibility and assign a coordi cess. We do not administer it from Wash nator who will work with the president to ington. We only assist and share with the encourage cooperation of every department field the best plans that grow out of each in the local conference. For it has been dis area. covered that the It Is Written program has This plan of organization is It Is Writ- capacities that make it possible unselfishly ten©s basic secret of success or failure. For to unite the distinct interests of our total THE MINISTRY denominational activity in a reaping pro passed on directly to the pastor and the gram where each group can be assured of layman. its justifiable credit. Even prior to the exploratory meeting How, then, does an interested field be some contact should be made with the Mil gin? What is expected of the field, and what ton Carlson Company to ascertain release is expected of our office in order to en possibilities for the city or cities in ques sure a reasonable chance of success in rela tion. It is only with such possibilities in tion to the expenditure involved? mind that it can be determined whether Experience has revealed the wisdom of or not the release hour available justifies holding an exploratory meeting with the the expenditure involved in follow-up. It president, his committee, and leading pas may, in the light of this survey, seem wise tors before a decision to participate is en to wait for a better release hour to become couraged. Such a meeting could well con available. Or it may be that plans should sume two hours explaining the plan, the be altered to focus attention on a different possibilities, the pitfalls, where it has and city for the present one where a more where it hasn©t succeeded and what we productive release time is offered. frankly know to be why. Such a candid No budget or complete activity picture approach greatly strengthens the commit can be formed short of this exploration on tee©s hands in launching into so far-reach the part of the agency. With it, intelligent ing an endeavor. decisions can be made, and the financial If the committee©s decision is favorable, burden weighed in view of the giving po a coordinator is chosen. For it has been tential of our people. It has been found found that the plan succeeds best where it that the challenge of such a program will is administered from the conference office inspire adequate financial support from rather than from some local church or dis our laymen. And this support does not usu trict. Also, since the program is a localized ally adversely affect church building proj effort of reaping, it has been deemed wise ects and general financial support of the not to extend an administrative office over church program. an entire union. The inspiration of incom Few fields have been able to adequately ing mail should stimulate the local effort. reap even the surface interest in a single And this vital field contact should then be year©s release. To undergird the pastor©s

An It Is Written film in the making. JANUARY, 1964 evangelistic program with a substantial and An office is set up for handling Take His growing interest, a minimum of two years Word enrollments. The personalized fol should be envisioned, with the second prov low-through of every response is vital. Ev ing to be even more productive than the ery name is a sacred trust. first. In order to personalize the contact from A good time to begin is the early au the very start, we are now including in the tumn. This permits the telecast to do its triplicate form identical copies of which work of arousing interest and deepening are placed in the office, in the pastor©s pos conviction during the time that the de session, and in the layman©s hand two nominational Ingathering program is un blocks of information. Clearly and simply der way. The field is then ready for inten imprinted are these words: "This is what sive spring reaping at a time when the we now know" and "this is what you will majority of pastors and all evangelists are discover." In the first block the layman will most free for this emphasis. find carefully typed excerpts from an en Shortly after the exploratory meeting all thusiastic letter requesting Take His Word, pastors should be acquainted with the plan or an earnest comment made over the tele and encouraged with the possibilities. The phone when the book or other special offer plan, however simple, naturally becomes is requested. complicated to a degree when so many In other words, the layman who makes pastors and districts and laymen are in that first contact carries with him the in volved. In other words, the imposing of spiration that often encourages only the fine-tooth-comb reaping techniques of the few at the Bible school office. It is not just a public evangelistic effort over a large area cold name and address. It is a living inter involving multiples of churches and per est to him even before he rings the bell. sonnel, means that some system has to be Also, simplified and streamlined plans explained, understood, and absorbed by now safeguard that interest for visitation the ministry so that they in turn can intelli on the part of the same layman. And if gently and clearly present the plan to the that visit is not made, the pastor now knows laymen. within forty-eight hours. Earlier partici If there is any feature about the plan pants in the program will scarcely recog that inspires me most, and encourages fa nize this area of the follow-up because of vorable response from the pastors, it is the the tremendous strides of our faithful co lay possibilities involved. And it will be dis ordinators, the men who are doing the job. covered that the thoroughness by which In fact, It Is Written today is the result plans are relayed to the laymen, and the of just this kind of influence. There are enthusiasm and earnestness by which they many men across the field who know far take hold of the idea, are a sure index to more about the execution of the program their final enthusiasm over the results. than I do. We are draining the good things Rallies with our people are planned in they are doing daily for use in the reaping order to lead them into a commitment to potential of the plan in other areas. consecration and service well-directed However difficult it is to chart the in service that they can participate in without ception, rise, growth, and reaping of a pro embarrassment. For doors will be open. gram like this, we have included here a And it is this that encourages the heart of brief outline in chart form a suggested the layman. (Continued on page 29}

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Organization ftibls-maiking Studies Continue ———— *• Advertising Leaflet Weekend Regional Decision 1 "Penetration in All Caroling Tracts Day" Visitation Visitation Begins on Early Enrollments- and Continues With Increasing Intensity THE MINISTRY How We Did It in Southern California

PHILIP FOLLETT

Evangelism always has as its objec rallies laymen caught a glimpse tive the capture of a community of how they could join with evan for Christ. The first requisite in gelists and pastors to form a liv the accomplishment of this goal ing link between Heaven and hu is to acquaint as many people in manity. the community as possible with The youth of the conference the presence of the evangelistic were in the forefront of the activ agency, and to expose them to its ity. Each of the five academies influence. This massive aim is the conducted an It Is Written rally ideal of the advertising and pro at chapel time. During the week IT IS WRITTEN motion of the It Is Written pro Coordinator before the first telecast the stu Southern California gram in southern California. Conference dents were released from classes To accomplish this goal we have one day for a special students© depended upon the public media of news "Penetration Day" when young people dis papers, magazines, and bus cards, and tributed nearly 60,000 invitations. Bible upon the personal contacts of every church teachers and school administrators warmly member. Our philosophy is that the public cooperated with the program. media provide a broad foundation upon On the Sunday night before the telecast which to build the advertising structure, was first aired, a meeting of physicians and that the personal invitations of Ad- and dentists was held at the Statler-Hilton ventist neighbors, relatives, friends, pro Hotel in Los Angeles. Those attending fessional and business people, become the the meeting took back to their offices thou living bricks and mortar of the total evan sands of announcements, printed letters gelistic advertising edifice. prepared for them to sign and mail, and plastic holders designed to display the It Is Pretelecast Preparation Written announcements and Take His Before the first telecast was released the Word enrollment cards on receptionists© nearly 23,000 members of the eighty-four desks. Later, attractive announcements churches in the conference at that time were printed for insertion with monthly were readied to perform their vital part. statements by professional and business At a workers© meeting held nine days be people. The effectiveness of this kind of ad fore the telecast was released the entire vertising was witnessed weekly as the testi program was outlined and supplies were monies of viewers and students were re provided to the pastors. Many pastors ex ceived. panded the suggestions made to them and As an added reminder to all Adventists adapted the materials especially for their in the conference about their part in own churches. launching It Is Written, Elder Cree Sande- Four giant rallies were held in various fur, conference president, sent to each Ad- sections of the conference during the ten ventist home a printed personal letter en days preceding the first telecast. At these couraging church members to a whole- JANUARY,1964 The TV announcements that were carried on the buses.

9. This supplement, pre pared by Herb Ford, at that time conference pub lic relations director and now public relations secre tary of the Pacific Union Conference, entered one and one-quarter million homes with the story of Adventist beliefs, practices, and programs. From Sep tember 15 through De cember 8 additional adver tisements were inserted on the TV pages of the metro politan newspapers. hearted participation in a program of Spot announcements on KCOP televi prayer and promotion. sion and nine radio stations were sponsored First-Telecast Promotion by the program promotion department of KCOP, which released the telecast during "Penetration Day 1962" was the focal its first year. Additional announcements on point of the entire initial advertising cam television were made on the Adventist paign. This occurred on Sabbath, Septem Hour, a weekly one-hour telecast of a wor ber 15, the day the telecast began. It was ship service jointly sponsored by the South dedicated to a burst of personal and public ern and the Southeastern California con announcements about the telecast, and to a ferences. spirit of prayer and intercession that God To help reach the man on the street, would bless the program. some three hundred bus cards were dis Before that day closed nearly 300,000 ad played on metropolitan buses. vertising announcements were in the hands Vital to the program of It Is Written pro of people in eighty-four church communi motion were the various organizations of ties. A goal was set of 30,000 telephone the denomination. The Voice of Prophecy calls to be made within the hour preced sent a warm, appealing letter to each of its ing the telecast time, inviting people to listeners. Faith for Today and the Signs of tune in that night. A year later people were the Times urged their viewers and readers being baptized who traced their first con to tune in. tact with Adventists to a voice on the tele phone, inviting them to view It Is Written. Maintaining the Audience Undergirding these personal contacts Since the initial promotion thrust, a con were the public advertising media. tinued program of maintaining a public One full-page ad in TV Guide an awareness of It Is Written has been per nounced the opening telecast, and twelve petuated. subsequent weekly one-fourth-page ads Several weeks after the telecast was first kept the televiewing public aware of the released, Attorney Warren Johns, confer new series. ence religious liberty secretary, sent a let The newspaper advertising campaign ter to all Liberty subscribers urging them was spearheaded by a large ad in a special to view telecasts that dealt with the theme eight-page Adventist supplement in the of religious liberty. Sunday Los Angeles Times on September (Continued on page 14) THE MINISTRY You Can©t Baptize Them by Mail

DON GRAY

Let©s face the facts. Considering our Broadway church here in San the population explosion and the Diego with their requests for the present rate at which we are book Planet in Rebellion. The en spreading our message, there will thusiasm of the women who an be more unwarned people living swered the telephones and en ten years from now than there are rolled the callers in Take His at the present time. We are simply Word was wonderful to behold. not keeping up with the increase Many of those who called in in population. We need to adjust seemed almost ready to become to the jet age. IT IS WRITTEN members of the Seventh-day Ad- It Is Written offers one answer Coordinator Southeastern ventist Church. to the need for speeding this gos California Conference Names! A multitude of names! pel to the teeming millions with Thousands of enrollments arrived out Christ. It has been my privilege to work by mail and by telephone. Thousands were with this program for the past four years. ready to receive a book or a series of Bible And during this time I have seen thousands study guides. of doors opened to our message that have But it is only where the interest is been nailed shut in the past. Never have faithfully cultivated by the personal con we had a tool that did so much to prepare tact that results have been realized. We the hearts of the people to receive the total now know that you can©t baptize them by message. mail! The television program alone, however, It is for this reason that a year ago we without a thoroughly organized and care began a thorough program of training the fully executed follow-up program, will ac laymen to visit the homes of those who complish little in the way of tangible re would enroll in Take His Word. Never have sults. In the It Is Written plan of evange I seen our laymen more eager to visit their lism, the personal contact is the nucleus of neighbors. Pastors in this field conducted the entire endeavor. For without the lay four training classes in which the art of men visiting and cultivating the seed of effective visiting was explained. truth sown by the telecast, most of the The plan calls for the first six numbers effectiveness of the entire venture is lost. of Take His Word to be sent out by mail, We have merely favorably impressed thou two at a time. The next two numbers are sands with a well-presented television pro delivered personally by a layman, thus es gram, helped them to understand their tablishing an early personal contact. In all, Bible a little better, and created a degree the enrollee receives four calls during the of conviction that, if left to itself, may soon series from this same layman. grow cold. The first call is a casual visit, simply de What a thrill it was this last autumn to livering the lessons and gaining the con observe the response of television viewers fidence of the enrollee. The second call is as they jammed twenty incoming lines at to become better acquainted and to gather JANUARY,1964 information as to the depth of the interest. listen to the new long-playing records that The third is to encourage the interested present Elder Vandeman©s decision mes person and to answer any questions he may sages. We have discovered that wherever have. By the time the fourth call is made the visitor has continued to encourage the the interest should have developed to the enrollee, progress has been thrilling. Wher place that the enrollee is ready to attend a ever the visitor has simply completed the decision meeting or the church service. four visits and stopped, the interest was It has been most interesting to watch the soon lost. progress of our lay visitors. Some who have Years ago we were told that "the work never given Bible studies before have be of God in this earth can never be finished come most effective in this work. until the men and women comprising our It is significant that the amount of in church membership rally to the work, and terest, tact, and perseverance that the visi unite their efforts with those of ministers tor brings to his work will soon be evident and church officers." Gospel Workers, p. by a reading of the reports he submits of 352. the visits he has made. On some reports The It Is Written program will be no every enrollee visited will be evaluated as more effective than pastor and laymen are having no interest. It is then time to move willing to make it. You can©t baptize people that visitor into the inactive file, or to by mail. But where there is careful cooper give him some help. ation between pastor and laymen in thor On the other hand, one woman who has ough follow-up, results are assured. In fact, developed into an effective visitor reports so potently rewarding has this plan proved enthusiastically about every one of her in in our own conference that during the first terests. She has seen three of her contacts nine months of 1963, to the time of this baptized, and two more are planning this writing, there have been 1,200 baptisms, step in the near future. This is just one out largely resulting from the It Is Written of hundreds of such experiences that could plan. be cited. Our laymen have become weary of proj One of the chief objectives of the visitor ects that bring little or no results. But the is to encourage the enrollee to study the thrill that comes to them as It Is Written lessons and to fill in the work sheets. For visitors is one that brings a true revival of with few exceptions those who finish the the missionary spirit in their own hearts course find their way into the church and in turn to the church as the inspira through baptism. A number of persons who tion of this unique soul-winning venture is enrolled this past year later decided to can enthusiastically shared. cel out. But because a faithful visitor per suaded them to continue in their study they are now church members. The pastor, too, is a vital part of this united effort. There are times when the visi tors will need encouragement or help in "When divine power is answering questions. This is when the wise combined with human effort, pastor will step in to give the needed as the work will spread like fire sistance. An effective report system has in the stubble. God will em been worked out so that the pastor is ploy agencies whose origin alerted immediately to any interest need man will be unable to dis ing his personal attention. One pastor in cern; angels will do a work this field had only two people enrolled in which men might have had Take His Word. Yet as he and the visitors the blessing of accomplishing, worked together it was possible to baptize had they not neglected to an both. swer the claims of God." When the enrollee has completed the Selected Messages, book 1, study course, the role of the lay visitor p. 118. becomes even more important. The friend ship gained in the four visits must be built upon to invite the prospect to a decision meeting held by Elder Vandeman, to at tend a Pastor©s Bible Marking class, or to 10 THE MINISTRY "It Is Written " Has It

MARY E. WALSH

The church has long waited for in our churches who offered their a program that would inspire the services. Ordinarily in a visitation members to active visitation. All program the same faithful few are aware that "the work of God respond. But in this campaign it in this earth can never be finished was different. Those of affluence until the men and women com and culture gave their service prising our church membership without reservation. rally to the work and unite their My next observation concerned efforts with those of ministers and the attitude of the layman in ap church officers." Testimonies, proaching the home and when vol. 9, p. 117. actually in the home of the It Is Field Representative Our faithful laymen do respond Pacific Union Written interest. There was no evi to the various programs that the Conference dence of timidity or fear as to church promotes. However, we must admit what to say. There was something to talk that it is rather difficult to get a large num about, there were questions to answer, and ber of the members to engage in visiting all in an atmosphere of geniality. What, I systematically the same persons until Bible asked, has made for such good public rela studies are established. They are at a loss tions? Is it the layman? Or could it be the to know the proper approach. "What program? shall I say?" And then, "How shall I say The dignity with which It Is Written is it?" They are filled with the dread of mak conducted commends it to all types. The ing a mistake and thereby closing the door messages presented have a definite attrac for the qualified worker who knows how to tion and appeal to all classes. It is truly a come in with the proper approach. There means of opening doors. This is why our fore they hold back, and the qualified one laymen enter into the visitation program is not always available, and neighbors and without fear. Evidently It Is Written has it! friends are left unwarned. The time has come when the light of God has blessed through the years as we truth will flash everywhere: have employed every possible means to in "During the loud cry, the church, aided struct and encourage our laymen in soul by the providential interpositions of her winning. But at times we have failed to exalted Lord, will diffuse the knowledge of provide the timid layman with the proper salvation so abundantly that light will be instrument by which he can find easy ac communicated to every city and town. The cess to homes. Does It Is Written have such earth will be filled with the knowledge of a means of approach and admission to salvation. So abundantly will the renewing homes? Spirit of God have crowned with success It was my privilege to be connected with the intensely active agencies, that the light the It Is Written campaign in the city of of present truth will be seen flashing every Los Angeles. My special assignment was to where." Evangelism, p. 694. accompany laymen to homes where they We as workers and laymen must follow had made contact with those who had the beams of light that are flashing by viewed the telecast and had requested Take electronic means into homes. For without His Word. the personal contact in these homes the full I was delighted to find the type of people fruit of the message will never be realized. JANUARY,1964 11 The Telethon in Michigan

H. L REINER

"This is the supervisor from the used seventy-eight telephones in Vermont exchange. What©s going eighteen cities, covering most of on at the church? The switch Michigan. In the large cities we board here at the office is jammed! discovered that the more tele I©ve been trying to get through now phones we used, the more calls for half an hour and all I get is we received. In Detroit, for in a busy signal. And yet I see from stance, we added three more tele our records that you have fifteen phones after our first offer and telephone lines!" received about a hundred more This conversation took place in calls the next time. Detroit the first night that we In order to give you an over IT IS WRITTEN tried the telephone plan. Had Coordinator all view of the program, here is we been warned what would take Michigan Conference an outline of the plan: place, I still don©t think we would have 1. Elder Vandeman invites viewers to re been entirely prepared. It is difficult to quest a free copy of Planet in Rebellion. describe the excitement the first time 2. Trained operators are waiting at through. their telephones, ready to receive the calls. Our telethon operators had been prop 3. On a specially prepared card the op erly instructed before the telecast began. erator writes the name and address of each At the close of the telecast Elder Vande- person requesting Planet in Rebellion, in man introduced Planet in Rebellion to the addition to any other information learned viewers and invited them to go to their from the caller. telephones and request a free copy of the 4. The cards are collected and given to book. Within twenty-five seconds after the typists who record the names and informa telephone number was flashed on the tion in typed form ready to be used by the screen, all fifteen operators were busy an It Is Written office. swering requests. Thirty minutes later all 5. The office prepares labels and at fifteen telephones were still busy. That first taches them to previously packaged books. night we had more than 400 requests for These are mailed the same day. Planet in Rebellion, with almost 300 of 6. Those requesting Take His Word are these enrolling in Take His Word. Many enrolled. of these were long-distance telephone calls. It is interesting to note that in Detroit We go across the State of Michigan to a we had the largest number of telephone small community and one telephone, one lines aside from the Credit Bureau. We operator the minister in this case. The used what is called a trunk-hunting sys offer is made again. In two hours he re tem. This utilizes separate lines with con ceives forty-two requests for Planet in Re secutive numbers. When the first line is bellion, again enrolling 75 per cent of the busy, the call is automatically channeled callers in Take His Word. One of those to the second line, eventually using all the who called in was the mayor. lines in the installation. Wherever you These are the two extremes. In all, we (Continued on page 20) 12 THE MINISTRY When the Telephone Rang 1,000 Times in Two Hours

DONALD G. REYNOLDS

The telephone plan was like tak lives of one of the largest retail ing the pulse of our It Is Written corporations in the world opened viewing audience. We found the the doors of their telephone order heartbeat strong when we picked department and placed their up the receiver and heard a viewer equipment and personnel at our say, "I©m wearing out my finger disposal with only their actual ex trying to get that book!" Or, "I©m penses charged to us, we thanked glad I got through. Tonight I God for opening the way. made my decision to be baptized." Once each month for five In Los Angeles we needed thirty- months the offer to send a free five telephones to serve the thou copy of Planet in Rebellion to Pastor sands who would call in. To ar White Memoria anyone who telephoned in, was range for the telephone company Church * made at the conclusion of the tele to set up the necessary equipment at our cast. For two hours our operators remained office would have cost thousands of dollars. at the telephones to receive the calls. When Therefore to avoid this heavy expense, we the first offer was announced we received turned to some of the largest business firms * Elder Reynolds served as home missionary secretary of the in the city and shared with their adminis Southern California Conference before accepting this new trators our problem. And when the execu- assignment.

JANUARY,1964 13 more than 1,000 calls within the two-hour A television offer, a telephone call, a limit. As the company executives saw their book, and Take His Word—these became switchboard light up instantly across the four familiar steps to timely truth for thou entire board one of them exclaimed, "I©ve sands of southern Californians during the never seen that here beforel We receive winter of 1962-1963. through these lines more than 17,000 calls each month, but this is the first time we©ve ever seen all of the lights on the board flash on at once. This is amazing!" Newspaper writers, ministers, and peo How We Did It in ple from all walks of life called in to re Southern California quest copies of the book. One newspaper columnist said, "Please send me your book (Continued from page 5) and any other information you have so that At 1962 Ingathering time 100,000 adver I can write about this for the fourteen pa tising pieces promoting It Is Written were pers that I serve." distributed with Ingathering papers. Four Many times different members of the additional announcement folders have family took turns dialing the telephone been printed and distributed by the many number until they could reach an open line. hundreds of thousands to the community. In one home a little girl took her turn To maintain the enthusiasm and direct after others in the family had kept long the activity of church members, a second vigils. When our It Is Written operator series of rallies was held about three answered she heard a childish voice shout months after the telecast was launched. excitedly, "Oh no! Mommy, we got ©em!" Biweekly reports of enrollments and ex In addition to taking requests for Planet cerpts from TV mail kept the churches in Rebellion our operators were trained aware of the progress of the program. Post to inquire tactfully if the callers were re ers were distributed for use on church ceiving Take His Word. Those not al bulletin boards. Weekly articles appeared ready enrolled would frequently request in the union conference paper. Most im the Bible study guides. Thousands of per portant of all, church members were con sons began receiving Take His Word in stantly involved in the activity of the pro this way. gram, and pastors and laymen alike were For the first three offers we staffed the thrilled to greet new faces at the church telephones with thirty-five women whom door as a result of their work. we trained. Then the ministers in the con In southern California, It Is Written is ference asked if they might share in the ad still on the air. As pastors and people press venture. We organized a "Ministers© Tele forward they are now encouraged by the phone Night." That evening ministers flesh-and-blood evidence of the success of from all parts of the conference answered the plan. Promotion has ripened into re the hundreds of calls that came in. Some sults, and the faithful workers who walked, one suggested that we probably didn©t han telephoned, and addressed envelopes are dle so many calls as usual that night the already rubbing elbows with new con ministers talked too long. But the pastors© verts. Thus the edifice of advertising is be response was enthusiastic, and their skillful ing transformed into a temple o£ God. handling of the calls opened the way for fruitful follow-up. Before each telephone offer thousands of copies of Planet in Rebellion were pack aged in jiffy bags and postage affixed to the bags. As soon as the first hundred calls A more detailed description of the were received the names and addresses telephone plan, with instructions for were taken to waiting typists who addressed telethon operators, may be obtained from labels. Quickly these were proofread and the General Conference It Is Written attached to the packages. Within a few office. A filmed commercial offering minutes after the telephoning was com Planet in Rebellion, to be used on tele pleted the books were in the post office be vision, is also available. ing prepared for delivery on Monday morn ing. 14 THE MINISTRY "Bible in the Hand" Goes Hi-fi

MARJORIE LEWIS LLOYD

"Greater than the tread of mighty this reason that It Is Written has armies is the force of an idea whose named the plan "Bible in the hour is come." Those are the words Hand." of Victor Hugo. It is because of this emphasis The idea of Bible marking is as on participation, this spotlighting old as the message. However, it of the Word itself, that the plan has tended to bog down because is so admirably suited to accom of the awkwardness of finding the plish the transfer of allegiance scriptures. Also it has often been from the television personality to encumbered with complicated the message itself, making it pos chain-reference plans. IT IS WRITTEN sible for the local pastor to lead Then came the idea of using Research Editor to full decision. Bibles with identical paging so And now Bible in the Hand has that texts could be easily and quickly lo- taken the next natural step. It has gone hi-fi, cated by page number. The idea caught We live in an age when almost every home on. And then came the daring question, If has high-fidelity equipment of some sort, the plan works so well in classes, could it and every teen-ager his record player, be used in the large metropolitan reaping Should this vast potential audience be ig- meeting? nored? Why not combine the impact of Elder Vandeman and conference ad- the giant reaping meeting with the inti- ministrators stepped out by faith and or macy of the personal Bible study and bring dered a ton of Bibles for the Vancouver- the message into the living room on long- Victoria meeting. The plan not only playing records? Why not accompany the worked, but, amazingly enough, it practi- records with identically paged Bibles and cally doubled the evangelistic audience. send the layman, the living contact, along The idea is not exclusive with It Is Writ- to guide the growing conviction? ten. But whatever its source, it spread. Our Evidently the idea appeals to our lay men around the world began to realize the men. Seven hundred sets of records, seven vast potential of this simple plan. Here thousand records in all, were sold at the Avas an idea that could be adapted to any Michigan camp meeting when the plan situation in which the Bible is studied was introduced. And now, climaxing the meetings large and small, classes, Bible early experimentation, two albums of long- studies, the pastor©s Bible class, radio and playing records, each containing ten of television evangelism. ~~ ~ ~" © © - - Elder Vandeman©s decision messages, one It is possible that the term "Bible mark on each record, are available to our lay ing" may lead to a wrong emphasis. For men. These Bible in the Hand recordings the actual marking of the Bible, helpful as are distributed through the courtesy of it is, is still incidental to the fact that the Chapel Records and may be obtained interested individual participates himself through your Book and Bible House at the in the learning process. He handles the amazingly low cost of $12.50 for a set of ten, Word. This is a do-it-yourself age. It is for attractively boxed, available in sets only. JANUARY, 1964 15 We believe it will again be demonstrated not only that participation deepens convic A professional survey recently showed tion, but that the person who asks for truth, that It Is Written has four times the viewing audience of any other religious who himself initiates the request for it and telecast in the Cedar Rapids-Waterloo even pays something for it, will appreci area. It was found that men comprised the ate it most. largest segment of It Is Written viewers. Yes, Bible in the Hand has gone hi-fi. It is one of the most potent developments in the total-package program of It Is Writ ten an idea whose hour has come!

This is only $25.00 for the full series of twenty. And the records are of a quality that usually sell for 53.95 each. The Bibles WHAT THEY CALL US may also be obtained at low cost through Charles Beeler, coordinator of It Is Written in your Book and Bible House. the Florida Conference, was preparing an article The use of these records, as envisioned for the union paper in which he was emphasizing in connection with the It Is Written pro the fact that the program was evidently appealing gram, is twofold. The first plan encour to a very fine class of people. He was pointing ages their use by laymen in following up out the wholesome number of responses coming television interests. Here is a method of from cultured, highly educated persons. giving Bible studies that involves no fear, Just then the day©s television mail was placed no awkwardness, and requires no special on his desk. On the top of the stack was a letter experience. addressed to "It Is Rote"! He picked up his dic taphone and shared his smile with the Washington The second plan is aimed directly at the It Is Written office. television viewer. And it works like this. We thought you would be interested in some of The same procedure used for the offer of the unusual and interesting titles given to It Is the book Planet in Rebellion to television Written and Take His Word by individuals who viewers is followed, and once each month evidently consider contact with truth too urgent a free record is offered to those who tele to wait for accuracy: phone within a specified time. This first Take It From Me record is an inspiring message with suffi Take His Hand cient truth to deepen conviction and en It Is Ritten courage further study. With the record is It Is Rote an offer difficult to refuse. The individual Take God©s Word is invited to write iri for a lovely Bible and Take Him at His Word four more records almost a $25 value at It Is Wreten the low production cost of $5.00. After he Can I Take His Word? Take My Word listens to these four records he will be in The Written Word vited to send in for another group of five Trust His Word for $5.00, and so on, until he has received As He Told It all twenty. Delivery of the records by a lay Easiest Bible Course man will bring the vital living contact. I See Written

16 THE MINISTRY We Represent You

MILTON CARLSON

The Milton Carlson Company has tic about a religious program? We been privileged to assist some believe it is because they have thirty conferences in securing tele found It Is Written to be an vision time and in handling pro audience builder a program that duction detail for their It Is Writ delivers them the all-important ten releases over more than 110 rating points they need to com television stations since the pro pete with other stations in their gram©s inception in 1956. area. Audience surveys by Neilsen, Perhaps the most rewarding mo A.R.B., and Pulse bear this out. ments in our service have come In short, the series is one they can when we have received the magic President be proud of words: "The management of Sta Milton Carlson and, at the tion XXXX-TV has voted to ef Company same time, de fect a policy change as regards religious pend on to give them the programing in order to accept It Is Writ same or even a bigger ten." Such a policy reversal is the highest share of the audience tribute a television station can pay to the than they would expect quality and family-audience appeal of the from a regular entertain It Is Written program. To date seventeen ment-type program. television stations have changed their pol We are proud to rep icy in order to accept It Is Written. resent It Is Written, A factor that greatly helps us in our and grateful for the op negotiations for It Is Written is the fact portunities afforded us Ruth Johnson Agency that every television station which has car to serve this important Time Buyer ried the series is a booster for the program. phase of the work of the Advent ministry. Our files are full of letters from station managers, complimenting the program and offering to recommend it to others. For ex WHAT THE AGENCY OFFERS ample, here is an excerpt from a Nebraska ABC-TV station manager: The accompanying article from the Mil "As you well recall, we were reluctant to ton Carlson Company gives some indica schedule this program in a prime time slot; tion of the success the agency has had in however, after having done so, we can hon representing It Is Written with television estly say that we have not regretted it. I stations across the country. As stated, Mr. realize that other stations may be hesitant Carlson and Miss Johnson, the agency©s in scheduling this program, and should time buyer, have often been able to effect you run into any difficulty in this area, a change in policy on the part of the sta feel free to have me get in touch with the tion. manager." Any field contemplating the release of Another letter, from a CBS-TV station the program should write the Milton Carl- manager in Virginia, says: son Company, 3540 Wilshire Boulevard, "We are proud to have It Is Written as Los Angeles, at once. This early contact part of WRVA-TV©s schedule, and we are will allow time for a good release hour to pleased to recommend it as worthy of ex be negotiated, and involves no obligation posure on the most discriminating station." to the field. Why are these businessmen so enthusias- In fact, at no time does the invaluable JANUARV,1964 17 service of the agency cost the conference a the agency. On one occasion Mr. Carlson penny. They receive their fees direct from had been given a commitment for a good the stations. And their service includes a release hour, on a good station, in one of multitude of details that neither the Gen our large cities. But this excellent release eral Conference nor the local conferences time had to be sacrificed, and a very poor are equipped to handle. one accepted, on an inferior station, be Occasionally a field has thought to save cause of an ill-advised local contact with funds by bypassing the agency. However, station management. this is seldom possible. The agency is often The It Is Written office urges, for these able to negotiate a lower rate than it is reasons, that the fields take full advantage possible to obtain locally. of the service offered by the Milton Carl- It is especially important that initial con son Company. tacts with the stations be made through IT Is WRITTEN STAFF

How Much Does It Cost?

H. E. SCHNEIDER

Is there a minister alive who usual success, conference admin would not thrill to see baptisms istrators were willing to invest in his church on the increase? If unusual amounts of time and there is such a man, we suspect money in advertising, promoting, two things. First, he isn©t really and following up interests alive. Second, he must not live in throughout the five-county area. Southeastern California. Energetic However, they soon discovered and dedicated ministers in this that the liberal gifts of telecast conference have seen the confer viewers who attended reaping ence membership rise from a little meetings held in large metropoli more than 18,000 to nearly 20,000 Secretary-Treasurer tan areas where George Vande- in just eighteen months. Remark Southeastern man personally addressed the ably, much of the impetus has California Conference thousands who came, nearly cov come from a single It Is Written program. ered the entire cost of these gigantic series. What sort of program did it take to make What are the results? By September, Southeastern California the fastest-growing 1963, more than 1,200 have joined eighty- conference in North America? And how four Southeastern Adventist churches. This much does it cost? is 50 per cent more than for the same pe It Is Written came to California in Sep riod last year. In addition to the hundreds tember of 1962. Televised over three chan who have joined or will join the church nels and jointly sponsored on a fourth, It and play a supporting role in church ac Is Written immediately captured the in tivities in the years ahead there are thou terest of church members and their leaders sands who have been favorably exposed at every level. As a result of this interest, to Adventism. the churches have given $81,000 almost This is why Southeastern considers the 90 per cent of the cost of It Is Written to It Is Written program an investment rather date. than an expense. What better way is there In order to make the program an un- to reach so many for so little? 18 THE MINISTRY Doing It Alone

RALPH C. PUESCHEL

One of the pressing questions in Besides servicing our mailing public evangelism today is how to list, we used two main methods of capture the attention of people advertising newspaper and tele preoccupied with the problems vision. Across the top of our news and pleasures of the twentieth paper ad, measuring six columns century. The plan that follows is by seventeen inches, appeared the one answer to this question. words, "Here Now It Is Written It Is Written began an eighteen- Prophetic Crusade." Under month run on KTVO-TV, Ot- neath was a picture of the return tumwa, Iowa, in January, 1962. of Christ and the title of our open This station completely covered Singing Evangelist ing address. The ad also included the area of our five-church district. Iowa Conference the hour of the telecast and pic Because I had previously learned tures of the evangelistic team. the importance of a good TV hour, we The same pictures used in the newspaper waited until a good hour was available be ad were used in the TV advertising. fore we signed the contract. The hour was The TV advertising helped to reach our Sunday, 5:30 P.M. telecast friends. A series of spot announce The promotion of the telecast by the ments were used on the opening weekend local churches followed the outline pro of our public series. Then the last portion vided by It Is Written. Each church sup of the Take His Word announcement on ported the program vigorously. As a re the telecast was used to reach It Is Written©s sult of our survey work we found both a established TV audience. large audience and a good interest. It was We never appeared on the telecast. Not apparent that the time had come for pub being professionals in this field, we feared lic evangelism. that we might hinder rather than help our Two points were clear. First, more than own cause. Therefore we used slides, and one meeting was needed to develop and the local announcer read the script. The harvest the TV interest. Second, because of opening telecast announcement began, a crowded schedule it was impossible for "Now It Is Written is coming to Ottumwa." Elder Vandeman to be with us, even for And we became part of It Is Written. one meeting. We would have to do it alone. Before I tell of the results of this plan, And this is how we did it. may I add one other thought. No meeting The conference evangelistic team, in was held after It Is Written left the air. We cluding the writer as singer, came into the wanted not only to be able to use the tele area. We felt it was imperative that we iden cast to invite people to attend our meet tify ourselves in the thinking of the people ings but also to be a part of a live program with It Is Written. And evidently we were not something that had thrilled viewers right in this, for we later found that 98 per in the past. cent of our audience were viewers. And now, how did it work? What were The first thing we needed was a name. the results from doing it alone? We chose to identify our work as "It Is Over a period of one year two series of Written Television and Bible Lectures." meetings were held in five towns ranging One of our good members in Des Moines in size from 4,000 to 35,000. The total bap- designed a letterhead for us. (Continued on page 25} JANUARY, 1964 19 "It Is Written" and the College Campus

BRUCE JOHNSTON

Our contact with It Is Written has was a great advantage for our proved a real blessing to the cam meetings to be identified with It pus, bringing with it the strong Is Written. spiritual impact that is the inev We then launched at Southern itable result of a successful stu Missionary College an aggressive dent soul-winning endeavor. attack on the city of Chattanooga, We first touched It Is Written combining these two points of indirectly when the Missionary contact. Hundreds of students, Volunteer Home Evangelism Band with many faculty members, are at Emmanual Missionary College Chairman using Take His Word along the used the Take His Word Bible Department of Religion lines of the Three Rivers plan. study guides to follow up a survey Southern Missionary The initial response has been out in Three Rivers, Michigan. Their College standing. In October the telecast objective was to raise up a church in this began. And in April the entire program will small community of seven thousand people be climaxed with a city-wide series in the about forty-two miles from the campus. most popular auditorium in Chattanooga. Since the telecast was not received in this We expect the results to be excellent, for area, Take His Word itself became the the Holy Spirit has promised to bless when means of getting into the homes of the the efforts of laymen, church officers, and people to establish friendships. The re ministers are united in soul winning;. sponse was enthusiastic. For five months the students set aside each Sabbath after noon to make their friendly visits and to deliver the next numbers of Take His The Telethon in Michigan Word. In April, Elder Don Jacobsen and 1 (Continued from page 12} conducted a series of meetings to climax have more than one line, it is necessary to the project. Students brought their new in use a trunk-hunting system. This word of terests, and we witnessed one of the most precaution: Have the telephone company thrilling series we have yet conducted. The replace the bells with neon lights. objective was realized. A Seventh-day Ad- This last year we received more than ventist church now gives its witness in 6,000 requests for Planet in Rebellion. In this formerly dark city. one city a Catholic nun requested the book Then in August we conducted a semi and also enrolled in Take His Word. She nary field school in Regina, Saskatchewan. stated that she was a teacher and one of Here we were able to touch the telecast forty sisters in a Catholic school. She said directly. We followed the television release they watched and enjoyed the program with a city-wide crusade, identifying with each week. It Is Written and participating in the tele Only eternity can reveal the souls saved cast. The interest was overwhelming. It through this modern means of evangelism. 20 THE MINISTRY Where the Physician Fits In

REUBEN MATIKO, M.D.

After watching an It Is Written Through the medium of a re telecast in our city an impish lad, corded tape and an It Is Written in response to the request at the film the Seattle rally was relayed close of the program, thought he to the brethren in my own confer would play a practical joke. He ence and in turn to some of our enrolled the name of one of his churches. Within two years, thanks buddies in Take His Word. The to the vision of conference admin sister of the latter, one who had istrators, the program was being not taken much notice of the released on several television sta program until then, took up the tions and satellites, blanketing studies. Today she is attending our large province with the mes Medical Secretary one of our colleges and this past British Columbia sage. summer she became the wife of Conference We all understand that It Is one of our earnest ministerial students. Written is a plan that combines mass corn- It was on a fall afternoon in 1959, a munication, the Written Word, the min Tuesday I will never forget, that an air ister, and the layman. But a physician may mail special delivery letter from my young- ask, "Where do I fit into the picture?" May est brother, mailed only the day before in I offer just a few suggestions? Washington, D.C., arrived at my home. 1. A physician should be capable of and "Incredible," I said. "Such letters usually willing to do all that most laymen are ca take three days." pable of and willing to do. He is part and And what was this? An urgent request parcel of the layman team, for funds? No. It was my first introduction 2. There is no reason why a physician to It Is Written. It was a plea that I attend should not carry the cost of at least one an It Is Written rally in Seattle the follow- television program a month. Many could ing day. I dismissed the idea as impossible, do more, wishing I had had more notice. 3. You can mail announcements of the But the following morning while on hos- TV program to patients, business friends, pital rounds Ijreceived a long-distance call service club members, lawyers, judges, and from Brother Don Loveridge, whom I had prominent civic officials. Do not hesitate never met, imploring that I attend. Within to add a handwritten note with your sig three hours, after canceling my commit nature, giving the personal touch. ments for the day, I was off the island and 4. You can mail TV announcements south of the border, meeting with the with your monthly statements. brethren of the Washington Conference. 5. Keep announcements on your desk. My heart was thrilled as the plan un- Give your patients a personal invitation, folded. The rally in the evening had me 6. A professionally done, hand-painted, on the edge of my seat. I was convinced eye-catching poster, preferably with a large that the arrival.of that letter in one day was picture of the speaker, is a must for every providential. I was determined that a full waiting room in areas where the telecast effort be made to implement the program is carried. A similar poster can be used to in the British Columbia Conference. announce the reaping meetings. JANUARY,1954 21 7. Explore the possibility of billboard months and years later. Just last Sabbath advertising in your area. Do not hesitate one of the It Is Written contacts of two to share in or take care of the cost. years ago came forward and requested bap 8. You may own a piece of real estate in tism. I am looking forward to the day the community, perhaps a commercial when thousands will step out and choose building. A portion of the wall can be used to be numbered with God©s remnant peo effectively for advertising. This type of ple as a result of this magnificent plan. advertising must be dignified. 9. Attendance at meetings is imperative. Do not be conspicuous by your absence. 10. Volunteer to assist at meetings. Do The church has with open hand and heart, not feel it beneath your dignity to welcome come forward to the work hitherto, and she people at the door. Patients and friends will do it yet, we have confidence in her integrity, you have greeted at the door will feel more and she will not be the poorer for the at ease and be more receptive to the mes multitude and costliness of her gifts. The offerings of the church have in many instances sage. been more numerous than her prayers. . . . 11. Assist in the presentation of the Earnest prayers have not followed the workers, health message in the follow-up meetings. like sharp sickles, into the harvest field. . . . 12. Assist in the cooking school program. This is the ground of our difficulties. . . . 13. Pray for the success of the entire ven Let every one who gives his means, also send np ture. his prayers daily that it may bring souls If these simple suggestions are followed, to the foot of the cross. . . . you will find the results most gratifying. Brethren, move high heaven by your prayers for God to work with the efforts of His On the night of the first reaping meeting servants. in our city I was able to shake Elder Vande- The Lord has agencies which He will put in man©s hand and announce to him that operation in answer to the importunate some seventy of our patients were present prayers of faith. at the meeting, not to mention the number Ellen G. White, in Review and Herald, of friends they brought with them. Oct. 12, 1886. And the fruit does not end with the early reaping meetings. Souls keep coming in

Loma Linda doctors meet to plan an It Is Written program.

22 THE MINISTRY When the Matchbook Exploded

ROBERT K. MC REYNOLDS, M.D.

The It Is Written program hit "This is fantastic! I never heard southern California as the "light anything like it! I could really be of the noonday sun" in June, lieve in something like this. And 1962, during the Lynwood camp the organization!" meeting. At the close of the first Financial support was given for meeting all professional men newspaper and television ads and businessmen, medical doctors, for billboards. And they were dentists, lawyers, veterinarians, et effective. cetera were invited for a preview One Nevada businessman no of plans. We became part of the ticed the announcement, invited inner circle. Our valuable patient Physician the wife of a movie producer to and client lists were to form the Burbank, California join him, and arrived on the nucleus of the great mailing list. night of the sermon "When No Invitations and announcements were Man Can Buy or Sell." As he left the meet- printed on our professional stationery, con- ing that night, stunned by what he had veying the personal touch to each of our heard, he stood for a moment to light a clientele. Our offices became centers of ac- cigarette. Like magic, the first cigarette tivity. Television schedules were placed at sailed ten feet away. A second attempt, and strategic points in each office, and per- the match went out. A third attempt, and sonal, individualized invitations to view It the whole matchbook exploded! Is Written were extended to each patient "Well, Lord," he said, "You must not or client. TV announcements accompa- want me to smoke." The balance of what nied our monthly statements, and telephon- would have been his third pack for the day ing before broadcasts was carried out by was discarded, and this man has not smoked many in our group. Some purchased color since. On September 7, 1963, he was bap- TV sets, and small groups were invited to tized. view the splendor of this unique attempt The It Is Written program is the great- to make God©s love and plan for salvation est opportunity for participation in soul- more appealing. winning endeavor that has come to us as Then, after months of sowing the seed, professional men. And I personally thank came the reaping meetings. The giant God for the privilege of having a part in it. Sports Arena, seating more than 15,000, was selected. The greatest thrill came to me © "" when I was able not only to attend most The word of truth, ©It is written,© is the gospel of the meetings, but to furnish transpor we are to preach. No flaming sword is placed tation so that our friends might share our before this tree of life. All who will may par hope and faith. On several occasions our take of it. There is no power that can pro Falcon, Corvair, and Volkswagen were all hibit any soul from taking of its fruit. All may pressed into service. One three-hundred- eat and live forever. Testimonies, vol. 6, p. 19. pound self-styled agnostic burst forth with, JANUARY,1964 23 The Story of the Work Sheets

LILA BEATTY

The Take His Word work sheets, To give you some idea of the as they come into our office, are response from Take His Word, I an intriguing story of individuals would call attention to the fact searching for truth. And every that during the first two weeks chapter holds our interest as we that diplomas of graduation were read it in the day©s mail. being sent to persons completing This is my second assignment the Take His Word work sheets, with It Is Written. In Seattle we we found that every person who were experimenting with the first had been faithfully visited had set of work sheets prepared to made a decision to keep the Sab monitor the response of Take His TAKE HIS WORD bath, and nearly half of these per Word enrollees. While they were Director sons were baptized. The only grad attractive, we found them a little Los Angeles Area uates who had not made a decision too complicated and the questions slightly were those about whom we had not received too difficult for the person studying his Bi a visitor©s report. ble for the first time. The work sheets are a diary of a search In the Los Angeles area we are working for truth. And we in the office are happy- with an entirely new series of work sheets, tor the privilege of reading it first. prepared by the Washington office in coun sel with the field. These are very simple, printed on two sides of a single sheet, color fully designed to captivate the interest of What the Washington Office the enrollee and to elicit a response by means of a few very simple questions. Can Do These are working beautifully, with a much higher percentage of enrollees sending in Since many and varied requests come the work sheets and completing the course. to the General Conference It Is Written We feel that this new development is a office, we thought it might be helpful to real asset. pinpoint some of the things that the office Our most rewarding moments, of course, can and cannot do. are when we read words like these: "Thank While the directing of the total It Is you for helping me to understand my Bi Written campaign must be a local responsi ble. I was baptized last Sabbath." bility, we are happy to help where we can Many among the television contacts with counsel, sharing the experience of the reach a decision and are baptized without various fields. Wherever possible, Elder our ever knowing it. For not all are willing G. E. Vandeman or his associate will ar to send in work sheets. However, our rec range to meet with conference committees, ords show that baptisms from our Take conduct rallies, and help to train workers. His Word students during the first half of The office can also supply certain mate 1963 total well over three hundred. rials, especially those that acquaint the local 24 THE MINISTRY Michigan It Is Written staff pray over outgoing mail.

fields with the total program and with sug We are always happy when your request gested reaping methods. We invite anyone is something we can do. When it is other interested to write for the brochures Paths wise, we share your disappointment. Please to Decision and From Screen to Harvest. know that our first objective is to help Also in some cases, negatives for use in you make It Is Written work. preparing advertising can be purchased or IT Is WRITTEN STAFF borrowed from this office. There are some things, however, that we cannot do. We cannot direct your program. This must be done locally. We cannot schedule your television releases or supply cue sheets for the stations. Only the Mil Doing It Alone ton Carlson Company is equipped to han (Continued from page 19} dle this delicate responsibility. We cannot accept names for Take His Word enroll tisms for this period were 175. Others have ments. These are all cared for through followed. Where previously we had a dis local offices set up in conferences releasing trict of two hundred members and no the program. church schools, we now have two districts We cannot lend films. We do not have a and three church schools. The teacher of rental service. Films are purchased by the one of these new schools was baptized in fields, and can be lent by us only for sta March, 1962, with her entire family. The tion audition or for preview by a field Sabbath attendance in nearly every church contemplating purchase. Nine new films has doubled. have recently been added to the series, and We cannot know what may yet material another thirteen are anticipated, but we ize from the seed sown in the hearts of cannot supply these on loan to the con 60,000 viewers of It Is Written. But of one ferences. We do have extra prints of three thing we are certain it was It Is Written o£ these films the Thanksgiving, Christ that first entered the homes of more than mas, and New Year©s subjects. But these 170 new members of the great Advent prints are available, on a rental basis, only family. to those fields who have purchased the We didn©t choose to do it alone, but we films but who need extra prints in order stepped out in faith. And now it is evident to cover all their outlets at the holiday that we did not work alone; the Spirit of season. God was with us all the way! JANUARY,1964 25 Observations on Preaching

MERVYN A. WARREN

In no other religion has preaching naturally churches there requested occupied a more unique position that these visitors occupy the pul in worship than in Christianity. pits during worship services. In Neither the Jewish dispensation terestingly enough, the requests nor the Greco-Roman world af were accompanied by the sincere forded sermon communication entreaty: "Please do differently the centrality it now holds. In from others of your country who deed, "as a basic service of the have spoken to us in times past. church in its history and signif They related a string of stories. icance preaching is a peculiarly Will you please preach to us ser Christian instituton." 1 Department mons?" of Religion The current status of the Oakwood College 2. ESTABLISH RAPPORT preaching function incurs to itself Alabama with auditors through familiar ex the circumstance of being under close ob pressions, yet exercise meticulous judgment servation by those whom the sermon seeks here, for danger lurks. Too frequent occur to convict and persuade. Should we not rence of common sayings relegates the lan face the challenge to make the sermon as guage near the zone of the hackneyed and acceptable, attractive, and appealing as pos- The trite.8 For instance, into bold prominence sible without compromise of effectiveness as~-"' Siamese -.----© twins have-- come------the- 1 words trials and without violation of pulpit ethics? and tribulations we rarely hear one with- The query is posed, "Just how may the out the other. Must they be inseparable? sermon©srmon©s effectiveness bebp determined?rlpfprmin^rl?" Are there not sufficient synonyms to admit a Myriad precepts issue from homileticians varied interchange of words conveying the to influence our thinking on this vital ques same idea with equal efficiency? A not in tion. The present article, however, presents frequent description of crying is "The tears suggestions gleaned from auditors, for the streamed down her cheeks." A listener be- author believes firmly that one practical gins to wonder whether flowing tears can- method of gauging sermonic receptivity not be used with any other verb than and effectiveness is that of having an ear "streamed." Furthermore, are not tears poised to the whisperings of laymen, they ever related to any other part of the face who must sit on the receiving end of the than "cheeks"? Only two examples, but they rostrum©s-r-f^r- *--«.-. -,»-*-.'~ cuisine.-«,,"^,-»^.^ T*!..The «J?_n_* following observa! represent-- j a lexiconi_ * ofrr familiar *i* expressions* tions on preaching grew out of comments that a preacher might avoid. Overused overheard by or shared with the author. statements affect adversely the appealing 1. USE ILLUSTRATIONS, for they are freshness in sermon communication and, windows to admit light.2 Nevertheless, be among other considerations, unduly tempt ware of making a sermon all windows. a hearer to indulge a guessing game of There is something glaringly revealing figuring out "When will he say it again?" about glass houses, and as for glass-house 3. A VERBAL RESPONSE invited oc sermons, general fragility, weakness, and casionally to relax and warm a stilted and inadequacy mark their character. cold audience is within the canon of legit The following might illustrate the point. imacy. Sometimes a sincere Amen consti When a group of teachers and students tutes the desired effect. Deuteronomy 27: from a certain United States theological 15-26, and Psalm 106:48 have been used by seminary visited Germany one summer, some ministers as a basis for such a re- 26 THE MINISTRY sponse. But again sanctified care and rea of His blessing on the prayers of the people son must reign, preventing an overabun and preacher alike." s This, obviously, dance of such requests during any one ser should not encourage negligence in giving mon. The unsolicited response seems more attention to the time element in preaching, ideal. Understandably, recurring requests for such an attitude clashes with our con for verbal responses are sometimes inter cept of orderliness and arrangement in all preted to be an attempt to compensate things representing God. for that which the sermon lacks per se. Regarding the wise utilization and price In the final analysis the sermon must stand less value of time, television offers a fine on its own merits; and if it is well pre example for preciseness without abruptness, pared and preached with power and an pointedness without jerk. Technical atten immense sense of claim, the preacher may tion steeped in prayer contributes to the be favored by Moses© experience of having answer of the preacher©s time problem. to "restrain" the people.4 That which cannot be reasonably included 4. "QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT." in one sermon should be reserved for a fu Give full utterance to the message God ture message. If the material claims genuine gives you. Nevertheless, do not be oblivious importance, it may serve as adequate adver to the clock, for time is also an essential ele tisement for a subsequent service. Again ment in worship. Ellen G. White says: "Speak short, and you Ellen G. White affirms: "Lengthy dis will create an interest to hear again and courses are a taxation to the speaker and a again." 9 taxation to the hearers who have to sit 5. IN CONCLUSION means "in con so long. One half the matter presented clusion." Manifold are the defenses raised would be of more benefit to the hearer by speakers who continue long at much than the large mass poured forth by the speaking after having promised their audi speaker." 5 ence a cessation. Because of either innate It has been suggested that perhaps an unspirituality or a cultivated tendency, inclination toward long sermons is moti people inevitably welcome the sermon con vated partly by one©s feeling that when he clusion. Hence, when the preacher says, "in speaks, his sermon outweighs in impor conclusion," listeners usually expect it. Of tance that of his fellow ministers. Is this a surety, some speakers possess the enviable ethical? gift of so enthralling and captivating the Scarcely did Christ expect His commis attention of their hearers that the audience sion "Go ye into all the world, and preach is reluctant to have him conclude. Instead the gospel to every creature" s to be accom of droning on, however, these preachers plished by any one presentation. Nor could seize the opportunity to sign off while the Paul have meant that obeying his injunc interest is high. Incidentally, this probably tion "redeeming the time" 7 was the job of contributes to their success. a single discourse. The Holy Spirit, who Listeners are customers. Preachers are may prompt the messenger to make im salesmen. The gospel is the product. promptu augments while in the act of de Though the product itself may need no livering his message, is the same faithful change, the salesmen should give neces guide who (during sermon preparation) sary attention to their method of canvass will direct the plan for delivery. In other ing, particularly if the customers prefer it, words, the Holy Spirit is available for and apparently many do. preparation as well as presentation in REFERENCES preaching. 1 John A. Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 1, It would surely be unrealistic to cam 2 William Evans, How to Prepare Sermons and Gospel Addresses, p. 137, ff. paign the impossible task of having every 3 Richard G. Borden, Public Speaking as Listeners Like It, pp. 76-78. word and phrase actually ready and under * Exodus 36:6. complete control at the moment of sermon 6 Ellen G, White, Testimonies to Ministers, p. 256. Italics supplied. delivery. W. Edwin Sangster, for twenty « Mark 16:15. 7 Colossians 4:5. years the pastor of London©s Westminster 8 W. Edwin Sangster, Can 1 Know God? p. 9. Central Hall, once remarked that we all 9 White, op. cit., p. 258. know by "long and ineffable experience that there is a ©plus of the Spirit© which Whenever you find that you are on the side of the no human skill can command something majority, it is tune to reform.—Mark Twain. God adds in the hour itself, which is born JANUARY,1964 27 How often the young preacher asks, "Where can I find it?" Even older men need to know where to go for new material. Dr. Weniger©s welcome return to our pages after a long illness provides a helpful answer to a great part of this problem.

A Note on the Oral Reading of Scripture

CHARLES E. WENIGER

When Paul counseled Timothy example for the communion serv to "give attendance to reading" ice. Did He mean that we should (1 Tim. 4:13), he did not mean drink all the wine, or that all of the kind of reading matter that us should partake? The K.J.V. the young preacher should pay translation is ambiguous. The attention to, as many have mis Greek shows that the word "all" interpreted the text. Rather, he qualifies "ye," not "of it." The meant the selection of the Scrip translators might better have ren ture reading and its oral inter dered the text: "All of you, drink pretation as a part of public wor it." How can you convey the idea ship. The word translated "read SDA Theological of the K.J.V. orally? Try speaking ing" means primarily to read Seminary the words "ye all" together, closely aloud. Andrews University knit on a uniform pitch level, and Paul knew how much depended upon then pause slightly before adding the the oral communication of the Scripture in phrase "of it." How clear and meaningful the public service of the church, and he the invitation becomes: "Drink ye all— wanted his young preacher-in-training to of it." pay attention to his method of reading the "And they came with haste, and found Word of God as a part of that worship. Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in Perhaps he was thinking of the care with a manger." The sentence is found in Luke©s which Nehemiah and his co-workers com account of the Nativity (Luke 2:16). I municated the Word to the Hebrews at have heard the text read so as to convey the time of the rebuilding of Jerusalem in the idea that the mother and father and the reign of Artaxerxes. It is written: "So infant were lying together in the manger. they read in the book in the law of God What a world of difference a pause may distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused make! Try ignoring the comma after them to understand the reading" (Neh. "Mary" (there is no comma in the original 8:8). language), read the words "Mary and Jo To illustrate the need of paying atten seph" as a unit, and then speak as one tion to the oral communication of the phrase the last part of the verse, without Word of God, let us take several brief ex pausing after "babe." Make it sound like amples of texts often faultily spoken or this: "and found Mary and Joseph read in public. [pause], and the babe lying in a manger." "Drink ye all of it." Jesus was setting the How clear! And how great is the emphasis 28 THE MINISTRY thus given to the sublime fact of God in Tailoring Truth to the Task carnate cradled in a lowly stable! "He giveth his beloved sleep" (Ps. 127: (Continued from page 6) 2). Does God, in the text, give "beloved but flexible timing of activities, a group sleep" to us, or does He give to us, His ing of responsibilities that make up a total beloved, the gift of sleep? Is "beloved" an picture of a year©s venture. adjective modifying "sleep" or an adjecti Periodic workers© meetings are essential. val noun used in the objective case after We have prepared manuals. Almost every the word "to" understood "to His be idea that has been developed in recent loved"? The original Hebrew reveals the years has been explained in print. Samples, latter, and one should therefore read the advertising, et cetera, are all available. K.J.V. text: "He giveth his beloved [slight And where possible, workers from other pause] sleep." fields who have gained valuable experi If you would have your congregation ence, or myself or my associate, can be get the thought of God©s Word from the called in to further explain the potential Scripture lesson, you must first be sure that and the working of the plan. you have the thought yourself. This takes When pastors gain a vision of the pos earnest, diligent, prayerful study of the sibilities of an effective reaping program, text. It requires the use of dictionary, The and when the burden is rolled upon the SDA Bible Commentary, and other helps, laymen, unwise pressures are lifted from and, if possible, study of the original He their already burdened shoulders as they brew, Greek, or Aramaic. Next you must discover anew the tremendous potential be sure to communicate that thought, to for service that their congregation provides share it with your auditors. This demands for them. study of emphasis, pause, pitch level, and Brethren, the amount of the counsel in all the other ingredients of meaningful oral the gift of prophecy writings relating to interpretation. It requires actual practice lay cooperation is simply overwhelming. orally preferably in the sanctuary of the Which one of us needs to be without as text. Never read the Sacred Word in public sistance when flesh and blood sits before without first studying its real meaning and us every Sabbath? These, I sincerely be practicing its oral reading in private. Be lieve, will be the instruments of power truthful. Be accurate. "Study to shew thy when rightly encouraged, trained, and self approved unto God, a workman that guided to lift the burden that you faith needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing fully carry. the word of truth" (2 Tim. 2:15). I earnestly believe that the day of the The Scripture reading (or Scripture les fantastic reach of evangelism involving son) should be a high point in the public every church activity lies within our grasp worship service. It is God©s Word speaking rather than being a thing of the past. This directly to the minds and hearts of men, new day, with its new challenges, can, un and it is "quick, and powerful, and sharper der the blessing of our God, reveal qualities than any twoedged sword, piercing even to and forces latent within the breast of every the dividing asunder of soul and spirit" eager pastor and evangelist. Such a pro (Heb. 4:12). gram as we have here presented should under no circumstances override or eclipse the work of our all-too-few specialists in the field of evangelism. It should simply "We are never to forget that Christ encourage a larger harvest. For who of us teaches through His servants. There may really is concerned about the credit? I be conversions without the instrumen sometimes wonder whether I personally tality of a sermon. Where persons are so will have any. For practically every interest situated that they are deprived of every we face has come about through the action means of grace, they are wrought upon of many factors through the years. by the Spirit of God and convinced of the truth through reading the word; but My brethren, we are all committed to God's appointed means of saving souls the same task. Heaven will bless as we is through the 'foolishness of preach meet its claims together. If you feel that It ing.' "—Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 300. Is Written may be an effective tool for your field, please know that we stand ready to pray and share and lift to the limit. JANUARY,1964 29 MUSIC Beauty in Music for Worship

H. B. HANNUM

"Give unto the Lord the glory due such a condition might prevail, unto his name: bring an offering but the presence of evil in this and come before him: worship the world causes no end of perplexity. Lord in the beauty of holiness" There is confusion in all three (1 Chron. 16:29). areas of beauty, truth, and good A careful study of the directions ness, so that it takes careful and for the building of the sanctuary critical thinking to arrive at right and the Temple of Solomon will conclusions. A pagan ritual may show that the element of beauty be beautiful but not good. A book was found in the worship of God. Professor of may have a good moral lesson but Some Christians place great em Organ and Theory at the same time not be beauti phasis upon truth, the correctness La Sierra College California fully written. Again a painting of the doctrines, and goodness may be a beautiful work of art the righteousness that comes from living ac and not be true to historical fact. cording to the moral law. But very little This need not perplex us if we remem is sometimes said about beauty, the pleas ber that Lucifer is described as "perfect in ant appeal to the senses that comes through beauty," and yet he can by no means be the arts of music, poetry, painting, and ar considered as perfect in either goodness or chitecture as well as through nature. truth. In fact, he is called the father of lies. Because great importance is placed on Some Christians who have not made a the life of-- the - spirit,i-—--, and----- rightly--o i --•so, some caiemicareful scuuystudy orof tnethe arts are inm danger ofot Christians come to suspect anything that setting up their own tastes or likes as the has to do with the life of the flesh. The standard as to what is beautiful in music apostle Paul warns decidedly against the or painting or any of the other arts. Here temptations of the flesh, the lusts of the again, one must recognize his limitations, flesh, and the evils of the carnal mind. In A deep spiritual experience does not qual- the history of the church this has meant ify One to design a church building in the to some the ruling out of the arts from best of taste. Spirituality does not give the service of God, especially the arts of One equal skill in matters of beauty in music and architecture. While music and architecture. The same might be said for poetry have been associated with religious music. A pious Christian does not have worship through the years, the type of some unique power to determine beauty musical expression has sometimes been of in music unless he makes a careful study ao low1r\T*r quality,m-i-alit--*/ andor-ir-l thef-Ka church,-*!-»it-*-**!-. still~«-:ll hasT-.~~ much—,,-„!, in thei area of- music. He—— may know what doggerel in verse in the hymnal. pleases him and what he likes, but this is Confused thinking"O and'"' prejudiceI J —" - ~~ can~ -- ~~ac- not•--.*-* ~ equivalent<~-^ W»A » t**v,**i. ton_» validv ullv-t criticismV.A 1 Hk- O asfid toLW musi-111113 count for this attitude. Some think that cal_ _ i ^values. i _ - Sof alsoi the- person skilled,.,,,. in goodness is equivalent to beauty, or that logic and reasoning so that he can detect beauty, truth, and goodness are always syn- truth in science is not qualified by this fact onymous. In the regenerated new earth to know musical values. 30 THE MINISTRY The ministry receives considerable train is found. We are not born with a taste for ing in the Bible and kindred subjects so the best in music. This must be cultivated that they are able to speak authoritatively by hard work. But it is worth the effort. on matters of Christian living and the doc The church should seek to raise its level of trines of the church. Their field is religious appreciation of the beautiful as it has done truth and goodness. Often they neglect to in matters of truth and goodness. make a study of the field of the arts, so that their choice of literature and music is some times not too reliable. It reflects their per sonal taste and not a critical judgment. Congregational Singing This may explain why the church does Back in 1957 our Methodist friends were planning not use more effectively the fine arts in the for the observance of the 250th anniversary of the act of worship. The music of the church in birth of Charles Wesley, the author of some 6,500 particular could be effectively improved if hymns, many of which have weathered the tests of the ministry and the laity were more sensi time and are sung all over the Protestant world tive to the values of beauty in music. Much today. Among the many trenchant statements made of the instrumental and vocal music used at that time were a few made by Dr. James in our churches and much of the congre Houghton, professor of church music at Boston gational music represents too low a level. University. He asserted that the Methodist Church was losing "the fine art of congregational singing," The sentiment expressed in the words and that "the most important musical feature of a may be true, and the congregation may en worship service should be the congregational sing- joy it and say it pleases them. But these are ing."—Christian Herald, June, 1957. not criteria for the judgment of artistic We have heard of people going to a church serv worth in sacred music. ice because some special singing was featured. But In addition to being true and pleasing, have you ever heard of a church that attracted new great religious music has artistic qualities worshipers because of its inspiring congregational of unity and variety, balance and propor singing? If so, we would like to hear from you about it. tion, harmony and rhythm, restraint and Dr. Houghton further stated that "a church that a sense of the inevitable, that sets it high sings is on fire spiritually. A church that doesn't above the commonplace. Too much of this is dead or dying." Do we believe that? What are great music is being neglected by our we doing about it? churches in favor of trivial and sentimental Sensational song leading is not what the doctor music of little enduring value. means, but warm, meaningful singing as the expres Much of the music of Bach, for exam sion of a deep and living experience. I have a few ple, should be used by our churches be ideas as to how this might be accomplished, but we will give yours the space priority if you will cause it is so much more meaningful, pro send them in. found, dignified, and filled with religious H. W. Lowe emotion than less worthy music. The use of good religious music is justified because this music really is better and means more Statement of ownership, management, and circulation of than inferior music. A congregation that THE MINISTRY published monthly at 6856 Eastern Ave., NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. honestly puts forth the effort to get ac The names and addresses of the publisher, editor, and man aging editor are: Publisher: Review and Herald Pub. Assn., customed to this music will always prefer 6856 Eastern Ave.; NW.. Washington, D.C. 20012; Editor: it to any other. Roy Allan Andersen, 6840 Eastern. Ave., NW., Washington, D.C. 20012; Managing Editor: Harry W. Lowe, 6840 Eastern This is true also of hymns. Hymns such Ave., NW., Washington, D.C. 20012. The owner is the Review and Herald Pub. Assn., 6856 Eastern Ave., NW., Washington, as "Before Jehovah©s Awful Throne," D.C. 20012, a nonprofit, charitable corporation. There are "Now Thank We All Our God," and "O no bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders own ing or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, God, Our Help in Ages Past," all have mortgages, or other securities. such tremendous meaning and perfection in both words and music that these hymns Average No. Copies Single issue each issue during nearest to come to mean much to the worshiper. The preceding 12 months filing date average gospel song cannot compare in Total No. copies printed > 9,925 11,000 value with these great hymns. Paid circulation to term subscribers 8,500 8,740 We do not arrive at truth or goodness Paid circulation through agents, etc. None None without considerable effort and a long pe Free distribution 50 50 riod of training. It takes effort to rise above Total No. copies distributed 8,550 8,790 the level of the average. It also takes effort I certify that the statements made by me are correct and and time to climb the heights where beauty complete. PAUL S. DOUGLAS, Office Manager JANUARY,1964 31 The Evidence of the Centuries on the Immortal-Soul Theory

L. E. FROOM

And now this sweeping portrayal of in Eden. He will expose those decep the centuries is before us the age- tions that have marred and scarred old conflict over man©s origin, nature, the centuries. He will crush this mas and destiny, the unceasing battle of terpiece of deception that has brought conflicting schools of thought across the conflict of the ages to the peak of the years. With rapid summarizing the life and death struggle between strokes let us epitomize this vast pag God©s truth and the devil©s lie. The eant that has been spread before us conflict will end at the personal re in documented detail in these two turn in the clouds of glory of Him volumes. who is the Truth and the Life, the Let us spotlight the leading wit Creator and Redeemer, the Resurrec Professor of nesses to conditionalism, epoch upon Historical Theology tion and the Restorer. Let us go back, epoch, so as to get the panoramic Andrews University then, and first seek the main import picture compactly before us. In this way we of volume 5. may fairly and faithfully evaluate the evidence and arrive at a verdict that will be sound and I. Build-up and Penetration of true. And this must be reached upon the basis Immortal-Soul Concept of rerealed Bible truth the only dependable Volume 5 presented the Biblical norm by norm for evaluating the evidence, the lie detec which we are to test all testimony and to weigh tor for all testimony, the basis for all right con all evidence. We examined the multiple decla clusions, the authority for any sound verdict. rations of the Old Testament, the Hebrew We will thus find our own individual relation Scriptures the Law, the Prophets, and the to it all. Writings. We compassed the amplified evidence While we are but distant spectators of the presented in the New Testament the explicit past, we are close-up observers of the present. declarations of Christ and the apostles which Yes, we are more than observers we are ines started the newborn Christian church on its capable participants in the final clash between fateful way, outlined its course and its conflicts truth and error. The continuing conflict of the together with the triumph of truth restored ere centuries is to reach its consummation in our the second advent of our Lord. That is the in day. We are to witness the climax of the strug spired basis of the Christian faith, the source of gle. And, on the basis of the Word the out all truth concerning the origin, nature, and come is assured. Nor is this some vain specula destiny of man. tion or empty, groundless hope. It is founded A. Triple Origin of Immortal-Soul Innova upon the covenanted Word of the living God tion.—We then traced the alien origin of the who formed man, has guided his destiny across postulate of universal innate immortality. the ages, and according to the inviolable pledge Springing out of Orientalism with its panthe of His promise, is soon to overthrow all error ism, pre-existence, emanations, transmigration, and establish truth forever. and reabsorption concepts it was joined by He will end the controversy. He will over the Egyptian version of immortal soulism and throw Satan, the father of the twin lies spawned by the gross perversion of Persian dualism. 32 THE MINISTRV This is a part of the epilogue to (with man mortal and the wicked turning the forthcoming two volumes by to ashes), the Syriac Baruch (with the right L, E, Frootn entitled The eous sleeping in death and punishment termi Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers. nating), and the Essene Dead Sea scrolls (with It summarizes the content of these the righteous living forever, but the wicked unusual volumes, which will undoubtedly be the most exhaustive ceasing to exist, and with wrong disappearing treatment yet produced of the forever), and the Second Esdras (with the sleep doctrine of conditional immortality. ers called forth, and the wicked extinguished). These represented one school, beginning about 200 B.C. These elements began, around 900 B.C., to pene trate the thinking of the pagan Greek poets, Then, beginning about 150 B.C., a second cults, and mysteries. Thus Hesiod came to hold school appeared, adopting and adapting the the separate survival of the soul, the Dionysiac Platonic philosophy Second Maccabees (pro cults to transmigration, and the Orphic Mys claiming innate immortality and introducing teries to their pantheism and reincarnation, prayers for the dead); the Jubilees (with the and the Eleucinian Mysteries to their reincar- soul surviving, and the resurrection aban nauonism and the concept of the body as the doned), Wisdom and its contradictions, fol prison house of the soul, longing to be freed. lowed by the famous Philo, who allegorized the From thence, around 640 B.C., this composite Old Testament, taught emanationism, pre-ex notion was espoused by the Greek speculative istence, incarnations, embodied souls, and eter schools of philosophy the Ionic, Pythagorean, nal punishing. And Philo©s career largely par Eleatic, Atomist, and the Compromisers. De alleled the life of Christ. Jewry had been split spite their divergent views on emanated sparks, into two irreconcilable schools through the in pre-existence, pantheism, reincarnation, trans roads of Platonism. This created a grave and migration, and dualism, they had one common continuing dilemma in Jewry. denominator the innate immortality of the D. Motley Situation When Christ Appeared. soul. But the intense reaction of the Sophists —Meantime, among the Roman writers pan checked this speculative phase. Meantime, the theistic despair became preponderant. Manil- Old Testament canon had closed, about 425 ius with his pantheism, Cicero holding to pre- B.C., and we entered the shadowy twilight zone existence, and Virgil with his "world soul" were of the intertestament period. the discordant picture painted by these writers. B. Becomes Potent Philosophy Under Plato. Horace held to eternal sleep, Ovid to the di —In the fourth century before Christ, under vine spark, Cato with death as the utter end. Socrates and Plato we entered the era of syste Seneca the Stoic with his pantheism, Epictetus matic philosophy, likewise with its pre-existence with refusion, Plutarch with his Platonism, of the soul, its successive incarnations, with the Juvenal and his everlasting sleep, and Aurelius soul acclaimed immortal and indestructible. with his reabsorption present a motley Roman And, significantly enough, Greek philosophy©s picture. four problems were (1) the origin of the world, Such was the situation among the Jews and (2) the nature of the soul, (3) the existence of the Romans, with their recovering and regroup God, and (4) the criteria of truth. Immortal ing eclecticism, when Christ appeared on the soulism thus lay at the heart of its speculation. scene and reaffirmed the conditionalism taught But Aristotle abandoned the idea of personal in the Old Testament, and expanded the truth immortality, and denied Plato©s pre-existence to sublime proportions. Without pausing to re and reincarnation postulate. The reactions of hearse the clear conditionalism taught by the Stoics set in, with their materialistic philos Christ and the apostles, we note that in the ophy, along with the licentious Epicurean pagan Neoplatonic school, the last stand of pa notions of unbridled indulgence, followed by gan philosophy was taking place. Lucius Apu- permanent oblivion, the Sceptics with their leius held to the world soul, Numensius to his quibbles, followed by the Roman writers that incarnations and punishments, Plotinus to ema carried on. nation, dualism, and reabsorption, and Por C. Jewry Split Into Two Schools on Immor phyry to the universal-soul notion. And finally tality.—That was the situation when something Proclus, in the fifth century A.D., likewise taught happened among the Jewish intertestamental emanation, reabsorption, and mysticism, tinc writers of apocryphal and pseudepigraphical tured with Orientalism. Such was the situation fame. First came the maintainers of condition- when such pagan teachings were forbidden by alism, holding to the Old Testament teachings. Justinian in 529. These included Tobit, Serach, the Sibyllines E. Apostolic and Ante-Nicene Conditional- JANUARY,1964 33 Gnosticism and Manichaeism (with its dualism and fantastic postulates) plagued the church "Among the first to catch Nehemiah's and complicated the situation. spirit o£ zeal and earnestness were the G. Universal Restorationism Projected, by priests of Israel. . . . Thus should it be in every holy enterprise. ... If they move Origen.—But the great name of the third school reluctantly, others will not move at all. was Origen of Alexandria, home of Philo the . . . When their light burns brightly, a Jew. Adopting the view of indefeasible immor thousand torches will be kindled at the tality for all, he rejected the contention of flame."—Christian Service, p. 175. eternal torment for the wicked, holding the fires to be purgative and restorative. His was a de termined revolt against the eternal-torment thesis. He contended for pre-existence, trans ists.—That forms the setting for the spreading migration, a spiritual resurrection, and the ulti Christian church. The first group of writers, the mate restoration of all the wicked though it apostolic fathers, were largely conditionalists involved a forced salvation. His principle of Clement with immortality as a gift, Ignatius allegorization, with a spiritual resurrection, a with death as a sleep, Barnabas with ultimate figurative advent, and a false eschatology, was death eternal, Hermes with the wicked con maintained by many in the developing Catho sumed, Polycarp with the resurrection as the lic church. But his restorationism was con supreme question, and Diognetus with the demned by the Second Council of Constanti wicked terminated. nople in 544, and went into oblivion. That brought us to the Ante-Nicene Fathers So with conditionalism largely strangled and and Justin Martyr, with man a candidate for im universal restorationism suppressed, Augustin- mortality and utter destruction for the wicked. ianism with its universal innate immortality Next came Irenaeus with eternal life bestowed and its endless torment of the wicked be and eternal loss for the wicked, who cease to comes the dominant faith of the controlling exist. Then came Novatian, Arnobius, and Lac- church for a thousand years. The radical de tantius with immortality as a reward, and pre partures from the apostolic platform were crys senting a true eschatology. tallized and established. That was the essence But under the pressures that followed, the of the story unfolded in volume 5. conditionalist voices waned, and only an oc casional testimony was heard from this first //. Reformation Sparks Resurgence of school in a developing trilemma. Three com Conditionalism peting schools of eschatology existed from now A. Bleak and Largely Silent Centuries.—The on. These were: (1) Conditionalism, (2) Eter sweep of volume 6 covers the conflict over this nal Tormentism, and (3) Universal Restora- theological trilemma from the sixth century on tionism the latter two with their false es- to 1963. Restorationism is banned and quies chatologies. Such was the trilemma that was to cent all through the Middle Ages. Not until confuse and plague the Christian church until after the Protestant Reformation was under the end of the age. way did it, under the name and concept of F. Eternal Tormentism Established by Ter- universalism, become active again, first in Eu tullian.—Now recall the second school. After a rope and then appearing in Colonial America. fatal time gap, Athenagoras (first Christian But its real resurgence was reserved for mod Father to use the term "immortal soul"), about ern times. A.D. 188 contended that the soul is immortal The dogma that all men are innately immor and imperishable. Tertullian then developed tal, along with paralleling insistence on the this into a system. His argument was: Since all eternal torment of the wicked, was the position souls are immortal, the punishment of the relentlessly imposed by the dominant papal wicked must be eternal. He stressed a sacred church for a thousand years. To this had now fire that never consumes but renews as it burns, been added the innovating concept of purga eternally killing but never terminating. Follow tory, based upon the Apocrypha, to mitigate the ing Chrysostum and Jerome, Augustine finally horrifies of hell. Classically portrayed by Dante, added his great prestige to the postulate of in it prevailed until the time of the Renaissance. herent immortality for all men, and conscious Meanwhile, conditionalism the original torment for the wicked forever. This soon be Christian school of conviction in the age-old came the predominant faith of the dominant conflict over man©s nature and destiny had church, continuing largely unchallenged passed through its bleak and largely silent cen through the medieval centuries. Meanwhile, turies. Only voices such as seventh-century So- 34 THE MINISTRY phronius, patriarch of Jerusalem, twelfth-cen mentism and this just before Luther©s break tury Greek Bishop Nicholas, and certain Pari with Rome. That meant war upon all chal sian professors gave voice to conditionalist lengers. sentiments, followed by Wyclif in Britain. But E. Conditionalism Sparks Split in Protestant these made scarcely a ripple in the vast ocean Ranks.—Then, beginning with Luther in Ger of immortal soulism. many and Tyndale in England, certain con B. Waldensian Adherents and Rabbinical spicuous Protestant leaders advanced the posi Revolters.—There were, however, certain me tion that in death man sleeps until the awaken dieval exceptions definite connecting links ing call of Christ the Life-giver on the resur traceable back to early church times and its rection morn at His second advent. Likewise, conditionalism. The Waldenses of the Pied- among the Anabaptists of Poland, England, and montese Alps, in Northern Italy, left record the Continent, and the Socinians of Poland, of holding to the mortality of man, which view there was further challenge of immortal soul they had preserved from early times, along ism. A number were burned at the stake for with rejection of the consciousness of souls in holding the conditionalist position, along with purgatory. Averroes, noted twelfth-century Ara other views anathema to Rome. There were bic philosopher, had openly denied the innate other Protestants, however, who insistently re immortality of the soul, and all who similarly tained the dominant Roman Catholic position denied the papal dogma were castigated as Aver- such as Calvin with his violent attacks against roists. the "sleep of souls." The most notable medieval break with eter Thus a split developed among Protestant nal tormentism was among the most celebrated bodies, though most Protestant creeds incor of the medieval rabbis, beginning with Maimon- porated innatism and eternal torment. The An ides, then Machmanides, and Abravanel, who glican Articles, however, reduced from forty- took their stand on the complete, ultimate "ex two to thirty-nine, left the issue of the nature cision" of the wicked. Theirs was a repudia and destiny of man to the conviction of the tion of the divergent Jewish tenet introduced individual clergyman. Then the conflict inten by Philo. And this dissent continued on up to sified as ministers and teachers, physicians and Protestant Reformation times, when the burden poets, philosophers and scientists, statesmen was taken up by Christian leaders. and publishers, and barristers of prominence in C. Ethiopian and Malabar Rejectors of Im steadily increasing numbers in the seventeenth mortal Soulism.—Meanwhile, down in Ethio and eighteenth centuries took their stand for pian Africa and over on the Malabar coast conditionalism and left their ringing testimony among the St. Thomas Christians of Southern on record. India, both had perpetrated the positions of F. Notable Recruits to Conditionalist Cause. their founding fathers, pioneering missionaries —Richard Overton went to prison for his con from Europe. Like the Waldenses, they had ditionalist faith. Man, he held, is wholly mor never accepted the papal innovations, but held tal, with immortality bestowed as a gift at the that man sleeps in the interval between death Second Advent. The celebrated seventeenth- and the resurrection. century poet-statesman John Milton so held. D. Pomponatius Forces Declaration of Cath And Dr. Peter Chamberlen, physician to James olic Dogma.—But in Italy celebrated philoso I, Charles I, and Charles II, likewise maintained pher-teacher Pietro Pomponatius revived and the conditionalist view. A whole succession of pressed the dormant concept that man does not witnesses in England and on the Continent so possess an undefeasibly immortal soul. This professed. High clerics, like Archbishop Tillot- thought spread among scholars of different son, took their stand on the conditionalist lands and forced Pope Leo X to declare in his platform. The battle raged, with steadily in famous bull of 1513 the Catholic position on creasing recruits to the conditionalist cause, the natural immortal soulism and eternal tor with its threefold position of immortality only

"Let me tell you that the Lord will work in this last work in a manner very much out of the common order of things, and in a way that will be contrary to any human planning. . . . God will use ways and means by which it will be seen that He is taking the reins in His own hands. The workers will be surprised by the simple means that He will use to bring about and perfect His work of righteousness."—Testimonies to Ministers, p. 300.

JANUARY,1964 35 on the Continent.—In England, Congregation- alist Dr. Edward White became a shining figure GOSPEL TENTS with his emphasis on life only in Christ. Canon STEEL-CLAD TABERNACLES Constable produced classic books in the field. And noted Congregationalist Dr. R. W. Dale SMITH MANUFACTURING CO., DALTON, CA. declared his Conditionalist faith. Dean F. W. Over SO Years in Business Farrar startled the religious world in 1877 by his famous sermons in Westminster Abbey de nouncing eternal tormentism. Scores, yes, hun in Christ, sleep in the grave during death, dreds of clergymen took up their positions, pro and ultimate and utter destruction of the wicked. or con. An intradenominational Conditionalist In the eighteenth century, scholars like Wil association was formed in Britain, with mem liam Whiston, poets like Isaac Watts, physicians bers comprised of clergymen of all faiths. like Dr. Scott, clerics like bishops Warburton Symposiums appeared in periodicals and and Law, scientists like Priestly, educators like books. Numerous journals, such as The Rain Dr. Peter Pecard, swelled the growing chorus. bow, The Messenger, The Bible Echo, and The Conditionalist Archdeacon Blackburne pro Standard championed the Conditionalist cause. duced his priceless history of the witnesses, ex A whole library of Conditionalist works was tending from the Council of Florence to his produced. Outstanding scholars stood up and own day in the mid-eighteenth century. were counted. Germany. Switzerland, France, G. New-World Voices Add Their Testimony. Belgium, Holland, and Italy contributed their —Meantime in the New World, along with the witnesses. Missionary leaders in Australia, Af conflict over revived universalism and such avid rica, India, China, and Japan added their champions of eternal torment as Jonathan Ed voices and sometimes were sent home as a con wards and Samuel Hopkins, there developed a sequence. revulsion against Calvinism. In 1795 the first Statesmen like Prime Minister Gladstone North American treatise appeared, maintain wrote with singular soundness, and scholars like ing that after the sleep of death man©s immor Dr. R. F. Weymouth and Bishop Perowne lent tality is conferred at the resurrection. their support. Famous preachers like London©s And as the nineteenth century dawned the Joseph Parker voiced their convictions. Great chorus of conditionalists grew stronger, and the Conditionalist classics, like Dr. Emmanuel Pet- parts were augmented by noted scholars. The avers French work, soon translated into English, caliber of the proponents creates respect. Bish stand on record for all time, as do the writ ops such as Porteus and Hampden, and Free ings of Dr. E. W. Bullinger. Well-known Churchmen like Watson and Hall lend the missioners like Hay Aitken gave strong impetus. luster of their names. And Archbishop Whatley So closed the nineteenth century in the Old became a standard-bearer. A Conditionalist con World. But because these men championed an gregation the Crescent Meeting House is the unpopular cause their witness is not well first of its kind. (Prior to this, conditionalism known. It has been given voice in this volume. was confined to individual adherents.) And J. America Keeps Pace With Old World.— there was wide denominational spread. We must also bear in mind the paralleling H. Fresh Revolts Add New Impetus.—Mean American testimony. In the mid-nineteenth cen time, in North America, Bishop William tury Deacon Henry Grew inspired George White, who arranged for the New Episcopal Storrs, who with his Bible Examiner gave great daughter church of Anglicanism, so held. Elias impetus to this then-unpopular testimony. The Smith, founder of the Christian Connection, widespread revival of the study of Bible proph gave impetus to conditionalism. Man after man ecy and eschatology in the early decades of the joined the ranks in the New World. nineteenth century had laid the foundation for Shortly after, in the Old World, beginning the awakening interest. Professor Hudson pro about 1877 there was a fresh revolt against duced several American classics on condition eternal tormentism that forced the issues to the alism. Physician Dr. Charles Ives of Yale Medi fore and now spread to overseas continents. cal School made a notable contribution. Pet- Various Conditionalist journals were launched, tingell produced important books, and clergy and both a scholarly and popular literature men like Bishop Mann, and Denniston in Ja developed along with a wave of reprisals. Lay maica, Dr. C. D. Boardman of Philadelphia, men were ostracised and clergymen were sev Moncrief in Canada, Dr. A. J. Gordon, and ered from their denominations for espousing many others, added their influential voices in conditionalism. emphasizing various aspects of the conditional- I. Notable Champions Arise in Britain and (Continued on page 38~) 36 THE MINISTRY The principles enunciated in this article, originally prepared for the women workers in our General Con SHEPHERDESS ference office, apply to our representa tive Adventist women the world over. We think it will have point for our shepherdesses and other women work ers as they seek rightly to represent the Advent message before the world.

God's Well-groomed Ambassadors

BERTHA W. FEARING

The matter of personal appearance must always be perfectly dressed in is of paramount importance to the public in appropriate clothing for private secretary. Peekaboo blouses, the occasion, nothing offensive, wear skintight sweaters, or fluffy afternoon ing neither too much nor too little. gowns do not befit her position. She So with the Christian too much should dress with her boss©s position would be adornment; too little would in mind. After all, clients see her as be immodest. his representative. A frivolous-looking John Robert Powers, in his book secretary . . . can do her boss more Secrets of Charm, says, "Simply cut harm than she realizes. Every effort and simply adorned clothes are smart should be made to dress in a smart, and appropriate the world over." Minister's Wife well-groomed manner. Let simplicity Washington, D.C. Ellen G. White writes of "the grace, be the keynote. Guard against over the beauty, the appropriateness of doing the make-up or hairdo." natural simplicity." And, "A refined taste, a Since reading these words as printed in cultivated mind, will be revealed in the choice Carolyn Hagner Shaw©s newspaper column re of simple and appropriate attire." cently, I haven©t been able to forget them Again she counsels, "It is always right to be "dress with her boss©s position in mind. . . . neat and to be clad appropriately, in a manner Clients see her as his representative." becoming to your age and station in life." And when our boss is a Christian minister Appropriateness for the Christian office sec and we are employed by a Christian organiza retary. Evidently it would encompass even more tion known for its high standards, then what of than that mentioned by Mrs. Shaw. Alice Haas, the secretary©s position? What a responsibility! wife of Dr. George Haas of Los Angeles, an Yes, and what a privilege! authority on fashion, good grooming, and per Have I ever been guilty of doing harm sonality improvement, counsels that we "make to my boss, to my church, to God©s cause, sure all office dresses have sleeves. Bare arms because of my appearance? Perhaps I have. and low necklines do not go to the office. They If there is proper office dress for the world, are just as out of place there as shorts or a it follows that standards for proper office dress bathing suit would be." for a Christian organization would be yet a Veronica Dengel, author of Personality Un little higher, especially when that organization limited, published by John C. Winston Com has different dress standards for other occa pany, says, "Good taste in clothes starts with sions. And then to think a little further along simplicity, proceeds to becomingness, and cul that line when that office is the denomination©s minates in appropriateness for the occasion. No world headquarters and people look to us as matter how beautiful any article of clothing the example! Yes, with position goes respon may be, unless it suits the wearer, unless it is sibility. functional and right for the specific purpose An ambassador represents his country. A and time it is worn, it is not in good taste." Christian represents his God. An ambassador And with regard to the business girl she writes, JANUARY,1964 37 "Although you may have to wear severely simple things for the office, you can indulge your love THE LITTLE GIANT HOTOMATIC of gay colors or soft fabrics in your ©at-home© GAS WATER HEATER NO. 3 clothes." Will supply all the hot water needed for Baptistries, Church Kitchens, Rest Rooms. Appropriateness! May we all strive to cultivate Heats 450 CPH, 20° rise in temperature. that special sense of what it means. May our Inexpensive, too. bosses never be embarrassed because we have Write for free folder. Dept. M-24. LITTLE GIANT MFC. CO. missed knowing, and may God©s work never 907 7th Street Orange, Texas be hindered because we fail. This week 1 read for the first time what the Seventh-day Adventist Information File, pub lished by our Bureau of Public Relations, tells witnessed augmenting radio and television mass communication coverages present the condition- the newspaper and business world about the alist faith on occasion. At the same time, an in personal appearance of Seventh-day Adventists. creasing number of outstanding scholars in They are told that "Seventh-day Adventists be Britain and on the Continent as well as in lieve that they should use every natural means the United States and Canada have been cham to present as pleasant an appearance as possible. pions of conditionalism. Anglican and Free The principles of good grooming are advo Church leaders have adapted the conditionalist cated." Then it goes on to say, "Women do not faith, endorsing it in whole or in part. resort to the overuse of cosmetics. Any use of Ground Swell of Revolt Against Traditional cosmetics that becomes apparent is considered Positions.—A group of some six Swedish and an overuse. The ideal is the naturally healthy Norwegian bishops repudiated the dogma of glow." eternal torment amid heated debate. In truth, I like that. I hope that naturally healthy glow a wide-ranging ground swell of revolt against is always in evidence when visitors call here. the traditional positions has swept over large And may it be a Christian glow flowing nat sections of Christendom. The issues are being urally from our kindness, courtesy, and desire more sharply defined, and the battle lines to be of any service possible. drawn between the three great schools con 1 Peter 3:3, 4 as translated by J. B. Phillips cerning this age-old theological trilemma eter says, "Your beauty should not be dependent on nal tormentism, universalism, and condition an elaborate coiffure, or on the wearing of alism. Men are choosing sides and changing jewelry or fine clothes, but on the inner per sides in harmony with what they discern to be sonality the unfading loveliness of a calm and truth. gentle spirit, a thing very precious in the eyes The spread is impressive. In this twentieth of God." * century scholarly Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, From "The Keynote," 1963. Dutch, German, French, British, American, Ca Used by permission. nadian, and Japanese voices have broken forth. University professors, college presidents, arch * From The New Testament in Modern English, © by bishops, bishops, deans and canons of cathe J. B. Phillips 1958. Used by permission of The Macmillan Company. drals have spoken such as Canterbury, St. Paul©s, and Birmingham. Bible translators, com mentators, editors, rectors, and pastors have borne witness. And these voices have appeared The Evidence of the Centuries in Anglican, Episcopalian, Baptist, Presbyte rian, Lutheran, Reformed, Congregational, on the Methodist, and various other communions. Immortal-Soul Theory Many hold high posts in famous universities (Continued from page 36) such as Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Aber deen, London, Bristol, Manchester, Birming ist truth and exposing the errors of the tradi ham, Erlangen, Zurich, Harvard, Yale, Prince- tional position. The stage is now set for greater ton, McGill, Toronto. And they are found, for advances in the twentieth century. example, in such theological seminaries as Un ///. Brilliant Array of Witnesses ion, General, Augsburg, Drew, Hamma, and Mark Twentieth Century Butler. Books and periodicals have been aug mented by the use of radio and television chan As the nineteenth century saw certain entire nels. Conditionalism is growing, spreading denominations adopt conditionalism so in the through largely unpublicized contemporary de twentieth century the past three decades have velopment. 38 THE MINISTRY will be of help to beginners in pastoral work and that possibly other pastors of churches will get help from its pages." Indeed, this book will help a BOOKS man escape some of the mistakes and pitfalls into which a Christian minister may fall. He deals with the pastor©s qualifications, ordination, spiritual life, intellectual life, social life, his outside relations, and his relations to his brother minister. The last half of the book deals with the pastor and his Sunday school, church music, missions, his Judaism, by Isidore Epstein, Penguin Books Inc., work as a counselor, with his young people, con 3300 Clipper Mill Road, Baltimore 11, Maryland, ducting the ordinances, funerals, weddings, relat 350 pages, 95 cents. ing himself to new members, the organization of churches, the building of a new church, and church Dr. Isidore Epstein has presented in the twenty- discipline. I too wish I had had this book many two chapters of Judaism, with ample index and bib years ago. It contains much-needed information. It liography, an excellent history of the Jews. This is a is readable, understandable, and is rich in ad book that every Christian minister should have, not vice, wisdom, and spirituality. only for its historical study but in order to gain ANDREW FEARING an understanding of modern Judaism, its various denominations, and its teachings and observances. We know of no modern Jewish scholar better Geographical Companion to the Bible, Denis Baly, qualified to present such a study as objectively as McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1963, Dr. Epstein has done. He is the editor of The 196 pages, $5.95. Babylonian Talmud in English, a monumental work of thirty-six volumes, issued in recent years by the Prof. Denis Baly is associate professor of religion Soncino Press, London. at Kenyon College, and he was trained as a geog Your New Testament will be a more interesting rapher at Liverpool University, England. For fifteen study after you have read this little book Judaism. years he taught in the well-known St. George©s R. L. ODOM School in Jerusalem, during which time he traveled extensively and did intensive study of the terrain in Palestine and nearby countries. Sermons on Marriage and Family Life, edited by The initial material out of which this book has John C. Wynn, Abingdon Press, Nashville, Ten grown to larger proportions appeared first as a nessee, paperback, 173 pages, 95 cents. series of Winslow Lectures delivered at the General These are sixteen excellent sermons selected from Theological Seminary, New York, in 1961. nearly four hundred submitted to the joint depart This book is divided into four sections, a glance ment of family life of the National Council of at which will reveal to the reader the nature of Churches. This is not a collection of essays or trea its contents: (1) The land of the Bible; (2) cartog tises, but Christian sermons that were preached by raphy and the Bible; (3) the camera and the Bible; sixteen of the most outstanding Protestant clergy (4) place names in the Bible. There are thirty-one men, dealing with varied aspects of the home life maps or diagrams, sixteen pages of four-color maps (family worship, marriage, child training, family especially drawn by the author, which appear to crisis, sex standards, et cetera). This work would be quite different from the maps in the usual Bible not only be helpful to ministers but would be of atlas. value to all people who are trying and praying for The book also contains twenty-eight photo a happy Christian home. graphic plates, and the Gazetteer of place names ANDREW FEARINC handles every place name mentioned in the Bible. For the careful student there is a mine of infor mation in this somewhat unusual book. Inciden Postering the Smaller Church, John C. Thiessen, tally, the tourist who has been to the Holy Land Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, and had the Hill of Zion pointed out by the guide Michigan, 1962, 168 pages, $2.95. will be a little disillusioned, and certain other The majority of ministers serve medium or small geographical locations that have been pointed out churches. So many of the books giving counsel on with the typical guide©s exactitude to awe-struck personal relations, theology, and church administra tourists are either more correctly located or tion have to do with the large city churches. There shrouded in interrogation in this fascinating book. is little to help the beginner or the man in charge H. W. LOWE of a small place in a small town. Dr. Thiessen prepared this present book, based on personal How to Organize Your Church Office, Clara Anniss experiences and observations gained through McCartt, Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, twenty-six years of pastoral work. He says, "If I 1962, 63 pages, $1.00. had known these things when I became a pastor, the first few years of my ministry would have This is a practical booklet of real value. The been much easier. It is my hope that this book author is an instructor in church office procedures JANUARY, 1964 39 The Abramic berith (covenant) is divided into 25 classes and these are applied in test fashion to CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS ten of the chief ethnic groups. Needless to say, no Advertisements appropriate to The Ministry, appear group scores more than 30 per cent fulfillment ing under this heading, eight cents a word for each insertion, including initials and address. Minimum except the Anglo-Saxons, who score 97 per cent. charge, two dollars for each insertion. Cash required The 3 per cent shortage is explained by more clues with order. Address The Ministry, Takoma Park, Wash ington, D.C. 20012 U.S.A. to come as the time scale extends. Our readers will be interested to note the au thor©s treatment of the 70 weeks of Daniel, the 1260 years, the seven times of both Moses and Joseph, and other time prophecies of the Bible, including THOUSANDS OF NEW and USED religious and theological books. Send your "want list." Write for Daniel©s image. Too many prophetic details are free catalog. Libraries purchased. Kregel's Book Store, mentioned for treatment here. He seems to avoid Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503. the older Anglo-Israelites© unimpressive use of the heathen Great Pyramid to prove Christian proph ecy. The crux of the whole matter as we face further historic upheavals is, in the author©s words: "We in the School of Religious Education at Southern can dance, as David did, before the Ark of the Baptist Theological Seminary. She writes from a Covenant, or we can be dragged in chains behind wealth of experience, having been a pastor©s secre it," which presumably refers to accepting or reject tary in churches both large and small. At the pres ing the theories under consideration. The author ent time she is a member of the seminary©s thinks that the restored, dominant Israel state ful administrative staff and lectures extensively on the filling Isaiah 2:2-4 will come "within 20 or 30 years church office©s potential service in the complex at the most." H. W. Lows congregational life of today. ANDREW FEARING A Man Spoke, A World Listened., Paul L. Maier, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., New York, 1963, Look to the Rock, political science in the light of 481 pages, $4.95. prophecy, P. K. Saunders, The Brython Press, Inc., Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1947, 186 pages, I have just finished reading one of the most de $1.50. lightful, fascinating, informative, moving, and heart-warming biographies ever to come into my From time to time readers ask us to recommend hand the tremendous life story of Walter A. Maier, informative books on the Anglo-Israel question. professor of Old Testament Interpretation and His Here is such a book in relatively short compass. I tory at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis; editor, pro have studied at least a dozen books on this theme lific author, and 26 years a radio exponent of vigor and have acquired quite a number of them, and I ous Christianity. Dr. Maier was founder and think this volume is one of the most representative. speaker of the International Lutheran Hour. At the For the one volume on this subject, this would be time of his death in 1950 he was regularly address as good as any I know. ing a weekly radio audience of more than 20 mil The Anglo-American-Israel writers all adopt the lion on 1,236 stations in 55 countries, in some 36 plan of fitting historic events into their pattern of languages. Bible prophecy, and Mr. Saunders has proceeded My wife and I read most of this book aloud to along this line with considerable ingenuity. The ac each other. We laughed, we wept, we reminisced, cepted basic thesis is "that the Anglo-Saxon family but above all we were inspired to be better work is the Biblical ten-tribed Israel through which, at ers for God. She admonished me to recommend this the end of the age, mankind could hope for redemp book to the minister©s wife as well as to the minis tion" (page 9). Every incident of history and every ter himself. Much of this life story fits the expe coincident Bible prophecy that can be bent to this riences of many in the ministry today. theme is used as incontrovertible proof of its truth. The author, Dr. Maier©s son, portrays with Charts, maps, genealogical trees, are displayed to graphic human interest the sorrows, joys, and suc prove the dominance of the Anglo-American races, cesses of this unusual life. He tells of Dr. Maier©s called here "Anglodom." Some of his pictorial illus early education; the entrance into youth ministry; trations are new. Some are novel; as for example, the lifelong romance with Hulda, his beloved wife; his use of Ezekiel©s "two wings were joined one to the role of husband and father; the mental dis another and two covered their bodies" to the bi cipline and enormous application to master the plane, the pilot being "the likeness of a man" "upon demands for a Doctor of Philosophy degree in the the [sapphire-colored] throne," "the wheel in the field of Semitics at Harvard University; his profes middle of a wheel," the ring markings of the Brit sorship at Concordia; his work as editor and author ish army biplane all fitting into the prophetic of 31 books; the early struggles in radio and the phraseology. All of which aptly illustrates the developing of his program into a world ministry. unique Anglo-Israel use of prophecy and current How did Walter Maier achieve such success and tremendous popularity? The chapter "Why Suc-

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Prices higher in Canada, Add sales tax where necessary. JANUARY, 1964 Undersecretary of Cults Dr. Jose Noguerol Ar- mengol, who said that while the "federal govern ment supports the Roman Catholic Church, this NEWS BRIEFS does not impede or place obstacles in the way of other confessions." Fixed Date for Easter A declaration favoring a fixed date for Easter was approved by the Second Vatican Council at its 56th general congregation by a vote of 2,058 to 9. It came in the form of an appendix to the fifth lUnless otherwise credited, the following neas items are taken from Religious A©'eivs Service.] chapter of the schema on the liturgy. The declara tion said the council was not opposed to a fixed Nepal Law Bars Proselytizing Missionaries date for Easter Sunday, "provided this is agree Foreign missionaries are forbidden to proselytize able to all others who are concerned with the under a sweeping legal code promulgated by King problem, especially to other Christians." The docu Mahendra of Nepal, a remote kingdom in the ment also said the council was not opposed to Himalayas, where Hinduism is the state religion. various initiatives for establishing a perpetual civil The law does not legally recognize religious con calendar, "provided the week of seven days, with versions. Missionaries seeking to make converts its Sunday, is safeguarded." face a three-year prison term and banishment from the kingdom. Until about ten years ago mission "De-Protestantizing America" aries were not permitted in Nepal, but they have The National Sunday School Association in Buf been allowed to enter since then if they promise falo, New York, warned against "de-Protestantiz not to attempt to convert nationals. ing" America in a resolution unanimously adopted at its eighteenth annual convention. It listed five "Daring" Laymen Needed "trends" which "give evidence toward a rush to secularism in national life." They were listed as: A seminary professor, addressing the United (1) The gradual "de-Protestantizing" of the nation Church of Christ©s Council for Lay Life and Work, "through efforts of the ecumenical movement and asserted that "daring and imaginative experimen the current Vatican Council." (2) The U.S. Supreme tation" by lay men and women is needed today to Court decisions banning Bible reading and prayer put new life in the church. Dr. Frank H. Littell of in the public schools. (3) Moral laxity, "preoccupa Chicago Theological Seminary stressed that the tion with sex, crime, teen-age restlessness, bore lay movement in the church must be moved "to dom, and delinquency." (4) The "increasing cres serve the world in the spirit of stewardship and cendo of tension in race relations." (5) Lack of sacrifice. . . . We need in America," he told the positive, aggressive Christian witness as reflected council©s annual meeting, "to recapture the joyful in apathy and frustration. Nearly 3,000 delegates recklessness of an evangelism which is prepared to endorsed the resolution, which warned against use any ©new methods© available to reach as many "sham and hypocrisy" in the Christian life of people as possible on their own wave lengths. Not America. all the church conventions and assemblies in the world can recover a standard of Christian thought Jewish Psychiatric Training Program and action when it has been lost. Recovery can The National Institute of Mental Health has come only through rededication of lay groups who awarded a grant of $98,334 to the Jewish Theolog have come through a primary religious experience ical Seminary of America to develop a special psy and are determined to maintain a covenant of chiatric training program for rabbis. To be known Christian thought and witness which honors the as "Pastoral Counseling Preparation for Rabbinical Name." Students," the three-year project will be conducted by the department of pastoral psychiatry at the Religious Freedom in Argentina Conservative Jewish Seminary. According to Ar Complete religious freedom for all believers in thur Katz, executive vice-president of the seminary, this predominantly Roman Catholic country was the purpose of the program is to equip Conservative pledged by Argentina©s Minister of Foreign Affairs, rabbis to function more effectively in their role Dr. Miguel A. Zavala Ortiz as he formally installed as counselors. He pointed out that rabbis, as well a new undersecretary of cults. Noting that the Ar as the clergymen of other denominations, were ex gentine constitution "obliges us to defend the free periencing more contact with persons suffering dom of worship for all cults," Dr. Zavala Ortiz de from mental disturbances. 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JANUARY,1964 45 Editor Roy Allan Andersen Associate Editors Catholic TV Station E. Earl Cleveland Andrew C. Fearing J. R. Spongier Boston©s newest television station, Channel 38, Managing Editor to be operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese Harry W. Lowe of Boston, will broadcast from the top of the Copy Editor Prudential Tower, a 52-story building now under i. Ina White construction here largest office building in the Ait Editor world outside New York City. The new station, T. K. Martin authorized by the FCC, will be known as WIHS- Consulting Editors—Reuben R. Figuhr, Wal ter R. Beach, Theodore Carcich, Richard TV, Channel 38. The first diocesan-operated tele Hammill, Edward Heppenstall, R. Leo Odom. vision station in the world, it will have an effective Overseas Contributors— George Burnside, radiating power of 1,000,000 watts. WIHS, which Australia; O. Gmehling, Centra! Europe; Paul Eldridge, Far East; David H. Baascn, will feature educational and religious programs, has Inter-America; Wayne Olson, Middle East; a commercial license. It will not feature Catholic E. E. Roenfelt, Northern Europe; Enoch Oli- veira, South America; T. M. Ashlock, South programs exclusively and conferences are now un ern Africa; W. H. Mattison, Southern Asia; der wav with officials of Massachusetts Council of G. Cupertino, Southern Europe. Churches to plan religious programs serving the entire community. CONTENTS A New Experience in Adventist Evangelism Massachusetts Town Orders Prayer and /. R. Spangler ...... 2 Bible in Schools Tailoring Truth to the Task G. E. Vandeman ...... 4 How We Did It in Southern California The town of North Brookfield, with a population P. Follelt ...... 7 of 3,400 persons, is the only one of Massachusetts© You Can©t Baptize Them by Mail 351 communities that has directed its public D. Gray ...... 9 schools to open each day with prayer and passages "It Is Written" Has It from the Bible. In defying the U.S. Supreme M. E. Walsh ...... 11 The Telethon in Michigan Court decision and State education officials, the H. L. Reiner ...... 12 town©s school committee believes that it is teach When the Telephone Rang 1.000 Times ing "democracy" to its students. Its chairman, Aime in Two Hours D. G. Reynolds ...... 13 Morin, said the committee©s decision to continue © Bible in the Hand" Goes Hi-fi devotional practices "is good for the students. We M. L. Lloyd ...... 55 are teaching them democracy . . . showing that we We Represent You have rights under the law." M. Cartson and R. Johnson ...... 17 How Much Does It Cost? H. E. Schneider ...... la Doing It Alone R. C. Puesclicl ...... 19 Has the Wedding March "Had It"? "It Is Written" and the College Campus B. Johnston ...... 20 TORONTO, ONT. The hesitant step of the Where the Physician Fits In bride toward the altar and the wedding march R. Matiko ...... 21 When the Matchbook Exploded have "had it" so far as the United Church of R. K. McReynolds ...... 23 Canada is concerned, the United Church Observer The Story of the Work Sheets said here. "Here Comes the Bride" is being sent L. Realty ...... 2* back to Hollywood and the Hymnary is being used Observations on Preaching M. A. Warren ...... 26- more and more, wrote the Reverend A. C. Forrest, A Note on the Oral Reading of Scripture editor. For weddings that are civil or secular, Dr. C. E. Weniger ...... 28 Forrest said he thought Lohengrin, "pagan love Beauty in Music for Worship song though it be," a most suitable piece. "We be H. B. H annum ...... 30 lieve, too," he said in an editorial, "lhal the hesi The Evidence of the Centuries on the Immortal-Soul Theory tating, pausing-between-steps wedding march as L. E. Froom ...... 32 though the girl were reluctant to meet her man is God©s Well-groomed Ambassadors out of style. It was popularized in the gay nineties, B. W. Fearing ...... 37 had its vogue, and now should be abandoned, we Books ...... 39 are told, for the sake of a slow, dignified, unhesi News Briefs ...... 44 tating march toward the expectant bridegroom." Pointers ...... 48 46 THE MINISTRY The Wider Circle was planned from its inception as a persuasive (but noncontroversial) piece of reading matter that any non-Adventist acquaintance will actually appreciate receiving. It presents truth in a sparkling new style.

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JANUARY,1964 47 Yet he is primarily a preacher of the gospel. As such he must visit in order to know his people, to encourage and save. He must advertise, organize, POINTERS and study. A teacher friend of mine spent a short vacation with her sister who is married to a minister. "I don©t want to marry a minister," she said on her return. "The life they live is crazy!" She went on to explain that the minister and his wife worked like slaves, ate at any time or not at all, never had time PRIESTLY "EVERY life is a profession of faith for relaxation, et cetera. This may all be due to lack PERIL and exercises an inevitable and silent of organization, or inability to exclude rigidly un propaganda. Every man is a center important things that are easier to do than some of perpetual radiation like a luminous body; he is, more important ones. as it were, a beacon which entices a ship upon the But no one can deny that all too often a minister rocks if it does not guide it into port. Every man can be overworked, yet, as far as real study and real is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an preaching go, he may be practically unemployed! unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to Let©s put preaching and all of its components others but there are priests of Baal, of Moloch, the prayer, the reading, the study back in their and of all the false gods. Such is the high impor proper place. These things require time. They tance of example. Thence comes the terrible re demand the mind and soul of a man. Then let us sponsibility which weighs upon us all. An evil ex preach—with an open Bible about the Lord©s ample is a spiritual poison, it is the proclamation of Christ and the doctrinal context in which the Book a sacrilegious faith, of an impure god. Sin would presents Him. Doctrinal preaching, prophetic ex be an evil only for him who commits it, were it not position, the gospel of the kingdom, are not dead a crime towards the weak brethren, whom it cor today unless the preacher is. In that case we need rupts. Therefore it has been said: ©It were better a new preacher! H. w. L. for a man not to have been born than to of fend one of these little ones.© " HENRY-FREDERIC AMIEL, Watchman Examiner, March 21, 1963. Brethren, is this not our peril? Small wonder GET Is THERE such a thing as human capacity? men hesitate to accept the sacred mantle of the IX There are those who doubt that this is so. gospel ministry, or tremble on their knees before Man has in many instances shown himself confronting their fellow man with eternal issues. capable of unlimited achievement in many fields. Such men are not proud men, preening their intel Indeed, when the mind of man takes up the scent, lectual feathers, delighting men with hollow oratory though the elusive thought takes the evasive action containing little of the bread of life. And what of of a rabbit in flight, its chance of escape is poor in the priestly influence? Are we sober yet friendly, deed. But who can measure human capacity? "And interested but with spiritual reserve, constructive now nothing will be restrained from them, which when critical, fearless when wielding the two-edged they have imagined to do" (Gen. 11:6). This ap sword, yet quick to apply the healing balm of grace? praisal of man©s possibilities is that of his Creator. To be respected, yet loved, trusted, and feared, a It literally takes the lid off! What right have we to man whose ministry inspires tears of repentance decide what we can and cannot do? Said Socrates, and yet paints smiles of joy on children©s faces "Know thyself." Who does? Socrates didn©t. this is attaining to the highest ideal; this is sub If this be true, then there are thousands wading mission to the purest impulse. in the shallows who should be probing the depths. E. E. c. Yes, the lure of the sun-kissed beaches holds in its teasing grip men born to scale the heights where lonely eagles make their nests. Now, you, OVERWORKED PUTTING first things first has preacher, have you already labeled yourself? So you BUT become a difficult art for the know already what you can and cannot do. Say, UNEMPLOYED minister of the gospel. He is what about the added factor "with God©s help"! under the King©s mandate to Shoulder up your sights a bit. Oh, someone else "preach the gospel to every creature," and he is has labeled you? That should be fun making a lie under the church©s appointment as a minister for of the label, that is. And what are some of the God and shepherd of the flock. He is the employee labels? "He just can©t handle money," "He©ll never of the conference and as such he is rightly expected make an evangelist," "He just can©t seem to get on to do this and that in the appointed way. He is on with people," "He©ll never be a good pastor," "He the receiving end of every promotional drive from just doesn©t have it." My brother, whatever it is, the various departments of church life. He is in there is plenty available, and it is ours for the ask charge of already existing buildings, and he must ing. often lead out in raising funds to erect new ones. E. E. c. He is at the beck and call of all and sundry, inside and outside the church. He is ... he must ... he P.S. There are needy souls asking and receiving will . . . and soon! every day. 48 THE MINISTRY