ing 44 of the 102 settlers before six months had passed these people continually thanked God for the blessings they had. Their mature Christian experience helped them to sense the blessings attached to pres ent, though calamitous, circumstances. Consider their landing place. Because of storms which drove their tiny ship far north EDITORIAL of their original goal, they landed at a spot where Indians formerly had lived and cul tivated the land for years. Some unknown disease two years before had caused the en tire tribe save one to die. This fact in itself is remarkable. Of the thousands of miles of primitive wilderness coast line where they could have landed, the Pilgrims cast anchor at a place where land had already been cleared and cultivated! Are A second blessing came in the form of a mild winter for that region. The end of December on the Massachusetts coast line is not the best time to start building houses, but the winter weather of 1620 permitted We building to go forward. Another remarkable blessing was the friendship of certain Indians whose names, like Cyrus©, were known by God before birth. In the spring of 1621 an Indian Thankful? named Samoset walked boldly into their set tlement exclaiming in good English learned from British fishermen, "Welcome! Welcome!" The Pilgrims were naturally terrified. Samoset©s next visit proved to be a RECENT visit to Massachusetts© restored miracle blessing. He brought with him A Plymouth village brought God©s leading another Indian named Squanto. Some his of pioneer men and women in past years torians claim that Squanto was the only one into focus. A casual survey of the early events left of the wiped-out tribe that had once connected with the founding of Plymouth lived at Plymouth. Furthermore, Squanto Colony discloses two seemingly unrelated had been carried as a captive to England, elements prevalent among these stalwart where he learned a good amount of Eng settlers. One was an unrelenting wave of lish. After his return he joined Massasoit©s hardship, disappointment, privation, and tribe some thirty miles to the west. Squan- persecution which consistently plagued to©s visit brought together Massasoit and them. The other was a spirit of praise and Governor Carver which resulted in a solemn thanksgiving which permeated their lives treaty that endured for more than fifty in spite of outward adverse circumstances. years. This treaty declared that Pilgrims One gets the impression that the more trou and Indians should live as brothers, doing bles these people had the more praise and everything possible to aid one another. gratitude they gave to God. Squanto along with Hobomack, another In spite of betrayal and persecution in Indian, made his home with the colo England; in spite of leaving homes and pos nists and practically saved them from de sessions behind when they fled first to the struction by acting as their guide and in strange country of Holland; in spite of be terpreter. He taught them how to plant ing forced to learn new trades; in spite of a corn with a shad "as soon as the oak leaves forced landing on the cold forbidding coast were as big as a mouse©s ear." of New England rather than the more ac Recapitulate a moment. A cultivated commodating climate near the mouth of spot in the wilderness! One Indian survi the Hudson River; in spite of death claim vor who had learned English as a captive THE MINISTRY in England joining the Pilgrims, bringing that He stood up and declared, "If any about a peace treaty, then teaching them man thirst, let him come unto me, and how to live in a strange new land. I won drink." A spirit of praise and thanksgiving der how many times the Pilgrims praised was evident during the entire feast. God for His direct leading in small but ex tremely important details. Conscious Effort Necessary If the early colonists had counted only The thanksgiving spirit need not be lim the hardships during that first year, a sol ited to a particular day or days. Conscious emn funeral-type memorial meeting would effort is necessary to cultivate a spirit of have been held rather than a joyous thanks consistent thankfulness. Ministers of the giving service. gospel ought to be leaders of this type of activity. How often do we thank God for Feast of Tabernacles the privilege of being a minister of Christ? Other countries for centuries have had What work is more rewarding than dealing harvest festivals similar to the American with souls? I have never met a man who Thanksgiving Day. God©s Word is not with left the ministry voluntarily or involun out precedent for these special Thanksgiv tarily who claimed to be much happier ing seasons. The Feast of Tabernacles and contented in some other line of en (Feast of Booths, R.S.V.) sank its roots deavor. True, we are pummeled by prob deeply into the platform of joyful praise lems, frustrated by enormous amounts of and appreciation. This happy festival was activities shunted our way, and disorgan celebrated at the end of harvesttime. Moses ized by emergencies. But thank God for describes this seven-day celebration in Exo such a wonderful variety of problems dus 23:16: "And the feast of harvest, the which usually end in blessings. firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingath Even Ingathering Becomes Delightful! ering, which is in the end of the year, when Have you ever stood by a mass produc thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the tion assembly line and watched a slave- field." This was one of the three festivals like worker tighten four or five nuts on which required the attendance of all He each successive machine as it slowly trav brew males. Jesus attended this feast (John eled by on a conveyer belt? Think of dedi 7:2, 14). It came at the close of the agricul cating your life to this type of work eight tural year and also was commemorative hours a day, forty hours a week, and for of the children of Israel©s wilderness wan forty years the minimum number of years derings. After the Babylonian captivity for maximum sustentation! Compared to rather elaborate rituals were developed in this even Ingathering becomes a delightful connection with this feast. The morning occupation. This may sound a bit face hour of worship found the people marching tious, nevertheless it is factual. Why let our round the altar holding willow branches in minds fool us into thinking that the minis their hands, praising God. This was done ter©s work is largely drudgery? If it be once each day and seven times on the sev drudgery it is because we make it so by enth day. One of the priests would take wa thinking it is so. ter from the Gihon spring which flows Life is a series of comparisons. Black is through the Kidron valley to the Pool of black compared to white. A man is tall only Siloam. To the chanting of the words, by comparison. Why not try comparative "Therefore with joy shall ye draw water tactics on your own life? But make sure that out of the wells of salvation" (Isa. 12:3) you do it with the masses, not the minorities. the water was mixed with sacrificial wine Follow this formula and you will be startled and poured out beside the altar into a at the numerous blessings coming your way. conduit which flowed down to the Kidron valley. This act was accompanied by in From. Curtains to Fly Swatter strumental music and the singing of psalms. On Friday evenings our family worship It was during Christ©s visit to this service centers on praise and thanksgiving. Each

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CHANGE 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. NOVEMBER, 1965 member of the family is called upon to Ministers of the Advent Movement, into state several blessings received during that our hands God has committed the greatest week. When my children were younger it and most glorious message ever given to was difficult to stop them from enumerating His servants. The marvelous prophecies, a large number of blessings. One daughter the hope of the soon coming of Jesus Christ, in particular would begin expressing the blessed Sabbath truth, the invaluable thankfulness for the knives and forks, counsel of the Spirit of Prophecy all of dishes, rugs, curtains, beds, fly swatter, this plus more are ours to communicate blinds, windows, ad infinitum. I never to those who are lost in sin. How can we stopped her, for this all-inclusive inventory help praising God with grateful hearts that of past, present, and future blessings we are ministers with Him! Think of being agitated my own soul into a thankful mood. privileged to do the same type of work After all, how many of us ministers have Christ did a work which will vibrate ever gone to bed hungry? From a weight through eternity, not perish in the post- standpoint perhaps many of us should! But millennial purification fires. I refer to unavoidable hunger owing to a Let the downhearted and discouraged lack of resources. How many of us are with start a campaign of gratitude. Remember out a roof over our heads? Space forbids that gratitude deepens as you give it expres further questioning; but why don©t we sit sion! Remember that sacred joy brings life down and begin to really count our bless to your soul and body. There is actual life- ings. Then let us begin a program of con giving power in an attitude of gratitude stant thankfulness. God is honored by every and cheerfulness. It has a tremendous ef expression of praise and thanksgiving. He fect on your whole being. God©s ear eagerly declares: "Whoso offereth praise glorifieth waits to catch some word of appreciation me" (Ps. 50:23). not only for what He has done for you personally as a Christian but for the fact Even Funerals Have Their Rewards that He has entrusted you with the high Material blessings are great, but greater honor and responsibility of being a co-la still are feelings of well-being resulting from borer with Him. spiritual ministering. How do you feel after Even those under most severe circum spending time praying for the sick or finish stances like the Pilgrim fathers can find ing a day filled with visitation and Bible many things for which to be thankful. studies? What about the evangelist who God gave us the choice of being thankful collapses in bed from exhaustion after the for our own benefit that we may keep all grand opening night? What kind of feeling of His gifts and blessings fresh in our mem do you have when a tiny tot©s hand encir ory. cles your finger while pleading for another Certainly difficulties will come. If they story about Jesus? Think of that young cou didn©t, we could never experience true joy ple you just married. Do you remember the and happiness. Sinful beings must have assuring glance you gave them as they stood trials and problems in order to develop together at the altar? They were frightened faith and patience which ultimately will until you smiled and spoke. Do you still cause a spirit of thanksgiving. We have hear their words of appreciation for such a everything to live for now and forever. Let lovely service? Even funerals have their re us make the best use of our time but not in wards. Words are so useless at times, but doleful faultfinding, not with a gruesome just your presence as a servant of God search for perplexity, but rather, let us go helps the mourning ones to face the bitter forward rejoicing in the Lord for His tem ness of death courageously. Mull over your poral and spiritual blessings to us. Ever baptismal services. No sweeter joy in the remember: "Those who in heaven join world comes to a man who tenderly buries with the angelic choir in their anthem of lost but found sheep into the symbolic rit praise must learn on earth the song of ual of death, burial, and resurrection. This heaven, the keynote of which is thanksgiv is pure, unadulterated, unsurpassed joy! ing." Testimonies, vol. 7, p. 244. Soon the There is no work in the world that can antitypical Feast of Tabernacles will be yield such pleasing emotional effects as ours to enjoy a true thanksgiving holiday. those resulting from experiences described J- R- s. above. And to think that we are paid for this! A sign on the door of opportunity reads "Push." THE MINISTRY Sacrifice— What Does It Mean?

ORE than half a day was spent in find I hesitated surely they could not afford M ing the house, but there it was hidden to give this money. "It is all right," she con away back in the hills of a northeastern tinued, "please take it. You see we have State. The family was very poor. The man been saving this money to build a little was plowing the side of a hill with a hand lean-to on the side of our place here that plow, and digging holes with a pick for the we could use for a kitchen. But someone planting of his corn. Their one-room home has been sending us some of the church was clean and orderly. I had been visiting papers and as we read them we came to isolated members for rny own spiritual realize how near we are to the second com blessing as well as for the purpose of shar ing of Christ. The signs of His coming are ing this fellowship with others. evident everywhere and yet there is so much It was the time of the year for the special to be done, so many mission calls to be an missions appeal to bring in funds to extend swered, so many places and people who the work of God into new areas. I used this have not heard of Christ©s soon coming, opportunity to invite those with whom I and many of those who have heard are not was visiting to give liberally for this ad prepared for it. We decided that we could vance of missions, but when I recognized do without our kitchen, and we want you the poverty in this home I had no heart to to take this money and place it where you make a financial request of them. In fact, I think it will do the most good for God©s had already planned to leave some money cause." of my own, hidden under a plate or in some place where it could be found by the family Have You Sacrificed a Kitchen? after I was gone. As I walked along the paths and down the hillside to my automobile, I was con Can Within Can and Sack Within Sack scious of something extremely precious We had a blessed time reading the in my hand. Not just the money, but what Scriptures, talking, and praying. As I was it represented the sacrifice and devotion ready to leave, the wife said, "Please, just a of those who fully loved God. For many minute, we have something we want you to minutes I sat behind the steering wheel of do for us." She pulled aside a curtain and my car, just thinking. Tears came to my took from the shelf a large tin container. eyes. Had I ever given up a kitchen so Inside this container was a similar smaller that God©s cause could prosper? Had I one, and then another and another. Then ever given up anything that I really wanted, there came paper sacks, one within an sacrificed it, done without it, that I might other. Then came cloths, one folded share what I had to fill the vast needs of within another. Very intently I watched God©s advancing mission challenges? My the many unfoldings. Finally her hand held friends on the hillside surely had done so. something that seemed of special value to They so loved the world that they gave her. She brought it to me and placed it in truly a sacrificial gift! rny hands, saying, "Brother Fearing, we As clergymen do we give to God only want you to take this and use it for God©s what we can afford to give, what we have cause wherever you think it will do the left over after our own personal wants are most good." It was a roll of currency (later fulfilled? On the other hand, what a re I counted twenty-eight one-dollar bills). warding experience it can be to covenant NOVEMBER, 1965 with the Lord for the amount we would like mission." Now a boliviano is worth but a to present to Him as a gift. It may be far fraction of an American one-cent piece, but more than we can really afford, more than one million bolivianos is a large sum of we have ever given Him before. Neverthe money in Bolivia. less, a covenant can be made with God that The brethren thought it might be his if He will bless us and make it possible for tithe. "Oh, no," he said, "I pay my tithe us to accomplish it, this is the gift we wish faithfully. The Lord has blessed me. He has to place at His feet for Him to multiply been so good to me. It has been my dream, and transmute to the saving of souls for His my goal, to give to my heavenly Father one kingdom. million bolivianos before I die. This is from The spirit of sacrifice is the spirit of God©s my heart. I am now so happy. Take this people all over the world. It is the spirit of money and do with it what you wish for true Christianity. Salvation is inseparably God©s cause." No wonder Bert Elkins said linked with sacrifice. The Father "gave his he wept when he saw the sacrifice of this only begotten Son." Jesus Christ our Lord dear old farmer. How he was able to save gave "himself for our sins, that he might one million bolivianos was beyond the un deliver us from the present evil world, ac derstanding of his brethren. Yet, there he cording to the will of God and our Father" was with his goal reached about the hap (Gal. 1:4). Then, "Though he was rich, piest man in the world. yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich" (2 Cor. The Poor Give the Most 8:9). I was attending a workers© meeting in Be- Down through history we have evidence lem, Brazil, the Paris of the equator, near of many sacrifices of homes, friends, honor, the mouth of the Amazon River. This is the power, daily comforts, and even life itself. place where Pastor and Mrs. Halliwell Many have suffered hunger, imprisonment, started their jungle river work. Only three and persecution in their devotion to the members were there to meet the Halliwells. cause of God. Many of our missionaries to Now there are nearly two thousand mem day know what it is to sacrifice home com bers in Belem alone, and 8,874 members forts, friends, healthy conditions, and edu in the surrounding North Brazil Union cational advantages in their desire to serve Mission. They tell me that more than 50 their Master in lands afar. Yes, there are per cent of their laymen are actively en still men today pioneering and adventur gaged in a specific soul-winning program. ing on perilous journeys into primitive sec A careful study of their financial records tions. In so doing they must be away from puzzled me. I was surprised to see that they wife and children for weeks at a time. They had a larger per capita record for giving to must travel by foot, boat, oxcart, bicycle, missions than even the churches of the jeep, truck; sleep wherever and upon larger industrial cities in the south of whatever they can, with no thought of per Brazil. How could this be? It must be a mis sonal comfort. They are constantly in dan take, for only one jeep, several motorcycles, ger of all sorts of diseases. and a few bicycles were in front of the One Million Bolivianos meeting place evidence of their lack of worldly goods. As far as I could see, most of Come with me onto the high Altiplano the people came on foot. of Bolivia. Do you see that farmer from the I questioned the mission treasurer sitting Santa Fe Mission? Would you say that he is beside me, "Is this possible a larger per rich? Oh, no! he looks like the poorest of capita record than the conferences in the the poor. His colorful poncho (a shawl-type south?" He answered, "Yes, it is true!" "But blanket) is old and worn. He needs a new how could these poor people give so skull-type hat, and it looks as if he has ac much?" I questioned. "It is true, they are tually tied rags around his sandals to hold quite largely a poor people, and it is in them on his feet. Surely, this man has little deed a miracle that we cannot fully com of this world©s goods. prehend. Perhaps I can give you some idea Pastor Bert Elkins, president of the Bo as to how it is accomplished. For example, livia Mission, explains: "This man has many of these people walk to church three, walked eighty-five miles to come to this six, and even fifteen miles, instead of riding meeting, and he carried with him one mil a bus, so they can add their bus money to lion bolivianos to present as a gift to the (Continued on page 8) THE MINISTRY Here's My Method

Ingathering Ideas

THE INGATHERING If you are writing for donations CAMPAIGN DO IT NOW. " If you are soliciting business DO HE largest annual program of mission IT NOW. Tary endeavor in the church is the In If you are soliciting homes DO IT gathering campaign. There is always the NOW. danger of allowing it to become unpleas If you are giving your goal DO IT ant, and to breed a spirit of commercial NOW. ism into the program. God would be 8. Write each band leader a personal pleased if every pastor would organize and letter asking him/her to set the pace with dispatch this program in the spirit of true you by having their entire personal goal Christianity and in the spirit of the great in on opening day. advance of world missions. 9. Write to the elders, deacons all Here are a few pointers which I have church officers asking them to join you found most helpful in achieving the goal: and the band leaders in having their en 1. Make your ministry a deeply spirit tire personal goal in on opening day. ual one. During the Ingathering campaign 10. Plan for a great soul-winning thrust preach deeply appealing sermons. evangelistic meetings immediately fol 2. Do not clutter God©s house with lowing Ingathering. This will give the peo goal charts or devices. All promotion per ple something to work toward. taining to the program can be done 11. Have a very pleasant and simple vic through the mail, thus leaving the wor tory celebration at the close a "high day" ship hour for appeals to those in attend on Sabbath, and an evening of fellowship ance to come to Christ. as a reward for their loyalty. 3. Each of you knows how to organize EVERETT E. CUMBO territory for solicitation so I will not go Ministerial Secretary, Georgia- into that, but remember, a short campaign Cumberland Conference does not just happen. It takes planning and organization. Your people will become ex cited if they know you are ready, and have a plan. PUTTING THE PERSONAL 4. Divide your membership into bands and several weeks in advance send out the TOUCH TO INGATHERING band lists. 5. Each week of the campaign keep HEN one is faced with 300 Ingather the band and individual amounts raised Wing business contacts in 26 small towns up to date. Send this information through (the largest of which has a population of the mail. 7,000) embedded within a district con 6. Place in the church bulletin and in taining six churches it is necessary to de the church newsletter your plans for a vise some timesaving methods, unless In rapid, spiritual campaign. gathering is to become a year-round propo 7. Advertise opening day "Mystery sition. In our 1965 campaign we followed Day." Several weeks before the program is a program that proved to be not only a to be launched send out Mystery Day en time saver but also an excellent medium velopes, with a slogan for good public relations. NOVEMBER, 1965 We decided to send a personalized let solicitation. The rest (over $110,103,711 in 1963) ter to each business contact one week in is contributed by Adventists themselves. anticipation of our annual call. In an en We have greatly appreciated your help with deavor to let the businessmen know that this program in the past. I©ll be looking forward to seeing you within the next few days as I begin we were coming and also condition them visiting our business friends again this year. We for a more favorable response to our ap hope that you©ll be able to help us again. peal, we decided to present them with a Most sincerely yours, picture of our local work along with the Dean L. Hubbard usual summary that we give of our world P.S. Remember that since funds are administered wide humanitarian work. through already existing organizational channels, The summary of our local work was se none of your contribution will be lost in adminis cured from the conference home mission trative expenses. DEAN L. HUBBARD ary secretary. The letter was duplicated, Pastor. Wisconsin Conference using a high-quality duplicator, on our district letterhead. The inside address and personal salutation were typed in later. The response to the letter was gratifying beyond our expectations. Some men who Sacrifice What Does It Mean? were planning to be out of their offices left checks with their secretaries so that we (Continued from page 6} would not have to call back. This saved their already planned offerings. They seem precious hours that would have been spent to live for one purpose the prospering of in needless call-backs. Several of the men God©s cause! They are a completely dedi expressed surprise and approval at the cated people." amount of humanitarian work done by What a beautiful example of Christian Seventh-day Adventists within Wisconsin. sacrifice for the One they love so much. A In just twenty-one days we were finished happy man with a shining face told me aft with our Ingathering. Our total receipts erward: "Oh, pastor, we live for one pur reflected a gain of 26 per cent over the pose to finish the work God gave us to do. previous year. This made it possible for us We want Christ to come soon." to raise 114 per cent of our district goal. Will We Set the Example? Following the conclusion of our cam paign, Thank-you cards were sent to each In many places of the world we have of the donors. much for which to be thankful, financially. The following is a sample of the letter Yet quick changes are taking place all sent out to each business contact: around us. The shaping of world events points to the closing of doors which once I©m taking this opportunity to write you regard were open. We must make haste. We must ing your contribution to our annual drive for funds to support welfare, disaster aid, educational, med measure up to the responsibility thrust ical, and missions work around the world. upon us by the thousands and thousands of Of course we always leave you a report showing new converts coming to the faith, and the some of the work done by Seventh-day Adventists thousands more pleading for teachers, med along these lines in the world field. However, I ical personnel, pastors, and leaders of all thought that this year you might also appreciate kinds to instruct, care for, and shepherd a brief report that summarizes what is being done them. within our own State. The week of November 6-13 is set aside Upon checking with our State office I found for the annual Week of Prayer and is also that within the period extending from June 30, dedicated to a special Week of Sacrifice for 1963 to June 30, 1964, 42,680 volunteer hours of missions. Throughout the years of this of welfare work were contributed within Wisconsin fering the ministry and workers of the Sev by Seventh-day Adventists. More than 105,623 ar enth-day Adventist Church have been the ticles of clothing were given away and food and cash extended to those in need amounted to $14,- leading inspiration and example in sacri 439.59. Regardless of race, nationality, or religious ficial giving. Now is the time above all times creed, 20,649 persons were helped within our State. to sacrifice for an offering commensurate You can readily see that much of our over-all with our deep conviction of the hour in program is concerned with public service, and yet which we live and our great love for the only about 5 per cent of the funds needed to sup One who "so loved the world that he port our program are raised through public gave . . ." A. c. F. 8 THE MINISTRY The Victory Is Ours

G. CUPERTINO

Ministerial Association Secretary, Southern European Division

HIS denomination has been entrusted by Perversion or Truth? TGod with tools or weapons that are not One of the things that strikes the occa found in any other religious movement. We sional visitor in Paris is the place the press state this in all humility, for it is the Lord seems to take in everyday life. Newsstands God Himself who has clothed His church and bookshops are counted by the thou with this outstanding armor with which she sands; there is a daily, weekly, flood of is to engage in the final battle. books, papers, and magazines of all types, Last January it was my privilege to join which, with few exceptions, contain noth our workers who, in different capacities, ing uplifting for the reader. However, at contribute to the proclamation of the gos the very doors of the city there is a modest pel in the French capital and its surround publishing house that tries to offset the ris ings. By a happy coincidence I was able to ing tide of such publications. Its presses visit several of our offices, lecture halls, and turn all day in order to print material that institutions. I thus gathered a great deal of will feed souls hungry for hope, encourage information and many impressions, which ment, and truth the things they so much gave the vision of a work whose unique need. Our institution, Les Signes des value and beauty often escape our notice. Temps ("Signs of the Times"), near Me-

Some of the number who attended the Five-Day Plan meetings in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. F. W. Brenn- \vald is speaking. Pastor R. Lenoir is seated. NOVEMBER, 1965 . 9 A group of colporteurs who collaborated in an evangelistic campaign held in Bordeaux, France.

lun, France, prepares publications that are preciated by many and can be found in distributed by consecrated colporteurs to most stores, but in our division this is not the remotest towns and villages. From the so. However, our "Pur-Aliment" and Phag very beginning the Lord granted the Ad food factories are keeping up their pioneer vent Church a vision of the tremendous work, although the people do not seem to possibilities offered by the press as an agent know much about the importance of health of evangelism. And since that time our pa ful eating. pers have not ceased to go around the world, sowing seeds of light and life. European Five-Day Plan Bible in the Hand Then there is our most recent tool the Five-Day Plan. The church that prepares A few days later, in Paris, I attended to meet her Lord has not only given up another of the "Bible in Hand" meetings. tobacco but is now contributing to the lib Hundreds of listeners followed our worker eration of helpless victims of this social attentively as they turned the pages of the plague. The plan that has been worked out Bible with him. What strength and en is one of good common sense combined couragement it gives to the preacher to be with the intelligence of the individual. In able to state in all simplicity, "Thus speaks Saint-fitienne, France, I had the privilege the Lord." Human eloquence and persua of attending the first meeting in our divi sion take second place while the Word sion of this social service. "blazes." In Paris, as in all the world at the pres From Suspicion to Support ent time, religion hardly penetrates into I saw the listeners arrive for the first meet restaurants and homes. But even so the ing suspicious and shy, cigarettes in their church has her mission there. Since the pockets. I watched them as night after body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, the night they listened to Dr. G. Hummel and way of feeding and treating it is important. the evangelist, C. Delargilliere, as they ex This is why God Himself has set rules for plained how to come out victorious in the diet and health. Let no one forget, there battle over the tobacco habit. I then had fore, that there is religion in the way of the pleasure at the last meeting of witness making bread! In the United States and in ing many hands raised, giving proof of vic Australia, Adventist food products are ap- tories gained. Several people were eager to 10 THE MINISTRY know which organization came so gen days, asked the worker: "May we also at erously to their rescue. Now the Five-Day tend your church services?" Dr. Brennwald Plan has been launched in other cities, writes the following about the Five-Day such as Valence and Paris in France; Gen Plan in Geneva: "The plan . . . has caused eva, Switzerland. Dr. F. Brennwald and us much work, but also joy untold. Let us Pastor R. Lenoir have led out in some of hope that aside from lives changed here be these. Everywhere men and women are low, there will also be fruitage for eternity." grateful for this outstretched hand. A All this strengthens my vision of the woman in Geneva, at the end of the five (Continued on page 29)

Pastor O. Uebersax conducting a Bible-marking session in Thun, Switzerland.

This group of prisoners in the Yaound^ (Cameroun) prison are receiving Bible studies from Pastor Eliseo Cupertino (he is standing in the foreground). NOVEMBER, 1965 11 Subjective and Objective Religion

(Port 1)

OTTO H. CHRISTENSEN

[Every Adventist theologian, leader, teacher, and minister should reflect carefully on this article.]

IT MUST be said at the tainly not bring the answer to Christ©s very beginning that there prayer for unity recorded in John 17. In perhaps is never a reli this regard the pendulum of religion has gion that is totally sub swung back and forth throughout the cen jective or totally objec turies at times objective and at times sub tive. However, this dis jective, with all the stages in between, per cussion will deal largely haps more often out of balance than in with the trends or direc balance. tions of emphasis in re Apostles, Old Testament Writings, ligion of either of these and Christ two types as they have appeared down through The early Christian church began its the centuries, ancl how they have affected work upon the foundation laid by Christ. man©s philosophy of life and his relation to They had a way of life set before them by a Supreme Being. To be totally subjective His example (John 14:6). They also had would be to be completely controlled by the Scriptures, that is, the Old Testament one©s inner emotions. On the other hand, which had testified of Him (John 5:39). to be absolutely objective would produce a To them this was an objective standard, a hard, cold formalism or pure legalism. guide to their spiritual life, the core of which was the law of God contained in Confusion Multiplied the Ten Commandments, of which Christ Religion is an element in our life©s ex had been a living example (Ps. 40:7, 8; perience dealing with our relation to a Su Matt. 5:17). To be sure, this Christian preme Being, whether in worship or in acts life, exemplified by Christ, was motivated of piety. Thus it would seem a foregone by an inner subjective experience as mani conclusion that anyone having religion fested on Pentecost and in other re must be moved or directed someway, either corded experiences. But they had to have from within or without, by a supernatural something outside of themselves to give power, or a claim thereto. But were he guidance to their subjective experience. without an objective standard received As time passed, this balanced experience from this Supreme Being, each one, having became more rare and men were more different backgrounds, would be moved dif and more moved by subjective fear and ferently both in his worship and in his acts superstition, with its sorcery and system of of piety. This would indicate that a totally terrorism. The external standard of the subjective experience would be unreliable, Word gave place to subjective or human and hence man must be guided religiously guidance. Speaking of this period when by something outside of himself. If not, religion rested on a system of terrorism man, left to a subjective experience, would and the power of evil spirits, Lecky says, produce as many types or forms of religion "The panic which its teachings will cre as there are individuals. This could cer- ate, will overbalance the faculties of mul- 12 THE MINISTRY titudes. The awful images of evil spirits of superhuman power, and of untiring ma lignity, will continually haunt the imagi nation." 1 Dark-Age Subjectivity This subjective experience of the church led into the period justly termed the "Dark Ages," which began in the sixth century. During this period, between the sixth and thirteenth centuries, supersti tions were most numerous and men©s minds were completely imbued by super natural conceptions.2 Satanic power was well-nigh universal. Devil possession, exor cisms, miracles, and apparitions of the mind were accepted without any ques tion.3 "It was firmly believed that the arch ied concepts and philosophies of men who fiend was forever hovering about the Chris have separated from a standard outside of tian; but it was also believed that the sign themselves and thus have cast themselves of the cross, or a few drops of holy water, adrift on the subjective speculations of or the name of Mary, could put him to an men. immediate and ignominious flight." * Then came the Renaissance, the turn Stop Scholastic Subtleties ing point of European intellect. A gen eral revival of Latin literature, as well as This intellectual reaction of the thir Greek and Hebrew, modified the thinking teenth to the sixteenth century resulted of the people. A feeble spirit of doubt be often in extremes and subtleties in which gan to combat the spirit of credulity of the faith in God and Christ was at times re past, which greatly affected the theologi duced to zero. So much so that Erasmus cal interest and concept. Desire for secu xvrote in 1518 to Capeto, "I wish that lar knowledge began to replace the pas there could be an end of scholastic subtle sion for theology and the subjective su ties, or, if not an end, that they could be perstitions of former times. Men of active thrust into a second place and Christ be minds began to test the subjective fears taught plainly and simply. . . . Doctrines and the terrorisms of the church that had are taught now which have no affinity held them in the bondage of fear. To this with Christ, and only darken our eyes," as the church reacted with inflexibility. To quoted by Rufus M. Jones from Erasmus© her this doubt and rebellion was a heinous Epistle CCVII." Both the superstitions of crime. Of this Lecky says, "Accordingly the Dark Ages and the intellectualism of we find that about the twelfth century, the the Renaissance, with their opposite reac popular teaching began to assume a tion, had departed from the balance of an sterner and more solemn cast and the de objective-subjective religion. votions of the people to be more deeply The Reformation made an attempt to tinctured by fanaticism." = Thus, where the correct this unbalanced situation by again church controlled, in the century just be restoring an objective guide outside of fore the Reformation, witchcraft pursued man himself and thus restoring equilib its course among the ignorant in conflict rium to religious life. The Bible became with the opinions of the educated. Had the objective guide, and the subjective the church always maintained its objec spiritual life led them in obedience to its tive guide, this long disastrous period precepts. Saintes had depicted it as fol would never have occurred. As we shall lows: "The spiritual grounds on which the observe later, it was this subjective super reformers relied to impress on their la stitious credulity that created such a reac bours the seal of immortality, and to se tion in the church toward faith in God cure for them the regard even of those and His Word that resulted in the agnos who could not agree with them, were their ticism, atheism, deism, and rationalism of respect for the Scriptures of the Old and the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. New Testaments, which they considered We are still reaping a harvest in the var- as inspired by the Spirit of God himself." 7 NOVEMEER, 1965 13 Luther and the Scriptures ism.14 All this served to undermine the in fluence and power of the Bible so recently The following sample quotations from restored to its apostolic position, and the Luther could be duplicated from the other way was opened for further development Reformers: 8 "Scripture alone is the true in this same direction. lord and master of all writings and doc trine on earth."© "God©s will is completely Pious Pietism contained therein, so that we must con A natural reaction to this spiritual de stantly go back to them. Nothing should cline and formalism into which the be presented which is not confirmed by churches had fallen was pietism. From the the authority of both Testaments and extreme of formalism the pendulum swung agrees with them." 10 "Know, then, that the to the other extreme, the mystical spirit of Old Testament is a book of laws, which subjectivism. This movement began, how teaches what men are to do and not to ever, with the purest of motives, but its do ... just as the New Testament is a gos momentum gradually carried it over into pel or book of grace, and teaches where many extreme and fanatical positions. Ja- one is to get the power to fulfil the law." u kob Boehme (1575-1624), like some of the Here was a restoration of faith based on other early mystics, endeavored to restore something outside of themselves, and yet spiritual life and confidence in the Bible.15 they were strongly moved from within. However, soon the theory of divine illumi They were back to the foundation of the nation led the movement into interpreting early church. But this did not continue Scripture by deep and mysterious mean long. The spiritual force was soon lost, the ings. objective guide was dimmed, and many Spener, one of the early Pietists, recog controversies arose. To quote Saintes: nized much good in the Reformation but "Luther and Melancthon were hardly in felt it had never been sufficiently com their graves before the theologians of their pleted.18 He regarded the Scriptures not school set to work, though indirectly, to only as a standard of doctrine but a stand destroy the fruits of their masters© la ard of life. His emphasis was on devotion bours." " New hair-splitting controversies and practical Christian living. But soon arose too numerous to mention. They had this movement led into ecstatic disorders. lost their inner spiritual experience and Some went into trances, saw visions, and with it their objective standard. They had uttered predictions. The standard, which lost their subjective-objective balance. had held them to a true and sane way of Hurst says, "There could be but one moral life, in their ecstatic exuberance began to result to the prolonged strife a great, spir take second place, and they emerged with itual decline." u a totally subjective experience with no Detached Deism guide except their own inner experience. Friedmann describes pietism in a similar By the end of the Thirty Years© War vein: "Pietism, ... is not a uniform phe practical religion was forgotten and angry nomenon but a movement which found diatribes against one another took its expression in markedly different groups, place. Their objective guide, the Scrip among which there is only one common tures, became only a tool to forward their element, namely that they all depart from selfish and unscriptural ideas. Doubt and the ©concrete© conception of the Bible into skepticism arose and a new concept of a subjectivism of faith expressed in terms God developed known as deism in which of a human rational experience." 17 This God is not immanent but is a faraway is not to be interpreted that the majority transcendent God, uninterested in this were not sincere godly men and women world©s present problems. Hence, revela seeking a better life but that their stress tion was not divine but was positively su was on the inner experience rather than perfluous. This could lead only in one di on Nachfolge ("imitation of Christ"), and rection, namely, humanism. Thus objec as a result they sometimes lost their bal tive religion with a supernatural guide was ance, which led to diverse, fanatical ex lost and man was on his own, wholly de tremes. pendent on human reasoning alone. Hurst To say that pietism led to rationalism concludes that English deists, influenced would almost be a paradox. But strange as largely by the French, exerted a great in it may seem, in some cases the one subjec- fluence in preparing the way for rational- (Continued on page 46} 14 THE MINISTRY Divine Madness Needed

J. E. BYNUM

Pastor, San Francisco Central SDA Church

IT is not to be wondered tradition? Yes. Dangerous? Of course it was at that the scribes hated dangerous. But He spake as One having Jesus. But "the com authority! mon people heard him gladly" (Mark 12:37). Fearless of Lepers, Spies, and Traitors These two differing The authority of God has a dramatic opinions were to ulti effect on the bearer of divine credentials. mately prove the ingre In reading the accounts of Christ, we see dients for crucifixion. that He had no trace of fear. He never "And it came to pass, hesitated to touch any loathsome leper. On when Jesus had ended more than one occasion He walked through these sayings, the people the midst of a rioting mob; He slept through were astonished at his doctrine: for he a violent storm on the Sea of Galilee; He taught them as one having authority, and faced spies and traitors, King Herod, and not as the scribes" (Matt. 7:28, 29). Pontius Pilate with an equanimity nothing The scribes were teaching for doctrine could shake. the traditions of men. They had surrounded "Fear not them which kill the body," He the law of God with a multitude of mi advised His terror-stricken disciples. His nutiae. Religion, under their direction, had words were prophetic. Jesus Christ still is become lifeless, drab, colorless, and a round a recruiter of men who will pattern their of guilt-inducing ceremonies and sacrifices, lives and work after His kind of ministry. rather than satisfying contact with God. "He spake as one having authority." His So it was axiomatic that Jesus of Naza authority was His own because He was one reth would clash with the scribes and Phari with God. And His authority can be ours sees. because we seek a similar self-surrendering and power-enfusing oneness with God. Dynamite or Dew? How much we preachers need this au Our concept of the "lowly Jesus, meek thority. When we stand before the people and mild," as some of the artists and hymn we need to have our souls filled with the writers depict Him is rudely shattered Spirit and power of God. Should it not when we read the New Testament. For we be said of us as it was of our Christ: find that His words fell on His hearers more "They were astonished at his doctrine: for often like dynamite than like dew. his word was with power" (Luke 4:32)? And to a people hungering for something tangible, something absolute, something vi Luther Forbids Death tal and meaningful, the voice of divine au Martin Luther spake as one having au thority was a welcome voice indeed. thority. He had to, in order to nail those But to those who split theological hairs, denunciations on the church door. and spun abstract philosophies, the voice In 1540 Luther©s good friend, Friedrich of authority was competition that could not Myconius, lay dying. Luther received a fare be tolerated. well letter from him written with a weak Almost every point of the Sermon on the and trembling hand. Immediately Luther Mount begins: "It hath been said by them sent back his reply: of old time . . . but I say unto you!" "I command thee in the name of God to Tangling xvith entrenched religious live, because I still have need of thee in the NOVEMBER, 1965 15 work of reforming the church. The Lord sneered: "Maybe you have lost your mind." will not let me hear that thou art dead, but Perhaps he had a point. For if it is sanity will permit thee to survive me. that has brought the world to its present "For this I am praying. And may this be state; if it is sanity that has produced the done, because I seek only to glorify the social order in which we live; then we need name of God." to be different, even if it is called madness. The dying man had already lost the Balaam in a moment of remorse and power of speech when this letter arrived, inspiration declared: but within a short time he was well again. "If Balak would give me his house full Myconius survived Luther by two months. of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the Jesus spake as one having authority. His commandment of the Lord, to do either speech was so different from that of the good or bad of mine own mind; but what scribes. The contrast astonished the peo the Lord saith, that will I speak?" (Num. ple. 24:13). Though our world has turned many In Bernard Shaw©s play Saint Joan, some times since then, human problems and basic soldiers are talking about the Maid of Or needs are still the same, though modern leans. One of them says: "There is some men often like to think they are more re thing about the girl. . . . Her words and fined and sophisticated. her ardent faith in God have put fire into me." Preachers Not Politicians His captain replies: "Why, you are al Everywhere people are still searching for most as mad as she is." And the soldier stub something absolute. They are looking for bornly continues: "Maybe that©s what we someone with divine self-confidence who need nowadays mad people. See where the can spell out right and wrong; who can tell sane ones have landed us!" the world that the gospel is not an improv Pentecost Insanity! ing society, but a coming kingdom. We need preachers, not of politics, but preach It would be tremendous if we had the ers of righteousness. We need a voice of au kind of insanity the disciples had at Pente thority echoing through the ministry. cost. First they were accused of drunkenness; Jesus spake as one having authority. then they were called insane. For Spirit- What does it mean? It means speaking with filled men are so rare in the world they are a vital, urgent conviction that probes into often misunderstood. But cowards were a man©s very soul. transformed into heroes and three thousand When we meet people, we need at that souls were converted in one day. very instant to convey with our words, our No matter how persuasive, a group of actions, our concern, and our own personal fishermen, tax collectors, and housewives integrity that we believe we are doing the could not have performed the feat of con most important work in the universe. Our verting that multitude merely on their own souls should possess an uncontainable say-so. What happened was that an ever-in message to others, which says: "I want you creasing number of men and women met to meet Him who means everything to me!" Jesus Christ for themselves. And the chain When we leave they should say of us as reaction of response to the divine authority was said of the Master: "Did not our heart of His word was miraculous. burn within us, while he talked with us by Sell Your Car for Books the way, and while he opened to us the A number of years ago when I was a col scriptures?" (Luke 24:32). lege student I was sent out for a day to Sane or Insane? work with one of our most successful col porteurs. I remember discussing this matter of au I was interested in the way he would lis thority with a modernistic minister who ten to all the objections of the prospective scorned, "the Adventists who always run customer and then refer to the automobile and hide in the Bible." "We have minds sitting in the driveway: "You would do well with which to think. That is designed to be to sell your car and buy these books." It ultimate authority," he continued. When I took some conviction and sincerity to say reminded him that the human mind was those words with authority. limited by sin and could not be always re As God©s colporteur talked and took the lied upon to choose the best course, he (Continued on page 16 THE MINISTRY structor for spiritual counsel and guidance. Thus the literature evangelist is engaging in house-to-house evangelism. In order to carry out this plan, many more members should be recruited and Don't Pass trained. In view of the fact that this plan will help the pastor win more souls, he should do everything he possibly can to co f operate with the publishing department in Them By! recruiting and holding more such workers in this area. How can this be done? 1. He should speak words of encourage ment to the literature evangelists already D. A. McADAMS in his district, and give them public recog Associate Secretary, Publishing Department nition occasionally by inviting them onto General Conference the platform. He should speak a word oc casionally from the pulpit regarding the im portance of the publishing ministry and encourage his members to give considera tion to this important work. How can I win more 2. Once each year the pastor should in souls? This is a good vite the publishing department secretary to question, and the church a board meeting of the church. The pastor pastor asks himself this should set forth his burden for the litera question over and over ture ministry and then give the publish again. He feels that he ing secretary a few minutes to explain the is using every possible great needs in the conference for more method but always there workers. The church board members could is the desire to win more be asked to submit names of people whom souls. they think would make good literature In winning souls to evangelists. After such a meeting the pub Christ there is no substi lishing secretary and the pastor should tute for personal work. Good preaching is study these names, and then visit these peo basic and important, but personal work is ple to see if they are really interested. basic to good preaching. The pastor has 3. In literature evangelist symposiums many duties to perform. Finances, promo many times the expression is heard, "I well tion, preparation of sermons, pastoral calls, remember when Elder Blank shook my hospital visits, and many other duties add hand at the close of the church service and to his daily burden. Thus, his time is invited me to become a literature evange limited in visiting non-Adventists in the list. That set me thinking about this work, area where he is working. If literature evan and today I am a literature evangelist." gelists were working in every district in the Yes, the pastor, who is much better ac conference, what a help they could be to the quainted with his church members than pastors. They could visit every home. Re the publishing department secretary, member, their purpose is not only to sell should study the possibilities of each of literature but also to win souls. When a his church members and extend a definite literature evangelist finds a person who is invitation to some of them to enter the liter definitely interested in religion, he can ature ministry. This procedure has real secure the name and address, with other impact on the minds of the church mem pertinent facts, and pass this on to the pas bers and will help many of them to give tor. Then the pastor, or one of the church serious consideration to this important elders or a good lay Bible instructor, could branch of God©s work. follow up this interest with Bible studies. 4. When publishing department rallies The literature evangelist should accom or institutes are conducted in the church, pany the pastor, or whoever is to do the mis the minister should make it a point to at sionary work, on the first visit and thus tend several of the meetings. His presence smoothly and diplomatically introduce the is not only important to the literature evan- interested person to the pastor or Bible in- (Continued on page 4?) NOVEMBER, 1965 17 Spicer for Christ"— On-Catnpus Evangelism

FRED J. CRUMP

Pastor. Spicer Memorial College Church. Poona, India

This is the story of a full-scale evangelistic effort con ducted on the campus of a Seventh-day Adventist college newspaper advertising?" "Transportation during six months of a regular school year. It resulted in facilities are terrible no buses why can©t four times the number of baptisms of the previous year and included the largest single baptism ever conducted on the we teachers use our own cars to bring peo campus. Here is the account of a spiritual experiment at ple to the meetings?" Spicer Memorial College, Poona. _ India a story of faith, wholehearted cooperation, and gratifying results. Gradually, then rapidly, the possibilities opened before us. We realized we had on ILL, don©t you think we©d all benefit hand what most evangelists in the field long B from a series of Friday night talks on for: a large, rent-free auditorium seating the doctrines of the church?" I said one eve more than five hundred people, a guar ning toward the close of the 1963-1964 anteed audience of students and faculty school year to Pastor Bill Johnsson, Bible members to encourage visitors (and speak teacher at Spicer Memorial College, South ers!), a trained choir, and plenty of minis ern Asia©s senior educational institution. terial and other interested students for visi "We have some students here who are not tation and Bible studies. In addition, there Seventh-day Adventists, others whose was an established list of interests students knowledge of our beliefs is incomplete. An and teachers had been active for years hold emphasis on doctrine now and then is good ing branch Sabbath schools, conducting for all of us." singing bands, distributing literature, and "Surely," Pastor Johnsson replied. giving Bible studies in the nearby com "Maybe we can do something like that munities. Almost before we knew what was happening the concept, and thrill, of "on- next school year." campus evangelism" grasped the imagina Guaranteed Audience tion of students and teachers and became the most outstanding event of the school And so it started, as most good things do, year. with an idea shared and a conviction trans As usually happens, our plans were far ferred from thought to action. Soon after behind God©s. Immediately after the first the beginning of the school year we Friday night service we realized that twelve planned a series of twelve lectures on the meetings would be woefully inadequate for doctrines of the church. They would be friends of Hindu, Moslem, Sikh, and given at the regular Friday night meetings, Parsi backgrounds. About seventy-five with students and campus families in at visitors had been present for the opening tendance, and if some visitors came in, meeting and there were good prospects that would be all the better. that the attendance would continue. Fur Then, a few weeks before the first lec thermore, while many could understand ture, suggestions and comments began pop the Friday night meeting in English, what ping up everywhere. "Why not make this a of the Marathi-speaking people in whose short evangelistic series?" "Let©s put out a area the college is located? Then, too, most handbill!" "We can use the college choir!" visitors did not have Bibles; some could not "Our auditorium is the best one for miles read. And how would evangelism and ed around." "Let©s put up a special backdrop ucation mix? Would they complement or for Friday nights only." "What about some exhaust each other and us too? 18 THE MINISTRY Spicer College chapel where the evangelistic services were held.

College President's Vision assisting in other phases of the program. It At prayer meeting the week following the was intended that this would be a "model" first service, when these questions loomed series to show the students "how to do it" large in our thinking, the president of the but they wanted more than that. After college, M. E. Cherian, said, "There©s only one week the student ministerial seminar one thing to do, and that is to go forward, decided to "crash the program." They make larger plans, and let evangelism be the would, and did, hold meetings every Sun keynote of our college year." day night for the duration of the series in the Marathi tongue, with students preach With excellent faculty cooperation and ing- They even began an adult literacy class interest the original twelve meetings were following the evening service in an effort to enlarged to twenty-seven, covering every teach simple reading and writing to the Friday night for six months, the preaching people. Each Friday at noon ministerial to be done by staff members with students students and teachers met together for

Pastor E. Crump baptiz ing one of those who ac cepted Christ during the college evangelistic cam paign.

NOVEMBER, 1965 19 lunch in order to plan and pray for the every ministerial worker in Southern Asia. weekend meetings. Faculty members drove The first issue included plans for the series their cars each Friday night and sometimes with detailed coverage of the first meeting. on Sunday nights for the entire period, in The second and final issue reported on cluding Christmas and New Year©s mak sermon subjects, strengths and weaknesses ing two, four, as many trips a night as of the campaign, and the final baptism. needed to bring the people. A Bible-award plan was set up and Bibles were presented "1 Just Have to Go" to those who attended ten times. There were three baptisms during the Meetings began promptly at 7:00 P.M. series. The first two totaled seven candi with the showing of a thirty-minute film on dates, but we were sure that the final one the life of Christ or travels of Paul. Then would be larger how much larger, we came a short song service and the sermon, didn©t know. As the call was made for sometimes illustrated with black-light people to come forward at the final meet "Colorama." On Sunday nights the sermon ing, earnest prayers ascended for victory. would often be translated from English That very day students and teachers had into Marathi if the student speaker was not prayed unitedly at the noon lunch meeting, fluent in Marathi, and simple filmstrips especially in behalf of the father of one of were sometimes used. the faculty wives. All his life a nominal Showers of Plaster Christian of another persuasion, would he have the conviction to stand for what he Unexpected problems arose, of course. had recently learned? One minister made Sometimes there would be a power failure the call from the pulpit while two others and the speaker would find himself address stood in front to greet those who responded ing an unseen audience. On the second and to clear the front rows as seats were night of the series one student, more en needed. As the choir voiced its sweet ap thusiastic than cautious, ventured into the peal, thirty-four people stepped to the space above the ceiling of the auditorium front, including one little eight-year-old to adjust a wire holding the backdrop, and, girl, who whispered to her mother with stepping between the rafters, all but plum tears in her eyes, "Mommy, I just have to meted onto the heads of those seated thirty go." Students saw their prayers answered feet below! As one leg dropped through the as the man for whom they had prayed that ceiling he caught himself, dangling dan day slipped quietly from his seat and gerously, then managed to scramble up walked to the front, a living, visible proof again, but not before the audience was that God answers prayer! showered with falling plaster and the speaker had visions of calamity. The boy©s Bringing in the Sheaves name was not Eutychus of Troas, but we One week later at the eleven o©clock hour shared similar feelings with the apostle on Sabbath morning a special service pre Paul when his recovery was complete! ceding the baptism proved a real blessing Personnel for committees are amply to the entire church. The speaker gave a available in a college situation, and so we short summary of the series of meetings, used as many people as possible for effi then spoke to individuals by name who ciency and involvement. The over-all re had been giving studies or taking part in sponsibility for the meetings was handled missionary activity "Have you anyone to by a steering committee, including the pres bring to the Lord this morning?" Each one ident of the college and members of the arose and came forward, bringing with religion staff. In addition, there were com him those he had helped to win. One sen mittees on decoration, platform, ushers, ior theological student brought a man won posters, advertising and publicity, finance, as a result of Sabbath afternoon studies by music, transportation, audio-visual mate students and teachers at a nearby govern rial, prayer, baptism, order of subjects, ment school. Dean of men, Reginald newsletters, handbills, literature, and re Shires, and R. Jagadhane, a student, ception. brought forward the six they had won Feeling that news of what the college was through a Voice of Prophecy contact fol doing would benefit and inspire the con lowed by a year of Bible studies culminat stituency, a "Spicer for Christ" evangelistic ing in the series of meetings. Three pastors news bulletin was prepared and mailed to (Continued on page 36) 20 THE MINISTRY Some of the Centurions and field executives who attended the Centurion Evangelistic retreat in Nas sau, Bahamas, May 12-16, 1965.

Centurion Plan Benefits West Indies Union

M. G. NEMBHARD

Secretary, West Indies Union Mission

HE Centurion Evangelistic plan of the teen qualified, and in 1964 there were TWest Indies Union has brought a great twenty ministers who became eligible Cen blessing to the field. It has caused our turions. These figures prove conclusively workers to lift their evangelistic horizons that the Centurion Evangelistic plan has higher and the fields have caught a new greatly benefited our union field. We have vision of evangelistic possibilities. had even a double Centurion from one At the present time there are young min of our conferences here in Jamaica. isters xvho are qualifying as Centurions, Briefly, the plan is that in order to qual baptizing more than one hundred souls in ify, a worker must conduct a public evan their first year, and this has been unheard gelistic campaign of at least six weeks© of in the past. duration. He must have a minimum of In 1961 when this plan was inaugurated one hundred souls baptized during the there were only eight ministers through year. This qualifies him to attend an evan out the union who qualified. In 1962 the gelistic council with union executive offi number soared to fifteen. In 1963 seven- cers, local presidents and departmental NOVEMBER, 1965 21 secretaries who have conducted a public effort of at least three weeks© duration. The head of the theological department of West Indies College is also entitled to attend. This union has also made a contri bution to the other fields by placing a Centurion at the disposal of the Inter- Do You American Division to conduct an effort in the territory of some sister union. Last year one of our Centurions was in vited to conduct an evangelistic campaign in British Honduras, in the Central Ameri Remember? can Union. This proved to be a great blessing to the worker as well as to that mission field. This year a Centurion will EMMA HOWELL COOPER be conducting a series of meetings in the Colombia-Venezuela Union, and we antic ipate that this will be a blessing to him and the workers of that union. We have had three evangelistic councils [Who travels more than Adventist ministers? This conducted in the conference of Jamaica charming story will help you to make your religious thus far. Our most recent Centurion Evan safaris more profitable.] gelistic retreat was in Nassau, Bahamas, May 12-16 of this year. There were thirty- HERE was a quick knock on my door one ministers in attendance, including Tand my neighbor from across the hall en field executives, departmental secretaries, tered before I could answer. I had barely and Centurions. It brought a new spirit to arrived home, having walked the few blocks the work in the Bahamas Mission to have from the General Conference office. She such a large number of ministers present. began at once: The Sabbath afternoon symposium was "Who is he? Who is he? I©ve stood this really the high light of this session, when as long as I can. I©ve just got to find out, each evangelist was given three minutes to and hope you can help me." tell of the joy of soul winning. For the sec Katherine Johnston, my Catholic neigh ond time we have had a ministers© choral bor, had come to Takoma Park to live be group to participate during the sympo cause she liked the peace and quiet of the sium. On this occasion the group sang that more residential area. She worked in a li inspiring sona: "Seeking the Lost." brary in Washington, D.C. When she left We are all convinced that a greater the city bus she rode another six blocks on work can still be accomplished if our vi the smaller bus that went up Carroll Ave sion is enlarged and there is a greater nue, where she got off within a block of spirit of dedication. the apartment house where we both lived. "The scenes which are passing before "I©ve been watching this man now these us are of sufficient magnitude to cause us weeks since I moved out here. Almost every to arouse and urge the truth home to the evening he boards this small bus at the D.C. hearts of all who will listen. The harvest line, usually carrying an armful of books. of the earth is nearly ripe." Testimonies, Everybody seems to know him. They ad vol. 1, p. 261. dress him respectfully by name, but I never "All heaven is actively engaged in the quite catch it. Apparently he travels and work of preparing a people for the second has been all over the world. He©s the most coming of Christ to our world, and ©we unusual person I have ever seen. Can you are laborers together with God.© The end of tell me who he is? What he does? How and all things is at hand. Now is our opportu why?" Katherine stopped only for breath. nity to work." Ellen G. White, Review With a good inkling in my mind as to and Herald, Jan. 24, 1893, p. 49. whom she had seen on the bus, I said, "Tell me more about him. How do you know he travels?" It wasn©t raining when Noah built the ark. "How do I know?" the question-exclama tion interrupted. "He is scarcely seated be- 22 THE MINISTRY fore somebody asks, ©Did you see my uncle Opportunity was wide open to tell Kath when you were in South Africa?© ©Let©s see erine of our dear Elder W. A. Spicer©s long now© he muses, ©your uncle is so and so. service in Seventh-day Adventist work sec Yes, I know him well. I saw him about six retary, president, and now in older years months ago. I should have told you. He is field secretary, still traveling to give hope well and happy in his work.© and courage to the workers afar and "Another is waiting," Katherine went on. bringing loving messages to the dear ones ©How long since you were in Pakistan?© at home. ©Oh, I©d say it©s been more than a year The evening lengthened with stories of and yes, I know what you©re going to ask; our work of which this Catholic woman I saw your good brother over there. He©s knew nothing. Other evenings of such talk doing a fine work.© followed. I wish I could say that Katherine "Still another: ©Did you visit the college Johnston accepted our message, which she in the Philippines on your last trip to the did come to admire very much. All too Far East?© ©Oh,© he replies, ©I©m glad to see soon our paths separated. I still send her you; your folks sent greetings. I©ve been the Signs of the Times, and still write her meaning to look you up. You can be proud an occasional note. Often enough she does of such wonderful parents. They©re looking not reply for two or three years. I was forward to the time when you will be join sure I had lost her she had retired some ing them and I believe they said a fine where in Pennsylvania. But just the other young lady is to accompany you/ he day I was reminded of all this by one of finished with a twinkle in his kindly eyes. those rare notes from Katherine. "I©ve just "On and on it goes," continued Kather been thinking and thinking about you," ine. "I©ll miss him if he goes on another she wrote. "Thinking of those wonderful trip afar. I admit I have spotted the place evening chats we had during those few where he usually sits and if I board the bus months that we were neighbors." ahead of him I try to get a seat where I can Now the reason for telling you this un see and hear all that goes on. I have learned finished story is to raise this question: As more geography! In fact, I often make a you travel at home and abroad, do you note and look up the places he mentions remember to bring messages from workers when I go to the library the next morning. afar and convey them to loved ones and "Tonight was the most precious of all. friends who long for firsthand informa A little girl of perhaps eight years slid into tion? Hearts can really yearn for just a word the seat beside this elderly man, and asked made personal by personal repeating shyly, ©Did you see my brother in South from the dear ones who perhaps are so America?© ©Well, sweetheart,© he said kindly, overwhelmed with the immensity of the ©let©s see now who is your brother? Yes, I task confronting them that they do not find know you look like him. How long has time to write as often as they might like. he been in South America?© ©Two years,© Anyway, a personal message is better than replied the little sister, ©and I miss Rob so a letter. much; it seems like such a long time.© I know of a fine and valued friendship ©Well, well, I©m sorry but I haven©t been in that has sprung up between an old, retired South America for more than two years, so worker and one of a younger generation I haven©t seen him since you did.© There who girdles the globe betimes all because was a disappointed little silence. Then that younger worker took time to visit a hopefully, he said, ©You know, just last lonely little mound in a certain mission evening I ran across a little trinket that I field, took a picture of it, and at the first picked up one time from almost the very opportunity made it a point to visit the re place where your brother is working. I tired worker, gave him the snapshot, and think you©d like to have it. If you©ll ask your told him how the present mission folks mother maybe she©ll let you get off the bus are caring for the little grave until Jesus with me and I©ll give it to you.© The child©s comes! eyes sparkled and soon she was back with Once upon a time it was my privilege to mother©s permission. be secretary to a man who, when he was as "I need to know who this man is. Every signed to travel abroad, gleaned from vari body else on the bus seems to know him, ous sources information about the mission and love him and a mother trusts her folks© relatives in their homeland. Some- child to him. Who is he?" (Continued on page 43} NOVEMBER, 1965 I never see ripe pumpkins piled in the fields or corn shocked in a field of stubble but that I think of another kind of Indian Summer.

I think of that Indian Summer which sooner or later comes to every civilization.* To every nation * comes a season when it lives from the fruits of a faith it has begun to deny.

It was in such an Indian Summer that D the prophets preached in the fateful days of Judah©s history. There comes a time when people are sustained by the spiritual truths of an earlier day, a time when a nation * is upheld by godly virtues it no longer produces. A The fruits of righteousness may be eaten when the root is shriveled. We may glory for a season in the rewards of a piety which no longer lives. The days of Indian Summer are fleeting. We cannot live long on that which does not grow in vigor and abundance.

And now the days of enchantment are upon us. The distant hills lie quiescent in the purple haze. The hint of eternity is in the an as a spent year stands carved in bronzed radiance. Something picks at r the lock of man©s spirit. Through the ache of things dead and gone and the oblivion of falling leaves M a voice is crying: Turn us again, O God.1

M * In quoting this poem Elder Loveless substituted the \vord "church© for the words "civilization" and ©"nation" where they app_ear in the poem. 1 "Indian Summer." by Robert K. Churchill, is reprinted by permission from The Banner, published by Christian Re E formed Publishing House.

R winds of cold orthodoxy are soon to follow. We live in a day of public relations, and we project a certain image on the commu nity. We take pictures of mayors with scis sors in their hands clipping blue ribbons WILLIAM LOVELESS spanning doorways to welfare centers, and we print ads in newspapers. A recent six- Pastor, Sligo Church, Takomct Park, Maryland page insert in a Sunday paper was entitled "Adventists, People With a Future." We are projecting to the community an image that we hope is good, and this is as HE days of Indian summer are always it should be. People like us. We are in favor. Tfleeting. Winter is approaching. Change We are growing. We are building more in is everywhere. The sap has returned to the stitutions. We now have two universities. ground, the leaves are brown. The com We have more academies, more elementary mitments of an earlier day have dulled. schools. We are popular; we are rich. Compromise has washed away resolve. In But there are some subtle dangers, be dian summer has begun, and the winter cause none of these are the marks of God©s 24 THE MINISTRY people. The marks of God©s people are not all systems of religion are equal repre found in the Bible. Peter wrote under in sentations of the truth as revealed by Christ. spiration about "the church," the early The hope of the human race does not lie church and the late church, the Christian in the human race at all. The hope of the church, scattered throughout all genera human race lies in the redeemed portion tions, all denominations, all colors of skin: of the human race. Certain earmarks, dis "Ye are a chosen generation," he \vrote, tinguishing characteristics, of the people of "a royal priesthood." God are described in Revelation 14:12. In the Adventist Church we believe that They are simply two in number: "Here is every man is his own priest; no committee, the patience of the saints: here are they pope, or preacher has a right to superim that keep the commandments of God, and pose his particular beliefs on anyone else. the faith of Jesus." We have a church manual with a certain This is a picture of people who have a list of church doctrines in it, but within certain relationship to God. It is the rela each of these particular sets of doctrines tionship of obedience; they are willing to there is a wide divergence of belief, and follow God because they know who He then even more divergence in terms of is, they know what kind of God they are practice of these beliefs. serving. They know how He looks upon It is sometimes difficult for young people men. They are fairly clear in their own to believe that the Adventist Church is one mind about how they look upon Him. of the most liberal churches in the world. And because their view of Him is healthy But the Bible makes it plain that one of and favorable, they are willing to follow the marks of the people of God is that they Him and to obey Him. have thought through for themselves and Now, the Adventist Church maintains have concluded that they are responsible that this relationship is not denominational for themselves; they are their own priests, or institutional. In other words, we do not "an holy nation, a peculiar [or purchased] hold that all our members have the ear people." This doesn©t mean that they are marks of God©s people as laid down in Rev odd; it simply means that these worthless elation, namely, keeping the command people have had the world©s highest price ments. Merely attending church on Sabbath paid for their redemption. A similarly morning does not mean that we are keeping strange situation would occur if someone the commandments necessarily or that we would approach me with an offer of $500,- have a correct relationship with God. 000 for my car. It isn©t worth $500,000; it The saving relationship is a personal isn©t worth even a fraction of that. Such one, which means that people from all a transaction would create a great mystery. denominations, people from no denomina And here is a great mystery, Peter says. tion, probably, will be granted the free This is something that makes us peculiar; gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ, we are worthless, yet God died that we the Man of our salvation. However, there might have life. There isn©t anything in is a rationale for the existence of the terms of oddity here. It is peculiar because Adventist Church that transcends the ra we are these purchased people (not odd). tionale for the existence of most other Worthless as we are in sin, a human-divine churches and/or religious institutions. price has been paid for our redemption. This rationale is doctrinal. Whereas we Peter describes the result: "That ye should hold that a Baptist or a Methodist or a shew forth the praises of him who hath Catholic or a nonchurch member has ac called you out of darkness into his mar cess to the free gift of eternal life, we still vellous light." maintain, with no apologies, that when He has described the result of the human- ever possible we will try to make a good divine relationship, an earmark of the peo Adventist out of a good Baptist or a good ple of God. They have assumed their own Methodist or a good Catholic or a good responsibility, they are their own priests, nonchurch member. We have a special and they are aware of the fact that they message which, if properly understood and were purchased by a divine price. There properly taught, will bring our neighbors fore they show the glory of God by talking and friends and certainly ourselves into a about Him and living a Christlike life. closer, more meaningful relationship with Now, we must remember as we look for God. This message is embodied in teaching the earmarks of the people of God that about God Bible doctrines. NOVEMBER, 1965 25 The purpose of doctrines is to reveal God There are those who know something of the in His dealings with man. Obedience and doctrines we claim to believe, and they are noting respect will naturally follow the illumina the effect of our faith upon our characters. They are waiting to see what kind of influence we exert, tion the doctrines afford. In the Adventist and how we carry ourselves before a faithless world. Church we have three doctrines that are The angels of heaven are looking upon us. "We distinctive and afford particular illumina are made a spectacle unto the world, and to an tion upon the character of God. While we gels, and to men" (1 Cor. 4:9).2 do not believe that we have any corner on Others look upon us and say, "All right, salvation, we do hold that through these so you©re an Adventist and I©m a Baptist, understandings we can make salvation in and I am enjoying my salvation in the this life more meaningful to anyone. Lord. I am happy in Him; I am secure in First of all, we have a distinctive teach my salvation. What do you have that I ing and understanding of the Sabbath. don©t have?" There is a wide range of ideas and under standing and lack of understanding among us on the Sabbath and its purpose. But The great thing in this world is not so much this practice was originally given to man where we stand as it is in what direction we are moving.—Oliver Wendell Holmes. to implement fellowship with God so that he could have confidence in God. The second doctrine that reveals God in That isn©t a bad question. I dare say a particular manner is the doctrine of the some of us would be hard put to answer nonimmortality of the soul. This again it. Maybe there is a final lesson in obedi is a distinctive teaching, setting forth that ence that we need yet to learn. Maybe there when a man dies, he is asleep in the grave. is a final lesson in confidence that we still This concept is important because it de need to learn. We are a people with a dis picts a God of mercy rather than a God tinct message typified by three doctrines, who has purposed to punish the wicked in the enormity and immensity of which we the fires of hell for eternity. Here again, haven©t begun to explore. These are our you see, we get a glimpse of God and His guarantees, if you please; these are the as dealing with man, not a glimpse of a dead surances that we can be a distinctive people. doctrine proved from the pages of the Bible. It should be profitable to look at us now The third distinguishing doctrine of as a people and to evaluate our distinctive God©s people is the doctrine of the sanctu contribution to the world, and to assess ary with all its implications, including the the direction we are taking. second coming of Christ. What do we know Students of human nature have put forth about the sanctuary? Merely the coverings certain ideas regarding the rise and progress and the furniture, the daily and yearly of a church, any church; I refer particularly rituals? The sanctuary service simply boils to the work of Ernst Troletsch and Max down to revealing to man in his finiteness Weber and their colleagues, who have done how God deals with him. The teaching studies in church growth. These men simply is directed toward one great goal that man say that every church that arises follows a can have enough confidence in God to obey certain pattern. Him; that©s all. They designate a church group in its To see God in the sanctuary is to marvel, early years of inception as a sect. A sect, "I have seen God in action; I see how He they say, always rises as a protest. It usu looks upon me in justice and in mercy; I ally arises around a leading person or a see Jesus as my High Priest; I realize that small group of leading persons who have He is coming again; the sanctuary will be special gifts, or at least are considered to cleansed, and since I have confidence in have special gifts. They attract followers. this whole program, I will obey it," To The sect protests spiritual and moral lax do this is to fall into the category of a ity in the culture in which it arises. It saint of God. (Here is the patience [endur protests against the economic and political ance] of the saints, who keep the command evils of its day. Its essential characteristic ments of God, because they have confidence is that of protest. in Him.) As time goes on the sect either will Now, we teach these doctrines simply be shrivel up and die, as the leaders pass off cause if we understand them, our lives are the scene of action, or it will continue to changed. The change will be discernible: grow and gain adherents. As it gains adher- 26 THE MINISTRY ents and financial prosperity, it moves from excluding certain socio-economic classes the area of protest into an intermediate with a gospel appealing strictly to the area called a denomination. In a denomina middle and upper classes, at least in cer tion there is less of protest and a growing tain synods. awareness of popularity. In his book Millhands and Preachers If the group prospers and continues, Listen Pope has delineated certain char these men hypothesize, in every case the acteristics of the sect group and the church sect will progress to denominationalism group in terms of the interest and emphasis and finally to what they call a church, that these groups place on specific things: an institution having a vested interest in The sect renounces or is indifferent to the secular maintaining the status quo, value system while the church accepts or re-en To sum up their theory: The sect is a forces it. The sect emphasizes a literal Biblical interpreta protest group; as time moves on, the group tion of life and rejects worldly success, while the of people comprising the sect enlarges; a church incorporates some degree of scientific and compromise is made. In time the denom humanistic thinking in its interpretation of the ination becomes a church with a vested Bible and of life and accepts success in the world interest in maintaining what already exists as a worthy goal. in the society in which it exists. The sect maintains a moral community, exclud The early Christian church is cited as ing unworthy members, and depreciates member an example. It arose in the Roman Empire ship in other religious institutions, while the church as a protest movement against the spiritual, embraces all who are socially compatible with it and accepts other established religious institutions. moral, and political evils of the day. Jesus The sect emphasizes congregational participation Christ and the apostles comprised the small and an unprofessionalized ministry while the church band of people with special gifts around delegates religious responsibility to a professional whom the sect developed. Ensuing com ized group of individuals.3 promises and corruption are a matter of The sect stresses a voluntary confessional basis history. for membership and its primary concern is for Another classic example is taken from adults, while the church stresses social and ritual the time of the Reformation, when the requisites for all. Lutheran Church had its beginnings. Mar The sect values fervor in religious observance through its use of gospel songs and folk hymns and tin Luther, a man with obvious gifts, un its emphasis on evangelism, while the church values der God©s leading arose as a great moun passivity through its use of liturgical forms of tain peak in an arid era of religious bigotry worship and its emphasis on education.4 and orthodoxy. Around Martin Luther was And so the movement from sect to church a small group of leaders; the group in continues. Richard Niebuhr puts it this creased, the populace began to follow him, way in his book The Social Sources of and another sect was born. Denominationalism: The sociological character of sectarianism, however, When you are discouraged because you are in is almost always modified in the course of time by a valley, remember that every valley reaches up the natural processes of birth and death, and on this to the hills. Lee©s Bulldog. change in structure, changes in doctrine and ethics inevitably follow. By its very nature the sectarian type of organization is valid only for one genera But, students of human nature point out, tion. The children born to the voluntary members of the first generation begin to make the sect a in time the sect following Luther moved church long before they have arrived at the years toward a church category, as will happen of discretion. For with their corning the sect must in time to every church group when it be take on the character of an educational and dis comes large. In many places today Luther- ciplinary institution, with the purpose of bringing anism is actually a state church, having the new generation into conformity with ideals a vested interest in maintaining things ex and customs which have become traditional. Rarely actly as they are, including the government. does a second generation hold the convictions it The church group has moved from the has inherited with a fervor equal to that of its fathers, who fashioned these convictions in the heat protests of 1517 through the denomina of conflict at the risk of martyrdom. As generation tional middle type of transition era where succeeds generation, the isolation of the community they still made certain protests but were from the world becomes more difficult. Furthermore, reaching over to grasp the hands of kings wealth frequently increases when the sect subjects and princes, until finally now they have itself to the discipline of asceticism in work and moved into a fully institutional-type church expenditure; with the increase of wealth the pos- NOVEMBER, 1965 27 sibilities for culture also become more numerous, gregations as "very scholarly" and are automatically and involvement in the economic life of the nation called "Doctor"; ministers who bear such traditions as a whole can less easily be limited. Compromise convincingly are considered a "credit to the town" begins and the ethics of the sect approach the and a mark of superiority over rival churches. A churchJy type of morals. As with the ethics, so with minister must not be "too deep" in the pulpit, how the doctrine, so also with the administration of ever, if he wishes to hold his congregation; Gastonia religion. An official clergy, theologically educated prefers ministers who allegedly are scholars in the and schooled in the refinements of ritual, takes the quiet of their studies but are "good talkers" in the place of lay leadership; easily imparted creeds are pulpit, "good fellows" on the street, and sympa substituted for the difficult enthusiasms of the thetic comforters in time of trouble. In a sermon, pioneers; children are born into the group and personality is more important than brains, and infant baptism or dedication becomes once more delivery than content. One of the first things a a means of grace. So the sect becomes a church.5 Gastonian will say about his preacher is that he Mr. Niebuhr is referring to class con does or does not have "a good delivery." Loudness sciousness and class culture existing in the is equated with dynamism. A preacher must speak denominations. The sect, he points out, ap with assurance of those "eternal verities" which everybody believes or at least was taught in child peals to the low socio-economic classes, hood to believe. He may startle his hearers oc whereas the church appeals to the high casionally with some fresh insights, and thereby socio-economic classes, and never the two retain their interest, but the congregation begins shall meet. One church, it is concluded, to feel uneasy if his viewpoint becomes too cosmo cannot minister to all. politan and remote. The role of the uptown min ister, and of his church, is not to transcend the immediate cultural boundaries but to symbolize Never lose your sense of the enormous value and sanction the righteous things as they are.5 of a minute. And where are we? Indian summer has set in. What if another hundred years go So the Anglican Church has two churches, by? What will the pressure of social class when possible, in the same town. The of new generations do to our church? What Lutheran Church has two churches in the is it doing to our church now? To your same town, one a Missouri synod and one view of things? an Augustana synod. The liturgy is com There are certain other implications even pletely different. It doesn©t seem and sound more penetrating than these. Some time like the same church. Should Adventists ago Dr. Russell Dines devised a church- have two churches in every town to meet survey test to measure the relationship of the problems of class in our gospel, in our one©s socio-economic status to the type of preaching, music, and worship? sect or church he joins. These statistics sug This problem exists. In his study of gest that there is something besides a Holy church groups in a certain South Carolina Spirit operating when people choose the county, Liston Pope came up with some church they wish to attend. The results of interesting observations. In this commu this study are disturbing, and they are sta nity, he pointed out, there are three classes tistically significant at the 1 per cent level. of churches. There are uptown churches, According to these studies it is impossible which appeal to the upper class in town; for any particular religious institution, there are the mill churches, which appeal denomination, or organization to appeal to the lower-middle class in town; and then to all social classes, or even to cater to all there are the fringe churches, or the pro social classes in any society. In essence, this test movements, which appeal to those peo conclusion simply limits the power of the ple who feel socially ostracized and who are gospel of Jesus Christ to make all men socially disinherited in the community. brothers regardless of class, caste, or social After two years of study and attendance standing. at every church in the county, Mr. Pope The findings of these students of human described the social implications of the nature are disturbing. Somehow the three church structure in this county: distinguishing doctrines that we embrace Uptown churches in the county put an increasing must enable us to live a life and to preach amount of emphasis on religious education and a decreasing amount on revival meetings which have a message and to have a church that can a tendency, it is felt, to be undignified and fanatical. be a challenge, and in some cases a response, Their choirs are usually robed and their minister an encouragement, and a help to everyone. speaks in a well-modulated voice. Most uptown At this point we must conclude that were ministers are designated by members of their con- it not for the gift of prophecy, as manifested 28 THE MINISTRY by the writings of Ellen G. White in our Self-denial . . . What have I denied my church, in fifty years we would be exactly self? I have plenty to eat, a nice car, a where the are now. We would have comfortable home, well-cut suits. These moved from protest against spiritual and are merely the hard things, the things you moral evils, political and economic up can buy, the "gold watches." heaval in our society, to a group of peo What have you denied yourself? Can you ple, an institution, having a vested inter reach beyond the acceptable social class est in that which is. where you find yourself to welcome a But there still is a final lesson in obedi brother in fellowship? Are you ready to ence to be learned. We have obeyed, we sit with him to share his sorrows and his have gone out, we have witnessed; many lot? are asking, Why have we failed? This is Our message is applicable to all men not a valid question. We can decry the of all times. Are its exponents equally Adventist Church and call it Laodicean, applicable? and point to the delayed Advent. The delay is tragic. But this is not the present I never see ripe pumpkins piled in the fields problem. The question for us to pose is or corn shocked in a field of stubble not how we shall persecute ourselves for but that I think of another kind of Indian Summer. being negligent in the past. The question I think of that Indian Summer to ask is, Why are we here? What is the which sooner or later comes purpose and the motivation for our pres to ever)© civilization. To every nation ence now? We have obeyed partially; we comes a season when it lives have given money; we have sent out mis from the fruits of a faith it has begun to deny. sionaries. Why have not the people fol ***** lowed? The hint of eternity is in the air Overseas, what is the idea of the Christian as a spent year stands carved missionary? Four things: He is white; he in bronzed radiance. Something picks at is Western; he is rich; and he is soft. Why the lock of man©s spirit. Through the ache should anyone follow that? of things dead and gone What is the view of our church at home? and the oblivion of falling leaves a voice is crying: Nice people. A little odd. They keep "Sat urday for Sunday" and they don©t eat pork. Turn us again, O God. But they are basically nice people. No dif 2 Selected Messages, book 2, p. 386. ferent from a Lutheran or a Baptist or * 4 Quotations by Liston Pope, from his book Millhands any other church. We are all churches, and Preachers, are reprinted by permission from Yale "Uni versity Press. going to the same place together. A vested 5 Richard Niebuhr, The Social Sources of Denominational- ism, pp. 19. 20. Reprinted by permission from The World interest in the status quo. Why should any Publishing Company. one follow that? e Pope. Millhands and Preachers, p. 95. We are face to face with the stern fact Reprinted from The Youth©s Instructor, Nov. 17, 1964. that more people have turned to Commu » * nism than to Christ in our lifetime. Say what you will about the Communist, he is The Victory Is Ours consecrated, he is dedicated, and in many (Continued from page 11} cases he is willing to die for a system that church "prepared for battle," clothed with does not include eternal life or God. Jesus the complete armor of God and provided Christ laid down a less-than-easy course for thanks to tithes and offerings with weap His followers. He demanded more than ons of war to ensure success. "nice people" when He said, "Whosoever No doubt the Ad-vent Church is far from will come after me, let him deny himself, having attained perfection. But she has a and take up his cross, and follow me." mission to fill, a message to proclaim, and Maybe there is one final lesson in obedi she has received the necessary weapons or ence that we need to learn the lesson of tools to win the final battle. Are we preach denying ourselves. Some have felt this to ers worthy of this high calling? If upon ask mean that one must bear a great sickness ing such a question we feel like blushing or face a great calamity courageously. No! for shame, let us turn our eyes toward Him When Jesus said, Deny yourself and take who has the power to forgive and to make up your cross and follow Me, He demanded us worthy of serving Him. He will not dis total obedience. . . . appoint us but grant us the victory. NOVEMBER, 1965 29 Evangelism in the Congo

G. M. ELLSTROM

Secretary, Ministerial Association, Congo Union

The afternoons and Sundays were used T WAS decided at the year-end meeting for visitation, and four evenings a week a I of the Congo Union committee that a public meeting was held in the auditorium, series of meetings should be held in a sub which seated about five hundred people. urb of Elisabethville called Ruashi to help Ten evangelists were present during the in the follow-up of a number of Voice of six-week campaign besides the speakers and Prophecy interests. A school of evangelism they were all kept busy with classes, visita was also to be held in conjunction with the tion, and auditorium responsibilities. One meetings so that a number of our South of our pastors from Songa, Paul Mwema, Congo Field evangelists who were to help was the main speaker. He was assisted by with the campaign might get the benefit of Pastors Jonas Ruzirakuvuka and Elasto such training. Pastor Steve De Lange, the Basaninyenzi, who gave health talks each Field president, and his committee sent all evening. they possibly could to the meetings, and As in many campaigns we had our diffi Pastor De Lange also took time from his culties and disappointments. On the first busy program to help teach. Pastors D. H. night and for several nights following we Thomas and J. T. Kiiopper of the Congo hardly had standing room, with an esti Union office also helped teach, so we had mated 1,000 people in attendance. But our a full program of study and visitation. The troubles started even before we began the daily program was planned as follows: meetings. After having received written Four classes in the morning after a de permission to use the hall, we found out votional: two days before we were to begin that 1. Bible Doctrines our large sign in front of the auditorium 2. Homiletics had been taken down and someone else 3. Personal Evangelism had rented the hall to show pictures every 4. Public Evangelism night. We found the man and he was will ing to let us put up the sign again and hold our meetings, but we had to get out by eight every evening. It was a difficult sit uation and an unpleasant atmosphere in which to conduct our meetings, but we had no choice. It left us without an aftermeet- ing, which I believe is one of the most im portant parts of an evangelistic effort. When we arrived a couple of hours before time on the first Sunday night to make sure that everything was in order, we found that many of the chairs had been taken and were being used in a nearby bar. We finally found the man in charge and got most of the chairs back in time for the opening of the service. Then we had a problem about the lights, because we weren©t given the key for the projection room where they had the light switch. The man with the key went Paul Mwema preaching. The words on the front off and we were left stranded. This hap o£ the pulpit—"Mungu ni upendo"—mean "God pened many nights. Well, we could go on is love." relating the working of the devil, but we 30 THE MINISTRY The workers who at tended the School of Evangelism. Paul Mwema is in the center and Pas tor Ellstrom is just be hind him.

are more interested in the working of God. out in these follow-up meetings and he is Nearly every night we had a good attend continuing the interest by holding a Bible- ance and at the close of the twenty-four marking class every Sunday afternoon. Pas meetings we were visiting eighty interested tor Belson, one of those attending the school people. After five weeks we had a baptism of evangelism, was asked to help him in of eleven adults, most of whom make up this follow-up work. Many are attending our church group at Ruashi. They had the Sunday afternoon meetings and we are been studying for some time before the ef looking forward to establishing a church in fort began, because we seldom baptize any the near future with many more to add to one until he has thoroughly studied all the nucleus of ten that we have as our mem our doctrines. This often takes more than a bership in this little town. We are in the year. We therefore felt the interest must process of obtaining land, and quite a por be carried on, and asked for permission to tion of money has already been received for use the hall every Sunday afternoon. This a church building, much of it from the was granted us. Pastor Elasto Basanin- group of believers that we have in Ruashi. yenzi from the Voice of Prophecy office led (Continued on page ?9)

Ruashi church members all contacted through V.O.P. Miss Helen DeVas (on the left) is in charge of the V.O.P. correspond ence school.

NOVEMBER, 1965 31 What Was the Galatian Heresy?

JAMES W. ZACKRISON

Chairman, Department of Theology, Colombia-Venezuela College

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENT- so close to the truth. That is why Paul ISTS, because of their says that "not that there is another gospel, insistence on the per but there are some who trouble you and petuity of the law of want to pervert the gospel of Christ (Gal. God, and in particular 1:7, R.S.V.). There is no doubt that there the seventh-day Sabbath, was a serious problem in the Galatian are often accused, di church; the question is Was the problem rectly or indirectly, of what Mr. Douty says it was? maintaining and teach Was Obedience to God the Question? ing the Galatian heresy against which Paul wrote The author©s statement ". . . the pardon so strongly. A represent is only provisional, being contingent on ative statement appears in a recent book; our subsequent right conduct which is a book which is, interestingly enough, Galatianism" is apparently based on a be quite highly recommended by some ex-Ad- lief in the doctrine of eternal security, com ventist "reformers." The author writes: monly called "once saved, always saved," This, then, is the Advendst©s doctrine of salva and seems to imply that God does not take tion. It teaches that we are pardoned by grace into account everyday conduct in the judg alone, but presently reveals that the pardon is ment. In fact, the whole chapter in which only provisional, being contingent on our subse the statement under consideration appears quent right conduct which is Galatianism.1 seems an attempt to prove this point; both from the Calvinist and Arminian points of The Seriousness of the Problem in Galatia view. We must ask ourselves if what this On page 70 the author points out that author says is the Galatian heresy really Arminians are "as emphatic as Calvinists is the Galatian heresy. Has he interpreted in teaching that the instant a sinner repents correctly the historical facts? What hap and believes, he has the unqualified pardon pened in Galatia that caused Paul to write of his past sins and the immediate posses such a strongly worded letter? It is not sion of eternal life." He then adds: "They every day that a pastor writes to his do not believe that pardon and eternal life congregation calling them dvoTjtoi, "sense are contingent on future behavior, though less." Whatever their new belief was, it they believe that future misbehavior will was wrong and as far as Paul was con result in the loss of blessings already en cerned, "a different gospel" (Gal. 1:6, joyed." Whatever the author may mean by R.S.V.) than what he had preached to this rather confusing statement, it seems to them. It was a case of complete, doctrinally say that eternal life is not contingent on oriented apostasy. Worldliness and low future behavior, but future misbehavior standards are bad enough in a church, as will be punished. What is the difference? was the case in Corinth, but doctrinal However, the question of obedience to apostasy not only has the effect of being God as a result of salvation was not the is a bad influence on the brethren but it sue in Galatia. Paul himself says in the tears out the very foundation upon which same Epistle: the gospel rests and produces a deadly "For you were called to freedom, breth form of paganism because it is sometimes ren; only do not use your freedom as an 32 THE MINISTRY opportunity for the flesh. ... If we live he can transgress the moral law and do by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit" what he wishes is to teach antinomianism, (Gal. 5:13, 25, R.S.V.). a doctrine found nowhere in the Bible. It If these verses mean anything at all, they is one thing to say that by means of the law, can only mean that salvation must produce moral or ceremonial, a man is saved, as a change in the life. A Christian does not the Judaizers did; and another to say that live like a sinner. Nowhere in the Bible is the reception of the grace of God and the it taught that salvation frees a man from faith in Jesus capacitate a man so that he his duty to obey God. Nor does such a point can obey, as the Seventh-day Adventists of view constitute legalism. What the Bible teach. Paul uses chapters five and six of teaches is that salvation by faith capacitates Galatians to point out exactly this that the a person, so that by means of God©s grace new birth and the reception of the Spirit and power in him he can obey. To say that produce in the daily life the fruits of the a person who has experienced the new Spirit. Christian liberty can never be lib birth is free from the duty to obey is to erty to sin; it is freedom from sin because contradict what Paul himself is saying. The of the abiding presence of Christ in the matter of obedience was not the issue in life. Galatia. Contrary to what Mr. Douty says, Sev What Was the Problem in Galatia? enth-day Adventists do not teach that the procurement of salvation is made contin On page 68 of the book under considera gent on one©s attaining perfection of char tion. Mr. Douty writes that Galatianism is acter. We teach that the grace of Christ "the doctrine that whatever Christ has continues to work in us after justification done tor us, salvation is, in part dependent and produces daily progress toward Chris on our good works." This is closer to the tian maturity. A man, of and by himself, truth, but is still only half right. The Gala- cannot attain any kind of perfection. That tians were not only depending on their was the Galatian heresy an attempt at sal own works, they had substituted another vation without Christ. "If justification system of salvation in the place of the one were through the law, then Christ died to that God had revealed to them through no purpose©" (Gal. 2:21, R.S.V.). Paul. It is clear from the words of Paul in Unfortunately, some Seventh-day Ad the introduction to the book that the Gala- ventists may not have understood our true tian believers had radically changed their position and as a result we have sometimes ideas as to how they received salvation, given the impression that we are saved be substituting the law, especially the cere cause we keep the Sabbath. The best argu monial law, and more specifically an apos ment against misstatements of our beliefs, tate Judaism, for the method of salvation such as we have considered in this article. by the grace of God. is the demonstration of the fruits of the I am astonished that you are so quickly Spirit in our daily lives. deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and turning to a different gospel not that 1 Norman F. Douty, Another Look at Seventh-day Advent- ism (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House. 1962). p. 75. there is another gospel, but there are some who - Ellen G. White, The Acts of the Apostles, pp. 383. 385. trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ (Gal. 1:6, 7, R.S.V.). Ellen G. White comments: Divine Madness Needed Through the influence of false teachers who (Continued from page 16} had arisen among the believers in Jerusalem, order I noted the power of his words. Then division, heresy, and sensualism were rapidly gain ing ground among the believers in Galatia. These he went out to his automobile to get an false teachers were mingling Jewish traditions with other book and left me momentarily alone the truths of the gospel. Ignoring the decision of with the customer. The astonished man the general council at Jerusalem, they urged upon turned to me and said: "I have never heard the Gentile converts the observance of the ceremo anything like it before!" nial law. . . . Isn©t that exactly what they said about Christ, the true foundation of the faith, was Jesus? "Never man spake like this man" virtually renounced for the obsolete ceremonies (John 7:46). Isn©t that what should be said of Judaism.2 of His ministers today? But we need to meet That no man can be saved because of Christ for ourselves first. Then we too may any xvorks that he might do is one of the speak and teach "as one having authority, clearest truths of the Bible, but to teach that and not as the scribes." NOVEMBER, 1965 33 "Conversations on Family Life"

FLOYD STRUNK

Associate Pastor, Sligo Church Takoma Park, Maryland

T WAS a startling statement that the news of God©s flock today, we should follow I commentator made. He said, "Last year closely our Commander, who knows in New York City there were more mar where He is going. riages than divorces." It makes one think, In one of our staff meetings here at Sligo what have we come to? Have we reached church we gave consideration to the value the state that is comparable to that in which of the study of God©s Word and the Spirit the world was just prior to the Flood, of Prophecy and our great need of it. We when men were marrying and giving in were cognizant of the fact that many of the marriage and knew not until the Flood family problems, the breakdown between came? Are the people of our generation, husband and wife, could be traced to the professing themselves to be wise, becoming breakdown of communication, where one as fools? Can it be that -we are like the peo could no longer hear what the other one ple of Israel when Hosea stood before them was saying, even though their tones were and said, "My people are destroyed for lack audible and they were within range of each of knowledge"? A better translation for "de other©s voice. So we sought, perhaps not to stroyed" says, "My people are destroying save so many homes that were already themselves for lack of knowledge." "Be broken and try to reunite them but to pre cause thou hast rejected knowledge, I will vent others from following this sad exam also reject thee." ple, to save them before it was too late. What we see in the world, in broken We decided to have group discussions, cen homes and foster children, is all too often tering these around the textual material seen in God©s church today. And yet it need found in The Adventist Home. We had not be, for God has blessed this people questions prepared on the whole book, above every people of the earth, placing in somewhat after the pattern of The Great their hands the gems of truth, not only in Controversy course. The idea of having the Holy Scriptures but broadening and en questions at all was to help the people get lightening the understanding through the interested in the book and to read it dis wonderful pages of the writings of the cerningly so that they might catch some of Spirit of Prophecy. How can we get our the gems that lie hidden there. people to read and study them more? Later we changed most of these ques A man who had suffered a broken home tions as we met in training sessions, for and divorced his wife for Biblical reasons many of the leaders that were chosen felt but now was happily remarried, said as he that the answers xvere too obvious. So we held up a copy of The Adventist Home, gathered material for further questions "If I had read this book and followed its from the leaders themselves, each one be teachings I wouldn©t have had any of the ing assigned a special chapter each week. problems I had." When we met we discussed the questions It is wonderful to know and realize that that were brought in, sometimes using our great Commander, Jesus Christ, knows them, sometimes discarding them, and at the end from the beginning; and as leaders other times rewriting them. 34 THE MINISTRY Our next problem was the selection of lished by the Leebury Press, Greenwich, lay leaders to head up our discussion Connecticut, 1963. groups. We felt that rather than have all Following some of the guiding sugges the people gather in the sanctuary for a tions in these books, we were to meet on lecture series it would be far more valu Sunday mornings, discuss the material as able to meet together and have prayer and signed for that week from The Adventist a short devotional and then divide into Home, and then we would go off into role small discussion groups, numbering from playing. Sometimes it would be a problem eight to fifteen, each of these groups to be of teen-age children asking for permission led by a layman rather than a minister or for dates and bringing into the role playing one of our paid workers. If one of the lat the children who asked and the parents or ter led out, an authoritarian answer to the any other closely related person who was problems would be expected, while on the answering. For seven weeks we met before other hand, if the problems were discussed we opened the classes to the public. When with one of their own members, a layman, I say the public I do not mean just mem and all shared their experiences, they bers of our own church. We invited people would be more likely to come to the of the community to come in and join with obvious answer and be more willing to us in what we called "Conversations on accept it. Family Life." It was not an easy matter, even in our During the past few years we have con lai©ge church, to select nineteen laymen to ducted an adult education program in lead these groups. We scrutinized our mem our church and so we sought to make these bership list very carefully and finally came classes a part of this program. We charged up with a number of men and women a small registration fee of $2.00 for an

One of the groups, who took part in the discussions on family life, in the Sligo church. whom we felt would qualify. These lay adult and $1.00 for a college or an acad members felt very humble as they realized emy student. In the little brochure that we the responsibility being placed upon them. passed out on Sabbath morning to our con We suggested two books that would serve as gregation we included a registration blank. a background of knowledge for them. The We purposely made this the size of 4-by-6- one was The Art of Group Conversation, inch card so that without any recopying we by Rachel Davis Dubois and Mew-Soong could have a permanent file on those who Li, published by the Associate Press in participated. The registration cost helped New York. The other was The Miracle of to pay for mimeographed material we gave Dialogue, by Ruel L. Howe. This was pub- on the subject. We also provided a baby- NOVEMBER, 1965 35 sitter in the nursery to care for the children 22 Less D's and F©s while the parents were in class. And the schoolwork? Was scholarship In making up the classes, we sought to affected by the absorbing activities of evan put some of the older people, some of the gelism? This is difficult to measure, but at middle-aged, some of the young married, least it would not appear to have been af and some of the teen-agers in each group, fected adversely. The results of students© thus giving them a good cross section of grade reports are actually better than a problems and solutions that had been year ago. With 19 more students enrolled, found with experience. there are 22 less D©s and F©s. The spiritual We decided to run the course for fifteen tone of the campus remained high all weeks and to make our assignments cover year. Regular religious activities such as sections of the books instead of chapters. Weeks of Prayer and a Student Devotional We felt it was better not to be regulated by Week were conducted as usual and corre requirement to cover just certain chapters lated with evangelism. Had public trans each week, for some might have more im portation been available others would portance for one particular group than have attended; as it was, practically all the ones taken in sequence. We felt that it were transported to and fro by our ten would be well to spend a little time in re teachers© cars. Attendance remained fairly organizing the balance of the material in steady with between fifty and seventy-five the book The Adventist Home and assign visitors each night. "Friday night at not only sections but a cross reference to Spicer" came to be a familiar phrase and related chapters that appear later on. an enjoyable experience for friends of the The classes are finished and we do not community and school members alike. yet know all the results, but it is our deep Of course, the program had its weak conviction that this is one of the most valu nesses. Monthly awards would have made able services we have ever offered to our the attendance even better, and six months church as well as to the community. A num proved to be a little long with the busy ber of people who were not members of the round of regular college activities. Four church attended the meetings and took an to five months might have been sufficient. active part. Under trie blessing of God it is Having a number of different speakers our hope that many of the problems that evolve from marriage will be averted as a made for variety and proved effective, but another time one might preach through result of "Conversations on Family Life" out the series for consistency. held at the Sligo church. Strong points of the program were, first of all, a steady, enthusiastic evangelistic "Spicer for Christ" emphasis reaching everyone on campus and keeping before our noncommitted (Continued from page 20) students the need for decision; a demon brought forward the Marathi converts who stration training program for future min had made decisions at the Sunday night isters; a ready, inexpensive source of most services; faculty members brought their of the things evangelists need choir, audi children of baptismal age; and other torium, Bible instructors, and a captive church members, students, and staff hum audience! bly presented their friends and loved ones If the Lord could bless on-camp,us evan to the Lord a double line extending gelism in a predominantly Hindu commu across the width of the church in front of nity where there was no public transpor the pulpit. tation, why wouldn©t it work on other Ad Following the examination of the can ventist campuses around the world? Our didates, they were ushered to the pool schools have friendly public relations in where they took part in the sacred ordi their communities and many interests have nance conducted by six ministers in three been fostered through the years. Why not languages. Thirty-three persons were bap invite nearby friends to spend a pleasant tized in this, the largest baptism ever con evening a week in sharing the good things ducted at the college, and nearly the largest of the gospel in a college atmosphere? in the entire division. The forty baptisms "On-campus evangelism" is a pleasant ex for the school year were equally divided perience, and best of all, it works! between on-and-off-campus friends, total ing four times as many as the previous year. The soul is dyed the color of one©s leisure hours. 36 THE MINISTRY "Just Between SHEPHERDESS Us Girls"

(Concluded)

[This second letter of Lavonne Bierwagen to the ladies of LAVONNE BIERWAGEN the church states that the subject discussed "Correct Dress" was chosen because of several requests by members. We Minister's Wife, Arizona are sure the wives of our ministers and others will find it interesting and profitable. ED.]

T HAS been suggested that something be drapes part of her sari over her head, I said about what is proper attire for Chris thus showing reverence. tian women, with special emphasis as to There is another principle we might what is becoming attire for church. mention in connection with the problem Let me say that I do not believe God has of determining propriety in dress. You appointed any one of us to legislate specifi know the adage, "Be not the first by whom cally what another person should wear. the new are tried yet the last to lay the old The Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy aside." To me it seems that the age of the have provided us -with the underlying wearer and the occupation in which she is principles, and I believe that God ex engaged should play a large part in deter pects us to conscientiously apply these prin mining what is worn. I would think, then, ciples to the circumstances under which we that if the article of clothing is healthful find ourselves. and modest, if it has been generally ac Perhaps we might look at our dress in a cepted over a period of time as an appro little different light if we consider the fact priate form of attire for women, and if it is that we are ambassadors for God His rep adapted to the activities of the wearer, it resentatives. An ambassador must always should be all right to wear. What might be perfectly dressed in public in appropri have been improper many years ago, might ate clothing for the particular occasion, giv be proper today. What might be appropri ing no offense, wearing not too much nor ate for hiking or beach wear is inappro too little. If we wear too much it could be priate to wear to church. What might be considered adornment; too little, immod proper for a child might not be proper for est. an adult. In choosing our clothing, let us No doubt you have read the instruction remember that we are daughters of the in the Spirit of Prophecy on the subject of King. We would not want to bring re dress. As I see it, the fundamental princi proach upon our parents; therefore, let us ples involved are these: (1) Clothing not bring dishonor to our heavenly Father should adequately protect the body; (2) by the clothing we wear. clothing should be modest; (3) clothing A friend once said to me that she was should be in keeping with good taste and be embarrassed to introduce her friends to a becoming to the wearer. fellow church member because of the way I believe there is nothing inherently- she dressed. I think that sometimes people wrong with any particular piece of cloth dress the way they do because they have ing so long as it meets the first two of the not been informed of what is good taste in three requirements we have just mentioned. clothes. And then there are some that, even For instance, in some countries all the though they know, have to live with the women wear trousers, but in our country mistakes they have made until they can it has generally been the custom for men afford better. to wear trousers. Also, a woman of India I would like to share with you in this would never wear a hat to church. She letter today some of the things I found in NOVEMBER, 1965 37 my study of this subject. First of all let me figure type. Absence of ornamentation give you a few references I think you will helps to bring out the beauty of fabric and enjoy looking up: cut; badly designed clothes are often be Child Guidance, pp. 413-430. trayed by the surplus of trimming used in Messages to Young People., pp. 313-315; an attempt to conceal the inferior work 343-360. manship." Personality Unlimited, pp. Education, pp. 246-248. 366, 367. Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 142. Hester Garvin of the Parsons School of Testimonies, vol. 5, p. 499. Design of New York City stated: "We The Ministry of Healing, pp. 288, 289, should wear nothing that glitters [rhine- 293. stones, sequins, gold, et cetera] for day "The house of God is profaned by the time wear. To do so is absolutely always in dress of professedly Christian women of to bad taste." day." Ellen G. White, Review and Her "Good manners include good taste in ald, March 20, 1958, p. 12. clothes even at the cost of curtailing your Good Taste in Clothes self-expression. You compliment your host ess, your guests, your clergyman, teacher, "Good taste in clothes starts with sim or boss ... by dressing appropriately for plicity, proceeds to becomingness, and cul them." Glamour magazine, April, 1957. minates in appropriateness for the occa Eleanore King, who is a personality sion. No matter how beautiful any article coach to many important women today, of clothing may be, unless it suits the states that a basic dress or suit should have wearer, unless it is functional and right three-quarter or full-length sleeves. for the specific purpose and time it is worn, Mrs. Elisabeth von Hess, speech teacher it is not in good taste. Loud, flashy colors, from New York City, gave a series of lec poor fabrics and workmanship, and inhar tures in Takoma Park and several hundred monious combination all contribute to bad attended her classes. She felt very strongly taste. Your clothes should fit properly. If about sleeveless dresses. She maintained too loose, they are no longer smart; if they that only three-quarter length or longer are too tight, the seams rip and the fabric sleeves should be worn by women who ap pulls. Simplicity should border on plain pear on the public platform. ness, but with the distinction that is A worker©s wife attended a lecture on achieved by perfect fit, beautiful lines, fine dress on the West Coast by an expert from tailoring, and complete suitability to the Los Angeles who selects the wardrobes for many of the celebrities in that area, and she maintained that sleeveless arms are FOR THE BUSY TRAVELING MINISTER unattractive and ugly. She never designed sleeveless dresses or blouses for any of her ARROW patrons, nor would she consider having her picture taken in a sleeveless costume. TERYLENE In Glamour magazine, December, 1955, in an article entitled "How to Dress for Church," we find the following: "For pro SHIRTS priety©s sake, low necklines and bare arms Plain white and blue; brown and black are out." stripes Here is a classic rule that will help you A truly wash and wear shirt to know if you are overdressed. You should No ironing not even collars or cuffs never have more than 14 counts, and some Dries sparkling white, no wrinkles oE the best-dressed women in the world are under the 12 count year after year. Can be machine or hand washed One-piece dress 1 count Hose 1 count Convertible or French cuffs, fused collars Buttons 1 Each pm 1 " Suit 2 Scarf 1 " Outlasts three ordinary shirts Its buttons 1 Purse 1 Basic hat frame 1 Gloves 1 " FOR SAMPLES WRITE: Add a bow 1 (1 more point if they have And a veil 1 contrasting color or trim) Ontario-Quebec Book and Bible House More than 1 m re Bible you carry l/2 count one color CO nt Box 520, Oshawa, Ontario Wrist watch 1 CO nt Glasses 1 Plain shoes 1 Bows or trims 1 THE MINISTRY So be sure you don©t have more than 14 eye-arresting elements on. Better 12. "Contrary to what most girls think, boys CHILDREN©S CAMP do not like to see them in low-neck dresses, The finest in western Pennsylvania thin blouses, short skirts, and other such (north) 350-500 acres. Unusual revealing garb. Sights like these are repul sive to boys." JOYCE JACKSON©S Guide to Allegheny location, excellent build Dating, p. 153. ings (22). Athletic fields and equip The following quotations are from an ment, private lake. Good sale. Terms article, "Church Etiquette," by Elsie Lan- for organization. don Buck: Galloway Camping Realty, Inc. "What about the clothes we wear to 5 Mount Avenue church? Do they reveal to others our sense North Plainfield, New Jersey of the exalted nature of worship, the seri ousness of the occasion? The way in which we dress for church reflects our attitude to ward the God we have come to worship. most of heart, soul, mind, and strength to create within us and without a greater ex "Check these points before you go to pression of dignity and reverence in our church next week. worship of God. In thought and word and "Women: The church holds a unique deed our whole being should thrill to the claim on your wardrobe, for it does not exalted privilege of worshiping an eternal want costly array and yet it expects more Majesty, the great Creator of heaven and than the common everyday dress. The ideal earth, our Lord. All that is secular and church dress is one that is inconspicuously shoddy must be left out of His presence, for attractive, and clean. Neat, well-pressed, we must give to God in worship thoughts subdued in color. Pleasing in style and and words and deeds that are sacred." uality, always revealing good taste. . . . Duitable to the season and locale. The good Very sincerely yours, church dress would not have any evidence LAVONNE BIERWAGEN of neglect: ripped seams or hems, et cetera. Pastor©s wife, shepherdess, . . . Low backs borrowed from the beach. mother, but not judge Toothpick-thin straps from the ballroom. Sleeveless dresses are in poor taste. Display in style, material, ornaments, or accessories. Any resemblance to a party dress. ... A Evangelism in the Congo good tip: Choose a simple, well-tailored (Continued from page 31) dress or suit for church. Keep your chil The Congo is closed in some areas, but dren©s clothing simple. Shoes should be we are glad that there are still places open shining and in good repair . . . chosen to to us to preach the gospel, and some of complement attire. Always daytime shoes, those places are the larger cities where we avoiding any suggestion of evening styling. need to enter with this message. Our theme Gloves: optional if not wearing hat. A must for the meetings held in Elisabethville was with a hat, however. Should be immacu "Hope for Africa Bible Lectures," and late. If cotton or nylon, laundered fre truly there is hope as we take the message quently. Hats: Custom is not as exacting as of salvation to the people in this continent. formerly on the wearing of hats, but au We are planning to hold a public cam thority still maintains that hats should be paign next year in our country©s capital, worn to church. . . . The less formal eve the large city of Leopoldville, with more ning meetings of the church do not require than a million inhabitants. We need your the wearing of hats, however, . . . hats worn prayers as we endeavor to make an impres to church should be conservative and not sion on the multitude of people in that city conspicuous. Avoid blocking the view from as well as other cities of the Congo. behind with large brims. . . . "What does this all add up to? One thing, mainly: that no reproach be brought on the name of God by what we put on our A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things bodies when we come to worship Him. Let straight. us renew every effort and coordinate the ut- NOVEMBER, 1965 39 Evangelistic Title Ideas

The following titles are some of the results of a questionnaire sent out to our ministers in North America.

19—2300 Days The Church That Moses Knew. From Old Life to New Hope. A Divine Blueprint of Heaven. In the Footsteps of Jesus. The Cross Discovered in a Jewish God©s Visual Aids. How to Celebrate Christ©s Resurrec Sanctuary. God Illustrates Salvation. tion. The Judgment Hour. Holy Shadows, Transformation by Water and the Christ and the Countdown. Looking at God©s Throne. Word. What Happened in 1844? Truth From the Desert. The Christian Baptism. Daniel©s Greatest Prophecy. How Men Were Saved Before Calvary. The Holy Sacraments. The Dove, the Cross, and the Right The Shadow of the Cross. What Does the Bible Teach About Hand of God. Where Is the Lamb? Baby Baptism, Sprinkling, and Pour When God Set a Date for the Judg When God Dwelt on the Earth in a ing? ment. Tangible Manner. The Church©s Gate. Longest Time Prophecy in the Bible. The Work of Christ in Type and The Man Who Was Buried Alive. The Great Judgment Day. Symbol. When the Old Man Dies. The Biography of Jesus Written Hun Symbols of Salvation. The Outward Sign of Inward Cleans dreds of Years Before He Was Born. Jesus in the Old Testament. ing. The Inescapable Judgment and How God©s Way in the Sanctuary. Baptism Its Threefold Significance. to Face It. Discovered Cross in a Jewish Sanc The Power of His Resurrection. The Judgment Day How Near Are tuary. Dying Victims Living for Christ. We to It? Calvary in a Tent- Death With Christ Buried With A Vision That Caused the Prophet to Christ Resurrection With Christ. Faint Every Living Soul Involved The Memorial of the Crucifixion and in That Vision. 21—The Mark of the Beast Resurrection Is It Important in Heavenly Mathematics. 1965? Judgment Now Taking Place. Mark of the Beast. Why I Like the Baptists. Mathematics Reveals Man©s Saviour. Satan©s Mark of Doom. Is Baptism Necessary to Salvation? If God©s Church a Mathematical Cer When No Man Can Buy or Sell. So, How and When Should It Be tainty. The Seat of God and the Mark of Administered? Judgment Bound What Will Be the the Beast. Confessing Christ the Bible Way. Verdict? 666, the Mark of the Beast. God©s Adoption Ceremony. The Time of Judgment Revealed. God©s Last Message to the World. Gateway to a New Life. Numbers That Tell a Story 2300 A Political Boycott When You Can Is Baptism by Immersion the Only Days of Prophetic Significance. not Buy or Sell. One God Will Recognize in the A Birth Foretold 500 Years in Ad The Men Who Have a Number. Judgment? vance. Antichrist©s Trademark. Once Dead Twice Born, A Sinner©s Day in Court. The Mark You Will Need to Buy Born Once, Die Twice Born Twice, The Longest Time Prophecy. Did Food. Die Once. Jesus Fulfill the Time? The Mark of Cain The Mark of the Arithmetic Proves the Gospel True Beast. Are They the Same? 23— Spirit of Prophecy Skeptics Confounded by This One. When Sinners Receive a Mark. A Pageant of History. You©re a Marked Man Unless! The Eyes of the Church. Where Is Christ in This Crisis Hour? A Message of Warning to You That A Prophet Among You. On Trial for Your Life. May Save Your Life. The Greatest Prophet Since John the A Date With Calvary Positive Proof Most Solemn Warning in the Bible. Baptist. That Jesus Is the Christ. Marking Men for Doom. One Sure Mark of the True Church. The Time Prophecy of Scripture. The Seal of God, How May I Have It? Modern Prophets False and True. 2300-Day Prophecy The Bible©s Mystic No. 666. Modern Prophets True or False? Longest Prophecy. The Mark of the Wounded Beast. Does God Speak to Mankind Today? Jesus Goes to Court. The Clever Counterfeit. One Way to Identify Christ©s Church The Great Judgment Day The Date Mysterious Mark of Revelation 13. Today. Was Set by a Prophet Living in How Can I Tell If I Have the Mark God©s Magnifying Glass. 600 B.C. of the Beast? Christ©s Special Gift to His Church The Greatest Prophecy of the Whole Today. Bible. The Gift of Prophecy Did It Cease What Happened in Heaven in 1844. 22—Baptism With John the Revelator? Court Week in Heaven. The Nine Gifts of the Spirit and His What Is Jesus Doing Now? When Grandfather Attended His Own Nine Fruits. The Gospel by Arithmetic. Funeral. A Gift of a Loving God to a Living It Happened in 457 B.C. Stairs to the Altar. Church. Universal Sacrament. God©s True Church in the Last Days. 20 Sanctuary Service Will Baptized Church Members Alone God©s Prophet for These Crisis Days. Be Saved? Visions and Dreams. Why You Need a Priest, Is It Wrong to Be Baptized Twice? The Neglected Spiritual Gift Is It The Path to the Throne of God. Arise and Be Baptized. Out of Date in the Twentieth Cen Why the Blood? What Is Baptism For? Is It Necessary? tury? The Gospel in the Old Testament. What Method Is Best? Why Are Eddy Smith Father Divine. Are Our Great High Priest. Babies Baptized? Modern Prophets From God? Minister of the Heavenly Sanctuary. How to Bury Sin. Are Prophets Obsolete? Faith in Christ Before the Cross. The Day I Died and Lived to Tell Return of the Spiritual Gifts. The Meaning of the Sanctuary Serv About It. Who Was Ellen G. White? ices How Was the Gospel Preached Is There Danger of Being Buried The Church©s Guidance System. to Hebrews in the Wilderness? Alive? Marks of God©s Remnant People. God©b. Passion Play in the Desert. When Should a Preacher Refuse Ellen G. White and the Adventists. How the Ancients Knew the Gospel. Baptism? Christ in the Shadows. The Doorway Into the Church. 24 — Elijah Message The Cross, the Judgment, and You. Is Sprinkling Scriptural? The Pass:on Play of the Ages. One Lord; One Faith: One Baptism. Will Elijah Come in Our Day? Israel "s Great Sanctuary How Can Why Was Jesus Baptized? What the Elijah Message Will Do We Benefit From It Today? The Man That Lived Twice. for Us.

40 THE MINISTRY Time for Prophet Elijah. 27—Conscience The Spiritual Telephone. The Completion of the Reformation You Can Talk With God. What Current Message Will Ac Extrasensory Perception. Form or Force. complish This? Is the Conscience a Safe Guide? Teach Me to Pray. Prepare to Meet Thy God! The Inner Voice Still Talks Can It Prayers That God Will Answer. The Reformation, 1965 Style. Be Trusted? Fastest Communication, in the Uni The Return of Elijah to This Earth. Watchdog of the Soul. verse. The World©s Last Chance. Man©s Inner Control System. The Speed of Thought a New and Elijah the Prophet. The Voice of the Soul. Daring Concept. Will Elijah Return? The Invisible Human Eyes. The Breath of the Soul. Why So Many Denominations? What Is Conscience? The Key that Unlocks Heaven©s Store Repairers of the Breach. How Can We Know We Have a Good house of Blessing. Will Elijah Return Before Jesus Conscience? Why God Does Not Answer Prayer, Comes? What©s Eating You? Communication With Other Worlds Elijah: Reincarnation or Reinterpreta- Conscience Can It Be Trusted? Is It Possible? When? tion? The Deciding Factor, Our Greatest Privilege. The Voice Crying in the Wilderness. That Still Small Voice. Personal Power Through Prayer. The Last Reformation Message. Is Your Conscience Hard of Hearing? Wireless Communication Used by Come Hear About the Last Global Re The Conscience That Leads You Moses. What Were Some of the vival. Astray. Results? The Return of Elijah What Does It God©s Secret Spark in My Life. Religion in Your Closet. Mean? That Voice Behind You. Why Jesus Prayed. Will Elijah Return to This Earth in The Voice Within When It Is Un Why Does God Want Us to Pray? Person Before Jesus Comes? safe to Follow. Our Prayers the Incense That The Last-Day Elijah. Reaches Heaven. The Call of God Who Should Hear Poor Man©s Psychotherapy. and Answer It Today? 28 Seven Last Plagues Will Elijah Return Again? 31—faith Where Are the Elijahs Today? Why and When Will the Seven Last God©s Last Invitation. Plagues Fall? The Master Key That You Hold in If Elijah Were Living Today. Seven Last Plagues Coming Soon. Your Hand. When Elijah Comes Back. Reaping the Whirlwind. The Essential Ingredient. When the ...... ,-._ River Turns to Removing Mountains. Blood. Invisible Power. 25—Health Reform The Disease Science Will Not Heal. A Hand That Touches God. Seven Happenings Just Before Jesus What Is Faith and What Will It Do Taking the Die Out of Diet. Comes. for Us? You Are the Temple of God. Seven Last Plagues Upon Whom Will Believe and Live. Living in the Temple of God. They Fall? Eyes That See in the Dark. How to Postpone Your Funeral. Earth©s Climactic Events. Why Is Faith Necessary? How to Save on the Doctor©s Bills. Seven Mystic Vials. The Faith of Jesus- Is God Interested in Your Health? When God Turns His Back on Man The Mystery of Faith. Weight Control for a Trip to Heaven. kind. Faith, Fact, or Feeling. Truth About Divine Healing. No Place to Hide. Radiant Living. The Great Tribulation. 32—Home Health and Salvation. The Cup of God©s Wrath. Should Christians Smoke? The Seven Bottles of God©s Wrath. A Little Heaven on Earth, Are You Alive or Half Dead? When the Door Is Shut. Homemade Heaven. How to Have a Healthy Body. Fury From the Throne. Twin Sister to the Word Mother. The Most Sacred Spot on Earth Seven Grievous Plagues Soon to Fall. How to Have a Happy Home. It©s Nearer Than You May Realize. Seven Cups of Doom. Making Your Home a Happy One- God©s Prescription for Your Health. Insurance Against the Seven Last The Place Where We Live A House Add Years to Your Life and Enjoy It. Plagues. or a Home? Living While You Live. Rivers of Blood Predicted in the Bi My Glimpse of Heaven. How to Feel Better and Live Longer, ble. What Does It Mean? Divine Prescriptions for Radiant Homemade Religion. The World©s Last Battle. God©s Ordained Institution to Save Our Health. The Wine of God©s Wrath. Children Home, Why Did God Create the Pig? Last Year on Earth. Handbook for Body Care. God©s Sevenfold Wrath. Father. Mother, and Family. Suicide on the Installment Plan. Seven Calamities to Come. Filling©Station; ©Motel, or School? God and Your Body. The Seven Destroyers of a Mighty The Lost Home. Found. God©s Remedy for Nervous Tension. King. Love, Courtship, Marriage, and The Gospel of Radiant Health. Divorce. What Did Man Eat Before the Flood? Heaven on Earth or Eternal Torment. Digging Your Grave With Your Teeth. 29 Unpardonable Sin Guiding Principles for a Happy Home. The World©s Leading Physician Pre How to Make Unhappy Home Happy. scribes for Health. One Sin Too Many. What Does a Divorce Cost? Man Alive, You©re Half Dead. The Sin That Cannot Be Forgiven. Homemade Happiness. Divine Principles of Health. Heaven©s Iron Curtain. Marriage and Divorce Wedlock or When Is It That God Won©t Hear Deadlock. Our Prayers? Seven Secrets of a Happy Home. 26 Church Membership One Sin God Cannot Forgive. Heaven©s Launching Pad. The Point of No Return. What©s Happening to Our Homes? Who Established the First Home? Must I Belong to a Church to Be Beyond Heaven©s Call. Saved? Passing the Boundary of God©s For Is Church Membership Necessary? bearance When and How ? 33—Holy Spirit Can I Be Saved in Any Church? The Unpardonable Sin: How Can One What Church Would Jesus Join? Know if He Has Committed It? The Holy Spirit, Who Is He? The Only Church for Me, Are There People Who Have Com The Holy Spirit His Office and Work. Meaningful Membership. mitted the Unpardonable Sin and The True Vicar of Christ. Is Church Membership a Passport to Don©t Know It? The White Dove. Heaven ? Insulting the Holy Spirit. Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Why Belong to a Church? How Far Is Too Far? Divine Influence in Your Life. Maiden, Moon, and Monster (Rev. The Sin Against the Holy Ghost. What Is the Baptism of the Holy 12). The Man Who Tempted God Once Spirit? What Church Would Jesus Join if Too Often. The Greatest Power on Earth. He Were in . ..___...... _.... __..? What Happens to a Person When He Why Join a Church? Receives the Holy Spirit? The Only Church I Could Belong to- 50__Prayer The Dove of Divinity. Are All Churches Different Roads to The Holy Spirit Power or Person? Heaven? The Po\s~er of Prayer. What the Holy Spirit Will Do for Us. Why Be a Church Member? Prayer That Is Sure to Be Answered. Promise of the Father. How Essential Is Church Membership? Talking \Vith God. The Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Is a Man Safe in Church? Why Do So Many Prayers Go Un How Jesus Dwells in the Human Heart. The Importance of Locating the True answered? Pentecostal Power. Church and Getting Into It. Your Life Line to Heaven. The Word of Christ©s Representative. NOVEMBER, 1965 41 Is the Holy Spirit a Person? 35—Spiritism 3#—Predestination God©s Greatest Gift to Men Today. Mysterious Power in My Life Today. Who Are the Spirits in Spiritism? Where Are You Going? Are You Sure? The Coming of the Comforter. Can We Talk With the Dead? Prisoners of Hope. The Gifts of the Spirit. Do the Dead Really Live? Are We Predestined? Victorious Power. On the Threshold of Deception. Did You Have to Do It? A Truly Workable Power for Our SDiritism Unmasked. Do You Believe in Fate? Lives. The Winchester Mystery House (Pic Predestination vs. Free Will. The Omnipresence of a Distant Father. tures) . Is a Man Lost to Destruction Before Baptism of Fire. Spiritism.© Is It of God. Man, or the He is Born? The Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Devil? Saved to Serve. God©s Wonderful Co-worker. Who©s Behind Spiritism? Are You the Master of Your Soul? Oil for Your Lamp. What the Bible Says Regarding Spir Predestination! Who Decides Your The Vicar of Christ. Who Is He? itism. Eternal Destiny? Spiritism: Can the Dead Communi A Heavenly Plan for the Human Race. 34—Divine Healing cate With the Living? Once Saved Always Saved. The Innermost Secrets of Fortune- Will God Save All People? God An Can We Believe in Modern Miracles? telling Exposed! swers This Vital Question. Miracles and Tricks. Secrets of the Seance. Do You Have a Choice or Does God Modern-Day Miracles. Rappings, Tappings. and Mumbo Predestine Your Life? Does God Still Heal People Today? Jumbo. Predestined to What? The Hem of His Garment. Spiritualism Pagan or Christian? Chosen for Salvation. Are Miracles Out of Date? Meet Samuel©s Ghost. Does God Have Favorites? Does God Hear Prayers for Healing? Mysterious Forces in Space. Am I the Master of My Future? God©s Rules for Healing Men and Who Are the Spirits in Spiritualism? Can I Be Saved and Never Lost? Women. How Fortunetellers Tell. Predestination A Bible Doctrine or a Christ at the Bedside. Can the_ Living Talk_With the Dead? Deception? Miracle Healing True or False- The Spirits of Spiritism What Are Does God©s Foreknowledge Determine The Touch of the Master©s Hand. They? the Action That Fulfills It? Is All So-called Divine Healing, The Masquerade of the Psychic. Can a Man Die Before His Time? Divine? Spiritism on Trial. If I Could Live My Life Again. Praying for the Sick. Voices From the Past. Who Decides Your Future? Divine Healing Fact or Farce? The Crystal Ball or the Crystal Book. What Is Meant by Bible Predesti God©s Promises for the Sick. King Saul©s Great Mistake. nation? The Truth About Faith Healing. Satan©s Greatest Deception. What Must Be Must Be, or Must It? Divine Healing. What Are God©s Pre Knockings in the Dark. Does God Predestine Some to Be Saved requisites? Voices From Another World. and Others to Be Damned? Divine Healing Genuine and Counter Is Man©s Eternal Destiny Settled Be feit. Who Are the Ghosts in Haunted fore He Is Born? Divine Healing Hoax or Reality? Houses? The Truth About Predestination. The Touch of Faith. Satan©s First Sermon. Who Elects the Elect? Is Divine Healing Possible Now? Last-Day Delusions. A Bullet With Your Name on It.

quotations from Booth©s messages and reveals unique methods of working in truly mission areas of our great metropolitan territories. ANDREW FEARING

Confirmation: A Study Document, Lutheran World Federation, Augsburg Publishing House, Min neapolis, Minnesota, 1964, 90 pages, $1.50. BOOKS The urge to take another look at doctrines of the church is also current in Lutheran ranks. Findings of confirmation in Lutheran churches compiled from six years of study by distinguished theologians are contained in this document. Dr. C. Richard Evenson in the preface of the book states, "This study document . . . presents strong implications for Blood and Fire—The Story of General William the preparation of curriculum materials and the Booth and the Salvation Army, Edward Bishop, development of congregational practices." 1964, Moody Press, Chicago, 114 pages, $2.50 Beginning with New Testament practice and in terpretation of baptism, which is "confirmed" by Truth is often more fascinating than fiction and the candidate by this rite, there is a review of the particularly is this true in the life of William Booth, teachings of baptism and its relationship to the founder of the Salvation Army. This work by Ed whole experience of the young Christian. Discus ward Bishop is a readable, interesting, and dramatic sions are very frank as some questions raised biography of an unusual life completely dedicated throughout the centuries seek for new insights to to God and to the lost and downtrodden men and fit this practice into modern imperatives. The sec women of the world. Yet it is more than a thrilling tion "Confirmation Through the Reformation story. It is a challenging book. It will be an in Era." presents dialog among other points, on the spiration to any minister to read what miracles rite as a "sacrament," and "the laying on of hands." God can perform through a fully committed ordi Pietists claim confirmation is not a child of theirs, nary man, even though he had a poor background and yet they embrace it. During the age of rational and little training, and what the abounding grace ism the original religious concern of confirmation and merciful transforming power of God can do in was almost lost by becoming a vehicle of ethics. behalf of sinners. This work contains a wealth of Since World War I numerous theologians have tried THE MINISTRY to reform the rite of confirmation, and aimed at "the renewal of the youth catechumenate." The following questions have been raised again and GOSPEL TENTS again: What is the special contribution of the rite of STEEL-CLAD TABERNACLES confirmation and of the instruction preceding it? SMITH MANUFACTURING CO., DALTON, GA. At what time should confirmation be adminis Over 50 Years in Business tered? What should be the age of the confirmed? What is the relationship between Confirmation and admission to Holy Communion? Are the two acts separate or do they belong together? What to influence some of your members to be about early communion? come literature evangelists. We want only Is there an urgent need to revise our confirma the best, of course, and as you work with tion practices? the publishing department personnel you What about the question of "Lay Ordination" will find them eager to cooperate with by members who are willing to play an active part you and thus increase your baptisms. For in the work of the congregation? your own success, don©t pass them by! Various problems get in the way when the Lu theran Church must face an honest scriptural com mand for this rite. But other church groups must also meet this and other related problems. Strangely, there is a great variation in where each Do You Remember? group places the emphasis. It is tied in with an (Continued from page 23 ) evangelistic problem bringing youth into church membership. times he obtained this from mission board In areas where Lutherans predominate this historical records. I heard him tell once booklet©s information is valuable to our own minis how he surmounted a very delicate situa ters. We are living in an era of change and with a tion. A young missionary had to be directed strong stress on scriptural authority. The unifica into different tactics in his work. Our trav tion of doctrine and practice for church federation eler made friends with this particular mis appears to be a complicated process. A strong note has been sounded that of properly indoctrinat sionary by telling him he had learned ing youth and training them for the church©s service. that his grandparents lived in Nebraska not LOUISE C. KLEUSER far from his own old home. The missionary loved the talks they had about grandpa and grandma mostly told by himself, reminiscent of childhood visits to the Don't Pass Them By! grandparents© farm. Later, he was able to (Continued from page 77) take kindly the advice and admonition gelists who have already decided to be given by the General Conference worker, come workers, but when the church mem and the mission work improved with this bers see their pastor attending the meet change in the missionary©s attitude. ings, it lifts the dignity and the importance These contacts pay off. They are precious of the work in their minds and may cause guidance and memories to both mission more of them to seriously consider this aries and home folks. work. We come to the question again: Do you If we increased our forces what could remember and take time to relay personal happen? Let us suppose that a literature messages? evangelist finds two persons each week who are definitely interested in learning more about the Bible. In a work year of fifty weeks CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS this would mean one hundred. Let us fur Advertisements appropriate to The Ministry, appear ther suppose that by a careful, intelligent ing under this heading, eight cents a word for each insertion, including initials and address. Minimum follow-up program, 10 per cent of these peo charge, two dollars for each insertion. Cash required ple were won to the truth. This would with order. Address The Ministry, Takoma Park, Wash mean an additional ten souls baptized by ington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. the pastor each year. Suppose the percent age dropped to 5 per cent: that would still mean an additional five baptisms for the RELIGIOUS BOOKS PURCHASED! Send list today. pastor by the end of the year. Looking for an out-of-print book? Write: KRECEL©S Pastors, we challenge you to use the BOOK STORE, DEPT. M, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503. unique position that you hold in the church NOVEMBER, 1965 43 sible for the massacre. "This was a happy ending to a brutal story," the Wycliffe official said. Dr. Townsend stated that his organization climaxed years of linguistic research when an Aucan transla tion of the Gospel According to St. Mark was flown to the tribe last Easter. "Now that they have the Bible," the 69-year-old Wycliffe founder said, "they©re taking it to other tribes to convert them NEWS BRIEFS and they©re hoping they don©t get killed."

Catholic Use of R.S.V. Bible Called Ecumenical Triumph With publication of a Catholic edition of the ^Unless otherwise credited, the following nezvs items are Protestant Revised Standard Version of the New taken from Religious News Service.] Testament, Catholics "in a roundabout way" today can buy and read a version which "above all others, "Cause of Evangelism" Cited at NCC Meeting they scorned and condemned for centuries," accord ing to an editorial in Commonweal, national Catho "Difficult days call for daring disciples," accord lic weekly edited by laymen. Calling the new edition ing to a Methodist leader who lauded ecumenical "a major ecumenical triumph," an editorial in the movements and described evangelism as "Christian August 6 issue of the publication pointed out that ity on the march." "We©ve fiddled around too long," the introduction to the Catholic version notes that Dr. Kertnit Long told a meeting of the National the R.S.V. was developed through revision of the Council of Churches© Commission on Evangelism. American Standard Version and the King James "It©s time to blow the trumpets and let the world Version of the Bible. "In the middle of the nine know we©re in God©s business. We©re in trouble teenth century," the editorial said, "American Cath today because too many people have never gone olics went to court to keep the King James Version past the ©Now I lay me down . . .© phase of reli from being read to their children in public schools. gion. Oh, we may feel emotionally stirred when That their great-great-grandchildren will now be we hear a hymn like ©How Great Thou Art" but in free to buy and read an offspring of that Version is the real life-giving situation, too often to too a measure of the distance both the churches and many people God is not great; He might even be exegesis have travelled in recent years." dead. No wonder we have a nation of frustrated people." Dr. Long, executive secretary of the Gen eral Board of Evangelism of the Methodist Church, Catholics No Longer "Minority" in Britain said he would like someday to see "theologians really say what needs to be said. I©d like to see an Roman Catholics in Britain no longer constitute army march forth with might and power over this a minority group, nor are they "outsiders" any country and perhaps the world. We have entombed longer, according to an Anglican clergyman, the Jesus too long. Let©s not make of our church a Reverend John Gunstone, writing in Outlook a spiritual mausoleum, but a spiritual powerhouse, Church of England journal. "The Holy Spirit is a living organism. We need a resurrection in rela certainly moving Roman Catholics as well as others tionships: Christ dwells in the living relations of towards reunion," he wrote, "but in England these love in the fellowship of those who are aware of movements of the Spirit are not just in men©s minds. Him in each other©s presence. Laymen are just They are allied to strong sociological influences. . . . waiting to be challenged with a cause that©s big Go into any Roman Catholic church and only a enough; evangelism is that cause." few details will remind you that you are not in an Anglican church especially now that the liturgi cal movement has swept away so much ceremony Tribesmen Who Slew Missionaries and introduced the English language into the Mass. Converted to Christianity The people in the pews are just the same as you would find in any English congregation." The entire tribe of about 100 Auca Indians in Ecuador who killed five American Protestant missionaries in 1956 has been converted to Chris Billy Graham Cites Threat of tianity, the founder-director of the Wycliffe Bible "Spiritual Nihilism" Translators, Inc., said in Chicago. Dr. William Cam- eron Townsend, whose organization has worked for Evangelist Billy Graham in an address chal years among wild Amazon tribes, said that many of lenged Christians to "be just as revolutionary as the the Aucans also are now active in preaching to other Communists and other groups that are fostering rev Indians. Last month, Dr. Townsend reported, two olution all over the world. Millions of people are of the children of murdered missionary Nathaniel marching for various causes," he told more than Saint were baptized by immersion at the site of their 5,000 people at the Methodist conference center, father©s death. The Aucan preacher who performed and "the greatest need in America is for a moral the ceremony was one of the eight persons respon- and spiritual revival to sweep like a prairie fire

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NOVEMBER, 1965 across the nation. Unless we have it, our way of life could be doomed. Ours," he said, "is a spiritual VOLUME XXXVIII No. 11 warfare. We are commissioned to establish the spir Editor itual kingdom." Mr. Graham said modern man has ROY ALLAN ANDERSON lost his personal traits and shifts the responsibility Associate Editors for his behavior to "an impersonal society, and this E. Earl Cleveland society in turn seems to be ruled by computers . . . Andrew C. Fearing Managing Editor bureaucracy . . . fashion . . . organization . . . mass J. R. Spongier media. As a result," he said, "our contemporary Copy Editor society has no room today for individual human J. Ina White personality. Man is in danger of entering a state of Art Editor spiritual nihilism." T. K. Martin Consulting Editors—Reuben R. Figuhr, Wal Half World's People in Four Nations ter R. Beach, Theodore Carcich, Richard Hammill, Edward Heppenstall, R. Leo Odom. The United States, Russia, Communist China, Overseas Contributors— George Burnside, Australia; O. Gmehling, Central Europe; and India account for half the total world popula Paul Eldridge, Far East; David H. Baasch, tion, reports the UN Statistical Yearbook, accord Inter-America; Wayne Olson, Middle East; E. E. Roenfelt, Northern Europe; Enoch Oli- ing to the New York Daily News. veira, $9uth America; T. M. Ashlock, South The Yearbook listed U.S. population as 189 mil ern Africa; W. H. Mattison, Southern Asia; lion, Red China as 647 million, and India, 460 mil G. Cupertino, Southern Europe. lion. The Soviet Union©s population was listed at 225 million.

Subjective and Objective Religion CONTENTS (Continued from page 14) Are We Thankful? tivism led into the other. Friedmann, in J. R. Spangler ...... 2 Sacrifice What Does It Mean? discussing the tie-in of Anabaptism with A. C. Fearing ...... —..-.... 5 pietism, especially in its later period, and Here©s My Method Ingathering Campaign its eventual breakup, says that in some Ideas cases "it led to indifference or rational Everett E. Cumbo, Dean L. Hubbard .... 7 The Victory Is Ours istic attitudes." IS G. Cupertino .....__._...... _...... _..__....._..... 9 (To be continued) Subjective and Objective Religion Otto H. Christensen ...... 12 1 W. E. H. Lecky, History of the Rise and Influence of the Spirit of Rationalism in Europe, pp. 12, 13. Divine Madness Needed 2 These false conceptions were developments from within /. E. Bynum ...... 15 due to fear of spirits, et cetera, and not derived from the Don©t Pass Them By! objective standard of the Scriptures. D. A. McAdams ...... 17 3 Lecky op. cit., pp. 61, 62. t lbid., p. 62. "Spicer for Christ" On-Campus Evangelism "Ibid., p. 73. Fred J. Crump ...... 18 6 Rufus M. Jones, Spiritual Reformers in the 16th and 17th Centuries, p. 3. Centurion Plan Benefits West Indies Union 7 Amand Saintes, A Critical History of Rationalism in M. G. Nembhard ...... 21 Germany, p. 11. Do You Remember? s See Calvin©s Institutes (7th American ed., rev.) vol. I, Emma Howell Cooper ...... —...... —...... 22 p. 89; Westminster Confession of Faith on "Bible." Sec. VI; The Thirty Nine Articles of Religion (rev. 1801) in Creeds Indian Summer of Christendom by Philip Schaff, VT 3, pp. 489, 500; The William Loveless ...... 24 French (Protestant) Confession of Faith (1559) Article 5, in Philip Schaff, op. cit., p. 362; The Belgic Confession Evangelism in the Congo (1561) in Philip Schaff, op. cit., pp. 397, 398. G. M. Elktrom ...... 30 8 George W. Forell, "Career of the Reformer," Luther's What Was the Galatian Heresy? Works, vol. 2. p. 12. James W. Zackrison ...... 32 10 M. Reu, Luther and the Scriptures, p. 17 (Works, vol. 4, 180:11). "Conversations on Family Life" 11 E. Theodore Bachmann, "Word and Sacrament," 1 Floyd Strunk ...... 34 Luther's Works, vol. 35, p. 236. "Just Between Us Girls" 12 Saintes, Ibid., p. 35. 13 John Fletcher Hurst, History of Rationalism, p. 31. Lavonne Bierwagen ...... 37 14 Hurst, Short History of the Modern Church in Europe, Evangelistic Title Ideas ...... 40 ' ls Ibid., pp. 54. 33. Books ...... 42 16 Arthur Wilford Nagier, Pietism and Methodism, p. 44 News Briefs ...... -...... 44 17 Robert Friedmann, Mennonite Piety Through the Cen turies, p. 83. Pointers ...... _...... 48 18 Ibid., p. 9. 46 THE MINISTRY F-3IOI Alone F-3102 America F-3103 At the Cross F-3104 At the Door F-3105 Beneath the Cross of /esus F-3106 Brightly Beams Our Father's Mercy F-3107 Can the World See |esus in You? F-3108 Day Is Dying in the West F-3109 Face to Face F-3IIO One Me the Bible F-3111 He Leadeth Me F-3112 He Lifted Me F-3113 He Lives F-3114 He Ransomed Me F-3115 He Whispers His Love to Me F-3116 How Sweet Are the Tidings (He's Coming) F-3117 Come to the Garden Alone Shall See the King

F3119 Sing the Mighty Power at Cod F-3120 Walk With the King F-3121 Want to See Jesus, Don't You? F-3122 Will Follow Thee. My Saviour F-3I23 Would Be Like |esus F-3124 Would Draw Nearer to Jesus F-312S n a Little While We're Going Home F-3126 n the Sweet Bye and Bye F-3127 s Your All on the Altar of Sacrifice? F-3128 esus, I Come—Out of My Bondage F-3129 esus, I My Cross Have Taken F-3130 esus Is Tenderly Calling F-313! esus. Keep Me Near the Cross F-3132 esus Paid It All F-3I33 esus Saves F-3134 esus, Saviour, Pilot Me F-3135 esus Took My Burden

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NOVEMBER, 1965 items of one kind or another that you could very easily do without, and how much you spent for them? Will you then meet with me again next Sun day afternoon at this same time, bringing your list. It may surprise all of us." They all returned one week later. Here is one man©s list! Extra gadget for car (unnecessary) $4.85; soft drinks and ice cream for self and family (would have been better without them) $3.50; two special POINTERS meals at de luxe restaurants (heavy and unhealthy food. Paid $4.00 more than I should have paid for the same food in a more reasonable place); shoe- shines (could have done them myself) $1.00; en tertainments $4.60; candy and extra desserts $2.15. And so it went. The total amount was $28.80. At "MUMMY" THERE is a form of archeology that the bottom of the list he wrote: "I©m surprised at HUNTER the world can do without. It is that this. I had not stopped to think how wasteful which deals with problems long dor many of my expenditures are. Pastor, I will double mant, largely forgotten, now ex my pledge come to think of it, I©ll triple it. I will be better off in every way." humed by the succeeding pastor for solution, im He was not alone in that resolve. I wonder what mediate and final. the outcome would be if we ministers would follow Nor is this brother content with lay ills. Lacking congregational material, he probes, with obvious a similar experiment! A. c. F. zest, the record of the former minister. With a zeal that would do credit to Sherlock Holmes he turns CATCH To BRING souls to Christ, to lead them over every rock and examines every rumor. Is his a FIRE into a preparation for the kingdom of labor of love? Like the misguided apostle Paul of God this should be the lifework of his preconversian days, he would wreak havoc on every believer. Nothing can mean so much to the the church. This man breathes an atmosphere of church than for the individual members to suspicion and discord of his own breeding. become personal evangelists. Strange that so many, There is a positive ministry above and beyond even church officers, seem to feel no urge to carry the "witch hunt." There are sermons to preach, the the gospel to others, content with the status quo. sick to visit, goals to raise, souls to seek, churches to It is a sobering fact that the church is largely a repair and build, a community to serve, youth to reflection of the pastor. Where you find a church encourage, besides board meetings, business meet on fire with evangelism there you will discover an ings, weddings and funerals to conduct, and a evangelist pastor. He has infused this spirit into his family to shepherd. If the above is well done, there members. Evangelism is caught rather than taught. will be little time for "mummy" hunting and To merely teach methods of soul winning is not "skeleton rattling." This is no plea for the sufficient. Members must be led into the field of "whitewash" or "cover-up." Conversely, what merit service. We should take them with us when we go attends the excavation of ruins long buried by to visit. Show them how to lead souls to Christ. time and circumstance? Interested in archeology, Then the fire of evangelism burning in our own sir? Then why not seek a more legitimate area of hearts will set them ablaze. A church on fire warms exercise? E. E. c. the whole countryside. John the Baptist told the people He who was HOW SPENDEST A MINISTER in one of our coming would baptize them "with the Holy Ghost, THOU? large cities invited ten of and with fire." That was fulfilled at Jerusalem when his prominent church lead the Holy Spirit fell upon 120 praying men and ers to his study one Sunday afternoon. Here they women. We read, "Cloven tongues like as of fire, were a contractor, a real estate man, an insurance . . . sat upon each of them." This was an experience agent, a lawyer, two doctors, a hospital administra not for just a few of the outstanding preachers of tor, a chef, a salesman, and a railroad man. These the group but for all gathered in that upper room. men had been accustomed to give certain amounts They were all baptized with power. As they of money each week for the support of church run moved out into other areas, that same spirit of ning expenses. The pastor reviewed the financial power went with them. status of the church and asked them to set an ex Succeeding centuries witnessed a tragic loss of ample by doubling their regular church expense that power. The evangelistic zeal died down and contributions. The men looked at one another some the Dark Ages came on. On occasions when it has what blankly for a moment, smiled, and then blazed up, and wherever it has, the church has quietly but affectionately told the minister they moved forward with new life. There is to be a re thought they were doing the best they could, and surgence of that power in these last days, but for could do no more. "Very well," said the pastor, this we must pray and plan and prepare. God help "then I ask you to do one thing for me. For one us as ministers to inspire our congregations to be week will each of you please make a list of the come mighty congregational forces to spread the things you yourselves consider to be luxuries, extra good news. R. A. A. 48 THE MINISTRY