I was bathed in sunshine.© Jesus was like that. C. H. Spurgeon in his book Lectures to My Students has some wise, if caustic, sayings of advice. ©Sepulchral tones may fit a man to be an undertaker, but Lazarus is not called out of his grave by hollow moans.© ©I know brethren who from head to foot, in garb, tone, manner, necktie and boots are so utterly parsonic that no particle of manhood is visible. Some men ap pear to have a white cravat twisted round their souls, their manhood is throttled with that starched rag.© ©An individual who has no geniality about him had better be an undertaker, and bury the dead, for he will never succeed in influencing the living.© ©I commend cheerfulness to all who would win souls; not levity and frothiness, but a genial, happy spirit. There are more flies caught with honey than with vinegar, and there will be more souls led to heaven by a man who wears heaven in his face than by one who bears Tartarus in his looks.© " WILLIAM BARCLAY, The Gospel of John, _ ESUS "was no severe, austere kill vol. 1, p. 85. joy. He loved to share in the happy rejoic "As He passed through the towns and ing of a wedding feast. There are certain cities, He was like a vital current, diffusing religious people who shed a gloom wherever life and joy. they go. There are certain people who are "We may be cheerful. God does not want suspicious of all joy and happiness. To any sour faces on this ground; the Lord them religion is the thing of the black does not want anyone in gloom and sad clothes, the lowered voice, the expulsion ness; He wants you to lift up your counte of social fellowship. They descend like a nance to Him, and let Him just pour upon gloom wherever they go. It was said of Alice it the brightness of the light of the Sun of Freeman Palmer, the great teacher, by one Righteousness." ELLEN G. WHITE, Evan of her scholars: ©She made me feel as if gelism, pp. 487, 488. THE MINISTRY Official Journal of the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists VOLUME XXXIV MARCH, 1961 No. 3 Editor ROY ALLAN ANDERSON IN THIS ISSUE EDITORIAL Associate Editor Helping Members to Make Their Wills .. R. A. Anderson 4 ANDREW C. FEARING Managing Editor ARTICLES HARRY W. LOWE The Contagion of Cheerfulness ________________ .... __.__— Z Do We Provoke the Lord to Jealousy? ...... H. M. Tippett 6 Assistant Editors The Son of God—The Messiah .._._.._....._.. W. E. Read 9 E. EARL CLEVELAND Church Architecture Today .._._...__..._.... R. J. Burman 11 WALTER SCHUBERT Herbert W. Armstrong and His "Radio Church of God" _____________________________________ R. L. Odora 14 Copy Editor Walter Martin and the Nature of Man .... D. E. Mansell 20 J. INA WHITE Last Call to the Churches ___________________________ V. Havner 26 Consulting Editors Our Editor on the Amazon _.,„................ R. A. Anderson 33 REUBEN R. FIGUHR, WALTER R. BEACH, EDWARD HEPPENSTALL, LOUISE C. REGULAR FEATURES KLEUSER, W. B. OCHS, H. L, RUDY Evangelism ....._.„............„..............._._.........._... G. Burnside 24 Research „........._„...................„..._ D. Ford 28 Art Editor Pastor _______________________________________ A. C. Marple 30 T. K. MARTIN Some Books I Can Recommend ......__..._...... T. A. Davis 34 Circulation Manager Shepherdess —.....„... ....——.._„-.._....„ Mrs. L. Hardinge 35 WALTER SCHUBERT Books for Your Library -„........._._....._._..„__._.._..___._„_...._._. 37 E. EARL CLEVELAND, Assistant 1960 Ordinations for North America ....—„_.......__.__„......__. 39 News ____________________________________________________________________ 42 Overseas Contributors Pulpit—Pointers for Preachers _-.___„—.._.__........_........____„ 48 GEORGE BURNSIDE Australia ERWIN BERNER Central Europe J. R. SPANGLER Far East H. J. WESTPHAL Inter-America WAYNE E. OLSON Middle East ODD JORDAL Northern Europe The Winds of Fate ENOCH OLIVEIRA South America One ship drives east and another drives west S. G. MAXWELL Southern Africa With the selfsame winds that blow. J. F. ASHLOCK Southern Asia 'Tis the set of the sails G. CUPERTINO Southern Europe And not the gales Which tells us the way to go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, Editorial Office: 6840 Eastern Avenue, NW. As we voyage along through life: Washington, D.C. 'Tis the set of a soul Printed and published monthly for the Min That decides its goal, isterial Association of Seventh-day Adventists by the Review and Herald Publishing Associa And not the calm or the strife. tion, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. $4.00 a —ELLA WHEELER WILCOX, 1855-1919. year; 40c a copy. Add 25c for yearly subscrip tions to countries requiring extra postage. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. Cover Picture: A. Devaney MARCH, 1961 EDITORIAL Helping Members to Make Their Wills PASTOR carries many re tain criticisms that may be heard from A sponsibilities in his work, time to time, such as The church is getting but one of the most delicate too commercial. He reminds us that, is guidance at the time a mem "In the time of Henry VIII, clergy were ber is making a will. Recently often instructed not to officiate at the fu T. K. Thompson, executive nerals of the deceased unless the deceased director of the department of had written a 'mortuary' in his Will. The stewardship and benevolence 'mortuary' usually consisted of ten per cent of the National Council of Churches, pre of the total of the temporal goods, and pared an article in this field that we believe was given to the Church or to a Church will be read with interest. Order. Thus we have graphically displayed A question sometimes asked is, Why the 'commercial' tendency inherent in any should a pastor help his parishioners in church emphasis upon making a Christian making a will? And further, Should he en Will. The Church is definitely tempted to courage them to remember the activities of sell its services for a price, and in the case the cause of God at such a time? It is inter of ten per cent of an estate, the price is esting that even The Book of Common pretty heavy. The rebuttal to this argu Prayer of the Anglican Church makes ref ment is very simple. The Church should erence to this. It reads: completely abstain from any kind of sell The Minister is ordered, from time to time, to ing its services in order to gain a bequest." advise the People, whilst they are in health, to make Another criticism is that "undue influ Wills arranging for the disposal of their temporal ence" is sometimes brought to bear on in goods, and, when of ability, to leave Bequests for dividuals. His rebuttal is that religious and charitable uses.—Page 320. "All older people of means are under Some might suggest that this is none of 'undue influence' from philanthropic in the pastor's business. But anything that stitutions of all kinds and most especially touches the kingdom of God is his busi under the influence of aggressive relatives ness. A number of our conferences here in who seek to gain a bequest." North America have ministers appointed The attitude of relatives is touched to serve in the capacity of counselors. This upon, to which he replies: has proved a great blessing, and the plan "The answer to this argument is simply might well be followed in other areas of that the testator should decide what causes the world field. One with a real back and what persons come first in his scale of ground of pastoral or administrative ex values. The pastor [or the advisor] has a perience, but who has laid down his heav definite responsibility to present the needs ier burdens, can render truly valuable of the Church in this situation." A loyal service to the cause in this capacity. We Adventist will have no difficulty in sensing certainly need the guidance of God's the needs of God's cause. Spirit as we seek to help our dear members "A final criticism," he says, "is the in to invest in His cause and thus hasten the vasion of privacy. The making of a Will is coming of the King. a highly private matter between a husband In Dr. Thompson's article he lists cer and a wife and their immediate family. In THE MINISTRY many respects a Will is the most serious ness in creation and man's work with God. document a man ever frames. To have the The Christian believes that God's greatest pastor of the church, an outsider, come in gift is Jesus Christ, the Saviour and Lord. with a 'sales talk' is in extremely bad taste. Recently, a distinguished Protestant lay "Again, the answer here is basically a man retired from his work in New York matter of a man's religious faith and his and returned to his native state in the devotion to the Christian Church. If the West. He made his Will, which in part read, testator is a practicing Christian, he will 'I, John Doe, of New York City, believing want to seek the counsel and guidance of as I do in the just, creative and sovereign his minister on this, one of the most im God Almighty, the Father of all mankind, portant decisions of his life. and in his Son, Jesus Christ, my personal "All will agree that the pastor is a leader Lord and Saviour, and in the Holy Spirit, and counselor in the field of Christian who moves everywhere upon the hearts of stewardship." That has been defined as men to enlighten and guide them in all " 'the practice of systematic and propor Truth, and accepting as I do the Judaeo- tionate giving of time, abilities and mate Christian philosophy of life, from which rial possessions, based upon the conviction comes our concept of moral values which that these are a trust from God to be used are so basic for the establishment of Law, in his service for the benefit of all man Order and Justice, as well as for our cor kind, in grateful acknowledgment of porate and personal conduct, and also for Christ's redeeming love.' " the freedoms and privileges we enjoy un Defining Christian stewardship, certain der our Constitutional Democracy .