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ORLDLY wealth, position, and power were rejected by Paul when he accepted WJesus Christ. But in following Him, Paul received power and spiritual wealth that will go with him into eternity. Ellen G. White says: "Paul©s life was an exemplification of the truths he taught; and herein lay his power. His heart was filled with a deep, abiding sense of his responsibility; and he labored in close com munion with Him who is the fountain of jus tice, mercy, and truth. He clung to the cross of Christ as his only guarantee of success. The love of the Saviour was the undying motive that up held him in his conflicts with self, and in his struggles against evil, as in the service of Christ he pressed forward against the unfriendliness of the world and the opposition of his enemies. "What the church needs in these days of peril, is an army of workers who, like Paul, have educated themselves for usefulness, who have a deep experience in the things of God, and who are filled with earnestness and zeal. Sanctified, self-sacrificing men are needed; men who will not shun trial and responsibility; men who are brave and true; men in whose hearts Christ is formed ©the hope of glory/ and who with lips touched with holy fire will ©preach the word/ " The Acts of the Apostles, p. 507.

THE MINISTRY GC President Sets the Pace!

THEODORE CARCICH

Vice-President, General Conference

ROBERT H. PIERSON, the world are organizing their conference General Conference pres staffs in similar evangelistic projects, thus ident, is setting the pace setting an example for each pastor to fol for the denomination©s low. In like manner, conference adminis worldwide evangelistic trators are encouraging their academies, thrust. Combining with colleges, universities, hospitals, publishing Pastor C. J. Griffin of houses, and other institutions to plan and Wilmington, Delaware, support organized evangelistic endeavors. Brother Pierson will The church pastor, in particular, is conduct an evangelistic called upon to organize his membership, effort in that city dur striving to make each home an evangelistic ing September. Prepara center and each member an associate evan tion for this endeavor "includes the distri gelist. This is imperative if the local church bution of 30,000 pieces of literature, the use is to reach all the people in its community. of 200 gift Bibles, and the incorporation of Finally, for the church to witness and grow every department of the church in this seed- effectively, all church departments must sowing preparation." come to the pastor©s support in proclaim Following the president©s example, other ing God©s redeeming grace and in consol members of the General Conference staff idating the church©s baptismal gain. rearranged their 1967 schedules to include As all are aware, the 1966 Autumn Coun revival and evangelistic series. As of the cil sounded a clarion call for a worldwide moment definite plans have been initiated evangelistic thrust and breakthrough. The by the following: R. S. Watts, N. R. leaders of the church are now moving ahead. Dower, J. [. Aitken, E. L. Minchin, C. E. Division, union, and local conferences are Moseley, G. E. Vandeman, J. E. Edwards, falling into line. Churches are stirring to V. W. Schoen, D. H. Baasch, E. W. Peder- action. God©s remnant is on the move. sen, L. B. Reynolds, T. E. Lucas, L. R. Nel Reflecting the urgent call to an unprece son, J. H. Hancock, H. D. Singleton, W. W. dented evangelistic advance is the deter Fordham, E. E. Cleveland, A. C. Fearing, mination of all denominational radio J. R. Spangler, E. J. Folkenberg, J. O. Gib- broadcasts, telecasts, Bible correspondence son, R. E. Adams, C. D. Martin, Lowell Lit- courses, church papers, and missionary ten, A. O. Dart, E. H. Atchley, D. W. Hun magazines to more fully portray the distinc ter, D. W. Holbrook, R. F. Waddell, P. S. tive truths of the everlasting gospel. All Nelson, W. R. Beach, and the writer. Oth irrelevant questions and issues are being ers, surely, will be included later. pushed to one side as pastors, evangelists, Inspired by this example, division, union, and church officers marshal their forces for and local conference presidents throughout (Continued on page 10} MAY, 1967 ous Advent message to kindle a fire that would set every continent on earth ablaze Needed- for God, from Singapore to Sierra Leone, from Washington to Prakaspuram, from Murmansk to the Straits of Magellan. With more than two million Sabbath school members, 20,000 evangelistic work Fire ers, 18,000 doctors, nurses, and other med ical personnel, 6,000 literature evangelists, 2,200 publishing house employees, 16,000 teachers and other workers, we could light the greatest fire this world has ever seen. Inside! But these men and women must be set on fire for God. We have the wheels too. Ezekiel saw them, "one wheel . . . within another" ROBERT H. PIERSON (Eze. 1:16, Goodspeed).* The messenger of the Lord also referred to this vision President, General Conference under the heading "God©s Organization." "The hand of Infinite Wisdom is seen among the wheels, and perfect order is the result of its work. Every wheel works in WHAT a sight! In a lit perfect harmony with every other." Testi tle clearing in the jungle monies to Ministers, p. 213. a troop of baboons were We have the wheels, the organization, sitting in a partial cir to carry the fire and spread it with great cle, for all the -world speed to earth©s remotest atoll. It is a won like a council of elders! derful organization that has been per The old Luo tribes fected. "The Lord gave testimony after man and his wife sat testimony upon this point." Testimonies watching them. "See to Ministers, p. 26. that little pile of sticks in the center?" the old Fire in the Wheels man whispered. "They Yes, we have the wheels, but if they are have placed them as we place our wood to do the work God desires in these clos for a fire." ing, challenging days of earth©s history, And that is exactly what they had done. there must be fire in the wheels. There They were copying what they had seen was fire in Ezekiel©s wheels. "As for the the tribesmen do many times when making likeness of the living creatures, their ap a fire but one thing they lacked there pearance was like burning coals of fire, was no fire in the wood. They had taken and like the appearance of lamps: it went every step in preparation, but there was up and down among the living creatures; no fire! and the fire was bright, and out of the fire Fuel—but No Fire! went forth lightning. And the living crea Could it be possible this is a parable of tures ran and returned as the appearance the experience of the remnant church to of a flash of lightning" (Eze. 1:13, 14). day? In this story the baboons had every We must have the Spirit of God in the thing but the fire. Could it be that we also wheels of our organization today. There have everything but the fire of the Holy must be fire in the wood. Organization is Spirit in the church? Seventh-day Advent- not enough. Machinery is not enough. ists have enough spiritual fuel in the glori Budgets are not enough. Even men and

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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. 4 THE MINISTRY women are not enough. We need fire in their God-given task. The cringers became the wheels living fire, Pentecostal fire, conquerors; the fearful became forceful. that comes down from heaven and sets Where before there had been hesitancy, men and women ablaze for God. The inadequacy, defeat, there now were cer Lord©s messenger makes it clear: "We can tainty, courage, power, victory. Fire inside not depend upon form or external ma made the difference. When the fire fell, the chinery. What we need is the quickening record says there were 3,000 converted at influence of the Holy Spirit of God." Pentecost. The book of Acts further re Ibid., p. 512. veals that there were added daily to the We may have church buildings that are church thereafter "such as should be an architect©s dream, evangelistic centers saved." Jerusalem was filled with the doc that are all a preacher©s heart could de trine of Jesus. Some of the bitterest foes sire, burgeoning budgets to supply the of the early church "a great company of most modern equipment and an abun the priests" believed. dance of evangelistic supplies. Our plan ning may be perfect, our organization flaw Heathen Altars Overturned less. We may have all of the visible re In thirty short years the glad evangel sources required for a mighty evangelistic swept through Asia Minor, across Europe, advance. But our struggle is a spiritual until it threatened to overturn the heathen warfare, not material. The results are de altars and the pagan temples in mighty pendent upon internals and not externals. Rome, the mistress of the world. In the There must be fire in the wheels the face of deadly, malignant opposition the power of the Holy Spirit in our service for heralds of the cross planted the ensign of the Master. the Crucified One upon the very doorstep When the Holy Spirit is not present, the of the imperial household. Luke speaks of fire goes out. There may be activity. Pros the mighty advance of the gospel through pects may appear bright. But we can never the efforts of fire-filled men. He tells of do God©s work in God©s way in God©s last "a great number" in wicked Antioch who hour without the fire from on high. The "turned to the Lord." At Iconium, Thessa- Bible makes it abundantly clear that the lonica, Corinth, and elsewhere it was the fire, the power of the Holy Spirit, is an same story. "Great multitudes of Jews and absolute must. Greeks" allied themselves on the side of Christ. Everywhere these Spirit-filled men Fear or Courage? went, a large harvest of souls resulted. Before His ascension Jesus said, "Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be en dued with power from on high" (Luke 24:49). The disciples had been in hiding YOU'LL BE GLAD YOU REMEMBERED for fear of the Jews. They feared that the same fate that had befallen Jesus would befall them. They shut themselves behind Spirit of Prophecy Day closed doors. They were a frightened, dis couraged, thwarted group of men. They Sabbath, May 20, 1967 had passed through the greatest disap Read Arthur L. White's pointment ever experienced by human kind. "FROM INCREDULITY TO FAITH"* Then came Pentecost. The fire fell; the —special sermon help illustrated by actual power came. A transformation was historical instances of twelve Seventh-day wrought. Their fear and discouragement Adventists—past and present—who found left them. A holy boldness, a sanctified their way from skepticism to faith as God zeal, possessed them. They emerged from opened to them a new world of convincing their hiding place. The infant church be evidences. gan its work of evangelizing the world. Even if you don't preach this sermon, "They were all filled with the Holy Ghost, you'll be glad you read it! and began . . ." (Acts 2:4). When they * This material has been sent to pastors and were filled with the Holy Spirit they began elders. to live, they began to witness, to bear fruit, to evangelize. They began to accomplish MAY, 1967 Why? Because there was fire within their Spirit came upon the praying apostles." hearts. Because the Holy Spirit possessed The Desire of Ages., p. 672. them. Finally, according to Acts 28:31, an infant church could report "Mission ac "Tarry . . . Until" complished" in Rome as the result of these Christ did not want the disciples to go fire-filled men. anywhere, to begin any work, or even to What a saga of success! What a paean of preach a single sermon until the fire fell, power! What a proclamation of progress! until power from on high possessed the Two thousand years later it still thrills our workers of the infant church. "Tarry ye in hearts to read it. What was the secret of the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued the power of those early men of God, of with power from on high," He instructed the rapid expansion of the church in those (Luke 24:49). Christ wished to burn this difficult days? The answer is found in these one vital truth into the thinking of the inspired words: "They were all filled with early workers. Pentecost was not spiritual the Holy Ghost, and began . . ." There luxury but an utter necessity. Pentecost was fire inside. was not something the disciples could take Success or Failure? or leave as they chose. It was a must. They were confronted with a choice of either Here is a vital lesson for us as workers Pentecost or failure. and leaders in the cause of God. An ur gently pressing lesson we must not fail to A Second Pentecost grasp. Whether we learn it will determine The naked, challenging truth that con success or failure in our ministry. There is fronts the leadership and the ministry of a lesson for those of us who face the mil the Seventh-day Adventist Church today is lions of New York, London, Berlin, Bom that for us, too, it is either Pentecost or bay, Manila, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Buenos failure. The task is too great for us. But Aires, and a thousand more great con it is not too great for God. Dublin, Khar crete chasms filled with judgment-bound toum, Mogadishu, Tashkent, and even men and women, chasms we have scarcely Lhasa cannot resist the mighty power of touched with the present truth. cloven tongues of fire burning through It is a lesson for those of us who have Spirit-filled men, Spirit-filled pens, or had the specter of Southern Asia©s millions Spirit-filled airwaves. God wants our day to haunting us in the night seasons, who be the day of His latter-rain power, His have to face the cold complacency of mil second Pentecost, His final push to a fin lions of Buddhists, or the fierce fanatical ished work. It must be so. "Satan can no resistance of the world of Islam, or the more hinder a shower of blessing from mesmerized millions in the lands of nom descending upon God©s people than he inal Christianity. We need to learn this can close the windows of heaven that rain lesson and learn it well, lest we seek to do cannot come upon the earth." Messages God©s work in God©s hour in other than to Young People, p. 133. God©s way. It is coming. This is certain. The ques The disciples began, and they began in tion is, Will you, will I, be prepared to re Jerusalem. Why? Why did Jesus command ceive its blessings, its power, and do our the disciples to tarry in Jerusalem? Why part in finishing the work? "Before the didn©t He tell them to go to Bethlehem, final visitation of God©s judgments upon to Jericho, to Nazareth? Was it merely be the earth, there will be, among the people cause Jerusalem was the capital city, the of the Lord, such a revival of primitive center of Judaism? No! A thousand times godliness as has not been witnessed since no! He wanted the disciples to learn one apostolic times." The Great Controversy, great lesson the same vital lesson He de p. 464. sires us to learn today. Thank God it is coming, brethren. The It is simply this: The reception of the fires will burn. The Spirit will fall in lat Holy Spirit is an absolute necessity if suc ter-rain power. The strongholds of Satan cess is to come to God©s laborers as we seek will crumble. The unentered areas will be to finish His work in the earth. "Before evangelized. The work will be finished. one book of the New Testament was writ Jesus will come in this generation. Ours is ten, before one gospel sermon had been the blessed hope, not the blasted hope. preached after Christ©s ascension, the Holy These eyes of ours will see the King in THE MINISTRY bands of evil habits, to enable us to live up to the high standards o£ the Advent mes Counsels from, the Lord©s messenger sage, for power to stand for right though the heavens fall. A Solemn Appeal to Ministers Yes, there is need for the Holy Spirit in each of our lives. The church needs the Dear Brethren: power of the Holy Spirit, power to stand I cannot express to you my burden and distress of firm for faith in the face of apostasy and mind as the true condition of the cause has been spiritual treachery, power to master com presented before me. There are men working in the capacity of teachers of the truth who need to plex circumstances, power to press the bat learn their first lessons in the school of Christ. tle to victorious conclusion in all parts of The converting power of God must come upon the world. the hearts of the ministers, or they should seek "A reformation is needed among the some other calling. If Christ's ambassadors realize people, but it should first begin its purify the solemnity of presenting the truth to the people, ing work with the ministers." Testimo they will be sober, thoughtful men, workers together nies, vol. 1, p. 469. This awesome declara with God. If they have a true sense of the commis tion, brethren, means that it must begin sion which Christ gave to His disciples, they will with reverence open the word of God and listen with us! What an awe-inspiring, challeng for instruction from the Lord, asking for wisdom ing thought! This reformation and revival from heaven that, as they stand between the living must begin with the ministerial leaders of and the dead, they may realize that they must the church. Should it not then spread like render an account to God for the work coming ripples of the sea throughout North Amer forth from their hands. . . . ica, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Oh, that men would fear the Lord! Oh, that they Australia, and the islands of the sea? Let would love the Lord! Oh, that the messengers of us kindle the fires of God through full God would feel the burden of perishing souls! Then surrender that will set the world ablaze they would not merely speechify; but they would have the power of God vitalizing their souls, and for the Advent message! Will you not their hearts would glow with the fire of God's love. make such a surrender, such a pledge, at Out of weakness they would become strong; for this time? they would be doers o£ the word. They would hear the voice of Jesus: "Lo, I am with you alway." * Smith and Goodspeed, The Complete Bible: An American Jesus would be their teacher; and the word they Translation. Copyright 1939 by the University of Chicago. minister would be quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.—Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 142-144.

Perfect Trusting I cannot understand The why and wherefore of a His glory in our day, if only somehow we thousand things; can catch a new vision of Him now. The burdens and annoyances, the daily stings— Fire in Our Hearts I cannot understand; But I can trust, But sin must go. Revival must come. A For the perfect trusting new dedication must possess us. There perfect comfort brings. must be fire in our hearts and in the wheels of our church organization. Our need is I cannot see the end, the same as that of the early Christian The hidden meaning of each trial sent, movement a need of a Spirit-filled church. The pattern into which each tangled In the days of the apostles the Holy Spirit thread is bent— broke down all the barriers, breached all I cannot see the end; opposition, evangelized wicked cities, up But I can trust, And in God's changeless love I rooted heresies, baffled offshoots, scorned am content. the oppressor, won through to victory. It —Author Unknown will be the same in our day. But we need the Holy Spirit in our individual lives, to conquer self and sin, to break the steel MAY, 1967 Emphasis on the Ministry

M. K. ECKENROTH

Chairman, Department of Religion, Columbia Union College

OME unknown author penned these are constantly endeavoring to enrich their S words that have been challenging and curriculums and strengthen the base upon arresting since I first read them: which the student can build adequately his The world is waiting for you, young man, graduate program. If your purpose is strong and true, If out of the treasures of heart and mind General Conference Working Policy You can bring things old and new. The General Conference Working Policy If you know the truth that can set men free, provides a plan for a screening committee And with strength can bring it to view, to bring forth certain recommendations re The world is waiting for you, young man, garding pretheological students upon the The world is waiting for you. completion of their sophomore year at col lege level. The Working Policy establishes The ministerial training program of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has under norms and the basis upon which the young gone tremendous strides of expansion and adjustment in recent years. Even though at times these strides may have seemed slow and tortuous they were far reaching and have been of great consequence to the rem nant church. The extension of the training program for our theological students from a four- year Bachelor of Arts degree to a seven- year program, or to state it in another way, the equivalent of six semesters beyond the Bachelor of Arts degree, has indeed ex tended the educational process for the min istry. The Bachelor of Divinity degree now is a basic requirement and an integral part of the denominational internship plan. In order to carry out this program to its best advantage the collegiate pretheological training program has likewise undergone extensive changes and adjustments. These adjustments are still in process. In many of our colleges the departments of religion A solemn moment at the consecration service. THE MINISTRY men shall be judged acceptable as contin uing candidates for the ministry. Among these requirements and considerations are conduct, spirituality, and evidence of the call to the ministry. All of these are very personal and deeply involve the character qualities basic to the later years of a suc cessful ministry. Significant Milestone The religion department of Columbia Union College believes that the successful passing of this investigation is a significant milestone in the ministerial development program. Accordingly, special recognition is afforded the young men Avho successfully complete this first and important investiga tion regarding their adaptability and prom ise for the ministry. The administrative leadership and faculty of Columbia Union College have given their support to a pro gram that was inaugurated and introduced to the college family for the first time dur The new Theology Pin. ing the second trimester of the 1966 school year. , A Theological Consecration Service spirit, in faith, in purity. . . . Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. . . . Meditate A public theological consecration service upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; was conducted during the regular chapel that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed period in the Sligo church. Preceding this unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in public dedication the young men were no them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, tified that they had successfully passed the and them that hear thee" (1 Tim. 4:12-16). screening committee©s investigation. They Truly in this age of challenge, the youth, dedi were invited to a special meeting on Friday cated and called by the Master, are charged with evening in the religion department chapel the fearful responsibility to give "no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed" (2 for a special season of prayer and prepara Cor. 6:3). tion. This was meaningful in itself and Today by prayer and through this public recogni proved to be a tremendous blessing to both tion you are entering into a life of service wholly faculty and students. After this personal dedicated to God. You are today taking another preparation the young men were accorded step forward in the solemn vow to serve your Master a place of honor before the platform for as a minister of the gospel. Years of study are still this special consecration day. before you. Yet while you are engaged in the disci One of the impressive features of the con plines of training, your opportunities for witnessing secration commitment was the reading of increase daily. We now entrust into your care this pin, which the ministerial challenge to these young places on record your acceptance of God©s call. In men. The challenge reads as follows: your remaining days at CUC this will be a token Inasmuch as you have indicated your belief that of authorization to visit in neighboring churches the Lord has called you to prepare for the sacred and preach upon invitation. As a possessor of this work of the gospel ministry, and seeing that Co pin you are assured of the support of the depart lumbia Union College has recognized evidences of ment of religion of CUC in seeking for you a spon your receiving such a call of God, I entreat you to sorship and internship in the denominational the pursue vigorously the work of preparation for the ological training program according to the General ministry that you have begun. Conference Working Policy. "Study to shew thyself approved unto God" If in the passing of time your life program should (K.J.V.) "a labourer who need not be ashamed, change so that you would not complete the pre- driving a straight furrow, in your proclamation of theological training program at CUC, then you the truth" (2 Tim. 2:15, N.E.B.).* will return this pin to the department of religion. The Scriptures charge the minister of God, irre At the time of your successful completion of the spective of his station: "Be thou an example of the requirements of the major in theology and upon believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in your graduation from CUC this pin becomes yours. MAY, 1967 as upon the pretheological candidates them selves. This journey to the Our experience with this experiment has shown that a deep impressiveness attends Holy Land will fulfill such a service and a new dignity is given to your dream of peace. the call of the ministry. We are persuaded that this consecration service has contrib To go to the Holy Land is to leave the 20th century and return to Christianity©s birth. And uted much to the deep spiritual conviction our Bible Lands Tour takes you there for as that God must have all there is of us in the little as $997* with guaranteed escorted depar accomplishment of His work. "We need tures every Monday, through 1967. Stand where a stable stood in Bethlehem, retrace His steps greater earnestness in the cause of Christ. along the Way of the Cross, feel His presence The solemn message of truth should be in the Upper Chamber of the Last Supper. Far more than a journey, your visit to the Holy given with an intensity that would impress Land wil! be a soul-stirring experience. Mail unbelievers that God is working with our this coupon for complete details and informa tion on our Pay Later Plan. efforts, that the Most High is our living *Based on 14-21 day !TX Economy Excursion fare from N.Y. source of strength." ELLEN G. WHITE, in Signs of the Times, Dec. 9, 1886, p. 737. It Lufthansa German Airlines, Dept. ~5 410 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 is precisely to accomplish this dual purpose Send information on the Holy Land journeys. of magnifying the call of God in the experi ence of our own young men and to demon Name- strate that call to others that this special Address______consecration service was inaugurated on

City______Sta the campus of Columbia Union College. The results have been most encouraging. Zip______I plan to leave- We are grateful for our young men who My Travel Agent is_ prepare for a life of service and devotion Lufthansa to the ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. * The New English Bible, New Testament. The Dele gates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1961. Reprinted by permission.

In behalf of the department of religion and Co lumbia Union College, I extend to you our warmest congratulations and the assurance of our prayers, and we pledge to assist you in achieving your life General Conference President dedication so that at last in our respective minis tries "when the chief Shepherd shall appear" we (Continued from page 3} may all receive a "crown of glory that fadeth not a global evangelistic thrust a thrust that away" (1 Peter 5:4). could well usher in the return of our Lord. Without question, the days we live in are Special Theological Pin tremendously exciting and they disturb^ A special pin was designed by the reli ingly challenge all those entrusted with gion staff of the college for this occasion church leadership. and for this use. It may be worn either as a Therefore, let each leader, whatever his tie-tack or it may be used as a lapel pin. position, relay the clarion call down the The theological students of Columbia Un line, and by precept and example rally ion College who have achieved this distinc those around him to the greatest soul-win tion wear this pin with pride and go out to ning program in Adventism©s glorious his the surrounding churches in the Greater tory. Washington area to preach each weekend "Like a mighty army Moves the church of as they are invited by the pastors. God; Inasmuch as this was the first of its kind, Brothers, we are treading Where the all of the juniors and seniors in the theol saints have trod; ogy department received this special pin, We are not divided, All one body we, which will become traditional at each suc One in hope and doctrine, One in char cessive consecration service. Forty young ity. men participated in this service, which Onward, Christian soldiers! Marching as proved to be very solemn. It left a deep im to war, pression on the entire student body as well With the cross of Jesus Going on before." 10 THE MINISTRY became conscious of her uncomely, repul sive self, contaminated with sin. Even her best righteousness seemed very unattractive. Then she felt the presence of the lovely One. He smiled and said, "But I love you just the same and through this love you will be made beautiful in My righteous ness." She awakened. In the warmth of that EDITORIAL dream, she put her arms around the ill- natured child and planted a kiss on his cheek as sweetly as she had ever kissed any one. A slight glow came into the boy©s eyes. She held him closer and kissed him again. He smiled a little. Another kiss and he seemed to smile all over. Love begat love and this was the beginning of a trans formed life for the child and for the woman Loving the Unlovely also. Are we not all as this boy blemished, odious, in the presence of perfect holiness? HE Scriptures reveal the divine charac Yet His gracious love, beyond human un T teristic of God©s persevering love even for derstanding, adopts us into His family. the vilest of mankind. The life and words There are many unlovely people in this of our Saviour illustrate His longing to world and some unpleasant ones may even put His arms around the most rabid and be found within the realm of the church. hateful of His enemies. He wants to grant Surely we who are the recipients of such to even the worst of them remission of sin compassion and grace from our heavenly and reconciliation with God, and to love Father can and ought to love even the them into His kingdom. God never ceases unlovely! His search for His lost children though A miner was ill and dying in his crude sometimes they resist the wooing and will hut, without relatives or friends to care not yield to Him. "And this is the Father©s for him. He had driven everyone away by will which hath sent me, that of all which his meanness. Men who brought him food he hath given me I should lose nothing" left as quickly as possible. One Christian (John 6:39). man tried by repeated visits and many A widow, rich and in possession of a kindnesses to win the "ugly one©s" friend large house with many rooms, wanted to ship, but in vain. All he received for his contribute something of value to the Mas efforts were more curses. One morning the ter she loved. She decided to use her wealth little daughter noticed that father had not and home to house orphans and unwanted included the man©s name in his prayer. children. Eventually she gathered thirty-six "Have you given him up?" she asked. children and loved them all, that is, all but "I©m afraid so, dear." one. He was a thin, pimply, sickly, whining, But the little girl persisted, "Has Jesus irritable, spoiled, waspish, complaining given him up?" child who never smiled. Try as she might, "No, I am sure He has not." The ques she could not make herself love him as tion sent him back to the hard task, and she did the other children. One day the in time this father, in cooperation with peevish boy was more irritating than usual. the Holy Spirit, succeeded in breaking In desperation she grabbed his hand and down the barriers and in winning the hard pulled him to the front porch, sat him be ened one to the merciful Christ and salva side her on the swing, placed his head in tion before he was taken by death. her lap, and told him in no uncertain We have no right to give up on anyone tones to go to sleep. until we are certain that God has given The afternoon was warm. The birds© him up, and we can never be sure of that. singing, the bees© buzz, and the smell of While He perseveres we must also. And blossoms all tended toward drowsiness, so we may always hope that the next loving she too slumbered. And she dreamed she word or helpful service will melt the un was in the place of the boy on her lap. She lovely one©s heart. A. c. F. MAY, 1967 11 The Young Ministers 9 Retreat

EVERETT E. GUMBO

Ministerial Secretary. Georgia-Cumberland Conference

NEW, unique concept in the training Cummings brings the challenge and reason A of young ministers has been crystallized for the retreat. In this keynote a deeply over a three-year period in the Georgia- moving spiritual appeal is made and a re Cumberland Conference. It is a program sponse is requested in the form of testimo geared to accelerate the development of nies and prayer. This is one of the most young men in their pastoral and evangel inspiring services of the entire retreat, for istic responsibilities. every heart burns within as the young The need for such a program grew ap men give their testimonies and take part parent as the conference committee was in fervent prayer. This is followed by a confronted with vacancies in small dis brief time of fellowship talking sermons tricts. To these pastorates were called around a crackling fire; then to bed, for a young men, fresh from college and the busy and tight schedule awaits the morn Seminary, who had not had the experience ing. of working with a senior man. To ensure Every aspect of the ministerial program their ministry, Pastor Desmond Cummings, is covered from the board meeting to plan president, and Pastor Everett Gumbo, min ning an evangelistic campaign. The in isterial secretary, formulated and put into struction periods are 30 minutes long with action the following plan, now proved as a 20 minutes for discussion, and a ten-minute thrilling blessing to these young men of break. There is time for recreation every Georgia-Cumberland. day, thus a total and rounded program is not only presented but demonstrated. The Concept Became a Retreat Each year during the month of Decem Entire Program in Spiritual Setting ber a three-day retreat is called for all un- The entire program is placed in the ordained ministers in the Georgia-Cumber most spiritual setting possible. Each pres land Conference. entation challenges not only to a more ef This retreat is held in the lodge of the fective but also a more spiritual ministry. beautiful and secluded conference youth Perhaps the most moving service is on camp in the Smoky Mountains of north the second evening when the president Georgia. Here, amid nature, the young calls on the men to tell of their call to the men come to be challenged to a more ef ministry. Here the fascinating story of God ficient and spiritual ministry. calling men is told. Tears flow. Joy is manifest, and a deep spirit of kinship pre The Procedure vails. They arrive Sunday evening, and are as The final meeting is one of deep bless signed rooms and settled in time for the ing and challenge as the young men are evening meal. After supper there is fellow asked to tell of their plans and objectives ship and recreation around the blazing for the new year. As they stand to present fire in the lodge. At seven o©clock Pastor their programs it is immediately evident 12 THE MINISTRY In a relaxed and informal setting Pastors Desmond Cummings and Everett Cumbo share with the young ministers of Georgia-Cumberland Conference the dynamics of a successful church program. that they are not novices. Their objectives God said: "Your old men shall dream for evangelism and the souls they plan to dreams, your young men shall see visions" baptize are well thought through and de (Joel 2:28). fended. This is apparent, for the young men have actually led the field for the past three Blessings of the Retreat years. Their ministry is enhanced and The blessings of the young ministers© re their growth is hastened as they fellowship treat are displayed in the success of the in the mountains each year. young men in Georgia-Cumberland. Here is a testimony by a young man

The Daily Schedule 7:00 A.M. . . . Rising 7:30- 8:20 Devotional . . . . . Harold E. Metcalf Southern Union Ministerial Secretary 8:45 .... Breakfast 9:30-10:20 "That Pastor©s Library" .... Everett Cumbo Recess 10:30-11:20 "The Minister©s Personal Finances" . Desmond Cummings Recess 11:30-12:30 ...... Recreation 12:45 ...... Lunch 1:30- 2:30 "Planning the Pulpit Year" Everett Cumbo Recess 2:30- 3:20 "Harnessing the Power of the Church Board" Desmond Cummings Recess 3:30-4:20 "Planning Your 1967 Evangelism" .... Everett Cumbo 4:30- 5:30 ...... Recreation 5:45 ...... Supper 7:30 ...... Devotional

MAY, 1967 13 Jim Boyle, John Fowler, Lavoy Garner and his invisible partner, John Newbern, play table tennis. fresh from college three years ago. He has with little help or inspiration from the conference now been called to full-time evangelism had driven him almost to despair. in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference. My experience could have been much like his except for the tremendous help the Georgia-Cum Only a few months ago I visited with a young berland Conference gives to its young workers. This minister who had graduated from college just be help is evidenced in many ways, but specifically it fore I did. He had been placed in a district of three is seen in the annual young ministers© retreat. small churches several miles apart. The task of get This retreat gives us interns opportunity to be ting these weak flocks organized, and winning souls, come acquainted with one another©s failures and

One of the enjoyable times of the day was mealtime, when tempting food was served by Mrs. Don Aalberg. 14 THE MINISTRY successes, sorrows and joys. Our spirits are buoyed called. It is forever in the past. Let us up and our courage renewed just from the fel think of time in this way: Our lives belong lowship. We are privileged to come close to our con to God, and so does our time. Then both ference leaders in play and study. As we see their our lives and time lifetime should be dedication and spirituality we are inspired to greater loyalty, both to them and to God. wholly devoted to Him, to be used and The emphasis at these retreats is on the spiritual; spent to His honor and glory. Only thus yet the practical needs of an intern are met. We are can it be productive of worth-while and given much-needed down-to-earth instruction, along lasting results. with the materials necessary to run a first-class We are told to "walk in wisdom toward pastoral-evangelistic program. This really takes the them that are without, redeeming the guesswork out of running a strong soul-winning time" (Col. 4:5). What is wisdom toward campaign. those who are without? Is it not explained I am grateful for these retreats. Save for them I would probably have grown discouraged and set in the text; "He that winneth souls is tled down to mediocrity and halfhearted service. wise" (Prov. 11:30)? Is it possible to use At each of these retreats my dedication is renewed one©s time in a more satisfying and effec and my sights lifted to a greater ministry for God. tive way than in turning lost and perish JOHN W. FOWLER. ing souls from the way of death to the May the Lord continue to bless this road of life eternal in Christ Jesus? All means of encouraging and inspiring our things earthly will perish, but a soul, saved young ministers as they dedicate them in the kingdom of glory, will live on for selves to His service. ever and ever with Jesus and the saved of all ages. That soul will be a lasting, per manent and never-dying resident of the earth made new. To be instrumental in saving such a soul isn©t that a wise thing to do? Is there anything else in this world ©Redeeming that can bring greater and more sublime joy to our hearts than to see precious souls accepting Christ as a result of our efforts? the No, nothing; absolutely nothing. Then time spent in winning souls is truly "re deeming the time," using it in producing the only lasting results possible in this life. Time" Therefore, is it not a most fitting and advisable question for each of us to ask ourselves, "Am I redeeming my time? Am DOYLE M. BARNETT I a truly wise person, and actually winning souls? Am I procrastinating and wasting Secretary, Lay Activities Department my time in petty, inconsequential matters? Southeast Asia Union Or am I talking and praying and setting forth Christ crucified in order to win souls Kuang yin sze chien, jih yueh ju so. for Him?" This Chinese proverb is translated, "Time By God©s grace, shall we not resolve flits away as swiftly as a darting arrow, now to make Christ and His work first and and the days and months take their flight foremost in our lives, "redeeming the as suddenly as the weaver©s shuttle." Time time" by gathering souls for Him? Then is the stuff life is made of, but we have so very soon, as terrestrial time ushers in the little of it. It comes and goes so rapidly years of eternity, the "wise shall shine as that we often find ourselves wondering the brightness of the firmament; and they just what happened to it. Your time, my that turn many to righteousness as the time, never stops. It rushes on and often stars for ever and ever" (Dan. 12:3). leaves us bewildered at its passage. When the reality bursts upon our minds the shock treatment often startles us to our senses. One o£ the troubles in the world today is that we Time even a lifetime of it is so short. have allowed the golden rule to tarnish. And yet so frequently it is squandered away, wasted. Once gone it cannot be re- MAY, 1967 15 Front Altar Call to Baptism

GEORGE E. KNOWLES

Evangelist, Oregon Conference

THE old saying "There©s come forward are vitally important. His many a slip ©twixt the attitude should be positive. He should cup and the lip" might take for granted that each one who has be paraphrased in evan come forward will follow on in prepara gelism, "There©s many a tion for baptism. Some type of decision loss ©twixt the altar and card should be used which will give the the baptistery." To re one who comes forward an opportunity to duce the differential be further seal his decision by checking a re tween the number who quest to unite with God©s commandment- come forward in the al keeping people. Besides getting the name tar call and the number and address, this card should also secure who are actually bap the following information: Is there a smok tized is surely the goal of every soul win ing problem or a Sabbath work problem? ner. Some factors that we have found help What time is the person usually home ful in striving toward this goal are discussed (morning, afternoon, or evening)? Also be in the following paragraphs. sure to get the age of the school-age young The results of an altar call are generally people who come forward. more stable if the basic doctrines as well as the principles of conversion are covered Preparation Rapid but Thorough during the meetings before the altar call is This brief aftermeeting should take made. In the typical three-week effort the place after the main congregation has been altar call is usually made successfully after dismissed. It should not take long if things about two weeeks of nightly meetings. are well organized. Before dismissing those The comments that are made leading who have come forward, announce that up to and during the call are important. this group will meet each evening for five It should be made clear that it is a call to consecutive nights. The more rapidly these full surrender. Mention should be made people are prepared for baptism following during the call that an opportunity will their decision, the less opportunity the be given for further study until everything devil will have to hold them back. The is clear. This will accomplish two things. preparation can be rapid and yet thorough. It will include in the invitation those who The group can be challenged to make this still have questions but who do want to a wonderful week of victory. We like to surrender on the points that are already use Philippians 4:13 as a key text each clear. It will indicate that this is not just evening. We say it together at the close of a revival-type call where people come to each class. Those who have smoking prob the altar and perhaps never again return lems should be encouraged to claim the to the meetings. They are tactfully made victory through Christ right now. In most to understand that there is a follow-up instances, these five nights will do more program for those who come forward. for those with smoking problems than the regular stop smoking clinic, because these Decision Card Should Be Used people have the incentive of church mem The remarks made by the evangelist at bership and they are putting something the close of the call to those who have positive in place of their smoking habit. 16 THE MINISTRY Salvation Not by Works else. Usually it is only in case of illness It is well to mention that if we were de or evening work that we have to make up pending upon salvation by works, it would any lessons. If this plan is followed faith take a lifetime and still we would not be fully, it is impossible that anybody will be ready; but since we are depending upon baptized without having had the study on Jesus we can get ready as soon as we are every distinctive doctrine, such as the Spirit willing to surrender. The faster we get of Prophecy. ready the more the glory goes to Christ Positive Approach Best and not to man. In a three-week effort the first baptismal We spend one whole class period on the class will be conducted at the close of the Spirit of Prophecy. We present it in a posi regular meeting during the third week of tive way as one of the great gifts that God the effort. Some features of the meeting has provided for His people. Another eve may be left out or shortened so that the ning is spent on Christian standards of class will not run too late. The second dress, entertainment, and eating. This also baptismal class made up of those who re demands a positive approach. Dwell upon spond to the altar calls on the final week the benefits derived rather than upon the end of the meetings will meet on the five restrictions imposed. In addition to a gen consecutive evenings immediately follow eral doctrinal review, other subjects that ing the close of the effort. This class will need to be covered in the baptismal class have the advantage of a longer class period are: how to keep the Sabbath, the signifi since there will be no meeting preceding cance of baptism and the Lord©s Supper, it, but the first class has the advantage of and the ordinance of foot washing. We also the inspiration of the public meetings still provide some supplementary material on in progress. Some men open the class the the privileges and duties of church mem second week to the church members and bership, explaining denominational or to the public. ganization, terminology, publications, et cetera. Visit Absent Members Immediately Various booklets are available from some It should be made clear that those who of our evangelists who have prepared ma miss a class will receive a visit the next terial for use in teaching the baptismal day for the purpose of making up the les class. We have our material in mimeo son that they have missed. This encour graphed form so that it can be included ages good attendance and keeps the entire in the loose-leaf notebook containing our class moving forward together. The im evangelistic sermons. portance of this feature cannot be over emphasized. A class record is made from Identification Label the decision cards filled out by those who On the third night of our baptismal have responded to the altar call. Each class which, by the way, we designate as a night in the class a record is taken of those special Bible class rather than a baptismal in attendance. We do this by passing class we hand out an identification label around a clip board with a plain sheet of to be attached to the bag containing the paper for the signatures of those present. underclothing and other items for the can Each class member who is absent receives a didate©s baptism. One side of the label visit before the class meets again the next gives a list of what to bring for the bap night. The printed materials used in the tism. The other side is for the name, ad class are delivered and the substance of dress, and approximate height of the can the class material is presented in a brief didate (for use in selecting baptismal study by one of the workers. robes). The card is of good quality stock, The visiting of these absent members punched at both ends for tying around the takes priority over all other visiting once bundle. The class members are encouraged the class is organized. It is absolutely es to bring their baptismal clothing to class sential that a lesson missed by one of the the following night. Some will forget. By class members be made up by a visit from supplying the cards on the third night they one of the workers before the next class will still have another chance to bring period. This impresses them with the im their things to the last class. Having the portance of the class and does more to en clothing in early is a further means of seal courage regular attendance than anything ing the decision. It also avoids last-minute MAY, 1967 17 our radio and TV broadcasters know when The Minister©s Joy we have baptized someone as a result of these agencies. It helps us to give credit to laymen and colporteurs who have had a The joy of being for God alone, part in leading a soul to Christ. It pro His man in the deepest word, vides a basis for various statistical studies. Transcends all joys other men may know, It enables us to give a brief story of the Exceeds what angels have heard. candidate©s conversion at the time of his The joy of preaching what God wants told, baptism. It leaves a valuable permanent Though shackled in human grace; record for the pastor©s files. His call is sure, His wisdom commands, Our experience has been that regardless And appoints the time and place. of the length of the effort or the number who have come forward, we get the best re The joy of seeing what God will do sults by beginning the baptismal class im When His word of truth is preached; mediately and conducting it on a nightly Faces glow, hearts respond, lives change, basis. In some cases where either distance His Spirit the soul has reached. or a small number of candidates seemed to The joy of standing with God and man indicate that they could better be prepared To immerse in watery grave; by studies in their homes rather than by a To share with fellow men their new birth, group meeting, we have deviated from the It is joy to see Jesus save. above plan. In each case the result has been disappointing. We believe in preparing the The joy of joining two hands for God candidates as a group and without delay. In love, "till death do us part"; To know they will sing and pray together, Baptism Deferred Privately Drawn near to the Saviour's heart. Most problems standing in the way of The joy of holding a life God has given, baptism can be worked out in a week©s And dedicating parents and child; time if there is a determined will and a full The tenderness of the infant one surrender. Those who are not ready by the Reminds, "Be gentle and mild." final class period when the baptismal vow is reviewed with the candidates will be in The joy of comfort from God's own Word vited to repeat the class again the follow To give for sadness or pain; ing week in preparation for the next bap The lonely to cheer, oppressed set free tism. Arrangements for deferring baptism To abundant life again. should be made individually and not in The joy of knowing God's present truth, front of the class, lest others who are ready Always this joy may I see; for baptism should tend to delay. Be firm and true, give the gospel call, The use of the foregoing methods, for As Christ has called even me. which we are indebted to many of our fel —J. C. REYNOLDS, Pastor low laborers, has enabled us to realize this Halifax, Nova Scotia goal in most cases. We share these methods with the prayer that they will be the bless ing to others that they have been to us. confusion and enables everything to be well organized on Sabbath morning for the baptism. We are indebted to Fordyce Beta- more for this excellent label idea. Prayer At the same time that we hand out the labels, we also hand out a membership in Thou art coming to a King, formation blank that we have prepared. Large petitions with thee bring This, too, is to be filled out and returned For His grace and power are such with the bag of clothing. Such information None can ever ask too much. serves many purposes: it enables us to eval —JOHN NEWTON, in uate our various methods of advertising. The Treasury of Religious Verse It enables us to let the publishers of our missionary journals, our Bible schools, and 18 THE MINISTRY "Lord, Is It I?"

DAVID C. GENAWAY

Instructor, Central Washington State College, Ellensburg

JUST what is it that is How many come with a personal difficulty holding back the finish and we pray it through together? Or is it ing of the work of God? possible that they are afraid to? How do I Why is it that there are react when one comes to me and confides not thousands won in a that he has been having a real struggle with day, where now there is the bottle or that his marital life is strained? only one? Why is it that Do I say, "That is too bad, brother. I was my evangelistic meetings considering having you help in my church dwindle in attendance work, but we©ll just have to forget it and as they progress, instead leave you to struggle with your problem"? of growing? Is it because Will he ever find his confidences betrayed the world is not ready to a church board? In private friendships? for an outpouring of the Spirit? Is it because Or eventually coming back to censure him? the church members are not ready for it? I Or will he go to a minister of some other have done my best to prepare them. Or is denomination for counsel, because he it because / am not ready for it? knows that there he will find a friend, who I preach that my church members should in a Christlike manner will treat his con be introspective and evaluate their rela fidence as a sacred trust? tionship to Christ. I ask them to determine if they are demonstrating the love of Christ Am I Warning Instead of Winning? in all their actions. I try to tell them how In private conversation, when I am not they can do so. I feel that more people are around, how am I referred to? "Meddler," driven from the church because of a lack "dictator," "purger," "judge," "used-car of love than are won to it by a demonstra dealer," "shrewd," "businessman," or "the tion of it. Is it possible that in asking, I image of Christ"? Do I seek to interfere in have forgotten to answer? Is it possible that the private lives of others, when not invited? in telling, I have forgotten to show? Oh, I know, "his blood will be upon me if I do not warn them." Am I neglecting the Can I Be Trusted? New Testament commandment and, in What are some of the barometers of my deed, the summation of all the command self as an image reflector of Christ? In ments, when I am concerned with warn counseling with parishioners, do I betray ing instead of winning? their trust in private conversation to the "brethren"? Or is that trust sacred? How Do I Fight Back? many of my members actually I should say When I receive a rebuke from a church Christ©s brethren come to me for counsel member, how do I react? Do I immediately ing about a personal problem? Oh, yes, a put myself in readiness for fight and try to lot of them come and ask me where to find verbally knock him down by pointing out a certain text or how to meet a specific ar some fault I know he has? After all, who gument. But how many come to me as a is he to tell me my faults; I am the preacher Christian friend and ask me how to live? and he is the parishioner. Or do I really MAY, 1967 19 necessary the death of Christ on the cross of Cal vary). They are not nearly as bad as some of the sins the laity has committed. Or do I realize that this kind of attitude is like that of the Pharisees, and of the same root attitude namely pride, self-righteousness that caused Lucifer to fall and that, hence, my sin is the worst of all? Do I real ize that all my goodness is as filthy rags, and that I need Christ as much as, if "Lord, is it I?" not more than, any other sinner? Do I realize that introspectively examine every criticism to all, myself included, have sinned and come see if there is any truth in it? When I get short of the glory of God and that by a scathing letter from someone, how do I manifesting a superior attitude, I am at that react? Do 1 treat any letter as at least an very moment committing a sin? Do I sin attempt to communicate with me? Do I just cerely feel that I need the saving power of not answer the letter a reaction that is Jesus as much as anyone else? In my self- considered unethical, even in the business complacent state, do I realize that many of world? Or do I really try to evaluate the those who have committed more obvious letter and cull from it the truths, even sins also fully recognize the saving power of though they may cause painful growth? Am Christ and that possibly they are more I willing to examine myself critically and richly blessed and closer to God than I really determine my true attitude, or am I am? Which does Christ love most and who afraid of self-confrontation; afraid that my loves Christ the most? He who has been image of righteousness, which I am sup forgiven the most, and knows it. posed to manifest before the people, will be lacking? Or is it too painful for me to Am I Delaying Chrises Coming? face the truth about myself? I know that the second coming of Christ is not far off, but I also know that there Do I Take All the Credit? seems to be a strange delay. Who can I When Ingathering is done, and I have blame for this strange delay? I feel that it raised more funds than anyone in the con might be my church members who are gregation, do I make sure they know how too slow to realize the love of Christ. I know much I have raised, or do I quietly channel that the world is too calloused to accept the funds into some member©s goal that is Him. But I also realize that one man heard not being raised and let him have the that "the world has yet to see what God credit? I really wonder how much better can do with a man who wholly consecrates those people would feel when they discover himself to Him." That man was Dwight L. that their goal had been made by an Moody. I know that there are many con anonymous donor? At bapstisms, do I take victs in prison because of a distorted self- all the credit or allow those who actually image. Is it possible that I am a prisoner had the most to do in effecting the bap of limited spiritual horizons because of my tism to receive the praise? own distorted self-image? Is it possible that I have a faulty image? Is it possible that Are My Sins Greater? I am not really reflecting the love of Jesus as I think I am? I know that there will be How do I really feel about myself in re thousands converted in a day where now lationship to Christ? I have lived a fairly there is only one. I know that the most pow good life, really never went off the deep erful argument in favor of Christianity is end into sin; all my sins have been minor not a study on Daniel 2, a lecture on the ones (not really of sufficient size to make 2300 days, an eloquent evangelistic sermon, 20 THE MINISTRY an intelligent presentation of doctrine, but grown children when they get restless after a loving and lovable Christian. the hour hand passes twelve, or do I feel I know how readily the populace mimics it is my responsibility to consider their those they see before them, like my little physical needs, and close on time? Do I boy who quickly adopts any mannerism think so highly of myself that I feel the I encourage. I know that I see in others a laity cannot be trusted to make the an reflection of myself. If I smile, they smile; nouncements, announce the songs, or give if I am terse, they become terse; if I am the prayers because they couldn©t do it as cool, they are cool. well as I can? Do I feel that my sermons are so good that the congregation ought Do I Drive Them Away or Love Them In? not to have them interrupted by any guest Do the people come to church because speakers? of me or in spite of me? Do I drive them I really wonder what is holding back the away from the church or love them into it? spread of the gospel, the outpouring of the Do I feel that it is the congregation©s re Holy Spirit. What could be keeping my sponsibility to stay awake or my responsi congregation from demonstrating the love bility to present material so vital and in of Christ? The real betrayer of Christ was such a dynamic way they cannot sleep? Do the one who did not ask the question. Is it I feel that they are undisciplined, over possible, could it really be? "Is it I?"

"THE ONLY THING I WANT TO BE"

"Daddy," said five-year-old Dicky to his minister his study closed his eyes in silent meditation. father, "the only thing I want to be is a preacher; As he imagined the scene it seemed to him that that's the only thing I want to be." the child in the Lord's arms was his boy. Jesus Lest daddy not fully understand his career ob then spoke to the watching father: "Sell all that jective, Dicky explained: "A preacher and a minis thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou ter are the same thing, you know." His little voice shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow continued in that preschool patter that goes on, me." only half-caring whether anyone listens or not: The minister opened his eyes. His son was there "Kenny wants to be a doctor; he says they make before him. "Dicky, why did you say that you lots of money. I don't want lots of money, I just wanted just a little bit of money?" want a little bit." "I want to give some to the poor, Daddy." His earnest speech caused his preacher father to The child drew close and kissed his father before pause, sit down, and think as the little fellow ran running back to play under his tree. Pen in hand, back to play in the shade of his favorite tree. The the preacher traced a prayer in simple rhyme: five-year-old's declaration was turning over in his mind, subjected to the habitual homifetical exegesis Quite a little teacher, he; of a pastor. The child's sermon logically fell into Playing there beneath his tree; three divisions, the preacher mused: Told his daddy joyfully— "The only thing I want to be . . ."—Singularity "You're the only thing I'll be!" of Service. "A preacher and a minister are the same thing." Make me, Lord, from self set free, —Supremacy of Service. Like my child, one goal to see; "I don't want lots of money, I just want a little Grant me, God, like Christ to be, bit."—Selflessness of Service. Preacher—minister, both for Thee. Text and quotations fell easily into place as the minister studied his little boy's sermon. "This one May I, Lord, from all else flee; Looking ever unto Thee. thing I do." "The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." "I have learned, That my boy hi me might see in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." The only thing he'd ever be! With Bible open to Luke 18:17—"Whosoever —WILBUR K. NELSON shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little Department of Religion child shall in no wise enter therein"—the pastor in Pacific Union College

MAY, 1967 21 Concepts of Mental Health

(Concluded)

Criteria of Mental Health UR criteria of mental health are based O upon the premise that mental health is soundness of all mental faculties resulting from thinking and acting in harmony with HAROLD N. MOZAR God©s will. When the soul is completely sur rendered to Christ conflict ceases. In the Director of Public Health words of Ellen G. White: El Dorado County, CaEfomia When the Spirit of God takes possession of the heart, it transforms the life. Sinful thoughts are put SALEEM A. FARAG away, evil deeds are renounced; love, humility, and peace take the place of anger, envy, and strife. Joy Medical Secretary, Coral Sea Union Mission takes the place of sadness, and the countenance re flects the light of heaven.1 There is loving, trusting regard for God said, in essence, that observance of the and for our fellow men and an estimation commandments is evidence of knowing God. of self which is in proper perspective. Re In the words of our definition we would say ceived in the heart, the Word of God that observance of God©s commandments is works like a leaven. In the words of Ellen evidence of thinking and acting in harmony G. White it will "regulate the desires, with God©s will. purify the thoughts, and sweeten the dis The observance of the laws of health is position. It quickens the faculties of the likewise evidence of thinking and acting in mind and the energies of the soul. It en harmony with God©s will. The scriptural larges the capacity for feeling, for loving." 2 basis for this was enunciated by the apostle She states further: Paul. The word of God is to have a sanctifying effect Know ye not that your body is the temple of the on our association with every member of the human Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, family. The leaven of truth will not produce the and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with spirit of rivalry, the love of ambition, the desire to a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in be first. True, heaven-born love is not selfish and your spirit, which are God©s.5 changeable. It is not dependent on human praise. If any man defile the temple of God, him The heart of him who receives the grace of God shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, overflows with love for God and for those for whom which temple ye are.6 Christ died. Self is not struggling for recognition. Christ gave to Israel definite instruction He does not love others because they love and in regard to their habits of life, and He please him, because they appreciate his merits, but assured them, "The Lord will take away because they are Christ©s purchased possession. If his motives, words, or actions are misunderstood from thee all sickness." 7 "There was not or misrepresented, he takes no offense, but pursues one feeble person among their tribes." s the even tenor of his way. He is kind and thought Ellen G. White reminds us: ful, humble in his opinion of himself, yet full of These lessons are for us. There are conditions to hope, always trusting in the mercy and love of God.3 be observed by all who would preserve health. All should learn what these conditions are. The Lord The apostle John gave an important cri is not pleased with ignorance in regard to His laws, terion of mental health when he stated, either natural or spiritual. We are to be workers to "And hereby we do know that we know gether with God for the restoration of health to him, if we keep his commandments." 4 He the body as well as to the soul.9 22 THE MINISTRY A criterion of mental health, therefore, 2. Health practices are in harmony is the absence of unfavorable health prac with the laws of health. tices that hinder the influence of the Holy 3. Physical health is optimal within exist Spirit upon the mind. ing potential. Both physical health and mental acuity 4. Time is spent as profitably as possible are indexes of mental health. Physical well- from the standpoint of balanced char being and a clear mind are the natural re acter development. sult of good health practices and may be 5. Intelligence and good judgment are regarded as both cause-related and effect- evident. related to mental health. The reciprocally 6. There is a high degree of flexibility dependent relationship between body and under various kinds of stress. mind is well known. The consciousness of 7. Gross symptoms of mental illness and rightdoing, freedom from guilt, and peace disabling inner tensions are absent. of mind all gifts of the Spirit are power REFERENCES ful health-promoting principles. 1 The Desire of Ages, p. 173. 2 Christ©s Object Lessons, p. 101. Also worthy of special consideration is * Ibid., pp.. 101, 102. the question of mental occupation and pre 4 1 Tohn2:3.:3. 1 Cor.. 6:19,:19, 20. occupation how time is spent in relation "Chapter 3:17. 7 Deut. 7:13. to character development. A proper use of s Ps. 105:37. time is both cause-related and effect-related 9 The Desire of Ages, p. 824.2 to mental health. 10 Counsels on Health, p. 25257. The healthy person has a native curiosity regarding the world around him. Ellen G. White wrote, "The Christian should pos sess more intelligence and keener discern ment than the worldling." 10 OVERPAID Another criterion is flexibility in the face of internal or external stress. The mentally "I'll never marry a preacher!" I de healthy person reacts with control and clared about forty years ago. Elder Archa Dart, my teacher, was just finishing up does not become unduly emotionally dis our Bible class in the basement of the turbed by suffering, deprivation, or pres Cherokee Avenue church in Atlanta. The sure from authority. day's lesson was on the use and sacredness Finally, there is the criterion of freedom of tithe. from gross symptoms of mental illness and If my husband were a minister and was of disabling inner tensions the absence of paid with that holy money, I'd never dare clinical manifestations of mental illness. to buy myself an ice-cream cone, I The criteria of mental health are sum thought. marized as follows: But in His mysterious way God called 1. Attitudes and behavior are in har me to be a minister's wife as surely as He called my husband to be a minister, and mony with moral law, and show lov my life has been stimulating and satisfy ing, trusting regard for fellow men ing. and an estimation of self which is in Early I decided I wouldn't engage in proper perspective. any extracurricular activities not related to our task. Yes, I've been, oh, so tempted to work outside to get things to enhance my simple little home when I was expect Loving and Giving ing company. A few times my love for pretty things overpowered me and I weak Half the happiness in living ened. But I was never happy. After all, Comes with happy-hearted giving, my Saviour is building a mansion for me. For several years I held a Bible instruc Comes with sharing all your pleasure,. tor's license, without salary. But I was And dividing all your treasure; overpaid on baptismal days when new And the other half is loving brothers and sisters were born to me as a First the Lord, then all things living; result of God's blessing on my labors. I For all happiness in living wouldn't exchange my position as a min Comes with loving and with giving. ister's wife for that of a princess or a Author Unknown queen. Mrs. M. C. Shain

MAY, 1967 23 NE evening a few years ago I returned O home from, summer vacation ahead of my wife and children. Unlocking the door, I flipped on a light switch and nothing happened. Strange, I thought. I must have The Joy of ( forgotten to pay the bill. I found matches, lighted a candle, and went to the telephone to call the light company. As I reached out to pick up the receiver I noticed that the upholstery of Serif. the chair in which I sat had been slashed. Startled, I looked toward the window and saw the draperies hanging in shreds. Candle in hand, I moved from room to room. The farther I went, the worse it got. Great gashes in all the living room furni WEBB GR ture. Curtains cut in half. Bedspreads, sheets, and mattresses slashed. My wife©s costume jewelry was cut, broken, and dumped into the middle of the floor. An thians 13; John 14; Psalms 46, 90, 91; Reve entire rack of ties were cut in half. Suits, lation 1; Psalm 121. I had to go through dresses, coats, and shirts were still neatly my repertoire twice, maybe three times. on hangers and seemed all right until I But then I fell asleep and slept soundly lifted them out of the closets. till dawn. After notifying the police, I called my This bizarre experience points to one of wife. She choked for a moment, then said: several delights that stem from memoriz "Nothing else makes any difference, if ing and repeating Scripture passages. So you©re all right. I©m so glad you didn©t walk exalted are these delights that they are in on them." "unspeakable" incommunicable. But let Detectives and photographers spent an me try to point out a few. hour going over evidence, and concluded 1. Memorizing Scripture ©makes sleeping that we had been visited by juvenile van pills superfluous. Medical magazines are dals. "I hope you have the right kind of crammed with advertisements for products insurance," the detective lieutenant said as that offer chemical solutions to life©s he left. stresses. "You©re well protected for fire and wind According to drug manfacturers, there storm damage," my insurance agent as are three forms of insomnia. Some peo sured me. Then he cleared his throat a ple find it difficult or impossible to fall couple of times and said he guessed he asleep. Others go to sleep easily but are had failed to give me one of the new all- awakened by the slightest noise and then risk policies. "Afraid you aren©t covered lie tossing for hours. Still others sleep well for burglary or vandalism," he said. "I©m for a few hours and then become fully sorry." alert, beginning to relax a bit only about Alone in that ripped-up, slashed-up the time they have to get up. house, I went upstairs to go to bed. With Whatever the variety, insomnia can be my nerves screaming, I turned back the overcome by learning several sublime pas bedspread and sheet in which a huge X sages of Scripture and repeating them be had been cut. As soon as I lay down, I felt fore tension and restlessness take over. the rough edges where the mattress had Many persons who have tried this report been slit. that the period devoted to calling God©s I closed my eyes and speaking each word great promises to mind grows shorter and aloud slowly, began repeating Scripture I shorter, so that with practice sleep comes had memorized: Psalms 1, 8, 23; 1 Corin- soon under almost any conditions. 2. Shorter selections as brief as a single * Webb Garrison is pastor of the Central Methodist church, verse or even a phrase can be used as Evansville. Indiana. He is a graduate of Emory University (B.Ph. and B.D.) and has an honorary Litt.D. (McKen- powerful weapons in the ceaseless battle dree College). The subject of this article is treated in greater detail in his forthcoming book Ten Paths to Peace against temptations from the outside and and Power, to be published by Abingdon. urgings from within. There is a splendid 24 THE MINISTRY 4. A "mind set" is slowly molded by Scripture that is memorized and often re peated. Anyone who devotes as much as fifteen minutes a day to this process for Memorizing several years undergoes subtle changes. Most of them occur so gradually that he is hardly aware of them. Occasionally there is an exception, a forceful impact upon values, goals, and philosophy of life. rture Romans 8 provides a good example of this effect. By the very act of committing Paul©s analysis of life and the universe to memory, and then repeating it often enough to keep it vividly in mind, one is .RRISON * forced to grapple with the issues of time and eternity, the world and judgment, life©s stresses, and the incredibly dramatic redemptive work of God through Christ. One may read Romans 8 over and over, precedent for this: Jesus himself quoted preach many sermons on it, and yet fail Scripture in order to vanquish Satan. to make its sublime ideas bone of his bones Powerful psychological as well as spirit and flesh of his flesh. I think that in a ual forces are involved here. To focus my strange and thrilling way, memorized ma mind upon a verse so that I can retrieve it terial becomes part of a person in some from the marvelously complex storage sys what the same way that digested food does. tem of the brain, I must at least momen And as one©s eating habits have a great ef tarily push everything else aside. I cannot fect upon his body, so mental-spiritual in- succumb to impatience at a stalled car gestion of Scripture cannot fail to be a ahead of me in traffic and at the same time major directive force in the unfolding of dwell intently upon the injunction, "Let the total self. us run with patience the race that is set 5. An overpowering sense of radiant before us" (Heb. 12:1). joy delight unspeakable sometimes Take time to make a careful and honest floods one©s soul after he has devoted per appraisal of your military position in the haps half an hour to repeating memorized spiritual struggle. Note those points at Scripture, with full attention focused upon which your defenses are weak. You may it. This effect is not automatic, and I doubt be sure that the Evil One has already dis whether it can be cultivated. It comes un covered these vulnerable points and is try bidden. But in the rare times that it comes, ing to make good use of them. You can one feels lifted into the suburbs of heaven. strengthen your position by searching for Dare I say it? ... I wonder whether per Scripture passages that deal directly with haps more Kingdom work would be done these matters. Even a few memorized verses if all churchmen (paid and volunteer) that direct your mind away from tempta would divert half an hour a day away tion and toward God can give you a strong from activities that produce results on the defense. statistical tables and zealously spend it 3. One cannot spend time memorizing memorizing and repeating Scripture. Scripture without gaining a whole set of Whether such a redirecting of time and fresh ideas. Any word or phrase is likely energy (countless millions of hours a year, suddenly to "come to life" and give a new if practiced only by active churchmen in and thrilling insight. Although this is more the United States) would have tangible ef vivid while one is in the process of learn fects upon the visible church, I do not ing a passage, it also takes place as long- know. But of this I am very sure: it would familiar verses are repeated. Sometimes profoundly alter the life of every person there is a totally unsought "revelation" who participated. If you would like to from a single line. At other times an in know whether this is true, there is only sight comes from an unexpected cohesion one way to find out. Try it! of elements from two or more memorized passages. [Copyright 1966 by Christianity Today. Used by permission.] MAY, 1967 25 Health Evangelism Bridge to Islam

ONE of the greatest evan this seeming evangelistic impasse, I found gelistic challenges con that the key words "Moslem" and "Islam" fronting the Seventh-day are nowhere listed as subjects for comment Adventist Church is un in her writings. This does not mean, how questionably the 125 mil ever, that we have been left without specific lion people living in the and significant counsel that can be ap countries of the Middle plied to meet this great challenge. In Coun East, the vast majority of sels on Health, in the section entitled "Phy whom are Moslems. In sicians and Evangelists," pages 543-548, the division member there is a suggested solution. The key quo ship of about 2,300 Ad- tation is found on page 545: ventists probably less It is well, in presenting the truth to unbelievers, than ten are converted Moslems. first to present some subjects upon which they will This shocking disparity between the agree with us. The principles of health and temper number of former-Moslem Adventists and ance will appeal to their judgment, and we can the total number of Moslems in the divi from these subjects lead them on to understand sion field can be partially explained by the the binding claims of the fourth commandment. This work our physicians can help in doing. When fact that evangelism during the nearly sev the people see the value of instruction given re enty years of Adventist mission work in garding healthful living, it gives them confidence to the Middle East has been largely directed at believe that the teachers of these principles have the Christian minority. the truth in other lines. Bridge of Understanding Needed Usual Method Not Suitable The situation can be understood when Teaching the health message in connec one realizes the formidable communication tion with public evangelism is not new. For barriers confronting the preacher who at years it has been a valuable adjunct to the tempts to reach the Moslem mind through preaching of Bible doctrine. Most often the usual evangelistic approach which the health presentation takes the form of builds on the premise that his hearers ac a ten- to twenty-minute talk given as a spe cept the Bible as the foundation of spiritual cial feature, an added attraction, that hope truth. In the Middle East there are great fully will encourage listeners to come and obstacles to this type of approach obsta stay for the evangelistic sermons. In other cles rooted in profound religious and his campaigns a qualified medical or paramedi torical prejudices. Lacking a bridge of un cal worker, such as a doctor or nurse, is derstanding, the church has not been able periodically given the full lecture period to effectively convey its message to the Mos on several occasions for the presentation lem people. of a health topic or series of health topics In searching the Index to the Writings in order to add variety and additional in of E. G. White for a way of escape from terest to the series of meetings. Such tech niques, however, are not ideally suited to reach Moslems, who would not attend a meeting that was patently Christian and evangelistic in character even if an inter HERSCHEL C. LAMP esting health lecture were part of the pack age offered in the promotional advertise Medical Secretary, Middle East Division ment. The approach outlined by the messenger of the Lord is quite different. Notice: from 26 THE MINISTRY the very first, subjects should be presented of seven sessions of the Five-Day Plan to upon which the people will agree specif Stop Smoking held during an eighteen- ically subjects on health and temper month period in the major cities of the ance. These topics will appeal to the un Middle East. The Five-Day Plan helped believers, win their confidence, and enable people to stop smoking. It also won friends the gospel worker to lead them on to un who opened up their hearts and expressed derstand and accept the special doctrinal other health needs, both physical and emo beliefs to Seventh-day Adventists. Further tional. It was the Five-Day Plan, too, that more, the plan can and should be carried led in the choice of location for the experi out by Christian physicians. This is clear ment. In Teheran we had received such a from a reading of the counsel: friendly and openhearted reception that it The presenting of Bible principles by an intelli encouraged further spiritual exploration. gent physician will have great weight with many The meetings were held in the Advent people. There is efficiency and power with one who ist Center auditorium, a relatively small can combine in his influence the work of a physi hall seating only 150 persons. Consequently cian and of a gospel minister. His work commends advertising was modest, consisting of only itself to the good judgment o£ the people. I am concerned because so many things engage one newspaper advertisement and the dis the minds of our physicians which keep them from tribution of 10,000 handbills, some of which the work that God would have them do as evangel were mailed to the names we had gathered ists. . . . from Five-Day Plan participants the year I hope you will exercise all your capabilities in before. Personal invitations were also given this work. Present the importance of present truth to the students attending the regular Eng from the physician©s standpoint. The educated phy lish classes held twice weekly at the Center. sician will find entrance in our cities where other The series was entitled "Science Speaks" men cannot. Teach the message o£ health reform. and was advertised as health lectures for This will have an influence with the people. Ibid., pp. 546, 547. (Italics supplied.) the general public. A Health Questionnaire A Pilot Project On the opening night each guest was Encouraged by these pointed testimonies, asked to give his name and address on a the writer conducted an eight-week series numbered registration card that matched of evangelistic lectures in Teheran, the the number on an attractive blue folder capital city of Iran, during the summer of bearing on its cover the series title "Science 1966, as a pilot project to test the evangelis Speaks" in the Farsi language and the coat tic approach outlined above. An initial of arms of the Adventist Center. In the source of optimism was the excellent success folder was a personal health profile ques-

An interested audience in the Adventist Center auditorium, in Teheran, listening to a health lecture. MAY, 1967 27 times considerable personal courage. The appeal to objectiv ity and intellectual honesty was planned to be a valuable refer ence point for later lectures. 3. Our Unseen Ene mies. A study of germs and infectious dis eases with emphasis on the preventive role of immunization. 4. You Are What You Eat. A general presentation of the basic nutrients in food. 5. The Basic Seven. A discussion of food groups in relation to a balanced diet and meal planning, illus trated by an actual Dr. H. C. Lamp illustrating his lecture with flannelgraph. His translator, food demonstration. Arsen Keshishzade, is at his left. 6. The Burden of Overweight. The haz tionnaire, which was used by each person to ards of overweight and a solution to the evaluate his own individual health status problem of weight reduction with empha and habits by answering a series of twenty sis on temperance and self-control. health questions during the course of the 7. A Tale of Six Houses. A story of dis meetings. Each night a summary of the ease transmission by contaminated water, lecture in the Farsi language was distrib food, fingers, and flies illustrated by flan uted to be placed in this folder, which was nelgraph. kept on file by number at the Center until 8. The Leaf That Kills. The dangers of the final night of the meetings. tobacco reinforced by a Farsi-language ver The series of lectures was divided into sion of the film One in Twenty Thousand. three groups given in the outline below 9. How to Help Your Doctor Help You. with some explanatory comments. Doctor-patient relationship for good health care. Physical Health Subjects 10. A Bottle of Sorrow. The dangers of These were the confidence-building lec alcohol, illustrated by the film Verdict at tures on subjects of health and temperance 1:32, also in the Farsi language. that were designed to meet the people 11. Protect Your Heart. A general sur where they were with practical health in vey of types and causes of heart disease formation and counsel. The subjects pre with special emphasis on preventive factors. sented were: 12. A double feature Be Good to Your 1. Cancer. This was chosen as an opener Teeth. Diet and hygiene in dental care. because of the subject©s high interest value What Shall We Drink? A discussion of and wide public appeal. caffeine beverages. 2. The Twin Keys to Health. A presen These meetings were made personal and tation of the need for factual knowledge practical in several ways. First, by conduct on health coupled with intelligent prac ing a fifteen-minute question-and-answer tical application. An important lecture period at the beginning of each meeting. because the people were told that find Second, by giving free diagnostic tests to ing health was in fact a search for truth, anyone desiring them. On night number which demands an open mind and at four there was a free urine test for diabetes. 28 THE MINISTRY On the sixth night each person was meas during the series were Moslems 71 per ured and weighed and was told what his cent of the total attendance! ideal weight should be. A weight reduc It was in these last eight lectures that an tion clinic was organized which met weekly effort was made to present spiritual truth for the next six weeks with gratifying re "from the physician©s standpoint." If the sults. On night number eight all smokers purpose implied in the series© title and con who wanted to stop smoking were organ fidence in the speaker were to be main ized into a group that met on three consecu tained, it seemed necessary that the spirit tive nights for assistance in breaking the ual lectures should have some scientific tobacco habit. At the eleventh lecture every relevance, and definite practical applica person had his blood pressure taken. The tion to the everyday problems of life. services provided were simple ones but Since most of the listeners were Mos were greatly appreciated. lems, little attention was paid to specific scriptural references by chapter and verse. Mental and Emotional Health Subjects The doctrinal messages were presented These were the transition lectures de largely in narrative or conversational signed to bridge the gap between physical form as a philosophical discussion and per health and spiritual health by showing the sonal testimony of belief. The final subjects intimate relationship between mind and were: body. These three lectures were the best 16. Textbook for Healthful Living. The attended of any in the series. Bible as a guide to achieving perspective, 13. What Your Emotions Can Do to meaning, wholeness, and health in our Your Health. A presentation on psychoso modern world. matic medicine. 17. A Suffering World Why? A pres 14. Secrets of a Happy Home. Counsel entation of the basic cause of disease, suf on the prevention and treatment of un fering, and death the origin of evil. happy marriages. 18. The Worst Disease. The Greatest 15. The Sick Mind. A lecture on mental Cure. The need for divine aid in solving illness in which case histories were related the problem of sin. The plan of redemp to illustrate that emotional problems which tion as revealed in the Old Testament. can create both physical disease and men 19. The Great Physician. Christ, the di tal disorders are frequently basic philosoph vine Son and Saviour of the world. ical and spiritual problems. By this time 20. Beginning Again. How to solve the the audience was aware of the close rela problem of dealing with the guilt of past tionship between the physical, mental, and sins through an understanding of the new spiritual aspects of man©s health, and con birth and justification by faith. scious of the enormous influence of emo 21. Power for Daily Living. Power tional and mental causes in present-day dis through prayer and the study of God©s eases. At this point I candidly confessed Word, emphasizing the fact that wrong (but without apology) that as a Christian habits of eating, drinking, and thinking physician I could talk about these complex can only be truly corrected by divine aid. problems only as a Christian, from my own 22. A Doctor Looks at Death. The Bible personal philosophy of life and from my teaching on the state of the dead. own experience in dealing with such prob 23. What Does the Future Hold? A clos lems among my patients. Our search for ing message of hope for the future based health, I reminded them, is a search for on the second coming of Christ and the truth which demands open-minded in promise of a world of righteousness with quiry even into those areas which at times out pain, sickness, and death. may seem unfamiliar to us. At no time during the series was an ap peal made for personal public surrender to Spiritual Health Subjects Christ. Specific calls were made to the lis Despite the frank admission at the end of teners, however, inviting them to open lecture 15 that the remaining eight lectures their hearts to the messages of God, and ap would unavoidably be of a spiritual and peals were made encouraging each one to religous nature, the audience attendance seek God for himself in the quietness of his remained essentially unchanged in number own thoughts in his own home, asking for and composition. This in spite of the fact divine guidance in his life. that 169 of the 222 persons who registered (Continued on page 40) MAY, 1967 29 SUPPOSE you were walk and admiringly from room to room. There ing alone, deep in the were bedrooms with comfortable-looking forest, miles and miles beds, and closets full of serviceable cloth from anywhere, when ing. There was a dining room with the ta suddenly you came upon ble spread with a tempting meal, and a a clearing and in the spacious lounge with carpeted floor, cozy middle of the clearing chairs, and shelves crowded with interest you discovered the pret ing-looking books. A piano stood in one tiest little cottage you corner of the room; a radio in another. had ever seen! The walls of bedroom, dining room, and "That©s strange!" you lounge were adorned with choice pictures. would say to yourself. There were fireplaces with kindling and "Fancy building a house away out here! I wood all ready to light; ventilation and wonder whose it is and why they built it in fans to ensure a comfortable circulation of such an out-of-the-way place?" fresh air; ample windows to let in the Suppose you walked over to the gate, up light; electric lights all ready to switch on. the path, past neat flower beds and trim Flowers in exquisite arrangement and de lawns, and around the back, where you saw lightfully harmonious interior decora a well-kept vegetable garden plus fruit tions combined to give the cottage a warm trees, fowls, a cow grazing, a couple of and inviting atmosphere of home. The Common-Sense Case for CREATIONISM

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goats, a clothesline, an incinerator, a wood You have discovered an intriguing little pile, a well, a windmill, and an electric dream house, all imaginatively prepared light plant. However, there was no sign of and tastefully furnished for someone to oc any occupant around, except footprints, cupy. Every wish seems to have been antici clear and distinct, on the front path, on pated, every need supplied, every comfort the lawn, and in the soft loam of the back and convenience thoughtfully provided for. yard. You walk through the house again; you Suppose you went up to the back door pass outside; you walk around the house; and knocked. Not a sound. You called you call, but still there is no reply. Then, out. Still no sound. Just then you noticed with increasing wonder, you sit down and near the door a small, neat placard. "Wel ponder the mystery of it all. come, friend, whoever you may be. Please Now, I could be mistaken, but I am sure step inside and look around. Signed: The that all the time you were making your Owner and Builder." tour of inspection something would be go Your curiosity thoroughly aroused, sup ing on in your own mind. Clearly and dis pose you went inside. You found a kitchen, tinctly as the ringing of a bell arrestingly, fully furnished; a pantry crammed with a compellingly a question would be taking large variety of delicious foods; a refrigera shape: tor; a bathroom where you turned on the "Who built this house? Who planned tap and the water ran freely; a medicine and furnished it with such imagination and chest; a linen closet liberally stocked with good taste? Why was it built away out here towels, soap, sheets, blankets, pillowslips, in the forest? And for whose benefit were and tablecloths. You passed wonderingly all these thoughtful preparations made?" 30 THE MINISTRY Houses do not build themselves! Every ingenious combination of desirable factors? house that was ever built argues convinc 2. The Earth©s Rotation. The earth, a ingly for the existence of an architect, a spherical-shaped planet, hangs unsupported dreamer, a planner, a builder; it argues in space, spinning smoothly and silently for a rational motive for building, and for upon its axis, like a giant top or merry-go- an intelligent intention or purpose in the round, at an unvarying speed of 1,040 miles mind of the architect, the dreamer, the an hour. The length of day and night is planner, or the builder! right for work and rest, study and relaxa To suggest that a house built itself by tion, social pursuits and solitude. Who chance or by accident or by magic would started it spinning? Who keeps it spinning? be an insult to intelligence. Who regulates its speed? By the same simple down-to-earth process 3. The Earth©s Orbit. As it rotates, the of logic we arrive at the most elementary earth also travels through space in its orbit belief in God. True, we cannot see God around the sun at the right speed approx with our natural eyes; or hear God with imately 19 miles a second, 1,140 miles a our natural ears; or touch God with our minute, 68,400 miles an hour along a reg natural hands, but if we are willing to look ular pathway from which it never swerves. around this wonderful world with reason The tilt of the earth on its axis and the ing minds and sensitive hearts, we can see shape and length of its elliptical path are evidences that it has been planned and also right to produce essential seasonal prepared as a home for man by an all-wise, changes. Who determined the size, weight, all-powerful, all-loving Architect and Mas composition, shape, temperature, motion, ter Builder. direction, and speed of the earth? Who cal With profound insight and overwhelm culated the distance of its yearly journey ing logic the apostle Paul condenses this and the angle of its tilt? Who maintains evidence into sixteen terse and masterful these factors century after century, in per words: fect balance, and in correct relationship to "For every house is builded by some one another? man; but he that built all things is God" 4. The Sun. The sun is the right size, dis (Heb. 3:4). tance, composition, and temperature to The common-sense case for Creationism give indispensable light, warmth, and en falls into three natural divisions: ergy for the maintenance of life upon this 1. Creationism is unshakably rooted in earth. It has the right mass to hold the facts. earth in space by the mysterious pull of 2. Creationism is unshakably rooted in gravitation. Imagine how disastrous it Scripture. would be if there had been only a slight 3. Creationism is unshakably rooted in mistake in the sun©s size, heat, composition, the heart of man. or distance from the earth! Who calculated Creationism Is Deeply and Unshakably and organized this intricate combination Rooted in Facts of factors? And who maintains it? 5. The Moon. The moon is the right size Consider the following facts, which al and distance to operate earth©s ocean tides, most anyone can observe and verify for him and to cleanse her harbors. It is also in the self without leaving his own back yard: right position, and is the right nature to 1. The Earth. The earth itself, with its act as a giant reflector of the sun©s light. amazing combination of soil, water, air, 6. The Air or Atmospheric Shield. animals, plants, foodstuffs, flavors, per Earth©s atmosphere, while providing the fumes, light, heat, sound, and color, is mar- breath of life for man, bird, and beast, pro velously furnished and adapted as a home tects them from the ceaseless bombardment for man and other living things. Who of meteoric particles from outer space. The planned and executed this complex and atmosphere cushions their impact, and causes most of them to burn out long be fore they reach the earth an estimated FRANK BREADEN 20 million a day, traveling at about 30 miles a second. Pastor-Evangelist, North New Zealand 7. Umbrella of Ozone Gas. The indispen sable "umbrella," "filter," or "curtain" of ozone gas which is suspended in our atmos- MAY, 1967 31 phere shields all living things from deadly ety of forms and color combinations, are cosmic and solar rays. This marvelous pro found in flowers, ferns, leaves, seeds, birds, tective layer of gas extends from 60,000 to butterflies, fishes, shells, snowflakes, et cet 100,000 feet up, with its maximum concen era. tration at about 80,000 feet! Could any ra 15. Adaptation. Countless examples of tional man attribute this ingenious protec ingenious adaptation exist. For instance, tive device to an accidental process a freak eyes and light; ears and sound; wastes and of chance? It is a screen of the right scavengers, such as bacteria; bees and flow depth and the right composition to prevent ers; beauty and our capacity to appreciate the swift death of every living thing on the it; instinctive hungers, and the means of face of the earth. satisfying them. 8. Water. Water has unique properties 16. Rhythm. Regularity and rhythm are which make it completely necessary for the everywhere apparent. For example, the existence of all living things upon the orderly march of day and night, the pag earth. eant of the changing seasons, the carbon, 9. The Sea. The sea, which is held con oxygen, and nitrogen cycles, the ebb and stantly in its place by invisible bonds, has flow of the tides, the beating of the heart, power to safeguard life on earth by purify the breeding and migrating habits of ani ing itself of all the foul, decaying, defiling mals, birds, insects, and fishes. matter that enters its bosom. It helps also 17. Healing Agencies. Healing agencies, in the equalizing of the earth©s temperature in the form of a wide variety of medicines and rainfall. on the one hand, and amazing recupera 10. Animal and Plant Life. Animal life tive powers on the other, are available or in its myriad forms ministers to vegetable operative throughout the whole creation. life by giving off carbon dioxide, which 18. Laws. Indispensable laws of light, plants use in food manufacture. Plants re heat, sound, energy, motion, gravitation, ciprocate, and minister to animal life by electricity, growth, heredity, et cetera, op building animal wastes into useful food, erate with majestic, unvarying consistency, and by giving off pure, precious oxygen, outside of man©s power to originate or to which means life to man and beast. control. 11. Light. With its mysterious and infi In this amazing combination of facts is nitely beneficial properties, light is always found the essence of the most common- and everywhere present. sense and conclusive case for Creationism. 12. Fire. The most genial and useful of If God did not design and produce these all man©s servants, fire is never beyond easy things, who did? Who could? What rational reach. alternative is there? 13. Sound and Music. Music pours from the throats of countless birds; hides among Creationism Makes Infinitely Better Sense the forest leaves; whispers in the wind; Out of the Universe Than Atheism Does! sighs in the restless sea; murmurs in the "Someone has figured out how many lingering harmony of ocean shells; and chances to one it would take for the world everywhere gladdens the heart of man. to have happened by chance, and the figures 14. Color and Beauty. Color, the magic go round the world thirty-five times!" artist, shines in the rainbow; splashes the E. STANLEY JONES, Abundant Living, p. 5. clouds with crimson and gold at sunset or In the face of these inescapable and eas dawn; and glows in a thousand hues from ily verifiable facts, how can a man do other gardens, fields, lakes, trees, and skies. wise than believe in an all-wise, all-power Beauty and harmony, combined with in ful, all-loving, personal Creator? tricate order and design in an infinite vari (To be continued}

OFFER OURSELVES- My child, when you pray to Me of your own little troubles and doubts, your prayer is pretty thin and small. When you reach out to help other people by offering yourself as a channel for Me, your prayer becomes at once large and noble. —Frank Laubach©s Prayer Diary (Fleming H. Revell Company) THE MINISTRY Daniel 8:14 and the Cleansing of the Sanctuary

III. Our Historic Position Strengthened

W. E. READ

Retired Administrator

ON MORE than one oc the K.J.V. refer the reader to Deuteronomy casion in this series of 32:43, but the expression is not to be articles, we have em found there, nor is it in the Masoretic phasized that the LXX text. It was in the LXX, however, and so translations give katha- on this account many Bible students felt rizo as the translation of that the charge concerning interpolations tsadaq in Daniel 8:14. was justified. Of course, this seeming cer This undoubtedly has tainty was postulated on the basis that the been one of the strong Masoretic text was the text, and perhaps est points. the only ancient Hebrew text of the Holy This use by the LXX Scriptures. of the translation of Now this has changed, and we can kalharizu for Isadaq, however, is about as thank God for the findings in the caves at isolated as the word "cleansed" in the Qumran. These discoveries have revealed K.J.V. It is the only place where they so many interesting findings. One of them rendered the verbal form of the Hebrew pertains to this very passage quoted in the word tsadaq. Furthermore, it has been felt book of Hebrews. The story is told by by many Biblical and other scholars that F. F. Bruce. Referring to Hebrews 1:6, he the LXX was not too reliable anyway. It writes: was felt that there were many interpreta But the LXX text [has it] It was based on a tions and also excisions, as well as quite a Hebrew original, as is now made clear by the dis number of inexact and, as some contended, covery of a copy of this chapter of Deuteronomy careless translations. Their judgment in in the fourth cave at Qumran, exhibiting a Hebrew this matter was mainly because the LXX text corresponding closely to the LXX.1 text differed from the Masoretic text, from He remarks further: which the Old Testament in our English Bibles was translated. One passage among As the Biblical manuscripts from Qumran have others quoted in the New Testament that been studied, it has become possible to distinguish three main types of text among them. One is the led Bible translators and others to enter ancestor of the consonental text which formed the tain such questions was Hebrews 1:6. basis of the Masorete©s editorial work. Another is There we read: "When he [God] bringeth the type of text which must have lain before the the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, men who produced the Greek translation commonly And let all the angels of God worship called the Septuagint. . . . And the third type, con him." This text, as well as others in this fined to the first five books of the Old Testament, chapter, is quoted by the author of He is closely related to the Samaritan Pentateuch.2 brews to highlight the deity of our Lord. Then he raises this question: It will be noted that it is something God What is the value of the Septuagint for us? ... had said, and the conclusion would be that this was from the Old Testament, as NOTES 1 F. F. Bruce, The Books and Parchments (Fleming Revell were the other Scripture references the Co., 1964), p. 154. writer had quoted. Some of the margins of 2 Ibid., p. 123. MAY, 1967 33 It represents an underlying Hebrew text over a spoken. This they adopted, and as a matter thousand years older than our Masoretic manu of fact, when they returned from captivity scripts.3 there was almost a new generation and This testimony is confirmed by Wil they had practically forgotten their He liam F. Albright, as follows: brew. Shortly after the return, when they We now know that in the fragments so far de stood before Nehemiah, they could not un scribed from the Pentateuch and the former proph derstand the Hebrew scrolls that were read; ets ... the Greek translations were almost slavish everything had to be translated into Ara in their literalism. . . . When we find sections pre maic. This can be seen in Nehemiah 8:8: served in the LXX . . . that are missing in the M.T. "They read in the Book of the Law of God, [Masoretic text], . . . we may thus be reasonably with an interpreter who translated the certain that they are not inner Greek additions or meaning" (Fenton). corruptions, but go back to an older Hebrew revi sion which differed from the M.T.4 This is mentioned many times in the Jewish writings.6 The translation made at It is really remarkable how quietly and that time was called a Targum, which ac unostentatiously God is verifying His own tually is an interpretative translation. We word of truth. In the light of this discovery, read in the Jewish Encyclopedia: then, we may rest better satisfied with what Targum: The Aramaic translation of the Bible. the LXX translators did in Daniel 8:14 It forms a part of the Jewish traditional literature, where they translated the Hebrew tsadaq and in its inception is as early as the time of as "cleansed" katharizo. the Second Temple. . . . The use of the term We will now give study to some other "Targum" by itself was restricted to the Aramaic important aspects of this question, for version of the Bible. . . . The reading of the Bible there may be a very basic and fundamental text combined with the Targum in the presence of reason why the translators of the LXX did the congregation assembled for public worship was what they did. an ancient institution.7 1. The Aramaic Background of the LXX Seeing that Aramaic became the com Translators mon language of Israel during the Cap A very important principle in Biblical tivity, and seeing it was about three cen interpretation has been expressed by one turies later that the LXX was translated Hebrew scholar: after their return from exile, it can quite In Hebrew, as in all languages, a word may take readily be seen that the Jewish leaders to on different meanings in different contexts, but this whom was committed the important task of has not always been recognized. . . . translating the Holy Scriptures into Greek The translators of the Old Testament . . . had . . . knew Aramaic and knew it even before they an intricate and difficult task [with] the numerous items of vocabulary and syntax in both English and knew Hebrew or Greek in fact, it was Hebrew ... to keep in mind to be certain that he their mother tongue. This fact undoubt is carefully interpreting the original.5 edly had quite a bearing on why they did what they did in Daniel 8:14 when they This is vital, and its significance will be translated tsadaq as "cleansed." This we apparent as we study the linguistic back will now study. ground of those Jewish scholars who trans 2. The Synonym for Tsadaq in Aramaic lated the LXX. We know that they must have been well In the Aramaic Targums tsadaq is quite versed in both Hebrew and Greek, but often translated as zakah. These words are one thing not often remembered is that evidently used as synonyms in many in they had a strong Aramaic background, as stances. Tsadaq* as we have seen, has as its well. Aramaic was actually learned at their primary meaning, "to justify," "to make mother©s knee. righteous." As secondary meanings, it is "lawful" (Isa. 49:24); "even" (Job. 31: When Israel went into captivity in 605 6); "cleansed" (Dan. 8:14). Zakah* has a B.C., they naturally mingled with the peo primary meaning of "to cleanse," to pu- ple of Babylon. In the area where they were located Aramaic was evidently the language NOTES 6 See Talmud: Moed Katan 28b; Sanhedrin 94b; Nedarim 37b; Rosh Hoihana 27a; Berakoth 8a,b., etc. NOTES ©Jewish, Encyclopedia, article "Targum." (See also Koel- " Ibid., p. 156. her and Baumgartner, Lexicon in Veteris Testament! Libros.} 5 Quoted by Dewey M. Beegle, God©s Word Into English 8 Wm. Gesenius, Hebrew and Chaldean Lexicon; also (Eerdmann©s Publ;shing Co.. 1960). Selig Newman, Hebrew and English Lexicon. 5 Th. T- Meek. "Translating the Hebrew," Journal of 9 See Selig Newman, op. cit.; M. Jastrow. Dictionary of Biblical Literature, Vol. LXXIX, Part IV. December 1960 Targumim, Talmud, etc.: F. Zimmerman. Journal of Bib" pp. 330-335. lied Literature, Vol. LVII, September, 1938, p. 262. 34 THE MINISTRY rify," and secondary meanings of "to jus both for purity of doctrine in Job 11:4. tify," "to make righteous." Inasmuch as these translators used Ara The following few instances will illus maic for such a wide range of concepts, trate this: would it be thought strange and unusual, Job 4:17: "Shall mortal man be more had there been a Targum on Daniel 8:14, just than God?" Hebrew text tsadaq; Ara that they could have used zakah? It seems maic text zakah. as though the Septuagint translators Psalm 36:10: "O continue ... thy right thought they did when they gave katharizo eousness to the upright in heart." Hebrew an almost perfect synonym for zakah. This text tsedaqah; Aramaic text zakah. might be called an assumption. Granted, Psalm 51:4: "That thou mightest be jus because actually we do not know what tified when thou speakest." Hebrew text they would have done. However, in the tsadaq; Aramaic text zakah. light of the above data, it is quite prob Isaiah 61:10: "He [God] hath covered able, to say the least. This assumption, how me with the robe of righteousness." He ever, might be carried further, as we shall brew text tsedaqah; Aramaic text zakah. see in the following paragraphs. Psalm 119:137: "Righteous art thou, O 4. The Word Cleanse as Used in the Lord." Hebrew text tsaddiq; Aramaic text Bible in Relation to the Sanctuary zakah. There are about 39 references to the con This gives an illustration of the use and cept of cleanse in relation to the sanctuary translation of each. and Temple in ancient days. While differ 3. The Use of Zakah for Tsadaq in the ent Hebrew words were used in the Maso- Targums retic text and in the LXX, in the 33 in The Hebrew word tsadaq in its various stances we could examine, the word in the forms is used about 517 times in the He Targums was zakah. And this includes the brew Bible, but we were able to examine use of the word in such phases of meaning only 504 of these, because about 13 were as the cleansing of the priests, also of the in the books of Daniel, Ezra, and Nehe- people, and in addition, the cleansing of miah, on which there are no Targums. Of the altar, the tabernacle, and the vessels of the 504 instances, it was found that the the ministry. The word "cleanse" is seen Targum translators used zakah for tsadaq, twice in Leviticus 16, in verses 19 and 30, et cetera, 209 times, and these are distrib and the word "clean" once in verse 30. In uted as follows: each case, the Hebrew word taher is used; In the Pentateuch 25 times in the Targums the word used is zakah. In Joshua to Chronicles 21 Might this again indicate what the trans In Job to Proverbs 25 lators would have done had there been a In Psalms 25 Targum 11 on Daniel, seeing verse 14 also In Isaiah 47 deals with the sanctuary? In Jeremiah and Ezekiel 45 5. The Use of the Verbal Form of Tsa In Ecclesiastes, Lamenta daq tions, and the Minor It is recognized that the verbal form Prophets 21 tsadaq is more restricted in meaning than the adjectival or substantive forms, and Total 209 10 this fact is worthy of examination, espe This is practically 40 per cent, and it can cially seeing it is the verbal form used in be seen that zakah applied to the righteous Daniel 8:14. ness of God, and also to that righteousness Tsadaq as a verb occurs about 40 times. which He imputes and imparts to His be In one case (Ps. 82:3) it is tsadaq in the lieving children and this highest of all Targums; in two others (Job 9:2; 2 Sam. concepts, in addition to other phases 15:4) it is qoshet in the Aramaic, but in 35 such as purifying and cleansing. Zakah ap of the 40 instances, it is zakah. Is this a pears in both the Hebrew and the Aramaic further indication of what might have been texts of Psalm 73:13, and is rendered done, had the Targum on Daniel been "cleansed" in the K.J.V. It is also used in made? NOTES NOTES 11 There was no Targum on Daniel, because of what the 10 For a complete list of texts of tsadaq, rendered as zakah, Jews called a voice from heaven, a Bath Kol. forbidding see article entitled "Further Observations on Sadaq" in JJonathan ben Uzziel to do so. When he asked "Why?" he Andrews University Seminary Studies, Vol. IV.. Jan., 1966, was told, "Because the date of the Messiah is foretold pp. 29-36. in it." Talmud Megillah 3a. MAY, 1967 35 But one further query: 6. Is There a Targum on Daniel? It is true that there is no Targum on Daniel by Onkelos or by Jonathan ben Uz- ziel, and it is generally conceded that we must restrict the meaning of the word to the Targums translated to the days long, long ago. It has been used more freely, how ever, in later years, and in general is applied by some to any interpretative transla tion into either Arabic, Persian, or Turk ish. In the early centuries a wealth of Jewish literature, in addition to the Holy Scrip tures, was translated into these languages. Several of these manuscripts are extant and can be seen in some of the large libraries. Generally such manuscripts can be seen in the British Museum library, and two of them contain the complete book of Daniel, translated into Arabic, but written in He-

Figure 2. British Museum MS Or. 1476, p. 70 r. An Arabic version of Daniel in Hebrew characters. Yemenite hand of the 15th to 16th century A.D. The passage discussed in this study is in lines 8 and 9 underlined above. (Courtesy of the British Museum.) oretic text tsadaq qodesh; but the other text is zakah qodesh. These renderings were made by a Yemenite hand about the twelfth to the fourteenth century A.D. This translator evidently reflected the thinking not only of his day but of the days of earlier centuries.12 Again we remark that in the light of this data and particularly these two manu scripts, which might be called Targums, it is highly probable that had a Targum on this wonderful prophetic book been written in ancient days, it would undoubtedly have had zakah instead of tsadaq in the sacred text. Figure 1. British Museum MS Or. 2377, p. 78 r. An Arabic It is interesting to note that in the year version of Daniel in Hebrew characters. Yemenite hand of the 14th century A.D, The passage discussed in this study is in 1938, Frank Zimmerman, in his article on lines 14 and 15 underlined above. (Courtesy of the British Museum Library.) Daniel 8:14, stated: The translation therefore should have been here, brew square characters. These are Nos. "and the temple shall be cleansed," and so the LXX, 1476 and 2377. What was done by the au (Continued on page 46} thor or authors was to quote the Hebrew NOTES text, and then follow this with a para 12 See Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. LVII, Septem ber, 1938, p. 262, for a further study of tsadaq. The reader phrase, or Targum. On looking at the ac is also referred to: N. H. Snaith, Distinctive Ideas of the companying plates the words in question, "sanctuary shall be cleansed," are under lined. The Hebrew text is just as our Mas- erature, Vol. XXII, 1903, p. 211. 36 THE MINISTRY Tyranny©s Last Stand 2

Medieval Mysteries Unveiled

ORRIS J. MILLS Pastor, Southern New England Conference

THIS world needs light. The Chameleon A need summed up by As we turn to John©s portrayal of the Dr. Otto Dibelius, for forerunner, "the first beast before him," mer chairman of the we behold a veritable chameleon. "A leop Evangelical Church in ard," with "feet of a bear," "mouth of a Germany, in these lion," having received "his power, and his words: "The powers of seat, and great authority" from the dragon darkness have never (Rev. 13:2), he becomes all things to all been so consistent nor men. No marvel that "the whole earth fol violent as they appear lowed the beast with wonder" (Rev. 13: to be in this century. 3, R.S.V.). Never before has the en It is verse eight that highlights the iden tire sphere of human relations been so tifying marks of this first beast of Revela much obscured." tion 13. "And all that dwell upon the But the apostle Peter assures us we need earth shall worship him, whose names are not remain in darkness. "We have also a not written in the book of life of the true word of prophecy; you do well when Lamb slain from the foundation of the you look to it for guidance, as you look world." to the lamp that shines in a dark place" First, we discover he is a religious (2 Peter 1:19), according to Lamsa from power, for he is worshiped. Second, he Aramaic). carries universal influence for "all that The last book of the Bible, the Revela dwell upon the earth shall worship him." tion, is all that the name implies. Here And finally, he represents a counterfeit God has made known the hidden things of system of religion, for the names of those darkness while focusing the powerful bea who worship him "are not written in the con of prophecy beyond the limited hori book of life of the Lamb." zon of human understanding. In the very heart of this book is the illuminating guid Creature Exalted Above Creator ance that makes intelligible these other Satan©s scheme is to so work as to lead wise puzzling times. men to exalt the creature above the Cre "I beheld another beast," said John, ator, to secure all men in a system that "coming up out of the earth; and he had will separate them from the one true God two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a and eternal life. He cares not what they dragon" (Rev. 13:11). This beast is not worship, so long as they do not worship the first of his line. He is "another beast." the Maker of heaven and earth. And But the prophet pictures him as becoming strangely, he has had great success in his an admirer and champion of his predeces efforts. When we look out over the world sor, actually aiding him in his recovery to or back through the pages of history we life after having suffered a "deadly wound" find people worshiping just about every (verse 12). thing. MAY, 1967 37 Not only do we today find certain primi ernacle, and them that dwell in heaven" tive tribes worshiping sticks and stones, (Rev. 13:5, 6). serpents and crocodiles, but history also What can this mean? Paul explains that testifies that no less an ancient civilization it was a development that was to come than highly educated Egypt substituted within the church. In a farewell sermon frogs and beetles and bulls and the heav in Miletus he warned, "After my depart enly illuminaries in place of God. We also ing shall grievous wolves enter in among behold modern civilized man worshiping you, not sparing the flock. Also of your technology, human achievement, position, own selves shall men arise, speaking per intellect, knowledge, material possessions. verse things, to draw away disciples after In a crisis that awakens him to an aware them" (Acts 20:29, 30). ness of the inadequacies of his preoccupa Counseling the believers in Thessalonica tion with self, causing him to turn to a to beware of heresy, Paul pointed out that power outside of himself, this materialistic before the coming of Christ there would obsession obtrudes itself and man carves "come a falling away" from the pure faith. out a god for formal worship in order to As a result of this apostasy "that man of practice a philosophy of religion that will sin" would "be revealed, the son of perdi retain self while pretending to supply his tion; who opposeth and exalteth himself spiritual needs. Satan twists the hunger of above all that is called God, or that is the unconverted heart in its outreach after worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in God so as to focus its attention upon what the temple of God, shewing himself that can be seen and thus forget the One who he is God" (2 Thess. 2:3, 4). cannot be seen, "the invisible God" (Col. 1:15). What Is Blasphemy? As soon as Satan can ally such a system Studying further these presumptuous of creature worship with the authority of claims and daring blasphemies that were the state, he sets forth a program to bring to occur in the very church of Christ, it is all into conformity by persecuting those helpful to note how the Bible defines who through faith see "him who is invisi blasphemy. On the occasion of Jesus© heal ble" (Heb. 11:27). ing of a victim of palsy, He assured the re The operation of this principle of coer stored man with a promise, "Thy sins are cion is likewise revealed in Revelation 13. forgiven thee." But "the scribes and the "It was given unto him to make war with Pharisees began to reason, saying, Who is the saints ["those who keep the command this which speaketh blasphemies? Who can ments of God," Rev. 14:12, R.S.V.], and to forgive sins, but God alone?" (Luke 5:20, overcome them: and power was given him 21). Now, of course, we know that Jesus over all kindreds, and tongues, and na had the power to forgive sins because He tions" (Rev. 13:7). was not a mere man. But this reaction of the Jews, who looked upon Jesus as a mere Grievous Wolves! man, serves to illustrate how Bible writers Note how Satan, "the dragon," uses "the understood the term. beast" to direct man©s attention away from A similar example is found in John 10: the living God. Verse one says that the 33: "The Jews answered him, saying, For a beast had "upon his heads the name of good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy." Further, we read, "There was blasphemy; and because that thou, being given unto him a mouth speaking great a man, makest thyself God." things and blasphemies. . . . And he Thus, it is clear that there was to de opened his mouth in blasphemy against velop in the Christian church a principle God, to blaspheme his name, and his tab that would exalt man above God as church

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Those who labor for the good of others are working in union with the heavenly angels. They have their constant companionship, their unceasing ministry. Angels of light and power are ever near to protect, to comfort, to heal, to instruct, to inspire. The highest edu cation, the truest culture, the most exalted service possible to human beings in this world, are theirs.—Gospel Workers, p. 515. 38 THE MINISTRY leaders would assume prerogatives that be long alone unto Him. BAPTISTRIES -SPIRES Paul said this principle, "the mystery of • Unit-Molded iniquity," was already working in his day Fiberglass (2 Thess. 2:7). This mystery is the out • Accessories working of the unconverted heart, moved upon by Satan. It is the desire for position Box 672 Dept. J5, Muscatine, Iowa and fame. It is the passion to be first, the ambition to receive power and glory. It is based on conceit, built up with self-exalta together to lie about their possessions. As tion and perpetuated through self-decep a result of this sin both of them were sum tion. It is the reincarnation of the princi marily destroyed by the immediate judg ple that operated in the heart of Lucifer ments of God. (See Acts 5:1-11.) and led him to seek to exalt himself above Even after God©s singular manifestation the throne of God (see Isa. 14:12-14). of His displeasure of the evident workings It manifests itself in jealousy, intoler of the "mystery of iniquity," Satan suc ance, and self-deception. It reared its ugly ceeded in even these very early days of head even among the twelve disciples of this newborn Christian church to enter Jesus. They quarreled among themselves again by introducing suspicion and evil as to who was to be the greatest (Mark 9: surmising. As "the number of the disciples 34) and were ready to call fire down from was" multiplying, he inspired "a murmur heaven upon those who would not sub ing of the Grecians against the Hebrews, scribe to their convictions (Luke 9:53-56). because their widows were neglected in Their key need was conversion (chap. 22: the daily ministration" (Acts 6:1). 32). This experience of conversion finally did come to all of them, except Judas, who Church Popularity Dangerous went on in his delusion until he actually As the membership increased, the op betrayed his Lord and then took his own portunity for the "dragon" to insert him life. self increased. The farther we get from Conversion Brought Pentecost Pentecost the more rapidly do we see a deterioration of the pure faith of apostolic It was the conversion of the eleven that times. It was only a score of years later brought Pentecost to the early church. And that Paul wrote, "The mystery of iniquity when it "was fully come, they were all doth already work." It was hindered from with one accord in one place" (Acts 2:1). coming to full bloom as long as the ma "And all that believed were together, and jority leading the church were under the had all things common; and sold their pos control of the Holy Spirit. But as Chris sessions and goods, and parted them to all tianity became more popular, more and men, as every man had need" (verses 44, more unconverted believers crowded into 45). The spirit of Satan had been cast out the church. Though they put their names and the Spirit of God had come in to sub on the church rolls they did not take their due and conquer the ambition of the car lives out of the ways of the world. As the nal heart to reign and rule. But the covet church lost the power of a pure faith, she ous spirit was not cast out once and for all. sought the power of the civil government. Satan stood by watching every avenue and Thus came about the divorcement of seeking entrance at every opening, and he the bride of Christ and the remarriage of found a way in through hearts momen the church through her illicit relations tarily melted by Heaven©s love. with the state, followed by centuries of In the midst of the unbounded spirit of persecution by the apostate union of benevolence, covetousness again extended church and state against those who sought its grasping hands. Some subdued but to maintain the true faith. Speaking of not totally surrendered, who under the in this terrible spiritual idolatry, John said fluence of the Holy Spirit©s ministry had he saw "the great whore . . . with whom committed their means to the newly the kings of the earth have committed founded church, were worked upon by fornication" (Rev. 17:1, 2). "And I saw the Satan to change their pledge. New con woman drunken with the blood of the verts to the faith, Ananias and Sapphira saints, and with the blood of the martyrs became so deluded that they covenanted of Jesus" (verse 6). MAY, 1967 39 All of this is a matter of history. Con- tation on which most scholars of prophecy stantine "granted toleration to the Chris agree "I have appointed thee each day for tian church and then professing Christian a year" (Eze. 4:6) is to apply here as it ity himself lifted it to a privileged position. is to be consistently applied to all time The effects were obvious. The church prophecies given in days. gained tremendous prestige. Its growth and This nearly thirteen-century span of su prosperity were assured. But inevitably the premacy of the medieval church need not church became a worldly institution mixed be pinned down to specific dates, but it is inextricably with the politics of Rome and significant that when we turn to the eight Christianity was soon the religion of the eenth century we have a date of great state." T. VALENTINE PARKER, American terminal significance, and that is the year Protestantism: An Appraisal, p. 4. 1798 when the Roman pontiff was taken Persecution Inevitable prisoner. Observed George Trevor: So far did the church depart from the The object of the French directory was the de doctrines of Christ as found in the Bible struction of the pontifical government, as the irrec that truth began to be looked upon as er oncilable enemy of the republic. . . . The aged ror, obedience as heresy, and command pope [Pius VI] was summoned to surrender the ment-keeping saints as enemies of God. temporal government; on his refusal, he was The prophet said, "It was given unto him dragged from the altar. . . . His rings were torn to make war with the saints, and to over from his fingers, and finally, after declaring the come them" (Rev. 13:7). "And power was temporal power abolished, the victors carried the given unto him to continue forty and two pope prisoner into Tuscany whence he never re months" (verse 5). This prophetic period turned (1798). Rome: From the Fall of the West is spoken of on several occasions in rela ern Empire, pp. 439, 440. tion to this development depicted by vari Thus was brought to a dramatic conclu ous symbols. sion that development in the church which Daniel, speaking of this religious devel resulted in the assumption of power that opment coming out of pagan Rome which belongs alone to God. Observers at the "made war with the saints," said, "And he time thought this was the end of this power shall speak great words against the most in world affairs, but the prophecy does not High, and shall wear out the saints of the end there. John said, "And his deadly most High, and think to change times and wound was healed: and all the world laws: and they shall be given into his hand wondered after the beast" (Rev. 13:3). until a time and times and the dividing of (To be continued) time" (Dan. 7:25). John, viewing this period of persecution, said he saw a pure woman, the true church, fleeing from persecution. "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a Health Evangelism—Bridge to Islam place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred (Continued from page 29} and three score days" (Rev. 12:6). Later There is not enough space to relate here in the same chapter he refers to the same the personal consultations, the friendly dis period as "a time, and times, and half a cussions, and rich prayer experiences we time" (verse 14). had with many of these precious souls. It is Thus, it is clear that "forty and two too early, too, to see what the fruits of these months," "a time, and times, and half a meetings will be. Only time can reveal the time," and "one thousand two hundred and results that will come from the personal sixty days" are equal terms prophetically, contacts made and now being followed up symbolically representing that period of by ministers and lay workers. Several facts, well-nigh universal apostasy when the however, stand out in clear relief. The peo church, illicitly linked with the state, used ple of the Moslem world are receptive to the civil arm to enforce her dogmas, sus the vital truth we bear and can be per tain her institutions, and punish heretics. suaded to listen with respect and apprecia It is obvious that the period of 1,260 days tion if we make use of the bridge of under is more than a mere three and one-half standing so long available to us in the years. The principle of prophetic interpre- message of healthful living. 40 THE MINISTRY The Long and the Short BIBLE INSTRUCTORS of It

MARY GREEN

H, MY sister," exclaimed F. H. Yost, now Bible Instructor, New York Conference A gone to his rest, but then General Confer ence Associate Religious Liberty secretary, "I have often envied you Bible instructors. We, from the pulpit, have the long sword, but you A Bible Instructor Talks Confidentially have the short one. You can get close to the to the Minister people." This was many years ago, but I have thought much about this remark and I am sure there is a time to wield only the long sword and a time deep into each heart. As you talk, twist it a to wield the short one. I have watched and lis little! Please take time for this quiet talk until tened to many ministers and a few times I have each heart cries out, "What shall I do?" Dismiss seen that short sword wielded powerfully from them on this quiet very earnest note with the of the pulpit. It has made me long to see this fer to stay by for those who want to talk with more often. you. And this time, Mrs. Brown, with tears glis tening on her cheeks, will whisper to me, "Oh, During a series of meetings I have heard dif Mrs. Green, he was talking just to me tonight. ferent subjects presented powerfully, brilliantly, I am going to tell him now that I want to and logically the long sword wielded skillfully go all the way!" and I have sat and prayed: "O Lord, help May we never forget that logic may convince him to come close to the people." But too often minds, but it is only the exaltation of Christ he wipes off the point of the sword (for he did that will win hearts. scratch the surface) and slips it back into the "We cannot be too much in earnest. ... If scabbard. The meeting is dismissed, and Mrs. there was ever a crisis, it is now." Testimonies, Brown exclaims to me as she leaves, "Wasn©t he vol. 6, p. 16. wonderful tonight? How clear he made this subject." But if I place my hand on her arm and gently say, "You are right, Mrs. Brown, but what are you going to do about it?" her eyes widen in surprise, and she exclaims, "Who? Me?" The Love of God If only our ministers and evangelists would realize that the people who listen to them night There is an eye that never sleeps after night and from week to week see them in Beneath the wing of night; a special light. They believe, dear brother, that There is an ear that never shuts you have great wisdom. Your dedication awes When sink the beams of light. them. They admire you tremendously and they There is an arm that never tires treasure a personal word from you. I have learned this while visiting with them. You could When human strength gives way; accomplish immeasurable results from the pul There is a love that never fails pit and get lasting decisions if, after you have When earthly loves decay. simply and beautifully presented some very vital That eye, unseen, o©erwatches all; point of truth, one which requires real deci That arm upholds the sky; sion, you would lean over the pulpit and let That ear doth hear the sparrow©s call; seconds of silence pass, until everyone in that That love is ever nigh. room is sure you are looking only at him. Then Selected lift up Jesus before them, and take that short sword, dipped in your love, and with your hand guided by the nail-scarred One, plunge it MAY, 1967 41 fourteen outstanding British preachers who lived and preached during the first six decades o£ the present century, and he has evaluated their con tributions in the context of their time. The author suggests four tasks for the gospel minister: First, "to remove objections to his mes sage and to establish its relevance"; second, "to deepen the congregation©s understanding of God"; BOOKS third, "to teach the holy love of God so as to elicit the response of adoration"; and fourth, "to help men to rediscover that their near or remote neighbors of every race and class are brothers in Christ." The subjects of the book are presented under eight categories as follows: Devotional Preaching, J. H. Jowett; Reasonable Preaching, Bishop Hen- A Short History of the Ancient Near East, Sieg son and Dean Inge; Preaching Truth Through Per fried J. Schwantes, Baker Book House, Grand sonality, Dick Sheppard and Studdert Kennedy; Rapids, Michigan, 191 pages, $4.95. Liturgical Preaching, Monsignor Ronald Knox; Psychological Preaching, Leslie D. Weatherhead; This recent book, written by my friend and col Distinguished Lay Preaching, B. L. Manning and league, Dr. Schwantes, is one of the best of its kind. C. S. Lewis; Expository Preaching, Campbell Mor It has the additional advantage of incorporating all gan, W. E. Sangster, J. S. Steward; Apologetical and the recent findings of history, archeology, and other Theological Preaching, Archbishop Temple and related fields, thus making the work right up to Professor Farmer. date. Dr. Davies has the ability to present solid ma Whereas one might expect a short book of some terial in an interesting manner. His biographical 191 pages to lack the details of larger histories, Dr. sketches, though very brief, are succinct and read Schwantes has been able to pack into his short able. His analyses of the preachers and their preach history a tremendous wealth of detail. The great ing endeavor to be fair, although the author does abundance of facts that this work contains is of it not always conceal his own theological biases. self sufficient to recommend it for the library of ev American ministers, in particular, need to be ery Adventist minister. When, in addition to this more aware of the recent British backgrounds of scholarly approach, the underlying philosophy of preaching. Doubtless many of us have read more the interpretation of the facts is centered in God©s about Knox, Wesley, Latimer, Robertson, and Spur- WTord, the value of the book is greatly enhanced. geon than we have about the twentieth-century The very shortness of the book enables the aver preachers. Dr. Davies© book will help us to fill some age student to find quickly what he is looking for. of these gaps, and will introduce us to very fruitful The material covered is organized in a systematic areas of study. manner and presented lucidly. The language is NORVAL F. PEASE clear, concise, and readily understood by both ex perts and nonexperts in the field. In addition there are several illustrations, maps, and tables, which A Layman©s Guide to Presbyterian Beliefs, Addison add to the interest and value. H. Leitch, Zondervan Publishing House, Grand It is a pleasure to read such a work and to have Rapids, Michigan, 1967, 158 pages, $1.95. the privilege of reviewing it. I can heartily recom mend it and would suggest that every Book and Christians today are confronted with the prob Bible House have Dr. Schwantes© history available. lems of church unity and ecumenicity. Each There are a few typographical errors that will church group is taking another look at its own doubtless be cared for in future printings. But these background as well as the background of other should not be taken as contradicting in the remotest Christian groups, especially of those stemming out degree the highly favorable evaluation of the of similar convictions o£ doctrine and practice. worth of this book. Presbyterians represent one of the largest seg Everyone interested in those lands where the Bi ments of the Christian church and yet these strong ble was written will find this book both informa Calvinists have had upsetting divisions within tive and inspiring. ALGER F. JOHNS their ranks both on European and American soil. Again, while Presbyterianism received its name Varieties of English Preaching, Hotton Davies, from its type of church government, not all Pres 1900-1960, SCM Press, Ltd., Bloomsburg Street, byterians follow the original Calvinistic plan. The London; Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, present problem of how to practice unity and tol N.J., 1963. erance in doctrine and polity (perhaps in anticipa tion of a larger step necessary for ecumenicity) Dr. Davis of Princeton University has, in this is well discussed by the author of this booklet. He volume, made a worth-while contribution to the lit humbly claims that the church©s problems today erature on the history of preaching. He has selected are far from being solved. 42 THE MINISTRY While Adventists admit that Calvinism and Ar- minianism have not yet become harmonious on Straws in the Wind some basic doctrinal issues, our friends the Calvin- ists admit that they must also learn to evaluate larger objectives. It is evident that they are not as More Cars Than Telephones dogmatic today as were their forebears on God©s eternal decrees, election, predestination, soul sleep, This may be hard to believe, but the United States the judgment, and eternal hell. has more vehicles than telephones. The latest The author, Addison Leitch, who is a teacher, copy of American Telephone and Telegraph©s lecturer, author, and regular contributor to Chris World Telephones shows the U.S. with 93.7 million tianity Today, here sets forth in Calvinistic tradi (Japan is second with 14 million), while vehicle tion its basic principles in the following chapters: registrations, including trucks, surpassed 94 million "The Holy Scriptures," "The Sovereignty of God," last year. "The Son of Man and Freedom," "Christ the Medi ator," "Justification," "Sanctification and Good Cheating in Examinations Works," "Christian Liberty and the Liberty of Conscience," "The Church and the Communion of Twenty per cent of freshmen in a representative the Saints," "The Sacraments: Baptism and the sampling at America©s colleges and universities ad Lord©s Supper," "Church Government," "Resurrec mit to cribbing on an examination in the past year. tion and the Judgment," "Social Action." The finding is included in a survey of 206,865 cur rent freshmen at 251 colleges and universities re It should be mentioned that Dr. Leitch has an leased by the American Council of Education, the added feature to this book: "The Confession of principal coordinating agency for higher educa 1967." A most interesting chapter for theologically- tion in the nation. About 20 per cent of all first- minded workers and ministers on long-established year students were asked to fill out questionnaires creeds. Let us quote the author: "The Confession delving into everything from how they plan to fi of 1967 is of major importance to the life of the nance their education to whether they had par United Presbyterian Church in the United States taken of a dietary formula (16 per cent had) or of America. It is of great importance, also, in Prot beer (54 per cent) in the past year. The cheating estantism for it may well set the pace for review figure was 24 per cent for men and 16.5 per cent in other denominations. It is of great importance for women. in the ecumenical movement because it will deter mine rapprochement possible with other tradi tions and especially with Rome. From the stand Population Rise Perils Food Supply point of church history it is a tremendously More than half the people on our planet are un significant document." Page 158. derfed or hungry because the world©s food produc LOUISE C. KLEUSER tion is not keeping up with the birth of mouths to feed. This is the grim conclusion of a recent study Understanding and Helping the Narcotic Addict, by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Tommie L,. Duncan, Prentice-Hall Inc., Ingle- Organization. The net growth in world population wood Cliffs, New Jersey, 143 pages, $2.95. was 180,000 babies every 24 hours during the year 1965-1966. Yet despite the fact that the world©s This is the only book of its kind I know specially population increased by 65 million, total food pro written with the minister in mind. The problem of duction was at a standstill. It actually declined by narcotic addiction does not often cross our path 5 per cent in countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin way, but when it does we want to be cognizant of America where the population explosion presents its nature, the approach we should take with the the gravest problem. D. W. McKAY addict, what to avoid, what resources of healing are available, and what we as clergymen can do to aid the addict. This is a very practical, informative, realistic, and deeply spiritual book. The author is chaplain-director at the United States Public The way out of trouble is never as simple as the Health Service Hospital, Fort Worth, Texas. He is way in. the first full-time chaplain to hold that position. The first five chapters describe the drugs to which one becomes addicted and what effects they When you get to the point where you "don©t know have on the body and its functioning, physical and which way to turn," go straight ahead. emotional. The various methods of using these narcotic drugs are also described. The last five No man ever got lost on a straight road. chapters deal more specifically with helping the addict, and suggest ways in which the minister The pathway of life is wet with the tears of those may do this. who never learn until it is too late. This is a valuable book for ministers dealing with any type of addiction, simple or complicated. ANDREW FEARING MAY, 1967 43 Bibles annually into Romania, but now the figure is nearer 20,000 and 20,000 Romanian Bibles are in fact now being printed in London. The society also revealed new data on Eastern Europe, showing that 13,000 New- Testaments were recently published in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and 20,000 Czech Bibles are now on the presses there. This printing is on paper supplied by the Bible Society. NEWS BRIEFS "No Smoking" on Friday Suggested by Bishops The Roman Catholic hierarchy in Vienna sug gested that Austrians refrain from smoking on Fri days as an act of penance. Abstinence from meat is now observed only on Ash Wednesday and Good {.Unless otherwise credited, the following news items ate Friday. The bishops also pointed out that to stop taken from Religious News Service.] smoking would be beneficial to health,

Study o£ the Young Unchurched "Ecumenical" Baptism Rite in St. Louis Teams of workers participating in a national An "ecumenical" baptism, believed to be the first project to reach urban young adults not affiliated of its kind in St. Louis, recently took place in a with a church visited Negro ghettos, homosexual Roman Catholic church. The pastor of St. John clubs, bars, and Playboy magazine offices as part the Apostle Catholic church baptized Sandra Eliza of a regional training program in Chicago. Known beth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Finkes. After as "metropolitan teams" from nine major cities, the Catholic baptism, Mrs. Finkes©s minister, pastor members included clergymen, teachers, students, of the Carondelete United Church of Christ, read and social workers. Fanning out from the meeting©s a blessing over the infant before St. John©s aitar. headquarters to observe young adults in radically different settings, the teams visited: Playboy head quarters, to talk about the magazine©s concept of Panel Member Charges Crime Report Omits God sex and young adults; Negro ghettos and coffee A member of President Johnson©s National Crime houses, to meet with youth leaders; a club fre Commission has filed an official dissent to that quented by homosexuals, to hear two of them dis agency©s report, because in her opinion it does not cuss their problems, including what they considered give sufficient emphasis to religion. Miss G. Blatt, as virtual ostracism by church and society. Others former Pennsylvania State secretary of internal af went to bars, theaters, art exhibitions, and other fairs, said the report "failed to point up the fact places where young adults are likely to gather. that godlessness is a major factor in the nation©s high crime rate." "The report acknowledges the Women Advised to Follow a "Meaningful Ministry" necessity of activating religious institutions in the war on crime, and it mentions some of the excellent How can women take a more meaningful part in work religious groups have done in youth work and the work of the church? The Reverend Joan Fors- along similar lines," she continued. "But nowhere berg believes a drastic departure from traditional does the report mention the Ten Commandments women©s church tasks is needed. "How about say which underlie our Judeo-Christian culture. Nor ing, ©I won©t cook for the bake sale but I will devote does it mention the God who enforces a law higher my spare time to tutoring children in the Inner than ours and who administers the ultimate jus City, to taking children to museums, forums, and tice." "It is true," she said, "that the unwillingness the like.© This is a real eye-opening ministry," says of many religious groups and of many presumably Mrs. Forsberg. "Volunteer to be a friend and coun to profess the moral precepts common to all reli selor to an unwed teen-age mother; help her find gions has all too frequently blunted the effective housing; let her pour out her hostilities to you. ness of religion in preventing crime. . . . Neverthe ... Be involved where God is involved. . . . Let us less, properly used, religion is a real weapon. . . . increase our humanness," she continued, "not as We were a God-fearing people at one time, and ©good people© going to that dirty place to do some proud of it. We must be that again if we expect to thing for these people. Go there non-judgmentally; see the crime rate substantially reduced." give help with no blame attached." All Religions, East and West, Romania Now Accepting 20,000 Bibles a Year Face Extinction in Red China More Bibles are now being sent into Communist The Red Guards are making life harder than ever Romania in Eastern Europe, despite "occasional for 10 million Chinese Moslems and the remain fluctuations in the official climate," according to the ing vestiges of Christianity. This is a diplomatic British and Foreign Bible Society. It said a few concensus by the United Nations in New York, years ago the Bible societies were sending only 2,000 which they have pieced together from on-the-spot 44 THE MINISTRY "wall poster reading," diplomatic travelers in Com munist China, and boastful admissions broadcast by various local radio stations on the China main GOSPEL TENTS land. They all point to the fact that with the growing rampage of the "proletarian cultural revo STEEL-CLAD TABERNACLES lution" unleashed recently, the facade of religious SMITH MANUFACTURING CO., DALTON, CA. tolerance in Communist China has crumbled. It is Over 50 Years in Business clear now, these diplomatic informants say, that Buddhists, Christians, and Moslems alike suffer in tensified prosecution. they are an integral part of society." "The United Christians Warned Against "Isolation" States is the only country in the world that allows the deaf to use sign language," says Sister Mary in Asian Lands Madonna. It is easier than to learn to speak. Deaf Christians, a tiny minority, will have to give their children can learn to read lips by w-atching the religion "a new look" if Christianity is to survive speaker©s whole face, not just his lips, she con in Asia, delegates to a Roman Catholic conference tinued, and although the children are not always in Hong Kong were told. One of the spokesmen intelligible to an outsider, they have little difficulty warned against Christian "isolation." He said that in understanding one another. in Pakistan, where less than 1 per cent of the population is Christian, there is no religious dis University to Honor Scottish Archbishop crimination and that Christians can, and do, hold high office. "The greatest harm has been done in Roman Catholic Archbishop J. D. Scanlan of the past," he said, "because Christianity has been Glasgow will receive an honorary Doctorate in presented purely as a Western religion." Divinity from Glasgow University on June 21 the first Catholic prelate to be so honored since the Catholic Bishops Would Exempt Sabbatarians Reformation. Catholic observers see the announce ment as a sign of the improving relations between From Sunday Law the churches in west Scotland. The Pennsylvania Catholic Conference, for the first time in the long history of Sunday-closing-law Jewish Young People's Summer "Work" Camp controversy in this State, has urged the General Assembly to pass legislation that would exempt Jews Summer camp experiences of a group of young and Sabbatarians from so-called "Sunday laws." sters normally would produce little or no public Official central agency for the eight Roman Cath interest. But the press turned out in New York to olic dioceses in the State, the Conference endorsed talk to a group of high school age young people a bill that provides that no person who "by reason just back from three camps "work camps" in of his religious conviction" does, in fact, observe a Ohio, Wisconsin, and Montana where they spent day other than Sunday as his day of rest, shall be seven weeks on aid projects for migrant workers, prohibited from doing business on Sunday. inner city youth, and needy Indians. Most of the young people were from culturally advantaged homes and many of them paid their own way up Methodist Students Plan Social Service Projects to $300 for the seven weeks. This year the young Methodist college students will join again this people cleaned, repaired, and painted houses for summer in a wide spectrum, of social service projects migrants on vegetable farms. They tore down and throughout the nation. Describing the project ob salvaged lumber from a building that was a com jectives, the Methodist Student Movement reports, munity eyesore, built a ball field, and helped re "A band-aid does not help much when the problem furbish a new Federally financed migrant center is cancer." Hopefully, Student Service projects are near Toledo. They also worked with Blackfeet not mere "band-aids" plastered over symptoms of Indians in Babb, Montana, repainting a school and grave ills in society. "Organized as small communities assisting in home building; took part in a program of worship, study and action, these students attempt operated by the Hull House of Chicago by build a vital thrust into the structures of concrete situa ing a library and working with high school drop- tions. Their calling is to learn from involvement, to outs from Chicago. It was pointed out by AJSS change what can and needs to be changed, and to president Henry Kohn that "this was ecumenism live God©s love on a people-to-people basis." in action, in harness for the good of a community striving to improve itself." Nun Avoids "Sign Language" in Teaching Deaf Children U.S. Teen-age Problems Cited by British Priest A Roman Catholic nun who teaches religion to Parents should be on their guard against problems deaf youngsters never uses the sign language. In currently besetting millions of Anglican teen-agers, stead she speaks slowly and enunciates carefully. said Michael Quigley, a Roman Catholic priest just "The deaf are trapped in their own world if they returned from the United States. Father Quigley is use sign language," she said, "but if they speak a keen champion of youth programs, and assistant MAY, 1967 45 at the 400-member St. Bernadette©s Youth Center in VOLUME XL Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire. His studies took him to New York, Boston, Washington, Chicago, Omaha, Editor and San Francisco, and in his report he has warned British parents that the main cause of youth prob Associate Editors lems in America is unsettled home lives. "There E. Earl Cleveland are over 17 million teen-agers in America who have Andrew C. Fearing no real home life," he said. "This fact is not related Managing Editor only to the high incidence of divorce in America, but J. R. Spongier because parents are devoting all their time to the Copy Editor pursuit of material things and have not sufficient J. Ina White time left to devote to their children. The same is Art Editor now taking place in Britain," he continued. "Both T. K. Martin parents are working to get money for material pos Consulting Editors — Robert H. Pierson, Walter R. Beach, Theodore Carcich, Rich sessions. They are not working for necessities in ard Hammill, Edward Heppenstall, R. Leo America at the moment the need is the second car Odom. and the color television. There are also dangers," Overseas Contributors —George Burnside, Australia; O. Gmehling, Central Europe; he said, "that parents might try to be brothers and R. C. Williams, Far East; B. L. Archbold, sisters to their children rather than impose the Inter-America; Roger Coon, Middle East; W. Duncan Eva, Northern Europe; Enoch discipline of true parents upon them." Oliveira, South America; W. H. Mattison, Southern Asia; P. Lanares, Southern Eu rope; T. M. Ashlock, Trans-Africa.

Daniel 8:14 and the Cleansing of the Sanctuary CONTENTS GC President Sets the Pace! (Continued from page 36} T. Carcich ...... -.-.. ...-...... -.....-- 3 feeling the need for some such exegesis, translated: Needed Fire Inside! Kai Katheris thesetai to Lagion "and (shall be) R. H. Pierson ...... 4 cleansed the sanctuary." Emphasis on the Ministry M. K. Eckenroth ...... 8 So, seeing that the Jewish scholars with Loving the Unlovely their Aramaic background used zakah for A. C. Fearing ...... 11 The Young Ministers© Retreat tsadaq in so many Old Testament texts, we E. E. Cumbo ...... - ...... 12 can better understand why they used katha- "Redeeming the Time" rizo for tsadaq in Daniel 8:14. D. M. Barnett ...... _...... 15 From Altar Call to Baptism In the fourth and concluding article we G. E. Knowles ...... 16 shall show that there was undoubtedly a "Lord. Is It I?" divine providence in the choice of tsadaq D. C. Genaway ...... 19 in Daniel 8:14, rather than taker, the usual "The Only Thing I Want to Be" Hebrew word for "cleansed." W. K. Nelson ...... 21 Concepts of Mental Health (Concluded) (To be concluded} H. N. Moiar and S. A. Fa-rag ...... 22 The Joy of Memorizing. Scripture W.© Garrison ...... 24 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Health Evangelism Bridge to Islam H. C. Lamp ...... 26 Advertisements appropriate to The Ministry, appear ing under this heading, eight cents a word for each The Common-sense Case for Creationism •insertion, including initials and address. Minimum P. Breaden ...... 30 charge, two dollars for each insertion. Cash required Daniel 8:14 and the Cleansing of the Sanc with order. Address The Ministry, Takoma Park, Wash tuary (Part 3) ington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. W. E. Read ...... 33 Medieval Mysteries Unveiled (Part 2) O. J. Mills ...... 37 The Long and the Short o£ It RELIGIOUS BOOKS PURCHASED! Send list today. M. Green ...... 41 Looking for an out-of-print book? Write: KREGEL©S Books ...... 42 BOOK STORE, Dept. 8, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503. News Briefs ...... _...... 44 Pointers ...... _...... 48 46 THE MINISTRY The leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church have thrown out a challenge for A GREATER FORWARD THRUST IN SOUL WINNING.

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MAY, 1967 47 scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them." This must never be repeated in the ministry of the Adventist Church. Shepherds today, if they are to meet the needs of their flock, should be living demonstrators of this challenging message from the pen of inspiration: "To be unkind, to denounce oth ers, to give expression to harsh, severe judgments, to entertain evil thoughts, is not the result of that POINTERS wisdom which is from above. . . . All those who abide in Christ will manifest the kind, forgiving courtesy that characterized His life. Their works will be works of piety, equity, and purity. ... Be so considerate, so tender, so compassionate, that the atmosphere surrounding you will be fragrant with Heaven©s blessing." That I May Know Him, p. 185. What simple yet comprehensive counsel this is. "STONE "STONE walls do not a prison make, Let us daily pray for God to give us grace and wis WALLS" nor iron bars a cage." This is true, dom to follow it out. "If we would humble our but few cages are effective without iron hearts before God, and be kind and courteous and bars. And is a prison a prison without stone walls? tenderhearted and pitiful, there would be one hun Likewise steeples, pulpits, and stained glass do dred conversions to the truth where now there is not constitute a church. Nor, incidentally, does only one." Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 189. doctrinal accuracy. Important accessories? Yes! But One hundred to one what a challenge to every not the vital element. soul winner! The odds are too great to disregard. When is a sermon not a sermon? Or is a sermon This is evidently a sure thing. Let us be willing to always a sermon? "Logic, homiletics, Scripture, humble ourselves to the very dust if that is what and correct pulpit decorum do not a sermon make." it takes so that the love and tenderness of the Lord Necessities? Yes! But one thing is lacking. Jesus might be able to work effectively through us Is there a difference fundamentally between a for the salvation of souls. "One hundred . . . where house and home? Is it fatal to confuse shadow and now there is only one." Think of it! Pray about substance? So we must penetrate the outer shell of it! Live it! What earnest soul winner wouldn©t, if by organizational form and press to our bosoms the so doing he might be able to increase his fruitage living Christ. It is Christ who makes a sermon a in such a miraculous way. N. R. D. sermon and a church. It is Christ who makes a preacher out of a Bible lecturer and a prophet out of a prognosticator. It is indeed Christ who makes ALONE ALONE in a crowd! I stood in the a house a home. Of "stone walls" and "prison bars" vestibule of the church awaiting the may it be said good, but not enough. May the signal to march in. Thirty ministers were in the day never come when to "build walls" and "secure line, one of a different denomination. He had bars" becomes our primary concern. To teach and come to pay his last respects to a respected neigh follow Christ seek ye first! E. E. c. bor. (The neighbor also not of his faith.) But he was alone in a crowd. What invisible wall separated him from the others, rendering conversation diffi KINGLY WHO of our ministers is not sobered cult? Would not common concern as ministers for KINDNESS by the tragic picture of the shep others and one another be a contact factor? Sensing herds of Ezekiel 34:1-6: "And the that every passing minute made less likely easy and word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, meaningful communication, I extended my hand prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, with a smile and a word of welcome. His relief was and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God unto evident, as with a ready smile he gripped my the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel hand. Conversation? Easy! Through our common that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds love for Christ and respect for a fallen comrade. Re feed the flocks? Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you member you too may someday be alone in a crowd. with the wool, ye kill them that are fed: but ye E. E. c. feed not the flock. The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty Character is easier kept than recovered. have ye ruled them. And they were scattered, be * * * cause there is no shepherd: and they became meat The Bible must not be deleted or diluted. to all the beasts of the field, when they were scat tered. My sheep wandered through all the moun * * * tains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was The secret of prayer is prayer in secret. 48 THE MINISTRY