MINISTRY FEBRUARY 1967

The Story of the

Where 63 Workers United in Winning Souls TRINIDAD

11 Weeks of Coordinated Evangelism =812 Baptisms

ON THE sixth of Sep The city of Port of Spain holds no more tember, 1966, I landed than 180,000 people altogether, and the pop on the beautiful island ulation is largely heterogeneous in nature. of Trinidad at the city of Port of Spain, little 812 in 11 Weeks knowing the blessings Public evangelism has not been notably that awaited me there. successful in this large area, which was one It is a modern city with of the reasons that the division brethren had all the physical conven for scheduling this large field school here. iences of big-city life ap Furthermore, the campaign was run during parent in other devel the height of the rainy season. These facts oped areas of the world, only served to demonstrate the magnitude and its peoples are a literate people with of the Lord©s power, for in a city where it four colleges in the immediate vicinity. It was not likely to happen, 812 souls were is a progressive little island country with baptized within an eleven-week period, and paved roads, adequate lighting, and an on the last night of the campaign an addi economy so sound that it permits the aver tional 327 indicated their desire to become age laborer to own some type of automobile. Seventh-day Adventists. The figures listed I remarked to one of my associates upon above refer only to those souls whose names arriving there that if Trinidad and Tobago were not on Seventh-day Adventist Church is a "developing country," my tent should rolls. There were scores of others immersed be surrounded with bicycles instead of who were moved by the Spirit©s power to re automobiles. And yet, on any given evening, new their vows by baptism. to get to the meeting you would have to thread your way between a veritable sea of "One Accord" Spirit cars. Forty-six ministers from all over the Religious Liberty Caribbean area were brought in for the field school aspects of the campaign. These The government of Trinidad and Tobago faithful men committed themselves totally has a religious liberty clause in its con to the success of the campaign. This ac stitution, and the distinguished prime min counts in part for the divine favor conferred ister of this country, Dr. Eric Williams, upon us. These men were housed together takes this clause seriously, hence, religion for a period of eleven weeks. Although dif is treated in this country on an equal basis, fering in background and culture the with no group receiving preferential privi unanimity exhibited by the disciples prior leges. Port of Spain is largely Catholic, and to Pentecost was certainly evident among the Anglican religion is second in influence. my fellow ministers. They met daily, THE MINISTRY TRIUMPH

E. E. CLEVELAND Associate Secretary, Ministerial Association, General Conference

Monday through Friday, for classwork from success. One visitation team alone ac 9:00 to 11:00 A.M. Our workers© meeting counted for more than 100 baptisms. These ran from eleven until twelve or twelve- men were joined in personal service by thirty. We then went to the tent to four faithful Bible instructors whose in straighten it up for the night service. Dinner fluence among us was both wholesome and followed, after which the workers were sent spiritually refreshing. out two by two to do personal work. After an afternoon of intensive visitation these What Happens When Departments Unite? men returned for supper and then made Perhaps the most beautiful aspect of this their way to the tent. For the next two hours program was the total commitment of the they were on duty there. total organizational church structure to the Eleven weeks of this type of physical at success of the campaign. From the very start trition took its toll, but though we were it was a cooperative effort. E. J. Murray, tired we were happy men at the campaign©s the acting president of the Caribbean Un conclusion, for the Lord crowned each ion, was in charge of the offering each night. man©s conscientious effort with personal W. W. Weithers manned the electronics

812 entered unsaved—departed rejoicing in Christ. FEBRUARY, 1967 Sabbath morning congregation snakes its way through parked automobiles. equipment nightly. The man in charge of out the eleven weeks. This fine medical planning the entire logistical aspects of staff must also be cited for having main the campaign and who bore the largest tained the good health of the 46 ministers single individual burden was Roy Hoyte, who were in this program, most of whom, the educational and MV secretary of the with the speaker, at one time or another Caribbean Union. The finesse with which he were recipients of their professional assist managed this aspect of the program contrib ance. C. L. Powers, president of the Inter- uted greatly to the successful outcome of the American Division, traveled to Port of campaign. S. L. Gadsby, president of the Spain and participated publicly in the South Caribbean Conference, made the an campaign for two evenings and was most nouncements nightly. J. Grimshaw, treas liberal in the division financial outlay for urer of the conference, handled the offerings the campaign. and statistical end of the program as well as participating actively night by night in When United Laymen Unite With United various aspects of the public presentation. Ministers H. Phillips, the educational and MV secre It would seem to me, therefore, a proper tary of the South Caribbean Conference, conclusion that God blessed the brethren was the Sabbath school superintendent. because of the unity of the entire depart W. W. Thomson, administrator for the mental structure of the church in the Carib Seventh-day Adventist hospital in Port of bean area. Undergirding all of this was the Spain, superintended the program night by thorough organization of the local Seventh- night, and his medical staff, led by Dr. day Adventist churches under the leader James Miyashiro and four other Loma ship of C. Manoram who night by night Linda graduates, conducted meaningful provided the broad base on which our health lectures three nights a week through baptisms were built. There were some out-

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TH-E MINISTRY standing examples of laymen who made thing to see. This led a Swedish reporter three trips a night to the tent from their and his wife who were visiting Trinidad to neighborhoods, bringing their interested sit through one of our meetings, and he was relatives and friends. The head deaconess so impressed that he interviewed me for of the Port of Spain church wept tears of joy two hours at the hotel after the program. on the day of the first baptism as she saw The subject that night was "The Key to her husband of 35 years at last yield his Happiness." He could not understand that heart to the influence of the Holy Spirit and anyone would believe that true happiness be baptized into the Seventh-day Advent- is possible in this life. It was my privilege to ist Church. This man said to me proudly- preach the gospel to this reporter, thanks to after the baptism, "God is a patient God. the tourist bureau of the city. It took Him a long time, but He finally got me." Two taxi owners transported Trinidad's Parting of the Red Sea friends to the meetings nightly, making two In spite of the fact that this campaign be trips a night. These men were not baptized, gan and closed at the height of the rainy but many of those that they brought were. season, not one single meeting was rained out. We preached six nights a week, and Central Location after four weeks, twice on the Sabbath day. The tent was located on the Prince©s The word went out across that island that Building Grounds in the very heart of the "between the time that the meetings began park area of Port of Spain, hence, to get to and ended the rain couldn©t fall." As a the tent from the nearest home would in matter of fact, we became so sure of the volve at least two blocks of walking, and Lord©s providences in this respect that on yet people were observed traveling on foot one evening when there were almost as many over the mountains each night to and from people outside the tent as inside and a few the meeting after working hard all day. drops fell and the lightning flashed, and some of the people got up to rnove, S. L. Tent Major Tourist Attraction Gadsby stood up and asked the people to During the early stages of the program remain seated, saying that it wouldn©t rain the tourist bureau advised people coming until the meeting was over. Believe it or off ships that the tent was one of the major not, it didn©t rain, even though clouds were centers of attraction on the island and a hanging heavy over our heads for the rest of

Last minute instructions to 517 candidates—480 from crusade. FEBRUARY, 1967 Dual tents to house giant crowds.

the evening. Those who have lived there begin promptly at nine-fifteen. He drove the for years tell us that this was as great a mir bulldozer on one trip, removing some earth, acle as the parting of the Red Sea during the and then turned to make another pass when exodus of Israel from Egypt. We believe suddenly there was an explosion in his what they say. In this same connection, I engine like the sound of a rocket blasting have known it to rain on Sabbath morning off. This was a signal to the worker himself right up until seven o©clock and then the to blast off: We next saw him about five sky break clear so that we could have our hours later furtively peering under the Sabbath services. Also, during the day of hood to see just what the trouble was with our first baptism the heavy monsoon-type the engine. He reported to us that aside rains came up to the mountain just above from a bearing being ruined there was no the valley in which we were baptizing, and other general damage. It seemed to us that it rained all around the area, totally flood God must have taken a direct hand in this ing roads and washing out bridges, but not affair, altering the machinery that the gos a drop of rain fell to mar our large outdoor pel might be preached unhindered. baptismal service. But the most remarkable victories were On the last Sabbath of the campaign those that occurred within human hearts and an enterprising young city laborer arrived lives. There were eleven marriages per- on the tent grounds with a large bull dozer, intent on mov ing some earth during the time that we were to hold our Sabbath services. Now the mo tor of the bulldozer could be heard at least two blocks away. He began his labor at seven o©clock. Sab bath school was to

Sabbath congregation un hindered by bulldozer.

THE MINISTRY formed during a seven-week portion of the tism a week hence. This would give her time campaign. One or both of the contracting not only to inform the bishop of her deci parties were getting ready for baptism into sion but to make other plans with reference the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This is to her job. She worked the next Sabbath surely evidence of the deep movings of the morning but rushed to the tent in the after Spirit. I think of the dear woman who came noon, testifying that it was the most miser to me during one of my counseling periods able day that she had spent in her life. The and sat patiently while others moved in and following Sunday morning she informed out of the counseling room, and when it was the bishop of her decision. His kindly words her turn, this was her testimony: "I have were, "Be sure and order enough food for been out of the Seventh-day Adventist the rest of the week, and may God bless Church for 38 years, and I was a very bitter you." We baptized this woman on the Sab apostate. I was baptized in the same bap bath of the second baptism, and she is hap tism and by the same minister as Pastor pily rejoicing in the Lord. She was standing Weithers who is now in the Caribbean in front of the tent the night after her bap Union. It was during your meetings that I tism, having no job, naturally wondering became convinced again of the love of God what the future held, when a large automo and of the necessity of my renewing my cove bile rolled up in front of the tent and a nant with Christ. You baptized me in your European woman called her and asked her first baptismal service and I came today to if she knew of anybody in that large audi thank you for showing me the way back ence who would like to take a job in her home." home. Our sister immediately accepted the job herself and is now happily working for Bishop's Stewardess Baptized her new employer, with Sabbath privileges. Baptized also was the chief stewardess in Baptized was the sister of the permanent the home of the Roman Catholic bishop of secretary to the prime minister, and also Trinidad. This woman provided all of his a close friend of hers. These people come meals and supervised his household. She from the very highest strata of Trinidadian made her decision the night before the first society, living in lovely homes, one of them baptism but was in deep perplexity as to with a three-car garage and three cars in the how to break the news to him. We coun garage. I found the story of her friend very seled her to be prepared for the second bap interesting.

Baptism—40 have been; 40 to be; 40 did it; 40 took them. FEBRUARY, 1967 denly whirled around by a force stronger than himself and aimed away from the store. He, too, desired to be free from this evil power. We brought this young man to our class session one Monday morning, and the 46 ministers knelt around him in prayer. There were no visible manifestations of change in the room, no screaming devils emerged shrieking their defiance, nor was there any wild scene that normally accom panies the expulsion of a demon, but there was evidence that on that morning Christ literally removed this evil power from that man©s life as He did 1,900 years ago in ex pelling demons from those so afflicted. The young man sleeps at night now, has taken a job, and at my last hearing was successfully Preached 6 nights a week for 11 weeks. holding it and doing well.

Spirit Manifestations Thirty Years of Dormancy Another young man about 27 years old Thirty years ago she and a friend of hers came to me one day in obvious distress. He took a vacation on one of the tiny islands had for one year been in conversation with in the Caribbean. An Adventist local elder a spirit power who communicated with him happened to be running a laymen©s cam through his wife while she was asleep. It paign in the area, and out of curiosity these was a different voice from hers, he said, and two women went down to hear him preach. it would awaken him at different hours of They were fascinated by the Bible truths the night, ask him questions about himself, unfolded by this layman and after five and give him counsel. In earlier years he weeks of attending were convinced that Sev had been quite a rowdy young man, but this enth-day Adventists do indeed proclaim the power had spoken to him and told him that truth of God. But environmental factors he should stop living that type of life, that prevented their full acceptance of the mes he should be a kind husband to his wife sage then, and for thirty years the seed of and a good father to his children. It was truth lay apparently dormant in their this voice that had sobered him up, and hearts, only to spring to life during our Port now he was a self-respecting young man, of Spain campaign. It was my privilege to holding down a job and doing well. But baptize one of these women in the meeting he heard my sermon on spiritualism and there. became disturbed as to the true identity of the voice that was talking to him. This is Demon Possession what occasioned his visit. I questioned him A mother came to me in obvious distress closely, first of all with reference to the na one day. She was not and is not a member of ture of the counsel that this voice gave him, our church, but I am confident that some and at our first meeting everything that he day she will join us. Her problem was that quoted the voice as saying was above criti she had a son about 22 years old who was cism. After all, it had corrected his life, it obviously demon possessed. He would sleep had given him guidance with reference to by day and pace the floor by night, threat the kind treatment of his family, et cetera. ening to kill everybody in the house and However, I recognized that while the coun raising general havoc. This had gone on for sel given was Biblically sound, the method years. She had had him examined by a psy was obviously satanic, but the problem was chiatrist, and it was determined that the boy how to pin it down and convince this young was sane, the only other answer being that man with whom he was dealing. So I Lucifer would give his soul no rest. The made another appointment with him. The young man had not been able to go to school second appointment was no more successful or to hold a job. As a matter of fact, he told than the first, for as we probed deeper and me in a later conversation that he had deeper into the revelations being made to walked up to a store to go in and was sud this young man, the counsel was above re- THE MINISTRY Seaside crowd intently watches baptismal semice.

proach. So I made yet a third appointment hell?" Answer: "At death the wicked go to with him and this was indeed fortunate. He hell immediately, but the righteous go to brought a typewritten sheet of a conversa a place of purging and from there they will tion held with this power just the night enter heaven." This was my first clue to the before. In it he asked this power (1) "Is identity of this power, for now he was re there a God in heaven?" The answer came, peating the same lie that he told in the "Yes, there is." (2) "Are there three up beginning, which began the great rebellion there, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?" The of man against God. I gave my brother answer: "Yes, there are." (3) "What is the another study on the spirits of spiritualism, name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy had prayer with him, and dismissed him. Ghost?" No answer. (4) "Is there a heaven Apparently the requirements were too stiff and is there a hell?" Answer: "There is a for him to meet, and like the rich young heaven and a hell." (5) "When do the ruler, he went away sorrowful. But the seed righteous go to heaven and the wicked to has been sown.

"V" for victory — end of first baptism.

FEBRUARY, 1967 given the right circumstances and the total cooperation that we found in Trinidad, this COVER PICTURE type of thing can probably happen in any Left to right: [P. Ramotar, J. Grimshaw, C. Edwards, of the large cities of the earth. B. Scobie, O. Newball, E. Murray, S. Alien, T. Bil- lingy, B. Henry]; [L. Modeste, M. Weir, J. Valentin, Thousands of Spectators L. Ritchie, W. Roberts, P. McLeod, J. Hooker, J. Burton, I. Crowder]; [R. Haylock, W. Weithers, R. There were 199 Roman Catholics bap Hoyte, P. Rambharose]; [B. Worrell, W. Oliver, C. tized in this campaign. Of the people bap Manoram, F. Maitland]; [S. Elloway, L. Williams, E. Degannes, R. Bacchus]; [C. Lashley, E. Sutton, J. tized, 320 were over 30 years of age. One Fredericks, I. Wiltshire, S. Gadsby, R. McGarrell]; hundred and twenty-nine of them were be [A. Brandon, J. Charles, O. Sutton, H. Phillips, J. tween the ages of 21 and 30. Two hundred Scott, P. Prime, C. Hayden, S. Kydd, E. Wright]; and fifty-five of them were between the ages [J. Hunte, F. Archbold, L. McMillan, B. Niles, M. Chapman, J. Palmer, H. Murray, G. Ferdinand, A. of 13 and 20, and 108 were between the ages Noel]; (J. Shillingford, L. Chandler, I. Austin, J. of 10 and 12. The first baptism of itself was Miyashiro, N. Bailey, A. Bhola, I. Berkel, F. Harris, a thing of beauty. It took eleven buses to J. Josiah], transport the baptismal candidates to the waterside. The baptism was held at a large beach front with adequate facilities for Larger Attendance After Sabbath Presentation dressing, et cetera. The government officials were most solicitous in providing these facil I have read in the biography of Dr. Wil- ities for our use. After the eleven o©clock bur Chapman that he often preached with service we had a review of the candidates a prayer group stationed in a little room just prior to entering the buses, and then directly under the pulpit who prayed for this giant procession made its way through him during the entire course of his sermon. the city out to the lovely beach front where In Port of Spain, Trinidad, we had the there must have been eight or nine thou deaconesses and deacons from the various sand spectators. Brethren White and churches alternating in prayer in a certain Thompson organized and supervised the section of the tent each night during the baptismal service. Forty ministers entered sermon itself. I literally experienced in my the water, and forty candidates were taken heart the renewing influence of the Holy into the water and out to the ministers who Spirit on a night-to-night basis in the baptized the candidates for the next hour preaching of the Word, and at no time dur and a half, completing the baptism of 480 ing the eleven-week program was there candidates in well under two hours. under 2,200 people in attendance. The at The Cathedral Quartet of North America tendance reached its peak on the concluding was with us for those baptismal services. night with seven thousand present. We ex Pastors Scales, Edgecombe, Shepperd, and perienced our largest attendence after the Reeves, who worked with me for a period of Sabbath was presented. five years across North America, were a real In Excess of $9,000 spiritual lift to us during this crucial period. Trinidadians will never forget the serv Prior to the meetings, during the make-up ices of C. L, Brooks, educational secretary of the budget, it was anticipated that the of the Allegheny Conference, who spent offering income would be in the vicinity of two weeks in the early stages of our cam $2,000. At the conclusion of the campaign paign and completely captured the hearts the offerings were in excess of $9,000. This is of our listeners. Long after these brethren indicative not only of the blessing of God had departed the campaign, we played the on our campaign but of the financially tapes of their music to the obvious delight affluent society in which our campaign of our audience, and on the last evening, was being operated. At this point I think it adding a touch of nostalgia to the closing, bears repeating that Port of Spain has no as I stood signing autographs for an hour mission-type atmosphere but is a modern and a half after the benediction, the music city with all the built-in inhibitions of the of the quartet and of Pastor Brooks rang large cities of the most progressive nations out over the neighborhood in a fitting bene of the earth. Therefore, the power of Christ diction and testimonial to the glory and and the gospel in attaining this victory can power of God and the strength of the gos not be minimized by any of the traditional pel in the twilight hours of the history of reservations. My own conclusion is that man. 10 THE MINISTRY Enthusiastic Response to President's Appeal

THEODORE CARCICH

Vice-President, General Conference

IN THE November issue current issue of THE MINISTRY magazine." of THE MINISTRY and Local conference president: "We are at the recent Autumn with you to help finish the work all out!" Council, Pastor Robert Division president: "You may rest as H. Pierson made a fer sured that the . . . division will give its vent appeal to denom full support to the worldwide revival and inational workers every evangelistic thrust, and as soon as we have where in behalf of settled on our quadrennial goals for net worldwide revival and gains in membership and baptisms we evangelism. The spon shall notify you and send you a copy of the taneous response to this same." appeal by our world Local conference treasurer: "We will leader was heart warming, encouraging, certainly do all we possibly can to encour and inspiring. Letters are coming in each age our pastors in evangelism, and I hope day and we take this occasion to share a to conduct meetings once or twice a year few typical lines with our readers. myself." Church pastor: "You can count on us to College president: "I have been think support the world program." ing a great deal as to what our institution Local conference president: "With the can do. I plan to take this up with our aid of the Holy Spirit, I have no other pur student officers, faculty members, and vari pose than to carry this same emphasis into ous committees and I hope we can come every church and institution in the . . . up with some good ideas as to what the col conference." lege can do in this area of evangelism." Pastor: "My heart responds to your ear Local conference president: "We have nest appeal in the November MINISTRY." just completed a thrilling workers© meet Conference departmental secretary: "I ing in the . . . conference and our pastors want to give more attention to my own have voluntarily set for themselves greater spiritual regeneration, consecration, and objectives than we might have suggested. commitment. As a departmental secretary, We are planning many evangelistic meet I assure you that soul winning is the great ings in the months ahead, and our men objective of all my work." from the office will be joining our pastors Evangelist: "I certainly accept the chal in a number of these efforts." lenge that you have put forth in the recent Union conference president: "As our issue of THE MINISTRY magazine." conference administrators and departmen Local conference president: "We want tal secretaries meet at the annual council, you to know, Elder Pierson, that we believe we shall move forward immediately with in the program presented and that we will the plans and objectives outlined at the seek, by God©s grace, to make it effective in Autumn Council." the . . . conference." Layman: "For years I have been waiting Retired minister: "Everything in us re for something like this." sponds to your appeal published in the In addition to the foregoing we just re- FEBRUARY,1967 11 The Ellen G. White Books the master tapes subsidized by those who are par ticularly interested in this type of publication, the in Spoken Form books in the spoken form are marketed at prices well below the normal figures for such materials. The one objective is to get these books into use. The Ellen G. White Estate, in collaboration with the Review and Herald Publishing Association, The readers in making the master tapes are Sev enth-day Adventist ministers with pleasing and en has entered upon a new phase o£ publishing the Ellen G. White books. From the early days these during voices. The Review and Herald Publishing volumes have been printed from type first on the Association has been designated by the General Conference Committee as the publishers of denom hand press, then the steam press at Battle Creek, then the great Miehle cylinder press and, in the inational books in the spoken form. Under the gen eral over-all title of Adventist Audio Library En last decade, on high-speed rotary presses. during Books of the Spoken Word a beginning has In the printed word the messages from these been made with the key Ellen G. White volumes. volumes ever reach out farther in the various lan guages of the world, carrying the inspired message These are reproduced on double-track tapes in to the readers Adventist and non-Adventist. two speeds 3^4 ips on a 7-inch reel and 17/g ips Steps to Christ has been published in 85 lan on a five-inch reel. Each plays from 3 to 3i/9 hours. guages, and work will soon begin in the eighty-sixth. Steps to Christ is reproduced on two reels. Thoughts More than 12 million copies have been sold. The From the Mount of Blessing takes two. The Impend Great Controversy is in 32 languages and many ing Conflict, the last chapters of The Great Contro other books in a dozen or more. We have come to versy, is also on two reels. The Adventist Home an electronic age, an age when the pressures of takes five. Life at Its Best, the missionary edition travel and labor are great, an age in which the of The Ministry of Healing, is in production. "eye time" is well-nigh pre-empted. But there still Recognizing that there would be at the outset a remains some "ear time." keen interest in these books within our denomina Our ministers and other workers will welcome tional ranks, they are being marketed through our the news that the Ellen G. White books can now Book and Bible Houses. Of course, the books cost be "read" as they spend long hours in travel from more in this form than they do in the printed form. one church to another or to meet distant appoint For this reason volumes that are of a type to be ments. With the perfection of transistorized tape read and reread, such as the Spirit of Prophecy recorders and refinements in high-fidelity reproduc volumes with their inspired messages, will constitute tions at slow-playing speeds, it is now economically the backbone of this library. If feasible, other vol feasible to issue the Ellen G. White books in the umes will be added. spoken form. With the initial expense of producing The outlook for such publishing is bright. For many years an electronics organization on the Pacific Coast, operated by Jerry Pettis, has been issuing at stated intervals condensations of scientific articles of interest to physicians. There are 35,000 regular subscribers. The busy physician "reads" these articles while making his house calls or jour neying to the hospital or to some medical conven ceived a thrilling report that Pastor E. E. tion. The Bible, both the Old and the New Testa Cleveland baptized 480 precious souls in ment, is now available in the spoken form on tapes his initial baptism in Trinidad. Thousands playing at 1% ips, and has had a most enthusiastic are attending the meetings, and a baptism reception. A business concern on the West Coast is planned for each week during the re has entered upon the publishing of condensations mainder of the effort. Another heart-warm of great books of the world, and they report large ing report came from the Far East, which sales. stated that 6,793 people were baptized There is every expectation that the Ellen G. throughout the division on Sabbath, May White books, enduring as they are, worthy of read ing and rereading, will make this new dimension 14. Still other reports are coming in of in in publishing a fruitful means to a wider reading dividual ministers baptizing 20, 35, and 60 of the Spirit of Prophecy passages. The minister people in scheduled baptisms. Another de and the physician may now read as they travel. The partmental secretary writes, "I have per busy housewife may "read" as she performs her sonally been privileged to conduct four duties in the home. The invalid, too feeble to hold evangelistic campaigns this year in con a book, too may read. Uses beyond our present con nection with my departmental work. Cul templation will develop for the Spirit of Prophecy minating these four campaigns, we have books in the spoken form. baptized a total of 60 souls. We are pray ARTHUR L. WHITE ing that 1967 will be even more fruitful NOTE: Check with your conference president for details rela tive to the Ministerial Association Bible Tape Program, which along these lines." was introduced at the General Conference presession and Let us have more such reports! includes the above. EDITORS. 12 THE MINISTRY must be as honest in our business dealings with men as we are with our God. As a denomination, institution, church, or in dividual may our rating continue to be "Seventh-day Adventists are good credit risks." A. c. F.

EDITORIAL Old and New Evangelism

FEW weeks ago the National Council A of Churches in their six-day long sev enth general assembly at Miami Beach heard evangelist Billy Graham deliver one of his persuasive, standard evangelistic mes Good Credit Risks sages. Graham, to some minds is a symbol of the "old evangelism," while the National CCORDING to Al Griffin, Midwest cor Council of Churches emphasizes and sym A respondent of Burrows Clearing House, bolizes a so-called "new evangelism." Some religious financing to construct, expand, and claim Graham stresses the individual soul remodel schools, hospitals, retirement while the council stresses involvement with homes, and other facilities in addition to the world. The unique part of the whole the church itself totals more than one bil affair was that Mr. Graham, the most prom lion dollars a year. inent exponent of traditional evangelism The long-standing policy of the Seventh- was invited by the most powerful coop day Adventist Church is to build free from erative religious agency in the nation, The debt. Members of the congregations seem National Council of Churches, to deliver to appreciate this principle and have sacri an address. ficed liberally to see their churches dedi The National Council of Churches is cated free from debt when officially opened composed of 34 Protestant, Anglican, and for worship and service. This principle has Orthodox denominations, which represent been followed generally throughout the a total of 41.5 million church members, world with a 1964 total investment in de 144,302 churches, and 114,423 clergymen. nominational properties of $709,835,387.05. Its constitution clearly commands the coun Are religious organizations good credit cil to speak and to act on the "moral, eth risks? E. C. Siegler Company, of West Bend, ical, and spiritual" problems of the day. Wisconsin, which underwrites religious in Its attitude toward old-time evangelism is stitution bonds exclusively, and operates summed up by the Reverend Colin W. on a nationwide basis, thinks so. Williams, an Australian Methodist, who According to Siegler©s chairman, Del- is the National Council©s chief exponent bert J. Kenny, with forty-three years© ex of the new evangelism. He declared, "We perience: "Usually the more hierarchical simply got to tell Billy, in all love, that the control within a faith and the more he©s dead wrong. Sentimentality will never numerous its communicants, the higher save the world." Such "eighteenth-century the credit rating. This is why Roman Cath evangelism is no longer an adequate symbol olics find it easiest to borrow. The Luther for contemporary society." ans, with an excellent business organiza This recent confrontation between the tion, are second. . . . Nonetheless, groups so-called "old" and "new" evangelistic id like the Seventh-day Adventists, who take eology is merely a continuation of an age their religion seriously, can virtually write long conflict. Satan©s diversionary tactics their own tickets." have been in force since sin began. He We should appreciate this testimony of delights to drive individuals and groups good faith and plan to continue a careful into positions of extreme. To preach the program of sound business principles. Let gospel of salvation with no thought of a us desire to shun debt as we would leprosy, man©s physical needs is useless. On the but if we do have to borrow funds in an other hand, to be totally involved with the emergency, let us do so cautiously and environmental needs of a man with no within the limits of sound judgment. We (Continued on page 46} FEBRUARY, 1967 13 Some Second Thoughts

on the Educational Program in Our Church

CHARLES B. HIRSCH

Secretary, Educational Department, General Conference

A FEW months ago at arm of the message," but much more im the General Conference portant to the anatomy of the church is session in Detroit, some the heart. Can there be serious doubt major changes in de among any that the educational program nominational leadership is the pulsating organ which circulates, took place, the results of through the arteries of the church, the which are still being felt trained and educated teacher, minister, in chain reactions set up physician, and nurse? It also engages in throughout the world. the most successful form of evangelism this The successes and the church offers in keeping our young people failures, the accomplish within the tenets of our faith. Statistics ments and the frustra make this statement a proved one. tions, which may have been experienced during the past quadrennium by the previ One Third of Working Force ous administration are not to be judged or Latest figures reveal that about one debated by those who are new in positions third of the denomination©s working force of leadership today. They should be left is engaged in the educational endeavor, to the historian to evaluate if he should covering more than 5,000 schools from the have the opportunity. He will be best able elementary to the secondary level. How to record for posterity, after additional in often do we hear expressions of pride in formation comes to light, the significant regard to this work, and yet would not a contribution of the past two decades in closer analysis reveal that this is based the history of our church. more on the quantitative than the qualita What is of greater importance to those tive aspects? Is it not time that some second who are occupying positions of leadership thoughts should be given to this facet of in the church today is not so much the the educational scene? Should we not drop problems of the past, but more truly, the anchor while we are giving serious con problems of the present. It is to the con sideration to our position? Would not temporary scene that we must relate our some in-depth analyzing help us to meas selves and determine how and where, with ure the drift to determine whether or not God©s help, we are going to direct this we have veered several degrees from our church organization toward the fulfill planned destination? Would not a survey ment of the challenge that is presented in or study, as undertaken recently by the the last chapter of Matthew. Roman Catholic Church, resulting in its "Catholic Schools in Action" report, give The "Heart" us a better picture of our own position? While the church at large must be con The result might be harsh, but would it stantly aware of this, it is no less a concern not be better than groping about in ig of the educational program of the church. norance? It is quite commonplace for us to speak of Our current statistics reveal that during the medical missionary work as "the right the past twenty years the number of col- 14 THE MINISTRY leges and secondary schools has increased college and the graduate school, chiefly be from 265 to 634; our teachers from 2,140 cause of a lack of proper preparation. to 7,049; and the enrollment for these lev We must learn how to better work to els from 27,000 to 73,912. On the elemen gether, not just from one eschelon to an tary level the number of schools increased other, but perhaps more important, on a from about 3,000 to 4,534; teachers from horizontal level colleges with colleges, 4,800 to 10,078; and enrollment from 129,- academies with academies, churches with 000 to 294,352. And parenthetically we churches, and so on. should add that the number of persons in We must recognize that the call from the department of education was the same Macedonia today is a more sophisticated in 1966 as it was two decades ago. During one. It is for teachers with Master©s and this period our investment in church Doctor©s degrees. It is for accredited school buildings and equipment alone has schools. It is for four-year colleges. Our be jumped from about S4 million to more lievers overseas, too, are seeking quality than S52 million,_In 1965 the church had education. They are not satisfied with sec some SI98 million invested in education. ond-rate education. "Niagara of Cash" Distinction or Extinction? These statistics, I believe, are quite dra We must constantly be on guard, if we matic, and they reveal that a Niagara of are to maintain our distinctiveness, against cash has been poured into the school pro those practices of our contemporary cul gram of the church. And as stewards of ture that are contrary to our basic beliefs. God©s banks, must we not ask ourselves the We must not compromise ourselves in the question, Have we gotten the most for our present moral crisis where sexual promis denominational educational dollar? Edu cuity appears to be the common denomi cation today is big business. It is mush nator on all levels. rooming and booming, not only in our We must stress the world mission of our country but throughout the world. church in all the rungs of the educational Some years ago our church body was ladder. This means a greater emphasis on highly rated in the number of young peo foreign languages, history of non-Western ple going through college, but that fact in civilizations, international relations, and the light of educational pressures today is the role of mission in our contemporary fast becoming a fact of the past. The edu society. In response to Christ©s commission cational horizon today is much broader to us, we need a world view for our stu than it was twenty years ago, and we are dents and a better understanding of the deceiving ourselves if we feel that our great forces at work in our present world. young people are not aware of this. Yester day©s educational program is just as inade Unscrewed Heads quate as yesterday©s highways. There is We must recognize that fundamental in need for a constant assessment of our es our love of God is the love of truth. In es sential task and the resources that are nec sence, this means that intelligence and essary for meeting the current and future brains go along with faith and religion, needs adequately. else we must accept what a church critic The needs for today and for tomorrow once wrote: " ©Whenever I go to church, call for greater changes at every level, from I feel like unscrewing my head and plac the kindergarten to the graduate school. It ing it under the seat because in a religious is not just problems that we must solve, meeting I have never any use for any but more important, we must exploit op thing above my collar button.© " Quoted portunities. in Christianity Today, Aug. 19, 1966, p. We must gear ourselves for higher qual 3. This is certainly true if we are serious ity in our instructional program. It is com about operating two university programs. monly understood that when education is As Richard Hammill stated in an article inadequate at one level, it is difficult, if in the Review, October 6, 1966, page 5: not impossible, to make the transition to "We need much charity, much understand the next. Capable youngsters, especially ing, and much compassion one for an from underprivileged or disadvantaged other. The purpose of education and the backgrounds, too often lose their way be purpose of a university is to seek for truth. tween high school and college or between Particularly, as a seminary branch of the FEBRUARY, 1967 there have been some who have raised Introducing similar questions. How far are we going in education? Is there need for vertical as well as horizontal expansion? Can we af ford such a program? Our consensus of Two New Ministerial opinion may be that for the future growth of the church and for the sake of our young people, our schools must continue, Association Secretaries and if our conviction is strong in this re gard, then we must be ready to support that conviction. JOEL O. TOMPKINS is orig We must support it in the face of in inally from Orlando, Florida. creasing inflationary costs, the increasing He was graduated from number of community and junior colleges, Southern Missionary College and the tremendous amount of Federal in 1955 with a B.A. in theol aid, which is more and more spoonfeeding ogy, and was ordained to the education in the United States. Appar ministry in 1960. Pastor ently there is no end in sight to this dra Tompkins has served in the matic acceleration in spending. This steady Alabama-Mississippi confer ence, the Texas Conference, downpour of funds from Government and the Florida Conference. agencies is not merely to provide more ed He is the new ministerial as ucation but to produce better education sociation secretary and con for the youth of the nation. Certainly the ference evangelist for the Northern New England church cannot have a lesser aim for its Conference. He and his wife, Peggy Louise, have young people. two children, ages nine and six. (To be continued)

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G. BURNSIDE

Ministerial Secretary, Australasian Division

NE soul is of more value to heaven known writer and preacher has stated, "If than a whole world of property, houses, departures from the church continue at lands,O money. For the conversion of one the present rate, there will soon be more soul we should tax our resources to the ex-Christians than Christians." utmost." Testimonies, vol. 6, pp. 21, 22. Seventh-day Adventists carry only an ac Can anything more be done to hold those tive list of members. Very few other who have joined our church? What can churches do this. For instance, a Mormon we do to stop the alarming drift from woman accepted the truth. She wrote a Christ and His truth? letter to the Mormon Church, saying she We should remember that apostasy is was resigning from the church, having be not new. There were apostasies in the come a Seventh-day Adventist. They re church of Israel, in the days of Christ, and fused to accept her resignation, stating in the early church. There have always been that "once a Mormon, always a Mormon." the Demas, the Judas, and the tares. There While apostasies must cause us concern, fore, we must not let this present situation there is also much room for rejoicing that discourage or dishearten our work for souls. our apostasies are not much higher. The Apostasy figures nearly always appear in devil certainly would like to see a much ratio to accessions. This gives the impres higher percentage. sion that it is the new converts that drift out. But it is not merely the new members Why Do People Drift Out of the Adventist who drift, but the "majority of apostates Church and Become Apostates? leave the church after ten years© member The fault is not with the message. It is ship." The Ministry, August, 1961, p. 17. eternally sure. It is based on the sure word It would be much better and certainly of prophecy. It rose on time and is doing give a clearer picture if apostasies were the very work today that was predicted. placed in comparison with membership "They went out from us, but they were ratio. When we consider our high stand not of us" (1 John 2:19). We must expect ards, Sabbath difficulties regarding employ losses. Some come into the church that ment, the unpopular nature of our message, should never have been there in the first and the opposition and often persecution place. Every evangelist must remember that so many of our members face, it is that all the converts are not brought into wonderful that our apostasies are not much the truth by the Spirit of God; the devil greater. The devil still hates those who brings some into the church. The tares are "keep the commandments of God, and have sown among the wheat and "the enemy the testimony of Jesus." If it were not for that sowed them is the devil" (Matt. 13: the grace of God and His keeping power our 39). Referring to the gospel net, Christ apostasies would certainly be much greater. said it "gathered of every kind" (verse 47), However, our apostasies are much fewer some good and some bad. Even Christ had than in many other churches. A well- a Judas. FEBRUARY, 1967 17 Persecutions. "When tribulation or per church member all have a part in the re secution ariseth because of the word, by sponsibility. and by he is offended" (Matt. 13:21). In Is the evangelist to blame? We know he Matthew 13 Christ lists many reasons for is far from perfect. Severe criticism has apostasies. been leveled against our evangelists be cause of losses among the converts. They Young People Taken for Granted certainly have a responsibility to aim at Heresies and doctrinal confusion. "For sound conversion to Christ and to see that there are certain men crept in unawares" converts are fully instructed. (Jude 4). As a burglar creeps into the The evangelist would do well to work house, so burglars will come in every gen closely with the pastor and church officers. eration to rob us of our faith in God©s Personally, I always invited the church el Word and His truth. Hence, "Ye should ders to attend our baptismal classes so they earnestly contend for the faith" (Jude 3). would be acquainted with the new mem However, when the servant of God raises bers and also satisfy their own minds that his voice against the burglar, he must al the converts were fully instructed. ways be prepared to face criticism for dis It is of interest to note that even Apol- turbing the peace. los, a man "mighty in the scriptures" (Acts Too often young people are baptized 18:24) before "the brethren wrote, exhort with little instruction and at times no in ing the disciples to receive him" (verse 27), "was instructed in the way of the Lord" struction. Too often young people are taken for granted. They are referred to as (verse 25). We do well to follow the early "natural increases." How long will we per church. We must take nothing for granted, sist in such nonscriptural talk? There is no but see that all phases of truth are covered. such thing as "natural increase." No one In the postapostolic centuries, laxity pre comes into the church of God naturally. vailed and the church door was opened to They must be supernaturally born again those of little or no instruction. Millions or else they should never be baptized. It is came in, and the church that started out a crime for an undertaker to bury a living as the light of the world plunged the world person, and it is equally wrong for a min into the Dark Ages. Such was the tragic ister to baptize a person who has not died result of bringing in multitudes of unin- structed and unconverted people. We to sin. must guard against this in the Adventist To be born in a Seventh-day Adventist Church today. home no more makes one a Seventh-day The evangelist must also realize that it Adventist than being born in a hospital is his duty to acquaint converts with our would make him a doctor or a nurse. Too publications such as the Review and Her much is taken for granted with our young ald, Signs of the Times, et cetera, and to people. They need instruction. They need encourage them to purchase our own conversion as much as anyone else. Hav books, especially the Spirit of Prophecy ing good parents is not enough. Grace does writings. He should also introduce them not run in the blood, but sin does. to the Sabbath school and its Bible study Abraham, "the father of the faithful," privileges. had several sons (Gen. 25:1-6) but only one became a child of God. The Word of After Ten Years God is filled with similar examples of good A recent survey in a newspaper in New parents, but wayward children. Many South Wales on the question of divorce and apostasies result from young people being the danger years of married life stated, baptized with little or no instruction. "Contrary to popular opinion, the first year of married life is not the worst. Only 10 per Js the Evangelist to Blame? cent of failures aired in court occurred dur Church misunderstandings offend all too ing that period. Most dangerous period many. Many apostasies begin here. It is proved to be that from the sixth to the ninth easy to pass the blame for apostasies on to year of married life." the "other fellow." The responsibility be This is also true with those "married" gins with the evangelist but certainly does to Christ. "The majority of apostates leave not end there. The pastor or shepherd of the church after ten years© membership." the flock, the administrator, and the Ibid. Thus this question of apostasy is 18 THE MINISTRY largely a pastoral problem. It is also sig must feed the flock. Lack of preaching the nificant that when speaking with apostates great teachings of the Bible in our church or backsliders they practically all speak services is the greatest cause of apostasy highly of the evangelist who brought them among God©s blood-bought children. Ser into the truth, but many feel that the mons not pep talks or mere exhorta church has let them down. Does this not tions or psychology are what is needed. show where the main weakness lies? Our people want to know what God would have them know and do. This is what they Pastor Not Infallible need. This is what we must give them. Our "This is a pastoral problem." Ibid., people have a right to expect help and November, 1952, p. 11. Who is to blame? nourishment when they attend the wor The pastor? He is given the task of adding ship hour on Sabbath. and holding converts. But the pastor does "If any man speak, let him speak as the not claim infallibility. He is not a super oracles of God" (1 Peter 4:11), "declar man. He cannot lead out in everything. It ing . . . the testimony of God" (1 Cor. 2: is impossible to do successfully all that is 1). Lack of preaching the great doctrines often demanded of him. To a pastor was and truths of the Bible is a leading cause given the instruction, "Do the work of an of apostasy. We must develop again the evangelist." Every Seventh-day Adventist form of Bible studies with our members church is to be an evangelistic center. To using their Bibles. Too often they are bom do this work the pastor must leave many barded with propaganda and promotion. other things to others. Why not plan behind the scenes for our "Feed my sheep" was the command of various departments and leave the preach Christ. Failure here is a major cause of ing service for preaching the Word. This is apostasy. Hungry sheep will wander. Sheep surely the "more excellent way" because in good pasture will not wander into the mere pep talks do not pep up those who are barren hills and dry valleys. When a per spiritually hungry and weak. Hungry sheep son does not find the soul satisfaction that will wander. he had expected to find in the church, he We must also keep well away from the will go elsewhere, or just drift back into popular type of sermon as used in some the world at least to enjoy the pleasures of churches. Our people need to be fed with sin for a season. the bread of life and not empty husks of Blaming another worker will not help fanciful interpretations. We need to ascer the situation. Passing resolutions will not tain just what God is teaching in a passage avail. The farmer who leaves his crop un of Scripture and teach this and not at attended will reap only weeds. Newborn tempt to show what we can get out of it, babes in the church don©t just "stick if they thus flattering our egos but bringing no are genuine." We do not leave a young profit to the listeners. baby unattended with a "if he©s any good Nothing will close the door to apostasy he©ll survive." Will a baby survive? No, he will not survive; not unless for a long time he is cared for and fed correctly. Feed the flock of God over which the Holy Ghost has made you overseers. This is our task. NO ENEMIES There are too many poor sermons "He has no enemies," you say? preached in Adventist churches. I hear My friends, your boast is poor; this complaint many times from our lay He who hath mingled in the £ray people. Good Adventist sermons make Of duty, that the brave endure, good Adventists. What made them Sev Must have made foes. If he has none, enth-day Adventists will keep them Ad Small is the work that he has done. ventists. When a new convert arrives at the place where he can answer questions He has called no traitor to a stand; thrown at him by a caviler, his confidence He has cast no cup from tempted hand; in the truth is strengthened. Confidence He has turned no foot from wrong to right; takes the place of fear and uncertainty. He has been a coward in the fight. It is apparent that the main blame for Author Unknown apostasies lies at the door of the minister. He must be a minister of the Word. He FEBRUARY, 1967 19- more effectively than good Bible preach ing. Because people usually love the person or evangelist who brought them to Christ and His truth, the pastor who often refers The to the evangelist will endear himself to the congregation. Frequent visits after baptism will also help and will not give the new convert that "I©ve been let down" feeling. Lack of personal interest in new people Counterpoint as brothers and sisters in the church is also a contributing factor in apostasy. "We all long for a warm handshake." It is our business to be our brother©s keeper. We cannot shirk this responsibility without of Duty endangering our own destiny. New mem bers should receive the same welcome as the prodigal son received. They should re ceive the same care as the human body gives to its various members. "Members should have the same care one for an and Desire other" (1 Cor. 12:25). Lionard Fletcher tells of hearing Gipsy Smith in London, when speaking to min isters say, "I want to open my heart to you. Many converts get frozen out of the WILBUR K. NELSON church. When people say to me, ©Come and preach in our church; we have a beau Department of Religion, Pacific Union College tiful organ, a wonderful choir, and the cream of society,© I know it is ice cream. The church that thinks it is all right is the church that is dangerous for new people." Our churches are not altogether free from WHEN there is a world this same danger of coldness, especially the to win for Christ and larger churches. A non-Adventist said to worldliness is appar one of our conference presidents, "You ently winning; when Adventists are a strange people. You will the fish are plentiful move heaven and earth to make a convert. and the nets seem too You will love them, pray for them, hold full of holes to catch studies in their homes, take them to meet them; when time is ings, do anything for them to get them growing shorter and into the church, then after they are in you standards are dropping treat them like the devil." While this is lower; when a perfect not accurate, there could be a little truth in design appears on the the statement. Too many have left our blueprint but building goes forward in sub church because of their treatment by standard style what is the man of God to church officers and members. Thus it is do? We look at the blueprint and we ex apparent we all share in the blame for amine the structure. The building has the apostasies, and every evangelist, pastor, ad form of the plan, but the materials in many ministrator, church officer, and member places are short of meeting the specifica must share in the work of holding mem tions. Viewing the building, the conscien bers in the fold of Christ. This task is too tious craftsman faces an almost overwhelm big for the pastor. Henry Ford said, "Noth ing problem. His sense of duty tells him he ing is particularly hard if you divide it must stay on the job and make the structure into small jobs." Therefore, let us take sound. His desire ranges over several alter part and endeavor to at least save some native approaches: (1) Abandon the build around us and thus reduce the danger of ing and go to work for a company who will apostasies. watch more carefully what labor and ma- 20 THE MINISTRY terials are used; (2) demand the demoli receives all glory and the human is hid in tion of the building and urge reconstruc the divine. "Living is Christ" as far as the tion along what he considers proper lines; devoted disciple is concerned. On the other or (3) determine just what his duty is and hand, desires centered in self demand for how his part of the construction can be their satisfaction that personal recognition made as perfect as possible. be a significant part of whatever success is Such may be the frustrations felt by Sev achieved. Such "service" is chiefly con enth-day Adventist ministers as they see the cerned with advancement, recognition, and forces of hell rushing the gates of heaven. the accrual of increasing professional bene Will measuring the real condition of the fits or titular embellishments. Such a life church today by the ideal pattern necessar pattern is devoted to moving up in the ily lead to either conflict or compromise? world rather than moving out into the field, Between conflict and compromise could desiring to know nothing but Christ and there not yet be a harmonious and happy Him crucified. balance? Our desires for the church and The proper relationship of personal de our present duty in the church need not sire and Christian duty is protrayed re produce tension or discord. Rather, there peatedly in the ministry of Jesus. When may be a useful, melodic counterpoint be the newly won disciple of Decapolis was tween duty and desire. freed from the legion of devils he implored For the worker in the cause of God who the Lord "that he might be with him" accepts the ordained function of denomina (Mark 5:18). He desired an unending fel tional organization, duty is not hard to de lowship with Jesus. Duty as appointed by termine. It generally represents the sphere the Saviour brought the same blessing but of service appointed to us by the action of led to a different direction. "Go home to a controlling committee. Personal desires thy friends, and tell them . . ." (verse 19). in relation to our service could conflict Christ never calls for separation from Him, with such assigned duties were we to permit rather submission to Him. Desire will be them to do so. It is suggested that this may fulfilled in duty. be avoided by a dedicated direction of en The promised presence of Christ ergy toward as perfect a service as we can through the ministry of the Holy Spirit possibly render in the clearly apparent area brings the direction of "the mind of of service assigned us. Our very best effort Christ." "The Lord will teach us our duty in harmony with the unction of the Holy just as willingly as He will teach somebody Spirit will result in a stimulating counter else. If we come to Him in faith, He will point of sacred service with such vital in speak His mysteries to us personally." terest that dissatisfaction or discouragement The Desire of Ages, p. 668. Perplexities will be defeated. It will not be necessary for and uncertainties are resolved through an us to go in search of a place of happier serv absolute surrender to God©s will and His ice or desire the appointment given to a way in our lives. brother worker. The place of God©s appoint Those who decide to do nothing in any line that ment is also the area where we can best will displease God, will know, after presenting their know Christ©s presence. Where He has com case before Him, just what course to pursue. And manded us to go we will ever be encouraged they will receive not only wisdom, but strength. by His company. Power for obedience, for service, will be imparted When the question is asked, To what ex to them, as Christ has promised. Ibid. tent do my desires represent affirmative re Such an experience of fellowship with sponses to the leading of God©s Spirit and Christ destroys the infatuation of selfish de to what extent may they possibly be hu sires. Past futile dreaming of a desk behind man ambition? how do we reply? Probably an office door marked "President," "Direc the simplest test of determining if desire tor," or "Manager" has been discarded as parallels duty is the question, Do I wish this unworthy of comparison with the real pres new opportunity that in some way I might ent joy in performing His bidding as dis be placed in a more favorable position for ciple and apostle of our Lord and Saviour personal profit, promotion, or public rec Jesus Christ. Desire so fulfilled is to the ognition? The Christ-controlled life finds soul "a tree of life" (Prov. 13:12). The its true satisfaction in the success of His Christian experiencing "the counterpoint work. Personal achievement is neither de of duty and desire" knows the secret of liv sired nor observed, for the Christ within ing in harmony with heaven. FEBRUARY, 1967 21 or Souls?

GEORGE B. SUHRIE Layman, New Jersey

IT is a privilege to be nant church accomplishing the true pur a Seventh-day Adventist. pose for our existence? I believe this ques I love our church and tion is vital, especially in view of conditions the message of truth in the world today. Fulfilled prophecy and salvation which the warns that the end is near the time is late. Lord has entrusted to Of special interest were the reports of us. I believe that the North America, as of the end of 1965. As a Advent message is God©s base for comment we would first list some last message to a con of the facts: fused and dying world. In North America we had 10 union con No people in history ference organizations; 60 local conferences have been more blessed and missions; 3,335 churches with 380,855 with revelation from God in doctrine, members; 1,013 schools, including colleges; spiritual enlightenment, and instruction in 2 universities; 1 medical school; 43 hospi living. For more than 120 years this church tals and sanitariums, most with nurse-train has withstood the test of time and the on ing departments; 5 publishing houses; 4 slaughts of Satan in confusing heresies. If food companies. All were operating effi it is in danger of heresy today, it may be a ciently within their fields. heresy created within itself, that of self-sat The total number of paid employees was isfaction. 24,887, of which 4,763 were classified as Our organizational setup is a marvel to evangelistic or administrative workers. the world. It is closely knit and operated The total received in tithes and offerings with time-tested policies. We have presi was $112,961,805.47. In addition to this dents, vice-presidents, treasurers, assistant amount we could add the large sums spent treasurers, numerous departments with for literature, and also the money that many secretaries and assistant secretaries passed through our medical institutions and the number keeps growing. Confer and others, which we are not able to list. ence offices are equipped with modern busi In every item mentioned above some gains ness appliances, and the activity and move were achieved. Yet with all this organiza ment of our workers is astounding. tion, all these institutions, workers, activity, We also have conference sessions from motion, and all the funds raised the mem world to local councils, committee meet bership gain in North America was only ings, board meetings, conventions, insti 10,167, less then 3 per cent a figure to be tutes, camp meetings, retreats, campaigns, considered seriously in relationship to the and programs without end. foregoing. It was a thrilling experience to attend At this point we could well question the recent General Conference session and whether we as an organization of leaders to listen to the reports. However, as a busi and members have truly been successful in nessman and technician I could not avoid fulfilling the real purpose for our existence. asking the question mentally Are we, as Can we be proud of our achievements? an organization of believers in Christ©s rem- A recent experience in the textile busi- 22 THE MINISTRY ness in which I am involved may help us in If we look at our church organization our analysis: we will agree that we have been successful A certain textile manufacturing com in a material way successful in establish pany which I know well has conducted a ing educational institutions, hospitals, successful, profitable business for many modern medical centers, publishing houses years. During recent years the operation with their distribution of millions of dol had been modernized with new and im lars© worth of literature, food factories, and proved buildings, and more efficient pro other church-controlled businesses. We do ductive machinery had been installed. Ev not lack in organization, machinery, or ac erything had been changed to conform with tivity. We have been successful money the latest business practices and the offices raisers and promoters as demonstrated by were enlarged and improved. All the newly reports. From a worldly standpoint, Ad- created textile fibers and yarns were used ventists are considered good businessmen. in producing millions of yards of beautiful But taking all this into account, we and useful fabrics. The factory operated should ask ourselves: Are all these activi continuously six full days every week, and ties fulfilling their designed purpose? several hundred people were given steady When Heaven audits the reports, will there employment. Several millions of dollars be rejoicing when it is seen that with all were paid out each year in wages. the money raised and the great efforts put At the beginning of 1966 the board of forth by the members and the 24,887 paid directors met to review the reports of the workers in North America, that the gain year 1965 and to study the operation of in souls in 1965 was only 10,167 or less the business. They were interested in the than 3 per cent? modern buildings, the new machinery, Is it the Lord©s will that our conference modern offices, and the number of people officials and even our ministers be prima employed. All this was good, but in the rily ordained businessmen? final analysis they were primarily inter The real purpose for our existence as a ested in whether the business had accom church is to save souls to Evangelize, plished that for which it was established. Evangelize, Evangelize. Material things The audit revealed that the yardage out are necessary and good in their place, put of the factory had increased substan when properly used, but our profit should tially and the dollar value of sales had also be found not in dollars or other material increased. things, but in souls saved. We are failing However, in the world money is not in unless we judge our actions and results in vested and businesses established merely relation to the true purpose of bearing for the purpose of constructing buildings, fruit by the salvation of lost souls. Should running machinery, producing consumer we not be about our "Father©s business"? products, or giving employment. A busi May the Lord help us get a new vision ness organization is established to make a putting "first things first." We have no profit, to produce the maximum possible choice between dollars and souls. return in relationship to the money, time, A summary of a lecture given at Andrews University and effort invested. during a leadership development seminar. In the case of this particular organiza tion, the balance sheet revealed that de spite all the physical improvements and the increase in production and sales and RETIRED ORDAINED MINISTER people employed, the business showed con WANTED for spiritual counseling and siderably less profit than was expected guidance service in modern convalescent in fact, it was on the verge of showing a center. Excellent opportunity for a minis loss. The organization had failed to fully ter interested in older people and with accomplish that for which it was estab some ability in public relations. Can make pleasant contacts with ministers of other lished. Something was wrong! A great deal denominations. of study was given to the problem, and Write to: J. L. McMillin, Administrator, changes were made to restore the business Golden Years Convalescent Home, 1344 to a profitable operation. At the time of East Orangeburg Avenue, Modesto, Cali writing the reports show the company is fornia 95350. again operating on a normal profitable basis. FEBRUARY, 1967 23 World Congress

on Evangelism

THE World Congress on with its teeming millions in population, Evangelism held in Ber approximately 2 per cent constitute the lin is now history, and Christian church representing all Christian whether it will be the faiths. This means that 98 per cent of the spark that ignites the population of these countries have not yet flame that will sweep been reached with the gospel of Jesus the world or just an Christ. This is the task that lies before us. other Christian meeting This was the purpose for this World Con only the future will tell. gress on Evangelism. How can these mil The facts are that it lions be reached? was not just another We were also reminded of the millions meeting. It was unusual of young people who are growing up in in many ways and those who were there our various societies today who have no re will doubtless never be the same again. ligious training or background and who are This meeting was unusual because it was desperately in need of the saving gospel of attended by representatives of so many reli Jesus Christ. How can these be reached? gious faiths representing many denomina This was one of the questions faced by the tions. But all delegates and most observers congress. We were also reminded that even were, in the understood sense, evangelicals. in Christian countries such a small percent Among those in attendance were Luther age of church members are regularly at ans, members of the Church of England tending church that there is very grave and the Dutch Reform Church, Baptists, doubt that those who do not are in the Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, truest sense enjoying a Christian experi and many, many others, but all were bound ence. Work needs to be done for them and together by a common interest in proclaim these, too, must have the gospel of salva ing the everlasting gospel to the world. tion brought home to their hearts so that it meets their individual needs. One Hundred Countries Represented This meeting was unusual also because Only One Subject its delegates came from so many countries, This congress was unusual because the more than one hundred in all. Each eve whole time was devoted to the study of ning during the congress two or three only one subject evangelism. All aspects speakers representing the various countries of evangelism were covered personal, of the world presented the growth of the mass evangelism, literature evangelism, Christian church and also the tremendous communications evangelism, youth evan challenge that the church faces in so many gelism, and many other areas of the giving lands of earth. While thankfulness was ex of the gospel. pressed for the gains that had been made, After the public presentations in the large it was frequently pointed out that the task auditorium the group divided into several before us is beyond the reach of any human smaller groups to discuss various phases of organization. For instance, in the Orient, evangelism. These were very beneficial and 24 THE MINISTRY produced some excellent suggestions and This gathering was unusual because of ideas. The discussions were spirited but the spirit of love and fellowship that was very worth while. In all of these meetings in evidence. Men of so many faiths, believ there was no promotion of any specific ers in different doctrines, were bound to type of activity. Just an attempt to under gether in a common interest to evangelize stand the means whereby the world can be the world with the good news of salvation. reached with the gospel of Christ. Doctrinal differences were forgotten as This meeting was unusual because of the each sought to help the other to understand nature of the messages presented. The great how to effectively win souls for the king need of the indwelling presence of Christ dom of heaven. The exchange was most and the power of the Spirit of God in the beneficial and very rewarding to those who life and service of the ministry was force were present. fully emphasized. The messages were fun This meeting was unusual because it did damental, spiritual, scholarly, Christ cen not seek to glorify past achievements or tered, Bible based, and earnest. Almost present strength but to take an honest, without exception these messages could frank look at the gigantic task that faces the church and realize that it is "not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit" that N. R. DOWER the work will be finished.

Secretary, Ministerial Association The Task That Faces the Church General Conference The speakers at the various meetings were some of the most outstanding preach ers in the Christian world. The burden of have been preached in any Sev enth-day Adventist church and would have been well accepted. There seemed to be a great de sire to understand God©s Word more fully and to determine what His will and plan is for our lives today.

Prayer in the Midst of Bustling Crowds The congress was unusual be cause of the spirit of prayer and devotion that was in constant evidence. Prayer groups, each consisting of eight to ten dele gates, met in the various hotels each morning and a half hour was spent in earnest prayer. Prayer sessions were also held in the major meetings of the congress, and always the bur den of the prayers seemed to be for the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit and a willingness to be obedient to the truths of the Word of God. It was not unusual to see two or three delegates praying together between meet ings in the midst of the bustling crowd. These prayers were for light, for power, and for a bur den for lost souls. Some of the delegates from the 100 countries marching in Berlin. FEBRUARY,1967 their message seemed to be the tremendous Then followed these sobering words: "The task that faces the church in the light of the world population is growing ten times little time that remains until Christ comes. faster." At the close of the congress the Over and over again the thought of the clock was shut off and the figures were pre coming of Christ was set forth as the blessed sented which showed the net increase in hope of the church, and always we were world population while we were together. impressed with the fact of the shortness of They were as follows: 128 per minute, 7,704 time that remains until that blessed event. per hour, 184,896 per day, 1,764,216 for the The messages dealt with the life of the nine days and thirteen hours of the con minister, the need for him to put away all gress. What a challenge this device pre sin from his life and to allow Christ to dwell sented to all present. in his heart by His Spirit. Emphasis was The closing service was a most impres given upon the importance of obedience sive one. Billy Graham made an earnest to the truth and to the revealed will of God. appeal to all ministers to renew their faith, The importance of Bible study and prayer their consecration, and their zeal in the in a minister©s life was also emphasized. presentation of the gospel of salvation. It was a moving message. Friendly and Warm Contacts After the final service in the Kongress As one looks back upon the Congress on halle the delegates and observers marched Evangelism held in Berlin he is impressed out of the auditorium behind the standard- with several very important thoughts. (1) bearers and the flags of the various coun These men were gathered together to ear tries represented. It was a symbolic act of nestly study how they could be more ef penetration, and signified the renewed ac fective in their ministry for Christ. (2) A ceptance of the great commission of our spirit of love and unity existed. (3) The Lord to go into all the world and preach task before us is gigantic, and only by the the gospel to every creature. With the sing power of God can it be achieved. (4) We ing of the well-known hymn "Blest Be the must study God©s Word and seek to under Tie That Binds" and prayer, the World stand His will and bring our lives and Congress on Evangelism came to a close. teachings into harmony with it. In every re It was a significant meeting. Earnest spect it was a good congress. Those of us Christian ministers met to seek an answer who were present and represented the Sev to the world©s great need of the gospel of enth-day Adventist Church as observers salvation. What the result will be only eter were very kindly received and our contacts nity will reveal. No one can deny the chal with these men of other faiths were most lenge of a world task it is very great friendly and warm. Most seemed to know nor that God©s power is needed if this work a great deal about Seventh-day Adventists is to be accomplished. and without exception spoke very highly of our work and people.

Tremendous Growth of Population a Challenge ARROW The scene of the meeting was the beau tiful Kongresshalle in Berlin. This was TERYLENE built in honor of Benjamin Franklin by American money following the war. It is a SHIRTS beautiful location for such a meeting and Plain white and blue; brown and black stripes. adequately took care of the needs of all the A truly wash and wear shirt. groups that met for discussion. No ironing not even collars and cuffs. As one entered the main lobby he was Dries sparkling white, no wrinkles. impressed with the great clock that ticked Can be machine or hand washed. off the seconds of the congress, but which Convertible or French cuffs, fused collars. also reminded us of the population increase Outlasts three ordinary shirts. of the world. On a plaque in front of the Ontario-Quebec Book and Bible House clock were these words: "Growth of the Box 520, Oshawa, Ontario. church averages: 8,100,000 per year, 22,000 per day, 925 per hour, 15 per minute." 26 THE MINISTRY every right to expect the intercessory prayers of their ministers to be answered because "the effectual fervent prayer of a Exemplary righteous man availeth much" (James 5: 16). Certainly the sheep of the flock should be able to say, "The best Christian among us is our pastor." "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversa tion" (1 Peter 1:15). "Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what man Ministerial ner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness. . . . Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blame less" (2 Peter 3:11, 14). Conduct Examples in Charity Then the minister is to be an "example in charity." No chapter in the Bible better portrays (Concluded) consistent Christian living than 1 Corin thians thirteen. Charity is not merely com passion on the poor. It is the Christian way of life and the indispensable charac teristic by which all men know that we are Christ©s disciples. For charity is love, and MILTON LEE love is to be shown not merely to family For Eastern Division Evangelist for the Chinese members but to one another. The mani festations of charity can well be studied by the minister who is conscious of his influ ence. One lesson the minister needs to learn is that "charity suffereth long, and LITTLE more need be is kind" (verse 4). There is much to try a said about "conversation minister©s patience. Often he is required to in act." I would only re sit long hours and listen to a tirade on the peat, "There is an elo church leadership. Argument and self-jus quence far more power tification seldom accomplish reconcilia ful than the eloquence of tion, but patience and kindness soften the words in the quiet, con heart and subdue the excited ones. Minis sistent life of a pure, ters need a rich measure of kindness. "If true Christian." Fellow we would humble ourselves before God, minister, are there be and be kind and courteous and tender lievers in your congre hearted and pitiful, there would be one gation who are better hundred conversions to the truth where Christians than you are? Are there mem now there is only one." Testimonies, vol. bers in your congregation who are stricter 9, p. 189. in Sabbath observance than you are? Are It is natural to think of people as the there members who practice health reform objects of love and charity. However, the more conscientiously than you do? This Bible speaks of loving things. John wrote, should not be. Better to be regarded by a "Love not the world, neither the things liberal member as a strict minister, than to that are in the world. If any man love the be regarded by a strict member as a liberal world, the love of the Father is not in minister. The laity have every right to ex him" (1 John 2:15). Some may say, "This pect the ministry of this denomination to text is for worldly people. Why use it in be men of deep spirituality, men whose speaking to ministers?" Have we as minis conduct is above reproach. They have ters come out from the world entirely? Let FEBRUARY, 1967 27 us answer this question in the light of the The pioneers of this great movement chapter in Gospel Workers on "Ministers were men of faith. They demonstrated and Commercial Business." We read, "The their faith in the ultimate triumph of the energies of the minister are all needed for cause by giving all they had. Joseph Bates his high calling. . . . He should not engage spent his fortune in warning the masses in speculation, or in any other business that Christ would come in 1844. When that would turn him aside from his great October 22 arrived he was penniless. Nor work. ©No man that warreth,© Paul de did his faith falter when Christ did not clared, ©entangleth himself in the affairs of come. For he knew that Christ©s words this life; that he may please Him who hath were sure and that one day soon He would chosen him to be a soldier.© . . . The Lord come and not tarry. When Bates learned cannot glorify His name through ministers of the Sabbath truth, lack of funds did not who attempt to serve God and mammon. stop him from preaching it. He boarded a We are not to urge men to invest in min train without a cent in his pocket because ing stock, or in city lots, holding out the he had faith that the Lord would provide. inducement that the money invested will be doubled in a short time." "By ex Wage Scale—Important or Unimportant? ample as well as by precept, the ambassa Our early foreign missionaries possessed dor for Christ is to ©charge them that are the same faith. My father-in-law, M. C. rich in this world, that they be not high- Warren, went to China in 1913 and spent minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but forty-seven years in Far Eastern service. in the living God, who giveth us richly all When he and his bride left the homeland things to enjoy.© " Pages 339, 341, 340. shores they were informed that their sal In place of loving the world what are we ary would be twelve dollars. They did not to love? The words of Micah tell us, "He hesitate, even though they went under the hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; impression that this figure was to be their and what doth the Lord require of thee, monthly rate rather than the actual weekly but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to rate. They, with Elder and Mrs. F. A. Al- walk humbly with thy God?" (Micah 6:8). lum, opened up the work in West China. Examples in Faith Later on, the infant mission needed a treas urer and Mrs. Warren was "drafted." The Living in a faithless generation where a first year she received no salary. Later she secularized Christianity seeks to do away was given five dollars in appreciation of a with many Biblical truths, we need faith year©s service. Thereafter her annual sal to preach the literal, and imminent, return ary was sixty dollars. Did these missionaries of Christ. To many non-Christians, and who reared six children during those early Christians so-called, this subject sounds days complain? Oh, no. They were only fantastic and impossible of fulfillment. too glad to do something without remu After preaching on this subject in my evan neration in order to demonstrate their love gelistic meetings, Chinese listeners have for, and faith in, the cause. Thank God asked me if I actually believe that Christ for the dedicated pioneers of this move will one day appear in the clouds of ment who believed in this movement. heaven and be seen by every eye. Without Thank God for the inspiring example of faith it is impossible to believe. Moreover, these devoted men and women whose chief multitudes who hear of the coming of concern was not in how much they could Jesus will not be convinced of its reality get out of the treasury but how much they until they see Seventh-day Adventist could put in. preachers themselves preparing for it. The Today it requires little faith to go forth preacher who complains that his salary is in response to a mission call. Our travel ex too small is not preparing for the coming penses are all paid. We are given liberal of Christ. The preacher who squanders his traveling allowances. We are spoiled by this money on nonessentials is not preparing subsidy and that subsidy. Let us ask our for Jesus to come. The preacher and his selves: "Would I go forth to preach with wife who are putting considerable money equal zeal if all this material assistance were into decorating the person as well as the removed? Or would I feel that I had missed home, rather than investing that money my calling, and enter a more remunerative in souls, are not preparing for the Lord to field?" It will take faith alone to remain a come. minister in the Advent Movement during 28 THE MINISTRY the times of trial just preceding the Lord©s not be hardhearted, devoid of sympathy. return. One day we may be stripped of all He cannot be coarse in his speech. . . . He of our comforts and conveniences. Then cannot be overbearing, nor can he use harsh we will be compelled to do what we have words, and censure, and condemn." Living so often asked many of our new converts to faith, therefore, which is verily love in ac do "walk by faith and not by sight." It tion, will transform the life, making it pure. is time for us who profess to be the spirit This is the way of sanctification and the ual leaders of the flock to become examples secret of Christian perfection. All who per of the flock in greater self-denial and sacrifi mit the Saviour to daily increase the faith cial giving. which works by love and purifies the soul will become fit examples, in word and con Examples in Purity versation, in charity, in faith, in purity. Finally, the Seventh-day Adventist min He Was a Shepherd Not a Hireling ister should in his personal life be an ex ample in purity. I suppose it is only human to look for It goes without saying that one who is someone in the ranks of our ministry whose called to this sacred office should keep him life is a demonstration of these virtues. I self pure and unspotted from the world. can think of a number of godly ministers He should be alert to every temptation that who have deeply affected my life. Most of would undermine his moral stamina. He them belong to my father©s generation or should guard with undiminished vigil the his father©s generation. Nearly all have avenues to the soul. He should shun all passed on. But there is one who is alive literature that would corrupt the mind and today and is younger than I am. He is a take away his appetite for spiritual food. member of another race. This minister Let the minister saturate his mind with should be present today to represent a now- the Word of God. Let him commit to mem missing division of the General Confer ory its passages. And as he meditates upon ence. It has been more than sixteen years those things which are "true . . . honest . . . since I saw him last, the then newly elected just . . . pure . . . lovely . . ." his life division secretary. We bade him farewell as will become transformed into the image of he and his family returned to their home the One who is the very embodiment of land. He went back because the constituted these virtues. committee asked him to go back. He went back not knowing what the future held, yet Faith Works by Love and Purifies the Soul sensing the gravity of the situation. Merci Ellen G. White frequently uses a very fully the future trials awaiting this devoted interesting phrase, based on Galatians 5:6. servant of God were veiled from him then. It is "faith which works by love and puri Fifteen-Year Prison Sentence Reward fies the soul." I have found this expression nineteen times in her writings. There may His was a faith that nothing could daunt, be more. An analysis of this statement will not even the brainwashing process and the show that righteousness by faith is no groundless accusations of false brethren. where explained in a more practical and Stripped of his position, his ministerial li concise way than this. Perhaps the most cense, his home, he was forced to search for comprehensive explanation of this phrase a means of livelihood in order to support is to be found in Selected Messages, book his wife and four children. Adversity 2, page 20. It says, "Now genuine faith proved this brother minister to be a true always works by love. When you look to shepherd and not a hireling. For his great Calvary it is not to quiet your soul in the est concern was not the immediate needs nonperformance of duty, not to compose of his family but the spiritual welfare of yourself to sleep, but to create faith in the scattered sheep. He with other dedi Jesus, faith that will work, purifying the cated men who had suffered the same fate soul from the slime of selfishness. When we set about the task of furnishing the flock lay hold of Christ by faith, our work has with spiritual food, namely the writings of just begun. Every man has corrupt and sin the Spirit of Prophecy. After a lengthy pe ful habits that must be overcome by vigor riod of arduous effort he could report that ous warfare. Every soul is required to fight the entire Conflict Series had been trans the fight of faith. If one is a follower of lated into the language of his people. Three Christ, he cannot be sharp in deal, he can- thousand copies were mimeographed and FEBRUARY, 1967 29 distributed among the members who de said, "I knew him," "He was a great help to sired them. What was his pay for all this me." One prominent minister here told me, effort? It came in the form of a fifteen-year "I went with him to school. During the day prison sentence. when I was unstable in the faith he went Today our brother minister has reached with me into the woods behind the dormi the halfway mark in his sentence. He is tory and prayed with me." banished to a place far from home and Just as we cannot measure the extent of loved ones. His wife has not seen him since the damage done by false brethren who 1961 and then for only a half hour. His accused him, neither can we measure the father has passed away in the meantime. extent of the influence of that consecrated His baby, the fifth, who was only three days witness among the believers of his native old when he was taken, is now in school. land! Today his lips may not be at liberty I cannot tell you much about him, for we to preach the Word publicly, but his life is cannot communicate. I do know, however, preaching an eloquent sermon. In this way that his expressions are the same, his cour the gospel will be preached "in all the age is good, and he is loyal to the faith. world for a witness unto all nations" (Matt. The only change is that his once-jetblack 24:14). hair is now white. I also know that his fam If every minister were like that Spirit- ily is faithful, and that although our schools filled man the work would soon be finished. are closed, forcing the children to attend This denomination needs articulate speak public schools that have regular Saturday ers, capable executives, energetic promot classes, his children have never once at ers, but most of all, it needs Spirit-filled tended school on Sabbath. In a country men! where children are encouraged to throw off parental authority and religious train Can God Risk His Holy Spirit on Vs? ing, the fact that these children will face Can the Spirit fill a heart that is full of all forms of ridicule and punishment rather selfishness? Can the Spirit fill a heart that is than compromise their faith speaks elo full of pride? Can the Spirit fill a heart that quently for their solid Christian home is full of impurity? Can the Spirit fill a training. Would the fidelity of our children heart that is full of commercialism? No. in these free lands match that? God cannot risk His Holy Spirit on us I cherish the few short years when it was until these besetments are put away. Un my privilege to be associated with this less we do this the outward correctness of brother in the ministry. I admired him for deportment will be no more than base hy being willing to return to his own people pocrisy. May God help us to rid ourselves to preach, though it meant a cut in salary. of anything that would hinder the Spirit©s I was impressed with his literary ability dwelling in us in all His fullness. And may and artistic talent, but most of all I was im this "born of the Spirit" life give to the pressed with the quiet way in which he church that Christlike example that will went about his work. No other worker put lead others to the Master Shepherd. in more hours than he, yet no other worker said less about being overworked. He accomplished twice as much as most men but never thought of advertising him self or his accomplishments. He never com plained about his salary and often had to CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS be reminded of certain allowances, which Advertisements appropriate to The Ministry, appear ing under this heading, eight cents a word for each were his due. His words were serious and insertion, including initials and address. Minimum sincere, born of deep conviction. He spoke charge, two dollars for each insertion. Cash required with order. Address The Ministry, Takoma Park, Wash as one whose words were being recorded. ington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. He was never given to flattery. He lived the truth. Is it any wonder that people listened when he spoke! People who associated with him never forgot him, whether it be in the land of his birth, or in this land where RELIGIOUS BOOKS PURCHASED! Send list today. he was educated. Wherever I have told his Looking for an out-of-print book? 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[Note: Your comments and constructive criticisms are invited. Whether it be praise or disapproval, our only re quirement is that it be done in the framework of a Chris tian spirit. All items under this heading reflect the per sonal views of the respective writers and not necessarily Identity those of this journal or the denomination at large. EDITORS.] A FEW months ago there was a list of forty-three calls for physicians (Part 1) needed to fill current overseas mission assign ments. In order to meet these urgent needs the HERSCHEL C. LAMP, M.D. General Conference uti Medical Secretary, Middle East Division lizes the regular recruit ment services of its secre tarial department, but in addition it employs Linda? Why aren©t they going out to for two physicians as associate medical secre eign mission service? These are questions taries who devote their full time to search that our leaders and our lay members alike ing out potential missionary appointees are asking, and they are particularly perti from among their fellow physicians. nent questions in view of the large denom Despite this considerable effort, the Gen inational investment currently being made eral Conference at its 1965 Autumn Coun in Loma Linda University. We might an cil voted to appeal to the local and union swer that some of the graduates of our conferences in North America to render medical college are responding to the call every possible assistance in recruiting med but in inadequate numbers. We might ical personnel from their respective fields point out too that the needs are so great for overseas service. This action was pre because so many of those who do go out to ceded by a preamble which stated that foreign mission posts return to the home "the Seventh-day Adventist medical work land too soon. In recent years, because of overseas is at the present time facing per the desperate physician shortage, there sonnel shortages of critical proportions, has been a trend to accept physician ap causing the actual closing of medical in pointees for less than a full term of service. stitutions and the threatened closure of Some have gone out to the field for only a others." few months to relieve a critical situation An alarming situation, and a puzzling and they have been followed by a succes one as well, especially for a church in sion of other physicians who stay for simi which the medical missionary work is to lar short periods. This stopgap emergency be "a great entering wedge," "the pioneer solution to the chronic physician shortage work of the gospel," and "the right arm of has not only created problems in the field the third angel©s message"! such as inefficiency of operation, lack of effective continuity in service, and exces Stopgap Program sive expense, but has also imposed upon How can there be so many unanswered the denomination a great burden to at calls for doctors? What about the gradu tempt to supply all the physicians needed ates of our own medical school at Loma to keep up with this rapid turnover. FEBRUARY, 1967 31 The problem as here presented is an Deployment Mobility exceedingly complex one that defies any Furthermore, this well-integrated organ easy solution, but an answer to the di izational plan provides the church with a lemma must be sought. I would like to high degree of controlled mobility in the suggest that an important approach to a deploying of its working force. In other solution might be found in a reassessment words, the system gives the church a large of the physician©s role in the organiza personnel pool, a reservoir of workers from tional structure of the church and a reap which it can draw to establish pioneer praisal of the fundamental objectives of work, to strengthen existing programs, or the medical missionary work. to reinforce a deteriorating situation, for "Spiritual Esprit de Corps" example, if an evangelist is needed in Venezuela, a successful soul-winning min One of the towering strengths of the ister in Kentucky may be sent to take the Seventh-day Adventist Church has always position. A science teacher is needed for been its remarkable organizational and fis Sierra Leone? A New England academy cal structure, which has been a marvel to has just the man. A business manager for other religious bodies around the world. a mission hospital? A Colorado sanitarium In many denominations the minister has supplies the need. In each of these exam an unusual degree of independence not ples the worker was already a salaried de only in the scope of his theological beliefs nominational employee with established but also in his economic opportunities. A tenure and service record as well as a ca seminary graduate may begin his ministry reer-commitment to the denominational in a small-town parish that is barely able organization. He was free to change his to provide him with a subsistence salary. geographical location without significantly Should the young man excel in his calling, altering his previous or future worker he may look forward to larger and more status. He is still a part of the worker pool prosperous churches and may finally be in his new overseas position, and should called to accept the pastorate of a large he be required to leave that post of duty metropolitan congregation that offers him because of sickness, educational problems, a handsome salary with generous extra or an international emergency, he may benefits. confidently expect that the denomina In our organization, however, there is a tional organization will relocate him in more centralized authority that coordi another overseas or homeland position. nates the appointment and distribution of His salaried status, his service record, and workers on a more equitable basis of need his personal commitment to the organized and disburses salaries according to certain work of the church are still unchanged. fixed standards that lie within relatively Now, what of the physician? Where does narrow limits. This type of central control he appear in the organizational scheme? has had a leveling and unifying influence Clearly the pattern changes. Where is our upon the church and has given it a stabil ready pool of denominational physicians? ity and strength that have enabled its rela Unfortunately, we must look in vain. tively small staff of workers to carry on an In order to understand the physician©s enormous world program of evangelism. position more clearly let us take a hypo Because of this closely-knit organiza thetical medical student at Loma Linda tional structure, the individual worker University. Throughout his twenty-five necessarily loses a certain degree of inde years of denominational education and in pendence. This loss, however, is more than doctrination in the home, in the church, compensated for by a distinct gain in eco and in the school he has had a goal of nomic security for the worker and (which dedicated service to the church kept ever is more important to our present study) before him. Now in the midst of his medi by his involvement in an emotionally sat cal course he takes stock of his situation in isfying spiritual esprit de corps. The order to lay specific plans for his future. worker is not committed to personal posi As he makes his decisions what are the tion and monetary rewards or even to a possibilities open before him? What are local congregation of his choice but to a the factors he must consider? What exam higher loyalty, the remnant church, the ples and influences mold his decision? organization of God©s own devising with It quickly becomes evident to him after its great world view and mission. a little observation and inquiry that there THE MINISTRY are basically only two possible job oppor denominational worker but this opportu tunities for physicians in the denomina nity is now in the past. Our institutions tional organization. The first is a position today are essentially community hospitals on the medical school faculty. Clearly this (and sizable ones at that) where private is a door open only to a select few, those practitioners, Adventist and non-Adventist whose abilities and interests qualify them alike, can admit their patients for hospital for the rigorous discipline of academic care. Under this new arrangement the Ad medicine, teaching, and research. If our ventist doctor is not a bona fide denomina student does not find such a future attrac tional worker like the nurse, the account tive to him, he can consider the other al ant, the chaplain, or the physiotherapist. ternative, foreign mission service. Again our student sees the difference. The Before our young doctor-to-be has physician does not belong in just the same reached this point, however, he has been way as the other workers do. Limitations repeatedly impressed with one obvious of space do not permit us to enlarge here fact. Most of the medical graduates of upon this subject of denominational medi Loma Linda University go into the private cal institutions. The writer has treated this practice of medicine, and the pressures subject in more detail in another paper, brought to bear upon him to follow in the "Hospitals Versus Sanitariums," published footsteps of his predecessors are well-nigh in THE MINISTRY in June, 1966. irresistible. Consider the facts: 3. The Appeal of Denominational 1. The Influence of Faculty Members A dministrators Most of the instructors that the student Not only do our present Adventist medi meets during the impressionable last two cal institutions offer few if any full-time years of his formal medical education are denominationally salaried positions for in private practice. Even the great major physicians but there is no appeal to join ity of the "full-time" faculty members have the local conferences in any position other part-time practices that bring them addi than as an independent practicing physi tional income from patient fees or from cian. The student can only wonder, too, percentage-based commissions. The knowl at the type of inducement not infrequently edge that the salary of the teacher-physi held out to him to join a certain confer cian (particularly in the clinical sciences) ence "Ideal practice location. Good is considerably in excess of denominational church school. Excellent recreational area wage standards, the student sets the stage with good hunting and fishing. Previous of his mind for the developing concept doctor netted §25,000 a year." Is it any sur that the physician is different from the prise that our student asks, "Is that what "regular" denominational employees. He they think of me? Is that what they believe apparently is not subject to the usual poli my objectives and motives are?" cies that govern other workers. The stu With all these facts seething in ferment dent observes, too, that even a physician©s in his mind, our student returns to the sub personal deportment and his attitudes to ject of mission medicine, which he has all ward Christian standards are not critical along considered as his real goal in life. factors in maintaining his faculty position These other unpleasant and somewhat in provided he is professionally and academ congruous ideas had only intruded them ically competent. Such observations por selves upon his consciousness momentarily tray to our student the denominational because of the forcefulness of the observed image of the physician and help to shape facts. Now that they have come, however, his own image of himself as a physician. they have a way of persisting. They are not easily dismissed but keep coming back to 2. The Physician and the Adventist Medical haunt him in his decision making. Institution in the United States "Why," our student asks, "are so few go Not every physician is suited for or in ing into mission service? Can it be because terested in foreign medical work, even they feel they do not really belong to the though he sincerely desires to be con denomination? The opportunities are so nected with the denominational medical few, the future so narrowly circumscribed. program in a very real way. There was a . . . And if I do go into foreign service, time when such physicians could join the what then? Suppose I have to return to staff of one of our sanitariums as a salaried the States to take care of mother, or to FEBRUARY, 1967 33 educate our children. Where shall I go?" of physician recruitment for overseas serv Practical questions, these! After ten or ice. Admittedly our search for clarity and fifteen years of denominational service understanding of the issues involved has overseas where does a physician go when given us at least some sidelong glimpses he returns to the homeland? There are vir into some other aspects of our medical tually no denominational positions for program that might profitably benefit from him to fill. His service record is broken or closer scrutiny in the light of our denomi ended, his intimate association with the national objectives. Indeed, unless the denominational organization is over, and problem of physician recruitment is stud his denominationally-based financial secu ied in the full context of our distinctive rity is gone. Obviously he must go into Adventist objectives and principles there private practice. He must virtually start at can be little hope that it can ever be the bottom again and start a new life inde solved. pendent of his former employing organi (To be continued) zation and do so at the age of forty-five or fifty years of age. Ironically, this situation even holds true for missionary physicians who were ordained to the ministry over Presbyterian Clergyman-Doctor a "Schweitzer" seas. They too have been dropped from to Lepers the organization simply because there Timothy Nelson Rhee is known in Southeast Asia were no positions available to them! as "the Dr. Schweitzer of Korea." Five years ago this 44-year-old Presbyterian minister and doctor of Eroded Commitment medicine started a hospital on a rocky remote island This is the dilemma that faces the medi 200 miles off the coast of South Korea where tuber cal student and graduate physicians too. culosis and leprosy were ri£e. Dr. Rhee explains that although he once worked Perhaps the student has not consciously with Dr. Schweitzer this had nothing to do with his thought through all these points to arrive decision, which came about instead through "a at this logical but enigmatic conclusion, strange message from God." "After the liberation of but the result is the same as if he had. The Korea in 1945," he said, "I started a church in Seoul physician©s vital role in the denomina with the help of ray mother. One day while in silent tional organization has never been clearly prayer, I heard a voice telling me that I should go and fully defined for him, and thus by to the lepers." After hearing the "voice" again on slow attrition, doubts and uncertainties two successive days, Dr. Rhee opened a mobile clinic erode away his commitment to the work of service, and by the early 1960©s he had reduced the church. Because of this uncertainty Korea©s leper population from 100,000 to 50,000. Then came another dramatic turning point in many who might otherwise happily accept his life. A clergyman appealed to him to help five a denominational career go into the well- lepers on the island of Ullung-do. The small boat trodden way of private practice, choosing in which he set off for the island was blown off to make their contribution to the church course by the tail of a typhoon and one of the sail from outside the denominational frame ors was killed. Dr. Rhee©s boat was adrift for three work. Having taken this step they become days. "I prayed very hard and suddenly the wind so deeply involved in personal, financial, changed. I was blown toward a shore line and to my and community obligations that it is ex great surprise I found it was UUung-Do." tremely difficult to get them to break away Instead of five lepers needing help, Dr. Rhee found 93. There were also 800 cases of tuberculosis, and enter foreign mission service. They widespread malnutrition, and serious sanitation are effectively lost to the church©s organ problems on the island which had a population of ized medical program. Many of those who 220,000 and not a single doctor. Dr. Rhee has re are persuaded to go do so with reserva duced the number of leprosy cases to 15 active ones, tions saying, "I can give a few years, per and he is confident that these will be arrested in a haps even one term, but that is all." They few years. are willing to make a time contribution to Lack of medicine and malnutrition have slowed the church just as they give their tithe and down his attack on tuberculosis, but 182 of 300 offerings. Never very far removed from their active cases have been receiving regular attention in a new hospital called Schweitzer House. practical judgment, however, is the dis To help overcome chronic malnutrition among turbing realization that they are just tem the island©s inhabitants Dr. Rhee is building up a porary workers, who must ultimately get herd of milk goats, the first 17 of which were im back to their own jobs. ported from the mainland. He hopes in a few years This, then, is an analysis of the problem to be able to supply every family with a goat. 34 THE MINISTRY What Happened to Elijah?

DALLAS YOUNGS

Director, Lone Star Bible Correspondence School

I WAS talking to a man Mr. Hoeh asserts that neither Enoch, not long ago who be Elijah, nor any other person is now in lieved that Elijah was heaven. Elijah©s translation, it is explained, caught up on that memo was only into the atmospheric heavens. rable day into the atmos "Certainly," he says, "the whirlwind used phere, but not taken to by God could not take him beyond the heaven. The prophet was earth©s atmosphere. Neither does the Bible dropped, he asserted, account leave Elijah in the air." The into some remote valley Plain Truth, January, 1956. where he lived his life The whirlwind, according to this, did out, died and was buried not take Elijah beyond this earth©s atmos the same as any other phere, but dropped him down at some dis person. Now he awaits the coming of Christ tant point on a mountaintop, or in a valley. and the resurrection. It is said: "Elijah is dead in the dust of the Was that the way of it? earth awaiting the resurrection of the just. The Bible verifies the fact that he was Elijah, some years after being removed in "caught up" all right. I read that in 2 the whirlwind, went into the grave, but will Kings 2:1 and 11: "And it came to pass, rise again to live forevermore." when the Lord would take up Elijah into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went Fifty Unbelievers with Elisha from Gilgal." "There appeared Unbelievers in the prophet©s translation a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and are not confined wholly to this day. When parted them both asunder; and Elijah Elisha, Elijah©s successor, returned from went up by a whirlwind into heaven." witnessing the translation, he was met by fifty sons of the prophets, who said: "Be Our Historic Position hold now, there be with thy servants fifty From the dawn of Seventh-day Adventist strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and history we have believed that Elijah was seek thy master: lest peradventure the translated and taken to heaven not seeing Spirit of the Lord hath taken him up, and death. Our pioneers, James White, Uriah cast him upon some mountain, or into some Smith, Joseph Bates, and others believed valley" (2 Kings 2:16). in the translation to heaven of Enoch and Elisha said: "Ye shall not send." Elijah. Ellen G. White believed it. Our But they pressed him until he was leaders, evangelists, and editors today be ashamed, and at last he told them to go. lieve it. They searched high and low, mountain- My problem is not with our historic posi top and valley, for three days, but did not tion, but with an article appearing in the find Elijah. At last they gave up, for it is Plain Truth magazine, a Seventh-day impossible to find a man upon earth, no Church of God publication, written by Her matter how thoroughly one searches, who man L. Hoeh. This article has not dis is in heaven. When the fifty came to Jeri turbed our historic position, but it has cho, where Elisha was, he dryly observed: disturbed some people that I know, and, I "Did I not say unto you, Go not?" suspect, quite a few with whom I am not The mountain or valley idea must have acquainted. become quite widespread immediately fol- FEBRUARY, 1967 lowing the translation. According to Eli- that no redeemed person has ever gone. Let sha©s experience with the "mocking chil me read further: dren," it must have been a common topic And when he had taken the book, the four of conversation in the homes. As the beasts [living creatures] and four and twenty prophet went from Jericho to Bethel "there elders fell down before the Lamb having every one came forth little children out of the city, of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go which are the prayers of saints. And they sung a up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head. new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast And he turned back, and looked on them, slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood and cursed them in the name of the Lord. out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and And there came forth two she bears out of nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and the wood, and tare forty and two children priests: and we shall reign on the earth (verses of them" (2 Kings 2:23, 24). 8-10). This is conclusive. It constitutes a mark Here they are: Redeemed men around of God©s disapproval upon those who disbe the throne of God in Paradise. John saw lieve Elijah©s translation. It was a costly them there, and recorded the inspired fact but needed lesson. Is not God as displeased for our learning. with today©s disbelief as He was with that of the sons of the prophets and the mock What of Those "First Fruits?" ing children? First fruits were a common thing to Is rael. The Israelites gave to God the first Has No Man Gone to Heaven? fruits of the wheat, rye, and barley harvests, Mr. Hoeh is positive that no man from of the grape and olive harvests, and of the earth has gone to God©s heaven Paradise. oil and the wine. Thus we have at the Yet, John, the writer of Revelation, saw re resurrection of Jesus a raising from the dead deemed ones from the earth around God©s of the first fruits, a small number, of the throne in that very place. In Revelation great general resurrection that will take 5 he tells us what he saw: place at the end of the world. This is how God the Father is seated upon His the first Gospel writer recorded it: throne with a sealed book in His hand. Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. . . . And the graves Search was made in heaven and earth for were opened; and many bodies of the saints which one worthy to open the book and to read slept arose, and came out of the graves after his what was written. No one could be found, resurrection, and went into the holy city, and ap and John wept. At last the problem was peared unto many" (Matt. 27:50-53). solved. One was found worthy to open the book. One of the elders said to John: The question may now well be asked: "Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe What became of these resurrected saints? First, they went into Jerusalem and testi of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed fied to the fact of their resurrection. Then to open the book, and to loose the seven what? Did they die again and go back to seals" (verse 5). their graves? I think not. Ephesians 4:8 gives Jesus Christ is the "Lion of the tribe of the answer: "Wherefore he saith, When he Juda." ascended up on high, he led captivity The revelator continues: captive, and gave gifts unto men." Jesus I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne took them to heaven as trophies of His vic and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the tory over the grave. elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Was the Mount of Transfiguration Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And he Just a Vision? came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne (verses 6, 7). Mr. Hoeh says it was. Moses and Elijah, he assures us, were not actually present. This unmistakably gives the setting. God Peter, James, and John saw them in pano the Father is upon His throne with a sealed ramic vision. Actually, he believes, these book in His hand. In the midst of the worthies of old are in their graves awaiting throne is the Lamb (Jesus), and the four the resurrection. But are they in their beasts and twenty-four elders. This is God©s graves? No, I am positive that they are not. heaven Paradise into which we are According to God©s Word they are in looking. This is the place where it is said heaven. However, it is true that Matthew 36 THE MINISTRY quotes Jesus as saying: "Tell the vision to tion of verse 13: "No man hath ascended no man, until the Son of man be risen up to heaven." That is, no man has gone again from the dead" (Matt. 17:9). Yet, to heaven to learn and bring down the this does not necessarily mean that the imperative facts which I have just set three disciples had been in a trance. Jesus forth to you. But, Nicodemus, continued simply told them not to tell what they had the Lord, "He that came down from seen until after His resurrection. heaven, even the Son of man which is in Another Gospel writer, Mark, tells us heaven," He has brought to you these es plainly: "And as they came down from the sential truths. mountain, He charged them that they I give below a quotation from a well- should tell no man what things they had known commentary: seen, till the Son of man were risen from The sense manifestly is this: "The perfect knowl the dead" (Mark 9:9). edge of God is not obtained by any man©s going Berkeley©s Version says this: "He forbade up from earth to heaven to receive it no man them to divulge to anyone what they had hath so ascended but He whose proper habita tion, in His essential and eternal nature, is heaven, seen." William©s New Testament: "He cau hath, by taking human flesh, descended as the Son tioned them not to tell anyone what they of man to disclose the Father, whom He knows by had seen."* Twentieth Century New Tes immediate gaze alike in the flesh as before He as tament: "Jesus cautioned them not to re sumed it, being essentially and unchangeably in late what they had seen to a single person." the bosom of the Father." A Commentary of the The weight of evidence is in favor of a Old and New Testaments, by Jamieson, Fausset, literal, on-the-scene transfiguration. Jesus and Brown. Comment on John 3:13. was really there. The disciples were bodily Jesus continued on from verse 14 trying present, and so were Moses and Elijah. to enlighten His visitor on the essential They were seen. doctrines of the cross and the atonement: However, notwithstanding the weight of "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wil the above evidence, I think Luke 9:32 is the derness, even so must the Son of man be strongest of all texts in dealing with the lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him "trance" theory: "But Peter and they that should not perish, but have eternal life." were with him, were heavy with sleep: and Nicodemus could understand this. He had when they were awake [no trance], they known from childhood the story of the saiu his glory, and the two men [Moses and brazen serpent in the wilderness. Jesus com Elijah] that stood with him." pared Himself to that. Then Jesus gave the "little gospel" in The Word of God Is Not Contradictory verse 16, which blessed not only Nicodemus Perhaps the strongest text used to try to but every sinner from that time to the show the nontranslation of Elijah is John present: "For God so loved the world, that 3:13, Jesus© words to Nicodemus: "And no he gave his only begotten Son, that whoso man hath ascended up to heaven, but he ever believeth in him should not perish, that came down from heaven, even the Son but have everlasting life." of man which is in heaven." There are no contradictions in the Bi In order to understand this apparent ble. There are certainly none concerning contradiction we must understand the con Elijah©s translation to heaven. Enoch, text. Nicodemus had come to Jesus by night Moses, and Elijah, together with many with some questions in mind. Jesus others, are now in heaven. Enoch and Eli launched immediately into the Pharisee©s jah became the type of the great host that first great need. He must be born again shall be translated, not seeing death, at the spiritually. Nicodemus seemed to have dif coming of Jesus Christ. Moses became the ficulty in applying that great fundamental type of the resurrected righteous at our to himself. "How can these things be?" he Lord©s return. Too, the "first fruits" of the queried. general resurrection at Christ©s advent are now enjoying heaven and awaiting that Jesus answered: "Art thou a master of Is glad day of reunion with their resurrected rael, and knowest not these things? ... If brethren. I have told you earthly things, and ye be lieve not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" (verses 10-12). Then * The jVeit- Testament, A Translation in the Language of the People, by Charles B. Williams. Used by permission Jesus set forth the tremendous proposi- of Moody Press. FEBRUARY,1967 37 Our Part

SHEPHERDESS in a

At the recent Autumn Council an appeal went forth calling our workers the world around to make an effort for evangelistic revival. Plans were laid for a forward ad vance in evangelism in all departments of the organized Finished Work work. At the General Conference Women©s Auxiliary meet ing held during Autumn Council, Mrs. Robert H. Pierson spoke to the women, suggesting ways that wives could help their husbands carry forward these plans. The following was taken from a talk which she gave at that time.

MRS. ROBERT H. PIERSON HAVE been asked to speak on practical -ways we wives could help our husbands as they carryI the burden of a great forward movement in finishing the work God has entrusted to this people. We women are eager to do our part. companionship and conversation. At times they We want to help! What can we do? What is need to be alone to commune with God to re our part in this tremendous yet glorious assign new their strength. ment? If we are to bring encouragement and strength We all realize that when a country is at war, to our husbands, our own Christian experience women play an important and unique part in must remain warm and constant. If we should helping to win through to ultimate victory. be depressed or discouraged, it is bound to re We need to keep in mind that we are in a war flect in their lives. If we have a daily rich ex a spiritual war, a war against the forces of perience with our Saviour, we can share our evil and our husbands are soldiers of the cross, courage, our hope, our joy with them. The in fighting on the front lines. fluence of the fruits of the Spirit in our lives They Need Our Prayers will bring peace and joy to them. Joy, one of the fruits of the Spirit, actually helps to bring While our husbands are preaching and we sit health and healing. It gives renewed vigor to in the congregation we can silently, earnestly the weary and discouraged. Our part in the pray for the Holy Spirit to bring conviction to finishing of the work is to let God develop the the listeners and to convert souls. When they fruits of the Spirit in us, so that we can be an struggle with problems in committees we, at encouragement to our families and to all home, can lift our hearts in prayer asking God whose lives touch ours. to give special help and wisdom. When our men travel from place to place and are out on They Need Nutritious Food the great lines of travel we should pray for Our husbands, like soldiers in any army, not their protection. Eternity alone will reveal how only need encouragement, they need simple, many times their lives have been spared and nutritious food, filled with energy, and attrac they have been permitted to continue their tively served. Nutrition is a very interesting, re work and return home to us. Let us pray con warding study. How fortunate we are to have stantly for them and let them know that we the Spirit of Prophecy writings and other relia are praying. ble authorities we may turn to for counsel in They Need Our Encouragement this important matter. If in our cooking we fol low this instruction, our husbands© minds, bod At times our husbands© work is most difficult ies, and hearts will benefit. Time spent in seek and often they come home extremely weary. It ing to keep our husbands healthy as well as is then that our very attitude should breathe happy will be time well spent, and God will courage and confidence. We know their great surely bless our efforts along this line. The est strength and courage must come from God cause of God will, in turn, benefit from longer so we guard their periods of rest and study and and more effective service because we have done prayer even at the expense of our desire for our part. 38 THE MINISTRY They Need Us to Set a Good Example pilgrim, is being offered by Lufthansa German Air lines. Our example before those around us will ei The tour goes to Holy Land sites in both Jordan ther help or hinder our husbands. The apostle and Israel and includes visits to ancient Egypt, Paul©s admonition to young Timothy may well Lebanon, and Greece. be applied to us "Be thou an example of the believers" (1 Tim. 4:12). People watch the The tour leaves from New York as well as all worker©s wife closely. Sometimes they are more other Lufthansa gateways in North America, going demanding with us than with other church to Munich for a connection to Cairo. The "musts" members. We have high standards to live up to. of sight-seeing in this Egyptian capital are offered In order for our husbands© preaching to be as as well as an opportunity to go to Luxor to see effective as we would like we must live what the temples and other sites. they^ preach. When we are perplexed a bit It©s a short air journey from the ancient land of anxious to know just what our example should Egypt to Lebanon, but an interesting one. Soon be it is comforting to know that the Holy after arrival, a trip is made along the Dog River Spirit will be our Guide. He will give day-by- to Biblos, where the modern pilgrim will see evi day instruction in even the smaller details of dence of 7,000 years of history. our daily living. He does this through the Bible Then it©s on to Baalbek, the site of Roman and the Spirit of Prophecy. We have a never-fail ruins, including the Temple of Jupiter, continuing ing source from which we may draw. The pre on to the 6,000-year-old city of Damascus to see cious promise is "If any . . . lack wisdom, let the Great Omayyad Mosque, originally the Church him ask of God." If we but follow His leadings, of St. John the Baptist, constructed in the fourth we may be assured that our example will be century. such as will draw men and women closer to the Not only are New Testament religious sites Saviour. visited in Jerusalem but also those of the Old Tes tament. The modern pilgrim will be able to see Reach Out to Others the famous Wailing Wall, a remnant of Herod©s After we have done our best for our own Temple, where the Jews gathered for centuries to households our husbands and our children weep over the destruction of Jerusalem; the Rock as true mothers in Israel, the Lord expects us of the Sacrifice, where it is said that Abraham of to reach out beyond our own family circle. Ev fered Isaac; the Pool of Bethesda; Damascus Gate ery night millions lie down cold and hungry. and Tomb of Kings. I have seen thousands of such unfortunate people From Jordan today©s pilgrim crosses from the in lands afar, while we here in the homeland old city of Jerusalem to the new city of Jerusalem are often too warm and have a tendency to in Israel via the Mandelbaum Gale. overeat. God expects us to do what we can for Sight-seeing in the new city includes a visit to the needy and the stranger. What a responsibil Mount Zion, the site of the ancient palace of King ity is ours! But what a glorious privilege! David and his tomb, as well as the upper chamber There are other ways wives can help their of the Last Supper. The Hebrew University will husbands in the work in these closing days. I be visited and the new museum that now houses have mentioned only a few. These are such sim the Dead Sea scrolls. From here the trip continues ple things praying, encouraging, studying, through the Plain of Meggiddo to Tiberias on the cooking, watching our example, and working Sea of Galilee, then on to Nazareth and Capernaum, for the needy but these are ways we can to Mount Carmel on the seaward slopes of modern help in finishing the work. There is nothing Haifa. This was the mountain from which the difficult about God©s way into the kingdom. The prophet Elijah called down the heavenly fire, to Sermon on the Mount is not complicated. Like triumph over the priests of Baal. wise, the helps I have mentioned are simple. Two days will be spent in Greece, with an after But as we all well know, it takes the grace of God and the complete surrender of self to put noon of sight-seeing in Athens, followed by a day these things into practice. in Corinth, the city where Saint Paul did so well If we do our part we need never fear. Our as a preacher. The modern pilgrim will see the Great Helper will do His. Then we will truly be Temple of Apollo and the Roman ruins, contain "helpmeets" to the men whom we love and ing the platform from which Saint Paul spoke. A whom we desire to help finish God©s work in visit will also be made to Daphni to see the elev our day. enth-century monastery. The 17-day trip will leave from New York every Monday, now through February, 1967, and will cost a minimum of $997. A five-day optional tour to Rome, Pompeii, and Berlin is available to those Lufthansa Offers Custom Made taking the new Bible Lands tour, costing an addi Bible Lands Tour tional S148 per person for each of two traveling together. Conditions are similar to the basic 17- NEW YORK A new 17-day Bible Lands Jour day tour, with the exception of meals. Only break ney, especially custom made for the modern-day fast and lunch or dinner are included. R. N. s. FEBRUARY, 1967 "We Had to Fight to Be Here"

How Can the Bible BIBLE Instructor Help INSTRUCTORS the Pastor?

XOTE: This is the conclusion of the presentation given by the Bible instructor to teach the visitors© Sab foui Bible instructors at the Ministerial Presession Council held in Detroit, June, 1966. bath school class while the pastor teaches the baptismal class. Such is the case in my home church in Miami, Florida. The pastor©s wife is HE Bible instructor and pastor plan tenta a Bible instructor employed by the conference. T tively for united effort. But the Bible in As she teaches the lesson she sows the seeds of structor works separately in her daily program truth that may lead to future Bible studies. and Bible studies. She keeps up-to-date record Again from the book Evangelism we read: files covering the progress of her contacts and "If there were twenty women where now there other pertinent information. Thus, when either is one, who would make this holy mission their the pastor or a team holds evangelistic meet cherished work, we should see many more con ings, all may dovetail their efforts for a rich verted to the truth." Pages 471, 472. soul harvest. Ray Turner has said, "I have been One young woman who has answered this in places where the pastor had a Bible instruc call is Mrs. Felicia LeVere Phillips. She has tor. I often visited with her over the area and I worked in three different Bible instructor fields always found it a rich field. She always had and will tell us of her personal experience in many interests, good interests. From her in one field in which she has been engaged since terests many came into this message through our her graduation from Southern Missionary Col evangelism." lege last spring. Concerning problems dealing with the family "It is a real privilege for us to be here this and the home, the Bible instructor may refer morning and especially to be able to present certain individuals to the pastor for counseling. the progression of the Bible instructor to you Likewise, the pastor may refer individuals, es you who have more opportunities than any pecially women, to her. "When a woman is other group to channel youthful energies and in trouble, let her take her trouble to women." talents into this avenue of soul winning. Evangelism, p. 460. "In this climactic hour we need to harness all As a result of personal visits with the church the resources within our reach. The work of the members the Bible instructor can assist the pas Bible instructor has proved to be one of the tor by suggesting possible sermon topics. She most effective means of evangelism. also can effectively conduct health and cook "The phase of Bible work that I have been ing classes from time to time. most intimately associated with since my grad Suppose the pastor is planning to conduct uation has been that of chaplain©s assistant the Week of Prayer at an academy, when he is in one of our hospitals. We are all familiar with asked to conduct one during the same week the statements from the Spirit of Prophecy in the elementary school. If there is no assistant that say that our medical work is the right pastor, the Bible instructor may be called upon arm of the gospel and that it is to be to the to meet the second request. work of God as the hand is to the body. This It is very necessary for lay members to be takes on added significance when we realize that able to give Bible studies effectively to relatives in our large modern hospitals the medical per and friends. The pastor should feel free to call sonnel are so busy just meeting the physical on the Bible instructor, who is qualified to give demands of the patients that they usually do not instruction because of her training and experi have time enough to also adequately meet their ence. spiritual needs. Secretarial duties are not her responsibility. "When a person is sick, he is usually more re Her primary work is that of giving Bible stud ceptive to spiritual thinking. His reserves and ies. As far as possible, church positions such as prejudices are down and if he does have them, pianist, secretary, deaconess, and Dorcas leader they are usually rapidly melted away by the should be filled by church members. kindly care of doctors and nurses. Often he is In larger churches or churches having many grasping for a feeling of security that has been visitors attending the services, it is possible for swept away by his illness. The time is right to 40 THE MINISTRY approach him with spiritual foundations FAITH with faith, and hope, and trust in the Lord. When a person is sick, there is the possibility Faith looks across the storm— of his feeling very close to God or estranged It does not doubt from Him depending upon his attitude. It is Or stop to look at clouds our task to arouse his faith and spiritual ener And things without. gies. Often the patient welcomes us as a part of the healing team. This is as it should be, for medical authorities tell us that more than 50 Faith does not question why per cent of all illness is caused by emotional When all His ways stress and strain. So the mind and soul of the Are hard to understand, patient needs attention if the body is to heal. But trusts and prays. "Just how does a woman fit into this need in the chaplain©s department? As a pastor in a It seeks not the greatest gift large district is unable to make all the contacts And asks not sight; that he would like, he has the Bible instructor It does not need to see— make many of the calls, so the chaplain has his He is its light. assistant make visits, establish contacts for him, and take care of the cases where a feminine Author Unknown touch might prove more effective. "I understand that there is a growing demand in our denomination for women chaplain as sistants and that many hospitals do employ same or decreased, if anything. And yet our such. For some time the Methodists and Luther ministers and educators have told us, ©No, Bi ans have been using women in hospitals to do ble instructors are not needed any more.© But personal work under the title of deaconess. Ellen G. White stated, ©I am also led to say "My daily program as chaplain©s assistant that we must educate more workers to give has consisted of keeping an up-to-date record Bible readings.© Evangelism, p. 477. Surely of who is in the hospital taking note of the the need is even greater today than when she religious affiliations. Each day I inform the wrote those words. Ministers, evangelists, the local Adventist pastor of any of his members challenge is yours to challenge others to enter who are hospitalized and also of any outstand this field. Remember the messenger of the Lord ing contacts with non-Adventist patients in the said: ©If there were twenty women where now area with whom follow-up work should be done. there is one, who would make this holy mission "I have taken charge of the literature pro their cherished work, we should see many more gram in the hospital, often prayed with patients, converted to the truth.© Ibid., p. 471. Women and helped to conduct the regular patient and who can do this work are needed now. employee worship services. "Since you have come into responsibilities in "I visit the patients from bed to bed, bring church leadership, has your burden for souls ing a little lightness and cheer. If they are lonely proportionately grown? Are you continually or depressed, I give a willing ear to special aware that there are many just ripe for harvest problems and worries of those desiring to talk were there but reapers to do the job? Remem about them with someone. I have had patients ber, ©When a great and decisive work is to be tell me after unburdening themselves, ©I have done, God chooses men and women to do this never told anyone that not even my doctor.© It work, and it will feel the loss if the talents of seems that a patient does not feel as threatened both are not combined.© Ibid., p. 469. by a young woman visiting and talking of spir "If we follow all this counsel we shall see itual needs as he possibly would by the author the work finished victoriously, and how glorious ity figure of a minister or doctor. will be that day when those who have won "Another phase of the work can be a follow- souls for Christ will shine as the stars forever up program in the homes of former patients, and ever!" establishing a stronger spiritual contact and helping the local pastors ripen the interest for baptism. "I feel mine has been the opportunity of planting seed thoughts of love and kindness, thus sparking an interest in the truth that can WANTED: Old handbills, posters, et later be watered and reaped in baptism by the cetera for research project into the his tory of evangelistic advertising and pastor. publicity. Send to: D. R. Lowe, "Heath- "Several years ago I was making a study of ways" 913 Melton Road, Thurmaston, the need for Bible instructors. I learned that Leics., England. in the past twenty years the number of our gospel workers has nearly doubled, but that the number of Bible instructors has stayed the FEBRUARY, 1967 41 of liberalism in science (evolution), in economy (socialism and Marxism), in theology (higher criti cism). c. Vatican II met 1962-1965 under the pontificate of John XXIII, who thought in terms of an aggior- namento ("bringing up to date") of the church in a rapidly changing world. The succeeding Pope, Paul VI, appeared eager to put an end to the coun BOOKS cil. Another trait of a Roman Catholic council is that ideas and teachings are discussed and not business matters. Moreover, a Roman Catholic council takes all the time necessary: Vatican II lasted four years; the Council of Trent met for eighteen years. In his book Hans Kung once again points to the An Appraisal by Daniel Walther of The Council, permanent spiritual and moral needs of the Chris Reform and Reunion, by Hans Kiing.* tian church. The church is in constant need of ref ormation. When we use the term "reformation" we One of the momentous events in our century was usually think of that of the sixteenth century, such the Roman Catholic Vatican Council II. An enor as the Lutheran Reformation and that of Calvin mous coverage was given this event in the press of and Zwingli. In fact, Protestants are sometimes un the world. Many volumes have been published der the impression that the Reformation is an event trying to appraise especially the theological develop of the past, and yet paradoxically subscribe to the ments. (The proceedings of the council have re idea that the church is in that constant need of a cently been published, The Documents of Vatican reformation (Ecclesia semper reformanda). Since II: paperback, edited by Guild Press, New York, its beginning in the first century, individual 1966, 95c.) This contains all sixteen official docu churches as well as the entire universal body ments promulgated at the council 1962 to 1965. needed constant "mending," renewing, reforming, One of the best works written before Vatican II updating. That thought of a constant reformation met, was by Hans Rung, titled, The Council, Re applies to our own denomination also. Remember form and Reunion. The original edition was pub the numerous appeals made by the Spirit of Proph lished in English by Sheed and Ward, New York, ecy, pointing to our basic needs, our dangers, 1961. mistakes, and also the remedies. Remember the con There are several reasons why Kiing©s book is of stant calls for a reformation and a revival. That importance to the clergy in general, to the Sev call was often heard; was it often heeded? enth-day Adventist minister in particular: For one thing, says Kung, the Christian church, 1. Contemporary ecumenical developments largely made by man, has forever attempted to should be watched very closely by the intelligent make herself at home within her own walls, to re minister. The meaning of these developments is of gard her own organization as an end in itself (page great importance to a proper understanding of the 23). Another characteristic of all Christian churches Advent message. is the fear to make changes (page 24). They feel 2. We must be aware of the existing differences snug and comfortable the way they are and they of Roman Catholic and Protestant concepts of ecu are afraid of basic progress, necessary changes, and menism. While we as a denomination had no offi experiments that might "rock the boat." cial "observers" at Vatican II, we nevertheless had We must never lose sight of the fact that the several "onlookers" there who observed, sometimes, church is not only made up of men but organized the observers. Several of our men had full access and led by men, i.e., sinners. On the other hand, to the press section at Vatican City. we cannot, argues Kung, wait until we have a sin 3. A Catholic council can teach a great deal. As less person to make him a minister. We cannot far as the book of Kung is concerned, there are wait until the church is perfect before we begin numerous observations, expressed penetratingly, missionary work, and we cannot reach a state of that could profitably apply to our work. absolute inner perfection before we begin to re Very seldom does the Roman Catholic Church form the church. Precisely because we are sinful, call a council into session. Since Reformation times imperfect, and "unfinished" we need that constant there were only three councils: reformation which renews all things. In spite of its a. The Council of Trent, in 1545, was called in shortcomings the church is Christ©s mystical body, order to readjust the situation of the church after Christ©s bride (page 30). The church is the Lord©s the onslaught of the Reformation. (kuriake—from which we have the English word b. Vatican I convened in 1869 in order to reap church). A reformation, therefore, is primarily the praise the role of the church as it faced the waves work of God, and imperfect man is merely God©s tool. As Saint Augustine once wrote: "He [the * Paperback; Image book, Doubleday, 1965, New Lord] will reform you who first formed you" York, 85c. (page 34). 42 THE MINISTRY An important question, which Rung tries to an swer, is how can a church be reformed. Can we, with our imperfections, do something? What can GOSPEL TENTS we really do? 1. First of all, we can "suffer." (The Latin word STEEL-CLAD TABERNACLES for suffering is patientia, from which we get our SMITH MANUFACTURING CO., DALTON, CA. word patience. When we speak of the "patience of Over 50 Years in Business the saints" the basic meaning is the "suffering of the saints.") We are to be aware of the self-right eousness, the poverty, the blindness, the nakedness as well as the apparent physical triumphs of the From Death to Life Through Christ, Robert G. Lee, church. We are urged to suffer with those not Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, of our communion; we are to suffer also with those Michigan, 1966. of our communion. What is the purpose of suffer ing? Mainly to counteract denominational pride Those who have read anything from the pen of and self-satisfaction. Dr. Lee are happy for another book bearing his 2. We must pray. There is little praying done by name. This veteran in the ministry is well known the clergy. To pray does not mean to pray against as a forthright evangelist and revivalist, and in this (or for) something, or against one another, nor book there are some very challenging passages. like the Pharisees, to praise ourselves. But we There are six chapters in 120 pages, and while ought to pray for one another within as well as these chapters do not aim to follow a sequence, outside the church: "Bear ye one another©s burdens or even to develop one special idea, yet they are all and so fulfil the law of Jesus Christ" (Gal. 6:2). strongly evangelical. The last chapter, "If I Were 3. We can criticize. The Christian rejoices over a Jew," is in this reviewer©s opinion worth all the the good which the church does and which exists rest of the book. within the church. But there always were heard In the over-all evaluation of this book it could warning voices in the church to draw attention to hardly be classed as the finest that has come from the shortcomings. These voices are expressed al this author, but there is a note of freshness about ready in the messages to the seven churches in the it which is characteristic of this interesting and book of Revelation. There is, to be sure, a care challenging preacher. He speaks with a note o£ au ful, constructive type of fraternal criticism. That, thority, and that is always refreshing. in itself, is an act of love. R. ALLAN ANDERSON 4. We must act. We must do God©s will. Our right, our business, is not to act against, but to act with and for one another. At all costs we must act Revell's Minister's Annual, 1967 edition, David A. especially where pastoral charity is called for, and MacLennan, Fleming H. Revel Company, West- we must act with much patience. We must act by wood, New Jersey, $3.95, 380 pages. a renewal and a return to the sources of Christian The Minister's Manual (Dorna©s), compiled by ity. It is significant (a point not sufficiently stressed M. K. W. Hiecher, Harper & Row, New York, in Kung©s book) that reform movements have very $3.95, 372 pages. often been motivated by a concern for re-emphasis of the "last things." When the church settles down These are two well-known yearly source books in material comfort it thinks least of all about the of ideas, suggestions, and materials for sermons, return of Jesus, the end of the world, the judgment, worship programs, meditations, prayers, illustra et cetera. We have noticed that reform movements tions, messages for bulletins, communion services, in the church are very often caused or accompa and prayer-meeting ideas. These works are planned nied by a deep concern and a firm preaching of to stimulate thoughts that can be adapted for use the events of the last days, notably Christ©s second in messages pertinent to the day and the hour in coming. which we live. We will probably not wish to follow The primary task of the church is to witness. Does the yearly calendar of services suggested here. Nev the Christian minister really know what is going ertheless, we find in these volumes much to chal on, what is being taught? Is he so out of touch with lenge us, to enrich our thinking, and to encourage realities of trends that his ministry tends to be us to become evermore creative as a "sermon stale, his message insipid, and his witnessing with builder, leader in worship, and transmitter of the out impact? glorious good news of the blessed God." While the book The Council, Reform and Re The Minister's Manual features one hundred union is written by a young Catholic theologian contemporary questions asked by young people, and primarily intended for Catholic readers to get with suggested answers. Also a junior pulpit, with ready for their council, all Christians, Seventh-day emphasis on getting to this group without talking Adventist ministers in particular, may have their down to them. We suggest these two books not as eyes opened and their understanding enlightened a substitute for the minister©s own preparation of in reading open-mindedly Kung©s attempts to ana sermons but as source books supplying materials lyze and improve the inner condition of the fresh and new for all occasions. church. ANDREW FEARING

FEBRUARY, 1967 43 if the earth was round. Mr. Otto had never heard of satellites, spacemen, or moon rockets, and refused to believe in their existence. "I read only the Bible," he said. "Where else does one get the truth?"

Detroit Short of Teachers, Clergymen Volunteer Many clergymen have volunteered to serve as sub stitute teachers in Detroit public schools to help al NEWS BRIEFS leviate the acute shortage of instructors. In addition, the clergymen are asking lay leaders in their respec tive congregations to volunteer as substitute teachers, badly needed by the Detroit Board of Education, which has estimated the shortage at between 400 and 500. Both clergy and lay volunteers qualify as substi tutes under relaxed school board regulations, which require only 60 hours of college credit and experi Paulist Lauds Luther as "Catholic Reformer" ence in allied fields, including the ministry. Under A Paulist-priest scholar who is an authority on former regulations substitutes had to be certified as Martin Luther said in Dallas, Texas, that the six teachers. Dr. Norman Drachler, acting school super teenth-century Reformation leader was truly a intendent, said there is no church-state issue in "Catholic reformer" and many of his views are gen volved when clergymen serve as teachers. erally accepted by Catholics today. Father Harry J. McSorley of Washington, D.C., said Catholics no Rabbi Sees More Sermons in Theaters longer regard Luther "as a man in whom there was Than in Pulpits nothing of God. Ten to fifteen years ago," the priest A rabbi who is a noted broadcaster told the Bible said, "Catholics did not like to speak of Luther, and Communication Congress in Washington, D.C., that when they did his activity was referred to as a rebel there is "more sermonizing going on in the Amer lion or revolution. Now, as a result of the Second ican theater" than in church or synagogue pulpits Vatican Council it is recognized that the Roman or on radio or TV religious programs. Rabbi A. Catholic Church must always undergo reformation Balfour Brickner of New York urged broadcasters of which she always stands in need. This is so stated seeking to communicate the gospel to re-evaluate in the Council©s decree on ecumenism." Father their approach in the light of today©s modern world. McSorley studied Luther©s writings in 95 volumes He maintained that religious programs tend to be and other Reformation materials. He observed that ineffective because of poor techniques and not be his studies showed that Martin Luther was a "deeply cause of lack of effort or availability o£ mass media. religious man, and research has determined that the Catholicism which Luther rejected was not truly Movement Toward Rome Opposed by Catholic. There were real errors in time and place. Evangelicals The church in Germany was guilty o£ serious doc More than a thousand evangelical churchmen trinal errors. The chief one was a view that main from Britain expressed concern at what they called tained that a sinner, by doing every thing he was "an accelerated movement towards Rome" when capable, by his own natural powers, could win grace they met in London for the second National As or forgiveness of sins from God. I maintain that sembly of Evangelicals. The delegates represented Luther rightly criticized and rejected this error. In more than 600 churches and Christian societies, doing so he was a Catholic reformer." reflecting even greater interest than did the first National Assembly last year. This group©s attitude Religion in the Round: A "Square" Man Speaks toward the Roman Catholic Church was expressed when delegates approved this resolution: "That this Nothing will convince Fritz Otto, an elder of the Assembly, recognizing an accelerated movement to Dutch Reformed Mission Church, that the world wards Rome, and being convinced that Rome has is not "square" and "stationary." He is a 64-year-old not changed in any fundamental doctrine since the colored man and he told members of the church©s last Assembly, affirms that the movement towards synod gathered in session at Worcester near Cape Rome is a movement away from Biblical Christi Town that he was supported in his conviction by anity. . . ." It further called "on all evangelicals to Revelation 7:1, which refers to "four angels stand give much more serious consideration to the possi ing on the four corners of the earth." Mr. Otto bility of action, demanded by loyalty to Biblical argued that a round object cannot have four cor truth, including some emergency scheme for minis ners, thus the earth must be square. It was deplor ters and churches to be put into operation . . . and able, he said, to find teachers today teaching children a declaration to the rest of the religious world of that the world is round and turning on its axis. He our intentions." objected strongly to this hypothesis being taught to his six children at school. He asked synod colleagues Buddhist Fellowship Opens Conference if there was a door where heaven and earth came More than 200 delegates from 20 countries gath together and where one could climb through to see ered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, for the opening of a 44 THE MINISTRY are seeking God©s answers tO modern problems. 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Trinidad Triumph Old and New Evangelism E. E. Cleveland ...... 2 Enthusiastic Response to President©s Appeal (Continued from page 13} T. Carcich ...... 11 Good Credit Risks thought of aiding him spiritually is just A. C. Fearing ...... 13 as useless. The end result of the latter Old and New Evangelism course would fill hell with well-fed, well- /. R. Spangter ...... 13 clothed, bad-habit-free people. Looking at Some Second Thoughts on the Educational the other side of the coin, the gospel has Program in Our Church a greater chance of making a deeper impres C. B. Hirsch ...... 14 Can We Reduce Our Apostasies? sion on the man whose physical conditions G. Burnside ...... 17 and surroundings are not reduced to an The Counterpoint of Duty and Desire animal level. James undoubtedly referred W. K. Nelson ...... 20 to this point when he said, "If a brother $ or Souls or sister be naked, and destitute of daily G. B. Suhrie ...... 22 food, and one of you say unto them, De World Congress on Evangelism part in peace, be ye warmed and filled; N. R. Dower ...... 24 notwithstanding ye give them not those Exemplary Ministerial Conduct things which are needful to the body; what M. Lee ...... 27 The Adventist Physician A Search for doth it profit?" (James 2:15, 16). Identity The solution to the problem is a com H. C. Lamp ...... 31 bined thrust. To teach a man physical and What Happened to Elijah? spiritual truth is our task. To give both D. Youngs ...... 35 Bible and bread is fulfilling Isaiah 58. Ad- Our Part in a Finished Work ventists are in a unique position to render Mrs. R. H. Pierson ...... 38 this tvpe of evangelism. Call it old, new, or "We Had to Fight to Be Here©© ...... 40 what-have-you this is Christ©s method of Books ...... 42 evangelism. j. R. s. News Briefs ...... 44 Pointers ...... 48 46 THE MINISTRY A BOOK OF PERMANENT VALUE TO EVERY MINISTER AND CHURCH ELDER

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ORDER Church Missionary Secretary TODAY . Book and Bible House Please send me: FROM YOUR -__ Memorials of Calvary @ $3.00 each $...... _. Street BOOK AND State Safes Tax where necessary _ _ Postage and Insurance City .. ..._...._. .__...._. Zone --.- Stat BIBLE HOUSE Total Enclosed $.. products of joy and sorrow. And further, they have had moments of doubt, frustration, and discouragement. But they bounce back! Elijah left his cave and Peter his Gethsemane. Moses emerged from Midian and Paul from Arabia. But why could not the whale digest a Jonah or boiling oil blur the vision of the seer of Patmos? The answer lies in the ability of the individual to recover and proceed. Such a man exudes an POINTERS air of invincibility, for he cannot be permanently diverted. This kind of courage cannot be trans mitted through birth. It is implanted at the new birth. It is a fruit of faith (1) Faith in the power and truthfulness of the message, (2) faith in one©s own calling to proclaim it, and (3) faith that he is where God wants him to be. Such faith summons CREDIBILITY THE sophisticated cities of to- the brain to its highest duty that of probing the GAP clay©s world pose problems for problem for points of penetration till breakthrough the minister that are unique is accomplished. This requires dedicated, single- and difficult. Evangelizing the cities was never minded men. Such men view failure as a con easy, but never before was it more difficult. Nor, tribution to their own education. The following may I add, has God ever been more ready to parable illustrates this: display His power. The specter of Failure appeared at a minister©s If, indeed, these cities are impossible, would door. "May I come in?" he asked. an all-wise God commission us to disciple them? "Why, of course. I was expecting you," the min To answer Yes is to question heaven©s credibility, ister said. and I would sooner question ours. "That is why I came," exclaimed Failure. The hard fact is that while some are pompously "But you misunderstand," replied the minister. proclaiming that it can©t be done, others are doing "You see, without you I cannot go where I want it. "The age of tents is past," one sage opines. to nor do what I have to. Standing on you provides Another pitches a tent and packs it nightly for just the height needed to reach the shelf where eleven weeks. Hundreds are baptized. "The tradi success is perched." tional form of evangelism is outdated," gloomily E. E. c. philosophizes another. His fellow pastor, being ignorant of this and knowing no other form, keeps building and filling churches. "People just don©t respond to preaching any more," cries another pseudo sage. Another man, another city, another The Lord Is Soon Coming story. My own ears weary of these idle tales. How long, O Lord, how long will the experts "spurt"? The Lord is coining. Oh, the time is short, and It is incredible that, in the light of the evidence, who in the Bible view are laborers together with past and present, this quibble can continue. Per God? Shall we not be filled with fear and awe haps there is an explanation. You see, the fear lest we are still in our own natural tempers, lest ful need a balm to salve their consciences. If a we are unconverted and unholy, and seeking to minister can be truly satisfied not confronting the pass off a counterfeit experience for a genuine unchurched year after year with the claims of one? Awake, brethren, awake, before it shall be the gospel, he has missed his calling. Responses forever too late. will vary in quantity and quality with different There are many who are laborers together with cities and men. But let there be no unvarying God whom we do not discern. The hands of min sameness based on pessimistic paralysis. Let our isters have never been laid upon them in ordina philosophy be: "It can©t be done, it has never tion for the work; but nevertheless they are wearing been done; therefore, I will do it." E. E. c. the yoke of Christ, and exert a saving influence in working in different lines to win souls to Christ. The success of our work depends upon our love LOFTY "MEN may rise on the stepping-stones to God and our love to our fellow men. When PERCH of their dead selves to higher things." there is harmonious action among the individual TENNYSON. members of the church, when there is love and The problem lies in the reaction of the man confidence manifested by brother to brother, there himself to the failure of a plan, project, or idea. will be proportionate force and power in our It is in essence a problem of personal resiliency. work for the salvation of men. Oh, how greatly Have you the courage of a Lincoln or an Edison we need a moral renovation! Without the faith to build each failure into the ladder of success that works by love, you can do nothing. May the as a step? This is the heart of the question. Lord give you hearts to receive this testimony. To be sure, there are no indestructible men. The ELLEN G. WHITE in most shining examples of achieving persons are Testimonies to Ministers, pp. 187, 188 THE MINISTRY