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Consider the Source 5 CHARLES E. BRADFORD International Journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Ministry Guilded Praise 8 GENEVIEVE C. BOTHE Editorial Director: Presenting the Case for Creation 9 LEONARD BRAND N. R. Dower Editor: Why Continuing Education? 12 JOHN W. OSBORN J. R. Spangler Executive Editors: "She Is My Bookmaker" 14 ROBERT W. OLSON O. M. Berg Leo R. Van Dolson The Message of "the Messenger" 16 LEO R. VAN DOLSON Health Editor: J. Wayne McFarland, M.D. Enlisting in the Armed Forces 19 CLARK SMITH Associate Editors: E. E. Cleveland R. Dedere©n Nazareth Attested in Caesarea H. Habenicht, M.D. M. G. Hardinge, M.D. Fragments 21 JAMES J. c. cox A. E. Schmidt Editorial Assistant: Handles 23 PAUL H. ELDRIDGE Marta Hilliard Editorial Secretary: Peace on Earth? 24 PATRICK A. TRAVIS Hazel Bowen Designer: Behavioral Change in Health G. W. Busch

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30 LYDIA SONNENBERG Printed monthly for the Min Planning isterial Association of Seventh- day Adventists by the Review and Herald Publishing Asso Revelation Seminars 32 MICHAEL D. FELLOWS ciation, 6856 Eastern Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. $8.95 a year; 75c a copy. The Diet, the Day, the Prophet 34 WALTER R. L. SCRAGG Price may vary where national currencies are different. For each subscription to go to a foreign country or Canada, add 75c postage. THE MINISTRY 21 Biblical Archeology 48 News Briefs is a member of the Associated Church Press and is indexed in the Seventh-day Adventist 38 By His Side 40 Recommended Reading Periodical Index. Second-class postage paid at Washington, D.C. Editorial office: 6840 3 Editorials 9 Science and Religion Eastern Avenue NW., Washing ton, D.C. 20012. Unsolicited manuscripts are 4 Feedback 37 Sermon Spice Shelf welcome, but will be accepted without remuneration and will be returned only if accompanied 41 Index 29 Spotlight on Health by a stamped, self-addressed envelope. 2/The Ministry/December, 1975 "ALL THINGS come of thee, and of us present our bodies a living sacrifice, thine own have we given thee" (1 editorials holy, acceptable unto God, which is Chron. 29:14). Not only is this a beau our reasonable service. With undivided tiful sentiment but it is true. "Every heart and loyalty let us support every good gift and every perfect gift is from World effort that is designed by the Lord to above, and cometh down from the Steward break the hold of selfishness upon our Father of lights, with whom is no vari lives and the lives of our dear people. ableness, neither shadow of turning" ship Day In giving all to Christ we are giving (James 1:17). only that which is rightfully His any It is essential that we come to the way. If we are in truth the temple of place where we give not only lip service God and if the Spirit of God dwells in but heart service to this philosophy. us, then we will be quick to recognize The church today needs all of its re our accountability to Him, and gladly, sources, human and otherwise, as it willingly, turn over our all to Him. attempts to reach the peoples of the Let us give a demonstration both to the world with the last message of love and church and to the world that it really mercy. Every talent, every ability, is "more blessed to give than to re needs to be turned over to the Lord for ceive" (Acts 20:35). We have the His use and glory. Our time, our promise that God will do the work if energy, our special gifts, are to be we will furnish Him the instruments. used to honor God and to bring blessing Let us on this World Stewardship Day to our fellow men. furnish Him instruments that are We therefore appeal to all of our min completely dedicated to Him, so that isters everywhere to recognize our He may use us to finish speedily His stewardship of time, talent, and means. work in all the world and thus hasten By precept and example let us conse the return of our blessed Lord. crate all to the work of the Lord. Let N. R. D.

THE FUNDAMENTAL doctrines of Scrip Grace "Holiness," of course, is always the ture that guard against Satan©s de holiness of the Lord. And "righteous lusive last-day deceptions, including for ness," of course, is His righteousness, the standards that make the true Chris Obedience not ours. Both are ours only through tian different from the worldling, are faith in Christ. It was of this complete set forth in our Church Manual and experience that Paul wrote in Gala- appear on the certificates given to new tians 2:20. He claimed, "I am crucified converts at the time of their baptism. with Christ." That is, his old carnal na These are all founded on Scripture. ture was slain. There was only one Added emphasis given to them through place for it, and that was at the foot of the counsels of the Spirit of Prophecy the cross. This was not a case of "once is designed to help keep the remnant slain, always slain." Paul had to die church on the right path to the king daily. dom. This initial death to sin and the old Rather than minimizing these affir nature is the experience of repentance mations by a limited "grace alone" and conversion. This is justification by theology that seeks only the grace of faith. And it is by grace, through faith. forgiveness, these doctrines of truth But Paul doesn©t stop with the cruci and principles of Christian conduct fixion and burial of his past sins. He need a new emphasis that includes the continued, "Nevertheless I live." This grace of obedience. To present only is the new life, the spiritual life. He the former, and in such way as to mini has become "a new creature" in Christ mize or even detract from the latter, is Jesus. Notice that this is "in Christ." a great injustice. It misleads and con He explains: "Yet not I, but Christ liv- fuses. Thus presented it is not the eth in me." The good works that re everlasting gospel in its fullness. It is sulted from his conversion experience, not the full message that will "make repeated daily, were attributable only ready a people prepared for the Lord." to Christ, who now controlled his ac It is not a message that will protect and tions. exalt the high standards that are to How was this accomplished? He says: characterize the remnant, holy people. "And the life which I now live in the The Ministry/December, 1975/3 flesh I live by the faith of the Son of the divine warnings and reproofs, he God." His was indeed a life of faith. It recognizes how appropriate they are to was obedience by faith, a changed his own experience. He sees the need life by faith. To the Ephesians he wrote, for a new conversion, for a reforma "That Christ may dwell in your hearts tion in the life on this point and that. by faith" (Eph. 3:17). He recognizes more fully the impor Check-list Christians? Never! Dis tance of the clear statements of doc regard God©s rules that help us to un trine and Christian standards that derstand God©s will for our lives? have been set forth to distinguish the Never! It is, in fact, most appropriate remnant as a peculiar and holy peo that we check our relationship with ple. He discovers how easily one, God©s will daily to make sure that we though sincere, may slip into a state of are not slipping away from His coun carelessness by looking only to a past sels. experience. He sees anew the need of When the Temple was being reno pressing on in a life of obedience, of vated in the days of Josiah the book of searching to understand more fully the the law was found. Upon reading it the will of God, of seeking that complete king was shocked to discover how far conformity to His divine image. He they had wandered from its teachings. realizes he can never reach these ideals So the Laodicean Adventist may feel on his own, but he claims by faith the that everything is going along quite enabling power of Christ, which can well with himself until he takes the accomplish for him that which he can Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy books never accomplish for himself. down from the shelf. As he reads again o. M. B.

"Playing With Fire!" reminder that we as a church really believe feedback that the work of the wife and mother is the Elder Robert H. Pierson©s article "Playing most important work on earth, underlying With Fire!" in the May, 1975, MINISTRY every other. raises again the problem of Adventist min DR. DRUSILLA HERTOGS isters and their wives and families. St. Albans, England The suggestion in the middle column of page 11 is that the minister©s wife should be Wedding Rings with him when he counsels women. This is almost a "counsel of perfection" unless his Like Brother Barr, I also have for some wife is at home full time. Can our ministerial time followed the somewhat emotion-laden couples achieve this ideal situation? correspondence re wedding rings. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is We might do well to reali2e that our de now committed to the principle of equal pay nomination is a world movement and cus for equal work by men or women. This im toms differ. People in other lands are just as plies that there is no financial discrimina dedicated to their customs as we in North tion against women workers; but I am sure America. that it also means that Adventist Church For example, in Austria where the Gen employees require two salaries to provide for eral Conference is taking place at present, the reasonable needs of home and family. both men and women wear wedding bands. We all feel the pressure of rising prices; A man or woman taking off this ring signifies but this is most acute for the young families by doing so that he or she is ready for an af the very ones who are learning to live to fair. If the idea of a wedding ring is to protect gether as husband and wife, and whose one©s "personal property," the good husband children are in those crucial preschool years. might as well put a ring through his wife©s It seems to me inescapable that a "stay at nose (and if this is necessary I doubt that it home" allowance ought to be paid to every would help much either). He, as well as she, employee©s wife who is willing to give her is married, and either both wear it or none at preschool children her full attention, and to all. the wife of every pastor or evangelist for as The main issue of wedding bands, as long as he is in that type of work where a brought out by Sister White, is, in my opin full-time wife is needed. I suppose that a pas ion, the idea that married people should be tor who has an office job, or travels a lot, or have in such a way that there is no doubt in teaches in an academy or college, would no anyone©s mind that they are married. Then, longer require his wife©s active help in his and only then, a wedding ring would not be professional duties. necessary, and the money could be spent for Such an allowance should be paid directly more worthwhile purposes. to the wife and not added to the husband©s ELFRIEDE MATEJISIK paycheck. It would then come as a regular Columbus, Ohio 4/The Ministry/December, 1975 bole and may seem a bit extreme, but we can all share his concern for the busy modern all-things-to-all-men pas Consider tor, when he says: "Fling him into his office, tear the office sign from the door and nail on the the sign, study. Take him off the mailing list, lock him up with . . . his typewriter and Bis Bible. . . . Shut his garrulous mouth Source spouting remarks and stop his tongue always tripping lightly over everything nonessential. Bend his knees to the lonesome valley, and fire him from the PTA and cancel his country club mem bership. Rip out his telephone, burn his ecclesiastical success sheets, refuse his glad hand, put water in the gas tank of IN THE interest of the consumer the CHARLES E. his community buggy and compel him Federal Government is requiring man BRADFORD to be a minister of the Word." GERALD ufacturers and producers to label their KENNEDY, The Seven Worlds of the products. Food processors especially Minister, p. 95. must tell the people what is in the The Word of God needs to be read as package. Vitamins, minerals, calories, a unit. It also needs to be read from fat, and minimum daily requirements various perspectives: as doctrine, as are what nutrition-minded homemak- practical instruction, for inspiration, ers are conscious of. Some even want to as history, and for spiritual comfort. It know whether it was organically grown. was to a preacher that Paul said, "All How would our sermons stand up if scripture is inspired by God and profit tests were applied as to spiritual con able for teaching, for reproof, for correc tent and spiritual nutritional value? It tion, and for training in righteousness, all depends on the source. We need a that the man of God may be complete, source that is authentic, accurate, and equipped for every good work" (2 Tim. reliable. 3:16, 17, R.S.V.). Here is where the Seventh-day Ad- ventist preacher is way out front. We Must Be Food for the Soul acknowledge heartily that our primary The Bible must be something more sources are: (1) the Bible and (2) the to the preacher than a hunting ground Spirit of Prophecy. These are the norms for texts, it must be food for his own whereby all else is tested. We acknowl soul. Halford Luccock says: edge also that there are other sources: "The fruitful reading of the Bible, (1) the world of nature, (2) the product is a sort of brooding, not frantic read of men©s minds (books), (3) our own ex ing; rather it is watching the narrative perience in Christ. pass before one©s mind, holding the Our first and best efforts should be mind loose, with no tension or tautness given to the study of the primary at all, not worrying whether one finds sources. It seems almost unnecessary anything or not. The key point is that to say it, but say it I will at the risk of one is not working for a particular end. seeming prosaic Seventh-day Advent- The mind broods over the page like a ist preachers need to study the Bible hawk over a chicken yard; then, from a more. Please note I did not say study leisurely wheel in the air, it swoops about the Bible. down on what looks like an idea. You Most of us have received the message don©t always get a live chicken. Some secondhand. We did not engage in that times it turns out to be merely a hole in difficult mind-stretching investigation the ground. Don©t fret about that. The of Biblical truth that brought out the chief thing is the habit, the procedure." specific doctrines and prophecies like In the Minister©s Workshop, p. 160. links in a chain, those precious beliefs The preacher must be able to declare that make Adventism what it is. We what he has personally found. "Thy received the package after it was put words were found, and I ate them, and together. thy words became to me a joy and the The best thing that could happen to delight of my heart" (Jer. 15:16, some of us would be to have every book Charles E. Brad R.S.V.). in our libraries stolen until we learned ford is an associate After the Bible, our other primary how to search the Scriptures. secretary of the source is the writings of Ellen G. White. Dr. Floyd Doud Shaf er is using hyper- General Conference. These writings are without peer when The Ministry/December, 1975/5 it comes to illuminating and amplifying the Scriptures. What a soul-building adventure it would be to read the Bible and the Conflict of the Ages books con currently! A man©s preaching would have to benefit. I have a friend who undertook the ambitious task of reading his Bible and the SDA Bible Commentary through in a single year. He was immeasurably enriched by his task, and his preaching showed it. Just as the Seventh-day Adventist preacher must develop a hermeneutic for the Bible, so he must develop one for the Spirit of Prophecy. While the Greeks were people of the eye, the Jews were people of the ear. We need to de velop what someone has called charis matic hearing. There is a voice in the Bible, there is a voice in the writings of Ellen G. White. One of Jesus© favorite expressions was "If any man has ears to hear, let him hear." It will take discipline to train the ear to hear, but it will pay off big dividends. Set up a reading program to include fields of study other than your own. Take a little excursion into astronomy Mastery of the sources is prerequisite or the life sciences, as biology is now to effective preaching. Every one of us called. The big question for the busy needs to establish a pattern of general Seventh-day Adventist preacher is How and specific reading. We need to take can I find time for all this? You must time to do some hard theological think make it and take it. Keep some good ing, and to commit portions of Scrip material at hand. In order to keep up ture and the Spirit of Prophecy to and not waste time in wading through memory. We must do this lest we be trivia, join a good book club, check the come part of that "race of clerical book reviews in professional journals, visionaries" that Phillips Brooks spoke correspond with men who read widely. about "who think vast, dim, vague When you do get a book, make your thoughts and do no work." Or fall under own index on the blank pages in the the class indicted by Ernest Fremont back of the book as you read it through. Tittle when he said, "Too many preach I got this hint from W. E. Sangster, the ers are lying down on the job. . . . The great English preacher and teacher of time which they do spend among their preachers. You will thus be gathering books, or to speak more accurately, in up the fragments so that nothing will the same room with their books what be lost. Even if you don©t get to put it do they do with it? Mostly they kill it." on index cards and file it away properly, Don©t fall into the habit of studying at least you have noted it down. Re for sermons alone. As P. T. Forsyth member, it is better to master a few said, "Read at fountainheads." We may books than skim through a vast library. never become great systematic theo "Clearly, then, the preacher will be logians, but we are, for all of that, prac that rarest of men a thinker. He will tical theologians, because there can be not be just a wide reader, peddling no divorce between theology and other people©s thoughts. After his devo preaching. Every pastor is a theologian tions, the best hour of his day will be in residence. Preaching is a sort of im the hour given to sheer thinking: as mediate theologizing. And, remember, sembling the facts, facing their appar if it won©t preach, it©s not good theology. ent contradiction, reaching up for the What are the fountainheads at which help of God and, then, driving his brain the Seventh-day Adventist preacher like a bulldozer through the apparent must fill his cup? Revelation/Inspira chaos to order and understanding at the tion and its streams and branches: last." W. E. SANGSTER, The Craft of divine communication, prophecy, his Sermon Construction, p. 157. tory. Christology and the Godhead: 6/The Ministry/December, 1975 angels and demons, Paul©s principali Biblical preach paigns were the order of the day, with ties and powers. Soteriology: Creation ing makes large accessions to the faith. Since that and the Fall, the nature of man, the available to our time the intelligence level, or to state law of God, sin, the plan of redemption, it more accurately, the education level, atonement, eschatology, apocalyptic people the of the pulpit and pew has risen sharply. ism. Ecclesiology, and all that subsumes knowledge of We suddenly discovered man, his prob under this great division: God©s purpose God which is lems and hangups. The Adventist com for man, the kingdom of God, the na found most munity looked at itself critically for ture of the church, the church as ser clearly in the perhaps the first time. We began to vant, spiritual gifts, mission, the lord hear arguments something like this: ship of Christ, and much more. But it Scriptures. Doctrine must be related to life. Just has fallen to the modern church to have to know the 2300 days is not enough. its problems focus on ecclesiology. Something more is needed. The acade micians warned the preachers: Your Fully Developed Framework churches are full of problems. Your The gospel minister is urged to people need more than the usual Sab gather up diligently the jewels of truth, bath sermon, totally unrelated to life and place them in the framework of situations. A better-educated clergy the gospel (Gospel Workers, p. 289). agreed, and the swing was on. The preacher should have this frame I am not knocking sermons whose work fully developed. I don©t like the thrust is toward problem solving; I am term systematic theology too much, be against any approach to preaching that cause in some circles it suggests a sort tends to become man-centered. There of philosophical approach to theology is a certain attraction in humanism, apart from Biblical revelation. Never a subtle appeal in the new psychology theless, our theology must have system, or behavioral science. It is exciting to that firmly established framework that discover what makes man tick. Over Ellen White speaks about. After the and against the gloomy Puritan ethic, framework is set we can begin the life with its angry God and helpless man, long task of discovery and recovery of Freud and Jung do have their appeal. those jewels that are "scattered over But the swing may now have gone too the field of revelation" (Fundamentals far. of Christian Education, p. 188). A New Church Audience Studying at fountainheads will help the preacher develop a world view, get Today we have a whole new church back to the sources of theological audience. Most of them have never thought, see the broad spectrum of been through a long evangelistic cam truth and the relationship between its paign (three-week campaigns have been main branches. It will help him to in for some time) and heard the full avoid riding hobbyhorses and exalting treatment of those special truths that minor matters as major doctrines. make us a church separate and distinct. Theology is still the queen of the We must not take for granted that they sciences because it alone can answer know. With an increase in general lit the ultimate questions origin, iden eracy there seems to be a corresponding tity, and destiny. decrease in Biblical literacy. It is seen And Biblical preaching makes avail even in our children who have gone able to our people this knowledge of through our school system. In these God, which is found most clearly in critical times there must be no neglect the Scriptures. Biblical preaching is of the didache function of our pulpit the need of the hour. The parish ministry. preacher is the middleman who must My plea is for Biblical preaching, not take the thousand-dollar bills of aca sterile recitation of propositionally demic theology and change them into stated truths in the old rabbinic tradi the coin of the realm so that his people tion. The task of the Seventh-day Ad can make use of it in the market place ventist ministry today is to take these of life. truths, make them come alive, demon strate their relation to life, and show Suddenly Discovered Man how they meet contemporary issues There has been a swing toward psy and human needs. The message is still chological, personal-problem preaching present truth. Under the ministration in the Adventist Church of recent date. of the Holy Spirit old truths can flash This was to be expected as a normal forth with new relevance. Skillful reaction to the heavy diet of doctrinal/ Biblical preaching releases the dy prophetic preaching of the thirties and namic that is in the Word, and Scrip forties. Great public evangelism cam- ture once again becomes profitable for The Ministry/December, 1975/7 "teaching the truth and refuting error, or for reformation of manners and dis cipline in right living" (2 Tim. 3:16, N.E.B.).* A recent study conducted by Doug Glided Praise las W. Johnson and George W. Cornell is significant. Contrary to the predic GENEVIEVE C. BOTHE tions of the secular theologians, "the Bits & Pieces is a small monthly publica strong, steady note that sounded tion that endeavors to encourage common throughout this study was the over sense in dealing with people. An incident whelming, unshaken dedication to mentioned in a recent issue tells of a woman classic Christian beliefs, a plea for who moved to a small town and after a few fuller teaching of them, and an in months complained to a neighbor about the sistence that they be plainly proclaimed poor service at the local drugstore. It was in the cause of evangelizing the na her hope that this new acquaintance would tions and winning others to faith in repeat her complaint to the owner. Christ." Punctured Preconceptions, The next time she went to the drugstore, the druggist greeted her with a big smile p. 188. and told her how happy he was to see her Ellen White speaks of the universal again. He said he hoped she liked their need, the heart cry of many in the town and to please let him know if there world and in the church, "for the bread was anything he could do to help her and of life" (Evangelism, p. 501). This is her husband get settled. He then filled her precisely why Biblical preaching is so order promptly and efficiently. rewarding. Human needs are met, not Later the woman reported the miraculous only on the surface but at deepest levels change to her friend and indicated to her of existence. And if the word preached that she presumed she had informed the in our churches speaks to the vital druggist how poor she thought the service was when she first came. needs of church members, that same The neighbor responded, "No, I didn©t. word will speak to the needs of those In fact and I hope you don©t mind I told outside our ranks. him you were amazed at the way he had My recent contacts with young peo built up this small town drugstore, and that ple reinforce the conviction that Bibli you thought it was one of the best-run drug cal preaching is "in." The question that stores you©d ever seen." surfaces over and over again is "How First, let us look at a point in this inci can I come to grips with Bible study? dent from which we can gain special bene Can you give me some hints as to how fit in relating to others. If we expect perfec Bible study can be more fulfilling and tion from people, the ordinary result will be a life full of a series of disappointments, satisfying on a personal basis?" I get grumblings, and complaints. If, on the con this from new Christians, those of ma trary, we set our expectations too low, al ture Christian experience, and even ways expecting others to be as inefficient those who appear only casually inter as we are, we will be frequently surprised ested in religion. They seem to sense by having them perform better than we had that the Bible has something to say hoped. about life, the meaning of existence on On the other hand, there is an aspect of this planet, but somehow it remains this incident that we as Christians need to out of reach. To many the Book is like avoid in our contact with others. Praise, a safe filled with treasure. What they where praise is justified, results in rewards to both the giver and recipient. However, want to know is the combination, how we must be careful in using such a tech to unlock the storehouse. nique to ask, "Does the end justify the Jesus© words speak with tremendous means when flattery, exaggeration, em relevance to the modern preacher. bellishment, or untruth is involved?" "Every scribe which is instructed unto The story of the woman who, for the best the kingdom of heaven is like unto a of motives and with even better results, man that is an householder, which told a falsehood, demonstrates how a psy bringeth forth out of his treasure chologically sound Christian principle can things new and old" (Matt, 13:52). become corrupted by combining it with a This leads me to conclude that Bible false vehicle. Prevarication (akin to flat tery, embellishment, exaggeration, or study good old-fashioned, firsthand plain untruth) is often indulged in and ra Bible study should be our first work. tionalized until it becomes a habit because We should bring to this exercise the of commendable objectives that motivate very highest powers of the intellect. II the user.

*From The New English Bible. © The Delegates of the Oxford University Press and the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press 1970. Eeprinted by permission. 8/The Ministry/December, 1975 and study how to present the evidence in ways that will allow the Holy Spirit to Presenting speak through us and win the hearts of our hearers. There are several common pitfalls that the Case should be carefully avoided as we wit ness for Creation truth. First of all, the information we use should be accurate. for No matter how correct our theology is, if we try to support it with incorrect scien tific evidence our words will not have Creation much influence on anyone well enough informed to recognize our errors. Much of the material that has been published in support of Creation is full of errors WHEN THE disciple Thomas heard and should not be used. Sometimes that Jesus had risen he would not be LEONARD BRAND Christians feel a burden to defend Crea lieve it until he could see and touch the tion and proceed to write books or jour wounds in His hands and side (John 20: nal articles on the scientific evidence for 24, 25). When Jesus appeared before Creation without having the scientific Thomas and the other disciples eight training to match their zeal. days later, His words made it plain that Sound evidence that supports our be those who have strong faith and can be lief in Creation is plentiful. With this lieve without seeing all the evidence good information available it is unfor gain a blessing from their strong faith. tunate when use is made of incorrect in However, He also felt compassion for formation that only makes one look Thomas in his weakness, and showed foolish. It is well worth the effort to him the evidence he had asked for check the accuracy of any scientific data (verses 26-29). before we use it in public presentations A century ago in the Christian world or private studies on Creation. None of there was general agreement that the us is well trained in all fields, but if we book of Genesis was accurate history. work together we can help one another Since then the influence of science has avoid unnecessary mistakes. been tragically successful in undermin Not long ago I was reading the text of ing faith in that beautiful book of be a sermon written by a very able and suc ginnings, and Jesus Christ places on us Leonard Brand, cessful evangelist. The good work that the responsibility of restoring faith in PH.D., is chairman of the Department this man does is certainly worthy of "him that made heaven, and earth, and of Biology at Loma commendation. Unfortunately, in his the sea, and the fountains of waters" Linda University efforts to point out errors in the evolu (Rev. 14:7). If we are going to be success and is a Fellow of tion theory he used information that is ful in the task that has been given to us the Geoscience Re false. This situation contains lessons we must have the compassion of Jesus search Institute. for us all. His errors cannot be explained The Ministry/December, 1975/9 as hearsay evidence that he carelessly To us the idea pulled out of his head. He did his home of "monkeys work he read a book on the scientific turning into evidence for Creation and used the infor mation he found in that book. However, men" seems like he did not recognize that some books on foolishness, and Creation have been written by persons thus it becomes who are not adequately trained, and that tempting to even though these books sound convinc make fun of that ing and have a good conservative ring, they may contain information that is idea. But it out of date or even completely false. does not seem When we are speaking on subjects out foolish to a non- of our field of training the only safe pol creationist. icy is to contact someone who is trained in that field and ask him to check our material for accuracy. Many individuals in the science departments of our col leges and universities or in the Geosci- ence Research Institute are happy to do this and will be able to recommend re liable source books. Even the specific choice of words and expressions are often important. For ex ample, some think evolutionists believe that men evolved from monkeys. Actu there will be times when it is necessary ally they believe that men evolved from to say why we think Creation is just as apelike ancestors. The difference be scientifically reasonable as evolution, tween those two statements may seem and why evolution is not a proven fact. unimportant to us because it is a small When we do that we must do so carefully detail compared to the real issue con and tactfully in words sprinkled with cerning the origin of man. But it does liberal amounts of love and concern, not matter, because if we say it wrong we scorn. We like to remind people that the will sound uninformed to biologically evolutionists fell for the Piltdown Man educated persons in our audience, with hoax, while we forget that creationists the result that they may miss the main have made some blunders too. point we are trying to make. The reason evolutionists believe evo lution is not that they are incapable of Frequent Mistake knowing better. They believe evolution Another frequent mistake is that of because they are convinced that there is tearing down evolution instead of build strong evidence supporting it, and they ing up Creation. I would suggest that we are not aware that there is a reasonable each take our favorite sermon on Crea alternative. Some persons may accept tion, and with a red pen mark out all evolution because they don©t want to be statements that ridicule evolutionists, lieve in God, but it is not for us to judge make them look foolish, dumb, unin that. To us the idea of "monkeys turning formed, or in any way tend to make them into men" seems like foolishness, and look bad. Our purpose should be to win thus it becomes tempting to make fun of noncreationists to a belief in Creation. that idea. But it does not seem foolish to Such individuals will only be turned a noncreationist, and we can hope to win away by ridicule. his heart and open his mind to the work I know of more than one case in which ings of the Holy Spirit only if we respect a person attended evangelistic meetings his present beliefs and try to open his because of interest in the gospel, but left eyes by presenting positive evidence to disgusted after hearing a sermon de show that it is reasonable to believe in voted to making fun of evolutionists. If, Creation. after we carefully, lovingly, and tact Most of us are inclined to want proof fully present the case for Creation, a for what we believe, and when we pre person still chooses to reject it, at least sent the gospel message we like to have we have done what we could. However, some kind of proof to back up what we if a person listens to us talk about evolu say. Especially when we are talking tion and feels insulted and disgusted by about Creation it is impressive to be what he hears, it is time for us to re- able to say that we have scientific proof evaluate our tactics. for Creation. These so-called proofs can In presenting our case for Creation be an illusion, however. We have abun- 10/The Ministry/December, 1975 dant evidence to support our belief in Our concept arouse unnecessary prejudice, using Creation, but that is not the same as of God and only evidence that is accurate (to the proof. Science can do some things very of the best of our knowledge), God can use our well, such as studying physiology, or words to reach those who are searching physics subjects that can be handled meaning of for truth. experimentally. Events that occurred human exist In summary, we can maximize our only in the past and are not now occur ence will be ability to reach noncreationists if we (1) ring cannot be studied experimentally. affected by our have the accuracy of our scientific source In studying such events a scientist has attitude material checked by trained scientists only limited, circumstantial evidence to toward the whom we trust, (2) spend our time pre work with. senting the evidence for Creation, Consequently, science is working un Creation story. rather than tearing down evolution, (3) der a critical disadvantage in studying never make fun of evolution or evolu past events. A scientist can develop a tionists, and (4) beware of both so- theory about the past, and that theory called proofs of Creation and disproofs may be very useful to him in his re of evolution (science does not provide search. We must always recognize, such proofs, and God never promised however, that theories about past events them; He only promised us adequate evi are only theories, and are based on per dence on which to base our faith). sonal interpretation of sketchy bits of evidence, and not on solid experimental What Difference Does It Make? data. Some Christians believe that evolu The origin of life and the origin of the tion was God©s method of creation. major types of plants and animals are Wouldn©t it be easier simply not to worry examples of past events about which sci whether people believe in evolution or ence cannot provide compelling evi not? What difference does it make? dence, because nobody can go back in It makes a lot of difference. Our concept time and see what actually happened. of God and of the meaning of human Much of the evidence that is used to sup existence will be affected by our attitude port evolution also fits Creation. For ex toward the Creation story of Genesis. ample, the type of evidence that is com It makes the difference between a loving monly used in the evolution theory as God who values each human life su support for descent from common an premely and a god who would sacrifice cestors can also be interpreted as good untold numbers of individuals in an evidence of design by a common De evolutionary process. signer (God). Charles Darwin ended his book The To me the available scientific evidence Descent of Man by saying, "Man may fits Creation much better than evolution; be excused for feeling some pride at hav but the more deeply I study into the na ing risen, though not through his own ture of the scientific method, the stronger exertions, to the very summit of the or becomes my conviction that neither ganic scale; and the fact of his having evolution nor Creation can be scientifi thus risen, instead of having been abo cally proved. My only basis for certainty riginally placed there, may give him regarding Creation is my absolute con hope for a still higher destiny in the dis fidence in the God who gave us the book tant future. But we are not here con of Genesis. cerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to A Defensible Alternative discover it." If we can©t prove Creation, what can As creationists, we are trying to come we say? There is a lot we can say! There to a more complete understanding of are many positive lines of evidence that truth, just as Darwin was; but we are we can use to show that Creation is a also concerned with hopes and fears. In reasonable and scientifically defensible the evolution theory of man©s origin the alternative to evolution. For more than emphasis is on the survival of the spe 100 years many scientists have been de cies, and the individual is doomed to ex veloping the evolutionary concept of tinction. We agree with Darwin that man origins and have amassed an impressive has reason to look for a higher destiny amount of data to support their theory. in the future; but this destiny is offered Actually these data fit the Biblical ac by the Creator, who personally placed count of origins just as well, but most mankind at the "summit of the organic people don©t know that. Our task is to let scale," not by an impersonal evolu the world know that belief in Creation tionary process. This Creator is so su is consistent with the best evidence sci premely interested in the value of each ence has to offer. If we do that in a tact individual that He died to assure that ful and positive manner that does not destiny. II The Ministry/December, 1975/11 Just what is continuing education? It might be defined as self-improvement Why that begins when formal education ends. An excellent working definition appears in a new book by Mark Rouch: Continuum "Continuing education is an individ ual©s personally designed learning pro gram which begins when basic formal education ends and continues through Education? out a career and beyond. An unfolding process, it links together personal study and reflection and participation in or ganized group events." * The pages of the Spirit of Prophecy often refer to the importance of con stant self-improvement. Ellen White never used the term continuing educa tion, a phrase that has become popular only in recent decades. However, she repeatedly emphasized the need of con tinuous self-improvement. "Never think that you have learned enough, and that you may now relax your efforts. The cultivated mind is the A PROFESSOR in the Harvard Medi JOHN W. OSBORN measure of a man. Your education cal School informed first-year medical should continue during your lifetime; students that half the information every day you should be learning, and they would receive in medicine during putting to practical use the knowledge their four years would be obsolete by gained." Counsels on Health, p. 405. the time they completed their degree. (Italics supplied.) "The trouble is," he said, "we do not Ellen White does not refer here know which half." merely to those random bits of informa It©s not only physicians who are tion that come to us every day. She caught up in the knowledge explosion. speaks of cultivating the mind, gaining Ministers are too. The minister is con knowledge, and putting it to practical stantly called upon to face new condi use. tions and problems demanding fresh The following clarifies what she knowledge and increased skill. Often means by improving the mind: he faces an active, aggressive, highly "Men of God must be diligent in educated laity. They sometimes chal study, earnest in the acquirement of lenge the preacher more than he chal knowledge, never wasting an hour. lenges them. They want him to update Through persevering exertion they may himself. They want increased per rise to almost any degree of eminence formance, better preaching, more effi as Christians, as men of power and cient pastoral care, and greater capabil influence." Gospel Workers, p. 278. ity in running church organization. In (Italics supplied.) fact, I firmly believe that the minister is expected to do more things, and do Must Be Systematic them well, than is any other profes Education, then, to be not only con sional. tinuous but strenuous, demands mental Seminary training that formerly sweat. It is a systematic process. It has equipped a minister for a lifetime now purpose and an objective. It is not light prepares him for only the first five reading or a casual listening to tape- years of his ministry. Though theologi recorded materials. It is more than ac cal education is now better and broader cumulated experience. It is the result in scope than ever before, nine quar of consecutive and organized study. ters of instruction just cannot totally A minister may approach continuing educate a minister to face a rapidly education in several ways. First, he changing world for the rest of his life. should inventory his pastoral inade John W. Osborn is There is no other alternative. A min ministerial secre quacies. He should decide in which ister©s education must continue after tary and director of ways he can improve his ministry for seminary training. Therefore, each continuing educa God. Then he should plan a long-range minister should plan a program of tion for ministry in program, perhaps for as long as five supervised continuing education that the Pacific Union years. He then should explore methods will span his entire career. Conference. of reaching his objectives. He may wish 12/The Ministry/December, 1975 Group study adds incentive, something that may be lacking in self-study. Finally, the pastor may request oppor tunity for a quarter at the Seminary to pursue specific subjects approved by his conference administration. Or he may ask for a short-term study leave to work on some project important to his minis try. Whatever method of continuing BIBLICAL i education a minister pursues, he should be ethical and fair. To carry on a study program without the knowledge of the conference leadership is unethical. Since most administrators want to see their pastors improve, they usually will approve. However, there is one exception. A pastor who wishes to educate himself so he can leave pas toral ministry for another type of em ployment may find his request denied, because the conference does not usually wish to invest either time or money in preparing a pastor for another career. There is also a role the denomination must play. It must recognize that a healthy, growing, and competent min istry contributes to the growth of the church at large. Strong pastors develop strong churches. Strong churches make strong conferences. The denomination must provide organized, properly sched uled opportunities. Other Protestant bodies have already sensed the impor tance of a continual training of minis ters and :are devoting large budgets and adequate personnel to make such possi ble. The ministerial secretary, as well as devoting his time to public evangelism, should use his experience and influence to improve the soul-winning potential of the pastor and to encourage him in all the other roles expected of him. Added to his duties should be "director of continuing education for ministry." He can serve as a catalyst, bringing pastors and resources of education to gether. SKIP BAKER Isn©t it time you begin planning your to inquire of the Home Study Institute program of continuing education, your regarding correspondence courses. If plan of self-improvement, in counsel there is a seminary, college, or uni with your employing organization? As versity within driving distance he may Ellen White pointed out so metaphori want to study or do private research in cally: "The true minister of Christ some discipline under an expert. The should make continual improvement. Academy of Adventist Ministers has The afternoon sun of his life may be been formed to help our ministers do more mellow and productive of fruit this very thing. than the morning sun. It may continue Second, he may wish to participate to increase in size and brightness until in group study. Several pastors within it drops behind the western hills." a given community may wish to pursue Selected Messages, book 2, p. 221. II the study of a subject of mutual in terest. One who has special knowledge * Mark Eouch, Competent Ministry: A Guide to Effective Con in that discipline may guide the group. tinuing Education (Abingdon Press, 1975). The Ministry/December, 1975/13 another secretary a generous compli ment when she wrote, "Marian and " S7i<> Is My Eliza are the best help I could have and [are] appreciated highly by me." x Four years later, in 1889, Sister White commented, "We are now com mencing the work on Vol. I and II [Patriarchs and Prophets and Prophets and Kings], and Life of Christ. Marian is earnest and anxious to put her whole soul into this work." 2 But the work went slowly, and Mrs. White was not able to give as much at Mrs. White©s tention to the book on the life of Christ as she had hoped. After five more years Literary went by she wrote, from Australia, to Secretary the General Conference president, O. A. Olsen: "I have done scarcely anything on the Life of Christ, and have been obliged to often bring Marian to my help. . . . But she is in good working order, if I could only feel free to give my whole attention to the work. She has her mind educated and trained for the work; and now I think, as I have thought a few hundred times, I shall be able after this mail closes to take the Life of Christ and go ahead with ELLEN WHITE had many secre ROBERT W. OLSON it, if the Lord will." 3 taries and helpers during her lifetime. Something of the spirit with which Probably none of them was more highly Marian entered into her work can be appreciated than Marian Davis, who seen in the lines Mrs. White wrote a worked for her for twenty-five years, year later, in 1895: "Marian greedily from 1879 to 1904. Miss Davis© special grasps every letter I write to others in role was the organizing of Mrs. White©s order to find sentences that she can use writings into books. Mrs. White wrote in the Life of Christ. She has been col The Desire of Ages, The Ministry of lecting everything that has a bearing Healing, Education, Patriarchs and on Christ©s lessons to His disciples, Prophets, The Great Controversy, from all possible sources." 4 Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing, Steps to Christ, and Christ's Object Books Not Marian©s Productions Lessons, but it* was Marian Davis who In writing to the next General Con put all these books together. ference president, G. A. Irwin, Mrs. When Marian was 21 years old, in White described Marian©s work: "My 1868, her family moved from Maine copyists you have seen. . . . Marian©s to Battle Creek. One of her two sisters work is of a different order altogether. died there in the faith of the third an She is my bookmaker. . . . How are my gel©s message. Her other sister married books made? Marian does not put in W. K. Kellogg and so was able to live her claim for recognition. She does her a fairly comfortable life. Marian chose work in this way. She takes my articles to work for Mrs. White. This took her which are published in the papers, and from Michigan to Texas, to California, pastes them in blank books. She also to Europe, to California, to Michigan, has a copy of all the letters I write. In then to Australia for nine years, and preparing a chapter for a book, Marian finally back again to California. When remembers that I have written some Marian became critically ill in early thing on that special point, which may October, 1904, Mrs. White cut short make the matter more forcible. She her trip in the East and returned to begins to search for this, and if when St. Helena so she could be near her she finds it, she sees that it will make faithful helper during the final weeks Robert W. Olson, © the chapter more clear, she adds it. of her life. Ph.D., is an asso "The books are not Marian©s produc We can understand Mrs. White©s ciate secretary of tions, but my own, gathered from all appreciation of Marian Davis when we the White Estate at my writings. Marian has a large field read some of the things she wrote about the General Con from which to draw, and her ability to her. In 1884 Mrs. White paid her and ference. arrange the matter is of great value to 14/The Ministry/December, 1975 me. It saves my poring over a mass of "Jesus is so fears that it is past help. ... If we only matter, which I have no time to do. precious. He has had a machine, I have a splendid "So you understand that Marian is a come very near chance to get my copying done. May most valuable help to me in bringing for a few days Israel is anxious for something to do." 9 out my books." 5 past. I have In 1903 Mrs. White paid Marian an More Than Bookmaking other compliment. She wrote, "I feel found peace.... Marian©s work actually included very thankful for the help of Sister I am sorry this much more than bookmaking. A letter Marian Davis in getting out my books. is written so Mrs. White wrote to her in 1894 opens She gathers material from my diaries, poorly. My eyes with this sentence: "Dear Sister from my letters, and from the articles are so blinded Marian: Will you please look up the dif published in the papers. I greatly prize by tears that I ferent manuscripts and letters that her faithful service. She has been with can hardly see have been written for the last two me for twenty-five years, and has con to write." mails, and send me a copy of every stantly been gaining increasing ability thing." 10 for the work of classifying and group She also helped Mrs. White with her ing my writings." 6 correspondence. Writing to Elder G. A. A few days after Marian©s death, Irwin in 1900, Marian stated, "Letters Mrs. White wrote in retrospect, "[Mar are sometimes sent to Sister White ian] was my chief worker in arranging making inquiries to which, for want of the matter for my books. She ever ap time, she cannot write out a reply. preciated the writings as sacred matter These letters have been read to her, and placed in her hands, and would often she has given directions as to how they relate to me what comfort and blessing should be answered. The answers have she received in performing this work, been written out by W. C. White or that it was her health and her life to do myself. But Sister White©s name was this work. She ever handled the not appended to these letters. The name matters placed in her hands as sacred. of the writer was signed, with the ... I shall miss her so much. Who will words, For Mrs. E. G. White." X1 fill her place?" 7 Marian often mourned because of the Appreciated Sacredness of Work imperfections of her work, but the Lord put a much higher estimate on her This estimate of Marian Davis© ap than she put upon herself. Mrs. N. H. preciation of the sacred character of Druillard, who spent much time in her work is borne out by the letters she Mrs. White©s home, reminisced in later wrote to Mrs. White when they were in years: "Miss Davis was at the head of Australia. (Mrs. White©s work often Mrs. White©s workers while I was there took her away from home.) and she used to tell us that we should In one letter Marian stated, "This take the same care to protect Mrs. work is dear to me, the very tendrils White©s writings as we would the writ of my heart and life are intertwined ings of the Bible. Miss Davis loved her with it. I am not fit for it, but oh! I want dearly and Sr. White thought that to be sanctified, to be purified, to be Marian was an angel." 12 where God can use me, that I may not While Mrs. White did not call her mar the work while it is in my hands, secretary an angel, she did say, "I and when the time comes for me to greatly prize her faithful service." It give it up for more efficient workers, He took both the prophet and her secretary will give me grace for that. Jesus is so to give us the inspired books we all precious. He has come very near for a treasure so much today. Mrs. White did few days past. I have found peace. . . . the writing. For twenty-five years I am sorry this is written so poorly. My Marian Davis did the gathering and eyes are so blinded by tears that I can arranging. The next time you read The hardly see to write." 8 Desire of Ages you may wish to thank Marian Davis© letters also tell us the Lord not only for the work of the something of her working conditions: prophet but also for the faithful labors When the one lone typewriter gave out of her dedicated literary secretary. II she wrote: "There is no typewriter here now, and no opportunity for either prac 1 E. G. White letter S-7-1884. 2 E. G. White letter F-30-1889. ticing or copying. Just what will be 3 E. G. White letter O-55-1894. done I cannot say. It costs a great deal 4 E. G. White letter K-41-1895. 5 E. G. White letter I-61a-1900. to rent typewriters, and will cost a 6 E. G. White letter B-9-1903. pound to get the old one put in order. 7 Manuscript 146, 1904. 8 Marian Davis letter Nov. 20, 1892. ... I should add though, that it is by no 9 Marian Davis letter May 4, 1893. 10 E. G. White letter D-14-1894. means certain that the old machine 11 Marian Davis letter April 23, 1900. could be made usable. Bro. Rousseau 12 N. H. Druillard to Dores Robinson, Sept. 22, 1933. The Ministry/December, 1975/15 significance of this book to the Laodicean The Timely Turtit>~ members of the remnant church. After the brief introduction in the first verse of the first chapter, most of the rest of the book is taken up with a dialectic that consists of God©s warnings on one MalacM- hand and the people©s self-righteous de nials on the other. There are eight of these in chapters 1 through 3:15. In the the Message King James Version six out of the eight responses on the part of the people begin of "the with the word wherein. In the first of these God says very plainly, "I have loved Messenger" you." Instead of being thrilled by God©s interest and His care for them, they sul lenly, and apparently without any ap preciation for what should have been obvious to them on every page of their THE BOOK of Nehemiah describes LEOR. history, respond, "Wherein hast thou what was most likely the last great ref VAN DOLSON loved us?" How quickly they had forgot ormation among the people of Israel. ten the miracle of the return from exile As Nehemiah, with characteristic zeal, and God©s gracious provision for their thought to purify the church from its needs. wickedness, we are told that all Judah In spite of this arrogant response, God, brought "the tithe of the corn and the in His love for them, continues to press new wine and the oil unto the treas His case. As evidence of His love He uries" (Neh. 13:12). points to the contrasting fortunes of the From the tone of the book of Malachi, descendants of Esau and of Jacob. In a however, it is quite evident that the special way His care and concern is seen selfishness of both priests and people in the fact that Jacob©s punishment is the and their general neglect of the Tem punishment of love. It is temporary and ple and religious responsibilities brought for a purpose. But Esau suffers from the them to a new low in their relationship consequences of rejection and defiance to God. Their failure in fulfilling the di against God. vine purpose is apparent in the stern In Malachi 1:6 the messenger begins messages of warning that come from the his diatribe against the priests. Here we prophet we call Malachi. also find the second phase of the dialog Very little is known about him, and between God and His people. God de apparently even the name given to the clares that instead of demonstrating the book is not the name of the person who honor that the servant owes his master delivered the messages. The Hebrew or a son his father, His people are despis name Anglicized to Malachi literally ing His name. Of course, they were so means "my messenger." Some commen spiritually blind and their hearts had taries suggest that rather than being a turned so far from tenderness toward proper name, the term Malachi may be God that they were unable even to recog regarded as an abbreviation of Mal'- nize that they were doing this. akiyah, or "messenger of Jehovah," and With an air of injured innocence they thus more of a title or description of the reply, "Wherein have we despised thy bearer©s office. name?" They seem to be totally ignorant The book known by this name is gen of their weakness and wrongdoing. Pa erally dated toward the end of the fifth tiently God replies, in verse 7, by point century B.C. Malachi is sometimes called ing out that they have offered polluted the Hebrew Socrates, since he introduces bread upon His altar. Their answer, what is for the Bible a new style of ad which we expect by now, is evidence of dress, known as the didactic-dialectic their spiritual insensibility. "Wherein method of writing. Although the mes have we polluted thee?" they ask. sages of Malachi are a strong condemna God then details the specifics of their tion of the Laodicean attitude that char pollution. By their deeds, if not by their acterized the Jews in the period before words, they are pointing to the table of Christ came, the last four verses of the the Lord as being contemptible. Appar last chapter conclude with a promise of a ently they are offering blind, lame, and great and final reformation to take place Leo R. Van Dolson, sick animals for sacrifice. God reminds just before the coming of the "great and Ph.D., is an execu them that they would not even offer such dreadful day of the Lord." With this in tive editor of The to a governor. The verses that follow in mind, there can be no question of the Ministry. dicate how completely they had lost the 16/The Ministry/December, 1975 sense of sacredness, beauty, and signifi A religion such an extent that God informs them cance of the sanctuary service. In verse consisting in verse 17 that they have wearied Him 13 they say, "Behold, what a weariness of symbols and with their words. Even this desperate is it!" condemnation makes no impression on In the first part of chapter 2 we find rituals becomes them, and they reply in injured tones, God accusing the priests of failing to a religion "Wherein have we wearied him?" God©s keep the terms of the covenant that He without answer is You don©t even know the dif made with them through Levi. What He meaning. ference between evil and good. You don©t expected of them was that they keep the seem to realize that I am a God of justice law of truth in their mouths, that iniq- and judgment. uity not be found in their lips, that they Vivid Description of Final Judgment walk with God in peace and equity and turn many away from iniquity. They To emphasize this last point, in chap were to keep knowledge, and the people ter 3, verses 1-3, is portrayed a most vivid were to seek law at their mouths. They scene of final judgment. Christ is to come were to be God©s messengers. But, He in judgment and righteousness and deal says, "Ye are departed out of the way; ye with their sins. Malachi describes Him have caused many to stumble at the law; suddenly coming to His temple (verse 1). ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi" Of course, the prophet doesn©t make a (verse 8). distinction between Christ©s first and second coming. Literally He came to the Denunciations Against the People Temple during His first advent, but Mal Turning from the priests, Malachi achi points forward to an even greater launches a series of denunciations fulfillment, describing Christ©s final against the people. This is found in chap judgment in terms of refiner©s fire and ters 2:10 through 3:15. The prophet fuller©s soap. He will "purify the sons of sharply reproves the people for their Levi, and purge them as gold and silver." idolatry, adultery, infidelity, rebellion, This, of course, points forward to the and sacrilege. Theirs is religion without work of Christ in the heavenly temple power because they are mechanically during the investigative judgment. and formally following the symbols of Along with the warning of impending religion without it meaning anything to judgment God pleads with His people to them. As with the priests, the worst part return to Him so that He can return to of it all is that they do not even realize it. them (verse 7). How do they answer? In When, as a consequence, God refuses the way that, by now, we would expect. to accept their offerings or sacrifices they They blindly quibble, "Wherein shall we challenge Him with the question return?" So God gives them a specific. He "Wherefore?" In patience He replies that asks, Can you imagine such a thing as a they have committed both literal and man robbing God? Yet you are robbing spiritual adultery. They have gone to Me. Naturally they reply, "Wherein have we robbed thee?" Immediately God an swers, "In tithes and offerings" (verse 8). They have forsaken God for material things and in doing so have violated the plan by which God can bless them both materially and spiritually. Our readers, I am sure, are very familiar with the promise that God will not only bless by opening the windows of heaven but will rebuke the devourer for their sake if they will only demonstrate their faith fulness in bringing the tithes and the of ferings to His storehouse. The final dialog found in this book is described in chapter 3, verse 13. God re proves them for their boldness and rebel liousness with the statement, "Your words have been stout against me." What do they reply? As we might expect, "What have we spoken so much against thee?" Even now they cannot see the point. Notice that in former encounters God has been dealing with their deeds, but this time He deals with their words. Yet the response is the same. They still The Ministry/December, 1975/17 blame God for their troubles. In verse when this prophecy was partially ful 14 they complain, " ©It is vain to serve filled in the first coming of Christ the pro God. What is the good of our keeping his phetic voice was stilled. What good charge or of walking as in mourning be would it do for God to send additional fore the Lord of hosts?© " (R.S.V.). What messages to those who refused to ac can the Lord do further for those who knowledge any wrong whatsoever? Yet refuse to recognize their wrongdoing? the promises of chapter four were and Malachi turns from those who are are still there waiting for the anointing hopeless, because they refuse to recog of the divine eyesalve that will enable nize their wrongdoing, to bring a mes His people to see their need and reach sage of hope and comfort to those who out for and claim the Holy Spirit©s power are still faithful to the Lord. God remem in its fullness. bers their devoted service. He has a "book of remembrance" in which He keeps the record of their faithfulness. AAM Study Guide—Malachi With a sort of pride God points to them Members of the Academy ofAdventist and says, " ©They shall be mine, . . . my Ministers or readers who may wish to special possession on the day when I act, join this organization and receive and I will spare them as a man spares his Academy credit should mail their re son who serves him© " (verse 17, R.S.V.). sponse to the following questions to the He drives the lesson home with these AAM, General Conference Ministerial words. " "Then once more you shall dis Association. Responses to all twelve tinguish between the righteous and the study guides fulfill one year's study re wicked, between one who serves God quirements for AAM membership (fifty and one who does not serve him© " (verse clock hours). 18, R.S.V.). 1. Review the lessons on the twelve The Key to the Whole Book minor prophets and your own responses to these. Which prophet would you single This last verse is, I believe, the key to out as speaking most specifically to the whole book. As long as we allow your own needs and why? wickedness and pride to blind us we can 2. Develop a brief explanation of the not discern between good and evil or be eschatological events outlined in tween the righteous and the wicked. We chapter 4. will continually question God©s fairness 3. Research the question of why and His dealings with us. But when we there were no more prophets in Israel turn to the Lord, He gives us the eyesalve for nearly 500 years. Had there ever been of the Holy Spirit, which enables us to such a wide gap before this in which see and turn away from evil. there was no prophetic ministry since Seventh-day Adventists are quite Israel entered the Promised Land? aware of the eschatological implications 4. Select a sermon theme from this of the fourth chapter of Malachi. Be book and develop a brief outline showing cause of this fact and owing to lack of how you would present this theme. space here, we will not develop this as pect except to point out that the greatest period of closeness to God and victory Among the often neglected writings over sin and its effects in our world lies of the minor prophets are to be found ahead of us. some of the most appealing, majestic, In the midst of a world that has aban and meaningful messages God has doned Biblical morality and that is char given in the Scriptures. The "Timely acterized by a severe "generation gap" Twelve" series has been able to sketch the people of God will find that through only briefly the messages and contribu full commitment and total love for Jesus tions of these small but significant the " ©hearts of fathers© " will turn " ©to Bible books and has attempted to dem their children and the hearts of children onstrate their importance to the under to their fathers© " (chap. 4:6, R.S.V.). standing of our times. These prophets The "Sun of righteousness" shall arise ministered in times of spiritual and He will be seen in our hearts and moral decay similar to those we are ex lives "with healing in his wings" (verse periencing today. How important it is to 2). Christ©s healing, restoring power will study once again the words God put in make us physically, mentally, socially, their mouths and has preserved for us and spiritually whole, and the world will through their pens. In the writings of see the beauty of His character reflected the "Timely Twelve" we find a clear in the lives of His people. ringing call to the revival and reforma From the time of Malachi to the time tion we so desperately need today. II 18/The Ministry/December, 1975 3. Noncombatancy as the teaching of the church, but also recognition of the Enlist in ij right of the member to a deep personal conviction at variance with this teach in the ing. 4. Enter military service only when legal military obligations (such as the Armed Forces draft) place you there, being certain to utilize all provisions to obtain an as signment compatible with your per sonal religious convictions. In following these principles we have counseled our members not to volunteer for military service. Exceptions to this are chaplains, which the church en dorses, and physicians, dentists, and other medical specialists, who during the draft had military obligations but could not serve within their profes sional training unless they obtained a commission. The basic practical rea NOTE: The following information is sons behind this counsel are the dual particularly pertinent to our readers in CLARK SMITH problems of noncombatancy and the the U.S.A. However, others may share difficulties encountered in obtaining the similar problems and will find the posi privilege of Sabbath observance while tion being taken by the church in this under military discipline and military matter helpful in evaluating the ap law. These problems are very real, and propriate response that should be made this is still the church©s counsel. to their specific situations. New Enlistment Program for Non- IN A TIME of peace when jobs are combatants difficult to obtain and at the same time A new facet of this situation came pay in the military forces is high, it is a with the announcement in mid-1974 real temptation for those needing work by the U.S. Army that for the first time to enlist in the military forces. When in history it would accept for voluntary you add the additional factor of educa enlistment in assignments restricted to tional benefits both while in service and the Medical Department those who later after leaving service, the pressure were noncombatants by personal con becomes even greater. Spot checks indi victions. In implementing this new pro cate that a great number of Adventist gram the Army took recognition of the youth are voluntarily entering the fact that noncombatants, when allowed U.S. military forces. to serve within their personal con Earnest counsel needs to be given so victions, do good work. The Army even that our young people might be aware took recognition of the fact that tradi of what the situation is when they tionally the majority of noncombatants voluntarily enter the U.S. military received through the draft were Sabbath service. This counsel is published in the observers, members of the Seventh-day NSO leaflet 1-d, entitled "Military Adventist Church. Thus arrangements Service and You." This leaflet, revised were made to accord Sabbath observance in September, 1974, is available free of during training to those noncombatants charge from the youth director of your who entered this new program and conference. Get a copy for yourself and wished to observe their Sabbath. become familiar with its contents. Then When this new program for noncom see that every young man and young batants was being studied the question woman in your church between the as to whether the Adventist Church ages of 17 and 25 gets a copy. would recommend this program to its Basically the counsel of the church members was raised informally by the remains the same as it has been. Army. The reply was given that we as a 1. Loyalty to God and country: to church could not do so. Then the ques God supremely; to our country within tion was raised as to whether we would the framework of our loyalty to God. Clark Smith is make the details of this program known 2. Recognition of the separation of director of the Na to our members. This we agreed to do church and state, each with its proper tional Service Or in view of the fact that so many were sphere of action. ganization. volunteering already. The Ministry/December, 1975/19 As part of this new program for Each of the branches of the U.S. mili noncombatants in the Army Medical tary has in the past experienced some Department, the United States Army difficulty in getting physicians, den Medical Research Institute of Infectious tists, nurses, and other medical per Diseases at Fort Detrick, Maryland, has sonnel. In order to attract such per informed us that they value the two sonnel a program of helping students thousand Adventist draftees who volun financially through their professional teered for service there during the past training in return for service after eighteen years. Though they have other graduation has been inaugurated. The sources for obtaining research volun usual formula is a payback in service teers today, they would still welcome on the basis of a year of service for a Adventists into the program. Those year of training, with a minimum of interested can write the following ad two years© service. Those receiving dress for details: these scholarships continue in what Commanding Officer USAMRIID ever school they choose to receive their Fort Detrick training. Many Adventist youth are Frederick, Maryland 21701 receiving this help, and many others have finished their training and are Women Volunteers now serving as commissioned officers During World War II and following, in their professional capacity to most Adventist women in military amortize the expenses they incurred service were in the Medical Depart during training. ment, mostly as commissioned nurses. At the time of the writing of this Women in the U.S. military do not face article there have been no reports of the problem of bearing arms, though any difficulty concerning serving within there are indications that this could their conscientious convictions on the change. Thus the most practical prob part of those in this program. Counsel lem confronting Adventist women is given by the National Service Organi that of Sabbath observance. From the zation personnel on this program has information available to me at present been that, whereas we cannot as a I understand that it is very difficult, if church recommend the program, not impossible, for women to go neither do we have counsel to stay out through basic training with the privi of it. lege of Sabbath observance in any of Questions in regard to military situa the armed forces. tions that may not be fully understood Needless to say, we counsel our by a pastor or other worker should be young women, as well as our young referred to conference youth directors, men, not to place themselves volun who will know where to get the specific tarily in the U.S. military forces. information needed. H

20/The Ministry/December, 1975 tions at Ascalon,3 and previous research based on Jewish liturgical hymns and \azitn>1It the Talmud, Prof. M. Avi-Yonah of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, has reconstructed the entire inscription Attested in (see figure 3).4 Three of the reconstructed lines, to which I make reference later, read, Caesarea "The eighth priestly course, Abijah, [at] Kefar ©Uzziah©" (line 8); "The eighteenth priestly course, Hapizzez, Fragments [at] Nazareth" (line 18); and "The twentieth priestly course, Jehezkel, [at] Migdal Nunaiya [Magdala]" (line 20). Significance of Fragments At this juncture, the question may rightly be asked, What are the signifi cances of these fragments and this re construction for readers of this column? Since I assume that my readers are in terested in both the Old and the New Testaments, the birth and growth of the DURING the 1962 archeological JAMES J. C. COX early Christian church, and the ongo campaign at Caesarea Maritima,1 two ing dialog between early Christianity gray marble fragments of a significant and rabbinic Judaism, I would like to Hebrew inscription were found. suggest three items of special signifi The first of these fragments, which cance: was discovered within the vicinity of First, they provide additional con the remains of a late third or early crete evidence for the continuation of a fourth century A.D. synagogue, con liturgical practice (viz. the organization tains parts of four lines of the inscrip of the priesthood into twenty-four tion inscribed in square Hebrew char courses) within rabbinic Judaism (even acters. It reads, ". . . Mamliah . . . after the destruction of the second tem Nazareth . . . Akhlah . . . Migdal ple) that according to 1 Chronicles 24: [Magdala]" (see figure 1). 1-19 was established during David©s The second fragment, which was reign, and that, according to Luke 1:5, discovered (along with a fragment of a synagogue chancel screen) in the re Figure 1: Fragment mains of the marble pavement of a late 1. The names of the Byzantine structure, contains parts of Galilean villages three lines inscribed in identical square Nazareth (nsrt) Hebrew characters. It reads, ". . . and Migdal ([m]gdl) Nunaiya priestly course . . . priestly course . . . (Magdala) priestly course . . ." (see figure 2). appear in lines 2 Some years ago another fragment, and 4 respectively. also containing parts of three lines in scribed in comparable square Hebrew characters, was picked up on the sur face soil at Caesarea. It reads, "The fifteenth priestly course . . . The six teenth priestly course . . . The seven teenth priestly course ..." It is clear that these three frag ments are part of a synagogue inscrip tion that listed the twenty-four priestly courses and their Galilean settlements (after the fall of Jerusalem [A.D. 70], or, more probably, after the fall of James J. C. Cox, Beth-Ther [A.D. 135]).2 Ph.D., is professor On the basis of these three fragments, of New Testament and with the help of another (comparable at the Andrews to the third fragment mentioned University Theo above) found in archeological excava- logical Seminary. The Ministry/December, 1975/21 Figure 2: Frag sible for military operations in that ment 2. The begin area during the Jewish war, settled at nings of three lines Japha [Life 52, § 270] and fortified it of the inscription, [War II 20, 6, § 573], and used Seppho- each beginning with the term ris, located about three miles north of m[smrt] ("priestly Nazareth, as his headquarters [Life 12, course"), appear on § 63, etc.], and, in his Jewish War, the left side of the makes reference to some forty-five fragment. towns in Galilee), and in the Talmud (even though it makes reference to at least sixty-three Galilean towns), some have concluded that Nazareth did not, in fact, exist in the first third of the first century A.D. For example, A. Powell Davies, in his comparatively recent book, The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls (New York, 1956), page 117, writes: "Scholars have always had to accept the possibility that at the time of Jesus there was no city called Nazareth." 8 This silence on the part of the Old Testament, the writings of Josephus, and the Talmud should not be misin terpreted. It implies nothing more than was operative during the rule 6f Herod the fact that, as the New Testament it the Great.5 self indicates, Nazareth was, in Jesus© Second, they provide further tangible day, a comparatively insignificant evidence for the continuing significance village.9 (for Jews as well as Christians) of Mig- dal Nunaiya (Magdala), the city which, Nazareth Settled Before Jesus' Birth according to Mark 8:10 and Matthew Archeological research in and around 15:39, Jesus visited after "the feeding the Church of the Annunciation has of the four thousand." This was also, convinced scholars that Nazareth was as implied by her name, the home of not only settled as an agricultural vil Mary Magdalene (Mary, the one from lage several centuries before Jesus was Magdala).6 born but also that it was occupied dur- Third, and perhaps most important, these fragments provide new empirical f TO n:ri to :y TI rr evidence for the continuing significance of Nazareth (for Judaism as well as Christianity), a village which, accord ing to Luke 1:26 ff., was the home of Joseph and Mary at the time of the Annunciation, and according to all four evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) was the scene of Jesus© childhood and youth.7 This third point is of particular in terest. It is difficult for many of us who have grown up reading the New Testa ment with its numerous references to Nazareth to imagine that anyone should have doubted that such a village existed in the time of Jesus. However, in view of the fact that no mention is made of Nazareth in the Old Testament (even though Joshua 19:10-15 lists the Figure 3. A recon towns settled by the tribe of Zebulun struction of the inscription by M. and names among them Japhia, which Avi-Yonah. Frag is probably to be identified with Japha, ment 1 is repre a village located in the hills of Galilee sented on the left, just one and one half miles southwest fragment 2 on the of Nazareth), in the writings of Jo- right, and fragment sephus (even though he, while respon- 3 is in the center. 22/The Ministry/December, 1975 ing His lifetime. Numerous grottoes, silos, cisterns, presses, millstones, and other artifacts have been discovered. In the silos some of the pottery found dates as far back as the Iron II (900- Handles 539 B.C.) period. Other pottery found dates back to the Hellenistic (332-63 B.C.), Roman (63 B.C.-A.D. 324), and PAUL H. ELDRIDGE Byzantine (A.D. 324-640) periods. In addition twenty-three tombs have been investigated. Of these, eighteen HANDLES ARE for taking hold. They are of the kokim type, a type that "vir are for gripping objects which would other tually became the canonical form of the wise be difficult or impossible to control. Jewish family grave" between 150 Because they are so ubiquitous, we usually B.C. and A.D. 150; four were sealed with do not give any thought to how much we "rolling stones," a type of closure that depend on them every day. Imagine trying to hold a knife without a "seems to have been a characteristic handle, or steering a car, or lifting a hot Jewish practice only in the Roman pe kettle, or opening a door. And when it riod;" 10 and two contained a variety comes to clumsy items like mattresses or of objects such as pottery lamps and pianos, wise manufacturers build handles vases and glass vessels that date from right into the original product. From the the first to the fourth centuries A.D. farmer with his pitchfork to the ping-pong The archeological evidence is clear. player with his paddle, everyone uses han Nazareth was undoubtedly an estab dles every day. lished, though small, Jewish settle Boyhood memories conjure up pictures of the iceman making his daily deliveries ment in the first century A.D. as the with a horse and wagon. Every time he Gospels indicate.11 stopped, a crowd of children gathered, wait The three fragments (especially the ing to scrounge the chips that fell as he first) found at Caesarea Maritima and shaped the fifty- to one hundred-pound discussed above provide further em cakes from the big blocks of ice. The huge, pirical evidence for a responsible evalu scissorlike ice tongs always fascinated me. ation of the implicit and explicit claims Spreading the handles till he could slip the of the authors of the New Testament, sharp points over the chunk to be deliv and other early Christian literature, ered, the iceman would simply take hold of concerning the existence of Nazareth one handle and, as the tongs jabbed into the cake, carry it off with ease to the family ice in the first and immediately following box. Even blocks of ice are no problem if centuries A.D. Indeed, they provide fur you have a handle. ther persuasive testimony in favor of And handles are valuable for more than the historical reliability of those claims. carrying clumsy objects. A few months ago I received a letter from 1 The campaign was conducted by the Department of Ar an old friend who had just been promoted cheology of Hebrew University, Jerusalem, with the assist ance of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, to an important executive position in a Kentucky. large corporation. Describing how he was 2 These three fragments constitute the earliest epigraphic working on one of his big new problems, evidence for the existence of such synagogue lists of the priestly courses. he said, "I think I©ve got a handle on it 3 See J. B. Frey, Corpus inscriptionum judaicarum II now." (Rome, 1952), no. 962. 4 M. Avi-Yonah, "The Caesarea Inscription," in The Teach There©s a first-class approach to problem er's Yoke, ed. E. J. Vardaman and J. L. Garrett (Waco, Texas, solving find a handle. 1964), pp. 47, 49f. Look for a fresh viewpoint. Pick the right 5 Luke 1:5 tells us that John the Baptist©s father, Zecha- riah, was a priest of the course of Abijah, the eighth course. contact. Watch for a propitious moment. 6 See, e.g., Mark 15:40, Matthew 27:56, etc. Secure more precise information. Invent a 7 The first of these three fragments contains the earliest reference, either literary or epigraphic, to Nazareth in the more efficient tool. Clarify the objective. Hebrew language, and the earliest epigraphic reference to Pinpoint the issue. Harmonize the ideal Nazareth in any language. There is an earlier literary reference to Nazareth, in Greek, attributed by Eusebius (Hist. 1.7.14) to with the possible. Find the right person for Julius Africanus (A.D. 170-240). advice and assistance. 8 Cf., e.g., the earlier remarks of C. Burrage, Nazareth and And remember, the Christian has a spe the Beginning of Christianity (Oxford, 1914), pp. 6f., 27ff. and J. Z. Lauterbach, "Jesus in the Talmud," Rabbinic Es cial facility pool when it comes to this type says by Jacob Z. Lauterbach (Cincinnati, 1951), p. 483. of handle. "If any of you lack wisdom, let 9 This, no doubt, is one of the significances of Nathaniel©s somewhat scornful question, "Can there any good thing come him ask of God . . . and it shall be given out of Nazareth?" (John 1:46). Compare the remarks of El him" (James 1:5). "Let him take hold of my len G. White regarding the status of Nazareth in the early first century A.D.: "An obscure Galilean town, hidden away strength" (Isa. 27:5). among the hills" (Selected Messages, bk. 2, p. 164); "the de Handles lighten the load. spised village of Nazareth" (Testimonies, vol. 9, p. 185); "a little mountain village" "obscure and despised" (The Desire of Ages. Reprinted by permission from the Far Eastern Divi p. 68). sion Outlook, September, 1974. 10 J. Finegan, The Archeology of the New Testament: The Life of Jesus and the Beginnings of the Early Church (Prince- ton, 1969), pp. 185 and 202. 11 Ibid., p. 28f. The Ministry/December, 1975/23 God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not griev Peace ous." Is it not fair and factual, then, to say that anything that is not in harmony on with the perfect law of liberty, the Ten Commandments, is not love? We may call it love, we may wish it to be love, but it is not love. We may grow in true love only as we walk after Christ daily. I believe that this concept of love and peace is significant in the light of our understanding of last-day events. Either our concepts of love and peace will be based on worldly definitions and will lead to identification with the world or they will be based on the word of God and written in the fleshy tables of our hearts. Here is the central issue in the last great call to come out of Babylon. John 16:33 predicts, "In the world ye WE ARE living at a time when many PATRICK A. TRAVIS shall have tribulation." 2 Corinthians bow low before the throne of those seem 4:8-10 adds, "We are troubled on every ingly magical words love and peace. side, yet not distressed; we are per Somehow these two words are used as if plexed, but not in despair; persecuted, they were something new to be sought but not forsaken; cast down, but not after, something the world has never destroyed; always bearing about in the desired before. body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that But just the opposite is true. Sincere the life also of Jesus might be made people from the beginning of history manifest in our body." have desired love and peace. The quest Even though the Christian may be seems to be part of human nature. subjected to external trouble, he may There is a problem, however, not only still enjoy internal peace. The moments in achieving these great goals but in of peace and love most dear are those defining them. internal fruits of the spirit that can The Scriptures give us insight into come only as we walk with Christ, look these two words that we can relate ing to the blessed hope we have in Him. to current events and perhaps to Bibli The peace that the world continually cal prophecy. In John 14:27, John desires is one that is based upon chang wrote of Christ, "Peace I leave with ing external social, environmental, or you, my peace I give unto you: not as material concepts, which supposedly the world giveth, give I unto you. Let result in internal love and peace. These not your heart be troubled, neither let external efforts may be important, but it be afraid." And concerning love, 1 as Paul wrote in Philippians 3:8, they John 2:15 says, "Love not the world, are "dung" without the indwelling of neither the things that are in the world. Christ. Work or effort without total sur If any man love the world, the love of render to Christ is vain, no matter the Father is not in him." what the apparent motive, for such only On the one hand, then, there is the deepens self-righteousness, which leads drawing Spirit of God, who points us to force and coercion. to Christ, our justifying Saviour. Our individual acceptance enables Him to More and More Visible begin the process of internal peace and The differences between Christian love. On the other hand, there is an and secular love and peace will become external love and peace that the world more and more visible in the future. As might offer. History demonstrates that circumstances become more difficult, the latter is transient, however. true faith will become manifest. Those True love and peace come from God, without this kind of faith will grasp not from man. Isaiah 48:18 proclaims, after those things that men point to as "O that thou hadst hearkened to my bringing peace and security. commandments! then had thy peace Patrick A. Travis Satan is aware of this and tries to been as a river, and thy righteousness is a dentist in counterfeit the genuine love and peace as the waves of the sea." And 1 John College Park, of God by carefully contrived external 5:3 declares, "For this is the love of Georgia. situations and words which he hopes 24/The Ministry/December, 1975 will create emotion rather than reason. 1 Thessalonians 5:3 tells us that when men cry, "Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them." Does God have anything against peace and safety? Or has He sent this warn ing for our admonition? God, the author of true peace, has nothing against peace if it is the ex ternal result of His internal work upon individuals. "Righteousness exalteth a nation," according to Proverbs 14:34, but never does a nation exalt righteous ness. That is a very significant differ ence because in the latter situation men and nations play God. So what will be wrong with the final secular peace movement? Jeremiah 23: 17 informs us, "They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the their ever increasing problems (see imagination of his own heart, No evil Rev. 17:12,13)? Did Isaiah have similar shall come upon you." This peace cry circumstances in mind when he has traditionally been the mark of warned, "Say ye not, A confederacy, to both the beast and the false prophet of all them to whom this people shall say, Revelation. A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid" (Isa. 8:12)? Satan Manipulates Our Concepts The formation of such a confederacy How can Satan use these circum might be somewhat coercive, but surely, stances? The great oppressor, the great the nations would argue, a little coer liar and deceiver of souls, cultivates cion is acceptable if the result would the lusts and excesses that result in be world peace, international coopera wars. He creates and aggravates so tion, and brotherhood. Surely, no one cial, environmental, population, and would be so selfish and unloving as to economic problems, trying to create not want to save humanity from wars fear, hate, and strife in the hearts of and environmental and economic dis men and women. Perhaps, as in the asters. days of the great world wars, he offers This is the philosophy of materialism apparent solutions for the very prob and humanism that, I believe, will lead lems he has caused. In so doing, he to the day when "no man might buy or manipulates our concepts of love, peace, sell, save he that had the mark" (Rev. and brotherhood. 13:17). The essence of this mark will be On pages 554 and 558 of The Great faith in man and this world rather than Controversy, Ellen G. White wrote, "He the Creator. The Sabbath at that time [Satan] enlists the affections by his will become the sign of obedience to eloquent portrayals of love and char the Creator, rather than to man. ity." "Love is dwelt upon as the chief When Christ returns, will He find attribute of God, but it is degraded to a faith on the earth; or will He find a weak sentimentalism, making little world where men have forgotten Him distinction between good and evil. God©s by whom "all things consist" (Col. justice, His denunciations of sin, the 1:17)? Will the desire of all for external requirements of His holy law, are all "love" and "peace" lead to the universal kept out of sight. The people are taught persecution of those who have experi to regard the Decalogue as a dead let enced these principles internally? ter. Pleasing, bewitching fables cap Prophecy seems to point in that di tivate the senses and lead men to reject rection. Our only hope in these days of the Bible as the foundation of their increasing counterfeit concepts and faith. Christ is as verily denied as be satanic deceptions is to turn completely fore; but Satan has so blinded the eyes and unreservedly to the source of gen of the people that the deception is not uine peace and love. "Peace on earth" is discerned." a false promise to those who seek it Would it be any great shock, then, to externally; but it is found by all whose see the nations unite and follow after hearts are fully yielded to the Prince of the beast if they felt that would solve Peace. II The Ministry/December, 1975/25 all about the meatless diet. They know what they are doing and we need to go to Behavioral them for their help." Afterward, speak ing alone to the dietitian from North York Branson Hospital, he added, Change "Please take a message to your church for me. Tell them to get the information you have in print right away, as we need in Health your help." Dr. Jean Mayer, professor of nutrition Education at Harvard, made this statement in the February, 1973, Family Health mag azine: "Few branches of Protestantism have had as noble a record of human achievements as the Seventh-day Ad ventists. Anyone who has worked in un derdeveloped countries, as I have, is cer tain to have acquired an unbounded admiration for the integrated form of assistance the Adventists offer. They ANY TYPE of education that requires ELLA MAY bring not only technical help with a behavioral change is extremely slow STONEBURNER church, a school, a hospital, and an agri and difficult. In fact, in certain circum cultural extension service but a re stances it might be labeled impossible. newed feeling of unity in the life of peo However, Adventists can take courage ple whose traditional ways have been from the following. shattered by the inroads of Western In the book, Christian Service, page civilization." 137, we are told, "I am instructed to say Abraham Lincoln described our Gov to health reform educators, Go forward. ernment as being of, by, and for the peo The world needs every jot of the influence ple. These same words can be applied to you can exert to press back the tide of Adventist health education. Health of moral woe. Let those who teach the third the people is our goal. Provision of cer angel©s message stand true to their col tain health services for the people is im ors." "Go forward," we are instructed, portant, and participation by the people and go forward we must. is the real key to a healthy activity. Our first goal, then, is to motivate the Who Needs This Education? Seventh-day Adventist Church member Health education is a facet of life that to "the beauties of the better way" and is needed by every individual within provide for him the instruments and the church, and without the church. This know-how to "begin in earnest to give is emphasized to a greater degree by this gospel of health to the people." Ellen White again in Counsels on Health, There are three main qualities of a page 446: "The light God has given on health teacher. First, he must have the health reform is for our salvation and knowledge. Second, he must believe it is the salvation of the world. . . . These true. Third, it must be so significant to grand truths must be given to the world. him that it becomes a part of his life. He We must reach the people where they must live it. are, and by example and precept lead them to see the beauties of the better How to Give It way. The world is in sad need of instruc The first principle of all health educa tion along these lines. The time has tion is "reach the people where they are." come when each soul must be stanch And then, "by example and precept lead and true to every ray of light God has them." How simple! Jack E. Murphy, a given, and begin in earnest to give this writer on salesmanship, states: gospel of health to the people. We shall "Selling must be precise; a salesman have strength and power to do this, if must be as patient as Job; as understand we practice these truths in our own ing and sympathetic as a country lives." (Italics supplied.) preacher; as dignified as the local under Here is the complete message. It is for taker; as humorous as a comedian; as Ella May Stone- us we need it and it is for the world. burner, R.N., M.S., purposeful as policemen and as coura Recently, Dr. Nevin Scrimshaw, a world is an associate geous as a test pilot." These qualities figure in the field of nutrition, in speak director in the are really necessary. ing to a meeting of dietitians in Canada General Conference Ellen White outlines other qualities on the topic "The World Food Needs" Department of that are even more important. "Of all stated, "Seventh-day Adventists know Health. the people in the world, reformers should 26/The Ministry/December, 1975 be the most unselfish, the most kind, the A sound health- endeavors of the church. "By example most courteous." Counsels on Diet and education pro and precept," Ellen White suggests, and Foods, p. 460. We cannot do this alone, gram identifies by such outreach programs as public but again, referring back to the Counsels health needs cooking schools and weight-manage on Health statement used earlier in this ment classes, we are to share "the beau article, we are promised help: "We shall and interests of ties of the better way" with our neigh have strength and power to do this, if we individuals, bors, relatives, and friends. practice these truths in our own lives." then meets Health education has as its aim the Is that too big an "if"? them. modification and improvement of health Reaching the people where they are behavior. These programs must not be is the first rule to keep in mind. This conducted as a one-program affair, but would involve the home, the school, the must be part of a continuing educational church, and the community. When process. There must be follow-up plans should this emphasis of "the better way" carried out. For instance, in the Wa-Rite begin? In the International Journal of Program, after the twelve-week pre Health Education, July-September, scribed classes of one a week, we suggest 1965, Paul van de Calseyde, regional di the Sta-Rite Program, which continues rector for WHO, states, "Health educa once a month until the Wa-Rite Program tion should begin at the cradle and is a begins again. The Wa-Rite Program is family responsibility." Ellen White also a natural method of following up a adds: "The first three years is the time in Five-Day Plan, and cooking schools can which to bend the tiny twig." Child be used to carry on interest from the Guidance, p. 194. Again, in Counsels to Wa-Rite Program. Parents, Teachers, and Students, pages An Integral Part of the Gospel 294, 295, she states, "Youth is the sowing time that determines the harvest of this Health is, of course, one of the primary life and the life beyond the grave. The goals of health education. A sound habits formed in childhood and youth, health-education program identifies the tastes acquired, the self-control health needs and interests of individuals gained, are almost certain to determine and meets these by providing scientific the future of the man or woman." information regarding personal and Steps in Implementation community health, motivating whole some attitudes toward health and From this we would conclude that the healthful living, and inspiring effective following steps should be adopted: health habits and practices. 1. The home must be reached through In order for leadership to provide the church. Classes for parents must be proper impetus and guidance to an ef organized. This necessitates the prepara fective, efficient health-emphasis pro tion of a syllabus with instruction in gram in the home, school, church, and physiology, hygiene, nutrition, and other community, it is imperative that a per areas of physical fitness. son with proper background and interest 2. The school is another strategic be assigned this work at the local con avenue that must be included in our ference level. planning. A health council made up of Every institution carrying the label interested teachers and students could "Seventh-day Adventist," whether it be be the motivating factor. Workshops for a college, hospital, nursing home, restau teachers should be held periodically. An rant, Better Living center, church, pub integrated program in health education lishing house, book center, or food fac can permeate the entire school year and tory, should be looked to by the public as if planned properly can be attractive an educational center. Have we really and effective. The monthly magazine made use of these avenues in reaching School Health can continually feed new the public with our health message? The refreshing ideas and suggestions to the potential is all around us. Ellen White classroom through the teacher. says, "The time has come when each 3. The Better Living Breakthrough soul . . . [must] begin in earnest to give program and other forms of health em this gospel of health to the people." phasis that include education for church Counsels on Health, p. 446. Let us lay members as well as training programs plans for the future that will be a strong for the purpose of community outreach foundation on which we can build and need to be planned by the church health reach those people both within and with secretary and his/her committee. The out our church. Truly, then, the health pastor and church board must support message will be, as it was intended by and promote these programs. God to be, an integral part of the three 4. The community is, of course, the angels© messages and the healing of the target for much of these health-oriented whole man. II The Ministry/December, 1975/27 Century 21 Close-up

Dr. J. Wayne McFarland and Elder Robert Spangler introduced the Century 21 Program to the New England Me morial Hospital in 1974 by having the first week©s meetings of this program in Stoneham, Massachusetts, with local physicians and the physicians© chaplain, Donald Cross, continuing the program. Elder Donald Cross has worked intel ligently in the follow-up program, has baptized eight as a result, and is working with another larger group who are com ing to church regularly each Sabbath. The enthusiasm for health evangel ism spread to Swampscott, Massachu setts, this winter with a second Century 21 campaign. Meetings were held Fri day, Saturday, and Sunday evenings in the SDA church (membership, 35), by Chaplain Cross, Pastor Herbert Silver, and Dr. J. D. Henriksen. Special features of the Century 21 Program held at the New England Memorial Hospital The attendance was very steady included (top) natural food demonstrations around 50, with more visitors than by Mrs. Herbert Silver; (left) showing how members present. Among the visitors to take a pulse; (right) physical fitness were people of all faiths (Jews, Catho testing; (below) singing health songs. lics, Protestants) and those of no faith. Special features included time for spe cial counseling after the Friday evening meeting. Physical-fitness testing, exer cise classes, and home-care instruction were conducted on Saturday evenings. Sunday evening meetings started with natural-food demonstration by Mrs. Silver. These extras and a new health song presented weekly, won the enthu siasm of the audience. The pastor started visiting interests midway during the Century 21 Pro gram with visiting the non-Adventists in their homes, where Bible studies will be held. In one home the ministers now have started weekly studies of Daniel and Revelation with eight good pros pects. Five of these have attended the meetings, three are new. fil 28/The Ministry/December, 1975 spotlight on health

p. 309. Additional guidelines come soy products," said Dr. Renato J. Diabetes The Problem from the U.S. Department of Ag Ferretti, an Agricultural Research Perpetrator riculture. Service chemist. "A chicken-style A banana may be entirely brown soy meat also had a nutritionally In an editorial for the March, and yet the flesh will be in prime adequate quantity of selenium 1975, issue of Drug Therapy, Dr. condition. about equal to that of chicken Max Ellenberg, clinical professor Overmature cherries lack flavor breasts." (Food and Home Notes, of medicine, Mount Sinai School according to USDA marketing U.S. Department of Agriculture, of Medicine, New York, New York, specialists. You can tell by shrivel Office of Communication, Wash points out that "escalating inci ing, dried stems, and a generally ington, D.C., May 5, 1975.) dence and recalcitrant complica dull appearance. A dark color is an tions have made diabetes this indication of good flavor and ma country©s (U.S.A.) number one turity in sweet cherries. health problem." He goes on to Rock Music Noise Level Grapefruit is picked "tree ripe" Dangerous say that "the complications are and is ready to eat just as soon as the chief clinical challenge. . . . you buy it in the store. Those Whatever you may think of rock The impact of these complications music, it©s a fact of life for many of is underscored by an examination scales, scars, or thorn scratches even discoloration seldom affect today©s teen-agers. But according of the unsettling evidence," and to Dr. J. A. Bell, the live rock con lists the following: the eating quality of the fruit. Light brown markings on the cert can be dangerous to your > Diabetes is the number one outside skin have no effect on the children©s hearing. cause of blindness. flesh of the avocado. Some avoca "Noise levels produced by rock ^ More than half the heart at dos are shades of green some tacks are diabetes related. musicians, with the aid of high turn maroon, brown, or even pur amplification, are much higher > Three quarters of strokes are plish-black as they ripen. attributable to diabetes. than those considered safe for pro > Out of every six amputations Buying apples? Look for firm, longed exposure," says Dr. Bell, necessitated by gangrene, five crisp, well-colored apples. Remem who is a member of the American are a result of diabetes. ber the flavor varies in apples Medical Association©s Department ^- Diabetic nephropathy is the and depends on the stage of ma of Environmental Public and Oc principal cause of death among turity at the time the fruit is cupational Health. "Some of the juvenile diabetics. picked, according to marketing audience can actually suffer per ^ Neuropathic involvement is specialists at the U.S. Department manent hearing loss." remarkably common. of Agriculture. (Food and Home The solution? Dr. Bell explains > There are still many serious Notes, U.S. Department of Agri that, since the musicians© instru problems associated with preg culture, Office of Communication, ments, number of amplifiers, and nancy in the diabetic. Washington, D.C., May 12 and 19, rated output vary from group to ^- Diabetes is the fifth leading 1975, p. 1.) group, it is difficult to establish cause of death by disease. any criteria that would not be ar "If, however, other related com bitrary. In general, an outdoor plications such as heart disease Essential Element Found in concert is less dangerous than an are included, as they should be, Soy Meat Substitutes indoor one. However, according then diabetes would probably be to Dr. Bell, the only absolutely the second leading cause of death." Selenium an essential trace safe measure is to stay away from (Drug Therapy, vol. 5, No. 3, element in the human diet is the concerts altogether. (Family March, 1975, pp. 10, 11. "Facts present in some of the so-called Health, July, 1975, p. 70.) You Can Use," General Confer new foods made from textured pro ence Department of Health, Wash tein or soybean flour used in meat ington, D.C.) extenders, meat substitutes, Mental Problems Increasing sauces, and other foods. These foods now represent a $75 million Among Youth market and the market today is Although the over-all number What Is First-Quality Fruit? sevenfold greater than sales were of inpatients in psychiatric facili How can we recognize first-qual only five years ago. By 1980, sales ties decreased between 1969 and ity fruit? One writer counsels: of these foods are expected to rise 1971, the number of inpatients "Fruits in their season will be more than $2 billion, according to 17 years of age and younger in beneficial, if they are of the best reports by the U.S. Department of creased by more than 30 per cent, quality, not showing the slightest Agriculture. according to the National Institute sign of decay, but are sound and "The quality of selenium could of Mental Health. (American Fam unaffected by any disease or de be considered adequate in some ily Physician, February, 1975, cay." Counsels on Diet and Foods, synthetic red meats made with p. 24.) The Ministry/December, 1975/29 Excessive sugar consumption is being implicated in coronary heart disease. Dr. John Judkin, University of London, who has been in the forefront in this line of research, found that men who Research have suffered heart attacks used twice as much sugar as men of similar age without heart problems.2 Although re search and debate in scientific circles and Menu continue as to the role of sugar in coronary heart disease, it is clear that a diet high in sugar and animal fats to Planning gether combines to raise the level of fatty substances in the blood higher than either one alone.3 Studies show that atherosclerotic plaques begin forming very early in life. Beginning in the 40©s, 50©s, or 60©s to make changes may be too late for prevention, since susceptibility starts IT HAS been estimated that it takes building up in the second decade of LYDIA on the average about seven years of SONNENBERG life.4 Of course, diet is not the whole time for findings from scientists© lab answer to avoiding heart attacks, but oratories to reach the general public. it is one very important part of the How much time it takes before nutri whole answer, and we now know that tional findings are even partially im the earlier you start on a proper diet, plemented into an individual©s food the better. practices is anyone©s guess! The total amount of refined carbo What about menu planning in our hydrates consumed is emerging as a homes and institutions? And in our serious health problem. The concern community nutrition programs and involves more than a loss of nutrients, cooking schools? How well do our especially a loss of trace nutrients an menus rate as far as sound, up-to-date area that is actively being studied to nutrition is concerned? Let us look at a day. It is the large loss of fiber that is few areas where science is increasingly increasingly becoming a matter of con pointing up significant relationships cern. between diet and serious health prob In terms of calorie sources we find lems. that a large portion of the American Saturated fats and cholesterol intake diet is low in fiber. Recent studies have as related to increased risk of coronary suggested that people whose diet is heart disease has been under investiga rich in fiber have low blood cholesterol tion for decades, and scientific journals levels. In India, male volunteers ate are replete with publications on the 8 oz. of chickpeas (Bengal gram), subject. Dr. Jeremiah Stamler, a pio consuming 1/2 oz. of fiber daily. Even neer in research into the relationship while eating a high-fat diet (5 oz. butter between diet and our epidemic of heart fat per day), they had a marked reduc attacks, has recently written: "It is tion of serum cholesterol from 206 mg. remarkable that the data from every to 160 mg./lOO ml.5 Twenty-one Dutch major research approach epidemi- volunteers were fed 4.4 oz. per day of ologic, pathologic, clinical and animal rolled oats, and in only three weeks their research all point to the key role of serum cholesterol level was lowered nutrition, particularly the saturated from 250 mg. to 223 mg./lOO ml.6 fat and cholesterol component of the The mechanisms by which fiber diet, operating to influence the blood exerts a cholesterol-lowering effect in fats leading to mass production of volve the bile acids. People on a high- severe atherosclerosis. As cholesterol fiber diet excrete more bile acids, and concentration increases so does the more sterols. This appears to prevent risk." i bile acid reabsorption as well as choles Another area that urgently needs terol absorption and reabsorption. attention is the amount of refined Lydia Sonnenberg The amount of fiber in the diet is carbohydrates, especially sugar, that is is an associate pro being investigated by several research used. The relationship between sugar fessor of nutrition ers who believe there is a link between and dental caries, or sugar, because of at Loma Linda low-fiber diets and colon cancer. One its concentration as well as some meta University School of factor appears to be that if digesting bolic effects, and obesity is established. Health. material contains any carcinogen, it be- 30/The Ministry/December, 1975 comes more concentrated in the intestine Fiber in cholesterol content but the quantity of if little bulk is eaten. In addition, the the diet refined carbohydrates as well. How intestinal transit time is significantly protects against often are we using refined grain prod increased so that the material stays in ucts sweet rolls, light graham breads contact with the intestinal wall much cancer of the and rolls, spaghetti, noodles, macaroni, longer. Burkitt reported transit times colon and and refined breakfast foods, either hot on diets differing in fiber: 35 hours in possibly also or cold? How often do we use desserts African villagers on high-fiber diets coronary heart high in calories, saturated fats, and and 89 hours in English boarding disease. sugar? What about the frequency of school boys on low-fiber diets.7 Another using so-called "hidden sugar" products? possible relationship between fiber It is time we emphasize an increased content and colon cancer is in regard to use of whole-grain breads and cereals, altering the bacterial flora that degrade legumes, nuts, and fruits (more often or modify bile acids, resulting in possible in their whole form rather than juices cancer-producing products. 8 for more fiber and other nutrients), and Although current research findings vegetables. It is time to significantly do not indicate that sugar, white flour, deemphasize the use of sugar, high-fat and refined cereal products are direct dairy foods such as Cheddar cheese, causes of colon cancer, their extensive sour cream, and ice cream as well as use, however, has resulted in a drastic eggs. reduction in fiber in the American diet. Food habits are resistant to change. There is considerable evidence that as But the challenge to move along in line a consequence we have lost a most im with what research shows is best for portant dietary factor to protect against health must be met. II cancer of the colon and rectum as well as several other intestinal disorders and possibly also coronary heart disease. 1 Jeremiah Stamler, cited in Atherosclerosis (New York: Med- com, Inc., 1974). Nutrition research more and more 2 J. Judkin, et al., "Sugar Intake and Myocardial Infarction," is indicating the necessity to seriously Amer. J. Clin. Nutr., 20:503, 1967. 3 M. A. Antar, et al., "Interrelationship Between the Kinds review our recipes and evaluate our of Dietary Carbohydrate and Fat in Hyperlipoproteinemic Patients," Atherosclerosis, 11:191, 1970. menus and our menu-planning prac 4 Robert B. McGandy, et al., "Dietary Regulation of Blood tices. Not only must this be done in the Cholesterol in Adolescent Males: a Pilot Study," Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 25:61, 1972. home but it is also an important aspect 5 K. S. Mathur, M. A. Khan, and R. D. Sharma, "Hypocho: to be considered in planning community lesterolaemic Effect of Bengal Gram: a Long-Term Study in Man," Br. Med. J., 1:30, 1968. nutrition programs and cooking schools. 6 High Trowell, "Fiber: a Natural Hypocholesteremic It is also especially challenging to those Agent," Am. J. Clin. Nutr., 25:444, 1972. 7 D. P. Burkitt, A. R. P. Walker, N. S. Painter, "Effect of responsible for the food service in Dietary Fiber on Stools and Transit Times, and Its Role in the Causation of Disease," Lancet, 2:1408, 1972. schools and colleges. It is time to check 8 D. P. Burkitt, "Epidemiology of Cancer of the Colon and not only for the saturated fat and Rectum," Cancer, 28:3, 1971.

The Ministry/December, 1975/31 church is already deficient in areas of leadership the Seminars could prove to Revelation be a phenomenal waste of time, money, and effort. The Revelation Seminars are in many Seminars ways a pastor©s dream. Instead of leaving the program exhausted and ready for the millennium in which to rest, pastors gain enthusiasm and find the Seminar exactly the push needed to activate groups of laymen in soul winning and witnessing. Many pastors are turning to this method of evangelism for exactly the same reasons that have caused them to shy away from other forms of soul THE It Is Written telecast©s Revela winning in the past. MICHAEL D. tion Seminar has generated tremendous FELLOWS Seminars need to be planned so as not enthusiasm in the major centers where to interrupt the well-organized church it has been held. But the question re program. The one-day initial Seminar mains, Is the Seminar approach to evan may take key laymen from a single gelism the answer to soul winning in church service, and the follow-up weekly every church? Seminars require one night a week of The Revelation Seminar is based on a the pastor©s time. But regulations per day-long initial study session complete mitting attendance of only those church with printed study materials, question- members who bring a nonmember to the and-answer periods, and a vegetarian Seminar alleviate the problems of a luncheon. The study plan for the Semi mass exodus from planned church activi nars is to take basic tenets of Christian ties. belief and outline the plan of salvation. By utilizing a chain Bible-marking pro How to Finance the Seminar gram in addition to basic lecture periods, The heavy cost of financing evangel the Seminars detail God©s concern for a ism has been one of the chief concerns of true body of believers. many who hesitate to hold a full-scale The Bible is held as authority, and the series. In our Seminars we have circum Seminar participants, more than half of vented this by requiring the partici whom are nonchurch members, are pants to pay a major share of the costs. asked to confine the questions within the Each person attending the Seminars is framework of the Bible. During the vege required to pay a $12.50 fee, with youth tarian luncheon, and during breaks 20 and under paying a reduced fee of through the day, Seminar participants $10.00. make Christian friends and discuss as While this fee does not cover the entire pects of the program. Following the cost of the notebook, materials, rental luncheon, a discussion of healthful liv ing proposes vegetarianism, not as a Biblical doctrine, but as an alternative way of life. Early statistics indicate that a full 50 per cent of the nonchurch members at tending the Seminars actively seek church membership following the se ries. Still, according to those who have observed closely, one must not consider the Seminar approach as a panacea for every church. "One must assess each situation care fully," says George Vandeman, speaker of the It Is Written telecast. In the areas where the Revelation Seminars have been held they have been unquestion Michael D. Fellows ably successful as far as effectiveness, is director of public efficiency, and cost are concerned. Still, relations at It Is if the preparation is not complete or the Written. 32/The Ministry/December, 1975 Though facilities are important, they do not seem to be a limiting factor to the success of the Seminars. Most of the Seminars thus far have been held in ho tels such as the De Soto Hilton in Sa vannah, but travel lodges, Masonic halls, and even the Queen Mary luxury liner have been used to advantage. The prime factors in determining the success of each Seminar appear to be the quality and amount of advertising, the groundwork laid by the pastor and his laymen, and the depth and enthusiasm given to the follow-up Seminars. Although many facts of the Revelation Seminar program are new to evangelism, much of the traditional program has been modified to fit the requirements of the Seminar setting. Standard Bible topics are handled in of the hall, the vegetarian meal, and the Above: Seminar the format of the Seminar. With a chain Seminar Bible, it reduces the cost to the participants in Bible-marking system each participant church to less than $8.00 in most cases. tently study their is led to his own conclusions by an un Bibles, aided by folding of the Bible truth on the given Thus a Seminar for 300 persons would materials and dia cost the church less than $2,500 and, subject. Enough texts are given to cover grams found in each subject fully, and each text is with 150 nonmembers in attendance, Seminar notebooks. could be expected to yield approxi Left: Pastor George viewed in its proper context, as well as mately 75 new members. Knowles speaks to a in the light of every other text in the Because of the investment that each capacity crowd at chain-marking plan on that particular participant makes (the $12.50 fee covers tending an It Is subject. the following weekly Seminars) the Written Revelation The Seminars are begun with prayer Seminar in Long and include several opportunities to dropout rate in the follow-up Seminars Beach, California. is exceptionally low. Although some do appeal to each Seminar participant to not attend the weekly two-hour ses accept the truth that God has so gra sions, which are patterned after the ciously provided. Still, differences are original Seminar but are headed by the noticeable. There is no music, there is local pastor, others who have heard of the no actual preaching or formal procedure. program via the neighborhood grapevine The question-and-answer periods are take their place. free and open, and the discussion follow The Seminar approach gives several ing the vegetarian meal is refreshingly advantages in message presentation. new and innovative. In addition, First the program allows subjects to be printed study materials outline each studied in detail. With participants at subject and provide the Seminar par ease behind tables, with glasses of water ticipants ample room for comments and at their elbow and notebooks in front of note taking. them, the atmosphere for serious study If you are searching for a total ap is set. In addition, the longer period of proach to soul winning, if you are willing time allows for the meeting of questions to take the time to lay a firm foundation, and objections before they can be rein and if you are prepared to follow through forced by prejudices. with a complete program of candidate This is not an isolated approach that education, then the seminar approach can benefit only one specific church, but could well be just the program that you is a mingling of the best of a pastoral have been looking for. program, the interest generated by an Pastor Dale Chaffee, of Brunswick, international religious telecast, and the Maine, says there has never been a pro benefits of lay-member witnessing. gram so successful. "It is the future of Churches can combine efforts with evangelism," says the pastor of the Co churches from as far away as 150 miles, rona, California, church. Without a benefiting by forming delegations for doubt, the testimony to its effectiveness the initial thrust and adding their own lies in the story of those who have expe follow-up series. rienced it. H The Ministry/December, 1975/33 Stop Smoking might someday be more widely known than its originators? The Diet9 Now don©t take that amiss. We need to publicize the church©s answers to ad diction problems. We have answers, and the Day9 many others don©t. Let©s spread those answers far and wide, and say Thank you to the media for helping to dissemi the Prophet nate them. But might there not be tech niques and planning that would begin to shape a more adequate image of the church and its mission? An analysis of the stories released and accepted by the media from the Gen eral Conference shows that many things make news. Human interest still cap tures attention. Editorial opinion from Kenneth H. Wood receives wide coverage in North America as papers pick up re leases quoting our esteemed Review IN MY own personal, non-Gallup, WALTER R. L. editor. nonscientific survey of the public©s SCRAGG At the local church level many com knowledge of the Seventh-day Adventist munication secretaries produce news Church I think I©ve discovered the win releases that expose the church in a ners in the "what-I-know-about- well-rounded way. Seventh-day Adventists" question. John Q. Public knows about the diet, the day, Image Can Be Changed and the prophet, and probably in that Rest assured that an intelligent, well- order. planned communication strategy can Of course, it©s not all negative, though change the image of a church within a at first glance we may wish to be known State, a community, or even a country. as something more than soybean freaks And it can be accomplished in a measur and Sabbath fanatics. In this diet- ably short period of time. In three to five conscious age we have an edge on other years the release of information and Christians because we occupy the pio news can produce new concepts of the neer©s stage we began it all and are church and provide the kind of climate still around to help. And the uniqueness in which the church may best fulfill its of our name still carries the punch that mission. Ellen White said it would. It informs. Conference communication directors It rebukes. It witnesses. We know the have in their files the means of shaping Sabbath will be of increasing signifi new strategies. Often, because of ad cance as the end-time runs out. ministrative unconcern, lack of under Even the fact that many know of our standing, or pressures in other di prophet has a positive side, for she led rections, the director finds it difficult us into health reform, she shaped us into to sustain the kind of program that will what we are today. Then too, there is this round out the public©s knowledge of the fantastic interest in prophecy, the church. Frequently his energies are occult, the future, and mysteries of all directed internally toward the publics types. If we can show others that the within the church rather than ex messenger of the Lord is indeed of the ternally. But the conference communi Lord, then what an impact that will cation director does have access to all make. kinds of help to be shared with pastor, Yet for all the good this trio of facts evangelist, school principal, church about Adventists does, it niggles and elder, or church communication secre gnaws at me that we aren©t known pri tary. marily as followers of Jesus, second as It is an Adventist truism that pastors exponents of the Word, and third as a are busy beyond the bounds of human people prepared for the coming of Christ. endurance. Yet with very little effort and The communication emphasis, the a little organization most pastors can initiative in explaining and exposing create within their churches a com the church, has slipped out of our hands. Walter B. L. munication team that will not only help All too often the material we feed to the Scragg is president form a better image for the church but media tends to reinforce the inadequate of the Northern will also, on occasions, actually save image already built. Europe-West time by preventing church issues from Could it be that the Five-Day Plan to Africa Division. becoming public issues. 34/The Ministry/December, 1975 Let©s look at the membership of the public©s image of the church. The pastor average church. Probably within any should help the communication secre normal church the pastor has the basics tary select someone to be in charge of of a communication team. There©s a media resources. His job would be to be schoolteacher who has a strong back aware of all broadcast media outreaches ground in English, or maybe someone of the church in the area, keep the who likes to write. This person is a church informed on them, and devise natural choice for the writing of press methods of keeping the public informed. releases. Let©s call him/her the news Nothing works quicker in rounding out reporter. He/she will probably be the a citizen©s view of Adventism than for church communication secretary. It©s him to become a regular listener or better if the communication secretary viewer of one of our broadcast pro has added skills, such as photography, grams. layout, and organizing ability. He/she This same person may well spark the is going to be the key to a successful pastor©s interest in broadcasting in the communication outreach for the church area. He could research the stations, and a right-hand helper for the pastor. their audiences, the available times for Also among the members there is a local broadcast, and possible means of someone who is either an expert photog support. A few minutes on the air every rapher or a very knowledgeable ama day will enable the pastor or a capable teur someone who has gone beyond layman to make people aware of local the Instamatic stage and knows the Adventists. difference between a single-lens reflex and a twin-lens reflex and also how to Form a Speakers' Bureau aim a camera and compose a picture. The church may have members who This person works alongside the com also belong to Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, munication secretary as the church or one of the major service clubs. They photographer. The communication are probably more involved with com secretary will rely on him/her to shoot munity affairs than the pastor or com munication secretary. With their knowl edge of how these clubs work they can help. Ask one of them to form a speakers© bureau, with the specific responsibility of arranging presentations, speeches, films, or demonstrations for service clubs. Such a person might work well along side your communication secretary to help arrange for features to appear in newspapers or on radio and television. The communication secretary will be ever alert to feature possibilities in the church. He will explore available per sonnel in the church, and any visitors who might be interviewed by the local news feature editor, or a television talk- show producer, or a radio talk-program director. Some communication secre pictures for the public press when they taries prepare fact sheets on all church won©t send a cameraman of their own, members as background for features and and to shoot those pictures that the interviews. conference is interested in for the union In every church is someone with pride paper. of church and property who loves the Another major contribution to the church as a building. Such a person shaping of public opinion regarding the might assist the communication secre church can be made through the media tary and the pastor by caring for com outreaches in the community. The munity relations, working to make sure pastor and the church don©t have too that the church he loves is well known much control of the content or release in the community as far as location, of the Voice of Prophecy, Faith for Today, condition, and identification are con It Is Written, and Breath of Life. They cerned. Let him care for street signs may not even know whether Amazing pointing to the church, highway mark Pacts, The Quiet Hour, or Your Story ers, and listings in motels, bus stops, Hour is reaching into the community. and other public places, giving the lo But these broadcasts are all shaping the cation of the church. He might maintain The Ministry/December, 1975/35 telephone and other directory listings The quality them on their knowledge of the church, of the church. Have him prepare for the of the church©s its belief and practices. board an annual report on the condition initiatives in Second, the committee might marshal of the church property, its lawns, paint the public information resources of the work, carpets, lighting, storage areas, formulating church in the area. These are not all and general maintenance. public opinion under church control. Review the de Most churches have in active use, or about the nomination©s available public broad hidden in some cupboard, audio-visual church should casts. Have someone accumulate the equipment that has been purchased in be as high as press clippings about the church, and some wave of enthusiasm. Is its potential the quantity. classify them according to topic and being used? Could it become the basis of emphasis. Think about Adventists who informational programs about the are members of community organiza church and its teachings? What if Mis tions or prominent in other ways. Ex sion Spotlight or some of our films amine the various community-oriented were exposed to non-Adventists? Why helps available from the conference and not? Then have one person assist the other denominational sources helps communication secretary as audio such as "Dateline Religion," "Health- visual programmer with the responsi wise" and the "Pastor©s Script Kit" from bility of caring for the equipment, yes, the Communication Department. Con but even more important of creating sider the plans formulated by the ways of using it in communicating to church evangelism council and the the church©s publics. This might be the contribution they will make to public same person operating the speakers© image. bureau. Third, the committee should devise over-all strategy to move the church©s Coordination Necessary public toward a more complete under All this suggests that you may need standing of the church and its role in the some form of coordination. You©ll find a community and the lives of the people hint of this in the Church Manual, there. The church may have had a spate where a "communication committee" of Five-Day Plans. Supplement this out is suggested. Probably the pastor should reach with excerpts from the pastor©s be chairman of this committee, with the sermons indicating concern at the moral communication secretary of the church decline fostered by the breakdown of as secretary and coordinator. If the standards or excerpts pointing to Christ pastor cannot chair this committee, as a solution to some specific problem then the communication secretary in the community. Release these ex should. The pastor retains an ex officio cerpts in news, in sermon-report form seat on the committee. rather than an extended sermon sum Let©s recapitulate a little. Form a mary. This will increase readership. church communication committee with There may have been a disagreement the following members: Pastor (chair with some other local denomination on man), communication secretary (secre doctrinal interpretation. By high tary or chairman), church photographer, lighting the church©s activities in wel media resources, speakers© bureau, fare, disasters, or overseas missions, audio-visual programmer, and com show that the church is as much con munity relations. cerned about people as about truth. Sounds too ambitious? Surely not in The communication secretary should this mass-media generation. call on the speakers© bureau, the feature The first job of this communication resources in the church, and the church committee (Pastor, make sure you are photographer to help with this. there for this one) would be to review the We owe ourselves the assurance that public image of the church in the com the quality of the church©s initiatives in munity. Would a survey help? What formulating public opinion about the bad publicity has the church had in the church should be as high as the quan past twenty years? The public will re tity. It©s as important to know what we member that, more than anything good are saying about ourselves and what done. What was the thrust of the public others are saying about us as it is to campaigns in the area over the past push for column inches. twenty years? What attitude did other Yes, we shall be identified with the churches take toward these meetings? diet, the day, and the prophet until the How long has the pastor been a member Lord returns, but there are other di of the ministerial council? mensions that we can and must add in The committee might appoint some order to make our church a realistic and one to interview police, government acceptable alternative in these last officials, and thought leaders, to quiz days. H

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"Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O Why We Tithe thou that dwellest in the heavens." Faith: We were created to expand "We tithe, not primarily be The correct and true-to-f act ren our consciousness through prayer, cause we©re supposed to, but be dering of David©s opening state to extend our hands in service, to cause we joyfully want to. ment in Psalm 121 is the one given express our thanks with joy, to "We tithe, not necessarily to in the margin of the King James expend our energies with wisdom, help the church, but through sin Version of this psalm, and it is and to exemplify our love by cere gratitude to God for entrust used by Ellen G. White in the fol deeds. WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD ing us with the glorious privilege lowing portion of her account of (Quote Magazine, July 27, 1975). of life. the children of Israel journeying "We tithe, not to soothe our in pilgrim bands to Jerusalem for conscience, but because we have the feast of the Passover. Handicaps of Great Preachers "As they saw around them the found that our relationship to hills where the heathen had been Moses His speech was so halt God is much closer than it would ing he begged to be ex otherwise be. wont to kindle their altar fires, the children of Israel sang: cused from his call to "We tithe, not to receive any the ministry. " ©Shall I lift up mine eyes to thing in return, but somehow we Paul Prayed repeatedly that find that the law of sowing and the hills? Whence should my help come? the Lord would remove reaping is a vital part of God©s the affliction that plan for abundant life. My help cometh from Jehovah, Which made heaven and seemed to hinder his "We tithe, not as an ultimate or effectiveness. final goal of our giving, but as an earth©" (Patriarchs and other step, a springboard, toward Prophets, p. 538). W. E. READ. Wesley Suffered through his increasingly generous sharing of whole life with a frame our God-given resources. only 4 feet 11 inches tall. "We tithe because we can do no 'Some Things Difficult to Do Whitefield Had asthma so bad he less. We tithe, not because we are To admit guilt. spent countless days in commanded, but because we are To break a habit. bed, often fought for committed. To think logically. his breath at the most "We tithe because we have To love an enemy. crucial times. never seen a regretful tither, a To confess ignorance. A handicap has been called a remorseful tither, or an ex-tither. To withhold judgment. compliment from the Lord. Learn "We tithe because we have dis To grow old gracefully. to live with it. Don©t fall into de covered that it is a great and crea To persevere without haste. spair. Everything God allows is for tive adventure, and because its To wait without impatience. a purpose. If nothing else, it is a spiritual rewards are surprising, To decide without prejudice. constant reminder of the source of enriching, increasing, and un To be indifferent to ridicule. our strength. Potomac Confer ending." (Quote.) To suffer without complaint. ence Venture. To know when to keep silent. To hate the sin, yet love the "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes . . ." sinner. Wise Mr. Franklin! In the desolate wilds of the wil To concentrate in the midst of There is a story that a group of derness of Paran, as he fled before strife. New Englanders in colonial times Saul and mourned the passing of To endure hatred without re organized a new town they named sentment. Samuel, David wrote Psalm 121, To fraternize without losing Franklin in honor of the versatile which, as rendered in the King individuality. genius Ben Franklin, of Phila James Version, opens with the delphia. Believing that any man following oft-quoted declaration: To serve without compensa tion, commendation, recogni for whom a town was named "I will lift up mine eyes unto the tion." Sunshine. owed the town something for the hills, from whence cometh my honor, one of the town fathers help." But this rendering of wrote to Ben Franklin and asked David©s statement is contradicted that he donate a bell for the church by David©s next resounding dec The Worst Cloak around which the town was built. laration: "My help cometh from "It has been said that men will Franklin acknowledged his the Lord, which made heaven and wrangle for religion, write for it, "debt" by sending them 100 books. earth." fight for it, die for it. Anything but He suggested that they put them Far higher than to altar- live for it. How sad! in a room somewhere that would crowned hills and pagan deities "Religion is the best armor in be convenient for all the people of went David©s upward look for the world, but the worst cloak." the community. "Sense," Franklin help! Addressing the Lord as he Robert H. PIERSON, Faith Trium observed, "is better than sound." begins Psalm 123, David states, phant, p. 253. Sunshine Magazine (Quote).

The Ministry/December, 1975/37 Dear Shepherdesses: In my mind©s ear part of the Christmas tradition. It is im I can hear the strains of "Silent Night, by his portant to stop and remember the spe Holy Night" and "O Come, All Ye cial blessings we have. Faithful" ringing out on the night air Our December story is written by as our people carol for missions during side Marye Trim of Australia. She writes this holiday season. I know it is a busy Sponsored by often for other periodicals. She is a wife, time for us all Ingathering, evangel Catherine Dower mother, teacher, and has served in the ism, church duties, families to care for, for the mission field. I©m grateful she is sharing and the extra excitement of seasonal Shepherdess. her "kodachromes" with us. festivities. I salute each of you at the end of the A letter from Fern Calkins quotes a year that was designated International philosophy voiced by David Grayson: Woman©s Year. It was especially ap "The more I look into life, the more propriate and thrilling to watch some of things it seems to me I can successfully the outstanding professional women of lack and continue to grow happier. How our church honored in a special meeting many kinds of food I do not need, nor during the General Conference in Vi cooks to cook them; how many books I enna. I should like to pay tribute to each never read and pictures that are not of you, who in her own way is making a worth while! The farther I run the more contribution, spreading the good news of I feel like casting aside all such impedi salvation and preparing for the coming ments, lest I fail to arrive at the far goal of the Lord. of my endeavor." It is something to think God bless each of you in your service about, isn©t it? Priorities. Things we can for Him. I wish you all the blessings of do without that would give us more time this happy season and with Paul, may I to do important things. Taking more say, "Grace, mercy, and peace, from God time to be holy, reading, praying, and our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord" meditating with our Maker on His good be with you. May the new year bring the ness, instead of being caught in the aw fulfillment of your brightest hopes. ful hustle and hurry that has become With love, Kay.

AS MY Christmas Day memories span Christmas turns now from the scullery, where she miles and years it seems as if a series of served Christmas plum pudding. Now Kodachrome pictures glow brightly on Koda- she sits beneath a silver motto that the screen of my mind. They start, of chromes reads: "Christ is the head of this house. course, with my childhood in the depres The unseen guest at every meal. The si sion years, with Mum and me just the lent listener to every conversation." two of us. I see myself seated on my We were Methodists in those days, but kitchen chair by the potbellied corner MARYE TRIM with Love at the head of our home, one stove, eating away at tasty new potatoes day we would become Seventh-day Ad- boiled with mint, shiny green peas, as ventists. For Him. paragus, and stuffed tomatoes, all from The scene changes. Whatever is this? my mother©s garden. Her face is flushed Baby clothes and diapers waving in a with pleasure, for she has dug and hoed, breeze, and a young adult version of my weeded and watered, for many hours to self at the washing line. Is this the way produce vegetables for Christmas for to spend Christmas? "But I have to," I ourselves and to share with others. The remind myself, "for tomorrow we sail local Maori people many of whom she for New Zealand to show my mother our brought to our home when they were in new baby daughter that precious little need knew her as "The Kind One" who granddaughter who chose to make her possessed the Maori spirit of Aroha— birth date the same as her grandmoth unselfish love and concern for others. er©s birthday. So I am washing, and The first Kodachrome merges into the washing no disposable diapers in second, and now I am gazing at the black those days so that we will be ready and celluloid doll that I received early that packed to leave next morning. Then same Christmas morning. She shares John, my young minister husband, my chair at the dining table, for I love comes and stands beside me. He does not her already and call her Sally. She wears need to tell me he is ill, for I see it a green gingham dress and bonnet; she stamped over his face. A rush trip to the is beautiful. So is my mother, who re- doctor follows, and shots for an injury 38/The Ministry/December, 1975 that John suffered recently when pitch lunches to eat on the train ride from ing tents for camp meeting. The mam Bombay to Poona. (I©m glad I have some moth tetanus shot leaves him clammy fruitcake to tuck in with the sand and unconscious. We are deeply thankful wiches and fruit.) for the care and concern of the Adventist Then we drive them through the noisy doctor who attends us despite the city streets, jamming on brakes to avoid "Closed" sign on his surgery door. "No pedestrians who meander across the trouble," he smiles, as he misses his road, dodging red-horned oxen, and meal. shouting through the din to make con Christmas memories how the years versation. Too soon we experience that fly by! Now we have four children about feeling that goes with Good-by, as our us, two of them Australian born, and two guests settle in a dingy and confined of them New Zealanders, and all six of train compartment to continue their us are on furlough from our mission ap journey. Again we have known that spe pointment in India. Once again we are cial warmth of Adventist fellowship migrating home to see Grandma. The that togetherness that Adventist work bus in which we are traveling has ers experience. stopped for an hour at midday beside a My pictures are coming to an end. railway station. "Rest-rooms in there. This last one is especially beautiful to Cafe open across the road," our driver remember. It is Christmas, 1974, and has informed us. We eat little, and all my children, with others, are about spend most of the time walking up and our lounge room. It is Christmas Eve, down the bleak and deserted railway sta and although the Australian summer tion. "What a way to spend Christmas," evening is still golden outside, we have I comment, but it does not really matter. drawn the blinds and sit smiling in the We are going home. By nightfall there candlelight together. Then we sing, will be a Christmas tree and, better still, each of us choosing a favorite Christmas a warm and loving welcome. song. "Silent Night, Holy Night" is Back in India, some years later, it is young David©s choice. "O Little Town of Christmas again. Around a laden and Bethlehem," requests my husband. colorful dining table in the second-floor "We Three Kings of Orient," someone apartment seventeen people are seated. else asks. For myself I choose "Joy to Four other missionary families have the World." For that is what Christmas joined with the seven of us for the is all about. That is what made my Trims now number seven, and two- mother beautiful; made that doctor kind month-old baby David lies in my arms. and his wife longsuffering; made rich Beyond the maroon-and-white curtains fellowship within Christian family and of our dining room lie the wails of a beg among fellow Adventist workers. For gar and the squalor of a city that scarcely Love came down at Christmas! Joy to knows Christ. After our time of fellow the world, good will toward men! Be ship and friendship we can turn with cause of Love. soaring spirits to that needy world out Because of Him I want, most of all, to side. present to my children at Christmas The next picture, again in the Bom and every day, the gift of love, wrapped bay apartment, is a contrast to the pre in sincerity and tied with unselfishness. ceding festive one. Windows are bare, Love from the Source of love! That is and packing cases lie about the bare what I want to give at Sabbath school, floor. It is Christmas Day again. "Joy to at church, and to the community. As I the world, the Lord is come" but we are do this, and as other Christians do like sad. In a few days we will leave on per wise, we all will be making Kodachrome manent return. Suddenly the telephone memories that will one day merge into rings, and we discover that Elder Wood, the rainbow colors of heaven. H of the Review and Herald, waits, with his wife, at the Bombay airport. Air strikes have disrupted their anticipated schedule, and they are already in the ter minal building. We rush out to meet them. What will they be like? Fancy having to entertain amid our mess of packing! But all my worries vanish as we get acquainted. They are not long from New Guinea; they know something of mission-field life; their hearts are warm! A carol echoes through my mind as I pack their Christmas dinner sack The Ministry/December, 1975/39 recommended reading

Ways to deal with the inevi juvenile offenses. Curses against And They All Sang Hallelujah, table nausea that arises the wicked as recorded in the Dickson D. Bruce, Jr., Univer when you hear carols blar Psalms and prophets are discussed sity of Tennessee Press, Knox- ing from the department along with the anathemas of the ville, 1974, 155 pages, $7.50. store while the spooks and New Testament. Seventh-day Ad This historical analysis of "plain- jack-o©-lanterns are still in ventist ministers will be especially folk" camp meeting religion from evidence. interested in what the author says 1800-1845 won the James Mooney Simple Christmas recipes and about the horror of God©s universal Award of the Southern Anthropo menus. (Be sure to try the hell. An excellent index of Biblical logical Society for 1973. Writing pecan tarts.) reference and a comprehensive perceptively and out of much orig How to deal with the Santa subject index are included. inal research, Bruce sets the camp Claus question. Charles M. Mellor meetings of the old South in their Creative activities for fam historical milieu. (Camp meetings ilies. Family mission activities. The Zondervan Pictorial En originated in the South in the late cyclopedia of the Bible, Mer eighteenth century.) He shows how The physical layout of the book is quiet and appropriate. The rill C. Tenney, General Editor, camp meetings provided for the Zondervan Publishing House, semi-poor and disinherited of the green type is readable, and the over-all effect is one of a joyful Grand Rapids, Michigan, 5- Southern frontier a much-needed volume set, $79.95. balm that helped soothe the mun- book. Last but not least I real daneness of their daily living. ized anew that pleasant fact of This fifth volume of the Zonder Much of his study centers on the life that is becoming more and van Pictorial Encyclopedia of the spirituals and other religious more evident lately there are Bible is an outstanding contribu songs originating in this era, many good Christian people in other tion to meaningful Bible study. of which found popularity in early churches! Its rich illustrative material en Adventist communities (e.g., "On Bobbie Jane Van Dolson hances one©s understanding of the Jordan©s Stormy Banks," Church times and conditions that existed Hymnal, No. 553). at the time the various books of Bruce©s monograph helps il The Goodness of God, John W. Wenham, Inter Varsity Press, the Bible were written. The rich luminate one of the most important background provided makes it social dimensions of religion in Downers Grove, Illinois,~1974, 223 pages, $2.95. easier to relate these events and America. It is particularly relevant places to our present world as we to Seventh-day Adventists, who "Look at the goodness of God," seek to offer meaningful solutions follow the camp meeting tradi says the Christian teacher. But from God©s Word for the problems tion and wish to understand more there are things in the Bible that we now face. clearly the historical and social are far from good! Some sections of This is a large volume contain context out of which the Adventist the Scriptures depict tyranny, ing 1,093 pages of printed ma movement arose. cruelty, mutilations, deceit, licen terial and in addition 17 of the Jerry Gladson tiousness, and even wars that were finest Bible-lands maps that we God-sent. As the author says, "A have ever seen. This volume man here is struck blind, another should be of great value to all Christmas at Home, Elizabeth dumb, another covered with lep Bible students, and we heartily Swadley, Broadman Trade rosy, another falls down dead, recommend it to our readers. The Sales, Nashville, Tennessee, another dies in agony and another entire five-volume set contains 1975, $3.95. goes mad. Whole populations are more than 5,000 pages of vital in As a devotee of Christmas, I devastated by plagues or famine formation on Bible lands, more read this book with avid interest. or floods or fire and brimstone." than 7,500 articles alphabetically While perusing certain sections I Much of this with God©s permis arranged, hundreds of full-color felt that familiar tingle, a sure sion, as demonstrated by exam and black-and-white illustrations, sign of rising adrenalin, that ples in both the Old and New 32 pages of full-color maps, and says, "I©ve got to try this," or "How Testaments. How do we answer hundreds of black-and-white out clever! Why didn©t I think of that?" this kind of question? line maps for quick perspective Mrs. Swadley, the wife of a Baptist In all, the book has some very and ready reference, as well as minister, has come across with a logical conclusions as to the char excellent scholarly articles rang host of practical, happy, and sensi acter of God and the problem of ing across the entire spectrum of ble ways to add to the meaning and sin. Three chapters are devoted to theological and Biblical topics. joy of Christmas. "Good Features in an Ugly World." The five-volume set can be secured Among the innovative projects Some of the problems Wen- for $79.95 from Zondervan Pub and ideas: ham so ably considers are sub lishing House, Grand Rapids, An Advent calendar you standard saints and the death Michigan 49506. make yourself. penalty for religious, sexual, and N. R. Dower 40/The Ministry/December, 1975 AUTHOR Mo Pg Jesus, Son of God Jun 16 1975 Index Bradford, Charles E. Consider the Source Dec 5 Brand, Leonard. Presenting the Case for Creation Dec 9 Butler, J. L. Let©s Talk About It Apr 27 Word Power May 32 BHS By His Side RR Recommended Reading Your Personality Is Showing Feb 32 E Editorial ST Shop Talk Byers, Matt R. Rest in Peace, Richard Apr 10 LCE The Local Church Elder Calkins, Ruth. Romans 8 ... To Me (BHS) Feb 40 Cannon, W. John. Evelyn Duvall's Handbook for Parents, Evelyn Millis Duvall (RR) Jun 44 Clark, Dennis. Wonders of the Ancient World Jan 15 AUTHOR Mo Pg Cleveland, Earl E. Sharing the Revival Experience Apr 4 Clifford, H. E. Sydney Adventist Hospital, The Aug 32 Anderson, Roy Allan. Coffen, Richard W. Taboo on Tools? !, 2 Sep 7 Oct 16 C. H. Spurgeon Reprints, Coffin, Harold G. Ginkgo Petrified Forest, The Jan 36 Baker Book House (RR) Oct 42 Coffman, Carl. Elder©s Guardianship Program, The Feminine Faces, Clovis G. Chappell (RR) Jan 45 (LCE) Apr 42 Home Folks, Clovis G. Chappell (RR) Jan 45 Monthly Elders© Meeting, The (LCE) Feb 44 Meet These Men, Clovis G. Chappell (RR) Jan 45 Platform Duty (LCE) May 20 Questions Jesus Asked, Clovis G. Chappell (RR) Jan 45 "Position" or "Responsibility"? (LCE) Jan 19 Wonderful Beginnings Aug 10 Public Prayer Jul 44 Collins, Majorie. All the King Wants Is ... Sep 37 Barnett, Richard J. TV Spots Increase Your Results May 44 Conners, Kenneth Wray. Pastoral Partners or Pup Battistone, Joseph J. Ellen G. White©s pets? Jan 41 Central Theme Oct 22 Cox, James J. C. Pontius Pilate and the Caesarea Battle, M.T. What Can and Is Being Done May 43 Inscription Apr 12 Beach, B. B. Evangelicals in Critical Discussion Nazareth Attested in Caesarea Fragments Dec 21 WithWCC Jul 7 Craig.F. C. How the "Mustard Seed" Grew Aug 29 Beeler, Charles R. Charismatic Countdown Jun 8 Crane, Lee F. America©s Favorite Drug Habit Jul 26 Berg, Orley M. Check-List Christians (E) Oct 3 Croft, June. Our Unprecedented Opportunity Feb 26 Ecumenism Boon or Bane? Bert Beverly Beach (RR) Feb 45 Davis, Thomas A. Irreducible Minimum, The Nov 16 Gospel According to Paul, The, Dederen, Raoul. Good-by to the Confessional? Jan 4 Robert Parr (RR) « Jul 46 Present State of Ecumenism, The Sep 12 Grace for Obedience (E) Dec 3 Synod 1974 No New Sound in Rome Apr 8 Help in Time of Need, J.L. Shuler (RR) Jan 45 "The Common Catechism" Nov 12 Nurturing New Souls (E) May 2 Delafield, D. A. Dream, a Plowed Furrow, a Col Oral Reading of the Scriptures, lege Is Born, A Aug 48 Charlotte I. Lee (RR) Jun 44 Medical Missionary in Australia Aug 26 Our Greatest Problem (E) Mar 2 My Wife Is a Bible Instructor Jun 43 Prophets Are People—Believe It or Not, Diaz, Frederick. Slapstick in the Sanctuary Nov 14 Bobbie Jane Van Dolson (RR) Apr 44 Douglass, Herbert E. Special Book Offer Jun 46 Stature of Christ, The, Vern Garner and Gary Doward, Jan. Time to Fear, A Jun 18 Stanhiser (RR) Jan 45 Dower, Catherine. Dear Kay Jan 39 Apr 39 Oct 40 Stuck in the Sticks? (E) Jan 2 Dear Shepherdesses (monthly except May and Berry, Marian G. Beware of Constructed Antithesis Jun 36 August) Bietz, Gordon. The Effective Executive, Peter F. Dower, N. R. Fearing Retires 43 Years in Min Drucker(RR) Jun 45 istry Jul 48 Enter at Your Own Risk, Wallace Henley (RR) Aug 47 One Message, One Mission, One Movement Oct 5 Excellence in Leadership, Frank Goble (RR) Jul 46 Story Behind the P.R.E.A.C.H. Project, The Apr 26 Blincoe, Thomas H. "Hold Fast What Is Good" Aug 17 World Stewardship Day (E) Dec 3 Stranger in My Home, Droppers, Carl H. What Does Adventist Architec C. Raymond Holmes (RR) Jun 45 ture Say? Jul 10 Boice, James Montgomery. Great Need for Great Preaching, The May 21 Eckenroth, Melvin K. Evangelistic "Guerrilla" Bothe, Genevieve. Gilded Praise Dec 8 Tactics Jul 15 Singing in the Fire (BHS) Jan 38 New Day for Evangelism, A 1, 2 Jun 4 Jul 15 Boyle, Patrick. Isaac Watts Remembered, What Evangelistic Preaching Is Expected to Do Aug 40 1675-1974, David Fountain (RR) Feb 45 Edwards, D. Rex. Pastor as Administrator, The Nov 5 The Ministry/December, 1975/41 AUTHOR MO pg AUTHOR Mo Pg Editors. Century 21 Close-ups Jan 14 Juberg, Morten. Telephone Answering Service for Eldridge, Paul H. Handles Dec 23 the Pastor (ST) Jul 45 "Words Without Knowledge" Mar 22 Ellis, G. Robert. Victory Over Fatigue Nov 30 Klimes, Rudolf E. All for Me Jan 1 Erhard, John. Adventist Chaplain, The Apr 32 Knowles, George E. Investing in Baptisms Feb 18 Esteb, Adlai Albert. "Not I, but Christ" (poem) Feb 11 Pastor-Evangelist Visitation Team (ST) Feb 46 Korthals, Richard G. Religion in a Scientific World Fellows, Michael D. Revelation Seminars Dec 32 1,2 May 14 Jun 21 Fife, Eric S. Somebody©s Stealing God©s Glory Jun 7 Kromann, Shirley. His Own Kind of Love (BHS) Feb 38 Finney, Jr., R. E. George Whitefield, vol. 1, Arnold Kronholm, Eunice Peterson. Kidnap! Jul 38 Dallimore (RR) Jan 45 Folkenberg, S. L. "All Together Now Push" May 12 Lee, Rosalie Haffner. New Concept A Confer Fowler, Jr., Franklin. Needed A Larger View of ence Bible Instructor, A Mar 23 Health Evangelism May 26 Little, Paul E.Man God Uses, The Mar 18 Frame, Robert R. Ellen White and Public Evan Loor, June. Wise Youth Ministry, A Jul 18 gelism in Australia Aug 8 Magie, Allan R. To Peel or Not to Peel Nov 33 Manzano, Dan. "Something Better," Not "Some Geraty, Lawrence T. Archeological News Mar 36 thing Bitter" Feb 7 Excavations at Biblical Heshbon, 1974, The Martin, P. W. Health and Spirituality Oct 32 1, 2 Jan 20 Feb 20 McFarland, J. Wayne. What Can and Is Being Done May 43 New Books on Biblical Archeology Jul 22 Aug 36 1975 Bible Lands Tour, The Nov 9 McQuilkin, J. Robertson. Whatever Happened to Gladson, Jerry. And They All Sang Hallelujah, Church Discipline? Feb 41 Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. (RR) Dec 40 Mellor, Charles M. The Goodness of God, John W. How to Find Time for Better Preaching and Wenham(RR) Dec 40 Better Postering, Joseph McCabe(RR) Nov 44 Milliken, Larry J. Carrying the "Bread of Life" Gordon, Arthur. Night the Stars Fell, The Nov 41 (ST) Jan 46 Gordon, Paul A. Decisions! Jan 30 Graybill, Ron. Could You Keep Up With the Pio Neall, Randolph. So Many Versions/ Sakae Kubo neers? Mar 11 and Walter Specht (RR) Sep 44 Our "Brother©s Keeper"? May 8 Neff, LaVonne. Church That Heals, A Sep 31 Griffith, Joyce. Why Nobody Came Jul 28 Neufeld, Berney R. "Footprints in Stone" Mar 14 Newcomb, William H. Counteracting the Counterfeits May 29 Habenicht, Donna J. Counselor: Qualifications Don©t Let Emotions Ruin Your Life Apr 29 and Attitudes, The Jul 41 Feelings Can Be Fatal Mar 26 Hackett, Willis J. A New Look At God, Philip S. God©s Answer to Stress Jun 31 Chen (RR) Aug 47 Nightingale, R. H. Salvation Unlimited, Edward Hackleman, Douglas. Areopagus Revisited, The Mar 17 Heppenstall (RR) Jan 45 Hancock, John. What Can and Is Being Done May 43 Hasel, Gerhard F. Saviour and His Sabbath, The Odom, Robert L. Those "Dark Spots" Before Our 1,2 Jan 10 Feb 12 Eyes May 42 Hatzinger, Engelbert. Vienna Evangelistic Cam Olsen, Ingemann. Shekinah Jun 24 paign Aug 43 Olson, Robert W. Moving Out, C. Mervyn Max Heppenstall, Edward. Salvation Unlimited Sep 15 well (RR) Apr 44 Holbrook, D. W. Mini Course for Busy Pastors by "She Is My Bookmaker" Dec 14 AAM(ST) Jan 46 Osborn, John W. Why Continuing Education? Dec 12 Holland, D. E. Breaking Up the Monotony of Our Overn, William M. Entropy Jul 35 Services Jan 23 Owens, Arthur. Have You Tried Teaching Patients Holmes, C. Raymond. Peddlers or Prophets? Apr 20 Not to Get Sick? Jun 28 Hoyle, Fred, and Ellen G. White. Contrasting Views of Eternal Life Jun 20 Parr, Robert H. Cry in the Night Nov 24 Hubbard, Reuben A. Meet the People "at the Well" Oct 31 Howard©s Problem Mar 24 Husk, William L. Understanding the Alcoholic Mar 28 Melody Lingers On . . . Seventy-five Years Later, The Aug 23 Jacques, Oliver. Bringing in the Cheese Sep 42 Pease, Norval F. Worship: The Missing Hub Sep 4 Javor, George T. Evidence of the Enzymes, The Sep 9 Pierson, Robert H. First Things First Feb 1 Jenkins, H. Reese. "All to My Wife Then to My "Lord, You Don©t Mean Me?" Jul 24 Children" May 36 Play the Man! Jan 7 Jenks, Ruth. Love It, Live It, Give It Oct 38 Playing With Fire! May 9 Johns, Warren H. Downfall of Scriptural Geol Potter, May Morgan. Singing House, The (BHS) Apr 38 ogy, The Nov 19 Powers, Sylvia. Hints on Vienna Mar 41 Johnson, R. Edward. Groups Alive—Church Alive: The Effective Use of Small Groups in the Lo Read, W. E. Isaiah 65:22 Mar 42 cal Church, Clyde Reid (RR) Apr 44 Twofold Aspect of the Word of God, The Apr 37 Jorgensen, Alfred S. Memorial of Divine Guid Reynolds, E. Robert. Music Is for the Heart Apr 14 ance, A Aug 14 Rhodes, John D. When a Pastor Wonders How, "Omega" of Apostasy, The Mar 8 Howard F. Sugden and Warren W. Wiersbe Joseph, Lou. Your Dentist, the Explorer Jun 26 (RR) Feb 45

42/The Ministry/December, 1975 AUTHOR Mo Pg Rorick, Bill. Jethro—Management Consultant Feb 4 Running, Leona Glidden. Dean of Biblical Arche- ologists, The Sep 18 BRAND Sangster, Margaret E. Mother, The May 38 Scragg, Walter R. L. Diet, the Day, the Prophet, The Dec 34 Seton, Bernard E. Knowing God, J. I. Packer, Ph.D. (RR) Oct 42 Shank, Robert. Once Saved, Always Saved? Nov 35 Shea, William H. Where Is Noah's Ark? May 24 Smith, Clark. Enlisting in the Armed Forces Dec 19 RELEASES! Sonnenberg, Lydia. Nutrition Research and Menu Planning Dec 30 Sorenson, Herbert C. Carbon-14 Dating and the Bristlecone Pines Feb 36 Spangler, J. R. Baker©s Dictionary of Christian Ethics, Carl F. H. Henry, ed. (RR) Feb 45 By the President's Side (BHS) Jun 38 Going to Retire? (E) May 2 If... (E) Jun 2 Memorials for God Through Faith (E) Apr 2 Music in the Adventist Church and Home Jul 4 Our Gift to You (E) Sep 3 Prophets and Prosperity Aug 2 Restless Land, The, Orley M. Berg (RR) Apr 44 Rx for Spiritual Dullness (E) Nov 3 Serpents, Wolves, Doves, and Sheep Mar 4 "We Still Believe" (E) Jul 2 Spangler, Marie Claytor. Making Mother Plans (BHS) Sep 38 The Secret of the Rapture, Sparks, VernonC. Every Body Needs Some Fat! Mar 30 Raymond Woolsey Staff. Does Good Religion Include Good Health? Nov 26 Things That Go Bump When You're Uptight Jan 35 The "secret rapture" doctrine, in the Standish, Colin D. Ministry of Reproof, The Jun 11 fore today, leaves thinking Christians Perils of Counseling, The Feb 14 perplexed. Will Jesus© second coming Psychological Processes in Conversion Nov 22 be in two parts? Will the first phase be Staples, Russell L. Sent to Proclaim and to Heal Sep 26 secret and invisible? Do events in the Steed, Ernest H. J. New Temperance Data Service Apr 36 Middle East portend seven years of Stoneburner, Ella May. Behavioral Change in great tribulation? THE SECRET OF THE Health Education Dec 26 RAPTURE examines the doctrine in the Wa-Rite—The Right Way to Lose Weight Oct 26 light of scriptural truth. Thoresen, Asa C. Designed for Flight Apr 17 1914 and Christ's Second Coming, Travis, Patrick A. Peace on Earth Dec 24 William MacCarty Trim, Marye. Christmas Kodachromes (BHS) Dec 38 An investigation of the significance of the year 1914 in Jehovah©s Witn< Underwood, E. J. Nutrition in Our Changing En teachings, and an© explanation .ol trie vironment Feb 29 fallacy of the evidence offered for the Van Dolson, Bobbie Jane. Christmas at Home, theory. Elizabeth Swadley (RR) Dec 40 Only 60c each Iron Shoes, C. Roy Angell (RR) Nov 44 Too Precious to Lose Oct 9 Order from your Adventist L^^^-^^^^L Van Dolson, Leo R. Amos—The Non-Prophet Prophet Mar 20 or ABC Mailing Service, P.O. Box Fight Truth Decay Jun 2 31776, Omaha, Nebraska 68131. Add Habakkuk—Questionings of Faith Aug 38 25 cents postage for the first book and Haggai—"Consider Your Ways" Oct 19 10 cents for each additional book. Add Joel—Clear Ringing Call, A Feb 16 " 5S tax where necessary. Malachi—The Message of "the Messenger" Dec 16 Micah—Condemnation and Compassion Jun 13 More Than a "Fish Story" (Jonah) May 18 Nahum—When Cobwebs Become Cables Jul 20 "Physician, Heal Thyself" (E) Mar 2 Planning for the Bimillennial? (E) Apr 2 "Return, O Israel" (Hosea) Jan 12 Revival and Reformation—How? (E) Oct 3 Timely Twelve, The (E) Jan 2 The Ministry/December, 1975/43 AUTHOR MO pg SUBJECT Mo Pg "Vision of Obadiah, The" Apr 22 My Wife Is a Bible Instructor. D. A. Delafield Jun 43 Zechariah Visions of Victory Nov 38 New Concept A Conference Bible Instruc Zephaniah No Time to Lose Sep 35 tor, A Mar 23 Van Itallie, Theodore. Trouble Losing Weight? Jan 26 Book Reviews: And They All Sang Hallelujah, Dickson D. Bruce, Jr. Dec 40 Waddell, Ralph F. Shape Up to Wake Up Jul 29 Baker's Dictionary of Christian Ethics. Carl Wagner, William. Missionary Doctor in South F. H. Henry, ed. Feb 45 America, The Mar 32 Christ's Glorious Righteousness. C. H. Spur- White, Arthur L.Australasian Diary, 1891-1900 Aug 4 geon Oct 42 Ellen G. White in Europe, D. A. Delafield (RR) Aug 47 Christmas at Home. Elizabeth Swadley Dec 40 White, Ellen G. Counsel to a Newlywed Couple Mar 5 Counsel From Christian Workers. C. H. Spur- Our First Work the Denial of Appetite Jan 33 geon Oct 42 Representing Christ in Dress May 7 Ecumenism—Boon or Bane? Bert Beverly White, Ellen G., and Fred Hoyle. Contrasting Views Beach Feb 45 of Eternal Life Jun 20 Effective Executive, The. Peter F.Drucker Jun 45 Wood, Miriam. Miriam©s Travel Tips (BHS) Mar 38 Ellen G. White in Europe. D. A. Delafield Aug 47 Woods, C. Stacey. Why Some Christians Shipwreck Apr 40 Enter at Your Own Risk. Wallace Henley Aug 47 Evelyn Duvall's Handbook for Parents. Evelyn Yost, F. Donald. Archivist©s Appeal Feb 45 Millis Duvall Jun 44 Young, Opal H. From All the World to All the World Jan 24 Excellence in Leadership. Frank Gobel Jul 46 Feminine Faces. Clovis G. Chappell Jan 45 Zackrison, James W. How to Prepare 200 Talks a George Whitefield, vol. 1. Arnold Dallimore Jan 45 Year Sep 22 Goodness of God, The. John W. Wenham Dec 40 Gospel According to Paul, The. Robert Parr Jul 46 Groups Alive—Church Alive. Clyde Reid Apr 44 Help in Time of Need. J. L. Shuler Jan 45 SUBJECT Mo Pg Home Folks. Clovis G. Chappell Jan 45 Iron Shoes. C. Roy Angell Nov 44 Archeology: Archeological News. Lawrence T. Isaac Watts Remembered, 1675-1974. David Geraty Mar 36 Fountain Feb 45 Dean of Biblical Archeologists, The. Leona King's Highway, The. C.H.Spurgeon Oct 42 Glidden Running Sep 18 Knowing God. J.I. Packer Oct 42 Excavations at Biblical Heshbon, 1974, The Meet These Men. Clovis G. Chappell Jan 45 1, 2. Lawrence T. Geraty Jan 20 Feb 20 Moving Out. C. Mervyn Maxwell Apr 44 Nazareth Attested in Caesarea Fragments. New Look at God, A. Philip S. Chen Aug 47 James J. C. Cox Dec 21 OralReadingof the Scriptures. Charlotte I. Lee Jun 44 New Books on Biblical Archeology 1, 2. Law Prophets Are People—Believe It or Not. Bobbie rence T. Geraty July 22 Aug 36 Jane Van Dolson Apr 44 Pontius Pilate and the Caesarea Inscription. Questions Jesus Asked. Clovis G. Chappell Jan 45 James J. C. Cox Apr 12 Restless Land, The. Orley M. Berg Apr 44 Where Is Noah©s Ark? William H. Shea May 24 Salvation Unlimited. Edward Heppenstall Jan 45 Wonders of the Ancient World. Dennis Clark Jan 15 So Many Versions! Sakae Kubo and Walter Architecture: What Does Adventist Architecture Specht Sep 44 Say? Carl H. Droppers Jul 10 Stature of Christ, The. Vern Garner and Gary Bible: Amos The Non-Prophet Prophet. Leo R. Stanhiser Jan 45 VanDolson Mar 20 Stranger in My Home. C. Raymond Holmes Jun 45 Habakkuk Questionings of Faith. Leo R. Van "We Still Believe." Robert H.Pierson Jul 2 Dolson Aug 38 When a Pastor Wonders How. Howard F. Sug- Haggai "Consider Your Ways." Leo R. Van Dolson Oct 19 den and Warren W. Wiersbe Feb 45 Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, If... (E). J. R. Spangler Jun 2 Isaiah 65:22. W. E. Read Mar 42 The. Merrill C. Tenney Dec 40 Joel A Clear, Ringing Call. Leo R. Van Dolson Feb 16 Charismatic Movement: Charismatic Countdown Jun 8 Malachi The Message of "the Messenger" Dec 16 Charismatics in the News Mar 12 Micah Condemnation and Compassion. Leo R. Christ: All for Me. Rudolf E.Klimes Jan 1 Van Dolson Jun 13 Jesus, Son of God. Patrick Boyle Jun 16 More Than a "Fish Story" (Jonah). Leo R. Van Christian Life: All the King Wants . . . Marjorie Dolson May 18 Collins Sep 37 Nahum When Cobwebs Become Cables. Leo R. Bringing in the Cheese. Oliver Jacques Sep 42 Van Dolson Jul 20 Check-List Christians (E). Orley M. Berg Oct 3 "Return, O Israel" (Hosea). Leo R. Van Dolson Jan 12 Decisions. Paul A. Gordon Jan 30 Rx for Spiritual Dullness (E).J.R. Spangler Nov 3 Fight Truth Decay (E). Leo R. Van Dolson Jun 2 Taboo on Tools 1,2. Richard W.Coffen Sep7 Oct 16 Grace for Obedience (E). Orley M. Berg Dec 3 Timely Twelve, The (E). Leo R. Van Dolson Jan 2 Handles. Paul H. Eldridge Dec 23 "Vision of Obadiah, The." Leo R. Van Dolson Apr 22 Irreducible Minimum, The. Thomas A. Davis Nov 16 "Zechariah Visions of Victory." Leo R. Van "Lord, You Don©t Mean Me?" Robert H. Pierson Jul 24 Dolson Nov 38 Man God Uses, The. Paul E. Little Mar 18 Zephaniah No Time to Lose Sep 35 My Dream. A Concerned Layman Jun 15 Bible Instructor: Good Catholics Make Good Ad- Our "Brother©s Keeper"?(E). Ron Graybill May 8 ventists Jul 12 Peace on Earth? Patrick A. Travis Dec 24 44/The Ministry/December, 1975 SUBJECT MO Pg SUBJECT Mo Pg Time to Fear, A. Jan Doward Jun 18 Why Some Christians Shipwreck. C. Stacey Our First Work the Denial of Appetite. El Woods Apr 40 len G. White Jan 33 Church: First Things First. Robert H.Pierson Feb 1 Principles of Exercise. Ellen G. White Jul 31 Howard©s Problem. Robert H. Parr Mar 24 Shape Up to Wake Up. Ralph F.Waddell Jul 29 Church Leadership: Jethro Management Con Stress Its Causes and Its Control. William H. sultant. Bill Rorick Feb 4 Newcomb Ministry of Reproof, The. Colin D. Standish Jun 11 1 Feelings Can Be Fatal Mar 26 Pastor as Administrator, The. D. Rex Edwards Nov 5 2 Don©t Let Emotions Ruin Your Life Apr 29 Play the Man! Robert H.Pierson Jan 7 3 Counteracting the Counterfeits May 29 Whatever Happened to Church Discipline? J. 4 God©s Answer to Stress Jun 31 Robertson McQuilkin Feb 41 To Peel or Not to Peel. Allan R. Magie Nov 33 "Words Without Knowledge." Paul H.Eldridge Mar 22 Communication: Can You Listen? Sep 23 Communication and the Christian. J. L. Butler 1 Let©s Talk About It Apr 27 2 Word Power May 32 Diet, the Day, the Prophet, The. Walter R. L. Scragg Dec 34 Taboo on Tools 1,2. Richard W.Coffen Sep 7 Oct 16 Why Nobody Came. Joyce Griffith Jul 28 Dress: An Open Letter to Pastors May 4 Do Higher Hemlines Result in Lower Stand ards? (Sermon Outline) May 5 Representing Christ in Dress. Ellen G. White May 7 Ecumenism: "Common Catechism, The": A New Era in Ecumenism. Raoul Dederen Nov 12 Evangelicals in Critical Discussion With WCC. B. B. Beach Jul 7 Present State of Ecumenism, The. Raoul Dederen Sep 12 Synod 1974 No New Sound in Rome. Raoul Dederen Apr 8 Education: Memorial to Divine Guidance, A. Al fred E. Jorgensen Aug 14 Evangelism: Areopagus Revisited, The. Douglas Hackleman Mar 17 Ellen White and Public Evangelism in Aus tralia. Robert R. Frame Aug 8 Good Catholics Make Good Adventists Jul 12 Investing in Baptisms. George E. Knowles Feb 18 New Day for Evangelism, A 1. Melvin K. Eckenroth Jun 4 What©s in Your Clothes Closet? 2 Evangelistic "Guerrilla" Tactics Jul 15 3 What Evangelistic Preaching Is Ex D. A. Delafield pected to Do Aug 40 One Message, One Mission, One Movement. The author deals with such factors as N. R. Dower Oct 5 the influence the Christian exerts by his Revelation Seminars. Michael D. Fellows Dec 32 Those "Dark Spots" Before Our Eyes. Robert L. manner of dress, Biblical and Spirit of Odom May 42 Prophecy counsels and principles TV Spots Increase Your Results. Richard J. relative to dress, the moral issue of Barnett May 44 Vienna Evangelistic Campaign. Engelbert dress, and using good judgment in Hatzinger Aug 43 choosing clothing. The relationship of What Can and Is Being Done (dark county evan dress, good health, and spirituality is gelism). John Hancock, J. Wayne McFarland, M. T. Battle May 43 discussed. Wonders of the Ancient World. Dennis Clark Jan 15 World Report Feb 24 Mar 42 Oct 36 Paperback, only $2.50 dl Health: America©s Favorite Drug Habit. Lee F. Crane Jul 26 Communication and the Christian. J. L. Butler Order from your local Adventist Book Center or ABC Mailing 1 Let©s Talk About It Apr 27 Service, P.O. Box 31776, Omaha, Nebraska 68131. Please 2 Word Power May 32 add 30 cents for postage for the first book, and Decisions. Paul A. Gordon Jan 30 15 cents for each additional book. Add State sales tax Does Good Religion Include Good Health? Staff Nov 26 where necessary. Every Body Needs Some Fat! VernonC. Sparks Mar 30 Health and Spirituality. P. W.Martin Oct 32 The Ministry/December, 1975/45

L SUBJECT MO pg SUBJECT Mo Pg Today It©s "Exercise and Diet" Jul 34 P.R.E.A.C.H. Apr 24 Trouble Losing Weight? Theodore Van Itallie Jan 26 Rx for Spiritual Dullness (E).J.R. Spangler Nov 3 Victory Over Fatigue. G. Robert Ellis Nov 30 Slapstick in the Sanctuary. Frederick Diaz Nov 14 Wa-Rite The Right Way to Lose Weight. Ella Somebody©s Stealing God©s Glory. Eric S. Fife Jun 7 May Stoneburner Oct 26 Story Behind the P.R.E.A.C.H. Project, The. Your Dentist, the Explorer. Lou Joseph Jun 26 N. R. Dower Apr 26 Your Personality Is Showing. J.L.Butler Feb 32 Stuck in the Sticks? (E). Orley M. Berg Jan 2 (Spotlight on Health items are not indexed.) Why Continuing Education? John W. Osborn Dec 12 Health Education: Behavioral Change in Health World Ministerial Council on Evangelism and Education. Ella May Stoneburner Dec 26 Theology Sep 24 Have You Tried Teaching Patients Not to Get Minister's Wife: By the President©s Side Jun 38 Sick? Arthur Owens Jun 28 Dear Kay "Operation Finnmark" Jun 29 Blind Jan 39 Things That Go Bump When You©re Uptight. Church Finances Oct 40 Star! Jan 35 Meat Eating by Ministers Apr 39 Understanding the Alcoholic. William L. Husk Mar 28 Selling From the Pulpit Oct 40 Health Evangelism: Adventist Chaplain, The. Wedding Rings Oct 40 JohnErhard Apr 32 Hints on Vienna. Sylvia Powers Mar 41 Century 21 Close-up Dec 28 His Own Kind of Love. Shirley Kromann Feb 38 Century 21 Close-ups Jan 14 Kidnap! Eunice Peterson Kronholm Jul 38 Church That Heals, A. LaVonne Neff Sep 31 Christmas Kodachromes. Marye Trim Dec 38 Dietitians Cooperate With Century 21 Pro Love It, Live It, Give It. Ruth Jenks Oct 38 gram. SDADA News Jan 32 Making Mother Plans. Marie Claytor Spangler Sep 38 "Lord Will Provide, The" Jun 30 Miriam©s Travel Tips. Miriam Wood Mar 38 Medical Missionary in Australia. D. A. Dela- Mother, The. Margaret E. Sangster May 38 field Aug 26 Singing House, The. May Morgan Potter Apr 38 Memorials for God Through Faith (E). J. R. Singing in the Fire. Genevieve C. Bothe Jan 38 Spangler Apr 2 That Telephone Oct 39 Missionary Doctor in South America, The. Wil Missions: Sent to Proclaim and to Heal. Russell L. liam Wagner Mar 32 Staples Sep 26 Needed A Larger View of Health Evangelism. Music: Music in the Adventist Church and Home. Franklin S. Fowler, Jr. May 26 Editor/Ellen G. White Jul 4 Our Unprecedented Opportunity. June Croft Feb 26 Music Is for the Heart. E. Robert Reynolds Apr 14 Sent to Proclaim and to Heal. Russell L. Staples Sep 26 Secular Tunes in Church Feb 8 "Seventh-day Adventists Care" Jun 29 Nutrition: Nutrition in Our Changing Environ Sydney Adventist Hospital, The. H.E.Clifford Aug 32 ment. E. J. Underwood Feb 29 Why Nobody Came. Joyce Griffith Jul 28 Nutrition Research and Menu Planning. Lydia Holy Spirit: "All Together Now Push." S. L. Sonnenberg Dec 30 Folkenberg May 12 To Peel or Not to Peel. Allan R. Magie Nov 33 Home and Family: Ellen White©s Counsel to a Pastoral Work: Adventist Chaplain, The. John Newlywed Couple Mar 5 Erhard Apr 32 Making Mother Plans. Marie Claytor Spangler Sep 38 Counselor, The: Qualifications and Attitudes. Singing House, The. May Morgan Potter Apr 38 Donna J. Habenicht Jul 41 Lay Evangelism: Man With Two Umbrellas, The Jul 19 Cry in the Night, A. Robert H. Parr Nov 24 Local Church Elder: Elder©s Guardianship Pro First Things First. Robert H. Pierson Feb 1 gram, The. Carl Coffman Apr 42 How to Prepare 200 Talks a Year. James W. Monthly Elders© Meeting, The. Carl Coffman Feb 44 Zackrison Sep 22 Platform Duty. Carl Coffman May 20 Nurturing New Souls (E). Orley M. Berg May 2 "Position" or "Responsibility"? Carl Coffman Jan 19 Pastoral Partners or Puppets? Jan 41 Public Prayer. Carl Coffman Jul 44 Perils of Counseling, The. Colin D. Standish Feb 14 Ministers: Afternoon Sun Mellow and Produc Rest in Peace, Richard. Matt R. Byers Apr 10 tive, The. Ellen G. White May 2 Serpents, Wolves, Doves, and Sheep. J. R. Bringing in the Cheese. Oliver Jacques Sep 42 Spangler Mar 4 Consider the Source. Charles E. Bradford Dec 5 "Something Better," Not "Something Bitter." Could You Keep Up With the Pioneers? Ron Dan Manzano Feb 7 Graybill Mar 11 Poetry: "Not I, but Christ." Adlai Albert Esteb Feb 11 Fearing Retires. N. R. Dower Jul 48 Romans 8 ... to Me. Ruth Calkins Feb 40 Going to Retire? (E). J. R. Spangler May 2 Prayer: Public Prayer. Carl Coffman Jul 44 How to Prepare 200 Talks a Year. James W. Preaching: Beware of Constructed Antithesis. Zackrison Sep 22 Marian G. Berry Jun 36 Man God Uses, The. Paul E. Little Mar 18 Consider the Source. Charles E. Bradford Dec 5 Ministerial Association Leaders for 1975-1980 Oct 24 Great Need for Great Preaching, The. James One Message, One Mission, One Movement. Montgomery Boice May 21 N. R. Dower Oct 5 How to Prepare 200 Talks a Year. James W. Our Gift to You (E). J. R. Spangler Sep 3 Zackrison Sep 22 Peddlers or Prophets? C. Raymond Holmes Apr 20 Slapstick in the Sanctuary. Frederick Diaz Nov 14 "Physician, Heal Thyself" (E). Leo R. Van Taboo on Tools 1, 2. Richard W. Coffen Sep 7 Oct 17 Dolson Mar 2 What Evangelistic Preaching Is Expected to Playing With Fire! Robert H. Pierson May 9 Do. Melvin K. Eckenroth Aug 40

46/The Ministry/December, 1975 SUBJECT MO Pg SUBJECT Mo Pg Revival and Reformation: Fight Truth Decay (E). Religion in a Scientific World 1, 2. Richard G. Leo R. Van Dolson Jun 2 Korthals May 14 Jun 21 If ... (E). J. R. Spangler Jun 2 "Worship Him Who Made." Robert H. Brown Oct 13 Our Greatest Problem (E). Orley M. Berg Mar 2 Seminary News: Church Growth Seminar May 41 Planning for the Bimillennial (E). Leo R. Van Dederen Presents Anderson Lectureship May 41 Dolson Apr 2 Doctoral Dissertation Examines Seminary Revival and Reformation How? (E). Leo R. Studies Sep 46 Van Dolson Oct 3 From All the World to All the World. Opal H. Sharing the Revival Experience. Earl E. Cleve Young Jan 24 land Apr 4 Midyear Commencement May 41 "We Still Believe" (E). J. R. Spangler Jul 2 Reaves Studies Black Worship May 41 Sabbath: Saviour and His Sabbath, The 1, 2, 3. Seminary Graduates 28 Sep 46 Gerhard F. Hasel Jan 10 Feb 12 Mar 6 Seminary Holds Eleven Field Schools Sep 46 Science: Carbon-14 Dating and the Bristlecone Terian Translating Once-Lost Works of Philo Oct 41 Pines. Herbert C. Sorenson Feb 36 Women Enrolled at Seminary Sep 46 Designed for Flight. Asa C. Thoresen Apr 17 Sermon Outline: Do Higher Hemlines Result in "Downfall of Scriptural Geology, The." War Lower Standards? May 5 ren H. Johns Nov 19 Spirit of Prophecy: Australasian Diary, 1891- Entropy 1, 2. William M. Overn Jul 35 Aug 21 1900. Arthur L. White Aug 4 Evidence of the Enzymes. George T. Javor Sep 9 Contrasting Views of Eternal Life. Fred Hoyle/ "Footprints in Stone." Berney R. Neufeld Mar 14 Ellen G. White Jun 20 Ginkgo Petrified Forest, The. Harold G. Coffin Jan 36 Dream, a Plowed Furrow, a College Is Born, Presenting the Case for Creation. Leonard A. D. A. Delafield Aug 48 Brand Dec 9 Ellen G. White and Public Evangelism in Aus tralia. Robert R. Frame Aug 8 Ellen G. White©s Central Theme. Joseph J. Battistone Oct 22 Hold Fast What Is Good. T. H. Blincoe Aug 17 How the "Mustard Seed" Grew. F. C. Craig Aug 29 Medical Missionary in Australia. D. A. Dela field Aug 26 Melody Lingers On Seventy-five Years Later, The. Robert H. Parr Aug 23 Memorial of Divine Guidance, A. Alfred S. Jorgensen Aug 14 Prophets and Prosperity (E). J. R. Spangler Aug 2 "She Is My Bookmaker" Dec 14 Sydney Adventist Hospital, The. H. E.Clifford Aug 32 Wonderful Beginnings. R. Allan Anderson Aug 10 Stewardship: "All to My Wife Then to My Chil dren." H. Reese Jenkins May 36 World Stewardship Day (E). N. R. Dower Dec 3 Temperance: New Temperance Data Service. Ernest H. J. Steed Apr 36 Theology: Beware of Constructed Antithesis. Marian G. Berry Jun 36 Contrasting Views of Eternal Life. Fred Hoyle/ Ellen G. White Jun 20 Good-by to the Confessional? Raoul Dederen Jan 4 "Hold Fast What Is Good." T. H. Blincoe Aug 17 Jesus, Son of God. Patrick Boyle Jun 16 "Omega" of Apostasy, The. Alfred S. Jorgensen Mar 8 Once Saved, Always Saved? Robert Shank Nov 35 Peace on Earth? Patrick A. Travis Dec 24 Psychological Processes in Conversion. Colin D. Standish Nov 22 Salvation Unlimited. Edward Heppenstall Sep 15 Shekinah. Ingemann Olsen Jun 24 "Something Better," Not "Something Bitter." Dan Manzano Feb 7 Twofold Aspect of the Word of God, The. W. E. Read Apr 37 Worship: Breaking Up the Monotony of Our Serv ices. D. E. Holland Jan 23 Time to Fear, A. Jan Doward Jun 18 Worship: The Missing Hub Sep 4 Youth: Enlisting in the Armed Forces. Clark Smith Dec 19 Too Precious to Lose. Bobbie Jane Van Dolson Oct 9 Wise Youth Ministry, A. June Loor Jul 18 The Ministry/December, 1975/47 iu>n*s briefs

U.S., including Father Francis president of the Church of Jesus Religious Heritage Exhibit McNutt, O.P., of St. Louis, well Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mor Set Near White House known for his efforts in the heal mon). ing ministry. He had been the About one third of all male WASHINGTON Visitors to leading speaker at an interna Mormon members become mis the nation©s capital in 1976 will tional charismatic conference in sionaries at age 19 and are called be able to see a special Bicenten London a few weeks earlier. to serve for two years. Women nial presentation featuring the who wish to serve on missions multifaceted religious heritage must wait until age 21 and are of the U.S. in a structure to be called to 18-month missions. All erected in the President©s Park HEW Public Health Plan Proposes Restrictions on pay their own travel and living between the White House and the expenses. Washington Monument. Alcohol, Tobacco Mormon missionaries are re "One Nation Under God" is the WASHINGTON A plan for quested to dress conservatively at theme of the continuous program improving public health through all times, limit reading to consisting of film, static displays, preventive action over the next Church-authorized books, watch and narrative, scheduled to be five years, prepared by the De movies and television only with presented from June to Septem partment of Health, Education, special permission, give up swim ber 1976 by the American Chris and Welfare, includes recom ming and all other dangerous tian Heritage Association, a pri mendations for reducing the use sports, never be alone with a per vate, nonprofit organization of alcohol and tobacco. son of the opposite sex, shun sex, based in suburban Greenbelt, With regard to alcoholic bev and never be separated from their Maryland. erages, the report proposes de assigned missionary companion. The 28-by-28-foot building will creases in the alcoholic content A Mormon missionary©s day have four viewing areas, permit of some drinks, restrictions on generally begins at 6:30 A.M., ting an uninterrupted flow of visi liquor advertising, prohibitions with studies until 8:00 A.M., a tors, with each area focusing on on the use of alcoholic beverage half hour break for breakfast, a separate era of religious his advertising as a corporate tax then studies again until 9:30. tory, beginning with the early deduction, and taxes set accord The missionaries then "knock on colonists and their search for re ing to the alcoholic contents of doors" until noon, take an hour ligious freedom and independ beverages. for lunch, visit homes again until ence, and extending to the pres HEW Secretary Caspar Wein- 9:30 P.M., take an hour for sup ent era. berger©s recent request for Con per, plan the next day©s activities, gressional action to ban the and then retire promptly at 10:30 manufacture and sale of ciga P.M., six days a week. Catholic Charismatics rettes with high tar and nicotine "Come of Age" in Britain Unless otherwise credited, these news items are content is among the recom taken from Religious News Service. at Second National mendations on tobacco. Other ac Conference tion proposed in the report in MANCHESTER The Charis cludes an end to Federal price Change of Address matic Renewal in the Roman supports for tobacco farmers. Catholic Church "came of age" in Emphasizing the idea of pre Britain when 450 persons, in ventive measures to promote _ cluding many from outside the public health, the report asserts _ — O • -o country, took part in the move that "much greater attention ment©s second national confer and resources must be directed Illfr< g.- o £ S-^B85 3 C"* » ence here, according to the con at preventing the underlying 3 OS Q. 3 O ference©s director. causes of disease rather than at Msgr. John O©Connor, chap the disease itself at controlling lain at Hopwood Hall, where the cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse, gathering was held, said the and exposures to toxic chemicals f talks, workshops, and prayer in the environment than at the rff periods had been "stimulating diseases which they cause." ' QJ cL ($ m and challenging." He added that "it would not be unfair to say that the Catholic Charismatic Re Mormon Missionaries newal in this country matured Active Throughout World and came of age in the course of SALT LAKE CITY Some this conference." O h-i rV The six-day conference, which 20,000 Mormon missionaries bap H2"l included 70 priests, followed the tized more than 70,000 converts theme "Seek Ye First. . ." All the around the world last year, ac main speakers were from the cording to Spencer W. Kimball, as-S. 48/The Ministry/December, 1975