S96 I AH1SININ Religious Trends

EDITORIAL Toward Conditional Immortality

OTHING is more vital to a minister©s the centuries believe just as we do. And N success than confidence in the message they got their ideas directly from God©s he is called to preach. His consecration, his Word. Among them were a number of out growth in grace, his attitude toward his standing theologians such as Tyndale, Wy- people and the community, are all vitally re cliffe, Luther, Milton, and a host of others. lated to his comprehension and conviction That challenged their thinking, especially of the truth of the doctrines he presents. A when they were confronted by the array of minister who is uncertain of his beliefs can names we presented; men whose belief in be neither happy nor successful. "Take the fundamentals of the Christian faith heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine," could never be questioned. When the list was Paul©s admonition to a young preacher. was assembled the evidence was overwhelm "Continue in them," he said, "for in doing ing and led us to the conviction that if this thou shalt both save thyself, and them further research were done in this field it that hear thee." would lead sincere scholars to realize that God©s message for the world today is full Adventists are by no means peculiar. Among and complete. It centers in the Person, the the champions of conditionalism were bish sacrifice, and the ministry of our Lord Jesus ops, archbishops, canons, presbyters, teach Christ. "In him we live, and move, and have ers, linguists, Bible translators, exegetes, our being," and when our lifework is ended administrators, pastors, editors, poets, sci we fall "asleep in Christ," awaiting that entists, barristers, and philosophers. The great hour of triumph when with the epithet "heretic" or "cultist" could certainly mighty host of the redeemed we will hear not be applied to any of these. the voice of the archangel and in response Moreover these men were found in many to the trump of God will rise triumphant different faiths Lutheran, Anglican, Bap over death to be forever with the Lord. In tist, Congregationalist, Presbyterian, Paul©s words that truly is "the blessed Methodist, Reformed, et cetera. And these hope." scholars continue to be revered, honored, Not all Christians understand the beauti and unchallenged in their respective church ful truth of life only in Christ, or condi affiliations. If men of this caliber were not tional immortality. Many more are coming considered heretics because they believed to believe it, but the majority still have the and taught conditionalism, then why should idea of innate immortality, feeling that we or others who hold the same convictions somehow the soul lives on after death as be charged with heresy for so believing? a distinct entity from the body. That is the question we put to those leaders About ten years ago some Christian lead with whom we were discussing our doc ers visited the General Conference head trines. quarters in Washington, D.C., to inquire While not ready to endorse conditional into our beliefs. As we reviewed our doc ism, yet these men readily agreed that Ad trines, the nature of man naturally came ventists should not be regarded as cultists into our discussions, and they asked: "Why because of what we believe concerning do Adventists hold this doctrine when all death. orthodox Christians believe otherwise?" On completion of our work one of our Kindly but firmly we pointed out that many number, L. E. Froom, began a real piece orthodox Christians today and throughout of scholarly research which has continued THE MINISTRY over a period of some six years, resulting who want the full facts, accurately docu in a new and factual presentation in two mented, fairly presented, and summarized volumes, The Conditionalist Faith of Our for sound conclusions, will find them here. Fathers. Volume II is already off the press It is distinctly a book for the times and pre and a full review will appear later. pared, we believe, in the very providence We cannot speak too highly of this work. of God to enable us now to present this Like the Prophetic Faith volumes, we are great truth more fully, more winsomely, confident that the Conditionalist Faith and with greater effectiveness. It is a book books will make a very real impact upon that just had to be written. It was needed the Christian world. Many of our readers for this hour and enables us to take our may not be aware that during the past few rightful place in the final advance of the decades there has been a worldwide ground everlasting gospel. God has manifestly led swell of revolt against the traditional twin in the preparation of this larger approach positions of innate immortality and eternal to a question which has been known and torment, both of which come into Chris discussed throughout the centuries. tianity from paganism. Men of many faiths, We are confident these two volumes will with growing frequency and clarity, have make an impact on the restless religious taken their stand on this Bible truth and world of today. They are a must for every are setting forth conditional immortality English-reading Adventist worker. Having from the Scriptures. read the manuscript and now reading again This research project puts Adventism in these pages in print, this editor is bold its rightful place as the great final cham enough to hope that some way may be pion of vital truths which tie our testimony found to make this material available not to that of the generations before us. only to our own workers but also to that In the author©s own inimitable way these great group of earnest students through volumes are fully authenticated, and an out all Christendom. amazing bibliography together with a com R. A. A. plete listing of all the names considered makes this volume a real encyclopedia. It was in 1846 that Edward White of Mass Communication England, through an exhaustive study of the Scriptures, challenged the position of "Mass communication" is a twentieth- innate immortality and set in motion forces century expression. It could have meaning which have continued to gain in both pres for no other generation. The ministry of tige and numbers. The present volume Moses or Isaiah or Paul reached the Medi gives the historical setting while the full terranean area but never went beyond. The and clear testimony from the Scriptures cities of that day were small and life moved will be presented in the next volume. Here at a slow pace. A few hundred, or at most is truth that cannot be denied. Sweeping a few thousand, was the limit of their au the centuries, the author shows how this diences. But what a contrast is our genera truth, like others of the Christian faith, was tion! suppressed and that largely because of the Today we speak to hundreds of millions impact of Platonic philosophy. It began to scattered all over the world and they all be recovered, however, in Reformation hear the identical message at the same split times, gathering momentum in the eight second of time. And we can do this with eenth and nineteenth centuries. But in such ease. Shouting through a megaphone this twentieth century it has come into its belongs to a bygone age. own. How wonderfully God has prepared our Our forefathers paid a tremendous price generation to hear His final appeal in the in medieval and Reformation times for terms of the everlasting gospel. This issue championing conditionalism. They were emphasizes the various means of mass com ostracized, repressed, imprisoned, and many munication. The articles here will serve a met a martyr©s death. To accept it meant real purpose and will answer many ques the loss not only of liberty but of life it tions. These writers are carrying heavy re self. These 1,344 history-filled pages reveal sponsibility in radio, television, Bible cor how greatly this truth was valued. respondence courses, and home visitation Here is a full-rounded portrayal which as they seek to reach the masses. Not only in appeals to the logical, scholarly mind. Those the great centers of civilization but also JUNE,1965 among primitive peoples, multitudes are fellow ministers will encourage our mem hearing the gospel through these modern bers to give liberally on June 12. j. R. s. methods. What a thrilling hour this is in which to preach God©s last message! When it swells into the "loud cry" foretold in Revelation 18:1-4, multitudes will be seen "Success Secrets for Pastors" nocking to the church from every land, and then mass communication will have reached The above title is the name of a volume its full and final purpose. R. A. A. which at this moment is reaching our Book and Bible House shelves. The author, John Rhodes, a successful pastor-evangelist, Remember June 12 started a survey about ten years ago of use America may be the land of the free and ful methods and plans devised by Seventh- the home of the brave, but within the day Adventist ministers in North America. boundaries of the North American Division The result is a 160-page book bulging with live multiplied millions who fall into one ideas, suggestions, sample sermons for of the four following categories: Deaf, for special days, diagrams, form letters, orders eign-language, Indian, Jewish people. Our of service, et cetera. church in its attempt to reach these more The book is not intended to be a measur than 37 million souls has for the first time in ing rod, but rather a compendium of meth its history (1) set aside a Thirteenth Sabbath ods currently used by pastor-evangelists Offering overflow for the Indian work in across America. Those ministers laboring in North America (second quarter, 1964); (2) countries outside the United States and included plans for the benefit of these four Canada can readily adapt many of these sug groups during a night session of the General gestions in their own fields. Adaptation Conference (Aug. 2, 1962); (3) held a for must be the rule for all areas, since different eign-language workers© meeting in Battle communities pose widely divergent prob Creek (Aug. 10-13, 1964). lems. These groups provide our church with The author makes it clear that the sug one of its greatest soul-winning possibilities. gestions, if followed, will not necessarily Many of them come to our shores as staunch ensure success. But where spirituality and believers in state religions. Religious prej leadership exist together in right propor udice usually diminishes with this trans tions, God©s Spirit can use this divinely or planting procedure. dained combination in a way that will How can we take advantage of this situa increase our ministerial effectiveness and tion? On June 12 a North American mis efficiency. sions offering is to be received in all of our A quick glance at the table of contents churches in the North American Division. reveals the practical nature of this work. A The goal is $75,000. This offering is to be sampling of headings includes: Church divided equally between the production of Budgets, The Pastor©s Membership Records, literature and Bible correspondence courses The Communion Service, The Baptismal which will meet the minds of these masses. Service, Dedication of Children, Weddings, We have done far too little in preparing Dealing With Absentees, Servicemen, Peri materials adapted to their special needs. odical Campaigns, plus other vital informa The Ministerial Association has a real tion which will aid every minister in his burden for this work. For us to win one of calling. these precious souls in many cases means This book stands relatively unique in that our message will not only be shared by that it has been especially prepared and that individual©s friends and relatives in this adapted to the requirements of Seventh-day country but the truth will be sent back to Adventist pastors. It is an indispensable his native country, thus influencing others volume for the library of every minister. both at home and abroad. We pray that our j. R. s.

THE MINISTRY: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY FOR THE MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BY THE REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. $4.00 A YEAR; 40C A COPY. PRICES SLIGHTLY HIGHER IN CANADA. ADD 25C FOR YEARLY SUBSCRIPTIONS TO COUNTRIES REQUIRING EXTRA POSTAGE. SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT WASHINGTON, D.C. EDITORIAL OFFICE: 6640 EASTERN AVENUE NW-, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012 CHANGE OF ADDRESS: WHEN WRITING US ABOUT YOUR SUBSCRIPTION OR CHANGING YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE ENCLOSE THE ADDRESS LABEL FROM YOUR COPY OR FROM THE WRAPPER IN WHICH YOU RECEIVED THE JOURNAL. 4 THE MINISTRY The Battle for Men©s Minds

J. O. IVERSEN

Acting Secretary, Radio-TV Department, General Conference

WENDELL WILLKIE was the camel rider. Many of the Kanakas of right in describing New Guinea, owning practically nothing today©s struggle as a of this world©s material goods, do have "battle for men©s minds." transistor sets, which explains why a total The apostle Paul ampli of 21 radio stations are being set in opera fied this: "There are, it tion in this outpost of world civilization. may be, so many kinds Moscow, Red China, Madison Avenue, of voices in the world" and Fleet Street are capitalizing to the full (1 Cor. 14:10). est on this fact. Religion is making an un Vietnam, Laos, Indo precedented appeal to the masses. nesia, the Syrian-Israeli In a recent schema from the second ses border, are but drill sion of the Ecumenical Council, the Ro fields compared to the actual battleground man Catholic Church has pledged to leave the mind and heart of man. Three ma no stone unturned, and go all out in the jor forces are engaged in a power struggle, use of radio, television, motion pictures, each desperately trying to make inroads publications, and all that has to do with and to plant the flag of conquest on the mass media. fleshy field of the human heart: political, Within the past two years the Lutheran commercial, and religious. Church has installed a powerful short-wave These forces seem obsessed with the fear station in Addis Ababa that can reach that that time is running out and whatever they area of the world. do for or to the human race they must do The Far Eastern Broadcasting Company immediately. In the air terminal at Zurich, has set up for itself a goal of five short-wave Switzerland, is this sign: "People in a hurry stations to penetrate the various parts of take to the air." How graphically true, not the world with their concept of the gospel only in the field of travel but in the world of Jesus Christ. of communication. Never has mass media Thank God, Seventh-day Adventists are been used so completely as today, for no seizing upon these marvelous methods of other force can as effectively reach the communication to the extent of releasing masses. There are 487,820,000 radio sets in 2,500 programs each week bearing the news the world, not to mention the phenomenal of the third angel©s message. increase of television sets in what might The South Pacific now has 84 programs sometimes be considered the most unlikely each week, communicating in 8 languages, countries of the earth. More sets are being and operating 12 Bible schools. sold behind the iron curtain than in the There has been a recent major break free world. Television sets are being through in London where for years broad shipped duty free into some countries. casting was limited to the midnight hour Shepherd boys tending their flocks in the once a week. Now the daily Voice of Proph fields near Bethlehem are no longer whil- ecy program is being heard thirty minutes ing away the hours playing their flutes. In twice a day, seven days a week, plus two stead they are holding the transistor set to programs from another commercial station their ears. The camel in walking from Jeru in London with the voice of Victor Cooper. salem to Jericho is keeping step to the beat The Middle East is now operating five of the music of the transistor being held by (Continued on page 56) JUNE,1965 Windows of Heaven — Opened or Closed?

PAUL H. ELDREDGE

Ministerial Radio-TV Secretary. Far Eastern Division

THE time has come to even to areas that are still without electric finish giving the gospel power. Small nations, which in many ways to the world, and God might be considered underdeveloped, main has opened the windows tain highly effective broadcasting installa of heaven so it can be tions. And countries with strictly controlled done. political systems depend on radio, and more Describing those mo recently, television, for effective dissemina ments in history when tion of official information. God wanted more dra Then there are great nations with long matic and adequate re histories of cultural development in which sults than could be ex radio and television have reached high pected from the ordinary standards in both technical facilities and functions of natural law, the Bible has production. Japan is one of these. Second coined the intriguing expression, "Open only to the United States in number of you the windows of heaven." television broadcasting stations, Japan has Today is one of those moments. Ordinary to all practical purposes reached the satura methods of evangelism, the time-honored tion point in radio coverage and is ap and effective machinery of soul winning, proaching it in distribution of television are simply not fast enough to cope with to receivers. day©s world. God saw that massed millions, Radio-TV in the Far Eastern Division racing a deadline of destiny, would not lis ten or could not hear unless the gospel was A quick look at the radio-TV picture in given a more dramatic voice. So in the the territory served by the Far Eastern Di work of broadcasting the gospel on invisi vision may be useful as an illustration of ble waves that circle the world, God has the possibilities in various parts of the non- once more opened the windows of heaven. western world. Every time a communication satellite re One significant factor is the amazing con flects into your television set sharp pictures centration of population in certain areas. from half a world away it proves the fitness Japan, for instance, has more than 96 mil of the symbol. Sparking the genius of men lion people in an area slightly smaller than to produce the means, and stimulating the the State of California. In Tokyo a 50,000- faith of others to use them, God has placed watt radio station (of which there are sev in our hands the tools to fit the task. eral) reaches a primary service area in which 20 million people reside. And then A Worldwide Opportunity there is the Indonesian island of Java. Sixty While the tremendous influence of radio million people are concentrated in an area and television has long been recognized in smaller than the State of North Carolina! the Americas and Europe, their current im Such masses of population pose problems pact in many other areas is perhaps even that seem almost insurmountable. They do, more dramatic. These mass media furnish however, afford tremendous audiences for the magic carpet on which "emerging" na radio and television. Quick to recognize tions are making their spectacular flight this, governments and businesses are using into the future. The ubiquitous transistor these media to get messages across. radio has brought modern communication And what about our message? THE MINISTRY We have made a beginning. With more In Korea, Pastor George Munson and than 120 radio programs and six telecasts his associates have been carrying on a year the Far Eastern Division is demonstrating long experiment in broadcasting the Faith its faith in these mass media as a means of for Today program with the Korean lan evangelism. With six recording studios in guage dubbed in. This has been a major operation and several more in the construc undertaking. They have used professional tion or planning stages, we are producing Korean TV performers to lip-sync the dia a variety of programs in many different log, and these people have been very coop languages. The response has been very erative, and have manifested a high degree good, and the statistics prove the value of of skill. Translating the script into the Ko this approach. Compared with the poten rean language, timing it to match the lips tial, however, our efforts seem pitifully of the American film, and then dubbing it meager. Not only do they fail to live up to in so skillfully that Pastor Fagal and his the opportunity but they are much smaller associates seem to be speaking in Korean is in scope than the efforts of some other no small task. The program has been suc Christian groups. cessful, however, and they hope to be able Although not satisfied, our broadcasters to continue it. are nevertheless full of courage. Our radio In Indonesia, Pastor J. T. Manullang, programs have shown considerable original assisted by members of the Djakarta ity and skill in production. In addition to churches, has been producing a live tele programs based on the ever-successful Voice vision program which the government sta of Prophecy format, a number of unique tion has broadcast once a month as a public broadcasts have been developed. Among feature. Pastor Manullang©s relationship these might be mentioned Korea©s temper with the officials in charge of religious ance program, Japan©s "Sunday Family broadcasts has been such that he has been Hour," Taiwan©s "English Bible Audito given far more than a proportionate share rium of the Air." All of our programs in of the available time. This is because the Indonesia are broadcast as public-service station officials have recognized five big re features, and most are produced locally by ligions for telecasting purposes: Islam, the pastor and members of the church. Catholic, Protestant, Hindu-Bali, and Ad- With only six television programs in the ventist! entire Far Eastern Division, our TV cover Does Broadcasting Pay? age is very small. It has, however, given us a good look at the magnitude of the prob While it is always difficult to assess the lems that we face. Both air time and pro actual impact of radio and television broad duction costs for television are extremely casting, many immediate results have con high in most areas. vinced us that we must continue to make

Voice of Prophecy studio, Tokyo, Japan. Speaker: T. Yamagata (left); Pro ducer: M. Kamoda (right).

JUNE,1965 Government restrictions on religious broadcasting, high cost of air time, produc Dimensions of Broadcasting tion difficulties arising from lack of facili ties and professionally trained personnel, Total World Radio Sets (1963 statistics) and meager budget are among the challeng Africa 11,200,000 ing problems. Australia 12,700,000 By contrast, however, the possibilities are Asia 35,000,000 stimulating. We must continue to develop Europe 110,000,000 new program formats. Many unique oppor South America 30,000,000 North America tunities for public-service broadcasts will (excluding U.S.) 23,000,000 be discovered. Greater use of local stations will result as pastors and churches catch 221,900,000 the vision. As results are demonstrated, com United States 265,920,000 mittees will vote larger budgets for broad casting. There is even the possibility of Total Radio Sets 487,820,000 broadcasting stations owned and operated United States Profile by Seventh-day Adventists. Radio and television offer us the greatest 584 Total commercial TV stations 114 Noncommercial, educational stations opportunity we have ever had to finish the 698 Total TV stations work. 3,995 AM radio stations Here are five reasons why: 1,232 FM radio stations 1. Mass media means maximum audi 5,925 Total broadcasting stations ence potential. There is no other way to V.S. Radio-TV Audiences reach so many so quickly. 52,600,000 U.S. TV homes 2. Broadcasting is the top method for 54,000,000 U.S. radio homes getting attention. The eyes and ears of the 6 hrs., 48 min. total TV viewing per home per world are focused and tuned to television day. and radio. People expect to get the most important information sooner from these sources. use of these mass media in our evangelistic 3. Participation in radio-TV gives status program. Bible correspondence school en to the broadcaster and his project. This is rollments, increased attendance at evange just as true of religion as it is of soap flakes, listic campaigns, easier access to homes and folk songs, and politics. Much of the credit increased sales by literature evangelists, for the improved public image of our friendlier welcome at Ingathering time, are church must be given to the Voice of among the direct results in many areas Prophecy, Faith for Today, and other Sev where we have regular broadcasts. enth-day Adventist broadcasts. Bible correspondence schools, a necessary 4. Radio-TV offers a wide variety in ap corollary to a broadcasting program, pro proach. Time of release, program length, vide us with tangible statistics. In the Far format, content, talent each of these can Eastern Division our fourteen Bible corre be varied to appeal to the target audience. spondence schools have a unique record of What a challenge to the imaginative Ad soul-winning success. This is especially true ventist broadcaster! in some areas where ordinary methods of 5. Broadcasting has unlimited reach. No evangelism have met with limited success. political, religious, or social barriers can In Japan, for instance, about 75 per cent eliminate the probing power of radio. Prop of all baptisms since the work was reopened aganda©s sharpest battles are fought on this following the war have been from students field. It will also give the gospel its greatest of the Voice of Prophecy Bible Correspond penetration. ence School. By allowing man©s genius to develop The Challenge these marvelous mass media, God has opened for us the windows of heaven so Both the problems and the possibilities that the work of giving the gospel can be of broadcasting present us a tremendous finished and finished soon. What are we challenge for the future. doing with this opportunity? THE MINISTRY Pioneering Radio, TV and Bible Schools in Overseas Areas

W. R. L, SCRAGG

Radio-TV Secretary, Australasian Division

/. Planning the Broadcast bodies who were approached to produce There is a temptation to think that be religious programs on a new station. Our cause there is no opportunity to use our allotment of time was one broadcast each large professional and denominational pro seven weeks and a daily reading from the grams, we should do nothing about being Bible every four weeks. This allotment was on the air. Remember that every station is accepted seriously, and every effort was looking for a good program, and if you made to utilize the time to the best advan plan carefully enough there is no reason tage. As a result our program is now heard why you cannot be the one to present that every four weeks and is held in reserve in program. case other programs are not ready or are Some reasons why you should present not suitable. programs in your center: So great has been the confidence of the 1. Our message is many-sided. Health, New Guinea broadcasting authorities that education, music, and stories provide op we have been repeatedly invited to partici portunities beyond the straight presenta pate in programing on other new stations. tion of gospel programs. In the Cook Is What at first seemed a small opening now lands no Adventist voice was heard on ra finds us on each of the four administration dio until recently. In fact, all attempts to stations in New Guinea with promises that place programs on the air had been re we shall be considered as the remainder of buffed. Local mission president Gordon Lee the planned twenty-one stations are opened. agitated among the other mission bodies The Problem of Equipment for a religious devotional broadcast (spon sored programs are not acceptable). A There are problems in operating on these committee was formed and as a result we small stations with limited personnel and produce one in four of the daily broadcasts strained budget. Audiences are small, ma on the station. terials hard to find. Here are some of the 2. Your message, whatever it may be, will problems and how they may be overcome. make you widely known. This is true in the Some are reluctant to move into program Cook Islands program mentioned above, ing because of poor equipment or no equip and before long, the quality and tone of the ment. It is our experience that a program Adventist programs will set them apart can be produced with one semiprofessional from the others and it will become known tape recorder and one directional micro who presents them. phone of good quality, which will eliminate 3. Evangelistically you will reap much many background noises. On this basis al good from these public-service programs. most anyone can produce a program. Some Our own church members can spread the times station facilities are made available, word that their preacher is on the air at a though it is generally more relaxing and given time. Soon the program becomes builds for better programing if your own known. equipment can be used. Speech and music In New Guinea we were among four can be provided to the station on separate JUNE, 1965 tapes with a continuity giving the station very popular. In a recent hit parade con announcer his cue for the entry of each test in Rabaul the top favorite was the Ad item. Breaks in music and speech can be ventist choir from the Jones Missionary Col indicated by splicing in 12-inch strips of lege singing a hymn! We have found stor leader tape. Of course, if two machines are ing such songs as we have on small individ available it is possible to put together a ual reels a decided advantage. These can complete program. be spliced directly into the program and When we started a program in Tonga re then taken out without the need of dub cently, we used borrowed equipment. In bing. New Guinea we started with the station©s Disks provide music also, but for best equipment. Most European homes have programing local singers and local music rooms suitable for recording. A large bed are important. Listeners love to identify room or lounge room can be all that is themselves with the singers. They can do needed, and if recording is done at night this best with their own people. there should be no problems. Remember, The Problem oj Materials also, that many small radio stations have the same problems and your program will One area solved this problem by putting probably be no worse than theirs. Do not themselves on the mailing list for H. M. S. wait for equipment or studio facilities use Richard©s sermons! In New Guinea, Uncle your ingenuity. Arthur©s The Bible Story is a source for the material on three of our Bible story pro Music Available grams being produced in the islands. In New Guinea a good quality port Often local rules will not permit the use able tape recorder is available that is of doctrinal material. In New Guinea the shipped all over the territory with selected material is prepared by a European in one personnel. By this means we are building area and then adapted and presented by up a library of good indigenous music. The the national speaker. Any program pro King©s Heralds of the Voice of Prophecy duced on tape is preserved. No programs have assisted with some native language are destroyed. This gives a library to call music, but most areas have Adventist sing on in case of sickness or absence. ers who will not only be acceptable but In both Samoa and Tonga we have bi lingual programs. In our Sydney studio we edit the regular Voice of Prophecy broad cast to twenty-three minutes. Each local area then gives a summary of H. M. S. Richard©s message in their language. Tonga provides its own King©s Heralds. The amount of local material is being progres sively increased. It is hoped that ultimately a full half-hour program in the local lan guage will be possible. In Tahiti the education and religious programs produced by the French Voice of Hope are translated into Tahitian. In the Cook Islands, Dr. Clifford Anderson©s "Your Radio Doctor" is translated and adapted into Maori. Overcoming Problems of Local Regulations In many areas no offers can be made of Bible courses. In one area every program must be submitted in quadruplicate for cen sorship before broadcasting. Purchasing of time is impossible in many areas. These obstacles are a challenge to the minister, and in consultation with the ra dio-television department a way can usually be found around them. Radio and televi King©s Heralds, Coral Sea Union Mission College. sion are divinely given means of spreading 10 THE MINISTRY Voice of Prophecy and Faith for Today staff in Sydney, Australia. the message. To have them with us and not of Prophecy was taken and translated into use them is neglecting God-given facilities. Samoan and mimeographed. Since then the Every wise and faithful steward will seek to lessons have gradually been printed. The use every talent, every means, in God©s serv staff for the school is small. One girl cares ice. He is waiting for men of faith and tal for the marking and dispatching of lessons ent and vision. In your area you may be under the experienced oversight of a na that man. Why not step out in faith and tional pastor. Each year this school is re see if God is leading you to become a micro sponsible for nearly half the baptisms in phone minister for Him? Samoa. A plan of work has been devised whereby our own people are used in foster Organizing the Local Bible School //. ing interests and maintaining their devel With or without the broadcast, the Bible opment. Key features in the successful de school offers the church a great potential. velopment of this school have been: Diversity of languages, distance, and na 1. Simple and inexpensive basic require tional pride make it essential that we oper ments ate many small schools rather than the one large central office. For many years in Aus Expensive and illustrated material is not necessary in an economy where the cash in tralasia we operated just one Bible school, come is limited. Simple methods can be which cared for Australia, New Zealand, effective where they are accompanied by and the many Pacific islands in our terri tory. effective personal contact. 1956 saw the beginning of a drive that has 2. Use of district depots resulted in Bible schools being opened in Mail is slow and uncertain in many mis all our major linguistic and national areas. sion field areas. This led Samoa into an Consider a typical situation. In 1958 it was experiment that has paid off handsomely voted to open a Bible correspondence and has been copied throughout our mis school in Western Samoa, a small group of sion field areas. It is currently in operation islands with a population of more than in Fiji, Cook Islands, Tonga, and is being 140,000, the majority of whom had to be introduced in New Guinea and the Solo reached through the Samoan language. mon Islands. This plan involves the setting Rather than move immediately into type up of depots of lessons in centers through set lessons, the junior course of the Voice out the territory of the mission. Lessons are JUNE,1965 11 stored there but are not marked at these follow-up program. When the first lessons centers. are sent to the student he is told that there is an award book waiting for him on the 3. Overcoming the mail problem completion of a certain number of lessons. Laymen are used extensively to overcome Each free offer is illustrated on a leaflet and the mail problem. Associated with each of described attractively. It is most interesting the district depots is an experienced minis to find people eagerly awaiting the arrival ter or mission teacher. He encourages our of these books. No promise is made to mail laymen to go out and enroll people in the the booklets. courses. The layman gives the student the When the time comes for an interest re first two lessons and tells him he will be port to be sent to the conference or mission back for the completed lessons and to col on a certain name, the promised book for lect the quiz sheets in two weeks© time. the student is included with the report, and 4. Constant contact possible the radio-television secretary is asked to for ward this along to the minister. Our min At the end of two weeks the layman isters are then asked to personally deliver picks up the test sheets. If these are not the promised book. ready, he helps the student complete them. Advantages with this plan are several. The layman becomes the postman, carrying First., it encourages the student to continue lessons and test sheets to and from the dis with the lessons until he has reached the trict depot. If there are problems, he can stage where his progress can be reported. It help with them or report to the minister. also helps him to get over the hurdle of ac 5. Between depot and Bible school tually doing the first lessons. This plan has Bulk mailing of test papers is then helped lift our percentage of students be made from the depot to the Bible school. ginning courses from 30 per cent to 40 per Constant check is kept by the Bible school cent and has increased the number of grad on the stocks held by each depot. Dupli uations. cate record cards are kept at the depot and Second, it provides the minister with an the school so that each has an accurate ideal reason to call. He has something that check on a student©s progress. the student has been expecting with pleas ure. Students appreciate the personal in 6. Graduation services terest. Each layman accepts responsibility for Third, it gives the minister excellent rec ten to thirty names which he has enrolled ommendation. He has the promised book or received from other sources. The stu from the Bible school. He must be associ dents are given early information of a grad ated with the Bible school. "I can trust this uation service on a definite date. Gradua man," thinks the student. tion services are always held on Sabbath Fourth, it places a responsibility on the at the local Adventist church, and an ap minister to make an early call on the stu peal is made for decision by the gradua dent. He has something that belongs to the tion speaker. student, the promised gift. This has served Very encouraging results have come from to assist in lifting our follow-up percentage this plan, and we commend it to other and baptisms from these courses to the areas. Within reasonable limits we have highest in the world field. found that it is wise to duplicate schools Fifth, it overcomes many of the prob rather than let one grow too big. When we lems associated with visiting children and faced a problem in the Eastern Solomons youth. The minister arrives, not to cate Bible School of too much work we split chize Johnny and Mary on the lessons, but the school between the Western Solomons to deliver the long-awaited book prize. He and the Eastern Solomons and started a is on good terms with the parents and the new school. This has resulted in a doubling child from the very first. of our enrollments in the area with a conse Such a plan as this can be easily financed quent increase in baptisms. either by the school itself or by the local Incentives for Students conference or mission. Only those who are ready for a visit are involved. There is no Throughout our area of the world field waste of books or money, and the invest we are making increasing use of incentives ment is small in comparison with the po for our students. This aids greatly in our tential good. 12 THE MINISTRY Running a Film Backward

FORDYCE W. DETAMORE

Evangelist, Florida Conference

HAVE you tried the fool as well as many other countries toward Sev ish but entertaining idea enth-day Adventists. Yes, people have of running a film back learned about, studied, and admired Sev ward? (I photographed enth-day Adventist teachings all round the a wedding several years globe. That "third angel" has at last really ago and in running the found some wonderful avenues for reach film backward I felt I ing our world. was witnessing a di On the opening night of each of our vorce!) It is a fact that series of meetings we ask how many are when we run a film in acquainted with the Voice of Prophecy, reverse our attention is Faith for Today (or It Is Written in areas caught by important where this too has been featured), or how scenes we otherwise would have over many have taken one of our Bible cor looked, or worse yet, taken for granted. We respondence courses. In every city the re will come back to this thought later. sponse is not merely encouraging, it is It just doesn©t seem possible that it was downright thrilling almost every hand in twenty-three years ago that we began those the audience is raised. (We often enroll all first broadcasts "coast to coast and pole to non-Adventists attending our meetings in pole," as we used to say on the network. one of our Bible correspondence schools.) Often I have heard H. M. S. Richards say, We also mention the Voice of Prophecy "Fordyce, if I didn©t believe that God was and Faith for Today in all of our initial ad leading out, I could not stand another day vertising. of it. Let©s pray together about our prob I often tell experiences of persons whom lem." And xve did. I have visited, telling of how they became Then came the Bible correspondence interested through the Voice of Prophecy schools beginning in various conferences, or Faith for Today. unions, or divisions throughout the world. But we also have another tie-in that is E. L. Cardey and Harold Metcalf have kept helpful. All the names from the Voice of reminding us that every one-hundredth Bi Prophecy and Faith for Today in a given ble school student becomes a full-fledged area are circularized with a handbill and Seventh-day Adventist. (This is to say noth also a formal invitation and tickets of ad ing of the hundreds of thousands who are mission for the opening night. studying our message in detail and who During the middle of the second week of have not yet stepped out openly to follow the series we circularize all of these names it.) What harvesting methods God has re again, trying to get them to attend our spe served for these last days! cial meeting on Sabbath afternoon. (The Next came Faith for Today. Now the reason we are so eager for them to attend world not only hears the message but then is because this is the meeting in which sees it. we make our first call for surrender.) We Today everyone is public-relations con enclose tickets of admission for the Mark of scious. In less than a quarter of a century the Beast meeting that comes Sunday eve the Voice of Prophecy and Faith for Today ning the beginning of the third week. The and our Bible correspondence schools have circularization always brings a good re changed the attitude of most of this nation sponse and brings out some who did not JUNE,1965 13 Voice of Prophecy broadcasting staff in 1943. Front: F. W. Deta- more and H. M. S. Richards. Back, left to right: Bob Sea- mount, Wesley Crane, George Casebeer, Ray Turner.

many church elders and Sabbath school teachers, hosts of Dorcas workers, and other thousands who as little children first learned this truth through the junior Bible corre spondence course. We would have to bid respond to the first invitation. In fact, farewell to many, many church school teach many persons have found their way to our ers and office secretaries who first learned meeting place on the Sabbath afternoon the truth through our radio, television, or after attending the meetings for two weeks, Bible correspondence school programs. We and they have not been able to resist the would also have to say good-by to some of call of the Holy Spirit to their hearts. our college professors and doctors yes, and You see, they have already learned the some of our departmental men as well, and message for these last days through the Bi many of our ministers. ble correspondence courses and the mes Such a procession in reverse would in sages that have been given over the air, so deed be a sad one as tens of thousands all we need to do is to help in the harvest would stand and back out of our churches ing. all over the world a sight to make angels Besides that, in my personal visitation I and true Adventists weep! go to homes far and near, tracking down But, thank God, we need not reverse the every good lead, to personally invite those dramatic picture. Instead, it is going for who have learned the message from radio ward with ever greater results in soul win and television programs. Not a day goes by ning. but that I find a first-rate interest that has Can our minds really grasp what is go developed directly as a result of these pro ing on all around the world? Our oral and grams. visual message is being carried every week We believe these programs have changed to the ends of the earth and at the speed the whole picture of evangelism. From the of light 186,000 miles a second. viewpoint of an evangelist, no other en We are short of workers always have deavor by our church begins to compare in been and always will be. But through the effectiveness with the Voice of Prophecy, Bible correspondence courses we now have Faith for Today, and the Bible correspond postmen in our employ all around the ence schools in breaking down prejudice world, and the various governments sub and in bringing souls directly into this mes sidize the deficit. How good to see the sage. "wealth of the Gentiles" helping out in the But back now to the thought in my open literal carrying (by mail carriers) of this ing paragraph. What if we put the past few message to earth©s farthest corners. years into reverse and undid the work of I used to state on the network program the Voice of Prophecy, Faith for Today, It and I still mean it from the bottom of my Is Written, and the Bible correspondence heart now as an evangelist "In no other schools? way will your dollar go so far in carrying a What a tragic movement we would wit message of hope to the millions. Remem ness! Out from our churches would move ber our motto ©Forward in Faith!© " 14 THE MINISTRY Getting Results From Faith for Today Evangelism

GORDON F. DALRYMPLE

Director, Public Relations, Faith foi Today

ELEVISION evangelism is yet in its in school interests over the signature of Pas Tfancy, but already it has proved itself a tor W. A. Fagal. Interested ones will be successful soul winner. Many people, watch cordially invited to attend the meetings. ing television, receive their first impres In this way the telecast is tied in with the sions of our truth. meetings at the outset. Faith for Today is When a convert from a series of meet prepared to cover not only the immediate ings writes, "I first became interested in vicinity of the meetings but also a twenty- the Seventh-day Adventist message through five-mile radius in the area with invita viewing Faith for Today," it is evident that tion letters, and handbills also, if you television evangelism does successfully sow choose. seed. The following information should be in With three-week reaping meetings be cluded with the request at least three coming increasingly popular, it is obvious weeks prior to the opening date: (1) Open that a weekly television program such as ing date and hour of meeting; (2) name Faith for Today, with its Bible school fol and street address of auditorium; (3) low-up, is invaluable to the pastor and name of speaker; (4) title of opening ad evangelist. A three-week series does not cre dress; (5) neighboring towns to be in ate Seventh-day Adventists overnight. cluded in invitation; (6) nights that meet Rather, it capitalizes on interest which has ings will be held and length of series; (7) been developed over a period of time. any additional information that should be Consequently, the pastor or evangelist included; (8) name and address to which who conducts such a series must be con the names should be sent; (9) name of stantly on the alert for folks who have been conference. studying the Seventh-day Adventist mes A small charge of ten cents a letter is sage. Bible school interests, then, become made for first-class postage and handling. prime sources for visiting, having an al Then as soon as the invitations are mailed, most unlimited potential for decisions. a listing of names and addresses that have Naturally, Faith for Today is interested been sent invitations and handbills will be in cooperating in every way with the pas forwarded to the speaker. He can then get tor and evangelist who is conducting a in touch with these folks during the meet series of reaping meetings. After the tele ings- cast has been presented in an area for six Requests for these services for Faith for months or a year (in some areas this will Today reaping meetings should be sent to have been considerably longer), a three- Public Relations Department, Faith for week series of reaping meetings can be Today, 200 Stonehinge Lane, Carle Place, planned. The series can be built around Long Island, New York 11514. Faith for Today viewer interests and also In certain areas it may be possible to ar Bible school enrollments. range for one of several Faith for Today To cooperate in conducting the meet reaping evangelists to conduct the series. ings, Faith for Today will send out special Even in areas where Faith for Today is not invitation letters to television and Bible being televised, reaping meetings can be JUNE, 1965 15 conducted. This is because of the wide out of logs to view Faith for Today. Bible reach of the Bible course. school enrollment cards should be distrib In conducting reaping meetings, the fol uted again. The TV survey will not only lowing steps can be followed: emphasize the importance of the program, Over a period of six months or one year but will help highlight the harvesting meet there should be four mass enrollment days, ings soon to follow. when the entire city is blanketed with Bi To give the meetings maximum impact, ble course enrollment leaflets. Faith for Today has a number of films that Just as soon as some meetings are defi have wide general interest and appeal nitely planned and the time they are to which can be shown during the series. begin has been determined, visitation These are available at a slight charge, teams can be organized. These will assist which covers handling and mailing. They the pastor in following up Faith for Today serve to develop further a strong tie-in be TV interests and also Bible school students. tween meetings and telecast. This consistent visitation program will de These films are available in black and velop interest. white and occasionally color. Catalog list The pastor or evangelist will then make ings are available. up an over-all listing in which prospects There is always the possibility that Pastor will be included and categorized. For ex Fagal and the Faith for Today quartet will ample, one may be marked a casual inter be in the vicinity for such a series while est, another a developing interest, and still the meetings are in progress. If so, oppor another a person who believes the Sabbath tunity would be welcomed to help with and is attending church. one of the meetings or perhaps take the Two months before the meetings begin, first meeting in the series. a mass Faith for Today television survey Where the pastor and quartet are not should be conducted. This will invite folks available, it is suggested that for the first throughout the community through the use (Continued on page 21)

Faith for Today Bible school, New York. 16 THE MINISTRY My Assistants— VOP and FFT

J. S. DAMAZO

Pastor, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

THE Voice of Prophecy families, and of all things, they each resided and Faith for Today in my territory! To my further amazement, programs have been or the Voice of Prophecy folks had not only dained of God. They located them in the homes on the streets fulfill a specific purpose. of my cities but had sent me a card of in They convey a special troduction to each one. message from a special I made a discovery that day that I shall people for a specific never forget. It was the fact that I was not time. God directed in working my territory alone. I had known their establishment. He right along that God was present but had has guided their growth. not realized that He had also assigned other Like most Seventh-day helpers there besides myself. Adventists, I have followed their success A few brief years later, a new teammate and mass acceptance with pride, contribu joined me. It, too, moved right into my ting annually to their ever-expanding territory. Its correspondence was marked budgets and praying for their success. Box 8, New York 8. It immediately set to However, it wasn©t until a certain time work reaching into the homes via the TV in my life that these two evangelistic in screen, searching out honest hearts. Its cor stitutions took on a whole new concept in respondence also contained the names and my thinking. addresses of interested ones for me to be Nearly twenty years ago I completed the come acquainted with. theological course, accepted a call to the Is it any wonder that Box 55, Los An ministry, and was moved into the area of geles, and Box 8, New York 8, and I be my employment. After reporting to the came very dear friends? They are now my godly pastor under whom I would serve close associates. We work together. my internship, I began my work. As the years have rolled by, and as I have I recall the momentary feeling that came moved from place to place, I have been sur over me as I considered the whole respon prised that my "assistants" have gone right sibility and purpose of my chosen lifework. along with me. As a matter of fact, I dis I viewed my territory panoramically, saw covered that they were already there be all its houses and lands, cities and towns, fore I arrived, and had been faithfully hospitals and multitudes. The scene was working the territory week after week, and overwhelming. But with the assurance of year after year preaching the Word of God©s presence and the certainty of my call God, leading people to decision. ing, I set to work. Through the years of service these "as A few days later the mailman arrived sistants" have never let me down. Neither with interesting mail stamped Box 55, Los have I let them down. Without exception, Angeles. I wondered what it was all about. I have promptly gone to every home they To my surprise, the correspondence con have pointed to. Some homes have been tained specific information in regard to in the country, others in the city, some on persons who were interested in the truth the side of a dusty road, others above the and who were already quite advanced in market place. Some where interested youth their Bible study through the correspond were. Others where the aged feed on a new- ence school. I was simply amazed. Why, found hope in their sunset years. To each here were the names and addresses of three (Continued on page 32} JUNE, 1965 17 The Southern Asia Story Mass Impact Overseas When Radio-TV Use Is Denied

KENNETH H. GAMMON

Secretary. Radio-TV Department, Southern Asia Division

applications, but even here the main value IBLE correspondence courses were first was in keeping the name Voice of Prophecy B introduced to solidify the interest before the people. Otherwise it would created by the radio broadcast. With the have proved an expensive and laborious advent of television the pattern was al method of obtaining new students. Mem ready set and correspondence lessons were bers and ministers in annual campaigns and an integral part of this program from its sporadic drives have turned in a fair num inception. It would be unthinkable to use ber of interests. References in all our pub either radio or television without the Bible lications, and colporteur contacts maintain schools, but in some places it is necessary to an even trickle of names. By far the best use correspondence lessons alone because method of increasing applications is that of radio and television facilities are not avail student recommendation. The old business able. adage, "A satisfied customer is our best ad In Southern Asia television as yet does vertisement," certainly is well applied to our not exist. All radio is state controlled, and Bible School. since each of the countries is non-Christian no permission can be obtained for spon Here's the Secret sored Christian programs. However, from the end of 1950 until 1957 we regularly Part way through the course we enclosed beamed the Voice of Prophecy program with the lessons a printed slip worded some from the commercial station of Radio Cey thing like this: "We are able to accept a lon, but in 1957 a government order put limited number of new students. If you an end to all Christian programs. would care to invite a friend to take the same course that you are studying have Student Recommendation the Best him fill out the enclosed application The correspondence schools begun in blank in his own writing, send it back to 1947 were beginning to be productive just us with your next answer papers, and we when our broadcast was canceled. Thus we will guarantee to supply him with this same were forced to strongly develop the only study course entirely free of charge." At media of mass communication left to us. least 50 per cent of these cards come back It had to be proved that the Bible schools to us signed and a high proportion of these could flourish and be productive even if applicants become enrollees. the powerful promotion of radio and tele Late in the study course we inform the vision was not available. student that our school is expanding and Advertising was the number one problem. we send him an application blank with Newspapers and magazines carried adver places for five of his friends to apply for the tisements to the less than 20 per cent liter course. For his cooperation in making ate population who could afford to buy known the benefits of our study course to them. Advertisements produced limited re five of his friends we offer him a free book. turns. Slide ads in cinemas proved to be an This method is quite successful in bring almost complete waste of money. Public ral ing a number of names, but a lower per lies and graduation exercises have always centage of these make the transition from drawn good crowds and provided many new applicant to enrollee. 18 THE MINISTRY As far as possible the student should be trinal courses, which we encourage all stu given a study course that matches his back dents to take when they have completed ground and his need. In lands where Hin their introductory set of lessons and are suf dus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Moslems, and Ani- ficiently acquainted with the fundamentals mists each outnumber the Christian popu of Christianity. lation this is no easy matter. Young people and those with some This Makes Adventists knowledge of Christianity are encouraged Our final course is "The Great Contro to learn moral lessons from the lives of Bi versy," and very few finish this course with ble characters, through the Introductory out becoming members of the Seventh-day course. Adventist Church. Because of certain published statements Between the school and the workers a by Mahatma Gandhi many Hindus are in direct and friendly relationship is main terested to know about Jesus, so to them we tained. When each student is halfway send the Hope of the World studies. through his studies and again at comple Very little progress had been made with tion, notification is sent directly to the the Moslems until just over two years ago worker located nearest to him. Every en when we introduced a new course, "Light couragement is given to the worker to faith From the Ancient Prophets." These les fully follow up the interest. Whenever this sons, based on the writings of Ellen G. is done the end result is encouraging to White, start from the Creation story and both worker and school. But this is a vast trace the Messianic prophecies up to the territory. The worker line is scattered thin. time of the birth, life, death, and resurrec Swift and easy travel facilities are not avail tion of our Lord. This course is in great able. Many students are too far away to demand and has resulted in the acceptance visit. of Jesus as the only Saviour by Moslems, Sikhs, and Hindus. This is one of our How to Increase Baptisms most productive courses and it is also being In order that the most productive results used throughout the Middle East. may come from the correspondence studies, Recently another "specialized" course a Group Study Plan has been initiated. has been introduced, written to meet the This can be operated by the worker or Buddhist mind and entitled "Search for trained lay member. The group leader en Happiness." It is too early to see results, but rolls as many pupils as possible after ar we have faith to believe that they will be ranging a location where he can regularly forthcoming. meet with them. Lessons mailed in bulk to In addition, we have the regular doc the group leader are distributed and stud-

VOP Health School, Poona, India, directed by Mrs. K. H. Gammon, sends out ten thousand lessons a month. Ninety- one per cent of graduates take Bible course.

JUNE, 1965 19 Part of typist pool. 60,- 000 envelopes used each month besides registra tions, certificates, contact slips, and letters.

English filing department in the VOP school in Poona, India.

ied. Time is allotted for questions and an mixed; integration simplified. A conference swers and then each student fills in his test president has required each worker to be paper, which is collected and mailed, in responsible for enrolling three hundred bulk, to the school for grading. students a year under the Group Study- A variation of this plan takes the worker Plan and results are beginning to show in to various homes throughout the week increased baptisms. One worker states that where he assists families in their study of since putting this plan into operation his the correspondence lesson. He maintains baptisms have doubled and his expenses this close connection throughout the en have halved. tire course and is able to help them at de In developing countries where great ef cision time. forts are being made to increase the literacy Advantages of this Group Study Plan rate, there is a great work to be done by the are: right type and age student enrolled; Bible correspondence schools. The newly personal contact throughout; groups held acquired ability to read and write is imme near a church or institution; travel mini- diately accompanied by an insatiable de- 20 THE MINISTRY mand for reading material. A free corre receiving one thousand new applications spondence course is ideally suited to meet every working day, and the best is still be this need. In awakening minds the words of fore us. As more of the population learn truth find a welcome lodgment. Indeed, in to read and write we must be ready to give such an environment the Bible school les them truth. sons can reach more people than radio and Yes, it is true, we earnestly wish to be television. Where the latter is just a "for "on the air" and we are doing all we can eign miracle" the former would be beyond to be there, but we are not languishing the pocket of most of the community. The while waiting. Bible course being free has strong appeal. On the other hand, there are multitudi nous masses of illiterates still to be reached, From Faith for Today Evangelism and surprising though it may seem, a corre spondence course conducted by the Group (Continued jrom page 16} Study Plan is ideally suited to their need. night or two, song films featuring the quar This was discovered quite accidentally. tet with Pastor Fagal narrating, or a mis Lessons were mailed in the normal way sion film narrated by Pastor Fagal, may be to two men who were the only ones who used. could read or write in the village of Aundh. An essential part of any campaign, if it is The visit of the mailman was such a rare to be successful, is preparation of the church thing that when he delivered the Bible les membership. Six Sabbath afternoons should sons, many villagers gathered around our be devoted to going over visitation methods. students to see what they had received. The A presentation of the various categories of lessons were read out to the crowd, then Faith for Today interests will be helpful. the questions on the test paper were read The pastor and evangelist will want to assess and the villagers were quick to call out the the potential that lies within the church answers even before our two students filled membership and then base their plans ac in the test paper for themselves. The cordingly. worker found that not only these two men Before the series begins there should be but almost another thirty people were con special prayer sessions when God©s blessing versant with the messages of the lessons is asked on the entire project. If possible, and were well on the way in their accept meetings preparing the church member ance of truth and preparation for baptism. ship before the actual series begins will be Using this information, we now encour helpful. age members and ministers to hold classes During the meetings those attending for illiterates, teaching them the lessons should be invited to view Faith for Today. and then asking them individually the ques A good plan is to distribute Bible course tions on the test sheet. Whatever answer is enrollment cards at the meetings. It will given be it right or wrong that is writ enroll folks in the Bible course and also be ten down for the one questioned and the helpful in securing names for visitation. test paper is mailed in his name back to Advertising is essential. A listing of ad the school. If a wrong answer is given, this vertising ideas can be obtained by writing affords the worker opportunity of clearing to the Director of Public Relations at Faith this point with the student before the next for Today. lesson study is started. Available at Faith for Today offices at Throughout Southern Asia the Bible no cost are attractive two-color posters school work is conducted under the name highlighting the program. These can be of the Voice of Prophecy. At a gathering of displayed in doctors© offices and also on the dignitaries of other Christian bodies it was bulletin board of the auditorium or church publicly stated that the Voice of Prophecy during the series. In addition to this, there was the best-known Christian name and or are leaflets which describe the telecast and ganization in Southern Asia and that it was the work that it does. These can be ob responsible for teaching Christianity to tained upon request. more people than the total combined ef If you have not yet conducted a Faith forts of all the churches. for Today reaping series, begin planning Up to the end of 1964 we had received to do so. The opportunities are limitless, in excess of two and a half million applica and the soul-winning results will be an tions and one million enrollments. We are inspiration to the church. JUNE, 1965 21 Nobody Home? Try This!

W. S. JESSKE

Director of Field Service, Voice of Prophecy

T IS God©s plan for the Seventh-day Ad- DEAR BIBLE STUDENT: I ventist Church to give the message of Because many of you have asked that salvation to "all the world," which includes one of our Bible school representatives visit people on every road and street in every you in your home, we are making this serv city, town, and country. Therefore, we ice available to all our students. Often a should not be praying for lighter burdens, personal interview for counsel and prayer but for stronger backs. is appreciated. We are told that God©s work here on Please indicate on the enclosed card the earth "must be largely accomplished by per most convenient date and time to call. If severing, individual effort, by visiting the your home is difficult to find, please give people in their homes." Welfare Minis full directions. try, p. 97. We have been happy to have you as a Our Bible correspondence courses are student in our Bible school, and we shall very effective medias to help fulfill Mat be pleased to become acquainted with you. thew 28:19, 20. However, the cooperation Our best wishes to you for an abundance of our ministers in the field is most impor of God©s blessings as you continue the study tant in leading Bible students forward in of His Word. baptism. Very sincerely yours, At times we receive complaints from vari (Worker©s calling card ous places that the student cannot be found attached here) at all, or, after the worker had driven a 2. With this letter, a return-addressed long distance, the student is not at home. postal card is enclosed, reading as follows: The question comes, "Can you help us?" ______19 __ Be assured that we are ever trying to find It would be convenient to have the Bi a better, easier way for the student to be ble correspondence school representative reached. In most instances, before a Bible call on ______19 __ at ______A.M. P.M. student©s name is sent to the field, a ques Name __-_. ______tionnaire has been sent to the student, an Full address ______nouncing that one of our Bible school rep Directions ______resentatives will be in his area soon. This The address to which this card is to be re gives the student an opportunity to indi turned is to be written on the opposite side, cate whether he would welcome a represent and a four-cent stamp affixed. ative. If the student has no house number, 3. The following plain card, not a postal we ask for directions to his home. Some stu card, is to be left by workers for "call back" dents check the questionnaire, indicating information, should the student not be at they would welcome a visit, but neglect to home (the card described under 2. to be give directions to their homes. For this rea son we are presenting a plan that we be attached for the convenience of the inter est): lieve will increase the efficiency of the fol low-up program. DEAR FRIEND: 1. The following letter is being prepared Today at ______I called to visit you, by the Voice of Prophecy and Faith for To and was disappointed to find that you were day Bible schools for the optional use of not in. The accompanying prepaid postal conference presidents and radio-TV secre card is provided for your convenience. taries for distant or hard-to-locate students: Please indicate a date and time that would 22 THE MINISTRY be acceptable to you. I will be pleased to When the opportunity presents itself, the attempt meeting the appointment. worker should call on the student immedi Your Bible correspondence school ately. Do not wait. This card is to be used representative, only as an auxiliary plan. Nothing takes N ame ._-______,.______the place of your personal contact. Address __.______We believe that this plan, properly em Telephone ._____.______ployed, should make it easier for our work This material will be provided for all ers to follow up the Bible school interests conferences, to be used by workers when promptly, bringing about very desirable re calling on Bible students in order to facili sults. tate a more prompt follow-up program, The above material can be had by writ especially in areas where distance is a fac ing Faith for Today, Voice of Prophecy, or tor. your conference radio-TV secretary.

Radio-TV Tool Kit for Soul Winning

Faith for Today Voice of Prophecy Over-all station log General enrollment card Enrollment cards Bright Horizon enrollment card "I Was Frightened by TV" leaflet Radiant Health enrollment card (Available only TV Guide advertising to doctors and hospitals) Newspaper mats for the program General radio log Newspaper mats for the Bible course Initial daily broadcast log ($7 per 1,000 imprinted Suggested telephone canvass with local station call letters; minimum order, Over-all publicity kit 5,000) Glossies of Faith for Today©s personnel for local Follow-up daily broadcast log ($4 per 1,000 im promotion printed with local station call letters; minimum Announcements for television spots order, 5,000) Letter-writing plan Daily broadcast brochure Anniversary presentation plan Daily broadcast kit #1 Catalog of films available for rental Newspaper mats advertising broadcast Special colporteur enrollment card, "I, Too, Will Newspaper mats advertising daily broadcast Travel in Space" ($11 per 1,000). Description, of Bible courses available Newspaper mats of individuals of radio group Blanket coverage mailing program for enrollments Fair display kits Cooperative evangelism plan invitations from Pas Pastor©s class plan tor Fagal to interests at lOc per name Prophetic Guidance brochure Station brochure Letter of invitation over Pastor Richards© signature TV survey sheets to be used in house-to-house sent to advanced Bible students in locality of visitation evangelistic meeting (Cost, lOc per letter) Posters for advertising or fair displays Voice o£ Prophecy survey sheet obtaining applica Regular publications tions ($2.85 per 1,000) Telenotes Voice of Prophecy News Foreign Language course folder Pastor©s bulletin Evangelistic kits for daily VOP folder or follow-up

Above items available by writing Faith for Today, Voice of Prophecy, or conference radio-TV secretary.

JUNE,1965 A New Evangelistic Thrust

Getting the Broadcast on the Air multiplying the cost of one broadcast by six days a week, times 60 weeks. In most areas the stations that accept the daily pro gram will give free time on Sunday for the weekly broadcast, after you have paid for ITH1EL E. GILLIS six days of Daily Broadcasts. One plan is for the church to solicit in Manager, Voice of Prophecy dividual pledges for the support of the broadcasts, then look to the church budget and the conference evangelistic budget to cover the amount remaining. In setting up a program of this kind, HE Daily Broadcast of the Voice of one should not forget the necessity of funds TProphecy is to help prepare the area for advertising, so that proper promotional for an evangelistic series, and should not be materials can be provided to invite the peo scheduled unless definite follow-up evan ple in the community to listen to the broad gelistic meetings are planned to come to casts and to enroll for the free Bible cor ward the close of the series. respondence course offered. Also, where The most beneficial plan is to carry the possible, a highway sign or signs should be program for a year and eight weeks. In this made available to promote listening to way the full broadcast series can be re the Daily Broadcasts. leased, including the Bible marking, which In a number of areas business firms have should be planned to come just prior to the arranged to sponsor the broadcast for spot beginning of the evangelistic series. With announcements before and after the pro the date of the evangelistic series set, the gram, charging the station time invoice to scheduling of the broadcasts can be so ar their advertising budget. In other cases an ranged that the Bible marking will coin individual or a group of persons in the cide. The broadcasts should be planned to church has become responsible for a week©s continue at least a month or six weeks charges; a second group for the next week, after the series is concluded, so that there and so on, thus setting up thirteen groups will be a continuity of follow-up. or individuals for the first quarter of the The first step is to ascertain the station year, and repeating. Or if the church is or stations that would accept the daily large enough, four groups of thirteen weeks half-hour series and the price. Then, when each, will cover a year of broadcasting. the price is known, a budget needs to be de Cost of station time varies, depending veloped. upon the location, the listening audience, The support of the Daily Broadcast is and the interest the station manager takes the responsibility of the local conference in the broadcast. Programs have been put and the local church or churches, a part of on for as little as SI50 a month. In other their evangelistic budget. Funds for this instances some have run up to over $100 a purpose may come from individual con day. tributors, business sponsors, proceeds from Advertising kits and supplies are pro cooperative projects, and conference evan vided at cost. This is the ideal way to break gelistic appropriations. A budget for fifty- into a dark county, and the Voice of two weeks of broadcasts, plus the eight Prophecy invites questions as to the best weeks of Bible marking, is computed by procedure. 24 THE MINISTRY Dark Counties Lightened by Daily Broadcasts

the first four weeks. This is to make the Design for Decisions radio listeners better acquainted with, and more interested in, the Bible marking, and to provide them with further source ma terial when the first four weeks of Bible H. M. S. RICHARDS, JR. marking has been completed. A printed copy of the references for Associate Speaker. Voice of Prophecy the second four weeks of the Bible marking is also available, so that actually three visits can be made to the homes. WE HAVE found that How to Advertise Public Meetings having the Daily Broad Soon after the Bible marking has been casts on the air over the completed, the Voice of Prophecy radio local stations for at least crusade begins. Preceding the follow-up twelve months results in crusade the members of the participating a more effective follow- church have been praying earnestly for the up crusade and more success of the meetings. Prayer band groups definite interests. Some have been organized, and in some areas time before the crusade around-the-clock prayer has been ascending is to begin, the members in the interests of the radio crusade. Spot of the church participate announcements on radio, and sixty-second in a radio survey of the spots on television are used to announce community, getting acquainted with their the coming crusade, which should be held neighbors and finding out their listening in a neutral place, such as a civic audito habits in general, and their interest in the rium. This avoids loss of attendance Voice of Prophecy broadcast in particular. through prejudice. Those who have not listened or tuned in A half-page ad is placed in the newspa are invited to do so. Those who manifest per a few days before the opening night. an interest are encouraged, and notation is The layout of the newspaper ad is similar made on the survey sheet. Some who have to the handbill, window card, and bill been reached during these surveys have re board layout, resulting in more effective ad quested the Bible correspondence course. vertising. Three or four strategically lo cated billboards on the main highways and Radio and the Bible Marking Plan arteries of the city are most effective, and It is advantageous at this time to intro many thousands of persons view this form duce the eight weeks of our specially pre of advertising who would never notice it pared Bible-marking broadcasts with the in any other media. Telephone calls are offer of the beautiful Friendship Bible. As made by the members of the church, at the requests come in, the members and tempting, if possible, to call every name in workers deliver the Bibles to the interested the telephone book. radio listeners, and instruct them how to An "interest questionnaire" is supplied find the Scripture texts by page number as to members of the church, on which names well as by Scripture reference. To facilitate of former Adventists, backsliders, new in further call-backs, we have prepared a Bi terests, are turned in to the pastor with ble-marking outline that the visitor uses for full information. Bible school names are JUNE, 1965 procured from Faith for Today, Voice of desire their participation. During the sec Prophecy, It Is Written, and Signs of the ond week and on, the Voice of Prophecy Times offices. An invitation to attend the crusade speaker, with the local pastor, meetings is sent to those on these lists by should visit as many of the non-Adventist the sponsoring organizations. pastors as possible in their own homes, thus getting acquainted with their families and Teamwork having Christian fellowship and prayer Teamwork is essential in following up with them. As a result of this friendship the Daily Broadcast. Various committees and willingness to pray and fellowship with are organized, such as the welcoming com those of other faiths we have found much mittee, the music committee, decorating prejudice broken down. In many places committee, Friendship Bible committee, from the pulpit some of these pastors have ushering committee, transportation com invited their members to attend the Voice mittee. A large percentage of the church of Prophecy crusade. The Voice of Prophecy members can have a definite part in the team members should also visit the local follow-up effort. Many people would like Ministerial Association meetings, if they to attend a meeting such as this if they had are held during the time of the crusade. transportation. It would be the duty of the The format for the actual meeting, of transportation committee to arrange trans course, is flexible. A film series, such as The portation for these individuals. Life of St. Paul, is usually shown from 7:00 A nursery is provided to care for the to 7:30 P.M. From 7:30 to 7:45, a quick-mov smaller children, so that the parents may ing musical program. The music must be be able to listen undisturbed and to par top notch, for today we are competing with ticipate in each service. Hollywood and professional musicians. The Voice of Prophecy team consisting From 7:45 to 8:00 is the opening prayer, of the local pastor, the Voice of Prophecy announcements, offering, distribution of guest speaker, the soloist, any guest pastors the Friendship Bible, and a special solo brought in for the follow-up, Bible instruc just before the sermon. From 8:00 to 8:45 tors, laymen meet every other morning is the sermon. at nine o©clock for a special season of The sermon, of course, is combined with prayer on behalf of the interest names re Bible marking. (See THE MINISTRY, March, ceived during the crusade, and those with 1964, for details of Bible-marking pro whom members of the team are working. gram.) Approximately eleven to fourteen Most of the time each day is spent in an texts are presented for the congregation to intensive visitation program by which every follow and look up and mark in their person is reached. It is most interesting to Friendship Bibles. During the services var search out the many interests in every ious means are used to obtain names of the town that has had the Voice of Prophecy interested persons present. The Friendship Daily Broadcast on its local station for a Bible is offered for use each night. Those year or more. Such a three-week crusade who are able to attend ten or more of the as this is most effective because of the twenty-one nights may keep the Bible. After "saturation" the population has had the tenth night we announce that the through the Daily Broadcast. It certainly is Friendship Bible may still be worked for, very different from holding a three-week since there are plans in the making for a "cold turkey" crusade. Voice of Prophecy Bible seekers© class that will follow the crusade. Those who attend Let's Go to Church on Sunday some of the crusade meetings, plus the An integral facet of the Voice of Proph Voice of Prophecy Bible seekers© class, will ecy follow-up program is the visitation ev still be able to earn their Friendship Bibles. ery Sunday morning of the various Protes Of course, some will not participate in tant churches in the community. The team the Bible-marking program. A second members fan out and attend several method is used to reach them. On various churches, getting acquainted with the pas evenings when the attendance is up, plain tors, and inviting them to attend the Voice No. 10 envelopes are passed down each aisle of Prophecy services, and to offer prayer if and offered to every person. From the plat they are willing to do so. As this invitation form the speaker displays a Voice of Proph is given, the pastors are sometimes sur ecy sermon booklet, written by the Voice of prised that Seventh-day Adventists would Prophecy speaker, H. M. S. Richards. He 26 THE MINISTRY announces that he would like to send one of these sermon booklets to each one, and Thank You, Pastor! asks those who would like to receive it in The light of truth was first brought to our family- the mail to fill out the envelope, giving their through the Faith for Today television program names and mailing addresses. This will in the form of a Bible study course that my wife help so much in getting this booklet to them faithfully completed and shared with me. As the promptly. He makes a point of it being so Sabbath question was studied, a need arose in our much easier to put the booklet into the ad lives to find some Sabbathkeeping Christians with dressed envelope and the stamp on the cor whom we could worship. It was at this point that ner than to have to type in all the names our family reached the turning point we were in and addresses from cards or slips of paper. need of experienced guidance, so we asked for a This is an excellent method of obtaining pastor©s visit. Would the pastor respond to our request? Would names. he bring the assistance and encouragement we so After the Crusade much needed? Only a personal visit would supply When a Voice of Prophecy radio crusade the answers to our questions. He did come, he did has been completed, actually it is just the encourage and help us, and we responded to the beginning. The Voice of Prophecy speaker prompting of the Lord because of the help we is guest of the host pastor and his church received from the faithful pastor who took time on the fourth Sabbath of the crusade. to call. Here are some of the reasons this pastor made such an impression on our family: Baptisms are planned for the third and 1. Personal contact the warmth and under fourth weekends of the series. Near the standing of a heart-to-heart talk was necessary. close of the crusade, an announcement is 2. He was prompt he came when we felt a great made of the Voice of Prophecy Bible seek need for him. This revealed his interest in ers© class, which will meet Saturday morn helping us. ings at ten o©clock in the pastor©s study. 3. He was tactful he didn©t try to reveal to us our errors, but brought us to the light of the The crusade closes on a Saturday night, truth. with a call for surrender. This is not simply 4. He brought us to a point of decision here a an altar call. Early in the service each per bit, there a bit, piece upon piece, until a uni son is given a card on which he is asked fied series of studies had been completed and a to sign his name, but he is not told exactly decision to be baptized had been made. how it is to be used. After the sermon comes Today we are in this church and prepared to be the call for surrender, and the appeal is workers in it because a busy pastor took tune to made for those who want to keep holy the follow up a personal interest. Because of his prompt seventh-day Sabbath and to study in prep ness and warm interest in us, we will join in the aration for baptism into the body of Christ, work of carrying the third angel©s message to the people living in the closing hours of earth©s history. the church. The speaker asks each such per Because he did care, the knowledge that Jesus saves son to put a check mark on his card and will reach more people. Perhaps that group of turn it over. Then all cards are passed to interest cards you just received includes the names the aisle where the ushers gather them up. of some who will go out to follow the promptings On this last night a special "afterglow of the Spirit of God and preach the gospel. But meeting" is announced for Sunday night, only if you follow them up will you ever know. My when something unusual and unique will thanks to the pastor who visited us! take place in the auditorium. It is called a JOHN WILLIAMSON Voice of Prophecy university-type round- Ministerial Appointee table discussion. Tables are brought in and North New England Conference placed in a wide V form with chairs on both sides of each arm of the V. The Voice of Prophecy guest speaker, and the host pas tor sit at the apex or point of the V. Op This "afterglow meeting" is held at the portunity is given to those present to ask same time as the services have been held questions about what they have heard at during the three weeks preceding, and it is the crusade meetings during the preceding a very informal service no music, no sing three weeks, or over the Voice of Prophecy ing, no offering; just the opening prayer, Daily Broadcasts. People are invited to and then questions are invited. As these bring their friends and even their pastors questions are asked, they are funneled and to these discussions. On the table in front directed to the local pastor. This lays the of each chair are the first two lessons of mantle on the pastor and helps the newly the Voice of Prophecy Faith Bible Course. interested persons to recognize him as a Bi- JUNE,1965 27 ble student to whom they can go with their questions and problems. Some of the women of the church prepare light refreshments See the January, 1964, issue of this journal for and bring them in at the halfway time full details of the "It Is Written" TV evangelistic of the question-and-answer period. program. Editors. Announcement is made that night that another round-table discussion will be held the following week at the same time and place, when they can bring in the com taken an almost complete turnabout. A pleted test sheets of the first lessons of the real warmth has been manifested, especially Bible course. This is another way to in by the community leaders such as mayors, crease the number in the Voice of Prophecy bank presidents, and influential business Bible seekers© class. After two or three men. weeks this round-table discussion is trans Ministers, who previously have been al ferred to the pastor©s study, which meets, of most violent in their prejudice, are now course, at ten o©clock on Sabbath morning. regular listeners and have obtained an en The vital necessity of continuing the in tirely new concept of the Seventh-day Ad- tense visitation program carried on dur ventist Church. As we visit different cities, ing the three weeks is impressed upon the Sunday school teachers in many parts of members of the church, for many of the south Georgia tell us that they discuss the interested persons will need further visita Voice of Prophecy rather than their own tion and Bible study. The members of the Sunday school lesson. One influential min church are encouraged to participate in ister went so far as to put an ad in the giving these follow-up Bible studies. newspaper saying that the Voice of Proph These follow-up procedures have been ecy is a good program and is God©s truth used satisfactorily and have been found to for these times. be an effective "Design for Decisions." As a result of the message presented in the Daily Broadcast and the reception of the people in the area, twenty-four differ ent stations have requested that we let them have the program at our price, which Georgia-Cum berland in every case is from 60 per cent to 75 per cent under their published rates. The sta Conference and the tion managers refer to the Voice of Proph ecy broadcast as a prestige program with a message of hope for a dying world. Some Daily VOP Program radio station managers have apologized be cause they must charge for the program. The owner of a radio station, while visit DESMOND CUMMINGS ing a neighboring town, heard one of H. M. S. Richard©s broadcasts. He went to the radio station there and borrowed the President, Georgia-Cumberland Conference tapes, took them home, and put them on his station for two months free of charge. We have many stations waiting to have the HE Voice of Prophecy Daily Broadcast program. Thas been on thirty-three stations in the Evangelism for our pastors, especially in Georgia-Cumberland Conference. The in south Georgia, is more encouraging than fluence of this broadcast has brought a new ever before. The pastors in the conference day, especially to south Georgia, where pre have launched into a great thrust of evan viously prejudice was so strong that in many gelism this quarter, holding fifty meetings. places our people were unable to rent a Many of the listeners of the Daily Broad building or a lot and were oftentimes even cast are attending these meetings. Several held in contempt. have already been baptized. Because the Daily Broadcast was able to get into the offices, homes, and businesses whose doors have hitherto been closed, the A good heart does no ill; a better heart thinks feeling toward Seventh-day Adventists has none. 28 THE MINISTRY Why I Went on TV

DAVE WATTS

Pastor, Weslaco District Texas

N MY work of evangelism in the past I tor." So with about one third of a million I always had the feeling that I wasn©t people in this area you can readily see our reaching the masses of people with our potential audience. message. We would hold a series of meet The stage setting is a study scene. Our ings in a town with about 15,000 people, aim is to develop the idea of having a and during that time perhaps get 150 non- friendly chat with our listeners rather than Seventh-day Adventists to attend. At the using a preaching approach. At first we close of the series I felt we had not begun used many slides, with texts and pictures il to warn the city. How could we when only lustrating what was being said. They would 150 out of 15,000 came to hear our preach be projected on the screen according to ing? So as soon as we moved to the beautiful prearranged cues. However, at the present Rio Grande Valley in the Texas Conference time very few slides are used. Instead I use we decided to try another approach TV the blackboard nearly every week, and any evangelism. other type of visual aid that illustrates my In the Rio Grande Valley there are point. It is amazing how a simple thing about 400,000 people and two TV stations. like a newspaper or some glasses of water So our potential audience is terrific. The can be used as effective visual aids. We are program is on from 10:00-10:30 A.M. Sun also finding that bringing in some of the day, and is called "Your TV Pastor." We other pastors for a discussion adds a great felt this gave it a personal touch. We re deal of variety and increases interest. To cently conducted a survey in our area. We cut down on cost we do most of our pro visited 500 homes and in these 500 homes grams "live." found 627 TV sets. Only five of the 500 homes had no sets. The two most popular religious pro grams were "This Is the Life" and "Your TV Pas

Dave Watts demonstrates use of visual aid before TV camera.

JUNE,1965 29 The "Your TV Pastor" quartet starts the and pamphlets; but the one that seems to program by singing "All Hail the Power of be working the best is the Bible Marking Jesus© Name!" and then the cameras zero Plan. We offer one free Bible to every fam in on one of the quartet members as he in ily that writes in requesting one for the troduces the next musical number. Follow purpose of marking it with us on TV. Then ing that number, one of the other pastors on Sunday morning when I give a text I makes the announcements and then intro also give the page number for their TV duces me. My talk closes with prayer and Bibles so they can look it up with rne and there is a close-up of my hands folded on mark it. The Bibles are delivered to their my Bible while I am praying. At the close homes. Every two weeks we go back with of the prayer there is another musical sermon outlines from the previous two number. Then the camera comes back to weeks. The outlines include a list of texts me and I make a few announcements, tell and page numbers in case they missed a about next week©s program, and then close few texts or perhaps missed the whole pro by saying, "And now may the Lord bless gram. This keeps us in contact with our thee . . . ," et cetera. As we go off the air interests. So far we have Bibles in more there is a duet, "If you want joy, real joy, than 300 homes, which we endeavor to let Jesus come into your heart." This for visit every two weeks. Our laymen are also mat leaves about twenty minutes for my helping in this phase of it. talk and still provides the variety we feel We have discovered that we have a tre we need. mendous psychological advantage when Once a month we have a panel of pastors visiting in the home of a person who has and ask listeners to telephone their ques been watching "Your TV Pastor." They tions during the program, and we answer seem to forget that we are SDA preachers them. The public always seems to enjoy and really give us a royal welcome. Because this a great deal and it gives us a chance to of this, we work all of our local pastors into discuss many topics. the program as much as possible, since they We have tried different types of follow- all help with the visiting. This is really up, such as the Bible course, free books proving to be a great help in our follow- up work. Our members have been more than will ing to finance the program as they see their pastors on TV every Sunday morning dis cussing our beliefs, and as they see their FOR PUBLIC SERVICE neighbors watching it and hear their com ments. Even though we have been on for Available Tape Programs more than a year we take very few special offerings because our members are happy to your Story Hour—Half-hour dramatized give of their means to see the gospel program for children, divided between preached to the masses. A number of times secular and Bible material. Order trom we have discussed our cardinal doctrines, Your Story Hour, Berrien Springs, such as the Sabbath and the state of the Michigan. dead, and have received no criticism from the station. We feel we are on the air to Your Radio Doctor—Quarter-hour medi cal commentary by C. R. Anderson, preach the message, and that©s what we are M.D. Program available on request doing. The public enjoys studying right from The Voice of Prophecy, Box 1511, from the Bible. Glendale, California 91209. It is thrilling to have people come up to you in the stores or on the street and say, Time for Singing—Quarter-hour devo tional program featuring the King©s "We are watching ©Your TV Pastor© pro Heralds, Del Delker, and Brad Braley, gram every Sunday morning and really en with a two-minute sermonet by H. M. S. joy it." Many of these people call us their Richards. Available from The Voice of pastors, forgetting they are Baptist or some Prophecy, Box 1511, Glendale, Cali other faith and we are SDA brethren. I be fornia 91209. lieve that using TV in connection with the Bible Marking Plan and following up with evangelistic meetings are tremendous ways to reach the masses. 30 THE MINISTRY We Must Increase Radio Coverage for Other Languages

WESLEY AMUNDSEN

Secretary, North American Missions

ONE of the perplexing The Spanish broadcasts, operating under questions facing the the capable, well-organized Voice of Proph church in North Amer ecy system of broadcasting, are operative ica is that of reaching on twenty-five of the 283 stations. Results the 30 million people are accruing constantly. There is a poten who read, speak, think, tial of approximately 5 million Spanish and write in some lan listeners spread across the United States. guage other than Eng Pastor Gerhard E. Suckert, of the Ger lish as their mother man Manhattan church, New York City, tongue. To this number has prepared tapes for use in New York we need to add 6 million and Cleveland. A recent letter from Pastor Jews, most of whom are Suckert carries this note of encouragement: without the Messianic hope of salvation. "A Greek Catholic nun and former One-half million of these Jewish people use countess found the truth exclusively Yiddish, and nothing has been done for through our radio program. Another cou them. ple is anticipating baptism, having made At the present time we are publishing their decision just by listening to the in twenty-two languages, and Bible corre broadcasts and through personal corre spondence courses are available in twenty spondence. ... It would be a shame if our of these languages. However, it seems that blessed hope could not be broadcast to the means of making direct contact with 880,000 people here in Greater New York this great mass of humanity in the North who speak and understand the German American Division field who speak in a lan language." guage other than English has eluded us. Charles J. Sohlmann, pastor of the Hun But has it eluded us, or are we willfully ig garian churches of New York City and norant of the avenues open to us? We can Bridgeport, Connecticut, has developed a not shrug off 30 million people, which is ten-minute capsule for Hungarian radio just about one in seven persons in this divi listeners, which is heard in New York; sion, and deny them their God-given right Cleveland, Ohio; Norwalk, Connecticut; to an opportunity of hearing the truths of and Montreal, Canada, with a total po God for today. tential listening audience of 150,000. An One of the most penetrating avenues is other broadcaster wrote: that of the voice of radio, for it reaches "What is most pleasing is not that we into practically every home in America. Protestants, but our Catholic friends love Evangelism for the foreign born and the it very much. ... It would be a great honor Jews should include the radio broadcasts. for me to shake the hand of such an expos The 1964 census indicates that 600 stations itor of Christ." in the United States are using some forty Three of our Japanese ministers Elders languages. There are one or more of these Aso, Toronto; Okohira, Colorado; and broadcasts in every conference territory. Iwahashi, California are conducting radio Let©s take a look at what we are doing broadcasts. There is a listening potential in this field of modern communications. of approximately 70,000 in the greater San JUNE, 1965 31 Francisco Bay area. Many are tuning in lives." American Council Press Release, regularly, but it is with difficulty that a Dec. 31, 1961. Shintoist or a Buddhist makes the deci Seventh-day Adventists in North Amer sion to forsake his religion and turn to ica might study well the implications in Christ. However, converts are being made. volved in this statement. Some time ago Pastor Aso baptized a In behalf of the millions of untouched Japanese Shinto priest who had been sent people of other tongues and of the Jews, to Canada as leader of the Shintoists. The we would voice the profound question, contact was made through radio. "How shall they hear without a preacher?" For several years the small Yugoslavian Radio evangelism stands in a tall pulpit. church in New York City has sponsored a Let©s do more preaching from it. fifteen-minute radio program in the Yugo slavian language with Pastor Branes Ka- nachky, as "Voice." In 1964 the broadcast was heard in Hammond, Indiana, and New York City. Already six persons have My Assistants-VOP and FFT been baptized. The listening area poten (Continued from page 17} tial for both broadcasts is 80,000. I have gone with the same prayer, dedica The Ukrainian broadcasts are being op tion, and purpose that my "assistants" have erated from two sources. Pastor Nicholas that together, under God©s guidance, we Ilchuk is heard at present over nine sta could win some souls for the kingdom. tions. And what a listening potential The results have been most rewarding. about 615,000! Two hundred thousand of Only eternity will tell the full story. With these are in New York City. Interestingly out a doubt, multitudes will credit their enough, the new Ukrainian Bible Corre new-found hope to these two witnesses. spondence Course has enrolled 650 per Every Seventh-day Adventist pastor has sons. found people who have said point-blank, P. E. Uniat, Ukrainian evangelist in "I have no church, but if and when I do Alberta, Canada, conducts his personal ra join a church, it will be the Voice of Proph dio program. He reports that twenty-three ecy church or the Faith for Today people." persons have been baptized, and his lis We also know of scattered multitudes who tening potential is around 150,000. privately and systematically listen to and/ or watch these pulpits, and who earnestly Latest is the breakthrough on TV in feed and drink from their messages. There Mexico. Joseph Espinosa, Spanish-language is no community in America that has es evangelist in the Southeastern California caped their blessing in one way or another. Conference, succeeded in obtaining per There is no Seventh-day Adventist con mission for putting on the first religious gregation that has not been blessed by their broadcast in the Mexican Republic, reach ministry. ing an area comprising Tia Juana, Mex Whenever I can I like to play up my team. ico, and San Diego. Presenting the full The more I put them in the spotlight the message, Pastor Espinosa reports 173 have more effective is the entire program. I do taken their stand for baptism. This is in this by advertising Faith for Today and the deed a marvelous indication of things to Voice of Prophecy in my church bulletin, come in our day. in the newspapers as our budget allows, Dr. Joshua A. Fishman, director of Lan and by organizing our church members in guage Resources Project, financed by the the distribution of radio and television logs. United States Government, says about the I feel that the better known these programs potential of power in the foreign-language are the better results my church and I will people of this country: have. "It is important that we recognize the I do the same with the Bible correspond linguistic gold mines that we have in our ence courses. I encourage my members to midst, and it is particularly important that secure enrollments both in individual as first- and second-generation Americans well as door-to-door contacts. Here again, recognize the value of preserving this pre the more people studying the lessons, the cious heritage of their parents and grand moi-e interests I will have. The more inter parents. In doing so, they will be helping ests I have the more baptisms will result. their country as well as enriching their own I thank God for these two "assistants." 32 THE MINISTRY "The Sound of Worship"

DONALD G. REYNOLDS

Pastor, White Memorial Church, Los Angeles, California

gram entitled "Focus on Life." This gen T IS a thrill to have someone you have erally starts on a secular vein with a prac I never met before step up to you at the close tical thought for everyday living, climaxed of a church service and say, "Your voice with a spiritual application. and your message are well known to us. We have listened to your radio program for the This program is produced with the ob past year and couldn©t stay away any jective to build the image of the church, longer." interest the listener in its practical value to Radio ministry at the White Memorial meet his daily needs, and to offer him its church, serving the great metropolitan cen services. The "commercial" is prepared in script form to be read by the station an ter of Los Angeles, has been carried on nouncer. It invites people to listen to the since 1959. For the past two years it has broadcast regularly and also to attend serv been my privilege to serve as minister of this church, which includes the presenta ices at the White Memorial church. The closing paragraph may announce the ser tion of God©s message through this me mon topic for the coming week or invite dium of communication. the listener to call the Dial-a-Prayer num The Worship Hour ber. Occasionally a gift offer is made. "The Sound of Worship" is a live broad The five-minute daily features are often cast of the Sabbath worship service. With easier to place on a busy station and are the concentration of Adventists in our area often more desirable from the station oper- we feel the Sabbath broadcast is a real ben efit to the many who are shut in or for some other reason are unable to attend church. For wider coverage the worship hour is taped and prepared for rebroadcast at a time on Sunday when a greater listen ing audience is available. The time of the offering would normally be a lull in the service for the radio listener, so these minutes are utilized for the "com mercial," which presents special features of the church©s activities or gift offers to lis teners. This prepared script is read by our own announcer, carefully timed, taped and dubbed in to the program. As an innovation the pastor may do this in a subdued, confidential tone from the platform by use of a hand mike. He may in clude in his announcement special services to come or the radio offer currently fea tured. The Five-Minute Program During the week the White Memorial church presents a daily five-minute pro- Pastor Reynolds "On the Air." JUXE, 1965 Radio control room, White Memorial church.

ator©s viewpoint than longer programs. around the world over Armed Forces Ra With the tendency of broadcast companies dio Services. Such music festival presenta to reduce time given to religious program tions help build the name of Seventh-day ing, this is an item to consider as reduced Adventists in places afar as well as the im time may very well be an increasing prob age of the church locally. lem. Maintenance of a radio ministry de It is necessary to keep alert to possible mands much in equipment, time, money, openings of radio time. Two important and prayer; but it is a medium of mass considerations are the area covered by the communication by which many will be station and the type of listening audience it reached who would otherwise never hear attracts. The type of programs the station God©s message. This does not mean our tends to schedule may be predominantly broadcasts must all be preaching. If we can western, classical, or rock ©n roll music, beam something on the air that is uplifting news or conversation, et cetera. From an and stimulating, building up the image analysis of the daily program schedule it is we seek to project, the listener may gain a possible to judge the listener following. desire through this contact to know more Of course, the station©s sales department of a better way of life through Christ. will have material on their coverage and We could quote from countless letter or audience, but it must be remembered that telephone responses that reflect the influ this is promotion material. ence of our radio efforts at the White Me morial church but these only reveal in part Special Features the effect of our radio visits into the thou sands of homes within our broadcast range. Twice a year special musical programs We have faith to believe there will be originate from the White Memorial many who one day will be able to say to church. These have been favorably re the faithful members who support radio ceived by radio as public-service features. evangelism with their prayers and their Such programs must be of excellent musical means, "It was through your gifts in radio production and top-quality recording to ministry that I found salvation." produce tapes suitable for broadcast pur poses. The "Festival Choir" presents one con cert in the spring, around the Easter sea son, and another at Christmas time. Our "Feed the sheep instead o£ trying to amuse the experience with this type of program has goats. ... A minister without boldness is like a been very gratifying, for network stations smooth file, a fcnife without an edge, a sentinel that across the nation have been pleased to air is afraid to let off his gun. Men will be bold in sin, the concert tapes. They are also carried and ministers must be bold to reprove." GURNAL. 34 THE MINISTRY The Role of the College in Training for Use of the Media

DON DICK

Assistant Professor of Speech, and Manager of KSDA, la Sierra College

IX of the Seventh-day Adventist col The public-service goals of college FM S leges in the United States are operating stations are covered in three types of broad FM radio stations and another is broad casting: educational, entertainment, and casting on limited radiation to the campus religious. only. While the letters FM stand for "fre Educational programs are usually di quency modulation," they also seem to stand vided into two categories informational for a number of stations "frequently mis programs and credit courses. At present no understood." SDA college FM stations are offering credit This article is designed to reduce mis courses, but it is a distinct possibility for understanding and to clarify the purposes, the future. The informational programs impact, potential, and problems of SDA are of several types news, talks, discus college FM stations. sions, documentaries, quality music, et cet era. Purposes Entertainment programs consist chiefly Most of these stations have three major of light music whose chief function is to purposes: (1) To provide an educational increase listening audience for other pro service to students at the college, (2) to act grams. as a public-relations instrument to inter Religious programing usually does not pret the college to the community, and (3) take a direct evangelistic approach, but to provide public service programing to the rather that of breaking down prejudice, listening area served. promoting worship, and giving instruction. Training in announcing, programing, The Voice of Prophecy is carried on every audio control, producing, recording, en one of these stations, and most of them gineering, management, and station secre carry such programs as "Your Radio Doc tarial work are among the types of training tor," "Time for Singing," "Your Story offered at these stations. In addition, stu Hour," et cetera. These programs are not dents in many departments such as music, overly evangelistic in nature but certainly speech, theology, et cetera, participate in do tend to carry forth the work of the broadcasts. Most of the stations are run on church. an extracurricular volunteer basis al Impact though some positions are paid jobs at That these stations do have an impact is some stations. Training is not restricted to made plain by a recent survey conducted by speech majors or students of any particular the Voice of Prophecy. Each listener on the department. Voice of Prophecy mailing list was asked Inasmuch as these stations serve commu to write in indicating the call letters of the nities up to fifty miles distant, they can do stations on which the listeners heard the much to give a valid picture of the college program best, second best, and third best. and the church, to break down prejudice, A total of 89 listeners in one week indi and to awaken or prepare persons to be cated that they heard the Voice of Proph receptive to the more direct ministry of the ecy on one of these college FM stations, and church in a wide area. 65 indicated that they heard the program JUNE, 1965 35 best on one of these stations. The home stations now on the air and the potential cities of these stations (which also were for others like them at our other colleges are large SDA centers) were most heavily rep an asset of great value that should not be resented, but a total of fourteen cities were overlooked a talent to be multiplied. heard from. Although it is very hard to know how many listeners each letter represents with certainty, I. E. Gillis, manager of the Voice of Prophecy, estimates that each letter The Battle for Men©s Minds mentioned previously represents 500 lis teners. If this is true, it means that some (Continued from page 5} 44,500 listeners hear the Voice of Prophecy Bible correspondence schools, and during on SDA college FM stations. 1964 more than 18,000 were enrolled. Potential We have added two new languages to the Bible school in Southern Asia. In spite of the apparently large listening We are making television breakthroughs audience of these stations, it can safely be in the South American Division. said that they are not operating at any The forward march in the Far East is where near their potential. Most of them phenomenal. Faith for Today is being tele are relatively low power only two broad vised in the vernacular of Korea. And so casting with more than ten watts. All of goes the story in the Philippines, Inter- them broadcast for very limited hours America, Central and Southern Europe, usually from very late afternoon till late and North America. The year 1964 shows evenings on weekdays and most of the day 14,978 baptisms through radio-TV Bible on Sabbath. During the summer and often school evangelism, 3,811 more than 1963. during vacation periods these stations are Yet there is so much to do to reach the silent. inhabitants of the sophisticated 60©s in this Almost every station could extend its gigantic world community. If a pastor were outreach considerably with the addition of to preach to 500 people in a congregation larger transmitters, higher transmitter sites, every week, it would take him forty years and antennas of higher gain. Instead of to reach one million. Franklin D. Roosevelt Riverdale-San Bernardino, Angwin-St. He spoke to 62 million on V-J Day. And yet the lena, Collegedale, et cetera, the listening effectiveness of communications is many- audience could include Los Angeles, San fold more than that of twenty years ago. Francisco, Chattanooga, et cetera, as well. We are just rounding the corner of a 3 bil lion world population mark. It has been Problems estimated that in A.D. 2000, if time were to The problems of the college FM station last, the world population will have reached are many: (1) Personnel are never really 9 billion. Someone has stated that the birth top-notch, since they are in training and rate is far exceeding the rebirth rate. The still make many mistakes; (2) promotion challenge of the teeming masses in the of the station is never adequate too few apartment homes, tenement sections, so potential listeners even know the station is phisticated suburbs, in a densely populated on the air; (3) greater communication, world, poses a tremendous challenge to a liaison, and cooperation with local church, people that have been commissioned, "Go conference, and union leaders are needed, ye, into all the world, and preach the gos and (4) lack of adequate funds for equip pel." This problem has been compounded ment and operation. by the shortness of time in which we have Perhaps someday soon our church may to do our work. Jesus said, "Unto whomso be unable to purchase time on commercial ever much is given, of him shall be much stations the pinch is being felt in some required." cities now and these college FM stations The greatest days of this organization may become a primary method of carrying are immediately before us. We have an ob forward the gospel commission as well as ligation to the masses. We must do every forming a training ground for future thing within our power to use the tools broadcasters and breaking down prejudice that are available for us, and most impor toward the church. tant, to pray that the Holy Spirit might At any rate, the six SDA college FM make these tools effective in our hands. 36 THE MINISTRY Perennial Program of Evangelism

(Part 3)

CHARLES H. BETZ

Church and Development Secretary, Washington Conference

Enlistment, Assignment, and Records sity of taking part in the work?" Christian Service, pp. 58, 59. THE farmer must have In my opinion one of the greatest weak been desperate. He had nesses in our lay evangelism is at the point been to town four times of enlistment and assignment. And the that day looking for la larger the church the more apparent is the borers, and now at five failure. As I stated in a previous article, we o©clock he was back have long depended on exhortation to lead again at the market our people to work. We have not come to place, and, finding men grips with the hard, grueling task of enlist standing around, he ing, organizing, and sending our people to asked, "Why do you work. It reminds me of a man I once knew stand here idle all day?" with a large family of boys, and much work "Because no one has to be done in the garden. He was contin hired us/© they replied. He said to them, ually telling his sons that it was their duty "You go off into the vineyard as well, then" to help, and furthermore it was for their (Matt. 20:6, 7, R.S.V.). The harvest of the good to learn to work. But this father never kingdom is spoiling for want of workers, could bring himself to assign specific tasks and church members are standing around and see that they were carried out. Conse the market places of life with nothing to do. quently, these boys never got around to The householder mentioned by Jesus could the work to be done and grew up to be have been sweating in the field trying listless, irresponsible men. As pastors, are vainly to do the job himself, or he could we not told, "Every one who is added to have been on his knees praying for more the ranks by conversion is to be assigned help. But he was doing neither; he was at his post of duty"? Ibid., p. 74. "Many the market place, looking for helpers in would be willing to work if they were the harvest. He would not give up he was taught how to begin. They need to be in back again and again enlisting men, assign structed and encouraged." Ibid., p. 59. ing them their tasks in his field. We should pray the Lord of the harvest Most Seventh-day Adventist pastors will "that he would send forth labourers into confess that they are never able to do all his harvest" (Luke 10:2). Then let us fol there is to do. At the same time, they are low our prayers to the market places of the painfully aware that most of their people world where our members are spending are doing next to nothing by way of direct their energies in selfish pursuits. Let us missionary endeavor. Why are they idle? confront them with the grand privilege of " ©Because no one has employed us,© they working for God in this sunset hour and replied" (Matt. 20:7, Phillips).* "It is evi enlist them in the work of the Lord. dent that all the sermons that have been In considering this vital matter of enlist preached have not developed a large class ment and assignment, we must first define of self-denying workers. . . . Has a line of our tasks. Like Nehemiah, we should ex labor been devised and placed before them amine the broken-down wall and measure in such a way that each has seen the neces- the work to be done before we confront JUNE,1965 37 people for enlistment and assignment, than six hundred names for our prospect Within the framework of an average file. This file must be kept active. There church organization one can enlist from should be a constant flow of names added one fourth to one half of the active mem to the file from our members who are alert bership. The larger the church the more and actively engaged in seed sowing. For complex is the organization. But a church the convenience of the people I kept small whose main interest and concern is di cards in the tithe receptacles in the pews rected within will never experience opti entitled "A Prospect for Our Church." mum spiritual growth, nor will it become (See Figure 2.) As the prospect file is an evangelistic force in the community. We worked, names will be added and deleted must lift up our eyes and look on the constantly. fields, white ready for harvest, and obey What can a pastor do with six hundred the divine imperative of the Great Com prospects? Buried in such a list are the mission. Our members should be taught names of many people ready and waiting the importance of preparing the hard soil for follow-up and Bible studies. With the of the human heart for the seed by acts of heavy pastoral responsibilities of a large loving kindness, missionary visitation with city church it is impossible for the minister smiles, encouragement, sympathy, and to follow up such a list of prospects. In help for the poor and needy. Under the this instance I turned to our Sabbath ministry of the Holy Spirit hearts may thus school. It provided a ready-made organiza be softened and prepared for the more tion for this huge task. The pastor can formal presentation of truth in the form place the responsibility for these lost per of Bible studies. sons squarely upon a responsible, compat As mentioned earlier in this series, one ible group, namely, the Sabbath school must first discover the prospects if he ex classes and divisions. These basic units thus pects to conduct a lay visitation program. provide organizational outreach for evan Who are they and where are they? Do care gelism, and the teachers and division lead ful research in areas mentioned earlier, ers become responsible for names or tasks such as correspondence school interests, assigned. I have found that our Sabbath the church guest book, colporteur interests, school can be led to accept these challenges backsliders, non-Seventh-day Adventists at by following the eight steps mentioned in tending Sabbath school, interest lists from my last article. With patience, prayer, and evangelistic meetings. From these sources persistence they can be inspired to visit build a master file of prospects. (See Fig constantly and effectively for Christ. Visi ure 1.) You will be surprised at the large tation assignments can be made from the number of names you will find. In one prospect file and sent to appropriate Sab large city where I served, we found more bath school classes or divisions. I have a card printed for this purpose entitled (Figure 1) "Prospect Visitation REPORTED PROSPECT (MasterCard) Assignment and Re port." (See Figure 3.) On this card I place Nome______|e ____ Phone: __ Addrea______. When at home: _ all the pertinent in IFAFORMERS.D.A. formation available How long ago did he drop out?___ Why?- about the prospect. A How long was he in the church?——Present attitude.. record should be kept

IF AN INTEREST of who has the card, Became interested through _ and the visitor must be instructed to write Assigned to_ -Phone- -Dots- a full report of the Results____ Assigned to _ „Phone_ .Date- visit on the back of Results____ the card. This infor Submitted by_ _Phone- mation should be MEMBERS OF FAMILY, AT SAME ADDRESS, WHO MIGHT BE PROSPECTS posted on the master Name ———————————————————————————————————— Age_____ Name—————————————————————————————————————— Age_____ card and the name Other information on reverse side reassigned to appro priate persons for fol- THE MINISTRY keeping the master file of pros (Figure 2) pects up to date. Reports of A PROSPECT FOR OUR CHURCH visitation should be posted to the (NAMES OF REAL INTERESTS ONLY) master card regularly. Should we Nome — ———————————————————————— Approx. Age_ be any less meticulous in keep Address. . Phone:_ ing records of our prospects than Church Affiliation- ^ When is prospect at home:. a physician would be in charting IF A FORMER MEMBER How long 090 did he drop out_ the progress of his patients? The pastor can thus turn to his mas IF AN INTEREST ter file and select the names of Become interested through: _ those who are ready for depth Other information______visitation. His members have found the real interest and saved YOUR NAME, him days of searching and "sift Address_____ . Phon ing" names. Then he and his Drop in Collection Plate or Mail to the Church or Pastor NOTE: Write other information on the reverie side of this card "elite corps" can spend their time where it will count the most. This procedure is no more low-up, or discarded, as the case may be. complicated than it must be for efficiency. In assigning names for visitation, the "Big business" and the professional world pastor should be careful to match the visitor understand the importance of keeping rec- with the prospect. A timid visitor who calls ords with meticulous care. We must do on a person who is antagonistic whose 1-1likewise, " for" our---- God^--© is-- a God^-j of- order. J-- name happened to be in the prospect file There are some churches where the pros may be treated so cruelly that he can pect list is small or nearly nonexistent. And never be persuaded to visit again. As the there are members who just will not ac members visit, they will discover some gen cept a formal visitation assignment. The uine interests who are ready for Bible stud Lord has said, "There is work for every ies. If the person who made the initial con mind and for every hand. There is a variety tact is not capable of following through, of work, adapted to different minds and the pastor should assign someone able to varied capabilities." Ibid., p. 12. I have carry through with Bible studies. Every pas followed the plan of suggesting that each tor should gather a smaller group of capa adult Sabbath school class meet informally ble, consecrated laymen about him and once a month. I have provided each class teach them everything he knows about soul with a list of soul-winning projects, re winning. This "elite corps" become his spe questing that they select one. These proj cialists for reaping. They can be equipped ects should be varied and challenging, such to instruct the pros pect and lead him to a decision for Christ (Figure 3) and the message. Prospect Visitation Assignment and Repoit The importance of keeping a careful rec ord of all prospects Nnm* Dn*«- should be empha Address Wr,*n Appro*- Age C^nrrh Memh*rchip or Pr»f*mnce sized. How many Prospect hecomft inferested ffi"P"gh , names of precious, blood - bought souls have been lost be YOUR REPORT cause of a poor record Dgt^ vi^it mnH*»r Fo^ll^ flf *w«ne ( ) Friendly ( ) Pasiive() Cool() system! One of your Invited in ( ) 1 was able to witness: Yes ( ) No ( ) most capable and re sponsible laymen should be designated as "secretary of visita tion" to assist you in making visitation as signments and in JUNE, 1965 39 as supplying reading racks for laundromats, not be. Correct methods, baptized with a a block of territory for systematic literature spirit of concern for lost men, and the power distribution, visitation of nursing homes, or of the Holy Ghost, will bring success. Let the placing of our books and magazines in us, therefore, seek to enlist, assign, train, public libraries. The projects should be and send forth a host of men and women changed from time to time. Reports to the into the vineyard of the Lord, and thus entire Sabbath school, with success stories, bring to pass the vision, "Servants of God, will help to keep the interest high. with their faces lighted up and shining with All of the foregoing suggestions covering holy consecration, will hasten from place enlistment and assignment will be produc to place to proclaim the message from tive of little good if careful spiritual prep heaven." The Great Controversy, p. 612. aration is not made before the organiza (To be continued) tion is attempted. As mentioned earlier, * The Bible texts in this article credited to Phillips are there should be a series of studies given to from The New Testament in Modern English, J. B. Phillips 1958. Used by permission of The Macmillan Com the church board and Sabbath school coun pany. cil. They should be led to see their responsi bility, to feel the woe of a lost soul. Too In a bulletin of a certain Baptist church the fol many of our people belong to the "cult of lowing suggestions were published under the title, the comfortable." Some may tend to resist "How the Church Can Operate Without Money." the man or program that dares to disturb them; they may look upon the whole idea • Each member will come to services warmly enough dressed to eliminate any necessity for as an impertinence. But a preacher in his heat. pulpit, fully consecrated to God, with his • Each member will come to church with broom heart ablaze with concern for lost souls, and mop to keep his part of the building may become the scourge in the hand of presentable. our Lord to drive out apathy, worldliness, • Those who wish to use water will bring their and indifference from the soul temple. A own bottles. series of sermons, before anything is said • Each member will bring materials and tools to to the leaders about the program, may be remodel and repair buildings. used of the Holy Spirit to "prepare . . . the • Each will provide his own hymnbook and choir way of the Lord, make straight in the desert music. • Each member will take his turn preaching, a highway for our God" (Isa. 40:3). leading the services, conducting funerals, per I have used such topics as "The Peril of forming marriages, calling on members and Uselessness," "The Pull of the People," and prospects, visiting the sick, etc. This will save "Why Stand Ye Here Idle?" We may, un the expense of a pastor. der God, build a tremendous and convinc • Each member will spend some time working in ing accumulation of testimony regarding the church office. If one desires a copy of the bulletin, he will bring his own supplies for the imperative hanging over our heads. printing same. The church must recognize the urgency of reaching the side of men and women dying in sin with the saving gospel of Jesus Christ. The proper place to start curbing crime is not As Arthur Archibald says in his book New in the electric chair, but in the high chair. Testament Evangelism, "The preacher is the pivotal man. . . . Without evangelism When two quarrel both are in the wrong. in the pulpit there will be none in the pew. . . . There must be a fire in the pul pit, not fireworks, but passion, power to CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS stir the people like the tap of the drum. Advertisements appropriate to The Ministry, appear ing under this heading, eight cents a word for each There can be no earthquake in the church insertion, including initials and address. Minimum charge, two dollars for each insertion. Cash required unless the preacher is profoundly stirred with order. Address The Ministry, Takoma Park, Wash himself. . . . The church must see the soul- ington, D.C. 20012, U.S.A. winning mind and spirit in their pastor be fore they will move." Page 35. Doctor Archibald goes on to say, "One of the bit ing criticisms leveled at lay evangelism by RELIGIOUS BOOKS PURCHASED! Send list today. its critics is that it tends to degenerate into Looking for an out-of-print book? Write: KREGEL'S mere mechanism without spiritual content BOOK STORE, DEPT. M, Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503. or power." Ibid., page 65. But this need 40 THE MINISTRY "Righteousness by Faith" Sparked the Ministerial Association (Concluded)

Arthur G. Daniells Rekindles the Flame in the 1920's

LEROY EDWIN FROOM

Professor Emeritus. Historical Theology, Andrews University

"Christ Our Righteousness" the Great transforming experience and witness that Pathfinder God expects of His ministry in time©s last MY FIRST task upon hour. That precious book, I would empha reaching Washington size, should be in every worker©s and in ev was to help A. G. Dan ery theological student©s library. It is a iells bring to comple must. It should be mastered and marked, tion his really epochal and made a part of one©s life and ministry. book Christ Our Right It provides a blueprint for the Spirit-filled, eousness, upon which he triumphant close of God©s final message to had been working for man. nearly a year. This great Supporting Leaflets and Books Next Step Adventist book gem was The next challenge was the opportunity indeed present truth, afforded by the Milwaukee General Con and exerted a tremen ference in the summer of 1926. The leading dous influence at the time especially upon Bible study hours of the conference were the younger workers. And it was to these assigned to men close to the Ministerial As younger men that Elder Daniells turned, sociation having this great burden. Among and upon them he depended men of vigor others they included A. G. Daniells, W. W. and vision, men without the battle scars Prescott, Oliver Montgomery, E. K. Slade, and remembrances and handicaps of for I. H. Evans, and Carlyle B. Haynes. Theirs mer years. Upon them his hopes rested. He were powerful presentations. Put into leaf was persuaded that they would respond. It let form, these constituted the next literary was a moving story, especially to those of contribution nine Ministerial Associa us who were close to him. tion leaflets that likewise had an abiding Strangely enough, with certain others it effect. seemed to have no particular appeal in It should be added that at this General much the same way that the original revival Conference, Elder Daniells gave up his sec of the message of righteousness by faith retaryship of the General Conference, for met with a varied reception during and fol which he had been jointly responsible lowing 1888. In fact, that seems to have along with his Ministerial Association re been the dual reaction whenever this great sponsibilities. His heart and his burden truth has been brought to the fore. Ap lay in the objectives, possibilities, and im parently we must expect this, and not be peratives of the Association work. He had nonplused by it. served his time in administrative work. Christ Our Righteousness (1926) was I had already begun an intensive per thus the first Ministerial Association book sonal study of the Holy Spirit as a result of of its kind. It was a notable pathfinder, my work with Elder Daniells. Because of and paved the way for emphasis on the this I was asked to give the study on the JUNE,1965 41 Holy Spirit at the Milwaukee Conference. est number with their respective messages. This in turn led to assignment to the North They were increasingly appreciated and American Union Ministerial Institutes se much in demand. In fact, the lists snow ries, with this great theme. These studies, balled until they became too unwieldly given from notes, were by request put into and costly. book form under the title The Coming of Finally, certain reluctant leaders saw the the Comforter. Thus the second book was light. "Why not let the Ministerial Asso produced by the Ministerial Association ciation brethren have their magazine. It specifically fostering these great spiritual would reach all workers, and probably themes, and helping to bring to actuality wouldn©t cost any more." So, in January, the vision of Elder Daniells for a support 1928, the first issue of THE MINISTRY, ed ing literature that would abide. ited by the Ministerial Association and published by the Review and Herald, Mimeographed Bulletins Pave Way for started on its printed way. Another tacti The Ministry cal battle had been won. Another vehicle But Elder Daniells had dreamed of a provided. Another Daniells dream had journal for preachers that would with con come true. stant frequency foster these great objec The first issue of THE MINISTRY, in its tives. He wanted and needed a periodical introduction, "Our Apology and Our Au through which we might speak to all work thorization," refers to the "mimeographed ers. But to this proposal there was, at first, bulletins heretofore used," dubbing them decided opposition. "We have an official the "necessary stepping-stone to this ideal church paper," we were told by some, and provision." And the back page quotes the in no uncertain tones. There was no need, "Establishment and Charter of the Minis such contended, for a special paper. It terial Commission." Then are recorded would cost too much money, and would the actions of the Autumn Council for not be worth it. A page or even two pages 1927, authorizing the issuance of THE MIN in the Review would be sufficient, and ISTRY as the "evangelical workers© own would reach not only our ministers but our journal." The plans were now in full oper laity as well. They would arrange that. It ation. was a battle royal. And those controlling the finances won the first skirmish. 1935 Still Supreme Burden of His Heart But we were not to be outdone. A plan We now turn over the pages of time to was devised for continuous contact with the spring of 1935, when I was privileged the various worker groups through periodic to be with Elder Daniells during the last mimeographed exchanges not too widely seven weeks of his life. Dores Robinson and used in those days. We would reach them I had been called out hurriedly to Los An by groups. One series was prepared for pas geles, at the urgent request of Elder Dan tors, another for evangelists, one for sing iells, to help him finish his book The Abid ing evangelists, and another for Bible work ing Gift of Prophecy. It was a race against ers as they were then called. Still other time, for he had been stricken with a fatal exchanges were for Bible teachers in our malady. colleges and academies, for chaplains in Long hours for us, with no respite, was our sanitariums, and other groups. It be the order of the day and night. But the came a bit complicated, just as we antici book was finished. And the introduction, pated. The working media were provided. which Elder Daniells asked me to write, was dated, "Los Angeles, California, Feb Opposers See the Light and Acquiesce ruary 24, 1935" approximately a month These bulletins appeared with periodic before his death. The last weeks were de regularity and were well received. But voted to the final revisions. word got around concerning the other ex Despite the strain, this period provided changes. The workers of one category soon a priceless privilege for me. Not only asked to be included in the other lists. Pas was I able to help my beloved friend, tors asked for the evangelists© bulletins, trainer, and former chief to finish his cher singing evangelists for the evangelists© ma ished task but it afforded the last oppor terials, chaplains requested the Bible tunity to talk intimately with him many, worker discussions, and so forth. That was many times regarding those great themes just what we wanted, so as to reach the larg- and goals and vistas that were ever on his 42 THE MINISTRY heart righteousness by faith, the Holy was still clear. He followed every word in Spirit, the loud cry, the latter rain, the tently, often nodding or expressing ap Laodicean message, revival and reforma proval. It was evidently as he wished it to tion, the finishing of the work of God un be. der the power of the Holy Spirit and we Halfway through I noticed tears cours often talked on the Minneapolis Confer ing down his cheeks as the significance of ence. The compelling urgency of these the scene came home to him. I paused, but great principles and provisions seemed to he motioned me to continue. And as we grow upon him as he neared the end. These came in the reading to the closing sen burdens he shared with me as his son in tence, ending with a single "Amen," he the ministry. He reiterated the hope that I joined me in orally saying "Amen" but would, in due time, perfect a full trace- added a fervent second "Amen!" That ment of the marvelous way God had led us supplemental "and amen!" was added from advance to advance, and the glorious then and there (ibid., pp. 2, 23). triumph assured, according to the divine Never will I forget the solemnity of that blueprint. moment, for these were the last words he ever spoke to me. He soon lapsed into a Pinned Hope on Others Catching the Vision coma from which he never awakened. Never did he waver as to his great hope Steadfast to the end, he died in the faith and expectation. Though he had to lay for which he lived, with the special em down his burden, he was concerned that phasis of that last decade of his fruitful life others pick up the banner and lift up the uppermost. Here is the gist of his Charge. torch higher and ever higher. "Onward" was the watchword. New hands and hearts A Testimony, a Challenge, and an Appeal must carry on. Though he would not live In this solemn farewell charge first to see the glad day of consummation, oth read publicly at his funeral service on ers would. He pinned his hope on those March 22, and then published in THE oncoming men who would catch the glori MINISTRY for May, 1935 Elder Daniells ous vision and respond. He had a burden charged the entire ministry of the move and a last message for such. ment the elderly, those in the prime of To this end he turned over to me his life, and especially the younger men to accumulation of loose-leaf compilations be "true to the expectations of your God." that to him were the most priceless quota He then uttered a call and voiced a chal tions he had found, and certain of his well- lenge. This is the way he phrased it: marked books some even autographed "Great tests are coming, and coming "Ellen G. White." He also bequeathed to soon; and God is counting on you to be me a large packet of his sermon notes. both faithful and true to every principle These reveal his heart burden as perhaps of righteousness. Great spiritual advances nothing else could, and show where his are needed in the church, and you are the deepest interest lay till the last. More than ones who should make them. that, he committed to me a priceless assem "God calls for a spiritual revival and a blage of special testimonies addressed to spiritual reformation in our ranks, and this himself and to others, of which he had must come through a truly spiritual minis- been custodian. These, too, had given him try." added incentive, and had outlined the spe Defining these terms as a "vital experi cial emphasis that was to characterize the ence," "imperative for the welfare and tri climax of our message. umph of the church," he left this personal testimony and made this appeal: His Dying Charge to the Advent Ministry "God laid upon me the burden of urg Elder Daniells© last concern was to form ing this forward spiritual move several ulate a "Farewell Charge to the Advent years ago. It changed my own life and Ministry." This he outlined to me and vision. And many testify as to what God asked me to put it into connected form and did for them personally when they re appropriate phrasing. This was done and sponded to His call. read back to him the day before his death. "And now my last sermon has been (See "Intimate Story of the ©Charge,©" preached. My public work is finished. My THE MINISTRY, May/1935, p. 2.) Though life course is run. And my last appeal is he was failing fast physically, his mind now being made in this way to the ministry JUNE, 1965 43 of this movement, in which I have been a the principles of Christianity cannot pervade the fellow minister for over fifty years." laws and institutions of the United States." Then he added most earnestly: The book is essentially summarized historical nar "I solemnly call upon you to take up this rative. It presents in chronological sequence well- chosen high points o£ church-state conflict: Christ©s burden, and complete the work. God ex trial; Paul©s appeal to Caesar; pagan Rome©s pro pects it of you. The welfare of the church is tection of, then persecution of, the young Christian involved in it, and yours is the task of church; the policies of Constantine; the church- bringing this higher-ground experience state union during the time of the Holy Roman into the life of the church. This is my great Empire; the policies and aims of the Papacy; the heart burden. And now I bequeath the bur contributions of John Calvin and the Scottish den to you. Take heed, I would admon reformers; the growth of liberty in Colonial Amer ish you, as to how you relate yourself ica; and the twentieth-century demands of liberal thereto." Protestantism for a religionless state. Though his heart was stilled and his The final chapter pictures the deterioration of the wall of separation and decries the growing pa lips now were silent, he would continue ternalism o£ the Federal Government. The wall of to speak to the hearts of his fellow minis separation between church and state must be high ters through his precious volume Christ enough, he says, to assure that no legal relationship Our Righteousness, and his last charge. His will exist between these two institutions, but it must was the breath that fanned into flame the not be so high that it discourages the application latent embers of the message of righteous of Christian principles in civil affairs. ness by faith that he profoundly believed A most valuable concept developed in this book would in due time come into its full and is that "two divisions of the Christian Church pose destined place. He was the chosen instru danger to traditional separation of Church and ment that designed the motif of the Minis State: Roman Catholicism and liberal Protestant terial Association righteousness by faith. ism. Of the two, the latter is perhaps the more We must not and will not fail him, nor our dangerous, since it has a more subtle approach and God, in his expectations. The hour has its position has not been discerned." The author apparently has purposes other than surely come for that last advance. summarizing the development of the principle of separation of church and state. While he succeeds admirably in unfolding the story of church-state struggles and in clarifying important underlying principles, he also attempts to exonerate Calvinism a worthy but out-of-proportion effort. In addition to the chapter on Calvin, "Liberty©s Pioneer," he devotes much of his chapter on Colonial America to a defense of Calvinistic theology among the Puritans, charging that critical historians "ignore BOOKS the value of Calvinistic theology in bringing about both religious and civil liberty." Moreover, the author urges that public school officials may wisely choose the type of religious in struction that the parents of the community would want their children to have. "Local control," writes Mr. Kik, "will reflect the religion culture o£ the Church and State: The Story of Two Kingdoms, community and is, after all, the best solution to J. Marcellus Kik, Thomas Nelson & Sons, New the problem of curriculum and attitude toward re York, N.Y., 1963, 150 pages, $3.75. ligion." Such a statement is unrealistic. Americans Mr. Kik, a minister of the Reformed Church in are mobile. Old community patterns have broken America and former associate editor of Christianity up. Parents would not be unanimous in choosing Today, uses as his springboard the recent United appropriate religious exercises or instruction for States Supreme Court decision concerning prayer in their children. The author also overlooks what has public schools. His aim is to warn Americans happened in predominantly Catholic communities against "a stricter and narrower interpretation of where the church has absorbed the local public our First Amendment." school system. The author sees a rising tide of opinion within This book is written in a direct, lucid style. Most American Christendom advocating the removal of of the chapters are valuable to those interested in all religion from government, whereas the First church-state problems. The over-all quality is tar Amendment is intended to separate church from nished, however, by Mr. Kik©s digressions into the government. The terms "church" and "religion" are defense of Calvinism and his implied support of not synonymous, he argues. "There is no reason, religious instruction in the public schools. under the Constitution of the United States, why DON YOST

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"THIN IN WHOLE or in part, the doctrine of SKIN" infallibility cannot be applied to any THE MINISTRY JOHN EDMUD HAGGAI of Ken- one human or anything pertaining OF THE tucky recently summed up thereto. The pretenders to this pedestal are legion. WORD the spiritual peril of one's Not all of them are situated on the banks of the time when he said: "The Tiber. pulpit today is praised for almost everything ex Few would admit to entertaining such flattering cept its main function—evangelistic preaching. opinions of themselves—but touch their pet proj Preachers are praised as administrators, book re ects or make a correction however minor and the viewers, organizational wizards, after-dinner speak battle flags crease the breeze. ers, program pushers, good mixers, psychologists, All men should remember that opposition is not conciliators and what have you ... sin is rampant always personal. In fact, some leaders have literally . . . sensualism turns the hands of America's time been saved from themselves by a strongly advo piece to sex o'clock . . . humanity with all its needs cated opposite idea. The church needs neither the pleads for revitalized gospel preaching." Men in rubber stamp nor the thorn in the flesh. Honest every walk of life today are looking for reality. difference or agreement is the spirit essence of the They long to hear a "Thus saith the Lord." That committee system. Loyal opposition has often made note of finality and authority so real in the mes good plans better. The philosopher was right who sage of the apostles, needs to be heard again in said, "Ideas sifted through many brains are safer." our generation. The one thing the devil hates and The root causes of "thin skin" are self-esteem fears is evangelism. But that is the only thing that and the inferiority complex. That opposite causes can meet the issue of our day. No combination of may produce the same effect is in itself paradoxical. evil forces can withstand the piercing light, power, It is nevertheless true that whether one suffers and purity of the Word of God. The apostle Paul from super ego, or from a sense of insecurity, the said: "Preach the word." That is our calling. tendency is to sameness. This paralyzes initiative R. A. A. and contributes to a fatal "me-too-ism," which is destructive of all individualism. Aren't you happy FALLOUT ONE of the horrors of this Atomic to see the new trend in church buildings, each re Age is the danger of atomic fallout. flecting the personality of its pastor-builder? Far from the scene of the actual explosion human Homogeny, though possible with milk, is difficult life is affected by this invisible rain of death. It is with humans. Unity with diversity is the policy believed that in any single explosion more people that offers the widest immunity to "thin skin." would be affected by fallout than those killed at E. E. c. the point of blast. But what about "ecclesiastical fallout?" It is as real as that which accompanies the atomic ex plosion, often affecting men and women far re moved from the point of infraction. Let a preacher "God cannot use a man who has a high opinion lose his temper, and the "fallout" spreads like cir of his own ability, and seeks self-glory and honor cles on a pebble-pierced pond. The ministry is among men." such a sensitive position that the slightest move —The Preacher and His Preaching, p. 69. for good or ill has its consequence—often far-reach ing- "Not a pause for a moment in His presence, but That is why some often innocent pursuits in personal contact with Christ, to sit down in com dulged in by the laity are beyond ministerial privi panionship with Him,—this is our need." lege. Would he lose his effectiveness for good and —Education, p. 261. become a target of unwarranted attack? Then let him ignore this question of ministerial "fallout" and he may even reap where he has not sown. The three grand essentials of happiness are: This is especially true of familiarity with the op Something to Do, Something to Love, and Some posite sex. The lingering handshake, the accept- thing to Hope for.—Chalmers. 48 THE MINISTRY