FOR WO RIO I V A N G 11 I VOLUME XXVIII APRIL, 1955 NUMBER 4 Voice for 25 COURTESY OF B.&O.R.R. M. LEONE BRACKER, ARTIST ©What Hath God Wrought!" The wonderment that filled the world at the sending of the first wireless has long since subsided. The airways carry their countless messages, but scarcely ever are we brought up short with the thought of the first words ever to travel by wireless: "What Hath God Wrought!" Surely the wonder is none the less real because it is now so much a part of our everyday lives. Why don©t you, too, just "take off the hat of your soul" and stand in awe before this wonder that is radio? Religious radio is a pair of feet walking into more homes than a parish worker could enter on his own feet in many days. Religious radio is a pair of hands offering help, consolation, friendliness to more lives than a parish worker could touch with his own two hands in many weeks. Religious radio is a voice speaking comfort and courage to more hearts than a parish worker could reach with his own voice in countless months. What a multiplication of service God has made possible through this wonder He has wrought! -DOROTHY GREEN in Outreach. Page 2 THE MINISTRY In This Issue ©~pHIS month THE MINISTRY is privileged -L to feature the twenty-fifth anniversary of Official Organ of the radio broadcasting by H. M. S. Richards, MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS the Voice of Prophecy speaker. Beginning Editor: on page 4, three feature articles recount ROY ALLAN ANDERSON what these radio broadcasts and the work Associate Editors: of the Bible correspondence schools have REUBEN R. FIGUHR, ALBERT V. OLSON meant to us as a denomination through LOUISE C. KLEUSER, GEORGE E. VANDEMAN WALTER SCHUBERT, EARL E. CLEVELAND the years, and what they can mean in the Office Editor; Advertising and Circulation Manager: future as we learn to fully utilize their BEN GLANZER potentialities. We especially draw atten tion to the article on page 8, "Radio Bible School Interests Bring Results." Beginning on page 21 in the Evangelism section, are featured the two concluding articles in the discussion on "Short Cam VOLUME XXVIII NUMBER 4 paigns" which began last month. We AT A GLANCE believe the short-campaign plan can be carefully reviewed with profit by every FEATURES _._........_._.._......._........._......__ ........ 4 The Voice of Prophecy Benefits All Branches of the evangelist and pastor. Work Radio in Southern Asia Radio Bible Cor Coming soon in THE MINISTRY will be respondence School Interests Bring Results a discussion of continuous evangelism and EDITORIAL --—.-—-—--.__————__. 12 Effective Tools for the Task Reading With Discrimi also the evangelistic-center plan. nation Do You Have an Ordination Certificate? Of special interest to all pastors and NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ......_.......... 14 home missionary leaders will be "Public PULPIT ._———..._——..— .....__ ....._.... 15 Relations Evangelism in Canada" featured The Only Men Who Can Preach the Word Effectively in the center spread this month on page SHEPHERDESS ...................... ................... 19 26. To the Wives of Our Workers Our Cover EVANGELISM ......___..... _...._...._.._._._......._ 21 The Short Campaign Summarizing Short Campaigns FEATURED on our front cover this month is Public Relations Evangelism in Canada Small- the familiar face of H. M. S. Richards, super Town Evangelism Preparation for the Evangelistic Campaign imposed on the silver-plated, sixteen-inch tran RESEARCH __......................................................... 32 scription disc that was presented to Elder The Jews and the Pentateuch Richards on his twenty-fifth anniversary broad PASTOR __........._._.._.............................. 36 cast. Wesley©s View of Baptism and the Lord©s Supper For many years now these transcription re The Stranger in the Black Suit cordings of Voice of Prophecy broadcasts have MEDICAL EVANGELISM ................................ 39 been made by the Allied Record Manufacturing Objectives of the Sophomore Class in Religion in Our Schools of Nursing Company of Hollywood. Daken K. Broadhead, COUNSEL ___.._..__....-_—_—._—.--..„_....._............. 41 president of this company, personally presented Blessings Promised to Diet Reformers Elder Richards with this silver-plated disc. QUESTIONS _———-—-----———- .... 43 In making the presentation Mr. Broadhead Frequency of the Lord©s Supper said, "This is indeed a thrilling occasion for BOOKS ..___ ....... .........._..... ----- ——--—.. 45 all of us who have been associated through NEWS _._._..... ---------. -- - 48 the years with the Voice of Prophecy. And, Mr. Richards, in observance of your silver anniver POINTERS .... ...._-- —. --..-_..-...---——- 52 sary, our company would like to present to you this silver-coated transcription of today©s Printed and published monthly for the Ministerial Association of Seventh-day Adventists by the Review and Herald Publish broadcast." ing Association, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., $2.50 a year; The regular Voice of Prophecy broadcasts on 25 cents a copy. Add 35 cents for yearly subscriptions to countries requiring extra postage. Entered as second-class mat Mutual and A.B.C. featured this silver anniver ter December 19, 1927, at the post office at Washington, D.C., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. sary on Sunday, February 6. Later that week these networks each donated time for an addi tional half hour when the broadcasts were re peated. APRIL, 1955 Page 3 The Voice of Prophecy Benefits All Branches of the Work ROBERT H. PIERSON President) Kentucky-Tennessee Conference E VOICE OF PROPH are sent out to local conference and mis ECY radio broadcasts sion leaders. These are far more than our and Bible correspond regular denominational workers can ever ence schools complement and hope to care for. This means a thrilling promote the work of all the new challenge to the laity of the church to other regular departments in let their light shine in active soul-winning our denominational program. endeavor. With thousands of consecrated Occupying such a unique po lay members faithfully helping to follow sition in our over-all program, the Voice of up these live interests, who would dare Prophecy means a great deal to the future predict what such a program could and of our work in all lands where its influence will mean to the future of the work in is felt. As the Voice of Prophecy grows and many lands? prospers, its growth and prosperity are re The work of the Voice of Prophecy is a flected in other branches of the work. strong auxiliary to our program of public The work of the Voice of Prophecy con evangelism. In Poona, India, it was my tributes to the growth of our Sabbath privilege to help test the validity of this schools. As the message goes out over the assertion. The workers in the division ether waves week by week, and as thou office and the publishing house there de sands of students in many lands apply cided early in 1952 to conduct a Voice of themselves to the study of the Voice of Prophecy evangelistic effort. A strong cam Prophecy Bible lessons, men and women, paign for Voice of Prophecy Bible school boys and girls, will be convinced of the enrollments was undertaken by the Poona message of truth. Long before many are church. Hundreds of students were en ready to unite with the church in full rolled in Poona and its environs. Then membership, they will find their way into a centrally located hall was rented and all the Sabbath school. A double blessing re plans for the effort were made. Instead of sults. The seeker for truth is blessed passing out handbills promiscuously, a through a systematic study of the Word, limited number was mailed or distributed the message of an expanding work through to Voice of Prophecy students and friends. the mission reading, and through every From the first the interest was good. Be item included in a Spirit-filled Sabbath cause of their Voice of Prophecy back school program. The Sabbath school is ground their attendance was regular, their blessed as the result of fresh, new blood behavior exemplary, their response most flowing into its veins in the form of new gratifying. More than twenty Voice of talent, an enlarged membership, and in Prophecy students were baptized, a Voice creased offerings. Truly the work of the of Prophecy Sabbath school was first or Voice of Prophecy can mean much to the ganized, followed a few months later by growth of our Sabbath school work in the organization of the Poona city church many lands. this in a place where until a few months The Voice of Prophecy is opening up ago we had no monument to the message thrilling new opportunities for soul win in the city proper. ning among our lay members. Never before If our evangelists would precede their in the history of our work in some lands efforts with strong Voice of Prophecy en have there been so many persons calling rollment campaigns, they would find the for visits and Bible studies. Every month ground well prepared for their efforts, and the names of thousands of truth-hungry when their meetings close they would find souls requesting personal contact with rep many more in their baptismal classes. The resentatives from the Voice of Prophecy evangelist and the Voice of Prophecy work- Page 4 THE MINISTRY ing hand in hand means more souls saved! our constantly growing literature work in They sow together and reap together, and many lands. God©s work is built up. The work of the Voice of Prophecy is a The work of the Voice of Prophecy mighty soul-winning agency in its own means more youth in our Missionary Vol right.