Articles
Candles in the Night -- No. 6
God has always reserved for Himself men and women who would minister to every need of His children. The history of the Christian church abounds in loving humanitarian service. No need has been overlooked and no area excluded. This was true when Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845), a Quaker minister, became burdened for the inmates of Newgate Prison in London.
How to Work for Jehovah's Witnesses
It is just six years since I had the joy of seeing my first Jehovah's Witnesses family step out and accept the Advent message. Although this family had been connected to the Witnesses for more than eighteen years, and have relatives still in that organization, they are loyal Seventh-day Adventists today, actively working to spread the message for these days.
Ten Times to Call the Minister or an Elder
At our recent elders' council, we spent much time discussing ways in which we as ministers and local elders can be of greater help to our people.
Evangelism, 1962!
A new day is dawning for public evangelism! The idea that the day of the public meeting is past is being forgotten and the vision of true evangelism is dawning again. Thank God for it!
The Message of the Empty Tomb
Christianity is founded upon an empty tomb." So said Thomas Payne in derision. But that scornful remark is a tremendous truth. Were there no empty tomb there would be no Christian church.
An Indispensable Element in Worship
Music has proved to be an indispensable element in religious services, as an adjunct to worship as well as evangelism. It has proved to be a great source of controversy, probably because it is a property that belongs to everyone, not just a few. Music has been called the "handmaiden of religion," and is used as a vehicle for the expression of man's religious spirit.
The Breaking of Bread in Acts 20:7-11
In meeting the argument that Acts 20:7-11 proves that Christians observed Sunday as a sacred day in apostolic times, a few of our ministers have denied, sometimes even in print, that Paul and the believers at Troas partook of the Communion, or Lord's Supper, on that occasion. However sincere they may have been in using this counter argument, it is a mistaken one in so far as Seventh-day Adventist teaching is concerned. Hence we deem it fitting to caution our workers that such a position is not only untenable, but it may also result in embarrassment both to him who uses it and to the cause that he represents.