Louis K. Dickson
LOUIS K. DICKSON, Vice-President, General Conference
Articles by Louis K. Dickson
Enlisting the Membership
January 1928
Conviction firmly believe that the work will never be finished in the hearts of our people or in the world at large until the burden of personal soul, winning is rolled upon our laymen.
I do not believe that any one specified plan…
Forward and Upward
October 1928
Posts of Service
By W.A. Spicer
The apostle Paul was chief of the apostles, not because he held the chief office in the church organization of New Testament times, but because somehow the Lord had helped him to give…
The Association Forum
April 1928
The City Problem
It is fitting that intensive study should be given at this time to the mighty challenge of the city problem. In America over 60 per cent of our population reside in cities.…
The President's Leadership
September 1939
Our youth must bring the cause of Christ to final triumph. With this knowledge of their glorious future in the last great conflict, we as presidents of conferences must by our intelligent leadership win them to their place in the lines. A…
Unerring Counsel for Executives
June 1939
To the conference president, the counsels found in the Spirit of prophecy are most practical and of unsurpassable value. The growing complexity and difficulty of the work, and the fact that it has entered upon…
Adequate Training for Our Task--No. 1
February 1939
The Christian ministry faces new times and issues which demand better fitness and training on the part of the heralds of the everlasting gospel than has been necessary at any other hour in the history of the church. New…
Facing the Facts with Candor
June 1940
This searching message should be pondered by every worker in the advent movement. It should be taken individually to heart, our life, attitude, and emphasis being affected thereby. There should be no attempt…
The Evangelistic Council in Retrospect
August 1941
The Ministerial Council, held just preceding the recent General Conference session in San Francisco, California, constituted in its plan, its personnel, its spirit, and its promise, one of the most significant…
We Must not be "Bumblers"
June 1941
In the present campaign for adequate national defense, a new expression has been coined; namely, "military bumblers." This expression is descriptive of inefficient, poorly thought-out planning, and the blundering execution…
Facing the Modern Audience
March 1942
As ministers and teachers of truth, we need to sense what we are facing. The generation to whom we now go with the message of truth for this hour has undergone a tragic change in thought and mental attitude toward those great fundamentals…
Anti-Liquor Call to Arms
April 1942
Upon no other question has the Lord been more emphatic or revealed His will more clearly than upon the subject of temperance and prohibition. The severest and most direct pronouncements in all the writings of…
The Imperatives of Leadership
May 1944
Week of Sacrifice, November 24
October 1945
The Week of Sacrifice and the Week of Prayer offerings are to be combined again into one offering this year. Sabbath, November 24, has been set apart as the day when the gifts of our people shall be received.
This…
Sacrificial Liberality Called For
December 1947
Never in the history of the remnant church have we received such impressive and wonderful tidings of brilliant opportunities as come to us today from all mission lands. When in the history of the Advent Movement…
Responsibility of Administration
May 1948
Administration is just another name for leadership. In a day like this, leadership in the church takes on a pronounced meaning and great significance. At a time when no past achievement can be the goal for the…
Adequate Leadership
May 1956
One of the greatest clangers the church faces today is its seeming growing inability to find adequate leadership for the hour to which we have come. Leadership acceptable to God at this moment calls for something more than ability merely…
Danger of Professional Ministry
August 1936
This is a many-sided question, and I think that none of us can speak as ministers with the conviction that we have solved the great problem. Although I believe in all the reasons that have been…
Sabbath School Evangelism
October 1932
The claim is made by Biblical scholars that the school for Bible teaching is twenty centuries older than the pulpit teaching. A stated pulpit ministry did not begin until the days of John the Baptist, and we may consider the Sabbath school…
Leadership in This Matchless Hour
May 1934
If we are in earnest about finding the cause of depression within the church, we must look elsewhere than in reports of lowered tithe, lessened foreign mission offerings, or receding home missions finance, for there is…
The Association Forum
June 1930
Capitalizing the Newspaper for the Message
By W.L. Burgan
For sixteen years I have been engaged in newspaper work from the office of the Press Bureau of the…
The Matchless Gift of Prophecy
July 1937
The fruitage of the work of Mrs E. G. White cannot be adequately estimated in words. Its influence and guidance have been the chosen instrument in God's hand to motivate the onward march of the third angel's message in the advent movement.…
Adequate Training for Task—No.2
March 1939
Undoubtedly we should always have a way whereby superior, exceptionally endowed men of maturity may enter the ministry in spite of the fact that they have not reached the higher levels in scholastic training,…
Future Leaders of the Church
December 1937
To secure able men for the ministry is an object of transcendent, urgent, world-wide concern to the church of the advent movement. If the church is to develop in order to meet the growing needs of this critical hour,…
The Evangelist's High Privilege —No. 1
September 1935
The evangelist of the advent movement stands out in bold relief, distinct from all his forebears in this field of endeavor. Not that his calling is any more sacred than that which has constituted the gospel ministry in…
Revealing God to Men No. 1
February 1936
"I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be made perfect in one ; and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, as Thou hast loved Me." John 17 :23.
Our…
The Evangelist's High Privilege—No. 2
October 1935
Beside other outstanding characteristics of Jesus' evangelism, one very important aspect cannot fail to arrest our attention. His evangelism exhibited perfect leadership in all its pristine beauty and glory. In His…
Revealing God to Men No. 2
March 1936
Before we can achieve a greater unity of spirit, purpose, and power, we must ask and answer such questions as the following: Shall we return to Rome, to Athens, or to Jerusalem? By Rome, we mean that for which pagan Rome…
Leadership and "Followership"
October 1931
Leadership and "Followership"
Two demands are paramount today in the church as in the world; namely, the demand for leadership and the demand for "followership." We are in a time of spiritual depression no less than of financial…
The Minister and the Youth Problem
February 1934
The youth problem of the church will be to a large degree answered when we as ministers discharge our full duty toward our young people. Much of the perplexity along this line is due to the lack of adequate understanding,…