Leslie Hardinge

Department of Religion, Pacific Union College

Articles by Leslie Hardinge

Music and Modern Evangelism

March 1939

A tune first appeals to our minds, and then grows in sacredness and value as the passing years surround it with a wealth of associations. "The sound of the Marseillaise," says Carlyle, "will make the blood tingle in men's veins. . . . Every…

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New Evangelism Laboratory Opened at Union

August 1949

For a long time here at Union College we have felt that the tendency in teaching evangelism was too much on the theoreti­cal side, and that greater benefit would be gained if the ministerial student observed evan­gelistic methods at first…

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Ring for Service

February 1956

Your knuckles in the bread dough, the baby in the bathinette, or your crown of glory in the washbowl. And it rings! A telephone call to serve!

Young shepherdess, the very telephone ring that punctuates your day so liberally is more…

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With Paul in Athens

February 1958

Paul's flight from Berea was sudden and unexpected because of violent persecution. The brethren "promptly sent Paul down to the sea-coast" (Acts 17:14, Weymouth), a dis­tance of twenty-five miles by road. Did Paul go to Athens by land or…

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The Minister's Wife and Her God: 1

May 1962

BEFORE the minister's wife is anything else—before she is her husband's compan­ion, her children's mother, her church's helper, the world's missionary—she is a child and servant of God, answerable to Him for her words and actions, dependent…

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The Minister's Wife and the Church *

May 1961

* The fourth and concluding article of this series.

The first time I was asked to alk to a group of minis­ters' wives, I naturally did a lot of heart searching, reading, pencil chewing, and a little sounding out of others on the subject.…

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The Minister's Wife and Her Husband *

April 1961

* This is the third in a series of four articles.

RUSKIN wrote, "You cannot think that the buckling on of the knight's armour by his lady's hand was a mere caprice of romantic fashion.  It is the type of an eternal truth—that the…

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The Minister's Wife and Her Home *

March 1961

* The second in a series of four articles.

THE minister's wife is a homemaker plus—and how plus!

She is expected to be and do in her home what every other homemaker is and does, but more! More is expected of her than of others.…

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The Minister's Wife and Her God*

February 1961

* The first of a series of four articles.

Before anything else, before she is her hus­band's companion, her chil­dren's mother, her church's helper, the world's missionary, the minister's wife is a child and servant of God, answer able…

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"Miracle" of Arrogance

April 1969

IN SPITE of what God has done through Christ, the Incarnate Word, men still assume to criticize His teachings and actions. This is always blasphemous. Ellen White stated more than once that she considered it an unwise as well as a dangerous…

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Philosophy of Inspiration in the Writings of Ellen G. White (Part 3)

March 1969

IN ALL the processes of God's kingdom force is never employed. The will is free to accept the divine mandate. In inspiration there is no compulsion to form this union of the divine and human. The inspired writers were still free to express…

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Philosophy of Inspiration in the Writings of Ellen G. White (Part 2)

February 1969

ONLY the chain of inspired Biblical truth can give the links forming a comprehensive picture of what God's message actually is. Ellen G. White was aware of the attitude taken by a certain class of textual critics. While the possibility of…

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Philosophy of Inspiration in the Writings of Ellen G. White (Part 1)

January 1969

AMONG Adventist teachers and preachers eager discussion is going on at the present time on the nature of inspiration. This makes the need for a careful and continuing study of this topic most important.1

Ellen G. White's…

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