H.M.S. Richards

Q. When you were a boy you saw Ellen White personally, didn't you? Can you tell me a little bit about her?

A. Yes, when my brother and I were little boys she came to Denver and talked…

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.…

Evangelism's Basic Principles

By A. W. STAPLES, Evangelist, Johannesburg, South Africa

We need to recognize the place of the consecrated musical evangelist. We ought not to forget that almost every great evangelist of the past has linked with his name the name of a gospel singer. We think of Moody and Sankey, of Torrey and…

The type of evangelism most needed today was born during the generation before the flood. We need, as then, to extend the over­tures of God's grace, and utter the prophetic warning of an impending world-wide catas­trophe as a result…

There are no frontiers in radio today. Radio is developing all the time. It has a world-wide coverage. It goes over conference and national boundaries. It is being developed until one sta­tion over which we broadcast, in Lourenco Mar­ques,…

There seems to be a necessity at times for some communication between ministers on the platform, but in our visitation of eighteen camp meetings, and a great deal of other public work, we found that almost everywhere men have forgotten how…

A bible text seldom used in sermons is Ruth 4: 11, especially the phrase, "like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel." The house referred to is a family —the family of Israel.

It may seem strange that Holy…

Whatever the true defi­nition of preaching, it is certainly important business. DO we not read in the first chapter of the shortest Gospel that immediately after His baptism and His victory over the temptation in the wilderness "Jesus came…

We have found that having the Daily Broad­casts on the air over the local stations for at least twelve months results in a more effective follow-up crusade and more definite interests. Some time before the crusade is to begin, the members…

YEARS ago there lived by the Sea of Gali­lee a young man by the name of Simon Bar-jona. He loved boats and nets and the sea. It seemed that he was born to be a fisherman. This was his ambition—to catch fish, to be a master fisherman. Since…

A LEADING Methodist Church official in Indiana declared a year or so ago that the Methodist Church in North America needed about three thousand new ministers every year, but that only a little more than a thousand were leaving the seminaries…

but why is he scolding God?" asked a little girl kneeling between her father and mother in church.

"Hush, dear," her mother whispered. 

But later the child murmured, "He seems so mad."

The speaker was addressing God…

Q. When you were a boy you saw Ellen White personally, didn't you? Can you tell me a little bit about her?

A. Yes, when my brother and I were little boys she came to Denver and talked…

There is a limit to what the Voice of Prophecy can do on the air.

Over the years, as the broadcast has built up a witness in hundreds of cities and tens of thousands of homes across America, we have…

Patterson: Elder Richards, as you remember or remember hearing from your father, what themes characterized the preaching of Mrs. White and the early pioneers?

Richards: My father was one…

We usually open our tabernacle meetings on Sunday night, and have meetings every night, with the possible exception of Saturday night. Beginning with the first meeting, we announce that on the following Wednesday we will…

Order of Subjects Followed by H.M.S. Richards

The advertising material used by Elder Richards is somewhat varied in size and form,  some being handbills approximately 5 x 8 inches, usually featuring on the front…

Books are the tools of my profession. But before I feel perfectly at home with them, they need to be edged or balanced to fit my hand. That is why I like to mark my books. An unmarked book is to me a stranger. A book…

I am frequently asked by younger evangelists to supply a suggestive list of topics for a series of meetings. This is very difficult for me to do, because I never find it possible to list my subjects in the same order…

Here is a real contribution in the field of effective evangelistic teamwork. Through continuity of united group effort, a form of balanced efficient company evangelism has been perfected by Evangelist Richards and…

As one of the fundamentals of successful  work, the evangelist must always remem­ber that the conference president is his best friend. If success in the work is to be achieved, there must never be the slightest rift here. An evangelistic…

As to the place, we often have to take what ri we can get. I have held evangelistic meet­ings in halls, churches, tents, tabernacles, and theaters. We each have our preference, but with me the tabernacle is away beyond…