Articles by Roger Altman
Ministers I Have Heard
January 1938
Having been born and reared in the Seventh-day Adventist faith, coming upon the scene of action at a time when it was customary to preach long sermons and plenty of them, and being the child of a minister who did…
Difficult Days for Missions
March 1942
Before our work is finished every earthly support will be cut off. To an extent, this is even now the situation that faces those of our foreign mission staff who have remained at their posts in China and the Far…
World Missions Outlook Brightens
August 1942
The church periodicals of other denominations have a good deal to say just now regarding the foreign mission problem. Leaders are thinking. They are concerned with the problem of maintaining present work, at least…
Mission Problem of Illiteracy
May 1942
Illiteracy is one of the greatest problems that face foreign missions. In the non-Christian portion of the world, nine out of ten of the people are unable to read. And illiteracy is on the increase. In India, for example, between the last…
Critical Hour for World-Wide Missions
January 1942
The attitude of the Christian churches toward foreign missions is of interest. We have come a long way from the frankly evangelical policy of the nineteenth century, when the avowed purpose of Christian missions was…
RELIGIOUS WORLD TRENDS: Growth in Membership and Giving
September 1950
The United Stewardship Council publishes a report of the membership and giving of fifteen leading Protestant denominations covering a period of twenty-five years, from 1925 to 1949 inclusive. The average increase in membership for the…
Speak the Word of Courage
March 1941
To the one who is sick, perhaps forced to return from work in a mission land, nothing comes much easier than thoughts of discouragement and gloom. Especially is this true in the case of one whose illness is long and severe. At such times…