Walter Schubert

A. Commission of the Church

I. The church is God's appointed agency for the salvation of men."-The Acts of the Apostles, p. 9.

No greater honor can be —bestowed upon man than that of the call to the ministry. No other profession or calling, not even that of an emperor, is equal to that of a soul winner. Oh, if every minister would sense the importance of this high…

This atomic era is called by some writers on world conditions, the Apocalyptic Era. For the Bible student, in prophecy it is the immi­nent "time of the end," which will be termi­nated by the intervention of Christ's second coming. For the…

Early last September, our car loaded with books, notes, and other essentials, Mrs. Schubert and I set out from Washington, D.C., for Los Angeles, California, where, with Louise Kleuser, we were to assist in an all-out Spanish evangelistic…

Soul winning is the most exalted of all sciences. On this great theme the messen­ger of the Lord has written:

The highest of all sciences is the science of soul saving. The greatest work to which human beings can aspire is the work…

There is no auditorium, hall, or theater available that is adequate for a city-wide evangelistic campaign," reported our chair man, Calvin Osborn, to the Seventh-day Adventist pastors who had gathered for their regular ministerial association…

Today many people in the so-called Chris­tian countries are so satisfied with their own religious beliefs and filled with all kinds of prejudices, that they resent, and are even hostile toward an evangelistic campaign that is not sponsored…

Many years ago Daniel Webster ex pressed a thought that we should keep before us continually: "If the power of the gospel is not felt in the length and breadth of the earth, anarchy and disorder, degradation and misery, corruption and obscurity,…

During the last world war, military leaders became aware of the fact that when soldiers were sent out individually toward the enemy camp to look for weak spots where the army might break through, most of them did not ful­fill their commission…

"Behold I Come"

WALTER SCHUBERT Associate Secretary, General Conference Ministerial Association

The recent Ministerial Association Precouncil, as well as the General Conference sessions which are now in the past, brought…

The minister who is contemplating a cam­paign, whether it be a church effort or a medium-sized or large hall effort, ought to study first of all the philosophy of the people, their habits, and their religious beliefs. After having ascertained…

A few months ago I had the privilege of traveling through the mountains of northern Italy near the Swiss border where, during the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, many Waldenses were martyred for their faith. We stopped at a place called…

WE ARE not doing one twentieth part of what God requires us to do. There has been a departure from the simplicity of the work, mak­ing it intricate, difficult to un­derstand, and difficult to exe­cute. The judgment and wis­dom of man rather…

* The New Testament in Modern English by J. B. Phillips. Copyright 1958, by J. B. Phillips. Used by permission of The Macmillan Company.

RECENTLY someone remarked of his own church: "There is no love in " this church. It…

IS THE Lord disappointed with His church? Has it failed to preach with power the three angels' messages to the four corners of the earth in the time allotted? If this is so, listen to what the servant of the Lord says: "The work which the…

TOWARD the end of a wonderful min­isterial institute a handsome young minister said to me: "The instruction re­ceived during this week has rekindled in me the old conviction of the honor of being an ambassador for Christ. I have now…

It was a constant source of inspiration to me to witness eighty-one faithful ministers studying under the directions of the three consecrated brethren from the Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. The sincerity, devotion, and love…

FROM September 18 to December 19, 1959 it was the privilege of Guiseppe Cupertino, ministerial secretary of the Southern European Division, and the writer to assist our conse­crated Italian ministers in an evangelistic cam­paign in the…

The leading men of the world today in the fields of literature, science, politics and military are afraid of the future because of the spiritual perturbation of our time as witnessed in the ever-increas­ing crime waves, immorality, and…

Our  ministerial and lay workers frequently are confronted by both Protestant and Cath­olic opposition based on the false accusations and misconstrued arguments of D. M. Canright.

Mr. Canright was born in 1840 and grew up in the western…