Arthur W. Spalding

Our pastors are fortunate in having this series of three studies on "The Pastor and the Home." Writ­ing for THE MINISTRY after twenty years of inten­sive study in this field of his specialty, Professor Spalding has summed up…

In "Counsels to Teachers," page 343, we read: "Would it not be well for us to ob­serve holidays unto God, when we could revive in our minds the memory of His dealing with us ?" One holiday which might well be established…

Down in Nashville, where I come from, they tell a tale of one of the pioneer preachers, Brother Gwin. Craggy old monuments of righteousness were some of those circuit riders and itinerant preachers who turned the wilderness freedoni into…

To aim so high; to fall so low!

Judas Iscariot, like Lucifer, aspired to set his throne above the stars of God. Money was one of his idols, but the god of his heart was pride and selfish ambition. In the beginning he admired Jesus.…

The Christian Minister

JOSEPH R. SIZOO, Professor of Religion, George Washington University

There are three questions that the church or the community always asks of its minister. Some churches and communities ask many more…

What a wonderful body is the church of Christ, how many-sided, how com­plete! We come upon it on one side, and it seems to us a company devoted to trial and suffering; we touch it in another part, and we marvel at the lionlike power of its…

Upon the heels of this came idolatry. Those images and teraphim, that stolen priest with his ephod, marked an epoch in the disruption of Israel. In far Laish, which those Danites conquered and renamed "Dan," they set up their molten and graven…

The hardest lesson for men to learn is that of willing service. Under compul­sion, most men work—the compulsion of hunger, of pride, of fear; but for the most part, they seek to barter their labor for the utmost of money, of privilege, of…

IT IS not always that we recognize the good qualities in our fellow men, the qualities that perhaps dominate their lives and determine their value to the world. We are too prone to seize upon some trait ob­noxious to us, and, often because…

The days of the patriarch Israel were drawing to a close. The eyes that had scanned with keenness the Promised Land now were dim; the arm that had drawn the bow against the Amorite lay lax. But still his mind was clear, and on this day of…

DEAR Rachel! Dark-eyed, daring, sweetly imperious beauty of the Mesopotamian plains! What splendor of young love in the meeting at the well, with the sheep and the city gossips for witness! What tragedy of unsisterly betrayal, of stint to…

There is blessed power in the ministry of  spiritual song. Music in its melody and har­mony is expressive of the soul at peace with God and animated with His love. The emotions, which are the motivating power in human life, are aroused and…

Jesus was a gentleman. He was of  course much more than a gentle­man, but along with all His goodness and His power, He was filled with grace. Those who were associated in­timately with Him became noted for their culture of speech and of…

It is good that ministers give counsel to parents concerning the na­ture and the training of children and youth. But it is not good that min­isters preach to fathers and mothers in the presence of their children con­cerning the faults of…