L. R. Van Dolson
School of Public Health, Loma Linda University
Evangelism in Japan
In previous articles we have presented the opportunity that still exists in Japan for public evangelism. This article examines the unique challenges and the methods that exist to meet these problems.
Japan's Open Door
We should now feel the responsibility of laboring with intense earnestness to impart to others the truths that God has given for this time.
The 1335 Days
Opinions presented here are intended to stimulate objective thinking but do not necessarily represent the views of the editors.
Discussion Techniques in Evangelism
Two recent experiments in applying discussion techniques to public evangelistic meetings have convinced us that certain suggestions in Ellen G. White's writings are workable both overseas and here in the United States.
PUC Program Proves Evangelistic Classes on College Level a "Must"!
MORE than 200 members have been added to churches in northern and central California in the past nine years as a result of student evangelistic activities at Pacific Union College. But this figure, encouraging as it is, is actually one of the least impressive of the statistics that reflect the ever-growing student evangelistic emphasis on our campus. . .
Evangelism Updated: Suggestions for Accomplishing the Impossible
THE first time I saw the familiar placard was on the wall of the press-room at the Seventh-day Adventist Japan Publishing House at Hodogaya. Ever since, it has been called to mind when a particularly difficult task has confronted me. "The Difficult We Do at Once—The Impossible Takes a Little Longer" that placard read, and it certainly has much to say to Seventh-day Adventists all over the world whose way of life is a commitment to the accomplishment of the seemingly impossible. . .
The Laying On of Hands at Baptism
ONE day several years ago I was conversing with a missionary of the Brethren Church in Kobe, Japan. We were comparing our respective beliefs when suddenly he asked me a simple enough question but one I had never thought of and couldn't answer. "You claim to follow all the practices of the apostolic church," he said; "why, then, don't you practice the laying on of hands at baptism as the New Testament tells us the apostles did?"