Wesley Amundson

It was my pleasure to be present at the North Street church in Kingston, Jamaica, en a Sunday night when ten persons were baptized. In all my travels to and fro in var­ious places I have never witnessed a more pleasing and impressive…

As we near the end of time and approach the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the dangers which face the church will increase. It is not the dangers from with­out, such as wars, persecutions, disrupting of territorial…

The question of apostolic succession has been the concern of certain churches, especially the Roman Catholic, the Greek Orthodox, and the An­glican churches. The Roman Catholic Church especially gives priority to Peter. The churches named…

Apostasies come through weakness—weak­ness of spiritual character. Weakness comes through various causes: loss of faith in the car­dinal phases of truth; failure to keep in per­sonal contact with the source of strength, Jesus Christ; failure…

With the coming of the printing press using movable type, invented by John Gutenberg in 1456, came also the opening of the doors of nations to the evangel of Jesus Christ in a larger way. The Protestant Refor­mation was soon to be born, and…

Those Worthy Objectives

T. R. FLAIZ, M.D. Secretary, General Conference Medical Department

The application blank on which we asked for admission to the College of Medical Evangelists contains a statement of our reasons for…

Question: In the December issue of THE MIN­ISTRY there was an excellent article entitled "Money Isn't Everything," by Wesley Amundsen, but is the writer correct in questioning the wisdom of accepting money from the manufacturer…

"This meeting was different from any other workers' meeting I have ever attended!" Such was the com­ment voiced by many of the for­eign-language workers in attendance at the session. Yes, it was different — different in that we dealt with…

IT MUST have been a thrill­ing and wonderful experi­ence that day, nineteen hundred years ago, when a small handful of people, mostly fish­ermen and peasants, met with Christ on a mountain in Galilee. The truths He had taught in the past…

THERE is a quotation which indicates how we may increase our bap­tisms. The formula is simple but demanding. It consists of the greatest energy and powerful ac­tion available to the minister in this age.

DYNAMISM is said to be "the power or quality of imparting energy or of producing action or the operation of force of any kind."—Webster.

High and holy is the work to which God has called His ministers. As God's anointed their calling is sacred.

The priests of God in Old Testament times were looked upon as holy men. Or, as I. H. Evans wrote it in The Preacher and…

What do the people who sit in the pews expect of the minister who stands in the pulpit? How many ministers seek to dis cover just what their members are thinking or what they have need of spiritually? Ministering to a congregation means…

When Jesus organized the Christian church He selected twelve men to be His first ordained ministers. "Apostles," they are called in the Scriptures. These men were to be with Him during His ministry here upon the earth. Then later he selected "other…

Public prayer is an act of divine worship just as much as the preaching of a sermon, and should be so considered. It does seem that the Christian minister should study carefully the purpose and effectiveness of public prayer. The disciples…

What is the first work of Seventh-day Adventist physicians? The answer to this question is clearly set forth in the book, "Medical Ministry:"

"The Redeemer expects our physicians to make the saving of souls their first work. If they…