Articles by Frank H. Yost
Why Adventists Study Church History--2
October 1940
If Adventists are successful in declining to adopt for themselves religiously the modifications and accretions which other bodies have acquired from the past, maintaining themselves instead as a "people of the Book,"…
Thorough Training at Union
April 1940
The training of prospective ministers at Union College is not carried on through a school of theology, but in the department of religion, as one of the liberal arts departments of the college. A student who completes a course of study in…
Why Adventists Study Church History--1
September 1940
The question, "Why do Seventh-day Adventists study church history?" was asked by a historian who knew Adventists as a people who derive their tenets from the Bible, but who, he thought, set aside the implications of…
Identifying the Bergundian Horn
December 1941
Where in Europe can we locate the Burgundians as one of the ten tribes fulfilling the prophecy of Daniel 2 and 7?
The Burgundians appear in history as a tribe in the valley of the Oder River. They entered the bounds of the…
Religious World Trends
November 1941
Catholic Position on Tradition
It is a truism that the differences between the Roman Catholic and the Seventh-day Adventist are fundamental and basic. An excellent illustration…
Importance and Method of Sermon Outlining
February 1941
One of the most frequent pleas from Ministry readers has been for a succession of suggestive sermon, outlines. Even, more vital than, sample outlines, however, is a grasp of the fundamental Principles of…
Frank Admission Regarding Sunday
March 1942
The reasons assigned for Sundaykeeping have been various and specious. It has been claimed that Christ and the apostles established the observance of Sunday, and the usual…
Religious Regimentation Program
August 1942
An enlightening editorial in the Shane Quarterly ( January) is condensed in the Religious Digest for June. One paragraph reads as follows:
"It is conceivable that when the present…
Human Progression "Debunked"
January 1942
For decades Seventh-day Adventists have borne courageously the stigma of the name "pessimist" in the face of a world made complacently optimistic by obvious material progress, the evidences of which blinded…
The Handicap of "Quotationitis"
November 1944
The term "quotationitis" has been coined for the too-frequent use of quotations in the spoken or written word. The quotations are sometimes so many that our thinking is obstructed with long readings or paragraphs of borrowed material. To…
Best Edition of Gibbon's Rome
June 1945
Which is the best edition of Gibbon's "History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," and why?
There are really only two good editions in English of Gibbon's masterpiece to choose from. The English scholar, H. H. Milman,…
The New Catholic Cardinals
March 1946
Thirty-two new cardinals were appointed by Pope Pius XII on December 23, 1945, bringing the ancient Catholic College of Cardinals to its full traditional complement of seventy for the first time in history.
In the Catholic Church…
Seminary Field Research Service
January 1946
The Field of Research Service of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary has been set up in order to assist our evangelists, teachers, and other gospel workers in securing reliable, authoritative materials…
Sunday a Human Institution
November 1947
Earnest advocates of Sunday observance are having a difficult time. They are concerned, perhaps more than ever before, both with the origin of and basis for Sunday's observance, and with the manner of its honoring. They divide into two…
True Sources and Authorities
January 1947
The preaching of truth entails a grave responsibility. The messengers of truth must themselves be true, their methods must be in keeping with the character of their message, and any collateral information and supporting evidences which are…
Religion in the Schools
July 1948
On March 8 the United States Supreme Court ruled that the teaching of religion on public school property during school hours by representatives of churches, as practiced in Illinois, is unconstitutional,…
New Drive for Church Unity
June 1948
The noted Methodist missionary, Dr. E. Stanley Jones, who served many years in India, is traveling over the United States, urging church unity among Protestants. This is no new thing. From the time that Luther…
World Council of Churches-2
February 1949
The delegation divided on August 24 into four sections to study the four main subjects on the agenda of the council : (I) The universal…
The World Council of Churches—No. 1
January 1949
Sometime, and that erelong, a likeness to medieval Papal Power will be formed in some sort of Protestant combine to compel the conscience of men to crush dissent, and to perform the acts prophesied in Revelation…
Why Not a Reformation Sabbath?
September 1956
A sheet of paper tacked to a chapel door in Germany on October 31, 1517, has proved more significant than almost any other document remembered by history. The paper set forth a series of propositions, written in Latin, inviting discussion…
Who Were the Pilgrims of Plymouth?
August 1957
Mayflower aristocrats: There were none. The descendants of the Mayflower passengers have become leaders in the United States during the past 330 years, but the Mayflower folks themselves were humble people.
The…
We Are a Million Now
January 1957
Christ sent out twelve. They were not professionals, nor rabbis, nor divinity scholars. They were plain men, some fishermen, a tax collector, a businessman—we don't even know the occupations of the others. Only…
Reclaiming Backsliders
September 1959
In any fruitful study of how to reclaim backsliders one naturally asks the question, "Why did these persons leave the church? Some of the following paragraphs deal largely with prevention, which is always better…
THE PULPIT AND THE STUDY": Thou Shalt Be With Me in Paradise"
November 1950
We are so accustomed to think that a great deal that was taught in the church after the time of the apostles was false, that it is a comfort to find some in those ancient days who believed as we now do. It is good, for instance, to know that…
CHALLENGE OF A WORLD TASK: Seminary Extension School Graduation
June 1950
Eighty South American ministers of the gospel marched into the Templo Adventista in Montevideo, Uruguay, at nine- thirty Tuesday morning, January 31, at the termination of the Seminary Field Extension Course, and it was a thrilling sight…
RELIGIOUS WORLD TRENDS: An Archbishop's Admission
February 1950
The Calgary, Canada, Albertan of October 28, 1949, contained a most interesting item. The Reverend Philip Carrington, Anglican archbishop of Quebec, is quoted as saying in a church meeting at Toronto, Canada, that "nowhere in the Bible…
New Chart of Abbreviated Ten Commandments
February 1944
Evangelists have for some time felt the lack of large charts showing the ten commandments to replace the old "Law Charts" which have been so long out of print. Hence the decision to republish charts of this nature.…
"Papacy" and the "Roman Catholic Church"
July 1941
The terms "Papacy" and "Roman Catholic Church" are often used interchangeably. But actually, we should make a distinction in our thinking, if not in our public utterances, between the Roman Catholic Church in the middle…
THE QUERY COLUMN: Is Roman Catholicism Apostolic?
January 1950
Is the Roman Catholic Church correct in claiming to be the original apostolic church?"
NO. The Roman Catholic Church is a system of religion which developed gradually out of the original Christian church in Rome. This original…