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Unity in Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Allowing for More Than One Man’s Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The City Field Training School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Reviving and Organizing the Church for Service . . . . . . . . . . .
Relationship of Evangelist and Pastor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Guarding Against Overorganization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Section 6—The Public Effort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Our Present Truth Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Arresting Public Attention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Successful and Impressive Advertising Methods . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Evangelist in Publicity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Avoiding Display and the Sensational . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Guarding Proper Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Platform Decorum, Announcements, and Preliminaries . . . . . .
Interest-Holding Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Inquiry and Question Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Getting Acquainted With the People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Printed Sermons And Literature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Section 7—The Message and its Presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Spirit and Manner of Presenting the Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Evangelistic Sermon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Christ the Center of the Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Prophetic Preaching that Arrests Attention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Restraining Without Obscuring Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Truth-Teaching Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Stories, Anecdotes, Jesting, and Joking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
False Tests and Man-Made Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Section 8—Preaching the Distinctive Truths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Heralding the Second Advent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Sanctuary Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Presenting the Law and the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Meeting Sabbathkeeping Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Preaching on Nonimmortality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Message of Christian Stewardship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Presentation of the Spirit of Prophecy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Presenting Health and Christian Standards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The Ordinances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .