Those Happy Golden Years / Wood, Miriam / (PB/1980-1980/B/USED)

*Condition Note: Sticker residue on a faded cover *

The thirties, forties, and fifties were a unique period in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. These three decades were the high-water mark of evangelism, during which time thousands of people came into the church through efforts large and small conducted by speakers great and humble.

This priceless book takes the reader behind the scenes, where the nervous evangelists (many of whom were very young) prayed, planned, studied, pitched tents, did odd jobs, preached, sang, visited, and debated--and felt fortunate to have received a call to the ministry.

For the wives, evangelism involved coping in various forms. "Living quarters" might be the back of the big tent, a chicken house, or, in fortunate circumstances, a small cottage or apartment. The princely salary of a few dollars a week had to stretch to cover all expenses. And of course the young wife must be smiling standing by her husband's side at all the meetings. This is a masterful and readable human-interest history, as told by the church's foremost woman writer.

Foreword
The Way We Were Then
What We Believed and Felt Then
Towering Shapes on the Evangelistic Landscape
Getting Started--One Way or Another
Tents and Halls--and Sometimes Funeral Parlors
Scholars by Necessity
It Pays (Sometimes) to Advertise
The Root of Much Grief
"Living" Conditions
Loving and Long-suffering Church Members
When You Have to, You Can Cope
Meeting (and Sometimes Welcoming) Persecution
Problems With Brotherly Love
Swallowing Hard and Going On
Emergency!
The World of the Bizarre
What Came of It All

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