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Twenty-three years ago this month, a youthful-looking Seventh-Day Adventist preacher stood up before his small and struggling congregation in South Los Angeles to appeal for funds. "Now, brethren," he said, "I've been telling you for some time that God wants me on radio . . . I want you to prove that I'm not lying and that I do know what God wants." A collection of rings, watches and old jewelry netted just enough to put the Rev. Harold M. S. Richards on the air the next week. He has been broadcasting steadily ever since...
...Alive . . ." Broadcaster Richards, 58, is a friendly, hard-working man with a habit of calling everybody "brother." His father was also an Adventist evangelist, and Harold got his start at 17, preaching at Adventist "campaigns," i.e., revival meetings, in the U.S. and Canada. His first parish was a tiny, tar-papered church in Ottawa, where he boosted the congregation from...
...Adventist authorities took a dim view of Richards' radio program at first. But by 1937 it was going so well that Pacific Coast officials of the church urged him to put the Voice on a coast network. In 1942, with the whole church behind him, Richards began preaching on a national hookup (Mutual), and the next year began to line up foreign stations...
...Though most physicians agree that alcohol in moderation has some medicinal uses, a group of them who disagree strongly met last week at the College of Medical Evangelists (run by Seventh-Day Adventists) in Loma Linda, Calif. They applauded Chicago's Physiologist Andrew Conway Ivy (no Adventist but a Methodist) when he berated alcohol in any form as a "habit-forming . . . and dangerous drug," which, used to excess, "is degrading to human reason and dignity...
...problem" movie with such titles as Love Thy Neighbor and Honor Thy Family. After a brief prayer, Davidson (or a guest preacher) begins the half-hour illustrated sermon. Since May, both drive-ins have been drawing steady crowds. (Top attendance so far, for a visiting minister: 2,000.) Says Adventist Rustad: "We live in a new age, and the churches should keep moving with the times...