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Milton the Jews, before, during and following the war had to be EDITORIAL reckoned with. The Commission finally brought a recom- mendation to partition Palestine, making two states, Jewish and Arab. The Zionists were jubilant, the Arabs utterly dismayed. The UN General Assembly voted approval of the Commission's recommendation the same year and the Jewish state came into being, May 1948. This writer remembers a dramatic news-cast given by Lowell Thomas the evening of May 15, 1948. In his inimical GOD AND GEOGRAPHY style he emphasized that for the first time in more than 2000 years, there was a state known as Israel. A bloody conflict between the Arabs and Jews followed in 1948. This tragic war resulted in the displacement of 800,000 to one million Arabs. There was another bloody skirmish in 1956. This tiny nation surrounded by 35 to 40 million Arabs LTHOUGH a teenager, vivid memories recall events sur- with more than 600 miles of unfriendly boundary lines to A rounding Jerusalem in 1917. The capture of Jerusalem the east and south and the Mediterranean sea on the by General Allenbey, after being in the possession of west is now threatened with what is termed extinction, Muslims for more than six centuries, was a singular event being driven into the sea. in the early part of the twentieth century. Palestine was then declared a mandated area of the British Empire. At this writing the conflict is raging with the Security Council of the United Nations striving for a cease-fire. "The history of Jerusalem goes back to the Stone age. Visible on TV, Tuesday evening, June 6, was one of the About 2,500 B.C. Semites settled in Palestine from Arabia most dramatic debates of modern history. The sons of and numerous flint weapons have been found near Jeru- Isaac, the Jews, and the sons of Ishmael, the Arabs, salem. About 1400 B.C., before Joshua's invasion of the vehemently carried on a never dying feud between these country, the city was a vassal of Egypt. Among the Tell- two lines of human descendants, Ishmael and Isaac. The el-Amarna tablets (q.v.) there are some seven which are sons of Isaac appear to be forging ahead, not retreating. from Urusalim, as the city was then called, which speak of coming attack and ask for Egyptian aid. The Egyptians I have just re-read Isaiah, chapter 31. How relevant is seem to have maintained a garrison there but when the this chapter to today's happenings? Israelites invaded the country the city was in the hands What a contrast to the 1920's and 30's! Then, prophetic of the Jebusites. At the division, it fell in the portions of students seemed to see prophetic fulfillment in nearly Judah and Benjamin, the tribal boundary passing through everything that transpired. Culminating in Mussolini and the city, which was not completely captured till seven Hitler, modern day prophets were proven quite erroneous. years after David's accession." (Encyclopaedia Britannica, The result: today, amazing happenings seemingly pass Volume 13) unnoticed by eschatologists. One used to hear it said; God's clock moves with the The very silence concerning Christ's second coming Jew and Divine geography is centered in Palestine. may be one of the greatest signs of His near return. The The British foreign secretary, Lord Balfour's famous geography of the Bible and the Middle East are virtually declaration issued November 2, 1917, in part reads as one and the same. Happenings right before our eyes are follows: "His majesty's government view with favor the some of the most meaningful moves in human history. establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Two things: ". . . be ye also ready: for in such an hour Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facili- as ye think not the Son of Man cometh." And: "Occupy tate the achievement of that object . . ." This declaration till I come." received approval of the principal allied powers, especially the U.S.A., even though its terms were vague and made These are the more important aspects of our relationship for different interpretations. to Christ's second coming. A United Nations Palestine Commission, 1947, follow- j. N. H. ing World War II met in Jerusalem. The dire plight of Cover Photo by Lamar Fretz

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(2) Evangelical Visitor And he divided unto him his living in that he paid his boy's bills, and sent him to a select preparatory school, and to college, and tried to believe he was doing his full duty to his son. And not many days after, the father gathered all his interest and aspirations and ambitions and took his "jour- The Parable ney into a far country, into a land of stocks and bonds and securities and all other things which do not interest a boy, and there he wasted his precious opportunity of being a chum to his son. And when he had spent the very best of his life and had gained money but had failed to find any satisfaction, there arose a mighty famine in his heart, and he began Of the to be in want of sympathy and real companionship. And he went and joined himself to one of the clubs of that country, and they elected him chairman of the house committee and president of the club and sent him to the legislature. And he fain would have satisfied him- self with the husks that other men did eat, and no man Prodigal gave him any real friendship. But when he came to himself, he said: "How many men of my acquaintance have boys whom they under- stand and who understand them, who talk about their boys and associate with their boys and seem happy in the comradeship of their sons, and I perish here with heart hunger? 1 will arise and go to my son and will say Father unto him: 'Son, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy father. Make me as one of thy acquaintances.'" And he rose and came to his son; but while he was yet afar off, his son saw him and was moved with astonishment; but instead of running and falling on his neck, he drew back and was ill at ease. And the father said unto him, "Son, I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight. I have not been a father to thee and am no more worthy to be called thy father. Forgive me now, and let me be thy chum." But the son said, "Not so, for it is too late. There was a time when I wanted the companionship and advice and counsel, but you were too busy. I got the information and the companionship, but I got the wrong kind. And now, alas, I am wrecked in soul and body. It is too late—too late —too late!"

These are the words of admonition which God gave to fathers concerning His law and words: "Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up" (Deuteronomy 6:7). "Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul dili- gently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons" ijSffiB^^silfeSSiv (Deuteronomy 4:9). A certain man had two sons, and the younger of them "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when said to his father, "Father, give rrfe the portion of thy he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). time, and thy attention, and thy companionship, and thy counsel and guidance which falleth to me." —The Pentecostal Evangel

June 19, 1967 (3) Is that so? Then good-bye to home, to government, to everything—God will not stand for that. I had a father who stood by the river of life, thank God, an old pile driver, and smiled when he drove down the jetty. He never licked me in his life, but I always knew I had one coming if I needed it. He raised 10 children When the Modern Tide and he did it as an undermaster of God. You never saw a spoiled boy in your life to whom the mother had given everything she had who would not take that little mother and trample on her heart before he got through. Struck Our Home God intended parents and children to live together in the unit He ordained. He commands parents thus, and with a covenant attached: "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). I thought I was getting away with something. I left Paul Racier my father's Christ and the Bible because of the teaching in the universities into which I went. The antichrist spirit attracted me. I lost my faith. Before my father died, he turned his face heavenward with the happiest, most beauti- ful smile. Someone leaned over the bed and said, "Dr. Rader, how can you smile like that when there is not I will never forget when the modern tide struck our one of your children serving the Lord?" home. My sister weighed 100 pounds. She was an artist, He smiled back as he answered, "That does not matter nervous and temperamental and all that kind of stuff a bit. It was settled long ago. I brought them up as He that we had to watch out for. She was an artist, while commanded me. They will every one be in. They are a we had to make our own living. She got music and some strongheaded group, but God will lead them; He will other ideas in her head and came home from college bring them in." the first year. That morning after breakfast, when we And every last one of them is in tonight; yes, every one. had prayer, she rose sweetly and excused herself and God talks to fathers and mothers, and God stands went upstairs. behind fathers and mothers with all the army and navy She got by with it that morning, but Father took note of heaven when they stand Godward for their children. of it; and the next morning when she excused herself, Oh, for a praying fatherhood in our nation, and mothers he said; "Sit still." who pray for their children! I tell you, God hears them. "But really," she pouted, "I don't care to stay!" He hears! He hears! "That doesn't make any difference—stay!" —The Wesleyan Youth "I think a person should have some liberty in religion," she answered. "You can have all the liberty you please in religion," The Test of a Man Father told her, "but I run this house; I paid for your grub; I bought the clothes you have on; I paid for your William Cowper Brann education. Sit down there quietly and listen while a father who loves you reads and prays." The place to take the true measure of a man is not My big brother came home one day. He had made the forum or the field, not the marketplace or the Amen money for himself; he had a big fat cigar in his mouth. corner, but at his own fireside. There he lays aside his He smoked it awhile on the back porch. Father came mask, and you may judge whether he is imp or angel, out, reached out his hand, took the cigar, and throwing king or cur, hero or hypocrite. it into the garden, said, "Don't smoke them around here I care not what the world says of him; whether it crown anymore." him with laurels or pelt him with bad eggs; I care never "I would like to know what right you have to throw a penny what his reputation or religion may be; if his that cigar out," Brother complained. children dread his homecoming and his better-half has to "You know my idea," Father answered. "This is my swallow her heart every time she has to ask him for a house. I am raising boys and making a specialty of it, five-dollar bill, he's a fraud, even though he prays night and you don't get by with that kind of stuff. When you and morn till he's black in the face, and howls hallelujah are working for a man, he can tell you whether to smoke till he shakes the eternal hills. in his office or in his warehouse. I am running this house. But if his children rush to the front gate to greet him, God gave me the command to do so." and love's own sunshine illuminates the face of his wife "I will go somewhere else," my brother threatened. when she hears his footfall, you may take it for granted "I am sorry. I love you," Father replied quietly, "but that he is true gold, for his home's a heaven, and the if you want the cigar worse than you do the home, you hypocrite never gets that near the throne of God. can go." I can forgive much in that fellow mortal who would He went away three weeks, and came back and said, rather make men swear than women weep; who would "Dad, you're right. I submit and will play the game rather have the hate of the whole he-world than the according to the rules." contempt of his wife; who would rather call anger to the Most people say, "Well, you have to let children have eyes of a king than fear to the face of a child. their way." —The Gospel Herald

(4) Evangelical Visitor Elsewhere in this issue of the Evangelical Visitor ap- Another thing I appreciate is your marriage with Mother. The supreme desire of your marriage is to make Mother pears the obituary of Mr. George Lenhert. Appearing on happy. You have shown this and set a near perfect example this page is a letter written by his son, Dale, addressed for me to follow. Joanne, Ken, and I will never be able to his father a few days before his passing. Also, the to replace you in Mother's life but we will surely do our fathers reply. best to help her in any way we can. 1 want you to know this, Daddy. This being the Father's Day issue, the significance of Daddy, I just can't describe what you mean to me and these letters has meaning for all dads and sons among how much I am going to miss you. When I come home EV readership. Abo starting on this page is the tribute these days I don't say much but I feel all my heart can con- read by Messiah College president, Dr. D. Ray Hostetter tain. I want you to know that my silence is full of love, at the funeral service, jnh but there just isn't anything to say. I am sincerely praying that in all of this the Lord will be glorified and if it be His will, that He will yet see fit April 28, 1967 not to take you. He knows best—He makes no mistakes. Dear Daddy, Your loving son, I would like to say all of this to you but I am such a Dale sentimental jerk, that I just couldn't without breaking. I hope you take this letter in the right spirit. I just had to get The answer: these tilings off of my chest. The eve. April 28, 1967 I want to thank you for everything you have given me—a Dear Dale, strong body, a quick mind, material comfort, but most of all, the Christ-like ideal to follow. That is one thing that Thanks for your letter. I think I understand you. I'm a not many sons have. sentimental jerk also. Thanks for all the kind things you say about me. These I can't ever remember once, Daddy, when you said an things you mentioned are exactly what I most wanted to leave unkind word or did an unkind thing to anyone, let alone to my children. I never had any desire to get, nor to leave your family. You are my highest ideal, the person after them, a lot of money. whom I try to pattern my life. I look at the things you have accomplished in life in just a few short years and what I First of all Dale, all the credit of all you have said have accomplished and wonder if I'll ever come up to your about me goes to Christ. I remember when I was 10 or 11 ideal. I was thinking of quitting teaching and flying full time, years old, maybe as early as 9, I was tired of conviction but without a word, you talked me out of it. I can't justify and at one point wished Jesus would leave me alone and not flying as a full time job in terms of service for the Lord to bother me any more. I remember wishing this as I filled my fellowman. When I die I want to have done something the ensilage cart in the old barn at home. But He loved me besides make money and enjoy myself. I want to influence too much! He didn't leave me alone. He also gave me a lives as you have done, Daddy, influence them for Christ. mother who challenged me. Everything you said about me I appreciate your cheerful "Hello, glad to have you home," could have been said about my Mother. I always wanted ever since I first started going away in September 1959, and to be like she was. your cheerful "Come home when you can" these last two But Christ is the One who gets the credit for any good. years. I know I am always welcome. He saved me from temptations in my early life that I could not have withstood which would have ruined my life. There I remember the times you used to spank me—never in is no marriage without problems but Jesus kept us. I felt He anger—and goodness knows that I deserved all of them and gave me enough confidence in Him to make the Christian many more. I always knew that I deserved them and you life practical. were doing it out of love. The last few days have been very emotional and perhaps I remember the time when I was having such an adjust- dark. I know the Lord healed me and I don't understand ment, after moving back to Pennsylvania, in the grade school. this now. I don't know the future but I know Who holds the One da^ you and Mother visited the school and you future. I felt very tired today just sitting. promised to help me build a box full of pulleys with a motor on it. With great understanding you led me through In the Old Testament battles they were to shout and that awfully rough year. praise before the victory. I praise Him! Thanks again for your lovely letter. I appreciated it so I remember one time I was feeling discouraged and told much. Mother's and my greatest desire is to see our children you that I was afraid that I didn't match the son you wanted serving Christ and walking in His Spirit. We are so grateful to have when I was born. You were so kind then and said that He has worked this out. We have so many things to be you didn't have an ideal so I wasn't to worry about it. thankful for. You, Dale, have made us very happy. I remember the time back on the farm when you were Let your life be directed completely by Christ. There is trying to teach me responsibility. You sent me out to get no other way. the cows and they wouldn't cooperate with me. I came Lovingly, back to the farm buildings twice asking for help but you Your wanted to teach me a lesson and sent me back both times. Daddy Only after I determined to do the job myself, did you give me help. Thank you, Daddy, for this lesson. Spiritual victory came two days later, April 30th. He took 1 remember when I first started high school, I had so sick the next morning and went to be with his Lord the much trouble with Latin and getting adjusted to school life. following day, May 2, 1967. You and 1 took the old school truck out to Ohio to buy a used dishwasher from Greenville Hospital for the College. During that trip you helped me learn to work on the Latin A Tribute from Messiah College and gave me the push that 1 needed to get over the hump. Thank you for this, Daddy. We dedicate this tribute to the George Lenhert family You know, maybe you are the lucky one to get to go and to the honor of the Lord Jesus Christ. Home first. You will soon know the answers to so many Our Heavenly Father in His infinite wisdom has taken questions that puzzle me. You will soon be in the presence our esteemed colleague George Lenhert from our midst. The of our wonderful Lord. I don't understand why you are Trustees, Associates, Faculty and Staff join in deepest sorrow going but the Lord is in full control. I am hoping, yet, that with you the family. We have at least some measure of He will undertake and let you here with us a while yet, understanding of your keen loss because his passing is also but He knows best. Your attitude during this illness has vitally felt among all of us. been a real help to me too. It has helped me to refocus my It has been said that the measure of a man is not the thoughts on the true perspective of life. So many things that number of servants he has, but the number of people he seemed so important to me a few weeks ago seem so unim- serves. By such assessment Mr. Lenhert must be ranked at portant to me now. Daddy, I can't think of anyone who could the highest level. To this audience it would be redundant to be less ashamed to meet the Lord than you. Thank you for speak at any length about his consecrated service because this. he gave himself so valiantly to his tasks and beyond. His I often think these days, that it would be so nice if Linda service was so unreserved that on the surface it may have and Robbie could get old enough to remember "Bapa," but appeared he was always ready to be taken for granted. Un- here again, the Lord knows best. * fortunately at times, I fear, he was taken for granted even You know, it is funny how much I remember little things. by the least of us. Too often he was unhonored, unrecognized, I hope I remember this when I become a father and give uneulogized and unsung. my children good little things to remember me by. (Continued on page fourteen)

June 19, 1967 (5) Inside India—

With Lowell D. Mann, M.D. Class of 1957

Dr. Lowell Mann was interviewed by the JEFFERSON MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI BULLETIN during his visit to the United States last summer. By permission of the Alumni Executive Secretary, we share parts of this dis- cerning report. Page Ed.

India's geography seems to intimate her character. Desert interior, mountainous wall, and an ocean border introduce her as a curious mixture of opposites. She is Dr. and Mrs. Lowell Mann with Eric Lowell, and Thomas Andrew. both lethargic and bristling; bored and rebellious. This is a country where drought and flood are equally menac- ing; where language makes strangers of people; where pitals, however, it is quite modern. The electricity, water long life is a problem rather than progress. Here a woman system, laboratory, and x-ray equipment would be taken prime minister rules while a large percentage of the fe- for granted in America. In Madhipura they are "extras." male population still fears to expose its face. Some of The laboratory was set up by Mrs. Mann, who has trained India is even unaware that she (India) is the prize being Indians to staff it. sought in a cold war contest. Madhipura District India's complexities form the everyday working en- vironment of Dr. Lowell D. Mann, class of 1957. For the The Indian government has provided Madhipura dis- past seven years Dr. Mann has labored in this overcrowded trict's three million people with three hospitals. Total bed and underproductive vineyard. In 1959 he arrived in capacity is less than 200. Each hospital has two or three Madhipura, a town about 400 miles north of Calcutta, to doctors. Dais may be assisting too; these are Indians who relieve Dr. George E. Paulus, Jr., (Jeff '52), as the sole have taken a short course of training. The government hospital in Madhipura does not have a nurse on its staff. Numerous clinics and dispensaries serve the area, some of which have doctors and others only lesser trained per- sonnel. In all there are about fifteen doctors in the Madhi- pura area, or one for every 50,000 persons. Those not staff- ing hospitals are in private practice. Since India operates under the closed hospital system, a doctor must choose his capacity as hospital staff member or private practitioner. A private physician may refer patients to a hospital physician; once a patient is admitted, however, only a staff member may care for him. Dr. Mann follows this procedure in the mission clinic also. The mission hospital receives no government support. It operates on an annual budget of $25,000. Three thou- sand of this comes from the Board for Missions of the Brethren in Christ Church in Elizabethtown. Charges made to patients supplement this. While there is a fee for medicines given and treatments performed, the actual visit of the patient is free. The Indian government pro- Ambulance delivering patient gram of socialized medicine does not cover the cost of drugs prescribed. These must be bought at the patient's expense. This fact brings into balance, from a financial doctor in a mission hospital there. The hospital is spon- standpoint, the benefits of the private hospital and govern- sored by the Brethren in Christ Board for Missions of ment hospitals. Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. His predecessor gave Dr. Mann an idea of the size job he was to undertake: to provide medical care for 25,000 Indians each year. Dr. Religious Influences Mann is mastering the task. Assisting him is a staff of Religious interests pervade Indian life. Hinduism in twenty persons, including his wife (a University of Penn- particular has a tenacious hold on its members and much sylvania trained medical technologist), two nurses, and of the Indian character is molded by the demands of this several Indians, among them a laboratory technician, an religion. Religious custom determines how people will x-ray technician, and a pharmacologist. The hospital itself think, what they will eat, with whom they will associate. is small; its twenty beds are divided between general It generates an air of fatalism. "What happens is sup- medical and tuberculosis cases. It is the outpatient de- posed to happen," is how Dr. Mann describes the attitude. partment that keeps Dr. Mann busiest. An average of 120 "They don't get upset in very difficult situations." The persons a day come here for treatment. The mission caste system gives added force to this apathy. Though hospital in Madhipura is not well equipped in terms of legally dissolved in 1948 by Mahatma Gandhi, it still has American hospitals. Compared to local government hos- a very real hold on the people in rural areas. The restraints

(6) Evangelical Visitor of this system work unfavorably for India's poor. But caste means privilege as well as privation. This aspect of the caste system presents a problem in Dr. Mann's outpatient clinic. "We try to see the patients as they come in turn. Those of the higher caste cannot understand why their privilege of caste is not honored. We provide some op- portunity for this by making those who wish to pay a special fee come in ahead of others. But this they prefer not to do, too." The way out of the past and into the twentieth century lies in uprooting this system, but the task is making slow progress. India's current food shortage has rated her a front page spot in newspapers. This crisis is not unrelated to religious observance by Hindus. Many Hindus refuse to kill rodents which eat a sizeable percentage of grain crops. An animal or insect may be the reincarnated form of a past human, according to the Hindu religion, and must be respected as such. Dr. Mann recalls seeing the neighbor- hood carpenter working on a piece of wood while a bevy of ants crawled over it. "The carpenter won't kill them. In the Doctor's Office He merely brushes them off and continues to work. I have seen him slap himself to kill a mosquito, but this is about all." women. Women in India, when educated, are trained to The Hindu promise of a next life is the only escape be leaders. Dr. Mann points to this as another of the offered from the confines of its bleak present. Dr. Mann conundrums of modern India. feels that illiteracy is partly responsible for this situation, since it hides a broad spectrum of modern life. Motivation for His Mission Living quarters for the Mann family are about 100 Sociological Aspects yards from the hospital. It is a compound certainly without Add to these perplexities boredom. Unemployment all the conveniences of home. Housekeeping in India generates a restlessness. Outlets for this often take the involves ordering canned goods from Calcutta four hundred form of mob spirit. In cities the unrest may adopt a miles away. There is very little in the way of prepared political tone. The number of students concentrated there foods. "Everything has to be prepared from scratch. The accounts for this. Dr. Mann notices only minimal aware- bread is baked, the water and milk boiled. Many times ness of Communism on the part of rural people. When the flour has to be sifted—to get out the bugs." When asked about the impact of a woman prime minister on the Manns' first son arrived in 1964, extra precautions had local women's thinking, Dr. Mann replied that most rural to be taken. Mrs. Mann travelled 250 miles to another women are not even aware of this. He did venture an mission hospital for the delivery. The journey took eight- opinion on Mrs. Gandhi, however: "I think she is an een hours via American car, train, river steamer, train excellent choice for prime minister. She is very knowl- again, rickshaw, and jeep. They now have a second son, edgeable and is doing a fine job. One of the reasons I born in America in May. think this, perhaps, is because she is permitting a little bit Because Dr. Mann was needed immediately at his of capital investment in the raising and production of post in Madhipura, there was no opportunity for language fertilizer." study. Interpreters assisted in the beginning. Now he is Family life is close in India. Sons bring their wives able to communicate with the patients to some degree home and the size of the courtyard is merely enlarged about their diseases, but describes his Hindi as "horrible." where possible. Thoug h Madhipura is a farming corn- The motivation for Dr. Mann's undertaking has mixed munity, farmers do not live on the land as in America. In origins. Having a missionary uncle in Africa sparked the fact, the American cus- interest. The emphasis which Dr. Mann's church places tom seems quite incon- on mission activities kept the idea in the foreground. "I ceivable to Indians, feel that we do have something to offer in the realm of who live together in Christian religion that gives a degree of freedom that is villages. "They are inter- not found in other religions, certainly as we have seen in dependent upon each the Hindu religion." The mission hospital attempts to other and there is a reach people through medicine. There is no mandatory tremendous amount of attendance at devotion or instruction. Hindu and Moslem group discipline. The response to the program has been weak, but Aboriginals wife of the household are curious about it. Dr. Mann attributes the 400 Aboriginal rules her daughters-in- conversions made within the last 20 years to the fact that law." In the Madhipura these people have been spirit worshippers rather than area, Dr. Mann esti- idol worshippers. They have been able to make the transfer mates that less than five in concept much more easily than would idol worshippers. per cent of the women •wMi are literate. These few, though, make a valuable Frustrations and Insights centribution, perhaps India offers a doctor all the frustrations of practice in * \ > more than would be primitive conditions. Dr. Mann finds upsetting the pa- Elephantiasis expected of western (Continued on page eleven)

June 19, 1967 (T) A Letter to God CHRISTIAN Youth - Sum

(The following is written with reverence, being adapted to be divine. He told His followers one day that because from an article in a daily paper. . . . Page Ed.) they had seen Him they had seen You. But many preachers today say that you can't really count on what the Bible has Dear God: to say about anything. I've never tried writing to You before, but things have I could go on, but it wouldn't prove anything. But gotten to such a state down here, I thought I'd better. I am sure of one thing. Everyone who wants to see A lot of people are asking these days whether You're You, can see You. They have to swallow their pride and dead. Some of them are even people who preach in Your join the rest of us sinners at the foot of a rough cross on Name. It's confusing enough for adults and you can which Emmanuel died. imagine what it's doing to young people. Those of us who did this have a deep conviction that Just the other day, for example, one of the men elected You're alive because we feel Your vitality in our lives. We to serve us as a lawmaker at the Capitol got up and said feel different. We are different. We have a sense of the prayer they use at the start of each day's sitting was destiny because we know that we're going to live forever a lot of nonsense. I would have thought they had better with You. We don't understand it all but we're staking things to do on our tax money but this fellow (and he our lives on the fact that You are alive and well able professes a belief in You) said the prayer made it sound to take care of us in spite of atomic explosions. as though You were some sort of King on a heavenly The people who think You're dead will (if we work on throne. it enough) some day see that it's themselves who are This is what I have been taught in Sunday School and dead. And when they really awaken, they'll see that You I have to admit it sure made You sound important. You are very much alive and more than eager to help them. know, of course, that there are a lot of people who never I'll admit that I sometimes act as if You were dead did believe in You. Now it seems that even some of those and this doesn't help things much. Please help me to do who say they do are telling us that maybe we ought to look better. I know You can if I just have enough gumption to at You in a different light. live what I believe. In a way, You can't blame people for wondering. This Very humbly yours, tiny planet in Your universe has been getting a little out of A. Young Believer whack lately. We're still fighting wars even though we know that the next world war will not only end all wars but us too. Notice to Christ's Crusaders organizations: Have you elected We still haven't accepted the fact that when You made your youth delegate to the Christ's Crusaders activities at us, You didn't stamp us with "first grade," "second grade," General Conference? Be sure to do this soon—and ask for a and "rejects." We still hate our neighbors and those who report back to your group. don't agree with us. We still have children and then neglect them. We still worship the almighty dollar. So You can see that when someone says that "God is "The Sheep of the Flock" dead," he's got a lot to go on. It seems as if we've gotten too big for our britches. C. D. Meigs Just because we've flown in space (they tell me we'll A Reason and a Plea for Organized Adult Bible Classes land on the moon in a little while) we think that nothing We oft hear the plea for trying to keep can hold us down, even You. Just because we've unravelled "The Lambs of the Flock" in the fold, some of the secrets of life and claim that we will soon And well we may; but what of the Sheep, be able to start life itself, we think that You've got nothing Shall they be left out in the cold? on us. 'Twas a Sheep, not a lamb, that wandered away, And we have discovered a new type of morality, one In the parable Jesus told, that decrees almost anything to be right depending on the A grown up Sheep that had gone far astray, situation. It's called "situational ethics." From the ninety and nine in the fold. With all this, according to some people, who needs Out in the wilderness, out in the cold, God? If this sort of thinking continues, even the people 'Twas a Sheep the good shepherd sought, who follow You are going to change their favorite prayer And back to the flock, safe into the fold, to something like "Our Father, Whoever and Wherever 'Twas a Sheep the good shepherd brought. You are . . ." And why for the Sheep should we earnestly long, The problem today is that people don't know where And as earnestly hope and pray? Because there is danger, if they go wrong, to look for You anymore. A lot of them expect to find You They will lead the young lambs away only within the four walls of buildings we call churches down here. For the lambs will follow the sheep, you know, Wherever the sheep may stray; They wouldn't think to look for you in the eyes of a If the Sheep go wrong, it will not be long new baby or the dawn of a new day. They'd think you Till the lambs are as wrong as they. were silly if you told them You were in the hands of a surgeon or the mind of a teacher. And so with the Sheep we earnestly plead, For the sake of the lambs to-day, And the last place in the world they'd expect to see If the lambs are lost what a terrible cost you is in the Bible or in the carpenter's Son who claimed Some Sheep will have to pay.

(») Evangelical Visitoi- DUCATION Using the Whole Hour for Sunday School

hool - Home Don Shafer Director of Sunday Schools

"How in the world do you expect me to teach this for their own worship. This will teach the use of the lesson in thirty minutes?" asked a junior high teacher. hymnal and the practice of public prayer (many adults "Why can't we have more time for discussion?" an adult could use some of this). Recently I heard that teacher asked. These are questions being asked too often adults can memorize as easily as children, we just don't by Sunday School teachers who sense the need for more take time to do it. Memory work could also be a part of time in actual class session. an extended time period. Role playing and preplanned skits by the pupils make learning vital and interesting. This is not an attempt to say that opening assemblies Take some time to have written impressions from the are to be scrapped, but we might do well to have fewer of students so that you may see if they express what you them or at least very short ones if we take time from thought you had taught them. Plan ahead by assigning actual class session. It is the contention of the writer that work. It might be helpful to review mission news and there ought to be at least a full hour Sunday morning for world events as they are related to your studies. actual class session. Many superintendents see their role as the planner and promoter of a 15-30 minute opening Not only planning but tools are necessary to help the assembly period. Teachers and workers have no time for teacher use the time wisely. Bible games, maps, Bible discussion, use of visuals or other aids that could be used drills, flash cards, puzzles, blocks could be used as folk if at least an hour were available. Here are some attempts arrive. One would of course use the appropriate tool for to answer why this call for a longer time? What to do in an the various age levels. extended session? How to actually proceed in a longer An interest center with books, pictures, themes, and time allotment? department promotional materials could be a class or committee project. The audio-visual tools of records, tapes, First—why? There are at least three reasons why an filmstrips, slides, flat pictures, posters, objects, peek boxes, hour should be available for any given class. One is for puppets, flannelgraph, etc., should be employed more often the participation of the pupil. Assuming that teaching is as time permits. conveyed in a relationship we then conclude that teaching begins when the first student arrives. If we have the Nature articles such as plants or even live animals can pupil going immediately to class it offers time for a friendly be used to lend emphasis to the point of a given class informal opening which encourages openness and gives session and it is good to remember that hand crafts were time to get acquainted with all those involved. not created or copyrighted for Vacation Bible School only. These may become a part of a class session. Secondly there is the concern of the class. There is a reason why we don't all study in one big class in Sunday Well these are a few tools that could be employed if School. It is because we find learning an easier and more we took the time for a full hour or more on a given Sunday morning. profitable experience in a smaller group of the same age and interest. Why not have a devotional period as a class at Does this sound practical and possible? Well some the beginning of the period? Or why not close the class schools do use at least an hour. It has worked in small with a dedication, commitment, or invitation? The main and large Sunday Schools. concern is stewardship of time for the class as a unit. It Let's take a look at how this is done. is highly desirable that each class, a peer group have at First of all let's note a brief look at structuring a session. least a full hour session of solid Christian Education. Each teacher will want to decide what goes into a given Thirdly there is the time of the teacher. Granted it is hour. The teacher will plan ahead as to how much time important for the teacher to share a message or a lesson. should be given to each part of any given class session. There must be the biblical setting and presentation of a For example here is a list of suggested areas to cover in unit of study. But time is so valuable and many teachers a typical class period. feel the pinch of a shortened period. There is really no time for review and participation as a group. There ought 1. Pre-session activities using time from the arrival of to be enough time to arouse interest. It takes more than the first pupil. twenty or thirty minutes to encourage participation of the 2. Worship or devotions on the class level (option- group. There ought to be time to use the Bible, and Bible use at end of period). helps in class. This is not possible in a very brief time. 3. Lesson presentation Well suppose we do give a teacher 15-30 minutes more 4. Class participation time than he has at present. What will the teacher do with 5. Projects and activities the extra time? There are some teachers who know what 6. Assignments and announcements (option—may be at to do. For those who may wish some guidance here are the beginning). some suggestions. 7. Closing First of all there must be some planning done ahead of time. Plan to involve the students in activity. You may As an illustration of this in practice the writer refers have them arrange the room by moving furniture, writing to a Sunday School that took the plan to heart. They de- on the blackboard, or changing a bulletin board. These cided to eliminate opening sessions except for once a month are often good activities for early arrivals. Have a class or special Sundays such as Easter, Christmas, etc. (once host and/or hostess to introduce new folk and make a quarter might be acceptable for some). your guests feel at home. Have the pupils plan ahead (Continued on page twelve)

June 19, 1967 (9) Early Impressions """SsssSUP^^" w'

Excerpts from a letter by Dr. and Mrs. Robert Musser, Macha Mission (Zambia)

Acres of old Africa are still around, and there is a cheerful, friendly atmosphere about the bush villages of the Tonga people. However, the traveler is amazed at the tremendous expansion going on everywhere, the restless building schemes of educators, medical officers, and agri- culturalists, and all the rapid progress of a new country in the making. Yet those of us who have come to serve the Africans are constantly aware that the miraculous trans- Part of crowd at dedication of chapel for services formation is that which takes place in the life of an at Macha Hospital individual who commits himself to Christ's teaching. Here at Macha Hospital, too, we find rapid expansion of the medical program. A great asset to the evangelical sin." "Were Mary and Joseph married to each other or was work at the hospital is the hospital chapel, dedicated about Joseph just keeping Mary?" "Why don't preachers preach a year ago. In November we saw the completion of the the 'Song of Solomon'?" "Why is it wrong to dance? In lovely new surgery and x-ray building, and more recently the Bible there is a verse where it says there is time to we moved into the second doctor's residence. Right now play, dance, pray, sing, and so forth." Basically, though while the Wormans are in India, I-W's Sam Bert and perhaps less sophisticated, the questions are similar to Jerry P e c k m a n are those heard at home. carrying on with the Bob finds the pathology here much more exciting than construction of the near- what he experienced in the states. We request your prayers ly completed ablution that we may be effective witnesses for Christ and His block, classrooms, and Kingdom. dining hall for the newly established nurs- "Missionary Bulletin" Grantham Congregation ing school. Needless to say, the All-Missionary Fellowship past few months have been quite busy, not ALL missionaries - Home and Abroad - are invited to a only because this is the Fellowship on Friday night after the regular services at season (after the rains) General Conference. Please check the Conference program Dr. and Mrs. Robert Musser pause for place of meeting. for an influx of hospital for informal picture between duties BCM Office patients, but because at Macha Hospital—Zambia. we have been involved in preparing for, accepting, and enrolling the first VISIT TO NICARAGUA! The Executive Secretary of our Missions class of eighteen trainees into our nursing school. spent several days with the Wolgemuths during the month of May, The nursing school is grant-aided by the government to accompanied by the Ray Gibbles (Antrim Congregation) and train Zambia Enrolled Nurses in a two-year program in evangelist Rev. Jack Yost. This shows them arriving at the which greater emphasis is placed on practical experience Wolgemuths' gate in Managua. Fuller report in later Visitor. at the hospital than in academic course work. The greater burden for supervising the trainees falls to our three Sisters, Martha Lady, Shirley Heisey, and Erma Jean Gish. I enjoy four hours of classes with the girls each week in English and Bible. Right now we're working on alphabetiz- ing names so that the trainees can be of help in filing at the hospital . . . The government has chosen English to be the unifying language among the six or seven tribes in Zambia. There are few, if any, vernacular words to express medical work. The first day of Bible class, after presenting the theme of the course, "The Acts of The Living God to Reveal Himself and His Plan of Redemption for the World," I had the girls write down questions they would like to have answered during our study. Most of the questions centered around the problem of evil, sin, and hell. Then, too, the many different religions and especially the many Protes- tant denominations confuse them. And of course, there are always questions like "Is it a sin to twist our hair? It troubles me very much so I want to know whether it is a

(10) Evangelical Visitor America Mission made a study of the fastest-growing movements in their field and found them to be three: the Communists, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Pentcostal Missionary Involvement churches. Then they analyzed these movements to find their common denominator. Was it their message? Ob- viously not. Here were an anti-Christian ideology, an /. Wilmer Heisey heretical cult, and a Christian group. Finally they "came up with this proposition: "The growth of any movement is in direct proportion to its ability to mobilize its entire membership for continuous evangelistic action." Based on Webster defines involvement as to bring one into this thesis, a program of "evangelism in depth" has been circumstances or a situation from which one cannot easily moving from country to country in Latin America, train- free oneself. In this day of computers it is so easy to think ing, uniting, and mobilizing ordinary Christians as never only in terms of statistics and numbers and lose the per- before, and making unprecedented impact in the life of sonal vital interest and touch. these nations. The medical profession has made significant and out- This is a type of involvement that we would do well to standing advances in the use of new medicines and drugs. follow throughout the United States and Canada. As a de- Facilities and equipment used by the multitudes of modern nomination, we have rejoiced in a 3 per cent gain for the hospitals scattered throughout our land are the most past number of years. For this we do have reasons to advanced. With all of these outstanding developments and thank God. The growth of any movement is in direct pro- improvements, however, the involvement of the physician portion to the mobilization of its membership. Does this in the life of the patient and family may be partially or mean that as a brotherhood we have a 3 per cent involve- entirely lost. ment of our membership in missionary and evangelistic Also in our present school system in which the at- outreach? Just think what the results would be if 25 per tendance may be from 1500 to 3000 with 300 to 500-or cent of our total membership became involved and were even more—students in the graduating class, the involve- mobilized in the missionary outreach. ment of the teacher in the life of the pupil and his family Dr. Truman B. Douglass, in his book MISSION TO may be very remote. This is a far departure from the little AMEBICA has said, "The church in America today must red schoolhouse in which the attendance of the entire regard itself as being a characteristically missionary situa- school may have been no more than twenty. Our present tion. What we call 'Home Missions' is not an eccentric or system is certainly much advanced in the courses offered, marginal or optional activity. It is the main business of the breadth of knowledge to which the student is exposed, every local church, every church school, every Christian as well as the latest methods and techniques of learning. institution and program . . . The church in America must But the personal involvement of the teacher with the be a missionary church or die. But in how many local pupil ana the personal attention which the individual churches is there a vivid and dynamic awareness of having student receives from the teacher has passed with the a missionary task? Is not the dominant attitude of many little red schoolhouse. churches defensive rather than out-going, an anxious con- An incident which I keenly remember as a boy in the cern for 'keeping things going' with the minimum of rural community in which I grew up was the occasion disturbance to old time members and familiar faces rather each year in the beginning of the school term when my than a concern for bold and imaginative outreach into parents invited the new school teacher of the little country the surrounding communities? At how many annual meet- school to our home for an evening meal. In this way they ings of local churches are the reports of the year's activities would meet the teacher and she would become acquainted given in terms of missionary accomplishment? Not merely with our home and family. Quite naturally with our present the report of contributions to missionary organization but system today this would be well nigh impossible. So many the kind of report that says, 'This is the plan of our mission things are done today by proxy. Personal involvement in as a church in this place and we have done such and such many areas seems to be the thing of the past. to further it'?" When it comes to missions, however, there must be What about your involvement? Shall we measure it by involvement. Someone has said, "The key to the success what we know about communistic involvement, or by what of the missionary program of the church can be summed our nation expects of her military men, or shall it be up in one word - involvement." This cannot be a spasmodic measured by the Cross of Jesus Christ. May we take as our involvement which effects one only during the time of a motto the words of our Master, "As my Father hath sent missionary conference. Missionary facts, figures and stories me, even so send I you." As good soldiers of Jesus Christ moves them emotionally - sometimes even to tears. But the may we take our place at the front line of advance. emotion soon passes away and they forget all about their involvement in a few days. Office records reveal many who began well. They were involved. They had tre- INSIDE INDIA — Continued from page seven mendous intentions. They signed up as potential mission- aries, pledged to pray for missions, undertook a faith tients' tendency not to follow through on treatment. "We promise for missions, but what has happened. Away from see them come in for treatment of parasitic infestation the stimulus of the conference, their involvement ceased— and in a year or less they are back with the same old they became the "dropouts." story. We wonder if we are teaching them anything about There must be a total involvement in the God-given personal habits and cleanliness. We try to inculcate the missionary task of the church. This total involvement Indian staff members with these practices, but it seems means dedication, day-by-day decisions that are geared a rather small group in comparison to the tremendous to God's call, to a deepening prayer ministry and more need." A serious personal challenge to Dr. Mann is guard- sacrificial giving. * ing against the contagion of the Indian's casual attitude In Dr. Leighton Ford's recent book "The Christian toward human life . . . "The temptation is great to think, Persuader" the following account is given. "The Latin (Continued on page twelve) June 19, 1967 (W of the Lord, when many of our young people have re- Pastor's Page ceived calls to Christian service. I encourage that all Pastors would consider it part of their privilege and Pastoral responsibility to attend at least several days of the Pastors Profit from Attendance at camp meeting of their Regional Conference. I have deep feeling that our camp meetings should serve our total General Conference and constituency - the younger and the older; the ministry and the laity; the rural and the urban. This all for the glory Camp Meetings of Christ and the building of His church. Henry A. Ginder INSIDE INDIA — Continued from page eleven Many demands are made on a Pastor's time. These include his commitment to his family and the local con- If they don't care, why should I?' Working with our staff gregation, plus extra curricular activities in community we are able to orient them to thinking every person is and interchurch ministries. important. This is at least a start among a very small Certain priorities must be established. I believe the group and if you have this in more areas of India, in a few Pastor's first commitment must be to his family. His second generations it will be of value." commitment to the local congregation. In addition, he "Getting India to realize some of these things is going should perform extra curricular activities as time and to be a long, hard process," Dr. Mann ended thoughtfully. schedule permit. The journey may be a thousand miles, but the first steps Attendance at General Conference and attendance at are being taken. And Dr. Lowell Mann is making these the Regional Conference camp meeting should not be first strides vigorous ones. • considered as extra curricular. General Conference at- tendance is an important part of the Pastoral assignment. May I develop five reasons for this - SUNDAY SCHOOL—Continued from page nine 1. For the Pastors, there is advantage in fellowship with other ministers and congregational leaders. The idea was promoted at a Worker's Conference Exchange of views, sharing of ideas, discussing con- and ideas were shared with most of the teachers and troversial issues during intermission in the dining workers. Reasons were given as to why we wanted to room and on the dormitory - this is of tremendous eliminate the opening session and values were listed for value. using more time in the Sunday School class sessions. The 2. The stimulation of what might be called "A Global following plans were then laid. Ushers were to be at the View." Missionary rallies and reporting from around various entrances to greet everyone and direct them to the world, give to the Pastor something of a global their class location. Teachers were asked to be in their view, important in his service to the congregation classrooms before their first pupil arrived (this one takes and the community. Many Pastors have returned some effort because some teachers seem to find this from Conference greatly stimulated. difficult!). A variety of pre-session activities was urged. 3. It is a privilege to represent the local congregation The whole class session should be re-vamped and organ- in the adoption of policies at General Conference. ized. Near the end of the class period following a five We must remember that policy is adopted by the minute buzzer warning, the superintendent made general delegate body which represents all the local con- announcements over a public address system piped into gregations. Each Pastor should consider it an honor each class room. This could be done by a mimeographed to represent his congregation in these decisions. memo if a public address system is not available or practical. The superintendent would often conclude his 4. Receiving the inspiration from reports, both financial remarks with an invitation for all to come to the sanctuary and general reports from the institutions and agencies for morning worship. Ideas from various teachers were builds appreciation for the denomination. It is very circulated and it really worked. important for our Pastors to have proper insights into the denominational program, so that there can The success of any plan such as this is to carefully be promotion for each of the institutions throughout explain it to all teachers and workers to give them "rhyme the Conference year. and reason" for using a whole hour. It may mean more teacher training sessions, but that would surely be a good 5. It is good that the Pastor becomes actively a part of step in the right direction. Finally let it be stated that the the adoption of the General Conference budget as plan for more time is really a plea for the time to use presented to the General Conference. He should more of the means of Christian Education available to us. have absorbed it fairly well so he can properly We have so many marvelous ways of teaching in our present it to the home congregation. present day. One needs only to observe the Master Teacher, 6. Giving the Conference report to the home congre- Jesus, to see that often He used these tools to teach. We gation has great potential for unity of interest and call them by such names as—assignments—book reviews- purpose through the church. It is important that debate—demonstration—discussion—drill—panel—p a p e r or this be done factually, forthrightly and with en- short thesis—questions and answers—resource person—role deavor to relay the atmosphere of fellowship of the playing (unrehearsed acting out of situations)—singing- General Conference. skits—speech or lecture—blackboard—charts—displays—film While we are speaking of Pastors attending general or filmstrips—graphs—maps—models—photographs—posters meetings, we will point also to the importance of con- —puppets—recordings—slides—and visual charts. We sug- gregational involvement in the regional camp meetings. gest that our Sunday Schools take at least a full hour to use I believe the camp meeting is a time of fellowship, a time these many and varied means of TEACHING THE of spiritual stimulation and encouragement and a time ETERNAL WORD OF GOD TO THOSE WHO ARE when many of our people are led into the deeper things ENTRUSTED TO US FOR CHRISTIAN NURTURE.

(12) Evangelical Visitor ALLEGHENY CONFERENCE The Chancel Choir of Clarence Center CHURCH NEWS congregation, New York, presented the mis- sionary cantata, "Let The Earth Hear His ATLANTIC CONFERENCE Voice," in the Sunday morning worship serv- ice, June 4. The joint Christ's Crusaders groups of the former Rapho District, Pennsylvania, planned a Mr. and Mrs. Ray Gibble reported to their Conference on the Home, held at Mt. Pleasant home congregation, Antrim, Pa., on their church, on April 30. Group sessions were a recent visit to the mission program in Nica- part of the conference. The speakers were ragua. Paul Snyder, Mrs. Charles Eshelman and Mrs. Eber Dourte. Family month activities Montgomery Bible School of the Mt. Pleasant congregation have in- "I want to thank God for the experience cluded dedication of children and a Mother- of Bible School once more." "Thank God Daughter Fellowship with Mrs. George Kibler as guest speaker. Other guests of the Mt. for the many young people who gave their Pleasant congregation have been Henry Heisey, hearts to God." "God has given me a real evangelist in revival services; pictures of Hong concern for those young sincere hearts that Kong and Korea shown by Christian business- moved forward in search of God. It's my man Ben High; Dale Ulery, telling of victories prayer that God will be with them now that in Christ during his recent illness; and a pro- Bible School is over." gram in song and word by Messiah College Keeping the jeeps rolling was the task of Gospel Team. Richard Eberly. Explaining the different goals to Rev. Paul Hess and to Ronald Garling. Ninety persons enjoyed the Women's Fel- lowship Mother-Daughter Banquet of the The project was supplying gas and supplies Elizabethtown congregation, Penna. Mrs. for the jeeps in India. The children showed Lehman Keener of the Unevangelized Fields their enthusiasm with offerings from $7.83 to Mission was guest speaker. $16.54. A second project was the purchasing of a portrait of Christ for. the sanctuary. The" Ten persons were baptized in an impressive total for all offerings was $100.00. As a joint baptismal service of the Elizabethtown special feature, Mrs, Gibble gave an interest- and Pequea congregations, held in the fellow- ing "chalk talk" Bible story. ship hall of the Elizabethtown church. Pastors Glenn Ginder and Cyrus Lutz administered baptism.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Dagen, West Willow, Pa., members of the Refton Brethren in Christ Church, observed their fiftieth wed- ding anniversary by entertaining relatives and friends at Meadow Hills Dining House, May 7, 1967. Seventy dollars was presented to Raymond The Dagens were married May 12, 1917, in Garling, Sunday School Treasurer, for India. Philadelphia. They have four children: Mrs. These were a few of the testimonies given Florence Hess, Quarryville; Robert, Strasburg; at Montgomery, Pa., Brethren in Christ Church Mrs. Miriam Miller, Washington Boro; and the Sunday following Bible School. The school Charles, Jr., West Willow. Two children are began April 26 and continued through May 5. deceased. There are fifteen grandchildren. As the time came near, teachers were a bit discouraged for the weather man was promis- A Family Life Conference was held by the ing rain and cold. The first night it held true Manor congregation, Pa., on Mother's Day. with plenty of rain and very cool tempera- Adult speaker, Rev. Richard Showalter, dis- tures. This didn't hinder attendance. From the The portrait of Christ was presented to cussed parent-child relationships, and Mr. first night to the last we had from 184 to trustee Olen Hess by Ronald Garling, super- Howard Landis led the youth in a study of 205 in attendance. intendent vocations. The youth singers, "Gospel Variations," presented a service of music in the evening Crusader service. May 26 and 27, in a nearby boys' camp. Marion Heisey, counsellor in the Kent State With Dr. D. Ray Heisey as guest speaker, all University School of Education, led the A combined choir program of the Fairland in attendance participated in discussion con- Chestnut Grove congregation, Ohio, in con- and Souderton congregations, Pa., was held cerning advancement of the local church pro- sideration of parent-child relationships, Sun- in the Souderton church, Sunday evening, gram. day evening, May 7. The film, "The Conscience June 18. A return program, with Fairland as The youth of Amherst congregation held a of a Child," was used. host, is planned for fall. retreat May 20 and 21. Joe Shultz, director of Greater Canton Youth for Christ, was Bishop Carl J. Ulery has submitted the following report on the Valley Chapel Me- CANADIAN CONFERENCE guest speaker. Parents joined their teens Sun- day evening for a parent-teen discussion. morial Home, Canton, Ohio: Formerly this A membership reception service for four was a joint project of the Northern Ohio chur- persons was held by the Port Colborne con- ches, but by subsequent actions the property gregation, Ontario, Sunday morning, May 14. The Bert Stepp family, Auburn, Indiana, has now been deeded to the Valley Chapel The Wainfleet Gospel Four presented music in presented a skit, music, and readings in the trustees of the Brethren in Christ Church, the evening service. The congregation observed Sunday morning service of the Phoneton con- who now have the responsibility for its Canadian Centennial Sunday on May 28. gregation, Ohio, May 28. operation. The Home has cared for more than twenty- A theme of family life emphasis was used five elderly people during its existence and Bishop Swalm announces in the Canadata by the Valley Chapel congregation, Ohio, that Robert Climenhaga, a recent graduate of has provided for them a Christian environ- during the Sunday evenings in May. A dis- ment and loving care which made their last Messiah College, has accepted a two year cussion evening, "Doing things together"; and appointment as Director of Christian Educa- years pleasant. The operation of the Home the films, "Jamie, the story of a Sibling," and has carried its own financial load and has tion for the Massey Place congregation, Saska- "The Conscience of a Child" presented vary- toon, Sask. proven profitable. ing aspects of parent-child relationships. The work continues, still directed by Henry P. and Lela Fern Heisey. There has been a CENTRAL CONFERENCE The Christ's Crusaders of Springfield con- request on their part to retire from the work. The Church Board and their wives of the gregation, Ohio, sponsored a Mother-Daughter The plans for the future operation of the Amherst congregation, Ohio, held a retreat, Tea on Mother's Day afternoon. Home are uncertain at the present time.

June 19, 1967 (13) PACIFIC CONFERENCE SLAYMAKER-GARRETT — Miss Nancy Eileen grandchildren. One sister, Mrs. Esther Heise, The Ontario congregation, Calif., held a Garrett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George preceded him in death. Family Retreat Camp-out at Mile High Pines, H. Garrett, Conestoga, Penna., and Mr. Roy A triumphant memorial service was con- May 29 and 30. L. Slaymaker, son of Mrs. Mary Slaymaker, ducted in the Church-Chapel with the pastor, Strasburg, Pennsylvania, and the late Clyde Rev. LeRoy B. Walters, in charge. The theme The Western Christian High School Choir J. Slaymaker, were united in marriage of the service was Psalm 34:3 - "O magnify sang May 7 in the Sunday morning worship in St. Paul's Methodist Church, Lancaster, the Lord with me and let us exalt his name service of the Chino congregation, Calif. They May 21, 1967. The Reverend Harold St. together." Dr. C. N. Hostetter, Jr. brought the presented a concert for the Upland congre- Clair Carter officiated. message from Philippians 2:1-8. gation, Sunday evening, May 14. STINSON-SHAFFER—Miss Arlene E. Shaffer, Interment took place in the Grantham Memorial Park. REVIVAL SERVICES daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. Shaffer, Waynesboro, Penna., and Mr. Gary Stinson, Dale TJlery at Fairview, Ella, Kentucky, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Stinson, Waynes- TRIBUTE — Continued from May 31-June 11. boro, were united in marriage February 19, 1967, in the Hollowell Brethren in Christ page five Church. Pastor John W. Schock officiated. In the passing of Mr. Lenhert on May 2, WILLIAMS-GEHRING — Miss Hanna Gehring, 1967, Messiah College lost one of its most 8km daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gehring, zealous workers for the welfare of young BINGAMAN—Richard Lynn, born April 12, Hummelstown, Penna., became the bride of people, the general society, and the Kingdom of God. He was indefatigable and unstinting 1967, to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bingaman, Mr. Paul R. Williams, Jr., Camp Hill, Penna., May 13, 1967, in the Hummelstown Brethren in his devotion to and work for the College. Hollowell congregation, Pa. in Christ Church. The ceremony was per- In his 20 years of service as Superintendent formed by Pastor Isaac S. Kanode. of Buildings and Grounds he has stood ready BINGAMAN—Stacey Lynn, born March 23, to respond to presidents' appeals for private 1967, to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bingaman, counsel and assistance, to talk and act un- Hollowell congregation, Pa. derstandingly with faculty and staff mem- bers concerning their needs, and to serve BURKHOLDER—Jodi Ann Burkholder, born as a resource for Board of Trustees and May 10, 1967, to Mr. and Mrs. Myron Burk- 06tihwm4 Associates' deliberations. His loyalty to the holder, Hollowell congregation, Pa. purposes and programs of Messiah College DAVIS—Mrs. Dora E. Davis, Troy, Ohio, has been unswerving as he sensitively under- MARTIN—Arlan Duane, born March 27, was born April 20, 1883, and passed away stood and worked toward alleviating the 1967, to Mr. and Mrs. Arlan Martin, Hollowell May 22, 1966. During her early life, the problems and pressures besetting a small, congregation, Pa. family lived near the Highland Brethren in developing college. To him is due a large Christ Church which they attended regularly. share of the credit for the physical growth MCGOWEN—Karen Lee, born May 1, 1967, In 1904 she was joined in marriage to Ellis and development of the campus facilities. to Mr. and Mrs. Donald McGowen, Me- Davis who passed away in 1963. After a short chanicsburg congregation, Pa. stay in Dayton, they moved to Tipp City Mr. Lenhert's sturdy common sense, his where Mr. Davis was ordained a lay minister energy, his resourcefulness, lus great talent for SMITH—Rosanne Cindy, born May 14, 1967, of the Methodist Church; in 1919 they moved conciliation and his infectious Christian faith to Rev. and Mrs. Ronald Smith, Eritrea, East to Troy. and devotion will never be forgotten. His Africa. The Smiths are missionaries with Faith remarkable capacity as a doer was matched Missions. She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. only by his genius in determining the tech- Jeanette Engle, Conestoga, Penna.; one nology of doing. His influence on Messiah brother, Jesse C. Cassel, Union, Ohio; and one STONER—Catherine Gail, born May 7, 1967, College, we believe, is one of the most re- to Mr. and Mrs. John Stoner, Goshen Semi- sister, Mrs. Robert D. Freeze, West Milton, Ohio. Four grandchildren also survive. markable influences in the history of any nary, Union Grove congregation, Ind. college in his special area of concern. This The funeral service was held in Troy with influence cannot be measured or defined; it Rev. Richard Black officiating, assisted by can only be talked of. The impact of his life Rev. William Hoke. Interment was in the has been great and his sojourn on earth has cemetery of the Fairview Brethren in Christ been more telling than many who have won (V&Mk&l Church, Englewood. high prizes. The Messiah College campus will never be CASSEL-WINGER—Miss Barbara Jean Winger, LENHERT—George Gish Lenhert was born quite the same without George Lenhert. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Winger, in Abilene, Kansas, December 20, 1911, and Thankfully, members of his family are closely Wainfleet, Ontario, became the bride of Mr. departed this life on May 2, 1967, at the age involved in the College program. He has left Kenneth Donald Cassel, son of Mr. and Mrs. of 55 years. a great legacy for men and women to con- Kenneth Cassel, Preston, Ontario, May 20, He was married to Violet Baldwin on Oc- tinue his work. 1967. The ceremony was performed in Bridle- tober 10, 1934. The Lenherts engaged in We thank God for giving us George Lenhert. wood Brethren in Christ Church by Pastor farming in Kansas until 1947. At that time Paul Hostetler. The end came; but we are certain that he is they moved to Pennsylvania where he as- already seeking to serve in celestial realms. sumed the responsibility of Superintendent of MONN-HIGH—Miss Mary Jane High, daugh- The Trustees, Associates, Faculty Buildings and Grounds at Messiah College. and Staff of Messiah College ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Richard High, Waynes- For 20 years he served faithfully and un- boro, Penna., and Mr. William C. Monn, son selfishly in this capacity until he was called SHEARER—Mrs. Ruth Alma Shearer, Waynes- of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Monn, Greencastle, home for higher service. Penna., were united in marriage April 16, boro, Penna., was born September 15, 1920, 1967, in the Hollowell Brethren in Christ In his childhood Brother Lenhert accepted and died May 10, 1967. She was a member Church. The ceremony was performed by Christ as his Saviour and united with the of the Hollowell Brethren in Christ Church. Pastor John W. Schock. Brethren in Christ Church. During his years She is survived by her husband, M. Chal- in Kansas he served the Church in tire interest mers Shearer; three sons: Bruce L., Chalmers MIKLOSIK-KIMMEL—Miss Suzanne C. Kim- of youth as a member of the Board for Young R., and Barry; and six daughters: Mrs. James mel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clair F. People's Work. In addition to his service on Marshall, Mrs. Fred Delaney, Mrs. Joseph Kimmel, Hummelstown, Penna., became the the staff at the College he served for a Summers, Susan, Barbara, and Deborah. Six bride of Mr. Rodney A. Miklosik, Lemoyne, number of years on the Grantham Church grandchildren and three brothers also survive. Penna., April 8, 1967, in the Hummelstown Board and as a Church Trustee. He was a The funeral service was held at the J. Brethren in Christ Church. The ceremony devoted and dedicated layman until his death. William Barbour Funeral Home, Shippens- was performed by Pastor Isaac S. Kanode. He is survived by his wife, Violet; a daugh- burg, Pastor John Schock officiating. Inter- ter, Joanne (Mrs. Robert Barrett); two sons, ment was in Spring Hill Cemetery, Ship- RITTER-BROWN — Miss Donna L. Brown, Dale and Kenneth of Grantham; three sisters, pensburg. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Billy S. Brown, Mrs. Cornelius Lady, Abilene, Kansas; Mrs. Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, and Mr. Dale Charles Eshelman of Grantham; and Miss SHIFFLETT—Cheryl Shifflett, age 13, Fay- S. Ritter, Mechanicsburg, Penna., were united Rhoda Lenhert of Arcanum, Ohio; three etteville, Penna., was killed instantly in an in marriage March 11, 1967, in the Hummels- brothers, Benjamin G., Ontario, Calif.; Harry auto accident, April 20, 1967. She was a town Brethren in Christ Church. Pastor Isaac G., St. Joseph, Missouri; and Dr. Paul G. of member of the Sunday school of the New S. Kanode officiated. Arcanum, Ohio. He is also survived by two Guilford congregation.

(14) Evangelical Visitor She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Pennsylvania Bill Urges State Aid Service refugee workers are operating a feed- Mrs. Leroy Shifflett, and one sister, Tamy. For Church Schools ing and community development program. The funeral service was conducted by Pas- Efforts have been launched in the Pennsyl- Traveling unarmed, the refugee workers tor Marlin Ressler in the New Guilford vania legislature to provide state aid to church- drive a new Land Rover between Dong Ha, Brethren in Christ Church. Interment was in supported schools, colleges and universities. where they live, and the nearby towns of Park Lawn Memorial Gardens. One bill would establish a non-public school Quang Tri and Cam Lo. Their vehicle is authoritv to purchase secular educational heavily sandbagged and steel plates have been services for some 700,000 students in church- installed in the floor as further protection related institutions. The authority would be against the possibility of road mines. allowed to spend up to $40 a year per stu- The refugee influx has begun, and Vietnam dent and would receive about $28.5 million Christian Service workers are on the scene to Mw$ft&H4 for its first year of operation. do the job of providing help and hope where The second bill would provide a similar there is little but turmoil. 'Christian Perspective' Cited authority which would purchase secular in- In Church's World Aid Role struction at sectarian colleges. It would re- Conference on 'Free Church' ceive $400,000 during the first year for ad- Draws Response from 11 Denominations In an age of "secular missions" such as More than 100 churchmen from 11 de- the Peace Corps, the Christian Church has a ministrative expenses, with pay schedules delayed for a year. nominations have indicated plans to participate "distinctive" role to play. in the nationwide Conference on the Concept It is, according to the Rev. Philip Potter, State School Board Rejects of the Believers' Church, scheduled for June director of the World Council of Churches' Support of 'Prayer' Bill 26-30. The meeting will be held on the Division of World Mission and Evangelism, Support for Sen. Everett Dirksen's proposed campus of the Southern Baptist Theological to manifest a "witness in Christ" toward a U. S. Constitutional amendment to permit Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. world in rapid change. prayers in the public schools was advocated The Geneva, Switzerland, churchman said by a member of the New Mexico State School Gap Between Rich, Poor Nations that unlike national and international human- Board. The suggestion was rejected. Growing, Consultation Warned itarian and cultural missions, church-related In discussion, the board's chairman, Virgil A gathering of 150 science, government, missions throughout the world bring a "Chris- Henry of Hobbs, expressed the majority industry, labor and church leaders in Chicago tian perspective" for the renewal of men and opinion when he said that the U. S. Supreme was urged to mount a massive campaign to societies. Court rulings on official religious activities in counter the ever widening gap between rich They are also marked by the quality of the public schools had not interfered with and poor nations. personal sacrifice and pioneering in behalf of contemporary practices in New Mexico. The exhortation came from a socio-econo- the needs of the poor. For this reason, the state board agreed that mist and a biologist at opening sessions of the it saw no need for the Dirksen amendment. first National Consultation on Technology and Only 37 Per Cent of Baltimore's Human Values sponsored by the National People Are Church-Affiliated Gospel According To Scouse Council of Churches. Thirty-seven per cent of the population of The Gospel is now published in a new If men are to survive, cautioned Robert Baltimore, a city of more than 900,000 claim "language" you are unlikely to find in any Theobald, they must take radical steps to a church affiliation, according to a report dictionary—"Scouse." shore up the racial and economic splits that compiled by the Maryland Council of Chur- Scouse is the local term for the people of divide the world into rich and poor. ches. Liverpool and Merseysid, the home of the The poor-rich gap, said Dr. Theodosius Beatles, British pop group, and Scouse is Dobzhansky, is a "scandal which cannot be The Rev. Robert D. Ball, director of church tolerated." planning for the Council, said the percentage their dialect. of those claiming church affiliation "gives us an idea of the missionary field, not in Africa, Israeli Supreme Court Blocks Christianity Today Proposes Greater but in Baltimore." Boarding School Restrictions Evangelical Cooperation The Israeli Supreme Court has granted an A new association of churches and church- order of "Nisi," similar to an injunction, to goers loyal to traditional biblical principles, Canterbury Pleads for Unity at with a membership potential of an estimated Notre Dame Service the European-American Bethel Mission, an agency involved in controversy over alleged 40,000,000 in the United States alone, was It was an emotional moment in one of the proselytization. proposed today by a leading Protestant maga- greatest cathedrals of Catholicism, Notre zine. Dame of Paris. The court order is directed at the Minister of Social Welfare, who has refused to give Referring to conservative "evangelicals," The Anglican Primate of England—first the Bethel Boarding School an unconditional Christianity Today said "there is no more Archbishop of Canterbury to enter Notre license. At present the school is not permitted recognizable bloc in all of Protestantism." Dame in 447 years—knelt before the altar to accept Jewish children as students. Dr. Carl F. H. Henry, editor of the biweekly alongside the Roman Catholic Archbishop of The Supreme Court says the school stated journal, said the proposal does not entail Paris to offer prayers for Christian unity. that it does not convert minors except when establishment of a new denomination and Archbishop Pierre Veuillot of Paris found their parents have also been converted. should not be regarded as necessarily com- it difficult not to betray his emotions and petitive with the present National and World just managed to hold back the tears. Dr. 233 Tons of Supplies Distributed Councils of Churches. Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Can- In Vietnam in Three Months "For a long time evangelicals have been terbury, during a unity service which followed, engaged in a defense of their faith against offered a prayer for unity within the Chris- Vietnam Christian Service distributed 465,- liberal critics," Henry said. "Many of us now tian church. 623 pounds of food, clothing, and health feel that we have a faith to project and as items to needy Vietnamese during the first well to protect." three months of 1967. Christianity Today said a "corporate mani- Theologian Warns Scientists on According to figures released by A. B. 'Secret of Life' Experiments festation of biblical faith" should include Batalden, VCS director of business affairs, the evangelicals from Methodist, Episcopal, Luth- Scientists were urged recently by a theo- supplies reached 41,400 individuals in some eran and Presbyterian denominations—includ- logian to approach the use of DNA chemistry 40 institutions including schools, day care ing the great Negro churches—as well as from with a healthy dose of caution and reverence centers, hospitals, orphanages, and criminal Baptists and so-called independents. for human life. detention centers. (DNA, short for deoxyribonucleic acid, is "God Speaks," NSSA Enlargement Theme the molecule-gene that contains "the secret VCS Duo Assists Evacuees from DMZ The newly developed Sunday School En- of life" and offers, some scientists claim, man The hotly-disputed territory surrounding the largement Campaign materials produced by the key to perfecting the human race, to town of Cam Lo in South Vietnam's border the National Sunday School Association head- eliminating hereditary diseases, to changing province of Quang Tri is becoming home for quarters are expected to be in use by hundreds man's characteristics permanently.) the first of some 20,000 refugees being forced of Sunday Schools across the nation this fall. Dr. Roger L. Shinn, professor of applied out of the adjacent Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Rev. George S. McNeill, Executive Director Christianity and dean of instruction at Union separating the two Vietnams. of NSSA, reported that for the second year Theological Seminary, New York, said well- American and South Vietnamese authorities the NSSA Commission of Denominational meaning social planners, when they start have just announced plans to clear the DMZ Secretaries have approved materials for this pushing people around for their own good, border area of its civilian population, and is unique program as a helpful means of en- can easily become tyrants. moving them (with military escort) to the couraging the enlargement of local Sunday Cam Lo district where two Vietnam Christian Schools. The campaign theme "God Speaks"

June 19, 1967 (15) directs the attention to the pronouncements of ABS distributed 38,981,620 Bibles, Testa- vided in the quarterly Bible Expositor and God's Word on subjects of warning, salvation, ments, portions and selections in the United Illuminator which follows the international judgment, guidance and love. States, a jump of 13.6 million over the uniform lesson. previous year's 25,341,912 copies. The name, The Sunday School Times, will Expo 67's Christian Pavilion: be continued in conjunction with The Gospel Visitors Disagree on Effect HLKX Adds Mongolia to Herald. No immediate changes in format of Opinions of the unconventional exhibit at Broadcast Programming either The Gospel Herald or the Bible Ex- Expo 67's Christian Pavilion run the gamut Gospel broadcasts in the Mongolian lan- positor and Illuminator are planned. from "tremendous" to "horrid." guage will soon be beamed to the land-locked Younger people are inclined to express at nation by the 50,000-watt transmitter operated 1966 N.E.F.F. 'Oscars' least some degree of enthusiasm for a pre- by The Evangelical Alliance Mission at Inchon, Honor Film Makers sentation that departs radically from the Korea. The National Evangelical Film Foundation traditional stance of the church—or at least Stuart Gunzel, pioneer TEAM missionary to has picked its winners and announces as the from their concept of that stance. Older Mongolia before the Communist take-over in "Best Film of the Year" Gospel Films' people, particularly those who are church- Asia, has spent the last six months in Taiwan "Worlds Apart." goers, express bewilderment and disappoint- arranging with refugee Mongolian Christians ment. for a series of tape-recorded broadcasts. U. of California Considers The exhibit, sponsored jointly by Roman Course in Religious Studies Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox FEBC Has 17 Stations on 19th Anniversary The University of California is considering Churches in Canada, relies heavily on still The Far East Broadcasting Company cele- the establishment of an undergraduate major photographs to portray the conditions of man. brated its 19th anniversary "on the air" from in religious studies, according to Chancellor Manila, Philippines June 4, according to its Roger Heyns. ABS New Testament Sales Top 2 Million president, Robert H. Bowman. Constitutional and school authorities, ac- Today's English Version, a paperback New FEBC's primary target areas today include cording to Dr. Heyns, have declared that Testament published by the American Bible Japan, China, the Soviet Union, all of South- such a special religious program would not Society and sold for a quarter, has become east Asia, as far west as India, south to conflict with constitutional provisions on a runaway best seller. Indonesia and the South Pacific. separation of church and state. More than two million copies of the new A daily broadcast schedule includes 36 "We are talking about the objective study TEV have been sold in the past six months. major languages and dialects of Asia from the of religious concepts and phenomena and not Its title is: "Good news for modern man," Philippines and Okinawa and four spoken in imposing a particular religious position," Dr. and its text is based on a Greek text pub- Latin America aired from FEBC's interna- Heyns said. lished by the Bible Society last year after tional "Voice of Friendship," KGEI in San 10 years of research by British, Dutch and Francisco. MCC (Canada) Plans Centennial German scholars. Work Project In April, 1967 FEBC's "Bible School of the A Study-Work Camp is being planned for Air" received its one millionth enrollment. Hospital Order Bans 'Segregated Blood' August 21-27, 1967 at the International Peace Garden which straddles the border between All U.S. hospitals now enjoying federal Evangelical Press Association aid must desegregate their blood supplies, Manitoba and North Dakota. This is MCC Names Paul Fromer as President (Canada )'s Centennial Project and the setting according to an order by the Public Health Paul Fromer, editor of His magazine, a Service. provides for participation in the development publication of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fel- of an international monument to peace. Administrators who refuse will face an lowship in Chicago, was elected president of The daily schedule will include five to six early cutoff of federal money, according to the Evangelical Press Association at its 19th Robert M. Nash, PHS spokesman. hours of work, two hours of study and dis- annual convention in Chicago. cussion, recreation, worship and fellowship. No significant differences exist between the The delegates gave the EPA board of blood of the two races he declared. It is hoped that participants will come from directors authority to study the possibilities different parts of Canada and., the United of a concurrent meeting with the Associated States and perhaps other countries, to give J. C. Penney: 'Then I Experienced Rebirth' Church Press in 1971. Competitors and colleagues gathered in the it an international flavor. 45th-floor office of the J. C. Penney Building It's Official—New Presbyterian Seminar on the "Spirit-Filled Life" in New York to pay tribute to its owner's 'Confession of 1967' "deep and abiding faith in God." Held at Mennonite Seminary in Elkhart After eight years of study and debate, the On May 5-7, 1967, a seminar on the "Spirit- The visitors belonged to the Laymen's United Presbyterian Church, USA., approved Filled Life" was held at the campus of Men- Movement, an international non-sectarian as- a new Confession of Faith at its 179th General nonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana. The sociation of businessmen now celebrating its Assembly, May 22, in Portland, Oregon. faculties and students of both Goshen and 25th anniversary. The denomination thus completed the most Elkhart seminaries were invited to participate. The 91-year-old merchantman testifies that extensive renovation of its doctrinal position in Brethren in Christ faculty and students from following the 1929 stock market crash when its entire history. It substituted the Con- other seminaries and colleges were also in- he lost $40 million, he went to the hospital fession of 1967 for the 300-year-old West- vited. with a nervous breakdown. "One night,' he minster Confession, which had been its Five papers were read, followed by semi- recalls, "I felt I would not see another day. credal standard. But it included the West- I wrote as much to Mrs. Penney and my nar sessions on each paper. The speakers were minster Confession with eight others in a new Arthur M. Climenhaga, of the National As- oldest son. I lay waiting for the end. Sud- Book of Confession. denly I heard a group of patients singing sociation of Evangelicals, speaking on "The gospel hymns. They sang 'God will take care The standing vote was about 4 to 1. Urgency of the Spirit-Filled Life"; Bishop of you.' Then and there I experienced what Myron F. Boyd of the Free Methodist Church I guess was a rebirth. God did take care of Union Gospel Press Buys Sunday Times speaking on the "Biblical Concept of Sancti- The Sunday Times, a weekly Christian fication and Holiness"; Dr. Owen H. Alderfer, newspaper incorporating The Sunday School professor of church history at Ashland Times published since 1859, has been bought Theological Seminary, on "The Holiness Back to the Bible Broadcast 28 Years Old by Union Gospel Press, according to an an- Movement in the Brethren in Christ Church: The return of Theodore H. Epp and his nouncement by trustees of The Sunday School an Historical Perspective"; Dr. J. C. Wenger, wife from a 50,000-mile missionary survey Times Foundation in Philadelphia, Pa. professor of historical theology at Goshen marked the 28th anniversary date, May 1, of Union Gospel Press president T. T. Mussel- College Biblical Seminary, on "Sanctification the Back to the Bible Broadcast. man said his company will supply active and Holiness in the History of the Christian The organization, directed by Dr. Epp, is subscribers to The Sunday Times with lesson Church"; and Dr. C. N. Hostetter, President responsible for programs in 14 languages. The Emeritus of Messiah College and former broadcast office informational services de- materials and a semi-monthly family magazine, The Gospel Herald, beginning July 1, 1967. chairman of MCC, speaking on "Implications clares that the Back to the Bible Broadcast of Holiness for the Church Today." can be heard by 90 per cent of the world's Sunday school lesson materials will be pro- population.

Bible Society Report Notes Distribution Up 50 Per Cent in U. S. The American Bible Society cooperated in the distribution of 87.4 million Scriptures during 1966. Its annual report, presented at the society's 151st meeting here, noted a jump of nearly 50 per cent in U. S. distribution.

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