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1 days, because so many friends and relatives ------000------gets 11 cents per month or $1.32 per year per church fam1ly; Fam1ly Groups (10 or more paid annually In take the day for visiting. Many times too Christianity is a crusading faith which advance) $1.50 per year. Subscriptions to foreign ad much visiting is done on Sundays. One doctor must propagate its kind in ever-increasing dress $2.50 per year. Advertising Rates on Request. said to the pastor that often it took a day number or die. It cannot stand still. It either The cost of cuts cannot be borne by the paper except tllo~e It lle.a me.ae for 1t5 lndlvldual u5e. or two to g~t som~ pati~nts back as well as goes forward or backward. Its supr~m~ task Resolutions and obituaries pubUshed at five cents they were on Saturday after Sunday's visi is to evangelize- that is, to tell the match per word. One dollar minimum. tations. Therefore the pastor can do more less story that "God was in Christ reconcil Articles carrying the author's by-Une do not neces for the hospital on sundays by supplying ing the world unto Himself," and "to make sarUy reflect the editorial policy of the paper. pulpits and filling speaking engagements disciples of all nations."- Copied. @ ...... r EMBER 15, 1949 PAGE THREE The Pulpit What holy associations surround this item of furniture in every church! Its utility value is perhaps its least. The greater value of the Baptist Hour Broadcast pulpit is symbolic. It is the symbol of gospel preaching. Here stands the man called of 'f{e believe that the Baptist voice should fore, cost $448, and the Baptists of our state God to proclaim the unsearchable riches of I heard over the radio. It is unthinkable ·contributed only $51. Christ, to bring to the people the revelation Lt Baptists should surl'ender the air to I am sure we a!'e not proud of that rec of God, to declare the good news of the gos ter denominations. Southern Baptists pio ord. Are the Baptists of our state willing pel. ~red in religious broadcasts in the south, to turn over the air to all the isms which are There is a sacred responsibility upon the ting with a three months program. rampant among us? Surely there are enough minister as he steps behind the pulpit to de rhis venture eventuated in the the organi Baptists in our state who are interested in liver his message to the people assembled. ion of the Southern Religious Radio Con this year-round Baptist Hour broadcast to It is a responsibility that he cannot take ence on a free basis. You will find on page pay the actual expenses involved in broad lightly. It is a dual responsibility, a responsi ) an explanation, by Dr. S. F. Lowe, of casting it over the stations in Arkansas which bility under God a.nd a responsibility ! reason for our Radio Commission to are on the network. toward the people to whom he minis er its relationship with this organization. ters. He must be faithful to the revelation sure to read Dr. Lowe's statement. Sunday School superintendents and teach of God, and he must be faithful to the needs rhe current year-round Baptist Hour ers might well announce the broadcast in the of the people. Therefore the minister should ~ adcasts are supported by voluntary con departments and classes and also remind the think twice before he enters the pulpit. He )Utions from individuals. Surely there are members that it is by voluntary contributions should think of his relationship · to God, and mgh Baptists in the South who want the that the broadcast is maintained. Pastors, his eternal obligation to be true to the revela ptist voice heard over this network to meet surely, might well announce the broadcast tion· of God. ! expenses involved. We are not proud from the pulpit, and also announce that it He should think of his responsibility to the the response of the Baptists of Arkansas is maintained by voluntary contributions people, and should endeavor on every occas this program. The four broadcasts in from individuals. There is no request for ion to be true to their needs, their hopes, tober over Arkansas stations cost $280 but contributions from churches, but only from their aspirations, and their possibilities. It ransas Baptists contributed only $22 dur individuals. is at least doubtful wisdom when the preach . the month of Octob-er. The first three We challenge the readers of the Arkansas er goes into the pulpit with any message :lks in November the broadcasts cost $168 Baptist to send an individual contribution other than a gospel message. There is no sub d Arkansas Baptists contributed only $29. to the Radio Commission, Baptist Radio Cen stitute for the gospel in the pulpits of our e first seven broadcasts in Arkansas, there- ter, Atlanta 6, Georgia. churches. God expects the preacher to go into the pulpit with a gospel message. The people as Control Your Government Or Be semble before the pulpit to hear a gospel message. When the preacher fails to deliver Controlled By Your Government a gospel message from the pulpit, both God 'erhaps the most important question that pete with them. The present trend in our and the assembled people are disappointed. es the American people today is, "Will government, however, is to control all busi Every church activity, every church organi ly control their government or will they be ness instead of making it behave itself, and zation, and every phase of the church life ltrolled by their government?" The ques take over the management of the whole citi should head up and be brought to a climax ~ is between a free enterpriS'e nation un zenry by big government. in the worship service of the church, and the . a government that protects its citizens, Our government has entered into competi sermon should be the apex of it all. There their freedom to exercise their initiative tion with private industry. It is seeking to fore the pulpit is the focal point of the church i resourcefulness· and independence, or a become a "welfare state." It has its hand up life and fellowship, and all other interests :imented socialistic nation under a gov on every business enterprise in the country. should converge here. Those who satisfy tment which controls its citizens and their Go to any business man, big or little, and he themselves with a limited service and a re ;erprises l.n minute detail. will likely tell you that the government regu stricted fellowship. which come short of the rhe present trend is toward bureaucratic lations as applied to his business a!'e so many pulpit hour, are cheating themselves out of ttrol by the government of more and more and so. complicated that he never knows from the richest blessing of the church life. the ent·erprises and personal activities of month to month whether he is violating Since the pulpit is so symbolically mean : individual. This is a departure from the some government regulation or not. ingful, it should be so designed as to induce toric principles upon which the American Of course, when between fifteen and twen a spirit of reverence and an attitude of wor tern of government was founded. The ty million Americans are receiving checks ship on the part of the congregation. 1nding fathers conceived the function of from the Federal government regularly, they We reproduce, on pages one, eight, and r·ernment to be the protection of the citi may be hesitant to register a protest against nine, of this issue, pictures of the pulpit of LS in the exercise of their personal rights the encroachment of government into the the Calvary Church in Little Rock. This pul i privileges. The government should re private life and business affairs of the indi pit of the Calvary Church represents a work a.in those individuals or groups of individ vidual. If things were changed, they might of love by a young man, Bob Mason, who s who would trample on the rights and not receive their government checks. felt that the pulpit in his church should be vileges of others. It was never intended The American people seem to be in the beautiful, meaningful, and sYmbolic in de ,t the government should guarantee se process of making a decision between the sign and appearance. So he turned his artis ·ity to the individual, in .return for the America we have known-the America of in tic talent to the production of the pulpit you render of his independence and initiative. dependent, free, competitive enterprise-and see pictured on these pages. It was a work of love for Bob, an expression of his devotion n pursuance of this fundamental concep - a new America which is controlled by bu reaucratic government; and this decision to his Lord, and his acceptance of the gospel rr of the function of government, anti seems to be leaning at present toward the as God's message of redemption to fallen and st laws have been passed which, if prop latter. Unless a definite change takes place sinful man. '/ enforced, would prevent big business within the next three to five years, the trend We hopE.' that the story of the pulpit of the m swallowing up or forcing little business will probably become fixed and unalt·erable. Calvary Church will cause all our readers o bankruptcy. A great deal has been said Now is the time to call a halt to expand to have a greater appreciation for the pulpits lUt the high handed methods of powerful ing government controls and demand that in the churches, but more especially for the siness concerns to prevent competition and government perform its true function instead proclamation of the gospel which the pulpit force out of business those who would com- of aspiring to government paternalism. symbolizes. rAGE FOUR ARKANSAS b.'PTI
Bellevue Quartette On Baptist Hour The Women's Quartette of Bellevue Bapti Kingdom Progress Church, Memphis, Tennessee, will be featur• on the Baptist Hour broadcast of Decemb 18. This will be their third appearanc-e c the Year-Round Baptist Hour. They we Swope Park Revival Simultaneous Steward•ship heard on the programs of October 16 and N Program vember 20. By CHARLES E. LAWRENCE The grouo consists of Mrs. C. L. Parchma Fifteen churches in the Stone-Van Buren first sopra~o; Miss Ruth Calvert, second s It was my great joy recently to assist Dr. Association participated in a Simultaneous prano; Mrs. Louis D. Marks, :Hrst alto; a1 W. Ross Edwards and Swope Park Baptist Stewardship program November 7-11. The Miss Frances Calvert, s·econd alto. Church, Kansas City, Missouri, in an eight five subjects discussed were: Financing th-e Just before Dr. Lee's message Decemb day revival. It was truly a wonderful spir Church Through the Sunday School; Origin 18 on "The Meaning of Christmas," t: itual fellowship that we enjoyed. There were and Purpose of a New Testa,ment Church; quartette will present a special arrangeme some thirty prof-essions of faith and several God's Financial Plan; Partners with God; of Franz Gruber's "Silent Night." others who united w,ith the church by letter. What Is the Good Steward? I was delighted to find· in that great, grow The fifteen speakers rotated their services ing city- a city sowed down with Catholicism The Ouachita College Choir, under the c so that they would each be only one night in rection of Professor Fred Becker, present and other isms-such a fine Baptist work. each church. Swope Park was one of the many churches, a Christmas Oratorio by Saint-Saens at t: both white and colored, in a Simultaneous First Church of Blytheville Sunday mornir Revival effort. Certainly the very highest Evangelist M. E. Wiles was with the First December 4. type of Christianity is found among the Church of Lincoln in a revival meeting No Mr. Becker, at present a m-ember of t: vember 2 to 12. The twenty-eight re-dedica brethren there. music faculty of Ouachita College, was fa tions indicate the vital interest on the part mer minister of music and education of t: Swope Park Church is one of the gre~t·est churches in the city. Under Dr. Edward's of the Christian people. Blytheville Church. The program was broa There were /four additions to the church cast over radio station KLCN. superb leadership the Church is erecting a by baptism, one by letter, and three other much needed auditorium which will seat one thousand people. The building is an impos professions of f;tith. Pastor Nelson F. Greenleaf and the Fi1 ing structure of Colonial design with a very Church of Atkins conducted a Training U: high steeple that can be seen for miles. Cost Simultaneous Conference ion Study Course beginning December J of the building is $175,00"0 and will be ready They had the assistance of Pastor W. for occupancy about January 15. I have nev The White River Association recently con Speed of Russellville, who taught "Goc er seen a church with a sw-eeter fellowship, ducted a seven-day stewardship and budget Hurry." The pastor taught "Not Your Owr a will to work, an anxiety to do God's will, planning conference. Dr. J . I. Cossey of South and Mrs. Greenleaf taught the Junior boc and with greater love for their pastor than ern Baptist College, Walnut Ridge, led two "Living for Jesus." conferences daily throughout the seven-day Swope Park. I pr~dict that this church within a few years will be the leading church in period. Dedication servic·es for the Calvary Chu Kansas City. The following pastors and churches par ticipated in the conferenC'es: D. W. Stark of Batesville were held on Sunday, Novem and First Church, Mountain Home; T. E. 27 . Former Pastor Byron King of Flippin Minister Ordained Funderburk and First Church, Cotter; Byron guest speaker. King and First Church, Flippin; S. W. Wil Pastor H. W. Wooten, who observed Glenn Wood was ordained to the full gos kerson and the Bruno Church; L. A. Perry first anniversary as pastor of the chur pel ministry by the First Church of Para and New Hope Church; Darrel Ball and An gav-e the welcome address. A response gould, Sunday afternoon, November 27. tioch and White River Churches; L. D. Wat P:iven by Dr. E. P. J. Garrott in behalf of Mr. Wood was ordained at the request of kins and the Gassville Church. Independence Baptist Association. Minister The Center Hill Church of Greene County The Flippin Church has invited Dr. Cossey D. King of Batesville gave the dedicat prayer. following his call as full time pastor th-ere. to spend a week with them in the near fu He attended Ouachita Coll-ege and has fu ture. Pastor D. W. Stark of Mountain Home ture plans for Seminary work. is chairman of Evangelism and has completed One the the busiest men in Johnson Cou his organization for the association. is Hinson Williams, Baptist minister, President H. D. Bruce of East Texas Bap conducts ten regular church services e tist College, Marshall, Texas, did the preach month. ing in a recent revival in the Highland Ave S. B. C. Executive Committee To On the first and third Sundays of ea nue Church in Beaumont, Texas, where Eu· Help in Simultaneous Crusade · month, Pastor Williams holds morning a gene W. Dickey has served so successfully as evening services at the Spadra church. pastor for nine years. N. A. Tuttle of Fort The Southern Baptist Convention Execu the second and fourth Sundays, he condu Worth directed the music. tive Committee personnel will participate in morning and evening services at Union Gro~ There were forty-four additions to the the 1950 Western Evangelistic Crusade, April Then, having run out of Sundays, J church, thirty.,five for baptism. 9-23. preaches at East Mt. Zion the first and thi Dr. Duke K. McCall, executive secretary, Saturday nights. Eighty-Eight Boys Towns will assist West Main Church, Houston, Tex In Existence as, E. Hermon Westmoreland, pastor. Dr. Merrill D. Moore, director of promotion, will New Faculty Members There are now eighty-eight Boys Towns, assist Kelham Avenue Church, Oklahoma patterned after the famous Nebraska institu City, Anson Justice, pastor. Two new members were named to the fa tion founded at omaha by the late Msgr. Albert McClellan, director of publications, ulty of Southwestern Baptist Theologic Edward Flanagan. will assist First Church, Shattuck, Oklahoma, Seminary by the trustees in their annu A spokesman for the original Boys Town Chalon C. Meadows, pastor. meeting, November 29. said the latest addition was Angel's Court, a They are Dr. Jesse J . Northcutt, who w home for boys organized in Japan by a become head of the Department of Systema Tokyo lawyer. There are thirty-four other THE BAPTIST HOUR ic Theology, and William Curtis Vaugha homes in foreign countries and fifty-three who will be an instructor in New Testamet here in the United States. Two of the DR. R. G. LEE, Preacher Dr. Northcutt, a native of Oklahoma, r American homes are actually "girls towns" December 18-Subject: ceived a bachelor of arts degree from Okl but they follow the operating principles es homa Baptist University, Shawnee, Okl: tablished by Father Flanagan. "The Meaning of Christmas" homa, and Master of Theology and Doct· Angel's Court is the fifth boys' home to Stations in Arkansas: of Theology d·egrees from the seminary. open its doors in Japan. Two were establish Vaughan, a native of Tennessee, holds At 2:3"0 P. M., CST, Sundays: KELD, ed in Korea following a vi~it th-ere J;>y M:;;gr. bachelor of arts degree from Union Unive: Flanagan in 1947. Several homes are in ex ElDorado; KFSA, Fort Smith; KTHS, sity in Jackson, Tennessee, and a bache!< istence in Germany, and are under the aus Hot Springs; KGHI, Little Rock; KCLA, of divinity degree from the seminary. E pices of American occupation troops. Pine Bluff; KBRS, Springdale. is now working toward a Doctor of Theolog -Religious News Service degree. DECEMBER 15. 1949 PAGE FIVE
1950 Baptist Student Union Drafts Constitution Evangelistic Crusade It is the purpose of all Sunday School, Training Union, Student Union, and Church Music forces in the state to join hands with those who will lead in the great evangelistic program of 1950. We urge every church and college worker to search out and find his plac·e of service and go all out in an effort to reach just as many as. possible for Christ dur ing the campaign. Here are some suggestions: 1. Between now and the first of the year in co-operation with the local churches, plan to give generously . through the local church budget and the co-operative program. Surely, a tithe should be the minimum. 2. The first week in January is set apart for a week of Bible Study. 3. Plan now to help take the census with your church on the first Sunday in February, and during the following week enroll for the study of "The Place of the sunday School in Evangelism." During March make every effort to Pictured above from left to right are: ChaTles Ripley, State B. S. U. President; John reach for the sunday School those lo McClanahan, President of B. S. U. Council at Ouachita College; Dr. Edgar Williamson, cated in the census. Director, Religious Education; Miss Elma Cobb, Student Secretary at Arkansas Baptist Hos- · 4. In March enroll in the special pital; Mary Jane Baker, Vice President of State B. S. U.; and Fred Vogel, State B. S. U. Training Union soul-winning study Secretary. course. 5. During the week of April 9-23 A Planning Committee appointed by the ed to the B. S. U. Convention at its next pray and work in the ifl:terest o~ a Baptist Student Union Convention in Octo meeting in 1950. great sweeping, soul-savmg rev1val ber, composed of Charles Ripley, Arkansas In addition to this a qualification ques meeting in co-operation with every tionnaire was prepared that will be used in church west of the Mississippi River. State Coll-ege, Chairman; John McClanahan, selecting the two students who will be sent 6. Join with the Training Union in Ouachita Baptist College, Wanda Groom, by the Baptist students of. Arkansas this your church for an all out Training Un Arkansas Baptist Hospital, and Mary Jane summer to work in the mission fields of ion enlargement campaign to reach and Baker, University of Arkansas, met with Fred Hawaii. All students who are interested and enlist for training those won during the J. Vogel, State B. S. U. Secretary, Miss Elma think they may qualify, should get a copy of evangelistic meetings. Cobb, B. S. U. Secretary at Arkansas Bap the questionnaire from the local B. S. U. We challenge the workers in our Ark tist Hospital, and Dr. Edgar Williamson, president, faculty advisor, or pastor advisor. ansas Baptist churC'hes to SEE, PRAY, director, Religious Education Department, to Questionnaires must be in the State B. S. U. GIVE and WORK together for the glory draft a constitution for the State Baptist office by February 1, 1950, so that adequate of God and the salvation of the lost Student Union Convention. A proposed con and prayerful selection can be made by during these important months. stitution was drawn up and will be present- April 1. Edgar Williamson, Director Religious Education Departme~t Rural Church Extends An A Personal Tribute Arkansas Baptist State Conventwn "Evangelistic Arm" By MRs. E. J. A. McKINNEY The Jamestown vicinity· of America's first Dr. "George Lacy, pioneer missionary to English settlement in Virginia, now boasts Mexico, was recently called to his heavenly one of the most active rural churches in the home. I feel a personal loss in his going for Foreign Mission N eed•s South. It is forty-six year old James River I knew Dr. Lacy before he went to the for And Opportunities Baptist Church that maintains two meeting eign fiel.:l. Probably there are not many left houses, five miles apart. who knew of his life's work. Dr. Ralph Herring, Winston-Salem pastor, The church itself is located deep in the When my husband organized the Baptist nd member of the Foreign Mission Board, woods, seven miles northwest of Jamestown Church at Junction City in 1896, Dr. Lacy ho toured south America this year, stressed Island. Within the past two years a new $41,- was the first person to join by baptism, com he need for developing. native leadership afl:d 000 auditorium and educational building has ing from a church of another faith. he obligation of missions to use th~ rad10 been erected, completed wine carpeted floors, He married Miss Minnie Meel of El Dorado, evangelistic work. Henry W. Schwemsberg, oak pews and electric organ. The congre and when he had finished at our Louisville native of Australia, former missionary to gation meets in this building for all daytime Seminary they went to Mexico as mission olivia now senior missionary of the Board services. aries. Their first three children died of diph n Colt_{mbia, reported on an intensive s?r~ey The second building for night services is theria. f Ecuador and Peru as new Baptist nnss1on five miles away on U. S. Highway 60 and is When he re"tired as missionary he organ ields. The Board adopted the committee's called the "evangelistic arm" of the church. ized a Bible School to educate preachers, and ·ecommendation that the possibility of send It grew out of a tent revival sponsored by taught in it to the end. ing missionaries to these two Latin American the church two years ago. The cinder block republics be seriously considered. "We m~st building seats 400 and is equipped with latest Albert McClellan, Publicity Director of the uild into the new society of South Amenca type opera chairs, hot air furnace, and pas Southern Baptist Convention, preached in a concept of true Christianity," Dr. Everett tor's study. It is erected on the site of Old revival services recently at the Nogales Ave Gill Jr., secretary for Latin America, said. Smyrna Baptist Church organized around nue Church of Tulsa, Oklahoma, J. W. Wade, Opportunities in Palestine require a strong 1800. pastor. er missionary staff, declared Dr. George W. Since beginning its "evangelistic arm" this There were twenty-four additions by bap Sadler, secretary for Africa, Eu;rope, and the country church has received 125 new mem tism, and twelve by letter. Near East, reporting by air mail from zurich. bers, seventy-five for baptism. Per capita That mission now has fifteen missionaries, gifts last year were $87.24. Jesse Bowman, formerly a business man eleven of whom are women, "and in an area The 1948 Lottie Moon Christmas offering of Richmond, has been pastor of the church where the status of womanhood is so low, was around $500. Present Cooperative Pro since 1942. The church recently completed the prestige of the mission makes it impera gram contributions are running about $150 a revival with Percy Ray, Myrtle, Mississippi, tive that we send more men to the Near East." monthly. doing the preaching. PAGE SIX ARKANSAS BAPTIE ASmile or Two He Letter Of Protest /titJ ?1-ctn Ou(JcAit(J Misunderstanding in Charges Reverend James Overton That Illinois Used High-Pressure Bentonville, Arkansas By JuANITA HoLT To Get 1950 Convention Dear Sir: Student Editor By Baptist Press I read with disgust a portion of your _re Ouachita's new 70'x176' science building The General Committee on Entertaining marks to the Arkansas Baptist Convention. the Southern Baptist Convention, a commit WhY do you Southern Baptists continu~ to will cost $230,900.00, will house $70,000.00 worth of equipment and is being built to ac tee of the Dlinois Baptist State Association, number catholicism with Red Commumsm? released here this week the following state Is it the intense f·ear of a force far more commodate the science department of an en rolment of 1,'000, students. ' ment clearing away misunderstanding on how powerful on the lives of a great number of Illinois promoted Chicago as a meeting place men that your paltry few Southe~n Bap; The style of the new library building is tists seem to have on the lives of their flock. functional architecture. It is being designed for 1950: to provide numerous modern rooms and of "In a few of the Baptist state papers and can the Baptists stop the spread of CoJJ?- other publications has appeared a statement munism as was done by the Holy Father m fices. The main reading room will seat around 300. The card catalog will be built which tends to make it seem that Illinois Rome? Is that what you fear? Perh:;tps Baptists at the Oklahoma City convention you're one of the hate-mongers ~reachi~g in the wall, which is the modern trend in new libraries and will hold 25,000 cards. used questionable methods in presenting the the fallacy that Catholics owe their allegi Illinois Baptist State Association's invitation ance first to Rome then to the United States. Eighteen states and three countries are represented in the 759 enrolment of Ouachita for the Southern Baptist Convention to meet I've been one to be content to let such bab in Chicago. That statement, referring to ap blings go un-answered. Now I'm tired of you this year. There are 134 ministerial students enrolled, plause which greeted speeches favoring the so-called ministers of God constantly down Chicago invitation, is as follows: ing another religion. thirty special religious work:ers, and sixteen For four hundred· years you have been have indicated their choice for foreign mis " 'This didn't happen accidentally, for the "protesting." What have you to protest? You sions. For business and commerce seventy night before many of the Illinois messengers have your·churches and your own congreg,ll:' eight have been totaled, with 177 enrolled for were instructed to be on · hand and to be public school teaching, and fifty prefer sur scattered over the entire auditorium. They tions. Why don't you start building a posi were to applaud when mention of sufficient tive faith instead of a negative one? Are gery, dentistry and engineering. Nineteen new professors, administration rooms was made. It is the old Mississippi you one that believes it is necessary for a strategy of appearing to have much by hav person to be a "white" Anglo Saxon Protest and maintenance members have received posi tions at Ouachita College. The entire faculty ing it scattered over the entire building.' ant" in order to be a "true American?" If consists of fifty-four members. "In order to determine to what extent this so, then I take a solemn oath _and covenant The Ouachita Board voted to adopt an statement is true, the Illinois Baptist State with God as my witness to fight you and athletic program policy in keeping, with the Association's general committee on arrange your kind with what peaceful and legal means standards of the North Central Association. ments for entertaining the ' convention in are at my command. The policy is: "The group of students who Chicago sent a questionnaire to each person A. A. BENSABAT JR. Catholic American participate in athletics should not be favorecl from Illinois who attended the convention in above other students in such matters as the Oklahoma City. That questionnaire contain distribution of scholarships, loan funds, ed the following questions: Mr. A. A. Eensabat Jr. grants of finance aid and remunerative em "At the Southern Baptist Convention in 2246 South Parkway, East ployment; the administration of such mat Oklahoma City: Memphis, Tennessee ters should be independent of the athletic 1. Were you instructed to applaud dur Dear Sir: department." ing speeches favoring the Chicago invita Upon my return from the Arkansas Bap Sponsored by the Baptist Student Union, tion? tist State Convention last week, I found your Ouachita recently had its annual Vocational 2. Were you instructed not to sit with letter of November 16 in which you severely Emphasis Week. This week of services wa~ other Illinoisans during consideration of the criticize the sermon I delivered before the to aid the students who have not made a Chicago invitation so that the Illinois people Convention Tuesday morning, November 15. definite choice of their life's work, hoping would be widely scattered in the audience? In this sermon I was simply giving voice that they might find some worthwhile vo "This questionnaire was sent to 136 per to my deep and well-founded convictions-a cation through seeking God's Will. sons, one of whom had moved, leaving no right which I have under the Constitution of "If Southern Baptists succeed in a $10,0'00 address. One hundred twenty-seven of the the United States of America, and a right goal in 1950, and 1,750 missionaries are sent 133 replying answered the above questions in which I would die to maintain for myself as to foreign fields as a result of this goal, our the ne.gative. a Baptist and for you as a Catholic. Baptist colleges will be called upon to supply "Five persons answered both questions in Sincerely yours, the missionary personnel. Never before in the affirmative. One person answered ·ques JAMES A. OVERTON. history has such a challenge faced our edu tion No . 1 in the negative and question No. 2 cational institutions," stated Dr. S. W. Eu in the affirmative. Three of these six per NOTE-It might also be stated that all who banks, president of Ouachita Coll-ege. sons indicated that they did not follow those do not line up with the Catholic Church have Nine. Ouachita students were selected in instructions. Only three of the 133 persons been numbered with Red Communism by the Who's Who Among Students in American replying indicated that they followed these Catholic hierarchy. It might be said, too, that Colleges and Universities. Those selected instructions. American money and influence halted the are Clarice Brown, P. C. Church, J iggs Ram ''This questionnaire indicates that the spread of Communism even in Italy and the sey, Roland Reed, John McClanahan, Velda above mentioned statement is somewhat lack rest of Europe instead of the "Holy Father Pogue, Jim Crittenden, Emil Williams, and ing in accuracy. The committee feels that in Rome." Dewey Stark. this statement does not correctly portray the It is a fact well known to every reader of The Ouachita class in "Radic Technique" activities of Illinois Baptists attending the the daily press that Communism was thriv presents two programs over KVRC, a full convention in Oklahoma City and regrets the ing in the Catholic countries of Europe until time commercial station. They are now offer appearance of the inaccurate publicity.'' American taxpayers' money came to the re ing a series of Poe's stories at 10 :45 Monday Note : We are glad to have the statement lief of these countries and halted the spread nights and stories for children at 4:30 Tues through the Baptist Press relative to the in of Communism where the Pope was helpless day afternoons. vitation of the Illinois Baptist delegation to to do anything about it. Ann Wollerman Day has just recently been the Convention to meet in Chicago in 1950. This Catholic brother might well be in observed at Ouach~ta. Miss Wollerman is a However, all the questions are not entirely formed that Baptists have been on the job missionary to Brazil and her work is partly cleared up yet because it is obvious, and is for two thousand years instead of four hun sponsored by Ouachita students. admitted in this statement, that instructions dred. And when all of Europe was made so At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, were given, and that some obeyed those in dark by the persecutions of the Roman Cath Dean Harold A. Haswell of Bolivar, Missouri, structions. We are not told who gave the olic Church, that a long period of history is was elect·ed to become head of the Education instructions or on what authority these in known as "The Dark Ages," the true fol al Department of Ouachita. Mr. Haswell is structions were given. We believe that. such lowers of Christ kept the evangelical faith now Dean of Southwest Baptist College. instructions were out of order, and should alive, even though they had to keep their ----0001---- never be given to any delegation at any con meetings sacret from their Roman catholic vention anYWhere in the land. It seems evi tormentors. History speaks for itself. We can ill afford to allow our fears to rob dent from this statement that very few of -EditOT us_ of freedom and of our capacity for think the Illinois delegation participated in the -----'\JOO---- ing. Let us take some risks rather than sub tactics that were reported in the Illinois "Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mit to autocratic control of minds and hearts Baptist, and we congratulate our Illinois mind and when to mind Y01l.r speech." of men. brethren on the repudiation of such tactics. - The Evangel - W. 0. Carver ...:.Editor ' PAO Dfillf1 ARKANSAS BAPTIST Talent Developed By Hob] What Is That In Thine ~Hand? Hand-Carved P1 By MRS. GUY E. WILLIAMS Li It was sunday morning. Bob Mason sat he wondered, just in case he didn't like them, with his wife in their customary pew in Cal how he was going to say so without hurting vary Baptist Church, located on North Pierce Bob Mason's feelings. Street in Little Rock. During the sermon he The work got underway. Few of us can began to notice the pulpit which was a cheap understand the big job this loyal worker had plywood affair. It seemed to him that a pul undertaken. At that time he owned part in pit should be beautiful, a little ornamental t·erest in Reliable Wood Products Company and impressive, since it is the focal point of and in his spare time he did the cabinet work any church auditorium. in his shop. He thought of the new church building the Bob prefers walnut for his church furnish congregation was planning to erect and he ings; in fact, for almost everything. Some began to visualize the kind of pulpit that of the walnut he ordered from St. Louis but would be in keeping with it. the carved molding, which he has used to give an ornamental outline to the design was imported. Altogether there is about $200 worth of material used. Most of us think of a pulpit only as a place where the preacher can lay his Bible. This isn't true with one that is well planned. The one in Calvary Church is divided into three sections and after taking a look at the qack, one realizes how very useful it is. In the center section back is a place for the sound equipment, amplifier, and recorder. This is covered with sliding doors. Below are shelves for song books and other supplies. In a smaller section on one side, doors open for a place built to hold the communion serv ice. On the opposite side there are shelves for the collection plates. And of course, on top there is a place for the Minister's Bible, and it's behind a hand- Left Panel Robert Mason, Artist Hobby of Making Things Once Bob had made a talk to a group of boys using the text, "What is That in Thine Hand?" Exodus 4:2. He spolce of Moses' rod, David's sling, and the lad's fishes and loaves, Center Panel - "Head , and how God directed that they be used. He, too, had something in his 11and- a chisel, and he had a special talent which he says, standing. Bob carved out three of them "Was·sorta dished out" to him. Almost all his large one for the center and a smaller ' life he had a hobby of making things in on each side. The choice of just what to wood. lect as his theme was up to him and wl "When I was a boy in high school up in better sel:ections could he or could anyc Lower Merion, Pennsylvania," he said, "I make than to build it around the life guess I spent more time in the wood shop Christ. He turned to Biblical art and foe than I did in the class room." a countless number from which to make During World War II he was a navigator choice. In the front center he carved a la in the Air Corps and sometimes when he had plaque from a picture, Warner and Sallma "Head of Christ." The face is strong a a little time to kill Bob took to his hobby , "Christ At The Door" again and has beautiful little articles which virile. The portrait was painted to illustr: he carved while in the European Theater. By Warner and Salliman Luke 9:51, "He steadfastly set His face to It was then that he did his first church to Jerusalem." It preaches a sermon in some open Bible carved in wood. Mr. Mason self of how Jesus came to earth not mer carving-work. "We had nothing there to make believes that every pulpit should have a our places of worship look churchy," says he, to tell us what to do but to do something : permanent conspicuous open Bible for a us, something we co1,1ld not do for ourselv "so I constructed an ornamental cross and symbol. Viewed from front or back this solid candle sticks for the chaplain of our bomb walnut pulpit with its dark finish is a thing On the left Mr. Mason chose another pictt group. These he carried from place to place of beauty. by the same artist, "Christ at Heart's Doo until the war was over." There are places on either side for flowers It is evangelistic in its appeal and portra Word With Pastor and the writer had the privilege of doing the moment when human destiny hangs the arrangements for the picture, the first the balance, when Divine love patiently wa After services at Calvary Church were over flowers to be placed on top of this exquisite upon human reluctance, Right Panel Wilbur Her1'ing, Pastor also needs a much larger auditorium. Every Sunday morning chairs are placed in all " by Warner and Salliman available spaces to accomodate the congre gation. Pastor Herring is considering plans for two We feel the beauty of it, the serene self sur services on Sunday morning or a junior L'ender of it, the transfiguring glory of it. We church in order to take care of the increased attendance. The program of enlistment and >ee the perpetual issue between Heaven and evangelism includes the work of three full earth. It is to harmonize man's will with that time community missionaries, and the church :>f the Heavenly Father. hopes to establish two missions within the When Bob finished the first plaque and next two years. Also, they are looking for :;howed it to "Wilbur" (his congregation af ward to a magnificent church building, but fectionately call him by his first name) he before it comes, there must eome a stronger ~xclaimed, "It's beautiful and why can't we and larger church membership. paint up the inside of the old church and As Pastor Herring said on his second an- . rnove the new pulpit in now?" "But only niversary, "The building is still ahead of us, :>ne portrait is ready to be set in," 'Bob told "Christ In Gethsemane" but first we must build a great church." The aim, "however, we could . use plain walnut By Henrich Hofman entire congregation at Calvary has caught ~anels in the blank places until the carving the spirit of enthusiasm and deep consecra IS completed." Heart's Door," for instance, the cedar of tion of their pastor, and many individuals, Lebanon must be done with a definite touch like Mr. Mason, have rendered signal service Don't Tell Wilbur , and well defined lines. Painters may blur to the church. Mrs. Bill Dickey, who once directed the And that is what they did. The members their colors. The entire congregation has received an choir, was instrumental in securing choir iid the paint job themselves and Bob Mason robes through a friend, who is in the cloth this work of and ~orked hours on hours on the unfinished inspiration !rom seeing art ing manufacturing business. Grover Tuey, an )laques. He spent eighty hours on one small from knowing the love and generosity which electrical engineer and member of the church, me and over a hundred on the large one prompted it. They figure its monetary value is largely responsible for the chimes. Mrs. tnd as he worked he prayed. How easily to be worth around $1500, but money couldn't Herring, the pastor's wife, is responsible for 1e could spoil a feature when carving about have bought it. the new Hammond Organ. In one day she ;he face by digging in too far or taking off Now Bob has something else in mind, that secured pledges in the amount of $1,300 for ;he end of the nose. Hands also are tedious. is, when they get the new church, but don't the purchase of the organ. Then she made Carving is much harder to do in some ways tell Wilbur, he hopes to build the Commun the down payment and signed a personal ;han painting. In the picture of "Christ at ion table and chairs to match. note for the balance. PAGE TEN ARKANSAS BAPTIST The Shibboleth of Baptists for nearly two + + + the word," Acts 8:4. Churches began to mul thousand years has been: "No code of doc tiply, hence from this time we have churches trine, or schedule of practioo, that cannot be in the plural. Th-e churches are the executive sustained by God's Word." A "thus saith the By the late J. H. CruME bodies within the Kingdom. The Kingdom is Lord" settles all questions with a true Bap an absolute monarchy, while the churches tist. are pure democracies within the limits of the We have Baptist churches here today in + + + Kingdom. great numbers, and I am asked to state their Two Extremes origin. My answ-er in brief is this: They had Phillip, tetrarch of Iturea and the region of their origin in Heaven, and their make-up Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of There are three phas-es of church construc was devised by God Himself. "To the law and Abiline, Annas and Caiaphas being the high tion within what is denominated Christen the testimony." priests, the word of God came unto John the dom. First, universal; second, hierarchal; The Prophets' T estimo111y son of Zacharias in the wilderness," Luke third, congregational. Within these three 3:1-2. Tiberius Caesar began his reign Aug groups there are four distinct lin-es of church Seven hundred years before the first Bap- - ust 19, A. D. 14, thus definitely settling the polity, ranging from an absolute monarchy tist was born, God through the prophet Isai time of the beginning of John's ministry. on the part of Roman Catholicism, to a pure ah, told us about him and his work in these democracy on the part of Baptists. With words: "The voice of him that crieth in the God Given Title out discussion, it is easy to see that this wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, When John began his ministry, God gave presents the two extremes, b-etween which make straight in the desert a highway for our him th-e official title of Baptist, and he was there is no affinity, on the part of Roman God. Every vall-ey shall be exalted, and every known after that as John the BaPtist. The Catholicism that represents the universal mountain and hill shall be made low: and prophet seven hundred years previous had church theory, and Baptists who represent the crooked shall be made straight, and the said, "Thou shalt be called by a new name, the local churches of Jesus Christ. Between rough places plain: and the glory of the Lord which the mouth of the Lord shall name," these two the entire gamut has been run, shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it Isaiah 62:2. It stands out a plain and unde filling the scale with every conceivable form togeth-er; for the mouth of the Lord has spok niable fact, that Baptist is the only n-ew name and fashion of organization and doctrine. en it" Isaiah 40:3-5. Then just before the ever uttered by the mouth of the Lord. To Baptists and Catholics are antipodes, hold closing of the canon of the old Scriptures, deny that Baptist is the scriptural and proper ing nothing in common. In fact, they hold the Eternal Word, that was afterward "made name for His people to wear, is to dispute the only two independent systems of doctrine. flesh and dwelt among us" John 1:14, spoke word of the prophet Isaiah, and s-et aside There is no other code of doctrine in Christ through th-e prophet Malachi in these words: God's Word. endom but what every statement of their "Behold I will send my messenger, John the principles, or the principles uoon which it Baptist, and he shall prepare the way before God Sent Missionary rests, can be found within either the Baptists me; (Christ) and the Lord, whom ye seek, or Catholics. shall suddenly come to His t-emple, Program and S·peakers Monday Night Tuesday Evening 7:15 Laymen After the Lost ______R. c. Wisner 7 : 00 . Song ahd Praise Nelson Tull 7:20 The Women and the 7:45 Where Are The Soul Winners? Crusade ______: ______Miss Nancy Cooper ______·------Edgar Williamson 7:40 Youth's Place in the Crusade __ Ralph Davis Where Are The Souls to Be Won? .. :{3arnette and Fred Vogel 8 :20 Special Music ______Arkansg,s Baptist Colle?" e 8:15 Music 8:40 Sermon --··------·----- Dr. Perry W·ebb 8 :30 Sermon ------Dr. Perry Webb Tuesday Morning Wednesday Morning 9 : 00 Song and Praise 9 : 00 Song and Praise 9 :10 Scripture and Pr ayer ---·------·-- Phil J . Beach 9:20 All At It ------· Don Hook J. N. BARNETTE 9 : 15 Scripture and Prayer ______Charles Hampton 9:40 Associational Simultaneous Crusades 9:20 Teaching Them to Observe All Discussed Things ------·---·------W. B. Tatum 10:10 Evangelism: How the New Testament WANTED Preachers Did It -· ·-- ·----·--- E. P . J. Garrott 9:50 Prayer and CompassiOn ______Harvey Elledge One thouand pastors, Mis 10:30 Special Music sionaries, Evangelists, Gos 10:15 Old-Fashion Prayer Meeting, pel Singers, and other church 10:35 Preparing A Church for workers to attend all serv led by ------Joe Shaver ices. Evangelism ------· Lloyd Sparkman 10 :50 A Revival or Else ______Charles Wells For reservations write to : 11:0'0 Dealing With a Lost Soul . M. Ray McKay C. W. CALDWELL 11 : 25 Special Music 11 : 25 Song and Prayer 219 Baptist Building Little Rock, Ark. 11:30 Sermon ------···------Dr. Perry Webb 11:30 Sermon ------Dr. Perry Webb Adjourn ' ~uesday Afternoon 2:00 Song and Praise 2:15 Extension Revivals ------Ralph Douglas 2:35 T-estimonies About Mission Revivals 2:50 Projecting the 1950 Crusade ______c. Y. Dossey 3:30 Conferences- General Chairmen and Organizers ______.. w. 0. Vaught Publicity and Financing ------.. 0 . L. Bayless Census ------·-T . K. Rucker Extension Service in Revivals ______R. A. Hill Radio -- ·---- ·----·------·B. B. Sawy-er Prayer ------·------..... M. E. Wiles Fellowship ----·------· ------D. C. Bandy Music ------·-·------...Ray McClung C. Y. DosSEY DR. PERRY WEBB 4:30 Adjournment PAGE TWf:.LVE ARKANSAS BAPTIST Why I Tithe EAST TEXAS By J. G. CoTHRAN BAPTIST COLLEGE "A Service Institution" This is a personal testimony. Like many of you I was not taught to tithe from childhood. It has been my joy to search the Scriptures, Marshall, Texas read stewardship books and tracts, and to discover God's plan of fi Second Semester, Feb. 1, 1950 nancing His work. Time and time again, I have been asked, Why do Scholarship, Culture, Vocations you tithe? Accredited • Christian I tithe because it is taught in the Bible as a workable principle. Reasonable Rates I tithe because God owns the world and all that there is in it Room Reservations and Schol and he owns my life. arship Applications should be I tithe because of needs which must be met in the church where made at once to: I belong and in my denomination. H. D. BRUCE, President I tithe because it makes one a partner with God and helps save one from covetousness. I tithe because there are spiritual blessings in so doing. I tithe because it helps me to go on to a larger and fuller stew ardship. BROADMAN Books of MERIT I tithe because I want to be honest with God. I tithe because it solves the giving problem which I feel constantly. Woven From Sound Scrfpturial Fabric C H U R C H' P E W S - by an artist in the proclamation At a Price Any Church of God's Word- B. H. Duncan Can Afford "If It Is Made Of · Wood-We Make It" PERSONAL ADVENTURES WITH JESUS Write or call: Dr. Duncan's newest volume is not just an WAGONER BROTHERS other book of sermons-it is an arresting MANUFACTURING CO. collection 'of fifteen intimate glimpses of the influence and ministry of our Master Phone 24g as recorded in the New Testament. The BOONEVITLE.ARKANSAS author's command of ideas and his warm, friendly way of expressing them combine to make one instantly aware that this book is the fruit of mature reflection and HAS YOUR CHURCH REMEMBERED Christian living. Rich in choice illustrative THEIR BAPTIST ORPHANAGE $1.50 stories. WITH A THANKSGIVING OFFERING? FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM The response so far has been most heartening. Man) are going over what they did last year. Forc·eful, soul-searching, appealing, these fourteen sermons present in a fresh and As the people have been informed they have respond ed. The largest amounts still come from the Churches vigorous style the fUJ:.ldamental truths of who have had members visit the H ome. our faith. Appearing again and again as a recurrent theme in the over-all pattern If your Church has not made its offering, r emember of the book is the dominant message-re the need at Christmas time. • B. N. DUNCAN J lease from sin and death to liberty and un Some things we must face this year in addition t o bounded life in the fullness of God. things already mentioned, is Sewerage disposal, Fire In --- surance and Protection, Sanitation in Kitchen and milk $1.50 safe guard. SEND FOR YOUR COPY TODAY Remember als.o the need of a Clinic and a Gymnasium. Cash enclosed D Charge to my account D Send C. 0. D. 0 Thank you so much for the wonderful response so far. Name______Address______BOTTOMS BAPTIST ORPHANAGE Oity______State______HAROLD C. SEEFELDT, Superintendent Monticello, Arkansas BAPTIST BOOK STORE 303-5 West Capitol Little Rock, Ark. DECEMBER 15. 1949 PAGE THIRTEEN Figures To Inspire Sunday, December 4, 1949 NOTE: Acting up on a suggestion made by D. Blake Westmoreland, Jr .. ~eli9it>uJ {t/uelltit>lr pastor of the First Baptist Church. Warren, we Invite the churches to re port once each quarter on the average EDGAR WILLIAMSON, DIRECTOR for the past three months. After each EDGAR WILLIAMSON FRED VOGEL quarter such report malled to the Re J. ligious Education Department will be Sunday School Superintendent ' Student Union Secretary published In this space In the Arkansas RALPH w. DAYIB MRS. B. w. NININGER Baptist. The first report will be made during January, 1950, for the months Training Union Directm Church Music Direceor October, November and December, 1949. 212 Baptist Building, Little Rock Reports should be sent 1n during the first week 1n January. ALL WEEKLY REPORTS FOR "FIGURES TO IN SPffiE•' SHOULD BE MAILED TO THE Rel!glous Education Department, 212 Baptist Bul!dlng, Little Rock, Arkansas. NOT LATER THAN MONDAY OF EACH January, WEEK. Denominational Emphasis Convention-Wide Sunday School Conference S.S. T.U. Ad. Little Rock, Immanuel 1,275 458 10 Bible Study for All Church Dallas, Texas, December 27-30 Including Missions 1,537 696 13 The general theme for the conference with pastori, educational Flrt Smith, First 1,245 503 2 Members El Dorado, First 910 265 11 1. Co-Operative Program directors, Sunday school superintendents, and associational officers N. Little Rock, Baring Cross 803 318 6 for the Convention-wide Sunday School Conference Including Missions 975 434 2. Student Life - Commitment Little Rock, Second 771 147 4 Day, January 15 in Dallas, Texas, December 27-30, will be "Christian Hot Springs, Second 768 195 3. Church schools of missions Education for the Masses." Camden, First 601 220 6 Testimonies and messages from leaders who Including Missions 846 344 4. The Theological Seminaries Pine Bluff, South Side 592 261 3 Associational Work have succeeded in an unusual way will feature this Including Mission 665 316 conference. Ample time will be given for general Fayettevllle, First 585 236 4 Associational Officers' Meeting: Including Missions 647 290 1. Promote Bible Study Week, testimonies and questions. El Doirado, Second 568 246 2 January 2-6 An attractive and helpful feature will be a testi Magnolia, Central 550 172 4 mony·by Dr. E. H. Westmoreland, pastor, Main Street Including Missions 679 210 2. Start new Sunday schools Little Rock, Tabernacle 539 170 3. Plan to help churches visit Church, Houston, Texas, as to how this church pro El Dorado, Immanuel 530 319 5 vided, in the $800,000 educational building, a place Including Mission 585 381 6 all members in February Hope, First 521 155 4. Complete plans for February for every member of every family. Crossett, First 514 193 1 work. The first week in October the Sunday school Arkadelphia, First 505 220 2 of this church occupied the new building, setting Including Mission 536 5. Consider locations for new Warren, First 502 159 1 Sunday schools R. G. Lee up seven Nurseries and four Adult departments with Hot Springs, Central,. 482 181 1 Speaker thirty-four classes. Fort Smith, Immanuel 476 190 1 6. Arrange for delegation to Russellvl!le, First 452 169 Ridgecrest Including Mission 536 200 Pine Bluff, Immanuel 449 169 7. Hold Sunday school workers' Paragould, First 433 203 meeting: Theme-"The as Student Night At Summer Field Work, 1950 Including Missions 587 265 sociation's goal toward the Hot Springs, Park Place 431 142 Christmas The summer field workers are Fordyce, First 430 195 500,00'0 enrolment again." scheduled to go to the following West Helena, 423 147 In the Churches Listen! Do you hear a familiar Malvern, First 421 164 associations during the summer of Paris, First 420 173 3 1: Observe Bible Study Week, note? Yes, it's time for the an 1950: Including Mission 473 January 2-6 nual STUDENT NIGHT AT July 5-13-Intensive training at Little Rock. So. H1g]1land 409 149 4 2. Check Standard of Excel Ft. Smith, Grand Av'e. 368 146 7 CHRISTMAS program. the Arkansas Baptist Assembly, Springdale. First 359 252 3 lence ratings and apply for Every full-time pastor in the Siloam Springs Including Missions 561 recognition Rogers, First 358 117 state of Arkansas has received a July 14-22- Big Creek Associa Ft. Smith, Calvary 357 93 3. Establish quotas for enrol packet of information about this tion '11/cnullr j 1/tiJJiclrll!-~ tl~ric1r Auxiliary to Arkansas Baptist State Convention 209 Baptist Building, Little Rock MRs. F. E. GooDBAR Mxss NANCY CooPER President Executive Secretary and Treasurer It's An Annual Affair Mxss Doms DEVAULT Young Peopie'B Secretary Associational Meetings, R. A. Focus Week Six associations have reported fina association-wide meetings of boys, pastors, counselors, and fathers during Focus Week, November 6- 12. The following chart states interesting statistics regarding the meetings. Churches Rep- Association Where Held Church Attendance resented Mt. z:on Jonesboro Central 120 9 Miss Co. Blytheville Calvary 201 11 Centennial Almyra 69 4 Concord Fort Smith Trinity 107 5 Benton Bentonville 88 6 Liberty Smackover 106 8 Total ------______691 43 The total attendanc-e stated above includes twenty-five pastors, two 9 educational directors, and forty-seven counselors of Royal Ambassador Chapters. With one exception, tqe general theme of the programs was t "Ambassadors-Into All the World." The programs were planned by \ the associational young people's counselors: Mt. Zion, Mrs. Sam Mes The pictures are of the annual Squirrel Supper sponsored by the sersmith; Mississippi County, Mrs. Emmitt Cross; Centennial, Mrs. Brotherhood of First Church, Rog-ers. The top picture shows some of Rodney Hagan; Concord, Mrs. C. A. Railey; Benton, Mrs. Ben Nelson; the one hundred fifty people who were present; and the lower picture Liberty, Miss Anne Alexander. Many of the local chapters and counsel shows mainly the line-up of cooks who prepared the maaL These are, ors participated in the programs which were climaxed by missionary left to right, Harold Skelton, H. E. Varnell, F. 0. Beaulieu, Joe Lyon, messages from one of the following visitors: John Abernathy, Chin_a; Elmer Sheaffer, Jack Gray, chairman; Homer Walmoth, Hermon Coop Miss Elma Cobb, Baptist Student Union secretary, Arkansas Baptist , er, Ready Rogers Jr., Virgil Foster, and James Featherston. Hospital; Miss Doris DeVault, young p·aople's secretary, Arkansas W. M. U. Liberty Association had their first Recognition Service, which was conducted by Brantley Vernon and presented by fifty-one members and counselors. These meetings have helped to deepen interest in the missionary education of Baptist boys, and more earnest work in each local church is planned for the immediate future. #"*.P"'i1AI'i1AP,.II41AI41AP'~I41AI41AI41AI41AII41AA - ( AN IDEA for IDEAL Christmas Gifts ) ( * ) ( FOR ) ( EVERY ) ( CHRISTlVIAS ) c - ~ ) ~ ~ , ( These are the magazines you need J' Dr. Forest Maddox of Siloam Springs was the main speaker for the occasion, which is described by Ira Lee, secretary- treasurer of the WORLD COMRADES ~ Rogers Brotherhood, as "A huge success." ( THE WINDOW OF Y. W. A. I Rei Gray is the alert and capable pastor of the Rogers church. I AMBASSADOR LIFE ~ Occasions like the one pictured above have fellowship values and other values which help to bind God's people together m the work of ~ ROYAL SERVICE u His Kingdom. The 1950 officers of the Rogers Brotherhood are: S. 0 . Reynolds, I Send in your gift subscription . and ) president; Virgil Foster and Homer Patterson, vice presidents, and Ira f Gift Cards will be sent from ~ Lee, secretary-treasurer. ****** ~ 1111 Comer Building U Mail a post-card to the Brotherhood Department! !J Birmingham 3. Alabama ~ S·end us the names and addresses of the newly-elected officers of ~ JUST $1.00 A YEAR PER COPY I your church Brotherhood. This will help us to keep our records up to date, and give a live ms.Hing list . ,.. .~~~--~--~--~--~--~·~--~--~--~--~ Please do this now! DECEMBER 15, 1949 PAGE FIFTEEN place. He was just as near to own should live the part. "Expect and to bless in Babylon as in any great things from God, and at .The Universal God spot on earth. The practical les tempt great things for God," said By MRs. HoMER D. MYERS son of their day and ours is another. "And He is able to do that no nation, be it ever so god exceeding abundantly more than This discussion is based on the less; no city, be it ever so wicked; we are able to ask or think," said International Unif01'm Sunday School Sundaq School Lesson for and that no hillside be it ever so Paul. A fretting, whining, com Lesson Outlines, capyrighted by the December 18, 1949 bare or ever so prosperous, is hid plaining Christian is no credit to International Council of Religious den from our God. God. We should take our troubles Education and used by permission. ' Jeremiah 29; 31 The lesson those people needed to Him--and leave them there. was: "Ye shall seek me, and find Then go out to witness and live In the rast lesson Jeremiah was the world and glorify God. Jesus me, when ye shall search for me a,mong people, radiant with joy, empha~izing a personal religion; said, "Occupy till I come." We with all your heart," regardless of thus is our faith manifested to a that each person is responsible in have a testimony for the world; where they were or of their sur lost world; our attitude will carry dividually for his salvation or the we should magnify the virtues of roundings. Jeremiah c o m f o r t s far more weight than any words lack of it. Today's lesson teaches God by living a practical Chris them in their tribulation and we may utter. the "availability" of the Lord; tian life, and thereby reflect the promises their return in seventy God is universal; "Whosoever" light of Jesus Christ to a lost and years. Their duty :::~ow was to live will, may come to Him. dying race. in a manner becoming to God's Jeremiah's prophecies concern "Seek the peace of the city," children and live with happy an ing the Babylonian captivity have seek the good and the welfare of ticipation, with expectant hope, come to pass in this lesson, many the community where you live; looking toward the day of their people have been taken into Baby "pray for it," "for in the peace redemption from captivity. lon as captives and many have thereof, shall ye have peace." The All these practical points are been left in the land of Judah. children of God would benefit worthwhile to the Christian to Jeremiah, still despised and re from all the bl-essings that came day. We should live normally; jected, is left behind in Jerusalem, to their fellowmen. They were build homes and enJOY them, and but he is writing the message of not to manifest a bitter, reproach thank the Lord for them for the God to the captives in Babylon in ful attitude toward their captives, home is the foundation of socie the form of a letter, which is re but like Paul in later centuries, ty. We should live peaceably with corded in Chapter 29. In this let "Learn to be content in whatso all mankind, radiating Christian ter the Lord assures the Israelites ever state we find ourselves." They virtues for Christ's sake; and be of his watchcare over them. were not buried alive; people ing good citizens for the honor· of His everlasting love and pro should not get lost in a strange and glory of God. We should live tection, and of their future restora place, but should make the most wisely-not as fools said the Apos tion. The letter was filled with of a bad situation, for God still tle Paul, but redeeming the time practical admonitions to the cap lives, and He knows all about His because the days are evil. We AUTOMATIC tives in Babylon which may be own and their problems. should not be tossed about by DUPLICATORS applied to our lives as God's chil Live Wisely every wind and doctrine, going dren today. Their lack of wisdom had astray after false prophets, but Live Normally caused their captivity; they had should stay close to the "Thus In verse four, the Lord assumes listened to the false prophets back saith the Lord." Then, we should responsibility for their captivity home instead of to God's proph live in happy expectancy! We they had persistently sinned and ets, who would hav·e saved them have a great God and everloving sin must be punished. He had if they had obeyed. Now much of heavenly Father; "I'm a child of warned them and pleaded with their trouble is because they still the King," says the poet, and we them through His servants to no listen to the false prophets; (29:8- avail, so their rebellious spirits 9). The false teachers had insist must be broken. They had been ed that God was too good to al The Cooperative Program disloyal to God and had forced low the sufferings Jeremiah had His judgment, but not His disfav prophesied; now their tune chang The Cooperati":e Program is a or. He is still their loving Father, es when those things are coming plan or method by which our His grace abides with them, He to pass, and they begin to sow dis pooled gifts reach all Baptist wishes peace and happiness for content and spread gloom. They causes with the least cost and lost $33.60 to $58.50 them and not evil. "Many 0 Lord should know by now these are false motion possible. ... are thy thoup;hts which are to prophets, but the Lord tells them It is not in reality a program. $9.75 p~5~~~D us-ward ... they cannot be num again to ignore them for they are It is a plan of mission finance. It All above prices include Federal Tax bered," said the Psalmist. The merely guessing, and expressing is not an end in itself. It is and Supplies world cannot understand the won their own dreams and ideas. merely a means to an end. The STENCILS (Postpaid) derful, loving grace of God toward NEW "B" qu ...... _...... _...... $1.98 Live Expectantly Cooperative Program is to our NEW "B'' TOP-PRINTED, qu ...... 2.15 His own, sinners though we be, and The Israelites have settled down mission work what the line is to "BEST", qu...... _ ...... 2.50 the Psalmist says He thinks of us in deep despair and their mourn electricity- a medium or channel "BEST", TOP-PRINTED, qu. -----·· 2.75 NEW PLIOFILM, TOP- more times than can be numbered. ing is described as that of a moth by which or through which our PRINTED, green, qu. ------$3-25 God had arranged for their cap er who weeps for a lost child; as money reaches the places we de BULLETIN, folder form, tp., qu . .. .. 2.85 tivity__:now He commends that separation brings heartache and cide upon ourselves in advance. CEMENT, for above, bottle ...... :w they make themselves as comfort sorrow, so the J·ews down in Bab To carry the illustration furth INK (Postpaid) able as possible in Babylon. "Build SPECIAL, for closed drums, lb. ----$1.25 ylon were weeping their hearts er, a Missionary Baptist Church BLACK, ECHO, 1 lb. ------.80 ye houses and dwell in them; out; the Psalmist expresses it thus: BEST, 1 lb ...... -r.. - ...... 1.20 is the dynamo, the Cooperative FOUR COLORS, 'h lb. each color .... .70 plant gardens and eat the fruit of "How can we sing the Lord's song Program is the line, or channel, them;" live normal lives, settl-e in a strange land." When they had and the causes named to get the FOLIOS (Postpaid) down, for they were to be there the opportunity to praise the Lord "BEST" 200 designs for churches $2.10 money are the lights to bless in Also buy Paper, Master Addresser, Scope, seventy years. They were to mar at -home, they were singing unto teaching, healing and preaching Trimming Board, etc., from ry wives and bear sons and daugh idol gods; they remind us of many the gospel. VARICOLOR DUPLICATOR CO. t-ers that their nation would not Dept. AB-Cataiogue Free- Shawnee, Okla. people upon beds of affliction. -L. G. Frer; diminish. who have neglected the Lord's Live Peaceably service when they had health and They were admonished to be opportunity but when illness good citizens. God never encour strikes they make all sorts of reso CHURCH FURNITURE aged anarchy. Jesus said we lutions to every minister they see, should render unto Ceasar the "to do better when I am well L. L. SAMS & SONS things that are Ceasar's and unto again." But with the return of Pews, Opera Chairs, Folding Chairs, Pulpit Furniture God the things that are God's. health, their promises and vows We should not rob God of the are usually forgotten. Sunday School Furniture things, the time and tal-ents that God was trying to teach the Quotations Without Obligation Israelites that their relationship belong to Him, to give those things 905 South 5th Street, Waco, Texas to the world; neither can we hold to Him was a personal matter, and pucselves aloof from the rest of had nothing to do with time or - STATE CONVENTION B. L. Brklgea, General S•cti'I!J'f, 200 Baptln Bullding, LlttZ. Rock, Ark. He's Right! Once More The following article was written by Dr. Once more we appeal to our churches and c. w. Caldwell, Superintendent of our Mis The Answer the alumni of Ouachita College for pray sions Department as it appeared in the De erful consideration of the Ouachita College cember 7 issue of the ARKANSAS GAZETTE Campaign which will close December 31. in the People's Column. We think he is ex What we do must be done quickly. By the actly right, and we are ..h!lPPY to. pass it time you have read these lines many< of our along on this page.-for the benefit of those churches will have answered our appeal for a who might not read it otherwise. worthy offering on December 11 for this To the Editor of the Gazette: cause. Several churches have sent in addi Much has been written and said about the tional sums to that already paid. sex criminals within the past few weeks. But The following statement is an excerpt one thing has been overlooked. Haven't you taken from a letter received December 6 noticed the usual statement of the criminal from Stanley Jordan, pastor of the First when caught, "I had been drinlcing?" We Church of Springdale: "It is a great joy for get aroused over the fact that a little child me to be able to send you the enclosed check has been raped and then slain but close our for Ouachita in the amount of $1,000. This eyes to the fact that drinking was the cause The following illust_ration will help was done by order of the church yesterday of it all. What stupid people we are. We you answer the foregoing question! morning. We have not forgotten Ouachita sell the intoxicating liquor which turns a and are going to keep her in our hearts this man into a sexual maniac and then want to year at ieast until we pay the full $6,000 appoint a commission to study him. which we were originally asked to accept as Not only has "drinking" been the cause of • our quota." many sex crimes but others as well. A man With that spirit prevailing we can do a kills his wife and daughter and wounds an worthy thing for our senior school which so other child while the other children watch desperately needs help now. We believe in with fear. Then his brother says, "he had Arkansas Baptists. We believe they want to been drinking." A jeep turns over and. kills and will do their best. an innocent rider because the driver "had been drinking." A sheriff in a North Arkan sas county is now in a hospital having been Mixup! wounded by a man he as~ed to "stop drink-_ ing." Did you get the wrong overcoat when Oh, there is no way to know how many you left the Convention? There has people are killed, wounded, and suffer in been a mixup on overcoats and if you many ways from day to day because some know of a man who lost his overcoat one "has been drinking." or got the wrong one please advise our Solomon said: "Wine is a mocker, strong office and we will try to help him get drink is raging; and whosoever is deceived the right coat. thereby is not wise." Conway Corporation Something should be done to the man who raped and killed the child; something should Sues Central College be done to the man who killed his wife and Signs Of The Times children; something should be done to the The conway Corporation, and the City of man who wilfully shot the sheriff; but what Conway, have brought suit to recover a gift Never before have we been besieged with will we do to "drink" which caused it all? amounting to some $45,000 which it is al so many orders for stewardship tracts. We leged was made to the college some years ago are not complaining. We are reJmcmg. on condition that the college was to remain There is a reason for these demands. Our at Conway as a junior college. The plaintiffs pastors and churches are setting about to High Car Toll Laid To are asking custody of the college's property meet the challenge of our 1950 budget with · Drunken Youths in Conway until the claim be satisfied. renewed energy and determination. They are In 1929 Central College, through the Execu stressing the tithe which is the Lord's plan Liquor and the 'teen-age driver are respon tive Board of the State Convention made of financing His kingdom work. able for thousands of accidents, according promise to the Conway Corporation that if Brethren, we can, and by the grace of our to Mr. Lou E. Holland of Kansas City, Presi the corporation would make a contribution Lord, we will raise the budget requirements dent of the American Automobile Association. of $41,'000 to help pay off the existing in for 1950. Many of our pastors have written He says that the practice of driving while in debtedness the Board of Trustees of the col us to say that they had gone back home toxicated is increasing among 'teen-agers, lege would maintain the college as a junior from the Convention and with prayer and many of whom think it is a mark of distinc~ college at Conway. At the same time the thought re-presented the matter of their 1950 tio•n to carry "booze bottles." The combina Executive Board agreed to make an annual budgets, and in every instance their churches tion turns them into potential killers, and contribution to the college amounting to have backed them up and increased their frequently actual killers. Mr. Holland de $10,000 in order to enable the school to main budgets to help meet the Cooperative Pro nounces the "temptation to imbibe" which tain its accreditation as a standardized junior gram needs for the new year. is becoming more and more widespread. He college. At the time the Convention was Let us remember that there are no pre meeting that year (1929) this scribe was ferred items in our operating budget. If we calls attention to the increase in roadside acting secretary and read the Board's reso fail to meet the budget every department, places where boys and girls can buy liquor: lution to the Convention. It seems that the institution, and agency wiil suffer propor "More than half the states allow gasoline Conway corporation claims to have made tionately. No money for capital needs can station-s to sell whiskey. This is an evil prac another contribution later on. Now, since be paid until and unless we meet the oper tice in its effect on adult drivers, but it is the college has moved to Camp Robinson the ating budget. appalling when the 'teen-agers are consider Conway corporation is asking that it be re We/ need not argue our point further on ed. This mixing of gasoline and alcohol by imbursed. We have received a copy of the "How We Can Do It." We can do it by simply young, irresponsibile drivers has got to be complaint. but as we write this article we following the will of our Lord through tithes stopped or the accident records will mount have not had opportunity to study the mat and offerings. ". . . prove me now . . . saith to tolls undreamed of heretofore." ter nor to discuss it with attorneys. the Lord .. ."