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THE article appearing in the August 8th issue of the an issue· of "black" and'"white," it is not an issue of total right Arkansas Baptist entitled, "Distressed in the White House," or wrong. Both factors are greatly in error. As for me, I can by E. S. James, might as easily have been entitled, "Over- sleep at night with the clear conscience that: while I hope whelmed by the White House." I can sympathize with the and pray and live for the day when all racial barriers are inferiority complex which he suffered as a· Baptist, but I dissolved, I will not be misled by' the sanctimonious who have c~nnot accept his justification for his depressions. done little but talk and stir trouble. He stated how ashamed he felt when a representative of The racial turmoil is now at the stage when it seems government' had to ask gospel ministers for cooperation and necessary to ·blame someone or some group. We have blamed 'Jilupport in expiating the moral question in the racial contro- the. Supreme Court, the Communists, Northern agitators, ~ersary. I am rather ashamed of government officials· who, Southern "Hot-heads," and now ministers (and, oh yes, the ·by "bulldoging," browbeating, and blundering, have provoked Kennedys). All rpay have played their parts, but while we the present crises, and then have the impudence to call for look for a "scape-goat," have we . tried the mirror? It has solution from -any professional group. Furthermore, I am been known to give true reflections. The blame must surely thankful that the majority of gospel ministers have had rest on us all. enough sense to stay out of the heated discussions and not The racial sore is a- muiti-festered monster,-a,nd there is to fan an already raging fire. I have confidence that gospel no man-made panacea. Legislation and "taking a stand," as ·ministers have tried to .do something constructively through some call it, will never heal; they will only irritate and make the years, and I credit the improvements which; wcU'e , matters worse. Some idealists seem to think that society can gradually taking pla-ce before the notable Supreme be reformed by men, themselves. It is certainly true that men Court decision largely · to their influence. The trouble · are to be instrumental, but until men recognize their own is that far too many noble, gullible souls have .swallowed inability to manage without the leadership of the Lord, things "hook-line-and-sinker" the very suggestion of the NAACP will trul¥ "wax worse and worse." The Saviour and Healer of that it is a moral question; and that the answer and solution all nations and their problems is still the Balm of Gilead. can· come over night. The fact remains, however, that it is When enough men become truly converted, we can expect primarily a ·social issue, and only through that facet does Christlike attitudes and actions. Our duty as ministers is not it become a moral one. to fan the flame of strife, but rather catch on fire for God, When the word, "moral," is used by racial extrcunists, it ourselves. If we have failed, we 'have failed to preach ''Christ is amazing ·how it takes on a double standard of .definition. and Him crucified" convincingly enough. I cannot agree that Both ardent integrationists and segregationists ca~for Christ- as Baptisb we .have failed in trying to better race relation like ·actions from the opposition while excusing their own. For ships. I cannot agree that we have failed the Negro. I know example, I cannot picture Christ shouldering a picket sign or. of too many incidents personally in which we have tried to being dragged from th13 streets as a sullen demonstrator, as· help. Certainly we can never feel that we have done enough. integrationists seem to advocate; neither can I imagine Him Those who feel ashamed should try doing more in· a con with a sniper's rifle or a home-made bomb at .the gloating of structi've way. I do not feel that demonstration of violence, segregationists. His sign was }:lis cross, which He ·bore with- whether active or "passive," can ever settle ·anything. A last out murmur; ·and his demonstration was the way of the cross, ing solution can only come through Christian understanding. A which He expects all, both black and white, to follow. great deal has been done and said in the name of God, but If it is a sin not to desire to be associated with either men should beware lest they use his name in vain. .:...-J~mmy extr~me,_ J;hen you can list.me_ aJr1ong the sinners. While it is Lee Stevens, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Luxora. ------~----~------~--- · jeople will be more liberal minded ~- Pastors needed Child's world is now ward the Negro race and toward the HOW .do you blink b~ck th~ tears people who are fighting for the equal-: I AM asking that you help me find and speak past the lump in your throat ity of all men. No, these words will some men who would like to come into when a six-rear old comes running to not suffice. A child's world is now, to our Associations and serve as pastors. your arms, sobbing his little heart out, day. The future to him is obscure and At the ·present 'we have four churches and saying, "Mommy - won't play with he cannot comprehend the real meaning in the Gainesville Association and seven me. He says we an· ought · to paint our of some day. in the Current River Association that faces black and move to Negro-town. Should you tell him that the parents are pastorless. It may be that you know His dafldy and mamma said you were of hi;> Ilttle friends are wrong by think of some man who wishes to atte.nd a Negro-lover, that you are -~or 'cibel ing as. they do, and by teaching preju Southern Baptist College while doing WIGHTS.' Mom what is 'cibel dice to small children? pastoral work. These two Associations wights'? He said ·you want me to go To a child, all parents are suppo.sed lend themselves well to this type of to school and church with Negroes, to know what is right. So please tell ministry. Mommy, what's wrong with ' going to tne, how do I explain this to a child, Please send the name or names of school with them, we see some Negroes when I can't explain it to myself?..;... those who· might be interested in com ·in the Chapel on Sundays, aren't they Y'vonne Anita Fitts, North Little Rock ing this way. 1 :will need the full name supposed to ·be there?" REPLY: The only answer I have,. Mrs. of each man as well -as his age, address, Are there enough words in the Eng Fitis, is to teach the children the ·phone No., marital status, size of fami lish voca:bulary to ease the hurt this teachings of Jesus Christ, right out of ly, experience, and one or two more ref child has received 1 You can't just get the New Testament. Christ is the erences.--J. Russell Duffer, Missionary, by with telling him that some day answer on the race issue as on all other Gainesville-Current River Baptist Asso things will be different, that some day issues.-ELM . ciations, 908 Polk Street, Corning, Ark.
Page Four · ARitANSAS .BAPTIST We want prospeets This has been a greater WONDER c:aDed ~- Yean'," for reasons all MENT to me since you have been too clear to "'erybody down Bunker HERE is"the chureh, and here is the, "tarred and feathered," ...-erbally speak way. steeple; We're constantly in search. of· ing, now for over two _years with ar We neTer ~~about :roar unenlisted peoole. ·• rows, bricks, clubs, and buck shot high-fahdia' poke saJad (we called it because you have said "Your PIECE" salat) remedy. Bat we foalllf then was on many subjects. nothing beai lllllphur ud grease fw our It has finall;:v dawned on me, sinee 'I "poison oak." as we eal1ed what we had. was reared in an Arkansas area . with (Even in a society where everybody had plenty of Br'er Rabbit's Brier Patches the itch, nobody would admit it! After 1 near our home, that God knew all about all, if a feller can't hold onto his self your' future before you were born "down respect, .what's he got?) '11mnks a on Bunker." God knew that ""down on millyun...... ELM Bunker" a. little red head would be a· preacher some day and also the Editor Teacher on Bible reading of a Baptist weekly magazine, and a "Jim Dandy" magazine at that. So, God AS a pul1lic school teacher, I. am still prepared and toughened your old hide of the opinion that many boy-s and girls by sending you, year after year, to the have benefited from the reading of the blackberry patches in July and . August Bible and the saying of the "Lord's to harvest this luscj,pus fruit for jam Prayer/' or a prayer, ·in our public and jelly. While you were out there the schools. The Law of 1930 which pro "chiggel'S" and ticks perforated your vided for the reading of the Bible and · young hide with something like a mil prayer did not violate a person's free lion bites and stings, but there were choice in the matter. Those school dis berries "in them thar hills" that had tricts that complied with the law, with to be harvested and prepared for "lick~ out exception, as far · as I know, per~ ing good eating" in the winter months. mitted students who objected to be ex , Each "lassie gallon" of berries meant cu,ed from the readtng and . the prayer. abaut a million more "chiggers/' There It has never been an "establishment of fore, a million more _punctures. religion," only an acknowledgement of However, God used something else religion, and is no more unconstitution If you know any families living or '~down on Bunker" to toughen your hide al than opening sessions of Congress moving to the Denver area (Littleton, so it would SHED every attack directed with prayer or providing chaplains in Aurora, Arvada, Englewood, Denver) at and against you as Editor of the the branches of our military forces. please se~d us their names and ad- Newsmagazine. When you went to that Jesus, I believe, in condemning the . dresses. We will visit them. school "down on Bunker" for more religious leadership of his ,day, used In this pioneer area, Southern Baptist "larning" God saw to it that you caught words which are admirably suited tO Churches are hard to find, but so are the ITCH each year from some "young• descri'De some recent Supreme Court de prospects through the regular channels. en" that didn't take his weekly Satur cisions. He accused the stiff-necked, Mtei · ten years, we have sold our day night bath and many who skipped prejudiced religious leaders of, "strain building and are building a complete the annual one. So, something had to ing at gnats and swallowing camels," new churc)l, ·_ picture above. Te~porary be done about this itch. The home rem and also as, "blind leaders of the blind." looation while. the new building is under edy "down on Bunker" for ITCH, as it Perhaps our judicial leadership would construction is Denver Christian High was in all rural communities then, was do .away with the Christian religion and School at East Evans and South PearL the digging up of "poke salad" roots establish something else as the religion . We have ·fully-graded Sunday School, and boiling them, loads of them, until of America. During the French Revolu Training Union, Choir and Youth pro there was enough of- juice for the tion, the Goddess of Reason replaced grams.-Rev. Bob .McPherson, Pastor, "itcher" to take the ·BATH of ALL Almighty God as the Supreme deity of South Denver Baptist Church, 1166 So . Baths in the "wash tub." WHAT A France, and instead of worshipping in . Washingto~, Denver 10. Colo. BATH! If ·some of your readers have Christian cathedrals or churches, the never had a bath from this juice, they blood-thirsty, maddened mob of Paris really "haint got no Arkansas laming." used the Cathedral of Notre Dame and L So, when your old hide, thick as an other conspicuous and famous buildings Tribute to·Mr. Duffer elephant's or a crocodile's, sheds the as temples dedicated to the Goddess of bullets, bricks, bombs, clubs, and buck Reason with ungodly sexual -orgies per I READ with pleasure ·and pride your shot from your readers, WHO HAVE A formed quite frequently. There were article on Bi'o. Russell Duffer, Mission RIGHT TO "SAY THEIR PIECE, TOO," temple prostitutes just as there were in ary ·to the Gainesville and Current River then I · thank . God for the "chiggel'S, the old heathen religions that confront Assoc. Pleasure in remembering some of ticks, and polk berry juice" that God ed Judaism and Christianity in Biblical the good times and laughs his family had in abundance "down on Bunker" to times. and my family have 'had together. Pride make your hide TOUGH and your heart · I ask, did France or any other coun in. h~ving known so great a man. Of ' and spirit warm, kind, gentle, forgiving, try profit from such excesses? The an all the wonderful pastors I have had patient, and •Christian.-Jay W. C. swer is, NO! Will America profit from· and the memorable preachers I · have Moore such a step backward as we recently heard Bro. Duffer tops the list. It is a witnessed? The answer is obvious. NO! great honor to have him as a friend. REPLY.: Jay, you've just about got Do. I believe that the Supreme Court Tltank God for men such. as he.-Mrs. me crying, thinking what all I've been will degenerate to the extent that those Eugene Koonce, Osceola. · through-especially them chiggers and in power in France during the Revolu that itch; The fact that I don't deserve tion degenerated? I can hope and pray all the nice things you say aJUI infer that it will not. But the people. of Amer here makes your letter all the more ap- ica who still have a vital, living, fer The Bunker milieu preciated. / vent faith in God must be ever vigilant I shall not try to .straighten you out· to preserve our liberties and prevent I HAVE often wonden!d why the Lord on all of your facts-for that , would unwarranted usurpations of power that permitted you to be born and "raised" certainly iJnpoverish my image as you "down on Bunker." [You are kind DOt rightly belong to the people, and not have built it-but we didn't have the one body of men who at one stroke of to wonder wb the Lord allowed me to iteh every year-at least we didn't be bora, period.-ELMl c•tch it tl,at. often. We had the kind (Continued· on page l 9)
AUGUS~ 22, 1963 Page Five The trouble Is that the same freedom of religion which affords such worthwhile broadcasts also allows for sensa tionalists and religious merchants to capitalize upon the ignorance and natural religious inclination of millions of Americans. There is no way to know how many millions of Trafficking in religion dollars are sent by listeners to radio preachers who are ac countable to no one as to how these dollars are spent. Each of these questionable religion peddlers baa his own line. Usually he either has some great truth or "revelation" available nowhere else, or he is so "enlightened" as to be By C. R. Daley _ able to find fault with and criticize all other viewpoints other than his o'\n. Generally these "saviours" are sensationaliats Editor, W e8tern Recorder with unusual natural gifts of expression and persuasion. Not a few of them have failed as pastora of local churches because af their inability to work with others• . Some even have been dismi158ed by the denomination to which they belonged. These preachers build up a tremendous audience by buyiilg time on stations acattered throughout the country. The more contributions they receive, the more stations they get on, and the more stations the more contributions. Powerful clear channel stations are most desirable since at night they reach almost across the country. Some of these operators don't meet the minimum broadcasting standards in our land, so they buy time on powerful Mexican stations which beam their broadcasts all over the United' States. · The approach of these men doing business in religion varies from the most ridiculous to the most sublime. Some exchange healing cloths for contributions like the medieval Roman Church sold indulgences. Some offer healing by touch ing the radio receivers. Some have foreign missionaries for which they ask support. A few pose as saviours of America by criticizing the government and practicing religious McCarthy-· ism. The same ones usually claim the American clergy is infiltrated by Communists, and they hold this is especially true of those who worked on modern translations of the Bible. : Nearly all of them have some kind; of come-on. Their most important possession is a mailing list from which they can periodically and persistently seek contributions. To get such a list of· prospects, they offer something free to. all who write in. Once one writes in'; he's hooked. Since maey religious broadcasts are worthwhile, the prob lem comes in distin~ishing between good and questionable religious radio programs. Without• .a doubt ·some are in . ' tentionally or unintentionally using religion for commercial p.urposes. It's a money-making affair in which many unin formed but conscientious persons contribute to the delinquency of religion peddlers. If thostl contributing knew how well off financially these are insteall of how hard put they claim to be, sentiJDentality would vanish and' offerings cease. The world-wide missionary enterprises some claim to sponsor are often no more than a dozen or ·SO unprepared, starving mia sionaries whose ·supervision requires frequent expensive 'round-the-world trips by the fund raiser. · ·
Why are people duped by such money changers in the temple? Two reasons come to mind. One is that most Ameri REEDOM of religion .in America allows for an amaz can people are inherently religiously .inclined. and ready to help in religious endeavors. The other is that thousands of Fing variety of~. groups and individuals appeaHng for al legiance and support~ This is seen, not only in the hundreds these people with some religious conscience have never be of· different religious denominations which have one or more come informed church members or have drifted from active churches, but also in the thousands upon thousands of re church membership.. This leaves them with a religious deposit ligious radio and television broadcasts. and thus easy marks for the sensationalist. They don't take the trouble to ·go to church and• learn how their contributions If one happens to be driving all night, it's truly an could be used through regular channels for world-wide Chris amazing experience to· listen by car radio to the various re tian causes, so they swallow the line of the far away evange ligious broadcasts being. sent out across the land. To take· list who gets into their homes and hearts by radio. Conse all of these seriously would lead to bewilderment and con• quently, millions of dollar.s each year are skimmed off by these fusion. Actually, they provide entertainment, though the use operators. In most instances these millions would go further of religion for· such purposes is quite questionable. and could do more good through churches and denomina_tions In many instances radio is wonderfully used for pro which give accurate accounting of evecy cent spent. claiming the gospel. The good of Billy Graham's Hour of Shall we stop such religious practices? By no means, as Decision; Charles E. Fuller's Old Fashioned· Revival Hour, long as they are within bounds of decency and law. Freedom The Baptist Hour, and similar progra'ms by other denomina of religion is too precious to tamper with. Let them continue.. tional groups, along with hundreds of other network and and let us become informed enough to know which ones to local religious· broadcasts could hardly be overestimated. support and which ones to let starve. Page Six ARKANSAS BAPTIST "COME for dinner, I've been to the Miss Hunt graduated from Virginia farmer's market." State Teacher's College, and from Co lumbia University, where she received This invitation is often issued by a a master of arts degree. vivacious blonde who feels shelling For a time, she· taught in the public peas and peeling tomatoes are better schools of Roanoke and took an active than a tranquilizer after a long day at part in associational Young Woman's the office. Auxiliary and Woman's Missionary Union work. Cooking is just one of Alma Hunt's In 1944, she went to William Jewell hobbies; going to the farmer's market College, and four years later she moved is another. to Birmingham to assume her present Guests who share her farm-style feast !)osition. (no meat-just veg~tables and com Roanoke, where her mother and bread) are served on a handsome an brother live, is still "home" to Alma tique cherry table laid with imported Hunt. Though trips there are infre linen and set with English bone china quent, .I! he does try to go . often enough and antique pressed glass goblets. . to keep· up with the growth of her niece, Mary Anna and nephew, Dickie. Antiques, esp~~iall~ goblets,· are in triguing to Miss\ Hunt. She has skill Soon after Mrs. R. L. Mathis_ was fully blended old pieces with art objects elected president of Woman's · Mission purchased ~uring her world travels, to ary Union, the new president visited give her apartment a cosmopolitan the Birmingham office. During a tour of flavor. the building, Mrs. Mathis pa,used at the water fountain. "I wish I could have company more "Here, let me hold it fqr you," vol .>ften," she confesses With true South unj;eered Miss Hunt. She quickly ern hospitality. "I can eook other foods pressed the lever and · se1:1t a spray of besides vegetables, you know!" water directly irito the face of tHe new president. · CoU~cting antique, pressed glass When vegetable season is over, Miss goblets is one of the hobbies- of Hunt tries her hand at pancake or chili As Mrs. Mathis dried her face she suppel'S. Sometimes she serves hot dogs remarked, "Well, I see you operate _a Alma Hunt, executive secretalry of . with musta'rd and lQtS o~ · onion. water fountain just like -you do every Woman's Missionary Union. thing else. You put your .whole self into s-lie But time for entertaining is scarce often tries to match tk6 interests and trips to-the farmer\s- market or the it!" of her g_uests with the signi!icatnce antique shop often have to be post Staff members a:t Woman's Mission of the. goblets she uses. poned. This busy executive has many de ary Union headquarters in Birmingham mands in her position as executive sec agree with Mrs. Mathis' evaluation of retary of Woman's Missionary Union, Miss Hunt's enthusiastic approach to auxiliary to Southern Baptist Conven her job. _, tion. But the fact she can punctuate a tense staff' meeting with a funny story, Alma Hunt was dean of women at or will interrupt a busy day to perform William Jewell College
Page Ten ARKANSAS BAPTIST Revival News TENT REVIVAL, Booneville, spon sored by First Church, Booneville, South Facts of intet·est Side, Booneville, Glendale, Magazine, FACTS OF INTEREST First Church and Grace Mission of First • • • "THERE are now 1,200,000 Americans .alive today who have been cured of Church, Booneville, July 14-28; Walter cancer," according to the American Cancer Society. "By cared, we mean they are K. Ayers, evangelist, .Mark Short, direc alive, without evidence of the disease, at least five years after diagnosis and com tor of music; 40 profes~ions of faith; pletion of treatment. An additional 700,000 cancer patients diagnosed and treated 30 joined churches; attendance 600 to within the past five years will live to enter the ranks of those we call cured." 1,000 e'ach night.-Norman Lerch, re • . • Last year book publishers printed 16,448 new books and 5,456 new edltioiUi of porter. older books for a total of 22,000 titles. This is a 21 percent merea&e over 1961. Publie libraries report that over 800 million books were borrowed last year, compared HIGHWAY Church, North Little with 500 million in 1956. Over a billion books-hard baek aDd paperback-were Ro · Little Rock, is the new minister of cently held a GA coronation service. music and youth at Pulaski Heights Participating were Rev. Amos · Greer, DIXIE Church, Mt. Zion Association, Church. associational missionaryi Mrs. Carroll July 20-Aug. 4; Rev. Ray Nelson, pastor Mr. Spann was edu- Phillips, WMU · president; Mrs. John of Fisher Street Church, Jonesbor.o, cated in the public Wallace; associational GA director; evangelist; Gary Han>ey, singer; Rev. schools of North Mrs. Charles Cross, W,fdU vice presi John Collier, pastor; 17 by baptism; 1 . Little Rock and grad- dent; and Rev. Jesse W. Whitley, pas- by letter. ' uated from Ouachita tor. · College with a bache- Girls taking ·the steps were: FRIENDSHIP Church, Marianna, July lor's degree. He at- Maidens: Lyrtn Baker, Debby Porter, 14-21; Charles·Caery, pastor; M. E. Dark, tended Southwest· Linda Phillips, Brenda Crutchfield, evangelist; Herbert "Red" Johnson, sing ern Seminary at Ft. Debby Burch, Marsha Dempsey, Rox er; Mrs. Freeda Burgess, pianist; 12 by W orth and is work- anne Blackwell, Marsha Peyton, Rolle profession of faith, 9 rededications, 1 by ing on a master's de- Pierce, Judy Collier, Ramona Boyd, letter, 1 for special service. gree in religious edu- Betty Beckham,. Paula Melton, Shawna MR. SPANN cation. He has recent- Cheatham, Mary Brow;n, Carolyn Beck- JASPER Church, Aug. 5-11; 4 by bap ly completed requirements for a master ham, Ruth Watson, and Joan Hebert. tism;, 2 others .saved; 2 surrendered for of music degree. Lady-in-waiting: Debra Rogers, La- missions; Rev. Gene Williams of Hous Former minister of music and youth nell Pierce a~d Martha 'Phillips. Pli\n top, Tex., evangelist; A. Cobb, song di at Forest Park Church and Connell cess, Jeanette Kees. ·. Queens, Becky rector; Rev. Gary Hawkins, pastor. Churc~ in Ft. Worth, Mr. SpaJm comes Hall and Beverly ;MuUinax. to Little Rock from Hillcrest Chur~h, ROSEDALE Church, Little Rock; Arlington, Tex.. R"d t t H Sept. .t.15 -22; Rev. Jimmy O'Quinn, For He served as assistant chaplain with I gecres S a ers est .t'·ark, Ga.; evangelist; W. Le.slie the U.S. Army in Germany for 18 months. . ' ARKANSAS is represented on the Smith, pastor. staff. of Ridgecrest Assembly this sum · Mrs. •Spann, the former Miss Jan mer by 12 young people. The assembly Tillinghast, a graduate of Baylor, will ELMDALE Church, Springdale, yo~th teach in the ' Pulaski county schools. is owned and operated by the Sunday revival, Aug. 9~11; BSU team- from They have one son. School Board of 'the Southern Baptist University of Arkansas; Jon Stubble Convention. field, preacher, Gean Gray, song leader; Arkansans who are staffers are Mar ion Jean Dawson, Danville; Sondra Jean 11 additions; Paul Wheelus, pastor. REV. and Mrs. W. Judson ~lair, South ern Baptist missionaries,· have resumed Ellis, Fordyce; Mary Elizabeth Hall, CALVARY Church, Huntsville, ending their work at the Baptist Spanish Pub Cave City; Mary Sue Hill, Paragould; Jean Jinkl'!, Pine Bluff; Linda Sue Aug. 11; · Walter K. Ayers~ evangelist1 lishing House, El Paso, Tex. (address: Sterling Doss, song director; Doug and P.O. Box 4255), after a year of study Laney and· Margy Mann, Camden; Vicki Dean Dickens, special soloists; 17 de leave. Mr. Blair, son of Southern Baptist Flo Mitchell, Little Rock; Ben Quinney cisions for Christ; 13 saved; 4 by and- Martha Joe Scifres, Pine Bluff; Re missionaries, was born in Argentina_; . becca Evelyn Scott, Crossett; and Lance letter. Mrs. Blair is the former Dorothy Rose _Sullivan, of Monticello, Ark. Tharel, Fayetteville. REV. Fritz E. Goodbar has completed ' another assignment as interim pastor NORTH MAPLE CHURCH, Stuttgart, MRS. John S. Oliver, Southern Bap· and is now available for an interim Aug. 4-11; Mack Brown and Ed Walker, tist missionary, planned to leave Brazil pastorate or to do supply preaching. Levy laymeri, evangelist; J. H. Shelton August 1 for furlough in the States. He can be reached at Brinkley, telephone and Garland Hayes, son,g directqrs; 4 She may be addressed, c-o S. H. Oliver, RE 4-2381, or through his daughter, for baptism; 3 by letter; 3 for special Rte. 3, Carthage, N. C. The former Vir Mrs. S. Ladd Davies, Little Rock, service; 29 rededications; Harold W. ginia Winters, she is a native of Leslie, Taylor, pastor. MO 8-0646. ., Ark. AUGUST 22, 1963 Page Eleven ----~--~--...... ------Mathises honored Greene County Ass'n CORRECTION MEMBERS of the Central Church, Theo T. James, Missionary Jonesboro, honored their pastor and THE first Greene County associa The semi-annual r~port of . contribu wife, Rev. and Mrs. Curtis L. Mathis, tions published in the ARKANsAS tional youth retreat was held at First on their fifth anniversary with a re- . BAPTIST NEWS-MAG.AfliNE August Church, Paragould, July 29-August 2, ception on a recent Sunday night. 1, 1963, listed $9 contributed to the with an. enrollment of 149 and an aver Membership has increased from 966 Cooperative Program by Holly Springs age attendance· of 99. There were 79 to 1127, during the five year period. Church, Pulaski County Association. public decisions made, of which 71 were · Other statistics include: 245 received This should have read $89. · re-dedications and eight for definite re for baptism; 568 received by statement ligious callings. There were 18 churches and letter; value of church property in- represented. John and Bobbie Landgraf£, creased from $2·29,000 to $375,000, in.: nationally known youth leaders, were eluding the 'purchase of a new parson the guest workers. list~d age and the building of a new educa Radio programs.. tional building and a complete remodel ' · Revivals ing and central air conditioning of the THEME for September for the "Bap- Eight Mile Church: July 21-80; 22 con- existing educational building; total tist Hour" will be "Spiritual" Fitness," versions; 12· for baptism; two public gifts increased from $53,881 to $75,975 according to the Radio-T.V. Commission rededications. Sam Wilcoxson, Cali- of the Southern Baptist C.onvention. f · I' t M E Pri per year and this year expected to go . . S t "L'ttl B t Lo d ·" orma, evange 1s ; . . nee, pas- over $90,000. T op1cs are. ep • 1 , 1 e u . u ', . tor. Sunday School enrollment has in Sept. 8·, "Hands are for Giving Too; . Stanford Church: July 18-28; 21 addi- creased from 749 to 985 with the· addi Sept. 15, "Just Gadding about or Going tions to the church, 18 for baptism tion of five new departments. Training Somewhere;" Sept. 22, "The Pause that and three by letters. Eldon Dicus, of Union ell'ronment has incre&iSed from Refres}les;" Sept. 29, "No Man is an Is- Oklahoma, evangelist; John McCollum, 347 to 455, with the addition of 6 new land." pastor. departments. Stations carrying the program on Sun-· · Lafe Church: July 7-14; five additona. The church staff in 1958 included, day and times are: LesU!r Thompson, evangelist; Edsel · along with the pastor, a church secre~ KVRC, Arkadelphia, 3 p.m.; KTHS, Garner, pa&t_or. tary and part-time music director. Now BeJ.Tyville, 8 a.m.; KCON, Conway, 2:30 Clarks Chapel: July 21-31; one for hap- ·the church has a wll 1time education p.m.; KDQN, De Queen, 7 a.m.; KFAY, tism. Carroll Gibson, California, evan- music director' educational secretary, a Fayetteville, 8:30 a.m.; KBJT, Fordyce, gelist; Lowell N. Jamison, pastor. 4 p.m.; KXJK, Forrest City, 9:30 a.m.; kindergarten director who will direct ' the new kindergarten program begin KXAR, Hope, 5 p.m.; KN.EA, Jonesboro, P ASTORLESS churc;hes in Greene r ning in September, and a church host- -6:30 a.m.; KPCA, Marked Tree, 8 a.m.; County Association are: Calvary, Para . ess.-Mrs. Charles Qowns KENA, Mena, 1:30 p.m.; KHBM, Mon gould; Delaplaine; Mounds; and Brigh ticello, 3:30 p.m.; K;DRS, Paragould, ton. Jernigan not retired 8:30 p.m.; KUOA; Siloam Springs, 7:80 REV. P. H. Jernigan) Route 1, Lake a.m.; KWRF, Warren, 8 a.m.; KWYN, Don McBryde, Route 4, Paragould, is City, writes to correct erroneous in Wynne, 7:30a.m. 1 the new pastor of the Center Hill formation he reports we have carried Stations scheduljng ••.Master Control", Church. He comes from Boekerton Bap· in the · past to the effect that he has all on Sunday, except KUOA, which will tist Church, Portageville,· Missouri. retired. · carry the .program Saturday are: Brother .Jernigan informs us that he KCCB, Coming, 10:30 a.m.; KDQN,, Leonard Bunch has resigned as pastor has no intention of retiring and that DeQue€m, 3p.m.; KXJK, Forrest City, at Mounds Church to become pastor in he has already accepted the pastorate 10 a.m.; KWHN', Fort Smith, 12:30 p.m.; Mi. Zion Association. of Needham Church. He writes: KAA Y, Little Rock, 9:05 a.m.; KBHC, Rolla Utley has resigned as pastor of "I have already preached in one meet- · Nashville, 5:30 p.m.; KCCL. Paris, 4 Brighton Church. He now lives in Ken ing and will be preaching in two more p.m.; KPBA, Pine Bluff, 7 a.m.; KUOA, nett, Missouri. in the month of August. So you can see Siloam Springs, 10 a.m. , Revival Announcements I am some distance. from retirement at KTPA, Prescott, and KDRS, Para Mounds Church, Aug. 18-25; Theo T. this writing." gould, will also carry the program. James evangelist. He writes further: ., Stations with· the International Sun Mt. Hebron Church, Aug. 18-25; Da.r "I was the leader in the building of day School lesson both on Sunday are: rell Ball, evangelist; H. 0., Shultz, pas the Ridgecrest Church· in Blytheville KCCB, Coming, 10:30 a.m. KDRS, tor. and the Calvary Church in the same Paragould, 10:15 a.m. Beech Grove, Aug. 18-25; M. S. IJoyd, city. We have had the blessing of evangelist; George McGhehey, pastor· leading nine churches in building pro- New Liberty Church, Aug. 18-25; grams and we have watched hundreds James Swafford, evangelist; J. G. Jer and hundreds of people walk the trail · Mt. Zion As~odation nigan, pastor for Jesus. I spent five and one-half , East, Side Church, Paragould, Aug. years with Ridgecrest and ·ten years PASTORAL Changes: 19-28; Jeff Rousseau, of Florida, evan with •Calvary Church." P. H. Jernigan, who moved to his farm gelist; Lendol Jackson, pastor following his resignation as pastor of Center Hill, ·Aug. 18-25; Lynn ·Clay Arkansas briefs Ridgecrest Church, ~lytheville, to Need- brook, Memphis, Tenn., evangelist; Guy ham Church. . McBryde, pastor WORTH CAMP. JR. has completed law J. W. Gibbs, Calvary Church, Para Bethel Station, Aug. 18-25; . J. 0. school at the' University of Arkansas and gould, to New Antioch Church. Miles, evangelist; Carl Hodges, pastor. will serve as deputy prosecuting attorney for White and Woodruff counties, living in Searcy. New Arkansas Baptist subscribers SECOND CHURCH, Jacksonville, re ports it has several laymen willing and able to conduct revivals and other meet Church Association Pastor ings. Raymond Huttes, Christian ' Wit New budget after free trial: ness leader of the Brotherhood, is head South Side, Booneville Ctmcord E. G. Waddell ing the group. Those wishing to avail ~ themselves of these services may call ·One month free trial receive~: YU 2-2803, Jacksonville, or write Second Chureh. Gene vy. Welch is pastor. Geyer .Springs First· Pulaski Co. W. E. Perry • Twelve ARKANSAS BAPTIST SBC News and Notes------.------BY the BAPTIST PRESS TV plans rights show A THREE-HOUR definitive study of all aspects of the civil rights i&sue will ~Apostle Paul' film readied pre-empt the entire NBC-TV Network programming sehedule from 7:30-10:30 p.m. EDT, Monday, Sept. 2, it was an A FULL-HOUR color special filmed ~·we thin}{ this film will hold great in in the footsteps of the Apostle Paul, terest for every Jew, Catholic and Prot nounced today by William R. MeAn-: drew, Executive Vice President • in who followed literally the injunction of ~sta~t in America," he said. "We hope Christ to "go ye into the whole world, It Will make a great contribution· to the charge of NBC News. and preach the gospel to every crea spiritual life of America." This unprecedented program-the ture," will be presented on the NBC-TV The film team began its journey at first three-hour planned. news special ~n Network next May. Doris Ann, manager Amman, Jordan, in the desert where network television-will present a com of NBC Television religious programs, Paul went following his conversion ex prehensive examination of the history announced the project today. . perience on the Damascus road. From of the civil rights movement from the The program, titled "The Apostle there, the unit proceeded to Jerusalem, Emancipation Prolamation down to the present day. Paul," is being produced by the South in Jordan; to Cae~area, Capernaum, ern Baptist Convention in cooperation and Galilee, in Israel; to Ephesus, · Mr. McAndrew said the NBC News program will feature discussion periods with the NBC Television Religious Pro Per~amum, and Istanbul, iJl Turkey; to gram unit. Cormth, · Kavalla, Salonika and Athens, in which leaders 'ot civil rights move Traveling with nearly a ton of photo in Greece; and, finally; to Rome. Some mentSI and ,their critics, the Adminis graphic equipment, the NBC-SBC task 37,00() feet of color film were shot, :with tration, Congress, labor and 'proponents force spent seven weeks this summer the prosnect of using, 2,000 feet in the and opponents of the proposed civil following the New Testament trail of finished program. ' ' rights legislation will participate. Paul's missionary journeys through the Production of "The Apostle Paul" Through presentation of spokesmen for deserts and mountains of the Middle will be the fourth large-scale overseas different aspects of the_ issue the pro gram will present the v~rying ap East, across Turkey and into Greece - ventur~ the NBC Television Religious and Italy. With Miss Ann, who headed Program unit has undertaken in coop proaches that public opinion has taken the task force as executive producer, eration with the Southern Baptist Con throughout the nation. were Martin Hoade, producer-director; vention. "Report from Rio," a program The program will draw upon the en Joseph Vadala, prize-winning NBC covering the World Baptist Alliance tire corps of NBC News' domestic cor· News photographer, .cameraman; and Convention in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, respondents for analysis of.' how the ·Thomas Landi, assistant cameraman. was telecast in 1960. "Report from Mos civil rights issue affects the American Representing the Southern Baptist Con cow," a program filmed c.hiefly in the · public, and also on NBC foreign cor vention on the film team were Dr. Paul Moscow Baptist Church, was telecast in respondents for reports on reaction to M. Stevens, director of its Radio and 1961. "To Breathe Free," a profile of this issue throughout the world. In Television Commission, who is the pro Hong Kong mainly concerned with the cluded in. the coverage will be an ex gram'·s theological consultant, and Dr. tide of refugees flowing steadily south amination of England's similar problem Truett Myers, production manager. from Red China, was telecast in 1962. resulting from the influx of Negroes The script will be written by Philip Martin Hoade, producer-director of from its dominions. Scharper, well-known writer on religious "The Apostle Paul," has produced and subjects. directed all of the NBC Television Re Sadler has aHack The object of the film 'study of the ligious .Program .unit's overseas pro- Apostle Paul is to "re-examine our faith grams. · DR. George W. Sadler, former secre in our time in the light of ·Paul's faith Telecast for "The Apostle Paul" will tary for Africa, EuroJ,>e, and the Near in his time," ·according to Dr. Stevens. be announced soon. East for the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board, suffered a heart attack August 3, in Danville, Va. He was taken Witnessing stressed. to Memorial Hospital, Danville, where he is responding to treatment. He is Beirut dedication RIDGE·CRE.ST, N.C.-l,\loi'e than 11 - expected to be hospitalized :for a month. 000 persons heard about clhe 1964 associ Dr. Sadler, who makes his home in - THE deep, rich baritone voice of a ational Sunday School witnessing cam Richmond, Va., recently began an in Russian Baptist · singing, "How Great p.aigns during the five Sunday School terim pastorate at First Baptist Church, Thou Art," ·with a congregation of leadership conferences· at Ridgecrest Danville. A native of Laneview, Va•• he voices i~ English, .Arabic, and other (N.C.> and Glorieta AUGUST 22, 1963 ) Page Thirteen Departments----~------Executive Board The preacher poet Evaf!,gelism • Stewardship and gambling S~U:eeujld ~N-~119 Continuation of a SOME churches have unwittingly Baptist Jubilee Revival }\elped grow people who believe in The speed with which one dips gambling. 1 FROM 1950 to 1955 our over-all gain The early American his blades in Southern Baptist Convention was church mem'bers ab Will mean success in rowing. 20 percent. From 1955 to 1960 it was 9 1 horred the idea of be· Your boat will lose momentum percent. Some say ing· forced to pay this loss is because money to the church, sure we are big. During so many- failed to If idleness is showing. this time the follow- give anything. The i n g denominations church leaders felt If wind or current faces you-, made the following that they were justi· Dip quick ·and fast; my brother ; gains: Catholics 44 fied in using worldly Before the foot you've gained is percent, N azarenes or secular means to 15 percent, Assembly raise money. lost of God 18 percent, A church in Tren~ Try striking for another. Seventh Day Adven DR. DOUGLAS ton, N.J., in the mid- tists 14 · percent. dle 1700's held a lottery to erect a So oft' we wait till forward. gain Some of these denom- building. One church in Baltimore sold · Is lost to forces, rushing. MR. REED inations were using $20,450 worth of chances in order to the methods that we used from 195() to raise $1,411. · Failure, then, is our despair 1955. We must hold the line on revivals. in later years, the women have mad·e And we are left ablushing. The Gteek word for revival means "to garments and quilts and sold chances -W. B. O'Neal stir up or rekindle a fire which is slowly on them in order to raise money for the dying." II Timothy 1:6 says do not let it church. die. Keep it afresh and in full flame or Evangelism stir up th~ Gift of God. Revivals of the Then, churches started hiring carnival Old Testament by Dr. Autrey, he says, men to help them promote an all-church -~ Holding up your corner "A revival is the rt!-animating of those fair in order to raise money. At these who already possess life. Revival in affairs a live goose was tied by its legs IN Luke 5:18 we have the beginning the strictest sense has to do with God's to a · high tree. After greasing its head of a touching story. We see four men people. It revives the spiritual life and neck, the one who bought a chance so concerned about a friend that they which is in ·a state of declination. Re· would mount his horse and try to pull carry thi·s· sick friend viva! is an instrument of evangelism. the head off the goose. The one who upon his bed to see Evangelism is a much broader term. was successful won the bird. The old Jesus. Immediately Evangelism is confronting the unregen· saying "The goose hangs high" w:hen their desires are erated with a doctrine of salvation. people are having a big celebration, I gra~ted after the Evangelism embraces the reviving of came from this church promoted sport. friend is lowered the dormant Christians as well as of· from the roof, into fering salv~tion to the lost." The most popular lottery and still in the presence of the wide use is the bingo game. This is a Master. Christ saw The prime purpose of revival is to re game of chance that grew out of the their faith and re vive the saved. When the saved are re lack of church -teaching on the steward warded their accom· vived the lost will be saved. ship of money. panying efforts. Gen. William Booth prophesied that All of these church plans to raise There ~ave been five great dangers would confront the money brought problems. When indi MR. McDONALD m a n y S e r m 0 n S Twentieth Century churches. They were: viduals saw the churches raising money preached from this ·scripture and it . a religion without the Holy Spirit, a . by such means, they went into the lot offers a scriptural background for vari Christianity without Christ, forgiveness tery and raffle business. This brought ous themes. One of the· most common is without regeneration, morality without reaction from the law makers. Laws cooperation. Three men could possibly God, Heaven without hell. This sounds were passed to curb the activities. Final carry cthe bedfast man, and it might like a description of Christianity today. ly, church 1 people saw the danger and have been done . by two. ll!ither would Just think what would happen if we started opposing ga~bling. · have been more · difficult and slower preachers alone should be. revived. Lu~ than the way these four did. ther, who was not a friend of Hubmier, It is good stewardship to oppose gam No stretch of imagination is needed admits that Hubmier baptized 6,000 in bling, but this does not necessarily to apply this to the work and financing one year. There are _indications that he grow good stewards. Churches need to of a local church; easier still to apply baptized 12,00() in 1527. Brother Pas be faithful in teaching the Bible plan this to our state and southwide mission tor, let's rethink this matter of "A Re· of finance. · program. Does it not seem reasonable vival Meeting." We have been trying to to apply it to our total stewardship? . let Evangelism produce revivals but it There are two plans to assist the When we read of someone leaving a churches in this area-Chr-i_stian Stew ·will not necessarily do that; however re large sum of money to Baptist causes, vivals will produce evangelism. (To be ardship Development and Growth in we are prone to rejoice and •soon forget Christian Stewardship.- Ralph Douglas, continued next week)-Jesse S. Reed, our own obligation. To hold up our Director of Evangelism. Associate Executive Secretary. corner in this realm, we too need to have a will which has a bequest for our McGUFFEY'S READERS . Lord's work. Ours may not be large . 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Your Founda· Capitol Avenue, _Little Rock, Arkansas. age Fourteen ARKANSAS BAPTIST ONE-NIGHT TRAINING-PLANNING MEETINGS -- SEPTEMBE~ 1963 For all Associational Sunday School, Training Union, Music;, Brotherhood Off'teers NORTHWEST DISTRICT NORTHEAST DISTRICT \ Benton Co.-1st Church, nogers_ ------·-···-Sept. 19 Current River-1st Church, Bigger-s -----······------·--Sept. 9 Wash.-Mad.-Immanuel, Fayetteville ·-·····------·····------Sept. 3 Gainesville-1st Church, Piggott ---···-···------Sept. 5 Carroll Co.-To be arranged Greene Co.-West View, Paragould ------·------Sept. 12 Boone-Newton-To be arranged Black River,..,.-Hoxie Baptist, Hoxie ------·------Sept., 10 Mt. Zion-To ·be 11rranged Trinity-1st Church, Trumann ---··------··-··------Sept. 6 WEST CENTRAL DISTRICT Miss. Co.-To be arranged All associations will conduct their own Training-Planning EAST CENTRAL DISTRICT sessions and schedule places and dates. Tri-Co-1st Church, W. Memphis ------Sept. 6 Ark Valley-To be arranged NORTH CENTRAL DISTRICT Centennial-Almyra ....c ______~------Sept. 16 Calvary-Kensett -·------····----·------·----·-----··--··---Sept. 5 White River- 1-st Church, Gassville ------Sept. 3 Caroline-1st_ Church, Lonoke ------· - -- -~------·------Oct: 21 Big Creek-To be arranged Rocky BJlyou (will conduct own meeting) SOUTHWEST DISTRICT SVB-Searcy, 1st Church, Leslie -----··------"'·-··········Sept. 6 · Little River-To be arranged Independence-1st Church, Batesville ------Sept_. 10 Red River- To be .arranged Little Red River-To be arranged - Caddo River- Norman ------·---··---·------·------Sept. 12 Hope- (will conduct own meetil\g) CENTRAL DISTRICT SOUTHEAST DISTRICT Conway-Perry-To be arranged Carey-To be arranged Faulkner-To be a-rranged Harmony- To be arranged Buckville-Mt. Valley ...... ~------··'···· .SellJt. 6 Bartholomew-To be arranged Pulaski (will conduct own meeting) Liberty (will conduct own meeting> No. Pulaski--To be arranged Delta-To be arranged 96ntral-To be arranged Ashley-To be arranged_ PROGRAM 7:30 Song, Scripture and Prayer, Introduction of Confer ence Leaders 7:40 Simultaneo~s Training-Planning Meetings 9:30 Adjourn Briefing Meetings-for Associational Heads of Organizations who Plan to Conduct Training-Planning Meetings STATE-AUGUST 26, 1963 DISTRICT-AUGUST SO, 196S Where: Second Baptist Church, Little Time: 7:00-9:00 p.m. Rock, Arkansas · Who: For all heads of organ-izations who .could not attend August 26th but who Time: 10:00-S:OO ·p.m. plan to -conduct their own Training-Planning meetings. Who: District men plus Association~ Heads of Sunday School, Train Where: Northwest District _- 1st Churcll, Spr-ingdale ing. Union and Music who plan North Central -1st Church, Mt. Home to conduct own Training Plan Northeast - Central Church, Jonesboro ning meeting. • East Central - 1st Church, West Memphis Central - Gaines Street Church, Little Rock Southeast -1st Church, Monticello Southwest - 1st Chur~h, Nashvil~e I West Central -Does not meet MILEAGE SCHEDULE : For the State and District Briefing Meetings, each of the de partments will pay 2c per mile for one in a car, 3c .per mile for two in a ear, 4c per mile for three in a car, 5c per mile for four in a car, 6c per mile for six in a car. This is mileage for 'organizational heads. only. AIIGUST 22, 1963 Page Fifteen Student Union News from Seattle, Cheyenne, Panama, Alaska, Hawaii and New· Orleans OF the 58 Arkansas Baptist students Billy Walker, Jr. of Southern College Betty Daniels of Arkansas Baptist serving as summer missionaries this writes from Panama: "I am now near Hospital has spent a most interesting year, the students themselves ar~ pay- ing the end of eight truly unforgettable summer at Sellers Maternity Home in ing the expenses of ten of these. (The weeks. Most assured- New Orleans. "The Home Mission Board pays the expenses ly, they have not been past two weeks has of the others.) .Excerpts :from recent easy weeks, but they been spent in the letters of six of these are below. have been rewarding nursery. The nursery 1 and I ' thank God for holds some sad ex periences as well as Ella Claire Heustess of Arkansas this experience. 1 State College has worked with the "Work in Panama glad experiences. It Northgate Southern Baptist Church in is not exactly encour- was also my job to ' Seattle all summer aging. We hav.e· five dress the babies that and has established missionary families leave on certain days. a youth program and and one single lady This was hard espe opened . a youtli cen- appointed by the mis- cially when if was a ter. Words of appre- sion board here to baby that you are elation have come MR. W'ALUR work among the va- MISS DANIELS very fond of. It helps from Douglas Feazel, rious types of scattered Panamanians. to know that the baby is being )llaced pastor, and :from Mrs. There are only 1,200,000 people in the in a Christian hqme where the parents W. 0. Vine, a member republic, yet the different languages, are active in a Southern Baptist· of the church. Ella nationalities, ete., -at, "The Crosswords Church. The girls are allowed to see Claire writes "Our-- of the World" makes this a difficult their babies twice a week for 30 min youth center (~form- field. God is truly using men like Dr. utes and for 45 minutes if they were er store building) is A. J. !Wddy, the area missionary iri leaving the next day. Last week I had finally finished. Peo- Bocas del Toro Province. . the experience of showing a baby to MIIJS BEUSTESS ple in the church its grandmother and t~en taking it to donated the furnitlire. We had 28 at our "The anti-American hatred n;;ns high its mother. When the time was up, I first activity, .and eight of these teen here, and I ·have to be on my guard at knocked on' the door and entered. Im- · agers were not Christians. We close each all times. The racial situation in the mediately I saw that the girl had been activity with· a devotional, and we hope states· helps the situation here none crying and that the baby's dress was to witness to them through these de whatsoever. It really hurts our work. soaked with tears. I knelt beside the votionals if in no other way. There is girl and she placed the baby in_my arms. such a great field to harvest in the great "A great number of the people where It is at a time like this that I want Northwest." I am are Indians. Saturday was pay day. to cry with the girl.'' That night in Almirante I saw "white 1 lightning" flow as I had never seen Maxine Whitney of Arkansas State Ruby Hawthorn of Ouachita College it before. Very little work is being done Teachers College is one of two Arkan is serving in Wyoming. She writes, , here among the Indians. 'The harvest sas students serving in Hawaii. She "This summer has been packed full of truly is great, but the laborers -are ~ writes, "Tomorrow great experiences. We few.' Pray for Panama.'' we will finish our worked this week and first week of VBS last week in Chey in the Lanai Baptist enne. The big tent in Cheryl Lloyd of Arkansas State Col~ Mission. · Mr. Lyle which we were to lege has spent the summer in Alaska, Pearce is our princi have the Mission VBS working ·at GA camps and in Vacation pal of the VBS. H_e blew do:wn on Sunday, Bible School work. lives in Oahu but but we got it '!>ack In one paragraph comes over each up in time ~ begin from a five page week-end to Lanai to the school Monday typed letter, she be in charge of. the morning. There were states: "We are -stay services on Sunday eighty-plus enrolled ing 'way out in the morning. There is in this school. Some boon docks' with a MISS WHITNEY only one member of · times while ·teaching, couple who have been the Lanai Baptist Mission. One Baptist MISS BAWTBORN I held a pole to keep Christians only -a few member exists on an entire island. the tent up against this Wyoming wind. months. Yet they are Work? We have ours cut out for us--' Monday. afternoon- the tent blew down wonderful people, and meaning all Christians. We need the again and was damaged too badly to put hard workers for the prayers of· many. We also need many back up, so the school was closed on church. Right now to put legs to their prayers. The need Wetlnesday, .two days early. The com MISS LLOYD . they ~eed to do about for Christian witnessing on Lanai Is mencement was held on Thuraday night a million things to get ready for win land cannot be overemphasized. iJJ. the '· wind and rain. Portions of the ter in tqe church, with about seven . "The Mormons are strong here on the tent were up for protection tO the par- · strong families to do it all. I can see island. We see them pass every day, ents who attended the commencement. how the work here would be terribly walking and witnessing. If we as Bap Even this had to be held in place by the discouraging, and I admire the people tists want -to t"each people for our men during the program. This is truly who live here the year 'rouil.d and hold God, we are going to have to walk and a home mission field." the fort.'' witness also.'' Page Sixteen ARKANSAS BAPTIST Sunday School discovers its possibilities, this very ac tion produces strong motivation among Arkansas Baptists its members to want to visit prospects, AFI'ER READING THE title of this increase Sunday School enrollment and column many will fail to read these para win more persons to Christ. graphs this week. But you didn't fail. As Ar-kansas Baptists prepare for the Congratulations I Jubilee Revivals we want to do the best After conducting possible service for the Lord. The South the pastor's confer em ·Baptist Convention goal of winning ence at the third Sun 600,000 to Christ and the ~tate goal of day School at Ridge 17,001 demands our best. crest again this year, A tool to help is the census or field I .am still convinced survey. that a church ought Jesse Reed of the Evangelism Depart to take a . census ment is concerned that all our churches A New Book Every regularly. participate for the ultimate good in Pastor Will Want Many pastors con evangelism. R. A. Hill of the Missions Containing 15 of !he lop stewardship sermons firmed the need for Department is helping many chureh submitted by America1s pastors in. the $1 , ~ sermon competition ..• The 10 first place win a church to take a fields conduct surveys. ners, three honorable mention and two fea MR. HATFIELD census each year. It Most churches have workers who could. ture sermons. was discovered that many churches organize a census effprt with the proper Also articles an(l outlines by Arthur S. Davbh· port. have not taken and used a census, in guidance. Write us for the leaflet "Tak All edited by Mr. Davenport. years. Some churches have taken a ing and Using a Religious Census." Price $4.95 per copy census, but fail to use it in prospect September 15 is the census day in our Publi•hors ol oufJtondingly Juccenlul Jfoword•hip assignment visitation. state. · . promofjonal materials lor over J 5 yeorr. t-{'w I A good question to ask here is, "-Why Has your· association "voted" to par program now available. Cofolog lree. Book Available in Most Book Stores • take a census ? " 1 ticipate? Has your church "voted" to A church, to even know its need and take a census? Or Order Direct From in order to start meeting its needs, Take' the matter up with your asso ARTHUR DAVENPORT ASSOCIATES, INC., can move into position as it discovers ciatj(m. Attend to the business in your 518 N.W . .Third, the vast numbers of unreached pros church. pects about its doors. Take and use a census.- Laws Because You Core· • • • BROADMAN POST CARDS· .fn Svndt:ty !X:hool Invitation 173 Invitation 176 Invitation 178 fbot'm,~J l l'\Ot1 ;... ,-..,,.... ,...... ~.1:<<-•·1-*•~-.• ~ ~~~~~~::t~~"t.!~~~~~ . t~'T!.t.o<.ll)l<· -~ j-~ \'\I~* M ""I ~: , Y -~111>1'!: "11.-~w--~~·«·ttM: · :U'l~~.. ~~'W'..:::.t . ~~~IM -~~~-~- ~ ln,vrtafion 177 f ·~~!:>,~-~>: -- . ·. Dozen, 25~ hundred, $1.50 lt Your BAPTIST BOOK STORE AUGUST 22, 1963 Page Seventeen 13 BLUE PENCILS . SHARPEN. YOUR SUNDAY SC·HOOL STUDY MATE~ RIAL Yo~r Sunday School Adults quarterly, for example, Is read closely at least thirteen times before you have a chance to open it. After the writer-a trained and experienced Baptist lesson writer-finishes his manuscript, it comes to the Sunday School Board. Here It Is carefully read by: I. The editor 2. An editorial assistant 3. An assistant editor 4. The editor again ~iie may have sent It back to the writer for revision) 5. A doctrinal reader 6. The editor in chief 7. A reader In the Education Plvislon office Then It goes to the printer, and Ia read In page ~of, "galley/' and second page stages by: B. The ·printer's proof reader 9. The Sunday School ~ard proof reader I 0. The "g~lley" reader II~ t The printer'1 proof reader 12. The editor. 13. An editorial assistant Each publication of the Sunday Scbool Board receives this kind of meticulous pre-publication care. When lesson materials reach you, you'll find them ·Well· written, doctrinally sound, and scriptu_rally accurate: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention· 127 Ninth Avenue, North, Nashville 3, Tennessee James L. Sullivan, Executive Secretary-Treasurer ______:;;: ARKANSAS BAPTIST a e El hte.en Yoar Growing Child aDd ReUP,a, by Made us a little homesick. TbaDb t. R. S. Lee, Chaplain of Nuffield College, the reminder of the good ole da~ he Bookshelf Oxford, $1.45. T; Heskett, Jr. (Andy's older brother> Sociology Looks at Religion, by J. Mil 36643 Capistrano Drive, Fremont. Pre...maJ GaicUnee, by Russell L. ton Yinger, $1.45. Calif., 94536 »idEa. Prentice HaJI, 1963. $2.95. Miracles, a Preliminary Study, by . REPLY: Guess a feller cttn't help it if Scheduled to hit the book stalls across C. S. Lewis, 95 cents. . he was born several years too late. So die country on Sept. 3 is this volume A Short History o( The Interpretation we forgive Andy for his impertinence for ministers on counse1Jng those who of the Bi~le, by Robert M. Grant, $1.45. about "Down on Bunker." But we are la'ft DOt yet chosen marriage partners, Sexual Ethics, by Sherwin Bailey, glad there's somebody in the Hesk~t a.a well as for those who are already $1.45. fall!-ilY who has been around l~g engaged to be married. It proposes a enough to develop an appreciation for 1IDique plan whereby the minister can Religion and Birth C~ntrol, Edited by the finer things of life!-ELM pe instructions to young people in John Clover Monsma, Doubleday, 1963, groups of three or four couples together. $3.95. New Rhode Island church The advance of s.cience in the past MIDDLETOWN Baptist Chapel in . . ~ Counseling the Childless Couple, by several decades has had a decided effect Middletowtlj, wi\1 soon be constituted: William T. Bassett, Prentice Hall, 1963, on human sex life and ;reproduction, pro into the second Baptist church in the $2.95. viding men and women with new means state of .Rhode Island. This book, also scheduled to go oil sa.le for greater freedom and satisfaction in Rev. A. R. Major has recently been Sept. 3, makes a detailed study of spe their marital relationships. But with the called from Victoria Church, Baton cific organic and psychic causes of new developments have come serious Rouge, to assume the pastorate of the sterility, with case illustrations, to help ethical questions for many religious chapel. ministers to understand the nature of people. We urge all · Southern Baptist leaders sterility and the fundamentals of fer The purpose of this book, as listed by who know of any Baptists moving into tility. It also takes up the teaching r()le Editor Monsma, is "to help these people the Rhode Island area to contact either of the pastor in preventing sterility, and --especially young married people-ac Middletown Baptist Church, Middletown, his responsibility to the hopelessly quire an informed and enlightened con Rhode Island, or Green Meadows Bap sterile couple in sharing the burden of science in such matters as birth control, tist ,Church, No. 87 De.vilsfoot Road, barrenness. abortion, sterilization, and artificial in North Kingston, Rhode Island.-Victoria . . . semination." Twenty-one physicians take Baptist Church, Baton .Rouge, La. The following paperbacks· have just part in the di~cussions. · Courtship come from Macmillan: Communism and the TheologiaiiB, by (Continued from page 9) Charles C. West, with major analyses of_ Letters crossing bridges ahead until you Barth, Berdyaev; Brunner, Hromadka, (Continued from page_[)) get to them. Niebuhr, Tillich and others, $1.95. Even with your best efforts to A GIFT THAT WILL BE APPRE the pen, so to speak, can tear down all lay a good foundation for this new CIATED BY COLLEGE STUDENTS we hold to be dear and hard-won free family situation, occasional irrita doms.-Ernest D. Justice, 97 Quarles ting and awkward incidents are Lane, West Helena. sure to come. Handled with THE BAPTIST STUDENT REPLY: As we have said and others patience, good sense, and prayer, of ·similar viewpoint have pointed out they will pass and be forgot. ·I· in recent issues · of our paper, govern- , Somewh~re down the road you 1 ment cannot require religion in a public 1 institution without crossing. the line will look back to find that the that separates church and state. Aside up-setting prospect of having your from the consideration for the public mother-in-law come to live with school pupils--who may or may not you materialized into an enrich have been excused from the Bible read ing and prayer in schools, depending ing experience for you, for her, upon varying lOc:al regulations-there and for all your family. You are assured that the col- are ,the rights of public school teachers• . Take it by the day ! lege .student you love; wh~ther Why should they be required to teach relative or friend, will · have religion? And, if so wh.at religion? I' helpful and inspiring Christian this the function of government to de reading this school year when termine and require? A thousand times no!-ELM you give him The Baptist Stu- dent, d Christian collegiate [Mail should 'be addressed to magazine. It will help him , From another Heskett Mrs. Street at No. 3 Fairmont, make rigJitt choices ... grow in GREETINGS from a California faith . . . accept his Christian · Southern Baptist. Little Rock, A-rk.] responsibilities. . ' Read your recent 'issue of PEiRSON- , The price of this 60-page, ALLY SPEAKING, "Shades of "Junk Birch income up digest-size publication is $2.50 er." Always nice to hear news of the for nine issues-Odober through tfamily. As Andy isn(t old enough to BOSTON (EP)-In 1962, income for remember 40 years ago I guess he · the John Birch Society .totaled $737,716 June. wouldn't remember about life back then, -ne!lrlY one-third more than the pre Order TODAY from • • • but I'll bet he does have very fond vious year-according to the annual fi The Su~~ay School Board memories of life down on the farm nancial report the organization has filed Southern Baptist Convention about SO years ago. There were lots of in the office of the Massachusetts at CHURCH LITERATURE large -round biscuits and gravy as well torney generaL In 1961, the society's as plenty of blackberries and dew ber income was listed •as $584,241. Chief DEPARTMENT ries that were picked and eaten right sources of income were contributions, 127 Ninth Avenue, North from the vines. I can taste them now. listed as $306,526, and dues, which were Nashville 3, Tennessee We enjoyed your column very much. $296,326 . .AUGUST 22, 1963 Page Nineteen • Know your missionaries BY JAY W. C. MOORE Seminary scholarship progressing Enon BoyeHe NASHVILLE (BP>-Southern' Bap-. -"We must give more emphasis to DON'T let the name Boyette, tists are·D\aking progress in the general content· in our movement. It's not Erion Boyette,.missionary in Carey area of seminary scholarship, the vice- , enough to have, converts, but converts president of Midwestern Seminary told to what? We must find more meaning who hails from •Louisiana, mislead the denomination's historians here. in our Christian commitments," he de- you into thinking . clared. he is of Louisiana H. I. Hester, of Kansas City, Mo., also - -"1 see in the making a trend in the French ancestry. said, "Today in all six of our seminaries, d•rection of a national adjustment rather to varying degrees, the historical-critical than a regional cultural adjustment. That's what I approach is not only accepted but is thought until I practiced." Despite liberal shifts, Hester -"With the . increasing corporateness learned he was indicated Southern Baptists still are theo of life, how can freedom of the indi born near Wesson, logically conservative. vidual be preserved?" he queried. Bap Miss. But regard tists, who by their emphasis ~ the per Midwestern seminary 'has been in the son "have divorced ourselves from a less of his ances center of a controversy in the Southern role in making public policy," are "go try, he was nur- Baptist Convention over bow .to use the ing to have to relate ourselves to pub MR. BOYETTE tured in a g<>d}y historical-critical approach to analyze lic policy." horne by a father who was a Bap and study S~ripture. Ralph H. Elliott Carlson added, "Corporateness in the was dismissed as profesi!Qr of Old Test denomination and civic life does not erode tist deacon all of his adult life. ament and Hebrew there for not agree the individual. It gives the . person a His parents and a revival meeting ing to ·withdraw from a s~ond printinlf' chan~e to express ·himself as .a social led to his conve.rsion at the age his book, The Message of Genesis, being." · whose content and method of studying of 16, but God used the Training . Storer said Southern Baptists, with the Union to call him to preach when the Bible ·was attacked by many. · Hester was one of four panelists who current trend to take surveys of many he was 23 years of age. spoke at the 1968.meeting of the Southern facets of denominational life, may have He was ·pastor of 12 different Baptist Historical Society. They discussed "forgotten to 'survey the .wondrous cross rural churches before the Lord future trends in SBC life in light of past on which the Prince of Glory died.' " led him to Carey. Down the aisles history of the Convention. • No survey, he said, should only confirm Other panelists were C. Emanuel Carl Baptist strong points. Surveys sliould in these churche~ wa,lked 624 peo-. son, Washington, D. C.; J. W. Storer, mak~ Baptists both·satisfied and dissatis pie confessing Christ for baptism Nashville, and Mrs. Ollin J. Owens, fied, he alleged. "With the surveys we by Brother Boyette. Besides his Greenville, S. C. make, we should give more attention to quality rather than quantity of what we pastorates, he has conducted 42 re put out," . vivals in which there were 212 Hester said· Baptist pioneer area mis Storer is executive secretary of the who were saved and came into sionaries "are extremely conservative and Southern Baptist Foundation, an SBC also · very vocal" fn theology. This, he agency. · the churches. · · claimed, stems from the fact they "are After finishing school in 1930, . ~ot th~ most. highly e~ucated of our min- · . Mrs. Owens, a pastor's wife and well· Brother Boyette returned to his 1sters. They work m a. lo.nely atmos- known Baptist writer, enumerated "signs· . , · . . . phere, feel the need of st1ckmg close to- of revolt against the method-program father s farm to bel~ h~s Widowed gether on this account and hold to con merry-go-round.'' These included ·(1) ob m9ther care for the farm and servative theology. jections to the amount ·of time required· several young children, but the two H~ster said t~e denomina~ion ~lso is for church activities, <2) questioning of years here were not idle time hang- ~akmg progress m race relations, mh~v. the results of church-centered religious . h hi h mg a more moderate outlook on Chrls tians . of other denominations and in education, (8) "brave" statements .by mg eavy on s ands. He started some Bapti1t leaders for a · climate in a Sunday School in a school build- ··developing better programs ~f higher which to try new 'ideas and <4> '.'a gen. ing. and cottage prayer meetings education in Baptist colleges. eral groundswell of discontent.'' in. homes of Baptists, to witneSs to Responses, she said, show trends away the Catholics. In hls first pastorate Carlson, executive :director of the Bap . from the method study course to study he led the people ·to build a new tist Joint Committee on Public Affairs courses on Bible books and on topics sue~ and a leading Baptist spokesman on re as communism. They show a "change in church plant and to start a mission ligious liberty, said the "genius of our the way we view denominational ma on Bayou Macon. Leaving the Baptist movement has been its emphasis terial.'' Pleasant Hill pastorate near Farm on personal religion." ersville, he came to Carey nearly This has enabled Baptists to live in. and, "We now use them (denominational adapt to all types of cultures-plantation periodicals) as the framework and go two years ago. At Pleasant Hill a economy as well as the industrial ag~. after related material," rather than re $25,000 addition was constructed, Yet, Carlson sai4, it is both a genius lying solely on them, · she added. giving them a church plant valued and a problem. "We made an adjust Another response is the moving to more at $100,000. ment to the cultures, and also gave formal, and less promotion-centered wor With a background like this, it them our blessing, mixing culture with ship services. Still ariotber is the great religious faith," he continued. er tolerance with creative ideas and ex was the easy thing for Enon Boy "We made our peace with cultures of periments with programs. ette to succeed from the very be the past. Do we now have the mechanics In answer to a question on the seminary ginning as an associational miss·· · to make our p.eace with cultures ·of the student's exposure to different doctrinal ionar~. present?" he asked. "We us~ to be able views, Hester said some people "think of to adjust to changes by growing a new our students a~ 12-year-olds when in generation, but now things are changing reality they are in their early 80s, mar [NEXT . Week: R. V. Haygood, so fast, we can not wait a generation. ried and experienced, pretty well able PultuJki County Association] Can we adjust or will we be torn apart?" to take care of themselves." Page Twenty ARKANSAS BA9TIST Children.' s Nook-----___,______....._ ___-....--- ...:;;;.;; By Helen W. Kortz WHEN you have been walking i~ the at its best chirping just before a Slml· som!lwhat melodious in tone. The ehoru woods, have you ever heard a quivering, mer thunderstorm. It is particularly tree frog is the smallest creature in the melodic sound coming from somewhere loud after the storm . is over :when it United States to have spine or back in the distance? · If you have, you may seems to rejoice in satisfaction. bone. have noticed that the nearer you came Nature has protected this cheerful tn Southerri states lives the cricket to it the louder it sounded. Then all of a little creature by giving it a changeable Although it belongs to the three frog sudden it stopped, just as though some-· coloring to fit in with its ·surroundings. · species, it usually sits on leaves aiJ(i one had turned · it off like a record The colors vary from shades of gray to branches nearer to the ground. Its. color player. brown and green. Thes~ blend with the ing tends· more toward black and deep Could it be a bird that flew away as bark and foliage of the tree, where it browns. Like its cousins, it rarely per~ you came near to it? You ·wonder as you spends JllUch of its lifetime. mits anyone to see it. gaze up into the branches of the tree. The frog's underside is white with The largest of all the tree frogs is Search as hard as you can, you can yellow and orange patches. These blend found in Key West, Florida. It is five not find where the sound was coming in with the sunshine and shadow among inches long. . · from. But when you walk away from the leaves. The camouflage is so per Throughout the country twenty-eight the tree, the trilling soun!l will start fect that one •. cannot detect it as it specres of tree · frog.s are known. Yet again just as suddenly as it stopped. perches on the limb of the tree. many persons have never seen or even That quivering sound you heard was You will find this little tree frog ·in heard of. a tree frog. When most people coming irom a tree frog. It is so tiny the Eastern and Central parts of the think ·of a frog, the creature that usually that you can discover one only by United States. The tiniest member of comes to their minds is the one to be chance. This midget frog measures from the tree frog family is called the ch9rus seen hopping . along on the ground, -or one to two inches in length or about the.. frog. It lives in the Midwestern states. leaping in and out of ponds. size of a small grasshopper. . Even though It measures only seven sixteenths of an Tree frogs. usually come' down off it is tiny in size, it can send forth a. inch long, about the size of a small navy their perch in the spring, about May, trilling sound that can be heard .more bean. Its body .is soft, partially trans and hop. alortg the ground in search of a than a half mile away. · parent, and somewhat. warty. It makes pool or pond. ' The tree frog usually ~an be heard more of a c~eaking chirp, yet It also is I (!od's Wondrous World NATURE'S BY THELMA C. CARTER EVERY year men known as arch growth. This seems to be an unfailing land, Laos, and Vietnam. By sheer acci~ aelogists d_ig into the earth. They are rule of Nature, even where buildings dent, Mo~~ot came upon the great searching for hidden caves, tombs, and and cities have once stood. Surely ·God temple and other public· buildings with lost ruins of ancient cities. Many times has planned this. their treasures· of jade, ,rubies, silver they find the most amazing treasures. In overgrown, ' tropical jungle areas fountains, great staircases, towers, and In the dry, sandy, clay area of Pales near the equator, explor~rs and ilcien statues. · tine, priceless treasures ·have been found tists have uncovered areas of crumbling . He was so overcome with his discov amid the ruins and tombs of Bible peo buildings ·and caves where ancien~ peo- ery that he forgot all about his mission ples. They .include scrolls. containing· im ple once lived. · as a naturalist. The buildings were portant tacts and history, engraved One of the most amazing discoveries made of stones which could have been tiles, rare coins, ·portraits, jewelry, ves of a beautiful city, in spite ~f its behig brought into the city area only by ele sels. of bronze, brass, enamel, and pot hidden by plant growth, is that of Ang phant power. No one really knows how tery, Enti're ancient cities, with their kor, in southeast Asia. The ruins of the the g:reat stones were lifted into ttit!i ~ beautiful buildings ·and statues, have Great City, as it is called, were discov places as towers and columns. been uncovered. In spite of hundreds of ered in ~861 by a French naturalist, The belief is that enemy neighbors years of subjection to winds, rain, and Henri Mouhot. destroyed the people. Or perhaps· a hot sun, the ancient treasures remain. · Today this lost city and its llUrround dread plague or !lickness destroyed the When some cleared ground area is ing empire make up Cambodia, Thai- people of the ancient city. 1 neglected or abandoned, Nature begins Today the beautiful ancient city is at once to cover her world with plan~ AIJ ~T 22, 1963 Page...(Twenty-Three Mother-Daughter Tea Selective Menus Tested at ABH An experiment in offering selective menus to patients was conducted last month by the Dietary Department using a con trol group of 100 patients. The project, which lasted a · week, provided menus with a wide selection of foods and no restrictions on. how many foods in each category could be or dered. As an example of how patient preference differs from standard menu planning, Miss Lucy McLean, adininistrative dietitian, said that only 10 of the 100 patients ordered fish on Fri day . . The prpject will be evaluated in terms of patient acceptance, nursing service acceptance and extra ~ork within the dietary department before a decision is made on whether the Hospital will begin using selective menus. . I . .Mra. H. A. Linder of the Baptist Hospital A\lxlli•ary pours tea for two seta of mothers and German-Born Artist daughters at the annual Mother-Daughter Tea 'given July 17 for Candystrlpers and their Exhibits Paintings mothers. From left are: Mrs. Roy Brinkley and daughter, Gwen Brinkley, and Mrs. H. D. Paul Weise, a German-born artist, Hurn and daughter, Allee. ~ I has paintings on display at Arkansas Baptist Hospital through August 31. Weise studied under his father in Germany and moved to Dallas, Tex., where he studied under. Frank Ray. He has exhibited in Dallas and in Third Floor Booms Are Remodeled Little Rock at the Worthen· Bank and the Arkansas Power and Light Com pany. He is 79 years old and came to America in 1905. New Instructor In Pediatrics Mrs. Sue Ellen Brenner will be the new clinical instructor in pediatrics in the School of Nursing. She trans ferred from Nursing Service. Mrs. Brenner replaced Mrs. Frances Galbrecht who is resigning to go to school part-time, after a vacation in New York with her husband next month. Mrs. Brenner is a graduate of Texas Christian University and has been head nurse on 2J. She has one small son. · Professor Speaks Dr. Wayne Ward, professor of Bible at the Southern Baptist Seminary at Louisville, Ky.,. was speaker at Student Hour June 20. He recently completed a year's study in Switzerland and was conducting a Bible conference at First Baptist Church. ------Students at Camps Six students have been serving as Installing the combination closet and vanity In one of the remodeled. rooms is Ed Michell camp nurses at the Baptist State Con-· of the Maintenance Department while Chief Engineer Sid Coryell opens one of the new doors. vention assemblies at Siloam Springs ' ' during July. · They are Connie Selvidge, Ruth Ann Remodeling of rooms on three mid painting the rooms. New furniture was Dunaway, Martha Gates, Dorothy dle was begun last month and the put in the rooms in these areas more Kidd, Tommie· Snelgrove and Faye work will continue into · the three H than a year ago. Vaughn. · and four H areas. Three J is not being included in Doris Brown went to the YWA The maintenance department is re the current remodeling work because Southwide gathering at Glorieta, N. placing doors in the three· areas, put it will be hulled out for extensive re M., on July 23 on a bus with 100 other ting in wall-hung va:nity dressers and building shortly after the first of the girls from Arkansas. Shirley Crowder built-in closets. The workmen are al year, when the new addition over and Diane Tollefson attended the BSU so puttit_1g in new lighting fixtures and ·.the surgical unit is completed. Southwide Retreat at Ridgecrest. N.C. Pa 8 Twent -Four T Arkansas Baptist Home for Children Than~sgiving offerings and other ~ontributions March 9, 1962, through May 31, 1963 Notify John R. Price, Box 180, Monticello, Ark., 1f any errors are found in this report...... AS the BaptistE! of Arkansas begin planning for comes from supplemental offerings. The annual the Annual Thanksgiving Offering for the Arkan Thanksgiving Offering is the one major effort on sas Baptist Home for Children, this report is the part of Arkansas Baptists to provide for more presented in order that you ma.y be informed-in than half the yearly operating expenses. So, it. is im formed not only of wha-t was accomplished financial perative that you plan for the Thanksgiving Offer ly from March 9, 19'62 through May 31, 1963, but ing, and join your fellow Arkansas Baptists and us informed in whether or not you have kept the faith in keeping the faith in this service for our Christ. with your fellow Baptists of Arkansas in the matter You will notice that last year, over 400 churches of the support of the Arkansas Baptist Home for failed to ~upport the Children's Home. This is a very Children. . . discouraging factor when you consider, that this You will recall that only $75,000, or approxi figure represents about one-third of our churches. mately 35 percent of the operating funds for the ·May your joy be full as you help. us in providing Arkansas Baptist Home for Children comes through for the Arkansas Baptist Home for Children, and the Co-operative Program. The remaining 65 percent may we do it as unto the Lord Himself. Tllanks~IYing Ollltr - ThanlcsgiYing Otflllt' Thanlcsglylng Otfi.,- Cllurtli Offering Offen~ Chllldl Offering Offer!~~ Church Offerlng Offerings ARKANSAS VALLEY ASSOCIATION Ingalls Union, Mt. Zion Barton $ 77.00 Eagle Lake Crossroads 21.69 12.42 Viola Brickeys Union Hill 46.07 Enterprise 20.00 Brinkley, Firat 466.29 ' 36.60 Monticello Flora Clarendon, Fir8t 26.60 82.60 Cominto Gum Springs 8.04 Elaine, First 439.00 Enon 43.90 Mt. Calm Helena Firat 862.41 Corder's Chapel Florence 40.00 VIola BLACK RIVER ASSOCIATION Firat 274.82 102.66 Ladelle Black Roc'k '61.78 26.96 Northside Northside Cash, Pitts 10.72 OldTown Old Union Dlaz 81.18 Hughes Second Grubbs 18.12 Beck Memorial Selma Hardy Hughes 292.21 Warren Banks 4.60 Lambrook 66.94 iO:o2 Ebenezer 121.60 21.66 NewHope 27.00 Lexa, First 71.84 . 61.00 Hoxie 86.21 J efferaonville Immanuel 61.46 61.22 '· Imboden Lexa 100 Macedonia 100.00 Clear Springs Marianna Pleasant Grove 26.00 Imboden 42.80 36.60 Firat 86.11 26.47 Saline Jacksonport 20.00 ·Friendship 26.00 10.00 WestSide Newport ., Petty's Chapel Wilmar First 60.40 12.60 Marvell 8&.oo Corinth 88.00 Horseshoe 7.68' Monroe 16.70 14.00 First 17.76 Immanuel 86.6& Moro 200.00 . BENTON COUNTY ASSOCIATION Murphys Corner 28.28 Poplar Grove, Rehobeth 26.09 13.41 Bentonville Poughkeepsie, Pleasant Ridge 6.00 Snow Lake Central Avenue 41 .00 Ravenden Turner Firat _41.00 Ozark . 1.08 Wabash, Wabash Federated , 60.00 Mason Valley 48.84 Ravenden 20.00 West Helena Cave Springs, Lakeview 88.69 9.66 Sedgwick 881:42 Firat 118.0& . 22.60 Centerton, Firat Smithville Decatur 64.40 New Hope No. 1 I 26.00 SecoA~HLEY COUNTY ASSOCIATiON Garfield Smithville 63.40 Cr.lssett Garfield 60.00 Swifton Calvary Sugar Creek Pleasant Valley 10.00 Firat 606.61 80.00 Gentry Swifton 60.00 J arvla Chapel Gentry 268.U 141.87 Tuckerman · Magnolia 20.00 6.77 Highfill '38.46 22.46 Campbell Station 26.00 Meridian 8.00 Gravette 90.80 296.48 Tuckerman 106.99 Mt. Olive 10.00 1.00 Lowell 70.20 ' Walnut Ridge North Crossett 48·.36 10.00 Monte Ne, Firat 63.00 13.10 Alicia 68.00 Second 26.00 Pea Ridge 102.28 16.78 College .City 26.79 'ii:iiii Temple 25.00 27.41 Twelve Comers First 888.16 148.00 Unity 21.60 Rogers Old Walnut Ridge 24.60 Fountain lJHf 360.00 12.28 Firat 11.00 61.46 White Oak 4.00 Hamburao · Immanuel 187.62 78.94 Beech Crsek1ndependent 26.00 Pleasant Hill 21.46 11.37 BOONE & NEWTON COUNTIES Corinth A 26.00 Sunny Side 7.60 28.31 ASSOCIATION Eden 10.00 . Trinity 7.70 Alpena, Firat 77.66 Firat 240.00 Siloam Springs Deer 29.03 Martinville First 89.90 346.86 Everton 20.00 Mt. Pleasant Gum Springs 126.00 18.47 Harrison Mt. Zion io:Oo Harvard Avenue 72.88 68.19 Batavia 46.90 9.86 ShUoh 26.66 Sulphur Springs 60.70 11.39 Bear Creek 46.40 Montrose, Sardis 85.00 . BIG CREI!lK ASSOCIATION Bellefonte 31.60 Snyder, Fellowship . 62.00 Bakersfield, Mo. Burlington 21.62 . BARTHOLOMEW ASSOCIATION County Line 16.00 Eagle Heights 66.00 si.4o Banks Elizabeth 8.90 Elmwood 10.68 Hamburg, Prairle-G'rove Hardy Emmanuel Hermitage First , 12.00 3.16 First 160.00 Antioch 36.00 Spri·ng River 17.28 Gaither 20.00 Holly Springs 84.88 Mammoth Sprln~rs 71.29 Grubb Springs Marsden 10.00 Salem suo Hopewell i5.oo AUGUST 22, 1963 Tllanksgtvlng Oltlet Tll1nbal'llng Otlltt' Tll•nQII'IIIII Oth• Offering Offerllllll Churotl Offering Offerlllll Olferhll Oft111111S Northvale 30.86 Morton 20.42 Gum SprintrS On!lron Flat 26.00 6.66 Raynor Grove Hi&'hland Hel&'hta 6.66 Prairie View McRae 69.00 Immanuel 10.00 Union 22.86 Pang bum 41.00 Mt. Vernon Woodland Heishta 10.00 13.9& Patterson 60.00 Old Union ~uper. FiJst 46.68 24.14 Rosebud Ri --.mal 78.57 Parkdale 17.10 HABMONY A.880CIA.TIO ML Zion 10.oo Portland Altheimer ·a.• Jlt.tl ~-Lin d 28.91 Aulds 10.82 Arsenal, Plainview U.H .... L&Yae& ~ennle 12.86 i8.84 Dumas Btahway 96 Portland 126.60 Anderaon· Chapel 1t.ll Lavaea .0.36 128.17 TUJar Fl~t 11.10 llllqu;lne 20.60 -'&.oo Richland 88.00 New Bethel LIBERTY ASSOCIATION Winthro~ Centl:al 16Z.Q0o Calion 61 . ~0 8.69 Little River Cryatal Valley iZ:sii Camden State Line 28.78 First 118.96 lleuna Vista Winthrope 11.78 Forty-Seventh Street 18.72 . 4&:29 llllllott 114.70 MISSISSIPPI COUNTY ASSOCIATION Grace 64.47 10.97 First ·~6.66 66.50 Armorel . .17.88 Gravee 84.77 Grace Basaett, Wardell J. M. Green Memorial 21.85 Hillside 4&:oo 81ythevllle· Harmony 14.00 Se AUGUST 22, 1963 • Page Twenty-Nine Sunday School Lesson------same time by no means condoning these shortcomings. · . There are two reasons given for the VI Sl 0 N , AT BETHEL· journey to Haran which provides the BY PROFESSOR PIERCE MATHENEY occasion for OUr lesson text. The first· is the jealous hatred of Esau because OLD TESTAMENT. AND HEBREW of what Jru:ob had_ done in taking ad vantage of him twice. Rebekah discov- MIDWESTERN SEMINARY . ers Esau's premeditations of vengeance; so she sends him to her brother Laban until Esau's anger· is forgotten. But her Lesson Text: Genesis 28:10-22 explanation to Isaac and his command Larger Lesson·: Genesis 26-28 to Jacab provides a second reason, that Golden Text: Genesis 28:15 Jacob should not do as Esau hid done and inter-marry with the inhabitants of ,the land. So Isaac blesses Jacob with I. THE presence of his God is the history, he interprets the survival of the covetlant blessing of El Shaddai and crowning promise of life to the sojourn .Jacob's descendants as the election-love sends him away to Paddan-Aram, "Field er. The Immanuel, "God with us," is the of God for Jacob (1:2-5>. The preva of Aram." constant theme ef lence of the younger son ·over the first III. In the lesson text itself there the O~d T,;estament born is explained as a characteristJc of are: 1. Journey to Bethel, 28:10-11; 2~ as well as the Ne~. Jacob, reflected in his name which Dream of the ladder, 28:12; 3. dove Just as God con means "Supplanter: one who trips up nant-rel'}ewal, 28:13-14; 4. God's pres~ fronts man in Adam by the heel." This characteristic is then ence, 28:15-17; 5. Co'{lsecration and vow, with the persistent amp.ly illustrated by the stories of the 28:18-22. - question, "Where are birthright and the blessing. 1.' It was believed in ancient times you·?" and in Cain The law of the first-b'Orn in the Old that one who slept in a sanctuary, even with the equally in Testament (Deut. 21:17) and related though he was unaware of its identifi- · sistent "Where is ancient near Eastern law codes provided cation as a holy place, might be given your brother?"- So that the eldest son be given a double a revel'ation by the god to whom the now he confronts portion of his father's ihheritance. He holy place wa·s consecrated. Such a rev Jacob with the awe- was to be the leader of the clan, the elation by dreams is a common feature OR. MATHENEY some realization of maintainer of the father's name and re~ of the biblical narratives, and always our Golden Text: "I am with you." ligion. It was this heritage that Esau these are interpreted as words from the Jacob is no less· surprised and· amazed so despised as to ·sell it to Jacob in a Lord. The special characteristic of this th11-n is Moses at the burning bush or moment of physical hung·er for a mes·s dream, however, is the vision of a mar Isaiah in the temple. · of red peas (lentils). If there is deceit velous ladder reaching from earth In the historical involvement of mili in Jacob's bargain it is difficult to re heavenward, which serves as a means tary invasion or in the fiery furnace of cover the exact nature of it. Rather, it of communication for the messengers cruel oppression, wherever man reaches appears Jacob simply traded on his (angels) of God, and Yahweh revealing the point of his deepest need or darkest brother's known weakness, lying in wait himself as its summit. The word for despair., there the sign of Immanuel to profit by an advantageous moment. "ladder" is used only here in the Old meets him ' as judgment and hope. A much !,:leare!· example of Jacob's .Test~ment, but it is revealed to that Yahweh sends Moses in the nall\e of the deceit is 'his theft of Isaac's blessing, which is "lifted up" or "cast. up," such I AM, which may mean "l am with which rightly belonged to · Esau, The as a siegewall or mound, a highway, or you, I am present in your need for de blessing, usually given on the deathbed, even the lifting of voices indicated liverance." The name of Ezekiel's new was believed to be a . word of power in the Psalms by the word, Selah. But Jerusalem is "Yahweh is there." The which could actually produce the pros it is clear from the narrative that only Immanuel of our confession has prom perity it described. Once given it couid God can erect such a means of divine ised to be in the midst of gathered never be retracted. It was. irrevocable. communications. If man in his pride Christians, in the. heart pf the believer, The story makes clear how the discord seeks to do this for himself, it becomes and most of all with his commissiqned between Jacob and Esau was .sown first a Tower of Babel, ·an expression of his evangels who sojourn in his service: by their p~rents. Not only is there over-whelming ambition which must be · "Lo, I am with you always." parental favoritism, but .Rebekah eaves thwarted and punished. What a remark I drops on Isaac's· conversation with Esau able truth is envisidned! God wills to II. In the· larger lesson, the patri and initiates the deceitful plan, with make himself known to men of 1his archal promise and covenant are ex- 1 Jacob as a willing accomplice. The notes choosing. llis messengers provide direct tended to Isaac. Isaac is a farmer as concerning Isaac's age in Genesis 25:26; access from heaven to earth. well as a herdsman in the Southland 26 :24 and 35:28 make his fears of death 2. The Lord of this vision then iden where the Lord appears to him to con seem rather foolish, but perhap.c3 th~se tifies himself as the God of the fathers firm him in the faith of his father were aggravated by his blindness. and the owner ·of the land which He Abraham. Basically he is ·a man of peace, .Again Jacob is taking advantage of a will give to Jacob and his descendants. despite the trouble he has with his loved one through a known weakness. Thus the Lord renews His covenant neighbors over his lie about his wife Exploiting the blindness of a blind man promise and the patriarchal commis and certain water rights. His life-story ·· is condemned in *the law (Deut. 27:18; sion to be a blessing to all nations. He · is rather overshadowed by those of his Lev. 19:14). But Jacob is only worried would become the God of Jacob· as he more famous father and younger son. about getting caught. He has to tell a was already the God of Abraham and Isaac's sons are· an answer to prayer. blasphemous lie about having received Isaac. · t The promise of descendants is again the Lord's '. help, and reassure his father 3. The most remarkable feature of the jeopardized by a barren wife. The birth several times that he is really Esau. vision, howeve~, is God's presence. Ac narrative Qf the twin bro~hers empha This lying\ deceit is richly repaid to cording to the ancient belief, a god was sizes thei11 ·later characteristics and Jacob late~ by Laban and by Jacob's limited to his OVI[n local sanctuary or destinies. The struggle, which begins in sol)s who ·show him Joseph's bloody land area. J aeob had evidently become the womb o~ Rebekah, develops from a coat. In th last analysis it should be used to the idea that the God of Isaac rivalry betw~en brothers to a bitter an encoura ement to us that God can belonged in Beersheba. But the God of feud · between neighboring nations. use the patriarchs for His purposes de the sojourner is the Lord of all the earth. When the prophet Malachi surveys this spite their obvious imperfections, at the He is not only present with Jacob now,. Page· Thirty ARKANSAS BAPTIST will keep him wherever he goes and llriDc him back to the land of promise A Smile or Two order that He may fulfill that prom ile.. Notice that when Jacob becomes aware of the Lord's presence, he ex presses an appropriate fear or rever Young provider enee: "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, IT happened at the' Lakewood home and this is the gate of heaven," This of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Phelps in North should certainly be the Christian's sense Little Rock. of the divine presence wherever and Four-year-old Billy Phelps came run whenever God may confront him, but ning into the house one afternoon and especially in the house of God. proudly presented his mother with a can 4. Jacob's response. to this revelation of red worms. ia the consecration of his stone pillow "Y"ou can cook them", he informed as a memorial marker of his encounter her. ' . THE with the Lord. He also renames the "No, Billy," his mother explained, "you . don't cook worms." place ac,~:ording to his vision of its holi BIBLE STORY BOOK ness, Beth-El, "House of God." Another Billy set ·Up a howl: "But i- .don't response is expressed as a vow of per LIKE them raw.' by Bethann. Van Ness sonal service and tithe in return for illustrated by Harold Minton that which the Lord already promised. Paging Perry Mason Features include: Only this sounds like a clever bargain, AOCUSED: "Judge, I . don't know · 298 exciting stories because Jacob defines God's keeping what to do.'' 130 illustrations-85 in full color him in terms of material things, and he Judge: "Why, how's that?" 70·page supplement about life in makes the use of the sanctuary and the Bible times Accused: "I swore to tell the truth piCture maps of Old and New payment of the tithe as well as his per but everytime I try, ·some lawyer ob- Testament worlds sonal relationship to the Lord condition jects.'' · J.arge size-61A x 9 inches-672 al upon the Lord's fulfillment of His pages blessings. This is certainly not, the high The faster the better Indexes of stories and characters est motivation for service, worship or THE Ciub women were peppering the Scripture references for each story giving, but it is thoroughly in character · explorer with questions following a dra This is an ideal fam~y storybook for Jacob. After all, the Lord has only matic lecture on his adventures in which all ages will understand and begun to deal with this deceiver, and it enjoy. ( 26b) $4.95 Malaya. . Buy with confidence- it's Broadman! will take many bitter experiences to "Is it true," asked one, "that wild teach him that he cannot always manip beasts in the jungle won't harm you if .A ulate the results of life in his favor. you carry a torch ? " · We can never get God in our deb,t nor "That depends," replied the explorer, ' Order from BAPTIST pargain for. his favors•, Although we ap "on how fast you carry it." your BOOK STORE in'eciate the example of Jacob's. tithe, we must never leave the impression that 408 Spring· Street tithing buys salvation for anyonE;. Rath Vacation time Little ·Rock, Arkansas er it must be a response of uncondi TWO married men were talking. One I tional giVing to One who reveals Him said: "I'm perfectly happy. I haw a self as unconditional love. wonderful home,. a good job, and . the Rx finest wife in the country.'' · THE medical unit of the University of The second one countere~ with: "Who • Tennessee offered this prescription for INDEX wouldn't be happy with his wife in the ulcer sufferers: "Take one shaded creek A-Arkansas Baptist Chtldren's Home (E) p3; country?" bank, a. fishing pole and forget the Arkansas Baptist Hospital pp22·24 ; Attendance bait." report p29. Convicted B-Bauman, R. H. new book store manager A reader lost p10; Bethel, vision at (SS) ppS0-31; Bible reading THE· prosecuting attorney had en ...... (letter) ppG, 19; Bookshelf p19; Boyette, ,Enon A SCOTCHMAN wrote to the editor (Know your missionaries) p20: Bunker milieu countered a somewhat difficult witness. (letter) pG. Finally he asked the inan if he was of a magazine saying that if he didn'~ c-- • • • SERIOUS study of a "Group Ministry Plan" to combine ~mall churches into centralized congregations in rural and small-town areas was recommended in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by the fifth quadrennial National Methodist Conference on the Church in Town and Country. "The fact that more than half of Methodism's 24,600 ministers are in churches with less than 390 members each .is a major cause of both inadequate work-load and inadequate salary for many,'' the report noted. 1 \ • • Plans have been announced for the first National Methodist Conferenee on Training Lay Speakers in EvaJUiton, DL, Oct. 18-19 to be attended l)y nearly 100 directors of lay speaking from the denomination's annual (regional) conferenees. • • • Concordia Put;lishing House, St. Louis, Mo., has issued a new English traMia tion of the Bible called ''The New Testament in the Language of Today." The 459~page volume is based on the King James Version and is in verse, designed to enable the hurried modem reader to grasp the full sense of the Bible. • • • Two repr-esentatives of the Russian Orthodo11; Church will attend the second session of the Second Vatican Council as delegate-observers when it opens Sept. 29• • • • Two grants totaling $204,000 were made by the Ford Foundation for clergy seminars and workshops in economics and urban problems. Largest of the grants, $160,000, went to the Clergy Economic Education Foundation in Lafayette, lad., for expansion of its economic workshops. The National Councii of Churches re • ceived $54,000 for a series of seniinara on urban problems. Both projects are open to clergymen of all faiths. .... An estimated $79 million was spent for church construction in June as com pared with $74 million for May.-Survey. Bulletin.