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This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Civil Rights Archive at eGrove. It has been accepted for inclusion in Publications by an authorized administrator of eGrove. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Calls for Radical Reform, Decentralization- OuUer Blasts Appointive System DALLAS - The Rev. Dr. Al­ 3. In which appointments are matched with the needs of a con­ ers, on the one hand, and of the bert C. Outler declared in an ad­ made on grounds other than those gregation." congregations, on the other. dress h,;!re that disaffection and of Wesley's conception of spirit­ mutiny are swelling to epidemic Bishop Mathews added that he 2. Radical decentralization of ual gifts, pastoral graces and does not believe low mQrale of all the (general) boards and agen­ proportions in the ranks of the evangelistic . fruits. Methodist clergy, and he put the ninisters today is "due in any pro­ cies, the vigorous reversal of the major blame on the "fourfold 4. In which there is an increas­ current trends toward programs ing atrophy of initiative and re­ nounced way to the oppressive­ from above, and encouragement failure of the appointive system." ness of bishops." "Rather," he "There is a crisis in vocational sponsibility at the local, district of "impulses and programs that identity and professional commit­ and regional level. said, "morale is low among rmin­ arise at the locallevels." ment that has already shattered Methodist Bishop James K. isters, including bishops, because 3. Renewal of the principle of the esprit de corps of our once Mathews, Boston, was on the pro­ our image has become blurred. "governance by conference"­ proud 'itinerant system' ," he gram as the reactor to Dr. N ow a new image is emerging local, district, annual, and re­ said. Outler's speech. He said it may of pastor.-teacher, pastor-counsel­ gional. Dr. Outler, a professor at be that the appointive power of lor, pastor-Ieader-who leads as a 4. A resolute decision to risk the Perkins School of Theology, Methodist bishops, who assign servant of man and God." changes in polity, and outward ap Southern Methodist . University, pastors to their churches, needs Dr. Outler said he thinks that pearance, that are "certain to Dallas, spoke at the biennial na­ to be revised, but he added that "nothing short of basic constitu­ come with . any really serious tional Methodist Conference on its values ought first be examined tional change will suffice for the achievement in Christian unity Christian Education, held Nov. 6- carefully. reform and renewal of The United over and beyond simple mergers 10 at the Statler Hilton Hotel. Bishop Mathews said the values Methodist Church that most of us between Christians within the The internationally known the­ of the appointive system are at profess to desire." same pan - den 0 min a t i 0 n­ ologian and ecumenist told the least three in number: "(1) It is al family." He said it seems to him that the 1,300 Christian educators that the a principal guarantee of the free­ H!;!.,.added tha. ~.nited Meth­ appointive system in our time is a dom of the pulpit. (2) It is the price of reform in contemporar ocfist - " p.r-esent w fairest way to deal both with the Methodism "will include at least system: four m'1ljor items": w te.r.ma};k in- union without re­ 1. Which degrades professional pastor and the congregation when orm; it is e last time we will men to the actual status of em­ real problems of compatibility 1. Decisive abrogation of the ~ e that sort of 'cheap ecumen­ ployees. arise. (3) It is best suited for the "absolute appointive power of the ·-ism' agam. y contr.ast fu~ Con- 2. Which operates a double church adequately to fulfill its Methodist episcopacy," by a s - ion mea s standard in its administration of mission. That is to say, the abili­ formal and substantial recogni- _ir~~~;;~~~~~~~wto-4ace absolute power. ties of a man may readily be tion of the rights of the preach-

Vietnam Veteran ' Honored From Tidings- At Meridian Church New Paperback on On November 5th, at the close of the Evening Worship 's ervi{~ at Druid Evangelism .e"gio.. I .. Hills Methodist, Me'"fidian, Mr. and inding The T uth A out ! an-G. Byron Deshler, Tidings, 1908 Grand Mrs. Brooks Legate honored their Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37203 Rura'I"e son, Bruce, with a coffee. Specialist pages 128 $1.25 each or for orders of Five Legate has just returned from a 4 or more $1.00. years duty in Vietnam. Following a By Carl Keightley 3O-day leave, he will report to Fort Dr. Deshler, a former staff mem­ Rucker, Alabama for duty. ber of the General Board of Evan­ Members of the congregation and gelism, has produced a sequel to his other friends, who called after the "Finding The Truth About God". It worship service, visited with Bruce is aimed, as was the first volume, and were served a dessert plate with toward the small groups and individ­ coffee by Misses Gail Ervin, Donna ual Bible stuciy. Clark, Marsha Herrington and Shelia The real value of the book is in Miller. the questions presented for self ex­ amination, rather than the comments of the various passages by the author. Charles Darwin was wrong on more I Dr. Deshler, however, makes no missions. In many areas of . Religion claim for definitive treatment. of the than one thing. One of the times when in Rural Life missionary zeal is lack­ scripture in his brief comments, but he was wrong wa·s in a report he ing. Churches often times feel that rather describes them as aiming at made after a scientific expedition to gifts for missions could better be used stimulating thought. Tierra del Fuego. at home. The volume offered meditations for thirteen weeks. The daily format pre­ In the report he submitted his con­ John McDowell said, "The Mission­ sents questions · on Hie search for clusion that the inhabitants of that ary enterprise is not the church's aft­ meaning, questions for inner exami­ island were hopelessly savage. Many erthought. It is the church's fore­ nation, and suggestions for personal years later he revisIted the island. In thought. It is not . secondary and op­ prayer. the meantime, missionaries 'had ven­ tional, it is primary and vitaL" This Those who wish to supplement their usually brief daily devotions with tured into the area. seems to be as it should be since lengthier meditations on scriptural Seeing a change, he wrote in his God's only Son was a missionary. passages or for a deeper look into diary, "It was without exception the There's an old story about the near­ their personal lives will find some most i~teresting spectacle I have ever sighted woman who talked religion to guidance in Dr. Deshler's sequel to beheld. I could not have believed how "Finding the Truth About God". a wooden Indian in front of a cigar wide was the difference between sav- store. She later declared she would age and civilized man ... The suc- rather be a live Christian and talk ~ra;L~tJi cess of the missionaries is most won­ religion to a wooden Indian, than a t\VBR4101.EY derful, and channs me . . . wooden Christian who never talked LfJ "The march of improvement conse­ religion to anybody. CLEANERS quent on the introduction of Christian­ Robert E . Speer put it well when ity throughout the South Seas prob­ 926 W. Capitol St. Dial FL 3-1631 he said, "If you want to follow Jesus If you don't like the budget, why ably stands by itself in the record of Christ, you must follow him to the didn't you submit your ideas to the Jackson, Mississippi history." ends of the earth; for that's where finance committee-in writing. Darwin became a supporter of world he is going."

' !\Qv\!tn\>er. .25, 1967 . PAGE FIVE GROWING MINISTRY AT EAST GREENWOOD MISSION NEEDS SUPPORT

VAIDEN MEMORIAL GIFT "A beautiful bulletin board has been given to the Vaiden Method· ist Church in memory of Mrs. Ef· fie Audrey Cross by Mr. and Mrs. Vacation Church School at the East Home visitor to assist needy families ence Treasurer, and mark it District W. B. Cross, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Greenwood Methodist Mis s ion in in working out some of their complex Advance Special. Cross, and Rusty Cross." Greenwood is one of the most unique problems. The local churches collect The volunteer workers responsible ministries of the church. For the past clothing that is used to provide for for

MILLSP\PS STUDENTS NAMED TO "WHO'S WHO" GOD AND COUNTRY AWARDS AT IUKA FIRST

I \ ·f ." If J \ ~ , Millsaps College students named to "Who's Who Among Students in American 1 .... • Universities and Colleges" this year include, from left, (front row) Tommy Davis of Meridian, Leslie Jeanne Floyd of Indianola, Floy Holloman of Tupelo, Lucy Cavett of Jackson, Susan Duquette of Somerville, Tennessee, THE REVEREND THAD FERRELL, lips, Greg Sweeney and Bl)b LOl!le­ Glenda Odom of Gulfport, Betsy Stone of Jackson, Mel Maxwell of Ruleville, center, presented God and Country nick. The Phillips boys are sons of Henry Chatham of Meridian, Sam Rush of Meridian; (back row) Tommy Awards to four members of Fir s t Mr. and Mrs. Leon Phillips, Greg is Wooldridge of Grenada, Erwyn Freeman of Meridian, Jim Waide of West Methodist Church, Iuka, on Sunday the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Sween­ Point, Pam Moore of Long Beach, Joe Bailey of Coffeeville, and Ted Weller morning, September 24th. They are ey, and Bob is the son of Mr. and of Chatham. Not pictured is Mark Matheny of Jackson. O. to r.) Nick Phillips, Gal'Y Phil- Mrs. Harold T. Lomenick.

PAGE SIX , MISSISSIPPI METHODIST ADVOCATE Many Questions, No Answers in Historic Consultation- SHILOH CONG~EGATION IS IIPAID OUTII Desire for Meaningful Worship is Explored EVANSTON, Ill. - "The crisis in worship has begun and no abatement is in sight. (It is) the alienation of the forms of worship from the modo. ern world's forms of perception." With this assertion before them in the opening · paper, members of The Methodist Church's Commission on Worship and professors of worship from Methodist and Evangelical Unit­ ed Brethren seminaries dug in at . Garrett Theological Seminary here October 30 for a consultation, the first of its kind ever held in the de­ nomination. Two days and many hours of se­ rious · discussion later - some of it SHILOH METHODIST CHURCH, near Pelahatchie, was the first church in the Mi»sissippi Conference to pay aU of hinged on videotape recorditigs of its askings. The Reverend Fred E. Duke is pastor. Pictur~d above is the usual Sunday morning cOllgregation. services-the group had considered was provided by the Rev. Dr. Roy A. sidered the teaching of students who and evaluated worship from many Reed of the Methodist Theological soon would be leading their congre­ NINETY CAMP MEETINGS viewpoints, including history, theolo­ School in Ohio. He reported a wide gations in worship. gy, and present practice. No pat so­ variation in courses offered and in "People are familiar with our forms autions ·were offered to the ques­ the basic requirements in the field for tions raised, but all present seemed to of worship, but have little training in a degree. their meaning," Prof. Grady Hardin, agree with Bishop Lance Webb's clos­ An entire day was spent on an an­ ing declaration: Jr., of Parkins reminded the group, alysis of forms of worship. Assisted citing in particular the sacrament of "We as Metho~ists cannot any long­ by videotape, the consultation partici­ baptism. er say: 'It doesn't matter how we do pants discussed such aspects as the The Rev. Dr. Richard W. Cain, su­ it so long as our heart is right.' " use of contemporary language, bap­ perintendent of the Los A n gel e s Bishop Webb, of Springfield, Ill., tismal procedures, Holy Communion, (Calif.) District, suggested in a pan­ and chairman of the Commission on handling of the offering, vestments, el discussion of Prof. Hardin's paper Worship, presided over the three-day and the " call to discipleship." that "preachers need to learn from confe~nce . Assisting were other of­ Bishop Webb stressed the need to congregations" as well as in­ ficers of the commission-the Rev. "help people understand why we do struct them. Dr. Joseph D. Quillian, Jr., of Dal­ what we do." Dr. Quillian, dean of las, Texas, and the Rev. Dr. Wil­ Perkins School of Theology, suggest­ Other contributors to the discus­ liam F. Dunkle, Jr., of Wilmette, 111. ed that "sometimes what we do is sions through panel participation in­ Other participants included protes" loaded with meaning-other times -it cluded Prof. David J. Randolph, Jr. sors, pastors, church music authori­ is done because it must be done to of Drew University, Prof. Fred D. ties, district superintendents, and lay get on with some other part of the Gealy of Methodist Theological.School members of the commission. service. " in Ohio, Prof. E. Edwin Burtner of The declaration of crisis was posed Cornbread or Cupcakes the Evangelical United Brethren in a paper by the Rev. Dr. James Experimentation in w 0 r S hip Church's Un i ted Theological Semi­ F. White, associate professor of wor­ came to the surface of the discus­ nary in Dayton, Ohio, the Rev. Dr. ship at Southern Methodist Universi­ sion frequently and there was L ycur~us M. Starkey, Jr., pastor of ty's Perkins School of Theology. general agreement that while ex­ College Avenue Methodist Church in "I unc1erstand Christian worship to perimentation is desirable, it Muncie, Ind., and Prof. Ellis H. Rich­ Mrs. Minnie Nobles be the encounter with reality at its must be preceeded by a thorough ards of the Interdenominational Theo­ deepest level in which we perceive grounding in the fundamentals. logical Center in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Minnie Nobles of the Shiloh that all being ultimately depends up­ "A man needs to be able to cook Although this was the first conSUl­ Community has attended eighty-nine on God," Dr. White declared. "Like a good pan of cornbread before tation of its kind, the participants camp meetings. She's looking forward a mirror, worship has two aspects­ he fools around with cupcakes," agreed, as they closed with the John transparency and reflection. We see was the way Dean Quillian put it. Wesley covenant, that others should to next summer when Camp Meeting through to the source of being and The consultation's final session con- be scheduled, at least quadrennially. time rolls around-it will be her nin­ respond to it in worship. Worship is tieth. Born in 1879, Mrs. Nobles stat­ thus the insight into the ground of all ed that she had attended camp meet­ being and our response to it." ing every year since she was born In the opening meditation of the having been carried by her parent~ consultation, Bishop Donald H. Tip­ at age one. pett of San Francisco, Calif., a mem­ She lives within sight of S h i I 0 h ber of the commission, underlined the Church but has a " tent" (that's camp­ important role of the minister as meeting talk for a rustic cabin) on the preacher when he asserted "worship camp ground and every year she at its consumate best has taken place The Church -::: moves her belongings over there for when preaching has brought about a the meeting. meeting between God and man." And he voiced a theme ·that was heard "The Methodist Church hasn't more than once when he noted: " To changed too much during this time," be real, worship has to be in the by Jon Walters, Director of Music, First Methodist Church, Clarksdale she stated, "Except maybe we have idiom as well as the language of the learned more ways in which to people. " serve." The Rev. Dr. James W. May of EVANSTON, Ill.-A concerted , re­ and make it available," the Bishop "People don't shout any more like Emory University's Candler School of searching and cataloging og worship noted. "We are seeking music that is they used to" she added. When asked Theology ~iscussed some of the his­ resources in the field og folk music theologically and Biblically effective, why she replied, "Now you've asked torical aspects of worship and sug­ and other art forms is being planl'led not sentimental." me something I'd like to know." We gested that much of the form of Prot­ by the Methodist Church's national The Rev. Dr. David J. Randolph, asked Mrs. Nobles if she had ever estant worship has been a reaction Commi:ssion on Worship!. Jr., assistant professor of preaching shouted at camp meeting and she re­ to Roman Catholic worship and an "This is one way to interpret the and pastoral ministry at Drew Uni­ plied, "No, but I've· felt like it-I've attempt "to prove that we aren't like gospel to people who will not listen versity in Madison, N. J., has been shouted on the inside." them." He stressed: "We must re­ otherwise, particularly youth," said named chairman of the project and Shiloh is located near Pelahatchie cover the Eucharist in worship, even Bishop Lance Webb of Springfield, has issued a call for persons to send and is in the Jackson District. You if we do not have the serving of the Ill., in announcing the program. Bish­ to him at Drew experimental and folk are always invited to attend the Shiloh elements. " op Webb is chairman of the Commis­ music, texts, orders of worship, and camp - meeting and folks out there A review of present-day seminary sion on Worship. "The committee will recording tapes, as well as other co·n­ claim nobody ever visited the camp courses and requirements in worship seek the best of religious folk music temporary materials such as pictures. ground and went away hungry.

November 25, 1961 PAGE SEVEN MEMOIRS

CLARENCE POE PARKER JOHN HENDERSO'N JOllY how the day's schedule began. Aris­ JOHN HENDERSON JOLLY rial church in downtown Atlanta. ing a long time before day-light the 1883-1967 But what it lacked in equipment it family ate breakfast, finished work By J. B. Cain more than made up in the character around the barn, and drove mules and and ability of its faculty. For there l'quipment into the fields. Still it was When my long-time friend, J . H. Jolly, passed away on Sunday night, were giants in those days, men like dark and he would sit down and wait Franklin N. Parker, Andrew Sledd, for dawn so he could see to work. June 18, 1967, his earthly ministry of more than 50 years came to a close Plato T. Durham, and others who left Waiting for the sun to rise in the early an indelible impression on the minds morning later figured in his call to the but his memory and the influence of his life remain with us still. He was of their students. The influence of ministry, Emory remained with J. H. Jolly for Upon graduating from High School, born in Neshoba county, Miss., on February 4, 1883, and was a son of the rest of his life. he determined during the summer to In the fall of 1916 he returned from read through the Bible. It became his John Rice Jolly and Elizabeth Jane Walton Jolly. Twelve children came Emory to supply a vacant pastorate habit to study when he found a mo~ at Seminary and for the remainder ment, sometimes before retiring. No into this home, of whom ten lived to be mature' men and women. The of his ministry he served the follow­ doubt this reading colored his ing charges: Seminary, 1917 - 18; thoughts. One night he had a dream: family attended church services and Sunday School at Union and camp­ Heidleberg, 1919-22; Leakesville, 1923 ; he saw t'he world in complete drark­ Poplar Springs, Meridian 1924-27 ' ness as before daylight. As he raised meetings at Mount Zion or Beech Springs. When Henderson was seven Wiggins, 1928 ; LaB ranch Street, Mc ~ his eyes, high in the heavens he saw Comb, 1929-31 ; Mount Olive, 1932-34; Christ returning to earth, and the on­ years old the family moved to Madi­ C. P . PllI'ker son county near Pearl River church, Grace, Jackson, 1935-37; Magnolia, ly Ught like dawning spreading be­ 1938-40; Waynesboro, 1941-45; Newton Graysburg, N. C., Nov. 13, 1913 the home church of the Lambuth fam­ hind him as He advanced. C. P. felt (the church from which he was li­ Shaw, Miss., April 12, 1967 disturbed about his vision; at the mo­ ily, some of whom were still mem­ bers of that influential rural church. censed to preach), 1946 ; Port Gibson, ment he sensed that he was not pre­ 1947-51. At the Annual Conference of By W. H. Henson pared to face the Lord. After he They lived here for three years and later near Lottville in the same coun­ 1951 he was appointed pastor at Flora " Dr. C. P . Parker has meant more awakened, he must have searched his and Bentonia and began what prom­ heart in prayer and recommitted him­ ty for two years. to me in my Christian life than any iSed to be a useful and successful min­ self. At breakfast he ·announced to When he was twelve years old the other mortal man," one minister re­ family moved to Texas and lived for istry in that field. But in September marked. A fellow minister al}swered the family that he would preach. of that year he was stricken with a Immediately tilereaLfter he joined seven years southwest of Fort Worth. him, " I have heard dozens of people They then lived at Winters for three heart attack that made it impossible say the same thing." the Pleasant Grove Methodist Church for him to continue in the active where his mother was a member, and and a half years; it was there that As result of his personal experi­ Henderson jolly joined the church. ministry. ences with Christ, his min i s try set to work preparing for the ministry in the Methodist Church. Returning to Mississippi the J oIly During his pastorate at Seminary, reached people on some four levels: family lived at Unkon for two years on October 14, 1917, he was married (1) He preached and taught that one The Methodist Church demanded an educated ministry. Further training and then moved to Newton, from to Miss Maud Denton of Meridian, must have direct contact with God in which church under the influence of who shared with him in a very effec­ order to be saved. (2) He taught pray­ for C. P. would come hard, because 1)£ a lack of money from home to back Rev. J. A. Moore, the pastor, Hen­ tive manner the responsibility of his er as communication between God derson Jolly was licensed to preach pastoral miItistry. On retirement, at and man. (3) He taught scholarship him, and because · that during his by the Newton District Conference, the Annual Conference of 1952, he in Bible Study as a means to the High School years, his being needed meeting at Forest, May 27-31, 1912. moved with Mrs. Jolly and their truths of faith. (4) He taught disci­ for farm work .necessitated his miss­ Rev. T. J . O'Neil was presiding elder daughter, Helen Ruth, to a home they plines that keep individuals in con­ ing more classes than was good for him. Still he went to the task with and Rev. W. J . Dawson was secre­ had purchased at 908 Union Street, tact with God. tary of the conference. Jackson, and remained there for the The message that many people most faith and a will to win, Although he At Columbia in December, 1914, J. years that followed until his passing. often recall from his lips was an echo gained several degrees throughout the H. Jolly was admitted on trial into He was able t.o preach occasionally of our Master: " If you can believe it, rest of his life, every course he took came hard; some difficulty or obliga­ the Mississippi Conference, having and was a loyal and faithful support­ it can happen." served the Sugualena charge during er of the ministers at Grace church His father and mother, Luther and tion stood in his way or the money the past year while a student at the during the fifteen years that he made Sally Taylor Parker, were farming was not readily at hand. Mississippi Conference T I' a i n i n g his home in . that community. people who had a family of seven Early in his ministry, C. P. Parker School at Montrose, from which he hoys and two girls. Clarence Poe }earned Wesleyan. discipline be­ Funeral services were conducted in graduated in 1914. He was appointed came along in the middle of this fam­ cause of his desire to conquer his bad Grace church on Wednesday morn­ at this Annual Conference session by ily, November 13, 1913, in Garys­ habits. "When I first entered the min­ ing, June 20th, by his pastor, Rev. istry," he related to a retreat group, Bishop Denny as pastor of the historic James A. Walker, assisted by the burg, North Carolina. Washington charge, which included Like many rural communities, the "there were two habits that I couldn't writer. Pallbearers weI' e younger all of Adams county outside of Natch­ neighborhood in which the Parker quit: one was cursing and the other ministers of the Conference. Inter­ ez and parts of Jefferson and Frank­ family lived had a Methodist and a one was smoking. I cursed habitual­ ment was in the Newton cemetery, by lin counties. On this sparsely settled Baptist Church with part-time preach­ ly; often ·1 said by -words without - the side of his father and mother in circuit, which had a little more than ing services in each. Sunday School realizing it. rBut I began being careful the family burying ground. a hundred members, twenty four per­ was held every Sunday morning in and watchful of myself. I was embar­ Brother Jolly is survIved by his the Baptist Church and every Sunday rassed to catch myself, so I determ­ sons were added to the church that wife and daughter, in Jackson, also year. Many eminent and distinguished afternoon in the Methodist church. ined that every time I heard myself three brothers and two sisters: R. II" Every Sunday morning Mr. Luther use an oath, no m·atter where I was, ministers had preached in this cradle vin Jolly, Meridian'; Mrs. Lena May Parker took the family to the Elam I would get down on my knees imme­ of Methodism with eloquence and Mott, Memphis; W. Leon Jolly, Lau-. Baptist Church where he was a mem­ diately and ask God to forgive me. learning, but none surpassed Brother reI; Harley E. Jolly, Pasadena, Cali­ ber. Every Sunday afternoon, he ac­ Even the discipline brought me em­ Jolly in earnestness of spirit and un­ fornia; and Mrs. Ruth Epps of Colum­ companied them to Pleasant Grove barrassment, but I had to have divine tiring zeal for the advance of the bia, Tennessee. There are a number Methodist Church where Mrs. 'P·arker power over that evil habit. kingdom. of other more distant relatives and a belonged. Since they participated in "I remember, one morning as I In the fall of 1915 he entered Emory great host of friends, who remember whatever worship and study · services drove the wagon along the road, I University as a theological student. his fNew Testament and gave the (Continued on page 9)

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